COMPETING WITH CHINA
Obuma keeps telling us that we need to get our Socialism on to be able to better compete with China. But is that really a wise idea?
China's economic ills are far more deeply rooted: an overbearing state squandering capital and squeezing out the private sector, systemic inefficiency and lack of innovation, a rapacious ruling elite interested solely in self-enrichment and the perpetuation of its privileges
It's almost as if we're a little too much like China already under Obuma.
Han Zhiguo, an economist with more than 2.5 million followers on Sina Weibo, offered a sarcastic tweet calling the whole matter a "Chinese miracle:"
1. The bridge was slated to be built in three years but was actually finished in 18 months. Such progress can be called a "Chinese miracle."
2. The bridge collapsed after it has been opened to traffic for 8 months. Such quality of construction can be called a "Chinese miracle."
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/how-chinas-phony-economy-fooled-obama/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-29/china-s-bridges-are-falling-down.html
Can you think of any Obuma miracles?
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HURRICANE CHICAGO
10 people were wounded in shootings across Chicago last night. 28 more have been wounded. Over the weekend, 9 people were killed in Chicago and 37 were wounded.
More Americans were shot this weekend in Chicago than in Afghanistan. That makes Obuma's hometown an official war zone. Hurricane Isaac has not killed any Americans. The same can't be said for Hurricane Chicago
...from Celebrating While Black People Are Dying
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/celebrating-while-black-people-are-dying/
UPDATE: 8 US deaths blamed on Isaac; 100,000 remain without power.
http://www.krdo.com/news/Isaac-death-toll-rises-in-Louisiana-heat/-/417220/16463158/-/kl7pin/-/index.html
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THE LAST CAR YOU WILL EVER BUY
The Obuma Car:
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Planning to buy a car? Forget about it.
The Obuma administration has finalized new fuel economy rules that will require the fleet-wide average of new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. to double over the next 13 years. The average fuel economy must reach 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, up from 28.6 mpg at the end of last year.
That bonus will raise the price of a car by $15 thou$and dollar$.
When Romney spoke out against the move, Obuma said, ""Maybe the steam engine is more his speed"
At this rate steam powered cars will be the only cars we can drive.
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THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS
The US does hold the record for the fastest military aircraft, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, flying at just over 2,193 mph. But that record was set while Gerald Ford was president, in an airplane built when President Obama was still in pull-ups.
The fastest passenger ship is American too, the SS United States, with a top speed of 38 knots. On July 7, 1952, it won the Atlantic crossing "Blue Riband," beating the fourteen-year-old record held by the RMS Queen Mary by ten hours and two minutes. Today the United States sits derelict and rusting at a dock in Philadelphia.
The largest passenger ships in service are Royal Caribbean's Oasis Class trips-to-nowhere cruise vessels, built in Finland. The largest container ships, floating testimonies to the decline in American manufacturing, are launched in Denmark. The largest supertankers, with their proclamation of continuing dependence on nineteenth-century energy technology, are made in South Korea.
P.J. O'Rourke, via American Digest
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/thee-i-sigh-baby-boomers-bust
Where did all that greatness go? It went from innovation into bureaucracy. We make different things now. We don't make products. We make government.
This is what we make now.
The Reuters said State Veterinarian Taylor Woods told them they could get a free permit to exempt them from the law and allow them to be a garbage-feeding swine operation. The permit process would include several inspections of the farm each year. The Reuters said Woods told them he would send a government veterinarian to their farm to inspect the property and clear them for the permit.
U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinarian Dane Henry and state Department of Agriculture veterinarian Kent Haden arrived at Chert Hollow Farm with bad news. Woods had decided not to issue the farm a permit.
"When those two vets came out, they told us that Woods had changed his mind and was no longer going to issue any permits for any kind of garbage-feeding whatsoever,
Build massive supertankers? Hell we can barely run farms anymore. If the American colonists had disembarked to this kind of nightmare, there would be no America. All of America would be Croatoa.
When you need a permit to feed your own vegetables to your own pigs and you can't get that permit, how in the world are you going to build a supersonic plane?
We have inventions sitting around that could change the world. We have working technologies that can never be deployed. We have supercompounds that could revolutionize everything but we aren't going to use them to do anything bigger than make a newer and better smartphone and that will be done in Asia, even if the design is carried out here.
We could do great things, but we are not in the great things business. We are in the big government business. And this isn't just a Federal phenomeon, it exists at every level from the county on up.
We don't make ships or planes, we make inspectors and government buildings and rules and committees that debate the new third quarter 2013 rules that will go in effect and require the hiring of 10,000 more inspectors nationwide to enforce the new rules and trainers to train the inspectors and human resources people to manage the trainers and new buildings to house all that morass of parasites.
And then a politician will get up, put his hand on his heart, stand next to the flag and tell us that we need to sink another trillion into the whole system if we want to ever be able to compete with China.
Because folks how are we ever going to compete with China if people aren't going into debt to graduate from college to get jobs in human resources to take care of workplace disputes involving the managers of the inspectors who make sure that no one feeds vegetables to a pig?
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I HAVE A DREAM
The latest nightmare entertained me with the idea that Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, who held that office from 1933 to 1944, was being influenced by a deputy chief of staff by the name of Karl Fynn Abercrombie. The nightmare wasn't that specific. It came and went in a flash, too quickly to contemplate in any detail. But some of the faces were familiar, as well as the style of dress of the 1940's, and I recall peering into a dimly lit House of Representatives. In the dream, investigations were indeed initiated, and Congress and America learned to their collective dismay that Karl Flynn Abercrombie was none other than Karl Kluge, a Nazi spy, and that Hull knew it. As did FDR.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/a-four-year-nightmare
I think you'll find hurricane Isaac killed 8 in the US. I wish it had been 0.
Michelle's Mom Is Spreading Rumors: Obamas Are Moving to Hawaii in January 2013
9/3/12
According to HillBuzz, rumors are
1.Obama's Chicago house will be sold soon.
2.The Obamas are planning to move to Kailua, HI.
3.Michelle's mom says the estate that they will buy is worth $35 Million.
4.Only one property in Kailua matches that description.
HillBuzz:
http://hillbuzz.org/the-obamas-already-preparing-for-move-to-hawaii-in-january-2013-hyde-park-neighbors-talking-about-chicago-house-being-sold-soon-63935
Barack and Michelle Obama will be moving to Hawaii in January of 2013 and preparations are now being made to purchase an estate in close proximity to land owned by the University of Hawaii, where the Obama presidential library and "political center" will be located.
I have a friend whose family knows Michelle's mother; they have been crystal clear that the elderly Mrs. Robinson regularly says that she'll be in Hawaii next year permanently with her daughter and granddaughters. There is neither talk of returning to Chicago to live nor of living in the White House for another four years — instead, there's a sense of "it was fun while it lasted" coming from Mrs. Robinson in her talks with her Chicago friends.
UPDATE #2: Found it! Here's the only property that matches all the clues we've been given. It is on the market for $35 million, which matches what Mrs. Robinson has been saying about the "$35 million house she'd be living in soon". ...
According to the Honolulu Magazine, the address is 210 N. Kalaheo Ave. Kailua, HI.
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I hate to say this but, 35 million dollar places in Hawaii aren't rare. That photo might indeed be it, but it wouldn't be uncommon. The ground is so valuable there they commonly tear down beautiful multi million dollar homes just to build even more impressive, more expensive homes ,or buy two huge places and tear them down just to have more land to build one huge one on. It is just mind boggling.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/paper-details-obama-admins-alleged-secret-note-sent-to-iran-if-israel-attacks-we-wont-get-involved/
Obama Administration Passed Secret Message
to Iran: U.S. Won't Support Strike Against Iran
Excerpt: The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot published a startling report Monday
detailing a message it says was conveyed by the traitorous Obuma administration...
via two European countries... to Iranian officials. This would be hard to verify (over here)
but speaks volumes about our support (or lack of it) of Israel if true. There was a time when
this would have been impossible to believe. Now? With Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma in charge,
Who Knows?
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Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 04, 2012, 03:20:38 PM
I hate to say this but, 35 million dollar places in Hawaii aren't rare. That photo might indeed be it, but it wouldn't be uncommon. The ground is so valuable there they commonly tear down beautiful multi million dollar homes just to build even more impressive, more expensive homes ,or buy two huge places and tear them down just to have more land to build one huge one on. It is just mind boggling.
And HOW do you think Obuma.... who's worth is around $3M... can afford a $35M dollar pad ???
George Sore-ass? Tax Payers? Special Interest? Hidden Bank Accounts? Muslim Brotherhood? Extraterrestrials?
"In a way Obama is standing above the country, above the world.
He's sort of G-D. He's going to bring all different sides together."
- Newsweek editor Evan Thomas
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Only he didn't. The plasic Clown has helped
bring America to the brink of ruin.
Meanwhile back at the funny farm the mantra of Obuma as a kind of god-like figure is being replayed one more time.
I guess they feel it worked the first time why not try a second. The Democrat National Convention has deleted references to G-d from their platform. They must remove the competition, you know.
http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2012/09/04/democrats-drop-god-from-party-platform.aspx
Exclusive: Democrats Drop 'God' From Party Platform
Guess what? God's name has been removed from the Democratic National Committee platform.
This is the paragraph that was in the 2008 platform:
"We need a government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential."
Now the words "God-given" have been removed. The paragraph has been restructured to say this:
"We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth – the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us."
They have also banned any pro-Israel, pro-Jerusalem language from the platform, throwing yet another American ally under the bus. They must placate the nations that despise Israel at all costs... even at the cost of truth.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/09/04/obama-attacked-over-party-platform-on-jerusalem/
Fox News and several others report that a giant church-like stained glass window will back up the stage at the DNC as Obama is once again declared the deity horse's-ass of the world. You can read about that here:
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/09/04/artwork-portrays-obama-jesus
and here:
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/dnc-artwork-likens-obama-to-jesus.html
His acceptance speech in 2008 was given in a replica of the Pergamos altar of Zeus.
Ego much? HA!
Posters claiming prophetic fulfillment about him don't seem to trouble his poor mentally challenged followers as the continuous references to his being some kind of god-like figure didn't bother then in 2008.
These deity associations are creepy and ominous, plastic and fake... as fake as he is.
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Is American atheism heading for a schism?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/sep/02/american-atheism-schism-spit-venom
Oh Boy...
Someone tell me, when will these atheists stop bickering among themselves and start acting like good Christians?
Oh, wait. They already are. In the passionate world of American atheism, the venom usually directed at believers has now been turned against the wrong kind of atheists.
Hmmmm....
The cause of this freethinking furore? A new movement called Atheism+. According to its website, "Atheism+ ...
http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2012/08/atheism-its-time-to-walk-the-walk/
....is a safe space for people to discuss how religion affects everyone and to apply skepticism and critical thinking to everything, including social issues like sexism, racism, GLBT issues, politics, poverty, and crime."
A+ was born when Freethought blogger Jen McCreight (the mind behind Boobquake) made a passionate call for a "third wave" of atheism, one that extends atheist activism into progressive politics and calls for a part of the movement to be one where women can exist free from the harassment that has plagued women publicly involved in the atheist movement.
The founders of Atheism+ say clearly that "divisiveness" is not their aim, but looking through the blogs and voluminous comments in the two weeks since A+ was mooted, trenches have been dug, beliefs stated, positions staked out and abuse thrown. A dissenting tweeter is "full of shit", while, according to one supporter, daring to disagree with Atheism+'s definition of progressive issues and not picking their side makes you an "a**hole and a douchebag".
It took 700 years from Constantine renaming Byzantium in his own honour to papal legates circulating letters of anathema that split the Roman and Orthodox churches. Atheism, in its public, online life, has started exchanging internet anathemas.... perhaps we should call them inathemas... in little more than a decade.
Well, they do fashion themselves progressive... and so, they're progressing apace.
It can't be easy deciding what not to believe in. So many things to reject, so little time. And who is to decide what's not true and what's merely a matter of negative conjecture? How skeptical is one allowed to be about skepticism before one has transgressed the boundaries of orthodox nonbelief?
For example, if I say I do not believe in God, does that mean I do not believe in the God other people who believe in God believe in?
Or does it mean I do not believe in God the way some people believe in Barack Obuma or the infield fly rule?
Or does it mean I believe there is no God, which makes me a believer in something, namely, that there is no God. But doesn't that require proof of a negative?
And the crapulous tone of some of their tonier crap!
Fellow Freethought blogger Richard Carrier goes further. When one commentator suggests "atheism does not have the luxury of kicking people out of its movement", Carrier gives him a rare old quilting in most splendid prose:
"Yes, it does. Atheism+ is our movement. We will not consider you a part of it, we will not work with you, we will not befriend you. We will heretofore denounce you as the irrational or immoral scum you are (if such you are). If you reject these values, then you are no longer one of us. And we will now say so, publicly and repeatedly. You are hereby disowned."
come on.... disowned? Oh the humanity... to be displaced when one is already lost in the cosmos. Where does that leave one? Trapped in humanism's cecum awaiting expulsion like yesterday's fajita.
Before these amateur Übermenschen start engaging in some Great Purge, I suggest they hold a council of some kind and choose a "universal atheist" to have final say on contentious issues, like whether to treat women badly at conventions, or whether to use only unionized labor when building labor camps for the heterodox.
You know.... stuff like that.
I would spare my atheist friends the tumult of a full-blown civil war. Because, as the saying goes, there are no atheists in foxholes. Only foxes. But that's sexist.
.....Warph
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Liar, Liar... pants on fire!Remember when the left began claiming that it was part of the Reality-Based Community? A place where people didn't just make crazy things up and keep repeating them... unless it was about Bush?
Watch these two videos and mourn for a progressive left that has tragically lost the ability to lie properly:
Hey... there was once a time when the left was good at lying. It told lies at the drop of a hat. Like the time Clinton shook his finger at the country and said he did not have sex with that woman. Now pinch hitting for Slick Willy is a frazzled woman from Florida who has forgotten that tape recorders and the internet exist.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/09/a-root-canal-for-debbie-wasserman-schultz.php
I'm sure that Debbie Wasserman Schultz excels at shaking donors down for money, except with donations down, it doesn't look like she's any good at that either. She projects the confident bearing and calm authority of a molerat on anxiety medication. And she holds the weight of the party's future in her shaking boney hands.
If I were a Democrat, I would be running for the exits. It's one thing when your Chair is a liar. That's expected. It's another thing when they're a
bad liar.
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Warph,
I hope DWS doesn't go away. She is a Joe Biden with boobs---always good for a hearty laugh
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The Five 'Reasons' to Re-elect Obama
By Larry Elder
9/6/2012
http://townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/2012/09/06/the_five_reasons_to_reelect_obama/page/2
The case for re-electing President Barack Obama rests on five arguments, the most important of which is that Romney/Ryan represent sexism, racism, homophobia and fascism.
1) Obama "inherited" the worst set of economic conditions since World War II.
False. Based on unemployment, inflation and interest rates, the recession of 1981-82 was worse. Unemployment during the early '80s reached 10.8 percent, inflation 13.5 percent, and prime interest rates reached 21.5 percent. During this so-called "Great Recession," the numbers peaked at 10.2 unemployment, 5.6 percent inflation and 7.25 percent for the prime interest rate.
2) Obama's economic policies "rescued the economy from falling off a cliff."
False. Nearly 350 economists, including several Nobel laureates, publicly urged Obama to following the path President Reagan pursued -- cutting taxes, slowing the growth of domestic spending and continuing deregulation.
Most business economists think Obama's "stimulus" plan accomplished little, if anything, with some academic economists, like Stanford's John Taylor, believing that stimulus actually made things worse: "I just don't think there's any evidence. When you look at the numbers, when you see what happened, when people reacted to the stimulus, it did very little good."
TARP, begun under President George W. Bush, supposedly prevented financial institutions from collapsing. But Neil Barofsky, in his new book called "Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street," argues that TARP completely failed in its mission: to increase liquidity to jumpstart lending.
The reason for intervention in the first place is that banks had become "too big too fail." Not only did the banks park the money and make risk-free profits off the spread, but banks became bigger than ever after TARP.
ObamaCare promises to provide health insurance to nearly 30 million Americans currently uninsured. Obama said it would bend the health care cost curve down, that it would decrease the deficit and that if you like your doctor or your current health insurance plan, you can keep it.
But Jonathan Gruber, the economist who designed both RomneyCare and ObamaCare, now admits some are going to pay more -- and some a lot more -- for their health insurance: "It is true that even after tax credits some individuals are 'losers,' in that they pay more than before (Obama's) reform." Rick Foster, the chief Medicare actuary, testified that it is "false, more so than true" that ObamaCare bends down the cost curve. He also said it is "not true in all cases" that if you like your plan you can keep your plan.
What about the "investments" in the green jobs of the future? At $529 million dollars of lost taxpayer money, Solyndra is one of many money-hemorrhaging "clean energy" flops. Other belly-flops backed by federal loans include Beacon Power and Abound Solar. A Washington Post investigation traced $3.9 billion in grants and financing to 21 companies that were backed by firms connected to five Obama administration staffers and advisors. Cronyism?
3) Bush's irresponsible tax cuts and "unpaid-for wars" of Afghanistan and Iraq caused the deficit.
False. Obama frequently bemoans the "cost" of $700 billion in tax cuts for "millionaires and billionaires." CNN's Fareed Zakaria blames the "Bush tax cuts" for the deficit. But the $700 billion Obama speaks of is spread over 10 years. This comes to a mere 5 percent of the deficit.
As to the costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, a study by Brown University estimates the costs at between $3.2 trillion and $4 trillion. This, too, is over about 10 years (the approximate duration of the wars), or an average of $360 billion per year. This comes out to about 25 percent of the estimated $1.5 trillion deficit.
4) We are better off now than four years ago.
A new poll for the Washington paper The Hill found 52 percent of likely voters believe the country is now in "worse condition" than four years ago, while 31 percent believe it's in "better condition." After accounting for inflation, median household income dropped 2.6 percent during the 18-month recession. It fell another 4.8 percent from the start of the "recovery" through June 2012. Unemployment stood at 7.8 percent when Obama entered the White House. It is 8.3 percent right now. We've added over $6 trillion in new debt in the last four years -- and the deficit tripled since Bush's last full year in office.
5) The other guys -- former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan -- are worse: sexist, racist, homophobic and fascist.
The chairman of the California Democratic Party, John Burton, following the Republican convention, gave us this preview of coming attractions: "(Republicans) lie, and they don't care if people think they lie. As long as you lie, (Nazi propaganda minister) Joseph Goebbels -- the big lie -- you keep repeating it."
Welcome to the 2012 Democratic National Convention: Republican attendees are advised to keep their sheets and hoods at home.
Warph, I'm sure you didn't really expect me to answer the question about the Hawaii home did ya? I read somewhere recently that The Pres. is now worth about 10 mil. His books are still selling, so he gets a royalty from them, plus when he leaves office he gets a good pension, so a down payment and a mortgage at today's low rates wouldn't be so far fetched. Plus, if the other home was/is paid for they would have the sale from it and his name is his collateral.
I'm sure, as all Presidents do, he'll get the big bucks as a speaker all over the world. I suspect he too will start a foundation or something similar or put everything in trusts. Also, all Presidents make very wealthy friends who might even buy that place for him! I can see him going on to be a college president some day (and sitting on many paid boards) they make ridiculously big money. The world will always be his oyster now, just as other Presidents before him. IMHO Now aren't ya sorry ya asked? ;D
Looks like the world is already his oyster, money wise... :(
http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00009638&year=2004
...and that's not counting the five suitcases full of $100 bills that he has in the
Oval Office shoved back into the "Monica Lewinsky" closet as a christmas gift
from the Chicago Outfit & his buddy, "No Nose Johnny Bananas."
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Even as Democrats cheered the politics of big government in Charlotte this week, the books that Americans are actually reading tell a different story about the America they want. "Obama's America" builds on D'Souza's new movie, "2016: Obama's America," the box office surprise of the summer.
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"The Amateur" by Ed Klein, a stinging portrayal of President Obama's leadership, continues its remarkable 16-week run by placing No. 6 on same list, after spending its first seven weeks at No. 1. It has been lauded and recommended by readers as varied as News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch and former Vice President Dick Cheney.
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The third 2012 Regnery book to rise on the list, to No. 2, was David Limbaugh's "The Great Destroyer: Barack Obama's War on the Republic," in which Limbaugh presents Obama's full-scale assault on America's institutions, from economy and culture to national security and future.
It is the first time in the company's history that two books have taken the No. 1 bestseller spot in the same year. Regnery is part of Washington, D.C.-based Eagle Publishing, which also owns Human Events Group.
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Is It Too Late to Fix Social Security's Finances?September 6, 2012Excerpt: Charles Blahous, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution and a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center, says one of his duties as a public Social Security trustee is to explain the program's financial condition. Social Security's future, at least in the form it has existed dating back to FDR, is now greatly imperiled.
Charles Blahous, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution and a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center, says one of his duties as a public Social Security trustee is to explain the program's financial condition. Social Security's future, at least in the form it has existed dating back to FDR, is now greatly imperiled.
A solution is rapidly becoming more difficult:
The baby boomers are starting to retire. Lawmakers have historically been very reluctant to cut benefits for beneficiaries once they start receiving them. This means that any sacrifices will likely be concentrated on younger generations who already face net income losses through Social Security as it is. With every further year of delay lawmakers must therefore consider sharper benefit growth reductions and/or tax increases.
A solution requires substantial compromise by one or both sides. Thus if Social Security finances are to be repaired, someone must dramatically compromise: either progressives must accept substantial benefit growth reductions, conservatives substantial tax increases, or both. Unfortunately, we are already long past the point where there is precedent for a compromise of this magnitude.
There is a huge disparity between the problem's urgency and the rhetoric applied to it by substantial factions of the body politic.
If a financing solution cannot be reached, then Social Security's self-financing construct would need to be abandoned. Assuming the program continues to pay benefits, it would have to permanently rely on subsidies from the general fund as Medicare now does. This would be a valid policy choice, but it carries unavoidable consequences. It would mean an end to one of the program's foundational principles: the requirement that Social Security pay its own way through a separate trust fund. It would also mean an end to FDR's conception of an "earned benefit" program in which workers were seen to have paid for their own benefits.
Upon merging into the general fund, Social Security benefits would be far less secure going forward. Benefit payments would have to compete with other annual spending priorities, and would be limited to those deemed affordable given pressures elsewhere in the budget.
Those who care about the Social Security program need to clearly understand the consequence of this ongoing neglect; that time for a realistic financing solution has nearly run out.
Source: Charles Blahous, "Is It Becoming Too Late to Fix Social Security's Finances?" Economic Policies for the 21st Century, August 31, 2012.
Bill Clinton's DNC 2012 Speech: Good and Dishonest. By Allen Ginzburg
http://www.therightsphere.com/2012/09/bill-clintons-dnc-2012-speech-good-and-dishonest/
Excerpt: Bill Clinton gave what was, by all accounts, a very good speech last night. It was persuasive, articulate and inspiring, but there was just one problem: almost the whole speech was based completely on distortions or one-sided portrayals. What follows are excerpted claims from the speech (Black) and some factual corrections, context and explanations that were missing (in Red)
Also...
Fact Checking Slick Willies Speech
Excerpt: The repeated claim that Obama's budget reduces the deficit by $4 trillion is simply not accurate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/fact-checking-bill-clintons-speech-and-other-democrats-at-the-convention-in-charlotte/2012/09/06/55b9df68-f7e1-11e1-8b93-c4f4ab1c8d13_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_politics
Look, I feel an obligation to keep you informed about ALL the news that's fit to metaphorically print so you can make the best decisions about what kind of survivalist gear you and your family will need to invest in.
With that in mind, every year there's a contest to decide THE BEST BATHROOM IN AMERICA. And why shouldn't there be? What is the point of being the most powerful and debt-ridden nation on earth if you cannot indulge in these crass displays of opulence? At least before the masses of unemployed rise up and strangle us all with their government-issue inner-tubes?
This year's contestant from New York City for "America's Best Bathroom" is the loo in Da Marino Ristorante Italiano:
http://gothamist.com/2012/09/07/is_this_new_york_citys_best_bathroo.php
...and the famous people that have used it:
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Classy, right? Who wouldn't mind a little irritable bowel if these were your surroundings... Toto and all.
Unfortunately, Diane.... Wilmington, Delaware's entry, is...well...(http://strangeherring.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/double-seater-outhouse2.jpg?w=645&h=524)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,504123,00.html
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"Sit down over here. It won't take but 20 minutes for us to custom-design your fetus."
"You want to custom-design our child, doctor?"
"In the summer of 2012, University of Washington researchers made a massive biotechnology breakthrough! Few people talked about it at the time."
"What breakthrough, doctor?"
"It involved using a blood sample from a pregnant woman and a saliva specimen from the father to map the DNA of their fetus. It took some time for the procedure to become practical and affordable, but the ability to know a child's complete DNA blueprint eventually gave parents a lot of choices."
"Choices, doctor?"
"The Christian Science Monitor reported that the procedure could allow parents to 'someday prenatally change genes seen as causing diseases or, more startling, pick a child's attributes such as eye color or even intelligence.'"
"We can now pick our child's intelligence?"
"Why not? We help parents determine the height, weight, eye color and IQ of their children, and that's just for starters."
"Why would parents want to decide all of these things?"
"No offense, but you and your wife are a bit chubby. For a price, I can take the fat gene out of your kid's genetic mix and he or she will grow up to be as skinny as a rail."
"But being chubby isn't the end of the world. Winston Churchill was chubby. Orson Welles was. Our parents were. These people did well in life."
"If you say so. But we'll have to do something about your noses. You and your wife have some big honkers. We have a range of celebrity noses you can choose from in our catalog. It will save you a fortune!"
"How will custom-designing our child's nose save money?"
"We charge a lot less to fix the nose at the gene stage than a plastic surgeon will charge after the baby is grown. Of course, we can avoid you and your wife's obvious imperfections by shopping for a better embryo."
"Use someone else's genes to make our baby?"
"It's all the rage! We have a catalog of good-looking Ivy League students who donate their eggs and other genetic specimens for money. We mix and match these parts to create embryos, which we then implant into any mother who can afford our fee."
"Don't you feel that you are trifling with nature, doctor?"
"We're simply picking up where nature left off. We're simply refining the baby-making process."
"Perhaps there may be value in correcting medical issues in our child before he or she is born, but this is all so new. We really want to think it through."
"Look, when people try to have kids the old way, all kinds of things can go wrong. Some couples might have a child that has Down syndrome. We prevent such errors from occurring in the lab."
"But, doctor, any parent of a Down syndrome child will tell you that such children are cheerful, loving and blessings from God."
"Whatever. We also eliminate all other imperfections, such as blindness and deafness."
"But Helen Keller was blind and deaf and she did remarkable things. Look, doctor, advances in science are a good thing, but my wife and I really want to think this through. Do we really want the power to manipulate the genetic makeup of our children?"
"Hey, most parents want intelligent children who are as attractive as a supermodel. What is wrong with that?"
"But if everyone is as beautiful as a supermodel, won't beauty lose some of its meaning, doctor? If parents can custom-create the life of their child, won't life itself lose some of its meaning?"
"Meaning? What's all this silly talk about meaning?"
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Top Ten Intelligence Agencies in the World
An intelligence agency is a important part of any country. These agencies work for their country and collect information of all matters being or will be happened in the world related to their countries. It is basically a Governmental agency. Intelligence agency is essential and effective instrument of a national power which take part in protection of its country.This agency works secretly and no one knows about its successful operations but some of the failure operations are highlighted in news. Number of intelligence agencies is working all around the world and it is so difficult to rank them. But we have some ideas about the best intelligence agencies so we are ranking them in this Top 10 Best Intelligence Agencies In 2012 according to their rate of success and handling the situation efficiently. 10. ASIS- Australia
ASIS is Australian government intelligence agency. It was formed on 13 May 1952. You will find its headquarter in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, The total annual budget of this agency is 162.5 m AUD (2007). The director general of this agency is Nick Warner. This agency is responsible for collecting foreign intelligence, cooperation with other foreign agencies Main responsibility is information collection of political and economical interest for protection of its people.
9. RAW-India
Indian intelligence agency RAW was formed on 21 September 19968. Its headquarter is in New Delhi. The agency executive is K.C Verma. Indian government needed the formation of agency after its two wars due to lacking of information gathering setup, one is the Sino-Indian war of 1962 and second is Pakistan-India war of 1965. RAW is famous intelligence agency. Primary responsibility is collection of foreign intelligence, covert operations and counter terrorism. They also take part in getting information about foreign governments and their polices in advising Indian foreign policy making. RAW has got number of successes it is ranked at number 9.
8. DGSE- France
Directorate General for External Security is a intelligence agency of France. It was formed in April 2, 1982. This agency works under the direction of French ministry of defense. Collaborating with the Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence this DGSE provides information for national security by doing some of the intelligence operation abroad. This agency is working with more than 5 thousands employs. DGSE gathers information with the help of foreign sources in strategic decision for their national interest.
7. FSB- Russia
Federal Security Service of Russia is one of the effective and succeeded intelligence agency of the Soviet-era. It was formed in April 1995. Its headquarter is in Lubyanka Suare.This agency has a great roll in counter intelligence, border security matters and counter terrorism. They have a superb participation in surveillance. This secret intelligence agency works under FSB. This agency is responsible for internal matters like fight against terrorism, crimes and drug mafia.
6. BND- Germany
The Bundesnachrichtendienst is a intelligence agency of Germany. It is operating under the control of Chancellor's office. It was formed in April 1, 1956.The main role of this agency is to warn the government from external threats. They work with wiretapping for the surveillance of international communications. This agency widely collect the data about terrorism, crimes, drug trafficking, illegal migration and warfare information. They have military and civil intelligence. Total employs of this agency are 6050.
5. MSS- China
Ministry of State Security is a intelligence agency of China. It is one of the most active foreign intelligence agency. Its headquarter is in Beijing. They can arrest any person involving in crime for the security of their country. This agency has a role in ensuring the security of their country with collecting the information about the enemy agents, spires and counter revolutionary activities. This agency has a wide intelligence network all around the world.
4. CIA- America
CIA is an American intelligence agency. It was formed in 1947. It is one of the largest intelligence agency. This agency has the role in gathering the foreign information from other countries that could effect their national policies. This agency is becoming so active now a days in tracing AL QAIDA leaders. CIA has failed to control the terrorism activities. One big example is 9/11. CIA is the world's highly funded agency with advanced intelligence set up. It contains 20000 employs.
3. M1-6- England
M1-6 was formed in 1909. It is the intelligence agency of England. Its headquarter is found in Vauxhall cross. The executive of this agency is Sir John Sawers. Their work is same as like CIA. This agency is most effective. They are responsible for the security of their country. M1 6 is so successful in maintaining their national security.
2. Mossad- Israel
Mossad is a Israeli intelligence agency which was formed in 1949. The director of this agency is Meir Dagan. They are responsible for their national security from internal and external threats. They have achieved numerical successes in the history. This agency is also responsible for collection of foreign intelligence and covert operations which includes paramilitary activities.
1. ISI- Pakistan
The Inter Services Intelligence agency was formed in 1948. It is the intelligence agency of Pakistan. ISI is a least funded but world's best intelligence agency. Its headquarter is in Islamabad. They has 10000 agents which are widely spread all around the world. No any agent of ISI has been caught on camera. They have a superb role in Suviet war and in security of their nuclear weapons. They failed the attempts of India in getting supremacy in Asia. Abbot Abbad operation of American Intelligence in killing of Osama was a big intelligence failure of ISI. But in spite of these ISI is ranked at number 1 position with its remarkable successes.
This list is based on others data and the success rate of these agencies in last couple of years.
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okay... listen up you Grasshoppers!
This one is a little different ......
Two Different Versions .....
Two Different Morals
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN 2012 VERSION:
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The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances with celebrities and plays golf the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so, sez the media?
Kermit the Frog appears on Fat Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.'
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obumabug condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, the Pope and God for the grasshopper's plight.
The black widow spiders, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Piers Morgan that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the poor grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
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Finally, the EEOC Spider Den drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by Obumabug's Government Green Czar Van Jones and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of Ron Paul fleas who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses, bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
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Be damn careful how you vote November 2012
I've posted this because I believe that their are some people on this forum that could be ants! You may wish to pass this on to other ants, but don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't have the capacity to understand it anyway.
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Scott Van Duzer, the Obama hugger: Pizza Shop facing boycott
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80998.html#ixzz26C01iH6L
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Oh come on... so the pizza guy likes Obuma. So he gave him a hug. Don't take a page out of the left's playbook. Don't boycott the dude for that.
"People are saying a lot of bad things and boycotting my restaurant," Scott Van Duzer, 46, told POLITICO. "There's no middle line anymore, and that's exactly what's wrong with our country right now."
The owner of Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Restaurant in Fort Pierce, Fla., said that both Democrats and Republicans are welcome in his store. But he also said he thinks Mitt Romney's running mate Rep. Paul Ryan... whose sculpted abs are thanks to intense P90X training sessions... would lose to the president in a workout battle.
How can anyone take this so seriously? I mean, if you're going to boycott Van Duzer's shop, do so for the right reasons. Do so because he makes pizza with spinach and pineapple toppings.
Which is so wrong... So wrong....
Picture worth a thousand words:
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/10/health/new-york-wtc-cancer/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
There are now fifty-eight different forms of cancer that the federal government recognizes as directly attributable to toxins in the September 11 ruins, and for which it will fund treatment.
The addition finalizes a recommendation from Dr. John Howard, administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program. Howard proposed in June that the program accept the recommendations of its Science/Technical Advisory Committee and add some cancers to the coverage list — 14 categories in all.
The advisory committee review called for expanded "coverage for certain types of cancer resulting from exposure to toxins released at Ground Zero."
"The publication of this final rule marks an important step in the effort to provide needed treatment and care to 9/11 responders and survivors through the WTC Health Program," Howard said in a statement Monday.
The rule is expected to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register, and will take effect 30 days after its publication, Howard said.
First responders, volunteers, survivors of the attacks and residents near the site who meet specific qualifications will be eligible for coverage, according to the World Trade Center Health Program.
The terrorist attacks may have occurred eleven years ago as a matter of history, but for the victims, the heroes, and their families, I'm sure it's relived on some level every single day.
Proof at last... many of Obuma's fellow classmates at Columbia University claim they never saw him. Well Slappy sent me proof that he did attend Columbia. Here it is. (http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/Proof.JPG)
Now about those college transcripts that Obuma refuses to release. I'd like to see if his grades support how brilliant he's supposed to be. I'd also like to see what name and country he used when he applied for financial assistance to attend Occidental College. Did he apply as Barry Soetero, a foreign student?
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Well, I got back from my doctor's office this morning. She did a complete workup on me, and after exhaustive tests, I've learned that I have Acute Barackobuma Acoustic Syndrome. The disease is characterized by a autonomic "filtering out" of the spoken word whenever Obuma begins a speech. My doc says this syndrome has become all too common and that she's seeing more and more patients with the same problem. She related that the Center For Disease Control out of Atlanta has issued health alerts, saying that Acute Barackobuma Acoustic Syndrome is a rapidly spreading epidemic as they have identified millions of Americans suffering from the same condition.
The only thing doctors know about the disease at the moment is that, after Obuma's 1,509th public address, promising more government benefits, more regulations, more taxes and fees, more national debt and more justifications for high unemployment and a stagnant economy, Americans in the millions are experiencing an "automatic shutdown" of the auditory nerves in the brain.
Patients report that their hearing seems to be fine until a "news alert" banner appears at the bottom of their TV screen and a still shot of the White House Rose Garden comes into view. Then, just as Obuma steps out those glass doors of the West Wing and steps up to the podium, their auditory systems seemed to activate a "mute" button somewhere in the brain.
It is then that the patient must rely solely on his or her sense of sight to take in the address. Patients can clearly see their President, chin held high, with head swivelling to accommodate both left and right teleprompters, but are unable to hear the words anymore. Researchers at John Hopkins University Research Hospital are exploring the possibility that patients suffering from ABAS may be more prone to auditory shutdowns when a message to the brain has been transmitted over a set number of times. They theorize that perhaps hearing the same message over 1,000 times may be triggering some form of defense mechanism meant to preserve one's sanity.
John Hopkins doctors say they are discovering some remarkable symptoms that seem common during the initial onset of the disease; for example many patients find themselves hearing normally until the words "hope" or "change" are uttered. Those two terms seem to result in an auditory shutdown, only to have normal hearing restored when the two words are no longer heard.
The CDC is advising physicians to watch their patients closely for the early warning signs of ABAS. They advise doctors to counsel patients to be watchful for situations that may trigger an ABAS attack. Some examples include seeing a blue banner with the slogan "Forward" may be an early warning. Others include still shots of the White House Rose Garden, a TV "news alert" of an impending State of The Union Address, a figure bounding down the stairs of Air Force One, arms held high and windmilling as the figure double teams down the airplane steps, or any public event where the participants are eagerly awaiting another Presidential Edict, the announcement of another government program or a bestowing of another government benefit.
The Center for Disease Control says they will not be able to issue any more definitive information about Acute Barackobuma Acoustic Syndrome until November, at which time they hope to have more information about this dreaded epidemic. Until then we can only hope that a cure for this disease is found soon.
....Warph
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Whistleblower Mark Klein provided this photo of a secret room in a San Francisco AT&T switching center,
which housed data-mining equipment that enables the government to spy on electronic communications.
Lookout, Elk Co.... the federal government has renewed its commitment to read your e-mail, tap your phone, and follow you into public restrooms though I may be wrong about that last part.
The House on Wednesday reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the George W. Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program:
"The FISA Amendments Act, which is expiring at year's end, allows the government to electronically eavesdrop on Americans' phone calls and e-mails without a probable-cause warrant so long as one of the parties to the communication is believed outside the United States. The communications may be intercepted "to acquire foreign intelligence information."
The government has also interpreted the law to mean that as long as the real target is al-Qaida, the government can wiretap purely domestic e-mails and phone calls without getting a warrant from a judge. That's according to David Kris, a former top anti-terrorism attorney at the Justice Department."
Rest of story at: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/house-approves-spy-bill/
I don't see what the ACLU is getting its frilly little lace panties in a bunch about. As long as you're not communicating with a dues-paying, newsletter-reading, book-club-attending, bowling-team-playing member of al-Qaeda, you've got nothing to worry about except some terrible error in judgment on the part of a government functionary.
Now I know I will probably alienate some of you, but I must say this: I for one don't think this legislation goes far enough. Sure, it makes everyone a suspect... and what's wrong with that? If the government waits for "evidence" before it begins spying on you, who knows what nefarious schemes you'll have time to put into motion? How do you think we wound up with Windows Vista and Mob Wives?
Remember Steven Spielberg film Minority Report, "pre-crime" ... it enabled law enforcement to arrest you before you killed your spouse or kidnapped a Retro Fitness franchise owner. Of course, they needed three "precogs" to look into the future, but that was just nuts. These Hollywood folk never know where to draw the crazy line.
I say, instead of community service, everyone should have to do at least five years in a maximum-security facility deep underground, like mole people. Through the use of a proprietary algorithm I just invented in my mind, the effect of your incarceration on domestic terrorism will be calculated, and your release or execution will follow depending on the results. Ideally, everyone should be locked up at the same time, virtually guaranteeing that our nation will remain free of terrorist assault. But I realize that it may prove impractical, what with no one left to shoot rattlesnakes that slither into my yard.
I have reached out to Homeland Security, the CIA, the FBI, NSA, State and FOX NEWS with the details of my plan, and have yet to hear from them, although there's this funny "click" every time I pick up our house phone.
....Warph
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Hey Obama, (you Idiot) Mitt Romney Is Not the Enemy...
....Al Qaeda is. Please inform your Ministry of Truth.
By Ben Stein's Diary on 9.13.12
So, let me get this straight:
It is September 11, 2012. An Al Qaeda sponsored mob is marching, running, screaming towards the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. Supposedly they are angry about an e-mail cartoon about the Islamic figure, Mohammed. It is known right away that the organizers of the march are the same entity that did the mass murder of Americans on 9.11.01.
The Embassy issues an apology for an American using his free speech rights about a matter of deep concern. They attempt to appease the mob. It doesn't work. The mobs acts violently and disrespectfully towards the U.S. Embassy. They are al Qaeda. This is what they do.
No comment or almost none from Mr. Obama.
Then an al Qaeda mob attacks the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, Libya, burns it, kills the U.S. Ambassador and three other heroic American diplomats. Again, in a classic al Qaeda move, it is all timed perfectly to infuriate the USA. It isn't spontaneous. It was 9/11, for Pete's sake.
No comment from Mr. Obama except terse condolences.
Then along comes Governor Romney, who rightly says, "Hey, why are we appeasing an al Qaeda mob? Why aren't we calling these guys the vicious killers that they are? Why are we back in this apology to bad guys mode?"
Then, and only then, the Obama White House goes into hyper drive. It turns out that the real problem is not al Qaeda. No, and it's not Mr. Obama's appeasement. No, the real threat to America is (wait for it), Mitt Romney.
Yes!!!
According to White House uber-pal, MSNBC's In-House Lesbian Rachel Maddow, "Romney is working with the terrorists against the U.S. government by calling for criticism of the al Qaeda!"
Yes, Romney is the enemy for pointing out that Obama is ass kissing the terrorists!
This is terrifying. The media line up to get their marching orders from the Obama Ministry of Truth and suddenly it's Gospel: the problem is not al Qaeda. It is Romney. With a "more in sorrow than in anger..." look and tone, Mr. Obama pities Romney's naïveté.
This is disgusting. It is nauseating. This is what happens when you have a one-party media. The lie becomes the truth. George Orwell saw it coming. In 1984, his MiniTrue had up its mission.
"Who controls the present, controls the past.
Who controls the past controls the future."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Innocence of Muslims - Muhammad Movie - FULL HD Al Qaeda in Yemen urges Muslims to kill U.S. diplomats over film
http://www.infowars.com/al-qaeda-in-yemen-urges-muslims-to-kill-u-s-diplomats-over-film/
news.yahoo.com
September 15, 2012
The Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda urged Muslims to step up protests and kill more U.S. diplomats in Muslim countries after a U.S.-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammad which it said was another chapter in the "crusader wars" against Islam.
"Whoever comes across America's ambassadors or emissaries should follow the example of Omar al-Mukhtar's descendants (Libyans), who killed the American ambassador," the group said, referring to Tuesday's attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
"Let the step of kicking out the embassies be a step towards liberating Muslim countries from the American hegemony," a statement posted on an Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) website on Saturday said.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/al-qaeda-yemen-urges-muslims-kill-u-diplomats-070834271.html?_esi=1
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Allocation of $1.2 Billion Tax Money by Obama on 2/4/12
$1.2 Billion given to black farmers.
This is kind of an old story but it kind of slipped under the radar and I am bringing the issue back to life.
Dept. of Agriculture
Through the Department of Agriculture, President Obama's administration authorized the use of $1.2 Billion of our tax money to go to black farmers as payback for years (decades) of discrimination. (Fox News, Nov 2010)
Affirmative Action
The Agriculture Department said that this was necessary in "addressing an unfortunate chapter in USDA's civil rights history."
Judge Approved This
In October 2011, a judge gave the government approval. (Huffington Post)
"This agreement will provide overdue relief and justice to African American farmers, and bring us closer to the ideals of freedom and equality that this country was founded on," Obama said in a statement.
Bypassing Congress
Obama is bypassing congress through the Departments so that he can enact policy and spend money. It is a power grab. Not only that, the judge that approved this allowed for reverse discrimination -- money given to people of only one ethnic background.
Read more at http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20120204001-billion-to-farmers.html#7mZ93PMhRjw5RBlb.99
Marine Corps Sgt. Widowmaker and Private Lovelace on leave at Pendleton Beach: (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JDU3RmwDsC4/TiBFD98JDBI/AAAAAAAAAC0/acgfh8860t0/s1600/Fat+cool.jpg)
Who said that obesity is the greatest national-security threat facing our nation? Dr. Mehmet Oz, Meshall Obuma, Rush Limbaugh,
Matt, who lives in a refrigerator box by the southbound exit of I-10 in Pheonix? If you answered the "Oz," you'd be correct, with Meshall Obuma concurring. Matt rarely weighs in on politics, although clinical nutrition was his discipline until he was found eating red clay at the University of Delaware School of Public Health.
Are they right? Meshell Obama's follow-up, that the No. 1 disqualifying factor for military fitness is that teens are too fat to get through the recruiter's dooru makes a kind of sense, no? I mean, the statement is not as wacky as it first appears.
It's the superlative that's the problem. The greatest THREAT? Like more than the wackjobs who are killing our people in the Middle East? More than being in a financial thrall to China? More than the fact that entire cities in this country are dying?
Now the Land of Oz is populated by thin, agile, ever-youthful cover models who eat human hair and defecate marigolds. So I get his racket. But I would think ol' Meshall Obuma would have qualified the statement just a tad...
Also... how long before this becomes one of those meme thingees among the "humanists," who never saw a human they didn't want to "fix" or asphyxiate? How long before an obese person walking down the street becomes an object of ridicule or violence because of the carbon footprint they're leaving, or their lack of "Patriotism?" (As if they're not already subject to name calling...)
Look, I think that given this lousy administration's policies, it's probably wise to be trim enough to be able to flee on foot at a moment's notice. And I don't mean because of foreign invasion. You never know when somebody from Obuma's government is going to knock on your door and greet you with a hearty "You didn't buy that... you only rented it" claptrap and start making off with your stuff for redistribution camps. I regularly train by running the mile with a 13" flatscreen TV and an iPad strapped to my back, dragging a Radio Flyer filled with old Western DVDs and boxes of chocolate-covered Pretzels, a modern-day Aeneus fleeing the flames of Troy.
Oh sure, my neighbors mock, miserable Blue State communists that they are. But wait...just wait...
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Quote from Warph:
Marine Corps Sgt. Widowmaker and Private Lovelace on leave at Pendleton Beach:
Flyboy,
You just bought yourself a whole can full of old time Kansas whup ass, my friend !!!! :)
Jar, I had never seen pictures of your girlfriends. But, be thankful, he didn't post pictures of some of the other ones. ::)
EEWWW!
Larryj :laugh:
All meat and no potatoes, Doc.
By the way, that's twice---you do know the story about the stubborn mule don't you? Don't press your luck !! :)
Quote from: jarhead on September 14, 2012, 07:11:05 PM
Quote from Warph:
Marine Corps Sgt. Widowmaker and Private Lovelace on leave at Pendleton Beach:
Flyboy,
You just bought yourself a whole can full of old time Kansas whup ass, my friend !!!! :)
Yeah, Warph... that was
Staff Sgt. Widowmaker. LOL
No, Jar, I don't know the story about the mule. Enlighten me.
Larryj
This photo's symbolism is quite astonishing in light of what is going on today.
Anubis, the Egyptian god of the afterlife, moves in for the kill. Notice that the
spear is 'STABBING' liberty. Liberty is BLEEDING!
Anubis is associated with the burial of a pharaoh.
Also notice her suitcase as she glides into the harbor.
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Joel C. Rosenberg:
(Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 16, 2012) -- Signaling a new low in U.S.-Israeli relations -- especially troubling with a possible major war in the Middle East so close at hand -- President Obama turned down two possibilities for a personal meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the Israeli premier comes to the U.S. later this month. Obama aides say the President simply doesn't have time on his schedule for Netanyahu. The President reportedly will have time to appear on "The Late Show" with David Letterman while he's in New York, however. A Wall Street Journal editorial on Wednesday morning said the White House message to Israel seems to be, "You're on your own, pal."
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Ben Shapiro:
09/14/12
While the world is engulfed in Islamist ragefests, including the storming of Western embassies across the Middle East and the evacuation of the University of Texas at Austin due to bomb threats, President Obama is doing what he does best.
He's hobnobbing with celebrities.
Last night, as the German embassy in Sudan smoldered, Tunisian police fired tear gas at US embassy rioters, the American military upgraded its presence in Yemen, investigations continued in Libya, Islamists burned American flags in London, Islamists invaded the US embassy in Tunisia, rioters went insane in Lebanon, protesters in Jordan went crazy, protests continued in Egypt, and crowds began to form in Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Iraq, the Obama campaign tweeted, "Beyoncé and Jay-Z are hosting the President in New York—your chance for two spots on the guest list ends at midnight." Priorities, people!
This morning, President Obama also took action at the White House: he welcomed the 2012 US Olympic and Paralympic teams to the White House. Because, as Michelle Obama said, obesity is the greatest threat to national security.
President Obama will get back to business tonight: he's doing a private fundraiser at 7 PM EDT.
This isn't leading from behind. This is a leadership vacuum.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic: And what you can do to prevent it. Also the author of the article, "I'm 63 and I'm Tired."
The Foreign Policy Speech Romney Should Give
by Robert A. Hall
Good evening, my fellow America Patriots. I use that phrase advisedly, because it is American Patriots—those who love this country and cherish our system of free political institutions, free enterprise and limited government—I wish to address. You and I know those institution have made us a prosperous and happy people and our country both a shining ideal to which the world's poor and oppressed want to come, and the target of those who loath liberty.
From the founding of our Republic to the events of the present day, those institutions have been under assault from enemies abroad who hate our freedom and prosperity, and from misguided individuals at home who believe that they can create an all-powerful and utopian government that can better make decisions for you than you can for yourself. They believe that America's constitution and prosperous economic system are no more entitled to a claim of exceptionalism and our loyalty than any other system or culture.
We have seen the results of that utopian belief in unlimited government power on our prosperity. We have seen it in a job crisis that has kept the official unemployment rate above 8% for years, and the real unemployment rate, counting those under-employed, those who have had to take part-time jobs, those whose benefits have run out and those who have given up looking, that is far higher than 8%. We see it in the continuing weakness in the housing market, in the unprecedented growth of government debt, and in private sector businesses--which the president says are doing fine—increasingly unwilling to expand investment to create jobs in the face of government growth and economic uncertainty.
And we see it in the failure of this president's foreign policy on diverse and disastrous fronts across the globe. It is of President Obama's manifest foreign policy failures that I wish to speak to you tonight.
It is no secret that far too many in the media believe the duty of a journalist is not to present unbiased facts to American voters to let them make up their own minds, but to advocate for an agenda, shaping the debate so as to help the president's political campaign, even at the expense of the country. We saw that when they were inadvertently caught on tape, like the president promising the Russian strongman more flexibility after the election, coordinating their "gotcha" questions to help the Obama campaign.
In support of their efforts to politicize the news and to shape the agenda, they have created the meme that it is not what is happening in the world that is the problem, but rather my speaking out about it. The same people who cheered then-Senator Obama in 2008 and Senator Kerry in 2004 when they criticized President Bush's foreign policy while American troops were in battle now insult your intelligence by saying that this president's foreign policy should be off limits during a campaign, or that criticism of him is based not on his clear failures but his ethnic heritage. Unfortunately, this contemptible lie propagated by the Obama campaign water-carriers in the media resonates with some voters who are less attuned to events and less inclined to seek out the facts.
The facts are these. What we are seeing today across the world is the direct result of perceived American weakness, of this president's unwillingness to champion American values and to support America's friends like Israel and the friends of freedom like the Iranian resistance against those who wish both us and freedom ill.
We see an American Ambassador and his staff murdered with the connivance of the very people this president sent American troops to risk their lives for and billions of your tax dollars to aid. We see American soil in American embassies assaulted by radicals in coordinated attacks by whipping up mobs over the excuse of a poorly-made, little known private video, while governments to whom we have given billions of your tax dollars in aid turn a blind eye, secure in the knowledge that this administration is so eager to buy them off, it will go on paying tribute regardless of their actions.
We see it in timid half-measures toward Iran, even as they seek nuclear weapons while promising the destruction of America and Israel. Must we lose New York City, Washington DC or Tel Aviv before we get serious about dealing with the mad mullahs?
We see it in the willingness of a tyrant like Hugh Chavez to suppress freedom in his country while threatening American interests and the security of his neighbors, secure in the knowledge that his leftist rhetoric makes him off limits to serious opposition from this administration.
We see it in an administration willing to provide thousands of guns to ruthless Mexican drug cartels, destabilizing that country and killing hundreds of Mexicans and two American agents, to further their anti-gun agenda. And then they lie and withhold information to cover it up.
We see it in an increasingly aggressive China willing to muscle both our allies like Japan, South Korea and the Philippines as well as their old allies like Vietnam, secure in the knowledge that our strong natural desire for good economic and political relations with them, and our need for their continued funding of a portion of our burgeoning debt means that we must acquiesce in their domination of their smaller neighbors.
We see it most of all in the unwillingness of this administration to name the enemy that seeks to destroy our way of life. That enemy—let us be clear—is Islamic Extremism and Islamic Supremacism. The president and leaders on both sides of the political aisle are perfectly correct in saying that we are not at war with Islam and I assure you we will never be at war with Islam under a Romney administration. Indeed, we must never forget that the most frequent victims of the daily catalog of murders and outrages by the extremists are decent Muslims who want to live in peace and freedom, seeking only prosperity for their families. But President Obama has never understood, in fact seems incapable of understanding, that it takes two sides to make peace, only one side to make war. Islamic extremism is growing, is often funded by our erstwhile friends, numbers millions of adherents and is able to manipulate the emotions of tens of millions more poor and ignorant Muslims who are understandable frustrated at the poverty created by the lack of economic and political freedom in their countries. And they are at war with us, with western civilization, and with the majority of peaceful Muslims, and have been for decades. Wishing it were not so will not change that painful fact. They give us only the options of defense, or defeat and death.
That Islamic extremism is not centrally directed as were the Nazi or Stalinist regimes does not make it either less understandable or less of a threat to our lives and liberties. That the threat can spring up undirected among our own citizens does not make the deaths of our soldiers in Little Rock or at Fort Hood any less casualties of that war than those who have sacrificed while wearing the uniform of the Republic in Iraq or Afghanistan. And when I'm president, their families will receive the appropriate recognition of their sacrifice. That is the least this country can do for their service.
This frightening growth of Islamic extremism is fed by an American posture of apologetic weakness. Over thirty years of attacks, terror and murder of Americans, westerners and their fellow Muslims should have taught us that they will always find an excuse, be it a cartoon or a clownish YouTube video to ferment violence and mob terror. We must not feed the beast. We must stand with that majority of Muslims who desire peace, freedom and prosperity. We must support those Muslims who have the courage to speak out against extremism and terror. We must lead from the front, and abandon weak euphemisms like calling war "overseas contingency operations."
We cannot defend women's rights and other human rights at home if we fear to speak out against the oppression of women under Shari'a Law abroad. Being for tolerance for gay people at home is meaningless if we are supinely silent about the murder of gays in Iran and other intolerant countries at the hands is Islamic extremists.
American freedom, American prosperity and the aspirations of tens of millions of people around the world, Muslim and non-Muslim, depend on American strength, American leadership and American courage. If we fear to defend liberty out of fear for our lives, we shall find we have lost both life and liberty. We must stand with the friends of freedom and against extremism and aggression and terror. We must honor and support the service and sacrifice of our gallant troops, and those of our allies, on whom our freedom depends. The future of all decent people in the world, regardless of nationality, religion or ethnic heritage, depend on our making that American policy. The president talked of change and in our foreign policy, change now is desperately needed. As your president, I will lead us to a new foreign policy that values freedom and life and prosperity, and stands against murder and extremism and terror. And I will not apologize for it
Thank you.
This guy is a total moron. These policies don't bring anybody together, they continue to segregate and separate us. Racism is not born, it is taught and by teaching kids they are different and special and one group deserves special treatment will only divide us further. Now these kids... who have never judged based on color or ethnicity... has to consider these things.
School Principal Sees Racism in Peanut Butter
By Todd Starnes
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/principal-sees-racism-in-peanut-butter.html#comments
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An Oregon grade school principal suggested in a newspaper interview that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches might be racially and culturally offensive.
"What about Somali or Hispanic students who might not eat sandwiches?" Verenice Gutierrez told the Portland Tribune.
Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School, was being interviewed about the school district's equity training program designed to narrow the achievement gap. The newspaper said she "picks up on the subtle language of racism every day" and used the peanut butter sandwich to illustrate her point.
"Another way would be to say: 'Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?' let them tell you," she told the newspaper. "Maybe they eat torta. Or pita."
The equity program is called "Courageous Conversation" and it involves taking educators through an intensive program so they can understand their own "white privilege," the newspaper reported.
Robb Cowie, the communications director for Portland Public Schools told Fox News they were aware of the story and to their knowledge it was factually accurate.
"What we're trying to do in our school district is to ensure that we have instruction that is meaningful and relevant to ever student in the classroom," Cowie said.
In some cases, that means offering programs strictly for students of color.
The newspaper provided information about a drum corps that was set up for black and Latino boys. One parent complained that the class discriminated against women, Asians, whites and Native Americans.
Guitierrez defended the class and denied it was discriminatory.
"When white people do it, it is not a problem," she told the Tribune. "But if it's for kids of color, then it's a problem? Break it down for me. That's your white privilege, and your whiteness."
Cowie said the district did not have a problem with the principal's statements.
So does the school system provide clubs strictly for white students?
"I'm not aware of that in Portland," he said.
"Big picture – what we are trying to encourage in our district – are educational experiences that are relevant that give kids support, encouragement, engagement," Cowie said. "We are certainly not trying to create situations where students are excluded."
He said the district was addressing the issue of so-called 'white privilege' to even the playing field so that all children have an opportunity succeed.
"It's an understanding that families and students come into the educational setting with different backgrounds and different strengths and in some cases different advantages," he said. "That translates into different educational outcomes."
Cowie said the district wants to narrow the achievement gap for "students of color."
"Persistently we have not done a good enough job educating students of color and specifically African-American students," he told Fox News. "That's what the program is addressing. How can we find a way to support African American students, their families – so that we are producing better outcomes and narrowing the achievement gap."
The story generated a number of comments from local residents outraged over the equity training program. One reader suggested that under the school's policies, the phrase "American as apple pie" could be considered offensive.
"I am sick of progressives' attacks on our culture. I am offended when people coming to our country find it necessary to denigrate our culture and teachers who are teaching our children somehow feel like they have to apologize for being American," the reader wrote.
Another wrote: "Teaching against peanut butter sandwiches and white privilege is critical thinking? No – that is racism and radical activism."
And that brings us back to the peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
"It's not really about a sandwich," he said. "It's about how do we reach kids and speak to them through experiences that are meaningful to them – that are understandable to them so that they have an entry point into the curriculum and can engage in learning."
He said they don't want to make any student feel unwelcomed – intentionally or unintentionally that might disconnect a child or a family from the educational system – even if it's a PB&J.
"Certainly a sandwich isn't going to do it in itself," he said. "But it is one of those things that we want to be aware of in all aspects of our instructional practice."
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Here is a summary of where the world stands:
*** Unable to reach a compromise over the weekend, South Africa is now in an all out labor strike, with the police again firing rubber bullets at miners with lethal escalation guaranteed
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iFs2gLJg8NZdd7jAhCI-NXFpL9IQ?docId=CNG.8e9c8e1df4b6c5cdc92ad654caa62cdd.1a1
*** Back from vacation, the once again penniless citizens of Spain, Greece, and Portugal have resumed protesting austerity
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/anti-austerity-protests-return-spain
*** US embassies attacked, in many cases with numerous casualties, in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan, Lebanon, India, Balgadesh, Indonesia, and others.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/anti-us-protests-spread-india-bangladesh-indonesia
*** Japan "appropriating" China-contested islands provoking a firestorm of retaliation including demands for "war with Japan"
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/meanwhile-beijing-respect-motherland-we-must-go-war-japan
*** The Japanese ambassador to China dying mysteriously
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/japans-ambassador-china-dies-chinese-police-use-tear-gas-water-cannon-anti-japan-protesters
*** Netanyahu telling Meet the Press Iran will have a nuke in six-seven months and must be stopped beforehand
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/16/us-iran-nuclear-netanyahu-idUSBRE88F06P20120916
*** Warships from more than 25 countries, including the United States, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, launching a military exercise in the Straits of Hormuz
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9545597/Armada-of-international-naval-power-massing-in-the-Gulf-as-Israel-prepares-an-Iran-strike.html
*** A third US aircraft – the CVN-74 Stennis – carrier is en route to Iran with an ETA of about 10 days
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/us-aircraft-carrier-stennis-now-en-route-join-enterprise-and-eisenhower-just-iranian-coast
*** And finally, a potential catalyst to light this whole mess on fire, Iran's Revolutionary Guard announcing that its troops are now on the ground in Syria.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/16/us-iran-syria-presence-idUSBRE88F04C20120916
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The essential difference between liberals and conservatives is that liberals could not exist without conservatives to defend their freedoms and support them economically. Conservatives, on the other hand, could live quite well without liberals. And what's more, we are quite anxious to test this theory. Evicting Obuma would be a great place to begin.
All you have to do is look around the world to discover how badly Obuma has bungled America's foreign policy. By gutting the economy and the military, he has made this country a toothless tiger, so that even such backward nations as Syria, Iran and North Korea, can give us the proverbial finger and get away with it.
Allen West, quoting Alexander the Great, sums it up very neatly: "I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
It seems like only yesterday that Obuma and Broom Hillary were telling us that Assad's days were numbered in Syria, but that was actually several thousand massacred Syrians ago. It now appears that Assad's reign will out-last Obuma's.
I almost feel sorry for all those people who thought they were earning points in heaven by electing our first black president, but the fact remains that, by any honest evaluation, Obuma has been our very worst president, usurping Jimmy Carter's hard-earned title.
In spite of four years of a terrible economy; four years spent trying to destroy the coal and oil industry for purely ideological reasons; four years of ruling by presidential edict; four years spent declaring war on the states, while turning a blind eye to the Black Panthers and concealing the facts of Operation Fast and Furious, the Democrats are asking that we give Obuma time. The truth is that most of us agree that he has it coming. But instead of four more years, we think that, for his efforts to trash the Constitution, 25-to-life would be just about right.
As Dinesh D'Souza's "2016" makes abundantly clear, Obuma's greatest influence has always been and remains his birth father, an anti-western, Islamic zealot who spent his life railing against white people. It was not mere happenstance that the church Obuma attended for two decades was one overseen by Jeremiah Wright, yet another father figure who preached the exact same demagogic swill as Obuma's old man.
It wasn't merely hyperbole when Winston Churchill observed that "Islam is as dangerous in a man as rabies in a dog."
Neither was it merely politics as usual when Obuma, addressing a group of Islamists, vowed that "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Perhaps that's why after imposing what were supposed to be really severe restrictions on Iran's oil trade, Obuma gave 20 different nations waivers, allowing them to purchase that very same oil. In much the same way, after using bribery and intimidation to push ObumaCare through Congress, he immediately granted waivers to unions and those business owners who had been generous contributors to his 2008 campaign.
Still, I suppose when all is said and done, if your taste runs to pompous buffoons, he's your guy.
Quote from warph:
while turning a blind eye to the Black Panthers
Careful there Warph. You are'a fix'n to get your arse ripped. Do you live in LaLa land ? If not, you don't have a clue to what the peace loving Black Panthers were doing.
Quote from: jarhead on September 18, 2012, 11:26:25 AM
Quote from warph:
while turning a blind eye to the Black Panthers
Careful there Warph. You are'a fix'n to get your arse ripped. Do you live in LaLa land ? If not, you don't have a clue to what the peace loving Black Panthers were doing.
The two-legged or four-legged types? It has been reported that we in AZ have the four-legged type and are very elusive. Two- legged? Naw... my amigo's ran them off. ;D
The Unemployment Rate
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Of course, if you add in those whose benefits have run out, those under-employed or who took PT jobs to get by, and the huge number who have given up, the unemployment rate is far higher.
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The War to Come
By George H. Wittman on 9.18.12 @ 6:09AM
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/18/the-war-to-come/print
Who says Iran can be deterred? Here's why Israel has no such illusions.
It may be shocking to some, but the Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was correct when he said a few days ago that Israel can not survive a nuclear weapon attack. He didn't add, but it is certainly true, that these need only be lower yield devices. A brief study of the industrial topography and demography of Israel shows that a minimal number (3-4) well targeted nuclear weapons would leave Israel inoperable as a modern state.
President Obama clearly has been provided with adequate technical intelligence to inform him of the details involved. Iran already has adequate delivery systems as outlined by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta last February when he referred to the effective operational state of the Shahab-3 and the medium range ballistic missile, Ashura, as being able to hit Israel and Eastern Europe. The White House knows that Israel is in danger of obliteration if Iran is allowed to launch even a modest attack on Israel. So far the American presidential response appears to be, "Iran knows the U.S. will respond appropriately, and that is adequate deterrence."
The theoretical punitive response by Washington would be too late to save the continued existence of Israel. While the threatened U.S. counterattack might destroy Iranian nuclear development facilities, in order to have a serious lasting impact the economic base of Iran would have to be destroyed. Its oil production and distribution facilities would have to be targeted for demolition. Such an action defines the term "counter-productive " if the international importance of Persian oil resources are taken into consideration. And, of course, Israel would be in ashes.
To be specific about Iran's current nuclear weapon capability, one need only refer to the recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): "Iran... has produced 418 pounds of 20% enriched uranium." This uranium could be converted to weapons grade product before the end of this year. This is an increase over the 321 pounds of similar grade uranium reported available in May 2012. More importantly, the IAEA reported a doubling of the enrichment centrifuges since May, bringing the total to 2,140 at the advanced nuclear facility a Fordo, a deep buried mountain site outside the ancient city of Qom.
Fifty-five pounds of 90% enriched uranium is considered necessary to construct one nuclear explosive device. Taking 20% enrichment up to 90% weapons grade has been referred to as not difficult and solely dependent on processing time. With the increased number of centrifuges in operation reported by the IAEA, the calculation has been made that it would have take no more than a few months for the Iranians to accomplish this. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that the Iranians will have launch-capable nuclear missiles in 6-7 months.
It is generally accepted in defense circles -- and reported earlier in this column -- that the Iranians already have the short-term capability of constructing several "Hiroshima" implosion bombs. The issue at hand is the ability to construct smaller, higher yield devices capable of being placed on, and detonated from, the existing medium-range Iranian missiles. The IGRC already have enough of these appropriately-ranged and target-guided missiles to simultaneously hit all of Israel's scientific and production centers as well as its various deep bunkered military installations.
Pentagon sources have indicated it's not difficult technically to calculate how quickly Iranian scientists and technicians could handcraft the needed marriage of high-weaponized explosive product and the guided missile-connected delivery system. This information is well known by all existing nuclear-armed countries. This is why the intensity level of anxiety on the international scene has risen so sharply in the past few months.
The only mystery still extant is how this nearly open secret has been so successfully kept from publication. The reason is that such information is tantamount to pulling the trigger on a holocaust that Iran is not yet prepared to create -- even on Israel. And against which the Israelis are not yet fully ready to defend. The problem that the Israel Defense Command and PM Netanyahu face is whether they can fully destroy Iran's offensive capability aimed at Israel and/or effectively defend against the expected Iranian counter-thrust to an Israeli preemptive attack. One thing is certain: Israel can not and will not depend on the current American administration to assist in Israel's initial attack.
Considerable emphasis has been placed on the White House's desire for Israel to wait until after the American presidential election before taking any offensive action. A new logic has been introduced by events in many Moslem capitals following the original riots in Cairo and the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. If anything, the Obama Administration has hardened its position against Israeli military action against Iran. In turn, however, the Israeli choices have been reduced as Tehran now has the chance to exploit the anti-American/anti-Israel political support engendered by the wave of "holy war" spirit contained in the widespread radical Islamic demonstrations and attacks.
In brief, the Iranians do not fear the potential of an Israeli counterstrike. There is consequently nothing but Tehran's own current technical limitations to restrain the initiation of a Persian first strike nuclear attack on Israel's key centers. Bibi Netanyahu knows this and so do his military strategists. As soon as Israel has the wherewithal to effect an initial strike wiping out Iranian nuclear weapon-launching capability, the strategic instinct would have to be to do it as soon as they can.
The question is: When can Israel be sure it can destroy all of Iran's nuclear launch assets?
Who the hell is running this country...
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Obama's Schedule
by Richard Butrick
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/09/the_obama_schedule.html
Here is todays schedule for Obama - 09/18/12:
http://www.politico.com/politico44/whiteboard/2012/9/Obama_to_New_York.html
"The president will welcome the WNBA Champion Minnesota Lynx at a White House reception. He will then head to New York, where he will do an appearance on Letterman and attend fundraisers at the Waldorf Astoria and Club 40/40, hosted by Jay-Z and Beyonce. He will return to Washington late in the evening."
According to the Government Accountability Institute, Obama has spent more time golfing than in economic meetings of any kind and Obama has skipped more than half of his intelligence briefings.
But wait. According to Obama's National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor, Obama is "among the most sophisticated consumers of intelligence on the planet." That explains it. He can "consume" intelligence so fast he doesn't have to hang around the office like some plodding klutz. Now how did Victor conduct that survey?
Ok. Some of this is old news already reported by Rick Moran back in July. But let's take a look at the full picture which has been glaringly highlighted by recent events in the Middle East and North Africa.
He skips a security briefing on Sept. 5th to do a little jive talking with the "Pimp with the Limp", DJ Laz. "You're big time. You've got Pitbull and Flo Rida and all these guys just beating a path to your door. And so I'm hoping that I can get a little of that magic from you in this interview."
According to the White House Obama couldn't meet with Netanyahu because "The president's schedule will not permit that." But that same day, Obama announced that he will be on the David Letterman show.
He gave a faltering and hurried reading of his "bad day" speech on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 in order to run off to a fund raiser that Michelle Malkin described as going "Off to Las Vegas for a lovefest campaign rally with 8,000 fanboys and fangirls who cultishly screamed, "I lovve youuuuuu" - ."
During Obama's presidency the White house has become the new "in" celebrity dining hot spot featuring Hollywood glitterati from Morgan Freeman to Kim Kardashian to Clooney. Add to that all the entertainment shows and the White House is looking like Vegas on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
But when he finishes consuming all that "intelligence", Obama says he is thinking about jobs and the economy from the time he gets up in the morning till he goes to bed.
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Horror: The moment that hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashed into the
World Trade Center Expedition 3 Commander Frank Culbertson says "it's
important for people to continue to learn the lessons" from the tragedy of September 11, and make ourselves a better nation. Culberton was aboard the International Space Station at the time of the attacks, and the only American off the planet. He captured incredible images of New York City in the minutes and hours following the event.(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/09/article-2035503-0DCA3F4F00000578-571_964x706.jpg)
Nasa monitored the site of the attack: This image was taken by the Landsat 7 satellite on
September 12. Smoke can clearly be seen streaming away from Ground Zero
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Hells bells and footie pajamas! I almost forgot that today is "Talk Like a Pirate Day" ???, but you wouldn't expect me to fall into lockstep with the rest of the world, now, would you? Otherwise, what is the point in being me? ...Which is not to say that there actually is a point. So... lets make it... uh... hmmmm... "Chaster A. Arthur Day" ...yeah, that sounds good.
But..."How can I talk like Chester A. Arthur when I don't know what he sounded like?" you may be asking. Well, who asked you to ask? Troublemaker...
I have it on good authority that he sounded like Lincoln. Or Larry King. ("Roscoe Conkling, you're on the air with Chester A. Arthur and Nipsey Russell.") ...and said stuff like, "Let the Chinese stay" and "Too bad about Garfield" and "The tariff is a local question" and "Rutherford B. Hayes can eat my shorts." Et cetera.
In fact, I may write in old Chester A's name come February, May or whenever the Presidental Election is. Because a dead president is better than no president at all... which is what we have right now.
SOME DUMB HUMOR....
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The Obama campaign has rolled out a new Twitter campaign: "For all". In it, celebrities and Obama supporters have uploaded images of themselves with their hands over their hearts, pledging to support his re-election bid. The creation of the Twitter feed appears to be in response to a video of Mitt Romney discussing his chances of winning over 47 percent of the electorate, which pays no federal income tax.
In April, the Obama campaign rolled out the campaign slogan "Forward," which was immediately ridiculed for its similarity to Communist China's "Great Leap Forward." Like the Obama team's last attempt to motivate its liberal base, the new campaign is open to plenty of criticism from the right; it's the kind of propaganda Chairman Mao might have adopted. Worse, it fits into the narrative of Obama supporters as individuals more inclined to pledge allegiance to a politician before their country.
These stats and bar charts below read like something out of 1984... if the Orwell classic had mentioned religion at all.
But I can't say it comes as a great surprise. However, as Mollie Hemingway inquires in her Twitter feed: "Have the media done a good job telling us which religion is the most persecuted in the world?" https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/248807070810398721
Now I know Mollie's was a rhetorical question, but what the hey: all together now...one, two, three... NO!
Forget TBN and Harold Camping and Hal Lindsey and all the other professional doomsdayers. Here's how you'll know the end is nigh: the day MSNBC devotes five minutes to these numbers. Hell, forget MSNBC, how about NBC, or CBS? Maybe, maybe, if PBS has an extra few minutes to fill on the NewsHour. And even then I bet they'd garble it up to blame the victims somehow...
But FOX might take this on, but only because it's not a real news organization... hee, hee.. :laugh:
Business Insider:
The Pew Forum released its 2012 report, Rising Tide of Restrictions on Religion, on Thursday, and ranked which religions were the most persecuted.
And despite the fact that Islamic protests have dominated the news, it's Christians that have been persecuted in the most countries between 2006 and 2010.
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Here's how many countries people were harassed in a specific year:
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Here's how the harassment breaks down in terms of government harassment and social harassment:
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Of course, the data doesn't take into account how severe the harrassment was, or how widespread it was within the countries recorded, but it's certainly surprising.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-persecuted-religions-in-the-world-2012-9#ixzz272YVOMrO
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$50,000 In Checks Stolen From Obama Campaign National Headquarters
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This could get amusing...
CHICAGO (FOX Chicago News) -While President Barack Obama campaigns for re-election, workers at his national campaign headquarters in Chicago have a mystery on their hands. FOX Chicago News has learned staffers called Chicago Police Wednesday morning to report the theft of approximately $50,000 in checks intended to pay for campaign expenses.
Two squad cars were seen parked outside the Prudential Plaza building Wednesday where Obama for America headquarters is located. Officers responded to the call at 10:46 a.m., and were seen exiting the building carrying brown manilla envelopes.
Three checks being mailed to vendors as payment for campaign services were apparently pilfered before they even made it past the building's front door. Sources tell FOX Chicago that two of the checks were for over $20,000 apiece.
At least one of the checks had already been deposited into a downtown bank account.
Midwest Press Secretary Ben Finkenbinder confirmed Chicago police are investigating a call about missing money. "Three checks we sent to vendors made it into the wrong hands, and after learning of this we notified police," Finkenbinder said in a statement. "We're pleased that they're dealing with the issue swiftly, and we don't expect this to have any impact upon the campaign."
Security inside the Prudential Plaza complex is extremely tight. Anyone headed upstairs to Obama's campaign headquarters must be credentialed to get past the lobby.
Hundreds of campaign staffers work inside the Obama for America office. Sources say there is no evidence that the office was broken into, but the theft is not believed to be an "inside job."
The investigation has been assigned to Area Central detectives. The case was initially classified as "theft by deception," which potentially includes crimes like embezzlement, forgery or counterfeiting.
A Chicago Police spokesman would only say they are involved in an "ongoing investigation" and that nobody is in custody.
Rush Limbaugh: Is Obama setting off the violent protests
around the Middle East?
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Hmmm... Anything is possible with Barack Insane-Hussein Obama!
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Breitbart News:
Breitbart News is doubling its reward–to $100,000–for one of the missing pieces of Barack Obama's past, which may be the key to understanding his collapsing Middle East policy: the "Khalidi tape," a video kept under wraps by the Los Angeles Times since April 2008.
The Khalidi tape shows Obama at a 2003 farewell party for radical Palestinian academic and activist Rashid Khalidi, and reportedly features vitriolic anti-Israel rhetoric.
Reporter Peter Wallsten... now with the Wall Street Journal.... revealed the existence of the tape in an article on Obama's pro-Palestinian background. Obama's participation in the Khalidi event, Wallsten wrote, had led Palestinian-Americans to believe "that Obama is more receptive to their viewpoint than he is willing to say."
The article was not aimed at vetting Obama's past; rather, the tape was likely shared with the Times as a means of pressuring Obama by reminding him of his past commitment to the Palestinian cause as he courted pro-Israel voters and donors.
Accordingly, Wallsten seems to have revealed only enough of what was on the video to achieve that aim. While noting that some speakers accused the Israeli government of terrorism and likened Jewish settlers to Osama bin Laden, Wallsten added that Obama "adopted a different tone...and called for finding common ground."
Wallsten refused to release the Khalidi tape itself, or a transcript thereof, for readers to examine and judge for themselves.
Read at: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/09/20/Reward-100000-for-Khalidi-Tape
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Traitor Obuma eyes 'blind sheik' release
The Obama administration is weighing the release of blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman — the spiritual adviser to the 1993 World Trade Center bombers — in a stunning goodwill gesture toward Egypt that has touched off a political firestorm, officials said yesterday.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/eyes_blind_sheik_release_0MFMrnamOFxtIJKJLpTQNL#ixzz278ulI3N4
So, according to "national security officials," who could be anybody, including the guy who stands watch over the bins outside the Dollar Store, Iran is waging cyberwar against Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase.
National security officials told NBC News that the continuing cyber attacks this week that slowed the websites of JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are being carried out by the government of Iran. One of those sources said the claim by hackers that the attacks were prompted by the online video mocking the Prophet Muhammad is just a cover story.
Story at: http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/20/13990206-officials-see-iran-not-outrage-over-film-behind-cyber-attacks-on-us-banks
I love that they're showing an interest. Obviously means they care.... would be nice tho', if they now added some "effort" to their "interest" before I lose the very special .00001% interest I'm earning on my savings. And by effort I don't mean a strongly worded e-mail to the editor of the Iranian Time's "Your Turn" column.
...Warph
Mitt Romney's 2011 Tax Return....
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Obuma and his leftie-clowns want to get their hands on the enormous trove of data included in his full returns...2011 actually included three separate returns for the Romneys' individual blind trusts and their family trust... so they can pick through it for little details they can pull out of context and drop into political attacks, secure in the knowledge that few in their audience will understand the extremely complicated tax laws governing a fortune of this size well enough to weed out disinformation, and the media certainly won't help them do it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/21/mitt-romney-tax-returns-released_n_1904242.html
Like I said above, it has already started... here is that miserable, despicable, excuse of a man and Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid flapping his (ass) cheeks about Romney's 2011 tax return. "Joker" Reid seized on a quirk of Romney's 2011 taxes.... one of only two years the candidate has fully documented... to argue that Romney could be "manipulating" the data.
...Warph
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From statement released by Reid's office today:
"The information released today reveals that Mitt Romney manipulated one of the only two years of tax returns he's seen fit to show the American people – and then only to 'conform' with his public statements. That raises the question: what else in those returns has Romney manipulated? We already know Romney has money in tax havens in Switzerland, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. What we don't know is why he refuses to be straight with the American people about the choices he's made in his financial life. When will the American people see the returns he filed before he was running for president? Governor Romney is showing us what he does when the public is looking. The true test of his character would be to show what he did when everyone was not looking at his taxes.
"It's also galling to see the creative accounting Mitt Romney applied to his own tax returns only days after learning of his insulting comments that seniors, soldiers and hard-working parents don't pay enough taxes. Once again, we see Mitt Romney is out of touch with middle class families, who don't have the luxury of accounting wizards and foreign tax shelters. It's obvious he believes in two sets of rules: one for him, and one for the middle class. He says he wants to be president for only half the people but he acts like he only cares for the top two percent. Despite the fiscal cliff looming in just over three months, Mitt Romney refuses to explain the details of his tax policy. Will the policies he proposes benefit all Americans, or only multi-millionaires like him?"
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/251089-reid-romney-refuses-to-be-straight-with-the-american-people-on-taxes
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Deer doesn't dig this dude's Obuma Lawn Sign display. Even a deer instinctively doesnt like Obuma... Animals are not supposed to be able to reason, yet these deer know that Obuma is inherently bad so they take action against Obuma.
These deer must be a higher life form than democrats, who continue to support this monster that even a supossedly dumb animal instinctively recognize Obuma as evil. Too bad that deer and other "dumb" animals cannot vote; their vote would surely be more intelligent than the average democrats.
Note From Trustee Brad Malt
Brad Malt | September 21, 2012
http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2012/09/note-trustee-brad-malt
Mitt Romney will release a copy of his 2011 tax returns at 3 p.m. Friday as well as a summary of his tax rates -- but not, as requested by Democrats, copies of his actual returns -- for the years 1990-2009.
According to the campaign, Romney paid a 14.1 percent tax rate. Pushing back against speculation from Democrats, most notably Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), that he paid little to no taxes at some point in his career, Romney's campaign now claims the lowest effective rate he ever paid was 13.66 percent and that the average across the 20 year period 20.20 percent.
Romney deilberately did not claim about $1.75 million in charitable deductions for 2011 in order to avoid dipping below an effective tax rate of 13 percent, a threshold he said earlier in the year he had never crossed in his previous 10 tax returns.
The campaign's description of Romney's taxes are below, from Romney's trustee R. Bradford Malt:
This morning, Gov. and Mrs. Romney filed their 2011 tax return with the IRS. At 3:00pm today, the Romney for President campaign will be posting the 2011 return online.
The complete 2011 tax return, with full schedules, statements, and attachments, will be made available with all other previously-disclosed information at www.mittromney.com/disclosure.
Also posted will be a notarized letter from the Romneys' tax preparer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP (PWC), giving a summary of tax rates from the Romneys' tax returns for the 20-year period of 1990-2009.
In advance of the posting of these new documents, I wanted to provide some top-line details.
Regarding the newly-filed 2011 Tax Return:
In 2011, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income.
The Romneys' effective tax rate for 2011 was 14.1%.
The Romneys donated $4,020,772 to charity in 2011, amounting to nearly 30% of their income.
The Romneys claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of those charitable contributions.
The Romneys' generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor's statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.
As with the 2010 tax return, the 2011 tax return will appear as four separate documents. It includes Governor and Mrs. Romney's Form 1040 as well as three underlying Massachusetts trusts detailing the sources of their income. Those are The W. Mitt Romney Blind Trust, The Ann D. Romney Blind Trust, and The Romney Family Trust.
The investments within the trusts are managed on a blind basis by me, the trustee. I have sole responsibility for making, holding and disposing of the investments.
Regarding the PWC letter covering the Romneys' tax filings over 20 years, from 1990 – 2009:
In each year during the entire 20-year period, the Romneys owed both state and federal income taxes.
Over the entire 20-year period, the average annual effective federal tax rate was 20.20%.
Over the entire 20-year period, the lowest annual effective federal personal tax rate was 13.66%.
Over the entire 20-year period, the Romneys gave to charity an average of 13.45% of their adjusted gross income.
Over the entire 20-year period, the total federal and state taxes owed plus the total charitable donations deducted represented 38.49% of total AGI.
During the 20-year period covered by the PWC letter, Gov. and Mrs. Romney paid 100 percent of the taxes that they owed.
Finally, in addition to new documents related to tax filings, the campaign will also be posting on the same website physician letters for both Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan, making public their current state of health.
After you have reviewed all of the newly-posted documents, you may have further questions. The campaign asks that you direct them to an e-mail account set up for that purpose. That e-mail address is returns @ mittromney.com.
Thank you.
R. Bradford Malt is a partner at Ropes & Gray, LLP. He has been the trustee of the Romney's blind trust since 2003.
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Gov. Mitt Romney Taxes/ Public Disclosure
http://www.mittromney.com/disclosure
Gov. And Mrs. Romney's complete 2011 tax return is now available below, in addition to their complete 2010 tax return.
The Romneys have provided extensive information about their personal finances, including over 1,200 pages of federal tax returns that are now public on this website.
Also posted is a letter from the Romneys' tax preparer, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, which gives an overview of the Romneys' tax returns covering an additional 20 years, from 1990-2009.
Governor Romney's tax returns show:
First, as a successful businessman, Governor Romney has not only added value to our economy through his investment and business activity, but he has paid millions in taxes every year to the U.S. government.
Second, the Romneys take to heart "to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." Accordingly, they have been generous in their charitable giving, donating over $7 million between 2010-2011 – donating more to charity than they paid in federal income taxes.
Third, Mitt Romney has scrupulously complied with the U.S. tax code, and his income is reported and taxed at the applicable rates, and he has paid 100 percent of what he has owed.
In addition, Gov. Romney has released nine financial disclosures since 2002, which are also posted on this site. There are 3 federal Public Financial Disclosures (from 2007, 2011, and 2012), and 6 Massachusetts Statements of Financial Interests (from 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007).
With a decade's worth of financial disclosure documents and the Romneys' recent tax returns, the American people have extensive information about their personal finances, above and beyond what is required by the law.
This site also includes Congressman Paul Ryan's financial information. Posted are tax returns from 2011 and 2010 for Paul and Janna Ryan, as well as 14 federal Public Financial Disclosures covering 1999-2012.
Additionally, there are now physician letters for both Gov. Romney and Rep. Ryan, making public their physical condition and medical history. These letters are being provided in the interest of public disclosure.
See all of Romney's Tax Records:
http://www.mittromney.com/disclosure
Quote from: drpc1a on September 22, 2012, 01:54:19 PM
Tricky Mitt UNDER PAID his taxes. Donated about $4 million to charity in 2011, but claimed only $2.25 million as a deduction.
That means the Romneys voluntarily paid a higher tax rate than they were legally required.
In January, Tricky Mitt insisted, "I don't pay more than are legally due and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don't think I'd be qualified to become president."
So, Tricky Mitt said he'd be unqualified to be president if he paid more than is legally due, and then he paid more than is legally due, because of a "unique position."
Why did Tricky Mitt UNDER PAY his taxes?
1. Tricky Mitt claimed he'd always paid only what was due, and not a dollar more and that his tax rate was no less than 13%.
So with this statement on the RECORD, he was able to manipulate his tax rate by only claiming a portion of his donations to charity; 2.25 out of 4.
*If Tricky Mitt would have claimed the total $4 million in deductions, he would have an effective tax rate of ***8%***, not the 13% he'd previously claimed he paid. Do the Math!
2. Tricky Mitt has 3 yrs to amend this 2011 tax return. If you believe that his lawyer will not file an amended tax return the day after the election in order to collect the extra $225,000 and use the $1.75 million in deductions,
I have a bridge in Tacoma to sell U!
Tricky Mitt lives up to his pseudonym; he will bend the facts, mislead the masses, and he is in fact a LAIR! Just like his VP choice Lyin' Ryan!
Vote in Nov!
***Tricky Mitt Show US Your Papers!***
***¡Muéstrenoslos!***
Lyin' Ryan Had to Show U 10 Yrs of His Returns!
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Now that we got that out of the way...Okay, Tricky Barack... show the American People YOUR PAPERS!
LIKE:
Real Birth Certificate...
(Where's the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the
"natural-born American" clause in the Constitution? He reported in his book
he was born in Hawaii and his half-sister agrees. But the woman the president
says is his paternal grandmother, Sarah Obama, claimed to have been present
at her grandson's birth in Mombasa, Kenya.
The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.")
Noelani Elementary School Records on Oahu...
Punahou School Records in Hawaii...
Occidental College records...
Columbia University Records...
Your Columbia thesis "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament" that you said you wrote... (before applying to Harvard, Obama is said to have written a major thesis in his senior year.
It has not been released.)
Harvard Law School Records...
Your Harvard Law Review articles....
Your University of Chicago Scholarly Articles...
(The university of Chicago offered Obama a full-time tenure-track position, an honor typically reserved for published instructors. However, reporters have been unable to find scholarly articles authored by him. The university reports that Obama declined the tenure offer.... [cough, cough] Sarah Galer, news editor at the Law School and Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, told WND, "President Obama wrote 'Dreams from My Father' while at the law school but did not produce any scholarly articles as far as I know.")
Obama's Passport...
(According to March 2008 reports, State Department employees conducted an unauthorized search of Obama's passport files during the recent presidential campaign. CNN reported that three different contract workers accessed his information on separate occasions – Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14 – without authorization. Two workers were fired and another faced discipline.
Obama's files reportedly contained copies of passport applications, birth date, basic biographical information, records of passport renewal and possibly citizenship information. The Obama campaign demanded a thorough investigation to determine which employees looked at the file and why.
"This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years," Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton told CNN in a statement. "Our government's duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes."
Meanwhile, a key witness who had been cooperating with federal investigators was later found fatally shot in front of a Washington, D.C., church. A police officer found the body of Lt. Quarles Harris Jr., 24, slumped dead inside his car.
At the time, investigators said they didn't have any information connecting the murder to the passport case. After one year of investigation of the homicide, there have been no arrests.
The passport has not been released.)
Medical records...
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Other documents...
According to additional records listed, other documents that remain unreleased include:
Complete files and schedules of his years as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004....
Obama's client list from during his time in private practice with the Chicago law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Gallard...
Illinois State Bar Association records...
Baptism records....
Obama/Dunham marriage license...
Obama/Dunham divorce documents...
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license...
Adoption records...
An email from Israel:
"I'm just sharing this...don't attack the messenger!
PEOPLE NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHAT IS GETTING READY TO HAPPEN, PLEASE PLEASE...PAY ATTENTION HERE!!!!
FROM A FRIEND: Intel From Israel on Whats getting set to Happen in the Middle East. My brother and his family live in Jerusalem - he is a minister - and a former Navy SEAL - his office is close to one of Isra
el 's largest underground military bases. He called me last night which is very unusual - usually it is email. He called to tell me that he is sending his family back to the US immediately due to what he is seeing happen within the last week and what he is being told by his military contacts in both the Israel and US military. He said he is seeing with his own eyes military movements the likes of which he has never seen in his 20+ years in Israel .
What he called a massive redeployment and protective tactics of forces is underway.
Over the last two days he has seen anti-aircraft missile deployments throughout the Jerusalem area including 3 mobile units that he can see from his office windows. In addition, he has seen very large Israeli armored columns moving fast toward the Synai where Egypt has now moved in Armor. There are reports of the top military leaders meeting with Israel 's Sr. Rabi which is something that has happened preceding every prior military campaign.
His admonition is to watch carefully and pray for Israel and its people. He is convinced that barring something extraordinary Israel will attack Iran - with or without the US - and very soon. It is the belief in Israel that Obama does not stand with Israel but with the Arab countries. He has told me before that Israel will saber rattle from time to time but that this time is very different from what he is seeing and hearing.
He was at the Wailing Wall 2 days ago and there were hundreds of IDF soldiers there. As he was leaving he passed at least 20 military buses full of soldiers in route to the wall. HE has never seen this before either. Just thought I would pass this along. My brother is not an alarmist by any means. When he talks like this it gets my attention for sure and usually I find he knows more than he shares. here are reports that Israel is asking Obama to come to Israel immediately but they are being answered with silence.
My opinion is that I see the making of the perfect storm."
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The United States Air Force is being sued by a Conservative group called Judicial Watch over Michelle Obama's trip to Spain in 2010.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/03/group-seeks-michelle-obama-travel-records/1#.T1cQxPWNwhA
Judicial Watch wants to know the passengers that went along with the Obamas to Spain. And they want to know the travel costs.
The Whitehouse's response:
"The first lady is on a private trip," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said at the time. "She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip. And I think I'd leave it at that."
And Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch:
"That this lavish trip may be a source of embarrassment for the Obamas is not a sufficient reason to stonewall the release of records.
Evidently, American taxpayers were stuck with a sizable bill so Mrs. Obama could tour around Spain with her family and friends.
This administration, as a supposed steward of taxpayer dollars, has an obligation to disclose the full costs of the Obama family's luxury trip."
Sixteen Vacations by the Obamas. Everytime the Obamas take a vacation, the taxpayers are on the hook for a lot of money. Airfare, food, hotels, per diems for the secret service and Whitehouse staff. As well as use of the presidential jet. When the Bush family went to Texas for their vacations, the expenses were minimal. You cannot compare the lavish lifestyle of the Obama administration to the relaxed Bush lifestyle.
In the past year alone, the Obamas have gone to South Africa, Botswana, Martha's Vineyard, Hawaii, and Aspen.
...President's Day 2012: Aspen, CO to ski
...Christmas 2011: Hawaii
...Summer 2011: Martha's Vineyard
...June 2011 South Africa, Botswana
...President's Day 2011: Vail to ski
...Christmas 2010: Hawaii
...August 2010: Panama City Beach, FL
...August 2010: Chicago (Obama alone)
...August 2010: Spain (1st lady and Sasha)
...August 2010: Martha's Vineyard
...July 2010: Mount Desert Island, Maine
...May 2010: Chicago
...March 2010: New York City
...Christmas 2009: Hawaii
...August 2009: Yellowstone National Park, Grand Canyon
...August 2009: Martha's Vineyard
Read more at http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20120221001-sixteen-obama-vacations.html#ZREoT47D5loFD2CF.99
Read more at http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20120307001-obama-spain-vacation.html#3kMCuUbXMWSRlALr.99
So not everyone is thrilled with the new lunch menus offered by the Department of Agriculture, which are adhering to fresh guidelines as set out by First Lady Michelle"Let them eat hummus" Obuma. Her anti-obesity campaign, called "You Fat Horses Make Me Sick," is leaving some teens feeling a tad unwell themselves:
Students across the country are complaining about the new school lunch regulations.
Perhaps the real motive is to starve students into slimming down. Just ask students in Pierre, South Dakota who, too, are in an all-out revolt.
"I know a lot of my friends who are just drinking a jug of milk for their lunch. And they are not getting a proper meal," middle school student Samantha Gortmaker told Keloland.com.
Despite the fact that the new regulations have increased the cost of a lunch 20 to 25 cents per plate, it's not pleasing students.
Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market... for chocolate syrup. The kiddie capitalists are smuggling in bottles of it and selling it by the squeeze, according to SouthCoastToday.com. More power to them, I say.
Nancy Carvalho, director of food services for New Bedford Public Schools, was quoted as saying, "...that hummus and black bean salads have been tough sells in elementary cafeterias. That means even smaller children are going through the day fighting hunger pains, which can never be considered a good thing."
Hummus? HUMMUS! You've got to be kidding me. Black bean salad? What are they... in a hospital? That's not even real American food, like pizza and frankfurters and tacos.
Once again, the miserable communists in the White House have taken a page out of the North Korean playbook and are determined to so weaken the constitutions of our yutes that revolt against the state will no longer be physically possible.
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"If you're hungry and you know it, clap your hands...
if you're hungry and you know it..."
Our young men and women must now crawl on their bellies just to get to class, a wisp of an alfalfa sprout dangling from their ammonia-reeking gobs. No doubt they find it impossible to pay attention in class, what with their kidneys shutting down and constantly tripping over catheters.
Ignorant, feeble, and starving: America's future, ladies and gentlemen! Vulnerable to our enemies! Pliable to the powers that be!
I say we break into these cafeterias with chili cheeseburgers, malteds, and french fries and renew the spirit of America!
Who's with me?!
Oooh, wait...I think I pulled something....ow....ow...
Sheeeesh.... Warph
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"Get'um up, Scout""As a kid, I never asked my mommy for documentation when she talked about our Native American heritage," says Warren in the new TV ad. "What kid would? But I knew my father's family didn't like that she was part-Cherokee and part-Delaware, so my parents had to elope.
ah, Lizzie... Soooo sad... so sad.
"Let me be clear. I never asked for or never got any benefit because of my heritage. The people who hired me have all said they didn't even know about it," she continues. "Scott Brown can continue attacking my family, but I'm going to keep fighting for yours," Warren concludes.
Again... so sad... not to mention that's bullshit.
Warph,
Looks like Ms Warren might have her tickie in a wringer again, and a more serious thing this time. Looks as though the ol hide might have been practicing law without a license
And now comes the allegation that she practiced law in the state of MA without a license. She, of course, is denying it. In spite of the fact she submitted Amicus briefs to the US Supreme Court using the address of the MA law firm where she worked... in violation of a SCOTUS ruling that one must be admitted to the state supreme court in the state from where the briefs are being submitted.
I'm no close friend of the Republicans (since many are only in vitro dems in incubation), but it seems that the Demoncrats have shed all sense of honesty & morality. Not unlike Harry Reid who said this morning that fellow Mormon Romney had 'sullied; the Morman religion.
Of course, since we've established that the Dem party is not Christian (as evidenced by their claims to so many things that contradict the Bible), they therefore hold no moral codes against bearing false witness. So I guess lying, cheating, thievery & willful neglect of mans governmental laws are to be expected. Sad, really sad.
I guess ol' Lizzie might be running out of luck for that ol' senatorial seat. She seems to be a good Democrat, tho'. You can tell that by the way she lies. I guess she's not as lucky as she thought she was.
Why ???
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Blaming Our Troops
'Friendly' fire attacks have killed dozens of our heroes. The Pentagon's response? Ordering sensitivity training about IslamBy PAUL SPERRYhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/blaming_our_troops_gsNkgSOnejhkmabM2KA6TI
Afghan security forces, our supposed allies, are slaughtering American troops. Thirty-three soldiers have been killed by "green on blue" attacks this year alone. The situation is so bad that the training of Afghan forces has been temporarily suspended. How has the Pentagon responded?
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* * * By blaming our troops.* * *
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Top officials believe culturally offensive behavior is the motivation behind the killings, so it's stepped up Islamic sensitivity training for our troops.
If you don't want to be shot in the back by your Afghan training partners, the Pentagon advises, don't offend their religious sensibilities. Don't kick your feet up on a table, for instance, and never ask to see a picture of their wives and kids. "There's a percentage [of attacks] which are cultural affronts," Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said in a recent interview.
Dempsey echoes the concerns of Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, the Afghan National Army's chief of staff, who earlier this month argued both sides need to do more to "teach" foreign troops Islamic traditions and values to reduce the chance of violent reactions to cultural slights.
"It is our duty to teach this to them. Our indifference about these issues causes the incident," he said.
In the past three years, uniformed Afghans have murdered at least 97 US and NATO troops.
The Taliban has taken credit for many of the attacks, but the Pentagon has been reluctant to admit widespread infiltration of the Afghan security forces it's training.
Standing up a national army and police force that can protect the US-sponsored government in Kabul is the linchpin of President Obama's announced 2014 withdrawal strategy.
Some 120,000 American and other foreign troops mix closely with 350,000 Afghan security forces. Afghan trainees and guards are co-located on US bases, where they share bathrooms, gyms and mess halls.
To avoid offending them, US commanders are putting troops through intense Muslim sensitivity training. Among other things, they've been ordered to:
* Wear surgical gloves whenever handling a copy of the Koran.
* Never walk in front of a praying Muslim.
* Never show the bottom of boots while sitting or lying across from a Muslim, which in Islam is considered an insult.
* Never share photos of wives or daughters.
* Never smoke or eat in front of Muslims during the monthlong Ramadan fasting.
* Avoid winking, cursing or nose-blowing in the presence of Muslims — all viewed as insults in Islam.
* Avoid exiting the shower without a towel.
* Avoid offering and accepting things with the left hand, which in Islam is reserved for bodily hygiene and considered unclean.
Troops who violate the sensitivity rules face severe punishment.
Military officials who have done tours in Afghanistan are outraged that brass would even suggest US troops are partly to blame for their own murders.
"I would like to see a public affairs officer explain to the press where showing the bottom of your shoe to a Muslim or shaking with your left hand was legitimate grounds for murder," growled one US Army official.
They say their Muslim partners would still resent them even if they followed their Islamic protocols to the letter.
"The cultural affronts excuse is a bunch of garbage," a senior US Army intelligence official told me. "The Afghans that know we're doing all this PC cultural sensitivity crap are laughing their asses off at our stupidity."
Explained the intelligence official: "They're killing us because we're 'infidels' occupying Islamic lands. It's what the Koran and every imam over there is telling them, and no amount of cultural sensitivity is going to stop that or change the fact that we're 'infidels.' "
Indeed, a Taliban video released last month revealed uniformed Afghans are itching for a chance to "kill infidels."
"I opened fire on three Americans who were sitting together," a rogue Afghan soldier, identified as Ghazi Mahmood, says while smiling for the camera. "The reason I killed them is because they have occupied our country. They are enemies of our religion."
Internally, the military has acknowledged the larger religious problem. A May 2011 study commissioned by the US Army says "fratricidal" assaults by uniformed Afghans stem in part from Afghan religious attitudes that their American counterparts are "infidel bullies." (The same report says US troops regarded their Afghan training partners as "treacherous and murderous radicals" secretly colluding with the Taliban.)
Further pointing up the absurdity of putting troops through Islamic finishing school: The intelligence official notes that if there are any truly obnoxious cultural offenses, they are committed by Afghan trainees quartered inside our bases.
"They like to stand on our toilets and poop all over them," he said.
Why? They refuse to touch the toilet seats used by the "dirty infidels" they're training and living with.
State of VIRGINIA Gas Station Welcomes Joe Biden Back to
State during a Campaign Stop:
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THIS IS SOME GREAT NEWS...
Mia Love Comes From 13 Points Down to Take Lead in Utah District 4 Race!
The latest Utah poll shows conservative Mia Love has taken the lead in Utah's 4th District.
That means the race has seen a 28 point swing to Love since July.
The Salt Lake Tribune reported:"Mia Love's campaign released internal polling numbers that show the race for Utah's 4th District seat have taken a dramatic swing, giving her a big lead over Democrat Jim Matheson."
"Love's polling firm, Public Opinion Strategies, said that Love is now leading the race, 51-36, and "This heavily Republican district is coming home." POS said its July poll of the district showed Matheson leading 51-38, meaning the race took a 28-point swing.
Love said in a statement that the support is "encouraging."
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WH Silent Over Demands to Denounce 'Pi$$ Christ' Artwork
By Todd Starnes, Fox News & Commentary
Religious groups are blasting President Obama for not condemning am anti-Christian art display set to appear in New York City and one Republican lawmaker said he is "fed up with the administration's religious hypocrisy.
"Pi$$ Christ," once branded as a "deplorable, despicable display of vulgarity," will be displayed at the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery in Manhattan on Thursday. The artwork features a "photograph of the crucifix submerged in the artist's urine."
Religious groups and some lawmakers have already started sounding off – and making comparisons to the controversy over a recent anti-Muslim film. The low budget movie "Innocence of Muslims" sparked violent and deadly clashes across the globe.
It also brought strong rebukes, condemnations and apologies from President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a host of administration officials.
Read rest of story:
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/wh-silent-over-demands-to-denounce-piss-christ-artwork.html
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Obama: "The Future Does Not Belong to Those Who Slander the Prophet of Islam"
...as Barack Obama told the UN General Assembly today.
Here's the transcript, via MRCTV:
The future must not belong to those who target Coptic Christians in Egypt – it must be claimed by those in Tahrir Square who chanted "Muslims, Christians, we are one." The future must not belong to those who bully women – it must be shaped by girls who go to school, and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons. The future must not belong to those corrupt few who steal a country's resources – it must be won by the students and entrepreneurs; workers and business owners who seek a broader prosperity for all people. Those are the men and women that America stands with; theirs is the vision we will support.
The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. Yet to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see when the image of Jesus Christ is desecrated, churches are destroyed, or the Holocaust is denied. Let us condemn incitement against Sufi Muslims, and Shiite pilgrims. It is time to heed the words of Gandhi: "Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit." Together, we must work towards a world where we are strengthened by our differences, and not defined by them. That is what America embodies, and that is the vision we will support.
Obama went on to blame the anti-Islam YouTube video for Mideast violence.
Obama has yet to denounce Pi$$ Christ.
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Navy SEALs to Obama: We Aren't Bumps in the Road
By Katie Pavlich
9/26/2012
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/09/26/navy_seals_to_obama_we_arent_bumps_in_the_road
Navy SEALs are hitting back against President Obama again for his comments this week that the events in Libya, including the murder of four Americans, were "bumps in the road." Navy SEALs Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty were among those brutally murdered in the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya on 9/11. Former Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke, an outspoken critic of President Obama, released the following statement on his Super PAC website:
The President refuses to admit that his policy of appeasement and apology has failed. The murder of our Ambassador and two former Navy SEALs is more than a "bump in the road," it is a global catastrophe where America is seen as being weak and vulnerable by our enemies. This President has failed to establish a red line for Iran's nuclear ambitions and has failed to recognize the scale and implications of the attacks against us. Reagan had it right: don't negotiate with terrorists and recognize the clear and present danger of not being willing to act or lead from the front.
White House Press Secretary Jay "Baghdad Bob" Carney denied President Obama was referring to the murders of Americans when he said the comment and tried to explain the comments were in reference to countries rebuilding after revolution:
"The President was making clear that in this historic transformation that's taking place in the region that progress won't come in a straight line, that there will be challenges."
"This transformation will not happen overnight and we will certainly encounter challenges."
"The President as you know is not minimizing what we recognize as historic transformations taking place and the President is certainly not minimizing the challenges."
'That assertion (of Obama referring to the murders of Americans as 'bumps in the road') is both desperate and offensive."
"There is a certain desperate attempt to grasp at words for political advantage here and once again, that's offensive."
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"When your hope is in astrology, your head is in Uranus"
Economics is generally considered a soft science, as opposed to physics or chemistry, which are hard scientists. Hard, not because difficult, although they are, but because they are
characterized as relying on quantifiable empirical data, relying on the scientific method, and focusing on accuracy and objectivity.
Whereas soft sciences, like psychology, sociology, anthropology and economics do not. They are characterized by superstitions, lies, circular reasoning, academic quackery, political correctness, and brain farts. (Although I may be mistaken about this.)
So it should come as no surprise that Wall Street traders, who are to economists what phrenologists are to really smart phrenologists, should turn to astrologers to help them earn a paycheck:
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/astrology-guides-some-financial-traders
Financial astrologers like Karen Starich say traders know they're up against a lot of rich, smart people.
"They want to have that edge," she says. "They want to know what the future is."
Starich chargest $237 annually for her newsletter, which 300 traders subscribe to for news of what will happen to the stock prices of companies, or even bigger, to the Federal Reserve. She sees dark times ahead in the Fed's horoscope.
"They now have Saturn squared to Neptune, which is really bankruptcy," Starich explains.
Neptune represents money. But when Saturn shows up in a chart, it indicates restriction. So for the Fed, that means the "fiscal cliff is here, and there's no place to go except to print more money or unravel these financial institutions," Starich says.
Of course, a lot of Wall Street traders, and others, don't want it to be known that they're relying on anything other than their own talent. Arch Crawford, a financial astrologer who actually got his start on Wall Street as a stock analyst at Merrill Lynch, recalls one subscriber asking for his newsletter in "brown paper wrappers."
Crawford warns his 2,000 subscribers particularly against the dangers of Mercury in retrograde—
I'm sorry, I couldn't even finish the quote... it is soooooo stupid.
Is it worth expending even the electricity to express the contempt with which I hold astrology? That someone would pay even one thin drachma to consult one of these frauds is itself a sign of both Original Sin and Original Stupidity. Obviously, the fall from grace resulted in dented noggins.
The OT prohibition against consulting mediums was intended to warn against trafficking in dark forces. But some prohibitions I'm convinced were just to keep people from looking like total morons, as if God were saying, "Please stop making me look bad. Sin can be forgiven but stupid is forever."
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:o (OMG. WHO KNEW?) - Subsidies for Electronic Medical Records Leads to Higher Medicare Bills :o
Government subsidies often produce unintended consequences. The latest example comes from the New York Times, which reports that federal subsidizes to encourage doctors and hospitals to use electronic billing and recording records are leading to larger Medicare bills. That means that taxpayers are taking a double hit even though policymakers claimed that electronic record-keeping would make health care delivery more efficient, and thus less costly.
From the article:http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/subsidies-for-electronic-medical-records-leads-to-higher-medicare-bills/
New York Post Honors Iranian Dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
...in its own special New York way...
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New Ad Attacks Obama For "Sitting With Iran" at the UN (Video)Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, September 26, 2012On Monday Israeli envoy to the United Nations Ron Prosor walked out of Ahmadinejad's address to UN General Assembly.
The Obama Administration officials stayed to listen to the crazy man.
A new ad by Let Freedom Ring attacks the Obama Administration for sitting with Ahmadinejad at the United Nations.
The 30-second ad is part of a $7 million online advertising campaign set to launch in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin. It says:
"Iranian President Ahmadinejad speaking (on screen: "Defiant Ahmadinejad says Israel will be 'eliminated'"-Reuters)
"Visual of the empty seats for Israel's delegates (on screen: "Attack by Iran's Ahmadinejad sparks Israel walkout"-Associated Press)
"Ahmadinejad speaking (on screen: "The U.S. delegation did not walk out of Monday's meeting"-Associated Press)
"Visual of US Delegation still sitting there (on screen: "The U.S. delegation did not walk out of Monday's meeting, as it has in the past when Iran attacked Israel directly"-Associated Press)
"President Obama, Why did your Administration sit with Iran rather than stand with Israel?
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Today Hillary Clinton finally told us something we already knew.
It was an al-Qaeda attack on our consulate on 9-11.
The New York Times reported:
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday suggested there was a link between the Qaeda franchise in North Africa and the attack at the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the American ambassador and three others. She was the highest-ranking Obama administration official to publicly make the connection, and her comments intensified what is becoming a fiercely partisan fight over whether the attack could have been prevented.
Mrs. Clinton did not offer any new evidence of a Qaeda link, and officials later said the question would be officially settled only after the F.B.I. completed a criminal inquiry, which could take months. But they said they had not ruled out the involvement of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb — an affiliate of the international terrorist group with origins in Algeria — in an attack the administration initially described as a spontaneous protest turned violent.
Her remarks added to the administration's evolving and at times muddled explanation of what happened on the evening of Sept. 11 and into the next morning. Republicans in Congress have accused President Obama of playing down possible terrorist involvement in the midst of a re-election campaign in which killing Osama bin Laden and crippling Al Qaeda are cited as major achievements.
Of course, the liberal media will totally disregard the fact that the Obama Administration lied to the American public for a week after the terrorist attack.
It doesn't fit their agenda.
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Don't want either Romney or Obama? Well guess what? There are nine more candidates to reject.
You know, we've become so accustomed to thinking in terms of two parties that giving serious consideration to a third-party candidate is tantamount to moving to Fuji and being done with it. But I say a principled vote for a candidate who will most certainly lose is better than a reflexive vote for a loser.
None of the candidates listed below may represent principles you'd necessarily want to be associated with. Or the candidates themselves may... just may.... creep you out. Nevertheless, Mental Floss brought them to my attention. And you should floss daily. (Please note that these candidates are not on the ballot in every state... but you knew that, right?):
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/143107
1. Jeff Boss. (Conspiracy nut job)
http://www.jeffbossforpresident.org/
Thinks the NSA engineered 9/11. The idea that any agency of the federal government could have pulled off such an operation is ludicrous on its face. None of the planes would have gotten off the ground, or they would have ended up flying into the Eiffel Tower.
2. Jill Reed.
http://trackjill.com/
Here's her motto: "Bootstraps, Grassroots and a Suitcase: They've Got Millions of Dollars, But I've Got Millions of You." And I've got a bridge to sell to you, Jill.
3. Jerry Litzel.
http://amestrib.com/sections/news/iowa/ames-man-gets-his-name-ballot.html#small
I am fascinated by monomaniacs. So, if you put a gun to my head, and I absolutely positively had to vote for one of these folks, I guess it would be Jerry. You see, he collects presidential memorabilia. And he's running for office so his own crap paraphernalia can become part of his own collection. Neat, huh? He's "very conservative," which can mean a lot of things. Some good. Some scary. All depends on what you want to conserve. I mean, other than his stuff.
4. Temperance Lancecouncil. (Oh... like your name is so hot.)
http://votesmart.org/public-statement/2998/the-anti-hypocrisy-mission-statement#.UGOJt44z0Tx
Allow me to cut and paste directly from Temperance's own Mission Statement: "WHO THE HECK DO THEY THINK THEY ARE and WHY IS ONE OF THEIR PRIMARY GOALS IN THIS WALK OF LIFE TO BELITTLE, DESTROY, PUMMEL, MOCK, BERATE and HUMILIATE OTHER HUMANS, WHEN THEY THEMSELVES KNOW IN THEIR HEART'S, THAT THEIR HEART'S ARE MADE OF SLUSHY HYPOCRISY?"
Okay... who are "they?" Why, the hypocrites. And Temperance is of the anti-hypocrisy party. I, however, believe that hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, as Oscar Wilde or Edmund Burke said. I say, take the tribute where you can.
5. Terry Jones.
http://www.terryjones2012.com/
Yes, that Terry Jones. The Baptist preacher who believes burning the Koran is the best way to promote the Gospel. He is available on no ballots in no states. He's pro-hemp. He's anti-sanity.
6. Randall Terry.
http://www.terryforpresident.com/
The pro-life activist who's also enjoyed a very interesting" personal life, and I'm using "interesting" as in the Chinese proverb "May you live in interesting times." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Terry
7. Samm Tittle.
http://www.madamepresident2012.com/
She's one of us. Well, you. maybe. From her "Letter to America": 'Dear America, Because I love you so much and you are a People, a Belief, a Constitution and a Realization of a free and liberated way of living, consider this your personal letter to you, each and every one of you; so that you can understand how I made the choice that is right for America. For this Country America, that we both love so much must have someone who is not afraid of the masses in detail, that will Stand up for America. I accept the nomination for the Presidency of the United States of America. I accept the nomination for the Presidency of the United States of America.'
Now who can argue with that?
8. Dean Morstad.
http://morstadforpresident.com/index.php/about/
Actually seems normal. Rather dull, but normal. But I may be mistaken. So if it turns out he eats Irish babies, I don't want to hear about it.
9. Jack Fellure.
http://swordof1611.webs.com/jackfellure2012.htm
Normally, the Prohibition Party candidate would be my guy. But Fellure seems to have a Two Kingdoms problem. As in, he doesn't recognize them: "My Presidential Campaign Platform is the Authorized 1611 King James Bible. God Almighty wrote that Book as the supreme constitution and absolute authority in the affairs of all men for all time and eternity. It shall never be necessary to change it. Quality leather bound copies of this Bible have been sent to the Presidential Office, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, the National Republican Party, the National Democratic Party, and the Federal Election Commission."
Okay... so long as they're "quality" leather.
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10. Buckwheat
I'm 84% certain that Buckwheat is not running for president.
Oh well, I still say, demon rum.... it's 'what's for sinners.'
1983 Buckwheat for President Pin
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1983-our-gang-buckwheat-for-president-pinback
I think ole "Buck" is now a follower of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam church. I think you can find him
running for President under his new name:
Kareem of Wheat or maybe Buck X.
Holy Moly Batman . . .
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. . . Crop Circles!!!
Experts say that some of them are man made but there are more that cannot be
explained because they are far too intricate to appear over night as they do and
the grass is found twisted and braided into designs. This would take a person weeks to do.
Crop circles appear all over the world but Britain seems to have a lot of them and now
Germany has become host to some that mimic the designs seen in England.
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You can read about them... if your german is any good... at www.kornkreise-forschung.de.
Crop circles have appeared far back in history but they are increasing today. There is a virtual
explosion of them in Germany and Poland is also seeing them now.
What do you think these are and how are they created in an 8 0r 9 hour period?
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This photo shows the layering of the wheat:
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...and my favorite crop circle of all: (http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/AndechsBY2012GroundsK.jpg)
I'm going to get swatted for this, but since we get PA advertizements ,I just have to comment.
Reply Number 81, about the US delegation not walking out on that nut case Ahmadinejad? It's true, they didn't walk out, because they weren't there in the first place. Their seats were already empty.That was a total fabrication. I hate that kind of politics, from either side!
Read the last line but what would a AP writer know ?
Iran leader's U.N. speech sparks Israel walkout
Iran's president called Israel a nuclear-armed "fake regime" shielded by the United States, prompting Israel's U.N. ambassador to walk out of a high-level U.N. meeting Monday promoting the rule of law.
By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press
Iran's president called Israel a nuclear-armed "fake regime" shielded by the United States, prompting Israel's U.N. ambassador to walk out of a high-level U.N. meeting Monday promoting the rule of law.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also accused the U.S. and others of misusing freedom of speech and failing to speak out against the defamation of people's beliefs and "divine prophets," an apparent reference to the recently circulated amateur video made in the U.S. which attacks Islam and denigrates the Prophet Muhammad.
The Iranian leader, who has called for Israel's destruction, used his speech to denounce Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and U.S. vetoes in the U.N. Security Council to back its ally. He urged all nations to "hold occupiers accountable and make efforts to return the occupied territories to their rightful owners."
Ahmadinejad blamed the "discriminatory" veto power of the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France for the Security Council's failure to ensure peace in the world, and he called for a change in the rules "in favor of nations with due regard to justice."
As Ahmadinejad addressed leaders and ministers from more than 100 countries, Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor walked out of the General Assembly hall.
"Ahmadinejad showed again that he not only threatens the future of the Jewish people, he seeks to erase our past," Prosor said in a statement.
"Three thousand years of Jewish history illustrate the clear danger of ignoring fanatics like Iran's President, especially as he inches closer to acquiring nuclear weapons," he said. "Those who ignore his hateful words today, will bear responsibility for his deeds tomorrow."
Israel views a nuclear-armed Iran as an existential threat, but Iran insists its nuclear program is purely peaceful and aimed solely at producing nuclear energy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes Tehran is moving closer to producing a nuclear weapon and has been pushing the United States to set "red lines" which, if crossed, might lead to American military action. President Barack Obama has refused to set any "red lines."
The U.S. delegation did not walk out of Monday's meeting, as it has in the past when Iran attacked Israel directly.
This is who really walked out.
US envoy to UN skips Netanyahu speech to have lunch
Published: 28
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly this week, but don't ask around Washington if you want to hear the highlights: the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, skipped the Thursday afternoon speech.
Not only did Rice walk out of the General Assembly before Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a speech amid worsening tensions between the US and Israel, but her behavior fell perfectly in line with the attitude of the rest of the Obama administration as of late. US President Barack Obama had earlier refused a private meeting with the prime minister, and although he asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to listen in on Thursday's address on behalf of the White House, neither Mrs. Clinton nor Ambassador Rice was in attendance.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 28, 2012, 09:10:36 AM
I'm going to get swatted for this, but since we get PA advertizements ,I just have to comment.
Reply Number 81, about the US delegation not walking out on that nut case Ahmadinejad? It's true, they didn't walk out, because they weren't there in the first place. Their seats were already empty.That was a total fabrication. I hate that kind of politics, from either side!
This is called 'spiltting hairs"... Okay.... here is the skinny on that: Monday, 9/24/12Israel Walks Out, While U.S. Stays to Listen to Iran's Ahmadinejad
Sep 24, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER
https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/israel-walks-out-while-us-stays-listen-irans-ahmadinejad_653025.html
While Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at the United Nations, "Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor walked out of the General Assembly hall," according to the Associated Press.
The American delegation, however, remained in the hall to listen to Ahmadinejad. "The U.S. delegation did not walk out of Monday's meeting, as it has in the past when Iran attacked Israel directly," reports the AP....now Thursday, 9/27/12:Ahmadinejad tells U.N. that Iran is threatened By David Ariosto, CNN
September 27, 2012http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/26/world/new-york-unga/index.html#cnn-disqus-area
Quote from article: "However, the seats set aside for the U.S. delegation were empty as he spoke. The Canadian delegation also did not attend the speech, and Israel's representatives were absent in observance of Yom Kippur."Take your pick.
Jar, and Warph, that was my whole point! Thank you Warph.
AP and similar get accused of being far left leaning no matter what they report. Fox and others get accused of being far right leaning. So what "truth" does one believe? I heard both. The photos of them " listening" was to a different speaker. So what really are the facts? In the over all importance of things it's not a big deal, but it is worrisome to some of us who get really tired of the manipulation. That's a bit more than splitting hairs to me. They either were there or they were not.
Quote from: Warph on September 28, 2012, 02:49:48 AM
Holy Moly Batman . . .
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. . . Crop Circles!!!
Experts say that some of them are man made but there are more that cannot be
explained because they are far too intricate to appear over night as they do and
the grass is found twisted and braided into designs. This would take a person weeks to do.
Crop circles appear all over the world but Britain seems to have a lot of them and now
Germany has become host to some that mimic the designs seen in England.
(http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/AndechsBY2012a.jpg)
You can read about them... if your german is any good... at www.kornkreise-forschung.de.
Crop circles have appeared far back in history but they are increasing today. There is a virtual
explosion of them in Germany and Poland is also seeing them now.
What do you think these are and how are they created in an 8 0r 9 hour period?
(http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/AndechsBY2012e.jpg)
(http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/AndechsBY2012f_UK.jpg)
(http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/Stonehenge2002_500.jpg)
(http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/Weweslburg2012BOtto.jpg)
(http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/AndechsGroundsAM3.jpg)
(http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/AndechsAerialAM1.jpg)
This photo shows the layering of the wheat:
(http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/AndechsBY2012g.jpg)
...and my favorite crop circle of all:
(http://www.kornkreise-forschung.de/HomepageBilder/AndechsBY2012GroundsK.jpg)
Warph good segue. I commented on Buckwheat. You posted something on crop circles in wheat fields. Buckwheat was the last on your previous post, so I will go along with you on your crop circle post and comment on your favorite crop circle picture. Crop circles made me think of space. The last picture made me think of black holes.
Black Holes.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/BH_LMC.png/300px-BH_LMC.png)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
Black holes... interesting. I understand that black holes basically evaporate over time and once they run out of matter to "eat" they begin to lose mass and decay eventually evaporating into nothing. Its suspected that in the time of heat death of the universe, very large black holes will be the last things left even after every star has disappeared... and even these too will eventually evaporate away.
I have read that there are many different types of black holes that science knows of today. For instance:
"Meet the new record-holder for the LARGEST BLACK HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE (so far) in this EXPANDED and UPDATED version (in 1080p) of our most popular Cosmic Journeys episode."
....and Slappy's good buddy, Jerome:
(http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=I.5057651121520838&pid=1.7&w=134&h=153&c=7&rs=1)
...and then there is this huge black hole that we are probably more familiar with today:
(http://images.sodahead.com/blogs/000317895/obama_widemouth_xlarge.jpeg)
When it comes to black holes, I ... uh... damn... where'd my coke go? Anyone seen my coke?[/font][/size]
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So we have one more story linked to the Michele Obama enforced-famine program.
New federal guidelines stemming from fat butt Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign have resulted in limits on protein and bread, and an increase in vegetables and fruits. The changes have also come at an increased cost.
Students at Parsippany Hills High School held a strategy session on Thursday to discuss a potential lunch strike, on Friday, over what they have called inadequately sized meals.http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/09/27/n-j-high-school-students-planning-cafeteria-boycott-to-protest-obama-guidelines/
(http://s2.favim.com/orig/32/bored-draw-haha-high-school-hungry-Favim.com-259241.jpg)
"This year you're eating lunch and you're like 'Did I even eat?' You're not even full," senior Brandon Faris told NY's CBS 5.
"If somebody's obese why should someone like me who's not obese have to suffer, and eat a small meal when I'd rather have a bigger meal?" he said.Well Brandon, because an obese person didn't build all that blubber. Government helped. And so government has to take responsibility by making everyone suffer. It's only fair.
For example, why should only some people be singled out for chemotherapy? Because they have so-called cancer? That's diseasism. The Obama administration wants you to know that both chemotherapy and radiation will be dispersed among citizens equally. All must share the burden of hair loss, nausea, and anemia. For which you will then be taxed so the government can provide medical benefits. It's the circle of life.
Our local food critic on channel 3 Phoenix, tried to speak with some of the Parsippany students, but most were too weak to work a cellphone, and one had become so osteoporotically thin that she actually passed into another space/time dimension, where she is now being spoon fed by a spirit demon named Cecil.
Please note that I will be following this story as news continues to break from schools around the nation. The Great Obama Purge Scourge shall not go unreported! Unless I've got a golf game to go to or something!
Has anyone on the right really looked at Romney's agenda? It should look very familiar because it's the same one that Reagan offered in 1980. Cut taxes, cut the budget, strong defense, deregulation - I can hear Reagan talking about it now. Romney has dressed up this 30 year old agenda but it still sounds old and tired. New realities demand new answers and the GOP isn't supplying any.
Neither candidate will realize a landslide unless a monumental gaffe occurs in one of the debates. Both men are pretty good on their feet so that doesn't appear likely at this point. A larger possibility is that the big bad world outside intervenes to flip the election. Which candidate would benefit if Israel attacked Iran or attacks on our embassies worsen, or the euro falls is unknown, but a potential game changer from abroad cannot be ruled out. President Obama is ahead, unfortunately and Romney is running out of time. That's where the race is as I see it closing in on 40 days to go.
--Roger Peters, (AP)(http://www.rasmussenreports.com/var/plain/storage/images/media/romney_vs_obama/september_2012/romney_vs_obama_september_29_2012/828095-1-eng-US/romney_vs_obama_september_29_2012.jpg)
Saturday, September 29, 2012
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows President Obama attracting support from 48% of voters nationwide, while Mitt Romney earns the vote from 46%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
Damn, now this is a new one I had never heard of. So if a feller gets stopped for weaving all over the road and the cop asks if he's been drinking and the dude answers,
"No sir, I aint been drinking but my butt has ". Does this allow the guy to go on home but his butt is in deep doo-doo ?
So many questions but few answers-----Patriot, ol buddy and knowledgeable one, on all / most matters, please give me your insight on this disturbing new college trend. Is it also true this practice started at UD back in the 60's or is that just a rumor ?
Alcohol enema case at Tenn. school gives parents, administrators new fear
Published September 29, 2012
Associated Press
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Before an unruly Tennessee party ended with a student hospitalized for a dangerously high blood alcohol level, most people had probably never heard of alcohol enemas.
Thanks to the drunken exploits of a fraternity at the University of Tennessee, the bizarre way of getting drunk is giving parents, administrators and health care workers a new fear.
When Alexander "Xander" Broughton, 20, was delivered to the hospital after midnight on Sept. 22, his blood alcohol level was measured at 0.448 percent -- nearly six times the intoxication that defines drunken driving in the state. Injuries to his rectum led hospital officials to fear he had been sodomized.
Police documents show that when an officer interviewed a fellow fraternity member about what happened, the student said the injuries had been caused by an alcohol enema.
Quote from: jarhead on September 30, 2012, 08:38:38 AM
Patriot, ol buddy and knowledgeable one, on all / most matters, please give me your insight on this disturbing new college trend. Is it also true this practice started at UD back in the 60's or is that just a rumor ?
Well, smart a$$, my first thought is that you need a coupon & an equipment run to Batsons Drug Store to pick up some rubberware because you've obviously fallen behind in the science & technology of booze consumption. As for the technique originating at UD? Ask Joe Biden... or Diane as she's the resident expert..................... on things that have spewed forth from UD & the cradle of American civilization (Delaware).
When it comes to current UD students ,I'd believe anything. The guy's drunk butt would still lead to an elevated blood level, so he wouldn't get off.
ETOH enemas can be fatal. Jello shots are safer and rather pretty when lit.
Back in the day there was very little drinking on campus, some at the fraternity houses. Most was up Creek Road several miles off campus, back in the woods near White Clay Creek. Mary Jane was common and so was LSD, smack, tar, and a few others made into decks. The stuff today is much stronger. By the way, you spelled cradle wrong. :police:
If you don't succeed the first time---or second time, try, try again. Hell, what's $802,000,000 of tax payers money ? Just a drop in the ol bucket !!!
Solar power company banks on loan, but skeptics question government investment in industry
By Dan Springer
Published September 30, 2012
FoxNews.com
The federal government is making another big bet on solar panel manufacturing with taxpayer money, hoping the third time will be the charm.
SoloPower held its grand opening Thursday in Portland, Ore., with speeches from local politicians and a ribbon-cutting. "It really revolutionizes rooftop applications, and it makes solar both easy and cost effective for nearly any commercial and industrial building worldwide," CEO Tim Harris said.
SoloPower closed on a guaranteed government loan of $197 million last August, about the time another solar panel manufacturer, Solyndra, filed for bankruptcy. The failure of Solyndra cost U.S. taxpayers more than a half-billion dollars.
The second solar panel maker that received a loan from the Department of Energy, Abound, is also now in bankruptcy. Based in Longmont, Colo., Abound spent $70 million of its green energy loan and next week will auction off its equipment in hopes of paying some of that back.
Industry analysts are not optimistic about SoloPower's prospects.
"It's questionable at this point," says Andrew Soare of Lux Research, "It's uncertain if solar power will be able to produce efficiently and economically at scale. It's something that has not been done yet, and it's still risky."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/30/solar-power-company-banks-on-loan-but-skeptics-question-federal-investment-in/?test=latestnews#ixzz27ywB4Xqm
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 30, 2012, 01:04:34 PM
By the way, you spelled cradle wrong. :police:
Did not.
See jarhead.... told ya she was the ex-spurt in Delaware deviance. More useless data in there than there was flammable gas in the Hindenburg.
Quote from Diane:
Jello shots are safer and rather pretty when lit.
. By the way, you spelled cradle wrong.
By the way, you spelled Jell-O wrong :police:
Quote from Patriot:
See jarhead.... told ya she was the ex-spurt in Delaware deviance. More useless data in there than there was flammable gas in the Hindenburg.
Ex-spurt !! Now that's some funny crap----I will definitely use that one in the future. ;D
Quote from: jarhead on September 30, 2012, 01:22:28 PM
Quote from Diane:
Jello shots are safer and rather pretty when lit.
. By the way, you spelled cradle wrong.
By the way, you spelled Jell-O wrong :police:
jarhead, I think Diane would have to admit that you got her on the spelling of Jell-O. One point for jarhead. If you want to talk to someone that knows Jello-O history you can't beat a Marine of jarhead's age posting on a Elk County Kansas forum. I have no idea if jarhead drinks or not.I also guess jarhead thinks the getting drunk by enema is asinine. But using what I know about Marines, people of jarheads age, people from Kansas, men etc. jarhead can correct me if he wants to on his personal thoughts and experiences. To signify the difference between my generic statements above and the person on here that is jarhead; I will use Jarhead (capitalized) to represent not jarhead but the generic person I mention above. You could also just substitute any 50 to 70 year old man born in Kansas for Jarhead.
Jarhead, while no stranger to the effects of alcohol would never do the alcohol enema to get drunk. He also, at his age has not had a colonoscopy, probably not a prostate exam. If he has, he switched his doctor from the guy that played center for Oklahoma to that little female Japanese doctor that his wife goes to visit.
Sorry guys," jello shots" is a generic name.They can be made with any brand of gelatin. Jell-O would be using the brand name, which they have not given permission to use. Keep on having fun.
I have no idea if jarhead drinks or not.
ROTFLMOF!
I can see that you don't know this age old formula.
MARINE + BOOZE = JARHEAD.
Whether it be store-boughten or homemade, this boy has not passed up a drink in his lifetime.
Right, Jarhead? Ol' buddy!
Larryj :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Gallup Poll: Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obuma
http://www.theonion.com/articles/gallup-poll-rural-whites-prefer-ahmadinejad-to-oba,29677/
LOL... what do MSNBC and the Iranian State News Agency have in common? Besides a hatred of America, I mean...
Paul Krugman of the NYTimes and Lawrence O'Donnell over at MSNBC were taken in by a satirical piece published on Politico.com, referencing it as fact. Well, they shouldn't feel so bad.... at least not about that. The Iranians are not doing much better. Seems they mistook an article in the Onion, which makes stuff up in the pursuit of yucks... unlike MSNBC, which makes stuff up in the pursuit of bucks... for fact.
This FARS post from today (datelined Tehran) is a word-for-word copy of this article that went up on The Onion's website on Monday, headlined "Rural Whites Prefer Ahmadinejad To Obuma," joking that West Virginia voters would rather have a beer with the president of Iran than the leader of their own country. However, the FARS story does contain one slight omission... a phrase describing Mahmoud Eimahjerkwad as "a man who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and has had numerous political prisoners executed."
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Now anybody who knows anything about rural whites knows that they're predominately.... hold on, need to hone-in on my SpellCheck.... got it.... Premillennialist, and so are fans of Israel. Now, granted, that puts them in a tough spot when having to choose between Obuma and Eimahjerkwad, but I'm guessing they'd give the edge to the president, because an American Muslim would be preferable to a foreign-born one.
Okay... in other NEWS: Muslims burn down Buddhist temples in Bangladesh because it has been a good two weeks since they've burned something down, and you just can't sit around and wait for YouTube to produce something indecent in that regard. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/30/us-bangladesh-temples-idUSBRE88T03I20120930
...Warph
Actually, Jarhead's favorite drink is a Anchovie Surprise.
(He tells everyone that it's a Grape Pucker Pleaser.)
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I understand he got the recipe from Da`o Phuong, who's a real tet flower at the
Hotty Toddy House out in the bush in Nam. I heard he swears by 'em.
The recipe: One 3-ounce package grape Jello
1 cup water
1 cup grape juice
1 can whipped cream
20 or more anchovies from a can
Makes 20 shots.
1. In a very small GI helmet, bring water to a low boil.
2. Pour grape Jello into a medium heatproof bowl.
Then add the boiling water and stir until the gelatin
is dissolved. Allow to cool.
3. Add the grape juice to the cooled mixture. Stir
until well combined. Refrigerate in a bowl
until thickened and slightly set. About 15 minutes
or the time it takes to drink a tiger beer
4. Pour mix into your little cups. Using a chopstick,
push an anchovie into the middle of each shot,
making sure that it doesn't stick up out of the shot.
The trick is to hide it well. Chill until firm, about
4 – 6 hours. Then add any type of alcohol and
whipped cream.
After 5 or 6 of these and some koon sa, if you're still breathing,
it will be time to call ol' peter pilot and his evac huey to haul
your sorry butt to the LBJ Ranch.
Quote from: Warph on September 30, 2012, 12:06:34 AM
So we have one more story linked to the Michele Obama enforced-famine program.
New federal guidelines stemming from fat butt Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign have resulted in limits on protein and bread, and an increase in vegetables and fruits. The changes have also come at an increased cost.
Students at Parsippany Hills High School held a strategy session on Thursday to discuss a potential lunch strike, on Friday, over what they have called inadequately sized meals.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/09/27/n-j-high-school-students-planning-cafeteria-boycott-to-protest-obama-guidelines/
(http://s2.favim.com/orig/32/bored-draw-haha-high-school-hungry-Favim.com-259241.jpg)
"This year you're eating lunch and you're like 'Did I even eat?' You're not even full," senior Brandon Faris told NY's CBS 5.
"If somebody's obese why should someone like me who's not obese have to suffer, and eat a small meal when I'd rather have a bigger meal?" he said.
Well Brandon, because an obese person didn't build all that blubber. Government helped. And so government has to take responsibility by making everyone suffer. It's only fair.
For example, why should only some people be singled out for chemotherapy? Because they have so-called cancer? That's diseasism. The Obama administration wants you to know that both chemotherapy and radiation will be dispersed among citizens equally. All must share the burden of hair loss, nausea, and anemia. For which you will then be taxed so the government can provide medical benefits. It's the circle of life.
Our local food critic on channel 3 Phoenix, tried to speak with some of the Parsippany students, but most were too weak to work a cellphone, and one had become so osteoporotically thin that she actually passed into another space/time dimension, where she is now being spoon fed by a spirit demon named Cecil.
Please note that I will be following this story as news continues to break from schools around the nation. The Great Obama Purge Scourge shall not go unreported! Unless I've got a golf game to go to or something!
Sooooo... here we are again. So now that Fat butt Michelle Obuma has joined with food activists to push through changes in school lunch menus as a way to combat childhood obesity and promote better nutrition... weez have a whole lot of trouble brewing. School children are rising up in revolution. A new generation of anti-big government, anti-nanny state meddling, is born! The Tea Party is passing its generational torch to the School Lunch Party. Too bad they are not old enough to vote.
The following is from: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120913/NEWS/209130378/-1/NEWS
A new product has popped up on the city's black market and it's selling in an unexpected place: Greater New Bedford Vocational-Technical High School, which has become ground zero for a new underground economy based on trade in chocolate syrup.
Students said some of their peers are buying the contraband liquid for 50 cents and squeezing it into cartons of white milk to give it flavor. It's their way of coping with a ban on flavored milk — and a long list of other items — that took effect Aug. 1.
"Of course they got rid of dessert, (but) flavored milk ... I don't understand why we can't have that," said Paige Lame , 17, of New Bedford. She added that she thought the nutritional difference between white milk and chocolate, strawberry or coffee flavored milk was too minimal to have an important impact on health.
The changes reflect stricter nutrition standards imposed in January by the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which was championed by Michelle Obama and her "Let's Move" initiative.
They are also part of a law passed by the state Legislature in 2010 as a step toward combating childhood obesity. That law states that milk with more sugar than nonfat or 1 percent white milk may not be served a la carte starting in August 2013.
The rules, which apply to schools across the state, also reduce the amount of protein served to high schoolers, and increase servings of fruit and vegetables — going so far as to specify how many servings of green vegetables, legumes, and red/orange vegetables should be consumed each week. . . .
The changes are especially hard at the elementary school level, where hummus and black bean salad have been a tough sell, said Nancy Carvalho, director of food services for the New Bedford Public Schools, adding that bowls of chili served Wednesday to comply with the legume specifications were "not a very good decision." . . .
At Voc-Tech, the changes have produced complaints from some students that portions are too small — particularly since the price of lunch has increased 10 cents to $1.95, again due to a federal mandate."How do they expect us to go through the day and work hard when they give us smaller portions and we're hungry?" said Ashley Chaneco, 13, of New Bedford.
"You're paying more for less," said Erik Cortez, 16, of New Bedford. "I get it, but why should they have the right to tell you what you can and can't eat?"Imagine trying to get elementary school-aged kids to eat humuus... or egg plant!
Hungry school children are now bringing their lunches and eating more snacks.
See this report:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/hungry-kids-grumble-healthy-school-lunches/story?id=17324285#.UGRdsBgmafE
And this new rising generation of radicalized students, newly opposed to big government and nanny-state meddling, are battling the oppression with the tools that they have. Not only setting up black markets for chocolate syrup and other newly-controlled substances, but using the new information technology to promote the cause. Consider this very creative video they made, which has now, of course, hit You Tube:
....Warph [/color] [/font][/size]
Larry & Warph,
As soon as I sober up I'm heading west to whup some ass. It really hurts my feelers you two terds think that a fine person such as myself would drink more than a jigger full of the devils brew.
Ah, the ol tiger beer---I presume you are talking about "33" beer known as tiger piss beer.
The LBJ Ranch was for Army medics who were taking their own Darvons and shooting up morphine---and drunk'n swabbies---and Flyboys that were caught visiting "ho" houses in Saigon !!
PS: Doc, what the hell you doing in politics ? Get your sorry ass back in the coffee shop where you belong.
Quote from: jarhead on October 01, 2012, 06:20:44 AM
Larry & Warph,
As soon as I sober up I'm heading west to whup some ass. It really hurts my feelers you two terds think that a fine person such as myself would drink more than a jigger full of the devils brew.
Ah, the ol tiger beer---I presume you are talking about "33" beer known as tiger piss beer.
The LBJ Ranch was for Army medics who were taking their own Darvons and shooting up morphine---and drunk'n swabbies---and Flyboys that were caught visiting "ho" houses in Saigon !!
PS: Doc, what the hell you doing in politics ? Get your sorry ass back in the coffee shop where you belong.
Jarhead, ol' pal, ol' buddy, here are some things you might want to reconsider......
A. "Sobering up" has never been, is not now and never will be an option.
B. Marines don't know their rearend from a hole in the ground, so you don't know which way is west.
C. You will never make it through those flying golf shots that Warph makes when trying to tee off.
D. If you do get this far, R.A.M.B.O. just loves Marines for lunch.
E. Ah...good ol' Darvons...........oops sorry I got carried away there.
But, you are right.
Larryj (back to the coffee shop) j
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Ryan: We are seeing Obama's foreign policy unravel on our TV screens
By: Jim Hoft
Terrific!
Paul Ryan slammed Barack Obama's failed foreign policy this week on FOX News Sunday. The Republican VP nominee told Chris Wallace the "ugly fruits" of a foreign policy of weakness is unraveling before our eyes on our TV screens.
"The Obama foreign policy is unraveling literally before our eyes on our TV screens. And so what Mitt Romney is going to do is lay out a very different vision for foreign policy. One, that is a policy of strength that I would articulate or claim the president's policy is one of weakness. We're seeing the ugly fruits of the Obama foreign policy unravel around the world on our TV screens."
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As they ran past a Japanese tourist, she said, one of the men fired into the woman's face from a range of about 15 inches.
"They made us get down on our knees," Ms Dousse said. "And then they started shooting. A man who was very heavy fell on me and the lady behind me also covered me ... They shot me in the arm and leg, and then they started again shooting those who were still alive in the head.
The gunmen "took all the young women, the girls, and disappeared with them. I don't know where they went with the women, but they hurt them. We could hear screams of pain," Dousse said.
"It went on for a long time, an hour or an hour and a half. The terrorists came back again and again; they danced and sang," she said.Among the horrors, the marauders cut off the ears and noses of several of their victims. A note praising Islam was found inside one disemboweled body.
The foreign dead included 31 Swiss, 10 Japanese, five Germans, four Britons one a child a Bulgarian, a Colombian and a French citizen. The Japanese victims were four newlywed couples and an elderly couple on their second honeymoon.
The man who ordered that atrocity, Mustafa Hamza was just pardoned by Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt.
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Survey shows doctors favor Romney, 55 to 36 percentBy: John Hayward
10/2/2012 03:59 PMA press release from the 60 Plus Association highlights the results of a recent poll showing doctors favor Mitt Romney for president by a 19-point margin:
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A new survey sponsored by Jackson Healthcare shows that by 55% to 36%, doctors favor Mitt Romney over President Obama, in large measure due to the President's healthcare overhaul which places tremendous government burdens on the way and manner in which doctors can practice medicine. Further, 15% of doctors are switching their votes from Obama in 2008, to the President's opponent this year.
Other reasons cited by the survey include 'leadership style, failure to follow through on campaign promises, unemployment and the general state of the economy.'
Said 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, "Doctors are by far the most trusted profession in America, and just like we trust them on what treatments and medicines to take for our own welfare, we would all be well served to trust their judgment on what is best for the future of medicine in America. Their overwhelming preference for Governor Romney is as clear a signal there is that Obamacare is bad medicine for all of us."
Let us once again remember all the standard caveats about every poll, in this season full of weird samples and questionable methodology. According to Newsmax, this particular survey included a good-sized polling sample of 3,660 doctors nationwide, with a partisan split of 24 percent Democrat, 35 percent Republican, 26 percent independent, 6 percent Libertarian, and 7 percent unaffiliated. That's not in line with the partisan breakdown of the general population, but it might be reasonably representative of doctors.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/doctors-survey-support-romney/2012/10/01/id/458316
Newsmax dug deeper into the survey results and found that "among doctors more likely to support President Obama were women as well as physicians employed by hospitals and health systems. Specialists, primarily psychiatrists, pediatricians and addiction medicine physicians also were more likely to support Obama. Male doctors and those with their own practice or who had a stake in their own practice as well as anesthesiologists, surgeons, radiologists and ophthalmologists were more likely to support Romney."
Voting enthusiasm among physicians appears to be significantly higher than it was in 2008, while as 60 Plus noted, Obama did far better among doctors back then. Survey respondents favored repealing ObamaCare by 55-40.
Besides dealing with the ObamaCare nightmare, doctors tend to fall into the income group most heavily targeted by Obama's class-war rhetoric, and their practices are the sort of small businesses that will be crushed by Taxmageddon. And they might still have unhappy memories of Obama describing them as greedy tonsil vampires.
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Shameless Joe: Biden Lies Again on Social Security
Jim Martin: "Joe Biden clearly thinks that senior citizens are as stupid and dense as he is."
http://60plus.org/shameless-joe-biden-lies-again-on-social-security/
(Chicago, Illinois) – 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, leader of the nation's largest conservative seniors organization with over 7.2 million senior supporters, shot back at Vice President Joe Biden's false and contrived charge against Mitt Romney today that the GOP presidential nominee plans to raise Social Security taxes on seniors if elected. Biden made the remarks while addressing an audience of senior citizens in Boca Raton, FL.
"Joe Biden is a national embarrassment and a serial liar, there's not one person left in this country, let alone among seniors, who believes a syllable that comes from that man's mouth. But I take special offense to Democrats once again trying to scare seniors right before an election, it is all they know, it's in their DNA. Lying to seniors about getting their Social Security benefits taxed without a shred of proof is about as low as they come."
Martin made his comments in the midst of the 60 Plus national bus tour, which just completed three stops in Illinois and is now heading to Wisconsin for eight healthcare rallies and town halls, before heading to Minnesota and completing its journey with seven events in Florida.
Martin, however, offered some advice to the Vice President, saying "But all is not lost — it is very easy to make Joe Biden's lie a true statement. Just replace the words 'Mitt Romney' with 'Joe Biden,' and replace 'will tax Social Security' with 'repeatedly TAXED Social Security.' Then the statement is entirely accurate, because Joe Biden not only voted to tax Social Security benefits, but he has cast votes that kept taxes higher on those benefits nearly a dozen times.
"It's sad to think we have 40 more days of this election, where we have the sitting Vice President, a confirmed and habitual taxer of Social Security benefits, accusing his opponent of planning to tax Social Security, of all things. Joe, given your record of taxing seniors, you ought to be applauding Mitt Romney if you really think he would hit seniors as hard as you've hit them in the past. But unlike Joe Biden, Mitt Romney hasn't ever voted to tax Social Security.
"Maybe Joe Biden should be spending more time explaining to seniors why he's such a fan of taxing their benefits, and less time lying about Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. Seniors may be hard of hearing, but they're not hard of thinking."
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How to debate Obama
With time running and the media declaring the race all but over, the debates are Mitt Romney's best chance to convince Americans he is their next CEO. Don't forget to stay tuned to Human Events Oct. 3, 11, 16 and 22 for the best analysis and coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates in the lead up to the Nov. 6 election.
"How Do You Debate Obama? Make Him Own The Economy"
by David Harsanyi
Mitt Romney needs to puncture with facts President Barack Obama's puffy and ludicrous claims of success related to the economy. The coming debates are his final chance to directly challenge the president.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/01/romney-to-obama-you-own-the-economy/
"How To Debate President Obama — and Win"
by Newt Gingrich
EXCLUSIVE: Romney will "do just fine" in the Oct. 3 debate, says former presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. Newt, probably the most successful GOP debater, advises Mitt to relax, be honest and assertive and enjoy the evening.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/26/gingrich-how-to-debate-obama/
"It's Debatable"
by George Will
The spectacles we persist in dignifying as presidential "debates" — two-minute regurgitations of rehearsed responses — often subtract from the nation's understanding.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/29/george-will-its-debatable/
"Mitt's Take-Home-Pay Message"
by Larry Kudlow
One of the reasons Mitt Romney and the GOP failed to get a convention bounce was their inability to talk tax cuts, economic growth and jobs.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/27/kudlow-mitts-take-home-pay-message/
"Go Large, Mitt"
by Charles Krauthammer
How far ahead would Romney be if he were actually running a campaign? His unwillingness to go big, to go for the larger argument, is simply astonishing.
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/27/krauthammer-go-large-mitt/
What are these little snots thinking---throwing away their Obama mandated fruits & veggies ? Maybe that's why Obama is buying that prison in Illinois. A 3 year sentence with Mohamed from Gitmo might get their minds right---or better yet---put a dozen or so in front of a firing squad and I'll bet the rest of those little nose pickers will realize Michelle means business.
School May Install 'Trash-Cams' To Spy on Kids Tossing Veggies
Oct 3, 2012
By Todd Starnes
A Florida school district is considering a plan to install surveillance cameras on cafeteria trash cans to monitor what kids are throwing away – after they discovered that students were tossing out their federally-mandated fruit and vegetables.
The Lake County School Board said more than $75,000 worth of vegetables have been thrown in the garbage. The veggies and fresh fruit are party of the Obama administration's policy to force schools to provide healthy produce in lunch rooms.
"It's fairly specific recipe of what they would like us to serve," Lake County School Board member Tod Howard told Fox News. "Unfortunately, much of it has to do with fresh fruit and vegetables and it seems to be going into the trash. And that's not okay."
So Howard suggested the district attach security cameras to the trash cans to monitor exactly what is being thrown away.
"It will also give us documentation so that we can go back to the federal government and say here's what we are finding," he said. "We do know there's an issue."
School districts across the nation are furious with the Obama administration's orders. Some students have staged strikes while others have launched petition drives urging the federal government to change their policy.
A Houston-area congressman rocketed to fame in cyberspace on July 15, 2009. Rep. Kevin Brady, - R, Brady, the top Republican on Congress' Joint Economic Committee, has been toting around a giant, colorful chart describing the House Democrats' health-care reform plan in Rube Goldbergian complexity.
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On July 28, 2010, he unveiled a special visual project highlighting how out of control the expansion of the federal government has become:
Click below for enlagement :
http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2010/07/28/descriptionobamacarechart.pdf
Denver, CO. Presidential Debate:
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Romney 1 < - > Obuma 0
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Lights, Camera, Action (zzzz), Tweet!
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Obama vs. Romney: Hollywood Tweets:
The first presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney was, according to Twitter, the most tweeted-about U.S. political event ever.
You didn't think celebrities were going to stay out of the fray, did you?!
Obama got his usual hefty share of accolades from Hollywood's corner of the Twitterverse, but Romney's strong showing behind the podium earned plenty of attention, as well from his already stalwart fans and staunch Obama supporters alike. Check out who weighed in on tonight's happenings:
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• Bill Maher: "my rating: Romney won the debate, Obama had the facts on his side, and Lehrer sucked. Next debate, get @SethMacFarlane to host!"
• Alec Baldwin: "Obama is a potentially great man who remains mildly uncomfortable in public life. Mitt is a gifted off-shore money tycoon and tax preparer."
• Eva Longoria: "I'm in New Zealand watching the presidential debate! Obama is killing it on health care! #Obama2012."
• Rob Lowe: "Watched a lot of debates, that was a real blood-letting. #POTUSwiffs #Mittenssticks."
• Olivia Wilde: "Mittens, if you want the federal gov't out of our health care decisions, then stay the F out of our VAGINAS. #debate2012."
• Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "It's not about LIKING @BarackObama Obama ( And I do) It's about NEEDING @MittRomney Romney ( and we all do) #Debate2012 #debate #Debate2012."
• Sherri Shepherd: "@ehasselbeck OR... how about instead of lying and stretching the truth ...when you get in that booth just #dotherightthing & vote Obama xoxo."
• Gabrielle Union: "Did The President just say 'Math, common sense and history...' #POTUS #Debates Bring it!"
• Chris Rock: "Obama is waiting for the right moment to pull out Bin Laden's skull from behind the podium. Wait for it. Wait for it... #debate#PresDebate."
• Lady Gaga: "I believe its important to note before this begins that Romney is a millionaire and paid well below the average tax rate, paying only 13.9%."
• Samuel L. Jackson: "What future generations is Mitt the guardian of?! I think dude just wants to add Leader Of The Free World to his resume'!"
• Albert Brooks: "Next debate will be moderated by Miss Piggy before she loses her job." And: "Between these two explanations of health care I don't know what the f--k is happening."
• Ivanka Trump: "#Romney really rose to the occasion tonight! #BigNight #Debate2012 #debate #CantAfford4More."
• Mark Ruffalo: "#Romney Okay. This is a great performance. I almost believed that Mitt cares about the hurting 47% that he said he didn't care about. Oscar?" And: "What I think is going to be awesome to see is how Obama deals with tonight. The next debate is going to rock. Rocky Balboa??"
• Dean Cain: "Romney looks like the next President to me. I'm looking forward to next year. #Romney"
• Dave Chappelle: "#romney just brought up Food stamps. And Obama looked like he wanted to Punch him in the face."
• Michael Moore: "Ok, here's my optimistic tweet: Romney didn't convince a single Obama voter to change their vote. But O needed to fire up the base. Not done."
• Patton Oswalt: "It doesn't matter that Mitt lied through his fucking teeth. He had to change the narrative. He did it. #sociopath #debate."
• Roseanne Barr: "Undecided voters know this is a wash."
• Ronan Farrow: "Proud of the President for addressing military over-spending. Fact: we're throwing money at a Pentagon that's explicitly told us to stop."
• Sarah Silverman: "Mitt has Republican good looks."
• Jon Lovitz: "Ugh. This debate is going just well/badly enough that both sides can claim victory with conviction. Annoying."
Wonder if Gore is related to Biden or just says stuff like this to win the dumb-ass of the year award ? Maybe the big eared clown smoked a big fat doobie before the debate----yea, I bet that's it.
Gore blames Denver altitude for Obama's debate performance
Published October 04, 2012
Sept. 28, 2012: Former Vice President Al Gore speaks at an event in Toronto. (AP)
It was the altitude. Yeah, that's it.
As liberal pundits cringed Wednesday night over President Obama's debate performance, Al Gore leapt to his defense with a curious explanation.
If Obama seemed like he had his head in the clouds, the former VP reasoned, perhaps it was because he was having trouble adjusting to the Mile-High City.
"I'm going to say something controversial here," , the channel he helped found. "Obama arrived in Denver at 2 p.m. today, just a few hours before the debate started. Romney did his debate prep in Denver. When you go to 5,000 feet, and you only have a few hours to adjust, I don't know ..."
Gore trailed off with a chuckle, but his fellow co-hosts chimed in with agreement.
"Exactly," one of them said off-screen.
Co-host Cenk Uygur noted how when he came from Los Angeles, "You know what I did? I drank two cups of coffee before coming out here."
Another guest added: "It's really different. The first time I ever did stand up in Denver I had the same exact effect. I flew in that day and when your lungs aren't acclimated to that kind of air, yeah it makes you drawn. It makes you off. The president had an off-night."
Other Obama supporters weren't quite so willing to give the president a pass.
"I can't believe i'm saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter," comedian and Obama supporter Bill Maher tweeted
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Wonder if Gore is related to Biden or just says stuff like this to win the dumb-ass of the year award ? Maybe the big eared clown smoked a big fat doobie before the debate----yea, I bet that's it.
Yeah... right, on the fat doobie. I watched most of the thing, and Romney, to my surprise, made a much more forceful and clear-headed presentation of his otherwise vague and indecipherable plan to make America not so much Uruguay.
But you're right... his debate performance was so bad, I heard Michelle's leaving him for Michael Moore. Obuma sounded like he was trying to read semaphore signals from a lobby attendant hiding beneath the floorboards. Hell, I could have belched a better performance than the one he gave.
I figured Obuma had clearly lost his way by the time he got to: "If re-elected, I will kill all the children so they will not have to worry about inheriting the trillions of dollars of debt my next fours years in office will accumulate... in aid to Liberia, which will become the first country whose energy is totally generated by windmills, loud talking, and bad hair."
That did it for me. I mean... come on... Liberia ???
Oh yeah... don't forget, we need to give a shout-out to VP Biden for that very special line about the middle class's being "buried." I'm sure Romney doesn't want to rest on his laurels... so you keep flapping your gums, Joe. From your pie hole straight to the White House!
This is in reference to the debate between Romney and Obama. Gore and pundits on both sides have to support their side, comment because they gettin' paid, etc. It promulgates (SAT word used purposefully) because they need to sound like they are earning their money. Neither one said anything new. Neither one explained in detail, how can you in 2 minute segments. So while I watched I heard nothing new to use if I were undecided. I am not I knew my vote after the last Republican debate, whether I liked it or not. Romney did a much better job than Obama in the debate. If anyone is basing their vote on the debate I put them in the same category as the folks that when asked if you like dogs or cats they are the 3% that end up in the I don't know category on all questions/
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This is in reference to the debate between Romney and Obama. Gore and pundits on both sides have to support their side, comment because they gettin' paid, etc. It promulgates (SAT word used purposefully) because they need to sound like they are earning their money. Neither one said anything new. Neither one explained in detail, how can you in 2 minute segments. So while I watched I heard nothing new to use if I were undecided. I am not I knew my vote after the last Republican debate, whether I liked it or not. Romney did a much better job than Obama in the debate. If anyone is basing their vote on the debate I put them in the same category as the folks that when asked if you like dogs or cats they are the 3% that end up in the I don't know category on all questions/
Hmmmm.... uh huh... now, if I had to base my vote on the debate, I think it would be for ol' Mitt.
Why? Maybe this might explain it:
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I'm Paco the Conservative Chihuahua. I live in Elk Co. in Jarhead's Bunker which he has renamed " PACO's SOCIALIST LOOKOUT BUNKER." I bite liberal socialist democrats. I also look out for their bubble headed green brain juiced socialist buddies taking over our elected officials and the citizens who vote for them. I will pee on their feet and poop in their flowers. I also bark at their children. I'll will bite those socialibs on the ankle and as high up as I can jump. Better look out R.A.M.B.O. ... there's a new dog in charge now!
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Analysis of Mitt Romney's astonishing debate victory over Barack Obama on Wednesday night will continue for days to come. Some are blaming Obuma's awful performance on poor debate preparation. Fat man Michael Moore joked on Twitter, "This is what happens when you pick John Kerry as your debate coach."
Don't worry, Moore got stupid again within the hour, later suggesting that maybe Obuma "had to appear timid" because "for the past 2 days, the Right has been pounding their 'Obuma is an angry black man' video."
Yeah...right!
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The MSNBC Cry Babies:
R.A.M.B.O. @ Paco...............When you start feeling froggy, short stuff, go ahead and jump! :laugh:
Jarhead, time to fumigate the bunker to get rid of any Pac......pests. ::)
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Jack Welch says unemployment numbers are cooked.
Mitt Romney explaining unemployment numbers:
Jack Welch, former head of General Electric and , seems to believe that the risible drop in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' unemployment rate was caused by some manipulated stats or intimidation from the Obama Administration.
The numbers are bad enough, trust me. Welch is no fan of the Obama Administration. On CNBC's "Squawk Box" not long ago, Welch said:
"It's so clear, it's so simple. The Republicans should be winning this election and with this economy, this situation. It's frightening." http://www.cnbc.com/id/44948160/
And here's what Jack Welch had to tweet today:
Jack Welch✔
@jack_welch
"Unbelievable jobs numbers..these Chicago guys will do anything..can't debate so change numbers"The weird comeback from Solis:
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Hilda Solis, the country's first anti-job Labor Secretary responded on CNBC, saying, "It's really ludicrous to hear that kind of statement. We have to look at across the board, not just one month."
Exactly, Ms. Solis So I give you: The ugly truth about that 'great' jobs report:
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/05/the-truth-about-that-great-jobs-report/
Though not conspiracy theorist on this, I did point out some of the incredible strange trends within BLS numbers a few months ago...
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/04/19/is-the-labor-department-playing-politics-with-job-numbers/
....and here's John Hayward on the confusing numbers:
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/05/septembers-confusing-unemployment-report/
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"This image seemed like a proper response to the first
Presidential debate," Barry Blitt told the New Yorker's Culture Desk.
Blitt must have heard MSNBC's Chris "Crybaby" Matthews
screaming from Denver on Wednesday, "Where was Obama tonight?!"
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Mitt Romney's 10 Best Lines, Quips, And Quotes From The Debate
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/10/05/mitt_romneys_10_best_lines_quips_and_quotes_from_the_debate
By John Hawkins
10/5/2012
While Barack Obama was playing golf and going on vacation, Mitt Romney was getting an education in the debate school of hard knocks from Professor Newt Gingrich. While Obama was being asked fluff questions by his supporters in the mainstream media, Mitt Romney was facing a hostile media that wanted to rip his head off his shoulders. While Obama was being endlessly complimented for reading stale, barely updated speeches from 2008 off a teleprompter, Mitt was desperately trying to sell himself to audiences that had been told he was a cross between J.R. Ewing and one of the Replicants from Blade Runner. As a result, at their first debate, Mitt Romney was sharp as barbed wire while Barack Obama looked like he just wanted to go home, curl up, and wait for MSNBC to say nice things about him in the morning. That's why, as you're about to see from these quotes, the first meeting between Obama and Romney seemed more like a seal clubbing than a presidential debate.
10) My priority is putting people back to work in America. They're suffering in this country. And we talk about evidence -- look at the evidence of the last four years. It's absolutely extraordinary. We've got 23 million people out of work or who've stopped looking for work in this country. It's just when the president took office, 32 million people on food stamps; 47 million on food stamps today. Economic growth this year slower than last year, and last year slower than the year before. Going forward with the status quo is not going to cut it for the American people who are struggling today.
9) We didn't raise taxes (in Massachusetts). You've raised them by a trillion dollars under "Obamacare." We didn't cut Medicare. Of course, we don't have Medicare, but we didn't cut Medicare by $716 billion. We didn't put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive. We didn't also do something that I think a number of people across this country recognize, which is put people in a position where they're going to lose the insurance they had and they wanted. Right now, the CBO says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as "Obamacare" goes into effect next year. And likewise, a study by McKinsey & Company of American businesses said 30 percent of them are anticipating dropping people from coverage. So for those reasons, for the tax, for Medicare, for this board and for people losing their insurance, this is why the American people don't want "Obamacare."
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8 ) But you make a very good point, which is that... the place you put your money makes a pretty clear indication of where your heart is. You put $90 billion...into green jobs. And...I'm all in favor of green energy. Ninety billion (dollars) ...that would have hired 2 million teachers. Ninety billion dollars. And these businesses -- many of them have gone out of business. I think about half of them, of the ones have been invested in, they've gone out of business. A number of them happened to be owned by people who were contributors to your campaigns.
7) I will not reduce the share paid by high-income individuals. I know that you and your running mate keep saying that, and I know it's a popular thing to say with a lot of people, but it's just not the case. Look, I got five boys. I'm used to people saying something that's not always true, but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I'll believe it -- (scattered laughter) -- but that is not the case, all right? I will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans.
6) High-income people are doing just fine in this economy. They'll do fine whether you're president or I am. The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing. The same time, gasoline prices have doubled under the president, electric rates are up, food prices are up, health care costs have gone up by $2,500 a family.
5) Mr. President, you're entitled, as the president, to your own airplane and to your own house, but not to your own facts -- (laughter) -- all right?
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4) I'd just as soon not have the government telling me what kind of health care I get. I'd rather be able to have an insurance company. If I don't like them, I can get rid of them and find a different insurance company. But people will make their own choice.
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3) What things would I cut from spending? Well, first of all, I will eliminate all programs by this test -- if they don't pass it: Is the program so critical it's worth borrowing money from China to pay for it? And if not, I'll get rid of it. "Obamacare" is on my list.
2) Barack Obama: ...And part of the way to do it is to not give tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs overseas. Right now you can actually take a deduction for moving a plant overseas. I think most Americans would say that doesn't make sense. And all that raises revenue.....
Mitt Romney: The second topic, which is you said you get a deduction for getting a plant overseas. Look, I've been in business for 25 years. I have no idea what you're talking about. Maybe I need to get a new accountant.
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1) We also believe in maintaining for individuals the right to pursue their dreams, and not to have the government substitute itself for the rights of free individuals. And what we're seeing right now is, in my view is a trickle-down government approach which has government thinking it can do a better job than free people pursuing their dreams. And it's not working. And the proof of that is 23 million people out of work. The proof of that is one out of six people in poverty. The proof of that is we've gone from 32 million on food stamps to 47 million on food stamps. The proof of that is that 50 percent of college graduates this year can't find work.
PRESIDENT OBAMA:(Inaudible)
MR. ROMNEY: We know that the path we're taking is not working. It's time for a new path.
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"Colleen Lachowicz is a Democratic candidate running for
State Senate in Maine. She's also a level 85 Orc in the
massively popular online game 'World of Warcraft.''
Strange world!!! Tell me that politics ain't sick! But, then again....
....I don't see why playing online games should disqualify someone from high office. Sure she dresses her virtual self up in scary gear out of LOTR and revels in killing with impunity. So did Julius II. Should he not have been pope?"Colleen Lachowicz is a Democratic candidate running for State Senate in Maine. She's also a level 85 orc in the massively popular online game "World of Warcraft." And for that, the Republican party says she is unfit for office.
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/ingame/republicans-out-democrat-world-warcraft-witch-hunt-6283586#
"Maine's GOP has accused Lachowicz of living a "bizarre double life" and set up a website meant to out her participation in the popular online game — a game that currently boasts some 10 million players around the world.
http://www.colleensworld.com/
"Not only does the website show off a picture of the orc character she plays – named Santiaga — it also displays comments that have been dug up from online forums in which Lachowicz talks about her love of the (sometimes violent) game as well as her thoughts on various political topics.
"Among the comments the website attributes to her:
"So I'm a level 68 orc rogue girl. I stab things . . . a lot. Who would have thought that a peace-lovin', social worker and democrat would enjoy that?!"
"I can kill stuff without going to jail. There are some days when this is more necessary than others."
"I'm so jealous! I wish I wasn't at work. I'd much rather be gaming with my guildies!"
"Lachowicz also appears to refer to members of the Tea Party as, well, teabaggers."[/i]
OK, granted... she sounds like a moron. But think about it: Do you really want your elected officials focused 24/7 on how they can "help" you? Don't you want them to have all-consuming "hobbies" that deflect their attention away from their legislative duties? Wouldn't the world have been a better place if Hitler and Stalin had consumed their time playing Grand Theft Auto?
The only truly disturbing thing here is that the news stories describe her as a level 85 orc, while she apparently described herself as a level 68. Is the MSM, once again, trying to inflate a Democrat's status and so enhance her chances of victory come Election Day?
Please note: I don't know from orcs and levels. I have a real life... sorta, anyway.
Should Ms. Lachowicz be elected, let's hope she continues to enjoys a rich fantasy life.... in the privacy of her home.... for longer and longer periods of time. Which is to say, not in the Senate.
....Warph
The Lowest Common Denominators of Education.And, just as North Korean teachers taught their students to worship Kim Jong Il... Our well pensioned babysitters have filled the gullible heads of our youth with gilded lies of liberalism for decades. Say a prayer in school? No, no, NO... but it's perfectly acceptable to sing an ode to the socialist Messiah, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm Barack Hussein Obama.
School children in New Jersey being told what to think. The scariest part to me is the apparent lack of objection to this from the kids' parents.
If you are not concerned of what is happening to your country, you truly should be.ewe
If you are aware of what is happening and you are NOT concerned, well I guess we are [screwed]!Here is the text of this mindless chant:Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be clear today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
He said Red, Yellow, Black or White
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
Yes
Mmm, mmm, mm!
Barack Hussein Obama
We can't sing Christmas carols in school anymore but this is not a problem? Wow...[/font][/size]
Did you catch this story, about how IKEA.... Swedish for "That which requireth the Allen wrench"... shipped copies of its catalog to Saudi Arabia with images of women eviscerated so as not to disabuse Saudi men of the notion that women are vampires? (http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-UU234_1001ik_G_20121001113927.jpg)
Representatives for Swedish furniture giant IKEA on Monday apologized for removing women from some of the photos in catalogs shipped to Saudi Arabia, and said the blame lies squarely with them, not the local franchisee.
The move to manipulate photos sparked criticism from government officials in Sweden and raised questions about how IKEA is living up to its own values.
IKEA's catalog is shipped all over the world, with the company this year expected to publish 200 million copies with 62 different versions. The bulk of the catalog is exactly the same in most markets, but the company has said in the past it tailors the images to suit fashion-related tastes of local markets.
In some cases, however, the catalog is changed to align with cultural standards.
A comparison of the Saudi catalog to a standard version of the catalog showed that several women photographed in the standard version are missing from pages of the Saudi version. Otherwise, the photos throughout the catalog appear to be virtually identical.
"You cannot remove or retouch women out of reality," Swedish trade minister Ewa Bjorling said in an email. "If women aren't allowed to be seen or work then Saudi Arabia is losing half of its intellectual capital." Ms. Bjorling said the images are another sad example that show there is a long way to go in terms of equality between women and men in Saudi Arabia.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444592404578030274200387136.html
Okay... if Saudi Arabia were practicing, say, a form of Apartheid, would the company be clamoring for its business? If not, why is the company shipping catalogs over there to begin with? So foreign nationals can decorate their flats and offices with cheap pine furniture?
Don't Let A Liar Lead You!Obama's statements regarding the attack in Benghazi are a web of lies.
Obama says he has Israel's back. That's a lie.
Obama said Obamacare was not a tax. That was a lie.
Obama said Obamacare wouldn't raise anyone's taxes a single dime. That was a lie. It contains 21 brand new taxes.
Obama swore to uphold and defend the Constitution. That was a lie.
Obama said he had no knowledge of Fast and Furious. That was a lie. He exerted Executive Privilege over it.
Obama said he couldn't enact the "Dream Act" on his own. That was a lie.
Obama claimed to be the 4th best President in history. That's a lie.
Obama claimed that he would walk the picket lines with unions. That was a lie.
Obama says we're better off than we were 4 years ago. That's a lie.
Obama said his "green energy" investments were good investments. That was a lie.
Obama said he'd cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. That was a lie. He's added 6 Trillion dollars TO it.
Obama said that when he became president, Muslim violence against America would end. That was a lie.
Obama wrote his memoirs and asserted they were fact. That was a lie. His story is full of composite characters and events that never existed.
Obama said he never really knew Bill Ayers or Reverend Wright. Those are lies.
Obama says the national security leaks did not come from the white house. That's a lie.
Obama said small business owners did not build their own businesses. That's a lie.
Obama told us that the fence between the U.S. and Mexico was nearly complete. That was a lie.
Obama says the rich are not paying their fair share of taxes. That's a lie. The rich pay nearly 70% of all taxes.
Obama said, "Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place." That was a lie.
Obama said, "We have run out of places in the US to drill for oil." That's a lie.
Obama said he was not somebody who promotes same sex marriage. That was a lie.
Obama said unemployment would not rise above 8% if he were granted a $787 Billion Dollar stimulus. That was a lie.
Obama said he would have the most transparent administration in history. That was a lie.
Obama said he would close GITMO. That was a lie.
Obama said, "When a bill lands on my Desk, The American people will have 5 days to review it before I sign it." That was a lie.
Obama says he's an American citizen but, he told Columbia he was a foreign student. One of those two claims has to be a lie.
Obama claimed that his mother and father were married and he has said he was born to a single mother. One of those two claims has to be a lie.
Saturday Night Live last night mocked the post debate reaction at MSNBC.
Opening with a parody Rachel Maddow hosting the show, the actor playing Al Sharpton came up with excuses for the president's bad performance including altitude and jet lag.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/snl-mocks-post-debate-chris-matthews-and-msnbc/article/2510051
The women were eviscerated? EEEEEK...piles of guts on the floor? At least they cleaned 'em up. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Snippy Obama, Whose Heart's Not in It
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/snippy-obama-whose-hearts-not-in-it/263229/
Oct 4 2012, 10:36 AM ET
Once again, the man who once captured the imaginations
of millions delivered an emotionless appeal.
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It was the most tweeted about political event of the year, and for once the insider tweets matched the television insta-polls: Mitt Romney was the decisive victor in the first presidential debate of this most contested and close of elections.
It was not so much that Romney was great, though he was smooth and personable, but that Obama was not. The president appeared snippy, his eyes flashing angrily during those infrequent moments when he looked at his opponent, his lips pursed and upturned when he looked down -- which was often -- as if he were trying to smile despite sucking on a particularly unpleasant hard candy. Republicans on Thursday morning were calling it a smirk, but it was more than that. There was, in the expression, a mixture of annoyance, impatience, and dislike. Either Obama couldn't stand looking at Romney, or he decided it was a better debating tactic to not even deign to consider him and to address hapless moderator Jim Lehrer and the audience instead of his challenger. The dynamic was set early on: Romney looked at Obama, and Obama looked down or at the moderator. His words appeared equally downbeat.
All of which made me wonder anew about Obama's convention performance, and to what an extent it was not anomalous but intentional and characteristic. I wrote then:
Barack Obama will never be that man again. Whoever he was in 2008, and 2004, Barack Obama will never have his easy swagger and rambunctiously playful enthusiasm ....
That is the truth at the core of his oddly flat convention speech, and at the center of his technically skilled but strangely bloodless reelection campaign. Whoever Obama was when he was elected president has been seared away by two active wars, the more free-ranging fight against al-Qaeda, the worst economic crash since the Great Depression, and the endless grinding fights with Washington Republicans -- and even, I am sure, activists in his own party.
It seemed even truer last night. Would Obama have gotten so significant a convention bounce if it were just about his own speech? His demeanor in Denver made me wonder if his was not in some important sense a borrowed bounce, bequeathed to him by Bill Clinton.
Many are writing this morning that Obama seemed unprepared, but that's hardly credible. He did not stumble over answers or forget his talking points. Rather, he appeared badly prepared by his handlers to pursue a strategy of non-engagement with Romney while aiming to deliver a passable, above-the-fray presentation. It was a classic frontrunner strategy -- first, do no harm -- but it flopped because Romney was so eager to engage, and chose the occasion of the first debate to showcase a classic Romney policy pivot.
If you reread the pre-debate expectations-setting coverage, it appears Obama did exactly what he was gunning to do:
Obama is not particularly fluid in sound bites, so his team is aiming for a workmanlike performance like his speech at the Democratic convention.
That New York Times piece mentioned something else important to consider:
As the candidates prepare, the first trick for Mr. Obama is finding time. His rehearsals have started late and ended early because of events like the tumult in the Middle East. He showed up at one practice just after speaking at a ceremony for the four Americans killed in Libya, and aides found that his mind was elsewhere.
I said it after the convention speech and I'll say it again: If there's something that seems shut down in our once ebulliently optimistic president, it most likely has to do with the wars. Obama is a naturally empathic individual, whose diverse, mobile, international background made him unusually able when it came to assessing new social situations and reading more than people say. Some observers have speculated that Obama needs a crowd, energy he can draw from. But he had that aplenty in Charlotte, and it barely helped.
I suspect a more prosaic explanation: A person of his temperament cannot maintain the same open demeanor when he's dealing with war and death all the time. As, we must recall, Obama has been for years now. If Obama seems shut down, perhaps it is because he has to be to be who he is and do the job he needs to do day in and day out. If his heart didn't seem in it last night, I wonder if it's not in part because the last thing he needs to consider in his work on a day-to-day basis is his heart. It's a long way from being a community organizer, civil-rights lawyer and anti-war state senator to running a drone war that kills innocent civilians, ordering the death of militants, overseeing a policy that's led to an increase in American casualties in Afghanistan, and delivering funereal remarks at a ceremony honoring the returning remains of a slain American diplomat.
It's the only explanation I can come up with for why there is so much self-abnegation in Obama's campaigning. Does it do anything for any sort of voter to hear this, from Obama's closing remarks last night?
You know, four years ago I said that I'm not a perfect man and I wouldn't be a perfect president. And that's probably a promise that Governor Romney thinks I've kept. But I also promised that I'd fight every single day on behalf of the American people and the middle class and all those who are striving to get in the middle class. I've kept that promise and if you'll vote for me, then I promise I'll fight just as hard in a second term.
The emphasis on imperfection, the almost apologetic tone -- it's something that's come and gone in Obama's messaging since before the Republican take-over in 2010.
Romney has had the luxury of being able to campaign undistracted by a day job. More importantly, he's been able to campaign undistracted by dealing with anything substantive or difficult in recent years. Campaigns are physically taxing. But the toll of being president is something different again.
His supporters keep wanting Obama to be who he was in 2008. But that's not who he is anymore.
Obuma Debate Notes:
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Big Bird Tries to commit suicide!
Story at: http://thedailycricket.com/2012/10/06/big-bird-hopitalized-after-suicide-attempt/
Peter Bloomquist, the actor who played Big Bird for nearly thirty years, was rushed to a Philadelphia hospital after attempting to take his own life late last night. Police said that Bloomquist, 52, was at the home of a friend when he suddenly donned his Big Bird outfit, covered himself with Herbs de Province and climbed into a gas oven.
Bloomquist, who is homeless and out of work, made headline news in 2006 when the Sesame Street star was found naked and tied to a bed in a seedy New Jersey motel. He was fired from the popular children's show in early 2007, after he was captured shortly after he held up a drugstore. The large feet on the costume slowed the suspects escape and he became the pun of every late-night television show.
Paul 'Snuffy' Brittles, a former co-worker at Sesame Street, said Bloomquist has some personal problems and he's not surprised by the suicide attempt.
" Pete's never been the same since he got canned. Pete was a drinker. He always had a bottle inside the Big Bird costume and between you and me, he never wore clothes under there," said Bittles. "The third time Pete got busted for drunk driving, the Sesame Street writers changed the script and made the letters of the day 'O,U,I'. Pete was so mad that he pulled his head off, attacked an intern with it, and stormed off the set."
Brittles says that he thinks that recent news about Sesame Street and Public Broadcasting System, may have triggered the suicide attempt. During last Wednesdays presidential debate, GOP nominee Mitt 'I'm trying to fit' Romney suggested that the monies allocated to the Public Broadcasting System be put on the federal budget chopping block.
Sesame Street fans, none of whom have ever sent a donation to the Public Broadcast System, contend that the money saved by cutting funding to the program would be minimal at best.
In 2011, PBS received 445 Million Dollars in federal aid but advocates say that every penny was well spent. Since 1973, PBS produced some of he the most stimulating television programs ever made, such as Another Boring News Show, Remodeling Your Home With Dollars and No Sense, and The Bearded Gardener starring ex-hippie Beatrice Rothchild.
"It's not the responsibility of the public to keep the Public Broadcasting System going, " said Robert Jackson of the Kill The Rich Foundation. "People need Sesame Street. In fact, it's how most illegal immigrants start to learn English."
Twenty year old Chicago resident Shaniqua Jansante, said she's going to have to quit her job if the Sesame Street show gets cancelled.
"Sesame Street be my baby sitter when I'm at work. I can't afford to have nobody come in and watch 'em, can I? Where I'm gonna get the money. Who gonna pay that? Not that Devil-worshiper Romney, that's for sure," shouted the irate mother of four. "You tell me. What kinda m.....f..... gonna put Big Bird outta work?"
From his hospital bed, a physically restrained Bloomquist told the The Daily Cricket that he has nothing to live for now.
"When I heard they were cutting Sesame Street, it ripped my gizzards out. I'm pretty much clean and sober now and was thinking about asking for my job back," wept a teary-eyed Bloomquist. "Now I have no job to go back to. I have nothing to live for. I want the world to know that Mitt Romney is a dream buster. I want them to know that Mitt Romney choked my chicken."
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"Don't fire until you see the stack of DVDs"
Well whoop-de-do.... the Supreme Court to decide whether you really own your stuff. It's all about copyright, even of your grandmother's furniture, and your right to a garage sale.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-right-to-resell-your-own-stuff-is-in-peril-2012-10-04
"At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture, as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the copyright holder of those products.
"Under the doctrine, which the Supreme Court has recognized since 1908, you can resell your stuff without worry because the copyright holder only had control over the first sale.
"That's being challenged now for products that are made abroad, and if the Supreme Court upholds an appellate court ruling, it would mean that the copyright holders of anything you own that has been made in China, Japan or Europe, for example, would have to give you permission to sell it.
"'It means that it's harder for consumers to buy used products and harder for them to sell them,' said Jonathan Band, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Association for Research Libraries. 'This has huge consumer impact on all consumer groups.'
"Another likely result is that it would hit you financially because the copyright holder would now want a piece of that sale."
What is going on in this country? Religious freedom, freedom of speech, and now the freedom to sell your junk... all being challenged in the courts? Do we have to fight a frickin' War of Independence every generation? I guess so, because the Redcoats just won't stay dead.
....Warph
Okay... this has to be the the most pathetic piece of crap in the world! A jacket that hugs you every time someone "likes" something on your Facebook page.
If you've ever felt a "like" on Facebook wasn't quite real enough, a US designer has unveiled a jacket that hugs the wearer every time they receive one.
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Designed by MIT student Melissa Chow, the "Like-A-Hug" is a wearable social media vest that allows for hugs to be given via Facebook, bringing us closer despite physical distance. The vest inflates when friends 'Like' a photo, video, or status update on the wearer's wall. It's creator says this "allows us to feel the warmth, encouragement, support, or love that we feel when we receive hugs."
Soon to be purchased by people who refer to their pet monkeys as their children.
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Well.... maybe there's one thing more pathetic than that stupid body amore:
the response to actress Stacey Dash's tweet that she was supporting Mitt Romney. You would think she had eaten a baby or something. Oh, wait... that's going to be an episode on Two Broke Girls.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/twitter-explodes-after-black-actress-endorses-romney-as-the-only-choice-for-your-future/
Economic Management
A closer look at spending habits:
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Protestants No Longer a Majority in America, as Big Fat Nothings Soar!
Not really. But that's what you'd think given some of the headlines.
Nevertheless, they don't call it the Pew study for nothing: pee-euw! In the past five years, the percentage of Americans who identify as some kind of "Christian" has dropped by 5 percent, from 78% of the population to 73%. If this trend continues, by the year 4050, Christians will be a scant 64% of the population although I may be mistaken about that.
Here's the chart so you can glean numbers at a glance:
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From the PEW:
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"One-in-Five Adults Have No Religious Affiliation"
The number of Americans who do not identify with any religion continues to grow at a rapid pace. One-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentages ever in Pew Research Center polling.
In the last five years alone, the unaffiliated have increased from just over 15% to just under 20% of all U.S. adults. Their ranks now include more than 13 million self-described atheists and agnostics (nearly 6% of the U.S. public), as well as nearly 33 million people who say they have no particular religious affiliation (14%).3
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http://www.pewforum.org/Unaffiliated/nones-on-the-rise.aspx
Also, check:
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/10/religious-freedom-restrictions-on-the-rise-even-in-the-u-s/
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10 Dates to Remember from Barack Obama's
Amazing First Term
By John Hawkins
10/9/2012
"The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln." -- Barack Obama
As future generations of Americans look back at the Obama years, perhaps as they search for some sort of explanation for why so many of them are living in huts and paying a 70% income tax rate when the country used to be so rich, they'll be looking for some key dates and facts. So, in an effort to help future generations, here is a straightforward, entirely factual account of some of the most important moments of the Obama years.
1) Barack Obama Inaugurated (January 20, 2009): Oh, it was such a hopeful, glorious, unified moment. Cats and dogs, Fox and MSNBC, Republicans and Democrats -- we were all in it together and rooting Obama on towards victory..........which brings up some obvious questions like: How did Barack Obama squander so much goodwill and what did he do to make so many Americans hate him?
2) Barack Obama throws out the first pitch at the All-Star game (July 14, 2009): On this date, the hippest man ever to occupy the White House revolutionized fashion in America at Major League Baseball's All-Star game. Ever heard of mom jeans? Well, Barack Obama wore them to the All-Star game and that, combined with his girlish throwing motion, caused moms across America to copy the mom-in-chief – and that is how Barack Obama created mom jeans!
3) Obamacare passes (March 21, 2010):
In one fell swoop, Barack Obama managed to cripple American healthcare, put the medical insurance industry on suicide watch, stall the economy, and empower the IRS and unelected death panels to get involved in your health care. If you were looking for comparable bad decisions from other world leaders, you'd probably need to go back to Napoleon's decision to invade Russia during the winter or Nero's decision to play the lyre on his balcony while Rome was burning instead of organizing a fire brigade. (In all fairness to Nero, that may be a rumor. For any future generations that are wondering what went so wrong with healthcare, contrary to what your liberal schoolteachers are telling you, George W. Bush was not responsible for "Obamacare." It really was Obama.)
4) Osama Bin Laden was killed (May 2, 2011): I
n what undoubtedly was Barack Obama's greatest moment, a bunch of scared, wimpy SEALs came to him and said, "We've figured out where Osama Bin Laden is, but we think we shouldn't go get him because we're afraid!" That was undoubtedly how most other Americans would have felt as well because as Obama's team has told us constantly, he made a "gutsy call" to kill Osama. So obviously, those SEAL pansies had to be pushed into killing him, a wimp like John McCain wouldn't have done it, and hundreds of millions of Americans who were angry about 9/11 wouldn't have had cojones as big as President Mom-Jeans since he made such an incredibly "gutsy call."
5) NASA had its last manned space flight (July 21, 2011):
America's "science President" moved America "forward" by cancelling our manned space program, which actually takes us all the way "backward" to 1960, the year before this country had its first crewed spaceflight. Hooray! We've gone backwards fifty years under Obama which takes us "forward"...or something.
6) America loses its AAA credit rating (August 5, 2011):
For the first time since 1917, America had its credit rating downgraded from AAA by Standard & Poor's. Despite Barack Obama's call telling S&P that Tea Partiers must have spent all those trillions of dollars while he was out of the White House golfing and his promise that "We'll pay it all back when our next paycheck comes in, we swear", S&P refused to take Obama's record-breaking deficit numbers off the books.
7) Barack Obama increases the national debt more in 3 years and 2 months than George Bush did in two terms (March 18, 2012):
Despite delivering the "feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression," Barack Obama managed to rack up more debt in 38 months than George W. Bush did in 96 months. That's sort of like putting down enough money to buy a Lamborghini and getting a used Dukes of Hazzard remote control toy car in return.
http://news.yahoo.com/economic-recovery-weakest-since-world-war-ii-152031546--finance.html
8 ) "You didn't build that." (July 13, 2012):
In a revolutionary speech -- well, for the President of a capitalistic country anyway -- Barack Obama explained how the markets work. Apparently, the government provides roads, street signs, and regulations and in response, small businesses spring up to provide jobs and tax revenue without any individual effort, sort of like mushrooms after a night of hard rain.
9) Barack Obama had a Las Vegas Fundraiser (September 12, 2012):
One day after Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died because the Obama Administration ignored numerous warnings that they were in danger, Barack Obama jetted off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas. There were fears that four Americans dying because of Obama's incompetence might spoil the mood, but all reports seem to indicate that a good time was had by all.
10) Barack Obama gets demolished in his first head-to-head debate with Mitt Romney (October 3, 2012):
Surprisingly, Barack Obama, whom the mainstream media has christened as the most warm, charismatic, cool, confident, competent and good looking President in American history, was soundly defeated (as in Genghis Khan's forces managed to soundly defeat the unarmed farmers who opposed him) by Mitt Romney, who is often fondly described as "robotic, but in a good way" by his supporters. The explanations for this inexplicable defeat ranged from "The air in Denver was too thin for him," to "Jim Lehrer didn't ask Obama enough questions about how wonderful he is," to "Do you think he's high again? I mean, I wouldn't put it past him – and, wow, would it explain a LOT OF THINGS about his presidency."
Who's On First? (Modern Version)
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COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
ABBOTT: Good subject. Terrible times. It's 8.1%.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.
COSTELLO: You just said 8.1%.
ABBOTT: 8.1% Unemployed.
COSTELLO: Right 8.1% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 16% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that's 8.1%.
COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 8.1% or 16%?
ABBOTT: 8.1% are unemployed. 16% are out of work.
COSTELLO: IF you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, Obuma said you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.
COSTELLO: But they ARE out of work!!
ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.
COSTELLO: What point?
ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn't be fair.
COSTELLO: To whom?
ABBOTT: The unemployed.
COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.
ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment rolls, that would count as less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Absolutely! Unemployment would go down.
COSTELLO: The unemployment goes down just because you don't look for work?
ABBOTT: Right! That's how Obuma gets it to 8.1%. Otherwise it would be 16%. He doesn't want you to read about 16% unemployment.
COSTELLO: That would be tough on his reelection.
ABBOTT: You got it.
COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?
ABBOTT: Two ways... that's right.
COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.
COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
ABBOTT: Bingo.
COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have Obuma's supporters stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like the Obuma Economy Czar.
COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said!
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like Obuma....
Don't be fooled by bogus unemployment numbers...
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UPDATE: The RNC notices that Obuma doesn't seem
as concerned about Libya or the economy as he is
about PBS: (http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/u2854/2012/10/-5.jpg)
During the debate last week, Willard Mitt Romney confessed to liking Big Bird, even though he intended to cut PBS's government funding. So Obuma supporters have taken that to mean he really hates Big Bird, because if you don't give everyone what they want when they want it, you are ipso facto a hater.
Doesn't matter. Here are Six Reasons why we should all hate Big Bird.
1. He talks. This confuses children. As Bill Nye the Erstwhile Science Guy made plain, we don't want to beguile children with erroneous ideas about the natural world. Birds do not talk. At least not in English, and in complete sentences.
2. He's a welfare king. Despite the fact that Sesame Street rakes in hundreds of millions in merchandising every year, this miserable creature continues to take funds from the public coffers.
3. He's 8'2″ .... which means he's leaving a larger carbon footprint than Snoopy, a war veteran. http://www.snoopyflyingace.com/#
4. He's a slum lord. As part of the Sesame Street "family," he has left denizens like Oscar the Grouch living in garbage and the Cookie Monster eating nothing but junk food... for 40-plus years. Repeated calls to clean up Sesame Street and allow new private businesses to revitalize the economy have fallen on deaf ears. And while Mayor Bloomerpants is slashing soda sizes, Sesame Street remains a marginalized haven of sugar-laden treats, ensuring that yet another generation of American youth gets hooked on the needle... the insulin needle.
5. In order to replenish his supply of feathers.... he rips them off Turkeys. Yes, you read correctly... Turkeys. (Look it up if you don't believe me.)
6. Big Bird is a Socialist! He... ur.. uh.. the bird claims the following: "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
It's time this bird was exposed for the massive fraud he is... a threat to the American way of life.
In fact, he's not even a bird. He's people. Yes, he's people. Go to any prison in this country, and what do you see? People.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroll_Spinney
A vote for Willard Mitt Romney is a vote to end the lies.
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....Let the gaffes begin!
Missing in Action: Stimulus Sheriff Joe Biden
By Michelle Malkin
10/10/2012
Remember when President Obama bragged about Joe Biden's fiscal discipline cred in 2009? "To you, he's Mr. Vice President, but around the White House, we call him the Sheriff," Obama warned government employees. "Because if you're misusing taxpayer money, you'll have to answer to him."
Fast-forward to 2012. Call in the search teams. Since being appointed the nation's stimulus spending cop, Sheriff Joe has taken a permanent donut break. He's AWOL on oversight. In fact, he's been bubble-wrapped, boxed and kept completely out of sight. The garrulous gaffe machine hasn't sat down for a national media interview in five months.
The Democrats' trillion-dollar "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act," however, keeps piling up waste, failure, fraud and debt.
Who benefited most? Big government cronies.
According to Investor's Business Daily this week, a new analysis by Ohio State University economics professor Bill Dupor reported that "(m)ore than three-quarters of the jobs created or saved by President Obama's economic stimulus in the first year were in government."
Dupor and another colleague had earlier concluded that the porkulus was a predictable jobs-killer that crowded out non-government jobs with make-work public jobs and programs. Indeed, the massive wealth redistribution scheme "destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs" by siphoning tax dollars "to offset state revenue shortfalls and Medicaid increases rather than boost private sector employment."
Will this Keynesian wreckage come up during Thursday night's vice presidential debate? It should be a centerpiece of domestic policy discussion. Nowhere is the gulf between Obama/Biden rhetoric and reality on jobs wider.
Remember: Obama's Ivy League eggheads behind the stimulus promised that "(m)ore than 90 percent of the jobs created are likely to be in the private sector." These are the same feckless economic advisers who infamously vowed that the stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent -- and that unemployment would drop below 6 percent sometime this year.
Sheriff Joe rebuked the "naysayers" who decried the behemoth stimulus program's waste, fraud and abuse. "You know what? They were wrong," he crowed.
>>>But Biden was radio silent about the nearly 4,000 stimulus recipients who received $24 billion in Recovery Act funds -- while owing more than $750 million in unpaid corporate, payroll and other taxes. (Cash for Tax Cheats, anyone?)
>>>He had nothing to say about the $6 billion in stimulus energy credits for homeowners that went to nearly a third of credit-claimers who had no record of homeownership, including minors and prisoners.
>>>And the $530 million dumped into the profligate Detroit public schools for laptops and other computer equipment that have had little, if any, measurable academic benefits.
>>>And the whopping $6.7 million cost per job under the $50 billion stimulus-funded green energy loan program -- which funded politically connected but now bankrupt solar firms Solyndra ($535 million), Abound Solar ($400 million), Beacon Power ($43 million), A123 ($250 million) and Ener1 ($119 million).
>>>And the $1 million in stimulus cash that went to Big Bird and Sesame Street "to promote healthy eating," which created a theoretical "1.47" jobs. (As Sean Higgins of The Examiner noted, "(T)hat comes out to about $726,000 per job created.")
>>>And the hundreds of millions in stimulus money steered to General Services Administrations junkets in Las Vegas and Hawaii, ghost congressional districts, dead people, infrastructure to nowhere and ubiquitous stimulus propaganda road signs stamped with the shovel-ready logo.
Of course, there's no example of unfettered stimulus squandering more fitting than the one named after Keystone Fiscal Kop Joe Biden himself. Government-funded Amtrak's Wilmington, Del., station raked in $20 million in "recovery" money after heavy personal lobbying by the state's most prominent customer and cheerleader. In return, the station (which came in $6 million over budget, according to The Washington Times) renamed its facility after Biden.
Bloated costs. Crony political narcissism. Glaring conflicts of interest. Monumental waste. This is the Obama/Biden stimulus legacy bequeathed to our children and their grandchildren.
Sheriff Joe Biden and his plundering boss need to be run out of town on a rail.
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The 25 Most Obnoxious Quotes From Barack Obama
by John Hawkins
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/09/18/the_25_most_obnoxious_quotes_from_barack_obama
25.) "No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." -- Barack Obama
24.) "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." -- Barack Obama
23.) "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." -- Barack Obama
22.) "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling conventions. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated.
But this strategy alone couldn't provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names." -- Barack Obama
21.) "I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby." -- Barack Obama
20.) "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl. ...You might just be bored, or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection." -- Barack Obama
19.) "...I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment -- this was the time -- when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals." -- Barack Obama
18.) "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen." -- Barack Obama
17.) "I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations." -- Barack Obama
16.) "It's very rare that I come to an event where I'm like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person." -- Barack Obama
15.) "The Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. . . . What I think we know — separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in their country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact." — President Obama on Gates' arrest.
14.) "But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking." -- Barack Obama
13.) "If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2." -- Barack Obama
12.) "It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: (White) People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time." -- Barack Obama
11.) "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..." -- Barack Obama
10.) "The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln." -- Barack Obama
9.) "I don't believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history." -- Barack Obama
8.) "The private sector is doing fine."
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-- Barack Obama
7) "That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know that they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserving of their scorn." -- Barack Obama
6.) "It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!" -- Barack Obama quotes Rev. Wright
5.) "You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest..." -- Barack Obama
4.) "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." -- Barack Obama
3.) "I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." -- Barack Obama
2.) "...I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." -- Barack Obama
1.) "You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." -- Barack Obama
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http://mashable.com/2012/10/11/phone-bill-quadrillion-dollars/
So Solenne San Jose (real name despite my protestations) cancelled her account with a French phone company. Her final bill: $15,000,000,000,000,000 US. And now she's whining.
First of all, she had no business doing business with a French phone company. I don't care that she's French. It's a socialist government now, and so she should expect the government to hikes taxes. This is what Skype is for.
Also, stuff gets past you. You get on the phone and blah blah blah with your friends, download a few hundred videos, and before you know it: (http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=I.4821230396637388&pid=1.7&w=261&h=154&c=7&rs=1)
$15 quadrillion dollars.
And there is this little tidbit:
New iPhone 5 users may find unexpectedly high bills owing to a bug in OS6. Seems that even though your Wi-Fi is turned on and supposedly connected, your phone is still pulling the gigaschmerz through your carrier. Which is to say, you're using up data like nobody's business without knowing it. (Whatever that means... I don't have an iPhone)
As if that weren't bad enough, Apple has unwittingly disclosed the location of a classified military base in Taiwan. The piece of crap junk can't locate the STATUE OF LIBERTY, but secret military facilities in the Far East... not a problem!
Ho hum... (sigh) ... remember when you needed a nickel to make a phone call? I miss those days.
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Fox News has learned that Vice President Biden was "all over the place" in his first debate prep. A senior Democratic source said that is why top Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod and other senior aides "took over" the preparations.
The word is Biden is a little rusty after four years since his last debate.
But the campaign ran through at least six prep sessions, and top Democrats now say they are confident the vice president is ready to face Paul Ryan onstage Thursday night in Kentucky.After:(http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2012/10/11/joe-biden-s-passion-trumps-paul-ryan-at-vice-presidential-debate/_jcr_content/body/inlineimage.img.503.jpg/1350009164721.cached.jpg)
Top Fox News analysts reacted to the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan. Hear what they had to say about the candidates' performances below! :
In declaring a debate winner, Charles Krauthammer said, "If you heard it on radio, Biden won. If you watched it on television, he lost."
Fox News' Chris Wallace had harsh words for Biden, saying, "I don't believe I have ever seen a debate in which one participant was as openly disrespectful of the other as Biden was to Paul Ryan."
Brit Hume, too, discussed Biden's demeanor, saying, "I thought it was unattractive, I thought it was rude. It looked like a cranky old man, to some extent, debating a polite young man."
While Democratic strategist Joe Trippi believes that Joe Biden performed strongly, he thinks the performance was "diminished by the smirking.http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/10/11/fox-news-analysts-on-who-won-the-vice-presidential-debate/#more-96833[/font][/size]
Angry old man yells at Paul Ryan for 90 minutes;
Update: CNN insta-poll of undecideds shows tie
Update: Ryan wins CNN insta-poll overall, 48/44I expected "table-pounding atmospherics" from Biden but I didn't expect him to act like a total jackhole for fully 90 minutes. Give him credit for knowing his target audience, though: His task tonight was to get the left excited again after Obama fell into a semi-coma in Denver, and evincing utter disdain for Ryan... grimacing, shouting, laughing inappropriately, constantly interrupting, the total jackhole experience... is just what the doctor ordered. He might have irritated independents and undecideds, but probably not so much that it'll change people's votes. The Democrats needed someone to go out there and clown for liberals, and if there's one thing this guy knows, it's clowning.(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-f8VFt5wZUDo/UHdDix1HpHI/AAAAAAAAkQU/K8f0BZsSAZ0/s1600/10-11-12%2B13.jpg)
Here's a taste of what I mean via Mediaite, centered around one of Ryan's more cutting lines of the evening. For what it's worth, the media lost patience with Biden's shtick too, but I doubt that'll cost him anything tomorrow. And yes, needless to say, Raddatz was also terrible.
Exit quotation from Greg Gutfeld: "Biden is the drunk at the bar; Martha is the unhappy bartender, and Ryan is the unfortunate salesman caught in the middle."
What the hell is Biden doing?
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Twitter Frowns On Joe Biden's Laugh
Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan were the two candidates on stage at Thursday's vice presidential debate, but a third character emerged: Joe Biden's laugh, which didn't escape the notice of tweeting politicos. (And led, of course, to at least three satirical Twitter accounts: Laughing Joe Biden, Biden Smirk, and yet another Laughing Joe Biden.)
Weekly Standard's Mark Hemingway: "Joe Biden's laughing through talking about Iran sanctions?"
TIME's Michael Scherer: "Not sure debate cameras have been light tested for Biden's teeth. Best to watch with sunglasses."
Washington Examiner's Philip Klein: "Biden's strategy seems to be to laugh at Ryan constantly. Will it work to infantalize Ryan, or backfire like Gore sighing?"
NBC's David Gregory: "Biden's smile is out of control."
BuzzFeed's Ben Smith: "So did Biden practice laughing at Ryan???"
ABC's Rick Klein: "Biden on verge of breaking down in laughter when Ryan talks."
Former Eric Cantor staffer Brad Dayspring: "Joe Biden needs to realize this isn't a Senate Foreign Relations Hearing. His laughter and condescending attitude is a disaster."
Radio host Neal Boortz: "Looking like Biden's gameplan is to laugh his way through this."
Townhall.com's Guy Benson: "Will Biden laugh his ass off at the terrible economy, too?"
MSNBC's S.E. Cupp: "Biden needs to laugh a little less through the Libya, Middle East, nuclear Iran segment."
Washington Post's Chris Cillizza: "Ok. I have decided. I find the Biden smile slightly unsettling."
PBS' Jeff Greenfield: "Biden has always had a smile that at times is really, really inappropriate."
Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard: "Can't tell yet if Biden's smirking, laughs, eye-rolling, head shaking, works for him or not against the oh-so-young looking eager Ryan." (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ROc0yVcpG4o/UHejpGsFirI/AAAAAAAAkSk/aXGvLmHgyKc/s400/BIDENBALL.jpg)
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer: "Biden is at risk of having his laugh come across like Gore's sighs. He should knock it off."
The New York Times' Ashley Parker: "Biden's grin is Chesire Cat caliber."
Republican strategist Ron Bonjean: "Biden laughing does not come off with the intended effect. It is actually hurting him. Looks very condescending."
Movie critic Roger Ebert: "Joe! Stop smiling and laughing!"
Washington Times' Emily Miller: "Biden laughing when he disagrees with Ryan is so annoying. Like a child in time out."
Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin: "Biden's laughing is losing the debate- obnoxious"
Comedy Central's Indecision: "If this keeps up much longer, Joe Biden's going to sprain his laugh muscles."
"Movie Poster of the Week"
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EU awarded Nobel Peace Prize
"The European Union has won the Nobel Peace Prize, despite a year marked by riots on streets of many capitals and the looming prospect of an acrimonious break up amid an economic crisis caused by the euro."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9603745/EU-awarded-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html
So, the EU wins Nobel Peace Prize for not being Libya... and 721 Million People Share $1.2 Million. This will rank right up there with the TIME "Man of the Year Who Is You" cover story.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/world/nobel-peace-prize.html
Both Lithuania and Bulgaria were singled out for their role in just shutting the hell up. Italy wanted to know why it didn't win Best Cinematography.
If this whole business sounds wacky to you, German CEO Angela Merkel insists that the euro is more than a currency.
"It's people."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9603745/EU-awarded-Nobel-Peace-Prize.html
Yes. It's people... which is the second time I've used that punch line this week.
Let's hope the EU doesn't degenerate into a confederation of civil-warring states. Just like many hope Peace Prize laureate Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma will one day stop killing bad guys from the sky. Not me, of course...being a flyboy and all that... I think the sky is the best place to kill terrorist from. Much better than from, say... the trenches.
Runner-Ups:
1. The letter P, because it's the first letter in "Peace."
2. Malta, because it never wins anything.
3. Sammy Wong, high school ninja, for bringing peace to P.S. 146.
4. Chuck E. Cheese, because no one has ever died from eating their black-olive vegetarian pizza.
5. The Nobel Committee, for dodging all those bullets.
6. The Lord's Resistance Army, for making the rest of the world look good.
7. The inventor of the giant foam hand.
8. Eddie Money, for appearing in those GEICO commercials and offering hope to zombies around the globe.
9. Twitter, for deciding against 141 characters.
10. Flannelette, because no terrorist would be caught dead wearing it.
11. Joe Biden's smirk.
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....Warph
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Biden interrupted Ryan 82 times during that debate last night. And the thing was, he had diddly crap to say when he did it.
He had one job to do. Well, two jobs. The first job was to fire up all the clowns on MSNBC and give lefties... who like the idea of shoutin' down people who disagree with them and generally actin' like Veruca Salt from the Willy Wonka movie... a little somethin'. That's what a good lefty sounds like. Because they're "passionate," and so on.
Since Obama didn't sound like a lefty, they were pullin' their hair out. They want their politicians to come off like union goons and race hustlers, and so Biden had to do what he did last night to buck up the hooples.
The other job was to stop Ryan from looking like he knew what he was talkin' about. And since Joe Biden ain't exactly in command of facts, the only way to do that was for him to come in and step on his toes. And he did. Seven dozen times, give or take a few.
Like MacAoidh said last night, it might well have worked if not for the fact he came off as a dip while doin' it. Muggin' for the camera like some drunk fan at a Steelers game.And then when he started talkin', we got this...
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Which is better, I guess, than how he acted while Ryan was tryin' to talk....
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UPDATE: And one more...
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Some businesses — including McDonald's and the owner of Red Lobster — consider how best to avoid ObamaCare's employer mandate, which is set to take effect in 2014.
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A second Obama term would guarantee the president's health care law will be fully implemented, and businesses are warning that may affect their employees.
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Darden Restaurants, which owns Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse and more, is the latest in its industry to look for a way to avoid ObamaCare. Darden owns and operates more than 2,000 restaurants, and employs 180,000 people. So the restaurant group is conducting a "test" at a select number of its restaurants in four markets.
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White Castle, McDonald's and Denny's are other affordable brands in the industry that have said they were looking for a way to avoid the new employer mandate due to take effect in 2014.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/12/as-some-businesses-look-for-ways-around-obamacare-others-attack-law-directly/#ixzz29BGkyRLt
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Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri calls for more Mohammad film protests
Oct. 13, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/13/us-qaeda-zawahiri-film-idUSBRE89C06520121013
"Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said a film made in the United States mocking the Prophet Mohammad showed Washington was waging a "crusader Zionist war" against Muslims and he called for more protests outside American embassies.
Like in other messages released by al Qaeda's Yemeni and North African branches last month, Zawahiri praised last month's assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans but stopped short of claiming responsibility.
In the recording, posted on Islamist websites on Friday, Oct. 12th, he called on 'free and distinguished zealots for Islam' who attacked the consulate and protested outside other American embassies to 'continue their opposition to American crusader Zionist aggression against Islam and Muslims.'
The recording appeared on the Mujahedin al-Ansar website which carries statements from al Qaeda leaders."
So Ayman al-Zawahiri, a "leader" of al-Qaeda with the key to the executive nuthouse to prove it, has recorded a message intended to enflame the Muslim world. Which is about as difficult to do as it is to find big hair at the Grand Ole Opry.
Now here's the bit that bothers me: "free and distingushied zealots for Islam." Free as in no longer strapped to a gurney? Or free as in lots of spare time given no marketable skills? And who's to decide what constitutes "distinguished?" Are we talking Twitter followers? "Likes" on Facebook? Technorati rating?
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"Lindsay Lohan! I love you! Call me! I'm on Linked In!!"
Perhaps there are zealots who are big deals in some countries and not in others. What if I'm a big shot in Yemen but in Malaysia, just try and get a table at a halfway decent restaurant ... ?
And how zealous do you have to be? Can I just be really, really annoyed? Do I have to throw a rock? Do I have to strap C4 to my torso and wipe out some people on a bus?
You see what I mean with these ads? You never know what it is they're really looking for until you go to the interview, waste half a day, and then, "Oh, sorry, but you have no hostage-taking experience."
But you couldn't spell that out in the original message? I had to get a babysitter... or I had to borrow my brother-in-law's car...
(sigh).... People.
Lara Logan on Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: "I Knew We Were Being Lied To" (Video)Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 13, 2012, 8:19 AMThis was a powerful speech by a committed war correspondent. Despite the misinformation from the Obama administration and Democrat-media complex, Logan is determined to get the truth out about Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Lara Logan's powerful speech:
Lara Logan 2012 BGA Annual Luncheon Keynote Speech
"Our way of life is under attack and if you think that's government propaganda, if you think that's nonsense, if you think that's warmongering, you're not listening to what the people who are fighting you say about this fight."
"In your arrogance, you think you write the script, but you don't. There's two sides and we don't dictate the terms. In fact after eleven years of war in Afghanistan, we're rushing for the exits as fast as we can, not only do we not dictate the terms, but we have less power to dictate anything on the world stage."
"Ambassador Ryan Crocker said, 'We've killed all the slow and stupid ones. The ones that are left are more committed and they didn't become any kinder or gentler in the last eleven years.'
"'Another thing he said. We think we've won the campaign and they haven't even begun to fight.'"
"If you fail to identify the ideological component to this fight, if you fail to identify what your enemy is really fighting for, if you lie about who they really are, I don't see how you can possibly have the right strategy."
"There's a narrative coming out of Washington, much of it driven by Pakistani lobbying money and by Taliban apologists. One of my favorite things to read about is how the Taliban today is so unlike the Taliban of 2001, they're a more moderate, gentler kinder Taliban who just can't wait to see women in the workplace occupying an equal role in society and great economic prosperity for all of Afghanistan and they don't really want to take us back 3,000 years into that terrible place I witnessed."
"And when I look at what's happening in Libya, this big song and dance, whether this was a terrorist attack or a protest, and you just want to scream for god's sake, are you kidding me, the last time we were attacked like this was the USS Cole which was a prelude to the 1998 embassy bombings which was a prelude to 9/11. And you're sending FBI to investigate. I hope you're sending in your best clandestine warriors who will go in to exact revenge and let the world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil, that its ambassadors will not be murdered and that the United States will not do nothing about it."
Campaign Poster of the Day
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Looking back at the history of diplomatic outreach to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union can be like looking at a Marx Brothers movie. It's a long comedy of errors, but there's no Groucho Marx waggling his eyebrows and toting a cigar to show us that the participants are in on the joke.
Like those long unfunny stretches involving Chamberlain promising peace in our time and FDR posing with Uncle Joe Stalin, our modern diplomatic outreach to Islamists is a comedy of horrible unfunny errors that lead to blood on the walls and not much else.
The February 17 Martyrs Brigade assigned to protect the Benghazi consulate, in lieu of the more provocative US Marines... who were pulled out in August by the Dept. of State... was actually run by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Now Diana West notes in her column that Ansar Al-Sharia, the Islamist militia that reportedly led the attack on the Benghazi consulate was a spinoff of Feb 17. http://townhall.com/columnists/dianawest/2012/10/12/administration_welcomed_wolves_into_the_sheepfold
Imagine, pre-9/11/12, that you were responsible for arranging the defense of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Would you have considered American interests and personnel best protected by bringing in a local security outfit called the February 17 Martyrs Brigade?...
Meanwhile, Ansar al Sharia ("Supporters of Islamic Law"), the al-Qaida-linked militia believed to have led the consulate assault in September, is a spinoff of the February 17 Martyrs Brigade.
The Islamist militia that Obama turned to in order to provide security to the Benghazi consulate was affiliated with the Islamist militia that would attack the consulate.
The thin red line between the moderate Islamists trying to enforce Islamic law with AK-47s and the Islamic extremists trying to enforce Islamic law with AK-47s proved to be both very thin and very red.
While Biden Laughed... GAS hit $6.45 a gal. ...
Orlando, Florida:
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While Biden smirked the new leadership of Egypt has called for a war against the Jews...
"Egypt's foremost Muslim Brotherhood official called on the Arab world Thursday to replace negotiations with Israel with "holy Jihad," claiming that if Jews are allowed to pray on the Temple Mount they will destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and supplant it with the third temple."
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/10/muslim-brotherhood-leader-calls-for.html
While Biden chuckled an American woman was kidnapped in Afghanistan...
October 12, 2012 - Report: Canadian Man & American Woman Kidnapped in Afghanistan
Via Montreal Gazette
A Canadian man and an American woman, both civilians, have reportedly been abducted by gunmen in Afghanistan.
Citing anonymous sources, a media report from that country indicated the pair was kidnapped while travelling from eastern Ghazni province to the [note...the sentence wasn't completed..ed]
Afghan government officials have not yet commented on the incident, said the report by Khaama Press
Pak Tribune is reporting:[i] A resident of the area said on condition of anonymity that the kidnap victims were an American woman and a Canadian man. They were seized by the Taliban between Shashgaw and Salar areas of Syedabad district on Wednesday. A Taliban commander in Syedabad, meanwhile, confirmed the abduction of the foreigners by the fighters. However, he refused to give details.[/i]
Only the Canadian media seem to be covering this. Will update when more info becomes available[/i]http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/213876.php
And who said this timeless phrase?:
"For too long in this society we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over the common community."
Why it was none other than Joe Biden.
"White House LIE of the MONTH":
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Obuma & Biden Were Never Aware Of Requests For More Libya Security!
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During the hearing on Benghazi this week, it was known several requests were made to at least keep the security they had and even more was needed. The requests were denied repeatedly.
Joe Biden, during the debate last night, denied there were security requests. He used the word "WE" never knew.
Why, especially leading up to the 9/11 anniversary, didn't they know and who is "WE"?
I call it Bull Sh!t!!!
Obuma skips Intel briefings, and 4 Americans died.
This video says it all:
This administration has always blamed everything that happens on someone, something else.They own this mess... period! Update: So, according to Jay Carney, Obama, Biden and the White House are not part of the administration?[/font][/size] Again..... More B.S.!
So this guy, this skydiver guy, free falls 24 miles to Earth pursuing gum that fell out of his mouth, huh? He jumped out of a capsule and fell 128,000 feet, breaking the speed of sound... only to land?
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(There is absolutely no reason to have a picture of
Scarlett Johansson attached to this post and so I
am very ashamed.)
Anyway... Felix Baumgartner reached an unofficial speed of 704 miles an hour as he plunged toward the Earth with nothing but a space suit, helmet and parachute, his support team said.
"He had hoped as he plunged to be the first person to break the sound barrier — which is 761 mph at sea level, but is slower as one goes higher above Earth — without the protection of a vehicle. However, his sponsor Red Bull said that it would await review and certification before saying whether he broke the speed of sound at any one point in his free-fall. (CNN said he did. I'm confused)http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/14/us/skydiver-record-attempt/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
"Mission Control, though, said during the jump that the skydiver did not "break the record for time elapsed" before pulling the parachute.
"Dubbed "Fearless Felix," the Austrian helicopter pilot and former soldier had parachuted from such landmarks as the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro."
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"Big freakin' deal... what a putz"
Yeah... I agree, Scarlett. Putz!... Idiot!
First of all, he fell out of a thing in the sky on purpose with a parachute for the television. Yeah, real storming the beaches of Normandy stuff. Try falling down a flight of basement stairs carrying a box of books and no one watching and having to employ survivalist tactics to survive 20 hellish minutes trapped without food or water.
Another thing: the speed of sound is measured by how long it takes for a kid to run home after hearing his mother yell, "Dinner!"
I still hold that record.
Wake me when somebody does something really daring, like give the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who has actually brought peace to some place somewhere..... z z z z z zzzzzzz.
....Warph
Time is only releavant to those living it in the present.
Peace takes time and patience.
Video capture is only but an egotistical "Look what I did, Mamma" dump in the toilet of offerings.
Good luck with the nominees in this word.
ready to check out....your thoughts
Quote from: readyaimduck on October 14, 2012, 05:11:01 PM
Time is only releavant to those living it in the present.
Peace takes time and patience.
Video capture is only but an egotistical "Look what I did, Mamma" dump in the toilet of offerings.
Good luck with the nominees in this word.
ready to check out....your thoughts
Time is only releavant to those living it in the present.
Not necessarily... imaginary time is indistinguishable from directions in space. If one can go north, one can turn around and head south; equally, if one can go forward in imaginary time, one ought to be able to turn around and go backward. This means that there can be no important difference between the forward and backward directions of imaginary time. On the other hand, when one looks at "real" time, there's a very big difference between the forward and backward directions, as we all know. Where does this difference between the past and the future come from? Why do we remember the past but not the future? For instances, disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases... like Obuma, who's living in the socialistic past. I think it was Albert E. that said in his later years that, "... the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously."
Peace takes time and patience.
I'm sorry but, there is no such thing as Peace. It is just a faux word. You can sign a peace treaty, make conditioned peace with friends, relatives and enemies, but trouble and strife will always remain until it raises its ugly head again. Now "piece," that is something else. A piece of moms apple pie... a piece of cake... a piece of... no, I won't go there.
Video capture is only but an egotistical "Look what I did, Mamma" dump in the toilet of offerings.
Wrong! A video, whether good or bad, happpy or sad, informative or dumb, is like a picture... worth a thousand printed words.
Good luck with the nominees in this word.
I take that to mean my nominees for the noble Nobel Prize. I'm pulling for number 7. Why? I think it is the greatest invention to come along since the Chevy Volt. I saw hundreds of them tonight watching the Green Bay- Houston game. One of these two men should receive the Prize for a very important invention for the uses in sports, political conventions, the bedroom.
Steve Chmelar --
Originally created by Steve Chmelar in 1971, who constructed a giant hand out of hardware cloth and paper mache for the 1971 Iowa High School Athletic Association Boy's State Basketball Finals. Ottumwa Bulldogs vs Davenport West Falcons. A senior in high school, Steve's photo was taken by the Associated Press and published in the Des Moines Tribune and the 1971 Ottumwa High School Class Yearbook, the "Argus" in Ottumwa, Iowa.
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Geral Fauss --
In 1978, a high school teacher named Geral Fauss invented the foam finger aka the "we are number one" foam hand, a highly successful and popular piece of sports merchandise. Geral Fauss taught industrial arts at the Cypress Fairbanks ISD in Cypress, Texas. The inventor had a love for design, technical illustration, drafting, and obviously sports.
In 1978, the football team at the high school where Geral Fauss taught had made it into the state finals. Fauss invented the foam finger to show support for the team, to raise funds for the industrial arts club, and as a project that his industrial arts class could produce themselves. The first prototype foam finger was actually made out of plywood and had a painting of a "number one" done in the school's colors. The success of the hand at his high school led Geral Fauss to venture into the sports merchandise business, by making hands to sell at the 1978 Cotton Bowl game (University of Texas Vs Notre Dame), and later by founding Spirit Industries for the large scale manufacturing of foam fingers. In 1979, the first polyurethane foam version of the product was produced by Spirit Industries.
I totally agree with the nice picuture of Scarlett.
Thanks, Warph.
Larryj
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Okay... here is something about ass stupid as when Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma (not quiet, but almost) won the Nobel. This year, the Nobel in Economics goes to two clowns who can help the single gals pick a husband. LOL... and they don't even work for eHarmony. Lloyd Shapley of UCLA and Alvin Roth of Stanford have been awarded the highest accolade that two numbers pushers could hope for, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, but officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, the guy who invented dynamite.
And what was the signal contribution that merited such an honor over and above all other worthy contenders? Something called "the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design."
Shoot me now.
But wait! There are actually real-world applications for this otherwise goofy collection of syllables:
Shapley and Gale show that the college admissions market is similar to the market for marriage, in which men propose to women, and each individual has views about the potential partners but those opinions don't perfectly match couples up in an obvious way. Assuming that all proposals come from men, Shapely and Gale showed that to obtain a stable result, one that cannot be improved upon by swapping, the women need to employ a process of "deferred acceptance."
What the hell does that mean, you ask?
At first, each man proposes to his favorite woman. Some women will have multiple suitors and some will have none. Rather than accept their favorite proposal, the women need to reject their nonfavorite proposals and just pocket the strongest one without accepting it. Then the rejects can make a second proposal, and if any women find themselves liking their new offer better than the previously pocketed one they can switch their hold. Repeat the process enough times, and, Shapley and Gale proved, the algorithm will lead to a stable match.
If they say so.... I guess.
Shapley and Gale's algorithm have other uses, of course: matching students with schools and patients with kidneys. Which is no small thing. So hurray for them.
But I hope to collect my own prize next year, once my paper "Hydraulic Macroeconomics and Buffer Theory in Calculating Precise al Dente Cooking Times" is published in a peer-reviewed journal. But given that I have no peers, that may prove difficult.
....Warph
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Never Count a Clinton Out
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2012/10/15/never_count_a_clinton_out
Oh, my, this is priceless. From Peru, Hillary Clinton has "taken responsibility" for Benghazi. No doubt, on its face, the act would seem to be a heroic effort to take the heat off the President and Vice President as the election nears. But with the Clintons, nothing is ever as it seems. Keep in mind that:
She did this the night before a real make-or-break debate for the President;
By doing it she made Obama and Biden look small and cowardly for seeking to throw her under the bus, thereby elevating her stature while diminishing theirs;
She did nothing to reduce the pressure on the President and Veep to take responsibility -- in fact, she increased it;
She ensured Libya and her move would be a major topic at the must-win debate for Obama tomorrow night (eliminating any possibility that extensive discussion of foreign affairs and Benghazi would be deferred for the foreign policy debate);
She raised the question -- which now may be put to Obama -- of whether she should be fired. If she is asked, of course she may answer demurely that she serves at the pleasure of the President. In any case, he is now hamstrung; if he answers "yes," she should be fired, he infuriates a lot of Dems -- and potentially a lot of women, but if he answers "no," he risks seeming insufficiently upset about what happened to the independents;
She makes the best of a bad situation for herself. Of course she is responsible for what happened -- at least she salvages some respect for her leadership by at least being willing to admit it (denying it wouldn't help her at all anyway in 2016 if she chooses to run).
Anyone who watched the Clintons throughout the '90's know that both of them are willing to evade accountability and responsibility to a virtually unbelievable degree if they perceive that doing so is to their political advantage. It wasn't that she was worn down. Hillary must have realized that by doing what she did, she at least takes some steps to salvage her own credibility -- while simultaneously heaving Obama and Biden under the bus they were aiming toward her.
Nicely played, no?
New Republican ad running in Ohio. The "Obama phone" lady has made her way into a new a Tea Party Victory Fund ad that will initially run in three Ohio counties. The pitch is written by the Fund's titular chairman Ken Blackwell, Ohio's former secretary of state and, important for the messaging here, a black man:"This is it-- this is the October surprise. We just need to get this ad on television today. Will you help us?
https://transaxt.com/Donate/6DHC8D/TeaPartyVictoryFund/
This commercial is a microcosm of the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans want to create an environment where free people make their own choices and pursue their dreams. President Obama and the Democrats want to create a dependency on Government that ensures that Americans will continue to rely on Washington from cradle to grave.
What this lady said is so offensive because it's so blatant--she finally comes out and says what we all know that the Democrats really think. That's why this ad is so damaging to the President here in Ohio.
Let me tell you something, I'm from Ohio -- I was elected statewide as the Secretary of State, and Ohio State Treasurer--this ad is effective. If swing voters in this state see this ad, they simply will not support President Obama, and he will lose Ohio."The Ad:
If you want an "Obama Phone" check this out:"Please foward this video to all your contacts.
This is the email I received bringing this to my attention and I just had to make a call and do a video.
____________________________
EMAIL:
I had a former employee call me earlier today inquiring about a job, and at the end of the conversation he gave me his phone number.
I asked the former employee if this was a new cell phone number and he told me yes this was his Obama phone.
I asked him what an Obama phone was and he went on to say that welfare recipients are now eligible to receive
I was a little skeptical so I Googled it and low and behold he was telling the truth. TAX PAYER MONEY IS BEING REDISTRIBUTED TO WELFARE RECIPIENTS FOR FREE CELL PHONES.
https://www.safelinkwireless.com/EnrollmentPublic/home.aspx
Phone Numbers:
For Enrollment Support: 1-800-977-3768
For Technical Support: 1-800-378-1684
Correspondence:
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Or by Email by visiting us here.
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Obuma's Debate Prep II:
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Don't make a Biden Mistake:
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Stay away from a Benghazi & Middle East Questions
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Go with these Answers:
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Do All of these Things, You Should Come in A Solid Second:
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The new F-35A CTOL coming to Luke Air Force Base
(we hope, summer of 2015)
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Candy Crowley admitted she was wrong and Romney was right about Obuma admitting that Benghazi was a "Act of Terror on CNN after the debate. I watched the tape Of Obuma on Sept. 12th in the Rose Garden... you should as well. You will see that he said "No acts of terror" in the context of past Terror episodes (9/11/2001) and not in the context, at all, of saying that the Benghazi attack was an act of terror by a terrorist organization like he admitted in the debate. Romney was dead-on in trying to explain this before he was rudely interrupted by Crowley and Obuma.
Moreover, if Obuma's comment had been right, it probably would be worse for him, as he would have no excuse whatsoever for going to Las Vegas and Colorado before returning to the WH.
Bottom line... because of Obuma's prevarication, and Crowley's unfortunate, and uninformed, intervention in the debate on behalf of Obuma... Libya will overshadow the other debate issues, and be the topic of conversation this week. Obuma can ill afford that outcome since he is running behind.
The Video: Look at 4:16 seconds of the tape. Also... check out the full transcript of the debate on Fox:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/16/transcript-second-presidential-debate/
....and the full video on the debate:
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It is amazing to me how you liberals suck up the lies Obuma & Biden spew out of their filthy mouths. They haven't a leg to stand on, so they lie. And you liberals eat it up.... chomp... chomp!
Romney, again, won the debate even tho' Obuma had Crowley on his side helping him along the way.
And the key reasons for the Romney win was substantive:
1. Romney made very clear the case against Obuma's economic record and Obuma's rebuttal about 5 million jobs was pathetic.
2. Romney injected the China issue, big time, and tapped into a strong public sentiment on the issue.
3. Romney made the effective case that Obama is anti-oil, coal, and gas and that this has doubled gas prices.
4. Romney was very effective in differentiating himself from Bush-43 and in establishing that, unlike the GOP of the past, he was for small businesses not big businesses.
5. Romney rebutted the attacks on him over Chinese investments. Obama didn't want to talk about his chinese investments.
6. Romney explained his tax plan well and to everyone's satisfaction. Obama blew his tax plan... again.
7. Obama lied in trying to make us believe that he always felt Libya was a terror attack when in fact we all heard him blame the movie. It took him 14 days before he admitted it was a terror attack.
Obama scored points over the 47% statement by Romney, immigration, and by his response to the accusation that he went to Vegas after the murder of the Ambassador.
But this debate goes to Romney. It seals his momentum and will lead to a big win.
Your thoughts, Liberals.... anyone?
Warph, ,
I damn sure aint a liberal---you will have to wait until some "moderates " and "those from the center" to answer you but I do have some thoughts on last nights debate. Unlike the first debate Obummer seemed to have answers to the questions right away---that is not a characteristic of him unless he knows what the question is going to be. For them to say he did not know what questions were going to be asked is absolute hog wash--IMO. When Romney would ask him a question that he hadn't rehearsed the answer, he sit there like a nimrod---just like the first debate. When ol Candy had to answer for him about the "terror attacks", tell me that wasn't prearranged ? Then it turns out to be a big fat lie. Wonder who will be the moderator of the next debate---Joy Behar ? Maybe Gap Tooth Letterman ?
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Quote from: jarhead on October 17, 2012, 04:06:09 PM
I damn sure aint a liberal---
You're not? Well heck! Now I gotta return your Christmas gift and get you sumthin different. :-\
Give it a shot... no need to tell y'all how mine turned out.
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Warph,
WHAT ! I did this thing and it has George Wallace winning !! OK that a fibber---mine showed Romney wining by a land slide---I hope I'm right.
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WOW.... Mexico doesn't want their own people back!
Three cheers for Arizona!
The shoe is on the other foot and the Mexicans from the State of Sonora, Mexico do not like it. Can you believe the nerve of these people? It's almost funny. The State of Sonora is angry at the influx of Mexicans into Mexico !!!
Nine state legislators from the Mexican State of Sonora traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizona's new employer crackdown on illegals from Mexico. It seems that many Mexican illegals are returning to their hometowns and the officials in the Sonora state government are ticked off. A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to state that Arizona's new 'Employer Sanctions Law' will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state. At a news conference, the legislators said that Sonora, Arizona's southern neighbor... made up of mostly small towns... can not handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools that it will face as Mexican workers return to their hometowns from the USA without jobs or money.
The Arizona law, punishes Arizona employers who knowingly hire individuals without valid legal documents to work in the United States. Penalties include suspension of, or loss of, their business license. The Mexican legislators are angry because their own citizens are returning to their hometowns, placing a burden on THEIR state government.
'How can Arizona pass a law like this?' asked Mexican Rep Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales. 'There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona,' she said, speaking in Spanish. 'Mexico is not prepared for this, for the tremendous problems it will face as more and more Mexicans working in Arizona and who were sending money to their families return to their hometowns in Sonora without jobs,' she said 'We are one family, socially and economically,' she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona.
Wrong! The United States is a sovereign nation, not a subsidiary of Mexico, and its taxpayers are not responsible for the welfare of Mexico's citizens. It's time for the Mexican government, and its citizens, to stop feeding parasitically off the United States and to start taking care of its/their own needs.
Too bad that other states within the USA don't pass a law just like that passed by Arizona. Maybe that's the answer, since our own Congress will do nothing!
***New Immigration Laws:
1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.
2. All ballots will be in this nation's language.
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office.
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs. Any burden will be deported.
7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. If foreigners come here and buy land... options will be restricted. Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.
9. Foreigners may have NO protests; NO demonstrations, NO waving of a foreign flag, no political organizing, NO bad-mouthing our president or his policies. These will lead to deportation.
10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted and, when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged. All assets will be taken from you.
Too strict? ***The above laws are current immigration laws of MEXICO !***
Quote from: jarhead on October 17, 2012, 07:25:38 PM
Warph,
WHAT ! I did this thing and it has George Wallace winning !! OK that a fibber---mine showed Romney wining by a land slide---I hope I'm right.
You're right on, Jar... and if anyone gives you any lip about it, you can always quote them that famous Marine comeback: Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
Then watch them head for the hills.
But Warph,I have no catapult or big ass rocks . Will a beeny flipper and small pebbles do the trick ? All this sounds cruel but not as cruel as someone telling me to "pound dirt up my butt ". This is my first day out of my bunker since I was told to do that dastardly deed---and then ,only after I built a chastity belt and wearing it backwards !!!
Quote from: jarhead on October 18, 2012, 08:12:51 AM
---and then ,only after I built a chastity belt and wearing it backwards !!!
Now that visual is almost as scary as Obummer getting reelected and the dems holding the Senate.... not quite, but almost. :o
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almost as scary as Obummer getting reelected and the dems holding the Senate
Well crap, just got brave enough to come out of my bunker, then you say something that sends me scurrying right back into it !!!
Quote from: jarhead on October 18, 2012, 10:25:26 AM
Well crap, just got brave enough to come out of my bunker, then you say something that sends me scurrying right back into it !!!
Bawk! Bawk! C'mon... fight the good fight. We need your smiling (even if toofless) face in the battle. Besides, you don't wanna completely deplete you bunker Budweiser supply.
The Christian world is reeling from the discovery of an ancient document
suggesting that Jesus was married. And by "reeling from" I mean "not in
the slightest bit affected by." Here's why:
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IN FOCUS: USAF Targets Long-Range Strike Bomber By: Dave Majumdar Washington DC 12:00 15 Oct 2012 Source: Flight InternationalThe US Air Force is developing a new stealth bomber to counter growing anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) challenges around the world - but the programme faces enormous challenges in the face of declining US defence outlays. The Long Range Strike-Bomber (LRS-B) is part of a so-called "family of systems" being designed to ensure US forces can hold any point on Earth that may be at risk from aerial attack. The Long Range Strike family of systems - particularly the new bomber - is the centrepiece of the Pentagon's emerging "AirSea Battle" construct.
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On 17 February, US secretary of defense Leon Panetta told a mainly air force audience at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana that maintaining the USA's bomber fleet was "extremely important" as was "putting money into developing a new bomber - so we're going to do both of those". "We're going to maintain this bomber fleet. We're going to keep it in place. We need it for forward projection. We need it for power projection in the Pacific; we need it for power projection in the Middle East," he added.
The LRS-B project is considered so important to future US military strategy in the Western Pacific and Middle East that the programme is proceeding despite a $487 billion reduction in the Pentagon's budget covering the next 10 years.
F-35 Lighting II
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F-35 Lighting II (JSF) is a extremely advanced 5th generation Stealth Strike Fighter of the near future.it is expected to be in service by 2015.it come in three variants : F-35A (USAF) , F-35B VSTOVL (USMC) & F-35C (USN)....
Matthews belongs in the loony bin along with Biden, DWS, Pelosi and a whole slew of those other idiots in DC.
MSNBC's Matthews claims it's unconstitutional for Romney to challenge Obama
By Bradley Blakeman
Published October 19, 2012
This week, MSNBC "star" Chris Matthews made the following statement, clearly speaking out of frustration as he watched President Obama wilt under the scrutiny of the second presidential debates where he was challenged repeatedly by Republican Mitt Romney.
"I don't think he understands the Constitution of the United States...He's the president of the United States. You don't say, 'you'll get your chance.'"
Chris Matthews was angry with Romney challenging the president on his record during the course of an election to unseat him.
Imagine that.
Matthews should be angry about the president's poor performance not with Romney's tenaciousness in seeking the truth.
But here's the truth, that Matthews hasn't seemed to have learned: the respect you give is the respect you get. If the president wants respect than he better stop acting like a potentate and more like a president of the United States. Romney gave the president the respect he deserved at the debates and during the course of the election.
You would think Matthews would know what is in the Constitution and what is not.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it set forth that a president of the United States is above the people and cannot and should not be challenged. Is that not what a presidential election is all about – challenging an incumbent president on his record?
The Founding Fathers specifically limited the powers of the president and did not exempt a president from abiding by the laws of the land in the same manner and to the same extent as the average citizen.
America was founded because of our dissatisfaction with a monarchy run by kings and queens who were above the people. The problem is that Matthews thinks that not only he is above the people but President Obama should be as well.
The president of the United States in the Oath of Office swears to the following:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Prior to the debates mainstream media bigs could craft the coverage of the race as they saw it and in the manner they wanted to communicate it. The problem for them now is that they cannot tell the people what to think when they watched the debates themselves in real time and formed opinions without the need for explanation or editorializing. Their "power" over the people has been marginalized and the liberal media can't stand it.
I have news for Matthews: there is no greater responsibility a president has than to preserve, protect and defend the Constitutional protection of a citizens' freedom of speech -- presidents are neither immune from it nor protected from it.
I suggest that someone needs to stuff Chris Matthews' 2012 Christmas stocking with a copy of the US Constitution.
Quote from: jarhead on October 20, 2012, 09:16:08 AM
Matthews belongs in the loony bin along with Biden, DWS, Pelosi and a whole slew of those other idiots in DC.
MSNBC's Matthews claims it's unconstitutional for Romney to challenge Obama
Right... the guy reminds me of a mean school yard bully. He's MSLSDs biggest lush but keeps making those trips to the bank.Ah, yes... Remember when?
Funniest clips of the famous SNL President Debates. Focused mainly on the best of them all, the Bush vs. Gore debates with Dana
Carvey filling in as George Bush Sr. Cannot forget the 'Maverick' either!
What politics is all about.
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Help You Don't Need:
"Governor Romney's argument is, 'We're not fixed, so fire him and put me in.' It is true we're not fixed. When President Obama looked into the eyes of that man who said in the debate, 'I had so much hope four years ago and I don't now,' I thought he was going to cry. Because he knows that it's not fixed." --Bill Clinton campaigning for Obama -- Or is he? ???
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On Cross-Examination:
Candy Crowley displayed blatant bias Tuesday, both in the selection of questions from left field and the outrageous and inaccurate "fact-checking" of Mitt Romney mid-debate. But that was hardly surprising from a Leftmedia talkinghead who described Romney's choice of running mate Paul Ryan as "some sort of ticket death wish" because of Ryan's efforts to reform the entitlement programs of Medicare and Social Security before they bury our nation in debt.
Crowley helped Obama secure a narrow "win" on style points in CNN's post-debate poll asking, "Who won the debate?" But digging deeper in the same poll -- on questions of substance -- we discover that when asked who would better handle the economy (58-40), health care (49-46), taxes (51-44) and the deficit (59-36), Romney won handily. Of course, the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day.
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I am convinced that this year, Christmas will fall on November 6th when Santa Claus, recognizing who's been naughty and who's been nice, will do the right thing and fill our Christmas stocking with Mitt Romney and a Republican Senate.
The part I don't get is why politicians who have been voted out of office in early November are then allowed to hang around until the third week of January, creating all sorts of mischief. What takes them so long to pack up and clear out? If you're fired from a job in the real world, you're expected to leave the premises and not let the door hit you in the ass. That being the case, why is a politician allowed 75 days to clean out his desk and hand over the keys? I mean, if we really wanted the stiff to keep voting, we wouldn't have elected the other guy.
Speaking of other guys, back in 2006, someone who seemed to have his head screwed on right said, "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
Who would have ever guessed that Senator Obuma would ever wind up being a speechwriter for Mitt Romney?
When it comes to currency manipulation, I have tried to figure out why it's so terrible when China does it, but not equally despicable when Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve engage in it in order to help finance Obuma's profligate ways.
Left-wingers are always nattering on about separation of church and state, pretending that they're quoting verbatim from the Constitution, but they're never the least bit concerned about the actual gulf that exists between socialist policies and the Constitution.
Liberals are like those little toys that, once wound up by the media, their professors or political hacks like Harry Ried, Dick Durbin and Al Franken, will shuffle off until they bump up against a wall of reality and logic. Because they can't get through the obstruction and because they refuse to learn from the experience, they just keep butting their tiny heads against the wall until they wind down and topple over.
It is for that reason that even after four years of the worst administration in America's history, they continue to rally around an arrogant, incompetent, flop like Obuma. Who else but Obuma would go on "The View" and actually refer to himself as "eye candy?" :P Who else but Obuma would kill an annoying fly during a TV interview and boast, "That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker." ::)
On the other hand, all things considered, bringing down the pesky insect was a lot more impressive than hogging all the glory after the Navy Seals risked their lives taking out Osama bin Laden. :D
I, along with most normal people, thought it was pretty creepy when Chris Matthews confessed, after listening to an Obuma speech, that he had felt a thrill running up his leg. Nov. 6th, that thrill running up Matthews leg will be running down both legs and the color will be brown.
Not to be outdone, left-wing columnist David Brooks once reminisced, "I remember distinctly sitting on Obuma's couch, looking at his pant leg and its perfect crease, and thinking he's going to be president and, moreover, he'll be a very good president."
I wonder what it could possibly be about Barack Obuma that leads left-wing pundits to channel their inner Barney Frank.
Finally, as much as I enjoyed the old-fashioned walloping that Romney gave Obuma during the Denver debate, I got a lot more laughs out of guys like David Axelrod and Al Gore trying to explain it all away as if it had merely been a bad dream. The biggest kick of all was hearing Gore insist that the reason Obuma appeared to be in a coma was because he had arrived in the Mile High City mere hours before the event.
Apparently, Gore was under the impression that Obama had walked the entire way.
I suppose at the very least we should all be grateful that for the first time ever, the big clown refrained from blaming a natural disaster on global warming.
A Secret Service agent was found passed out drunk while doing advance work in Miami for the president's trip. It's too much security. You do not have to drink a beer from every keg in the city just to make sure that the one the president gets is not poisoned.
Lance Armstrong was cited in a thousand page report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Friday. The report said Lance masked the most sophisticated doping program in the history of sports. Bud Selig was gracious when he was informed the record is no longer his.
The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency released tons of evidence to show Lance Armstrong used steroids. They got Steven Spielberg to admit he didn't use special effects in E.T., he used a double. That was Lance Armstrong riding his bicycle across the sky at the age of forty.
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Space Shuttle Endeavor was towed from the Los Angeles airport to the California Science Museum. It survived one hundred and thirty million miles in outer space. However, after just fifteen minutes in Los Angeles, someone opened a car door and put a dent in the side panel.
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner waved to Internet viewers Sunday before leaping out of a rocket plane in the stratosphere. The world watched in awe. He free-fell to earth from over one hundred thousand feet, setting a new world record previously held by Facebook stock.
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President Obama crammed for Tuesday night's debate at a vacation resort in Virginia in preparation for his battle with Mitt Romney. They clearly don't like each other. The president really got testy when Mitt Romney claimed that a YouTube video killed Big Bird.
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Mitt Romney met Billy Graham in North Carolina and asked Rev. Graham to pray for him. He needs it. Earlier that day the White House took away Mitt Romney's Secret Service detail and replaced them with embassy security from the State Department.
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Argo starring Ben Affleck is a true story of a U.S. spy posing as a movie producer in Iran during the revolution. He rescued six U.S. hostages. It's such a crowd pleaser that President Obama just blamed the next three U.S. embassy attacks on the movie.
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Saudi Arabia condemned last month's terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya after it was confirmed by the State Department to Congress Wednesday. It's appreciated. As we all know, Saudi Arabia condemns all acts of terrorism except the ones they sponsor.
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The Supreme Court agreed to rule on Arizona requiring voters to show a photo ID at polls. They also have a test question. They ask you who won the Battle of the Alamo, and if you say they did, they hand you a ballot and if you say we did, they call Homeland Security.
Democrats planned a Million Big Bird March to support taxpayer funding for Sesame Street and Big Bird. The bird signifies cheer, kindness and brotherhood. About the only nice thing that Democrats won't say about Big Bird is how many poor people he could feed.
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Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was probed for using campaign donations to decorate his house. He was just treated at the Mayo Clinic for bi-polar disorder and was reportedly seen drinking at a bar in Washington D.C. Rod Blagojevich deserves to have some time knocked off his sentence for not appointing him to Barack Obama's Senate seat.
The Wall Street Journal reports that more and more Americans are moving overseas to look for career and business opportunity. Thousands are fleeing abroad. Now people in other countries will know what it's like to lose their American jobs to a foreigner.
Barney Frank Retires for Dream Job at TSA
Barney Frank in action at TSA:
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Liberal activist describes her "get out the vote" initiative.
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This Is Mind Blowing!
Mitt Romney Jokes and One Liners at Al Smith
dinner with President Barack Obama
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If I Were Moderator of Tonight's Debate - My Questions:
President Obama:
1. What did five say to six? (Assumes familiarity with numbers in sequence.)
2. If you could be anything other than a really bad president, what would you suck at?
3. Why is the Near East closer to the Far East than the Middle East is, which should be in the middle?
4. If you were a Muslim, how many wives would you embarrass?
5. What is the optimal number of dead Americans?
6. If you apologized for repeatedly apologizing, would that make you really sorry?
7. Who can bench press more, Paul Ryan or Vice President Biden's ego?
Governor Romney:
1. If you spin around real fast, how many positions can you hold simultaneously?
2. Would you abort Obamacare or put portions up for adoption?
3. How many women does a binder hold? And are your binders made in China? Will your Cabinet consist of formerly bound women?
4. If you were a Mormon, how many wives would you embarrass?
5. If elected, do you promise to eventually think up a budget plan?
6. If you lose the popular vote but win the electoral, will you reconsider your college-loan stance? Assuming you have one?
7. As governor of Massachusetts, you stated flatly that you would close plants that did not meet environmental standards, even if it meant losing jobs, and that taxes should be used to promote energy conservation. If you could go back in time and had only one bullet, who would you shoot: Hitler or your former self?
The following guide will translate commonly
used terms by democrats and the rest of the
left wing media into real life meanings that
we can all understand:
Democrat Term <> Real Life Meaning
Arsenal of Weapons <> Gun Collection
Delicate Wetlands <> Swamp
Undocumented Worker <> Illegal Alien
Cruelty-Free Materials <> Synthetic Fiber
Assault and Battery <> Attitude Adjustment
Heavily Armed <> Well-protected
Narrow-minded <> Righteous
Taxes or Your Fair Share <> Coerced Theft
Commonsense Gun Control <> Gun Confiscation Plot
Illegal Hazardous Explosives <> Fireworks or Stump Removal
Non-viable Tissue Mass <> Live Unborn Baby
Equal Access to Opportunity <> Socialism
Multicultural Community <> High Crime Area
Fairness or Social Progress <> Marxism
Upper Class or "The Rich" <> Self-Employed
Progressive, Change <> Communism
Homeless or Disadvantaged <> Bums or Welfare & Leeches
Sniper Rifle <> Deer Rifle with scope
Investment For the Future <> Higher Taxes
Healthcare Reform <> Socialized Medicine
Extremist, Judgmental, or Hater <> Conservative
Truancy <> Homeschooled
Victim or Oppressed <> Criminal or Lazy Good-For-Nothing
High Capacity Magazine <> Standard Capacity Magazine
Religious Zealot <> Attends Church
Fair Trade Coffee <> Overpriced Yuppie Coffee
Exploiters or "The Rich" <> Employed or Land Owner
The Gun Lobby <> NRA Members
Assault Weapon <> Semi-Automatic handgun
Fiscal Stimulus <> New and Higher Taxes
Same Sex Marriage <> Legalized Perversion
Mandated Eco-Friendly Lighting <> Chinese Mercury-Laden Light Bulbs
Accepted Fact <> Leftist Media Lie
Middle Class <> Victims of Socialism
Tax Cuts for the Rich <> Real Economic Stimulus[/b]
Karl Rove on Obama's performance:
Rove: A couple points we had sort of Louis XIV moments by President Obama.
Obama: "I said when I would take the shot, I'd take the shot."
Rove: Well, wait a minute Mr. President, you didn't take the shot, the SEALs took the shot at Osama Bin Laden. And, then at another point he said,
"The nation, Me..." and then proceeded to describe what the nation wanted to do. And, I thought it was a little unusual because again it came across as just a little pompous at times –
Louis XIV masquerading as president[/font][/size][/b].
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Anonymous Releases Video – Promises
Bomb Attack in US on November 5thPosted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, October 23, 2012, 3:30 PMHere's the transcript:
Dear citizens of the world,
We are anonymous. As of today 200 kilograms of composite Nitroglycerin and commercial explosives have effectively been concealed in a government building, situated in the united states of America. on the 5th of November 2012 the device will detonate remotely via the transmission control protocol, leaving behind severe consiquences. We would like to advise that the contraption is built inside a tamper proof apparatus sensitive to physical intrusions or attempted disarmament, thus resulting in the desired effect, if the military grade device is found before the 5th of November. there is no intention, risks or circumstances what so ever to cause harm to innocent people, but we can not, say the same for the people who are the real terrorists, oppressors and war creators.
we are anonymous
we are legion
we do not forget
we do not forgive
on the 5th of November, you will expect us.
Let's hope the FBI nails these goofballs for their terror threats. You don't think it's the WH that is doing this, do you?////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Response to @FawkesSecurity Threat:Greetings from....
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This message is to the media:
Earlier tonight, the Twitter account @FawkesSecurity posted a link to a pastebin and a YouTube video that stated the following:
"As of today 200 kilograms of composite Nitroglycerin and commercial explosives have effectively been concealed in a government building"
Let us be perfectly clear: Anonymous is not a terrorist organization. Anonymous does not use bombs. Anonymous does not condone violence in any way. Anonymous supports justice and universal equal rights. We support peaceful protest.
At this time, we are not sure whether or not @FawkesSecurity is trying to troll, or if he's trying to discredit the name of Anonymous in the eyes of the world. Maybe @FawkesSecurity's twitter and YouTube account was hacked. Perhaps this is the FBI's way of trying to label Anonymous as terrorists so they can begin using the NDAA against us.
Either way, f__k whoever posted that threat.
We are Anonymous
We are legion
We do not forget
We do not forgive
Expect us
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A Nice Graphic About the U.S. Criminal Injustice System
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For those of you who have never traveled to the west, or southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.
A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado . Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the cattle guards immediately!!
Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten him out, Vice-President, Joe Biden, intervened with a request that.. before any cattle guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.
And these two clowns are running our country!!
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Obama's College Classmate: 'The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia'
Greg Hengler
Blogger, Townhall.com
Normally I don't give a rip about the "I know something you don't know about Obama" story, but this one is absolutely fascinating. Wayne Root over at the Blaze penned this beauty. Here's a how he concludes:
Why are the college records, of a 51-year-old President of the United States, so important to keep secret? I think I know the answer.
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama%E2%80%99s-college-classmate-the-obama-scandal-is-at-columbia/
If anyone should have questions about Obama's record at Columbia University, it's me. We both graduated (according to Obama) Columbia University, Class of '83. We were both (according to Obama) Pre-Law and Political Science majors. And I thought I knew most everyone at Columbia. I certainly thought I'd heard of all of my fellow Political Science majors. But not Obama (or as he was known then- Barry Soetoro). I never met him. Never saw him. Never even heard of him. And none of the classmates that I knew at Columbia has ever met him, saw him, or heard of him.
But don't take my word for it. The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News randomly called 400 of our Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122108881386721289.html
Now all of this mystery could be easily and instantly dismissed if Obama released his Columbia transcripts to the media. But even after serving as President for 3 1/2 years he refuses to unseal his college records. Shouldn't the media be as relentless in pursuit of Obama's records as Romney's? Shouldn't they be digging into Obama's past–beyond what he has written about himself–with the same boundless enthusiasm as Mitt's?
The first question I'd ask is, if you had great grades, why would you seal your records? So let's assume Obama got poor grades. Why not release the records? He's President of the free world, for gosh sakes. He's commander-in-chief of the U.S. military. Who'd care about some poor grades from three decades ago, right? So then what's the problem? Doesn't that make the media suspicious? Something doesn't add up.
Secondly, if he had poor grades at Occidental, how did he get admitted to an Ivy League university in the first place? And if his grades at Columbia were awful, how'd he ever get into Harvard Law School? So again those grades must have been great, right? So why spend millions to keep them sealed?
Third, how did Obama pay for all these fancy schools without coming from a wealthy background? If he had student loans or scholarships, would he not have to maintain good grades?
I can only think of one answer that would explain this mystery.
Here's my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he ever change his citizenship back? I'm betting not.
If you could unseal Obama's Columbia University records I believe you'd find that:
A) He rarely ever attended class.
B) His grades were not those typical of what we understand it takes to get into Harvard Law School.
C) He attended Columbia as a foreign exchange student.
D) He paid little for either undergraduate college or Harvard Law School because of foreign aid and scholarships given to a poor foreign students like this kid Barry Soetoro from Indonesia.
If you think I'm "fishing" then prove me wrong. Open up your records Mr. President. What are you afraid of?
If it's okay for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to go on a fishing expedition about Romney's taxes (even though he knows absolutely nothing about them nor will release his own), then I think I can do the same thing. But as Obama's Columbia Class of '83 classmate, at least I have more standing to make educated guesses.
It's time for Mitt to go on the attack and call Obama's bluff.
Had there been ANYONE in the "press" who looked objectively at Obuma's past, he never would have made it to the election in 2008. I've seen terrorists whose information is more available than this nitwit's.
The "media" has been a complete failure in protecting any sort of honesty or truth going as far back as Walter Cronkite... who decided the war in Vietnam was lost in spite of the FACT that we won it, hands down. The likes of Chris Matthews and his buds are too busy humping Obama's leg to figure it out.
Obuma belongs in jail, not in office... but he has one incredible ally... the idiotic electorate. Most new voters thought it would be "cool" to have a black president... no matter that he had not a single accomplishment or qualification to even run for the office, let alone win. These uninformed fools have inflicted this bum upon us, and will likely try to do it again this November.
This despicable clown is not only not doing his job, he has no earthly idea what his job IS. Not a clue!
Truthly, I was in shock when Obuma was elected! With his experience no company would hire him as a supervisor, much less a CEO; no college or university would hire him as Department chair, much less Dean; and NO city, town or village would hire him as city manager! Why in the name of heaven would we elect him to be the leader of the free world. He had been a rabble rouser demagogue while in college, community organizer, state senator (many votes of "present") and a inferior Senator for close to 150 days. What was he prepared to do? Nothing... Zero... Ziltch!
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Folks.... for G-d's sake, figure it out... and deselect this phony from office in November... or else he will undoubtedly appoint more fat, ugly warts like these last two Supremes, and we will be in serious trouble for the next two generations.
....Warph
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Where do you stand? Select the set of candidates, then answer the 20 questions,
and you'll get compared to those candidates:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Quiz/Quiz2012.asp?quiz=Pres2012
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The Real Reason Behind Benghazigate?
By Frank Gaffney
10/25/2012
President Obama's once-seemingly-unstoppable march towards reelection hit what he might call "bumps in the road" in Benghazi, Libya late on September 11, 2012. It might be more accurate to describe the effect of the well-planned and -executed, military-style attack on a diplomatic facility there as the political equivalent of a devastating improvised explosive device on the myth of the unassailability of the Obama record as Commander-in-Chief.
Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting - notably by Bret Baier and Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Claire Lopez at RadicalIslam.org - and information developed by congressional investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now known as "Benghazigate."
The evidence suggests that the Obama administration has not simply been engaging, legitimating, enriching and emboldening Islamists who have now taken over or are ascendant in much of the Middle East. Starting in March 2011, when American diplomat Christopher Stevens was designated the liaison to the "opposition" in Libya, the Obama administration has been arming them, including jihadists like Abdelhakim Belhadj, the leader of the al Qaeda franchise known as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.
Once Qaddafi was overthrown, Chris Stevens was appointed as the ambassador to the new Libya run by Belhadj and his friends. Not surprisingly, one of the most important priorities for someone in that position would be to try to find and secure the immense amounts of armaments that had been cached by the dictator around the country and systematically looted during and after the revolution.
One of the places in Libya most awash with such weapons in the most dangerous of hands is Benghazi. It now appears that Amb. Stevens was there - on a particularly risky day, with no security to speak of and despite now-copiously-documented concerns about his own safety and that of his subordinates - for another priority mission: sending arms recovered from the former regime's stocks to the "opposition" in Syria. As in Libya, the insurgents are known to include al Qaeda and other shariah-supremacist groups, including none other than Abdelhakim Belhadj.
Fox News has chronicled (http://video.foxnews.com/v/1913235018001/) how the Al Entisar, a Libyan-flagged vessel carrying 400 tons of cargo, docked on September 6th in the Turkish port of Iskenderun. It reportedly supplied both humanitarian assistance and arms - including deadly SA-7 man-portable surface-to-air missiles - apparently destined for Islamists, again including al Qaeda elements, in Syria.
What cries out for further investigation - and debate in the remaining days of this presidential election - is whether this shipment was part of a larger covert Obama effort to transfer weapons to our enemies that could make the Iran-Contra scandal, to say nothing of Operation Fast and Furious, pale by comparison?
Investigative journalist Aaron Klein has reported (http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/this-is-what-benghazi-consulate-really-was/) that the "consulate in Benghazi" actually was no such thing. He observes that, while administration officials have done nothing to correct that oft-repeated characterization of the facility where the murderous attack on Amb. Stevens and his colleagues was launched, instead they call it a "mission." And what Klein describes as a "shabby, nondescript building" which lacked any "major public security presence" was, according to an unnamed Middle Eastern security official, "routinely used by Stevens and others to coordinate with the Turkish, Saudi and Qatari governments on supporting the insurgencies in the Middle East, most prominently the rebels opposing Assad's regime in Syria."
We know that Stevens' last official act was to hold such a meeting with an unidentified "Turkish diplomat." Presumably, the conversation involved additional arms shipments to al Qaeda and its allies in Syria. But it may also have involved getting more jihadi fighters there. After all, Klein reported last month (http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/sources-slain-u-s-ambassador-recruited-jihadists/) that, according to sources in Egyptian security, our ambassador was playing a "central role in recruiting jihadists to fight Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria."
It gets worse. Last week, Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow and former career CIA officer Clare Lopez observed (http://www.radicalislam.org/analysis/arms-flow-syria-may-be-behind-beghazi-cover) that there were two large warehouse-type buildings associated with the so-called "consulate" whose purpose has yet to be disclosed. As their contents were raided in the course of the attack, we may never know for sure whether they housed - and were known by the local jihadis to house - arms, perhaps administered by the two former SEALS killed along with Amb. Stevens.
What we do know is that the New York Times - one of the most slavishly pro-Obama publications in the country - reported on October 14, 2012 article that, "Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad are going to hard-line Islamic jihadists, and not the more secular opposition groups that the West wants to bolster."
In short, it seems President Obama has been engaged in gun-walking on a massive scale. The effect has been to equip America's enemies to wage jihad not only against regimes it once claimed were our friends, but inevitably against us and our allies, as well. That would explain his administration's desperate, and now-failing, bid to mislead the voters through the serial deflections of Benghazigate.
Obama bites the hand that feeds him
Former President Clinton has been working overtime to drag Barack Obama across the finish line in this year's election. Clinton has been hands-down President Obama's most effective advocate. His personal credibility may not be substantial, but unlike Obama, Clinton produced a non-disastrous presidency. Thus, his overall credibility vastly exceeds that of the current president.
So how is Obama awarding Clinton for his heavy lifting? By throwing Clinton's wife under the Benghazi bus, it appears.
On Friday, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that responsibility for the consulate in Libya fell on the State Department, not the White House.
This followed Joe Biden's (LIE) claim during the Thursday debate that "we" (apparently meaning Biden and Obama) knew nothing about the Libya mission's request to the State Department for extra security.
To save his political career, Obama would throw his own grandmother under the bus she supposedly rode to her job at the bank everyday because his grandfather thought it would be racist to give her a ride. And Biden's 2016 presidential ambitions (no, I'm not joking) provide him with an extra incentive to see Hillary Clinton become the fall-gal for Benghazi.
How is Bill Clinton taking this? According to author Ed Klein, he is not taking it lying down. Klein says that sources close to the Clinton are telling him that Bill Clinton has assembled an informal legal team to discuss how the Secretary of State should deal with the issue of being blamed for not preventing the Benghazi terrorist attack last month.
Bill Clinton is furious.
Klein says that the Clintons are contemplating the option of Hillary resigning in the event Obama continues to make her the scapegoat. But this would be a very risky play. If she resigned before the election, Democrats would never forgive her for undermining Obama's reelection chances in a fit of pique. If she resigned after the election, assuming an Obama victory, the president probably would happily accept it, and she would be out in the cold. That might not be a terrible place to be considering what a second Obama term likely would hold in store. However, Hillary would be leaving under a cloud.
Hillary's leverage is at its peak now, when Bill is leading the Obama reelection charge and when a sudden resignation would represent a huge setback for Obama. The Clintons can try to use this leverage to halt White House efforts to scapegoat Hillary. Then, they can hope the issue blows over.
However, the Benghazi story isn't likely to blow over. And after November 6, the Clintons can do nothing to avoid the scapegoating of Hillary by the Obama administration.
Obama Moves Colorado To ChinaPosted on October 26, 2012 by stevengoddard "I want to build on the progress we've made. Doubling clean energy. I want fuel efficient cars and long-lasting batteries and wind turbines manufactured here in China!"
....little slip of the tongue there, Barry? ???
Is Obuma Starting To Look Like Satan?
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Just wondering....
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Remember this?"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
"Coal-powered plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost on to consumers."
- Barack ObamaIn this January 2008 clip, Barack Obama admits that, under his Cap and Trade plan (or Cap and Tax as it's more accurately called) "energy prices would necessarily skyrocket." The most accurate cost estimate puts this "skyrocketing" at about $3,900 per year per household. Doesn't really sound like the formula for economic recovery to me.
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Hard to believe that it has been 33 years since
President Carter was attacked by a killer bunny.
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Jimmy seems to be more relaxed now. Wonder Why?
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Clintons Have A Chance To Redeem Themselves
Bill saved Obama in September and can finish him off now. Hopefully Candy Crowley and her knee pads will go down the drain alongside Barack.
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered additional security for the U.S. mission in Benghaziahead of the terrorist attack but the orders were never carried out, according to "legal counsel" to Clinton who spoke to best-selling author Ed Klein. Those same sources also say former President Bill Clinton has been "urging" his wife to release official State Department documents that prove she called for additional security at the compound in Libya, which would almost certainly result in President Obama losing the election."
Oh, golly gee... I think I posted this before. Oh well....
Why did PBS FRONTLINE electronically alter the signature of one of the world's most distinguished Physicists in their report "Climate of Doubt'?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/25/why-did-pbs-frontline-electronically-alter-the-signature-of-one-of-the-worlds-most-distinguished-physicists-in-their-report-climate-of-doubt/
Posted on October 25, 2012 by Anthony Watts
UPDATE: PBS admits to this as being a mistake, see below – Anthony
Petition Document and signature in question:
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Note at 20:29 how the signature is electronically blurred, while other text and the writing "PHYSICS" is quite readable.
I'd seen that document before, and last night, I located it:
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OMG!... Obama Campaign Releases Ad Comparing
Voting for Obama to Losing Virginity (Video)Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, October 25, 2012, 7:44 PMWar on Virgins–
Team Obama released a web ad today comparing voting
for Obama to losing your virginity.
HOLY CRAP !!!!!
That IS without a doubt the most STUPID, IDIOTIC thing I have ever heard !
Who in their right mind would ever vote for him in the first place -- and now having this for an incentive????? NOT hardly.
LOL... will said, Jo :laugh: ;D :laugh:
Quote from Warph:
LOL... will said, Jo
Hey Warph, if you want to laugh and be jolly then haul your laughing ass to the coffee shop thread. This is the political thread reserved for negative, haters and bullies !!
( just joking buddy ) :D
War on Virgins– featuring LENA DUNHAM
Team Obama released a web ad today comparing voting
for Obama to losing your virginity.
Here It Is... LENA DUNHAM: YOUR FIRST TIME PARODY!
Steven Crowder will have you howling with this parady
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Hey Jarhead... I have some hot intel on Obuma and I'm going to pass it along to you. It's going to be in Xinshvt code because I don't want it to get out into the wrong hands... you know.. the coffee shop progressives. Ok, here goes:
On the 9th of October, 2012, an Iranian Kilo Class 636 submarine had been about to attack an Allied convoy in the Gulf of Oman when it was forced to surface by one of our navel ships, the USS Bulldog, protecting the convoy. The Iranian crew surrendered.
A Marine Special Ops Unit climbed into the conning tower and began a search of the deserted submarine. The bookshelves still contained books of every description... navigation manuals, seamanship manuals, code books and signal books. The USS Bulldog's telegraphist pointed to an interesting piece of equipment that looked like a Matrix computer. This, along with all the books from the shelves, was transferred with utmost care to USS Bulldog. It was important that everything was kept dry as the code books and signal books were printed in ink that disappeared if they were dropped in seawater.
On USS Bulldog's arrival back in the States they were met by a representative from Snickers, (like the candy bar) who photographed every page of every book. The 'interesting piece of equipment' turned out to be an Matrix-Eingolob Computer, and the books contained the Matrix codes being used by the Iranian Navy.
This Naval message dated 10th October reads: "a) Capture of Iranian Kilo Class 636 submarine is to be referred to as b} Operation Bluto. Operation Bluto is to be treated with greatest secrecy and few people allowed to know as possible..."
The Navy brass were anxious to make sure that the Iranians did not find out that Kilo 636 and its codebooks had been captured. All the Marines and Sailors who took part in the operation were sworn to secrecy. If the Iranians had found out, they would almost certainly have changed their computer codes.
Also found aboard the submarine was this video:
I'm passing it on to you for safe keeping because there is a black suburban parked outside my house with government plates and four individuals dressed in black. The video was dropped on my table at Starbucks while I was ordering a pumpkin spice latte and a chonga bagel last week.... why, I do not know. With this video was a note explaining the above story. So don't panic... it is important that you well keep it in a safe place and for heaven sakes, DON'T TELL ANYONE ABOUT THIS. You'll know what to do after you decipher this following code:
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Get back to me if you are able.
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North Korean dictator orders execution by mortar
By: John Hayward
10/26/2012 08:57 AM
There's a general presumption in geopolitics that most national governments are, by and large, rational actors. They might be sinister and ruthless, and they've all got their little quirks, but for the most part they're sane.
And then you've got Kim Jong-Un, the gibbering lunatic who runs North Korea. He's the third generation of psychotic "leadership" that tortured country has endured. He's turning out to be a clever little demon.
Kim Jong-Un has been purging the North Korean military of officers he perceives as a threat. His latest victim was Kim Chol, vice-minister of the army. The minister was arrested for being insufficiently glum during the officially mandated mourning period for North Korea's previous dictator, Kim Jong-Il. Allegedly, he was "drinking and carousing" during the mandatory days of sorrow. (For most North Koreans, "drinking and carousing" means finding water that isn't contaminated with bacteria, but the military lives much better than the peons.)
This show of disrespect for the previous Dear Leader left Kim Jong-Un so distraught that he ordered the vice-minister not only executed, but erased. "Leave no trace of him behind, down to his hair," the executioners were told.
So they ranged in a mortar on a particular spot, forced Kim Chol to stand there, and then lobbed a mortar round into his lap, blowing him to smithereens.
Warph, would that be the Mother Ship, comrade Louis Farrakhan spoke of ? If so, I missed the boat because it took me 16 hours to break the code.
Obama is Asked for His ID Before Voting
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/10/25/obama-asked-id-voting/
Top Ten Reasons Obama Kept Biden on the Ticket
1. Biden remarks to Obama every morning how handsome he looks today.
2. He tells Obama everything he does is a "gutsy move."
3. Biden promised to have a red light implanted on his forehead that turns on every time he is about to say something stupid.
4. Obama hopes Biden will help with voters who don't speak English.
5. Biden has a copy of Obama's college transcripts.
6. Biden threatened to strip down to his underwear and commit hari-kari in front of the Air and Space Museum.
7. The only 3 am phone call Obama gets is Biden sobbing to keep his job.
8. Biden promised to eat fish three times a week to improve brain function.
9. He promised to campaign mostly in Guam.
10. Michelle really likes Biden's comb over.
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Obama Would Double Down in a Second Term
By David Limbaugh
Do you know what's scarier than the possibility that President Obama could be re-elected? It's that in a second term, he would double down on his failed policies.
Don't take my word for it; he's admitted it on the campaign stump.
In a speech to his fellow cultural icons in Hollywood, he said, "Everything we fought for in 2008 is on the line here in 2012. And I need your help to finish what we started. ... We've come too far to turn back now."
Note that Obama did not say this:
"My agenda obviously isn't working, so I have decided to make major adjustments. Rest assured that my wholesale failure to get the economy moving again, to create jobs, to reform entitlements and to reduce deficits and debts will not be repeated in a second term.
"I will quit misleading the public with the absurd claim that 7.8 percent unemployment is encouraging, especially when so many have quit looking for work and many who are working have only part-time jobs. I'll stop insisting that I have proposed cutting $4 trillion from spending, when the lion's share of those "cuts" were either forced by Republicans or not scheduled expenditures (on the wars) in the first place. Truth be told, my most recent 10-year budget projects annual average budget deficits of almost $1 trillion -- $9.5 trillion over the next decade. Nor will I throw away hundreds of billions on ill-conceived stimulus plans and green energy boondoggles. I'll also quit making meaningless, unintelligible statements like, 'I will grow the economy from the middle out.'
"I'll quit punishing and bad-mouthing American businesses and entrepreneurs, calling them soft and lazy and accusing them of not building their businesses. I'll finally allow the private sector to breathe. I'll discontinue my empty talk about expanding opportunity until I prove I'm serious about pushing individual responsibility instead of expanding the dependency class. I'll never again accuse the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of taking foreign money and demanding it prove otherwise when I have absolutely no proof it occurred. I'll quit waging war on the coal, natural gas and oil industries. I'll stop taking credit for growing domestic oil production, as any increases have occurred on private, not public, lands. I'll get out of bed with labor unions, Occupy Wall Street and ACORN at the expense of business, producers and the democratic processes. And I'll quit scaring seniors at the expense of future generations.
"I'll quit apologizing for America, groveling to dictators and mistreating our allies, especially Israel, and I'll stop this insane gutting of our military. I'll cease the class, race and gender warfare; sorry about that. I'll quit dishonoring the conscience rights of health care providers. Recognizing that health care costs are soaring and that tens of millions are still falling through the cracks under Obamacare, I will finally defer to the will of the people by repealing Obamacare and implementing market reforms. At long last, I will fulfill my cynical promise to be transparent; I'll quit carefully scripting my news conferences and evading questions, lest the public continue with the false impression that I am actually on top of current events and can answer tough questions off the cuff.
"I will fight my admitted propensity to be intellectually lazy and to avoid the unglamorous aspects of my job to pursue my passions of campaigning and community organizing. This means I'll delegate less to bogus blue-ribbon commissions formed to give me political cover to avoid commitments I have no intention of honoring, such as deficit reduction. It also means I'll start attending national security briefings, play less golf and cut back on extravagant taxpayer-funded vacations.
"I'll rein in my hyper-politicized Justice Department and make sure it begins honoring the Second Amendment, stops shaking down banks and discontinues its crusade to administer justice in a race-conscious manner. I'll quit bragging about killing Osama bin Laden and implying that his elimination spells the end of our war on terror, especially after the recent attacks in Egypt and Libya. I'll man up and admit these attacks were preplanned, not the result of a controversial video, and that we failed to take precautions to protect our embassies. I'll also stop blaming President Bush for my failures and accept responsibility for my actions as any mature adult would do."
Sadly, you'll never hear anything like this, because Obama is psychologically incapable of admitting his mistakes and ideologically bound to repeat them. He still evidences no concern over our crushing national debt and our declining military power and influence in the world, and he gives no indication that he has any confidence in the private sector to rebound on its own, despite presiding over the worst economic recovery and longest periods of high unemployment in 50 years.
If Obama is re-elected, he'll finish the job he started, all right. Bank on it.
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Don't Lie... Obuma Hates The Competition
I won't beat around the bush. I watched all of the GOP debates, I watched the Biden-Ryan debate and I even sat through all three of the presidential debates, and I don't think it's fair that I only get one vote that can be canceled out by the vote of one of those louts who got a free cell phone, thanks to Obuma, or one of the guttersnipes who befouled our streets as a member of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
In spite of that, I am feeling pretty confident about the upcoming election. It's not just that Romney buried Obuma in the first debate and more than held his own in the final two, or that Hoe Biden, when confronting Paul Ryan, came across like one of those bizarre-looking characters who were always menacing Batman and Dick Tracy. I just figure that when Big Bird tells Obuma not to use his name in vain and even the AARP tells Team Obuma: "While we respect the rights of each campaign to make its case to voters, AARP has never consented to the use of its name by any candidate or political campaign. AARP is a nonpartisan organization and we do not endorse candidates nor coordinate with any candidate or political party."
I know, I know. I, too, started chuckling when I got to the part where they claimed to be nonpartisan. You sure could have fooled me when they worked harder to push through ObumaCare than Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman, put together. Still, if I were Obuma, my blood would have run cold when I realized that even the AARP was deserting me.
Like a great many conservatives who were tuned in to the final debate, I kept waiting for Romney to nail Obuma to the wall over all the lies that he, Hoe Biden and Susan Rice-Aroni, have told regarding the attack on the Libyan consulate. But I then realized that if the moderator, Bob Schieffer, wasn't going to bring it up, Romney was wise to leave it alone. For one thing, even the lap dogs in the mass media are finally pressing the issue, no longer leaving it to Fox News to demand answers. The bottom line is that the media simply won't allow left-wing politicians to treat them with the same contempt that both display towards the American public.
For another thing, if it had been Romney who brought up the White House cover-up, it would have wound up like the petty squabbling that broke out during the second debate, when Romney pushed Obuma to come clean about there being a reduction in the number of oil leases that had been granted on federal land over the past few years. After all, when a guy is running for president, he doesn't want to come across like a seven year old yelling "You did so!" while the other brat is yelling "Did not!" in rebuttal.
The Democrats spent six months painting Romney as a wealthy robot who didn't concern himself with the plight of others, but all Romney had to do in the first debate was to speak honestly without having his words filtered through the liberal media. Once he did that, the voters got to see a man who was decent, compassionate and, best of all, ready and able to restore America's greatness.
On the other hand, the Obuma they saw was the one that the rest of us had seen since Day One: an arrogant, lazy, narcissistic, incompetent, who wanted nothing less than to radically transform America in his own socialistic image.
Prior to the third debate, David Axelbutt and the rest of Obuma's handlers had attempted to win back the female vote by portraying Romney as a warmonger. Watching the propaganda roll out, I was reminded of 1964, when LBJ destroyed Barry Goldwater by pretending that the Arizona senator only wanted to be the president because he yearned to get his finger on the nuclear trigger.
It took people a while to wake up to the fact that Goldwater had more character in his big toe than Lyndon Johnson had in his entire body. As for warmongering, it was sweet irony that Johnson met his own Waterloo over his mishandling of the Vietnam War. He went from garnering over 61% of the vote in 1964 to failing to get his party's nomination four years later.
Something that far too many Americans can't seem to grasp is that a robust American military doesn't cause wars, it helps prevent them. Still, when war is inevitable, winning is a far better option than losing.
One of the problems with Democrats is that they still believe, as they did during the frostiest days of the Cold War, that a unilaterally disarmed America sets an example that will be copied by our enemies. It was idiotic when our enemy was the Soviet Union, an evil empire that had already gobbled up all of Eastern Europe, and it is no less idiotic when we have to deal with enemies in North Korea, the Islamic world and a Russia governed by a neo-Stalinist like Vladimir Pooptin, who learned everything he knows about diplomacy while heading up the KGB.
The idea that, in spite of the fact that Obuma's own Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, has stated that a cut in our defense budget would threaten our national security, Obuma could only defend the cuts by telling Romney that we no longer need horses and bayonets. But, then, this is the same creep who pulled security out of the Benghazi consulate because the impression that things were stable in Libya was more important to his re-election campaign than the lives of Ambassador Stevens and his three colleagues.
As of the first of the year, thanks to sequestration, the military budget will be automatically slashed by half a trillion dollars. And anyone who believes Obuma when he says the Pentagon is just fine with those cuts shouldn't be allowed anywhere near sharp objects, heavy machinery or a voting booth. In the present circumstances, sequestration is a fancy term for castrating the U.S. military. During the debate, however, Obuma, who did absolutely nothing to avert the lunacy in the first place, confidently announced that it would never take place.
For a brief moment, I was reassured. But then I remembered that in 2008, he vowed he would slash the national debt by five trillion dollars; that he would work to bring people together, including Democrats and Republicans in Congress; and that he would lower the unemployment rate to 5.6% by the end of his first term.
Fool Americans once, shame on you. Try to fool us twice, you better remind Michelle to start packing up Bo's chew toys along with the kids' video games and the White House silverware.
And don't forget to leave the key under the mat.
Could Hurricane Sandy delay the election?
By L.V. Anderson of Slate
Slate Explainer: If millions of people don't have power on Election Day, state officials could postpone the vote.
As Hurricane Sandy batters the East Coast, many people in the storm's path are preparing for days of power outages. Meanwhile, pundits are asking how the storm could affect the outcome of the presidential election. If there are still widespread power outages on the East Coast come Nov. 6, could the election be postponed?
Yes, but the details of the postponement would vary state by state. Many states have constitutional provisions or statutes that detail their ability to suspend or reschedule an election in the event of an emergency. For instance, a section of the election law in Maryland (which is being hit heavily by Sandy) allows the governor to postpone an election or specify alternate voting locations when issuing an emergency proclamation, and it allows the state election board to "petition a circuit court to take any action the court considers necessary to provide a remedy that is in the public interest and protects the integrity of the electoral process" in the event of extraordinary circumstances that don't constitute a state of emergency. As for states without specific provisions of statutes, the governor could still reasonably use his or her emergency powers to suspend the election during a state of emergency. The exact person or people who get to decide whether an election is postponed or extended varies from state to state, too; in some cases, it's the governor or the secretary of state, while in others the power belongs to the state board of elections.
State and local courts, too, have on rare occasion suspended elections. In 1985, a county court (at the request of the county's election board) suspended a state election because of flooding and rescheduled the election for two weeks later. And on Sept. 11, 2001, a New York state judge suspended local primary elections due to the terrorist attacks.
Since the United States Constitution grants states the authority to administer all elections, even federal elections, the federal government does not explicitly possess the power to suspend or postpone a presidential election. However, Congress does have the right to mandate the timing of federal elections, and since the Presidential Election Day Act of 1845 presidential elections have been held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in election years. Hypothetically, given Congress' authority over the timing of federal elections, Congress could pass a law regarding emergency rescheduling of a federal election. Similarly, the president could use his emergency power in such a way as to disrupt states' ability to conduct elections, but this has never happened (and would likely be highly controversial if it did happen).
Although states may reschedule a canceled or suspended election at their discretion (or according to their individual election laws), they must choose their presidential electors by the "safe harbor" deadline, which is six days before the Electoral College votes. This year, the Electoral College convenes on Dec. 17, which means that even if states do postpone their elections because of Sandy, they must choose their electors by Dec. 11.
I have mentioned this a number of times in my posts:
Supreme Court is the biggest issue in this election
By Jonathan Bernstein
Ezra Klein argues that the 2012 presidential election is more important than most because it will decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act — and more broadly, the future of health care in the United States.
He's certainly correct that the future of the ACA is at stake, although if Democrats wind up holding even in the Senate or even gaining a bit, then some sort of deal is still very possible. But as important as that is, I don't think it's the No. 1 thing at stake.
That thing is the Supreme Court.
It's likely that the next president will replace at least one justice. If Mitt Romney wins next month and his party benefits from an improved economy by 2016 (not a certain scenario, but one that wouldn't be surprising), then we're talking about eight years and a very good chance of putting four justices on the bench.
In other words, not only is there a fair chance that the rough balance that the court has maintained for a couple of decades could be broken, but a new balance — either somewhat more liberal or quite a bit more conservative — could get locked in for a very long time.
Remember, there hasn't been a strong ideological flip on the court since George H.W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas to replace Thurgood Marshall. Some ideological movement isn't unusual; Clinton nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg is probably more liberal than the moderate Byron White, and solid conservative Samuel Alito replaced the moderate conservative Sandra Day O'Connor. Those were nudges, however.
If Romney wins the presidency and holds it for eight years, he very likely would replace not only moderate conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy (born in 1936) with someone closer to Alito, but he also would probably have the chance to replace either Ginsburg (both in 1933) or Stephen Breyer (1938). On the other hand, if Obama wins, it's possible that he could wind up replacing at least one conservative justice, perhaps Kennedy or Antonin Scalia (also 1936).
Granted, the reason that ideological change is rare is because most justices appear to time their resignations to assure a somewhat similar replacement. It's far more likely that Scalia would retire with Romney in the White House than with Obama still there. But of course court vacancies are not always timed that way, and the court has been aging. There's every possibility that we're finally about to get some major ideological change.
The changes in the nation that could result from such a change on the court are breathtaking. And no, I'm talking not just about abortion or marriage, although it certainly would affect those. On every issue that's at stake in the election, whether it's the economy or executive power in national security or climate or yes, health care, a court in which Chief Justice John Roberts is the median voter would be enormously different from one in which, say, Elena Kagan is in the middle. Or, more to the point: A nation with a court in which Roberts decides split cases will rapidly become very different than one in which Kagan decides them.
None of this is guaranteed, neither the retirements nor the ideological bent of their replacements, but it is reasonably likely. I think it's the biggest issue in the election, and I'm not sure it's even close.
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"Flag of Freedom vs. Flag of Not, American Flag vs. Obama's inappropriate
'O' flag for sale at his online store"
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"Obama's new 'O' flag looks disturbingly like the bloody handprints at the
US embassy/consulate in Libya that was attacked on September 11 by Muslim terrorists –
equally disturbing is that requests for additional security were denied by the Obama administration"
Obama's Narcissistic Personality Disorder Flag:
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I understand they are not selling well at all. You
probably can get one for free after Nov. 6th.
Huge Ohio Turnout at Romney Rallies, Romney Now Ahead of Obama in Ohio
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is resonating with more Ohio voters per the latest polls — as of this morning's Rasmussen poll, he leads Barack Obama by 2 points in the swing state.
While Obama is braying about even more ugly, inefficient wind turbines to be funded by taxpayers, Romney is talking about real jobs. The turnout of Ohio voters for Romney at rallies has been awesome, even with inclement weather.
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An email from Anthony who is stuck with ex-girlfriend Sandy:
I am blogging from an undisclosed secret hidden underground location (Einstein's Bagels) because I woke up to no power. And if I don't have my coffee in the morning, I die inside. And I make everyone around me wish they were dead.
Starbucks was closed, which caused me to throw a rock. And I want to apologize to the young couple I hit. You were just in the way.
Brew Ha-Ha, a local Starbucks competitor, was also closed, and so they have lost the favor of my custom for the next six months.
Dunkin Donuts has no place to sit comfortably, considering that I travel with at least $50,000 worth of digital gear in the event the Mayan apocalypse occurs and Mayan hell has spotty Wi-Fi.
New York City got hit wicked bad. Almost FOURTEEN FEET of water in Battery Park City, and lights out south of 39th Street, which comprises my old hood.
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But here I am, stuck in this fresh hell called Delaware. A state so insignificant, even Delaware Online, the main news source here, privileged the damage caused to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, even though the southern part of the state was hit very hard.
I'm about to take off and scope out the rest of the area, looking for looters, burglars, and other political types.
Later.
A Tweet from Obuma in the middle of Sandy hitting the east coast:
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by: Barack Obama @BarackObama
http://mobile.twitter.com/BarackObama/statuses/263075675727085569?
This weird, insulting-to-women tweet from our self-absorbed, 10 year old President Obuma, sent in the midst of the monstrous Hurricane Sandy slamming the East Coast, flooding major cities and endangering the homes and lives of millions of Americans.
Get a clue, Mr. President.... for once, try to NOT make it about you or your election.
This campaigning cancellation feels so, so un-Obuma-like. Since when has Barack I. H. Obuma cancelled ANY campaign appearance? Most definitely not after the US consulate attack and massacre in Benghazi, Libya, when after his Rose Garden address, he quickly skedaddled off to Las Vegas and then to various TV appearances.
Hmmmm.... this deviates from his modus operandi re-election strategy.
Either he is trying to undo the uproar from voters that has swelled over his self-driven interests after the Benghazi terrorist attack, or he fears for his own safety from Mother Nature in Virginia and will hang out in the White House until Sandy blows over... or he realizes that voter turnout in Sandy's path will be non-existent... or Obuma has been abducted by a UFO and a remarkably lifelike, more compassionate Obuma Robot has taken his place in the Oval Office.
Take your pick.
Reported by Weasel Zippers:
Obama Cancels Campaign Events For Hurricane Sandy... Didn't Cancel Anything After Benghazi Terror Attack...:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama is canceling campaign appearances in Northern Virginia on Monday and Colorado on Tuesday so he can monitor Hurricane Sandy. The storm is currently forecast to make landfall along the Eastern seaboard at that time.
Obama is still scheduled to make campaign visits to Orlando, Fla., and Youngstown, Ohio Monday before returning to the White House. Other changes to the campaign schedule will be announced as warranted.
The White House says Obama is being regularly updated on the storm. He has directed his team to work to bring all available resources needed by state and local governments preparing for the storm, which could affect a third of the country with high winds, heavy rains and flooding.
Now, this is more like the Obuma we're grown to distrust...
Reported by Gateway Pundit:
Obama Flies to Florida on Sunday Night Then Cancels Rally & Flies Back to DC to Play Hero:
Barack Obama flew to Florida last night then decided this morning to cancel his campaign rally.
The president flew back to Washington DC this morning to play hurricane hero.
Look for nonstop reporting on Obama's selfless heroics in the days ahead.
Maybe he can enlist more cute little kids to sing another creepy song about his awesomeness...
....Or maybe he is writing his "Farewell Speech".... Warph
During a recent Romney campaign stop, a heckler from the audience hollered, "Hey Mitt , where are you hiding your tax returns?
Governor Romney politely responded, "I've found a very secure place that I'm certain they won't be found."
The insistent heckler, then shouted, "And just where is that, dummy"?
Governor Romney smiled and said, "They are underneath Obama's college records, his passport application, his immigration status as a student, his funding sources to pay for college, his college records, and his Selective Service registration.
"What's your next question?" ;D
Dead on, Mitt... dead on. :laugh: :laugh:
Charles Krauthammer today on Fox's Special Report:
"Well, he says he's not concerned about the impact on the elections. I'm sure he's very sincere on that. But it is a little odd that he shows up in the Briefing Room where he hasn't shown up in the Briefing Room for what, a month-and-a-half? For Libya or for anything else for that matter. Then you get the photo-ops of him in the Situation Room deploying I guess the utility crews who restore power all over America. Where you would think he might want to use the Situation Room to convene high level people during the night hours when our people were under attack in Benghazi. It's hard to look at this, playing the president, playing the Commander in Chief in what's a natural disaster that really doesn't require a lot of from the White House. It's up to the governors mostly. The White House and the government release money. That's all they do and he's really good at releasing money."
LOL... Sandy and Obuma have something in common, Charley... they are BOTH natural disasters.
Obuma's sutter reminds me of Max
The craziest, most nail-biting elections in U.S. history
You may be surprised to learn that Bush-Gore doesn't even crack the top 3
by Paul Brandus
posted on October 31, 2012, at 6:18 AM
In case you haven't been paying attention: The presidential election is shaping up to be very, very, very close. The scenarios are mind-boggling. One possibility: Mitt Romney could win the popular vote but lose what counts: the electoral college. It would be fitting revenge for Democrats still angry about the Bush-Gore debacle from 2000. The opposite could also occur: Obama, popular in voter-rich California, New York, and Illinois, could win the most votes but be edged out in the electoral college.
Perhaps the craziest of all is the possibility of Romney and Biden winning. You heard that right: a Romney-Biden administration. Imagine, if you will, that Obama and Romney wind up with an electoral college tie of 269-269 (a very slim possibility). It takes 270 to win. So what happens?
The House of Representatives decides. Under Article 12 of the Constitution, each state gets one vote, according to which party dominates that state's House delegation. There are more Democrats in California's House delegation, and more Republicans in Texas', for example. And so forth. Since more state delegations in the House are controlled by Republicans, there's no question who they'd award the presidency to: Mitt Romney.
But the VP would be picked by the Senate. And the Senate is controlled — and is likely to be controlled after election day — by the Democrats. Who would they vote for? You guessed it: Joe Biden.
Bizarre (or hilarious) as that would be, it would hardly be unprecedented. The election of 1800 was equally screwy, and the contests of 1824 and 1876 were also ones for the books. All three make the 2000 mess seem almost like a picnic. Judge for yourself:
1800: Thomas Jefferson vs. Aaron Burr
In the early days of the republic, electors each cast not one, but two electoral votes for president. Adding to the confusion: There was no such thing as "election day" as we know it now. States voted whenever they felt like it over a period running from April to October. It was a long, drawn-out, and often confusing process.
The republic was just 24 years old when Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr squared off against President John Adams and Charles Pickney. Yet electors gave both Jefferson and Burr — who were on the same ticket — 73 electoral votes apiece. Adams got 65, and Pickney 64.
So what do you do in the event of a tie? The Constitution said the House of Representatives would decide. Since Jefferson and Burr got the most electoral votes, the former running mates suddenly became rivals. Voting went on for days, with ballot after ballot. Finally, after 36 ballots, the tie was broken: Thomas Jefferson was declared the president-elect. Aaron Burr was declared vice president. But Jefferson, at this point, didn't trust Burr and gave him nothing to do.
In an unrelated matter, by the way, Burr later shot and killed Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury secretary, in a duel.
1824: John Quincy Adams vs. Andrew Jackson
Jackson (you know him from the $20 bill) crushed John Quincy Adams, the son of our second president, John Adams, in both the popular vote (41 percent to 31 percent) and in the electoral college (99 to 84). Yet Adams won. How could Adams lose both the popular vote and electoral college yet win the White House?
Unfortunately for "Old Hickory," as Jackson was known, there were two other men on the presidential ballot in 1824: William Crawford of Georgia, who received 41 electoral votes, and Henry Clay of Kentucky, who got 37. Because the four men received a combined 271 electoral votes, Jackson had a plurality but not a majority. He needed 136, but had only 99.
Once again, it was up to the House. Because the 12th Amendment to the Constitution said that only the top three presidential candidates could be considered, Clay was out. He threw his support to Adams, and on Feb. 9, 1825, the House gave Adams 138 electoral votes. John Quincy Adams — loser of both the popular vote and, at first, the electoral college — would become the sixth president of the United States.
Now, a story like this can't be told without a little dirt. After all, it's presidential politics. Just before the results of the House election became public, an anonymous letter appeared in a Philadelphia newspaper. Said to be from a member of Congress, it accused Clay of selling his support to Adams if Adams made Clay secretary of State. Jackson and his supporters were outraged over what they called "the corrupt bargain."
Clay did indeed become secretary of State in the Adams administration.
This is also a cautionary tale. You've got to be careful what you wish for. John Quincy Adams hated being president. He called it the "four most miserable years of my life." One reason: He was hounded at every turn by Jackson and his supporters. In 1828, both would clash again when Adams sought re-election. This time, Jackson got his revenge, crushing Adams in both the popular vote and winning a majority of the electoral college. Adams later spent 17 years in Congress — the only president to do so after leaving the White House.
1876: Samuel Tilden vs. Rutherford Hayes
It happened again: A candidate lost after getting the most popular votes and the most electoral votes on election day.
In addition to snagging 51 percent of the popular vote, New York Gov. Samuel Tilden (D) won 184 electoral votes — one short of winning the White House. His rival, Ohio Gov. Rutherford B. Hayes (R), won just 48 percent of the vote and 165 electoral votes. Here's the catch: Twenty other electoral votes in several states were disputed and went uncounted. The states: Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina and Oregon.
In all three southern states, it looked like Tilden won the popular vote. But there were allegations of fraud (ink-smeared ballots and bribery) and voter intimidation. Chaos ensued. In Florida, for example, the Republicans said they won by 922 votes. Democrats say they did — by 94 votes.
Meantime, in Oregon, both Democrats and Republicans agreed that Hayes won the state. But when the Democratic governor found out one Republican member of the electoral college was a federal worker (a postmaster) and ineligible to serve, he replaced him with a Democrat. The Republican elector promptly resigned his post office job and said that as a private citizen, he would cast his electoral college vote for Hayes.
All four states submitted two sets of electoral vote counts each to Congress, all with different results. To untangle the mess, Congress set up an electoral commission: five members of the House, five members of the Senate, and five Supreme Court Justices.
By the way, there's absolutely nothing in the Constitution saying this is how an election standoff was to be resolved. After much maneuvering, the commission voted along party lines — 8 to 7 — to award the disputed electoral votes, and the presidency, to Hayes.
But it still wasn't over. Democrats threatened to filibuster the counting of electoral votes to keep Hayes from winning. In 1877 — just weeks before inauguration day — Democrats gave in, with one big string attached. Republicans must agree, they said, to withdraw all federal troops from the South. This was just a decade after the civil war. The GOP agreed — and thus the Compromise of 1877.
And you thought Bush-Gore was messy...
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The photo below was taken at La Bastille Plaza in Paris, during the election celebration for the comrade socialist president Hollande. See any French flags? Anywhere? Actually, there is ONE towards the bottom right. The other flags are in order of appurtenance, Palestinian (2 flags top right+1 center left), Algerian, Turkish (towards center), Syrian (towards left of pic + below Palestinian flag), Moroccan (w. star in center), and European Union flag. The other flags I cant recognize, there are also Syndicates or Unions flags.
That's France in a nutshell.
Also please read this from a French citizen - Maxime Lépante:
Hello to my American friends,
As you know, the Socialist François Hollande won the presidential elections in France, last Sunday. It is a catastrophe for France.
Hollande was elected by the Muslims:
A survey (of 10,000 Muslims) shows that 93% of the Muslims voted for him.
As 2 million Muslims participated in this election, Hollande got 1,720,000 Muslim votes more than Sarkozy did: (0.93-0.07) x 2,000,000 = 1,720,000. But at the end, from the entire population, he got only 1,139,316 votes more than Sarkozy. So, without the Muslims' votes, Sarkozy would have been re-elected.
All the Muslim criminals feel now empowered. Criminality is already on the rise (1,700 cars were
burnt in France for the first night). Muslims are screaming anti-French and anti-Jews watchwords in our streets.
Veiled women, wearing the illegal burqa, are strolling in our streets.
And, as if this wasn't enough, Hollande wants to give to all the foreigners the right to vote in our elections!!
France will face a very hard situation. We are heading for civil war in a few years.
That's the last news from occupied France.
Maxime Lépante.
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The Decline and Fall of Western Culture in One Photo
Posted: October 31, 2012 | Author: The Butcher
The other day I visited The Oakland Museum, and while I wandered through one of its rooms this scene presented itself to me:
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Immediately a thought struck me: This is it — the decline and fall of
Western culture is encapsulated perfectly in this one scene.
Let me explain.
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In the foreground we have a marble sculpture entitled "California Venus,"
in a timeless neo-classical style.
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It was carved in 1895 by sculptor Rupert Schmid.
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In the background, just a few steps away, we have its companion piece,
a sculpture entitled "Pink Lady."
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It was created in 1965 by artist Viola Frey.
In just 80 years, the state of sculpture in America went from beautiful and exquisitely refined to ugly, klutzy and incompetent.
I don't know whether the curators at the Oakland Museum juxtaposed these two pieces intentionally, or if it was just an accident, but either way they deftly summarized everything that went wrong with 20th century art.
Striving for Beauty — or for Ugliness?
The very goal of art changed radically between 1885 and 1965. Back at the end of the 19th century no one yet questioned the assumption that art was an attempt to capture or create beauty. It had been that way for millennia. Little did anyone know that within just a few decades the very philosophy of art would move away from idealization first toward abstraction, then to realism, and finally to grotesquerie.
By the second half of the 20th century a new paradigm had emerged: art no longer existed to inspire the viewer, but instead its sole purpose was to make the viewer uncomfortable — to "challenge your worldview" or "take you out of your comfort zone."
It's not just that Rupert Schmid was a "better artist" than Viola Frey; it's that his intent was to create something of eternal beauty. ("California Venus" was originally a plaster statue of the most perfectly beautiful woman in California, and was exhibited at the 1893 Columbia Exposition in Chicago; Schmid later spent an entire year rendering the plaster version into marble so that his creation would last forever.) Frey's goal with "Pink Lady," on the other hand, was not to create beauty, but to create ugliness — on purpose.
Entire books have been written as to why this disastrous paradigm shift happened in Western culture, so I won't expend a lot of verbiage exploring the reasons for this change in cultural attitudes. All we need to know is that it happened, and these two sculptures are proof.
The Death of Skill
A side-effect of this artistic shift is that it opened the door to incompetents. Let's just be frank: Rupert Schmid was simply a better artist Viola Frey. Even if they had worked during the same era and were both informed by the same cultural attitudes, whatever he created would always be superior to whatever she created.
But, you see, that could never have happened, because if someone like Viola Frey had crafted "Pink Lady" back in 1885 and tried to pass it off as art, she would have been laughed out of the gallery. And if someone like Rupert Schmid had created "California Venus" nowadays, he'd be pitied as a pathetic unoriginal throwback from the Unenlightened Ages.
Just look at the structure of each sculpture; you can practically feel the bones and the muscles of "California Venus," which was self-evidently created by someone who grasped human anatomy and how to render it and honor it. Now look at "Pink Lady": globular, cartoonish, oddly out of proportion (notice the size of her right hand, for example). The monkey she's holding has no anatomical structure whatsoever; it's just a lump of clay with a face. I understand that Viola Frey was trying to fashion something repulsive and grotesque, but I have the very strong suspicion that she couldn't have created something like "California Venus" even if she had tried (a suspicion that is borne out by other examples of her work, which are equally kludgy).
Whatever Happened to the Model for "California Venus?"
Long after I took these photos I discovered that "California Venus" had a fascinating but tragic story associated with it. As revealed in this newspaper article from October 21, 1902 (almost 110 years ago to the day), the woman whom Schmid chose to represent perfection met a horrifying fate seemingly straight out of the tabloids:
California Venus Dies Most Terrible Death
Shot Down in Cold Blood by Ardent Lover Who Commits Suicide
In a tragedy as shocking as it was unexpected, the life chapter of a woman whose name is well known in this and other States, came to a violent close last night in San Francisco when Marion Nolan, the widely celebrated "California Venus," was shot down in cold blood while on her way home at about 6 o'clock, by Edward Marschuts, who had long been an ardent admirer of the famous beauty, after a violent quarrel who crowned his crime by taking his own life...."
Read the original article for the full story. In short, a teenage Marion Nolan was chosen in a contest to be the model for a statue to represent California at the 1893 World's Fair; she subsequently became famous, and was in demand as a "performer" in living tableaux; she parlayed her fame into a marriage with an older millionaire, but the relationship did not last, and she moved to San Francisco in an attempt to become an actress. As her career floundered, an obsessed stalker began harassing her, and eventually he gunned her down (and then himself) when she rebuffed his clumsy rape attempt.
Two statues in a room. So much to think about. So much to learn.
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Obama Lies to America Again About al Qaeda
By Katie Pavlich
11/1/2012
At a campaign event today in Wisconsin, President Obama once again misled the country about the status of the terrorist group al Qaeda.
"Al Qaeda has been decimated," he said to the crowd.
This statement is simply not true.
Recently, "al Qaeda is on the run" was dropped from Obama's campaign trail stump speeches due to the fallout over the 9/11 attack in Benghazi which was carried out by al Qaeda terrorists. That move by the campaign doesn't change the fact that al Qaeda has not been "decimated" and is not "on the run" as President Obama suggested to the American people for months.
In Libya alone, al Qaeda has had a strong presence, especially in the Benghazi area, since the beginning of this year. Congressional testimony given by State Department officials both on the ground in Libya and in Washington revealed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and other officials repeatedly requested more security for the consulate in Benghazi and all of their requests were denied. In July, Stevens received a death threat from al Qaeda on Facebook and even sent a request for more security on 9/11, the day he was killed. While the State Department denied more security, they did increase the amount of "hardship" pay officials in Benghazi received.
Overall, al Qaeda has regained strength in many sensitive areas of the world. Some say al Qaeda is stronger than ever. More on that from Bloomberg:
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, he said, is using ransom money to expand its reach and influence, and as of earlier this year was expected to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars to other extremist groups in Africa.
Cohen said the two, as well as other terrorist groups in the Philippines, Pakistan and elsewhere use ransom money to help finance all their activities, "including recruiting and indoctrinating new members, paying salaries, establishing training camps, acquiring weapons and communications gear, staging deadly attacks," and "helping to support the next generation of violent extremist groups.
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Obama says al Qaeda has been "decimated" when it is politically convenient. It's too bad he wasn't willing to face the reality of al Qaeda getting stronger before four Americans were killed in Benghazi.
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"Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen."
Now add this, "Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens."Think about it when you vote November 6th.
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I Am the Democratic Liberal-Progressive's Worst Nightmare.
I am a White, Conservative, Tax-Paying, American Veteran, Gun Owning . That's me!
I worked hard and long hours with my hands and brains to earn a living.
I believe in God and the freedom of religion, but I don't push it on others.
I drive American-made cars, and I believe in
American products and buy them whenever I can.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and not some liberal governmental functionary,
Democratic or Republican, that wants to share it with others who don't work!
I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer; it makes you a smart American it's protection
I strongly am convinced if you Abort a baby at any time you are a murderer, you are guilty and the person doing it is also guilty.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything.
Get over it! Quit your damn whining and if that is racist to bad , I don't care.
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac or any other item, you should do it in English.
I believe there should be no other language option. I believe in order to get a job you speak english, you do not ask for a prayer room, you are there to work pray on your own time . It is a custom here in the United States to take pride in this country ,I do and so should you , If you want Sharia , take it back to your country and live it ,It will have no place with our constitution.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to. Just do not insist that I should and have to believe in yours I will not and that means Islam get my point .
My heroes are Malcolm Forbes, Bill Gates, John Wayne, Babe Ruth,Billy Graham SR and JR. Roy Rogers,and Ronald Reagan,
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
If you are a terrorist and want to do your jihad here and get caught expect death with out your virgins and you should be put in with the worst of the worst in prison for as long as you shall live .
I've never owned a slave, nor was I a slave. I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted
By the Turks, and neither have you! So I owe you squat That happened a long time ago ,get over it . Start depending on yourself and not the Government , buy your own phone you bunch of leeches.
I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and
Change your own country!
This is AMERICA ...We like it the way it is and more so the way it was...so stop trying to change it to look like Russia or China, Middle East, Mexico or some other socialist country!
If you were born here and don't like it...you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you. Most are already in that condition now so you do not have to change much just move right in .
I believe it is time to really clean house, starting with the White House, the seat of our biggest problems.
I want to know which church is it, exactly, where the Reverend Jesse Jackson preaches, where he gets his money, and why he is always part of the problem and not the solution?
Can I get an AMEN on that one?
I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are. If they find that you are here illegal who is at fault here, not the cop.
And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my driver's license. I think it's good....
And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money.. the pledge to the flag, that is what the pilgrims and revolutionist started this country from and it should be taught in schools. I do not believe that I need to adjust to a minority that does not believe in GOD , if you do not like it or agree, you leave why should the 1 % have any say against the majority. If this offends you , There again I do not care , LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.
I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years.
I have to show a photo id every where , so what is the big deal about voter id? I know it's called voter fraud and t's on both sides what a shame .
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making 'donations' to their cause....Get a job and do your part to support yourself and your family!
I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents....
I believe 'illegal' is illegal no matter what the lawyers think!
I believe that if you want to be a citizen here you will do it the right way or your out... I do not want to pay your bills at hospitals ,schools, why should you be able to sponge off me?
I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA!
If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American.
If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you know...
We want our country back!
My Country.....I hope this offends all illegal aliens.
My great, great, great, great grandfather watched and bled as his friends died in the Revolution & the War of 1812.
My great, great, great grandfather watched as his friends died in the Mexican American War.
My great, great grandfather watched as his friends & brothers died in the Civil War.
My great grandfather watched as his friends died in the Spanish-American War.
My grandfather watched as his friends died in WW I.
My father watched as his friends died in WW II.
I watched as my friends died in Vietnam, Panama & Desert Storm.
My son watched & bled as his friends died in Afghanistan and Iraq.
None of them died for the Mexican Flag.
Everyone died for the American flag.
Texas high school students raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole, other students took it down.
Guess who was expelled...the students who took it down.
California high school students were sent home on Cinco de Mayo, because they wore T-shirts with the American flag printed on them.
Enough is enough!! I could care less about your sexual habits, just do not impose them on others ,if I or any one else do not want to serve you or even like you ,that is my decision not some lib Judge, if you do not like it feel free to start your own gay business or go somewhere else,I do not care . I believe GOD will judge accordingly but that is my belief ,you just go about the way you are and we will see what becomes of it.
This message needs to be viewed by every American; and every American needs to stand up for America.
We've bent over to appease the America-haters long enough. I'm taking a stand.
I'm standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country,
and for the American flag.
If you agree, stand up with me and forward to everyone in your address book!!
And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message.
AMERICANS, stop giving away Your RIGHTS!
Let me make this clear! THIS IS MY COUNTRY!
This statement DOES NOT mean I'm against immigration!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY, welcome to come LEGALLY:
1. Get a sponsor!
2. Learn the LANGUAGE, as immigrants have in the past!
3. Live by OUR rules!
4. Get a job!
5. Pay YOUR Taxes!
6. No Social Security until you have earned it and Paid for it!
7. NOW find a place to lay your head!
If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone, then YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!
We've gone so far the other way. . . bent over backwards not to offend anyone.
Only AMERICANS seems to care when American Citizens are being offended!
WAKE UP America!!!
Made in the U. S. A. & PROUD OF IT!!!
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Fox News has received several complaints from voters in battleground states who say they voted on touch-screen machines, only when they tried to select Mitt Romney, the machine indicated they had chosen President Obama.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/claims-increasing-switched-votes-in-ohio/
This has happened in Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Ohio. Could the Socialist Party (Democrats) be behind this? ??? ...hmmmmm
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Jonathan Maimon lives in Downtown Brooklyn, where he commutes to his job as a associate portfolio manager for a mutual fund based in Jersey City. Maimon spent six years in Manhattan and calls it "a place that I'm pretty close with emotionally," which is why he made a meandering five-hour, 12 mile run across Lower Manhattan to survey the damage. Based on what he saw, he thinks that perhaps the city is moving on too quickly.
"There were no Red Cross vehicles, not a lot of city vehicles around to reach out to people and ask them what services they needed," Maimon says. "It was just pedestrians walking around and exploring. People were very calm, very friendly, you know how people are in New York. But what was shocking is that there was no food. Nothing was open. And then they have to go home to apartments without power."
Maimon adds, "And the most serious thing to me is elderly or disabled people in high rise buildings—this affects you if you're rich or poor. There's not a lot of ways for them to get out safely. I'm kinda worried about the city not really knowing how many of those people are out there." That's why he wrote this letter to us. "The mayor just said that the worst of the storm was behind us, which is factually true," Maimon adds. "But I personally think the worst is yet to come. Not having power is going to wear people down."
Here's his letter:
1.) Virtually every retailer, restaurant and grocery store south of 38th street is CLOSED. This is in an area covering 8 square miles. I only observed a handful of bodegas in Soho and the East Village, along with Ben's Pizza on W3rd and MacDougal serving customers. Whole Foods Union Square had a sign reading "because there is no electricity, we cannot open." There is no food, other than what you have in your refrigerator.
2.) To that point, there are close to 400,000 people living below 38th street without power. The mayor earlier said it could be 3 days without power; some Con Ed guys I spoke with in the East Village think it could be longer. Nobody knows.
3.) No working traffic lights in this region (drivers are generally being cautious and appropriately yielding to pedestrians). Apartment stairwells are pitch black. High rises have no elevator access.
4.) For now, this is an economic crisis - hourly workers cannot be paid, freelancers have no clients, small businesses have no sales, office buildings are shuttered. In my estimate, the lost output is $1 billion dollars EVERY SINGLE DAY that goes by without power for lower Manhattan. Included in this number is the shutdown of our major airports and transportation system. (Note that NYC's economy generates $2.8 bn daily and over $1 trillion annually - which makes it the world's 17th largest economy, if it was a country).
5.) There is no running water or flushing toilets for people living in the Jacob Riis Houses and surrounding NYCHA buildings on the Lower East Side. In my estimate, this is roughly 20,000 people. One family I spoke with is packing their bags and moving to Brooklyn until services are restored. But it did not appear that all residents were evacuating, even as their toilets did not flush.
6.) I did not witness a single Red Cross Truck or FEMA Vehicle or in lower Manhattan. Recall the assistance these agencies provided after 9/11 - this is NOT HAPPENING. There are bound to be hundreds of elderly people, rich and poor, who live on the upper floors of buildings with elevators that are now disabled. IF POWER IS NOT RESTORED, THIS WILL MOVE FROM BEING AN ECONOMIC DISASTER TO A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER.
7.) If you think Chinatown normally has an unpleasant odor, imagine what it smells like 24 hours following no refrigeration. Street vendors were trying to unload perishables at bargain prices. I saw a fish weighing roughly 20 pounds and spanning 3 feet from head to tail go to a buyer for $1 dollar. $1 dollar!!!!!
8.) The substation responsible for the outage is a huge facility. It spans an entire avenue from Avenue C to D and a length of street from 13th to 14th. If crews have to inspect every coil and wire, it might be MORE THAN THREE DAYS UNTIL POWER IS RESTORED. Additionally, the site did not appear staffed with many Con Ed workers. As a note, the 2003 blackout lasted 15 hours.
9.) The water from the storm surge was invariably contaminated - floating garbage, wood pieces from the dock, and possibly sewage. One Nuyorican woman who lived on Avenue C near 12th street noted the water level peaked above her waist. She was still visibly shaken this afternoon. She also recalled a huge noise at 8 pm when the substation failed. The sky, in her words, turned from black to green
10.) There were some very generous things. Northern Spy Food Co. served lunch to everyone who lined up outside their restaurant at Avenue A and 12th street - polenta, pork buns, chicken, biscuits and freshly baked cookies. They get props in my book; all this food was served to locals at no charge.
From Abigael Evans, age 4, on behalf of the
entire nation:
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The Secretary of BusinessBy: John Hayward
11/1/2012 10:00 AMIn a recent interview with MSNBC, President Obama wistfully dreamed of adding another incredibly expensive layer of bureaucracy to his Titanic Government model, perhaps forgetting that he's supposed to be pretending to care about the deficit. "I've said that I want to consolidate a whole bunch of government agencies. We should have one secretary of Business, instead of nine different departments that are dealing with things like giving loans to SBA or helping companies with exports," he sighed, toying with his hair as he dreamed of Evil Businessmen kneeling before his latest almighty czar, while the Czar of All Czars beams radiantly in the background, waving off the intelligence officers who keep trying to pester him with national security briefings.
This is a remarkably clear window into the Obama mind, which sees no problem that cannot be solved by funding an even more powerful and unaccountable bureaucrat to control it. Notice that it does not even briefly occur to the President that maybe the real problem is the federal government sucking huge sums money out of the private sector and redistributing it, whether it be through nine different departments or one Orwellian "Secretary of Business." Not only is government spending completely unrelated to the federal deficit in Obama's thinking, but it's not high enough. As he famously observed, "the private sector is doing fine," and should be paying even more to shivering, malnourished Washington. His plans haven't worked, so his solution is even bigger plans, enforced by a more powerful commissar.
Also, it evidently did not occur to the MSNBC crew to ask Obama why he hasn't already proposed this wondrous "consolidation" of "a whole bunch of government agencies," since he's been the President for almost four years already, and conspicuously lacks reticence about using executive power when he wants to. He's been heard to daydream about closing Guantanamo Bay, too, once he replaces the useless jerk who kept America's Cuban concentration camp running for the last few years. With Barack Obama, it's always about what he'll do someday, never about what he's already done, or failed to do. He just has to kick that incumbent Empty Chair out of Oval Office, and the good times will roll.
Is there really anyone in America who still thinks "consolidation" under higher levels of unaccountable power actually saves the taxpayers money, or improves government efficiency? Creating the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to improve communication among the many agencies tasked with national security... but here we are, over a month after a deadly attack on American soil that killed our ambassador to Libya, and the entire Administration is waving its hands and insisting that nobody knows anything about what happened, the State Department doesn't really talk to the White House intelligence team, and (according to Vice President Joe Biden) the White House isn't really part of the Administration. Who wants to bet Obama's "Secretary of Business" would be better informed, and more forthcoming, than his Secretary of State was?
The last thing we need is a more powerful, less transparent conveyor belt for the bags of taxpayer money Obama loves to toss to his big contributors. The last thing we need is a heavier boot coming down on the businesses Obama doesn't want to "win," and a more generous hand writing checks to his favorite losers. The last thing this moribund economy needs is an accelerated process of Solyndraficiation. The problems with this Administration do not include an insufficiently vast host of czars. The chief business of the American people is business, and how we conduct it is none of Obama's business.
The Romney campaign built an ad off the "Secretary of Business" nonsense, but no freedom-loving American who really cares about economic liberty and robust growth should need to hear more than the words "Secretary of Business" to run away from this Halloween horror story.
Under President Obama, gas prices have skyrocketed....
We can't afford four more years of the same failed policies!
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How weird is this:
A tree limb brought down by Superstorm Sandy claimed the life of John Rose, a state legislative candidate in West Virginia, but his death came too close to the election to remove his name from the ballot.
Rose, 60, a Barbour County Republican candidate for the House of Delegates, died on Tuesday (Oct. 30) when a snow-laden tree branch snapped and struck him while he was out checking fences on his deer farm, according to the Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail. The massive snowstorm wrought by Hurricane Sandy left parts of West Virginia buried in more than 3 feet of snow.
If the late Rose wins Tuesday's (Nov. 6) election against House of Delegates Education Chair Mary Poling, a Democrat, West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, also a Democrat, will appoint one of three nominees submitted by the Barbour County GOP executive committee.
And it wouldn't be the first time a deceased candidate won public office. In 2000, late Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan became the first deceased person elected to the U.S. Senate when he beat Republican incumbent John Ashcroft despite dying in a plane crash a few weeks before the election.
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The gigantic gaffing granddaddy of all his gaffes.... Joker Joe Biden, while in Wisconsin, said the following about Pres. Obama during his campaign speech yesterday: "I'll tell you what, there's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his vice president. Not one single day. Not one single day."
Ditto that, Joe. Dumb things said by ol' Joe: Joe... you're an idiot!
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"YIKES!! Guess who? ??? Chicago mayor & former Obama White House
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel during his ballet dancing years."
The Day ObamaCare Died - American Pie Parody
WOW! 30,000-35,000 Turn Out to See Romney-Ryan in Ohio
By: Jim Hoft
2,800 supporters turned out to see Obama in Hilliard, Ohio this morning.
4,000 turned out to see Obama in Springfield, Ohio this afternoon.
3,800 supporters turned out to see Barack Obama at his final campaign stop today in Lima, Ohio.
20,000 to 30,000 supporters turned out to see Mitt Romney in Chester, Ohio tonight!
** Carl Cameron just announced on FOX News that 20 to 30 thousand are at the Romney rally tonight in Ohio.
There were long lines to get into the event today.
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"It was the Mitt Romney's largest rally to date."
UPDATE: Rudy Giuliani, who was at the rally, told Greta Van Susteren that there were
30-35,000 supporters today at the Romney-Ryan rally.
Political consultant Dick Morris says all the numbers point to a
Romney landslide on Tuesday.
Dick's Picks:
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Morris told Greta Van Susteren Mitt Romney will pick up 325 electoral votes.
"It will be the biggest surprise in recent American political history.
It will rekindle the whole question on why the media played this r
ace as a nail biter where in fact Romney's going to win by quite a
bit. My own view is that Romney is going to win 325 electoral votes."
How Obuma's redistribution works with children:
Aint that old buzzard a real sweetheart !!! Wonder if he offered the young lady some candy ---or a cigar.
Biden offers teen a sweet ride to rally in his totally awesome limo
Most teenage girls know not to accept rides from older men they've just met, but we guess it's OK to make an exception if the man is the vice president of the United States and you'll be in his limo surrounded by Secret Service. After Joe Biden and his wife stopped for some pie at My Friends restaurant in Lakewood, Ohio, on the way to a campaign rally, 17-year-old cashier Amira Nasrallah told the VP he was headed to her high school but that, alas, she'd be stuck working there. So Biden offered the teen and her twin brother a ride to the rally. Cute. Hope it was cool with her boss.
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DES MOINES, Iowa—President Barack Obama is planning an outdoor rally here on Monday, but one store within the event's security zone is taking a stand against Secret Service searches inside the shop.
A sign on the window of Raygun, a clothing store that sells quirky T-shirts, tells Secret Service agents who intend to "sweep" the premises before Obama's speech that it does "not consent" to any searches. The sign also added a little humor, too: "It's not that there's anything illegal in here, we just employ several Colombian prostitutes and don't want to tempt you guys," the sign reads, a reference to news reports earlier this year about some agents who had solicited prostitutes in South America.
The Obama campaign was not amused. A store clerk told Yahoo News that the sign went up Monday morning, and Obama staffers have asked for its removal. The store is refusing.
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VP Biden Thinks Bill Clinton Is Still President....
BIDEN: 'President Clinton Bankrupted CHRYSLER'
"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
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Cherchez La Femme? Petraeus Resigns.
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Osama bin Laden, Mohammed al Zawahiri, and Sheikh Tawfiq Al 'Afani, as seen in the Al Faroq video on the protest at the US embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11, 2012. Courtesy of SITE Intelligence Group.
The Long War Journal: Zawahiri says raids on diplomatic facilities were 'defeats' for US
by Thomas Joscelyn on November 7, 2012
In a new audio message addressed to Shabaab, al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Ayman al Zawahiri cites the raids on US diplomatic facilities in September as evidence of American weakness.
Shabaab has suffered setbacks in recent months, including the loss of its stronghold in the port city of Kismayo. But in what amounts to a pep talk, Zawahiri says Shabaab's spirits should be buoyed by the supposed losses suffered by America and its allies elsewhere.
"They were defeated in Iraq and they are withdrawing from Afghanistan, and their ambassador in Benghazi was killed and the flags of their embassies were lowered in Cairo and Sana'a, and in their places were raised the flags of tawhid [monotheism] and jihad," Zawahiri says, according to a translation provided by the SITE Intelligence Group.
"After their consecutive defeats, they are working from behind agents and traitors," Zawahiri continues. "Their awe is lost and their might is gone and they don't dare to carry out a new campaign like their past ones in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Al Qaeda-linked extremists have been tied to the three assaults on US diplomatic facilities Zawahiri mentions.
Press reports have identified several al Qaeda-affiliated parties as being responsible for the Sept. 11 assault on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Members of a local militia named Ansar al Sharia participated in the assault. As first reported by the Daily Beast, members of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) were in contact with some of the Ansar al Sharia assailants. CNN has reported that members of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) are suspected of taking part in the assault.
Still another al Qaeda-linked network reportedly provided fighters for the Benghazi assault. Terrorists trained in Libyan camps set up by an Egyptian named Muhammad Jamal were among the attackers. According to The Wall Street Journal, Jamal "petitioned" Ayman al Zawahiri to establish a new al Qaeda affiliate and has also received funding from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
Jamal (a.k.a. Abu Ahmed), a longtime military commander in Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), has long-established ties to several al Qaeda-linked jihadists who helped incite protesters in Cairo on Sept. 11.
The jihadists who instigated the US embassy protest in Cairo include Mohammed al Zawahiri, Ayman al Zawahiri's younger brother. Mohammed al Zawahiri admittedly helped organize the protest. According to The Wall Street Journal, Mohammed al Zawahiri acted as a liaison between Jamal and Ayman al Zawahiri.
Two other EIJ leaders, Sheikh 'Adel Shehato and Sheikh Tawfiq al Afni, also incited the Cairo protesters. Both Shehato and al Afni have openly proclaimed their allegiance to al Qaeda's ideology.
Shehato was subsequently arrested by Egyptian authorities and charged with founding a terrorist cell in Nasr City, Cairo. That same cell has ties to Jamal, the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, and al Qaeda, according to Egyptian officials.
Another pro-al Qaeda ideologue who helped instigate protests in Cairo is Ahmed 'Ashoush, who has been heavily featured in Ayman al Zawahiri's recent videos.
Ayman al Zawahiri's Sept. 10 video includes a clip of 'Ashoush, Shehato, and Mohammed al Zawahiri. 'Ashoush proclaims Osama bin Laden a martyr during the clip, according to a translation provided by the SITE Intelligence Group. Shehato and Mohammed al Zawahiri are sitting nearby.
On Sept. 16, 'Ashoush issued a fatwa calling for the makers of the film "Innocence of Muslims" to be killed.
'Ashoush is shown in nine video clips that were included in a more recent Ayman al Zawahiri video, which was released on Oct. 24. 'Ashoush has released statements in the name of Ansar al Sharia, a nascent jihadist organization in Egypt. That same brand, Ansar al Sharia, is used by al Qaeda-affiliated parties elsewhere.
Still another al Qaeda-linked jihadist played a role in the anti-American protest in Sana'a, Yemen on Sept. 13. The US embassy there was stormed after Sheikh Abdul Majeed al Zindani called for protests, according to The New York Times. Zindani is a known al Qaeda supporter.
In 2004, the US Treasury Department added Zindani to its list of designated terrorist supporters, calling him an Osama bin Laden "loyalist." Zindani "has a long history of working with bin Laden, notably serving as one of his spiritual leaders," Treasury explained. Zindani "has been able to influence and support many terrorist causes, including actively recruiting for al Qaeda training camps" and "played a key role in the purchase of weapons on behalf of al Qaeda and other terrorists."
The al Qaeda network, therefore, has significant ties to the three assaults on US diplomatic facilities mentioned by Ayman al Zawahiri.
Are you sitting down? Larryj is going to post something in Politics!
This was in my paper today and I wanted to share it.
It is entitled............OUR TWO COUNTRIES......
We are a nation divided, don't believe any politician who tells you anything different.
It's beyond red state and blue states, it's suburbs and rural towns versus cities.
Our division is beyond politics, it's cultural and philosophical.
Political bifurcation in America is as old as the Republic. Manufacturing interests battled farmers for control of the young nation; abolitionists in the cities battled pro-slavery agricultural interests in the Civil War; labor battled industrialists at the turn of the 20th century and integrationists battled segragationists in the 1960s.
Our new divide is demographic, driven by reliable cars, freeways and cheap homes, all of which aided the white flight to the suburbs in the 1950s.
President Barrack Obams's coalition represents urban Americans, or at least an America with urban sensibilities. Obama lost white men, lost in rural America, won white women, won in the cities and won minorities. In short, Obama would poll well in a coffee house and at an NBA game, while Mitt Romney's audience likes NASCAR, golf and dirt bikes.
I know this is painting with a broad brush. Yes, there are Obama voters among the evangelicals; there are Romney voters who don't believe in God, but the point here is to say our country's political divisions simply reflect our cultural divisions. We live in political cultural and demographic ghettos.
In Silver Lake in Los Angeles, Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Hyde Park in Chicago (Obama's 'hood), college educated professional class blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians buy brownstones, send their children to charter and magnet schools and read "50 Shades of Grey." These are Obama voters.
In Lake Forest, California; Big Bear Lake, California; and Branson, Missouri, mostly white Americans, some with college educations send their children to public schools, pick floor plans, take vacations in the their motor homes and read "Same Kind of Different As Me." These are Mitt Romney voters.
The Obama folks live in the tightly packed urban communities. They buy into the collective responsibility, which likely explains their support for health-care reform. In cities, what happens to your neighbor often affects you.
The Romney folks often live in rural communities where the Post Office doesn't deliver mail to their homes and it's 70 miles to the closest Department of Motor Vehicles. Even in the suburbs, the kings and queens of their single-family castles shun public transportation for their personal chariots. Collectivism in these parts is anathema.
During a 2009 health care town hall meeting held by Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, CA, a woman said Obamacare should extend to undocumented immigrants. Her rationale: "If someone walked into a school with smallpox we could all end up dead."
She was booed by the conservative suburban crowd and told to "move to Canada."
Our political gridlock is a reflection of us. Our leaders can't find common ground because we live, work and play in cultural and ideological ghettos where our friends, our cultural institutions, and even our media outlets often echo our world view.
And as far as the people who are not like us, well, we have names for them.
We call them hipsters, yuppies, elites, rednecks, hillbillies and trailer trash. Maybe one day we can just call them Americans. Before we ask our politicians to reach across the aisle, we should reach out to people beyond our neighborhoods.
Brian Charles.
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Larryj
Thanks for posting that Larry.
I have posted about this many times if Obuma won re-election.
God help us!
...Warph
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A Return to Judicial Activism
by ADAM FREEDMAN
8 November 2012
Tuesday's election victory means that President Obama will have four more years to reshape the federal judiciary. While it remains to be seen whether he can achieve any legislative victories in the face of Republican opposition, there is little doubt that he will, for the most part, get to appoint the judges of his choice.
Four justices on the Supreme Court are in their mid- to late seventies now: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Stephen Breyer. With past as prelude, we can expect any Obama nominees to be reliably liberal in the mold of his two appointments from the first term, Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. At a minimum, the president will likely replace the aging liberals Ginsburg and Breyer with younger models. But it's also possible that Kennedy or Scalia, or both, could leave the bench during the next four years, presenting Obama with an opportunity to forge a liberal majority on the Court.
An invigorated and expanded liberal bloc on the Court could undo many important precedents. The Court's decisions, for example, protecting speech rights of corporations (Citizens United v. FEC), school choice (Zelman v. Simmons-Harris), and the right to bear arms (District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago) were all decided on 5–4 votes. Challenges to Obamacare and other recent regulations are likely to present the Court with major decisions on religious liberty and federalism over the next few years.
The president's reelection also has profound implications for the lower courts. Obama will begin his second term with about 90 vacancies to fill among 874 federal judgeships; he has already appointed 126 judges. By the time his second term is over, Obama will probably have appointed over 300 judges and may approach the 379 appointed by Bill Clinton. Notably, this includes at least three judges of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit—the court that hears most appeals of the decisions of federal agencies and, thus, one of the few institutions that can limit or block the administration's regulatory overreach. But with Obama poised to fill three vacancies on this important court, its liberal wing will be greatly strengthened.
Unlike Supreme Court nominees, who receive intense media scrutiny, lower-court picks often fly under the radar. Obama's true inclinations can be seen in nominees like Goodwin Liu, an outspoken proponent of using the "living Constitution" to create fundamental rights to welfare benefits; or Louis Butler, who, as a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, "offered ill-reasoned, liability-expanding decisions in cases involving medical damage caps and 'collective liability' for lead paint manufacturers," as Carter Wood reported at Point of Law.
To be fair, Liu and Butler were not confirmed. They demonstrate, however, Obama's inclination to appoint liberal activists—the kind of judges who can advance progressive goals without the bother of legislation. Now, freed from any concerns about reelection, Obama has little reason not to put forward aggressively liberal judges in the hope that some of them will get through. And no doubt some will.
When nations change their populations, religion, etc., attitudes can change as well. A sampling of headlines shows the state of things today as attitudes and mind sets change. Like in this past election:
UN poll-watchers 'amazed' US doesn't require ID's to vote...
Obama Mural in Philadelphia Polling Place...
Obama Poster Hanging in Florida Polling Station...
Exit poll data will be examined in 'quarantine room'...
Thousands of dead Californians remain eligible to vote...
Video Shows Electronic Voting Machine Changing Vote...
FL Robocall Tells Thousands They Have Until Wednesday Evening To Vote...
Woman Wearing 'MIT' Shirt Barred from Voting in Florida...
Man in gorilla suit allowed to vote...
Poll watcher in Detroit threatened with gun, 911 call rejected...
Election Judge Wears Obama Cap While Checking in Voters in Chicago Ward...
Black Panthers Return to Philly Polling Site...
GOP poll inspectors being forcibly removed -- replaced by Democrats
And from a nation dying economically, government making a buck off the people to pay their bills:
Business fined $4,000 over missing trashcan lid...
Boy, 3, Gets $2,500 Ticket For Micturating In Own Front Yard...
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The Durham train trestle has stood its ground for the last 100 years. This fact
doesn't deter some drivers from challanging the bridge about once a month...
all of them fail!
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The Needle and the Damage DoneBy Mike Adams Last semester, I was giving a lecture on the history of the Supreme Court from 1953 to present. Toward the end of the lecture, I asked my students if they could name the current Chief Justice. None were able to do so. There were thirty students in the class. This was in a college classroom, mind you.
I was annoyed by the failure of a single student to know the name of one of the three most powerful men in America. But, whenever annoyed, I have a tendency to make jokes to lighten the atmosphere. So I told my students to go to the SCOTUS website next time they were in the tattoo parlor and had a couple of spare hours to surf the internet on their iPhone. They laughed and then I casually asked "How many of you have tattoos?" About twenty students raised their hands, which was far more than I expected.
Asking that question was a big mistake. The next time I walked into class, a young man was asking a sorority girl where her tattoo was located. She lifted up the back of her shirt and showed him a giant tramp stamp across her lower back. It was as sad as it was surprising. Apparently blond hair, blue eyes, and natural beauty aren't enough to attract college boys these days. She needs a tattoo to let him know that his chances of getting sex on the first date are close to 100%.
Over the last few years, tattoo parlors have been popping up like weeds here in Wilmington. I have always assumed that their popularity was easily explained: Young people just want to draw attention and tattoos give them something to show off. They are just another way of helping young people feel different. Even if most kids have them, theirs can be unique. They can even tell a story.
But the narcissistic and short-sighted component of tattoo accumulation is just half the story. I had an epiphany about the other half of the story as I was talking to a woman we will call Brooke. We're going to call her Brooke because that really is her name. Brooke was complaining to two of her friends (who are also my friends). She was complaining about the thing single women complain about most often: the boyfriend who won't respect her even though (maybe because?) she is sleeping with him regularly.
Brooke's complaint with her boyfriend was that he desired to stay in her bed after they were finished having "fun." This TMI moment was topped off by a deep philosophical argument: "My bed is an intimate place. Until we're married, he's not welcomed there overnight. That's just too presumptuous. It's too intrusive."
Translation: You can have my body but not my bed. The former is of less value to me. Some will say it's just one anecdote. Of course, it is. But it is part of a larger pattern I am seeing among younger adults. Like virtually all other unhealthy aspects of our culture, it is being nurtured in the university setting. Thinking about these three campus cultural trends will add some perspective:
*Sexual experimentation is encouraged by the administration. Free condoms are available, free birth control is often available. Students are taught to give themselves away and that the only concern is that they remain physically healthy enough to continue to do so.
*Abortion is strongly encouraged on campuses - often to the unconstitutional exclusion of competing ideas. Use of RU 486, which is a dangerous toxin causing the death (and then expulsion) of the unborn, is encouraged. Rarely is there an intelligent discussion of the drug's harmful side effects.
*Genital mutilation is promoted as a means of increasing diversity. College students – even as young as 18 - are encouraged to resolve sexual confusion with the blade of a knife. This permanent disfigurement of their genitalia is simply another form of sexual expression. It's no longer stigmatized. It's celebrated!
There is a dangerous undercurrent here. It is obvious that immediate gratification appeals to young people. But it is compounded by something that is lacking. And what is lacking here is any sense that we as humans are made in the image of God – and that our bodies, therefore, have some intrinsic value. If we were still willing to nurture that idea in our culture – and allowed to do so by the Supreme Court - these trends would not be engulfing us and destroying our children.
Tattoos are a lot like guns. Soon after you get one, you want another. But unlike guns the tattoo always leaves a permanent mark. Whenever the desire to cover one's body with ink sets in, one thing is clear: there is a void in one's soul that desperately needs filling. Like all such voids it is of a spiritual nature and cannot be filled by physical things. At its core, every desire we experience is really a longing for God.
I should not be surprised that so many of our children are covering themselves with ink. They have been separated from transcendent meaning. Now they must create meaning for themselves in order to fill that void. Too often, they try to recreate themselves altogether. And they mask their God-given beauty in the process.
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Pelosi: 'Is it the 11th Amendment? 14th? Whatever ...
I'm With the Constitution' and other ding-a-ling tripe
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) killed Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari in an airstrike on his car in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Israel's TV Channel 2 says Jabari's son also died in the missile attack.
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Bye, Bye Twinkies - 18,000 Jobs Will Also Disappear.
Where was Obuma when America needed him on this on?
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A bakers' union strike has killed Hostess Brands. This week the nation's largest bakery goods company that has been in business since 1930 had warned the union that a strike would financially wound the company, which was already struggling to keep from going under.
The BCTGM union didn't care. The striking union workers didn't care.
After shutting down three plants earlier this week, now Hostess is going out of business, and thousands of employees across the country will be out of work.
They took a huge knife to the metaphorical golden goose and stabbed it until it bled dry.
Good going, union.
Farewell, Ron Paul: After Serving More Than Three Decades, Texas Congressman Says Goodbye in Congress, States Internet Will "Provide Alternative to Government Media Complex" That Controls the News A man with more energy, passion, and good old-fashioned "horse sense" than many people half his age, former obstetrician-gynecologist Congressman Ron Paul, at age 77, gave a farewell speech yesterday after serving as a US House representative for Texas for more than three decades. An impressive twelve terms in office.
Paul is a three-time candidate for President of the United States and has a deeply devoted following. Last year, he had announced that he would not seek re-election to the House. Rep. Paul has been in the forefront for years as one of America's leading voices for limited, constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, returning to the gold standard, and returning to a pro-America foreign policy.
While I may not have agreed with all of Rep. Paul's stances, I've always respected his convictions, his intelligence, his heart, his tenacity, his conservative values and principles, and his love of America and the Constitution.
God bless him. Even though he's retiring from the US House, I find it highly doubtful that he will be silent during his political retirement.
In this portion of his congressional farewell speech, Rep. Paul made this assertion about the Internet and its ability to skirt around the controlling "government media complex" to add to the flow of information and free political speech:
During part one of his farewell speech to Congress, Rep. Ron Paul insisted that the internet remain free, as it is an important alternative to the "government media complex."
"The internet will provide the alternative to the government media complex that controls the news and most political propaganda," Paul stated. "This is why it's essential that the Internet remains free of government regulation."
Ron Paul was right.
The Republicans didn't want the votes of the American conservatives. Their interests are elsewhere
and they lost to Obama.
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The Top 10 Most Disturbing Statistics From Mark Steyn's "After America: Get Ready for Armageddon"
By John Hawkins
http://www.rightwingnews.com/quotes/the-top-10-most-disturbing-statistics-from-mark-steyns-after-america-get-ready-for-Armageddon/
Mark Steyn's After America: Get Ready for Armageddon is one of the best books I've read in a long time. In fact, it was so good that there was no way I could do it justice in a single article.
So, instead I'm going to do two articles. The first is the top 10 most disturbing quotations from After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. Then tomorrow, that will be followed up with the 10 best quotations from the book.
Enjoy!
10) Indeed, since 1970 overall public school employment has increased ten times faster than public school enrollment — with no discernible benefit to student performance. — P.148
9) Government accounting is a joke. In one year (2009), Medicare handed out $98 billion in improper or erroneous payments. A tenth of a trillion? Ha! Rounding error. Look for it in the line items under "Miscellaneous." For an accounting fraud of $567 million, Enron's executives went to jail, and its head guy died there. For an accounting fraud 10 times that size, the two Democrat hacks who headed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, walked away with a combined taxpayer-funded payout of $116.4 million. Fannie and Freddie are two of the largest businesses in America, but they're exempt from SEC disclosure rules and Sarbanes-Oxley "corporate governance." burdens, and so in 2008, unlike Enron, WorldCom, or any of the other reviled private-sector bogeymen, they came close to taking down the entire global economy. What then is the point of the SEC? By 2005, the costs of federal regulatory compliance alone (that is, not including state or local red tape) were up to $1.13 trillion — or approaching 10 percent of GDP. In much of America, it takes far more paperwork to start a business than to go on welfare. — P.85
8) In the fifties, one in twenty members of the workforce needed government permission in order to do his job. Today it's one in three. — P.49
7) The United Auto Workers is the AARP in an Edsel; it has three times as many retirees and widows as "workers" (I use the term loosely). GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people. How do you make that math add up? Not by selling cars: Honda and Nissan were making a pretax operating profit per vehicle of around $1600; Ford, Chrysler, and GM a loss of $500 to $1500. That's to say, they lose money on every vehicle they sell. — P.218
6) In 2009, the average civilian employee of the United States government earned $81,258 in salary plus $41,791 in benefits. Total $123,049. The average Americans employed in the private sector earned $50,462 in salary plus $10,589 in benefits. Total: $61,051. So the federal worker earns more than twice as much as the private sector worker. Plus he has greater job security: he's harder to fire, or even to persuade to take a small pay cut. — P.75
5) As Congressman Paul Ryan pointed out, by 2004, 20 percent of U.S. households were getting about 75 percent of their income from the federal government. As a matter of practical politics, how receptive would they be to a pitch for lower taxes, which they don't pay, or lower government spending, of which they are such fortunate beneficiaries? How receptive would another fifth of households, who receive about 40 percent of their income from the feds, be to such a pitch? — P.73
4) By 2015 or so, the People's Liberation Army, which is the largest employer on the planet, bigger even than the U.S. Department of Community-Organizer Grant Applications, will be entirely funded by U.S taxpayers. — P.6
3) The CBO numbers foresee net interest payments rising from 9 percent of revenue to 36 percent in 2030, then to 58 percent in 2040, and up to 85 percent in 2050. If that trajectory holds, we'll be spending more than the planet's entire military budget on debt interest. But forget mid-century because, unless something changes, whatever goes by the name of "America" under those conditions isn't worth talking about. — P.5
2) John Kichen of the U.S. Treasury and Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin published a study in 2010 entitled:
Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough Money in the World — and At What Cost?
The fact that sane men are even asking this question ought to be deeply disturbing. As to the answer, foreign official holdings of U.S. Treasury securities have usually been less than 5 percent of the rest of the world's GDP. By 2009, they were up to 7 percent. By 2020, Kitchen and Chinn project them to rise to 19 percent of the rest of the world's GDP, which they say is....do-able. Whether the rest of the world will want to do it is another matter. A future that presumes the rest of the planet will sink a fifth of its GDP into U.S. Treasuries is no future at all. But on Big Government's streetcar named Desire we have come to depend on the kindness of strangers. — P.10
1) Within a decade, the United States will be spending more of the federal budget on its interest payments than on its military. You read that right: more on debt service than on the armed services. According to the CBO's 2010 long-term budget outlook, by 2020 the government will be paying between 15 and 20 percent of its revenues in debt interest. Whereas defense spending will be down between 14 and 16 percent. — P.5
Could this be....
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New Possible Signs That The World Is Coming To An End!? (Dead Species, Global Warming, Strange Sounds Being Heard + More)
Something is going on out there in La La Land!
December 21, 2012 is about upon us. Is this the END??? Are We Goners.... Kaput... Fini??????
THE FOUR FINAL DESTINATION MAIN DISASTERS
2012 SIGNS- WORLD ENDING on DEC. 21, 2012 ??????
We are one day closer! As predicted by the Mayans, on December 21st, 2012, the Earth will line up with the Sun which will be in line with the black hole at the center of our galaxy. No one knows for sure what will happen but people love to talk about it. Very hot subject.
SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS globally are predicting and expecting that 3 years from now, all life on Earth may well come to an end. Some are saying it'll be we humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural disasterous phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who would press the stop and restart button. The following are some likely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012. Reason one: Mayan calendar
The first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things — building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and sacrificing virgins.
Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.
Reason two: Sun storms
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery. Our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the earth with lot of radiation energy. It's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012.
Reason three: The atom smasher
Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically, its a 27 km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.
Reason four: The Bible says it
If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough, religious folks are getting in on the act as well. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between good an evil, has been set for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese Book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.
Reason five: Super volcano
Yellowstone National Park in United States is famous for its thermal springs and old faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple — it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.
Reason six: The physicists
This one's case of bog — simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berkely University have been crunching the numbers. They've determined that the earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming that their calculations prove that we're all going to die, very soon. They are also saying that their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 per cent; and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.
Reason seven: Earth's magnetic field
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call North and South have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so — and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30 kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is under way, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.(http://www.pointofpower.com/files/546/1.jpg)
Ouch.... That has gotta hurt!
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When you realize how many political careers and reputations have been destroyed because of sex scandals over the past several years, it's truly mind-boggling. David Petraeus is just the latest in a long line that goes back at least as far as John Kennedy and includes the likes of Gary Hart, Bob Packwood, Wilbur Mills, Ted Kennedy, Mark Sanford, Anthony Weiner, John Edwards and Bill Clinton. Frankly, it's a wonder that any of these guys ever got any work done.
It's probably not that much of a shock when you consider that most politicians were formerly lawyers. And if it's true that the ranks of dentists and psychiatrists are filled with would-be doctors who found they couldn't stand the sight of blood, it's probably fair to assume that politicians were lawyers who couldn't stand the thought of working for a living.
But I think the bigger message we can take away from the rise and fall of Mr. Petraeus is that we would all do well to stop making heroes out of people we don't really know. It's bad enough when teenagers glom onto entertainers and athletes, but at least one can hope they'll eventually grow out of wanting to emulate the likes of Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Michael Vick, Lance Armstrong and Elmo.
There's nothing wrong with admiring someone's accomplishments, but if you're looking for heroes, you should probably start looking closer to home. Find people whose honesty and character you're actually in a position to vouch for. Maybe it's your mom or dad, perhaps even a sibling. If you're fortunate enough, you might even see one in your mirror. Just keep in mind that just about everyone you see in the movies, on TV, in the stadium or arena or read about in newspapers and magazines, has a publicity person on salary whose job is to promote their image. Nobody ever hired a flack to make them look bad. Therefore, when you read about some famous person who finally gets caught misbehaving, it's safe to assume you don't know the half of it.
In the aftermath of the election, it has occurred to me that it is foolish to discuss the Catholic vote. When you realize that Obuma received the bulk of Hispanic votes in spite of his endorsement of abortion and same-sex marriages, and his war on the Church over birth control pills for Church employees, it's obvious that religion is a goofy basis upon which to base their identity. It's just as foolish as believing that religion plays any role in the way that Jews vote. The fact of the matter is that the huge majority of orthodox Jews vote for conservatives. It's secular Jews who overwhelmingly support liberal candidates. But pollsters continue to group them together and to then refer to the Jewish vote as if it's monolithic and has anything to do with Judaism.
If I'm not mistaken, the slide in decorum began, not too surprisingly, with Bill Clinton. Before him, about the most embarrassing things that occurred during presidential campaigns, was seeing the candidates don Indian war bonnets, kissing babies and chowing down on such ethnic, vote-getting, delicacies as pizzas, strudel and knishes. While it's true that Nixon, generally the stodgiest of politicians, went on Laugh-In and in a futile attempt to seem like a regular guy, said "Sock it to me!" ...it took Clinton going on MTV and telling the world whether he wore jockey shorts or boxers to place the presidential limbo pole at ground level. Monica Lewinsky was merely the inevitable result of electing the horny oaf to the highest office in the land.
Therefore, it was no big surprise to see Obuma during the campaign popping up to chitchat with the tawdry likes of Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Jay Leno, David Letterman and Lazaro Mendez, the radio host who bills himself as the Pimp with a Limp.
Speaking of he who should be back in Chicago, it's not certain, as I sit here, whether Barack Obuma will nominate U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to replace Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State. My question, though, is: How is it that Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Mrs. Clinton and now, possibly, Ms. Rice, have all been deemed fit for the job?
Just when was it decided that a position that had been held by the likes of Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster, William Jennings Bryan, George Marshall and John Foster Dulles, would become nothing more than the final rung on the ladder of affirmative action?
In 20 short years, it's gone from being a tough job for tough-minded people to being a really bad joke. Sort of like the presidency, itself, now that I think of it.
As we approach the "fiscal cliff" of punitive taxation and draconian spending cuts it might be time to suggest that Congress consider that we change our National Emblem to the Ostrich.
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Shortly after World War II, Churchill and Truman were riding a train to Fulton Missouri to give speeches. Churchill gave his, now famous, "Iron Curtain" speech; and no one can remember what Truman said. During the train ride Truman was eager to show Winston Churchill the new National emblem that Truman had modified. The eagle no longer looked toward the arrows in the left talon of the eagle but had shifted its gaze toward the olive branch in its right talon. Churchill was quoted as saying that perhaps the head should be on a swivel so that it could look either the right or the left as was needed at the time. Truman was not amused.
Now more than sixty years later it seems that we need a new inspirational emblem as we approach the "fiscal cliff." Yet, a lack of leadership seems to indicate that neither political party has the will to find a totem to make the hard decisions that loom before us in either spending or taxation. So many politicians either seem confused or scared to the point of paralysis on this impending doom.
The results of the recent election are to blame, some say. The voters left in place a Republican House and a Democrat in the Presidency. The eagle does not know whether to look left or right. A two headed eagle was the emblem of Tsarist Russia, it looked both ways at the same time but that government did not work out so well.
Given that no one in either party is stepping up to take a stand on the numbers game which we call the budget process, its clear that an eagle is not the right emblem. The head in the sand mentality had taken hold of so many in Washington, so clearly the solution is to adopt the Ostrich as our national emblem. We can't seem to face our fiscal problems at home nor our foreign problems of a nuclear Iran. We would rather pretend that none of these problems exist and just stick our heads in the sand. So it seems that the Ostrich is perfect for the new national emblem.
However, considering that we are rushing toward the fiscal cliff with speed and enthusiasm, perhaps we should consider the lemming as a notional emblem as well.
CLIPS AND SNIPS
GOP would have lost election even with Hispanic vote.
Some promises are meant to be kept
"I swear by Allah, won't do such a thing again" (Allah kasam dubara aisi galti nahi karunga), were the last words uttered by Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving terrorist, proved guilty in 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai. Kasab was hanged till death and buried immediately inside Yerwada jail on Wednesday morning.
Who's up for a combo platter of Muslims and Green Energy?
There are about a thousand things that Obama hates. Like guns, bibles, coal, movies about Mohammed and cameras that don't capture his good side. But there are only two things he really loves. Green energy and Muslims. And finally he's found a way to put both together at the same time. And it will only cost us 6 billion dollars.
Obama is funneling money to Muslim countries so that they'll buy Green Energy tech from his eco-crony capitalist donors. The shell game is that these companies are on the brink of bankruptcy and Obama is trying to use foreign aid to bail them out.
Twinkies Aren't the only Fattening Things Around
The Bakers' Union (BCTGM) has 58 employees. 29 of them make more than $100,000 a year. The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union has 8 Vice Presidents. (One is an Executive Vice-President). BCTGM also has 12 representatives who make between $100,000 and $150,000. Its highest paid organizer makes $148,851.
THE MEDIA'S BARK IS WORSE THAN ITS BITE
Like Pavlov's dogs, reporters reflexively reduce the Middle East to a conflict between Israel and the Arabs, Jews and Muslims, the people that they hate and the people that they like. Asking them to cover anything more complicated than that is also asking them to do too much.
PEACE HAS NO FUTURE
According to a survey conducted by the Palpress Arabic-language website, the Palestinians are itching for another fight with Israel, less than a day after the Jewish state agreed to prematurely halt its campaign to eliminate the Gaza missile threat.
The Palpress survey, which was actually an Internet referendum, showed that 64 percent of Palestinian Arabs oppose a long-term ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
....Dan Greenfield
Controversy: School District's System for Student Microchip Tracking Devices Was Hacked, One Student Fights Back on Mandated ID on Religious Grounds (video): (http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/student-texas-microchip-id-card-high-school.jpg)
If this controversial microchip-card mandate had been launched at schools in liberty-robbing, left-wing-delerious California or Massachusetts, I'd not be surprised.
But TEXAS???
Welcome to the Nanny State.
The ID monitoring system for a San Antonio school district was hacked over the weekend in protest, and another student is fighting back, saying the mandate violates her religion. Andrea Hernandez is being taken seriously by the courts.
Reported by CBS Houston, Schools' Tracking Devices Causes Controversy:
A San Antonio school district's website was hacked over the weekend to protest its policy requiring students to wear microchip-embedded cards tracking their every move on campus.
A teenager purportedly working with the hacker group Anonymous said in an online statement that he took the site down because the Northside school district "is stripping away the privacy of students in your school."
The teen, who identified himself in an email as being 16 years old, said he hacked into the website Saturday, and it was not working Sunday. District spokesman Pascual Gonzalez said he has not yet been able to confirm that it was hacked.
Starting this fall, all students at John Jay High School and Anson Jones Middle School are required to carry identification cards embedded with a microchip. They are tracked by the dozens of electronic readers installed in the schools' ceiling panels.
Northside has been testing a "radio frequency identification" tracking system for the two schools to increase attendance in order to secure more state funding, officials have said. The program, which kicked off at the beginning of this school year, eventually could be used at all of Northside's 112 campuses, officials have said. The district is the fourth largest in Texas with more than 97,000 students.
The hacked website isn't the first controversy over the program.
One John Jay student refused to wear the device, citing religious reasons, and then filed a lawsuit after Principal Robert Harris threatened to remove her from the school and stopped her from petitioning against the ID badge. Last week a judge said the principal's actions violated the student's speech and religious rights, and granted a restraining order barring Harris from removing her from the school, San Antonio television station KENS reported.
No, Weed Isn't "Harmless"By Katie PavlichOur friend Steven Crowder recently took a trip to Ann Arbor, Michigan to expose a common lie about Marijuana use: it's not harmful. It turns out, Marijuana isn't "just a plant" that does less damage than alcohol. According to a doctor Crowder interviewed in the video below, Marijuana actually lingers in your brain and when smoked at a young age, prevents maturity from taking place (imagine that!).
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What's the truth?
As Crowder pointed out in the video, there are many cases to be made on both sides of the Marijuana legalization argument, however, making the argument that the drug is "harmless" is inaccurate. Although alcohol and tobacco are legal, we don't make the argument that they are both harmless because, they aren't.[/font][/size]
Do you know how many different kinds of marijuana there are? Many more than most people think and all are "stronger'' than what was around in the 60's. Bad news.
Unless you use it, how do you know ?
From the EMT classes I taught for many years and the Docs who taught us instructors. I can't be around it ,it gives me a terrible head ache. We hauled many a high person to the hospital after they "forgot" to drive and wrecked. Sorry to ruin your fun.
3 Reasons to Kill the Dept. of Homeland Security 1. It's unnecessary. In the months immediately following September 11 attacks in 2001, President George W. Bush initially resisted calls to create a new high-level bureaucracy that would be laid on top of current activities. He was right to recognize that coordinating existing agencies would have been smarter and better. Unfortunately, he caved in to pressure to create a massive new department.
2. It's ineffective. To read the titles of Government Accountability Office (GAO) analyses of Homeland Security is to be reminded constantly that DHS is never quite on top of its game. Recent reports include "DHS Requires More Disciplined Investment Management to Help Meet Mission Needs," "DHS Needs Better Project Information and Coordination Among Four Overlapping Grant Programs," and "Agriculture Inspection Program Has Made Some Improvements, But Management Challenges Persist."
3. It's expensive. Last year, Homeland Security spent a whopping $60 billion, a figure that will doubtlessly increase in coming years. The construction of its new headquarters – the single-largest projectever undertaken by The General Services Administration – will cost at least $4 billion and is already years behind on schedule since breaking ground in 2009.
Since it's the holiday season, here's a bonus reason to get rid of the Department of Homeland Security: It also runs the Transportation Security Administration, whose nasty reputation for manhandling innocent travelers is only slightly more annoying than its massive and undeserved growth in personnel and cost over the past decade. (http://itthing.com/wp-content/uploads/airport-security.jpg)
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Do you know how many different kinds of marijuana there are? Many more than most people think and all are "stronger'' than what was around in the 60's. Bad news.
American voters favor the legalization of marijuana, 51 - 44 percent, with a substantial gender and age gap, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.
"With the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes legal in about 20 states, and Washington and Colorado voting this November to legalize the drug for recreational use, American voters seem to have a more favorable opinion about this once-dreaded drug," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "There are large differences on this question among the American people.
"Men support legalization 59 - 36 percent, but women are opposed 52 - 44 percent. The racial split evident throughout American politics on many matters is barely noticeable on this question with 50 percent of white voters and 57 percent of black voters backing legalization."
"Not surprisingly, voters 18 to 29 years old support legalization 67 - 29 percent while voters over age 65 are opposed 56 - 35 percent," Brown added. "Voters 30 to 44 years old like the idea 58 - 39 percent, while voters 45 to 64 years old are divided 48 - 47 percent."
"This is the first time Quinnipiac University asked this question in its national poll so there is no comparison from earlier years. It seems likely, however, that given the better than 2-1 majority among younger voters, legalization is just a matter of time."
Diane... Boomers are in power and have been for some time. The States and the Fed are desperate for the tax revenue marijuana sales will produce.
Hate to say it but the "War On Drugs" is a colossal failure. The most successful aspect of the "War On Drugs" was the high rate of incarceration, which has become too expensive and unproductive, although it was also good for disenfranchising voters. America in general has not changed its mind, after all anyone who has indulged knows Chong was not wrong, but the elite has decided it is time to let go of the myths about grass. I'm far from a prude on this issue but I am somewhat concerned that the "legalization" of marijuana will create challenges that need to be considered before we get too far along. Maybe it will all work out ok but I have little faith that the States and Feds can properly address them ahead of time and I think this has all the makings of a great field for trial lawyers.
The "War On Drugs "has produced the same result as Prohibition did in the 30s. Mexico is now ruled by the Mob. Illegal pot is so profitable, mexican drug lords grow it in California's National Forests and Parks. Legalize it and you undercut and eradicate that avenue of money making and environmental abuse.
....Warph
I've known one since 1972. In all that time he has been sober and off drugs ( meth and marijuana) for about six months, and that has been in bits and pieces.
He's classic example of what not to do..totally irresponsible. He has kept his family, after his wife and daughter left him years ago, in an uproar constantly. I'm amazed we haven't yet found him dead in a ditch. He's done prison time,didn't change a thing,, tried to get family to take out a second mortgage on their house to pay off his drug dealer... and couldn't understand why they wouldn't. A real piece of work, yet when he wants to he can be very charming.
Stay home and off the roads please, no matter what. Or have a designated driver. High drivers are just as dangerous as drunk...and texting! drivers. I know, I've seen it all.
From an ex-stoner:
"Women don't like pot for the most part. It's a 'man' drug. What they really don't like is a useless, stoned man...pot makes you stupid, poor company and a poor provider." ...Robert Downey, jr.
Warph, I think the Fed's are more interested in keeping the drug war agoing
to maintain the power over people. Tyranny, that is.
Drugs are State issues, not Federal.
The States would do well by nullifying the Fed's on a lot of things. Nullification, it works, if used.
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Exposing Washington's Dishonest Budget Math
....By Daniel J. Mitchell
I've repeatedly tried to expose pervasive fiscal dishonesty in Washington.
In these John Stossel and Judge Napolitano interviews, for instance, I explain that the crooks in DC have created a system that allows them to claim they're cutting the budget when the burden of government spending actually is rising.
This sleazy system is designed in part to deceive the American people, and the current squabbling over the fiscal cliff is a good example. The President claims he has a "balanced approach" that involves budget cuts, but look at the second chart at this link and you will see that he's really proposing bigger government.
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This dishonest approach also was used by the President's Fiscal Commission and last year's crummy debt limit deal was based on this form of fiscal prevarication.
Here are some key excerpts from a Wall Street Journal editorial exposing this scam:
...President Obama and John Boehner are playing by the dysfunctional Beltway rules. The rules work if you like bigger government, but Republicans need a new strategy, which starts by exposing the rigged game of "baseline budgeting." ...numbers have no real meaning because they are conjured in the wilderness of mirrors that is the federal budget process. Since 1974, Capitol Hill's "baseline" has automatically increased spending every year according to Congressional Budget Office projections, which means before anyone has submitted a budget or cast a single vote. Tax and spending changes are then measured off that inflated baseline, not in absolute terms. ...Democrats designed this system to make it easier to defend annual spending increases and to portray any reduction in the baseline as a spending "cut." Chris Wallace called Timothy Geithner on this "gimmick" on "Fox News Sunday" this week, only to have the Treasury Secretary insist it's real. ...in the current debate the GOP is putting itself at a major disadvantage by negotiating off the phony baseline. ...If Republicans really want to slow the growth in spending, they need to stop playing by Beltway rules and start explaining to America why Mr. Obama keeps saying he's cutting spending even as spending and deficits keep going up and up and up.
You probably won't be surprised to learn that other nations rely on this crooked system, most notably the United Kingdom, which supposedly is imposing "savage" cuts even though government spending keeps rising (and they fooled Paul Krugman, though he seems to make a habit of misreading foreign fiscal and economic data).
But let's return to the American fiscal situation. Republicans almost certainly will lose the battle over the fiscal cliff because they meekly are playing cards with a rigged deck controlled by the other side.
They should expose this scam by using nominal numbers and looking at year-over-year changes in both taxes and spending. I did that last year and showed how simple it is to balance the budget in a short period of time.
They key thing to understand is that (barring a recession) tax revenues rise every year. Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office projects that tax revenue will climb by an average of more than 6 percent annually over the next 10 years – even if the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts are made permanent.
So all that's really needed to bring red ink under control is a modest bit of spending restraint. This video is from 2010, but the analysis is still completely relevant today.
It's amazing how good things happen when you follow the Golden Rule of fiscal policy.
Good for Gov Brownback. Now I hope he tells these morons to shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
Secular group rips Kansas Gov. Brownback for his promotion of faith rally
Published December 10, 2012
A secular group tore into Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback over the weekend for promoting a national faith rally, saying the Republican governor needs to "repent" for allegedly violating the separation of church and state.
Whether any constitutional boundaries were actually breached is unclear, but Americans United for Separation of Church and State was unsparing in its criticism of the governor.
"The people of Kansas do not need politicians telling us when, how or whether to pray," Vickie Sandell Stangl, president of the Great Plains Chapter of Americans United, said in a statement.
"If anybody needs to repent, it's Gov. Brownback. He needs to repent for violating the constitutional separation of church and state."
The Kansas governor spoke on Saturday at a ReignDown USA event in Topeka, Kan., where he used his 10-minute appearance to discuss how he turned to religion after being diagnosed with cancer in 1995.
According to an account in The Topeka Capital-Journal, Brownback said: "I finally reached up and said, 'God, this life's yours.' It started a great adventure."
But what really rankled Americans United for Separation of Church and State was Brownback's earlier promotion of the prayer rally, in the form of a state proclamation.
"The governor is really overstepping his constitutional bounds. He was elected to serve as governor of our state, not our state pastor-in-chief," Stangl said.
Reached for comment, Executive Director Barry Lynn explained that the group was more concerned with a proclamation put out by the governor's office than his actual remarks at the event.
In the proclamation, Brownback declared Saturday -- the day of the event -- to be a "Day of Restoration."
"We collectively repent of distancing ourselves from God and ask for His mercy on us," the proclamation said.
Brownback, though, also used the proclamation to quote former American presidents -- including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson -- who discussed their faith and God.
"WHEREAS, our Nation's greatest leaders have called on a merciful God for favor during troubled times," the proclamation said, quoting the Jefferson line: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."
Lynn said the proclamation went too far by "proclaiming that this is good for everyone in the state of Kansas." He said the statement was tantamount to making the ReignDown USA rally a "special state event."
The group also accused ReignDown USA organizers of wanting "government leaders to adopt their religious vision and impose it on us all."
Those organizers, though, rejected that claim.
"We were all just gathering, uniting together, and praying for change," said Shawn-Marie Cole, chief visionary officer with the organizer.
Walt Kallestad, president of the group's advisory board, said the event is not about imposing belief sets.
"ReignDown is really a call for humility, prayer, repentance," he said.
It's hardly the first time Brownback has worn his faith on his sleeves.
In August 2011, he joined Texas Gov. Rick Perry for a national prayer rally. It came as Perry was considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination.
"It is no secret that Governor Brownback is a man of faith. He believes strongly in the power of prayer and so do the people of Kansas," spokeswoman Sherriene Jones-Sontag said in the governor's defense.
Organizers for ReignDown USA have not yet returned requests from FoxNews.com for comment.
This just shows how stupid our country has become. We can only hope there is a "self destruct bomb" inside each jet that we can activate when the time comes that we, or Israel are fighting against our own planes---and the time will come.
US sending 20 more F-16s to Egypt, despite turmoil in Cairo
By Maxim Lott
Published December 10, 2012
Instability in Egypt, where a newly-elected Islamic government teeters over an angry population, isn't enough to stop the U.S. from sending more than 20 F-16 fighter jets, as part of a $1 billion foreign aid package.
The first four jets are to be delivered to Egypt beginning Jan. 22, a source at the naval air base in Fort Worth, where the planes have been undergoing testing, told FoxNews.com. The North African nation already has a fleet of more than 200 of the planes and the latest shipment merely fulfills an order placed two years ago. But given the uncertainty in Cairo, some critics wonder if it is wise to be sending more top gun planes.
"Should an overreaction [by Egypt] spiral into a broader conflict between Egypt and Israel, such a scenario would put U.S. officials in an embarrassing position of having supplied massive amounts of military hardware ... to both belligerents," said Malou Innocent, a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute. "Given Washington's fiscal woes, American taxpayers should no longer be Egypt's major arms supplier."
"Given Washington's fiscal woes, American taxpayers should no longer be Egypt's major arms supplier."
The U.S. government ordered and paid for the fighter jets for Egypt's military as part of foreign aid for Egypt back in 2010, when Hosni Mubarak ruled. The fighter jets were supposed to be delivered in 2013, and delivery will go ahead as scheduled even though Hosni Mubarak has been removed from power and replaced by Mohamed Morsi, who led the Muslim Brotherhood before becoming Egypt's president.
Morsi was democratically elected, but last month attempted to seize dictatorial powers for himself. After widespread protests and violence in Egypt's capital of Cairo, Morsi backed off from his power grab. But he is pushing through a controversial new constitution for Egypt that would more strictly enforce Islamic Shariah law, and only recently said he reserves the right to have the military arrest protesters without charges.
"The Morsi-led Muslim Brotherhood government has not proven to be a partner for democracy as they had promised, given the recent attempted power grab," a senior Republican congressional aide told FoxNews.com.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-Fla.), who chairs the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, recently criticized U.S. military aid to Egypt:
"The Obama administration wants to simply throw money at an Egyptian government that the president cannot even clearly state is an ally of the United States," Rep. Ros-Lehtinen said.
The $213 million order, which is paid for by U.S. taxpayers and is part of Egypt's foreign aid package from America, had to be approved by lawmakers in Washington.While the basic F-16 has been a military workhorse for top air forces for more than 25 years, the cockpit electronics are constantly updated and the models Egypt is getting are the best defense contractor Lockheed Martin makes.
"This is a great day for Lockheed Martin and a testament to the enduring partnership and commitment we have made to the government of Egypt," said John Larson, vice president, Lockheed Martin F-16 programs. "We remain committed to providing our customer with a proven, advanced 4th Generation multirole fighter."
"In an air combat role, the F-16's maneuverability and combat radius exceed that of all potential threat fighter aircraft," the U.S. Air Force description of the plane reads.
"The F-16 can fly more than 500 miles, deliver its weapons with superior accuracy, defend itself against enemy aircraft, and return to its starting point. An all-weather capability allows it to accurately deliver ordnance during non-visual bombing conditions."
A Pentagon spokesman said the U.S. and Egypt have an important alliance that is furthered by the transfer.
"The U.S.-Egypt defense relationship has served as the cornerstone of our broader strategic partnership for over thirty years," said Lt. Col. Wesley Miller. "The delivery of the first set of F-16s in January 2013 reflects the U.S. commitment to supporting the Egyptian military's modernization efforts. Egyptian acquisition of F-16s will increase our militaries' interoperability, and enhance Egypt's capacity to contribute to regional mission sets."
Last month, State Department official Andrew J. Shapiro explained why the administration plans to continue military aid to Egypt:
"I know that the uncertainty over the Egyptian transition has prompted some in Congress to propose conditioning our security assistance to Egypt. The administration believes that putting conditions on our assistance to Egypt is the wrong approach, and Secretary Clinton has made this point strongly. Egypt is a pivotal country in the Middle East and a long-time partner of the United States. We have continued to rely on Egypt to support and advance U.S. interests in the region, including peace with Israel, confronting Iranian ambitions, interdicting smugglers, and supporting Iraq," he said
So far, Jar, we have had 62 Egyptian pilots train on F-16s here at Luke AFB in the past two years. This program has been ongoing now for the past 10 or so years here. Most training AF bases in the U.S. have pilots from all over the middle east learning to fly everything from C-130s to fighter jets to choppers. I have written about this before... it sucks.
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Let me see if I got this right---the reason the Taliban are killing Americans is because we don't understand their culture ---that it is OK for the men to molest little boys and as long as they don't fall in love with the tykes it not homosexual behavior and therefore is accepted. What hog wash !! I hope Gen J. Allen tells the Army, politely, that they can keep their new handbook, and just leave him and his Marines alone so they can do their job of killing as many of the Taliban as they can. This pacification BS was tried before and it didn't work then, and won't now.
A proposed new handbook for Americans serving in Afghanistan warns them not to speak ill about the Taliban, advocate women's rights or criticize pedophilia, and the general in charge is not happy with it.
The draft of the newest Army handbook seems to suggest that ignorance of Afghan culture is to blame for deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers against the coalition forces, according to The Wall Street Journal, which got a peek at the 75-page document. But its message of walking on eggshells around the locals is not going over well with U.S. Marine Gen. John Allen, the top military commander in Afghanistan.
"Gen. Allen did not author, nor does he intend to provide, a foreword," said Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. "He does not approve of its contents."
The study, based on interviews with 600 members of the Afghan security forces and 200 American soldiers, painted a grim portrait of opposing cultures with simmering disdain for their counterparts.
The draft handbook includes a summary stating that some U.S. soldiers consider Afghan forces to be "basically stupid" thieves, "gutless in combat," "profoundly dishonest" and engaged in "treasonous collusion and alliances with enemy forces."
The draft handbook offers a list of "taboo conversation topics" that soldiers should avoid, including "making derogatory comments about the Taliban," "advocating women's rights," "any criticism of pedophilia," "directing any criticism toward Afghans," "mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct" or "anything related to Islam," according to the Journal.
What a crock of crap !!!! If we don't kick the liberals out of our country and our military---or at least the ones running the show---then the day is not far off when our country will be protected by nothing but a bunch of limp wristed ,pantywaists . I can see it now" Men , get ready to assault the hill' --" we can't Lt, we are drinking our Lattes and waiting for our fingernail polish to dry"
This kind of crap frosts my nads to no end !! If Gen. Amos condones or enforces this BS then it's time for him to resign .
Military to subject Marines to random Breathalyzer tests in strict anti-drinking crackdown
Published December 26, 2012
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. military next month plans to start subjecting Marines to random Breathalyzer tests, as part of its strictest anti-drinking policy to date. Even one drink could get a Marine referred for counseling.
The initiative, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2013, is part of a broader program aimed at stopping Marines from underage drinking and drinking while on duty. They will be required to take the tests twice a year.
"Breathalyzer testing will enable commanders to test 100 percent of the Marines in their unit in order to take appropriate actions related to the health and safety of Marines such as training, education and referral to substance abuse counseling," spokesman Maj. Shawn Haney told FoxNews.com.
Under the Marine order, monthly reports will be kept by each unit and quarterly reports will be submitted to Marine Corps headquarters. It's up to the unit commander whether he or she wants to hand down additional punishment.
Any Marine who tests positive at .01 percent or higher, under the policy, could be referred by a commander for "training, education and further screening" at a substance abuse center. If a Marine tests .04 percent or higher, he or she will be referred to medical personnel to determine whether they are fit for duty.
The maximum blood alcohol level for driving in all 50 states and the District of Columbia is 0.08 percent -- much higher than the limit the Marines will impose on their personnel. Just one drink could easily bring the level to 0.01 percent, but some say such a strict crackdown is necessary.
In 2011, there were 13 alcohol-related deaths among Marines.
A study by the U.S. Institute of Medicine found that binge drinking or "sport drinking" has been on the rise among personnel in all branches of the military. In 2008, 47 percent admitted to binge drinking with 20 percent calling themselves "heavy drinkers," a figure sharply higher than a decade ago when only 35 percent admitted to binge drinking.
The program is part of the Secretary of the Navy's 21st Century Sailor and Marine initiative aimed at reinforcing healthy lifestyles both on and off duty which entails curbing alcohol misuse and abuse. Early intervention is intended for Marines who have some difficulty with alcohol but who do not have an established pattern of abuse, Haney said.
During a pilot program in March 2012, the U.S. Navy said it would begin Breathalyzer tests for sailors stationed onboard ships and submarines and at air squadrons to curb alcohol abuse.
The Navy has also begun random testing of urine samples this month for synthetic chemical compounds such as synthetic marijuana known as Spice. Last year, the Navy discharged 94 sailors for using Spice. Most were from the aircraft carriers USS Ronald Reagan and the USS Carol Vinson, which was the vessel used to dispose of Usama bin Laden's body.
Am I the only person left in America who doesn't want a running negative news report everywhere I go?
Have you noticed that everywhere you go now there is a blaring television with the most disturbing news blasting in your ears? I have, and it's getting really tiresome. I can understand that a sports bar or pub would have a TV for sports or something (though with the PC stuff some of the sportscasters spout on ESPN etc., I sometimes think I am watching the news), but why at every regular restaurant or even just in a store or doctor's office do I continually have to watch the mayhem and anxiety-producing news that I am going out to escape? Apparently I'm not alone, as others have noticed the trend in recent years.
And it's not just restaurants, it's doctor's offices, stores, planes, and everywhere the public goes. Even my gym is inundated with TVs that show one catastrophe after the next. I thought people were watching less TV, but maybe this is at home where they have the choice. Or are people just turning to other gadgets and devices to give them something to do constantly? Is it too much to ask just to be able to sit quietly, ride the treadmill without the mayhem, or just read or stare into space in a public place? Apparently so. I am getting one of those TV-B-Gone remote controls that allow me to turn those damn things off. They give me a headache. (http://s6.thisnext.com/media/250x250/TV-B-Gone-Universal-TV-Power_93F84846.jpg)
$19.95
https://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_buy.tvbg.php?PHPSESSID=t0jfjor3am5bu38s09t0reg530
This small keychain wonder is designed to turn off virtually any television. Invented by Mitch Altman, a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, the TV-B-Gone is a simple remote control device with a single button. When activated, the unit emits 209 different turn-off codes for nearly every TV. The unit...more takes a little more than a minute to cycle through all of the turn-off codes, but fortunately, codes for the most common TVs are emitted first.
Imagine... You're sitting in a restaurant with your friends. The TV in the corner is blaring.
Sounds tempting...
I remember when they first put TVs in places like restaraunts or bars, the customers controled the remote.
Can one of you smart people, like ol Warph, explain why the tax payers should pick up the tab to the tune of 17 billion dollars, included in this aid pkg, to help people rebuild their homes and business's ? Isn't that what insurance is for ?
About the same time as Sandy we had some high winds that broke a big limb out of a cotton wood tree and smashed the roof in on a lean to. After the deductable my insurance company cut me a check and I had the roof replaced. Should I save money by dropping my home owners insurance and just let Uncle Sam pay for damage done by Mother nature---or you think I better keep paying for insurance ?
Senate-passed $60.4 billion Sandy aid package heads to tight-fisted House
Published December 29, 2012
FoxNews.
The $60.4 billion emergency-aid package for Hurricane Sandy victims that the Senate has passed now faces an uncertain, final vote Sunday in the Republican-controlled House, which has expressed a desire to pass a less-expensive bill in the final days of the lame duck session.
The measure passed the Democrat-controlled Senate on Friday by a 62-32 vote, after Republicans failed to pass amendments that would have cut the package to $24 billion.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that only about $9 billion of the $60.4 billion would be spent over the next nine months.
The late-October storm hammed the East Coast for several days, killing at 120 people. The flooding, high winds and pounding surf stretched from North Carolina to Maine -- with New York, New Jersey and Connecticut hit hardest.
Rep. Paul Ryan, the party's 2012 vice presidential nominee and a leading House fiscal conservative, has criticized the Democratic bill as "packed with funding for unrelated items" such as commercial fisheries in American Samoa and roof repair of museums in Washington.
Senate Republicans tried to strip commercial fisheries and other non-immediate funding for their chamber's bill.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., also targeted the fisheries disaster funding, unsuccessfully proposing an amendment to cut $150 million that could go to Alaska, the Gulf Coast and New England states.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., urged House leaders to quickly bring the Senate bill to the chamber floor to allow a vote.
He also the Senate bill provides "very good groundwork" for seeking Sandy aid next year, should the House vote against the legislation.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also urged House leaders to allow a vote.
"Our fellow Americans are waiting for relief to rebuild their homes, businesses, communities and lives," the California Democrat said. "Now that the Senate has acted ... the House must do the same immediately."
The measure includes $11.5 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's chief disaster relief fund and $17 billion for community development block grants, much of which would help homeowners repair or replace their homes. Another $11.7 billion would help repair New York City's subways and other mass transit damage and protect them from future storms. Some $9.7 billion would go toward the government's flood insurance program. The Army Corps of Engineers would receive $5.3 billion to mitigate flood future risks and rebuild damaged projects.
To court votes, Democrats last week broadened some of their bill's provisions to cover damage from Hurricane Isaac, which struck the Gulf Coast earlier this year. A provision was added to the $2.9 billion allotted to Army Corps of Engineers projects to reduce future flooding risks; the coverage area for that program will now include areas hit by Isaac in addition to Sandy. Democrats also shifted $400 million into a community development program for regions suffering disasters, beyond areas struck by Sandy.
A Coburn amendment to reduce the federal share of costs for the Army Corps of Engineer projects to reduce future flooding risks also failed.
Most of the money in the $60.4 billion bill -- $47.4 billion -- is for immediate help for victims and other recovery and rebuilding efforts. The aid is intended to help states rebuild public infrastructure like roads and tunnels, and help thousands of people displaced from their homes.
Coburn and Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, frequent critics of government spending, targeted what they called "questionable" spending in the Democratic bill, including $2 million for roof repairs at Smithsonian Institution museums and $58 million in subsidies for tree planting on private properties.
A McCain amendment to strip the tree subsidies failed.
Republicans also criticized $13 billion in the Democratic bill for projects to protect against future storms, including fortifying mass transit systems in the Northeast. Republicans said however worthy such projects may be, they are not urgently needed and should be considered by Congress in the usual appropriations process next year.
Quote from: jarhead on December 29, 2012, 12:32:06 PM
Can one of you smart people, like ol Warph, explain why the tax payers should pick up the tab to the tune of 17 billion dollars, included in this aid pkg, to help people rebuild their homes and business's ? Isn't that what insurance is for ?
Them's mighty fine questions, jarhead... until you take the gimee, entitlement mentality into account. Haven't you heard? Obama has a 'private stash' to help folks out. But you might keep paying for that insurance just in case. LOL
Patriot,
$58 million in subsidies for tree planting on private properties.
Now aint that a kick in the arse. If some one wants a tree let them buy their own---or better yet send that $58 million to us and we will dump a boat load of hedge apples in the Atlantic and when they wash ashore---in a couple years they will have lots of nice trees
Quote from: jarhead on December 29, 2012, 09:50:01 PM
Patriot,
$58 million in subsidies for tree planting on private properties.
Now aint that a kick in the arse. If some one wants a tree let them buy their own---or better yet send that $58 million to us and we will dump a boat load of hedge apples in the Atlantic and when they wash ashore---in a couple years they will have lots of nice trees
Don't forget these Pork Pie dittys, Jar...
***The bill includes $188 million for an Amtrak project to curb rail bottlenecks in the Northeast. The project was on the table LONG BEFORE Sandy hit in late October, according to an analysis of the bill by the group Taxpayers for Common Sense.
***$150 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for fisheries disasters in 2012 not related to Sandy; the money could go to New England states, Alaska, New York and Mississippi.
***$821 million for dredging projects in areas hit by Sandy and OTHER natural disasters.
***$20,000 to buy a new car for the Department of Justice's inspector general. (I love this one!)
I read that a good number of insurance companies are dragging their heels on this waiting to see what the Feds are going to do. They need cut other federal programs to pay for some or all of the disaster costs. The head of the F E M A, Craig Fugate, recently said the government's disaster relief fund still has $4.8 billion, enough to pay for recovery efforts into early spring.
Hopefully the House will whittle this bill down.
Why not tell it like it was???
I had a dream last night...
There sat the dog faced John Kerry before the Senate confirmation hearings
for his appointment to Secretary of State. After the Chair had praised his
vast "Diplomatic Experience"... Followed by praise for his integrity,
honorable service, etc. He finally turns the hearing over to the rest of
the panel for questioning... and here is where my dream turned to
fantasy...
For in my dream... the first Republican Senator to ask a question starts like
this....
Senator... you life story is a long and storied one...well known throughout
the world... and the Chair has praised your integrity and diplomatic
experience... I'd like to start by asking you to once again describe your
famous Christmas Eve, secret mission into Cambodia ... Which I find most
interesting since you weren't even in SE Asia during the Christmas time of
year? Then I would like to ask... is consorting with our nations enemies
part of your "Diplomatic Experience"... Like North Vietnam while we were at
war? The Sandinista's while we were engaged in conflict in Central America ?
The butcher Assad and Saddam Hussein in the Middle East ... and the Russians
and Chinese when we were engaged in the Cold War?
And would you explain to us how you recruited your fellow "Winter Soldiers"
to come and testify before Congress about atrocities committed by our
American Soldiers and Marines... when most of the so called witnesses you
recruited... were never even in the military or had ever gone to Vietnam ?
Remind us of your eye witness accounts of our Vietnam Veterans as being as
ruthless as the hordes of Gangues Khan? Tell us when and where you observed
that first hand Senator Kerry?
And then I'd like to know why your citations for your Silver Stars were
signed by a Secretary of the Navy... years and years after the war was
over?
And also, is it true as charged by eye witnesses... Your Purple Hearts were
as a result of your own incompetence? Friendly fire by your own hand? These
are just some of the questions I have... and should be answered before your
confirmation.
And in my dream... I was cheerleading the line of questioning and thinking
subconsciously... "Ask why he couldn't pass the Bar Exam... if he is so
brilliant"? "Ask him why he parked his boat in Rhode Island ... Was it to
avoid taxes on it in his home state"? "Ask him how he has accumulated such
grand wealth on the salary of a Senator"? "Is it true that your wealth was
derived by marrying homely, if not down right, butt ugly... rich heiresses
and widows"? "And ask him why the men who served with him in Vietnam ...
universally hate his guts... along with 99.9% of all Vietnam Veterans"?
"Ask him if it is true that of all the men and women in the U.S. Senate... he is
known to be the most egotistical of them all... only his good buddy, John
McCain comes close. A man who also married well... Birds of a feather"?
And then... I woke up! Ain't gonna happen... Politicians are gutless!
But I have to ask myself? Is this the face America wants to present to the
rest of the world? A man who has made a career of lies, falsehoods and
deceit? I can think of no human being... who symbolizes the term; "Ugly
American" more than John Kerry. A liar, a phony, arrogant, piece of human
dog squeeze if there ever was one!
Is this a man we should be proud to be hailed as a "Great American"? Can
any foreign leader ever trust a single word out of this man's mouth... when
it is documented that he has lied to his own countrymen... time after time
after time... Is this the best we have offer? In a perfect world... this
man wouldn't even be considered for "Dog Catcher"... even though he did
manage to capture two in his lifetime.
He is an insult... a mortal insult... to all who have served.
Ed Schriber
Col. USMC (Ret.)
"Semper Fi"
I love that last line from the Col., "He is an insult... a mortal insult... to all who have served."
Commander George Elliott--who praised Kerry's conduct during the Vietnam War--provided an affidavit criticizing Kerry for being awarded a Silver Star.
However, what appeared at first as a coup for them appeared to backfire when, on August 5, 2004, a Boston Globe article reported that Elliott had recanted his criticism of Kerry. The article quoted Elliott as saying, "It was a terrible mistake probably for me to sign the affidavit with those words. I'm the one in trouble here." The affidavit states that the incident for which Kerry received the medal was actually shooting "a wounded, fleeing Viet Cong in the back." Elliott said he felt "time pressure" to sign the affidavit "That's no excuse," Elliott said, "I knew it was wrong. ... In a hurry I signed it and faxed it back. That was a mistake." [28]
In the same article Elliott maintained that, "based on the affidavits of the veterans on other boats," Kerry's being awarded the Bronze Star and third Purple Heart might be questionable. He said: "I simply have no reason for these guys [signing the other affidavits] to be lying, and if they are lying in concert, it is one hell of a conspiracy. So, on the basis of all of the information that has come out, I have chosen to believe the other men. I absolutely do not know first hand."
Check for rest of story @:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth
The swift boat veterans disclosed the real Kerry and it was this group not the Republicans who stopped him from gaining control of the entire USA... however he remained in Senate and kept his powerful seat, tho' it's unfortunate that an effective effort did not remove him from the Senate. Kerry shows that elites can disregard our laws without any retribution and rise in power. I expect his pal McCain will ensure the Senate confirmation goes smoothly without any meaningful opposition... another sign of a failing U.S. Congress.
...Warph
I have to agree with FDR:
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See the resemblance:
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Radical John Kerry Heads to State Dept.
It looks as if pathological liar and long-time radical Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) will be nominated for Secretary of State. But who is Kerry?
Let's begin in 1971, when Kerry, ironically speaking to the same Foreign Relations Committee which he now heads, said of America's efforts in the Vietnam War: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2012/08/11/wolf-blitzer-quotes-john-kerry-plea-us-accelerate-withdrawal-afghanistan
Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam, someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows ... so that we can't say that we've made a mistake.
Then the slander started:
https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html
I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command....
They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
Kerry still stood by those charges in 2004:
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-04-25/politics/hughes.kerry.vietnam_1_kerry-campaign-spokesman-kerry-s-vietnam-atrocities?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS
Kerry told NBC last week that his use of the word 'atrocity' was 'inappropriate' and that the language he had used 'reflected an anger. It was honest, but it was in anger. It was a little bit excessive. He also said he never intended to cast a negative light on the soldiers with whom he served."
Kerry bullied others to lie, too, as Steve Pitkin, a fellow veteran who testified with Kerry, later admitted:
In January of 1971, I rode in a van with John Kerry, a national leader of the VVAW, and others from Washington D.C. to Detroit to attend the Winter Soldier Investigation, a conference intended to publicize alleged American war crimes in Vietnam. Having no knowledge of such war crimes, I did not intend to speak at the event.
During the Winter Soldier Investigation, John Kerry and other leaders of that event pressured me to testify about American war crimes, despite my repeated statements that I could not honestly do so. One event leader strongly implied that I would not be provided transportation back to my home in Baltimore, Maryland, if I failed to comply. Kerry and other leaders of the event instructed me to publicly state that I had witnessed incidents of rape, brutality, atrocities and racism, knowing that such statements would necessarily be untrue.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/19/203211.shtml
Kerry as Secretary of State will follow in Israel-hater Hillary Clinton's anti-Israel footsteps, as Wikileaks revealed:
On a February trip to the Middle East, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry (D-MA) told Qatari leaders that the Golan Heights should be returned to Syria, that a Palestinian capital should be established in East Jerusalem as part of the Arab-Israeli peace process, and that he was 'shocked' by what he saw on a visit to Gaza.
Any negotiation has its limits, added Senator Kerry, and we know for the Palestinians that control of Al- Aqsa mosque and the establishment of some kind of capital for the Palestinians in East Jerusalem are not negotiable.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/29/wikileaked_john_kerry_calls_for_israel_to_cede_golan_heights_and_east_jerusalem
In 2007, Kerry voted against a Senate resolution that wanted to "combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran." This, of course is exactly what has been happening ever since. The resolution also designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps as a foreign terrorist organization; Kerry didn't like that either.
http://www.thepoliticalguide.com/Profiles/Senate/Massachusetts/John_Kerry/Views/Iran/
Kerry was one of the first politicians to call for Egyptian President Mubarak's resignation, in line with Barack Obama's push for the Islamization of the Middle East.
But the most damning charge against Kerry is that this man who came home and denounced American troops in Vietnam left POWs behind who were still imprisoned there when he headed the Select Senate Committee on POW-MIA Affairs. There was plenty of evidence that POW's were still in Vietnam, but Kerry pushed for normalization of relations with Vietnam despite that.
http://amvetspost1992.org/pow_mia.htm
Top Ten Worst John Kerry Foreign Policy Mistakes
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Senate Republicans seem eager to let fellow Senator John Kerry (D-MA) sail through the confirmation process and take office as Secretary of State (once current incumbent Hillary Clinton testifies about the Benghazi attack). The logic seems to be that "elections have consequences," and that President Barack Obama has again earned the right to select a competent advocate for his foreign policy, even if that policy is a bad one.
Kerry's weaknesses are not as self-evident as those of UN Ambassador Susan Rice, who misled the nation about Benghazi and had a long record of other failures. Yet Sen. Kerry has been on the wrong side of nearly every foreign policy issue for the past 40 years. His "experience" is much like that of supposed foreign policy guru, Vice President Joe Biden: a long track record of grievous mistakes. Here are Kerry's top ten worst:10. Honduras (2009) - Sen. Kerry backed Obama's dubious claim that leftist President Manuel Zelaya--an antisemite and autocrat in the Hugo Chavez mode--had been ousted in a coup. He even tried to reverse a contrary finding by the Law Library of Congress.
9. Terrorism (1996) - In a debate with former Gov. Bill Weld, Sen. Kerry opposed the death penalty for terrorists, at a time when lack of vigilance by the Clinton administration allowed Al Qaeda to become a deadly threat. (After 9/11, Sen. Kerry changed his mind.)
8. Nicaragua (1985) - As Mary Anastasia O'Grady of the Wall Street Journal noted last week, Sen. Kerry encouraged Congress to end aid for the Contras, who were opposing the Sandinista regime, which quickly found support from the Soviet Union and Cuba.
7. Iraq (2003) - In 2002, Sen. Kerry voted to authorize the Iraq War; in 2003, he voted against continued funding and aid necessary to secure victory. The flip-flop was not only indefensible, but also cost Sen. Kerry the 2004 election against George W. Bush.
6. Colombia (2003) - Sen. Kerry described FARC, a drug-fueled terrorist guerilla army in Colombia much beloved by Chavez and the far left, specializing in kidnappings and hostage-taking, as having "legitimate complaints" against the Colombian government.
5. Gulf War (1991) - Not only did Sen. Kerry vote against authorizing UN-approved action against Saddam Hussein, but he also argued for a "new world order" not led by the U.S. and criticized the American-led coalition President George H.W. Bush had built.
4. Iran (2007) - Our own William Bigelow notes: "In 2007, Kerry voted against a Senate resolution that wanted to "combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran."
3. Israel (2003) - As CBS News has noted, Sen. Kerry called Israel's anti-terror security barrier--which has saved hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian lives--a "barrier to peace" in October 2003. (As on many other issues, Sen. Kerry soon reversed his position.)
2. Syria (2009) - Though Sen. Kerry condemned Syria as a supporter of terrorism in 1991, when Syria had aligned with the U.S. in the Gulf War, he later embraced dictator Bashar al-Assad, leading Democrats' efforts to rehabilitate the murderous regime.
1. Vietnam (1971) - As bad as Sen. Kerry's record has been since, nothing quite tops his national debut in the "Winter Soldier" investigation as a decorated veteran telling false stories about war crimes allegedly committed by American troops in Vietnam.
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What Does 'Right to Work' Really Mean?
By Chris Malagisi
1/2/2013
At this point in time, most people are probably familiar with the 'Right to Work' drama that ensued last week in Michigan. Through a debate with a staunch pro-union friend of mine, it dawned on me that perhaps there were some people who might not actually understand what it means to be pro 'Right to Work.'
At first glance, how could anyone be against a right to work? Who would be against someone working as the term itself invokes a pro-freedom sentiment found in the American democratic tradition. 'Right to Work' advocates believe these laws promote job creation, generate investment and allow workers to choose whether or not to join a union. 'Right to Work' opponents instead believe they are injurious to unions by reducing enrollment and dues, tends to decrease wages and overly favors employers.
Who's right? Studies show states like Michigan and others in the Midwest have some of the highest compulsory union enrollments yet also have high unemployment rates, compared to states with 'Right to Work' laws. On its face, this notion would seem counter intuitive as one might infer union membership implies protracted job security. These same studies also point out that non 'Right to Work' states pay their workers a little less but do provide more stability in the long run because they base their hiring decisions more so on demand, supply and the current economic conditions. So who's right?
Many justify their pro or con arguments based on the results of the laws as opposed to what is constitutionally just. To better understand what it means to be 'Right to Work' it is important to understand its actual constitutional heritage and the underlying free market principles that validate its position.
The US Constitution's first amendment guarantees the right of freedom of association and implies a freedom of non-association as well. The fifth amendment also guarantees private ownership of property and the principle of free enterprise. Understanding these rights, workers should therefore be able to join or not join unions and employers should have a substantial say in the way their business, or property, operates.
This notion changed substantially after the National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act, passed in congress and was signed into law by FDR in 1935. The new law purported to protect the rights of workers to organize labor unions, engage in collective bargaining - the ability to bargain on behalf of all union employees, striking as necessary to support their demands, and forced individuals to join a union whether they wanted to or not. In reality, the new law diminished fundamental private property rights for employers and their businesses and forced compulsory union membership and dues on employees.
The law was immediately controversial and unions steadily began to abuse their new powers throughout the country. Through intimidation, overreaching demands on management, compulsory membership and dues, and dispersing money to political candidates, whether or not the actual union membership endorsed them or not, became the new normal.
By 1947, one out of every fourteen workers were on strike. This eventually sparked the Labor-Management Relations Act, or Taft-Harley Act, which passed overwhelmingly in a bipartisan manner in congress in 1947, even overriding a presidential veto from President Truman. The act curtailed much of the abuses and redressed the labor-management imbalance. It also allowed, under section 14(b), the right-to-work clause giving workers the option not to join a union.
This also allowed employees the ability to decide on becoming union shops using a secret ballot - the same way we vote in any election in this country. This was incredibly important because unions could no longer intimidate others to join through social pressure or the threat of payback, which had taken place throughout much of the 1930s and 1940s. This sentiment was even captured in the Oscar winning Best Picture movie of 1954 - On the Waterfront, with Marlon Brando playing the famous lead role of Terry Malloy.
With all the hoopla this past week, 'Right to Work' opponents may not realize that they still have the right to organize if their employee base chooses to do so. 'Right to Work' advocates would agree with this as well but believe employees should have the fundamental right to choose whether or not to start or join a union without the fear of intimidation and by using a secret ballot. At the same time, non-union employees should not complain then of not receiving union benefits if they choose not to join their union.
As the country continues its economic drift, it's important we do not forget our constitutional freedoms and rights, even in this ever-changing globalized world with shifting economic landscapes and priorities. Both sides want a more prosperous and productive economy for all but it must begin with a right to work.
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"So I said to him, 'Barack, I know Abe Lincoln, and you ain't Abe Lincoln ..'"
UPDATED: 01/03/13Obuma has made numerous attempts to quote Lincoln SO WHY DOESN'T OBUMA USE THESE FAMOUS LINCOLN QUOTES:"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
"I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No--when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which ... when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause."
"I have found that when one is embarrassed, usually the shortest way to get through with it is to quit talking about it or thinking about it, and go at something else."
"No man [who has] resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."
"A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap!"
"The true rule, in determining to embrace or reject any thing, is not whether it has any evil in it; but whether it has more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost every thing ... is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."
"You must not wait to be brought forward by the older men....Do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted up and pushed forward by older men?"
"Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost...."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
Lincoln's Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862OR
...these quotes by William John Henry Boetcker (1873–1962):
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves. OR
... remember these great quotes from the Obumanator himself:
"And finally, Bos, I just want to say thank you for Youkilis." –joking at a fundraiser in Boston about the Red Sox trading their beloved slugger Kevin Youkilis to Chicago White Sox, Obama's hometown team. The line drew boos from the audience. (June 25, 2012)
"When I meet with world leaders, what's striking -- whether it's in Europe or here in Asia..." -mistakenly referring to Hawaii as Asia while holding a press conference outside Honolulu, Nov. 16, 2011
"We're the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad." —Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 22, 2011
"We're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you're providing a good product or providing good service. We don't want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy." —on Wall Street reform, Quincy, Ill., April 29, 2010
"One such translator was an American of Haitian descent, representative of the extraordinary work that our men and women in uniform do all around the world -- Navy Corpse-Man Christian Brossard." –mispronouncing "Corpsman" (the "ps" is silent) during a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2010 (The Corpsman's name is also Christopher, not Christian)
"The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries." --Tampa, Fla., Jan. 28, 2010
"UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It's the Post Office that's always having problems." –attempting to make the case for government-run healthcare, while simultaneously undercutting his own argument, Portsmouth, N.H., Aug. 11, 2009
"The Cambridge police acted stupidly." —commenting on a white police officer's arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass., at a news conference, July 22, 2009
"The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system." --in remarks after a health care roundtable with physicians, nurses and health care providers, Washington, D.C., July 20, 2009
"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009
"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)
"I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." --after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)
"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama's policy hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008
"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian faith," which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)
"I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008
"Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden." --slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008
"Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008
"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008
"How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida
"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."
"Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)
"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)
"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" --after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania
"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters
"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."
"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." --exasperated by reporters after a news conference
"You're likeable enough, Hillary." --during a Democratic debate
"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people.
Uhhhh--- Warph, Lincloln did not say nor write those things. 8)
Why not quote a fellow democrat?
" Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
The snopes entry on the ten axioms supposedly uttered or penned by Lincoln is an interesting read on how misattribution can get out of control -
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln/prosperity.asp
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The snopes entry on the ten axioms supposedly uttered or penned by Lincoln is an interesting read on how misattribution can get out of control -
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/lincoln/prosperity.asp
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From Snopes: Prosperity Disparity
Claim: Abraham Lincoln authored a list of maxims beginning with 'You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.'" FALSE
Origins: One of author Ralph Keyes' axioms of misquotations is "Famous quotes need famous mouths," and the fulfillment of that need has, for the last several decades, put on the lips of Abraham Lincoln words that were not written until more than fifty years after Lincoln's death, penned by an obscure personage whose name is unknown to most living Americans.
The Rev. William John Henry Boetcker was a Presbyterian minister and notable public speaker who served as director of the pro-employer Citizens' Industrial Alliance, a position he held when, in 1916, he produced a booklet of "nuggets" from his lectures, which included maxims such as "We cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong" and "We cannot help the poor by kicking the rich." Boetcker's collection of maxims eventually crystallized as the list of ten now-familiar entries (variously known as the "Industrial Decalogue," the "Ten Don'ts," the "Ten Cannots," "Ten Things You Cannot Do, "or the "American Charter") reproduced above:
* You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
* You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
* You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
* You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
* You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
* You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
* You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
* You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
* You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
* You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
Sources differ on exactly how Boetcker's decalogue eventually came to be attributed to Lincoln, but it is generally accepted that someone published a leaflet with Boetcker's list of "cannots" on one side and authentic Lincoln quotations on the other, leading to an inevitable mix-up that resulted in everything printed on both sides of the paper being attributed to Lincoln. (The pamphlet in question is usually claimed to be a 1942 publication by the Committee for Constitutional Government entitled "Lincoln on Limitation(s)," with the confusion of attribution coming about because one version of the pamphlet omitted Boetcker's name, because the printed credits mistakenly switched Boetcker's name with Lincoln's, or because readers glossed over Boetcker's unfamiliar name and mistakenly assumed that all the material in the leaflet originated with the more familiar Abraham Lincoln.)
Once the runaway train of misattribution got rolling, there was no stopping it. As William Boetcker faded from public memory and Abraham Lincoln grew ever larger in American historical legend, few people had an interest or desire in setting the matter right — in accordance with another principle set forth by Keyes: "If words we like can't be credited to someone we've heard of, they might as well not have been said at all."
And any chance of genuine history winning out over the faux version in this case was probably set back at least a generation when another U.S. president, Ronald Reagan, stood before a nationwide audience at the 1992 Republican National Convention and delivered a speech in which he also erroneously attributed four of Boetcker's maxims to Lincoln:
I heard those speakers at that other convention saying "we won the Cold War" — and I couldn't help wondering, just who exactly do they mean by "we"? And to top it off, they even tried to portray themselves as sharing the same fundamental values of our party! What they truly don't understand is the principle so eloquently stated by Abraham Lincoln: "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
Reagan's 1992 Republican National Convention:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040622082719/http://www.gopconvention.com/contents/newsroom/reagan/1992.shtml
William John Henry Boetcker (1873–1962) was an American religious leader and influential public speaker:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._H._Boetcker
I'm not even going to comment on this because when something pertains to what happens back East I am always informed I don't know what I'm talking about because I don't live there---Thank You Lord !!!
I do think I know who designed and built the plant though---oh lighten up---I'm just yanking your chain . ;D
Delaware taxpayers increasingly on the hook as Fisker auto plant idles
Oct. 27, 2009: Vice President Biden announces that Fisker will build plug-in electric cars at the shuttered GM plant in Wilmington, Del. The project was later put on hold amid financial troubles. (White House)
Delaware taxpayers appear to be getting soaked twice under a deal in which the Democratic governor lent $21.5 million to a hybrid electric carmaker to set up shop in the state. The company has yet to produce a car in Delaware, and taxpayers are footing the electric bill for the idle plant.
The deal was enthusiastically announced in 2009 by Gov. Jack Markell and Vice President Biden -- formerly Delaware's senior senator -- as a way to bring as many as 2,500 green jobs to the state. But California-based Fisker Automotive Inc. has since suffered a series of setbacks that have compounded its shaky financial situation.
"It has not worked out the way he had envisioned," Markell spokeswoman Cathy Rossi acknowledged Monday in a statement to FoxNews.com. "We didn't know and couldn't have known about the underlying technical and financial problems."
Delaware reportedly has paid at least $400,000 in utility bills since about April, when Fisker halted operations and laid off dozens of workers at the 142-acre, Wilmington-area facility. Markell staffers told The News Journal the payments are part of the grant deal and necessary to at least keep Fisker's small-scale operation on life support.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/03/delaware-taxpayers-increasingly-on-hook-as-fisker-auto-plant-idles/?test=latestnews#ixzz2Gvk0ekV0
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Sadly, that's all very true and we are totally disgusted about it.
I've got some personal concerns about the new "Bloom box" fuel cell plant that is being built too. Much too much has not been disclosed to the public. There is too much hush,hush, 'just trust us' going on.
Remember, I'm an Independent, not a Democrat. I never accept anything ''just because,''especially if there is any kind of political component to it.
You are back to the generalities again though. I never, ever said you are ''always" wrong about things here. You have missed some things because you aren't here. Just as I know lots of details, never made public, about Joe Biden, because I live here. No big deal. I knew his father casually because he worked at a nearby car dealership. So what? Sadly, I know all the details about Nelia's death.
No, my little company wouldn't bid out to be owner's reps for big industrial plants...not my area of expertise. I do just schools and fire stations. That's plenty for a part time, two person shop, that does just one project at a time.
Our newest , the Newark Jr. Sr. Charter High is really starting to look like something good now. They are ready to pour the supporting columns for the new gym shortly and most of the dry wall is up inside. It looks like we'll come in at just about 9 million total, none of it taxpayer money. The new Smyrna public high school was 35 million...all of it taxpayer money.
Go ahead and yank my chain...I know I'm good at what I do....and humble too. ;D
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You are back to the generalities again though. I never, ever said you are ''always" wrong about things here. You have missed some things because you aren't here. Just as I know lots of details, never made public, about Joe Biden, because I live here. No big deal. I knew his father casually because he worked at a nearby car dealership. So what? Sadly, I know all the details about Nelia's death.
No, my little company wouldn't bid out to be owner's reps for big industrial plants...not my area of expertise. I do just schools and fire stations. That's plenty for a part time, two person shop, that does just one project at a time.
Our newest , the Newark Jr. Sr. Charter High is really starting to look like something good now. They are ready to poor the supporting columns for the new gym shortly and most of the dry wall is up inside. It looks like we'll come in at just about 9 million total, none of it taxpayer money. The new Smyrna public high school was 35 million...all of it taxpayer money.
Go ahead and yank my chain...I know I'm good at what I do....and humble too.
Yes, I "borrowed" this from someone but sometimes when the shoe fits-----------
Quote:
fight the urge to respond....fight the urge to respond....fight the urge to respond...don't feed the gopher. :angel:
So Gore wanted to sell his POS TV channel to someone "aligned with his point of view ". With his views, I am surprised he wasn't Obama's VP
Report: Glenn Beck tried to buy Current TV, Al Gore went with Al-Jazeera
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/01/03/al-gore-current-tv-glenn-beck-al-jazeera/?intcmp=features#ixzz2GwG8AFj9
Al-Jazeera wasn't the only media company with its sights set on former Vice President Al Gore's little-watched Current TV.
Glenn Beck's Blaze Media approached the struggling cable news network last year, the Wall Street Journal reports, but was rebuffed because "the legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view."
Instead, Gore went with the Emir of Qatar-funded Arab news channel Al-Jazeera
;D ;D ;D Hey Jar... I didn't give you permission to use my own quote ..Make up your own! ;D ;D ;D
OK, Flint ;) :angel:
;) :D ;D
Muslim Brotherhood wants to KILL you & destory our Constitution!!
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If you miss this video, (and you're still a believer in Obuma, who has very close ties and relations with [TMB] the muslim brotherhood and has six members of TMB in his adminitration), God help you, FOOL!Megyn Kelly talks with Steve Emerson on his documentary "The Grand Deception" noon today on Jan. 4th http://www.investigativeproject.org/1008/steven-emerson-and-the-grand-deception[/font][/size][/b]
Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administrationby John Rossomando • Jan 3, 2013 at 1:10 pmhttp://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates
An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.
The Dec. 22 story published in Egypt's Rose El-Youssef magazine (read an IPT translation here) suggests the six turned the White House "from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood."
The story is largely unsourced, but its publication is considered significant in raising the issue to Egyptian readers.
The six named people include: Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.
Alikhan is a founder of the World Islamic Organization, which the magazine identifies as a Brotherhood "subsidiary." It suggests that Alikhan was responsible for the "file of Islamic states" in the White House and that he provides the direct link between the Obama administration and the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.
Elibiary, who has endorsed the ideas of radical Muslim Brotherhood luminary Sayyid Qutb, may have leaked secret materials contained in Department of Homeland Security databases, according to the magazine. He, however, denies having any connection with the Brotherhood.
Elibiary also played a role in defining the Obama administration's counterterrorism strategy, and the magazine asserts that Elibiary wrote the speech Obama gave when he told former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave power but offers no source or evidence for the claim.
According to Rose El-Youssef, Rashad Hussain maintained close ties with people and groups that it says comprise the Muslim Brotherhood network in America. This includes his participation in the June 2002 annual conference of the American Muslim Council, formerly headed by convicted terrorist financier Abdurahman Alamoudi.
He also participated in the organizing committee of the Critical Islamic Reflection along with important figures of the American Muslim Brotherhood such as Jamal Barzinji, Hisham al-Talib and Yaqub Mirza.
Regarding al-Marayati, who has been among the most influential Muslim American leaders in recent years, the magazine draws connections between MPAC in the international Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure.
Magid heads ISNA, which was founded by Brotherhood members, was appointed by Obama in 2011 as an adviser to the Department of Homeland Security. The magazine says that has also given speeches and conferences on American Middle East policy at the State Department and offered advice to the FBI.
Rose El-Youssef says Patel maintains a close relationship with Hani Ramadan, the grandson of Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, and is a member of the Muslim Students Association, which it identifies as "a large Brotherhood organization."
Frackety-Frack Hollywood: Matt Damon's Anti-Fracking, Falsehood-Infested Pet Project Film "Promised Land" Funded by Arab Oil Emirate Abu Dhabi, Is Box Office Dud!
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on January 6, 2013
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Hypocrisy and lying from the Left never takes a vacation, boys and girls.
Nipping at the heels of Al "Global Warming Lies Have Made Me Sooo Filthy Rich" Gore's hypocritical sale of his failed Current TV to Al Jazeera, a Muslim propaganda news station owned by the Middle Eastern Qatar government that has made billions for itself with oil production, is this new hypocrisy from Leftwing Hollywood.
Funding for the anti-fracking film "Promised Land" is not just partially funded by oil-rich Arab Emirate nation Abu Dhabi, but the leftist movie is loaded with propaganda crap, leftwing theories unsubstantiated by studies or science, and blatant falsehoods intended to brainwash ill-informed American audiences to be just as ignorant and sanctimonious about fracking as Damon is.
Quick reminder: last March, Obuma's EPA quickly and quietly backpedaled on its lawsuit against a Texas company for its fracking operations. It was the third contamination lawsuit the federal agency had zealously launched, then dropped, when evidence didn't support the EPA's claims of contamination. Fracking pumps a mixture of water, sand, and chemical to create fissures underground that allow natural gas to flow freely into cased pipes. Abu Dhabi and other Middle Eastern oil nations don't want the US to be oil-independent, so any opportunities to slam the natural gas competition are seized upon. No matter that their rhetoric and attacks are fact-deprived.
Way to go, Matt Damon. Looks like you've picked up the dingy glove dropped by your deceased mentor, the ultra-Marxist radical whackadoodle and former Boston University professor Howard Zinn.
Next proposed Damon project: dirt-digging, back-stabbing, one-sided film against the Green Bay Packers, funded by the Chicago Bears.(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/billboard-matt-damon-fracking-water-on-fire.jpg)
As reported by The Daley Gator via CNS News, Stunning Revelation: Matt Damon's Anti-Fracking Propaganda Film 'Promised Land' Was Financed With Arab Oil Money:
"Promised Land," the anti-fracking film written and produced by Hollywood stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, was made in part by a production company owned by the government of Arab oil emirate Abu Dhabi – a state in direct competition with American oil and gas producers.
The film is financed in part by Image Nation Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media which is owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, one of 13 Arab emirates that makes up the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and serves as that country's capitol.
Abu Dhabi media was created by the Abu Dhabi government in 2007 with $27.3 million as part of that country's effort to diversify its economy into new markets such as media production.
The film's Abu Dhabi connection is significant, because the UAE is the world's third largest oil exporter, according to 2011 figures from the U.S. Energy Information Agency. The country also holds the 7th largest proven reserves of crude oil and natural gas in the world. The UAE was ranked 17th in the world in natural gas production in 2010, according to EIA.
That the UAE is a major natural gas and oil producer puts it in direct competition with U.S. natural gas producers, who have seen a revolution in production with the increased use of fracking – an old process that has found new uses as technology has made it possible to drill new wells and open up gas reserves that were once thought inaccessible.
As fracking has found wider use, especially in the U.S., natural gas production has soared, bringing new jobs and economic opportunity to many American communities and weakening the hold that states such as the UAE once had on oil and gas production and global prices.
The film tells the story of Steve Butler (Damon), a natural gas company salesman, as he travels to an impoverished Pennsylvania town trying to acquire drilling rights from local landowners and environmentalist Dustin Noble (Krasinksi), who is intent on stopping him.
While the film focuses on the battle between Damon and Krasinski for the hearts and minds of poor, rural Pennsylvanians – culminating in a town vote on whether to allow Damon's gas company to develop the farmland that sits atop large natural gas reserves – underlying the decision is a debate on the economic benefits of fracking.
Those economic benefits, promised by Damon's gas company salesman, are weighed against the supposed economic costs of hydraulic fracturing – fracking – the process used by gas companies to break the shale rock formations that contain the gas reserves.
Krasinski's character presents a host of supposed environmental consequences the town will be faced with if it allows fracking to occur, including so-called flaming water, contaminated ground water, and sick livestock.
Those supposed consequences have all been debunked as either lacking in evidence or not resulting from fracking.
In one scene, Krasinski's character demonstrates to a fifth grade classroom how fracking can allegedly result in flaming water – a phenomenon that happens when water is infused with methane and then somehow set alight.
In the film, Krasinski's character tries to show the children how dangerous flaming water can be by pretending to set the class' pet turtle on fire.
In reality, flaming water is not produced by fracking as Colorado regulators found when they investigated so-called flaming wells documented in the anti-fracking documentary Gasland. Colorado Department of Natural Resources scientists found that the methane in the wells was a natural occurrence, not a byproduct of fracking.
In another scene from the film, town supervisor Gerry Richards states that fracking can cause natural gas to seep into groundwater – a claim that has been debunked by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who has said publicly that there is no evidence of groundwater contamination from fracking.
"In no case have we made a definitive determination that the fracking process has caused chemicals to enter groundwater," Jackson told Fox News in April 2012.
Beatles' destroyer Yoko Ono is against fracking... all the more reason to avoid The Damonator's film.
They're On the Dole And Watching The Pole- Welfare Recipients Taking Out Cash At Strip Clubs, Liquor Stores, X-rated Video Stores
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Cover of todays N.Y.POST:
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Isn't this where you thought your hard-earned tax dollars were going?
Via NY Post:They're on the dole — and watching the pole.
Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.
A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank's Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.
The state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), which oversees the "cash assistance program," even lists some of these welfare-ready ATMs on its Web site.
One EBT machine is stationed inside Club Eleven, an infamous Hunts Point jiggle joint known as much for its violent history as its girls in pink thongs.
Cops have been cracking down on the Bronx club since 2009 and shut it down temporarily in 2010. In July, five men were stabbed and two others shot outside after bouncers broke up a 4 a.m. brawl with pepper spray. The club appeared to be shuttered when The Post visited Thursday.
Club Heat, another Bronx strip club that dispenses EBT cash, is also no stranger to violence. A 33-year-old woman was fatally shot in the head outside the club in December 2011.
Critics blasted the government for turning a blind eye to welfare's sleazy money.
"This is morally scandalous," said Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. "I have nothing against strip clubs, but that's not what benefits are for. I don't blame [recipients]. If you are poor, it's a crummy life and you want to have a drink or see a naked woman. I blame the people who are in charge of this."
Obuma supporters shocked, angry at new tax increases... Gee, I wonder why?
This is toooooooo Funnnnnny!:
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(Washinton Times) Sometimes, watching a Democrat learn something is wonderful, like seeing the family dog finally sit and stay at your command.
With President Obama back in office and his life-saving "fiscal cliff" bill jammed through Congress, the new year has brought a surprising turn of events for his sycophantic supporters.
"What happened that my Social Security withholding's in my paycheck just went up?" a poster wrote on the liberal site DemocraticUnderground.com. "My paycheck just went down by an amount that I don't feel comfortable with. I guarantee this decrease is gonna' hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?"
Shocker. Democrats who supported the president's re-election just had NO idea that his steadfast pledge to raise taxes meant that he was really going to raise taxes. They thought he planned to just hit those filthy "1 percenters," you know, the ones who earned fortunes through their inventiveness and hard work. They thought the free ride would continue forever.
So this week, as taxes went up for millions of Americans — which Republicans predicted throughout the campaign would happen — it was fun to watch the agoggery of the left.
"I know to expect between $93 and $94 less in my paycheck on the 15th," wrote the ironically named "RomneyLies."
"My boyfriend has had a lot of expenses and is feeling squeezed right now, and having his paycheck shrink really didn't help," wrote "DemocratToTheEnd."
"BlueIndyBlue" added: "Many of my friends didn't realize it, either. Our payroll department didn't do a good job of explaining the coming changes."
So let's explain something to our ill-informed Democratic friends. In 2009, Mr. Obama enacted a "holiday" on the payroll tax deduction from employees' paychecks, dropping the rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. But like the holidays, the drop ended, and like New Year's, the revelers woke up the next morning with a massive hangover and a pounding head.
"Bake," who may have been trolling the site, jumped into the thread posted Friday. "My paycheck just went down. So did my wife's. This hurts us. But everybody says it's a good thing, so I guess we just suck it up and get used to it. I call it a tax increase on the middle class. I wonder what they call it. Somebody on this thread called it a 'premium.' Nope. It's a tax, and it just went up."
Some in the thread argued that the new tax — or the end of the "holiday," which makes it a new tax — wouldn't really amount to much. One calculated it would cost about $86 a month for most people. "Honeycombe8," though, said that amount is nothing to sneeze at. "$86 a month is a lot. That would pay for ... Groceries for a week, as someone said. More than what I pay for parking every month, after my employer's contribution to that. A new computer after a year. A new quality pair of shoes ... every month. Months of my copay for my hormones. A new thick coat (on sale or at discount place). It would pay for what I spend on my dogs every month ... food, vitamins, treats."
The Twittersphere was even funnier:
"Really, how am I ever supposed to pay off my student loans if my already small paycheck keeps getting smaller? Help a sister out, Obama," wrote "Meet Virginia."
"Nancy Thongkham" was much more furious. "F***ing Obama! F*** you! This taking out more taxes s*** better f***ing help me out!! Very upset to see my paycheck less today!"
"_Alex™" sounded bummed. "Obama I did not vote for you so you can take away alot of money from my checks." Christian Dixon seemed crestfallen. "I'm starting to regret voting for Obama."
But "Dave" got his dander up over the tax hike: "Obama is the biggest f***ing liar in the world. Why the f*** did I vote for him"?
Of course, dozens of posters on DemocraticUnderground sought to blame it all (as usual) on President George W. Bush. "Your taxes went up because the leaders need to dig us out of this criminal deficit hole we are in which has been caused because taxes were too low during the Bush years. Everyone has to help by spreading the wealth around a little. Power to the correct people!" posted "Orinoco."
But in fact, it was Mr. Obama who enacted the "holiday," and, to be clear, the tax cut that he pushed throughout the campaign — remember? 98 percent of Americans will get a cut under his plan? — was really the extension of the Bush tax suts. Thus, it was Mr. Obama who raised taxes on millions of Americans, not Mr. Bush.
How many Americans? The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington put the total at 77.1 percent of all wage earners. In fact, "More than 80 percent of households with incomes between $50,000 and $200,000 would pay higher taxes. Among the households facing higher taxes, the average increase would be $1,635, the policy center said," according to a Bloomberg News article. Hilariously, the tax burden will rise more for someone making $30,000 a year (1.7 percent) than it does for someone earning $500,000 annually (1.3 percent).
A whole new wave of Obama supporters still don't even know: They'll get their first 2013 paychecks on the 15th of the month. So when you're shooting the breeze in the lunchroom with your grumbling co-workers on the 16th, just ask them, "Who'd you vote for in November?" When they say Mr. Obama, just tell them: "Well, you got what you voted for. You did know he was going to raise taxes, right?"The looks on their faces will be priceless.
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Carl Sagan, the eminent astronomer, once stated the case for religious belief as succinctly as this: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Someone I can't identify once, in comparing actors and politicians, pointed out "If they can learn to fake sincerity, they have it made."
Eric Hoffer, the late longshoreman/philosopher who wrote one of my favorite works of non-fiction, "The True Believer," observed: "If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must know how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, attitudes, values and fantasies on everyday life."
To truly digest the wisdom of that statement, you merely have to consider the recent election in which this nation's youth, by giving Obama a seven million vote plurality over Romney, sentenced America to an additional four years of rule by presidential fiat.
But it isn't just youngsters who have taken leave of their senses. In California, Mohammad Safi, a graduate of a medical school in Afghanistan, first began working as a staff psychiatrist at a mental hospital in 2006, earning $90,000 a year. Last year, he made $822,302. ???
At first blush, you'd say there's no way Dr. Safi could be making nearly $70,000-a-month legally, but you'd be wrong. It seems that he benefited from a bidding war after a federal court forced the state to improve inmate care. That resulted in prisons raising their pay scale to lure psychiatrists. That, in turn, compelled the mental health department to follow suit in order to hang on to their employees. So you had two clearly over-funded state agencies bidding against each other, and in the end a guy with a degree from some school in Afghanistan ends up being a millionaire, all at the taxpayers' expense.
Clearly, there are more loons serving in our state government than there are under Dr. Safi's supervision.
Lest you think this is an isolated case, last year 15 other psychiatrists on the state payroll made over $400,000, while only one shrink made that much in the other 11 most populous states. Is it any wonder that whereas some American cities have what are called sister cities scattered around the world, California has a sister country? It's called Greece.
Even when Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma does something right, it can have tragic consequences for innocent people. A while back, he signed a law prohibiting access for any Russian official linked to the murder of imprisoned whistle blower Sergei Magnitsky to visas or U.S. bank accounts. Magnitsky, in case you missed the news, was the man who announced that members of the Russian government had been robbing the country blind. A day or so before he was to be released from custody, he was killed, no doubt on orders from President Vladimir Putin, the former butcher in charge of the KGB.
In retaliation for Obuma's action, Putin saw to it that a law was passed denying Americans the right to adopt Russian children. As I understand it, there were 46 such adoptions already in the pipeline when Putin decided to punish Russia's orphans in retaliation for a law that punishes corrupt Russian officials. And this was the schmuck to whom Obuma promised greater flexibility once he won re-election.
That brings me to a pet peeve: the notion that there is something morally repellant about assassinations. I can understand why heads of state would take exception to it. I can even understand why those of us who live in a country where we have access to free elections would be opposed. But when you consider that Pol Pot made it all the way to his 73rd birthday; Stalin made it to 75; Mao tse-tung, to 82; and that Fidel Castro and Robert Mugabe are still causing trouble at the ripe old ages of 86 and 88, respectively, it's hard to argue that the world wouldn't have been better-served if they'd been eliminated by any means possible decades ago. And is there anyone out there who's not named Bashar al-Assad, 47, who would have any objection if an assassin saw to it Syria's serial killer didn't make it to 48?
I will give the last word to Mrs. Duane Plummer, who used to live on Lake Road, Webster, NY, where William Spengler recently murdered two firemen who had been lured to a fire he started because, as he confessed in a note he left behind, he really enjoyed killing people.
In response to the anti-gun hysteria generated by headline-chasing politicians and their enablers in the media, Mrs. Plummer wrote: "Another unbalanced person who served only sixteen years for killing his grandmother. Huh? Because of this latest travesty, my husband and I will no longer use matches and are starting a ban-the-match campaign. It may not get any further than our stop-making-roads campaign because cars drive on roads and kill people. But we need to do something to stop this madness!!"
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Dear CRM 495 Students:
Welcome back! It's hard to believe that Christmas break is over and that it's time to start a new semester. It's almost as hard as believing that one of your professors is actually sending you an email using the word "Christmas." But even the liberals agree that I am no ordinary professor. Please allow me to explain.
After I got tenure, I left the political Left and became a conservative Republican. I know you've never had a conservative professor before and you are probably wondering what to expect. In a nutshell, you can expect to hear the truth about a number of things for the very first time in your college career. And that means you can probably expect to be offended from time to time.
Just in case you are wondering whether you are getting in over your head, let me give you a few examples of beliefs I hold, which you may well deem to be offensive. Based on the following revelations, you can make an informed decision as to whether this class is really for you.
African-Americanism. I think the term African-American is ridiculous. If you insist on being called this then you aren't American and you've probably never been to Africa. If you demand to be a hyphenated American then you're just
un-American. Get over yourself or get out of the country. Sorry if you're offended but you offend me with your ethnocentrism.
Coke. I cannot stand that four letter word that begins with "c" and refers to female genitalia. Repeating it at "The Vagina Monologues" does not make women empowered. It makes them unrefined idiots. If you c*** c*** a feminist play without using feminists who say the word c*** then you simply c*** be taken seriously. Sorry if you're offended, but women who curse like sailors offend me.
Daddy issues. Every semester, I get at least one female student who comes into class late and hyperventilating. She makes a scene in order to get sympathy. Then, she apologizes after class while dumping all her personal problems on me. Let me be blunt: women like this have daddy issues. Put simply, daddy didn't give them enough attention and now they are seeking it from me because I remind them of daddy. Sorry that offends you. Go tell your daddy.
Guns. I have more guns than I need but fewer than I want. In fact, as I sit in my home office writing this email I am positioned between two packed gun safes. There are enough guns in this room to issue a 21 gun salute in the event you don't make it through the semester. There are also about 12,000 rounds of ammunition in this room. And there is more elsewhere in the house. Some people are afraid of guns but I am afraid of gunlessness. Most of your professors say that homophobia is a social disease. I say that hoplophobia is a social disease. If you don't like abortion... oops! I mean guns... you don't have to have one.
Momma's boys. Every semester, I get at least three male students who cannot run their lives. They constantly ask me questions that I have already answered on the syllabus. When is the first test? What kind of questions are on it? How many tests are there? These are the kinds of young males who still could not wipe their bottoms when they were 12 (and probably still can't do their own laundry). If you are one of them, you have no chance of passing my class and no chance of succeeding in
life. Please drop out now and join the Marines. Sorry if that offends you but you need to be a man. If that's too much to ask, just complain to momma next time you're home dropping off your laundry.
Pepsi. I cannot stand that five letter word that begins with "P" and refers to female genitalia. Every year at The Vagina Monologues, they sell p***** pops, which are little candied vaginas on a stick. The feminists walk around licking them in a display of feminist empowerment. I hate to be p**** but why don't they sell p**** pops, too. Maybe that would offend them. That's too bad because their sexism offends me.
Queer Centers. When I was a kid, we played "smear the queer" (dodge ball). Later, they said we could not call it
that. Now, the word "queer" has made a queer re-entry into the realm of social acceptability. Some colleges are even opening "Queer Resource Centers." Make up your mind, thought police. And stop acting like women with daddy issues! Sorry if that offends you. Indecisiveness offends me.
Racial Preferences. If you can't get into college without checking a box that says African-American or Hispanic, you do not need to be here. Sorry but the only reason there are racial differences in SAT scores is because minorities refuse to take off the training wheels. You're just as smart as anyone else so hop off the Big Wheel and join the bike race. Sorry if you're offended but your racism offends me.
Wolf-crying. People cry racism all the time. In fact, I've been told I'm a racist for opposing affirmative action. That's funny to me. I don't think blacks need a crutch because I believe they are equal. Therefore, I'm called a racist... even though I was the first kid on my block to own a Flip Wilson record. Those people... (oops, I said, those people).... need to chill. In fact, I should let them borrow my old Flip Wilson record to lighten the mood. Next thing you know, they'll say Flip Wilson offends them because Geraldine made fun of cross dressing. Have I mentioned that cross-dressing offends me?
XXX. Pornography is more than disgusting. It is evil and I hate it. This is probably not offensive to anyone... unless, of course, you are a porn star. But, once you become a porn star, you pretty much give up the right to be offended. If you're offended anyway just drop my class and sign up for one of Dr. Porco's instead... (no I did not make up that last name). Dr. Porco was just hired by the UNCW English Department despite.. (or perhaps because of)... the fact that he published a book of pornographic poems... some of which were written while he was drunk and hanging out in topless bars. He tries to pass them off as academic. And that offends me, which is why I simply choose not to read them.
Now that everything is on the table, you are ready for your first assignment. Since this is a class covering the First Amendment, we are going to focus on important US Supreme Court decisions dealing with free speech. Our first case will be Gitlow v. New York. I want you to read it with two questions in mind:
1. Since the Supreme Court nationalized the First Amendment, speech codes have emerged on most state-run campuses. How have these speech codes survived in light of the nationalization movement?
2. Holmes' dissent in this case has been often quoted. If he is correct in saying that "every idea is an incitement" then how can universities actually enforce speeches codes? As they are actually enforced, do these codes violate other portions of our constitution?
As you can see, we'll be tackling some serious issues this semester. So we need to weed out all of the self-absorbed, hypersensitive products of the era of political correctness in higher education. That was the purpose of this email. If you are still reading then congratulations! You've demonstrated more intellectual integrity and emotional maturity than the majority of your professors.
See you next week in class.... and remember, every idea is an incitement.
Prof. Mike Adams, PhD
Why has everything turned out so wrong, she asked?
Recent events in our nation have baffled those of the conservative stripe; none more so than the decisions made by our fellow Americans this past November. The reelection of Barack Obama, seemingly trailing in the polls up to the last days, was the most frustrating; but there were others that were even more disturbing. For the first time, voters in several states endorsed laws permitting homosexual marriage while others approved the recreational use of marijuana.
The reelection of President Obama in the face of high unemployment, low housing values and general economic misery can perhaps be explained away as another triumph for the cult of popularity, but what of the rest? How to explain these abrupt turnabouts in the attitudes of Americans? Has the electorate really and truly taken a turn to the left; and if so, why? One answer may lie in cyberspace.
At the advent of the Internet age, we thought that this new medium would be an ideal venue from which to promote conservatism, to shout our message from the virtual rooftops, unimpeded by the constraints of liberal editors and the rest of the mainstream media establishment. And for a while, we were right. From sites like Newsbusters.org that pioneered the documentation of media bias, to forums like FreeRepublic.com where thousands of posters formed pajama patrols always on the lookout for leftwing mischief, the Internet has indeed been a powerful tool for advancing conservatism.
And the Internet continues to be a considerable source of news and information for millions on the right. It's just that far too many Americans have now become addicted to, and thereby under the influence of, the same forces of the left that control them through TV and the public school system; the same political correctness that defines what is right and wrong — not through any application of the Natural Law or, Heaven forbid, religious strictures — but merely by way of popular opinion, as defined by you-know-who.
And by this I don't mean just the obvious purveyors of liberal tripe like the Huffington Post or Media Matters, or even supposedly neutral sites like Google or AOL where the homepages are basically mainstream media digests. No, to me, the most dangerous threat to the future of America as we know it, is so-called social media, where the kind of the peer pressure on young people to conform to liberal norms so disastrously present in our classrooms is now brought to bear outside of them as well. And sadly, in today's America, folks who want desperately to be buddies with their kids instead of parents, more often than not follow their children rather than lead them.
And what's not to like? Just think of it: a society where tweeting a two-sentence screed on the evils of religion makes you a great patriot; where, with a flick of the thumb, one can engage in the ultimate in effortless charity by texting a donation to the latest cool cause; a culture that encourages you to stand up by not standing out. The point is, social media is a boiling cauldron of socialist, feel-good egoism that is a virulent breeding ground for cultural and political groupthink.
Groupthink, a term that was developed by psychologist Irving Janis, who applied it to his study of what he considered American military blunders, is nonetheless an accurate description of the current political situation among a great many of our citizens. It has been generally defined as:
"A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an incorrect or deviant decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints. Loyalty to the group requires individuals to avoid raising controversial issues or alternative solutions. The primary socially negative cost of groupthink is the loss of individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking."
And this loss of independent and critical thinking combined with an inordinate desire for "harmony or conformity" is, to my mind, the best explanation of "what went wrong" last November and will continue to go wrong until half of the country stops getting its political information 140 characters at a time. But I'm not holding my breath. After all, who wants to be "unfriended?"
Slick Willy Clinton.... "Father of the Year?" What ??? If it were "Philanderer of the Year," I'd be more inclined to believe William Jefferson Clinton earning this dubious award.
Former First Daughter Chelsea is pushing 33 and married, so the "father" part of the award to Slick Willy seems over the top... wouldn't you say ???
At least they didn't give the father award to Woody Allen...
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Reported by Politico, Bill Clinton named 'Father of the Year':
Former President Bill Clinton is getting props for being a good dad.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2013/01/bill-clinton-named-father-of-the-year-153760.html
Clinton was named the "Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day Council on Wednesday last.
The group selected Clinton for his "profound generosity, leadership and tireless dedication to both his public office and many philanthropic organizations," Dan Orwig, chairman of the National Father's Day Committee, said in the announcement.
Jeez.... In 2007, Democrat presidential candidate, indicted liar, and unfaithful scumbag John "Baby Daddy" Edwards won the Father of the Year award.
You just can't make this stuff up, people.
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Proof PETA Kills
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The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) requires all animal shelters to report the number of cats and dogs they take in each year. The records indicate how many cats and dogs were reclaimed by their owners, adopted out, transferred to other Virginia releasing agencies (i.e. animal shelters and animal control), transferred to out-of-state releasing agencies, died of natural causes, euthanized (killed), and how many the shelter held alive at the end of the calendar year. We added the dogs and cats euthanized and divided by the total number of dogs and cats taken in excluding those held only for sterilization surgery to determine the percentage of dogs and cats PETA killed in a given year. In 2009, Virginia modified its policy and eliminated animals held for sterilization from the records.
We obtained the reports by filing public records requests under Virginia's sunshine laws with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. The information for years 2004-2010 is also available on the VDACS website for public inspection (animals classified as "other" from 2004-2009 include those reported by PETA as held for sterilization).
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Koran-Burning Pastor To Hold "Burn Obama Effigy Day"...
"We will burn an effigy of Barack Hussein Obama on a bonfire of political protest at 2pm, Saturday January 19th, 2013. He lied his way back into the White House. But he does not get a free pass just because he is black.
We protest in disgust, in civil disobedience, in anger, in hope, in prayer, that the Untied States of America will wake up. We protest in proclamation: I did not vote for him. He must be impeached, removed, because he is a liar, a deceiver, a murderer, he is anti-American, anti-Christ."
I think it's safe to say Chris Matthews will not be in attendance...
Poor ol Lost Joe. He doesn't know whether to sh#t or go blind so he just closes one eye and farts !!! Gotta feel sorry for the old fool.
Joe Biden gives himself huge promotion in speech, sets tongues wagging
4 hrs ago
Here's the question Washington D.C. is asking on the day of Vice President Joe Biden's swearing in: Was what happened last night just a regular ol' Biden screw-up, or a slip of the tongue that reveals lofty ambitions? At the Iowa State Society inauguration ball late last night, Biden told supporters: "I'm proud to be president of the United States." Oops. The audience laughed and cheered, before Biden's son Beau interrupted the veep and told the crowd he'd misspoken
Quote from: jarhead on January 20, 2013, 12:25:49 PM
Poor ol Lost Joe. He doesn't know whether to sh#t or go blind so he just closes one eye and farts !!! Gotta feel sorry for the old fool.
Joe Biden gives himself huge promotion in speech, sets tongues wagging
4 hrs ago
Here's the question Washington D.C. is asking on the day of Vice President Joe Biden's swearing in: Was what happened last night just a regular ol' Biden screw-up, or a slip of the tongue that reveals lofty ambitions? At the Iowa State Society inauguration ball late last night, Biden told supporters: "I'm proud to be president of the United States." Oops. The audience laughed and cheered, before Biden's son Beau interrupted the veep and told the crowd he'd misspoken
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'Harry Reid, Living Large In The D.C. Ritz Carlton'
After President Obama signed the first documents of his second term, Sen. Harry Reid picked up one of the pens for a souvenir.
"Harry are you stealing the pens?" Obama asked with a chuckle, and added, "I can get you one man."
That's like when Blinky 'one-eye' Rizzio tried to steal Al Capone's gold pocket knife at a Mafia Meet in Chicago and instead of letting Blinky have it, Al let Blinky have it.... shot him in the head.
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At the inaugural celebration, Obama actually seems somewhat cordial to John Boehner, House Speaker. But Michelle is much too busy shoveling food into her mouth, and when Boehner tries to get her attention, she manages an eyeroll at him.
Just one more stupid mistake by the liberals !!!
Military leaders lift ban on women in combat roles
Published January 24, 2013
FoxNews.com
Pentagon set to lift combat ban for women
U.S. military leaders on Thursday formally lifted the ban on women serving in combat positions, with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta saying women have become an "integral part" of the military and have already demonstrated their willingness to fight during the wars of the last decade.
"It's clear to all of us that women are contributing in unprecedented ways to the military's mission of defending the nation," Panetta said
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/24/panetta-opens-combat-roles-to-women/?test=latestnews#ixzz2IzudfNNJ
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....Rand Paul For President!
20 Outrageous Examples That Show How Political Correctness Is Taking Over America
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The thought police are watching you.
Back in the 1990s, lots of jokes were made about "political correctness", and almost everybody thought they were really funny. Unfortunately, very few people are laughing now because political correctness has become a way of life in America. If you say the "wrong thing" you could lose your job or you could rapidly end up in court. Every single day, the mainstream media bombards us with subtle messages that make it clear what is "appropriate" and what is "inappropriate", and most Americans quietly fall in line with this unwritten speech code. But just because it is not written down somewhere does not mean that it isn't real. In fact, this speech code becomes more restrictive and more suffocating with each passing year. The goal of the "thought Nazis" is to control what people say to one another, because eventually that will shape what most people think and what most people believe. If you don't think this is true, just try the following experiment some time. Go to a public place where a lot of people are gathered and yell out something horribly politically incorrect such as "I love Jesus" and watch people visibly cringe. The name of "Jesus" has become a curse word in our politically correct society, and we have been trained to have a negative reaction to it in public places. After that, yell out something politically correct such as "I support gay marriage" and watch what happens. You will probably get a bunch of smiles and quite a few people may even approach you to express their appreciation for what you just said. Of course this is going to vary depending on what area of the country you live in, but hopefully you get the idea. Billions of dollars of media "programming" has changed the definitions of what people consider to be "acceptable" and what people consider to be "not acceptable". Political correctness shapes the way that we all communicate with each other every single day, and it is only going to get worse in the years ahead. Sadly, most people simply have no idea what is happening to them.The following are 20 outrageous examples that show how political correctness is taking over America...
#1 According to a new Army manual, U.S. soldiers will now be instructed to avoid "any criticism of pedophilia" and to avoid criticizing "anything related to Islam". The following is from a recent Judicial Watch article...
The draft leaked to the newspaper offers a list of "taboo conversation topics" that soldiers should avoid, including "making derogatory comments about the Taliban," "advocating women's rights," "any criticism of pedophilia," "directing any criticism towards Afghans," "mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct" or "anything related to Islam."
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/12/new-army-manual-orders-soldiers-not-to-criticize-taliban/#respond
#2 The Obama administration has banned all U.S. government agencies from producing any training materials that link Islam with terrorism. In fact, the FBI has gone back and purged references to Islam and terrorism from hundreds of old documents.
http://judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/02/u-s-bans-linking-terrorism-to-muslims-in-agent-training/
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/02/hundreds-fbi-documents-muslims/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29
#3 Authorities are cracking down on public expressions of the Christian faith all over the nation, and yet atheists in New York City are allowed to put up an extremely offensive billboard in Time Square this holiday season that shows a picture of Jesus on the cross underneath a picture of Santa with the following tagline: "Keep the Merry! Dump the Myth!"
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12/11/atheists-post-anti-christmas-billboard-in-times-square-featuring-jesus-being-crucified-drop-the-myth/
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#4 According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, it is illegal for employers to discriminate against criminals because it has a "disproportionate" impact on minorities.
http://blogs.findlaw.com/in_house/2012/01/pepsi-settles-eeoc-racial-bias-case-for-31-million.html
#5 Down in California, Governor Moombeam has signed a bill that will allow large numbers of illegal immigrants to legally get California driver's licenses.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/10/california-will-give-drivers-licenses-to-illegal-immigrants-video-discussion.html
#6 Should an illegal immigrant be able to get a law license and practice law in the United States? That is exactly what the State Bar of California argued earlier this year...
An illegal immigrant applying for a law license in California should be allowed to receive it, the State Bar of California argues in a filing to the state Supreme Court. Sergio Garcia, 35, of Chico, Calif., has met the rules for admission, including passing the bar exam and the moral character review, and his lack of legal status in the United States should not automatically disqualify him, the Committee of Bar Examiners said Monday.#7 More than 75 percent of the babies born in Detroit are born to unmarried women, yet it is considered to be "politically correct" to suggest that there is anything wrong with that.
http://cnsnews.com/blog/terence-p-jeffrey/obamas-america-will-become-detroit
#8 The University of Minnesota - Duluth (UMD) initiated an aggressive advertising campaign earlier this year that included online videos, billboards, and lectures that sought to raise awareness about "white privilege".
http://d-umn.campusreform.org/school/blog/?ID=3059
#9 At one high school down in California, five students were sent home from school for wearing shirts that displayed the American flag on the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06/california-students-sent-home-wearing-flags-cinco-mayo/
#10 [IDIOT] Chris Matthews of MSNBC recently suggested that it is "racist" for conservatives to use the word "Chicago".
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rusty-weiss/2012/08/30/chris-matthews-and-msnbc-now-claim-word-chicago-racist#ixzz252qumTv7
#11[BIGGER IDIOT] A judge down in North Carolina has ruled that it is unconstitutional for North Carolina to offer license plates that say "Choose Life" on them.
http://myfox8.com/2012/12/10/judge-finds-nc-choose-life-plates-unconstitutional/
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#12 The number of gay characters on television is at an all-time record high. Meanwhile, there are barely any strongly Christian characters to be found anywhere on television or in the movies, and if they do happen to show up they are almost always portrayed in a very negative light.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/05/entertainment-us-glaad-idUSBRE8940FA20121005
(Reuters) - New shows "The New Normal," "Girls" and comedy "Go On" have helped U.S. television rack up a record number of gay, bisexual and transgender characters, gay rights group GLAAD said on Friday.#13 House Speaker John Boehner recently stripped key committee positions from four "rebellious" conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. It is believed that this "purge" happened in order to send a message that members of the party better fall in line and support Boehner in his negotiations with Barack Obama.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/inside-story-of-boehners-conservative-purge/
#14 There is already a huge push to have a woman elected president in 2016. It doesn't appear that it even matters which woman is elected. There just seems to be a feeling that "it is time" for a woman to be elected even if she doesn't happen to be the best candidate.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/female-president-2016-candidates_n_2125059.html#slide=1749186
#15 Volunteer chaplains for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department have been banned from using the name of Jesus on government property.
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/police-chaplains-told-to-stop-invoking-jesus.html
#16 Chaplains in the U.S. military are being forced to perform gay marriages, even if it goes against their personal religious beliefs. The few chaplains that have refused to follow orders know that it means the end of their careers.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/military-forces-chaplains-to-perform-gay-marriage/
#17 All over the country, the term "manhole" is being replaced with the terms "utility hole" or "maintenance hole".
#18 In San Francisco, authorities have installed small plastic "privacy screens" on library computers so that perverts can continue to exercise their "right" to watch pornography at the library without children being exposed to it.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/26/pornography-at-san-francisco-library-reportedly-prompts-privacy-screens/?test=latestnews
#19 You will never guess what is going on at one college up in Washington state...
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/college-allows-transgender-man-to-expose-himself-to-young-girls.html
A State of Washington college said their non-discrimination policy prevents them from stopping a transgender man from exposing himself to young girls inside a women's locker room, according to a group of concerned parents.#20 All over America, liberal commentators are now suggesting that football has become "too violent" and "too dangerous" and that it needs to be substantially toned down.
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In fact, one liberal columnist for the Boston Globe is even proposing that football should be banned for anyone under the age of 14.
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Tell us again how great that Arab Spring thing was !!!
At least 26 die in clashes over Egypt soccer disaster verdict
By Yusri Mohamed and Yasmine Saleh, Reuters
PORT SAID/CAIRO - At least 26 people died on Saturday when Egyptians rampaged in protest at the sentencing of 21 people to death over a soccer stadium disaster, adding to bloody street turmoil confronting Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Armored vehicles and military police fanned through the streets of Port Said after the violence. The state news agency quoted a general as saying the military aimed to "establish calm and stability in Port Said and to protect public institutions".
Unrest flared with nationwide rallies on Friday to mark the second anniversary of the overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, a democratic revolution that protesters now accuse Morsi of betraying by ramming through an Islamist-hued constitution.
What really happened....
Osama bin Ladens Sea Burial Caught On Tape
Published on Jan 22, 2013
http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/terrorism/osamas-sea-burial-caught-on-tape/941551903001/
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Recently the remains of Osama bin Laden were discovered by a ship off the coast and filmed by a crew member aboard the USS Vessel.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................footage courtesy of See-bee's News[/font][/size][/b]
Warph,
I will never eat crab cakes again !!!!
Here's a Rand Paul video where he talks about how bad the Senate sucks: Rand Paul for President in 2016
Obuma Phone Lady Says: Darn Sure Won't Vote for Obama Again! - 1/14/13 Obuma Phone Lady for Secretary of Health & Human Services
State Department Had No $$$ for Benghazi Security, Did Have $16 Mil for Kindles and $4.5 for Art
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According to Hillary Clinton's long-delayed Benghazigate testimony, the State Department just did not have enough money to provide security for a mission in one of the most dangerous places in the world.
It did however have 16 million dollars to spend on 2,500 kindle book readers at the drastically inflated price of $6,600 per device.
How much security could that 16 million buy?
It had $79,000 to spend on Obama's books and $20,000 on a portrait of Obama. The US Embassy had $150,000 to spend on a book about the ambassador's residence. The US Embassy in Austria had $150,000+ for a Chevy Volt and its charging station.
And here is what else Hillary's State Department did have money for...
7.9 billion dollars for Obama's Global Health Initiative.
1 billion for global climate change.
2.2 billion to strengthen democratic institutions in Pakistan.
And of course... Mosque renovations.
In 2011 the State Department provided funds to restore the 15th century Gobarau Minaret in Katsina State in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north, an area which has become a virtual killing field for Christians at the hands of Muslim militants, led by the al-Qaeda-linked terror group Boko Haram.
And $4.5 million for Art in Embassies
The New York Times reported in 2009 that Art in Embassies spends about $4.5 million a year for permanent art acquisitions; chief curator Virginia Shore said at the time that artists and dealers support the program via favorable pricing; for the embassy in Beijing, an outlay of $800,000 yielded works with an appraised value of $30 million.
How much Benghazi security would 800,000 dollars have bought? If Hillary Clinton had stopped buying paintings, maybe four Americans would still be alive today.
The State Department also has a Chief Diversity Officer, whose job it is to warn that "holding the fort" is a racist phrase.
As far as security goes, 200 million dollars were wasted on Iraqi police training that never went anywhere.
And nothing says State Department waste, like waste management.
The U.S. Department of State and partners from the LAUNCH: Beyond Waste Forum announce a challenge to identify ten game-changing innovations with the potential to transform current waste management systems and practices. LAUNCH: Beyond Waste seeks transformational solutions to the problem of waste through disruptive innovation, behavioral change, systems design, as well as improved policy and stewardship.
The challenge, which will be open from April 1 to May 15, 2012, asks creative minds to formulate innovative ideas for minimizing waste or transforming it into new products.
Nope, no waste to see here.
The State Department just had no money in its 50 billion dollar budget to pay for Benghazi security. None at all.http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/state-department-had-no-for-benghazi-security-here-is-what-it-did-have-for/
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Barack Obama: Our Orc-in-Chief
:: Posted by Edward Cline at 3:16 PMDaniel Greenfield, in his January 20th Sultan Knish column, observed that "Obama is truly fake. He is authentically unreal. There is absolutely nothing to him. If you take away all the work that was done to make him famous, there would be nothing there. And that is exactly why he is the perfect avatar for the media age."
How true. Of course, a man who is nothing but who seeks to be something by pursuing political power is, root and branch, a nihilist. And that is what Obama is, at core. Down deep, he knows he is nothing. But in the eyes of his worshipping electorate, he is something. He is a leader. A Messiah. A Führer. The Thirteenth Imam. The Mahdi. The Prophet. The savior of the ages, the man on horseback who comes to save a nation from itself. Because he is nothing, he must work miracles, and turn gold into lead. He must prove that he is something.
His identity depends on pulling the wool over his electorate's heads. He is what he imagines himself to be, which is an illusion. As Greenfield notes, remove the illusion, switch off the hologram, strip away the prancing king's clothes, and there is nothing there. The garb seemed to hang in mid-air, held there by invisible strings. Everyone who doubts Obama's "goodness" and values the truth, has Superman's X-ray vision. They can see that there's nothing there. Obama back in 2008 promised the nation "transparency." It's the only promise he kept – for those who choose to take a good, hard look at the nothingness that is there for all to see.
Except that his admiring electorate, egged on and abetted by the MSM, has no X-ray vision. They see what they see, which is nothing garbed in imaginary vestments of sanctimony and the self-righteous. Truth is their enemy, their nemesis. Truth is what they wish it to be. So they wish very hard – call it praying, or banging one's head against a brick wall, or bowing to the Mecca of statism three times a day – and the unreal becomes the truth.
It is the inherent, ineluctable nature of a state of zero in a person that a man who is lacking in character and values must be a destroyer. He becomes something when he is able to demonstrate his capacity for destruction. He must act to sustain the illusion. Destruction is his own proof of power.
He is the secular version of Christ. With a modicum of showmanship, with much assistance from an adoring MSM, he performs "miracles," and turns loaves into fishes, and fishes back into loaves, and water into wine, and wine into Jim Jones's brand of Kool-Aid, and pig pen muck into French pastries. It's all as bogus as a TV reality show, as Greenfield notes.
But, because he can't create anything – to be able to create something, a person must have a measure of what is the good, and Obama is a vacuum, a hollow man with no conception of any life-affirming good – he can only destroy. And when he destroys, to his minions, it passes as proof of his goodness and efficacy. They get free cell phones and Obamacare and bailed-out companies that fail anyway and solicitude and assurances that they have a right to destroy what they never really built but which he assures them they helped to build, anyway.
And that is the leitmotif of Barack Obama, America's first truly nihilist president. Bad as they were, he makes Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton look like hired clown magicians at a children's birthday party, faking finding quarters behind children's ears and making funny creatures from squeaky, multi-colored balloons. Only Obama's quarters are counterfeit ones that are the government's multi-trillion dollar debt pulled from Americans' wallets and savings accounts, and the squeaky balloons are his back-firing foreign policies.
What most people can't grasp is that the debt is deliberately impossible to erase or correct, and that the back-firing policies are going according to plan. They are meant to back-fire.
How else to explain Obama's Mideast policies, which loose countless Tolkien-like Islamic Orcs on that region and on the world? Al Qada, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, the Taliban – all the Islamic jihad groups – they are real-world counterparts of Tolkien's subhuman, flesh-eating brutes, eager to slaughter the good because they are the good. They are slobbering, drooling beasts that are but gross, unsightly clones of Barack Obama's true soul or character, ready to kill for the sake of killing, ready to rip men and women apart and roast their limbs over fires of kindled with the remnants of freedom of speech and the right to property and gun ownership.
Obama is a nihilist at work. He knows what he is doing. As he pretends to saw a woman in half, his believers chuckle and think it's just a trick, and isn't he such a masterful illusionist? What entertainment! But the red spewing from the box isn't Teresa Heinz-Kerry's ketchup, it's real blood, and the screaming victim is but a proxy for everyone in the adulatory audience. They all presume that the woman in the box will go home after the show, coddle her kiddies, and watch "Nature" on PBS while spooning Yoplait and munching on Granola bars.
When the audience gets home and checks its bank accounts and payroll stubs and insurance premiums and tries to devise a personal budget that is in mortal conflict and in a losing race with a limitless federal budget, it represses its screams and consoles itself that it's all for the good. Out of destruction comes construction, isn't that the way things are done? The country is being remade, "reframed."
But, what is being "constructed," what are the constituents of the remaking, in what square is the country being "reframed"? Obama's audience doesn't want to know. It prefers fairy tales and illusions. It prefers pretty Technicolor pictures of a City on the Hill, with people dancing on cobblestone streets inlaid with gold, and choruses of flowers singing at their passing, and buildings and houses swaying in rhythm under a cloudless sky, and everyone guaranteed a chicken in every pot and an environment-friendly hybrid car in every garage.
Greenfield calls the fakery a "consensual illusion." That, also, is true, and it takes a willingness by both parties, the One at the Podium, and the ones in the audience, to sustain the illusion. It requires a habitual, subconscious, but still volitional desire to "blank out," to evade the knowledge, the truth, and the reality of things. Or it takes a criminal ignorance, which is much the same thing.
The dish-rattling rumble you hear are the hordes of Orcs coming for you and your life.
They are advancing from several directions: from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, from Capitol Hill, from the Justice Department, from the Supreme Court, and from their auxiliaries, the EPA, and the AFT, the TSA, and the DEA, the HHS, and other phalanxes of statism. [/font] [/size]
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Vice President Joe Biden stepped into a confessional and knelt.
"Hey, Father, how you doing?" he said to the priest.
"Well, Joseph, not so well of late. There is great concern among the religious community about actions the Obama administration has taken as part of ObamaCare."
"What are you talking about, Father?"
"Joseph, earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a regulation, directed by ObamaCare, that requires all non-church religious institutions, such as hospitals and schools, to provide employee health insurance that includes contraception, sterilization and abortifacients."
"But we fixed that one, Father. Rather than make religious employers pay for these things directly, we told the insurance companies they had to provide these things free!"
"And you really think insurers are able to provide these things free, Joseph? They will not. The costs of contraception, sterilization and abortifacients will ultimately be rolled into the insurance premiums that religious organizations will pay — which is tantamount to providing financial support for things such as abortion — and religious institutions cannot morally accept your 'fix.'"
"Ah, c'mon, Father. You act like there is an assault on the Catholic church. I made it absolutely clear during my debate when I said that 'no religious institution — Catholic or otherwise, including Catholic social services, Georgetown Hospital, Mercy Hospital, any hospital — has to either refer contraception, none has to pay for contraception, none has to be a vehicle to get contraception in any insurance policy they provide. That is a fact. That is a fact.'"
"But you have your 'facts' wrong, Joseph. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a letter that rebukes your statements completely. The letter says, 'The HHS mandate contains a narrow, four-part exemption for certain "religious employers." That exemption was made final in February and does not extend to 'Catholic social services, Georgetown hospital, Mercy hospital or any hospital,' or any other religious charity that offers its services to all, regardless of the faith of those served."
"That's a bunch of malarkey, Father. The bishops have no problem with us!"
"You aren't paying attention, Joseph, so let me be clear: The Catholic church cannot and will not pay for a government-mandated insurance policy that funds and enables actions that violate our religious beliefs — yet that is exactly what the government is now forcing us to do. And that is why there are more than 40 lawsuits, brought on behalf of Catholic bishops and other religious organizations, to stop you."
"Lawsuits, Father? Well, that's news to me."
"Perhaps this is also news to you, Joseph: This matter is about much more than the right of a female student at a Catholic university to have contraception covered by her university-provided health insurance policy. It is about simple freedom, Joseph."
"I'm not following, Father."
"This country was founded on the concept of freedom, including religious freedom. Religious freedom was the reason the Pilgrims came to America from England. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees such freedom: 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
"So what is your point, Father?"
"Joseph, by using the might of the federal government to tell religious organizations what insurance products they must purchase for their employees, hasn't the government created a law that is prohibiting their free exercise of religion?"
"Ah, heck, father, all we're trying to do is make insurers cover the cost of birth control."
"It is a winning position for a politician to take, Joseph, but surely you understand that this issue as not as simple as you make it out to be. The truth of the matter is that you either misspoke or deliberately misled people during your debate. I assume you entered this confessional to confess?"
"Not at all, Father. I had to go to the bathroom and thought this was the john."
White House Spokesman: I've Never Seen
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"Squirt guns, yes... Skeets, no."White House Spokesman Jay Carney has never seen Obama
skeet shooting either.
Today at the White House reporter Dana Bash asked Carney if he'd ever seen Barack Obama
skeet shooting.
CNN reporter Dana Bash: How often does the president go skeet shooting and are there
photographs of him doing so?
Jay Carney: I would refer you to his comments. I don't know how often. He does go to
Camp David with some regularity but I'm not sure how often he's done that.
Dana Bash: Is there a photograph of him doing it?
Jay Carney: There may be but I haven't seen it.
Dana Bash: Why haven't we heard about it before?
Jay Carney: Because when he goes to Camp David he goes to spend time with his family
and friends and relax and not produce photographs.
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Can't Make This Up... Dem Under Investigation in
Underage Dominican Hooker Scandal – Leads Efforts
to Ease Immigration Restraints
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On Friday the news broke that the FBI has been investigating
top Democratic Senator Bob Menendez for having sex with underage Dominican hookers.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/figures-fbi-reportedly-investigating-top-dem-senator-for-sex-with-underage-dominican-hookers/
Today we find out he's ON the "Gang of Eight" Senate Immigration Committee.
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The "Gang of 8″ US Senators from both parties made an deal on an
outline of an immigration overhaul.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/gang-of-8-makes-immigration-deal/
Warph,
Did you see Rand Paul grill Comrade Kerry over Egypt and Pakistan ? Young Paul is looking better all the time .
Quote from: jarhead on January 29, 2013, 09:58:28 AM
Warph,
Did you see Rand Paul grill Comrade Kerry over Egypt and Pakistan ? Young Paul is looking better all the time .
I did.
Between the sniper fire drawn a few weeks back by the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary and the kabuki theater surrounding outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testifying about Benghazi, it's easy to forget that Sen. John "Reporting for Duty" Kerry is about to start calling the shots at State.... although I threw a snippet or two in there on him. (Re: Like Slimey Cockroaches & their crooked President, Liberals Spread Disease
« Reply #476 on: January 27, 2013, 02:09:50 am ») The man is an idiot... shares same DNA as Joe Biden.
Secretary of State nominee, a vet who later protested Vietnam, faces questions from Sen. Rand Paul:
Video of aerial gun tape vehicle engagement. Scenes include Apache helicopter
identifying and engaging vehicles with hellfire missiles and 30mm cannon fire. Afghanistan - Absolutely typical apache attack with Hellfire and 30mm Gun
I think they should send picture to Waph ,of well endowed beauties and let him decide if they are too big !! You up to the task, old feller ?
Not everyone likes big boobs — for example, North Korea
Published January 28, 2013
SEOUL, South Korea — That's right. Large-breasted women are so discriminated against in North Korea they try to shrink or hide their boobs in order to boost their social standing, according to the South Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo as cited by Korea watcher Robert Koehler.
North Korea's patriarchal society apparently views nature's generosity with suspicion, defectors told JoongAng Ilbo.
The bigger your breasts, the more likely you'll be considered a slut, the women reportedly said, because you're seen as strutting your stuff — as if morality determines that development. Imagine their shock when they escape to find themselves the envy of all their smaller-breasted friends. What? Big boobs are good?
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/28/not-everyone-likes-big-boobs-for-example-north-korea/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz2JTpP0zCW
I'll do my best... waiting in anticipation on the pictures, Jar. Check this out.. The U.K. has finally gone down the toilet:
A muslim who raped a 13-year-old girl he groomed on Facebook has been spared a prison sentence after a judge heard he went to an Islamic faith school where he was taught that women are worthless. Claimed he was not aware that it was illegal for him to have sex with the girl because his education left him ignorant of British law.
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Well he didn't know it was wrong. That means it's not a crime. How about that sh!t? But good luck for anyone who leaves a pig's head in front of a mosque and claims not to know it was wrong.
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Margaret Brown earned her moniker as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" by surviving the sinking of the Titanic. Hillary Clinton earned hers by surviving multiple scandals, the last of them claiming four lives. During the Clinton Administration, Hillary Clinton was followed around by the phantom corpses of conspiracy theories, but now four real corpses trail in her wake without ever slowing her down.
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Hillary's departure into the lifeboat is another escape from a ship that is too big to sink. Obuma hasn't been very popular in a while and if she's going to make her run in 2016, she will need some distance from the shambling disaster that the S.S. Hussein is likely to be three years from now. After being cheated out of her captain's hat in 2008, she's determined to be the first in line to receive it in 2016.
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Like Molly Brown, Hillary Clinton has picked the perfect time to exit the sinking wreck. The Arab Spring is starting to take on tones so ugly that even the most sheltered liberal warding off the real world with unfurled copies of the New York Times and the Washington Post cannot deny that something appears to have gone wrong. As Egypt burns... again, Hillary passes the baton to John Kerry, who has never met a dictator that he didn't fall in love with, and leaves him with the responsibility of dealing with the disaster.
It was also the week that the wheels came off the Hagel bus leading to video compilations of his worst moments and bizarre quotes. Lindsey Graham clearly enjoyed using Hagel as a chew toy, for reasons that are probably personal, but it's Hagel's ineptness, his rambling inability to get to a point or even understand the question, his multiple corrections that are baffling when coming from a man who had once been a Senator. This may not stop Hagel from being confirmed, but it's an inauspicious start for the man who was only being brought in as a fall guy for slashing national defense to the bone.
How's it going there, Rahm? I understand that Chicago teachers have the highest average salary of any city, $75,000 a year, while administrators make $120,000, even though only 20 percent of their 8th grade students are grade-proficient in math.
Chicago schools now have an annual budget of $5.11 billion for a student body that is 87% low-income and likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
In 1985, the budget for all of Chicago was $2.1 billion or less than half of the current school budget. But that doesn't work too well now when Chicago teacher pensions alone account for $1 billion a year... yep, I said, $1 billion, Rahm. Arne Duncan tried and failed to reform the system, and as a reward got kicked upstairs to become Obuma's Secretary of Education. Rahm Emanuel tried to buy off the teachers with a pay hike in exchange for evaluations and had his teeth handed to him.
Bloomberg came into office as the education mayor and during his time in office the city's debt doubled to $110 billion. In 1975, New York City almost went bankrupt over $14 billion of debt. In Chicago, in Daley's last ten years, its debt rose 96.9 percent and almost a quarter of the city budget goes to servicing that debt. Good luck, Rahm ol' boy.(http://mountainrepublic.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/rahm-funny.jpg)
...and the same to you, Rahm!
Shocking new statistics about house cats!
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What horse sh!t and those statistics are skewed, monkeyed with and equate to flat out steaming piles of cow pies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/science/that-cuddly-kitty-of-yours-is-a-killer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=1&
Here we have more paid for scientific 'findings' that will turn to ugliness before being changed later on and called wrong so that new paid for 'findings' can replace them in the on going scam that is research science.
Let's just call it stupid and wrong from the start as we should.
Scientific research gets grants to work with. Once they find a solution, they are done. So, to keep things going and the paychecks flowing, science has to keep researching and coming up with more and better stupid answers that always need revision.
See how the racket works?
That is why coffee is good for you, bad for you, good for you again and then bad for you after that.
The Smithsonian, where much good science is hidden in warehouses lest you see the truth, and where good scientists are sanctioned for truth, is hardly a place to go for enlightenment.
Cats kill millions? Bullsh!t. People kill millions. Science kills millions. Look at their horrendous political findings that DDT was dangerous. Oh, might be if you eat the stuff, but millions have died around the world from insect borne diseases since they banned its use.
Look at the drugs they produce. Some are deadlier than any DDT ever was.
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Science needs a good hard kick in the behind, one that will last for centuries.
Remember this is science that wants to clone and corrupt human dna, wants to bring back Neanderthals, the wooly mammoth and other stupidity.
Cats kill mice and rats and vermin that bring serious disease.
This is the same science that ignores their Creator and goes straight to the god of their own making: themselves. No one is above them.
Nature does just fine without interference from these kinds of people. Science can be the danger, not house cats.
May the poo of a million house cats adorn this guy's breakfast.
So much for free speech !!
Alabama high school psychology teacher Bob Grisham has been suspended for 10 days without pay for a rant that included calling the first lady "fat butt Michelle Obama." A student in Grisham's class made an audio recording of the remarks, which also included derogatory comments about gays.
Grisham's suspension from Lauderdale County High School begins on Tuesday, and he has been barred from teaching his class for the rest of the school year and ordered to attend sensitivity training. Also the school's head football coach, he will be assigned "other academic duties'' for the rest of the year in place of teaching his class, according to Lauderdale County Superintendent Jennifer Gray.
Here we go again. Teachers are supposed to be personally politically neutral in the classroom. He can't make the religious "anti gay abomination against God" comment either. At the local bar, sure...but not in a taxpayer supported classroom.
If the teacher taught in say Shawnee Mission or Washburn Rural, he'd get away with it since even though the Brownbackistanians don't want teachers to have first admendment rights in or out of the classroom, they'd let it slide since it was anti-Obama and anti-gay.
Teachers are supposed to be personally politically neutral in the classroom
Diane--did you forget to put smiley faces after that statement because it is funny. "Politically neutral " seems to be a one way street in the classrooms across the country.
Yea right Flint. It's OK for teachers to teach the kiddies that mommy and daddy might be of the same sex and that's OK but for this teacher to voice his opinion---well hell, let's string him up !!!
Could you tell me what a "Brownbackistanian" is ?
Jar,I'm sorry but I don't know why what I said was funny.
Public schools are supposed to be politically neutral. They may teach how Gov't works, and encourage kids to think about how they feel about things, but the teachers aren't supposed to show political favoritism in the classroom. No, he may not express his opinion. If he can't manage that, he'd better find something else to do.
Private schools and religiously based schools can be different, but tax supported schools are supposed to be neutral. Don't you remember how it was? You must have had some form of POD and Civics in school back in your day...Ya ain't no spring chicken either and I assume you graduated.
I'd hardly call a 10 day suspension "stringing him up." If you were the admistrator, how you have handled that situation? The bit about gay parents had nothing to do with it...that's just a diversion...as you keep accusing me of doing. Ahem. ::)
Diane, go back and read what I wrote---I will write it slowly----I---addressed---that---part---to---Flint.
It was still a diversion,had nothing to do with the subject.
Diane,
What do you mean it has nothing to do with the subject ? What part of----(quote )"which also included derogatory comments about gays (unquote)--- do you not understand ? Then you have the gall to say I'm creating a diversion !! .
Just practicing what y'all do to me on a regular basis. ;D ;D ;D Gall runs wild when you (plural) do it me..seems like fun, so I joined in. The teacher may not express his personal opinion on such matters. In some states it's even in the teacher's contract. I don't know about all.
Quote from Diane:
Just practicing what y'all do to me on a regular basis.
Diane,
You make excuses like the one above and try to cover your tracks when you make a spelling error by saying you did it on purpose but then elaborate on how your typing needs more work and excuse after excuse . When you make outlandish statements like that, do you know why about 99% of the forum readers think you are a bald faced lia------- not always being truthful ?
I guess that's their problem then, isn't it? Tolerate me or don't..your call. When I do make a real error I do say so. I've apologized when I've been wrong about things too. Saying "I'm sorry" is very easy for me, but I don't apologize when I'm telling the truth.
My typing is very poor. I've said so many times. Why does that bother anybody? My back ground is very broad and my interests are many. Yes, I do know a lot about a lot...runs in my family. I'm not perfect,I've said so many times. People keep accusing me of thinking that. Not true .
I'm not the only one who posts interesting things about their lives. Why bug me? I try to poke around and have fun with you and I'm hated for it. A level playing field would be nice.
If this forum really is just for hard core conservatives, fundamentalists and current Elk County residents, then the administrators should say so, and several others should stop posting too. I've tried to call a truce several time with no luck. (As I said, ya pick on me I will fight back.) I found the list of community events in the paper very interesting. I can't say if they are good value, but there were more than I expected based on what one person had posted.
Diane, Do you realize what you just wrote is what a poster said a bully was ? After someone stands up to you, you go crying about how you have many friends and family here and "just poking fun at y'all. Below is that posters description of a bully----------
"That is common talk among 9 year old bullies who poke and poke and say mean things until the child being bullied finally breaks and fights back. Then the bully, who always thinks what ever he says if justified,runs to someone else for help because he is being picked on."
Oh wait---that poster was you---that was your description of a bully. Hmmmmm !!!
Let's see now, who would I run to? This is cyber space, nobody is real. What you wrote makes no sense to me at all based on what I just wrote. My available time is up, got things to do...poof.
Nobody is real. Now isn't that special.
Also explains a lot about your BS.
Yet we, the unreal, have been accused of being mean, of ruining a 'real' county, of demeaning 'real' teachers, of dissing 'real' community leaders, and more. I guess ghosts are more real than we thought. LOL
Quote from: Patriot on February 06, 2013, 03:43:39 PM
Yet we, the unreal, have been accused of being mean, of ruining a 'real' county, of demeaning 'real' teachers, of dissing 'real' community leaders, and more. I guess ghosts are more real than we thought. LOL
The Brit's have heard you loud and clear, Patriot... just got this letter from the Parliament Minister of Mis-Information at Westminster:
NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCETo the citizens of the United States of America,In the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA in Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today, February 6, 2013. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Chicago, which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable David Cameron, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint new Minister, Piers Morgan, for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium." Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise". You will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary." Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up "interspersed". There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language as often.
2. There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize."
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to Cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in out-dated show "Frasier"). You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon." If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen," but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2015. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called "Rounders" which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.
7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using nuclear weapons if they give you any merde (that is sh!t in your American slang). The 97.85% of you who were not aware that there is a world outside your borders should count yourselves lucky. The Russians have never been the bad guys. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public. New Minister Piers Morgan will bring you up-to-date on this matter.
8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. March 1st. will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day".
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips. Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps". Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.
11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.
12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all, it is lager. From March 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer", and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager". The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be refered to as "Near-Frozen Knat's Urine", with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Knat's Urine". This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.
13. From March 1st the UK will harmonise petrol (or "Gasoline" as you will be permitted to keep calling it until June 1st 2013) prices with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $7/US a gallon... get used to it).
14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.
Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).
Thank you for your cooperation.
The Right Honourable Alquisha Summerset-Wigglebutt
Minister Of Mis-Information
Love it. That is so funny...thanks!
Hypocrite ? You make the call.
Ron Paul turns to UN agency for help in fight over namesake website
Published February 11, 2013
FoxNew
Libertarian folk hero and retired Rep. Ron Paul is fighting to take the domain name RonPaul.com from a legion of loyal supporters. And he's turning to an unlikely source for help, filing a complaint with an agency of the United Nations -- a body he's criticized for years
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/11/ron-paul-files-suit-for-domain-name-leaving-supporters-bummed-but-fighting/#ixzz2KdF8vn3A
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/11/ron-paul-files-suit-for-domain-name-leaving-supporters-bummed-but-fighting/#ixzz2KdF21jDF
Quote from: jarhead on February 11, 2013, 04:26:28 PM
Hypocrite ? You make the call.
Ron Paul turns to UN agency for help in fight over namesake website
Published February 11, 2013
FoxNew
Libertarian folk hero and retired Rep. Ron Paul is fighting to take the domain name RonPaul.com from a legion of loyal supporters. And he's turning to an unlikely source for help, filing a complaint with an agency of the United Nations -- a body he's criticized for years
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/11/ron-paul-files-suit-for-domain-name-leaving-supporters-bummed-but-fighting/#ixzz2KdF8vn3A
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/11/ron-paul-files-suit-for-domain-name-leaving-supporters-bummed-but-fighting/#ixzz2KdF21jDF
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"You're a strange dude, Ron Paul. Maybe my wife Michelle can help you out."
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No one can coast along on past accomplishments forever. Success demands that you keep producing. Remaining at the top means making yourself indispensible.
When the USA was a manufacturing giant, it was needed on the world scene to supply the very best in steel, coal,copper, automobiles, lumber, home goods ,furniture,tobacco, farm equipment, food and more. The USA produced it, grew it, exported it and made jobs and money from it.
Prior administrations both Republican and Democrat encouraged manufacturing to leave and outsource. Draconian laws closed down mining and made manufacturing too expensive to continue in the USA. The ugly NAFTA agreement was like nails in a coffin for American superiority in manufacturing and sales.
Other nations, not blinded by their own wealth and self satisfaction, picked up on it and ran with the ball, eager to manufacturer and produce and become necessary to the world's economy.
The cold war was all about world dominance and as long as the US provided much needed products on the world scene, she was the leader.
It used to be a joke to say something was 'made in Japan' or 'made in China' because the goods were simply cheap and inferior.
Now today the USA owes Communist nations over $1,696,691,000,000 in borrowed money and the borrower is slave to the lender as Shakespeare reminded us.
$1,171,100,000,000 is owed to China alone.
Debt has increased, according to an article by Terrance Jeffrey of CNS news by 257% under Barack Obama.
How can you be a world leader if the world doesn't really need you?
You need to hear this:
..Dr Benjamin Carson's Amazing Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast with Obama. Watch Obama Squirm.
Warph,
Did I ever tell you that I have ESPN ? That's right buddy---I can read peoples minds. Obummer is sitting there thinking, "How can I call a drone strike in on Dr Carson without me being collateral damage---if only MeeShall was sitting between me and the Doc, she would take the brunt of the shrapnel and I would risk it"
I aint shit'n you buddy---that's what he was think'n.
ESPN? People with that can usually only read minds about sports scores,right? You are very funny! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: jarhead on February 12, 2013, 10:36:04 AM
Warph,
Did I ever tell you that I have ESPN ? That's right buddy---I can read peoples minds. Obummer is sitting there thinking, "How can I call a drone strike in on Dr Carson without me being collateral damage---if only MeeShall was sitting between me and the Doc, she would take the brunt of the shrapnel and I would risk it"
I aint shit'n you buddy---that's what he was think'n.
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Dr. Carson's Refreshing Jolt of Good Societal MedicineBy David Limbaugh
2/12/2013President Obama must have been stunned at the "audacity" of Dr. Benjamin Carson in challenging his core assumptions right to his face in front of thousands of people at the National Prayer Breakfast.Obama is not used to being challenged, especially in public, even if indirectly and without being specifically named. From the look on his face, it was obvious Obama was none too pleased with Carson's message or with his "presumptuousness" in presenting it in that forum, while he had to sit still and -- remain silent.
I think we can best understand Carson's message in light of his opening statements, which laid the foundation for the thematic body of this speech.
He began citing scriptural passages that he said would put his upcoming remarks into context. Three of the passages were wisdom sayings from the book of Proverbs, admonishing that the godless destroy their neighbor with their mouths, that a man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor and that a generous man will prosper.
The final passage was God's promise in 2 Chronicles 7:14 that if his people will humble themselves and pray and seek his face and turn from their wicked ways, he will hear them, forgive their sins and heal their land.Carson also decried the chilling effect of political correctness that makes people afraid to express certain opinions on important issues, lest they incur the wrath of society's thought and speech police -- those who presume to be the guardians of all moral and acceptable opinions. He then proceeded to boldly articulate a number of ideas that clearly fall in this category of disfavored speech.
Specifically, Carson offered a ringing endorsement of America's founding principles and its unique constitutional liberties. He decried the moral decay in our society and our government's grotesque fiscal irresponsibility.
He took aim on our ever-expanding welfare state, not only by championing hard work, self-reliance and personal responsibility but also in invoking his own personal experience as an example.
He related how his mother worked multiple jobs to provide for him and his brother and imparted critically important values to them. She made them read and improve themselves and absolutely refused to let them make excuses and claim victimhood for their plight.
Carson, I believe, was illustrating that we have a moral problem in this nation and that the instilling of good values begins in the home and is neither the responsibility nor the prerogative of a caretaker government.
He denounced the practice -- refined to an art form by President Obama -- of politicians employing class warfare to deride the wealthy with accusations that they don't contribute enough while treating the less fortunate as helpless and expecting no contribution from them at all. This, I think, is where he was dovetailing the scriptural texts warning against deriding one's neighbor. He was saying, in effect, that political demagogues who pit people against one another on the basis of income and wealth harm society, including the very people they pretend to help.
In a television interview, Carson expanded on some of these thoughts, explaining that the Founding Fathers were afraid of an out-of-control government that would "get to the point where it couldn't subsist without taking everything from the people." Next, he linked, though not expressly, the scriptural passage on generosity in challenging today's conventional wisdom that the wealthy are necessarily greedy. He pointed to the remarkable generosity of some of America's historically wealthiest individuals. America, he said, "has always been a very generous nation. Look at all the foundations that have been created for the purpose of taking care of people."
He also expounded on his comments on political correctness, apparently criticizing the president's selective assault on religious liberty. He said, "If the president would exercise anywhere near the sensitivity about religious freedom in this country as he does about Islam and offending them, we wouldn't even have these kinds of problems."
There is also no question in my mind that in citing the passage from 2 Chronicles, Carson was expressing his view that America has strayed from its godly roots and replaced God's absolute moral standards with those that seem right to a man but are wholly destructive of our moral fabric. We must turn back to God, reject this man-made ethic grounded in covetousness, envy and greed, and recommit ourselves to godly values and right living.
In his speech, Carson did not criticize President Obama by name, but he roundly condemned his philosophy of and approach to governance. He did so with abundant forcefulness but equally strong respectfulness.
It was an admirable display of forthrightness and courage and a virtual seminar in how President Obama's political opponents should boldly, directly and publicly dispute his wrongheaded message and block his destructive agenda.
http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2013/02/12/dr-carsons-refreshing-jolt-of-good-societal-medicine-n1510008
So now you can sit on your ass in Colorado and fly a drone with your joy stick and get a medal that is higher than a Bronze star w/V and a Purple Heart earned in combat.
Un- freaking- believable !!!
VFW slams Pentagon's drone medal, complains it would outrank Purple Heart
By Barnini Chakraborty
Published February 14, 2013
FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON – America's largest combat veterans group is worried the creation of a new medal for drone strikes and cyber-warfare could bestow higher honor on those using a joystick to kill terrorists than soldiers wounded on the battlefield.
The Distinguished Warfare Medal, announced Wednesday, would rank higher than the Bronze Star and Purple Heart, which is given to service members killed or wounded in battle. The new medal would rank immediately below the Distinguished Flying Cross.
But to some, like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, creating a non-combat medal is turning into a major Pentagon misfire.
"It's a boneheaded decision," VFW spokesman Joe Davis told FoxNews.com. "This is going to affect morale and it's sending troops in the field a horrible message."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/14/medal-misfire-pentagon-new-off-site-medal/#ixzz2KvtDyT1F
Quote from: jarhead on February 14, 2013, 09:02:51 PM
So now you can sit on your ass in Colorado and fly a drone with your joy stick and get a medal that is higher than a Bronze star w/V and a Purple Heart earned in combat.
Un- freaking- believable !!!
Ditto! Un- freaking- believable!
This is great... why not Keyboard Warrior medals for all those chickenhawk drone pilots and for the clowns who never served in the military and/or in wars but who love to run their mouths and promote the very same wars and military they avoided. Perhaps Purple gal bladder medals for all those wounded from high cholesterol from all those dinners toasting "warriors" that the chickenhawks groupie around like the Kelley's at MacDill, Blabbermouth Jay Carney and that sh!thammer Disaster-in-Chief Obuma.
Every honorably discharged service member should receive an award. If ordinary performance of duties is the criterion for a medal, there are thousands... actually millions.... of current and former service members who should receive such recognition, who actually served on the lines, in the trenches, or face-to-face with enemies of our nation and who received less than a handshake for their sacrifices. Let those receive recognition first!
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Rubio says he picked up over 13,000 new followers on #twitter since last night so he's
going to start drinking water in the middle of all of my speeches!
;D ;D ;D ;D To all teachers! Forget even trying to teach proper grammar...It's a lost cause. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Check out that photo caption. Is nothing worth a little effort any longer?
Quote from: Diane Amberg on February 15, 2013, 09:00:00 AM
;D ;D ;D ;D To all teachers! Forget even trying to teach proper grammar...It's a lost cause. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Check out that photo caption. Is nothing worth a little effort any longer?
Then again, perhaps the editor/author is going to be giving speeches, and Mr. Rubio is a friend who intends to drink water as the editor/author speaks. LOL
And we don't have an education problem?
That writer has an education problem, not everyone does.
As Valentine's Day came and went, it's important to be reminded that the special day, like everything else in Western Civilization, was originally invented by Muslims. And there are few places in the world as romantic as Turkey, where this love story for the ages takes place.
You might be tempted to confuse this tale with Romeo and Juliet. And it is a lot like Romeo and Juliet, or it would be if Juliet's father had traded her for a cow.
Our tale begins in the village of Korkut in the District of Gümüşhacıköy, which is in the Amasya Province of Turkey. Korkut has drinking water, a post office and a midwife, and apparently not much else.
Ali. O, like so many enterprising Korkunians, one afternoon during the Muslim commemoration of Ramadan, decided to make the deal of a lifetime with the stepson of his brother. The stepson would get his daughter and Ali would get a cow. The stepson delivered the cow and now it was time for the next part of the deal.
"I promised, I took the cow. Now you have to get married," Ali O. told his daughter Guller O.
Like all romantic heroines, Guller did not want to be traded for a cow and fled to her aunt's house in Ankara, where Ali began making threatening phone calls to her insisting that she go through with the wedding. The case came to court and Ali O. claims that he was slandered, that he did not sell his daughter for a cow, but that the cow just happened to be on his premises, and that he was doing his daughter a favor by marrying her off because she's retarded.
The family court has ordered Ali O. to undergo mental health treatment and to stop calling his daughter. If he refuses then he will have to serve 3-10 days in jail. The fate of the cow remains unknown.
In entirely unrelated news, Turkey's murder rate of women has increased 1400% and 41.9% of Turkish women experience violence and sexual abuse.
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http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=women-murder-victims-increase-snowballing-in-turkey-2011-02-20
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Now that one is funny!
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From Citizens for Tax Justice:Earlier this month, the Facebook Inc. released its first "10-K" annual financial report since going public last year. Hidden in the report's footnotes is an amazing admission: despite $1.1 billion in U.S. profits in 2012, Facebook did not pay even a dime in federal and state income taxes.
Instead, Facebook says it will receive net tax refunds totaling $429 million. Facebook's income tax refunds stem from the company's use of a single tax break, the tax deductibility of executive stock options. That tax break reduced Facebook's federal and state income taxes by $1,033 million in 2012, including refunds of earlier years' taxes of $451 million.
But that's not all of the stock-option tax breaks that Facebook generated from its initial public offering of stock (IPO). Facebook is also carrying forward another $2.17 billion in additional tax-option tax breaks for use in future years.
So in total Facebook's current and future tax reductions from the stock options exercised in connection with its IPO will total $3.2 billion.....Also check: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-15/facebook-gets-a-multi-billion-dollar-tax-break
Obuma's definition of Bipartisanship:
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Boy, do I feel sorry for smokers these days.
Smoking used to be so fashionable and hip in the James Dean and Steve McQueen days.
Women who smoked used to be sexy. No sooner did they pull a Virginia Slim out of a cigarette case than men would rush at them with lighters.
Even when smoking was cool, people knew it wasn't healthy. Some unhealthy smokers sued tobacco companies for concealing the unhealthful effects of sucking carcinogens into their lungs — and not one prevailed.
That changed in 1998, when 46 states sued the four biggest tobacco companies to recover Medicaid costs for tobacco-related maladies. The states won big. The tobacco industry has been nicotine-coughing up billions of dollars to the states ever since.
Or, to be more precise, smokers have been nicotine-coughing up billions. A pack of cigarettes costs five or six bucks. Taxes account for more than half of that price.
In any event, over the years, smoking has lost its coolness appeal among the public. Anti-smoking groups have made tremendous gains banning smoking in public places. To date, 38 states and all 60 of our biggest cities have public smoking bans in place.
To be sure, the anti-smoking sentiment is one of the few bipartisan issues left. People on both the left and right loathe smoking the way people used to hate polio and communism.
Many people on the right, sick of dining in restaurants where smoking was still allowed, were all for government bans on the legal activity. Didn't secondhand-smoke studies warrant it?
Many people on the left were for such government bans, too, for the simple reason that they love when the government tells people what they cannot do — except when it involves smoking marijuana.
And so it is that the bipartisan anti-smoking mob has relegated smokers to secondary-human-being status.
Smokers are shunned at family gatherings and sent to the garage or the street, so as not to stink up the house.
Even corporate CEOs who smoke are sent to the alleyway, where they mingle with other smokers like hapless pigeons.
And just when smokers thought things couldn't get worse, boy, are they getting worse.
Government regulators, who are now interpreting President Obama's Patient Protection and (ha ha!) Affordable Care Act, have determined that smokers should get hammered by insurance companies.
Starting next year, health insurers will be permitted to charge smokers who purchase individual policies up to 50 percent more for their premiums.
A 60-year-old smoker will pay, on average, $5,100 more than he is paying right now.
Why? Well, the fellow's smoking could cause him to have health issues, which others in the insurance pool would ultimately have to pay for.
Since he is a higher risk for the insurance pool, shouldn't he be required to pay more?
Many in the anti-smoking mob, on both left and right, surely think so — as they miss the larger point: If our federal government has gotten so big and meddlesome that it can single out a particular citizen who has freely chosen to use a legal product as a vice, what CAN'T our government do?
How long before chubby people and snack-cake eaters and people who like to hang-glide over mountain cliffs are also singled out by the government?
How long before the government in a big city, such as New York, bans salt and large soda drinks?
Oops, that has already happened.
Yeah, I feel sorry for smokers, but the way things are going, we'll all be mingling like pigeons in alleyways, secretly enjoying snack cakes, salty snacks and sugary drinks and hoping the government doesn't catch wind of it.
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Dems Recoil In Horror As Rand Paul Returns $600,000 Operating Budget Surplus To Treasury...
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says he will send a $600,000 check to the U.S. Treasury, returning the part of his operating budget as a senator that was not spent.
Paul made the announcement at press conference in Kentucky on Wednesday. According to a press release from Paul's office, the sum is over 20 percent of the total operating budget.
Last year, he returned $500,000 worth of unspent funds to the Treasury.
"I ran to stop the reckless spending, and I pledged to the people of Kentucky that I would work to keep their hard-earned money out of the hands of Washington bureaucrats whose irresponsible spending has threatened our country's economic health," Sen. Paul said.
The Republican senator and son of libertarian icon Ron Paul is considered a likely 2016 presidential contender.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/21/rand-paul-returns-surplus-operating-budget/#ixzz2La74wgCb
Biden: "I Am Going To Say Something Outrageous: You've Had No Better Friend Over The Last 35 Years Than Me"...
Joe, you're Outrageously STUPID!!
From The Durge:
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBSNewYork) - Vice President Joe Biden joined Conn. Gov. Dannel Malloy, other lawmakers and the parents of a young girl killed in the Sandy Hook massacre at a conference on gun violence Thursday.
The conference was held a few miles from the scene of last year's Newtown school shootings.
Biden is trying to rally support for the administration's proposals to curb gun violence, saying there will be a moral price to pay for inaction.
Biden said America has changed its views of gun control since the Dec. 14 massacre of 26 people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School.
"Common sense facts are these assault weapons are unnecessary and dangerous weapons that put our law enforcement personnel at risk," Biden said. "You guys know a lot of departments around the country. I've been working with the police agencies for 35 years. I am going to say something outrageous: You've had no better friend over the last 35 years than me."
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From Politiclo:
The Democratic National Committee raised $4.3 million in January, but is still weighed down by a significant amount of post-election debt.
While it's not unusual for political parties to creep into the red after an election, Democratic Party ended the 2012 cycle with a debt of $21.5 million, according to a new filing with the Federal Elections Commission.
The committee's latest report shows the DNC paying down nearly $700,000 of their post-election debt — which shrank to $20.7 million.
Earlier Wednesday, the RNC announced it had raised $6.9 million in January, with $7.1 million in the bank. The committee retired the last of its outstanding debt at the end of 2012.
From the Mind of a Democrat...From SnopesMore Modern Way of Living
Claim: Text reproduces letter to the editor from a "proud Democrat." MIXTURE
Example: [Collected via e-mail, February 2013]
I just came across a post on Facebook that seems too far fetch to believe. It's suppose to be a news article sent to the editor against gun control... It's states as a Democrat and fussing at Republicans as hiding behind the constitution to scare people and how the president is trying to make gun laws stricter for everyone like they are where he came from.(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cMhPyNHdoTk/USZwfz31P3I/AAAAAAAAwpM/KuZ7_2OcBZk/s1600/2-20-13+14.bmp)
Beaufort, N.C.
Jan. 17, 2013
TO THE EDITOR:
Republicans and "so-called" conservatives are at it again. They are claiming that the Constitution gives people the right to have guns without the permission of the government. If that were true, then how could New York and Chicago have laws against it?
We Democrats are sick and tired of Republicans constantly using the Constitution to cover up their true plans, which are to make us all afraid of everyone else. Our great president came from a civilized part of the country where there is strict gun control, and he is only trying to bring the benefits of that more modern way of living to the rest of us. I don't know the exact statistics, but I'm quite certain that Chicago is a lot safer than Morehead City, when it comes to gun violence.
But do Republicans and conservatives listen to the voice of reason? No, of course not. All they want to do is whine and complain about how gun control and wealth
redistribution violate the Constitution, as if the Constitution were all that great, anyway. There are a lot of things that need to be changed about the Constitution, I'd say, and President Obama needs to change it.
The Republicans are just trying to stand in the way, because the president is black. They even dared to question whether he was born in this country. I think all this demonstrates that the Constitution needs to be amended when it comes to the qualifications for being president. Right now, it says that a person has to be 35 years old and be a natural born citizen. Well, that is obviously unfair because there are a great many otherwise qualified people who cannot run for president because their mothers had to have a C-section. But because the Constitution was written a hundred years ago, nobody even thought of the discrimination that would result from a doctor having to deliver a baby in this unnatural way. Now that we Democrats are in control of the government, that's just one more thing we should change in our drive to make life fair.
Please withhold my name because I don't want to get crank calls.
PROUD TO BE A DEMOCRAT
Origins: The farcical missive reproduced above is "true" in the very broad sense that it is in fact a letter to the editor which was published (under the title "More Modern Way of Living") by a regular newspaper, in this case the 29 January 2013 edition of the Carteret County (North Carolina) News-Times. That publication later prefaced the online version of the letter with an editor's note stating that:
The following Letter to the Editor, published in the Jan. 23 edition, has gone viral on the Web after a reader linked it to a Fox News Facebook page. It had received more than 4,000 comments and been shared more than 12,000 times by [the following week].
Whether this letter is "real" in the sense that its writer intended it to be taken literally by readers is something that can't be answered definitively (since the author is not identified by name), but almost certainly it was penned as a spoof of Democrats rather than as an earnest letter from a Democrat. The tone of the letter is tongue-in-cheek throughout, implausibly consisting of nothing but multiple obvious absurdities piled one atop another and recycling a number of old jokes, such as the notion that a person born by Cesarean section is not considered a natural-born citizen and the humorous stereotype of the individual who publicly proclaims himself as being "proud" of his membership in a particular group yet insists on remaining anonymous.
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20 Of The Most Embarrassing Moments In The History Of The Democrat Party
By John Hawkins
2/23/2013
For example, one will virtually never hear that the Palmer Raids, Prohibition, or American eugenics were thoroughly progressive phenomena. These are sins America itself must atone for. Meanwhile, real or alleged "conservative" misdeeds — say McCarthyism — are always the exclusive fault of conservatives and a sign of the policies they would repeat if given power. The only culpable mistake that liberals make is failing to fight "hard enough" for their principles. Liberals are never responsible for historic misdeeds because they feel no compulsion to defend the inherent goodness of America. Conservatives, meanwhile, not only take the blame for events not of their own making that they often worked the most assiduously against, but find themselves defending liberal misdeeds in order to defend America herself. -- Jonah Goldberg
1) The Trail of Tears (1838): The first Democrat President, Andrew Jackson and his successor Martin Van Buren, herded Indians into camps, tormented them, burned and pillaged their homes and forced them to relocate with minimal supplies. Thousands died along the way.
2) Democrats Cause The Civil War (1860): The pro-slavery faction of the Democrat Party responded to Abraham Lincoln's election by seceding, which led to the Civil War.
3) Formation of the KKK (1865): Along with 5 other Confederate veterans, Democrat Nathan Bedford Forrest created the KKK.
4) 300 Black Americans Murdered (1868): "Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana killed nearly 300 blacks who tried to foil an assault on a Republican newspaper editor."
5) The American Protective League and The Palmer Raids (1919-1921): Under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson, criticizing the government became a crime and a fascist organization, the American Protective League was formed to spy on and even arrest fellow Americans for being insufficiently loyal to the government. More than 100,000 Americans were arrested, with less than 1% of them ever being found guilty of any kind of crime.
6) Democrats Successfully Stop Republicans From Making Lynching A Federal Crime (1922): "The U.S. House adopted Rep. Leonidas Dyer's (R., Mo.) bill making lynching a federal crime. Filibustering Senate Democrats killed the measure."
7) The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1932-1972): Contrary to what you may have heard, Democrats in Alabama did not give black Americans syphilis. However, the experimenters did know that subjects of the experiment unknowingly had syphilis and even after it was proven that penicillin could be used to effectively treat the disease in 1947, the experiments continued. As a result, a number of the subjects needlessly infected their loved ones and died, when they could have been cured.
8 ) Japanese Internment Camps (1942): Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order that led to more than 100,000 Japanese Americans being put into "bleak, remote camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards."
9) Alger Hiss Convicted Of Perjury (1950): Hiss, who helped advise FDR at Yalta and was strongly defended by the Left, turned out to be a Soviet spy. He was convicted of perjury in 1950 (Sadly, the statute of limitations on espionage had run out), but was defended by liberals for decades until the Verona papers proved so conclusively that he was guilty that even most his fellow liberals couldn't continue to deny it.
10) The West Virgina Democrat primary is rigged by John F. Kennedy (1960): From an interview with the late, great Robert Novak.
John Hawkins: You also said that without question, John F. Kennedy rigged the West Virginia Democratic primary in (1960), but that the Wall Street Journal killed the story. Do you think that sort of thing is still occurring with great regularity and do you wish the Journal had reported the story when it happened?
Robert Novak: In my opinion, they should have. They sent two reporters down to West Virginia for six weeks and they came back with a carefully documented story on voter fraud in West Virginia, buying votes, and how he beat Humphrey in the primary and therefore got the nomination. But, Ed Kilgore, the President of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street Journal, a very conservative man, said it wasn't the business of the Wall Street Journal to decide the nominee of the Democratic Party and he killed the story. That story didn't come out for many, many years — 30-40 years. It was kept secret all that time.
11) The Bay of Pigs (1961): After training a Cuban militia to overthrow Castro, Kennedy got cold feet and didn't give the men all the air support they were promised. As a result, they were easily defeated by Castro's men and today, Cuba is still ruled by a hostile, anti-American dictatorship.
12) Fire Hoses And Attack Dogs Used On Children (1963): Birmingham, Alabama's notorious Commissioner of Public Safety, Democrat Bull Connor, used attack dogs and fire hoses on children and teenagers marching for civil rights. Ultimately, thousands of them would also be arrested.
13) Stand In The Schoolhouse Door (1963): Democrat George Wallace gave his notorious speech against integrating schools at the University of Alabama in which he said, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
14) Escalation In Vietnam (1964): Lyndon Johnson dramatically escalated our troops' presence in Vietnam while he simultaneously put political restrictions in place that made the war unwinnable. As a result, 58,000 Americans died in a war that ultimately achieved none of its aims.
15) Chappaquiddick (1969): The Democrats' beloved "Liberal Lion" of the Senate, Ted Kennedy ran off the road into a tidal pool with passenger Mary Jo Kopechne in the car. Kennedy swam free and then spent 9 hours plotting how he would reveal the news to the press while she slowly suffocated to death.
16) Democrats Deliver South Vietnam To The North (1975): "In 1975, when there were no Americans left in Vietnam, the left wing of the Democratic Party killed the government of South Vietnam, cut off all of its funding, cut off all of its ammunition, and sent a signal to the world that the United States had abandoned its allies." -- Newt Gingrich
17) The Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1981): 52 Americans were held hostage by the government of Iran for 444 days. After Jimmy Carter's disastrous, failed rescue attempt, the hostages were finally released after Ronald Reagan's inaugural address.
18) Bill Clinton turns down Osama Bin Laden (1996): In Bill Clinton's own words, "'Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we'd been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.' — Bill Clinton explains to a Long Island, N.Y., business group why he turned down Sudan's offer to extradite Osama Bin Laden to America in 1996." Had Bill Clinton accepted Sudan's offer, 9/11 would have likely never happened.
19) Bill Clinton was impeached (1998): Clinton became only the 2nd President in American history to be impeached after he lied under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
20) America loses its AAA credit rating (2011): The United States was first given its AAA credit in 1917, but it couldn't survive Barack Obama's record breaking spending. In 2011, America lost its AAA credit rating.
Sens. Tom Udall And Richard Blumenthal Tied For First In Rankings For "Most Liberal Senator"...
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Sens. Tom Udall And Richard Blumenthal Tied For First In Rankings For "Most Liberal Senator"...
Then again, they're just holding the spot for Elizabeth Warren.
Via National Journal:
These days you can't swing an NPR tote bag in the upper chamber without hitting a liberal senator. This year, the Senate saw the additions of Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Tammy Baldwin, Tim Kaine, and Chris Murphy. They will surely fit in with the likes of Sens. Sherrod Brown, Al Franken, and Dick Durbin. It wouldn't have been a surprise if any of these big names won the title of "Most Liberal Senator."
That title did not, however, end up going to a particularly visible member. Instead, it was split by two relatively new and relatively unknown members: Tom Udall of New Mexico and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut.
To learn how the vote rankings are calculated, click here.(....)Michelle Obama: Shaken, Not Stirred
We predicted a parody coming on the Michelle Obama "Mom Dance" with Jimmy Fallon.Here is Sooper Mexican's short ode to her dancing
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Idiots Converge on Freezing D.C. to Protest Global Warming
by Dan Greenfield
The United Idiots of America, in conjunction with the Sierra Club, Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and a bunch of other organizations that no one had ever heard of before held a "Forward on Climate" rally. No one including the organizers appeared to know what this meant or how it's possible to go forward on a climate.
The rally participants, mainly bored college students, were united in their opposition to the Keystone Pipeline which would create jobs for working class people. And united in their stupidity. One sign read, "Read My Lips, No New Carbons", apparently protesting the element. Unfortunately every time lips are opened and words come out, so do new carbons.
Another sign demanded, "Fight Climate Chaos." Refusing to cooperate, the weather in Washington D.C. dipped below 30 degrees forcing the assorted idiots to shiver while listening to speeches warning that the icebergs on the pole were melting. Again.
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There were idiots dressed as polar bears and one idiot dressed up as a whooping crane. Occupiers showed up in black hoodies with their faces covered, not so much as a disguise, but for warmth. The Forward on the Climate or For the Climate or Away from the Climate rally was a real cross-section of American idiots. There were electric bicycle salesmen, yoga instructors, Quakers and environmental science students.
Lots of white people raised their fists in the air in solidarity with something. Possibly the climate. Robert Redford wrote an editorial in support of the protest, but didn't bother flying a private jet over to take part. There was an awkward dance party. There were a few obligatory giant puppets. Everyone was cold, but everyone pretended that the planet was burning up.
Kids roped in by their idiot parents shivered while holding up signs about solar power. College students swarmed around the buses that brought them and texted while old hippies made speeches. There was a giant model of a pipeline or maybe a windmill. No one could tell. And there were lots of signs about how everyone loved Mother Earth.
Full speed ahead to STUPITY!
Obuma: "Alien Abductions Blamed For Disappearing Workforce In My First Term"
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With over 8 million people mysteriously disappearing from the US workforce during President Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma's first term, experts are working on a number of theories to explain this riddle, the most commonly mentioned reason being alien abductions occurring throughout the US on an extraordinarily massive scale.
According to a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report, the number of people disappearing from the US workforce rose from 80.5 million when the president took office in 2009 to the current 89 million, while unemployment has remained steady near 8-9%. In other words, 8.5 million people have simply vanished in a way that can't be explained by the usual retirement or disability trends.
"Since we can't blame it on the economy, the only conceivable explanation is that someone is taking people out of the labor market by force," said Malcolm Lenivie, noted economist for the DC-based Center for Keynesian Economics. "The President has spent $6 trillion in stimulus packages and all our studies indicate that his plan is working, so something else must be at play."
Early theories included abductions by Mexican drug cartels, but leading security experts agree that it would be impossible to move eight million people across the US border undetected.
"Our border is extremely secure," said border security analyst Jared Contrabandzis of the American Progressive Initiative, a non-partisan think tank. "No one can cross our southern border in any direction without our knowledge. The Border Patrol catches them all and reports them to the authorities."
Sources say the President is taking this matter very seriously and is putting pressure on the Pentagon to investigate the possibility of alien abductions and to find a way to stop the disappearance of the American labor force.
Insiders in Washington speculate that if top brass in the US Air Force do not take immediate action, President Obuma will likely fire a number of generals and reorganize the command structure.
"The President will not let this crisis go to waste," said Lenivie, adding that heads will roll all over Washington until one of these theories can be substantiated. "We know for sure the problem is not caused by the economy, since all of our numbers indicate that recovery is well on its way. It isn't just around the corner, it is here."
The White House is ordering the Air Force to review surveillance footage from radar stations throughout the world for evidence of alien aircraft, as intelligence satellites are being re-tasked from areas like the Middle East and China to scour the continental US for possible stashes of missing workers.
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Oscars 2013: Michelle Obama announces long-awaited merger of Hollywood and the State
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I'm done with the Oscars now... finally... for good... What I have quietly been predicting since the late 20th century has finally happened...
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The White House is now, unquestionably, part of the Hollywood machine, and vice versa... Congratulations.
....Warph
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Massachusetts Democrat Files Bill Allowing Animal Rights Loons To Sue Hunters....
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So we're going to have Team PETA suing human beings on behalf of Bambi? Brilliant!
Massachusetts State Senator Mark Montigny (D-New Bedford) recently introduced a bill that would allow private individuals to file a lawsuit for the "protection and humane treatment of animals." This is of great concern for all sportsmen, farmers, and dog owners.
Animal cruelty is already a crime in Massachusetts just as it is across the country. Animal cruelty laws are enforced by experienced law enforcement officers, including local police forces and animal control officers, who are trained on what is and is not animal cruelty under the law and how to spot it.
Senate Bill 767 would end this proven system and instead give private citizens the ability to sue animal owners over what they perceive to be "animal cruelty" under the law.
Read More Via The Sportsmen's Daily:
http://www.ussportsmen.org/legislative-action/massachusetts-bill-allows-animal-rights-activists-to-sue-sportsmen/
Muslim residents of southern Egyptian city try to storm church in
search of missing woman
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I guess they missed their "Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance"
and "no compulsion in religion" classes. Hmmm... is that Obuma on the
far left behind beard boy?
LUXOR, Egypt – Security officials say hundreds of Muslim residents have thrown firebombs and rocks at police outside a church in the south of Egypt.
They accuse local Christians of providing a safe haven for a missing woman suspected of converting.
Six policemen and a dozen Christians were wounded in the clashes late Thursday in the town of Kom Ombo, near the Aswan High Dam.
Tensions rose after a 36-year-old Muslim woman disappeared five days ago. She was allegedly spotted outside the Mar Gergis church in Kom Ombo on Thursday.
Officials say within a few hours, hundreds of Muslims gathered outside the church and tried to storm it, believing she was hiding inside.
Police erected checkpoints around the church Friday in anticipation of more protests. Officials spoke anonymously in line with regulations.
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'Piers Morgan Tonight' Hits Yearly Low in 25-54 Demographic
Go back to Britain, Piers, you're a failure. Oh, I forgot... they don't want you back.
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The February 28th episode of Piers Morgan Tonight, which featured an exclusive interview with Gus Searcy, the mentor of Jodi Arias suffered a yearly low in the key 25-54 demographic with only 87,000 viewers. The show is down 27% in total viewers and 38% in the demo from its debut in Jan. 17th, 2011.
Piers Morgan Tonight also had the lowest demo in its time slot and was even beat by HLN's Dr. Drew (with 208,000).
Marine generals showing rare dominance of top jobs
Jim Michaels, USA TODAY9a.m. EST February 24, 2013
"The Marine Corps is clearly punching above its weight," says one expert.
When U.S. and NATO top brass gathered in Kabul to mark a change in the top leadership this month, all three American generals lined up on stage were Marines.
Afghanistan is a landlocked country, but for the second consecutive time President Obama nominated a Marine to lead the war there. Joining the outgoing and incoming commanders on stage was Marine Gen. Jim Mattis, chief of the command that oversees all forces in the Middle East region.
Little noticed outside defense circles, it was a historic moment for the Marine Corps, a seagoing service whose humble beginnings were to provide security and landing parties for Navy ships.
"The Marine Corps is clearly punching above its weight," said Peter Mansoor, a retired Army colonel and military history professor at Ohio State University. "This is a very unusual and singular moment in Marine Corps history."
The Marines are aware of just how singular it is.
With 195,000 troops it is the smallest service of the armed forces, representing only 8% of the overall Defense Department budget. Until World War II, the Marines didn't have an active duty four-star general.
Today it has six four-star generals, a record number, serving in prominent positions around the world. Gen. John Allen, who stepped down as commander in Afghanistan, was the first Marine to command an entire theater of war.
The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James Amos, said it was not something that happened by design. "We've just got a string of very seasoned combat generals," Amos said in a recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute.
Analysts agree, saying the Marine generals are chosen on an individual basis as commands have to be filled.
Still, they point to a couple factors that have contributed to the growing prominence of the Marine Corps: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan played to the strength of Marine officers, and the emphasis on joint commands mean Marines have more opportunities to take jobs outside their service.
The joint commands "got the leadership the recognition that it has deserved," said Walt Ford, editor of Leatherneck magazine and a retired Marine colonel.
The success Marines have had in top positions may also have something to do with their leadership training, Mansoor said.
"I think there is something about how Marines approach professional military education that produces officers with a broad view of the world and who are flexible and can deal with the very different challenges of the type of wars we're fighting today," he said.
"With a few exceptions, the Army tends to breed good company men," Mansoor added.
The Marine Corps is as much a mindset as it is a set of capabilities. The service bills itself as an expeditionary force, able to get to hot spots fast with lots of firepower. But its reputation is built on something less tangible: fighting spirit, or what Marines call esprit de corps.
"Marines don't celebrate their technology to the same extent as the Navy and Air Force," said Aaron O'Connell, a Marine reserve officer and author of Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps.
That spirit may have made the Marines more insular in the past, but today it has helped them rise to prominent positions as the United States battles irregular enemies far from its shores.
"I think the Marines have a cultural advantage over the other services when it comes to dealing with chaos and uncertainty," O'Connell said.
The rising prominence of Marine leaders has not gone unnoticed by the other services. "There is a big competition for the U.S. commands," Ford said.
The Marine Corps is particularly sensitive to competition from the other services, who in the past have been behind efforts to eliminate or shrink the corps. The Marine Corps has survived 20 such attempts since its founding in 1775, O'Connell said.
The Corps' popularity on Capitol Hill and among the American public has always saved it, but that history has infused Marines with a healthy dose of paranoia. "The Marine Corps more than any other service is forever vigilant to threats to its existence," O'Connell said.
Even today Marines worry about getting complacent. "Most Marines look at it as a bubble we won't see again for a long time," Ford said of the record number of four-star generals.
In fact, upcoming retirements will likely reduce the number of Marine generals. Allen announced this week that he plans to retire, turning down a nomination to be the top NATO officer in Europe. Allen's likely replacement is Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, the Associated Press reported, citing an unnamed senior NATO official.
Mattis will step down as chief of Central Command and will be replaced by an Army general, the Pentagon has said.
Still, analysts say the Marine Corps can finally let go of its fears.
"The Marine Corps should not worry about its organizational survival," Mansoor said. "The American people have embraced it as an institution."
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PINETOP, Ariz. -- A gun shop owner in eastern Arizona is making headlines with a politically-charged sign he decided to hang outside of his business. Cope Reynolds owns the Southwest Shooting Authority in Pinetop, and just days after President Barack Obama was reelected he decided that he would no longer allow Obama supporters in his store. Reynolds proceeded to put up a sign outside his business that told Obama fans that they're not welcome in his store because, "you have proven you are not responsible enough to own a firearm."
Word of Reynolds' sign quickly spread across the country, with critics suggesting that Reynolds' motives were racially based. Reynolds insists he's not racist, explaining that he's just concerned about Obama's policies. "It wouldn't make a difference if he was black, white, brown, man, woman, homosexual, it wouldn't make any difference," said Reynolds. "It's the manner in which this country is being run that disturbs us." There's one thing about Reynolds' anti-Obama sign that can't be disputed: it's good for business.
"We're getting people ordering guns from New York and Nevada and Idaho because of this sign," said Reynolds. "For every one I might lose I'm probably picking up 10." And even if his sign were hurting his business, Reynolds says he'd still speak his mind. "It's not about money. It's about freedom, it's about America, my kids, and what they're going to inherit," he proclaimed.
Reynolds plans to keep the sign up in his store for the next four years.
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Two Airports Cited By Big Sis As Having Sequester-Related Delays Both Say She's Lying...
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Did she really think nobody would check?
Airports have denied a claim by Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, that the sequester is already causing long delays for travelers at security screening checkpoints.
Ms Napolitano said today that major airports were seeing lines "150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect" as result of the federal spending cuts that went into force on Friday.
"We're already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend," she told a breakfast event organised by Politico.
When pressed for specifics she cited Chicago's O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartfield-Jackson and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), adding: "I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform."
However, when contacted by The Daily Telegraph, spokespeople for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as representatives from the travel industry, denied that airports had been hit by delays.
"We haven't had any slowdowns at all," said Marshall Lowe, a spokesman for LAX. Mr Lowe said that he had been on duty over the weekend and received no reports of unusual security delays.
Yeah... Arizona is quite happy to see her gone. She fits in well with that lying president that we have!!
Fun Fact of The Day:
Obuma Borrowed Almost 6 Times As Much In February
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(CNSNews.com) – During the month of February–as President Barack Obama was warning Americans they would see dramatic effects in their lives if "sequestration" of some planned federal spending kicked in–the federal government's debt climbed by $253.5 billion.
That one-month increase in the debt was nearly six times as much as the $44 billion in spending cuts the Congressional Budget Office estimates will take place in all of fiscal 2013 as a result of sequestration.
At the close of business on Jan. 31, 2013, the federal debt was $16,433,791,850,294.04, according to the U.S. Treasury. At the close of business on Feb. 28, 2013, the federal debt was $16,687,289,180,215.37. Thus, the federal debt increased $253,497,329,921.33 during the month.(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sequestration-budget-pie-chart-political-cartoon.jpg)
Bye, Bye American Pie....
...Warph
jarhead, Really liked the Marine news. Thanks for putting it on here. I have a nephew who is a Marine and, of course, know many others who are.
Tsunami 2004 - Caught On Camera10 Things You Didn't Know About TsunamisIain Stewart journeys across the oceans to explore the most powerful
giant waves in history, with ten remarkable stories about tsunamis.
These massive waves can be taller than the biggest skyscraper, travel at the
speed of a jet plane and when they reach land, rear up and turn into a terrifying
wall of water that destroys everything in its path. These unstoppable, uncontrollable
forces of nature caused the ruin of an entire ancient civilization, may have played a small
part in the demise of the dinosaurs, and in World War II were used as a weapon.
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It really is a shame that the U.S. economy isn't growing at the same rate as insanity. Instead, we have Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma threatening to shut down tours of the White House to school kids, blaming that old devil, Sequester.
At the same time, as the Wall Street Journal points out, he green lights a junket for Department of Agriculture employees to attend the 26th California Small Farm Conference, in Fresno, where they'll have the opportunity to sip "exceptional wines" and sample "tasty dishes" whipped up by "special guest chefs."
At the same time that Obuma gave the finger to school kids and other Americans who planned to visit the place that used to be called "The People's House" before the Obumas moved in, he sent $300 million to Egypt's Mohamed Morsi, shortly after the creep referred to Christians and Jews as pigs and monkeys.
Those are your tax dollars at work, or not, as the case may be.
But far be it from me to suggest that lunacy is limited to those within spitting distance of Pennsylvania Avenue. For instance, Sean Penn and Oliver Stone are both sitting shiva or however it is that Hollywood cretins pay their respects when their favorite despots die. Catholics don't mourn the death of Christ the way celebrities mourn the passing of every anti-American jackal in the world.
In related news, Dennis Rodman, a former basketball player who was nicknamed "Worm" for perfectly obvious reasons, recently announced that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is an "awesome guy."
I have no doubt that a big part of the reason that so many notables salivate at the mere mention of Obuma's name is because they see in him a despot wannabe.
It's probably just as well that it's so difficult to get inside the heads of liberals because, judging by the stuff that comes out of their mouths, their skulls must be very dark and spooky places, filled with echoes of Biden's gaffes and Obuma's talking points. Remember when Obuma said his would be the most transparent administration in history or when he said that Bush's request for an increase in the national debt was proof of failed leadership or, more recently, when he said America doesn't have a spending problem? Apparently, liberals missed all that while they were busy swooning.
Obuma's war on the Second Amendment continues, reinforced by ex-congresswoman Gaby Giffords. If anyone should be leading the fight to make it easier to institutionalize loons, not make it more difficult for law-abiding Americans to buy guns, it's the woman who was shot by a psychopath, who didn't know and didn't care if she was a Republican or a Democrat.
Speaking of guns, someone recently sent me a pithy line on the subject: Participating in a gun buyback program because you believe that criminals have too many weapons is like having yourself castrated because you think the neighbors have too many kids.
Finally, if you recall, when John Hinckley shot President Reagan back in 1981, he said he was doing it in order to impress actress Jodie Foster, who, at the time was an 18-year-old coed at Yale. Well, as if spending several decades in prison isn't bad enough, can you imagine the razzing he got from the other prisoners when, in 2007, Ms. Foster got around to announcing she was a lesbian?
JOKE of the DAY:
Source: Ashley Judd moving forward with run for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat in Kentucky
Ashley Judd has yet to officially announce her political aspirations, but a source with intimate knowledge of the situation tells FOX411's Pop Tarts column the actress is preparing herself to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his Kentucky seat in 2014.
"At least in Ashley's mind, it is happening," said the insider. "She has devoted herself to many important causes and stepped away from the Hollywood spotlight so this seems like the logical next step. I don't know if she will be successful, but her heart is in the right place."
Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/21554465/source-ashley-judd-moving-forward-with-run-for-mitch-mcconnells-senate-seat-in-kentucky#ixzz2MzhAeNud
Good for Ashley Juggs---finally someone in the Senate that aint afraid to "let it all hang out" --or at least a couple of her assets !!
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Grieving Celebrities Struggle to Find Replacement Dictator
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(AP) – The formal announcement by the Venezuelan government that Hugo Chavez has died sent shockwaves through the ranks of the Hollywood elite, who had long been the Venezuelan leader's staunchest supporters. Throughout the day, celebrities struggled to cope with the devastating loss:"Sean is devastated, completely inconsolable," Sean Penn's publicist Amy Glattensturmer told the AP.
"He's been in his bedroom all day. He won't eat, he won't berate his staff, he won't punch women, he wouldn't even come outside to look at the brand new Ferrari Enzo the studio sent him as incentive to read a script. He realizes that a true champion of the working class has died today, and, as one himself, Sean has taken the hit very hard.""The relationship between celebrities and their dictators is a very close one," PR guru Benjamin Shaltzberg told the AP.
"Hollywood celebrities had formed a huge bond with Chavez. It will be difficult to replace."Throughout Tuesday afternoon, cars full of mourners were seen driving up to Tim Robbins' 20,000-acre private estate, called
"Proletariat Meadows," in Westchester County. Robbins, who would not speak directly to the AP, did release the following statement on Twitter:
"We who struggle in the working class have lost a hero – a man of strong hand, and one of the few who truly realized what a genius I am."Supermodel Naomi Campbell, who previously called Chavez
"fearless" and a
"rebel angel," was so distressed by the news of his passing that she couldn't even bring herself to throw a phone at her assistant.
"At first, she was like, how can I go on as normal with Hugo gone?" Campbell's assistant Anna Smyth-Lipsky told the AP.
"But then she realized that Hugo would have wanted her to push ahead, to be as fearless as he was. So she lined up the entire staff and began chucking phones at us one-by-one. We were all so proud to see her bravery in not letting this tragedy get her spirits down."But with Chavez gone, where do these celebrities go now?
"They still have Ahmadinejad, certainly," PR whiz Shaltzberg told the AP.
"But he's never quite been at Chavez's level. There have always been issues.""I love Mahmoud," Michael Moore told the AP,
" but you can't get a decent plate of pork chops over there. I mean, I love whoring myself out to dictators, but without pork, where's the joy? With Hugo, you always got bacon. And you can't put a price on that."Mike Tyson agrees.
"Look, the rapin' is great over there in Iran, but I like my victims to put up a fight, Turns me on, you know? Those Vezenwaylan bitches that Hugo would give me, now THEY were feisty. I sure hope no (expletive) democracy screws that place up.""Because of Venezuela's historically-close relationship with the U.S., Chavez was very keen on American culture. And the staff of toadies he would assign to visiting celebrities knew how to fawn," Shaltzberg adds.
"When people like Danny Glover or Oliver Stone visit a dictator, they don't just want to be wined and dined. They want to be told how great 'Lethal Weapon 4' was, or what a crime it was that the Oscars overlooked 'Alexander.' Sure, Ahmadinejad can take them to see the stoning of a woman or the execution of a homosexual, and that's great. But it's the little touches that matter, the sycophantism and flattery that celebrities need. And pork.""Hugo once let me stomp the rib cage of an imprisoned journalist," Alec Baldwin told the AP in an exclusive interview.
"And as I was kicking the guy, imagining he was my piggish slut of a daughter, Hugo threw a '30 Rock' quote at me! And we just started riffing back and forth. He knew every line, every episode. That was class, you know? The other dictators just don't have that same level. Once, when I was in Iran watching a woman get fifty lashes for mouthing off to her husband, I turned to Mahmoud and joked, 'I bet Jack wishes he could do that to Liz Lemon,' and he just stared at me, like I was speaking a foreign language. Amazing...not a clue.""This really could be Kim Jong-un's moment," Shaltzberg told the AP.
"It's ironic that Chavez's passing comes so close after Dennis Rodman's triumphal visit to North Korea. There's a void that's been created by Chavez's passing, one that Kim can fill. Sure, there's Castro, but when the beloved family dog dies, you don't rush out to buy an even older one. You get a puppy. Kim could really be the next member of the celebrity/dictator mutual admiration society. But, there are obstacles, of course. Language, especially. Many Venezuelans are English-fluent, and understand the subtleties of the language. Not so in North Korea, where, since the country's creation, English has either been banned or discouraged among the population. So, if Kim wants to make his country the new destination of choice for celebrities looking to rub shoulders with a dictatorial madman, the country's going to have to polish-up its language-skills."Shaltzberg's point was emphasized by a full-page ad that the government of North Korea is planning to run in Wednesday's Variety, in an attempt to fill the Chavez void. The ad, shown to the AP by a source at the magazine, reveals just how far the North Koreans have to go before they can reach the level of skill with the Hollywood community that Chavez always displayed.
The ad reads:"Hey you actor douchebag. Yes you. You come here, North Korea. We treat you good. We have pork. Lots pork. Our pig not disease, our pig good. You come, you eat, go home. You leave."We showed the ad to PR expert Shaltzberg, who immediately began packing for a trip to Pyongyang. "I gotta go where I'm needed," he told the AP.
Obuma Tells Republicans Behind Closed Doors: "You Need Me"...
Via Politico
(...Like a hole in the head.)
. . . "I'm waiting for my dinner invitation," the Republican joshed to Obama, referring to the president's recent evening out with Republican senators. "I listen to Paul," Obama replied, according to McCarthy, referring to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan. Then, in what McCarthy took as a reference to a political charm offensive, he recalled Obama saying, "You guys give us too much credit. We're not doing all that stuff you think we are." As told by McCarthy, Obama then said that if Republicans are going to get entitlement reform, "You need me." As McCarthy walked away, the congressman thought: "He's still a law professor. He'd rather lecture you and put a red mark on your paper than talk to you."
The truth is Obama has lost some leverage — and needed a bunch of high-profile meetings with adversaries to swat away reports that he's too stubborn and too political. But, in private, nothing has really changed.
Hey... McCarthy?? The only thing Barack Insane-Hussein Obama understands and respects is in-your-face political force. You might as well figure you are a worthless fool if you're anything short of that standard.
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He needs to be confronted in the most direct and non-presidential of language: "You screwed up on sequestration. You're going to spend the next three years a literal prisoner in this White House unless you do what the grown ups tell you to do. That starts with the people sending back ObumaCare as unfit to consume. Next is slashing the bloat. You're gonna do what we tell you Clown, and in exchange, we'll let you have the big airplane to go golfing with Tiger once a year. Blow us off and we'll make you spend every damn day cooped up with Michelle."
....Warph
President Obama's plans won't balance the federal budget in the coming decade, he said Tuesday, stressing that his top priority is growing the economy and not a balanced budget.
"My goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. My goal is how do we grow the economy, put people back to work, and if we do that we are going to be bringing in more revenue," he said in an interview with ABC News's George Stephanopoulos.
(You POS... more revenue, huh? So you can spend it on entitlement benefits... like 2.2B on the Obumaphone?????????)
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Obama said he's opposed to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget plan released Tuesday, which would balance the budget in a decade.
"We're not gonna balance the budget in ten years because if you look at what Paul Ryan does to balance the budget, it means that you have to voucher-ize Medicare, you have to slash deeply into programs like Medicaid, you've essentially got to either tax middle class families a lot higher than you currently are or you can't lower rates the way he's promised."
Obumaland: 59% Say It's No Longer Possible To Work Hard And Get Rich In America...
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More Americans than ever now believe it is no longer possible for anyone in the United States to work their way out of poverty. They believe even more strongly that it's no longer possible for someone to work hard in this country and get rich.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 27% of American Adults now say it is possible for anyone in the country to work hard and get rich, generally unchanged since late 2012. Fifty-nine percent (59%), though, say that is no longer possible, up from 55% in late January and the highest level of pessimism in over four years of surveying. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.
So eventually this hypocrite will hand over the AR-15 to the police but will keep the .45 pistol. Oh wait, it says the rifle is a AR-15," STYLE" weapon---that means it could be a .22 rifle with that evil black stock
PHOENIX – The husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords generated nearly 4,000 comments on Facebook from people on both sides of the gun debate after he posted a photo of himself buying a military-style rifle -- a purchase he made to demonstrate how easy it is to obtain the kind of firearms he's lobbying Congress to ban.
A background check took only a matter of minutes to complete, Mark Kelly said in the Facebook post, adding that it's scary to think people can buy similar guns without background checks at gun shows or on the Internet.
It didn't take long for gun-rights supporters to accuse Kelly of being a hypocrite for buying an AR-15-style rifle and a 45.-caliber handgun. Many of the Facebook comments focused on his motivations and the rules for purchasing such guns.
The AR-15 is among 157 military-style weapons that would be banned under a bill pending before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Kelly, a former astronaut, said he intends to eventually hand in the rifle to Tucson police.
The advocacy group started by Giffords and Kelly had no immediate comment Tuesday on Kelly's gun buys.
But the group released a statement from Kelly on the Senate Judiciary Committee's approval Tuesday of a proposal to expand federal firearms background checks to nearly all gun purchases. Kelly said the 10-8 vote was a huge step in keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and mentally ill people. Kelly's statement didn't address the controversy over his own gun buys.
Kelly, a former astronaut who plans to keep the handgun, told CNN on Monday that it was important for him to have firsthand information on the ease of buying guns such as the AR-15 and that he looks forward to buying a firearm at a gun show in the future. Kelly and Giffords have long been supporters of gun rights and owned handguns themselves.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/13/former-rep-giffords-husband-mark-kelly-purchase-rifle-ignites-online-firestorm/#ixzz2NQndR01j
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Obama: Dossier of a ShadowBy Craig Andresen http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2012/10/02/obama-dossier-of-a-shadow/#more-6068
Sociopaths.
A sociopath is typically defined as someone who lies incessantly to get their way and does so with little concern for others. A sociopath is often goal-oriented (i.e., lying is focused – it is done to get one's way). Sociopaths have little regard or respect for the rights and feelings of others. Sociopaths are often charming and charismatic, but they use their talented social skills in manipulative and self-centered ways.
Compulsive Liars.
A compulsive liar is defined as someone who lies out of habit. Lying is their normal and reflexive way of responding to questions. Compulsive liars bend the truth about everything, large and small. For a compulsive liar, telling the truth is very awkward and uncomfortable while lying feels right. Compulsive lying is usually thought to develop in early childhood, due to being placed in an environment where lying was necessary. For the most part, compulsive liars are not overly manipulative and cunning (unlike sociopaths), rather they simply lie out of habit – an automatic response which is hard to break and one that takes its toll on a relationship.
Pathological Liars.
A pathological liar is someone who consistently lies (about anything- from the most mundane subject to detailed stories). They are very insecure people who lie to present themselves better than they really are.
A pathological liar often believes the lies he is telling, he manages to convince himself they are true, in comparison to a compulsive liar who will lie for any reason, and knows they are lies but apparently can't stop himself from doing so.
When the lie is more difficult, a pathological liar may not know he lies, he may believe himself to be as honest and trustworthy as anyone else. But a liar in general lies to make himself sound better and to avoid confrontation, and disappointing people.
A pathological liar might exhibit the following behaviors:
*Lie to control and get their own way
*Often change stories
*Exaggerate, lying about almost everything.
*Not value truth
*Live in their own reality most of the time
*Behave defensively when questioned or challenged
*Lie for sympathy
*Don't admit they lie
*Contradict what they say because they don't remember their lies, although there are exceptions.
These are 3 distinct categories of liars. 3 separate categories of disorders.
[To be fair, the 3rd...Pathological Liar...is not specifically defined by The DSM-IV TR, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition, Revised Text, BUT...the DSM DOES state that Pathological Lying can be a symptom of OTHER psychiatric disorders...
ESPECIALLY...Antisocial Personality Disorder or APD and Narcissistic Personality Disorder or NPD].
All 3 Are Definitions of one, Barack Hussein Obama.
A Partial List of Evidence.
Obama's statements regarding the attack in Benghazi are a web of lies.
Obama says he has Israel's back. That's a lie.
Obama said Obamacare was not a tax. That was a lie.
Obama said Obamacare wouldn't raise anyone's taxes a single dime. That was a lie. It contains 21 brand new taxes.
Obama swore to uphold and defend the Constitution. That was a lie.
Obama said he had no knowledge of Fast and Furious. That was a lie. He exerted Executive Privilege over it.
Obama said he couldn't enact the "Dream Act" on his own. That was a lie.
Obama claimed to be the 4th best President in history. That's a lie.
Obama claimed that he would walk the picket lines with unions. That was a lie.
Obama says we're better off than we were 4 years ago. That's a lie.
Obama said his "green energy" investments were good investments. That was a lie.
Obama said he'd cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. That was a lie. He's added 6 Trillion dollars TO it.
Obama said that when he became president, Muslim violence against America would end. That was a lie.
Obama wrote his memoirs and asserted they were fact. That was a lie. His story is full of composite characters and events that never existed.
Obama said he never really knew Bill Ayers or Reverend Wright. Those are lies.
Obama says the national security leaks did not come from the white house. That's a lie.
Obama said small business owners did not build their own businesses. That's a lie.
Obama told us that the fence between the U.S. and Mexico was nearly complete. That was a lie.
Obama says the rich are not paying their fair share of taxes. That's a lie. The rich pay nearly 70% of all taxes.
Obama said, "Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place." That was a lie.
Obama said, "We have run out of places in the US to drill for oil." That's a lie.
Obama said he was not somebody who promotes same sex marriage. That was a lie.
Obama said unemployment would not rise above 8% if he were granted a $787 Billion Dollar stimulus. That was a lie.
Obama said he would have the most transparent administration in history. That was a lie.
Obama said he would close GITMO. That was a lie.
Obama said, "When a bill lands on my Desk, The American people will have 5 days to review it before I sign it." That was a lie.
Obama says he's an American citizen but, he told Columbia he was a foreign student. One of those two claims has to be a lie.
Obama claimed that his mother and father were married and he has said he was born to a single mother. One of those two claims has to be a lie.
It's a long, LONG list and I am just scratching the surface.
Ask Barack Hussein Obama to tell the truth and he'll borrow a line from Hollywood:
From talk show couches to the white house press room to the U.N. podium...From his book to his campaign speeches to his State of the Union addresses...Barack Hussein Obama lies.
To the American people and to our allies...Barack Hussein Obama lies.
About his childhood...About his father's "service in our military during WWII"...About who his friends are...And about his policies...His goals...And his beliefs...Barack Hussein Obama lies.
If one were to ask him if the water was wet...God only knows what he'd say but...Without any resemblance to rational thought...Those who intend to vote for him will tell you the water most certainly is NOT wet because Barack Hussein Obama walks ON it.
Useful Idiots Willing to Lie FOR Him.Hillary Clinton. Eric Holder. Janet Napolitano. Susan Rice. Tim Geitner. Tony Rezko. Van Jones. John Clapper. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. David Axlerod. Rahm Emmanuel. Valerie Jarrett. Harry Reid. Nancy Pelosi...This list is as endless as the list of lies.
And then, there are those who have lied...for a price. Sen. Ben Nelson...The Cornhusker Kick Back, Mary Landrieu... The Louisiana Purchase, Congressman Sam Farr...The California Gold Rush, The AARP...The Geezer Gotcha, Big Labor...Waivergate.
Birds of a feather all.
The Enablers. From network anchors to reporters...From pundits to analysts...this skulk of rabid foxes standing guard over the henhouse are flexible enough to kiss their own asses when they're not licking his and more than willing to spread his propaganda faster than Obama wants to spread YOUR wealth.
The Kool Aid Inebriated.As for those who adhere to Obama's litany of lies...They simply accuse others of what they, themselves do.
Mark Twain was right when he stated:
"Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason."In this great nation, we have that opportunity and so far, we do it with the power of the vote. Other countries are not that fortunate and THEIR dictators are even less so.
Most "leaders" who exhibit the psychological profile that so well fits Obama ARE dictators and Barack Hussein Obama is a case study for the ages.
A Compulsive liar... A Pathological Liar... A Sociopath.
At every turn, on any topic and with nearly every utterance... Barack Hussein Obama has turned his back on the truth.
Unlike other dictators in recent history, we can remove him from office by the vote in little more than a month. We must. It's up to US to see to it that HE faces the FACTS.
Wake Up America... This is
NOT a drill. This is our last chance. This is for the future of the republic.[/font][/size]
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The U.S. economy is in a massive amount of trouble. There aren't enough jobs. There isn't enough money to go around.
Business activity is slowing down again. Household wealth has been falling. Food prices have been rising. Many state and local governments all over the country are flat broke and are drowning in debt.
The federal government has been rolling up unprecedented amounts of debt in an attempt to keep things going, but everyone knows that kind of borrowing is simply unsustainable. So where do we go from here? We consume far more than we produce and we use debt to make up the difference.
40 years ago the total amount of debt in America (government, business and consumer) was less than 2 trillion dollars. Today it is nearly 55 trillion dollars.
How in the world did we let the total amount of debt in the United States grow more than 27 times larger over the past 40 years? Our economic system is fundamentally broken, but most Americans don't realize it yet because times are still relatively good.
However, the next great economic crisis is going to wake a whole lot of Americans up.
And when they realize what has happened to our future, they are going to be really, really angry.
Enjoy the good times while they last. The next recession is rapidly approaching, and it will not be pleasant.
The following are 20 signs that all point to the exact same thing....
#1 The unemployment rate in the U.S. has been above 8 percent for 40 months in a row, and 42 percent of all unemployed Americans have been out of work for at least half a year. As I wrote about recently, there are never going to be enough jobs in America ever again. As bad as things are right now, they are about to get even worse. So what is our country going to look like once the unemployment rate starts shooting up rapidly once again?
#2 35 percent of all unemployed workers have had to dip into retirement savings in order to make ends meet over the past year.
#3 Since 2008, the U.S. economy has lost 1.3 million jobs while at the same time 3.6 million more Americans have been added to Social Security's disability insurance program.
#4 A recent survey conducted by the National Association for Business Economics found that only 23 percent of all U.S. companies plan to hire more workers over the next 6 months. When the same question was asked a few months ago that number was at 39 percent.
#5 An important measure of U.S. manufacturing activity has fallen to its lowest level since June 2009.
#6 Hundreds of thousands of federal jobs at civilian agencies will likely be lost if Congress allows the automatic federal budget cuts to go into effect next year. The following is from a recent article posted on federalnewsradio.com....
A report released Tuesday suggests that several hundred thousand federal jobs at civilian agencies would be on the chopping block within the next year if Congress lets the automatic budget cutting process known as sequestration go into effect.
The study, authored by George Mason University professor Stephen Fuller, adds a new dimension to a budget debate that's so far been centered on sequestration's effects on the military...
#7 The teen unemployment rate in Washington D.C. right now is 51.7 percent.
#8 Gallup's U.S. Economic Confidence Index is now the lowest that it has been since January.
#9 The median net worth of U.S. households in 2007 was $126,400. By 2010, it had fallen to just $77,300.
#10 Pensions at S&P 500 companies are more under-funded than they have ever been before.
#11 According to the New York Times, state and local governments across America "shortchanged their pension plans by more than $50 billion" between 2007 and 2011.
#12 The city of Compton, California is evaluating whether or not it should declare bankruptcy. If it did, it would become the fourth California city to declare bankruptcy this year.
#13 The percentage of U.S. households that are spending more than half their incomes on housing is at an all-time high.
#14 For the first time in modern history, Canadian households are wealthier than American households are.
#15 One recent poll found that 42 percent of all Americans believe that China is the leading economic power in the world while only 36 percent believe that the U.S. is still the leading economic power in the world.
#16 According to the federal government, the price of food rose much faster than the general rate of inflation did during 2011. Just check out these rates of food inflation for 2012....
Beef: +10.2%
Pork: +8.5%
Fish: +7.1%
Eggs: +9.2%
Dairy: +6.8%
Oils and Fats: +9.3%
If that happened during a somewhat "normal year", what will food prices look like after we are done with the drought of 2012?
#17 The price of a bushel of corn has risen by 54 percent since mid-June.
#18 According to one survey, 42 percent of all American workers are living paycheck to paycheck.
#19 A different survey found that 28 percent of all Americans have absolutely no emergency savings at all right now.
#20 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made the following statement to Congress on Tuesday: "At this point we don't see a double dip recession. We see continued moderate growth."
Do you remember that old Seinfeld episode when George Costanza decided that he would "do the opposite" of everything that his instincts were telling him to do and everything started working out great for him?
Well, when it comes to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, the key is to "believe the opposite" of everything that he says.
And since Bernanke does not believe that a double dip recession is going to happen, that probably means that we are about to hit another recession.
If you doubt this theory about Bernanke, check out his track record.
Okay, so if our economy is in big trouble shouldn't our leaders be doing something about it?
Well, it is election season now so I wouldn't expect anything from Barack Obuma. He is too busy raising money in France and in China.
I wouldn't expect anything from Obuma's economic advisers either. In fact, Obuma's much-ballyhooed "jobs council" has not even met in six months.
Not that the "jobs council" was ever going to do anything substantive anyway.
The truth is that it was just for show and most of the CEOs on the council have been sending jobs overseas anyway.
Well, what about the SEC?
Shouldn't they be doing something to fix the financial system?
No, they are too busy investigating the Amish.
It looks like we are on our own.
Soon, even more parts of the country will start looking like Detroit or Baltimore or Cleveland.
This country is rapidly falling apart, and the federal government is not going to save us.
That is why we need to focus on preparing to weather the coming storm on a family and community level.
There is hope in being prepared. The coming economic crisis will wipe out many Americans because they will never even see it coming. But that does not have to happen to you.
If you work really hard right now to prepare your family for the storm that is on the horizon, then you will have a much better chance of making it through to the other side.
Dr. Strangelove Wacko Politicians
Chicago,legendary home to crooked politicians, wants a gun offender' list. There already is one because criminal records show who used unlicensed, unregistered and usually stolen guns in committing crime. And there are charges for using them.
I think they should have a registry for crooked self involved, war mongering Dr. Strangelove politicians instead. It would include almost every single politician in the world.
And then you have John McCain, legendary weirdo:Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is continuing to criticize his fellow Republicans for their filibuster of incoming CIA Director John O. Brennan over drone policy. In an interview with the Huffington Post, McCain referred to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) as "wackos."
"They were elected, nobody believes that there was a corrupt election, anything else," McCain said. "But I also think that when, you know, it's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone."
Asked to clarify, McCain said he was referencing "Rand Paul, Cruz, Amash, whoever."The only wacko in this story is McCain himself who finds nothing wrong with killing American citizens without benefit of charges or trial.
Just piss on that Bill of Rights John-boy.
I should add that most political people around the world in all nations have the same bizarro world view. We are lead today by self involved, money grubbing, war mongering nuts and wackos.Here is where it will all end up:
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Dr. Strangelove: [last lines] Sir! I have a plan! [standing up from his wheelchair] Mein Führer! I can walk!
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Dancing at the Podium: WH Press Sec. Carney Spends 5 Minutes Spinning Obama's Comments That Secret Service, Not White House, Decided to Cancel Tours White House Press Sec. Jay Carney spent nearly five minutes tap-dancing today explaining the White House tours being cut by the Obama White House.
In his belabored explanation, Carney tried to double-speak Obama's involvement in the decision and dumped as much blame as he could on the Secret Service for shutting off Americans' access to the "People's House" as a result of the president's proposed sequestration (which Obama has lied about and blamed others, as Forbes reported two weeks ago,).
(Poor Obama, don'tcha see, was held over a barrel by the Secret Service, he HAD to cancel those tours, but, no he didn't DECIDE to cancel them, well, yes he did. Too bad Obama isn't in charge or anything like that....Warph) Carney — "Tours vs. furloughs and cutting of overtime pay." Heck, those White House tours are LABOR INTENSIVE, people. No dialogue permitted about how much "labor-intensive" money is spent for the Secret Service entourage for Obama's many vacations, for his weekly post-election campaign jaunts in Air Force One, or for FLOTUS Michelle's extensive TV tour engagements for her "eat like I tell you to" Let's Move! program.
(Lying) Obama: No, actually, it was the White House who canceled public tours:The GOP cut this clip earlier, now I'm seeing people tweet it as proof that Carney and Obama can't get their story straight on who's to blame for the cynical "Fireman First" decision that canceled White House tours over sequestration. O said that decision wasn't up to the White House; Carney says it was. Aha! But wait. Unless I'm misunderstanding, all Carney's saying is that the Secret Service forced the White House's hand. They decided they couldn't afford to staff the building for tours until the budget cuts are lifted; the White House then had no choice but to cancel the tours due to lack of security. They're both blaming the Secret Service ultimately. O, because of his severe allergies to any responsibility for bad developments, is just being a little more forceful about it.
The question isn't whether he and Carney are contradicting each other, it's whether the nonsense about the Secret Service being forced by cuts to cancel the tours is true. A former agent tells Breitbart.com that it isn't:
Bongino, who served 12 years in the Secret Service including five years working directly at the White House before leaving to run as a Republican for U.S. Senate in Maryland, said Obama is lying because the Secret Service does not make such decisions.
"The Secret Service does not make political decisions," Bongino said. "The Secret Service makes security decisions. His statement that it was a Secret Service decision internal budget decision–and keep in mind, I'm not speaking for the Secret Service, I'm speaking from experience of being with them. All he'd have to do is cancel one or two of his political trips and his Martha's Vineyard vacation, which two years ago I was on and helped coordinate, he would save that money times ten. There was just no way this was a sound decision. To insinuate this is the first administration where the White House social office and the Executive Office of the President had no role in cancelling public tours at the White House, that he was the first president who was left out of the decision, is absolute nonsense."...
Bongino said the Secret Service is not correcting Obama because the agency has "a great, elite group of guys and they're always going to take it on the chin."
US State Dept. and Army National Guard
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For "OP Black Summer"
A group going by the name of the "Tunisian Cyber Army", claims that they, in coordination with the Al-Qaida Electronic Army (AQEA), have hacked four U.S. government sites within the last few days. The sites allegedly hit included the U.S. State Department, the Army National Guard, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (cbp.gov) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM.gov).
The hackers says they identified and exploited vulnerabilities on two domains owned by the US Department of State and one for the Army National Guard. The attackers claim to have obtained sensitive information, and the IP addresses of government computers and servers and are holding onto the information to work on hacking more IPs.
The group also says they had the assistance of "Chinese hackers".
The hackers claimed to have assistance from Chinese hackers during their #opBlackSummer, "Not only that we also have some important file we got after cookies stealing from the pentagon mail added to that there are some Chinese hackers who collaborate with us".
The group claims that this is all in prepation for #OpBlackSummer, an effort to attack US targets between May 31 and September 11.[/b]
They have contacted a few hacking media websites to present the evidence of their attacks, showing the links to the vulnerabilities that they claim to have exploited.
Those sites, E Hacking News, Hack Red and Ill Secure believe the claims to be valid. Softpedia also believes that the hacks are legitimate.
The group has not as yet provided pastebin evidence of data seized or other usual proof of successful attack, however. They claim to be holding 72GB of data that they say they will drop on May 31 at the start of #OpBlackSummer. They say they want to use some of that information to make further attacks.
The group has claimed responsibility for prior hacking attacks against CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) as well as against banks. They previously posted a pastebin of what appears to be data from a prior attack on a bank.
The government has not as yet confirmed these alleged attacks on government sites. However, if the government sites actually have the vulnerabilities cited, that would be troubling as they are things one would not think should be an issue in Dept of State or Defense websites.
The group says their next targets will be gas, petrochemical and possibly nuclear companies, and that they will be scheduling a "conference" soon to explain #OpBlackSummer.
At the end of #OpBlackSummer, (above) they make the following Tweeter threat:
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@AnonymousOpsIRC this is the beginer after the data we got pentagon will be destroyed on the next 11 of september
9:59 PM - 09 Mar 13
Pentagon creates 13 offensive cyber teams for worldwide attacks... starting may 31st through September 11, 2013 called OP Black Summer
Published time: March 13, 2013 17:27The head of the United States Cyber Command says the US is developing 40 new teams of cyber-agents that will both protect America's critical infrastructure from hackers and as well as launch attacks against the country's adversaries.
Gen. Keith Alexander, who leads both the Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, told the US Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the 40 online support teams should be ready for action by 2015, with 13 of those units existing specifically to attack other countries.
Alexander has been reluctant to go into detail about how the newly-designed teams will engage in cyber battle with America's enemies, but he did say that the 13 squads of offensive fighters won't be sitting around waiting for hackers from abroad to strike first. The NSA chief described the groups as ''defend-the-nation'' teams but also stressed that their role will be one that puts them on both sides of the action.
"I would like to be clear that this team. . . is an offensive team," he told reporters on Tuesday.
"The teams are analogous to battalions in the Army and Marine Corps — or squadrons in the Navy and Air Force," said Alexander. "In short, they will soon be capable of operating on their own, with a range of operational and intelligence skill sets, as well as a mix of military and civilian personnel."
Chris Strohm, a national security reporter for Bloomberg, says the units will "focus on missions such as protecting vital computer networks from attacks, supporting combat operations and keeping the Pentagon's information-technology systems secure."
The Associated Press reports that Gen. Alexander likened the teams' duties to "knocking an incoming missile out of the sky before it hits a target," and that they'd serve as defensive teams with added offensive capabilities. What offensive actions the teams will engage in exactly will likely remain unknown for now, however, as the US has continues to closely guard its secretive cyber operations. An order signed by President Barack Obama last year outlining the offensive capabilities of US cyber squads remains classified four months later, but it has been described as being the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever. Meanwhile, the commander-in-chief and other administration officials have only said that attacks aimed at US infrastructure are increasing in frequency.
"What is absolutely true is that we have seen a steady ramping up of cyber security threats," Pres. Obama told ABC News during an interview filmed on Tuesday.
And while Gen. Alexander's 40 new teams won't be ready for either side of a cyberbattle until 2015, meanwhile Washington is looking for other ways to protect an onslaught of attacks. In addition to the classified order signed by Mr. Obama in November — Presidential Policy Directive 20 — the White House has also released an executive order that will pave the way for the country's private businesses to share threat information with the US government.
"I signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs and our privacy," Pres. Obama said during last month's State of the Union address. Moments later during his speech, he also urged Congress to act fast on their own "by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks." One day later members of Congress reintroduced the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, and again this week Pres. Obama asked for lawmakers on Capitol Hill to act on it.
"There are ways that we can harden our critical infrastructure, our financial sector," Obama to ABC. "They need to get this done."
Gen. Alexander and Pres. Obama's statements come on the heels of a series of cyberattacks aimed at America's military computers, government servers, utility companies and banks. Iran has been largely considered responsible for a series of recent attacks on US banking websites, and China has repeatedly been linked to both cyber-espionage and cyberattacks on the US Department of Defense, Department of State and the private sector. Earlier this week, hackers claiming to be from the Tunisian Cyber Army took credit for hacking a handful of government websites, and say that, along with the al-Qaeda Electronic Army and a crew of Chinese hackers, will continue to attack US websites as part of Operation BlackSummer, or #OpBlackSummer.
CNN's No-Talent Hack Piers Morgan on Tweeter: "Extraordinary To Me" People Would Mock Nanny Bloomberg...
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Just extraordinary to me that people would mock a Mayor trying so hard to make his city safer and healthier. #Bloomberg #Guns #Soda
5:26 PM - 13 Mar 13
Forgive him, he's British... and an idiot.
Speaking of idiots...
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Pelosi: George Washington Warned Against Conservatives
. . . "By and large, the approach the Republicans take is that they are there to shrink the role of government to the point where it really recalls to mind a statement of President Washington who cautioned about a political party at war with its own government," Pelosi told reporters today in response to a question about the charm offensive.
Moments earlier, she had described Republicans as "people who want to raise the [retirement] age and abolish the Affordable Care Act," in a reference to the the budget unveiled by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., which calls for the repeal of Obamacare.
Of course in reality George Washington would have warned against millionaire socialists like Pelosi.
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"Where the hell is my Taster?"
WASHINGTON — Following President Obama's lunch meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins described the food served and the president's reaction to what was on menu.
"University of Maine recipe for healthy lobster salad — I pointed that out to the president in keeping with the first lady's initiatives and Fox Family Potato Chips made in Aroostook County where I'm from and wild blueberry pie full of anti-oxidants, see this was a healthy lunch as well. We did have a little ice cream on the pie too, also made in Maine, Gifford's Ice Cream. So in all seriousness this was well received," Collins told reporters on Thursday after the meeting at the Capitol.
"Unfortunately, you know, the president can't," said Collins when asked if Obama ate at the lunch meeting.
"He looked longingly at it," Collins continued. "He honestly did look longingly at it, but apparently he has to have essentially a taster, and I pointed out to him that we were all tasters for him, that if the food had been poisoned all of us would have keeled over so, but he did look longingly at it and he remarked that we have far better food than the Democrats do, and I said that was because I was hosting."
Olberdouche Settles Lawsuit With Current TV, Complains Nobody Will Hire Him...
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Even better, Olberdouche got only 10% of what he wanted. Olbermann sued for $50 mil, settled for 10% of that ($5 mil) of which his lawyers take 40% ($2 mil) and his Lord and Savior Obuma will take another 39% (approx $1.2 mil) leaving Keefus with $1.8 mil, which sounds like a lot, but between the male prostitutes and the experimental herpes treatments, he'll be back to being broke by Christmas.
Keith Olbermann has settled his $50 million lawsuit with Current TV, bringing an end to the almost year-long legal dispute over the outspoken host's dismissal from the liberal news network.
The terms of the settlement, which was reported earlier this week, were not released. But two sources familiar with the negotiations now tell POLITICO that during the mediation stage, Olbermann's legal representatives cited his inability to get a job at another network — a move one source close to the negotiations interpreted as an effort to gain sympathy for Olbermann.
"One of the cards his people played was hardship," the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told POLITICO. "He spent last fall talking to all the major networks, and he couldn't get a job. The idea was, this could be the last money he ever earned."
The source said Olbermann's lawyers used this as "a bargaining chip" to "appeal to the sympathy" of Current TV executives, but said it was unclear if that factored into Current TV's decision to agree to a settlement.
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"No White House tours for you... but Obama's expensive vacations & golfing excursions,
plus First Dog Bo's motorcade, are left intact and funded"
Krauthammer on Obama's Approval Drop & Media Not Covering for Him: POTUS Exploiting the Sequester, His Exaggerations, Cynicism, & Petty Actions of Shutting Down White House Tours By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 15, 2013 Political analyst Charles Krauthammer made the following spot-on observations while on FNC last Friday about Pres. Barack Obama and his drop in approval numbers and his pettiness in cancelling the White House tours
(although, Team Obama is [is lying] blaming the Secret Service and not the president for the cancellation)."Obama's strongest constituency, which is not the Left, it's the mainstream media, could no longer cover for him without being entirely embarrassed. It had to expose the one exaggeration after another on the sequester, the stuff about the janitors being laid off and all that, which wasn't so, and secondly, the obvious cynicism of White House tours, trying to inflict the maximum pain in order to make a case and to blame Republicans."
More on the deliberately cancelled White House tours and Team Obama's struggles with telling the truth and White House Press Sec. Jay Carney's "gymnastics" justifying the president's decision — this analysis from Krauthammer aired earlier this week:
Krauthammer's Take: WH Explanation About Tours Indicative of 'Arm's Length Relationship with Truth'
Rand Paul Rocks the House at CPAC Yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky spoke boldly and didn't mince words at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference hosted by the American Conservative Union.
The CPAC crowd went wild as Rand spoke about his now-famous 12-plus-hour filibuster, drones, Barack Obama, the sequester, bail-outs, the cancellation of the White House tours, wasted government money, government fraud and corruption, the right to bear arms, liberty, the Constitution, and the need for the Republican party to change by reviving liberty and shrinking government. Rand discussed his five-year budget plan and eliminating the federal Department of Education, putting education money and the education agenda back to the states.
One take-away line: "Not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag."Partial transcript of Sen. Rand's speech:The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere.
If we're going to have a Republican party that can win, liberty needs to be the backbone of the GOP. We must have a message that is broad, our vision must be broad, and that vision must be based on freedom.
There are millions of Americans, young and old, native and immigrant, black, white and brown, who simply seek to live free, to practice a religion, free to choose where their kids go to school, free to choose their own health care, free to keep the fruits of their labor, free to live without government constantly being on their back.
I will stand for them. I will stand for you. I will stand for our prosperity and our freedom, and I ask everyone who values liberty to stand with me. Thank you. God bless America.
For full speech:Rand Paul's CPAC 2013 Speech - 3/14/2013
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It's reported that 180 economists disagree with Obama and other liberals' assessment of our economic condition — we DO have a spending problem, even if Obama insists repeatedly we don't. And it's serious. The new Senate budget makes it worse.
http://www.speaker.gov/general/new-boehner-website-highlights-180-economists-who-say-spending-problem-seeks-input-american
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SPENDING IS THE PROBLEM: Chart showing historic/projected spending &
revenue as a percentage of GDP | Source: QMB/CBO/HBC
Obuma's Spending Problem:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/10/opinion/bennett-obama-debt-celing
Remember Melowese Richardson? I wrote about this idiotic woman last month and her admission in a news interview that she had voted SIX TIMES for Barack Obama in Ohio in the 2012 election. And she was proud of it.Ohio Dem Poll Worker Melowese Richardson Indicted for Voting Six Times for Obama, Sister Marguerite Kloos Also Faces Illegal Voting Charge(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/melowese-richardson-investigated-ohio-voter-fraud.jpg)
"Ohio Democrat voter and poll worker Melowese Richardson, who was investigated for voting 6 times
for Obama, has been indicted – others being investigated for multiple voting"
The voter fraud that Democrat leaders like DOJ head Eric Holder claim doesn't exist just keeps proving them wrong. Democrat poll worker Richardson was indicted earlier this week. And not just for her 2012 illegal voting, but for her voter fraud in the 2008 and 2011 elections as well. A nun, Sister Marguerite Kloos, has also been charged with illegal voting and faces up to 18 months in prison. She has quit her job as dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities at Cincinnati's College of Mount St. Joseph's.
Reported by Fox News (because you'll never hear about this from Rachel Maddow or Chris Matthews or Rev. Al Sharpton at leftist MSNBC) — Cincinnati poll worker charged with voting half dozen times in November:She admitted voting twice in the presidential election last November, and now, Obama supporter Melowese Richardson has been indicted for allegedly voting at least six times. She also is charged with illegal voting in 2008 and 2011.
The 58-year-old veteran Cincinnati poll worker, indicted Monday, faces eight counts of voter fraud. Two others, one of whom is a nun, have been charged separately.
Richardson had admitted on camera to a local TV station, "Yes, I voted twice," claiming she was concerned that her vote would not count. She also said there "was no intent on my part to commit any voter fraud."
"I'll fight it for Mr. Obama and Mr. Obama's right to sit as president of the United States," she proclaimed in the interview.
Officials charged that she voted in her own name by absentee ballot and also in person at the polls, but Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Deters said she also is charged with voting in the name of five other people in various elections.
"This is not North Korea," Deters said in a statement announcing the indictments. "Elections are a serious business and the foundation of our democracy. In the scheme of things, individual votes may not seem important, but this could not be further from the truth. Every vote is important and every voter and candidate needs to have faith in our system. The charges today should let people know that we take this seriously."
[...]
Sister Marguerite Kloos also faces one count of illegal voting, for allegedly submitting an absentee ballot in the name of a fellow nun, Sister Rose Marie Hewitt, who had died before absentee ballots were sent out. She is accused of opening Sister Hewitt's ballot, forging her signature and mailing it to the Board of Elections as a vote.
The 54-year-old Kloos has resigned as the dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, where she still serves as an associate professor of religious and pastoral studies.
And this is one of the very reasons why Democrats are fighting so zealously to prevent voter identification being required at the polls.
Melowese Richardson and Sister Marguerite Kloos got caught and more than a dozen others in Ohio are under investigation for multiple voting. It's impossible to accurately determine how many other Democrat voters across the nation, especially in those states that don't require any identification, have voted illegally and have not been caught.
Richardson faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted.
Last summer, it was reported that Democrat voter registration forms were mailed out in a number of states, including Washington state, New Mexico, and Virginia to family pets, children, dead people, and others not eligible to vote. Son of Democrat Rep. Jim Moran, Patrick Moran, who was also a field director for his father's campaign, was exposed in a vote fraud video in October 2012. In September 2012, it was reported that at least 9,000 dead voters were registered to vote in Dallas County, Texas, but because of federal law, couldn't be removed from the voting roster until after the election. Days after the presidential election, vote counts in key states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Colorado, and Florida, voting turnout in some counties was from 104 percent to 140 percent of registered voters. Voter fraud has also been uncovered in Florida and New York with absentee votes. Conservative journalist and videographer James O'Keefe taped and exposed Houston DNC's Organizing for America's Regional Field Director Stephanie Caballero helping Democrat voters with double voting for Obama with absentee ballots. New York Democrat officials and political operatives pleaded guilty in December 2011 to voter fraud-related felony charges — they had tried to steal a New York election.
The list goes on and on — and while there is voting fraud and cheating on both sides of the political fence, the numbers for Democrat fraud appear to be far, far higher than for Republicans. We need to stop the dam from breaking, we must fight to preserve the integrity of our votes. Regardless of which political party, which voters, which ineligible voters are doing the cheating.
MSNBC, if it's not too much to ask, stop covering for Democrat liars and cheats and start doing your job reporting the truth.
However, if Melowese Richardson had been a Republican who had voted six times for Mitt Romney...well, you know we'd hear all about that.(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/msnbc-politics-hogans-heroes-holocaust-390x289.jpg)
Far-left-loon Pelosi: Obuma Has Never Done Anything For "Political Reason" Yeah... And unicorns roam NYC drinking big gulps and braying at Nanny Bloomberg.
Sen. Graham: Benghazi Survivors Told By
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Six months later and we don't even know the names?
Cover up by this administration and the media, with the
exception of a few, doesn't even bother to ask.
The lies continue.... and probably will never stop.From Fox:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/15/sen-graham-claims-benghazi-survivors-told-to-be-quiet-by-administration/?intcmp=trending
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, in an interview with Fox News, alleged that the injured survivors of the Benghazi terror attack have been "told to be quiet" and feel they can't come forward to tell their stories — escalating his push for more information about survivors who have never been publicly identified.
The White House is denying any attempt to exert pressure on them.
"I'm sure that the White House is not preventing anyone from speaking," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, when asked about the survivors.
But Graham told Fox News, "the bottom line is they feel that they can't come forth, they've been told to be quiet."
"We cannot let this administration or any other administration get away with hiding from the American people and Congress, people who were there in real time to tell the story," Graham said.
Graham continued to voice concern about the inaccurate or incomplete accounts that came from the Obama administration in the days following the attack. He is among a handful of Republican lawmakers pressing for access to and more information about the survivors.[...][UPDATE]Three Diplomatic Security Agents, State Dept Contractor Among The Injured In Benghazi Attack; Obama Administration Still Stonewalling On Information About Survivors
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The information on survivors apparently still hasn't been provided to Congress. It is incredible that over six months later, the administration is still stonewalling basic facts in this matter, despite repeated requests from Congressional representatives. Reports are now that Sen. Lindsey Graham has managed to talk with these injured men and Fox will broadcast that this evening.From Fox News:Three diplomatic security agents, as well as a State Department contractor, were among the Americans injured during the terrorist attack last September on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Fox News has learned.
According to a State Department official, who confirmed Fox's reporting on the condition of anonymity, two diplomatic security agents were injured, including one "seriously," at the CIA facility known as the "annex" and a third suffered smoke inhalation at the consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed.
Four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, were killed in the attack, and the Obama administration faced intense criticism from Republicans in the aftermath over security problems and apparent inconsistencies in officials explanation of what happens. Lately, however, the focus has turned to the attack's survivors, who still have not been named.
Separately, a diplomatic security source told Fox News the State Department diplomatic security agent who was in the most serious condition suffered a severe head injury during the second wave of the attack at the annex from mortar and rocket-propelled grenades
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/15/3-benghazi-survivors-in-diplomatic-security-sources-say-as-gop-demands-access/
Palestinian Jihadist From Hamas' Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam
Brigades Killed Fighting Alongside Al Nusra Front In Syria...
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Better there than Israel.
A Palestinian jihadist military trainer and commander who was a member of the Tawhid and Jihad Group in Jerusalem and who previously served with Hamas was killed in Syria while fighting for the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda's affiliate in the country.
The Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center, "the official source for releases from the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC) in the Environs of Jerusalem," according to the SITE Intelligence Group, released a video to jihadist forums on March 12 about Muhammad Ahmed Qanitah.
Qanitah, who is also known as Abu Abdul Rahman, was killed in a rocket attack in December while fighting for the Al Nusrah Front during the siege of the airport in Aleppo, according to the videotape.
The biography in the video stated that Qanitah "grew up with a religious family and was raised to hate the 'Jewish enemy,'" according to a summary of the video by the SITE Intelligence Group. "He learned martial arts and threw stones at the enemies and was injured when he was 12 years old."
The narrator of the video said Qanitah joined Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas in 2003. "He came to know its leaders and worked with them and trained its fighters, and he participated in many jihadi actions and attacks against the settlements." He fought against the Israeli military during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in 2009, "and he continued participating in al-Qassam Brigades and the 'cleansing' of Gaza to live under Shariah-based governance," the SITE summary said.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/03/palestinian_jihadist.php
Poll: 35% Of American Voters Have A "Very Unfavorable" View Of Biden,
Only 22% Hold "Very Favorable" Opinion...
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Who the hell has a favorable view of this clown... no, wait, I already know the answer.... Wonkette
Wonkette: Hey, You Know Who Dampens Our Panties? Joe Biden...
http://wonkette.com/502915/here-is-old-handsome-joe-biden-to-dampen-your-panties#more-502915
Via Rasmussen:
Some things don't seem to change. Unlike President Obama's approval ratings which jumped after his reelection, Vice President Joe Biden's favorables remain largely the same as they've been for the last four years.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters have a somewhat favorable opinion of Biden, while 48% regard him unfavorably. That includes 22% with a Very Favorable view of the vice president and 35% with a Very Unfavorable one.
Pic Of The Day...
She better not let the anti-gun fanatics see her making that hand gesture.
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And what the hell is Mooch doing?
President Barack Obuma watches as First Lady Mooch Obuma playfully greets him on the Colonnade of the White House, Feb. 12, 2013. T ina Tchen, Chief of Staff to the First Lady, and Personal Aide Kristin Jones, left, accompany Mrs. Obuma.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Guam Might Tip Over): I Have Horse Crap "On My Face" –
"So Bam, It Is What It Is"...Rep Hank Johnson admits he misled Adm. James Stavridis, but 'bam, it is what it is'
Hank Johnson Admits: 'Manure On My Face'"I also have a little egg on my face, because I think I assured you that there was no chance sequestration would kick in – and you know, I've got egg on my face, really, it's more like manure on my face, I feel. And so bam, it is what it is."Seriously, who elects this man?
Obama To Call For $2 Billion "Green Energy" Slush Fund...
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Hey.... Just what we need, more Solyndras.
Via Washington Examiner:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-to-call-for-2-billion-green-energy-fund/article/2524427
President Obama in Illinois Friday will call for the creation of a $2 billion Energy Security Trust, which would take government royalties from offshore oil and gas leasing and use the money for research in green-energy technologies.
Obama hinted at such a proposal in his State of the Union Address and will make the announcement at Argonne National Laboratory, just outside Chicago.
The initiative comes as Republicans pressure Obama to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project that would carry oil from Canada to refineries in Texas. The president has delayed construction of the pipeline because of environmental concerns.
California: Illegal Immigrants Featured In New Commercial
Demanding U.S. Citizens Pay For Their Healthcare...Unbelievable.Paid for by the California Endowment.
Obuma Says Not Bringing Peace Plan To Israel
Because Israel "Not Interested"
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Translation: Israel having already given many concessions, wouldn't roll over for the Obama "charm offensive". Once again, Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma gives succor (and weapons) to enemies, and blows off allies. If we manage to avoid war or a major international incident, it will be a miracle.According to Haaretz:
"At a meeting last week between U.S. President Barack Obama and a group of Arab-American leaders, the president was asked why he did not intend to launch a new peace process to thaw out negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. According to an individual present at the meeting, Obama was very frank in his reply: The government in Israel is not ready to make concessions, he said, and so there is no point..."Poll: Only 10% Of Israelis Have A Favorable View Of Obama...(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/obama-israel-500x362.jpg)
....So low it's comical.
Via Politico:
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/03/poll-only-percent-of-israelis-view-obama-favorably-159454.html"President Obama has said he wants to speak directly with the Israeli people and reinforce his support for Israel during his trip there next week.
He may have some serious talking to do. A new poll of Israelis conducted by Maagar Mohot Institute and Israeli daily Maariv found that 38 percent believe he is hostile to Israel and 14 percent believe he is indifferent. Only a third think he is supportive.
In addition, Obama is facing steep unfavorable ratings in the country, the poll found. Some 32 percent said they don't like him but respect him, 19 percent view him unfavorably and 17 percent have a highly unfavorable opinion of him.
Perhaps the most daunting number for Obama in the poll: Only 10 percent view him favorably."And then there is this. God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made Obuma!Obuma Takes Carbon-Spewing Air Force One
Flight To Illinois To Deliver Speech Lecturing Us On
The "Evils Of Fossil Fuel..."
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/343060/obama-scheduled-take-359500-flight-today
Today, President Obama boards Air Force One and flies to Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Lemont, Illinois to deliver a speech on weaning the nation from oil and gas.
If the flight to Chicago takes about one hour, and another hour to return, the operation of Air Force One will cost taxpayers $359,500 today. That's enough to restore about 20 weeks of public tours of the White House. [...]
Also note that the president will be flying about 620 miles between Washington and Chicago. While the precise rate of fuel consumption of Air Force One is not revealed to the public, a 747 burns about five gallons of fuel per mile. So President Obama will burn about 6,200 gallons of jet fuel in his round trip, to deliver a speech urging "new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good."(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/obama-hand-AF1-500x271.jpg)
"WHAT...?!??"
To put it mildly AF-1 engines are not standard 747 engine. I remember reading that during 9-11, Air Force One was outpacing it's fighter escort, forcing them to use afterburners to keep up, they had to beg them to slow down to keep the escort from running out of fuel. If they are getting anything better than 7 or 8 gallons per mile even at cruising speeds I'd be amazed. So... you might say, it creates a bigger "carbon footprint"....
...Warph
Oregon Company To Sell "Drone Defense"
Technology To Public
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http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/15/oregon-company-to-sell-drone-defense-technology-to-public
Do you want to keep drones out of your backyard?
An Oregon company says that it has developed and will soon start selling technology that disables unmanned aircraft.
The company, called Domestic Drone Countermeasures, was founded in late February because some of its engineers see unmanned aerial vehicles—which are already being flown by law enforcement in some areas and could see wider commercial integration into American airspace by 2015—as unwanted eyes in the sky.
"I was personally concerned and I think there's a lot of other people worried about this," says Timothy Faucett, a lead engineer on the project. "We've already had many inquiries, a lot of people saying 'Hey, I don't want these drones looking at me.'"If this technology actually works, you can bet the federal government will make it illegal to own... and what happens when the terrorists get their hands on it? If history is any indication someone else will start a drone jamming company and there will be a technology race that leads to supersonic stealth drones and anti-drone lasers and eventually society will collapse and WW3 will ensue and the only thing left living on the surface of the earth will be cockroaches, rats, and lawyers...
...and then, maybe not. I recommend all the engineers at this place get their own "food tasters."
...Warph
One Of Our Bridges Is Missing
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Now.... THERE'S a shovel-ready job for you!
The days of casually crossing a creek are over if you live in the Gölçük district of Kocaeli province in western Turkey. Which maybe you don't. But the point is that someone stole a 22-ton, 82-foot-long bridge from there. It's just gone.
Police suspect that the bridge was cut into sections and removed on a truck for scrap metal. Its estimated value is about $11,000. Villagers use the bridge to access their orchards, and a resident, Mustafa Karakaş told Today's Zaman that, "Now we have to take our socks off and cross the creek."
The weirdest part of the theft may be that it's not the first time a bridge has been stolen in recent memory.
Check this out:
http://gizmodo.com/5847651/how-does-an-entire-bridge-go-missing
Be Careful What You Wish For, Libs:
Liberal Bill Maher Whines About High California Income Taxes, "Liberals, You Could Actually Lose Me"
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"Left-wing comedian-writer-talk show host Bill Maher is now whining
about paying higher taxes in California"
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-nX5YsKHBQSmug, wealthy liberals are all for raising taxes on the rich... until they realize they themselves will also pay more taxes. Enter Ultra-liberal, foul-mouthed Bill Maher, cable TV host and a card-carrying member of the Barack Obama Fan Club who donated $1 million to Obama's reelection campaign, is one more super-rich statist hypocrite to suddenly realize that... what the heck! ... he will be paying more taxes in California. Nanny State government vs. lower taxes... sorry Billmo, you can't have it both ways.
Millionaire Maher has an estimated net worth of almost $29 million. No wonder he's now whining and moaning and groaning.Summarized by Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters:"Bill Maher made a comment Friday that his benefactor and hero Barack Obama should sit up and take notice of.
Speaking about the taxes the rich pay particularly in California, the host of HBO's Real Time said, "Liberals – you could actually lose me"...
The panel discussion began with a conversation about the various budget proposals currently on the table in Washington.
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow predictably slammed Congressman Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) plan.
"The Ryan budget is a document that says the big problems in America right now are that rich people do not have enough money," she mocked. "They need relief from confiscatory tax rates."
"Well," Maher unsuccessfully tried to interrupt as Maddow continued. When she was finally done, he surprisingly pushed back.
Pointing at Virginia's former Republican Congressman Tom Davis, Maher said, "You know what? Rich people – I'm sure you'd agree with this – actually do pay the freight in this country."
"I just saw these statistics," he continued, "I mean, something like 70 percent. And here in California, I just want to say liberals – you could actually lose me. It's outrageous what we're paying – over 50 percent. I'm willing to pay my share, but yeah, it's ridiculous."
So it appears there is a point where Maher's money becomes more important than his politics."Willing to pay my share" ....but what you're willing to pay and what tax-frenzied Democrat lawmakers want you and others to pay ain't the same animal, Billyboy. This isn't clear... when Maher threatens that liberals could "lose him," does he mean he'll leave the tax-hungry state of California and move to a state with lower taxes (where he and his leftist, redistribution ilk will rev up to destroy their economy), or that he may just jump the partisan fence and become... wait for it.. a conservative?
Hilarious, Clown... you made your government-money-grabbing bed, and now you're sniveling that you don't want to sleep in it.
...Warph.
And then there's this:Über-Lib Bill Maher Kinda Sorta Defends Iraq War: "It's A Country That's Standing, I Thought It Wouldn't Be"...
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Via Mediaite: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-defends-iraq-war-bush-its-a-country-thats-standing-i-thought-it-wouldnt-be/
"During a panel discussion on the Iraq war tonight,Bill Maher had a somewhat surprising take on the Iraq War almost ten years to the day before it began. Maher made it clear the cost of invading was more negative than positive, but asked the panel if there was some value gained by going in, because he admitted that in spite of originally thinking that Iraq would not be standing ten years down the road, "it's actually doing better than I thought it would be."
Rachel Maddow noted how Mitt Romney spoke of the Iraqi liberation in his CPAC address, saying that the GOP is still convinced the war was a good idea. Maher jumped in to argue that ten years down the road might not be the best way to judge the ultimate end result of the Iraq war, and admitted that he's impressed with where the country is right now."You know libs are fuming on the inside that Iraq didn't implode like they predicted.
LA Times Op-Ed: Conservative White Men Who Have Guns
Worse Than International Terrorists
The U.S. needs to keep a close watch on the growing threat of
home-grown extremist groups.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-patriot-groups-splc-report-20130308,0,2444361.story?track=rss
"There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat with the U.S. government. They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.
"They're not jihadists. They are white, right-wing Americans, nearly all with an obsessive attachment to guns, who may represent a greater danger to the lives of American civilians than international terrorists.
"The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been tracking hate groups for 30 years, released its latest report on the growth of these organizations this week. Its findings were, to say the least, alarming. The center divides its subjects into militias, which are mostly groups of weekend warriors who train for combat against imaginary foes; hate groups, which target minorities; and "patriot" groups, whose beef is with the U.S. government. Patriot groups first began surfacing after the massacre of a bizarre sect by federal agents in Waco, Texas, in the early 1990s. They showed their teeth in 1995, when a patriot adherent blew up the federal building in Oklahoma City."Wow! Who knew supporting the Constitution made you a terrorist? Talk about "intractable hatred"...sounds like this writer has just a bit for "right-wing white men".
Anybody with any sense knows there are various kinds of hate groups out there.
Just take a look at the religious/christian hate group Westboro Church and their disruption of funerals.
But does that mean you group everyone into the same type of hate group?
Even if there are groups of people that belong to various gun organizations, does that make them hateful people?
Definitely not.
For this man to print such an article strikes me as something written, by the real hate group because of the twisting of words and mixing of groups.
This strikes me as more of the dumbing down of the American people. Far too many people believe what they read and that is what the real hate group appreciates.
I don't belong to any group of any kind. None.
There are plenty of reasons of owning guns, protection from home invasions is the first thing that comes to my mind, hunting is second. And that includes shooting at coyotes that are after my chickens.
But a hateful, lying, double dealing government would definitely be down the list. I hope and pray that our government never turns and comes after us physically. But if they do I will stand my ground. They have already been coming after us and our constitutional rights. Why?
They apparently fear the American public, that's why?
The government and the media have set up the present situation and it is up to them to correct it.
But by labeling American citizens as worse than International Terrorists is just wrong.
The more people that recognize the wrongness of that statement the safer our country is IMHO.
The propaganda in the news media needs to cease.
The Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map
Where does your State stand?
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map
Barack Obuma Marks St. Patrick's Day With A Picture Of . . .
Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma...
The POSPOTUS Narcissist-in-Chief strikes again.
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Wilmington, Del.: Pro-Abortion Woman Comes Out Of
Planned Parenthood, Assaults 63 Year Old Grandmother Praying Outside Was that EMT Diana Amberg ??? If not, maybe she can shed a little light on this. I guess that female "Mike Tyson" from Planned Parenthood is still on the loose. Fight Promoter Don King ought to check her out... might have the next heavyweight champion there.The Operation Rescue group had noticed several medical emergencies from abortions coming out of that Planned Parenthood. The attack may have been an attempt to cover up filming of the emergencies created by botched abortions.Via The Blaze http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/17/video-catholic-grandmother-assaulted-while-praying-outside-planned-parenthood/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=Share%20Buttons
A 63-year-old Catholic grandmother says she was attacked and knocked to the ground while filming outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Wilmington, Del. last week.
Rae Stabosz told TheBlaze she's part of a regular group that prays outside the clinic. On Wednesday afternoon, when she and another woman were getting ready to leave for the day, an ambulance pulled up to the front of the building. Stabosz took out her iPhone and began to film, at which point she said a woman came out of the Planned Parenthood and demanded she stop taping.
"She came out of Planned Parenthood and she was very angry," Stabosz said. "[She said] 'I'm going to mess you up so f–king bad."
In video of the incident, first posted by anti-abortion organization Operation Rescue, Stabosz narrates that they are calling 911 because they were threatened.
Stabosz told TheBlaze it was about 10 minutes later when the woman returned and assaulted her on the sidewalk as the paramedics prepared to roll out with a patient on a stretcher.
In the video, the woman walks out of the Planned Parenthood just ahead of the paramedics and heads directly toward Staboszs while on the phone. The audio is difficult to hear, but the woman appears to say, "I'll call you in an hour when I'm in jail."
"I believe this person may be trying to — " Staboszs says before she's abruptly cut off as the woman slaps the running iPhone out of her hand. The phone clatters to the ground and the woman appears to stomp on it. There are sounds of a scuffle and Staboszs yells. The woman is heard saying, "Get the f–k away."
Anonymous DDOSing Dept. Of Justice
The attack appears to have been ongoing for about an hour:
Tweet from AnonymousWike:
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@AnonymousWiki
Ohai @TheJusticeDept it appears your website is down...
we'll throw you some lifesavers. pic.twitter.com/4LODdW3OlT
12:15 a.m. Mon, Mar 18
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Government Gives $227,437 Grant To Investigate
How Animals Have Been Depicted In National Geographic
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Did you know that predators such as coyotes can be portrayed as a threat?
Wow, what a surprise... since I run into them everyday while walking the dogs!
(CNSNews.com) – The federal government is spending $227,437 to investigate how animals have been depicted in National Geographic magazine over a span of 120 years, which federal officials say is an "innovative study" that will examine "images of animals to see how people have changed their view of the natural world."
The grant was issued March 4 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Michigan State University to look at how animals were depicted in the science magazine from 1888 to 2008.
"Studies of other popular media representations of animals and human-animal relationships have found that animals are often portrayed as problems or nuisances, and we know that media influences attitudes and behavior," NSF spokeswoman Deborah Wing told CNSNews.com in a written response to questions about the grant. "Predators like wolves and coyotes have been consistently portrayed as a threat.
Keep reading...
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-spending-227437-study-how-national-geographic-depicted-animals
Ambush on US armoured vehicles in Afghanistan Apache Gunships | Live Action | Take out Snipers Apache Gunship Engages 10 Insurgents With A Hellfire Missle A10 WARTHOG STRIKES A TALIBAN PATROL
North Korea Threatens Strikes Against South Korean Islands
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North Korea, continuing to ratchet up tension. They want negotiation concessions, but typically, continue to go about it in the wrong way... as usual.A North Korean propaganda website has warned of strikes against Southern islands and advised residents to leave.
The Uriminzokkiri website, linked to the regime, mentioned targets including Yeonpyeong island, which was attacked by Northern forces in 2010.
Pyongyang has made a series of threats since its last nuclear test in February prompted the UN to tighten sanctions.
The US said on Friday it would refocus missile defences to its west coast to counter the North's threats.
Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said 14 more batteries would be placed in Alaska by 2017, adding to 30 already in place along the coast.
'War games'
On 12 February the North tested a nuclear device, which is believed to be its third such test.
The UN Security Council condemned the move and tightened sanctions on the regime.
Before and after the UN announcement, Pyongyang promised reprisals for the sanctions, including a threat to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the US.
North Korean media has also been vitriolic against the South.
The Uriminzokkiri website stated: "Even an accidental spark by the belligerents in their war games can grow into a fire.
"And the damage for those living along the border and on the five western islands will be great."
The threats came shortly after South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won visited Yeonpyeong.
The US and South Korea also began military drills earlier in the week.
South Korea's western islands are regarded as being particularly vulnerable to attack as they lie 10km (six miles) south of the sea boundary.
In 2010, the North bombarded Yeonpyeong with artillery shells, causing four deaths.
North Korea's foreign policy has for decades been dominated by threats of military strikes, and bartering over its nuclear programme.
Although Pyongyang has given up parts of its nuclear programme in return for aid, it has continued to develop missiles and enrich nuclear material.
The most advanced missiles have the capacity to reach Alaska.
It is not thought to have a missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Unbelievable: CNN Report Sympathizes With Steubenville
Football Players Convicted Of Gang Raping 16-Year-Old Girl...
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CNN's coverage of the Steubenville rape story has been roundly criticized after the cable news network focused on the devastating effect on the 'promising' lives of the rapists and not the 16-year-old victim.
As the breaking news of the guilty verdict against Steubenville High School football players Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'lik Richmond, 16, was relayed from the Ohio court-room on Sunday, anchor Candy Crowley turned to correspondent Poppy Harlow, who seemed more affected by the tearful reactions of the two teens.
Harlow described the scene in the court as, 'Incredibly difficult, even for me, to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watched as they believed their lives fell apart.'
'One of the young men, Ma'lik Richmond, as that sentence came down, he collapsed,' added Harlow, saying that the rapist turned to his attorney and said, 'my life is over, no one is going to want me now.'
During the segment, CNN aired court-room video of Richmond in floods of tears over the verdict while he hugged his lawyer.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295051/CNN-sympathetic-reporting-ruined-promising-lives-Steubenville-rape-students.html
Why does the devil in 'The Bible' look exactly like POSPOTUS Obuma?
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"Very Spooky: Viewers noted the Devil from the History Channel
series 'The Bible' Satan looks similar to President Barack Obama"
Sunday evening's episode of the History Channel's hit series 'The Bible' threw up an awkward coincidence when viewers noticed that Satan bore a remarkable resemblance to President Obama.
Twitter exploded into life during the airing of the latest edition of the Mark Burnett-produced series with most noting the striking similarities between the 44th President and the devil played by actor Mehdi Ouzaani.
The show has been a surprise hit in the ratings, with the religious mini-series attracting 13.1 million viewers on Wednesday - topping television leviathan American Idol's 12.8 million viewers on Wednesday.
Right-wing commentator and radio-host Glenn Beck first pointed out the eerie similarity on Saturday, tweeting, 'Anyone else think the Devil in #TheBible Sunday on History Channel looks exactly like That Guy?'
Others were simply struck by the clear physical match.
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While Matthew Gaudet commented, 'Watching The Bible series on the History channel and noticed the guy playing the role of Satan, looks strikingly similar to Obama.'
The unfortunate incident bares comparison with HBO's infamous inclusion of a fake George W. Bush head impaled onto a stick during the background of a Season 1 Game of Thrones episode.
When the incident went viral, the network announced it was pulling the offending episode - from its rotation, freezing shipments of DVD box sets and halting sales on iTunes until the embarrassing blunder had been fixed.
'We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste,' HBO said in a statement.
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"Spiked: Former U.S. President George W. Bush's surprise appearance on HBO's fantasy series
Game of Thrones, bares comparison to President Obama's look-a-like on Sunday's 'The Bible'"
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"Game of Thrones creators D.B Weiss and David Benioff faced massive criticism for using a
prop of George W. Bush's head in a scene from Season One of the hit show"
HBO and the show's creators, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, apologized for the incident.For those of you who haven't seen it, here it is: (Me, I'll wait until it comes out on Netflix).Season 1 , Episode 01-02 - "In the Beginning Exodus"
The series will cover everything "from Genesis to Revelation" within five two-hour parts, each containing two or three biblical stories told through live action and computer-generated imagery. Burnett has mentioned that "obvious" stories include Noah's Ark, the Exodus, and the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus. The series will be based on the New International Version and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
Noah tells of the Creation story and Fall while aboard the ark; Abrahamic covenant; the Battle of the Vale of Siddim; Hagar and Ismael; birth of Isaac; Abraham is tested; Sodom and Gomorrah; Moses learns of his roots, kills a soldier, and flees Egypt.
Parts 5 & 6 not on youtube yet.
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Craven... as usual. Her face looks like my scrotum.
"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became the latest politician to come out in favor of same-sex marriage on Monday, echoing similar shifts by President Barack Obama and other potential White House hopefuls as the issue gains public approval.
In a six-minute video released by the Human Rights Campaign on Monday, Mrs. Clinton said gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans "are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship.
"That includes marriage," she said. "That's why I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples. I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law."
"By announcing her support for gay marriage in a very public forum as the issue wins new converts, Mrs. Clinton further fueled speculation that she is certain to launch another White House bid in 2016. She joins other potential Democratic contenders in supporting the right for same-sex couples to marry, including Vice President Joe Biden and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo."[/i]
She and her husband were two of the chief proponents of the Defense of Marriage Act when it got passed under Slick Willy's tenure. Libs can change their positions to catch the political winds willy-nilly, pandering for votes, and the MSM will never call them out on it. If you're superstitious, a black cat portends trouble... so does Dilly Hilly. So this means Clinton is for Polygamy, polyandry, polyamory, tribalism, subjective hate speech replacing free speech, loss of religious freedom, pedophilia, bestiality, incest, legalization of the generation and transmission of HIV/AIDS/HPV, contamination of our blood supplies and out and out teaching to our kids to outright filthy diseased injected sex acts as perfectly normal which Bloomberg has forced upon NYC schools.... on & on to the moral destruction of civilization.
Oh my... did I just say that ???
What I meant was, the former Secretary of State is positioning herself for 2016. Her track record in political life has been varied if not less than admirable on several occasions, yet she is expressing herself as she has consitantly done before. There will be varying gradiants of agreement and disagreement among citizens on her point of view. She has a right to express herself and this fact one can't deny. Frankly, so do many other Americans who disagree with her advocacy based upon what they perceive are Biblical principles. Also, it was most startling to learn that Chelsea just recently purchased an approximate 10 million dollar housing unit in NYC. I sincerely hope she enjoys her unit, sounds most singular in our current economic ethos.
White House Posts Another Picture Of Obuma
Showing Deep Respect For The Oval Office
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President Barack Obama talks with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and
Miguel Rodriguez, Director of Legislative Affairs, in the Oval Office.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Posted on the WH Flick page March 13, 2013
Hacker Begins Distributing Confidential Memos Sent To
Hillary Clinton On Libya, Benghazi Attack
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Armed with confidential memos to Hillary Clinton that were stolen from the e-mail account of a former White House aide, a hacker has distributed some of the documents to a wide array of congressional aides, political figures, and journalists worldwide.
In a series of weekend e-mail blasts, the hacker known as "Guccifer" disseminated four recent memos to Clinton from Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime confidant of the former Secretary of State.
The 64-year-old Blumenthal, who worked as a senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton, had his AOL e-mail account hacked last week by "Guccifer," who has conducted similar illegal assaults against a growing list of public figures, including Colin Powell, relatives and friends of the Bush family, and a top United Nations official.
The hacker's e-mails went to hundreds of recipients, though the distribution lists were dotted with addresses for aides to Senate and House members who are no longer in office. But many of the addresses to which the Blumenthal memos were sent are good (though it is unclear whether karl@rove.com is a solid address for the Republican mastermind).
Most of the e-mail recipients were sent four separate memos that were e-mailed to Clinton by Blumenthal during the past five months. Each memo dealt with assorted developments in Libya, including the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi. One memo marked "Confidential" was sent to Clinton on September 12.http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/sidney-blumenthal/hacker-distributes-memos-784091
Taxpayer-Subsidized Lab Obuma Used To Plug His Green Energy Plan
Hasn't Produced A Single Battery
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Even better, the batteries were for the official car of the Obama administration, the Chevy Volt.Speaking at Argonne National Laboratory on Friday, President Obama announced $2 million in green energy subsidies with the goal of getting U.S. cars and trucks off oil.
Argonne, a Department of Energy lab that has received more than $2 million in stimulus funds, partnered with LG Chem Michigan in 2011 to produce electric vehicle batteries, providing the manufacturer with its own patented battery design, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
The batteries were supposed to power the Chevy Volt. The problem is, LG Chem hasn't produced a single battery yet.
The company received $151 million in stimulus money in 2010, which was intended to cover half the construction costs of its Holland, Mich., factory. Its other plant is in South Korea.
LG Chem was supposed to use Argonne's design to produce the Volt batteries in its Holland plant once construction was finished. But according to a recent Inspector General report, the company's employees have been too busy playing video games to produce any batteries, despite spending $142 million.http://washingtonexaminer.com/taxpayer-subsidized-lab-obama-used-to-plug-green-energy-hasnt-produced-any-batteries/article/2524709
Nazi doctors: Hitler was gay, took female hormones
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Newly discovered notes from a U.S. Army interview of former Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler doctors reveal that the madman had homosexual tendencies, did not sleep in girlfriend Eva Braun's bedroom, and was doped up with multiple drugs including female hormones.
Written in erratic shorthand, Army interrogator Herman Merl, a Vienna-born medical technician enlisted to interview Hitler's doctors, Karl Brandt and Theodor Morell, scribbled "Homosex" in his notebook where he sized up the mass murderer's sexuality.
He then wrote: "Eva Braun = separate rooms" before adding "female hormone - injection 50,000 units." Elsewhere he wrote, "His sexual life and intercourse with Eva Braun was told to me."
The notebooks are going up for auction later this month at one of the nation's leading sellers of historical artifacts, Alexander Historical Auctions of Chesapeake City, Md. Alexander has offered other important Third Reich relics, including a tea set from Hitler's mountain hideaway and Josef Mengele's diaries. Often the items are sold to Jewish collectors and museums.
Merl's notes further confirm other post-war interviews with Hitler's caretakers that he was "hysterical," a "megalomaniac," and suffered from several ailments, notably flatulence for which he took drugs to stop passing gas. He also suggested that Hitler had Parkinson's disease.
A previous Alexander auction included notes detailing how Hitler was shot up with bull semen. The new notes add that bull semen shots were used to regulate his level of testosterone. But proving that his doctors used many experimental treatments on Hitler was Merl's mention that the fuhrer was also receiving female hormones. Those can be used to treat various ailments, but are dangerous and often interfere with male sexual functions.
Alexander President Bill Panagopulos told Secrets that there are five notebooks for sale and he expects the sale price to be $5,000-$7,000. He noted that Dr. Morell was Hitler's primary physician and a rival of Dr. Brandt, an SS officer who also headed the Nazi euthanasia program.
Alexander's auction includes this movie poster, featuring actor Richard Basehart.
Obuma Underwater In New Poll By 15 Points
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"Oh Mohammed... where did I go wrong. What to do, what to do."
President Obama's approval rating has fallen 8 points and his disapproval rating jumped 7 points since the beginning of the year, leaving him underwater, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll.
Some 47 percent of respondents approve of the job he's doing, while 50 percent disapprove, the poll found.
Gallup earlier this month found his three-day approval rating tumbling to its lowest level since reelection. A McClatchy Marist poll last week found his approval rating at 45 percent among registered voters, the lowest level since 2011. Quinnipiac came up with the same result earlier this month — 45 percent — compared with 53 percent after reelection.
White House press secretary Jay Carney has said people shouldn't pay attention to the "series of polls" and pointed out that a recent Washington Post poll found his approval rating at 50 percent. Although the Post poll last week also found that has dropped 5 points since he took the oath of office in January.
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Obuma's Middle East Map Erases Israeli Territory
Obuma's Map Of Middle East Omits Jerusalem As Part Of Israel,
Erases Large Swaths Of Israeli Territory
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Wishful thinking at the White House
The map of the Middle East displayed in an Obama administration video released days before President Barack Obama's visit to Israel shows the Jewish state dispossessed of substantial parts of its current territory, including its capital.
The map of Israel, displayed repeatedly during the video, shows the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, northern Israel, and areas surrounding what is currently the West Bank as non-Israeli territory. The Golan Heights is shown as part of Syria; Jerusalem is shown as part of the West Bank; and northern Israel is shown as part of Lebanon.[/b][/font][/size]
The itinerary on the White House website also implies that Jerusalem is neither Israel's capital nor even part of Israel.The president's schedule lists two stops in "Tel Aviv, Israel" and one in "Amman, Jordan" but his activities in Israel's capital city are identified as taking place only in "Jerusalem" — with no country name attached. This keeps with a reluctantly-acknowledged administration policy of denying that Jerusalem is Israel's capital or even a part of Israel.
Palestinian Mom of the Decade Dies
By Mark Steyn
March 18, 2013 12:57 P.M
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Seven years ago, in my book America Alone, I noted the Hamas landslide in the 2006 Palestinian elections:
"Among the incoming legislators was Mariam Farahat, a mother of three, elected in Gaza. She used to be a mother of six but three of her sons self-detonated on suicide missions against Israel. She's a household name to Palestinians, known as Um Nidal – Mother of the Struggle – and, at the rate she's getting through her kids, the Struggle's all she'll be Mother of. She's famous for a Hamas recruitment video in which she shows her 17-year old son how to kill Israelis and then tells him not to come back. It's the Hamas version of 42nd Street: You're going out there a youngster but you've got to come back in small pieces."
"Um Nidal" passed away yesterday. Unusually for a member of the Farahat family, she expired not from firing up the old suicide belt and with body parts of dead Jews raining down on her, but, rather more prosaically, from multiple organ failure. One trusts that, reunited with mom in Paradise, her late sons won't hold it against her. Suicide for Allah "makes me happy", she famously declared. "Hepatitis for Allah" doesn't have quite the same ring.
Nevertheless, as this headline puts it, "Thousands participate in funeral of the Khansa of Palestine' Umm Nidal Farahat". Thousands. For a woman whose sole contribution to Palestinian "society" is a mound of dead sons.
Palestinians Spray Paint Swastikas On Banner Featuring Obuma's Image, Pummel It With Shoes
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Racists! :laugh:
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians have vandalized a banner bearing President Barack Obama's image just days before his visit.
The Palestinians tore down the banner, hurled shoes at it and spray painted it with swastikas. Associated Press TV video showed a taxi driving over the banner before it was set on fire in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday.
Video broadcast on Israel's Channel 10 also showed an official Palestinian Authority car driving over the banner.
WaPo Shocked To Find Food Stamp Recipients Using Their Welfare Benefits To Buy Junk Food, Soda'sWOW... If they're shocked by the abuse of the food stamps program, I can only imagine the outrage when they find out what EBT cards are being used for.(http://m.nypost.com/;m=is;f=jpg;h=450;k=jdYXnU4W0mUUIsEFD-1Dfg;q=70;w=300/rw/nypost/2013/01/06/oped/web_photos/atm--300x450.jpg)
Belly up to the ATM, boys.... drinks are on the taxpayers.
And maybe a lap dance or ten, too.
Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores and X-rated shops
By KATE BRIQUELET
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They're on the dole — and watching the pole.Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs — where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found.
A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank's Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx.
The state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), which oversees the "cash assistance program," even lists some of these welfare-ready ATMs on its Web site.
DEMS BOTTLE UP WELFARE REFORM BILL THAT WOULD END 'SINFUL SPENDING'
NYC OFFICIALS WANT TO INVESTIGATE BODEGAS RINGING UP SUSPICIOUSLY HIGH SALES WITH FOOD-STAMP MONEY
EDITORIAL: CARD TRICKS
One EBT machine is stationed inside Club Eleven, an infamous Hunts Point jiggle joint known as much for its violent history as its girls in pink thongs.
Cops have been cracking down on the Bronx club since 2009 and shut it down temporarily in 2010. In July, five men were stabbed and two others shot outside after bouncers broke up a 4 a.m. brawl with pepper spray. The club appeared to be shuttered when The Post visited Thursday.
Club Heat, another Bronx strip club that dispenses EBT cash, is also no stranger to violence. A 33-year-old woman was fatally shot in the head outside the club in December 2011.
Critics blasted the government for turning a blind eye to welfare's sleazy money.
"This is morally scandalous," said Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. "I have nothing against strip clubs, but that's not what benefits are for. I don't blame [recipients]. If you are poor, it's a crummy life and you want to have a drink or see a naked woman. I blame the people who are in charge of this."
Welfare recipients receive food stamps and cash assistance under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Both benefits are accessed through an EBT card, but only cash assistance — meant for housing, utilities and household necessities — can be accessed at ATMs.
A single-person household could receive a maximum $200 in monthly food stamps plus $158 in cash assistance. A family of four could get as much as $668 in food stamps and $433 in cash.
The food-stamp program prohibits the purchase of booze, tobacco and lottery tickets with an EBT card. But with the cash-assistance program, users can blow money on strippers or a six-pack and to tap welfare dollars from liquor stores, casinos and adult-oriented establishments.
The Post found dozens of pubs, nightclubs and tobacco shops where welfare dough was dispensed — and presumably spent.
The Boiler Room, a gay dive bar in the East Village, had $120 and $60 transactions a minute apart on Jan. 17, 2011. The bar is around the corner from a Bank of America that takes EBT cards.
West Village tobacco shop Shisha International had EBT transactions ranging from $40 to $180 in 2011. The store is near at least two EBT-friendly ATMs.
Legislative efforts to crack down on sinful spending have fallen short.
State Sen. Tom Libous (R-Binghamton) passed a bill in his chamber in June that would outlaw welfare withdrawals at gambling dens, strip clubs and other venues of vice, but the measure is gathering dust in the Democratic-controlled Assembly.
Libous is looking for a new Assembly sponsor to carry the bill in that house in the upcoming legislative session, after past sponsor George Latimer (D-Rye) was elected to the state Senate.
With only one of the city's Assembly members, Nicole Malliotakis (R-B'klyn./SI), as a co-sponsor, the bill faces an uphill battle.
The Assembly typically doesn't support welfare reform, because its more liberal members think the measures "hurt the poor," Libous said. If the bill remains stalled, the state stands to lose $120 million in federal welfare funding.
The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, signed by President Obama last February, requires states to prohibit sinful welfare spending by 2014. If they don't, they'll forfeit federal cash.
"The people who are stealing from the program are the ones I want to go after," Libous said. "Not someone who lost his job or a single mom who has to feed her kids. That's what this program is supposed to be for."
A spokesman with the US Department of Health and Human Services said states make their own rules on EBT cards.
Some states already limit where EBT cards can withdraw money.
A rep from OTDA, New York's welfare office, said the state does not choose or regulate which retailers get ATMs that handle EBTs. Instead, retailers decide whether to use an ATM that accepts welfare cards.
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Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein is disappointed that her assault rifle ban was removed from Senate gun bill... here she demonstrates her stunning lack of knowledge about gun safety and proper gun handling as she points her assault weapon at the audience with her finger on the trigger, although she has claimed to be an expert. The child to the left is holding the weapon safely, Feinstein is not.
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FEINSTEIN FOILED ON GUN GRAB
From Washington Times, Harry Reid shoots down Feinstein gun-ban bill:
Sen. Dianne Feinstein emerged from a closed-door meeting with Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday — but her ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines didn't.
Mr. Reid turned down her attempt to bring her ban on 157 different weapons and ammunition clips aboard the Democratic Party's comprehensive gun bill, Politico reported.
"My understanding is it will not be [part of the base bill]," said Mrs. Feinstein, California Democrat. "I would like to [see it moved], but the leader has decided not to do it. ... You will have to ask him [why]."
Her bill instead will have to go forth separately or as an amendment — and that means it's probably not going anywhere.
[...]
The assault weapons ban was the most controversial of the major proposals to restrict guns that have been advanced by Obama and Senate Democrats. Because of that, it had been expected that the assault weapons measure would be left out of the initial package the Senate considers, with Democrats hoping the Senate could therefore amass the strongest possible vote for the overall legislation.
Having a separate vote on assault weapons might free moderate Democratic senators facing re-election next year in Republican-leaning states to vote against the assault weapons measure, but then support the remaining overall package of gun curbs.
Gun control supporters consider a strong Senate vote important because the Republican-run House has shown little enthusiasm for most of Obama's proposals.
Feinstein said Reid told her there will be two votes.
One would be on her assault weapons ban, which also includes a ban on ammunition magazines that carry more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The second would just be on prohibiting the high-capacity magazine clips.
Many Democrats think the ban on large-capacity magazines has a better chance of getting 60 votes than the assault weapons ban.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved four gun control measures this month, including Feinstein's barring assault weapons and high capacity magazines. The others would expand required federal background checks for firearms buyers, increase federal penalties for illegal gun trafficking and boost school safety money.OK Congress, how about one or a few of you propose an amendment to this legislation that illegal possession of a gun by convicted felon anywhere in this nation becomes a federal crime punishable by a mandatory 25 years in a federal prison.
I guarantee you 100% of law abiding citizens would support that amendment.
....Warph
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According to unnamed reliable sources, the White House is set to announce the formation of the Federal Bureau of "Quotations" to oversee media citations of all official White House announcements and denials of previous announcements.
In future, all media citations must fit within strictly defined classifications: unnamed, well-placed, unnamed well-placed, un-quoted, official, unofficial, official unnamed, official un-quoted, official well-placed, reliable, unnamed reliable, well-placed reliable, official unnamed well-placed, and unofficial un-quoted unnamed well-placed reliable.
The Federal Bureau of "Quotations" has set up a website to help the media and the reading public understand what the new classifications mean. An official unnamed well-placed reliable source said the site will be user-friendly, featuring a cute feline mascot named Miss Information to lead readers through the many details.
An unnamed well-placed un-quoted official didn't clarify whether, when spoken, the new entity should be pronounced as "Bureau of quote Quotations unquote" or simply stated as "Bureau of Quotations" with air quotes given at the appropriate moment. A second well-placed reliable source claimed air quotes should not be used so as not to offend the eye-hand-coordination-challenged.
When contacted, a third unofficial un-quoted unnamed well-placed reliable source denied everything, but confirmed multiple job openings at the Bureau's community-based Quotations Correctional facilities to help maintain safe, cost-efficient, and secure environment for media professionals in need of self-improvement opportunities offered to them by dedicated Quotations Correctional Officers.
Sniper Kill Shot!! Barret M107
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Budget Bunny BusinessBy Chris Stirewalt
Published March 19, 2013/Power Play/FoxNews.com
Video at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/19/budget-bunny-business/#ixzz2O8y8qpel If he ... spends more time playing the game of golf, I'm sure he can get to where he's got pretty good stick"
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Conservatives have long complained about the lavish lifestyle of the first family – the parties, the vacations, the servants, etc.But the Obamas have mostly ducked the charges, in part through PR plays (the first lady visits a Virginia Target store or raves about bargain outfits) and in part because Americans understand that the presidency comes with some pretty awesome perks.
Moreover, most Americans would not like to see their chief executive living like a pauper. Jimmy Carter carried his own luggage to the White House and slipped on a sweater so he could turn down the thermostat. Voters were not impressed.
But there are limits.
The Obamas are rich, as the president points out when he talks about his calls for higher taxes. But with a net worth estimated around the $10 million mark, they are not private-jet rich. That status is afforded to them by virtue of President Obama's office.
In order to be secure and connected, the president needs special travel accommodations, but those travel requirements give the president and his family entrée into perhaps the greatest luxury of the super rich: luxury travel anywhere in the world on a private jet.
Obama and his January golf partner, Tiger Woods, both travel by private jet. The difference is that Obama's fortune wouldn't last even a year if he had to pay for it himself.
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But again, Americans, who understand just how awful a job the presidency is, mostly understand that the chief executive ought to have some upgrades. Plus, when our president flies on a foreign trip or to a summit, it's nice to have the American in the nicest ride on the tarmac (unless the Sultan of Brunei shows up).
There are many other perks, too, including the other exclusive domain of the super rich: lots of well-paid staffers. The Obamas could never afford to have liveried servants, chefs and personal aides like those who attend to them at the White House, but the argument in modern times has long been that the presidency carried so many burdens – personal and public – that first families needed lots of help to do the job right.
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No matter how much Republicans complained about the ritzy lifestyle of the first family, it was hard to make the Obamas out to be Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. It's harder to do that with a young family and both parents from middle-class backgrounds – especially as African Americans – than it was with other first families.
Democrats turned Ronald and Nancy Reagan into villains, movie stars (and her being from a wealthy family), for dancing the night away with Frank Sinatra while the homeless slept on grates. Plus, they were Republicans so reporters gobbled up the story line of executive excess like they do hors d'oeuvres at a White House Christmas party.
The Obamas, being Democrats, get lots of extra legroom when it comes to charges of imperial excess. They may be sipping champagne with movie stars, but they want to give poor people stuff too.
Then came the sequester.
In terms of tactical miscalculations, the decision to close the White House to public tours is looking more dire with each day. The goal, presumably, was to begin illustrating the hardships to taxpayers because of the automatic decreases to automatic increases in federal spending.
The Obamas, being Democrats, get lots of extra legroom when it comes to charges of imperial excess.
But the most vaunted political operation in generations somehow did not see that closing the president's taxpayer-supported mansion to public groups would fall at the feet of the president rather than members of Congress through whose offices White House tours arranged.
The president is attempting a slow, conditional climb-down from ending the tours. Not only will Team Obama resist to the end any admission of error, but doing so on the sequestered tours would call into question every other claim of hardship made on the subject.
But as long as the tours are kept out, everything the Obamas do that is beyond the reach of other citizens and that costs the other citizens money will be scrutinized.
For example, the first family will host a big party for St. Patrick's Day tonight at the White House. That won't be cheap. The school kids can't tour the building, but the president can entertain his guests on the finest Celtic food and drink.
The tour trap is also illustrated with the annual White House Easter egg roll.
The longstanding White House tradition has taken on special significance in the Obama era as
the first lady has used the event to promote her agenda, particularly gay rights, aid for military families and healthful food.
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When the tickets were printed up for the event, the White House was apparently still in full sequestration scare mode, with ominous language warning that the event might be cancelled because of budget cuts. And if it was, there would be no rescheduling. Little Timmy and Sally and their same-sex military parents would just have to live without their whole-grain, low-sugar springtime treats. So there.
But that would have only made the tour trap tighter. Money for campaign events and private chefs, but not Timmy and Sally's carob muffins? Not exactly egalitarian.
So the White House is rolling back the egg roll warnings. The bunny will be there aerobicizing! Fear not!
What a PR disaster it would have been to have kicked out the kids but kept the donors, political allies and friends. The guy in the bunny suit suddenly became essential personnel once Obama's approval ratings dropped.
Until the president finds a way to get those tour groups flowing through the White House gates again, the first family will be under the microscope for all that they do. That has to make the Obamas unhappy, particularly the hostess of the house. And if anyone can lobby the president to reverse course on the tours, it's got to be her.
And Now, A Word From Charles
"Look, I think there's a difference here between ideology and technique. I'm not sure you want the RNC deciding ideology. We had a good debate at CPAC. You can see the outlines of the debate. I think it will be healthy. We have tendencies, and it's the new leadership who will decide the ideological direction of the party."
-- Charles Krauthammer on "Special Report with Bret Baier." Chris Stirewalt is digital politics editor for Fox News, and his POWER PLAY column appears Monday-Friday on FoxNews.com. Catch Chris Live online daily at 11:30amET at http:live.foxnews.com.
Egypt: Hundreds Of Muslims Attack Christian Stores, Churches
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It never seems to end, does it.
ASSIUT, Egypt (AP) — Hundreds of Muslim villagers in Egypt's south have attacked Christian-owned stores in search of a girl whose family claims was abducted.
The villagers assaulted the stores Tuesday and surrounded two churches in the city of al-Wasta in Bani Suef province in Egypt's south. Security forces guarded the churches. No casualties were reported.
The college-aged girl disappeared around one month ago. The crowd accused local Christian of kidnapping her.
Bani Suef's prosecutor, Hamdi Farouk, said there was no reason to believe Christians were involved in her disappearance.
Security chief Ibrahim Hudeib said the girl left her house with her gold and passport in hand and may have fled with a local Muslim boy.
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Michael Moore Rushes To Assure Iran Obama Won't
Attack Them After Meeting With Netanyahu
Along with being a disgusting fat slob, Moore thinks he is also an amateur ambassador. [color] Moore's tweet:(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/3394711098/139f7cab58ea2a05766a4d5002355112_normal.jpeg)
Michael Moore ✔ @MMFlint
Hey Bibi- B Obama couldn't tell u this, so I will (he usually leaves the tough love stuff up 2 me): We are NOT going 2 war with Iran. Sorry.
10:56 PM - 20 Mar 13
181 Retweets 90 favorites Porker Michael Moore has had a tough enough time dealing with "weenie" Harry Reid and his Democrat colleagues in getting liberal legislation through the Senate; now he has to do the tough talking that President Barack Obama just won't do overseas. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted his thanks to Obama for "unequivocally affirming Israel's sovereign right to defend itself by itself against any threat," but Michael Moore wanted to step in an clarify that Israel is on its own should Iran attack.(Warph's Tip-of-the-Day to Michael Moore: If you address your tweet to @netanyahu rather than "Hey Bibi," he might actually see it, you Clown.)
House Rejects Senate Dems Budget,
35 Democrats Vote Against It
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Gee... sorry Patti. Was it the $1.5 TRILLION in new tax hikes?
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/289325-house-rejects-dem-budget-plans-gop-slams-obamas-missing-budget
The House on Wednesday rejected the Senate Democratic budget in a 154-261 vote, with 35 Democrats voting against the blueprint from their upper chamber colleagues.
The Senate Democratic budget was one of three budgets cast aside in a series of votes Wednesday after a debate in which Republicans excoriated President Obama for failing to offer his own budget plan in time for the votes.
House Democrats were instructed to vote for the Senate Democratic budget, but 35 of them defected.
Blue Dog Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) said he voted against the Senate budget because it did not go far enough on entitlements.
"It is not enough entitlement reform in there going forward. It needs to be a more complete and balanced picture and it wasn't bipartisan in the end of the day," Schrader told The Hill.
Tax hikes in the bill:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/03/14/democrats-budget-plan-seeks-1-5-trillion-tax-hike-plus-10-year-spending-boost/
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Vile, despicable, contemptible, disgusting cur a**hole. That would be Harry Reid, in case you were wondering.The scare tactics that Democrats from President Obama on down have employed to wring political benefit out of the sequester have apparently hit a despicable new low. In comments made about the deaths overnight of seven U.S. Marines in a training incident in Nevada, Senate Majority POS Harry Reid, Demorat from Nevada, reportedly suggested that we may see more such incidents because the sequester cuts put Marines at risk. The Marines... who, unlike Reid, are truly men instead of slimy, sewer-slurping worms and thus have a sense of honor and decency... ain't having any.NBC military correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, appearing on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC show this afternoon, reported that the Marines have strongly rejected Reid's claim, and that one Marine official accused Reid of "pure political posturing on the backs of these dead Marines."
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2013/03/19/miklaszewski-marine-official-accuses-harry-reid-sequester-politics
Well, hey, after Sandy Hook we all know no coffin is off-limits for Democrat Socialist scum to climb up onto and use as a soapbox to pimp for more and more-intrusive government. Kudos to the Marines for slapping the vermin Reid down, and hard. Count on them to know who their friends really are... and that Reid is not now nor ever has been among them.
Reid really is a cut above (or below) the average Democrat Socialist swine, though; he raises (or lowers) the bar for the rest of the vomitous Democrat Socialist crawly things every time he gets a chance. He besmirches, disgraces, and degrades Americans just by waking up and stealing more oxygen every morning. In a better, more civilized age he'd have been shot dead in a duel long ago by a far better man than he'll ever be... which would be damned near anybody. And the world would be a better place for it.
How about this as a headline:
7 Marines carrying Harry Reid's casket, dropped the casket momentarily on there way into Potters Field in Hawthorne, NV. .... No one objected because they were so pissed that no banana cream pie was served at chow today.
...Warph
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Ah, the income tax preparation season is upon us. You're probably wondering why you have to spend a couple of weekends barricaded in a room, sorting through receipts in the faint hope of complying with our confusing income tax laws.
The income tax first came to America in 1861. Americans paid it to help finance the Civil War, but come 1871.... six years after the war... the tax was repealed.
Some politicians, however, took a liking to it. They tried for the next 20 years to reinstate it. But the Supreme Court shot down the income tax as unconstitutional.
By 1913, however, the income tax weenies finally won. The 16th Amendment was passed and the income tax was signed into law. (http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4815999315411533&pid=1.7)
Here's how it worked: Only those who earned more than $3,000... a lot of money in those days.. had to pay. And they only had to pay about 1 percent. The highest rate, for those who earned $500,000 or more, was only 7 percent. As you well know, these low tax rates didn't last.
By 1918, the top rate... the highest rate imposed on the highest earners.... rose to a whopping 77 percent. Why? So America could finance World War I. And did the rates drop back to pre-war levels when the war ended?
Nope. The top rate did fall from 77 percent to 25 percent, but that still was 18 points higher than the top rate before the war.
Then Franklin Delano Big Government came to town. The top rate shot back up to 78 percent by 1936. In the 1940s, another war came along and the top rate skyrocketed to 94 percent.
And did taxes go down following World War II?
Nope. This time, the top rate stayed above 90 percent into the early 1960s. In 1960, John F. Kennedy got elected by promising to get America moving again. He pushed for... but didn't live to see.. the top rate reduced from 90 percent to 70 percent under the Revenue Act of 1964, and his reductions did spur economic growth.
So, when politicians realized that lower taxes resulted in more growth and productivity, they eagerly reduced income taxes further, right?
Ha, ha! Nope. The income tax wasn't reduced again until Ronald Reagan took over. In 1981, the top rate was reduced to 50 percent. In 1986, in return for elimination of loop holes, the top rate was reduced to 28 percent. Reagan's tax reductions helped spur the longest peacetime period of growth in American history.
Which brings us to the present. Today, the top federal income tax rate stands at 39.6 percent. But that's still lower than the top rates of the past, right?
Not exactly. First, loopholes that allowed taxpayers to avoid paying taxes were eliminated in 1986. Even though rates were higher in the past, actual taxes paid were lower. I stumbled across my father's 1959 tax return; after his many deductions, he paid only 2 percent of his income in federal taxes.
Second, Social Security and Medicare taxes have increased rapidly over the years. Taxpayers pay an additional 15.3 percent of their income to support these programs. The Social Security tax was only 1 percent when the program began.
Third, Americans are paying taxes in several ways that many are not even aware of. We pay taxes on gas, utilities and phone usage. We pay property, sales and transfer taxes. And our states, counties and municipalities also tax our incomes.
Add it all up and you'll discover that for every dollar you earn, you are lucky to keep even .40 cents.
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That's something to muse about as you are barricaded in a room all weekend, getting your income-tax return in order.
Good luck!
Where is the outrage over this from the left ? Where is Je$$ie Jack$on and $harpton ? Where is Obama saying if he had a son he might look like poor little De'Marquis ? You can bet your sweet bippy if the baby had been black and the murderer white ,the Liberals would be calling for blood and Biden calling for all "Caspers" to give up their guns.
The mother of a 13-month-old boy who was fatally shot in his stroller during a botched robbery Thursday said one the of suspects threatened to kill her baby moments before the boy was fatally shot.
"He asked me for money and I said I didn't have it," Sherry West, the boy's mom, told The Associated Press Friday from her apartment, which was scattered with her son's toys and movies. "When you have a baby, you spend all your money on babies. They're expensive. And he kept asking and I just said `I don't have it.' And he said, `Do you want me to kill your baby?' And I said, `No, don't kill my baby!"'
One of the teens allegedly fired four shots, grazing West's ear and striking her in the leg, before he walked around to the stroller and shot the baby in the face.
A pair of teenagers was arrested Friday in the most recent shooting. West had just been to the post office a few blocks from her apartment Thursday morning and was pushing her son, Antonio, in his stroller while they walked past gnarled oak trees and blooming azaleas in the coastal city of Brunswick.
Seventeen-year-old De'Marquis Elkins is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, along with a 14-year-old who was not identified because he is a juvenile, Police Chief Tobe Green said. It wasn't immediately clear whether the boys had attorneys.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/03/23/georgia-mom-says-teen-told-her-do-want-me-to-kill-your-baby-before-son-fatally/?intcmp=trending#ixzz2OOGdBtFE
Don't you just love how your tax dollars are spent????
The National Science Foundation has been criticized for spending $384,949 on a Yale University study that examined, among other things, the particulars of male duck penises. Do you believe the study was a proper use of taxpayer funding?
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/03/25/was-duck-penis-study-appropriate-use-taxpayer-money/#ixzz2Oee9cDu3
Possibly. I thought the whole article was rather interesting. Gives the female some control over who fathers her babies in a way that most birds can't. A lot of good science can eventually come from findings that weren't obviously useful at first. By the way, that grant was given in 2009...has nothing to do with the sequester.
Hows this one which is more local. The study of gravity on rain fall.
It failed to get off the ground but just the same, how much time and money was wasted stopping it?
But there is more in the article. Okay Agenda 21 abuse!
Granted, one record Winter does not a glacier make
March 26, 2013
In the two plus years I have confronted Global Government under the guise of United Nations Agenda 21 and sibling ICLEI, the most important thing I have learned is debating facts with Progressive Liberals is a total waste of time and in some cases threatens lifelong friendships. I look no further than "GLOBAL WARMING" that puts a happy face on every liberals' dream, free money, at some one elses' expense.
From inception Agenda 21 has no other purpose than redistribution of global wealth. In 1992 Sustainable Development created this 351 page document http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf. Within the United Nations' very own documents creating Agenda 21 they openly discuss how developed countries must redistribute national wealth to less advantaged countries. I look no further than the EURO currency with Cyprus, Spain, Greece and Italy. Each failed economy results in redistribution. These same planners have designs for USA, Mexico and Canada called the AMERO currency. When all "stake holders " are equal within a nation and all nations are equal, guess who will assume leadership on a global basis?
Agenda 21 – Chapter 2
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO ACCELERATE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND RELATED DOMESTIC POLICIES
"In order to meet the challenges of environment and development, States have decided to establish a new global partnership. This partnership commits all States to engage in a continuous and constructive dialogue, inspired by the need to achieve a more efficient and equitable world economy, keeping in view the increasing interdependence of the community of nations and that sustainable development should become a priority item on the agenda of the international community. It is recognized that, for the success of this new partnership, it is important to overcome confrontation and to foster a climate of genuine cooperation and solidarity. It is equally important to strengthen national and international policies and multinational cooperation to adapt to the new realities."
This makes Johnson County Kansas with the second highest US per-capita income a prime target. Add current campus contamination and education required to work at Sprint (tele-communications), Garmin (GPS technologies) and Cerner (digital medical records) as major employers provides the Petri dish of incubation. Enter a few career part-time politicians asking for more free stuff and that explains much of the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) that continues surfacing as a funding source.
But here I sit, knee deep in snow March 25, 2013. Kansas Spring started last week. Firewood is in and fireplace is consoling a sense of normalcy with the crackling. Heat lamps on in the barn and henhouse. I heard on CNN and MSNBC of record snows and low temperatures across most of the Northern Hemisphere. My mind possibly wounded from frost bite remembers back one year ago when, I shiver at the thought.
« County has part-time citizens playing part-time czars.
Granted, one record Winter does not a glacier make
March 26, 2013 by nolathe
In the two plus years I have confronted Global Government under the guise of United Nations Agenda 21 and sibling ICLEI, the most important thing I have learned is debating facts with Progressive Liberals is a total waste of time and in some cases threatens lifelong friendships. I look no further than "GLOBAL WARMING" that puts a happy face on every liberals' dream, free money, at some one elses' expense.
From inception Agenda 21 has no other purpose than redistribution of global wealth. In 1992 Sustainable Development created this 351 page document http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf. Within the United Nations' very own documents creating Agenda 21 they openly discuss how developed countries must redistribute national wealth to less advantaged countries. I look no further than the EURO currency with Cyprus, Spain, Greece and Italy. Each failed economy results in redistribution. These same planners have designs for USA, Mexico and Canada called the AMERO currency. When all "stake holders " are equal within a nation and all nations are equal, guess who will assume leadership on a global basis?
Agenda 21 – Chapter 2
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO ACCELERATE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND RELATED DOMESTIC POLICIES
"In order to meet the challenges of environment and development, States have decided to establish a new global partnership. This partnership commits all States to engage in a continuous and constructive dialogue, inspired by the need to achieve a more efficient and equitable world economy, keeping in view the increasing interdependence of the community of nations and that sustainable development should become a priority item on the agenda of the international community. It is recognized that, for the success of this new partnership, it is important to overcome confrontation and to foster a climate of genuine cooperation and solidarity. It is equally important to strengthen national and international policies and multinational cooperation to adapt to the new realities."
This makes Johnson County Kansas with the second highest US per-capita income a prime target. Add current campus contamination and education required to work at Sprint (tele-communications), Garmin (GPS technologies) and Cerner (digital medical records) as major employers provides the Petri dish of incubation. Enter a few career part-time politicians asking for more free stuff and that explains much of the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) that continues surfacing as a funding source.
But here I sit, knee deep in snow March 25, 2013. Kansas Spring started last week. Firewood is in and fireplace is consoling a sense of normalcy with the crackling. Heat lamps on in the barn and henhouse. I heard on CNN and MSNBC of record snows and low temperatures across most of the Northern Hemisphere. My mind possibly wounded from frost bite remembers back one year ago when, I shiver at the thought.
This presentation was the result of Johnson County Commissioners considering substantial funding to research the effect of gravity on rain. Public opposition at that time stalled (as in putting the horses back in the barn) that maneuver. But now in blatant defiance of climatic and peer reviewed science, many if not most of Progressive Liberals pursue their single agenda of global governance within a failed scriptology.
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It"
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See presentation at http://nolathe.net/2013/03/26/granted-one-record-winter-does-not-a-glacier-make/
Quote from: ROSS on March 26, 2013, 10:52:48 AM
...that puts a happy face on every liberals' dream, free money...
Gee, where have I heard that before?
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Despite having incredibly strict gun laws, Chicago ranks dead last in enforcing federal gun laws. As I've addressed here numerous times, it is impossible for a law-abiding citizen to legally buy a gun in the city, and yet, Chicago is one of the worst, if not THE worst, in violent crimes involving firearms.
NRA's CEO Wayne LaPierre wants to know why David Gregory and the rest of the national mainstream media don't focus on that disturbing gun fact.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/25/nras-wayne-lapierre-why-doesnt-media-cover-chicago/
Oh, Wayne, surely you jest... have you not been paying attention during the "Era of Hopenchange"? They don't call it the "Obama Lapdog Media" for nothing. Reporting on the horrors of Chicago gun crimes flies in the face of the Team Obama gun-control agenda.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/290169-obama-to-prod-senators-takes-gun-control-message-on-the-road(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/gun-control-welcome-to-chicago-highest-murder-rate-in-nation.jpg)
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The government's legalized theft of citizens' money in Cyprus bank accounts will likely spread to other European countries... the way Obuma spends, could America be far behind?
If you thought the government's legalized theft of people's saved money will be limited to the stunned and angry citizens of Cyprus, you'd be wrong:Savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if needed to preserve Europe's single currency by propping up failing banks, a senior eurozone official has announced.
The new policy will alarm hundreds of thousands of British expatriates who live and have transferred their savings, proceeds from house sales and other assets to eurozone bank accounts in countries such as France, Spain and Italy.
The euro fell on global markets after Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch chairman of the eurozone, told the FT and Reuters that the heavy losses inflicted on depositors in Cyprus would be the template for future banking crises across Europe.Americans should view the national financial catastrophe of Cyprus as a chilling cautionary tale. In a few years' time, if our own government's frenzied spending and escalating debt doesn't resolutely reverse, we will likely be in the same sinking dinghy as much of Europe is.
Dr. Ben Carson Hits Back At Vile MSNBC Race Baiter Toure: I'm No Uncle Tom...MEGYN KELLY, HOST: Boy, have you been attacked. A token you've been called, an Oreo, please pardon me for repeating these to you. Most recently a commentator on a rival network said you've been embraced because you're smart and helpful in assuaging white people's guilt and went to on to say that you're enjoying the GOP's version of affirmative action because then people will get to put on a bumper sticker on their car saying "How can I be racist, I would have voted for Dr. Ben Carson?" Your thoughts on the attacks on you?(http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2012/Ben%20Carson%20326.png)
DOCTOR BENJAMIN CARSON: Well, you know, if you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. And you know, if you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. You know, intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground. This is something that we need to move beyond in this country, and let's have a real discussion about the real facts. If somebody disagrees, let's talk about why they disagree, let's talk about the pros and cons, let's see if we can find some accommodation. But to sit around and act like third graders is nonproductive.
Fineman: 'Comical Stampede' of Democrats Suddenly Supporting Same-Sex MarriageAll day there has been a steady stream of Demo-rats "EVOLVING" on gay marriage, from Claire McCaskill to Jon Tester.From: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/344008/fineman-comical-stampede-democrats-suddenly-supporting-same-sex-marriage-andrew-johnso
Howard Fineman made light of the throng of Democratic lawmakers who have suddenly come out in favor of same-sex marriage, including some who coincidentally came to the realization that they'd had a change of heart after their reelection last year. "There's almost a comical stampede on the part of Democrats to get on the right side of this issue," the Huffington Post's editorial director said. "There's a [news] bulletin every five minutes."
Poll: Only 12% Say Sequester Cuts Have Hurt Them In A Major Way(http://www.capitolmarkets.com/files/2013/02/Sequester-Cartoon1.jpeg)
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/federal_budget/march_2013/12_say_sequester_cuts_have_hurt_them_in_a_major_way
Just over half of U.S. voters now say the March 1 sequester cuts in the growth of federal government spending have had no impact on their lives.
Only 12% say the sequester cuts have had a major impact on them personally. Despite predictions that the sequester impact would grow over time, there's no indication of that happening yet. The number experiencing a major impact is basically unchanged from the weekend the sequester first took effect.
George Soros To Give $1 Million To NAACP Legal Fund To Fight Voter ID Laws
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I must say, the Satanic Clown hides his Horns well.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/soros-to-give-1-million-to-naacp-legal-fund/?src=twr
George Soros, the billionaire financier and philanthropist, has pledged $1 million to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the country's leading civil rights legal advocacy group, officials there said Tuesday.
The gift, which Mr. Soros is making through his Open Society Foundations, is the largest grant the group has ever received from a named donor.
It comes as the fund and other legal advocacy groups are locked in battles around the country over states' efforts to impose tighter restrictions on voting.
The fund is closely involved with a case now before the Supreme Court, Shelby County v. Holder, which challenges the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act. The group is also active in cases involving the death penalty, classroom integration and housing discrimination.
Mr. Soros and his family were among the largest donors in the country to Democratic "super PACs" during the 2012 elections. He is also a longtime supporter of voting rights and voter registration initiatives, a major focus of the NAACP fund.
Clueless HHS Secretary Sebelius: On Second Thought, You Probably Will Pay More For Health Insurance Under Obamacare
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Now she tells us...http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/03/26/sebelius-some-could-see-insurance-premiums-rise/?mod=WSJBlog&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Some people purchasing new insurance policies for themselves this fall could see premiums rise because of requirements in the health-care law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters Tuesday.
Ms. Sebelius's remarks come weeks before insurers are expected to begin releasing rates for plans that start on Jan. 1, 2014, when key provisions of the health law kick in. Premiums have been a sensitive subject for the Obama administration, which is counting on elements in the health law designed to increase competition among insurers to keep rates in check. The administration has pointed to subsidies that will be available for many lower-income Americans to help them with the cost of coverage.
The secretary's remarks are among the first direct statements from federal officials that people who have skimpy health plans right now could face higher premiums for plans that are more generous. She noted that the law requires plans to provide better benefits and treat all customers equally regardless of their medical claims.
"These folks will be moving into a really fully insured product for the first time, and so there may be a higher cost associated with getting into that market," she said. "But we feel pretty strongly that with subsidies available to a lot of that population that they are really going to see much better benefit for the money that they're spending."
Ms. Sebelius added that those customers currently pay more for their health care if their plans have high out-of-pocket costs, high deductibles or exclude particular types of coverage, such as mental health treatment. She also said that some men and younger customers could see their rates increase while women and older customers could see their rates drop because the law restricts insurers' ability to set rates based on age and gender.
Most people who buy their own insurance policies will begin doing so this fall through new online marketplaces, which federal officials believe will force insurers to keep their prices down.
I recieved a notice from Blue Cross Blue Shield that my contract is considered " grandfathered". This is evidently good and bad. Since I am grandfathered, my contract is not required to follow the new guidelines as to preventive healthcare. I can't understand why they wouldn't cover preventitive measures. Makes no sense. They do have to eliminate lifetime limits, on the other hand. ??? ???
Quote from: Bullwinkle on March 27, 2013, 05:21:04 PM
I recieved a notice from Blue Cross Blue Shield that my contract is considered " grandfathered". This is evidently good and bad. Since I am grandfathered, my contract is not required to follow the new guidelines as to preventive healthcare. I can't understand why they wouldn't cover preventitive measures. Makes no sense. They do have to eliminate lifetime limits, on the other hand. ??? ???
Preventive Services Covered Under the Affordable Care ActIf you have a new health insurance plan or insurance policy beginning
on or after September 23, 2010, the following preventive services must be covered without your having to pay a copayment or co-insurance or meet your deductible.
This applies only when these services are delivered by a network provider.
http://www.healthcare.gov/news/factsheets/2010/07/preventive-services-list.html
Some Important DetailsThis preventive services provision applies only to people enrolled in job-related health plans or individual health insurance policies created after March 23, 2010. If you are in such a health plan, this provision will affect you as soon as your plan begins its first new "plan year" or "policy year" on or after September 23, 2010.
Top things to know about preventive care and services:•Grandfathered plans: If your plan is "grandfathered," these benefits may not be available to you.•Network providers: If your health plan uses a network of providers, be aware that health plans are required to provide these preventive services only through an in-network provider. Your health plan may allow you to receive these services from an out-of-network provider, but may charge you a fee.
•Office visit fees: Your doctor may provide a preventive service, such as a cholesterol screening test, as part of an office visit. Be aware that your plan can require you to pay some costs of the office visit, if the preventive service is not the primary purpose of the visit, or if your doctor bills you for the preventive services separately from the office visit.
•Questions: If you have questions about whether these new provisions apply to your plan, contact your insurer or plan administrator. If you still have questions, contact your state insurance department.
•Talk to your health care provider: To know which covered preventive services are right for you — based on your age, gender, and health status — ask your health care provider.
For More Information•Learn more background about the new prevention rules
•Learn about the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations
•For information on preventive practices, check out healthfinder.gov.
•Read the regulation or find detailed technical and regulatory information on prevention.
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/rights/grandfathered-plans/index.html
Posted on: July 1, 2010
Last updated: July 25, 2012
Grandfathered Health Planshttp://www.healthcare.gov/law/features/rights/grandfathered-plans/index.html
When Hillary & Slick Willy Clinton, Harry Reid, Dick Durbin Swore they would 'never' back Gay (which means queer) Marriage.... they've evolved... They've Evolved... THEY'VE EVOLVED... the new word for these pathetic lying crooked clowns that Lucifer loves to control!From the trashy blog, the slate:http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/03/27/hillary_clinton_harry_reid_when_democrats_swore_they_would_never_back_gay.html
Democratic senators who have not (yet evolved to) endorse gay marriage:http://www.politico.com/gallery/2013/03/democratic-senators-who-have-not-endorsed-gay-marriage/000900-012736.html
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Lib Columnist Calls For Ending Military Funeral Honors For Vets, "Most Veterans Did Nothing Heroic"
When it comes to crap like gimme.. gimme.. welfare, liberals don't care what the cost is, but when it comes to honoring vets suddenly they're deficit hawks. It's absolutely pathetic.
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Read this sick piece of crap at:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/bill-mcclellan/mcclellan-one-last-call-to-service----end/article_8495bfa5-33b5-5fd0-bfd9-9415fde97e13.htmlBill McClellan: One last call to service – end military funeral honors — St.Louis Post-Dispatch
. . . According to the program's website, it is funded by the federal government and the Missouri National Guard Trust Fund.
Both the federal government and the state government are broke. So why are we providing military funeral honors for all veterans? It is a nice gesture we can't afford.
Certainly, men and women killed in combat deserve full military honors. It's a way for the country to say, "We honor the memory of those who died in our service." These military honors — and the thought behind them — are intended to provide some solace for the families of the fallen.
But what about the guy who spends a couple of years in the military and then gets on with his life? Bear in mind that most veterans did nothing heroic. They served, and that's laudable, but it hardly seems necessary to provide them all with military honors after they have died. In fact, it seems generous enough to provide veterans and their spouses with free space and headstones at a national cemetery.
Why not let the veterans organizations provide military honors at the funerals of their members? If a person gets out of the Marine Corps and wants to stay connected, he can join the Marine Corps League. I'm sure the 101st Airborne has an association. In a more general vein, we have the American Legion and the VFW.
Providing military honor funerals for their members would be a boon to these organizations. Membership would presumably climb, and veterans who want the military funerals could still get them.
Everybody knows government needs to cut costs.
This is exactly how you do it.You can email this piece of sh!t, Bill McClellan, here: bmcclellan@post-dispatch.com
I have!Waiting to play Taps
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This is dedicated to our fallen Marines who have gone forth to guard the gates of Heaven. Semper Fi, Marines....this dedication created by John Manuel a Marine, a viet nam vet.
Tribute to our fallen soldiers Army.. Navy.. Marines.. Air Force.
The Bugler's Cry-The Origin of Sounding Taps. Taps Historian and bugler Jari Villanueva explains the origins of America's most famous bugle call. More information at http://www.tapsbugler.com/ or http://www.taps150.org
....Warph[...]...and then we have this piece of garbage from the atheists'Atheists Want Vietnam War Memorial Cross Removed(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/minguscross-550x412.jpg)
Militant Atheists are always finding new and enraging ways to turn people off to their cause.Fox News: http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/atheists-want-vietnam-memorial-cross-removed.html
A national atheist organization is demanding that an Oregon city remove its Vietnam War memorial because it includes a cross.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation accused city leaders in Coos Bay of violating the so-called separation of church and state after erecting the war memorial 41 years ago. The FFRF is an organization of freethinkers, atheists and agnostics.
"We have no objection to the veterans' memorials," FFRF attorney Rebecca Markert wrote to City Manager Rodger Craddock. "Our objection is to the message of endorsement of Christianity over other religions and non-religions."
The FFRF said the city had violated the law by allowing the cross to be displayed on public property.I have never understood an atheist... if they don't believe, then what the hell does it matter what anyone else does....? They are first and foremost progressive socialists. They use the atheist angle only as a ploy to further degrade our society as they try to remove our Judeo-Christian heritage from the public eye and eventually, they hope, from our very lives. Religion is what holds a culture together. They don't want us to have our God, our values, our morals, our ethics. A Godless society is more susceptible to worshipping the state and accepting socialism as their religion.
That is why they constantly attack any display of of our faith. They are trying to erase it. For what reason, God only knows.
....Warph
Shocking: Ranting Gun-Control Email from Alabama Dem Lawmaker: "Slave-holding, Murdering, Adulterous, Baby-raping, Incestuous, Snaggle-toothed Kin Folk"
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A portion of Alabama State Rep. Joe Mitchell's ranting email against other lawmakers who
support the Second Amendment
OH DEAR LORD...
The unhinged rant below is tough to wrap my head around — it reads more like the adolescent garbage posted by bile-spewing miscreants on YouTube or on Twitter.
But here it is in all its inglorious castigation, from a Democrat lawmaker in Alabama. Reported by George Talbot at AL.com, Alabama lawmaker's email: 'Slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, snaggle-toothed kin folk': http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/post_44.htmlState Rep. Joe Mitchell, D-Mobile, had an outlandish exchange via email with a Jefferson County man who asked him and other lawmakers not to pass any laws that would restrict gun ownership.
Eddie Maxwell sent a mass email to state legislators at 10:54 p.m. on Jan. 27, warning them that even attempting to introduce a gun control bill was, in his opinion, a violation of state law.
Mitchell responded from his public, ALHouse.gov email account at 11:59 p.m., telling Maxwell: "Your folk never used all this sheit (sic) to protect my folk from your slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-a**ed, inbreed (sic), imported criminal-minded kin folk."
"That's not the type of reply I expect to receive from a state legislator," Maxwell replied on Feb. 11. "I'm not a racist and I find your reply to be especially offensive considering the position you hold."
Copies of the email exchange were provided to AL.com by state lawmakers who were included in the correspondence. The emails are printed below, edited only to remove the specific addresses.
Mitchell, who is black, did not respond to email and telephone messages from AL.com seeking comment this week. He told the Associated Press today that he was explaining that citizens who descended from slaves and were disenfranchised by the state constitution have a different view of history and the constitution than white citizens.
Maxwell, who is white, verified that he wrote the messages sent from his email address and said he was "surprised at the racial tones" in Mitchell's responses.
He said the exchange was the first and only contact he's had with Mitchell, who has served in the state House since 1994.
"It just makes me more determined that we the people need to stay involved," Maxwell said in a telephone interview today. "It's up to us as citizens to watch our government."
Click here for the rest and for the state congressman's emails: http://blog.al.com/wire/2013/03/post_44.html It's important to note that Mitchell's historical accounting of gun control and race issues is dead-on wrong.
Granted, Republicans are far from being saints. But it was the Democrat party that started and populated the Ku Klux Klan, the Democrat party that fought to keep blacks from voting, and Democrats who resisted abolishing slavery in America. And gun control laws that prevented blacks from legally owning them were put into place by...
yes, Democrats: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ann-coulter/the-democrats-racist-gun-control-history/ Gun control laws were originally promulgated by Democrats to keep guns out of the hands of blacks. This allowed the Democratic policy of slavery to proceed with fewer bumps and, after the Civil War, allowed the Democratic Ku Klux Klan to menace and murder black Americans with little resistance.
(Contrary to what illiterates believe, the KKK was an outgrowth of the Democratic Party, with overlapping membership rolls. The Klan was to the Democrats what the American Civil Liberties Union is today: Not every Democrat is an ACLU'er, but every ACLU'er is a Democrat. Same with the Klan.)
The KKK not only committed violence and murder against blacks, but against white Republicans as well. The KKK was behind the horrific 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed four black girls and injured 22 other people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing More from Ethel C. Fenig in her 2012 American Thinker post, The Democratic Party's Long History of Racism:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/the_democratic_partys_long_history_of_racism.html It was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Democrat, who founded the Ku Klux Klan.
Woodrow Wilson segregated Federal Buildings and jobs after 50 years of integration under largely Republican administrations.
It was the Democrat Party in the South that instituted Jim Crow Laws.
It was the Democrat Party in the South that instituted "separate but equal".
It was the Democrat Party in the South that supported the Ku Klux Klan.
It was George Wallace and the Democrat Party in the South that said "Segregation Forever".
It was Orval Faubus and the Democrat Party that wanted the Arkansas National Guard to enforce segregation, and Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican President, that sent the 101st Airborne to integrate the schools.
It was Bull Connor, a member of the Democrat National Committee, who turned the hoses on the marchers in Birmingham, and it was the Republicans who made up the majority that passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, over the filibuster of such Democrat paragons as William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr. – and Grand Kleagle Byrd.
(And no, the Dixiecrats didn't join the Republican Party – most of them remained Democrats.)
It was the Democrats who kept Grand Kleagle Byrd in the party.
It was Democrats who called General Colin Powell a "house nigger".
It was Democrats who called Condi Rice – who grew up with and knew the little girls in Birmingham who were blown up, by Democrats – an "Aunt Jemima" and ran cartoons of her with fat lips doing Hattie McDaniel riffs.
It was Democrats, or at least Obama supporters, who called Stacy Dash a hundred different racist names for daring to leave the Democrat plantation. (sic) It's the Democrats who hold annual dinners honoring Andrew Jackson, who owned slaves and who orchestrated the Removal, the Trail of Tears, the near genocide of several of the Indian Nations.
Rep. Joe Mitchell not only has anger issues and troubling racist views against those who support the Second Amendment, but he clearly needs to take an American history refresher course. UPDATE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300114/Joseph-Mitchell-Alabama-lawmaker-emails-racist-rant-gun-rights-constituent-entire-state-legislature.html
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U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bomber, left, flies over near Osan U.S. Air Base in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 28, 2013. A day after shutting down a key military hotline, Pyongyang instead used indirect communications with Seoul to allow South Koreans to cross the heavily armed border and work at a factory complex that is the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation.
http://news.yahoo.com/us-sends-b-2s-south-korea-military-drills-121203496.html
http://news.yahoo.com/why-u-flying-b-2-stealth-bombers-over-113000570.html
Saudi Arabia beheads murderer... and then CRUCIFIES his body
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Ah yes... Wahhabi justice.
---Mohammed Rashad Khairi Hussain was convicted of murder and sodomy
---The Yemeni citizen had killed Pakistani national Pashteh Sayed Khan
---Comes after human rights charities condemned the country's practices
Saudi authorities have beheaded a murderer and crucified his body after he killed and raped a Pakistani national.
The kingdom's interior ministry announced the execution, stating that the man had murdered and sodomised another male. Both actions are punishable by death.
'The Yemeni citizen Mohammed Rashad Khairi Hussain killed a Pakistani, Pashteh Sayed Khan, after he committed sodomy with him,' said a statement carried by state news agency SPA.
Hussain was also convicted of robbery and carrying out a series of attacks.
The execution, in the southern city of Jizan, was followed by crucifixion, a punishment used by the ultra-conservative country for serious crimes.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2300656/Saudi-Arabia-beheads-murderer-CRUCIFIES-body.html#ixzz2OscwvKnz
[...]Report: Al Nusra Front Being Supplied With Advanced Western Weapons
Courtesy of our "allies" in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
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A Syrian rebel group the Obama administration considers a terrorist organization is managing to obtain modern anti-tank weapons meant for other groups fighting to oust President Bashar al-Assad, according to regional experts.
The Jihadist Jabhat al-Nusra militia is managing to secure weapons being supplied by Saudi Arabia and Qatar to rebel brigades affiliated to the Free Syrian Army, the experts say. The Obama administration considers al-Nusra a terrorist organization because of suspected links with al-Qaida.
The weapons include the Croatian-made M79 portable 90 mm anti-tank gun and M60 recoilless anti-tank weapons. Regional experts say Saudi Arabia and Qatar had been supplying such weapons to rebel units more acceptable to the West, mainly secular or nationalist-focused groups such as the Free Syrian Army (FSA) brigades fighting to oust the Assad government.
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Croatian weaponry believed to be part of those airlifts had been seen being used earlier this year by other Jihadist groups fighting in Syria, but al-Nusra videos posted on the internet this weekend showed for the first time their fighters using the M79 and M60 antitank weapons.
"Neither of these weapons are locally available, either from the black market or looted from the Syrian army because they don't have them," said British-based weapons researcher, Eliot Higgins, who first spotted the videos. "That's what made them so easy to track; they stand out like sore thumbs in Syria."
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Syria's al-Nusra rebels posted this photo of its fighters using an M-60 anti-tank weapons March 24.
http://www.voanews.com/content/syria-rebels-weapons/1628351.html
Egyptian Imam: "Islam's Flag Will Be Raised Above The White House"http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islams-flag-will-be-raised-above-the-white-house/
Only if Obuma does it because all of the armies in the
Islamic world couldn't take one inch of American soil.A video recording from a recent Friday sermon in Egypt, where the imam swears to Allah several times that the flag of Islam will be raised above the White House of America, recently appeared on the Arabic Internet. According to the imam preaching, all Muslims need do is be patient and continue working towards this goal.[...]Muslim Cleric: "Face of a woman like her vagina"By Raymond Ibrahim
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-cleric-face-of-a-woman-like-her-vagina/
Islam's Outrageous ObscenitiesMarch 27, 2013 By Raymond Ibrahim
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/islams-outrageous-obscenities/
Why Christian Persecution Is Islam's Achilles' HeelBy Raymond Ibrahim
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/why-christian-persecution-is-islams-achilles-heel/
MSNBC Scumbag Race Baiter Touré: Conservatives Who Criticize The Obamas Excessive Taxpayer-Funded Vacations "Going Back To The Idea Of The 'Uppity Negro'"
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/28/why-the-right-uses-a-different-standard-for-the-obama-family/
Be aware... foul language in Scumbag Race Baiter Touré Video:The equally horrible Joan Walsh also claims racism is secretly
driving conservative critics.
White House: Gay Marriage "Fulfills" America's "Founding Principles"...
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Something tells me the Founding Fathers did not have gay marriage in mind.http://washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-gay-marriage-fulfills-founding-principles/article/2525655?custom_click=rss
Gay marriage is an issue of equality that fulfills America's founding principles, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said during Wednesday's press briefing.
[...]
"We're seeing a pretty significant change in this country, where an issue related to equality and fairness is getting more prominence. And I think it is a testament to the character of this country that we are moving in a direction where we will better fulfill some of the founding principles of the country — in terms of treating everybody fairly and equally."
House Democrats: "I'm Going To Be Very Honest With You... We're In Trouble"
Like clockwork around the quarterly fundraising deadlines Dems make all kinds of dire predictions of doom and gloom so their supporter cough up some money.
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Subject: Drew, we're in real trouble:
From: Kelly Ward
Date: March 28, 2013 10:31:50 AM EDT
To: Drew ****
Drew –
I'm going to be very honest with you:
If we fall short right now, our chances of winning a Democratic House for President Obama are slim to none.
Here's the deal: Our first quarterly fundraising deadline is in just 72 hours. John Boehner is already bragging about the $14.4 million that Republicans have raised to attack President Obama and protect their Tea Party buddies. If we want to take back the House, we can't let them pummel us like this right out of the gate.
We've run the numbers and we can close the gap — but it's going to take another 35,000 supporters stepping up before Sunday's FEC fundraising deadline. We need you to be a part of this:
Name: Drew ****
Supporter record: 9610632
2013 Membership: Pending
The fundraising numbers we report for the first quarterly fundraising deadline of President Obama's second term will show whether we can fight all the Republican attacks coming our way and build the early infrastructure that it'll take to win.
If you're as committed as I am to gaining a Democratic majority in 2014 — and hitting Republicans hard until then — donate whatever you can today:
http://dccc.org/72-Hours-Left
Thanks,
Kelly
Kelly Ward
DCCC Executive Director
Why Ashley Judd Flipped Against Run For Senate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/ashley-judd-not-running_n_2972833.html?ref=topbar
I'm still bummed out she passed on a run.... Plouffe is right, we would have bludgeoned Demo-rats across the board with her moonbattery. What a shame. I'd already stocked up on the microwave popcorn. After reportedly giving it much thought, ultra-liberal, fruitcake-nutty actress Ashley Judd has announced that she's decided to not run for the US Senate in 2014. Judd's wanting to "focus and spend more time and energy with her family" claim is quizzical. She has no children, doesn't want them, and is divorcing hubby... or is it the other way around... Indy racecar driver Dario Franchitti. Does Ashley suddenly want to hang out more with Mom Naomi or Sis Wynonna, who is also divorced but does have two children? Perhaps there are private Judd family issues or health problems, and if that is the case, her withdrawal is understandable.... could it be mental problems? "Spending time with the family" is pretty much accepted as a standard non-response, code for "there's much more here than I want to discuss, so butt out." No matter, tho'. Suffice it to say that the promising, wacky comedy relief of Judd during the next national election has been snatched away. Has her dog's hunger strike ended?(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ashley-judd-democrat-hollywood-ditz-for-congress.jpg)
Ladies & Germs... I give President Boloney:
President Obama on Friday wished Christians around the world a happy Easter and noted that the holiday is "a time for renewed hope amidst continued challenges."
"This weekend, Michelle and I join our fellow Christians here at home and around the world in marking Good Friday and celebrating Easter," he said in a statement Friday. "These Holy Days are a time to reflect on the momentous sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for each of us, and to celebrate the triumph of the Resurrection and His gift of grace.
"It is a time for renewed hope amidst continued challenges. It's also a time to ponder the common values that unite us -- to have compassion for all and to treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves. As we embrace our loved ones and give thanks for our blessings, we wish all who celebrate with us a blessed Easter."
Nicely said... whoever wrote this for him. Is he a Christian? I would rather he turn from his wicked ways, turn back to GOD, and be a good Leader... leading this Nation back to God and it's Greatness. Wouldn't that be a wonderful Easter Gift
...Warph
Roland Martin, fired from CNN, on Thursday blamed racism for his inability to get his own show at CNN. Of course being a talentless hack has nothing to do with it... must be raaaacism. Can Solidad O'Brian be far behind?? I HOPE! These two idiots give African-Americans a bad name.
Roland Martin Blames 'White Male Executives' for Never Getting His Own Show at CNN
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/03/29/roland-martin-blames-white-male-executives-never-getting-his-own-show#ixzz2P04P2wtp
"You have largely white male executives who are not necessarily enamored with the idea of having strong, confident minorities, who say, 'You know, I can do this,'" he told HuffPostLive.
"I am simply saying 'give folks a shot," he added. "We deliver, but we never get the big piece, the larger salary, to be able to get from here to there."
Martin, whom it was reported last week has been axed by CNN, claimed in his interview with Marc Lamont Hill that he went to the network years ago thinking he would eventually get his own show.
In his view, whenever he substitute-hosted a program, the ratings would hold thereby demonstrating his ability to command such an important position long-term
This led Hill to ask, "Did you have a sense that CNN didn't have a real place for a real black man in America?"
"Bernard Shaw left CNN as the top anchor how many years ago?" Martin responded. "Almost two decades?"
Actually, Shaw retired of his own volition in March 2001.
"So tell me, so who's hosting a show?" Martin continued. "Who right now, who right now is in a position to get a primetime show? Who's up there hosting specials?"
Well, Don Lemon has his own show. Up until December, T.J. Holmes also had his own show but left for BET.
As such, it seems a stretch to be blaming this on racism.
PBS's Mark Shields: 'The Rich Are the Scum of the Earth'
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I'm going to guess that Mark Shields, having been on TV for a million years, has more than a little money. Is he referring to himself?
"The hyperventilation of media members concerning income inequality in America reaches a new high with each passing day.
Case in point, on Inside Washington Friday, PBS's Mark Shields, with a straight face no less, said this disparity is a 'national security issue'" (What follows is transcript and commentary):(Dummy} MARK SHIELDS, PBS: I think it was G. K. Chesterton who said, "Wherever they are, the rich are the scum of the earth."
(Actually, Chesterton said, "The rich are the scum of the earth in every country," but why quibble, especially when this evoked so much laughter from the panel):[Laughter]SHIELDS: For some reason, Charles doesn't want to stand up for rich Russians. And I think somebody has to stand up for people who put their money in offshore or nontaxable places. Let's remember, I mean, look at it this way: Cyprus is the Cayman Islands of a different time zone. That's what it is. We don't want rich people paying taxes whether they're Russian or whether they're Republicans.
GORDON PETERSON: But the rich people he's talking about ...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: You don't think there's a difference between the way the Russian economy works and who gets rich? Russia doesn't have a Steve Jobs. Russia has people who steal from what was once Soviet property and you get your money if you're a crony of Putin and his other people.
SHIELDS: I wasn't defending how one gets it. I was just merely addressing the compulsion to keep it and never to surrender any to the public wheel.
KRAUTHAMMER: There's a difference between gains which are ill-gotten or fairly gotten.
PETERSON: Nina.
NINA TOTENBERG, NPR: [Groans] I'm not sure that a lot of the people that Mark is talking about who aren't Russian got it so fairly either.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/03/30/mark-shields-rich-are-scum-earth#ixzz2P3ov7epm
Lego Pulls Star Wars Set After It Was Labelled "Anti-Islamic"
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Very groan-inducing...
Austria's Turkish community claimed a victory in its fight against Danish toy giant Lego yesterday after the firm agreed to withdraw a Star Wars toy set featuring a mosque-like building inhabited by an obese, hookah–smoking alien, following complaints that it was anti-Muslim.
Lego added the "Jabba's Palace" playset to its Star Wars collection in 2012. But in January this year the set started to provoke outrage in Austria's Islamic community after a Muslim father found that his sister had given one to his son as a present.
The game, which is aimed at children aged from nine to 14, features Jabba the Hutt in his intergalactic lair. Jabba, the slug-like villain who first appeared in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, lives in a domed, oriental-looking building equipped with rockets and machine guns. He also smokes a water pipe and keeps Princess Leia in chains for use as his personal slave.
Furious Muslim critics complained that the Lego set's Asian and oriental figures were "deceitful and criminal" characters such as gun-runners, slave masters and terrorists.
What a bunch of Horse Sh!t!!!
Commie California's Net Worth Down To A Negative -$127.2 Billion
Typical Dem-run fiscal craphole.
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/03/state-auditor-california-net-worth-at-negative-127-billion.html
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Were California's state government a business, it would be a candidate for insolvency with a negative net worth of $127.2 billion, according to an annual financial report issued by State Auditor Elaine Howle and the Bureau of State Audits.
The report, which covers the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, says that the state's negative status — all of its assets minus all of its liabilities — increased that year, largely because it spent more than it received in revenue.
During the 2011-12 fiscal year, the state's general fund spent $1.7 billion more than it received in revenues and wound up with an accumulated deficit of just under $23 billion from several years of red ink. Gov.Jerry Brown has referred to that and other budget gaps, mostly money owed to schools, as a "wall of debt" totaling more than $30 billion.
Last November, voters passed an increase in sales and income taxes that Brown says will balance the state's operating budget and allow the debt wall to be gradually dismantled.
About half of the $127.2 billion in accumulated red ink came from the state's issuing general obligation bonds and then giving the money to local governments and school districts for public works projects, the auditor pointed out. The assets built with the bonds remain on local balance sheets while the bonded debt accrues to the state.
Way to go, Moonbeam!
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A single-page March 22, 1950 memo by Guy Hottel, special agent
in charge of the Washington Field Office, regarding UFOs is the most viewed document in
the FBI Vault, our online repository of public.
UFOs or No?
The Guy Hottel Memo03/25/13It's the most popular file in the FBI Vault—our high-tech electronic reading room housing various Bureau records released under the Freedom of Information Act. Over the past two years, this file has been viewed nearly a million times. Yet, it is only a single page, relaying an unconfirmed report that the FBI never even followed up on.
The file in question is a memo dated March 22, 1950—63 years ago last week. It was authored by Guy Hottel, then head of our field office in Washington, D.C. (see sidebar below for a brief biography). Like all memos to FBI Headquarters at that time, it was addressed to Director J. Edgar Hoover and recorded and indexed in FBI records.
The subject of the memo was anything but ordinary. It related a story told to one of our agents by a third party who said an Air Force investigator had reported that three "flying saucers" were recovered in New Mexico. The memo provided the following detail:
"They [the saucers] were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots." After relaying an informant's claim that the saucers had been found because the government's "high-powered radar" in the area had interfered with "the controlling mechanism of the saucers," the memo ends simply by saying that "[n]o further evaluation was attempted" concerning the matter by the FBI agent.
That might have been the end of this particular story, just another informational dead end in the FBI files. But when we launched the Vault in April 2011, some media outlets noticed the Hottel memo and erroneously reported that the FBI had posted proof of a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico and the recovery of wreckage and alien corpses. The resulting stories went viral, and traffic to the new Vault soared.
So what's the real story? A few facts to keep in mind:First, the Hottel memo isn't new. It was first released publicly in the late 1970s and had been posted on the FBI website for several years prior to the launch of the Vault.
Second, the Hottel memo is dated nearly three years after the infamous events in Roswell in July 1947. There is no reason to believe the two are connected. The FBI file on Roswell (another popular page) is posted elsewhere on the Vault.
Third, as noted in an earlier story, the FBI has only occasionally been involved in investigating reports of UFOs and extraterrestrials. For a few years after the Roswell incident, Director Hoover did order his agents—at the request of the Air Force—to verify any UFO sightings. That practice ended in July 1950, four months after the Hottel memo, suggesting that our Washington Field Office didn't think enough of that flying saucer story to look into it.
Finally, the Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated. Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was circulating at that time, but the Bureau's files have no information to verify that theory.
Sorry, no smoking gun on UFOs. The mystery remains.
Hmmmmmm...Guy Hottel Biography(http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/march/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo/image/guy-hottel)
Guy L. Hottel was born around 1902. He was a graduate of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he was a star football player. He was later inducted into the university's athletic hall of fame. He entered the FBI as a special agent in 1934. In December 1936, he was named acting head of the FBI's Washington Field Office; he was appointed special agent in charge the following May and served until March 1941. Hottel was re-appointed special agent in charge in February 1943 and served until 1951, when he took a position in the Identification Division. He retired in 1955. Hottel was married three times and had two sons. Following his FBI career, Hottel served as executive secretary of the Horseman's Benevolent Association. He died in June 1990.
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Unexplained Phenomenon
04.20.11
http://vault.fbi.gov/unexplained-phenomenon Silas M. NewtonSilas Newton (1887-1972) was a wealthy oil producer and con-man who claimed that he had a gadget that could detect minerals and oil. He was cited as an authority in Frank Scully's book Behind the Flying Saucers, a work that claimed to report on several UFO crashes in the area of New Mexico. In 1950, Newton said that a flying saucer crashed on land he leased in the Mojave Desert; however, he revised his claim in 1952, saying he never saw a flying saucer but had only repeated comments he heard from others. These files detail the FBI's investigations into Newton's fraudulent activities between 1951 and 1970. 12.06.10
Guy HottelGuy Hottel was a special agent in charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office. The information concerning Mr. Hottel is in regard to a March 22, 1950 memo he sent to the FBI Director concerning flying saucers. See: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/march/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo/ufos-and-the-guy-hottel-memo for more information. 12.06.10
Majestic 12Majestic 12 In 1988, two FBI offices received similar versions of a memo titled "Operation Majestic-12..." claiming to be highly classified government document. The memo appeared to be a briefing for newly-elected President Eisenhower on a secret committee created to exploit a recovery of an extra-terrestrial aircraft and cover-up this work from public examination. An Air Force investigation determined the document to be a fake. 12.06.10
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, NICAP, was founded in the 1950s to research reports of UFO phenomenon. Between 1957 and 1969, NICAP and its members periodically communicated with the FBI. This release consists of this correspondence. 12.06.10
Roswell UFORoswell UFO On July 8, 1947, the FBI Dallas Field Office sent a teletype regarding a "flying disc" that resembled a high altitude weather balloon found near Roswell, New Mexico. This single page is a serial from the larger UFO release found at http://vault.fbi.gov/UFO. 12.06.10
Animal MutilationAnimal/Cattle Mutilation In the mid-1970s, reports of scattered animal mutilations in western and mid-western states concerned many people. The FBI was asked to investigate, but was unable to do so because of a lack of jurisdiction (except when such mutilations were found on Indian lands). These files consist mainly of press clippings and correspondence concerning the issues between 1974 and 1978. 12.06.10
Extra-Sensory PerceptionESP is considered a perception of information about events beyond what may be discerned through the five physical senses or deduced from past experience or knowledge. This release consists of cross references to ESP found in FBI files from 1957 to 1960. Several of the documents concern William Foos, a proponent of ESP. Others concern claims that ESP could be used in espionage investigations. The FBI found no scientific support for this or other claims and did not pursue the matters raised in these references. 11.30.10
UFOUnexplained Flying Objects (UFOs) In 1947, a rash of sightings of unexplained flying objects (UFOs) swept America. Although the newly formed U.S. Air Force was the primary investigator of these sightings, the FBI received many reports and worked for a time with the Air Force to investigate these matters. This release details the FBI's role in investigating such reports between 1947 and 1954. 11.30.10
Project Blue Book (UFO)Project Blue Book Originally Project Blue Book was the Air Force name for a project that investigated UFO reports between 1947 and 1969. In 1989, an organization calling itself "The New Project Blue Book" contacted the FBI. This file consists of correspondence concerning this organization.
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Vault Home • Robert F Kennedy (Assassination)
Info
Robert F Kennedy (Assassination)
June 5, 1968
http://vault.fbi.gov/Robert%20F%20Kennedy%20%28Assassination%29%20
Obama Announces $100 Million Plan To Find A Brain For Joe Biden
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There's hope for "Plugs" after all.
(Reuters) – The White House unveiled details on Tuesday on a new initiative to study the human brain with the goal of treating or curing Alzheimer's disease and other disorders.
Called the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, the program is to be funded with $100 million from President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget. The White House is slated to release Obama's budget next week.
"The BRAIN Initiative will accelerate the development and application of new technologies that will enable researchers to produce dynamic pictures of the brain that show how individual brain cells and complex neural circuits interact at the speed of thought," the White House said in a statement.
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Afghanistan: Karzai Tells Taliban Leader Mullah Omar He Can Run For President
I get sick to my stomach when I think about American troops being killed and maimed to keep this POS in power.BERLIN (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told a German newspaper that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar could run for president in elections next year.
Karzai's government has agreed the Taliban can open an office in Qatar if the group breaks all ties with al Qaeda and renounces terrorism. Karzai was in Qatar Sunday to discuss the issue.
Karzai said in an interview published Tuesday by the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung that authorities have "sporadic contacts" with the Taliban. He said that the Afghan constitution is valid for all Afghans and "the Taliban also should benefit from it."
Asked whether Mullah Omar should seek the presidency, Karzai was quoted as saying: "He can become a candidate for the presidency and give Afghans the opportunity to vote for or against him."
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Note from Barack Obama:
Malaria, an entirely preventable illness, is the biggest killer in Africa. In 2010, an estimated 655,000 people worldwide died from malaria, and over 90% of these cases were in Africa. Approximately 86% of deaths globally were in children.
I was born and grew up in Kenya, but was in a privileged enough position to have access to a mosquito net and the relevant preventative drugs when in an at risk area. A simple luxury that is not available to a staggering number of people living in abject poverty in Kenya and across the rest of Africa. It only costs $10.00 for a mosquito net, which could very well be the difference between life and death for someone. To all of you at cascity.com, Thank You for your donation.
From Newsbusters:http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/04/04/daily-kos-imagines-violent-fisting-spiked-gloves-religious-right-bigots
Top Far-Left Liberal Blog Daily Kos Wants Religious Right "Bigots"
Violently "Fisted" With Spiked Gloves
by the very Sick Mind, "LeftHandedMan"
(who is Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
founder & Publisher of Daily Kos.)
More info on him at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markos_Moulitsas
From the Daily Kos:"The Opportunistic Bigot as Newly Minted Oppressed Minority in Defeat — Daily Kos
You no good low-rent gaggle of hateful self-serving bigot-for-hire whiny ass titty babies.
Entire election cycles were gleefully covered in slick wall-to-wall homophobia and hatred.
Remember that s–t? Good. Now go f–k yourselves. Here. Here's a ratty leather glove covered in rusty spikes. No. No. Here's two. You can all go bend over and collectively fist each other in a frenzy until all the pain equals all the hate and the stupid you have given us for ages in spades. You all made your bones stoking and exploitating hate. On repressing dissent and dissenters. Please. Cry me a f–king river. A angel's tear sea. It wouldn't even offset Prop 8.
Eat all your s–t and feel some real f–king shame.
The reason that all you various professional homophobic pieces of garbage all woke up on the wrong side of history one day is that you earned that harrowingly bleak little sunrise all on your own. If you feel like people are being mean to you, well, get the f–k over it. Because gay people, and the people who love and suppport them, have all had to stomach you, your Maggie Gallaghers, and the rest of your ilk. Own it. You earned everything you are getting back.
And we have long memories. We don't forget how you play the game. How you roll.
Calling you 'Bigots' to your collective faces is just a really, really good f–king start." Hmmmmm... How progressive, Markos...
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Another sackfull of Commie SH!T from the Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/03/1196515/-Obama-Needs-a-Hillary-Presidency
By Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
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Not just Obama, but all of us. I voted for Obama over Hillary in the primaries. I was a reasonably big Obama fan. I still am. But just a few months into Obama's second term, it is clear that from a progressive's point of view the key fight will be longevity - - the sheer grinding benefit of time. And Hillary's election will be crucial to this.
Obama has obvious achievements (preventing a second great depression, Obamacare, Bin Laden, Supreme Court appointments, etc.), and may get one other domestic achievement or so. But increasingly, it is becoming obvious that we have entered a long war - - a fight that extends beyond the typical news cycle, midterm elections, or even presidential term. Although it is depressing, it is reasonable to assume that Republicans' lock-step intransigence means that the principal benefit of an Obama second term presidency will likely be defensive - - stopping a Republican radical agenda.
Am I raising a white flag? No, not at all. But the reality is that the right wing/Barry Goldwater/Tea Party Republican wing knows that it is now or never. They get it, and they are all in. It is why you see debt ceiling fights, sequesters, fiscal cliffs, government shut down threats, voter id laws, a permanent filibuster, and potential tampering with the electoral college vote system. It is also why you see the Paul Ryan budget passed right after Paul Ryan got defeated in the last national election. They get it. This is an important moment, and they won't get a second chance. And they are not going to stand down in the next three years.
Dream whatever you want about what Obama could achieve over the next three years. If Dems lose the next presidential election, a good deal of it will be reversed or thwarted. But . . . and this explains in part the current Republican feverishness . . . if Hillary Clinton can follow Obama? 16 years of a Democratic presidency may be what is needed to break the Republican "fever." Not Obama's reelection.
What does this mean for Obama? It means taking the long view now. Start paying attention to the mundane aspects of government power. Nominate judges like crazy. Seed the appellate bench. Focus on NLRB appointment fights more than deficit battles. Use the executive branch powers - what can the EPA do about climate change? What can the DOJ do about Wall Street banks? Work with governors on gun control. Realize that budget "grand bargains" are not just unattainable, but unhelpful right now. Don't cave on any entitlement "reform" now if there is still time for that issue to play out in a Hillary presidency. Work on regaining state houses and legislatures. Pass smart regulations. Consolidate, defend and set the stage for the next president.
Individual presidents don't like to think this way. Obama said he would like to be a "transformational" president. I wish he could be. But sometimes the challenges are greater than a two term presidency. Think of FDR. Obama needs a Hillary presidency, just as Hillary needed the two term Obama presidency before her. Together, they can do a lot.
Just keep your eye on the sheer grinding benefit of time. The other side is.
Egyptian Actress Lubna Abd Al-Aziz: The Jews Control the
American Economy and Media
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/3788.htm
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we get it, da Joooos control everything....
Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian actress Lubna Abd Al-Aziz, which aired on Tahrir TV on March 15, 2013.Lubna Abd Al-Aziz: The first time I went to America was as a student. Back then, the Jews suffered great oppression there.
Interviewer: Although today the Jews have complete control.
Lubna Abd Al-Aziz: They were not allowed to live in certain places, to enter certain clubs, or to work in certain jobs. They were not allowed into hotels. These days, when I go to America...
Interviewer: It is run by the Jews.
Lubna Abd Al-Aziz: Look what patience they had. For 50-60 years, following WWII, they endured it all, and they slowly worked, built, and made purchases, and they spread throughout the country until they just about own it.
Today, the Congress, the Senate, and every administration, whether Republican or Democrat, must stand to attention for them. If they are not happy with someone – that's it, he's gone.
Interviewer: The entire economy is Jewish.
Lubna Abd Al-Aziz: Both the economy and the media. It is Hollywood in the west and the economy and commerce in the east. All the big department stores are Jewish.
SOB... Sh!t-headed Obuma cannot stay off that Air Force One, can he...POS/POTUSObama kicked off his DNC fundraising...
(What the hell is this clown raising funds for and flying that plane on our dime) ....in California Thursday with a $32,400-per-head brunch at the Atherton home of investment guru Mark W. Heising and his wife, Liz Simons.
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"Obama described it, with some understatement, as a 'spectacular home,'" the pool reporter writes. "It's on a hilltop with 360 degree views. Once through the gate at the bottom of the hill, the motorcade snaked past a vineyard. Pool walked around the house past a swimming pool, assorted gardens and patios, a bocce court, and eventually into the back of a relatively modest room where the brunch was held."
The intimate affair included only roughly 30 guests, who for the price of admission got a photo with the president and to listen to his remarks — ""I am very optimistic that we get immigration reform done in the next few months.... It's going to be tougher to get gun legislation to reduce gun violence through the Senate and the House that so many of us, I think, want to see, particularly after the tragedy at Newtown."
And, of course, they
(the Stupid people) got
(TOOK) brunch:
Morning Amuse: "Verrine of Straus Family Yogurt, Chef Laci's House Made Toasted Organic Granola, Spring Berries and Mint `Caviar'"
OMG... I paid $32,000 thou for this CRAP? I'm gonna be sick... sick I say... AAAAGUGGGUU.... I'm sicker than an ebola monkey!
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Analyze these two U.S. maps with the results of our last presidential election. The top map shows the 2012 election results (red vs blue) by state.... the second reveals the election results as they correlate with states that have photo ID requirements vs those with no photo ID requirements for voters.
Draw your own conclusions:(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/map-2012-presidential-election-voter-id-results-state-by-state.jpg)
Inconclusive, but the second map does indeed shed light on why so many Democrat leaders and politicians do not want voters to have to produce any photo identification at the election polls.
It would be interesting to see the same visual analysis for state and local elections.
Wonder how many White House tours this "Correct Condom Use" program money could have funded?
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Stunning: $423,500 of stimulus program money spent on
'Correct Condom Use'... which produced ZERO jobs
The details of a stimulus grant awarded to Indiana University to study condom use have now been released on a government website. The study, titled "Barriers to Correct Condom Use," is now completed, according to the website, and the university received $423,500 of stimulus funds to perform the study.http://www.recovery.gov/Transparency/RecoveryData/Pages/RecipientProjectSummary508.aspx?AwardIDSUR=13966&qtr=2012Q3
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"Sexually transmitted infections (STI), including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), pose significant health risks," a synopsis of study reads. "Consistent and correct use of condoms can be a highly effective method of preventing the transmission of HIV and many STIs, yet studies show that problems with condom use are common. This project is one of the first to examine under controlled conditions the role of cognitive and affective factors and condom skills in explaining condom use problems in young, heterosexual adult men."The findings from the study have not been posted on the government website, however.http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/stimulus-program-correct-condom-use-costs-half-million-dollars-yields-zero-jobs_714500.html
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It's déjà vu all over again, people.Remember the meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the housing market bubble bursting a few years back? Remember subprime loans, remember when banks were forced to make home loans to people who didn't qualify, and then our nation's economy went down the toilet when a huge percentage of those unqualified people defaulted on their loans? Remember corruptocrats in Congress doing nothing to prevent it and when it happened as many had predicted, Democrats held Pres. Bush over a barrel to issue more than $800 billion in bailout money just before the 2008 elections? Remember Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank's horrific Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that Democrats shoved through Congress?
http://cei.org/outreach-regulatory-comments-and-testimony/cei-president-testifies-fannie-mae-freddie-mac
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/22/whos-to-blame-for-the-financial-crisis-and-why-does-that-matter/
http://michellemalkin.com/2004/09/23/the-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-racket/
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2008/09/30/bailout_politics
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703426004575338732174405398.html
Team Obama doesn't remember, or doesn't care.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/ego_and_mouth.html
This news story wasn't reported in 2005, 2006, 2007, or 2008... it was reported yesterday.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/11/fannie-freddie-fubar-the-mother-of-all-bailouts/
Reported by Washington Post, Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit:http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-administration-pushes-banks-to-make-home-loans-to-people-with-weaker-credit/2013/04/02/a8b4370c-9aef-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html
The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.
President Obama's economic advisers and outside experts say the nation's much-celebrated housing rebound is leaving too many people behind, including young people looking to buy their first homes and individuals with credit records weakened by the recession.
In response, administration officials say they are working to get banks to lend to a wider range of borrowers by taking advantage of taxpayer-backed programs — including those offered by the Federal Housing Administration — that insure home loans against default.
Housing officials are urging the Justice Department to provide assurances to banks, which have become increasingly cautious, that they will not face legal or financial recriminations if they make loans to riskier borrowers who meet government standards but later default.
Officials are also encouraging lenders to use more subjective judgment in determining whether to offer a loan and are seeking to make it easier for people who owe more than their properties are worth to refinance at today's low interest rates, among other steps.We can't go down this road again. It began in the 1990s when "affordable housing" legislation of the Clinton era pressured banks to lower their mortgage lending standards to make home ownership available to people with limited means. And then, the inevitable happened.Today, Ed Morrissey weighs in on Obama's stunning request that loans be made to those who don't qualify.... Obama administration to banks... Why aren't you making higher-risk loans?:http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/03/obama-administration-to-banks-why-arent-you-making-higher-risk-loans/
On one level, it's almost unbelievable that anyone would ask this less than five years after the housing-bubble crash and the near-wipeout of Western financial institutions. On another, it's almost inevitable, given the efforts by the governing class and the media to ignore the central failure in that bubble, which was incentivizing increasingly risky loans with government cash and coercion, which created a false-equity trajectory that nearly ruined us. If that core cancer gets overlooked, it simply keeps coming back...Hot Air ran this piece on the financial crisis back in September 2008:http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/22/whos-to-blame-for-the-financial-crisis-and-why-does-that-matter/
Despite moves from Republicans such as Chuck Hagel, John Sununu, Elizabeth Dole, and John McCain to get more regulatory oversight on Fannie and Freddie, Congress took no action. Why? Fannie and Freddie had already co-opted Chris Dodd with over $130,000 in campaign contributions over 20 years, and over $120,000 to Barack Obama over less than four years. Hillary Clinton took tens of thousands in eight years, and Chuck Schumer also opposed any new regulation on markets that Congress had forced open.
http://www.nysun.com/national/pro-deregulation-schumer-scores-bush-for-lack/86321/
We can play blame games for the next several months and years, but what would be the point? In this case, there is a point, and it couldn't be more clear or important. We have two candidates running for President who would bring much different styles to executive authority over regulatory responsibility. Barack Obama and his allies took the money and stayed on the sidelines rather than take proactive action to resolve the credit crisis. McCain and his co-sponsors of this bill had the right idea and instincts, but could not get any cooperation from Clinton, Schumer, or Obama.
Does this mean that Obama gets the entire blame for the financial crisis? Of course not; it's shared among many people who failed to act, and some who acted poorly to create the problem in the first place by mandating loans to ill-qualified lenders and then allowed those loans to form the basis of widely-traded securities. McCain doesn't become the sole protagonist in this morality play, either. However, this demonstrates the qualities of both judgment and leadership of both men — and those two qualities are critical for determining which man should be running the executive branch for the next four years.From American Spectator, Too Left-Wing to Fail:http://spectator.org/archives/2013/04/02/too-left-wing-to-fail
When the housing bubble burst, the global financial services industry found itself awash with toxic mortgage securities, and the 2008 financial meltdown ensued. Then Mr. Wallison got another shock: Barack Obama and the Democratic 111th Congress responded to the crisis by further ignoring wise counsel and creating a legislative absurdity called the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Of course, it wasn't an absurdity from their point of view if their real aim was to socialize the financial services industry. For that purpose, Dodd-Frank was just the ticket.
As Mr. Wallison's title suggests, the leftists created what Mr. Obama calls a "narrative" to explain the 2008 fiasco, one that of course absolved government of any blame. They proclaimed, with loud support from their cheerleaders in the press, that the blame lay with "Wall Street" and greedy bankers. Hence the proper solution was to take banking further under the government's wing by making the largest institutions subject to new, coercive powers from their regulators—in essence, making them de facto wards of the state.
That Congress being what it was, the massive measure was whooped through with little regard for niceties like public hearings and serious debate.
Mr. Obama quickly and happily signed, to the great delight of the authors, Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank. It is a sad irony that the two had played key roles in causing the 2008 meltdown through their staunch defense over the years of those two toxic security factories, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid shared in the jollity at the signing, having themselves steamrolled the legislation through Congress. Ron Paul was among those who predicted the bursting of the 2008 housing bubble years before it happened:Ron Paul Predicted Housing Bubble, Worst US Financial Crisis of 2008, In 2003
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Kansas lawmakers pass sweeping anti-abortion legislation
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/05/4165019/sweeping-anti-abortion-bill-passes.html
Kansas lawmakers approved sweeping anti-abortion legislation on Friday that says life begins at fertilization, forbids abortion based on gender and bans Planned Parenthood from providing sex education in schools.
In addition, the measure requires women to learn about fetal development before having an abortion.
The measure now goes to the desk of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, who opposes abortion, and is expected to sign it.
The House passed the bill 90-30, The Associated Press reported. The Senate approved it by a 28-10 vote, according to Reuters.
Republicans have large majorities in both houses.
"This fulfills the legislative intent to create a pro-life state," Kathy Ostrowski, legislative director of Kansans for Life, told Reuters before the House vote.
Thirteen states, including Missouri, have similar language to the Kansas bill in their laws, the AP reported, citing the National Right to Life Committee.
WH Refusing To Turn Over Documents About Birth Control Mandate,
Tries To Block Subpoena From Catholic Church
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"Dammit, Plugs... my zipper is stuck again"
(Reuters) – The Obama administration has gone to court to try to block a subpoena from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York seeking White House documents about the government's requirement of insurance coverage for birth control.
The subpoena requesting documents from President Barack Obama and his senior advisers would be burdensome to fulfill, the administration said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Citing U.S. Supreme Court precedent, the suit also argues that civil subpoenas of the president's executive office are inappropriate except in extraordinary circumstances.
The lawsuit was filed on Thursday and released on a court website on Friday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/06/us-usa-courts-obama-idUSBRE93500120130406
Hmmm... gosh, why would they need to hide documents related to this mandate-unless there were discussions that indicated their motives were problematic?
Vice President "Plugs" Biden's most famous rhetorical tic: LiterallyPlugs said this today: "Literally. I mean this literally. Not figuratively, literally."If I understand correctly, the Veep was speaking in support of legislation that would increase the number of green cards awarded to immigrants studying in the United States who graduate with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. If Plugs has his way, those green cards will be attached physically to the diploma with a staple... not stuffed in an envelope together or paper clipped, but LITERALLY stapled.
I think that was the context. That, or this....
Plugs just told Obuma." You gotta be careful how you talk about broads, man. Literally.
Oh yeah... for a few good laughs, you want to be sure to check out Plugs on his new show: Being Biden at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/being-biden
He is Literally... I mean this Literally, NOT Figuratively.... Literally NUTS!
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Yep, industry has been begging for more of all on that list.
Our local math whiz kids are often hired by wall street and some, not all, foreign kids go back to the country they came from. The US is not benefiting from them after graduation. The foreign students come in paying cash, no debt problems. These folks are being courted to keep them.. I see it here at UD. They have always specialized in chemistry to feed our chemical research industry and biology and computers too.
Delaware industry has been begging, literally, for more STEM schools. Poke Joe as you wish, but it's very shallow thinking. Our economy here hasn't slumped nearly as badly as many states.
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Yep, industry has been begging for more of all on that list.
Our local math whiz kids are often hired by wall street and some, not all, foreign kids go back to the country they came from. The US is not benefiting from them after graduation. The foreign students come in paying cash, no debt problems. These folks are being courted to keep them.. I see it here at UD. They have always specialized in chemistry to feed our chemical research industry and biology and computers too.
Delaware industry has been begging, literally, for more STEM schools.
Isn't Wilmington called the "Chemical Capital of the World?" STEM shouldn't be that big of a problem for the state. Dept of Labor just awarded $500 Million in Grants to Community Colleges for the U.S. And with these new grants, it should emphasize the importance of STEM education K-12. Call Joe and get him and his buddy Jack Markell to get in touch with, E. I. du Pont, etc., and hire Ms. Schrader to straighten out Delaware's STEM situation... she's got her.. er.. a... stuff together... (see below). Qualified teachers would be a big 'must.' STEM education: Where the girls are notby Cheryl B. Schrader -- Chancellor of Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo.In just a few days (on Feb. 19), some 180 companies from across Missouri and the U.S. will travel to our campus's Career Fair to recruit engineers, scientists and other in-demand, tech-savvy students. As the economy builds steam, companies large and small are seeking talented recruits for jobs in manufacturing, software engineering and other industries.
While that demand is good news for engineering and science students, a new national report forecasts a troubling future. Interest in these careers will not keep pace with demand. Compounding this issue, the gender gap in these fields is widening.
The Jan. 30 report from STEMconnector and My College Options — titled "Where Are the STEM Students?" — underscores the importance of these fields for our nation's future economic well-being. It also presents a challenge for all of us in education, from kindergarten through college, to increase interest levels in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the so-called STEM fields — for all types of students.
While the majority of U.S. college students today are female, they remain a minority in many science and engineering fields. If universities are to meet the future demands of our economy, we can't leave half of the college-bound population on the sidelines.
How can we change that? The STEMconnector report offers some hints.
Female high school students who are interested in these fields often gravitate toward biology, chemistry, marine biology and science — areas often associated with a desire to make the world a better place. Women tend to be drawn to these service-oriented professions.
But thanks to the rise of cloud computing, information systems and the app economy, 71 percent of the new STEM jobs in 2018 are projected to be in the computing fields. Getting girls interested in these fields at a young age will be critical if we are to meet the coming demand for talented and well-educated computer scientists, computer engineers and game designers.
With this in mind, it's important to convey to young women computing's role in serving society. We should show a young woman how a computer science degree could equip her to design a new app to diagnose illness. That may appeal more to her desire to help others than, say, showing her how to write code for yet another online game.
Programs like Project Lead the Way, which introduces middle school and high school students to engineering and science, help students learn more about these fields at an early age. In Missouri, 165 high schools and middle schools are using PLTW's engineering and biomedical sciences materials to generate more interest in those areas.
But no single solution will address the broader challenges facing Missouri and our nation. Engineering and science summer camps for youngsters of all ages are critical if we are to maintain our competitive edge in an increasingly global economy. And female high school students need to know that they can succeed in fields where they have traditionally been in the minority. They need mentors and role models who can show them that by pursuing a STEM education, they can make a difference in the world.Quote from: Diane Amberg on April 07, 2013, 08:52:36 AM
Poke Joe as you wish, but it's very shallow thinking. Our economy here hasn't slumped nearly as badly as many states.
Yeah, Delaware is better off right now than most... that's why they are "the small wonder" State... because of its corporate laws... (no thanks to Joe)... more corporations are headquartered in Delaware than in any other state. Not bad for the little 49th State. Guess the Delawareans knew what they were doing when they seceded from Maryland and caused the Great Flood at Lewes and Cape May to cut New Jersey in half and creating Delaware Bay for 'Plugs to do a little fishing... not bad, not bad.
Speaking of 'Plugs'... here is his new video from "Being Biden." Ought to be a winner, don't you think? ;)
Published on Feb 4, 2013 by http://newenglandtaskforce.webs.com
DISCLAIMER: **VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED** This footage is graphic and very intense with many 'F' words and is intended for mature audiences only. The Stories of L.Cpl. Joshua Dickinson and L.Cpl. Brandon Burns, 3-1 Marines, Al Falluga, Iraq --Nov. 2004:
Great video Warph. I see the Marines today haven't changed much since the "old Corps" The one not wanting to be Med Evaced. I have seen that so many times. One in particular was my beloved Plt Sgt, Arkansas. Got hit with shrapnel in his shoulder. That would be his 3rd Purple Heart and a ticket back to the world but he pleaded with them not to chopper him out so the senior squid stitched him up with 20 plus stitches, then they choppered him to the rear and sent him to Bangkok on R&R to give him a a little time to heal.
Next thing I noticed , it's still pretty hard to get Marines to cease fire, once they get "fired up".
Only thing I see different is these new Marines curse. Shame on them. My bunch were like alter boys in this regard !! :angel:
Overlapping wind energy initiatives spark claims of waste, as IRS increases tax credit
WASHINGTON – A recent government report shows billions in taxpayer dollars are being swept away by pricey wind energy initiatives that often overlap, even as the IRS moves to up the value of a popular tax credit.
The Government Accountability Office recently identified 82 federal wind-related initiatives implemented by nine agencies in fiscal year 2011. The nearly seven dozen initiatives were fragmented across agencies and had overlapping characteristics, and several that financed deployment of wind facilities provided some duplicative financial support, the report found.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/08/government-report-finds-taxpayer-money-getting-blown-away-by-wind/#ixzz2PuRVtEKs
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The new Judicial Watch blockbuster feature documentary **District of Corruption**... directed by Stephen K. Bannon, lays bare the lawless and unconstitutional Obama administration and makes the case for more openness, integrity, and honesty in government and leads the way for changing the climate of corruption that has gripped Washington, D.C. for far too long.
~Coming to DVD in the near Future~
http://www.judicialwatch.org/districtofcorruptionmovie/#inTheFilm
The following is a breakdown of the Film on Fox News Hannity...Prologue:Presents a gripping lineup of the gross malfeasance and unparalleled secrecy of our government today. The film exposes Obama administration scandals such as Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Crony Capitalism, Czars, and its politicized Justice Department. This cabal of government insiders comprises an essentially Shadow Government that uses favoritism, regulatory power, and abuse of office to enrich the party faithful at the expense of the general public.
Act 1:
Explores the recent history of the abuse of power in Washington during the Bush and Clinton administrations to put the current state of affairs in context. Act I will end as a dog-eared and beaten George W. Bush gives way to a Chicago politician claiming "Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this Presidency."
Act 2:
Covers more major Obama Scandals. Will briefly consider Obama the "community organizer," the professor, and the State Senator before delving more deeply into the scandals (such as the Bailouts, White House Visitor Logs, Secrecy, White House Czars, Green Energy, Fast and Furious) that have marked the first four years of his Presidency. Act II ends with an exposé on White House secrecy controversy and sets up the stakes for the next election, specifically focusing on voter and election fraud.
Act 3:
Provides an in-depth exploration of the Judicial Watch 2012 Election Integrity Project, the upcoming election, and will answer the questions: What is the meaning of these abuses of power to the rule of law and the future of the United States? And why is Judicial Watch absolutely essential as an advocate for the rule of law and independent watchdog for the people of the United States?
Americans Are Migrating To More Free Republican StatesBy JOHN MERLINE, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILYAmericans are migrating from less-free liberal states to more-free conservative states, where they are doing better economically, according to a new study published Thursday by George Mason University's Mercatus Center.
The "Freedom in the 50 States" study measured economic and personal freedom using a wide range of criteria, including tax rates, government spending and debt, regulatory burdens, and state laws covering land use, union organizing, gun control, education choice and more.
It found that the freest states tended to be conservative "red" states, while the least free were liberal "blue" states.
The freest state overall, the researchers concluded, was North Dakota, followed by South Dakota, Tennessee, New Hampshire and Oklahoma. The least free state by far was New York, followed by California, New Jersey, Hawaii and Rhode Island.
The study also compared its measures of economic and personal freedom to population shifts and income growth, and found that freer states tend to do better on both scores than those less free.
For example, it found a strong correlation between a state's freedom ranking and migration, which means that Americans are gravitating toward states that have less-intrusive governments.
Escape From New York, L.A.New York, for example, saw a net migration of -9.2% between 2000 and 2011, and California's was -4.2%. In contrast, Tennessee gained 4.4%, and Oklahoma gained 1.3%.
An IBD analysis of the data found that "red" states — those voting for Republican presidential candidates in the past two elections — saw an overall net migration of 2.2%, while "blue" states saw an overall average net migration of -0.3%.
"People are voting for places with greater freedom," said William Ruger, a political scientist at Texas State University and one of the co-authors of the study. That was true, he said, even after controlling for things like weather and amenities that might attract people to states independent of these freedom measures.
The study also found that states with more freedom tended to see stronger income growth. This was particularly true in states with more regulatory freedom.
"Adam Smith was right," Ruger said. "If you have economic freedom, you will have economic growth."
IBD has previously reported that red states saw stronger job growth, lower unemployment and bigger gains in per capita income than blue states during the economic recovery. For example, IBD found that in the first three years of the recovery, red states saw 1.9% job growth compared with 1.2% for blue states
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British Leftist MP Defends North Korea Against "Wicked" America And "Evil" BritainDaily Caller - Jamie Weinstein, Senior EditorLeft-wing British Member of Parliament George Galloway, a long-time defender of the world's worst dictatorships, blamed the tensions on the Korean peninsula on the United States Thursday.
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"I'm much more afraid of the United States of America and so are most people in the world," Galloway said on "Comments," a show he hosts on the Iranian government's English-language propaganda station, Press TV.
"North Korea has no intention to harm any of us. North Korea's problem is with South Korea. South Korea exists because America invaded Korea, killed millions of people, divided the country and continues to garrison South Korea with military bases, nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapon." [...]
"I believe that this is a United States trumped up little crisis," he said. "They have pushed and pushed North Korea into a corner. The people in North Korea are in very dire straights in terms of standards of food, amount of food and access to oil and other energy resources."
This is the same jackass clown who said this morning: "Thatcher described Nelson Mandela as a "terrorist. I was there. I saw her lips move. May she burn in the hellfires. Tramp the Dirt Down!"
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MSNBC's Chris "Tingles" Matthews said Friday that the National Rifle Association wants "guns on demand, like you're buying a Hershey bar."
"That's the way they want to do it, guns on demand, like you're buying a Hershey bar. That's it. It's a Hershey bar. I think I'd like one. I'm going to try that. You know, no background check? What are you, crazy? Okay, that's the hideous argument they make, check out the guy that's going to guard the kids, but don't check out the guy who's buying the gun to go after the kids," Matthews said referring to the NRA.Wait a second, Tingles... Hershey bars are made of chocolate, chocolate is dark brown... dog whistle!
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Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), one of the last remaining Democratic holdouts to oppose same-sex marriage, announced Monday that he now supports gay nuptials... He's Evolved."After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation," Johnson said in a statement. "This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom."Evolved, huh, Timmy boy... I'll bet just about every one of these Demo-rats campaigned that they would defend traditional marriage. Their constituents need to make them feel the pain at the ballot box next time. The Republicans could have a field day with gay marriage flip flop ads.... oh, I forgot, we have the most spineless, go along to get along, whipped group of Republicans in history. I wouldn't doubt they start EVOLVING at a rapid rate too. Pathetic. Well, only three to go... Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.).
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GOP Congressman's Gay Son Says Piers Morgan, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Cancelled Interviews When He Wouldn't Bash His Father For Not Supporting Gay MarriageAh yes... Journalism at its finest.Matt R. Salmon, the gay son of Republican Rep. Matt Salmon of Arizona, said Sunday that MSNBC and CNN cancelled interviews when he informed producers he wouldn't attack his father on air. The younger Salmon said they expected him to criticize his dad, who doesn't support same-sex marriage. Salmon singled out Lawrence O'Donnell and Piers Morgan's shows as the ones who cancelled.Rest of story at:http://www.azcentral.com/12news/
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Van Jones slams Obama's 'doozy' of mistake cutting Social Securityhttp://washingtonexaminer.com/van-jones-slams-obamas-doozy-of-mistake-cutting-social-security/article/2526756?custom_click=rss
President Obama's bid on Wednesday to offer a budget concession to Republicans by trimming the planned spending growth of Social Security is winning little support among progressives, with one former aide calling it a "doozy" of a mistake.
Activist and former aide Van Jones, who runs the influential anti-Tea Party group Rebuild the Dream, said, "I worked for this president. I voted for this president. But even the most beloved presidents make mistakes and missteps. This one would be a doozy."
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich hit Obama too, claiming that the president's plan to recalculate down Social Security increases "would hurt seniors -- it's an idea not befitting a Democratic president."
Jim Dean, head of Democracy for America, is threatening to fund challenges to Democrats who back the president's move
They're not alone in challenging Obama. Other opponents include the AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org and the National Organization for Women.[/id
Gee... do you think it might be a Republican plot?
Q: How is the President's budget like a cheap ho?
A: they're two months late and nobody wants to know 'em.
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The World Is Upside-Down
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By: David Limbaugh
What right-minded person can deny the current uncanny applicability of the admonition by the Prophet Isaiah, uttered some 2,700 years ago, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness"?
Increasingly today, what is undeniably evil is depicted as good and what most traditionalists, at least, used to agree is good passes often for evil.
What's striking to me is that many aren't merely rationalizing evil in an attempt to excuse their indefensible actions. They have systematically turned our entire moral code upside down. They have attacked the very basis for that code and declared that belief in its divine author itself is evil — and dangerous.
Many deny that there is an affirmative war against Christianity and Judeo-Christian values, but they apparently haven't heard or read the words of some of the New Atheists — or anti-theists, as some call themselves — who conflate all religions and blame them all for most of the evil and war in the world.
Others scoff at the notion that Christianity and Christian values are being assaulted, arguing that it's absurd to believe a majority belief system could be under attack.
Let me share just three disturbing stories that caught my attention the past few days.
During an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training briefing on extremism, evangelical Christianity, Catholicism and Islamophobia were listed along with al-Qaida, Hamas, the Ku Klux Klan and other groups as examples of religious extremism.
An Army spokesman confirmed that this occurred but told Fox News that this was an "isolated incident not condoned by the Dept. of the Army."
Well, that's good to know, but it doesn't change the fact that we see this kind of wrongheaded insanity with ever-greater frequency in our culture. The idea that evangelical Christianity and Catholicism can be listed as extremist organizations by anyone is troubling enough — but even more so in a publication paid for by taxpayer dollars. This episode may be isolated as far as the Army is concerned, but the thought process giving rise to this twisted perspective is anything but unique, as those paying attention can attest.
Next, we turn to the Florida Statehouse, where legislators were considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion — the same type of bill President Obama opposed as an Illinois state senator.
Townhall reports that Alisa LaPolt Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Association of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified that her organization believes the decision to kill an infant who survives a failed abortion is the prerogative of the mother and her abortion doctor. It must not escape your attention that Snow repeatedly affirmed that she was speaking not on her own behalf but on behalf of her organization.
If this doesn't repulse you, you might need a stimulant to jump-start your moral blood pressure. If you think this is isolated thinking, then you might need to do a little more research into Planned Parenthood and the overall culture of death we are witnessing in this nation.
When Snow was pressed on her position, she reportedly betrayed no moral reservations about her organization's position. Rep. Jim Boyd asked her, "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that's struggling for life?"
She replied, "We believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family and the physician."
Stop right there. Pro-abortionists will still argue, disingenuously, I believe, that abortion does not involve the killing of a live human being, but no one can argue the procedure in question is anything short of premeditated murder. Let me repeat: premeditated murder. Yet we have a woman, representing a major organization that is cherished by the political left and receives government funding, arguing for the right to commit murder. There are no synonyms for "shocking" and "depraved" that can adequately describe this evil.
Finally, The Washington Times has reported that Melissa Harris-Perry, a professor at Tulane, has endorsed the concept of human ownership by the state.
I don't have the space to delve into this one, but it suffices to say that it fits nicely with the first two examples as another assault on our society's foundational institutions and values.
These incidents used to be rare, fringe occurrences but have now elbowed their way into mainstream culture.
Please don't accuse me of whining, pessimism or fatalism for calling these matters to your attention. I'm not saying the culture war is over, but I am saying the forces of evil have the upper hand and will ultimately prevail if the prevailing attitude of apathy and moral indifference continues to imprison our will to fight for what is right. It's up to us.
Obumanomics: The President's Priorities
Debt in 2014 will hit 78.2% of the economy.
This clown will spend until he's in the grave!
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President Obama is pitching his new budget proposal as a fiscal peace offering to Republicans, but the details suggest everyone should expect more conflict. The fiscal 2014 plan he released Wednesday is a very slightly modified version of his previous budgets that reduces the deficit by raising taxes and trading defense cuts for more domestic spending.
The real news is that his budget ratifies much of the spending increase of the first term and tries to lock it in. He wants the feds to spend $3.78 trillion next year ($11,944 per American), which would still be 22.2% of national output nearly four years into an economic recovery. Before the financial panic in 2008, the government was spending about $1 trillion less, or closer to $2.7 trillion a year and an average of 20% of GDP—and President Bush was no slouch as a spender himself.
Mr. Obama wants federal spending to grow to $4.45 trillion by 2018 fueled mostly by the exploding costs of his Affordable Care Act. This spending surge appears smaller than it is only because the government will bank large reductions in military spending as the Iraq and Afghanistan wars wind down. But unlike in the 1990s, this peace dividend will be spent.
Shock Poll:
63% Think No New Taxes Are Needed
Nothing shocking about that!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/april_2013/63_think_no_new_taxes_are_needed
Voters make it quite clear that there's no need for the federal government to raise taxes. They'd prefer more tax cuts instead but are much more closely divided on that question.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 28% of Likely U.S. Voters think additional tax hikes are needed to fund the federal government. More than twice as many (63%) disagree and feel more taxes are not necessary.
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North Korea: Nuclear War 'Unavoidable' – First Target Is Tokyo
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Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force soldiers prepare its missile interceptor
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In a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the communist country lashed out at Tokyo's standing orders to destroy any missile heading toward Japan, threatening such actions will result in a nuclear attack against the island nation.
If Japan executes its threat to shoot down any North Korean missile, such a "provocative" intervention would see Tokyo — an enormous conurbation of 30 million people — "consumed in nuclear flames", KCNA warned.
"Japan is always in the cross-hairs of our revolutionary army and if Japan makes a slightest move, the spark of war will touch Japan first," the report added.More at: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/391376/North-Korea-states-nuclear-war-is-unavoidable-as-it-declares-first-target-will-be-Japan
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ACLU Exposes IRS Shocker:
We Have Been Reading Your Emails And Text Messages Without Warrants Since Obuma Took Office
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Started in 2009 which is right when a certain CLOWN took office...
IRS: We can read emails without warrant
The Hill
By Brendan SassoThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has claimed that agents do not need warrants to read people's emails, text messages and other private electronic communications, according to internal agency documents.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act request, released the information on Wednesday.Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/292989-irs-claims-it-can-read-emails-without-a-warrant#ixzz2QKTLeDl6
[...]New Documents Suggest IRS Reads Emails Without a Warrant
By Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney
Everyone knows the IRS is our nation's tax collector, but it is also a law enforcement organization tasked with investigating criminal violations of the tax laws. New documents released to the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the IRS Criminal Tax Division has long taken the position that the IRS can read your emails without a warrant—a practice that one appeals court has said violates the Fourth Amendment (and we think most Americans would agree).Rest of story @: http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/new-documents-suggest-irs-reads-emails-without-warrant
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Why [Dirty] Harry Reid is ashamed of the Senate budget
By Rick Manning – Hell must have frozen over this past weekend as the U.S. Senate broke a four year record of intransigence and failure as it unleashed a blizzard of votes that culminated with the passage of a budget document that reveals the plans and priorities of the 50 Democrats who supported it.
It was no mistake that the big reveal by Senate Democrats was that they had no plan whatsoever to ever bring the budget into balance came on Friday evening going into pre-dawn Saturday morning. Harry Reid and crew clearly were embarrassed by their budget and hoped to avoid widespread media coverage by scheduling votes when they would receive the least amount of attention.
Ironically, Democrat Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) actually had the audacity to complain that it was irresponsible for the Senate to be considering major foreign policy decisions at 3 am on Saturday, referring to a budget amendment that passed putting the Senate on record as opposing the United Nations Small Arms Treaty which the Obama Administration is currently negotiating.
Menendez's complaint should have been with Majority Leader Reid who deliberately scheduled the vote-a-thon in the wee hours of the morning to keep the results cloaked from real time reporting as much as possible.
But the rationale behind Reid's Hide the Budget Act makes perfect sense.
The Senate Democrats claimed that their budget was "balanced" a grand total of 230 times as noted by Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in spite of their voting for a budget that never even gets close to balance.
In spite of these rhetorical claims, every Democrat Senator with the exception of West Virginia's Joe Manchin voted against sending the budget back to Committee with instructions that it balance within ten years. The motion to recommit by Sessions was defeated by a 46–53 margin with Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) not voting.
The significance of this admission by 53 Democrat Senators — 50 of whom voted for final passage of the budget — that they have no intention of ever bringing the budget to balance cannot be overstated.
No matter their orchestrated protestations to the contrary, and their attempts to spin the American people by perverting the definition of balancing the budget, their votes do not lie. The budget that was passed by the Senate Democrats creates $7.3 trillion in new debt over the next ten years despite a $1.5 trillion tax increase.
It immediately increases the budget deficit and grows federal government spending by 60 percent over the next ten years. Even more stunning, the growth of means-tested spending increases by 80 percent — i.e spending on those who are the poorest amongst us.
This last point is a bald admission that the Democrats who voted for this budget do not believe that their big government policies will work. Nor do they think their budget will grow the economy or ween people away from government dependency, but instead they project that the very dependency that sucks the self-respect from the least of these, will dramatically increase. Incredibly, the Senate Democrats actually budgeted for the failure of their policies.
To put an exclamation point on the devastating impact that the Senate Democrat vision for federal government taxing and spending would have on American's who want a job, the Heritage Foundation found that if passed into law, it would cost our nation an average of 853,000 jobs per year for the next ten years.
That's 8.5 million jobs that either won't be created or would go away entirely if the Senate Democrats' vision for America became a reality.
That's 8.5 million Americans consigned to perpetual dependency rather than developing the kind of sustainable careers that our nation's workers have traditionally been able to depend upon.
That's 8.5 million disappointments, tears and putting off a vibrant future for another day as American workers are stuck in a cycle of Democrat Senate induced dependency rather than being able to stand on their own two feet to determine their own futures based upon their ability and hard work.
That's simply unacceptable and inexcusable. Yet, it is the consequence of a Senate Democrat vision that dramatically increases government, puts another $7 trillion onto the national debt, all the while sucking an additional $1.5 trillion in new taxes out of the economy.
Thankfully, one of the positives from the Senate budget debate is that our U.S. Senate went on the record on a number of other issues, producing mixed results.
Beyond the UN Small Arms Treaty vote, another of these was the vote of support by 56 Senators in favor of illegal immigrants having access to free taxpayer funded health care should they become legal under a future immigration reform bill.
Another vote that is good news for those who believe in free markets but bodes ill for those in the Obama Administration who hope to pass a carbon tax, as 53 Senators rejected this holy grail for the environmental left on a bi-partisan basis.
This past weekend was indeed momentous for not only the Senate Democrats being forced to actually do their jobs and lay out their budgetary vision for the country, but also for the 47 votes taken that put every Senator on record on many of the other critical issues facing our nation.
It is just too bad that Harry Reid was so ashamed of the product his Budget Committee produced that he attempted to hide their work behind a late night curtain.
Read more at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2013/03/why-harry-reid-is-ashamed-of-the-senate-budget/#ixzz2QKXezWkT
April 10, 2013
President Obama's long-awaited budget proposal, to be released today, does not come right out and say that it intends to reduce contributions to charity—but that is almost certainly what would happen were it to become law. Here's why. The White House has effectively doubled down on a tax change it has been pushing for four years that would limit the value of the charitable tax deduction. The Administration has, since 2009, pushed unsuccessfully to allow only 28 cents on a dollar donated to charity to be deducted—even though the top tax rate for the wealthy donors who make most use of the deduction has been 35 percent. In the budget released today, the President again proposes to cap the charitable deduction at 28 percent—despite the fact that the top rate on the highest earners has increased to 39.6 percent. Think of it this way: the White House proposal would raise the cost of giving to charity from 60 cents per dollar to 72 cents per dollar. That's a 20 percent increase in what can be called the "charity tax."
Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/howardhusock/2013/04/10/the-obama-budget-proposal-new-tax-on-charity/#channel=fc135be7fbd99e&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com&channel_path=%2Fsites%2Fhowardhusock%2F2013%2F04%2F10%2Fthe-obama-budget-proposal-new-tax-on-charity%2F%3Ffb_xd_fragment%23xd_sig%3Df2e0aee34911976%26
Just like the Soviet Union, do away with private charities, so all that remains is the State. Thank you, Comrade O'Butt Face... you POS!
Dad Furious After Finding This Crayon-Written Paper in Florida 4th-Grader's Backpack: 'I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights...to Be Safer'By Madeleine Morgenstern | The Blaze – Fri, Apr 12, 2013The words are written in crayon, in the haphazard bumpiness of a child's scrawl.
"I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure."They're the words that Florida father Aaron Harvey was stunned to find his fourth-grade son had written, after a lesson in school about the Constitution.
Aaron Harvey's son wrote as part of a school lesson, "I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure." The Blaze has redacted the child's name.
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Harvey's son attends Cedar Hills Elementary in Jacksonville, Fla. Back in January, a local attorney came in to teach the students about the Bill of Rights. But after the attorney left, fourth-grade teacher Cheryl Sabb dictated the sentence to part of the class and had them copy it down, he said.
The paper sat unnoticed in Harvey's son's backpack for several months until last week, when his son's mother almost threw it away. The words caught her eye in the trash, and she showed it to Harvey, who said he was at a loss for words. He asked his son, who said Sabb had spoken the sentence out loud and told them to write it down. Harvey said he asked some of his son's classmates and got a similar answer.
"Everybody has their opinions," Harvey told TheBlaze. "I am strongly for proper education, for the freedom of thought so you can form your own opinion and have your own free speech in the future... [but] the education is, 'when was the Constitution drafted, when was it ratified, why did this happen, why did we choose to do this...all these things, why did they particular choose those specific rights to be in our Bill of Rights.'"
Kandra Albury, a spokeswoman for Duvall County Public Schools, which includes Cedar Hills, told TheBlaze she didn't know what prompted Sabb to have students write the sentence.
She said the principal had fielded one parent's concern about the lesson in January, but it wasn't Harvey. She said Thursday the district and principal were "checking into" what had happened.
Harvey, rather than asking the school for answers when he found the paper, wrote his concerns in an email, which was then forwarded to TheBlaze. He said he did it that way because he wasn't sure he would have gotten a straightforward answer if he asked the school directly.
He said he just wants to see a "proper, unbiased education" system and doesn't want any kind of religion or politics brought into the classroom.
"I believe in our Constitution. I am a veteran, I served for six-and-a-half years proudly and I served to protect our rights," he said. "Now whenever I have someone coming in and trying to pollute my child's mind with biased opinions...there's no education in that."
Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:00 "The Neo-Conservative Era Is Dead": Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Written by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/15099-the-neo-conservative-era-is-dead-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity
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Former Congressman Ron Paul, the libertarian icon, is launching a new institute "for peace and prosperity." A "media advisory" posted on his Facebook page Friday explains:The neo-conservative era is dead.Former Congressman Ron Paul will hold a press conference this Wednesday to launch his next big project: the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. After decades in and out of the US House of Representatives leading the call for a non-interventionist foreign policy and the protection of civil liberties, Dr. Paul is launching a revolutionary new vehicle to expand his efforts. The Institute will serve as the focal point of a new coalition that crosses political, ideological, and party lines.
The Ron Paul Institute will focus on the two issues most important to Dr. Paul, education and coming generations. It will fill the growing demand for information on foreign affairs from a non-interventionist perspective through a lively and diverse website, and will provide unique educational opportunities to university students and others.
The neo-conservative era is dead. The ill-advised policies pushed by the neo-cons have everywhere led to chaos and destruction, and to a hatred of the United States and its people. Multi-trillion dollar wars have not made the world a safer place; they have only bankrupted our economic future. The Ron Paul Institute will provide the tools and the education to chart a new course with the understanding that only through a peaceful foreign policy can we hope for a prosperous tomorrow.[/i]
Paul will formally announce the Institute's beginning at a press conference at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, April 17. Dr. Paul — the founder and chairman of the organization — will be joined on the dais by conservative Congressmen Walter Jones, Jr. (R-N.C.) and John Duncan, Jr. (R-Tenn.), constitutionally minded Judge Andrew Napolitano, Ambassador Faith Whittlesey, and Lew Rockwell, Jr., CEO of the libertarian economic think tank, the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Unwanted Electronic Gear Rising in Toxic Piles
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The amount of hazardous electronic waste generated each year, specifically old computer monitors and television sets, is staggering. Recycling and/or safely discarding these outdated machines has proven challenging, as newer technology and flat-screen monitors have taken over demand. Electronic waste — also called e-waste — is a major concern.
This was reported by New York Times a few weeks ago — Unwanted Electronic Gear Rising in Toxic Piles:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/us/disposal-of-older-monitors-leaves-a-hazardous-trail.html?_r=1&
Ewwww....Yuck. What the hell is that SMELL, Seattle?
Seattle joins Portland with less-frequent trash pickup. While officials say this will cut down on the amount of home garbage filling landfills, the twice-monthly solid waste garbage collection pilot program appears to be more an effort to cut city costs. It's anticipated that Seattle could save about $6 million a year with bi-monthly garbage pickup service.
Not sure how much of that speculated savings will be offset by increased foul odors, bugs, and vermin. (http://ibc.lynxeds.com/files/pictures/14.6_Leptotilos_dubius_Greater_Adjutant_PS_municipal_dump_Guwahati_Assam_India_23_Dec_2010_3.jpg)
"Damn, Harry... this pilot program really sucks."
Good luck, Seattle.
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2018192784_garbage12m.html
VENEZUELA VOTES: Capriles Camp Appears Nervous But Victorious ...
Daniel at Venezuela News and Views reported this on the Capriles press conference less than an hour ago:http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-last-i-hope-election-day-post.html
I just finished the live tweet of Aveledo press conference. Quick summary for those without tweeter:
- it seems that we have won
- gauntlet thrown at the CNE and chavismo in case they want to do us kikiriwiki.
- but I observe merriment and nervousness which I assume means a narrow victory for Capriles.
Capriles' tweets are unequivocal: he all but claims directly he has won.
The Devil's Excrement also is reporting that Capriles has won against the Chavistas.
8: 43 Advantage Capriles but very close. Foreign votes may decide.
Here's some bad news for the opposition – The Carter Center has returned to Venezuela.
UPDATE: Daniel updated his post with this good news:
The long wait continues. Since I got a serious rumor from two serious source I am allowing myself to pass it on: it would be Capriles by 1%, barely, which explain why Aveledo an hour ago wanted the CNE to already count the votes overseas that would add 50,000 at least to Capriles. For the record: 1% in Venezuela is 180.000 votes so the overseas vote do matter to pad the margin.
Aljazeera reported: Chavez's fourth presidential election win in October last year saw record turnout of 80 percent, but this time the participation has so far been comparatively lower.
UPDATE: From unpoetaloco – 97% of vote counted and #Capriles supposedly won but the CNE (National Electoral Committee) is refusing to make an announcement.
UPDATE: The National Electoral Committee (CNE) has not released its results causing rumors to flood the internet.
UPDATE: The Devil's Excrement posted this good news: 10:28 PM 65% of all actas counted Capriles ahead by 20,000 votes plus foreign votes.
UPDATE: Via Votacion:April 14, 2013 @ 22:07 – A reliable source informs us that Henrique Capriles is in meeting with high command
April 14, 2013 @ 22:02 – Rumor: They're using voting machines in PDVSA facilities to inflate vote because Capriles narrow advantage
April 14, 2013 @ 21:25 – We report a situation of total anarchy in Guatire by government sympathizers motorized
April 14, 2013 @ 21:08 – Cochez: General FANB met in Fort Tiuna to agree Capriles recognize triumph
April 14, 2013 @ 20:50 – Attention! Shots are reported in several parts of the country by the ruling affections! Take care please!
UPDATE: Henrique Capriles stopped tweeting two hours ago. The opposition leader was very optimistic in his last tweet.
UPDATE: Capriles just tweeted this at 11:47 EST: "After speaking the CNE will talk to our people"
UPDATE: CNE announced official results. Henrique Capriles 49.07% and 50.66% Nicolás Maduro.
Update: Maduro Wins 50.66% to 49.07%(http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/maduro-wins.jpg)
And, tonight's results remind us once again of that old saying, "It's easy to vote Marxists into power. It's much harder to vote them out."
POS Obuma to offer up Asian defense systems in exchange for North Korean promises
Oh yeah... like they're going to keep those promises. The big winner in all of this, is China. The losers... Japan, Taiwan, Guam, Hawaii, etc. John "God I'm Stupid" Kerry then went to Japan to assure them of the administration's commitment to their security... without missile defense systems!(http://3-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/582x572xdefense-systems.jpg.pagespeed.ic.wl1q9JOFHe.jpg)
http://bostonglobe.com/news/world/2013/04/13/kerry-tells-china-that-will-reduce-missile-defenses-area-korea-drops-nuclear-plans/HvOUstCOksmlSJ2dV7aRhP/story.html
Where's Kim Jong-Un?
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"Hmmm.... what could this mean?"
So the Supreme Leader formerly known as Kim Jong-woon has not been seen in public for two weeks. So if there has been no coup by saner (relatively speaking) heads afraid that Kim is about to spark a nuclear holocaust, could Dennis Rodman's BFF be hiding out in his "underground lair" in order to prevent spoilage due to nuclear fallout?
Maybe those two idiots (Obuma & Kerry) jumped the gun... (no pun intended) when they decided to promise the moon to China and N.Korea and put Japan in the toilet.
Given that communists have proved to be on the right side of history ever since Marx first bummed money from Friedrich Engels to buy a new mustache cup, I can only imagine that whatever is going on can only lead to the liberation of marginalized and oppressed peoples everywhere.
That, in case you didn't know, was sarcasm. In fact, I think this whole mess calls for Jack Burton. And yes, I know it's not called Big Trouble in North Korea, but I've been looking for an excuse to link to this video for weeks:
Anthony "Huma" Weiner Preparing to Run for Mayor of New York
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If Weiner pushes ahead, he will be going into a primary against the front-running lesbian, Christine Quinn, Bill de Blasio, who is slightly to the left of Joseph Stalin, and John Liu, who may be an agent of Communist China and may be headed to jail over campaign finance fraud.... the investigation is still running.
This entire mess gives you some idea of why Weiner may have a shot. Sure he messed around on Twitterand lied to the country, but the alternative is a woman who claims to be a 100 percent lesbian... and is accepted by most people because she seems reasonably competent. Hey, if Napolitono is accepted, why not Quinn.
Most of the bloggers writing angry pieces about Bloomberg don't understand that he won 3 terms because the alternatives were so much worse. The Bloomberg effect is why Weiner may have a shot. Sure he's bad, but it keeps Bill be Blasio from declaring the People's Republic of Manhattazlan and prevents John Liu from putting the entire treasury into a briefcase and flying off to Dubai.
So Weiner is reinventing himself as a family man who is married to Huma Abedin. Huma worked for Hillery Clinton as her body-man. As another Bill Clinton who screwed up but now his marriage is fixed. So you cannot count Weiner out.
So what do we learn from the Times profile. Huma Abedin doesn't drink and initially had no interest whatsoever in Weiner. Some people choose not to drink. Others don't do it for religious reasons. Maybe Huma just didn't find Weiner interesting, or maybe there were obvious reasons why she wasn't going to date him... until Hillary Clinton kept pushing them together.
Weiner says of Abedin "She is the most competent, graceful person I've met in all my years in politics. . . . And she's the hatchet woman! The person at the side of the principal is usually the bad guy."
Funny that.
And if that story isn't a strange kettle of Armageddon Worms, try this one on for size. Sure to give you GERD.
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Chelsea Clinton has a bunch of degrees from prestigious academic institutions that she didn't do anything with. Most of her degrees are useless outside the political world. In real life, having degrees in history, international relations and public health makes you mostly unemployable outside the political sector.
Since then she's worked at a consulting firm, sat on a board and was given a job at NBC reporting positive life affirming stories. Her performance was terrible, but she was kept on for obvious reasons. After marrying the spawn of another Democratic politician, there's only one thing ahead for her and that's running for public office.... somewhere.
WEINER/CLINTON IN 2024
But don't worry, folks: Melissa Harris-Perry will succeed where Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot failed
Not only is the nutty professor -- Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC -- agitating for collectivization of child-rearing, now she's articulated her own "Bill of Rights":
http://lonelyconservative.com/2013/04/another-melissa-harris-perry-msnbc-promo-you-have-a-right-to-health-care-housing-food/
Americans will always want some level of inequality, because it's a representation of meritocracy. People who work hard and sacrifice and save their money and make major contributions... we think that they should earn a little more. They should have more resources, and that's fine. But we also, however, have to have a floor under which nobody falls.
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And if you're below that... especially if you're a child and you're below that.... we are not going to accept that. You do have the the right to health care, and to education, and to decent housing and to quality food at all times
Alleged Professor Harris-Perry is either a Communist or unspeakably ignorant, because her bill of particulars bears an uncanny resemblance to the Soviet Union's Constitution of 1936, which guarantees the rights of the people,
including:...Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality...
ARTICLE 119. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure...
ARTICLE 120. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to maintenance in old age and also in case of sickness or loss of capacity to work...
ARTICLE 121. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to education...
ARTICLE 122. Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres [including] prematernity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens...Not to worry, folks: Ol' Missy's certain she can get the whole central planning thing down this time. And if it costs 10 or 20 or 50 or 60 million lives to do so, as it did in the 20th century, that's okay. She's doing it for the children.Good God... Where does MSNBC find these clowns. Sounds like she showed up in the same clown car as Comrade Obuma did.
What government tests found in your meat
By Jen Christensen, CNN
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(CNN) -- When you shop for turkey burgers for dinner tonight, you may be buying more than meat.
A recently released FDA report found that of all the raw ground turkey tested, 81% was contaminated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Also, according to the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, or NARMS, Retail Meat Annual Report, ground turkey wasn't the only problem. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria was found in some 69% of pork chops, 55% of ground beef and 39% of chicken.
In the meat NARMS tested, scientists found significant amounts of salmonella and Campylobacter -- bacteria that causes millions of cases of food poisoning a year.
Of the chicken tested, 53% was tainted with an antibiotic-resistant form of E.coli, the report said.
Certain strains of E.coli can cause urinary tract infections, pneumonia and other illnesses. Antibiotic resistance means if you were to become ill, doctors would have fewer drug options to treat you.
New push to reduce antibiotic use in farm animals
Antibiotics are used in livestock to prevent disease, but they are also used as a protectant and to help growth. Some 29.9 million pounds of antibiotics were sold in 2011 for meat and poultry production, compared to the 7.7 million sold for human use, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts, and that number has been on the rise.
"Antibiotic use in animals is out of hand," said Dr. Gail Hansen, a veterinarian and senior officer for the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, a project aimed at phasing out overuse of antibiotics in food production.
"We feed antibiotics to sick animals, which is completely appropriate, but we also put antibiotics in their feed and in their water to help them grow faster and to compensate for unhygienic conditions. If you have to keep the animals healthy with drugs, I would argue you need to re-examine the system. You don't take antibiotics preventively when you go out into the world.
Read More: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/15/health/meat-drugs/index.html?hpt=us_c2
North Korea's missile capabilities
The past few weeks have seen North Korea become increasingly belligerent toward the United States and South Korea, with Pyongyang threatening to "mercilessly strike" its enemies. But is the country able to back up its threats? Realistically, who's at risk of attack and where?
The tabs below outline some of the known ballistic missiles in North Korea's arsenal. Most observers say North Korea is years away from having the technology to deliver a nuclear warhead on these missiles, but it still has plenty of conventional firepower.
North Korea: Who's in the crosshairs? | Tom Foreman explains »
Missiles are listed according to estimated range, from shortest to longest. Missiles in red are known to be operational. Missiles in yellow have not been confirmed.
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2013/04/world/north-korea-missile-capabilities/index.html?hpt=wo_c1
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Sorry... I just couldn't pass this one up!
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April 17, 2013 Does Kim Know What Lies Ahead?By James ZumwaltAs the U.S. simultaneously struggles to take on the gun control issue and not take on a war with North Korea, an incident related to the former underscores concerns about dealing with the latter.
On April 10th, two boys, aged four and six, were playing in the town of Toms River, New Jersey. The younger boy went back into his house, returning with a .22 calber rifle. Playfully aiming it at his older friend, he fired, killing the older boy.
The four-year old was a young child lacking the maturity to understand the deadly nature of the weapon held in his hands. Irresponsible parents had failed to teach him, absent responsible conduct, guns can discharge, claiming human life.
Despite early childhood photographs of a very young Kim Jong Eun dressed up as a little general, Pyongyang's current leader never served in uniform. Yet in 2012, five months before his ailing father's death, Kim, overnight, became a four-star general. Today, at age 30, the world's youngest head of state lacks the maturity to fully understand the military and political powers he wields and the consequences of irresponsibly wielding them. Like the four-year-old New Jersey boy, Kim -- having inherited the world's fourth largest army (which has never fought a war but believes it can win one) -- now plays with a loaded gun with a hair-trigger. As such, it is capable of being irresponsibly discharged. A misread of intentions on either side of the DMZ could easily bring that about.
Long gone from Kim's army are soldiers who fought in the Korean War which ended sixty years ago this July. For "Boy Kim" and his generals, the Latin phrase "Dulce bellum inexpertis" ("war is sweet to those who have never fought") aptly applies. Never having experienced the horrors of the battlefield gives rise to a bravado only silenced when the bullets start to fly.
Kim's bravado recalls memories of Muammar Gaddafi. Bravado turned to violence when, on April 5, 1986, Gaddafi supported the terrorist bombing of a German discotheque, killing U.S. servicemen. Both bravado and violence ended ten days later after President Ronald Reagan ordered an airstrike against Libya. Coming close to being killed in the strike (he escaped after tipped off by Italy), Gaddafi saw the light, swearing off terrorism and eventually even surrendering his weapons of mass destruction.
Probably unknown to Kim now (and to the U.S. then), U.S./North Korean combat engagements took place during the Vietnam War. Pyongyang had pressed Hanoi to allow it to send its pilots to learn U.S. air combat tactics. Hanoi reluctantly agreed. Just two months later, after every engagement with a U.S. pilot resulted in the loss of a North Korean pilot flying a North Vietnamese plane, Hanoi sent Pyongyang's pilots packing as it could ill afford more aircraft losses. Today, an obelisk stands in front of fourteen North Korean graves in a cemetery outside Hanoi -- a reminder of the price Pyongyang paid for its earlier adventurism against the U.S.
The North Vietnamese pilot responsible for training the Koreans reported they proved unwilling to learn. They chose to engage American pilots as they had during the Korean War, even though tactics and technology had drastically changed. This same ignorance was demonstrated when North Korea recently released a U.S. map, supposedly depicting a missile strike against Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing the target 900 miles off mark.
Pyongyang has long had a plan of attack against South Korea. Years ago, South Koreans began discovering huge tunnels dug under the DMZ by the North -- through which to drive tanks -- left unfinished on the South's side, only to be completed in advance of an attack. So far, Seoul has uncovered four tunnels but many more are believed to exist.
The North has also ordered thousands of South Korean police and military uniforms -- to be worn by their agents entering the South when the attack occurs. Their mission is to disrupt good order in the South as South Koreans become confused over who is friend and who is foe.
It is interesting to see how Kim's bravado today contrasts with the image fellow students held of him while attending the English-language "International School" in Gümligen, Switzerland.
They describe him as a quiet student with a great sense of humor -- two traits little evident today, unless the U.S. map depicting missile routes was an attempt at humor. Despite being short and overweight, he reportedly was a good basketball player who was "fiercely competitive [and] very explosive." One classmate chillingly described him as a "play maker [who] made things happen." Another added, "He hated to lose. Winning was very important."
There is some belief that Kim's belligerence is a product of his relationship with Iran. It is well known that Iran has been nurturing a relationship with the North for many years. The world got a brief view of it in 2007 when Israel conducted a daring air attack to destroy a nuclear facility being built inside Syria. Designed and built with North Korean assistance, the facility was funded by Tehran. Iran had secretly commissioned its construction as an alternative site to its own nuclear installations, hoping it would escape international scrutiny. A flow of funds into the North from Iran for Pyongyang's technology and other assistance has encouraged Kim to "follow the money!"
But based on the insights of young Kim shared by his classmates, he indeed seems to have undergone a noticeable personality change.
One wonders whether an alleged March 2013 assassination attempt against him, reported by South Korean intelligence, could be responsible. Apparently, a gun battle erupted in Pyongyang due to a military power struggle, possibly triggering his newfound belligerence. If so, his tough guy persona towards the West could be for internal consumption -- both to improve his stature with the military and to keep opponents at bay as they too ponder where confrontation with the West is heading.
What is disconcerting is that, as Kim plays with a loaded gun capable of being irresponsibly discharged, he may not even know where it is heading himself.
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James Zumwalt (http://www.jamesgzumwalt.com/) is a retired Marine infantry officer who has written several books, including one on North Korea's Kim dynasty.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/does_kim_know_what_lies_ahead.html#ixzz2QhaBynMV
UPDATE: The rattling of sabres grows louder as missile
launchers are turned to the sky and launch-pads moved
across North and South Korea.
It appears the previous missile test-launch did not go so well.
As you can see, the North Korean's are working to finely-tune
their missiles...
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Oh, Oh! What is that coming over yonder hill...
Holy shit, guys... we'z in deep do-do... get ready to rumble!!!
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Obuma Claims NRA "Willfully Lied" To Defeat Senate
Background Check Bill
(This coming from the Chief Liar himself... Shameful!)
WASHINGTON — POS/President Barack Obama held an emotional press conference in the Rose Garden this afternoon reacting to the failure of legislation to expand background checks on gun sales in the Senate. After being introduced by the father of a child killed at last year's shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama attributed the defeat of the bipartisan background check compromise to "untruths" about the bill spread by the National Rifle Association.
"The current leader of the nra used to support these background checks. So while this compromise didn't contain everything I wanted or everything that these families wanted, it did represent progress. It represented moderation and common sense," Obama said. "That's why 90 percent of the American people supported it. But instead of supporting this compromise, the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill."
Obama said the NRA exagerrated the effect of the bill, which scared gun owners and mobilized them to oppose the legislation.
"They claimed that it would create some sort of big brother gun registry even though the bill did the opposite," said Obama of the NRA. "This legislation in fact outlawed any registry, plain and simple, right there in the text. But that didn't matter. And, unfortunately, this pattern of spreading untruths about this legislation served a purpose. Because those lies upset an intense minority of gun owners and that in turn intimidated a lot of senators."
Biden On Verge Of Tears During Obuma's Press Conference
On Defeat Of Senate Background Check Bill
(Just as Obuma finished his very angry remarks, here are a couple of the
screenshots showing "Plugs" looking like he's about to burst into tears...
several Newtown family members standing with them appeared to be crying).
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Obamacare Author Fears Law Is Headed For A "Huge Train Wreck"
(Hmmmm.... where's the media on this... should be BIG news)
WASHINGTON — A top Democrat who helped write President Barack Obama's health care law says he fears it is headed for a "huge train wreck."Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana confronted Obama's health secretary Wednesday during a routine budget hearing that turned tense.
Baucus, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, said he is "very concerned" that new health insurance marketplaces going live next year in every state will be a flop. Consumers and small business owners are not getting enough information, and the administration has not been forthcoming with lawmakers, he said.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blamed Congress for blocking implementation funding for the law, which is supposed to bring coverage to nearly 30 million uninsured Americans.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/max-baucus-obamacare_n_3101801.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
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(I'm starting to see some very large cracks in the ObumaWall.
Will it be a matter of time before it starts to crumble and fall) ??? ;) :)
For instance:http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/17/boom-first-union-officially-calls-for-the-repeal-of-obamacare/
United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers:Our Union and its members have supported President Obama and his Administration for both of his terms in office.
But regrettably, our concerns over certain provisions in the ACA have not been addressed, or in some instances, totally ignored. In the rush to achieve its passage, many of the Act's provisions were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise that those who were satisfied with their employer sponsored coverage could keep it.
These provisions jeopardize our multi-employer health plans, have the potential to cause a loss of work for our members, create an unfair bidding advantage for those contractors who do not provide health coverage to their workers, and in the worst case, may cause our members and their families to lose the benefits they currently enjoy as participants in multi-employer health plans.
For decades, our multi-employer health and welfare plans have provided the necessary medical coverage for our members and their families to protect them in times of illness and medical needs. This collaboration between labor and management has been a model of success that should be emulated rather than ignored. I refuse to remain silent, or idly watch as the ACA destroys those protections.
I am therefore calling for repeal or complete reform of the Affordable Care Act to protect our employers, our industry, and our most important asset: our members and their families.(Let the floodgates open...)
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell Says NRA To Blame For Boston Terror Attack
(You're deranged, Larry. Time to call the boys in the white coats...) . . . "There are new developments tonight in the bombing investigation here in Boston," said O'Donnell. "But that investigation could be moving faster were it not for the successful lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association. The NRA's efforts to guarantee that American mass murderers are the best-equipped mass murders in the world is not limited to murderers who use assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. The NRA is also in the business of helping bombers get away with their crimes. Gunpowder could be traced by investigators to a buyer at the point of sale if gunpowder contained a taggant, an element that would enable tracing of the purchase of gunpowder. But thanks to the National Rifle Association, identification taggants are required by law only in plastic explosives. The NRA has successfully blocked any requirements for such taggants in gunpowder. So such supremely helpful evidence as taggants are not available to the FBI in this investigation."http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/msnbc-nra-business-helping-bombers-get-away-their-crimes_718001.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
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....time to call it a night!
Houston's favorite senior citizen helps announce new Cheerleaders for the Houston Texans.
And former president George H. W. Bush seems to be having a fine time.
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Ol' #41 has quite a few cuties to smile about, as we look at the schedule for 2013.
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Can't come soon enough for me!
Giuliani: Boston: "They Are At War With Us"
Reclassify Fort Hood As Terrorism!
In light of the recent events in Boston, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani told Face the Nation's Bob Schieffer that it is important to recognize these sorts of attacks are part of a grander war in the eyes of the attackers. "The reality is whether we want to call this a war on terror, they call this a war on us," Giuliani said. "These two young men joined a war. If you look at their website, they're talking about jihad, they're talking about war, so they are at war against us."
"Also, I think it would be very helpful to reclassify the Major Hassan case as a terrorism attack," Giuliani said of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. "It's really kind of strange, and I think harmful in the effort of kind of breaking through this political correctness so that we can analyze this effectively, not to describe Major Hassan's attack" as terrorism, he added. The Defense Department classified the shooting as an incident of "workplace violence."
Shock & Awe: Great look into the Psy-Ops going on.The Psychology of America's Foreign Policy (MUST WATCH)
Obuma Doesn't Care About Dead Children.
It's not too harsh to say. To push a "solution" to "mass shootings" that even your side says is not a solution, is both the height of arrogance, and a cruel unfeeling joke at "protection".
So... Obuma doesn't care about dead children. He's indifferent to the suffering of their parents. There isn't a single coherent argument on his side of the case. He lies about the issue. It's NOTHING but pure politics.
That's the way the dispute would be presented if Obuma's opponents deployed the kind of demagogic language he slips on like comfortable loafers. Sounds harsh, doesn't it... possibly even racist? Funny how touchy the progessives are about the way Obuma is criticized but how indifferent most are to his low accusations. His opponents are always guilty of bad faith, whereas he is concerned about preventing children from being mowed down by crazed gunmen.
Except he isn't. The gun-control measures ObuttHead worked so hard to pass and that the Senate has voted down would have done nothing to prevent Newtown and would do nothing to prevent the next Newtown. Adam Lanza did not obtain his guns through the gun-show loophole. More rigorous background checks would not have prevented most of the mass shootings we've suffered in the past 15 years.
If the clown were sincere in his concern for the children of Newtown and other victims of mass violence, he might have responded with more than a knee-jerk resort to de-minimus gun control. Guns have always been widely available in America, yet mass shootings in public places are a relatively new phenomenon. A sincere reformer would have given more than lip service to the problems of the mentally ill. The mentally ill commit an estimated 10 percent of the homicides in America, but they commit a much larger share of mass killings.
Unlike gun policy, America's handling of the severely mentally ill has changed profoundly over the course of the past 50 years. The deinstitutionalization movement emptied the mental hospitals. Family members of the mentally ill report the frustration of being unable to get treatment for their relatives even when they have threatened violence. Reform of civil-commitment laws to permit 72-hour emergency interventions, even over the objections of the patient, would correct this. Our excessive libertarianism when it comes to mental-health treatment serves neither the mentally ill themselves nor the larger society.
If Obuma were sincere about Newtown, he would consider these overdue reforms. But, apparently, he doesn't care about dead children.
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More dumb quotes from our marxist president.Obama: "We Can Absorb A Terrorist Attack"Can anyone imagine Ronald Reagan saying that? The one obligation the government actually has under the Constitution is to "provide for the common defense", not "absorb" the attacks. When you have that kind of thought pattern, it colors your approach to security and terrorism-hence "the war on terror is over." "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever ... we absorbed it and we are stronger."How dare this damn jackass opine that "we can absorb a terrorist attack?" This isn't a gravel spill or an overturned apple cart in which no one gets hurt. No, we're talking about an act of terror, an act of murder in which innocent people are killed simply because they woke up one day and decided to drive to work, take their children to school or otherwise go about their daily lives. On Sept. 11, 2001, 3,000 innocent Americans were murdered, killed, incinerated and fell from the sky due to an act of terrorism. "We can absorb a terrorist attack," says President Obama. I say, "No, sir, your job is to do everything you can to protect us all regardless of our race, religion, party or any other affiliation. You are our commander in chief and you have been presented a sacred trust to protect us from senseless acts of terrorism... you idiot!"
The scary thing is, even after Ft. Hood and Boston, the Obuma regime still insists we're not engaged in a war with jihadism.
...Warph
Obuma Admin To Supply Syrian Rebels
With An Additional $123 Million In Aid
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(These are the same rebels that recently announced
its plans to install sharia law.)
ISTANBUL (AP) — The United States is providing Syrian rebels with $123 million in new nonlethal aid that may include armor and other types of supplies that haven't been part of the assistance package in the past.
U.S. Secretary of State Idiot John Kerry says the additional money will double the nonlethal assistance to the Syrian opposition as well as increase humanitarian aid.
Speaking Saturday in Istanbul, Kerry says the situation in Syria is at a critical moment and that the bloodshed needs to stop.
Food Stamp Use Has Increased 10 Times
That Of Job Creation Under Obuma
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South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune and Indiana Republican Rep. Marlin Stutzman introduced legislation Thursday aimed at saving $30 billion in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over a decade.
Thune and Stutzman said their "Streamlining the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Act" would eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse and close loopholes in a program that, under President Obama, has seen participation increase from 32 million to 47.8 million people and spending double to $80 billion in fiscal year 2012.
"Since President Obama came into office, SNAP participation has increased at 10 times the rate of job creation, the annual spending on SNAP has doubled, and one in seven Americans now participates in SNAP," Thune said in a statement.http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/19/thune-food-stamp-participation-has-increased-at-10-times-the-rate-of-job-creation-under-obama/
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When John Atta Mills, the President of Ghana, died last year, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton personally led the delegation to his funeral along with such figures as Johnnie Carson, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, General Carter F. Ham, the Commander of the United States Africa Command and Grant T. Harris, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs.
But under Barack Obama, what Ghana gets, the United Kingdom does not. Instead the US delegation to the Thatcher funeral looks a lot like the US delegation to the Chavez funeral. Two former secretaries of state friendly to Thatcher and several congressmen who agreed with her views, including Michelle Bachmann.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is coming. Barack Obama obviously is not. Neither is any high ranking member of his government. As at Chavez's funeral, the highest ranking Federal official will be the charge d'affaires at the American embassy. It's hard to get any lower profile than that.
Obama Snubs Thatcher Funeral... bastard!
MUST, MUST SEE: Beck Issues DIRE Warning,
Accuses Obama Of Unnamed UNIMAGINABLE
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Beck Gives Obama Till Monday to Admit Boston
Bombing was Inside Job Glen Beck claiming he has proof the federal government carried out the boston marathon bombing as a false flag opperation. He said that Obama has till monday to admit it or his show will reveal the evidence for his conspiracy theory! "The depth of what my government would stoop to." – Just what crime involving this Saudi that Beck couldn't otherwise have imagined his government committing is he referring to here? Conspiracy theorists say it's related to an inside job of Boston or some such. I have no idea, perhaps this Saudi is the third party involved in this attack and Obama is letting him go, or perhaps he is part of some nefarious plan for a future one. Who knows, but I guess we're gonna find out on Monday...should Beck still be around!Related – Bombshell Obama Background: 1979 Newspaper Article By Valerie Jarrett Father-In-Law Reveals Start Of Arab Purchase Of U.S. Presidencyhttp://patdollard.com/2012/09/obama-vetting-1979-newspaper-article-by-valerie-jarrett-father-in-law-reveals-start-of-arab-purchase-of-u-s-presidency/
Related – Report: Michelle Obama Visited Saudi Terrorist In Hospital Instead Of Meeting With Boston Survivorshttp://patdollard.com/2013/04/saudi-news-site-michelle-obama-visited-saudi-national-who-has-al-qaeda-connections-in-hospital-on-thursday/
Related – WATCH – Napolitano On Why Saudi Person Of Interest Being Deported: I'll Get Back To You On Thathttp://patdollard.com/2013/04/napolitano-responds-to-report-of-deportation-for-former-person-of-interest-not-worthy-of-an-answer/
Related – Saudi 'Person Of Interest' Allegedly Cleared Of Invovlement Suddenly Being Deportedhttp://patdollard.com/2013/04/breaking-saudi-national-person-of-interest-being-deported-next-tuesday/
http://patdollard.com/2013/04/innocent-saudi-questioned-in-boston-bombings-has-ties-to-several-al-qaeda-terrorists/
Related – Obama Secretly Meets With Saudi Foreign Minister – Not On Public Schedulehttp://patdollard.com/2013/04/breaking-saudi-national-person-of-interest-being-deported-next-tuesday/
Related – 'Innocent' Saudi Cleared In Boston Bombings Actually Has Ties To Several Al-Qaeda Terroristshttp://patdollard.com/2013/04/innocent-saudi-questioned-in-boston-bombings-has-ties-to-several-al-qaeda-terrorists/
Related – Saudi King Condemns Boston Marathon Bombingshttp://patdollard.com/2013/04/saudi-king-condemns-boston-marathon-bombings/
[...]Bombshell Obama Background: 1979 Newspaper Article By Valerie Jarrett Father-In-Law
Reveals Start Of Arab Purchase Of U.S. Presidency
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Why would Muslim oil billionaires finance and develop controlling relationships with black college students? Well, like anyone else, they would do it for self-interest. And what would their self-interest be? We all know the top two answers to that question: 1. a Palestinian state and 2. the advancement of Islam in America. The idea then was to advance blacks who would facilitate these two goals to positions of power in the Federal government, preferably, of course, the Presidency. And why would the Arabs target blacks in particular for this job? Well, for the same reason the early communists chose them as their vanguard for revolution (which literally means "change") in America. Allow me to quote Trotsky, in 1939: "The American Negroes, for centuries the most oppressed section of American society and the most discriminated against, are potentially the most revolutionary element of the population. They are designated by their historical past to be, under adequate leadership, the very vanguard of the proletarian revolution." Substitute the word "Islam" for the words "the proletarian revolution," and you most clearly get the picture, as Islam is a revolutionary movement just like communism is. (Trivia: it is from this very quote that communist Van Jones takes his name. Van is short for vanguard. He was born "Anthony"). In addition, long before 1979, blacks had become the vanguard of the spread of Islam in America, especially in prisons.
Interestingly, in context with the fact that this article was written by her father-in-law, Valerie Jarrett has an unusual amount of influence over Obama (along with personal security that may be even better than his, another unusual and intriguing bit of business here). And equally interesting is that Obama, who may have been a beneficiary of this Muslim money, and may now be in this Muslim debt, has aggressively pursued both of the Muslim agendas I cited above. And, also equally interesting, is that Obama has paid a king's ransom for court ordered seals of any such records of this potential financing of his college education, and perhaps, of other of his expenses.
Lastly, it's very important to note that the main source for the article is Khalid Mansour, "the same lawyer who allegedly helped arrange for the entrance of Barack Obama into Harvard Law School in 1988." (Valerie Jarrett, by the way, was born in Iran. The one country protected by Obama from the sweep of the Arab Spring.) Now all of this may seem sensational, but let's face facts. What makes it most disturbing is that not only is it all logical, but it suddenly makes a lot of previously confusing things make perfect sense. – Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Daily Interlake: Searching old newspapers is one of my favorite pastimes, and I have tried to use them many times to shed light on current events — or to inform readers about how the past is prologue to our very interesting present-day quandaries.
Recently, I came across a syndicated column from November 1979 that seemed to point 30 years into the future toward an obscure campaign issue that arose briefly in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Though by no means definitive, it provides an interesting insight, at least, into how Chicago politics intersected with the black power movement and Middle Eastern money at a certain point in time. Whether it has any greater relevance to the 2012 presidential campaign, I will allow the reader to decide. In order to accomplish that, I will also take the unusual step of providing footnotes and the end of this column so that each of you can do the investigative work for yourself.
The column itself had appeared in the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Evening Independent of Nov. 6, but it was the work of a veteran newspaperman who at the time was working for the prestigious Chicago Tribune and whose work was syndicated nationally. (1)
So far as I know, this 1979 column has not previously been brought to light, but it certainly should be because it broke some very interesting news about the "rumored billions of dollars the oil-rich Arab nations are supposed to unload on American black leaders and minority institutions." The columnist quoted a black San Francisco lawyer who said, "It's not just a rumor. Aid will come from some of the Arab states."
Well, if anyone would know, it would have been this lawyer — Donald Warden, who had helped defend OPEC in an antitrust suit that year and had developed significant ties with the Saudi royal family since becoming a Muslim and taking the name Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour.
Al-Mansour told Jarrett that he had presented the "proposed special aid program to OPEC Secretary-General Rene Ortiz" in September 1979, and that "the first indications of Arab help to American blacks may be announced in December." Maybe so, but I looked high and wide in newspapers in 1979 and 1980 for any other stories about this aid package funded by OPEC and never found it verified.
You would think that a program to spend "$20 million per year for 10 years to aid 10,000 minority students each year, including blacks, Arabs, Hispanics, Asians and native Americans" would be referred to somewhere other than one obscure 1979 column, but I haven't found any other word of it.
Maybe the funding materialized, maybe it didn't, but what's particularly noteworthy is that this black Islamic lawyer who "for several years [had] urged the rich Arab kingdoms to cultivate stronger ties to America's blacks by supporting black businesses and black colleges and giving financial help to disadvantaged students" was also the same lawyer who allegedly helped arrange for the entrance of Barack Obama into Harvard Law School in 1988.
That tale had surfaced in 2008 when Barack Obama was a candidate for president and one of the leading black politicians in the country — Percy Sutton of New York — told an interviewer on a Manhattan TV news show that he had been introduced to Obama "by a friend who was raising money for him. The friend's name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas. He is the principal adviser to one of the world's richest men. He told me about Obama." (2)
This peculiar revelation engendered a small hubbub in 2008, but was quickly dismissed by the Obama campaign as the ditherings of a senile old man. I don't believe President Obama himself ever denied the story personally, and no one has explained how Sutton came up with this elaborate story about Khalid al-Mansour if it had no basis in fact, and in any case al-Mansour no longer denies it. (3)
Back in 2008, while actually supporting Hillary Clinton in the New York primary, Percy Sutton was interviewed on TV and said that he thought Barack Obama was nonetheless quite impressive. He also revealed that he had first heard about Obama 20 years previously in a letter where al-Mansour wrote, "there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?"
Sutton concluded in the interview, "I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly."
Until now, there really has been no context within which to understand the Sutton story or to buttress it as a reliable account other than the reputation of Sutton himself as one of the top leaders of the black community in Manhattan — himself a noted attorney, businessman and politician. But the new discovery of the 1979 column that established Khalid al-Mansour's interest in creating a fund to give "financial help to disadvantaged students" does provide a clue that he might indeed — along with his patron, Arab Prince Alwaleed bin Talal — have taken an interest in the "genius" Barack Obama.
It also might be considered more than coincidence that the author of that 1979 newspaper column was from Chicago, where Barack Obama settled in 1986 a few years after his stint at Columbia University. It is certainly surprising that the author of that column was none other than Vernon Jarrett, the future (and later former) father-in-law of Valerie Jarrett, who ultimately became the consigliatore of the Obama White House.
It is also noteworthy that Vernon Jarrett was one of the best friends and a colleague of Frank Marshall Davis, the former Chicago journalist and lifelong communist who moved to Hawaii in the late 1940s and years later befriended Stanley and Madelyn Dunham and their daughter Stanley Ann, the mother of Barack Obama. (4)
And to anyone who has the modicum of a spark of curiosity, it is surely intriguing that Frank Davis took an active role in the rearing of young Barack from the age of 10 until he turned 18 and left Hawaii for his first year of college at Occidental College in Los Angeles. (5)
It is also at least suggestive that Obama began that college education as a member of the highly international student body of Occidental College in 1979, the same year when Vernon Jarrett was touting the college aid program being funded by OPEC and possibly Prince Alwaleed. The fact that President Obama has studiously avoided releasing records of his college years is suggestive also, but has no evidentiary value in the present discussion. (6)
The nature of Vernon Jarrett's relationship to Khalid al-Mansour is likewise uncertain, but it is very likely they had known each other as leaders of the black civil-rights movement for many years. Under his previous name of Donald Warden, al-Mansour had founded the African American Association in the Bay Area in the early 1960s. He had also helped inspire the Black Panther Party through his association with black-power leaders such as Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Seale, of course, had a famous association with Chicago later, when he was part of the Chicago Eight charged with conspiracy and inciting to riot at the Democratic National Convention in 1968. (7)
In any case, it doesn't matter if Vernon Jarrett and Khalid al-Mansour had a personal relationship or not. For some reason, al-Mansour had used Jarrett as the messenger to get out the word about his efforts to funnel Arab oil money to black students and minority colleges at about the same time that Barack Obama began his college career. That doesn't mean either Jarrett or al-Mansour knew Obama at that time, but eight years later when Obama was a rising star in Chicago, a friend of Bill Ayers and Valerie Jarrett, it is much more likely that he did indeed have the assistance of very important people in his meteoric rise. The words of Percy Sutton about what al-Mansour told him regarding Obama certainly have the ring of truth:
"His introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends back there... Would you please write a letter in support of him? (That's before Obama decided to run.) ... and he interjected the advice that Obama had passed the requirements, had taken and passed the requirements necessary to get into Harvard and become president of the Law Review. That's before he ever ran for anything. And I wrote a letter in support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them that I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly..." (2)
What possible significance could all this have? We may never know, but Vernon Jarrett, back in 1979, thought that OPEC's intention to fund black and minority education would have huge political ramifications. As Jarrett wrote:
"The question of financial aid from the Arabs could raise a few extremely interesting questions both inside and outside the black community. If such contributions are large and sustained, the money angle may become secondary to the sociology and politics of such an occurrence." (1)
He was, of course, right.
As Jarrett suggests, any black institutions and presumably individuals who became beholden to Arab money might be expected to continue the trend of American "new black advocacy for a homeland for the Palestinians" and presumably for other Islamic and Arabic interests in the Middle East. For that reason, if for no other, the question of how President Obama's college education was funded is of considerably more than academic interest.
Percy Sutton on Obama and Khalid Mansour:
Down The Rabbit Hole... Again
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Abject bald faced lies from the government about terror. And do you think this is the first time the story from the government is completely full of baloney? Why is the USA putting the Muslim Brotherhood into power through out the Middle East? Why is the USA running guns to the evil Syrian 'rebels'?Why are the Saudis allowed favored status?The Saudi national who was a person of interest was visited in his hospital room by Michelle Obama. Why on earth would Michelle Obama visit this guy? http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/saudi-paper-michelle-o-visited-person-of-interest/
Why was Obama visited by the Saudis after the bombing? http://www.infowars.com/obama-covering-up-saudi-link-to-boston-bombing
John Kerry visited with the Saudis and then the government began to back off the story that this man was involved in any way. http://thehill.com/blogs/global-affairs/terrorism/294135-state-department-closes-kerry-meeting-with-saudi-foreign-minister-after-boston-bombing
For the sake of Saudi interests Americans in Boston gave up their 4th amendment rights and allowed their homes to be searched without warrants. (4th Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
4th Adm. Condition: Dead... there is very little chance that this portion of the Constitution will be saved in anyone's lifetime who is over forty years of age.)America needs to WAKE UP.The Blaze has now released the information on this person whom Glenn Beck labeled as 'bad,bad,bad'.http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/22/beck-breaks-exclusive-information-on-saudi-national-allegedly-connected-to-boston-bombings/
Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, is listed as an absolute certified terrorist with the highest classification as Beck explains in his video. You need to hear it.
http://callofthepatriot.blogspot.com/2013/04/lsm-refusing-to-report-facts-about.html
Listen to this video start to finish please before you decide what you believe or don't believe. All of this gives more credence to the previous story by the New York Times about the FBI coordinating terror attacks for many, many years now. The FBI files have been altered to cover up the information. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/was-fbi-monitoring-boston-bombing-suspects-years
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Who's running this Country... the Saudi's or Washington. We have a president that doesn't give a damn, but himself. He is supposed to be working for us, not the other way around. He is going to sell us down the river and YOU my friends are going to let him. How many of you have written your Congressman or Senator and expressed your concern about this POS POTUS. Congress will not move against this creep unless they know you have their backs.
Typical "America Sucks" leftist perspective. When Rush Limbaugh predicted the media would "circle the wagons" if the bombers were muslim perhaps he should have gone wolverine and predicted they would actually BLAME US for it.
Tom Brokaw represents the Modern-Progressive Perspective. This is how the current Democrat Party followers actually think and believe. Don't make excuses for them, or try to rationalize what they are saying... "just accept it." The Obuma modern progressives hate America... they hate everything about America... they hate freedom and principles of freedom. Everything bad that happens is "our fault", and nothing is the fault of their ideological followers.
"Yesterday, Brokow on "Meet The press":
If you doubt this is actually their view, think about what they would be saying if the Boston Bomber was a Tea Party member. Do you think they would be saying it's "our fault" for not accepting a smaller government model more in line with the foundational principle of our republic?
.... Ha, not even close.
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Moran, Jerry - (R - KS) Class III
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Roberts, Pat - (R - KS) Class II
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Congressman, 4th District
Mike Pompeo:
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Chaos engulfs Boston as mainstream media
can't get its cover story straight
Boston is now in a state of near-chaos over the Boston marathon bombing investigation. Their story keeps changing, too: first there was a "controlled explosion" planned at the Kennedy Library on the same day as the bombing (Boston Globe), but that was later explained away as a "building fire" that had nothing to do with the bombing.
Then there's CNN reporting a suspect has been arrested, after which the network was blasted by the FBI for fabricating news. CNN has since retracted its arrest claim.
Today, the Boston federal courthouse was suddenly evacuated over a "code red" bomb threat, causing chaos to reign over planned press conferences and announcements by the FBI.
CNN deeply engaged in total news fabrication
As part of its total fabrication of fake news surrounding the Boston marathon bombings, CNN has proclaimed an episode of "Family Guy" to somehow be a "hoax" even when the episode actually exists. According to CNN, Paul Joseph Watson's highlighting of two scenes from the same episode of the Family Guy cartoon -- which depicted cell-phone bomb detonations and a character winning the Boston marathon by murdering other runners -- is somehow equivalent to a "hoax."
In addition, the Boston police department claims there was no drill taking place on the day of the bombings, yet we have an interview with a credible eyewitness who describes in great detail the "drills" that were announced over loudspeakers.
The media has also reported there were no additional explosive devices found, yet this recording of police audio sharply contradicts that, revealing the apparent existence of other explosive devices.Media refuses to acknowledge existence of
private military contractors on the scene
But the real story... and perhaps the biggest story of all.... has been blown wide open, first by researchers at 4chan.org, and then covered by Anthony Gucciardi, Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones. It reveals that there were private military contractors with backpacks operating at the scene.
Here's an image of the private military operatives, snapped on the day of the marathon:
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As you can see from the above image, these private military operatives are both wearing the exact same uniforms:
tan BDUs, tan military boots, dark jackets, communications gear and black backpacks.
But what gets really interesting is when you look at the symbols on the hat one of them is wearing:
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This "skull" symbol just happens to be the symbol of a group of military contractors called "The Craft."
The following picture shows former group member Chris Kyle (who was recently murdered),
sitting with his sniper rifle and wearing the "Craft" hat with the skull symbol:
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But an even better look at the symbol comes from the Craft's own website, where
training photos show the symbol with great clarity:
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http://www.thecraft.com/AboutUs.html
"The Craft" has a reputation of being something like an "elite Blackwater," and the presence of
"Craft" operatives on scene at the Boston marathon bombing is an absolute bombshell of a news story.
Yet the mainstream media absolutely refuses to mention it at all. Ever wonder why?
Because as usual, you are being spoon-fed a cesspool of lies by the mainstream media... an institution of false information that has already decided to make sure the aftermath of this event follows a predetermined outcome of blaming patriots... even if it means fabricating, ignoring or selectively deleting evidence.
Whatever happened to the era when the media's job was to ask questions? Now that job rests solely with the alternative media... the only institution that still has the integrity to question the official cover stories and get to the bottom of real-world events.
Army Orders Soldiers To Scrape Bible Verses Off Their Rifle Scopes...
Posted on April 23, 2013 (Via Fox News --)
The U.S. Army is directing troops to remove a Bible inscription that a vendor etched into the serial numbers of weapon scopes, Fox News has learned.
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Soldiers at Fort Wainwright in Alaska told Fox News they received a directive to turn in their scopes so the Bible references could be removed.
The scopes were made by Trijicom and referenced New Testament passages in John 8:12 and Second Corinthians 4:6. The verses appeared at the end of the scope serial numbers – "JN8:12" and "2COR4:6." http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/army2.jpg?w=640&h=480
"The vendor etched those inscriptions on scopes without the Army's approval," Army spokesman Matthew Bourke told Fox in a written statement. "Consequently, the modified scopes did not meet the requirement under which the contract was executed."
Bourke said the vendor agreed to remove all Bible references on future deliveries.
"Some of these scopes had already been fielded," Bourke explained. "Corrective measures were taken to remove inscriptions during the RESET/PRESET process in order to avoid a disruption in combat operations."
Follow-UP: Abdul Rahman Ali Al Harbi – The Mysterious Saudi National Foreign Exchange Student – Visa For Study In Ohio, But Lived In Boston Apartment....(http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/abdul-rahman-ali-al-harbi.jpg?w=640)
Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi is on the left
Background points:
*A Saudi national originally identified as a "person of interest" in the Boston Marathon bombing was set to be deported under section 212 3B — "Security and related grounds" — "Terrorist activities" after the bombing.
*As the story gained traction, 'The Blaze's' Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood received word that the government may not deport the Saudi national, originally identified as Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi
*Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to answer questions on the subject when confronted by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) on Capitol Hill.
*An ICE official said a different Saudi national is in custody, but is "in no way" connected to the bombings.
*A congressional source, however, says that the file on Alharbi was created, that he was "linked" in some way to the Boston bombings (though it is unclear how), and that documents showing all this have been sent to Congress.
*Key congressmen of the Committee on Homeland Security request a classified briefing with Napolitano.
*Fox News' Todd Starnes reports that Alharbi was allegedly flagged on a terrorist watch list and granted a student visa without being properly vetted. Sources close to the investigation also told him the Saudi is still set for deportation.
*New information provided to 'The Blaze' reveals Alharbi's file was altered early Wednesday evening to disassociate him from the initial charges
*Sources say the Saudi's student visa specifically allows him to go to school in Findlay, Ohio, though he appears to have an apartment in Boston, Massachusetts
*Sources tell us this will most likely now be kicked from the DHS to the DOJ and labeled an ongoing investigation that can no longer be discussed.
Monday morning Glenn Beck laid out what he knows about the Saudi connection to the Boston marathon bombings.
It is a story that the mainstream media has all but completely ignored, though Beck says 'The Blaze's' Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood reached out to numerous other networks in an effort to get the story out. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to acknowledge the story even existed when questioned by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) last Friday.
But now a number of congressional sources have confirmed that the story is as TheBlaze reported last week, and Beck is presenting more pieces of the big picture.
"This week has changed me," he said at the top of his radio program on Monday. "The events in Boston changed me....The events in Washington around Boston changed me."
We crossed an "extraordinarily disturbing threshold" last week, Beck said, but we know "exactly who we're dealing with now."
After a discussion of how Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is currently under guard in the hospital, wasn't read his Miranda rights, Beck proceeded to lay out a number of key points on the case.
"While the media continues to look at what the causes were of these two guys, there are, at this hour, three people involved," he said. "The first one is the one we are going to address."
Beck proceeded to highlight the background of the Saudi national first identified as a "person of interest" in the Boston bombings, Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, noting that the the NTC issued an event file calling for his deportation using section 212, 3B which is proven terrorist activity.
"We are not sure who actually tagged him as a '212 3B,' but we know it is very difficult to charge someone with this — it has to be almost certain," Beck explained. "It is the equivalent in civil society of charging someone with premeditated murder and seeking the death penalty — it is not thrown around lightly."
Beck continued, noting that after Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud on Tuesday, the FBI began backtracking on the Saudi national from suspect, to person of interest, to witness, to victim, to nobody.
Then, on Wednesday, President Obama had a "chance" encounter with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud and Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir.
"Wednesday at 5:35 p.m. the file is altered," Beck said. "This is unheard of, this is impossible in the timeline due to the severity of the charge....You don't one day put a 212 3B charge against somebody with deportation, and then the next day take it off. It would require too much to do it."
"There are only two people that could revoke the deportation order — the director of the NTC could do it after speaking with each department, the FBI, the ATC, etc. — which is impossible to do in such a short period of time, — or, somebody at the very highest levels of the State Department could do it. We don't have any evidence to tell you which one did it," Beck said.(http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ScreenSnapz068-620x592.jpg)
A photo allegedly of Abdul
Rahman Ali Alharbi in the hospital.
Congressman Duncan has detailed information about the Saudi national in his possession, and he and other members of the House Homeland Security Committee have sent a formal letter of request (which we have a copy of) to Napolitano for a classified briefing on the Saudi national and the deportation order.
Beck proceeded to highlight more key points: The Saudi national was allegedly once flagged on a terror watch list and granted a student visa without being properly vetted.
If, as an ICE official said last week, there is actually a second Saudi in custody, who is it? Beck asked. "Why were there were no names, no pictures presented? The fact is, an event was created for one Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi indicating he was to be deported for terrorism activity related to the Boston bombing. If this file was created with another Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi in mind, don't you think we should know about it?"
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Beck continued with more exclusive information:The Saudi's student visa specifically allows him to go to school in Findley, Ohio. He has been in this country six months. He has an apartment in Boston, Massachusetts.
If this is a case of mistaken identity, then who is the person named in the file, with the same name, with the 3B charge? And If DHS was working with the person as a source to out the bombers, then why was there a 3B Charge?
Exclusive: Why wasn't the Congressional Committee on Homeland Security notified? Why are they being cut out of all information? This is protocol.
We are working on the family connections, and there is more to come.
Sources tell us this will most likely now be kicked from the DHS to the DOJ and labeled an ongoing investigation that can no longer be discussed. This will be the reason Napalitano won't answer the Homeland Security Committee's request for a briefing. Like Benghazi they have heavy into a disinformation campaign floating a variety of scenarios to confuse the media — but that apparently doesn't take much — to prevent the story from being pursued... They are also working very hard to discredit those on the scent.
It is still unclear why the government is stonewalling the media on information as to why the file initially labeled Alharbi as a threat, only to change that designation later in the week. Is there a legitimate threat that's being covered up? Did the government have actual concerns about Alharbi, but was too quick to connect him in this instance and is now trying to stave off embarrassment?
Bottom line, Beck said: "I need you to call your congressmen right now. There are congressmen who are aware of this, have seen the documentation — they need your support, they need your help...If we do not stand up, he is on a plane tomorrow or he is already gone."
"We demand answers from the Justice Department and this administration."
Beck proceeded to put the issue in a larger perspective, noting that multiple news outlets reported after 9/11 that prominent Saudis were allowed to leave the country, even as all flights were grounded.
"The Bush administration would later block the investigation into Saudi involvement into 9/11, even though 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis, and would eventually force the redaction of a 28-page chapter of the 9/11 Commission report regarding foreign, specifically Saudi, support for some of the Al-Qaeda hijackers," Beck said, noting that the questionable relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States goes back further than the current administration.
But, he said, we have now taken that relationship to a whole new level. "On January 14, 2013 President Obama met with Saudi Minister of Interior," Beck remarked. "Two days later Janet Napolitano signed agreement with Saudi minister allowing 'trusted traveler' status on Saudi student visitors, meaning greatly reduced security checks and scrutiny."
This is trusted traveler status that we don't give to some of our most trusted allies, and we gave it to Saudi Arabia last January?" Beck said. "So they can just walk into our country no questions asked?"
"There is a pattern," he said. "There is a relationship between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia the American public doesn't know about. The case of Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi is only the latest example."
Warph,
We are living in very, very scary times and I fear we are helpless to do any thing about it but I do believe why the Motor Mouth of the East is still busy making light of our bunker mentality ,she will be first to be weeping and wailing and gnashing her teeth, when the SHTF.
Sorry, not going to work. You were told to stop doing that.
Bunker mentality? For tornados, sure. Great for storing summer fruit too. Ya don't need to know so you won't. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Diane,
I see your post followed mine but I don't know who you are talking to and not clear on what you are talking about
It's plain as day to me. ::)
Hmmmm.... which day ???
Why hell Charlie ,if it's so plain to you, why don't you enlighten me so I'm not in the dark.
Americans Ordered Out Of Homes At Gunpoint By SWAT teams
This is what martial law in the US looks like
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Steve Watson,
INFO WARS
April 22, 2013http://www.infowars.com/shocking-footage-americans-ordered-out-of-homes-at-gunpoint-by-swat-teams/
Shocking footage has emerged from Friday's lockdown in Boston, where police, federal agents, national guard troops and SWAT teams enforced door to door searches of everyone's home within twenty blocks as the entire city was placed under orders to stay off the streets.
The video, shot by a resident from their own house across the street, shows police barking orders at men and women as they order them at gunpoint to identify themselves, put their hands on their heads, and get out of their own home. They are then ordered to run down the street to be further frisked by police as scores of armed militarized cops look on.
The scenes look like something out of a disaster movie, with the backdrop of suburban America juxtaposed with what is essentially martial law playing out in full daylight.
The story floated in the mainstream media that the door to door searches were conducted with the voluntary consent of the residents of Watertown is clearly false. 9000+ Police locked down an entire city and went in with full force, with armored vehicles and combat gear, all to search for an injured 19 year old kid who turned out to be cowering in someone's back yard.
While armies of police roamed around people's homes and private property, Public transportation was shut down, businesses were forced to close, and a no-fly zone was enacted over Boston in an unprecedented show of force.
At this point, as military helicopters buzzed over neighborhoods, the Fourth Amendment had ceased to exist in Boston, which quickly resembled a war zone.
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The compliant mainstream media reported on the activity without alarm or question. Katy Waldman of Slate wrote an article claiming that under dire circumstances police can suspend 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable searches:
In exigent circumstances, or emergency situations, police can conduct warrantless searches to protect public safety. This exception to the Fourth Amendment's probable cause requirement normally addresses situations of "hot pursuit," in which an escaping suspect is tracked to a private home. But it might also apply to the events unfolding in Boston if further harm or injury might be supposed to occur in the time it takes to secure a warrant.This activity, once again, sets a shocking precedent. Police and military are training in these circumstances every single day of the year. They are fully acclimatized to the process, as if it is completely normal. They do not hesitate in carrying out such orders, which are now being implemented whenever the authorities deem a situation to be an emergency.
This is what fully fledged martial law in America looks like.
Krauthammer Blasts Obuma: "Anybody Over the Age of 9 Knows
Radical Islam Is Cause of Terrorism" (Video)
Charles Krauthammer was on The O'Reilly Factor tonight to discuss Barack Obama's bizarre reaction to radical Islam and the Boston bombings.
Krauthammer told Bill:
"I don't know what he's thinking but I sure know what he's saying and doing. The lengths to which he will go to avoid telling us the truth about the enemy is becoming comical and certainly embarrassing... He refuses to use the word Islamist which is used throughout the Muslim world... And yet Obama won't touch it because he refuses to use any words that might imply a connection between radical Islam and terrorism which as anybody who's over the age of 9 knows is the single greatest cause of terror in the world today."
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Everybody gets it.... but Obuma.
Hillary Lied; Now She's Fried
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(Time for the Demorats to circle the wagons around the golden calf)
Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/house-report-clinton-didnt-tell-the-truth-about-requests-for-benghazi-security/article/2527958
House Republicans released their report on the investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attack, having concluded that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was not telling the truth when she told Congress that she wasn't aware that officials at the U.S. mission in Benghazi had requested extra security.
"The specific security requests pertaining to Benghazi, you know were handled by the security professionals in the department," Clinton told Congress in January. "I didn't see those requests, they didn't come to me, I didn't approve them, I didn't deny them."
The House report suggests that Clinton received a request for more security from Gene Cretz, who preceded Christopher Stevens as ambassador to Libya.
"On April 19, 2012, the response cable from the Department of State to Embassy Tripoli, bearing Secretary Clinton's signature, acknowledges Ambassador Cretz's request for additional security but instead articulates a plan to scale back security assets for the U.S. Mission in Libya, including the Benghazi Mission," the House report says.
F-L-A-S-H-B-A-C-K
April 08, 2010
Our Muslim POS/POTUS, Ladies and Germs:
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(Not to be confused with the FBI purging the same
terms from its counterterrorism training material)
From the Washington Times Vault:EDITORIAL: Obama's jihad on 'jihad'President Obama's latest strategic innovation in the war on terrorism is to ignore jihad and maybe it will go away. The Obama administration is removing terms such as "jihad" and "Islamic extremism" from the U.S. National Security Strategy in an attempt to convince Muslim countries that America doesn't view them solely through the lens of counterterrorism. It's reasonable to look beyond terrorism in developing relationships with Islamic states. Our assistance programs are based on humanitarian motives, for example, so they need not explicitly draw links between promoting good will and hopefully making it less likely that people will fly aircraft into our buildings.
But the National Security Strategy is not some kind of outreach initiative, it is the framing document for America's global safety. The United States cannot effectively combat the root causes of Islamic extremism by ignoring them. The war on terror - rather, the "overseas contingency operation," in O Force terminology - won't be effective if this country overlooks the nature of the enemy and his motives. The U.S. strategic blueprint is not the proper place for a public-relations stunt.
Even the Muslim majority states in question understand the religious component of terrorism as a motivator, recruiting tool and strategic road map. They are threatened by Islamic extremism even more than the United States and have no problem describing the threat by its true nature, which must be understood if it is to be defeated.
The most troubling signal is the one being sent through the bureaucracy that any thoughtful discussion of Islamic radicalism and the global threat it poses will be hazardous to one's career. Analyses of the extremist Muslim threat will be increasingly deleted from briefing papers, assessments and planning documents. Those who continue to spread the alarm will be marginalized and ignored. Such sanitizing may please the White House, but it's likely to put the United States in more danger as threats that should have been detected in advance slip by because officials have been trained not to look for them.
The new development is a disturbing example of Mr. Obama's seeming obsession with all things Muslim. It's reminiscent of the Department of Homeland Security's 2009 draft glossary of domestic extremist groups that listed Christian and Jewish organizations as threats but didn't include any Muslim groups. Or the administration's obstinate unwillingness to describe the Fort Hood massacre as an example of Islamist terrorism, even though the shooter - Nidal Malik Hasan - clearly was wrapped up in that ideology and shouted the traditional jihadist war cry "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire.
Mr. Obama's Muslim mania increasingly pervades government and has yet to be adequately explained or even addressed. It places America in growing peril.
(NO Shit)Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/08/obamas-jihad-on-jihad/#ixzz2RMazRda1
Mosque Boston Bombers Attended Has Ties
To Radical Islamists, Jihadists
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(But increasing surveillance at mosques like this is "ridiculous"
according to "ridiculous whiner" Congressman Keith Ellison [D MN-05]
who professes to be a muslim)
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The mosque attended by the two brothers accused in the Boston Marathon bombing has been associated with other terrorist suspects, has invited radical speakers to a sister mosque in Boston and is affiliated with a Muslim group that critics say nurses grievances that can lead to extremism.
Several people who attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, Mass., have been investigated for Islamic terrorism, including a conviction of the mosque's first president, Abdulrahman Alamoudi, in connection with an assassination plot against a Saudi prince.
And its sister mosque in Boston, known as the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, has invited guests who have defended terror suspects. A former trustee appears in a series of videos in which he advocates treating gays as criminals, says husbands should sometimes beat their wives and calls on Allah (God) to kill Zionists and Jews, according to Americans for Peace and Tolerance, an interfaith group that has investigated the mosques.
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The FBI has not indicated that either mosque was involved in any criminal activity. But mosque attendees and officials have been implicated in terrorist activity.
• Abdulrahman Alamoudi, who signed the articles of incorporation as the Cambridge mosque's president, was sentenced to 23 years in federal court in Alexandria, Va., in 2004 for his role as a facilitator in what federal prosecutors called a Libyan assassination plot against then-Saudi crown prince Abdullah. Abdullah is now the Saudi king.(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/04/21/a03-nl_siddiqui-19-4_3_r541_c540.jpg?729ef1a5e3c69f5da0197e57e2bd3dd3fdfcd35f)
"Aafia Siddiqui is shown after her graduation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
• Aafia Siddiqui, who occasionally prayed at the Cambridge mosque, was arrested in Afghanistan in 2008 while in possession of cyanide canisters and plans for a chemical attack in New York City. She tried to grab a rifle while in detention and shot at military officers and FBI agents, for which she was convicted in New York in 2010 and is serving an 86-year sentence.(We educate these jihadist and then they turn around and try to blow us up... time to send them ALL back to the sandbox)(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/04/21/ap-addition-massachusetts-terror-charge-4_3_r541_c540.jpg?729ef1a5e3c69f5da0197e57e2bd3dd3fdfcd35f)
"The 2009 booking photo of Tarek Mehanna, of Sudbury, Mass."
• Tarek Mehanna, who worshiped at the Cambridge mosque, was sentenced in 2012 to 17 years in prison for conspiring to aid al-Qaeda. Mehanna had traveled to Yemen to seek terrorist training and plotted to use automatic weapons to shoot up a mall in the Boston suburbs, federal investigators in Boston alleged.
• Ahmad Abousamra, the son of a former vice president of the Muslim American Society Boston Abdul-Badi Abousamra, was identified by the FBI as Mehanna's co-conspirator. He fled to Syria and is wanted by the FBI on charges of providing support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill Americans in a foreign country.
• Jamal Badawi of Canada, a former trustee of the Islamic Society of Boston Trust, which owns both mosques, was named as a non-indicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial in Texas over the funneling of money to Hamas, which is the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Rest of story at:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/23/boston-mosque-radicals/2101411/
Pinocchio-hontas: Liz Warren's pathetic lies
Disgraceful... Demorats Fundraise Off of Victims of Boston Bombings
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/pinocchio_hontas_IclJ3TDydeWlVZddc3LuIJ
Tuesday – Democrats sent out their Boston bombing fundraising letter.
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RNC Chairman Reince Preibus called these efforts by Democrats to capitalize on the Boston bombing "disgraceful" and in poor taste.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev Eyed in Connection to Gruesome 2011 Triple Murder on 9-11-12
Update: The Victims Were Jews WHOA!... Zubeidat Tsarnaeva Tells CNN: "I Don't Care if My Youngest Son Is Killed. I Don't Care If I Am Killed. I Will Say Allahu Akbar!"
April 24, 2013, 12:09 AMZubeidat Tsarnaeva, the mother of Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Tzhokhar Tsarnaevso, made these shocking statements on CNN tonight:
"If they are going to kill him. I don't care. My oldest sone is killed, so I don't care. I don't care if my youngest son is going to be killed today. I want the world to hear this. And, I don't care if I am going to get killed too. And I will say Allahu Akbar!"
Are we all clear on that motive now?
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old Boston bomber, called his mother before the shootout with police – and before his brother dragged him down the street under the car.[/b]
If you didn't see this Sunday, here is your chance to watch it.
"1984" is almost a reality! Sunday, April 14 at 9 p.m. ET
Hosted by John RobertsEvery step we take, every move we make, "Big Data" is watching us.
Our computers, phones and countless other devices are generating long trails of electronic data -- information that can be stored and analyzed who-knows-where for who-knows-what by who-knows-who.
When our lives can be retrieved at the stroke of a key, what happens to privacy? Does the government become too powerful? Could our traditional freedoms be threatened and do we care?
This weekend, Fox News delves into the world of daily data and examines stories that would have seemed entirely unconnected only a few years ago:Government whistleblowers fretting about a mysterious new spy center in the Utah desert.
A Massachusetts teacher instructing grade-schoolers on what not to do with an iPhone.
A new breed of political operatives leading an unprecedented get-out-the-vote effort.
A California entrepreneur trying to mine data from social networking sites.
In today's world, it all ties together. And in 'Fox News Reporting: Your Secret's Out' we're connecting the dots.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-reporting/2013/04/12/fox-news-reporting-your-secrets-out#ixzz2Qbe3pGF4
Fox News Reporting: Your Secret's Out! -
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MSNBC STINKS...
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For years, NewsBusters has argued that MSNBC is not a news network.
Americans appear to agree, for last week as our nation was rocked by bombings in Boston and a fertilizer plant explosion near Waco, Texas, relatively few citizens turned to MSNBC for information about these horrific events.
TVByTheNumbers.com shared data Friday (through Thursday):http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/04/19/fnc-is-the-most-watched-cable-news-channel-for-boston-bombing-coverage-among-total-viewers/178854/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29
4-DAY AVERAGE TOTAL DAY
FNC: 1,647,000 total viewers (421,000 in the demo)
CNN: 1,048,000 total viewers (403,000 in the demo)
MSNBC: 515,000 total viewers (162,000 in the demo)
So MSNBC garnered roughly one third the total day viewers of Fox, and half of CNN.
The station also got trounced in the all important demographic of 25-54 year olds and demolished in primetime.
As NewsBusters reported last month, the Pew Research Center found that fully 85 percent of MSNBC's reports are commentary and not news.
Apparently Americans agree with this assessment and choose not to watch MSNBC when they're looking for real information about breaking news events.
Maybe it's time cable and satellite television providers realized this and took appropriate action by moving MSNBC away from real news channels in their station guides.
4-DAY AVERAGE PRIMETIME:
FNC: 2,783,000 total viewers (682,000 in the demo)
CNN: 1,619,000 total viewers (674,000 in the demo)
MSNBC: 975,000 total viewers (333,000 in the demo)Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/04/21/americans-chose-not-watch-msnbc-during-busy-horrific-news-week#ixzz2R9Xnrn4i
[...]Liberals love to make the case that MSNBC is the left-wing version of Fox News.
Not according to a new Pew Research Center study that found MSNBC to be by far the most opinionated cable news channel in America:Traditionally known for its attention to breaking news, daytime cable's cuts in live event coverage and its growing reliance on interviews suggest it may be moving more toward the talk-oriented evening shows. This transition may cut the costs of having a crew and correspondent provide live event coverage.
CNN, which has branded itself around reporting resources and reach, cut back between 2007 and 2012 on two areas tied to that brand—in-depth story packages and live event coverage. Even so, CNN is the only one of the three big cable news channels to produce more straight reporting than commentary over all. At the other end of that spectrum lies MSNBC, where opinion fills a full 85% of the channel's airtime.(http://newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2012/MSNBC%20318.png)
So at MSNBC, only 15 percent of air time is actually devoted to straight news reporting. At Fox it's 45 percent.
As such, 85 percent of the time, MSNBC viewers are being pummeled with far-left opinions by commentators that either also work for the Nation magazine or share the opinions of those that do.
Forbes Monday noted a financial reason for this:
Not coincidentally, MSNBC also spends by far the least producing its news: some $240 million in 2012, according to an estimate by SNL Kagan. CNN spent $682 million, while Fox led the pack with an outlay of $820 million.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/03/18/pew-study-finds-msnbc-the-most-opinionated-cable-news-channel-by-far/
So Fox spends almost 3 1/2 times as much on news production as MSNBC. Any wonder why there isn't much news to be found at this NBC "news" division?
As I've said many times before, it's a farce for MSNBC to be considered a news organization and to be placed in the proximity of CNN and Fox on cable guides.Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/03/18/pew-85-msnbcs-reporting-opinion#ixzz2R9cdDmFa
BTW... Forbes Thought Of The Day
" The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. "
— Leo Tolstoy
It's an Obama World... White House Pays Recruiters
to Sign Up People for Food Stamps
There is a plan from uber leftists Cloward and Piven to overwhelm the system so that it collapses. Obuma seems to be making it work as food stamp use has almost doubled under his administration and now they are running radio ads to encourage people to sign up for food stamps and even making Spanish soap operas to push the program. Did you VOTE for this Traitor ???The Washington Post reported: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-florida-a-food-stamp-recruiter-deals-with-wrenching-choices/2013/04/23/b3d6b41c-a3a4-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_print.html
A good recruiter needs to be liked, so Dillie Nerios filled gift bags with dog toys for the dog people and cat food for the cat people. She packed crates of cookies, croissants, vegetables and fresh fruit. She curled her hair and painted her nails fluorescent pink. "A happy, it's-all-good look," she said, checking her reflection in the rearview mirror. Then she drove along the Florida coast to sign people up for food stamps.
Her destination on a recent morning was a 55-and-over community in central Florida, where single-wide trailers surround a parched golf course. On the drive, Nerios, 56, reviewed techniques she had learned for connecting with some of Florida's most desperate senior citizens during two years on the job. Touch a shoulder. Hold eye contact. Listen for as long as it takes. "Some seniors haven't had anyone to talk to in some time," one of the state-issued training manuals reads. "Make each person feel like the only one who matters."
In fact, it is Nerios's job to enroll at least 150 seniors for food stamps each month, a quota she usually exceeds. Alleviate hunger, lessen poverty: These are the primary goals of her work. But the job also has a second and more controversial purpose for cash-strapped Florida, where increasing food-stamp enrollment has become a means of economic growth, bringing almost $6 billion each year into the state. The money helps to sustain communities, grocery stores and food producers. It also adds to rising federal entitlement spending and the U.S. debt.
Nerios prefers to think of her job in more simple terms: "Help is available," she tells hundreds of seniors each week. "You deserve it. So, yes or no?"
In Florida and everywhere else, the answer in 2013 is almost always yes. A record 47 million Americans now rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, available for people with annual incomes below about $15,000. The program grew during the economic collapse because 10 million more Americans dropped into poverty. It has continued to expand four years into the recovery because state governments and their partner organizations have become active promoters, creating official "SNAP outreach plans" and hiring hundreds of recruiters like Nerios.
A decade ago, only about half of eligible Americans chose to sign up for food stamps. Now that number is 75 percent.
Congressman: 'Five Jihadists Have Reached Their Targets
in the United States Under Barack Obama'
(And of course the main stream media gives Obuma a free pass)
Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) April 24, 2013: "I rise today to express grave doubts about the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies and programs. Counterterrorism is often shrouded in secrecy, as it should be, so let us judge by the results. In barely four years in office, five Jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama: the Boston Marathon bomber, the underwear bomber, the Times Square Bomber, the Fort Hood shooter, and in my own state—the Little Rock recruiting office shooter. In the seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush, how many terrorists reached their target in the United States? Zero! We need to ask "why is the Obama administration failing in its mission to stop terrorism before it reaches its targets in the United States."
CIA Wanted Boston Bomber On Terrorist Watch List
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(Time to cross reference the watch list with the welfare list)
From Washington Post:(U.S. counterterrorism agency - http://www.nctc.gov/)The CIA asked the main U.S. counterterrorism agency to add the name of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers to a watch list more than a year before the attack, according to U.S. officials.
The agency took the step after Russian authorities contacted officials there in the fall of 2011 and raised concerns that Tamerlan Tsarnaev — who was killed last week in a confrontation with police — was seen as an increasingly radical Islamist and could be planning to travel overseas. The CIA requested that his name be put on a database maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center.
That database, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE, is a data storehouse that feeds a series of government watch lists, including the FBI's main Terrorist Screening Database and the Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list.
Officials said Tsarnaev's name was added to the database but it's unclear which agency added it.The CIA's request came months after the FBI had closed a preliminary inquiry into Tsarnaev after getting a similar inquiry about him from Russian state security, according to officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
The new disclosure suggests that the U.S. government may have had more reason than previously known to scrutinize Tsarnaev in the months leading up to the bombings in Boston.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/biden-lashes-out-at-twisted-perverted-terrorists-in-eulogy-for-slain-office/2013/04/24/652b987a-acf8-11e2-a8b9-2a63d75b5459_print.html
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Obamacare Gets a Makeover, and You're Paying for It
By Reince Priebus
April 24, 2013 10:11 AM (Borderline criminal)
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/346507/obamacare-gets-makeover-and-you%E2%80%99re-paying-it
In the three years since President Obama signed Obamacare into law, Democrats have failed to convince the majority of Americans that the law was actually a good idea. As its full implementation date draws near, the Obama administration is desperate to change that. So they've awarded a $14 million contract to a major public-relations firm to run a massive ad campaign touting its purported benefits.
Who's paying for this?
Taxpayers, of course. It was bad enough that President Obama raised taxes to fund a new entitlement. Now the American people are footing the bill for our government to convince us that Obamacare — and its 20,000 pages of regulations — wasn't a mistake.
It's going to be a tough sell. Even some Democrats are realizing that navigating this bureaucratic monstrosity will be nearly impossible for patients and small businesses, with or without a PR blitz.
Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana who voted for Obamacare, told Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently that the implementation of the law is a looming disaster. "I just see a huge train wreck coming down," he told her.
Pic Of The Day...
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(The look on her face says it all...
she doesn't want to catch the bath house cooties.
Who can blame her?)
President Barack Obama shares a laugh with former first lady Barbara Bush at the dedication of the George W. Bush presidential library on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Thursday, April 25, 2013
Megyn Kelly's Surprise Revelation: FBI Was 'Shocked'
to See Judge 'Waltz' in and Give Suspect Miranda Rights
(The question is, who gave the federal judge his order to mirandize Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
Does the WH-POS's Obuma and Holder ring a bell...?)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/25/megyn-kelly-surprise-revelation-fbi-was-shocked-to-see-judge-waltz-in-and-give-suspect-miranda-rights/#
Regular viewers of Fox News are used to seeing popular host Megyn Kelly on their televisions every afternoon, but on Thursday morning Kelly made a special appearance during the morning to break some surprising information: according to her sources, the FBI was "shocked" to see a magistrate "waltz into" the hospital room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and read him his Miranda rights.
So why were they shocked? According to Kelly, the FBI was under the understanding that they would get much more time with Tsarnaev under the "public safety exemption" before he was read his rights. Adding to the shock: the sources told Kelly agents were getting crucial information after only 16 hours of questioning and were making valuable progress.
[...]"The FBI had no idea they were sending over the judge, the prosecutor, the federal public defender; and the FBI said they were only 16 hours into what they understood would be a 48 hour period of questioning ... . They said they were in the process of getting valuable information ... and as soon as that magistrate judge went in there and gave him his rights with his lawyer present, he stopped talking. They said they would never have stopped interrogating him prior to the 48 hours unless they were forced to."
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Feds Further Investigating Role of Bomber's Wife
Katherine Russell Tsarnaeva notified husband
that the FBI had released his picture.
(This cute little Leftist Muslim convert is in deep shit....
Obviously she knew what they were going to do and did nothing,
and then warned them that the authorities were closing in...which makes her an accomplice.
I hope that conversion and worthless POS husband were worth it...
Tough Love Stinks ... don't it, darling!)
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/feds-further-investigating-role-bombers-wife_719130.html
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Investigators now think she's not so innocent thanks to information from
Dzokhar Tsarnaev before he was abruptly mirandized.
Law enforcement officials are carefully reexamining any possible role that Katherine Russell Tsarnaeva, the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, played in the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, according to three federal officials with knowledge of the investigation. The intense scrutiny comes as a result of information provided by Dzokhar Tsarnaev in his on-again, off-again interrogation by FBI officials before he was read his rights by a federal magistrate.
According to those officials, Dzokhar Tsarnaev told interrogators that the information that set in motion the series of events leading to Tamerlan's death and Dzokhar's apprehension came in a phone call from Katherine Russell Tsarnaeva to her husband.
"She notified him and there certainly didn't seem to be any notion of surprise – just a report that 'you're being watched,'" said one official with knowledge of the investigation. Tsarnaev had seen the photographs and videos distributed by the FBI on television and called her husband to give him a heads up.After receiving that phone call, authorities believe, Tamerlan decided he could not continue to hide from law enforcement and triggered the brothers' bizarre flight from authorities – a wild chase that included the murder of an MIT police officer, a convenience-store robbery, a carjacking, shootouts with police officers, the death of Tamerlan and the capture of Dzokhar.
Bob Beckel and Common Sense Moment
"'Cut Off' Giving Visas to Muslim Students"
(Maybe there is hope for Beckel yet)
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Guam Might Tip Over) Nutty
Sequester Rant: "Imagine A World Without Balloons"
On the bright side, there are still plenty of clowns...see:
Congressman Hank Johnson fears Guam will tip over by adding more troops, March 25, 2010 .
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(This is freekin Unbelieveable! This clown talks like a 4th grade education... tho' he graduated from college... and he is a US Congressman. Henry C. "Hank" Johnson Jr. ...born October 2, 1954... is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 4th congressional district, serving since 2007. He is a member of the... guess what?... Demo-ratic Party.)
"Mr. Speaker, like a kid at a carnival, I rise in full support of HR 527, The Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act of 2013.
Mr. Speaker, I'm relieved that and I'm sure that the American people are relieved as well that Congress is finally going to do something about one of the most pressing issues of the day, that is... we've got to ensure access to helium for all.
Surely those harmed by sequestration and those harmed by the Republican failure to appoint budget conferees appreciate the House spending two full legislative days on this most critical issue. The American people certainly understand the fact that 48 of this House's precious time was necessary to pass such a non-controversial bill.
I'm pleased to support this bill which shows that this Tea Party congress will make the tough choice to keep children's birthday parties on schedule and give industries that rely on helium the lift that they deserve.
Imagine, Mr. Speaker a world without balloons. How can we make sure that the injustice of there being no helium for comedians to get that high-pitched voice that we all hold near and dear to our hearts.
Imagine a world without balloons. Today the House has chosen to simply float above it all. And finally we are going to do something for the American people and we should all pat ourselves on the back for that."
And speaking of Clowns in Congress, I couldn't pass this one up:
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/usda-to-mexico-illegal-immigrants-can-have-food-stamps/article/2528152?custom_click=rss
With food stamp spending in the United States skyrocketing since the beginning of the recession, the Department of Agriculture is paying to promote food stamp usage to illegal immigrants for the sake of their American children, according to documents obtained by a government watchdog.
"The promotion of the food stamp program, now known as "SNAP" (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA with a statement advising Mexicans in the U.S. that they do not need to declare their immigration status in order to receive financial assistance," Judicial Watch announced today. "Emphasized in bold and underlined, the statement reads, 'You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.'"
The USDA said the program is designed to help American children. "[The USDA Food and Nutrition Service] understands that mixed status households may be particularly vulnerable," FNS' Yibo Wood wrote to Mexican embassy officials in a January 2012 email. "Many of these households contain a non-citizen parent and a citizen child."Good Lord Almighty... I don't know where to go with this.
The fact is, the cost of food stamp fraud has risen sharply to approximately $750 million in recent years.
But what I've read and talked with Ministers, Priests, Rabbis, Businessmen here in this area (AZ), most of the people on these programs really need the help. Thanks to our incredibly foolish economic policies, the five years of reckless leadership from the Obuma Adm., there are not enough good jobs for everyone and there never will be again according to the soothsayers. The percentage of Americans that are unable to take care of themselves is going to continue to rise, and the suffering that we are witnessing right now is going to get much, much worse.
Not that things aren't really, really bad already. Here are some signs that I read that child hunger in America has already started to explode:
#1 Today, approximately 17 million children in the United States are facing food insecurity. In other words, that means that "one in four children in the country is living without consistent access to enough nutritious food to live a healthy life."
#2 We are told that we live in the "wealthiest nation" on the planet, and yet more than one out of every four children in the United States is enrolled in the food stamp program.
#3 The average food stamp benefit breaks down to approximately $4 per person per day.
#4 It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps before they reach the age of 18.
#5 It may be hard to believe, but approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are currently living in homes that are either considered to be either "low income" or impoverished.
#6 The number of children living on $2.00 a day or less in the United States has grown to 2.8 million. That number has increased by 130 percent since 2008.
#7 According to Feeding America, "households with children reported food insecurity at a significantly higher rate than those without children, 20.6 percent compared to 12.2 percent".
#8 According to a Feeding America hunger study, more than 37 million Americans are now being served by food pantries and soup kitchens.
#9 For the first time ever, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless. That number has risen by 57 percent since the 2009-2010 school year.
#10 Approximately 20 million U.S. children rely on school meal programs to keep from going hungry.
#11 One university study estimates that child poverty costs the U.S. economy 500 billion dollars each year.
#12 In Miami, 45 percent of all children are living in poverty.
#13 In Cleveland, more than 50 percent of all children are living in poverty.
#14 According to a recently released report, 60 percent of all children in the city of Detroit are living in poverty.
I wonder how many are immigrant children... and I also wonder why we don't see more stuff like this on the mainstream news in this country? Could it be that the mainstream media does not want to admit how bad things have really gotten? In the past five years, are greatest enemies aren't terrorist... they are Obuma and his Simple-Minded Cowns and the Main Stream Media!
God help us!
....Warph
I say he's a bald faced liar or highly incompetent----or both.
President Obama said he is unaware of longstanding efforts by Republican lawmakers to question survivors of the Benghazi attacks but pledged to investigate it.
"I'm not familiar with this notion that anybody has been blocked from testifying," the president said during a White House news conference on Tuesday. "So what I'll do is I will find out what exactly you're referring to."
Obama's pledge to find out more came as officials at the State Department pushed back against allegations -- first aired Monday on Fox News -- that career employees at the agency have been threatened if they furnish new information about the Benghazi attacks to members of Congress.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/01/obama-pledges-inquiry-on-benghazi-survivors-testimony/#ixzz2S2vmvAyk
Heaven forbid we do anything to their precious Koran. Maybe it's time the Marines go and land on "The Shores of Tripoli" again and bust a few caps in these no good sons a bitches asses.
WW II - British Military Cemetery in Libya.
See this video while it's available and before it is removed !!!
http://www.youtube.com/embed/RtgbvotqVFE?rel=0
Cowards.They attack a cemetary full of dead people who are not known for fighting back. Not worth even one of our military's lives. They just want the publicity because they have nothing of real value in their lives. They should be ignored.
"Global Warming or Agenda 21"
EPA alarms "Glacial Ice receding in Kansas caused by Chicago gang violence."
Excerpts of a power point presentation by Dennis Hedke, a Consulting Geophysicist by profession, Member of The Kansas House of Representatives and Chairman of the Energy and Environment Committee.
Read it here: http://nolathe.net/2013/05/05/epa-alarms-glacial-ice-receding-in-kansas-caused-by-chicago-gang-violence/#comments
Quote from Diane:
They should be ignored.
Ignored ??On that we disagree. How are we to ignore them when they are right here in our own backyards, blowing people up ? To stick our heads in the sand and ignore them will be very costly in American lives
Watch C-Span wed. may 8th for the Whistleblower's and Senate questions.:Charles Krauthammer: Benghazi Scandal Is "By Definition a Cover-up"
Soon and one day soon.....
King James Bible ...Isa. 17:1
"The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap." Raw Video Of Israeli Airstrike In Syria...
The video was shot by rebel forces hence the "Allah Snackbars."
9/11 Prediction in 1948 Cartoon?
SICKOS... 3 Women – Missing for 10 Years – Found in Cleveland Home
911 call from Amanda Berry:
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"Amanda Berry is pictured center being reunited with her sister"This is one WILD video—
"I knew something was wrong when a little pretty
white girl ran into a black man's arms."...Charles Ramsey, Hero of the moment[/font][/size][/b]
"Hero: Charles Ramsey said he was enjoying some food from McDonald's in his home
when he heard frantic screams for help from his neighbor's house"(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/07/article-2320526-19A71EA6000005DC-145_634x467.jpg)
•Amanda Berry went missing in 2003 when she was 16-years-old
•Gina DeJesus disappeared when she was 14-years-old in 2004
•Michelle Knight disappeared in 2002 when she was 20-years-old
•All three women kidnapped on the same busy Cleveland block (link)
•All three of the women were found alive in a Cleveland home and are now being treated at a local hospital
•The 52-year-old man who owns the house has been arrested and is in police custody – Neighbors STUNNED !!
•The women had a girl with them, thought to be about 3-years-old
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10,962,532: U.S. Disability Beneficiaries Exceed Population of Greece
(And 95% of these people will never work another day in their life, thankfully SSDI isn't rife with fraud and abuse.... no, wait?... what am I saying??)
(CNSNews.com) – The total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability benefits hit a record 10,962,532 million in April, which exceeds the 10,815,197 people who live in the nation of Greece.
According to newly released data from the Social Security Administration, the record 10,962,532 total disability beneficiaries in April, included a record 8,865,586 disabled workers (up from 8,853,614 in March), 1,936,236 children of disabled workers, and 160,710 spouses of disabled workers.
According to its latest census, Greece had only 10,815,197 residents.
April was the 195th straight month that the number of American workers collecting federal disability payments increased. The last time the number of Americans collecting disability decreased was in January 1997. That month the number of workers taking disability dropped by 249 people—from 4,385,623 in December 1996 to 4,385,374 in January 1997.
Made I AmericaYIKE... another american pathological family:
Honey Boo Boo's Mama June renews vows with (ugh) Sugar Bear
If only this were true.... :)Huckabee: Benghazi Scandal Will Cost Obama His Presidency
(http://www.newsmax.com/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=3776596b-18fd-4040-a78e-c19cde681038&SiteName=Newsmax&maxsidesize=600)
Huckabee: "This is not minor," he said. "It wasn't minor when Richard Nixon lied to the American people and worked with those in his administration to cover up what really happened in Watergate. But, I remind you — as bad as Watergate was, because it broke the trust between the president and the people — no one died. This is more serious because four Americans did, in fact, die."
Influential Republicans are setting their sights on toppling the Obama administration as evidence of a cover-up over the assault on the Benghazi consulate gets stronger.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is now openly talking about impeachment, saying he does not believe Barack Obama will survive the remaining 3½ years of his presidency.
"When a president lies to the American people and is part of a cover-up, he cannot continue to govern," Huckabee said on his radio show Monday.
"As the facts come out, I think we're going to see something startling. And before it's over, I don't think this president will finish his term unless somehow they can delay it in Congress past the next 3½ years."
Huckabee isn't alone in his belief that Obama could be toppled. The pressure is growing just as Congressional hearings on the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks that left four Americans dead are due to start on Wednesday.
Rep. Darrell Issa of California, who will chair those hearings as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said he intends to make the president "come clean."
"The administration has made a claim that for classified reasons they changed the story," Issa told Fox News' Sean Hannity. "We believe right now that may be the biggest lie of all, and we intend on making the president come clean as to, quote, 'What the classified reasons are that would justify lying to the American people.'"
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina added to the onslaught against the administration's handling of the assault.
"Political manipulation is rampant here," said Graham in an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren. "The dam's about to break on Benghazi."
And former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton told Newsmax's Steve Malzberg on Monday that he too believes the growing scandal could lead to the "unraveling" of the Obama administration.
"This could be a hinge point for the Obama administration. It's that serious for them,'' said Bolton, who served under President George W. Bush.
Many in the GOP believe the cover-up began as the attack on the Benghazi consulate was going on. The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stephens, was killed along with information management officer Sean Smith and security staff Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
Obama's U.N. ambassador Susan Rice insisted from the start the attack was not a coordinated act of terror, but a protest that escalated. The administration was later forced to backtrack, saying Rice made her statement before all the information was known.
But that failed to stem the tide and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — the Democratic front-runner for presidency in 2016 — has now been accused of failing to send in troops to rescue Stephens and other staff.
Gregory Hicks, who became the top diplomat in Libya after Stevens was killed, claims troops who were ready to come to the rescue were told to stand down.
Lawyers representing Hicks and others now claim the administration is trying to intimidate them against speaking out in Issa's committee's hearings.
Huckabee said that as more reports come out about the deadly attack, and the truth emerges, Obama and his administration "will have lost the right to govern."
"This is not minor," he said. "It wasn't minor when Richard Nixon lied to the American people and worked with those in his administration to cover up what really happened in Watergate. But, I remind you — as bad as Watergate was, because it broke the trust between the president and the people — no one died.
"This is more serious because four Americans did, in fact, die."
Huckabee maintains that what happened in Benghazi is not political, but "goes all the way to the heart of the integrity of the United States government."
Huckabee said Obama's best chance of avoiding impeachment would come if Democrats seize control of the House and keep their control of the Senate after the next round of Congressional elections in November 2014.
"They won't let it happen; not because they're protecting just the president, they're trying to protect their entire political party," he said. "If they try to protect the president and their party, and do so at the expense of the truth, their president and their party will go down."
Egyptian TV Host Riham Said Removes Veil during Interview, Clashes with Guest Cleric http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/07/female-egyptian-tv-host-removes-headscarf-berates-cleric-who-peddles-islam-in-explosive-interview/
(You go, girl) Egyptian women have been slowly losing what few rights they had as Islamists cement their rule in the country, but in a recent interview, one female television host wasn't having any of it.
The Middle East Media Research Institute compiled the most explosive and telling scenes from the Al-Nahar TV interview between the host Riham Said and the cleric Yousuf Badri. The clip actually begins before the interview, with the two informally chatting about how the woman will have to cover her hair to interview him.
"Outside this studio, in your daily life, you deal all the time with Muslim women who do not wear the veil," she says with a smile, the two looking directly at one another. "You have no problem talking to me without the hijab, and then, when the viewers can see, you make we wear it?"
"Let's just start the show," he says.
The clip then skips to a segment on sexual harassment by clerics, which the man has no interest in acknowledging or discussing.
"This is a provocation," he says in a far harsher tone than before the show. "Change the subject. Talk about things that interest people, about public affairs."
Egyptian women have been slowly losing what few rights they had as Islamists cement their rule in the country, but in a recent interview, one female television host wasn't having any of it.
The Middle East Media Research Institute compiled the most explosive and telling scenes from the Al-Nahar TV interview between the host Riham Said and the cleric Yousuf Badri. The clip actually begins before the interview, with the two informally chatting about how the woman will have to cover her hair to interview him.
"Outside this studio, in your daily life, you deal all the time with Muslim women who do not wear the veil," she says with a smile, the two looking directly at one another. "You have no problem talking to me without the hijab, and then, when the viewers can see, you make we wear it?"
"Let's just start the show," he says.
The clip then skips to a segment on sexual harassment by clerics, which the man has no interest in acknowledging or discussing.
"This is a provocation," he says in a far harsher tone than before the show. "Change the subject. Talk about things that interest people, about public affairs."
The History of the Middle East
Conflict in 11 Minutes Great explanation of the constant rejection of peace by
the Arabs and so called "Palestinians"
Mother Of Slain Benghazi Victim RIPS Hillary Clinton: "I Blame Her"
Mother Of Sean Smith:" I Blame Hillary Clinton For The Death Of My Son."(Every time I see Pat Smith and her pain, it infuriates me anew. "Not a member of the immediate family", so they wouldn't give her answers? She correctly pegs it, "They're hiding behind" calling it political because they weren't doing their job.)Pat Smith's son Sean Smith, a State Department information officer, was one of four Americans killed during the attack:CNN's JAKE TAPPER: One woman still looking for answers is Pat Smith. Her son, State Department Information Officer Sean Smith was one of the four Americans killed. Pat, thanks so much for being here. I know this is not an easy time. How are you holding up?
PAT SMITH, MOTHER OF SEAN SMITH, KILLED IN BENGHAZI: Terrible. I cry every night. I don't sleep at night. I need answers.
TAPPER: What do you want answers to? What do you not know?
SMITH: Why was there no security for him? When they were supposed to have security and the security that they did have was called back. It just — things do not add up and I'm just told lies.
TAPPER: Last week, you heard this in the piece the White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that Benghazi happened a long time ago.
SMITH: Yes, it did.
TAPPER: Eight months ago.
SMITH: Yes.
TAPPER: What is your reaction to that?
SMITH: Why don't they have answers by now? They've had plenty of time to come up with something other than the things they have not told me.
TAPPER: Are you concerned at all that the hearings and Benghazi that has become a political issue, the Republicans have turned it into a political issue. The Democrats have turned it into a political issue as opposed to being a scandal and a tragedy apart from politics?
SMITH: Of course, it's political. That's the way it's been. That's how they're treating it. That's what they're doing with it. They're making it into something that — why don't they just do their job? They didn't do their job and now they're hiding behind the word political and going from there.
CNN: Many Outstanding Questions On The Benghazi AttackCNN's Jake Tapper: Sources tell CNN that Greg Hicks, then the number two diplomat in Libya, will testify tomorrow that after the first attack on the compound in Benghazi, but before the second attack on the CIA annex, four U.S. Special Forces troops in Tripoli discussed reaching Benghazi in a Libyan aircraft.
But the troops were told to stand down, much to the dismay of their commander who, according to Hicks, said I have never been so embarrassed in my life that a State Department officer has bigger balls than somebody in the military.
Now, that flight left an hour after the second attack, so it's not clear it would have made a difference, but it's also unclear why they were told not to go. Hicks says he thought it was a terrorist attack from the get-go. But the White House seemed eager to claim it was a protest of an anti-Muslim video. One that got out of hand.
WHOA!... BREAKING: Navy SEAL Team VI Families to Reveal Government's Culpability in Death of Their Sons – Thursday at Nat. Press Club
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 9, 2013, 12:07 AM
Out of Touch — Rebuke of Clinton and Obama from the Heart of a MotherKaren Vaughn, mother of fallen Navy Seal of Aaron Carson Vaughn, reacted to Barack Obama's campaign ad "One Chance" last year. Karen and Billy Vaughn lost their son Aaron, a Navy SEAL, in Afghanistan in 2011.* * * * * * * * *
Now the families are speaking out—
NAVY SEAL TEAM VI FAMILIES TO REVEAL GOVERNMENT'S CULPABILITY IN DEATH OF THEIR SONS IN FATAL HELICOPTER CRASH IN AFGHANISTAN FOLLOWING SUCCESSFUL RAID ON BIN LADEN'S COMPOUND
DATE: THURSDAY MAY 9, 2013
PLACE: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB (HOLEMAN LOUNGE)
529 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20045
TIME: 10 AM – 11 AM
Check C-SPANThree families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, will appear at a press conference on May 9, 2013, to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons along with 26 others died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011, just a few months after the successful raid on the compound of Osama Bin Laden that resulted in the master terrorist's death.
Accompanying the families of these dead Navy SEAL Team VI special operations servicemen will be retired military experts verifying their accounts of how and why the government is as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban.
The areas of inquiry at the press conference will include but not be limited to:
1.How President Obama and Vice President Biden, having disclosed on May 4, 2011, that Navy SEAL Team VI carried out the successful raid on Bin Laden's compound resulting in the master terrorist's death, put a retaliatory target on the backs of the fallen heroes.
2.How and why high-level military officials sent these Navy SEAL Team VI heroes into battle without special operations aviation and proper air support.
3.How and why middle-level military brass carries out too many ill-prepared missions to boost their standing with top-level military brass and the Commander-in-Chief in order that they can be promoted.
4.How the military restricts special operations servicemen and others from engaging in timely return fire when fired upon by the Taliban and other terrorist groups and interests, thus jeopardizing the servicemen's lives.
5.How and why the denial of requested pre-assault fire may have contributed to the shoot down of the Navy SEAL Team VI helicopter and the death of these special operations servicemen.
6.How Afghani forces accompanying the Navy SEAL Team VI servicemen on the helicopter were not properly vetted and how they possibly disclosed classified information to the Taliban about the mission, resulting in the shoot down of the helicopter.
7.How military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen Navy SEAL Team VI heroes who disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen by damning them as infidels to Allah. A video of the Muslim cleric's "prayer" will be shown with a certified translation.
"This press conference takes on special significance given that our government has over the last twelve years since September 11th committed brave American servicemen to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that, in large part as a result of politics, were poorly conceived of and implemented, resulting in the deaths of thousands and the maiming of tens of thousands of our brave heroes. To make matters even worse, America has effectively lost these wars," stated Larry Klayman, legal counsel for the families.
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Eric Cantor Schedules Repeal Vote on Obamacare
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The House Republican leadership has scheduled a floor vote next week on a measure that would repeal the 2010 healthcare reform law that even the president now affectionately refers to as Obamacare.
The Republican-controlled House has voted more than 30 times to repeal all or parts of the law since it was passed. But many GOP members, especially freshmen, were pushing the leadership to get a vote on the record in 2013, reports Politico.
According to Politico, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia on Wednesday tweeted, "It just keeps getting worse. I am scheduling a vote for next week on the full repeal of #Obamacare."
Some conservatives have been pushing the GOP leadership to take a more aggressive stand against Obamacare before Jan. 1 of next year, when the law is scheduled to be fully implemented. They hope to capitalize, Politico noted, on what even some Democrats predict could be a rocky rollout for Obamacare in advance of the 2014 midterm elections.(http://rlv.zcache.com/obamacare_anti_obama_funny_bumper_sticker-ra66840a971604c11be322ac3943dcab0_v9wht_8byvr_512.jpg)
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Head Clown Obuma will speak Friday about the Affordable Care Act's effects "on the health, lives and pocketbooks of women and their families," the White House said in his schedule.
This is timed to coincide with Mother's Day, which is on Sunday, the event also comes as House Republicans plan to vote next week on a bill to repeal the health care law.
The audience for the 2:40 p.m. event will include many loonies from women's groups, including "Abortionist Planned Parenthood." The event comes as some Demo-rats have voiced concerns that the implementation will be messy and problematic, a notion that Obuma has challenged. "I think that any time you're implementing something big, there's going to be people who are nervous and anxious about is it going to get done, until it's actually done," the Clown told reporters last week. "We've got a great team of Clowns in place. We are peddeling very hard to make sure that we're hitting all the deadlines and the benchmarks."
(Seems "nutzo" runs rampant in this family!)Daughter of Cleveland abduction suspect slashed her baby's throat
(Reuters) - The daughter of Ariel Castro, the chief suspect in the Cleveland abduction of three women freed on Monday, is serving time in an Indiana prison for attempted murder after she slashed her baby's throat four times with a knife, court documents show.Emily Castro, 25, was sentenced to 25 years and is at the Rockville, Indiana, Correctional Facility. She was found guilty in Allen County Superior Court of attempting to murder her 11-month-old daughter, according to a decision by the Court of Appeals of Indiana on November 5, 2008.
The current whereabouts of Emily Castro's child, who would be aged around seven now, could not immediately be determined.
Emily Castro slashed her daughter's throat four times with a knife on April 4, 2007 the day after the baby's father moved out of their Fort Wayne home, according to a court of appeals document.
Police found Emily Castro covered in mud, water and blood after responding to the 911 call from Castro's mother, Grimilda Figueroa, the court said. Figueroa, who died last year, was married to Ariel Castro, who was arrested on Monday in Cleveland on suspicion of abducting three women and holding them captive for around a decade. The three were freed on Monday along with a six-year-old girl thought to have been born in captivity.
Emily Castro, who was 19 at the time of the attack on the baby, had a self-inflicted knife wound to her neck and wrists and tried to drown herself in a nearby creek, according to the court.
Emily Castro tried to rely on an insanity defense but was found competent to stand trial. She was found guilty but mentally ill on January 17, 2008, court records show.
The appeals court said Castro was diagnosed for manic depression when she was 13 years old. She had a history of quitting and refusing medications and treatments for her mental illness, the court noted.
Emily Castro appealed on the grounds that the state did not comply with competency hearing and sanity evaluation requirements and that her sentence was an abuse of discretion. The appeals court ruled against her on November 5, 2008.
Attorneys who defended Castro in both the initial trial and her appeal were not available for comment Wednesday.
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(The Head Clown is getting creepy with this one. You know his top priority is his own job which consists of: ruining the economy, making people miserable with his policies, partying all the time, not starting his work day until 11 AM and then quitting early so he can go party some more, avoiding all responsibility for his disastrous regime and playing 122 rounds of golf to date!) (http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2013-05-11-at-4.18.47-PM.png)
(Translation: 'Try not to let the serfs starve, otherwise who will toil in the fields?')
10 crazy things the IRS asked Tea Party groups
posted on May 10, 2013
by Mary Katharine HamThe Internal Revenue Service admitted Friday...http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/10/irs-oh-by-the-way-we-improperly-targeted-conservative-and-tea-party-groups-last-year/
... to improperly targeting conservative groups for aggressive applications processes for tax exempt status in 2012, using the terms "Tea Party" and "patriot" as flags. Here are some of the things they wanted to know about those groups:1. We're gonna need all your direct and indirect communication. "'
Direct and indirect communications' is profoundly chilling of First Amendment rights, " said David French, senior counsel for American Center for Law & Justice, which has been representing 27 conservative organizations met with IRS inquisitions. "It's so vague as to be impossible to comply with."
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2. What do we need to know about your members? Nothing much.
Just ALL THE THINGS!IRS:(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/IRS2-e1368227720157-550x234.png)
Keep reading: http://hotair.com/archives/2013/05/10/10-crazy-things-the-irs-asked-tea-party-groups/
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Kirsten Powers: There is Something "Fundamentally Really, Really Wrong With Our Media".... Both ABC and CBS Presidents Have Siblings That Work For Obama
The Fox News Watch panel weighs in on how the media covered the Benghazi hearing. Many excellent points were made. Around the 4 minute marker, Kirsten Powers makes some powerful points. She finds the idea that everything out of Washington is political, so the "politicizing" excuse is quite odd. Agreed.
Richard Grenell follows with a report on how both the
ABC and CBS presidents have SIBLINGS that work for Obama at the White House. And the discussion also points to the fact that
Sharyl Attkisson has been shunned at CBS for covering Benghazi more accurately. The Daily Caller also noted the CBS sibling connections to Obama and the Sharyl Attkisson tensions, along with a Politico article that provides more information on the developing Attkisson tensions but fails to mention the conflict of interests as a backdrop.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/kirsten-powers-there-is-something-fundamentally-really-really-wrong-with-our-media-both-abc-and-cbs-presidents-have-siblings-that-work-for-obama/
"With all respect, the fact is we have four dead Americans was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they'd go kill some Americans," Clinton shouted. "What difference at this point does it make?
...Former Obuma Clown, Ex-Sec. of State, Hillary Clinton
...Warph
[...]Top Obama official's brother is president of CBS News,
may drop reporter over Benghazi coverage
(This is what's wrong when you mix politics with the media)Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/11/top-obama-officials-brother-is-president-of-cbs-news-may-drop-reporter-over-benghazi-coverage/#ixzz2T3JtuS3i
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The brother of a top Obama administration official is also the president of CBS News, and the network may be days away from dropping one of its top investigative reporters for covering the administration's scandals too aggressively.
CBS News executives have reportedly expressed frustration with their own reporter, Sharyl Attkisson, who has steadily covered the Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack in Libya since late last year.
"Network sources" told Politico Wednesday that CBS executives feel Attkisson's Benghazi coverage is bordering on advocacy, and Attkisson "can't get some of her stories on the air."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/05/the-posts-sharyl-attkisson-piece-163496.html
Judge Jeanine Pirro - Obama Admin Lied To America! - Benghazi - Opening Statement
Yep... my kind of woman.... ( Oooops PC Violation). Anyway, it runs almost 12 minutes but it's awesome. Judge Jeanine Pirro really puts the Benghazi whistleblower hearing into perspective and, as always, she doesn't hold back or pull any punches)
[...] How many layers of scandal will there end up being in Benghazi? First, we have the talking points being altered (12 times) to cover up the ineptitude of the Obama administration. Then we have stand down orders that were issues to prevent any military aid from helping our people in harms way. We have the State Dept. demoting Greg Hicks for questioning the misinformation being given by the administration:
A key Benghazi whistle-blower who has allegedly been punished for speaking out against the administration is a registered Democrat who voted for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
The lawyer of Gregory Hicks, the former U.S. deputy chief of mission in Libya who testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday, confirmed the information to The Daily Caller on Saturday.
According to the lawyer, Victoria Toensing, Hicks voted for Clinton during the 2008 primary, and for then-Illinois Sen. Obama in the 2008 general election. He again voted for Obama in 2012.
"The fact is he is a registered Democrat in Virginia. The fact is he voted for Hilary in the primary and Obama and then again for Obama," Toensing said.
(Sorry libs, Hicks is not a partisan hack) And then there is this piece that hasn't really gotten much attention at all, that Ambassador Stevens was in Benghazi to help facilitate the transfer of Libyan arms to the Syrian rebels by way of Turkey.
Well just yesterday morning, Geraldo revealed that
he has sources telling him the same thing, that indeed Stevens was in Benghazi to help round up shoulder-to-air missiles to send to the Syrian rebels via Turkey.
Geraldo: Sources Tell Him That Benghazi Was About Hiding Shoulder-Fire Missiles Running To Syria
(It isn't only Geraldo sources that think this is the background behind this, many have been saying this from beginning. The reason for all this should and will come out)
Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton does not deserve higher office due to Benghazi
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/299165-paul-hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-higher-office-due-to-benghazi#ixzz2T6Rgysey
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi should "preclude her from holding higher office," according to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Paul told a crowd of supporters in Iowa on Friday that any presidential ambitions Clinton might have in 2016 should be stymied by the administration's response to the Libya attack.
"First question to Hillary Clinton: Where in the hell were the Marines?" he said, according to NBC News. "It was inexcusable, it was a dereliction of duty, and it should preclude her from holding higher office."
The administration has come under heavy criticism from Republicans for how it handled the attack, which left four Americans dead, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. In particular, Republicans have questioned whether the administration provided enough security and support to the embassy, and also how the attack was initially characterized afterwards.
Paul has not been shy about discussing his own interest in mounting a presidential run in 2016, and his appearance before the Iowa crowd carried heavy campaign undertones, as he spoke at the Iowa GOP's annual Lincoln Dinner.
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) spoke before Paul at the dinner. "The process of selecting the next leader of the free world begins in Iowa, and it's already begun," he said.
In his remarks, Paul said there was a "chance" he could vote for a comprehensive immigration reform package currently working its way through the Senate. He added that the Republican Party needs to find a way to make inroads into demographics where they have not found much success — young voters, Latinos and African-Americans.
"We're an increasingly diverse nation, and I think we do need to reach out to other people that aren't like us, don't look like us, don't wear the same clothes, that aren't exactly who we are," he said. "We're going to have to do something."
Obama's IRS:
Six times the IRS has been accused of punishing President Obama's political opponents
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
May 11, 2013 5:47 pm"President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS,"
—POS/President Obama jokes during his commencement speech at Arizona State University in 2009:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124260113149028331.html
Under President Obama the Internal Revenue Service has repeatedly been accused of using its enforcement powers to punish the White House's political opponents. Here are six of the most egregious examples:
1. The IRS Targeted Conservative Political Organizations for InvestigationOn Friday, the IRS admitted that career employees had specifically targeted organizations that had "Tea Party" or "Patriot" in their name.
The harassment of these conservative groups included intrusive and inappropriate questionnaires and a threat to make all the confidential information public. The targeting included explicitly asking for donor lists from conservative organizations as part of their application process.
"We made some mistakes, some people didn't use good judgment. For that, we're apologetic," acknowledged the director of the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt groups, Lois Lerner.
Last year, before a hearing at the House of Representatives, then IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman said, "there's absolutely no targeting. This is the kind of back and forth that happens to people." And still the IRS claims that the targeting of conservative groups was "in no way due to any political or partisan rationale."
2. ProPublica Published Confidential IRS Filings on Six Conservative OrganizationsFrom December 2012 to January 2013,
ProPublica published the confidential pending IRS applications for tax-exempt status of six conservative organizations.
ProPublica acknowledged that the IRS was not supposed to release information on pending claims for tax-exempt status after publishing Crossroad GPS's application.
"[IRS spokeswoman Michelle Eldridge] cited a law saying that publishing unauthorized returns or return information was a felony punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and imprisonment of up to five years, or both," according to ProPublica.
Despite being informed of the illegality, confidential applications from the five other organizations were discussed in January.
3. Austan Goolsbee, Then Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, Divulged on a Conference Call Confidential IRS Information on How Koch Industries Was OrganizedIn a background call with reporters, a "senior administration official" used Koch Industries as an example of how large corporations used corporate structures to avoid taxes.
In the course of attacking Koch Industries, which employs over 50,000 people and is owned by prominent conservative philanthropists Charles and David Koch, the official divulged confidential tax information about the company. The official was later outed as Austan Goolsbee, the former director of the president's Economic Recovery Board and then chair of the Council Of Economic Advisers.
"Neither the Koch website nor Forbes' list of private companies has information regarding Koch's tax filling status. This is confidential information," according to Koch Industries lawyer Mark Holden.
In 2010 an investigation led by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, Russell George, was opened after Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee requested it. The results of the investigation have not been publicly communicated, and will not be released unless Senate Democrats permit it.
4. Donors to Nonprofit Advocacy Groups Were Told that Past Donations Could Be Taxed as GiftsAfter not levying a gift tax for decades, the IRS investigated five donors to political advocacy nonprofits. Among those to receive letters threatening additional levies and taxes was conservative philanthropist Foster Friess, and the move was widely seen as an attempt to intimidate conservative organizations and donors on the eve of the 2010 midterm elections.
"Retroactive enforcement of the gift tax in this highly politicized environment raises legitimate concerns and demands further explanation," six Republican senators, lead by Sen. Orrin Hatch, said in a letter to the IRS.
The agency was forced to abandon its efforts to enforce the rarely used gift tax on donations, acknowledging that, "This is a difficult area... with respect to which we have little enforcement history." Again, the agency blamed "career civil servants."
5. After Being Singled Out by an Obama Campaign Website, a Romney Supporter Was Investigated by The IRS and the Department of Labor[/b
]During President Obama's reelection campaign, Frank VanderSloot, a contributor to pro-Romney campaign organizations, was said by the Obama campaign to have a "less-than-reputable record" and to be a "bitter foe of the gay rights movement."
A few months later, VanderSloot and his wife were told by the IRS they were being audited for the first time, looking over two years of past fillings.
Two weeks later, the Department of Labor informed VanderSloot that he was being investigated to ensure the three foreign workers he employs on his ranch received "the full scope of protections."
6. The IRS Claims It Can Read Your Emails without a Warrant
According to documents released last month under the Freedom of Information Act, the IRS "has long taken the position that the IRS can read your emails without a warrant—a practice that one appeals court has said violates the Fourth Amendment." That news came last month from the ACLU, which which had filed the FOIA request.
IRS lawyers asserted that Americans are entitled to "generally no privacy" in their online communications—including email.
CNET reported that "the IRS continued to take the same position, the documents indicate, even after a federal appeals court ruled in the 2010 case U.S. v. Warshak that Americans have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their e-mail."
Bonus: Under Obamacare, the IRS Will Become the Key Enforcer on Health Care
Once Obamacare is fully implemented in 2014, the IRS will enforce 47 new tax provisions along with distributing subsidies to 18 million people and tax credits to small businesses.
The Treasury Department expects the cost of enforcement from 2010 to 2013 to total $881 million. Former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman informed Congress last year the agency would need an additional $13.1 billion in 2014.
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Time For A Change, Obuma Says
Daily Hornblower
by Y.Lee Coy OteeWASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obuma announced Monday morning with David Cameron, UK Prime Minister, by his side, that he is resigning from the presidency effective immediately Tuesday and moving to the United Kingdom.
According to a White House press release, Obuma has lost all hope for the country after yesterday morning's shooting of Bill Maher at the Playboy Club in upstate New York that took place, less than two weeks after the Cleveland abduction case.
"This country has some pretty tough issues to tackle after all the problems that the republicans have caused over Benghazi and the IRS. And also, I don't have the patience or the stomach to debate common sense gun control legislation with ultra right-wing goons like NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre," Obuma said.
The president went on to say that he has greatly enjoyed his time in the White House and looks forward to the accomplishments of the new Biden administration.
"Sunny days are in store for this great country as soon as I leave," Obuma said. "And I can't wait to watch all the exciting changes from my new London flat."
He ended his announcement with a simple plea to the American people.
"Please understand what an incredibly difficult decision this was for me," he said. "I ask that you forgive me for this choice, and that you show Plugs the same love and support that you've shown me."
Obuma is scheduled to depart for London on May 24th, along with former First Lady Mooch Obuma, their daughters, Sasha and Malia, and the family dog, Bo.
Plugs Biden will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Tuesday afternoon. He announced that he will nominate Hillary Clinton for Vice President.
Warph,
If you don't quit building up my hope, then be dashed when I discover you're joking, I'm gonna come to Az. and beat the crap out of you. Guess we can hope and pray though---let us all now bow our heads -------
Quote from: jarhead on May 13, 2013, 02:38:32 PM
Warph,
If you don't quit building up my hope, then be dashed when I discover you're joking, I'm gonna come to Az. and beat the crap out of you. Guess we can hope and pray though---let us all now bow our heads -------
Don't bother, Jar.... Slappy took care of that yesterday when he 2-holed on a 4 par hole. The black-bomber hit his second shot and holed it out. I bogeyed the rest of the way in. BTW... did you read about Larryj buying a new microwave?
Nixonian: Obama Regime Seizes AP Reporters' Phone Records For
Over 20 Separate Lines, More Than 100 Journalists Affected... Keep Tuned
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Who dat? Tricky Dicky or Liar Barack
(AP must have been shocked by this seizure. They thought Obuma was their buddy. The Wassen SS has its eye on everybody. No exceptions.... perhaps this will finally wake them up to the monster THEY nurtured. No other administration in history would have been allowed to get away with spying on the press like this.)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.
In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.
"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.
The government would not say why it sought the records. U.S. officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have leaked information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.
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Obama: Republicans are making Americans 'cynical about government'
(Yeah.... nothing to do with the Benghazi, IRS and AP records scandals)
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-republicans-are-making-americans-cynical-about-government/article/2529584?custom_click=rss
President Obama resorted to his old "fever" analogy to complain to Democratic Party donors about ongoing Republican "hyper-partisanship." He also admitted to failing to deliver the post-partisan era promised in 2008.
"What's blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008," Obama said today, according to the pool report. "My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it's not quite broken yet. But I am persistent. And I am staying at it. And I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they're fearful of their base and they're concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them."
The president — whose administration has spent the last four days under fire for failing to send aid to Americans under attack in Benghazi; hiding what it knew about terrorists' involvement in the attack for two weeks; employing IRS staff who targeted Tea Party groups for special audits; and having the Justice Department pull phone records of Associated Press reporters — then said that the Republican opposition is producing cynicism about government.
Obama To Young People: Obamacare
Will Make Your Dreams Come True...
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(More like their worst nightmares)
(CNSNews.com) – In an event on Friday at the White House to promote the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama said that the law will provide insurance for young people despite how many times they change jobs or even careers.
"If you're a young person expecting to try many different jobs and careers until you find one that suits you, you'll be able to buy insurance that goes with you, travels with you, that gives you the freedom to pursue whatever you want without the fear that illness or accident somehow derails your dreams," Obama said.
From Politico:Plugs: "I've Gained Too Much Wisdom To Offer Any Advice"
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(From the guy who can barely tie his own shoes)
Vice President Joe Biden didn't offer much advice to graduates at the University of Pennsylvania's commencement on Monday, but he did have a bit to share.
"Don't listen to the cynics ... they were wrong about my generation and they're wrong about yours," he said, after listing a string of technological advancements to which this generation of graduates will contribute. Before he spoke, Biden was awarded an honorary Master of Laws.
"For all the uncertainty you will hear the future is in your control," he said, later adding: "Show us what you do because you will be able to do more ... than any other generation in the history of the world."
But, for the most part, Biden wasn't offering advice. "I've gained too much wisdom to offer any advice," he said.
"Dirty Harry" Reid On IRS Scandal: "No One Should Jump To Conclusions"
(If this story was in reverse Dirty Harry would be the first one to "jump to conclusions")
Boom!... SEAL Parents Demand Obama Explain Why Their Son Was Allowed to Be Desecrated At His Memorial Service By Islamic Cleric
(Watch the Video Below)
Karen and Billy Vaughn lost their SEAL son, Aaron, in 2011 in Afghanistan along with 16 other Navy SEALs.
At the memorial service in Afghanistan an Islamic cleric desecrated their son and the other SEALs.Seal Team 6 Heros were sold out to Politics. Now they're speaking out!(Look at each one of these pictures. This is America's BEST... WASTED!!!
...while that POS in the White House is partying and playing golf. If this information from the Vaughn's is true, it is
time to impeach that MUSLIM CLOWN and send him back to Kenya!!!!!!!!!)
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This combo shows the 30 troops killed in a helicopter downing in Afghanistan on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2011. The Pentagon on Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 identified the Americans as 17 members of the elite Navy SEALs, five Naval Special Warfare personnel who support the SEALs, three Air Force Special Operations personnel and an Army helicopter crew of five. (AP Photo)
Last Thursday three families of Navy SEAL Team VI special forces servicemen, along with one family of an Army National Guardsman, appeared at a press conference to disclose never before revealed information about how and why their sons, along with 26 others, died in a fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011. This was just months after the successful raid on the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan.
At the press conference the families released video on how military brass, while prohibiting any mention of a Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen Navy SEAL Team VI heroes. This cleric disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen by damning them as infidels to Allah. A video of the Muslim cleric's "prayer" was shown at last week's press conference with a certified translation.
On Sunday, the Vaughns went on FOX and Friends. Billy Vaughn wants the Commander-in Chief, "To defend the policy that in this United States government allows the body of a slain warrior to be desecrated and allows the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to be mocked."[/font][/size][/b]
Keep up the good work Warph.
I enjoy your posts.
Hey Warph ol buddy---you need to pick up a few extra bucks to supplement your retirement income ?? You might want to check this out.
Man, 75, Ran Prostitution Ring in NJ Senior Complex: Cops
A 75-year-old resident of a New Jersey senior citizen housing complex is suspected of running a prostitution ring that employed some elderly residents as sex workers, NBC 4 New York has learned. The suspect, James Parham, 75, was also accused, along with Cheryl Chaney, 66, of allowing residents and visitors to use crack in their apartments, police said. Both are charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and maintaining a nuisance, and Chaney is also charged with possession of crack cocaine. In Parham's case, the nuisance charge relates to allowing prostitution in his apartment and in Chaney's case, it relates to allowing drug use in hers. Englewood Police Chief Arthur O'Keefe told NBC 4 New York on Tuesday that Parham ran the prostitution ring through his apartments, and employed a mix of young women and older residents. None of the alleged prostitutes were arrested. O'Keefe says there was also sex and drug use going on in common areas of the complex, and that some seniors were afraid to venture into certain areas because they were afraid for their lives. Richard Allaway, a resident, says he and others were aware of "a lot of nonsense going on." A lack of security in the building is believed to have contributed to the problem. Kevin Thomas, who has loved ones living in the complex, said he couldn't understand why older people were turning to crime. "Why they wait so late in life to start doing stuff they should have did years ago, or shouldn't have touched period, why do you wait this late?" he said. Information about attorneys for the suspects was not immediately available.
Quote from: ROSS on May 14, 2013, 11:28:03 AM
Keep up the good work Warph.
I enjoy your posts.
Thanks, Ross... that post on Seal Team 6 really got to me as you could probably tell.
Stay tuned... there is more to come on it.
...Warph
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Hey Warph ol buddy---you need to pick up a few extra bucks to supplement your retirement income ?? You might want to check this out.
Man, 75, Ran Prostitution Ring in NJ Senior Complex:
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"Margie"
Anywayz... too dangerous for me. My luck, I'd be caught for pimping Margie and thrown in jail for the rest of my life. Besides, Sheriff Joe doesn't play golf. I'll pass it on to Slappy. He looks the part of an old worn-out pimp. Should be right down his alley.
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"Slappy... in his younger days"
Me? I'm thinking about starting a Fart Farm here after reading this newspaper article. Plenty of 'beaners' here... enough to light up our golf course for 'night golfing' for the next 5 years. :
"An ill wind that blows no good," states The Raleigh News & Observer in todays morning edition reporting the following event:
Approximately two hundred demonstrators gathered on the steps of the State Capitol building this morning to demonstrate their support for a new initiative to stop fracking in the state and replace it with an alternative energy source; Fart Farms. With shouts of,"Rather Fart than Fracked," and, "T.J.---T.J.--- how many farts did you save today," they clapped and cheered as State Senator T. J. McCorkle of Louisburg outlined hia new fart initiative to solve the state's energy problems.
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"Rather fart than frack," shouted McCorkle as the crowd cheered. "We don't need the Koch brothers or any other fancy pants outsiders to tell us what to do with our natural resources! We don't need foreigners to come in and foul our nest," he paused, "we can foul our own nest jes like we be doing for hundreds of years! With the developed technology we can install units in every household, every church, every public building and every tavern in the state to capture our own natural resource. Cousin Bubba McCorkle over in little Centerville can supply enough energy from one twelve-pack of Coors Light on a Saturday night to light up his entire little town for a month. One pork and bean church social could supply enough energy to light Louisburg for a week," he paused, "and even my old dog Moose could probably run our TV for an entire night if you could jes stand being in the room. "NO," he shouted, It's time to get the sneaky fart out of the lonliness and obscurity of a crowded elevator and into its own rightful place in society and it's time for the bold and regal fart to stop being the poor relative to a good healthy shit!" The crowd cheered wildly.
McCorkle concluded, "So listen up all of you who would bring fracking to our beautiful and pristine state, go frack yourselves and the horse you rode in on!" As supporters cheered, McCorkle was escorted from the stage by a local Boy Scout troop and a contingent from the 3F--- The Farting Famers of Franklin County.
The Raleigh News & Observer concluded in a front page editorial; On close observance, it appears that once again Senator T. J. McCorkle of Louisburg is just blowing smoke.
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The Justice Department's 'Massive, Unprecedented' Intrusion on AP
Watch the Video
http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/video/the-justice-departments-massive-unprecedented-intrusion-on-ap/
http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/tag/associated-press/
Why hell no the IRS won't do anything about this fraud. They are too busy going after tea party groups !!!
PLEASE WATCH THIS GIANT SCAM AND PASS IT ON.The IRS will put you in jail if you fail to pay taxes to support this..................
This, without a doubt, is the craziest nation on the face of the earth. Please watch this.
http://videos2view.net/tax-fraud.htm
Now we know -- Team Obama
both corrupt and incompetent
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"Has Obama Taken a Page Out of Nixon's Playbook?"
Obama's scandals take nation by storm
By MICHAEL GOODWIN
Last Updated: 2:49 AM, May 15, 2013As a metaphor for big government, it is hard to top the Justice Department's seizing of journalists' phone records from The Associated Press.Unless, of course, you think the best example is the Internal Revenue Service
turning the screws on groups it viewed as conservative and, therefore, unworthy of fair treatment.
Or maybe the winner is the sneaky spreading of ObamaCare's tentacles, with insurance companies now predicting the law will drive up the cost of individual premiums by as much as 400 percent.There are no losers in this race to the bottom — except the American people. It is tempting to ask whether they've had enough Hope & Change, but the question is premature. With 44 months to go in the reign of the Great Mistake, the gods are not done punishing us.
Meanwhile, back at the White House, the growing cloud of trouble must have the bunker boys longing for the good old days. You know, those idyllic days of yesteryear, a k a early last week, when Benghazi was the only scandal on the horizon.
Everything was much simpler then. All the president had to do
was cry "Politics!" and the Pavlovian media mutts declared Benghazi a "partisan witch hunt" and started digging into really important things, such as whether Republicans are evil or just stupid.
Then the dam broke. First, it was the sensational Benghazi hearing, where previously muzzled whistleblowers detailed the administration's bungles before, during and after the terror attack. Throw in reports showing the infamous Susan Rice talking points were rewritten 11 times, going from fact to fiction, and Benghazi suddenly became the important story it should have been all along.If that were all, it would have been enough. But the near-simultaneous revelations in recent days about
the IRS playing political favorites, the massive phone grab at the AP news operation, and
ObamaCare's cost impact combined to demonstrate something I believed for a long time.
The Obama administration is both corrupt and incompetent. It is a double whammy that spells trouble for the nation, at home and abroad.The corruption is not like that in Albany, where officials stuff their pockets with taxpayer cash. The corruption in Obama-Land is the selective use of government power to reward friends and punish opponents. Or, as the president calls them, enemies.Political allies — think Solyndra and unions — get special goodies, while those who oppose the regime's agenda are demonized and singled out for scrutiny. The IRS targeting of groups with "Tea Party" or "patriot" in their names and those that advocate less spending smacks of the tactics of banana republic strongmen. Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro would be proud. But America is a nation of laws and not of men, of individual liberty and not of centralized power. And that national dynamic explains the firestorm of anger aimed at the White House. The headlines have sparked a wide and genuine outcry over Obama's push against the nation's roots.
Obama's been doing it for four years, and mostly getting away with it, but suddenly, there is a critical mass of evidence against him. Maybe the AP case made the media realize they were not exempt from Obama's overreach.
Whatever the reason, what we see so far is certainly not the end of it.
You can bet other nasty, intrusive surprises are hiding in the vast deep of the expanding bureaucracy. The ultimate danger is a lack of accountability.
The idea that ordinary citizens hold the power has no meaning when the political class circles the wagons and the press looks the other way while the president accumulates more power and control.That is where we have been, but hopefully, not where we are going. Their liberty DNA kicking in, more and more citizens, including
some in the media, finally are expressing shock and anger at how big, clumsy and crooked our government is. They are welcome to the discovery, belated though it is.
For those of us not shocked by the inevitable, there is vindication but no satisfaction.
Each example of Obama's chickens coming home to roost just makes more obvious how much damage he's already done.
The repair begins by throwing open the doors and windows of Washington. We'll need a lot of sunshine to disinfect this rot.Read more: Goodwin: Storm clouds brewing in Obama-Land over Benghazi, IRS, AP scandals - NYPOST.com http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/scandals_take_nation_by_storm_XDfi2w8sSByyRmvPgL5XiP#ixzz2TRzwhFq1
NY Times Blasts Obama Regime For Spying On AP
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/opinion/spying-on-the-associated-press.html?hp&_r=1&
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(Never thought I'd see the day... ain't life grand.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me."
Welcome Journalists.... perhaps you may help our country yet!
I'm enjoying it while it lasts... Popcorn anyone?
...Warph)
Spying on The Associated Press — NY TimesThe Obama administration, which has a chilling zeal for investigating leaks and prosecuting leakers, has failed to offer a credible justification for secretly combing through the phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press
in what looks like a fishing expedition for sources and an effort to frighten off whistle-blowers.On Friday, Justice Department officials revealed that they had been going through The A.P.'s records for months. The dragnet covered work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 people at one of the oldest and most reputable news organizations. James Cole, a deputy attorney general, offered no further explanation on Tuesday, saying only that it was part of a "criminal investigation involving highly classified material" from early 2012.
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said he could not comment on the details of the phone records seizure, which he said was an open investigation — although he was happy to comment on the open investigation into the tax audits of conservative groups, which he said might have been criminal and were "certainly outrageous and unacceptable."
Both Mr. Holder and Mr. Cole declared their commitment — and that of President Obama — to press freedoms. Mr. Cole said the administration does not "take lightly" such secretive trolling through media records.
We are not convinced. For more than 30 years, the news media and the government have used a well-honed system to balance the government's need to pursue criminals or national security breaches with the media's constitutional right to inform the public. This action against The A.P., as the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press outlined in a letter to Mr. Holder, "calls into question the very integrity" of the administration's policy toward the press.
The records covered 20 phone lines, including main office phones in New York City, Washington, Hartford, and the Congressional press gallery. The guidelines for such subpoenas, first enacted in 1972, require that requests for media information be narrow. The reporters' committee said this action is so broad that it allowed prosecutors to "plunder two months of news-gathering materials to seek information that might interest them."
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The Justice Department is pursuing at least two major press investigations, including one believed to be focused on David Sanger's reporting in a book and in The Times on an American-Israeli effort to sabotage Iranian nuclear works. These tactics will not scare us off, or The A.P., but they could reveal sources on other stories and frighten confidential contacts vital to coverage of government.
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Tingles For Obama
Chris Matthews: Conservatives Oppose Obama Because of 'White Supremacy'
http://freebeacon.com/matthews-white-supremacy-heart-of-opposition-to-obama/
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I would think that would be justice if it did happen. If they didn't keep saying the president was involved in this. They can say fairly and authoritatively, it is his job to fix it. I'll tell you, Reverend, one piece of this thing that we have to keep in mind as we deal with effective government, and those of us who believe in effective positive government have to be the ones to make it work. The right wing loves it when it screws up because it makes their case. The liberals, the progressives, the reasonable people will say I need the government. I need it not just to protect me, I need it to do a lot of things I want done to keep this society okay. But the problem is there are people in this country, I don't know the number maybe 10 percent, maybe 20 percent on a bad day, who want this president to have an asterisk next to his name in the history books, that he really wasn't president. You know, like a guy in baseball who used drugs. They want to be able to say you know, he really didn't have that batting average.
He really wasn't really the first African-American president. He really didn't do healthcare. He really didn't kill Bin-Laden. There's an asterisk. They've been fighting like that, people like Donald Trump, since day one, they can't stand the idea that he is president. And a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another race or group, so what. It is the sense the white race must rule. That's what racism is. And they can't stand the idea that a man who is not white is president. That is real. That sense of racial superiority and rule is in the hearts of some people in this country. Not all conservatives. Not even all right wingers. But it always come through with this birther crap and the other references and somehow trying to erase Obamacare, erase his record in history and a big part of it is bought into by people like John Boehner who is not a bad guy but he knows the only way to talk to the hard right is talk their language.AL SHARPTON: No doubt about it.
[...] Tingles Turns On Obama
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(According to Tingles he's now a white supremacist...
I think I now know what's been running down his leg)
President Obama "obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch," Chris Matthews said tonight.
Yes, you read that right: The MSNBC host who in 2008 felt a "thrill going up my leg" after hearing Obama speak has grown disenchanted. Tonight's episode of Hardball saw Matthews delivering a rare, unforgiving grilling of the president as severe as anything that might appear on Fox News.
"What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn't like dealing with other politicians — that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn't particularly like the press.... He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft," Matthews said.
"So what part does he like? He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere," Matthews continued. "But what part does he like? He doesn't like lobbying for the bills he cares about. He doesn't like selling to the press. He doesn't like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn't seem to like being an executive."
Hey Teamters: The Tax Man Cometh
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(Oh, I love this one):Deep in the shit-list of taxes that the president's Obamacare plan will hit Americans with is a 40 percent excise tax on health plans typical union members have, especially in Midwest states, according to a new analysis.
The Obamacare tax won't take place until 2018, but when it does it will smack high cost, or so-called "Cadillac" health insurance plans, according to the group Americans for Tax Reform.
"This tax will most directly affect union families and early retirees, who are likely to be covered by such plans," said ATR in a review of upcoming tax cuts in the health reform package set to go into effect in January. It will target plans whose premiums exceed exceed $10,200 for an individual and $27,500 for a family.
White House Benghazi Emails
The White House has released 100 pages of internal e-mails that document the development of talking points used by U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and others following the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya.
The e-mails show that the White House, State Department, FBI and the CIA all participated in shaping the talking points, which have become a flashpoint for critics of the administration's response to the attack.Update: You can view the e-mails here.http://www.scribd.com/doc/141729513/White-House-Benghazi-Emails
FOX News Gloats Over Benghazi Coverage... We Told You So! (Video)
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The released Benghazi emails directly contradict White House claims.
FOX and Friends gloated this morning over their coverage of the Benghazi scandal and cover-up.
"Mainstream media and Daily Show have mocked us because of Benghazi. And now everyone is catching up. It's been a story we're realizing."
Hah! Jay Leno Rips Obama Again – Compares Him to Nixon (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 16, 2013, 7:50 AMJay Leno ripped Barack Obama again last night on his show. He compared him to Richard Nixon. "It's been a rough week for Obama. A lot of critics are comparing President Obama to President Richard Nixon. Which is unfair. Nixon's unemployment rate was only 5%."(http://4-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/300x400xobama-nixon.jpg.pagespeed.ic.GDLlE34EeP.jpg)
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) went on the Hugh Hewitt Show tonight and dropped this bombshell. The Holder-Obama Justice Department tapped the House of Representatives(http://4-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/480x280xholder-tapped-cloak-room.jpg.pagespeed.ic.1gLclBKTuH.jpg)
They tapped the cloak room, too.
Via the Hugh Hewitt website, via The Green Room:HH: The idea that this might be a Geithner-Axelrod plan, and by that, the sort of intimation, Henry II style, will no one rid me of this turbulent priest, will no one rid me of these turbulent Tea Parties, that might have just been a hint, a shift of an eyebrow, a change in the tone of voice. That's going to take a long time to get to. I don't trust the Department of Justice on this. Do you, Congressman Nunes?
DN: No, I absolutely do not, especially after this wiretapping incident, essentially, of the House of Representative. I don't think people are focusing on the right thing when they talk about going after the AP reporters. The big problem that I see is that they actually tapped right where I'm sitting right now, the Cloak Room.
HH: Wait a minute, this is news to me.
DN: The Cloak Room in the House of Representatives.
HH: I have no idea what you're talking about.
DN: So when they went after the AP reporters, right? Went after all of their phone records, they went after the phone records, including right up here in the House Gallery, right up from where I'm sitting right now. So you have a real separation of powers issue that did this really rise to the level that you would have to get phone records that would, that would most likely include members of Congress, because as you know...
HH: Wow.
The cloakrooms serve as a place for members to socialize, eat, and take naps without leaving the building. These rooms are closed to all except for Senators and Representatives, and a few of their trusted staffers, and even have their own phone numbers.
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(Sick Bastards... and John McRino wants to give arms to
Syrian Islamic Rebels, who are probably Al-Qaeda)
BEIRUT: Fighters of the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Syria executed 11 men they accused of taking part in massacres by President Bashar al-Assad's forces, a video published on Thursday showed.
A man whose face was covered in a black balaclava shot each man in the back of the head as they kneeled, blindfolded and lined up in a row in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor.
"The sharia court for the eastern region in Deir al-Zor has sentenced to death these apostate soldiers that committed massacres against our brothers and families in Syria," the executioner said on the video.
Islamist militants with black flags shouted "God is great" as each man was shot. The executioner returned to some victims, firing more bullets into them to make sure they were dead.The video is the second in two days to show such executions by fighters who say they are from Al-Qaeda-linked groups.
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/May-16/217305-islamist-rebels-execute-11-syrian-soldiers-for-massacres.ashx#ixzz2TUQ6ofpc
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
(Shades of Perry Mason... another Black DOJ Clown.
Why not a White DOJ Clown?
Discrimination I Say by Obuma "The Racist"...
Obuma: "The Ambassador Killer"
...Warph)
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Chicago reporter Michael Sneed says our first gay president, Obama is eyeing Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to replace scandal-plagued Eric Holder.
The Sun-Times reported:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/20134635-452/obama-eyes-gov-deval-patrick-to-replace-eric-holder-at-justice.html
Sneed is told that Attorney General Eric "Fast and Furious" Holder's days are numbered.
Sneed hears President Barack Obama, who is this/close to Holder, has set his sights on Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick as a possible replacement "when the heat dies down on the latest hot-button scandals to hit the U.S. Justice Department," said a top White House source.
Last year, Holder became a hot button over a congressional probe of the sale of government guns to drug cartels.
This time it's the double whammy of an IRS scandal and the U.S. Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press reporters' phone records — which has caused a media uproar.
IRS Official In Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Obamacare Office (The very Same woman who is now in charge of the IRS' Obamacare unit. :PThe Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-official-in-charge-during-tea-party-targeting-now-runs-health-care-office/
Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS' Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.
Her successor, Joseph Grant, is taking the fall for misdeeds at the scandal-plagued unit between 2010 and 2012. During at least part of that time, Grant served as deputy commissioner of the tax-exempt unit.
Grant announced today that he would retire June 3, despite being appointed as commissioner of the tax-exempt office May 8, a week ago
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Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harrassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.
More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director of the tax agency's Obamacare program office, a position that put her in charge of the vast expansion of the IRS' regulatory power and staffing in connection with federal health care, ABC reported earlier today.
Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year, for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.http://washingtonexaminer.com/irs-tax-exemptionobamacare-exec-got-103390-in-bonuses/article/2529899?custom_click=rss
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Post Office Buildings for Sale
All In The Family
The US has entered into a contract with a real estate firm to sell 56
buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government has decided
it no longer needs these buildings, many of which are located on prime land in
towns and cities across the country.
The sale of these properties will fetch billions of dollars and a handsome 6%
commission to the company handling the sales. That company belongs to a man
named Richard Blum. Who is Richard Blum you ask?
Why the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein, that's who. What a bunch of
crooks we have running this country!
Senator Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum, stand to make a fortune. His
firm, C.R. I., is the sole real estate company offering these properties for
sale. Of course, C.R.I. will be making a 6% commission on the sale of each and
every one of these postal properties.
All of these properties that are being sold are all fully paid for. They were
purchased with U.S. taxpayers dollars, and they are allowed free and clear by
the U.S.P.S. The only cost to keep them is the cost to actually keep the doors
open and the heat and lights on. The United States Postal Service doesn't even
have to pay property taxes on these subject properties. Would you sell your
house just because you couldn't afford to pay the electric bill?
Well, the Post Office is.
How does a powerful U.S. Senator from San Francisco manage to get away with
such a sweet deal?
A powerful United States Senator's husband is standing by, all ready to make
millions from a U.S. taxpayer funded enterprise.
No one in the mainstream media is even raising an eyebrow over his 6%
commission on the sale of hundreds of millions of dollar's worth of
quasi-public assets.
Pass this info on before it's pulled from the internet.
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Berkeley, CA against the sale of Post Offices
http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_23142451/berkeley-post-office-activists-look-at-legal-strategies
More Evidence Emerges that Administration Knew of IRS Targeting During Campaign
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(Ok... of course, they knew about it. They planned it. There is more evidence that the Obama Administration knew of the IRS targeting during the 2012 campaign. And where is David Axelrod in all of this. Could HE be the person that started all of this. Time to supoena him and get him in front of a Grand Jury.
...Warph)CBS News reported:There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS' targeting of conservative groups.
Inspector General Russell George said he informed a deputy at the Treasury Department in June of 2012 about the probe into the IRS.
The Treasury Department confirmed the timeline but said they did not know the details of the investigation until last week.
It's the first evidence that someone within the Obama administration knew about the practice during the presidential campaign.
It is unknown whether anyone in the White House was told of the federal investigation.
Republican Congressman Aaron Schock serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees the IRS.
"We don't have any reason to believe at this point that it was anybody outside the IRS directing them to do this," said Schock. "Obviously there's been claims that the White House might have been involved and other groups. I don't have any reason to believe that."
He says the IRS' behavior was criminal, claiming it hurt the ability of conservative groups to fundraise and that limited their influence.
"Until we know who it was responsible for the activities, we need to continue to investigate," Schock said.
A six-month-long investigation by the inspector general failed to pinpoint exactly who made the decision to subject some applications to extra scrutiny.Sen. Max Baucus, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee said on Friday that he expects "a lot more" information about the growing political scandal at the IRS to come out over the coming days.
U.S. Urges Nigeria Show 'Restraint' in Striking Back
Against Islamic Militants
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(Holy crap... who's side are we on, anywayz)On May 18, Nigerian war planes "struck militant camps in the northeast" in an attempt to stem the growing tide of Islamic terrorists in the area. The U.S. quickly warned that Nigeria needs to be sure "to respect human rights and not harm civilians."
Reuters reports that Nigerian troops used "jets and helicopters to bombard targets in their biggest offensive since the Boko Haram group launched a revolt almost four years ago."
The situation in northeast Nigeria has become so bad that President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency there days ago.
Since that time, as Nigeria has used jets and helicopters to try to rein the Islamists in, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he has "credible evidence" that Nigeria has committed "human rights violations" in retaliating against the Islamists.
Kerry said he condemns "Boko Haram's campaign of terror in the strongest terms," but he wants Nigeria to show "restraint" in their response.http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/05/18/Nigeria-Attacks-Islamists-U-S-Warns-Of-Human-Rights-Violations
May 19, 2013
Obama Built This Forgery
Nick Chase
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/m-obama_built_this_forgery.html
I don't normally display lawn signs or bumper stickers during political campaigns; I usually keep my voting preferences to myself. (That's the point of secret ballots, right?) But the November 2012 elections got me charged up to the point where I felt the urge to do something public, and since my friends already knew how I felt, I didn't think I would be divulging any secrets by doing so.
But I didn't like the bumper stickers offered by the campaigns, or any of the clever ones being sold over the internet, because I was really against certain candidates rather than for the opposition. So I designed and ordered my own, shown below in Figure OB:
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Figure OB. "Obama Built This Forgery" bumper sticker.
(The "Obama Built" is a reference to Obama's "You didn't build that!" statement on the campaign trail, because he did build this fake "birth certificate," or had it built for him.)
Because I live in a very blue state, when I was out in my car, I would occasionally be stopped and asked about my sticker, usually by an ill-informed progressive. I would tell this person that the Obama "birth certificate" released by the White House in April 2011 is clearly a fake, and you can plainly see the proof...right on this bumper sticker! In the minute or two before I would be dismissed as a raving lunatic, I would be able to explain:
The public was essentially told that Hawaii Department of Health officials took a bound volume of original paper 1961 birth certificates, turned to Obama's, placed it on the copier, copied it onto green security paper, stamped and embossed-sealed it, and then delivered it to Obama's lawyer to be flown back to Washington. In which case, the image on my bumper sticker, a copy of the digital PDF "birth certificate" released on April 27, 2011 by the White House, and which the president declared to be his long-form birth certificate, must be fake -- because near the left margin, especially at the top of the document, the text and lines of the form bend downward (to simulate the bending of the page near the binding). It's impossible for a copier to do that bending.
This is the point at which I would usually be dismissed as a madman -- a conservative nut-job.
But since you are still reading this, I presume that you are interested in knowing just why this is impossible.
In Figure ULC, take a look at the upper-left corner of the more detailed blowup of the PDF forgery (shown immediately below in Figure LF):
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Figure LF. Obama long-form digitized (PDF) "birth certificate" released by the White House on April 27, 2011 (with wide margins trimmed).
In Figure ULC below, you can clearly see how the horizontal lines of the form bend downward without going out of focus, and how the text bends downward without being out of focus, and how the paper purportedly curves away from the copier glass without going very dark, and even how the penciled numbers "6," "5," and "2" at the very left edge, which are in focus, can be easily read.
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Figure ULC. Upper-left corner detail of Figure LF
And how does this compare with what a copier really does?For my at-home comparison I selected a dictionary, a very thick book where the text runs close to the binding, so I would be certain to copy letters which curved well away from the copier glass.
You can see the result in Figure MW, below, where I have reproduced the upper-left corner of the copied image:(http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/assets/Chasing%204.png)
Figure MW. What a copier actually creates. Text blurs and goes dark (but does not bend) where the paper curls away from the copier's glass plate
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As the paper curves away from the copier glass, note how quickly the text becomes blurry, and how quickly it turns dark and unreadable. Also note that the text does not bend; it is impossible for the copier to make this happen.
(The technical reason for this is that copiers copy the original document one very thin line at a time, depositing an electrostatic charge on a rotating drum one thin line at a time, synchronously with the document-scanning mechanism.)
So how was that bending created in the forgery? The most likely explanation is that the forger began with an image taken by a camera, where the camera was positioned roughly at the bottom of the certificate and aimed slightly upward when the shutter clicked. Because the camera captures the entire picture at once, the camera lens can create this distortion on parts of a curling image that are well-removed from the center of the picture. You can see this more clearly by looking at the left edge of the full "birth certificate" image shown in Figure LF. The lines at the very top-left bend downward most sharply -- at the bottom left edge, hardly at all. This is exactly the kind of image behavior you'd expect to see in a photograph, where the entire picture was taken off-center.
The forger could have used one of the several images of genuine microfilmed or photographed vintage Hawaiian birth certificates that are floating around on the internet as a template for building the forgery, or the effect could be entirely synthetic, photoshopped by the forger to create the illusion of a bent page in a big book.
Since the president has now been re-elected, this information has zero political value; it is of interest primarily to set straight the historical record. Therefore, there is no political incentive for any progressive to call you a nutcase when you bring up the subject; you should be able to do so freely, without retribution. Barack Obama built this fake -- he now owns it. His campaign peddled it on mugs and T-shirts. The evidence of forgery can be clearly seen to the naked eye -- on the internet, in newspaper and magazine stories, on merchandise -- and even on my bumper sticker! -- by anybody.
The shoe is now on the other foot. You no longer have to prove that that it's fake; it's up to the president's sycophants to try to prove it's genuine. And "because Barack Obama says so" isn't proof.
About the author: Nick Chase is a retired but still very active technical writer, technical editor, computer programmer and stock market newsletter writer. During his career he has produced documentation on computers, typewriters, typesetters, headline-makers and other pieces of equipment most people never heard of, and he has programmed typesetting equipment. You can read more of his work at contrariansview.org.
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Two years ago, Obama had declared that he was the defender of Benghazi, protecting it against a massacre that was never going to happen. And once Benghazi was liberated to be under Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood rule, the man who had sent in the air force to protect Benghazi Islamist militias against Gaddafi, couldn't be bothered to send in the planes to protect his diplomats against the militias.
There is not one single place where a major Arab Spring transformation has led to a happy ending.
Egypt is a political, social and economic disaster. Obama had been counting on Islamists transforming Egypt into another Turkey on a slow and sensible schedule. But Morsi had a little too much in common with Obama. Like Obama, he couldn't wait a decade to crush his opponents and enact repressive policies that would fracture the country. He could barely wait a month.
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President Harry S. Truman led the effort to establish a single holiday for citizens to come together and thank our military members for their patriotic service in support of our country.
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On August 31, 1949, Louis Johnson, who was the United States' Secretary of Defense, announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy and Air Force Days. The event stemmed from the armed forces' unification under one department – the Department of Defense. The Army, Navy and Air Force leagues adopted the newly formed day. The Marine Corps League declined to drop support for Marine Corps Day but supports Armed Forces Day too.
The first Armed Forces Day was celebrated on Saturday, May 20, 1950. The theme for that day was "Teamed for Defense", which expressed the unification of all military forces under one government department. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the day was designed to expand public understanding of what type of job was performed and the role of the military in civilian life.
Armed Forces Day was a day for the military to show "state-of-the-art" equipment to Americans. It was also a day to honor and acknowledge Americans in the armed forces. Parades, open houses, receptions and air shows were held at the inaugural Armed Forces Day. Armed Forces Day is still celebrated nationwide today and is part of Armed Forces Week.
Partisan Interest, Reactions to IRS and AP Controversies
Attentive Public Critical of DOJ Use of AP RecordsOverviewSo far, public interest in a trio of controversies connected to the Obama administration has been limited. Roughly a quarter (26%) of Americans say they are very closely following reports that the IRS targeted conservative groups. About the same number (25%) are tracking the Benghazi investigation very closely, and even fewer (16%) are very closely following news about the Justice Department subpoenaing phone records of AP journalists.
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The new survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted May 16-19 among 1,002 adults, finds that 37% of Republicans are paying very close attention to the IRS story, compared with 21% of Democrats and 25% of independents. And the Benghazi investigation continues to draw much greater interest from Republicans (34% very closely) than Democrats (18%).
A historical review of previous controversies involving White House or cabinet officials finds that these levels of public interest – and the partisan divide in attentiveness – are not necessarily new. Previous scandals – such as the Lewis "Scooter" Libby case during George W. Bush's administration or the "Pardon-gate" scandal at the end of Bill Clinton's second term – received similar levels of public attention, and were generally more interesting to those in the opposition party.
The IRS Targeting Controversy:Overall, 42% say the Obama administration was involved in the decision to target conservative groups. Fewer (31%) say that the decision to target conservative groups was made by IRS employees without administration involvement, while 27% offer no opinion.
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Not surprisingly, opinions about this are highly partisan. Nearly seven-in-ten Republicans (69%) say the administration was involved in the IRS's decision to target conservative groups, compared with just 12% who say the decision was made by IRS employees. By contrast, just 21% of Democrats say the administration was involved, while 54% say IRS employees made the decision to target conservative groups. By a 44% to 28% margin, more independents say the administration was involved in the IRS decision than say it was not.
Those who followed the IRS story at least fairly closely (50% of the public) express similar views about the administration's involvement: 49% say the administration was involved while 35% say it was not. But partisan differences are wider among this attentive segment of the population; fully 78% of Republicans who have followed the story believe the administration was involved in the decision to target conservative groups, while 63% of attentive Democrats say the decision came from IRS employees.
AP Phone Records Controversy:The public is of two minds when it comes to the Justice Department's decision to subpoena the phone records of AP journalists as part of an investigation into the disclosure of classified information. Slightly more disapprove (44%) than approve (36%) of the DOJ's actions.
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Criticism of the DOJ is substantially higher among those who are paying attention to the story. By a 55% to 35% margin people who have followed reports about the AP phone records at least fairly closely disapprove of the DOJ's actions. Attentive Republicans are particularly critical: they disapprove by a 66% to 28% margin.
Past Administration Controversies:The Pew Research Center has been tracking public interest in news stories for more than two decades, and while each political scandal is unique – and the list is hardly comprehensive – the level of public and partisan interest in the current affairs is largely consistent with prior events.
At their peaks, about a quarter of Americans very closely followed controversies involving Alberto Gonzales (22%), Scooter Libby (27%) and Karl Rove (23%) during George W. Bush's administration. All three drew more attention from Democrats than Republicans.
The "Pardon-gate" controversy at the end of Bill Clinton's presidency was followed very closely by 28%, with far more interest from Republicans (42%) than Democrats (24%).
The exception to this partisan gap was the public's first reaction to the Monica Lewinsky story. An early February 1998 survey found 35% following very closely, with high levels of interest across party lines. However, the partisan gap in interest in allegations against Clinton increased during impeachment proceedings later that year.
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Blacks Offended By Obama's Morehouse College Commencement Speech,
They Say He Was Pandering To White People
(Obama pander? That's crazy talk!)
"President Obama: I Might Have Been in PRISON"
Via College Fix: http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/13531/
It's not uncommon for African Americans to criticize President Barack Obama's job performance, and the latest example of that comes on the heels of his commencement speech at Morehouse College on Sunday.
During his keynote address at the historically black, all-male college in Georgia, Obama called for better family values among the black community and personal responsibility over complaints about racism.
During his speech, Obama told the grads to "recognize the burdens you carry with you, but resist the temptation to use them as excuses."
"That's what being an American is about. Success may not come quickly or easily. But if you strive to do what's right; if you work harder and dream bigger; if you set an example in your own lives and do your part to help meet the challenges of our time, then I am confident that, together, we will continue the never-ending task of perfecting our union."
But some African Americans on Monday called that message tired and insulting, saying it was rhetoric meant to pander to white people.
"Trevor Coleman thinks it's time for President Obama to get a new speech for black audiences," The Washington Post reports. "The personal responsibility finger-wagging, delivered most recently Sunday at Morehouse College's commencement, is getting old. ... Coleman, a former speechwriter for former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, said ... he was disappointed that Obama almost always defaults to the clean-up-your-act message when talking to predominantly black audiences."
The Post goes on to quote Leola Johnson, an associate professor and chair of the Media and Cultural Studies Department at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., who said Obamas' speeches "are actually not aimed at black people."
"They're actually for white people, liberals especially," she said.
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The Honeymoon is Over:
Half of Americans Want to See Obama Impeached
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Hey Obuma... the party's over, Clown.....
...even Shirley Bassett agrees. Time to head back to 'da hood'... you POS!
I would like to take you back to a time not too long ago. Think back to 2008 and early 2009 and recall the nauseating Obama-hysteria that made Beatlemania look tame by comparison. Children's books were written about the gloriousness of Barack Obama and the cult-like worship took on an unsettling momentum.
People adorned themselves with his ominous image and the buzzwords were- you guessed it- "hope" and "change." Americans were promised change and told that hope was a good thing. While I never bought into the con, even I was naïve as I could not have fathomed just how terrible a president the community organizer would be.
Now let's fast-forward to present day. Where are the "hope" tee shirts with Obama staring dreamily upward? Where are the messengers and Johnny-come-lately political know-it-alls who assert that Obama will change everything and the country is now saved? The dorm room walls of rebellious college students who read Marx for the first time have gone from Che to Obama and are now festooned with a picture of George W. Bush as the students who can't find work mutter, "I guess he wasn't so bad."
That includes a surprising one in four Democrats.According to a recent poll conducted by the public-opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies, half of Americans want to see President Obama impeached.Fritz Wenzel, who conducted the poll, noted:"Half or nearly half of those surveyed said they believed Obama should be impeached for the trifecta of scandals now consuming Washington."
"It may be early in the process for members of Congress to start planning for impeachment of Barack Obama, but the American public is building a serious appetite for it."When discussing the Benghazi attack and the Obama Administration's cover-up, the poll found that 50.1 percent of Americans said Obama should be impeached. That included 27.6 percent of the responding Democrats.When discussing the AP scandal where the Obama Administration's Justice Department broadly surveilled the phone records of reporters for, what seems to be, no justifiable reason, the poll found that 48.6 percent thought impeachment is appropriate.
That included 26.1 percent of the responding Democrats.When we juxtapose the current feelings about the Obama Administration with how America felt early in his first term, the fall from grace is as incredible as it is satisfying. Obama's "administration of transparency" has become the most corrupt and villainous administration that this country has ever known. Even with a lapdog media softening the blows, Americans are still fed up with the criminal who occupies the White House.http://www.tpnn.com/the-honeymoon-is-over-half-of-americans-want-to-see-obama-impeached/
About the post author, Todd Cefaratti A graduate of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California Irvine (UCI) and (HBS) Harvard Business School Executive Program. Todd Cefaratti holds degrees in economics, marketing and digital marketing. Todd is one of the top internet marketing experts in his field. Todd is also the founder of the nonprofit organization TheTeaParty.net which began in 2009 at the height of the Tea Party movement and today is recognized as one of the top national Tea Party organizations in the movement. The organization is still growing at over a 1000 new patriots every day and going strong with over 600,000 loyal active members. Todd is also the CEO of a major marketing consulting and fundraising organization and the Tea Party News Network. In his spare time, Todd is active with his wife and two daughters in their Christian church and Christian school that both daughters attend.
The following will show you how screwed-up the Islamic religion really is.(This is the same cleric clown CAIR has repeatedly touted as a moderate)(http://www.memritv.org/pic/logo_report.gif)
Top Sunni Cleric Yusuf Al-Qardawi Calls For Jihad While Visiting Gaza, Prays To Become A Martyr...
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May 8-11, 2013 Clip No. 3841 Leading Sunni Scholar Al-Qaradhawi in Visit to Gaza Calls for Jihad, Prays to Become Martyr
Following are excerpts from the coverage of leading Sunni scholar Yousuf Al-Qaradhaw's visit to Gaza, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV and Al-Jazeera Network on May 8-11, 2013:Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya: Today, we say with pride that Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi is the sheik of Jihad in Palestine, the sheik of Al-Aqsa, of Jerusalem, and of Palestine. We say this out of recognition for the great role played by him, as well as other Muslim scholars, in strengthening our position in this land, and in supporting the steadfastness of our people and of the resistance.
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We have been talking [with the people of Gaza] about how our entire Jihad, all our efforts, our lives, our hopes, and our aspirations are to die for the sake of Allah, so that Palestine can live. Brothers, this is essential.
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Master of Ceremonies: Now we shall present our imam, Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, with a Palestinian passport and Palestinian citizenship. The prime minister will now sign it.
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Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: We are working toward the liberation of the prisoners, and the liberation of the land of Palestine. We are striving to liberate Palestine in its entirety, without excluding a single inch. Palestine in its entirety has been usurped by those Zionists, who were empowered by the West as a certain point in time. They seized our land, banishing its people to all corners of the world. They began to live in this land as if it were their own, but it does not belong to them. They came from all over, from different countries. With our Jihad, we strive to liberate the land of Palestine, and to bring back all those who were scattered to all corners of the world – to Arab and Muslim countries, to countries of the West, to countries of the East, to Europe, to America, and all over. They have been dispersed worldwide. These people have the right to return.
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For a long time I have been praying to Allah to honor me by granting me martyrdom for His sake. I was expecting the Israelis to fire a missile at me, so that I could become a martyr for the sake of Allah. I pray to Allah...
Crowd: Allah Akbar. All praise to Allah.
Allah Akbar. All praise to Allah.
Allah Akbar. All praise to Allah.
Allah Akbar. All praise to Allah.
Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: I pray to Allah to grant us this martyrdom, Allah willing.
[...] The rest of the chant goes like this:
Obama's Scandals — and His Media Co-Conspirators
Written By : Larry Elder
May 23, 2013http://www.rightwingnews.com/column-2/obamas-scandals-and-his-media-co-conspirators/
From the IRS targeting conservatives to the continued confusion over what happened at Benghazi to provoking a battle with The Associated Press by subpoenaing phone records that could involve as many as 100 reporters, what went wrong?
The answer is simple: arrogance, aided and abetted by a compliant, adoring "news" media.
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[EX-]CNN's Roland Martin urged the president to "go gangsta" on conservatives who wouldn't confirm his political appointments. Supporters like MSNBC's the Rev. Al Sharpton publicly said they will not criticize Obama — on anything. Even though Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., called the then 15.9 percent black unemployment rate "unconscionable," she refused to publicly criticize the President. Politicians, Waters candidly told a Detroit town hall audience on unemployment, want to get re-elected: "If we go after the President too hard, you're going after us. When you tell us it's all right and you unleash us and you're ready to have this conversation, we're ready to have the conversation." So why shouldn't Obama feel that he operates under different, special rules, and can do so without risking loss of support?
By refusing to hold Obama to the same standard they would hold any garden-variety Republican, the media now face the monster they created.
With a straight face, Obama used lines like he's going to "save or create" 3.5 million jobs. What does that even mean? How do you measure whether a given policy "saves" a job?
"The inability to measure Mr. Obama's jobs formula is part of its attraction," wrote William McGurn in The Wall Street Journal. "Never mind that no one — not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics — actually measures 'jobs saved.'"
With a straight face, Obama told us over and over how his mother, as she lay dying from cancer in a Hawaii hospital, fought with her insurance carriers over paying her medical and hospital bills. But according to the book by Janny Scott, a former New York Times reporter, the sole dispute was over a disability policy his mother had taken out. Her bills were paid promptly and without dispute. To date, not one reporter has asked the President about this false narrative he used so effectively to personalize his fight for ObamaCare.
With a straight face, Obama told us that under ObamaCare the "cost curve" would "bend down"; that if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor; and that nobody will be worse off under ObamaCare. Yet premiums are going up. Employers are dropping plans and cutting hours to shed the number of "full-time workers" for whom employers must provide a health care policy or pay a fine.
With a straight face, Obama told us that the soaring annual deficits come from "two wars we didn't pay for" and "tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 that were not paid for." Did his suck-up media do the math? If you take the generally accepted estimate of the costs of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — over the 10 years from 2001 to 2011 — they annually accounted for 10 percent of the then-deficit. As to tax cuts for the rich, Obama put the "cost" at $700 billion over 10 years and has said, "We need to get rid of ... tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and ... corporate jet owners." But $700 billion over 10 years is $70 billion per year, a small fraction of the current deficit.
With a straight face, then-Sen. Obama, the Un-Bush, said he opposes any military intervention unauthorized by Congress unless the country faces imminent risk of attack. But as President, Obama joined with France and Britain in bombing Libya, a country that posed no imminent threat to America. Libya's then-leader, Moammar Gadhafi, had long before surrendered his weapons of mass destruction to the Bush administration. President George W. Bush obtained congressional approval for Afghanistan and Iraq. Not so with Obama and Libya. President Obama paid no political price for what Sen. Obama would have opposed.
Newsweek, after the passage of ObamaCare, published a gushing cover story: "We Are All Socialists Now." Somehow the piece failed to note economists like UCLA's Lee Ohanian, whose peer-reviewed work shows that FDR's New Deal lengthened and deepened the Great Depression — the opposite of what most Americans learn in high school. But to Newsweek, the question has been settled. A bigger, activist government is simply right and proper and just. If it takes thuggery on the part of Obama to get us there, well, so be it.
Obama's arrogance flows from our fawning, gushing, Bush-hating "news" media, which shirk their responsibility to fairly report the news. The media's fecklessness creates overconfidence. With good reason, Obama expects his media cheerleaders to look the other way, accept excuses without much challenge and turn the President's critics and whistleblowers into enemies.
Larry Elder is a best-selling author and radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an "Elderado," visit www.LarryElder.com.
Why POS Eric Holder Has To Be The Worst AG Ever
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Eric "fast and furious" Holder's legacy of corruption, power, influence, and greed will be a tough act for any future Attorney General to follow. He is the only Attorney General in our nation's history to facilitate the pardon of a convicted felon and fugitive. Like Barack Obama, he is a privileged minority with a chip on his shoulder and a fellow supporter of Black Liberation Theology.
But that's not even the worst of it.
Here are the reasons why our current Attorney General is the worst in no particular order:
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He represented Washington, DC in DC versus Heller joining then Attorney General Janet Reno in an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to uphold the DC hand gun ban. In his argument he actually said, "The Second Amendment does not protect an individual's right to keep and bear arms for purposes unrelated to a state's operation of a well regulated militia." (Sorry Mr. Holder, but the Second Amendment is not negotiable or left to interpretation.)
He advocated for and justified the use of drones to kill US citizens even on US soil. On March 5, 2013 Eric Holder said this, "Drone strikes against American citizens on US soil are legal. After this outrageous statement the Attorney General started to backtrack from these comments saying, "Using lethal force against American citizens on US soil was highly unlikely. We hope no President will ever be faced with that decision. However if there was an imminent threat such as a domestic terror attack on the country similar to Pearl Harbor or 9-11 it is conceivable that the use of an unmanned aircraft could be used as a viable option. (Mr. Holder, the fact that you believe this should make every American fearful of you, this Administration, and our government.)
He Initially was a proponent of trying 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a New York City courtroom rather than at a military tribunal. (Sorry, Mr. Holder but this animal who maliciously murdered almost three thousand of your fellow Americans doesn't deserve to have some Columbia leftist lawyer like yourself representing him, let alone in New York City at the scene of the crime.)
He blocked legislation in Texas and other states that called for voters to show picture ID in order to curb illegal voting. His ridiculous reason was, "It would disproportionately affect minority voters from the electoral process." (No Mr. Holder it would stop voter fraud which you obviously support and no it would not be a poll tax either as most of the legislation called for cost free ID cards.)
He refused to prosecute and even dropped the charges against the New Black Panther Party; who on Election Day in 2008 stood outside polling stations dressed in paramilitary uniforms, carrying nightsticks and intimidated voters. His reason: He has stated on many occasions that he is unwilling to prosecute minorities for civil rights violations. "I think it does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people." (Mr. Holder, not only is this a blatant disregard for the rule of law, but more importantly it shows what a racist anti-white bigot you are as you selectively disenfranchise voters you deem worthy of such.)
He filed a law suit against the state of Arizona over their anti illegal immigration bill, SB 1070 without even reading it first. He said the bill might lead to "racial profiling". (Mr. Holder, SB 1070 does not racially profile anyone. Maybe if you would've read it first you would've known that.)
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In February 2011, he announced that the Department of Justice would no longer defend cases involving the Defense of Marriage Act in court. He deemed DOMA was unconstitutional. (Wrong again Mr. Holder, where in the Constitution does it say that Traditional Marriage is unconstitutional, but Gay Marriage is constitutional? I think your reason is like yourself, a little light in the loafers.)
He was found in contempt of Congress by the House Oversight Committee for lying, misleading, and stonewalling the investigation by withholding information concerning the gun running scandal Operation Fast and Furious. (Mr Holder, I hope you can sleep at night with the blood of Border Agent Brian Terry on your hands as well as numerous others who died by the guns you provided to Mexican Drug Cartels.)
His most recent scandal is unfolding as I write this. His Justice Department has acquired illegal phone records from many reporters and editors at the left leaning Associated Press. This was in retaliation to a story the Associated Press ran about a Covert Mission in Yemen that foiled the plot of the so called "underwear" bomber.
The Obama Administration lied to the American people when they said publicly that they had no imminent or credible threat of a coming terrorist attack that was to coincide with the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's death. This was not true and the Associated Press knew they were not telling the truth. In fact, the Administration pleaded with the Associated Press not to run the story because it was in an Election year.
As soon as the Associated Press ran the story the Administration illegally seized over two months of phone records. (Mr. Holder, your disgusting intimidation tactics make you unfit to hold the position in our government that you do. I can only hope and pray that you, your boss, and all of his Socialist, Marxist, cohorts eventually go down with the ship. If the Republicans had any testicular fortitude you would all be wearing black and white stripes in Leavenworth.)
The Constitution says we need to keep America safe from all enemies both foreign and domestic. Throughout our history we have fought foreign enemies in far away lands but now we have an enemy within our own borders and inside our government.
America is the last great hope on earth; without our compassion and guidance the world would be a very dark and dismal place. America has been the leader in prosperity, freedom, liberty, and self governance since its founding. The Obama Administration is like a cancer and its supporters are the carriers of the disease known as liberalism. If we don't stop them soon they will destroy what little we have left in regard to liberty and freedom. How do you destroy the greatest, most powerful country on earth? Just ask the Obama Administration and Eric Holder; they seem to have all the answers.
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How Obama gets his News! The True Story!
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Call to the Department of Justice Racism And Civil Liberties HOTLINE!!
Watters' World on O'Reilly:Our Country Is In Danger!!!!
Watters' World Ask Obama Supporters About
The 3 Obama Admin Scandals"
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Nearly 70 percent of adoption credit claims were audited by IRS, report finds
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/24/nearly-70-percent-adoption-credit-claims-were-audited-by-irs-report-finds/#ixzz2UGEbWKsd
Add another item to the list of red flags that may get you audited: Adopting a child.The Internal Revenue Service mishandled tax returns of adoptive families, flagging for further review 90 percent of those who claimed the adoption tax credit for the 2012 filing season. And a report by the federal agency's Taxpayer Advocate Service also found that nearly 70 percent of adoptive families — more than 35,000 — had at least a partial audit of their tax return. By contrast, just one percent of all returns are audited.
"The IRS's misguided procedures, and its failure to adequately adjust these processes when it learned its approach was seriously flawed, have caused significant economic harm to thousands of families who are selflessly trying to improve the lives of vulnerable children," according to the report.
Unless the IRS alters its approach to refundable credits and incorporates more taxpayer-focused procedures, the federal agency will continue to cause problems for taxpayers, the report continues, including those eligible for the new refundable credit contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as "ObamaCare".
Why Does Obama Refuse To Meet With Union Representing Immigration And Customs Officers?
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(Don't you think if you are seeking to enactlaws on border security you might want to get the opinion of the people who have to enforce those laws?
No problem meeting with illegal immigrants though...)
Via Townhall: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/heatherginsberg/2013/05/24/republicans-want-obama-to-meet-with-border-enforcement-union-n1605940?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senator Jeff Sessions wrote a letter to President Obama this week arguing his administration is shunning the union representing 7,000 immigration and customs officers. The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council has warned Congress that immigration reform will cause an uptick in illegal immigration.
Now, usually the Obama administration is great with the unions. That's Obama's bread and butter, but why is he not responding to this group? Could it have anything to do with the fact that they do not support his stance on immigration reform?
We write today to express concern over the exclusion of immigration and customs enforcement officers and their representatives from the negotiations surrounding immigration reform," Goodlatte and Sessions wrote in a letter dated May 23.
To be effective any immigration reform bill must heed the warnings from our federal immigration agents," they wrote. "Unfortunately, far from being included in the process, ICE officers have been shut out and have even had their day-to-day operations handcuffed by [Department of Homeland Security] officials to the point of being unable to carry out their sworn duties."
The lawmakers pointed out that the union of ICE workers requested a meeting with the administration over 3 months ago and have yet to receive an invitation. They could have provided a firsthand look at immigration policy and its enforcement, but obviously the administration is not interested in actually hearing what they have to say.
Via Townhall:
Obama Delegates Holder To Investigate Holder
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(What could possibly go wrong?)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/24/obama-asks-holder-to-investigate-holders-investigation/
President Barack Obama has asked his friend Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate Holder's unprecedented investigation of a Fox News reporter.
Holder approved the Justice Department's extraordinary 2010 investigation of contacts between a Fox News reporter and a State Department official who has since been charged with leaking classified information, according to NBC.
The Justice Department searched the reporter's e-mails and phone calls under the legal claim that he may have contributed to a crime.
The Fox News revelation followed the news that the Justice Department had investigated the phone records of reporters working for The Associated Press.
On May 24, however, Obama reacted to growing alarm in the media by asking Holder to review the Justice Department's procedures for investigating the media.
"We must keep information secret that protects our operations and our people in the field," the president said at a speech in Washington D.C.
"But a free press is also essential for our democracy [and] I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable," he said.
"Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs ... [and] I have raised these issues with the Attorney General, who shares my concern. So he has agreed to review existing Department of Justice guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters, and will convene a group of media organizations to hear their concerns as part of that review," he said.
"I have directed the Attorney General to report back to me by July 12th."
Only CBS Notes IRS Official's Leave, Yet ABC and NBC Have Time to
Show Obama's Prom Photo with 'Foxy' Friend
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Tactic #723 – Truck out all the "humanizing" things one can find to try to make the public like Obama. Maybe then they'll accept the scandals
Via MRC: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/only-cbs-notes-irs-officials-leave-yet-abc-and-nbc-have-time-show-obamas-prom-photo-foxy-
Already moving on from the IRS scandal? On Thursday night, only the CBS Evening News of the broadcast network evening newscasts bothered to note how Lois Lerner, the IRS official in charge of the division which processes tax-exempt applications, was put on administrative leave after she took the Fifth and refused to answer questions at a House hearing the day before. Anchor Scott Pelley squeezed in 20 seconds on it.
Yet, ABC World News and the NBC Nightly News made room to highlight a photo of a 17-year-old Barack Obama and his prom date along with a friend and his date.
Both ABC World News anchor Dan Harris and NBC Nightly News anchor Ann Curry took time to point out how Obama, in a note written in the yearbook of the friend's date, called her "foxy." The picture and yearbook page were given to Time magazine by the woman.
None of the newscasts made any mention of any other scandal, such as fresh revelations in case of the Obama administration's eavesdropping and harassment of Fox News correspondent James Rosen.
Pelley's short May 23 CBS Evening News item on Lerner:
In the IRS scandal, Lois Lerner was replaced today as the head of the IRS unit that targeted conservative groups. She was placed on administrative leave. Yesterday Lerner told Congress she'd done nothing wrong, then she pleaded the fifth and refused to answer any questions. The head of the IRS was essentially fired by the President last week.
Flashback 2007:
Senator Obama Calls For AG Gonzales To Step Down
(Every time he refers to Gonzales just plug in "Holder" to see how appropos this is)
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On Larry King Live, presidential candidate Barack Obama stuck it to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and called on him to resign. The Illinois Senator brought up a great point that Gonzales was acting more like the President's attorney and not the people's attorney:
OBAMA: What you get a sense of is an Attorney General who saw himself as an abler of the Administration, as opposed to somebody that was actually trying to look out for the American people's interests. And for that reason, I think it's time for him to step down.
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Milwaukee School Holding "Gender Bender" Day For Students To
Dress As Transvestites
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(HOLY CRAP, this is INSANE!!! What is wrong with these degenerates?
....and of course academia has no hidden agenda)
Read more at: http://eagnews.org/at-least-one-milwaukee-mom-wont-be-sending-her-child-to-school-on-switch-it-up-day/
'MILWAUKEE – Deidri Hernandez's seven-year-old son won't be in school today, after officials at Tippecanoe School for the Arts and Humanities confirmed they're still holding "Switch It Up Day" – a time for students to come dressed as members of the opposite sex.
Hernandez tells EAGnews the day was originally billed as "Gender Bender Day," but Tippecanoe officials made the name change after she called Principal Jeffrey Krupar to complain.
The Milwaukee mother was not impressed.
"I didn't have a problem with the title. I had a problem with the activity taking place," Hernandez says.
She says it's "ridiculous" and "creepy" to ask elementary boys to come to school dressed as girls, and vice versa, and predicts that having students dress as "transvestites" will distract from the learning process.
Hernandez knows of at least one other parent who shares her concerns and plans to hold her child out of class, too.
Friday, May 24, 2013
HOLDER PERJURY?? TWO JUDGES SAID NO
Before Holder Got James Rosen Warrant
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This isn't going to go down well for Eric Holder and the administration. Last night NBC News reported that it was AG Holder who personally approved the decision to go after Fox News' James Rosen. Today the Department of Justice told Reuters the NBC report is correct, possibly setting up the Attorney General to be indited for perjury.
The Justice Department said on Friday that officials up to Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose report on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.
In a statement emailed to Reuters, the department said the search warrant for the reporter's email account followed all laws and policies and won the independent approval of a federal magistrate judge.
The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee called in Attorney General Eric Holder to testify last week on the AP reporters scandal. As Jim Hoft The Gateway Pundit wrote last night:
During testimony under oath Eric Holder told Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) that targeting journalists was bad policy and something he'd never been involved in.
This is what Holder told Congress:
"First of all you've got a long way to go to try to prosecute the press for publication of material. This has not fared well in American history... In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material. This is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy."
This is surprising for two reasons, firstly that Hank Johnson asked a question that did not involve Guam tipping over because of too many marines. Even more important is that if you compare the statement released today with what he told Hank Johnson last week it looks like Eric Holder perjured himself to Congress.
But it gets much worse. When asked, Holder could always give the standard answer for both Steve Martin and anyone in the Obama administration, "HEY---I forgot!" Because of another piece of news reported by Ryan Lizza this afternoon, that answer would be hard to believe even for the Obama sycophants in the mainstream media.
You see, this was not just any search warrant, the Justice Department wanted permission to access James Rosen's communications without letting him know afterwards, which is very unusual its so rare that two judges said no before the DOJ found one who would approve.
Ultimately what this means is this wasn't any "rubber-stamp" type search warrant, they had to appeal twice to get their search approved. It is highly unlikely that even Eric Holder would forget an action against a major news organization which is rare enough, but one that took three tries to get a judges approval is even rarer.
As Lizza's report says:
The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen's private e-mail account secret, arguing to a federal judge that the government might need to monitor the account for a lengthy period of time.
The new documents show that two judges separately declared that the Justice Department was required to notify Rosen of the search warrant, even if the notification came after a delay.
Otherwise: "The subscriber therefore will never know, by being provided a copy of the warrant, for example, that the government secured a warrant and searched the contents of her e-mail account," Judge John M. Facciola wrote in an opinion rejecting the Obama Administration's argument.
Machen appealed that decision, and in September, 2010, Royce C. Lamberth, the chief judge in the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, granted Machen's request to overturn the order of the two judges.
Once again Eric Holder has been caught in a lie, however this time there may be a smoking gun search warrant. Remember when this was supposed to be the most transparent administration in history? That didn't work out very well did it?
White House Guide to Surviving Obuma Drone Strikes
Claws come out as PETA goes after
anonymous online commenters
for shelter kill claims
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Via NY Post: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/claws_come_kills_shelter_peta_goes_rkK9NKluuT53huumRp4L5K
The animal rights group PETA is hunting down personal information for anonymous commenters who allegedly defamed the organization by lambasting its pet euthanasia policy on the Huffington Post, according to a new Manhattan civil lawsuit.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the court to release names, email addresses, phone numbers, and other private details about three bloggers who reacted to an April 2 posting by a no-kill shelter advocate that's received almost 5,000 comments and 240,000 "likes" on Facebook.
The missive, "SHOCKING PHOTOS: PETA's Secret Slaughter of Kittens, Puppies," purportedly shows dead and dying pets at the group's Virginia headquarters.
The suit quotes "ambersomerville" on April 8 calling the group "animal Kevorkians."
PETA needs to identify the anonymous commenters to bring a lawsuit against them.
A spokesman for Huffington Post declined to talk about pending litigation.
Sen. "I luvz little girls" Menendez: We don't have 60 votes for immigration reform bill
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/menendez-votes-immigration-reform-bill-91884.html#ixzz2UKbzExW4
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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/menendez-votes-immigration-reform-bill-91884.html
One of the chief authors of the Senate's Gang of Eight immigration bill is still hunting around for 60 votes in his chamber.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in an interview set to be aired Sunday that the Gang of Eight does not have the votes necessary to break a potential filibuster on the Senate floor — at least right now.
"We don't currently have 60 votes identified in the Senate," Menendez said on "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, according to an English-translated transcript provided by Univision. "We need to add more votes on the floor."
Menendez added, "That means that the community in your state, in every state, should be contacting your state's two U.S. senators saying that they want comprehensive immigration reform, that they are going to judge their political future based on this vote."
Why did British bystanders watch a
soldier get hacked to death?
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(According to the UK website, "Having an offensive weapon in a public place without lawful authority or a reasonable excuse can also lead to a fine and/or up to four years in prison."
And this is where POS Obuma wants to put America. Think about it, people!
For over twenty minutes, the terrorists were able to parade around and pontificate before police who had guns were able to respond. Women talked to the two terrorists to try to stop them which was extraordinarily brave, but nobody was able to respond with a weapon, so everyone there was completely at the terrorists' mercy. ...Warph)
Via Daily Caller:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/24/why-did-british-bystanders-watch-a-soldier-get-hacked-to-death/
The recent attack on a British soldier by assassins wielding meat cleavers while bystanders looked on raises the question: "Why didn't anyone try to help the victim?"
Because British citizens are prohibited from carrying objects that could be used as "offensive weapons."
While it is well known that Brits cannot carry guns, a lesser known law prohibits any subject of the Queen from carrying a knife of consequence, pepper spray or a stun gun.
According to the United Kingdom government website, the online storehouse of British government regulations,
it is illegal to:
◦sell a knife of any kind (including cutlery and kitchen knives) to anyone under 18
◦carry a knife in public without good reason – unless it's a knife with a folding blade 3 inches long (7.62 cm) or less, eg a Swiss Army knife
◦carry, buy or sell any type of banned knife
◦use any knife in a threatening way (even a legal knife, such as a Swiss Army knife)
Folding knives, regardless of blade size, with a locking mechanism are illegal in the U.K. for carry in public and are referred to as "lock knives." According to British law, "The maximum penalty for an adult carrying a knife is 4 years in prison and a fine of £5,000."
Pepper spray is also illegal under section 5(1)(b) of the Firearms Act 1968, which prohibits "any weapon of whatever description designed or adapted for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas or other thing."
It is illegal to import pepper spray or a stun gun because British law expressly states that pepper spray and stun guns are classified as firearms. Blow guns are classified as "offensive weapons" and are prohibited to own, except for veterinarians or registered animal handlers.
"Out with the Old and in with the Nude" "No Bullfighting allowed"
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(I agree... first time I gone with PETA on something they want: No Bullfighting!)
(The AP investigation demonstrates the urgent necessity to modernize laws that have been outpaced by technology and the ease of collecting massive amounts information about Americans. We need to modernize the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 by requiring a warrant for surveillance involving communications, phone records, and movements. We need to update the Espionage Act of 1917 to limit prosecutions to cases involving real harms to our national security.)Mark Levin: Holder Lied Under Oath – "I Assume House Committee Will Charge Him With Perjury" (Audio)
May 24, 2013, 10:39 AMOn Friday's Mark Levin Show: Mark talked about Attorney General Eric Holder's testimony to the Judiciary Committee regarding the Associated Press. Mark pointed out that
Holder lied when he said he didn't know about Justice targeting journalists.
Now we know that Holder signed off on the DOJ going after James Rosen of Fox News. Will Holder be held accountable for deliberately lying to Congress? Mark calls for a Special Prosecutor in the IRS case, the Associated Press case and others.
"I assume the committee will charge him with perjury."[/b]
HOLDER LIED TO CONGRESS On His Role in Investigating News Reporters (Video)
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Obama Has His Head-in-the-Sand About Terrorism
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
by Barry RubinPresident Barack Obama's speech at the National Defense University, "The Future of Our Fight against Terrorism" is a remarkable exercise in wishful thinking and denial. Here is basically what he says: the only strategic threat to the United States is posed by terrorists carrying out terrorist attacks. In the 6400 words used by Obama....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/23/obama-drones-guantanamo-speech-text
....Islam only constitutes three of them and most interestingly in all three the word is used to deny that the United States is at war with Islam. In fact, that is what President George Bush said precisely almost a dozen years ago, after September 11. Yet why have not hundreds of such denials had the least bit of effect on the course of that war?
In fact, to prove that the United States is not at war with Islam, the Obama Administration has sided with political Islam throughout the Middle East, to the extent that some Muslims think Obama is doing damage to Islam, their kind of non-revolutionary Islam.
And how has the fight against al-Qaida resulted in a policy that has, however inadvertently, armed al-Qaida, as in Libya and Syria?
Once again, I will try to explain the essence of Obama strategy, a simple point that many people seem
unable to grasp:***Obama views al-Qaida as a threat because it wants to attack America directly with terrorism. But all other Islamist groups are not a threat. In fact, they can be used to stop al-Qaida. This is an abandonment of a strategic perspective. The word Islamism or political Islam or any other version of that word do not appear even once. Yet this is the foremost revolutionary movement of this era, the main threat in the world to U.S. interests and even to Western civilization.
If one wanted to come up with a slogan for the Obama Administration it would be that to win the war on terrorism one must lose the war on revolutionary Islamism because only by showing that America is the Islamists' friend will it take away the incentive to join up with al-Qaida and attack the United States. [Please take the two sections in bold above very seriously if you want to understand U.S. Middle East policy.] According to Obama: *If the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Egypt that is not a strategic threat but a positive advantage because it is the best organization able to curb al-Qaida. And that policy proves that the United States is not at war with Islam.
*If the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Tunisia that is not a strategic threat but a positive advantage because it is the best organization able to curb al-Qaida. And that policy proves that the United States is not at war with Islam.
*If the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Syria that is not a strategic threat but a positive advantage because it is the best organization able to curb al-Qaida. And that policy proves that the United States is not at war with Islam.
*If a regime whose viewpoint is basically equivalent to the Muslim Brotherhood—albeit far more subtle and culture—dominates Turkey that is not a strategic threat but a positive advantage because it is the best organization able to curb al-Qaida. And that policy proves that the United States is not at war with Islam.
These and other strategic defeats do not matter, says Obama in effect: "After I took office, we stepped up the war against al Qaeda, but also sought to change its course. We relentlessly targeted al Qaeda's leadership. We ended the war in Iraq, and brought nearly 150,000 troops home. We pursued a new strategy in Afghanistan, and increased our training of Afghan forces. We unequivocally banned torture, affirmed our commitment to civilian courts, worked to align our policies with the rule of law, and expanded our consultations with Congress."
And yet the Taliban is arguably close to taking over Afghanistan in future. The group has spread to Pakistan. The rule of law in Afghanistan is a joke and soldiers there know that the Afghan government still uses torture."Today, Osama bin Laden is dead, and so are most of his top lieutenants. There have been no large-scale attacks on the United States, and our homeland is more secure. Fewer of our troops are in harm's way, and over the next 19 months they will continue to come home. Our alliances are strong, and so is our standing in the world. In sum, we are safer because of our efforts."Well, it is quite true that security measures within the United States have been largely successful at stopping attacks. But the frequency of attempted attacks has been extensive, some of which were blocked by luck and the expenditure of one trillion dollars. Country after country has been taken over by radical Islamists who can be expected to fight against American interests in future.
Obama continues: "So America is at a crossroads. We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us..."But he never actually defines it except to suggest that:
*1. Al-Qaida has spread to other countries (which does not sound like a victory for the United States) and
*2. That its affiliates and imitators are more amateurish than those who pulled off the September 11, 2001 attack. Yet they got away with the September 11, 2012 attack. Indeed, rather than a movement and ideology like Communism and fascism, Obama sounds like a comic book superhero describing life in Gotham City:
"Neither I, nor any President, can promise the total defeat of terror. We will never erase the evil that lies in the hearts of some human beings, nor stamp out every danger to our open society." Yet his advisor on this issue, CIA director John Brennan has said that the United States cannot be at war with terror because terror is merely a tactic. So what is the problem: "the evil that lies in the hearts of some human beings," as if the Taliban, al-Qaida, the Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas are equivalent to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting? Obama continues: "What we can do – what we must do – is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger, and make it less likely for new groups to gain a foothold, all while maintaining the freedoms and ideals that we defend." In other words, it is not a strategic problem but a law enforcement one.
And at another point he added: Obama: "Deranged or alienated individuals...can do enormous damage, particularly when inspired by larger notions of violent jihad. That pull towards extremism appears to have led to the shooting at Fort Hood, and the bombing of the Boston Marathon." Appears? So Fort Hood and the Boston bombing are still not considered by the American president as part of a war against America but perhaps due to that evil that lies in the hearts of men?And what is the nature of that criminal conspiracy? Obama: "Today, the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on a path to defeat. Their remaining operatives spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us. They did not direct the attacks in Benghazi or Boston. They have not carried out a successful attack on our homeland since 9/11. Instead, what we've seen is the emergence of various al Qaeda affiliates. From Yemen to Iraq, from Somalia to North Africa, the threat today is more diffuse, with Al Qaeda's affiliate in the Arabian Peninsula – AQAP –the most active in plotting against our homeland."[Horse Shit]One would never know, however, that al-Qaida was always basically decentralized. Al-Qaida in Arabic means "the base" and what Usama bin Ladin did was to create a focal point to start off a global jihad. Bin Ladin is dead but he accomplished his short-term objective. Moreover, al-Qaida's partner, the Taliban, is doing very well. Who cares whether they directed the attacks in Benghazi (apparently it wasn't a video) and Boston? They inspired those attacks. "Unrest in the Arab World has also allowed extremists to gain a foothold in countries like Libya and Syria," says Obama, a man who clearly need not fear the mass media turning his phrase against him. After all, it wasn't just unrest but Obama's policy that armed al-Qaida and helped it participate in a successful revolution. And the same point is true in Syria.
Indeed, if Bush was responsible for unintentionlly magnifying the appeal of al-Qaida in Iraq, Obama did the same thing in Syria, except Obama didn't fight them but helped supply the weapons! At least he called Hizballah a "state-sponsored" terror network though it might have been nice if he mentioned that the state in question is Iran, which also supported terrorists who killed Americans in Iraq. That is another point that Obama left out and yet could easily have mentioned.
And of course he mentioned Oklahoma City, which happened just 20 years ago, in order to suggest that right-wing extremists were also involved in terrorism, even when Fort Hood and Boston are due to some vague cause.
But here's the kicker: "Moreover, we must recognize that these threats don't arise in a vacuum. Most, though not all, of the terrorism we face is fueled by a common ideology – a belief by some extremists that Islam is in conflict with the United States and the West, and that violence against Western targets, including civilians, is justified in pursuit of a larger cause. Of course, this ideology is based on a lie, for the United States is not at war with Islam; and this ideology is rejected by the vast majority of Muslims, who are the most frequent victims of terrorist acts." Yet clearly Obama has no notion—or will not admit to one—of what that "common ideology" might be, except for a misunderstanding, which presumably his outreach will correct, about American intentions.
In fact, though, in the sense that they speak of it, the United States is at war with Islam, the revolutionary sort of Islam of course. To help any country resist radical political Islam is, in their eyes, opposition to proper Islam. Perhaps this is why the Obama Administration seeks to help turn other countries toward Islamist regimes. Of course, the United States is not at war with Muslims but not only al-Qaida but Hamas, Hizballah, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafists, the Taliban and dozens of other groups, ideologues, and militants know that America is their enemy. No matter what Obama does he will not persuade them and their millions of supporters that the United States is their ally. Even though Obama has often actually made America their ally. It would be like helping Communism in the Cold War to take over countries in order to show that America is not at war with the Russian people, or to do the same with Nazism to show that America is not at war with the German people, or to help Gamal Abdel Nasser or Saddam Hussein to take over the Middle East to prove America is not at war with the Arab or Muslim people.
A more accurate picture is offered by a Saudi writer in al-Sharq al-Awsat:
"The most acute [aspect of] the problem is that [POS] Obama is laying down the systematic groundwork for the development of extremism and sectarian violence that will make us miss the Al-Qaeda of George W. Bush's era, while deluding himself that he eliminated Al-Qaeda when he killed Osama bin Laden!"
Poll: By Massive 22-Point Margin, Voters Favor Repealing Obamacare
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(Obamacare will go down in history as the most detested bill ever. When the IRS damage assessment is done, then we may know if indeed the illegal detestable tactics authorized by Obuma's henchmen kept over 4 million republican voters home. Yes, due to these staying home and not exercising their right to vote, we now have lost the country, but being more realistic about it, the lies about Romney and the doubts the lies instilled in people affected some republican voters as well as demorats. The perfect storm was that I bet not one stay at home voter would have thought he/she was going to be part of a 4 million vote deficit)
Via Weekly Standard: Sunday, May 26, 2013 http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/22-point-margin-voters-favor-obamacare-s-repeal_729123.html
It would be a major understatement to say that Obamacare has had a bad spring. Around the time of Lincoln's birthday, registered voters told Fox News that, by a margin of 6 percentage points (48 to 42 percent), it would "be better to go back to the health care system that was in place in 2009" than it would be "to leave the new health care law in place." Three months later, as we head into Memorial Day, nostalgia for the good ol' days of 2009 now beats Obamacare by a whopping 22 points (56 to 34 percent).
It would be a major understatement to say that Obamacare has had a bad spring. Around the time of Lincoln's birthday, registered voters told Fox News that, by a margin of 6 percentage points (48 to 42 percent), it would "be better to go back to the health care system that was in place in 2009" than it would be "to leave the new health care law in place." Three months later, as we head into Memorial Day, nostalgia for the good ol' days of 2009 now beats Obamacare by a whopping 22 points (56 to 34 percent).
IRS Releases New Simplified Tax Form 1040 TEA-EZ for Tea Party Taxpayers!!
Fresh off the IRS scandal that has rocked the Obama administration and gotten official Lois Lerner in a lot of trouble, the IRS is releasing a new simplified form for Tea Party patriots!! And WE at the Sooper Mexy Blog have gotten our brown little greedy fingers on a copy before the big review!!
So exciting!!!
Well stop freaking out and read it already!!!
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Lib Rag Mother Jones: GOP Banning Murderers, Rapists, Pedophiles From Getting Food Stamps Is Racist Because It Discriminates Against Black People
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(Do they realize they just said blacks are more likely to be
pedophiles, rapists, and murderers)
GOP Food Stamps Proposal Would Discriminate Against African-Americans – Mother Jones
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This Memorial Day weekend, while Americans are celebrating their freedom, and hopefully honoring and remembering those who fought and died for us to have our freedom, the dim-witted liberals at Mother Jones are worried that African American murderers rapists and pedophiles might not get enough food stamps.
And why is that?
Those mean, no good, vile racist Republicans are targeting blacks (again!) by demanding that murderers, rapists and pedophiles have their food stamp benefits cut!!! That's worse than Hitler!!!
Wait a minute, Soopermexican... aren't you implying that African Americans rape, murder and commit pedophilia at a higher rate than other ethnic groups?! Isn't that raaaaacist?!?
Well yeah, kinda, but Mother Jones is chock full of bleeding heart liberal pendejos, so they're excused:
On Wednesday the Senate agriculture committee approved a GOP proposal that would amend the farm bill the Senate is considering to ban "convicted murderers, rapists, and pedophiles" from getting food stamps. On its surface, the idea sounds unobjectionable, but the measure would have "strongly racially discriminatory effects," according to the non-partisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP).
YOU, however, are racist for even asking that question, reader. I hope you're happy.
So the IRS targeting hard-working self-reliant Americans over their political ideology is not a big problem at all, but taking away food stamps for murderers, pedos and rapists is a tragic outrage!!! As long as they're black.
Happy Memorial Day.
Oh, in case you're wondering, African-Americans receive food stamps at a much higher rate than Gringo Americans, Latino Americans, and Asians (about three times as much in 2011). However, since Gringo Americans comprise more of the population, the absolute number of gringos on food stamps is higher than blacks or others (16.5 million gringos versus 10 million blacks on food stamps).
When America is 16 trillion dollars in debt and liberals are whining about black pedophiles and rapists not getting enough welfare benefits, you have to wonder why we keep losing elections.
Racism. That's why.
Upchuck Schumer Refuses To Endorse Former Protégé Anthony Weiner's Bid For NYC Mayor(http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4513539214411314&pid=1.7&w=239&h=173&c=7&rs=1)
(Gee... I wonder why)
It's Show Time! "White House of Cards," Playing Now
Already playing in millions of American home theaters, "White House of Cards"...
a Demoratic party series of scandals. Don't miss it!
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The "Grand Obsession" of Smartphones: Killing Free Time & Peace of Mind, Increasing Anxiety & Addiction
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Recent numbers reveal that, at the end of 2012, an estimated 129 million people in the United States have smartphones. Worldwide, it is believed that 1.5 billion smartphones will be in use by the end of 2013.
Untold millions of those users are obsessed with the phones, to the point that many may be addicted and are sacrificing their physical health and mental well-being. The average smartphone user checks his or her device about once every 6 minutes, about 150 times per day. Few are far from their phones, taking them with them everywhere, even to the bathroom and to bed. When they don't have their smartphones nearby or in their hands, many experience withdrawal symptoms.
The devices were meant to simplify and improve the quality of life, but have had the opposite effect for many people.
Anxiety levels for some smartphone users are elevated to the point that "phantom vibrations" are detected...
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Smartphone-obsession-leads-to-phantom-vibrations-increased-stress-levels_id25858
... belief that the phone is vibrating with an incoming message when it isn't. Smartphone obsession has escalated so much that, in a stroke of irony, there is now an app for your smartphone that can measure your level of stress:
http://www.telecomtiger.com/Technology_fullstory.aspx?passfrom=topstory&storyid=17164§ion=S210
Peace of mind, tranquility, relaxation? If you're one of the millions who use a smartphone, odds are in your favor that you're living in a trap of obsession and anxiety. For those who were already stress-prone, this is gravely detrimental to health. It is feared that many, especially young people, may be withdrawing from reality.
CBS - Addicted to your smartphone?
Reported by CNBC New - How the Smartphone Killed the Three-Day Weekend:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100765600
Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and all it evokes: vacations, slower workweeks, casual dress codes, getting the pool ready and pulling out the outdoor furniture.
It would seem an ideal time to take a break, but our ability to unplug and relax is under assault. A three-day weekend? We can barely get through three waking hours without working, new research shows. The average smartphone user checks his or her device 150 times per day, or about once every six minutes. Meanwhile, government data from 2011 says 35 percent of us work on weekends, and those who do average five hours of labor, often without compensation — or even a thank you. The other 65 percent were probably too busy to answer surveyors' questions.
There's plenty of debate among economists and psychologists whether the economy is to blame, or we do this to ourselves. There's little arguing that the concept of a Sabbath is in serious danger.
"It's like an arms race ... everything is an emergency," said Tanya Schevitz, spokeswoman for Reboot, an organization trying to help people unplug more often. "We have created an expectation in society that people will respond immediately to everything with no delay. It's unhealthy, and it's unproductive, and we can't keep going on like this."
There's a long list of horribles associated with our new, always-on-digital lives: You are dumber. You are more stressed. You are losing sleep, and more depressed.
People seem to know they need tech breaks, which have plenty of cute names now, like "Digital Detox" or "Tech Sabbath." Consumers pay for software like "Freedom," which cuts their computers off the Net for a pre-set amount of time (really, you could just unplug yours). Reboot even sponsors a National Day of Unplugging, which will occur in March next year. But no one seems to think the problem is getting any better.Smartphone Addiction: The Epidemic Grows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp7HDgxno9g&feature=player_embedded
The Smartphone: Your Ego in your Hand!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CntNC0Dp6aI
The concern about smartphone obsession has been growing for quite some time now. This article was posted at Huffington Post in 2011, Psychologists Concerned About Smartphone 'Obsession':http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/smarpthone-obsession_n_909462.html
You gave it a pet name. It knows more about you than your mother does. Sometimes you even sleep with it. In fact, you're so attached to it that being separated for only a few minutes could send you into a panic.
While smartphone users worry about mobile hacking and other security threats that are making news these days, psychologists and others are concerned about another equally troubling issue: the growing obsession among people who would much rather interact with their smartphones than with other human beings.
"Watching people who get their first smartphone, there's a very quick progression from having a basic phone you don't talk about to people who love their iPhone, name their phone and buy their phones outfits," said Lisa Merlo, director of psychotherapy training at the University of Florida.
The increasing dependence comes as more Americans ditch their iPods, cameras, maps and address books in favor of the myriad capabilities of a smartphone. After all, companies have rolled out thousands of applications that do everything from track your heart rate to guide you through the streets of New York City. While smartphones have made life easier for some, psychologists say the love of them is becoming more like an addiction, creating consequences that range from minor (teenagers who communicate in three-letter acronyms like LOL and BRB) to major (car accidents caused by people who text while driving).
Merlo, a clinical psychologist, said she's observed a number of behaviors among smartphone users that she labels "problematic." Among them, Merlo says some patients pretend to talk on the phone or fiddle with apps to avoid eye contact or other interactions at a bar or a party. Others are so genuinely engrossed in their phones that they ignore the people around them completely.
"The more bells and whistles the phone has," she says, "the more likely they are to get too attached."
Michelle Hackman, a recent high school graduate in Long Island, NY, won a $75,000 prize in this year's Intel Science Talent Search with a research project investigating teens' attachment to their cell phones. She found that students separated from their phones were under-stimulated – a low heart rate was an indicator – and lacked the ability to entertain themselves.
Most of the teens at Hackman's affluent high school own smartphones, she says, and could even be found texting under their desks during class. "It creates an on-edge feeling and you don't realize how much of the lecture you're missing," Hackman says.
For some, the anxious feeling that they might miss something has caused them to slumber next to their smartphones. More than a third of U.S. adults – 35 percent – now own a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center, and two-thirds of them sleep with their phones right next to their beds.The addiction is not limited to users in the United States.
South Korea grappling with smartphone addictionUK adults 'addicted' to smart phonesSmart Phone Addiction: How Much is Too Much?
""Sacred cows make the best grilled hamburgers for Memorial Day."
..... Mark Twain
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Each Memorial Day, gravestones at Arlington
National Cemetery are graced by US flags
TRIBUTE TO MEMORIAL DAY 2013
MEMORIAL DAY 2013 - HONORING THE FALLEN
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From The Boot, Carrie Underwood Gives $1 Million to Help Oklahoma Tornado Relief:
Carrie Underwood opened her purse and made a huge donation to the American Red Cross to aid victims of Monday's deadly tornado in Moore, Okla. The Checotah, Okla. native donated $1 million to aid relief efforts, saying the devastation saddened her.
"With the help of my fans who attended my concerts over the past year, we can offer the Red Cross a little extra help in comforting those affected by the recent tornados," Underwood said in a statement at her website. Checotah is 120 miles east of Moore.
Underwood's Blown Away Tour was bookended by tragic natural disasters. Previously she designated funds from a stop in N.J. to aid the superstorm Sandy relief effort. Proceeds from the Canadian tour stops were donated to the Canadian Red Cross.
Barack Obuma, Slick Willie Clinton, Harry Reid
and all other elite politicians trying to marginalize the law-abiding, average American
must never forget that they work for us.
Germany is the 'Most Popular Country in the World'
What a difference 68 years makes! The most popular country in the world is Germany. Japan is 4th. The United States of America is #8, barely beating out China. Details and complete rankings after the jump.From CNBC:Europe's largest economy, Germany, which has been criticized for not doing enough to help struggling euro zone countries, has topped a poll as the world's most popular country.
The survey, carried out for the BBC, polled 26,000 people in 25 countries and asked them to rate 16 countries and the European Union as a whole on whether their influence on the world was mainly positive or negative.
Germany came out on top, with 59 percent of survey participants giving it a positive rating. The country moved up three percentage points from its 2012 position. It displaced Japan, which saw its positive rating fall from 58 percent last year to 51 percent, going from first to fourth place.
The most negatively perceived country was Iran, with only 15 percent of respondents giving it a positive rating. Pakistan and North Korea also received low ratings.
via Germany is the 'Most Popular Country in the World'.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100761312
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Congratulations to Canada for being #2. How do you account for these rankings? What do they tell us?
The seed has been more than planted IMHO.
Obama should end up on Mount Rushmore say a third of George Washington profs surveyed
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-end-mount-rushmore-third-george-washington-profs-140606279.html
Cornel West: Obama 'Obsessed With Being On Mount Rushmore'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/cornel-west-obama-obsesse_n_1529979.html
Campaign-to-Put-President-Obama-on-Mt-Rushmore
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David Petraeus and Michael O'Hanlon: A new American renaissance – The Washington Post.
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The U.S economy is still in the doldrums. But former general and CIA director David Petraeus and Brookings scholar Michael O'Hanlon see the possibilities of a new economic boom on the horizon. IF the government doesn't mess it up.
Here are the promising developments:●An energy revolution. We are the world's largest producer of natural gas, with a 100-year supply, and we are on track to become among the largest producers of crude oil.
●A manufacturing revolution. We are rapidly developing robotics and 3-D printing, areas in which the United States is among the world's leaders.
●A revolution in life sciences.Genetics and stem-cell technology offer great potential in fields such as agriculture and pharmaceuticals and fundamentally new approaches in medicine.
●The IT revolution and the transition to cloud computing, in which we are also leading.
With all of these advantages, together with our North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners, the energy-rich and economically dynamic Canada and Mexico, we could be on the threshold of the New North American Decades. The prospect is that North America — not China, Japan, Europe or India — will pull the world out of the global economic slowdown. But we will do so only if government gets the basics right.But for these to come to fruition, Petraeus and O'Hanlon say, the government needs to cut the deficit and follow these policies:●Regarding energy, agree on the Keystone XL pipeline while fostering partnerships between extraction companies and environmental groups; determine required regulatory rules; and grant a modest number of licenses to export natural gas.
●On infrastructure, drive the establishment of faster and cheaper Internet connections for most Americans to fully exploit the shift to cloud computing; and repair and rebuild roads, rail lines, ports, electricity grids and other assets that support our economic supply chains.
●On human capital, reform immigration policy; encourage science and technology study and research; and improve public schools while underwriting training in rigorous, relevant vocational skills.
●On finance, reform and simplify the tax code to stimulate savings; make health-care costs more visible; and help bring home the more than $2 trillion sitting offshore.(Hmmmmm....I see here an interesting blend of proposals from the left [raise revenue; more money for schools] and the right [balance the budget; approve the Keystone pipeline]:
They suggest a partisan balance: "We suggest that, for the good of the nation, each party agrees to achieve equal amounts of something neither wants to do:
*Republicans should produce, say, $500 billion in additional revenue over 10 years, and...
*Democrats should identify $500 billion worth of reforms to entitlement programs over the same period."
I wonder if the undoubtedly competent general may be positioning himself for higher office.... despite his resigning in disgrace over an adulterous affair... as a post-partisan harbinger of hope.
At any rate, the optimism is refreshing. .....Warph)
Quote from: ROSS on May 27, 2013, 10:05:41 AM
The seed has been more than planted IMHO.
Obama should end up on Mount Rushmore say a third of George Washington profs surveyed
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-end-mount-rushmore-third-george-washington-profs-140606279.html
Cornel West: Obama 'Obsessed With Being On Mount Rushmore'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19/cornel-west-obama-obsesse_n_1529979.html
Campaign-to-Put-President-Obama-on-Mt-Rushmore
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Campaign-to-Put-President-Obama-on-Mt-Rushmore-/108544449165434?sk=photos_stream
Sorry Obuma...no BC, it ain't gonna happen. Besides, not enough room for your CLOWN HAT!
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The ObumaBeast:" Oh woe is me... what to do... what to do...
those damn IRS, Benghazi and AP scandals?
I'm afraid. I'm very afraid!"
"
The MOST Important Video About Israel You'll Ever See!
"Can ancient prophecies about Israel be true? Is the Bible true or relevant today?
This video will put those questions to rest!!"
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And let me add this:TheLandofIsrael.com has done it again! In this new, entertaining approach to sticking up for the Jewish People, Ari & Jeremy put the blame where it belongs!:
UNESCO has accepted the Palestinian Authority (PA) as an official member. Pressure on Israel is mounting, fingers are pointing at the Jewish State, and the layers of the blame are those who should be our greatest allies. Wach this video to decide for yourself who's to blame in the Middle East conflict.
Israelis and the Palestinians have been embroiled in negotiations for years. Some of Israel's most hard line leaders have made unprecedented sacrifices for peace, while throughout the entire process, the Arab leadership in Gaza, Judea & Samaria (the West Bank) and Jerusalem have never compromised on any issue. With regards to israel, The differences between Hamas, Fatah (PLO), Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah have become nuanced at best. Can any rational person blame Israel for the lack of peace when their so called "partner" in negotiation has never made even one concession or compromise?
The Three Stooges: Barry Obuma, Slick Willie & Clown Morsy
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(POS Barack Hussein-Insane Obuma probably seen
in the background, quietly nodding in approval.
Nakba, Nakba!
Who's there?
Armageddon!
Armageddon who?
Armageddon awfully tired of Muslim bullshit.
Let's see... we've funded, armed and supplied Egypt, Syria, Libya,
Palestinians, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Turkey and
have crapped on our closest ally in the Middle East, Israel.
The only ally of Israel is the Mediterranean Sea.
That is Insane-Hussein's M.E. foreign policy)
Brotherhood leader: Morsy will liberate Jerusalem ...
Via Egypt Independent:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/brotherhood-leader-morsy-will-liberate-jerusalem
During the rule of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser, a Jewish clairvoyant predicted that three men named Mohamad would rule Egypt and that the third would liberate Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, Muslim Brotherhood Mufti Abdel Rahman al-Barr said on Saturday.
At a conference entitled "We freed our soldiers and we will free our Aqsa," organized in Beni Suef by the Muslim Brotherhood, Barr explained the prophecy by saying that "the third Mohamed is President Mohamed Morsy. The first was Mohamed Anwar Sadat, and the second was Mohamed Hosni Mubarak."
"The road to Jerusalem must pass through Cairo and Damascus," Barr added. "Before Salahuddin went to Jerusalem, he freed Cairo as well as the Levant, and there is no way to liberate Jerusalem before Cairo and Damascus have first been liberated."
According to Barr, Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood and it was able to force the Zionist entity out of Gaza.
"Israeli government officials used to set pre-conditions, the most important of which was recognition of the Israeli state, before agreeing to meet with the Hamas leadership, but they are now eager to convene without any – a change that can be attributed to the Arab Spring revolutions," he said.
"Israel will vanish; it is an artificial creation produced by a foreign body," Barr claimed.
He called on all Egyptians, regardless of their profession, to consider the liberation of Palestine as their top priority.
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(The man who will start world war 3)
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(Keep looking... the first one that finds it, lives!)
The Five Follows Jon Stewart's Lead, Rails Against 'Disgraceful' VA Benefits Backlog
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-five-follows-jon-stewarts-lead-rails-against-disgraceful-va-benefits-backlog/
(Under POS Obama, the backlog has increased from 164,000 to 630,000. This is unacceptable. If we say, as the President said today that we should honor our servicemen, then honor them truly by giving them what they have truly earned. Don't use them as a talking point, then fail them continuously behind the scenes)
Let's address hunger crisis
Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 3:01 AM
By Christina Weiss Lurie and Joan C. Hendricks
After years of being under the radar, America's hunger crisis is becoming a growing reality for many people.
One in six Americans goes to bed every night with empty stomachs. Poverty is forcing millions into "food insecurity" - the inability to know where your next meal is coming from. Families are buying cheaper, less nutritious food or cutting meals entirely.
The problem is not a lack of food; it's the inability to provide nutritious, safe, affordable food for everyone.
Approximately 13.5 million people live in areas where healthy food - fruits, vegetables, milk, meat, and eggs - is inaccessible. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that 82 percent of these "food deserts" are in the low-income areas of our biggest cities.
Residents in food deserts generally must opt for fast food or empty-calorie processed food from corner grocers. As a result, obesity has become inextricably connected to hunger. One in three children is obese in America and one in four is hungry. The irony is that these children appear over- nourished, but the opposite is true. They aren't receiving the proper nutrition.
Many of these children have trouble functioning in school. They can't concentrate, fall asleep, and are sick on a regular basis. With 17 million food-insecure children, the chronic health consequences are enormous. The cost of this threat to the U.S. economy in terms of health care is a staggering $167 billion a year.
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20130528_Let_s_address_hunger_crisis.html#qlkYsLsKukrbOTZh.99
And we wonder why children and young adults are angry?
And we wonder why people of all ages and races and genders are robbing and stealing?
Report: Chinese hackers breach top weapons designs
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(Chinese hackers have allegedly compromised the designs of top weapons systems, including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. This photo from Northrop Grumman shows a pre-production model of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.)
(Our security SUCKS)Washington Post:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/28/chinese-hackers-post-designs-breached-compromised/2364969/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomWorld-TopStories+%28News+-+World+-+Top+Stories%29
The charge by a defense panel comes a month before visit by China's president to California.Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems, according to report prepared for the Defense Department and government and defense industry officials,The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The compromised weapons designs include, among others, advanced Patriot missile system, the Navy's Aegis ballistic missile defense systems, the F/A-18 fighter jet, the V-22 Osprey, the Black Hawk helicopter and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The confidential report was prepared by the Defense Science Board, a senior advisory group of government and civilian experts.
It does not accuse the Chinese of stealing the designs, but says that the designs of more than two dozen systems were compromised, the Post reported.
Report: Plans for Australia's top spy HQ hacked by China
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/05/28/china-hackers-australia-spy-agency-headquarters/2364863/
Read: Unclassified report on hacking threat issued in January
http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/ResilientMilitarySystems.CyberThreat.pdf
The report comes a month before President Obama meets with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping in California.
White House press spokesman would not comment Tuesday on specifics of the report, but noted that President Obama and his advisers have spoken often about cybersecurity as a key priority -- and key concern -- of the administration.
"It is an issue that we raised at every level in our meetings with our Chinese counterparts, and I'm sure will be a topic of discussion when the president meets with President Xi in California in early June," Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One, Politico reported.
It also coincides with reports in the Australian media that Chinese hackers had allegedly stolen blueprints for Australian's new spy headquarters.
An alleged breach of U.S. systems was noted in a public report issued by the advisory panel in January, but the section of the report listing the compromised weapons system remained classified until Tuesday. The public version had warned that the Pentagon is unprepared to counter a full-scale cyber-conflict.
The Chinese government has insisted that it does not conduct cyber-espionage on U.S. agencies or companies, and government spokesmen often complain that Beijing is a target of U.S. cyberattacks, the Post notes.
Two US embassy personnel shot in Venezuela
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CARACAS — Two employees of the US embassy in Venezuela were shot and wounded early Tuesday in the capital Caracas, in a murky incident that local media and a police source said took place at a strip club.
"We can confirm that two members of the US embassy in Caracas were injured during an incident early this morning," State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters in Washington.
"Medical staff inform us that their injuries are not life-threatening," he added, noting that they were hurt at "some sort of a social spot" but without specifying the venue or nature of their injuries.
US diplomatic sources later confirmed to AFP that the two men were shot.
The Venezuelan media identified the two men as Roberto Ezequiel Rosas and Paul Marwin, and said they were military attaches at the embassy, but neither the State Department nor the embassy in Caracas would confirm those reports.
"My understanding is that they are other agency personnel, not from the State Department," Ventrell said.
Venezuelan television channel Globovision reported on its website that the incident took place at the Antonella bar located in a shopping center in the Chacao district of Caracas, after an altercation with other bar patrons.
Bar staff told AFP on condition of anonymity that the venue is indeed a strip club that only admits men over the age of 30, but refused to say anything about the alleged incident involving the US embassy personnel.
A district policeman, who also spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity, said a shooting incident had been reported just outside the Antonella bar, involving three Americans.
In the entryway of the club, there are photos of female strippers.
Venezuela has the highest murder rate in South America with 54 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. In the first quarter of 2013 alone, there were 3,400 murders, according to government statistics.
Several diplomats have been assaulted in recent months in the country.
The United States and Venezuela, which have had no ambassadors since 2010, have had strained relations since Caracas accused Washington of backing a coup that briefly ousted the late Hugo Chavez in 2002.
President Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's former vice president, has maintained a confrontational stance with the US government since his election on April 14, calling President Barack Obama the "grand chief of devils."
Foreign Minister Elias Jaua, however, said two weeks ago that the new government was prepared to normalize relations with the United States, beginning with a return of Venezuela's ambassador to Washington.
Despite the tensions, Venezuela sells the United States 900,000 barrels of oil a day.
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Liberals "Running Wild" in America: O'Reilly & Krauthammer Discuss Growing Intolerance,
Rudeness, & Childishness of Leftwing Radicals (video below)
Some of the points covered by O'Reilly in his "leftists running wild" commentary include:
* University of Southern California Darry Sragow has turned his classroom into an anti-Republican stronghold. A non-liberal student apparently was sick of the leftist propaganda and taped Sragow during one of his anti-Republican lectures.
* While speaking at universities, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and former Bush Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove were heckled and insulted by emboldened liberal radicals.
* The far-left is intruding on the national discourse, perverting the education system, and generally behaving badly.
In the video below, O'Reilly and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and political pundit Charles Krauthammer have an insightful discussion about the perceived growing intrusions and intolerance of the far-left, of progressive zealots and thugs attempting to silence anyone who does not agree with them.
Krauthammer disagreed with some of O'Reilly's observations, saying he didn't believe this is a growing trend, that it's been around for decades. Radical leftists, Krauthammer reminds O'Reilly, were far more violent and controlling than they are today, were far more intrusive in our universities and across our nation during the 1960s and early 1970s. Entire universities were taken over by occupation and riots during that period.
He calls the disrespectful actions of the radical leftists, then and now, "juvenile," that the real threat to our freedoms is with those radical progressives who are elected as lawmakers and policy makers.
Krauthammer could have been referring to deplorable, liberal Illinois Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin admitting that he pushed the IRS to perform a targeted, conservatives-only audit and said this week that he didn't know if the First Amendment should be applied to all Americans, such as bloggers and the Twitterverse. He said he feels that only "GOVERNMENT-APPROVED" journalists should enjoy First Amendment protection of the Constitution. Anyone shuddering out there? Leftist Durbin also has chilling thoughts about the constitutional rights of citizens under the Second Amendment.
Additionally, Krauthammer said he believes the lack of leadership shown by Pres. Obama has propelled most of this incivility, this escalating bashing of conservative principles. He reminds us that leftists have been in control of our universities, the news media, Hollywood, and cultural foundations for more than a decade — that from Nixon through the election of Obama, America did well, in contrast to the past four years. O'Reilly and Krauthammer discuss the respect and civil behavior that conservatives demonstrate versus that of liberals.
Krauthammer humorously points back to USC's mega-liberal Sragow, who, ironically, is an old, intolerant, inflexible leftist white guy who is stereotyping Republicans and slamming old, intolerant, inflexible conservative white guys. Amusingly myopic and hypocritical.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j4DUcDEudw
Man charged with killing couple, raping toddler hours after release from prison(Lets see now... instead of killing the bastard, remove his sexual organs, put him into a clown suit, give him bread and water and extra hard labor and no contact with human beings, ever... for the rest of his natural life! ....Judge Warph) (http://www.youthvoices.net/sites/default/files/image/20498/sep/image.jpg)
"I hear voices... I know you're out there!!!"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/29/us-usa-attack-alaska-idUSBRE94S07420130529?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
(Reuters) - A 24-year-old man has been charged with killing an elderly couple and raping their 2-year-old great-grandchild, in a crime that occurred just hours after he was released from prison in a separate sexual-assault case, state officials said on Tuesday.
Jerry Active was arrested on Saturday by police and has been charged in the murders of Sorn Sreap, 71, and her husband, Touch Chea, 73, and the rape of the toddler they were babysitting that night. Active is also charged with raping Sreap.
The elderly victims' bodies had signs of blunt-force trauma, but autopsies will determine the cause of death, the Anchorage Police Department said in a statement. Active could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted of the murders and rapes.
Active, who had pleaded guilty to breaking into a Dillingham, Alaska, home in 2009 and sexually assaulting a child and other residents, was released from prison on probation on Saturday morning after serving part of a seven-year sentence, said Kaci Schroeder, a spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Corrections.
It was not immediately clear why Active was allowed to serve less than his full sentence. Schroeder said she did not have certain details about his case.
He was released from prison in Anchorage at 8:09 a.m. Saturday, about 12 hours before the crimes were reported, Schroeder said.
The toddler's parents returned home from a movie and found the suspect naked in a bedroom with the child and the great-grandparents dead, said the Anchorage police statement. The parents confronted the suspect, but he escaped, police said.
Active was arraigned on Sunday, with bail set at $1.5 million, according to court records. A state judge on Tuesday scheduled a June 5 preliminary hearing.
A public defender for Active could not be reached for comment.
Active has a lengthy court record, with several misdemeanor arrests prior to the 2009 felony case. He was first released on the Dillingham case on October 2, 2011, but violated probation and was sent back to prison two days later, according to records Schroeder released.
Since then he has been in and out of prison after committing other probation violations, Schroeder said.
(Chicago Justice comes to Tunisia)
Last September Islmists attacked the US Embassy in Tunisia, torched an American school and hung the Al-Qaeda flag.
Four people were killed and 29 were injured in the rioting.
This week 20 of the protesters were given probation and no jail time.
The Australian reported, via Atlas:No Jail Time for 20 Jihadists Who Attacked US Embassy in Tunisia and Hung Al-Qaeda FlagTWENTY people have received a two-year suspended prison sentence for their part in a deadly attack on the US embassy in Tunisia last year, their lawyer said.
"They all got a two-year suspended sentence," said lawyer Anouar Ouled Ali.
"We will see with their families if they want to appeal. If they want to, we will do it," he added.
The verdict, which was not made public, came after only half a day, an unusually short trial in the north African country.
Hundreds of angry Islamist protesters attacked the US mission in Tunis on September 14 after an American-made film mocking their religion was published on the Internet.
Four of the assailants were killed and dozens wounded in the violence, which saw protesters storm the embassy and torch a neighbouring American school.
Questioned individually by the judge, the accused denied having taken part in the protest or attacking the embassy and the police.
Tunisian judicial rulings are not usually announced in court.
CONFIRMED: IRS Gave Preferential Treatment to Malik Obama's Charity – Now Found Linked to Genocidal Regime
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 9:56 AM
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/breaking-irs-gave-preferential-treatment-to-malik-obamas-charity-now-found-linked-to-terrorism-genocide/
BARACK OBAMA'S BROTHER MALIK OBAMA'S CHARITY LINKED TO GENOCIDAL REGIME!
In light of the recent revelations that the IRS has been unfairly targeting conservative groups, President Obama's half-brother "got a sweetheart deal" from the IRS. According to the Daily Caller, Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by the president's half-brother that operated illegally for years. Lerner approved the foundation's tax status within a month of filing.But now there is evidence that the Barack H. Obama Foundation is linked to terrorism and genocide:(http://3-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/576x432xmalik-sudan.jpg.pagespeed.ic.rAAGkPnrxl.jpg)
Malik Obama speaks at the Munadhamat Dawa Al-Islamia (MDI)
Board of Directors Conference 2010, Khartoum, Sudan.
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Malik Obama at the Munadhamat Dawa Al-Islamia (MDI) Board of Directors Conference 2010, Khartoum, Sudan-Malik Obama with His Excellency Field Marshal Suar Al Dahab (Chairman of The Board of Directors). Al Dahab was the President of Sudan from April 6, 1985 to May 6, 1986.
Malik Obama: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Obama#Malik_ObamaThe Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF) is linked to top Sudanese officials, a regime accused of terrorism and genocide.
Walid Shoebat reported:It has been learned that the relationship between President Barack Obama's half-brother Malik Obama and Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir is much closer than previously thought...
...In 2010, Malik Obama attended the Islamic Da'wa Organization (IDO) conference in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. One of the objectives of the IDO is to spread Wahhabist Islam across the African continent.
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In this photo, from the Barack H. Obama Foundation (BHOF) website, headed by Malik, Omar al-Bashir can be seen dressed in black, to the right. Another man to take notice of is seated directly to the right of Bashir; his name is Swar Al Dahabhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Rahman_Swar_al-Dahab
Omar Al-Bashir is a controversial figure both in Sudan and worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir
In July 2008, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), accused al-Bashir of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. The court issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Al-Bashir and top Sudanese officials are pictured with Malik Obama on the front page of the Barack H. Obama website. And, the IRS gave this group preferential treatment over American conservative and pro-Constitutional groups.
Barack Obama welcomed his militant Muslim brother Malik Obama to the White House after his inauguration.
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US President Barack Obama greets members of his British and African-based family at the White House following his inauguration, including half-brother Abongo, far left, and stepmother Kezia, in yellow. The President's 86-year-old paternal grandmother Sarah was also in Washington DC for his swearing-in ceremony, as well as his half-sister Auma, 49, and half-brothers Ben, 38, and Abo (or Samson), 40
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You just can't make this stuff up.
Israel Threatens To Bomb Russian Shipments Of Advanced S-300 Missiles To Syria
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(And when Israel says they'll bomb something, nobody doubts them)
JERUSALEM (AP) —Israel's defence chief said Tuesday a Russian plan to supply sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to Syria was a "threat" and signalled that Israel is prepared to use force to stop the delivery.The warning by Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon ratcheted up tensions with Moscow over the planned sale of S-300 air-defence missiles to Syria. Earlier in the day, a top Russian official said his government remained committed to the deal.
Israel has been lobbying Moscow to halt the sale, fearing the missiles would upset the balance of power in the region and could slip into the hands of hostile groups, including the Lebanese militia Hezbollah, a close ally of the Syrian regime.
Israel has carried out several airstrikes in Syria in recent months that are believed to have destroyed weapons shipments bound for Hezbollah. Israel has not confirmed carrying out the attacks.
The delivery of the Russian missiles to Syria could limit the Israeli air force's ability to act. It is not clear whether Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace in these attacks.
Canada Refuses To Help Arm Syrian Rebels Over Jihadist Infestation
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(Can we trade Obuma to Canada for Stephen Harper?)
Via Sun News:http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/05/20130528-135647.html
Canada is breaking ranks with its European Union allies over the decision to allow member countries to arm Syrian rebels.On Tuesday, the EU failed to renew its Syrian arms embargo, freeing countries to funnel arms into the war-torn Mideast nation – an endeavour supported by both France and the UK.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada won't follow suit and instead supports a political solution to the civil war in Syria, now entering its third year.
But he shrugged off the disagreement.
"Sovereign governments make their own decisions," he said. "In Europe, we see a group of committed allies that are normally like-minded. On occasion, we are not. There's nothing wrong with honest differences of opinion."
Canada is wary of fully embracing the opposition rebels in Syria despite the federal government's repeated calls for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down.
While willing to engage with the rebels, Canada is among the few western governments refusing to recognize the opposition rebel coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.
"Our strong concern has been, and continues to be, the number of radical jihadists that have entered parts of the opposition and, in our view, that's not getting better. It is, in fact, getting worse," Baird said.
Sick New York City App Gives Teenagers Directions To Closest Abortion Clinics
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Taxpayer-funded, of course.
(CNSNews.com) – The New York City Health Department's NYC teen website now includes an app that teens can download to their smart phones to get information on "sexual health," including where they can get birth control and abortions.
The app, under the heading "Important Links and Info," has three main links – Where to Go; sexual health services, What to Get; condoms and birth control; and What to Expect; at the clinic.
Under the health services link the user can choose what service they want, including Gold Star clinics (those that offer free birth control and other services), emergency contraceptive or Plan B, and abortion.
If the user picks abortion, they can then choose the area in the city where they want to find services. If the user picks Manhattan, for example, they will be directed to three places that perform abortions – Family Planning Clinic, Harlem Hospital; Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger Center; and Project Stay – Services to Assist Youth at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
HHS Secretary Sebelius Begs Lobbying Group For Help Selling Obamacare
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(The stench of desperation is overwhelming....
I used to have horse that looked like that)
May 28 (Reuters) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asked a group representing nearly 46,000 physician assistants on Tuesday to help persuade uninsured Americans to sign up for coverage under President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law.
As part of a politically embattled administration effort to rally support for the landmark reform law, Sebelius appealed to physician assistants as care providers who treat large numbers of people with little or no health insurance, including those in Republican-controlled states that have rejected the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Sebelius, Obama's top healthcare adviser, has run into mounting opposition from Republicans [and demorats and Unions] over efforts to marshal private sector support for a public outreach campaign that could determine whether Obama's signature domestic policy achievement succeeds or flops, just as the 2014 midterm election campaign gets under way.
Republicans in Congress, who are blocking public funds for reform implementation, say Sebelius may have acted improperly by seeking private donations for a nonprofit group that will help lead a public outreach campaign this summer. The administration says Sebelius's actions were fully authorized by law.
"It's absolutely critical that we reach out to uninsured Americans and get them ready to sign up for coverage," Sebelius told a meeting of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, which has 46,000 members.
Pelosi Lists Approved Groups For Demorats To Work With On Obumacare Recess Events: SEIU, La Raza, Planned Parenthood, NAACP
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CNN/ORC POLL:Interviews with 923 adult Americans conducted by telephone by ORC International on May 17-18, 2013. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
The sample includes 648 interviews among landline respondents and 275 interviews among cell phone respondents.http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/05/28/healthcarepoll.pdfMore on this story at: http://blogs.rollcall.com/goppers/democrats-unleash-a-binder-full-of-obamacare-messaging/
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Stupidity, Anguish, Self-Flattery, Pants, and HowlingWhat in the hell does that mean? ???
And... what the hell is this video:
What are these conspicuous howls about? Are they really about the tree? ???
Or are they really about the people howling about the tree? ???
And what in the hell is "Ace-of Spades" talking about?
Well, it starts with P.J. O'Rourke: Obuma Is Stupid. Then, refers to a funny Hot Air item quoting Jane Meyer of the New Yorker, giving Obuma a pass on drone-strike kills because he shows how anguished he is all about it, thus flattering Meyer's own self-conception as "The Sort of Person Who Would Put on Shows of Anguish Over Drone Strike"s (while not objecting to them terribly much in reality)....
Then adds some commentary.... including an analysis of the self-flattering nature of David Brooks praising the impeccable crease of Obuma's pants.... then... somehow.... wraps it up with a video of "Earth Firs"t people moved by their own crying and howling and mourning a tree. ::) Maybe Ready-Aim-Duck can understand what this is all about, huh, Ready?
See what I mean:
Ace-of Spades: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/340404.php
My answer to this whole howling thingy is to call on Arnie:
There... that should take care of it!!!
Wha... what the HELL!!! OH MY G_D, THEY'RE BACK!!!!!!
Arnie...? Arnie...?? ARNIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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More Obuma Regime Intimidation?
FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force Questioning Director Of
Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers
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(So instead of hunting down terrorists the FBI JTTF is sent to harass pro-lifers?)
NEW YORK, May 29, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The FBI office charged with investigating terrorism has said it intends to question the national director of a chain of crisis pregnancy centers. The development is the latest in what pro-life activists have charged is a pattern of intimidation on the part of the Obama administration against pro-life activists.
Agents of the Joint Domestic Terrorism Task Force told Chris Slattery, national director of Expectant Mother Care (EMC) FrontLine Pregnancy Centers, only that they wanted to meet him "for a mutually beneficial relationship."
"In other words, if I don't meet with them, it will not be beneficial for me," Slattery told LifeSiteNews.com. "I'm not sure what I'm going to get out of it," he joked.
The questioning comes as New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has subpoenaed the group for not abiding by the standards of a consent agreement Slattery believed expired more than 20 years ago, as well as in relation to a question of some of its paperwork.
More at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fbi-terrorism-task-force-wants-to-question-national-crisis-pregnancy-center?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LifesitenewscomLatestHeadlines+%28LifeSiteNews.com+Latest+Headlines%29
Krauthammer: Obuma Idle in Hours After Benghazi Attack 'Biggest Scandal'
The biggest scandal that President Obama has to face is the question of what he was doing at the time the attack on the Benghazi consulate in Libya was occurring, Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer says.
For eight hours while four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were dying, Obama apparently did nothing except make one call to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Krauthammer told Bill O'Reilly.And even that conversation did not appear to be about what help they could provide, but rather about what story to concoct about the assault.
"He had a routine meeting at five o'clock. He never after, during the eight hours when our guys have their lives in danger for, he never called the Secretary of Defense, he never called the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never called the CIA Director," said Krauthammer.
"Who does he call? About five hours in, he calls his Secretary of State. And after the phone call, she releases a statement, essentially about the video and how we denounce any intolerance."
He added, "It looks as if the only phone call was to construct a cover story at a time when the last two Americans who died were still alive and fighting for their lives. There is a scandal. And that, I think, has got to be uncovered." Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/krauthammer-benghazi-attack-scandal/2013/05/29/id/506925?promo_code=F323-1&utm_source=Life_Site_News&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1#ixzz2UkdXt5ix
(Mr. wanna-be dictator reminds me of the dictator Idi Amin...
he so desperately wants to have absolute power)
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Via Politico: http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/05/obama-laments-logjam-with-congress-165020.html
[POS] President Obama told attendees at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago on Wednesday that the solutions to many of the country's problems are clear, but the GOP is standing in the way.
"We've got a politics that's stuck right now," he said, according to a pool report. "The reason it's stuck is because people spend more time thinking about the next election than they do the next generation." [says the guy who never stops campaigning -ed.]
Obama said he still wants to work with Republicans willing to compromise, but if he continues to face GOP obstructionism motivated by what he described as efforts to score political points, he'll have to find a way to work around them.
"One way to do that is to have a Democratic House of Representatives," he said.
The Top 10 Bizarre Bills of the 2013 Kansas legislative session:
1.HB 2054 – The "strippers are destroying our communities" act
2.SB 144 – A legislative attempt to force a KU/WSU basketball game
3.HB 2240 – In which lawmakers attempt to ban unmanned aerial luminaries
4.SR 1736 –Congratulating the 2012 Miss Kansas pageant winner
5.HB 2046 – A bill increasing golf cart speed limits to 35 mph
6.SR 1757 – The "drugs are bad" resolution
7.HB 2187 – An attempt to license massage therapists
8.SB 120 – Creating a central farmers' market registry
9.SR 1747 – Recognizing the Boy Scouts of America
10.HB 2402 – Establishing National Cowboy Day in Kansas
Bonus entry:
HR 6031 – Apparently Kansas has a relationship with the Republic of Armenia
http://watchdog.org/87329/top-10-bizarre-bills-of-the-2013-kansas-legislative-session/
A Job Well Done... Top IRS Goon Who Wrote
Threatening Letters to Conservatives Is Promoted
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 11:30 PM
Just two weeks ago(POS) Barack Obuma said the IRS targeting of conservatives was "Outrageous!"
Now we find out that one of the top IRS goons involved in the scandal was just promoted.
The Examiner reported, via JWF:
http://www.fox19.com/story/22380127/reality-check-exclusive-cincinnati-agent-giving-orders-in-irs-scandal
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Obama may have promised "to hold the responsible parties accountable" for the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative non-profit groups, but one of the agents at the center of the scandal was recently promoted, an IRS source tells The Washington Examiner.
Through 2012, then-Exempt Organization Specialist Stephen Seok signed many of the intimidating letters sent to conservative nonprofits. For example, this January 2012 letter sent to the Richmond Tea Party demanded the date, time and location of all group events, as well as copies of all handouts provided at the events, and the names and credentials of all organizers. Seok also demanded the names of all speakers and the contents of the speeches they made.
According to WXIX-TV/Fox 19 in Cincinnati, Seok is no longer an exempt organization specialist. He has since been promoted to "supervisor IRS agent."
http://www.fox19.com/story/22380127/reality-check-exclusive-cincinnati-agent-giving-orders-in-irs-scandal
BREAKING>>> Lois Lerner Told Republican in 1996:
"Promise me You Will Never Run Again, and We'll Drop This (FEC) Case"
Lois Lerner, the controversial director of the tax-exempt organizations division at the Internal Revenue Service, has a long sordid history of targeting conservatives.
Under the direction of Lois Lerner, the Federal Election Commission sued the Christian Coalition in the 1990s. She harassed the Christian Coalition for three election cycles. Eventually, she lost her case. At one point Lerner even asked a conservative if Pat Robertson prayed over him.
(Sound familiar?)
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Al Salvi – Lois Lerner
Then there's this...Lois Lerner made this offer to Republican Senate candidate Al Salvi in 1996,
"Promise me you will never run for office again, and we'll drop this case."
USofArn reported:http://usofarn.com/lois-lerner-to-republican-candidate-in-1996-promise-me-you-will-never-run-for-office-again-and-well-drop-this-fec-case/
In 1996 Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the harassment of Tea Party groups seeking tax exempt status, was head of the enforcement division of the Federal Elections Commission(FEC). That year Al Salvi was the Republican nominee for the US Senate from Illinois, his Democrat opponent was then congressman Dick Durbin.
During the final weeks of the campaign Salvi loaned himself over a million dollars to buy ads in the Chicago media market. This in turn prompted the Democrat party's campaign arms to file complaints with the FEC and in kind the FEC, specifically Lois Lerner, filed charges against Al Salvi.That is when Mr. Salvi contends Lois Lerner made him the following offer, "Promise me you will never run for office again, and we'll drop this case."Al Salvi refused that offer and would fight the FEC complaint against him for several more years before a Judge tossed out the complaint.
The Illinois Review broke the story and interviewed Al Salvi:http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2013/05/lerner-intrigue-goes-back-to-96-durbinsalvi-us-senate-race.html
Soon after the IRS story broke, Al Salvi told Illinois Review that it was IRS official Lois Lerner who represented the FEC in a Democrat complaint against him. According to Salvi, Lerner was, without question, politically motivated, and went so far as to make him an offer: "Promise me you will never run for office again, and we'll drop this case."
Salvi declined her offer, and ran for Illinois Secretary of State in 1998.
But when he saw Lerner plead the Fifth Amendment before Congress last week, he recognized her. "That's the woman," Salvi said. "And I didn't plead the Fifth like she did."These actions landed Lois Lerner at the IRS where she used the same tactics against conservatives and Christians – only on a much larger scale. 500 conservative and Christian groups were illegally targeted by the Obama IRS during her tenure. For twenty-seven months the Obama IRS refused to approve any Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status. At the same time the Obama IRS approved dozens of progressive applications.
OVER 17.5 Million More Americans on Medicaid Today
Than HHS Predicted in 2010
Thursday, May 30, 2013, 11:57 AM
In 2010 the Obama Department of Health and Human Services predicted in their Actuarial Report that 55.1 million Americans would be enrolled in Medicaid in 2013.(http://4-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/564x732xmedicaid-enrollment.jpg.pagespeed.ic.YqZabC8CHp.jpg)
Here's how that prediction worked out...
A record 72,600,000 were enrolled in Medicaid for at least one month in fiscal 2012. This is more people than the population of France or the United Kingdom.
That means HHS was off by 17.5 million.
Only in government can you be so off in your predictions and still keep your jobs.
More... HHS did not do much better in their 2011 report.http://medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-Program-Information/By-Topics/Financing-and-Reimbursement/Downloads/medicaid-actuarial-report-2011.pdf
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How in the hell did any of us survive before these two committed socialists liars moved into the White House?More Americans were on food stamps in December, than the entire population of Spain.(http://thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/spain-pic.jpg)
An average 46,609,072 people were on the program every month in 2012.It's something the Obuma administration clowns are very proud of.)))Michelle Obama told a group of top Democratic donors
last night that Republicans caused seniors to go hungry
and now they're after your food stamps!
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Thursday, May 30, 2013, 10:34 AM
Via the TPM: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/michelle-obama-gives-speech-at-fundraiser-in-tory
"Just last month for example we saw the failure of common sense legislation to protect our kids from gun violence, legislation by the way that 90 percent of the American people supported. We're seeing a budget stalemate and a sequester resulting in children across the country being turned away from Head Start, and so many seniors losing their meals on wheels, and now there's talk about cutting food stamps," Obama said.
The First Lady described these cuts as "not what this country is about."
"We are so much more compassionate and fair, so much more decent than that," said Obama.
(Since when does lumping debt on your children and grand-children qualify as compassion?
For the record... The Obuma administration is paying recruiters to sign up people on food stamps)
Poll: Less Than Half Of Americans Now View Obuma As "Honest And Trustworthy"
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(Who in their right mind finds Barack Obama honest or even worse, trustworthy?)
The latest Quinnipiac University poll, published today, will send shivers through the White House, even though Washington is experiencing its first heat wave of the year. The Quinnipiac survey (hat tip: Jim Geraghty at The Campaign Spot) is the first major survey to show that the wave of recent scandals hitting the Obama administration are beginning to damage President Obama's own standing with the American people. According to Quinnipiac, Barack Obama's job approval rating now stands at just 45 percent, with less than half of voters viewing the president as "honest and trustworthy."
"President Barack Obama gets a negative 45 – 49 percent job approval rating, compared to 48 – 45 percent positive in a May 1 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University, conducted before the IRS allegations surfaced.
The president's biggest drop is among independent voters, who give him a negative 37 – 57 percent score, compared to a negative 42 – 48 percent May 1. He gets a negative 9 – 86 percent from Republicans and a positive 87 – 8 percent from Democrats, both virtually unchanged. Women approve 49 – 45 percent while men give a negative 40 – 54 percent score.
Americans are divided 49 – 47 percent on whether Obama is honest and trustworthy, down from 58 – 37 percent, the last time Quinnipiac University asked the question September 1, 2011."
The Quinnipiac study also shows deep-seated disillusionment with the federal government among American voters:
"Only 3 percent of voters trust the federal government to do the right thing almost all the time, while 12 percent say they trust it most of the time; 47 percent say some of the time and 36 percent hardly ever. That compares to results of a Quinnipiac University poll in July 2010, four months before the Republican sweep that year on the back of anti-government sentiment, when 2 percent said almost always, 16 percent said most of the time; 50 percent said some of the time and 31 percent said hardly ever."
Of the three major scandals currently engulfing the presidency – the IRS targeting of conservative groups, the Obama administration's response to the Benghazi terrorist attack, and the Justice Department's seizure of phone records belonging to Associated Press journalists, the IRS issue is making the biggest impact with voters.
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Wild time around 10am this morning... we live a hop, skip and a jump from the Deer Vally Airport where we heard two private planes crash into each other. We heard the sound of the crash and then saw balck smoke bellowing up in the distance. We heard that 3 to 4 people lost their lives. I wondered how long it would be before something like this happened. Thank G-D it didnt happen over our community, tho' it came mighty close. ...WarphPublished on May 31, 2013
Arizona Pane Crash: Two planes collided in midair over Arizona before crash; 4 are dead Arizona Pane Crash: Two planes collided in midair over Arizona before crash; 4 are dead Four people were killed Friday morning after two single-engine planes collided above north Phoenix, authorities say.A pilot reported seeing two small aircraft collide in midair about 15 miles northwest of Deer Valley Airport, according to Ian McGregor of the Federal Aviation Administration.
The agency said it received reports of one of the downed planes at 10 a.m. Friday at mile post 7 on New River Road, north of the Carefree Highway and east of Lake Pleasant.
Fire crews went to the area west of Lake Pleasant and found the two planes. One plane, a Cessna, caught fire after impact and was destroyed, according to Capt. Dave Wilson of the Daisy Mountain Fire Department.
The other aircraft, a Piper Archer, was mostly intact found about 100 yards from the first plane with two male occupants.
"I thought possibly we might have survivors," said battalion Chief Gary Bernard of the Peoria Fire Department. According to Capt. Darren Salotti of the Daisy Mountain Fire Department, the mostly intact aircraft looked like it tried to land. Both occupants of that plane were confirmed dead.
Phoenix Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash, along with investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board.
"This is a tragic event," Sgt. Steve Martos said.
The identities of the victims have not been released.
The Cessna is registered to Westwind Aircraft Leasing LLC, which has an office at Deer Valley Airport. The Piper was registered to Bird Acquisition LLC, which also has an office at Deer Valley Airport. The address is the same as TransPac Aviation Academy.
Deer Valley Airport is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country and has more than 1,200 planes based there.
It has a fueling station, avionics repair, aircraft rentals, new and used aircraft sales, a pilot shop, a restaurant, charter flights and two flight-training schools, Westwind School of Aeronautics and TransPac Aviation Academy.
Four Dead After Two Planes Collide in Mid-Air in Arizona
Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/arizona-fire-officials-4-killed-when-small-planes-collided-then-crash-in-desert-in-phoenix/2013/05/31/41bb65cc-ca4f-11e2-9cd9-3b9a22a4000a_story.html
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Two small planes collided and then crashed in the desert on Friday, killing all four pople aboard the two aircraft, officials said.
Phoenix and Daisy Mountain Fire Department officials said the collision and crash involved two single-engine planes with two people in each aircraft.
Officials said the crash occurred around 10 a.m. in far north Phoenix, some 15 miles northwest of Deer Valley Airport.
One of the planes was registered to Bird Acquisition LLC, which does business as TransPac Aviation Academy, a school for commercial pilots in north Phoenix.
TransPac issued a statement Friday afternoon that said two of its instructors died in the crash.
The business said it wasn't immediately releasing the names of the two men or any personal information about them "out of respect for the families during this time of sadness and grieving."
The plane that burned reportedly was registered to an aircraft leasing company that has an office at Deer Valley Airport.
Several bystanders reported seeing the Cessna and Piper collide but the flight directions of the planes before the crash or other details weren't immediately available, authorities said.
"Both of them collided. We don't know how or what," said Phoenix Fire Department Capt. Larry Nunez. "The skies are clear."
An initial report said three people were killed and two people were injured. Fire officials with the Phoenix and Peoria city fire departments and Daisy Mountain Fire Department later said four people had died and there were no survivors.
Television news footage showed only charred wreckage left from one of the planes, while the other was fairly intact.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said the National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA will investigate.
Gregor said federal investigators were en route to the crash scene Friday afternoon, but it typically takes several months for the NTSB investigation to determine a probable cause for air accidents.
May 30, 2013 8:00 PM
Obama's Dorothy Doctrine
Declaring the War on Terror over won't make it so.
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"This war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises. . . . "
— Barack Obama, May 23
Nice thought. But much as Obama would like to close his eyes, click his heels three times, and declare the War on Terror over, war is a two-way street.
That''s what history advises: Two sides to fight it, two to end it. By surrender (World War II), by armistice (Korea and Vietnam), or when the enemy simply disappears from the field (the Cold War).Obama says enough is enough. He doesn't want us on "a perpetual wartime footing." Well, the Cold War lasted 45 years. The War on Terror, twelve so far. By Obama's calculus, we should have declared the Cold War over in 1958 and left Western Europe, our Pacific allies, the entire free world, to fend for itself — and consigned Eastern Europe to endless darkness.
John F. Kennedy summoned the nation to the burdens of the long twilight struggle. Obama, agonizing publicly about the awful burdens of command (which he twice sought in election), wants out. For him and for us.
He doesn't just want to revise and update the September 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, which many conservatives have called for. He wants to repeal it.
He admits that the AUMF establishes the basis both in domestic and international law to conduct crucial defensive operations, such as drone strikes. Why, then, abolish the authority to do what we sometimes need to do? Because that will make the war go away? Persuade our enemies to retire to their caves?
This is John Lennon, bumper-sticker foreign policy – "Imagine World Peace." Obama pretends that the tide of war is receding. But it's demonstrably not. It's metastasizing to Mali, to the Algerian desert, to the North African states falling under the Muslim Brotherhood, to Yemen, to the savage civil war in Syria, now spilling over into Lebanon and destabilizing Jordan. Even Sinai, tranquil for 35 years, is descending into chaos.
It's not war that's receding. It's America. Under Obama. And it is precisely in the power vacuum left behind that war is rising. Obama declares Assad must go. The same wish-as-policy fecklessness from our bystander president. Two years — and 70,000 dead — later, Obama keeps repeating the wish even as the tide of battle is altered by the new arbiters of Syria's future — Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia. Where does every party to the Syrian conflict go on bended knee? To Moscow, as Washington recedes into irrelevance.
But the ultimate expression of Obama's Dorothy Doctrine is Guantanamo. It must close. Must, mind you.
Okay. Let's accept the dubious proposition that the Yemeni prisoners could be sent home without coming back to fight us. And that others could be convicted in court and put in U.S. prisons. Now the rub. Obama openly admits that "even after we take these steps one issue will remain — just how to deal with those Gitmo detainees who we know have participated in dangerous plots or attacks but who cannot be prosecuted."
Well, yes. That's always been the problem with Gitmo. It's not a question of geography. The issue is indefinite detention — whether at Gitmo, a Colorado supermax, or St. Helena. Can't try 'em, can't release 'em. Having posed the central question, what is Obama's answer? "I am confident that this legacy problem can be resolved."
That's it! I kid you not. He's had four-plus years to think this one through — and he openly admits he's got no answer.
Because there is none. Hence the need for Gitmo. Other wars end, at which point prisoners are repatriated. But in this war, the other side has no intention of surrender or armistice. They will fight until the caliphate is established or until jihadism is as utterly defeated as fascism and Communism. That's the reason — the only reason — for the detention conundrum. There is no solution to indefinite detention when the detainees are committed to indefinite war.
Obama's fantasies are twinned. He can no more wish the detention away than he can the war.
We were defenseless on 9/11 because, despite bin Laden's open written declaration of war in 1996, we pretended for years that no war against us had even begun. Obama would return us to pre-9/11 defenselessness — casting Islamist terror as a law-enforcement issue and removing the legal basis for treating it as armed conflict — by pretending that the war is over.
It's enough to make you weep.
....Charles Krauthammer
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/349733/obamas-dorothy-doctrine-charles-krauthammer
First on CNN: IRS on defense over employee dance video
Posted by
CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash
Updated 8:40 p.m. ET Friday 5/31
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(CNN) – A newly obtained video has the IRS running damage control on a new front, as the embattled agency prepares for the release next week of an inspector general report that will be critical of how money was spent on staff conferences.
In the video, an apparent team-building exercise, employees are taught the Cupid Shuffle dance move as they prepare to present the dance as a group at a 2010 conference.
The IRS said Friday night the video "was unacceptable and an inappropriate use of government funds."
The video's narrator describes the group of individuals as executives from the Small Business/Self Employed (SBSE) department. They say they're competing "to become the next great dance sensation."
The IRS said the video cost $1,600 to produce, and it played at the end of a 2010 leadership and education meeting in Anaheim for 2,600 managers in the SBSE division.
"The meeting took place at a time where the IRS needed to ensure that managers had proper training to address significant new programs, major staff turnover and a substantial increase in security threats following the suicide attack on an IRS facility in Austin earlier in the year," the IRS said in a statement.
Throughout the nearly-three minute video, the employees poke fun at each other as they try to learn the dance moves.
The new video comes as the IRS takes heat over its admitted targeting of conservative groups who sought tax exempt status.
Next week, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) will release an audit showing excess spending at the IRS conference.
The IRS has already come under scrutiny for Star Trek and Gilligan's Island-themed training videos it produced that costs tens of thousands of dollars. The Star Trek video, reported earlier this year, played at the same conference as the dance video.
"And I thought doing the Star Trek video was humiliating," one woman says in the new video.
In fact, one of the employees in the Star Trek video was also in the new dancing spot.
Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel, appointed in recent weeks, said in a statement that the report will focus on an IRS conference that took place in 2010 and labeled it an "unfortunate vestige from a prior era."
"While there were legitimate reasons for holding the meeting, many of the expenses associated with it were inappropriate and should not have occurred," he said, adding new rules have been put in place and such a conference will not happen under his watch.
Last year, the General Services Administration drew fierce congressional criticism and scrutiny for spending nearly $1 million on a conference in Las Vegas, also in 2010, that featured a controversial video and ultimately resulted in the resignation of its administrator.
Obama Poll Worker Who May Have Voted Six Times Pleads
Guilty To 4 Counts Illegal Voting
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(Voter fraud, what voter fraud? And of course, this was Ohio...
makes one wonder how many thousands are guilty in other states?)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/30/ohio-poll-worker-who-admitted-to-voting-twice-for-obama-is-convicted-of-voter-fraud-faces-6-years-in-prison/
The former Ohio poll worker who admitted flat-out to voting twice for President Barack Obama in November was convicted Tuesday of illegal voting, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
Melowese Richardson of Madisonville, Ohio was accused of eight counts of illegal voting in the 2008, 2011 and 2012 elections. She pleaded no contest to four counts in exchange for prosecutors dropping the remaining charges, the newspaper reported. A judge immediately convicted Richardson, who now faces up to six years in prison.
Richardson had admitted to Cincinnati's WCPO-TV in February that she voted twice, after documents showed she first submitted an absentee ballot and told an official she later voted at the polls as well
Obama administration to blame for jailing of hero Bin Laden doctor,
says Pakistani report
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(This guy is rotting away in some Pakistani shithole jail thanks to those bastard big mouths in the White House while POS Obuma runs around taking credit for killing Bin Laden. Totally Sickening!)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/31/us-to-blame-for-jailing-hero-bin-laden-doctor-says-pakistani-report/#ixzz2Utfx2VMk
It was the Obama administration that sealed the fate of the Pakistani doctor jailed for helping nail Usama Bin Laden, by divulging key details after the fact and dooming any chance Shakil Afridi's cover story could win his freedom, according to a confidential Pakistani report.When former Secretary of Defense and ex-CIA Director Leon Panetta publicly acknowledged Afridi's role in the ruse which helped the CIA pinpoint Bin Laden's presence in an Abbottabad compound, any chance that Pakistani authorities could help him get out of the country vanished, according to what some have called Pakistan's version of the 9/11 Commission, a 357-page report from an independent body set up to probe the aftermath of the 2011 raid by Navy SEALs in which the Al Qaeda leader was killed.
"The statement by the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who was the CIA Director when May 2 happened, confirming the role of Dr. Afridi in making the U.S. assassination mission a success, rendered much of what Afridi told the Commission very questionable if not outright lies," states the report, which has not been released, but which FoxNews.com has viewed.
Indeed, Panetta and others in the Obama administration were sharply criticized domestically for discussing the raid and efforts involving Afridi to obtain DNA from the compound's occupants by posing as a medical team offering vaccinations. Nearly five months before Afridi's sentencing, while the doctor was being held and interrogated by Pakistan's shadowy intelligence agency , Panetta spoke on record in an interview to CBS "60 Minutes" confirming Afridi's role in late January 2012. The statements came after Afridi had testified to the commission, and sharply contradicted his story.
"This was an individual, in fact that helped provide intelligence, that was very helpful in regards to this operation and he was not in any way treasonous towards Pakistan," Panetta told the program in January, 2012, in the first acknowledgement of Afridi's role.That prompted the Pakistani commission to conclude in its report that "Dr. Afridi had been cultivated by the CIA and ultimately used in its project to assassinate Usama Bin Laden."
Former Obuma Aides Cashing In
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(Public servants... Sh!t)
Via Washington Post:The decision on whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline is a political headache for President Obama. But to five of his former aides, it represents a business opportunity. Four of them — Bill Burton, Stephanie Cutter, Jim Papa and Paul Tewes — work as consultants for opponents of the project, which would carry heavy crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. Another, former White House communications director Anita Dunn, counts the project's sponsor, TransCanada, among the clients of her communications firm.
Keystone XL is just one of several upcoming administration decisions providing lucrative work for former Obama advisers on issues ranging from gun control to mining to legalized gambling. Just this week, three of Obama's top former political advisers —Robert Gibbs, Jim Messina and David Plouffe — were given five-figure checks to deliver remarks at a forum in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, which is in the midst of a campaign to burnish its image in Washington.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-obamas-ex-aides-its-time-to-cash-in-on-experience/2013/05/30/a649ccde-c867-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html
The Drawdown Diet: Marines Deprived Of Hot Meal In Afghanistan
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(This POS isn't worried... Shameful)
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Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.
The midnight ration service — known there as "midrats" — supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are ending noon-to-midnight work periods. It's described as one of the few times the Marines at Leatherneck can be together in one place.
The base, which is located in Afghanistan's southwestern Helmand Province, flanked by Iran and Pakistan, also will remove its 24-hour sandwich bar. It plans to replace the dishes long offered at midnight with pre-packaged MREs, said Marine Corps Lt. Col. Cliff Gilmore, who has been deployed in Afghanistan since February.
The moves, though unpopular with many Marines on the ground and their families back home, are emblematic of the massive drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan and the dismantling of U.S. military facilities. More than 30,000 U.S. service members will leave Afghanistan in coming months as the U.S. prepares to hand responsibility for security to Afghan forces in 2014.
While no Marine at Camp Leatherneck agreed to speak on the record, many are privately angry about the hit on base morale.
"This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places," one Leatherneck-based Marine wrote in an email this week to his wife and shared with NBC News. (The Marine declined to speak on the record.) "Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours."
Disgusting POS Jesse Ventura Suing Wife Of Slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle
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(What an unbelievable POS SCUMBAG)
Via Navy SEALS:Read more: http://navyseals.com/2572/jesse-ventura-sets-sights-on-slain-navy-seal-chris-kyle/
In my opinion, the actions of Jesse Ventura are classless and dishonorable. Chris Kyle is an American Hero and his wife Taya, an amazing woman. The Kyles have both sacrificed for many amazing selfless causes. Move on Ventura!
Ventura claims that damages from slain ex-SEAL Chris Kyle's "American Sniper" continue.
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is setting his legal sights on the widow of a former Navy SEAL he had sued for defamation.
Lawyers for Ventura have asked a federal court to continue his lawsuit against Chris Kyle — who was killed in February by a young veteran he was mentoring — by substituting Kyle's wife, Taya, as the defendant. Ventura last year sued Kyle, a decorated former SEAL and author of "American Sniper," claiming that the book's description of a California bar fight defamed him.
On Wednesday, Taya Kyle's attorney filed a response to the motion, writing that Ventura's move "comes as a disappointment, but no surprise."
"Continuing this action will serve no useful purpose," wrote Kyle's attorney, John Borger of Minneapolis, "and likely will promote public perception of Jesse Ventura as someone who has little or no regard for the feelings and welfare of surviving family members of deceased war heroes."
Holder's Habit Of Lying To Congress
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Scandal: Before he lied to Congress while under oath about what he knew about targeting reporters, he lied about Fast and Furious. As early as the New Black Panthers case, Eric Holder had a problem with the truth.
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That the House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 testimony on Department of Justice (DOJ) surveillance of reporters comes as no surprise. People have forgotten about the New Black Panther case, perhaps the most clear-cut case of voter suppression and intimidation ever. On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther Party members in military garb were videotaped intimidating voters outside a Philadelphia polling place.
The slam-dunk prosecution of these thugs was dropped by Holder's Justice Department. When asked why, Holder, on March 1, 2011, testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies that the "decisions made in the New Black Panther Party case were made by career attorneys in the department."
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(Warph: "There... that should take care of Holder!")
Quote from Warph:
People have forgotten about the New Black Panther case, perhaps the most clear-cut case of voter suppression and intimidation ever. On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther Party members in military garb were videotaped intimidating voters outside a Philadelphia polling place.
Nope Warph, I aint forgot---but I have been told several times by an expert on Eastern affairs that I don't know the truth about what happened in Philly because I live too far away to know what really happened. Hmmm!! Surprise is further away than Longton---wonder why she doesn't tell you that you don't know horse shit from hawg jowels?? Maybe because she knows you will hand her ass to her on a platter----there I go again---thinking out loud. Carry on Flyboy. :)
How right you are, Marine.... and on a platter would be too good for her, whoever she is.
1) She does not understand the broad implications of what happened in Philly (trying to link it to another seemingly similar event does not negate the issue)
2) She does not understand the ire & concern of the majority of voters.... they want the American people to be FREE to vote for whomever they choose, and not be intimidated. The handling of the Philly incident has VERY REAL implications on that freedom.
3) She does not understand the history of this country or what democracy is... does she REALLY think that corporate ties to government ended with Obuma. You have got to be kidding! Who do you think benefited so richly from Tarp, Bailouts, Stimulus, Obumacare, Cap&Tax? The Demo-rats!! Wake up, lady!
Do these goofball types REALLY think that Obuma & his Clowns care about the tree of Liberty?! It is the corrupt monies they care about. They are uprooting Liberty in front of our eyes, and are about to put it in the shredder... and if that's what she wants, fine, but don't malign those who care and are willing to at least put up a fight. And since what they are saying echoes what our fore-fathers have said, one would have to conclude that those who fought and died for this country are rather proud of them, knowing their struggle was not in vain.
She needs to read this by John Fund, WSJ and believe. When the Justice Department fails to enforce federal voting laws, that IS an incident of national proportions. The Clowns in Philly aren't the real issue here. The real issue is the failure of our AG to enforce laws that he doesn't like.
President Obama's Justice Department continues to stonewall inquiries about why it dropped a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party.
The episode—which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen"—began on Election Day 2008. Mr. Bull and others witnessed two Black Panthers in paramilitary garb at a polling place near downtown Philadelphia. (Some of this behavior is on YouTube.)
One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters and both made racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"
In the first week of January, the Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring voters with the weapon, uniforms and racial slurs. In March, Mr. Bull submitted an affidavit at Justice's request to support its lawsuit.
When none of the defendants filed any response to the complaint or appeared in federal district court in Philadelphia to answer the suit, it appeared almost certain Justice would have prevailed by default. Instead, the department in May suddenly allowed the party and two of the three defendants to walk away. Against the third defendant, Minister King Samir Shabazz, it sought only an injunction barring him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of a Philadelphia polling place for the next three years—action that's already illegal under existing law.
There was outrage over the decision among Congressional Republicans, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division—especially after it was learned one of the defendants who walked was Jerry Jackson, a member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and a credentialed poll watcher for the Democratic Party last Election Day.
Then the Washington Times reported on July 30 that six career lawyers at Justice who had recommended continuing to pursue the case were overruled by Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli—a top administration political appointee. One of the career attorneys, Appellate Chief Diana Flynn, had urged in an internal memo that a judgment be pressed against the defendants to "prevent the paramilitary style intimidation of voters" in the future.
Justice spokesman Alejandro Miyar says the dismissal was "based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law." But Rep. Frank Wolf (R., Va.), has been asking for more information. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Welch, for example, claims in a July 13 letter to Mr. Wolf that charges against the New Black Panther Party itself were dropped because there wasn't "evidentiary support" to prove they "directed" the intimidation. But Mr. Wolf notes in a letter sent to Justice that one defendant, Black Panther Party Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz, said on Fox News just after the election that his activities at the polling station were part of a nationwide effort. Mr. Shabazz added that the Black Panther activities in Philadelphia were justified due to "an emergency situation."
Mr. Wolf's demands that Justice make the career attorneys on the case available for questions have been rebuffed. He also wants the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings. A spokesman for House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers was noncommittal as to whether any hearing would be held.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted on Aug. 7 to send a letter to Justice expanding its own investigation and demanding more complete answers. "We believe the Department's defense of its actions thus far undermines respect for rule of law," its letter stated. It noted "the peculiar logic" of one Justice argument, that defendants' failure to show up in court was a reason for dismissing the case: "Such an argument sends a perverse message to wrongdoers—that attempts at voter suppression will be tolerated so long as the persons who engage in them are careful not to appear in court to answer the government's complaint."
The commission noted that it could subpoena witnesses and documents if Justice doesn't better explain its actions.
President Obama needs to clear the air. As a former law professor who specialized in voting rights, he is aware of how important even-handed application of the law is to election integrity. In 2007, then-Sen. Obama introduced a bill to protect Americans from tactics that intimidate voters. It also increased the criminal penalty for voter intimidation to five years in prison from one year.
"There is no place for politics in this debate," he testified before Mr. Conyers's committee in March, 2007. "Both parties at different periods in our history have been guilty in different regions of preventing people from voting for a tactical advantage. We should be beyond that."
One way to get there is for Mr. Obama to insist his Justice Department reinstate the Black Panther case or provide a full explanation for why it was dropped.
This photo was released of Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sa'ad bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud and the body on the street.
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Iranian Mehr News is reporting that Khalid bin Saad bin Abdulaziz al-Saud kidnapped, raped and murdered a Saudi girl then dumped her body on a street.Police in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has confirmed the news that a girl had been raped and murdered by a Saudi prince.
The scandal was another loop in a chain of moral and ethical scandals on Saudi corrupt princes and their crime against Saudi citizens.
The story began when the witnesses in Samer, a Jeddah suburb, saw that a girl was dropped out of a JMC automobile and the car drives away, evening May 30. People witnessing the event immediately wrapped the girl in a blanket and contact the police.
After police arrived, preliminary investigation indicated that the girl had died. JMC plate number fed into the automobile surveillance system of traffic police and it revealed that it belonged to a Saudi prince.
Then, extensive investigation was launched, with the initial result that the prince was no other person than Khalid bin Sa'ad bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, who, met the girl in Wednesday evening in famous Al-Tuhayat shopping mall. The girl defied the prince.
Then, the girl was kidnapped by complicity of Tariq al-Maqrebi, an associate of the prince's, and transferred to an unknown place, where she was sexually harassed.
Confirmed: Obama Could Already Be the Nation's Worst Economic President Ever
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Obama has the worst jobs record of any President in the last 60 years. From 1948 until January 2009 when Obama took office, there has been a combined 39 months of unemployment above 8 percent. Since Obama took office we endured 43 consecutive months of unemployment above 8 percent and no end in sight!
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Here's a few items on Obama's reign of terror:
**Barack Obama has a record four straight years of trillion dollar deficits.
**Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression.
**Barack Obama is the only president to preside over the downgrade of the US economy.
**Barack Obama blew a trillion dollars on a failed 'stimulus' plan.
**Barack Obama owns one-third of the national debt.
**Barack Obama added $5.8 trillion to the national debt.
**Barack Obama is the food stamp president.
**Barack Obama added more people to disability than any president.
**Barack Obama's failed policies caused average income to fall $5,000 per household.
**Barack Obama watched as the Middle East fell under the control of radical Islam.
**Barack Obama's foreign policy includes a resurgence of Al-Qaeda.
**Barack Obama lost Afghanistan.
And we still have three more years to go!The right measure and comparison for Obama's record is not to compare the recovery to the recession, but to compare Obama's recovery with other recoveries from other recessions since the Great Depression. By that measure, what is clear is that Obamanomics has produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression, worse than what every other President who has faced a recession has achieved since the Great Depression.
In the 10 previous recessions since the Great Depression, prior to this last recession, the economy recovered all jobs lost during the recession after an average of 25 months after the prior jobs peak (when the recession began), according to the records kept by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. So the job effects of prior post Depression recessions have lasted an average of about 2 years. But under President Obama, by April, 2013, 64 months after the prior jobs peak, almost 5½ years, we still have not recovered all of the recession's job losses. In April, 2013, there were an estimated 135.474 million American workers employed, still down about 2.6 million jobs from the prior peak of 138.056 million in January, 2008...
...Moreover, that U3 unemployment rate does not count the millions who have dropped out of the labor force during the recession and President Obama's worst recovery since the Great Depression, who are not counted as unemployed because they are not considered in the work force. Even though the employment age population has increased by 12 million since the recession began, only 1 million more Americans are counted as in the labor force. With normal labor force participation rates, that implies another 7.3 million missing U.S. jobs, on top of the 2 ½ million missing jobs we are still short from when the recession began, for a total of about 10 million missing jobs.
If America enjoyed the same labor force participation rate as in 2008, the unemployment rate in December, 2012 would have been about 11%, compared to the monthly low of 4.4% in December, 2007, under President George Bush and his "failed" economic policies of the past. We will not see 4.4% unemployment again, without another fundamental transformation of America's economic policies.
Read the rest here:http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/06/02/economically-could-obama-be-americas-worst-president/
Quote from: Diane Amberg on June 02, 2013, 08:08:48 PM
Why don't ya both mention the real intimidation ? ...The phone threats that set all the rest in motion and caused the BPs to be concerned enough to be there? Why no interest in that?
What about last election? You're still on 2008? How behind the times! Stir that pot!
And those phone calls were from .....???
What about that last election...? 2008....?? Behind the times...??? Those two clowns that evidently have close ties with the Black Party Movement.. Obuma & Holder... are still WITH US TODAY! Did they give the Orders? Are they going to have the BPM repeat it again in 2014 ... using the lame excuse that voters are being intimidated by phone calls ??? And what is the BPM doing walking around in black uniforms at the New World Trade Center in NY where my son saw them last week? Huh? Huh ???
Holder has to go!Even The Washington Post's David Ignatius said DOJ insiders
characterize Eric Holder as a bad Attorney General.For the Record as I have posted before...." Then Senator Barack Obama
called for AG Gonzalez to step down back in 2007 for much less than committing perjury".
Rep. Darrell Issa Calls Jay Carney a "Paid Liar" for the Obama Administration Sunday, June 2, 2013, 11:01 AMRepublican Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) blasted White House Spokesman Jay Carney today
during his interview with Obuma lapdog Candy Crowley.
Issa referred to Carney as a "paid liar" who still blames the
IRS scandal on a "local rogue." The Politico reported:The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee blasted White House press secretary Jay Carney on Sunday, calling him a "paid liar" who is not being truthful about the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.
"Their paid liar, their spokesperson, the picture behind, he's still making up things about what happened and calling this a local rogue," Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), said on CNN's "State of the Union," gesturing to a graphic of Carney on the set.Issa's committee provided CNN a transcript of an IRS employee interviewed under oath who said that it seemed as if the idea to single out conservative groups for additional scrutiny came from Washington. The Obama administration has maintained that local IRS agents in a single agency division have been responsible for the scandal.
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(Fab.... FAB..... FABULOUS, BARRY, ME BOY....er .....GIRL... aaaah.... whatever *cough *cough*
Barry Husseinny O'bangbang officially proclaimed the month of June 2013 as Lesbian, Gay, Obumi-bisexual and Transgender Pride month. Awwww wow, Barry.... Reggie Love will be so proud of you!!!!! )
In his proclamation, hermaphroditic, androgynous, AC/DC, swinging both ways, ambisextrous, androgyne, hermaphrodite ObumaClown wrote:"This year, we celebrate LGBT Pride Month at a moment of great hope and progress, recognizing that more needs to be done. Support for LGBT equality is growing, led by a generation which understands that, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the past year, for the first time, voters in multiple States affirmed marriage equality for same-sex couples. State and local governments have taken important steps to provide much-needed protections for transgender Americans.
My Administration is a proud partner in the journey toward LGBT equality. We extended hate crimes protections to include attacks based on sexual orientation or gender identity and repealed "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." We lifted the HIV entry ban and ensured hospital visitation rights for LGBT patients. Together, we have investigated and addressed pervasive bullying faced by LGBT students, prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in Federal housing, and extended benefits for same-sex domestic partners. Earlier this year, I signed a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the implementation of any VAWA-funded program. And because LGBT rights are human rights, my Administration is implementing the first-ever Federal strategy to advance equality for LGBT people around the world.(Ain't that SWEET)
WHEEEeeeeeeeee...........
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(Oh yeah....Seeing is believing)
BEIJING | Fri May 24, 2013 8:28am EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - A North Korean envoy told China's president on Friday that his reclusive country was willing to take "positive actions" to ensure peace and stability on the Korean peninsula, as China steps up diplomatic efforts to bring Pyongyang back to talks.But Choe Ryong-hae, a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, made no offer to abandon North Korea's nuclear program. The United States insists North Korea takes meaningful steps on denuclearization before there can be dialogue.
Choe met Chinese officials, including President Xi Jinping, in the highest-ranking visit by an official from Pyongyang in about six months.
Chinese state media said Choe presented a hand-written letter from Kim to Xi at Beijing's Great Hall of the People. Media provided no details of its contents.
"North Korea is willing to make joint efforts with all parties to appropriately resolve related issues through multilateral dialogue and consultations like the six-party talks, and maintain peace and stability on the peninsula," the official Xinhua news service cited Choe as telling Xi.
"To this end, North Korea is willing to take positive actions," Choe added.
Xi told Choe that the denuclearization of the peninsula was an aspiration of all peoples and an inevitable trend, saying problems should be resolved through talks.
"China hopes all sides exercise calm and restraint, push for a lessening of tensions, restart the six-party talks process and make unremitting efforts ... for long-lasting peace and stability," Xi said.
China has repeatedly urged North Korea to return to the so-called six party talks process, aimed at denuclearization.
The United States and its allies believe the North violated a 2005 aid-for-denuclearization deal by conducting a nuclear test in 2006 and pursuing a uranium enrichment program that would give it a second path to a nuclear weapon in addition to its plutonium-based program.
The six-party aid-for-disarmament talks, involving the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia and host China, collapsed in 2008 when the North walked away from the deal.
China, North Korea's only real ally, has been pushing for a return to talks after weeks of bellicose words from Pyongyang following new United Nations sanctions after the North's third nuclear test in February.
Russia:...
.... welcomed North Korea's declaration of readiness to return to talks and said it deserved a "a positive assessment", the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Foreign Ministry special envoy Grigory Logvinov as saying.
China has looked on nervously at the ratcheting up of tension, fearful a misstep could plunge the peninsula into war which could envelop northeastern China.
IMPATIENCE:
Fan Chonglong, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, expressed that worry in a meeting with Choe.
"In recent years, the state of affairs around the Korean peninsula nuclear issue frequently turns into one escalation of tensions after another," China's Xinhua state news agency quoted Fan as saying.
"The conflicting strategies of all parties have intensified, jeopardizing peace," Fan said.
China has increasingly expressed its impatience with North Korea, signing up for the new U.N. sanctions and curtailing Chinese banks' contacts with their North Korean counterparts.
Choe told Fan that peace could not be assured although North Korea wanted it in order to build the country, and it was willing to work with all sides in solving problems, Xinhua said.
"The situation on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia is complex and extraordinary, and there is no guarantee of peace," Choe was quoted as saying.
Cai Jian, a North Korean expert at Shanghai's Fudan University, said that while such high-level contact between the two countries was important, especially following the chilling of ties, he did not see a quick resumption of six-party talks.
"The U.S. says if North Korea doesn't clearly renounce its nuclear program, it won't return to the six-party talks. But if the international community doesn't hold peace talks with North Korea, then North Korea will use that time to develop its nuclear weapons and missiles," Cai said.
Choe and his entourage spent three days in Beijing in full military regalia, in contrast to the mostly civilian leaders he met, though he changed out of his uniform to meet Xi.
"Sending Choe in military uniforms as an envoy to China means North Korea still wants to stick to their right to have a nuclear arsenal," said Chang Yong-seok, a senior researcher at the Institute for Peace Affairs at Seoul National University.
Choe was dispatched at this time because North Korea is mindful of Xi's talks with U.S. President Barack Obama in early June, Chang said.
Xi is due to hold his first meeting with Obama in the United States and North Korea is expected to be high on the agenda.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye plans to make a state visit to China at the end of June, presidential spokeswoman Kim Haing said on Friday.
"Though China says it can't do everything alone, China still is a country that can exercise considerable influence" over North Korea, Park said during a meeting with U.S. security experts on Thursday.
Obama's FBI Pick No Friend of the Constitution
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Sunday, 02 June 2013 15:40
Written by Jack Kenny James B. Comey (picture shown above), the man reported to be President Obama's choice to succeed Robert Mueller as director of the FBI, vigorously supported the decision to imprison Jose Padilla indefinitely as an "enemy combatant." Padilla, a U.S. citizen, was arrested at O'Hare International Airport in May 2002 for what then-Attorney General John Ashcroft said was his participation in a plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in a major city somewhere in the United States. He was held without charge and without trial in a solitary confinement at a U.S. Navy bring in Charleston, South Carolina, for three and one-half years before being tried in a civilian court in Miami on charges unrelated to the alleged "dirty bomb."
Padilla and two co-defendants were found guilty by a federal jury of conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim overseas, and of conspiring to provide and of providing material support for terrorists. Padilla is currently serving a sentence of 17 years and four months in a federal prison in Florence, Colorado. His lawyers claimed he was unable to participate in his own defense at trial after years of solitary confinement in a nine-foot-by-seven-foot cell, where, they said, he was frequently chained in painful "stress positions" and injected with mind-altering drugs.
Comey, a Republican, was a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York at the time of Padilla's arrest. He "aggressively defended" the designation of Padilla as an enemy combatant designation, according to the New York Times.
Comey also prosecuted attorney Lynne Stewart on charges arising from her representation of Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and is now serving a life sentence. Stewart ran afoul of the special administrative measures governing public statements about a terror suspect, as well as communications between the suspect and his attorney. Stewart read at a press conference a statement of Rahman's that authorities interpreted as an encouragement to violent insurrection in Egypt. She was convicted in 2003 of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to provide, and providing, material support to terrorism. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Aside from the free speech issues involved in prosecuting an attorney for a public statement made on behalf of her client, some of the evidence used against Stewart was obtained through the use of wiretaps and secret cameras to record her conversations with Rahman. The electronic eavesdropping, authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, makes a mockery of the longstanding legal principle of privileged conversations between attorney and client.
Comey nailed another Stewart, publisher and TV celebrity Martha Stewart, on charges stemming from an investigation into her sale of ImClone stock shortly before the Food and Drug administration announced its decision not to approve ImClone's anti-cancer drug, Erbitux. If her sale were, as alleged, evidence of "insider trading," the insiders were a remarkably large group. ImClone's stock had been steadily falling for at least two weeks before Stewart unloaded her stock, as thousands of others had already done and were doing. No fewer than 7.7 million shares of ImClone stock were sold the same day Stewart sold her 3,298. That was on December 27, 2001, amid widespread and growing anticipation of an imminent negative FDA decision on ImClone's application.
"After all," wrote economist and syndicated columnist Alan Reynolds, "the FDA had only until the end of the year to decide one way or the other. It didn't take a financial genius to figure out that every passing day of delay looked more ominous."
Stewart was eventually convicted of making misleading statements to federal investigators and obstruction of justice, and was sentenced to a five-month jail term, followed by two years of supervised release. The quality of the justice she was convicted of obstructing is itself suspect. The House Energy and Commerce Committee had been investigating Stewart when it sent a letter to Attorney General Ashcroft on September 10, 2002, urging her prosecution because she "repeatedly has refused to be interviewed by committee staff — and her attorneys have stated that she will invoked her Fifth Amendment right." Invoking one's constitutionally guaranteed right is apparently grounds for prosecution in the minds of members of Congress and an ambitious U.S. attorney.
On the plus side, Comey, while serving as deputy attorney general under Ashcroft in 2004, is said to have argued strenuously against renewal of a secret, warrantless eavesdropping operation called the "President's Surveillance Program.'' Several Justice Department officials, including Comey and Mueller, reportedly threatened to resign if the program were continued. They stayed on when it was modified to meet their objections.
On the whole, Comey's record does not inspire confidence that he would be a respecter of the Constitution and rights of the accused if, as expected, he is nominated and confirmed as the next director of the FBI.
When he was named deputy attorney general in late 2003, Christopher Dunn, associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said, "Nothing about Mr. Comey's tenure in New York suggests he will be a friend of the Constitution when he joins John Ashcroft in Washington." Dunn sounded a bit more optimistic on May 31, telling the New York Times that Comey's confirmation hearing "will provide an important opportunity to assure that the F.B.I. fully understands its role in protecting civil liberties."
Al Qaeda in Iraq Caught Plotting Nerve Gas Attack in the United States
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(Hmmm... that withdrawal from Iraq worked out well. Now Al Qaeda is on the path to defeat and can never threaten us again, mission accomplished. Why??! Well jeez... Obuma said so. ::) :P )
June 2, 2013
By Daniel GreenfieldIn the real world, Iraqi authorities busted an Al Qaeda cell plotting to carry out a chemical weapons attack using drones. This is really bad news as it combines WMDs and technological sophistication.Authorities in Iraq say they have uncovered an al-Qaeda plot to use chemical weapons, as well as to smuggle them to Europe and North America.
Defence ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said five men had been arrested after military intelligence monitored their activities for three months.
Three workshops for manufacturing the chemical agents, including sarin and mustard gas, were uncovered, he added.
Remote-controlled toy planes were also seized at the workshops. Mr Askari said they were to have been used to release the chemical agents over the target from a "safe" distance of 1.5km (1 mile)Troublingly, Turkey busted an Al-Nusra Front cell (Al Qaeda in Syria) that also had stockpiles of chemical weapons.On May 30, the Turkish media reported that 12 individuals from the al Qaeda-linked Al Nusrah Front had been captured in antiterror operations in Adana, along with a total of two kilos (4,5 lb) of sarin gas. Five of the 12 suspects were later released; the interrogation of the other seven is ongoing.
While Adana mayor Hüseyin Avni Cos denied that the suspects were captured with sarin gas and warned against labeling them as part of any terror organization, the Turkish mainstream dailies Sabah and Milliyet are reporting today that the suspects were in fact members of the al Qaeda-linked Al Nusrah Front and were captured with sarin gas.Turkish authorities are denying the nerve gas part of the story, which they have every reason to do as the Islamist regime is deep in bed with Syrian Sunni terrorists.
The Iraqi claim alone might have been written off as propaganda from a Shiite regime, but the addition of the Turkish story tells us we're dealing with a much bigger problem.
It would appear that Al Qaeda elements in three countries have gotten their hands on chemical weapons out of Syria. The weapons are probably in the pipeline now.
Iraq credited foreign intelligence agencies with alerting them to the problem. That probably means the United States. It's about the only country that could coordinate busts with Iraq and Turkey. Iraq is obviously jumping on the propaganda opportunities. Turkey, just as obviously, is lying about it. But it's hard to believe that busting two cells takes all the WMDs out of Al Qaeda's hands.
We may be headed for a much bigger problem. Yet the eagerness of Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria to focus on using chemical weapons to kill Shiites may buy us some time.
"Opie Gets Her Comeuppance... How Sad, She's Now One Of Them"
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"Oprah gave Boston Mayor Thomas Menino a high five at the ceremonies"
Here's my take on this:This week, Oprah Gail (Harpo) Winfrey became just the latest celeb to grab an honorary degree from a prestigious university. Speaking at Harvard, Opie lectured the graduates about immigration and gun control. She stated,
"In our political system and the media, we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed, that is self-interested. And yet I know you know the truth. We all know that we are better than the cynicism and the pessimism that is regurgitating throughout Washington and the 24 hour cable news cycle."(Wow, Opie... I wonder who pinned that little ditty for you? Could it have been your buddy, Barry?? And that 24 hour cable news cycle... I'm sure you mean MS/NBC, CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN. Do you think those News Og's are going to appreciate that ???)
There's a reason this rhetoric sounds familiar. It's straight from Barack Obuma's playbook. But that's what's so astonishing about today's politics: if you took the quote out of context, you wouldn't know whether it came from the Queen of Daytime Television or the POS President of the United States.
And Oprah's politics are the same as Obuma's, too.
"The vast majority of people in this country believe in stronger background checks," she said,
"because they realize that we can uphold the Second Amendment and also reduce that violence that is robbing us of our children." (You mean those gun-carrying gang kids, Opie?)
She then went on to immigration, where again POS President Obuma's teleprompter clearly spoke through her:
"it's possible to both enforce our laws and, at the same time, embrace the words on the Statue of Liberty that have welcomed generations of huddled masses to our shores."[/i]
Our "shores?" Do you mean swimming the Rio Grand where they come into the U.S. illegally, Opie?)
Finally, she ended with welfare.
"People from both parties and no party," she said,
"believe that indigent mothers and families should have access to healthy food and a roof over the heads and a strong public education. Because here in the richest nation on earth, we can afford a basic level of security and opportunity."(Okay... then, why don't you spread some of that wealth of yours around for them, Opie. I'm tired of giving them my hard-earn tax money to them. Oh, and don't give it to Obuma, he'll just flitter it away on some distant middle eastern country!)
Why does Opie sound so similar to Obuma? And is she cribbing from him, or vice versa?
In all likelihood, Obuma's America got its start in Opie's audience. Opie described her mission on television this way to the Harvard audience: to show Americans
"that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates [us]." That's just the sort of bromidic nonsense that Obuma speaks, before pretending that a false consensus for liberalism exists. This phraseology means nothing. What unites Americans and al-Qaeda terrorists.... our biology as homo sapiens.... is larger than what divides us. But that doesn't mean that there are philosophical battles worth fighting and values worth defending.
But Opie's entire mission in life is to enfeeble those values. Her entire show was geared for years toward driving sympathy for poor decision making. Emotion was the name of the game. A typical hour of Opie often included a weepy sob story from someone... either deserving or undeserving... followed by a giveaway to her audience.
Opie Harpo Winfrey, for all her charitable work, has pushed the feelings-first America that drives us to immediate band-aids for long-term problems. While American values bleed out, both Opie and Obuma tell us to take a nice, comfortable anesthetic without correcting the underlying problem.
She deserves her Harvard degree just as much as Barack Obuma deserves his (*cough*) honorary (*cough*cough*) Harvard Law degree. After all, her master class in feelings has helped bring us the Harvard value system that now dominates the White House.
....WarphFor the real story, read: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2333524/Oprah-gets-teary-receives-honorary-degree-Harvard.html#ixzz2V8sq7YID
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(What exactly is an "Islamic Economy?"....
and what's with the little pinkie, Moomoud, you screwball? )
Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian cleric Mahmoud Shaaban, which aired on Tahrir TV on May 14, 2013:
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/3852.htm
Mahmoud Shaaban: My dear sir, the entire world has its eyes set upon Islam. We resemble a bad salesman, who has the best merchandise but does not know how to market it. America has its eyes set upon Islam, and so does Italy.
Let me give you some quick examples. During the Wall Street protests of October 1, 2011 over the financial crisis, banners were raised demanding an Islamic economy. At first, we thought these were Muslims who had infiltrated the demonstrations, but it turned out that they were Jews and Christians, who had conducted research and found that the economic solution lies with Islam.
Interviewer: Where was that? In Italy?
Mahmoud Shaaban: The Wall Street protests in the U.S. They raised banners in all languages, saying "We want the Islamic economy."
Interviewer: The Americans did that?
Mahmoud Shaaban: Yes. They weren't even Muslims. Check it out on the Internet. They researched the subject and found that the solution lies with Islam. The solution lies in having Islamic interest-free loans.
Brother, Europe would not have made progress if not for Islam. Anything good that emerged from Europe can be traced back to Islam. The good aspects of European democracy were also taken from Islam.(http://picturesofsmileyfaces.net/crazy-smiley-face.png)
Major Democratic donors flock to RINO Chris Christie
"George Soros Donates To Christie's Re-Election Campaign"
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http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/06/major_democratic_donors_flock.html
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(Hands down the dumbest man on cable news)
Via WFB: http://freebeacon.com/sharpton-no-evidence-at-all-connecting-holder-to-any-scandals/
Rev. Al Sharpton brazenly stated on the Monday edition of PoliticsNation that there was "no evidence at all" connecting embattled Attorney General Eric Holder to any scandals while complaining that Republicans were trying to "bully" him out of office."The precedent that it would set for them to just bully an Attorney General out of office when there is no evidence at all that would lead to connecting him to any of these so-called scandals, I think that would take a long time for the American public to be able to overcome if we could just start bullying the top law enforcement person out of office when he's not connected to any of these things," Sharpton said.
Holder's fingerprints on the Justice Department's naming of Fox News correspondent James Rosen as a criminal co-conspirator in a leaks case strongly belies Sharpton's claim.
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Number of times Sharpton has apologized for his past actions: Zero!Via Politico: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/06/stu-stevens-vs-al-sharpton-165242.html
MSNBC Publicly Shamed For Employing Al Sharpton With His "Outrageous History Of Hate"Republican political strategist
Stuart Stevens is seeking to publicly shame the executives at NBC Universal for employing and promoting the Rev. Al Sharpton — a man who has an "outrageous history of hate," according to Stevens.
Stevens, the chief strategist on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, writes in a new column for The Daily Beast that Sharpton "has gone from manipulating the news with vile accusations to delivering the news for NBC."
The evidence: A new documentary short from The New York Times and Retroreport.org about the 1987 Tawna Brawley hoax, during which Sharpton was found guilty of defaming a local prosecutor who he accused of attacking and raping the 15-year-old Brawley. As the documentary shows, there had been no rape; Brawley had defaced herself. Stevens also accuses Sharpton of using the Brawley case to inflame racial tensions and promote his own career.
Stevens also describes Sharpton "a key player inflaming the 1991 Crown Heights riots," during which he called Jews "diamond merchants" responsible for "the blood of innocent babies" because an African American had been hit by a car driven by a Hassidic Jew.
NBC executives "have made the ethical and news judgment that Al Sharpton should be a credible news source for Americans. They have the right to make that decision, but what about the reason?" Stevens asks in today's column.
Egypt Slaps 16 Americans With Jail Terms
All but one convicted in absentia, including son of transportation chief Ray LaHood
By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted Jun 4, 2013 11:42 AM CDT
Newser) – If Egypt had its way, the son of one of President Obama's Cabinet members would spend the next five years in prison. Sam LaHood, son of transportation chief Ray LaHood, was among 16 Americans convicted today in an Egyptian court, accused by the government there of trying to foment unrest in their roles with non-governmental organizations, reports Reuters. LaHood and 15 others are back in the US and were convicted in absentia. They all received five-year sentences.
The 16th, Robert Becker, stayed behind in solidarity with Egyptians caught up in last year's crackdown on NGOs, and he received a two-year sentence, reports the AP. Becker plans to appeal, and it's not clear whether he will remain free in the interim. In addition to the Americans, the court convicted 27 others of various nationalities. The Americans convicted belonged to both Republican and Democrat groups. "The government of President Mohammed Morsi basically accused them of trying to undermine that regime by encouraging unrest," writes Mark Memmott at NPR.
http://www.newser.com/story/168979/egypt-slaps-16-americans-with-jail-terms.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_top
Will anymore NGO's please volunteer to go to Egypt?
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Supremes give police access to your DNA
(Hmmmm.... is this a promising crime-fighting tool or a grave challenge to civil liberties?)
June 4, 2013
It takes a warrant for the police to search your house or tap your phone. But not to record and keep track of your DNA. So ruled the Supreme Court yesterday. The Constitution's protections against "unreasonable search and seizure" do not apply to your genetic code.
From the Associated Press:A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can routinely take DNA from people they arrest, equating a DNA cheek swab to other common jailhouse procedures like fingerprinting.
"Taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court's five-justice majority.
But the four dissenting justices said that the court was allowing a major change in police powers.
"Make no mistake about it: because of today's decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason," conservative Justice Antonin Scalia said in a sharp dissent which he read aloud in the courtroom.
At least 28 states and the federal government now take DNA swabs after arrests. But a Maryland court was one of the first to say that it was illegal for that state to take Alonzo King's DNA without approval from a judge, saying King had "a sufficiently weighty and reasonable expectation of privacy against warrantless, suspicionless searches."
But the high court's decision reverses that ruling and reinstates King's rape conviction, which came after police took his DNA during an unrelated arrest. Kennedy wrote the decision, and was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer. Scalia was joined in his dissent by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Getting DNA swabs from criminals is common. All 50 states and the federal government take cheek swabs from convicted criminals to check against federal and state databanks, with the court's blessing. The fight at the Supreme Court was over whether that DNA collection could come before conviction and without a judge issuing a warrant.
Mooch Gets Testy With Heckler: "Listen To Me Or I'm Leaving"
– Update: White House Scrubs Portion Where She Threatened To Leave
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(Nobody interrupts Queen Mooch!)
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/06/flotus-to-heckler-you-can-take-the-mic-but-im-leaving-165410.html#.Ua56mm-BHeE.twitter
First lady Michelle Obama was interrupted by a heckler about 10 minutes into a speech at a campaign fundraiser in D.C. on Tuesday.
A woman started shouting and calling for the president to sign an executive order on gay rights, according to a pool report.
"One of the things I don't do well is this," the first lady said, before leaving the lectern and moving over toward the woman.
Obama said you can "listen to me or you can take the mic, but I'm leaving. You all decide. You have one choice."
The crowd started shouting that they wanted Obama to stay and one woman near the heckler said "You need to go!"
As she was escorted out, the heckler shouted: "...lesbian looking for federal equality before I die."UPDATE: This how it went over the air-waves after the White House intervention:MRS. OBAMA: So here's the thing — we cannot wait for the next presidential election to get fired up and ready to go. We cannot wait. Right now, today, we have an obligation to stand up for those kids. And I don't care what you believe in, we don't –
AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Inaudible.)
MRS. OBAMA: Wait, wait, wait. One of the things –
AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Inaudible.)
MRS. OBAMA: One of the things that I don't do well is this. (Applause.) Do you understand? (Applause.) One of the things — now –
(Inaudible audience interruption.)
MRS. OBAMA: So let me make the point that I was making before: We are here for our kids. (Applause.) So we must recapture that passion, that same urgency and energy that we felt back in 2008 and 2012. Understand this. This is what I want you all to understand, this is not about us — no one back here. It's not about you or you, or your issue or your thing. This is about our children. (Applause.)Also, check: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/04/michelle-obama-heckled-at-dnc-event-threatens-to-leave/
MSNBC's Joy "Wacko" Reid: Old, White Republican Party Like The "Mean Dad"...
"Obama Like The Cool Uncle"
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(What is it with some of these stupid black racist liberal idiots.... huh? They act like they just came off the Plantation... it's almost like this wacko thinks being white is a bad thing. I'm getting very tired of this sh!t coming from these racist blacks... you cannot turn on the TV or pickup a newspaper or magazine without some clown bemoaning about their skin color. And this WACKO needs to read what Mooch Obuma said about Barry's "Rappers": http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/05/first-lady-bemoans-culture-of-african-americans-aspiring-164266.html)
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Bubba Being Paid $11,111 Per Minute For Speech At Israeli President Shimon Peres' Birthday...
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jnf-to-pay-bill-clinton-500000-for-45-minute-talk/
Biden, Reid to discuss gun control revival
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(Return of The Zombie Legislation: Dirty Harry & Plugs Biden meet to discuss resurrecting the Gun Control Bill. Give it up... gun control is dead)
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/joe-biden-harry-reid-gun-control-revival-92214.html#ixzz2VKYWdsh2
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(My G-d... how'd you like to come home to that each night.... uuuggghhh...
That is one mean-lookin' POS)
Sebelius Won't Waive Transplant Regulation
For 10-Year-Old Girl With Five Weeks To Live,
Says "Someone Lives And Someone Dies"
http://washingtonexaminer.com/sebelius-wont-waive-regulation-for-girl-with-five-weeks-to-live-someone-lives-and-someone-dies/article/2531097
('Heartless ol' bitch' doesn't even begin to describe Sebelius)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rebuffed an appeal from Rep. Lou Barletta on behalf of a girl who needs a lung transplant but can't get one because of a federal regulation that prevents her from qualifying for a transplant.
"Please, suspend the rules until we look at this policy," Barletta, a Pennsylvania Republican, asked Sebelius during a House hearing Tuesday on behalf of Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old girl who needs a lung transplant. She can't qualify for an adult lung transplant until the age of 12, according to federal regulations, but Sebelius has the authority to waive that rule on her behalf. The pediatric lungs for which she currently qualifies aren't available.
"I would suggest, sir, that, again, this is an incredibly agonizing situation where someone lives and someone dies," Sebelius replied. "The medical evidence and the transplant doctors who are making the rule — and have had the rule in place since 2005 making a delineation between pediatric and adult lungs, because lungs are different that other organs — that it's based on the survivability [chances]."
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Quote from: Warph on June 05, 2013, 12:55:11 AM
Mooch Gets Testy With Heckler: "Listen To Me Or I'm Leaving"
– Update: White House Scrubs Portion Where She Threatened To Leave
MRS. OBAMA: So let me make the point that I was making before: We are here for our kids. (Applause.) So we must recapture that passion, that same urgency and energy that we felt back in 2008 and 2012. Understand this. This is what I want you all to understand, this is not about us — no one back here. It's not about you or you, or your issue or your thing. This is about our children. (Applause.)
Why do they do that?
Why do they say it is all about the kids?
With out you and me and every adult involved there isn't anything about the kids.
When the politicians and the NGO's say it's all about the kids, what they are truly saying is it is all about what they want and how they want to rule what ever their agenda is in using our tax dollars. It's also about how much money they can get to pay themselves a salary.
If it's all about the kids and not the taxpayers dollars to pay their salaries, they wouldn't need the public involved, now would they?
If it's all about the kids and not the taxpayers dollars to pay their salaries, they wouldn't need the county commissioners involved now would they?
If it's all about the kids and not the taxpayers dollars to pay their salaries, they wouldn't need the city councils involved now would they?
If it's not about the adults and their taxpayer dollars, why have a meeting for them to attend?
It's sort of like that saying, "It takes a village to raise a child."
Would you turn your child over to a village or an NGO or a politician to raise?
Don't forget you have the village idiot involved in that, "It takes a village to raise a child." plus the drunks and the druggies and the thieves.
It is all gobble gook talk that they expect you to swallow hook line and sinker, IMHO!
Why don't those same bull shitters tell Sebelius it's all about the kids? Where is that village in Washington, DC?
Court Orders Sebelius to Suspend Death Panel –
Place Dying 10 Year-Old Girl on Transplant List
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 5:42 PM
A federal judge ordered HHS Director Kathleen Sebelius to suspend her death panel and place 10 year-old Sarah Murnaghan on the lung donor list. Kathleen Sebelius did not want to intervene on the case.Kathleen Sebelius: "Some people live. Some people die."
The Politico reported:A federal judge has ordered Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to allow Sarah Murnaghan, a 10-year-old in Pennsylvania dying of cystic fibrosis, to be moved to the adult lung transplant list. Normally federal policy prevents children younger than 12 from receiving donated adult lungs, but Sebelius has been under pressure to change the policy.
The parents of the girl asked the judge on Wednesday to order Sebelius to alter organ donation rules so that the dying child has a better chance of receiving new lungs. They say she is running out of time. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson granted a temporary restraining order to exempt Murnaghan from the current policy, and there will be a hearing on June 14.
Sebelius has come under intense pressure in this case, which is receiving media and online attention. Some medical ethicists, however, say that while the organ allocation policy may well need to be reviewed and changed, they worry about making case-by-case decisions based in part on emotional media attention.
Epic.... Rep Bridenstine Lambastes
"Petty, Bumbling Liar" Obama on House Floor
Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 8:27 PM
(This Oklahoma representative shows a lot of promise.)
Freshman Congressman Jim Bridenstine slammed "petty, bumbling liar" Barack Obama
and VP Joe Biden on House floor yesterday in an epic rant.
The Tulsa World reported:
U.S. Rep. Jim Bridenstine portrayed President Barack Obama as a petty, bumbling liar matched only by Vice President Joe Biden during a speech Monday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
"The president's dishonesty, incompetence, vengefulness and lack of moral compass lead many to suggest he is not fit to lead," Bridenstine said.
"The only problem is that his vice president is equally unfit and even more embarrassing."House video shows Bridenstine beginning his one-minute remarks with a list of what he said were the administration's failures and examples of misuse of power.
He began with the Justice Department's Operation Fast and Furious, a "gunwalking" scheme that Bridenstine described as "selling weapons to narco-terrorists south of the border."
He continued with what he said was lying by the State Department about last year's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and with the Justice Department's secret investigation of journalists and the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of some groups seeking tax-exempt status.
He concluded with an attack on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Affordable Care Act.
High School Valedictorian Recites Lord's Prayer at Graduation to Thunderous Applause
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 1:08 PM
Liberty High School valedictorian Roy Costner IV drew loud applause when he recited the Lord's Prayer during his graduation speech.
(Demo-rats will hate this...)
This took some courage. A brave young graduate ripped up his approved speech thanked his parents for leading him to the Lord then prayed the Lords prayer to applause and loud cheers.
Christian News reported:A high school valedictorian from South Carolina ripped up his approved speech on stage this past weekend, and minutes later, delivered the Lord's Prayer in defiance of the school district's decision to no longer include prayer at graduation ceremonies.
Roy Costner IV drew loud applause and cheers when he surprised attendees of the Liberty High School graduation at Clemson's Littlejohn Colliseum on Saturday.
"From the ACLU sending FOIA requests to every district in the state this year after the Chesterfield County case, then the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent us a complaint about religion at board meetings and some other issues as well," Pickens County School District spokesman John Eby said, the district has been under fire.
Therefore, officials decided to end invocations at all school functions and replace prayer at high school graduations with a moment of silence.
However, Costner wasn't going to let activist groups kick God out of his graduation. After taking the podium, Costner took his approved speech and ripped it in half for all to see.
"They write their speeches," Eby told local television station WYFF. "They send them to someone on staff to have them approved."
After speaking from a separate script for a few minutes, Costner then began to thank his parents for his Christian upbringing.
"Those that we look up to, they have helped carve and mold us into the young adults that we are today," he said. "I'm so glad that both of my parents led me to the Lord at a young age."
"And I think most of you will understand when I say..." he continued, surprising the crowd with what came next.
When Not Leaking Classified Information on Farmers
– EPA Workers Built Man Caves to Pass the Time
Wednesday, June 5, 2013, 12:22 PM
When Not Harassing Farmers – EPA Workers Built Man Caves to Pass the Time
And YOU paid for it.
The Obama Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is in hot water following the agency's release of sensitive information on roughly 80,000 American farmers and cattle ranchers to far left environmental groups.And then there's this...
EPA contractors were building themselves "man caves" at a warehouse in Maryland.(http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/man-caves-epa.jpg)
(From the EPA.gov IG report)
GovExec reported:A warehouse maintained by contractors for the Environmental Protection Agency contained secret rooms full of exercise equipment, televisions and couches, according to an internal audit.
EPA's inspector general found contractors used partitions, screens and piled up boxes to hide the rooms from security cameras in the 70,000 square-foot building located in Landover, Md. The warehouse — used for inventory storage — is owned by the General Services Administration and leased to the EPA for about $750,000 per year.
The EPA has issued a stop work order to Apex Logistics LLC, the responsible contractor, ensuring the company's workers no longer have access to the site — EPA security officials escorted contractor personnel off the premises on May 17 — and ending all payments on the contract.
Since awarding the contract in May 2007, EPA has paid Apex Logistics about $5.3 million, most of which went to labor costs. Conditions at the facility "raise questions about time charges made by warehouse employees under the contract," the report said.
"The warehouse contained multiple unauthorized and hidden personal spaces created by and for the workers that included televisions, refrigerators, radios, microwaves, chairs and couches," the IG report said. "These spaces contained personal items, including photos, pin ups, calendars, clothing, books, magazines and videos."
The agency has completed an inventory of the warehouse's contents and segregated all surplus furniture. EPA has committed to conducting an agency-wide review of all warehouse and storage facility operations.
Previously... The National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the National Pork Producers are furious after the Obama Environmental Protection Agency illegally gave information on livestock farmers to extremist animal rights groups.
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Dr. Karen Kenney of the San Fernando Valley Patriots testifies before Congress on the mistreatment of Tea Party affiliated groups by the IRS.
(In case you're unclear about Kenney's reference to Occupy Oakland... and that her group members of the San Fernando Valley Patriots are NOT a part of that motley crew of Nanny State liberal whiners, vandals, arsonists, thugs, and other law breakers.... here is two magical, nostalgic photo of the leftist anarchist group.(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/occupy-oakland-fires-rioters-nov-2-2011.jpg)
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Makes you all misty-eyed, doesn't it?)Some Tweets:(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1508299713/0f102756-c50d-4266-9a14-52c95d5123bb_normal.png)
Townhall.com ✔ @townhallcom
America, Meet Patriot Karen Kenney http://bit.ly/17XtepP(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1191458312/pic_of_me_normal.jpg)
Stephanie Condon ✔ @stephcondoncbs
#IRS hearing gets poetic: "This dialogue is about the jackboot of tyranny upon the field of our founding documents"-conservative Karen Kenny(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/3536616080/a1f1abe7ca50cac0bc05db7ca899ee5d_normal.jpeg)
Elizabeth Scalia @TheAnchoress
This woman, Karen Kenney is a much better speaker than most of our politicians http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/04/video-tea-party-activist-describes-irs-intimidation-tactics/ ...
All you wanted to know about the former First Lady,
Hillary "What difference does it make!" Clinton.
(Watch it on full-screen):
"Hillary Clinton Exposed, Movie She Banned From Theaters"
Obuma Ramps Up Domestic Surveillance:
Secret Court Order Requires Verizon To Hand Over
All Call Records On A Daily Basis To NSA
"In the mid-1970s, Congress, for the first time, investigated the surveillance activities of the US government. Back then, the mandate of the NSA was that it would never direct its surveillance apparatus domestically.
At the conclusion of that investigation, Frank Church, the Democratic senator from Idaho who chaired the investigative committee, warned: 'The NSA's capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter.''(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/obama_flickr_white_house_3_463.jpg)
(Welcome to 1984.... I'm guessing the left miraculously won't have a problem with this)
Via Guardian:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.
The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected indiscriminately and in bulk – regardless of whether they are suspected of any wrongdoing.
The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (Fisa) granted the order to the FBI on April 25, giving the government unlimited authority to obtain the data for a specified three-month period ending on July 19.
Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls. The contents of the conversation itself are not covered.
The disclosure is likely to reignite longstanding debates in the US over the proper extent of the government's domestic spying powers.
Under the Bush administration, officials in security agencies had disclosed to reporters the large-scale collection of call records data by the NSA, but this is the first time significant and top-secret documents have revealed the continuation of the practice on a massive scale under President Obama.
The unlimited nature of the records being handed over to the NSA is extremely unusual. Fisa court orders typically direct the production of records pertaining to a specific named target who is suspected of being an agent of a terrorist group or foreign state, or a finite set of individually named targets.
Allen West On Holder And Obama: America "Cannot Survive Treason From Within"
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is scarier than Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al Qaeda — according to former Rep. Allen West.
In a fundraising email from Allen West Guardian Fund, West calls Holder the "bigger threat to our Republic."
"Al Qaeda is a very serious and persistent threat, but I trust the U.S. military to protect us from future attacks. I cannot say the same about President Obama and his Justice Department," West writes in the email, quoting ancient philosopher Cicero, who posited that a nation "cannot survive treason from within."
Poll: 90% Consider "Fundamentalist Islam" A "Threat" To America,
56% Say War On Terror Is Not Over
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(Obuma believes the exact opposite)
Via IBD:http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-polls/060513-658981-new-poll-shows-obama-misreading-war-sentiment.htm?p=full
President Obama may need to give another national security speech, because a new poll shows Americans aren't nearly as convinced the war on Islamic terror is over.
A solid majority also think the national security threat comes not just from terrorism but also the Islamic faith. And it's a fear held intensely by Obama's most loyal voters: African-Americans.
In a May 23 address before the National Defense University in Washington, the president vowed to wind down military actions against "violent extremists," arguing he can better protect America via law enforcement actions and diplomacy.
"This war, like all wars, must end," Obama said. "That's what history advises, that's what our democracy demands."
He also denied terrorists are inspired by fundamentalist Islam. Only, the public isn't buying it.
Fifty-six percent of Americans think the U.S. "continues to be in a war on terror," while 8% are not sure, according to an IBD/TIPP poll taken May 28-31. The remaining 36% of respondents say the nation only faces threats of "violent crime by extremists."
At the same time, a whopping 90% consider "fundamentalist Islam" a "threat" to the U.S. and other Western countries, with 58% viewing it as a "major threat."
FBI: The Koran Is The "Revealed Word Of God"
http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/fbi-expert-quran-is-revealed-word-of-god/
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(More like the rantings of a 7th-century warlord)
The FBI has censored and modified hundreds of pages of materials to satisfy Muslim critics, including a change that was made because an agency "expert" insisted the Quran "is the revealed word of God."
The details come from Judicial Watch, which obtained documentation of the hundreds of pages of FBI memos, training documents and other paperwork that the agency purged on the demands of Muslims.
"The FBI is rewriting history in order to help al-Qaida," said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. "This shows that the law enforcement agency is in need of serious top-to-bottom reform."
Fitton said a lesson learned from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack is that the country is less safe when it allows radical Muslim organizations to tell the FBI how to train its agents and do its job.
"The FBI's purge of so-called 'offensive' material is political correctness run amok, and it puts the nation at risk," he said. "The Obama administration needs to stop putting the tender sensibilities of radical Islamists above the safety of the American people."
The organization recently released hundreds of pages of documents from the FBI that demonstrate the effort to purge from anti-terrorism training materials and curriculum anything that a number of unidentified "subject matter experts" deemed "offensive" to Muslims.
For example, according to Judicial Watch, one expert insisted that a particular slide in a training program describing the Quran as the teachings of Muhammad be removed or changed.
The reason?
"The Quran is not the teachings of the prophet," wrote the expert, "but the revealed word of God."
According to Judicial Watch, another criticism was leveled against a particular article because it "inaccurately argues the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization."
Pelosi: Congress "Rigged" Against Women
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(I see some of the Botox from Pelois's last trip to the doctor seeped into her brain again)
Via HuffPo:The day after Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and an all-male panel of his colleagues advanced a bill to restrict abortion rights across the U.S., House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Congress is "rigged" to suppress the interests of women and keep their voices out of the discussion.
"This is an environment that is almost rigged, intentionally or not, wittingly or not, rigged so that the status quo just goes on," Pelosi told The Huffington Post in an interview. "We have to kick open the door and make our own environment, reduce the role of money [in campaigns], insist on the civility of debates, and bring more women here, and that's a better reflection of our country."
Pelosi said that as a mother of five children, it infuriates her to see an all-male subcommittee pushing a bill to restrict women's reproductive rights. "What right — I mean, really, I guess they're elected, they have a committee, they write a bill, but by what moral authority are they to make such a suggestion?" she said. "It always gets me because I have five children. When I brought my baby home, Alexandra, my oldest was turning six. As a practicing Catholic, I think I have the credentials to talk about this subject. Any of you who've had five children in six years can step up to the plate."
Obama Genocide Panel Chair Backed Invading Israeli Territory
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/04/24/obama-atrocity-board-chair-backed-invading-israeli-territory/
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Obuma Reaches for New Extremes: Susan Rice as National Security Adviser, Moon-Bat
Samantha Powers (who's married to far-left winger Cass Sunstein) as UN Ambassador
Obuma advisor calls for a military invasion of Israel:
Obama is doubling down on both his hard left ideology and his trademark Audacity of Arrogance by actually promoting Susan Rice, the woman who went on multiple talk shows 5 days after Benghazi to tell brazen lies blaming an American video for the terror attack. Her appointment as National Security Advisor, which will not require approval from the Senate, can only be seen as yet another poke in the eye to those who take America's national security seriously.
Speaking of pokes in the eye, Rice's current position as Ambassador to the UN will be taken by the ultra-left barking moonbat Samantha Power.
With this appointment, the mask has been removed. You could scour Occupy Wall Street infestations, liberal media newsrooms, and even Ivy League faculty lounges and not come up with a kook more extreme in her pernicious views than Ms. Power. Here she is calling for a US military invasion of our ally Israel for the purpose of imposing pro-Palestinian policies:
(Nut-Case Samantha Power will fit in perfectly at the United Nations)
PRISM Scandal: Tech Giants Say NSA Tapped Their Servers Without Their Knowledge
Silicon Valley executives insist they did not know of secret PRISM program
that grants access to emails and search history
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(Not sure what to believe here, at best the firms are trying to cover their asses, at worst... and this would be very, very, very bad.... the Obama administration allowed the NSA to secretly tap the servers that run the internet)
Via Guardian:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/prism-tech-giants-shock-nsa-data-mining
Two different versions of the PRISM scandal were emerging on Thursday with Silicon Valley executives denying all knowledge of the top secret program that gives the National Security Agency direct access to the internet giants' servers.
The eavesdropping program is detailed in the form of PowerPoint slides in a leaked NSA document, seen and authenticated by the Guardian, which states that it is based on "legally-compelled collection" but operates with the "assistance of communications providers in the US."
Each of the 41 slides in the document displays prominently the corporate logos of the tech companies claimed to be taking part in PRISM.
However, senior executives from the internet companies expressed surprise and shock and insisted that no direct access to servers had been offered to any government agency.
The top-secret NSA briefing presentation set out details of the PRISM program, which it said granted access to records such as emails, chat conversations, voice calls, documents and more. The presentation the listed dates when document collection began for each company, and said PRISM enabled "direct access from the servers of these US service providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple".
Senior officials with knowledge of the situation within the tech giants admitted to being confused by the NSA revelations, and said if such data collection was taking place, it was without companies' knowledge.
An Apple spokesman said: "We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers and any agency requesting customer data must get a court order," he said.
Joe Sullivan, Facebook's chief security officer, said it did not provide government organisation with direct access to Facebook servers. "When Facebook is asked for data or information about specific individuals, we carefully scrutinise any such request for compliance with all applicable laws, and provide information only to the extent required by law."
A Google spokesman also said it did not provide officials with access to its servers. "Google cares deeply about the security of our users' data. We disclose user data to government in accordance with the law, and we review all such requests carefully. From time to time, people allege that we have created a government 'backdoor' into our systems, but Google does not have a 'back door' for the government to access private user data."
Microsoft said it only turned over data when served with a court order: "We provide customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so, and never on a voluntary basis. In addition we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers. If the government has a broader voluntary national security program to gather customer data we don't participate in it."
A Yahoo spokesman said: "Yahoo! takes users' privacy very seriously. We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers, systems, or network.
WSJ Report: NSA Tracking Credit Card Transactions,
Also Has Access To Phone Records From AT&T And Sprint Along With Verizon
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WASHINGTON (WSJ) —The National Security Agency's monitoring of Americans includes customer records from the three major phone networks as well as emails and Web searches, and the agency also has cataloged credit-card transactions, said people familiar with the agency's activities.
The disclosure this week of an order by a secret U.S. court for Verizon Communications Inc.'s phone records set off the latest public discussion of the program. But people familiar with the NSA's operations said the initiative also encompasses phone-call data from AT&T Inc. and Sprint Nextel Corp., records from Internet-service providers and purchase information from credit-card providers.The agency is using its secret access to the communications of millions of Americans to target possible terrorists, said people familiar with the effort.
Civil-liberties advocates slammed the NSA's actions. "The most recent surveillance program is breathtaking. It shows absolutely no effort to narrow or tailor the surveillance of citizens," said Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law expert at George Washington University.
The arrangement with the country's three largest phone companies means that every time the majority of Americans makes a call, NSA gets a record of the location, the number called, the time of the call and the length of the conversation, according to people familiar with the matter. The practice, which evolved out of warrantless wiretapping programs begun after 2001, is approved by all three branches of the U.S. government.
(I wonder what Senator Obuma would have to say about this.... you, ask? Well, check this out):
SEN. BARACK OBUMA (2006): I have no doubt that General Hayden will be confirmed. But I am going to reluctantly vote against him to send a signal to this administration that even in these circumstances, even in these trying times, President Bush is not above the law. No President is above the law. I am voting against Mr. Hayden in the hope that he will be more humble before the great weight of responsibility that he has not only to protect our lives but to protect our democracy.
Americans fought a Revolution in part over the right to be free from unreasonable searches–to ensure that our Government could not come knocking in the middle of the night for no reason. We need to find a way forward to make sure we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy and liberty of innocent Americans. We have to find a way to give the President the power he needs to protect us, while making sure he does not abuse that power. It is possible to do that. We have done it before. We could do it again.(With past comments like this it's easy to see why the NY Times is turning on him)
NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
Published: June 6, 2013
Through a top-secret program authorized by federal judges working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the U.S. intelligence community can gain access to the servers of nine Internet companies for a wide range of digital data. Documents describing the previously undisclosed program, obtained by The Washington Post, show the breadth of U.S. electronic surveillance capabilities in the wake of a widely publicized controversy over warrantless wiretapping of U.S. domestic telephone communications in 2005. These slides, annotated by The Washington Post, represent a selection from the overall document, and certain portions are redacted.
Read related article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
Introducing the programA slide briefing analysts at the National Security Agency about the program touts its effectiveness and features the logos of the companies involved. The seal of
Special Source Operations,
the NSA term for alliances
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Monitoring a target's communication:
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Providers and Data:
The PRISM program collects a wide range of data from the nine companies, although the details vary by provider.(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/images/prism-slide-4.jpg)
Participating providers This slide shows when each company joined the program, with Microsoft being the first, on Sept. 11, 2007, and Apple the most recent, in October 2012: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-collection-documents/images/prism-slide-5.jpg)
Top Law Clown Eric Holder:
"When The Time Comes For Me To Step Aside For My Successor, I Will Do So"
(That time has long since come and gone, MoonBat!)
WHITE HOUSE VISITOR LOGS:
When did Stephanie Cutter (Obuma Campaign) and Doug Shulman (IRS) Meet?
In what must have been some sort of mistake on her part, Obuma 2012 campaign adviser Stephanie Cutter recently revealed she attended meetings at the White House with the IRS commissioner, Doug Shulman.
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A clue as to whether the targeting by the IRS of Tea Party and other conservative groups was discussed at the 157 meetings that former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman had at the White House may be found in remarks by Stephanie Cutter, deputy manager for Obuma's 2012 re-election campaign, in a recent appearance on Jake Tapper's show "The Lead" on CNN.
As reported by the 'Daily Caller', Cutter attempted to dismiss charges they were political meetings but admitted she had attended meetings with Shulman at the White House.
"I was in them with him," Cutter said.
"So there was nothing nefarious going on."Well, if they were not political meetings, why was she there at all? Was she there to offer her health care or tax code expertise? ... Cutter became Obuma's deputy campaign manager in September 2011. Shulman, a Democratic donor, was IRS commissioner from March 24, 2008, to November 9, 2012. Cutter was an Obuma attack dog during the 2012 campaign.
So I took a look at the White House Visitor Access Records (most transparent administration evah!) to get a sense for when Shulman and Cutter might have been in meetings together.
Here are the 2011 records:(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jfgvmCzdbGU/UbE_dCrgFhI/AAAAAAABMZA/qs4pMo2h_TM/s1600/130606-cutter-shulman-2011.jpg)
And here are the 2012 Records:(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QpVDGdHs0pI/UbE_fCy6ORI/AAAAAAABMZI/1HRtUdkRrsA/s1600/130606-cutter-shulman-2012.jpg)
Finding only one date... June 5, 2012... where their paths appeared to cross at the White House. Notice that many of the expected details during this period (who they were visiting, number in the party, etc.) are missing.
Given the track record of this administration, one must wonder whether even the vaunted White House Visitor Access logs are accurate and complete.... probably not.
Senator Kirk to Holder:
Have You Been Spying on Congress?
Attorney General Eric Holder brushed off a question at today's Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science and Related Agencies hearing on whether phones of the legislative branch were being monitored by the executive branch with help of the judicial branch.
"I want to take you to the Verizon scandal, and which I understand takes us to possibly monitoring up to 120 million calls. You know when government bureaucrats are sloppy, they're usually very sloppy," said Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). "I want to just ask, could you assure to us that no phones inside the Capitol were monitored of members of Congress that would give a future executive branch, if they started pulling this kind of thing up, that would give them unique leverage over the legislature?"
"With all due respect, Senator I don't think this is an appropriate setting for me to discuss that issue. I'd be more than glad to come back in a — in an appropriate setting to discuss the issues that — that you have raised," Holder responded.
"I would interrupt you and say the correct answer would be to say no, we stayed within our lane and I'm assuring you we did not spy on members of Congress," Kirk interjected.Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) jumped in, saying that when she read the story in the New York Times this morning "it was like, oh God, not one more thing."
("it was like, oh God, not one more thing." - Mikulski (D- Md) LOL! Please, pardon my SchadenFreude. LOL! Well, Mme Mikulski, there IS the Impeachment option. It would make all this go away. Maybe you Demo-rats could talk tothat POS Obuma about resigning? That, too, would make it all go away for you. Congress could actually flex its muscles, for once) "And not one more thing where we're trying to protect America, and then it looks like we're spying on America. I think the full Senate needs to get a brief on this. And I think we need the attorney general. I think we need the National Security Agency, and other appropriate people. This is in no way to minimize, actually, Senator Kirk your very excellent question," Mikulski added.
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said "the sooner the better" he hoped Mikulski, as chairwoman and a member of the Intelligence Committee, "would create the appropriate forum, that is a classified hearing to get into this where the attorney general could be open with us."
"I think that what Senator Kirk is raising, is a very important question," Shelby said.
Mikulski vowed to send notes to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) because the question cuts across committees, including Judiciary and Armed Services.
Kirk, also an attorney, said he wanted to ensure "that when you're jumping out of your executive branch lane, you want to make sure you're not gaining new intel and leverage over separated powers under our Constitution."
"I would hope that we would get absolute assurance that not a single Supreme Court justice was at all involved in this whole Verizon thing," he added.
"Senator Kirk, please do not take my response as something — as anything but being respectful of the concerns that you have raised. There has been no intention to do anything of that nature, that is to spy on members of Congress, to spy on members of the Supreme Court," Holder said."Without getting into anything specific, I will say this, that with regard to — members of Congress have been fully briefed as these issues, matters, have been underway. I'm not really comfortable in saying an awful lot more about that. But the concerns that you have raised..." he continued before Mikulski interjected that "fully briefed" usually means a group of eight congressional leaders.
Kirk said he raised the questions because "someone, whoever was running this program, knows they really screwed up."
"I would just ask that you kind of seize the records and not allow the destruction of evidence that they have accidentally monitored other branches of the government," he said.
"As I said, I'd be more than glad to discuss this in an appropriate setting," Holder responded.
Hot Air
I was in the restroom at Cracker Barrel Restaurant yesterday and someone had put this sticker on the hand drier unit.(http://api.ning.com/files/LHIwwM6*0ceUA69fRAdlLz1CPjvyhSVcb1kofBa8WjTg9S5nEMAjJXjEjMC2sD0OWQN9izkpXKW3ubJ4poWagwU1euNhdpXH/download2.jpg)
However, I have heard a national radio show host say that if you wanted to listen to an Obuma speech, you could hear one by hitting the flush handle on a toilet at Disney World! You gotta hand it to those dang Disney guys! They are really creative!
West Point center cites dangers of 'far right' in U.S.
By Rowan Scarborough
The Washington Times
Thursday, January 17, 2013
A West Point think tank has issued a paper warning America about "far right" groups such as the "anti-federalist" movement, which supports "civil activism, individual freedoms and self-government."
The report issued this week by the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., is titled "Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America's Violent Far-Right."
The center — part of the institution where men and women are molded into Army officers — posted the report Tuesday. It lumps limited government activists with three movements it identifies as "a racist/white supremacy movement, an anti-federalist movement and a fundamentalist movement."
The West Point center typically focuses reports on al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists attempting to gain power in Asia, the Middle East and Africa through violence.
But its latest study turns inward and paints a broad brush of people it considers "far right."
It says anti-federalists "espouse strong convictions regarding the federal government, believing it to be corrupt and tyrannical, with a natural tendency to intrude on individuals' civil and constitutional rights. Finally, they support civil activism, individual freedoms, and self government. Extremists in the anti-federalist movement direct most their violence against the federal government and its proxies in law enforcement."
The report also draws a link between the mainstream conservative movement and the violent "far right," and describes liberals as "future oriented" and conservatives as living in the past. (emphasis added)
"While liberal worldviews are future- or progressive -oriented, conservative perspectives are more past-oriented, and in general, are interested in preserving the status quo." the report says. "The far right represents a more extreme version of conservatism, as its political vision is usually justified by the aspiration to restore or preserve values and practices that are part of the idealized historical heritage of the nation or ethnic community."
The report adds: "While far-right groups' ideology is designed to exclude minorities and foreigners, the liberal-democratic system is designed to emphasize civil rights, minority rights and the balance of power."
The report says there were 350 "attacks initiated by far-right groups/individuals" in 2011.
Details about what makes an attack a "far right" action are not clear in the report, which was written by Arie Perliger, who directs the center's terrorism studies and teaches social sciences at West Point.
A Republican congressional staffer who served in the military told The Washington Times: "If [the Defense Department] is looking for places to cut spending, this junk study is ground zero.
"Shouldn't the Combating Terrorism Center be combating radical Islam around the globe instead of perpetuating the left's myth that right-wingers are terrorists?" the staffer said. "The $64,000 dollar question is when will the Combating Terrorism Center publish their study on real left-wing terrorists like the Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and the Weather Underground?"
http://nolathe.net/category/gun-control/
Gallup Poll: 50% Of Americans Think Team Obama Knew IRS Was Targeting Conservatives
(According to MSNBC's resident MoonBat Clown Martin Bashir: It's because of racism)
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Feds Asking For Four Year Sentence For Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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(He's lucky it's only for four years, and need I say Chicago politics, again?)
Via Politico:Federal prosecutors are seeking a four-year prison sentence for former Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., who has plead guilty to illegally diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to personal use.
Under the Justice Department recommendations, Jackson would have to forfeit the $750,000 he stole from his campaign, and pay back another $750,000 to his reelection committee. Prosecutors are asking that someone not related to Jackson be appointed to run the campaign, which would then be "wound down."
In a break for Jackson and his wife — former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, who also plead guilty in the case — prosecutors have requested that their prison sentences be staggered so that both aren't in prison at the same time. Sandi Jackson faces up to 18 months in federal prison as part of the couple's illegal scheme. The couple have two young children.
Obama DOJ Fights Release Of Secret Court Opinion Finding
Domestic Surveillance Is Unconstitutional
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(So they knew it was illegal and did it anyway?
Sounds like something the Obama administration does all of the time
)
Via Mother Jones Rag:In the midst of revelations that the government has conducted extensive top-secret surveillance operations to collect domestic phone records and internet communications, the Justice Department was due to file a court motion Friday in its effort to keep secret an 86-page court opinion that determined that the government had violated the spirit of federal surveillance laws and engaged in unconstitutional spying.
This important case—all the more relevant in the wake of this week's disclosures—was triggered after Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Senate intelligence committee, started crying foul in 2011 about US government snooping. As a member of the intelligence committee, he had learned about domestic surveillance activity affecting American citizens that he believed was improper. He and Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), another intelligence committee member, raised only vague warnings about this data collection, because they could not reveal the details of the classified program that concerned them. But in July 2012, Wyden was able to get the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify two statements that he wanted to issue publicly. They were:
*** On at least one occasion the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held that some collection carried out pursuant to the Section 702 minimization procedures used by the government was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
*** I believe that the government's implementation of Section 702 of FISA [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] has sometimes circumvented the spirit of the law, and on at least one occasion the FISA Court has reached this same conclusion.
For those who follow the secret and often complex world of high-tech government spying, this was an aha moment. The FISA court Wyden referred to oversees the surveillance programs run by the government, authorizing requests for various surveillance activities related to national security, and it does this behind a thick cloak of secrecy. Wyden's statements led to an obvious conclusion: He had seen a secret FISA court opinion that ruled that one surveillance program was unconstitutional and violated the spirit of the law. But, yet again, Wyden could not publicly identify this program.
Dem Elijah Cummings:
President Should Go Back And Read His Own Speeches on Privacy
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Via Breitbart:As the scope of the government's spying on private citizens becomes clear, left-wing politicians are openly criticizing Obama and his Administration. Long critical of Bush-era anti-terror policies, many had expected Obama to end these practices, rather than expand him. MD Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings said, "I think the president needs to go back and read his own speeches."
"I'm very concerned that this is basically a continuation of the policies of the Bush administration and the abuses of the Patriot Act. I'd like to see better out of this administration," OR Rep. Peter DeFazio told Politico.
The Obama Administration isn't just continuing policies begun under Bush, in many cases they are expanding them. He has greatly expanded the drone program and uses is regularly to assassinate suspected terrorists. The massive database of phone records also includes on-line data and internet activity. Combined with the seizure of reporters' phone and email records, the new revelations show an Administration obsessed with monitoring individuals' behavior.
This presents an existential challenge for Obama. In Bush's case, at least the controversial policies were undertaken by a President who believe the nation was in a state of war against terrorism. Obama has often rejected the idea that we're at war and has noted repeatedly that terrorists are "on the run." So, why maintain or expand Bush's policies?
Obama has maintained his standing in the polls largely because his base has supported him strongly. The government's expansive spying on citizens, however, threatens to alienate his base. If even a small percentage of them abandon him over this, his approval rating will fall quickly. Speeches won't fix that.
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(Yikes!!! :-X)
Via The Hill:Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's favorability rating has dropped over the past few months, a new poll found.
The Bloomberg News poll conducted by Selzer and Co. found that Clinton's popularity has dropped from 70 percent in December to 58 percent.The percentage of people who have an unfavorable view of Clinton has increased, the poll also found. In December, 11 percent of those surveyed said they had an unfavorable view of Clinton. Now, 22 percent say they have an unfavorable view of the former secretary of State.
Clinton is regularly mentioned as a strong presidential candidate in 2016. David Redlawsk, a political science professor at Rutgers University, told Bloomberg that since Clinton is often mentioned as the strongest potential candidate in the 2016 president race, she's the target of Republican criticism, which weighs down her favorability.
(It's almost like he's avoiding questions on the flood of scandals he's dealing with...
and this POS works for us... Clown!)
Via TWS:Obuma: "I'm going to take one question and then remember people are going to have opportunities to also answer questions when I'm with the Chinese president today, so I don't want the whole day to just be a bleeding press conference. But I'm going to take Jackie Calmes's question."
Tweet Of The Day
Barack Obuma's Bad Timing As Usual
(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/3221742532/5ceae8f2b72a1a8b012d2f5960fb46be_normal.jpeg) Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
"In a country where we expect free wifi with our coffee, why shouldn't we have it in our schools?" —President Obama in North Carolina today.
June 6, 2013
(Great timing, Barry.... let's get the kids on the web too, so the government will spy on them too!)
Obuma Calls NSA Scandal Just A Bunch Of "Hype"...
(Same guy who for years railed against Bush's warrantless tapping of foreign phones, see here, here, and here for a few example).
Via WaPo:President Obama sought to calm down "hype" about secret surveillance programs Friday, telling reporters that
"nobody is listening to your telephone calls."The intelligence community is
"looking at phone numbers and durations of calls. They are not looking at people's names, and they are not looking at content." By sifting through "metadata," he said, they may find leads on potential terrorists. But to listen to the content of calls, he said, a court order from a judge would be needed.
He added that the e-mails of U.S. citizens are not being read.He said he came into office with a
"healthy skepticism" of these programs, but has come to believe that they prevent terrorist attacks and have developed safeguards " that Americans should feel comfortable about."
Obuma Defends Spying On Innocent Americans:
"You Can't Have 100% Security And Then Have 100% Privacy And Zero Inconvenience"
(Imagine the reaction to Bush saying,
"You can't have 100% security, and then have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience.")
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(Since when do we have 100% security? The Boston Bombers being a good example of what this should have stopped if it really did keep us safe)
Obuma's Director Of National Intelligence Lies To Congress
When Asked If The NSA "Collects Any Type Of Data On
Millions Of Americans"
Via National Journal:As we now know, the NSA has been collecting data on millions of domestic and international phone calls for some time now — since 2006, according to Dianne Feinstein. Maybe this bothers you; maybe it doesn't. Feinstein insists the program is an essential part of "protecting America"; Congressman Mike Rogers says it has already been "used to stop a terrorist attack in the United States."
But one person who doesn't like the idea of the NSA spying on Americans is Oregon senator Ron Wyden. And at a hearing in March, he asked James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, a straightforward question:
"Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"Clapper's answer? "No, sir ... not wittingly..."
Idiotic Iran's Clerical Regime Criminalizes Dog Walking
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(Ironically, the harder the clerics in Iran push Islam on the youth the more they seek to emulate western culture. Iran already has the lowest youth mosque attendance rate in the Islamic world)
Tehran (AFP) – Iran is again cracking down on people with pet dogs, viewed as unclean in Islam, but Soroush Mobaraki says sales are booming despite fears the pooches might be arrested and their owners fined.
This veterinary pharmacologist, sitting in the small Tehran pet shop he owns, said there has been a sharp increase in demand for dogs in recent years.
Guard dogs, sheep dogs and hounds have always been acceptable, but the soaring number of pets acquired by a middle class keen to imitate Western culture has alarmed the authorities in recent years.
They have now criminalized walking dogs in public, or driving them around the city.Mobaraki says many Iranians today boast about their pets, and some even show off in style.
They want to have a dog (to brag), like they want to have an expensive luxury car.
Reports of lap dogs dressed in Western designer clothes and accessories being driven in fancy cars, or walked in parks in affluent Tehran neighborhoods has drawn the ire of hardline clerics.
Unreal... Obama Pushing Obamacare in California Where Premiums Will Increase as Much as 146%
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Obamacare will cost American families $20,000 per year.
Barack Obama is speaking in California right now pushing his unpopular healthcare law.
Californians will see their premiums increase by as much as 146% under Obamacare.
The GOP website reported:
TODAY IN CALIFORNIA, OBAMA WILL ENCOURAGE AMERICANS TO SIGN UP FOR OBAMACARE
"President Barack Obama Is Making A Personal Plea To Californians, Latinos And Young People To Sign Up For Coverage Under The New Health Care Law." ("Obama Pleads For Californians, Latinos, Young People To Get Coverage Under New Health Care Law," The Associated Press, 6/7/13)
Obama Faces A Tough Sales Pitch – Disapproval Of ObamaCare Continues To Hit New Highs
"ObamaCare Is More Unpopular Than Ever." "ObamaCare is more unpopular than ever, a new poll finds." (Tal Kopan, "Poll Finds Low Support For ObamaCare," Politico, 6/6/13)•· The NBC News/Wall Street Journal Found That 49 Percent Of Americans Believe ObamaCare "Is A Bad Idea ... That's The Highest Number Recorded" Since 2009. "The poll shows 49 percent of Americans say they believe the Affordable Care Act is a bad idea. That's the highest number recorded on this question since the poll began measuring it in 2009." (Mark Murray, Health Care Law's Unpopularity Reaches New Highs," NBC News, 6/6/13)•· That 38 Percent Believe That ObamaCare Will Leave Americans And Their Families "Worse Off ... The Highest Percentage Of Respondents To Express A Negative Outlook" Since 2010. "For individuals, the current poll also finds 38 percent of respondents saying that they (and their families) will be worse off under the health care law. That's the highest percentage of respondents to express a negative outlook toward 'ObamaCare' since 2010, when the president signed this signature piece of legislation into law following an extended, bruising battle in Congress." (Mark Murray, Health Care Law's Unpopularity Reaches New Highs," NBC News, 6/6/13)
In Another Recent Poll, CNN/ORC Found That 54% Of The Public Opposes ObamaCare. "According to the poll, 43% of the public says it supports the health care law, a figure that's mostly unchanged in CNN polling since the measure was passed in 2010 by a Congress then controlled by Democrats and signed into law by President Barack Obama. Fifty-four percent of those questioned say they oppose the law, also relatively unchanged since 2010." (Poll: Do You Support Or Oppose The Health Care Law?" CNN, 5/27/13)
•· Fifty-Four Percent Opposing ObamaCare Is The Highest Number Recorded By CNN/ORC Since November 2011. (CNN/ORC, 923 A, MoE 3%, 5/17-18/13)
In California, Premiums Could Rise As Much As 146 Percent
ObamaCare "Will Increase Individual-Market Premiums In California By As Much As 146 Percent." "But the data that Lee released tells a different story: ObamaCare, in fact, will increase individual-market premiums in California by as much as 146 percent." (Avik Roy, Op-Ed, "Rate Shock: In California, ObamaCare To Increase Individual Premiums By 64-146%," Forbes, 5/30/13)
Covered California's Release Was Misleading, It Compared Health Plans In The Individual Market To "Highly Regulated Plans That Small Employers Purchase For Their Workers." "Except that Lee was making a misleading comparison. He was comparing apples—the plans that Californians buy today for themselves in a robust individual market—and oranges—the highly regulated plans that small employers purchase for their workers as a group." (Avik Roy, Op-Ed, "Rate Shock: In California, ObamaCare To Increase Individual Premiums By 64-146%," Forbes, 5/30/13)
•· The Wall Street Journal: Covered California Made A "False Comparison." "But Mr. Lee and his fellow regulators were making a false comparison." (Editorial, "ObamaCare Bait And Switch," The Wall Street Journal, 6/3/13)The Wall Street Journal: "The Cheapest ObamaCare Plan For A Typical 25-Year-Old-Man Is Roughly 64% To 117% More Expensive Than The Five Cheapest Policies Old Today." "The conservative analyst Avik Roy consulted current rates on the eHealthInsurance website and discovered that the cheapest ObamaCare plan for a typical 25-year-old man is roughly 64% to 117% more expensive than the five cheapest policies sold today. For a 40 year old, it's 73% to 146%." (Editorial, "ObamaCare Bait And Switch," The Wall Street Journal, 6/3/13)
Young Americans Are Expected To Face "Sticker Shock" From ObamaCare
Despite Obama's Promise To Lower Health Care Premiums For Everyone, "Healthy Young People – The Vast Majority Of Whom Voted For Obama In 2012 – Are Seeing Their Costs Go Up." "When he was selling his health care overhaul as a presidential candidate and then as commander-in-chief, Barack Obama repeatedly argued that the plan would lower insurance premiums for everyone. But in California, at least, healthy young people — the vast majority of whom voted for Obama in 2012 — are seeing their costs go up." (Andrew Kaczynski, "Flashback: Obama Promised Lower Health Care Insurance Premiums For Everyone," Buzzfeed, 6/3/13)
A Recent Survey Found That ObamaCare May "Triple Premiums For Some Young And Healthy Men." "The federal health care law could nearly triple premiums for some young and healthy men, according to a forthcoming survey of insurers that singles out a group that might become a major public opinion battleground in the ObamaCare wars." (Brett Norman, "ACA Premium Sticker Shock Could Fuel Foes," Politico, 2/4/13)
As ObamaCare Is Implemented, Insurance Premiums In The Individual Market For A Healthy 27 Year Old Will Be "Nearly 90 Percent Higher." "The survey, fielded by the conservative American Action Forum and made available to POLITICO, found that if the law's insurance rules were in force, the premium for a relatively bare-bones policy for a 27-year-old male nonsmoker on the individual market would be nearly 190 percent higher." (Brett Norman, "ACA Premium Sticker Shock Could Fuel Foes," Politico, 2/4/13)
•Insurers Estimated That A Healthy 27 Year Old Man From Texas Will Pay $99 More In Health Insurance Premiums Due To ObamaCare. "The insurers estimated that a healthy 27-year-old man in Austin, Texas, who pays $54 a month for insurance this year would have a $153 premium if ObamaCare's market regulations were in effect." (Brett Norman, "ACA Premium Sticker Shock Could Fuel Foes," Politico, 2/4/13)
The Washington Post's The Fact Checker: Young Adults Will "Have Sticker Shock When They See What Happens To Their Premiums Starting In 2014." "The law's provisions, especially the requirement for essential benefits, will almost certainly increase premiums, though tax subsidies will help mitigate the impact for a little over half of the people in the exchanges. But a lot of other people — such as a young male who currently has a plan that does not include all of the required benefits — are likely going to have sticker shock when they see what happens to their premiums starting in 2014." (Glenn Kessler, "President Obama's Claim That Insurance Premiums 'Will Go Down,'" The Washington Post's The Fact Checker, 8/10/12)
Obama Has Failed To Lower Health Care Premiums By $2,500
As A Candidate, Obama Promised That His Health Care Reform Would Save American Families $2,500 By The End Of His First Term. OBAMA: "If you've got health insurance, we're going to work with you to lower your premiums by $2500 per family per year. And we will not wait 20 years from now to do it or 10 years from now to do it. We will do it by the end of my first term as president of the United States of America." (Senator Barack Obama, Remarks At Campaign Event, Columbus, OH, 2/27/08)
Under Obama, The Average Cost Of Family Health Care Premiums Has Increased By $3,065 From $12,680 To $15,745, A 24.2 Percent Increase. ("Employer Health Benefits, 2012 Annual Survey, Exhibit 6.4" The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2012)
•"The Average Annual Premiums In 2012 Are $5,615 For Single Coverage And $15,745 For Family Coverage." ("Employer Health Benefits, 2012 Annual Survey," The Kaiser Family Foundation, 9/11/12)
More Members Of Congress On NSA Records Grab:
Obama's Claim He Told Us Is False, He Lied
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Via Breitbart:On Friday morning, President Barack Obama defended his administration's massive telephone records surveillance programs by explaining
(more like lying) that "every member of Congress has been briefed on this program."
There's only one problem: both Republican and Democrat Congresspeople say that isn't true. On Friday afternoon, the press office for Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), one of the authors of the Patriot Act, tweeted, "Obama's claim that 'every Member of Congress' was briefed is FALSE."It wasn't just Sensenbrenner. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said that only certain members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees had been told about the program, and he only knew about it because he received "special permission" to be briefed after hearing about it through the grapevine. "I knew about the program," he said on MSNBC, "because I specifically sought it out. It's not something that's briefed outside the Intelligence Committee." Merkley added that the administration had ignored the law. "Clearly the administration has not followed what an ordinary person would consider to be the standard of the law here," he said.
Merkely summed up: "when the president says all members of Congress were briefed ... well, I think a very small number of Senators in Congress had full details on these programs."
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) said he only knew about the program after asking for a briefing under "classified circumstances." The "average member," he said, had no access to this information. "They don't receive this kind of briefing."
Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) said they had not been briefed on the phone surveillance program, either. "Not quite!" Rep. Billy Long (R-LA) tweeted after hearing about Obama's claim.
"Chinese hacked Obama, McCain campaigns,
took internal documents, officials say"
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Cyberattacks linked to the Chinese government will be at the top of the U.S. agenda when President Obama meets with Chinese president Xi Jinping Friday in California. Chinese officials deny any role in the cyberattacks, but U.S. experts say the 2008 attack was a "wake up call."
By Michael Isikoff The U.S. secretly traced a massive cyberespionage operation against the 2008 presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain to hacking units backed by the People's Republic of China, prompting high level warnings to Chinese officials to stop such activities, U.S. intelligence officials tell NBC News.
The disclosure on the eve of a two-day summit between the U.S. and Chinese presidents highlights what has become a persistent source of tension between the two global powers: Beijing's aggressive, orchestrated campaign to pierce America's national security armor at any weak point – in this case the computers and laptops of top campaign aides and advisers who received high-level briefings.
The goal of the campaign intrusion, according to the officials: to export massive amounts of internal data from both campaigns—including internal position papers and private emails of key advisers in both camps.
"Based on everything I know, this was a case of political cyberespionage by the Chinese government against the two American political parties," said Dennis Blair, who served as President Obama's director of national intelligence in 2009 and 2010. "They were looking for positions on China, surprises that might be rolled out by campaigns against China.
"The intrusion into the campaigns' computer networks and subsequent efforts to penetrate them were highly sophisticated and continued for months after they were first detected by the FBI in the summer of 2008, according to the officials and an Obama campaign security consultant hired to thwart them. The intrusions and some details of what was targeted have been previously reported, but not publicly attributed to government-backed Chinese hackers.
Obama publicly referred to the attacks — in general terms — at a May 29, 2009, White House event announcing a new cybersecurity policy. "Hackers gained access to emails and a range of campaign files, from policy position papers to travel plans," he said then.
But neither the president nor his top aides publicly spoke about the identity of the hackers, or the depth and gravity of the attack.
Officials and former campaign officials now acknowledge to NBC News that the security breach was far more serious than has been publicly known, involving the potential compromise of a large number of internal files. And, in one case, it included the apparent theft of private correspondence from McCain to the president of Taiwan.
President Obama's 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, tells NBC's Michael Isikoff about the cyberattacks that infiltrated Obama's campaign. At the time, Plouffe said, Obama's reaction was one of surprise because there was no precedent for such an attack
House votes to delay bulk ammunition purchase by DHS
By Pete Kasperowicz The House late Wednesday voted to stop the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from entering into new contracts to buy millions of rounds of ammunition until the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports to Congress on the need for the ammo, and its cost.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) proposed an amendment to the DHS spending bill for 2014 that would require the report to Congress before it can pursue plans to buy 1.1 billion rounds of ammunition. Meadows said the speed bump is a necessary reaction to news of the huge purchase, which alarmed many Americans and prompted conservative groups to suspect that the government was stocking up on the rounds to fight citizens.
"Given this large purchase, the American people and members of Congress rightfully had concerns and questions," Meadows said. "This is a responsible amendment which ensures that Congress and the American people are aware of the necessity and the cost of ammunition prior to entering into new contracts for procurement."
Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) said the amendment was unnecessary based on his talks with DHS officials. Carter said the department has since admitted that its ammunition needs are not as great as first reported, and said the department is pursuing a bulk purchase to keep the costs down...
Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck ?????
Hey, Bull.... got any grapes?
Delusional Chris Matthews: "Obuma Has Literally Never Done Anything Wrong"
(Matthew's Still Tingling....)
Chris Matthews, thy delusion knows no bounds. In a month where the veritable pileup of scandals resembles an especially bad freeway car accident.... (http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-DWF15-517832.jpg?size=67&uid=b6c0873c-ab12-4570-93b2-815ed0d04882)
....indeed, on the heels of the PRISM revelation... .Matthews maintains that Obuma is as close to a perfect person as we've seen, potentially since Christ. Behold unrighteous indignation, taken to an illogical extreme:
Listening to Matthews talk about Obuma sounds more like teenage apologetics of Justin Bieber than sound political analysis . As far as Matthews is concerned, Obuma has li-trelly never done anything legally or ethically questionable, and thus the Right's consternation with him is ethnically-based. And yet.... who's the one who forgot about the two African Americans serving in the Senate? Oh right! Matthews. http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2013/06/07/derp-chris-matthews-on-the-disgraceful-lack-of-any-african-americans-in-the-senate/
Look, I get standing by your man in his time of hardship, and I suppose in a perverted way, props to him for this adulatory display of loyalty. But really, no. First of all, this is a guy (Obuma) who admitted himself, "Yeah, I dabbled in blow." (Cocaine, for those less streetwise among us) Which is.... you know... "Illegal." Currently, his administration is battling scandals on more fronts that WWI had. Benghazi, hacking journalists, IRS targeting, PRISM... the ethics are dubious and questionable at best.
Poll: 58% Disapprove Of How Obuma Is Handling IRS Scandal
(The Chicago mobster isn't fooling anyone)
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Democrat Congressman Hits Obuma For Being An Inexperienced Neophyte
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(LOL... as Al Sharpton would say, "Racist!")
Via The Hill:Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the longest serving lawmaker in Congress, criticized President Obama as inexperienced on Thursday, saying he arrived in town with the "smallest Rolodex ever."
"I think he had the smallest Rolodex ever when he hit town," Dingell said on MSNBC's Daily Rundown. "And he moved so fast he never had any chance to build scar tissue, to learn politics, to be hurt. Because you got to be hurt in this business, so that you'll toughen and so that you'll learn."
Obama lost his bid for a U.S. House seat in 2000, but was elected to represent Illinois in the U.S. Senate in late 2004. In 2008 he defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, and won the presidency later that year.
"He's had to kind of fight his way up fast without the experience," Dingell continued. "I don't think that he's had the kind of eclectic advisers that Truman had or that Roosevelt had or that Johnson had, and I don't think he's had the experience that those people had."
From The Left, The Five's Bob Beckel Rips Obuma: "Fascism!"
Beckel:"I think it is one of the most outrageous examples of the stepping on the Constitution I've heard. They have no right to the phone records... It is illegal, it is unconstitutional, and it is deplorable. I didn't like it when they did it during the Bush administration and I don't like when they're doing it now."
"They have taken this PATRIOT Act, which I think was the most dangerous act passed, and they have taken it and abused it," Beck added. "You talk about fascism? You're getting damn close to it."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Islam Wears Out Its Welcome In The Netherlands:
Majority Favors Ban On Sharia, New Mosques, Immigration From Islamic Countries
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A poll conducted by the research bureau of Maurice de Hond (the Dutch equivalent of Gallup), commissioned by the PVV, among a representative sample of over 1,900 people also shows other striking results:
A majority of 55 percent favors stopping immigration from Islamic countries.
63 percent say: no new mosques.
72 percent favor a constitutional ban on Sharia law in the Netherlands.
64 percent say that the arrival of immigrants from Islamic countries has not been beneficial to the Netherlands.
Nearly three-quarters – 73 percent – of all Dutch see a relationship between Islam and the recent terror acts in Boston, London and Paris.
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Clown Obama Waives Human Rights Requirement On $1.3 Billion In Aid To
Muslim Brotherhood Regime In Egypt On National Security Grounds
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has waived the conditional human rights string attached to Egypt's $1.3 billion in U.S. military support for 2013.
In a letter to Congress last month, Secretary of State John Kerry noted the Egyptian military's long partnership in promoting Mideast peace. He said aid helps protect Egypt's borders, Suez Canal shipping and Israeli security against extremists in Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula.
After Hosni Mubarak's overthrow in 2011, Congress mandated that assistance to Egypt be conditional on progress in on a democratic transition there. However, it allowed the administration to waive the requirement on national security grounds.(Congress cannot directly vote to override an executive order in the way they can a veto. Instead, Congress must pass a bill canceling or changing the order in a manner they see fit. The president will typically veto that bill, and then Congress can try to override the veto of that second bill... this is called the 'merry-go-round affect.' The Supreme Court can also declare an executive order to be unconstitutional. Congressional cancellation by SCOTUS of a EX Order is extremely rare.... don't count on it with this gang of nine. So... you might say Obuma and his minionswho are in complience are still waging Jihad from the White House. ....Warph) [...]UPDATE ON THE ABOVE STORY:Obuma Robot, Simple-Minded John Kerry Quietly Released $1.3 Billion In U.S. Military Aid
To Muslim Brotherhood-Run Egypt Last Month While Our Troops In Afghanstan Go Without
Hot Meals In Some Areas
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(Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry quietly acted last month to give Egypt $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid, deciding that this was in the national interest despite Egypt's failure to meet democracy standards.
Kerry made the decision well before an Egyptian court this week convicted 43 democracy workers, including 16 Americans, in what the United States regards as a politically motivated case against pro-democracy non-governmental organizations.
Rights groups believe Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi is retreating from democratic freedoms, notably in a new civil society law and in proposals for judicial reform that critics see as a way to purge judges perceived as hostile to the government.
Despite stating in a May 9 memo that "we are not satisfied with the extent of Egypt's progress and are pressing for a more inclusive democratic process and the strengthening of key democratic institutions," Kerry said the aid should go forward.
Under U.S. law, for the $1.3 billion to flow the secretary of state must certify that the Egyptian government "is supporting the transition to civilian government, including holding free and fair elections, implementing policies to protect freedom of expression, association and religion, and due process of law."
Even More Lawmakers Say Obama Never Told Them About NSA Program,
Despite Obama's Claim "Every Member" Of Congress Knew And Signed Off On It
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(Why is this President such a "lying sack of sh!t...?" Why does he make up straw men about "not listening in on our phone calls", then lies straight to our faces, claiming we should trust the process because our representatives all signed off on it, where does that leave us, when it is shown to be a lie? Back to the drawing board, Clown Leader, it's not working well for you!)
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/congress-nsa-prism-intelligence-briefing-92438.html?hp=f2
President Barack Obama's chief defense of his administration's wide-ranging data-gathering programs Friday: Congress authorized them, with "every member" well aware of the details.
Not so, say many members of Congress — Democrats and Republicans alike.
Typically, members of Congress "don't receive this kind of briefing," Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told POLITICO Friday. They wouldn't have known about the programs unless they were on an intelligence committee, attended special sessions last held in 2011 or specifically asked to be briefed – something they would only know to do if they were clued in by an colleague who was already aware.
Durbin said he learned about the two programs himself only after requesting a briefing under "classified circumstances" after being urged to do so by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
Congressional leadership and intelligence committees had access to information about the programs, he said — but the "average member" of Congress likely wouldn't have been aware of the breadth of the telephone and Internet surveillance.
There's no public record of who has attended any of these sessions — and even the Obama administration couldn't confirm the president's claim that "every member of Congress" had been briefed.
The White House declined to comment for this story.
And Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) told POLITICO that the classified intelligence briefing sessions he's attended haven't disclosed details on the two data-gathering programs as were unveiled this week.
Schock, in Congress since 2009, said he had "no idea" about the phone data gathering, or any briefings for House members to discuss it, until news reports this week.
Like other members who said they learned of the data-gathering efforts when they were revealed in the Guardian and the Washington Post, Schock said the administration classified briefings he's attended have revealed very little information.
"I can assure you the phone number tracking of non-criminal, non-terrorist suspects was not discussed," he said. "Most members have stopped going to their classified briefings because they rarely tell us anything we don't already know in the news. It really has become a charade."
The Obuma IRS Targeting Scandal in Five Minutes – Unbelievable Abuse of Power
Exposing the Obama Administration's attack on conservative Americans
The IRS targeted hundreds of conservative groups since 2010. 500 conservative and Christian groups were illegally targeted by the Obuma IRS starting in 2010. For twenty-seven months the Obuma IRS refused to approve any Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status. At the same time the Obuma IRS approved dozens of progressive liberal applications within weeks.You definitely won't see this video in the mainstream media.
It is too devastating for Obuma:Published on Jun 8, 2013 [/tt]
Kudos to Greta Van Susteren for putting together this powerful video(What the IRS has done during the Obuma years far exceeds previous abuses of the tax agency and threatens the fundamental health of the nation's political system. It's one thing for the tax returns of a few politically powerful individuals to be scanned. But forcing hundreds of organizations representing millions of people to endure endless interrogation and other degrading harassment is typical of authoritarian regimes. It is, as Becky Gerritson put it so well in the video, un-American. No effort should be spared to bring all of those responsible to a full accounting and just prosecution.)
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Impeach Obuma NOW Over IRS Targeting Scandal
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Phone Call From Benghazi Linked Attackers to Al-Qaeda
On October 18, 2012, Barack Obama told supporters,
"Al-Qaeda's on the path to defeat."
But one month earlier, shortly after the attack on our consulate in Benghazi where four Americans were killed, a phone call was made from Benghazi that linked the attack to Al-Qaeda.
CNN reported:
Shortly after the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last September, a phone call was placed from the area.
Whoever made the call was excited. "Mabruk, Mabruk!" he repeated, meaning "Congratulations" in Arabic.
Two sources with high-level access to Western intelligence services have told CNN the call was made to a senior figure in al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM. There is no proof that the call was specifically about the attack, in which U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, but the sources say that is the assumption among those with knowledge of the call.
One of the sources says the phone call was discovered when a Western intelligence service trawled through intercepts of communications made in the wake of the attack. That source told CNN that the call was made specifically to Moktar Belmoktar, leader of an al Qaeda faction based in northern Mali.
CIA officials told CNN they had no comment on whether any call had been intercepted.
(But Obuma said Al-Qaeda was defeated)
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I have never been good with foreign languages except for french, so it's little wonder that I have had so much trouble figuring out what that POS Barack Obuma is talking about. Still, it didn't take me too long to realize that "fees" and "revenues" are what the rest of us call taxes.
I'm ashamed to admit that the first time I heard him say, "I can't comment because there's an ongoing investigation," I assumed he couldn't comment because there was an ongoing investigation. By the second time, it dawned on me that what he was really saying was "There's no way I'm going to talk about (Operation Fast & Furious) (voter intimidation by the New Black Panthers) (the monitoring of the AP) (the national security leaks to the NY Times that made me look like I knew what I was doing when it came to foreign affairs) (Syria) (Benghazi) (the targeting of conservatives by the IRS) while an ongoing investigation is taking place."
And if you asked when any of those investigations was likely to be concluded, the honest answer, which you'd never get, is sometime after January 20, 2017.
Does Obuma actually think anyone believes him when he says that he had no idea that Internal Revenue was targeting right-wing groups and individuals? In order to swallow that, we would also have to believe he'd have been equally in the dark if the IRS had been targeting liberals for the past two or three years.
He's not alone when it comes to speaking in code. For instance, when you ask Hillary Clinton why it makes no difference who killed Ambassador Stevens and his three colleagues in Benghazi, the honest answer would be that neither she nor Chelsea was one of the four victims, so it was no big deal.
And when Bill O'Reilly tells guests on The Factor "You're dodging my question," it really means they're not agreeing with his latest pontification.
There is a question I wished somebody would ask Obuma: "Why is it that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood get free F-16s, but law-abiding Americans can't be trusted with hunting rifles?" On behalf of Obuma, let me assure you that there is an ongoing investigation.
Let me point out that if you cross the North Korean border illegally, you'll be sentenced to 12 years hard labor. If you sneak across the Afghan border, you'll be shot. If, on the other hand, you enter the U.S. illegally, you get a job, food stamps, a driver's license, a place to live, health care and an education. Some would suggest that proves we are better than North Korea and Afghanistan. Others would suggest that what we are is a nation of suckers and screwballs.
And on a somewhat related matter, Radio Talk Show Host Dennis Prager has pointed out that when it comes to religion, there are three self-identified groups: Believers, Agnostics and Atheists, and of the three only the Agnostics are hypocrites. As Prager argues, if a person really can't decide whether or not God exists, doesn't it behoove him to attend a church or synagogue every other week? Instead, Agnostics behave exactly like Atheists, who at least have the courage of their convictions.
But I would suggest that Liberals, including the Atheists in their ranks, have their own religion. It's called Big Government. They don't question it. Instead, like Muslims, they prostrate themselves to it.
Their faith is so great that it doesn't even occur to them that at some point, Satan, otherwise known as a Republican, will inevitably gain control of it, and whatever powers have been granted or gobbled up by the executive branch will be in the hands of their archenemies.
But, then, nobody ever said that the followers of Liberalism were smart. Well, at least not with a straight face.
Speaking of the Executive Branch, Obuma... this is how it's suppose to work:
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Audit The IRS Rally June 19th Noon
US Capitol West Lawn - Washington D.C.
Join the Tea Party Patriots on the west lawn of the US Capitol in Washington DC as we rally to Audit the IRS! Fight back against government corruption! www.AuditTheIRS.org
What: Audit the IRS Rally
When: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 from Noon – 2pm
Where: West Lawn of the US Capitol
Speakers to be announced.
UCLA Report: US 'Great Recovery' Isn't 'Even Normal Growth - It's Bad'
Wednesday, 05 Jun 2013 03:52 PM
The expected U.S. "Great Recovery" hasn't materialized and the economy has fallen short of even normal growth, according to a new forecast.
The second-quarter UCLA Anderson Forecast said the growth of real gross domestic product — meaning the inflation-adjusted value of goods and services produced — is too small to help the nation climb out of its slump.
The figure was 15.4 percent below a "normal" growth trend, forecast director Edward Leamer wrote.
"To get back to that 3 percent trend, we would need 4 percent growth for 15 years, or 5 percent growth for eight years, or 6 percent growth for five years, not the disappointing twos and threes we have been racking up recently," he said.
"It's not a recovery. It's not even normal growth. It's bad," he wrote.
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Economic-Forecast-Great-Recovery/2013/06/05/id/508168?s=al&promo_code=13BFE-1
NSA Whistleblower Outs Himself
29-year-old defense contractor Edward Snowden is now hiding out in Hong Kong
The whistleblower who leaked details of the NSA's secret surveillance programs has revealed himself as 29-year-old Edward Snowden, a former technical assistant with the CIA who has been working at the NSA for four years for a number of outside contractors.
http://www.newser.com/story/169231/nsa-whistleblower-outs-himself.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_top
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A President Who Wants Power but No Responsibility
"The reality is that we have a president who wants power but no responsibility. The reality is that we have a president, an eternal "campaigner," who hasn't a clue about governing."
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by Dr. Susan BerryOver the past two weeks, conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has been advancing a theory about why President Obama's approval ratings remain above average, despite the fact that most Americans say they are dissatisfied with the direction the country is taking.
Limbaugh has hypothesized that many Americans, perhaps the "low-information voters," are not connecting Obama's policies to what is actually happening in the country, because the president never actually governs. Obama's is a non-governing presidency, one that is built on an eternal campaign, a never-ending community organization effort.
Aided by a relatively weak Republican Party, Obama travels around the country, appearing to be fighting against the horrific consequences of his own policies. Consequently, the president has remained fairly popular without having to own any of his destructive strategies and programs. It's all about perception.
The situation with the sequester is a perfect example. The White House came up with the idea of sequestration as a punishment/enforcer during the debt ceiling debate of 2011. The sequestration--an across-the-board spending cut, or a slowing in the growth of spending--was the compulsory "trigger" designed to appear to cut spending. The White House believed it would never happen because Republicans allegedly would do anything to avoid cuts to defense spending in particular.
Fast forward to the present day, however, where we have Barack Obama traveling around the country denying he came up with the sequester idea as he warns Americans of the apocalypse that is upon them because of the compulsory cuts the Republicans want them to endure. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, however, Mark Thiessen recommended a plan for Republicans to force Obama to take responsibility for the sequester: make the president decide where and how to make the required "cuts."
The problem with the sequester is that the cuts are indiscriminate, hitting both critical and unnecessary programs with equal force. And it is the indiscriminate nature of the cuts that Obama is using to bludgeon Republicans.
Using terms like "meat-cleaver approach" to attempt to whip Americans up into a fearful frenzy, Obama is even now, with the sequester upon us, doubling down on images of budgetary cuts that will cause enemy invasions because of a weakened military, criminals being let free because of a debilitated justice system, injured people dying in the streets because of a lack of emergency personnel, and a rampant rise in communicable diseases because of cuts to medical and preventive care.
To be sure, whatever negative event befalls the United States over the next several months, it will be blamed upon the "Republican Sequester."
Thiessen urged legislation, which Senate Republicans did eventually draft, to give Obama total authority to allocate the automatic cuts as he sees fit, allowing him to "replace the 'meat cleaver' with a scalpel."
In other words, Republicans would be placing Obama in a position in which he must govern. Even if they did not agree with the cuts he made, the cuts would belong to him.
However, while Thiessen advised, "Republicans should give him the power to cut bloated programs and protect vital services," he also admitted, "Obama may not want such authority."
In fact, on Tuesday, campaigning again against the "Republican" cuts, this time in Newport News, Virginia, Obama said that he rejected any suggestions that he should have more power to carry out the sequestration cuts.
Instead, the president insisted that Congress work out a better solution by raising taxes on the wealthy. He told shipyard workers that he doesn't want responsibility for making the sequester "cuts," because "there is no smart way to do it."
Sounding very much like he is not cut out for this governing stuff, Obama said:
The problem is, when you're cutting $85 billion in seven months there's no smart way to do that. You don't want to have to choose between, "Let's see, do I close funding for the disabled kid, or the poor kid? Do I close this Navy shipyard or some other?"
Sad for us that the president thinks that's how a national leader goes about budgetary decisions.
Nevertheless, when have we ever heard Obama decline more power? This is a president who has repeatedly attempted to consolidate power for the Executive Branch while openly bemoaning the fact that he must deal with a Congress and a Constitution.
As a governing leader, it is within the scope of Obama's authority already to stop truly harmful cuts that could damage the country and, instead, strategically target where the sequester cuts would occur, perhaps even eliminating wasteful spending first. Why would Congress have to force Obama to address the danger that he's been so passionately warning against?"
The reality is that we have a president who wants power but no responsibility. The reality is that we have a president, an eternal "campaigner," who hasn't a clue about governing.
Quote from: ROSS on June 09, 2013, 09:28:49 PM
NSA Whistleblower Outs Himself
29-year-old defense contractor Edward Snowden is now hiding out in Hong Kong
The whistleblower who leaked details of the NSA's secret surveillance programs has revealed himself as 29-year-old Edward Snowden, a former technical assistant with the CIA who has been working at the NSA for four years for a number of outside contractors.
http://www.newser.com/story/169231/nsa-whistleblower-outs-himself.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_top
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5 things to know about the NSA surveillance programs and the man who leaked their details
Published June 09, 2013
Associated PressWASHINGTON – Edward Snowden identified himself Sunday as a principal source behind revelations about the National Security Agency's sweeping phone and Internet surveillance programs. Five things to know about the disclosures:— THE PROGRAMS: The NSA has been collecting the phone records of hundreds of millions of Americans each day, creating a database through which it can learn whether terror suspects have been in contact with people in the U.S. While the NSA program does not listen to actual conversations, the revelation of the program reopened the post-Sept. 11 debate about privacy concerns versus heightened measures to protect against terrorist attacks. Separately, an Internet scouring program, code-named PRISM, allows the NSA and FBI to tap directly into nine U.S. Internet companies to gather all Internet usage — audio, video, photographs, emails and searches. The effort is designed to detect suspicious behavior that begins overseas.
— THE LEAKER: A 29-year-old high school dropout who worked for consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton has claimed responsibility for disclosing the programs to The Guardian and The Washington Post. Snowden told The Guardian that he enlisted in the Army, was dismissed after breaking both legs during a training exercise and later got a job as a security guard at a covert intelligence facility in Maryland. He says he later joined the CIA and was posted under diplomatic cover in Geneva, Switzerland. He later worked for consulting companies and claims he spent four years working as a contractor with the NSA. In a statement, Booz Allen Hamilton said he has worked for them less than three months.
— THE REASON: In interviews with The Guardian and the Washington Post, Snowden said he felt compelled to disclose the program because he wanted "to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them." Snowden says he also was disillusioned with CIA tactics to recruit spies in Geneva and was disappointed President Barack Obama did not do more to curtail surveillance programs after his 2008 election.
— THE REACTION: The government's response was fierce. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the disclosures were "gut-wrenching to see this happen because of the huge, grave damage it does to our intelligence capabilities" and asked the Justice Department to investigate. Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the journalists who reported on the programs don't "have a clue how this thing works; neither did the person who released just enough information to literally be dangerous." Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she wanted to see the leaker prosecuted. Rep. Peter King, a Republican on the intelligence panel, called for Snowden to be "extradited from Hong Kong immediately." John Negroponte, a former director of national intelligence, called it "an outright case of betrayal of confidences and a violation of his nondisclosure agreement." Yet some also said Snowden's revelations should spark a debate about the secret programs and civil liberties. "I am not happy that we've had leaks and these leaks are concerning, but I think it's an opportunity now to have a discussion about the limits of surveillance, how we create transparency, and above all, how we protect Americans' privacy," said Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo.
— THE CONSEQUENCES: The NSA has asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation, and Snowden could face decades in prison if convicted on espionage or treason charges. The Obama administration has been particularly aggressive in prosecuting those who disclose classified information. Snowden has fled to Hong Kong, a former British colony that is now a semi-autonomous region of China. Snowden says he chose the city because he expects leaders could resist pressure from the U.S. government. Snowden also says he would "ask for asylum from any countries that believe in free speech and oppose the victimization of global privacy." Hong Kong has an extradition treaty with the United States that took force in 1998, according to the U.S. State Department website.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/09/5-things-to-know-about-nsa-surveillance-programs-and-man-who-leaked-their/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fnational+%28Internal+-+US+Latest+-+Text%29#ixzz2VmmTrk4G
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Report: "Duck And Cover" Alarm
At U.S. Embassy Kabul...Photos From Kabul Airport Attack (Warrning: Some Graphic)
The attack apparently began at around 4:30 am, Kabul time, with a small vegetable truck trying to breach the perimeter of the airport compound. Inside was a bomb. Police reportedly blew up the truck:(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/BMYyvVpCYAANaGl.jpg)
Seven Taliban insurgents then took up positions in two buildings at the perimeter of the airport and began firing RPGS into the NATO/American held area in the airport. Kabul police reported at least some of insurgents were wearing Afghan police uniforms to help facilitate the attack.
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All seven Taliban attackers were reportedly killed, two by suicide vests they were wearing and five by military/security forces.
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Update: Report Of Attack On Kabul Airport..
Update: Report: Suicide Bombers In U.S. Air Force Area Of Airport...
Update: More Forces Deployed To Airport...
Update: Explosions Continuing At Airport..
Update: Assailants Under Attack By Afghan And International Forces, Reporters Huddled Down In Nearby Building...Update: Bombing May Have Damaged U.S. Air Force Tents, Reports Of Two Vehicle Explosions...
Update: Taliban Claims Responsibility For Attack...
Update: Reports Of Two Attackers Left, Police Destroyed One Bomb Packed Vehicle...
Update: One Building Cleared, Fighting With Attackers In One Remaining Building Continuing...
Update: 3 Taliban Reportedly Killed, More On The Way...
Update: Fight Now Over, Initial Early Report No Other Casualties
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British Muslim Convert Arrested, Being Extradited To America For Helping
Al-Qaeda In Yemen Create "Inspire" Magazine
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Via IBT:http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/476493/20130609/minh-quang-pham-qaeda-yemen.htm
A London web designer faces life imprisonment in the US on charges that he provided propaganda and technical expertise to al-Qaida and met terrorist operatives in Yemen.
Minh Quang Pham, 29, is accused of helping produce the group's online English-language "magazine" Inspire, which has featured instructions on how to manufacture explosives and is thought to have been used by terrorist suspects in Britain and the US.
Using the pseudonym Mohammed Amin, Pham is said to have pledged an oath of allegiance to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and received military-style training from the group after travelling to Yemen in December 2010.
Pham is a British national of Vietnamese origin, who converted to Islam are moving to the UK as a child. In September 2010, he set up a company designing websites and leaflets which was registered to his home in New Cross, South London, where he has lived since 2005.
Pham was arrested at Heathrow last July as he returned from Bahrain, when a live ammunition round was found in his possession.
He was re-arrested on a US extradition warrant last week, and is currently in custody in Belmarsh maximum security prison awaiting extradition proceedings. He will appear at Westminster magistrates court in August for his next hearing.
In an indictment released by the US Department of Justice, Pham is accused of providing material support to AQAP, based in Yemen, along with others "known and unknown".
Pham is said to have "facilitated communications and provided expert advice and assistance in photography and graphic design" for AQAP's media wing before returning to Britain the following October.
He allegedly met two American citizens, referred to as "American CC-1″ and "American CC-2″, and worked with the first to produce online propaganda for AQAP.
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The Obama Administration has presented such an array of botched domestic and foreign policies that an observer can become disoriented. Seeing a blur of so many negative events is like watching a Jason Bourne movie, with the camera on high speed. Each alleged malfeasance or scandal is worthy in itself of deliberate scrutiny, yet as we start to examine each one, others suddenly compete for our attention. It is a dazzling tapestry of mismanagement at best. But there is one theme that connects it all: CONTEMPT!
First, we have a rogue agency named the Internal Revenue Service interfering in the lives of ordinary folks with views that are conservative or at odds with the Administration. This contemptuous act against Americans who have committed no apparent wrongdoing or financial legerdemain is heavy-handedness reminiscent of banana republics or authoritarian regimes of yesteryear.
Testifying on Capitol Hill about his reportedly 157 visits to the White House, former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman dismissively cited "the Easter Egg roll with my kids" among the reasons for such an astonishing number of meetings. Lois Lerner, Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations pleaded the Fifth Amendment, and Steven Miller, Acting Commissioner referred to the debacle as "horrible customer service" in his apology. To make it worse, the IRS will judge whether Americans are in compliance with Obamacare, not supported by a majority of the American people and railroaded into existence by the President. And it is the same IRS, which investigates U.S. companies for excessive corporate entertainment expenses that are reported as income tax deductions, that spent $50 million on conferences over a recent three-year period, with certain IRS officials staying in $3,500 hotel suites, according to findings of the Treasury Department's inspector general. Indeed, the IRS has shown itself to be unworthy in its principal role as the instrument of revenue collection from American people and companies.
Further, the Department of Justice that has shown contempt for the First Amendment through highly unusual surveillance of journalists of the AP who like those harassed by the IRS, are seen to be a threat to the Administration's narratives. In a disingenuous and cynical act, Attorney General Eric Holder invited journalists to an "off the record meeting," again evidencing contempt for openness and the principle of transparency which the Administration has piously affirmed. All this comes from an Attorney General already held in contempt by the House of Representatives for not presenting documents relating to the mismanaged Mexican Fast and Furious gun tracking operation, the first such a sanction of a Cabinet official in American history. Moreover, it has been revealed that an anti-abortion group in Iowa was directed to commit to the IRS that it would not demonstrate in front of Planned Parenthood, a crudely repressive action by the Department of Justice that seems at odds with the First Amendment.
The same contempt prevails in foreign policy. Benghazi is enshrouded in fog and allegations of deception by the Obama Administration, which before the November election desperately put out the story that the massacre of U.S. foreign service staff was the result of a video offensive to Muslims produced in California, and not a concerted ambush by Al Qaeda or its affiliates — to avoid the inference that America had not successfully broken the back of Islamist jihadism.
To this day, we do not know who denied requests for security at the American mission; who ordered a Special Forces unit in Tripoli to stand down, as charged by Gregory Hicks, formerly deputy chief of mission; who directed Susan Rice, ambassador to the United Nations, to take to the air waves and call it a reaction to a video offensive to Muslims; and who ordered that this misrepresentation be maintained for seventeen days until President Obama finally acknowledged that it was a terrorist attack. Further, we do not know exactly what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama were doing during all seven hours of the siege of the U.S. consulate. And now, the controversial and highly criticized Susan Rice has been named national security advisor.
Perhaps the Administration hopes that Americans have attention deficit disorder — absorbed with buying and selling, family problems, and the distractions of a consumer economy — making them unable to assimilate and concentrate on so many issues of incompetence, or worse, illegality if proved.
What we have is a matrix of contempt — contempt for the American people, or at least about half of them; contempt for the principles of transparency and stewardship; and contempt for the pursuit of truth. Let us hope the electorate will speak out and make its will known; resignations of shameless senior U.S. officials could be too much to hope for.
Who knows — we might even get to hear Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary, state that in an era of moral relativism, we must make allowances for our government.
This is an old video but still true today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yHrwLq-LdQ&feature=youtu.be
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From the 2003 Television docudrama: George Orwell - A Life in Pictures:
George Orwell - "1984 - A Final Warning"
June 10, 2013
Sales Of George Orwell's Book "1984″ Surge 68% Following News Of Obama "PRISM" Program
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Movies:"Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1984) full - BBC 1954 Version
Uploaded on Aug 16, 2011
The first film of the famous George Orwell book published in 1949.
This is the full version... very rare:Uploaded on Oct 17, 2011
George Orwell's "1984". Produced in 1954.Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of falsifying records and political literature, thus effectively perpetuating propaganda, who grows disillusioned with his meagre existence and so begins a rebellion against the system. The novel has become famous for its portrayal of surveillance and society's increasing encroachment on the rights of the individual. Since its publication the terms Big Brother and Orwellian have entered the popular vernacular. Orwell, who had "encapsulated the thesis at the heart of his novel" in 1944, wrote most of Nineteen Eighty-Four on the island of Jura, Scotland, during 19471948 while critically ill with tuberculosis. He sent the final typescript to his friends Secker and Warburg on 4 December 1948 and the book was published on 8 June 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four has been translated into more than 50 languages. The novel's title, its terms, its language (Newspeak), and its author's surname are bywords for personal privacy lost to national state security. The adjective "Orwellian" denotes many things. It can refer to totalitarian action or organization, as well as governmental attempts to control or misuse information for the purposes of controlling, pacifying or even subjugating the population. "Orwellian" can also refer generally to twisted language which says the opposite of what it truly means, or specifically governmental propagandizing by the misnaming of things; hence the "Ministry of Peace" in the novel actually deals with war and the "Ministry of Love" actually tortures people. Since the novel's publication "Orwellian" has in fact become somewhat of a catch-all for any kind of governmental overreach or dishonesty and therefore has multiple meanings and applications. The phrase Big Brother is Watching You specifically connotes pervasive, invasive surveillanceThe story occurs in London, the "chief city of Airstrip One", itself a province of Oceania that "had once been called England or Britain". Posters of the ruling Party's leader, "Big Brother", bearing the caption BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, dominate the city landscapes, while two-way television (the telescreen) dominates the private and public spaces of the populace. Oceania's people are in three classes — the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles. The Party government controls the people via the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), the workplace of protagonist Winston Smith, an Outer Party member. As in the Nazi and Stalinist regimes, propaganda is pervasive; Smith's job is rewriting historical documents to match the contemporaneous party line, the orthodoxy of which changes daily. It therefore includes destroying evidence, amending newspaper articles, deleting the existence of people identified as "unpersons".[...]"1984" - 1956 Version DVD (FULL)Published on Aug 6, 2012 Nineteen Eighty-Four (mostly written 1984) is a 1948 dystopian fiction written
by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), about a society ruled by an oligarchical
dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war,
pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. Oceania is
ruled by a political party called simply The Party. The individual is always
subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the
Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the Ministry of Truth, protagonist
Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's
propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and
always correct, yet his meager existence disillusions him to the point of
seeking rebellion against Big Brother.
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San Francisco Builds Taxpayer-Funded Foot Bath And Prayer Space For Muslim Cabbies
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(Can you imagine far-left San Fran using taxpayer dollars to build a Christian-related prayer room? Yeah, me neither)Via SFGate:http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/06/09/airports-garage-now-muslim-house-of-worship/
Here's a sign of the changing times — Muslim cabbies now have their very own place at San Francisco International Airport to wash their hands and feet before they pray.
Under Islamic law, Muslims are required to pray five times a day — a ritual that also calls for a ceremonial cleansing.
For many cab drivers, that's meant either lugging bottled water around or using one of the bathrooms inside the terminal to wash — a practice not always welcomed by airport passengers.
So Royal Cab driver Hasan Khan, 52, a Pakistani immigrant, collected some 300 signatures from fellow cabbies, urging the airport to give them their own cleansing station.
Airport brass obliged — and the wash equipment was installed on the ground floor of the main garage, right next to where the drivers congregate for their breaks.
"The way we look at it...this was in the interest of maintaining a good relationship with ground transportation providers,'' says airport spokesman Doug Yakel.
(As for using public resources?)Yakel says the costs were nominal, with the work done by in-house plumbers.
As for Khan, he recognizes not everyone might appreciate the religious accommodation. But then he points out that Christians generally pray at church on Sundays — while for him and his fellow working Muslims, the ritual is woven into their daily routine.
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Obama: "We Don't Want to Tax All Businesses Out of Business"
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(Just most, Barry.... Just most!)
Via CNS News:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-we-dont-want-tax-all-businesses-out-business
President Barack Obama says Democrats "don't want to tax all businesses out of business."
"I know that there are a few Republicans here in the audience," Obama said Friday at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign in Palo Alto, Ca. "If you talk to us, it turns out we're pretty common-sense folks.
"We don't think government can do everything," he said. "We don't think that top-down solutions are the right way to go. We believe in the free market. We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations."
"We don't want to tax all businesses out of business," Obama said. "But we do think that there's a role to play for government."
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CBS News Obtains Documents Showing Obama State Department Engaged In "Endemic" Coverups Ranging From Sexual Assaults To Drug Rings
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(Doesn't surprise me.... Scandal-Palooza rolls on)
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Uncovered documents show the U.S. State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal behavior ranging from sexual assaults to an underground drug ring.
CBS News reports that is has unearthed documents from the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), an internal watchdog agency, that implicate the State Department in a series of misconducts worldwide.
The memo, reported by CBS News' John Miller, cited eight specific examples, including allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut "engaged in sexual assaults" with foreign nationals hired as embassy guards and the charge and that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security detail "engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries" — a problem the report says was "endemic."
Former State Department internal investigator Aurelia Fedenisn told CBS News, "We also uncovered several allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, some of which never became cases."
Often times, other DSS agents were simply told to back off of investigations of high-ranking State Department members. Fedenisn told CBS that "hostile intelligence services" allow criminal behavior to continue.
In one such cover-up, investigators were told to stop probing the case of a U.S. ambassador who was suspected of patronizing prostitutes in a public park. The memo states that the ambassador was permitted to return to his post despite having, "routinely ditched...his protective security detail" in order to "solicit sexual favors from prostitutes."
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Report: Air Force Orders Airmen Not To Read
Obama-Scandal News
(Don't worry... they're going to read it anyway)
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(Nothing to see here folks..... move along)
http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/military-told-not-to-read-obama-scandal-news/
WASHINGTON — President Obama has said the outrage over the federal government's decision to monitor citizens' phone activity is all "hype."
He might want to share his opinion with the U.S. Air Force, which is ordering members of the service not to look at news stories about it.
WND has received an unclassified NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) that warns airmen not to look at news stories related to the data-mining scandal.
The notice applies to users of the Air Force NIPRNET (Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network), which is the only way that many troops stationed overseas and on bases in the U.S. are able to access the Internet.
The last line of the executive summary states:
"Users are not to use AF NIPRNET systems to access the Verizon phone records collection and other related news stories because the action could constitute a Classified Message Incident."
Cindy McGee, the mother of an airman stationed in the UAE, spoke with WND.
"The fact that our government is attempting to censor our service members from the truth of what is happening here at home is truly frightening and disheartening," said McGee.
Her son received the same notice.
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WND EXCLUSIVE
Obama loses the left
Politicians and mainstream media turn against the president
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It's become so bad, even Obama may be giving up on Obama.From moderates to radicals, the left is abandoning Obama in droves, and a statement from the president might suggest even he has already given up on himself.While commenting Friday on his latest scandal, the NSA's spying on the phone records of millions of Americans, the president seemed to predict his own impeachment, saying he "will leave office sometime in the next three and half years."
It may be sooner than later, the way he's going. Virtually everyone on the left is howling over the Obama administration, from the New York Times to Al Gore
The Times may have delivered the most serious blow to Obama, given the enormous credibility it has with the left.
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Its Thursday editorial condemned his administration for collecting phone call data from millions of Americans and starkly stated, "the administration had lost all credibility."
That was a dramatic break between the leading leftist newspaper and the president it has supported so strongly and consistently during his two terms.
The Times editorial board must have had second thoughts because it later revised the bold statement, toning it down a few hours later to read the "administration has now lost all credibility on this issue."
But other leftists certainly are not toning down their scathing criticism of the president.
Al Gore called the actions of the Obama administration "obscenely outrageous."
After it was reported Wednesday the National Security Agency has been using a secret court order to collect the phone records of everyone on the Verizon network, the former vice-president turned on the administration.
Gore blasted the Obama administration with a tweet reading, "In digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?"
The Huffington Post took the satirical route and delivered perhaps the unkindest cut of all, for a leftist, comparing Obama to former president George W. Bush. The website posted a picture on the front page photo-shopped to depict Obama as a hybrid of Bush.
Liberal pundit Bob Beckel may have delivered the most extreme criticism, nearly calling Obama a fascist.
"I think it is one of the most outrageous examples of the stepping on the Constitution I've heard. They have no right to the phone records. ... It is illegal, it is unconstitutional, and it is deplorable. I didn't like it when they did it during the Bush administration, and I don't like when they're doing it now," Beckel said on Fox News.
"They have taken this Patriot Act, which I think was the most dangerous act passed, and they have taken it and abused it," he added.
"You talk about fascism? You're getting damn close to it," Beckel concluded.
The leftist institution the ACLU was already upset with the administration over its policy of using drones for assassinations, including the targeting of Americans.
Now, the ACLU sees the administration as Big Brother and its use of the NSA as even more alarming than the novel "1984."
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"It's a program in which some untold number of innocent people have been put under the constant surveillance of government agents. It is beyond Orwellian, and it provides further evidence of the extent to which basic democratic rights are being surrendered in secret to the demands of unaccountable intelligence agencies," Jameel Jaffer, the deputy legal director of the ACLU, said in a statement.
Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel with the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, called for a full investigation by Congress, saying, "Such extreme secrecy is inconsistent with our democratic values of open government and accountability."
An influential leftist has even written an editorial calling for fellow liberals to band together against the Obama administration.
[Ugly] Julie Roginsky served as a political strategist for the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg and other Democrats.
On Friday, she wrote on the Fox News website, "Every progressive with even a shred of moral consistency should side with the New York Times against the White House."
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But she wasn't referring to just the latest scandal, the one involving the NSA.
"The events of the past month – from the Associated Press subpoena to the James Rosen search warrant to the revelation that our government has been indiscriminately collecting phone records data – have forced liberals to make a choice between complacency and outrage, between keeping silent because one of our own is in the White House and calling him out on betraying the principles for which we have fought for so long," wrote Roginsky.
She did not stop there.
"If this White House truly wanted to level with the American people, the president would have gone on national television to explain the necessity of these programs and the trade-offs between civil liberties and security he believes are consistent with his policies.
"That he has failed to do this for nearly six years is evidence of the fact that there is likely no excuse for such blanket surveillance upon the American public, aside from the usual 'it's necessary to keep us safe' bromide."
Roginsky plainly feels betrayed and perhaps that's why her criticism is so bitter.
"As progressives, we cannot remain silent when a president, whom we worked hard to elect and defend at every turn, betrays the very values upon which he ran five years ago."
The tide has been turning against Obama ever since congressional committees began hearings in May on the slew of scandals dogging the administration.
Those scandals involved the murder of four Americans (including Ambassador Chris Stevens) at a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in a terrorist attack the administration falsely portrayed as a protest over a video; the IRS targeting of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status; and the Justice Department secretly snooping on the phone records of journalists.
Leftists were already either abandoning the president or preparing to give up on him before this latest round of snooping scandals even broke.
On May 16, leftist talk radio host Bill Press called for the firing of Attorney General Eric Holder over the secret collection of the phone records of the AP and Fox News reporter James Rosen.
He didn't mince words in a tweet that read "What 'breach of national security' are we talking about re the AP story? It's BS and Holder should be fired."
Liberal talk show host Chris Matthews had already soured on the president a day earlier, saying Obama "obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch."
"What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn't like dealing with other politicians — that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn't particularly like the press.... He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft," Matthews continued.
"He doesn't seem to like being an executive," pondered Matthews.
On May 18, WND reported how Matthews blasted testimony from former IRS chief Steve Miller, who suggested the agency's behavior was inappropriate but denied any political targeting.
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"That Mr. Miller guy," Matthews said, "It's like he didn't see what he knew people certainly right, left and center could see, that when you target particular groups, you're targeting particular groups. I mean, if this were on the other foot, and this was a George W. administration, they were targeting groups that were calling themselves progressives, I would say it's prima facie evidence of targeting. I don't think it's complicated."
WND also reported, even CNN talk-show host Piers Morgan paused in his relentless crusade for stricter gun-control laws to comment, "I've had some of the pro-gun lobbyists on here, saying to me, 'Well, the reason we need to be armed is because of tyranny from our own government,' and I've always laughed at them. I said, 'Don't be ridiculous! Your government won't turn itself on you.
"But, actually, this is vaguely tyrannical behavior by the American government," Morgan concluded. "I think what the IRS did is bordering on tyrannical behavior. I think what the Department of Justice has done to the AP is bordering on tyrannical behavior."
An Investor's Business Daily editorial commented, "Many in the dominant press are indeed turning. Politico ran a chilling story headlined 'The IRS Wants You to Share Everything'; NBC's Andrea Mitchell accuses Obama of 'the most outrageous excesses I've seen' in her years in journalism, going back before Watergate; the Washington Post's Dana Milbank accuses Obama of 'a full frontal assault on the First Amendment.'"
"Let me tell you how bad it's gotten," NBC "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno quipped. "Fox News has changed its slogan from 'Fair and Balanced' to 'See, I Told You So!'"
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow further noticed it's not just the media, but also congressional allies jumping off the Obama bandwagon. When Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., announced plans to retire in 2014, he became the sixth Democrat to step down two years from now instead of running for re-election.
"Tell us if something is wrong there," Maddow said rhetorically. "What is the secret about this place that has you fleeing like rats from a sinking ship?"
Even Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid bristled over the AP phone-records story, telling Salon he "can't really defend the Department of Justice at all" and, "I just think this has been handled so wrong."
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., agreed, telling MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program, "I don't think anyone truly believes that the president has given a sufficient answer for America, much less our press [about the AP scandal]. The president has to come forward and share why he did not alert the press that they were going to do this. He has to tell Americans, including me, what was this national security question? You just can't raise the flag and expect us just to salute it every time without any reason, and the same thing applies to the IRS. We've got to give him an opportunity to root out any wrongdoing, whether it's just negligence or it's criminal."
The Daily Beast – a website merged with Newsweek – ran a column from James Goodale, the attorney who defended the New York Times against President Richard Nixon in the famous Pentagon Papers trial, who asserted, "President Barack H. Obama's outrageous seizure of the Associated Press's phone records, allegedly to discover sources of leaks, should surprise no one. Obama has relentlessly pursued leakers ever since he became president. He is fast becoming the worst national security press president ever, and it may not get any better."
In an interview with the New York Observer, Goodale added, "Obama has all these things that he's done to the press on national security matters that Nixon never did."
Lanny J. Davis, a former crisis manager for President Clinton who admits he voted for and backs Obama, told National Public Radio, "[Obama's] crisis-management communications team is absent without leave. Ever since we lost the message on health care, I've wondered if there's anybody there trying to get out in front on the facts."
NPR further reported Davis saying the IRS story goes to the heart of government abuse of power: "The president of the United States should hold a press conference and commit to a full, 100-percent investigation in concert with the Republican leadership of the House and say, 'I want to have on my desk the list of anybody who recommended doing this. In the government, in the White House, or anywhere else.'"
Time political columnist Joe Klein wrote of the IRS news, even before the AP scandal broke, "Yet again, we have an example of Democrats simply not managing the government properly and with discipline. ... This is just poisonous at a time of skepticism about the efficacy of government. ... [Obama's] unwillingness to concentrate – and I mean concentrate obsessively – on making sure that government is managed efficiently will be part of his legacy."
Dana Milbank of the Washington Post penned similar criticism of Obama. "President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency," Milbank wrote, arguing Obama was reacting to the scandals with a portrayed ignorance reminiscent of "just some bloke on a bar stool, getting his information from the evening news."
Jim Kuhnhenn of the Associated Press leveled his criticism at White House Press Secretary Jay Carney at a May 14 press briefing: "The White House right now is confronting a confluence of issues – Benghazi talking points, IRS reviews of political groups, Justice Department review of journalists' phone records. And in every instance, either the president or you have placed the burden of responsibility someplace else. On the Benghazi talking points, it's been political motivations on the Hill. On the IRS, it's been the bureaucrats at the IRS. And on the Justice Department issue, yesterday in your statement you said those matters are handled independently by the Justice Department. But it is the president's administration, so I wonder, doesn't responsibility for setting tone and setting direction ultimately rest with the president on these matters?"
Other reporters at the same press briefing passed up softball questions for tougher lines of inquiry, including whether news of the IRS scandal was "withheld until after the election," whether or not the AP subpoena's constituted an "overreach," whether the administration "might be hiding something," if the IRS is being "truthful" and how the president feels about "being compared to President Nixon." The press corps also grilled Carney relentlessly on the president's reputation for prosecuting those who leak information to the press.
Michigan's Rep. Sander Levin, ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, said in hearings before the committee the IRS and its employees "have completely failed the American people" by "singling out organizations for review based on their name or political views, rather than their activity. ... All of us are angry about this on behalf of the nation."
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Obama's Peace Partners Behead Two Children 10 And 16 in Kandahar
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The Daily Mail is reporting that Obama's peace partners in Afghanistan, the Taliban, have beheaded a 10 year old boy and a 16 year old boy for the crime of scavenging for food
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The Taliban was accused of beheading two boys for spying in southern Afghanistan yesterday. Afghan officials said the boys, aged 10 and 16, were kidnapped by Taliban fighters while scavenging for food in rubbish bins near the police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second largest city and a key base for Western forces.
The boys are suspected to have accepted food from the police in exchange for information and to have been killed for colluding with police, Kandahar provincial government office said last night.
The 10-year-old boy was very poor and was known to take food going spare from the police to take home to his family, officials said.
Kandahar governor Dr Toryalay Wessa instructed Afghan security forces and police to hunt down and catch the militants responsible for the killing 'with whatever casualties it takes and at whatever price.' In 2012 the Taliban were accused of beheading a 12-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl in south and east Afghanistan - the group denied responsibility in both those cases.
Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have been known to behead targets in the past, but have always denied attacking children in this way.
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Ya just can't trust any of then nasty, lying elite types, can ya?
That's why I'm happy and proud to be a redneck hick.
Read on about those high paid, maybe over paid elite government people.
State Department memo reveals possible cover-ups, halted investigations
Updated at 2:59 p.m. with comment from the State Department.
(CBS News) CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate behavior within their ranks.
The Diplomatic Security Service, or the DSS, is the State Department's security force, charged with protecting the secretary of state and U.S. ambassadors overseas and with investigating any cases of misconduct on the part of the 70,000 State Department employees worldwide.
CBS News' John Miller reports that according to an internal State Department Inspector General's memo, several recent investigations were influenced, manipulated, or simply called off. The memo obtained by CBS News cited eight specific examples. Among them: allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut "engaged in sexual assaults" on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards and the charge and that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security detail "engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries" -- a problem the report says was "endemic."
The memo also reveals details about an "underground drug ring" was operating near the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and supplied State Department security contractors with drugs.
Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator with the State Department's internal watchdog agency, the Inspector General, told Miller, "We also uncovered several allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, some of which never became cases."
In such cases, DSS agents told the Inspector General's investigators that senior State Department officials told them to back off, a charge that Fedenisn says is "very" upsetting.
"We were very upset. We expect to see influence, but the degree to which that influence existed and how high up it went, was very disturbing," she said.
In one specific and striking cover-up, State Department agents told the Inspector General they were told to stop investigating the case of a U.S. Ambassador who held a sensitive diplomatic post and was suspected of patronizing prostitutes in a public park.
The State Department Inspector General's memo refers to the 2011 investigation into an ambassador who "routinely ditched ... his protective security detai" and inspectors suspect this was in order to "solicit sexual favors from prostitutes."
Sources told CBS News that after the allegations surfaced, the ambassador was called to Washington, D.C. to meet with Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy, but was permitted to return to his post.
Fedenisn says "hostile intelligence services" allow such behavior to continue. "I would be very surprised if some of those entities were not aware of the activities," she said. "So yes, it presents a serious risk to the United States government."
A draft of the Inspector General's report on the performance of the DSS, obtained by CBS News, states, "Hindering such cases calls into question the integrity of the investigative process, can result in counterintelligence vulnerabilities and can allow criminal behavior to continue."
John Miller spoke with Mike Pohelitz, a retired Senior Agent at the DSS who was involved in one of the cases listed in the Inspector General's memo. Pohelitz said he was told to stop investigating one of the cases and that the order likely came from the upper ranks of the DSS.
"I got the information through my DS channel," he told Miller. "But it had to come from somebody higher than DS, I'm sure."
According to Fedenisn, when a high-ranking State Department security officials was shown a draft of their findings that investigations were being interfered with by State Department higher-ups, he said, "This is going to kill us." In the final report however, all references to specific cases had been removed.
"I mean my heart really went out to the agents in that office, because they really want to do the right thing, they want to investigate the cases fully, correctly, accurately ... and they can't," Fedenisn said.
Fedenisn, a DSS agent for 26 years, was a part of the team that prepared the draft report and is now a whistleblower who has taken her concerns to Congress.
Two hours after CBS News made inquiries to the State Department about these charges, investigators from the State Department's Inspector General showed up at her door.
Speaking at a press briefing Monday, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said: "We hold all employees to the highest standards. We take allegations of misconduct seriously and we investigate thoroughly. All cases mentioned in the CBS report were thoroughly investigated or under investigation, and the -- the department continues to take action. Finally, the department has responded to the recommendations in the OIG report regarding the Bureau of Diplomatic Security's of Investigations and counter-intelligence. Diplomatic Security has taken the further step of requesting additional review by outside experience law enforcement officers on top of the OIG inspection so that officers with law enforcement experience can make expert assessments about our current procedures."
Psaki went on to say the "notion that we would not vigorously pursue criminal misconduct in a case, any case, is preposterous ... ambassadors would be no exception." Without speaking about specific cases, Psaki described any misconduct as "hardly endemic."
A statement provided to CBS News by the Inspector General's office said:
OIG does not comment on drafts of reports.
On its own initiative, OIG Office of Investigations has been conducting its own independent review of the allegations made. This is our standard procedure.
We staffed it independently and appropriately and they were people hired specific for this review at the end of 2012. They are on staff. We staffed it with the best people we can find at hand to do the job.
DS does not speak for us.
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A hilarious compilation of late-night talk show political funnies this morning. Potshots were actually taken at Barack Obama and his mounting number of scandals... goodness, are pigs flying?
Here are a few samples — Jay Leno rocks it:JAY LENO: Well, let's see what's going on. Hey, Snoop is back in the news. Not Snoop Dogg, Snoop Obama. Yeah, Snoop Obama. A big change at the White House today. They closed the gift shop and opened a Verizon store. Yeah.
Well, this has become a huge controversy after it was revealed that the National Security Agency seized millions of Verizon phone records, and of course this has caused a panic among civil libertarians, constitutional scholars and cheating husbands everywhere. Oh my God.
How ironic is that? We wanted a president that listens to all Americans – now we have one. Yeah.
Actually, President Obama clarified the situation today. He said no one is listening to your phone calls. The president said it's not what the program is all about. You know, like the IRS isn't about targeting certain political groups. That's not what it's about!
I mean what's going on? The White House has looked into our phone records, checking our computers, monitoring our e-mails. When did the government suddenly become our psycho ex-girlfriend? When did that happen? When did that happen? When did that happen?
As you know by now, the IRS has taken some heat for reportedly spending $4 million on a conference in Anaheim last year where employees took dancing lessons. One of the dances they learned? Tap dancing around the issues. Yes, that was very good, be able to tap dance
Well, the latest one that came out today. You see this one? They're saying the IRS paid an artist $17,000 to paint portraits of Abraham Lincoln to help inspire the IRS agents. You know, if they want to see a picture of Lincoln for inspiration, take out a $5 bill and save the taxpayers $16,995. Exactly. That's what they said. They said.
Oh, the hearings have been unbelievable this week. Congressional investigators say the IRS basically threw a $4 million party for themselves. But in fairness, who else is going to throw a party for the IRS? Really? Now, a going away party, I think we'd all chip in. I would chip in! I would chip in! There you are, no problem. I would pay for that.
President Obama says he is renewing his efforts to close Guantanamo Bay. How about closing the IRS? Why don't we do that? How about shipping the IRS to Guantanamo Bay?
When I was growing up, we were afraid of Big Brother watching us. Now with Obama, we actually HAVE a brother watching us.
The mystery is over. After a month of waiting, it turns out that an 84-year-old woman in Florida has won the $590 million Powerball lottery. As for how much tax she's going to have to pay, the IRS said it's too early to tell because they don't know whether she's a Republican or Democrat.
President Obama has called on Congress to pass a media shield law that would allow reporters to do their job without fear of government prosecution. Don't we already have that? It's called the First Amendment.
This latest California wildfire is getting pretty scary. But Governor Jerry Brown has it under control. He said he is going to tax and regulate the fire until it gets fed up and moves to another state.
In Pakistan, the Taliban's No. 2 man has been killed by an American drone. In a related story, today the Taliban's No. 3 man said he's stepping down to spend more time with his family.
The IRS spent $4 million on a conference in Anaheim that included luxury hotel suites, passes to theme parks, and tickets to sporting events. They say they're not sure of the exact amount they spent because they didn't keep any receipts. I think Wesley Snipes is saying, "Hey, what about me? I didn't have my receipts."
IRS executive Lois Lerner has refused to quit and will collect her full pay and benefits while on administrative leave. They asked her to resign. She refused to go. Where in the real world does that ever happen? You get fired and you tell your boss, "I'm going to stay, and I want my money." And you wonder why we're $16 trillion in debt.
This from Craig Ferguson:The government has been secretly gathering data from your mobile phone. It's a huge scandal and it comes on the heels of President Obama's IRS scandal and Benghazi scandal. Even the crackhead mayor of Toronto is saying, "Rough week, huh?"
The Supreme Court ruled that police have the right to take DNA samples. Every time there's new technology in law enforcement, people get uneasy. I'm sure people were against fingerprinting when it started in the late 1800s. I'll have to ask Larry King. He was probably around then.
A few from Jimmy Fallon:During his trip to Brazil on Friday, Joe Biden said he was having such a good time that he didn't want to go home. And that was just while he was riding on the baggage carousel at the airport.
Another scandal hit the White House today. A report found that the government has been secretly collecting the phone records of Verizon customers. I knew something was up when I said, "You hang up first." Then my wife said, "No, YOU hang up first!" Then Obama said, "Uh, how about you just hang up at the same time?"
Many Republicans want President Obama to fire Attorney General Eric Holder after he seemed to contradict himself under oath. When asked if he's worried, Holder said, "Yes. I mean, no."
From Conan O'Brien:This week President Obama is going to be engaged in high-level talks with the president of China. Yes, President Obama's message to China is going to be, "I swear we'll have the money for you by Tuesday."
A new study just came out. It found that KFC sells 25 pieces of fried chicken a second. Yes. It was 50 pieces a second, but then Chris Christie had his stomach stapled.
It's come out that the government has been secretly collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon customers. Yeah, or as Verizon is calling it, "The friends and family and Obama plan."
If a man stalked his ex-wife in this fashion he would go to jail.
But, I guess it's okay for the Government to stalk each and every citizen in the United States.
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University Of Chicago Removes Pews From
88-Year Old Chapel To Accommodate Islamic Prayers
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(In other words, they turned the chapel into a mosque. What is wrong here?)
Via Campus Reform:
University of Chicago (UC) administrators permanently removed pews from an 88-year old chapel on campus in order to accommodate Islamic prayers, according to a local news report.
Chicago NPR affiliate, WBEZ news, reported on May 23, the pews, which are now part of display at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, were "removed in order to provide Muslim students a place to pray."
Literature describing the artwork that was created by UC Director of Arts and Public Life Theaster Gates, also describes the removal of the pews as symbol of religious tolerance.
"The pews were recently removed from the chapel in order to offer Muslim students a place to pray, a symbolic gesture of religious tolerance," according to an official description of the exhibit which includes a "set of repurposed pews from the University of Chicago's campus church."
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The whistleblower of one of the biggest United States federal government scandals and leaking of national secrets in recent history, that of the Obama administration's National Security Agency's gathering Internet communications, audio and video files, and search habits from millions of law-abiding American citizens, has stepped forward.
Edward Snowden explains why he felt so compelled to expose NSA and its use of the surveillance program PRISM.
Hero or traitor, angel or demon? You decide.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance
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How to Detect Spyware on a Cell Phone
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By Sharon Sweeny Most people take action to guard against spyware on their computers, but they aren't aware that malicious spyware viruses exist solely to infect cell phones. Usually you aren't even aware that they've been installed. There are a few subtle signs that spyware has been installed on your cell phone. Have a question? Get an answer from Online Tech Support now!Instructions:
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Notice whether you experience trouble when shutting off your phone or whether your phone continues to stay lit up for several seconds to a minute after you've shut it off.
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Notice if your phone lights up when you're not using it to make or receive a call or access any of the phone's apps. Spyware has to "call" your phone to get information.3)
Note any strange background noises or clicks when you're on a call.
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Notice an increase in GPRS activity. This indicates spyware is tracking your location.
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Notice whether the icon that shows the Internet connection activates several times a day for no reason.
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Check your phone bill closely. Notice whether it lists more text messages than you remember sending or calls you did not make.
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Ask anyone who may have borrowed your phone whether they installed any software, wallpapers or ringtones.
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Rush Limbaugh Claims Obama Takeover: 'We Are In The Midst Of A Coup'
6/7/13 - On his radio show Friday night, Rush Limbaugh warned that the United States was being transformed by President Obama's government, and claimed his controversial 2009 wish that he hoped Obama would fail was being vindicated. Discussing yesterday's New York Times editorial—which proclaimed (in two iterations) that the Obama administration had "lost all credibility"—Limbaugh noted that even a publication dedicated to government largesse was blanching at the Obama administration's reach.
"They are worried, the New York Times, about what is happening to [the government] under the guidance of President Obama," Limbaugh said. "What everybody knows and nobody wants to really come to grips with is we are in the midst of a coup taking place."
"The people on the other side of the glass are going, 'Will you dial that coup talk back?'" Limbaugh said. "'That's all the headlines are going to be.'" (True.)
"I don't care. It's almost to the par of 'I hope he fails.' How does that sound now, by the way?"
Limbaugh's early-2009 wish that Obama would fail was a gold mine for Democrats, who used the comment to tar the Republican Party as extreme and vindictive in the wake of their electoral loss.
"If the Constitution exists as it is," Limbaugh concluded, "and the country was founded as it was, and an administration comes along and doesn't like that, and is doing everything it can to overturn that Constitution without a convention, doing everything it can to change the direction of this country and—what's the word, transform it—what's wrong with calling it a coup?"
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Al Sharpton: "You Can't Blame Obama"
For NSA Spying Scandal... It's Boooosh's Fault
...
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(Does the dumbest Clown on cable news realize Obama vastly expanded surveillance powers in 2009?)
(CNSNews.com) – Rev. Al Sharpton said Monday that President Barack Obama is not to blame for the National Security Agency's secret surveillance program – former President George W. Bush is, because laws allowing it were enacted under his administration.
"These are laws put into effect under President Bush. There are plenty of Democrats who are upset about this too. I do not agree with the Patriot Act, but you can't blame President Obama for it," Sharpton said on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation."
In 2009, however, Obama extended three provisions of the Patriot Act – allowing roving wiretaps, which would allow monitoring of an individual instead of a specific number; seizure of financial, medical, library and other records of suspected terrorists; and monitoring someone suspected of engaging in terrorism who may not be linked to a specific terrorist group, the Washington Times reported on Sept. 16, 2009.
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Very Bad Idea: Obama Regime To Consider Resettling Refugees From Syria's Civil War In America
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(What could possibly go wrong?)
WASHINGTON — Two years into a civil war that shows no signs of ending, the Obama administration is considering resettling refugees who have fled Syria, part of an international effort that could bring thousands of Syrians to American cities and towns.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-refugees-20130610,0,6484601.story
A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families.
The State Department is "ready to consider the idea," an official from the department said, if the administration receives a formal request from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, which is the usual procedure.
The United States usually accepts about half the refugees that the U.N. agency proposes for resettlement. California has historically taken the largest share, but Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia are also popular destinations.
U.N. refugee officials, diplomats and nongovernmental relief groups plan to discuss possible resettlement schemes at a high-level meeting this week in Geneva. Germany already has committed to taking 5,000 people.
"It was probably inevitable that in this crisis, with these overwhelming numbers, governments would start moving in this direction," said Lavinia Limon, chief executive officer of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a Virginia-based advocacy and service group. "But there will be resistance."
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The "Liberal Progressive" party has passed National Healthcare which takes effect 2014. Soon, we will all learn to love Big Brother. It is happening right before our eyes. But, why should we care? We just turn the channel and lose ourselves in some scripted fantasy on TV and forget about it. In 30 minutes the pain is gone. We are so easily mesmerized and reprogrammed. We had a Constitutional Republic, once, that limited government, but we just misplaced it somehow, somewhere along the way. Winston never had a chance to go to the polls and stop the madness at the ballot box. If you are smart, and if you have any ambition, any desire for liberty and the pursuit of happiness, vote down these Progressives that pretend to love you every chance you get. Just like in "1984", the Progressives are hellbent on achieving power and domination of the individual. They are drunk on power and arrogant beyond belief. But then again, why fight it for 40 years like Winston did? Resistance is futile? Big Brother knows what is best for you. Big Brother provides for you. He gives you healthcare, food stamps,and 'free' services. Maybe we should just give in now and start loving Big Brother and forget this 1776 pipedream about Liberty and Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness? Naw... Not me. I'm looking forward to every Election Day. I'm going to fight them to the last! Tell the band to play the "1812 Overture" and let the "War of 2014" begin. Throw all these Liberal Progressive Marxists out of office!!!
...WarphLets call this: Barack Obuma's "2014"
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#10 - TRAMPLED UPON
"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain."
#09 - THOUGHT POLICE
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
#08 - THREE SLOGANS
"From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."
#07 - HOLLOW
"Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
#06 - PURE POWER
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
#05 - ERRONEOUS THOUGHT
"We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instance of death we cannot permit any deviation . . . we make the brain perfect before we blow it out."
#04 - PERFECT UNITY
"The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons—a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face."
#03 - ECSTASY OF FEAR
"A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp."
#02 - A PICTURE OF THE FUTURE
"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—do not forget this Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."
#01 - VICTORY **Spoiler Alert!**
"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."(Taken from George Orwell's "1984")
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Obuma Threatens To Veto Bill If It Contains Religious Protection Amendment
For Members Of The Military
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(The amendment was passed after a rash of reports of military members being persecuted for their Christian beliefs by Obuma
)
Breitbart News reported last week that Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) passed an amendment in the House Armed Services Committee protecting religious speech of service members in the military. President Barack Obama has now threatened to veto the bill if it passes the full House and Senate.
The White House released a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) on H.R. 1960, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014. Among other items, the SAP includes as an objection to the bill:"Expansion and Implementation of Protection of Rights of Conscience of Members of the Armed Forces and Chaplains of Such Members: The Administration strongly objects to section 530, which would require the Armed Forces to accommodate, except in cases of military necessity, "actions and speech" reflecting the "conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs of the member." By limiting the discretion of commanders to address potentially problematic speech and actions within their units, this provision would have a significant adverse effect on good order, discipline, morale, and mission accomplishment."The SAP includes a veto threat: "...if the bill is presented to the President for approval in its current form, the President's senior advisers would recommend that the President veto the bill."
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(The last time we heard from Ambassador Gutman [who raised $500,000 for Obama's campaign] he was blaming Israel for rampant Muslim anti-Semitism)
WASHINGTON Post — A State Department whistleblower has accused high-ranking staff of a massive coverup — including keeping a lid on findings that members of then-Secretary Hillary Clinton's security detail and the Belgian ambassador solicited prostitutes.
A chief investigator for the agency's inspector general wrote a memo outlining eight cases that were derailed by senior officials, including one instance of interference by Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills.
Any mention of the cases was removed from an IG report about problems within the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), which provides protection and investigates crimes involving any State Department workers overseas.
"It's a coverup," declared Cary Schulman, a lawyer representing the whistleblower, former State Department IG senior investigator Aurelia Fedenisn.
"The whole agency is impaired."Undue influence . . . is coming from political appointees. It's coming from above the criminal- investigation unit," added Schulman, whose client provided the document with the revelations.
Some of the revelations were first reported by CBS News.
Among the bombshell findings:
*** A DS agent was called off a case against US Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman over claims that he solicited prostitutes, including minors.
"The agent began his investigation and had determined that the ambassador routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children," says the memo.
"The ambassador's protective detail and the embassy's surveillance detection team . . . were well aware of the behavior."
Undersecretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy ordered the investigation ceased, and the ambassador remains in place, according to the memo.
Gutman was a big Democratic donor before taking the post, having raised $500,000 for President Obama's 2008 campaign and helping finance his inaugural.
Quote from: Warph on June 12, 2013, 06:33:07 PM
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The "Liberal Progressive" party has passed National Healthcare which takes effect 2014. Soon, we will all learn to love Big Brother. It is happening right before our eyes. But, why should we care? We just turn the channel and lose ourselves in some scripted fantasy on TV and forget about it. In 30 minutes the pain is gone. We are so easily mesmerized and reprogrammed. We had a Constitutional Republic, once, that limited government, but we just misplaced it somehow, somewhere along the way. Winston never had a chance to go to the polls and stop the madness at the ballot box. If you are smart, and if you have any ambition, any desire for liberty and the pursuit of happiness, vote down these Progressives that pretend to love you every chance you get. Just like in "1984", the Progressives are hellbent on achieving power and domination of the individual. They are drunk on power and arrogant beyond belief. But then again, why fight it for 40 years like Winston did? Resistance is futile? Big Brother knows what is best for you. Big Brother provides for you. He gives you healthcare, food stamps,and 'free' services. Maybe we should just give in now and start loving Big Brother and forget this 1776 pipedream about Liberty and Freedom and the Pursuit of Happiness? Naw... Not me. I'm looking forward to every Election Day. I'm going to fight them to the last! Tell the band to play the "1812 Overture" and let the "War of 2014" begin. Throw all these Liberal Progressive Marxists out of office!!!
...Warph
AMEN!
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Racist Tingles Hits New Low, Keeps Digging:
Compares Ted Cruz To Nazi Sympathizer Father Coughlin
(Unhinged even by Matthews' standards)
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Gallup: Obama Approval Rating Hits Nine Month Low
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Via Breitbart:
For the first time in over nine months, Gallup's tracking poll has President Obama's job approval rating sinking to 45%. The last time that happened was back in September of 2012. Moreover, the president's disapproval rating has climbed to 47%, meaning he is upside down. The last time that happened was nearly as long ago.
Another reliable way to tell if Obama's job approval ratings are sinking is when the media stops talking about it — which is exactly what we are experiencing now. The media is avoiding talk of Obama's falling poll numbers like the plague.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker To Sign Law Requiring Ultrasound Before An Abortion Is Performed
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(AWESOME)
(From the AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Tuesday he will sign a measure that's quickly working its way through the Republican-controlled Legislature that would require women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound.
The Senate debated the measure Tuesday, a week after it was introduced, but Democrats used a procedural move to delay a vote until Wednesday morning. The Assembly hoped to take it up Thursday.
While Democrats were able to temporarily hold up the bill, they don't have the votes to kill it.
Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, said the proposal is intended to "tell women they can't think or make decision on their own."
Sen. Tim Cullen, D-Janesville, added the Legislature would interfere in physicians' medical decisions by mandating ultrasounds.
"All of a sudden the Senate is full of doctors." he joked.
The support from Walker, a longtime abortion opponent, was no surprise.
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Leftist Member Of Pro-Trayvon Martin Group Tries To Sneak On To Zimmerman Jury
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(Shockingly, he's an "unemployed painter and musician" [along with being a member of a "progressive" group "dedicated to seeking justice for Trayvon Martin"])
Via NY Daily News:A member of a pro-Travyon Martin group was unmasked Wednesday as he tried to get on the Florida jury in George Zimmerman's trial for shooting the unarmed teen.
A white male potential juror identified on his Facebook page as Jerry Counelis gave long, rambling answers about his impartiality when asked basic questions by attorneys.
Counelis, known as panelist E-7, said he was an unemployed painter and musician and had no problem being sequestered if chosen to serve on the jury.
After both prosecution and defense attorneys finished questioning the potential juror, they requested a sidebar with the judge.
Nelson circled something on a piece of paper and handed it to him, and told him to look at it and tell the court if he posted it.
Counelis said 'yes,' and was dismissed from the room. It's not clear if he's been taken off the list of potential jurors.
According to its Facebook page, the Coffee Party Progressives is a group "dedicated to seeking justice for Trayvon Martin."
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Angry Mom Outraged Over Brief Prayer At Pretend Preschool Commencement Ceremony,
Has Militant Atheist Group Threaten School
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(Some people are just miserable bastards who live to make other
people as miserable as they are)
Via Yahoo News:The Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation has sent a two-page letter to a school district in southeast Texas complaining about a preschool graduation ceremony begun with an unconstitutional prayer.
The controversial supplication occurred on May 31 in a classroom at Amelia Elementary School in Beaumont, reports local ABC affiliate KBMT. A preschool student led the brief prayer, which ended with the words "In Jesus' name, Amen." The student seems to have been following the instruction of a preschool teacher.
Amber Barnhill, a self-identified Christian and one of the parents in attendance at the graduation, spoke with the teacher responsible for the prayer. This conversation must have gone poorly. Barnhill told the ABC affiliate that she was especially offended by the teacher's response.
"She said it was legal, that it was freedom of speech," Barnhill told the station. "She said it wasn't her religion; it was her way of life. And she continually said that she could not allow herself to apologize."
The teacher with whom Barnhill spoke would only speak anonymously with KBMT but she tells of a pretty different exchange.
"The little girl said something like, 'Thank you God for this day. Bless us all. In Jesus' name, Amen," the unnamed teacher explained. "I didn't intend to impose. I just tried to mock a graduation. I did apologize to the lady who was the only one that I found that was offended."
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Fun Fact Of The Day:
Mosque's Are Off-Limits To Obama's Snooping
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Thankfully there's no such thing as Islamic terrorism ::)
Via IBD:The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won't snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are.
That's right, the government's sweeping surveillance of our most private communications excludes the jihad factories where homegrown terrorists are radicalized.
Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.
Who makes up this body, and how do they decide requests? Nobody knows; the names of the chairman, members and staff are kept secret.
We do know the panel was set up under pressure from Islamist groups who complained about FBI stings at mosques. Just months before the panel's formation, the Council on American-Islamic Relations teamed up with the ACLU to sue the FBI for allegedly violating the civil rights of Muslims in Los Angeles by hiring an undercover agent to infiltrate and monitor mosques there.
Before mosques were excluded from the otherwise wide domestic spy net the administration has cast, the FBI launched dozens of successful sting operations against homegrown jihadists — inside mosques — and disrupted dozens of plots against the homeland.
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VILE: Obama Mega-Donor Bill Maher Mocks
Trig Palin For Being "Retarded"
(Takes a little twirp, which you are Maher,
to mock a child with special needs.... a**hole!)
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"Screw you, Warph"
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"Back at you Maher... How do you like my new 9mm...
....uh oh, darn hair-trigger!"
Via Breitbart:Conservative Ron Futrell knew to expect plenty of left-of-center jibes when he settled into his seat to see Bill Maher at The Pearl Theater in Las Vegas June 8.
Futrell didn't think he'd hear the HBO personality mock former Gov. Sarah Palin's special needs child or hear the crowd laugh right along.
Futrell, a former Las Vegas sports broadcaster and Breitbart News contributor, says on his blog that Maher used the term "retarded" to describe young Trig Palin during the comedy performance. Later, Futrell started heckling the comic over a reference to Halliburton, a confrontation which eventually led to Futrell being asked to leave the venue.
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(Oh Noes! Egyptian Media Uncovers Secret Madonna Plot
To Help Joooos Take Over The World)
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O'Boy... She's Been Busted!
Via Elder of Ziyon:Al Wafd (Egypt) has uncovered the nefarious plot by Madonna to help Zionists take over the world!
The singer bypassed the entire idea of Christian Zionism by converting to Judaism itself, and encouraging thousands of followers to do the same. Using art, Madonna essentially helped Israel take over the US.
But that wasn't all. She established schools to teach Zionism to unsuspecting students, using the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as her playbook. Not that she would admit that out loud, of course.
You can read the Googlish translation of the original article here.
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Venezuela's Struggling New Marxist President Thrown A Lifeline By . . . The Obuma Administration
(Yeah, I know... not all that shocking)
Via WaPo:
NICOLÁS MADURO,
the former bus driver chosen by Hugo Chávez to lead Venezuela after his death, has been struggling to consolidate his position since being declared the victor in a questionable presidential election in April. With the economy stalling, inflation spiking and shortages spreading, the new president appears at a loss about how to respond, other than to blame domestic and foreign enemies. Nor has he been able to overcome a serious split in the Chavista movement between his own, Cuba-backed clique and another based in the military.
Perhaps most alarming for Mr. Maduro, an energized opposition has refused to accept the election outcome; its capable leader, Henrique Capriles, has been gaining sympathy around the region. The president of neighboring Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, met with Mr. Capriles on May 29, prompting paroxysms of rage from Mr. Maduro and his aides. Other Latin American governments, while avoiding a confrontation with Caracas, have made it clear they regard the new leader's legitimacy as questionable; the regional group Unasur called for an audit of the election results.
One government, however, has chosen to toss Mr. Maduro a lifeline: the United States. Last week Secretary of State John F. Kerry took time to meet Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on the sidelines of an Organization of American States meeting, then announced that the Obama administration would like to "find a new way forward" with the Maduro administration and "quickly move to the appointment of ambassadors." Mr. Kerry even thanked Mr. Maduro for "taking steps toward this encounter" — words that the state-run media trumpeted.
What did Mr. Maduro do to earn this assistance from Mr. Kerry? Since Mr. Chávez's death in March, the Venezuelan leader has repeatedly used the United States as a foil. He expelled two U.S. military attaches posted at the embassy in Caracas, claiming that they were trying to destabilize the country; he claimed the CIA was provoking violence in order to justify an invasion; and he called President Obama "the big boss of the devils." A U.S. filmmaker, Timothy Tracy, was arrested and charged with plotting against the government — a ludicrous allegation that was backed with no evidence. Though Mr. Tracy was put on a plane to Miami on the day of the Kerry-Jaua encounter, Mr. Kerry agreed to the meeting before that gesture.
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No Joke: Sesame Streets To Teach Kids About
When Mommy Or Daddy Goes To Jail...
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("S" is for shank, as in daddy got shanked today. It's brought to you by the letter "P" — for prison)
Via NY Post:PBS's "Sesame Street" is moving from ABCs and counting numbers to offering its young viewers a bigger lesson in life: how to cope when Mommy or Daddy lands behind bars.
Called "Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration," the program is distributing "tool kits'' to schools, community centers and even jails in 10 states — including New York — starting today to help kids ages 3 to 8, organizers said.
According to one "tip'' for caregivers, "Before you visit your incarcerated loved one, let your child know some of the things she can expect to happen. For instance, 'We won't be able to sit in the same room with Mommy, but we can see her through a window and read a story together.' ''
"Phone calls are a great way to reach out,'' another offers. "Help your child to think of something she'd like to tell her incarcerated parent, and give her a photo of her parent to hold during the call."
And one instructs: "When explaining where an incarcerated parent is, you can say, 'Daddy is in a place called prison (or jail) for a while. Grownups sometimes go to prison when they break a rule called a law.' ''
A video in the kit shows two Muppets — Abby the fairy and lovable monster Rosita — dealing with a little Muppet boy who shamefully admits to them that his father isn't around to help him build a toy car because he's in jail.A woman with the kids then tells the boy she knows what he's going through — because her own dad was in jail when she was his age.
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Owner says Tebow's 'spirituality' a big reason why
Patriots signed former Jets QB
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(Liberals everywhere are recoiling in horror)
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — It turns out the Patriots signed Tim Tebow in part because their owner thinks the team's "spirituality" was lacking.
That was the surprising word today from Robert Kraft, who is more than happy to fill in the numerous blanks left by tight-lipped coach Bill Belichick when it comes to explaining New England's surprise decision this week to sign the polarizing ex-Jets quarterback.
"For me personaly, having Tim Tebow on this team, he's someone who believes in spirituality, he's very competitive, works hard and has a great attitude," Kraft said at a charity event at Gillette Stadium honoring his late wife.
"He's a winner, and the fact that spirituality is so important to him is very appealing to me," Kraft continued.
Kraft also labeled Tebow's openly religious nature "an added dimension" that helped convince the Patriots to sign him to a two-year deal (with no guaranteed money) after five weeks on the NFL unemployment line.
Kraft even echoed the infamous comment by Jets owner Woody Johnson last summer that "you can never have enough Tebow" — a comment Johnson came to regret after the Jets barely used Tebow during the regular season and then released him in April.
"You can't have enough good people around you, and [Tebow] has the added dimension of spirituality being so important to him, and that personally appeals to me a lot," Kraft said.
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NFL Commissioner Tells Congress He Backs "Redskins" Name,
Democrats Go Ballistic...
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(Nitwit House Dem Eni Faleomavaega tells the commish to "embrace diversity")
Via ICTMN:http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/11/congress-members-respond-nfl-commissioners-support-redskins-name-149847
Two members of Congress, Eni Faleomavaega (D-American Samoa) and Betty McCollum (D-Minnesota) have issued responses to the June 5 letter sent by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell regarding the league's position on the Washington, D.C. franchise's use of the name "Redskins." Goodell wrote in his letter that the term, considered offensive–racist–by many Native Americans, has a "positive meaning."
(Read Goodell's entire letter here.)http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/06/11/nfl-commissioner-tells-congress-redskins-positive-name-149843
Congressman Faleomavaega responded to the letter with the following statement:"Mr. Goodell has completely missed the point regarding the Washington franchise's name. In his recent letter, he acknowledges the NFL's 'responsibility to exemplify [...] values of diversity and inclusion.' Yet in the same letter he fails to assume any responsibility for the racism that the Washington franchise's name continues to promote. You cannot have it both ways. Whether good intentioned or not, the fact of the matter is that the term 'Redskin' is a racial slur that disparages Native Americans. It is time for the NFL to stop making excuses for itself and fully embrace its so-called commitment to diversity."Democratic Co-Chair of the Congressional Native American Squaw Caucus Congresswoman McCollum issued the following response:
"Unfortunately, NFL Commissioner Goodell's letter is another attempt to justify a racial slur on behalf of Dan Snyder and other NFL owners who appear to be only concerned with earning ever larger profits, even if it means exploiting a racist stereotype of Native Americans. For the head of a multi-billion dollar sports league to embrace the twisted logic that 'Redskin' actually 'stands for strength, courage, pride, and respect' is a statement of absurdity.
(Rot'sa luck you Liberal "Redskins" :P )
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State Department Whistleblower, a Career Foreign Service Officer, Seeks Congressional Protection After State Threatens Her Kids
(Nothing surprises me anymore, but is hard to believe that the kids were threatened...
but then again, I can see the Obuma administration's finger-prints all over this)
Via Free Republic:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3030648/posts
The State Department whistleblower is Aurelia Fedenisn. She worked in the department's inspector general's office until her retirement in December 2012. According to USA Today, she has sought protection as an official whistleblower after the State Department directly threatened her, once at her home. It threatened her with criminal charges when she turned over documents to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) showing evidence that the department had watered down her report, in which she alleged that the department at the highest levels had scuttled eight investigations into a range of criminal wrongdoing. Dallas lawyer Damon Mathias, who represents Fedenisn, said Fedenisn hired him after two diplomatic security agents spoke in a threatening manner to her teenage children at her home in a Virginia suburb of Washington. The agents arrived at the home to talk to Fedenisn about documents Fedenisn had given to Cruz and told the teens that they demanded to speak to their mom immediately, Mathias said...
...Mathias says Fedenisn's claim is that agents from State's Diplomatic Security and other divisions engaged in very questionable and possibly criminal conduct; the Inspector General has been hampered in performing its oversight role; "and the findings they wanted to put in the report end up being left out," Mathias said. "So you have a coverup of the coverup."
When Fedenisn and her lawyers met with lawyers for the Office of the Inspector General, the government lawyers demanded she hand over the documents or they would refer the matter to the Department of Justice and Fedenisn would face criminal prosecution, Mathias said.
"They made it clear that they would go after her criminally," he said.
"We refused to turn over the documents" and Fedenisn is now seeking whistle-blower protection, he said.(Can't wait to see how the Obama-media lapdogs spin this)
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Glenn Greenwald on How NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Helped Expose a "Massive Surveillance Apparatus"
Not only do we know that the National Security Agency (NSA) collects information from emails and telephone calls, not only is the United States government spying on everyone, but it is keeping some 20 billion records on Americans alone and millions of others on Internet users across the world.... probably me included.
According to journalist Glenn Greenwald....http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/10/glenn_greenwald_on_how_nsa_leaker "The NSA sucks up into its systems billions and billions of communication activities every week—billions and billions. In fact, the data-mining documents that we published reflected it sucks up 90 billion in a 30-day period, including three billion in the United States."(http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/557x437ximmigrants-protest.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Mb7Pz7r5rH.jpg)
(Despite this, at the same time the US government can't find nearly 6 million illegal immigrants.
In 2011 Judicial Watch reported:Almost a decade after Middle Eastern terrorists with expired visas attacked the U.S., the government has failed to implement a security measure to adequately track foreigners like them who enter the country legally but never leave.
As a result nearly half of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants actually entered the U.S. legally but overstayed their visa, according to a new federal report. That's because the agency responsible for keeping the nation safe—the Department of Homeland Security—can't keep track of immigrants who remain in the U.S. after their visas expire.
This clearly creates a huge national security issue because terrorists can plot more attacks from within. In fact, dozens of foreigners convicted of terrorism since the 2001 attacks had overstayed their visas, according to the report, which was published by the investigative arm of Congress known as the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The GAO launched its probe after learning from an independent study that 4 to 5.5 million immigrants had entered the country legally and overstayed their authorized periods of admission. In the course of the probe, GAO investigators interviewed a number of high-ranking Homeland Security officials, visited various field offices and reviewed a mountain of documents.They found that the Department of Homeland Security's program to identify visa violators by comparing entry and exit data is inefficient and can only process around half of the potential overstays it detects.
(But, at least they have your email on file. For the record... FBI requests for records under Patriot Act have increased 1,000% in just four years.)
"What's It All About, Alfie"
What's it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live? What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? Are we meant to take more than we give or are we meant to be fools? Or, are you nuts or for real... Alfie.....? Alfie...?? Alfie.... ???:-\
Published on Mar 19, 2013
For those that still don't believe the planes were military planes, check back soon for a video that will close the case forever.
2012 version was taken down, this version has more witnesses. Who ordered 9/11 and why?
What is the Illuminati?
Proof "hijackers" were nothing but CIA agents?
What happened to the 4 missing airliners?
Thanks to wearechangenj for finding much of this footage.
I am back, expect many important videos soon. This is a 2013 Remake of the drone compilation footage that was deleted by Chazflyz because it contained 11 seconds of footage of a plane landing that he happened to be filming. That person did it for no other reason but to hurt the truth movement as he is one of the many idiots out there who still believe 9/11 was done by arabs.
....Alfie
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Requiem for Benghazi © 2013 Glen Shulfer
We can't forget Brian Terry. He was a good man, trying to keep the border safe.
Eric Holder lied when Brian died.
We can't forget Tyrone Woods. He was a brave man, fighting desperately in Benghazi.
Jay Carney lied when Tyrone died.
We can't forget Glen Doherty. He was a hero, fighting valiantly in Benghazi.
Susan Rice lied when Glen died.
We can't forget Sean Smith.
He was the whiz kid, and he sensed his death in Benghazi.
Hillary lied when Sean died.
We can't forget Christopher Stevens.
The Ambassador, when he was begging for protection.
But all the troops were told to STAND DOWN!
They were abandoned and left alone to die.
When Obuma lied, people died...
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Benghazi may prove to be a more vile cover-up than was Nixon's Watergate
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From Newsmax, Obuma's Africa Trip Could Cost $100 Million:(Lets cut that $100 Mil in half and make it a one-way trip for the Obuma Family)
[POS]President Barack Obama's trip to Africa later this month could be one of the most expensive of his tenure, costing the government as much as $100 million.
According to a confidential internal planning document obtained by The Washington Post, hundreds of Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania, which the first family will visit from June 26 to July 3.
A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.
In addition, military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks carrying bulletproof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the Obamas will stay. And fighter jets will fly in shifts to provide around the clock coverage over the president's airspace.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama also had planned to take a Tanzanian safari during the trip, which would have required a special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles in the event of a threat from wild animals, the Post reported, citing the document. But the safari was canceled in favor of a trip to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner, officials told the newspaper. (Hee.. Hee)
The Post noted that when it first asked White House officials about the safari last week, they said no final decision had been made, adding that a White House official said Thursday that the cancellation was not related to the newspaper's inquiries.
Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also traveled to Africa multiple times. A report from the Government Accountability Office, according to the Post, showed that Clinton's 1998 trip to six African nations cost the federal government at least $42.7 million.
Obama's overseas travels — he will visit Northern Ireland and Germany next week — come as government agencies, including the Secret Service, face spending cuts mandated by the sequester.
The Secret Service reportedly has had to cut $84 million, and this spring the agency canceled public tours of the White House in order to save $74,000 a week in overtime.
In total, the Obamas' Africa trip could cost $60 million to $100 million, a person familiar with planning for the journey told the Post.
"The infrastructure that accompanies the president's travels is beyond our control," Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, told the newspaper. "The security requirements are not White House-driven. They are Secret-Service-driven."Some sacrifices by the First Family have been made, so no whining from the "little people"... no Obuma family safari. How.. er.. sad. ::)
[...]White House Cancels Safari After Sniper Team Uproar
June 14, 2013
by Robert Farago I'm African American. Well half. I've travelled to my homeland and I went on safari. I am not, however, the President of the United States. While my trip cost a bomb (in the British sense of the term) it did not run to $100m. And now, neither will the President's. After the Washington Post unearthed secret documents detailing the costs and logistics of the CIC's sojourn to his birthplace ancestral homeland the
"We Can't Afford to Show Children Around the White House Because of the Sequester Which Was Our Idea But It's the Republicans' Fault" Administration's cutting back on the extras. Specifically, the safari part of the program. Apparently, the revelation that the Prez was going to take a sniper team to deal with lions and such had something to do with it. Check it . . .
The president and first lady had also planned to take a Tanzanian safari as part of the trip, which would have required the president's special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning document.
But officials said Thursday that the safari had been canceled in favor of a trip to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner.
When The Post first asked White House officials about the safari last week, they said no final decision had been made. A White House official said Thursday that the cancellation was not related to The Post's inquiries.
"We do not have a limitless supply of assets to support presidential missions, and we prioritized a visit to Robben Island over a two-hour safari in Tanzania," said spokesman Josh Earnest. "Unfortunately, we couldn't do both."
Internal administration documents circulated in April show that the Obama family was scheduled to go to both Robben Island and the safari park, according to a person familiar with the plans.I wonder if they budgeted for countermeasures against Africa's most dangerous animal: the mosquito.[/b]
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Worst! President! Ever!
Obamacare Is Forcing Walmart to Hire Only Temps
Friday, June 14, 2013
What we already knew:** Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression.
** Poverty is at its highest rate since 1960′s.
** America is experiencing its worst economic recovery ever.
** There are more Americans on food stamps than entire population of Spain.
** A record number of Americans are seeking jobs.
** Obama's trillion dollar stimulus failed.
** Under Obama's leadership we had four straight years of trillion dollar deficits.
** 8.8 million Americans are on disability.
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And, now this...
With unemployment at record highs Obamacare is forcing Walmart stores to only hire part-time workers.Forbes report:Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) opponents warned it would happen, but now there's mounting proof that full-time employees are being replaced with part-timers, at least in the retail industry where Walmart is focused on keeping the majority of workers to part-time hours only.
A new hiring policy uncovered by Reuters shows that nearly half of its stores are only hiring part-time employees, thus avoiding the mandate to provide health care or pay a fine.
A Reuters survey of 52 stores run by the largest U.S. private employer in the past month, including one in every U.S. state, showed that 27 were hiring only temps, 20 were hiring a combination of regular full, part-time and temp jobs, and five were not hiring at all.
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IRS Won't Say Why Agents Are Training With AR-15's
Friday, June 14, 2013 Earlier this week Congressman Jeff Duncan disclosed that he witnessed IRS agents training with powerful, semi-automatic rifles when he toured a Maryland Federal Law Enforcement Training Center on May 23.
Local WHNS asked the IRS about their high-powered weapons this week.
The IRS said they do not disclose their training operations. Rep. Duncan says high-powered weapons training should not be in their budget.FOX Carolina reported:
Vote For Morris For Mayor To Avoid A Cat-astrophe
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(If he won, you know he would be purr-fect)
Via NY Post:
MEXICO CITY — This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes.
Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan "Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat." And he is attracting tens of thousands of politician-weary, two-legged supporters on social media.
"He sleeps almost all day and does nothing, and that fits the profile of a politician," said 35-year-old office worker Sergio Camacho, who adopted the 10-month-old feline last year.
Put forth as candidate by Camacho and a group of friends after they became disillusioned with the empty promises of politicians, Morris' candidacy has resonated across Mexico, where citizens frustrated with human candidates are nominating their pets and farm animals to run in July 7 elections being held in 14 states.
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Just in case you want more POS Obama in your life...
AT&T is loading iPhones with emergency alerts from Barack Obama...
That you can't switch off.Engadget reported:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/15/att-wireless-emergency-alerts-iphone-4s-5/
AT&T has begun rolling out Wireless Emergency Alerts updates for iPhone 4S and 5, so you won't be the last folks to know if the entire northern hemisphere is about to be covered in ice à la Day After Tomorrow.
You'll receive a notification from the carrier when your update is ready, but only if you're using iOS 6.1 or higher.
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Once installed, AMBER and Emergency alerts are automatically sent to your phone unless you switch them off via Settings. However, should you be tired of POS Obama, just know that there's no way to switch off Presidential alerts.
(So now POS Barack can track your calls and send you messages, too. Unlucky you... at&t is simply doing what they've been mandated to do, and the other wireless carriers will follow.
I don't understand why everyone has their panties in a wad over this - late last year, Obama strong-armed major advertisers (via the FCC) to ensuring at LEAST one black is in EVERY TV COMMERCIAL. This was in full swing by December 2012.
Think I'm kidding? Have you really SEEN TV commercials lately? There are more Hispanics in this country than blacks, but if a visitor watched many current TV ads now, they would have the impression that blacks are the predominant race in the U.S.
What a Hoot!)
Pic of the DAy
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Cartoon of the Day
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Gunmen in Pakistan bomb female students' bus then attack hospital
Militants in Pakistan have bombed a bus carrying female students before attacking the hospital where survivors and relatives of the victims had gathered. (http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02591/bus_2591288c.jpg)
(This is a very, very SICK WORLD)
Via Telegraph:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10122549/Gunmen-in-Pakistan-bomb-female-students-bus-then-attack-hospital.html
Militants in Pakistan have bombed a bus carrying female students before attacking the hospital where survivors and relatives of the victims had gathered.At least 23 people were killed in the twin attacks – including 12 women on the bus, travelling to a university in Quetta, capital of the troubled Baluchistan province. Eleven others died when a bomb exploded in the emergency ward of the city's Bolan Medical Complex where the wounded were taken.
The attack in resource-rich Baluchistan was Pakistan's most lethal since the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took office last week and followed earlier explosions in a nearby town that killed a policeman and destroyed a historic building.
The gunmen remain holed up in the hospital building, with some attackers on the roof and others in the corridors. Some reports suggested that patients had been taken hostage. The hospital has been cordoned off by security forces, said Abdul Wasey, spokesman for Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps.
"A bomb exploded in the emergency ward killing 11 people and wounding 17 others," he said.
"Militants are also hiding in different wards and firing is continuing. We are trying to clear the premises. We have launched an operation and an exchange of fire is still continuing between security forces and the militants."
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("Big Sis: What I mean to say, I think people have gotten the idea that there's an Orwellian state out there that somehow we're operating in. Well it's true.)
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Via Politicker: Homeland Security Secretary Janet "Big Sis" Napolitano weighed [211 lbs] in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown.
"I think people have gotten the idea that there's an Orwellian state out there that somehow we're operating in. That's far from the case," she told Errol Louis during an appearance on Road to City Hall.
Despite civil liberties advocates' fears that monitoring efforts have gone too far, "there are lots of protections built into the system," Ms. Napolitano said, pointing to a privacy office embedded in her own department that is "constantly reviewing our policies and procedures." She further stressed the court review system. "No one should believe that we are simply going willy-nilly and using any kind of data that we can gather," she said.
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Egyptian Politician:
Jooos Slaughter Christians
And Use Their Blood To Make Matzos
(The creepiest part of this video is the clown smiling
ear to ear as he talks about Jews slicing a
Christian child's throat)
Via MEMRI:http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/3873.htm
Following are excerpts from a TV show with Khaled Al-Zaafrani, founder of the Egyptian Justice and Progress Party, which aired on Al-Hafez TV on May 12, 2013.Khaled Al-Zaafrani: It is the Jews who have instigated wars in the world. They instigated World War I, as well as World War II, and they will keep on instigating wars. The Jews cannot live without wars, conspiracies, deceit, and deception. We can rest assured that the Jews will not seek or uphold peace.
It s well known that during the Passover, they make matzos called the "Blood of Zion." They take a Christian child, slit his throat and slaughter him. Then they take his blood and make their [matzos]. This is a very important rite for the Jews, which they never forgo.
[...]
Recorded evidence of this is kept in the Egyptian national archives. This happens to this day.
Passover was near, and the Jews of Damascus could not find a Christian. There was a Christian priest, who would give them medical treatment. He was of Italian and French nationality, and his job was to treat people. He used to treat the Jews, but since they couldn't find any other Christian, they summoned him to treat them... Their confessions are well documented.
They placed the priest in a tub, slaughtered him, smashed his bones with a pestle, took his blood, and made the "matzos of Zion."
Interviewer: Are these matzos eaten?
Khaled Al-Zaafrani: Of course. They slice it and fight over who gets to eat Christian blood.
Report: Iran May Send 4,000 Revolutionary Guard Troops To Fight For The Assad Regime In Syria
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(This oughta be fun... Don't they look cute.. matching hats, scarfs, little red flag thingys sticking out of their weapons. Off to see Allah they go... marching two and marching fro... come rain, come snow... They march along together. Hup! 2.. 3.. 4.. off to meet the slimey gore.)
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Via Ynet:http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4392729,00.html
Iran has decided to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion, The Independent reported Sunday.
The British newspaper quoted pro-Iranian sources "which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security" as saying that Tehran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel.
According to the report, Iran reached the decision to send the troops before last week's presidential election.
According to The Independent, Washington's decision to arm Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels has "plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region."
For the first time, the British newspaper said, all of America's 'friends' in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. "Breaking all President Obama's rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East," The Independent said in its report.
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(What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Lessee now... Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, Hezbolleh, Al Qaeda, and now Obama in the mix, could WWIII be far behind?)
Saudi Arabia To Supply Islamist Rebels In Syria With Shoulder-Fired Anti-Aircraft Missiles
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The most likely recipient being the salafi jihadist group Ahrar al-Sham, who works closely with al-Nusra Front.(AFP) - Saudi Arabia plans to supply the Syrian opposition with anti-aircraft missiles to counter President Bashar al-Assad's air force, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday.
The article, citing a classified report received by the German foreign intelligence service and the German government last week, said Riyadh was looking at sending European-made Mistral-class MANPADS, or man-portable air-defence systems.
Der Spiegel noted the shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles can target low-flying aircraft including helicopters and had given mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan a decisive edge against Soviet troops in the 1980s.
Saudi Arabia is a key supporter of the Syrian rebels and has long advocated providing them with better weaponry.
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Eric Holder has been an excellent attorney general
THE LETTER
in support of AG Eric Holder
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/holder-letter.pdf
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American Citizens need confidence in their government, from the President to the Congress to the Supreme Court, and down to those who run federal agencies. If we cannot trust the nation's top cop to do his job and know what is going on around him, to apply justice in a fair and impartial manner devoid of politics, to have integrity, then we have a big problem. And the DOJ under Holder has been heavily politicized. Holder shouldn't be allowed to resign, he should be fired. Or impeached. He darned sure hasn't been an excellent AG, and none of the people who signed the letter saying he has been super mega awesome, all Democrats, can give reasons beyond writing "showed Holder to be a leader with excellent judgment and an unwavering commitment to do the right thing without regard for partisan preferences." One would think that all these lawyers could provide a bit more evidence of Holder's super mega awesomeness beyond that while attempting to defend Holder. BTW... Unsurprisingly, the authors of the letter to the editor served under Holder.
Let's consider:
**Holder blowing off and ending the New Black Panthers voter intimidation issue
**All the agencies involved with Fast and Furious, including the DOJ at the top, were run with Holder as the boss, yet he knew nothing, and stonewalled, and is still stonewalling, Congress. Not too mention the hundreds of dead Mexican citizens and 2 US federal agents
**Revealed the identities of 9 CIA interrogators.
**His departments spying on the AP, and he knew nothing
**Spying on James Rosen and people associated with him, forgetting that he signed off on the warrant, and still he knew nothing
**Retaliation against whistleblowers, who he is supposed to protect as the nation's top cop
**Going after Arizona and other states that passed immigration tightening laws (and admitting he never read the massive 10 page Arizona law), while simultaneously ignoring sanctuary cities which blow off federal law
**Failing to apply federal law to Colorado and their legalization of marijuana, a federal Schedule I drug
**Lawsuits against states which violate the 10th amendment
**The aforementioned prosecutorial misconduct in the Ted Stevens case.
**The FBI comes under the DOJ: what took them to get so long to Benghazi?
**As the nation's top cop, being head of the DOJ, his seemingly inability to have any knowledge as to what goes on in the DOJ, which is known as "incompetence".
**And more... much more!
Holder needs to go...PERIOD!...end of story!!
...Warph
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June 14th is Flag Day. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened 236 years ago on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
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In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, a man named George Morris persuaded his city of Hartford, Conn., to undertake a patriotic celebration on behalf of the Union. But the concept didn't catch on, there or elsewhere.
Two decades later, in 1885, a 19-year-old Waubeka schoolteacher named Bernard Cigrand plunked a small flag into an inkwell on his desk and assigned his students to write essays on patriotism. Later he traveled the country to promote respect for the flag, becoming president of the American Flag Day Association.
In 1888, William Kerr, son of a Civil War veteran, founded the American Flag Day Association of Western Pennsylvania, pressing presidents and legislators to make Flag Day official. In his home town of Rennersdale, near Pittsburgh, a historical marker honors Kerr as the "Father of Flag Day."
In 1889, New York City principal George Bolch had his school hold patriotic ceremonies to observe the day. State officials later expanded the program. In 1893, Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, head of the Colonial Dames of Pennsylvania, worked to have public buildings in Philadelphia display flags - an effort that led one federal office to credit Philadelphia as Flag Day's original home.
Still, Flag Day struggled for official respect. It wasn't until 1916 that President Woodrow Wilson issued a wishy-washy proclamation to "suggest and request. . . if possible" that people observe Flag Day. Thirty-three years later, in 1949, President Harry S. Truman signed an act passed by Congress naming Flag Day as the 14th.
Today Saluting the Flag or even being patriotic seems to some corny or even jingoistic, but when America is challenged we pull together as these Boston Red Sox Fans did the first game after the Marathon Bombing.
Ten Things You May Not Know About the American Flag:
1. The flag predates the Constitution. The flag was authorized by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. The motion read, "Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white: that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The Constitution was written 10 years after that and ratified in 1789.
2. What's the deal with Betsy Ross? Historians are still debating Betsy's role in designing the first flag, but she recounted that she was asked to sew the flag by her fellow churchgoer, George Washington. Ross had also done some seamstress work for Washington. You can read the debates online, but here's what the historic marker in front of her house says: "Credited with making the first stars and stripes flag, Ross was a successful upholsterer. She produced flags for the government for over 50 years. As a skilled artisan, Ross represents the many women who supported their families during the Revolution and early Republic."
3. What exactly is a vexillologist? A vexillologist is a flag expert. It's a relatively new word, coming into use in 1959. According to the North American Vexillological Association, there are currently no degrees offered on the subject.
4. Who approves design changes in the flag? Congress and the president have ordered design changes in the past to accommodate the addition of new states. President James Monroe and Congress agreed in 1818 that there should be 13 stripes as well as one star for each state in the Union.
5. Who decides the rules for flag etiquette? It's in the federal code as Chapter 1 of Title 4. The law also includes the approved text of the Pledge of Allegiance. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/chapter-1
6. Where outside the United States can you see the flag continuously 24 hours a day? There are five American flags flying on the moon, thanks to the Apollo astronauts. You may not be able to see markings on them, though; they have mostly likely turned white over the years.
7. Which flag had the snake on it? You've probably seen the yellow flag with a coiled rattlesnake and the motto "Don't Tread On Me." This is the Gadsden flag, named after its designer, General Christopher Gadsden. The flag was used in the Revolutionary War. There are other variations of the flag with rattlesnakes and versions of the motto. Benjamin Franklin was one of the originators of the snake as an American political symbol, in a famous 1754 political cartoon.
8. Where was the first flag flown outside the U.S. in a military action? It was first flown over the shores of Tripoli. The Marines were involved in military actions against the Barbary pirates and after they hit the shore, they raised the Stars and Stripes. After the Battle of Derne in 1805, the flag was raised on foreign soil for the first time after a battle.
9. What is Francis Scott Key's flag connection? Key witnessed the American flag flying after a British attack on Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814, while he was a guest on a British ship as he negotiated for the return of American prisoners. His experience inspired him to write a poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry." After it was published, Key matched it up with music from a popular British tune, which eventually became "The Star-Spangled Banner," our national anthem. By the way, if "vexillology" wasn't enough fun, here's another one: the act of adding new lyrics to an existing song is called "contrafactum."
10. What's the biggest American flag? It's so big you can't fly it, but the "Superflag" conceived of by the late Thomas Demski measures 505 by 225 feet and weighs 3,000 pounds. It takes 600 people to unfurl. Each star is 17 feet high. Bonus fact: The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia has its own giant American flag on display in its Grand Hall Overlook, surrounded by the flags of all the U.S. states and territories and with the iconic Independence Hall in the background. The flag has flown over the capitals of all 50 states and was hung by Muhammad Ali in a special Flag Day ceremony on June 14, 2003, when the museum opened.
http://www.superflag.com/about.html
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Well, isn't that convenient? At the moment when the Obuma administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war. Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA snooping or any of the other political scandals that have popped up in recent weeks. As if on cue, Obuma made headlines all over the globe on Thursday by claiming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the rebels "multiple times", and that the U.S. was now ready to do more to assist the rebels. That assistance is reportedly going to include "military support" for the rebels and a no-fly zone over at least part of Syria is being discussed. Without a doubt, these are acts of war, and this conflict is not going to end until Assad has been ousted. But Assad will not go quietly. And all it would take is for Assad to fire a couple of missiles at Tel Aviv for a huge regional war to erupt in the Middle East. And what happens if Russia or China decides to get involved in the conflict in Syria? Obuma is playing with fire, but he has shown again and again that he is willing to do virtually anything if it will benefit him politically.
...WarphIs POS Obuma Starting A War With Syria Just To
Distract Us From All The Obuma Scandals ??? ??? ???
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As far as the Obama administration is concerned, there is no such thing as a coincidence. The timing of this announcement regarding Syria was not an accident. If Obama wanted to use chemical weapons as an excuse to go after Syria he could have done it weeks ago, or he could have waited several more months before taking action. He chose to do it right now for a reason, and hopefully the American people will be able to see right through this.
So exactly what are we going to be doing for the Syrian rebels? Well, we will definitely be arming them and training them. And it is probably reasonable to assume that there will be American "advisers" on the ground inside Syria helping to organize the Syrian resistance. In fact, according to Debka, a large U.S. Marine force has already been deployed to the Jordanian border with Syria.
In addition, according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. aircraft may be involved in enforcing a no-fly zone inside Syria...[/b]
A U.S. military proposal for arming Syrian rebels also calls for a limited no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced from Jordanian territory to protect Syrian refugees and rebels who would train there, according to U.S. officials.
Asked by the White House to develop options for Syria, military planners have said that creating an area to train and equip rebel forces would require keeping Syrian aircraft well away from the Jordanian border.
To do that, the military envisages creating a no-fly zone stretching up to 25 miles into Syria which would be enforced using aircraft flown from Jordanian bases and flying inside the kingdom, according to U.S. officials.No matter how you slice it, the United States is now in a state of war with Syria. The only question is how "involved" we are going to get.
And several prominent Republicans are already rushing forward to applaud Barack Obama on this latest move. The following comes from a CBS News report...Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who met with the rebels last month and has been a vocal critic of the president's Syria policy said in a joint statement with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.: "We appreciate the President's finding that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on several occasions. We also agree with the President that this fact must affect U.S. policy toward Syria. The President's red line has been crossed. U.S. credibility is on the line. Now is not the time to merely take the next incremental step. Now is the time for more decisive actions."But you know what? Many of these Syrian rebels have actually pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda.
Yes, you read that correctly.
The whole point of the "war on terror" was to supposedly fight al-Qaeda, but now the U.S. military is allied with them.
Why in the world would we want to help the people who are supposed to be our greatest global enemy?...A Syrian rebel group's pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda's replacement for Osama bin Laden suggests that the terrorist group's influence is not waning and that it may take a greater role in the Western-backed fight to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The pledge of allegiance by Syrian Jabhat al Nusra Front chief Abou Mohamad al-Joulani to al-Qaeda leader Sheik Ayman al-Zawahri was coupled with an announcement by the al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq, that it would work with al Nusra as well.
Lebanese Sheik Omar Bakri, a Salafist who says states must be governed by Muslim religious law, says al-Qaeda has assisted al Nusra for some time.
"They provided them early on with technical, military and financial support , especially when it came to setting up networks of foreign jihadis who were brought into Syria," Bakri says. "There will certainly be greater coordination between the two groups."This group of jihadists has been responsible for car and suicide bombings all over Syria, and they are the ones that have been doing the heaviest fighting on the front lines...When the group Jabhat al Nusra first claimed responsibility for car and suicide bombings in Damascus that killed dozens last January, many of Syria's revolutionaries claimed that the organization was a creation of the Syrian government, designed to discredit those who opposed the regime of President Bashar Assad and to hide the regime's own brutal tactics.
Nearly a year later, however, Jabhat al Nusra, which U.S. officials believe has links to al Qaida, has become essential to the frontline operations of the rebels fighting to topple Assad.
Not only does the group still conduct suicide bombings that have killed hundreds, but they've proved to be critical to the rebels' military advance. In battle after battle across the country, Nusra and similar groups do the heaviest frontline fighting. Groups who call themselves the Free Syrian Army and report to military councils led by defected Syrian army officers move into the captured territory afterward.
The prominence of Nusra in the rebel cause worries U.S. and other Western officials, who say its operations rely on the same people and tactics that fueled al Qaida in Iraq – an assertion that is borne out by interviews with Nusra members in Syria.
These are no "freedom fighters". In fact, if these guys take over they will be much worse than Assad. These "rebels" recently massacred an entire village of Christians, and just two days ago they slaughtered a 14-year-old boy for supposedly insulting Mohammed...The rebels, according to ABC News' reconstruction of the Syrian groups' reports, appear to have whipped Qatta. When they brought him back to where they'd taken him, his head was wrapped by a shirt.
The rebels waited for a crowd to gather; Qatta's parents were among them. Speaking in classical Arabic, they announced that Qatta had committed blasphemy and that anyone else who dared insult the Prophet Mohammed would share his fate. Then, the shirt still wrapped around the boy's head, the rebels shot him in the mouth and neck.Is this really who the U.S. government wants to be allies with?Are we that stupid?And guess what? According to the Los Angeles Times, the Obama administration is considering plans to bring all of the poor "refugees" that are allied with these "rebels" to the United States...Two years into a civil war that shows no signs of ending, the Obama administration is considering resettling refugees who have fled Syria, part of an international effort that could bring thousands of Syrians to American cities and towns.
A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families.But now we are committed to this conflict thanks to (Mr. Clown)Obama.
There will be no backing down until Assad is gone.
Of course this could create a huge regional war in the Middle East or even eventually lead to World War III, but Obama doesn't seem to care.For now, (that POS)Obama is saving his own skin, and that is the most important thing to him.
NSA Scandal... NSA Scandal... NSA Scandal... NSA Scandal...
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by Mr. Gloom & Mr. DoomEstablishment politicians from both major political parties are rushing to defend the NSA and condemn whistleblower Edward Snowden. They are attempting to portray Edward Snowden as a "traitor" and the spooks over at the NSA that are snooping on all of us as "heroes". In fact, many of the exact same politicians that once railed against government spying during the Bush years are now staunchly defending it now that Obama is in the White House. But it isn't just Democrats that are acting shamefully. Large numbers of Republican politicians that love to give speeches about "freedom" and "liberty" are attempting to eviscerate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The government is not supposed to invade our privacy and investigate us unless there is probable cause to do so. Apparently many of our politicians misunderstood when they read the novel 1984 by George Orwell. It wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual.
Now the American people need to pick up the ball and start demanding answers, because without a doubt we are going to see establishment politicians from both major political parties try to shut this scandal down. Establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans both love the Big Brother surveillance grid that the U.S. government has constructed, and they are both making it abundantly clear that they will defend the NSA to the very end. The following are 22 nauseating quotes from hypocritical establishment politicians that show exactly how they feel about the NSA spying scandal...#1 POS Barack Obama: "I think it's important to understand that you can't have 100 percent security and then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We're going to have to make some choices as a society."
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/challenging-obama-knows-best-transparency-nsa-92624_Page3.html
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#2 POS Barack Obama in 2007: "This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists... We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary."
http://www.storyleak.com/obama-2007-speech-no-more-spying-on-citizens/
#3 Speaker Of The House (Clueless)) John Boehner on what he thinks about NSA leaker Edward Snowden: "He's a traitor."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/11/boehner-snowden-is-a-traitor/
#4 U.S. Senator (Cornball) Lindsey Graham: "I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/10/criminal-charges-snowden-extradite-passport-revoke/2408915/
#5 U.S. Senator (Idiot) Al Franken: "I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people."
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sen-al-franken-well-aware-of-surveillance-defends-nsa-not-about-spying-on-the-american-people/
#6 Senate Majority Leader (Dirty) Harry Reid: "For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/us/nsa-disclosures-put-awkward-light-on-official-statements.html?hp&_r=0
#7 U.S. Senator (Wimpy)Mitch McConnell: "Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/us/nsa-disclosures-put-awkward-light-on-official-statements.html?hp&_r=1&
#8 U.S. Representative Peter King on why he believes that reporters should be prosecuted for revealing NSA secrets: "There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security."
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/12/politics/nsa-leak/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
#9 Director of National Intelligence James Clapper making a joke during an awards ceremony last Friday night: "Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up—so many emails to read!"
http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/fedblog/2013/06/banqueters-and-spying-news-bombshell/64598/?oref=river
#10 Director Of National Intelligence James Clapper about why he lied about NSA spying in front of Congress: "I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/james-clappers-least-untruthful-statement-to-the-senate/2013/06/11/e50677a8-d2d8-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_blog.html
#11 National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden: "The president has full faith in director Clapper and his leadership of the intelligence community"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/james-clapper-intelligence-chief-criticism?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20aux-1%20top-stories-1:Bento%20box%208%20col:Position1:sublinks
#12 White House press secretary Jay Carney: "...Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/james-clapper-intelligence-chief-criticism?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20aux-1%20top-stories-1:Bento%20box%208%20col:Position1:sublinks
#13 Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee: "There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/james-clapper-intelligence-chief-criticism?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20aux-1%20top-stories-1:Bento%20box%208%20col:Position1:sublinks
#14 Gus Hunt, the chief technology officer at the CIA: "We fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/prism-leak-inside-the-controversial-us-data-surveillance-program-a-904761-2.html
#15 Barack Obama: "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls."
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/challenging-obama-knows-best-transparency-nsa-92624_Page3.html
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#16 Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency: "We do not see a tradeoff between security and liberty."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/12/alexander-nsa-cyber-snowden/2415217/
#17 An exchange between NSA director Keith Alexander and U.S. Representative Hank Johnson in March 2012...
JOHNSON: Does the NSA routinely intercept American citizens' emails?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Does the NSA intercept Americans' cell phone conversations?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Google searches?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Text messages?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Amazon.com orders?
ALEXANDER: No.
JOHNSON: Bank records?
ALEXANDER: No.http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/nsa-chief-lied-to-congress-on-domestic-surveillance/
#18 Deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino: "The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks"
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm
#19 U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss: "This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years."
http://www.dailytech.com/Rep+Ron+Paul+Calls+NSA+Spying+a+Victory+for+Terrorists+Some+Senators+Say+Its+Fine/article31710c.htm
#20 Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton on NSA leaker Edward Snowden: "Let me ask, who died and made him king? Who gave him the authority to endanger 300 million Americans? That's not the way it works, and if he thinks he can get away with that, he's got another think coming."
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/bolton-snowden-nsa-leaks/2013/06/11/id/509318?promo_code=F492-1&utm_source=Test_Newsmax_Feed&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1
#21 Senior spokesman for the NSA Don Weber: "Given the nature of the work we do, it would be irresponsible to comment on actual or alleged operational issues; therefore, we have no information to provide"
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm
#22 The White House website: "My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment
Right now, the NSA is building a data collection center out in Utah that is so massive that it is hard to describe with words. It is going to cost 40 million dollars a year just to provide the energy needed to run it. This data center will contain "the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches" in addition to "parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases" and anything else that the NSA decides to collect...Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world's communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital "pocket litter." It is, in some measure, the realization of the "total information awareness" program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans' privacy.The goal is to know as much about everyone on the planet as possible. And the NSA does not keep this information to itself. As an article in USA Today recently reported, the NSA shares the data that it collects with other government agencies "as a matter of practice"...As a matter of practice, the NSA regularly shares its information — known as "product" in intelligence circles — with other intelligence groups. So when the NSA collects information about you, there is a very good chance that the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security and the IRS will have access to it as well.
But the U.S. government is not the only one collecting data on American citizens.
Guess who else has been collecting massive amounts of data on the American people?
Barack Hussein Obama.
According to those that have seen it, the "Obama database" is unlike anything that any politician has ever put together before. According to CNSNews.com, U.S. Representative Maxine Waters says that this database "will have information about everything on every individual" ...http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/waters-obama-campaign-database-has-information-about-everything-every-individual# ..."The president has put in place an organization that contains a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life," she added. "That's going to be very, very powerful."
Martin asked if Waters if she was referring to "Organizing for America."
"That's right, that's right," Waters said. "And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it's never been done before."
Waters said the database would also serve future Democratic candidates seeking the presidency.Perhaps this helps to explain why so many big donors got slapped with IRS audits immediately after they wrote big checks to the Romney campaign.
We are being told to "trust" Barack Obama and the massive government surveillance grid that is being constructed all around us, but there has been example after example of government power being grossly abused in recent years.
A lot of Americans say that they do not care if the government is watching them because they do not have anything to hide, but is there anyone out there that would really not mind the government watching them and listening to them 24 hours a day?
For example, it has been documented that NSA workers eavesdropped on conversations between U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and their loved ones back home. Some of these conversations involved very intimate talk between husbands and wives. The following is from a 2008 ABC News story...Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of "cuts" that were available on each operator's computer.
"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News.Faulk said he joined in to listen, and talk about it during breaks in Back Hall's "smoke pit," but ended up feeling badly about his actions
(Is this really what we want the future of America to look like? Do we really want the government to watch us and listen to us during our most intimate moments?)
No wonder Slick Willy is turned off...
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(When is this CLOWN going to shut up? Media Ignores Obama's Catholic School Gaffe in Ireland... http://shar.es/xhpmw via @BreitbartNews)
Our Muslim Pres. Barack Obama offended Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland when he said Catholic schools are 'divisive'
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"Pres. Barack Obama offended Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland when he said Catholic schools are 'divisive'"
While visiting the United Kingdom earlier this week, our Feckless Commander in Chief has shaken things up by offending Catholics. During his G8 summit speech in Belfast, he called for an end to Catholic education and schools because he believes them to be "divisive." He compared Catholic and Protestant schools to a racist segregation system.
Yes, he did.
And the American liberal mainstream media (aka "The Obama News-Speak Press") is being darned quiet about this.
One wonders: Would Barack Obama have made the same insensitive proclamation and claims about Muslim schools and mosques being "divisive" or creating fear if he had been addressing an Islamic group, if his anti-Muslim speech had followed that of a respected imam? Does his negative views about Catholic education in the UK extend to the millions of children attending parochial schools in the United States?
And will any of the big news sources harshly criticize or chastise Obama, as they undoubtedly would have if a Republican president had made the same anti-Catholic statements? Will they even mention it?
So many questions... but seriously, we already know the answers.
These anti-Catholic remarks were made by our president who says he faithfully attended Rev. Jeremiah "G*d Damn America" Wright's church for 20 years. Some are calling this a "gaffe," a "mistake."
No, it isn't. A gaffe is when VP Joe Biden merrily asks Missouri state senator Chuck Graham, sitting in a wheelchair, to stand up and take a bow. Or when First Lady Michelle Obama refers to herself as a "busy single mother." Or when Pres. Obama claims he's been to 57 states, or pronounces "corps man" as "corpse man," or in 2010 signs his name in the official Westminster Abbey guest book but screws up and writes the year as 2008.
Those are gaffes and silly blunders.
What Obama said in Belfast was NO accident, was no gaffe.From BizPacReview, Obama offends Catholics in the UK, says religious schools are divisive:The Catholic media is up in arms over comments President Obama made during a speech while in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit. Obama made what is described as "an alarming call for an end to Catholic education," in spite of the fact that it is considered "a critical component of the Church."
In front of an audience of about 2,000 young people, including many Catholics, Obama claimed that Catholic education divides people and blocks peace, according to the Scottish Catholic Observer."If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation," Obama said.Catholic World News noted:Ironically, President Obama made his comments just as Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told a crowd in Scotland that religious education upholds the dignity of the human person. Archbishop Müller said that Catholic schools should promote "all that is good in the philosophies of societies and human culture."
Rapper Lil Wayne Tramples All Over American Flag during New Orleans Music Video Shoot, Slammed with Criticism, Now Claims It Was Just an "Accident"
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Lil Wayne WEEZY F ✔ @LilTunechi
I didn't step on the flag on purpose! It's a scene in a video where the flag drops behind me and after it drop it's just there as I perform 4:18 AM - 18 Jun 2013 (Little "Pissant" Wayne says it was an accident, huh?
Sorry, you little black piece of shit! More people would buy that excuse/lie if, after you stepped on and walked across the flag once, perhaps even twice, you then avoided it.
But you didn't, dude. You're clearly looking straight down at the flag as you continue to trample on it during your anti-America song. If the flag wasn't supposed to be there on the ground and under your feet, isn't that what "Cut! Take 2″ is all about, numb nuts.
Why don't you try that here):(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNEhktxCUAAXUED.jpg)
TWICE AS MANY Turn Out at DC Tea Party Rally Than Go See Obama in Berlin
The Tea Party Patriots held their Audit The IRS Rally today on the West Lawn of the US Capitol. Speakers included: Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Jenny Beth Martin, Rep. Steve King, Rep. Dave Camp, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Dana Loesch, Jim Hoft, Niger Innis, etc. and several Tea Party Leaders.
The Tea Party Patriots estimated bwtween 10,000 and 15,000 supporters turned out for the rally.
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Meanwhile, in Berlin today, the pool reporter said only 4,500 turned out
for Barack Obama's speech.
In 2008 Barack Obama drew 200,000 to his rally there:
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Guests await the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obuma in
front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin June 19, 2013.
(Even in Europe, Obuma's losing his sheen)
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"Taoiseach Enda Kenny makes a point to US president Barack Obama and Britain's prime minister David Cameron during a walk at the G8 summit at Lough Erne in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh."
EPIC SPEECH Irish Lawmaker Denounces "Unprecedented Slobbering" Over "War Criminal" Obama
Published on Jun 19, 2013
Clare Daly asks about all the slobbering over the "War Criminal" American President and his family by Irish Government officials on the recent visit by the Obamas after the G8 summit held in Co. Fermanagh:(Americans feel the same frustration perfectly articulated by Clare Daly. It should be noted that the Irish lawmaker is not the only one who wants Obama prosecuted for war crimes. The Africa Muslim Lawyer Association feel the same way)
http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/06/19060-south-african-muslim-lawyers-submit-request-to-arrest-obama-when-he-visits/The Irish Times reports the following:http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/daly-attacks-slobbering-over-obamas-1.1435094
Ms Daly, a TD for Dublin North, hit out at the "almost unprecedented slobbering" over the Obama family's visit. "It's really hard to know which is worst, whether it's the outpourings of the Obamas themselves or the sycophantic falling over them by sections of the media and the political establishment," she said.
"We've had separate and special news bulletins by the State broadcaster to tell us what Michelle Obama and her daughters had for lunch in Dublin, but very little questioning of the fact that she was having lunch with Mr Tax Exile himself," she said in reference to U2's Bono.
She described Mr Obama as a "war criminal", having "just announced his decision to supply arms to the Syrian opposition, including the jihadists, fuelling the destabilisation of that region, continuing to undermine secularism and knock back conditions for women".
Ms Daly said: "This is the man who is in essence stalling the Geneva peace talks by trying to broker enhanced leverage for the Syrian opposition by giving them arms – and to hell with the thousands more who'll lose their lives, or the tens of thousands who will be displaced.
"This is the man who has facilitated a 200 per cent increase in the use of drones which have killed thousands of people, including hundreds of children."
Belgium and the Netherlands consider permitting euthanasia for children – including to relieve 'suffering for the parents'
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(Once you start down the slippery slope, you go down still further...)
Via Telegraph: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100222557/belgium-and-the-netherlands-consider-permitting-euthanasia-for-children-including-to-relieve-suffering-for-the-parents/
Of all the social/moral questions facing us, euthanasia is one of the toughest to draw a conclusion on. On the one hand, nobody likes to think of a patient being left to suffer. As individuals we have a right to control our own way of living and, by that logic, our own way of dying. On the other hand, there's a worry that legalising euthanasia encourages a culture of death. Sadly, the news coming out of Belgium and the Netherlands confirms the critics' worst fears.
Belgium adopted euthanasia in 2002, one year after the Netherlands, and its laws were designed to help adults riddled with "unbearable physical or mental suffering". Today, roughly one per cent of all deaths in Belgium are due to euthanasia – and the grounds on which it is carried out are becoming looser and looser. As the Telegraph recently reported, two deaf brothers opted to die after they started to go blind. They were young and their condition wasn't terminal. They couldn't bear the thought of living alone and in darkness, which is entirely understandable – but the case bends the spirit of the original law.
Now Belgium is weighing up some changes. One would allow patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's and other diseases leading to dementia to sign an agreement permitting a doctor to allow them to die when the condition enters an advanced stage – even if they appear perfectly happy and physically stable. Another reform is to allow Belgians under 18 to choose euthanasia, too. This means that children who can't drive, marry, vote or drink alcohol will be regarded as competent enough to decide whether or not they can die.
Unbelievable: IRS To Hand Out 70 Million In Bonuses
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(Holy Crap... even after all the scandal, they still flout this in our faces)
WASHINGTON (AP) — http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gop-senator-irs-pay-70m-employee-bonuses Already reeling from a pair of scandals, the Internal Revenue Service is drawing new criticism over plans to hand out millions of dollars in employee bonuses.
The Obama administration has ordered agencies to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts, but the IRS says it's merely following legal obligations under a union contract.
The agency is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses, said Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the IRS.
Grassley says his office has learned that the IRS was to execute an agreement with the employees' union Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office.
Lawmakers question Obama's pledge to scale back US nuclear arsenal
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(It is such moves that makes one believe that he does not truly have the best interests of the United States at heart)WASHINGTON – President Obama's pledge to cut the United States' nuclear arsenal by one-third is sending the wrong message to the global community, some Washington lawmakers said Wednesday.
"Now is not the time to pursue further strategic nuclear force reductions," Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said following Obama's speech in Berlin, Germany.
Inhofe was among several lawmakers who warned that cutting the country's strategic nuclear arsenal by one-third would put America at a disadvantage against countries like Russia, North Korea and Iran. Inhofe said the president's plan wrongly assumes that reducing the role of nuclear weapons would make the world safer.
"Instead, our experience has been that nuclear arsenals — other than ours — are on the rise, Russia defies us at almost every turn, efforts to curb the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran are failing, and our allies grow increasingly uneasy about the reliability of U.S. nuclear guarantees," Inhofe, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said.
Government Spends $1.5 Million To Study Why Lesbians Are Fat
(Your tax dollars are being spent on studying why lesbians are FAT.
Lol... Lord help us. As ridiculous as this sounds, it is not a joke)
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(More tax-payer money going down the drain... and POS Obuma and Congress cannot not come up with the bucks for the White House Tours)
$509K Federal Safe-Sex Study Will Text 'Gay-Lingo' to Meth Addicts
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/509k-federal-safe-sex-study-will-text-gay-lingo-meth-addicts
U.S. Spends $228K to Find Out Why Gay Kenyans Avoid Free HIV Treatment
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-spends-228k-find-out-why-gay-kenyans-avoid-free-hiv-treatment
State Department to Spend $450,000 Protecting Transgenders - Overseas
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/state-department-spend-450000-protecting-transgenders-overseas
Feds Spending $800,000 to Teach Responsible Fatherhood
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/feds-spending-800000-teach-responsible-fatherhood
$431,363 Stimulus Project Concludes 'Gay Fathers' Have Less Time for Sex
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ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) — After most of the world's population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas Vivos Shelter and Resort mine.
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That's the vision of a California man who is creating what he calls the world's largest private underground survivor shelter, using a complex of limestone caves dug more than 100 years ago beneath gently rolling hills overlooking the Missouri River.
"I do believe I am on a mission and doing a spiritual thing," said Robert Vicino, who has purchased a large portion of the former U.S. Army storage facility on the southeast edge of Atchison, about 50 miles northwest of Kansas City, Mo. "We will certainly be part of the genesis."
Before it comes time to ride out Armageddon or a deadly global pandemic, though, Vicino says the Vivos Survival Shelter and Resort will be a fun place for members to take vacations and learn assorted survival skills to prepare them for whatever world-changing catastrophe awaits.
Jacque Pregont, president of the Atchison Chamber of Commerce, said some people think the shelter plan sounds creepy or that Vicino has "lost his mind," while others are excited because they will finally get a chance to tour the property.
Atchison is known as the birthplace of Amelia Earhart and one of the most haunted towns in Kansas, Pregont said, so the survival shelter is likely to add to the town's tourism draw.
"It's quirky, and quirky gets attention," she said.
Rest Of Story: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/developer-kan-caverns-could-preserve-human-race
America the Ugly!
by Juidth Brown
http://cnsnews.com/blog/judie-brown/america-ugly
We currently live in a nation where morality is routinely discarded and pleasure is sought and revered at all times. If anyone dares to speak out against this type of thinking, he is branded narrow-minded or intolerant. What happened to our beloved country that was founded on Christian principles? How has our nation's behavior become so appalling?
Compassion for the downtrodden, loving the sinner but hating the sin, and affirming our brothers and sisters from creation to death - these ideals have always been woven into the fabric of Christianity's salvific message to man the world over.
But recent events in the good old U.S.A. make it clear that this ethic of reaching out in love to help someone less fortunate is creaking and cracking under the pressure of government-subsidized disdain for purity and goodness.
It is astounding to learn, for example, this bit of news from Family Research Council's Tony Perkins: According to the Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who led the Planned Parenthood cheering section as Kansas's governor, is taking her allegiance to new heights with the Obamacare law.
Sebelius sezs:
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In an April letter to insurers, Sebelius issued a regulation ordering companies to cover Planned Parenthood clinics in their state exchange packages. Planned Parenthood, which she deems as an "essential community provider," is part of the long list of local organizations that insurers are required to partner with. (Others, Bedard says, include lesbian and gay centers, family planning clinics, and "holistic" centers.)
Further, Sebelius collaborated with the White House in preparation for June's "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month" by announcing special benefits in Obamacare that will make it easier for the LGBT group to receive healthcare. LifeSiteNews reports: [The following are] among the Obamacare provisions Sebelius said were of special value to practicing homosexuals:
Insurers can no longer impose lifetime dollar limits on health insurance coverage, and annual limits will be phased out in 2014. This is particularly important for people with cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other chronic diseases requiring comprehensive, long-term care.
Starting in 2014, insurers cannot deny coverage or charge higher rates based on a pre-existing condition or because an individual is lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Insurers generally must cover such vital preventive services as HIV screening, vaccinations, depression screening, contraception, intimate-partner violence screening, and annual well-woman visits, at no out-of-pocket charge.
Healthcare.gov includes a health plan finder tool that allows consumers shopping for health insurance to filter for plans offering coverage for domestic and same-sex partners.
Such government policies subsidized by the taxpayer reflect a major shift away from common sense in deference to fundamentally disordered forms of sexual behavior—from promiscuity to same-sex relations and everything in between.
Oh sure, some companies providing the required Obamacare exchange package will balk, but chances are that they will knuckle under for fear of failing or facing financial ruin if they challenge the government.
And finally, we are saddened to report that the Obama administration has recently done a complete about-face on the question of providing, without a prescription, the morning-after pill to young girls. The Obama Justice Department is "seeking prompt Food and Drug Administration approval of all-age sales—an announcement that pleased girls' and women's rights advocates who said it was long overdue."
Imagine it: "Girls' and women's rights advocates" are pleased over the administration's decision to step aside and permit the provision of a drug to children that can abort the preborn and may cause deleterious side effects to females, no matter what their age.
Obviously, the Planned Parenthood sex-at-any-time-for-any-reason mantra has totally saturated federal health policy as well as political hacks claiming to care about women. Sebelius' actions are part of the growing force with which she and her co-workers have been empowered to pollute, debilitate, and otherwise reduce to rubble common sense in public health care policy.
There is no debate about it. Americans are funding a frontal attack on morality, freedom of religion, and the fundamental recognition of parental authority.
The Obama administration, including Sebelius—a totally pro-death Catholic—has embraced every teaching Planned Parenthood and its allies have chosen to disseminate. While Americans for the most part continue to validate the gospel of tolerance by their apathetic response to such malevolent government actions, the damage such policies are doing to the fiber of a once morally strong society is unmistakable.
America, once defined as "America the Beautiful," is fast becoming America the Ugly.
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America Loses the War on Terror
by Ben ShapiroOn Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida terrorists, on orders from their superiors based in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, flew U.S. commercial planes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. They would have targeted the White House or Capitol with a fourth plane if not for the heroism of the passengers on Flight 93. Overall, almost 3,000 Americans were murdered. Nine days later, President George W. Bush told the nation, "We condemn the Taliban regime. ... Our war on terror begins with al-Qaida."
Our war on terror is now over. It's over not because President Obama says it is, though he has implied as much over the past several weeks.
It is over because we have surrendered. As of this week, the United States of America is allying with the two main forces behind Sept. 11: We are sending guns to al-Qaida in Syria, and we are entering into bilateral negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan.(http://www.mynameispatriot.com/images/impeach_obama_hitler.gif)
Deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes announced last week that President Obama had decided on direct U.S. military support to the Syrian opposition. That opposition is led by al-Nusra, a terrorist group whose leader, Abou Mohammad al-Joulani, pledged fealty to al-Qaida leader Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri in April. Al-Nusra is known as the most well-organized element of the rebellion, and it has thousands of fighters opposing Iranian-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Nonetheless, President Obama explained: (http://bigreb.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/obama-muslim1.jpg)
"the distinction I make is between extremists and those who are recognized in a 21st-century world that the way the Middle East is going to succeed is when you have governments that meet the aspirations of their people, that are tolerant, that are not sectarian."How is an al-Qaida-centric rebellion non-sectarian and tolerant? It isn't.
The rebels recently hacked off the head of a Christian and fed him to dogs, if local reports are to be believed. But that won't stop Obama from expending American tax dollars to help the beheaders.
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, President Obama is preparing bilateral negotiations with the Taliban. This the same Taliban that chopped the heads off two young boys, aged 10 and 16, for supposedly accepting food from police in exchange for information. This is the same Taliban that still embraces shariah, and still holds an American soldier, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, captive. And yet this week, the Obama administration celebrated the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar. President Obama himself said that the office opening was a great first step toward reconciliation between the Taliban and the current government of Afghanistan.(http://gmanfortruth.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/obama_hitler.jpg)
There may be no easy solutions in Syria and Afghanistan. Both countries are plagued by tribal violence and sectarian warfare. But the U.S.' decision to get involved by backing the very people who slaughtered thousands of Americans on Sept. 11 is more than shortsighted. It is a ground shift in the American government's mentality with regard to the war on terror.
For a dozen years, American troops fought to remove the Taliban from power and to cripple al-Qaida. They fought to create safe ground for American allies and hostile ground for American enemies. Thanks to the Obama administration's morally relativistic, ignorant and confused policies with regard to the Middle East, it appears that their blood may have been spilled in vain.
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When it comes to Syria, Obuma should be arrested for violating a law he himself put into effect? That's the claim at InfoWars.com, which points out that Obama, by giving aid to al Qaeda rebels in Syria is violating the National Defense Authorization Act that ("NDAA") Obuma himself signed into law.
InfoWars: Section 1021(b)(2) of the NDAA law allows for the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups engaged in hostilities against the U.S. such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
The indefinite detention provision also applies to Americans who have given "substantial support" to terrorists or other "associated groups."
http://www.infowars.com/detain-obama-under-ndaa-for-supporting-terrorists-in-syria/The NDAA for Fiscal Year 2012 (its official title) specifies the Department of Defense's budget and expenditures. It is, in other words, an annual budget law... except that, in 2012, it contained something a little different. It now has "Counter-Terrorism" provisions that authorize indefinite military detention for people the government suspects are involved in terrorism. This provision includes U.S. citizens operating on American soil. When he signed the law, which sparked immediate civil rights concerns, Obuma issued a statement explicitly recognizing that its purpose is to help
"combat the threat al-Qa'ida poses."In Syria's long-running civil war, both parties to the war are acting as proxies for other, larger parties: Pres. Bashar al-Assad's Baathist party is a front for Iran and Hezbollah. The rebels' opposition army has been completely co-opted by al Qaeda. Obuma has pledged to give U.S. aid (money and weapons) to the rebels. In practical terms, this means that Obuma is aiding the terrorist group that carried out both the attack on 9/11 (2,996 people dead) and on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi (4 people dead, including an American ambassador).
Obuma's administration is trying to pretend that it can distinguish between good rebels (real freedom fighters) and bad rebels (al Qaeda members), but that's a laughable claim. All of the evidence coming out of Syria about the rebels is that they are loyal to al Qaeda itself or to satellite organizations, and that they see themselves fighting a Holy War consistent with Al Qaeda's goals.
It's instructive to look back at Obuma's aid to Libya. In Libya, too, Obuma provided U.S. aid (money, troops, and weapons) to the "rebels" in their fight to overthrow Qaddafi. Those "rebels" were also loyal to or fighting alongside al Qaeda.... and when the war ended, al Qaeda didn't thank us and throw roses at our feet. Instead, it stormed our embassy, and killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens, along with Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods.
Churchill famously said that
"an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." Obuma has already gone the appeasement route in Libya and four brave Americans got eaten by the al Qaeda crocodile. The Clown's now doing precisely the same thing in Syria.
Had Obuma gotten involved in Syria right at the beginning, before al Qaeda took over the rebels, American involvement might have made a difference. By waiting two years, however, and then announcing that the U.S will side with the rebels, all that Obama is doing is setting us up for another al Qaeda attack... and along the way, he's violating U.S. law. InfoWars.com is right that Obuma can be arrested for what he's done. But they know, and I know, that nobody is going to arrest the POS President.
...Warph
Evidence Indicates Michael Hastings Was Assassinated
Rolling Stone journalist made enemies in FBI, CIA... was it a government hit??
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
June 20, 2013
http://www.infowars.com/evidence-indicates-michael-hastings-was-assassinated/
Michael Hastings conspiracy theories: Web goes wild after NSA, CIA reporter killed in crash
Less than a day after the BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone reporter died in a fiery car crash at age 33, conspiracy theorists are speculating that there is more than meets the eye over Hasting's demise.
By Beth Stebner / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Reporter Michael Hastings died in a fiery auto accident in Hollywood, Calif., on Tuesday, and conspiracy theorists are saying the journalist's death could be a government hit. (http://static.prisonplanet.com/p/images/june2013/200613top5.jpg)
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Hastings died early Tuesday morning in Hollywood when his car allegedly hit a tree at high speed. The Los Angeles Coroner's office has not yet been able to officially identify the body as Hastings because it is so badly burned.
Skeptics of the official narrative have highlighted eyewitness accounts which state that Hastings' Mercedes "exploded".
Images of the vehicle appear to show more damage to the rear, around the area of the fuel tank, than the front, leading to speculation that a car bomb which ignited the fuel could have been responsible for the incident.
"No matter how you slice this particular pie, a Mercedes is not just going to explode into flames without a little assistance," writes freelance journalist Jim Stone. "Car fires in new cars happen for three main reasons — running the engine out of oil, or running the engine out of coolant, or after an absolutely huge car mangling accident, having the hot side of the battery short out against the frame before it reaches the fuse panel. And for all 3 of those normal reasons, which account for virtually all car fires in modern cars, the fire would have started in the engine compartment, progressed slowly, and scorched the hell out of the paint before ever reaching the gas tank. That clean paint is the be all tell all, Michael Hastings was murdered, and the rest is detail."
Stone also questions why a white sheet has been draped over the vehicle in the image below.
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The questions surrounding the precise nature of the "accident" that killed Hastings are given more weight by the fact that the journalist had made enemies within both the FBI and the CIA.
"Michael Hastings contacted WikiLeaks lawyer Jennifer Robinson just a few hours before he died, saying that the FBI was investigating him," the official Wikileaks Twitter account announced yesterday.
Hastings "had the Central Intelligence Agency in his sights" and was set to release an article exposing the agency, according to L.A. Weekly.
The Obama administration and the Justice Department have openly claimed the authority to assassinate American citizens anywhere in the world if they are deemed a national security threat. A number of American citizens have already been killed as a result of this policy. Is it really that crazy to suggest that Michael Hastings was merely the latest victim of this doctrine?
The New York Daily News highlights the fact that Hastings had received multiple death threats before his demise.
Following his role in bringing down Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, Hastings was told by a McChrystal staffer, "We'll hunt you down and kill you if we don't like what you write."
"Whenever I'd been reporting around groups of dudes whose job it was to kill people, one of them would usually mention that they were going to kill me," said Hastings.
Hastings was renowned for being "only interested in writing stories someone didn't want him to write — often his subjects," according to Buzzflash editor Ben Smith, adding, "He knew that there are certain truths that nobody has an interest in speaking, ones that will make you both your subjects and their enemies uncomfortable. They're stories that don't get told because nobody in power has much of an interest in telling them."
The fact that Hastings had made a plethora of enemies as a result of his hard-hitting investigative journalism has prompted a deluge of online comment speculating that the writer's "car crash" was no accident.
"Hastings' wreck might make sense on the freeway, but I doubt he'd be dumb enough to go 100 mph on Highland. He's not some dumb college kid," said one commenter on a local news site.
"A warning to other journalists to not dig too deep," another Reddit user wrote. "Stick with the party line if you want a long, happy life."
If this was an isolated incident then there wouldn't be so many questions swirling about Hastings' death. However, he's certainly not the first individual to go up against the military-industrial complex and wind up in a coffin.
Other journalists who have proven to be a thorn in the side of the establishment have met the same fate, from Andrew Breitbart who was about to release damaging pre-election information about Barack Obama before he collapsed and died in strange circumstances, to Gary Webb, the Pullitzer prize-winning author who exposed the CIA's involvement in the drug trade and subsequently committed "suicide" after apparently shooting himself in the head – twice.
More recently, Ibragim Todashev, friend of accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnev, was shot in the head six times by the FBI, who initially claimed Todashev was armed but later had to admit this was a lie. Speculation has raged that Todashev was assassinated because he had knowledge about the Boston bombings which the feds didn't want to see the light of public scrutiny.
Despite his actions, the murder of Christopher Dorner, who was burned to death by LAPD officers while hiding inside a cabin, shows that authorities will not hesitate to resort to such methods.
It's virtually inevitable that the true cause of Michael Hastings death will never be known and that the mainstream media will demonize anyone who questions the official narrative as a conspiracy theorist. Meanwhile, journalists and others who pose a threat to the military-industrial complex will continue to die in bizarre "accidents" that stink of foul play.
Why hell. I could have saved him some money by sending him to a local gal there. That would make him loose that erection !!
Man sues doctor, says penile implant gave him 8-month erection
Published June 12, 2013
Associated Press
A truck driver who says a penile implant gave him an erection that lasted eight months described in court Tuesday how the procedure caused him to withdraw from much of life, wearing long, baggy sweat pants and a long shirt to hide his condition.
Daniel Metzgar, 44, of Newark, testified in New Castle County Superior Court in Wilmington in his medical malpractice lawsuit against Wilmington urologist Dr. Thomas Desperito. He told jurors the inflatable prosthesis made him feel like less of a man.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/06/12/man-sues-doctor-after-penile-implant-gave-him-8-month-erection/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz2WrKd0jxk
You really do keep up with our silly stuff here don'tcha? We should be honored that you'd waste your time that way. You can imagine how much fun people have had with this one, especially since it got more coverage than some much more important things that are going on. I guess you saw the picture of my friend Nick rescuing the little ducklings too, in a later paper. It's not a very good paper actually; commonly called the News Urinal. By the way, the word is 'lose",not loose. If you're gonna poke some one ya gotta at least spell it right! 8) :-*
Liberal Michael Moore On Dealing With Hate Mail:
"I Go To My Two Lovers, Ben And Jerry"
(Hence the reason he's a fat slob)
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John Fugelsang, host: On a personal level, how do you handle the meanness?
Michael Moore: Well I go to my two lovers, Ben and Jerry.
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[...]Rand Paul On RINO Gov. Chris Christie:
"He Doesn't Seem To Be Very Conservative"
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(Now that he mentions it...)
Senator Rand Paul, a likely candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, took a shot this week at another likely contender, New Jersey governor Chris Christie. In an interview with Politico, Paul said Christie's decision to hold a special Senate election in October "doesn't seem to be very conservative."
"I think when sometimes when you do things, and the appearances are you've done them simply for your benefit, and not the party's benefit, that may be a problem," Paul said. "I think the fact that he didn't appoint somebody for a two-year period, and he set up a different election for three weeks before that's going to cost $25 million, I think some people will say that doesn't seem to be very conservative."
BREAKING: NSA Leaker To Be Charged With Espionage...
Update: Snowden Charged With Espionage, Theft, Conversion
Of Government Property, U.S. Asks Hong Kong To Detain Him
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Update:
Via Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-charges-snowden-with-espionage/2013/06/21/507497d8-dab1-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html
Federal prosecutors have filed a sealed criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, according to U.S. officials.
Snowden was charged with espionage, theft and conversion of government property, the officials said.
The complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, a jurisdiction where Snowden's former employer, Booz Allen Hamilton, is headquartered and a district with a long track record of prosecuting cases with national security implications.
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.
IRS Sent Almost 24,000 Refunds Worth Combined $46 Million To "Unauthorized" Alien Workers All At Same Address In Atlanta, GA
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The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to "unauthorized" alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
That was not the only Atlanta address theoretically occupied by thousands of "unauthorized" alien workers receiving millions in federal tax refunds in 2011. In fact, according to a TIGTA audit report published last year, four of the top ten addresses to which the IRS sent thousands of tax refunds to "unauthorized" aliens were in Atlanta.
The IRS sent 11,284 refunds worth a combined $2,164,976 to unauthorized alien workers at a second Atlanta address; 3,608 worth $2,691,448 to a third; and 2,386 worth $1,232,943 to a fourth.
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Senator John McCain erupted on the senate floor yesterday blasting Republicans for not supporting his amnesty plan. McCain says Republicans just don't understand it, otherwise they'd support it
(Uh.. Yeah... John Boy that is the problem..... the 11 million living illegally. We don't need to reward their illegality. They need to go home and come back through the legal process the way millions of other people have done year after year after year. What's wrong with those 11 million that they can't even get that right.
You would think this Clown worked for the Mexican government.
Oh... I forgot.. he does. When he was running for President, his "advisor on Hispanic affairs" was a man named Juan Hernandez. Hernandez was in the employ of the Mexican government as a trade advisor. Hernandez insists there's no legitimate border between the US and Mexico, and thinks there should be a kind of dual-citezenship for the whole US southwest. So shut the heck up and go home, John Boy!
Oh... and about Bill S.744 that he's so upset that he didn't do such a great job of selling, check it out) :police: (http://3-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/506x717xcrime-pays.jpg.pagespeed.ic.dK96_4ItFh.jpg)
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FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
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Top 40 Reasons to Oppose the Gang of Eight Amnesty Bill (S. 744)
June 5, 2013
In April 2013, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced S.744, otherwise known as the Gang of Eight immigration bill. S.744 grants amnesty to the approximately 12 million illegal aliens in the U.S. and dramatically increases legal immigration, while doing virtually nothing to improve border security or immigration enforcement.
In May, the Senate Judiciary Committee debated the Gang of Eight bill. While the Committee accepted numerous amendments, none changed the core provisions of the bill and many amendments made the bill worse. In the end, the Judiciary Committee approved the bill, as amended, by a vote of 13-5. The Senate will likely take up the bill on the floor in early June.
To help educate the American people and lawmakers, FAIR has set forth 40 reasons why Americans should oppose S.744. We believe this list will illustrate how the Gang of Eight bill does exactly what Americans don't want and nothing that they do want.
S.744 does not secure the border or strengthen national security. Instead, the bill rewards law-breaking and encourages more illegal immigration:
1. S.744 allows DHS to grant legal status (registered provision immigrant, or RPI status) in 6 months, before any measure to secure the border has been taken. (Sec. 3, p. 10; Sec. 5, p. 24)
2. S.744 includes the DREAM Act, which puts illegal aliens who entered the U.S. before 16 on a 5-year path to citizenship. However, unlike previous versions of the bill, there is no age limit and DHS may waive the work/study requirement. (Sec. 2103, p. 112)
3. S.744 grants amnesty to illegal farm workers and gives them green cards in five years. (Sec. 2211, p. 155; Sec. 2212, p. 177)
4. S.744 does not require a biometric exit system at all land, air and sea ports of entry to track aliens who enter and leave the U.S., per current law. Instead, Section 3303 requires only a biographic exit system only at air and sea ports that merely collects information on a form or scans your identification document. (Sec. 3303, p. 556)
5. S.744 does not require any additional border fencing or completion of current border fence requirements. Instead, it requires DHS to submit to Congress a fencing "strategy," in which DHS recommends what additional fencing is needed along the U.S.-Mexico border, if any. (Sec. 5, p. 24)
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6. S.744 does not require illegal aliens to pay back taxes before getting legal status (RPI
status). It only requires RPI applicants to pay back taxes "assessed" at the time of
application. (Sec. 2101, p. 70)
7. S.744 does not require illegal aliens to learn English before receiving amnesty or even a
green card. Under Section 2101, an RPI alien who applies for a green card to merely
demonstrate that the alien is satisfactorily pursuing a course of study "to achieve an
understanding of English and knowledge and understanding" of civics (Sec. 2101, p.
105)
8. S.744 allows illegal aliens who have been deported (for any reason) and/or who have reentered
illegally to apply for RPI status if they have certain family members in the U.S.
(Sec. 2101, p. 73)
9. S.744 does not add any additional Border Patrol agents, who patrol the vast territory
between ports of entry. Instead, S.744 adds 3,500 Customs and Border Protection
officers, many of whom do only customs work, and are stationed at official ports of entry.
10. S.744 does not require any border security measures be taken on the northern border or
along the coasts where more illegal aliens are arriving to avoid border patrol agents and
drug cartels. Instead, it only requires that DHS prepare a border security strategy for the
U.S.-Mexico border.
11. S.744 allows states to grant in-state tuition to illegal aliens—not the aliens who receive
amnesty, but all illegal aliens who arrive in the future. (Sec. 2103, p. 119)
12. S.744 does not end abuse of prosecutorial discretion or administrative amnesty by the
Obama administration. Instead, it leaves in place policies direct immigration agents to
release illegal aliens the Administration deems "low priority."
S.744 does not improve immigration enforcement or public safety. Instead, the bill
undermines immigration enforcement and is riddled with waivers and loopholes:
13. S.744 allows DHS to waive multiple misdemeanor convictions when granting amnesty,
so an alien with three or more misdemeanors still may be eligible for legal status (RPI
status). (Sec. 2101, pp. 64-67)
14. S.744 also authorizes DHS to waive a broad array of unlawful behavior for the purpose
of determining whether illegal aliens are admissible, including:
Gang-related crimes and gang membership;
Three or more drunk driving offenses;
Domestic violence, stalking, child abuse, and violation of protective orders;
Committing crimes of moral turpitude;
Violating federal or state drug laws;
Trafficking in passports;
Providing fraudulent immigration services;
Trafficking immigration documents, including document fraud;
Prostitution;
Misrepresenting a material fact to procure visas or other immigration benefits (if
done for any purpose other than submitting an amnesty application);
Violating student visas;
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Falsely claiming citizenship; and
Illegally re-entering the U.S. after deportation (which is a felony); (Sec. 2101, p. 66)
All other grounds not specifically listed in the bill. (Sec. 2101 INA245B(b)(3)(i), p. 65)
15. S.744 is not tough on employers who hire illegal aliens. In fact, the bill exempts certain employers from existing penalties for hiring illegal workers. These include persons or entities that hire individuals for employment "that is not casual, sporadic, irregular or intermittent (as defined by the Secretary)." This will exempt employers who hire day laborers or other temporary workers, giving employers an incentive to hire cheaper, illegal workers instead of legal residents or citizens. (Sec. 3101, p. 415)
16. S.744 also delays implementation of E-Verify to appease big business and illegal workers. The bill provides that mandatory E-Verify won't go into effect for all employers until four years after DHS issues regulations implementing the mandatory program. That means (based on the amnesty timeframe) it could be at least a decade before E-Verify becomes mandatory for large companies and 14 years before all employers are phased into the program. (Sec. 3101, p. 437)
17. S.744 voids state and local E-Verify laws. (Sec. 3101, p. 511)
18. S.744 prohibits the enforcement of immigration laws against any illegal alien apprehended between the time of enactment and the end of the application period. Under Section 2101, DHS may not detain or remove an alien – for any reason – if the alien is "prima facie eligible," or at first sight appears to be eligible, for RPI status until DHS has made a decision on the alien's application. (Sec. 2101, p. 72)
19. S.744 prohibits immigration enforcement actions, including arrests, surveillance, searches, or even interviews by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in "sensitive locations." Sensitive locations include hospitals and health clinics; public and private schools of all educational levels including vocational and trade schools; organizations assisting children, pregnant women, victims of crime or abuse, or individuals with mental or physical disabilities; churches, synagogues, mosques, and other places of worship; and such other locations as the DHS Secretary determines.
20. S.744 does not expressly punish or require the deportation of any alien who makes false statements in an RPI application. However, it does create criminal penalties and a $10,000 fine for any federal official who discloses information found in RPI applications in violation of the law. (Sec. 2105, p. 133)
21. S.744 does not require the deportation of a single illegal alien. DHS is never required to deport an alien whose RPI application is denied—for any reason.
22. S.744 allows immigration judges to ignore U.S. immigration law. Section 2313 authorizes immigration judges to "exercise discretion" to decline to order the alien deported AND terminate proceedings if the judge determines deporting the alien "is against the public interest or would result in hardship to the alien's U.S. citizen or LPR parent spouse or child..." (Sec. 2313, p. 341)
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23. S.744 allows the Secretary of DHS to ignore U.S. immigration law. Section 2313 provides that DHS may "exercise discretion to waive a ground of inadmissibility or deportability of the Secretary determines that such removal or refusal of admission is against the public interest" or would result in "hardship" to the alien's U.S. citizen or LPR parent spouse or child. (Sec. 2313, p. 343)
24. S.744 grants DHS sole discretion in making asylum decisions, taking the process out of the hands of an immigration judge. (Sec. 3404, p. 571) 25. S.744 allows DHS to contract out the screening, supervision and custody of illegal aliens to community-based organizations. (Sec. 3715. p. 660)
26. S.744 authorizes illegal aliens to bring class action lawsuits against the government for a denial of RPI status. (Sec. 2104, p. 131)
27. S.744 allows the Department of Homeland Security to appoint counsel to illegal aliens fighting deportation at taxpayer expense. (Sec. 3502, p. 583) 28. S.744 creates a new bureaucracy, the Office of Legal Access Programs, to provide illegal aliens with "legal orientation programs" that help fight deportation. The bill requires DHS to make these programs available to the aliens within 5 days of being taken into custody. Section 3503 also authorizes the Office of Legal Access Programs to provide services, including legal services, to aliens in deportation hearings. (Sec. 3503, p. 585)
S.744 does not prioritize the American worker at a time when 22 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed. Instead, S.744 hurts the American worker:
29. S.744 doubles legal immigration within a decade after enactment—and triples it if you include the 12 million amnestied illegal aliens. This is the equivalent of adding the population of Canada – nearly 34 million people, virtually all of whom will need jobs—in a decade. Moreover, this estimate relates to legal permanent residents only, not temporary workers. (See FAIR's estimate by category of admission)
30. S.744 increases the number of guest workers by 50 percent over the decade after enactment. (See FAIR's estimate by category of admission)
31. S.744 creates a new unskilled guest worker program, through a new W visa, to bring in up to 200,000 additional workers each year. (Sec. 4703, p. 834)
32. S.744 triples the number of so-called skilled (H-1B) guest workers who may enter the U.S. annually. (Sec. 4101, p. 674)
33. S.744 also grants work authorization to the spouses of H-1B and W visa holders.
34. S.744 exempts immigrants (green card holders) with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math, also referred to as STEM fields, from the cap on employment-based immigration. This will dramatically increase competition for Americans entering or working in those fields. (Sec. 2307, p. 315-16)
S.744 does not prevent American taxpayers from subsidizing illegal immigration. In fact, it makes the current problem worse:
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35. S.744 requires that DHS waive the public charge law when determining which aliens are eligible for amnesty. (Sec. 2101, p.65) That law prohibits DHS from admitting any alien who is likely to become a public charge.
36. Moreover, S.744 provides that when an RPI alien applies for legal permanent resident status – a point at which many federal benefits become available—the alien need only demonstrate income or resources equal to 125 percent of the federal poverty level. (Sec. 2102, INA 245C(a) and (b) p. 94)
37. S.744 does not prohibit state and local jurisdictions from giving benefits to newly legalized aliens. Many states, such as California, give benefits to illegal aliens and nonimmigrants (temporary aliens) such as taxpayer funded health care and welfare benefits. (Sec. 2101, p. 92)
38. S.744 creates a "slush fund" for nonprofits that help implement the amnesty. Section 2537 authorizes DHS to award newly-created "Initial Entry, Adjustment, and Citizenship Assistance" (IEACA) grants to nonprofit organizations that help illegal aliens navigate the amnesty process. The bill appropriates $100 million for IEACA grants for the first five years and "such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2019 and subsequent fiscal years." (Sec. 2537, pp. 397-99)
39. S.744 does not end chain migration, which leads to the admission of large numbers of low-skilled, less educated immigrants. While at first it appears that the bill repeals two family-based categories for admission, it eliminates the effect of doing so by giving family members extra weight in the merit-based immigration program and by including spouses and children of legal permanent residents in the definition of immediate relatives, significantly expanding legal immigration. (Sec. 2301, p. 264; Sec. 2305, p.282)
40. When fully implemented, S.744 will cost U.S. taxpayers $6.3 trillion in federal, state, and local benefits
Obuma Kills More Jobs!
Obuma administration cuts back oil shale development
Fox News:Controversy is heating up over an administration plan to drastically reduce the amount of federal lands available for oil shale development in the American West.
The Bush administration had set aside 1.3 million acres for oil shale and tar sands development in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The new Bureau of Land Management plan cuts that amount by two-thirds, down to 700,000 acres, a decision that has prompted industry outrage.
"What they basically did was make it so that nobody is going to want to spend money going after oil shale on federal government lands," said Dan Kish, Senior Vice President of Institute for Energy Research.
Oil shale is very different from the oil reserves driving the current energy boom in places like the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota or the Niobrara in Colorado. In those areas hydraulic fracking is being used to break through layers of shale rock to reach huge pockets of oil trapped between and pump it out.
Oil shale refers to shale rock itself, which contains mineralized hydrocarbons. When subject to intense pressure and extremely high temperatures, oil develops. This can be done by mining the rock first or by leaving it in place and doing the pressurized heating process deep underground.
"That raises all kinds of concerns about what kind of impact that's going to have on our land and on our water," said Todd Malmsbury, spokesperson for the Colorado Wildlife Federation. "Water is the most important resource we have in the West. If we pollute that water, if we deplete that water it's going to hurt everyone out here."
In a statement to Fox News, the BLM says it is not against oil shale and tar sands deveopment, but will restrict the amount of public lands available for leasing until the processes are proven, and proven safe. If shown to be viable in coming years, the agency says more federal lands may be opened up to oil shale and tar sands development.
Kish said the decision will effectively put an end to the development in America of a resource with massive potential because the energy industry will simply go elsewhere.
"The Chinese are inviting companies in, companies that may have done business in the United States if we'd had a better approach. And we don't even know the total extent (of the potential for oil from shale in America) but it's basically around a trillion barrels...which would be as much as the world has used since the first oil well was drilled 150 years ago."
Some conservation groups applaud the administration's move to limit development now. "Think about the multi-billion dollar natural resource economy that Colorado and the West has," said Malmsbury. "Why in the world risk our heritage, our hunting and fishing traditions and all of the sustainable economy that comes from that on something that's speculative. It doesn't make sense from a dollars and cents standpoint."
But the BLM's plan has certainly not made all environmentalists happy. A coalition of seven groups has notified the agency of their intent to sue, saying BLM did not take into account the impact of oil shale and tar sands development on endangered species.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/22/obama-administration-cuts-back-oil-shale-development/#ixzz2WxLvj9mJ
Syrian Islamist Rebels: "Anyone Who Curses God Is Given Three Days To Repent, Anyone Who Curses The Prophet Is Killed Immediately"
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(Sick, Sick, Bastards... just another excuse to kill)Via Telegraph:
Nadia Umm Fuad watched her son being shot by Islamist rebels in Syria after the 14-year-old referred to the Prophet Mohammed as he joked with a customer at his coffee stall in Aleppo.
Mohammed Katta's mother witnessed the execution of her son in three stages.
She was upstairs at home when she first heard the shouting. The people of the neighbourhood were yelling that "they have brought back the kid", so she rushed out of her apartment.
"I went out on my balcony," Nadia Umm Fuad said. "I said to his father, they are going to shoot your son! Come! Come! Come! I was on the stairs when I heard the first shot. I was at the door when I heard the second shot.
"I saw the third shot. I was shouting, 'That's haram, forbidden! Stop! Stop! You are killing a child.' But they just gave me a dirty look and got into their car. As they went, they drove over my son's arm, as he lay there dying." [...]
Mohammed was working at the family's coffee stall in the Shaar district of Aleppo when he made a fatal mistake. Pressured by a customer to hand over a coffee on promise of payment, he shouted good-humouredly: "I wouldn't give the Prophet Mohammed credit if he came here today." He was overheard by two men on the opposite corner. Marching over, they whisked him away in a car, ignoring his protestations of his love for the Prophet and the objections of a militiaman from the Free Syrian Army nearby. Half an hour later, they returned. According to Mohammed's younger brother and the neighbours, he was staggering and fell to his knees, and had clearly been beaten. A bag had been placed over his head.
"I heard them say, 'People of Aleppo and people of Shaar! Anyone who curses God is given three days to repent. Anyone who curses the Prophet is killed immediately'," Nadia Umm Fuad said.
(More QUEERS in ski masks:
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(Why in the hell exactly, did we get involved in this very sick conflict? ...
Oh, I forgot.. It was our muslim pres. Obuma)
CAIRO — He was young and bright, with an education from Egypt's premier school of Islamic studies and lucrative job offers in the Gulf.
But Bilal Farag chose a different path, friends say, one that led him to die on a distant Syrian battlefield while fighting Shiite Muslims he regarded as infidels.
"Everybody has their own goal in life," said a close friend, Hosam Ali. "Bilal's was to be a martyr."
Waves of Egyptians are now preparing to follow, fired by the virulently sectarian rhetoric of Sunni preachers and encouraged by the newly permissive policies of Egypt's Islamist government. In recent days, this city's ancient mosques have crackled with calls for jihad, as hard-line Sunni Muslim leaders command the faithful to respond to recent escalations in Syria by the Shiite forces of Iran and Hezbollah.
The Sunni backlash has echoed far beyond Egypt, penetrating every corner of the region, where divisions between the rival Muslim sects are hardening fast. At the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam's holiest site, the top cleric broke down in tears on pan-Arab television last week as he pleaded with his fellow Muslims to help the Syrian rebels "by all means."
Foreign militants have long played a critical role in the Syrian uprising, but the prospect of a fresh flow of radicalized fighters bent on waging sectarian war threatens to complicate the Obama administration's recently announced strategy to arm the rebellion's moderate factions.
Although the United States and the Sunni jihadists share a common enemy — the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite sect represents an off-shoot of Shiite Islam — they have starkly different motivations. The United States is hoping to strengthen the rebels' hand in advance of possible peace talks and to marginalize radical groups. Many foreign fighters, meanwhile, are seeking to defeat what they consider a deviant strain of Islam that they believe has declared war on the religion's true adherents.
Sick Bastards Taliban Gunmen Kill Foreign Climbers In Pakistan In Retaliation For American Drone Strike That Killed QUEER Taliban Leader...
Update: One American Among Those Killed
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(How are those peace talks with the Taliban going, Mr. Muslim President Obuma?)
Via NY Times:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In one of the most brazen attacks on foreigners in the country in recent years, militants killed nine tourists and one Pakistani on a mountaineering expedition in northern Pakistan on Sunday, according to the country's interior minister.
The dead included five Ukrainians and three Chinese, officials said. Their Pakistani guide was also killed in the attack. The nationality of the ninth tourist was unclear.
The attack occurred in far-flung Gilgit-Baltistan, a beautiful, mountainous part of northern Pakistan where attacks on foreigners have been rare in recent years, although there has been sporadic sectarian violence. Officials said that the foreigners were part of an expedition that planned to climb Nanga Parbat which, at 26,660 feet, is the world's ninth highest mountain and Pakistan's second highest peak.
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault, which he said was in retaliation for American drone strikes in the tribal belt.
Gunmen wearing police uniforms stormed into their camp around 1 a.m. Sunday morning and opened fire, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told Parliament on Sunday morning. The gunmen were said to have escaped after the attack.
The Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said they belonged to a Taliban affiliate named Jundul Hafsa, and that the attack was a response to an American drone attack that killed the Taliban deputy leader, Wali ur-Rehman, on May 29.
Update:
Via NBC:
Five Ukrainians, two Chinese nationals and one American of Chinese origin, one Russian, one Pakistani security guard and a local guide were killed at a base camp for climbers attempting Nanga Parbat, officials said.
Deadly Tragedy at Ohio Air Show: Wing Walker & Airshow Pilot
Killed in Crash during Performance
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From Syracuse.com, Wing walker Jane Wicker, who died at Dayton-area air show, had called her stunt a 'managed risk':
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A budget analyst with a daredevil streak, Jane Wicker knew she was taking a risk when she signed up to entertain thousands of spectators at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton.
She said in a TV interview that she felt confident of her ability and said on her website that lots of practice makes her signature stunt a "managed risk." She planned to hang underneath the plane's wing by her feet and sit on the bottom of the airplane while it was upside-down.
It wasn't clear Saturday what went so wrong. The biplane glided through the sky, rolled over, then crashed and exploded into flames, killing the wing walker and the pilot, authorities said. No one else was hurt.
A video posted on WHIO-TV shows the small plane turn upside-down as the performer sits on top of the wing. The plane then tilts and crashes to the ground, erupting into flames as spectators screamed.
Ian Hoyt, an aviation photographer and licensed pilot from Findlay, was at the show with his girlfriend. He told The Associated Press he was taking photos as the plane passed by and had just raised his camera to take another shot.
"Then I realized they were too low and too slow. And before I knew it, they hit the ground," he said.
Wicker wrote on her website that she had never had any close calls.
"What you see us do out there is after an enormous amount of practice and fine tuning, not to mention the airplane goes through microscopic care. It is a managed risk and that is what keeps us alive," she wrote.
In 2011, wing walker Todd Green fell 200 feet to his death at an air show in Michigan while performing a stunt in which he grabbed the skid of a helicopter.
In 2007, veteran stunt pilot Jim LeRoy was killed at the Dayton show when his biplane slammed into the runway while performing loop-to-loops and caught fire.
Organizers were presenting a trimmed-down show and expected smaller crowds at Dayton after the Air Force Thunderbirds and other military participants pulled out this year because of federal budget cuts.
The air show, one of the country's oldest, usually draws around 70,000 people and has a $3.2 million impact on the local economy. Without military aircraft and support, the show expected attendance to be off 30 percent or more.
"Kill Whitey" Black Panther Leader Arrested in Manhattan on Gun Rap
Sunday, June 23, 2013, 7:12 PM
Black racist 'King Samir Shabazz' arrested in Manhattan on gun charges.
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King Samir Shabazz, the National Field Marshall for the New Black Panthers, an "all black army formed to kill whitey", has said whites "should be thankful we're not hanging crackers by nooses... yet, yet, yet". He, also, has "wet dreams about killing the go*damn cracker"King Samir Shabazz was arrested this weekend in Manhattan.
The New York Post reported:The tattoo on his face says, "Kill Whitey" in block letters, and cops say the gun he carried was loaded and unlicensed.
But that didn't stop Maruse Heath — head of the Philadelphia chapter of the New Black Panther Party — from claiming that he's really all about charity and outreach as he was arraigned on a gun-possession charge in Manhattan last night.
"It is my understanding that the New Black Panther Party is the functional equivalent of the KKK," Assistant District Attorney Christopher Ryan countered as Heath, 41, was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bail for getting busted allegedly with a gun in Harlem Thursday night.
Heath, aka "King Salim Shabazz," was arrested on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard as he left a meeting of New Black Panther Party members. The group had gathered to plan a 15th-anniversary Million Man March commemoration, scheduled for Harlem on Sept. 7.
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Twinkies coming back in July with non-union workers
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/twinkies-to-return-to-store-shelves-july/article_81f840fd-cc55-55df-9734-3abcd7dadd0d.html
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Into a lie:"President Barack Obama makes the first extended trip to Africa of his presidency next week—but he won't be stopping in his ancestral homeland."http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-administration-defers-security-africa-trip-costs-skips-211646601.html
Oops!... Yahoo! News Refers to Kenya as Obama's 'Country of Birth'
Posted Sunday, June 23, 2013Oopsie! Yahoo! News goes full birther...
Yahoo News accidentally referred to Kenya as Barack Obama's "place of birth" in a report this weekend on his African trip.
Red Alert Politics reported:http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/06/22/yahoo-news-accidentally-calls-kenya-obamas-country-of-birth/
Things got pretty awkward for news website, Yahoo! News, after an article published by a White House reporter Friday called Kenya President Obama's 'country of birth.'
The article, written by Rachel Rose Hartman, spoke of the Obama family's upcoming visit to Africa, which is expected to take place on June 26th to July 3rd. Hartman mentioned that the President will not be stopping in his country of birth which — apparently to the writer — is Kenya.
Whether it was a freudian slip or a careless mistake on behalf of Hartman, the blunder caused quite a stir, and many took to Twitter to voice their disdain.
Global Warming Scientist Admits Their Computer
Models May Be ALL SCREWED UP
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The Scientists in the global warming hoaxer movement has been looking for excuses as to why the earth hasn't gotten warmer in over 15 years. One scientist has committed the ultimate hoaxer blasphemy, saying that if the trend continues their models could be "fundamentally wrong."
Meteorologist Hans von Storch who still believes in the global warming myth, told Spiegel online:
"If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models. A 20-year pause in global warming does not occur in a single modeled scenario. But even today, we are finding it very difficult to reconcile actual temperature trends with our expectations."
There are two conceivable explanations -- and neither is very pleasant for us. The first possibility is that less global warming is occurring than expected because greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have less of an effect than we have assumed. This wouldn't mean that there is no man-made greenhouse effect, but simply that our effect on climate events is not as great as we have believed. The other possibility is that, in our simulations, we have underestimated how much the climate fluctuates owing to natural causes. The IPCC (the UN's Global Warming group said by now global temperatures would have risen 1 degree Celsius and 3 degrees. However, UK researchers recently reported that global temperatures will only rise between 0.9 degrees Celsius and 2.0 degrees Celsius. On the other hand the NY Times and the BBC have reported that global temperatures plateaued about 15 years ago agreeing with the Met office of the UK one of the key proponents of the Climate Change hoax.
Storch also committed heresy regarding another global warming hoaxer claim, that there global warming is settled science:
Certainly the greatest mistake of climate researchers has been giving the impression that they are declaring the definitive truth. The end result is foolishness along the lines of the climate protection brochures recently published by Germany's Federal Environmental Agency under the title "Sie erwärmt sich doch" ("The Earth is getting warmer"). Pamphlets like that aren't going to convince any skeptics. It's not a bad thing to make mistakes and have to correct them. The only thing that was bad was acting beforehand as if we were infallible. By doing so, we have gambled away the most important asset we have as scientists: the public's trust. We went through something similar with deforestation, too -- and then we didn't hear much about the topic for a long time.
The scientist is still a believer in the hoax:
We still have compelling evidence of a man-made greenhouse effect. There is very little doubt about it. But if global warming continues to stagnate, doubts will obviously grow stronger.As the global apocalypse predicted by the global warming hoaxers continues to be missing, there will be more cracks in their alliance.
Perhaps the hoaxers will even concede the point made clear by the United Nations' IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer:
But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.
That's the real reason for this hoax, not environmental policy, but redistribution of worldwide income.
Wallenda Walks Across The Grand Canyon
LITTLE COLORADO RIVER, Arizona | Sun Jun 23, 2013Nikolas "Nik" Wallenda is an acrobat, daredevil, and high-wire artist. He comes from a long line of entertainers and is most famous for being the first person to cross over Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Tonight he walked across a section of the Grand Canyon. The major difference between this stunt and his walk across Niagara Falls is that this time he did it without any tether or any other safety device. He is now the first person to ever cross a section of the Grand Canyon on a wire. (http://i.imgur.com/9qWAXoE.jpg)
Mouse vs. man in new Cold War
By MICHAEL GOODWIN
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mouse_vs_man_in_new_cold_war_CF9UFQUD0xy88w96tMQYSP
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The photo of President Barack
('The Mouse') Obama and Russian boss Vladimir
('The Man') Putin sitting glum-faced at the G8 summit sparked talk of a new Cold War. Let's hope not, because we would lose this time.
Looking at them, I had one thought: In a showdown, my money is on Putin. In fact, whether negotiating over Syria or arm-wrestling, I want a Putin on our side.
He knows his country's national interests and is prepared to pursue them. We, on the other hand, have a president who increasingly lives over the rainbow.
World disorder is growing by the day, and Obama seems not to notice or care. His big moment in Berlin — a speech at the Brandenburg Gate — was noteworthy for his profuse sweating.
News reports focused on the small crowd, which was a fraction of the rock-star-sized turnout he got there in 2008. But Obama's topic struck me as the cause for alarm.
He proposed cutting Russian and American nuclear arms by a third, an idea so loopy it had the feeling of a bait-and-switch. He had to know Putin would say nyet, and the timing made no sense with chemical weapons floating around in Syria and the rise of new nuclear powers, including Pakistan, India and North Korea.
Even worse, Iran's scramble for the bomb and the warning from Saudi Arabia and others that they will want their own nukes made Obama's choice an embarrassment. It was as if he was trying to turn attention away from the present dangers by floating a tired vision of Hope & Change.
Forget the world as it is, let's dream about the world we want. Maybe throw a little pixie dust in the air and wish for a pony, too.
Dreaming has its time and place, but it is no substitute for action that might make the world safer here and now.
His pathetic performance raises questions: Is our president giving up on containing the chaos? Have the world's problems overwhelmed him?
Actually, I suspect something far more dangerous. He doesn't have a clue about how bad things are.
Obama has never appreciated America's unique standing in the world. Coming out of the blame-America-first faculty lounge, he believes the planet would be a better place if we took a smaller role in it.
That's the vision he has followed by sounding the retreat across the globe. "Leading from behind" is how one aide described it, but it's not leading at all, unless you call running for the exits leading.
The result hasn't been a rise of the good guys who were supposedly held back by our heavy hand. Instead, the vacuum is being filled by Iran and its agents in the Mideast, assorted Islamists in North Africa and tyrants and sociopaths everywhere. Obama is so consumed with his own navel that he hasn't noticed the world isn't cooperating with his vision.
The bad guys have noticed. Putin, for one, has Obama's number. So do the Iranians, the North Koreans and even the Taliban, who think they can kidnap one of our soldiers and exchange him for five bloody terrorists at Gitmo. Maybe they are right.
Our allies must be shaking, knowing Obama won't stand up to the bullies. And who can blame a Karzai in Afghanistan or an al-Maliki in Iraq for tilting away from us? We're short-timers in their neighborhood.
Obama's view is not new to history or unique with him. But somewhere between his dreamy talk of utopia and his policy of neo-isolationism, there are actual slaughters of real people taking place.
Yet the tens of thousands of corpses piling up in Syria don't move him, nor do the millions of people displaced or forced to flee the country. And his passivity shows he fails to grasp the dangers to our national security of the war spilling into Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel.
Ah, but wait, the president does have an epiphany: The world needs to combat climate change immediately. Any day now, the White House promises, he's going to set limits on carbon emissions from American power plants. It'll be a bells-and-whistles speech, one for history, aides say.
That will certainly put a smile on Putin's face. After all, America is surrendering another piece of its economic future and he doesn't have to fire a shot.
Fearful Dems' Silver sidestep As I watched the seven Democratic candidates for mayor take turns swearing their support for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a political lament came to mind: "Sometimes party loyalty asks too much."
It's a no-brainer that Silver's hush money payoff of $103,000 to two women who charged they were sexually harassed by another assemblyman should earn him a thumbs-down from the candidates. And it would if Silver were a Republican or a Dem back-bencher.
But his power frightens the seven Dems, who looked like the seven dwarfs running for their lives when the Silver question came up at a debate.
By saying he should stay as speaker, they put themselves at odds with a majority of state voters. They might also be giving Republican Joe Lhota an issue to jump-start his mayoral race.
Lhota has made little headway, and goes for weeks without making news. To judge from the lack of information from his campaign, his team wants it that way.
But the radio silence ended Friday, when Lhota held a news conference to urge his rivals to join his dump-Silver bandwagon. "We all have to stand together," he declared.
By itself, the issue isn't a game changer. But it could be the start of a more aggressive effort by Lhota to remind New Yorkers that loyalty to party rule means the publc gets the shaft, as the Dems are proving in the Silver case.
Will they also favor unions over taxpayers? Will they stay silent if Gov. Cuomo screws the city? Will they stand up to Washington's attacks on New York?
Those are the consequences when party asks too much, and Lhota shouldn't be shy about saying so.
Hill's 'go to' scandal excuse. Reader Jim Soviero predicts how Hillary Rodham Clinton will explain the sex scandals during her tenure at the State Department. "She'll blame some little-watched, drug-filled, horribly made adult video," he writes. "She'll claim the tape ignited primal lusts, and the filmmaker will get a year. The 'actors' will get an invite to perform at the next IRS shindig."
Careful — don't give her any ideas!
FBI's chilling game of drones Yes, the FBI uses drones to spy on Americans, but just a little bit, here and there. That was the substance of agency Director Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress in the latest revelation about Big Brother government.
"We have very few of limited use, and we're exploring not only the use, but the necessary guidelines," Mueller said.
His words aimed to reassure, but they don't. What does "limited use" mean? And who is drawing up "guidelines"?
If it's Eric Holder, then nobody is safe.
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U.S. Braces for Historic Supreme Court Decisions
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(I wonder how John Roberts will vote since he was probably blackmailed in changing his vote and voting 'yes'for ObumaCare. Do you think the Obuma Adm. will use their supposibly blackmail piece against him again.... hmmmmm..?? Could it involve his two adopted children? ... does Ireland, South America, Rep. Steve Bell, ring a bell.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/was-chief-justice-john-roberts-blackmailed/
Is their a clue of blackmail in Sen. Mike Lee's new book, "Why John Roberts Was Wrong About Healthcare"...? Stay Tuned!) (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BSFuWm2LL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-67,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg)
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This week the Supreme Court will hand down four decisions that will mark a turning point for the United States, and some possible outcomes could even change the course of this country for the rest of our national existence.
The High Court heard 75 cases this year. As this week begins, 64 have been decided, meaning the final 11 will come down this week as the Court concludes its 2012 Term. Seven are run-of-the-mill cases, but the other four are as big as they get. In terms of turning points, there are two major cases involving race. It's also noteworthy that both cases were argued by the constitutional law firm Wiley Rein, specifically two of that firm's partners: Burt Rein and Will Consovoy.
The first is Fisher v. University of Texas. [Full disclosure: at the request of one of the parties, I authored a brief in this case for economists and statisticians.]
The petitioners argued that racial preferences in the admissions process at the University of Texas violate the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The Court could narrowly rule in their favor, or it could go so far as to overrule prior cases, especially the 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, and rule that racial preferences are always unconstitutional. That is the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment and, for me, it is the correct view.
The second is Shelby County v. Holder. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) requires certain states and localities—mostly in the South—to receive permission from a federal court or the U.S. Justice Department before redrawing legislative districts after each census, or changing their voting laws or procedures. In 1966, the Supreme Court held in Katzenbach v. McClung that Section 5's intrusion into state sovereignty is authorized by the Fifteenth Amendment because of egregious voter suppression in the 1960s. Now that America is a very different place, the justices are considering whether VRA Section 5 is no longer justified by the Constitution.
The last two major cases are the marriage cases. [Full disclosure: at the request of one of the parties, I also coauthored a brief in this litigation for social scientists.In both of these cases, there are a couple significant questions of whether they were brought in a fashion that satisfies all the requirements of Article III of the Constitution for the federal courts to properly have jurisdiction over those cases. Thus, there is a very real possibility that one or both cases could be dismissed without any decision on the merits of the case.
However, if the Court does reach the merits, the consequences of the decisions could be extraordinary.
One is U.S. v. Windsor. Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 (DOMA) defines marriage for purposes of federal law (such as federal taxes, immigration, and Social Security benefits) as the union of one man and one woman. In Windsor, the Court is considering whether Section 3 violates the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. If it does, then all federal marriage benefits can now be obtained by homosexual couples and likely polygamous families as well (both native to the U.S., and those seeking to immigrate to this country from Muslim nations where polygamy is legal).
The final big case is nothing short of historic. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Supreme Court will decide whether the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution confers the right for any consenting adults to marry. If so, then traditional-marriage laws will be struck down nationwide in the 38 states where they currently exist, and all persons in every state will be able to enter into either homosexual or polygamous marriages. The case directly involved homosexual couples, but if the right is declared to be any union of consenting adults, then if three or more adults all consented to marry each other they would likely have the right to do so.
The Fifth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are center-stage this week. Given that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, school children for generations to come in America will read in their history books about what the Supreme Court does this week, one way or the other.
Breitbart News legal columnist Ken Klukowski is a fellow with the American Civil Rights Union and Family Research Council, and on faculty at Liberty University School of Law.[/b]
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Jarhead is probably familiar with this expression:
"Artillerymen have a technique called 'time on target,' in which guns from different batteries are synchronized so that the rounds all hit a target simultaneously."
Somewhere, someone or something has called 'time on target' on the Obuma administration. But there exists a certain class of scandal that defies all the rules, that breaks down the barriers between the Beltway and the country at large. Teapot Dome and Watergate are among these. In the past weeks, months, the constellation of interrelated scandals... Benghazi, the IRS, Justice, and NSA...termed "scandalpalooza," has achieved that status. I like to call it the 'Obuma Scandalpalooza'... since his name is connected to each scandal.
But it is the latest scandal involving the National Security Agency that has truly focused public attention. Benghazi had death under terrifying circumstances, the IRS scandal had the most feared federal agency on the rampage against innocent citizens, the Justice Department scandal had reporters targeted for doing their jobs. But it is the NSA scandal that has provided the context for all the others, that has brought them together as a bleak and brooding menace threatening American life as it has always been lived... listening to phone calls and reading America's emails. And to top this all off, NSA leaker Edward Snowden's revelations of U.S. intelligence activities and after reportedly milking the hard drives of four laptops he carried into his Hong Kong hotel, the Chinese government defied a Washington extradition request and let Snowden leave the former British territory.
Once safely at the airport in Moscow, his U.S. passport revoked, Snowden had cover from Russia as he obtained financial and legal assistance from WikiLeaks and petitioned fascist Ecuador for asylum.
Even if the Ecuador claim is intended to throw pursuers off his trail, any number of countries less than friendly with the Obuma administration may be lining up to give the former NSA contractor safe haven. Considering Snowden was charged under the Espionage Act, there are enough political loopholes in extradition treaties to ensure the administration will have a hard time getting him back.
America is in very deep doo-doo, people!
So... where is Edward Snowden?? ???
Where is Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma?? ???
Where is John Galt?? ???
And, for that matter, where in the hell is Jimmy Hoffa?? ???
...Warph
Who's Up to Watch ObamaCare Ruin the NFL?
(Not surprising... Obuma and Sebelius turn everything they touch to pure crap)
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(I would, Helen... case in point: Checkout this next pic for
MEAN & UGLY
and while you're at it, go look in the mirror)
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hopes pro football will make ObamaCare viable. Instead, association with an unpopular law that lacks democratic legitimacy and is destined to fail may ruin football.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday she is in talks with the NFL to help promote new insurance options under ObamaCare.
"We're having active discussions right now with a variety of sports affiliates" about both paid advertising and partnerships to encourage enrollment, Sebelius told reporters.
HHS is reportedly also in talks with the NBA to promote the law.
Partnerships with sports organizations are especially promising to HHS because the department hopes large numbers of young, healthy men will enroll in the law's new coverage options.
Those young men don't really need health insurance. To the extent that they're able, they're saving up for marriage, for their first house, and maybe for starting a family. If they can even get a job in this economy. Those choices don't serve the Democrats' interest of buying votes through healthcare. So our government will try persuading and forcing them to make other choices that serve the Democrats' political interests.
Sebelius has broken federal law a couple of times in office, and by all rights should be unemployed and facing prosecution.
UPDATE: On Michael Hastings Death
For all videos of Michael Hastings death, go to:
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Just hours before his death in a fiery crash in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Hastings sent an email to colleagues saying that the "feds" were investigating him and that he had to "go off the radar" for a while.(http://tribktla.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/hastings-email.jpg?w=692)
KTLA - http://ktla.com/2013/06/21/exclusive-hastings-sent-colleagues-email-hours-before-crash/#axzz2Wfnb6GuF
Pakistani Honor Killing
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(Sick, Sick Religion... a religion of 'pieces', because all they do is leave death, destruction and broken shards of civilization in their wake and "the mooslim in chief" wont say a damn thing about these two girls "that could be his daughters" cuz it might OFFEND the supine, protoplasmic, jellybellied, goathumping, koran thumpers.... the only good thought I have about shiite like this is that these innocents are in Heaven and will enjoy eternity with their TRUE Creator) Pakistan - June 24: A family video showing two teenage girls enjoying rain in their house led to their murder in Chilas on Sunday night. Their mother was also gunned down allegedly by her stepson and his four friends.
Five masked men barged into the house of retired police officer Rehmat Nabi and started firing, killing his wife and daughters, aged 15 and 16.
According to police, the crime was motivated by a video clip circulated on mobile phones and showing the girls overjoyed by rain in the lawn of their bungalow.
The video, recorded six months ago, was circulated in the area four months later probably after a relative sent it to his friends.
Police believed that the girls' stepbrother Khutore took it as an "assault on the honour of his family" and tried to "restore the family's honour" by killing the girls.
Khutore escaped when police tried to get in touch with him for investigation. But, his four friends were arrested and, according to a senior police official, they have confessed to the crime. A case has been registered against the five.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1020541/two-girls-mother-killed-over-family-video
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Fox Poll: For First Time Majority Of Americans Find Obama Unlikeable
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(Welcome to the club)
Via Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/25/fox-news-poll-obama-ratings-suffer-as-scandals-continue/
Barack Obama's job rating remains upside-down — no big change there. Yet for the first time in a Fox News poll, more than half of voters find Obama unlikeable.
In addition, only about a third of voters say they trust the federal government, and most want Congress to continue to investigate Benghazi, the IRS, the government's electronic surveillance program and the Justice Department's monitoring of journalists.
The new Fox News national poll of registered voters was released Tuesday.
More voters disapprove than approve of Obama's job performance on every issue save one: terrorism (on that the president receives positive marks — 52 percent approve, while 41 percent disapprove).
In contrast, majorities disapprove of his handling of the deficit (63 percent disapprove), the economy (58 percent), gun control (57 percent), health care (55 percent) immigration (53 percent) and foreign policy (50 percent).
Voters are also unhappy with the president's handling of the National Security Agency's surveillance (61 percent disapprove) and the treatment of conservative groups by the IRS (55 percent).Overall, Obama's job rating is underwater by eight percentage points: 43 percent of voters approve and 51 percent disapprove of his performance. That's close to his previous rating of 44-50 percent in mid-June. A year ago the president's rating was in positive territory: 48-43 percent (June 2012).
Tingles On Global Warming:
"Miami Is About To Turn Into Atlantis If We Don't Do Something About This"
IDIOT CHRIS MATTHEWS: Why did President Obama try to move the ball on global warming and climate change today? Because cities like Miami are about to turn into Atlantis if we don't do something about this. They're only five feet in the air, and they've got about three feet coming at them. There will be about two feet left of them in a couple decades.
South African Muslim, Union, Communist Groups Form "NO-Bama" Coalition To Call For Arrest Of Obama When He Visits Country On War Crime And Genocide Charges
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Update: http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/arrest-obama-south-africa-s-muslim-lawyers-body_857697.html
Johannesburg: The Muslim Lawyers' Association in South Africa has called for the arrest of US President Barack Obama on war crime and genocide charges when he visits the country from Friday.
The Association has called for Obama's arrest because they believe he has ordered the deaths of numerous suspects overseas, citing this as "reason enough for him to be investigated, charged, arrested, and tried in a South African court for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide".
It is one of fifteen civil society organisations that have banded together as the 'NO-Bama Coalition' to object to his first visit to the country as President.
The organisations include various trades unions and student's associations as well ruling African National Congress tripartite alliance partners – the South African Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
The South African government is undeterred by the planned protests, saying that it might even be good for the country because allowing the protests would show the level of freedom of expression in South Africa.
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(Do gays possess some kind of special fighting
power we haven't been told about?)
Via Washington Times:
The Pentagon on Tuesday toasted gays in the military, with a top adviser to President Obama declaring the country is "safer" now that homosexuals may serve openly.
"Because we repealed 'don't ask, don't tell,' our military ... is stronger and our country is safer, more equal and more just," said Valerie Jarrett, the keynote speaker at the Pentagon's gay pride celebration.
It was the Defense Department second annual gay pride gathering since September 2011, when Mr. Obama signed the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," a ban on gays serving openly in the military implemented during the Clinton administration. [...]
Wednesday's speakers were assembled by a new group, DOD Pride, and featured three senior officials, topped by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
(More SICK CRAP from the Islamic Religion... MOH & BO must be mighty proud)
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Baghdad (AINA) — Gunmen opened fire on St. Mary Assyrian Church this on Tuesday morning, wounding two security guards. The gunmen were traveling in a civilian car, according to a source in the interior ministry, when they fired a barrage of bullets at the church, which is located in the Ameen Thania neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. The church guards were taken to Al Kindi hospital, where one is listed in serious condition.
73 churches have been attacked or bombed since June, 2004, including today's attack. 45 of the attacked churches were in Baghdad, 19 in Mosul, 8 in Kirkuk and 1 in Ramadi.
The first church was bombed on June 26, 2004. This bombing marked the start of a low grade genocide on the Assyrians of Iraq. Since 2004 the population of Assyrians in Iraq has dropped precipitously from 1.4 million to 600,000 — more than one half of Assyrians have fled Iraq to Syria, Jordan and Turkey.
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73 churches have been attacked or bombed since June, 2004: 45 in Baghdad, 19 in Mosul, 8 in Kirkuk and 1 in Ramadi. The following is a list of the bombings.Click here for pictures of bombed churches: http://www.aina.org/releases/20040807203257.htm
Last updated on September 22, 2012. For a report on the persecution of Assyrians in Iraq, see Incipient Genocide: The Ethnic Cleansing of the Assyrians of Iraq.
Click on the date for the news source.
June 25, 2013: 1 church bombed.
Gunmen opened fire on St. Mary Assyrian Church, wounding two security guards.
September 16, 2012: 1 church bombed.
A bomb placed at the door of the Cathedral of Kirkuk exploded at 20:45. No one was injured but the church was damaged heavily.
March 20, 2012: 1 church attacked.
The Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Matthew in Baghdad was bombed, killing two and wounding five.
August 15, 2011: 1 church attacked.
St. Ephraim Syriac Orthodox Church was bombed. No injuries were reported but the church suffered severe damage.
August 2, 2011: 1 church attacked.
A car bomb exploded outside a Catholic church in central Kirkuk, Iraq, early Tuesday, wounding at least 20 people.
April 24, 2011: 2 churches attacked.
On Easter Sunday a bomb exploded outside the Sacred Heart church in Baghdad. No parishioners were injured. A firefight occurred outside Mary the Virgin Catholic Church as congregants huddled inside.
October 31, 2010: 1 church attacked.
Al-Qaida terrorists attacked Our Lady of Deliverance Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad on Sunday evening during a church service. When police raided the church the terrorists set fire to their explosives, ultimately killing 58 parishioners, including two priests
December 23, 2009: 2 churches bombed.
In Mosul the church of St. George and the church of St. Thomas were bombed, killing three people. The church of St. Thomas is 1200 years old.
December 15, 2009: 2 churches bombed.
The Al Gahera (Our Lady of Purity) Syrian Orthodox Church in Mosul's city center was bombed and significantly damaged. 4 persons were killed and 40 injured.
The Al Beshara (Annunciation) Syrian Catholic Church in Mosul was bombed at 10:30. The bomb caused a minor explosion and damaged the wall, but nobody was hurt.
November 26, 2009: 1 church, 1 convent bombed.
In the western Jadida (New Mosul) district, the Church of St Ephrem and the St Theresa Convent of Dominican Nuns were bombed and heavily damaged. No casualties were reported.
July 12, 2009: 7 churches bombed.
Seven churches were bombed in Baghdad, killing 4 and injuring 18. The churches are:
The Church of St Mary in Sharaa Philistine, were four were killed
The Church of Saint George in the district at Madidi
The St. Joseph Church in Nafak, western Baghdad
The Church of the Sacred Heart
The church of St Peter and Paul
The Assyrian Church of Saint Mary
The St. James Church in Dora
January 9, 2008: 2 churches bombed.
Two churches were bombed in central and northern Kirkuk; three people were wounded.
January 6, 2008: 7 churches bombed.
In Mosul:
Chaldean Church of Saint paul
Nunnery of Dominican Sisters
Orphanage of the Chaldean Sisters
In Baghdad:
Rum Orthodox Church (where the guard was injured)
Mar Ghorghis chaldean church in Ghadir area
Saint Paul Chaldean church in Zafaraniya area where, according to Mgr. Warduni, the carbomb was discovered before its explosion and defused.
Chladean sisters nunnery in Zafaraniya
One man was slightly injured in these bombings.
June 4, 2007. 2 churches attacked.
St. Jacob Church, near the Asia Neighborhood (Hay Asya) in Dora, was attacked and the Christian guards killed, the church was looted and will be turned into a mosque. St. John the Baptist Church near the Hay Al-Athoriyeen (Assyrian quarter) was also looted.
May 31, 2007. 1 convent attacked.
Shiites occupied the Angel Raphael Convent, belonging to the Chaldean Sisters of the Scared Heart, in Dora, Baghdad and turned it into a base for military operations.
May 18, 2007. 1 church attacked.
St. George Assyrian Church in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad was firebombed.
April 14, 2007. 2 churches, 1 monastery attacked.
An Islamic group forcefully removed the Cross from the churches of St. John and St. George in Dora, Baghdad. An affiliated Islamic group in Northern Iraq occupied the Assyrian monastery of Raban Hormuz.
November 1, 2006. 1 church bombed.
Unknown assailants bombed the entrance of the Dominican Clock Church compound, a Catholic church in Mosul.
October 8, 2006. 1 church bombed.
Two bombs exploded around 6:30 A.M. near the Church of Virgin Mary on Palestine road in Baghdad. The outer walls of the church were damaged and the windows of many parked cars that belong to the church were shattered. One policeman was killed and many bystanders were injured.
October 4, 5 2006. 1 church attacked.
A group of men opened fire on the Chaldean Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul, the second time in 8 days.
September 27, 2006. 1 church attacked.
A rocket attack was launched against the Chaldean Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul.
September 24, 2006. 1 church bombed.
St. Mary's Cathedral, the home of His Holiness Mar Addai II, Patriarch of The Ancient Church of the East, was bombed. Located in the Riyadh district of Baghdad the cathedral experienced dual bombings, a small IED followed, few minutes after, by a car detonation carrying a large amount of explosives. The bombing was timed to take place as the worshipers were leaving the Sunday morning sermon. 2 were killed and 20 injured.
September 8, 2006. 1 church bombed.
Two bombs exploded in front of the main gate of a church in al-Za'faraniyya in Baghdad. The explosions caused damage to the church and injured the church guards.
June 2, 2006. 1 church bombed.
Kaneesat al-Si'aood (The Church of Ascension) in Baghdad was attacked by a rocket bomb. The bomb caused damage to the church building and made a hole in the church dome.
February 1 2006. 1 church bombed.
The Baghdad Seventh-day Adventist Church was bombed for the second time in two years, injuring an armed guard, one of two permanently stationed to protect the church compound.
January 29, 2006. 4 churches bombed.
Car bombs exploded outside the Vatican embassy and near four churches in Iraq, killing at least three people.
In Kirkuk, three civilians were killed and one wounded in the attack on the Church of the Virgin, and six civilians were hurt in the blast outside an Orthodox church.
In Baghdad, car bombs exploded outside St Joseph's Catholic Church in the suburb of Sina'a and an Anglican church in the eastern Nidhal area.
November 2, 2005. 1 church bombed.
At approximately 5:00 P.M. a car bomb exploded near the Church of Mar Giwargis (St. George) in the Assyrian quarter of Almas district in Kirkuk. 3 were killed.
July 16, 2005 1 church bombed.
A small explosion rocked the Assyrian Church in Habbaniya, Ramadi in Iraq. There was some damage to the roof of the church.
December 7, 2004. 2 churches bombed.
The Al-Tahira Chaldean Catholic Church and Armenian church that was under construction were bombed in Mosul. The first blast struck the al-Tahira ("the pure," in reference to the Virgin Mary) Church about 2:30 p.m. in al-Shifa' neighborhood, eastern Mosul. Ten armed men stormed the church, planted explosives throughout it, and set the bombs off wounding three people and destroying most of it. An hour later, gunmen bombed in al-Wahda neighborhood, western Mosul, an Armenian church under construction. No casualties were reported there.
November 8, 2004. 1 church bombed.
St Bahnam's Catholic church in Dora, Baghdad was bombed, killing 3 people and wounded 40. Police said a car bomb had exploded outside the church, but witnesses said it appeared explosives were planted nearby.
October 16, 2004. 5 churches bombed.
Five churches were bombed in Baghdad in a coordinated attack.
The church of Saint Joseph in the west of the Iraqi capital was hit at about 4:00 am (0100 GMT).
Twenty minutes later, another blast ripped through the streets at another Saint Joseph church, in Dora, southern Baghdad. After another 20 minutes, Saint Paul's church was struck in the same area.
At 4:50 am, the Roman Catholic St. George church in the central district of Karrada was rocked by a blast and engulfed in flames, leaving the wood-built sanctuary completely charred.
A fifth explosion occurred about an hour later at Saint Thomas church in Mansour, to the west.
An artillery shell, believed to be intended for the church, was fired into a car park between a hotel and Saint George's Anglican Church.
September 11, 2004. 1 church bombed.
A car bomb exploded outside the Virgin Mary Seventh-Day Adventist Church in the Al-Sa'doun Park in the center of Baghdad.
September 10, 2004. 1 church bombed.
A bomb exploded at the Assyrian Anglican Church at al-Andalus Street in Baghdad. The explosion occurred during the night.
August 1, 2004. 5 churches bombed.
Five Assyrian, and one Armenian, Churches were bombed simultaneously in Baghdad and Mosul. Twelve Assyrians were killed and some 60 injured:
Church Sayidat al-Najat (Our Lady of Salvation) - Karrada, Baghdad
Church Sayidat al-Zohour (Our Lady of the Flowers) - Karrada, Baghdad (Armenian Catholic Church)
Sts. Peter & Paul, Dora, Baghdad
St. Paul Church - Center of Mosul
St. Elia, Baghdad
St. Mary's Church in east Baghdad (car bomb disarmed by police)
June 26, 2004. 1 church attacked.
Two unidentified men in a silver Opel throw a hand bomb at the Holy Spirit Church (al-Rooh al-Qudos) in the Akha' quarter in Mosul. The explosion injured the sister of the priest.
Ran across this the other day:
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We left IslamDid you know -
*Quran (4:34) orders a man to beat his wife if she doesn't obey him?
Quran 4:34: Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in their sleeping places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.
*Quran plagiarised the wrong theory of ancient Greek scientists who believed that Semen originates from the backbone? http://answering-islam.org/Quran/Science/semenproduction.htm
Who we are: We are ex-Muslims. Some of us were born and raised in Islam and some of us had converted to Islam at some moment in our lives. We were taught never to question the truth of Islam and to believe in Allah and his messenger with blind faith. We were told that Allah would forgive all sins but the sin of disbelief (Quran 4:48 and 4:116). But we committed the ultimate sin of thinking and questioned the belief that was imposed on us and we came to realize that far from being a religion of truth, Islam is a hoax, it is hallucination of a sick mind and nothing but lies and deceits.
What we believe: Some of us have embraced other religions but most of us have simply left Islam without believing in any other religion. We believe in humanity. We believe that humans do not need to follow a religion to be good. All we need to follow is the Golden Rule. All we have to do is to treat others the way we expect to be treated. This is the essence of all the goodness. All good religious teachings stem from this eternal principle. This is the ultimate guidance humanity need. This is the Golden Rule.
Why Mohammed was not a prophet:One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad's life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives and their "right hand possessions" (Quran 33:50) He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way. Muhammad was a narcissist like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.
Why Quran is not from God:Muhammad produced no miracles and when pressed he claimed that his miracle is the Quran. Yet a cursory look at the Quran reveals that this book is full of errors. Quran is replete with scientific heresies, historic blunders, mathematical mistakes, logical absurdities, grammatical errors and ethical fallacies. It is badly compiled and it contradicts itself. There is nothing intelligent in this book let alone miraculous. Muhammad challenged people to produce a "Surah like it" or find an error therein, yet Muslims would kill anyone who dares to criticize it. In such a climate of hypocrisy and violence truth is the first casualty.
What is our goal? We are apostates of Islam. We denounce Islam as a false doctrine of hate and terror. However we are not against Muslims who are our own kin and relatives. We do not advocate hate and violence. Muslims are the main victims of Islam. Our goal is to educate them and let them see the truth. We are against Islam and not the Muslims. We strive to bring the Muslims into the fold of humanity. Eradicate Islam so our people can be liberated, so they can prosper and break away from the pillory of Islam. We would like to see Islamic countries dedicate more time to science and less time to Quran and Sharia. We would like to see them prosper and contribute to human civilization. We would like to see the draconian laws of Islam eliminated and people are treated humanely. We strive for freedom of beliefs, for equality of gender and for oneness of humankind.
Humankind's biggest challenge: Today the humanity is facing a great danger. Islamic fundamentalism is on the rise and the hatred is brewing in the minds of millions of Muslims. This hatred must be contained or there would be disastrous consequences. We believe that the education is the only answer. Muslim intellectuals must realize that Islam is a false doctrine and they must let the rest of Islamic world know the truth. Islam is a religion that thrives on the arrogant assumption that it is the most logical, the most scientific and the most perfect religion. While the fact is that it is the stupidest doctrine — the most backward and absurd belief. Once the truth about Islam becomes common knowledge, it will be weakened and the Islamic fanaticism will lose its fangs. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being expended to combat Islamic terrorism, yet no effort is made to contain the ideology behind this terrorism. It is our belief that Islamic terrorism will not be eliminated unless and until the ideology behind it is exposed and eradicated. This is what we intend to do.
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The Apostates of Islam
EEEEEKKK.... Gay People
What are We Going to Do About Gay People?
While reactionaries and radicals rage on both sides of the issue of gay marriage, Andrew Klavan still believes that people of goodwill can find a way forward and make their voices heard...unless, that is, they're just too darn rational to get good ratings on the MSM news channels.
Report: Syrian Islamist Rebels Behead Two Christians, Including A Priest
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(Very SICK Islamic Savages)
Via Syria Report:http://syriareport.net/syria-militants-behead-two-christians/
Two Christians, one of them a priest, have been beheaded by militants because they were suspected of cooperating with the Syrian military, according to an Al-Alam report.
A video uploaded to the internet yesterday shows two men with their hands bound, surrounded by dozens of people, many of them armed and cheering in celebration.
The two are brutally executed – beheaded with a small combat knife. Echoing previous beheading recorded by insurgents, the head is held up to the cheers of onlookers and then placed on the body.
This month has seen an escalation in sectarian atrocities committed by insurgents, who have been publicly armed and supported by America, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and other actors. Indeed, the atrocities are coinciding with further arms transfers – with new advanced weaponry witnessed in the hands of militants in the past number of weeks.
The most recent beheading recorded on video and uploaded to the internet, reportedly took place in Idlib countryside.
Obuma to unveil climate change plan
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From UPI:http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Blog/2013/06/25/Obama-to-unveil-climate-change-plan/7121372166557/
The plan will include brand new federal regulations to limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, a move that faced stringent opposition from energy producers and Republican leaders.
It also opens the door for more renewable sources, including wind, solar and hydropower energy, to be placed on public lands. And an $8 billion federal loan aims to encourage further research and innovation into clean sources of energy.
Obama's action will raise efficiency standards for federal buildings to lower carbon pollution by at least 3 billion metric tons, about half the annual pollution from the energy sector, by 2030, and further improve fuel economy of new cars.(http://libertariancrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/obama-global-warming-300x187.jpg)
The plan also attempts to take preemptive action to prepare for more frequent severe weather in hurricane-prone regions and for farmers facing droughts and wildfires.
Finally, the action includes a renewed push to encourage international cooperation on raising clean energy standards, particularly with China and India.
While scientists for years have agreed that human factors have contributed to shifts in global weather patterns, efforts to put policy changes in place have been stonewalled by political deadlock.
The president's plan will side-step Congress and issue an executive order to reduce carbon emissions and prepare for the effects of climate change.
Fifty Years Ago Kennedy Came To Berlin
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"Between 1 and 2 million people flooded the streets of Berlin to see Kennedy. "It was a 100 percent unanimous welcome parade," historian John Provan says."
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Kennedy finished his famous speech in front of West Berlin's city hall in the Schöneberg district with these poignant words: "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner'." The massive crowds in the square and the surrounding streets broke into deafening cheers.
"Ich bin ein berliner" said Kennedy and the reaction of Germans was immediate and long lasting. They are moved by it even today. It is a quotation from a June 26, 1963, speech by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin.
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin," Kennedy's voice booms from the Museum speaker in his thick Boston accent. The speech plays in a continuous loop on a large screen. Many who witnessed the president's visit come to the museum to relive the historical experience. "They often sit in the film room with tears in their eyes," says Heinze. "I've seen the speech countless times, but it still gives me goose bumps every time."
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fifty-years-ago-kennedy-came-to-berlin-fotostrecke-98111.html
You can read about the indelible influence President Kennedy had here:
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"Kennedy in Berlin"
What a difference 50 years makes!
But today a man of a different calibur visited Berlin to a much different reaction. He is seen by many as recreating the Stasi, the much hated spy network.
Europeans are not impressed with what they believe are empty speeches and dirty dealings.via afp demonstrations in Germany:
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UPDATE:
Muslim President Obuma Makes 'Alarming Call' To Eliminate Catholic
And Protestant 'Schools And Buildings'
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"Buildings" of course means churches. And notice he doesn't say anything about MUSLIM 'schools and buildings' being a bad thing, just Christian ones. Draw your own conclusions.
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/06/19/obama-offends-catholics-in-the-uk-says-religious-schools-are-divisive-78053
The Catholic media is up in arms over comments President Obama made during a speech while in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit. Obama made what is described as "an alarming call for an end to Catholic education," in spite of the fact that it is considered "a critical component of the Church." In front of an audience of about 2,000 young people, including many Catholics, Obama claimed that Catholic education divides people and blocks peace, according to the Scottish Catholic Observer:
http://www.sconews.co.uk/news/29253/us-president-undermines-catholic-schools-after-vatican-prefect-praised-them/
"If towns remain divided — if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation," Obama said.
Catholic World News noted:http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=18195
Ironically, President Obama made his comments just as Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told a crowd in Scotland that religious education upholds the dignity of the human person. Archbishop Müller said that Catholic schools should promote "all that is good in the philosophies of societies and human culture."
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf quoted the Observer's article on Fr. Z's blog and added:
Another example of what this man wants: total isolation of any religious values in the private sphere alone. Pres. Obama is working either to intimidate or legislate or even TAX religious freedom out of the public square.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of a foreign visit to a Islamic nation where he told people on his arrival that they shouldn't have madrasas. Can you?
Did he when visiting, say, Israel, say "You Jews shouldn't have synagogue schools and you muslims shouldn't have mosque schools." I can't remember. Did he?
Each of the articles drew numerous public comments, most suggesting that Obama be more concerned about the public schools in the United States than their parochial schools, which are working just fine.
UPDATE: On Michael Hastings Death
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DISCREPANCY, WATCH: Alleged Video Of Hastings Blowing Red Light Shows A Car Heading South, But Evidence And Eyewitness Prove Hastings Was Heading NorthThe first video below is supposedly of Hastings running the Santa Monica Boulevard red light, SOUTHBOUND on Highland Ave., heading towards Melrose, seconds to maybe a couple minutes before the crash, according to the video and the LA Weekly article below. However, the witness in the video above, who saw the impact and the moments leading up to it, says Hastings had just crossed Melrose when he crashed, which means he was heading NORTHBOUND, TOWARD Santa Monica, not away from it, as the accident happened about 50 meters NORTH of Melrose. Did he U-Turn after passing both the Santa Monica and Melrose intersections, or is the SOUTHBOUND car blowing through the red light in the video not Hastings's car? And if it is, what the hell is this guy doing driving 100+ miles an hour on streets like this, making crazy, backtracking U-turns? This was his turf, and these are very well-known, major streets that everyone in this area drives regularly (I know first-hand), so he certainly wasn't lost. It's one thing to be going 100 miles an hour because you're in a rush to get home, but it's another thing to be throwing in perhaps hair-raising U-turns for shits and giggles. It just doesn't add up very well.
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The photographic evidence clearly backs up the witness's claim that Hastings was going north. The photo above is facing north, and the ass-end of the car is pointing east, exactly as it would be had he been going north and cut or veered hard left into the median. Had he been coming south (opposite side of the median and opposite direction) and cut or veered hard left into the median, the ass-end would obviously be facing west, the opposite direction.
This photo also very clearly demonstrates that he was heading north, toward Santa Monica Boulevard not away from it, at the time of the crash. The photo is taken facing west and slightly south, with the ass-end of the car pointing east, exactly as it would be had he been heading north and cut or veered hard left into the median. So again, either the southbound car running the red light in the video isn't Hastings, or he blasted down Highland past Melrose, made a U-turn, and started blasting back up north again, re-covering his tracks. Not exactly a travel plan. Oh, and in Hastings's 2012 book 'The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan' he said he didn't drink and hadn't had one in 10 years.
Excerpted from The L.A. Weekly: After the Weekly reported today that LAPD traffic investigators believe the car tied in reports to journalist Michael Hastings was going faster than 60 miles per hour before a fatal crash in Hollywood, we were tipped off to new video showing a vehicle blasting through a red light just moments before that collision.
The video, by freelance TV news crew LOUD LABS NEWS, shows a vehicle blazing through a red light on Highland Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard, only four blocks from the crash:
The video appears to have been taken from a LOUD LABS vehicle awaiting the night's news.
Freelance videographers work the night shift in L.A. because local TV stations don't budget enough for expensive, three-person news vans to work overnight. The freelance crews listen to police scanners and sell their footage to the stations.
In this case, the LOUD NEWS videographer appears to be in standby mode, with a camera rolling, when a car blasts through that light.
Soon after, multiple reports are heard on an LAPD frequency regarding an "ambulance traffic" accident at Highland and Melrose avenues only a few blocks south.
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Former U.S. National Security Coordinator:
Michael Hastings May Have Been Killed In 'Car Cyber Attack'
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Excerpted from HUFFINGTON POSThttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-car-hacked_n_3492339.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058
The peculiar circumstances of journalist Michael Hastings' death in Los Angeles last week have unleashed a wave of conspiracy theories.
Now there's another theory to contribute to the paranoia: According to a prominent security analyst, technology exists that could've allowed someone to hack his car. Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post that what is known about the single-vehicle crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack."
Clarke said, "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers" — including the United States — know how to remotely seize control of a car.
"What has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is that it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a car, and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn't want acceleration, to throw on the brakes when the driver doesn't want the brakes on, to launch an air bag," Clarke told The Huffington Post. "You can do some really highly destructive things now, through hacking a car, and it's not that hard."
"So if there were a cyber attack on the car — and I'm not saying there was," Clarke added, "I think whoever did it would probably get away with it."
Authorities have said that it may take weeks to determine a cause of death for Hastings, but that no foul play is suspected.
Hastings was driving a 2013 Mercedes C250 coupe when he crashed into a tree on Highland Ave. in Los Angeles at approximately 4:30 am on June 18. Video posted online showed the car in flames, and one neighbor told a local news crew she heard a sound like an explosion. Another eyewitness said the car's engine had been thrown 50 to 60 yards from the car. There were no other vehicles involved in the accident.The fire was so all-consuming that it took the Los Angeles County coroner's office two days to identify Hastings' body, but Clarke said a cyber attack on the vehicle would have been nearly impossible to trace "even if the dozen or so computers on board hadn't melted."
Hastings practiced a brand of no-holds-barred journalism that tended to anger powerful people. His 2010 profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, published in Rolling Stone, was so damaging that it ostensibly prompted President Barack Obama to fire the general (the president denied that the article had a role in his decision).
In the days before his death, Hastings was reportedly working on a story about a lawsuit filed by Jill Kelley, who was involved in the scandal that brought down Gen. David Petraeus, according to the LA Times. KTLA reported that Hastings told colleagues at the news site BuzzFeed that he feared the FBI was investigating him. On June 20, the FBI denied that any investigation was under way.
"I believe the FBI when they say they weren't investigating him," said Clarke. "That was very unusual, and I'm sure they checked very carefully before they said that."
Clarke worked for the State Department under President Ronald Reagan and headed up counterterrorism efforts under Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He also served as a special adviser on cyberterrorism to the younger Bush and published a book on the topic, Cyber War, in 2010.
"I'm not a conspiracy guy. In fact, I've spent most of my life knocking down conspiracy theories," said Clarke, who ran afoul of the second Bush administration when he criticized the decision to invade Iraq after 9/11. "But my rule has always been you don't knock down a conspiracy theory until you can prove it [wrong]. And in the case of Michael Hastings, what evidence is available publicly is consistent with a car cyber attack. And the problem with that is you can't prove it."
Clarke said the Los Angeles Police Department likely wouldn't have the expertise to trace such an attack. "I think you'd probably need the very best of the U.S. government intelligence or law enforcement officials to discover it."
Welcome to the 21st Century where...
*Our Phones ~ Wireless
*Cooking ~ Fireless
*Cars ~ Keyless
*Food ~ Fatless
*Tires ~ Tubeless
*Dress ~ Sleeveless
*Youth ~ Jobless
*Leaders ~ Shameless
*Relationships ~ Meaningless
*Attitude ~ Careless
*Wives ~ Fearless
*Babies ~ Fatherless
*Feelings ~ Heartless
*Education ~ Valueless
*Children ~ Mannerless
Everything is becoming LESS, but still our hopes are Endless.
In fact we are ~ Speechless
And our PRESIDENT is ~ CLUELESS
and our Congress ~ USELESS!
Don't Mess With Texas!!
A Muslim buys eleven acres of land next to a pig farm -- a family farm that has been in Houston a long time -- and NOW, THE MUSLIM WANTS THE PIG FARMER TO LEAVE!
That takes a lot of damn nerve! So, what's the pig farmer's response to that?
PIG RACES DURING FRIDAY NIGHT PRAYERS!
I love it! Don't mess with Texas !
Even the news crew is laughing.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/dUr1NxJDC94?rel=0
LOL... Love it.
Here is Part#1 to your video
And speaking of pigs:
Another big, big bust for the Mutaween
Via Emirates 24/7:
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Saudi Arabia's Clowns, the feared religious police, raided a park in the Gulf Kingdom and stopped a wedding they considered as a violation of conservative local traditions.
Hundreds of visitors to the park south of the capital Riyadh surrounded the newly-wed Egyptian couple to take part in the party before members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice entered the park and stopped the event.
"A source in the Commission said the wedding was stopped because it violated local traditions as the bride was not covering her face and the groom was holding her hand and hugging her sometimes," Ajel newspaper said.
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Gallup Poll: Only 34% Think Obamacare Will Make U.S. Health Care "Better"
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A broad cross-section of Americans expect Obamacare to have a negative impact on their lives, according to a just-released Gallup Poll.
Only 22% of those surveyed believe that the health-care law will make their family's health situation "better" in the long run. By contrast, 42% believe that it will make their family's health-care situation "worse." Meanwhile, 33% believe that it will "not make much difference." 3% expressed "no opinion."
72% of Republicans, 43% of Independents and 16% of Democrats believe Obamacare will make their family health situation "worse."
Americans are more divided on their opinion about the health care law's impact on the nation as a whole. Only 34% believe that Obamacare will be "better" for health care in the US, while 47% believe it will be "worse."
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50 Dangers from Obamacare
This list contains information pulled from the first House bill HR 3200. Its mandates and threats likely survived in one form or another into the 2080 page monster from the Senate. This list therefore is only a guide. Let them make you wary and on the alert against this attack on your freedoms. Let it be the catalyst to get you to do your own research and then go out and teach your family and friends why we have to fight this move by people who want to enslave us.
The first list is all 50 of the threats.
In the second list the threats are organized in categories.
Download the sections that most affect you and go into battle against this bill. Copy this material and pass it around to everyone you can.
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50 Threats from ObamaCare1) Pg 22 mandates that the Government will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure. So every employer in the United States will be subjected to a health insurance audit just as all taxpayers are subject to audit. Of course, we will have to pay for an entire new bureaucracy to do this–the Internal Health Revenue Service?
2) Pg 30, Sec 123 states that there will be a government committee that decides what treatments you are allowed and what your overall benefits are.
3) Pg 29, lines 4-16 basically mandates the rationing of health care as is being done in Canada.
4) Pg 42 recognizes the power of the Health Choices Commissioner to determine your health benefits. You will have no choice.
5) PG 50, section 152 states that free, taxpayer-paid health care will be given to the 30 million non-citizens in the USA, even illegal aliens.
6) Pg 58 states that government will have possession of all your health care records & history including finances and you will have to have a National ID Healthcard.
7) Pg 59, lines 21-24 gives direct access to your banks accounts to compel you to pay any out-of-pocket or premium costs electronically without your previous consent.
8) PG 65, sec 164 provides for a political payoff from the Democrats and Obama; a special subsidized plan for retirees and their families in unions community groups like ACORN.
9) Pg 72, lines 8-14 creates a Health Care Exchange to bring private health insurance plans under government control. This part of the bill reveals Obama's lies about being able to keep your plan if you like it. Any health insurance plan which does not completely rework itself to conform to these regulations will be dropped from the exchange and those insured will have to pick one of the plans in the exchange. This is why the Congressional Budget Office determined that over 20 million will lose the coverage they are now enjoying if Obamacare is implemented.
10) PG 85, line 7 provides specifics for benefit levels for all health plans, giving government the right to ration everyone's healthcare.
11) PG 91, lines 4-7 mandates that doctor's offices, clinics and hospitals provide language-appropriate services, basically ordering them to hire translators at the expense of the American taxpayer.
12) Pg 95, lines 8-18 allows the government to hire non-profit community groups like ACORN and Americorps to sign up people for the government health plan.
13) PG 85, line 7 provides for specifics on benefit levels for Medicare recipients, basically rationing the care of every senior citizen I the United States.
14) PG 102, lines 12-18 mandates that all Medicaid eligible will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid based upon income and insurance status. No choice.
15) Pg 124, lines 24-25 states that no private company or individual can have the right to sue the federal government for medical price fixing, basically eliminating your right to seek redress in the courts regarding your medical care.
16) Pg 127, lines 1-16 dictates doctors' payment and therefore income which will reduce what doctors earn and lead to greater shortages of doctors and more rationing of care.
17) Pg 145, line 15-17 any employer not currently insuring their employees must enroll employees into public plan option, with no choice of private insurance allowed.
18) Pg 126, lines 22-25 mandates that employers must pay for health insurance even for part-time workers and their families, which will certainly lead to massive layoffs.
19) Pg 149, lines 16-24 all employers with an annual payroll bigger than $400k who does not pay to enroll employees in public insurance option will pay an 8% tax on all payroll.
20) Pg 150, lines 9-13 mandates that employers with an annual payroll between $251K & $400K who does not pay to enroll employees in public insurance option will pay a 2-6% tax on all payroll.
21) Pg 167, lines 18-23 any individual who is self-employed and does not have health insurance will be taxed 2.5% of income and forced to accept public health insurance. So paying for health care out of pocket will be banned from the face of the earth.
22) Pg 170, lines 1-3 exempts non-resident aliens from the individual health care taxes, so Americans citizens will pay for these aliens, legal and illegal alike.
23) Pg 195 officers & employees of the new Health Care Administration will have access to all Americans personal financial records and accounts.
24) PG 203, line 14-15 actually says that "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it says that.
25) Pg 239, line 14-24 mandates that available physician services will be reduced for Medicaid recipients. Many poor people including many seniors will be affected.
26) Pg 241, line 6-8 mandates that all doctors receive the same pay, regardless of specialty. This will vastly reduce the number of specialists available in the United States, a common problem where medicine is socialized like Canada.
27) PG 253, line 10-18 allows the federal government to set the value of doctor's time, professional judgment.
28) PG 265, Sec 1131 mandates and controls the productivity of all health care providers including surgeons!
29) PG 268, Sec 1141 regulates the rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs.
30) PG 272, Sec. 1145 regulates the operation of certain types of cancer hospitals, again rationing the care of cancer patients.
31) Page 280, Sec 1151 allows the government to penalize hospitals for what is deemed to be preventable readmissions. So instead of being sued for malpractice, the government will be the punitive body when mistakes are made.
32) Pg 298, lines 9-11 mandates that if a doctor treats a patient during initial admission and that result in a re-admission, the doctor will be subject to federal penalties. Gee do you think that's going to drive up the cost of malpractice?
33) Pg 317, lines 13-20 will create prohibitions on ownership and investment in the health service industry for doctors.
34) Pg 317-318, lines 21-25, and 1-3 will prohibit the expansion of all hospitals.
35) pg 321, lines 2-13 allows hospitals apply for an exception to the expansion rule but they must seek community input first!
36) Pg335, lines 16-25, Pg 336-339 mandates the establishment of outcome based health care and insidious idea that actually limits the treatment choices made by patients with their doctors, based upon the patient's health and condition. This will result in the oldest, weakest and sickest patients being denied treatments simply because the statistics for success in their demographic category are poor! This is a form of health care rationing that will save money at the expense of seniors to help buy insurance for the uninsured, most of whom are young and healthy!
37) Pg 341, lines 3-9 allows the government to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans and HMO forcing people into the government run public plan.
38) Pg 354, Sec 1177 will arbitrarily restrict the enrollment of special needs children and adults.
39) Pg 379, Sec 1191 mandates the creation of even more bureaucracy in the Telehealth Advisory Committee.
40) PG 425, lines 4-12 mandates "Advance Care Planning Consultation," another insidious vehicle to save money by encouraging seniors who are in poor health to be more accepting of death rather than fighting to stay alive and healthy and with their loved ones.
41) Pg 425, lines 17-19 mandates that all senior patients will be consulted regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney.
42) PG 425, lines 22-25, 426 lines 1-3 provides an approved list of end of life resources, to help guide seniors about the process of dying!
43) PG 427, lines 15 mandates program for orders on the end of life, actually giving the government a say in how your life ends!
44) Pg 429, lines 1-9 dictates the frequency with which an Advance Care Planning Consultant will have to meet with patients as their health deteriorates.
45) PG 429, lines 10-12 give an Advance Care Planning Consultant the power to order end of life plans for a patient.
46) Pg 429, lines 13-25 will only allow certain doctors, not necessarily your own physician, to write an end of life order.
47) PG 430, lines 11-15 allows the government to decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.
48) Pg 469 mandates "Community Based Home Medical Services" through non profits like ACORN. Happy yet that we elected a community organizer to the White House?
49) PG 489, Sec 1308 force taxpayers to pay for Marriage & Family therapy under the public insurance plan.
50) Pg 494-498 allows government to define mental illnesses and what services will be allowed to treat, again rationing this care.
Down loadable breakdown by category:•For those concerned with the damage this plan will do to business:Pg 22 mandates that the Government will audit books of ALL EMPLOYERS that self insure. So every employer in the United States will be subjected to a health insurance audit just as all taxpayers are subject to audit. Of course, we will have to pay for an entire new bureaucracy to do this–the Internal Health Revenue Service?
Pg 42 recognizes the power of the Health Choices Commissioner to determine your health benefits. You will have no choice.
PG 50, section 152 states that free, taxpayer-paid health care will be given to the 30 million non-citizens in the USA, even illegal aliens.
Pg 30, Sec 123 states that there will be a government committee that decides what treatments you are allowed and what your overall benefits are.
Pg 29, lines 4-16 basically mandates the rationing of health care as is being done in Canada.
Pg 42 recognizes the power of the Health Choices Commissioner to determine your health benefits. You will have no choice.
Pg 58 states that government will have possession of all your health care records & history including finances and you will have to have a National ID Healthcard.
Pg 59, lines 21-24 gives direct access to your banks accounts to compel you to pay any out-of-pocket or premium costs electronically without your previous consent.
Pg 72, lines 8-14 creates a Health Care Exchange to bring private health insurance plans under government control. This part of the bill reveals Obama's lies about being able to keep your plan if you like it. Any health insurance plan which does not completely rework itself to conform to these regulations will be dropped from the exchange and those insured will have to pick one of the plans in the exchange. This is why the Congressional Budget Office determined that over 20 million will lose the coverage they are now enjoying if Obamacare is implemented.
Pg 145, line 15-17 any employer not currently insuring their employees must enroll employees into public plan option, with no choice of private insurance allowed.
Pg 126, lines 22-25 mandates that employers must pay for health insurance even for part-time workers and their families, which will certainly lead to massive layoffs.
Pg 149, lines 16-24 all employers with an annual payroll bigger than $400k who does not pay to enroll employees in public insurance option will pay an 8% tax on all payroll.
Pg 167, lines 18-23 any individual who is self-employed and does not have health insurance will be taxed 2.5% of income and forced to accept public health insurance. So paying for health care out of pocket will be banned from the face of the earth.
For those concerned with the inherent unfairness in this plan.
PG 65, sec 164 provides for a political payoff from the Democrats and Obama; a special subsidized plan for retirees and their families in unions community groups like ACORN.
PG 102, lines 12-18 mandates that all Medicaid eligible will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid based upon income and insurance status. No choice.
Pg 124, lines 24-25 states that no private company or individual can have the right to sue the federal government for medical price fixing, basically eliminating your right to seek redress in the courts regarding your medical care.
Pg 469 mandates "Community Based Home Medical Services" through non profits like ACORN. Happy yet that we elected a community organizer to the White House?
•For those afraid of healthcare rationing:PG 85, line 7 provides specifics for benefit levels for all health plans, giving government the right to ration everyone's healthcare.
Pg 239, line 14-24 mandates that available physician services will be reduced for Medicaid recipients. Many poor people including many seniors will be affected.
PG 272, Sec. 1145 regulates the operation of certain types of cancer hospitals, again rationing the care of cancer patients.
•For those concerned with the costs of this plan:PG 91, lines 4-7 mandates that doctor's offices, clinics and hospitals provide language-appropriate services, basically ordering them to hire translators at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Pg 95, lines 8-18 allows the government to hire non-profit community groups like ACORN and Americorps to sign up people for the government health plan.
Pg 170, lines 1-3 exempts non-resident aliens from the individual health care taxes, so Americans citizens will pay for these aliens, legal and illegal alike.
PG 489, Sec 1308 force taxpayers to pay for Marriage & Family therapy under the public insurance plan.
•For those concerned with the damage this plan will do to the medical profession:Pg 127, lines 1-16 dictates doctors' payment and therefore income which will reduce what doctors earn and lead to greater shortages of doctors and more rationing of care.
Pg 150, lines 9-13 mandates that employers with an annual payroll between $251K & $400K who does not pay to enroll employees in public insurance option will pay a 2-6% tax on all payroll.
Pg 241, line 6-8 mandates that all doctors receive the same pay, regardless of specialty. This will vastly reduce the number of specialists available in the United States, a common problem where medicine is socialized like Canada.
PG 253, line 10-18 allows the federal government to set the value of doctor's time, professional judgment.
PG 265, Sec 1131 mandates and controls the productivity of all health care providers including surgeons!
Page 280, Sec 1151 allows the government to penalize hospitals for what is deemed to be preventable readmissions. So instead of being sued for malpractice, the government will be the punitive body when mistakes are made.
Pg 298, lines 9-11 mandates that if a doctor treats a patient during initial admission and that result in a re-admission, the doctor will be subject to federal penalties. Gee do you think that's going to drive up the cost of malpractice?
Pg 317, lines 13-20 will create prohibitions on ownership and investment in the health service industry for doctors.
Pg 317-318, lines 21-25, and 1-3 will prohibit the expansion of all hospitals.
pg 321, lines 2-13 allows hospitals apply for an exception to the expansion rule but they must seek community input first!
Pg335, lines 16-25, Pg 336-339 mandates the establishment of outcome based health care and insidious idea that actually limits the treatment choices made by patients with their doctors, based upon the patient's health and condition. This will result in the oldest, weakest and sickest patients being denied treatments simply because the statistics for success in their demographic category are poor! This is a form of health care rationing that will save money at the expense of seniors to help buy insurance for the uninsured, most of whom are young and healthy!
Pg 341, lines 3-9 allows the government to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans and HMO forcing people into the government run public plan.
•For those concerned with violations of individual rights violations in this plan:Pg 195 officers & employees of the new Health Care Administration will have access to all Americans personal financial records and accounts.
PG 203, line 14-15 actually says that "The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax." Yes, it says that.
PG 268, Sec 1141 regulates the rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs.
Pg 379, Sec 1191 mandates the creation of even more bureaucracy in the Telehealth Advisory Committee.
PG 425, lines 4-12 mandates "Advance Care Planning Consultation," another insidious vehicle to save money by encouraging seniors who are in poor health to be more accepting of death rather than fighting to stay alive and healthy and with their loved ones.
Pg 425, lines 17-19 mandates that all senior patients will be consulted regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney.
PG 425, lines 22-25, 426 lines 1-3 provides an approved list of end of life resources, to help guide seniors about the process of dying!
PG 427, lines 15 mandates program for orders on the end of life, actually giving the government a say in how your life ends!
Pg 429, lines 1-9 dictates the frequency with which an Advance Care Planning Consultant will have to meet with patients as their health deteriorates.
PG 429, lines 10-12 give an Advance Care Planning Consultant the power to order end of life plans for a patient.
Pg 354, Sec 1177 will arbitrarily restrict the enrollment of special needs children and adults.
Pg 429, lines 13-25 will only allow certain doctors, not necessarily your own physician, to write an end of life order.
PG 430, lines 11-15 allows the government to decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life.
Pg 494-498 allows government to define mental illnesses and what services will be allowed to treat, again rationing this care.
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Obuma At The "Door Of No Return"
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"Reggie Love, I know you're out there... come to me."
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH – Charge Alec Baldwin With Assault and Hate Crimes
Friday, June 28, 2013, 11:30 AM
https://twitter.com/HatingBreitbartAlec Baldwin should be charged with a hate crime for his apparent assault and threats against Daily Mail reporter George Stark.
Twitchy broke the story and now people are taking notice. Alec Baldwin has suffered another major public meltdown, this time on Twitter, and this one might do him in. The details are contained in Jim's earlier post "Alec Baldwin Hurls Homophobic Threats Against Reporter After Wife Accused of Tweeting During James Gandolfini's Funeral"
Baldwin's twitter account has now been suspended, likely because what he did was not just morally horrific, as Jim's post points out, but also illegal.
Let's look at the facts. Alec Baldwin tweeted the following: "I'm going to find you, George Stark, you toxic little queen, and f**k...you...up."(http://4-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/BaldwinHateTweets.jpg.pagespeed.ce.Wgwa4eE1x8.jpg)
Ladies and germs, that's a threat of physical harm, also known as "assault." Does anyone doubt that Alec Bladwin has the capacity to do exactly what he says he's going to do in that tweet? Does anyone think he's being sarcastic? If you were George Stark, should you assume that a raging mad man with a track record of hostility and nearly unlimited resources to do exactly what he says he's going to do is just being sarcastic? I don't think so.
Further, Alec Baldwin makes this threat of physical harm with language specifically targeting George Stark's sexuality. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a hate crime.
Are we a country of laws where everyone is treated equally, or are we living in a banana republic where the connected and the juiced can threaten harm against homosexuals and suffer only a suspended Twitter account?
If you or I tweeted threats like what Alec Baldwin tweeted, we would be facing a judge. Why shouldn't Alec Baldwin? He obviously needs help. Maybe the legal system is where he'll find it.
Charge Alec Baldwin with a hate crime now!
FLASHBACK: Alec Baldwin Calls Andrew Breitbart A 'Festering Boil On The Anus Of Public Discourse'
At least Andrew Breitbart never had his Twitter account taken away from him for publicly threatening to harm people.
Nelson Mandela has died according to several sources.
South Africa – Several sources, other than online, have confirmed that the great Nelson Mandela has passed away last night. The reasons to keep this under wraps was because the family needed time alone and because of several political issues. The primay issue being that US president Barack Obama will visit South Africa this Friday. The visit could be overshadowed by the passing of Mandela and therefore the family and government agreed not to tell the world just yet. Therefore keeping Nelson Mandela's passing away under wraps because of Obama's trip. But we continue to wait for official verification.
BOOM: BREAKING—-
Key witness neighbor John Good dismantled the state's case against George Zimmerman. Good also heard George Zimmerman screaming for help."He was on his back. The person on the top was the same person on the top when they were T-shaped to the sidewalk... Like, there was only one person. Then I could see a second person. It looked more than just a tussle. And that's when I thought it got serious when they moved up to the sidewalk and he was more in a straddle position and arm movements were going downward... As soon as I saw the arm movement that's when I went back inside. In the beginning (I heard George Zimmerman screaming for help) when I saw someone under the person on top."This was devastating for the prosecution.
Rare Bird Last Spotted 22 Years Ago Reappears...
Then Is Quickly Killed by Wind Turbine
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The white-throated needletail made a rare appearance this week. Then it was quickly killed by a wind turbine in England.
The Daily Mail reported:
There had been only eight recorded sightings of the white-throated needletail in the
UK since 1846. So when one popped up again on British shores this week, twitchers were understandably excited.
A group of 40 enthusiasts dashed to the Hebrides to catch a glimpse of the brown, black and blue bird, which breeds in Asia and winters in Australasia.
But instead of being treated to a wildlife spectacle they were left with a horror show when it flew into a wind turbine and was killed.
Here's video of the bird before its demise:
Juan Williams: Racist "Hard Right" Tea Party Hates Immigrants
Posted Friday, June 28, 2013, 9:55 AM(This guy is such a toxic jerk.
Juan Williams smeared the Tea Party again today
saying the "hard right" Republican base is anti-immigrant)
Via America's Newsroom:"There's a Republican element, again hard right, that is playing in the House, that's playing to anger at immigrants. I mean, this fixation with the wall and border security. Yeah, as Mary Katherine says a high majority of Americans say secure the borders. But, building this wall, putting billions into it at a time when we are talking about budget austerity, just suggests the kind of anger at immigrants on the hard right."(Nice smears, Juan, you jerk)
Published on Jun 25, 2013
MILLBURN, N.J. (WABC) -- Police in New Jersey are searching for the man behind a frightening home invasion and assault that was caught on camera.
The suspect, who burst into the home in Millburn and beat up a woman in front of her young daughter, is on the run, and authorities are hoping the nanny-cam surveillance video will lead to an arrest.
The incident happened around 10:30 a.m. on June 21 at the Cypress Street home.
Police say the unidentified male, described as a black man standing about 5-foot-11 and weighing 210 pounds with a light salt and pepper beard, forced his way inside and attacked the woman while her 3-year-old little girl sat on the couch.
He punched and kicked the woman repeatedly, then put her in a choke hold before throwing her down a flight of stairs. He made off with an undetermined amount of jewelry, including the woman's wedding ring, and fled the scene.
The woman was transported to an area hospital, where she was treated for injuries to her face and legs.
In addition to the girl, the woman also had an 18-month-old sleeping upstairs.
Anyone with information or who can identify the individual in the photo is asked to call Millburn Police at 973-564-7001.
The Obama Administration put the US Marines were on alert in southern Europe today as a precaution in advance of massive protests expected in Egypt.
But the Obama Administration wouldn't send US Marines in Europe to assist
the US Ambassador in Benghazi on 9-11.
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Four Americans were killed in the Benghazi terrorist attacks on 9-11 including the US ambassador.
CNN reported:U.S. Marines stationed in southern Europe have been put on alert as a precaution in advance of expected large demonstrations and potential unrest in Egypt this weekend, CNN has learned.
About 200 combat capable Marines in Sigonella, Italy, and Moron, Spain, have been told to be ready to be airborne within 60 minutes of getting orders to deploy, according to two administration officials.
The units have several V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft that would carry troops and infantry weapons to Egypt to protect the U.S. Embassy and American government personnel and citizens if violence broke out against Americans.
The planned demonstrations are aimed against the Egyptian government.
The officials both emphasized this is contingency planning in advance of the expected demonstrations to ensure American military assets, including rescue forces, can act if needed. In the event Americans had to be evacuated from Egypt and could not get to the airport due to the unrest, there are about 2,000 additional Marines on board three Navy warships in the Red Sea, officials said.
A third official said the decision to keep the warship in the Red Sea was "very precautionary."
The United States expects Egyptian security forces will be able to protect American assets and personnel. No plans for personnel to leave have been announced, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said Friday.(You just can't make this stuff up)
Ahead of Obama's visit, Africans feel he hasn't lived up to promises
(Obuma visited Goree Island near Dakar, Senegal on June 27, 2013. The island is where African slaves in past centuries were shipped west. This wasn't the only area of Africa he visited though. Check out this photo of a small child waiting to see Obuma and notice, he's a birther! His shirt reads "Welcome home Mr. President." But he wasn't the only one getting his "birther" on) (http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/062813_1744_AfricanBirt11.jpg)
A child waits to catch a glimpse of U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Goree Island near Dakar, Senegal, June 27, 2013. Obama visited the island on Thursday where African slaves in past centuries were shipped west. REUTERS/Jason Reed
The Washington Post reports:
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"The questions we get are, 'Why has the president not been to Africa more?' " deputy national security director Benjamin Rhodes said. "That tracks with our belief that there is extraordinary potential on the continent. If we look back in 20 years, 30 years from now, we may see this as a potentially pivotal moment in which Africa took off."
Aides sketched out an ambitious itinerary for Obama, including bilateral meetings with the presidents of the three countries, as well as visits to Senegal's Supreme Court to emphasize the importance of an independent judicial system and to a Tanzanian power plant to highlight programs to increase access to electricity.
Obama also plans to speak with youth leaders in Cape Town, South Africa, building on the administration's focus on developing the next generation of political leadership on a continent where nearly one-third of the population is between the ages of 10 and 24. He will deliver a major address at a prominent university in that city to lay out his second-term Africa policy.
Noticeably missing from the article was any mention of the picture at the top of the article (seen below). (http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/062813_1744_AfricanBirt21.jpg)
Artist Ouzin puts the finishing touches on a painting honoring the upcoming visit to Dakar by President Obama. Senegalese President Macky Sall is pictured on the right of the painting. (Joe Penny/Reuters)
My guess is the reason for less trips to Africa is that it may draw more attention like this to where Barack Obama was actually born. The man is a usurper and our military should be making the move to remove him from office and then follow it up with a military trial and if he is found guilty, execution. I call on the military to deal with this, since the Congress of the United States seems unwilling to do their duty to the people of the United States. This is nothing more than flaunting it in our faces.(http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/062813_1744_AfricanBirt31.jpg)
Signs showing U.S. President Barack Obama alongside Senegalese President Macky Sall saying "Welcome Home" are positioned along the roadway, Thursday, June 27, 2013 in Dakar, Senegal. President Obama arrived in Senegal Wednesday night to kick off a weeklong trip to Africa, a three-country visit aimed at overcoming disappointment on the continent over the first black U.S. president's lack of personal engagement during his first term. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)(If this wasn't enough, just let Barack, or Michelle, or even the Kenyan Ambassador tell you that Obama was not born in the US in their own words here):Kenyan Ambassador admits Obama born in Kenya
The Mike In The Morning show on WRIF radio, in Detroit,
Michigan, called the Kenyan Embassy, and spoke to the Kenyan
Ambassador to the United States, Peter Ogego, who admitted that it is a well known fact that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, and plans are underway to build a memorial at the site of his birth.The entire phone call can be heard here:
http://my.wrif.com/mim/?p=916
This email sent to me this a.m.:June 25, 2013 by Dean Garrison
Arizona Voters Look To Recall Sens. McCain & Flake Following Amnesty Vote
A new website is calling for a grassroots effort to recall Arizona Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain. The recall petitions are based firmly on the grounds of the Senators' support of the Immigration Reform Amnesty Bill. The two "Gang of Eight" Senators have chosen to turn their backs on those who voted them into office and it is high time that Arizona gets their payback on the two RINO Senators.
The website, senatorflake.com , is very simple. They are not begging for donations and do not appear to be in the data harvesting business. This would appear to be an individual or group of citizens who have simply had enough and are looking to take action. Arizona's Constitution, Article 8, Section 1 states: Every public officer in the state of Arizona, holding an elective office, either by election or appointment, is subject to recall from such office by the qualified electors of the electoral district from which candidates are elected to such office. Such electoral district may include the whole state. Such number of said electors as shall equal twenty-five per centum of the number of votes cast at the last preceding general election for all of the candidates for the office held by such officer, may by petition, which shall be known as a recall petition, demand his recall. The site originally started with a singular goal to recall Jeff Flake but due to popular demand they decided to add John McCain to their hit list. The site features this YouTube video which clearly shows the complete turnaround McCain has done on immigration reform.
"Complete the danged fence." Those are John McCain's exact words.
The grounds for recall of Jeff Flake are listed as follows: Recall Statement of Grounds:
Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona has proven in his recent voting record that he does not represent his Arizona constituents, and instead votes in direct opposition to Conservative and Republican interests. Mr Flake voted to reward criminal foreign national illegal aliens with legal status before even attempting to secure our sovereign borders. In the Judiciary Committee, Jeff voted against meaningful E-verify enforcement, and he even voted against a measure introduced by Senator Cruz that would block instant access to state and federal welfare benefits for illegal aliens. Jeff Flake is proposing an immigration reform bill S.744 that abdicates Congressional authority to the Secretary of DHS, delays enforcement measures for years, and calls for plans rather than actual security on our sovereign borders and ports of entry. His votes display an utter disdain for the rule of law, national security, and the welfare of taxpaying citizens. We demand he be immediately recalled from office. Again, this would very much appear to be a citizen organized grassroots effort with little or no money behind it. This makes it that much more important that people take action. Those who do not live in Arizona can help by simply spreading the word through social networks, forums and emails. If you have a blog you can use this article if you would like. I don't mind at all.
For those of you who do live in Arizona this will take some leg work. There is a PDF file for both McCain and Flake that you can print out and pass around. You will need to talk to your friends and help get as many signatures as possible. They will begin to collect those signatures after July 4th, 2013.
I think it's important to note that the people of Colorado have successfully gained enough signatures for recall elections of two state senators. This can be done but it will take effort. Again, those who live outside of Arizona can help by simply spreading the word.
The petition to recall Jeff Flake and John McCain can be found here.
http://senatorflake.com/recall-senator-mccain/
You know that you want to sign them both.
This is NOT solely Arizona's fight. America needs to respond to help them. We may not all be able to sign the petitions but we can make sure more people know about them.
If Colorado can do it, Arizona can to. We must think positive and do it.
No excuses. No defeatist talk. It can be done.
For those who think that this problem rests solely on the shoulders of the people of Arizona you have simply not been paying attention.
Every blue-blooded-freedom-loving American wants these two Senators gone. Let's put them both out to pasture.
No more Amnesty for RINOs
UNBELIEVABLE!!!! BREAKING NEWS: YOU'VE GOT TO HEAR THIS!!!!
Ted Cruz Exposes Amnesty Bill:
$5000 Penalty For Hiring Citizens Over Legalized Aliens
(We can't possibly expect our Senators to read a 1200 page bill before voting on it. Can we? Well Thank God Ted Cruz read it. Not only did Cruz read it but he schooled anyone who would listen from the Senate floor on Tuesday. Cruz found a loophole that actually penalizes an employer $5000 for hiring a citizen over a legalized alien. Seriously. You can't make this stuff up
Senator Cruz was quoted as saying): "I filed an amendment that would have corrected one of the most egregious aspects of the gang of eight bill as it intersects with Obamacare legislation, namely a penalty imposed on U.S. employers for hiring U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents. This bill says if an employer hires a citizen or a legal immigrant, the IRS can impose a $5,000 penalty on that employer. But if the employer instead hires someone with RPI status, that penalty will go away. That is utterly and completely indefensible."
"Nobody in this body wants to see African-American unemployment go up. Nobody wants to see Hispanic unemployment go up, youth unemployment go up, union household unemployment go up, legal immigrant unemployment go up. Yet every one of those will happen if this Gang of Eight bill passes without fixing this problem. If that happens, all 100 members of the U.S. Senate will be accountable to our constituents for explaining why we voted to put a federal penalty on hiring U.S. citizens and hiring legal immigrants. I hope this body will choose to pass my amendment and fix this grave defect in the Gang of Eight legislation."(It would be very interesting to know whose hand was responsible for slipping this into the bill but it surely won't be the only surprise that comes from a 1200 page bill that has not been scrutinized by the majority of those who voted to pass it) John Hayward reports: Cruz already weathered a few hilariously botched attempts to "fact-check" his claim into oblivion, which ended with the "fact checkers" admitting he was right about the problem, but questioning whether employers would respond to this incentive on the scale he envisions. (That, of course, is a difference of opinion, not a fact check.)
For added fun, the Weekly Standard collared five of the Democrat senators who voted to cut off debate on the immigration bill, and asked for their take on the problem Cruz describes. None of them knew if the loophole had been addressed yet. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) babbled something incoherent that had nothing to do with the question; Tom Carper (D-DE) snarled that he was too busy to answer the question; and Max "Train Wreck" Baucus, the author of ObamaCare, mumbled: "We're trying to solve that right now... I don't know if that's been solved."
America, what in the hell are these Senators trying to sell us? I don't even know where to begin with this story so I believe I will stop while I am ahead. Senator Cruz sums up the problem really well in the video. I will defer to the expert.
As my friend Jessica Smith told me yesterday when she passed this on, "Are you ready for your head to explode?" I think it already has Jessica.
This is unreal, unbelievable and unforgivable)
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Hillary Gets 'Liberty Medal' After Lying About Benghazi
--American ThinkerWhat do you receive for getting four Americans killed in Benghazi, including our ambassador? Just ask Hillary Clinton. (http://theiowarepublican.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Hillary-Angry-Benghazi.jpg)
On September 10--exactly a day short of one year after she and Obama allowed their own officials to die in real time--Clinton will be awarded the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal.
From Constitution Daily: "The Liberty Medal recognizes individuals who have furthered the ideals of freedom, democracy, and equality, often against great odds," said National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen. "Hillary Clinton has devoted her life to expanding opportunities for 'We the People' not just in this country but around the globe."
As the 67th Secretary of State, Clinton broke national and global barriers. She was the first First Lady to serve in a presidential Cabinet...As Secretary of State, Clinton advocated for "smart power" in foreign policy, elevating diplomacy and development and repositioning them for the 21st century--with new tools, technologies, and partners, including the private sector and civil society around the world.Here's "smart power" in action. During a Senate hearing, after the 2012 election, Senators asked the Secretary of State whether she had read cables coming from Benghazi requesting security; Clinton drew a blank. She replied, "With specific security requests, they didn't come to me; I had no knowledge of them."
If anyone is still wondering how a woman who lied to Congress and left four Americans dead can be honored with a liberty award look no further than the Chairman of the National Constitution Center, Jeb Bush.
Former Secretary Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy...These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year's Liberty Medal.
Tell me, Governor Bush, what does Ambassador Stevens get for making the ultimate sacrifice? How about Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty? Will the families of the dead be present for Hillary's award? I am sure they will have a few words about Hillary's skill, courage, and dedication in supporting those who serve our country and put their lives on the line.
Since when does letting Americans die and then lying about it deserve a medal? In the cesspool where corrupt politicians like Hillary and Jeb hang out, the more you mess up, the more you get rewarded! Recently, sex addict Bill Clinton received the Father of the Year award and a President who proved he gets off on drone strikes managed to pick up a Nobel Peace Prize before anyone realized he was a hawk.
So just ignore Hillary's terrible record as Secretary of State and ignore the ambassador and staff she failed to protect. Remember, that "Hillary Clinton has devoted her life to expanding opportunities for 'We the People' not just in this country but around the globe."
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Impeach Obama rally causes 10-mile traffic jam
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A TEA Party sponsored "Impeach Obama" demonstration on a major Southern California freeway overpass caused traffic to backup at least ten miles, as the organizer apologized for "any small inconvenience" drivers may have dealt with, as reported by the San Diego-based local news portal the Carlsbad Patch on June 9, 2013.
Flying a number of American flag as well as the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party-adopted Gadsen flag, protesters flashed to motorists on the Interstate 5 southbound lanes in Carlsbad, California placards stating "Remember Benghazi," "Obama Lies" and "Amnesty Hell No!"
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Organizers estimated between 25,000 and 30,000 vehicles would drive under the Tamarack Rd. overpass where the protesters set up shop.
By 12:15, the notoriously slow California freeway traffic had become a slow flowing parking lot from the protest site all the way back to the main gate of the sprawling Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, ten miles distant.[/b]
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Tea Party supporters rally in front of the IRS building May 21, 2013 in Washington, D.C., to protest the abuse of power from the IRS in targeting tea party and grassroots organizations for harassment. (Olivier Douliery / May 17, 2013) Chicago Tribune Editorial: Where's the special prosecutor?
The IRS scandal demands an independent investigation
June 30, 2013"It's inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am angry about it. I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives. ... I'll do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this happens again by holding the responsible parties accountable ...."
— President Barack Obama condemning "misconduct" at the Internal Revenue Service,
May 15, 2013All of us understand that IRS misconduct, right? And we know which parties Obama needs to hold accountable. It's obvious, right? End of story:We learned at the get-go of this scandal that, during a long run-up to the 2012 presidential election, IRS officials extensively hassled conservative groups that had applied for tax-exempt status. Congressional Republicans pounced on this as an attempt to hijack the election.
But wait. Early last week we read that the agency used keywords such as "progressive" to target left-leaning groups, too, for extra scrutiny. "New IRS chief: Lists targeted more than tea partyers," said the Chicago Tribune. "Documents Show Liberals in I.R.S. Dragnet," said The New York Times. Congressional Democrats pounced on the suggestion that the agency had treated conservatives and liberals with equal indignity.
But wait some more. On Wednesday a Treasury Department inspector general undercut the equal-abuse argument: From May 2010 to May 2012, the IRS had flagged for added scrutiny six of the 20 applicant groups with words such as "progressive" in their titles. "In comparison, our audit found that 100 percent of the (292) tax-exempt applications with Tea Party, Patriots or 9/12 in their names were processed as potential political cases" — that is, groups possibly too political to merit tax-exempt status. "While we have multiple sources of information corroborating the use of tea party and other related criteria," wrote Inspector General J. Russell George, "including employee interviews, emails and other documents, we found no indication in any of these other materials that 'progressives' was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political-campaign intervention."
Translation: The IRS was overwhelmingly one-sided in scrutinizing applications. And the agency evidently was completely one-sided in subjecting only conservative groups to long processing delays and lengthy, often peculiar requests. Example: The IRS asked an Iowa anti-abortion group "how all of your activities, including the prayer meetings held outside of Planned Parenthood, are considered educational as defined
under 501(c)(3) ...."So that's where things stand — until fresh reporting, a document leak or perhaps a confession sends the story in some new direction. But seven weeks into this scandal, the fact most Americans know best is that ... they still don't know much that's definitive. The murky intrigue over who provoked what at this agency has become a playpen for politicians.
Three among many crucial questions still scream for answers:
•Did someone nudge IRS employees to hassle certain groups or did agency officials spontaneously decide to do that?
•Inspector General George has testified that in June 2012, five months before the election, he told top Treasury Department officials of his probe into IRS targeting. Did his news, with its potential to rock the presidential campaign, stop atop Treasury — or did it make its way even higher in the administration?
•At multiple points in 2012, why did top IRS officials repeatedly mislead Congress by not disclosing — in response to highly specific questions — that the agency was targeting conservative groups?We can only speculate on which tools will unlock the grimy secrets of this egregious misuse of government authority. An ongoing self-examination by the IRS is laughably untrustworthy. The U.S. Department of Justice also is on the case.
But as we wrote May 23, many Americans won't be much interested in what one arm of the Obama administration concludes about the conduct of other arms — the IRS, the Treasury and possibly the White House. There are times when only a special prosecutor has the independence and credibility to resolve such a politically fraught matter.
Why hasn't Attorney General Eric Holder appointed a special prosecutor? The White House, too, should be clamoring for one: The feds are only three months from enrolling Americans in Obamacare, a program that relies on citizens' willingness to have the IRS even more involved in the financial details of their lives.
We applauded when Obama said he would make sure there will be no such future scandal. But lofty pledges aren't enough. The president and his underlings ought to be instructing a special prosecutor to unravel the still mysterious scandal that confronts them today.
In Case you missed Bret Baier's Special on "Benghazi: The Truth Behind the Smokescreen"...
here it is in its entirety:(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BN4IN86CMAAYRuk.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWwFmZfr5y0&feature=youtu.be
It was last night, but there are supposed to be rebroadcasts, including tomorrow night, Sunday, at 9 pm on FOX.
Al Nusra Front Says It Carried Out Suicide Bombing Attacks
With Obuma-Backed Free Syrian Army Units
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(Congrats Obuma! You are now officially a sponsor of global terrorism!)
Via LWJ:http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/06/al_nusrah_front_clai_14.php
The Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, claimed it launched two suicide assaults and other attacks with Syrian rebel groups, including an Islamist unit and two Free Syrian Army brigades.
The Al Nusrah Front made the claims in a series of statements released on June 27 by its official media outlet, the Al-Manara Al-Baydha' Foundation. The statements were obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
The attacks were carried out in conjunction with the Nasser Salahuddin Brigade, an Islamist group from the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front, and the Dera' al Assima, Liwa al Habib al Mustafa, and Liwa' al-Tawhid, three Free Syrian Army brigades that operate in Damascus.
The Al Nusrah Front said the two suicide assaults took place "in Eastern Ghouta in the countryside of Damascus" on April 22. Al Nusrah Front suicide bombers targeted two "barriers," or outposts, with explosives-packed cars.
"That was in order to open the way for the storming lions of the Al Nusrah Front and the Nasser Salahuddin Brigade to raid the two barriers and comb them," the statement said, according to SITE. The Al Nusrah Front claimed that "more than 150 soldiers" were killed and two tanks were destroyed in the operation.
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Obama Calls Rubio To Congratulate Him On The Immigration Bill
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(A call from Obuma should give him a clue that this was wrong... Recall time, Marco... you, and the whole damn "Gang of Eight")
Via Breitbart:On Friday, President Obama took time out from his trip to Africa to call members of Senate's so-called "Gang of Eight," including Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), to congratulate them on the immigration reform bill that passed the Senate on Thursday in a 68-32 vote.
Obama was unable to actually reach Rubio. Obama also called Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) to push him to take up the Senate's immigration reform package.
Jay Carney, White House spokesman, did not say what the president's strategy would be on dealing with the House over immigration reform. Carney added that the bill "enjoyed substantial bipartisan support in the Senate," and said that the president would make clear to the House "what our principles are and to provide the significant amount of policy expertise that we have, and data that we have, and to be as helpful to the process as we can."
Homeland Security Watchdog Accused Of Whitewashing Report,
Cover-Up And Fraud
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(Watchdog not only not watching, but covering things up himself, allegedly committing his own fraud. This is the Deputy Inspector General, because Clown Obuma hasn't gotten around to proposing another candidate that might call out his administration)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/28/homeland-security-watchdog-accused-of-whitewashing-report/
The man in charge of policing waste, fraud and abuse at the federal government's third-largest department has been accused of suppressing a politically sensitive report, violating anti-nepotism laws and misusing agency resources, according to a letter from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.
Charles Edwards, Deputy Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security and de facto head of the office, was ordered by Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson to provide sixteen separate document sets related to the allegations by July 19.
"This is supposed to be the most transparent administration in history, but we're seeing a real pattern of this White House and their Secretaries applying pressure to inspectors general to whitewash reports," Johnson said in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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"GANG BOSS"
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NFL Takes a Pass on Promoting ObamaCare
Earlier this week, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that not only was her department negotiating with the National Football League to help sell ObamaCare, but that the NFL was "enthusiastically" considering it. Republicans on the Hill chimed in, noting that helping promote such an unpopular policy might taint the league even worse than the arrests of dozens of its players already does.
Well, they reconsidered. The NFL has punted, it has passed, it has kicked ObamaCare to the curb.(http://www.justcoverblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/NFL_LOGOS.png)
UPDATE: NFL Spokesman Brian McCarthy emails:We have responded to the letters we received from members of Congress to inform them we currently have no plans to engage in this area and have had no substantive contact with the administration about PPACA's implementation.
The "no substantive contact" bit is an obvious slap to Sebelius. It suggests that she was lying about the league's enthusiasm for the project. Which she probably was.
For those keeping score at home, the Democrats' "winning week" has seen the Democratic President of the United States flipped the bird by China, Russia and Ecuador, and Obama's top health care enforcer turned down flat by pro football. He cluelessly described NSA leaker Edward Snowden as a hacker in an obvious attempt to downplay the severity of the leaks and to distance his administration from the lax security that allowed Snowden so much access to so much material. A court also found that Hobby Lobby doesn't have to pay ObamaCare's fines while it fights its abortifacient mandate. Nobody's really telling Obama "yes" anywhere. He's having to rely on a state senator who is destined to lose on an abortion bill in Texas to drum up anything "special" to talk about. That mob-won "victory" will be temporary and probably set the blue Texas project back several years.
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NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
Published: June 6, 2013, Updated June 29, 2013
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The top-secret PRISM program allows the U.S. intelligence community to gain access from nine Internet companies to a wide range of digital information, including e-mails and stored data, on foreign targets operating outside the United States. The program is court-approved but does not require individual warrants. Instead, it operates under a broader authorization from federal judges who oversee the use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Some documents describing the program were first released by The Washington Post on June 6. The newly released documents below give additional details about how the program operates, including the levels of review and supervisory control at the NSA and FBI. The documents also show how the program interacts with the Internet companies. These slides, annotated by The Post, represent a selection from the overall document, and certain portions are redacted.
Read related article:http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html
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New slides published June 29
Acquiring data from a new target
This slide describes what happens when an NSA analyst "tasks" the PRISM system for information about a new surveillance target. The request to add a new target is passed automatically to a supervisor who reviews the "selectors," or search terms. The supervisor must endorse the analyst's "reasonable belief," defined as 51 percent confidence, that the specified target is a foreign national who is overseas at the time of collection.
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Analyzing information collected from private companies
After communications information is acquired, the data are processed and analyzed by specialized systems that handle voice, text, video and "digital network information" that includes the locations and unique device signatures of targets.
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Each target is assigned a case notation
The PRISM case notation format reflects the availability, confirmed by The Post's reporting, of real-time surveillance as well as stored content.
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Searching the PRISM database
On April 5, according to this slide, there were 117,675 active surveillance targets in PRISM's counterterrorism database. The slide does not show how many other Internet users, and among them how many Americans, have their communications collected "incidentally" during surveillance of those targets.
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Communication
This diagram shows how the bulk of the world's electronic
communications move through companies based in the United States
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Providers and data
The PRISM program collects a wide range of data from the
nine companies, although the details vary by provider
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Participating providers
This slide shows when each company joined the program, with Microsoft being the first, on Sept. 11, 2007, and Apple the most recent, in October 2012.
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60 miles up the road from where I live. This horrific news for my state is heartbreaking, unbelievable. Deep-felt condolences and prayers for the grieving families and friends of these courageous 19 firefighters who lost their lives today. May God bless them and may they rest in peace.
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Yarnell Hill Fire picked up momentum Sunday. (Source: CBS 5 News)
The Yarnell Hill Fire burning near Yarnell, AZ.
The fire, started by lightning, continues to burn along AZ89http://www.azcentral.com/video/#top#/The+Yarnell+Hill+Fire+burning+near+Yarnell/2518833437001
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Granite Mountain Hot Shots are based in Prescott, AZ. (Source: City of Prescott)
Nineteen firefighters have died in the Yarnell Hill Fire that has ripped through half of the community and sent residents to Prescott for safety. The fire is currently burning with zero containment and has grown well past 2,000 acres.http://www.azcentral.com/video/#top#/News/Yarnell+Hill+Fire+kills+19+firefighters/40280768001/35150280001/2518966319001
YARNELL, AZ (CBS-TV5) - Nineteen firefighters were killed in a fast-moving wildfire in the central Arizona town of Yarnell late Sunday afternoon, said the incident command post. Eighteen of the victims were from the Prescott Granite Mountain Hot Shots, fire officials said. It's not known where the other victim was based.
One surviving firefighter from the team was rushed to Maricopa County Medical Center. That person's condition was not known.
"We're an organization and city that's in grief," Prescott Fire Chief Dan Fraijo said at a news briefing Sunday night.
"Every precaution is always taken," Fraijo said. "The trouble is sometimes it's such an erratic situation. When you have that much fuel, in those dry conditions, it becomes very unpredictable."
At least eight firefighters suffered injuries and were taken to Wickenburg Community Hospital, said hospital spokeswoman Roxie Glovers. The extent of their injuries was not known.
The Yarnell Hill Fire burned at least 250 structures and grew to 2,000 acres, command center officials said Sunday night.
"This one just got out of hand quickly," said YCSO spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn. "The winds and the dry area just fed the fire.
Earlier, the 19 firefighters battling the blaze in Yavapai County had not been heard from as the wildfire headed into town, fire officials said.
Around 6 p.m., authorities said they were unable to establish communications with them, although they had been seen from a helicopter.
The Granite Mountain Hot Shots were among the first firefighters to attack the human-caused Doce Fire that began June 18 in the Prescott National Forest, the Prescott Daily Courier reported.
Earlier Sunday, authorities evacuated the Town of Yarnell and Peeples Valley as the wildfire crept closer to homes, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said.
The evacuation area in Peeples Valley is west of Highway 89, north of Yarnell Road and south of Sorrell Road, sheriff's deputies said.
Residents living in Double A Ranch, Buckhorn and the Model Creek subdivision in the Yarnell area had been under mandatory orders to leave their homes.
About 400 people live in Yarnell, and several hundred reside in Peeples Valley, according to the latest census.
The fire has closed about 15 miles of State Route 89, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
The roadway is closed just north of Congress to south of Kirkland, from milepost 269 to milepost 285. Drivers traveling north or southbound are advised to use U.S. 93 or Interstate 17 as alternate routes.
Sheriff's deputies said there are roadblocks at the junctions of Highway 89 and Hayes Ranch Road, Hayes Ranch Road and Sickles Ranch Road and Buckhorn and Frontier Road.
The fire broke out Friday after a lightning strike about four miles from Yarnell, said Arizona State Forestry Division Spokeswoman Carrie Dennett.
The Yarnell Hill Fire grew to 800 acres by early Sunday afternoon.
Two evacuation shelters have been set up to help evacuees. One is at Yavapai College in Prescott at 1100 E. Sheldon St., the American Red Cross Grand Canyon Chapter said.
Another shelter has opened in the gymnasium at Wickenburg High School at 1090 S. Vulture Mine Road. The Red Cross opened that shelter because a 20-mile stretch of Highway 89 is closed, making it impossible for evacuated residents to get from Yarnell to Prescott.
Red Cross volunteers have set up cots and blankets for overnight stays, with evacuated residents receiving meals, as well as assistance from Red Cross nurses and mental health volunteers.
A shelter for large animals is set up at Hidden Springs Ranch, at 18701 Highway 89 in Peeples Valley.
Two hundred firefighters are trying to gain an upper hand on the wildfire.
A command center has been set up at Model Creek School.
The next news briefing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday in the Prescott city council chambers.
West Goes Nuclear On Obuma: "The Time Draws Near To Teach
This Usurper And Charlatan The Lesson Our Forefathers
Taught King George III"
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(Whew... Liberal head assplosion alert moved to DEFCON 1
"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
― Samuel Adams)
Via Alan West:https://www.facebook.com/ElectAllenWest/posts/10151992111776729
"This week we'll celebrate the 237th anniversary of our independence. But are we a free people? SCOTUS made an ill-conceived ruling believing the choice of sexual behavior should trump the peoples's referendum. We are free to love anyone or anything we desire in America, but that does not correlate to rights beyond the unalienable ones Jefferson articulated 237 years ago. In California we have a state-funded grant for the Los Angeles Unified School District to abuse the concept of public education by turning public schools into indoctrination factories, forcing children to spout the joys of Obamacare. The district listed as a primary outcome for its project, "Teens trained to be messengers to family members." Covered California spokeswoman Sarah Soto-Taylor said staff have not questioned this goal. She stated, "We have confidence that the model LA Unified brought to the table will be successful in reaching our target population, which includes family members of students." LA Unified will also use tax-paid staff to promote ObamaCare through phone calls to students' homes, in-class presentations, and meetings with employees eligible for ObamaCare's taxpayer-covered healthcare, the grant award says.
Obama said he would fundamentally transform America. The time draws near to teach this usurper and charlatan the lesson our forefathers taught King George III. We will not be ruled by arrogance and edict."
Big Brother Is Watching:
Number Of Federal Wiretaps Skyrockets 71% In 2012
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(Libs would have had a meltdown if this was their POS pre-Dear Leader...)
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Via Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/number-of-federal-wiretaps-rose-71-percent-in-2012/2013/06/28/9ffde292-e032-11e2-963a-72d740e88c12_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
The number of wiretaps secured in federal criminal investigations jumped 71 percent in 2012 over the previous year, according to newly released figures.Federal courts authorized 1,354 interception orders for wire, oral and electronic communications, up from 792 the previous year, according to the figures, released Friday by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. There was a 5 percent increase in state and local use of wiretaps in the same period.
The office collects the figures from federal and local jurisdictions at the request of Congress, but does not interpret the statistics. There is no explanation of why the federal figures increased so much, and it is generally out of line with the number of wiretaps between 1997 and 2009, which averaged 550 annually. A large number of wiretaps was also reported in 2010, when 1,207 were secured.
"This is just one more piece of evidence demonstrating the need for a full, informed public debate about the scope, breadth, and pervasiveness of government surveillance in this country," Mark Rumold, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in an e-mail.
"We have a secret surveillance program churning in the background, sweeping in everyone's communications, and, at the same time, in the shadows (and frequently under seal), law enforcement is constantly expanding its use and reliance on surveillance in traditional criminal investigations."
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Gitmo: "Some Of Most Pampered Prisoners On The Planet";
We Even Remove American Flag From Their Sight At Their Request
(Psst, Mr. President... they are there because they are suspected of trying to kill us, you dumb POS!!!
Meanwhile our soldiers in Afghanistan are having their hot meals cut back. You, Sir, are the most vile, nasty, SOB that ever held this office of the Presidency! It's time to "SLAM" the door on you!)
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Via NY Post:Americans are supposed to have sympathy for the accused terrorist detainees now on hunger strike to protest supposedly cruel conditions at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"I don't want these individuals to die," [as Muslim]President Obama recently lamented, adding he intends to close Gitmo and transfer the detainees to US prisons.
But just a few years ago, detainees got so plump from overeating hummus and other dishes from the camp's Islamically correct menu that commanders specially ordered treadmills to help them lose weight.
Then they ordered them again — because they weren't made by Muslims.
"Even the hunger strikers were gaining weight because of all the food, so we go out and buy all this exercise equipment and throw it in the rec yard," a Gitmo official said of a 2007 requisition. "Within the first week, there were guys saying, 'Hey, this stuff is made in the US — made by infidels — and we're not going to use it.'
"So what did we do?" added the official, who requested anonymity. "We took all of that s–t out, gave it to the soldiers to use, and bought them equipment that was made in a Muslim part of the world."
The Pentagon declined to comment.
The official called Gitmo detainees "some of the most pampered prisoners on the planet."
He said they get as many as four choices of halal meals and have access to a new $750,000 soccer field. Islamic prayer beads and rugs are now "standard issue." They get their choice of more than 10,000 Islamic books and videos stocked by a Muslim librarian, who also records soccer and Arabic TV for them. They even have their own clerics to preach to them in Arabic.
Somali Jihadist Group Al-Shabaab Kills Two Of Its Own Co-Founders...
One With $5 Million U.S. Bounty On His Head
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(Aw gee... what a shame. It's amazing what money can do)
MOGADISHU (AFP) – Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab extremists have killed two of their own top commanders, one with a $5 million United States bounty on his head, the insurgents said Saturday.
"We have informed their widows of their deaths, as they must now wear the clothes of mourning," Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP.
The pair killed are two co-founders of the Islamist group, including US-wanted Ibrahim Haji Jama Mead, better known by his nickname Al-Afghani — "the Afghan", due to his training and fighting with Islamist guerrillas there.
Washington offered a $5 million bounty for Afghani, who opposed the command of top Shebab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane.
Godane earlier this month ordered Afghani and other leaders' arrest.
Shebab gunmen also killed Abul Hamid Hashi Olhayi, named as another senior commander and co-founder of the group.
Unbelievable:
Outrageous Avatar Of US Embassy Riyadh Twitter Account
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You can see it here, blown up in a tweet by someone urging it be taken down:(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/3460042370/197cc7b1de2090804fee91c70f874ee6_normal.png) RedNationRising @RedNationRising
Outrageous TwitterAvatar #USEmbassy @USEmbassyRiyadh American Flag joined w/ Islamic... #TakeItDown #RedNationRising pic.twitter.com/k4jCmkxq1T"5:08 AM - 30 Jun 2013
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Is the Obuma administration so under the sway of the Saudis that we have our Embassies using their flags on our twitter accounts, and putting their flag on equal level with our flag, a complete and utter violation of U.S. flag protocol? Not to mention the sword positioned with point toward the flag and any other symbolism in the Saudi flag, apparently being endorsed.
We had Embassy officials in Cairo that apologize for being attacked, and don't answer information on dead Americans after 10 p.m..
Now we have this Embassy account debasing us still further? Like the Tweet said,
"Take it down!"
Catholic Priest Beheaded in Syria by Al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels
as Men and Children Take Pictures and Cheer
(RIP Fr. Murad, martyr and hero, who was seized after trying to defend nuns and others at his monastery.
Obuma, can deny we are in a war. But we will still be made war upon. Why are we helping those who will kill us? Obuma is as sick as the one's watching the beheading!)
Update to this story.http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Custos-of-the-Holy-Land:-Fr-Franҫois-Mourad-killed-by-Islamist-insurgents-in-al-Ghassaniyah-28294.html
Via The Blaze:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/30/catholic-priest-beheaded-in-syria-by-al-qaeda-linked-rebels-as-men-and-children-take-pictures-and-cheer/#
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"Sicko's are poised with cameras waiting to capture photos of beheading scene in Syria,
as frenzied shouts of 'Allahu Akbar' are heard"
(Screenshot: Live Leak)
Syrian Catholic priest Francois Murad killed last weekend by jihadi fighters was beheaded, according to a report by Catholic Online which is linking to video purportedly showing the brutal murder.
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As TheBlaze reported last week, Murad, 49, was setting up a monastery in Gassanieh, northern Syria. Last Sunday, on the Christian leader's Sabbath, extremist militants trying to topple President Bashar Assad breached the monastery and grabbed Murad.
While earlier reports suggested Murad may have been shot to death, Catholic Online reported Saturday: "The Vatican is confirming the death by beheading of Franciscan Father, Francois Murad, who was martyred by Syrian jihadists on June 23."
The Catholic news service quotes local sources who report that the radical Al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra, or Al-Nusra Front, was behind the savage killing.
In video posted by Live Leak purporting to show the execution, dozens of men and boys are seen cheering on as three men are seated on the ground awaiting their grisly fate.
The men are methodically beheaded one at a time by men holding what appears to be a simple kitchen knife after which the heads are placed on top of the bodies.
According to Catholic Online, the first victim was Murad.
A frenzy ensues, with dozens drawing out their smartphones to capture the bloody scene, as a chorus of Allahu Akbar ("Allah is the greatest") are sung with jihadi rapture. Several observers are seen moving within inches of the bodies in an effort to capture close-up photos.
Lib Bi-Sexual Singer Lady Gaga Desecrates National Anthem During Gay Pride Rally,
"Land Of The Free, Home For The Gay"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Kdd6JzJgJGY
(President POS Obuma seen nodding in approval)
Breaking: Guess Who Else Is In South Africa? Reggie Love!
On June 26th, Reggie Love tweeted after the Supreme Court decision in the DOMA case, supporting "love", whoever the two lovers happened to be:
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All you need is love. @OFA @BarackObama #LoveisLove http://goo.gl/BYbvT 1:11 PM - 26 Jun 2013
(Now today he is in South Africa, where our first Gay President Barack Obama is also visiting)
(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/3772734954/a722e5a45fa4e6ea963bdc2e0c1923df_normal.jpeg) Reggie Love @ReggieLove33
Cape Town, South Africa - picture from My hotel room at the Cape Grace http://instagram.com/p/bLUA9_Alfn/ 1:43 AM - 30 Jun 2013
(Love is apparently in the air in South Africa... (Pun intended)
I wonder where Mooch and the kids are... hmmmm?) ???
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A Strange Preview: Hell Baby (Trailer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AaaoMfbx0o
From the guys who brought you Reno 911! (which makes me laugh in my mind but not so much through my esophagus and throatal areas), another "Exorcist" parody." It looks more like a Saturday Night Live sketch dragged out to interminable major-motion-picture length starring Fr. Guido Sarducci and his brother as two wild and crazy Italian priests who off demons for a living. (I'd kill for that job. You know, soon people are going to stop taking demonic possession seriously. And then they'll stop taking Satan seriously. And then they'll stop taking Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma seriously. And then they'll stop taking evil seriously. And then they'll stop taking repentance seriously. And then we'll all just be California)
Study: Electric Cars No Greener Than Gasoline Vehicles, One Of The "Environmentally Dirtiest Transportation Options"
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(But they make libs feel all warm and fuzzy inside)
BERKELEY, Calif., July 1 (UPI) – Electric cars, despite their supposed green credentials, are among the environmentally dirtiest transportation options, a U.S. researcher suggests.Writing in the journal IEEE Spectrum, researcher Ozzie Zehner says
electric cars lead to hidden environmental and health damages and are likely more harmful than gasoline cars and other transportation options.Electric cars merely shift negative impacts from one place to another, he wrote, and "most electric-car assessments analyze only the charging of the car. This is an important factor indeed. But a more rigorous analysis would consider the environmental impacts over the vehicle's entire life cycle, from its construction through its operation and on to its eventual retirement at the junkyard."
Political priorities and corporate influence have created a flawed impression that electric cars significantly reduce transportation impacts, he said.
"Upon closer consideration, moving from petroleum-fueled vehicles to electric cars starts to appear tantamount to shifting from one brand of cigarettes to another," Zehner, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, said.
California: University Tells Student To Remove Cross Necklace Because It Might Offend Other Students
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(Expect any less out of far-left academia?)
Via Fox News:A Sonoma State University student has filed a religious accommodation request after she said she was ordered to remove her cross necklace because it might offend other students.
On June 27 Jarvis was working for the university's Associated Students Productions at a student orientation fair for incoming freshmen. During the event, her supervisor directed her to remove the cross necklace.
Sasser said the supervisor told her that the chancellor had a policy against wearing religious items and further explained "that she could not wear her cross necklace because it might offend others, it might make incoming students feel unwelcome, or it might cause incoming students to feel that ASP was not an organization they should join."
"My initial reaction was one of complete shock," Jarvis told Fox News. "I was thrown for a loop."
Jarvis said she is a devout Catholic and she wears the cross as a symbol of her faith in Christ.
"I was offended because I believe as a Christian woman it is my prerogative to display my faith any way I like so long as it is not harming anyone else," she said. "I was very hurt and felt as if the university's mission statement – which includes tolerance and inclusivity to all – was violated."
Mooch Calls On Youth To Be "Citizens Of The World"
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(Libs love meaningless nonsense like this)
(CNSNews.com) – First lady Mooch Obama called for young people in both South Africa and the United States to be "citizens of the world" through the use of social media.
"For you guys to begin to talk to each other and realize that you have so much in common whether you are in Soweto or Houston or anywhere in the world there is so much we can do together," the first lady said. "And I want you all to start thinking about being citizens of the world, and in order to do, that you've got to start reaching out, and this is just the beginning."
Michelle Obama made the remarks during a Google+ Hangout on education at Sci-Bono Discovery Center in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday. The event included students in South Africa and students watching remotely from the United States in New York, Houston, Kansas City and Los Angeles.
Hero Of The Working Class:
Mooch Arrives In Senegal Wearing $1,300 Dress
Mooch arriving in Senegal:
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Wearing this Zero+ Maria Cornejo Isie Dress:
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Yeah, the horror of non-stop taxpayer-funded vacations.
The Moocher Bemoans "Prison-Like Elements" To Being First Lady
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(Yeah, the horror of non-stop taxpayer-funded vacations)
Via Newsmax:U.S. First Lady Mooch Obama and predecessor Laura Bush combined their star power to draw attention on Tuesday to efforts to improve women's health and welfare in east Africa.
Michelle Obama is visiting Tanzania on the last day of President Barack Obama's eight-day tour of Africa. She helped Laura Bush open a summit of the wives of African leaders, saying Africa was "at the hub of global development". The summit aims to promote women's well-being on the continent.
In Tanzania, the first lady joked about the "prison-like elements" of being first lady. "
ut it's a really nice prison," she said. "You can't complain," the Weekly Standard reported.
Sitting next to former first lady Bush, Mrs. Obama said that wives of presidents "have probably the best job in the world, because while our husbands ... have to react and respond to crises on a minute-to-minute basis, we got to work on what we're passionate about. ... I have just found it a very freeing and liberating opportunity. ... [Laughing] There are prison-like elements, but it's a really nice prison. You can't complain. There are confining elements.
Firefighters gain ground against deadly Arizona blaze
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Map of Yarnell Fire
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By Tim Gaynor and Brad PoolePRESCOTT, Arizona | Wed Jul 3, 2013 12:18am EDT PRESCOTT, Arizona (Reuters) - Firefighters gained ground on Tuesday for the first time against the sprawling blaze in central Arizona that killed 19 members of an elite "hotshots" crew over the weekend in the worst loss of life in a U.S. wildfire in 80 years, officials said.While the blaze remained dangerous and unpredictable, it was no longer raging out of control, and firefighters had managed by sundown to achieve the first measure of containment around its perimeter, 8 percent, officials for the firefighting command team said.
"Crews are making good progress on the fire ... We're feeling optimistic right now," said Carrie Dennett, a spokeswoman for the Arizona Forestry Division.
"We gained some ground ... it's been a pretty good day, and the fire has stayed mostly parked where it was 24 hours ago," said Jim Whittington, a spokesman for the incident commander.
The blaze, one of dozens of wildfires burning across the western United States, turned deadly on Sunday when 19 firefighters from a specially trained outfit called the Granite Mountain Hotshots were suddenly outflanked and engulfed by wind-whipped flames in a matter of seconds.
The tragedy marks the highest death toll among firefighters or civilians from a U.S. wildland blaze since at least 25 men died battling the Griffith Park fire of 1933 in Los Angeles, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, based in Boise, Idaho.
A 20th member of the hotshots team who was acting as lookout and was about a mile away from the rest of the crew on higher ground, survived unscathed but was "very distraught" and has declined to speak to the media, according to Prescott Fire Department spokesman Wade Ward.
Ignited on Friday by lightning, the blaze has blackened some 8,400 acres of dense, tinder-dry chaparral, oak scrub and grasslands as it roared largely unchecked in its first four days.
Authorities have estimated that 50 to 200 structures, most of them homes, have been destroyed in and around the tiny town of Yarnell, about 80 miles northwest of Phoenix. But they said more time was needed to arrive at a firmer figure on property losses.
From the air on Monday evening, extensive fire damage was visible in the western outskirts of Yarnell but the center of town looked relatively untouched.
Yarnell and the adjacent community of Peeples Valley, which together are home to roughly 1,000 people, remained evacuated.
Fire command spokesman Dennis Godfrey told Reuters the so-called Yarnell Hills fire was posing no immediate additional threat to property in the area.
However, the blaze remained a formidable challenge, he said, adding, "We're considering it far from being over. It's far from being a mop-up operation." Full containment of the fire is not expected for at least another 10 days, officials said.
A Reuters photographer who flew over the fire zone on Monday evening reported that little fire activity could be seen from the air, with a relatively small patch of low-level burning discernable on the area's eastern edge.
Whittington said powerful, erratic winds that earlier had stoked the fire and caused volatile changes in its direction subsided on Monday night and Tuesday, helping some 600 firefighters battling the blaze finally make some headway.
He said fire managers were still concerned about thunderstorms that appeared to be moving into the area late on Tuesday, bringing the possibility of a renewed burst of strong, unruly winds.
Fire incident commander Clay Templin told displaced residents at a community meeting that evacuees would probably not be allowed to return to their homes before Saturday.
The fallen Arizona firefighters were based in the town of Prescott, about 30 miles northeast of the fire zone. Residents there paid tribute to the 19 men, most of them in their 20s, in a memorial service on Monday evening and a candlelight vigil on Tuesday night.
A makeshift shrine has sprung up outside a Prescott fire house, drawing dozens of people who paid their respects by leaving flowers, flags, condolence cards, photos and mementos at the site.
The remains of the firefighters Sunday were transported in a cortege-like procession of 19 coroner's vans to the medical examiner's office in Phoenix for autopsies.
The exact circumstances of the disaster were under investigation, but fire officials said the doomed hotshots team appeared to have been following proper procedures.
(Additional reporting by David Schwartz in Phoenix; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Christopher Wilson)
Egyptian Army Responds To Morsi Defying Their Ultimatum:
"We Are Ready To Die"
(Muslim Pres. Obuma ain't going to like that)
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Via Reuters:Egypt's high command said on Wednesday the army was ready to die to defend Egypt's people against terrorists and fools, in a response to Islamist President Mohamed Mursi that was headlined "The Final Hours".
The post on the official Facebook page of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), headed by armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said: "We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool."
Issued three hours after Mursi appeared on television to reject an ultimatum from Sisi that he share power with his opponents or face a military solution by 10:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), a military source said the statement made clear that the armed forces would not abandon their demands.
Bye, Bye... The Morsi Lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VrWRkhtjTk&feature=player_embedded
COUP ALERT: EGYPT MILITARY Slaps Travel Ban on President Morsi and Top Islamists
Al-Ahram reported:
Egyptian security forces on Wednesday imposed a travel ban on President Mohamed Morsi and several top Islamist allies over their involvement in a prison escape in 2011, security officials said.
Airport officials confirmed to AFP that they had received orders to prevent the leaders — including Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohammed Badie and his deputy Khairat al-Shater — from travelling abroad. ...Update: Muslim Brotherhood Members Arrested –
...Update: Tanks on the Move!
...UPDATE: FOX News just reported – Muslim Brotherhood officials say their members are being arrested.
...UPDATE: Arab leaders called on President Morsi to step down today.
...UPDATE: Egyptian troops on Charles de Gaulle street just past Gamaa Bridge near Cairo Uni. Feels like the coup has arrived.
...UPDATE: An adviser to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said Wednesday that a military coup was underway, that tanks were on the move outside Cairo and that communication with the president had been cut off.
...Update: Tanks at Cairo University (Twitter)
...Update: More... Troops mass on Giza bridge.
The Egyptian Army deployed on Gam3a Bridge in Giza, via Cairo.
...UPDATE: Military vehicles roll into Alexandria.
...Update: More Tanks in Giza.
...UPDATE: Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Muhammad Badie's six guards have been detained, according to Turkish Anadolu Agency.
...Update: All the Juicy Flavors of a Military Coup.
...Update: Bathroom Break
CBS: Obamacare - A "Jalopy They're Trying To Roll Out Of The Driveway Here,
At Barely Operational"
(LOL... even the bootlickers can't shine this one. It's still a sh!t sandwich with all the fixin's, even if they put wheels on it!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAlEPgDu5Eg
EGYPT
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Politico Tries To Rewrite History,
Giving Obuma's Bad Choices On Morsi Cover:
Obuma Was "Easing Away" From Morsi
(That's Horsesh!t... Muslim Pres. Obuma has been,
and continues to try to be, Morsi and the
Muslims Brotherhood's biggest supporter.)
http://inagist.com/all/352489607541174272/
According to:http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/07/obama-deeply-concerned-by-egyptian-militarys-removal-167603.html?hp=f2Apparently, one pathetic last-minute speech by Eqypt's Mohammed Morsi was sufficient to convince President Barack Obama, who has spent several days and untold amounts of worldwide capital defending the Muslim Brotherhood leader's staying on the job in the face of what may have been the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in human history.
Politico frantically tried to run interference for the Obama opportunistic change of heart today, running an item which was apparently called "U.S. Eases Away from Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi." The item was up so briefly that it was quickly replaced, while the headline just mentioned still remains in the browser window's title bar.
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CNN: Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad just confirmed
his account of Morsy's arrest to CNN by phone.
Presidential guards arrested Morsy at the guards' headquarters,
El-Haddad told CNN. He described it as "house arrest."
He added that Morsy's presidential team was "entirely
put under arrest as well."
The Way Things Are Going For Our Muslim Pres. Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma,
It Will Soon Be...
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...For Him, Too!!!
Obuma Spends OVER $100M on African Trip
But Cancels Marines' July 4th Fireworks
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AIR FORCE ONE RETURNS FROM AFRICA WITHOUT BASTARD OBUMA AND FAMILY
AP Zimbabwe
Today Air Force One returned to American soil without Obuma and his family. Determined by Congress to be guilty of criminal fraud and usurpation, Obuma was instructed not to return or face the risk of trial for treason...
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Via AP
http://news.msn.com/us/july-4th-fireworks-furloughed-at-military-bases
Massive budget cuts mean some military bases can't afford Independence Day fireworks shows. One military mom said "It's like the Grinch stealing Christmas."WASHINGTON — The Fourth of July won't have a patriotic boom in the sky over some military bases because budget cuts and furloughed workers also mean furloughed fireworks.Independence Day celebrations have been canceled at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base and at the Army's Fort Bragg, both in North Carolina. The annual July Fourth celebration also has been scrapped at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Ga.
The reason is money — namely the lack of it.
The failure in Washington to follow up a 2011 budget pact with additional spending cuts meant $85 billion across-the-board cuts that began in March. Budgets tightened, the military took a major hit and many federal workers absorbed pay cuts through forced furloughs.
When the decision was made to forgo fireworks at Camp Lejeune, the commanding general, Brig. Gen. Thomas Gorry, said the cancellation would "ensure that we can mitigate the fiscal challenges we are currently facing."
Last year's Independence Day at the base cost about $100,000, including $25,000 for the fireworks. The big issue is paying the overtime to personnel for security, transportation, logistics and safety. Base officials said they couldn't justify paying overtime when federal workers are losing pay while furloughed.
Brandy Rhoad Stowe says the fireworks at Camp Lejeune always were spectacular, and she said that she and her kids, ages 3 and 9, will miss them this year.
"I know fireworks might seem silly to other people," Stowe said in an interview. "But what is the Fourth of July without fireworks?"
Her husband is a master gunnery sergeant with seven combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001.
Stowe says she understands the budgets cuts but still feels a little shortchanged.
"It's just a bummer for the kids," she said. "It's like the Grinch stealing Christmas."
Marines and their families at Lejeune will instead be able to participate in some free activities — golf, bowling, skeet shooting, archery and movies.
Other bases that are canceling ceremonies to mark the nation's birthday:
Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, where the annual Jammin' July 4th put on by the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw and local city and county officials has been scrapped. The base plans a smaller "freedom bash" on July 3 with pool games, face painting and bouncy castles.
The Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, which is scaling back by canceling the fireworks and instead hosting a daytime celebration featuring the Pacific Fleet Band and the Air Force Band of the Pacific.
New Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.
(As if things couldn't get any more ridiculous as more and more Americans pander to Islam, San Francisco International Airport has constructed a special prayers space for Muslims in which they can wash their hands and feet before they pray. While the adherents to Islam are required to offer prayers five times a day, along with a ritual that also calls for a ceremonial cleansing, many San Francisco cab drivers are unable to accomplish this apparently in bathroom facilities. At least that's what it sounds like they want us to believe)
Airport's garage now Muslim house of worship
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For many cab drivers, that's meant either lugging bottled water around or using one of the bathrooms inside the terminal to wash — a practice not always welcomed by airport passengers.
So Royal Cab driver Hasan Khan, 52, a Pakistani immigrant, collected some 300 signatures from fellow cabbies, urging the airport to give them their own cleansing station.
Airport brass obliged — and the wash equipment was installed on the ground floor of the main garage, right next to where the drivers congregate for their breaks.
Airport spokesman Doug Yakel said, "The way we look at it...this was in the interest of maintaining a good relationship with ground transportation providers."
Ah, but did they use public money? Yes they did.
Mr. Yakel says that those resources were nominal, with work done by in-house plumbers.
So how does this square with the very people, many who live in San Francisco, who are always crying "Separation of Church and State"? Apparently they are just fine with it.
In fact, Khan realizes that not everyone will appreciate the facility or their tax dollars being used to construct it. He must have read my mind.
He then attempts to state that Christians generally pray at Church on Sundays. While that may be true for "professed" Christians, those of us who take the Scriptures seriously pray daily, often many times, but I don't see airports making room for that. Khan tries to say that because Muslims pray five times daily that it's different for them as it's woven into their daily routine.
"We are very happy," said Ahmed Algazali, 49, a fellow driver from Yemen as he prepared to join Khan for a late-afternoon garage prayer.
How long do you think this will take to catch on America? Not that I expect the people of San Francisco to oppose any of this simply because it's not Jewish or Christian, but I do find it ironic that they would allow Muslims such a generous tax-funded offer. However, I'm sure this is nothing that a pound of bacon could rectify.
Calls to SFO to find out the amount of money used have not been returned.
(Obuma is Muslim, make no mistake about that and from what I have seen in the world and here at home this is a very violent religion. It does not want women, children or anyone outside its boundaries and Obuma, being Muslim, it should not be a surprise that he would side with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in spite of the fact that the people are very much against it. Now we need to turn this onto this nation and get rid of Obuma for the same reasons. He, like Morsi, is trying to make everything his way and he openly opposes those who do not agree with him. He will be... hopefully impeached, and soon. There are just to many lies, too much corruption and too many ghosts in the Obuma closet to continue to effectively hide or cover up. Just wait, the story is going to get better... if you consider "Strange" and weird to be better.)Does The CIA Director Have Barack Obama's Records
That Prove He Is Ineligible To Be President?
by Leon Puissegur We know that John Brennan got the head job of the Central Intelligence Agency. However, as we stated in a previous article, by obtaining the records of Barack Obama he may well show that Obama is not eligible to be President.
We have to go back to 2008 and a break-in that very few people even knew about. It was a structured break-in to obtain records that may well show Obama is not a United States Citizen. However, this break-in was not seen nor heard of. It was kept silent to all, including the Obama campaign.
Let us look at what Mr. Douglas Hagmann says about this."Since 2008, the accepted and unchallenged motive for the breach was that the perpetrators were looking at the passport and biological data on all three presidential candidates in some sort of 'exploratory' mission," Hagmann writes. "They were summarily fired from their jobs and disappeared into the night before they could be interviewed by investigators working on the case.
What took place following this admitted breach, however, has an extremely sinister overtone."Hagmann continues: "Recall that at the time of the passport office break-in, Barack Hussein Obama was on the campaign trail as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The news of the breach was made public within a week of the last intrusion, and a week later, on March 21, 2008, Obama was asked for his reaction by ABC News Jake Tapper while campaigning. Obviously, Obama now officially knows that the public has been informed about the level of the breach, and that Obama's personal and confidential biographical information, in addition to his international travel was apparently 'accessed.'" http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4492773
It is important to note that the files accessed included Obama's personal passport and not limited to his diplomatic passport.Hagmann then adds: On April 8, 2008, Obama continued to comment on the fact that the confidentiality of his passport records were apparently compromised. It was on this occasion when Obama admitted, for the first time in any public venue as a presidential candidate, that he traveled to Pakistan in 1981. One wonders whether Obama would have disclosed his Pakistan trip at this time had it not been for the uncertainty that the information was already "in play."
Even ABC News appeared surprised at this sudden and unexpected revelation, considering all of the talk about Pakistan and U.S. foreign policy during the previous several months. Research shows that Obama did not disclose this trip at any time during any policy discussions or debates prior to the passport office breach.
It is also important to point out that during the investigation of the breach of the passport office records, the Washington Times
reported that "officials do not know whether information was improperly copied, altered or removed from the database during the intrusions" [Emphasis added]. As time progressed, however, so did the leaks. It was reported that at least one employee within the U.S. State Department shared passport information with a man identified as Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr.
My investigation suggests that Harris was the intended recipient of stolen credit card information from the State Department employee, but received more than what he bargained for. When he realized the scope of the crime and the explosive nature of the information he possessed, he turned to investigators for protection. He also began to talk with investigators and ultimately, made a deal with federal prosecutors. Before he could make good on his deal, Lieutenant Quarles Harris Jr. was found shot to death in his car on April 17, 2008, just over a month after the last breach. He was found in front of the Judah House Praise Baptist Church in the northeast section of Washington. He had been shot in the head.
The murder of Harris remains unsolved, and the official narrative of that murder is that Harris was either a victim of random violence, or his murder was a result of a "street deal gone bad."
It is important to note the two employees of Stanley, Inc., along with a third individual employed by another defense contractor identified as The Analysis Corporation, were identified as the perpetrators who breached the records of the U.S. passport office on three occasions in 2008 and "improperly accessed" the passport records of Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. The breaches occurred on January 9, February 21 and March 14, 2008.
It is important to note that the CEO of the Analysis Corporation at the time of the passport office break-in was John O. Brennan, who served as a close advisor to Obama in 2008 on matters of intelligence and foreign policy. He was also Obama's counterrorism chief and the first assassination czar. Brennan also contributed to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and also had a 25-year career in the CIA.
Does this look like an inside job to keep Obama's records closed or blackmail? Could it be both? It is very strange that the man that found nearly all the information that Obama does not wish to be seen suddenly gets shot! Is Obama behind this killing? Could it be that maybe he directed that murder, or was it some one that was working with Obama? So many questions and so very few answers.
Talent Rewarded, Disloyalty Punished?
Megyn Kelly's Rise May Be Greta-Induced
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Megyn Kelly's move to primetime was never a matter of if, but when. And with respect to Rachel Maddow, no woman in cable news can command a screen, a conversation, a show quite like the attorney-turned-anchor. For years, it always seemed odd that Fox News would hide one of its top assets in a timeslot with as little visibility as Kelly's at 1:00-3:00 PM on weekdays. New Year's Eve in Times Square? Have her co-host. Weekly Kelly's Court spots on O'Reilly? Always a quality verbal joust. Co-host 2012 election night coverage—which produced some Rovian controversy and the highest ratings in the network's history? Piece of cake.
To perform so many roles as effectively and effortlessly as Kelly is the very definition of versatility.
Of talent. Is this a fawning piece thus far? Yup. But ask any cable news exec—if given the opportunity to start a cable news network from scratch—which anchor/host they would use a #1 fantasy pick to draft. Outside of Bill O'Reilly (who at 63 could be in the twilight of his career, although smart money has him working well into his 70s), the second pick (or arguably first) would likely be the 42-year-old Kelly.
Sure, she has her faults (getting personal with Fox's Kirsten Powers by telling her she didn't know what she was talking about and had no ability to debate, for example, was both condescending and arrogant. Kelly knew it afterwards and apologized), but a format that begs for confrontation will invariably lead to these kind of mistakes or regrets no matter who's anchoring...it's just all part of the perils of the business.
And in the "now that makes sense" category, the dots appear to be connected around Andrew Kirell's scoop on Greta Van Susteren reportedly speaking to CNN about returning to the network that essentially launched her career: If it's true, Greta apparently heard the loud Kelly primetime rumors, or perhaps—at age 59 and not exactly decimating the competition the way her Fox cohorts do in the ratings—she saw the writing on the wall.
But what makes the Greta-to-CNN story odd is that she recently signed a long-term contract stipulating she host a show in primetime. That said, where exactly is there room on the schedule for a Megyn show in the evening? With the aforementioned O'Reilly having the top-rated show in cable news at 8:00 PM and Sean Hannity hosting the third-highest rated show, they ain't going anywhere.
How about earlier? Well, 6:00 PM belongs to Bret Baier and 7:00 PM Shep Smith, and they also have locked down long-term contracts while hosting highly-rated shows (overall, Fox holds the top 13 spots). To that end, the only three scenarios appear to be a Kelly/Greta co-hosted show, or two 30-minute programs by each.
Or...Greta's contract may state she must host a show in primetime, but does it stipulate specifically weekday prime? Could she end up getting Schultzed and have happen to her what MSNBC did to poor Ed Schultz by sending her off to weekends?
Or...Greta could be shown the door despite the new contract. Because as Zev Chafets' new biography on Roger Ailes points out over and over throughout the book, if you stay loyal to Ailes, he'll have your back no matter what (just ask Bob Beckel). But if you stray (particularly when the suitor is a longtime competitor), Ailes will have no issue with showing you the door (just ask one-time FNC employee Jim Cramer what happened after flirting with a competitor while under contract).
And maybe that's what happened here if the Greta/CNN talks are to be believed: She is seen as disloyal in Ailes' eyes; Ailes responds by announcing Kelly is moving to primetime a bit sooner than originally planned. And maybe that's why Fox made such an announcement without having, you know...a new primetime schedule, a Kelly show title, a show format...all ready to firmly back up such a big announcement.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/greta-van-susteren-brushes-off-rumors-that-she-considered-coming-back-to-cnn/
Regardless, Kelly's rise also continues a trend of transforming guests/pundits/contributors into full-fledged hosts, once an unthinkable thought. Remember, in the old days of the 20th Century, the only road to anchoring or hosting on a national stage was to work in a small city (think Reno), followed by a slightly-bigger-but-still-small-city (think Omaha), followed by a "medium" city (think Columbus), followed by a jump to an NFL city (insert team here). And then perhaps, perhaps, you might be lucky enough to get an audition against eight other people after the same job.
In Kelly's case, she once contributed short legal segments to Fox but was quickly elevated to the anchor chair once her ability to do bigger things became all too apparent to Ailes. And despite having little experience entering the TV business almost a decade ago, Kelly's rise proves once again that true talent is inherent, not something that can be taught.
Great anchors don't become great personalities. But great personalities can become great anchors.
Kelly will start her primetime gig upon returning from maternity leave.
The only questions that now remain are:
What exactly is the gig?
Will it be a solo act at, say, 10:00 PM?
Or will she be seated next to another lawyer who also made it big on TV?
Jihadist Group: We Started Arizona Wildfires
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(What should disturb everyone is that anyone would claim responsibility for such atrocities, especially these guys, right? They're from the "religion of peace"... (Yep, there's loads of sarcasm laced in that statement)Oh the many facets of jihad! Now we're seeing fire jihad in America. According to reporter David Barnett, a Palestinian jihadist group, Masada al Mujahideen, has recently claimed credit for the ongoing wildfires in Arizona in a statement that was posted to a jihadist forum on Wednesday.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/07/masadat_al_mujahideen_claims_c.php
Barnett reports: The statement, titled "Masada al-Mujahideen Fulfilled its Promise and Attacked America Again After the Expiration of the Period with Fires that Achieved Historic Results," was obtained and translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.
"We had previously announced an unconventional war against the occupation state of Israel, and then we escalated this war to reach its main supporter, America, so that it receives a major share of it, which will destroy their flora and fauna, with permission from Allah and then with our hands," the group said.
The statement further said that the group targeted the United States "in order to make it clear and to make it know we can reach it when we warn it, and to make it certain that our hands don't just reach it but also strike it."
The group warned that the attacks "will not be the last...if America does not respond to our demands." The statement boasted that 19 firefighters had been killed in the fires. Authorities contradict Masada al-Mujahideen's claims, saying that they believe the fires were started by lightning.
This is not the first time they have claimed responsibility for fires in the United States. In January of 2012, they also claimed credit for wildfires in Nevada and they have claimed credit for over a dozen fires in Israel since 2010. They have also claimed numerous attacks on Israel other than the fires, including rocket and mortar attacks.
Masada al-Mujahideen formed in April of 2008, claiming Abu Omar al Ansari as its leader.
Whether their claims are true or not is anyone's guess. However, journalist Pamela Geller points out: The devout Muslim group, Al Qaeda, has long urged the setting of forest fires as a form of jihad (holy war). Spring 2012: al-Qaeda's English-language online magazine, Inspire, published an article called "It Is of Your Freedom to Ignite a Firebomb," which featured instructions on how to build an incendiary bomb to light forests on fire.
Where In The World Was John Kerry?
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Today the President met w/members of his national security team to discuss the situation in Egypt. See photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/9204818460/ ...4:03 PM - 3 Jul 2013
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(Okay... as Morsi was being removed from power, the U.S. had to be concerned about what would happen with Egypt, particularly given the Obuma administration's investment in time and treasure (our money) backing President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Surely all his senior members, especially the Secretary of State, John Kerry, would have been avidly consulting and weighing options, considering strategy together.
Except maybe not so much)From Politico:A CBS News producer tweeted a photo of Kerry's yacht, Isabel, on Wednesday afternoon and said a colleague saw Kerry boarding it at the Nantucket Boat Basin. She shouted "Morsi," but got no response from the secretary of state.
But the State Department said Kerry was not aboard a boat on Wednesday and has spent the day working the phones on Egypt. "Since his plane touched down in Washington at 4 a.m., Secretary Kerry was working all day and on the phone dealing with the crisis in Egypt," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. "He participated in the White House meeting with the president by secure phone and was and is in non-stop contact with foreign leaders, and his senior team in Washington and Cairo. Any report or tweet that he was on a boat is completely inaccurate."
So his plane touched down in Washington DC at 4 a.m. On the other hand, he was in Nantucket this morning [Wednesday], according to several eyewitnesses. On the other other hand, he was working all day. And he called into an important meeting at the White House rather than attend in person.(If you're confused, you're not the only one)
(Rep. Darrell Issa released this video today.
Makes me nostalgic and sad for when we had adults in the White House...
and a sure certain hand on the ship)
The Greatness Of America
The Declaration of Independence
"Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhgfknG8hhg
Today, as we take time to pause and celebrate July 4th, let's remember how we got here, and, even with all the challenges we face, how fortunate we are to live in the United States of America.
What a great document is our Declaration of Independence, the rallying cry to shake off the tyranny of an oppressive government.
We see, as Paul Harvey notes, the great strength of our Founding Fathers, those signatories, the sacrifices they made, to insure our freedom.
It is something we should never take lightly, never take for granted and always work to preserve.
Things will be difficult as we walk into the coming future.
May the strength of our forefathers hold us and guide us forward, to ever remain free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xk1P1913y0
JOKE OF THE DAY:
Obuma Awkwardly Stumbles Through
Scripted "Patriotic" July 4th Speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOjOqfxT2VQ
(Then again, the Fourth of July isn't exactly one of the left's favorite holidays)
Via Independent Journal Review:President Obama stumbled through a "patriotic" speech on the Fourth of July, reading verbatim a text on America's improbable experiment in "democracy" in a staccato and droll tone.
Surrounding him was a dour cast of stoic figures — save for First Lady Michelle Obama, who broke into "slow applause" mode when her husband called America "the greatest nation on earth" while a smattering of hand-clapping accompanied her.
The president should be given credit for going through the motions and for shoring up his patriotic bonafides.
If only he believed those words about our destinies not being determined for us and that people should live as they please.
Oopsie... Seems Like The Senator From MA May
Have Avoided A Bundle In MA "Docking Taxes"
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"Lurch on wife's Boat
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(You didn't know Nantucket was in Rhode Island, did you?)
Flashback July 2010 article from the Huffington Post:BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is docking his family's new $7 million yacht in neighboring Rhode Island, allowing him to avoid paying roughly $500,000 in taxes to the cash-strapped Bay State.
If the "Isabel" were kept at the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee's summer vacation home on Nantucket, or in Boston Harbor near his city residence, he would be liable for $437,500 in one-time sales tax. He would also have to pay $70,000 in annual excise taxes.
Rhode Island repealed those taxes in 1993. That has made the state something of a nautical tax haven.
Kerry spokesman David Wade said Friday the boat is being kept at Newport Shipyard not to evade taxes, but "for long-term maintenance, upkeep and charter purposes."
(Horsesh!t)Wade noted the vessel was designed by Rhode Island boat designer Ted Fontaine and purchased in the state. It was built in New Zealand by Friendship Yachts.
Unemployment/Underemployment Rate Jumps To 14.3%,
Hits Six Month High
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(Obamanomics in action)
Via Weekly Standard:While the Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report released this morning showed unemployment unchanged at 7.6 percent, the broadest measure of unemployment, the U-6 rate (seasonally adjusted), jumped to its highest level since February 2013, from 13.8 percent to 14.3 percent.
The U-6 rate includes "all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons," including discouraged and underemployed workers, as well as the unemployed. The rate is only a half-point lower than the 14.8 percent rate a year ago in June 2012.
Video Of Shooting At Republican Guard Headquarters
Update: Different View Of Shooting, Shows What Appears to Be Army Firing Into The Air
Video Of Shooting At Republican Guard Headquarters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKoRKaqA70E#at=46
Via NY Times:http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/videos-show-shooting-of-protester-in-egypt/
As my colleagues Ben Hubbard, David Kirkpatrick and Mayy El-Sheikh report from Cairo, large protests in support of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi were marred by violence on Friday, when witnesses said that at least five demonstrators were killed by security forces outside the Republican Guards barracks where it is believed Mr. Morsi is being held.
Reuters reported that one of its journalists saw Egyptian security forces fire into the air, then "heard shotgun fire" and saw "at least eight demonstrators hit," as a military helicopter flew over the crowd.
Simon Hanna, a British-Egyptian journalist in Cairo, drew attention to a video posted on YouTube on Friday that appeared to show at least one pro-Morsi protester shot in the head from close range by Egyptian troops standing behind barbed wire outside the barracks where Mr. Morsi is believed to be held. The video contains graphic content.Update: Different View Of Shooting, Shows What Appears to Be Army Firing Into The Air
The Army is denying they had live fire rounds, and Alistair Beach notes that multiple witnesses say it was NOT the army that did the shooting.
However, multiple people ended up with birdshot wounds, including a BBC reporter.(Not to go down the rabbit hole a bit, but this video seems to show what appears to be military firing into the air. They don't appear to be firing at anyone. Indeed there sounds to be other shots not coming from them, although it is hard to tell. The news team who shows it also seems to be focusing attention on a man in civilian clothes with what may be a long rifle in vicinity of the man shot)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BeR9SSBGfQ
Video Of The Day:
So, John... Where Were You During The Military Coup In Egypt? ??? ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGatXHrDk2g
(You heard it, straight from the horse's mouth)
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Top Liberal Blog Daily Kos: Republican Governors
"Salivating" Over Rapes In Cairo
(This is what passes as progressive and
enlightened thinking on the left)
Via Newsbusters' Jack Coleman:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jack-coleman/2013/07/05/gop-governors-salivating-over-rapes-egypt-daily-kos-diarist
Hard to believe, but there's actually a left-wing media outlet that makes MSNBC appear sane by comparison.
[...]
Here is a sampling from "agnostic" in a Kos group that calls itself "Church of Ineffable Stupidity," in a post titled "Shame on MSNBC. CNN, too" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/03/1220894/-Shame-on-MSNBC-CNN-too
"There are thousands in the street in Cairo, as well as other major cities. Muslim Brotherhood goons have been attacked in the streets, their headquarters was attacked by civilians who had too much of the Brotherhood's ridiculous ideas.
In response, 81 women have been raped in Cairo's major square, apparently by Brotherhood goons who wish to reeducate Egyptian women as to their expected roles. One can imagine John Kasich and Rick Perry salivating over their example."
Venezuela Offers Snowden Asylum,
Nicaragua Considering It
(oh hummmmm... yawn... snooooooze...)
Via USA Today:
CARACAS, Venezuela — Presidents Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela said Friday they were willing to grant asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
Snowden has asked for asylum in several countries, including Nicaragua and Venezuela.
"We have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the American Edward Snowden to protect him from the persecution being unleashed by the world's most powerful empire," Maduro said at the start of a military parade in the Venezuelan capital celebrating the 202nd anniversary of the South American country's declaration of independence.
TWEET OF The Day:
Barack Obama Wishes You A Great Weekend...
(Egypt, IRS, Benghai, NSA????????) (https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/3221742532/5ceae8f2b72a1a8b012d2f5960fb46be_normal.jpeg) Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
Have a great weekend. pic.twitter.com/mKWiVpdxOc9:33 AM - 5 Jul 2013
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(Barack Obama, doing a low-rent "Lurch" (http://www.bing.com/th?id=H.4708827111229969&w=207&h=207&c=8&pid=3.1&qlt=90) Kerry)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yjkkNtshNo
Islamist Gunmen Attack Protestant Church In Pakistan, One Killed
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(Merciless persecution that goes almost completely unreported
in the American press)
Islamabad (AsiaNews) –
One person killed in Islamic fundamentalist attack against a Peshawar Protestant church
by Jibran Khan http://www.asianews.it/news-en/One-person-killed-in-Islamic-fundamentalist-attack-against-a-Peshawar-Protestant-church-28392.html
This morning two Islamic fundamentalists attacked a Protestant church, the Assembly of God Church, in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, shooting at a policeman on guard several times. Before they fled the scene, they took the dead officer's weapon and fired at the church. Two clergymen were inside the building at the time of the incident. Civil society groups and the Catholic Church condemned the action. Meanwhile, police have registered the incident and are in pursuit of the gunmen.
Tensions had been running high in the area after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Kharrak said that Muslims could not be street cleaners or janitors, who are in short supplies, "only minorities could do those jobs." Minority groups reacted with outrage calling for his resignation.
Kharrak is a member of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI, Pakistan Movement for justice), led by former cricket star Imran Khan.
Following this statement, the church that was attacked received threats from Islamic extremists and asked for protection from local authorities, who responded by deployed two police officers to guard the church.
This morning two fundamentalists tried to enter the church, which had two clergymen inside. They opened fire when one of police guards on duty tried to intercept them, hitting him in the neck, chest and near the heart. He died immediately.
Hollywood Moonbat Oliver Stone Slams America While In Europe On Fourth Of July:
"The World Is In Danger With Our Tyranny"
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(Nothing more disgraceful by this CLOWN than trashing America while abroad)
Via Newsbusters:
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Dontcha just love it when pompous Hollywoodans speak ill of America whilst traveling abroad on national holidays?
Take Oliver Stone for example who on the Fourth of July actually said of the United States at a film festival in the Czech Republic, "The world is in danger with our tyranny." [...]In front of a room of mostly European journalists, Stone said, "We need countries to say no to the United States.""The United States is the dominant power in the universe, with its eavesdropping abilities, cyber abilities," he continued. "And the world is in danger with our tyranny."
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The son of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone converted to Islam while making a documentary film in Iran recently.
(Dept of State needs to pull father and son's passports and send them to Iran... of course this will never happen with our Muslim Pres. Obuma at the helm)
Obama Goes Golfing For The 129th Time
(Hardest working president evah! Hey, MoonBat... what about the IRS, Benghazi, Boy Friend Reggie Love, the NSA, your lying sack of sh!t pal Morsi and the muslim brotherhood???????? CLOWN!)
Via TWS:http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/more-vacation-month-obamas-2013_711998.html
President Obama is spending today, the day after the Fourth of July holiday, hitting the links. Via the pool reporter, he's with his buddies Martin Nesbitt and Dr. Eric Whitaker:
POTUS rolled into Joint Base Andrews with motorcade at about 9:22. Pool peeled off to the food court. He's golfing with Marty Nesbitt and Eric Whitaker, per WH.
Poll: 71% Of Americans Think Founding Fathers Would Be Disappointed By U.S. Today
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(People don't think the Founding Fathers would approve of Barack Obama?) OOooo.. Shocker!
Via HuffPo:
Thanks for nothing.
According to one poll, that's how Americans see the Founding Fathers' reacting to today's United States. Gallup's Thursday findings show that while most are still proud to call the United States home, there is worry about how the signers of the Declaration of Independence would see things.
When asked if the Founding Fathers would be pleased or disappointed, 71 percent said the latter, marking a 17 percent jump since 2001. The 2013 survey reached out to two random groups of 1,529 and 2,048 people, respectively.
These doubts parallel record-low numbers for Congress. A Gallup poll released in mid-June found confidence in the legislative body was down to 10 percent — the lowest mark for any institution on record.
TWEET:
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Egypt's Al-Tahrir newspaper has a front-page message (in English) for President Obama today. Via @Newseum. pic.twitter.com/3BzYgVQyKZ3:42 AM - 4 Jul 2013
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Bette Midler: If We'd Lost The Revolutionary War,
We'd Have Universal Health Care
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(Aw Bette... thats not Really divine)
Via Breitbart:Many celebrities are celebrating the Fourth of July by wishing their country a very happy birthday. It's a day where partisanship is pushed aside for good ol' fashioned patriotism.
Bette Midler is taking a different approach.
The Parental Guidance star imagines a world in which the U.S. lost the war for its independence, but it's not like that's a bad thing. After all, she argues, that would mean we'd finally have
socialized medicine.
Gallup Poll: Republicans More Proud To Be American Than Democrats
(Shocker....)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_5aoptI5j0
* Imagine *
He captured Australia's hearts with his emotional story of returning from war in Iraq
and a rendition of John Lennon's Imagine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY37l4PDsao
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10 Devastating Facts About Today's Unemployment Numbers (That Will Be Curiously Ignored by the Media)
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10. True unemployment -- which includes part-timers seeking full-time work (also known as "U-6") -- jumped to 14.3 percent, a six-month high.
9. While the economy supposedly created an anemic 195,000 jobs this month, the quality of those jobs is decidedly poor:
In June, the household survey reported that part-time jobs soared by 360,000 to 28,059,000 – an all time record high. Full time jobs? Down 240,000.8. The Labor Force Participation Rate -- the percentage of eligible workers who actually have a job -- has stubbornly remained under 64 percent since 2011.
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7. The unemployment rate for African-Americans is a devastating 23.7 percent.
6. The unemployment rate for Hispanics is 13.2 percent.
5. The unemployment rate for women is an unbelievable 11.6 percent.
4. The unemployment rate for youth is 16.1 percent.
3. The Labor Force Participation Rate has never been lower since the seventies, when the rise of the two-income household began. This, truly, represents a War on Women.
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2. For the entire first half of 2013, only 130,000 full-time jobs have been created.
1. On January 10, 2009, Christina Romer, Obama's top economic adviser, and Jared Bernstein, Joe Biden's top economic adviser, predicted that if Obama's stimulus plan passed the unemployment rate would not top 8 percent.
In fact, we are in the midst of a 54-month stretch of 7.5%+ unemployment, the longest such run ever. Prior to Obama's presidency, the longest stretch of national unemployment at 7.5 percent or higher was a measly 32 months.
The Democrats' miserable predictions have helped run up trillions of dollars in debt while helping to destroy employment opportunities for every race, gender, creed, color, religion and age group.
The Obama White House is an Equal Opportunity Job Destroyer.
THE DEMOCRATS' WAR ON WOMEN: Obamacare Kicking Wives Off
Husbands' Health Insurance Plans
Post by Investors Business Dailyhttp://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/022813-646270-affordable-care-act-pushes-women-off-insurance.htm
Dumped: An unintended consequence of the abomination that is called ObamaCare is the dropping of wives from husbands' employer-provided health care insurance. It's a de facto war on women.ObamaCare is filled with grinding mandates. One of them requires that children remain covered by their parents' health care plans until they're 26 when their parents' insurance "provides dependent coverage of children."
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The government calls this "protecting young adults." But insuring children long past the day they are dependent on their parents exposes companies, which will bear the added costs of paying the inevitable higher premiums. And in some cases, the extra expense could be significant.
So at many companies, something has to go. Quite often, the rational response to rising health insurance costs is to drop spouses, more specifically wives, from insurance plans. Sometimes it's the husbands who must go. But benefits experts have confirmed to MarketWatch that those who are kicked out of plans "tend to be women."
Employers also have a strong incentive to drop spouses because of a "per life" fee that ObamaCare requires from companies that insure their workers. That fee is now $1 or $2 per life. But it will be substantially more — $65 — in 2014.
The trend of dumping spouses will only accelerate when the federal health exchanges are open next year, health care experts told MarketWatch
Key commander to be questioned on Benghazi goes MISSING!
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During the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on the night of Sept. 11, 2012, Marine Corps Col. George Bristol was in a key position in the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) chain of command, Sharyl Attikisson at CBS News reports. While it would be expected he could provide answers to questions about that night Congress has been pursuing, no one seems to know where he is – or isn't telling.
"They say he's retired and they can't reach out to him," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told CBS News. "That's hogwash."
Pentagon spokesman Major Robert Firman told CBS News that the Department of Defense has been forthcoming about all matters related to Benghazi, and that they "cannot compel retired members to testify before Congress."
Firman also issued somewhat of a challenge, adding "any congressional committee can call the witnesses it needs" through subpoena, if necessary.
On June 26, the House Armed Services Committee in a closed hearing questioned Bristol's former superiors: commander of Special Operations Command Africa Rear Adm. Brian Losey and former AFRICOM commander Gen. Carter Ham, who happens to be retired.
The Defense Department defended the appearance of Ham by saying he was not yet officially retired at the time.
"We will end up talking to [Bristol] at some point," Chaffetz said. "He had a very important role and we want to talk to him about it...All this raises concern when there's so much resistance to letting us speak with him."
Chaffetz noted that the Defense Department was more responsive on Benghazi than other federal agencies, but helping to locate Bristol was one area that was lacking.
Heritage Foundation lists top 10 problems
with Senate immigration bill
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With a Senate immigration-reform bill set for a test vote Monday afternoon – a vote that could end debate on the bill before it comes to a final vote on Thursday – the Heritage Foundation on Monday released a list of 10 major problems it has with the measure.
The Heritage Immigration and Border Security Reform Task Force produced a handy infographic here. For a more detailed presentation, see the Heritage Foundation's background paper here.The top 10 Heritage Foundation problems with Senate Bill 744:1. Amnesty: Granting what Heritage calls "amnesty" to 11.5 million illegal immigrants will encourage more law-breaking in the future.
2. Security: Border security "triggers" authorize billions in spending with no guarantees of actual security improvements.
3. Cost: Unlawful immigrants consume more in tax dollars than they contribute, through the use of public education, medical systems and other social services.
4. Entitlements: Putting millions more on social service rolls will worsen the country's entitlement-spending crisis.
5. Expanding bureaucracy: Administering those services will mean more government "offices, task forces and commissions." More of the kind of big-government liberals love.
6. Ambiguous powers: In the bill, Congress grants "unprecedented discretionary and regulatory powers over immigration to the Department of Homeland Security."
7. Unfairness: There are 4 million in line for citizenship who are playing by the rules that would not be helped by the bill.
8. Federalism: While immigration is a federal matter, states have a vital interest in who is coming into them and how. "The bill provides no clear proposal for partnerships between the federal and state or local governments."
9. Special interests: At more than 1,000 pages, the bill is full of pork and special deals included to buy lawmakers' votes. It is "an easy vehicle for hiding special-interest provisions that benefit a few people while ignoring the rest."
10. Assimilation: The bill fosters greater dependence on government because it discontinues the current emphasis on assimilating immigrants through "instruction in the culture, history, and language of the United States through community and faith-based organizations."
Tweets 'threatening' Obama will lead to prison time
July 3, 2013 by Joe Saunders
Feeling angry enough to want to kill somebody?Impulsive enough to want to say it on Twitter?It better not be the president of the United States, or you might end up spending time behind bars just for hitting "Tweet." Those 140 characters – sent in a state of less than total sobriety – translated into a year in federal prison for one man, and he's not alone.
A New York Times report Wednesday, "140 Characters Spell Charges and Jail," chronicled two men sentenced to prison and a third on probation for tweeting "threats" against the president. That's if you consider something like, "Let's Go Kill the President" "I think we could get the president with cyanide! #MakeItSlow" a real threat. Or if you think "Ima assassinate president Obama this evening!" a plan for the night.
The Secret Service did.
The sentences so far: One man got a year federal time; one six months; the third got three years' probation.
In a way, there's nothing new about this. According to The Times report, threatening the president or anyone under Secret Service protection carries a punishment of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, regardless of whether the threat was going to be carried out.
But that law was written in an era where it actually took some effort to make even an empty threat more public than the next bar stool – like taking the trouble to write a letter – and that might make sense, with discretion. But when just about anybody can broadcast their thoughts to literally millions with hardly a seconds' thought or intent, it borders on Orwellian. (And that's even without the National Security Agency tapping in on everything we do with our phones.)
And something else that makes the story especially interesting is the treatment The Times gave it: Page 14A of the national edition.
Both men sentenced to prison are black — a fact that goes unmentioned in the Times story, though a picture makes it clear in one case. (The third man is apparently Hispanic.)
Does anyone doubt The Times would have treated a story about two white men sentenced to prison for making the same empty Twitter "threats" about President Obama as part of a rising surge of violent racism sweeping the country? Probably on Page 1?
Does anyone doubt that a story about two black men sentenced to prison for making empty Twitter threats about a President Bush or a President Mitt Romney would be treated as another example of the justice system's "war against black men?" Again on Page 1?
The Times, they are't a- changin'.
Tweets 'threatening' Obama will lead to prison time
July 3, 2013 by Joe Saunders
Feeling angry enough to want to kill somebody?
Impulsive enough to want to say it on Twitter?
It better not be the president of the United States, or you might end up spending time behind bars just for hitting "Tweet." Those 140 characters – sent in a state of less than total sobriety – translated into a year in federal prison for one man, and he's not alone.
A New York Times report Wednesday, "140 Characters Spell Charges and Jail," chronicled two men sentenced to prison and a third on probation for tweeting "threats" against the president. That's if you consider something like, "Let's Go Kill the President" "I think we could get the president with cyanide! #MakeItSlow" a real threat. Or if you think "Ima assassinate president Obama this evening!" a plan for the night.
The Secret Service did.
The sentences so far: One man got a year federal time; one six months; the third got three years' probation.
In a way, there's nothing new about this. According to The Times report, threatening the president or anyone under Secret Service protection carries a punishment of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, regardless of whether the threat was going to be carried out.
But that law was written in an era where it actually took some effort to make even an empty threat more public than the next bar stool – like taking the trouble to write a letter – and that might make sense, with discretion. But when just about anybody can broadcast their thoughts to literally millions with hardly a seconds' thought or intent, it borders on Orwellian. (And that's even without the National Security Agency tapping in on everything we do with our phones.)
And something else that makes the story especially interesting is the treatment The Times gave it: Page 14A of the national edition.
Both men sentenced to prison are black — a fact that goes unmentioned in the Times story, though a picture makes it clear in one case. (The third man is apparently Hispanic.)
Does anyone doubt The Times would have treated a story about two white men sentenced to prison for making the same empty Twitter "threats" about President Obama as part of a rising surge of violent racism sweeping the country? Probably on Page 1?
Does anyone doubt that a story about two black men sentenced to prison for making empty Twitter threats about a President Bush or a President Mitt Romney would be treated as another example of the justice system's "war against black men?" Again on Page 1?
The Times, they are't a- changin'.
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The religion of peace piece's strikes again
POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29 students and one teacher. Some of the pupils were burned alive in the latest school attack blamed on a radical terror group, survivors said.
Parents screamed in anguish as they tried to identify the charred and gunshot victims.
Farmer Malam Abdullahi found the bodies of two of his sons, a 10-year-old shot in the back as he apparently tried to run away, and a 12-year-old shot in the chest.
"That's it, I'm taking my other boys out of school," he told The Associated Press as he wept over the two corpses. He said he had three younger children in a nearby school.
"It's not safe," he said. "The gunmen are attacking schools and there is no protection for students despite all the soldiers."
Survivors at the Potiskum General Hospital and its mortuary said gunmen attacked Government Secondary School in Mamudo village, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Potiskum town at about 3 a.m. Saturday. The gunmen are believed to be from the Boko Haram sect whose name means "Western education is sacrilege."
They killed 29 students and an English teacher Mohammed Musa, who was shot in the chest according to another teacher, Ibrahim Abdu.
"We were sleeping when we heard gunshots. When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me," said 15-year-old Musa Hassan.
He put his arm up in defense, and suffered a gunshot that blew off all four fingers on his right hand, the one he uses to write with.
He said the gunmen came armed with jerry cans of fuel that they used to torch the school's administrative block and one of the hostels.
"They burned the children alive," he said, the horror showing in his wide eyes.
He and teachers at the morgue said dozens of children from the 1,200-student school escaped into the bush but have not been seen since.
Some bodies are so charred they could not be identified, so many parents do not know if their children survived or died.
Islamic militants from Boko Haram and breakaway groups have killed more than 1,600 civilians in suicide bombings and other attacks since 2010, according to an Associated Press count.
Scores of schools have been burned down in the past year in northeast Nigeria.
President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency May 14, and deployed thousands of troops to halt the insurgency, acknowledging that militants had taken control of some towns and villages.
The military has claimed success in regaining control of the area — the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe . However, the area covers some 155,000 square kilometers (60,000 square miles) or one-sixth of the sprawling country.
Soldiers say they have killed and arrested hundreds of fighters.
But the crackdown, including attacks with fighter jets and helicopter gunships on militant camps, appears to have driven the extremists into rocky mountains with caves, from which they emerge to attack schools and markets.
The militants have increasingly targeted civilians, including health workers on vaccination campaigns, teachers and government workers.
Farmers have been driven from their land by the extremists and by military roadblocks, raising the specter of a food shortage to add to the woes of a people already hampered by the military's shutdown of cell phone service and ban on using satellite telephones.
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Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria.
Video: Morsi's Islamist Supporters Waving Al-Qaeda Flag Murder Two Men.
Note: The two men are thrown from the roof at the 4:40 mark. You can also see one of Morsi's supporters carrying a black al-Qaeda flag.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96uKI-QowFM#at=219
(SHOCKING: Video shows Pro Morsi protesters, in Alexandria, kill local teenagers in cold blood...
ISLAM... Sick, Sick Religion)
Hurl Alert:
Russell Simmons Unveils New Cartoon –
Obama The "Gangsta" Superhero "B-Rock"...
(WARNING: May induce vomiting)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNZNdzoKQtQ
StL Cardinals Remove Christian Cross From Pitching Mound – It Was Offensive
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 5:05 PM
The St. Louis Cardinals organization removed the Christian symbols, including a cross, from the pitching mound this week, saying,"It was offensive."The local far left Riverfront Times started complaining about this weeks ago:http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2013/06/busch_stadium_cardinals_christian_symbols.php
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StL Today reported:There were no decorations to the Busch Stadium pitching mound Friday night for the start of a five-game home stand.
In recent weeks, the grounds crew had carved a cross and a No. 6 (in honor of the late Stan Musial) on the back side of the mound. But general manager John Mozeliak, who said he first had learned about the practice from a Post-Dispatch report and photo, said Friday night that he had asked that the practice cease.
"Once we learned of it," said Mozeliak, "I did contact the grounds crew and just asked that they don't.
"It's just not club policy to be putting religious symbols on the playing field or throughout the ballpark. I didn't ask for the reason behind it. I just asked for it to stop."
Islamists Murder 29 Students in Nigeria –
Burn Them Alive(Islam: A Peaceful Piece-ful Religion)
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Islamists murdered 29 students and one teacher in northern Nigeria. Survivors say some children were burned alive as the attackers set fire to buildings and shot pupils as they tried to run away.
Al Ahram reported:Islamic extremists have killed 29 students and one teacher in an attack on a boarding school in northeast Nigeria.
Survivors being treated for burn and gunshots wounds say some students were burned alive in the attack before dawn Saturday on Government Secondary School in Mamudo town in Yobe state.
As he wept over the bodies of his two boys, farmer Malam Abdullahi swore he would withdraw three remaining sons from a nearby school.
He complained there was no protection for students despite the deployment of thousands of troops since the government declared a state of emergency mid-May in three northeastern states.POS Barack Obama told Nigerian students this week "bad governance" is to blame for the Boko Haram Islamic terrorism.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-05/obama-call-for-muslim-brotherhood-role-overtaken-in-egypt.html
The [Muslim Obuma a**holes] call for an "inclusive" political process in Egypt with a role for the Muslim Brotherhood has been overshadowed by deadly clashes between security forces and supporters of the Islamist group.
Violent protests yesterday in Cairo and elsewhere over the military's ouster of President Mohamed Mursi raised doubts about prospects for an eventual accommodation that would allow the Brotherhood that supports him to compete in new elections.
While [POS Muslim]President Barack Obama's administration has stopped short of condemning the July 3 military takeover, it has called on Egyptian leaders to pursue "a transparent political process that is inclusive of all parties and groups," including "avoiding any arbitrary arrests of Mursi and his supporters," Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said July 4 in a statement.
The administration has urged the Egyptian military to stop using heavy-handed tactics, according to two U.S. officials who asked not to be identified commenting on private communications. They said the administration is concerned that some in the military may want to provoke the Islamists to violence and provide a rationale for crushing the movement once and for all.
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The Kansas law allows teachers and staff carry weapons in schools to protect children and prevent mass shootings.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/07/kan-law-thrusts-iowa-insurer-into-gun-debate/2495815/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomNation-TopStories+%28News+-+Nation+-+Top+Stories%29
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A new Kansas law allowing gun owners to carry weapons in public buildings, including schools, has thrust a major Des Moines-based insurer into the national gun control debate.
The EMC Insurance Cos. insures 85 percent to 90 percent of all Kansas school districts and has refused to renew coverage for schools that permit teachers and custodians to carry concealed firearms on their campuses under the new law, which took effect July 1. It's not a political decision, but a financial one based on the riskier climate it estimates would be created, the insurer said.
"We've been writing school business for almost 40 years, and one of the underwriting guidelines we follow for schools is that any on-site armed security should be provided by uniformed, qualified law enforcement officers," said Mick Lovell, EMC's vice president for business development. "Our guidelines have not recently changed."
The Kansas Legislature passed the law after the fatal shootings of 20 elementary school children in Newtown, Conn., in December.
The law is similar to one in Utah. Around the country, firearms groups have called on schools to let teachers and staff carry weapons to protect children and prevent mass shootings.
A smaller Des Moines-area insurer — Continental Western Group, based in Urbandale — has followed EMC's lead with a similar position in response to the new law, according to the Kansas Association of School Boards' insurance program.
So has Wright Specialty Insurance, based in New York.
As of Saturday, no Kansas school districts had adopted a policy of allowing people with concealed carry permits on their campuses as permitted under the new law, said David Shriver, director of the Kansas school board association's insurance program.
Bob Skow, chief executive officer of the Independent Insurance Agents of Iowa, said he's not surprised by the companies' decisions. Insurance is all about risk and about pricing the cost of coverage in a way that correctly reflects it. That's one of the reasons many schools have gotten rid of their trampolines, he said.
"It's one thing to have a trained peace officer with a gun in school; it's a completely different situation when you have a custodian or a teacher with a gun," Skow said. "That changes the risk of insuring a school and magnifies it considerably."
Insurers simply don't know how to price the added risk yet, he said, but they know it's there.
While a trampoline can hurt one person, modern weapons have the potential to kill many people very quickly, he said, in a reference to Newtown. Adam Lanza, 20, fatally shot 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School there Dec. 14 before taking his own life.
Other shootings at schools include the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School, which caused 15 deaths and 21 injuries, and a 2007 shooting spree at Virginia Tech, which produced 33 deaths and 23 injuries. Mass shootings have claimed 934 lives in 146 shootings over the past seven years, according to a study by USA TODAY.
After the Newtown shootings, the National Rifle Association and its political allies called for an armed officer in every school. As stated on the NRA's website, the organization blames "Gun-Free School Zones" for turning American schools into the "safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk."
NRA opponents have called for stricter gun control to reduce the availability of firearms. Ladd Everitt, director of communications for the Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said he wasn't surprised that EMC and other insurers were balking at covering the risk of the new Kansas law.
"This is a logical response from insurers to a risk nightmare," Everitt said. "Putting a teacher or an administrator with little firearms training in a school with a loaded weapon is clearly a threat to everyone, including the kids."
Forrest Knox, the Kansas state senator who is the chief advocate of the new gun law, maintains that having legal guns in schools and other government buildings could prevent injuries. He's been pushing the legislation for years.
Knox said that local governments are free to opt out of the law allowing weapons in public buildings, but only 300 of the 3,000 counties and municipalities in Kansas have sent letters to the state attorney general seeking exemptions.
He said three community colleges in and around his district in Altoona, Kan., have found an insurer who will work with them. Shriver, the Kansas school board group insurance director, identified the company as IMA, or Insurance Management Association, which he described as a brokerage that would market the coverage to different companies.
He identified the schools as Independence Community College, Labette Community College and Neosho County Community College.
"I'm not an insurance expert, but it's hard for me to believe that if schools and other public buildings allow law-abiding citizens to carry that that increases risk — it's news to me," Knox said. "Law enforcement responds better (to school shootings now), but it still takes a few minutes, and a lot of damage can be done in a few minutes."
Kenyan Cardinal to Obama:
U.S. Society Already 'Ruined'
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Kenyan Cardinal John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi and president of the Kenyan Episcopal Conference, joined other African leaders last week in open dismissal of President Obama's urging to accept same-sex marriage.(Amazing how 3rd world african countries have values more aligned with ours... from 50 years ago... before the Lib Progressives began their insidious destruction of our civil society. Obuma the Emperor has had no clothes for quite a while now. Lemmings, all)Via Breitbart:http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/07/06/Kenyan-Cardinal-To-Obama-U-S-Society-Already-Ruined
Kenyan Cardinal John Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi and president of the Kenyan Episcopal Conference, joined other African leaders last week in open dismissal of President Obama's urging to accept same-sex marriage.
"Those people who have already ruined their society...let them not become our teachers to tell us where to go," said Njue in response to Obama's statements promoting same-sex marriage. "I think we need to act according to our own traditions and our faiths."
On June 28th, Obama started a tour of three countries in Africa by praising the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions iregarding same-sex marriage, then criticizing his host nations for not accepting it. According to LifeSiteNews, homosexuality is illegal in 38 African nations, including Senegal.
"My basic view is that regardless of race, regardless of religion, regardless of gender, regardless of sexual orientation, when it comes to the law, people should be treated equally," Obama said in Senegal. "And that's a principle that I think applies universally."
Obama's comments were followed by a rebuke from Kenya's Deputy President, William Ruto. Speaking at a Catholic Church, Ruto said, "Those who believe in other things, that is their business...We believe in God."
"This nation, the nation of Kenya [is] sovereign and God-fearing," Ruto added.
"America has made tremendous contribution to Kenya's well-being and we are very grateful and as a government we are ready to receive any help from America that will improve the lives of our people," Ruto remarked. "But for these other things we hear, it is none of our business as it goes against our customs and traditions."
McRINO Outraged Muslim Brotherhood Regime Ousted In Coup, Calls For Suspending All U.S. Aid To Egypt
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(Hey John... I'm all for cutting aid to Egypt... along with every other Islamic craphole that hates our guts... but not because they overthrew Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, if anything we should have cut it when they elected the Islamist cavemen into power)Via TPM:http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mccain-us-should-suspend-aid-to-egypts-military
Sen. John McCain urged the US government to suspend financial aid to the Egyptian army Friday evening, Al Jazeera reported.
"We cannot repeat the same mistakes that we made in other times of our history by supporting removal of freely elected governments," McCain said.
Since 1979, US has routinely granted financial aid to Egypt, and the country receives the second-highest amount of American financial assistance after Israel, according to Al Jazeera.
Channel fined for Islamic scholar's 'duty to kill' speech
British TV Channel Airs Speech By Islamic Cleric Saying Muslims Have A "Duty To Kill" Anyone Who Insults The "Prophet" Mohammed
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(They don't have a prophet... Just a Pedophile psychotic!)
Via ITV News:http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-07-05/tv-channel-fined-for-islamic-scholars-duty-to-kill-speech/
A television channel has been hit with a large fine after broadcasting a speech by an Islamic scholar who said Muslims had "a duty to kill" anyone who insulted the prophet.
The watchdog Ofcom levied the fine, totalling £105,000, after it found DM Digital had twice breached the broadcasting code.
Ofcom's report cited a programme called Rehmatul Lil Alameen which was broadcast on October 9 2011, and which featured a live lecture which it said was "likely to encourage or incite the commission of crime or to lead to disorder".
Ofcom fined the channel £85,000 and ordered them not to repeat the broadcast.
White House vetoes public seeing Obama's thanks to librarians
Obuma Tapes Thank You Video To Librarians For Agreeing To Sell Obamacare, White House Bans Public From Seeing It
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(Whaaa.. top secret, you POS?)
Via Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-vetoes-public-seeing-obamas-thanks-to-librarians/article/2532672
White House officials vetoed all public airing of a video of President Obama thanking the American Library Association Sunday for helping inform the public about Obamacare.
"We were specifically told by the White House to only show it [the video] once to conference attendees, and [the] White House said we aren't able to send it out," Jazzy Wright, Press Officer for ALA's Washington, D.C. office, told the Washington Examiner.
The ALA, which is a tax-exempt 501(C)(3) foundation, agreed last weekend during its annual meeting in Chicago to help the president get the word out about Obamacare.
As a result of the partnership between Obama and the group, librarians across the country will be "navigators" handing out White House-approved information about the new government health insurance program.
In the video, the chief executive thanked conference attendees "for helping enroll for health insurance as part of the Affordable Care Act," according to the ALA's blog.
Mohamed ElBaradei Named PM Of Egypt
Whoops... Update: Not So Fast, Looks Like They Changed Their MindsVia Ahram:A presidential source said on Saturday evening that Mohamed ElBaradei, the general coordinator of the National Salvation Front, has already been assigned the post of prime minister. "He accepted and will be shortly sworn in," the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Ahram Online.
According to an official source, the choice of ElBaradei came after the military failed to convince Central Bank Governor Hisham Ramez to accept the job. Farouk El-Oqda, Ramez' predecessor, also declined the job.
A graduate of the faculty of law at Cairo University, ElBaradei joined the Foreign Service before he launched his international career.
Update:Looks like after it was announced that ElBaradei was the nominee for PM, some of the folks in the new government coalition flipped their wigs and said "no way". So, just a bit embarrassing that they are now walking this back.
Ted Cruz's Father, Rafael Cruz, Delivers Epic Patriotic Speech:
"If We Lose Our Freedoms Here, Where Are We Going To Go?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGURa1DfWEo
(Now you see where Ted gets it from... although Glenn Beck doesn't quite make John The Baptist)
Obamanomics: 54 Straight Months Of Unemployment At 7.5% Or Higher
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(And the jobs that are being created are crappy low-paying and part time work)
(CNSNews.com) –
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/54-months-record-stretch-75-unemployment-continues
Since January 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, the United States has seen 54 straight months with the unemployment rate at 7.5 percent or higher, which is the longest stretch of unemployment at or above that rate since 1948, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics started calculating the national unemployment rate.Today, BLS reported that the seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate for June was 7.6 percent, the same it was in May.
In December 2008, the month after Obama was first elected and the month before he was inaugurated, unemployment was 7.3 percent. In January 2009, it climbed to 7.8 percent. In February, the month Obama signed what the Congressional Budget Office would later determine was an $830 billion economic stimulus law, the unemployment rate climbed to 8.3 percent.
In the Obama era, the unemployment rate peaked at 10.0 percent in October 2010. It did not dip below 9 percent until October 2011, when it hit 8.9 percent. From August to September 2012, it dropped from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent—the first time during Obama's tenure it went under 8 percent.
Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker Signs Pro-Life Bill Requiring Women Receive An Ultrasound Before Killing Their Baby
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(Awesome news!)
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has signed into law a bill restricting abortion in Wisconsin.
The law require that women receive ultrasounds before they're allowed to have abortions, with technicians required to point out to the women fetuses' visibile features, and ban doctors who don't have admitting priveleges at nearby hospitals from performing the procedures.
Walker is a highly controversial figure in his home state and nationally after pushing through laws stripping unions of their power, and is said to be seriously looking at a run for president. His support of the law is likely to give him a big lift with social conservatives and could help him in a presidential primary, though it's unclear whether the stand would help or hurt him in a general election.
The law could severely limit abortion in the state. Two of Wisconsin's abortion clinics will be forced to close while a third will have to cut its services in half, according to the clinics' heads. Abortion rights advocates have already announced plans to fight the law in court.
And then we have this TWEET:
Hollywood Moonbat Sarah Silverman: "I'd Very Much Like To Anally Probe" WI Gov. Scott Walker For Signing Pro-Life Bill
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(Very progressive from a lousy actress/comedienne POS)
TANGO DOWN...
Conservative Hacker 'The Jester' Takes Down Bolivian VP's Website
for Offering Snowden Asylum
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Saturday, July 6, 2013, 10:55 PM
Conservative hacker The Jester promised to target those countries that offered asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
On Friday the Venezuelan presidential website was his target.
'The Jester' took it down.
Tonight 'The Jester' targeted the official website of Álvaro García Linera, Bolivian Vice President, for offering asylum to Edward Snowden.
'The Jester' took it down.
New Facebook Groups Promise to "Kill George Zimmerman"
– Thousands Promise to Riot
Saturday, July 6, 2013, 7:25 PM
(The tolerant law-abiding left is at it again)
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Massive race riots are anticipated if George Zimmerman walks free.
In addition to hundreds of racist, disturbing tweets, there are several Facebook pages dedicated to promoting the murder of George Zimmerman. One of those pages even urges riots if he is not found guilty for the murder of Trayvon Martin.
The page description for "RIOT for Trayvon" reads, "They don't think we will tear this mutha fucka up! LIKE IF YOU READY TO RIDE! LETS FLEX OUR MUSCLE! WHAT, YOU SCARED?"
Another Facebook page is called "Kill george zimmerman bitch azz." The group is closed, so the content is not viewable. One can only imagine what kind of comments are posted there.
Related... Already the far left clowns on MSNBC cheered as the motion to dismiss the charges against George Zimmerman were denied by the court.
"If You Read This, You're Jewish"
I have to be honest when I first heard the Muslim Brotherhood Claim that the interim Egyptian President Adli Mansour was Jewish, I was shocked and angry. How the heck did they figure it out? That was one of the world-wide-Jewish-Conspiracy's closest held secret. Where is the leak?
This comes on top of last week's news that the Government of Turkey blamed their anti-Islamist protest on the Jews. At least that one wasn't a leak it was a stupid mistake. The guy we sent in to run the protests Schlomo forgot where he was for a second and tried to organize a Havah Nagilah circle dance (Shlomo will not be allowed out by himself for a while).
Now that the word is leaking out, may It is high time to fess up and tell the world the truth: We Jews are running the protests in the Arab nations, in fact we run everything--- the entire world. And we've been running things for a very long time, manipulating world events for our own needs.
It's time to reveal the truth that many famous people throughout history were actually Jewish — part of the plot to perpetuate the myth and keep us in charge.
Martin Luther – yep, a Jew! But that one was pretty obvious. After all, he is famous for quitting his church to form a new one. Ever ask a Jew about where he prays? He will tell you about the Synagogue he goes to --and the one he would never set foot in.
Mohammed? No he wasn't a Jew but he worked for the Jews a couple of years. We fired him because he kept picking up the phone when we were talking to God thinking the the Lord wanted to talk to him. Finally we said to him, "Mo go take a walk and hit yourself with chains or something." Who knew he would listen.
Napoleon was a Jew — no wonder he wanted to reconvene the Sanhedrin. The French Emperor had this nervous habit of playing with the Star of David hanging on a chain around his neck all the time. The guy would look ridiculous always sticking his hand in his shirt to play with the Star.
Alexander Graham Bell, another closet Jew, the only reason he invented the telephone was so he could call his mother.
For those of you wondering about the media... yep, it's Jewish controlled. We have this guy Lenny (a Levite) who lives in Cleveland with his wife and two kids. Lenny inherited the media-control job from his father, Mel, who in 1942 was able to convince the New York Times and other western newspapers to bury coverage of the Holocaust on page 27. That's the real reason they downplayed it.
All the mainstream news media in the world report to Lenny. As a news director, he is the best we've had for centuries. It was Lenny who thought up the idea that most news media should slant their coverage against Israel. He figured that if reporters give the impression that Jewish blood is cheap, no one would figure out that we were actually running things. A few years ago Lenny won a UJA (Underground Jewish Action) award for coming up with the idea that media should not use the word "terrorist" whenever a Jew was killed.
Chuck Schumer not a Jew, just a wannabe. He realizes the Jews control the media and he wants free air time. Come on--if he was really Jewish would he support the Anti-Israel policies of Obama or recommend the Anti-Semitic Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary? He doesn't know their secret!
For those of you who follow football, last year's NFL Cinderella story of the Baltimore Ravens was Lenny's creation. Lenny's cousin Abe (on his Mother's side) owns a pizza joint in Reisterstown near Baltimore. Lenny owed him a favor, that championship season was great for Abe's business, take out was up 300%.
The banks? No one believes that silly thing about Jewish bankers in New York controlling all the money. Sure, they're all Jewish, but they come from the Netherlands, not New York. We run the world's monetary system from the EU central office. Our man there is named Harvey Cohn. Harvey runs a tight ship.
I spoke to Harvey today; he agrees that it's time to let the cat out of the bag. But there is one thing he would like to do first. You see, much of the world's "anti-Semitism" is part of the plot to perpetuate the myth that we do not run the world. Heck, Harvey even has Mel Gibson on the payroll (please don't tell anyone it's bad for his image).
There is one country whose leadership isn't involved in the scam. Great Britain's government really does hate the Jews. Harvey says that before the word gets out, he wants to use his vast financial powers to cancel every credit card owned by a member of the British government and its royal family (especially Prince Charles). But you must have know that already. Jews talk about being a doctor or a lawyer. Prince Charles wanted to be a tampon.
One thing that may surprise people is that Barack Obama is actually Jewish. He converted five years ago (it's the only way we would let him run for president). I was honored by being invited to his bris. My wife even made a cheesecake. We told him that he had to pick a Jew like Rahm Emanuel as his first Chief of Staff.
Obama's anti-Israel policy was also Harvey's brainchild. With his apparent over-the-top hatred of Israel, no one will believe that he is really Jewish. The anti-Israel policies--it's all an act. I have seen Obama and Bibi laugh about their supposed feud in private. The two guys love each other.
As far as foreign policy goes, it's been Jewish controlled for a long time. Even Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is in on it; he just acts like he hates Jews to throw people off the trail.
By the way, the Saudis were right; Barbie dolls were created as a plot to destroy the minds of Muslim children. And about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, can you believe that some people still think that's a forgery?!
One of the most fun projects we have done recently is sending a computer virus to mess up the Iranian nuclear program. It was so much fun when they realized they were a bunch of tools... Zionist tools. The credit for this idea goes to former Secretary of State Hillary (her real name is Hadassah) Clinton. Don't believe me? Why do you think her daughter married a Jew? BTW if you are thinking the same thing about Donald Trump because his daughter converted and married a Jew.. NO! The trumpster is not Jewish nor is he in on any of our "acts." He really is that politically stupid.
Coming out with the truth may lift a terrible burden from our shoulders. No more hiding, no more plotting, just going about the business of ruling the world.
There is, however, a downside. What if people don't believe us? What if people were to hate us so much that they start to think we have little control over world events? What if they were to think that the Jews are an ancient people who survived only through love of God and His Torah? What if people were to look at us, not as world dominators, but as the teachers of how to love God and each other? What am I saying? No one could believe that!
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Team Arpaio: Obama Birth Certificate An Original Forgery;
Felony Possession
http://patdollard.com/2013/07/team-arpaio-obama-birth-certificate-an-original-forgery-felony-possession/
Part#1 video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VanO9bK9sPk#at=16
Published on Jul 1, 2013
Part #2 Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_796447&feature=iv&src_vid=VanO9bK9sPk&v=wBB732_5KLo
Published on Jul 1, 2013
Obama Economic Development on the National Level?
Or is the Obama economy just a Lie?
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July 6, 2013A Solid Jobs Report? No, This Is a CrisisBy Investor's Business DailyEmployment: From the media to Wall Street, June's jobs report is being spun as a major positive, a sign the economy is getting back on track. Maybe the pundits should look at the actual numbers, which are abysmal.
To hear some of them, the 195,000 payroll jobs added for the month while the unemployment rate stayed at 7.6% were a big deal. One investment house called it a "very good report." Another termed it "solid."
Really?Let's take a little closer look at the numbers.
The total number of payroll jobs in the economy, at 135.9 million, is still 1.6% below 5-1/2 years ago, when the recession began. We're not even back at scratch.
At June's pace of 195,000 new jobs a month, it will take 11 months to get back to where we were in 2007. If you factor in monthly growth of 120,000 in the labor force, that will barely make a dent in unemployment.
In short, this jobs recovery isn't solid. It's pathetic.
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/07/06/a_solid_jobs_report_no_this_is_a_crisis.html
Ten Revelations From Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks Documents
By Ryan Gallagher
Updated Tuesday, June 4, 2013, at 12:55 PM
In 2010, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was detained in Iraq on suspicion of passing classified U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks. On Monday, after more than three years in military jail, his trial finally began at Fort Meade, Md.
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The 25-year-old intelligence analyst admitted earlier this year to passing documents to the whistle-blowing website, though he denies the charge of "aiding the enemy," an offense that carries a life sentence or the death penalty. Manning said at a pretrial hearing in February that he leaked information, including diplomatic cables and U.S. military war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq, in order to "spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy."
Below is a list of 10 revelations disclosed by Manning's leaked documents that offer insight into the breadth and scope of what he revealed, help explain his motivation for leaking, and provide context for the ongoing trial. The list, in no particular order, is far from comprehensive but encompasses some of the most significant information brought to light by the leaked documents.
During the Iraq War, U.S. authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape, and murder by Iraqi police and soldiers, according to thousands of field reports.
There were 109,032 "violent deaths" recorded in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, including 66,081 civilians.
Leaked records from the Afghan War separately revealed coalition troops' alleged role in killing at least 195 civilians in unreported incidents, one reportedly involving U.S. service members machine-gunning a bus, wounding or killing 15 passengers.
The U.S. Embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country that opposed genetically modified crops, with U.S. diplomats effectively working directly for GM companies such as Monsanto.
British and American officials colluded in a plan to mislead the British Parliament over a proposed ban on cluster bombs.
In Baghdad in 2007, a U.S. Army helicopter gunned down a group of civilians, including two Reuters news staff. U.S. special operations forces were conducting offensive operations inside Pakistan despite sustained public denials and statements to the contrary by U.S. officials.
A leaked diplomatic cable provided evidence that during an incident in 2006, U.S. troops in Iraq executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence. The disclosure of this cable was later a significant factor in the Iraqi government's refusal to grant U.S. troops immunity from prosecution beyond 2011, which led to U.S. troops withdrawing from the country.
A NATO coalition in Afghanistan was using an undisclosed "black" unit of special operations forces to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial. The unit was revealed to have had a kill-or-capture list featuring details of more than 2,000 senior figures from the Taliban and al-Qaida, but it had in some cases mistakenly killed men, women, children, and Afghan police officers.
The U.S. threatened the Italian government in an attempt to influence a court case involving the indictment of CIA agents over the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric.
Separately, U.S. officials were revealed to have pressured Spanish prosecutors to dissuade them from investigating U.S. torture allegations, secret "extraordinary rendition" flights, and the killing of a Spanish journalist by U.S. troops in Iraq.
In apparent violation of a 1946 U.N. convention, Washington initiated a spying campaign in 2009 that targeted the leadership of the U.N. by seeking to gather top officials' private encryption keys, credit card details, and biometric data.
Although Manning's disclosures totaled some 720,000 records—the largest security breach in U.S. history—the leak still amounted to less than 1 percent of the almost 77 million documents reportedly classified by U.S. government agencies in 2010. The soldier's actions are at the center of an ongoing debate about a spike in extreme state secrecy in the U.S. since Sept. 11—an issue regularly covered here on Future Tense—that has resulted in several aggressive leak investigations and surveillance of journalists.
During the first day of Manning's trial, the government accused the soldier of indirectly assisting al-Qaida and leaking the information to "gain the notoriety he craved." Manning's defense attorney described him as "young, naive, but good intentioned," passing documents to WikiLeaks in a bid to "make the world a better place."
http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/04/bradley_manning_trial_10_revelations_from_wikileaks_documents_on_iraq_afghanistan.html
Going through email these days takes an inordinate amount of time as my email gets cluttered with the latest pizza offers from the local Papa John's, confirmation of orders for clothes and books placed online and the various forwarding of snippets from family and friends. However, every once in a while, an email is received that sparks my interest leading me on a search for more information as it compels me to comment about it. That one email arrived today.
It was sent to me by a family member and contained an interesting essay. Maureen Scott penned this essay in March 2013. Ms. Scott has authored 7 essays that appear on RenewAmerica.com. The essay, "The Architect of Destruction" describes her view on Obuma. In a previous post, I described Obuma as "an empty suit giving 'collar service' to the very foundation of America." Ms. Scott, in her thorough examination of this man, is right on target and pinpoints the "why" behind this emptiness.
She describes Obuma as "a tormented man who is filled with resentment, anger, and disdain for anyone of an opinion or view other than his. He acts in the most hateful, spiteful, malevolent, vindictive ways in order to manipulate and maintain power and control over others. Perhaps because, as a child, he grew up around family members and mentors who instilled him with an abiding bitterness toward the U.S."
Various media reports have indicated Obuma, "was raised by his grandparents, who were communists, and frequently took the young Obama to visit Frank Marshall Davis, a staunch communist. It's easy to see where the emptiness originated. When a young child is exposed to negative role models who fill the mind with hate and ignore filling the heart with love, there is little wonder that hate would migrate from mind to heart. One never hears of this man being exposed to God, Jesus Christ or even the love of parents or grandparents; it seems his life was all about the indoctrination."
Of course the left liberal Obuma supporting Kool-Aid drinkers will yell "racist" when anything negative is said about their "dear ruler," but Ms. Scott pegged the problem with the man sitting in the Oval Office very well. She wrote, "It is not the color of his skin that is a problem – for anyone in America. Rather it is the blackness that fills his soul and the hollowness in his heart where there should be abiding pride and love for this country." Ms. Scott continues:
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/scott/130301
Away from this country as a young child, Obama didn't delight in being part of America and its greatness. He wasn't singing our patriotic songs in kindergarten, or standing on the roadside for a holiday parade and eating a hot dog, or lighting sparklers around a campfire on July 4th as fireworks exploded over head, or placing flags on the gravesites of fallen and beloved American heroes.
Rather Obama was separated from all of these experiences. He doesn't really understand us and what it means to be an American. He is void of the basic emotions that most feel regarding this country and is insensitive to the instinctive pride we have in our national heritage. His opinions were formed by those who either envied us or wanted him to devalue the United States and the traditions and patriotism that unite us.(http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/070613_1617_WhoAreTheRe1.jpg)
It has been discovered that Obuma spent time as a child in Indonesia as his mother's husband, a man name Soetoro, moved the family there. Indonesia has a majority of individuals who practice Islam. This exposure to an egregious totalitarian political system masquerading as a religion was in total opposition to the American traditions and principles. One picture that has circulated shows Obuma's mother wearing the Islam head covering... hajib. Even though it has been reported the young Obuma attended a Catholic administered school, the school accepted individuals of different denominations and faiths. It is said, "without any true guidance, a young child will absorb any ideology that presents itself: some not for the better."
In looking at Obuma's presidency, Ms. Scott provided a nice summation: Obama has never given a speech that is filled with calm, reassuring, complimentary, heartfelt statements about all the people in the U.S. Or one that inspires us to be better, grateful, and proud that, in a short time, our country became a leader, and a protector of so many. Quite the contrary, his speeches always degenerate into mocking, ridiculing tirades as he faults our achievements, along with any of his critics, all for the sake of a laugh, or to bolster his ego. He uses his Office to threaten and create fear while demeaning and degrading anyone who opposes his policies and actions. Unlike a secure leader, who has noble self-esteem and not false confidence, Obama displays a cocky, haughty attitude and a dread of being critiqued.
Mostly, his time seems to be spent causing dissention, unrest, and anxiety among the people rather than uniting us (even though he was presented to us as the "Great Uniter"). He creates chaos for the sake of keeping citizens separated, envious, aggrieved and ready to argue. Under his leadership Americans have been kept on edge, rather than in a state of comfort and security. He incites people to be aggressive toward, disrespectful of, and retaliate against those of differing backgrounds and views. Through such behavior, Obama has lowered the standards for self-control and mature restraint to the level of rowdy, street-fighting gangs. When, instead, he should be raising the bar for people to strive toward becoming more considerate, tolerant, self-disciplined, self-sustaining, and self-assured.Not a day goes by that he is not attempting to defy our laws, remove our rights, over-ride established procedures, install controversial appointees, enact divisive mandates, and assert a dictatorial form of power.Never has there been a leader of this great land who used such tactics to harm and hurt the people and this country.
Never have we had a President who spoke with a caustic, evil tongue against the citizenry rather than present himself as a soothing, calming, and trustworthy force.
Never, in this country, have we experienced how much stress one man can cause a nation of people – on a daily basis!Obama has promoted the degeneration of peace, civility, and quality of cooperation between us. He thrives on tearing us down, rather than building us up. He is the Architect of the decline of America, and the epitome of a Demagogue.Well said Ms. Scott. It has amazed many that the American people elected this man, not once, but twice, to hold the highest office in America. The nomination of this man started with controversy as his eligibility to run and hold office was questioned and remains as the issue has not been settled. He has worked tirelessly to destroy America; it is seen in every action, speech and mannerism. Since re-election, he has stepped up the march to destroy America. His supporters, the left liberals and the enemedia have called those who seek to restore the values and principles upon which this country was founded as "racists, bigots, and haters of government" while looking through their government bought and paid for rose-colored glasses.
To all those referenced, I respond:
If being a racist means that I am against tyranny, oppression, man-made abolishing of God-given rights and dictatorship, YES... I am racist. If being a bigot means that I am against being forced to practice a religion other than one of my choosing, YES... I am a bigot. If being a hater means I am against a government who operates outside of its enumerated powers, YEs.... then I am a hater.
However, I ask, "Who are the real racists... bigots and haters.... people like me or those who stand for everything I am against?"
....Warph
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US-Funded Palestinian Authority TV:
Young Girls Says Jews Are "Barbaric Monkeys, Wretched Pigs"
(Our tax dollars help pay for this
... thanks to POS Obuma)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyRLyXCj3Lg#at=17
PA TV reporter: "Let's meet these girls who want to recite a short poem."Girl 1: "I do not fear the rifle because your throngs are in delusion and ignorant herds.
Jerusalem is my land, Jerusalem is my honor
Jerusalem is my days and my wildest dreams.
Oh, you who murdered Allah's pious prophets (i.e., Jews in Islamic tradition)
Oh, you who were brought up on spilling blood
You have been condemned to humiliation and hardship.
Oh Sons of Zion, oh most evil among creations
Oh barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs
Girl 2: Jerusalem is not your den
Jerusalem opposes your throngs
Jerusalem vomits from within it your impurity
Because Jerusalem, you impure ones, is pious, immaculate
And Jerusalem, you who are filth, is clean and pure.
I do not fear barbarity.
As long as my heart is my Quran and my city
As long as I have my arm and my stones
As long as I am free and do not barter my cause
I will not fear your throngs
I will not fear the rifle."
[Official Palestinian Authority TV (Fatah), July 3, 2013]
Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Gang Rape Woman
For Opposing Morsi
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The same Muslim Brotherhood Obama, McRINO and Menendez are
insisting must be part of the future Egyptian government.
Via Daily Mail:She saw them running towards her as she approached Cairo's Tahrir Square and within seconds she was surrounded.
What followed for Yasmine El-Baramawy was the most terrifying 70 minutes of her life – a prolonged, brutal rape and sexual assault by dozens of men, while a crowd looked on. And did nothing.
'I felt hands all over my body, as they tore at my clothes like savage animals and tried to pull down my trousers,' recalls the 30-year-old musician and composer.
More than 100 thugs also beat her with sticks and slashed at her with knives – disgusting, degrading 'punishment' because she dared to join the protests against former President Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party.
It is the shameful, untold story of an Arab Spring revolution that went off-track. And perhaps the most disturbing element is that these attacks are said to have been sanctioned by Morsi and the Brotherhood.
[...]
The assailants operated in a climate of impunity – encouraged by religious zealots within the government who had called female protesters whores and who had blamed rape victims for not staying home. It is even believed that the gangs were paid by the Muslim Brotherhood.
POS Obuma Plans Campaign To Enlist Moms To Nag You
To Buy Insurance Through Obumacare
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(The stench of desperation is overpowering)
Via Washington Post:The Obama administration and its allies need lots of healthy young adults to sign up for insurance this fall to make the president's health-care law successful.So they are going after their moms.They put up Web ads on Facebook and Allrecipes.com alongside slogans such as "Moms know best: 'Get yourself health insurance.' " They have enlisted the help of parent-activist groups such as Moms Rising, which has already begun mobilizing its vast network of more than 1 million members and 3 million e-mail subscribers on behalf of the health-care law.
They are collaborating with Elle and Cosmopolitan magazines, organizing mom-oriented wine-and-cheese parties and preparing commercials that will run during shows popular with mothers, such as "Good Morning America." And soon, they plan to deploy first lady Michelle Obama, the nation's mother in chief, who has already put her stamp on health-care with her anti-obesity "Let's Move!" campaign. [...]
The White House is aiming initially to sign up 2.7 million healthy young adults for coverage. Young men especially are cheap to insure and are therefore critical to keeping the law on a good financial footing.
As it stands, however, advocates worry that young men will forgo insurance and instead pay the fine, which begins at $95 for the first year.
As a result, insurers, advocates, hospitals and others eager to see the law succeed are mounting costly campaigns to persuade people, particularly young and healthy ones, to buy insurance. And many see mothers as a potent part of that effort.
"In the end, it will be the moms of America who are going to decide if their families get coverage," said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who has conducted focus groups for health exchanges in three states. "They will decide and then insist their children and husbands sign up."
Headline Of The Day
Update: Obama's Brilliant Idea For A "Smarter" Government: Use Google
Does this mean he's going to step down?
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Via Reuters
(Update: Brilliant... the man is a genius)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKb7T83RfqI
Oh Boy... Good News! White House Says Obuma Will Pivot
Back To The Economy For The 298th Time
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(The CLOWN of a million pivots)
Via Washington Post:With several controversies fading and a period of intense foreign travel over, President Obama is narrowing his focus this summer to two issues, immigration and the economy, that could help determine the success or failure of his second term. [...]
The president also plans a series of summertime events focused on steps the government can take to drive economic growth, aides said. Many in the White House see a Sept. 30 deadline to renew government funding as probably the last opportunity for Obama to scale back the deep domestic spending cuts known as sequestration before the 2014 midterm elections.
The two-pronged focus comes after months of firefighting and distractions for Obama, who spent the first half of the year forming a new Cabinet and zig-zagging from one issue to another, including an unsuccessful bid for new gun regulations. The spring also brought a spate of controversies that raised questions about the administration's credibility, forcing the president to address why IRS employees scrutinized conservative groups and whether the government was spying on millions of Americans.
Obuma Bootlicker David Letterman In Ratings Freefall...
Falls To Third Place In Key Demo Behind Jimmy Kimmel
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(I'm sure he lost more than a few viewers when he declared
MSNBC's pompous elitist Rachel Maddow
"the smartest person in all of journalism")
Via Variety:He's a little more than six months away from passing the "Tonight Show" baton — again — but Jay Leno is very much still on his game ratings-wise.
In Nielsen numbers for the second quarter of this year, NBC's "Tonight Show With Jay Leno" was easily the top-rated hour in latenight. ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" ranked second in key demos for a second straight quarter in its new, earlier timeslot and remains the youngest-skewing of the 11:35 p.m. talkshows.
Letterman's "Late Show" on CBS, meanwhile, continues to head in the opposite direction and logged one of its weakest quarterly performances on record. The program was down from last year in virtually every category except adults 50 and older.
Overall, NBC remains dominant in latenight, with "Tonight Show" and "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" winning all four half-hours from 11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. in all 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 demos as well as total viewers. Leno and Fallon beat their CBS competition head to head by their largest margins in four years.
Nielsen estimates that Leno, who will wrap his second stint as host of "The Tonight Show" in mid-winter, averaged 1.08 million adults 18-49 for the April 1-June 30 second quarter — up 8% from last year. "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (885,000 viewers in the demo) ranked second and was up 25% from its average in a later timeslot last year, while "Late Show with David Letterman" slid 13% to 777,000.
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("Smell?... I just sh!t my pants. They don't call me 'Dirty Harry' for nuthin'")
Senate Democrats are considering invoking the so-called "nuclear option," which would curb the minority party's use of the filibuster and prevent Republicans from blocking presidential nominations.
Senate Majority Leader [Dirty Harry] Reid, D-Nev., signaled privately to President Obama that he may
change Senate rules this month so it would take only
51 votes — instead of the
current 60 — to approve judicial and executive branch nominees.
Democrats now control 55 Senate votes. Republicans have 45, but the GOP often still asserts itself by using the filibuster to keep nominations or legislation from coming to a vote.
PETA = "People for the Extermination Treatment of Animals"
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(These are the same damn people who complain when someone swats a freakin' fly
and then they kill all the cats and dogs they can get their hands on)
Via Washington Times:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals puts to sleep an estimated 2,000 dogs and cats each year, a new report finds.
The New York Times found that the animal rights group kills far more each year than it places for adoption. Last year, only 19 were adopted from its shelter; the year before, it was 24.
The statistic comes as no-kill shelters around the nation have made great gains in adoptions. In New York alone, for instance, the kill statistic for sheltered animals fell from 31,701 in 2003 to 8,252 in 2012 — meaning that more and more animals are being placed in homes rather than euthanized, Newser reported.
BUT... PETA's shelters haven't made such great strides in the no-kill trend.
$614,615 Of Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work...
Building A Smart Grid In.... Kazakhstan????
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(Very nice! Your hard earned Tax Dollars at work)
Via AmSpec:The United States Trade and Development Agency is currently offering a number of exciting business opportunities for private companies interested in spending public dollars on projects in foreign countries! My personal favorite is the
$614,615 grant to develop smart grid technology for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan. Very nice!
And $455,000 for something called "Mexico: Puebla ITS Technologies Feasibility Study."
Obuma Wishes His Fellow Muslims A Happy Ramadan
(Sorry, couldn't resist with the headline)
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"What the hell is that, Dafiya?"
POS Obuma today issued a statement commemorating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, offering his "best wishes" to communities celebrating across the globe.
Via The Hill:"For the world's 1.5 billion Muslims, Ramadan is a time for thoughtful reflection, fasting and devotion. It is also an opportunity for family and friends to come together and celebrate the principles that bind people of different faiths – a commitment to peace, justice, equality and compassion towards our fellow human beings," Obama said. "These bonds are far stronger than the differences that too often drive us apart."
The president added that the month "reminds us that freedom, dignity and opportunity are the undeniable rights of all mankind," subtly acknowledging the strife in Egypt and the Middle East. On Monday, more than 50 protesters were killed and 300 more were injured in a showdown between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and military forces in Egypt.
"We reflect on these universal values at a time when many citizens across the Middle East and North Africa continue to strive for these basic rights and as millions of refugees mark Ramadan far from their homes," Obama said. "The United States stands with those who are working to build a world where all people can write their own future and practice their faith freely, without fear of violence."
Major Newspapers Reject Pro-Life Ad,
Image Of Baby "Too Controversial"
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(The baby... yes, that's a REAL baby... in the ad (seen above) is 20-weeks-old, the same age POS TX Demo-rat Wendy Davis filibustered for 12 hours to ensure could still be aborted)
Via LifeSiteNews:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/major-papers-reject-pro-life-ad-image-of-baby-too-controversial?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LifesitenewscomLatestHeadlines+%28LifeSiteNews.com+Latest+Headlines%29
July 3, 2013 (LiveActionNews) - A national pro-life organization is outraged after three major American newspapers rejected a pro-life ad as "too controversial."
The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and the LA Times refused to run an advertisement created by Heroic Media.
The ad features a hand holding a 20- to 24-week-old baby with the quote, "This child has no voice, which is why it depends on yours. Speak Up."
Heroic Media Executive Director Joe Young said he was shocked and angered that the media outlets were willing to talk about the issue but were unwilling to show the reality of life at 20 weeks.
"I am disturbed that these papers would run article after article promoting the notion that abortion is a victimless act without consequences," Young said. "The fact remains, children who are unique individuals – never again to be duplicated – are being killed in the most violent way imaginable and they feel the excruciating pain of that death."
The newspapers took issue with the image of the baby.
"It seems as though it is okay to talk about the issue in general, but when you actually put a face to the discussion, then it becomes controversial," Young said.
Last week after the House passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, Heroic Media put out a statement requesting that the pro-life community contact their senators and encourage them to consider and support the Act.
"Americans deserve to know the truth about the children sentenced to die for no fault of their own and that we have a chance to spare some of them through this legislation," Young said.
The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act prevents an abortionist from performing an abortion at or after 20 weeks, based on empirical scientific medical evidence that proves that unborn babies can feel pain. Science shows that at eight weeks after fertilization, the unborn child reacts to touch, and at 20 weeks, the unborn baby responds to what would be felt as pain.
The image shows a 20- to 24-week-old baby in a person's hands. Heroic Media's goal was to show what life looks like at 20 weeks. The non-profit organization has resubmitted the ad with a different image, now one of a 20-week-old baby in utero.
The Chicago Tribune has now agreed to run the ad with the second image as long as Heroic Media indicates that it is an advertisement.
"Our hope is that the American public begins to advance this debate with both the mother and child in mind," Young said.
Heroic Media is a non-profit whose mission is to educate the public in general and reach women facing unplanned pregnancies with life-affirming alternatives through the use of mass media, such as television commercials, internet outreach, and billboards.
"This issue, the late-term killing of developing children, is one that should be addressed in the U.S. Senate, and we encourage our fellow citizens to let their Senators know our desire to see that happen," Young said.
NAACP Demands Florida Country Remove Painting Of Robert E. Lee, Calls Him A "Symbol Of Racism"
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(Never mind the fact that Lee is considered one of the greatest military minds in history and who opposed slavery. Lincoln offered Lee command of a Union army,btw. James X. Muwakkil... name sounds very suspicious... I do know he has two arrest records and a bankruptcy. Typical of the southern NAACP)
Via Washington Times:The president of an NAACP branch in Florida has petitioned members of the Lee County Commission to take down a painting of Gen. Robert E. Lee, calling the former Confederate leader a historic symbol of racism.
Lee County was named after the general in 1887 — 22 years after the Civil War wrapped, the Fort Myers News-Press said.
But James X. Muwakkil, of the Lee County chapter of the NAACP, said the painting, which has hung in the county commission's meeting room for years, divides the community.
"That painting is a symbol of racism. It's a symbol of divisiveness, and it doesn't unify Lee County. It divides Lee County," Mr. Muwakkil said in a letter, the News-Press reported.
County Commissioner Larry Kiker said the commission would have to hold a public meeting on the issue.
"I would be looking for thoughtful conversation based upon the historical value and why it was put there to begin with, mainly because I don't know too much about it," he told the News-Press reported.
The painting hails back decades. The county's commissioners in 1929 asked Virginia lawmakers to help them get a portrait of Lee, the paper reported.
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Coathanger, props in abortion debate
The Texas Legislature got off to a dramatic start on Tuesday with one lawmaker brandishing a coathanger on the House floor as the chamber took up the abortion measure that has roiled the state and the country in the weeks since a 13-hour filibuster derailed its passage in the last session.
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(LOL...Look at the puss's [faces] on these exterminators. They look like Al Sharpton on a good day. Coat hangers?? Under this Texas House Bill#2, a woman has five months to make up her mind if she wants to have an abortion, why would she need a coat hanger??)
The Texas House of Representatives opened at 10 a.m. local time after the July Fourth recess to consider House Bill 2, which imposes a ban on abortions after 20 weeks and, critics charge, would shutter nearly every abortion-providing clinic in the state due to stringent clinic regulations. The measure failed to be fully passed at the end of the last session due to a filibuster late last month led by state
[Screwball] Sen. Wendy Davis, who became a national liberal icon overnight.
[...][Head Screwball] Democratic state Rep. Senfronia Thompson and other
[Screwballs] who accompanied her on the floor brandished several props including wire coat hangers, knitting needles, feathers and turpentine. She charged that without rape and incest exceptions extended beyond the first five months of gestation, sexual assault victims would use those tools to obtain abortions.
Ol' Pant Suits Gets Her Own Attack Watch-Style Website
Democratic Oppo Group Rushing to Hillary Clinton's Defense
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Via National Journal:http://news.yahoo.com/democratic-oppo-group-rushing-hillary-clintons-defense-060023257.html
With Hillary Clinton already facing attacks from the right, a Democratic super PAC specializing in opposition research is expanding its mission to playing defense.
American Bridge, which made a name for itself in the 2012 election by knocking down Republican candidates from Mitt Romney to Todd Akin, is launching a web site to defend potential Democratic presidential candidates in 2016. The web site,
CorrecttheRecord2016.org, will aim to debunk attacks against Democrats while flogging gaffes and flip-flops by possible Republican contenders.
Fueled by the Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizens United case that opened the floodgates to super PACS, the oppo wars are evolving into an arms race. The American Bridge project comes less than three weeks after a new Republican super PAC, America Rising, started an anti-Clinton initiative called StopHillary2016.org. Another super PAC, American Crossroads, unleashed an online video in May criticizing Clinton's response to the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed four people.
These missives against Clinton were answered only by an unofficial collection of her supporters, since the former Secretary of State, U.S. senator and First Lady is not an elected official or a candidate. (She has not officially endorsed a super PAC, called Ready for Hillary, trying to build support for her presidential bid.) In the meantime, Democrats and Republicans are eager to use the pre-campaign period to try to define her on their own terms.
The mudslinging against Clinton – and other possible Democratic candidates like Vice President Joe Biden and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley — is expected to intensify with each passing day as the 2016 election approaches. Last month, the New York Times reported that Republicans were testing the message that Clinton was too old to be president, eager to contrast their younger crop of prospective candidates against her.
Irony of Ironies:
You'll Never Guess Who Is Running
Against Eliot Spitzer For NYC Comptroller
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(Hmmmm... I find myself in the odd position of rooting for the better-looking more honest prostitute in the photo)
Via Newsmaxhttp://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/spitzer-prostitution-ringleader-comptroller/2013/07/08/id/513816?promo_code=12630-1&utm_source=12630Weasel_zippers&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who Sunday announced his candidacy for New York City comptroller, says he wants to help shape the city's budget and work on Wall Street accountability.
And in a bizarre twist, Spitzer, who resigned in 2008 after it became known he frequented prostitutes, will be running against libertarian Kristin Davis, the former Manhattan "Madam" who ran the high-class prostitution ring used by Spitzer and other high-powered clients, Breitbart reported.
Spitzer discussed his reasons for running during a round of television and radio interviews Monday. On CBS' "This Morning," he cited shareholder power, corporate governance, protecting pensions, and investing city money among his priorities.
"It's now five years later. I hope they [voters] look back at what I did as attorney general, as governor, as a prosecutor and say, 'Hey, this guy was ahead of the curve on Wall Street issues,'" he said.
"I want to do to that office what I did to the attorney general's office, re-envision it, re-imagine it."
Spitzer would have been aware he was running against Davis when he made his decision to join the race, Breitbart reported, as Davis announced her candidacy months ago.
"This is going to be the funnest campaign ever," said Davis, who went to prison for three months for her role in running the escort service, according to Breitbart.
"I've been waiting for my day to face him for five years," she reportedly told the New York Daily News. "I sat ... in Rikers Island, I came out penniless and nothing happened to him. The hypocrisy there is huge."
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Via LifeNews:http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/09/texas-legislator-counters-wendy-davis-during-hearing-holds-up-baby-shoes/
During the hearing in the state House yesterday on the 20-week abortion ban, Texas State Senator State Senator Bob Deuell, MD held up a pair of baby shoes to represent the unborn children who are aborted.
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(Love it)
Above is the picture of Duell holding up the shoes along with a collection of tweets with pictures and commentary on the hearing yesterday and the thousands of pro-life advocates who showed up in Austin to support the bill.
Carney Angrily Dismises GOP:
We Are "Moving Forward" With Obumacare Train Wreck
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(Suicide Mission... Jay, ol' boy... Suicide Mission)
Via The Hill:White House press secretary Jay Carney on Tuesday angrily dismissed demands from GOP leaders for more information on the decision to delay ObamaCare's employer mandate, declaring that "implementation is moving forward" on the healthcare law.
Carney said Republicans who argue the Affordable Care Act is unwieldy and unworkable had no realistic alternative to propose, and that support for the president's legislation would be buoyed once Americans began benefitting from the law.
"The benefits that more and more Americans will gain from that implementation will make clear that the absence of an alternative put forward by House Republicans is not an alternative at all," Carney said. "The Republican alternative is, repeal, and replace with what?"
Illinois Democrat Requests National Guard Come To Chicago To Help Stop War Zone Violence
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(This is what happens to a city after being ruled by Democrats for decades. Like I said before, bring the troops home, send them to Chicago and wipe out ALL black and hispanic gangs. No jail time... treat them like jihadi terrorists... blow them to hell and beyond!)
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(BOOM)
CHICAGO, Ill. (IRN) - Gun violence in Chicago is so severe that a state lawmaker wants state police and the National Guard to assist the local cops.
State Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) is making the request.
"I am requesting with this press conference that Gov. Patrick Quinn order the Illinois National Guard (and) the Illinois State Police (to) come to Chicago and work with our mayor Ron (sic) Emanuel to provide safety for the children, especially," she said at a news conference in Springfield.
Other state lawmakers accompanied Davis to recognize the severity of the problem, and the extent to which it carries beyond Chicago's troubled neighborhoods to the entire city and other parts of the state, but not necessarily to concur with her solution.
Over the 4th holiday weekend, 74 people were shot and 12 killed in Chicago, and Davis says the police don't have the manpower to make arrests.
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CBO Report: 11,000 Late-Term Abortions Every Year In America
(Slaughter)
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( Innocence)
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 9, 2013 – Some 11,000 American children are aborted every year after the 20th week of pregnancy, according to figures contained in a new Congressional report on the cost of banning such procedures.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is required by law to perform a cost estimate for every bill pending in Washington, so legislators will know the economic impact an act will have on society and government.
The CBO estimates that H.R. 1797, the "Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," will save perhaps 2,750 babies a year – a number it admits is "very uncertain."
The finding contradicts the testimony of many of the bill's pro-abortion opponents, who have insisted the number of children affected by late-term abortion is small.
Congress Blocks Funding For Obama's Plan To Send Weapons To Syrian Rebels
(Some rare good news)
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Via Defcon Hill:
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/309995-intel-panels-blocked-obamas-syrian-aid-by-restricting-funds#ixzz2YcOUOxP4
House and Senate Intelligence panel members have voted to block President Obama from arming Syrian rebels, committee insiders told The Hill. They did so by placing severe restrictions on funding.Lawmakers made their decision last month for fear that the administration plan would let weapons fall into the hands of terrorist groups, such as the many linked to al Qaeda.
The exact nature of the restrictions is unknown because the committees voted privately on the basis of classified information. What is known is that the restrictions are sufficient to prevent the administration from delivering arms as planned, according to a source familiar with the actions.
The committee "voted to allow them to make some movement on this, but it's restricted," said one Senate panel insider, who declined to elaborate on the total aid or the restrictions added by the Intelligence panels, which both met again on Tuesday. "It was a very restrictive amount."
Administration officials stopped shy of saying that the efforts had thwarted the effort to arm rebel groups, but said it certainly didn't make it easier.
"They're raising a lot of questions without having alternative answers," said one senior administration official.
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Piece-of Sh!t Obuma Orders Federal Employees To Spy On Each Other,
Will Punish Those Who Fail To Report Suspicious Behavior
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(POS Obuma= Stasi-like, Ministerium für Staatsicherheit)
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/563751/Stasi
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WASHINGTON — In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.
The techniques are a key pillar of the Insider Threat Program, an unprecedented government-wide crackdown under which millions of federal bureaucrats and contractors must watch out for "high-risk persons or behaviors" among co-workers. Those who fail to report them could face penalties, including criminal charges.
Obama mandated the program in an October 2011 executive order after Army Pfc. Bradley Manning downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from a classified computer network and gave them to WikiLeaks, the anti-government secrecy group. The order covers virtually every federal department and agency, including the Peace Corps, the Department of Education and others not directly involved in national security.
Under the program, which is being implemented with little public attention, security investigations can be launched when government employees showing "indicators of insider threat behavior" are reported by co-workers, according to previously undisclosed administration documents obtained by McClatchy. Investigations also can be triggered when "suspicious user behavior" is detected by computer network monitoring and reported to "insider threat personnel."
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do "harm to the United States." Managers of special insider threat offices will have "regular, timely, and, if possible, electronic, access" to employees' personnel, payroll, disciplinary and "personal contact" files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms.
Ft. Hood Jihadist Nidal Hasan Uses Court Appearance
To Declare His Support For The Taliban
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(The fact that Hasan is still breathing air four years after slaughtering 13 Americans is a travesty of justice)
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood asked pointed questions about religion and used several opportunities Wednesday to declare his support for the Taliban and a fellow American-born Muslim who killed a U.S. soldier, as he was allowed to zero in on potential jurors during the second day of jury selection.
Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is serving as his own attorney in his military murder trial, participated as nine of the remaining 14 Army officers in the group of potential jurors were questioned individually.
Hasan told one colonel that Abdulhakim Muhammad, sentenced to life in prison for the June 2009 fatal shooting of a soldier outside a Little Rock, Arkansas, military recruiting station, was his "brother and friend." Muhammad, who converted to Islam in college, has told The Associated Press that the shootings were an act of war on the U.S.
In answering Hasan's questions based on jury questionnaires they filled out about a year ago, several potential jurors said they had negative views of Muslims, the Quran or Shariah, the Islamic legal and religious code. But they said they could put aside those views and only consider evidence in the case — including a colonel asked by Hasan if "the fact that I do believe the Quran justifies killing" would prevent him from being a fair juror.
Osborn has denied his "defense of others" strategy, which must show that killing was necessary to prevent the immediate harm or death of others. The judge has barred him from telling jurors that he shot U.S. troops because he believed they were an imminent threat to Taliban leaders in Afghanistan.
Broward County Sheriff Tells Black Leaders: "We Are Not Preparing For A Riot"
After Zimmerman Verdict As He Asks For Their Help Stopping A Riot
(Because if he was preparing for a riot that would be racist)
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FORT LAUDERDALE — Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, his top brass, several police chiefs and dozens of pastors and community leaders from throughout the county met on Tuesday to prepare for any fallout triggered by the verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial.
"We have no reason to believe there will be any civil unrest of any kind," Israel said. "We just want to be prepared."
The preparations discussed at the 45-minute meeting included the sheriff's Raise Your Voice public service announcements designed to encourage the expression of joy or frustration, whichever way the verdict goes, while discouraging any violent backlash.
[...]"We are not preparing for a riot. We're not preparing for a riot," he stressed to the audience. "What we are doing now is being proactive to defuse that."
If the verdict comes down before weekend services, pastors said they can still get information to their congregations the old-fashioned way.
"Our people are connected community-wide and they'll spread the word," said Pastor Rasheed Baaith, of Christ Resurrection Community Church in Fort Lauderdale. "Will we get everyone? Probably not, but we'll get a good number of folks.
Saudi Arabia To Expel Non-Muslims Seen Eating Or Drinking In Public During their goofy Ramadan
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(Saudi Arabia threatened on Tuesday to expel non-Muslim expatriates who eat, drink, or smoke in public during the Muslim fasting month of their rendition of Disneyland's Ramadan. Anyhoo... to summarize: When Muslims come here we must adapt, when we go to Muslim countries we must adapt. Wait... how is that fair? Just looking at those 3 stooges wearing Italian restaurant tablecloths makes me want a extra-large bacon and sausage pizza.}
Via NOW Lebanon:Ramadan begins in the kingdom on Wednesday.
"Non-Muslim residents in the kingdom must not eat or drink in public during Ramadan, in respect to the holiness of Ramadan and the feelings of Muslims," said an interior ministry statement published by the official SPA news agency.
Foreigners caught breaking the fast in public "will be subject to deterrent measures that include terminating their employment contracts and expelling them from the kingdom," the ministry said.
It added that "companies, corporations and individuals are required to inform their employees" of the rules.
Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, which applies a strict version of sharia (Islamic) law, is home to eight million foreigners, mostly Asians.
Far-Left Muslim-Huggin' Liberal Demo-Rat Senators Side With Terrorist Movement CAIR,
Ask Back-End Leader Obuma To Stop Force-Feeding Gitmo Terrorists
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"Oh look... Dirty Harry just crapped his pants again"
(Hey DiFi and Turban Durbin... "Let 'Em Starve"
....apologies to "Let it Snow"
"Oh, the jihadis are in Gitmo
They overeat so much, they sh!t mo'
And since they've too many carbs
Let 'em starve, let 'em starve, let 'em starve!
The prisoners there are bleating
That they suffer from overeating
Who cares for their verbal barbs?
Let 'em starve, let 'em starve, let 'em starve!
If they really have got the nerve
To stop eating 'til they're dead
From our purpose we still won't swerve;
They've freed up another bed!
Who cares about this kerfuffle
As they all refuse their felafel?
A slice from the pork roast we'll carve;
Or let 'em starve, let 'em starve, let 'em starve!"
....Or we could:
Re-open Alcatraz. The fine far-left, Muslim butt-kissin' citizens of San Francisco would rejoice in hearing the call to prayers five times a day.)
Via Politico:Two veteran Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein of California and Dick Durbin of Illinois, are urging President Barack Obama to rein in force feeding of hunger-striking inmates at the U.S. military's Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects.
"We write to urge you to use your Presidential authority to end the unnecessary force-feedings of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility," the senators wrote Wednesday in a letter to Obama.
As Feinstein did in a letter sent to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last month, the senators stopped short of saying Guantanamo prisoners should never be force fed, but argued the current policy is simply too aggressive.
"We encourage you to direct the Department of Defense to stop conducting such large-scale force-feedings and, where force-feeding is medically necessary to save a detainee's life, to observe the protections required at U.S. Bureau of Prisons facilities. It is our understanding that the U.S. federal prison guidelines for force-feedings include several safeguards and oversight mechanisms that are not in place at Guantanamo Bay," Feinstein and Durbin
[scribbled].
"Moderate" Indonesia: Muslim Hardliners Form Islamic Vigilante Squads To Enforce Morality During Ramadan
(And by enforce they mean beat the livin' sh!t out of you until you comply)
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"Whatta mean 'No Beer during Ramadamadamn'"
Via Jakarta Globe:Muslims across Indonesia began celebrating the holy month of Ramadan Wednesday, with hard-liners vowing to raid "sinful" bars and police steamrolling a mountain of alcohol and porn amid rising intolerance.
Islam's holiest month is used by hard-liners in Indonesia as an opportunity to attack nightclubs, bars and shops that openly sell alcohol, the consumption of which is against Islamic law.
There were fears the situation could be worse this year after a recent upsurge in attacks on religious minorities and non-mainstream Muslims.
Critics say hard-liners such as the notorious Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) have been emboldened by the government's failure to crack down on them and prevent such attacks.
In the days before Ramadan, there were already reports the FPI — who led protests that forced pop star Lady Gaga to cancel a concert in Jakarta last year — had started conducting such raids.
"We will take firm action against the circulation of alcohol, naked dancing and prostitution," Habib Idrus Algadri, head of an FPI group in Depok district outside Jakarta, was quoted as saying in a local newspaper.
He was leading a group of FPI members who confiscated bottles of alcohol from a shop at the weekend.
Habib Salim Alatas, the head of the FPI's Jakarta branch, told AFP that 50 members would be sent out to monitor nightspots in the capital every evening.
"We will send out groups of two to three wearing civilian clothes to spy on sinful activities like the drinking of alcohol taking place around Jakarta during the Ramadan holy month," he said.
Joke Of The Day:
Syria And Iran To Run For Spot On U.N. Human Rights Council
(Just when you think the U.N. can't get any more pathetic)
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(Reuters) – Syria and Iran are planning to run for a spot on the U.N. Human Rights Council later this year, U.N. diplomats told Reuters on Wednesday, despite criticism from watchdog groups about widespread rights abuses in both countries.
The General Assembly's annual elections for the United Nations' 47-nation Geneva-based human rights body will be held later this year in New York. There will be 14 seats available for three-year terms beginning in January 2014.
From the so-called Asia group, which includes the Middle East and Asia, seven countries – China, Iran, Jordan, Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Vietnam – are vying for four seats, U.N. diplomats said on condition of anonymity.
One diplomat predicted that Syria and Iran would fail in their bids to join the U.N. rights watchdog when the 193-nation General Assembly votes in the fall, while another said the upcoming election would be a "comedy."
Hillel Neuer, the head of UN Watch, a Geneva-based advocacy group that monitors the work of the United Nations, said "countries that murder and torture their own people must not be allowed to become the world's judges on human rights.
(The Numb-Nut Al Sharpton effect)
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Are dem thar black peoples beaten up on whitey?
Time to call in the Marines and give them some "BOOM" time!SANFORD, Fla. — A woman who is six months pregnant was beaten about the head over the weekend, and Seminole County deputies said 12 people, ages 12 to 42, are responsible.
A Sheriff's Office news release detailed the attack, which happened outside a Sanford home on Daffodil Terrace, and the arrests of several teenagers said to be involved.
Ashley Flournoy suffered several injuries to her head in a fight with neighbors. The fight stemmed from an argument, officials said.
Deputies said one of the alleged assailants yelled the group "did not care that she was pregnant."
Officials said Flournoy's injuries are not life-threatening and that they likely did not affect the child she is carrying.
Flournoy's fiancé, Paul Brinkley, tried to intervene but was also struck during the attack, according to deputies. Flournoy's mother and sister, Susan and Terika Young, were also attacked.
Deputies said a 12-, 14-, 15- and 16-year-old were arrested in the altercation. WESH 2 News will not identify the minors involved in this case.
The four minors will have to stay in juvenile hall for the next 21 days.
Several adults, identified as Antoinette Ford, Harry Roberts, Lasheena Thomas, Quentin Herring, Javaress Barnes, Willie Jones, Arshala Ford and Jarvis Young, were also arrested.
Roberts said Flournoy was the aggressor.
Read more: http://www.wesh.com/news/central-florida/seminole-county/Pregnant-woman-attacked-by-12-assailants-police-say/-/17597106/18496518/-/5yqgnaz/-/index.html#ixzz2Yj9gcRnB
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Ex-Sanford Police Chief Says He Was Pressured By City Officials To Arrest Zimmerman Even Though He Already Cleared Him Of Any Wrongdoing
(CNN) – The George Zimmerman investigation was hijacked "in a number of ways" by outside forces, said the former police chief of Sanford, Florida.
Bill Lee, who testified Monday in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial, told CNN's George Howell in an exclusive interview that he felt pressure from city officials to arrest Zimmerman to placate the public rather than as a matter of justice.
"It was (relayed) to me that they just wanted an arrest. They didn't care if it got dismissed later," he said. "You don't do that."
When Sanford police arrived on the scene on February 26, 2012, after Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, they conducted a "sound" investigation, and the evidence provided no probable cause to arrest Zimmerman at the scene, he said.
It had nothing to do with Florida's controversial Stand Your Ground law, he said; from an investigative standpoint, it was purely a matter of self-defense.
Zimmerman told police he killed Martin after the teen attacked him. While the evidence at the time corroborated that claim, the ex-chief said, Lee's lead investigator made a recommendation that Zimmerman be charged with manslaughter.
It was a matter of protocol, Lee said. Arresting Zimmerman based on the evidence at hand would have been a violation of Zimmerman's Fourth Amendment rights, he said. Thus, the Sanford police presented a "capias request" to the state's attorney, asking that the prosecutor determine whether it was a "justifiable homicide," issue a warrant for arrest or present the case to a grand jury.
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*Rachel Maddow's Gym Bag*
Ouch: Ratings For MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Falls To Third
Place Behind HLN's Dr. Drew
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(And Maddow is MSNBC's top rated show, I love watching these far-left clowns fail)
Via Free Beacon:http://freebeacon.com/maddow-loses-to-dr-drew/
MSNBC's flagship program The Rachel Maddow Show hit another low in what has been a rough 2013, losing to HLN's Dr. Drew in Tuesday night's cable news ratings to take third place in the 9 p.m. time slot.(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_k07pirzBU34/TMBn1t58_fI/AAAAAAAAGHY/8XqrSxdcgBo/s400/RachelMadcow.jpg)
Maddow, host of the liberal network's highest-rated show, had just 744,000 viewers, behind Dr. Drew (753,000), who spent the hour discussing the George Zimmerman murder trial, and well behind usual time slot winner Sean Hannity (1,714,000) of the Fox News Channel.
Egypt: Christian Man Hacked To Death With Axes
By Mob Of Muslim Brotherhood Supporters
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(Heathenistc, barbarous savages!)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/after-campaigning-for-morsis-ouster-egypts-christians-come-under-retaliation-from-islamists/2013/07/10/e2bda566-e98a-11e2-818e-aa29e855f3ab_story.html
CAIRO (AP) — With a mob of Muslim extremists on their tail, the Christian businessman and his nephew climbed up on the roof and ran for their lives, jumping from building to building in their southern Egyptian village. Finally they ran out of rooftops.
Forced back onto the street, they were overwhelmed by several dozen men. The attackers hacked them with axes and beat them with clubs and tree limbs, killing Emile Naseem, 41. The nephew survived with wounds to his shoulders and head and recounted the chase to The Associated Press.
The mob's rampage through the village of Nagaa Hassan, burning dozens of Christian houses and stabbing to death three other Christians as well, came two days after the military ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi from power. It was no coincidence the attackers focused on Naseem and his family: He was the village's most prominent campaigner calling for Morsi's removal.
Some Christians are paying the price for their activism against Morsi and his Islamist allies in a backlash over his ouster last week.
Since then, there has been a string of attacks on Christians in provinces that are strongholds of hard-liners. In the Sinai Peninsula, where militant groups run rampant, militants gunned down a priest in a drive-by shooting as he walked in a public market.
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Faux Hero Of The Working Class POS Barack Hussein Obuma Hits Elitist-
Only $32,400 Per Idiot Fundraiser
(Makes one wonder what kind of Clown would pay
those kind of bucks to break bread with that Usurper, doesn't it?)
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Via Keith Koffler:http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/07/11/obama-raising-800k-fat-cats-tonight/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WhiteHouseDossier+%28White+House+Dossier%29
President Obama this evening is at Washington's Jefferson Hotel chairing a cozy gathering of about two dozen really rich Democrats who have paid $32,400 apiece for this special moment.
Proceeds go to the Democratic National Committee and thus the Campaign to Make Congress Democratic in 2014 and Allow Obama to Rule by Fiat. At least, more by fiat than he is already ruling by fiat.
Obama raising nearly $1 million in an evening from just a few people is okay, of course, because it's for Democrats and therefore will help save the planet and so forth.
THE EVENT IS CLOSED PRESS.
Satellite Images Show Saudi Arabia Targeting Israel And Iran With Ballistic Missiles...
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(Wahhabi Sand Flea Fanatics with ballistic missiles....
not exactly a comforting thought. King Abadabadoo of Saudi Arabia repeatedly exhorted Obuma and his Clowns to launch military strikes against Iran's nuclear programme and "cut off the head of the snake" )
Via Telegraph:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/10172463/Saudi-Arabia-targeting-Iran-and-Israel-with-ballistic-missiles.html
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Saudi Arabia is targeting both Israel and Iran with powerful ballistic missiles, new satellite photography shown by military experts to The Telegraph suggests.
Images analysed by experts at IHS Jane's Intelligence Review has revealed a hitherto undisclosed surface-to-surface missile base deep in the Saudi desert, with capabilities for hitting both countries.
Analysts who examined the photos spotted two launch pads with markings pointing north-west towards Tel Aviv and north-east towards Tehran. They are designed for Saudi Arabia's arsenal of lorry-launched DF 3 missiles, which have a range of 1,500-2,500 miles and can carry a two-ton payload.
The base, believed to have been built within the last five years, gives an insight into
Saudi strategic thinking at a time of heightened tensions in the Gulf.
While Saudi Arabia does not have formal diplomatic relations with Israel, it has long maintained discreet back channel communications as part of attempts to promote stability in the region.
The two countries also have a mutual enemy in Iran, though, which has long seen Saudi Arabia as a rival power in the Gulf. Experts fear that if Iran obtains a nuclear weapon, Saudi Arabia would seek to follow suit.
The missile base, which is at al-Watah, around 125 miles south-west of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was discovered during a project by IHS Jane'sto update their assessment of Saudi Arabia's military capabilities.
It serves as both a training and launch facility, with the missiles stored in an underground silo built into a rocky hillside. To the north of the facility are two circle-shaped launch pads, both with compass-style markings showing the precise direction that the launchers should fire in.
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Buyer's Remorse: Another Union Comes Out Against Obamacare
(You will not be surprised to learn the IBEW endorsed Obuma for president)
Via Daily Caller:Another union is crying foul over what it says is Obamacare's negative impact on its members' current healthcare coverage under multi-employer plans.
"If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what," the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) quotes a speech President Obama delivered on July 16, 2009 in new ads running in Roll Call and The Hill.
According to the union, the multi-employer plans IBEW has used for over 65 years to provide coverage for their members are at risk, thanks to what it terms "loopholes in the Affordable Care Act.
"The ACA threatens the viability of multi-employer health plans in four ways: 1) the high employee threshold of the employer mandate 2) the re-insurance fee, 3) the definition of qualified health plans, and 4) the lack of multi-employer specific administrative guidance. We believe it may be impossible to reverse the damage done to these plans if these issues are not resolved. The IBEW cannot afford to sit on the sidelines at the ACA threatens to harm our members by dismantling multi-employer plans," the IBEW explains in a statement released Thursday.
Congressional Black Caucus Rages Against House GOP Over Food Stamps:
"You Don't Care About The 47 Percent, Shame On You"
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Via Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/11/black-caucus-member-to-gop-you-all-do-not-care-about-the-47-percent/
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus took to the House floor Thursday to decry the GOP's move to separate food stamps from the Farm Bill, with one of them invoking Mitt Romney's "47 percent" comment.
"Mitt Romney was right: You all do not care about the 47 percent," Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) said. "Shame on you."
At one point, Republicans objected to Brown's direct attacks, which technically are not allowed on the House floor.
"This is a sad day for the House of Representatives," she said. "Shame on the Republicans."
After she said that, an as-yet-unidentified Republican from Georgia objected, noting that members of the House are not supposed to address each other or launch ad hominem attacks.
Democrats, led by dozens of members of the CBC, have been trying since 9 a.m. Thursday to use procedural tactics to raise points of order and force delays in a final vote.
As lawmakers began debating the rules of debate on the bill, more liberal Democrats and members of the CBC lined up to read similar messages of opposition, saying that the new farm bill "hurts the children of America" or "increases hunger in America."
(You will not find a more loathsome group in Congress than the Congressional Black Caucus. Read your HISTORY!)
Democrats See "Blacks" as "Useful Idiots"...
Part#1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UObEdF_uhaw&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL01C027A419C73164
The Democrats must not allow the Republicans to be a legitimate alternative to their failed policies.
Most Americans believe that the political parties switched shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964-The Landmark Anti-Discrimination Law. As the story goes, the Democrats became Republicans in protest of their party apparently supporting Civil Rights for Blacks.
In truth, the vote count for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was 93% Republican support to 68% Democratic Party support. (http://i.ytimg.com/vi/UObEdF_uhaw/0.jpg)
So either the Democrats who did not support this Law left the Democratic Party or their constituents stopped voting for Democrats and elected Republicans. Politics is about Power and Power only comes from the votes cast by your power base. Let's see how it turned out.
Part#2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3LqPedoxSk
Dominican Republic Furious With Obuma For Appointing Gay Ambassador To Their Traditionally Conservative Christian Country, "Black Monday" Protests Planned
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(uhhh... yeah, I'd say so! I'm guessing Obuma needs to spread 'em around)
(Never in a million years would Obama appoint an openly gay ambassador to a conservative Muslim country like Saudi Arabia, so why would he do it with the Dominican Republic? Wait, we already know the answer)
Via The Cable:Opposition to President Obama's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic reached a fever pitch this week as religious organizers stage a "Lunes Negros" or Black Monday protest against James "Wally" Brewster.
If confirmed, Brewster will be the first openly gay ambassador to the country, a prospect that is not going over well with some segments of this conservative Christian country of 9 million people. Local reports indicate that church leaders are pressuring the government to reject Brewster's nomination and calling on the faithful to dress in black on Monday in solidarity against him.
Praise Christian Church Pastor Sauford Medrano is quoted in Diario Libre as saying that Brewster could cause "the U.S. promotion of gender beliefs in the country." That supposedly violates a general education law in the country that "all the Dominican education system is based on Christian principles."
[...]In June, the AP spoke with Catholic and evangelical church leaders who opposed the nomination. "If he arrives, he'll suffer and will be forced to leave," Vicar Pablo Cedano, told the AP. He said the pick showed "a lack of respect, of consideration, that they send us that kind of person as ambassador." Rev. Cristobal Cardozo, leader of the Dominican Evangelical Fraternity, said the appointment was offensive. "It's an insult to good Dominican customs," he said.
[...]Mar 15, 2012 At Obama's state dinner for Prime Minister Cameron, gay guests were welcomed -- proudly through the front door
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Of the 362 guests invited to the White House last night, here is a list of the LGBT attendees from Towleroad.com: John Berry, Office of Personnel Management director, and Curtis Yee, philanthropist and GeoCities founder David Bohnett,
Wally Brewster and Robert Satawake, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart and Nicholas Schmit IV, Joseph Falk and Mark Scott, philanthropist Timothy E. Gill and Scott C. Miller, Chad Griffin and Jerome Fallon, Barry Karas and Bruce Green, Bradley Kiley and James M. Coley, Hilary Rosen, Randi Weingarten and Louise Anne Rogers, and Andrew Sullivan and Aaron Tone
TWEET Of The Day:
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Piers Morgan's Gun Grabbing Goofiness Gets More Views On His
YouTube Channel Than His TV Show
(This is a first class moron speaking to our second amendment rights. I have to wonder why he believes there will be more mass shooting events soon in this country. Does he know something that no one else is hip to? Does he have information that he should be sharing with the authorities? Or is this more of the same stale rhetoric that this bozo is so well known for? I've chosen the latter, of course! Who wouldn't... right! Go away Piers... you're one of those very boring liberals that no one listens to)http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/tv-ratings-piers-morgan-tonight-sinks-to-2013-low-only-87k-viewers-in-key-demo/
"Chicago's supposedly 'tough' gun laws are utterly pointless when states around it have weak gun laws. America needs to take federal action. The gun 'rights' lobby can tell me the only answer to gun violence is more guns until they're blue in the face. It's utter nonsense. There will be more mass shooting atrocities in America soon. And more hollow words from cowardly politicians. Until the people say 'enough.'" –CNN's Piers Morgan
I don't understand how a non-American like Piers Morgan even should have a say in this issue. If he doesn't like our gun laws, he can go back home to Great Britain. Why is he here? Oh, because we have freedom and liberty. Yet, he runs from oppressive government and demands the same stuff here.
This kind of anti-gun logic doesn't make any sense to me. If the problem with Chicago is the states around it, why don't the states around it – you know, where the guns are! – have similar problems. It only stands to reason that those states with less restrictive gun laws would have higher rates of gun violence. The problem is that it simply isn't the case.
Chicago's crime problem is a result of Chicago's bad laws. Why aren't other cities in Illinois suffering the same problems as Chicago? I mean, they border the same states that Piers is blaming for Chicago's violence. They aren't experiencing the same issues because they don't have the same strict laws Chicago does.
When you break down Piers' argument, it's no wonder that he consistently rates at the bottom of the heap of competent news anchors, only scoring a measly 87,000 viewers in the key 25-54 demographic.
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He can't even beat Dr. Drew. The fact that he beat Rachel "Madcow" is a non-event. A live feed of a snail crossing the sidewalk would get more viewers. I guess we can take solace in the fact that there aren't many people listening to his tripe. He gets more views on YouTube when he has a pro-gun advocate on his show like Ted Nugent. Pretty sad when a YouTube video gets more attention than the actual show.
Barack Obama: Tyranny Is As Tyranny Does
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by Dr. Robert OwensDuring the recent 4th of July celebration of America's independence, Hillsdale College, a bastion of constitutional education and a powerhouse in the promotion of liberty, announced a "Read the Declaration" campaign. This campaign encouraged people who were gathered to celebrate the victory of freedom over tyranny to read the Declaration of Independence in its entirety.
Many of our fellow citizens have never read this foundational document. Many who have may have stopped after famous second sentence of the preamble, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." In the Dream Time before political correctness, no child left behind, and the dumbing down of America most of us memorized that sentence in grade school and never forgot it. Sadly many of those same people never read or remembered anything in the document after that sentence. The rest of the Declaration is a litany of the reasons why our ancestors felt that they needed "to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them." Or as they expressed it, "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
The litany that sought to enlighten the opinions of mankind was a long list of the grievances they had with the King of Great Britain: George III.
I believe it would be a good exercise to see how many items on this list would make sense today if we substituted "The Federal Government" or "The President" for the "He."
America was born out of the desire for people to be free from what they perceived to be tyranny.
At this stage in America's History we seem to have come full circle. That which we rejected at our birth we find encumbering us once again. Through our own indifference we have forged our own chains and allowed the low-information voters to become the majority of those whose votes are counted. Those who should represent the true majority have been sidelined and cast aside almost as subjects in an occupied state. However people are willing to bear with injustice long and to suffer the insufferable in silence. As our ancestors framed it, "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Our ancestors finally reached the end of their rope when the stated, "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." Obviously we have not reached this state. The tyranny which we face holds the seats of power. It calls itself by the old names and all the old forms are still in place. Just as there was still a Senate in Rome even after Octavian became Augustus.
Looking at our present day litany:
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The president refuses to enforce laws duly passed by the legislature and signed by the executive.
The Justice department incites racial division and covertly interferes in the judicial process.
The administration spies on its citizens and mandates that its employees spy on each other with legal penalties for those who fail to report.
The Federal Reserve creates money without any oversight and irreparably damaging the earnings and savings of the American people.
The Federal Government which is charged with protecting every state from invasion has refused to secure our borders and allowed tens of millions of people to enter and stay illegally adversely impacting every aspect of American life.
The IRS has targeted groups and individuals that hold opinions opposing the Obama administration.
The President has made recess appointments when Congress was in session; he has waged war without Congressional approval or notification, he took an apology tour around the world, he casts our allies aside, and he promotes our enemies.
Look at this long train of abuses and the subjugation of our God-given rights to a capricious and overbearing perpetually re-elected government dominated by two parties that are merely two heads on the same bird of prey. At such a time as this it is good to recall "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness."[/b]
A word to the wise they say is sufficient. After 50 years of ringing the bell of liberty I am beginning to wonder.
It is to the preservation of limited government, personal liberty and economic opportunity that we the descendants of the founders, the children of the Framers should "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence" and "for the support of this Declaration ... mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor."
Be vigilant in the protection of freedom, keep the faith, keep the peace, we shall overcome.
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Obama's EPA Regulations Force Coal Plants To Close – Produces Unemployment & Sends Your Energy Bill Skyrocketing
EPA regulations force utility to shutter coal plant rather than revamp it
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In less than two week since Obama announced his war on climate change and coal, two Pennsylvania coal plants are scheduled to close. The war on coal has progressed and America can add another coal-fired plants to the list of victims, bringing the total to three. American Electric Power (AEP) has been forced by the cost of complying with the federal environment regulations to shut down an Ohio coal plant rather than convert it to a natural gas burning power plant. According to Reuters, AEP's Muskingum River coal plant will retire the 585 megawatt Unit 5 in 2015.
The Daily Caller reports that AEP, in February, reached a "settlement agreement with environmental groups, eight US states and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to modify a 2007 lawsuit to stop burning coal at three power plants in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio by 2015." The power company was given the option to modify the plant in Ohio, but "high regulatory costs and market conditions made the company decide to retire the plant instead.
In its report, the Daily Caller indicated: Environmental regulations, lawsuits brought by activist groups and low-priced natural gas have contributed to the shutdown or slated retirement of more than 15,000 megawatts of coal-fired power plants. Power companies are scheduled to shut down more than 37,000 megawatts of coal-fired electrical generation in the next decade. As a reminder, one megawatt of coal-fired electrical generation can power 1,000 homes.
"Across the country, the coal industry faces unprecedented setbacks as its share of electrical generation plummets and the cost of coal continues to skyrocket," said Jody Perras, Indiana Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign. "This agreement is only the latest sign of progress as our country continues to transition away from dirty, dangerous, and expensive coal-fired power plants."
EPA regulations have contributed to the shutdown of two Pennsylvania coal plants; upgrading the Hatsfield's Ferry and Mitchell plants would have cost the company $275 million.
Rep. Tim Murphy, Pennsylvania Republican who represents the district where the coal plants are located said, "The front line of the administration's war on coal is right here in Southwestern Pennsylvania, and the casualties are the factories and homeowners who will pay higher electric bills, as well as the hundreds of utility workers, boilermakers, and miners who will be out of work. With the shutdown of the Mitchell plant and Hatsfield's Ferry, which just four short years ago underwent $1 billion in upgrades, the president is making good on his promise to 'bankrupt' anyone who operates a coal plant."
According to Reuters: AEP said the addition of Muskingum River 5 brings AEP Ohio's total retirements to 3,123 MW. The remaining 10,725 MW of AEP Ohio-owned generation – including 2,427 MW slated to be transferred to Appalachian Power and Kentucky Power following state regulatory approvals – will consist of coal and natural gas plants and a small hydro plant.
The company previously announced its intent to retire Muskingum Units 1-4 (840 MW) in 2015. AEP said about 95 employees working at Muskingum will be affected.
AEP said it will work to provide displaced employees with opportunities at other AEP facilities.
In a statement just before the November 2012 elections, Valerie Jarrett, Obama's brain, said, "After we win this election, it's our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don't forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won't be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go."
Basically, Valerie Jarrett informed the nation before the November Presidential election the tone of the Obama administration after winning. Did America catch that statement or did America sleep right through it? When that statement was made, "After we win this election, it's our turn," it was before the election which could mean Jarrett knew the election was in the bag. Obama's second term as President, according to Jarrett, who is Iranian born, was to be one of punishment, payback and those opposed to the administration "paying hell." The Obama administration has been all about revenge; no interest in the country, its people or the laws of the land, just revenge on those who are not standing with the administration. In her obvious anger toward America, which she is an extension of the illegitimate President, Jarrett stated "no election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go." Could it mean no elections any more for President or Congress?
Whatever those statements meant, Obama has stepped up his game in the war on America comprising future economic growth, employment and America's way of life. More coal-fired electrical plants may be slated for retirement in the future as this out of control EPA regulation stranglehold continues to grip the power industry. The funny thing is, Obama carried the union states where most of the coal mines are located: guess President Obama (Jarrett) forgot about those states. It looks like hell hath no fury like an empty suit borrowing an Islamic brain scorned.
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A few reasons why I dislike Barack Hussein Obuma:
*I strongly dislike his policies.
*I strongly dislike his fundemental transformation!
*I strongly dislike the fact he is intentionally destroying the Constitiution of the *United States of America.
*I strongly dislike the fact he wants to make The United States of America a cradle to grave nanny state!
*I strongly dislike the fact he is trying to make The United States of America into a third world country.
Here are just a few more examples. I could go on, but this is an opinion site.. right?... and in my opinion anyone paying the slightest bit of attention has to realize that Obuma is not the path America should be going down.
Anyone bidding on a government contract may soon be required to reveal their polititcal affliations. Why? If you belong to the wrong party you can't sell things to the government?
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Obuma now thinks he can tell businesses where they will and will not build their business. Wow... unbelievable !
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And he tells the CEO of a pharma company that he must quit his job if the company wants to sell any more drugs to the government for Medicare and Medicaid. What in the hell is going on people? This seems more like the Soviet Union than the United States. We had better stand up soon!
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We all remember when he tried to kick Fox out of the news outlet pool and then he went after the Boston Globe.
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Of course we could go into the oil issues and the seemingly never ending printing of money to prop up the stock market and the idea of bailing out anyone and everyone that is having a problem, to the point of spending taxpayer dollars on bailing out homeowners who can't pay their mortgage and sending that same tax payer dollar overseas to bail out foreign banks. I could go on, but America is on the wrong path and The Big Zero Obuma seems to think it is his job to take from one group and redistribute to others, even if those others don't live in this country.
Is this the kind of Amerikka you want to live in. Perhaps it is if you don't wise up and pay attention to what is going on in this country.
So, what's your reasons, Forum?? Go ahead and rant... lets see your reasons. Or are you too scared, afraid that that the NSA will read your posts and they will come and get you. Or are you too liberal and think he is doing a great job as president but you don't want anyone to know that.
Well let me try to explain to all you liberals on this forum and those who voted Barack Hussein Obuma in for a second term, you must have misunderstood the stance of an Islamic, Communist, Marxist, Socialist, Sharia law, narcissistic, psychopathic, racist, little boy, lost individual seeking the office of the President of the United States.
To ensure there will be no more misunderstandings, it is spelled out for you here... using simple sentences so you can understand:
Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is an oppressive, totally controlling political system using Sharia law. Sharia law is based on the rantings of a mad man, who was also a pedophile, and has no equal or fair justice system. To anyone who is Islamic, those who do not believe as Islam are considered infidels. Infidels are to be subjugated, converted or killed. There is no freedom in Islam.
Communism has only two classes of individuals... rich and dirt poor. People who accept their flawed logic and political system are considered to be useful idiots. Are you a useful idiot? You are if you voted for Obuma this last election! Useful idiots are the first ones to go when their plans are close to being fulfilled. There is no equal or fair justice system in Communism. Communism forces individuals to submit and those who don't like it are killed or imprisoned. There is no escape and there is no freedom. The members of the Communist elite get richer and richer off the slave labor of their subjects. There is no equality. There is no equal living standard.
Any person who has as many philosophies playing out all at once as Obuma has no solid foundation and bases decisions and actions on an emotional whim. A person like this bends with the wind and supports any fad that makes himself richer and everyone else poorer.
If these ideas cannot be grasped, the Communist education implemented in this country has done its job. You can be secure in the knowledge that it was YOU who ushered in the days of destruction of the last bastion of freedom in the world.
...Warph
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Obama Selling Ambassadorships at $1.8 Million a Pop
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"Can you SPOT the difference"
Unemployment is a real problem in America. And Obama has found the solution. He's offering ambassadorships for a bargain price of 1.8 mil each.
Don't have a job? Want to have an important position in London or Rome that will get you invited to free dinners and important events with top government officials? Just mail at least $1,800,000 to "Barack Obama/Organizing for Action 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" and you will receive your prominent diplomatic posting in 6-8 weeks.Who says Obama isn't creating jobs?Barack Obama has rewarded some of his most active campaign donors with plum jobs in foreign embassies, with the average amount raised by recent or imminent appointees soaring to $1.8m per post, according to a Guardian analysis.
State Department veterans are increasingly concerned about the size of donations raised by political supporters who go on to take up top foreign postings. Thomas Pickering, who recently led the investigation into lethal attacks on the US embassy in Libya and represented the US at the United Nations, claimed the practice had become nothing more than "simony" – the selling of public office.
"It has the effect of diminishing perhaps the sense that the US is treating these countries with the respect they deserve," Pickering said.
Susan Johnson, president of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), which represents career US diplomats, added: "The giving of ambassadorships to people who have raised a lot of money for the campaign has increased and that's a concern to us in particular.
"There was some thought that with Obama being such a 'change agent' that he might really do things differently – but it has just been a bigger let down."I assume we're not supposed to roll our eyes at this.The 16th century Villa Taverna in Rome has just gone to John Phillips, a Washington lawyer who raised at least $500,000. John Emerson, a Los Angeles fund manger, will get to meet future contacts as ambassador to Germany after he raised $1.5m. Jane Stetson, heiress to the IBM fortune, is tipped as frontrunner for Paris after she raised $2.4m for Obama.
In total, nine sought-after postings in Europe, the Caribbean or Asia have been given to major donors in recent weeks, with a further three in France, Switzerland and Hungary earmarked to come soon. Of these 12, the precise bundling data is available for 10. According to a Guardian analysis, using the figures leaked to the New York Times, the average amount raised by each donor is $1.79m.Fortunately we have no vital interests in distant places like England, France or Germany that require us to have professional diplomats posted there. Instead like some dirty Third World kleptocracy, our "ambassadors" are crooks and pedophiles (see Belgium) who paid enough money to the head warlord to be able to spend their time in a posh mansion at government expense.The percentage of ambassador posts given to political appointees rather than career diplomats has remained roughly steady under Obama at around 30%, but most of these are in parts of the world unattractive to wealthy donors. The share taken by political appointees in western Europe and wealthier Asian capitals has reached between 70% and 85%, the AFSA estimates.70 to 85 percent of our ambassadors in vital parts of the world are Obama donors.Many of the capitals have grown resigned to the process. "All that really matters is that the ambassador is close to the White House – and his top fundraiser usually is," said one British diplomat, speaking anonymously about Barzun's appointment.
But to State Department veterans, the notion that only fundraisers can get messages through the West Wing is even more alarming. "To some extent, this question of having the ear of the president, and who has it, shows the seriousness of the issue," said Ambassador Pickering.Why would Obama listen to anyone who doesn't give him cold hard cash?The Foreign Service Act of 1980, states that "contributions to political campaigns should not be a factor in the appointment of an individual as a chief of mission."But you know, it's Obama. He doesn't follow laws. Laws are for little people who can't afford to give him $1.8 million.The White House insists all its ambassadors are well qualified, regardless of their campaign history. "I am proud that such experienced and committed individuals have agreed to serve the American people in these important roles," said Obama in a statement issued with Barzun's appointment.That's the punchline. Now you can laugh.
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US diplomats cry foul as Obama donors take over top embassy jobs
Former ambassador likens practice to 'selling of public office' as figures show average amount of cash raised is $1.8m per post
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US officials are increasingly concerned about the size of donations raised by political supporters who go on to take up top foreign postings. Photograph: Alamy
Barack Obama has rewarded some of his most active campaign donors with plum jobs in foreign embassies, with the average amount raised by recent or imminent appointees soaring to $1.8m per post, according to a Guardian analysis.
The practice is hardly a new feature of US politics, but career diplomats in Washington are increasingly alarmed at how it has grown. One former ambassador described it as the selling of public office.
On Tuesday, Obama's chief money-raiser Matthew Barzun became the latest major donor to be nominated as an ambassador, when the White House put him forward as the next representative to the Court of St James's, a sought-after posting whose plush residence comes with a garden second only in size to that of Buckingham Palace.
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Obama's chief money-raiser, Matthew Barzun
State Department veterans are increasingly concerned about the size of donations raised by political supporters who go on to take up top foreign postings. Thomas Pickering, who recently led the investigation into lethal attacks on the US embassy in Libya and represented the US at the United Nations, claimed the practice had become nothing more than "simony" – the selling of public office.
"All these people want to go to places where the lifestyle issues [are pleasant], and to some extent that produces this notion that life in these western European embassies is like Perle Mesta," he told the Guardian, referring to the "hostess with the mostest" who was ambassador to Luxembourg between 1949 and 1953 and who was known for her lavish parties.
"It has the effect of diminishing perhaps the sense that the US is treating these countries with the respect they deserve," Pickering said.
Susan Johnson, president of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), which represents career US diplomats, added: "The giving of ambassadorships to people who have raised a lot of money for the campaign has increased and that's a concern to us in particular.
"There was some thought that with Obama being such a 'change agent' that he might really do things differently – but it has just been a bigger let down."
Clutch of foreign appointmentsObama has made a clutch of foreign appointments recently. The 16th century Villa Taverna in Rome has just gone to John Phillips, a Washington lawyer who raised at least $500,000. John Emerson, a Los Angeles fund manger, will get to meet future contacts as ambassador to Germany after he raised $1.5m. Jane Stetson, heiress to the IBM fortune, is tipped as frontrunner for Paris after she raised $2.4m for Obama.
In total, nine sought-after postings in Europe, the Caribbean or Asia have been given to major donors in recent weeks, with a further three in France, Switzerland and Hungary earmarked to come soon. Of these 12, the precise bundling data is available for 10. According to a Guardian analysis, using the figures leaked to the New York Times, the average amount raised by each donor is $1.79m.
Official campaign finance records give only minimum figures for how much each donor raised among friends and family (a process known as bundling). Even using the published 'minimum' donations declared for these bundlers, the amount raised by donors rewarded with foreign postings has soared. The appointees to those same 10 embassies raised at least $5m in 2013, compared to a minimum of $3.3m in 2009, at least $1.3m under George W Bush in 2005 and at least $800,000 for Bush donors in 2001.
Many of the capitals have grown resigned to the process. "All that really matters is that the ambassador is close to the White House – and his top fundraiser usually is," said one British diplomat, speaking anonymously about Barzun's appointment.
But to State Department veterans, the notion that only fundraisers can get messages through the West Wing is even more alarming. "To some extent, this question of having the ear of the president, and who has it, shows the seriousness of the issue," said Ambassador Pickering.
Johnson, the AFSA president, said many donors have less political influence than their host countries like to imagine. "Some foreign countries like the idea that they are getting a friend of the president, but our experience has been that genuine friends are pretty small; most of these people are friends of friends; and they don't get to call the president right away," she said.
"In a few exceptional cases they are not detracting from credibility of diplomatic service, but at the scale it's being done it is undermining the concept of a career diplomatic service and weakening the strength and capacity of the diplomatic service."
Johnson estimates the percentage of ambassador posts given to political appointees rather than career diplomats has remained roughly steady under Obama at around 30%, but most of these are in parts of the world unattractive to wealthy donors. The share taken by political appointees in western Europe and wealthier Asian capitals has reached between 70% and 85%, the AFSA estimates.
One factor cited by defenders of the practice is that private means are needed to fund the lifestyle led by ambassadors, but the importance of this is disputed by State Department veterans.
"In the embassies I've been in, normally you have a representation budget," said Johnson. "Whether we skimp on it in places like London and Paris and these people add to it so they can serve the best champagne and canapes I don't know, but I don't think it's necessary to be wildly wealthy any more."
She also said many are disappointed by the reality of embassy life. "If the dog ruins the furniture, you have to pay for it. It's like being a guest in someone's house."
Dysfunctional leadershipThis can cause problems of its own. A report by the State Department inspector general into a crisis at the embassy in the Bahamas found that Obama campaign finance chair Nicole Avant presided over "an extended period of dysfunctional leadership and mismanagement, which has caused problems throughout the embassy". Prior to her appointment as ambassador, Avant was vice president of Interior Music Publishing and was absent from the embassy 276 days between September 2009 and November 2011, according to the report. In response to the report Avant said she "had inherited a dysfunctional embassy".
Another official report into the Obama campaign donor appointed to Luxembourg, Cynthia Stroum, found she had been "aggressive, bullying, hostile and intimidating" and left her embassy in a "state of dysfunction". Stroum resigned after the report.
State Department veterans say motivations vary among political donors. "Some go to pleasant islands where the climate and residence are delightful, others just want the title, like British people lust after peerages," said AFSA's Johnson. "People think: gee, I really want to call myself ambassador, so I can go buy myself one. Others are perceived to want to just meet people, broaden their contacts of future business contacts people who can help them in their day job."
The White House insists all its ambassadors are well qualified, regardless of their campaign history. "I am proud that such experienced and committed individuals have agreed to serve the American people in these important roles," said Obama in a statement issued with Barzun's appointment.
The Foreign Service Act of 1980, states that "contributions to political campaigns should not be a factor in the appointment of an individual as a chief of mission."
At at time when the US is reaching the limits of its "hard power", career foreign service staff argue it is time for professional diplomacy to mount a comeback.
"We tried a lot of military stuff and have we come to the realisation that not every problem out there can be solved by troops, no-fly zones and drones," concludes Johnson.
"Diplomacy and managing the inter-relationships between countries is actually important, and we ought to be taking it more seriously, preparing people for it and seeing it as a long-term career – not as just something you do for a few years while you are preparing to do something else."
Warph, your revelations in this thread are truly a testament to the ignorance of the American sheeple. They are truly getting the government that they deserve.
Progressives (a moniker born out of the socialist movement in America) have been methodically eroding the principles espoused in The Declaration of Independence since the early 1900s. Their platforms of bigger government, 'central planning' & the socialist collective have permeated our systems of education, media, lawmaking & business regulation.
Moreover, by means of methodical & incremental indoctrination, the progressive platform has been foisted on generations of young people inside a government centered public education system. This effort has produced an ever increasing number of Americans who are actually shortsighted enough to believe that assuming a label of 'moderate' somehow is a good thing. Fools. Even Jesus himself said He preferred hot or cold to lukewarm. It is the prevalence of these moderate thinkers (thinkers being a tongue in cheek use of the word) that has resulted in a society that so highly values government promises of safety & security that they have facilitated the drastic erosion of individual sovereignty over the last century.
in addition, the numbers of self centered citizens who have been dumbed down by well meaning educators regarding the dramatic difference represented by the American Republic among forms of governance have swelled into the millions. Many (if not most) of these folks couldn't be bothered to remain informed about politically centered events let alone get off their duffs to go and vote intelligently on occasion.
Therefore, between the determined progressive idealists, the mushy moderate fools & the uninformed masses of easily led sheeple, this country is now run by a self indulgent class of power brokers (from the likes of Obama to our very own Liebau/Hendricks duo) who appear totally ignorant of the fact that their Marxist ideals & crony capitalism have historically failed to produce progress or widespread prosperity in every society where attempted.
America, for many generations, was exceptional. An example to be envied. A nation that produced greater prosperity, provided disproportionate charity & pulled the butts of more of its' neighbors out of the fires of tyranny than any other in history. No longer! We are in rapid decline. Great societies can and do fall. America is no exception. Now content to acquiesce to the whims of foolish 'leaders', America by and large has squandered her inheritance. And it isn't only seen in the big cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, or Chicago... it can be seen in even the smallest of communities like Elk County, Kansas. It can be seen by anyone who cares to look. The locally corrupting influences of The Progressive Movement (and of those who sit idle) are clearly seen. As America, even our own little county, once prosperous, is in decline.
Keep posting, Warph, we need to see the results of our folly as progressive or moderate or uninvolved citizens. This nation is getting the government it deserves. Any experiment, when tainted ingredients are introduced, is destined to fail. The great American experiment of a representative republic is no exception.
Very well said Patriot!
It's just like that voting for taking the school districts of West Elk from 6 voting districts down to 3.
It adds to that idea idea of centrally located and unified government.
I do believe that was a very big ~ mistake.
They claimed it would be easier to get school board members, and I agree.
But watch they will become more and more located from Howard, that's my bet~!
And more Konnected!
Did anyone ask why they couldn't get any one from Moline to be on the West Elk School Board?
Is it possible because of ~ attitudes?
I think the voters got snookered on that one. Keep an eye on those unnecessary construction plans in the Long Term Construction/Educational Plan for a declining population. Especially since the building is designed for 600 students and they only have 300 students.
I think they have plans to jack up your property taxes the maximum allowed by law of 4 mills with out your vote.
They say money talks but mine seems to only wave bye-bye. Do we need more local taxing while the national economy continues to decline along with the local population? Are you going to continue to listen to their false reasons to construct?
Are we to believe that teaching the basic's of ~ reading, writing and arithmetic is less important than it was when we were in school?
It has already reached the point where kids don't know how to sign their names in cursive ~ the basic's.
Warph, patriot is right, good job and keep it up.
Thanks guys... will do and y'all are doing a heck of a job getting the word out, also.
That is all we can do. Maybe we can wake up a few, huh? :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I'm amazed that sooooooo many people out there in lala land who consider them selve's informed and ahead of the game on whats going on in the world and the country, yet they fail to grasp and articulate the very information that my 13 yr. old grandson does. So my question to those of you who are reading this... do you really think that your smarter than this 7th grader. It wouldn't surprise me if he could actually balance your check book if the off shore banks and Obuma wall street buddies left you anything to balance that is. So many sheeple eyes may be open but they are not yet awake.
Soooo... Sheeple of the world.... turn off your tv's wake up to the facts... that it's not rocket science but, it dose require action and effort on your part unless you like the idea of FEMA Camps and a Global Police State controlling you down 'The Road.'
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The Obuma Government Furloughs Hundreds Of DOD Workers - But Save The Gophers...
DOD Workers, Not So Much
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Obuma: "Save the Gophers"
(This includes the guys who would be there to answer queries about joining
the military. Just another fun way to stick it to the military)
Via Newsmax:While hundreds of thousands of civilian employees and their families deal with the harsh realities of being furloughed due to sequestration, the Defense Department is pouring millions of dollars into the protection of gophers and butterflies, Fox News reports.
The Defense Department recently awarded a $3.5 million grant to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state to buy the 2,600 acres of prairie land surrounding it.The move is part of an attempt to protect the Mazama pocket gopher, a species that is not considered either endangered or threatened.
As can be expected, the price tag has left those who have been furloughed angry and confused.
"That really makes me mad that they would do that," said Matt Hines, a civilian employee forced to take a 20 percent pay cut.
"I'm all for saving animals, but Gophers???... at what cost?"
Boko Haram Leader "Fully Supports" Gunning Down 42 Students And Teachers,
Claims School Part Of "Plot Against [Evil] Islam"
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(Pure EVIL Sick Bastards)
(AFP) — The head of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists said he supported a July 6 attack on a school that killed 42 people, but did not claim responsibility for the massacre, in a video obtained by AFP on Saturday.
"We fully support the attack on this Western education school in Mamudo," in northern Yobe state, Abubakar Shekau said in the 10-minute video message.
The video was delivered to AFP in a manner consistent with previous statements from the Islamist leader, who has been declared a global terrorist by the United States.
The early morning gun and bomb attack at a boarding school in the Mamudo district of Yobe saw assailants round up students and staff in a dormitory before throwing explosives inside and opening fire, according to witnesses.
Most of those killed were students.
In the video, Shekau described all "Western education schools" as a "plot against Islam".
White House Holds Secret Briefing With Liberal Reporters
On How To Spin Obumacare Train Wreck
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(Good day to be a lapdog, huh? Oh... the Daily Caller was not invited to Friday's background briefing.
I wonder why?)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/12/white-house-holds-obamacare-background-briefing-with-liberal-reporters/#ixzz2Z0BIHPgu
The Obuma White House held a background briefing Friday to discuss Obamacare implementation with a handful of journalists from liberal and progressive outlets.
Slate blogger Matthew Yglesias posted a photograph to Instagram Friday featuring himself and other liberal journalists at the White House, with the caption "#thistown."
Yglesias' photograph features American Prospect staff writer Jamelle Bouie and MSNBC's Benjy Sarlin attending the briefing.
POS Yglesias, who publicly cheered the death of conservative activist Andrew Breitbart...
http://freebeacon.com/slate-columnist-cheers-breitbarts-death/
...is known as a member of a tight-knit circle of liberal progressive bloggers that includes Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein and very low-rated MSNBC host Chris Hayes.
Dumb and Dumber Holder And Mueller Spend 2.5 Million On Trips
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(It's not just 'The One' but all his minions, too)
Via Newsmax:http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Holder-Mueller-Travel-Costs/2013/07/13/id/514897
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller took out-of-town trips in fiscal year 2011 at costs totalling just over $2.5 million, according to disclosures released to Bloomberg News.
Holder's trips totalled $1.45 million, while Mueller's totalled another $1.25 million. Both officials, Bloomberg reports, are considered "required use" personnel who are compelled by executive order to use government aircraft for all travel because of "security and communications needs," according to the Government Accountability Office.
The government covers the costs of official trips, while personal travel is to be reimbursed by the office holder. However, the reimbursement is to be at an equivalent to the cost of coach fare, which is much less, the GAO said.
Both Holder and Mueller came under fire earlier this year for their expensive travel costs...
http://beforeitsnews.com/u-s-politics/2013/03/holder-uses-fbi-jets-for-personal-business-trips-2446034.html
... when Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley criticized them for using official government jets to take personal trips on the taxpayer's dime as sequestration was approaching.
Constitutional Law Professor: NSA Spying Is Unconsitutional
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(The government claims they are protecting us from others
but who is protecting us from the government?
Isn't history replete with such claims by governments
who then in turn slaughter and enslave their citizens?)
Via WSJ:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323823004578593591276402574.html
Due largely to unauthorized leaks, we now know that the National Security Agency has seized from private companies voluminous data on the phone and Internet usage of all U.S. citizens. We've also learned that the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved the constitutionality of these seizures in secret proceedings in which only the government appears, and in opinions kept secret even from the private companies from whom the data are seized.
If this weren't disturbing enough, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform, is compiling a massive database of citizens' personal information—including monthly credit-card, mortgage, car and other payments—ostensibly to protect consumers from abuses by financial institutions.
Very Scary, Huh?
MSNBC's Race Baiting Scumbag Toure Blames "Slavery" For Predictions Of Zimmerman Riots, "This Is Racism"
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(Stupid? Yes you are, Toure. You represent everything that is wrong with this country when it
comes to race relations.
So, what else is new, Toots? Huh?? How about this bit of news, Freak:
'NOT GUILTY' - Zimmerman Acquitted on All Charges
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/07/14/george-zimmerman-acquitted-murder-in-trayvon-martin-shooting-death/
Or... maybe this piece of news:
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Get A Life, Scumbag!
Via Mediaite:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/toure-blasts-race-riot-predictions-oreilly-and-these-lunatics-profiling-black-men-as-zimmerman-did-trayvon/
During a discussion on the
[Crappy] Melissa Harris-Perry show of the much-rumored outbreak of violence following George Zimmerman's possible acquittal Saturday morning, Touré argued that the predictions of race riots by Bill O'Reilly and others was another iteration of the same racial profiling that motivated Zimmerman to approach Trayvon Martin.
"There's this expectation of violence from us," Touré said, "which goes back to slavery, that we must keep them under control in any way possible. They are three-fifths of a human, they are animals, they might explode in violence at any moment...Violence in terms of riots have been used against the black community far more often throughout history than we have used it. So this idea that we're just going to explode if we don't get this verdict—that many of us don't expect to go our way—is absurd and ahistorical and insulting."
"This is racism," Touré continued. "This expectation of violence. And this is what George Zimmerman applied to Trayvon Martin in the dark. Well, he surely will be violent! He is planning violence! He's a burglar, he's going to get us! I must stop him! And here, [Bill] O'Reilly and these other lunatics come in to say, all of you are the same."
Ted Cruz Introduces Bill To Defund Obumacare
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(Whoa...this guy is good!)
Via Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2533000
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, along with 17 other Senate Republicans, has introduced the Defund Obamacare Act of 2013, which would fully defund Obamacare, in the wake of the recent string of bad news surrounding the law.
"The Administration's recent announcement to delay the onerous and unpopular employer mandate until after the 2014 election, coupled with its announcement to delay income and health status eligibility requirements in favor of an honor system for the most expensive entitlement for our generation, confirms what has been obvious from the start–this law is a colossal mistake," Cruz said in a press release.
McRINO Teams Up With Socialist Sen. Elizabeth Warren
To Pass New Banking Regulations
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(McRINO outdoes himself yet again... Holy Pete, what is it with this clown)
Via Daily Caller:Sen. John McCain's work with Sen. Elizabeth Warren to revive the Glass-Steagall financial reform law is just the latest attempt in the Arizona Republican's years-long battle to bring back the regulatory law.
Progressive Massachusetts Democrat Warren, a Banking Committee member and leading crusader for financial reform, introduced a bill Thursday to revive Glass-Steagall, the law passed in 1933 that separated commercial banking and investment banking. Glass-Steagall was repealed in 1999 by President Clinton, but progressives and some Republicans favor its reinstatement.
Warren's bill would separate banks that provide checking and savings accounts from investment banking firms and hedge funds in an attempt to safeguard against another financial crisis. Conservatives are already lining up to oppose the bill.
"If Elizabeth Warren is leading the way on this bill, considering her views on [banking], then it's probably not going to be a bill that conservatives will support in any way," Richard Manning of Americans for Limited Government told The Daily Caller.
Hmmmm... wonder what this clown has on his mind. Tee shirt is most likely being sold at White House.gov with proceeds going to the New Black Panther Party!
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http://www.youtube.com/v/cdExsAQuCQA&hl=en_US&fs=1&
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(Would someone please enter that crowd and retrieve those
American Flags to a safe location. Those a**holes have no
affiliation with the Flag and are liable to do it harm.)
Unbelievable...
News Station Gets Trolled...
Repeats The (gasp) Wrong Names Of Pilots In Asiana Crash
(I've posted some good reports from this station, but they really bit on this one.
Reporter on this story? E. Pik Phal)
Great piece by the Washington Times' Jeff Kuhner this morning before the jury said George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges:
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George Zimmerman is innocent. The evidence clearly shows this. Yet the liberal media have already convicted him in the court of public opinion. The result is not only that a man's life — regardless of the verdict — has been shattered. Race relations have been poisoned, paving the way for possible deadly riots if Mr. Zimmerman is acquitted.
From the outset, liberal media outlets — CNN, MSNBC, NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC, the Huffington Post, The New York Times and The Washington Post — put forth one seminal narrative: The shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was a flagrant example of white racism against blacks. Modern-day Sanford, Fla., was transformed into 1960s Selma, Ala. Mr. Zimmerman has been turned into the poster child of a more subtle and polished, but revived Ku Klux Klan. For example, the audiotape of Mr. Zimmerman's call to a 911 dispatcher on the night of the shooting was deliberately edited by NBC in a pathetic attempt to portray him as a vile racist bent on violence.
The entire mainstream media narrative, however, is based on lies. Trayvon was not killed because he was black. He was shot in self-defense because he repeatedly punched and smashed Mr. Zimmerman's head on the pavement. The neighborhood-watch captain was trained by police to notice nonresidents, especially those who looked out of place and behaved suspiciously. The Sanford community had suffered a rash of burglaries and other crimes. According to residents (both white and black), the town-house complex has become increasingly unsafe. Hence, the reason — and need — for a neighborhood-watch team.
After spotting Trayvon, who did not live in the neighborhood, Mr. Zimmerman did what any good citizen should do: He called the police. The dispatcher asked for the location of Trayvon's whereabouts. Mr. Zimmerman followed the teenager, gave the approximate address and street, and attempted to return to his car — until confronted by Trayvon. He then began to savagely beat Mr. Zimmerman, who suffered two black eyes, a broken nose and lacerations in the back of his head. If he had not used his gun, Mr. Zimmerman would likely be dead today.
All of these facts have been corroborated during the trial. A key witness, John Hood, saw Trayvon on top of Mr. Zimmerman hitting him "mixed martial arts-style." Also, toxicology reports prove that Trayvon had marijuana in his blood and urine that night. Mr. Zimmerman told the dispatcher that the suspect acted like he was "on drugs." Mr. Zimmerman's wounds — and the grass stains on his back — were consistent with his story of being on the ground and repeatedly punched by Trayvon.
In other words, rather than the constant media image and picture of an angelic 12-year-old baby-faced boy, Trayvon was the opposite. He was a 6-foot-3 man-child with a history of drug use, who had been suspended several times from school. He even had images of himself on his cellphone smoking marijuana and wielding a gun. He was a wannabe thug, who triggered a deadly altercation. Had Trayvon gone straight back to the home of his father's girlfriend, he'd be alive today. Instead, he chose to confront and attack Mr. Zimmerman. Ultimately, Trayvon — not Mr. Zimmerman — is to blame for the fatal shooting.
(I agree... the public and media do not belong in the courtroom)
We never should have witnessed a Zimmerman trial
By John LottPublished July 14, 2013 - FoxNews.com(http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/U.S./660/371/omara661.jpg?ve=1)
The George Zimmerman case should never have been brought[to trial]. Saturday night after the "not guilty" verdict was delivered, State Attorney Angela Corey justified bringing the case "to put the facts out there." But criminal cases should never be brought simply to put the facts before the public.
No one should be charged with a crime unless prosecutors themselves really believe that the person committed a crime.
Yet, the prosecution and their own experts' language consistently showed a lack of certainty. Prosecutors aren't supposed to bring cases where the best they can say is that something might "possibly" have happened or that there was a "chance" that it did. Usually defense attorneys are the ones trying to get prosecution witnesses to concede that alternative explanations might be possible. In the Zimmerman trial, even the prosecution couldn't get definite statements out of their own witnesses.
By the end of the trial, with the prosecution conceding that Travyon Martin was likely on top of Zimmerman, prosecutors were forced to speculate that possibly Martin was about to get off of Zimmerman when he was shot. That, by itself, completely undermined the prosecution's claim that Martin was the one calling for help.
The case was so weak that the local Sanford District Attorney refused to bring charges against Zimmerman. That is why, on the orders of the governor, an outside District Attorney, Angela Corey, had to be brought in to handle it.
Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee was fired because he also refused to charge Zimmerman with a crime.
Even the lead detective on the case, Christopher Serino, told the jury he believed Zimmerman's version of the events.
Many people jumped to conclusions without knowing the facts. Even before they could read the police reports, many conservative commentators claimed early on that Zimmerman had acted improperly (Mona Charen, Rich Lowry, Heather Mac Donald, Robert VerBruggen, and Gregory Kane).
Comments by President Obama, Al Sharpton, [Jessie Jackson], and others surely stirred up the racial aspects of the case and appear to have led some blacks across the country to attack whites to avenge Trayvon Martin (e.g., Gainesville, Florida; Oak Park, Illinois; Mobile, Alabama; Toledo, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Norfolk, Virginia).
The media also bears a real responsibility for sensationalism. After all, most people can't spend their days reading police reports or listening to trials. But in Zimmerman's case, "NBC Nightly News" and the "Today Show" went so far as doctoring tapes of Zimmerman's 911 call to make it look as if he was fixated on Trayvon Martin's race.
Even late in the trial, media coverage still showed pictures of a much younger 12-year-old Martin continually reinforcing the image in many minds that Zimmerman had shot a young child, not a six-foot, 17-year-old football player.
Many readers might be surprised to learn that 17-year-olds are almost 50 percent more likely to commit murders than 28-year-olds such as Zimmerman.
Other parts of the prosecution's case could only be described as an attempt to distract jurors. For example, much was made of the class Zimmerman took at Seminole State College that taught by Professor Alexis Carter.
The key was, supposedly, that Zimmerman really understood Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. Prosecutor Richard Mantei told the court that Zimmerman's legal studies would help jurors understand his "state of mind" and "ambitions and frustrations" before the shooting.
One could debate about whether Zimmerman remembered the part of that lecture from the class. Nevertheless, it was really completely besides the point for the same reason that the defense never referenced the law: with Zimmerman on his back and Trayvon Martin holding him down, he had no option to retreat.
None of the testimony ever explained why the "Stand Your Ground" law was even relevant to Zimmerman's actions.
The prosecutors' biggest problem was that they had to do more than convince jurors that their version of events was "likely," and they never come close to doing that.
Instead, they had to show that their claims about Zimmerman were true beyond a "reasonable doubt." To put it differently, to say something is "likely" just means that there is over a 50 percent chance it is true. To say something is beyond a reasonable doubt means that it is much closer to 100 percent.
This case should never have been brought by prosecutors, but they let politics influence their decision.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/14/never-should-have-witnessed-zimmerman-trial/#ixzz2Z2qFyPyn
Ex-DNC flack tweets claims of racism, politics after Zimmerman acquittal
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/14/dnc-flack-tweets-claims-of-racism-politics-after-zimmerman-acquittal/#ixzz2Z2xEjoWJ
(Typical Pavlovian response)
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Via Daily Caller:Former Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse fired off an incendiary stream of tweets late Saturday night suggesting that racism and politics prompted the jury to acquit George Zimmerman of all charges.
At 11.23 p.m., Woodhouse – who left the DNC job two weeks ago – retweeted a message claiming that the jury was racist.
"I think in post-Obama America its easy to forget race matters still matter. Zimmerman was innocent the moment they sat an all white jury," said the original tweet from Cornell Belcher, a Democratic-affiliated African-American political strategist.
At 10.25, Woodhouse broadcast a tweet suggesting that Zimmerman was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin because he is not black.
"RT @ryangrim: Does anyone honestly believe Trayvon would have been acquitted if he had shot Zimmerman and told the same story?"
Al Sharpton Demands Federal Investigation Of Zimmerman:
Martin Family Always Had A 'Plan B'
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(Mentally challenged Al Sharpton: Jump! Lapdog Eric Holder: How high?)
(Race Pimp Al Sharpton Demands Federal Investigation Of Zimmerman
And now the the Circus begins:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/naacp-in-talks-with-justice-department-about-trayvon-martin-case/article/2533022 )
Al Sharpton's Bio:
Via Mediaite:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/al-sharpton-demands-federal-investigation-of-zimmerman-martin-family-always-had-a-plan-b/
Al Sharpton told Meet the Press host David Gregory Sunday morning about his plans to pursue civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, following the latter's acquittal Saturday night for the murder of Trayvon Martin.
"Clearly there are grounds for a civil rights charges," Sharpton told Gregory.
Sharpton, a key figure in metastasizing the shooting into a national issue in March of 2012, said he and Martin's family had planned from the beginning to ask for a federal investigation if Zimmerman was let go.
"The mother and father of Trayvon Martin and I with their lawyers met with the U.S. attorneys in Florida, the day I went down to organize the first rally there," Sharpton said. "We always said there needed to be a Plan B, but there needed to be a Plan A."
"I watched the whole trial, and no one can say what Trayvon Martin did wrong," Sharpton argued. "'They always get away with it,' the gentleman said. Who is they getting away with what? That's the basis of a civil rights trial."
NY Giants Star: 'Zimmerman Doesn't Last a Year Before the Hood Catches Up to Him'
Sunday, July 14, 2013
After George Zimmerman was found not guilty of all charges on Saturday evening, New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz sent a threatening tweet that has since been deleted from his account.
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Read more: http://patriotupdate.com/2013/07/ny-giants-star-zimmerman-doesnt-last-a-year-before-the-hood-catches-up-to-him/#ixzz2Z37T4RmO
Dirty Harry came out of his hole and said:
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"Justice Department Is Going To Take A Look At This. This Isn't Over With"
(You're Unbelievable, Dirty Harry.
Anything you can do or say to keep the Obuma Scandals out of the media)
Via The Hill:
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/310865-reid-on-zimmerman-this-isnt-over-with?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffer3ae0a&utm_medium=twitter
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Sunday urged the Justice Department to review federal charges against George Zimmerman who was acquitted in Sanford, Fla., of murder and manslaughter in the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.
"I think the Justice Department is going to take a look at this. This isn't over with and I think that's good. That's our system, it's gotten better, not worse," Reid said on NBC's "Meet the Press".
A jury of six-women found that Zimmerman acted in self-defense when he shot 17-year-old Martin in February of 2012. Hundreds of people gathered outside the courthouse to protest the verdict Saturday night.
Federal prosecutors could still charge Zimmerman with violating Trayvon Martin's civil rights.
Reid said he accepted the not-guilty verdict on murder and manslaughter charges.
"I am a trial lawyer and have [brought] over 100 cases to a juries. I don't always agree with what the jury does that that's the system and I support the system," Reid said.
Twitter Threats Against Zimmerman Jury And Their Children
The crazy runs strong with many.
Here is a taste of some of the threats against the 6 jury members,
particularly angry against the one who may be black.
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Portland 'Justice for Trayvon' Rally: 'Every F-ing Cop Is a F-ing Target'
(And in this Circus Ring, we have...)
Via Breitbart:http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/14/Portland-Every-F-ing-Cop-Is-a-F-ing-Target
At a "Justice for Trayvon" rally in Portland, Oregon Saturday evening, several speakers reacted to the acquittal of George Zimmerman by calling for violence, including the specific targeting of police.
According to video of the event provided by the "Laughing at Liberals" channel on YouTube, one demonstrator declared: "In my mind, every f-ing cop is a f-ing target."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCabaqrPCYQ&feature=player_embedded
The Picture Of Trayvon On Night He Was Shot That The MSM Didn't Show
The picture the Main Stream Media showed was of course when Martin was much younger. (http://www.periscopepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Trayvon-Martin.jpg)
This picture, of him buying the Skittles and ice tea, shows a young man towering over the store clerk. Of course, height doesn't make the aggressor, but it shows that he was not the "young child" above portrayed by media. This picture didn't fit the narrative.(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2013-07-14-at-9.10.25-AM-550x347.png)
These also were not shown by the MSM:(https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/549/8320/original.jpg?w=&h=)
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From the Zimmerman family album:
Zimmerman himself, is part black.
Here is a photo of Zimmerman's great grandfather.
So in reality it was another black on black shooting:
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Black Chicago Teen Killed, Possibly For Not Joining Gang -
Where Is The Justice For Him?
TweetLarry O'Connor @LarryOConnor
Black chicago teen murdered for not joining a gang. @TheRevAl Sharpton silent. #JusticeforDarryl http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=9169739 ...
@benshapiro8:35 AM - 14 Jul 2013
Relatives ID body found in Englewood yard as Darryl Green, 16
Darryl Green, 16, was found behind a boarded up home in the 6500-block of South Damen in the West Englewood neighborhood. ABC 7 Chicago @ABC7Chicago
Martin was no angelic child, as liberal media
and sympathizers have tried to paint him. He was a Punk.
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(This has-been black creep needs to be thrown out of the NFL.
Maybe a few white boys will remember this dirt-bag
when the teams start their season.
A hard "Crack-back" should do the job!)
Atlanta Falcons' Roddy White Tells Jurors In
Zimmerman Trial To "Go Home And Kill Themselves"
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Ghetto QUIZ
1. Ramon has an AK-47 with a 30 round clip. He usually misses 6 out of every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per drive-by shooting. How many drive-by shootings can Ramone attempt before he has to reload?
2. Otis has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an 8 ball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the rest of his shit?
3. Rufus pimps 3 ho's. If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Rufus's $800 a day crack habit?
4. Dave wants to cut the pound of cocaine he bought for $40,000 to make 20% profit. How many ounce bags will he need to make to obtain the 20% profit?
5. Desmond gets $2,000 for a stolen BMW, $1,500 for stealing a Corvette, and $1,000 for a 4x4. If he steals 1 BMW, 2 Corvettes and 3 4x4's, how many more Corvettes must he steal to have $9,000?
6. Tom got 6 years for murder. He also got $10,000 for the hit. If his common-law wife spends $100 of his hit money per month, how much money will be left when he gets out?
7. If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square feet and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can be sprayed with 3 eight ounce cans of spray paint with 20% paint left over?
8. Tyrone knocked up 3 girls in the gang. There are 27 girls in his gang. What is the exact percentage of girls Tyrone knocked up?
9. LaSheena is a lookout for the gang. LaSheena also has a boa constrictor that eats 3 small rats per week at a cost of $5 per rat. If LaSheena makes $700 week as a lookout, how many weeks can she feed the boa on one week's income?
10. Marvin steals Joe's skateboard. As Marvin skates away at 15 mph, Joe loads his 357 Magnum. If it takes Joe 20 seconds to load his piece, how far away will Marvin be when he gets whacked?
Another Night Of Fun Courtesy Of Occupy Oakland: Throwing Rocks At Cops, Photographer Beaten...
Update: Protesters Attacked News Crew
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#Oakland cops at 20th/Broadway ordering protestors to disperse, crowd throwing rocks, photographer beaten pic.twitter.com/3OvJocyKSv10:31 PM - 14 Jul 2013
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(...and finally tonight, in Circus Ring Two we have the POS...)
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(Which brings the total number of rounds played during his presidency to a staggering 131 on the tax-payers dime.)
(...And in Circus Ring Three. Yeah, the economy blows and people are hurting, but hey.. it's taxpayer-funded party time!)
Barry And Mooch To Vacation On Elitist Martha's Vineyard
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Via MV Times:http://www.mvtimes.com/2013/07/12/white-house-says-obamas-will-vacation-marthas-vineyard-16422/
(Read the comments... they'll crack you up)President Obama and his family will return to Martha's Vineyard for vacation, the White House confirmed Friday.
A White House official confirmed the President and the First Lady will travel to Martha's Vineyard on Saturday, August 10. They will remain on the Vineyard until Sunday, August 18, when they will return to Washington, D.C. The White House said there are no public events scheduled at this time.
The official announcement confirmed the rumors that have swirled around the Island for months. On an Island where word gets around, it was no secret that the Secret Service had begun laying the groundwork for the return of the First Family.
Houses were rented, inquiries were made and there was talk — plenty of it — about where the president intends to stay now that he has lost his favored beach rental to a wealthy Englishman.
Mr. Obama and his family have vacationed on the Island every year since his 2008 election with the exception of 2012, when he was campaigning for re-election.
(Photos & Video From the #MarchForJobs Rally. Bringing Together Blacks, Hispanics and Whites. You'll Never See This In Legacy MSM Media. Stunning that I haven't seen these photos from the DC March for Jobs on Scumbag Al Sharpton's MSNBC comedy show)
DC March For Jobs
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"I can't hear you, America! Good morning!" black conservative activist and media personality Wayne Dupree, known online as "News Ninja 2012," said as he fired up the crowd at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C. "I still can't hear you! Good morning, America!"
Dupree walked through how he served in the U.S. military and how he "can say, proudly say, that I have great personal interest in what goes on in my country."
"We fight for this country because we believe in its greatness," Dupree said. "We believe in this Democracy. And we believe in freedom for all citizens. And we will continue to fight and defend and preserve those freedoms for our citizens."
Dupree went on to argue that "the real reason why we're here today, July 15, here on Freedom Plaza, is because we hear the battle cries, and Washington calling for us Americans to stand up and fight."
Dupree then railed on the "Gang of Eight" Senate immigration bill. "This legislation is nothing but a wish list written by corporate lobbyists and checked off by career politicians in order to exploit cheap labor and fill campaign coffers for the next election," he said. "This legislation robs us of the American dream and it undermines our Democratic process. We the People have been called upon to protect our freedom, and we do this with a smile on our faces and patriotism in our hearts."
"This is not racist," Dupree added later in the speech. "Let me say that again: This is not racist! This is an American thing. It's not because we're 'hate-mongers who discriminate against those that want a better life.' We cannot allow people who defy our laws, threaten our national security, and threaten our economy to redefine what America stands for. No way. Not without a fight."
Here's video of Dupree's whole speech.
WAYNE DUPREE SPEAKS AT THE MARCH FOR JOBS:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8BYRCI5zvPY
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(You will never see the following articles on the Main Stream Media.
Not only is the MSM Very Liberal, they are also Very Corrupt)
20 Of Trayvon Martin's Tweets That Stand Out (Language Warning)
Written By : John Hawkins
March 27, 2012
Read more at http://www.rightwingnews.com/10-random-140-character-thoughts/20-trayvon-martins-tweets-that-stand-out-language-warning/#Llhz3fIWWIZ5X2PR.99
The mainstream media has bent over backwards to portray Trayvon Martin as a choir boy who couldn't have possibly been at fault and George Zimmerman as a malicious racist who was bent on killing him for no reason whatsoever. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to square with the facts we've learned since then. That doesn't mean George Zimmerman is now the good guy and Trayvon Martin is the bad guy or that Zimmerman shouldn't have to go on trial; it just means the whole case is a lot more ambiguous than it appeared to be at first glance. George Zimmerman doesn't appear to be a racist, he MAY HAVE had good cause to shoot Trayvon Martin, and Martin is not the angel he's being portrayed as in the press. Pointing this out isn't a "smear campaign;" it's journalism.
Towards that end, Trayvon Martin's Twitter account, which was deleted after his death, no doubt because it made him look perfectly awful, has now surfaced. What follows is a more current picture of Trayvon Martin and 20 of his tweets that stuck out. Under normal circumstances, these tweets wouldn't be all that important, but given the media narrative, which is that Martin was a harmless little cherub who was pursued and killed for no other reason than because he was black, it's worth noting that there might be a lot more to the story.
That story starts with the name of his Twitter account, "No_Limit_N*gga" (I put an asterisk in there that's not in the actual name to keep it from showing up in search engines). The tweets come courtesy of the Daily Caller.
Having read through all 150 pages, most of them seem to be Trayvon chatting with his friends and talking about women. The tweets and retweets don't reference any gang activity, don't seem to be violent, or talk up criminal activity other than drug use. On the other hand, Martin does make a number of references to drugs and he has a very misogynistic attitude, which, in all fairness, wouldn't seem to have a lot of relevance to the confrontation between him and George Zimmerman. As to the significance of these Tweets, many of which are retweets that apparently caught Trayvon's eye, and the picture they paint, you can decide for yourself. (All asterisks are mine).
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RT @ReesyyLaTootieB: Hahaha Hoe u got USED fa yo loose ass p*ssy.! Tighten up.! #Literally
RT @fukunurhoexxx: #youthetype of b*tch that give up your p*ssy for free and think its cool #p*ssyaintfree #fb
RT @TheSoleManSB: We in need of some trees ... Wea tha weed man
RT @MisunderstoodC_: Get high to balance out the lows
RT @___xMaxDee: I got game for you young hoes, don't grow to be a dumm hoe
RT @Bombshelll_: "@La_VidaBella: I'll beat the pu**sy up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up up"
RT @iTeachSEXOLOGY: d*ck slipping out when you got her in doggy? Either u trying to long stroke wit a short d*ck or she need to arch tha ...
RT @Mitchell_Garcia: I'll slap a girl if she said suck my toes wtf, she must be giving some great dome
for some sh*t like that òÕ òÕ òÕ
RT @ThatBitchJenny_: A f*ck n*gga is FOREVER a f*ck n*gga! Fu*ck 'em!
RT @iAmCartoonFYF: 6 Pound 7 Pound 8 Pound #KUSH
RT @GrandadJFreeman: You know you high AF when you stop at a stop sign and wait for it to turn green
U WANNA SEE SUM CASH? WELL LEMME SEE SUM ASS
RT @KissMeEndlessly: puss ass crackas .
RT @TheyHATEShAHeED: Its crazy how i was jus pissed off,snappin...then i smoked..now im happy:) ha
RT @stillblazingtho: If you don't like #weed. #YoureNotMyType
RT @SheIs_UNdefined: & When Im On That SMOKE, Im Going Super-HAM!
Its a new year lets make some changes...... f*ck dat wea da weedman at??
RT @KimmyBtchhh: Some of y'all need a Blunt!RT @stillblazingtho: R E T W E E T If you smoke #weed.
RT @PrettyMeStarr: White People'(s) Call Police , Black People'(s) Call There Cousin
Read more at http://www.rightwingnews.com/10-random-140-character-thoughts/20-trayvon-martins-tweets-that-stand-out-language-warning/#Llhz3fIWWIZ5X2PR.99
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Trayvon Martin: Punk... Thug... Drug User? You Make The Call
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Trayvon Martin, Burglary Tools, and PCP-style Drug Cocktails
National media ignored some of the most significant aspects of the tragic Martin-Zimmerman case, among them Martin's suspected involvement with burglary, PCP-like drug cocktails, and/or drug dealing.Burglary Tools: Trayvon Martin's phone was full of text messages, pictures and videos suggestive of drugs, violence and criminal behavior. [According to the Miami Herald,] Trayvon Martin was on his third suspension from school [and t]here is evidence Trayvon Martin had burglarized homes and/or school lockers:
In October, a school police investigator said he saw Trayvon on the school surveillance camera in an unauthorized area "hiding and being suspicious." Then he said he saw Trayvon mark up a door with "W.T.F" — an acronym for "what the f—." The officer said he found Trayvon the next day and went through his book bag in search of the graffiti marker. Instead the officer reported he found women's jewelry and a screwdriver that he described as a "burglary tool" ...
Word of the incident came as the family's lawyer acknowledged that the boy was suspended in February for getting caught with an empty bag with traces of marijuana [and his] backpack contained 12 pieces of jewelry, in addition to a watch and a large flathead screwdriver, according to the report, which described silver wedding bands and earrings with diamonds. Trayvon was asked if the jewelry belonged to his family or a girlfriend. "Martin replied it's not mine. A friend gave it to me," he responded, according to the report. Trayvon declined to name the friend. Trayvon was not disciplined because of the discovery, but was instead suspended for graffiti, according to the report. School police impounded the jewelry and sent photos of the items to detectives at Miami-Dade police for further investigation...
...That suspension was followed four months later by another one in February, in which Trayvon was caught with an empty plastic bag with traces of marijuana in it. A schools police report obtained by The Miami Herald specifies two items: a bag with marijuana residue and a "marijuana pipe."
Drug Use:There are a series of compelling articles on the web that describe Martin's alleged abuse of a powerful, home-made PCP-like drug called "Lean" (also known as "Skittles"). Its reported side-effects can include breaks with reality, extreme paranoia and fits of violence.
One of the most painstakingly documented summaries is excerpted below:
Several weeks ago, as further information and discovery came to the surface the whole framing of the original media narrative began to crumble, I stumbled over a reference to "DXM" in Trayvon's Facebook history... As I use these Facebook discussions from Trayvon I'm going to correct the [grammar] unless it seems necessary to reference directly to the source...
"unow a connect for codine" or
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Our first question then becomes "What exactly is "lean""? According to Urban Dictionary, "Lean" is described as follows:
"... 6. Lean is a mixed drink originating in the Southern Rap culture. It is a mixture of Promethazine and Codeine cough syrup and a soft drink such as Sprite (usually). While other soft drinks may be used, Sprite was the original. [And now also Arizona Watermelon for Watermelon Drank/Lean]
There are some variations of Lean. For example, Promethazine and Codeine syrup is usually Purple in color. But there are other colors of syrup that work the same way. There is a golden-colored syrup (hydrocodone based) and other colors as well.
Lean slows you down. It makes you feel good. It's meant to be sipped on, and it taste damn good. One of the best feelings you will ever experience. Euphoria with a hint of sedation. ..."
Lean is also the drug mixture that killed Pimp C...OK, so now we know Trayvon is seeking a source for a powerful cough syrup, commonly used in the "drug culture or circle" to make an intoxicating drink called "Lean" – also known as the infamous "purple drank/Purple Lean/Lean/Sizzurp."
Purple Lean, or Lean, is an intoxicating beverage also known by the names lean, sizzurp, and liquid codeine. It is commonly abused by southern rappers and wannabe suburban teenagers. It is a mixture of Promethazine/Codeine cough syrup and sprite, or other beverage [such as Arizona Watermelon] with a few jolly ranchers and/or skittles thrown in.
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There are your "DXM" "Watermelon Lean" Ingredients
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Arizona Watermelon Juice purchased from 7-11 included in the Crime Scene Photographs and incorrectly listed/discussed as "Tea" by Benjamin Crump, the media, and even police reporting authorities.
Promethazine with codeine, consumed in such large amounts as is popular with such southern rappers as lil wayne, slim thug, and Big Moe, produces an opiate-like high that is potentiated by the Promethazine.
Promethazine by itself will not produce a high. The beverage must be sipped slowly, and not guzzled, in order to avoid unconsciousness and/or life threatening overdose.
But what does this have to do with Robitussin or "DXM"? Trayvon clarifies in his next message:
"codine is a higher dose of dxm"......and further believes he can obtain the same high [as smoking pot] by drinking "Lean" . But that's not nearly as important as the fact that he's clearly under the impression that prescription Codine is a stronger form of the drug DXM found in various versions of cough suppressant or cough medications.
So, what then exactly is "DXM"?
"DXM" is an abbreviation for the cough suppressant Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide — which is the active ingredient in the cough-syrup brand Robitussin.According to numerous websites found with a search, DXM is increasingly being abused as a recreational drug. One of the more scholarly and scientific sites found with in-depth analysis of DXM and its various uses is "Erowid.org"... According to Erowid's "DXM Home Page":
DXM is a widely available over-the-counter cough suppressant. When taken far above its standard medical dosage, it is a strong dissociative used primarily by teens.
...Erowid begins to hint at DXM's seriousness in their "DXM Basics" discussion:
"...High doses ... are sometimes compared to the effects of other dissociatives such as PCP or ketamine..."
This stuff is compared to PCP ? This is no exaggeration! DXM in higher doses is actually a very volatile and dangerous drug, and they are quite right when they compare DXM to PCP and Ketamine!
In fact, the drug has come to be known in some circles as "Poor-Man's PCP!"
Perhaps more importantly, unlike marijuana and many other drugs of abuse, DXM does not cause sedation, and in fact can produce profound agitation hence the comparison to PCP. In the "DXM Basics – Problems" section, Erowid notes:
"...DXM causes physical and psychological effects that may be frightening or unpleasant... Psychological effects can include profound disorientation, depression, a feeling of personal disintegration, or a feeling of "unreality" and disconnection that may persist for days. Chronic use may cause depression, psychological dependency, and possibly brain damage. Large doses may be associated with psychotic breaks..."
...We know from his own words to his friends that Trayvon has used DXM as far back as June 2011... We [also] know from Trayvon's own words that he's experienced "lean" – and since he knows what DXM is – but thinks the promethazine/codeine cocktail is "a higher dose" then he's also experienced DXM, at least at a "lower plateau."
In answer to the question "What's the DXM Trip Like" the author says:
"Well, that depends on how much you take. There are four different kinds of experiences, based on the dosage; these are called plateaus.
The first plateau is a mild stimulant effect with a little bit of a buzz, and has been compared to MDA [a more psychedelic cousin of MDMA -aka-"Ecstasy"].
The second plateau is more intoxicating and has been compared to being drunk and stoned at the same time.
The third plateau is dissociative, like a lower dose of ketamine.
The fourth plateau is fully dissociative like a higher dose of ketamine.
You should not [emphasis original!] attempt higher plateau doses unless you have someone with you who can take care of you in case you get sick or freak out. It happens on DXM.
Many things can happen unexpectedly on upper plateaus, such as spontaneous memory recall, complex delusions, hallucinations, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and perceived contact with spiritual or alien entities. You need to be pretty stable and grounded before you can handle these things".
...In the FAQ's section on "Psychotic Breaks" the author notes:
"...Be very careful in trying to restrain the tripper, since she or he may perceive this as a threat, and will probably be mostly immune to pain...the tripper, like a cornered animal, could beat the living sh** out of you without thinking twice. (!!) ..."
So, where does all of this lead? At this point, after reviewing all the information, it appears quite [possible] that a ... drug cocktail use specifically led to the mindset, or psychological environment, between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin on the night of February 26th.
The tone or hostility of the encounter, and Trayvon's response to being confronted, would more easily be understood against the backdrop of the discovery for his prior drug use; and more specifically the types of drugs being used.
...Trayvon was admittedly, according to his Facebook conversations, a user of DXM and Purple Drank/Lean since at least June 2011. He was also an admitted smoker of Marijuana which was found in both his urine and blood tests. His liver indicates the beginning stages of an unusual degrading known as "mild fatty metamorphasis", and his brain tissue appeared compromised, both conditions symptomatic of DXM use.
In addition he was suspended from school three times in the past seven months prior to the shooting for behavioral issues. He was detached from adult supervision at the time in question, in a relatively unfamiliar place, and according to his father Tracy Martin, grounded. His girlfriend describes their phone call as Trayvon being "paranoid".
Trayvon makes a trip to the store and buys two of the specific three ingredients needed to blend a drug cocktail he was well versed in making (Lean). And appeared slightly exagerrated, tenuous, and wobbly (swaying) when you objectively review his physical movements on the video of the store during the purchase.
He was a little more than a half a mile from home (Brandy's house), yet he left the store at 6:24 and was first noted at the clubhouse at 7:09pm. If he intended to go straight home from the store, and under normal cognitive capacity, he should have made the 1/2 mile trip in well under 30 minutes, well under.
Maybe some "journalists" like the clownish Matt Gutman of ABC News could investigate these well-documented reports, that is, if they get bored rewriting DNC press releases as "news".
Former NYC Mayor Ding-Dong Dinkins On Why He Lost To Rudy Giuliani: "It Was Racism, Pure And Simple"
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(Awwwwww.... what a shame, Ding-Dong.
Of course it has nothing to do with the fact that New York City
was a crime-ridden hellhole during your time in office.
Be glad you didn't go to jail, crybaby)
Via NY Times:Delivering his most explicit and candid appraisal yet, David N. Dinkins says in a forthcoming memoir that he barely won the New York City mayoral election in 1989 and lost four years later by a small margin for one reason:
because he is black.
"I think it was just racism, pure and simple," Mr. Dinkins writes.In the memoir, "A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic," which is to be published in September by PublicAffairs, Mr. Dinkins tiptoes out of his courtly public persona to berate Rudolph W. Giuliani, who defeated him in 1993, and to take a swipe at former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
He even admits some missteps,
including a failure to contain race riots in Crown Heights, for which he largely blamed his police commissioner, and the prolonged boycott by blacks of a Korean-owned grocery in Brooklyn.
[...]Not surprisingly, Mr. Dinkins aims his most acrid salvos at Mr. Giuliani, describing him as "a cold, unkind person" who "apparently has some difficulty apologizing for anything" and practiced "the politics of boundless ambition without the guidance of a set of core beliefs or the humility and restraint of experience."
He accuses Giuliani operatives of spying on his campaign and maintains that the comedian Jackie Mason, in describing Mr. Dinkins as a
"fancy schvartze," was "essentially calling me a nigger."[/b] Mr. Mason, who supported Mr. Giuliani in his race against Mr. Dinkins, declined to comment. Mr. Dinkins said Mr. Giuliani's underlying divisive message was:
"The city is in terrible financial straits. Do you really want a black man presiding over it in this time of trouble?"
U.S. Olympic Boxer-Loser Renounces
The American Flag Over Zimmerman Verdict
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(Fine with me, tie-rell...
I'd prefer someone this ignorant not wear the flag)
Via TMZ:U.S. Olympic boxer Terrell Gausha is so disgusted over the George Zimmerman verdict ... he's vowing to never sport the red, white and blue again.
Gausha, who boxed in the 2012 London Summer Games started wearing the American flag on his boxing trunks after his Olympic run
[On August 2, 2012 Gausha lost to India's Vijender Singh in a pre-quarterfinal bout, thus getting out of Olympics]... but tells TMZ he's done with that now in the wake of Zimmerman's acquittal in the killing of Trayvon Martin.
Terrell adds, "How can I wear my stars and stripes proudly in a country where they make a big deal out of Mike Vick fighting dogs; but not a young innocent black male's life."
Holder warns against 'stand your ground laws'
in response to Zimmerman verdict
Race Baiter Eric Holder
Implies
Racism Behind Trayvon Martin Killing
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(Instead of trying to be a leader who brings people together,
Obuma sends his AG out to stoke the flames of racial hatred)
Via Red Alert Politics:http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/07/16/holder-warns-against-stand-your-ground-laws-in-response-to-zimmerman-verdict/
Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out against "Stand Your Ground" laws in his speech in front of the NAACP on Tuesday and strongly implied that racism was a factor in George Zimmerman's acquittal.
Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which was heavily debated after Trayvon Martin was shot in February 2012, allows one to respond with force when attacked outside of the home. Holder warned that such laws allow for too much violence in the name of self-defense, adding that it is 'common sense' to retreat if possible, instead of resorting to force. [...]
Holder sympathized with Martin's family in his speech and recalled his own personal struggles involving racial issues. He said Martin's death last year caused him to have a conversation with his 15-year-old son about the issues he may face as a young black man.
The Attorney General confirmed that the Department of Justice is continuing their open investigation into the case, as well as again inferring there was racism in the Zimmerman verdict.
"We must confront the underlying attitudes, the mistaken beliefs and the unfortunate stereotypes that serve too often as the basis for police action and private judgments," Holder said.
Sick: MSNBC's Joy Reid Says Zimmerman Supporters Remind Her Of People In "Lynching Photos"
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(And MSNBC, the Race Baiting Channel, manages to sink to yet another new low)
Via NRO:MSNBC Race Baiting commentator Joy Reid told viewers that those supportive of the Florida jury's acquittal of George Zimmerman remind her of the lynching mobs she's seen in pictures from the 1920s. She denounced any sense of relief that Zimmerman was found innocent, regardless of whether he in fact was.
Reid criticized reactions from conservatives such as Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh to the verdict, which she described, as "rejoicing about the fact that somebody got acquitted of shooting and killing a teenager." She compared their reactions to the way "smiling" lynchers felt after hanging a black man in the Jim Crow South.
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Old Lady Pant Suits Tells The "Sisterhood" Zimmerman Being Acquitted
Brought "Heartache, Deep Painful Heartache"
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(Preach it, Soul Sista! Yeh got my vote)
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/hillary-clinton-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-verdict-94301.html#ixzz2ZFjrXJbc
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke about the "heartache" of the Trayvon Martin case in D.C. Tuesday evening while speaking to an African-American sorority group.
"My prayers are with the Martin family and with every family who loves someone who is lost to violence," she said in an almost 30-minute speech. "No mother, no father, should ever have to fear for their child walking down a street in the United States of America."
She said she knew this week has
"brought heartache, deep painful heartache" to families in the wake of the not guilty verdict in George Zimmerman's trial last Saturday.Clinton also referenced U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement Monday that the Justice Department will review the case.
"Yesterday I know you heard from the Attorney General about the next steps from the Justice Department and the need for a national dialogue," she said.
"As we move forward as we must I hope this sisterhood will continue to be a force for justice and understanding."Clinton's comments came in a speech to the 51st annual convention of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the largest African-American women's organization in the country. Organizers said that more than 14,000 people were in the room to hear her speak.
No.#1 On The Endangered List: The American Family
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The family is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. If you do not have strong families, you are not going to have a strong society. Unfortunately, the state of the family in America continues to deteriorate. The marriage rate has fallen to an all-time low, we lead the world in divorce, and about a third of all children live in a home without a father. Our young people have been taught that getting married and having a family is not a priority, and many of those that would like to get married and have children are not able to get the kinds of jobs that they need to support a family. The statistics that you are about to see should absolutely shock you. American families have never been this weak, and this is an incredibly troubling sign for the future of our nation. What will future generations of Americans be like if they do not have stable homes to grow up in? Will they be even more messed up than we are right now? That, my friends, is a frightening thought.
The following are 27 facts that prove that the family in America is in the worst shape ever...#1 The marriage rate in the United States has fallen to an all-time low. Right now it is sitting at a yearly rate of 6.8 marriages per 1000 people.
#2 Today, an all-time low 44.2 percent of Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket are married.
#3 According to the Pew Research Center, only 51 percent of all adults in the United States are currently married. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all adults in the United States were married.
#4 Back in 1950, 78 percent of all households in the United States contained a married couple. Today, that number has declined to 48 percent.
#5 100 years ago, 4.52 were living in the average U.S. household, but now the average U.S. household only consists of 2.59 people.
#6 The United States has the highest percentage of one person households on the entire planet.
#7 In the United States today, more than half of all couples "move in together" before they get married.
#8 The divorce rate for couples that live together first is significantly higher than for those that do not.
#9 For women under the age of 30 in the United States, more than half of all babies are being born out of wedlock.
#10 In 1970, the average woman had her first child when she was 21.4 years old. Now the average woman has her first child when she is 25.6 years old.
#11 According to the Centers for Disease Control, there were 69.3 births per 1,000 women in the 15 to 44 year old age bracket in 2007. Now the rate has fallen to 63.2 births per 1,000 women.
#12 The birth rate for American women in the 20 to 24 year old age bracket has fallen to 85.3 births per 1,000 women. That is a new all-time record low.
#13 The United States has the highest divorce rate in the entire world.
#14 At this point, approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home without a father.
#15 Without a father around, many single mothers in this country are really struggling to survive. Sadly, approximately 42 percent of all single mothers in the United States are on food stamps.
#16 It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps at some point before they reach the age of 18.
#17 Today, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless. This is the first time that has ever happened in our history.
#18 The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the entire world. In fact, the United States has a teen pregnancy rate that is more than twice as high as Canada, more than three times as high as France and more than seven times as high as Japan.
#19 In the United States today, approximately 47 percent of all high school students have had sex.
#20 Approximately one out of every four teen girls in the United States has at least one sexually transmitted disease.
#21 According to one survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have at least one sexually transmitted disease say that they still have unprotected sex.
#22 Instead of being raised by parents, an increasing number of children in America are being raised by movies, television and video games. For example, the average young American will spend 10,000 hours playing video games before the age of 21.
#23 Americans are tied with the British for the highest average number of hours spent watching television each week.
#24 There are more than 3 million reports of child abuse in the United States every single year.
#25 The United States actually has the highest child abuse death rate in the developed world.
#26 Approximately 20 percent of all child sexual abuse victims in the United States are under the age of 8.
#27 It is estimated that one out of every four girls will be sexually abused before they become adults.Unfortunately, this is a problem that is not going to be fixed overnight. Getting the "right politicians" into office will not solve our problems and neither will spending a bunch of money.
The change that we need is a change of the heart. We need to change how we treat one another and we need to get our priorities straight.
Our families are really messed up, and this is hurting our kids the most. There is no way that this country is going to have any hope for a bright future unless our families start getting stronger.
Or could it be possible that I am overreacting?
What do you think?
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Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2012
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Via Judicial Watch:(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2012 list of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians." The list, in alphabetical order, includes:
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL):In July 2012, the House Ethics Committee, after a haphazard investigation, reported that Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) had omitted information on his financial disclosure forms over four years. However, the ethics committee took no action because once caught, Rep. Buchanan evidently corrected the "errors." What, exactly, were the errors? In his disclosure statements for 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, Buchanan failed to report all of his positions or ownership interests in six entities and income received from the entities.
In a separate matter, the committee continues to investigate findings of the Office of Congressional Ethics, Congress's independent ethics review board, that there is "substantial reason to believe that Representative Buchanan attempted to influence the testimony of a witness in a proceeding before the FEC [Federal Election Commission]."
The alleged violation occurred during an FEC probe of Buchanan's former business partner, Sam Kazran. According to Kazran, during the FEC probe, Buchanan offered him a $2.9 million settlement in a separate lawsuit if Kazran would lie about his role in a campaign cash laundering scheme involving Buchanan's Florida car dealerships. CNN reports that the FBI is now conducting its own investigation into possible federal witness tampering.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu:"The final decisions on Solyndra were mine," said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight Committee on November 17, 2011. And this should be his political epitaph. Chu's decision to pour $528 million tax dollars into a failing green energy boondoggle that went belly-up in 2011 is indefensible and corrupt, especially in light of the fact that Solyndra's key investor (Tulsa billionaire George Kaiser) also happens to be a major Obama campaign donor.
On March 12, 2012, Rep. Darrell Issa's (R-CA) Energy and Oversight Committee exposed the full extent of Chu's incompetence and corruption in a report citing "numerous examples of dysfunction, negligence and mismanagement by DOE [Department of Energy] officials, raising troubling questions about the leadership at DOE and how it has administered its loan guarantee programs." The report accused Chu's DOE of having "turned a blind eye to the risks that have been glaringly apparent since the inception of the program."
Whether Chu indeed made the "final" decision on Solyndra, or is simply protecting the president and his donor, this is a scandal of a major magnitude. And yet, it is only the tip of the iceberg. As Peter Schweizer, author of the book Throw Them All Out wrote, "According to the Department of Energy's own numbers ... In the 1705 government-backed-loan [green energy] program, $16.4 billion of the $20.5 billion in loans granted ... went to companies either run by or primarily owned by Obama financial backers—individuals who were bundlers, members of Obama's National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Party."
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice:Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN Ambassador Susan Rice lied about the events surrounding the Benghazi massacre. Hillary Clinton, the only First Lady to have been the subject of a grand jury investigation, is a regular visitor to our Most Corrupt list, while this is a first-time appearance for Ms. Rice.
One day after the attack, on September 12, 2012, Sec. Clinton said the following: "Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior, along with the protest that took place at our embassy in Cairo yesterday, as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. America's commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear — there is no justification for this, none." She then joined President Obama in taping a television ad apologizing to the Muslim world for the obscure video, spending a reported $70,000 in taxpayer funds on the ad buys.
And then Rice repeated the Benghazi lie, over and over again on every major television news network. Hillary Clinton's and Rice's lies about one of the most significant terrorist attacks since 9/11 are, perhaps, the scandal of the year out of this administration. Little wonder that in his October 2012 testimony Eric Nordstrom, a former a top security official in Libya who was criticized for seeking more security in Benghazi, felt compelled to tell the House Oversight Committee that conversations he had with people in Washington led him to believe that it was "abundantly clear we were not going to get resources until the aftermath of an incident. How thin does the ice have to get before someone falls through?"
He said he was so exasperated at one point he told a colleague that "for me the Taliban is on the inside of the building."
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Attorney General Eric Holder:A regular on our annual Top Ten Corrupt list, Holder shamelessly operates the most blatantly politicized Department of Justice (DOJ) in a generation. And, with the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, it is no exaggeration that his agency has blood on its hands.
Fast and Furious was a reckless DOJ/Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) "gun-running" scheme in which guns were sold to Mexican drug cartels and others, apparently in the hope that the guns would end up at crime scenes. Well, they did – and it appears that the guns were involved in the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens, as well as the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed in a shootout with Mexican criminals in December 2010. On December 5, 2012, CBS News reported that 17 DOJ and ATF officials had been faulted in an Inspector General investigation of the Fast and Furious scandal. But, the man at the top remains unscathed, even after becoming the first attorney general in history to be cited for criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to divulge documents about DOJ lies to Congress about Fast and Furious.
Every day that Eric Holder remains at the helm, the Department of Justice sinks further into the abyss of cronyism, corruption, and deceit. And it is well past time for him to go.Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL):On November 21, 2012, Rep. Jesse Jackson resigned from Congress in disgrace, acknowledging in his statement that he had made his "share of mistakes." This may well be the understatement of year. Jackson has been under federal investigation for alleged campaign finance improprieties, including reportedly using donor dollars to remodel his home and purchase personal gifts, a potential criminal violation. Add to that the fact that Jackson was one of the major figures implicated in the massive scandal involving jailed former Illinois Governor Rod "Blago" Blagojevich, who was brought to justice in 2011 for a number of crimes, including his efforts to "sell" President Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder. The evidence strongly suggests Jackson was one of those bidders.
Because Jackson refused to resign before the November elections, Illinois taxpayers will now be faced with costs of a special election: estimated to cost $5.1 million.
The late great Chicago newspaperman Mike Royko famously said that the official motto of Chicago should be "Ubi Est Mea — Where's mine?" Clearly, Jackson and his cohorts have taken this motto to heart.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ):Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) joins the Judicial Watch's list of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians for 2012" in what might be considered a sort of "Lifetime Achievement Award."
As far back as 2007, Sen. Menendez was investigated by a federal grand jury for illegally steering lobbying business to his former chief of staff Kay LiCausi, with whom he was also romantically linked. In just a few years, her firm reported $1.3 million in business with nearly $300,000 coming from a New Jersey medical center that was later awarded government funding thanks to a push from her former boss and lover.
In 2010, Menendez and his colleague in corruption, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), allocated $8 million for a public walkway and park space adjacent to upscale, waterfront condos built by a developer whose executives have donated generously to their political campaigns. The veteran legislators have received about $100,000 in contributions from the developer, according to federal election records. Perhaps not so coincidentally, the developer's Washington D.C. lobbyist was a longtime senior aide to Menendez.
And to top it all off, in October 2012, The Daily Caller broke the story that two women from the Dominican Republic claimed that the senator had procured their services while on Spring Break at the luxurious Casa de Campo. Then in mid-December, the Associated Press revealed that Menendez employed an illegal immigrant as an unpaid intern in his Senate office who was a registered sex offender.
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President Barack Hussein Obama:Were there a "Hall of Fame" for broken promises, here is one that would get in on the first ballot: "Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency" (President Barack Obama, January 21, 2009). Instead of transparency and the rule of law over the past four years, we have witnessed the greatest expansion of government in modern political history and, consequently, an explosion of government secrecy, scandals, and abuses of power. Among the low-lights:
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•Illegal recess appointments: Perhaps former Attorney General Ed Meese and Todd Graziano summed it up best in their January 5, 2012, Washington Post guest commentary: "President Obama's attempt to unilaterally appoint three people to seats on the National Labor Relations Board and Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (after the Senate blocked action on his nomination) is more than an unconstitutional attempt to circumvent the Senate's advice-and-consent role. It is a breathtaking violation of the separation of powers and the duty of comity that the executive owes to Congress."
•Illegal immigration: In mid-June, Obama announced that by executive decree – and in apparent violation of his oath of office – his administration would stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. According to The AP, "the policy change ... bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan ..." Lest anyone doubt that Obama knew he was overriding the law of the land, in March, 2011, he said, "There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply, through executive order, ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President."
•Unprecedented secrecy: Judicial Watch has had to file almost 1,000 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and nearly 100 lawsuits against the Obama administration on issues ranging from Obamacare to the continued funding of the criminal ACORN network; from tracking Wall Street bailout money to the unconstitutional use of czars; to White House visitor logs; to the attacks on the integrity of our nation's elections. This president touts transparency but condones law-breaking of open records laws by his administration.
•Unconstitutional czars: As far back as 2009, Reuters reported, "Name a top issue and President Barack Obama has probably got a 'czar responsible for tackling it." By the time the Judicial Watch Special Report President Obama's Czars was published in October 2011, the number of Obama czars had skyrocketed to 45. Largely unconfirmed by and unaccountable to the Senate, many of Obama's czars are often outside the reach of FOIA. Some of these czars exercise unprecedented and unconstitutional control over major aspects of government policy and programs. And a number of the czars have been linked to scandals, thefts and kickbacks, flagrant and offensive statements, conflicts of interest, and radical leftist political ideologies and policies.
•Use of Executive Privilege to protect Eric Holder: On June 20, 2012, Barack Obama acquiesced to a plea from Attorney General Eric Holder and asserted "executive privilege" to protect the Attorney General from being prosecuted for failing to provide Congress with Fast and Furious documents. On March 22, 2011, when asked by a Univision TV if he had been informed of the Holder gunrunning program, Obama bluntly stated, "Absolutely not. This is a pretty big government, the United States government. I've got a lot of moving parts." So, as Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Fox News, "They can't have it both ways. If the President was not personally involved, executive privilege does not apply." To this day, President Obama refuses to detail the specific documents he is withholding from Congress.
The list could go on ad infinitum – with Benghazigate, bailouts, abusing the perks of office for luxury vacations for his family, and, of course, his personal involvement in the Solyndra scandal. But the bottom line is this: The federal government under Barack Obama is off the rails and out of control. And now, with Obama having been given the "flexibility" of a second term, it can only be expected to get worse.[/b]
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV):A July 30, 2012, headline in the Las Vegas Review-Journal alerted Nevadans to Sen. Harry Reid's latest influence-peddling scandal – this one involving ENN Energy Group, a Chinese "green energy" client of the Nevada law firm of which Reid's son, Rory, is a principal.
As Reuter's reported on August 31, 2012, "Reid has been one of the project's most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission."
"Well below appraised value" is a considerable understatement. The deal Rory Reid put together for the firm his dad brought to town saw ENN purchase the site for just $4.5 million – a mere fraction of separate appraisals that valued the property at $29.6 million and $38.6 million. Even with all of that, however, the project has failed to move forward as rapidly as Harry and Rory Reid would like – for the simple reason that there is currently no market in Nevada for the green energy ENN claims it could produce.
But, of course, funneling money to the Reid family is nothing new for the Senate Majority Leader. As the Washington Post reported in a February 7, 2012, story titled "Public projects, private interests:"
In 2004 and 2005, the Senate majority leader secured $21.5 million to build a bridge over the Colorado River, linking the gambling resort town of Laughlin, Nev., with Bullhead City, Ariz. Reid owns 160 acres of undeveloped land in Bullhead City.
And according to Peter Schweizer, writing for Fox News on December 12, 2012, "Sen. Reid has sponsored at least $47 million in earmarks that directly benefitted organizations that one of his sons, Key Reid, [RW1] either lobbies for or is affiliated with.
Needless to say, the well-entrenched Sen. Reid has been a repeat Top Ten offender.
Rep. David Rivera (R-FL):On October 24, 2012, the Florida ethics commission found "probable cause" that Rep. David Rivera (R-FL) had committed 11 violations of state ethics laws during his time in the Florida legislature. This comes amidst reports that Rivera remains under federal investigation over his personal and campaign finances. And, in a separate matter, the congressman is under investigation by the FBI for secretly funding the campaign of Justin Lamar Sternad, a candidate running against Joe Garcia in the Democratic primary earlier this year. Garcia defeated Rivera in the November election.
The "probable cause" findings stem from an investigation by the FBI and the IRS regarding Rep. Rivera's dealings with the Flagler Dog Track, now known as the Magic City Casino. The basis for the investigation relates to payments reportedly totaling as much as $1 million made by the casino to Millennium Marketing in the guise of a consulting contract. Most of the money is said to have been paid in 2008. Millennium Marketing is owned by Rivera's mother and godmother, and Rivera supposedly benefited from the arrangement, and is thus the subject of a tax evasion inquiry.
For a long time, Rep. Rivera denied ever receiving any income from the dog track, but just before heading to Congress, Rivera admitted receiving $132,000 in "undisclosed loans" from Millennium. He claims he paid the money back. Investigators are also taking a close look at Rivera's campaign spending, including $75,000 he paid in 2010 "to a now-defunct consulting company owned by the daughter of a top aide."
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen SebeliusOn September 12, 2012, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius became the first member of the President's cabinet in U.S. history to have been found guilty of violating the Hatch Act when she campaigned for the reelection of Barack Obama in her official capacity of Secretary of HHS. According to Politico, "During a speech to the Human Rights Campaign Gala in North Carolina in February, Sebelius . . . outlined the Obama administration's accomplishments so far and said, 'One of the imperatives is to make sure that we not only come together here in Charlotte to present the nomination to the president, but we make sure that in November he continues to be president for another four years.'"
After the speech, Sebelius tried to cover her tracks by reclassifying the event from "official" to "political," and claiming her appearance was in her personal capacity. The scheme didn't work.
According to the official statement put out by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel: "The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) sent findings to the President today from its investigation of complaints of prohibited political activity by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. OSC concluded that Secretary Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made extemporaneous partisan remarks in a speech delivered in her official capacity on February 25, 2012. The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from using their official authority or influence to affect the outcome of an election."
Thoroughly unapologetic, Ms. Sebelius justified her transgression by informing the OSC that she simply "got a little caught up in the notion that the gains which had been made would clearly not continue without the president's reelection." In other words, her Obamacare agenda took precedence over the law. Normally, when a government official is found violating the Hatch Act, the punishment is termination. How did President Obama respond? There was no punishment whatsoever.
Dishonorable Mentions:
Former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC):On May 31, 2012, a jury in the corruption trial of former U.S. Senator from North Carolina and presidential candidate John Edwards said that it could not agree on a verdict for five of six counts, and U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles was forced to declare a mistrial. But, while Edwards may have been partially exonerated (he was acquitted on one count), he was certainly not vindicated.
John Edwards conducted an illicit affair with campaign employee Rielle Hunter that resulted in the birth of their daughter. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Edwards reportedly persuaded his former political aide Andrew Young to claim that he was the father of the child, and not Edwards. The ruse failed and Edwards was forced to admit to the whole sordid mess. The focus then shifted to whether Edwards unlawfully diverted campaign funds to hide the affair.
Edwards denies the claim, but according to witness testimony Hunter and Young received nearly a million dollars in "hush" payments from philanthropist Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Texas billionaire Fred Baron, two campaign donors who did not want to see the scandal derail Edwards' pursuit of the White House. According to an excellent analysis by Hans Von Spakovsky at the Heritage Foundation, the money paid to Edwards' mistress was "dishonest, dishonorable, and illegal:"
"Federal law...prohibits the conversion of campaign funds to any personal use (2 U.S.C. §439a). Most important, FEC regulations state that the payment of a personal expense by any person other than the candidate is considered a contribution to the candidate, unless the payment would have been made irrespective of the candidacy (11 CFR 113.1). As the FEC said in a prior advisory opinion (AO 2008-17), the key question is, 'Would the third party pay the expense if the candidate was not running for Federal office?'"
In short, John Edwards may have eluded the reach of the law. But, in the courtroom of public opinion he remains one of the "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2012.
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY):Though Staten Island's Rep. Michael Grimm managed to eke out a reelection victory on November 6, it wasn't because he had failed to supply his opponent with serious issues of campaign corruption. During the race, Grimm was the subject of an FBI investigation into allegations that his 2010 congressional campaign had accepted contributions over the legal limit and from noncitizen donors via Ofer Biton, a former aide to a prominent Israeli rabbi, in exchange for helping Biton obtain a green card.
According to ABC News, "In early 2012, the New York Times reported that Grimm, a devout Catholic and former agent for the FBI, allegedly accepted illegal donations from members of an Upper East Side rabbi's congregation. Ofer Biton, an Israeli citizen and a top aide to the prominent Orthodox rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, came under investigation by the FBI over allegations that Biton embezzled millions of dollars from the congregation. It is said that while campaigning with Biton, the Grimm campaign collected over $500,000 in campaign contributions."
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano:According a Gallup Poll, a full 62 per cent of the American people believe that stopping illegal immigration should be a top priority of the U.S. government. Unfortunately for the American people, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is not numbered among that 62%. And she is the person who is supposed to be enforcing the law. Last year, Napolitano opened the floodgates of illegal immigration by having the Department of Homeland Security review all cases then before the immigration courts with an eye towards halting the deportation of many illegal immigrants allegedly with no criminal backgrounds. (JW uncovered records demonstrating this to be an utter lie. Many of the illegals let off the hook were convicted of violent crimes.)
Not satisfied with skirting the law in 2011, Napolitano decided to abandon it altogether in 2012. Accordingly, on June 15, 2012, she announced: "By this memorandum, I am setting forth how, in the exercise of our prosecutorial discretion, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should enforce the Nation's immigration laws against certain young people who were brought to this country as children and know only this country as home."
In short, this amounted to blanket "temporary" amnesty for illegals under the age of 30. With her single statement, she simply declared upwards of one million illegal aliens entirely legal. Just like that. No legislation. No debate. No votes. No court rulings. The Constitution of the United States notwithstanding. And, in so doing, she violated the Oath of Office she had taken when sworn in as secretary of Homeland Security on January 21, 2009: "I, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
Gen. David Petraeus:General Petraeus was forced to resign after news leaked of his long-term extramarital affair with Paula Broadwell, a writer and military analyst who penned a Petraeus biography. Compounding the scandal are questions involving whether Petraeus' mistress had improper access to classified information from the nation's top spy. At the University of Denver on July 28, Broadwell said, "I had access to everything, it was my experience not to leak it, not to violate my mentor, if you will."
There is also a major question about whether Petraeus misled Congress about the Benghazi attack in his initial congressional testimony. On September 14, just days after the attack on the consulate, Petraeus briefed congressional intelligence leaders, reportedly telling them he believed the attack was spontaneous and not carefully pre-planned. Yet on Friday, November 16, in private hearings before Senate and House intelligence committees, Petraeus changed his story. According to Fox News: "Petraeus' testimony both challenges the Obama administration's repeated claims that the attack was a "spontaneous" protest over an anti-Islam video, and according to [New York Rep. Peter] King conflicts with his own briefing to lawmakers on Sept. 14. Sources have said Petraeus, in that briefing, also described the attack as a protest that spun out of control."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA):Judicial Watch uncovered evidence that Elizabeth Warren gave false statements under oath regarding Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) activities when she served as the agency's interim director. According to the records, Warren and the CFPB were intimately involved in brokering a 50-state settlement underway with the nation's largest mortgage lenders related to alleged improper foreclosure procedures. This evidence seems to contradict Warren's statements before Congress suggesting her office responded to requests for advice, but did not seek to push its views.
During a March 16, 2011, hearing of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Ms. Warren downplayed her agency's involvement in the state settlement negotiations: "We have been asked for advice by the Department of Justice, by the Secretary of the Treasury, and by other federal agencies. And when asked for advice, we have given our advice."
But this does not come close to telling the full story.
Emails obtained by Judicial Watch from several states suggest her agency's participation was far more intense and aggressive. Warren called emergency meetings by phone and in person with attorneys general nationwide to contribute unsolicited input on the matter. The documents also indicate that Warren's office insisted on keeping its contact with the state attorneys general secret. For example, in a February 25, 2011, email to the Executive Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG), Iowa Assistant Attorney General Patrick Madigan wrote: "Elizabeth Warren would like to present the CFPB's view on loan modifications." Two weeks earlier, a similar email was distributed to NAAG's Loss Mitigation Subgroup on Warren's behalf. In an email on February 15 regarding that meeting, Madigan points out that "The CFPB wanted me to stress the confidential nature of this briefing."
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA):In early December, Democrats chose the scandal-plagued Rep. Maxine Waters to be the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee despite her many transgressions over the years. The influential congresswoman has helped family members make more than $1 million through business ventures with companies and causes that she has helped, according to her hometown newspaper.
In August 2010, Waters' influence peddling earned the attention of a subcommittee of the House Ethics Committee which charged Rep. Waters with three counts of violating House rules and ethics regulations in connection with her use of power and influence on behalf of OneUnited Bank. After a highly controversial investigation, plagued by accusations of impropriety and corruption, on September 12, the committee failed to hold Waters to account for steering a $12 million to OneUnited, in which she and her board member husband held shares.
The Financial Services Committee, among other responsibilities, has jurisdiction over all issues pertaining to; you guessed it, the banking system.
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A white man beaten to death by gang of killer blacks and Obuma, Jackson, Sharpton & Media dead silent on this tragedy. So far I haven't heard a peep out of Scumbags Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the rest on this one but we can be sure it's coming... in the spirit of MSNBC's balanced news reporting. Before I get into this story I want to state that all I, and most Americans, wanted in the Zimmerman trial was justice. I have to put my trust in the system and leave the rest up to God. I think people need to remember this. If Zimmerman was truly as guilty as many think then God will take care of him. Today I want to talk about the double standards that sometimes exist in our society.
In early July, Joshua Chellew was beaten to death by four young black gang members. Yet, chances are that you have not heard about this story before today. A few national sources have reported it but not that many. Why? Well it is because we have to understand that our national media has an agenda.
The Marietta Daily Journal reported:
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/23037003/article-Mableton-teens-linked-to-gang-are-accused-in-beating-death?
Four south Cobb teenagers are in custody in connection with the beating death of a 36-year-old Mableton man on Mableton Parkway early Sunday morning.
The incident initially was reported by police as a hit-and-run death over the weekend, but the narrative changed drastically Tuesday after the arrests of four teenagers on murder charges.
Jekari Oshay Strozier, 19; Antonio Shantwan Pass, 18; and Johnathan Donald Anthony, 18; all from Mableton, are in the Cobb County jail without bonds on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault and violation of the Georgia Street Gang Act.
The fourth suspect, 18-year-old Kemonta Bonds of Mableton, turned himself in to police Tuesday afternoon.
They have been accused in the beating death of Joshua Heath Chellew, 36, of Mableton and all but Bonds were arrested Monday afternoon by Cobb County investigators.
According to the warrant, the four teenagers are accused of starting a fight with Chellew at a Chevron gas station in the 6200 block of Mableton Parkway near Community Drive at about 1:20 a.m. Sunday. They repeatedly punched and kicked him, according to police.
While attempting to escape, Chellew backed into the center five-lane highway and was pushed to the ground and knocked unconscious, the warrant states.
They then walked away from Chellew, "leaving him helpless," and he was eventually hit by a car, the warrant states.
Witnesses on the scene told police that "at no time did (the four teenagers) attempt to aid (Chellew), or to stop the approaching vehicle," according to the warrant.
Crimes like this happen in America regularly. The problem is that whenever the victim is a minority and the perpetrator is white the media tends to bring the circus tents.
Here is a reality check. People do bad things. These teenagers proved that guns don't kill people. They proved that racist crimes, if this proves to be racist, can go both ways. But we must understand that bad people kill those of all colors and just because a bad guy kills someone from another ethnic background it doesn't mean it is a race crime. Maybe this was and maybe it wasn't.
I think we need to have a national conversation about racism. Not all racists are white and not all interracial crimes are caused by the color of one's skin. For the record George Zimmerman is of Hispanic/Black descent. He is not "white" and not the Jew that the media originally attempted to villainize. Trayvon Martin was also not the angel that he was painted to be. Beyond what I know I have to hope that the jury made the right decision and I will leave the rest up to God.
Oh yeah, remember God? This country was founded under His principles and calling for racial riots and trying to whip people into a frenzy are not part of those guiding principles. They are more so a part of communist/socialist/Marxist strategies aimed toward division. Stories like the Trayvon Martin killing are exactly how a corrupt government stays in power. These stories keep Americans divided and they know it. Their media lapdogs always oblige.
If you can't see that racism goes both ways in this country then you are probably more racist then the white crackers you speak of. Let us not forget that over 90% of black voters voted for Obuma and a much lower percentage of white voters favored Romney. So could I say that blacks are racist because they refused to vote for Romney? I don't want to go there because it's not true. The truth is that roughly 90% of blacks always vote Democrat. It has nothing to do with Obuma's skin color. And by the way... Obuma is not black and I get sick of hearing that. He is technically of mixed race. His mother was white. Get over it.
But bigots can spin these arguments easily and the biggest sin is that people listen to them. Americans need to start thinking for themselves. Racism will always exist but it is less of a problem than it was 20 or 50 or 100 years ago. It will always exist to some extent because there will always be bad people and bad people come in all colors.
Yet in this country it seems that nothing qualifies as racism, or at least big news racism, unless the victim is a marketable minority. When black gang members attack an average white guy and beat him to death it doesn't tend to make national headlines.
By making those statements I could be labeled a racist and I don't care.
Stop trying to play God and start praying to God. I was raised to believe that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ.
But the real crime is not the color of skin but the fact that we are killing our brothers and sisters.
The truth is the truth.
Wake up America!
...Warph
Thursday, July 18, 2013
In Congress: "Morning"Joe Scarborough Introduced
Bill To Condem Al Sharpton--On TV: Joe Is Very Quiet
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Here's an interesting back story to MSNBC and racial arsonist Al Sharpton. Back in March of 2000, MSNBC morning host Joe Scarborough was Congressman Joe Scarborough and he introduced House Resolution 270 condemning Al Sharpton as a racist and a bigot:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.CON.RES.270106th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 270
Condemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 8, 2000
Mr. SCARBOROUGH submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Condemning the racist and anti-Semitic views of the Reverend Al Sharpton
Whereas the Congress strongly rejects the racist and incendiary actions of the Reverend Al Sharpton;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as `bloodsucking [J]ews', and `Jew bastards';
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has referred to members of the Jewish faith as `white interlopers' and `diamond merchants';
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton was found guilty of defamation by a jury in a New York court arising from the false accusation that former Assistant District Attorney Steven Pagones, who is white, raped and assaulted a fifteen year-old black girl;
Whereas, to this day, the Reverend Al Sharpton has refused to accept responsibility and expresses no regret for defaming Mr. Pagones;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton's vicious verbal anti-Semitic attacks directed at members of the Jewish faith, and in particular, a Jewish landlord, arising from a simple landlord-tenant dispute with a black tenant, incited widespread violence, riots, and the murder of five innocent people;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton's fierce demagoguery incited violence, riots, and murder in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, following the accidental death of a black pedestrian child hit by the motorcade of Orthodox Rabbi Menachem Schneerson;
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton led a protest in the Crown Heights neighborhood and marched next to a protester with a sign that read, `The White Man is the Devil';
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has insulted members of the Jewish faith by challenging Jews to violence and stating to Jews to `pin down' their yarmulkes; and
Whereas the Reverend Al Sharpton has practiced the politics of racial division and made inflammatory remarks against whites by characterizing the death of Amadou Diallo as a `racially motivated police `assassination': Now, therefore, be itResolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress--
(1) condemns the practices of the Reverend Al Sharpton, which seek to divide Americans on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion;
(2) expresses its outrage over the violence that has resulted due to the Reverend Al Sharpton's incendiary words and actions; and
(3) fervently urges elected officials and public servants, who have condoned and legitimized the Reverend Al Sharpton's incendiary words and actions, to publicly denounce and condemn such racist and anti-Semitic views.The bill was sent to committee where it died.
I wonder if Morning Joe still feels the same way about "Rev" Al? Sharpton hasn't changed. Bu then again Joe has---he no longer is a congressman from Florida, he is the morning host of the same network that hired Sharpton.The "Reverend" Al is a regular guest on Joe's show. Why doesn't he (as the bill he introduced says):...expresses [his] outrage over the violence that has resulted due to the Reverend Al Sharpton's incendiary words and actions; and fervently urge elected officials and public servants, who have condoned and legitimized the Reverend Al Sharpton's incendiary words and actions, to publicly denounce and condemn such racist and anti-Semitic views.Why doesn't he ask the "Preacher" who ignores the commandment against "bearing false witness" if his outrage against George Zimmerman is over the top hypocritical considering Al's racist track record? What the matter Joe....cat's got your tongue? What's wrong Joe--you are never too shy to blast the conservative position (even though you claim to be one).
Quote from: Patriot on July 13, 2013, 08:34:31 AM
Warph, your revelations in this thread are truly a testament to the ignorance of the American sheeple. They are truly getting the government that they deserve.
Progressives (a moniker born out of the socialist movement in America) have been methodically eroding the principles espoused in The Declaration of Independence since the early 1900s. Their platforms of bigger government, 'central planning' & the socialist collective have permeated our systems of education, media, lawmaking & business regulation.
Moreover, by means of methodical & incremental indoctrination, the progressive platform has been foisted on generations of young people inside a government centered public education system. This effort has produced an ever increasing number of Americans who are actually shortsighted enough to believe that assuming a label of 'moderate' somehow is a good thing. Fools. Even Jesus himself said He preferred hot or cold to lukewarm. It is the prevalence of these moderate thinkers (thinkers being a tongue in cheek use of the word) that has resulted in a society that so highly values government promises of safety & security that they have facilitated the drastic erosion of individual sovereignty over the last century.
in addition, the numbers of self centered citizens who have been dumbed down by well meaning educators regarding the dramatic difference represented by the American Republic among forms of governance have swelled into the millions. Many (if not most) of these folks couldn't be bothered to remain informed about politically centered events let alone get off their duffs to go and vote intelligently on occasion.
Therefore, between the determined progressive idealists, the mushy moderate fools & the uninformed masses of easily led sheeple, this country is now run by a self indulgent class of power brokers (from the likes of Obama to our very own Liebau/Hendricks duo) who appear totally ignorant of the fact that their Marxist ideals & crony capitalism have historically failed to produce progress or widespread prosperity in every society where attempted.
America, for many generations, was exceptional. An example to be envied. A nation that produced greater prosperity, provided disproportionate charity & pulled the butts of more of its' neighbors out of the fires of tyranny than any other in history. No longer! We are in rapid decline. Great societies can and do fall. America is no exception. Now content to acquiesce to the whims of foolish 'leaders', America by and large has squandered her inheritance. And it isn't only seen in the big cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, or Chicago... it can be seen in even the smallest of communities like Elk County, Kansas. It can be seen by anyone who cares to look. The locally corrupting influences of The Progressive Movement (and of those who sit idle) are clearly seen. As America, even our own little county, once prosperous, is in decline.
Keep posting, Warph, we need to see the results of our folly as progressive or moderate or uninvolved citizens. This nation is getting the government it deserves. Any experiment, when tainted ingredients are introduced, is destined to fail. The great American experiment of a representative republic is no exception.
Well said Patriot. Warph is hitting on some very good stuff. Warph stay right in there.
Quote from: redcliffsw on July 18, 2013, 12:49:35 PM
Well said Patriot. Warph is hitting on some very good stuff. Warph stay right in there.
Plan to, Red and you keep it up, too. And you're right, Patroit's piece was 'well said'... I only hope everyone read it. I couldn't have said it any better that's for sure. He has a wonderful
'mando' of the english vocabulary.
Pelosi Says She Will Back Pant Suits
Over Plugs In 2016...
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(If only Joe had a vagina)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/18/pelosi-think-the-country-is-ready-for-hillary-video/
Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi indicated Thursday she would be all in for a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
In an interview on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Pelosi, the first female
[Nut-case] House speaker, said that Clinton's resume gives her the edge over other potential candidates.
(Why?? Because she is a:
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"I think the country is ready for Hillary," Pelosi said. "I certainly hope that she will choose to run. I think if she does, she will win. I think — and when she does, I think she'll be the best prepared person to enter the White House in decades. With all due respect to everybody else, but who has the credentials she has in terms of being a first lady and having a front-row seat and active participation at the highest level of government and power? A United States senator, secretary of state, even first lady of Arkansas — every level of experience. So I think the knowledge she has gives her great judgment. The respect she commands signals that she would be successful should she decide to run, and I think it would be a great thing for our country to have a woman president."
[...]Pelosi seemed to favor Clinton over current Vice President Joe Biden on the grounds of Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. But she said Biden, also ran for president in 1988 and 2008, would be "a great president" as well.
(cough... cough)
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(Demo-rats: if they weren't in power, they'd be useful only as comic relief. In short, letting Demo-rats run a government is like giving a 17-year old boy a fifth of Jim Beam and the keys to the Camaro)
Exhibit A - Chicago: Chicago's 2012 pension shortfall jumps nearly 90%, to $36 billion.
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The rating agency has long critiqued pension funds' use of overly ambitious investment return targets that allow funds to understate their true pension shortfalls... Based on the new Moody's methodology, which uses more conservative assumptions, Chicago's 2012 pension shortfall jumps nearly 90%, to $36 billion...(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QSpG2U2gqgo/UeiOll2modI/AAAAAAABNuU/WKu8Ta6v5Fc/s1600/130718-chicago2.gif)
However, Chicago's burgeoning liability is not the city's only problem. The yearly bill to pay for those pensions is set to spike 2.5 times to $1.2 billion in 2015 from $467 million in 2014...Pensions are threatening to do to Chicago what has happened to Detroit. Which reminds me:Exhibit B - Detroit: The largest municipal bankruptcy in US historyThe Motor City faces $20 billion of long-term liabilities. The Wall Street Journal's Matt Dillon says those holding onto $11 billion in unsecured debt are basically staring into the abyss, facing the prospect of getting next to nothing from the city's obligations... The pension funds want to block Orr's attempt to drastically reduce the amount of benefits owed to current and former city workers.Apropos of nothing, the last time Detroit had a Republican Mayor was 51 years ago.
MORE LIES - Despite Pentagon claims, Marine colonel sought in Benghazi scandal is NOT retired
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Endemic and systemic: Lying to Congress, lying to the press, lying to the American people.
Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS. Lie upon lie upon lie. The federal scaffolding that is supposed to undergird the civil society is threatened by an administration and its apparatchiks in the federal bureaucracy that have demonstrated a reckless disregard for the truth.
And, as it pertains to Benghazi, not even the Pentagon is immune from the dry-rot of lawlessness.
When insurgents attacked the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, last fall, Col. George Bristol held a key post in the region. As commander of Joint Special Operations Task Force-Trans Sahara, he was in a position to know what options the U.S. had to protect Americans under fire.
U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in the Sept. 11 attacks, sparking national outcry and a congressional investigation examining the lack of protection. Several U.S. officials have testified before Congress since — but not Bristol, a salty Marine whose task force was responsible for special operations in northern and western Africa.
Defense Department officials have told members of Congress that Bristol cannot be forced to testify because he retired after stepping down during a March change of command ceremony, according to several media reports. The Pentagon reinforced that point of view to Marine Corps Times on Tuesday.
"Col. Bristol was not invited by Congress to testify before he retired," said Air Force Maj. Robert Firman, a spokesman with the Office of the Secretary of Defense. "The DoD has cooperated fully with Congress and the Accountability Review Board since the beginning of this investigation, and we will continue to do so."
That isn't the case, however. While Bristol is preparing for retirement, he is on active duty through the end of July, said Maj. Shawn Haney, a Marine spokeswoman, on Wednesday. He will be placed on the inactive list on Aug. 1, she said. That contradicts statements that Pentagon officials have issued to both Congress and the media.
Pentagon officials said Wednesday that they were looking into the case. The situation will likely frustrate congressional critics, primarily Republicans, who say the Obama administration has not been truthful about the Benghazi attack and the U.S. response to it...
(Where is the Select Committee, John Boehner? Where is the Select Committee?? What are you doing about all of these outrageous lies?
Oh, that's right: Amnesty for illegals is your top priority. You're a disgrace, John Boehner, an absolute disgrace. Could someone drag John Boehner out of whatever bar he's in, wake him up, and get him to name an 'HONEST' Select Committee on Benghazi... and find this colonel?)[...]DAMNING: The Complete Benghazi Timeline Spreadsheet [Updated]
(The complete Benghazi timeline, now augmented with information from eyewitness testimony before Congress, various leaks from the warring Obuma/Clinton camps, Stephen Hayes, Sharyl Attkisson, and the House Oversight Committee [PDF], leads me to four inescapable conclusions:(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QGLXYAqteb0/UZlj4h5VzcI/AAAAAAABL3g/O4b4zePiCPE/s1600/130519-benghazi-timeline-spreasheeet.gif)
It is now clear to me that:
a) Hillary Clinton lied to Congress.
b) Barack Obama went to sleep knowing that a U.S. Ambassador and other Americans were under terrorist attack.
c) Barack Obama awoke refreshed the next day to begin fundraising.
d) The entire Executive Branch lied repeatedly to the American people to save Obama's chances for re-election)
Bill Cosby, Charles Barkley Says
"You Can't Prove" Zimmerman Is Racist...
Outrage Ensues
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'Sambo, Uncle Tom': Self-appointed race cops unleash hate
on Cosby and Barkley for Zimmerman remarks
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Via Orlando Sentinel:Bill Cosby will talk guns, the prosecution and the media in the George Zimmerman case. But he has no interest in discussing racial profiling.
In an interview with the "DomNnate Radio Show," the TV legend was adamant on the race issue.
"This racial stuff goes into a whole bunch of discussion which has stuff that you can't prove," Cosby said in an interview Tuesday. "You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that."
[...]As you can imagine, Cosby straying off the plantation isn't going over so well.
Apparently, in Cosby Land, profiling, stalking, menacing, attacking and ultimately fatally shooting a Black child in the heart because he's Black and wearing a hoodie — so he must be a criminal — doesn't qualify as being racist.
Cosby said that the issue was simple: "the prosecution didn't tell their story well, and they lost."
Team Obuma plans August assault on
'Climate Deniers',Obumacare 'Liars'
Washington Examiner:By PAUL BEDARD | JULY 19, 2013(Bring it on, o' fearless leader)House and Senate foes of President Obama's agenda on abortion, health care, immigration reform and global warming will be assailed during their summer recess as thousands in the president's support network will confront them during "Action August."
The president's Organizing for Action outfit, the successor to his 2012 reelection campaign network, has issued orders to supporters to track down lawmakers who disagree with the president. Their targets are lawmakers who are telling Obamacare "lies," those they dub "climate deniers" for resisting global warming rules, and foes of immigration reform and abortion.
"Their recess is our opportunity to speak with our elected officials directly about the issues we care about," said an OFA email.
McRINO Says He Doesn't Know How Many Passports You Can Forge Before Being Charged With A Crime In His Immigration Bill
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(The answer: Forging one or more passports will get you charged with a crime, John boy)
(CNSNews.com) –
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/mccain-i-dont-know-how-many-passports-we-let-you-forge
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), a member of the "Gang of Eight" that helped write and pass the immigration reform bill in that chamber,
said he did not know how many passports a person could forge under the proposed law before being charged with a crime.On Capitol Hill on Wednesday, CNSNews.com asked McCain, "Senator McCain, can I ask you a question about the Senate immigration bill? Under the bill, how many passports can someone forge before it becomes a crime?"McCain said, "You're going to have to ask our folks that, I don't think that we stand for any forgeries."
CNSNews.com followed-up, "Can you tell me why that would be part of the bill in the first place?"
McCain answered, " I cannot tell you that it is part of the bill."
In the legislation that passed in the Senate, Section 1541 "Trafficking in Passports," it explains in detail that a person can be charged for a crime if they forge "3 or more passports," meaning that they potentially would not be charged if they falsely made only one or two passports. The criminal charges and penalties do not kick in until after "3 or more passports" are falsely made, issued, or transferred, etcetera.
Flashback: "If you've got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor," Obuma said.
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Sneaky Weasel Sebelius Admits: Despite Obuma's
"Guarantee," You Might NOT Be Able To Keep Your Doctor
Under Obumacare
(Ladies and Gentleman, please, try and contain your total shock and amazement)
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Via Weekly Standard:http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hhs-admits-you-might-not-be-able-keep-your-doctor-under-obamacare_740093.html
As Obamacare was being pushed through Congress in 2010, the Obama administration and its allies were unequivocal in two claims:
If you like your doctor and you like your current health care plan, you can keep them both. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius and then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi backed the president fully in this regard. The White House even went so far as to post a "Health Insurance Reform Reality Check" on its website, where "Linda Douglass of the White House Office of Health Reform debunks the myth that reform will force you out of your current insurance plan or force you to change doctors." President Obama upped the ante, putting the promise in the form of a "guarantee":
THE PRESIDENT: Here is a guarantee that I've made. If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance. If you've got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor. Nobody is trying to change what works in the system. We are trying to change what doesn't work in the system.While there has been sniping back and forth between the administration and its detractors about the real-world application and implementation of Obamacare, the new Healthcare.gov website has taken some of the mystery out of the controversy. And President Obama and his administration do not fare well in this latest "reality check." Among the questions that HHS recently added to the website: "Can I keep my own doctor?":
"Depending on the plan you choose in the Marketplace, you may be able to keep your current doctor." The bottom line is that Obamacare guarantees neither. Doctors may be only available through certain networks, just as in the current system. And only plans that existed in their current form on March 23, 2010, are even eligible to be "kept." The vast majority of plans will be new, subject to a raft of new regulations, requirements, and restrictions.
"Madrassas Are Emptying" In Pakistan As Fighters Flood Into Afghanistan For Final Fighting Season Against U.S. Forces
(Hmmmm...Don't we have a big bomb that goes 'BOOM' in the night?)
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"Dear Family... I'm on my way to Afghanistan for a glorious..."
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(BYE, BYE AFGHANISTAN!!!)
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Via The Hill:http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/operations/312195-madrassas-are-emptying-for-final-us-fighting-season-in-afghanistan
The Taliban and its allies are plotting a bloody and spectacular end to the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
Foreign fighters are pouring into the eastern part of the country to take on U.S. and allied forces in what will likely be the final fighting season for American troops here.
Pakistani-based terror groups like the Haqqani Network and others are calling upon "every house, every family" to send fighters into Afghanistan, Afghan army commanders stationed at the American base in Paktia province told The Hill.
"The madrassas are emptying" in Pakistan, added Lt. Col. David Hamann, who leads the American Security Force Assistance Advisory Team (SFAAT) at Combat Outpost Matun Hill.
The influx of foreign insurgents ahead of the White House's 2014 troop withdrawal deadline comes just as the administration is facing mounting public pressure to end the war quickly.
The administration is struggling to decide whether to leave any troops behind after 2014, and has revived the "zero option" postwar plan that would leave no troops in the country post-2014.
Big boom? When? At what cost? Black rain? Dead Americans? Oil embargo by other countries? Not simple.
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Dem Sen. DickLess "Turbin" Durbin To Hold Senate Judiciary Hearing On Stand Your Ground Laws Update: Will Probe NRA's Involvement
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(With the exception of Chuck Schumer, there isn't a bigger attention WHORE in the Senate than Turban Durbin.
Well, DickHead... this is for you:
[apologies to Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill, and "Stand By Your Man"]
You know, it's hard to be a victim
When malefactors come around
It's so insulting when they're exulting
About the easy mark they've found
But the law allows you to take action
Before your face they start to pound
Thieves don't want to linger
When they see your trigger finger
Instead they'll run like a scared hound
Just stand your ground
Show that guy with pants a-droopin'
You've been working on your grouping
And you'll cap his ass so bonely
Just stand your ground
His attitude will be adjusted
When it's clear you'll bust a couple rounds
Just stand your ground
Just stand your ground
His attitude will be adjusted
When it's clear you'll bust a couple rounds
Just stand your ground
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(Update: This will be a huge waste of money. What are the odds someone in that hearing blames the NRA for Trayvon Martin's death?)
(Politico) — The Senate's No. 2 Demo-rat will hold a hearing on "stand your ground" laws this Fall.
Dick Durbin of Illinois announced on Friday that his Senate Judiciary subcommittee will hear testimony on state laws that give citizens the right of lethal force to defend themselves in situations where they feel their life is threatened, measures which are on the books in some form in dozens of states.
Durbin's hearing will probe the roles of the NRA and the American Legislative Exchange Council — which helps draft conservative legislation in statehouses — in the crafting of the "stand your ground" laws, his office said. Durbin also plans to examine the legal definition of self defense, how the laws have affected shooting confrontations and how the laws interact with racial profiling by law enforcement.
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Quote from: Diane Amberg on July 19, 2013, 11:01:31 AM
Big boom? When? At what cost? Black rain? Dead Americans? Oil embargo by other countries? Not simple.
As simple as this:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgd_aJBBRfs
Obuma: "Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Me 35 Years Ago"
(Hmmm... very good point, Barry. Some say, "Too bad it didn't happen that way."
Anyway...We get it, Barry. You think America is racist!
Because race relations aren't bad enough, POS Obuma just made an unannounced visit to the White House briefing room to expand on his thoughts about the Zimmerman verdict)
(CNN) - President Barack Obama said Friday that "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago" in his first live comments since the verdict last weekend in the case of Martin's shooting death last year.
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Benghazi Survivors Forced To Sign
Non-Disclosure Agreements
By The Corrupt Obuma Administration
According to Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA), who put forth a resolution back in January to form a select House committee to investigate Benghazi, which was supported by 700 retired Special Forces and the mother of slain information management officer Sean Smith, said on Thursday that survivors of the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead,
had been forced to sign non-disclosure agreements by each of their respective agencies in the Obama administration. This would essentially prohibit them from speaking about the attack on September 11, 2012. "According to trusted sources that have contacted my office, many if not all of the survivors of the Benghazi attacks along with others at the Department of Defense, the CIA have been asked or directed to sign additional non-disclosure agreements about their involvement in the Benghazi attacks," Wolf said on the floor of the House. "Some of these new NDAs, as they call them, I have been told were signed as recently as this summer." If proven to be accurate, Wolf said
"this would be a stunning revelation."
"It also raises serious concerns about the priority of the administration's efforts to silence those with knowledge of the Benghazi attack in response," Wolf said. Congressman Wolf also said that he was requesting a list of all personnel or contractors who were asked to sign non-disclosure waivers from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, and the State Department. "Perhaps through a list of all the employees that have signed the NDAs related to Benghazi we may finally develop a witness list to subpoena for eyewitness testimony to learn what happened that night where we lost four American lives," Wolf continued. "I do not expect the Obama administration to be forthcoming with answers, but if this Congress — if this Congress — does not ask for the information and compels its delivery the American people will never learn the truth."
On Wednesday Representative Steve Stockman (R-TX) issued a statement in which he praised the work of Representative Wolf.
"Congressman Wolf has fearlessly led the fight for justice on this issue," Stockman said. "The whole nation owes Congressman Wolf a deep debt of gratitude. Some House Democrats now appear to be openly interfering with the investigation and intimidating witnesses, which only raises more questions about the White House's involvement. The only way we're going to get a clean and thorough investigation is by forcing a vote with a discharge petition." Well isn't that just like this administration? They swoop in and apply pressure not only on whistleblowers, but on those who would be able to provide valuable testimony as to the events of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi.
House Resolution 36 continues to gain support. Congressman Wolf's office confirmed they had 89 co-sponsors and over that weekend the co-sponsors grew to well over 100. However, it was RINO House Speaker John Boehner who said he wouldn't allow the select committee to investigate Benghazi because he doesn't "think it's risen to that level."(I think it disgusting and disheartening that "well over a hundred" have signed on to congressman Wolf's demands. The number should be 435 or the total number of members of the house! Any member of the house that has not signed on should be removed by the people they supposedly represent. When they come home to their districts they should be met by citizens of their districts and their local Sheriff and bound over for trial. Charges of collusion to murder, sedition and treason should be at the top.
The Government is tampering with a witness. Anyone that did that would be thrown in jail and carry a record from then out as it is considered a FELONY!!!!!! Do you people in the W H understand that doing that is a FELONY? If not, you've just been notified by the NSA!
Boehner should be removed not only from speakership but from congress for his support of POS Obuma/A** Holder/Pants Suit Clinton in the destruction of this nation...Warph)(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-POKgJYC3MFw/UMmBRQtoGnI/AAAAAAAANaA/sngTpBJwR4k/s400/john-boehner-gop-cry-baby-of-the-house.jpg)
For All You Kool-Aid Drinkers Out There In LaLa Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLcilJGPo68
The Collapse of The American Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mII9NZ8MMVM
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Norwegian woman raped in Dubai finds herself jailed and convicted
By Carolyn E. Price
Jul 18, 2013
Dubai - After reporting that she'd been raped to Dubai police, a 25-year-old Norwegian woman who was on a business trip to the United Arab Emirates city found herself being jailed on "suspicion of having sex outside of marriage."
Following the report of her rape to police, the 25-year-old had her passport and personal possessions seized and was immediately placed in a jail cell.
It took three days before she was able to gain access to a phone and contact her family to let them know what had happened to her.
The victim's family was able to contact their Foreign Service in Dubai and the Norwegian consulate was able to negotiate and secure a conditional release for the young woman.
The release was allowed as long as the accused Norwegian citizen stayed in Dubai and was housed in the Norwegian Seamans Center.
After her negotiated release, the 25-year-old stayed at the Seamans Center for 6 months, while awaiting trial.
At the conclusion of the trial, the Norwegian woman found herself convicted on three separate counts: sex outside of marriage, drinking alcohol and perjury.
"I have received punishment for sex outside of marriage, punishment for drinking alcohol and then I was convicted of having given false testimony." Aftenposten reports that the 25-year-old was given a sentence of 16 months; in what could be called a peculiar twist, the Norwegian woman's attacker was convicted of raping her and the courts handed him down a sentence of 13 months.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/354646#ixzz2ZZVBXK4k
Marley Lion Murder Draws Comparisons To Trayvon Martin
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Marley Lion Murder Draws Comparisons To Trayvon Martin
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/853162/marley-lion-murder-draws-comparisons-to-trayvon-martin/#qZtzxjUBt8ComcTg.99
Now that Barack Obama lectured us on Trayvon Martin will he talk about Marley Lion?Marley Lion was killed in Charleston, South Carolina, at around 4 am on June 16, 2012.
Marley Lion shooting surveillance video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgMOuc_otL8
He was 17.
His life and death has been ignored by the national media.
Marley was white. His killers were black.
Unlike Trayvon Martin, Marley Lion was shot in cold blood.
There was no fight. He did not approach the thugs who murdered him.
Unfortunately, some deaths are more important than others.
Inquisitr reported:
Marley Lion and Trayvon Martin were both 17 years old when they were shot to death, both unarmed, and both doing nothing illegal.
The difference... Marley Lion is white, and some people claim that race is the reason Martin's killing was national news but Lion's is not.
Lion was killed in Charleston, South Carolina, at around 4 am on June 16, 2012. Police found him lying on the ground outside his Nissan Pathfinder, bleeding to death. Before dying he told police that two black males approached his car, one of them shooting him several times.
Charleston police would later arrest four people in connection with the shooting. The Charleston Police Department said they came across the suspects when one of them tried to sell the gun that had been used in Marley's murder.
Marley is a victim of black gang violence.
Violent crime against white Americans was up 18% last year. The latest FBI statistics show that violent attacks on whites have increased by 18% from 2010 to 2011. At the same time, violent crimes against blacks only increased by 2 percent.[/b]
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UPDATE
Four Black Ugly Shitbirds Arrested in Marley Lion Murder
Black Killers Caught
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Story and pictures at Charleston Thug Life - http://chasthuglife.blogspot.com/2012/07/four-shitbirds-arrested-in-marley-lion.html
CPD diligently investigated the case. We suspect the increased reward money put up by friends and family of Marley Lion was the catalyst to solving this case. A witness came forward and told police he/she knew how shooter Ryan Deleston held his weapon and the shooter in the video held his weapon in the same manner. What does that say about you when people can identify you because they are familiar with the way you hold your gun. How many other armed offenses has Deleston gotten away with?
(35yrs ago Obuma suffered profiling... many times. It was tough times back then.
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Yup, it's was rough in the harsh halls of the Punahou Prep School in Hawaii. Sometimes you even had to do homework and couldn't hang with your choom gang buds)
Dem Rep. James Clyburn Wears A Hoodie
During Speech At Trayvon Martin Rally
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(Shameless exploitation.
Hoodie-Man should be happy Zimmerman wasn't around)[color]
Via Daily Caller:South Carolina Demo-rat Rep. James Clyburn rallied for slain teen Trayvon Martin on the steps of the South Carolina State House Saturday wearing a hoodie, according to WLTX reporter Jasmine Styles.
Thursday, Clyburn, a member of the Congressional
[Idiotic] Black Caucus, spoke about his and the CBC's disappointment in the verdict with MSNBC.
"We're very disappointed in the verdict, and more disappointed in some of the reactions we've read from some of the jurors. It just seems as if something about this entire process is just disconcerting to us," he said.
Report: Egyptian Girl Kills Herself Rather Than Face Violence From Family Forcing Her To Wear Hijab
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(Sad... So Sad! Wonder what Muslim-Barry and his creepy-ass-cracker Islamic-Liberal buds are thinking about when they look at this picture of this poor innocent child? Not good, I assure you!)
Via Al Arabiya:
A 15-year old Egyptian girl who rejected her family's pressures to wear the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, shot herself to death using her father's hand gun, Egyptian media reported.
The girl, identified only as Amira , was subjected to "violence" by her family after she removed her hijab.
Preferring death to living under violence, Amira reportedly "sneaked" into her father's room, took his gun and opened fire on herself, an investigation found, according to Youm7.
The girl's suicide, which took place last week in an area of the Giza province, was reported by the popular Egyptian news website Youm7.
Obuma Spends Saturday On The Golf Course
Round number 132
(Creepy-ass-cracker... ooops, sorry. Meant Creepy-ass-nigga)
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Obuma Pals Jay-Z And Beyonce Join Creepy Al Sharpton
At Trayvon Martin Rally
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(That is one loathsome group of Creepy-Ass-Nigga's)
Via NY Post:Beyonce and Jay-Z joined Trayvon Martin's mother and hundred of New Yorkers rallying today during nationwide demonstrations demanding justice for the slain teen.
Wearing a shirt with the image of her son in a hoodie, Sybrina Fulton, warned a crowd at a pre-rally at the National Action Nework in Harlem: "It was my son [that night.] It might be yours tomorrow."
She vowed to fight for children and victims of gun violence.
It's been a week since a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of murder and manslaughter charges. He shot Martin daid on February 26, 2012, while on neighborhood watch patrol.
Dem Rep. Frederica Wilson At Trayvon Rally:
Black Men Are Arrested For "Eating While Black,
And Just Being Plain Ol' Black!"
(WOW)
Via Shark Tank:Demo-rat Cowboy Congresswoman Frederica Wilson delivered one of the most racially divisive speeches I may have ever heard. The setting was the National Action Network's Miami rally this weekend that aimed at pressuring the Department of Justice to press civil rights charges against George Zimmerman. Unfortunately, because of the poor audio quality, crowd noise, and Wilson's constant movements away from the microphone, much of the speech was inaudible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30KvO2DKqzQ
Some of the controversial statements that Wilson made did however record clearly:"America, little black boys and big boys, and black grown men, will continue to be singled out and arrested for driving while black, shopping while black, walking while black, eating while black, and just being plain ol' black!"
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Via Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/15/a-fascinating-map-of-the-worlds-most-and-least-racially-tolerant-countries/
Britain is one of the most racially tolerant countries on the planet, a survey claims.
The global social attitudes study claims that the most racially intolerant populations are all in the developing world, with Jordan and India in the top five.
By contrast, the study of 80 countries over three decades found Western countries were most accepting of other cultures with Britain, the U.S., Canada and Australia more tolerant than anywhere else.
The data came from the World Value Survey, which measured the social attitudes of people in different countries, as reported by the Washington Post.
The survey asked individuals what types of people they would refuse to live next to, and counted how many chose the option 'people of a different race' as a percentage for each country.
Researchers have suggested that societies where more people do not want neighbours from other races can be considered less racially tolerant.
Secret Court Okays U.S.
Phone Surveillance For Another Three Months
http://www.youtube.com/v/OemwW60VxDY&hl=en_US&fs=1&
(Did anyone ask us? No! A secret court, secret laws, plus unaccountable politicians, unaccountable bureaucracy, militarized police, no knock / warrantless searches, license plate scanners, all electronic services monitored, drones, moves to define who are legitimate journalist, moves to create 30 million new voting citizens, out of control IRS, EPA, OSHA, etc... Behold your enemy, the Fascist US government)
Via Fox: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/20/secret-court-oks-continued-us-phone-surveillance-program-for-another-3-months/
The secret intelligence court that signs off on giving the U.S. government the authority to monitor hundreds of millions of telephone records has renewed the government's request to do so for another three months.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence announced Friday its authority to maintain the program expired on July 19 and that the government had sought and received a renewal from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Anthony Weenie
Takes Al Jazeera Cash
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(Oy! Jewish leaders are kvetching over Anthony Weiner's accepting campaign cash from a lobbyist for Al Jazeera... Osama bin Laden's favorite TV network. Lew Fidler about to go through the roof.
Weiner IS NOT JEWISH!!! His mother was Catholic. According to Jewish law, the child takes the mother's religion. This fraud has been using his name to play the Jewish community. Weenie is married to an Iranian/Pakistani Muslim whose mother is a leader within the Muslim Brotherhood... which is a terrorist organization that hates Jews and Christians. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if he secretly converted to Islam. How on earth would Huma, his wife, be allowed to marry this freak? Her whole damned family is Muslim Brotherhood...
http://www.examiner.com/article/rep-weiner-s-wife-allegedly-linked-to-the-muslim-brotherhood
...and this qualifies him to run for mayor of NYC with Spitzer as his money changer? Spin city east doesn't have anything on NYC.
Give it back, Weenie. You're no Al Gore. He won't give it back)
Via NY Post: City Councilman Lew Fidler (D-Brooklyn), who has endorsed former city Comptroller Bill Thompson's mayoral bid, called on rival candidate Weiner to return the $4,950 donation to lobbyist John Merrigan.
"Al Jazeera and its lobbyists are no friends to New York City or our Jewish community, and Anthony shouldn't accept their support," Fidler said. "They have spread hate and lies against Jews, not only here in New York but across the world. The right thing to do is to give this money back. Anthony should do exactly that."
Woman Scams Almost Half Million By Claiming
To Be Boston Bombing Victim
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(How low can you go?)
Via NY Post: BOSTON — An upstate New York woman used fake hospital records to pose as a Boston Marathon bombing victim with a brain injury and collected nearly half a million dollars from the fund for victims, authorities said yesterday.
Audrea
["Creepy Ass Scammer"] Gause, 26, of Troy, was arrested there yesterday on a Massachusetts fugitive warrant charging her with larceny, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
Gause submitted a claim to the fund last month, including several pages of false medical records indicating she was treated at hospitals in Boston and New York for a traumatic brain injury suffered in the bombings, Coakley said.
She received a
$480,000 check from the fund, created to help victims of the April 15 attacks, which killed three people and wounded more than 260.
Coakley said investigators are making every effort to take back the money given to Gause.
"Safecracka"(TM) Caucasian Protection Hoodies
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In anticipation of race riots following a likely 'not guilty' verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, clothing retailer Thugfail introduced their new line of "Safecracka"(TM) caucasian protection hoodies Wednesday.
Thugfail CEO Scooter Van Neuter described the hoodie at a Phoenix press conference:
"We are all about diversity here, and have had great success marketing our Trayvon Thugfail (TM) hoodie to people of color. I wanted something for our white customers so we came up with the Safecracka (TM) model. Hopefully, it will prevent some unprovoked beatings."
The innovative new hoodie features a deployable "raging thug" image and reversible Star Wars / "Kill Whitey" insignia. The Safecracka (TM) is available in multi-colors, black, gray, white, and retails for $145.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9SPvtZ6pE
FOUR DEAD, NINE WOUNDED After Chicago Trayvon Rally
Sunday, July 21, 2013, 8:58 AM
Hundreds attended the 'Justice for Trayvon Martin' rally yesterday in Chicago.
Meanwhile, a six year-old girl was shot Friday while at a memorial for a loved one gunned down five years ago.NBC Chicago reported: View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com.And at least four people were killed and nine wounded in Chicago shootings on Saturday night.Cicero Cell Block Tango
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrrz54UtkCc
Chicago Tribune reported:Shootings left at least four men dead and 9 other people wounded across the Saturday night and Sunday morning.
The violence was largely confined to the South and West Sides and three of the incidents had more than one victim, according to authorities.
The most recent shooting happened in the Cabrini Green neighborhood – just north of Chicago Avenue on Cambridge Avenue. Two men, one 25 and the other either 23 or 24, were shot and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The older of the two was dropped off there and died of his wounds, and the other was taken there in an ambulance with a wound to the leg.
Someone shot up a birthday party in the Altgeld Gardens housing complex about 1:50 a.m., hitting four people. One, a 28-year-old man, died at the scene. Two others were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center: a 40-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman. A 22-year-old man was dropped off at Metro South Medical Center in Blue Island and is in stable condition. The man and woman at Christ hospital are both in serious condition, police said. The Cook County medical examiner's office refused to release the name of the dead man.
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11 Year Old Yemeni Girl Flees Home To Escape Forced Marriage:
I'd Rather Kill Myself
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Muslims Riot in Paris Suburb Over Right to Wear Islamic Veil (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0GVR0sgOtA
(How right you are, Stephanie. They are Vile, Filthy Animals... Pigs... these Muslims Clowns are so screwed up, it makes me want to go bake a ham)
July 21, 2013, 8:25 AMMuslims are torching cars and assaulting police after a woman in a Paris suburb was stopped by police for wearing a veil.Russia Today reported:Hundreds have clashed with police in a Paris suburb after a Muslim woman was stopped for wearing a veil. The Muslim community contests the police version of events, while nationalists blame France's immigration policy.
A crowd of some 250 people collected outside the police station of the gritty Paris suburb of Trappes in response to the arrest of a Muslim man who police say assaulted them after they checked the identity of a woman wearing an Islamic veil.
"Her husband reacted in a hostile fashion, insulting and hitting the policemen. The man was placed in custody for that reason," Jean-Marc Galland, a senior official for Yvelines region, told Reuters.
"On Friday, there were demands for clarification from people in the town who did not understand the arrest," he added.
But Prosecutor Vincent Lesclous later told reporters that the man had in-fact tried to strangle a police officer.
The crowd soon turned violent, setting fire to bins and hurling stones at the police and the police station.
Former Obama Spiritual Adviser Father Pfleger At Trayvon Rally:
"Racism Is In The DNA Of America!"
(Hey Vatican... there's a padded cell
missing one of your mental patients)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmoP6XEG5ik
Demo-rat Congressman: I'm Racially Profiled "On A Daily Basis"
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(He's racially profiled so much he was elected to Congress...
wait, how does that work?
And with a face like that, the profilers figure he's Muslim)
Via The Hill:Rep. Cedric
[Cedric???] Richmond (D-La.) on Sunday praised President Obama for addressing the controversy over the Trayvon Martin case, saying he also shared Obama's personal experiences with discrimination.
"The president said that was him 35 years ago. That's me on a daily basis... and especially when I'm home in New Orleans and I'm dressed down," said Richmond on CNN's "State of the Union." "It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on store, or just basic attitudes.
(Can you blame them, Cedric??? You're UGLY. You're probably scaring the crap out of them when they see you coming)"Even as a U.S. congressman, as a nigga man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on," he added.
In remarks on Friday Obama said that African-Americans experienced prejudice on a daily basis and that he had also been a victim of racial profiling.
"Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," said the president.
Official From The 'Creepy Ass' Al Sharpton Group Calls On
LeBron James And Dwyane Wade To Quit Playing For The Miami Heat
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(LOL... this Clown is hilarious... wait, he's being serious? Well, gee Creepy, what about da 'Bloods' and da 'Crips' gangsta gangs)
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Via BizPac Review:Rallies held across the nation Saturday not only called for "Justice for Trayvon," but also boycotts for anything connected to Florida. The National Actions Network rally in Las Vegas even appealed to star athletes like LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to quit their teams.
Gene Collins, local affiliate president of National Actions Network and long-time activist and community organizer, addressed the crowd and made the unusual requests in his remarks, according to Breitbart News.
"It is not about National Action Network, it is not about Gene Collins, it is about the social change we are seeking in this community," Collins said, according to Breitbart. "Today is a day the Lord has made to demonstrate to the state of Florida and other states who has passed laws who are bias to black and brown people of this race.
"We are here also to ask our sports icons LeBron James, Dwyane Wade ... and other professional players in baseball and football to change franchises and play for another franchise until the state of Florida recognizes there has to be change."
"We are also asking the collegiate athletes who have signed contracts and who have signed letters of intent to play for various universities to transfer to another university until the governor of the state of Florida calls a special session and changes the laws so that African American males and females, black and brown kids will be safe in the state of Florida," Collins added.
Taliban Try To Bribe 8-Year-Old Boy To
Blow Himself Up For Less Than $1.00
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(Poor Kid. Not only are the Taliban evil...
but they're apparently cheap as well)
Via Daily Mail:Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan are bribing starving children as young as eight years old to plant deadly roadside booby traps, be decoys in ambushes and even act as suicide bombers.
Despite the Islamic fundamentalists' claim they have no children in their ranks, extremists have been actively recruiting orphaned and homeless young boys and training them to use guns, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and suicide vests.
In return, they ply the desperate youngsters with sweets and chocolate, an investigation for Channel 4's Dispatches programme has learned.
Afghan orphan Neaz told how he was just eight when he was promised a handful of coins by Taliban fighters to convert him to their cause. The boy had been tending his father's flock of sheep when coalition forces bombed his village.
'The Taliban were hiding in our house when a helicopter came and bombed us,' he said. 'My father was hit in his heart and his head, he was torn apart. My mother was hit in the chest and died. I have no one.'
In the immediate aftermath of the raid, Neaz was kidnapped by Taliban leaders and taken to a nearby town and shown how to use guns and make IEDs. They plied him with sweets and he was initially delighted when they said they planned to bring him an extra-special gift – a suicide vest packed with bullets and grenades.
'They made me try it on. The grenades went all around my body and then they offered me the coins [50 Afghanis – about 60p],' he said. 'They told me to blow myself up at a checkpoint. I asked what I'd do with the money if I had to blow myself up. But they kept encouraging me, telling me that if I did it I would go to heaven.'
Jay Carney: "Amnesty Will Raise Wages"...
Even W H Reporters Cackle In Disbelief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgO2HBaGUYk
Liberal Atheist Group Wants Star Of David Removed From
Holocaust Memorial
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(UNREAL!!!)
Via Columbus Dispatch:http://dispatchpolitics.dispatch.com/content/blogs/the-daily-briefing/2013/07/07-17-13-freedom-from-religion.html
The Freedom from Religion Foundation wants the proposed Statehouse Holocaust memorial changed by removing what it sees as the Jewish religious symbolism of the Star of David.
In a June 14 letter to Richard H. Finan, chairman of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, two foundation officials said they have no objections to a Holocaust memorial at the Statehouse. However, architect Daniel Libeskind's design includes a cut-out version of a 6-pointed star, usually interepreted as the Star of David, a symbol associated with Judiasm. Arguably, that would be a violation of the separation of church and state set out in the U.S. Constitution, the foundation said.
"Permitting one permanent sectarian and exclusionary religious symbol...would create the legal precedent, for instance, to place an equally large or larger permanent Latin cross on Capitol grounds," wrote Don Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-presidents of the Madison, Wisc., group. They said the Holocaust memorial, as now envisiioned, would amount to a "constitutionally problematic endorsement of religion."
Barker and Gaylor said the memorial, at least syimbolically, excludes 5 million non-Jews killed in the Holocaust, including Roma Gypsies, homosexuals, the disabled, and others.
Supporters argue that Libeskind's design, which incorporates special wording etched in bronze and stone, respresents all victims of the World War II Holocaust as well as the Ohioans who participated in the liberation of the Nazi death camps.
Tingles Has Delusions Of Grandeur:
NBC's Legendary Washington Studio Will "Now Be Remembered
Finally And Forever" For Airing My Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54W1zGNDxtg
(Tingles is a legend...
just ask him, he will tell you all about it)
Via Free Beacon:
http://freebeacon.com/matthews-nbcs-washington-studio-will-be-remembered-finally-and-forever-for-airing-my-show/
MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews said the famous Washington NBC studio would be known "finally and forever" for airing The Chris Matthews Show, which aired its final episode Sunday.
Among other historic moments, the studio hosted the historic first televised presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in 1960:
MATTHEWS: This studio here in Washington is a home to serious history in the making. President Eisenhower laid the cornerstone. Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon debated right here, and now it it will be remembered finally and forever as the place from which "The Chris Matthews Show" came to you, enriching your understanding of the news, thinking aloud of aspects perhaps you hadn't thought of, and yes, as it has for me, telling you something you didn't know. Goodbye and good luck.
Pic Of The Day
White Liberal Holds Sign Calling For Murder Of Zimmerman,
"Execute The Executioner"
(Two St. Skittles supporters in St. Louis hold signs calling for Zimmerman's death next to a young boy holding a sign calling for "unity")(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2013-07-21-at-7.27.22-PM-550x481.png)
"Gun-Controlled" Chicago: 6 Shot Dead,
17 Wounded In Shootings Since Friday
(Obuma-Town)
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Via Chicago Sun-Times:Six men were killed and at least 17 people — including a 6-year-old girl — were wounded in shootings across the city since Friday night.Asked Sunday about Chicago's reputation in the wake of another violent weekend, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he's primarily "concerned about the safety and security of our neighborhoods, and our residents."
He again pushed for a three-year sentencing minimum for gun crimes — calling it the "weak link" in the city's crime-fighting strategy. And he said it's time to replace the "code of silence" with a "moral code."
Screwball Andrew Sullivan Tells Tingles "With Any Luck"
America Won't Be A Superpower In 20 Years
(Sully, do us all a favor and go the hell back to Britain,
and don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out...
your boyfriend wouldn't like that... Oh, and take Piers with you!)
Via Newsbusters (Video):http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/07/21/andrew-sullivan-any-luck-america-won-t-be-superpower-20-years#ixzz2ZioDvEc1
Tingles, HOST: Andrew, are we going to be – being we Americans, you included – are we going to be the great, are we still going to use that word superpower? I don't even like it very much. The lone superpower. Are we going to be that 20 years from now?
ANDREW SULLIVAN: With any luck we won't be.
US President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of national security.
http://rt.com/usa/obama-president-order-communications-770/
http://wakeupcallnews.blogspot.com/2013/07/obama-signs-executive-order-to-allow.html
http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-signs-executive-order-to-allow-shut-down-of-all-us-communications
Zimmerman Emerges From Hiding To Rescue Someone Trapped
In Truck On Florida Highway –
Update: Family Of Four Was Trapped Inside Burning Vehicle
Not the circumstances the left was hoping for, is it?)
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Via ABC News:George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today.
Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman "pulled an individual from a truck that had rolled over" at the intersection of a Florida highway last week. Florida Highway Patrol is now handling the case, McAuliffe said.
The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route 417, police said.
It's the first known sighting of Zimmerman since he left the courtroom following his acquittal last week on murder charges for the death of Martin. Zimmerman, 29, shot and killed Martin, 17, in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26, 2012. The jury determined that Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.
Update:
(NBC News) — Police say George Zimmerman helped rescue a family trapped in a burning vehicle on a Florida highway last week, Zimmerman's first known public sighting since his acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
The incident occurred on July 17 in Sanford, Fla., near the intersection of Interstate 4 and State Road 46, officials confirmed to NBC News. The rescue was first reported by ABC News.
Zimmerman and another man were assisting a family of four when officers with the Seminole County Sheriff's Office arrived on the scene of the accident. A blue Ford Explorer had traveled off the road and rolled over and caught fire, according to officials.
Zimmerman and the other man were helping the two children and their parents get out of the overturned vehicle, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said. The former neighborhood watch volunteer left the scene after making contact with police and did not witness the crash.
Palestinians Claim 'Lurch' Gave Abbas Letter Guaranteeing New Peace Talks With Israel Would Be Based On Pre-1967 Borders
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(I wouldn't be surprised... U.S. officials are denying it)
JERUSALEM (TheBlaze/AP) — Israel's pre-1967 borders will be the basis of renewed peace talks between Palestine and Israel, according to a letter U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gave to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas which guaranteed the stipulation.
After Abbas received the Kerry letter, he agreed to resume peace talks with Israel, two senior Palestinian officials said Saturday.
The officials, both of whom are close to the Palestinian leader and privy to internal discussions, said the U.S. letter also stipulated that both sides are to refrain from taking any steps that would jeopardize the outcome of the talks.
Israel is not to issue new tenders for Jewish settlements in the West Bank, while the Palestinians are not to pursue diplomatic action against Israel at any international organizations, the officials said on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to brief the media.
"The talks with Kerry were about to collapse, and the letter came as a lifeline in the last minute bargaining," one of the Palestinian officials said.
Report: Rolling Stones, Madonna, Rod Stewart To Join
Stevie Wonder's Boycott Of Florida
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(The geriatric rockers brigade... I wouldn't walk across the street to watch them)
Via The Hill:A group of some of the music industry's biggest acts are joining Stevie Wonder in boycotting Florida over the state's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law, a source close to the legendary musician told American Urban Radio Network's April Ryan.
Artists joining Wonder reportedly include Rod Stewart, Madonna, Usher, and Justin Timberlake. Rappers Jay Z, Kanye West, Trey Songz, Young Jeezy and Wale have also signed on to the boycott threat, as have pop acts like R. Kelly, Rihanna, and Alicia Keys.
Wonder announced his intended boycott the day after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of second-degree murder charges stemming from the death of Trayvon Martin.
WaPo Poll: 86% of Blacks Disapprove Of Zimmerman Verdict, Majority Of Whites Agree With Acquittal
(The Race Baiters [including Barack Obuma] got exactly what they wanted)
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Via Washington Post:African Americans have a mostly shared and sharply negative reaction to the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the not-guilty verdict in the resulting trial, while whites are far more divided, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
At least eight in 10 African Americans say the shooting of the Florida teenager was unjustified, recoil at the verdict in the trial and want the shooter, George Zimmerman, tried in federal court for violating Martin's civil rights.
On the Martin shooting in particular, the racial gaps are extremely wide.
Among African Americans, 87 percent say the shooting was unjustified; among whites, just 33 percent say so. A slim majority of whites (51 percent) approve of the not-guilty verdict in the Zimmerman trial, while African Americans overwhelmingly and strongly disapprove. Some 86 percent of blacks disagree with the verdict — almost all of them disapproving "strongly."
There is also a partisan tinge to the public views. Among whites, 70 percent of Republicans but only 30 percent of Democrats say they approve of the verdict.
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MSNBC's Creepy Ass Nigga Al 'Not To Sharp'...ton Brags About Race Baiting Zimmerman Trial:
"I Helped Organize A Lot Of The Outrage Around This"
. . . MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin asked Sharpton to respond to radio host Tavis Smiley who, on NBC's Meet The Press, said that he was frustrated by the fact that the president had to be "pushed" to make it in the first place.Sharpton declined to echo Smiley's assertion. "I helped organize a lot of the outrage around this," Sharpton said. "None of it was focused on pushing the president. It was pushing legislation and pushing the criminal justice system."
MSNBC's Brain Dead Melissa Harris Perry: Detroit Is What Happens When Government Is Too Small
(Of course in reality Detroit was bled dry by the public sector unions)
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"Sir... are you looking at my fat legs?... Sir?.. SIR?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6k5lWL_eOc
'Brain Dead' Melissa Harris Perry:"But this lack of tax base is also exactly the thing that many Republicans would impose on us even when our cities have sufficient populations, even when our communities have sufficient populations...
This is what it looks like when government is small enough to drown in your bathtub and it is not a pretty picture."
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Poll: Only 11% of Doctors Have Confidence In Obamacare
(Or as Ding-bat HHS Chief Sebelius calls them... racists)
Via CNBC:The doctor is . . . skeptical about the Affordable Care Act. And clueless, too.
A new survey shows that an overwhelming percentage of physicians don't believe that their states' new health insurance exchanges will meet the Oct. 1 deadline for those key Obamacare marketplaces to begin enrolling the uninsured.
Just 11 percent of doctors believe those exchanges will be open for business that day.
But those doctors, by a wide margin, also said they are "not at all familiar" with how a number of important aspects of those exchanges and plans offered on them will work—aspects that will directly affect their bottom lines. More than 65 percent of them gave that answer to all but one of the questions asking their familiarity with plan benefits levels, contracted rates with insurers, patient coverage terms and the claims process.
Rise of the Warrior Cop
Is it time to reconsider the militarization of American policing?
By RADLEY BALKO
(Copied from the middle of the article on the Wall Street Journal)
A number of federal agencies also now have their own SWAT teams, including the Fish & Wildlife Service, NASA and the Department of the Interior. In 2011, the Department of Education's SWAT team bungled a raid on a woman who was initially reported to be under investigation for not paying her student loans, though the agency later said she was suspected of defrauding the federal student loan program.
The details of the case aside, the story generated headlines because of the revelation that the Department of Education had such a unit. None of these federal departments has responded to my requests for information about why they consider such high-powered military-style teams necessary.
Americans have long been wary of using the military for domestic policing. Concerns about potential abuse date back to the creation of the Constitution, when the founders worried about standing armies and the intimidation of the people at large by an overzealous executive, who might choose to follow the unhappy precedents set by Europe's emperors and monarchs.
(From further down the article.)
Nor does it help when political leaders lend support to this militaristic self-image, as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg did in 2011 by declaring, "I have my own army in the NYPD—the seventh largest army in the world."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323848804578608040780519904.html?KEYWORDS=Swat
July 20, 2013 by Dean Garrison
Barry Soetoro Is Registered To Vote In DC – Barack Obama Is Not
President Obama will be able to spend as much time campaigning on Election Day as he wants to because he voted in Illinois on Oct. 25. An Explainer reader points out that the Obama family resides more than 700 miles from Chicago, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW in Washington, D.C. Why is the president eligible to vote in Illinois?
President Obama will be able to spend as much time campaigning on Election Day as he wants to because he voted in Illinois on Oct. 25. An Explainer reader points out that the Obama family resides more than 700 miles from Chicago, at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW in Washington, D.C. Why is the president eligible to vote in Illinois?
Because he's serving the people. Illinois allows anyone who has "resided in this State and in the election district 30 days" before the election to cast a vote. According to judicial interpretation, residence requires both physical presence and an intent to make the residence a "permanent abode." People who own houses in different states can choose to make any of them their official residency for voter registration purposes, as long as they can plausibly argue it's their legitimate home. That would be a close call for the Obamas, who have spent most of the past four years in Washington, D.C., where their children attend school. An article in Chicago magazine noted that a couple who moved into the house next door to the Obamas' Chicago home in September 2011 didn't meet the Obamas until January 2012. Fortunately for the president, the Illinois voter-eligibility statute contains an exception for residents who are absent from the state "on business of the United States."
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/April-2012/Barack-Obama-Next-Door-Neighbor/
This has no real significance in and of itself. Presidents choosing to vote in their home state is common. And upon checking Washington D.C. voter registration records, Barack Obama does not appear to be registered. But, guess who is registered? Barry Soetoro and he is registered with a White House address.
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You can verify this completely (unless they pull the records) by going to The District of Columbia Board of Elections.
http://www.dcboee.org/home.asp
You will need a first name, last name, birthdate and zip code. Barack Obama's birthdate is August 4, 1961 which is also the date that Soetoro used to register. The zip code to use is 20500.
If you use the same info for both Barry Soetoro and Barack Obama you will find that Soetoro is a registered Washington D.C. voter and Barack Obama is not.
So the obvious question is the significance. Did someone find a way to register Barry Soetoro knowing that it would eventually come out and make Obama look bad?
Or is it possible that our President is so arrogant that he actually registered and may have voted twice?
If Barack Obama voted twice or even registered twice I would say it might qualify as a scandal for the ages. Get this in the face of as many people as possible. The more this info gets out, the more chance we have of it falling into the hands of someone who can run with this story and get the truth.
My gut feeling is that Barack Obama is arrogant enough that he might have actually tried to pull this off. We all know that voter fraud controversies are not foreign to him. But would he actually be so stupid as to try to vote twice? I don't know.
I actually slept on this one because I wanted to make sure I really believed it. Why would anyone be that stupid? Well we have no proof that Obama went there but we do know he has a big ego.
People with large egos do things just to see if they can sometimes. It's like a god-complex. They feel like they write the rules.
For this reason I am not positive that it was not Barack Obama trying to register twice. Yes, it could have been someone who was having fun or looking to do damage. And it also could have been Obama trying to see if he could get by with it.
A voter registration card was likely sent to the White House. Whoever was in receipt of that card did nothing to fix a fraudulent registration if that's what it is.
For whatever reason the system didn't not throw a red flag on this registration. With today's technology I would think that if someone tries to register to vote with a White House address it might at least throw up an alert.
I am not going to get to the truth this morning but we have enough information to raise a serious question.
Did Barack Obama vote twice in November?
Even if he did not vote twice and we can prove that he was knowingly registered twice you will have one of the greatest presidential scandals of all time and that's a fact.
Hold on folks it is liable to get stranger with this POS.
UPDATE: When you search Barack Obama on the DC Board of Elections site, notice what you get:
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Your Corrupt President Barack Husein Obuma
Hawaii Elections Official Signed Sworn Affidavit That Obama Long Form Birth Certificate Doesn't Exist
July 21, 2013 by Dean GarrisonTo see the two page sworn affidavit of Tim Adams:
http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/110123adams1.pdf
http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/110123adams2.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oruT3k2RmI#at=16
Published on Jul 17, 2013
http://www.belligerentpolitics.com/ce...Certified in Triplicate Obama's Birth Certificate is a FRAUD without a single doubt
New Jersey police detective and lead investigator for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Cold Case Posse, Mike Zullo, discuss new developments regarding Obama's Birth Certificate.
Certificate released by the White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/defau...
Mr. Zullo zeroes in on the fraudulent nature of the alleged Obama birth certificate posted on the White House website.
Mike's affidavit, reveals that the issue is still alive and of paramount importance despite the decision by the main stream media to ignore the matter. You can help by donating to help at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office at: http://www.mcsoccp.org/
Cold Case Posse: "Obama's Selective Service Card poorly forged."
http://youtu.be/esPh4CIcy-M
CCP Lead Investigator Mike Zullo on Obama Birth certificate "it's FRAUD" !!! -Pt 2
http://youtu.be/YXHfNas7fVU
Cold Case Posse - Obama's Birth Certificate Investigation - Sheriff Joe Arpaio MCSO
http://youtu.be/XWmWO18GTc8
http://youtu.be/1oruT3k2RmITim Adams, former Hawaii Senior Elections Clerk, signed a sworn affidavit back in 2011 that no long-form Hawaii Birth Certificate exists for Barack Obama and no proof exists that he was born in a Hawaiian hospital. Adams was employed at the City and County of Honolulu Elections Division from May 2008 through September 2008.
In a sworn affidavit dated and witnessed on January 20, 2011 Adams states, "Senior officers in the City and County of Honolulu Elections Division told me on multiple occasions that no Hawaii long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate existed for Senator Obama in the Hawaii Department of Health and there was no record that any such document had ever been on file in the Hawaii Department of Health or any other branch or department of the Hawaii government."
In addition to the lack of a genuine Hawaii long-form birth certificate Adams notes that there was no evidence that Obama was born at any Hawaiian hospital.
Senior officers in the City and County of Honolulu Elections Division further told me on multiple occasions that Hawaii State government officials had made inquiries about Sen. Obama's birth records to officials at Queens Medical Center and Kapi'olani Medical Center in Honolulu and that neither hospital had any record of Senator Obama having been bom there, even though Governor Abercrombie is now asserting and various Hawaii government officials continue to assert Barack Obama, Jr. was born at Kapi'olani Medical Center on Aug. 4, 1961. Adams swore in his statement that the corruption ran deep and Hawaiian officials were working with Obama for purely political reasons. He stated, "During the course of my employment, I came to understand that for political reasons, various officials in the government of Hawaii, including then-Governor Linda Lingle and various officials of the Hawaii Department of Health, including Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the director of the Hawaii Department of Health, were making representations that Senator Obama was born in Hawaii, even though no government official in Hawaii could find a long-form birth certificate for Senator Obama that had been issued by a Hawaii hospital at the time of his birth."
Again, all of this transpired back in 2011, almost two years before the November 2012 elections and my bet is that 80% of our readers have never heard this story.
Tim Adams is just one man and it is his word against many who would dispute his claims. There is a major difference between Adams side of the story and those who would refute it. Adams has more proof on his side than those who would support the validity of the White House provided birth certificate.
Barack Obama's Hawaii birth certificate has proven to be a fraud by forensic examiners. No one has been able to provide a real birth certificate and it's been nearly 5 years since Barack took office. This is the perhaps the greatest travesty in American History.
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Conservatives Dismissed Birther Concerns To Tackle Obama
On "Serious Issues" – How's That Working Out?
July 18, 2013 by Susan HarrisIn a recent Freedom Outpost article by Tim Brown, we learned that Obama's presidential eligibility appeal will finally be ruled on by Judge Roy Moore and the Alabama Supreme Court.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/07/investigator-obama-eligibility-is-now-causing-congress-to-pay-attention/As we look back, we see a long road strewn with the wreckage of a divided Conservative base. We see some Conservatives that can be likened to the kindly driver who, in a quest to prove his generosity and fairness, waves a car into traffic and directly into an accident — then drives on feeling no responsibility for the crash.
In the same way, Conservatives who refused to acknowledge there was a problem with Obama's birth certificate have continued to feel no responsibility for failing to defend Article II of the Constitution; and no remorse for attacking those who did. We watched them cite newspaper birth announcements, and a short form certificate, as proof enough. Eventually they accepted a long form certificate that experts and scientists agree was faked. "It's not a winning issue," was their mantra. Liberals so successfully mocked so-called "birthers," that many Conservatives slunk off embarrassed and distancing themselves from those who continued to assert the issue had grave Constitutional ramifications.
Many of us knew that the Democrats long-awaited, unblemished red heifer had been groomed to take our country into Socialism within two terms, but unfortunately for everyone, we couldn't unite to stand and say, "You shall not pass."
Five years into the presidency and steeped in scandals and corruption, those who scoffed at "birthers" got what they wanted. They wanted to tackle Obama on the "serious" issues. The point of those who could see through the lies surrounding his birth certificate was that they didn't want to tackle him on the serious issues. They never wanted him to get that far because they feared when he did, it would be too late to save the country.
To the Conservatives who wanted to "take the high road" and engage Obama on his own terms and merits, now is your chance. Try to expose his abuse of the Patriot Act or peel back the layers of lies on Benghazi. Try to get beyond the "Cincinnati office" and find who was really responsible for the IRS targeting of so many Conservative groups that it may have played even a small role in the outcome of the 2012 election.
Carol Davidson, the head of integration and media targeting for the 2012 Obama campaign, spoke on the Fox News special Your Secret's Out. Speaking in generalities of "the cave," a central Obama campaign hub that manipulated the voting public, she said: "The cave was where we put the analysts...Multiple analysts were in that room," doing "more like top secret work right? So, you know, you don't want...people coming by seeing what was on the screens of everyone. And we actually, during the election, didn't want people to know that the group even existed." Why the secrecy? Could it be because they knew Americans wouldn't appreciate their President dissecting and evaluating them in a way that no elected official has ever stooped to before?
In the cave, they worked on determining who the persuadable voters were in the battleground states. They successfully blitzed television networks that Republicans dismissed as irrelevant. Meanwhile the IRS was standing on the necks of Conservative groups who naively thought they were contenders in a fair fight.
Davidson developed something called the "optimizer," to let her know what television shows the target audience was watching and when. Obligingly, cable companies sold out our privacy to assist. "We were able to get the data from our vendors, ingest the data into our system, and at the same time pair that data to the voter file data," Davidson said. John Roberts, host of the show, told her some people might find it creepy that there "was that much data out there about them," only to learn it was used in a political campaign. In a valley girl accent dripping with the words "like" and "right?" Davidson answered, "To me at the end of the day you get e-mails or direct mail sent to your house all the time that like, you didn't know the person who sent them to you and they still knew your name...Is it just a difference, or is it really a concern about invading your life?"
Note to Ms. Davidson: Like, it really is a concern about invading our lives. Right?
Maybe I'm just feeling too parental, but when I see young women like Carol Davidson and Holly Paz, the IRS supervisor who issued rulings on tax-exempt groups, I can't help but feel like these women needed to be sent to their rooms without supper and had their cell phone privileges revoked, long before they acquired any position of power.
As a woman, I am embarrassed by the likes of Lois Lerner, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, Jen Psaki, Samantha Power, Carol Davidson, Holly Paz, and yes, Hillary Clinton. These volunteers mustered into Obama's army are helping him fundamentally transform (aka destroy) the country they are leaving to their own children. I just hoped women would be smarter than that.
It's hard to believe that Sarah Palin — a constitutionally articulate, intelligent, God-fearing woman with exceptional leadership skills — is merely a Fox News Contributor. I fear the day may never come when Palin, and others like her, will wrest our country from the mindless cast of Glee, who view us as experimental tadpoles in their Progressive petri dish.
Many Conservatives left the birth certificate issue nicely covered in the litter box. And while they spent their time attacking their fellow Conservatives, young Progressives like Davidson and Paz were using their Machiavellian skills to ensure they'd be ready when Conservatives decided it was time to tackle the "serious issues."
The fact remains that neither our citizens, nor our government or media properly vetted a presidential candidate who had a childhood and upbringing that would have raised red flags at the Behavioral Analysis Unit on Criminal Minds.
Many Independents, Democrats, (and some Conservatives) are just beginning to realize the scope of Obama's lies. With this much scandalous water under the "Hope and Change" bridge, the fact that a president forged/faked his birth certificate may actually be a small blot on the American landscape by the time he's done dividing and conquering it. The sad part is — it didn't have to be this way.
John Boehner:
"I Can't Stand On The Issues Because It Will Make My Job Harder"
by Tim Brown
July 23, 2013
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) apparently doesn't understand that his role as House Speaker is a leadership role, not a facilitator. Boehner appeared on CBS' Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer on Sunday and told him "My job in this — in this process is to facilitate a discussion and to facilitate a process so the American people can see what we're doing and so the members understand that we're dealing with this in a deliberative way."
Boehner sidestepped the question over and over as to whether he was in favor of a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens in the United States. Instead of answering, he basically said that his job was not to take a stand, but to let the House "work its will."
"[P]eople have been trying to get me to do this since the day after the election," Boehner said.
"Well, you're the leader of the Republicans," Schieffer responded.
While Boehner has said that he believes Congress needs to do something about immigration, he seems lost on how to lead them, probably because he is not a leader.
This is exactly the kind of spineless, numb-skulled approach that has resulted in more advancement from the Socialist Democrats, including the implementation of Obamacare and the infamous "fiscal cliff" deal earlier this year. Why he was re-elected as Speaker of the House is anyone's guess.
"It's not about me," Boehner said. "It's not about what I want. What I'm — what I've committed to when I became speaker was to a more open and fair process. And as difficult as this issue is, me taking a hard position for or against some of these issues will make it harder for us to get a bill."
"If I come out and say I'm for this and I'm for that, all I'm doing is making my job harder," Boehner told Schieffer. "My job is to — as the leader of the House, is to facilitate this conversation and this process that involves members on both sides of the aisle, involves the American people and where they can see us moving in a deliberative, step-by-step, commonsense way."
What Boehner failed to state was that as a representative of the people of Ohio, he has a duty to determine where he stands on what he's facilitating too.
Though Boehner called the immigration system "broken," he said the House wouldn't take up the Senate's amnesty bill because it fell short of border security. So wait. He's willing to come right out and speak on that, why not the idea of citizenship for illegals? This seems a bit hypocritical to me.
"What we're going to do in the House is, we're dealing with this in a commonsense, step-by-step approach," Boehner continued. "We want to deal with this in chunks, chunks that the members can deal with and grapple with and, frankly, chunks that the American people can get their arms around."
Schieffer said Boehner's lack of a stance on the issue "is kind of an interesting take on leadership...In other words, you don't see yourself as someone who has an agenda? You're there to just sort of manage whatever your people want to do?"
"The House should be allowed to work its will," Boehner said. He then added that he's watched what other House speakers did before he got the job. "And, you know, I could talk about what happened just before I became speaker. All the bills were written in the speaker's office. Those bills turned — all turned out to be very unpopular, whether it was the stimulus bill, the Dodd-Frank bill, Obamacare, shoved through the floor of the House, 430 members, Democrats and Republicans locked out in the process. This is not the way the House is intended to work."
Boehner then made another attempt to try and save face concerning his lack of leadership and claims that he can't control his caucus. "Bob, I talked about this the day I was sworn in as speaker, that I considered my job was to open up the process, to let members participate. Yeah, I've got certain things that I'd like to see accomplished. But this is not going to be about me. I said it the opening day, and it's never going to be about me. It's what's in the best interests of the country."
"If we're listening to the American people and we're following their will, our House will work just fine," he concluded.
Well apparently you aren't listening John Boehner. You're playing with fire and you're going to get burned. In fact, you've already been getting burned. Don't you smell the smoke? You aren't following the will of the people or you would have started up that independent House investigation into Benghazi, but you waved your hand on that. If you were listening to the people, you would never have made that stupid fiscal cliff deal. There are far too many things to point out that Boehner and House leadership are not leading, but are simply caving to their opposition.
Finally, and this is just an observation, you can never trust a man who wears a pink tie.
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25 Terrifying Factoids Regarding the Democrat Utopia of Detroit
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Guest post by Michael SnyderJuly 22, 2013It is so sad to watch one of America's greatest cities die a horrible death. Once upon a time, the city of Detroit was a teeming metropolis of 1.8 million people and it had the highest per capita income in the United States. Now it is a rotting, decaying hellhole of about 700,000 people that the rest of the world makes jokes about. On Thursday, we learned that the decision had been made for the city of Detroit to formally file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. It was going to be the largest municipal bankruptcy in the history of the United States by far, but on Friday it was stopped at least temporarily by an Ingham County judge.
She ruled that Detroit's bankruptcy filing violates the Michigan Constitution because it would result in reduced pension payments for retired workers. She also stated that Detroit's bankruptcy filing was "also not honoring the (United States) president, who took (Detroit's auto companies) out of bankruptcy", and she ordered that a copy of her judgment be sent to Barack Obama. How "honoring the president" has anything to do with the bankruptcy of Detroit is a bit of a mystery, but what that judge has done is ensured that there will be months of legal wrangling ahead over Detroit's money woes.
It will be very interesting to see how all of this plays out. But one thing is for sure - the city of Detroit is flat broke. One of the greatest cities in the history of the world is just a shell of its former self. The following are 25 facts about the fall of Detroit that will leave you shaking your head...
1) At this point, the city of Detroit owes money to more than 100,000 creditors.
2) Detroit is facing $20 billion in debt and unfunded liabilities. That breaks down to more than $25,000 per resident.
3) Back in 1960, the city of Detroit actually had the highest per-capita income in the entire nation.
4) In 1950, there were about 296,000 manufacturing jobs in Detroit. Today, there are less than 27,000.
5) Between December 2000 and December 2010, 48 percent of the manufacturing jobs in the state of Michigan were lost.
6) There are lots of houses available for sale in Detroit right now for $500 or less.
7) At this point, there are approximately 78,000 abandoned homes in the city.
8) About one-third of Detroit's 140 square miles is either vacant or derelict.
9) An astounding 47 percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.
10) Less than half of the residents of Detroit over the age of 16 are working at this point.
11) If you can believe it, 60 percent of all children in the city of Detroit are living in poverty.
12) Detroit was once the fourth-largest city in the United States, but over the past 60 years the population of Detroit has fallen by 63 percent.
13) The city of Detroit is now very heavily dependent on the tax revenue it pulls in from the casinos in the city. Right now, Detroit is bringing in about 11 million dollars a month in tax revenue from the casinos.
14) There are 70 "Superfund" hazardous waste sites in Detroit.
15) 40 percent of the street lights do not work.
16) Only about a third of the ambulances are running.
17) Some ambulances in the city of Detroit have been used for so long that they have more than 250,000 miles on them.
18) Two-thirds of the parks in the city of Detroit have been permanently closed down since 2008.
19) The size of the police force in Detroit has been cut by about 40 percent over the past decade.
20) When you call the police in Detroit, it takes them an average of 58 minutes to respond.
21) Due to budget cutbacks, most police stations in Detroit are now closed to the public for 16 hours a day.
22) The violent crime rate in Detroit is five times higher than the national average.
23) The murder rate in Detroit is 11 times higher than it is in New York City.
24) Today, police solve less than 10 percent of the crimes that are committed in Detroit.
25) Crime has gotten so bad in Detroit that even the police are telling people to "enter Detroit at your own risk".
It is easy to point fingers and mock Detroit, but the truth is that the rest of America is going down the exact same path that Detroit has gone down.
Detroit just got there first.
All over this country, there are hundreds of state and local governments that are also on the verge of financial ruin...
"Everyone will say, 'Oh well, it's Detroit. I thought it was already in bankruptcy,' " said Michigan State University economist Eric Scorsone. "But Detroit is not unique. It's the same in Chicago and New York and San Diego and San Jose. It's a lot of major cities in this country. They may not be as extreme as Detroit, but a lot of them face the same problems."
A while back, Meredith Whitney was highly criticized for predicting that there would be a huge wave of municipal defaults in this country. When it didn't happen, the critics let her have it mercilessly.
But Meredith Whitney was not wrong.
She was just early.
Detroit is only just the beginning. When the next major financial crisis strikes, we are going to see a wave of municipal bankruptcies unlike anything we have ever seen before.
And of course the biggest debt problem of all in this country is the U.S. government. We are going to pay a great price for piling up nearly 17 trillion dollars of debt and over 200 trillion dollars of unfunded liabilities.
All over the nation, our economic infrastructure is being gutted, debt levels are exploding and poverty is spreading. We are consuming far more wealth than we are producing, and our share of global GDP has been declining dramatically.
We have been living way above our means for so long that we think it is "normal", but an extremely painful "adjustment" is coming and most Americans are not going to know how to handle it.
So don't laugh at Detroit. The economic pain that Detroit is experiencing will be coming to your area of the country soon enough.
The Obama Administration's Race-Baiting Campaign
Democrats want 2014 to be an us-versus-them election.
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The first thing to remember is that, with the Obama administration, there are no coincidences.The attorney general of the United States is engaged in a shocking extrajudicial publicity campaign. Eric Holder is prosecuting George Zimmerman in the court of public opinion because he knows he wouldn't have a prayer of convicting him in a court of law. Worse, in doing so, Holder is quite deliberately stoking resentment and tension — under the guise of leading a "national conversation" about race.
At precisely the same time, the United States secretary of health and human services has loathsomely injected race into the debate over Obamacare. Toward the conclusion of this week's NAACP grievance fest, Kathleen Sebelius took the podium to demagogue Obamacare opponents. The fight against them, she inveighed, is reminiscent of "the fight against lynching and the fight for desegregation." She made these inflammatory remarks just as violence was erupting over Zimmerman's acquittal in the Trayvon Martin shooting, no small thanks to Holder's accomplice, Al Sharpton.
These episodes are not unrelated. They are coordinated.
The second thing to bear in mind is that race-baiting is the last resort of scoundrels whose insipid policy claims cannot survive collision with real-world conditions. The incitements that transform policy debates into an us-versus-them rumble are not about race per se. They are about advancing a hard-left agenda through the community organizer's crude bag of tricks — the extortion that Alinskyites euphemistically call "direct action." It is what happens when social-justice prescriptions turn out to be unjust and unworkable.
Sebelius is not agitating because she actually believes there is some faint connection between Jim Crow and opposition to socialized medicine. Sensing that no one was looking as the country kicked back for an extended Independence Day weekend, the president's Myrmidons conceded that Obamacare is collapsing of its own fiscally reckless weight. Alinskyites are about power. Obama realizes he won't have much left if Democrats are yoked to a smoldering train wreck in advance of the 2014 midterms. So he is struggling to keep it a looming train wreck. A third-string Treasury bureaucrat was thus dispatched to announce, in passing, that Obama has "waived" the employer mandate until 2015.
Quite apart from the lawless imperiousness of this maneuver, it is not going to work. Not being well acquainted with the private sector, the president may not realize that, for corporate executives, planning ahead means more than scheduling the next tee time. As National Review's editors have observed, Obamacare has already "complicated business decisions touching on everything from long-term investments to hiring to the number of hours worked by part-time employees." It is, right now, a ball and chain around the ankle of a high-unemployment, no-growth economy.
Even if Obama gets his way — such that only the employer mandate is delayed, with Republicans unable to shame Senate Democrats into putting off the equally noxious individual mandate — the calendar is not in his favor. The administration cannot allow 2014 to be an election about policy. It has to be an us-versus-them election, with the "us" enjoying the "animated by rage" advantage. What we saw from Holder and Sebelius this week is the ugly start of a wickedly divisive enterprise.
The rule of law demands that criminal statutes be applied faithfully and that law-enforcement officials respect due process by conducting their investigations in silence, speaking publicly only when they are prepared to file charges they can prove in court. Yet Holder and his Department of Social Justice have publicly and unethically agitated against George Zimmerman for over a year: partnering with Sharpton, saber-rattling about a federal civil-rights prosecution, and browbeating Florida officials into charging Zimmerman with murder despite evidence woefully insufficient to meet the statute's terms.
Now, Holder is ensnared in this web of his own making. The state prosecution predictably failed, and it turns out there has never been a plausible civil-rights prosecution. Holder can commission all the bizarre anti-Zimmerman "tip lines" he likes; it won't fill the cavernous holes in his case.
Obviously, he knows this. But he has also dramatically raised the expectations of Obama's hard-left base — and note that the anti-Zimmerman protests are being driven at least as much by Occupy types and outfits such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation as by anguished supporters of the Martin family. After all the attorney general's bold talk, they want to know where the civil-rights indictment is. Holder's stall is that he is "investigating," but Trayvon Martin was killed nearly a year and a half ago. How long does it take to investigate a comparatively straightforward altercation about which Florida has already completed a full-blown trial and the FBI has already conducted exhaustive interviews?
So in his NAACP stem-winder, Holder refocused the community organizer's lens from civil-rights laws to "stand your ground" (SYG) laws. You are to believe that, while he'd love to charge that civil-rights case, he is being frustrated — justice is being frustrated — by these self-defense provisions that "sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods." According to Holder, justice for Trayvon mandates that SYG be repealed. Effectively, the attorney general would surrender the streets to criminal aggressors by imposing a "duty to retreat" on law-abiding citizens.
SYG has become the proxy for the case the Left can't win. The game is given away by Holder's race-mongering echo chamber. Pressed by Fox's Bill O'Reilly, radio commentator Tavis Smiley admitted that Zimmerman's trial had been consistent with Florida law. But, he groused, "it's the law I have a problem with." Taking Holder's bloviating to its illogical end, Smiley explained that Florida law gave Zimmerman a "right to stand his ground" but insidiously deprived Martin of this same right because our nation generally views black men "as a menace to society."
(America's standing military REQUIRES good moral fiber. Without good moral fiber, our military is no better than any other in the world. oBUMa's leadership is a wedge separating America from God like no other President ever reckoned could happen nor probably ever considered. It is made possible only through the weak-minded leadership of today's military. They are unable to effectively state why God's presence is so eminently needed amongst the hearts and minds of our soldiers and sailors. To remove The Word is to remove His presence, and that in turn removes Hope and Courage when needed most by our military members. It removes Righteousness and Discernment, without which Wisdom cannot well be exercised. Removing God from the military will have the very same self-destructive results as we have seen in our education system. Already, ethics (man's temporal mentality) is replacing morals (God's eternal wisdom), and so homosexuality ranks higher than God, which is fundamentally upside down. THAT is the fundamental transformation envisioned by oBUMa, and is the mantle of ages-old Evil)July 23, 2013
Queers in, Bibles out in the new American military
Bob Campbell
[Sick POS] President ObuttHead's Defense Department is waging a private war. While our Pentagon is entrusted with the duty to "protect and serve" a secular zone is growing within the ranks of the Military.
A little over a year ago then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the Military would honor through "Gay Pride Month" the contributions of homosexual service members. This announcement came just a few months after the Department of Defense had begun its subtle campaign against the Bible.
1) The Air Force Services Agency through its spokesman Michael Dickerson stated the Air Force has "no requirement to have Bibles in the lodging checklist." [1a] In other words, as a military member checks into housing (much like a civilian would into a hotel or dormitory) there is no availability of a Bible to be by his or her bedside. In defense of this Air Force Chaplain (COL) Ron Crews, Retired, has stated, "while there is no requirement to have them, why should there be a requirement to remove them?" [1b] By the way, these Bibles are free to the Military, paid for by donating Christian churches and foundations.
2) The Department of Defense announced it would be removing military edition Bibles from its base exchange stores. These military editions published by Holman Bible Publishers are "prominently emblazoned with exact replicas of the trademarked emblems of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force." Known as the "Soldier's Bible, or Sailor's Bible and so forth," these Bibles have been published since 2003. The Bibles "include a cover designed for the particular branch, as well as patriotic essays, prayers and hymn lyrics," according to Holman's website. "Holman also produces Bibles for police, firefighters, sportsmen and students, each tailored to its particular audience." [2a]
Chaplin Ron Crews again spoke out: "I find it interesting that in the same week that the decision was announced to no longer allow Bibles to be published using military insignia, the Pentagon announced the celebration of homosexuality -- something the Scriptures clearly condemns. Ironically, although DoD makes attempts to strengthen traditional families, it has never promoted a 'heterosexual month' to honor the contributions of heterosexual members who make up at least 97 percent of the military." [2b]
3) The Air Force has stated that "personnel are not allowed to proselytize but are free to express their personal religious beliefs so long as it does not make others uncomfortable." [3a] This comes as the result of an Air Force officer being told to remove a Bible from his desk.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) challenged the word "uncomfortable."
Gohmert stated to Fox News:
If that is the standard, then Christianity will be over because there will always be somebody who is uncomfortable no matter what someone's belief is when it comes to Judeo-Christian beliefs. It appears it is getting more and more difficult to be a Christian and serve in the military. [4a]
Fast forward to today and Obama's Defense Department is still at it.
Recent headlines:
Military Will Not Rescind Reprimand for Airman Opposed to Gay Marriage [5a]
Soldiers Could Face Court Martial for Discussing Faith, Says Pentagon [6a]
Wars are won and lost according to the sacrifices of our serving men and women. Any veteran will tell you that being in combat, even serving in a support role, is dangerous work. As far back as the founding of our Nation the Chaplain services have been an integral part of our Military. When a soldier shows up for a Chaplain's prayer service he often prays, "God, please protect me, my comrades and my family." He then leaves for duty knowing he may never return.
Where is our Military headed when God's word, the Bible, is relegated to second place because gay pride is more celebrated or the threat of court martial better enforced? Such poison is now oozing within the ranks of the men and women who serve our Country.
May I suggest a way to fight back? If you have a loved one enlisting in the Armed Services or returning to active duty, please give them a Bible on their way out the door. It may mean nothing to them at the time but could be everything under the right circumstances. Send your Senator, Representative or Base Commander a Bible and remind them that many of our serving troops may not have access to a Bible when they travel or visit a base exchange.
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Random thoughts from wise thinkers
By Thomas Sowell on 7.23.13
"We do not live in the past, but the past in us"
"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish."
(F.A. Hayek)"Many respectable writers agree that if a man reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily harm from his assailant he may stand his ground and that if he kills him he has not exceeded the bounds of lawful self-defense. That has been the decision of this court." (Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Brown v. United States, 1921)"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." (John Adams)"A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence."
(Jean-François Revel)"The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie." (J.A. Schumpeter)"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
(T.S. Eliot)"The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections." (Richard A. Epstein)"There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief." (Edmund Burke)
"We do not live in the past, but the past in us."
(U.B. Phillips)"It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be to-morrow."
(James Madison)"A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests." (Milton Friedman)"...leniency toward criminals contrasted starkly with severity toward the law-abiding citizen's right to defend himself or herself."
(Joyce Lee Malcolm)"A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement."
(John Stuart Mill)"Criticism is easy; achievement is more difficult." (Winston Churchill)"Everybody has asked the question ... 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!"
(Frederick Douglass)"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false." (Paul Johnson)"It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant." (
(President Calvin Coolidge)
Today, Zimmerman's a Hero
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(That sound you hear is the hot air slowly leaking out of Creepy Al Sharpton's Ass)
George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue a family who was trapped in an overturned vehicle, police said today.
Zimmerman was one of two men who came to the aid of a family of four — two parents and two children — trapped inside a blue Ford Explorer SUV that had rolled over after traveling off the highway in Sanford, Fla. at approximately 5:45 p.m. Thursday, the Seminole County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route Route 46, police said. The crash site is less than a mile from where Zimmerman shot Martin.
The left has turned Zimmerman into its latest Emmanuel Goldstein, shrieking and punching the air at the mention of his name. They've gone well beyond just arguing for his guilt, turning the Obama-supporting, black-children-tutoring Floridian into a racist villain devoid of character, fueled by a stream of defamatory lies. Now, at least for today, he's a hero. In the 24-hour news cycle, where narratives compete for supremacy, that's a pretty big splash in the water.
Sharpton admitted earlier today that he organized a lot of the outrage surrounding Trayvon Martin's death. I'm sure he'll respond on his show with his characteristic blend of nuance and good taste.
Tonight at 6 pm Eastern, only on MSNBC. Lean Forward.
Warph, I hope like hell my beloved Corps never kicks God out. In boot camp it was beat into my heads, our allegiance to God, Country, Corps---- ( just not necessarily in that order )
speaking of my Corps, you might enjoy this----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Iranian Ambassador to the UN had just finished giving a speech and walked out into the lobby of the convention center where he was introduced to a U.S. Marine General. As
they talked, the Iranian said, "I have just one question about what I have seen
in America ."
The General said, "Well, anything I can do to help?
The Iranian whispered, "My son watches this show called Star Trek and in it there is... Kirk who is Canadian,
Chekhov who is Russian, Scotty who is Scottish, Uhura who is black, and Sulu who is Japanese, but there are NO Muslims. My son
is very upset and doesn't understand why there aren't any Iranians, Iraqis,
Afghans, Egyptians, Palestinians, Saudis, Syrians, or Pakistanis on Star
Trek."The General leaned toward the Iranian Ambassador, and whispered in his ear, "That's
because it takes place in the
future
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Delaware's Unclaimed Property Racket:
John Gotti would be proud
by Ross PutinWho would have guessed that the State of Delaware's third largest revenue source would essentially be a mafia-like combination of extortion and theft? That's certainly how it sounds when you read Douglas Lindholm's article in Forbes magazine entitled "Once A Friendly Locale To Business, The Modern State Of Delaware Is A Bully."
I commend the entire article to you, but the short version is this:Under the guise of "unclaimed property" laws, the state forces companies to prove that they are not holding unclaimed property, even from 20 or 30 years ago, then fine the companies if they can't prove it.
We're talking big money here, the sort of thing that would make John Gotti proud: "Last year alone, Delaware seized $319.5 million from liquidated property, while returning only $18.9 million of unclaimed property to its rightful owners. The State's estimated General Fund revenue from unclaimed property for FY 2013 is over a half billion dollars."
As if this isn't bad enough, the state pays an auditor on contingency, meaning the auditor has self-serving financial motives to go after the state's business particularly aggressively. And as Lindholm notes, it's working out well for the auditor, Kelmar Associates, which earned $30 million in the second half of 2012: "It is astounding to think that the payout to this one auditor for six months of its 'auditing' was almost twice the unclaimed property returned to all owners all of last year."
This is not entirely a new story: In 2009, Delaware assessed McKesson Corporation $4.5 million dollars when a Kelmar audit – which took six years to perform – came up with four vendors (out of 116 questions) who claimed that McKesson owed them a total of $19,337.
McKesson settled out of court; I do not believe the amount of the settlement was ever made public. To add insult to McKesson's injury, roughly at the same time as the settlement, Delaware amended their unclaimed property statute so that the type of "property" which McKesson was fined for is no longer subject to that law.
According to attorney Scott Smith at the law firm of Baker Donelson, while Delaware is probably the most aggressive state in this area, they are far from alone, and it's becoming a bigger revenue source for many states: "They see it as easy money – even if it's not theirs."
Smith also believes that third party auditor firms like Kelmar are as much the driving force behind the extortion of companies as the states are: "These outfits are really targeting the companies and then marketing themselves to the states." Sounds a lot like a mafia boss offering a lower-level thug protection for a cut of the money.
We can only hope that with a Forbes article and perhaps some help from these pages and elsewhere, Delaware, and other states which are behaving similarly or even thinking about it, will be shamed – or competed, such as by Nevada, Texas, or other states which are making major efforts to attract business – into ceasing their mafia-like tactics.
In the meantime, i encourage any state which uses Kelmar Associates for any services to switch to another provider until such time as Kelmar agrees not to be a co-conspirator in Delaware's extortion. Given that they made $30 million stealing from Delaware corporations in just six months, it's easy to guess their response: Like a mafioso, once you get it, you never get out.
America's Racist God
By Ross Kaminsky
Picking at the nation's racial scab continues to poison American life.
As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain't my god. As a matter of fact, I think he's a white racist god with a problem. —Professor Anthea Butler
This verdict is a crystal-clear illustration of the way white supremacy operates in America...When Zimmerman was acquitted today, it wasn't because he's a so-called white Hispanic. He's not. It's because he abides by the logic of white supremacy, and was supported by a defense team — and a swath of society — that supports the lingering idea that some black men must occasionally be killed with impunity in order to keep society-at-large safe. —Aura BogadoThe United States has its first black president (despite Toni Morrison's previously offering that honor to Bill Clinton).
We have two black Senators and are 43 black members of the House of Representatives (including non-voting members from Washington, D.C. and the Virgin Islands).
Blacks are successful in academia and business, in professional sports and entertainment, and as CEOs of several of America's largest companies such as Merck, American Express, and McDonald's.
There are television stations, radio channels, and newspapers devoted to black audiences, and black characters (treated just like characters of other races) are ubiquitous in major TV shows and movies.
This is not to suggest that there are not large, unsolved problems in black communities across the nation, nor that racism does not exist in the impact of nominally race-neutral policy at every level of government and society from schools to prisons to corporations. I, like everyone reading these words, want all of these situations to improve because a life defined by lack of opportunity or inspiration is not solely a tragedy for that person, but also for his family, neighborhood, state, and nation.
But to our country's true racists, people like University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Religion Anthea Butler or the Nation columnist Aura Bogado, the United States is an irredeemable cauldron of white hatred.
Of course, there are fringe elements everywhere, but these people are teaching in our universities and writing for relatively mainstream (even if on the left of the political spectrum) publications. This means that they are infecting many others, including our future leaders attending highly esteemed American academic institutions (Penn is one of the ten oldest colleges in the country), with the cancer of true racism.
These are people who believe, and encourage other gullible liberals and cynical opportunists, young and old, black and white, to believe along with them, in racist (anti-white) propaganda such as Critical Race Theory and White Privilege.
But this isn't just about harmful-if-silly theories and pseudo-intellectual turns of phrase designed to make the ordinary person feel awed, inferior, and thankful for received wisdom. It's about our nation, and the fact that race-hustlers far beyond just the most famous few are picking at the slowly-healing deep national wound of racism and making a living selling the blood, drop by painful drop.
How am I, who, unlike Navin R. Johnson, was not born a poor black child, able even to begin a conversation with someone who believes that god (following Ms. Butler's use of lower case) is a white racist, implying that she is utterly powerless against the omnipotent evil that I, as a white person presumably hold in my heart (even if I don't know it, apparently)?
How is any well-intentioned white person (which is to say one of the large majority of white Americans) to discuss improving race relations with a person who states publicly that whites in large numbers support the indiscriminate killing of non-whites because we believe ourselves superior? (I wonder what Ms. Bogado thinks the reaction of Jews, like me, will be to her offensive nonsense.)
How is our country supposed to function adequately, even if still imperfectly, among all races with a president who jumps into racially-tinged cases by saying that (white) policemen "acted stupidly" (arresting a black college professor) while admitting a few breaths later "I don't know all the details to the case," or by proclaiming "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"? President Obama shot his mouth off before having the details in that case as well, leading the charge to politicize a case that was unusual only in the sense that 93 percent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks.
But such discussions, conversations, and efforts toward racially-cooperative civil society are, for three main reasons, beyond approach with such people:
First, and perhaps most obvious, they are incapable of believing a white person to be a well-intentioned "honest broker";
Second, their frame of reference is so convoluted, so tinged by hatred, that they are unable to comprehend or accept the true meaning or sentiment underlying the words of someone whose skin is lighter than theirs, as if words have a defining melanin content;
Third, whether it is chasing university tenure, left-wing blog readers, speaking fees, or fifteen minutes of fame on television, or due to the divide-and-conquer group-identity politics that define the modern Democratic Party, they would rather have the argument than even the green shoots of a solution. As radio talk show host Jerry Doyle often says, the money is in the medicine, not the cure.Few things are more powerful, whether in media, academe, or politics than creating an enemy, even if a man made out of straw, with a demonic expression painted on his face (a white face, obviously).
But — and I can hear the cries of "racist!" already — it's time to call a spade a spade: No group in America is without its bigots, its haters, its fill-in-the-blank-phobes.
In most of society, such people are rightly shunned, ridiculed, and used as examples of what not to be (except when famous white liberals are hypocritically given their "at least he supported Obama" indulgences).
But among the American left and far too much of the black (and other minorities') intellectual elite, evincing the sort of seething antipathy for Americans of other skin tones which Andrea Butler, Aura Bogado, and many, many others in even more prominent places have demonstrated in recent days is somehow a badge of honor, courage, and intellect.
Their behavior, were the races reversed, would bring cries of "bigot," "racist," or even "Nazi." Yet they are routinely rewarded with more teaching hours, column inches, media minutes, and even votes.
The American public, including blacks, are coming to recognize (or at least believe) that blacks are (by proportion, not necessarily degree) more racist than whites. While this represents an important insight into American society and a partial explanation for the existence of people like Butler and Bogado (though Bogado is not black), and while it might make some whites feel better, it is no more good news than it would be that some other large group of Americans is, or is perceived to be, hateful of their fellow countrymen.
The same poll suggests that slightly more Americans think race relations are getting worse as think they are getting better. Again, not the sign of a country on a path of healing, and particularly unfortunate in a nation with a black president. But, with such feverish written and spoken words from black leaders and pundits and their white liberal accomplices as we've seen since the Zimmerman verdict, it is not surprising that the public can self-diagnose a national infection of anti-white racism.
If our nation is ever to become truly the United States, it is time for liberals and liberal institutions to stop giving cover to people like Butler and Bogado, to stop sanctioning their mindless, hateful divisiveness, and to try to get Americans of all races to understand that most people of each and every color want to treat others, and be treated by others, according to two great statements from American political history, one written by a white man and one by a black man:"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Unfortunately, for too many within the American left and its race-hustling subsidiaries — including the Obama administration — racial harmony poses a threat to their personal gains and professional advancement. Until more people in places of prominence are willing to call out that obvious truth, America's racial scab will continue its slow, painful bleeding.
I worked delivering prescriptions back in the 70's. I went into housing projects that were totally black, all on welfare, ( the early days of that sham). I experienced parents telling their kids to " spit on that white boy" while I was delivering their free drugs, usually so-called diet pills,( speed) to their free apartments that were full of young men waiting for the delivery so they could go out and sell it on the street. I realized then that the government was clueless, and\ or didn't care.
With that kind of mentoring by their parents, it doesn't surprise me what that generation is doing now.
That is what the welfare system has given us, and it is more abused and getting bigger every day. There are several HUD projects right here in Howard and one would be surprised who is living in them, many able bodied young people who, I guess, decided if the black population can do it , so can they.
We also have elderly people, some handicapped, that maintain their own home and aren't able to get assistance because they own their home or have some money. I had one customer on my route back then, that was blind, owned her home and was denied assistance because of that. She paid cash, I don't know where she got it, while a neighbor in her twenties handed me a welfare card, with a dozen kids listed on it, all with different last names. To me that is sad, backwards, and just plain wrong.
Quote from: Bullwinkle on July 23, 2013, 12:07:41 PM
...She paid cash, I don't know where she got it, while a neighbor in her twenties handed me a welfare card, with a dozen kids listed on it, all with different last names. To me that is sad, backwards, and just plain wrong.
AMEN!
This is what the Progressive Movement pushed by Democrats, Republicans in Name Only & so-called 'moderates' of all affiliations have done with the prosperity and opportunity inherited by us and purchased by our forefathers with their very lives.
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POS Obuma Guts Welfare Reform
by Robert Rector and Kiki Bradley
July 12, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Today, the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996.
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa/resource/policy/im-ofa/2012/im201203/im201203
The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the reform law. The Obama directive bludgeons the letter and intent of the actual reform legislation.Welfare Reform under ClintonWelfare reform replaced the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children with a new program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). The underlying concept of welfare reform was that able-bodied adults should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of receiving welfare aid.The welfare reform law is often characterized as simply giving state governments more flexibility in operating welfare programs. This is a serious misunderstanding. While new law (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996) did grants states more flexibility in some respects, the core of the act was the creation of rigorous new federal work standards that state governments were required to implement.
The welfare reform law was very successful.http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2003/02/the-continuing-good-news
In the four decades prior to welfare reform, the welfare caseload never experienced a significant decline. But, in the four years after welfare reform, the caseload dropped by nearly half. Employment surged and child poverty among affected groups plummeted. The driving force behind these improvements was the rigorous new federal work requirements contained in the TANF law.
Obama's Trick to Get Around Work Requirements...Today the Obama Administration issued a new directive stating that the traditional TANF work requirements can be waived or overridden by a legal device called the section 1115 waiver authority under the Social Security law (42 U.S.C. 1315).Section 1115 states that:"the Secretary may waive compliance with any of the requirements" of specified parts of various laws. But this is not an open-ended authority: Any provision of law that can be waived under section 1115 must be listed in section 1115 itself. The work provisions of the TANF program are contained in section 407 (entitled, appropriately, "mandatory work requirements"). Critically, this section, as well as most other TANF requirements, are deliberately not listed in section 1115; they are not waiveable.In establishing TANF, Congress deliberately exempted or shielded nearly all of the TANF program from the section 1115 waiver authority.
They did not want the law to be rewritten at the whim of Health and Human Services (HHS) bureaucrats. Of the roughly 35 sections of the TANF law,
only one is listed as waiveable under section 1115. This is section 402:
Section 402 describes state plans—reports that state governments must file to HHS describing the actions they will undertake to comply with the many requirements established in the other sections of the TANF law. The authority to waive section 402 provides the option to waive state reporting requirements only, not to overturn the core requirements of the TANF program contained in the other sections of the TANF law.The new Obama dictate asserts that because the work requirements, established in section 407, are mentioned as an item that state governments must report about in section 402, all the work requirements can be waived.
This removes the core of the TANF program; TANF becomes a blank slate that HHS bureaucrats and liberal state bureaucrats can rewrite at will.Congressional Research Service: "There Are No TANF Waivers"In a December 2001 document, "Welfare Reform Waivers and TANF," the non-partisan Congressional Research Service clarified that the limited authority to waive state reporting requirement in section 402 does not grant authority to override work and other major requirements in the other sections of the TANF law (sections that were deliberately not listed under the section 1115 waiver authority):
Technically, there is waiver authority for TANF state plan requirement; however, [the] major TANF requirements are not in state plans. Effectively, there are no TANF waivers.Obviously, if the Congress had wanted HHS to be able to waive the TANF work requirements laid out in section 407, it would have listed that section as waiveable under section 1115. It did not do that.Define "Work"...In the past, state bureaucrats have attempted to define activities such as hula dancing, attending Weight Watchers, and bed rest as "work." These dodges were blocked by the federal work standards. Now that the Obama Administration has abolished those standards, we can expect "work" in the TANF program to mean anything but work.
The new welfare dictate issued by the Obama Administration clearly guts the law. The Administration tramples on the actual legislation passed by Congress and seeks to impose its own policy choices—a pattern that has become all too common in this Administration.The result is the end of welfare reform.
San Antonio Seeks To Ban Anyone Who Opposes Homosexuality
From Running For City Council, Being Appointed To A Board
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(No way this is constitutional)
Via OneNewsNow:
The San Antonio City Council is doing some housecleaning to combine all of its anti-discrimination rules and ordinances into one. The consolidated ordinance states a desire to adopt a "comprehensive and expanded non-discrimination policy with revisions to outdated terminology."
According to Pastor Charles Flowers of Faith Outreach International, the city leaders want to add two categories to the policy: sexual orientation and gender identity.
"The ordinance also says that if you have at any point demonstrated a bias – without defining what a bias is or who will determine whether or not one has been exercised – that you cannot get a city contract," he tells OneNewsNow. "Neither can any of your subcontractors [who have demonstrated a bias] sign on to the contract."
Moreover, according to a draft of the revised policy, no one who has spoken out against homosexuality or the transgender lifestyle can run for city council or be appointed to a board. Flowers says the Arizona-based legal firm Alliance Defending Freedom has taken a look at the ordinance.
"They said they've never seen this kind of language in any other ordinance in any other city that they've dealt with," the pastor shares. "It is unprecedentedly wrong – and of course the citizens of San Antonio must stop it."
Flowers maintains the ordinance violates state and federal constitutions in terms of freedom of speech and religion. He is inviting people throughout the U.S. to call the members of the San Antonio City Council to politely voice their opposition.
NY Times Publishes Scathing Editorial Calling On
Anthony Weiner To Drop Out Of Mayoral Race
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(This is gonna leave a mark on 'the Weiner')
Via NY Times:At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told. In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye, away from cameras, off the Web and out of the race for mayor of New York City.
Mr. Weiner, who resigned from Congress two years ago after sending lewd messages and photos of his crotch to women he had not met, was forced to revisit the issue on Tuesday, and so were we all. A Web site called The Dirty had another woman's story, another round of sex texts, and another picture of Mr. Weiner's penis. The startling news was that this new episode apparently took place last summer, only a few months before Mr. Weiner was to begin another run at public office. The marital trauma that Mr. Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, had said was behind them was not as far behind as we thought.
When the first texts were revealed two years ago, Mr. Weiner lied about it, saying he had been the victim of hackers.
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Then he owned up, tearfully abandoned his office and retreated into private life. Then he was back, telling the world that therapy and his wife's forgiveness had turned him around and that he was ready to begin a new chapter. That turned out to be the mayor's race, which he entered in May. What he did not say then, and what voters did not realize until Tuesday, was that his resignation had not been the end of his sexual misconduct.
The timing here matters, as it would for any politician who violates the public's trust and then asks to have it back. Things are different now, he insists. "This behavior is behind me," he said again on Tuesday. He suggested that people should have known that his sexting was an unresolved problem well into 2012.
That's ridiculous and
speaks to a familiar but repellent pattern of misleading and evasion. It's up to Mr. Weiner if he wants to keep running, to count on voters to forgive and forget and hand him the keys to City Hall. But he has already disqualified himself.
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White House Official: Obuma And McRINO Are In Love
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(I'm sure everyone is shocked to hear McRINO is "The One" Obuma has been looking for
to help pass his lib agenda ::) :P)
Via Politico:
Barack Obama, to hear his advisers tell it, has finally found The One he has been looking for: John McCain.
"We have been looking literally for years for someone we can cut deals with, and finally someone has stepped up," a White House official said. West Wing aides say they now talk with McCain roughly every other day.McCain, to hear fellow Republicans tell it, has finally found The Two he has needed to make such conversations worth the bother: Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat who can actually get things done in the Senate, and Denis McDonough, a White House chief of staff who actually cares what senators say and think and do.
RAGE: Judge Says Jesse Ventura's Lawsuit Against
Murdered
Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's Widow Can Move Forward
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(Ventura completed Underwater Demolition Training in 1970 and served until 1975. UDT and the SEALS merged in 1983. UDT was never as demanding as the Basic Underwater Demolition School, the qualifying course for SEALS. When Ventura says he was a SEAL, he's lying. He also admitted in 2002 that he was never in combat even though he had once claimed to have the Combat Action Ribbon. James George Janos "Jesse' Ventura is a total liar and a freaking fraud. Words can't describe how much I dislike the Alex Jones-'wannabe' James George Janos 'Jesse' Ventura, the world would be a better place if he wasn't on it.
...Warph)
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Ventura's Military service
Allegiance - United States
Service/branch - United States Navy
Years of service - 1969 to 1975
Rank - Storekeeper Third Class
Unit - Underwater Demolition Team 12 (Reserve)
Awards
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Service Medal
Via Fox News:
Jesse Ventura's lawsuit against "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle — purportedly the deadliest-ever American servicemen — can proceed with the war hero's widow as a substitute defendant, a judge has ruled.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Arthur Boylan reportedly wrote in his decision concerning Ventura's defamation suit, "(if) a party dies and the claim is not extinguished, the court may order substitution of the proper party."
Boylan subsequently named Taya Kyle, executor of her husband's estate, as replacement defendant, the StarTribune of Minneapolis reports.
Ventura, whose resume includes noted turns as Minnesota governor, WWF wrestler, Navy SEAL, and Hollywood actor, sued Kyle over an unflattering anecdote the sniper slipped into his 2012 book.
Specifically, Kyle alleged that during a 2006 tete-a-tete, the duo duked it out at a California bar after Ventura badmouthed the second Iraq War, the United States, in general, as well as then-President George W. Bush.
Royal Baby Boy:
British Public Happy if Future King is Queer
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(You are seriously deranged, people)
The majority of British residents would be comfortable if Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's firstborn child grew up to be queer, according to a new survey.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/493718/20130723/royal-baby-boy-british-happy-gay-kate.htm
The International Business Times cites a poll conducted by lesbian, gay and bisexual advocacy group Stonewall which found that 83 percent of the British public would be "very comfortable, comfortable or neutral" if the as-yet-unnamed child were to identify as queer or bisexual.
Stonewall's Chief Executive Ben Summerskill was quick to point out that the poll's release comes on the heels of Britain's same-sex marriage victory last week.
"Millions of people will be celebrating today's news, just as millions last week celebrated the news of equal marriage in England and Wales," he is quoted by both the Times and Gay Star News as saying. "Happily, since last week every child born in Britain is born into a society where queer people are now equal in law."
OFA Plans To Honor Dear Leader's Birthday By Celebrating oBUMacare
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Happy birthday, Mein Fuhrer!
Via Washington Examiner:
For POS oBUMa's 52nd birthday this year, his former campaign operation.. now a non-profit activist group... wants to rally his supporters in favor of oBUMa's favorite liberal causes in the month of August.
The group plans an "oBUMacare Day of (Re)Action" on August 4, using the oBUMa's birthday to inspire activists for a month long protest.
Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel...
He has been a journalist for 49 years.
He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.
Be sure to read the Tax List at the end.
This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral,
neither anti-republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel,
has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis
must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each one of us every day.
It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!
545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
•If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
•If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
•If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
•There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish;
to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject;
to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like
"the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the heck happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!
GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN!!!
Bullwinkle...
While virtually everything posted in that article is true, I fear we are afraid to lay the blame on the ultimate authority: The American citizen. If citizens of voting age are the bosses (and they are), then the current state of affairs must be laid directly at the feet of those ultimately responsible for handing power over to those 545 folks: The American Voter.
Our mess of an economy and wrecks of domestic & foreign policy are symptoms of a far greater problem than greedy or incompetent 'leaders'. Those things are a result of an ever increasingly self absorbed, unwise & ignorant citizenry. We see that ignorance from the lowest levels of government to the highest. Those folks whose tombstone reads "Taxes drove me
to my doom" are, in large numbers responsible for their own end... because they chose to remain uninformed and sat on their arses instead of demanding and electing better representatives. Many didn't even participate by voting when they had the chance.
If corporate stockholders elect fools, thieves and liars to the board of directors, the company fails & the stockholders lose their investment. And those losses can hurt mightily, as they should. It's no different in a representative republic. And our losses are gonna hurt... mightily.
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Carlos Danger (Anthony Weenie) Was Sexting With Another Woman
Right Up Until He Announced His Run For NYC Mayor
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(I doubt his wife really cares what 'The Weiner' does. Forget about big soda bans and nanny crap... she wants the keys to the city so she can impose Sharia law. Huma has no emotional connection (or genitals) to The Weiner. It's a business / political / religious arrangement. His wife is taking a page right out of the Hillary Clinton 'playbook.' She knows if Weiner gets in as mayor, that springboards her into a position of power. Look how all those liberal women act [Hillary, Elizabeth Edwards, Spitzer's wife, McGreevy's wife]. Rather than thinking that their husbands are disgusting perverts, they will stand there and pretend that their husbands having sex with prostitutes is no big deal)(http://lh5.ggpht.com/-UhyxwYpmlmA/Ue_zxYfQYfI/AAAAAAAA8AI/BmZzNWo5k9c/gty_huma_abedin_hillary_clinton_ll_120718_wg_thumb%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800)
Hillary: Oh my, Huma! This is worse than a bimbo eruption.
We'll need an alternate plan for your career.
Radar Online has all of the messages:
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Via Breitbart:On Tuesday evening, Anthony Weiner, with his wife by his side, admitted to continuing to send lewd messages to women after he resigned from Congress. He assured the public however, that the behavior was "behind him now." According to Facebook messages from Weiner, published by RadarOnline, he was sexting with a woman in March of this year, while he was campaigning for Mayor.
When exactly did the sexting get "behind him?"
On March 16th, in an exchange with Weiner, a woman writes "Nice! Just what I'm looking for....I want to XXXX the future mayor of nyc!"
Weiner hadn't formally announced for Mayor at that time, but had conducted polling on the race and was reportedly considering making a run. On March 16th, the date of the message, FoxNews reported that Weiner was preparing for a mayoral race.
Pic of the Day:
(Class act)
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Obamacare National Marketing Campaign To Cost Taxpayers Nearly $700 Million
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(Adding insult to injury
)
CHICAGO (AP) — It will make you stronger. It will give you peace of mind and make you feel like a winner. Health insurance is what the whole country has been talking about, so don't be left out.
[How's that for Obuma HorseSh!t!][/color]Sound like a sales pitch?
[Nope. Like Obuma Horsesh!t] Get ready for a lot more
[Horsesh!t]. As
[POS] Barack Obama's health care law moves from theory to reality in the coming months, its success may hinge on whether the best minds in advertising can reach one of the hardest-to-find parts of the population: people without health coverage.
The campaign won't come cheap: The total amount to be spent nationally on publicity, marketing and advertising will be at least $684 million, according to data compiled The Associated Press from federal and state sources.
About 16 percent of Americans are uninsured, but despite years of political debate and media attention, more than three-quarters of them still know little about the law known as "Obamacare," according to recent surveys.
"It's not sugar cereal, beer and detergent,
[It is Obuma HorseSh!t]" said Brooke Foley, chief executive officer of the Chicago-based Jayne Agency, one of the advertising firms crafting messages to reach the uninsured.
Quote from: Warph on July 24, 2013, 05:47:29 PM
The campaign won't come cheap: The total amount to be spent nationally on publicity, marketing and advertising will be at least $684 million, according to data compiled The Associated Press from federal and state sources.
That's about 2.07 million bucks per citizen. Can I get a waiver and just take my share as a cash grant? Hell, with that much I could self insure. No? We're so screwed!
(Woke up this morning and found New York City Polluting the
Grand Canyon)
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How Hard Will China's Crash Be?
by George FriedmanMajor shifts underway in the Chinese economy that Stratfor has forecast and discussed for years have now drawn the attention of the mainstream media. Many have asked when China would find itself in an economic crisis, to which we have answered that China has been there for awhile -- something not widely recognized outside China, and particularly not in the United States. A crisis can exist before it is recognized. The admission that a crisis exists is a critical moment, because this is when most others start to change their behavior in reaction to the crisis. The question we had been asking was when the Chinese economic crisis would finally become an accepted fact, thus changing the global dynamic.
Last week, the crisis was announced with a flourish. First, The New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-recipient Paul Krugman penned a piece titled "Hitting China's Wall." He wrote, "The signs are now unmistakable: China is in big trouble. We're not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something more fundamental. The country's whole way of doing business, the economic system that has driven three decades of incredible growth, has reached its limits. You could say that the Chinese model is about to hit its Great Wall, and the only question now is just how bad the crash will be."
Later in the week, Ben Levisohn authored a column in Barron's called "Smoke Signals from China." He wrote, "In the classic disaster flick 'The Towering Inferno' partygoers ignored a fire in a storage room because they assumed it has been contained. Are investors making the same mistake with China?" He goes on to answer his question, saying, "Unlike three months ago, when investors were placing big bets that China's policymakers would pump cash into the economy to spur growth, the markets seem to have accepted the fact that sluggish growth for the world's second largest economy is its new normal."
Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs -- where in November 2001 Jim O'Neil coined the term BRICs and forecast that China might surpass the United States economically by 2028 -- cut its forecast of Chinese growth to 7.4 percent.
The New York Times, Barron's and Goldman Sachs are all both a seismograph of the conventional wisdom and the creators of the conventional wisdom. Therefore, when all three announce within a few weeks that China's economic condition ranges from disappointing to verging on a crash, it transforms the way people think of China. Now the conversation is moving from forecasts of how quickly China will overtake the United States to considerations of what the consequences of a Chinese crash would be.
Doubting ChinaSuddenly finding Stratfor amid the conventional wisdom regarding China does feel odd, I must admit. Having first noted the underlying contradictions in China's economic growth years ago, when most viewed China as the miracle Japan wasn't, and having been scorned for not understanding the shift in global power underway, it is gratifying to now have a lot of company. Over the past couple of years, the ranks of the China doubters had grown. But the past few months have seen a sea change. We have gone from China the omnipotent, the belief that there was nothing the Chinese couldn't work out, to the realization that China no longer works.
It has not been working for some time. One of the things masking China's weakening has been Chinese statistics, which Krugman referred to as "even more fictional than most." China is a vast country in territory and population. Gathering information on how it is doing would be a daunting task, even were China inclined to do so. Instead, China understands that in the West, there is an assumption that government statistics bear at least a limited relationship to truth. Beijing accordingly uses its numbers to shape perceptions inside and outside China of how it is doing. The Chinese release their annual gross domestic product numbers in the third week of January (and only revise them the following year). They can't possibly know how they did that fast, and they don't. But they do know what they want the world to believe about their growth, and the world has believed them -- hence, the fantastic tales of economic growth.
China in fact has had an extraordinary period of growth. The last 30 years have been remarkable, marred only by the fact that the Chinese started at such a low point due to the policies of the Maoist period. Growth at first was relatively easy; it was hard for China to do worse. But make no mistake: China surged. Still, basing economic performance on consumption, Krugman notes that China is barely larger economically than Japan. Given the compounding effects of China's guesses at GDP, we would guess it remains behind Japan, but how can you tell? We can say without a doubt that China's economy has grown dramatically in the past 30 years but that it is no longer growing nearly as quickly as it once did.
China's growth surge was built on a very unglamorous fact: Chinese wages were far below Western wages, and therefore the Chinese were able to produce a certain class of products at lower cost than possible in the West. The Chinese built businesses around this, and Western companies built factories in China to take advantage of the differential. Since Chinese workers were unable to purchase many of the products they produced given their wages, China built its growth on exports.
For this to continue, China had to maintain its wage differential indefinitely. But China had another essential policy: Beijing was terrified of unemployment and the social consequences that flow from it. This was a rational fear, but one that contradicted China's main strength, its wage advantage. Because the Chinese feared unemployment, Chinese policy, manifested in bank lending policies, stressed preventing unemployment by keeping businesses going even when they were inefficient. China also used bank lending to build massive infrastructure and commercial and residential property. Over time, this policy created huge inefficiencies in the Chinese economy. Without recessions, inefficiencies develop. Growing the economy is possible, but not growing profitability. Eventually, the economy will be dragged down by its inefficiency.
Inflation vs. UnemploymentAs businesses become inefficient, production costs rise. And that leads to inflation. As money is lent to keep inefficient businesses going, inflation increases even more markedly. The increase in inefficiency is compounded by the growth of the money supply prompted by aggressive lending to keep the economy going. As this persisted over many years, the inefficiencies built into the Chinese economy have become staggering.
The second thing to bear in mind is the overwhelming poverty of China, where 900 million people have an annual per capita income around the same level as Guatemala, Georgia, Indonesia or Mongolia ($3,000-$3,500 a year), while around 500 million of those have an annual per capita income around the same level as India, Nicaragua, Ghana, Uzbekistan or Nigeria ($1,500-$1,700). China's overall per capita GDP is around the same level as the Dominican Republic, Serbia, Thailand or Jamaica. Stimulating an economy where more than a billion people live in deep poverty is impossible. Economic stimulus makes sense when products can be sold to the public. But the vast majority of Chinese cannot afford the products produced in China, and therefore, stimulus will not increase consumption of those products. As important, stimulating demand so that inefficient factories can sell products is not only inflationary, it is suicidal. The task is to increase consumption, not to subsidize inefficiency.
The Chinese are thus in a trap. If they continue aggressive lending to failing businesses, they get inflation. That increases costs and makes the Chinese less competitive in exports, which are also falling due to the recession in Europe and weakness in the United States. Allowing businesses to fail brings unemployment, a massive social and political problem. The Chinese have zigzagged from cracking down on lending by regulating informal lending and raising interbank rates to loosening restrictions on lending by removing the floor on the benchmark lending rate and by increasing lending to small- and medium-sized businesses. Both policies are problematic.
The Chinese have maintained a strategy of depending on exports without taking into account the operation of the business cycle in the West, which means that periodic and substantial contractions of demand will occur. China's industrial plant is geared to Western demand. When Western demand contracted, the result was the mess you see now.
The Chinese economy could perhaps be growing at 7.4 percent, but I doubt the number is anywhere near that. Some estimates place growth at closer to 5 percent. Regardless of growth, the ability to maintain profit margins is rarely considered. Producing and selling at or even below cost will boost GDP numbers but undermines the financial system. This happened to Japan in the early 1990s. And it is happening in China now.
The Chinese can prevent the kind of crash that struck East Asia in 1997. Their currency isn't convertible, so there can't be a run on it. They continue to have a command economy; they are still communist, after all. But they cannot avoid the consequences of their economic reality, and the longer they put off the day of reckoning, the harder it will become to recover from it. They have already postponed the reckoning far longer than they should have. They would postpone it further if they could by continuing to support failing businesses with loans. They can do that for a very long time -- provided they are prepared to emulate the Soviet model's demise. The Chinese don't want that, but what they do want is a miraculous resolution to their problem. There are no solutions that don't involve agony, so they put off the day of reckoning and slowly decline.
China's TransformationThe Chinese are not going to completely collapse economically any more than the Japanese or South Koreans did. What will happen is that China will behave differently than before. With no choices that don't frighten them, the Chinese will focus on containing the social and political fallout, both by trying to target benefits to politically sensitive groups and by using their excellent security apparatus to suppress and deter unrest. The Chinese economic performance will degrade, but crisis will be avoided and political interests protected. Since much of China never benefited from the boom, there is a massive force that has felt marginalized and victimized by coastal elites. That is not a bad foundation for the Communist Party to rely on.
The key is understanding that if China cannot solve its problems without unacceptable political consequences, it will try to stretch out the decline. Japan had a lost decade only in the minds of Western investors, who implicitly value aggregate GDP growth over other measures of success such as per capita GDP growth or full employment. China could very well face an extended period of intense inwardness and low economic performance. The past 30 years is a tough act to follow.
The obvious economic impact on the rest of the world will fall on the producers of industrial commodities such as iron ore. The extravagant expectations for Chinese growth will not be met, and therefore expectations for commodity prices won't be met. Since the Chinese economic failure has been underway for quite awhile, the degradation in prices has already happened. Australia in particular has been badly hit by the Chinese situation, just as it was by the Japanese situation a generation ago.
The Chinese are, of course, keeping a great deal of money in U.S. government instruments and other markets. Contrary to fears, that money will not be withdrawn. The Chinese problem isn't a lack of capital, and repatriating that money would simply increase inflation. Had the Chinese been able to put that money to good use, it would have never been invested in the United States in the first place. The outflow of money from China was a symptom of the disease: Lacking the structure to invest in China, the government and private funds went overseas. In so doing, Beijing sought to limit destabilization in China, while private Chinese funds looked for a haven against the storm that was already blowing.
Rather than the feared repatriation of funds, the United States will continue to be the target of major Chinese cash inflows. In a world where Europe is still reeling, only the United States is both secure and large enough to contain Chinese appetites for safety. Just as Japanese investment in the 1990s represented capital flight rather than a healthy investment appetite, so the behavior we have seen from Chinese investors in recent years is capital flight: money searching for secure havens regardless of return. This money has underpinned American markets; it is not going away, and in fact more is on the way.
The major shift in the international order will be the decline of China's role in the region. China's ability to project military power in Asia has been substantially overestimated. Its geography limits its ability to project power in Eurasia, an endeavor that would require logistics far beyond China's capacity. Its naval capacity is still limited compared with the United States. The idea that it will compensate for internal economic problems by genuine (as opposed to rhetorical) military action is therefore unlikely. China has a genuine internal security problem that will suck the military, which remains a domestic security force, into actions of little value. In our view, the most important shift will be the re-emergence of Japan as the dominant economic and political power in East Asia in a slow process neither will really want.
China will continue to be a major power, and it will continue to matter a great deal economically. Being troubled is not the same as ceasing to exist. China will always exist. It will, however, no longer be the low-wage, high-growth center of the world. Like Japan before it, it will play a different role.
In the global system, there are always low-wage, high-growth countries because the advanced industrial powers' consumers want to absorb goods at low wages. Becoming a supplier of those goods is a major opportunity for, and disruptor to, those countries. No one country can replace China, but China will be replaced. The next step in this process is identifying China's successors.
Recognizing the End of the Chinese Economic Miracle is republished with permission of Stratfor
Lying in the Age of Obuma
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A Nation of Liars
The attorney general of the United States lied recently to Congress. He said he knew of no citizen's communications that his department had monitored. Lie!
In fact, Holder knew that his subordinates were targeting reporters. He also did not tell the truth about the New Black Panthers case. He had sworn that there was no political decision to drop the case. Not true; the decision came from the top. He again lied about the time frame in which he first learned of the Fast and Furious case.
The director of national intelligence also lied, likewise while under oath to Congress. At first James Clapper confessed that he had given the "least untruthful" account.
Nixon's Washington used to call that sort of neat lie "a modified limited hangout." Later, Clapper admitted that he had just flat-out lied to Congress. Was he disgraced? Fired? Further confirmation of his "largely secular" lie?
Nope. Nothing followed.
Elizabeth Warren simply invented an entire pedigree. That blatant lie helped to earn her a Harvard tenured professorship and a U.S. Senate seat. Ward Churchill was doing well until he dared the country to call out his lies. Who is to say that Warren or Churchill cannot be Native Americans by professing to be Native Americans?
Barack Obama, as is the wont of politicians, has lied a lot — and from the very beginning of his national career. He knew Bill Ayers well, Tony Rezko too. He lied about his decision not to seek the presidency as a newly elected senator, and lied about his willingness to take public campaign financing funds in 2008. He misled about what he would shortly do about most of the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism protocols. Obama lied about much of his own biography.
When the president uses emphatics like "make no mistake about it," "let me be perfectly clear," and "in point of fact," we know what follows will be untrue. He did not cut the deficit in half in his first four years. He had no intention of ever doing so. He lies about the circumstances of America's gas and oil production surge — occurring despite, not because of, him. He lied about his involvement in the radical ACORN community action group, and fabricated about his father's and grandfather's World War II involvement.
Tally up what Barack Obama said about his health care initiative, the border fence, and his fiscal policy. Almost all of the major assurances proved lies.
Ministers of LiesBut why pick on the president?
The media routinely peddles "noble" untruths. ABC manipulated a video to show George Zimmerman without much injury to his head. NBC edited a tape to suggest that he was a racist. The New York Times invented a new journalistic category, "white Hispanic," to suggest George Zimmerman was not Latino in a way that the paper would never suggest that Barack Obama is not African-American or Bill Richardson was a "white Hispanic."
Much of the prosecutorial testimony in the George Zimmerman case could not be true — unless someone gets grass stains on his back and contusions on the back of the head from pounding on someone atop him. Prosecution star witness Rachel Jeantel made up much of her racist testimony, and boldly confessed as much in her paid-for after-trial interviews.
It's Not Really the Cover-upOur current scandals are predicated on lies. No one believed the official White House version that the IRS miscreants were rogue agents from a Cincinnati field office.
No one believes much of the official version of the Benghazi killings — least of all that the violence was prompted by a single video maker in the fashion that Susan Rice assured the nation.
The attorney general of the United States lied about the AP/James Rosen monitoring while under oath before Congress.
James Clapper lied about the NSA scandal. All four travesties are still being sorted out. For now the one commonality is that our officials lied about all of them.
Harry Reid knew nothing about Mitt Romney's tax returns. But lied about them all the same. It is hard to know whether Joe Biden lies, or simply believes his fantasies. He assured us that President Roosevelt addressed the nation on television after the panic of 1929. Remember in 1987 when he lifted much of his campaign stump speech from British Laborite Neil Kinnock?
Our most treasured icons in the media and literature lie. They tell untruth sometimes in the most serious fashion of claiming the work of others as if it were their own — or simply inventing things out of thin air. Fareed Zakaria plagiarized. So did Maureen Dowd.
Nearly all of Stephen Ambrose's work, book by book, was characterized by both plagiarism and false statements about archives and interviews. Michael Bellesiles was given the Bancroft Award for a mytho-history. If historians could not initially spot the lie, who else could? Or did they try all that much, given the enticing but mythic thesis that today's gun nuts, not our hallowed forefathers, dreamed up a nation in arms?
Is There Anyone Left Who Doesn't Lie?Why do they lie? Because they can. Or to paraphrase Dirty Harry, they like it. We are a celebrity-and wealth-obsessed society, in which ends, not means, count. Barack Obama got to be president — who now cares how?
That Joe Biden habitually makes things up is the stuff of "that's just old' Joe," not a career-ending felony. Hillary Clinton lied a lot when she was first lady about documents under subpoena. She lied as a candidate about being under fire in the Balkans. And she lied as secretary of State about the train of events in Benghazi.
And? Those lies were either forgiven or forgotten, or contributed to the "complex" persona that now is among the most widely admired in the U.S.
Lying, of course, is a symptom of hubris. The once leftist and long-haired radical Stephen Ambrose finally assumed that he was Lord or Master Stephen Ambrose, voice of an entire generation, accustomed to instant TV access, huge advances, and minute-by-minute adulation on the street.
Lying won him all that, and he knew it. I remember him over three decades ago flat out lying about most of the details he offered on World War II while on The World At War. So to be sure, I watched the young Ambrose lie again last night on that documentary. But no matter: he seemed cool with long hair, a sweater, and an attitude, far more hip than the old plodding Brit historians who were meticulous in their honest recollections.
When caught, a dying Ambrose was unapologetic. He must have reckoned, why say "I'm sorry" to a society that did not care how he had become famous, only that he was? Had Martin Luther King, Jr. told the truth that he stole sizable work from other scholars to write his doctoral thesis, he would never have become Dr. King. Omitting that detail paid dividends.
We claim that no one fools history, especially in the age of the Internet. I grant few do, at least in the long run. Yet in the 21st century, the rub is not getting caught for plagiarism, but doing a cost-benefit-analysis of the downside of now and again agilely lying and plagiarizing, versus the upside of short-cutting to fame and riches.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a plagiarist. But after a brief sojourn in the Washington doghouse, she is back again on television. Bringing up her untruth would be bad manners.
In Ambrose's case, it seemed a simple decision. It was "take another multimillion-dollar advance and spend 3,000 hours out of the limelight" — or "take the money and simply cut and paste the work of others over a few hundred hours." Did he fear that his widely read publishers and editors worried about sales, or the integrity of their branded text?
Bernie Madoff was a liar par excellence, but for most of his life his investors did not question his miraculous luck, given their miraculous returns that came in the mail each month.
It was not entirely money that drove columnists or reporters like Mike Barnicle, Patricia Smith, or Jayson Blair to lie, but the desire for attention, prestige, and being something more than an honest reporter in our empty metrosexual elite urban culture.
The Cover-up PaysWe repeat the nauseous canard that "it is not the crime, but the cover-up" that gets you in trouble in Washington. But that too is often a lie, at least most of the time. Had Eric Holder told the truth about Fast and Furious, the New Black Panther case, or the AP/James Rosen case, he would not be attorney general now.
If Susan Rice had gone on television and confessed the details about the status and recent history of the security measures in Libya, or the true nature of the post-"lead from behind" misadventure, or the spread of post-bin Laden al-Qaeda franchisers in 2012, she might have been out of a job — either by dismissal or by the failure of her president to win reelection. Lying worked. Obama is president. She is national security advisor.
Had Jay Carney confessed that the talking points about Benghazi were doctored from the outset, it might have mattered in the 2012 election. Lying then and now worked.
Why Do Our Best and Brightest Lie?There are both age-old and more recent catalysts for lying.
One, lying and plagiarism are forms of narcissism. I know fabrications are born out of feelings of inferiority that makes an otherwise fine historian like a Joseph Ellis or a good actor like Brian Dennehy make up an entire war career, replete with tales of personal gallantry. But they persisted in such seemingly destructive behavior because they assumed that they had reached a level of fame and stature that made them immune from the normal accounting laws of the universe. There is no servant running along our triumphant masters when they star on television, muttering to them "Respice te, hominem te memento," or at least "memento mori."
Sic transit gloria? We would counter with vero possumus!
Two, lying more often than not pays. Take an ethical shortcut and the odds are small that one gets caught. Yes, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Fareed Zakaria were found out. But after brief anguished penance, they reinvented themselves and returned to the level of their prior stature. Perhaps some young journalist one day will do an Ambrose on them, and review all their previous work. But for what purpose? We know they have been dishonest once, and suspect the modus operandi was not a one-time occurrence. But we also know that the purified water in which they swim is not too toxic for liars and the dishonest.
Liars are good at what they do. Eric Holder certainly is. Again, like a shoplifter, why stop when you have mastered the craft? Does anyone think Patrick Fitzgerald is going to come out of retirement to indict Holder the way he did Scooter Libby for a crime that did not exist, and had it existed was committed by Richard Armitage — and known thusly to both Colin Powell and Fitzgerald himself at the outset?
Three, more recently postmodernism has blurred the divide from reality and truth. Tsarnaev is not quite a mass murderer, given his looks and youth. Major Hasan is guilty of work-place violence. For thirty years, the acolytes of fakers like Michel Foucault have taught our elites that truth is socially constructed — a relative thing, a power narrative fabricated by those of the right race, gender, and class to perpetuate their privilege. Howard Zinn could publish fantasies because who was to say that they were entirely wrong, and who would dare suggest that his myths were not put to a good cause?
Note that Maureen Dowd, Fareed Zakaria, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Mike Barnicle, and Eric Holder shoot their sometimes false arrows at the right targets. Does it then matter that their missiles were occasionally plastic rather than of authentic Native American wood?
Much of what Barack Obama has weaved about his past girlfriend, his parents' meeting, his father's/grandfather's war service, or his upbringing in Hawaii at one point or another is false. But why would I mention that if not for illiberal political reasons? And what a 59-year-old, rural white guy from the Central Valley calls "truth" may not be so for a young multiracial child coming of age in Hawaii, anguished at having door locks clicked by "typical white" people as he crosses the street.
So Why Not Lie?I end with three reasons to tell the truth. The majority has to tell the truth — to the IRS, to the police, to the DA, to the census — if a consensual society is to work. You readers tell the truth so that the society can survive an Eric Holder or Mike Barnicle. Average people must speak honestly or our elites' lies will overwhelm, even destroy us. If 100 million tell the IRS lies during audits or take the 5th Amendment, our voluntary tax system collapses. We can take only so many Lois Lerners.
Two, this often sordid, sometimes beautiful world is not the end. There is transcendence. Lies damage our soul. Selling out in the here and now has consequences later on. If you are religious, your immortal soul is lost. If you are not, at least consider that your legacy, heritage, and remembrance are forever ruined. Ask the ghost of Stephen Ambrose. What good was all that money, all those interviews if based on a lie? All the insight and delight that he brought millions of readers was tarnished. And for what, exactly?
Third, we must strive to be tragic heroes, perhaps not as dramatic as Ajax, not as cool as Shane. Would you rather have been Ethan Edwards or Will Kane or have run Lehman Brothers in 2008? Sometimes, in less dramatic fashion, the choices are that Manichean.
We must try to tell the truth, not to doctor films, edit tapes, erase talking points, or lie before Congress, fabricate heroic war records, or invent false sources. Again, why? Because we seek to do the right thing with the full resignation that in the here and now we will often still lose and will lose often and gladly telling the truth.
"We always lose," says Chris at the end of the The Magnificent Seven after he did the right thing. Or to paraphrase the cinematic T.E. Lawrence about Auda Abu Tayi, we will not lie, as do our elites, because it is simply "our pleasure" not to.
Warph. There are live streaming police and fire channels available all over. I don't know if you were just interested in Chicago, but I just thought I'd add that comment. Have a nice day. Did you get hit by the big storm? My ILs were north of it.
The Nation's Lib Sports Blogger:
NFL Inspecting Players For Gang Tattoos Is "Racist"
(If a team owner is going to pay big bucks to these players, then he or she has the right to set standards that their players will project, Zirin. You sound like a racist!)
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got any gang signs in there, goofball)
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The Nation's sports blogger "Crybaby" Dave Zirin appeared on MSNBC with Tamron Hall on Thursday to discuss the measures the National Football League is taking to ensure prevent the league from signing potentially violent players like Aaron Hernandez in the future. Hernandez is currently facing charges of first-degree murder in the death of a 27-year-old semi-pro football player. Zirin said that the NFL's plan to inspect players for gang tattoos will probably, and rightly, be construed as a racist policy improperly targeting African-American players.
"It's the NFL's worst idea since helmets without facemasks," Zirin said of the NFL's policy of checking players for gang tattoos.
Zirin found irony in the fact that a league "based on highly commodified violence" would squirm over the prospect of its players engaging in murderous acts outside the locker room. "It means that the NFL would be judging their prospective employees and people they are going to make millionaires as possible gang members without any proof whatsoever," Zirin added.
"This is going to be tagged for very good reason as racist, and race — certainly – motivated," he continued. "The only reason for this is an overreaction after what took place with Aaron Hernandez."
Zirin said that there is little proof that Hernandez was ever a member of the gang known as "the Bristol [Connecticut] Bloods." He dismissed the threat posed by the gang Hernandez was alleged to have been a member of, saying it sounds "only slightly more scary than something Arthur Fonzarelli would have been in."
Sick POS Obuma Ties Vietnamese Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh
To America's Founding Fathers
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(Never mind the fact that Bastard
Ho Chi Minh led North Vietnam's war effort that ultimately killed almost 60,000 Americans)
Via PJ Tatler:President Obama hailed hard-core communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh today as a pretty open guy who was actually inspired by the Founders.
Obama took a break from his jobs-pivot speeches to meet Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at the White House. The pair held joint remarks in the Oval Office afterward.
Obama said their first bilateral meeting "represents the steady progression and strengthening of the relationship between our two countries." [...]
Obama said Sang concluded the meeting by sharing "a copy of a letter sent by Ho Chi Minh to Harry Truman."
"And we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson. Ho Chi Minh talks about his interest in cooperation with the United States. And President Sang indicated that even if it's 67 years later, it's good that we're still making progress."
Sang said the pair "had a very candid, open, useful and constructive discussion."
POS Obuma Celebrates Ramadan
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(Obuma: Allahu akbar!)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Hussein Obama is saluting Muslim Americans for their contributions in helping build the nation as business entrepreneurs, technology innovators and pioneers in medicine.
Obama spoke at a White House dinner he hosted Thursday to celebrate the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The meal, or iftar, breaks the day of fasting when Muslim families and communities eat together after sunset.
Obama said Ramadan is, quoting, "a time of reflection, a chance to demonstrate ones devotion to God through prayer and through fasting, but it's also a time for family and friends to come together."
He said the White House tradition is to celebrate sacred days of various faiths, adding that these occasions celebrate diversity that defines the country and reaffirms the freedom to worship.
Turkish Islamic Leader:
Pregnant Women In Public "Immoral And Unpleasant"
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Via ANSAmed:Islamic
[Clown] thinker Omer Tugrul Inancer in a TV program exhorted pregnant women not to show themselves in public, sparking protests from secular Turks and opposition politicians, Hurriyet online reported.
"It is against our civilization to use fanfare to announce a pregnancy. Pregnant women also should not go around in public with those bellies. It's not aesthetic", Inancer said on public TRT 1 TV channel.
"After seven or eight months, future mothers should only leave the house by car with their husbands to get some fresh air, and only in the evening. Instead we see them all over television. It's unpleasant. This is not realism, it's immorality". The program presenter thanked him with
"May God listen to you". Secular Turks immediately took to social media, with #Omer Tugrul Inancer trending instantly. :o :( >:( >:( >:(
Activists have called for a protest on Istanbul's Istiklal Avenue, near Taksim Square, with a pillow under their clothes in solidarity with pregnant women. "They must stop interfering with women in this country. If they could, they would rule on the very air they breathe", thundered Aylin Nazliaka, a Social Democrat. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Report: Slimy Obuma Regime Demanding Web Firms
Turn Over User Account Passwords
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(Big Brother is watching)
Via Cnet:
The U.S. [Dictatorial Obuma] government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users' stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.
If the government is able to determine a person's password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user. Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused.
"I've certainly seen them ask for passwords," said one Internet industry source who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We push back."
A second person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the federal government for stored passwords. Companies "really heavily scrutinize" these requests, the person said. "There's a lot of 'over my dead body.'"
Some of the government orders demand not only a user's password but also the encryption algorithm and the so-called salt, according to a person familiar with the requests. A salt is a random string of letters or numbers used to make it more difficult to reverse the encryption process and determine the original password. Other orders demand the secret question codes often associated with user accounts.
A Microsoft spokesperson would not say whether the company has received such requests from the government. But when asked whether Microsoft would divulge passwords, salts, or algorithms, the spokesperson replied: "No, we don't, and we can't see a circumstance in which we would provide it."
Google also declined to disclose whether it had received requests for those types of data. But a spokesperson said the company has "never" turned over a user's encrypted password, and that it has a legal team that frequently pushes back against requests that are fishing expeditions or are otherwise problematic. "We take the privacy and security of our users very seriously," the spokesperson said.
Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, AOL, Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, and Comcast did not respond to queries about whether they have received requests for users' passwords and how they would respond to them.
Richard Lovejoy, a director of the Opera Software subsidiary that operates FastMail, said he doesn't recall receiving any such requests but that the company still has a relatively small number of users compared with its larger rivals. Because of that, he said, "we don't get a high volume" of U.S. government demands.
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MSNBC's Nigga Joy Reid: Obama Should Not
"Appease" Republican "Terrorists"
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"You're toast, Reid"
(Former Governor Ed Rendell stepped into Racist Reid's pile of sh!t. Reid's statement, however, is nothing short of slander and racism of an entire movement. Broadcasters used to believe that this kind of behavior reflected poorly on them personally, let alone their industry. There once was an industry-wide belief in the mission to civilize and inform... but not anymore. MSNBC is a cesspool of pure PUS! The kind of statement made by Racist Reid, intended to inflame a racially tense situation ignited by a private citizen with unconscionable views, is an intentional, naked, and inexcusable effort to gin up racial hatred. You will not find a more wretched human being on this planet than Joy Reid)
Via Newsbusters:Former Governor Ed Rendell (D-Pa.) drifted a bit too far off MSNBC's pro-Obama message on Thursday's Now with Alex Wagner, receiving a strong left-wing rebuke after suggesting that President Obama should be willing to compromise with Republicans on upcoming budgetary battles.
MSNBC [Puke] contributor Joy Reid likened Republicans to terrorists, claiming that the president's situation is like "when somebody is threatening to bomb the stadium." Reid rejected Rendell's call for bipartisanship, instead pushing her offensive analogy even further:
"You don't go out and make a speech about how you're willing to dismantle the stadium in order to appease them."
Gallup: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose College Admissions
Based On Affirmative Action, 67%-28%
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(Sanity prevails)
PRINCETON, NJ — Two-thirds of Americans believe college applicants should be admitted solely based on merit, even if that results in few minorities being admitted, while 28% believe an applicant's racial and ethnic background should be taken into account to promote diversity on college campuses. Three-quarters of whites and 59% of Hispanics believe applicants should be judged only on merit, while blacks are divided in their views.[/b]
A Love Story
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Weenie's Sexting Partner:
"He Told Me He (sniff) Woved Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXH2LkwFSwQ
(Huh? ??? He had already resigned from Congress for doing the same
exact thing the two of them were doing)
Sydney Leathers, the woman at the center of the latest Anthony Weiner sext scandal, told Inside Edition that the New York City mayoral candidate told her that he loved her, and that she said told him the same.
Leathers had the following exchange with Inside Edition's correspondent:
Q: "You told Anthony Weiner that you loved him?
A: "Yes"
Q: "Did he tell you he loved you?"
A: "Yes."
"I cared about him a lot," she said in an exclusive interview set to air tomorrow, but admitted she didn't quite love him at the time. "He was very important to me."Leathers says her feelings have since changed, especially after watching the disgraced former congressman at Tuesday's press conference with his wife, Huma Abedin. "I'm disgusted by him. He's not who I thought he was," she said. She also offered [Huma]Abedin a tear-filled apology.
As Weiner was preparing for his mayoral campaign, Leathers said he asked her to delete their correspondences. "He was trying to be someone he wasn't," she explained.
Leathers is one of at least three women Weiner has now admitted to having sexually-explicit correspondences with since his resignation from Congress in 2011. Leathers, an Indiana native, is a 23-year-old former field organizer for the Obama campaign.
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ObuttHead To Tell Congress They Won't Declare Morsi Ouster
By Egyptian Military A Coup, Paves Way For U.S. Aid
To Continue Flowing
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(Even though it was a blatant coup. This was a prime opportunity to stop giving billions of dollars annually to a country that hates our guts)
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will tell lawmakers Thursday that it won't declare Egypt's government overthrow a coup, U.S. officials said, allowing the United States to continue providing $1.5 billion in annual military and economic aid to the Arab world's most populous country.
William Burns, the State Department's No. 2 official, will hold closed-doors briefings with members of the House and Senate just a day after Washington delayed delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt. It was the first U.S. action since the military ousted Mohammed Morsi as president, imprisoned him and other Muslim Brotherhood members and suspended the constitution earlier this month.
The administration has been forced into difficult contortions to justify not declaring a coup d'etat, which would prompt the automatic suspension of American assistance programs under U.S. law. Washington fears that halting such funding could imperil programs that help to secure Israel's border and fight weapons smuggling into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, among other things seen as critical to U.S. national security.
It's unclear what specific arguments it will present Thursday, but the officials said Burns will explain how the administration has yet to make any coup determination and that it doesn't plan to do so in the future as Egypt moves to restore civilian governance and hold new democratic elections. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly ahead of the private meetings.
Harry Reid: Old Pant Suits Will Be An "Even Better" President Than Bubba
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(Bubba was a great president? ??? He lucked out with the Internet taking off during his term which led to a tech bubble, he had absolutely nothing to do with it. Hillary helped overturn an election, then lied for panderer, adulteror and perjuror Bill, then lied some more for Barry Sotero and as Dept of State den mother... so it is only natural she expects the "right" to lie again as presidentette!
And why is Wimp Boehner dragging his feet on Benghazi, Cotrzine, Holder fast & furious, NSA, IRS, etc. ? ???????????)
Via NPR:
JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally, 2016, forgive me. In 2008, Senator, you were one of the first prominent figure in Washington to come out for then-Sen. Barack Obama for president, choosing him over Hillary Clinton. Of course, we know what happened. Should she run in 2016, and if she did, do you think she would win the election? What do you think her chances are?
HARRY REID: Hillary Clinton may have a bigger fan than Harry Reid; I just don't know who it would be. I think that what she did as a senator, what she did as secretary of state will go down in history books as a remarkable, remarkable job that she did. I, of course, have such admiration for the president. Remember, the last three or four years he was here we reduced the debt and created 22 million jobs – pretty good deal. And I think that they're a pretty good team, but she'll handle things probably even better than he did.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Oh, is that right? Even better?
HARRY REID: Oh, yeah.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Would you like to see her run?
HARRY REID: I don't know what more I can say than — to be a cheerleader for — than what I've already said in this interview.
Pelosi Blasts "Clueless" Dem Perverts Weiner, Filner Over
"Reprehensible" Treatment Of Women, "They Need Therapy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZMbsw-mAWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IbLSBWwe8w
(Oh, oh... Weiner is toast)
Via Free Beacon:Q: Madam Leader, as one of the most prominent Democratic politicians, I'm curious about your take on former Congressman Weiner's latest transgression, having repeated the same action that occurred for his resignation in Congress. Do you have any new –
REP. PELOSI: So should I be thinking of you as sort of a social issue kind of a guy here? (Laughs.) We're here — we're legislators. But I appreciate your question. I think that — I'm — I think I'm — spoken and acted in terms of Anthony Weiner and in terms of when he was in the Congress of the United States. In his case, in the case of Mayor Filner, clearly, they have both admitted they need therapy. I think maybe that therapy could better be accomplished in private.
Q: Should he stay in the race?
REP. PELOSI: That's up to the people of New York.
Q: Mrs. Pelosi, next week it looks like the House is going to take up –
REP. PELOSI: Let me just say, before I leave that — let me be very clear. The conduct of some of these people that we're talking about here is reprehensible.
It is so disrespectful of women. And what's really stunning about it is they don't even realize it. You know, they don't have a clue. And it is really — if they're clueless, get a clue.
A Plan for Dealing With John Boehner
by Doug RossI think we can all agree that John Boehner is a complete and utter failure as House Speaker. Marble-mouthed, unprincipled, double-dealing and cowardly are among the more positive attributes I can think of. Consider the man's actions over the two-and-a-half years that have elapsed since the Tea Party movement and Constitutional Conservatives brought him to power:
• Despite an unprecedented series of White House scandals -- including, but not limited to gun-running to Mexican drug cartels, the Benghazi cover-up, IRS-gate, and repeated perjurious testimony to Congress -- John Boehner refuses to name a Select Investigative Committee or demand a Special Prosecutor.
• In fact, in the case of the Benghazi cover-up, even though 75 percent of House Republicans want a Select Committee formed, Boehner refuses. That's right: John Boehner refuses to name a Special Committee on Benghazi, with dedicated budget, resources and staff -- and won't even tell us why.
• And what could be the reason? Some have speculated that Boehner has secretly cut a deal with Democrats in exchange for, well, who knows? Suffice it to say that if John Boehner is negotiating for you, you're going to walk out of the room wearing only your underwear. My guess is he really has cut a secret deal with Obama and Reid, perhaps regarding the debt ceiling or some other act of surrender that sells out the American people in exchange for his consolidation of more power.
• And what is John Boehner's top priority right now? That's right: Amnesty. Legalizing tens of millions of illegal aliens, which we know for a fact will vote by a stunning 8-to-1 margin for Democrats. Brilliant.
• As for de-funding Obamacare? That, too, Boehner refuses to do, instead holding fan-dance votes to repeal Obamacare, knowing that said bills will never see the light of day in the Senate. The Constitution grants the House of Representatives the power of the purse. Boehner could de-fund Obamacare -- completely -- if he wished, letting Obama try to rally support for his despotic and failed testament to central planning. But this Boehner will not do, because it requires brains, courage, principles and cojones.
So what do we do about John Boehner?While there are grassroots efforts emerging to primary Boehner in Ohio's 8th District -- and we wish them all possible success -- the time has come to consider an alternative plan. A nuclear option, if you will.
Assuming that Boehner wins his primary in OH-8, I suggest we rally support among Tea Party and Constitutional Conservatives in that district to vote. To vote Democrat.
That single seat has virtually no chance of swinging the majority in the House one way or the other. A newly elected Democrat in that very Red seat will be a back-bencher and virtually powerless. This will give time to the district (and it is a very conservative district by all accounts) to assemble a credible candidate should one not emerge in 2014.
I would never advocate such a tactic in the Senate even though Mitch McConnell is Boehner-lite. In the Senate the odds of taking majority control are simply too tempting to chance returning the dimwitted crackpot from Searchlight, Nevada to a seat of power.
But Boehner, on the other hand, is such an egregious failure, such a cowardly and un-principled operator, that he must be ripped out of the Speaker's chair by any means necessary.
Let's see what happens in OH-8, but I suggest we fund and vociferously support any -- and I do mean any -- Boehner opponent. Enough is enough.
Did George Zimmerman Get Away With Murder?
The [MSM] media are reporting that a juror says Zimmerman is guilty of murder.
That's not true.
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(It's almost like the media has an agenda here. It's worth noting the far-left rag Salon is the one
who caught what ABC did with their selective editing)
Via Salon:http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/07/did_george_zimmerman_get_away_with_murder_no_juror_b29_is_being_framed.single.htmlDid George Zimmerman get away with murder? That's what one of his jurors says, according to headlines in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and dozens of other newspapers. Trayvon Martin's mother and the Martin family's attorney are trumpeting this "new information" as proof that "George Zimmerman literally got away with murder."The reports are based on an ABC News interview with Juror B29, the sole nonwhite juror. She has identified herself only by her first name, Maddy. She's been framed as the woman who was bullied out of voting to convict Zimmerman. But that's not true. She stands by the verdict. She yielded to the evidence and the law, not to bullying. She thinks Zimmerman was morally culpable but not legally guilty. And she wants us to distinguish between this trial and larger questions of race and justice.ABC News hasn't posted a full unedited video or transcript of the interview. The video that has been broadcast—on World News Tonight, Nightline, and Good Morning America—has been cut and spliced in different ways, often so artfully that the transitions appear continuous. So beware what you're seeing. But the video that's available already shows, on closer inspection, that Maddy has been manipulated and misrepresented. Here are the key points.1. The phrase "got away with murder" was put in her mouth. Nightline shows ABC interviewer Robin Roberts asking Maddy: "Some people have said, 'George Zimmerman got away with murder. How do you respond to those people who say that?' " Maddy appears to reply promptly and confidently: "George Zimmerman got away with murder. But you can't get away from God." But that's not quite how the exchange happened.
In the unedited video, Roberts' question is longer, with words that have been trimmed from the Nightline version, and Maddy pauses twice, for several seconds, as she struggles to answer it. "... George Zimmerman ... That's—George Zimmerman got away with murder. But you can't get away from God."You have to watch her, not just read her words, to pick up her meaning. As she struggles to answer, she looks as though she's trying to reconcile the sentiment that's been quoted to her... that Zimmerman "got away with murder"... with her own perspective.
So she repeats the quote and adds words of her own, to convey what she thinks: that there's a justice higher than the law, which Zimmerman will have to face. She thinks he's morally culpable, not legally guilty.2. She stands by the verdict. ABC's online story about the interview ends with Maddy asking, "Did I go the right way? Did I go the wrong way?"
But that's not the whole quote. In the unedited video, she continues: "I know I went the right way, because by the law and the way it was followed is the way I went. But if I would have used my heart, I probably would have [gone for] a hung jury." In another clip, she draws the same distinction: "I stand by the decision because of the law. If I stand by the decision because of my heart, he would have been guilty." At one point, she says that "the evidence shows he's guilty."
Roberts presses her: "He's guilty of?" Maddy answers: "Killing Trayvon Martin. But as the law was read to me, if you have no proof that he killed him intentionally, you can't say he's guilty." That's the distinction she's trying to draw here: Killing is one thing. Murder or manslaughter is another.3. She thinks the case should never have gone to trial.
According to ABC News, when Roberts asked "whether the case should have gone to trial," Maddy answered, "I don't think so. I felt like this was a publicity stunt."
Pentagon Considering "Affirmative Action" With Separate Training Systems
For Women In The Military, To "Maximize Success Of Women"
(...and just what the hell does this mean?
Turning them into hard-nose bitchy housewives)
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Via Daily Caller:Senior military personnel are considering new giving women different military training than men,
The Washington Times reports.
The effort was proposed by Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Niki Tsongas at a recent House Armed Services Committee hearing because so far, she says training systems do not "maximize the success of women."
Though the armed services have promised that combat standards will be the same regardless of gender, senior officers are considering initially separate training systems.
Army Lt. Gen. Howard Bromberg, serving as deputy chief of staff for personnel, considers separate training programs to be more about considering all soldiers as individuals, citing a need to explore how the training process works.
"We're not looking at it just for the integration of women," Bromberg said. "We're looking at it for the total soldier, because just as you have a 110-pound male who may lack some type of physiological capability or physical capability, he or she may both need to be trained differently. We're trying to expand our understanding of how we train."
Emperor Obuma Again Waives Congressional Ban
On Aid To The Palestinians
(Of course he waits until Friday afternoon to make the announcement. Once a Muslim, always a Muslim, huh Barry? Your Impeachment is long over due, Sh!tHead)
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Via Washington Times:http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/jul/26/obama-again-waives-ban-palestinian-aid/
Obama on Friday afternoon ordered another waiver of congressional restrictions on direct funding of the Palestinian Authority, clearing the way for more U.S. aid.
In the one-page order, Mr. Obama said he was taking the action due to the "national security interests" of the U.S. The move comes as the administration is preparing to host renewed direct talks in Washington between Palestinians and Israelis for the first time since 2010.
The president in March directed about $500 million to be sent to the Palestinian Authority, also waiving the restrictions set by Congress. At the time, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said he was seeking to move another $200 million to the Palestinians.
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Site Outlining Obama's Promises,
Including Whistleblower Protections...
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... DISAPPEARS
President Obama touted whistleblower protections as a priority on the campaign trail in 2008, but the administration has deemed it as a political liability, erasing a website outlining campaign promises.
http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/07/26/site-outlining-obamas-promises-including-whistleblower-protections-disappears/
Obamacare Call Center Reneges Offer For
Healthcare Benefits to Employees
(And the Obuma adm. lies roll on...
and this time the ObumaCare liberals took the hit)
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In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day.
One branch of that call center will be located in California's Contra Costa County, where, reportedly, 7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs. According to the Contra Costa Times, however,
"about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits — a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time." The county supervisor, Karen Mitchoff, called the hiring process "a comedy of errors" and said she "never dreamed [the jobs] would be part-time."
The Times indicates that a job posting advertised all of the jobs as full-time, and one call center employee, who said no reason for the apparent change was provided, told the paper, "It reminded me of that George Clooney movie where he goes around the country firing people ('Up in the Air').
The woman said, 'I know you were led to believe you would be full-time, but things have changed...You are actually 'part-time intermittent.'"The Contra Costa employees are currently in training, and the call center — one of three based in California — is set to go live on October 1.
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Did Speaker Boehner Cut A Deal With Obama On Benghazi?
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Earlier I asked why we still don't know what really happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, besides the obvious. If Speaker of the House John Boehner was doing his job, perhaps we would know, despite the Obama administration's attempt to just put this all behind us.
Mark Levin thinks perhaps Boehner cut a deal with President Obama. It's really the only explanation that makes much sense.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/24/mark_levin_boehner_cut_some_kind_of_deal_with_obama_on_benghazi.htmlMARK LEVIN:You know, ladies and gentlemen, I hate to say this, but it's right in front of our faces. Obviously, John Boehner does not want to get to the bottom of what took place in Benghazi. It's obvious. He's been asked over and over again by a majority of the Republicans in the House to set up a special investigative committee as is the tradition in these types of investigations. So you concentrate expertise and resources and time in one special committee rather than multiple committees that are also investigating other matters and overseeing other matters and handling bills and so forth.
So, it's as if the Speaker of the House, the Republican Speaker of the House, doesn't want to get to the bottom of this. And I suppose his brain trust, Eric Cantor — by the law, Eric Cantor is on this Lecture America Tour about why illegal immigration is a wonderful thing for this country. Is he stopping it anybody's neighborhood? I haven't heard anything about it, have you Mr. Producer? He such a voice out there — in the wilderness, where he belongs. But, anyway, it's obvious at this point, ladies and gentlemen, that we have to draw a very sad conclusion: John Boehner does not want to know what took place in Benghazi on that horrific day. And I'm honestly starting to think that he's cut some kind of deal with Obama, because why else would he do this?
Obama has never answered for approximately eight-and-a-half hours of inaction, and I contend that he went to sleep. He's never answered for this. And it goes on and it goes on. It's preposterous that we can't find out from the president of the United States, the Commander in Chief, whose going to be running all around the country lecturing us, telling us why our economic system sucks, why we should replace it with a top-down tyrannical-type of economic system, why we have to listen to his spokesidiot, this guy Carney, dismiss any serious questions that are asked. I mean, what the hell is this? Is this a joke? I feel like we're living through a nightmare here.
So the greatest secret on the planet right now is what Obama was doing during eight-and-a-half hours when our consulate was under attack, our ambassador being slaughtered, two ex-SEALs coming to his rescue being slaughtered, and the security/information individual, gentlemen, being slaughtered. And we can't get an answer. And John Boehner doesn't want an answer, because John Boehner is what stands between setting up a special investigative committee and not.
And God bless this Frank Wolf from Virginia who will not take 'no' for an answer. He just continues to press and press and press, and Wolf is not some kind of rebel. He wants to get to the bottom of this. And why should this be partisan? Why should it be political? And why the hell should the Republican Speaker of the House obstruct the investigation? So the time for mincing words — not that I do, but others do — the time for mincing words is over.
John Boehner does not want to get to what's going on in Benghazi, or what took place, and he simply doesn't give a damn. And he's very, very busy, ladies and gentlemen, scheming in the shadows trying to figure out how to give tens of millions of illegal aliens a 'pathway to citizenship' so that they can vote 8-to-1 Democrat. This is the kind of insanity that we're dealing with. And believe me, it is insanity.
Every day the Republican Party is more of a disappointment. Sure, there are some good ones out there, but the leadership and the establishment RINOs are turning out to be nothing more than water carriers for the Democrats.
(Obama raises his hand for a point of order on the Snowden issue. Putin, holding a dead fish, looks down. LOL....
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Stop mocking my POS President, Vlad! Stop, or I shall say "Stop" again ;D :D)
How Nutty Is This World Getting When I Sign On To Get The Daily News
First, Todays headlines:
Amanda Bynes — Doctors Win Bid
to Keep Her in Psych Ward
– TMZ
Sydney Leathers Details Being At Center
Of Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal
– Inside Edition
Weiner Had at Least 13 Sexting Partners
– 3 After He Left Congress
– American Power
Four More Women Accuse Filner
– KPBS-TV, San Diego
San Diego mayor to seek therapy
for 'inexcusable' behavior
– The Hill
Democratic Party officials ask
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to quit
– Los Angeles Times
Obama Says Vietnamese Dictator
Inspired by Founding Fathers
– Fox News
Miley Cyrus ... POSES NUDE
– TMZ
Now, the serious commentary: These are not the disease, these are merely symptoms of the disease, and the pattern is not coincidental, right?
Why has Amanda Bynes gone crazy? Why is Sydney Leathers being treated like a celebrity? Why can't Anthony Weiner remember how many women he "sexted"? Why is Miley Cyrus naked? Why does Bob Filner think "therapy," and not resignation, is the answer?
Don't tell me we don't know the answer to why President Ho Chi Minh is in the White House and Amanda Bynes is in the nuthouse. This kind of escalating madness doesn't "just happen," does it? I need a beer... wait, make that a 6-pak!
Quem deus vult perdere, prius dementat
...Warph
Dept of Labor: Kids can't work on family farms....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX153eYcVrY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3kwdue5XS0
(You can take the kids out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the kids...
And the criticism goes on against the Obuma Administration and the DOL)
A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it's attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.
The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families' land.
Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work "in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials."
"Prohibited places of employment," a Department press release read, "would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions."
The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government's approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course.
Rossie Blinson, a 21-year-old college student from Buis Creek, N.C., told The Daily Caller that the federal government's plan will do far more harm than good.
"The main concern I have is that it would prevent kids from doing 4-H and FFA projects if they're not at their parents' house," said Blinson.
"I started showing sheep when I was four years old. I started with cattle around 8. It's been very important. I learned a lot of responsibility being a farm kid."
In Kansas, Cherokee County Farm Bureau president Jeff Clark was out in the field — literally on a tractor — when TheDC reached him. He said if Solis's regulations are implemented, farming families' labor losses from their children will only be part of the problem.
"What would be more of a blow," he said, "is not teaching our kids the values of working on a farm." Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/rural-kids-parents-angry-about-labor-dept-rule-banning-farm-chores/#ixzz1t5QcU2lZ
Tea Party farmer: How the IRS targeted me
July 25, 2013
Self-described Tea Party Republican who repeatedly clashed with environment group says the
embattled agency improperly targeted her because of politics.
GretaWire:
Shaun Kenney: An Intellectual's Brain and Farmer's Heart
Between Intellectuals and Farmers
By Shaun Kenney | Monday, July 15th, 2013
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Given all the brouhaha between Martha Boneta's Paris Farms and the utter and inexcusable harassment she has received at the hands of Fauquier County...
(see above post)...this was a rather refreshing look at the importance of small farmers:
They answer to no one. They can make jam, build retaining walls, throw together a loaf of bread, make soap, sew scrub suits for the daughter who's a nurse, install an outdoor wood-burning furnace. Melvin has even been known to come in from milking at 2am and pick up whatever history book he's currently reading and not get to bed until dawn. It's a demanding way to live, but Jennifer and Melvin love it. Small farmers have to love what they do, because they're not in it for the money.What makes this article truly interesting is Anne Buchanan's reflection on the distance between academics such as herself, and those who really do work with their hands and run small farms — like her sister, who operates a goat farm in Vermont:
Snow was saddened that, by 1959, his literary friends no longer understood the concept of acceleration or mass, and his scientist friends no longer read Dickens.
Snow's concern was not so much that people ought to share a culture for its own sake, but that without a shared intellectual culture, we would not be equipped to address the problems of the modern world. In particular, he worried about overpopulation, nuclear war, and the increasing gap between rich and poor nations. Ultimately, in spite of the two cultures divide, he believed that science would solve these problems, and that, for example, there was absolutely no reason that poverty would not be eliminated by the year 2000.
Snow's lecture was published as a book, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), which is still available today, and still widely read, at least among academics. Some of his predictions, such as the end of poverty, were so wrong that it's easy to characterise him as terribly naive. And, 50 years on, the idea that it's possible to be well-educated in both science and the humanities is pretty much a pipe-dream. With the exponential growth of knowledge, particularly in science and technology, it's hard to see how it could be any other way. (emphasis added)This distance, one might assert, is the very problem that many small farmers face, whether it's against encroaching suburbia that prefers the smells and sounds of the farm be obliterated in favor of pretty pink houses, or an white-collar class that has so quickly forgotten that food doesn't come from a can, nor objects for consumption simply conjure themselves up from China.
It is an interesting concept that once upon a time, many Americans could have been expected to read from the same canon of literature. Today, this is increasingly unlikely. Whether on politics or religion, on how to make things versus their direct application, our modern American education system does not seem to be up to the task of offering us a single starting point — a problem touched upon by thinkers such as Cass Sunstein and further explored by Matthew Crawford as it relates to our ability to make things.
Today, we have a class of specialists in America who simply consume, but do not make. Small farmers and the act of growing things help make that connecting bond between intellectualism and practicality in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson — when the world was arguably smaller and the limits of human knowledge fairly Newtonian in scope.
Perhaps Buchanan is touching on something here that we moderns could desperately learn from. The act of creating and tending to things — whether that's raising goats, a small 4×4 plot of dirt, a farm, or even picking up a trade — is one step to bridging that gap.
Another item? Rebuilding the American canon of "required reading" for the liberal arts. You can pick up on shades of this from your high school English and History classes that once upon a time, Shakespeare and Wheatley, Steinbeck and Hemingway, Thurston and Thoreau, Emerson and Dickinson, Jefferson and Hamilton, Lincoln and Kennedy once occupied this hallowed space.
Today, I doubt this canon once readily identified by those who embraced the humanities early as a student are shared with similar enthusiasm among college freshmen more preoccupied with the rigors of a college schedule (or not) rather than an imposition of the highlights of American culture.
We have, in short, lost the American canon of literature, and from there the starting point which would allow the farmer and the specialist to converse.
Pity that.
Sarah Palin lists Obama's 'phony' scandals
on her redneck white board
GretaWire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0NTudcvLdk
Published on Jul 26, 2013
July 26, 2013 - Sarah Palin joined Greta Van Susteren on Friday night to slam President Obama for the comment during his big economic speech that Washington's too obsessed with "phony scandals." Palin wanted to know exactly which scandals the president was referring to as "phony," and held up a "redneck version" of Karl Rove's classic white boards to remind viewers of all the scandals currently plaguing Obama, from Benghazi to NSA snooping, asking in disbelief if he's really dismissing all of them as "phony."
Van Susteren noted how White House spokesman Jay Carney used the same word, calling it "obviously calculated." Palin likened Obama to a basketball player "trying to run out the clock" by hogging the ball and throwing "distractions and diversions at the American people." She called the president "cowardly," and said the only people listening to him at this point are journalists who aren't doing their jobs right.
She flashed back to the 2008 campaign, briefly conflating government whistleblowers trying to expose Obama administration abuses with people who were shouting about Reverend Wright five years ago. She told Van Susteren she was "banned" from talking about Wright and Bill Ayers because the Republican "elitists" running the campaign were too worried about the media backlash. She then held up what she described as a "redneck version of one of those elitist tactics of Karl Rove" using his white board to show all the scandals currently hurting Obama.
Van Susteren noted how people are actually able to see through what Obama's saying by going online, while Palin touted how "Americans are smarter than what the lamestream media's giving them credit for." She said with "lapdogs" in the press not doing their jobs right, they're leaving all the actual work of calling out Obama to the people instead.
Retired Army officer warns: DHS preparing for war against American citizens
DHS
March 23, 2013
By: Joe Newby
On Saturday, Terry M. Hestilow, a retired United States Army Captain from Fort Worth, Texas, posted a letter on Facebook that he wrote to Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, warning that the Department of Homeland Security is preparing to go to war with the citizens of the United States.
It is with gravest concern that I write to you today concerning the recent appropriation of weapons by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that can only be understood as a bold threat of war by that agency, and the Obama administration, against the citizens of the United States of America," his letter began.
The retired officer expressed deep concerns over "recent purchases of almost 3,000 mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) armored personnel carriers, 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition (with associated weapons), and other weapons systems."
Capt. Hestilow added a statement that Barack Obama made during his 2008 campaign.
"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've gotta (sic) have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded [as the United States military]," he said.
He also accused the administration of "deliberately defunding, overextending, and hollowing the Department of Defense," which he said is the "only legitimate agency" with the mission of conducting combat operations.
In his letter, Capt. Hestilow called on Congress to demand that the DHS surrender their weapons systems to the Defense Department. He also accused the DHS of enforcing the "tyrannical acts of this president" and said lawmakers should dissolve the agency "as soon as possible."
"One needs only to look to the rise of Adolf Hitler, and his associated DHS organizations, the SA and the SS, of 1932-1934, to see the outcome of allowing an agency of government this kind of control over the free citizens of a nation," he added.
Capt. Hestilow said that Americans cannot "be so naïve" as to think that what happened in Germany cannot happen here.
Earlier in the week, Capt. Hestilow asked his Facebook followers who the DHS intends to kill with the weapons and ammunition that it has recently purchased.
"Short answer," he wrote. "You and me! Anyone they think is standing in their way to impose a new Marxist government! Anyone who stands for the U.S. Constitution!"
"If I live and still have a page to speak out on later this week, I will discuss a proper Constitutional response in a couple of days. Standby. Out," he wrote on Thursday.
Capt. Hestilow ended his strongly-worded letter with a simple declaration: "We refuse to surrender our Constitution or our nation!"
http://www.examiner.com/article/retired-army-officer-warns-dhs-preparing-for-war-against-american-citizens
Mooch: Barack's Working To Free Americans From "Any Form of Public Assistance"
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(Jaw, meet floor. This Clown is as nutty as her corrupt liar of a husband)
Via CNS News:http://cnsnews.com/mrctv-blog/craig-bannister/first-lady-baracks-working-free-americans-any-form-public-assistance
In an e-mail to supporters, First Lady
[Mooch] Obama says she grew up in a family that didn't need help from the government, and that her husband is working to make Americans free from dependence on government once again. (Horsesh!t)
In her message sent yesterday from democratparty@democrats.org, Mrs. Obama says:
"When I was growing up, a family like mine -- living on my hard-working father's salary at the city water plant -- could build a solid life without much debt and without relying on any form of public assistance. Today, for too many families, that American promise is no longer within reach.
"Barack is working to fix that and he needs solid Democrats in Congress to help him."(Barack is working to destroy America, you B!tch... quit your lying. Anyway, this "Newspeak' she is spewing isn't directed to us... we poor serfs that pay her bills... it's tomorrow's talking points for MSNBC and the Liberal talk shows)
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However, her husband's administration is
spending millions actively
promoting dependence on government assistance in the form of things like food stamps and health care.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has written to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack investigating the USDA's efforts to promote food stamp usage, focusing on a partnership with the Mexican government to promote food stamp usage among Mexican immigrants living in the United States:
"Your department provides a document on how to 'overcome the word "No" and rewarded a recruitment worker for overcoming people's 'mountain pride.' There is even a promotional guide suggesting those targeted for enrollment harm their communities by not accepting benefits."
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gop-senator-usda-stop-promoting-food-stamps
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/01/obama-usda-met-30-times-with-mexican-govt-to-promote-food-stamp-use-among-mexican-immigrants/The Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has arranged to pay a public relations firm $8 million to promote dependence on government-run health care - enrollment in ObamaCare's health insurance exchanges.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/23/hhs-stages-multimillion-dollar-pr-campaign-to-promote-obamacare/?test=latestnewsIn Pennsylvania alone, HHS is spending $4 million to promote Obamacare at state health clinics.
http://watchdog.org/95003/feds-to-spend-4-million-promoting-obamacare-at-pennsylvania-health-clinics/And, a DHS website is promoting a range of government programs to immigrants, in both English and Spanish:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/dhs-promotes-govt-benefits-immigrants-despite-legal-prohibition-visas-likely-welfare
•Medicaid,
•Medicare,
•Food Stamps,
•Social Security,
•Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Bill Ayers And Others Asking
UN To Intervene In Chicago School Closings, Alleging The Closings
Cause "Serious Human Rights Violations" Bill Ayers Mug Shot:
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(A terrorist petitioning an American hating organization.
Oh, that will go over well... but seeing its' the UN.... :-\)
Via Daily Caller:Noted American terrorist and left-wing radical Bill Ayers is among the signatories of a letter calling on the United Nations to probe the closing of 49 Chicago elementary schools based on claims that it is causing massive human rights violations.
The "letter of allegation" is 24 pages long and contains 17 footnotes.
The Midwest Coalition for Human Rights sent the missive to the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland this week.
The Coalition is a network of over 50 organizations united to fight "serious human rights violations occurring in the United States."
{b]A number of individuals and organizations sponsored the letter. In addition to Ayers, others signers of the letter include four people associated with Action Now, an Illinois community-organizing group that split off from ACORN just before it dissolved because of financial problems and scandals.
As Eagnews.org notes, still another endorser is Michael Klonsky, a former leader of Students for a Democratic Society also a former chairman of a Maoist organization called "Communist Party (Marxist Leninist)."[/b]
Jesse Jackson Calls For Boycotting Florida Over "Stand Your Ground" Laws, Compares State To Apartheid South Africa...
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(How will Florida ever survive a boycott from a this washed-up Nigga race baiter?? "Birds of a feather flock together."... I figure Jesse will share the same pit of fire as Obuma et al when all is said and done. Durante degli Alighieri, simply known as Dante, wrote of the Nine Circles of Hell. Each of them are listed below.
Circle One -Those in limbo
Circle Two - The lustful
Circle Three - The gluttonous
Circle Four - The hoarders
Circle Five - The wrathful
Circle Six - The heretics
Circle Seven - The violent
Circle Eight - The Fraudulent
Circle Nine – Traitors
If Dante were alive today, he would have to include the tenth circle – The Obuma liberals)PHILADELPHIA — Stevie Wonder isn't the only one who wants to boycott Florida over its "stand your ground" law, which served as a backdrop in the recent not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
Civil rights
[Race-Baiting dummy] Rev. Jesse Jackson said Friday he also wanted a boycott of the state.
"We can boycott Florida, cut conventions in Florida, for its 'stand your ground' laws," said Jackson, speaking on a panel at the National Urban League's annual conference in Philadelphia. "If we can boycott South Africa and bring it down, we should boycott Florida and bring it down."
Jackson made the comments less than a week after Florida's governor, Rick Scott, said he wouldn't change the controversial law that allows people to use physical force in self-defense without a duty to retreat.
Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the Martin family, also spoke at the conference Friday, where he said that changing "stand your ground" was the way to "properly honor" the
[drug-infested punks]legacy of Trayvon Martin.
Pic of the Day...
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Egypt Military: "Obama Out, Putin In", "Bye Bye America"
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(What's funny about this is, most Egyptian Pilots trained here at Luke AFB for 2 yrs. to fly the F-16. Now they'll have to go in training for the Russian Sukhoi Su-30MKI, and it ain't no slouch)
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Obama personally denied the Egyptian military F-16s that were supposed to be shipped as part of an aid package to Egypt. So the Egyptian military and people are indicating that if Obama wants to support the Muslim Brotherhood, they have other alternatives like Putin, who has shown he wouldn't support the Brotherhood.
The U.S. has for years been close to the military who were always anti-Muslim Brotherhood.
So despite Congressional objection, Obama is personally sinking any positive relationship with the one major-non Islamist element in Egypt.
More crack foreign policy from the Obama team (bringing you foreign policy conducted like you were on crack since 2009).
Via Debkafile:Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled Cairo's streets and squares Friday, July 26 in rival rallies shortly after deposed president Mohamed Morsi was formally charged and detained for 15 days. Tahrir Square was packed with crowds responding to Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's call for a mandate to support the military fight on "terrorists." Another huge crowd of Morsi supporters packed the streets around the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Nasser City.
Instead of directing their ire at the overthrown Muslim Brotherhood, the pro-military demonstrators shouted "Bye Bye America!" as huge placards waved over their heads depicting as a threesome Gen. El-Sisi, Vladimir Putin and Gemal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt in the 60s in close alliance with the Soviet Union.
Spitzer On Weiner: Only Jerk Would Drag Wife Into Election Circus
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(Meanwhile the word on Spitzer's wife is that she
intends to divorce him after the election)
Report: Associated Press Seeking Full List Of
Concealed Weapons Permit Holders In Montana
(You can almost guarantee if the AP is looking for a
list of all concealed carry permits in Montana
they are seeking the same info from other states)
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Via The Flint Report:http://www.northernbroadcasting.com/Talk/FlintReportHeadlines/tabid/519/ID/9538/BREAKING-AP-Refuses-Comment-on-Gun-Permit-Request.aspx
"We do not comment on ongoing reporting efforts." Those were the words of Jim Clarke, the regional bureau chief for the Associated Press in Denver, when asked about the attempt by the AP in Montana to gain access to the full list of concealed weapons permit holders in Montana.
Other questions, including a simple confirmation that the AP in Montana did indeed make the request, were met with the same "we do not comment on ongoing reporting efforts" response from a clearly agitated Clarke.
Earlier this week, I first broke the news that the Associated Press in Montana had asked Attorney General Tim Fox for a complete list of concealed weapons permit holdiers in the state.
Montana Media Trackers also dug into the story, uncovering emails showing that the request came from Montana AP reporter Matt Gouras. Media Tracker's' Ron Catlett reached out to the AP for comment and was met with the same no comment response that I got. Here's more from Catlett's report:
According to e-mails from MDOJ obtained by Media Trackers Montana, Montana AP reporter Matt Gouras formally requested the information on March 18.
"We'd like all public information included on each permit holder, including, but not limited to: last name, first name, middle, street address, city, employer, age or DOB, driver's license number, date of application," Gouras wrote in his request.
Media Trackers Montana reached out to Gouras, who said he "could not speak for the AP." Gouras directed any inquiries to the head of the Montana Associated Press, Matt Volz, who, in-turn, directed Media Trackers to regional bureau chief Jim Clarke.
It has been almost a year since the fatal attack in Benghazi, Libya, during which four loyal Americans died and still the investigation is being delayed and stonewalled by the corrupt Obuma administration....(http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4669699994223443&pid=1.7&w=236&h=171&c=7&rs=1)
The Battling Boys of Benghazi
We're the Battling Boys of Benghazi,
no fame, no glory, no paparazzi.
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell
defending the country we loved so well.
It wasn't our job, but we answered the call,
fought to the consulate and scaled the wall.
We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate,
led them to safety and stood at the gate.
Just the two of us, and foes by the score,
but we stood fast to bar the door.
Three calls for reinforcement, but all were denied,
so we fought and we fought and we fought till we died.
We gave our all for our Uncle Sam
but Barack Obama didn't give a damn
just two dead SEALs who carried the load
no thanks to us - we were just "bumps in the road."
Obuma: I Know More About The Constitution Than Republicans
...Apologies to the Beach Boys and "Wouldn't It Be Nice?"
Wouldn't it be nice to be dictator
And to not pay Congress any mind?
And wouldn't it be nice to just pay later
Without debt ceilings of any kind?
You know that it would be a time of plenty
Without Republican intransigency
Wouldn't it be nice if I could give you
All the lovely things you don't have yet?
Don't you know I only haven't done so
Because some folks have corporate jets
Just a little expansion of powers
And this life of lotus would be ours
Wouldn't it be nice?
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(He also plays a veiled version of the race card when he says Republicans don't think he's a legitimate president... Tingles has made this argument a hundred times. His goal in becoming a constitutional lawyer wasn't to defend it, it was to pick it apart piece by piece and make it fit his ideology. Stupid criminals try to rob gun stores with bats. Clever criminals like Obuma learn weaknesses in laws and work in politics, Wall Street and Congress)
Via Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-on-unilateral-action-lawyers-i-dont-need-lawyers./article/2533569
In an interview after his speech Wednesday in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama was asked if he consulted White House lawyers before unilaterally delaying the employer mandate in Obamacare. Since Congress, in the Affordable Care Act, specified that the mandate is go to into effect at the start of next year, reporters from the New York Times asked if the president investigated whether he had the legal authority to put it off without going through Congress.
Obama didn't exactly answer the question. But judging from what he said, his answer was: No, I didn't consult White House lawyers because I know a lot more about the Constitution than the Republicans who are complaining about it. And besides, they don't think I'm legitimately the president, anyway.
"People questioned your legal and constitutional authority to do that unilaterally — to delay the employer mandate," asked the Times' Jackie Calmes. "Did you consult with your lawyer?"
[...]
At that point, Obama explained that if Congress doesn't like what he's done, then lawmakers can try to do something about it. "I'm not concerned about their opinions," the president said. "Very few of them, by the way, are lawyers, much less constitutional lawyers." And some Republicans "think I usurp my authority by having the gall to win the presidency."
Iconic Ground Zero Pic Almost Kept Out Of 9/11
Museum Because Too "Rah Rah American"
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(Oh yeah... Anti-Americanism run amok. That's just the beginning of what those bastards tried to do down there. They actually wanted to have framed photos of all the muslim hijackers displayed in prominent positions as if these islamic scumbags should also be honored. And the remains of the murdered that could not be identified were to be relegated to a sub-sub-floor behind a concrete wall. Entombed. A group of relatives of the murdered had to fight hard battles to not let this Museum/Memorial be turned into a white wash (is that racist?... I hope so) of the worst attack on American soil that was ever perpetrated)
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Via NY Post:http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/pic_fire_fight_Bl5WA1MEU7AaQeabPas4uK
This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum — because it was "rah-rah" American, a new book says.
Michael Shulan, the museum's creative director, was among staffers who considered the Tom Franklin photograph too kitschy and "rah-rah America," according to "Battle for Ground Zero" (St. Martin's Press) by Elizabeth Greenspan, out next month.
"I really believe that the way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is to not be Americans so vigilantly and so vehemently," Shulan said.
American hero Col. George "Bud" Day passed away today. He was 88.
Colonel "Bud" Day always stood up for America.
And, he stood against John "Lurch" Kerry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oObCOFiIrDc
(Rest In Peace, Col. Day)
ABC reported:Retired Col. George "Bud" Day, a Medal of Honor recipient who spent 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam and was Arizona Sen. John McCain's cellmate, has died at the age of 88, his widow said Sunday.
Day, one of the nation's most highly decorated servicemen since Gen. Douglas MacArthur and later a tireless advocate for veterans' rights, died Saturday surrounded by family at his home in Shalimar, after a long illness, Doris Day said.
Power Line wrote about Col. Bud Day, the recipient of the Medal of Honor and America's most highly decorated veteran, back in 2008:Karl Rove met up with Col. Day in April and related this story in a subsequent Wall Street Journal column. Day escaped his original detention in North Vietnam, but was recaptured. Upon recapture, the North Vietnamese conveyed a harsh message:
When he was recaptured, a Vietnamese captor broke his arm and said, "I told you I would make you a cripple."
The break was designed to shatter Mr. Day's will. He had survived in prison on the hope that one day he would return to the United States and be able to fly again. To kill that hope, the Vietnamese left part of a bone sticking out of his arm, and put him in a misshapen cast. This was done so that the arm would heal at "a goofy angle," as Mr. Day explained. Had it done so, he never would have flown again.
But it didn't heal that way because of John McCain. Risking severe punishment, Messrs. McCain and Day collected pieces of bamboo in the prison courtyard to use as a splint. Mr. McCain put Mr. Day on the floor of their cell and, using his foot, jerked the broken bone into place. Then, using strips from the bandage on his own wounded leg and the bamboo, he put Mr. Day's splint in place.
Years later, Air Force surgeons examined Mr. Day and complimented the treatment he'd gotten from his captors. Mr. Day corrected them. It was Dr. McCain who deserved the credit. Mr. Day went on to fly again.
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Elections have consequences, ladies and germs. The erosion of Americans' personal liberties and assault on privacy are being violated not only by the Current Occupier of the Oval Office, but by Congress as well.
Remember when Obuma slammed the Bush administration for government overreach and invasion of privacy? Sigh.
Hmmm... Obuma's looking pretty haggard these days in comparison to how he looked before the 2008 election in this video:Obuma in 2007: "No more spying on citizens who are not suspected of a crime"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAQlsS9diBs&feature=player_embedded
Those were the days... and then, Obama became president. And took a 180-turn on warrantless spying on American citizens.
Here are but a handful of videos over the past few months following the Team Obama NSA snooping scandal:Pres. Obama's response to the 2013 NSA PRISM spying scandal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plXyn7-313s&feature=player_embedded
Congress Approves NSA Warrantless Spying on Americans | July 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeaNXdhzaVQ&feature=player_embedded
Sen. Rand Paul Battles CBS Hosts Over Necessity Of NSA Snooping: 'They Put You In Jail If You Complain'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kheWCOf1IWE&feature=player_embedded
Mark Levin: 'We have the elements of a police state'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sq8CBDzRc&feature=player_embedded
'Fascism!': Bob Beckel Explodes at Obama Administration Over NSA Phone Records Grab – The Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcz8KkXX5Y&feature=player_embedded
Coulter Blasts Obama for NSA Snooping, Would Rather Be 'Harassing Americans' Than Fighting Terrorism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LZrl8RLto&feature=player_embedded
NSA Leaks: Obama Officials Caught Lying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2jT-hB6aDI&feature=player_embedded
Americans can wave bye-bye to what shreds of privacy, in social media, phone communications, and elsewhere, they have left.(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/drudge-report-headline-internet-from-hell.jpg)
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The Progressive and the Pencil
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This is a pencil. There isn't a single person in the world who could make this pencil.(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sAylu_l3qTY/Tam5jzausHI/AAAAAAAAk_8/W5RyTJLbM54/s400/110416-pencil-020.jpg)
The wood from which it was made came from a tree cut down in the state of Washington.(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MEmPtZKsJ1U/Tam5jm1mtaI/AAAAAAAAk_0/9PniG3ZbmNk/s400/110416-pencil-030.jpg)
To cut down that tree, it took a saw.(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-klwQRXw_jnA/Tam5jektq1I/AAAAAAAAk_s/mGBU8phbG3c/s400/110416-pencil-040.jpg)
To make that saw, it took steel.(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oaZ54KdAoDg/Tam5jFzgaSI/AAAAAAAAk_k/i7lG1Ml4mww/s400/110416-pencil-050.jpg)
To make that steel, it took iron ore.(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5RjRSDcprQg/Tam8bcVIrmI/AAAAAAAAlAs/EPrEnRCTLZ8/s400/110416-pencil-100.jpg)
The black center of the pencil, which we call 'lead', is actually made from compressed graphite.(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F0EhK2QoWe0/Tam8bHIDQGI/AAAAAAAAlAk/0veXSgcLY5w/s400/110416-pencil-110.jpg)
It comes from mines in South America.(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BRhgzXmNCVM/Tam8a263bVI/AAAAAAAAlAc/wgMpVaqdhLQ/s400/110416-pencil-120.jpg)
The eraser, made from rubber, likely comes from Malaysia.
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The rubber tree wasn't native to Malaysia. It was imported from South America by businessmen with the help of the British government.
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The brass fairing that holds the eraser probably came from the Midwestern United States, where computerized machine tools stamp, roll, finish and convey them.
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The yellow paint, the glue that holds it together... literally thousands of people cooperated to make this pencil.
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People who don't speak the same language. Who practice different religions. Who might hate one another if they ever met. When you visit a store and buy this pencil, you are in effect... trading a few minutes of your time for a few seconds of time from all those thousands of people.
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What brought them together and induced them to cooperate to make this pencil?
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There was no "Pencil Czar" sending out orders from Washington. It was the magic of the free market. The impersonal operation of a market system that brought them together and got them to cooperate to make this pencil, so that you could have it for a few pennies.
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That is why the free market system is so important to our society. It fosters harmony, cooperation and peaceful interactions between the peoples of the world.
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How many of the Demo-rats' despised "millionaires and billionaires" were created as this pencil came into existence? Do the employees of the steel mill care? The saw manufacturer? The buyer of the pencil? Of course not.
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In the formulation of the hard left Demo-rat party, the manufacture and distribution of pencils would be administered by a "Czar" and a centralized, federal agency. A few masterminds, like Obumacare's health advisory board, would try to manage and control thousands of voluntary, individual interactions. And we know from history that it simply can't be done.
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We must call Obuma and the Demo-rats' incessant drive for centralized government... and their class-warfare rhetoric... what it is: a new branding of the old Marxist philosophies, i.e., "Progressivism". It's just a different name for the same failed ideology that spreads misery and poverty where ever it is implemented.
The modern Demo-rat Party should be called what it is: the party of Marx. The Party of Unconstitutionality. The Party of Economic Misery and Failure. And it must be stopped... quickly... if this Republic is to survive.
BUSTED: The Complete IRS Scandal Timeline in Spreadsheet Format
[Updated]
Reading this timeline, I have come to three conclusions:
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1. IRS official Steve Miller lied to Congress
2. IRS official Lois Lerner lied to Congress
3. President Barack Obama lied to the American people
This scandal has the fingerprints of Barack Obama, David Axelrod, and Valerie Jarrett all over it.
This is fascism on the part of the IRS and the White House. It is fascism, straight up.
Or, as I call the IRS: Organizing for Revenue:
[...]THE IRS-OFA SCANDAL WIDENS: Lies, Cover-Ups and a Full-Fledged Assault on Free Speech and... Prayer Like an iceberg beginning to surface, the lawless activities of the IRS-OFA are becoming more and more obvious every day. Conservatives, Jews, Hispanics, Catholics, and Pro-Life groups in general appear to have been harassed, intimidated and humiliated.
As a reward for this criminal behavior, the former head of the IRS' tax-exempt division now leads the agency's ObamaCare enforcement arm.
MSNBC, of all places, revealed this morning that the IRS covered up its unlawful activities prior to the election:
The IRS commissioner "has known for at least a year that this was going on," said Myers, "and that this had happened. And did he share any of that information with the White House? But even more importantly, Congress is going to ask him, why did you mislead us for an entire year? Members of Congress were saying conservatives are being targeted. What's going on here? The IRS denied it. Then when -- after these officials are briefed by the IG that this is going on, they don't disclose it. In fact, the commissioner sent a letter to Congress in September on this subject and did not reveal this. Imagine if we -- if you can -- what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different."And contrary to the president's standard assertion ("I only found out about this yesterday on the news"), Obama's Chief of Staff was aware of the IRS investigation last year:
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said today that he was aware in the fall of 2012 of the Treasury inspector general probe of the IRS targeting of conservative groups, but he claims he did not know the details of the investigation... Even if ... he was not aware of details, It's not clear why Lew, as White House chief of staff, did not seek more information about such a potentially explosive matter as the IRS singling out the president's opponents for special scrutiny.Additional reports say that the IRS asked Tea Party groups for access to their websites:
The Obama IRS demanded that several Tea Party groups provide back-end access to their websites... And, from reliable sources: This happened to several Tea Party groups! The source has this in writing. It states they wanted access to everything the members had access to, which would be chats, email, contact information, etc...
There would be only one reason to request back-end access to a Tea Party group's website: to intimidate it from expressing it First Amendment rights to free speech.
And it gets better: the IRS is said to have asked pro-life group about 'the content of their prayers':
During a House Ways and Means Committee hearing today, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., grilled outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the IRS targeting a pro-life group in Iowa.
"Their question, specifically asked from the IRS to the Coalition for Life of Iowa: 'Please detail the content of the members of your organization's prayers,'" Schock declared.
This is fascism, flat out. I am not exaggerating. This is fascism.
We need a special prosecutor. And we need one yesterday.
POS President Barack Hussein Obuma's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated as of May 2013]
Yes, he's historic, alright.
Law and Justice• First President to Violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally Executing American Military Operations in Libya Without Informing Congress In the Required Time Period - Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)
• First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the Government to "Hold Anyone Suspected of Being Associated With Terrorism Indefinitely, Without Any Form of Due Process. No Indictment. No Judge or Jury. No Evidence. No Trial. Just an Indefinite Jail Sentence" (NDAA Bill - Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Refuse to Tell the Public What He Did For Eight Hours After Being Informed That a U.S. Ambassador Was Facing Imminent Death During a Terror Attack (Source: Mediate)
• First President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador's Death, Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case: the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.)
• First President to Have an Innocent Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After Lying About the Cause for a Deadly Attack on U.S. Diplomats, Using the Filmmaker as a Scapegoat (Source: CNN)
• First President to Use the IRS to "Unfairly Target Political Enemies" as Well as Jewish Groups (Source: Sen. Ted Cruz)
• First President to Unlawfully Seize Telephone Records of More than 100 Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Witness a Single Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple Hatch Act Violations Without Acting, Speaking Out, Disciplining or Firing That Person (Source: New York Times)
• First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)
• First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence from lawful subpoenas (Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a Long Weekend -- While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the advice of his own Justice Department - Source: United States Court of Appeals)
• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case (Source: Gawker)
• First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions" (Source: DHS documents uncovered by Judicial Watch)
• First President to Sue States for Enforcing Voter ID Requirements, Which Were Previously Ruled Legal by the U.S. Supreme Court (Source: CNN)
• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places (the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, Source: Investors Business Daily)
• First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight Committee Subpoena (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It (Defense of Marriage Act - Source: ABC News)
• First President to Increase Surveillance of American Citizen Under the Patriot Act by 1,000 Percent in Four Years (Source: NBC News)
• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees (BP Oil Spill Relief Fund - Source: Fox News)
• First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present" (Source: The New York Times)
Scandals• First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list - Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending -- Because The Notices Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal)
• First President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures - Source: Power Line)
• First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute. (Source: Washington Examiner)
• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts (Source: Wall Street Journal)• First President to issue an Executive Order implementing a "Racial Justice System", a system that tries to achieve "racially equivalent outcomes" for crimes (Source: Daily Caller)
• First President to Leak Confidential IRS Tax Records to Groups Aligned Politically With Him for Partisan Advantage (Source: The Hill Newspaper)
• First President to Use the EPA to Punish Political Enemies and Reward Political Allies (Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute)
• First President to Send Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to His Wife's Former Employer (Source: White House Dossier)
• First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization Tied to the Cop-Killing Terrorist Group, the Weather Underground (Source: National Review)
Economy• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government (Source: Reuters)
• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat (Source: Christian Science Monitor)
• First President to Move America Past the Dependency Tipping Point, In Which 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes (Source: Center for Individual Freedom)
• First President to Increase Food Stamp Spending By More Than 100% in Less Than Four Years (Source: Sen. Jeff Sessions)
• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs (Source: President Obama during an early meeting of his 'Jobs Council')
• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases (Source: The Hill)
• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to Propose Budgets So Unreasonable That Not a Single Representative From Either Party Would Cast a Vote in Favor (Sources: The Hill, Open Market)
• First President Whose Economic Policies Have the Number of Americans on Disability Exceed the Population of New York (Source: CNS News)
• First President to Sign a Law Requiring All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to Sue States For Enforcing Immigration Laws Passed by Congress (Source: The Arizona Republic newspaper)
• First President to See America Lose Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute)
• First President to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers' funds to his union supporters in the UAW (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler (Source: Detroit News)
• First President to Attempt to Bully a Major Manufacturing Company Into Not Opening a Factory in a Right-to-Work State (Boeing's facility in South Carolina - Source: Wall Street Journal)
Energy Policy• First President to Endanger the Stability of the Electric Grid by Shutting Down Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants Without Adequate Replacement Technologies (Source: National Electric Reliability Corporation - PDF)
• First President to Have His EPA Repudiated by a Federal Judge for "Overstepping Its Powers" When They Attempted to Shut Down Coal Operations in Appalachia (Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (Source: Politico)
National Security and World Affairs• First President to Lie Repeatedly to the American People About the Murder of a U.S. Ambassador and Three Other Diplomatic Personnel for Purely Political Reasons, Rewriting a "Talking Points" Memo No Fewer Than a Dozen Times to Avoid Referencing a Pre-Planned Terror Attack (Source: ABC News)
• First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government (Sources: ABC News, Rep. Michael Turner)
• First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That Could Help His Reelection Campaign (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space (Sources: USA Today, ABC News)• First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and rights to half of all offshore oil revenue" (The Law Of The Sea Treaty, Source: Investors Business Daily)
• First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund attacks against civilians (Sources: American Thinker, The Independent [UK])
Miscellania• First President to Insert Himself into White House Biographies of Past Presidents (Source: The New York Times).
• First President to Golf 122 or More Times in His First Four-and-a-half Years in Office (Source: White House Dossier)
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.
Warph,
I just received this in an email from an old navy buddy from 1966. The first few lines are his words.
This is so sad and so true!! I lived in Detroit for seven years and saw the city crumble right before my eyes. Working in downtown Detroit was a very scary proposition - EVERY day. The silent majority must become more vocal and active or more cities will begin to look like Detroit.
"Don't Cry For Me"- Says Detroit!!!!!!!
We asked for it, we voted for it. Now we are getting it.
(Frosty Wooldridge (born 1947) is a US journalist, writer, environmentalist, traveler)
DETROIT
By Frosty Wooldridge
For 15 years, from the mid 1970's to 1990, I worked in Detroit , Michigan . I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gunplay, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere!
Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it, and ignored it. Tens of thousands, and then hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing, and food stamps!
With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10, and in one case, one woman birthed 24 children as reported by the Detroit Free Press, all on American taxpayer dollars.
A new child meant a new car payment, new TV, and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson's 'Great Society' flourish in Detroit . If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.
Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America , outside of Richard Daley in Chicago , rode Detroit down to its knees... He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence, and arrogance. As a black man, he said, "I am the MFIC." The IC meant "in charge". You can figure out the rest.آ
Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state.
Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city for the free government handouts, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work in Detroit . As the whites moved out, the Muslims moved in.
As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. Detroit suffers so much shoplifting that grocery stores no longer operate in many inner city locations. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one of our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike, and total separation from America ..
Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan , paid for by Saudi Arabian oil money. High school flunk-out rates reached 76 percent last June, according to NBC's Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America .. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing.
Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city. Inآ Timeآ Magazine on October 4, 2009, "The Tragedy of Detroit : How a great city fell, and how it can rise again," I choked on the writer's description of what happened. "If Detroit had been ravaged by a hurricane, and submerged by a ravenous flood, we'd know a lot more about it," said Daniel Okrent. "If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we'd see it on the evening news every night." Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it, if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice.
But Detroit , once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country.
Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision making."
As Coleman Young's corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kickbacks and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city's death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit .
"By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit 's treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services," Okrent said. "The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers' union to reject a philanthropist's offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans , unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit today, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That's worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.
At the end of Okrent's report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, "That's because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city's collapse, it's also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century.
If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can't find a way to get up, what does that say about Americaآ ï؟½s future?"
As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner's book,"$20 Per Gallon", the auto industry won't come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit , thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America . If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more home-grown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit . Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs.
You have already seen it in Madrid , Spain , London , England , and Paris , France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights, and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying. Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.
I PRAY EVERYONE WHO READS THIS REALIZES THAT IF WE DON'T STAND UP AND SCREAM AT WASHINGTON , AND OUR STATE, CITY AND LOCAL LEADERS, THIS IS WHAT AWAITS THE REST OF AMERICA . IF YOU THINK MEXICANS AND MUSLIMS AND OTHER FORIEGNERS WILL EVENTUALLY FIT RIGHT IN THEN YOU ARE AS BIG A PART OF THE PROBLEM AS THEY ARE.
IF YOU THINK THIS IS JUST A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND YOU FEEL NO DUTY TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY, THEN I'M SORRY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WILL TAKE FOR YOU TO STAND AND FIGHT ?
Obuma Finally Comes Out Fully Against Keystone Pipeline:
Claims It Wouldn't Create Jobs, Will Raise Gas Prices
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(He could never come out for it, he is just too beholden to, and a part of, the eco lobby. And you wonder why the economy is crashing? Will 'raise gas prices'? He believes in unicorns too)
Via Breitbart:In a New York Times interview published Saturday, President Obama came out foursquare against the Keystone XL pipeline, claiming that it would not create jobs. "Republicans have said that this would be a big jobs generator," Obama said. "There is no evidence that that's true." He then blamed Canada for not "doing more" to prevent carbon emissions from oil sands. Obama continued, "I meant what I said; I'm going to evaluate this based on whether or not this is going to significantly contribute to carbon in our atmosphere. And there is no doubt that Canada at the source in those tar sands could potentially be doing more to mitigate carbon release."
Obama also blasted reports that job creation would be significant: ""[M]y hope would be that any reporter who is looking at the facts would take the time to confirm that the most realistic estimates are this might create maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline – which might take a year or two – and then after that we're talking about somewhere between 50 and 100 [chuckles] jobs in a economy of 150 million working people." He stated that gas prices would go up in parts of the United States thanks to Keystone XL: "So what we also know is, is that that oil is going to be piped down to the Gulf to be sold on the world oil markets, so it does not bring down gas prices here in the United States. In fact, it might actually cause some gas prices in the Midwest to go up where currently they can't ship some of that oil to world markets."
On Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Fox News Sunday that Keystone's failure to move forward was somehow Republicans' fault: "There were some political games that were played, that took it off the trail and path to completion, where Republicans put it out there as something that was put on a timetable that it could not be resolved. It caused a delay. Playing political games with something like this was a mistake."
[...]
Treasury Baloney-Miester Yak Lew: Yes, IRS Scandal Is "Phony"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggDoj9yrYc
(And water isn't wet)Via NRO:Treasury secretary Jack Lew on Sunday got specific about President Obama's contention that "phony scandals" are distracting lawmakers from tackling the important issues facing the country. With regard to the IRS's targeting of tea-party groups, Lew said, there is "no evidence" that any political appointee was involved in the matter, and "The attempt to try to keep finding that evidence is creating the kind of sense of a phony scandal that was being referred to there." "We have to distinguish reality from the part that is phony," Lew told NBC's David Gregory. He went on to try to do so.
[...]
Obuma Spends Yet Another Saturday On The Golf Course
(Round number 133 for those of you keeping score at home)
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Via WHD:Obuma is playing his usual round of Saturday golf with his usual roundup of junior aides. He stopped briefly at the White House following his event at the Korean War Memorial today before heading out to the course at Fort Belvoir in Northern Virginia.
It's already Obama's 22nd time playing this year and outing number 133 of his presidency.
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Goofy Yak Lew:Obuma Administration Will Make No Spending Cuts
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(Yes, let's continue to spend. Detroit, anyone? No lessons learned. The only really significant cuts I can see so far seem to be those affecting defense and the military at a time when there are more threats than ever against us in the world. Certainly nothing has been cut in the vacation and party budget of the White House)
Via Breitbart:On ABC's This Week on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew threatened that President Obama would veto any bill cutting domestic spending, and said Obama would not hold negotiations of any sort on the debt ceiling.
"Congress can't let us default," Lew said. "Congress has to do its work... I certainly hope that Congress isn't looking to create confrontations and false crises because we did see, in 2011, how bad that is for the American economy. The mere fact of negotiating over the debt limit, after 2011, would introduce this notion that somehow there's a question about whether or not we're going to pay our bills, whether or not we're going to protect the full faith and credit of the United States."
Lew continued by saying that Congress might actually move in the other direction by replacing sequestration's automatic spending cuts. He specifically cited Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John McCain (R-AZ) as possible negotiators with the White House – he said they would be meeting with White House staff to discuss other spending options. On NBC's Meet the Press, Lew said, "What the president said - and has written to Congress is – that they cannot fix the problems created by the across-the-board cuts– known as sequestration by cutting domestic priorities in order to fund defense. That's unacceptable...He won't sign that."
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(White House Tours Still Closed, but POS
Obuma
Finds Cash For Endless Private Parties)
Via WHD:The White House continues to bar average Americans from touring "The People House" but nevertheless lavishes spending on all sorts of special invitees – from diners at last week's Iftar dinner breaking the Muslim fast to sports teams and foreign diplomats.
Soon after the outcry over the cancellation of tours due to the sequester, the White House promised to see what could be done to allow some visits to resume. But nothing was done and no one can visit – unless President Obama finds you useful or amusing.
Favored guest have poured in this month, even though Obama was traveling in Africa for part of it.
Last week's glittering Iftar dinner featured about 130 guests treated to remarks by Obama and bread breaking with senior aide Valerie Jarrett and National Security advisor Susan Rice.
Obama held a mass reception for the entire diplomatic corps July 19. He hosted the 2013 NCAA Men's Basketball Champion Louisville Cardinals July 23 and will gather with the World Series Champion San Francisco Giants today.
Tingles Compares GOP Sponsored Voter ID Laws To Apartheid In South Africa
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(The clown must be on the sauce again... only Tingles
could say something this stupid and actually believe it)
Via Noah Rothman:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dont-know-much-about-voter-id-matthews-exposes-ignorance-about-laws-only-republicans-pursue/
Chris Matthews, beating a familiar drum on Monday, attacked Republicans for aggressively pursuing voter identification laws at the state level. Matthews, in his predictably hyperbolic fashion, linked these laws to South African apartheid and added that only Republicans and conservative-dominated state legislatures have passed these laws. This is incorrect.
On Monday, Matthews told a guest that he believes voter identification laws suggest that American conservatives are emulating the experience of South Africa's dying white apartheid protectionists by instituting laws which subtly discriminate against minorities.
"It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent," Matthews said. "You have a white, what's the word, feeble minority — it's losing its majority status."And it says, the Republican Party, we can only get so many white votes," he continued. "So we've got to reduce the votes of others. It does look that way."
Racist Al Sharpton Seemingly Attacks Himself:
"Some People Exploiting Differences Between
Us For Their Own Advantage"
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(Was he looking in the mirror when he said this?)
Via CNS News:Ol' Rev Al Sharpton, known for racially divisive rhetoric as an activist, political candidate, and talk show host, accused conservatives Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly — who he termed "the unholy triumvirate of right-wing reaction" — of "exploiting differences between us for their own advantage" following the George Zimmerman verdict.
"We have a long history in this country of some people exploiting differences between us for their own advantage," Sharpton said on his MSNBC talk show, Politics Nation, on Friday.
"It's a cynical appeal to the worst instincts in our great country."Sharpton went on to denounce conservative talk show hosts who commented on the acquittal of Zimmerman, 29, who had shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin after an altercation in February 2012. Zimmerman said his actions had been in self-defense.
"And in the time since George Zimmerman's acquittal, some right wingers have gone into overdrive to push the most negative stereotypes of the African-American community for their own gain," Sharpton said.
"The Rush-Hannity-O'Reilly crowd, the unholy triumvirate of right-wing reaction, has been desperate not to have a real conversation about the injustices of the criminal justice system."
Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Thomson Reuters Twitter Account
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(The Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group which is pro-Assad, pro the regime, had been posting anti-rebel propaganda in the timeline, arguing against any "negotiating" with the other side.
As their picture shows, they believe the other side, the "Free Syrian Army" is in bed with the United States and those evil Joooos... with anti-semitic imagery)
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Obama Regime Bows To CAIR's Demands, Condemns
Egypt's Crackdown On Muslim Brotherhood
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(Per CAIR's instructions)
(Reuters) — The White House condemned the Egyptian military's bloody weekend crackdown on demonstrators on Monday but took no immediate steps to suspend US military assistance to Egypt.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the crackdown, in which 80 people were gunned down in Cairo, sets back the process of democratization in Egypt and does not square with the interim government's pledge to swiftly return to civilian rule.
But asked if the violence would prompt the United States to suspend aid to Egypt's military, Earnest said: "I don't have any change in our posture to report to you today."
He said aid is under review, as it has been since Egypt's military takeover on July 3.
Europe's top diplomat shuttled between Egypt's rulers and the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday in an urgent mission to pull the country back from more bloodshed, but both sides were defiant and unyielding after the violence of this past weekend.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, making her second visit in 12 days as one of the few outsiders still able to speak to both sides, made no public comment. Supporters and opponents of Morsi left no doubt about the depth of polarization in the Arab world's most populous nation.
"It's very simple, we are not going anywhere," said Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad, making clear the group intends to defy government orders to abandon a protest vigil of thousands of followers demanding Morsi's return.
"We are going to increase the protest," he told Reuters. "Someone has to put sense into this leadership."
Treasury Says Federal Debt Stuck At Exactly $16,699,396,000,000 For 70 Straight Days, Just $25 Million Below Debt Limit
(Known as, "Cooking the books")
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Via CNS News:According to the Daily Treasury Statement for July 26, which the Treasury released this afternoon, the federal debt has been stuck at exactly $16,699,396,000,000.00 for 70 straight days.
That is approximately $25 million below the legal limit of $16,699,421,095,673.60 that Congress has imposed on the debt.
The portion of the federal debt subject to the legal limit set by Congress first hit $16,699,396,000,000.00 at the close of business on May 17. At the close of every business day since then, it has also been $16,699,396,000,000.00, according to the official accounting published by the Treasury Department.
If the debt had increased by even $30 million at any time during those 70 days, it would have exceeded the statutory limit. But, according to the Treasury, the debt did not do that. Instead, it remained precisely $16,699,396,000,000.00.
Even though the government's official accounting of the debt has not budged for 70 days, the Treasury has continued to sell bills, notes and bonds at a value that exceeds the value of the bills, notes and bonds it was redeeming.
Jay-Z On Moonbat Singer Harry Belafonte's Criticism He Doesn't Use His Fame To Push Liberal Causes: "My Presence Is Charity. Just Like Obama's Is"
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(Fun fact: If you took Obuma's massive ego and crashed
it into Jay-Z's equally gigantic ego the world would cease to exist)
Via WSJ:Jay-Z has responded to criticism from legendary actor and activist Harry Belafonte that the rapper has failed to use his celebrity in a social responsibly way. Last year, Belafonte reportedly said "I think one of the great abuses of this modern time is that we should have had such high-profile artists, powerful celebrities. But they have turned their back on social responsibility. That goes for Jay-Z and Beyonce, for example. Give me Bruce Springsteen, and now you're talking. I really think he is black."
During a recent interview with Rap Radar's Elliott Wilson (carried on Jay-Z's Life+Times YouTube channel), Jay-Z said,"I'm offended by that because first of all, and this is going to sound arrogant, but my presence is charity. Just who I am. Just like Obama's is. Obama provides hope. Whether he does anything, the hope that he provides for a nation, and outside of America is enough." He continued, "Just being who he is. You're the first black president. If he speaks on any issue or anything he should be left alone... Of course we want to challenge him to do better. I felt Belafonte he just went about it wrong. Like the way he did it in the media, and then he big upped Bruce Springsteen or somebody. And it was like, 'whoa,' you just sent the wrong message all the way around...Bruce Springsteen is a great guy. You're this Civil Rights activist and you just big upped the white guy against me in the white media. And I'm not saying that in a racial way. I'm just saying what it is. The fact of what it was. And that was just the wrong way to go about it."
Obuma Meets With Degenerate Race Baiter Al Sharpton On Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act Decision –
Update: Holder Also Attended, Sharpton Says It Was A
"Long, Significant Meeting"
(Bash whitey day at the White House)
Via HuffPo White House correspondent Jennifer Bendery
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(Update: The next time Obuma claims he wants to improve race relations,
remember he meets with people like Racist Al Sharpton)
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CNN To Produce Hillary Clinton Propaganda Film - Remake of "Godzilla Eats Toyko"
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(Groan)
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/07/cnn-to-produce-hillary-clinton-film-169427.html#.UfbOQ3XyTAM.twitter
Cumulus Media planning to drop Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity
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In a major shakeup for the radio industry, Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its stations at the end of the year, an industry source told POLITICO on Sunday.
Cumulus has decided that it will not renew its contracts with either host, the source said, a move that would remove the two most highly rated conservative talk personalities from more than 40 Cumulus channels in major markets.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/07/cumulus-planning-to-drop-rush-limbaugh-sean-hannity-169371.html?ml=po_r
BIG BROTHER WATCHING: Gov't Creating Squad to 'Nudge' Your Behavior
Gov't Knows Best? White House creates 'nudge squad' to shape behavior
By Maxim Lott
Published July 30, 2013 | FoxNews.com
The federal government is hiring what it calls a "Behavioral Insights Team" that will look for ways to subtly influence people's behavior, according to a document describing the program obtained by FoxNews.com. Critics warn there could be unintended consequences to such policies, while supporters say the team could make government and society more efficient.
While the program is still in its early stages, the document shows the White House is already working on such projects with almost a dozen federal departments and agencies including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture.
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/07/30/big-brother-watching-govt-creating-squad-nudge-your-behavior#ixzz2aYAmVSkT
Isn't this the way it is?
CBO: White House Delaying Obamacare's Employer
Mandate To Cost Government $12,000,000,000.0000000000000000 Billion
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(The train wreck continues....)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's decision to delay implementation of part of his healthcare reform law will cost $12 billion and leave a million fewer Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance in 2014, congressional researchers said Tuesday.
The report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is the first authoritative estimate of the human and fiscal cost from the administration's unexpected one-year delay announced July 2 of the employer mandate – a requirement for larger businesses to provide health coverage for their workers or pay a penalty.
The analysts said the delay will add to the cost of "Obamacare's" insurance-coverage provisions over the next 10 years. Penalties paid by employers would be lower and more individuals who otherwise might have had employer coverage will need federal insurance subsidies.
GOP Senators Cruz, Rubio, Lee Call For Defunding Obamacare On Senate Floor
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(Yeah.. Yeah.. Yeah... like the Rino's are listening. Good Luck)
Via NRO:Republican senators Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz took to the floor of the Senate today to lambast the president's health-care law and urge their colleagues to defund it in the upcoming continuing resolution.
The senators spoke in a colloquy for about 45 minutes, alternately making their cases to Republicans in Congress, some of whom have expressed opposition to the plan. The trio of tea-party favorites cited statistics showing Obamacare's effects on health-insurance premiums, employment, and the larger economy, pointed to Democrat-aligned groups asking for the law's repeal, and derided President Obama for delaying the implementation of the employer mandate until after the 2014 election.
Senator Rubio even went so far as to compare the law to Coca-Cola's infamous New Coke, which was such a flop after its introduction in the 1980s that the company pulled it from shelves.
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Top Weiner Aide Slams Former Campaign Intern:
"******* ****bag," **** You, You Little ****"
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(As if 'the Weenie' wasn't toast enough...)
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"OHHHH....[hic] I WISH I WAS A OSCAR MAYER WEINER [hic]"
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"TIME IS RUNNING OUT... GET 'EM WHILE YOU CAN"
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Via HuffPo:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/anthony-weiner-campaign-aide_n_3679570.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
A top aide to New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner had harsh words for a former intern on Tuesday, calling the woman who wrote about her experience working on the former congressman's campaign a "slutbag" who "sucked" at her job.
In an interview with Talking Points Memo, Weiner communications director Barbara Morgan attacked Olivia Nuzzi, the former intern whose story on the campaign was published by the Daily News Tuesday. In the story, Nuzzi accuses Weiner of incorrectly calling several female interns by the name "Monica," and claims that many interns joined the campaign with hopes of landing in the good graces of Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Hillary Clinton.
In the interview with TPM's Hunter Walker, Morgan lashed out at Nuzzi for taking her story to the press.
"F****ng slutbag," she said. "Nice f****** glamour shot on the cover of the Daily News. Man, see if you ever get a job in this town again."
Morgan denied many of Nuzzi's claims in her Daily News piece, as well as additional accounts she published on the site NSFWCORP, including a story on multiple departures from the Weiner campaign.
Walker reports:
According to Morgan, Nuzzi stopped interning for the campaign "like four weeks ago." Nuzzi's story on NSFWCORP described her as having spent "four weeks" as a Weiner intern. When asked whether the claims in Nuzzi's stories were true, Morgan suggested many of them were "bullsh!t."
[...]Morgan also expressed disbelief that Nuzzi criticized her credentials.
"And then like she had the f****** balls to like trash me in the paper. And be like, 'His communications director was last the press secretary of the Department of Education in New Jersey," Morgan said. "You know what? F*** you, you little ****. I'm not joking, I am going to sue her."
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"THAT'S ALL, FOLKS... BYE, BYE!"
Report: Weiner Wife Huma Abedin To Take "Extended Vacation"....
From Hillary Clinton
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(At the end of the day if she has to pick
between Weiner and Hillary, my money's on Pantsuits)
Via Politico:Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's transition office chief and the wife of embattled New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, is expected to take extended vacation time from her job with the former first lady in the coming days, sources told POLITICO.
The move is not a leave of absence, two sources familiar with the move insisted, and it's not precisely clear when she will depart for her vacation time from her day job.
It was a loose plan she'd had for weeks, since Hillary Clinton has close to no schedule next month – the Clintons are expected to vacation in the monied East Hampton enclave on Long Island – and Abedin had been expected to take the final few weeks leading up to the mayoral primary to be with her husband."
[...]"Huma is not taking a leave of absence, but she will be taking vacation time in August to support her family during Anthony's campaign," said a Weiner campaign source. "She had always intended to do this."
Caption This...
Yesterday's meeting between Dear Leader and Pantsuits:
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"Seriously, Hillary... how the hell did we get away with Benghazi?"
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Pelosi: Obama Most "Non-Partisan" President To Ever Serve In The White House
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(Botox has finally hit her brain... she is a straight up lunatic)
Via Red Alert:House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may have finally fallen completely off her rocker Tuesday as she commended the President and her fellow Democrats in Congress for propelling the Left into a "bipartisan, cooperative alternative" party.
The 73-year-old California Democrat seemed to fan-girl over President Obama during a meeting with USA Today's editorial board Tuesday, calling him "one of the most practically non-partisans I have seen in the White House." It seems the Commander-in-Chief has earned this special place in Pelosi's heart by his apparent willingness to work with Republicans to thwart yet another upcoming fiscal crisis.
Cowboy Sheila Jackson Lee On Congressional Black Caucus
Recommending Her As Next DHS Secretary:
"I Just Have A Big Smile On My Face"
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(Holy crap... That's odd, because I have the look of sheer terror on my face)
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WASHINGTON — Democratic Cowboy Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas is playing coy about whether she wants President Obama to nominate her to serve as the next Secretary of Homeland Security.
Asked by The Daily Caller on Tuesday about the Congressional Black Caucus' lobbying on her behalf for the appointment, Jackson Lee declined to say whether she's interested in the post, saying, "I don't have any comment."
But asked about the Black Caucus' letter recommending her, Jackson Lee couldn't resist expressing her joy.
"I just have a big smile on my face," she said — while indeed smiling — in a brief interview after the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
Obumanomics: Number of Americans Collecting SSDI Jumps 76,000 In July, Hits Another All-Time High
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(Thanks to Our Dear Leader, Barack Hussein Obuma,
SSDI has become a career choice for millions of Americans)
Via IBD:http://news.investors.com/073013-665681-nearly-9-million-workers-now-on-disability.htm
More than 76,000 workers went on the federal government's disability program in July, according to the latest data from the Social Security administration, bringing the total number of new enrollees this year to 534,038.Although that is down somewhat from the same month last year, enrollment in the Social Security Disability Insurance program remains sharply higher than it has been historically. Since 2009, an average of about 1 million workers have gone on SSDI annually — a 31% increase from the average enrollment over the previous 10 years.
As a result, a record 8.9 million workers are now collecting disability benefits, which is up 15% since the recovery officially started in mid-2009.
Today, there are fewer than 13 Americans working in private sector jobs for each worker on disability. That's down from 31 workers per disabled in 1990.
At the same time, the SSDI program is heading rapidly toward insolvency. At current spending and income rates, the program's trust fund will become insolvent by 2016 — less than 2-1/2 years from now.
Pant Suits To Be Honored With
American Patriot Award
For "Defrauding Our Nation"
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"Thank you... thank you very much, my Peons"
(That's odd, I could have sworn she tried to coverup a terror attack that killed four Americans. She should be tried and convicted on so many crimes! Why not just give her a participation award for helping to ruin our country... at least that one would be appropriate and truthful. I guess that's the libtard idea of a patriot. Bitch!)
Via Red Alert Politics:Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is once again being honored with an award for her public service.
Clinton will receive the American Patriot Award from the National Defense University Foundation at a gala dinner on Nov. 14. The award is given to "leaders who have strengthened America's strategic interests and advanced global security," according to a press release.
"As First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton tirelessly worked to support and defend our nation and our allies around the world," said Al Zimmerman, chairman of the NDU Foundation Board of Directors, in the release.
I think Mr. Obuma is concerned about getting impeached and has to make Mr. Biden look really bad.
My personal opinion is, even if he may be a little flakey he would be an improvement over what we have.
Read on.
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Perhaps in this brave new era where nobody's a traitor anymore, it's not such a big deal how badly President Obama is shortchanging his vice president . But it is fairly extraordinary considering how much Mr. Obama owes his presidency to Joe Biden.
Mr. Obama picked Mr. Biden for his unmatched foreign-policy expertise to offset his own haunting lack of experience in the field. Mr. Biden was the seasoned steady hand on the wheel during the campaign. Probably no one ever in the history of the universe has had more experience campaigning for president than Joe Biden.
Without the avuncular, "aw shucks," backslapping, truth-speaking pol on the ticket, who knows whether Mr. Obama could have won Ohio, Florida, Indiana, Virginia or North Carolina?
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/30/hurt-white-house-paints-picture-of-joe-biden-out-t/#ixzz2adSu16H6
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Quote from: ROSS on July 31, 2013, 09:14:43 AM
I think Mr. Obuma is concerned about getting impeached and has to make Mr. Biden look really bad.
My personal opinion is, even if he may be a little flakey he would be an improvement over what we have.
Read on. Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/30/hurt-white-house-paints-picture-of-joe-biden-out-t/#ixzz2adSu16H6
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
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('Pants suit' Clinton still needs Obuma and will toe the line. She has powerful, rich supporters within the party, but he still has the blessing of the "Chicago" machinery. 'Plugs' Biden is expendable because his "aw shucks" persona is no longer viable with voters. You have to understand that the D.C. political empire is pure theater... complete with a carefully orchestrated script and hand chosen actors. By now, everyone should realize that Obuma was groomed and moved along a fast track to the presidency. Gaffmaster Biden was not an Obuma choice, but was hand selected to be Obuma's insurance policy to thwart any attempts at impeachment. With Obuma's propensity for picking agenda-driven radicals, 'Plugs' doesn't fit the profile except as a place holder)
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On September 28, 1868, a mob of Democrats massacred nearly 300 African-American Republicans in Opelousas, Louisiana. The savagery began when racist Democrats attacked a newspaper editor, a white Republican and schoolteacher for ex-slaves. Several African-Americans rushed to the assistance of their friend, and in response, Democrats went on a "Negro hunt," killing every African-American (all of whom were Republicans) in the area they could find. (Via Grand Old Partisan)
Oprah Winfrey discussed her new role in The Butler with Parade Magazine this week.
She shared her thoughts on the n-word and lynchings.
On using the word 'Nigger':
Lee Daniels: It's a word I used quite a bit, until Oprah sat me down and talked to me about its power.
Winfrey: You cannot be my friend and use that word around me. It shows my age, but I feel strongly about it. ... I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree.
Forest Whitaker: I don't use the word. Never did.
Go tell Lil Wayne.
Of course, Oprah is a bit off on her numbers. Tuskegee Institute tracked the number of lynchings in the United States. They found that there were 4,743 lynchings in the US from 1882 to 1968. A majority of the lynchings took place in the Democratic South. One in four of the victims were white.
Oprah was a bit off, as usual
[...]Republicans outlawed the Ku Klux KlanOn this day in 1871, the Republican-controlled 42nd Congress passed and the Republican President, Ulysses Grant, signed into law the Ku Klux Klan Act. The law banned the KKK and other Democrat terrorist organizations. President Grant then deployed federal troops to crush a Klan uprising in South Carolina.
Eleven years later, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned most provisions of the Act. Though legalized, this original version of the Ku Klux Klan faded. Why? Because as Democrats regained control over southern state governments, they could oppress African-Americans openly, without need of white sheets.
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George Zimmerman Pulled Over For Speeding While Packing Heat In Texas
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Via TMZ:George Zimmerman is still armed and theoretically dangerous... he was stopped by cops for speeding and revealed he had a gun in his glove compartment.
Zimmerman was speeding in Forney, Texas on Sunday, just after noon, when he was stopped by police. Zimmerman told cops he was headed "nowhere in particular," and informed them he had a firearm in his glove compartment.
Zimmerman was given a warning, after cops determined he was free of warrants. He was sent on his way with a polite goodbye, "Have a safe trip."
[...]Groan: Smithsonian Wants Trayvon Martin's Hoodie
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(Oh yeah... Brilliant idea, let's glorify thug behavior in the Smithsonian!)
Via DCist:Now that the trial of George Zimmerman is over, what will become of the hooded sweatshirt worn by Travyon Martin on the night he was shot and killed? That's the question posed today in a great Washington Post piece. And while it may be some time before we get an answer, one suggestion means the hooded sweatshirt, a piece of clothing that has taken on greater meaning after Martin's death, could eventually be on display in D.C.
Lonnie Bunch, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture [part of the Smithsonian -ed.], told the Post he'd "love" to acquire the sweatshirt for a collection, an idea endorsed by the Rev. Al Sharpton:
Martin's hoodie, Bunch said, represents a unique opportunity to further the discussion about race in America. (And, by the way, he'd love to have it for his collection once the legal case plays out. He also has his eye on the hoodie that Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, wore in solidarity with protesters.)
"It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin case. It's rare that you get one artifact that really becomes the symbol," Bunch said. "Because it's such a symbol, it would allow you to talk about race in the age of Obama."
Curators, he mused, could "ask the bigger questions" prompted by the case. "Are we in a post-racial age?" Bunch asked, dreaming about how the hoodie might help shape perceptions. Then he answered the question: "This trial says, 'No
Quote from: Warph on July 31, 2013, 05:02:20 PM
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('Pants suit' Clinton still needs Obuma and will toe the line. She has powerful, rich supporters within the party, but he still has the blessing of the "Chicago" machinery. 'Plugs' Biden is expendable because his "aw shucks" persona is no longer viable with voters. You have to understand that the D.C. political empire is pure theater... complete with a carefully orchestrated script and hand chosen actors. By now, everyone should realize that Obuma was groomed and moved along a fast track to the presidency. Gaffmaster Biden was not an Obuma choice, but was hand selected to be Obuma's insurance policy to thwart any attempts at impeachment. With Obuma's propensity for picking agenda-driven radicals, 'Plugs' doesn't fit the profile except as a place holder)
You are right Warph. I keep forgetting. I need to bang my head on the wall or something. Thanks for the reminder.
Why do we need a strong military when Obama has his strong Homeland Security Army?
Some military leaders say their monies have been ad are being shifted to the Homeland Security Army.
And I wonder why? Do we need such a strong Army here on our continent?
Oh well, I don't have any answers and I guess I probably shouldn't ask for any.
Big Brother is reading this and might come after me for even suggesting such nonsense.
We do have to be careful what we say don't we?
Even if I am a ten year veteran of the Vietnam war and want to believe in my country, I still have to be careful, right
Well the email I receive from Military.com had this story to tell.
Hagel Forecasts Massive Cuts to Troop Numbers
Aug 01, 2013
Military.com| by Richard Sisk
The Army would shrink to 380,000 troops, the Marines Corps to 150,000. The Navy would lose three carriers, and the Air Force would begin mothballing its B-52 bomber fleet under a worst-case budget scenario outlined Wednesday by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
In addition, Tricare fees would go up, housing allowances would be slashed, pay raises would be scaled back, and commissary subsidies would be reduced, Hagel said -- unless Congress and the White House can agree to lift the sequestration deficit-reduction process that is projected to take $500 billion out of defense budgets over the next 10 years.
The re-balance of forces to the Pacific under the national defense strategy introduced by Preident Obama would also come under renewed scrutiny from the budget planners.
"We are committed to sustaining that effort in a significant way," a senior Pentagon official said of the so-called "Pacific pivot" to counter the rise of China. However, "it would be very challenging to implement that as conceived," he said.
Hagel and Adm. James Winnefeld, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed at press briefing the findings of the Pentagon's Strategic Choices and Management Review after first consulting with Congressional leaders.
A guiding principle in the review was "maximizing the military's combat power by looking to reduce every other category of spending first," Hagel said. To that end, the review led by Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter sought to make a "basic tradeoff" between the military's
"capacity and capability," Hagel said. (bolding is my emphasis)
Read more at:
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/08/01/hagel-forecasts-massive-cuts-to-troop-numbers.html?ESRC=eb.nl
You know I wonder how many billions have been spent to follow and monitor every move by every American taxpayer by Homeland Security. Don't you
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Nationwide "Impeach Obama" Protest Set for August 6
by Keith Koffler on July 31, 2013(Be there, forum or be square. I'm sure there are "overpasses in KS. I'll be at Sun City Grand with the group on the overpass #303 freeway. If you really want to get the drivers attention, go naked)
A grassroots group with thousands of members is planning nationwide protests August 6 calling for President Obama's impeachment.
The group,
"Overpasses for Impeachment," has gained steam since launching in mid-June and now appears to have a presence on all 50 states.
Scores of protests are on tap, with members taking to overpasses above major throughways during morning and afternoon rush hour brandishing signs calling for impeachment.
The organizing has been done mainly via the group's Facebook Page, which has spawned Facebook groups in all 50 states, most of which appear to have hundreds and in a couple of cases thousands of members.
The group has already staged dozens of overpass protests leading up to the nationwide event August 6. One in North Carolina, covered yesterday by the Winston-Salem Journal, appears typical.
On Tuesday, 15 local protesters got an early start. They gathered at the Harper Road exit on Interstate 40 in Clemmons for three hours for what the organizer of the event, Michelle Taylor, said is "a precursor to the national movement."
Protesters wielded hand-made signs declaring "Impeach Obama" and flags, joining in what is called "Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment."
Most states have multiple protests planned for August 6. The Florida group has scheduled 14, while at least eight will be held around California.
So far, the organization seems more a vehicle for protesting against Obama than actually impeaching him, as there is little evidence of any serious consideration in Congress to remove the president. The group's website lists a dozen "reasons for impeachment," several of which focus on unilateral actions Obama has taken without the consent of Congress.
This is good for a chuckle. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. ::) ::) ::)
List of bankrupt cities in the U.S.:
– City of Detroit – Mayor David Bing is a Democrat
– City of San Bernardino, CA – Mayor Patrick Morris is a Democrat
– Town of Mammoth Lakes, CA - Mayor Jo Bacon is a Democrat
– City of Stockton, CA – Mayor Ann Johnston is a Democrat
– Jefferson County, AL - Mayor William Bell is a Democrat
– City of Harrisburg, PA - Mayor Linda D. Thompson is a Democrat
– City of Central Falls, RI - Mayor James Diossa is a Democrat
– Boise County, ID - Mayor David Bieter is a Democrat
Government [a**hole] Agents "Armed To The Teeth" Raid No-Kill Animal Shelter
To Euthanize Baby Deer
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(The kicker: Giggles was scheduled to go to a wildlife preserve the next day. This kind of crap just boggles the mind. I wonder how much this act of 'bravery' by heroic federal goons cost us taxpayers? And they wonder why we despise and distrust the government? This is an outrage on so many levels...)
KENOSHA, Wis. —WISN 12 News... http://www.wisn.com/news/-/9373668/21277842/-/7vaaxd/-/index.html
...investigates an operation raising questions about the use of government resources and the state policy that meant a death sentence for a fawn.
It was like a
SWAT team," shelter employee Ray Schulze said.
Two weeks ago, Schulze was working in the barn at the Society of St. Francis on the Kenosha-Illinois border when a swarm of squad cars arrived and officers unloaded with a search warrant.
"(There were) nine DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs, and they were all armed to the teeth," Schulze said.
The focus of their search was a baby fawn brought there by an Illinois family worried she had been abandoned by her mother.
"When it made a little noise, it sounded like it was laughing," Schulze said.
Schulze videotaped the fawn they named Giggles during the two weeks she was there. The Department of Natural Resources began investigating after two anonymous calls reporting a baby deer at the no-kill shelter.
The warden drafted an affidavit for the search warrant, complete with aerial photos in which he described getting himself into a position where he was able to see the fawn going in and out of the barn.
Agents told staff they came to seize the deer because Wisconsin law forbids the possession of wildlife.
"I said the deer is scheduled to go to the wildlife reserve the next day," Schulze said.
It was to go to a wildlife reserve in Illinois that allows the rehabilitation of deer. Schulze said agents corralled workers near the picnic area and then set out in search of the fawn.
"I was thinking in my mind they were going to take the deer and take it to a wildlife shelter, and here they come carrying the baby deer over their shoulder. She was in a body bag," Schulze said. "I said, 'Why did you do that?' He said, 'That's our policy,' and I said, 'That's one hell of a policy.'"
Florida Is Doomed! Sixty yr.old Dementia-ridden Chaka Khan To Boycott The State Over Zimmerman Verdict
(How will Florida ever survive? Damn Nigga... she needs to worry about her Son and Daughter-in-law who are heavy in drugs.
http://www.taletela.com/news/9512/chaka-khan-takes-daughter-from-drug-addict-son)
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Via News One:In a recent interview, singing sensation Chaka Khan (pictured above) said she will not perform in Florida, after George Zimmerman's acquittal in Trayvon Martin's murder, according to the Huffington Post.
Khan, who recorded a tribute song for Martin in March, decided to take her disdain for the not-guilty verdict a step further,
"Well I am boycotting Florida. I had a booking there last week, and I cancelled it. But if any tribute comes up I'll do it. Absolutely."
Kahn believes the trial was indicative of the
racism that is still alive in America,
"Well, the trial, No. 1, was a travesty. Racism is still very much alive and well in this country. It has gone to more of a cerebral state, but it's alive and well. The new slavery is keeping Black men in jail."
**Stupid Story Of The Day**
Teachers Union President On Teachers Carrying Guns: Students Will Say, "If I Answer The Wrong Question, Is My Teacher Going To Shoot Me?," Parents Will Worry About Being Shot For Asking Questions
VIDEO: http://www.mrctv.org/videos/nbc-asks-if-i-answer-wrong-question-my-teacher-going-shoot-me(If a child thinks they're going to get shot for answering the wrong question, there is something very wrong with that teacher. If this is the mentality of the President of the Teacher's Union, it goes a long way toward explaining why many public school students can't read and write... particularly cursive)
Via Newsbusters:"I would hate for students to say, 'Oh, my goodness, if I answer the wrong question, is my teacher going to shoot me? If I make my teacher angry, is my teacher going to shoot me?'
I also think it impacts parents. Parents many times come into classrooms to have uncomfortable conversations with teachers. And I wouldn't want parents to come in and be hesitant to say something to me with, "Is this the teacher who's packing the gun and what do I have to be fearful?" I think it would make an environment of fear."
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Free Press editorial page editor no longer with Times Free Press
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/aug/01/free-press-editorial-page-editor-no-longer-times-f/
Times Free Press Editorial Page Editor Fired
For Writing This Headline:
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(Hee... Hee... You can read the article here. It was picked up by Drudge so it got a ton of exposure, which of course made Obuma look bad during his trip to Chattanooga.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jul/30/take-your-jobs-plan-and-shove-it-mr-president-your/?opinionfreepress)Free Press editor Drew Johnson has been terminated after placing a headline on an editorial outside of normal editing procedures.
Johnson's headline, "Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga enough," appeared on the Free Press page Tuesday, the day President Barack Obama visited the city.
The headline was inappropriate for this newspaper. It was not the original headline approved for publication, and Johnson violated the normal editing process when he changed the headline. The newspaper's decision to terminate Johnson had nothing to do with the content of the editorial, which criticized the president's job creation ideas and Chattanooga's Smart Grid. The Free Press page has often printed editorials critical of the president and his policies.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press is unique in that it has two editorial pages, the conservative Free Press page and the liberal Times page. This newspaper places high value on expressions of divergent opinion, but will not permit violations of its standards.
Has MSNBC leaned too hard on "Lean Forward"?
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http://variety.com/2013/biz/news/does-msnbc-lean-too-far-forward-1200570561/
The NBCUniversal outlet has used that slogan since 2010 to portray itself not as the buttoned-down news source it was when it was a joint venture of NBCU and Microsoft, but as a community for progressive discussion that trumps humdrum reportage with advocacy.
Say what you will about the ongoing collapse of the Fourth Estate, but the partisan approach, in which
[Idiot] Al Sharpton and others actively push for change, has worked, bringing ratings increases and celebrity status for primetime personalities like Rachel Maddow.
In recent weeks,
[that's months, not weeks] however, MSNBC ratings have slipped, and leaning forward may be a cause. MSNBC markets itself as a place for discussion and community. Yet when bombs explode at the Boston Marathon or unrest shatters Egypt, viewers want information first, and analysis — even solutions — later, if at all.
For the week ended July 7, MSNBC's primetime programming captured 14% to 15% fewer viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 — the demographic coveted by sponsors of news programming — than a year earlier, according to Nielsen. In May, MSNBC , which usually plays second only to Fox News, saw its ratings fall behind those of CNN and HLN, too.
MSNBC's top executive, Phil Griffin, thinks the shift is short-lived. "There has been an inordinate amount of big, breaking news, and that is, honestly, when CNN does well. It's pure muscle memory," he said. MSNBC's performance is bound to suffer in comparison with that of 2012, he added, when a presidential election drew political junkies and casual viewers alike.
Sounds plausible, but could MSNBC's recent ebb suggest something more seriously amiss? Jerey McCall, author of "Viewer Discretion Advised: Taking Control of Mass Media Infl uence," believes so, saying that the newsie generated its initial momentum by riding the optimism of President Obama's rise to prominence.
"MSNBC's problems might be more than just a hiccup," McCall maintained. "Now that the Obama administration's fortunes have apparently declined with various challenges like NSA, IRS and Benghazi, previously (enthusiastic) news consumers on the left might find it hard to keep tuned in."To be sure, there's nothing wrong with opinion-making.
But MSNBC offers an awful lot of it. An analysis by Pew Research of 108 hours of cable-news programming during three days in November and December found opinion and commentary overwhelmed straight news on MSNBC by 85% to 15%. Fox News content included 55% opinion and commentary and 45% factual reporting, Pew said, while CNN content consisted of 46% opinion and commentary and 54% factual reporting.
No matter what their mix, both Fox News and CNN have for years pitched themselves as places to go when viewers need details, not discussion, an angle MSNBC does not take.
MSNBC made a strategic decision to essentially rebrand itself as the policy yin to Fox News' yang, explained Mark Jurkowitz, associate director at the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. "So far this year, (it has) probably seen some of the pitfalls of that rebranding."
Griffin remains steadfast in the transparency of MSNBC's mission, and believes there's little reason to change. The cabler will focus on getting past political malaise, he said. "There is a sense that America doesn't do big things. We do, in some ways as much as ever. We have to find it." Look for the network to dabble in digital community-building with a new website in the fall.
Dispensing "just the facts" is no longer enough for most people. Just ask your local newspaper publisher. Still, when big stories do arise, you need newsgathering muscle, not gum flapping. Activist Sharpton can't do what Brian Williams does, and the more Maddow and Chris Matthews pontificate, the farther they get from being able to present news events in an objective fashion. Who is the face of MSNBC should terrorism cripple a major American city?MSNBC has woven a grand tapestry. But it should never forget that there are times when a news network simply has to stick to its knitting.
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***(Obuma supporters, no doubt)***
**PURE EVIL**
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Teamster Protesters Taunt Mourners at Funeral Home – Unleash German Shepard on Grieving Family
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The Washington Free Beacon reported:http://freebeacon.com/teamsters-ordered-to-stop-picketing-funeral-homes/
A judge ordered one of Chicago's most politically powerful labor unions to suspend picketing against 16 funeral homes last week after receiving reports that striking Teamsters had, among other things, disturbed a child's funeral.
SCI Illinois Services, Inc., one of the nation's largest funeral home chains, asked a district court to intervene after striking funeral directors and drivers with Teamsters Local 727 allegedly harassed grieving families.
"We are grateful that the court agreed to issue this temporary restraining order, and we are hopeful that it will help protect grieving families who are experiencing the most difficult times of their lives," Larry Michael, managing director for SCI Illinois Services, Inc., said in a release. "While we recognize and respect the Teamsters' right to lawfully picket, we have been shocked and saddened by their attempts to make grieving families the target of the cruel and outrageous attacks."
The company testified in its filing that union members blocked grieving family members from leaving its parking lot, used bullhorns to shout obscenities at workers and mourners, and unleashed a German Shepard on a dead woman's daughter and husband.***(Obuma supporters, no doubt)***
Some incidents cited in the complaint include:** During the service of a young child who had passed away from cancer, picketers laughed, smiled and joked as they created a disturbance within the immediate vicinity of the only public entrance to the funeral home. They were asked to move by a police officer who had been called – then moved back immediately in front of the building and its entrance after the officer left.
** While escorting a woman and her father who were attempting to plan her recently deceased mother's funeral, an employee escorting them was taunted and called names, the three of them were taunted with a bullhorn and siren sound, and intimidated by an unleashed German Shepherd.
** Picketers used a bullhorn to shout profane and sexually explicit taunts while a woman and her four- and five-year-old sons attempted to make arrangements for her grandmother's funeral causing the family to become visibly upset.
** A group of picketers temporarily blocked a grieving widow's vehicle as she tried to exit the parking lot.
** Picketers repeatedly used the siren function on a bull horn, compressed air horns, car horns and car alarms to create loud disturbances during arrangements and services.
** Picketers threatened to blow up the house of a retired sheriff's officer hired to work private security at the funeral home.
Teamsters Local 727
The Teamsters turned down a 9% wage increase offer by SCI and went on strike.
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UPDATE: The union protester with the German Shepard has been identified.
His name is – John Belovich – and he's a funeral director.
Here is a description of the dog assault on a grieving family from the court documents:
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Initial Jobless Claims Fall To Reagan Recovery Years (1984)...
While Real GDP Is 20% Of Reagan Recovery
(He's just like Reagan... Except when he isn't)
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Real GDP under Barack Hussein Obuma is 20% of the Reagan recovery.
Confounded Interest reported:
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/initial-jobless-claims-fall-to-reagan-recovery-years-1984-while-homeownership-rates-continue-to-fall/
While initial jobless claims are as low as March 1984, real GDP growth is now 1.7%, while it was 8.20% in March 1984. The Obama "Recovery" is only 20% of the Reagan Recovery.
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And both labor force participation and the employment-to-population ratio are back to Regan Recovery numbers. But going the wrong way!
(Guess Obuma's "spend your way to hell" plan doesn't work so well, huh?)
CNN Bombshell: CIA Personnel in Benghazi Silenced with Threats to Their Families by Obama Regime
Kyle Becker
On August 1, 2013
https://twitter.com/kylenbecker
CNN has released yet another bombshell in the ongoing Benghazi scandal, and it is sure to shock those who haven't been paying attention. Prepare for a window into the "transparent" Obama administration.
According to CNN's Jake Tapper, the Obama administration is threatening CIA operatives who were on the ground during the deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi to keep them silent:
CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency's Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.
Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency's missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency's workings.
The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress.
It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career.
In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, "You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well."
This should quell all naysaying that Benghazi is a "phony scandal" and "there is no cover-up." Possible links to the Benghazi story that the Obama administration might want to cover-up are the arms shipments to al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists in the February 17th Martyr's Brigade and potential weapons smuggling to al Qaeda-connected rebels in Syria through the Turkish consul.
The CIA operatives' story is similar to that given by the number two diplomat in Benghazi, Libya — Gregory Hicks. Under oath, Hicks testified that he was told by the State Department not to discuss Benghazi with House Republicans and then was demoted when he did.
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/08/70066-cnn-bombshell-cia-personnel-in-benghazi-silenced-with-threats-to-their-families-by-obama-regime/
Surprise, surprise ----- NOT
Would you like some excitement around your place?
Google Pressure Cooker and BackPack and get a visit from the FEDS.
http://news.yahoo.com/google-pressure-cookers-backpacks-visit-feds-140900667.html
Report: Record Number of Young Adults
Still Living With Their Parents
A Record 21.6 Million In 2012
Via PEW Reserch: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/08/01/a-rising-share-of-young-adults-live-in-their-parents-home/
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In 2012, 36% of the nation's young adults ages 18 to 31—the so-called Millennial generation—were living in their parents' home, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. This is the highest share in at least four decades and represents a slow but steady increase over the 32% of their same-aged counterparts who were living at home prior to the Great Recession in 2007 and the 34% doing so when it officially ended in 2009.
A record total of 21.6 million Millennials lived in their parents' home in 2012, up from 18.5 million of their same aged counterparts in 2007. Of these, at least a third and perhaps as many as half are college students. (In the census data used for this analysis, college students who live in dormitories during the academic year are counted as living with their parents).
Younger Millennials (ages 18 to 24) are much more likely than older ones (ages 25 to 31) to be living with their parents—56% versus 16%. Since the onset of the 2007-2009 recession, both age groups have experienced a rise in this living arrangement.
The men of the Millennial generation are more likely than the women to be living with their parents—40% versus 32%—continuing a long-term gender gap in the share of young adults who do so.1
The steady rise in the share of young adults who live in their parents' home appears to be driven by a combination of economic, educational and cultural factors. Among them:
Declining employment. In 2012, 63% of 18- to 31-year-olds had jobs, down from the 70% of their same-aged counterparts who had jobs in 2007. In 2012, unemployed Millennials were much more likely than employed Millennials to be living with their parents (45% versus 29%).
Rising college enrollment. In March 2012, 39% of 18- to 24-year-olds were enrolled in college, up from 35% in March 2007. Among 18 to 24 year olds, those enrolled in college were much more likely than those not in college to be living at home – 66% versus 50%.
Declining marriage. In 2012 just 25% of Millennials were married, down from the 30% of 18- to 31-year-olds who were married in 2007. Today's unmarried Millennials are much more likely than married Millennials to be living with their parents (47% versus 3%).
(And these same young people overwhelmingly supported the man whose policies has them languishing in mom's basement)
Quote from: ROSS on August 01, 2013, 08:59:31 PM
CNN Bombshell: CIA Personnel in Benghazi Silenced with Threats to Their Families by Obama Regime
Kyle Becker
On August 1, 2013
https://twitter.com/kylenbecker
CNN has released yet another bombshell in the ongoing Benghazi scandal, and it is sure to shock those who haven't been paying attention. Prepare for a window into the "transparent" Obama administration.
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/08/70066-cnn-bombshell-cia-personnel-in-benghazi-silenced-with-threats-to-their-families-by-obama-regime/
Surprise, surprise ----- NOT
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Bombshell: CIA Had "Dozens" of People On Ground During Benghazi Attack, Agency Making "Unprecedented Attempt" To Keep Details From Leaking Out
(Hmmm... more to come on this, I'm sure)
Via CNN:CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack.
Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in the assault by armed militants last September 11 in eastern Libya.
Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret.
CNN has learned the CIA is involved in what one source calls an unprecedented attempt to keep the spy agency's Benghazi secrets from ever leaking out.
Since January, some CIA operatives involved in the agency's missions in Libya, have been subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph examinations, according to a source with deep inside knowledge of the agency's workings.
The goal of the questioning, according to sources, is to find out if anyone is talking to the media or Congress.
It is being described as pure intimidation, with the threat that any unauthorized CIA employee who leaks information could face the end of his or her career.
In exclusive communications obtained by CNN, one insider writes, "You don't jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well."
Another says, "You have no idea the amount of pressure being brought to bear on anyone with knowledge of this operation."
"Agency employees typically are polygraphed every three to four years. Never more than that," said former CIA operative and CNN analyst Robert Baer.
In other words, the rate of the kind of polygraphs alleged by sources is rare.
Quote from: ROSS on August 01, 2013, 09:20:29 PM
Would you like some excitement around your place?
Google Pressure Cooker and BackPack and get a visit from the FEDS.
http://news.yahoo.com/google-pressure-cookers-backpacks-visit-feds-140900667.html
(And the beat goes on...)
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Religion of (((Peace))) Threats Force Closure of All U.S. Embassies In Muslim World
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(When was the last time a religion other than the
crappy Islam caused something like this?)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is shuttering its embassies and consulates throughout the Muslim world on Sunday after receiving an unspecified threat, officials said.
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State Department officials said Thursday that they were taking action out of an "abundance of caution."
Spokeswoman Marie Harf cited information indicating a threat to U.S. facilities overseas and said some diplomatic offices may stay closed for more than a day.
Other U.S. officials said the threat was in the Muslim world, where Sunday is a workday. American diplomatic missions in Europe, Latin America and many other places are closed on Sunday.
Those officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
The State Department issued a major warning last year informing American diplomatic facilities across the Muslim world about potential violence connected to the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
[...]UPDATE:
List of embassies closed over security concerns
Published August 02, 2013
FoxNews.com
The State Department has announced that the following embassies and consulates will be closed this Sunday over security concerns:
U.S. Embassy Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
U.S. Embassy Algiers, Algeria
U.S. Embassy Amman, Jordan
U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq
U.S. Embassy Cairo, Egypt
U.S. Consulate Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
U.S. Embassy Djibouti, Djibouti
U.S. Embassy Dhaka, Bangladesh
U.S. Embassy Doha, Qatar
U.S. Consulate Dubai, United Arab Emirates
U.S. Consulate Erbil, Iraq
U.S. Consulate Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
U.S. Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan
U.S. Embassy Khartoum, Sudan
U.S. Embassy Kuwait City, Kuwait
U.S. Embassy Manama, Bahrain
U.S. Embassy Muscat, Oman
U.S. Embassy Nouakchott, Mauritania
U.S. Embassy Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
U.S. Embassy Sana'a, Yemen
U.S. Embassy Tripoli, Libya
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/02/list-embassies-closed-over-security-concerns/#ixzz2aqP902AD
(Obuma Nominates Three More Major Fundraisers To Top Diplomatic Posts...
Brings the number of top campaign bundlers rewarded with ambassadorships to at least 20)
Via The Hill:President Obama on Thursday nominated three more major fundraisers to top diplomatic posts.
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The president nominated Dwight Bush to be the U.S. ambassador to Morocco. Bush and his wife donated more than $70,000 to Obama's reelection campaign in 2012, hosted a $17,9000-a-plate fundraiser at their D.C. home, and in total pulled in more than $500,000 for the president's reelection efforts.
Obama also nominated Pamela Hamamoto as the representative to the United Nations in Geneva. Hamamoto raised more than $500,000 for Obama's 2012 campaign and was a classmate of the president's when he went to school in Hawaii.
Earlier in the day, the president nominated Noah Mamet as the next ambassador to Argentina. Mamet has bundled nearly $1.75 million for the president since 2007, with the majority of that sum coming in support of Obama's reelection bid.
The president has rewarded at least 20 of his political allies with ambassador posts.
Presidents from both parties have historically rewarded campaign boosters with positions of diplomatic prestige, but an analysis by The Hill earlier this year showed Obama is outpacing his predecessors.
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Tweet Of Night
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Midnight call from my CIA source. 'This is the one.' Said the real question is why all those agents were in Benghazi. http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01/exclusive-dozens-of-cia-operatives-on-the-ground-during-benghazi-attack/ ...1:49 AM - 2 Aug 2013
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi...
CNN has uncovered exclusive new information about what is allegedly happening at the CIA, in the wake of the deadly Benghazi terror attack. Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens,...
CNN @CN
(Hopefully, the shoe drops soon... the deeper cover-up must be revealed)
Obama Inc. Refuses to Cancel Military Contracts with Al Qaeda Supporters
by Dan Greenfield
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It's all about due process. Al Qaeda supporters receiving taxpayer dollars get it from Obama Inc. Just not George Zimmerman or the State of Texas.Supporters of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan have been getting U.S. military contracts, and American officials are citing "due process rights" as a reason not to cancel the agreements, according to an independent agency monitoring spending.
The U.S. Army Suspension and Debarment Office has declined to act in 43 such cases, John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, said today in a letter accompanying a quarterly report to Congress.
"I am deeply troubled that the U.S. military can pursue, attack, and even kill terrorists and their supporters, but that some in the U.S. government believe we cannot prevent these same people from receiving a government contract," Sopko said.So we're paying people to kill us. More directly than we usually do.Regarding the 43 cases of contractors with militant connections, Sopko said the Army should "enforce the rule of common sense" in its suspension and debarment program. "They may be enemies of the United States but that is not enough to keep them from getting government contracts," according to the agency's report.
George Wright, another Army spokesman, said by e-mail that cutting off the contracts based only on information from Sopko's office "would fail to meet due-process requirements and would likely be deemed arbitrary if challenged in court."
Sopko said the Army "appears to believe that suspension or debarment of these individuals and companies would be a violation of their due-process rights if based on classified information" or on Commerce Department reports.I guess we can't force feed them those contracts over Ramadan either.(Nothing new here... the CIA has been conducting paramilitary operations since Viet Nam, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Africa and a whole lot more. What has been a variable has been the side they have been aiding. In the past it was never a side we, as a country, were at war with. This is now different! The CIA, under direction of SecState AND Obuma Inc. have been arming an enemy of the US. And to carry out this without Congress knowing, this had to be done at very high levels; the POS president, the DOJ, the DCIA and Sec State. There is no weaseling out from under this if the truth hits the light of day. Can you imagine if Truman, JFK, Reagan had the same efforts to stop the Islamists and then because of political correctness, leftist ideology, a POS President would treat and trade and give money to our enemies, how that would fly? Our Putin on the Potomac is a Quisling. Pure and simple. How America could have elected a traitor to our ethics, our heritage, history and values and to our Constitution is still beyond me except with the concept of the Low Informed Brainwashed Voter who wants to be dependent, is a Know Nothing and is more interested in an Obuma-phone rather than defeating Islamofascism. It really pisses me off!
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*** >> OPEN LETTER TO THE FORUM... READ & HEED, PEOPLE << ***
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"History Doesn't Happen In The Past... History Happens Now"
by Dr. Robert Owens
The parasite has out grown its host and it can't live on its own. We are witnessing the convergence of multiple mistake streams combining into one river of destruction. We have a ruling clique concerned only with maintaining its power supported by a dependent class that wants what it wants now not later. And they are employing public sector unions that want to negotiate feather-bed contracts with the same people they help elect.
All empowered by a mass of low information voters who either don't pay any attention to what is going on or accept anything they see, hear or absorb from the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media, late night talk shows or the Daily Show as real news.
America has been dumbed down so far it is acting stupid. We have been assaulted by so many outrageous actions we are becoming numb. Every day the drip, drip, drip of this Administration's unconstitutional activities and the constant drumbeat of the media covering-up instead of exposing and advocating instead of investigating makes us so tired of the fight we want to just throw up our hands and retreat into our families and our personal lives. This is just what the Progressives have been working for the last one hundred years.
They have educated generations who have educated generations until most people have no idea how things were let alone how things should be.The loss of historical perspective forces people to live in the now, and the now can always be changed. The lack of intellectual understanding causes people to rely upon emotion, and emotions can always be swayed. When people listen with the intent to respond instead of to understand conversations become two-way monologues between self-absorbed cyphers incapable of joining together in any meaningful way.
Our Progressive education has cultivated a nation of couch potatoes who aren't aware that the Republic of their forefathers is being transformed before their eyes into a centrally-planned utopian experiment in social engineering. Turn off the game, open a book, go online, and do something that will raise your awareness of what America is supposed to be.
Look at our government and what they are doing and see what America is becoming. Think about it. Today in the name of security the government of the people, by the people and for the people is
watching and listening to everything that is said and done while the one person who stands up and tells us they are doing it is a traitor, a felon, and must be stopped at all costs. Yet with all this watching, all this listening even with warnings from multiple sources our vaunted security apparatus couldn't stop the Boston bombers. Despite the constant surveillance we are told endlessly that there is no way to identify the millions of illegal aliens who are swamping our system. In the face of obvious signs and numerous warnings a Muslim fundamentalist can climb on a table shouting "Allah Akbar!" shoot dozens of people, and this isn't terrorism while according to the news anchors of one network Senator Ted Cruz is a terrorist,
and according to others so are the Americans involved in the Tea Party. Open your eyes and realize this country has been hijacked, the constitution is a dead letter, and if we don't do something soon nothing will happen. How long have we waited for someone to rise up and lead the cause of freedom, to call a spade a spade and point out the fact that the Progressives are leading us away from freedom and towards totalitarianism? How long have we waited for someone in Washington to speak plainly and to point out that the 'Emperor has no clothes?'
Finally there are a few in the Senate and in the House willing to lay it all on the line to speak up and be counted. The Progressive Republicans are joining with their fellow travelers across the aisle to denounce them, malign their names and attempt to marginalize them. The Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media are predictably showing praise on the RINOs for becoming statesmen for attacking the true conservatives while they pile on with vindictive abandon.
It is time to support the cause with our time, talent and treasure. Join with others and work, march, organize. Do whatever you can to accomplish all you can in the cause of freedom. Write, speak, share, and do everything you can to influence everyone you can that freedom isn't free. It is worth saving, and it is time to stand up or be counted out. Give to those organizations and leaders who are in the forefront of the fight.
We will either rise to the occasion or we will sink beneath the waves of oppression as man's greatest experiment in personal freedom, and individual liberty and economic opportunity descends back into the well of human suffering and statist control from which it emerged in 1776. This is a call to action to be all that we can be now before we morph forever into what someone else has decided we should be. America, it's time to be America again, or watch as our children and grandchildren find themselves in the USSA and never even know there was ever anything else. The flags will still wave, the names will remain the same, but this will no longer be the America we have known. Keep the faith. Keep the peace. We shall overcome.
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. His books include; 'The Constitution Failed, The Azusa Street Revival, America Won the Vietnam War, and NEVER FORGET!' You can follow Dr. Owens on Twitter and Facebook
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Pelosi: Obuma is
"One of The Most Practically Non-Partisan Presidents"
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*** "The Death Of ObumaCare" ***
(The woman is in serious need of psychiatric help. What she means is, Obuma is working hard to put her back into the 'Speaker' position this Nov.)
Via Daily Caller:Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that President Obama is "one of the most practically non-partisan presidents" that she has ever seen in her career and that he "really is working" to forge a budget agreement.
"Here's the thing — the president is one of the most practically non-partisan presidents I have seen in the White House. I've been there since Ronald Reagan, and he really is working to try to get some bipartisan agreement. They've been working very hard to try to get the Senate consensus or some agreement on how we can avoid a shutdown of government but also how you can even remove all doubt that we're not going to honor the full faith in credit of the United States of America by lifting the debt ceiling," Pelosi said Friday in an interview with the USA Today editorial board.
"There are some glimmers, a possibility of coming to a grand bargain. The president is talking about a grand bargain for middle-income jobs, but the bigger, the grander the bargain the more you can accommodate, shall we say, other things you don't like so much. But weighing all the equities, this is the way that we need to go forward," Pelosi said.
Pelosi also said in the interview that government spending will help reduce the deficit, and offered a curious response to a question about the Obama administration's delay of Obamacare's unpopular employer mandate.
"The president didn't postpone the mandate. He postponed the penalties for not engaging in the mandate," Pelosi said.
Love Is In The Air: Obuma Begins Birthday Weekend
Playing A Round With... you guessed it... Reggie Love
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(Golf Round Number 134, for those counting. Love was in the air with the President on the helicopter on the way to Camp David. Yeh know, I always wondered why our Dear Leaders ears stick out as far as they do... wonder if Reggie has something to do with it. Oh... and Mooch traveled separately)
Via Fox News:
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama kicked off his birthday weekend Saturday with a round of golf with friends and a getaway to Camp David.
Obama, who turns 52 on Sunday, left the White House just after 8 a.m. EDT — that's unusually early for the half-hour motorcade ride to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland — to squeeze in some golf before the celebration shifted to the presidential retreat nestled in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains.
Before leaving, officials said Obama's counterterrorism adviser updated him on a potential al-Qaida threat that led the State Department on Friday to issue a global travel warning to Americans and order the weekend closure of 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world.
The White House said the president's three golfing foursomes included some of his friends from Hawaii, where he grew up, and Chicago, where he lived before becoming president, along with current and former aides.
Among them were childhood friends Bobby Titcomb and Mike Ramos, and Chicago pals Marty Nesbitt and Eric Whitaker. White House aides Marvin Nicholson and Sam Kass, an assistant chef, rounded out the group, along with Reggie Love, who for years had been Obama's personal assistant, or "body man," and basketball buddy until he left the White House in late 2011 to work on getting an MBA.
Due to the limited number of seats, only the winners at golf — Love, Kass and two other players — got to join Obama on the presidential helicopter. The losers went the long way, by car.
Bill Maher Urges Celebrity Liberals To "Buy A State"
{Most of these Clowns don't even know how to buy a vowel, let alone a clue)
Bill Maher is very unhappy that rich conservatives are having an impact on politics.
With this in mind, HBO's Real Time host on Friday encouraged "rich liberals" such as guest Jay Z, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg to "get in the game," "pony up" and "buy a state."
BILL MAHER: But in 2010, the Supreme Court issued their infamous Citizens United ruling which raised the amount people could give to political campaigns from a few thousand to infinity. It's why I was able to give Obama's PAC a million bucks. It's why Sheldon Adelson was able to spend 150 million against Obama. And it's what has allowed a guy like Art Pope on the local level to hijack an entire state and impose the laws he wants, crazy laws that 4/5 of the people there don't want. But it doesn't matter what the people want. It's what Art Pope wants.
In the post-Citizens United world, it's no longer our ideas versus their ideas, or even our base versus their base. It's our super-rich versus their super-rich and theirs are winning. Which means ours have got to get in the game.
Lords Of The Transition Team- The "Smart, Accomplished" Huma
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A little Huma from smart, accomplished Mark Steyn.Via NRO:
Let us put aside, as he so rarely does, Anthony Weiner's spambot penis, and consider his wife and putative first lady. By universal consent, Huma Abedin is "smart, accomplished" (the Guardian), "whip-smart" (The Week), "accomplished" (Time), "smart and accomplished" (the Daily News) — oh, and did I mention "accomplished" (Forbes)?
So, if she's so smart, what has she accomplished? Let us put aside her Muslim Brotherhood family background — let us put it aside in the same corner as Anthony Weiner's infidel penis, the Muslim Brotherhood being one of the few things on the planet rising even more spectacularly than Anthony. Instead, consider merely the official résumé. Huma Abedin's present employment is as "head of Hillary Clinton's transition team." Mrs Clinton, you may recall, was once secretary of state. This was way back in January. Since then, she has been "transitioning away from government to become more involved in her family's charitable foundation." You can't make a "transition" without a "transition team." Well, not in America. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands recently abdicated and managed to transition away from being queen back to the non-queen sector without benefit of a "transition team." But it would be entirely unreasonable to expect U.S. cabinet officials to attempt the same tricky maneuver.
Hillary Rodham Clinton Can Run But She Can't Hide From Her Record
August 4, 2013
By Rosalie Hanson
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Rock Star??
Senator John McCain, a Republican-In-Name-Only, is cheerleading for Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, calling her a "Rock Star." That may be true, but what this Country needs is a leader not another "rock star." Haven't we learned our lesson with the Hollywood Hero, Obama?Before we all run out and vote for Hillary "just because she's a woman," let's take a step back
and look at her track record.
The day Hillary Rodman was married to Bill Clinton, she decided to keep her own last name, which was rare back in those days. It wasn't until Bill Clinton started winning some elections and became Governor of Arkansas, did she suddenly decide she would be acknowledged as Hillary Rodman Clinton. This is when we began to see the "real Hillary!" She is nothing more than a self-serving opportunist.
Does "Whitewater" ring a bell? Remember that pesky little real estate investment deal gone south and investigated by Special Prosecutor, Ken Starr?For those who need a refresher course, here is the Reader's Digest Version of the Whitewater Scandal:Whitewater was a real estate development in Arkansas that Bill and Hillary lost money in. Their partners, Jim and Susan McDougal, who also owned a savings and loan association (Madison Guaranty) hired Hillary and her firm, the Rose Law Firm. When the S&L failed – costing taxpayers over $65 million – the Whitewater vacation development collapsed.
Vince Foster was a deputy White House counsel during the first few months of President Clinton's administration and also a law partner and friend to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Bill and Hillary Clinton were investigated for their role in the Whitewater real estate fraud case but due to "lack of sufficient evidence" the charges were dropped against them. However, Bill Clinton's Successor, Governor Jim Guy Tucker, was convicted and served time in prison for his role in the fraud and Susan McDougal later served 18 months in prison for contempt of court for refusing to answer any questions relating to Whitewater. She was later granted a pardon by (none other than) President Clinton just before leaving office and Vince Foster committed suicide.
Seems like everyone involved either went to jail or ended up dead except for Bill and Hillary.[/color][/b]
While under investigation for the Whitewater scandal, the Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky sexcapades were revealed. Hillary Clinton decided to "Stand by her President," err... I mean her "Man." After years of dreaming about getting into the White House, there was no way Hillary would let a little "I didn't have sex with that woman" affair keep her from living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue even if it were just as the First Lady.
No, Hillary has higher aspiration. She wants to be President,
at all costs.
And what is the price of she is willing to pay for that prestige?
On the night of September 12, 2011 when dozens of Americans cried for help for over seven hours during the 9-11 attack in Benghazi, which left four Americans dead, where was Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton? Once again she stood by her President (Obama) and watched four Americans die.
She didn't send them any backup or assistance but here is what she did after the attacks on our Embassy. First she blamed it on some anti-Islam video and even spent thousands of our taxpayer dollars to apologize to Pakistan for a video that had nothing to do with the attacks on Americans in Libya.
She met the flagged draped coffins at the airport and through teary eyes gave this unbelievable statement:Clinton said that Libya, Egypt and Tunisia "did not trade the tyranny of a dictator for the tyranny of a mob." Those countries' leaders "need to do everything they can to restore security" in the face of anti-American protests arising from an "awful Internet video," she said.Awful Internet video? Let's just go along with this nonsense for a minute, even if it were an "awful video" that caused these men to be killed, in reality, she sat idly by and did nothing for SEVEN HOURS and watched four Americans be brutally murdered by radical Muslims!!!!!!!
She'll apologize to radical Muslims over some ridiculous video conspiracy but she didn't offer any apology to the families of the four slain men on how her inaction sent their loved ones to an early grave.
It wasn't until after the truth of the Benghazi attacks were revealed did Hillary change her tone. Which, by the way, was even more egregious than apologizing to Pakistan over some video that didn't exist.
Hillary's Clinton response to the Benghazi attacks; and I quote:"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided to go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?"(https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/572/3674/original.jpg)
The death of these Four Americans, under her watch, is blood on her hands and what difference does it make??????Are you really going to trust Hillary Clinton to possibly be the next President of the United State when her first concern was for the "hurt feelings" of Radical Muslims of Pakistan over the life of four Americans? Where do you think she she will be pledging her allegiance? Not the Red, White and Blue, that's for sure! Her track record already proves it.
She stands with the Radical Muslims over American Citizens.Has anyone overlooked the fact that Huma Abedin, wife of pervert Anthony Weiner, is Hillary Clinton Deputy Assistant? Have you forgotten that Huma Abedin has strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood? Have you forgotten that when Hillary was Secretary of State that she was right in the middle of toppling governments in order to install Islamic Regimes! It seems to me that Hillary is always on the WRONG SIDE OF AMERICA as she stands with Radical Muslims.I support our Troops, as I am sure most Americans do. But where does
Hillary stand when it comes to Our M
ilitary?
There are already two dead Navy Seals, thanks to her inaction during the attack on our US Embassy in Benghazi. The administration she worked for, cut health care for the military, fired countless military personnel and tied the hands of soldiers in the field, leading to unprecedented casualties in Afghanistan. Does that sound like someone who loves America or our military?
With friends like her, who needs enemies.Hillary may be a "rock star" in the eyes of some washed-up, foolish old man, but what this Country needs is a leader who is a real American, who loves America and will defeat HER at all costs.
Hillary's track record proves that she is a self-serving, lying Anti-American who's only concern is getting elected to the highest office in America, the Presidency. If elected, she and the rest of the Anti-Americans she surrounds herself with will continue down the path of the current Communist-minded regime in office, which is to continue to Destroy America!In 2016, when we are casting our votes for the next President of these United States of America, let us not forget the names of the four Americans killed under Hillary's watch; Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods Jr., murdered under her supervision.Perhaps their living or dying makes no difference to Hillary Clinton, but their lives did have meaning to their families who still have many unanswered questions from the White House. If she is elected as our next President,
will the life and death of your families be of any concern to her if it interferes with her personal agenda?Again, her track record leaves me to believe her top priority is
HER and not
US.
Today's headline scream that the State Department has issued a first of its kind worldwide travel alert because of the Clear and Present danger of Al Qaeda threats.
If you have been following Hillary Clinton's track record, I'm sure she is cheering for the wrong team.
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At the RedState Gathering in New Orleans on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz called for a grassroots effort to persuade Republicans to eliminate funding for President Obama's health care law. Or as he put it, the "biggest and the most important battle 113th Congress is going to face" — the battle to defund ObamaCare.
Senator Cruz told the gathering of Conservative activists that the best way to defund ObamaCare is with the continuing resolution needed to fund the federal government after the current continuing resolution expires on Sept. 30, 2013.
Senator Cruz and other like-minded Senators have vowed not to vote for any continuing resolution that funds ObamaCare. To be successful 41 Senators or 218 Members of the House must stand together and likewise refuse to fund ObamaCare.
'Don't Blink'
This is how Senator Cruz said this could work:
The House passes a continuing resolution that funds the entire federal government and includes language that explicitly prohibits spending even a penny of federal money, discretionary or mandatory, on ObamaCare.
The next step is that President Obama and Harry Reid will yell and scream that those mean Republicans are threatening to shut down the government. At that point we have to do something different than we've done before. We have to step up and win the argument.
Senator Cruz explained that those opposed to ObamaCare must tell the American people they are not shutting down the government — they are voting to continue funding the entire federal government except for ObamaCare. They must ask why President Obama is threatening to shut down the government in order to force ObamaCare down the throats of the American people?
"Obama has been willing to grant ObamaCare waivers to giant corporations. Why is Obama threatening to shut down the government to deny that very same waiver to the hard-working families of America?"
Cruz admits that they don't yet have the 41 Senate or 218 House votes to make this work. Some Congressional Republicans are afraid to defund ObamaCare. They fear the President's big bully pulpit and that the main stream media will repeat word for word everything he says:
"So if the President says the Republicans are shutting down the government, the reporters will write that."
Senator Cruz shrugs that off. He points out that the way ObamaCare opponents can win this argument is by a grassroots mobilization of the American people. He urges people to go to the Don't Fund It.com website and sign the petition to tell Congress not to fund ObamaCare. Cruz also wants hundreds of thousands of Americans to call their Senators and members of the House and tell them to "stop saying you oppose ObamaCare and actually stand up and defund it":
"I can't win this fight. There is no elected politician in Washington who can win this fight. The only people who can win this fight are
YOU. The only people who can win this fight are the American people rising up in overwhelming numbers and saying, 'We want our country back.'"
This Thing Ain't Working
According to Senator Cruz, this is the best time to defund ObamaCare.
ObamaCare is unpopular:
■The always unpopular ObamaCare is more unpopular than ever.
■President Obama's campaign to sell ObamaCare to Americans has failed.
■Leading Democrats have criticized the president's incompetent implementation of ObamaCare.
■Even Democrats are giving up on ObamaCare.
Union's, Obama's most faithful allies, are jumping off the ObamaCare ship:
■James Hoffa, head of the Teamsters, wrote a letter to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying ObamaCare is destroying the 40-hour work week that is the back bone of the middle class.
■The IRS employees' union, whose members are in charge of enforcing ObamaCare, wants out from under ObamaCare.
Last week President Obama went to Capital Hill to meet with Democrat Senators who were begging to be let out from under ObamaCare. And now we know that because of an extra-legal and special deal all the elected elite and their staff will be exempted from the impact of ObamaCare.
Last month Obama was forced to admit the failure of ObamaCare by unilaterally and lawlessly delaying the employer mandate on certain companies until after the 2014 midterm election.
As Senator Cruz notes, if ObamaCare were a good thing, if it were working Obama would want it to be in full force before the 2014 midterm election. "The delay is a tacit admission that this thing ain't working."
Consider this a call to action. Spread the word. Only
you can get ObamaCare defunded.
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Stand down: Two Theories About the Incident at Benghazi
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One of the secrets many have wondered about that pertains to both theories is an alleged stand down order
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The Story: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/57011#.Uf7PaV53cYk.twitter
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Chambliss: Surveillance Program Helped Reveal Terrorist Plot
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Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia on Sunday said the controversial National Security Agency's surveillance program helped to detect a potential terrorist plot that lead to the shuttering of over 20 U.S. embassies around the world. Had it not been for the government-surveillance program, the intercepts could have been missed, Chambliss, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on NBC's "Meet the Press,""There's been an awful lot of chatter out there," Chambliss said, referring to the term used for intelligence intercepts. "Very reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11. We didn't take heed on 9/11 in the way that we should, but here, I think, it's very important that we do take the right kind of planning as we come to the close of Ramadan."
When asked if the NSA surveillance program is giving specific information on the current plot, Chambliss said, "In fact they are."
"These programs are controversial, we understand that, they're very sensitive, but they're also very important because they're what allow us to have the ability to gather this chatter that I referred to. If we did not have these programs, then we simply wouldn't be able to listen in on the bad guys," Chambliss said.
Chambliss said the NSA program "has allowed us to pick up on this chatter. That's the program that allows us to listen overseas. Not on a domestic soul, but overseas. And that's where all the planning is taking place, we think that's where the activities is planned for."
"We do gather an awful lot of information, and if you could tell us who the bad guys are, I assure you, we'd limit it to gathering on just the bad guys," he continued. "But we don't know."
Maryland Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said ABC's "This Week" that the threat from "high-level people in Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula" was about a "major attack."
Rep. Pete King, a New York Republican who chairs a panel on counterterrorism and intelligence, said on ABC that the threat included dates but not locations of possible attacks.
"The threat was specific as to how enormous it was going to be and also that certain dates were given," King said. He added that while authorities assume any attack is likely to come in the Middle East, warnings to state and local authorities in the U.S. were warranted because of the uncertainty.
"This is a wake-up call," King said. "Al Qaida is in many ways stronger than it was before 9/11 because it has mutated and it's spread in dramatically different locations. And Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is the most deadly of all the Al Qaida affiliates."
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DIRTY POLITICS
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Federal Employees (Like Congress) Will Be EXEMPT From Obamacare's Skyrocketing Health Costs
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Most polls show American want Obamacare repealed--one of the reasons is the steep increase in prices for health insurance especially for middle and upper class Americans. There is one group of high wage earners who wont have to pay those steep premium increases, congressional and other federal employees.
The Office of Personnel Management, under heavy pressure from Capitol Hill Democrats, will issue a ruling saying the government can continue to make a 75% contribution to the health care premiums of members of Congress and their aides no matter what their income. Two days ago a White House official confirmed the deal to Politico and the NY Times, saying he proposed regulations will be issued this week.
The executive action is meant as a work-around the Obamacare contains a provision known as the Grassley Amendment which said the government can only offer members of Congress and their staff plans that are "created" in the bill or "offered through an exchange" After all since they are forcing the people into the system, they should be forced into the same system.
Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive.
Why is this being done as an executive action not as a legislation? Democrats fear the wrath of their constituents.
Democrats, in particular, would take a public hammering as the traditional boosters of Obamacare. Republicans would undoubtedly attempt to shred them over any attempt to escape coverage by it, unless Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) give Democrats cover by backing it [and they both announced they wouldn't back a legislative attempt to protect federal employees]
There is concern in some quarters that the provision requiring lawmakers and staffers to join the exchanges, if it isn't revised, could lead to a "brain drain" on Capitol Hill, as several sources close to the talks put it.The administration is making the ruling so Congress doesn't have to pass a bill which will that fix the problem and enrage voters. Heritage Foundation's Rob Bluey wrote :
The Administration's strategy appears to be one of deliberately flouting the law, in the belief that it can get away with it because Congress will be the beneficiary and the American public won't catch on to what they are doing.
Is this what America is becoming? Instead of a constitutional republic where all people are treated equally are we becoming an oligarchy where the ruling class does not have to pay for the legislation abhorred by, and shoved down the throats of the citizens of the country?
The administration is making the ruling so Congress doesn't have to pass a bill which will that fix the problem and enrage voters. Heritage Foundation's Rob Bluey wrote :The Administration's strategy appears to be one of deliberately flouting the law, in the belief that it can get away with it because Congress will be the beneficiary and the American public won't catch on to what they are doing.
Is this what America is becoming? Instead of a constitutional republic where all people are treated equally are we becoming an oligarchy where the ruling class does not have to pay for the legislation abhorred by, and shoved down the throats of the citizens of the country? ALL Americans should be disgusted by this action, even those who support this oppressive legislation.
Breaking: San Francisco On High-Alert After Terrorist Threat
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Via ABCNews:SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – The Department of Homeland Security is beefing up its presence at airports, train stations and other travel hubs in the United States in the wake of global travel warning imposed on all U.S. citizens.
Local authorities are not going into specifics but the San Francisco Police Department does acknowledge receiving a bulletin by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and DHS. The SFPD says their officers are monitoring various areas of the city and will determine if additional resources are necessary.
They say they have the ability to rapidly deploy and redeploy resources as the department deems necessary.
No specific location has been mentioned, but authorities are keeping a close eye on airports, train stations and other transportation hubs. There is also increased scrutiny of visitors coming into the United States.
These latest measures have been implemented out of an abundance of caution.
"al Qaida and the Arabian Peninsula is probably the biggest threat to the homeland. They're the al Qaida faction that still talks about hitting the west and hitting the homeland. And their expertise is chemical explosives. Hitting the aviation sector as we saw with the underwear bomber, so we are on a high state of alert," said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
The bulletin sent by the FBI and DHS urging local law enforcement to be vigilant was classified, which reflects the sensitivity and seriousness of the situation
CRAZY HORSESH!T OBUMA to Buy Back 10 Million Acres
to Redistribute to Native Americans
The Obuma Inc. Government hopes to purchase 10 million acres – an amount equal to roughly twice the size of Massachusetts – and redistribute it to Native Americans. (NYSED)
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(If we hadn't lived through four years plus of Obuma already this would be shocking news.
Team Obuma is purchasing 10 million acres for nearly $2 billion in taxpayer dollars to redistribute back to Native Americans. Can't we just give them Detroit and call it a day?)
The UPI reported:http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/08/04/Government-to-buy-back-land-for-Native-Americans/UPI-50581375647522/
The U.S. government is gearing up to spend nearly $2 billion on 10 million acres of land that will in turn be given back to Native American tribes.
The plan entails buying back reservation land from willing sellers and distributing that land among 150 tribes across the nation, the McClatchy Newspapers reported Sunday.
Congress agreed to the buyback in 2010 to settle a lawsuit.
"We can improve Indian Country if people will go along with this program and sell their interests back to their tribes," Kevin Washburn, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said in an interview.
Meanwhile, tribe leaders say 45 percent of the land will go to just seven tribes, while other tribes will have to fight over the rest.
"We're all going to be fighting for scraps," said Chief James Allan of Idaho's Coeur d'Alene Tribe
And, many believe that property owners are expected to be reluctant sellers.
Demo-ratic Party Chief Angers Demo-rats
DNC Chair and attack dog Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a proven liar, admitted this week that she will use her extensive contact list to help propel her career forward.
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Buzzfeed reported:Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz angered many top leaders in the party she leads as Democratic National Committee chair when she went public with her plans to use the connections she's made in her national job to position herself for a statewide run in Florida or even a bid to replace Nancy Pelosi as Democratic leader in the House.
"This is unbelievable. So much for supporting the president or electing Democrats," said a top Democratic political adviser. "She was honest that this is about her."
Wasserman Schultz told Politico Friday that she plans to use the DNC's donor network to create a political infrastructure for herself, with the goal of building a ladder of powerful connections.
"She and It is a f***ng car wreck," said a third prominent Democrat.
"Hey Obuma, You Are Stupid, Bad Man"
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"What... Who Me?.. They Stole My Shoes!"
(Whoa!... Wildly Popular Anti-Obama Belly Dance Video Takes Egypt By Storm - Egyptian freedom protesters released this anti-Obama video five days ago and it already has over 183,000 views :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:)
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Belly dancer Sama al Masry slams Obama for supporting Muslim Brotherhood and terrorism.
Unbelievable
Top White House officials held a meeting Saturday to discuss the unprecedented Al-Qaeda threat that forced over 20 embassies to close on Sunday.
And Obuma... He went golfing... Fore!!!
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Key figures in the Obama administration met on the current al-Qaeda threat on Saturday while the president conducted an intensive golf fiesta at Andrews Air Force Base.
President Obama set off for the golf course at about 8 a.m., hoping to squeeze in as much play as possible before a scheduled departure to Camp David at 2:30 p.m.
Three all-male teams hit the golf course to mark the day before Obama's 52nd birthday, including regulars Reggie Love and Marvin Nicholson, White House chef Sam Kass and college friend Wahid Hamid.
"Before departing this morning, the president was updated on a potential threat occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula by Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco. He will continue to be updated through the weekend," a White House official told the press pool as they waited at the golf course food court.
After more than seven hours at play, Obama and some of his golf mates took Marine One from Andrews to Camp David for an overnight birthday party. Those who didn't take the helicopter met up with the president via a van convoy up to the mountain retreat.
Hamid, Love, Kass and Laurent Delanney, another college friend, won the Obama Open, and thus got to ride in Marine One.
That evening the White House released a readout of administration officials who met Saturday on the elevated terror threat that resulted in a global travel alert and the temporary closure of some embassies in the Middle East.
"Early this week, the President instructed his National Security team to take all appropriate steps to protect the American people in light of a potential threat occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula. Given the nature of the potential threat, throughout the week, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco has held regular meetings with relevant members of the interagency to ensure the U.S. Government is taking those appropriate steps," the White House said.
Obama left it to National Security Adviser Susan Rice to chair the meeting "to further review the situation and follow-up actions."
The White House reported on Saturday's meeting:Early this week, the President instructed his National Security team to take all appropriate steps to protect the American people in light of a potential threat occurring in or emanating from the Arabian Peninsula. Given the nature of the potential threat, throughout the week, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco has held regular meetings with relevant members of the interagency to ensure the U.S. Government is taking those appropriate steps. This afternoon, National Security Advisor Rice chaired a meeting with the Principals Committee to further review the situation and follow-up actions. The President has received frequent briefings over the last week on all aspects of the potential threat and our preparedness measures. After today's Principals meeting, the President was again briefed by Amb. Rice and Ms. Monaco.Attendees at today's meeting included:
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough
National Security Advisor Susan Rice
Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken
Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco
Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President Jeff Prescott
Secretary of State John Kerry
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Robert Mueller
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan
Director of the National Security Agency Keith Alexander
Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen
Acting Assistant Attorney General John CarlinNO OBUMA, WHO WAS OUT GOLFING
(I'm not going to second guess the government in their response to this terrorist threat. They obviously have far more information than is available to the public, and given the specificity described by sources, they really had little choice but to act as they have.
But few are talking about the possibility that we are being played for fools by the terrorists)
Terrorists 'Broke Operational Security' in Talking about Plot
ABC News:On the day that almost two dozen U.S. embassies and consulates across North Africa and the Middle East are closed following the identification of a significant threat from an al-Qaeda affiliate, a senior U.S. official is providing new details about the communications intercepted from the terrorists, telling ABC News that al-Qaeda operatives could be heard talking about an upcoming attack. The official described the terrorists as saying the planned attack is "going to be big" and "strategically significant."
"The part that is alarming is the confidence they showed while communicating and the air of certainty," the official said, adding that the group — Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — appeared to have a media plan for after the attack.[...](The senior U.S. official said there is concern about devices that could be implanted inside the body of a terrorist.
"We are concerned about surgically implanted devices," they said. "These are guys who have developed the techniques to defeat our detection methods."
The official also said authorities were stunned that the group broke "operational security"... meaning they talked likely knowing it would be picked up by intercepts.
A media plan? Either the terrorist leaders were communicating over a medium where they felt absolutely secure in discussing the plot or they temporarily took leave of their senses.
So, OK.... I'll buy the Dark Knight surgically implanted phone bomb scenario. But the very specificity of the threat speaks against it being real, doesn't it? We've never received this kind of intelligence prior to an attack before, to my knowledge. Are we that lucky? Are the terrorists that stupid? Or are they simply overconfident? All indications are that the intercept originated in Yemen. Given how we're blowing them up with great regularity with our drones, weren't they taking an awful chance in chit chatting about the plot?)
CNN:Several U.S. officials also emphasized they have been watching growing threats emerging from Yemen for weeks.
Those threats, combined with the coming end of the month of Ramadan, plus the concern over several major prison breaks in the region, all contributed to the U.S. decision to shut down diplomatic installations.
The shuttering of 22 U.S. embassies and consulates for the day Sunday amid fears of an al Qaeda attack is an unprecedented move.
"We're doing what is necessary to protect our people," Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, told CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.
The closures stretch across a swath of North Africa and the Middle East, from Mauritania to Oman. Bangladesh and Afghanistan, both majority Muslim nations, also are affected.
The shutdowns could extend beyond Sunday, a senior State Department official said. A U.S. global travel alert is also in place.
As White House and national security officials met to discuss the threat and U.S. military forces in the Middle East were put on a higher state of alert, Interpol warned that al Qaeda has been tied to prison breaks in the region that led to the escape of hundreds of terrorists and other criminals.
It's unclear what locations are targeted by the apparent terror plot, U.S. lawmakers said Sunday.
We've had the "dry run" scenarios before — especially on aircraft. Might this be something similar? AQAP setting up an elaborate plot in order to carefully watch our reaction? As I said at the top, the government has to react to the threat as if it is real or they would be irresponsible. But I am not going to be surprised if nothing happens over the next few days.
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Desperation in the Benghazi Coverup
A congressional select committee could offer
immunity to the CIA's dispersed, intimidated survivors.
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You can always tell the depth of an event's illegality by the measures people take to cover it up. By that measure, the conduct of President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and David Petraeus leading up to the terrorist attack that killed four Americans on 9/11 2012 must be must be so sufficiently wrongful that, if revealed, they could lead to the president's impeachment.
How else can we gauge what is apparently the most energetic coverup in modern history? We know, from several sources, that the survivors of the attack — not on the consulate, but on the CIA annex — number a few dozen or more. We also know from those sources that almost all of their names have been concealed from Congress in the course of the coverup.
Those sources also reveal that the CIA has required those survivors to sign confidentiality agreements binding them to never disclose what they were doing in the days or months leading up to the 9/11-12 attack. Keep in mind that good old Joe Wilson — the former ambassador sent to Niger by the CIA to "learn" what Iraq had done to acquire uranium — wasn't required to sign any confidentiality agreement, hence his ability to become a Democratic political attack dog instantly after Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage leaked his wife's CIA employment to reporter Robert Novak.
The Joe Wilson episode and the CIA requirement imposed on the Benghazi survivors is entirely consistent with the political conduct we've seen from the CIA in the past dozen years.
And it gets worse. Last week, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) disclosed that the CIA's involvement in covering up the Benghazi scandal goes much further. He said that the CIA was not only requiring the Benghazi survivors to change their names, it is also spreading them around the country in a CIA version of a witness protection program. In this case, the witnesses are being protected from ever telling the truth to the media or testifying before Congress.
We now also know that the CIA's Benghazi veterans are being required to submit to monthly polygraph tests to check on their behavior: they are being required to answer if they've leaked to Congress or the press every time they are polygraphed.
Why is there such blatant intimidation of these people? We've all seen and heard the reports that the Benghazi CIA annex was the locus of a gun-running operation. If it was, the only likely recipients of the arms would be either the Syrian opposition — which is largely made up of al-Qaeda members and other Sunni jihadis — or the Turks who might have been serving as a pipeline for the arms to those same Syrian opposition guys.
In either case, the president — whose approval had to have been obtained for any such operations — would be directly implicated. He was either acting without congressional authority or in violation of laws on the books that are supposed to block those actions.
Either way Obama, Clinton, and Petraeus would be in the dock personally for having broken the law.
It would be enough to make Haldeman, Erlichman, Mitchell, and Dean green with envy. Except for the fact that nobody died in Watergate. And the fact that the other facts of the day don't just call into question Obama's Middle East policy: these facts demonstrate that this policy is quite bizarre.
In the past two weeks, there have been massive jailbreaks of al Qaeda members — some of them high-ranking leaders — in Iraq and Libya. In Pakistan, hundreds of Taliban jihadis, again including some Taliban leadership, escaped. There are probably about a thousand al Qaeda and Taliban thugs at large today who weren't at large last month.
So it should come as no surprise that the State Department issued a travel advisory on Friday and ordered our embassies in most Muslim countries closed yesterday. Al Qaeda isn't, as Obama has told us again and again, decimated or out of action. The specific information that led to the warning and closure of 22 embassies is of a widespread al Qaeda threat that could target Americans in any of those countries on President Obama's birthday. This is his birthday gift from the people who brought us the "Arab Spring."
The president continues to insist that there is some bloom of democracy in the Middle East. Both he and Eric Holder have admonished the Egyptian military to include the Muslim Brotherhood in any interim government they might form. This would be, Obama and Holder insist, a more "inclusive" government for Egypt.
They obviously believe that the Muslim Brotherhood — for all its ties to terrorism, for all its doctrine of strict Sharia law — is a force for democracy rather than against it. Either they believe that, or Obama and Holder have made America into a force against freedom and democracy. At this point, there is ample reason to believe either interpretation of American policy.
As this is being written, there are no reports of any terrorist attacks on American embassies in the Middle East. But that's just today. What does not come today may come tomorrow or the next day.
What will not come tomorrow or the next day is a change in Obama's mind and American policy. Actually, that policy is changing and for the worse.
According to Obama's Pentagon toadie, Chuckie Hagel, we are soon to end our drone program in Pakistan. That has always been a thorn in the side of the Pakistani government, which itself is most famous for collaborating to hide Osama bin Laden for about six years in Abbottabad. Why we should care that Pakistan disapproves is, to say the least, counter-intuitive.
But we should care that Pakistan will soon be drone-free. And, if things go as well in Afghanistan as they have in Iraq, Afghanistan will be as drone-free as Pakistan.
In the 2004 campaign, we scoffed at John Kerry's proposal for a "terrorist overwatch" program in Afghanistan. Kerry said that we could stand off and strike when we needed to, killing terrorists at our leisure. That, of course, is too much for Obama.
He is much more concerned that the Benghazi coverup succeed than with the tiny issue of defeating al Qaeda and the rest of the Muslim terrorist groups. If the Republicans were courageous and wise, they'd establish the Benghazi select committee proposed by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) soon after the attack.
Give it subpoena power, let it demand the testimony of the CIA's Benghazi survivors, no matter what names they may now be living under. Grant them the power to immunize witnesses against criminal liability for prior acts. And then let the chips fall where they may.
But that would take courage, a part of which is the willingness to take political risk. Which, in the case of this House, is damned unlikely to do anything of the sort.
Classy: Libs Start "Virgin Mary Should've Been Aborted" Facebook Page, Garners Over 3,000 "Likes"
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(These same people would scream bloody murder over a Facebook page denigrating the "prophet" Mohammed)
Via Life News:http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/04/facebook-group-claims-virgin-mary-should-have-aborted/
A group of concerned Christians are calling on Facebook to remove a page that promotes the notion that the Virgin Mary of the Bible should have received an abortion. Titled "Virgin Mary Should've Aborted," the administrator of the page claims to "explain what really happened in the biblical times, since the bible is full of lies."
With just over 3,000 'Likes,' Celene Schartner of Australia says the page not only demeans what Christians believe, but it is slanderous and hateful. It diminishes the right to life of every unborn infant in its mother's womb by its very title and statement.
"Many Christians worldwide are so distressed at the attempts to diminish Christian values and the slanderous attacks on the Bible," said Schartner. "If people don't believe that's their choice, but they need to learn respect for the choices of others."
GOP Warns NBC & CNN: Stop Promoting Hillary Clinton
or Face Consequences
The GOP sent letters to CNN and NBC today warning them to cancel their pro-Hillary movies before the election or face a possible boycott.
Chairman Priebus said if the networks go ahead with their Hillary projects the Republican Party would boycott their presidential debates.
After the outrageous stunt CNN's Candy Crowley pulled in the 2012 debate the GOP should have already boycotted CNN from hosting future events.
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The GOP reported:Today Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, and Jeff Zucker, President of CNN Worldwide, calling on their networks to cancel their attempts to influence Americans' political decisions. Both networks are airing programs promoting former Secretary Hillary Clinton ahead of her likely candidacy for president in 2016. NBC has announced plans to air a miniseries, while CNN is producing a documentary. If the productions are not canceled prior to the start of the RNC's Summer Meeting, Chairman Priebus will seek a binding vote of the RNC to prevent the committee from partnering with these networks in 2016 primary debates or sanctioning debates they sponsor.
FOX Analyst Cadell: John Boehner Is 'Purposely Suppressing Anything About Benghazi' (Video)
Pat Cadell: John Boehner is "Purposely Suppressing Anything About Benghazi"
Pat Cadell accused Speaker John Boehner today of "purposely suppressing anything about Benghazi."
Cadell was on America Live on Monday:"We have John Boehner who has purposely been suppressing anything on Benghazi because he knew what we found out this week and he approved it. These CIA teams on the ground which were sending weapons from Libya through Turkey to Syrian rebels without Congressional approval. Remember, no one has still been arrested in this. We have a president who has suppressed the truth. We have John Brennan who left the White House and went to the CIA... They are polygraphing every member who was on the ground there keeping them from telling Congress the truth. And, Congress won't act in its own defense!" Via Mediaite:(http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Peace/2012/Libya/Clinton-Petreaus.png)
Back in January, Speaker Boehner admitted to Laura Ingraham that he heard about the gun running to Turkey but that "most of what I know about this came from a classified source."Kerry Picket wrote more about this at Breitbart.com:Dozens of CIA operatives were involved in an arms smuggling operation on the ground in Benghazi, Libya during the deadly attack on the U.S. compound last September, reports CNN and the U.K. Telegraph. According to these outlets, the spy agency has gone out of its way to keep the information from the public through intimidation of CIA personnel.
Four Americans were killed, including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens that evening in Benghazi almost one year ago.
In light of this new information, either the Congress' "Gang of Eight" knew about the operation and misled the public about what they knew, or the Obama administration may have been conducting an unauthorized gun-running operation. Fox News reported in October of 2012 about a Libyan ship, reportedly containing weapons for Syrian Rebels that may have been tied into the attack against the consulate and the CIA annex:
Through shipping records, Fox News has confirmed that the Libyan-flagged vessel Al Entisar, which means "The Victory," was received in the Turkish port of Iskenderun -- 35 miles from the Syrian border -- on Sept. 6, just five days before Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during an extended assault by more than 100 Islamist militants.
On the night of Sept. 11, in what would become his last known public meeting, Stevens met with the Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin, and escorted him out of the consulate front gate one hour before the assault began at approximately 9:35 p.m. local time.
Although what was discussed at the meeting is not public, a source told Fox News that Stevens was in Benghazi to negotiate a weapons transfer, an effort to get SA-7 missiles out of the hands of Libya-based extremists. And although the negotiation said to have taken place may have had nothing to do with the attack on the consulate later that night or the Libyan mystery ship, it could explain why Stevens was travelling in such a volatile region on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
According to section 503's Presidential Approval and Reporting of Covert Actions in the 1947 National Security Act, the President may not authorize covert CIA actions without informing the intelligence committees of Congress.
Legislation implemented in 1980 gave the president the authority to limit advance notification of especially sensitive covert actions to eight Members of Congress--the "Gang of Eight": the chairmen and ranking minority Members of the two congressional intelligence committees, the Speaker and minority leader of the House, and Senate majority and minority leaders. These members are: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA).
By law, such a covert weapons operation in Benghazi should have been known by all eight members. The disastrous results from the events of September 11, 2012 have not made it easy to get answers from these lawmakers regarding this point.
Many remember when Pelosi, a "Gang of Eight" member, found herself at odds with the Democratic base in 2009 and ridiculed by Republicans, when it was revealed she was actually briefed in 2002 by the Bush White House about the administration's tactic to water-board terrorism suspects during interrogations. Pelosi denied this fact previously.
Radio host Laura Ingraham asked Boehner on January 24 about Senator Rand Paul's questioning to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He asked if the secretary was aware of U.S. involvement in the procuring of weapons that were transferred, bought or sold to Turkey out of Libya. Clinton, seemingly confused, told Paul "nobody [had] ever raised" the issue with her before.
Boehner replied to Ingraham, "I'm somewhat familiar with the chatter about this and the fact that these arms were moving towards Turkey, but most of what I know about this came from a classified source and I really can't elaborate on it."
Boehner has refuses to appoint a House Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks and previously refused to support a joint Select Committee to do the same late last year.
Four members of the "Gang of Eight" have told Breitbart News over the past six months they knew nothing about any CIA operation in Benghazi involving the smuggling of Libyan weapons into Turkey that may have been shipped to Syrian rebels, some of whom were affiliated to al-Qaeda groups.
"I get to see all of that stuff. I have seen nothing that would allow me to conclude that the U.S. government was in any way shape or form involved in gun running in Libya. I looked at it all," said Congressman Rogers, Chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee to Breitbart News in June.
"If it's there, I have not seen it. I think I would have found it. I think there were some other things that were happening and people got confused, but the United States government was not running guns (from the annex)."
Senator Chambliss, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, when asked in February if he knew anything about the gunrunning issue Senator Paul asked Clinton about a month earlier replied to Breitbart News, "I'm not familiar with that."
Senator Feinstein, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told Breitbart News in March she "didn't know what" Senator Paul was talking about in regards to his questioning of Clinton and the Secretary's knowledge about the gunrunning issue in Benghazi.
Ranking member of the House Intel Committee Rep. Ruppersberger claimed to Breitbart News in May he "didn't know anything" about U.S. weapons smuggling or if Ambassador Stevens was involved in the operation in anyway, saying, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Ruppersberger, added, "If I was [privy to such information], I couldn't talk to you about it. But I have heard no information about what you're talking about, as far as what [Ambassador Chris Stevens] was there for. I haven't had briefings on it."
Ruppersberger also said he knew "nothing about" any U.S. operation to smuggle weapons to Syrian rebels, explaining the secretive "Gang of Eight" briefings from the White House do not go into much detail sometimes.
"I've heard nothing about it. When [Stevens] was there. I don't know. We don't get to that minutia sometimes. Gang of 8, we get the most sensitive information, that even our own committees can't [get.]
When asked if the White House would have had to inform the eight members of such an operation in order for it to be legal Ruppersberger responded, "No. The checks and balances is they give us information--very sensitive information. The check and balance issue, they don't have to tell us everything or we'd be sitting having Gang of Eight briefings all day long. That's the answer. I don't know."
Moonbat Actor Matt Damon Frets:
Obuma Being Bullied, "Manhood" Challenged
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(Birds of a feather... don't be mean to Obuma or Matt Damon will get a case of the sads)
Via News Republic:Sorta-Actor MATT DAMON fears U.S. President BARACK OBAMA has been bullied into making unpopular decisions and struggles to fight back because of his lack of military background. The American leader swept to power on a wave of hope and goodwill in 2008, but the shine has since come off his presidency amid disagreements over a national healthcare plan and the 'spying' scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. However, Damon, who has been a vocal supporter of the Democrat politician for years, insists Obama is not to blame for the controversies and is trying to prove his "manhood" by taking tough action.
The Good WIll Hunting star tells the Guardian Weekend magazine,
"It just seems to have taken this weird, Orwellian turn. It's surreal. I don't know where we are now... I think it's tough for guys who weren't in the military. One, their manhood is kind of challenged on some level, I imagine, and they allow themselves to get bullied. And two, they're just politically afraid of either looking soft or looking incompetent, so they overcompensate."[...]In an interview with the Guardian published Saturday, Damon revealed that he had just moved to Los Angeles from New York, but that he didn't "have a choice" when it came to putting his four daughters into private schools. The multi-millionaire did say that it was "a major moral dilemma" and then made the bizarre excuse that the public schools aren't "progressive" enough.(This would probably mark the first time anyone has ever complained that America's public schools, especially in Los Angeles, aren't left-wing enough ;) )
Documents: Eric Holder Has Billed Taxpayers For More Than
$4 Million
In Travel In Less Than 4 Years
(And Holder could not care less)
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Via Daily Mail:U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's travel expenses exceeded $4 million for 213 separate trips during President Obama's first term in office, according to documents obtained through the Freedom Of Information Act.
The expenses, incurred between March 2009 and August 2012, were all borne by taxpayers – including those covering several personal trips. Holder typically travels on a government-owned Gulfstream V jet, whose retail cost is more than $53.5 million. The U.S. government owns at least five such aircraft.
Judicial Watch released the documents Monday, showing that the attorney general billed his agency more than $113,000 in travel expenses for four trips he made, while in office, to speak to liberal advocacy groups.
Holder's very first taxpayer-funded trip was to an April 2009 'US/Mexico Arms Trafficking Strategy Meeting.'
Syrian Rebels Seize Control of Key Air Base In Aleppo After
Foreign Suicide Bombers Attack With Massive 3 Ton Bomb
Packed Into Armored Vehicle
(Multiple videos of the attack can be seen here:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c5b_1375687074 )
BEIRUT, Lebanon (NYT) — Rebel fighters on Monday swept into a sprawling government air base in northern Syria where isolated government troops had fought off their attacks for nearly a year, and by early Tuesday controlled almost all the base, seizing several tanks and other munitions and taking soldiers prisoner, rebel and opposition groups said.
The victory, said by the groups to have been led by two foreign men in an armored vehicle who carried out a suicide attack to breach the defenses of the Minakh air base, was bound to boost the morale of an insurgency that has faltered in recent months with rebels fighting among themselves and losing long-held ground to the army.
Such gains have sometimes been reversed within days, as the government strikes back from the air. But if it holds, the rebels' seizure of the Minakh base in Aleppo Province will challenge the government's assertion that it is rolling to victory and demonstrate the complexity of the Syrian battlefield, which neither side has been able to control and where momentum shifts from place to place and week to week.
Even as the battle at Minakh was raging, the government was celebrating its own victory in the central city of Homs, where the defense minister toured the shattered Khalidiyeh neighborhood, long held by insurgents, and posed in front of the Khalid bin al-Waleed mosque — a 13th-century landmark that had been a rebel rallying point and was heavily damaged in the fighting.
Yet to the south, a large rebel force armed with tanks and rocket launchers pushed deeper into an area that has long been a relatively quiet government stronghold, the coastal mountains of Latakia Province, sending civilians fleeing.
The dueling victories show the de facto splitting of Syria into zones of government and rebel control. The government appears committed and strong in the corridor leading from Damascus north through Homs to its coastal stronghold. But in the north it has lost the ability to maneuver through most roads and rural areas and struggles to hold on to isolated military outposts.
"We Are Imperfect Muslims, Trying To Establish The
Perfect Religion Of All-Mighty Allah As Supreme On The Land"
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What was the purpose behind the shooting at Fort Hood by Nidal Hassan?
Here is a snippet from the "sanity board" report of Hasan, which reveals his purpose-to impose Sharia Law and do away with American democracy.
The note, written on the side of the report, appears to be quoting Hasan, "We Are Imperfect Muslims, Trying To Establish The Perfect Religion Of All-Mighty Allah As Supreme On The Land".
American Couple Arrested In Qatar For Starving Their Daughter
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(CAIR could not be reached for comment)
LOS ANGELES — A married couple from Los Angeles has been jailed in the Middle East on a charge of starving their 8-year-old daughter to death, according to a nonprofit legal group that has taken their case and is trying to draw publicity to what it claims is an unjust arrest.
Matt and Grace Huang were arrested shortly in Qatar after their daughter, Gloria, died on Jan. 15, said Alex Simpson, associate director of the nonprofit California Innocence Project. The Huangs adopted the child at age four from Ghana.
The couple's two other children, also adopted from Africa, have been banned from leaving the country and are being cared for by their grandmother, who is living with them there.
The Qatar Embassy did not return a call or email seeking comment Monday.
According to the California Innocence Project, the Huangs moved to Qatar in 2012 so Matt Huang could work as an engineer on two major infrastructure projects associated with improvements for the 2022 World Cup.
U.S. Spending $772 Million For Purchase Of Aircraft
Afghans Can Not Use Or Maintain
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(Think how many White House Tours that would be able to support)
Via Fox News:
The chief watchdog for Afghanistan reconstruction warned in a recent audit that the Pentagon is moving forward with a $772 million purchase of aircraft that the Afghan army "cannot operate or maintain."
The latest quarterly report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction cited the aircraft purchases among its top concerns. The IG's office had earlier issued a report in June detailing how "the Afghans lack the capacity — in both personnel numbers and expertise — to operate and maintain" existing and planned fleets.
The findings are likely to contribute to the budget debate on Capitol Hill over the funding. The bulk of the purchase is a $554 million contract for 30 Mi-17 helicopters from Russian firm Rosoboronexport.
Obama Ignored Syrian Christians Requests
For Weapons To Defend Themselves
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(So he will give weapons to Islamist rebels but not Christians?
Just a tad screwed up)
Via Telegraph:Towns and villages in Syria that have been home to Christians for hundreds of years are being steadily emptied by sectarian violence and targeted kidnappings.
Tens of thousands Syriac Christians – members of the oldest Christian community in the world – have fled their ancestral provinces of Deir al-Zour and Hasakah in northeastern Syria, residents have said.
"It breaks my heart to think how our long history is being uprooted," said Ishow Goriye, the head of a Syriac Christian political Hasakah.
Mr Goriye, told The Daily Telegraph how, over the past two years he has watched as Christian families from Hasakah pack their possessions on the rooftops of their vehicles and flee their homes "with little plan to come back".
Conflict in the area, desperate economic conditions, lawlessness, and persecution by rebel groups born from the perception that Christians support the regime, remain the main reasons for why Christian families are fleeing the area.
The growing presence of radical jihadist groups, including al-Qaeda, has also seen Christians targeted.
"It began as kidnapping for money, but then they started telling me I should worship Allah," a male Christian resident of Hasakah who was kidnapped by jihadists said.
"I was with five others. We were tied and blindfolded and pushed down on our knees. One of the kidnappers leant so close to my face I could feel his breath. He hissed: 'Why don't you become a Muslim? Then you can be free'."
Another Christian in Hasakah said he knew of "five forced conversions" in recent weeks.
[...]Bassam Ishak, a Christian member of the main opposition bloc the Syrian National Coalition, who comes from Hasakah, said he and his colleagues
had tried "several times" to approach western officials asking for weapons for Christian groups to defend their areas."The West wants to arm the seculars or 'West friendly' people, well we, the Syriac Christians those people. We want arms to protect our communities," he said.
"We spoke to western diplomats asking for help, and everyone ignored us".
New Normal: Manhattan's Secret Tenement Offers Hell For $10 a Night
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(Nanny Bloomberg and Carlos Danger unavailable for comment)
Via NYPost:http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/life_in_dog_cage_yZiwcoSsx5b842jXeHEWcK
It's a human kennel.
Less than a 10-minute walk from Soho is the Sun Bright Hotel — where men pay $10 a night to live in tiny cells bounded by chicken wire.
It's a single-room-occupancy hotel that has been operating since the late 19th century and where today men live side by side in filth.
"It was horrible — like an animal shelter," a first responder, recently summoned to the hotel, told The Post.
"I picked up a suit on the wall and roaches fell out," the rescuer said, "hundreds of them."
Nestled on the edge of Chinatown between the Bowery and Elizabeth Street, the hotel on Hester Street is minutes from Balthazar, where the $135 côte de boeuf for two would cover half a month's rent at the Sun Bright.
Jimmy Carter's ghost stalks Obama White House
By Liz Peek
Published August 05, 2013
FoxNews.com
Vague terrorist threats shutting down nineteen of our embassies, Russian strongman Putin thumbing his nose at President Obama, Iran jerking our chain – the U.S. hasn't looked this cowardly on the world stage since the Jimmy Carter administration.
Here at home, too, we've gone back to the Carter future; unemployment is high, Keynesian economics are all the rage, our professorial president is increasingly whiny and ineffectual; all that's missing is a cardigan sweater and that infernal violin.
Our recent contre-temps with Russia is a throw-back to the weak-kneed Carter era. President Vladimir Putin has granted temporary asylum to NSA leaker and fugitive Edward Snowden, despite frantic efforts by the White House to take the traitor into custody.
Mr. Obama is said to be livid; after all, he has pursued a chummy relationship with Putin for years.
The similarities between Obama and Carter are not confined to foreign fiascos.
At one point his eagerness translated into a seeming breach of faith with his own country, when he was caught on tape promising Putin (via his former number two Dmitri Medvedev) even greater accommodation on missile defense once reelected. Apparently the numerous earlier rebuffs from the Russian bully – on Iran, on missile defense, on Syria etc. -- made no impression; Obama is ever hopeful.
Jimmy Carter was also unprepared to deal with Russia. NATO allies, worried about the Soviet deployment of longer-range, more capable SS-20 missiles in Europe beginning in 1976, pushed Carter to counter with U.S. cruise and Pershing missiles, to maintain strategic parity.
When Carter and Brezhnev met to sign Salt II, Carter whiffed; not only did he fail to win any agreement on the SS-20s, he never even broached the NATO demands.
Helmut Schmidt, who had spearheaded the strategy, was furious. Later, he described Jimmy Carter's profound ignorance (and improbable optimism) about the Soviet Union: "He wasn't aware that the Russians don't know and never have known citizen's rights," the former German chancellor wrote.
In 1980, President Carter asked the Senate to discontinue consideration of the Salt II treaty in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a stunning rebuke to U.S. interests. The same year, he ordered a boycott of the Moscow Olympics.
Both Carter and Obama came to office convinced that by dint of righteousness or personality they could win over our enemies. That it was just a matter of persuasion.
President George W. Bush is widely scorned these days for attempting to export democracy to the peoples of other lands; Mr. Obama, like Carter before him, has sought kindness and justice from the likes of Hugo Chavez and Bashar-Al-Assad. Which is more naïve?
Naivete is costly. Both the Carter and Obama administrations have been distinguished by the rare murder of an ambassador.
Even before the Iran hostage crisis that came to symbolize the failures of his presidency, Jimmy Carter was "shocked and saddened" when the Russians, along with Afghan security forces, killed Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
On Obama's watch, of course, we lost Christopher Stevens, ambassador to Libya and three others; the president called it a "shocking attack."
In both cases, critics charged the White House with incompetence and carelessness for not protecting our own.
Iran has proved a testing ground for both Carter and Obama, as the despots leading that country took the measure of U.S. leadership and found it wanting.
Under Carter, Iran took 52 U.S. citizens hostage in one of our country's most humiliating chapters.
More recently, Iran's former president Ahmadinejad has continued to publicly spurn Obama's efforts to rein in that country's nuclear ambitions, at times driving a wedge between the U.S. and ally Israel.
Obama's lack of response to the mass slaughter in Syria and scrambled interactions with Egypt harks back to Carter's impotence in the face of the 1979 OPEC oil embargo.
In Egypt today, the United States is ignored by both Islamist supporters of now-deposed President Morsi and also by the military; we are blamed by both sides for the chaos in that country. That's quite an accomplishment, given the enormous aid we have ladled out to Egypt for decades. Unimaginably, it is EU foreign policy chief Cathy Ashton who is attempting to mediate between the two factions.
The parallels between the Carter and Obama presidencies are not accidental. Both men were elected in what amounted to a national rejection of their predecessors.
Neither candidate had any significant executive experience or foreign policy chops.
Carter ran on being an honest man – not Tricky Dick Nixon. Obama ran on being likeable and eager to unite the country – not arrogant and divisive George W. Bush.
Both men promised change, and fulfilled that promise. Unhappily, they did not always deliver change for the better.
The similarities between Obama and Carter are not confined to foreign fiascos.
Domestically, both have struggled to ignite growth and lower unemployment; both have clung to a profound belief in the powers of deficit spending and efficacy of federal meddling.
Faced with soaring inflation, Carter imposed price controls that caused rampant confusion and slowed growth; he also introduced gasoline rationing that led the country to quite literally run out of gas.
The same urge to tinker bedevils Obama, who cannot understand why consumers do not line up to buy the electric cars that he has required Detroit to manufacture, or why bankrolling uncompetitive "green" energy companies are bets that go bad.
Instead of searching for private market resolutions to problems like soaring medical costs, Obama chose to funnel even more of the economy through the federal spigot. Who today believes that ObamaCare is the best possible answer to reining in the cost of healthcare?
One of the few divides between the Obama presidency and that of Jimmy Carter is that Mr. Obama won reelection. Pity.
Warph, Better not be picking boogers while sitting in front of your TV.
Is your TV watching you?
By John R. Quain
Published August 06, 2013
Perhaps you're not worried about the National Security Agency tracking your phone calls and e-mails -- but what if they were watching you in your PJs on your couch?
It may sound like something out of Mission Impossible, but it's the stuff of fact, not fiction.
Last week, two security researchers from iSEC Partners reminded us that today's Internet-connected smart TVs can be hacked. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, the pair explained how they found loopholes in older Samsung models and were able to turn on a set's video camera without the user's knowledge. Such a proof-of-concept attack has been demonstrated before, and Samsung reportedly has closed the loopholes. (Notice that new Samsung sets have a camera that can be flipped up to point at the ceiling.
But researchers point out vulnerabilities like this all the time. The practical question is, would anyone do this in the real world?
In fact, the U.S. government has demonstrated that it has just such a capability as part of its ongoing cyber espionage battle with foreign governments. Security analysts say the sophisticated spyware dubbed Flame was created by government programmers, and among its many features, the program is able to turn on a target's Web cam and record video (all without turning on the telltale flashing recording light). In addition, hackers routinely use programs called remote administration tools (or RATs) to switch on a victim's camera remotely, effectively turning the video camera in an office or living room into a private CCTV monitor.
Maybe all you're guilty of is playing air guitar in the office when the boss is out, but the idea that organizations like the NSA can literally look into American living rooms should disturb most citizens. Making it all the more unnerving is the fact that such programs are nearly undetectable, say security companies.
"Why Flame was found was because it was out of control," says Aleks Gostev, chief security expert at Kaspersky Labs. Gostev warns that Flame was infecting systems for years before it was detected, and that other even more sophisticated programs could already be online monitoring users. Indeed, recent leaks about the NSA's XKeyscore program from Edward Snowden seem to confirm that the U.S. government is attempting to monitor all online traffic -- video is just part of that traffic.
As far as hackers watching you watching TV, in order for those attacks to be successful one has to engage in a chat session or look up a Web page on the television, whereby the malware can infect the set. If you never use your smart TV to look up a sports statistic or chat with friends, you're probably safe from hackers -- but not from the government.
The problem is that the companies behind the video chat software -- Microsoft owns Skype, for example -- have been forced to cooperate with the government. Indeed, according to leaked documents, the NSA has been able to record Skype video calls since Microsoft purchased the company. So there's no need to hack into your TV.
To those who believe such surveillance is worrying but could never be used against them, consider a report this week from Reuters that secret surveillance information from the NSA -- which is only supposed to be concerned with foreign security threats -- is being used by local law enforcement and the Drug Enforcement Administration in the United States to make arrests. The source of the information is never revealed, so its admissibility cannot be questioned in court, according to the report.
So should we go back to dumb TVs and stay off the Internet? Should you never allow a Web cam into the house?
I love video conferencing. It's the best way to communicate with family and friends, and I'm not about to give it up. I do think we should be a lot more skeptical about what government agencies are up to online. And until we find out more, when it's supposed to be off I'm putting tape over the TV's camera.
They've always used the media, but they're getting much better at it.
Quote from: jarhead on August 06, 2013, 07:25:40 PM
Warph, Better not be picking boogers while sitting in front of your TV.
Is your TV watching you?
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We live in very weird times, Jar... how weird? I recently heard that atheists are insisting that the U.S. Navy accept atheist chaplains into its ranks. What on earth would their function be, you ask? I can't imagine, unless there really are sailors who would find comfort in being assured as they go into combat that there's no God and no afterlife. I had long heard that there were no atheists in foxholes, and assumed the rule held true for fighting men aboard ships.
Surely of all the world's religions, not even Islam is as bizarre as atheism. And of all the professions, none is as bizarre as politics. In what other field could the likes of Barack Obuma, Dirty Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Henry Waxman, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Sheila Jackson Lee, reach the top.
Not even the egos to be found in show business are as huge as those carted around by politicians. Even someone as disgusting as Mr. Weenie continues to assert he is the only person fit to run New York City. Even though Nanny Bloomberg set a very low standard, it's impossible to picture Mr. Weenie as the indispensable man.
What is it, anyway, with people like Mr. Weenie, 48, and Geraldo Rivera, 70, that convinces them that for no other reason than that they're skinny, they're hunky heartthrobs. Someone at Fox News should whisper in Rivera's ear that 70 really isn't the new 50. In some cases, it's clearly the new 15.
I've been after Speaker John Bonehead in no uncertain terms, accusing him of being a milquetoast amongest other things. I readily acknowledge there's no sin in being civil. In fact, in most cases, it's a virtue. But not when you're the majority leader of the House and the other side keeps accusing Republicans of every sin from racism to bestiality.
When in the wake of the Benghazi massacre, the targeting of conservatives by the IRS and snooping on AP reporters and Fox's James Rosen, Obuma and his sock puppet "Little Jay" Carney keep referring to "phony scandals," the majority leader's job is to go for their throats, not to be overly concerned whether he and Mrs. Bonehead will be invited to the White House Christmas bash.
I am also sick and tired of hearing Republican politicians speak longingly of compromising with liberals. How many times will they allow themselves to be screwed?
There is no way to compromise with people who want to expand government; set ObumaCare in concrete; subsidize green industry/Obuma's cronies with our tax dollars; and turn a blind eye to a $17 trillion debt. You reach across the aisle with these schmucks and they cut off your arm.
One other piece of advice to these congenital morons: Stop reading the damn New York Times! Your constituents don't. In fact the only people who do are your liberal colleagues, for whom it serves as a secular missal.
Just remember that leading up to the 2008 primaries, the Times insisted that John McRino would make a great president because he was so statesmanlike. McRino, fool that he is, took it so much to heart, that he refused to even mention the role that Jeremiah Wright had played in Obuma's personal and political life and even went so far as to put the kibosh on any campaign ads that dared to mention the intimate link between the two rabid racists.
Speaking of he-who-should-be-impeached, I loved the joke that went viral recently suggesting that George Zimmerman change his name to Ben Ghazi so that Obuma would never again mention him.
Huge Fire At Int'l Arrivals Terminal at Kenyatta Int'l Airport
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Via BBC:A fire has broken out at the main international airport in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) said Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) had been closed and passengers evacuated.
Images posted on Twitter showed smoke and flames billowing from one of the main buildings.
There have been no reports of any casualties and the cause of the fire is not clear.
A statement from the airport authority said: "We confirm reports of a fire at JKIA affecting part of [the] international arrivals building and Unit 1 departures.
"KAA Fire and Rescue Team is on [the] ground being assisted by G4S and Nairobi Fire Brigade. Passengers have been evacuated to safety."
Mutea Iringo, a senior official at the interior and national co-ordination ministry, also confirmed "a serious fire" at JKIA, adding: "We are doing everything possible to avert a crisis."
The KAA later tweeted that the airport had been closed until further notice and only emergency vehicles were allowed in the area.
White House Unveils Website To "Educate" Business Owners On Obumacare
They say educate... I say indoctrinate....
How about we call the whole thing off?
Via Washington Post:The White House has kicked its Obamacare outreach and education efforts into full gear, including a new Website designed specifically for curious and confused business owners.
The new site allows employers to input their location, company size and current insurance plans and receive tailored information about changes under the law, important dates to remember, and the formulas for determining requirements and penalties.
Dubbed the Health Care Wizard, the site is part of BusinessUSA, the administration's interagency information outlet for employers. The new site churns out information gathered from Department of Health and Human Services, the Treasury Department and the Small Business Administration.
Race "Shaping Up" For Pants Suit,
As She Meets With Diet Guru
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(What difference at this point do a few pounds make?
You already have the weight of the fail of your time
with the Obuma administration that you can never diet off)
Via Breitbart:Hillary Clinton is reportedly meeting with Bill Clinton's diet guru in order to prepare for a potential 2016 run.
According to the New York Post, Clinton met with diet guru Dr. Mark Hyman on Sunday. Hyman is "credited with turning around Bill Clinton's health" and helped the former president lose 24 pounds.
Clinton was "spotted dining with Hyman at the West Street Grill in Litchfield, Conn., Sunday night" and reportedly "was accompanied by four Secret Service agents and two troopers." Clinton "drove an hour from her home in Chappaqua for the three-hour dinner with Hyman and his girlfriend."
Hyman "runs the Ultra Wellness Center in Lenox, Mass., which helps promote healthy weight and metabolism."
Clowns McRINO And Grahamnesty Demand Egypt Release
Jailed Muslim Brotherhood Leaders
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(These MB are the same people who call Jews the
"descendants of apes and pigs" and regularly
call for the destruction of Israel)
Via Al-Arabiya:U.S. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham urged Egypt's military-backed government to release jailed members of the Muslim Brotherhood and called on rival parties in the country to engage in a national dialogue and avoid violence.
McCain and Graham met with top military and civilian leaders in Cairo as part of international efforts to resolve a standoff with supporters of the ousted President Mohammad Mursi.
"Democracy is the only viable path to stability," said McCain, a former presidential candidate, calling for "an inclusive political process in which all Egyptians are free to participate," AFP reported.
Both lawmakers referred to the military's July 3 ouster of Mursi as a "coup," something their government has been reluctant to do as it would have legal implications for the $1.3 billion dollars (977 million euros) in U.S. aid to Egypt.
"The people who are in charge were not elected, and the people who were elected are now in jail," Graham told reporters.
"We urge the release of political prisoners," said McCain, referring to Brotherhood members who have been detained since Mursi's ouster by the military on July 3, the Associated Press reported.
"In a democracy, you have to talk to each other. It is impossible to talk to somebody in jail," Graham said.
Government Motors Slashes Volt Prices To Sell Them (At A Loss)
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(Just can't give these damn things away can they? I have only seen one on the road)
Via Detroit News:General Motors Co. is slashing the price of its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt by $5,000., making it the latest automaker to lower prices of electric vehicles in the face of lagging consumer demand.
The Detroit-based automaker said it will cut the base price 12.5 percent, from $39,995 to $34,995. The price cut comes just weeks after the automaker announced a $5,000 give-back on the 2012 Volt and $4,000 on the 2013 model.
The first Volt, a 2010 model, cost $41,000.
GM put a positive face on its decision to lower the list price.
"The lower price and cost savings from driving on electricity provide Volt owners an unmatched balance of technology, capability and cost of ownership," said Don Johnson, U.S. vice president, Chevrolet sales and service. "We have made great strides in reducing costs as we gain experience with electric vehicles and their components."
Parents arrested for driving drunk with children locked in trunk
April Burgo, 32, and Richard Burgo, 29, were traveling in San Bernardino, Calif., when sheriff's deputies pulled them over and found a crying 6-year-old and 8-year-old in the trunk.
(These idiots should be stuffed in the trunk of that car and parked out in the desert for a couple of days)
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Via NYDN:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/parents-allegedly-drive-drunk-kids-trunk-article-1.1418582
California parents were busted drunk driving with their two children locked in the trunk, police said.
Sheriff's deputies pulled over the car in which April Burgo, 32, and Richard Burgo, 29, were traveling in San Bernardino on Sunday evening.
Worried witnesses had reported seeing a child in the trunk of their black Cadillac at the drive-thru of a Bakers Restaurant.
Deputies believed the pair — and passenger 33-year-old Brandon Rampani — were all drunk.
They asked April Burgo, who was driving at the time, to open the trunk.
She hesitated, before releasing the clip to reveal her 6-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl crying inside.
The trio was arrested on suspicion of cruelty to a child. They have since posted bail, reports NBC Los Angeles.
The children, who were uninjured, are now in the care of a relative.
Want An Anthony Weiner Of Your Very Own?
Sext Girl Publishes Guide To "How To Seduce Politicians"
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(As I pondered what I wanted for my life, somehow,
having an Anthony Weiner of my very own really
wasn't high up on the list)
Via Mediaite:
Dying to sext your first politician, but don't even know how to get started?
Fear not: fresh off a New York Post bikini shoot and a sex tape, Anthony Weiner sexting partnerSydney Leathers has now entered the advice industry, publishing "10 Secrets To Seducing Politicians" Tuesday morning.
RELATED: Sydney Leathers To Howard Stern: Anthony Weiner 'Too Busy Jacking Off' To Be Mayor Of New York City
"Now, in case anyone wants to be as stupid as I was," Leathers wrote, "here is my guide to seducing a politician."
It's really more of a "guide to seducing Anthony Weiner online," but whatevs. Here are some highlights:
• Keep a straight face. Like, Anthony would thank me every time he had an orgasm. I don't think I ever said "You're welcome." Who thanks someone after an orgasm?
• Find a horny non-politician to finance your politician sexting. With a politician, you have to remember: You're probably not going to get money. You're in it for the thrill of it.
• Don't be too proud for selfies.
• The best way to compliment on penis shot: Be really specific. Not just length but girth and everything. Really be specific.
• Make sure you keep up with his career. Set up a Google-alert on his name. Then when you talk or sext, mention little tidbits about what they've done because politicians love that.
• And actually have a life. Although, to be quite honest, when we were talking and sexting multiple times a day, I did end up planning my days around him. Pathetic, but at least he never knew this.
Leathers paused for a moment of self-defense against the Maureen Dowds and Thomas Roberts of the world. "Why does having a sexting affair with a married man or even doing porn make someone a 'bad person'?" she asked. "Give me a break. I'm not a war criminal...I enjoy my sexuality, and it doesn't make me anything other than what I am: a young woman who's enjoying her life to the fullest and going on plenty of adventures with willing partners."
The Other Benghazi Scandal:
Journalists Worry Covering The Attack Threatens White House Access
by Noah Rothman | August 5th, 2013
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(Normally, I include a snarky comment here....
However, I want to say, Mediaite did a fantastic piece on this)
As the one year anniversary of the deadly attack on an American consulate in Benghazi approaches, journalists have begun to take another look into the scandal surrounding the government's response to that terrorist event. Last week, CNN aired two striking reports revealing that the Central Intelligence Agency had a large number of agents on the ground on the night of the attack and that a suspect in the attack has never been interviewed by investigators. Following these revelatory reports, which some in President Barack Obama's administration believe represent a political threat, some CNN reporters now fear for their access to the White House. They are not alone.
On July 31, CNN's The Situation Room broadcast a portion of an interview conducted by reporter Arwa Damon with a suspect in the Benghazi attacks. The suspect revealed to Damon that no investigator has attempted to contact him regarding his involvement in that deadly assault. The following day, CNN's Drew Griffin broke the news that more than 30 CIA agents were on the ground in Libya on the day of the attack and they are being pressured by the spy agency to not reveal to reporters or congressional investigators what they know of the events of that night. Some CNN reporters are reportedly fearful now that their access to the White House will be hampered following their probing into a story that members of the Obama administration would prefer remain uninvestigated.
"Access is a very serious consideration when it comes to stories that could adversely impact a show, correspondent, or network's relationship with the administration, a campaign, or any political leader," one source with insider information told Mediaite.
"I would suggest it's not an accident that those who have been given a lot of access to the president have generally been AWOL when it comes to stories that might reflect poorly on him," the source, who did not wish to be identified, continued. "It's the name of the game. And it's bad for everyone trying to do this job the right way." Those reporters have reason to fear for their access to America's executive branch. Some suspect that reporters who soft-pedal or underreport stories uncomfortable to the administration receive preferential access to White House officials.
On September 12, 2012, less than 24-hours after the attack on the American consulate, President Obama sat down with CBS News reporter Steve Kroft for an in-depth interview on 60 Minutes. A critical portion of that interview, however, was omitted from broadcast only to be released online the Friday before the election. In that unaired portion of the interview, the president appeared to hedge about whether to declare that attack an act of terrorism.
CBS's decision to hold this portion of the interview became a focus of speculation because, during an explosive presidential debate against Mitt Romney, Obama declared with much more force that he had always regarded the Benghazi attack as a terrorist event.
Some believe it was no coincidence that the president chose 60 Minutes to sit down with outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for an exit interview in January – one of several that she gave to every network news operation.
Unlike in the exit interviews on the other networks, the 60 Minutes interview's focus on Benghazi – coming just days after Clinton testified before Congress about her department's actions leading up to and following the attack – was decidedly limited.
"I want to talk about the hearings this week," Kroft began.
"You had a very long day. Also, how is your health?" He digressed.
"As the New York Times put it, you accepted responsibility, but not blame," Kroft asked in a follow up to the above grilling. "Do you feel guilty in any way, in– at a personal level? Do you blame yourself that you didn't know or that you should have known?"
Both Clinton's and the president's response to this question was clinical, lawyerly, and retrospective. Of course, they were able to take this tone because the nature of the question implied that the Benghazi story was a closed book. Today, though, the persistent uncovering of new details relating to the federal response to that attack shows definitively that the Benghazi story is not yet fully understood.
CBS' 60 Minutes is not the only venue which is protective of their access to the administration. Reporting by ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl in May surrounding how the administration formed the talking points relating to the terrorist event in Benghazi prompted a flurry of reporting and commentary which suggested that the White House was fending off unwarranted attacks from their political opponents.
Just days prior to Karl's revelations, NBC News was granted a rare tour of the White House Situation Room as part of a retrospective report reflecting on the two year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
In the days that followed Karl's revelations, NBC News' most visible personalities were far more hands-off than they had been in the days that initially followed that deadly attack.
"The whole issue of talking point, frankly, throughout this process, has been a sideshow," Obama pointedly said of Karl's story unveiling how the talking points were formed. "We dishonor [the fallen] when we, you know, we turn things like this into a political circus."
Appearing on Nightly News, the NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd reacted to Obama's prickly statement by twice calling the president's response to those revelations a "defiant" showing. NBC News' Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, observed that there is no doubt a "political undercurrent" to Republicans questioning Clinton's culpability in those attacks. "After all, those Republicans are taking direct aim at Clinton, the country's most popular Democrat and a potential presidential candidate," she said of the revelations surrounding the talking points on NBC's Today.
"If you worry about access, you're in the wrong business," another insider with detailed information about how journalists and news networks react to reporting about Benghazi told Mediaite. "This shouldn't be a consideration at all, but it is."
This source, who also declined to be identified, said that the institution of journalism would be better served if reporters were less protective of their sources within powerful institutions. "If we all raised proper objections, they couldn't do it to anybody," the source said of the White House's efforts to block access to reporters who pursue stories they regard as inconvenient. "We're really playing the government's game."
Pantsuit Tops List Of Dems Voters Don't Want In 2016
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"NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo"
(I weep for her, really I do[n't])
Via The Washington Examiner:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/poll-hillary-tops-list-of-dems-voters-dont-want-in-2016/article/2533918
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on top of yet another poll today. But it's not the result her team was hoping for.
In a new Rasmussen Reports poll, Clinton tops five others as the one candidate voters don't want to win in 2016.
"Regardless of whom you would vote for, which candidate would you least like to see win the Democratic nomination in 2016? Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Martin O'Malley, Andrew Cuomo, Antonio Villaraigosa or Cory Booker?" Rasmussen asked.
The results: Clinton 27 percent, Biden 24 percent. The rest were in the 15 percent to 17 percent, reported Rasmussen. Women are more enthusiastic supporters of Clinton than men are. Men are more likely to hope she doesn't get the Democratic nomination.
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
(And where were you Tuesday??)
Impeach Obama Protests Erupt Across America (Video & Photos
On bridges across America today, people stood holding signs and banners that said "Impeach Obama," and "Remove Obama," or "Honk to Impeach," as part of an organized effort by the group, "Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment," which has grown since mid-June and now has a presence in all 50 states of America.The mission of the movement states :[/b]
"Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment has a simple goal.. The removal of the corrupt and criminal President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama.
His actions go unimpeded, our pleas through petitions unanswered. Our calls and letters to Congress are left ignored and unopened.
Our only peaceful recourse is to take to the streets and overpasses of America and DEMAND that our nation be returned to We the People, and that Barack Hussein Obama be Impeached, removed from office, and held accountable for his actions while serving as President."(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KaQxvFVKQvo/UgGnmMDe93I/AAAAAAAAPP0/5RADp1OdRQE/s1600/Impeach2.jpg)
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(I'm sure that it was just an innocent mistake, what with all of the jet-lag and many vacations. Which also explains "57 states", "Navy Corpse-Man", "Intercontinental Railroad", "I mean, at a certain point you've made enough money" and the zillions of other malapropisms, gaffes and screw-ups by the Smartest Presidente Evah)
ABC, CBS and NBC Overlook Obuma's Gaffe-tastic Performance on Leno
By Geoffrey Dickens | August 07, 2013
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Barack Obama delivered one gaffe after another in his August 6 interview with Jay Leno, but the networks that usually mock every mistake or slip of the tongue made by Republicans ignored the President's verbal mishaps.
ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's This Morning and NBC's Today show, on Wednesday morning, all bypassed the chance to criticize Obama for: downplaying the threat of terrorism; falsely claiming Vladimir Putin once ran the KGB; placing the Atlantic coast cities of Savannah, Charleston and Jacksonville on the Gulf of Mexico; confusing the Winter Olympics with the Summer Olympics.
First up, on the August 6 edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Obama responded to the talk show host's question about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, this way: "The odds of people dying in a terrorist attack obviously are still a lot lower than in a car accident, unfortunately." (
It should be noted that Good Morning America did run this soundbite, but they let it go by without comment.)JAY LENO: What do you say to those cynics who go, oh, this is an overreaction to Benghazi — how do you respond to that?BARACK OBAMA: One thing I've tried to do as President is not over react, but make sure that as much as possible the American people understand that there are genuine risks out there. What's great about what we've seen with America over the last several years is how resilient we are. So after the Boston bombing, for example, the next day folks were out there, they're going to ball games. They are making sure that we're not reacting in a way that somehow shuts us down.
And that's the right reaction. Terrorists depend on the idea that we're going to be terrorized. And we're going to live our lives. And the odds of people dying in a terrorist attack obviously are still a lot lower than in a car accident, unfortunately. But there are things that we can do to make sure that we're keeping the pressure on these networks that would try to injure Americans. And the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about when I go to bed is making sure that I'm doing everything I can to keep Americans safe.Later on the leader of the free world mistakenly claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin once "headed up the KGB." According to this January 30, 2000 Washington Post article Putin "spent 17 years as a mid-level agent in the Soviet KGB's foreign intelligence wing, rising only to the rank of lieutenant colonel."JAY LENO: And Putin seems to me like one of those old-school KGB guys.BARACK OBAMA: Well, he headed up the KGB.During the Russia portion of the interview, the President also mixed up the Winter Olympics with the Summer Olympics.
OBAMA: I think Putin and Russia have a big stake in making sure the Olympics work, and I think they understand that for most of the countries that participate in the Olympics, we wouldn't tolerate gays and lesbians being treated differently. They're athletes, they're there to compete. And if Russia wants to uphold the Olympic spirit, then every judgment should be made on the track, or in the swimming pool, or on the balance beam, and people's sexual orientation shouldn't have anything to do with it.The track and field events, swimming competitions and gymnastics all take place during the summer games. Sochi, Russia is the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Finally, during a discussion on the need to improve the nation's infrastructure, Obama made a big geographical goof, as seen in the following exchange:JAY LENO: You mentioned infrastructure. Why is that a partisan issue? I live in a town, the bridge is falling apart, it's not safe. How does that become Republican or Democrat? How do you not just fix the bridge?BARACK OBAMA: I don't know. As you know, for the last three years, I've said, let's work together. Let's find a financing mechanism and let's go ahead and fix our bridges, fix our roads, sewer systems, our ports. You know the Panama Canal is being widened so that these big supertankers can come in. Now, that will be finished in 2015. If we don't deepen our ports all along the Gulf — places like Charleston, South Carolina, or Savannah, Georgia, or Jacksonville, Florida — if we don't do that, those ships are going to go someplace else. And we'll lose jobs. Businesses won't locate here.(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/map-eastern-states.jpg)
Another brilliant move by race-baiter Barack Obuma! He recently passed an executive order that will force public schools to ignore poor behavior by black children.
▶Black children taught to hate white people in Chicago public schools (EAG News)
Obuma wants to redistribute disciplinary action along racial lines.
The Examiner reported:http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-asks-public-schools-to-ingore-bad-behavoir-by-black-students
In many major cities, black academic performance has actually gotten worse since Obama took office. We have also seen the dramatic nationwide rise of black teen mob violence under the Obama administration.
On July 26th Obama signed an executive order titled the "African American Education Initiative." The order essentially gives a green light for black students to misbehave in public schools. In two places, Obama's executive order calls on schools to reduce the number disciplinary actions taken against blacks students. The order specifically calls on schools too "not rely on methods that result in disparate use of disciplinary tools."
To comply, public schools would have to engage in a racial quota system of discipline. The executive order will create a new Federal bureaucracy to pressure school systems to comply with the president's demands. The executive order makes no mention of any effort to get black students to improve behavior.
There is a reason why blacks are more likely to be disciplined in school. Black students are more likely to misbehave. The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that there is a huge crime rate disparity between blacks and other racial groups.(WTF... this is RACISM tried and true by a POS racist community organizer. Inner cities have always been training grounds for urban warfare. I believe that is one of the reasons that these Demo-rat strongholds allow shootings to continue unabated. Gun control was meant to take the ability of white people to defend themselves while little effort was made to remove illegal guns from the street. Now they want us to allow young black children to grow up undisciplined and uneducated, their experiences of their young lives full of violence. This suggestion alone is enough to know that the POS Obuma is preparing and encouraging the black race for a race war)
The Color of Crime
New Century Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1994 to study immigration and race relations so as to better understand the consequences of America's increasing diversity.
Perhaps the most important publication of New Century Foundation is The Color of Crime, New Century Foundation's report on differences in crime rates by race, bias in the justice system, and interracial crime.
Major Findings
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Crime Rates•Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.
•When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.
•Hispanics commit violent crimes at roughly three times the white rate, and Asians commit violent crimes at about one quarter the white rate.
•The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of the population that is black and Hispanic.
Interracial Crime•Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involving blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.
•Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are black.
•Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
•Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes against whites than vice versa.
Gangs•Only 10 percent of youth gang members are white.
•Hispanics are 19 times more likely than whites to be members of youth gangs. Blacks are 15 times more likely, and Asians are nine times more likely.
Incarceration•Between 1980 and 2003 the US incarceration rate more than tripled, from 139 to 482 per 100,000, and the number of prisoners increased from 320,000 to 1.39 million.
•Blacks are seven times more likely to be in prison than whites. Hispanics are three times more likely.
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Mission Accomplished: John McRINO and Lindsey Grahamnesty
Stir Up Hornet's Nest in Egypt – Fly Back Home
August 7, 2013
As Guinness says, "Brilliant!"
Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham did their best to prop up the Muslim Brotherhood and attack political leaders during their short visit to Cairo. In response, military leaders lashed out at McCain for interfering with the country's internal conflict.
McCain and Graham also said the country was near "all-out bloodshed."
The two US senators exacerbated anti-US feelings in the country.
Nice work, guys.
(It's hard to see what the two Clowns were hoping to accomplish
with their public statements. What a disaster)
The Huffington Post reported:Egypt's military-backed government on Tuesday harshly rejected statements by visiting U.S. Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who called the military's month-old takeover of power as a "coup."
McCain (R-Ariz.) and Graham (R-S.C.) had used the word "coup" at an afternoon press conference to describe the manner in which Egypt's military had seized power from the Muslim Brotherhood's elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in early July.
"We have said we share the democratic aspirations and criticism of the Morsi government that led millions of Egyptians into the streets," McCain said. "We've also said that the circumstances of [Morsi's] removal was a coup"
A spokesman for the interim government, Sherief Shawki, immediately dismissed the characterization. "There is a roadmap, which means that what happened was not a coup and that it was Egyptian people who decided on the roadmap," he told Reuters in an interview. Shawki also said the involvement of McCain and Graham was unwelcome, adding, "We don't want foreign intervention to be imposed on us."
In a statement later on Tuesday, distributed by Egypt's Middle East News Agency and reported by Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, a top media advisor to Egypt's interim president, Adly Mansour, offered a stronger rebuke. The statement accused McCain of twisting facts, and dismissed his remarks as "clumsy," or "irresponsible," depending on the translation. (On Twitter, bilingual Arabic speakers debated the best translation for the word, "kharqa," which also could be interpreted as "moronic" or "irrational.")
Whistleblower: Obama Was Indonesian Citizen &
Given Financial Aid As Foreign Student
At Occidental College
August 7, 2013
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/08/whistleblower-obama-was-indonesian-citizen-given-financial-aid-as-foreign-student-at-occidental-college/#3sBg8b38oOlZcmhT.99
Dr. Orly Taitz has been pushing the Barack Obama eligibility issue for some time now. She has sought to go specifically through the court system and back in February she attempted to press the Supreme Court to move to oral arguments on Obama's eligibility to hold the office of president of the United States. She is also one that questions the motives of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Mike Zullo in their investigation. In June she presented additional information to the Superior Court of California in the Fourth District Court of Appeals additional information in the case of Taitz v. Obama, Feinstein, Emken (The case number is G047746 and the Superior Court case number is 30-2012-00582135), in which she is seeking to have Barack Obama produce his registration record at Occidental College. According to a press release from Orly Taitz: A whistle-blower from Higher Education Services Corporation in Albany New York came forward and advised Attorney Orly Taitz that she personally reviewed Barack Obama's financial aid information, which stated that financial aid was given to Obama as foreign student and as a citizen of Indonesia.whistle-blower breakdown: http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Taitz-v-Obama-CA-4th-additional-information-1.pdf
In the original case there were over 100 pages that documented that Barack Obama was a citizen of Indonesia at the time he attended Occidental and that he has used fraudulent means to secure Identification.
However, Superior Court Judge Charles Marginis ruled in favor of Occidental College and denied Taitz's motion to force them to produce Obama's college registration forms.
Kathleen O'Leary, the Chief Judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeals, then re-instated the appeal.
In Taitz's press release she writes, "Additionally, Obama failed to submit the Appellee's brief in Taitz v Obama, Feinstein, Emken. This is an appeal, which was reinstated by the Chief Judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeal Kathleen O'Leary. Appellant Taitz filed her Appellant's brief."
"Appellees failed to file an Appellees' brief," the press release continued. "They were given additional 15 days and they failed again. Attorney Taitz submitted a notice of failure by Appellees to file an Appellee's brief and provided the court with this additional information, as part of the appeal revolves around the decision by the Superior Court judge Charles Marginis to rule in favor of the Occidental college and deny a motion to compel production of a redacted college registration for Obama in light of over a 100 pages of records showing Obama to be a citizen of Indonesia using forged and fraudulently obtained IDs."
As a result, Taitz submitted the new information to the Superior Court claiming "Whistleblower wrote for Taitz in her own handwriting her first and last name, her work e-mail address, her personal e-mail address and her home and cell phone numbers."
"Taitz did her due diligence and independently verified that the whistleblower is indeed employed by the Higher Education Services Corporation in Albany, New York" Taitz's submittal read. "She further checked that Obama transferred from the Occidental college to Columbia University in New York and his financial aid would indeed be handled by the Higher Education Services Corporation in Albany, New York (Hereinafter HESC). Whistleblower advised Taitz that the policy of the HESC is no to destroy records and microfilm is contained in the safe of the corporation. She further advised Taitz that several employees of the HESC made copies of the microfilm, in case the management decides to destroy the evidence. She came forward, as she is concerned about fraud being committed and the fact that as a citizen of Indonesia Obama was not eligible to be the president of the United States."
A sword declaration was also attached, as you can see here.
http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Taitz-v-Obama-CA-4th-additional-information-1.pdf
Ms. Taitz say that the information provided should weigh in her favor in granting an appeal. Moreover, if further evidence confirms this information and attorney for Occidental college knew that Obama's registration, application and financial aid show him registered as a foreign student and a citizen of Indonesia, then they would have knowingly been committing treason against the people of the United States of America and were aiding and abetting the most egregious fraud in the history of the US.
I wonder why those who have made copies of the microfilm have not simply pitched it into the hands of someone like Taitz. In either case, I'm sure the Obama administration has put its NSA ears to the ground around HESC now and employees can rest assured they are being monitored.
Barack Obama has spent millions of dollars to keep his records from the public eye? Why? Isn't he the man that said, "The only people that don't want to disclose the truth, are people with something to hide?" Again, how hard is it for Obama to simply produce the documentation, not a forged digital image on the web, and put to rest the allegations? If I were in the position, that's exactly what I would do and demonstrate the foolishness of the claim, but when someone goes to great expense and lengths to keep information hidden, it only lends credibility to the charges leveled against him, especially in light of his past and his time in office.
This is a "What If..."
President Obama Body Count & Counting
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We all know the United States government is one powerful, greedy army, that in fact gets away with murder. Being greedy and power hungry is one thing but, for a president to eliminate anyone that crosses his path and questions them is something taken straight out of a Blockbuster Hollywood film. Presidents are authorized to do just about anything. However, there are many orders given via the president not known or reported to the public.
How many skeletons are in the White House closets? The blood keeps seeping through the cracks as the "silent murders" happen. Why are these innocent individuals targeted and have their lives cut short due to greed?
Below is a partial list taken from http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/10015.html
LIA SOETORO - Barry's older adopted sister in Indonesia. In 2010, she surfaced before a scheduled Obama trip to Indonesia. She gave interviews, talked about their childhood, and said she had some belongings that were Barry's when he was young. All of a sudden she got sick and died. The trip was cancelled.
SARAH BERKLEY – Author of "The Jihad at the Ballot Box" – a book examining Obama's relationship with radical Islam. Died in a mysterious car crash in 2003.
RUSSELL MCDOUGAL – Former FBI operative, January 23rd, 2007. McDougal was known to hold sensitive information about meetings Barack Obama had with arms smugglers. His wife was murdered March 2006 after he went public with his initial reports. His father died July 8, 2006 four hours after McDougal presented his findings on the Savage Nation. Suffered administrative retaliation after reporting discussions by jihadist groups concerning Obama to his superiors.
RODRIGO VILLALOPEZ - a television news camera man who shot the footage of Obama describing small town voters as "bitter" and "clinging to their guns during the primary season.
BRIAN GORING – A defense attorney for Obama patron Antoin Rezko during his trial for extortion and bribery. Died of apparent "natural causes."
MERCEDES HUGLEY, one of Obama's many white, female conquests while at Harvard. Filed sexual assault charges against Obama for date rape in 1990. Because "date rape" was not considered a crime like it is today, she ended up dropping the charges. Two years later, she was found dead of an apparent cocaine overdose.
Fun game: Try to determine how many of these people even exist. We're coming up cold blank on several so far, including the 'Sarah Berkley' who wrote the apparently nonexistent book, The Jihad at the Ballot Box — which is, you know, supposed to have tied Obama to radical Islam at some point during his career as an Illinois state senator. The best might be Darsano Rahardjo (below). Egad, who can say it isn't true?!
TAMIKA HILL– A former secretary for Obama's office in Chicago was murdered July 6, 2005 at a rib shack in the south side. Hill had spoken off the record with a reporter from the Chicago Sun Times about meetings Obama had with black militants in the city. She was murdered before she could ever be properly interviewed.
HASAD AL SHAREEZ – FBI informant. Reported to his handler in January 2001 that he had a tape about of a person named simply "B. Hussein" meeting with 9/11 hijacker Mohatma Atta in Prague. Was found shot in the basement of a mosque in Dearborn, MI in October, 2001.
DARSANO RAHARDJO – Childhood classmate of Barack Obama when he attended a madrassa in Indonesia. Was found with his head cut off in a Jakarta alley way in 1970. Many children at the school attributed Rahardjo's murder to the young Barack Obama. It was likely done as an initiation ritual, since Islam demands that a boy spill another's blood before the age of ten to prove their loyalty to Allah.REVEREND DAVID MANNING – Former head of the Trinity Baptist Church in Chicago. Was murdered during the apparent robbery of a catfish restaurant in 1972. Shortly afterwards, Rev. Jeremiah Wright took over as head of Trinity and a many parishioners (who later left the church) suspected Wright in having a hand in Reverend Manning's death. Decades later, Manning's son JAMAL MANNING was found dead of an apparent crack overdose in 2004. It was rumored he was going to bring evidence of Wright's complicity in his father's death. His testimony was timed to coincide with Obama's first senate race.
CHRISTOPHER HARGROVE, A former lover of Larry Sinclair. Found dead in a hotel room of apparent auto-erotic asphyxiation in January 2001. Was said to have been enraged when he found out that Sinclair had cheated on Jackson with Obama in the back of a limousine. To get revenge, Jackson planned to release digital pictures Sinclair had taken of the encounter on the Internet.
PAUL ROTHCHILD – Democrat National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Washington DC in 2003. A "friend and trusted adviser" to senatorial candidate Barack Obama. Dead of an apparent suicide.
CURTIS "POOKIE" JACKSON – Chicago drug dealer. Was the subject of a police investigation in which he was suspected of funneling money to Obama's many various community projects. Killed in 1998 in an apparent gang murder.
HARVEY KENYON – Head of Obama's senatorial security team in Chicago. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside of Grant Park in 2005. Kenyon's son said his father was building a dossier on Obama. He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house
SHEILA BAUGH – A Washington DC madame. Died from a gunshot wound. Reported to have a black book of people containing names of influential people who visited the prostitutes in her brothel. One of those names was allegedly Barack Obama.
KEYSHAWN "SPOON" CALWORTH – Was found dead of an apparent heroin overdose May 18, 1997. Was reported to have ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
LAWSHAWNA MARTIN- 26 year old mother of five, a Cabrini Green resident with a history of substance abuse. Told two of her co-workers at the Blue Peppermint Gentleman's Club that she would have to quit work because she was pregnant again. Strongly implied that the "baby daddy" was Barack Obama. The next week, she was reported missing. No body was ever recovered, but Lawshana has not resurfaced since making those remarks.
BILL FERGUSON- Senior aide to Barack Obama. Found dead of an apparent heart attack.
GANDY BAUGH – Attorney for Obama friend Antonin Rezko died by falling out an eightieth story window of the Hancock Tower, January, 2003. His client was a convicted Chinese spy.
Andrew Breitbart March 1st, 2012 – Died suddenly and unexpected of "natural causes" possibly related to a Heart Attack. Untimely death coincided with potentially damaging release of Barack Obama's College Years with known domestic terrorists and communists.
*Update* 06/20/2013 – Award winning journalist Michael Hastings dies in a car accident at the age of 33. This story is till developing. Eyewitness and from pictured of the actual scene prove and show that this was not a car accident that struck a near by tree. The scene shows a blast from the back of the vehicle that transfered to the front of the car. Stay tuned for more updates.
---Okay, I will---
"You know why a banana is like a politician?"
"He comes in and first he is green,
Then he turns yellow
And then he's rotten."
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"ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE IS NO
MATCH FOR NATURAL
STUPIDITY."
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"The original "point and click" interface
Was a Smith & Wesson."
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Snowden's Email Service Quickly Shuts Down
Lavabit apparently refused to work with US government
By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff
Posted Aug 8, 2013 6:51 PM CDT
Newser) – An email service apparently used by Edward Snowden has opted to shut down after an unpleasant encounter with the US government, the Guardian reports. Called Lavabit, the service seems to have refused a court order to let the feds spy on its customers. "I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit," wrote founder Ladar Levison. He went on:
• "I feel you deserve to know what's going on—the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks."
Privacy advocates say it's the first email company to close shop rather than comply with US surveillance. Levison now plans to fight the US government in court and eventually reopen Lavabit, which claimed 350,000 customers and was known for its rigorous security features.
http://www.newser.com/story/172281/snowdens-email-service-quickly-shuts-down.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_top
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I wonder how long before his heart attack or car accident or death by natural causes?
Quote from Ross:
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE IS NO
MATCH FOR NATURAL
STUPIDITY."
You got that right you ol Squid. See that right here several times a day
Actress Leah Remini ("King Of Queens") Files Missing Person Report On Shelly Miscavige,
Wife Of The Leader Of Scientology
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Shelly is the wife of David Miscavige, Tom Cruise's "best friend" and best man in his wedding to Katie Holmes. After going missing in late 2005, early 2006, she was seen briefly in 2007 at a funeral with "minders" who did not allow her to talk to anyone else. When Remini asked about her, Remini was subjected to five years of interrogations and behavior modifications by Scientology, before she finally left them last month. Via Hollywood Reporter:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/leah-remini-files-missing-person-602723
Shelly Miscavige reportedly has not been seen in public in six years, and Remini questions whether she is being "punished for her own shortcomings."
After her public break with Scientology last month, Leah Remini has taken action and filed a missing person report for the wife of the controversial religion's leader, David Miscavige, The Hollywood Reporter confirms.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed only that an investigation regarding Shelly (Michelle) Miscavige is ongoing, but a source close to The King of Queens actress confirms that Remini filed the report herself.
According to writer Tony Ortega's website, The Underground Bunker, which focuses on the inner workings of the secretive organization, Shelly Miscavige has not been publicly sighted in six years.
According to Ortega, Shelly Miscavige allegedly was transferred from Scientology's headquarters near Hemet, Calif., to a secret compound near Lake Arrowhead in late 2005 or early 2006. The compound, known as the Church of Spiritual Technology, reportedly houses about a dozen Scientologists who are said to be completely cut off from the outside world. Miscavige and his attorneys have not publicly confirmed Shelly's whereabouts. According to Ortega's report, Remini questions whether Shelly has freedom of movement or is being "punished for her own shortcomings."
AP Tried To Cover Up Obuma's Geography Gaffe
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Yesterday, a number of newspapers reported on Obama's geography gaffe.
Obama said the following:"If we don't deepen our ports all along the Gulf – places like Charleston, S.C., or Savannah, Ga., or Jacksonville, Fla. – if we don't do that, these ships are going to go someplace else and we'll lose jobs."The ports are not on the Gulf but on the East Coast.
However, the AP added words, covering up the gaffe:
"If we don't deepen our ports all along the Gulf – (and in) places like Charleston, S.C., or Savannah, Ga., or Jacksonville, Fla. – if we don't do that, these ships are going to go someplace else and we'll lose jobs."This afternoon, AP corrected the wording, but made no apology for the cya for Obama.
State Department's New "Faith-Based" Advisor Shaun Casey:
"I Am Glad American Civil Religion Is Dying"
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Lurch Kerry - Sec.of State
(Shockingly, Shaun Casey was also a religion advisor
to the Obama campaign in 2008)
(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State John [Lurch] Kerry announced Wednesday the formation of the Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives, which will be headed by Shaun Casey, a former religion advisor to President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and a liberal professor who last year touted the end of 'civil religion' in the United States.
"I, frankly, am glad American civil religion is dying," Casey said at a discussion last year at the Center for American Progress focused on "God and Politics" in the last presidential election.
Kerry introduced Casey as a person who cares about faith in American society.
"Over the years, I've come to appreciate Shaun as a deeply thoughtful person who cares about the place of faith in our public life," Kerry said.
Report: Obuma To Allow Thousands of Syrian Refugees Into America
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(What could possibly go wrong?)
Via The Cable:http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/08/08/exclusive_us_will_now_let_in_thousands_of_syrian_refugees
With conditions continuing to deteriorate in Syria, the Obama administration is making a major policy shift by agreeing for the first time to allow thousands of new Syrian refugees into the United States, The Cable has learned.
The numbers are relatively small: just 2,000 refugees, compared to an estimated two million people who have fled Syria during the civil war. But it's a significant increase from the 90 or so Syrian refugees who have been permanently admitted to the U.S. in the last two years. And it's not entirely uncontroversial. The refugees, mostly women and children, will be screened for terrorist ties — a process that could take a year or more to complete.
Unlike previous efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to give temporary protected status to Syrians already in the United States, the State Department effort will bring in Syrians from overseas for permanent resettlement in America.
"Referrals will come within the next four months. We will need to interview people and perform security and medical checks," Kelly Clements, the State Department's deputy assistant secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration, tells The Cable.
Pew Poll: 46% of Americans Think Media Has Liberal Bias,
Only 19% Think It Is Neutral
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Via Pew Research:http://www.people-press.org/2013/08/08/amid-criticism-support-for-medias-watchdog-role-stands-out/
. . . Overall, about seven-in-ten (72%) see news organizations in ideological terms. A 46%-plurality says news organizations are best described as liberal, another 26% say they are conservative. Just 19% say news organizations are best described as neither liberal nor conservative.
The balance of opinion on this question has changed little in recent years, with a plurality consistently describing news organizations as liberal, and about a quarter saying they are conservative.
Not surprisingly, there are wide partisan divides in perceptions of news organizations' ideology. By a 65%-17% margin, more Republicans say news organizations are liberal than conservative. By contrast, Democrats are divided: about as many say the press is liberal (36%) as conservative (37%). By about two-to-one (47%-23%), more independents say news organizations are better described as liberal than conservative.
Mister Putin's Not So Fabulous Olympic Winter Games
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(Olympic games will soon be held in Russia and gay rights groups are asking Pres. Obuma and others to boycott them due to Russia's treatment of queers. It's apparently illegal to talk about being queer on the radio, television or in newspapers)
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Via Sky News:http://news.sky.com/story/1126391/olympic-boycott-urged-over-russia-gay-rights
Calls are growing for a boycott of next year's Winter Olympics in Russia in protest at what campaigners have called its "barbaric" new homophobic laws.
Broadcaster Stephen Fry has appealed directly to David Cameron and members of the International Olympic Committee [IOC] to stop the games being held in Russia, comparing Vladimir Putin's treatment of gay people to Adolf Hitler's treatment of Jews.
He said allowing the games to go ahead in Putin's Russia would be comparable to the decision to hold the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany.
Four-time Olympic champion diver Greg Louganis yesterday delivered a 320,000 signature petition to IOC headquarters in Switzerland, urging it to condemn Russia's "anti-gay laws"
Fox News Poll: It Isn't The Scandals That Are Phony
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(Me thinks Obuma doth protest too much)
Via Fox News:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/08/fox-news-poll-phony-scandals-not-to-voters/
Benghazi. Snooping on reporters. The IRS and NSA. The White House dismisses them as phony and fake scandals. Americans do not.
A Fox News national poll released Thursday finds that 78 percent of voters think the questions over the administration's handling of the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi should be taken seriously. Just 17 percent call it a phony scandal.
The attack, on the anniversary of September 11, killed four Americans — including the U.S. ambassador.
Meanwhile, 69 percent of voters say the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance of everyday Americans is serious, while 26 percent call that a fake scandal.
Obuma To Give Nation's Highest Civilian Award To harpO
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(Yawn...)
WASHINGTON — The White House announced that President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, to 16 recipients including television star and businesswoman Oprah Winfrey, legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and former President Bill Clinton.
"The Presidential Medal of Freedom goes to men and women who have dedicated their own lives to enriching ours," Mr. Obama said in a statement released by the White House. "This year's honorees have been blessed with extraordinary talent, but what sets them apart is their gift for sharing that talent with the world."
Mr. Obama will award the medals later this year. In total, 16 people will receive the award, the White House said.
U.S. Reports A Breakthrough In Malaria Vaccine
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(This pretty amazing. Malaria has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Wiping it out would mean only aids and cancer stand in our way as a species. Oh and by the way, most of this research was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. You know, greedy, evil, wicked white capitalist people?)
Via CNN:http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/malaria-vaccine/?on.cnn=1
(CNN) — U.S. researchers say they've successfully tested a vaccine for malaria on a small group of volunteers and hope to conduct large-scale tests soon.
The vaccine involves multiple, intravenous injections of a weakened form of the disease, scientists from the National Institutes of Health, the Navy, Army and other organizations reported Thursday. Though the results were promising, more extensive field testing will be required, the researchers wrote.
The mosquito-borne tropical disease kills about 1 million people a year and sickens more than 200 million. Dr. William Schaffner, head of the preventive medicine department at Vanderbilt University's medical school, called the results "a scientific advance" — but it may be eight to 10 years before the vaccine can be scientifically proven, approved and distributed.
Yeah. Maybe we should investigate these people, how dare they spend all that money to help just anyone. :laugh:
Greedy, no, they're spending their money to help others.
Evil, I don't see no horns.
Wicked, Dorothy killed the witch a long time ago.
White, that is our burden.
Capitalist. Well that is our burden as well.
Mr. Maddow's Neighborhood – Megyn Kelly To 9:00 pm Slot
(According to Drudge Report, Megyn Kelly will move
to 9:00 pm opposite MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. One
and a half ladies enter. Which will win?)
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Drudge: Megyn Kelly Set to Replace Sean Hannity on Fox Prime-Time
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Fox News rising star Megyn Kelly is going to take over the prime-time slot currently helmed by talk superstar Sean Hannity, a huge shift in the conservative news channel's programming, according to the Drudge Report.
"It's all about Megyn," an inside source at Fox told Drudge. "She is the new face of cable news. She has it all!"
It would be the first major prime-time change in the leading cable news channel's lineup in a decade.
So far, no other major news organization is reporting the item. Matt Drudge cited anonymous "top sources" in his report Thursday afternoon, adding that the announcement would be made later in August.
Fox issued a statement shortly after the Drudge Report story appeared:
"We will neither confirm nor deny any programming schedule changes. As previously stated, the network has signed long-term deals with Megyn Kelly, Bret Baier, Shepard Smith, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Greta Van Susteren."
But it's clear changes are coming. The big question is, where does Hannity go? He is signed to a long-term contract that will reportedly keep him on the network through the 2016 election, the Huffington Post reported. Fox prime-time's other stars, Bill O'Reilly and Greta Van Susteren, are also locked in to years-long contracts.
Ailes, in an interview with Neil Cavuto this afternoon, said "all of our stars will be back," and called the Drudge story a rumor.
"Hannity is a brand that many of our viewers love and want to see, and as you know, is one of the nicest guys in the building," Ailes said. Ailes added that he was having conversations with Shepard Smith about "a new way to deliver news," raising questions about Smith's 7 p.m. time slot.
Kelly would attract a slightly younger, more female audience to Fox, Tobe Berkovitz, an associate professor of advertising at Boston University, tells Newsmax.
"She probably would appeal to the Sean Hannity audience, but would probably broaden that appeal out to other demographics — women, perhaps viewers who are a little younger — but what it would do is not drive a lot of people away from the slot because it is still Fox," he said.
"What this current story tells you is that Fox has a really strong bench," Berkovitz added. "Fox has a lot of in-house, strong talent — and they're trying to maximize how they're going to try to stay on top for the next several years, especially through the 2016 presidential election."
He also ruled out Fox putting Kelly and Hannity together.
"You have to be very careful. People with strong personalities, you could be risking a blow-up — and you're causing damage to two big names," Berkovitz tells Newsmax. "You want to be careful in trying to team them up."
Recently, Van Susteren responded to rumors that she would be bumped by Kelly by saying she had a contract for a daily, prime-time show, the Huffington Post reported.
CNN's Piers Morgan responded quickly to the news that Kelly would become his new competition this fall. She is currently on maternity leave after giving birth in July to her third child, but is expected to start her new show once her leave is finished.
Here is Morgan's tweet, giving a link to the Drudge Report's announcement:
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Bring it on @megynkelly >
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashmk.htm
9:13 AM - 8 Aug 2013
Eric Bolling, a Fox News colleague, also congratulated Kelly, ttweeting "ALERT!.. some bad news for Rachel!", referring to MSNBC's 9 p.m. anchor Rachel Maddow.
The other Fox prime time stars, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are also signed into contracts that stretch out over several years.
Van Susteren has been denying all summer that she's about to leave her prime-time show, "On the Record," which runs at 10 p.m. EST.
The rumors started after media reports said she had initiated talks with CNN earlier this spring in hopes of returning to the network where she'd been a legal analyst from 1994 to 2002, and were further spurred when Fox announced Kelly was leaving daytime to join the prime-time lineup.
Fox hasn't changed its prime-time lineup in a decade except for after the 2008 election, when Hannity's liberal foil, Alan Colmes, left the "Hannity and Colmes" show. The last major change occurred when Van Susteren left CNN and took over the 10 p.m. slot held by Paula Zahn in January 2002.
The news comes just after Cumulus Media said it plans to cut ties with both Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, their two most highly-rated conservative radio hosts, after talks broke down with Premiere Networks, the division of Clear Channel that distributes their shows.
TV Ratings
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Battle Of The Rinos
Christie Rises, Rubio Falls
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Via Politico:Florida Sen. Marco Rubio lost favor with many New Hampshire voters in recent months while New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie saw a surge in support, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Rubio dropped 9 percentage points since April and fell from first to fifth among likely GOP contenders for the 2016 election, according to a Granite State Poll, sponsored by WMUR-TV, and conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Rubio was the choice of 12 percent of voters in February and 15 percent in April, but just 6 percent in July.
Border Agents: Mexican Drug Cartels Operating In U.S.,
With Help From U.S. Politicians
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(Not to mention with Fast and Furious guns, courtesy of the Obama administration and Eric Holder)
Via Breitbart:In an open letter to the public in late July, several retired Border Patrol agents wrote on behalf of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers to warn that Mexican drug cartels are actively operating inside the United States spending millions every year to try to build their networks here. They argued that American politicians are protecting their activities as well.
"Transnational criminal enterprises have annually invested millions of dollars to create and staff international drug and human smuggling networks inside the United States; thus it is no surprise that they continue to accelerate their efforts to get trusted representatives in place as a means to guarantee continued success," the Border Patrol agents wrote.
"We must never lose sight of the fact that the United States is the market place for the bulk of transnational criminal businesses engaged in human trafficking and the smuggling, distribution and sale of illegal drugs. Organized crime on this scale we are speaking about cannot exist without political protection."
15-Ton Ball Of Fat Removed From London Sewer
(Michael Moore Was in London recently... Hmmm, I wonder...)
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LONDON (AFP) – A 15-ton ball of congealed fat -- dubbed Britain's biggest ever "fatberg" -- was removed from a London sewer after a 10-day operation following complaints from local residents that their toilets would not flush.
The monstrous lump of festering food fat mixed with wet wipes -- the size of a bus -- formed in drains under a major road in Kingston, southwest London, utility firm Thames Water said Tuesday.
Had it not been removed, the deposit could have led to sewage flooding homes, streets and businesses in the leafy London suburb, Thames Water said.
"While we've removed greater volumes of fat from under central London in the past, we've never seen a single, congealed lump of lard this big clogging our sewers before," Gordon Hailwood, waste contracts supervisor for the company, said in a statement.
"Given we've got the biggest sewers and this is the biggest 'fatberg' we've encountered, we reckon it has to be the biggest such berg in British history."
"The sewer was almost completely clogged with over 15 tonnes of fat. If we hadn't discovered it in time, raw sewage could have started spurting out of manholes across the whole of Kingston."
"It was so big it damaged the sewer and repairs will take up to six weeks."
CCTV images from the sewer showed that the mound of fat had reduced the 27 by 19-inch drain to five per cent of its normal capacity.
CountyClean Environmental Services, the waste management company that removed the deposit, said it would go to good use.
"We recycle everything that we remove -- the water is extracted and the remaining fats and oils are turned into products like soap, biodiesel and fuel," a CountyClean spokesman told AFP.
"We have a very specialized piece of equipment -- called a Kroll recycler -- that we can use from the road and allows us to remove the fat without any workmen having to descend into the sewers."
Thames Water warned homes and businesses needed to change their ways when it came to the disposal of fat and wet wipes, urging people to "Bin it -- don't block it."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/06/15-ton-fatberg-removed-from-london-sewer/?intcmp=obinsite#ixzz2bRzauG76
This is painful and shameful!
It makes me very angry!
What is wrong with people?
Arizona's foster-care crisis deepens
Report: Number of kids in system rose 40% in 3 years
By Mary K. ReinhartThe Republic | azcentral.comThu Aug 8, 2013 11:58 PM
Arizona is caring for a record number of foster children as child-welfare workers juggle an ever-growing number of abuse and neglect reports, according to a new state report.
The biannual report shows that the state's Child Protective Services now has 14,314 children in foster care, an increase of 40 percent since March 2010, and continues to be buried under an avalanche of reports, most of them alleging that children are being neglected.
A separate monthly report shows an even higher 14,608 children in care as of June 30, including 95 babies and small children living in group homes and crisis shelters. In March 2010, there were 10,207 Arizona foster children.
Gov. Jan Brewer and state lawmakers have focused increased scrutiny on CPS and gave its parent agency, the Department of Economic Security, more than $60 million in new funding to keep pace with growth.
But the data released Thursday during a meeting with child-welfare advocates and non-profit agency administrators predate most of that funding.
The one bright spot heralded in the previous report in January — a net gain in family foster homes for the first time in three years — evaporated as foster parents closed their homes faster than new ones could open during the six-month period ending March 31. While 722 new families became licensed, 740 foster homes closed their doors.
State officials and child-welfare experts said the trends in the wrong direction are evidence that the underlying problems are bigger than any one state agency and require a community effort.
Several said the agency's struggles point to a larger crisis of poverty, made worse by state budget cuts during the recession that eviscerated programs, such as child-care subsides, that help struggling families.
"There are huge struggles for so many families throughout our communities, and it simply is impossible for CPS and DES to be the main responder," said Dana Wolfe Naimark, CEO of the Children's Action Alliance, a non-profit group that advocates for children and families.
Marsha Porter, director of the Phoenix Crisis Nursery and a former CPS administrator, echoed those concerns, saying: "We're just seeing more and more Arizona families in trouble. They're losing every benefit that they had at the state level."
CPS officials agreed there is only so much the agency can do. But they stressed two key initiatives: a triage-type response system intended to ease caseloads and help families before they're in crisis by sending low-level reports to community agencies; and a federal waiver to allow more flexible spending of federal money now spent on foster care.
"There's no single state agency or program that can achieve all the outcomes we want for our children and families," CPS Administrator Deb Harper said.
To address the agency's crisis, state lawmakers this year appropriated nearly $70 million in new funding for CPS to hire 200 more workers, pay for additional group-home and shelter beds, accommodate growth in child-care services for foster kids and provide intensive family services aimed at keeping families together. Some of those new workers were hired during the reporting period.
State officials Thursday touted plans to help families before they're in crisis by diverting less-serious reports to non-profit agencies and seeking a federal waiver that other states have used to reduce foster-care numbers by spending money before, rather than after, kids come into the system.
More than 120 new caseworkers have increased the percentage of children and foster homes that receive required monthly visits as well as the number of children who are leaving foster care to be reunified with family or are adopted.
A backlog of cases, in which there have been no action for at least two months, remains at more than 11,000, CPS officials said. In 2011, the DES created a team of seasoned caseworkers and supervisors to whittle down a backlog that reached nearly 13,000 cases.
Rep. Kate Brophy McGee, R-Phoenix, co-chairwoman of a retooled CPS oversight committee, said after Thursday's meeting that she is encouraged that the agency is pursuing new initiatives to keep kids out of foster care, but she wants to keep close watch on the numbers and look for ways to retain caseworkers.
"It looks like they're headed in a positive direction," Brophy McGee said. "But I think we need to remain anchored in the data, no matter how discouraging it may be."
A new state law requires the agency to create the triage system for less-serious reports, similar to one the state shelved 10 years ago called Family Builders. Lawmakers did not provide any funding for the new law.
The statewide child-abuse hotline fielded a record 22,161 reports from October through March, two-thirds of them alleging neglect, according to the report required under state law.
Michael Wisehart, acting deputy assistant director for the DES, said the pace is unsustainable.
"The rate of growth doesn't seem like it can be sustained, and yet it isn't slowing," Wisehart said.
The record growth has put a tremendous strain on CPS workers, whose caseloads are nearly twice state and national standards. Wisehart said that turnover among CPS workers is about 28 percent but that roughly 250 workers now in training should ease caseloads and help retain staff.
Also in the report:
Four children with open CPS cases died as a result of abuse or neglect, compared with three during the previous six-month period. Nine additional children died who were wards of the state, six of them in Maricopa County.
1,603 hotline calls deemed worthy of a report were not investigated, but rather triaged to ensure that children were safe.
Most of those reports, according to a random sample, contained no specific allegations, while others claimed past or current abuse.
CPS workers brought fewer children into foster care compared with the previous six-month period. There were 5,101 children removed from their homes from October to March, compared with 5,716 from March to September 2012.
85 percent of foster kids received the required monthly visits from their caseworkers, an increase from 74 percent during the previous reporting period.
More children are staying longer in crisis shelters, which are intended to be short-term options until children can be returned home or placed with relatives or foster families.
The average shelter stay for babies and children under 3 years old is now more than four months.
The number of babies and small children in shelters and group homes has nearly doubled over the past year, with 99 in "congregate care" settings, compared with 55 a year ago.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20130808arizona-cps-foster-care-crisis-deepens.html?nclick_check=1
What the article didn't go into was that the majority of these children are Hispanic. In one CPS case last year, a mother left her four ['stair-step, ages 1 to 5, no relatives'] children in El Mirage, AZ and went back to Mexico to never return. The father is in prison for 15 years on an 'assault to kill' and the State is stuck with the children. So very Sad!
LA Community Colleges Ban Guns, Make Decision To Be "Gun Free Zones"
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(Unfortunately, why do they think that many school shooters pick schools to shoot at? Because they are known to be "gun free zones")
Via LA Times:http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-college-guns-20130808,0,6511100.story
The Los Angeles Community College District's nine campuses will be gun-free zones, according to a resolution passed this week by the Board of Trustees that bans weapons in almost all circumstances.
"It is our responsibility to provide a safe environment for our students, allowing them to feel secure and able to totally focus on their academic goals," said board Vice President Scott Svonkin, who sponsored the resolution. "They must never be fearful about setting foot on one of our campuses."
The move follows a June shooting rampage at and around Santa Monica College in which five people died.
The suspected gunman, John Zawahri, 23, is believed to have killed his father and older brother at their Yorkshire Avenue home before setting the house on fire. He then carjacked a motorist and forced her at gunpoint to drive him to Santa Monica College, along the way firing at several vehicles and killing a campus groundskeeper and his daughter.
After entering the campus, Zawahri shot and killed another woman before he was fatally wounded by police in the school library.
The shooting renewed debate that had begun after the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech University over whether to allow guns on college campuses.
Twenty-two states ban the carrying of a concealed weapon on a college campus, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Many other states allow colleges and universities to make individual decisions.
In 2013, at least 19 states introduced legislation to allow concealed carrying in some instances, while a handful of others have attempted to bar weapons, according to the legislative group.
Amazing Story: Woman Dons Burqa To Rescue Her Child From Egypt
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Disguise: Alex Abou-El-Ella,
who donned full Islamic dress to
undertake a daring mission to snatch
her daughter Mona back from the child's father in Egypt
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Invaluable help: Alex with Donya Al-Nahi, who has been nicknamed 'Jane Bond'
for her efforts in helping a string of
women rescue children snatched by Arab fathers
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2384622/Mother-dons-veil-snatch-daughter-rescue-mission-Egypt-years-child-kidnapped-father.html#ixzz2bUD2l8pZ
A desperate mother dressed head-to-toe in Islamic dress and hid her face behind a veil to carry out a daring mission to snatch her daughter back from the child's Egyptian father.
Alex Abou-El-Ella, 29, of Slough, Berkshire, risked everything to rescue her daughter Mona, three, two years after her husband spirited the girl out of Britain and took her to his home country.
She ignored Foreign Office warnings not to travel to the country, which is gripped by civil unrest, tracked down the child and disguised herself as a local to carry out the audacious rescue
Her success was in large part thanks to the help of British author Donya Al-Nahi, who has been nicknamed Jane Bond for her efforts in helping a string of women rescue children snatched by Arab fathers.
Mrs Abou-El-Ella, who is still married to Mona's father, Mustafa, told the Sunday People of the dramatic moment she snatched back her daughter in the Nile Delta city of Kafr el-Dawwar.
With the help of Scot-born Mrs Al-Nahi she had tracked down the nursery where Mona was enrolled and the block of flats where she was living with her father's family.
The pair, who had enlisted a trusted driver, sat staking out the block early in the morning until Mona appeared with an aunt and a boy just before 9am.
That's when the desperate mother seized her moment. Moving awkwardly in the unfamiliar Islamic dress in which she had disguised her self, she got out of the car and followed them.
'I was walking behind them, faster and faster, and saw Mona's hand a few metres away from me,' she said. 'So I grabbed her, pulled her into my arms and the lady looked at my face – but all she could see were my eyes.'
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MSNBC Adds Another From The Crazy Train:
Alec Baldwin To Have His Own Show
Comment on Baldwin's anger managment problem:
(From the network that brings you such luminaries as Al Sharpton and Rachel Maddow, let's add another one whose elevator doesn't go all the way to the top. He has famously called a man a "toxic queen", made death threats, had a racist rant at a photographer and in a phone call even threatened his own daughter when she was 11. On the positive side, this means he wouldn't be runnng for Mayor of NYC, another job he had been cruising)
Via NY Post:Liberal gasbag Alec Baldwin will soon have a new forum to vent his rage — a weekly prime-time show on the left-leaning cable network MSNBC, according to a new report.
The Web site Mediaite said yesterday it learned from a highly placed source in the cable-news industry that the volatile actor's so-far untitled show will air on Fridays at 10 p.m. and "feature a large dose of Baldwin's outspoken liberal politics."
The new job would be the latest gig in the former "30 Rock" star's long association with the NBC network.
He's been a frequent guest host on "Saturday Night Live," and also hosted the NBC's Live Earth concert in 2007.
"Angel" Priest Appears At Site Of Car Wreck
(Wonderful story, and this one, interestingly, made it to many MSM outlets such as USA Today and Yahoo News. The priest appeared as the vital signs of the trapped victim in the car wreck were flagging and rescuers were having difficulty getting her out
)
Via USA Today:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/07/angel-crash-missouri/2630227/#rpctoken=957012277&forcesecure=1
Emergency workers and community members in eastern Missouri are not sure what to make of a mystery priest who showed up at a critical accident scene Sunday morning and whose prayer seemed to change life-threatening events for the positive.
Even odder, the black-garbed priest does not appear in any of the nearly 70 photos of the scene of the accident in which a 19-year-old girl almost died. No one knows the priest and he vanished without a word, said Raymond Reed, fire chief of New London, Mo.
"I think it's a miracle," Reed said. "I would say whether it was an angel that was sent to us in the form of a priest or a priest that became our angel, I don't know. Either way, I'm good with it."
Carla Churchill Lentz, mother of the teen who was critically injured, said emergency workers have told her there is no way her daughter should have lived inside such a mangled car. Of the priest, she said, "I do believe he certainly could have been an angel dressed in priest's attire because the Bible tells us there are angels among us."
The scene unfolded Sunday morning. Katie Lentz, a sophomore at Tulane University, was driving from her parents' home in Quincy, Ill., to Jefferson City, Mo., where she has a summer internship and planned to attend church with friends. The Mercedes she was driving collided with another vehicle on a highway near Center, Mo. The accident crushed Lentz's vehicle into a ball of sheet metal that lay on the driver's side, Reed said.
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The girl trapped in the car, Katie Lentz
When Obama Even Ticks Off Canada, Something Has To Give
("But Mr. Obama can't even get along with Canada, which is like getting into an argument with Norway over a chicken recipe")
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Don't sweat the BIG stuff, Dear Leader
Via National Post:http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/08/08/kelly-mcparland-if-obama-cant-get-along-with-canada-who-can-he-get-along-with/
President Barack Obama may not be everything his fans originally hoped he would be, but until recently he's at least appeared easy enough to get along with.
Maybe the frustrations of office are getting to him. These days, he seems to be having just as difficult a time finding friends among foreign leaders and allies as he does with Republicans in Congress.
Even before he cancelled an upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr. Obama found himself bickering with leaders with whom he'd prefer to be on good terms. The U.S. sends Egypt more than $1 billion a year in military aid and worked closely with former president Hosni Mubarak, but on the weekend the de facto military ruler of Egypt — how's that for a title? Julius Caesar could have claimed the same one — accused Washington of abandoning the country.
"You left the Egyptians, you turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won't forget that," said Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
OK, Putin can be a pain, and Egyptians are more than a little volatile these days. But Mr. Obama can't even get along with Canada, which is like getting into an argument with Norway over a chicken recipe. For months the governments in Ottawa and Alberta have been sending representatives to sweet-talk Washington heavyweights on the merits of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would send Alberta crude to the Gulf Coast. There may be valid arguments against the pipeline — though Mr. Obama's own State Department has shot down most of them — but the negotiations had been friendly and respectful enough until Mr. Obama gave an interview to the New York Times openly mocking the jobs figures put forward by proponents.
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Egyptian belly dancer Sama Elmasry in a less-than-subtle video criticizing President Barack Obama
Shocker:
Ding-Bat Barbara Boxer Blames California Wildfires On Global Warming
(She is one loopy goofball)
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Via NBC LA:
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/silver-fire-riverside-wildfire-grows-continues-threat-218815101.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_LABrand
A raging wildfire that spread rapidly in Southern California mountain foothill communities was scorching more rugged terrain Thursday, and the reported number of homes destroyed was expected to increase.
Four firefighters and one resident had been injured by the Silver Fire, which prompted evacuations in several communities as it raced through nearly 16 square miles between Banning and Idyllwild in less than 24 hours. [...]
At an afternoon news conference, Sen. Barbara Boxer emphasized the growth of wildfires this year in California, in part blaming climate change.
"Open your eyes, breathe the air and see what's going on," she said, addressing climate-change deniers.
She said the smoke at her home in Riverside County's Rancho Mirage was "so thick" that she thought there was a fire in community.
Boxer also warned that federal spending cuts would mean fewer firefighters, saying that sequester-induced spending reductions would be "disastrous."
This may be a week old but it shows our vulnerability.
And our government is watching us probably more than foreigners?
Go figure.
DOJ Charges Five Hackers in Data Breach Scheme
By Dow Jones Business News, July 25, 2013, 01:35:00 PM EDT
Federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges against a group of hackers who allegedly breached the computer systems of more than a dozen companies including Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. ( NDAQ ), J.C. Penney Co. ( JCP ) and Carrefour S.A. (CRRFY, CA.FR), to steal personal data and, in some cases, credit-card information, resulting in the loss of "hundreds of millions of dollars."
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey, who made the charges public on Thursday, called the case the largest hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the U.S. In terms of the number of hacks and the amount of funds taken. The investigation is ongoing, they said.
The hackers allegedly stole more than 160 million credit- and debit-card numbers from retailers, credit-card companies and payment processors, as well as personal or login information from a variety of companies. More than $300 million was stolen from just three of the affected companies, according to the indictment.
Five men from the former Soviet Union--four from Russia and one from the Ukraine--have been charged as part of the alleged scheme, which began in 2005 and ran through last summer, prosecutors said. Two of them were arrested at the request of the U.S. Government while they were traveling in the Netherlands, while the other three are considered fugitives.
Cybercrime has been a growing concern for prosecutors in the U.S. And around the world in the past few years as hacking groups have become more brazen in their infiltrations of government websites and secure financial systems. Hacking groups have been successful in carting away millions of dollars in just a matter of hours with little more than a computer and a handful of stolen card numbers.
"This type of crime is the cutting edge," said Paul Fishman, the U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. "Those who have the expertise and the inclination to break into our computer networks threaten our economic well-being, our privacy, and our national security. And this case shows there is a real practical cost because these types of frauds increase the costs of doing business for every American consumer, every day."
According to the New Jersey indictment, members of the conspiracy "scouted" potential victims, including visiting retail stores in 2007 and in 2008 in order to identify their payment processing systems. In other cases, the indictment alleges, the hackers installed software on the corporate computer systems so that they could create "back doors' giving them access to the systems at a later date.
Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/doj-charges-five-hackers-in-data-breach-scheme-20130725-01182#ixzz2bVF7i8fo
I received this bit of information in an e-mail.
New Malware Suggests Kremlin Support for Cyber Thieves
A new professional-grade piece of banking malware dubbed "KINS" recently appeared on the Russian black market, providing further evidence that the Russian government is not just ignoring the activities of cyber thieves, but is quietly encouraging them. Russian's refusal to cooperate in the July 25 indictments of five Russians and a Ukrainian for hacking and theft of millions of dollars from American bank accounts using KINS has added to the growing suspicions.
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Valerie Jarret is Obama's top advisor and for the most part, that is all the majority of people know about her at all. Now we are going to show you what many have asked, and we will show you just who Valerie Jarrett really is, where she came from, what her alliances are, what her background is, what she thinks and most of all, what type of individual she really is. Once we lay out who she is, we must ask ourselves if Valerie Jarrett is the one that gave the 'stand down' order to those who were in Benghazi to help and rescue Americans under attack as Barack Obama slept.
To begin with, Valerie Jarrett was born in 1956 in Shiraz, Iran, where her father worked as a doctor at a children's hospital. When she was 5, her family moved to London for just 1 year then to the "elite" Hyde Park of Chicago, which was considered to be one of the better neighborhoods. It is also the very same place that Louis Farrakhan, Bill Ayers, and of course Barack Obama lived. However, this is of little concern as to where Valerie Jarrett got her political influence.
According to Discover The Networks:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.com/
A man named, Robert Taylor, was Jarrett's maternal grandfather and her political background could be established with him, but in the 1940′s Communism was frowned upon and Mr. Taylor was involved in such Communist fronts as the American Peace Mobilization and the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee. Now another person whom, was also a member of these groups and was a "mentor" for Barack Obama was the Communist journalist, none other than Frank Marshall Davis. Now here we can show a direct link to Communist influences to both Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett both of who had very close associations with Communist Party members. It was Jarrett's mother Barbara Taylor Bowman who co-founded the Chicago-based graduate school in child development known as the Erikson Institute, which was named after Erik Erikson a notable psychoanalyst. In 1950 Erikson became a hero to the left by choosing to resign from his professorship at the University of California rather than sign an anti-communist loyalty oath as the school required. Indicative of the Erikson Institute's radical political orientation is the fact that its board of trustees has included, in addition to Bowman, such figures as Tom Ayers (father of the former Weather Underground terrorist and lifelong Marxist Bill Ayers) and Bernardine Dohrn (longtime wife of Bill Ayers). Bill Ayers, for his part, called Bowman "a neighbor and friend" in his 1997 book A Kind and Just Parent, noting that his neighbors also included Louis Farrakhan and "writer Barack Obama."Here we can see the many types of association that may well have influenced Valerie Jarrett. One can also see the influence of Communism, of which her family seemed to be involved. Jarrett's family also had direct links to Frank Marshal Davis, a mentor for Barack Obama who was on the FBI watch list due to his aggressive background in Communism. Her affiliation with Communism did not stop there because it seems that the man she married also had a family deeply rooted in the Communist ideology. "In 1983 she married Dr. William Robert Jarrett, son of the Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. Vernon Jarrett was a pioneering black journalist who in the 1940s wrote columns for the communist-influenced Chicago Defender extolling Communist poet Langston Hughes and lifelong Stalinists W.E.B. DuBois and Paul Robeson. Also in the 1940s, Mr. Jarrett was a leader of the Chicago chapter of American Youth for Democracy—youth wing of the Communist Party USA. He also served on a publicity committee for the Packinghouse Workers Union, a Chicago-based entity dominated by the CPUSA. In each of these endeavors, Mr. Jarrett had close contact with Frank Marshall Davis."With all the Communist influence in her background, it could be easily stated that she was a type of "closet" Communist, since she has really not come directly out front and made that statement. However, just like Obama, her background is heavily influenced with Communist type. There are deep-rooted problems with Valerie Jarrett and her family that seem to have some sort of communist ideology, either linked directly to them or they are a part of it.
We need only go to Discover the Networks to find the links and her base of thought when it comes to where she may have obtained the ideologies she now seems to be using. "He freelanced at Kansas City's The Call from 1954-58, then returned to Chicago to become the first nationally syndicated black columnist for the Chicago Tribune, and still later wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times. Mr. Jarrett once sat on a union publicity committee (for the communist-controlled Packinghouse Workers Union) with Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist poet who occasionally counseled the young Barack Obama. When Vernon Jarrett died in 2004, he was saluted in the pages of People's Weekly Worker, the house organ of the Communist Party USA."Some people have asked just how in the world does Valerie Jarrett hold the ear of a President and just how did she come to that level of status? According to her profile:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2418"Valerie Jarrett entered Chicago politics in 1987 as Deputy Corporation Counsel for Finance and Development in the administration of Harold Washington, the city's first African-American mayor. Jarrett's father-in-law, whom The Washington Post called "a key influence in [Harold] Washington's decision to run for the Chicago mayoralty," may have facilitated Valerie's rise through Chicago's political ranks.[b/After Washington's death in 1987, Valerie Jarrett worked for his successor, Richard M. Daley, whom she served as Deputy Chief of Staff. In 1991 Jarrett and her colleague Susan Sher recruited to Chicago's City Hall Michelle Robinson (the future Michelle Obama), who at the time was engaged to Barack Obama. Jarrett quickly became a trusted confidante of both the Obamas."[/b]
Here we can see that Valerie Jarrett became a close friend and confidant of the Obamas even before they got married. It has to be noted that Valerie Jarrett also had close ties with people that some found to be a bit too much. In particular, we mean one of the strongest Communists to ever be placed into a position by any president. The name of the individual is none other than
Van Jones. It was due to the influence of Valerie Jarrett that Van Jones got the job of "Green Jobs Czar". She then gushed about Jones at the Netroots Nation conference saying:
"We were so delighted to be able to recruit him [Van Jones] into the White House. We were watching him...for as long as he's been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that, and we have all that energy in the White House."Valerie Jarrett was also instrumental in obtaining and creating new jobs for Obama's friends, as well as hers. It was early in 2009 when she lobbied Obama to create the office of Chief Diversity Officer within the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a position filled soon thereafter by Mark Lloyd, an Alinskyite and a former senior fellow at the Center for American Progress
However, Valerie Jarrett made it clear that only two people could get Barack Obama to do what they wanted him to do and both of those people have deep backgrounds in the Communist party through their families. Valerie Jarrett herself and Michelle Obama, whose parents were also involved with the Communist Party or linked to them, are those two people. Chicago parking lot entrepreneur Martin Nesbitt claims that Jarrett establishes both Michelle and Barack Obama's "whole notion of authenticity." According to Nesbitt, Jarrett is like a little inner voice that tells them, for instance: "That's not you. You wouldn't say that. Somebody else is saying that. Barack Obama wouldn't say that." Jarrett told Vogue magazine, "I kind of know what makes them [the Obamas] who they are.
But this is only a small part of just how much influence Valerie Jarrett has upon the Obama's and she is very quick to say that. Below are just a few examples of the influence that Valerie Jarrett holds over the Obama's.
"After Obama's inauguration in January 2009, Jarrett successfully pushed to loosen restrictions barring government officials from meeting with lobbyists, a rule enshrined in Obama's executive memo on the Recovery Act, for fear that other "legitimate" concerns – raised by "civil rights organizations whose directors happen to be registered lobbyists – will not be heard."Jarrett also helped recruit Obama's Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein, who supports the Fairness Doctrine, has argued that Americans should "celebrate tax day," and believes that animals should have legal standing to sue humans.
In his 2012 book, Leading From Behind, author Richard Miniter reveals that Jarrett, prior to the May 2011 U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden, had repeatedly urged President Obama not to take out the al Qaeda leader, prompting Obama to cancel the mission on three separate occasions.
In July 2009, Obama told
New York Times reporter Robert Draper, "I trust her completely ... She is family." Obama trusts Jarrett "to speak for me, particularly when we're dealing with delicate issues." When asked, the President admitted that he runs every decision by her."We have kind of a mind meld," Jarrett said of herself and Obama. "And chances are, what he wants to do is what I'd want to do." In October 2012 it was revealed that for several months, Jarrett, who had no experience in international negotiations, had been leading secret negotiations with representatives of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, in an effort to develop normalized relations between the U.S. and Iran.
Now we can see the type of person Valerie Jarrett is and the kind of influence she has upon the Obama's and with some making statements that Valerie Jarrett may have been the person that gave the "Stand Down" order to the people that could have saved the 4 men in Benghazi while Obama went to sleep, or whatever he did. Valerie Jarrett does have that type of power, and knowing her background would make it seem that maybe Obama just does not have an agenda, but follows what Valerie Jarrett tells him to do blindly since he has no other idea. Should our nation be under this type of 'blind" power, or should we be a nation of "free" people?
Poll: Majority of Americans Think Obamacare Implementation a "Joke"...
Poll: Majority of Americans Think Obamacare Implementation a "Joke"
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(Kind of like his presidency, hey?)
Via Fox News:Majorities of Americans think the new health care law is going to increase their medical costs and their taxes — and add to the federal deficit as well. Those are some of the reasons why voters say — by a two-to-one margin — that Congress should keep working on the law.
A Fox News national poll released Thursday also asks voters about how they think Obamacare is being carried out:
31 percent say "it's going fine," yet a 57-percent majority feels "it's a joke."Republicans are more than three times as likely to say it's a joke (87 percent vs. 25 percent). Still, a quarter of Democrats agree.
Nine times as many Democrats as Republicans say implementation of Obamacare is going fine (63 percent vs. 7 percent).
Obuma wanted Lois Lerner to "Fix it now before the election"
A new video shows Lois Lerner talking about the pressure being brought to bear on the IRS to halt GOP money going into the 2010 election:Newly uncovered video shows Lois Lerner discussing the political pressure that swirled around the IRS in 2010. Lerner says "everyone" was "screaming at" the IRS to stop the flood of money pouring into the 2010 elections through 501(c)(4) groups as a result of Citizens United.
Lerner spoke to a small group at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy on October 19, 2010, just two weeks before the wave election that brought the Tea Party and Republicans significant gains in Congress. During her appearance Lerner was asked about the flow of money from corporations to 501(c)(4) groups. "Everyone is up in arms because they don't like it" Lerner replied, adding "Federal Election Commission can't do anything about it; they want the IRS to fix the problem."
Lerner goes on to outline the fact that 501(c)(4) organizations have the right to do "an ad that says vote for Joe Blow" so long as their primary activity is social welfare. However Lerner again emphasizes the political pressure the IRS was under at the time saying, "So everybody is screaming at us right now 'Fix it now before the election. Can't you see how much these people are spending?'" Lerner concludes by saying she won't know if organizations have gone too far in campaigning until she looks at their "990s next year."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EH1ZRyq-1iM
So Lerner put a roadblock in front of all Tea Party organizations:More significantly, IRS data shows that 100 percent of Tea Party applications were scrutinized and that almost no applications were approved for a period of two years. Most were finally cleared in mid 2012 after a letter from Congress inquiring about the hold up finally led to a flurry of approvals.
The FBI hasn't contacted any of the targeted Tea Party groups, the Director of the FBI doesn't know who's in charge and the IRS has stopped cooperating.
*Obama promised a full inquiry into the matter
*Barack Obama has delivered his first public response to allegations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny, describing it as outrageous and promising a thorough inquiry.
*Obama, at a joint press conference with British prime minister David Cameron at the White House, said: "I have no patience with it. I will not tolerate it and we will make sure we find out exactly what happened on this."
*But now it's a phony scandal
[according to POS Obuma].***
The bad news for Obama is that Americans aren't buying it:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/09/poll-americans-arent-buying-obamas-phony-scandal-messaging/
(Keep following the bread crumbs. They will lead right into one of two offices, either
Valerie Jarrett's office or the oval office)
A Fox News poll released Thursday revealed that a majority of Republican and Democratic voters alike strongly disagree with the Obama administration's dismissal of the scandals plaguing Washington as "phony," with 78 percent of respondents answering that the administration's handling of the deadly attack is a serious matter.
Over 60 percent of respondents believe the administration is trying to cover up what happened the night of the assault, which left U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead, with 67 percent agreeing that President Barack Obama should have been personally involved in White House deliberations regarding the attack.
The poll's breakdowns, however, reveal a few partisan and racial divides: Half the Democrats and 57 percent of black respondents polled believe that the administration is being open and transparent about its handling of the attack. But 88 percent of Republicans and 68 percent white respondents suspect the government is involved in a cover-up.
Obuma's List Of Phoney Scandals
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***Article 2 Of The Constitution Of The United States***
Article. II.Section. 1.The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse the President. But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representatives from each State having one Vote; a quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President.
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Section. 2.The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Section. 3.He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information on the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section. 4.The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
(You gotta love these two Patriots)
Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) Epic Rant To Congress
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5nBvMBhGng
Irish Patriot Calls Out Obama's hypocrisy on Ireland and Syria
An inspiring woman ! Lioness Clare Daly accuses parliament of pimping out her nation like prostitutes for Obama. She accuses Obama of absolute hypocrisy calling for peace in northern Ireland but not in Syria . The Collaborator who answers her questions shows an affinity to other cockroaches and collaborators around the world, such as his counter parts in Syria.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0aACxQjri8&feature=em-uploademail
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Obuma: "When I Said Al-Qaeda Had Been Decimated... I Meant That Al-Qaeda Had Metastacized into Regional Groups"
August 9, 2013, 3:24 PM
(Oh Brother... the Horsesh!t is getting higher & higher)
Obuma clarified his campaign remarks about Al-Qaeda today at his pre-vacation press conference:
"When I said Al-Qaeda was on its heels, has been decimated. But what I also said was Al-Qaeda and other extremists had metastacized into regional groups that can pose significant dangers."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eoY5Zzofgo
(But that's not what he said last year)
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Obuma Revelation Of Sealed Indictment On
Benghazi Suspects Generally Violation Of Federal Law
(As a "Constitutional Scholar", you would think he would know this. Why they are announcing charges before actually having the suspects in hand is crazy. Now the guy who was drinking daiquiris will go underground. Nice work, Clown)
Via ABC News:President Obama surprised aides when he revealed the existence of a sealed indictment in the Benghazi, Libya, attack today, leaving some wondering if he crossed a legal line.At a press conference at the White House, President Obama was asked whether justice would come to those responsible for the terrorist attack nearly a year ago in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
"[W]e have informed, I think, the public that there's a sealed indictment," the president responded. "It's sealed for a reason. But we are intent on capturing those who carried out this attack, and we're going to stay on it until we get them."
That marked the only official confirmation so far of a sealed indictment in the Benghazi case. For days, officials across the law enforcement and intelligence communities have refused to publicly confirm reports of a sealed indictment.
After all, according to federal law, "no person may disclose [a sealed] indictment's existence," and a "knowing violation ... may be punished as a contempt of court." Contempt of court carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail.
A U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, called the president's disclosure "crazy."
"Doesn't the law apply to the president too?" the official asked, and then jokingly added, "I guess he could pardon himself."
Obuma's Claim Contradicted: NSA Admits to Spying on US Citizens When Searching, Without Warrants, the Content of Emails & Text Messages of Americans Who Are Communicating with Foreigners
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The NSA has admitted to spying on untold millions of Americans by searching the content of their emails and text messages. This contradicts Pres. Obama's claim while chatting with Jay Leno on national TV on Tuesday. Without hesitation, Pres. Obama declared to Leno and late-night show viewers, "We don't have a domestic spying program." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/08/07/obama_we_dont_have_a_domestic_spying_program.html
Bollocks, Mr. President.The layers of the moldy onion are being peeled back, exposing more of the sinister invasion of privacy conducted by Team Obama's National Security Agency on law-abiding American citizens.
And the federal agency admits to its content searching, without any warrants or evidence of terrorism, Americans' private emails and text messages.
Which is indeed "domestic spying." And likely illegal.
Is Commander in Chief Barack Obama really this stupid and clueless, or is he this arrogantly deceitful?
Reported by New York Times, N.S.A. Said to Search
Content of Messages to and From U.S.:
The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance, according to intelligence officials.
The N.S.A. is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with foreigners targeted overseas, a practice that government officials have openly acknowledged. It is also casting a far wider net for people who cite information linked to those foreigners, like a little used e-mail address, according to a senior intelligence official.
While it has long been known that the agency conducts extensive computer searches of data it vacuums up overseas, that it is systematically searching — without warrants — through the contents of Americans' communications that cross the border reveals more about the scale of its secret operations.
It also adds another element to the unfolding debate, provoked by the disclosures of Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor, about whether the agency has infringed on Americans' privacy as it scoops up e-mails and phone data in its quest to ferret out foreign intelligence.[...]To conduct the surveillance, the N.S.A. is temporarily copying and then sifting through the contents of what is apparently most e-mails and other text-based communications that cross the border. The senior intelligence official, who, like other former and current government officials, spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic, said the N.S.A. makes a "clone of selected communication links" to gather the communications, but declined to specify details, like the volume of the data that passes through them.
Computer scientists said that it would be difficult to systematically search the contents of the communications without first gathering nearly all cross-border text-based data; fiber-optic networks work by breaking messages into tiny packets that flow at the speed of light over different pathways to their shared destination, so they would need to be captured and reassembled.
The official said that a computer searches the data for the identifying keywords or other "selectors" and stores those that match so that human analysts could later examine them. The remaining communications, the official said, are deleted; the entire process takes "a small number of seconds," and the system has no ability to perform "retrospective searching."
The official said the keyword and other terms were "very precise" to minimize the number of innocent American communications that were flagged by the program. At the same time, the official acknowledged that there had been times when changes by telecommunications providers or in the technology had led to inadvertent overcollection. The N.S.A. monitors for these problems, fixes them and reports such incidents to its overseers in the government, the official said.Even communist radical/disgraced former White House czar Van Jones is shaking his head in disbelief at Obama's absurd claim.
From Hot Air:
Well, it's not like anyone actually bought that nonsense from Obama on the Tonight Show. Even one of Obama's former key aides, Van Jones, openly scoffed at the claim that the NSA wasn't spying on Americans:
"Everybody knows I love this president, but this is ridiculous," said Jones. "We do have a spying program, and we need to figure out how to balance these out."
Jones also criticized the Obama administration's treatment of whistleblowers.
"You are prosecuting more whistleblowers than every American president combined," said Jones. "You can't yuck it up and say, well, whistleblowers come on out and we'll treat you right."
How does the NSA choose its targets? Generously, at least in regard to cross-border collection:
To conduct the surveillance, the N.S.A. is temporarily copying and then sifting through the contents of what is apparently most e-mails and other text-based communications that cross the border. The senior intelligence official, who, like other former and current government officials, spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic, said the N.S.A. makes a "clone of selected communication links" to gather the communications, but declined to specify details, like the volume of the data that passes through them.From Russia Today, No domestic spying? How NSA collects Americans' cross-border emails:
An NSA source has admitted the agency's data collection technology makes it impossible to intercept communication with foreigners without gathering data on US citizens. This counters Obama's claim that US surveillance only concerns 'terrorist threats.'
A senior official at the National Security Agency anonymously explained the process to The New York Times, broadly confirming the revelations about US spying mechanisms leaked by Edward Snowden in previous weeks.
According to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) regulations from 2008, the NSA is only allowed to track communication between foreign suspects, or a foreigner and an American, without a warrant. Collecting data exchanged between US citizens that way is illegal.
But it appears to be impossible to filter out data relevant to a particular suspect in real-time without capturing a much larger flow of information passing through the world's communication cables, as data parcels are fractured and need to be copied whole before being pieced together.
This data includes communication between non-suspect US citizens, although accessing such correspondence is illegal. This panel discussion about Obama's NSA occurred a year ago, long before anyone had ever heard of Edward Snowden and of course, long before Barack Obama claimed on the Tonight Show that there is no government domestic spying program:"The NSA Is Lying": U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails, Says NSA Whistleblower | April 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfS2Op9l3nk&feature=player_embedded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGROs9rlTCk
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Federal government says no to aid for Arizona fire that killed 19 firefighters
By Ben Brumfield, CNN
updated 10:45 AM EDT, Sat August 10, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/10/us/arizona-federal-aid-denied
(POS Obuma needs that $20 Million for his Zillionth Vacation. You can bet if the fire happened in a Demo-ratic State, the money would be there)
(CNN) -- Arizona's top politicians blasted the Obama administration and federal officials over the denial of aid in the wake of the state's deadly wildfire.[/b]
The Yarnell Hill blaze killed 19 firefighters, called "hotshots," in late June, when it changed directions and engulfed them.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied the state's request for assistance based on insurance rules, it said in a statement Friday. It determined that not enough uninsured private individuals had become victims to warrant a payout.
FEMA said it is not permitted to "duplicate benefits provided by insurance companies or other federal agencies."
The agency also declined to issue a "major disaster declaration" for affected areas.
Solemn 100-mile procession for fallen firefighters
Fiery responseThe decision drew criticism from Arizona's two Republican senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake.
"We are disappointed that FEMA denied the governor's disaster declaration request for the Yarnell Hill Fire," they said in a joint statement. "It is a shame that FEMA couldn't find it within their mission to help rebuild their homes and lives."
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer directed her criticism directly at the president."I am deeply troubled by the Obama administration's decision to deny much-needed recovery assistance in the wake of Arizona's deadliest wildfire," she said in a statement.In a phone call after the fire, President Barack Obama had pledged support, she said. She felt that he had now backed down.
"With today's denial of the state's request, Arizonans are left questioning what help (the president and vice president) were willing to give," she said.Vice President Joe Biden spoke at a memorial for the fallen hotshots in July.
FEMA firefighting aidAfter they perished in the flames, FEMA issued a grant to the state to help cover the costs of fighting the blaze while it was still active.
The fire devoured more than 8,000 acres of woodland. But the Yarnell Hill blaze ravaged two communities, wiping out homes and other buildings.
Arizona's governor and two senators said they want to appeal FEMA's decision.
[...]
How you can help
Supporting the families of the fallen
By Rebecca Angel Baer, CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/09/studentnews/iyw-prescott-firefighters/index.html
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(CNN) -- The 19 "hotshot" firefighters killed in Arizona on June 30 were trained to get close to a blaze, dig barriers and clear out the brush that otherwise would fuel it. But a sudden shift in the Yarnell Hill Fire's direction trapped the group.
The deaths are under investigation, but officials have said it appears the 19 were forced to lie down under blankets meant to protect against flames and heat as a last resort against an inferno that overwhelmed them. Just one member of the elite 20-man wildfire-fighting crew survived. It was the deadliest day for U.S. firefighters since the 9/11 attacks.
Now the firefighters' families -- many with small children -- must figure out how to cope, as they mourn their losses.There are organizations that assist the families of lost firefighters, and several are already mobilized for the families of the Prescott, Arizona-based crew. Ronald Siarnicki is the executive director of one such group, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.
"In general, needs end up being the same for fallen firefighters, no matter where it is in the country. The immediate needs are going to be some financial support to help them deal with costs associated with the death. Oftentimes the firefighter is the main breadwinner in the household, so you've got to worry about food on the table, shoes for the kids and those kinds of things," Siarnicki says.
The foundation also helps with the necessary paperwork for each family as well as providing emotional support.
"We use survivors from other line-of-duty death incidents to be in our survivor support network, and we kind of match survivors up from previous events with the new families, so they have somebody to talk to. Sometimes they just need somebody who understands what they're going through," explains Siarnicki, who was a firefighter in Prince George's County, Maryland, for 24 years.
Siarnicki's group also helps the children of fallen firefighters cope with their loss, because they often don't understand the spotlight such an event puts them under. There are also long-term needs for the entire family to help rebuild their lives. The foundation holds conferences to teach life skills and financial planning.
Siarnicki says the 19 firefighters lost in Arizona were a special breed -- like many others who choose to be firefighters.
"The fire service is a very dangerous profession, whether you're career or volunteer, wildlands or industrial or even military firefighters. We understand the risks to being a firefighter and we accept those. And we try to do everything humanly possible to prevent tragic occurrences, but unfortunately they do occur. And so our families kind of know that."
"And so there is a bonding effect within the fire service," Siarnicki continues. "There is that fire service family. And I think the uniqueness of that is we function as a team. A fire crew, you know, they live together, sleep together, eat together, laugh together, go home to their families, but when they're at work, there's a secondary family. And both of those have very special unique bonds."
Additional groups also offering support to the families of the Prescott hotshots are:
http://www.firehero.org/
http://www.wffoundation.org/
http://www.prescottffcharities.org/
http://www.100club.org/web/100Club
Disgusting: Congress Opens With Imam's Prayer
("The refusal of the Western elite class to protect their nations
from jihadist infiltration is the biggest betrayal in history")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRab4-5P6aE
Published on Jul 31, 2013
Imam Talib Shareef of Masjid Muhammad in Washington, D.C., opened a session of the United States Congress with a prayer on Capitol Hill, July 31, 2013.
Tom Coburn And Dirty Harry Reid Agree: Obumacare Designed
To Pave Way For Single-Payer System
(Designed to fail. Just like Obuma himself)
Via The Weekly Standard:http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/harry-reid-and-tom-coburn-agree-obamacare-was-designed-fail-pave-way-single-payer_745908.html#
In just about seven weeks, people will be able to start buying Obamacare-approved insurance plans through the new health care exchanges.
But already, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is predicting those plans, and the whole system of distributing them, will eventually be moot.
Reid said he thinks the country has to "work our way past" insurance-based health care during a Friday night appearance on Vegas PBS' program "Nevada Week in Review."
"What we've done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we're far from having something that's going to work forever," Reid said.
When then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it, Reid said: "Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes."
"We Are All Trayvon" Mural Unveiled In State Capitol In Florida
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(How sick is this! The mural has no relation to reality, and depicts Zimmerman shooting Trayvon in the back of the head, standing next to Martin Luther King, completing the martyr imagery)
Via Breitbart:A mural of a man who looks like George Zimmerman shooting a likeness of Trayvon Martin was unveiled Friday at the state Capitol of Florida.
A mirror sits in the spot under a hoodie where Trayvon Martin's face would be, bordered by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s face decorated with streaks of blood.
Miami artist Huong created the 10-foot mural, which carries the message, "We are all Trayvon Martin."
Obuma: "Holy Grail" For Republicans Is "Making Sure
30 million People Don't Have Health Care"
(Typical a**hole response we've come to expect from A Chicago THUG)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KiHmRc2sWY
Clown's Obuma Stunt at Missouri State Fair Draws rebuke
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIM4nxvepGI&list=UUDKXqKVQz__gFavp64iyx8w
(Hmmmm... seems to me, multiple Presidents have been made fun of by folks wearing masks of them, Nixon "I'm not a Crook" being one one of them... and Obuma's "I'm am a Crook, a Theif, A Liar, A back-balling Leader, A Narcisistic Clown." But according to these idiot Fair Officals perhaps this is like a picture of Muhammad, and it qualifies as blasphemy... nitwit koolaid drinkers
)
Via Kansas City Star:http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/11/4404230/clowns-obama-stunt-at-missouri.html#storylink=cpy
Missouri State Fair officials and politicians on Sunday condemned the performance of a rodeo clown who donned a mask resembling President Obama during Saturday's bull riding competition.
A tempest over the incident erupted after the Show Me Progress website reported a Facebook account of it.
The Facebook writer said he had taken a Taiwanese student to the rodeo in Sedalia Saturday night. During the bull riding segment a rodeo clown appeared wearing an Obama mask.
"The announcer wanted to know if anyone would like to see Obama run down by a bull," the posting said. "The crowd went wild. He asked it again and again, louder each time, whipping the audience into a lather."
Another clown then apparently joined the performance.
Compare And Contrast: Commander-In-Chief Golfs While Three U.S. Soldiers Are Killed Fighting In Afghanistan
Today in Martha's Vineyard: The Commander-in-Chief tries in vain to sink a putt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_f1Af6ipMg
Today in Afghanistan: Three American soldiers are killed by the Taliban
(NBC News) — Three U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, and several were wounded, military officials said.
The service members were assigned to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. No other details were released.
Their deaths come as the United States prepares to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year.
As of Aug. 9, at least 2,124 U.S. soldiers had died in the 12-year war in Afghanistan, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 1,759 were killed in action.Remember the days when the President took his duties as Commander-in-Chief seriously?http://cnsnews.com/news/article/flashback-george-w-bush-gives-golf-playing-golf-during-war-sends-wrong-message
...President George W. Bush, who routinely allowed journalists to accompany him on golf outings early in his presidency, told Politico in May 2008 that he decided to give up the game in August 2003 after a bomb attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed a top U.N. official.
"I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf," Bush said. "I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them."
"And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong message," Bush said.
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Lurch Kerry: Global Warming a "Challenge To Our To Our Responsibilities As The Safe Guarders of God's Creation"
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(Sadly, human babies aren't afforded the same protection
by pro-abortion Demo-rats like Lurch Kerry)
Via CNS News:Reiterating a theme he presented two weeks ago at an Iftar dinner celebrating the end of Ramadan, Secretary of State [Lurch] Kerry on Thursday described "global climate change" as "a challenge to our responsibilities as the guardians–safe guarders of God's creation."
[Lurch] was speaking at an event announcing the creation of the State Department's Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives.
"I'm convinced that all of you will agree," said [Lurch}, "that one of the toughest challenges that we face in terms of global diplomacy and relationships around the world between peoples nowadays, from sectarian strife to the challenges of many intractable, frozen conflicts, to the challenges of simply understanding people–one people to another–or even monumental challenges like the sectarian strife that we see tearing countries and regions apart, as well as the enormous challenges of things like global climate change, which really is a challenge to our responsibilities as the guardians–safe guarders of God's creation."
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McRino: Al-Qaeda "Incredible Threat" Because Of Lack Of U.S. Leadership
(Awwww... guess the honeymoon's over)
Via Breitbart:On Fox News Sunday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Al Qaeda, contrary to the Obama administration's previous assertions, was still an "incredible threat" in the Middle East and to Americans.
When asked about the U.S. embassies and consulates the United States will reopen this weekend, McCain said Obama was engaging in verbal "gymnastics" when he said America had destroyed the "core Al Qaeda" before he closed U.S. embassies last weekend throughout the Muslim world.
McCain said Al Qaeda is "strengthening every day in every way because of a lack of American leadership and policy." He said Obama has two foreign policies. The first is a "not Bush" policy and the second is one of "withdrawing."
"When you do that, then things get a lost worse," he said. "Without a strong policy, we are in trouble."
As an example, McCain cited Obama's declaration that there would be a "red line" Syria could not cross regarding the use of chemical weapons. McCain said when it was discovered that Syria did use chemical weapons, there were hardly any consequences for doing so.
No Joke: Obama's Dog Flies Separately To Family's Vacation
Aboard Military Aircraft... an Osprey, no less
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(Our tax dollars hard at work... why didn't they just tie him to the
bumper like the Griswalds and drive him up there.....?)
Via Telegraph:When President Barack Obama goes on holiday to the seaside things can get complicated.
Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents, someone has to carry a selection of presidential basketballs, and of course the family dog needs his own state-of-the-art aircraft.
Arriving in the idyllic coastal retreat of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, Mr Obama left behind him in Washington DC high profile debates over the budget, government surveillance and his health care reforms. Instead, he will spend the next eight days playing golf, going to the beach, and buying books from the Bunch of Grapes bookstore.
In the air he swapped his suit and tie for khakis and a blue shirt with rolled-up sleeves, while Mrs Obama wore a yellow-and-white summer dress.
Bo, the president's Portuguese Water Dog, arrived separately on one of two MV-22 Ospreys, a hybrid aircraft which takes off like a helicopter but flies like a plane.
Jesse Jackson On Florida Black-On-White Bus Beating: Can't Compare To Killing Of "Unarmed" Trayvon, 135 Others
Via Breitbart:Many are asking questions about the silence from civil right "leaders" such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton about the recent beating of a white student by three black classmates on a Florida school bus, given their role in turning the Trayvon Martin case into a national civil rights controversy. I caught up with Jackson at Chicago's annual Bud Billiken Back-to-School Parade on Saturday.
Here was Jackson's full, unedited response: Breitbart News: Jackson, can you comment on the recent beating that happened between three black kids that beat up the kid on a school bus? Does black leadership have a responsibility to say something about that kind of violence?(Garbage mouth speaketh with forked tongue....)
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Jackson: People who care should speak to it. I was in Africa until yesterday, I heard about it. We are trying to make contact with the family of the kid because we should discourage people attacking people, whether it's black, white, white, black, black, that people should stop attacking people. We must learn to live together respectfully in a civilized way. And it becomes white, black, black white, it just makes matters worse, it does not make matters better.Breitbart News: The question is based on the Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman case. That case was brought into the national arena as a very racially divisive case, as a white on black crime.(http://www.ripleys.com/weird/files/2012/07/lizardman_screen_end_img.jpg)
Jackson: It's hard to make a comparison, in one case a man was unarmed, killed by another man, last year a hundred and thirty five blacks were killed, black men, unarmed, killed by vigilantes, police, killed by security guards, so whether it's the case of Oakland, California, or the case in New York, it's just too much of it. Wherever it occurs, it must always be discouraged; there must be a deterrent from it occurring. We must urge people to live in civilized ways.
Oprah: New Movie Meant To Show World "The Depth And Importance Impotents of Obuma"
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(She is Chicago Jesus' most devoted disciple.
You can tell by the horsesh!t that flows from her big fat lips!)
Via The Grio: (Whatever that is)Oprah Winfrey lights up the screen as Gloria Gaines, the wife of Cecil Gaines, in Lee Daniel's upcoming historical drama The Butler.
The Butler gives audiences a fictional glimpse into White House during several presidential administrations including that of Lyndon B. Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Regan, and President Barack Obama.
Oprah discussed how this film will affect the world's impression of the Obama administration.
(You mean how the World's impression of him & his Inc. being a huge Ass Clown, Fatso?)
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"To Look at all those administrations compared to Obama. I mean Obama will stand alone because of what that represented for the country," she said.
(Yeah... he'll stand alone alright.
As the biggest "JOKE" the demo-rats have ever elected... !)
"I was so pleased that during the process of this interview, a white reporter sitting in the very chair that your sitting in, said 'he didn't realize until seeing this movie the depth of the importance of Obama.'
(cough, cough... who was the WHITE reporter, Tingles Matthews?)
If you come away from this movie with that, well then we've done our job."
(It's No wonder you are on the "OUTS" with WHITE America, Harpo, with comments like that.
I guess all that FAT has gone to your pea brain)
What Is a Deathocrat Made Of?
Oh, what is a Deathocrat Made Of?
Of purple haze and militant gaze.
That's what a Deathocrat's made of.
Of sullen cynics, abortion clinics.
That's what a Deathocrat's made of.
Of pseudo-scholars and guilt trip wallowers,
hollow woe hollerers and hollower followers,
cowerers, glowerers, frivolous borrowers.
That's what a Deathocrat's made of.
Party of the strange and twisted.
Champion of each vice once hissed at.
Mockers of the tried and true.
Seekers who have not A CLU.
Where kinky notions find a home,
from whence the dinky dollar is thrown
to anywhere unjustified
from out the middle class's hide.
Pretenders pressing vague agendas,
they pose as philanthropic menders.
Pitting class and class and class,
these scions of the stubborn ass.
Kill a tree and risk their might?!!
Abortion? ... Why, a woman's right!
Depict George Bush as mad aggressor,
Castro as some quaint professor.
Appeasing all tyrants who act with bold violence,
with wishfullness, wistfullness, blissful dead silence,
they cheat on their spouses and back revolutions
where Marx and machine guns are posed as solutions.
They run in circles, swim in fees,
fly from responsibility.
A criminal will earn their pity
while victims mount in every city.
"The poor", they say, "we help upgrade!"
but back in 1978
with Democrats as the ruling tenants
of White House, Congress, and the Senate,
gaslines grew, inflation soared!
The poor did better under Ford.
Jimmy and Fritz looked pale and wan.
"Who can we possibly blame this on?"
The people, that's who, as they did when they said,
"Things are bad ... they won't get better.
Its not our fault. Go wear a sweater."
They spent other folks's money to garner votes and praises,
leaving indexed taxing brackets that meant automatic raises,
that moved the poor and middle class,
their 'special friends', they said,
to brackets where scant years before
the rich and fat had laid.
And when Reagan said at last, "Indexing has to go!",
they said, "The old will soon be dead!"
and similar cries of woe.
They cursed and wurst and fairly burst with ugly histrionics.
Inflation fell. But what the hell, it can't be Reaganomics!
The man's success left them a mess when he said with rhetoric blistery,
"The dreaded reds will make their beds on the old ash heap of history!"
"Abortion is lethal and communists evil?!!
Oh, how these rubes are uncouth!
What gay bashing, chauvinist, war-monger bigots!
When will they ever see truth?"
So what is a Deathocrat made of?
What IS a Deathocrat made of?
Of moral despoilers, and strident annoyers,
devious lawyers, and porno mag voyeurs,
of prayer interdiction and socialist fiction,
stupid decisions and history revisions.
Of shear abdication as sex education,
equivocation and scorn for our nation.
Of asinine fratricide.
Bully for OUR side!
That's what a Deathocrat's made of.
-- Murray Quirk, Anaheim, CA
(read on the Rush Limbaugh radio program March 6, 1991)
Posted by Warph"
Angel priest appears at site of car wreck
Warph,
This story really got my attention. I asked one of my sisters take on it and here is what she said--------
Psalms 34:7 "The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that love Him, and will deliver them."
Psalms 91:11-12 "For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands,
lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."
Quote from: jarhead on August 12, 2013, 09:22:47 AM
Posted by Warph"
Angel priest appears at site of car wreck
Warph,
This story really got my attention. I asked one of my sisters take on it and here is what she said--------
Psalms 34:7 "The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that love Him, and will deliver them."
Psalms 91:11-12 "For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands,
lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."
Jar... Good answers. Read:
http://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php/topic,14296.msg211879.html#msg211879
Nigeria: Boko Haram Jihadists Gun Down 44 Praying Inside Mosque
(Or as Obuma calls them, "enemies of Islam.")
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants gunned down 44 people praying at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, two security agents said Monday, the latest in a slew of violence blamed on religious extremists in this country.
The slayings occurred Sunday morning at a mosque in Konduga town, some 35 kilometers (22 miles) outside Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria's Borno state.
A state security service agent and a member of a civilian vigilante group working with the military said Monday they counted the bodies at the mosque after the attack. Usman Musa of the civilian group says four of its vigilantes were also killed when they responded to calls for help.
Along the way from Maiduguri to Konduga, the civilian activists encountered "fierce resistance from heavily armed terrorists," Musa said.
The state security agent spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
Nigeria has been besieged by an Islamic uprising led by the Boko Haram militant group, which has gone after a range of targets including Christians outside churches, teachers and schoolchildren and moderate Muslim clerics who have spoken out against extremism.
Groan... Schumucker Wants Countries To Wave Gay Rainbow
Flag Instead of Their Own During Opening Ceremony
For Olympic Games
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(Good grief, he's serious... is he Queer? Schumucker, you Queer?)
Via The Hill:Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday said he opposed boycotting the Sochi Olympic Games despite new Russian anti-gay laws, instead urging nations to wave the rainbow flag during the Opening Ceremonies to show support for gay rights.
"That'd be pretty embarrassing for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin," Schumer said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "Let our athletes participate but still make a stand."
In June, Putin signed a law banning gay "propaganda" and imposing fines on those holding gay pride rallies. The law has generated an international backlash ahead of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called on the U.S. to boycott the Games altogether in response to Russia's failure to return Edward Snowden, the ex-CIA employee who leaked details of top-secret National Security Agency surveillance programs.
Awesome: Ted Cruz Mocks Biden, "You Just Say His Name And People Laugh"
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Via Washington Examiner:Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, shared some jokes at Vice President Joe Biden's expense on Saturday as he spoke at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa.
"Vice President Joe Biden," Cruz began, pausing for a moment as the crowd laughed.
"You know the nice thing is that you don't even need a punchline," he added as the crowd roared with laughter.
(True... so true.
"In a speech in Washington, D.C., Delaware Senator Joe Biden said although he wants to be president, he'd rather be at home making love to his wife. Which is ironic, because Bill Clinton said the same thing. He said he'd rather be home making love to Joe Biden's wife too.")(The White House has asked Weatherproof Garment Co. to remove a billboard in Times Square that depicts President Obama wearing one of the company's jackets. In related news, the Vice President's office is seeking the removal of a billboard in DC that depicts Joe Biden wearing Depends.)("Joe Biden said Sarah Palin has a lot of style and charisma, but no substance. He made the remark after looking at his notes from eight months ago and writing the name 'Sarah Palin' over 'Barack Obama.'")"You just say his name and people laugh," Cruz noted, reminding the crowd of Biden's advice about firing a shotgun in the air if a person's house was under attack.
"Which is very very good advice," Cruz added. "If it so happens you are being attacked by a flock of geese."
Demo-Rats
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Dirty Harry: Tea Partiers "Modern-Day Anarchists" Trying To
Destroy Government From Within
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(World's biggest jackass... and you're probably right, Hair-ball.
We would love to move your ASS out of government)
Via Red Alert:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is worried that Republicans might be secretly basing their discontent with the President on his race instead of his failed policies.
Reid spoke with KNPR radio on Friday, expressing his disdain over the gridlock in Washington — which he blamed on Republicans, of course.
The Senate Majority Leader also called the Tea Party "modern-day anarchists," echoing remarks he made on the Senate floor back in April. But he stressed the Tea Party doesn't resort to violence like the anarchists of World War I, choosing instead to thwart government from within.
Feds Renting Hotel Rooms For Flood of Illegals Swamping Border Claiming Asylum Because of Mexican Drug Cartels
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(Someone is obviously orchestrating this...
hundreds of people are all using the same phrase to claim asylum...
but who?)
Via Fox News:A sudden influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico requesting asylum is overwhelming immigration agents in San Diego, forcing agencies to rent hotel rooms for some undocumented families and release others to cities around the U.S.
Documents obtained exclusively by Fox News show Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been paying for hotel rooms for dozens of recently arrived families to relieve overcrowding inside the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, Calif., processing centers. Some ICE employees are working overtime and others have been asked to volunteer to work weekend shifts. "Duties include intake, placements, transports and release of family groups and unaccompanied minors," according to a memo obtained by Fox News.
The surge has raised suspicions about what is driving the influx, amid claims that illegal immigrants have learned they can attempt to get asylum by using a few key words — namely, by claiming they have a "credible fear" of drug cartels.
"This clearly has to have been orchestrated by somebody," said former U.S. Attorney for Southern California Peter Nunez. "It's beyond belief that dozens or hundreds or thousands of people would simultaneously decide that they should go to the U.S. and make this claim."
Sources say one day last week, 200 border-crossers came through the Otay Mesa Port of Entry claiming asylum while and as many as 550 overflowed inside the processing center there and in nearby San Ysidro.
"People were sleeping on floors – they had nowhere to put them," said one source, a long-time border agent and supervisor. "This shouldn't be happening. Unless there is an immediate and well-publicized policy change, this situation will become another debacle."
At a hotel near San Diego — which Fox News agreed not to identify for security reasons — ICE vans arrived several times over the weekend with immigrant families. They were escorted to the second floor by two armed, uniformed agents. Two border agents secured the entrance and side door.
Documents obtained by Fox News show that recently on a single day, dozens of illegal immigrants were being transferred to an area hotel where rooms cost $99 a night. Others were released to addresses in Texas, Florida and even Brooklyn, N.Y.
Update to this story.
[...]
Obama Regime Allowing Illegal Immigrants To Enter The U.S. If They Use Special "Key Words And Phrases"
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(Shockingly, the phrase isn't "I'll vote Democrat.")
SAN DIEGO - A loophole is allowing hundreds of immigrants across the Mexico border in to the United States.
Immigrants are being taught to use "key words and phrases" to be allowed to enter and stay in the country.
Just this past Monday, Border Patrol agents say about 200 people came through the Otay Crossing claiming a quote: "credible fear" of the drug cartels.
So many were doing this that they had to close down the processing center and move the overflow by vans to another station.
"They are being told if they come across the border, when they come up to the border and they say certain words, they will be allowed into the country," said a person who did not want to be identified on camera. "We are being overwhelmed."
Pete Nunez, former U.S. Attorney and immigration expert says, "This will swamp the system."
"To make our system even more ridiculous than it has been in the past," he adds. "There are no detention facilities for families, so the family would have to be split up. We don't want to split families up, so we end up releasing people out into the community on bond, on bail."
Nunez says, "It's a huge loophole."
Immigrants are telling the Port Enforcement Team — or P.E.T. — that the cartels are ripping apart their state.
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National Crisis Averted:
Rodeo Clown Who Wore Obama Mask Banned For Life By Missouri State Fair
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"Where's that POS Clown called Obuma?? I want his ASS!"
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"Gotcha... you SOB. Take that, Obuma!!!"
(What a crock of crap...I think now is the time for a national conversation on racist rodeo clowns... Maybe we can talk Obuma into the "Running of the Bulls" in Atl.,Georgia, Oct. 19th... what a birthday gift that would be for me. Maybe we could get Al "GORE" too...
http://www.thegreatbullrun.com/events/atlanta-2013/
http://georgiasports.blogspot.com/2012/07/running-of-bulls.html)
SEDALIA, Mo. (KSDK) - The rodeo clown who donned an Obama mask during a show at the Missouri State Fair over the weekend has been permanently banned from performer there ever again.
In a statement released to the media Monday afternoon, the commission apologized again for the rodeo clown's actions and said they were inappropriate and not keeping with the fair's standards.
The commission unanimously voted to ratify a decision by Missouri State Fair Director Mark Wolfe to ban the rodeo clown who wore the mask. The clown was not identified.
Albert S. Watkins, attorney for Mark Ficken, the rodeo announcer at the Missouri State Fair, said the clown went off script and was the one who made the controversial comments about the president.
A witness who provided NewsChannel 5 with video and pictures of the clown claimed the announcer "whipped the audience into a lather" by repeatedly asking attendees if they wanted to see
"Obama run down by a bull."
Woman Oprah Accused of Being a Racist For Not Recognizing Her Says She's Lying About Encounter
(Oprah would never lie!... would she??)
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"Hmmmmm..... O-P-R-A-H... OPRAH.. I Like"
Via Daily Mail:The sales assistant who refused to show U.S. talkshow billionaire Oprah Winfrey a luxury handbag costing nearly £25,000 claims the superstar lied about what happened in the luxury Swiss boutique where she works.
Speaking anonymously to Sunday newspaper SonntagsBlick, the Italian bag lady said she felt 'powerless' and in the grip of a 'cyclone' after Winfrey went on TV in America to claim she had been the victim of racism.
Winfrey was in Switzerland in July when she walked into the Trois Pommes boutique in Zurich looking for a handbag to match the outfit she was going to wear to old friend Tina Turner's wedding.
She claims the sales assistant refused to show her the black crocodile leather bag because – seeing a black woman – she automatically assumed she would not be able to afford it.
Now the saleslady has hit back, stating: 'I wasn't sure what I should present to her when she came in on the afternoon of Saturday July 20 so I showed her some bags from the Jennifer Aniston collection.
'I explained to her the bags came in different sizes and materials, like I always do.
'She looked at a frame behind me. Far above there was the 35,000 Swiss franc crocodile leather bag.
'I simply told her that it was like the one I held in my hand, only much more expensive, and that I could show her similar bags.
'It is absolutely not true that I declined to show her the bag on racist grounds. I even asked her if she wanted to look at the bag.
Warph,
That's Oprah ? Hell I thought it was Aunt Jemima !! Carry on Fly Boy
Jihadist leader to U.S.: 'Islam is coming'
Warns foreign fighting in Syria could battle America next
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/jihadist-leader-to-u-s-islam-is-coming/
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(If he could name a single Muslim army that could fight its way
out of a wet paper bag then maybe I'd be nervous)
During a radio interview Sunday, a representative of al-Qaida in the Gaza Strip sent a message to the United States: "Islam is coming and there is no other choice."
That sentiment was expressed by Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadiya Salafiya in the Gaza Strip, speaking on "Aaron Klein Investigative Radio" on New York's WABC Radio.
Jihadiya Salafiya represents al-Qaida in the Gaza Strip.
Saqer further stated that after battling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the thousands of foreign jihadists currently in Syria could turn their ire on what he called the many other "enemies of Islam," including Israel and the United States.
Saqer did not say the spread of Islam in the U.S. will come through violence.
"Islam is coming and there is no other choice," he told Klein about America and Europe.
"Because we think Islam will come and this is something that no one can prevent," he stated.
Quote from: jarhead on August 12, 2013, 08:51:41 PM
Warph,
That's Oprah ? Hell I thought it was Aunt Jemima !! Carry on Fly Boy
Okay, Grunt... and I say that with deep respect of the Grunts of the good ol' US of A.:
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now, Grunt... let me tell you the story of Aunt Jemima. Most of us may think of Aunt Jemima as a round-faced black woman with red bandana, smiling invitingly behind a stack of hot cakes.
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But the original Aunt Jemima was a Welsh woman.
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Her unwillingness to be indifferent to the threat of danger, and her courage in organizing private defenses for the Welsh coast when government proved to be incapable, may have prevented the expansion of the French Empire when Bonaparte was on the march in the latter years of the 18th century.
The Welsh people who inhabit the county of Pembrokeshire are noted for their independence. They are suspicious of all tidings, good or evil, until they've checked the source. They are dubious of government, and question what it does for them that is of any value. They have an inherent love of liberty, and observers who know the people best say that this spirit of independence is as strong and vital today as it was 200 years ago.
Pembrokeshire is the southwestern portion of Wales and thrusts out into the Atlantic Ocean, forming the eastern boundary of Saint George's Channel. One Day, in February, 1797, on that bleak and forbidding coast, part of Bonaparte's French fleet landed to make a raid. There were 3 ships and a lugger blown off-course from a French expedition, which Napoleon had dispatched to aid the united Irishmen in their rebellion and in their seeking separation from England. The Irish loved freedom and were angry with government generally. Napoleon was eager to ensure that Irish anger would be directed against the British king.
At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the ships sailed up the coast of southwest Wales, past the Strumblehead Lighthouse and hove to, within sight of the town of Fishguard. Apparently no one on shore was unduly alarmed at the sight of the French vessels. Three months earlier, Spain had declared war against George III, and evidently the British had had many problems of larger concern. With his glass, the French commodore could detect no unusual activity in the streets of Fishguard. There were no milling crowds, no British Redcoats. There was no reason why the French ships, all carrying troops to assist in the Irish rebellion, couldn't assist that rebellion right here in Fishguard, and by staging a quick raid upon the Welsh coast, they could seize stores and munitions, and possibly even a few prisoners.
The commodore snapped his glass shut and gave the order. French troops, together with arms and munitions, were rowed ashore in preparation for an inland thrust. The French had correctly analyzed the military situation. The Welsh were militarily unprepared. But the invaders had made a monstrous miscalculation. They had failed to consider the Welshman's love of liberty and his refusal to be too dependent on his government. (And then, too, they had never heard of Aunt Jemima.)
Thomas Williams, of Treleddyn, Saint Davids, a county magistrate who had been a sailor, noticed the French as they hove to. Although the ships were flying English colors, he immediately recognized them for what they were and immediately sent runners to warn the people of Saint Davids and Fishguard to be on the lookout for enemy movements along the coast. In a few hours, the entire countryside was aroused. A message was sent to Lord Carter for a troop of Castlemartin yeomanry to drive the French invader from Welsh soil, but their leader Colonel Davis was nowhere to be found. Rumor was that the colonel had been tippling, and it appeared that the Welsh were at the mercy of Napoleon's troops — and so they might have been had they depended on their government for their protection.
If the Welshmen had believed that the French arrival was none of their business, and that government has an exclusive monopoly in the field of protection, the history of the Napoleonic Wars might have had a different ending. The French in fact were so confident of success that they made no attempts to exploit their original advantage of surprise, putting off until the following day the landing of their main forces and the raids upon farms and nearby communities. They left only a token force to guard their stores and spent the night aboard ship.
When Aunt Jemima Nicholas heard the news of the landing of the Frenchmen, she was not surprised. She knew of the trouble between the French and the British, and any stranger in Wales — be he French, Spanish, or English — was not to be trusted. And she was concerned about the protection of her home and her country.
Late that day, when word came to the worried and excited townspeople, that the troops of Castlemartin could not find their leader, Aunt Jemima decided to take events into her own hands. Picking up a pitchfork, she sauntered to Goodwick Sands, where the French had established a temporary beach camp. History gives no details of how she completed her daring exploit, but armed with nothing but that pitchfork, Jemima single-handedly captured 12 Frenchmen and marched them back to her shoemaker shop. She extracted from her captives the full story of the intended raid. Then leaving her victims trussed up like fowl, she went about the town of Fishguard, and with the help of a Mr. Whitesides, the builder of the lighthouse at Strumblehead, she aroused the people.
A great military strategist was born in Aunt Jemima Nicholas that night. Of course she had no authority to do these things. She was acting quite unofficially and without precedent. But she refused to let the initiative go over to the enemy. She organized and worked until dawn flooded the rocky coast with light. And then she acted. Just above a spot on the beach, where the landing was being made in force, and within clear view of the French warships anchored in the channel, Jemima and the women of Fishguard circled proudly about the hill.
Over the shoulders of each flamed the bright red shawl characteristic of Welsh women. As they passed round a little ridge, they would quickly run back, hidden from sight in the little valley, and then once more march across the face of the hill. Jemima Nicholas and her fellow citizens from Fishguard continued this action all morning. And to the eyes of the watching Admiral, it appeared that the hills were crowded with innumerable British soldiers all marching to intercept his troops.
At a distance, the bright red shawl, the scarlet mantel wrapped around the shoulders of the women, appeared like the red coats of the British regulars. The French Admiral cursed under his breath. He'd been led to believe that the Welsh people would not be aided by King George. He'd also understood that the Welsh were a discontented lot and would be ready and eager to join with Napoleon as the Irish had done. Too late he realized that he had been trapped.
The Welsh hills were swarming with British regulars. He would not have sent his troops ashore. He realized now that all was lost, and without as much as a parting au revoir to his compatriots who had recently landed, he upped anchor, and the three men o'war with their lugger headed out for the open sea, abandoning Napoleon's troops upon the Welsh coast.
Now the women of Fishguard, together with what menfolk were available, stripped the lead from the roof of the Cathedral, mounted signs on long poles, took pitchforks, pistols, guns or poll axes, anything that came to hand, and descended upon the beach, not as a troop of disciplined military, but as an aroused community who knew the meaning of private protection.
The French took one look at the motley horde descending upon their camp and ran up the white flag. Who can blame them?
A truce was quickly arranged. A meeting took place next day at the Royal Oak Inn in Fishguard. The French formally surrendered without having fired a shot. And finally, after all was over, Colonel Davis and Lord Carter's troop of Castlemartin yeomen arrived to lead the prisoners away.
And there you have the story of how men and women who knew they were free and who didn't depend on the government to save them defended their liberty against an invading army. Today if you go to County Pembrokeshire, in Wales, and make your way to the town of Fishguard, there in the Royal Oak Inn, you will see a plaque, which bears an inscription telling of the surrender and treaty that occurred on that famous day back in 1797.
There's another point which also could be made. All wars are created by government. And the principle reason why the Welsh populous felt a necessity to protect their homes was because of the politically inspired war, which their king had helped to cause. Had there been no King George — had there been no war between the British government and the Irish or the French, a French expedition off the Strumblehead Lighthouse could have negotiated peacefully with the private merchants in Fishguard in order to reprovision their ships. Trade is a far less costly practice than war, with few of the attendant risks.
Certainly the French people would not have thought to invade the Welsh coast, nor would the Irish. Governments invade. Governments make war. Given a condition in which the rules of liberty pertain, there would be scant reason either for invasion or the necessity of the defense of a coastal village.
But we can surely admire this Welsh Aunt Jemima for recognizing that the government can do nothing useful that private persons cannot do. And her initiative and resolute action contain the elements of which freedom and independence are formed. Often we are led to believe that government protects us from danger, or that government solves our problems and permits us to lead happier, freer and more secure lives. But in fact, government never does anything for us that we cannot do for ourselves. For the very best government of all is self-government. Those of us who would be free must always remember that liberty and self-government are one.
The Obamas Attend Cocktail Party At NPR Host's Home
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(Liberal elitists hanging with fellow liberal elitists,
or as it is commonly known, an evening in hell)
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended a cocktail party this evening at the Martha's Vineyard home of National Public Radio host and special correspondent Michele Norris, according to the White House pool report. Norris's husband, Broderick Johnson, is a lobbyist who worked on Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.
The WH pool report reads:West Tisbury, Mass.
Motorcade was on the move again at 5:46 pm. About 10 minutes later POTUS arrived at a cocktail party at the home of Broderick Johnson, who was an adviser on the Obama 2012 campaign, and his wife, Michele Norris Johnson. FLOTUS is also at the cocktail party.
No sighting of the first couple or Bo. Pool vans pulled off on side of the road while the rest of the motorcade turned onto Nat's Farm Lane.
Communist Group Leads "Abortion Rights Freedom Rides" Hailed By Slew of Leading Liberals
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(Not that anyone is surprised by it. As Communists, isn't it strange that they see no conflict between their own personal interests and the interests of the community? Central planners may not want a community to become overpopulated, but they don't want it to be underpopulated either. That would collapse even the best case scenario economic model. According to Obuma, Communism is about what's best for a community, not what men want, or what women want, or what blacks and whites want. Think of yourselves like separate plants in a collective crop, any one of which may be asked to sacrifice themselves for the good of the whole. The weak plants must give way so that the better producers can thrive. Sound familiar?)
Via Life Site News:Numerous mainstream and left-leaning media outlets have highlighted the "Abortion Rights Freedom Rides," a caravan of activists now traveling to 14 states to support "Abortion on demand and without apology." However, no media outlet has reported that the event is being conducted by the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, a cult-like Maoist sect that calls for "millions of people to rise up in mass armed revolution" against the United States "when the time is right."
The abortion freedom rides are being led by Stop Patriarchy, a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party USA (RCP).
http://www.stoppatriarchy.org/
SP's original "Call to Action" gives the RCP's web address as its own and prominently quotes RCP founder and chairman Bob Avakian.
The new "freedom rides," modeled after the civil rights campaign to register black voters in the segregated South, provide special support to states that have only one abortion facility.
Their banners proclaim, "Abortion Providers are Heroes." Another said, "A Woman is Not the Life Support System for Her Uterus."
This weekend, they are protesting in Wichita, Kansas, to back efforts to open a new abortion facility once owned by Dr. George Tiller, whom they call a "heroic abortion provider."Troy Newman of Operation Rescue said the group protested outside his offices on Friday. Their beliefs could hardly be further apart.
"Abortion is not tragic, because fetuses are not babies and abortion is not murder," said leader Sunsara Taylor.
The freedom rides have been hailed by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC and formally endorsed by Janeane Garofalo, playwright Eve Ensler, leaders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and abortionists like Willie Parker, Diane Derzis, and Merle Hoffman.
Obuma Picks The Man, Crapper Clapper, Who Lied To Congress About Existence of NSA's Domestic Spying To Choose His Intelligence Review Panel
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(Okay... so we already know how this is going to end)
Via WaPo:On Friday, President Barack Obama promised to appoint an "independent group" of "outside experts" to review the government's surveillance programs.
Today, the president formally ordered the formation of this group, giving us a sense forjust how independent the group would be. The announcement doesn't inspire confidence that the president is interested in truly independent scrutiny of the nation's surveillance programs.
The panel will be chosen by, and report to, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Clapper famously answered "no sir" when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked whether the NSA collects information about millions of Americans. Clapper has since conceded that this answer was "clearly erroneous."
And there are other signs that the group won't turn out quite the way the president described it on Friday. Friday's speech talked about the need for input from outside experts with independent points of view. The president made no mention of the need for outsiders or independent viewpoints in his memo to Clapper.
Kardashian Mom Dresses Down Obama For Criticism Of The Opulent Lifestyle Of Her Daughter And Kanye West
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(As much as I find their use of sex as a business skanky, I have to give Jenner a "rah" for the basic defense of capitalism and calling Obuma out for the hypocrite he is. Because Obama has never gone on opulent vacations in 10,000 square foot houses... oh wai... never mind. If the criticism had been for moral failures, I might be right there with him, but it was for spending their money as they chose and not OURS!)
Via Daily Mail:Kris Jenner fired back at President Barack Obama after he criticized her daughter Kim Kardashian and Kanye West for their opulent lifestyles.
The 57-year-old matriarch of the Kardashian clan during her Kris show on Friday said she disagreed with Obama that Kim and Kanye have been influencing the younger generation to be obsessed with wealth and money.
Obama, 52, in a recent Kindle Singles interview bemoaned the 'change in culture' that has warped the American Dream and referenced the E! network's popular Keeping Up With The Kardashians show.
Another Obuma-Funded Green Energy Company On
Verge of Declaring Bankruptcy
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(Groundhog day)
Via WFB:
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has suspended stimulus payments to a major green energy company after the company said it is having trouble finding financing and may have to declare bankruptcy.
ECOtality admitted that possibility in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week. Lackluster sales caused revenues to fall significantly short of its expenses, the company said.
"Although the company is currently exploring options for a restructuring or sale of the entire business and/or assets of the company, the company may need to file a petition commencing a case under the United States Bankruptcy Code as part of any such process or otherwise in the very near future," ECOtality said in its SEC filing.
ECOtality has received more than $100 million in federal funds, the bulk of which came in a $99.8 million stimulus award for the construction of its electric vehicle charging stations.
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California Dem (Wit) Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill Allowing Transgender Students To Play For Opposite Sex's Sports Team
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(Holy Crap.... Insanity)
Via Fox News:California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a controversial bill into law Monday afternoon allowing the state's transgender public school students to choose which bathrooms they use and whether they participate in boy or girl sports.
The law would cover the state's 6.2 million elementary and high school kids in public schools.
Supporters say the law will help cut down on bullying against transgender students, The families of transgender students have been waging local battles with school districts around the country over what restrooms and locker rooms their children can use.
"Now, every transgender student in California will be able to get up in the morning knowing that when they go to school as their authentic self they will have the same fair chance at success as their classmates," Masen Davis, Executive Director of Transgender Law Center said.
While California is the first state to pass a law of this magnitude, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Washington and Colorado have all adopted policies designed to protect transgendered pupils.
400 US surface-to-air missiles were 'STOLEN' from Libya during the Benghazi attack, claims whistleblower
(Is this part of the threat that closed the embassies, the fear that our own weapons would be used against us? Joe Di Genova, who was a federal prosecutor, also notes that the President mentioned the sealed indictment to make it appear as though he was doing something, but violated a court order to reveal the sealed indictment)
Via Breitbart:On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.'s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained tight-lipped about Benghazi is because 400 U.S. missiles were "diverted to Libya" and ended up being stolen and falling into "the hands of some very ugly people."
DiGenova represents Benghazi whistleblower Mark Thompson. He told WMAL that he "does not know whether [the missiles] were at the annex, but it is clear the annex was somehow involved in the distribution of those missiles."
He claimed his information "comes from a former intelligence official who stayed in constant contact with people in the special ops and intelligence community." He said the biggest concern right now is finding those missiles before they can be put to use. "They are worried, specifically according to these sources, about an attempt to shoot down an airliner," he claimed.
On August 4, Breitbart News covered a report in The Telegraph that said 35 CIA operatives were working in Benghazi when the attack against the consulate took place. The Telegraph claimed these operatives were allegedly in an "annex near the consulate [working] on a project to supply missiles from Libyan armories to Syrian Rebels."
Months earlier, following then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's February 7 testimony on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi attacks, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested that one of the causes behind the terrorist attack "may have been that there was a gun running operation going on in Benghazi, leaving Libya and going to Turkey and [distributing] arms to the [Syrian] rebels."
Why is it that it seems to be the norm anymore for the parents to apologize for what their hoodlum kids do ? How about the worm steps up to the plate and says he's sorry---if he is---instead of daddy having to do it.
Father of teen charged in Florida school bus beating says son is 'sorry'
Published August 13, 2013
FoxNews.com
The father of one of three Florida teens charged in a vicious school bus attack said his son is "sorry" for taking part in the July beating that made national headlines.
Julian McKnight said his son Julian, 15, has also suffered in the aftermath of the July 9 attack on a Pinellas County school bus after it left Lealman Intermediate School in the St. Petersburg-area community of Gulfport as the trio head to court on Tuesday.
"All I can say is he's had his consequences already, you know?" McKnight said. "We're sorry what happened to the victim, but that's just the way it is. My son ain't never been no bad person, he just got mixed [up] with bad people, that's all ... He's sorry."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/13/father-florida-school-bus-beating-attack-says-son-is-sorry/#ixzz2brZajTFg
Hey Warph, I think we might have stumbled onto something here. Since California has that new law that allows the school boys to use the girls bathrooms if they are feeling girlie that day, how about they put one of these pacus fish in every stool in the girls bathroom ? If you really are a girl trapped in a boys body then you really won't mind losing the ol nads---save money from surgery---BUT---if you are just a perv wanting to sneak a peek you might have second thoughts about dangling the twins into the fish bowl !!
Testicle-eating fish spotted in Danish waters
Experts from the Danish National History Museum have warned that pacus -- a relative of the piranha -- have been spotted in the Danish/Swedish Øresund channel. The pacu has been known to bite swimmers, and have been known to attack men's testicles, because "testicles sit nicely in their mouth." So men are being cautioned to avoid nude swimming in the channel, though the museum's Henrik Carl stresses that the risk is not very high, in the grand scheme of things: "You're more likely to drown than get your nuts bitten off."
Jarhead, I hadn't heard about that new law. Not that it would make a difference anyhow. I have attended concerts in the past where there have been incidents such as.......
At a country music concert, the women's restrooms were unusable. In the men's there was the standard trough when you walk in and the stools behind a wall. Men were doing their thing while a line of women were standing next to the wall waiting for a stool. Some were trying real hard not to look, some were embarrassed and some were openly gawking at the men. This wasn't a problem for the men.........well, maybe, if you were the guy on the end closest to them.
At many, well, all of these events, the women's restroom always has a line, a long line. I went to one concert and saw the usual long line at the women's restroom and no line at the men's. As I was approaching the restroom, two young ladies decided to not stand in line and went into the men's room. There didn't seem to be a problem with the men on this one either.
Larryj
Why hell Doc, In Ca. when you go to a concert, after a couple Darvons and a toke or two, who worries about which bathroom you use.---I mean back in our days of coarse. :D
New Mexico Supreme Court Rules Non-English Speaking
Citizens Have Right To Serve On Juries
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(Por qué.. What the f**k????)
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court is cautioning trial courts and lawyers that citizens who don't speak English have the right to serve on juries.
The court issued the admonition in a ruling that upholds an Albuquerque man's convictions for murder and other crimes in the bludgeoning death of his girlfriend and a subsequent armed robbery and stabbing.
Michael Samora's appeal argued that his convictions should be reversed because a Bernalillo County judge excused a Spanish-speaking prospective juror who had trouble understanding English.
The Supreme Court says it agrees with that argument but also says Samora's defense needed to object during the trial but didn't.
The ruling issued Monday tells judges and lawyers that they must make reasonable efforts to protect the rights of non-English speaking citizens to serve on juries.
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(Look at that patronizing, disdainful, haughty, pompous, arrogant, lofty, supercilious, snooty, snobbish, contemptuous a**hole. I have all ideas if Martin Luther King was alive he would probably love to slap the liven sh!t out of this Clown)
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(What a low blow against Obuma... considering government workers overwhelmingly vote Demo-rat, you have to wonder how many of these people voted for Obuma? ...probably all of them)
Less than 3 percent of U.S. federal workers want to give up their current health plans and join Obamacare, according to a new poll.92.3 percent of federal workers think that they should continue with their current health insurance program, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), while just 2.8 percent think they should be required to join Obamacare exchanges and 4.9 percent are not sure, according to an August survey conducted by FedSmith.com, a website for federal employees."There is apparently little debate among the federal workforce. Federal employees do not want to be part of the new system. Employees who are already retired have a much stronger negative reaction to being moved to a new system," FedSmith.com noted.
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(Look at that patronizing, disdainful, haughty, pompous, arrogant, lofty, supercilious, snooty, snobbish, contemptuous A**hole. I have all ideas if Phyllis Diller was alive she would probably love to slap the liven sh!t out of this Bitch!)
Far Left Former IRS Official Lois Lerner Used
Private Email Account for Government Business
The Obama IRS Scandal involves:
** At least 292 conservative groups targeted
** At least 5 pro-Israel groups targeted
** Constitutional groups targeted
** Groups that criticized Obama administration were targeted
** At least two pro-life groups targeted
** A Texas voting-rights group was targeted
** Conservative activists and businesses were targeted.
** At least 88 IRS agents were involved in the targeting scandal
** At least one conservative Hispanic group was targeted
** No liberal groups suffered the same type of scrutiny from the IRS – Not one
** Conservative groups to this day continue to be targeted by the IRSNow we find out that shady Lois Lerner, the far left former director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations unit, was using her private email account for government business.
This is also against the rules.
The Corner reported:
Embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner sent official documents from her government e-mail address to a personal account, according to House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa and his colleague, Ohio congressman Jim Jordan."This raises some serious questions concerning your use of a non-official e-mail account to conduct official business," the GOP lawmakers wrote in a letter to Lerner demanding all documents from her non-official account for the period between January 2008 and the present. "Additional documents related to the Committee's investigation may exist in these non-official accounts over which you have some control, and the lack of access to this information prevents the Committee from fully assessing your actions," they explained. Issa and Jordan are requesting that Lerner produce the documents by August 27.
The use of personal e-mail accounts to conduct government work also has the potential to impede federal-records requests by the public because personal accounts are not archived by the government. Controversy erupted, for example, over former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson's use of a government account under the name Richard Windsor which, like a personal account, would not be captured by records requests relating to Jackson.
Lerner, the former director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations unit, was placed on administrative leave in late May after refusing to resign her post.
MYSTERY PRIEST Fr. Patrick Dowling Speaks Out:
"It Was Almighty God Who Intervened"
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Katie Lentz, 19, was hit by a drunk driver and was pinned between the steering wheel and the seat of her Mercedes last Sunday.
That's when a priest appeared and prayed with her. She was freed minutes later from the wreck but when the crews turned to thank the priest – he was gone.Father Patrick Dowling, a priest in the Jefferson City Missouri Diocese, stepped forward this week. He was travelling Highway 19 between mass assignments two weeks ago when he stopped at a crash site. The Missouri priest got out and prayed with 19-year-old crash victim Katie Lentz and first responders.
Then he disappeared.Father Patrick Dowling spoke with KHQA this week about the crash.
Father Dowling told KHQA reporters:
Dowling said that he's pleased that he was able to help by performing his ministry and said that he was one of many who responded to help the victim:[/b]
"You must remember, there were many people praying there, many, many people ... and they were all praying obviously for healing and for her safety," Dowling told Carl Bunderson with Catholic News Agency. "I was probably part of the answer to their prayers, I came by and Anointed and absolved, (but) I didn't say another word ... I did not say anything like the machinery would begin to work or they would succeed in getting her out of the car."
Farrakhan Blasts Obuma: "Has Not, Cannot and Will Not
Solve Problems in the Black Community"
(From one THUG about another THUG, Obuma... Louis Farrakhan went off on Obuma this week. The Jew-bashing hate-preacher said Obuma, "Has not, cannot and will not solve the problems in the black community." And he's right, for once!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFr_U8TAmgY
Black unemployment has skyrocketed under Obuma.
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Stupid Person Of The Day
Pants Suit Announces Speaking Tour To Restore Faith In Government
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(Helly starts running early and fades in the stretch... to bad, ol' horse's ass)
Via Breitbart:On Monday, Hillary Clinton told the American Bar Association annual meeting in San Francisco that she would be launching a series of speeches about American foreign policy in the "next few months." According to Philip Rucker, White House correspondent for The Washington Post, Hillary planned to emphasize restoring faith in government – an ironic theme, considering that she was a member of the current administration presiding over the rapid decline in faith in government.
The speech today was clearly a launching point for a 2016 campaign. She put heavy emphasis on bashing voter ID laws suggesting that they were "often [passed] under the cover of addressing the phantom epidemic of 'voter fraud.'" Such laws have been a bugaboo of the Obama administration, which has sought to portray them as racist in an attempt to stir outrage against Republicans.
POS Obuma to Sign UN Gun Treaty This Month – Will Lead to National Registry]
(This is a very bold move... could this be Obuma's death wish? Politicians have died for alot less)
Joseph Stalin's firearms confiscation was a tremendous success for the Socialist state.
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Under the Tsar, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. That all changed when Stalin and the communists took control. Stalin was able to control, starve, punish and imprison a defenseless people... after he took their guns. (Zinnfigur)
But before Stalin could confiscate the guns he needed a national gun registry.
In April the United Nations passed sweeping legislation that will regulate the international arms trade and could lead to a national registry in the United States.Barack Obama is reportedly going to sign the treaty this month while Congress is on vacation.
Ammoland reported:You heard it straight from the horse's mouth. Jay Carney said Obama will sign the UN Arms Trade Treaty "before the end of August...We believe it's in the interest of the United States."
This is very strategic timing considering Congress is on a 5 week vacation lasting thru the month of August!
These back door tactics are nothing new for the Obama Administration, which is why we are using tactics of our own to stop his anti-gun agenda. We have the home fax numbers of every Senator so while they are absent from the Capitol we can demand they must not ratify the UN Gun Treaty once Obama signs it.
We CAN stop this international treaty from reaching American soil by killing it the United States Senate. The U.S Senate must ratify an international treaty for it to be effective. They would need 67 votes to ratify the treaty. Reach every U.S. Senator at their home office; tell them you do not want this treaty in OUR United States!
Select Here To Fax The U.S. Senate At Their Home Offices:
Demand They KEEP THEIR TREATY AWAY FROM OUR GUNS -
DO NOT Ratify The UN 'Arms Trade Treaty'!
Everything Obama tackles in office is strategically timed and politically motivated. He only looks out for himself, his fellow liberals, and his anti-gun agenda. After mass shootings the Administration would launch all-out attacks on our gun rights since the country would be more susceptible to change after a traumatic event. He made sure the Benghazi cover up was swept under the rug until he got re-elected. He will wait to attack certain issues until the 2014 Congressional elections so he'll know how many liberals are by his side.
Obama believes now is the best time to sign the UN Gun Treaty since Congress is out of Washington. He will have less scrutiny to worry about if Congress is not nearby.
In a January 4, 2013 Justice Department document, Summary of Select Firearm Violence Prevention Strategies, the Obama Administration admitted that an assault weapons ban would not be effective without confiscation and gun registration.
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It should be clear by now that this administration has little to no regard for the we Americans and the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.
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NOAA Confirms Model-Defying Global Temperature Stagnation...
2012 Was Among Coolest In 21st Century
By P Gosselin on 7. August 2013 The political beauty about climate data is that it can be easily manipulated in order to fool the public.The National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently released its State of the Climate in 2012: Highlights. To no one's surprise, the report gives the reader the impression that warming is galloping ahead out of control. But their data show just the opposite.
(Goes to show the corruption of government in anything it touches)
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The NOAA says 2012 was the 8th or 9th warmest on record, but fails to mention it was one of the coolest of the decade, and thus confirms the cooling trend. (Above sequence estimated using the chart. Trend line is only approximate). Also see: woodfortrees.org from:1998. When one carefully reads the report, we find that the NOAA findings actually do confirm precisely what the skeptics have been claiming all along:
1. The Earth has stopped warming.
2. The climate models exaggerated future warming. CO2 climate sensitivity is much lower than we first thought.
That's the real issue at hand.On global temperatures, the NOAA report itself states (my emphasis): "Four major independent datasets show 2012 was among the 10 warmest years on record, ranking either 8th or 9th, depending upon the dataset used.
2012 one of the coldest this decadeBut if 2012 is only the 8th or 9th warmest and we are told again and again that almost all the warmest years occurred since 2000, then it can only mean that 2012 was one of the coolest so far this century.
And indeed the above NOAA chart confirms just that. Moreover, the stagnation of the last 15 years defies all computer model projections, thus confirming that the models all exaggerated CO2 climate sensitivity. In order for the models to be correct, the global temperature over the last 6 years would have to be 0.2 to 0.3°F warmer.
We suppose that the NOAA and NASA will soon be going to work readjusting the 1998 to 2005 data downwards to get the curve shape they need. Such dubious (and perhaps criminal) manipulation of data has long since become NASA's "scientific" approach over the recent years. It kind of reminds us of the days when Stalin tried to change history by cutting and pasting photos.
http://notrickszone.com/2013/08/07/noaa-confirms-model-defying-global-temperature-stagnation-2012-was-among-coolest-in-21st-century/
Gun Control Failure Continues:
Six People Shot in One Hour in Chicago Yesterday
(Ah yes... ObumaTown)
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The strictest gun control laws of any city in the nation aren't doing much to keep Chicago's gun death toll and injury numbers from being among the highest in America.
Just yesterday, six people were shot in the span of one hour in the Windy City. Sadly, this isn't a rare occurrence in gun-law-manic Chicago.
Last week, at least eight people were shot during a four-hour period of citywide shootings. Four men were killed and at least 31 other people — including a 4-year-old girl — were injured in gun violence across Chicago since last Friday night.
More gun control does not work. Ask the armed bad guys.
From Chicago Tribune, Officials: 6 shot in one hour citywide:
At least seven people were shot across the city Monday night, including six shot within an hour, officials said.
About 6:15 p.m., someone shot a 21-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman in the 1300 block of West Washburn Avenue in the city's University Village neighborhood, Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer Joshua Purkiss said.
The woman suffered a graze wound to the head and was taken in good condition to the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said. The 21-year-old man was taken in critical condition to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Langford said.
In a separate shooting at 6:12 p.m. in the 1300 block of South Loomis Street, a 23-year-old man was shot and critically wounded, said Langford. The man was also taken in critical condition to Stroger. Police said the shots may have come from a passing vehicle. Click here to read about the other Chicago gun victims:http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-police-3-wounded-in-west-pullman-university-village-shootings-20130812,0,6212875.story
Analysis from Big Government...
CHICAGO: SIX PEOPLE SHOT IN ONE HOUR:The City of Chicago is still racking up distressing numbers of shootings even as crime otherwise in the Windy City has gone down. On August 12, for instance, six people were shot in the space of only one hour.
On that Monday, between the 6:15 PM and 7:13 PM, six people were shot, one of them a 13-year-old boy.
At 6:12, police reported that a 23-year-old man was shot and critically wounded. At 6:15 a 21-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman were shot in the same incident. Then at 6:20 a young man, 17, shot himself in the groin by accident. Next a 13-year-old boy was shot at 6:47. And by 7:13 sixth person was shot.
This came only a day after a weekend where 4 were killed and 22 hurt in shootings in Chicago.
Those numbers are slight compared to the shootings over the Fourth of July holiday weekend this year where a staggering 72 shootings occurred, with as many as a dozen ending up dead. Among those shot were two small boys, one a 5-year-old and the other a 7-year-old.
You wouldn't know it from these statistics, but Chicago has actually experienced a drop in crime rates–including murder–so imagine how bad it was before. In 2012, for instance, there were a total of 516 murders and 11,866 gun related crimes in the city. This year that number will be smaller with 200 some murders thus far as the year winds down.From Policymic, Gun Control is Why Chicago Murder Rates Are Skyrocketing:Chicago has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country. Illinois remains the only state in the country where nobody can legally carry a concealed weapon, and lawmakers recently introduced measures to restrict legal gun ownership even more. (Update: a US appeals court has struck down Illinois' concealed carry ban).
Gun control policies don't work because they disarm citizens while keeping criminals in possession of guns. Chicago's strict policies have effectively given lawbreakers a monopoly on weapons in many parts of the city that the Chicago Police Department cannot or will not police effectively.
A nice contrast to Chicago for a natural experiment is Houston. Houston is very similar to Chicago in terms of socioeconomic factors such as population, density, and segregation. Houston, like Chicago, is a major center for illegal activities such as the drug trade and human trafficking. Despite all this, Houston has a murder rate two-thirds that of Chicago. This is because the people of Houston are well armed, while innocents in Chicago have been condemned to be sitting ducks.
Chicago has a geographical divide, with most affluent people who reside on the north side of the city surrounding the CTA's Red and Brown lines refusing to cross into the crime-ridden neighborhoods on the south and west sides. In 2010, Chicago native and rapper Lupe Fiasco agreed with Bill O'Reilly's controversial statement that certain parts of the city more closely resemble Haiti than the rest of the city.
Proponents of gun control have their heart in the right place. They would like to see fewer people murdered. I'm pretty sure everybody can agree that fewer dead people is a laudable policy goal. Unfortunately, gun control does not achieve this goal. After both the Sandy Hook shooting and the Aurora shooting, calls have come for "common sense" gun control, including a ban on semi-automatic rifles used in the senseless massacres. These weapons have been proven to protect property owners at their homes and business time and time again.(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/gun-control-follow-the-law-criminal.jpg)
Dumb Dumb Liberal Hippies Don't Know Why they are Protesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWfGKt0aZLI
(Old video but fits right into what is happening today in POS's "ObumaLand")
One of the comments:
Man I miss these idiots. A great mix of homeless, drug addicted, commies and college-aged clowns in their designer clothes, Tweeting on their iPhones how much they hate corporations/capitalism. Only in America... the irony is if these retards ever got the government they seem to advocate, this type of "demonstration" would never be allowed. Wonder which presidential candidate these geniuses voted for...? LOL! Just kidding! Hope & Change turned into Hate & Blame the "rich." Classic.
Gnarly, Dude, It's an Obama Paradise...
Free-loading, Lobster-Eating San Diego Beach Bum
Living Off Food Stamps for Years
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San Diego beach bum Jason Greenslate is rewarded with taxpayers' dollars to surf, drink, hang out with friends, and get 'free food' to which he says, 'It's awesome'(Yeah, Man... Life is grand... I gotta get me some of those Government Issued Food Stamps. SNAP..ity, SNAP)
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With hard-working American families struggling to keep their heads above water, be prepared to feel your blood pressure rise when watching this able-bodied, California clown blatantly abusing the American food stamp system. He's done it for years. Using his government-issued EBT card, surfer Jason Greenslate thinks it's "awesome" that he can get free food ("free," as in taxpayer-funded), such as pricey lobster and sushi, while choosing not to work. He parties with friends, surfs every day, aspires to be a rock star, and otherwise is a remorseless leech in society. Greenslate calls it "living the life, living the dream."
Parasitic, id-monster liberal, in the mold of surfer stoner Jeff Spicoli of the 1982 film "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Ultra-leftist, pro-welfare Media Matters is fuming over this Fox News Special Report exposé, which likely just begins to uncover myriad abuses of SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Granted, not all people who participate in SNAP or other welfare programs are as casual about free-loading as is Greenslate, but how many are just like him remains to be discovered. New York Post exposed last month that an untold number of New York food stamp recipients are illegally shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives out of the country. EBT cards are being sold illegally on Facebook and other social media sites. Food stamp fraud was uncovered by an undercover team in March in Phoenix and in Florida, a fraud task force uncovered a higher percentage of food stamp fraud than was reported by the government. Last year, Baltimore's WMAR News reported that millions commit food stamp fraud every year and that customers can easily game the EBT system. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal wrote a lengthy piece on the rise of food stamp recipients and rise in fraud and abuse, stating, "The USDA's Food and Nutrition Service now has only 40 inspectors to oversee almost 200,000 merchants that accept food stamps nationwide. The Government Accountability Office reported last summer that retailers who traffic illegally in food stamps by redeeming stamps for cash or alcohol or other prohibited items 'are less likely to face criminal penalties or prosecution" than in earlier years'." Just three weeks ago, 23 people in Schenectady, New York were arrested for food stamp fraud — evidence indicates that they stole $500,000 from the food stamp program over a three-year period. The list goes on and on.
Add this California loser to the list. But thanks to changes and relaxed rules to the food stamp program made by Pres. Obama, Greenslate appears to be playing the system and "living the life" legally.
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(He's watching you, Forum)
While Obama is enjoying his $25 Million dollar family summer vacation at Martha's Vineyard, criticism about his National Security Agency program is rising from both Democrats and Republicans. Rep. Michael McCaul said this weekend on "Meet the Press" that the president has failed to adequately explain or defend the invasion into Americans' privacy by the federal government.
McCaul said that Obama is trying clumsily to "salvage" the NSA surveillance program and is "in a bit of a mess because after the IRS scandal, where people don't trust this government with their tax records, they sure don't trust them with their phone records."http://hotair.com/archives/2013/08/12/right-left-agree-obama-had-no-intention-of-having-an-nsa-debate-before-snowden/
University of California Study: National Debt Is Really $70 Trillion
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http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/16264-university-of-california-study-the-national-debt-is-really-70-trillionJames Hamilton, an economics professor at the University of California, San Diego, just published his best estimate of the federal government's "off-balance-sheet" liabilities, in which he concludes that the real national debt, popularly estimated to be $16.9 trillion, is in fact more than four times larger: $70.086 trillion. This is because of decisions to leave out certain unfunded liabilities when the national debt is counted. He explains:This paper examines the growth of federal liabilities that are not included in the officially reported numbers. These take the form of implicit or explicit government guarantees and commitments ... housing, other loan guarantees, deposit insurance, actions taken by the Federal Reserve, and government trust funds....
The biggest items in this category come from Social Security and Medicare which, if current policy is maintained, will require enormous sacrifices from future taxpayers.
He includes the implicit mortgage guarantees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: "With the federal government today being the sole owner of Fannie and Freddie, it seems appropriate to consider both the direct debt obligations ... as well as their outstanding mortgage guarantees [which are now treated] as an off-balance sheet liability." Added together, housing guarantees ($7.5 trillion), FDIC guarantees ($7.4 trillion), Social Security ($26.5 trillion), Medicare ($27.6 trillion), and other government trust fund liabilities ($1.8 trillion) come to $70 trillion. That's an increase of $13.5 trillion just since 2006, and is growing by more than $2 trillion a year.
When the Government Accounting Office (GAO) issued its own report on the government's finances back in January, it was 270 pages long and was filled with disclaimers about its estimates:
Certain material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting and other limitations ... prevented GAO from expressing an opinion on the fiscal years 2011 and 2012....
Because of significant uncertainties ... GAO was unable to express opinions on [those years'] statements on Social insurance.
Nevertheless what they did uncover appeared on pages 46, 47, and 48, deep into the report: When adding up the unfunded liabilities of all "social insurance," the present value of future expenditures in excess of future expected revenue came to $38.5 trillion, more than twice what is publicly admitted.
When Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) read the report, he said, "The federal government is the last accounting-free zone in America!" Two former congressmen, Christopher Cox and Bill Archer, were equally appalled: "The U.S. Treasury 'balance sheet' does ... not include the unfunded liabilities of Medicare, Social Security and other outsized and very real obligations."
There are two reasons that these huge liabilities are routinely ignored: how the accounting is done, and whether Social Security and Medicare are actually government guarantees or not. Sheila Weinberg, director of the Institute for Truth in Accounting (ITF), says the federal government's accounting system isn't allowed to be used by private companies because it is "so unreliable and possibly misleading" — cash accounting instead of accrual. The government includes Medicare and Social Security liabilities only as they come due, rather than using accrual accounting that counts the entire debt burden when the program is launched. So it neatly ignores future liabilities and makes the national debt appear to be much smaller.
The other reason is that the government itself doesn't consider Social Security or Medicare as guaranteed by the government. According to Hal Steinberg, a member of the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board (FASAB), which makes such determinations, Medicare and Social Security, along with veterans' benefits and government employee benefits, are not binding contractual commitments after all:
There is no exchange transaction here. When the FASAB board was looking at the best way to report this, the feeling was not to put this on the balance sheet as a liability [because] it really wasn't a liability.
In other words, these are promises that the government made but which the government can break at any time. And because there is no actual contract to break there is no accounting liability.
Besides, said Steinberg, if those liabilities were added to the nominal national debt, "the number would end up being so large that no one would be able to relate to it." As ITF's Weinberg said: "Politicians aren't stupid. They do these books on a cash basis because they don't want to increase the deficit but they want to get re-elected."
According to the ITF, the real national debt is, at the moment, $74.3 trillion, and counting.
Even that number may be too small to reflect accurately the promises made versus the revenues expected to fund them. Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff was interviewed in February and was asked by his host:
You're the one who stated that America is rogue and in even worse shape than Greece and Ireland. How so? What exactly do you mean by that?
Kotlikoff: We economists look at all the bills the government has to pay, and in the US case we have enormous bills that have been kept off the books....
Host: You said the amount of the fiscal gap in the United States is, in your estimation, $222 trillion. This is an astonishing number, which is like three times the world's GDP. This is more than what the world makes!
Kotlikoff: If you add all the spending obligations into the distant future and you compare them with all the taxes, and you include in the spending all the interest payments ... you have $222 trillion of present value....
This is why we are in worse shape that Greece....
Host: So are they intentionally hiding the enormity of it?
Kotlikoff: They're intentionally hiding this. They've been spending in our country [for] six decades, running a massive Ponzi scheme, taking from young people, giving to old people, and then telling the young people, "Don't worry, you'll get yours when you're old," promising pensions, promising healthcare benefits.
The study by Professor Hamilton from the University of California, San Diego, serves as a reminder that, as the debt ceiling draws ever closer, the discussion bound to take place will have little do with the reality of what the federal government actually owes. That discussion, expected to begin when Congress reconvenes after Labor Day, will be a sideshow, distracting attention from the real issue: The U.S. government is broke and its promises won't be kept.
Dem.wit Rep. John Lewis:
Pant Suits Is "The Most Qualified Person In America To Be President"
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"I won't make an endorsement, but I will say this: If she makes a decision to run I would be with her," Mr. Lewis said. "I think today she is the most qualified person in America to be president. No one has worked so hard or done a more effective job in representing this country as secretary of state in modern times." (Yes, he's serious, folks... which is a bunch of plantation horsesh!t coming from a senile old man. This guy lives in the past. He cannot get past 1960. Trust me, he wouldn't know the difference between the State Dept and the GA. Motor Vehicle Division right now)
NYTIMES:http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/lewis-says-he-will-back-hillary-clinton-for-president-if-she-runs/?smid=tw-share&_r=0
DIRTY DEMO-RAT POLITICS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL
Crooked Dem.Wit Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison – Update: Wife Gets 12 Months
Judge to Jesse Jackson Jr: People say you're "guilty of bad acts but you are not a bad man"(This coming from a very bad Judge... of course he is bad, you cluck! The whole family stinks of rotten politics)Read more: http://wgntv.com/2013/08/14/jesse-jackson-jr-sentenced-to-2-and-a-half-years-in-prison/#ixzz2byYdxxOE
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Earlier: CBS' This Morning omitted the fact that former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D., Ill.) is a
Democrat during a story Wednesday about the disgraced politician's sentencing for misuse of campaign funds.
Jackson faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to spending nearly $750,000 in campaign funds on items like mink coats and a Rolex. His wife Sandra, a former Chicago alderman, also will be sentenced on a related charge of failing to report about $600,000 in taxable income.UPDATE:Only 12 months for stealing $750,000, and they don't have to pay the money back. How's that for DIRTY politics! I guess if you want to be crooked and beat the system, you have to be black. Gee... was that racist?
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Holder lied ? Aint no way---get outta here !! For real, he lied ?
DOJ, FBI admit they inflated claims about mortgage fraud crackdown last year
By Judson Berger
Published August 14, 2013
FoxNews.com
The Justice Department and FBI have quietly acknowledged they grossly overstated the scope of a mortgage fraud crackdown, which the administration heralded with much fanfare a few weeks before last year's presidential election.
According to a memo circulated by the FBI and a correction posted online by the Justice Department, the number of defendants, the number of victims and the size of the losses are, in reality, a fraction of what officials claimed last October.
Attorney General Eric Holder and other law enforcement officials claimed in early October that the initiative charged 530 criminal defendants on behalf of 73,000 victims who suffered over $1 billion in losses. The so-called Distressed Homeowner Initiative, which targeted fraud schemes against distressed homeowners, was highlighted in a press release and press conference at the time.
Holder, talking to the cameras on Oct. 9, called it "a groundbreaking, year-long mortgage fraud enforcement effort."
The real numbers, it turns out, were far smaller. The feds now admit that the number of criminal defendants charged was more like 107, not 530. The number of victims was 17,185 -- still a large number, but roughtly one fourth the size of the original headcount. And the losses totaled $95 million -- not $1 billion, as originally claimed.
The DOJ and FBI had long been dogged by claims that their numbers were inflated. Bloomberg has been reporting since October that the cases cited by Holder included charges filed during the George W. Bush administration.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/14/doj-fbi-admit-inflated-claims-about-mortgage-fraud-crackdown-last-year/#ixzz2bzuBnjU0
Quote from: jarhead on August 14, 2013, 07:38:50 PM
Holder lied ? Aint no way---get outta here !! For real, he lied ?
DOJ, FBI admit they inflated claims about mortgage fraud crackdown last year
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Yeah... I hate to break it to you but, I'm afraid your buddy, Mr. Racist Pea-Brain LIED, Jar. Sorry. Here's a few more:
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GOP is Hard after your ASS, Eric me boy
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Eric Holder lied to a Congressional Committee...
In a letter last February to Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee,
the Justice Department said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had not sanctioned the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser and that the agency makes every effort to intercept weapons that have been purchased illegally. In Operation "Fast and Furious," both statements turned out to be
lies.
Holder claimed it was all just a huge mistake.
The biggest mistake was made by these Republican Senators who voted to confirm this liar...Any of these RINO names look familiar Mr. Grassley? Mr Graham? Mr. Hatch? Mr. McCain? Helloooooooooo?
Alexander (R-TN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Chambliss (R-Ga)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Sessions (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
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Follow-up on Jarheads piece on Holder:
Eric Holder Lies AgainHolder Owes the American People an Apology(Holder owes the American people a resignation... nothing less! He has proved himself to be incompetant; a serial liar; corrupted by the power of his position; unwilling to go after the criminal banks and banksters in the "too big to fail... too big to jail..." banks; the "Fast and Furious" gun-running scheme that resulted in the deaths of DEA agents; complacency in holding Senators and Congressman and women to ethical or legal standards in the insider trading scheme that they are allowed to partake in, that should anyone else do the same (Martha Stewart) results in prison time; permitting the NSA, CIA, FBI to spy on Americans all the time, on everything that is "relevant"... which in their legalese is everything.... complicit in the knowledge of the use of snipers that were planned to assassinate the leaders of the Occupy Movement... anyone else would have been given prison time years ago. I'm sure, however, that Obama has a Presidential Medal with Holder's name on it as a reward for a "job well done" aka, serving his corporate masters as a lackey slave)(http://dancingczars.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/fr_jailbirds2013.jpg?w=400&h=400)
The Justice Department made a long-overdue disclosure late Friday: Last year when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder boasted about the successes that a high-profile task force racked up pursuing mortgage fraud, the numbers he trumpeted were grossly overstated.
We're not talking small differences here. Originally the Justice Department said 530 people were charged criminally as part of a year-long initiative by the multi-agency Mortgage Fraud Working Group. It now says the actual figure was 107 -- or 80 percent less. Holder originally said the defendants had victimized more than 73,000 American homeowners. That number was revised to 17,185, while estimates of homeowner losses associated with the frauds dropped to $95 million from $1 billion.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-11/eric-holder-owes-the-american-people-an-apology.html
"Clearly, any family may be visited by federally paid agents for almost any reason." According to an Obamacare provision millions of Americans will be targeted.
The Health and Human Services' website states that your family will be targeted if you fall under the "high-risk" categories below: *Families where mom is not yet 21.
*Families where someone is a tobacco user.
*Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities.
*Families with individuals who are serving or formerly served in the armed forces, including such families that have members of the armed forces who have had multiple deployments outside the United States. There is no reference to Medicaid being the determinant for a family to be "eligible." In 2011, the HHS announced $224 million will be given to support evidence-based home visiting programs to "help parents and children." Individuals from the state will implement these leveraging strategies to "enhance program sustainability."
Constitutional attorney and author Kent Masterson Brown states,
"This is not a "voluntary" program. The eligible entity receiving the grant for performing the home visits is to identify the individuals to be visited and intervene so as to meet the improvement benchmarks. A homeschooling family, for instance, may be subject to "intervention" in "school readiness" and "social-emotional developmental indicators." A farm family may be subject to "intervention" in order to "prevent child injuries." The sky is the limit.
Although the Obama administration would claim the provision applies only to Medicaid families, the new statute, by its own definition, has no such limitation. Intervention may be with any family for any reason. It may also result in the child or children being required to go to certain schools or taking certain medications and vaccines and even having more limited – or no – interaction with parents. The federal government will now set the standards for raising children and will enforce them by home visits."
Part of the program will require massive data collecting of private information including all sources of income and the amount gathered from each source.
A manual called Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention includes firearms as potential safety hazard and will require inspectors to verify safety compliance and record each inspection into a database. Last session South Carolina Rep. Bill Chumley introduced a bill, H.3101 that would nullify certain provisions of Obamacare. The bill would give the state attorney general the authority to authorize law enforcement to arrest federal agents for trespassing. It would make forced home inspections under Obamacare illegal in South Carolina. It passed in the House but died in the senate.
Kent Brown and Rep. Rick Quinn discuss "forced" home inspections under Obamacare in the video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsTUKf87OSw
Paul Ryan Takes Apart Obumacare in 6 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1yTY2MciOk
Photoshop Time
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"Checkout the Clown in the "Little Chair" who isn't really there!"
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REGGIE LOVE BOMBSHELL:
Obama Was Playing Cards With Me During Bin Laden Raid (SHOCK VIDEO)
August 14, 2013 at 6:16 pm
NOW WE KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY...Barack Obama told Reggie Love he couldn't watch the "whole thing" while Navy SEALs stormed the Bin Laden Compound.
So they played 15 games of cards.
The entire raid last less than 40 minutes.
Earlier tonight it was reported that Barack Obama was playing cards with his personal assistant Reggie Love during the Bin Laden raid.
Reggie Love spilled the beans in an interview posted this week.
Reggie Love was asked to talk about the day Osama Bin Laden was killed. Reggie explained:
"Most people were like down in the Situation Room and [President Obama] was like, 'I'm not going to be down there, I can't watch this entire thing,' So he, myself, Pete Souza the White House photographer, Marvin, we must have played 15 hands, 15 games of spades."The YouTube link (below) was found with the segment in question. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQBxZoUgac8
The full 8:59 minute interview can be viewed here at LiveLeak:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b96_1376519391But, get this...
It was previously reported that U.S. troops were at the compound for less than 40 minutes.
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Pissing and Moaning
In spite of the fact that the Democrats have been the reason that so many cities and states, not to mention the nation at large, are in such dire financial straits, there are only a dozen states that boast two Republican senators and a Republican governor.
You do have to wonder why anyone would vote for someone who seems to think socialism is preferable to capitalism or why they would continue to elect politicians who don't even pretend to negotiate seriously with public sector unions. We all know, or should know by now, that they merely go through the motions while, in reality, using the negotiations as a way to line up volunteers and guarantee themselves campaign contributions in exchange for our tax dollars.
I mean, places like Detroit don't simply happen. They are the inevitable result of electing Democratic mayors and city councilmen decade after decade. If you keep eating Twinkies, you'll get fat. If you keep electing left-wingers, you'll go bust.
There are a great many people in this country who still believe that Obuma is as popular as he was in 2009. They are totally unaware that his numbers in the polls are sinking nearly as fast as Anthony Weiner's weenie. The reason for this is that he spends all his time in venues that are more tightly controlled than nuclear missile silos. It's reminiscent of the days when every sit com, no matter how inane, came with a carefully calibrated laugh track, offering everything from giggles to
guffaws. The idea was that even if the script didn't elicit laughs in the home audience, the laughter of others would persuade them that they were having a very jolly time. In the case of Obuma, the idea is that even if the folks at home can't find a job and are worried sick about what the Affordable Care Act is going to do to their health care, if they see all those Schmucks on stage sitting behind Old POS and clapping on cue... he can't be doing too lousy a job.The other day a friend of mine said, "I'm so glad that when my family decided to leave Chicago when I was six years old, they decided to take me along: I was in Scottsdale, Arizona, the other day when I saw a bumper sticker on a parked car that read I miss Chicago. So I broke the window, stole the radio, shot out two of the tires, added an 'Obama/Biden in 2012 sticker' and left a note that read: I hope this helps.This afternoon, I heard a talk show host predict that the GOP is so fractured that there's no way that we have any chance of winning in 2016. He said that while Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Chris Christie, all have sizable factions supporting them, no single candidate could possibly unite the Party.
I beg to differ. I believe there's one: Hillary Clinton. (Get my meaning????)
An EPIC Apology Letter to Obama Goes Viral Around the Web
Dear President Obama,
I'm reaching out to you as a friend. I know you must be deeply hurting after what happened at the Missouri State Fair. Sure, you probably try to avoid watching the news while you're on vacation, but I'm sure the pilot who airlifted your dog to your rental mansion in Martha's Vineyard probably caught you up to speed (that guy is such a chatterbox). Your jaw must have hit the floor when you heard the news: A rodeo clown in Missouri poked fun at you. Yeah, I know, almost impossible to believe. The gall! The gumption! The racism! Don't worry, the entire country erupted in outrage, Democrats and Republicans issued statements of condemnation, and now the offending clown has been banned for life from the Missouri State Fair. There will likely be "action taken" against the Missouri Rodeo Clown Association, and I do hope justice is visited upon them swiftly. I think we're all a little sick of the Missouri Rodeo Clown Association causing trouble. It's something new every week with those freakin' guys.
But all of this is of no consolation. The fact is, a rodeo clown in Missouri made fun of you. Nothing can ever ease the pain he has caused. This sort of crass lampooning of public officials has never happened at a rodeo until now, and I know that because a bunch of people who have never been within 150 miles of a rodeo said so. And then — worse still — the crowd erupted in applause at the spectacle of a guy in an Obama mask being chased by a rampaging bull. Racists, the lot of 'em! I mean, Bush never got this sort of treatment. Nobody ever mocked or satirized him. No crude jokes were told about him. Nobody ever wished violence or death upon him. Ever. You know why? Because he's white. White presidents always get treated nicely, especially white Republicans. Just ask Lincoln. The whole country agreed for over two centuries that we don't ever insult presidents, then you get into office and all of a sudden every day is Pick on the President Day. Outrageous!
Besides, you are due some respect. You've earned it. You've done nothing but serve these people and make their lives better, and this is how they treat you? Ungrateful brats. You should drone bomb these haters. Just kidding. But seriously, you should. You're the first president in history to actually order the assassination of American citizens, and I say why stop with some Muslim propagandist and his completely innocent son who never committed any crime at all?
I'm especially sick of these punks in the middle class who won't stop complaining about you. What's their issue? OK, you haven't done anything about the unemployment rate your whole time in office, median household incomes have dropped, less businesses are opening, the number of people in poverty has increased while the number of high paying jobs has decreased, all of this while taxes go up and Obamacare looms, threatening to strangle small business owners and put thousands more out of work, but so what? I've got two words: Food stamps. Or is it foodstamps? I don't know, I can't spell it, I can just use it to get my Lucky Charms and Dr. Pepper. You've made all of this "work" crap obsolete by increasing the entitlement state more than any president ever in history! You're adding more than 11 thousand Americans a day to SNAP. You've got millions relying on the government for rent, cable, phone, even birth control. I guess this horrible economy stuff would be kind of a bummer if not for all the delicious welfare. Who needs an economy anymore? We've got you, baby.
So how could anyone be upset at you? How could they delight at the degradation and mockery of Barack Obama? What's wrong with these right wing rednecks? Are they still sore about the whole thing where you sent the IRS after your political opponents to harass and hinder them during an election cycle? Or the stuff about spying on the phone records of every American? What about all this business about you arming and funding Islamic Militants overseas and then orchestrating a coverup when a bunch of them murdered your ambassador? Are folks STILL mad that you funneled weapons to drug cartels and then threatened whistleblowers into silence? Or is it all this fuss over your Justice Department spying on and attempting to prosecute journalists? Is it the wildly unpopular two thousand page health care law? The regulation mandating that religious employers provide abortifacients to their employees? The millions of tax dollars you've given to the abortion industry and the blessings you wished upon a group of wealthy abortionists? The bailouts? The green energy scams? The massive expansion of government? The out of control deficit spending? The lies? The broken promises? The betrayals? The corruption? The attacks on our fundamental liberties?
I can't imagine why anyone would get too worked about any of that. Like you said, that stuff didn't happen. Or it did, but it's not a big deal. Or it's not a big deal because it didn't. I can't remember, I just know that you treat anyone who raises any of these concerns with utter contempt and disregard, which clearly proves that they are wrong.
Mr. Obama, IF you WERE actually guilty of being a deceitful despot who murders, conspires, and steals, then obviously all true Americans would have no choice but to giggle with glee at the sight of your likeness being gouged by an angry bull. Fortunately, that isn't the case, which is why I'd like to apologize on for the entire state of Missouri, for everyone who has ever attended a state fair, and for everyone in the rodeo clown community.
You are still special, and I still love you.
Yours eternally,
Matt Walsh
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Military Says It Will Now Give Queer Troops Extra Time Off So They Can Travel To Same-Sex Marriage States To Get Hitched...
(It pays to be queer in Obama's military. first the Navy and looks like the Marines are next)
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(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Defense Department announced on Wednesday that it will make "spousal and family benefits" available no later than Sept. 3, 2013, regardless of sexual orientation, for all service members who can provide a valid marriage certificate.
And what about same-sex military couples who live in a state where same-sex marriage is not allowed? No problem.
"We recognize that same-sex military couples who are not stationed in a jurisdiction that permits same-sex marriage would have to travel to another jurisdiction to marry. That is why the department will implement policies to allow military personnel in such a relationship non-chargeable leave for the purpose of travelling to a jurisdiction where such a marriage may occur," the DOD news release said.
"This will provide accelerated access to the full range of benefits offered to married military couples throughout the department, and help level the playing field between opposite-sex and same-sex couples seeking to be married."
Yep, I think this is how our tax dollars should be spent---NOT !!!
Rep Stockman has it right when he said "We can't get the Justice Department to look at Benghazi, so it would be ironic that the Justice Department would investigate a clown"
Calls by the Missouri chapter of the NAACP for a federal investigation into a rodeo clown who donned a President Obama mask at the state fair last week are misguided and hypocritical, a Texas Republican congressman told FoxNews.com on Thursday.
U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, who has invited the clown who wore the mask to perform in Texas, said the request for probes into the incident by the Justice Department and Secret Service are "silly" and should be ignored.
"A rodeo clown is really a nominal thing and it hurt no one," Stockman told FoxNews.com. "They didn't speak out when George Bush was being portrayed as a murderer. To become relevant again, they need to become more of an honest broker and not have contrived anger."
Stockman said the NAACP would better serve its constituents by focusing on ways to decrease unemployment among the black community. He also noted that the national civil rights group was silent after a July incident on a Florida bus where three black teens beat a fellow white student. Though Gulfport Police Chief Robert Vincent told Fox News the attack did not appear to be racially motivated, former Florida Rep. Allen West, who is black, chided Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, noting they condemned Florida's laws in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting yet remained mum on the bus attack
"It's really patently false that they're angry at this, but not angry at other issues," Stockman continued. "There has to be some consistency."
Stockman said he thinks it's unlikely federal officials will investigate the matter.
"We can't get the Justice Department to look at Benghazi, so it would be ironic that the Justice Department would investigate a clown," he said. "They should focus on their member's needs rather than theatrics."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/15/calls-for-federal-probe-into-missouri-rodeo-clown-are-contrived-anger-critics/#ixzz2c3dSmygK
The last line say it all.
Insult to Injury: Wounded warriors snubbed at Walter Reed dining hall
By Justin Fishel, Jennifer Griffin
Published August 15, 2013
FoxNews.com
In a disturbing revelation about the treatment of America's most severely wounded troops, Fox News has learned the military earlier this month decided to invalidate meal tickets and reduce hours for the sole dining facility in the Walter Reed building where they are recovering.
The decision affects the Warrior Cafe located inside building 62, home to all multiple amputees and long-term, recovering patients at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
The decision would mean wounded warriors who would normally have a government-funded meal just down the hall would have to walk, wheel or limp nearly a half-mile across the Walter Reed campus to the temporary "food trailer" for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
"I mean it's called the Warrior Cafe, you would think it is for us," said Sgt. Josh Wetzel, who lost both his legs when he stepped on a pressure plate IED outside Kandahar, Afghanistan in May 2013. He's been recovering at Walter Reed since and has been a daily customer at the cafe.
The status of the military's decision may be in flux.
After Fox News submitted multiple inquiries with senior military officials earlier this week, the Pentagon responded late Wednesday. Lt. Col. Catherine Wilkinson, a Pentagon spokesman, told Fox News that Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, has decided to reverse the changes.
Yet so far, no patients at Walter Reed have been notified of that decision and there has been no formal announcement.
"It makes a lot of people mad that they can't get into their wheelchair and wheel down to the Warrior Cafe," Wetzel said. "Now they have to wheel all the way across base to use their meal cards."
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"Now I get it," Ryan said. "Back in the Vietnam War when all the men and women were coming home (I understand) how they felt ... and I didn't think it would come to this."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/15/insult-to-injury-wounded-warriors-snubbed-at-walter-reed-dining-hall/#ixzz2c3ha2xDA
Obuma Finds New Way To Harm The Economy...
By Going On Vacation
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(Its about the only thing Obama's good at)
Via Vineyard Gazette:West Tisbury businesses, from a gas station to farm stand vendors, fear that the partial closure of South Road and prominent detour signs spurred by President Obama's visit will hurt sales during one of the busiest weeks of the year.
President Obama arrived for a nine-day visit on Martha's Vineyard last Saturday. The first family is staying at a private home off South Road in Chilmark. Because of security concerns, South Road is closed between Meeting House Road and Wootton Bassett Road until August 18.
Large neon detour signs are in place, including in front of the West Tisbury fire station and at the intersection of Edgartown-West Tisbury Road and State Road. The signs warn that the road is closed ahead and advise vehicles to take a North Road detour. Signs are also in place along State Road in North Tisbury, directing traffic off State Road and toward Menemsha.
But a handful of West Tisbury businesses situated between the detour signs and the road closure say the traffic change will keep people away from the village center at the very height of summer and the week of the Agricultural Fair. The fair begins Thursday.
"We are very impacted by this," said Andrea Rogers, manager for the Vineyard Artisans Festivals, which take place Thursdays and Sundays at the Grange Hall. More than 70 artists sell ceramics, jewelry and art at the festivals.
"August is our make it or break it month, so this is the worst possible time of the year to block access," she added. "It impacts a lot of people."
Horror! Check Out The Racist Clown Who Wore An Obuma Mask In 2007
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OMG... How Racist!!!!!!!
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The NAACP [Negro's Are Always Causing Problems] has Jumped the Shark on this One
(Personally, I couldn't be happier about this rodeo clown nonsense, the race baiters have finally gone too far for people to ignore and will make their future claims of racism fall on dear ears)
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Appearing on Fox News Thursday morning, Democratic analyst Jehmu Greene told host Martha MacCallum and conservative radio host Lars Larson that the NAACP had gone too far in calling for a Secret Service investigation of the Missouri State Fair rodeo clown incident.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dem-guest-tells-fox-naacp-jumped-the-shark-on-rodeo-clown/
"The NAACP has jumped the shark on this one," Greene said. "They do really great work in communities around the country. But this is—I agree with you, Lars—it's ridiculous.""But the hypocrisy is on both sides," Greene added. "Remember the Dixie Chicks, and when there were so many conservatives who were like, 'You can't say anything against President Bush, we're going to smash your albums?' But liberals have to remember: when Game of Thrones decapitated George Bush, they loved it! Behind closed doors, they were all cheering for it. Come on, this is outrageous."
Larson began the segment with the C.S. Lewis quote, "Above all else the devil cannot stand to be mocked," which caused both MacCallum and Greene to pull over and make sure Larson wasn't calling Obama the devil. "It's a comparison," Larson insisted, not to Greene's satisfaction.
Sour-Puss Mooch Says She'd Never Run For President...
...because it would cut into her busy shopping and vacationing schedule?
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(I'm pretty sure Pant-Suit said the same thing during Willie's presidency)
Via Parade Magazine:On whether there will be a female president in her lifetime.Yes, I think the country is ready for it. It's just a question of who's the best person out there.
On whether she sees Secretary Clinton getting the job.She hasn't announced anything, so I'm certainly not going to get ahead of her. [laughs]
On whether she will ever run.No.
Jesse Jackson Jr & Wife to Vacation in Alabama
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WASHINGTON: Jesse Jackson to spend a 30 months in an Alabama Camp for "a serious mental health condition" Jackson's lawyer Reid Weingarten said. Jackson was found guilty of "misspending" $750,000 from his campaign fund. His wife, Sandi, a former Chicago alderman, gets a year on a related charge. The couple are planning a second honeymoon during their visit to the camp.
(Let us not forget the wonderful work of Jackson's attorneys who named their first choices for where the crook might spend his time behind bars. First choice: the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, Ala or the Federal Correctional Institution at Buter, North Carolina. Both made the top 10 in a 2009 Forbes list of the country's cushiest federal prisons.
The Montgomery facility is "excellent," according to defense attorney and expert on federal prisons Alan Ellis. Butner is "an attractive place; well-run, well-managed," he said. If Jackson is placed in a cell at Butner, he will be on the same compound as white-collar criminal Bernie Madoff, who is prisoner 61727-054 in the federal system. All the of the buildings on the compound are named after Atlantic Coast Conference schools, and the prison is about an hour drive from Jackson's alma mater, North Carolina A&T.
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The Jacksons, both Demo-rats, pleaded guilty in February after a years-long spending spree with campaign funds. Among the loot: a $43,000 Rolex watch, furs, vacations, two mounted elk heads and memorabilia ranging from a Michael Jackson fedora to an Eddie Van Halen guitar. Jackson agreed to return the watch, furs, and elk heads along with the Michael Jackson fedora, but requested ownership of the Van Halen guitar be transferred to "R.O.C.K. In The USA."
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No need to raise your fist, just open your hand. Surrender your dignity. Trade your worthless virtues and your lifelong vote for government healthcare, free birth control, free cell phones, and more. Personal responsibility, self-reliance, self-worth, and ethics, are of no value in Progressive America. FORWARD!
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Two very sick stories coming out of the Middle East today:Video: Syrian Al-Qaeda Fighters Execute Two Young Boys
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=df5_1376452699
(These are the same people who fight alongside Obama's FSA allies)
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Afghan "Honor" Killing:
Man Shoots Wife To Death For Going To Market Without His Permission
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(Sadly, this happens all the time in the Islamic world... even though CAIR has assured us honor killings have nothing to do with Islam)
Kabul, Aug 12 (EFE) – A man in the northern province of Kunduz shot his wife to death for going to the market without his permission, an Afghan police spokesman told Efe Monday.
The incident took place on Sunday in the Chahar Dara district, according to Sarwar Hussaini, who said that the murderer, identified only as Khodaidad, killed his 24-year-old wife in their home when she returned from going shopping.
Khodaidad fled after the killing and his whereabouts are currently unknown, the spokesman said.
Despite the social advances made with the fall of the Taliban regime 12 years ago, women's rights in Afghanistan continue to be systematically abused or ignored.
In May, the Afghan Parliament rejected approving a law against sexual violence over the opposition of the more conservative parties, which consider the existence of shelters for abuse victims, among other things, to be anti-Islamic.
Stupid Story of the Day
"A Real Clown Wouldn't Mock Obama" By Head Clown Judy Quest
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/15/opinion/quest-rodeo-clown/index.html?hpt=op_t1
Judy Quest, Clown: 1998
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It's Come To This: CNN (Clown News Network)
Digs Up Clown "President" To Denounce Rodeo Clown Who Wore
Obama Mask As A Horrible Racist
(Here's my suggestion to CNN & Judy Quest -
Dear CNN & Judy Clown:
Put on your red foam nose, shove a red bandana in your hip pocket and get into the rodeo arena with a two thousand pound bull that wants nothing more than to shove his horns into your big fat Butt. And while your trying to keep from getting gored by that 2,000 pound bull, or having it gore another cowboy, keep the audience entertained.
Let us know how it works out for you.
...Warph)
(Anyway that this Clown President can soak the Tax Payer, he'll do it... and try to do it without Congress's approval. Well, Barry, only congress can write tax laws... read the constitution, Clown,)
'We can do this without Congress': Obuma working to unilaterally impose tax on cell phones
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/15/obama-working-to-unilaterally-impose-cell-phonetax/#ixzz2cCWdRJYa
Obama's plan to expand high speed internet in schools in order to allow students to "use digital notebooks and teachers to customize lessons" came with a price tag of $12 per cell phone over the next three years with the boast "we can do this without Congress." The program, named ConnectED, has Obama so starry-eyed that he is prepared to unilaterally impose additional cell phone fees, bypassing Congress, whom he sees as recalcitrant. Opinion opposing the administration's bypassing of Congress has evidently reached the White House resulting in the issuance of several statements.
According to the Daily Caller: Deputy White House press secretary John Ernest denied that the move was an "end run" around Congress in a press briefing Wednesday, but added that Congress's "dysfunctional" state could justify an executive override.
"Unfortunately, we haven't seen a lot of action in Congress, so the president has advocated an administrative, unilateral action to get this done," Ernest said.
Obama himself has openly discussed his willingness to bypass Congress whenever he is particularly insistent on implementing a part of his domestic agenda. In a July interview with the New York Times, the president said he feels he may need to both create and execute the law.
"I will seize any opportunity I can find to work with Congress to strengthen the middle class, improve their prospects, improve their security," Obama said. HORSESH1T"But where Congress is unwilling to act, I will take whatever administrative steps that I can in order to do right by the American people."
Congress, the president continued, can publicly express its disagreement, but made no mention of "legislative steps" the legislative body could take.
"And if Congress thinks that what I've done is inappropriate or wrong in some fashion, they're free to make that case. But there's not an action that I take that you don't have some folks in Congress who say that I'm usurping my authority. Some of these folks think I usurp my authority by having the gall to win the presidency. And I don't think that's a secret," Obama said. "But ultimately, I'm not concerned about their opinions – very few of them, by the way, are lawyers, much less constitutional lawyers." [Either are you, Clown... you gave up your Machine manufactured Law Lic. in 2008... remember, Barry?]Talk about statements dripping with disdain, colored with contempt and announced with arrogance! Basically, there are several messages woven into these statements made regarding a program Obama is willing to "steal" money to implement without Congressional approval. Starting with the broad message and working down to the Obama-ese of the individual statements will prove what is being said about this man at every turn from those who see through his facade.
In the broad sense, Obama is essentially saying, "I'll do what I want, when I want, how I want regardless of Congress, the American people or the Constitution because, — well I can and no one will stop me." It is prudent to ask and answer the question; "When the government takes freedom, liberty or property away from its people, how often has it been given back to the people willingly?"
To come right out and say that would shock the liberal left and disillusion others that hang on every Obama word as though it is gospel. So, Obama-ese comes into play where what is said is just as important as what is unsaid. In Obama-ese broad sense, he is saying, "My plans to help all Americans cannot come to fruition because Congress is dysfunctional, refuses to work with me, and accuses me of usurping authority when they don't know the law, so it forces me to reluctantly use a power granted to me for the betterment of American and its people." Obama blames Congress for the dysfunction of his administration in order to con the people into accepting his unconstitutional law-making, tax imposing executive orders as a necessity to keep government working, silently implying it is supported by the Constitution, and all his actions are benevolent toward America.
When looking at the individual statements, Obama's high regard for himself is evident along with his narcissistic personality disorder. "I will seize any opportunity I can find to work with Congress ...
AGAIN, HORSESH!T but where Congress is unwilling to act, I will take whatever administrative steps that I can. ..." This statement by Obama intimates he will make the law when Congress disagrees with him or when Congress refuses to help implement any Obama plan, essentially violating the Constitution for his ego and arrogance.
If you wondered where the race card is hidden, here it is in this statement; "Some of these folks think I usurp my authority by having the gall to win the presidency." That's a fancy statement for "They won't work with me 'cause I'm black." If anyone and everyone wants to talk color, let's talk "green." Green is the color of money which is being fleeced from all Americans, either covertly or blatantly, for scandalous operations, inappropriate funding of foreign governments, and Obama "whim" projects. If we are going to play a race card, then let's play the "money" racist one. Yes, Obama is a money racist; he hates money and will use it to destroy America.
This is the statement of all the statements that put the arrogant narcissist on display. "But ultimately, I'm not concerned about their opinions – very few of them, by the way, are lawyers much less constitutional lawyers." The illegitimate president is telling the entire country the Constitution cannot be read and understood by the average American or Congress so he, as a constitutional lawyer, must convey its contents to you by telling you that he is allowed all these actions. Call it what you will – the fox in the hen house or the wolf guarding the sheep – but whatever you call it, you can be sure this charlatan will get around to telling America the Constitution provides for the president to be dictator when Congress becomes "dysfunctional."
Obama, in subtle fashion, issues a challenge of "catch me if you can" to Congress in his statement "And if Congress thinks that what I've done is inappropriate or wrong in some fashion, they're free to make that case." Well, if Congress won't make that case, there are plenty of citizens who are willing to accept that challenge.
The news of the National Black Republican Association (NBRA) filing detailed articles of impeachment against Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, in order to remove him from office could not come at a better time. Obama has become more emboldened in his dictatorial, tyrannical move to claim total power and "rule" as king over us all. The NBRA's move to file impeachment articles against this man must be supported, and America must come together to stand for our Constitutional republic and repel this tyranny.
The Duck-man" smiled and took it in stride". Laughed it off. If this happened to a black man--or woman (Oprah ) we would be hearing from the NAACP--Je$$ie Jack$on----POS $harpton---and the list goes on.
Trump Hotel Not Apologizing for Booting Duck Dynasty Star
Aug 16, 2013
By Todd Starnes
Trump International Hotel called it unfortunate, but is not quite ready to apologize after a staff member mistakenly thought Duck Dynasty star Jase Robertson was a homeless vagrant and kicked him out of the pricey Manhattan high-rise.
Robertson laughed it off and said he was the victim of "facial profiling," but the hotel staff was apparently still trying to figure out what went on earlier this week, when Robertson and other members of his family were in New York City to promote the fourth season of their hit A&E reality show.
"We are investigating this very unfortunate situation," said Suzie Mills, the general manager for Trump International Hotel & Tower, in a statement to Fox News. "Mr. Robertson is a valued guest of our hotel and the members of our staff know who he is."
The swanky hotel, just across from Central Park, brushed aside a question about whether they had apologized to the popular reality television star – noting the incident was still "under investigation."
Apparently one Trump International Hotel staff member was not accustomed to seeing a fully bearded guest wearing camouflage pants.
"I asked them where the bathroom was and he said, 'Right this way, sir,'" Robertson told the hosts of the television show 'Live with Kelly and Michael.' "He walked me outside, pointed down the road and said, 'Good luck.'"
The hosts appeared stunned by the story – but Robertson smiled and said he took it in stride.
"I think it was a facial profiling deal," he said.
Robertson's brother, Al, told Fox News the family is getting a good laugh out of the case of mistaken identity.
"He assumed Jase was some homeless guy," he said. "This is not our first rodeo — which is another reason I stay beardless."
Ironically, it's not the first time the men of the Louisiana family have been mistaken for homeless people.
"One time, we were in New York City and people put money in Willie's coffee cup," he said. "Dad was speaking at a church once and one of the members showed him where the homeless shelter was."
The Robertsons said they were "absolutely not offended" by the incident and said they love staying at Trump Hotel.
"We were laughing — wait until the Donald hears about this," he said.
And for what it's worth, they hope the staff member doesn't get in trouble.
"He was just as nice as he could be — escorting Jase to the park," Al said. "And honestly, if I was in his shoes — I'd have done the same thing."
Oooops... CDC Study On Guns, Commissioned By Obuma, Puts Paid To Most Gun Control Arguments
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(Wow.. how has this managed not to get greater attention? This study was completed in June 2013, yet was virtually ignored by the MSM Media... Perhaps because it didn't fit their screwball talking points?)
In short:
1. most gun deaths are suicides, not criminal violence.
2. there were anywhere between 500,000 to 3 million defensive uses of guns, per year.
3. both accidental deaths and mass shootings have declined, both accounting for very small fraction of gun related deaths.
4. Most criminals gain their guns from family, friends or illegal means, and so outside the "controls" envisioned by the gun control gang.
5. High gun related homicides are in Illinois, California, New Jersey, Washington D.C. skew the figures; these are areas where there are some of most restrictive gun laws.Thus, the study tends to show that most of the gun control talk, is just that, talk, without much reality in actually addressing gun crime, and tends to support most of the things that gun rights advocates have repeatedly said.Via New American:
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/15941-cdc-study-ordered-by-obama-contradicts-white-house-anti-gun-narrative
In January, following the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, President Obama issued a "Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence," along with 22 other "initiatives." That study, subcontracted out to the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, was completed in June and contained some surprises for the president.
Obama had announced at the beginning of the year his push for three major gun control initiatives — universal background checks, a ban on "assault weapons," and a ban on "high-capacity" magazines — to prevent future mass shootings, no doubt hoping that the CDC study would oblige him by providing evidence that additional gun control measures were justified to reduce gun violence. On the contrary, that study refuted nearly all the standard anti-gun narrative and instead supported many of the positions taken by gun ownership supporters.
Rep. Trey Gowdy: Lawmakers Not Told Of 1000s Of NSA Privacy Violations,
"I'm Worried About The Republic"
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(He gets the seriousness of where we are at. If only we could clone Gowdy and Ted Cruz, and elect them in every district)
Via The Hill:Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) said late Friday that he doubts that members of Congress were briefed on the on the several thousands of privacy violations carried out by the National Security Agency (NSA) that were revealed earlier this week.
An internal NSA audit and other documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the agency had broken its own privacy rules and violated privacy rights of citizens thousands of times since 2008, according to The Washington Post.
"I wonder how many of my colleagues in Congress were briefed that there were thousands of errors made with respect to this program, because I have a sneaking suspicion the number is zero," said Gowdy on Fox News.
"That's how many of my colleagues were told ahead of time before we had to learn from a leaker to a newspaper that there were thousands of violations."
Many members of Congress, including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who is charged with overseeing the NSA, have said they were not made aware of the audit until recently.
And Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has called for a hearing on the matter when Congress returns next month.
Gowdy said he's been hearing a great roar of dissatisfaction and distrust from voters in his South Carolina district, and that Congress needs to take serious steps to fix its oversight capabilities of highly secretive intelligence operations, like those carried out by the NSA.
"If we don't get that figured out, I'm not worried about winning elections, I'm worried about the republic," said Gowdy. "People who are governed have consented to be governed [and] have to have trust in the people we have put in positions of responsibility."
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/317511-gowdy-doubts-lawmakers-were-briefed-on-nsa-privacy-breaches
Woman Holds Two Men Hostage Till One Will Have Sex With Her
(There are no words...)
Via News4Jax:
http://www.news4jax.com/news/police-woman-holds-men-hostage-for-sex/-/475880/21508486/-/jxd6qf/-/index.html
A Wisconsin woman is in jail after being accused of holding two men against their will and forcing one of them to have sex with her.
Terry L. Boyd, 52, was arrested on Monday and charged with false imprisonment, obstructing an officer, disorderly conduct and bail jumping for two separate incidents where she imprisoned men, one of whom was her roommate.
The first incident happened around 3:49 a.m. Monday when officers responded to a call from neighbors who heard a loud argument and a man screaming for help.
Officers arrived to see Boyd blocking the entrance. One of the men in the incident threw a set of keys to the cops who then forced their way into the house, according to the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune.
The men told the officers that the suspect refused to let them leave until one of them had sex with her. The male victims were rescued but told police they did not want to press charges, according to the police report.
As Egypt Burns Obuma Cycles Into Action
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(Okay... you got me: the President isn't doing anything about Egypt... other than asking the State Department to support the Muslim Brotherhood. Here's the bicycle Clown and dog Mooch taking quick action after word that hundreds have been slaughtered in Egypt:
Oh... And besides those decisive actions, the President met with writer/actor Larry David. On the golf course. For the 140th time)
COLOR MRI SCANS: Your Brain Before and After a 20-Minute Walk
Interesting verification of the synergy between mental and physical health.
This great graphic is really an MRI of the brain. It was posted by Maria Popova on her always stimulating blog, Explore. The MRI was provided by Dr. Chuck Hillman from the University of Illinois...(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v7TEyDdj-Hw/Ug_Qdp8DzeI/AAAAAAABOc8/tg669L5BH0U/s1600/130817-mri-brain-exercise.jpg)
...It shows that after a 20-minute walk there is increased brain activity and the particular type of activity is generally associated with happiness.
It is a useful reminder of the interconnectedness of the mind and body (with apologies to the usual dualism presented). It is also a good reminder that by exercising our bodies, we also reinvigorate of brains.
(Interestingly, Biff Spackle was able to secure an MRI scan of a typical liberal progressive's brain:)(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uwaq5QNECrA/Ug_TuxkNUhI/AAAAAAABOdI/MpptFBQWxjw/s1600/130817-progressive-brain.jpg)
Pictures of the Day
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The Gun Is Civilization
Written March 23, 2007
by Marko KloosHuman beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument or forcing me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception.
Reason or force, that's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing witha19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a car load of drunken guys with baseball bats.
The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a[armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed.
People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser.
People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.
The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I can not be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation... and that's why
carrying a gun is a civilized act.
(Wow... Alan Keyes Rips Obamanation. No punches pulled here!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_bqtuk0DJ8
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Insight: After Disaster... the Deadliest Part of Japan's Nuclear Clean-Up
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Fukushima, Japan: 3 Meltdowns and Counting.... Hold your breath for this one as things are going from very very bad to much worse. (http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/fukushima-no-1-meltdown-confirmed-japan1.jpg)
It's a helluva hot mess... literally... with cancer up 40% in Japan since the disaster. That number is rising steadily and will continue for decades to come and it will not be confined to Japan.
The industry is treading in areas in which it has little to no knowledge and is about to take on the riskiest procedure ever , the removal of 400 tons of nuclear material without the aid of computers. It holds the possibility of a chain reaction that would be terrible.
The situation in Fukushima, ignored by the mainstream media for the most part is pretty much uncontainable and is the worst nuclear disaster in history, far surpassing Chernobyl.
Fukushima features 3 meltdowns. How many know that?
The chances of the rods breaking during the procedure are high. The water being contained at the site is building up and the reactors themselves are becoming unstable. This is the most radioactive water in history. There has never been anything like it.
Make no mistake, this will effect everyone on earth and just because mainstream media and bloggers ignore it doesn't make it go away.
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From Reuters:http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/14/us-japan-fukushima-insight-idUSBRE97D00M20130814
"Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse, should another large earthquake hit the area.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is already in a losing battle to stop radioactive water overflowing from another part of the facility, and experts question whether it will be able to pull off the removal of all the assemblies successfully.
"They are going to have difficulty in removing a significant number of the rods," said Arnie Gundersen, a veteran U.S. nuclear engineer and director of Fairewinds Energy Education, who used to build fuel assemblies.
The operation, beginning this November at the plant's Reactor No. 4, is fraught with danger, including the possibility of a large release of radiation if a fuel assembly breaks, gets stuck or gets too close to an adjacent bundle, said Gundersen and other nuclear experts.
That could lead to a worse disaster than the March 2011 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant, the world's most serious since Chernobyl in 1986.
No one knows how bad it can get, but independent consultants Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt said recently in their World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013: "Full release from the Unit-4 spent fuel pool, without any containment or control, could cause by far the most serious radiological disaster to date."More Info:
http://www.livescience.com/38844-fukushima-radioactive-water-leaks.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-uncontainable/5345754
Via CNS Newshttp://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/john-kerry-little-thing-called-internet-makes-it-much-harder-govern#
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"Well, folks, ever since the end of the Cold War, forces have been unleashed that were tamped down for centuries by dictators, and that was complicated further by this little thing called the internet and the ability of people everywhere to communicate instantaneously and to have more information coming at them in one day than most people can process in months or a year.
It makes it much harder to govern, makes it much harder to organize people, much harder to find the common interest," said Kerry, "and that is complicated by a rise of sectarianism and religious extremism that is prepared to employ violent means to impose on other people a way of thinking and a way of living that is completely contrary to everything the United States of America has ever stood for. So we need to keep in mind what our goals are and how complicated this world is that we're operating in."
..."Lurch" Kerry
Sec. of StateCome on, Lurch... I blame Al Gore who invented the internet in the first place... (just kidding, Venton Cerf).
Forces unleashed... like ravening wolves, Lurch? 'Tamp down' those forces!
That rotten internet makes propaganda so much more difficult. How much better when people are kept isolated and incommunicado, ignorant and unaware.
This may be a new project for NYC Mayor Bloomberg too.
The internet giving people more than they can handle in a month or year? Isn't that overload? Can that be good for the mind? It should be banned like soda ,electronic cigarettes and salt.
Times are tough, Lurch... but keep your chin up. Perhaps you can run for president and solve the woes of internet, politics and religion by bringing back the heavy handed control our founding fathers tried to... 'Tamp Down.'
...Warph
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Meanwhile Back at Fukushima.... Twice as much radioactive ground water is flowing into the ocean from Fukushima where the radioactive leaks are out of control as per official statements from Shinji Kinjo, an official at the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
*Tepco began paving over the area to keep out rainwater but it seems it has only accelerated the grave situation by causing the ground water to swell.
*Radioactive materials are entering the ocean at an ever growing rate, twice as much as officials once believed.
*The situation is considered grave. Strontium has been found to be leaking into the ocean.
*The strontium level is 100 times that of cesium.Via Nat Geo:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2013/08/130807-fukushima-radioactive-water-leak/
"The makeup of the radioactive material being leaked by the plant has changed. [Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who has analyzed thousands of samples of fish from the area] said the initial leak had a high concentration of cesium isotopes, but the water flowing from the plant into the ocean now is likely to be proportionally much higher in strontium-90, another radioactive substance that is absorbed differently by the human body and has different risks. The tanks (on the plant site) have 100 times more strontium than cesium, Buesseler said. He believes that the cesium is retained in the soil under the plant, while strontium and tritium, another radioactive substance, are continuing to escape.
[...]
The higher concentration of strontium-90 that is now in the outflow poses a trickier problem, because it is a bone-seeking isotope. "Cesium is like salt—it goes in and out of your body quickly," he explains. "Strontium gets into your bones." While he's still not too concerned that fish caught off the U.S. coast will be affected, "strontium changes the equation for Japanese fisheries, as to when their fish will be safe to eat."Pictures: The Nuclear Cleanup Struggle at Fukushima
Surveying a Reactor's Ruin
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/11/pictures/111111-nuclear-cleanup-struggle-at-fukushima/
*** A Prophecy Against Egypt ***
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The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rides upon a swift cloud, and comes to
Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt within it.
And I will spur Egypt against Egypt; and they shall fight every one against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it; and I will make void the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the whisperers, and to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits. And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be drained dry....The Lord has mingled within her a spirit of confusion,and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
And there will be nothing for Egypt that the head or tail, palm branch or reed, may do." (Isaiah 19:1)
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
...Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV
What you probably don't know about Egypt: Importance Of Egypt To U.S. Military Preparedness
(In Obamaland, everything is fantasy and a political PR game, but to others, the shape and the effectiveness of the U.S. military to respond actually matters)
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is heavily dependent on Egypt to move personnel and equipment to Afghanistan and around volatile parts of the Middle East, complicating U.S. efforts to place pressure on the Egyptian military in the wake of its violent crackdown on protesters.
"Egypt has been a cornerstone for the U.S. military presence in the Middle East," said James Phillips, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
During the past year, more than 2,000 U.S. military aircraft flew through Egyptian airspace, supporting missions in Afghanistan and throughout the Middle East, according to U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the region.
Warph I know you will appreciate this one, or at least I hope so.
Egyptian Democratic Coalition Responds to Obama
Friday, 16 Aug 2013 05:01 PM
The National Salvation Front, a coalition of pro-democratic and secular parties in Egypt, set out its objections to remarks made by President Barack Obama Thursday on the escalating violence in Egypt.
Led by Ahmed Said of the Free Egyptians Party, the group issued the following letter:
"Like most Egyptians, we listened with attention to your statement on Egypt's latest developments. As representatives of the non-Islamic political forces in Egypt, we believe in the same fundamental values on which the U.S. was founded. Be we also have 7,000 years of civilization and history that give us a special identity that we are fighting to keep since the Muslim Brotherhood came to power.
"Let us first inform you about who the Muslim brothers are: They're an unlawful organization operating outside the realm of Egyptian law, receiving foreign funding and laundering money in a flagrant breech of international law. Their aim is to rule the world through a so-called Islamic Caliphate as they believe in their absolute supremacy.
"They pretend they are God's emissaries and they will not rest until they have forced the whole world into submission. For them, Egypt is the launching pad to achieve their fascist dream. Their international reach spans the globe and they command the hearts and minds of many unsuspecting politicians. They have used deceit, soft speeches, international funds and whenever required, violence, to impose their will.
"The rule of (deposed President Mohammed) Morsi showed how in less than a year they abused the people, reneged on their promises and overturned the rule of law by issuing constitutional diktats monopolizing the judiciary as well as the legislative arms of the state. This was enough to impeach any president in a democratic nation. Unfortunately, Egyptians couldn't refer to their Supreme Sourt as it was besieged by thugs for over 60 days back in November of 2012.
"So finally, Egyptians took to the streets and this century's second Egyptian 'peaceful unarmed' revolution took place in June 2013 to recall the president and reject the rule of the Brotherhood. Egyptians deposed their president not because he was not inclusive, as you so kindly represented, but because he broke his constitutional oath and became another dictator reminiscent of the previous dictator this same great people of Egypt removed in January 2011. This was the will of the people that the West is now trying to bend pretending they are doing so in the name of democracy with no intention of interfering in Egyptian affairs!
"Now, I would like to address a few points in your address:
"Despite the perception, well-intentioned or ill-intentioned, history will tell of a Western media consistently portraying only one side — the Islamist's. We have to let you know some facts and some truth.
"Since July 3, 2013, the day deposed President Morsi was ousted by popular demand of millions of Egyptians, the Western media and prominent emissaries from the U.S. and Europe have consistently described the sit-ins that paralyzed a large part of Cairo as 'peaceful demonstrations.' They chose to ignore what was happening across Egypt from torching churches and killing randomly and destroying private and public properties.
"Mr. President, peaceful demonstrators do not have the capacity to kill more than 50 police personnel in just a few hours.
"Peaceful demonstrators do not attack a police station with RPG and kill the police chief and his deputies, strip them of their clothes and drag their naked bodies down the street.
"Peaceful demonstrators do not threaten Christians with genocide as many of the Muslim Brotherhood declared in hate speeches from the sit-in stage. Peaceful demonstrators do not raise the black flags of al-Qaida while marching with pictures of bin Laden and al Zawahri on their chests.
"While the Western media was focusing yesterday on the clearing of the sit-ins, more than 45 attacks were made on Christian installations across Egypt, resulting in the torching of 19 churches and cathedrals, some built in the 6th Century.
"The list goes on, but your intelligence reports will enlighten you, we are sure. The attached video here will also give you an idea.
"Mr. President, it is important that you see reality, especially that the great American people have themselves suffered from the darkness of Islamists and unfortunately thousands of great Americans died from their terror.
"The Muslim Brotherhood and their jihadist allies have never known and will never know peace. It might be useful to remind you that these same people had a three-week sit-in that started on the next dawn after election day and lasted almost two weeks to declare that they will burn Egypt if their candidate is not declared the winner.
"Mr. President, we are on the side of freedom, we are on the side of human rights. We are on the side of justice for all. We also hurt to see mothers mourn their children and children mourn their parents. Have you seen, Mr. President, the video clip of the Muslim Brotherhood supporter throwing 14-year-old children off the roof of a six-floor building? One mother died of sorrow when she saw the video clip of her son thrown off the building. She did not have time to mourn.
"Today Mr. President, you chose to consider one side of the picture and to punish the Egyptians by cancelling Operation Bright Star. Well Mr. President, Operation Bright Star means nothing to most Egyptians, but it is the misunderstanding and misleading of the American people that we care most about. Egyptians have always stood by the American people when attacked by terrorists because we are freedom lovers and individual liberty champions like the American people. The only difference is that we have always been deprived of these great principles and rights.
"Is it too much for Egyptians today to have the support of the American people during our own war on terror? How can the same group be named terrorists in the U.S.A. and peaceful demonstrators in Egypt?
"How can these be the ones the U.S.A. will never negotiate with while the U.S. government demands that Egyptians not only negotiate with them but also partner with them in the building of modern Egypt?
"Mr. President, the interest of peace in the region is served best by truly peace-loving people and democratic values.
"Finally, Mr. President, we hope that this letter will get your attention for, after all, we are now representing the majority. Our present government represents us, the secular, civil and liberal political forces. We hope that you will find it of value to probe more and investigate more and ask more. When you do, we are ready to come to you in a small delegation and discuss and explain more. We are sure that you will realize that, after all, Egyptians are indeed a great people deserving a great future."
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Ahmed-Said-Obama-Egypt/2013/08/16/id/520880?s=al&promo_code=14904-1
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Warph I know you will appreciate this one, or at least I hope so.
I do, I do...
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Bad news for our 'Muslim' president
Exclusive: Larry Klayman praises
Egyptian military for crackdown on Islamists
Finally, there is good news in the Middle East. The Egyptian military, having removed the Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi after he and his terrorist group hijacked the democratic process, is now in the act of systematically destroying this Islamic cancer on the Arab state's secular body politic. But the good news for Egypt and by extension Israel, its Jewish neighbor, is bad news for Barack Hussein Obama, our so-called "Muslim president."
In a statement issued yesterday from the stronghold of the left, Martha's Vineyard, where the "mullah in chief" is vacationing on our dime, Obama bellowed, "The United States strongly condemns the steps taken by the Egyptian interim government and security forces."
In so doing, Obama also canceled yearly and crucial national security joint defense exercises with the Egyptian military. This is an outrage; for once strong action is taken to snuff out the Muslim Brotherhood, the granddaddy of all Islamic terrorist groups and the parent that houses al-Qaida, and our president condemns it, leaving no doubt where his loyalties lie – not that we needed any further proof after five years of his bowing down to Saudi kings, endorsing the Ground Zero Mosque, disrespecting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, doing all he can to harm Israel and a host of other anti-Semitic and anti-Christian actions by him and his administration. But this condemnation is the pinnacle of his pro-Muslim efforts to aid the Islamic revolution at the expense of Jews and Christians and our national security interests in the Middle East and worldwide.
Obama's decidedly pro-Islamic policies are regrettably not limited to the fate of Egypt or Israel, for that matter. They have also crept into the way our nation has been and is fighting wars in the Middle East, most notably in Afghanistan. There, the overriding modus operandi of our military operations is not to win the war by killing as many Muslim jihadists as is necessary to clean out this Islamic terrorist rat hole run by the Taliban, but to "win the hearts and minds" of the enemy. Indeed, the military's rules of engagement for our servicemen so state, with even the inexplicably revered Gen. David Petraeus having written this to all the Armed Forces.
These rules of engagement, which are consistent with Obama's policies toward the Muslim world, are why our fighting men and women are dying and being maimed at alarmingly increasing per capita rates in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
By way of stark example, these rules of engagement, and the paranoiac deference paid to Muslims in battle, contributed greatly to the death of 30 U.S. servicemen, including 22 Navy SEALs and other special ops forces in the shoot down by the Taliban of a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan shortly after Osama bin Laden was killed by SEAL Team VI. Prevented from engaging in pre-assault fire in particular, the 22 special ops who died on Aug. 6, 2011, were sitting ducks for the Taliban, who wanted badly to have a SEAL Team VI Judeo-Christian trophy in retaliation for the killing of their leader, Osama bin Laden. And, sure enough, they got it – likely handed to them on a silver platter by our own "leader," whose administration not only revealed that SEAL Team VI had been the special ops who took out bin Laden to boost Obama's re-election prospects in the fall of 2012, but also failed to take preventive steps to safeguard these heroes from terrorist retaliation after this target was placed on their backs. This matter is currently under a congressional inquiry by the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, as well as my efforts on behalf of SEALs and other special ops surviving family members to obtain all of the facts leading up to and which caused this tragedy.
But the sad moral to this and other stories of their kind is that Obama and his pro-Muslim administration's coddling of Islamic interests is not only an affront to the Egyptian people and Israel, whose security forces have been working hand in hand with the Egyptian military after the ouster of Morsi, but to our own fighting men and women.
The hard reality is that our nation, not just Egypt pre-Morsi, has been hijacked by Islam and our president is the leader of this Muslim revolution. It is no wonder Muslims have just in the last few days felt emboldened to declare that they will wage a "Million Man Muslim March" in Washington, D.C., this Sept. 11. They have been given a virtual green light to do so by the mullah in chief. And, even if he does not show his devilish face at this highly provocative demonstration of the growing Islamic influence in the United States and abroad, Obama will be there with his fellow Muslims in spirit.
Perhaps Obama fears what the Egyptian military has done to Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood because he knows that the American people and its military, who have been sacrificed to "win the hearts and minds" of the enemy, may one day rise up and oust him and his comrades. One can only pray – not to Allah, but to our Lord and Savior – that justice will be done and that We the People will soon be liberated from this modern-day pharaoh. While Obama's political opposition is no Moses, we hold our own future in our hands and must act soon before all is lost.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/bad-news-for-our-muslim-president/#0mHsdUQmkfkkiAYO.99
(Our government is a dictatorship. Remember Germany under Hitler people were forced to hide and flee the country.? Well some internet companies are being forced to close and flee this country and hide overseas. What else it if not wrong? The Patriot Act being used against Americans and American Business')
Email encryption services suddenly close over U.S. snooping
By Shaun Waterman
The Washington Times
Sunday, August 18, 2013
In amassing data about every American's communications, U.S. intelligence agencies are not only making many uneasy about their privacy, but also are endangering the nation's leadership in innovation and security in communications technology.
Analysts, technology executives and former officials spoke about the recent decisions by two U.S.-based providers of encrypted email to shutter their services in response to actual or anticipated legal demands to surrender customer data.
"Other companies offering these services are starting to move offshore outside the reach of whatever is going on" in the United States, said Howard A. Schmidt, former White House cyberczar.
Indeed, operating a secure email service in the United States no longer may be an option, said law professor Fred H. Cate, director of Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research.
"If you mean by 'secure' a system to which the U.S. government cannot get access, it is beginning to look as if that might not be possible," said Mr. Cate, who specializes in privacy, security and other information law issues.
Lavabit, the free encrypted email service used by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, closed suddenly this month. Its founder said in a note on the company website that he took the drastic action to avoid being "complicit in crimes against the American people."
In his note, Ladar Levison said the U.S. government had gagged him from explaining what had happened and why he felt compelled to close his Texas-based business. "I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot," he wrote.
Hours after Lavabit's announcement, a Maryland-based company that offers encrypted communication services — SilentCircle — announced that it, too, was shuttering its email service and destroying all of its customers' email archives.
SilentCircle CEO Mike Janke said the move was to pre-empt legal demands from Washington that the company turn over the "keys" to its customers' encrypted emails and archived data stored on company servers.
"We saw the writing on the wall," Mr. Janke said.
Encryption scrambles digital data by manipulating it according to a complex formula or algorithm, called a key. With the key, the data can be unscrambled. Without it, the information remains a mass of meaningless numbers.
The Patriot Act
Mr. Janke said SilentCircle needed to destroy its archives without notice because the company's email servers had become "a treasure box" of data about its customers, which include several heads of state, some U.S. and allied special operations forces units, and 16 of the world's largest companies.
"If we had given notice, it would have been like saying: 'You've got 12 hours to serve us [a subpoena].' I bet we would have got a national security letter within 30 minutes," he said.
National security letters are administrative subpoenas issued by the FBI without any judicial review. They require companies to produce a broad range of business records "relevant" to a terrorism or counterintelligence investigation.
There is more.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/18/email-encryption-services-suddenly-close-over-us-s/#ixzz2cQrpR0Ng
Tweets From Egypt
(One might say that this man's blood is on Obuma's hands)
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Lisa Graas @CatholicLisa
Morsi supporters killed a taxi driver who had a Christian cross on his dashboard, then torched his taxi.
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Ahmad Talaat @Ahmadtal3t
@CatholicLisa yes this happened in my city Alexandria and here's a photo I took this morning of his dead body. Also, over 60 christian churches in #Egypt were burnt down in less than a week.
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*** Bye, Bye Uncle Sam ***
More U.S. citizens are giving up their American passports as the government cracks down on tax evaders. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks to lawyer Eugene Chow about the main reason why many don't want to be American anymore.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323455104579014772169287210.html?mod=trending_now_5(Maybe I'm wrong but people in Canada and Europe pay alot more in Taxes than we do here in the States...
no, I'm not wrong)
Lie Of The Day
"Obuma: There er... aaa.. is no Spying on Americans"
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Via The Hill:http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/317691-white-house-obama-stands-by-not-spying-on-americans-comment
The White House said Monday that President Obama stood by his remark to comedian Jay Leno that "there is no spying on Americans," despite a report in The Washington Post last week revealing that the National Security Agency violated its own privacy rules on thousands of occasions.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the story, based on an internal audit obtained by former Defense contractor Edward Snowden, in fact revealed "there is in place at the NSA a very strict oversight regime."
He also said the president was "not opposed to additional measures that members of Congress think would be helpful in inspiring greater public confidence in these programs."
The Post's story revealed that, on thousands of occasions since Congress granted the NSA broad new surveillance powers, employees at the agency violated federal statute and executive orders to conduct unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets who had traveled to the United States.(http://politics.mediapundit.net/images/obama-email-spying-meme.jpg)
The Crooked Obuma State Department:
Banning The Muslim Brotherhood Would Be A Bad Idea
(Egypt's Christians beg to differ, you a**holes!
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"Morsi MB Thugs beating & killing young Christian Boys"
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The [crooked Obuma] U.S. State Department voiced deep concern on Monday about the deaths of Muslim Brotherhood prisoners while in custody in Egypt and made clear that it does not believe that the Islamist group should be banned.
"We are also deeply troubled by the suspicious deaths of Muslim Brotherhood prisoners in a purported prison escape attempt near Cairo," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, referring to some 38 Muslim Brotherhood supporters who died in disputed circumstances at a prison on Sunday.
Also read: Hillary Tied To New Muslim Brotherhood President -how Crooked Can This Get?
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2012/06/hillary-tied-to-new-muslim-brotherhood-president-how-crooked-can-this-get-2307298.html
Dem Sen. Mary Landrieu Doubles Down On Her Support For
Obamacare: "I'd Vote Again For It Tomorrow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBZ3BI80Afk
(Hmmmm... like father, like daughter. Expect her GOP challenger to bludgeon her repeatedly with this quote)
Via Weekly Standard:Landrieu: "No more free riders. Everybody has to share responsibility so we can keep a healthy work force and keep it strong. And I can give you more information about it. If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow. There are a lot of good things about this bill."
Illiterate President: Children Feeling "Affects" of Sequester Cuts...
(Smartest President... Evah! I know OFA runs Obuma's Twitter account, but if it's going out in his muslim name he has to take responsibility for it)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/head-start-cuts-services_n_3779210.html
As students shop for back to school clothes and supplies, worrying about making friends may no longer be their biggest concern. Lady Patriot, Laurie Sterling shows how, instead of "Welcome Back to School" signs, students are being greeted with Bulletin Boards on, "The Five Pillars of Islam!" Read more at: http://www.lady-patriots.com/welcome-back-to-the-school-and-the-five-pillars-of-islam/
It happened in Wichita, Kansas as written in the article.
Quote from: ROSS on August 19, 2013, 05:42:28 PM
As students shop for back to school clothes and supplies, worrying about making friends may no longer be their biggest concern. Lady Patriot, Laurie Sterling shows how, instead of "Welcome Back to School" signs, students are being greeted with Bulletin Boards on, "The Five Pillars of Islam!" Read more at: http://www.lady-patriots.com/welcome-back-to-the-school-and-the-five-pillars-of-islam/
It happened in Wichita, Kansas as written in the article.
What the heck is it about Wichita? The politics used to be geneally conservative with a dash of Kansas radicalism... now it seems to be the oppposite?
LIBERALS
Worse Than You Think.... Obuma Has Missed
56% of All Obumacare Deadlines
Dr. Waldman: "This creature of yours should be kept under guard. Mark my words. He will prove dangerous."
Dr. Henry Frankenstein: Dangerous! Poor old Waldman. Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous?....
Dr. Waldman: You're young, my friend. Your success has intoxicated you. Wake up and look facts in the face! Here we have a fiend whose brain...
Dr. Henry Frankenstein: "The brain must be given time to develop. It's a perfectly good brain, doctor. You ought to know. It came from your own laboratory."
Dr. Waldman (shocked): "You used the brain in my laboratory! But you've mistakenly implanted a criminal brain in this creature."
Dr. Henry Frankenstein:
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...."Frankenstein" (1931)A .440 life-time batting average would make one a hall-of-fame player if one was playing major league baseball. But Obamacare "aint' baseball and meeting only 44% of your own deadlines is pretty poor when one considers this is the Obama's signature legislation.(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u8ztWWZrNgg/UhIJgYx-WTI/AAAAAAAARw0/4wW3DiKzDKM/s640/ACA-deadline-compliance.png)
In a study never released to the public--according and published by Avik Roy in Forbes, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) the Obama Administration had only completed 32 of 82 deadlines for implementing this intrusion into America's healthcare. Nine of those missed deadlines reported by the CRS were due to lack of congressional funding, so to be fair the President's record is 32 out of 73 or 44%. Twenty-three percent were completed late, and another third weren't completed by the time this report was released on June 5th.(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RYdz2mHuDYM/UhIM185eGMI/AAAAAAAARxI/x8Z5JeFVvRU/s640/CRS-2013-06-05-cover.png)
Avik Roy:As of May 31, 2013, when the CRS analysis was completed, the White House had yet to meet 9 of 12 deadlines from the first year after the Affordable Care Act was enacted. It failed to meet 22 of 53 deadlines in the second year; another 8 became moot after Congress did not appropriate funds to complete the assigned tasks. In year three, the administration missed 10 out of 17 deadlines. That's a total of 41 out of 82 deadlines missed.
In analyzing the CRS report, I erred on the side of generosity. If the administration missed a particular statutory deadline by a week or less, I counted it in their favor as a "met" deadline. In any case where there was ambiguity in the CRS report, I assumed that the administration had met the deadline. So these 50-56 percent missed deadline figures should be seen as slightly conservative.
Most of the deadlines are for bureaucratic busywork
Most of these deadlines aren't for mission-critical features of the law, and the document reads like a kind of caricature of bureaucratic busywork. For example, Section 10407(d) mandates that by March 23, 2012, the Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to "submit to Congress a report on the appropriate level of diabetes medical education." To date, the report has not been located. Also on that date, the Secretary is required to "implement a 5-year national public education campaign on oral health care prevention and education." She missed that one too.[Dirty] Harry Reid will tell you that the reasons for the missed deadlines is the GOP opposition to the bill, but that would only account for the nine deadlines missed due to lack of funding.
The truth is, Obamacare is a monster, one so big that even its creators can't control it.
Even an administration with competent management skills would find it hard to implement this government takeover of our heath system. For the Obama Administration (and for the people) Obamacare is a disaster.
In the end the only way to control this monster is to "kill it." Despite what some pundits think, Obamacare will not kill itself, it will not collapse under its own weight. A bureaucracy is being built to support it and as long as the Democrats own the Senate and the White House, the "monster" of Obamacare will continue to be fed, despite the errors and delays in implementation. (http://tigerlilytoph.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/lol-obama.jpg?w=490)
Warrantless Vaginal Searches –
Are We Living in a Post Constitutional America?
by Kristin Tate - August 9, 2013http://benswann.com/warrantless-vaginal-searches-conducted-by-texas-police/
http://bluecollarmuse.com/2013/08/10/warrantless-vaginal-searchesare-we-living-in-a-post-constitutional-america/comment-page-1/#comment-16716
I'm not purposely trying to be dramatic. Almost daily I find examples of governmental abuse that would seem to indicate we are. Key to this is to remember that our Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights, lists the unalienable rights possessed by every man and bars the government from vi0lating them.
Today's examples are out of Texas where dashboard cams on police cruisers have recorded law enforcement officers searching the vaginal areas of women stopped for minor traffic offenses without a warrant or even a modicum of probable cause. The officers make a pretense of modesty and protection of rights by having a female officer do the search. As if that makes everything alright.BRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas -- Two women subjected to body cavity searches on the side of Highway 288 have filed a Federal lawsuit against the officers involved.It seems to me that the noose is drawing ever tighter and will continue to do so until we are choked into submission if we do not push back and demand our liberties not be so nakedly infringed (pun intended).
In Tennessee, and elsewhere, we have incredibly bad law which routinely violates the 4th Amendment rights of people to be secure in their persons, papers and possessions. We have laws which rewrite the definitions of words to make people criminals even though they are behaving responsibly. These sorts of things have to stop.
In Tennessee:•Your blood can be forcibly taken from you to "prove" you are legally drunk just because an officer thinks you might be and wants the proof;
•You can be stopped and questioned and your vehicle searched in a DUI roadblock simply because you are driving on a particular stretch of road at the wrong time. Don't even think of trying to point out to the cops that they really do need more than "I'm passing by here" as probable cause;
•If you are being responsible and sleeping off a drunk in your car you can be arrested for DUI simply because you have your keys on you and might drive;
•You can be arrested for POSSESSION of a weapon while intoxicated if a weapon is simply in proximity to you. This is true if you are drunk in your car and the weapon is in your glove box. This is also true if you are drunk at home, with your weapons locked in a gun safe but you have access to the keys or combination. Proximity = Possession. No word on how it is unarmed citizens stopped for DUI escape this one when the armed officer approaches them ... ;
•The Granddaddy of them all, while not state or local law, is TSA. These federal employees are not even law enforcement and yet they can sexually assault you with impunity for your crime of wanting to complete a commercial transaction and take the plane flight you paid for.
The women involved in one of these searches sued the cops and the department settled with them. You can find a mash-up of the story with video here:Frankly, there needs to be more push back by citizens to outrageous, illegal and unconstitutional behavior on the part of government and its agents. I understand that the purpose of government is to secure our rights. However, if we do not object when government is the very one violating our rights, we will wake up in a not too distant tomorrow to find we have no rights left.
Eternal vigilance, indeed, is what is needed to prevent the reality of a post-constitutional America.
There... I fixed it for you Some Demo-rat on Twitter published this hilarious pile of crap:(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-61gWnB4j2FU/UhK5nVFmzGI/AAAAAAABOgw/_aEwZ0GK4bc/s1600/130819-democrat-ideas.jpg)
And I promptly repaired it for him, her... whatever:(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D6NLrgvozUQ/UhK5pkTTfMI/AAAAAAABOg4/PrHKRNo7kIw/s1600/130819-real-democrat-ideas2.jpg)
Like all of the other collectivist schmucks, they can't point to their blueprint. They have no blueprint, no final design they can show us. They simply seek to have a few masterminds in some authoritarian, centralized government issue edicts. They lust to control people, to tell them what kind of cars they can drive, what kind of health care they can buy, what kind of light bulbs they can have in their homes, how much energy they can consume, and virtually every other aspect of their lives.
They don't believe in individual liberty. They don't believe in private property rights. They don't believe in free markets.
And, most of all, they don't believe in the Constitution.
They despise the nation's highest law... the foundation of the greatest country ever seen on the face of the Earth. They seek to eradicate the Constitution and replace it with a few master-planners who must use coercion to control every action of the citizen.
The very notion of God-given rights is anathema to kooks like this. The government grants rights, don't ya know? Like a "right" to health care, never mind if all of the doctors quit. They'll force doctors to treat you!
These Statists have no model they can point to that has ever succeeded in all of human history. For there is no such model. Their path is the road to misery and despotism.
And we will resist them!
"Don't go fishing in the Pacific... We think something happened in the ocean"
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The statistics the Japanese government is handing out don't add up according to Jota Kanda,professor at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology.
" According to my research there are now 3 gigabecquerels [3 billion becquerels] of cesium-137 flowing into the port at Fukushima Daiichi every day. But for the 300 tons of groundwater to contain this much cesium-137, one liter of groundwater has to contain 10,000 becquerels of the radioactive isotope." says Kanda.
No one knows where 300 tons of melted nuclear fuel rods went, but is it responsible for contaminating the Pacific and a lot more? You have to find them before you can do anything about them. And even then, what do you do with them?
The barriers Tepco set up to contain them do not work. Decontamination of the cities around Fukushima has not worked either.
If they find the rods, they have no clue how to get them out and they will continue to radiate Japan and the Pacific ocean for a very long time.
Of course some believe they do know where the rods are: In the ocean, of course.
These headlines point in that direction:
Biologist: Pacific herring in Canada bleeding from eyeballs, faces, fins, tails — I've never seen fish looking this bad"
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***here: http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/08/20130812-075552.html
***here: http://www.canada.com/investigating+reports+bleeding+herring/8795535/story.html
From Alaska and Russia: Sockeye salmon at dire historic low on Canada's Pacific coast —"We think something happened in the ocean" — "The (tribal) elders have never seen anything like this at all"
Via: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/lake-babine-sockeye-fishery-at-risk-of-unprecedented-closure/article13715638/?service=print Arnie Gundersen: "So eventually though we are going to see top of the food chain animals like tuna and salmon and things like that that have this process bio accumulates. The bigger fish gradually get higher and higher concentrations. And I am concerned that the FDA is not monitoring fish entering the United States because sooner or later a tuna is going to set off a radiation alarm at some part and people are going to think it's a dirty bomb or something like that. So that's not here yet because the tuna haven't migrated across the Pacific. But I am thinking by 2013 we might see contamination of the water and of the top of the food chain fishes on the West Coast."And, he was right on the money. We are seeing it now.
INFOGRAPHIC THAT HAS LIBERAL HEADS IMPLODING:
Gun sales keep a-rising and the crime rates keep a-dropping
(For, as Robert Heinlein said, "an armed society is a polite society.")
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A friend emailed this to me this morning.
Do you still believe the UN does not want to disarm American citizens?
What does the Saudi King think he's doing? After Obama bowed to him and licked his feet, this is the thanks he gets ?
Gulf nations split with West to back Egyptian military
By Jamie Dettmer
Published August 20, 2013
FoxNews.com
Saudi King Abdullah, (l.), has pledged to make up for any foreign aid Egypt loses from the West. (AP) (AP)
Efforts by the West to pressure Egypt's new government to end its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood could be moot thanks to Saudi Arabia's oil money – and whole-hearted backing of the military.
While the West calls for peace in Cairo, the Saudis are supporting Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who led the ouster of Mohammed Morsi. The Kingdom has pledged to make up for any loss in foreign aid resulting from the military's brutal crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
On Monday, the country's foreign minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal issued a hard-hitting statement via the Saudi Press Agency pushing back on the West.
"To those who have announced they are cutting their aid to Egypt, or threatening to do that, (we say that) Arab and Muslim nations are rich and will not hesitate to help Egypt."
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"To those who have announced they are cutting their aid to Egypt, or threatening to do that, (we say that) Arab and Muslim nations are rich and will not hesitate to help Egypt," said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency. "Arab states will never accept manipulation of their fates or tampering with their security and stability by the international community."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/20/gulf-nations-split-with-west-to-back-egyptian-military/#ixzz2cXdTurBp
Flying Pig Alert: Leftist Icon Noam Chomsky
Says Sarah Palin Was Right About Obuma
(Whoa... Chomsky??? The end of the world can't be far away)
Noam Chomsky Shocker: Sarah Palin was right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8bmxzsGcE
Via The Inquisitr:http://www.inquisitr.com/913416/noam-chomsky-sarah-palin-was-right/
First Howard Dean and now Noam Chomsky agreeing with Sarah Palin?In an interview with Democracy Now, the influential MIT linguistics professor, author, and prominent left-wing political activist admitted that Sarah Palin was right about Barack Obama in that there was no substance to his presidential campaign.
Palin also recently received validation from former Gov. Howard Dean, a prominent liberal Democrat, about what she termed Obamacare death panels, otherwise known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board.
In these latest comments about the president, Chomsky said that "I don't usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this 'hopey changey stuff,' she was right; there was nothing there. And it was understood by the people who run the political system, and so it's no great secret that the US electoral system is mainly a public relations extravaganza... it's sort of a marketing affair."
ACLU: Oklahoma Ten Commandments monument too sacred for public space
Oklahoma Places Ten Commandments Monument In State Capitol... ACLU Freaks Out
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(Right on cue... the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve}
Via Raw Story:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/20/aclu-oklahoma-ten-commandments-monument-too-sacred-for-public-space/
The American Civil Liberties Union is taking on the state of Oklahoma over a monument featuring the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament of the Judeo-Christian Bible, which is prominently placed in the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City.According to a statement released by the ACLU and the ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation on Tuesday, the lawsuit "seeks to have the monument removed" on the grounds that it violates constitutional provisions against use of government property to promote a particular sect or religion.
According to the rights group, the monument "trivializes" the religious meaning of the commandments by placing them in "a political and secular context." The Ten Commandments are sacred to both Jewish and Christian believers, and as such, the ACLU is arguing, belong in a sacred space like a church or synagogue rather than a state capitol.
In addition, "(t)he monument's placement at the Capitol has created a more divisive and hostile state for many Oklahomans," said Ryan Kiesel of the ACLU of Oklahoma Foundation. "When the government literally puts one faith on a pedestal, it sends a strong message to Oklahomans of other faiths that they are less than equal."
Quote from: jarhead on August 20, 2013, 02:08:29 PM
What does the Saudi King think he's doing? After Obama bowed to him and licked his feet, this is the thanks he gets ?
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Who Knew? Simple Al Sharpton Says Ted Cruz
"Was A U.S. Senator From Birth"
(It's a shame stupidity isn't painful)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kn6fflD52c
CRS Report:
White House's Implementation of Dodd-Frank Going Even Worse Than Obumacare,
61% of Deadlines Have Been Missed
(Makes one wonder who is running this golf course)
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Via NRO:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/356262/obama-admin-has-missed-over-60-percent-dodd-frank-deadlines-patrick-brennan
A Congressional Research Service report this week revealed that the Obama administration has missed precisely 50 percent of its deadlines in implementing Obamacare — and with the Dodd-Frank financial-reform law, they're doing even worse. More than half of the law's 279 deadlines so far — 61.6 percent — have been missed by July 15, according to a new report.
The law firm DavisPolk has been publishing reports on Dodd-Frank's progress for a while now, and they explain "the pace of rulemaking has been remarkably consistent over the past three years" — but it's been consistently far behind the pace actually set by the law. Since the deadlines are dispersed, some months have been particularly rough — April 2011 saw regulators hit a serious cold streak, missing 26 deadlines that month. Dodd-Frank requires a variety of federal agencies — the SEC, the Fed, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, etc. — to actually write the new financial-market rules that Congress merely outlined in the 2010 law.
Late Night Has a New Highest-Paid Host
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($25-30 million per year for a fake news program??????????)
Via Mediaite:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/late-night-has-a-new-highest-paid-host/
With TV Guide's annual survey of star salaries comes news of a new "king of late night." For the first time, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart tops the list of highest-paid late night hosts, making an estimated $25-30 million per year.
Behind him with $20 million per year a piece are the former late night leaders the Tonight Show's Jay Leno and the Late Show's David Letterman. Their third network rival Jimmy Kimmel is a distant fourth with $10 million per year.
Just last year, TV Guide published a similar list that showed Letterman in the lead with $28 million, Leno second with $25 million and Stewart third with $16 million. If anything, the dynamic shift proves the ascendance of cable over broadcast, with Comedy Central able to outspend NBC and CBS to keep Stewart as host of The Daily Show through 2015. And as if being the highest-paid late night star wasn't powerful enough, the host just took the whole summer off.
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"Gutted Christian Church"
Obuma Admin On Church Attacks In Egypt: "We Have Seen Zero Indication The Muslim Brotherhood Is Organizing These Attacks"
I'd bet my purple-dotted drawers the "high-ranking Western official" cited by the WaPo is someone in the Obama administration, mainly because
we're the ONLY western country giving its full support to the Muslim Brotherhood, hence the reason I added it to the headline)
BENI MAZAR, Egypt — The fire burned all night long. It was only after desperate town residents borrowed the keys to a firetruck that they were able to quell the blaze. By then, the evangelical church was all but destroyed.
It was one of more than 60 churches that have been attacked, vandalized and in many cases set aflame across Egypt in a surge of violence against Christians that has followed the bloody Aug. 14 raid by Egyptian security forces on two Islamist protest camps in Cairo.
The attacks, most of them in Egypt's Nile Valley, have lent legitimacy to the military-backed government's claims that it is fighting a war against terrorism.
But one week after the attacks, the Egyptian government has yet to investigate any of the incidents or provide any additional security to most churches, Christian activists and church officials said.
Visits to flame-ravaged churches and interviews with activists and Western officials also cast doubt on whether the Muslim Brotherhood, blamed by the government for carrying out the violence, was actively involved.
"We have seen zero indication that the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization is organizing these attacks," said a high-ranking Western official who was not authorized to speak on the record. The official said the blame more likely rested with Islamist vigilantes rather than Brotherhood members acting on orders.
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Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff Admits Syrian Rebels Obuma Is Arming Are Not Our Friends
(Neither were the Drug Cartels & the MB... the General would have looked like a fool to argue otherwise)
WASHINGTON (AP) — http://news.yahoo.com/dempsey-syrian-rebels-wouldnt-back-us-interests-070802647.html
The Obama administration is opposed to even limited U.S. military intervention in Syria because it believes rebels fighting the Assad regime wouldn't support American interests if they were to seize power right now, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote to a congressman in a letter obtained by The Associated Press.
Effectively ruling out U.S. cruise missile attacks and other options that wouldn't require U.S. troops on the ground, Dempsey said the military is clearly capable of taking out Syrian President Bashar Assad's air force and shifting the balance of the Arab country's 2½-year war back toward the armed opposition. But he said such an approach would plunge the United States deep into another war in the Arab world and offer no strategy for peace in a nation plagued by ethnic rivalries.
"Syria today is not about choosing between two sides but rather about choosing one among many sides," Dempsey said in the letter Aug. 19 to Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y. "It is my belief that the side we choose must be ready to promote their interests and ours when the balance shifts in their favor. Today, they are not."
Dempsey's pessimistic assessment will hardly please members of the fractured Syrian opposition leadership and some members of the administration who have championed greater support to help the rebellion end Assad's four-decade family dynasty. Despite almost incessant bickering and internal disputes, some opposition groups have worked with the United States and other European and Arab supporters to try to form a cohesive, inclusive movement dedicated to a democratic and multiethnic state.
Hundreds of Coptic Christians Rally Against Muslim Brotherhood In Nashville, Chant "Obuma, Obuma, Don't You Care? Christian Blood Is Everywhere"
(The answer to their question is... NO, he doesn't give a sh!t)
Via The Tennessean:http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130819/NEWS06/308190047/Coptic-Christian-rally-downtown-Nashville-noon-protest-church-burnings-Egypt?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
More than 200 Coptic Christians demonstrated in downtown Nashville, calling for an end to the violence in Egypt.
Many chanted "Obama, Obama, don't you care? Christian blood is everywhere," and "Pray for Egypt" while waiving Egyptian flags.
Others, like Anour Fares, held homemade signs with messages like "We are against Muslim Brotherhood."
Amany Shahata, who has lived in the United States for 16 years, said she feared for Christians living in Egypt, whose churches had been burned down in recent days. She and other protesters blamed the Muslim Brotherhood.
"What is terrorism, but being afraid to go out of your house because someone will attack you," she said. "... We can build churches anywhere but in our own country."
At one point demonstrators lined both sides of First Avenue and called out slogans as cars went by. They shouted "eid wahda," an Egyptian phrase that translates as "one hand," meaning that the Egyptian people, both Christians and Muslims, were united with the army against terrorism, which they blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Abram Thabet said that he hopes the Obama administration will stand by the Egyptian government. He said that he fled Cairo two years ago with his family because he feared persecution.
One of The "Bored Nigger" Teens Who Gunned Down
Oklahoma Baseball Player A Member of The Crips
(http://pjmedia.com/tatler/files/2013/08/crips.jpg)
(What fine up-standing citizens we have here... Oh Oh, these black nigger boyz seem to have
something wrong with their fingers... could it be Obumaritis-arthritis? A lot of that going around in the Hood, especially Chi-Town)
Via PJ Tatler:http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/20/bored-teenage-murder-suspect-james-edwards-appears-to-be-a-crip/
In our first look at what may have motivated the three teens accused of murdering Australian baseball player Chris Lane, we looked at the Facebook and Twitter feeds of James "Lilbuggy" Edwards. His social network posts suggest strong interests in rap and gang culture, and enjoyment of violent behavior.
In fact, new evidence says he's a Crip.
Note the hashtags under the photo [seen above] — they use both "Crip" and "cc," which is a Crip affectation.
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White House: Obuma Doesn't Need To Make Any Remarks On Chris Lane Killing Because His Comments On Trayvon Martin Apply To Lane's Death
(When Obuma said Trayvon could have been his son, WH? Obuma really does earn the title of A POS!)
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Chris Lane and the 3 Niggers that killed him!
Via Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-obamas-trayvon-martin-comments-apply-to-christopher-lane/article/2534539
President Obama's spokesman described the murder of Australian baseball player Christopher Lane in Oklahoma as a "pretty tragic case," saying that Obama's comments after the Trayvon Martin case apply to Lane.
"This sounds like a pretty tragic case," White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest replied when told about the murder of Christopher Lane. Earnest said that he hadn't heard about the murder previously. Police say that the three teenagers who allegedly shot Lane in the back while he was jogging said they did so out of boredom.
[...]Earnest said that Obama's comments after the Trayvon Martin case apply here. "[T]he president I think himself has spoken pretty eloquently about violence," Earnest said when asked why Obama commented on the killing of Martin but not of Lane. "He expressed his concern about the impact of violence in communities across the country," he added, referring to Obama's comments after the Martin case..
GOP Rep. Kerry Bentivolio:
It Would Be My "Dream Come True" To Write Bill To Impeach Obama
(Ditto that... I respect the office of the Presidency too, but it doesn't mean I have to respect the POS we have for President! I was taught to call a "Spade a Spade"...[ which, I might add, the saying dates back to the 16th Century]. Impeachment before '14 is a bad idea. Wait and see if the repubs can take the Senate. If that's happens, impeachment would have a better chance of passing.
Hey Bentivolio... you want evidence, check this out:
http://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/ )Via Politico:
Rep. Kerry Bentivolio told constituents at a town hall Monday that it would be a "dream come true" to write a bill to impeach President Barack Obama, but so far he doesn't have enough evidence.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phH7ycedS2w
The Michigan Republican answered a question at a local Republican club meeting in Birmingham on Monday from a woman who asked about impeaching Obama and who will "stop this runaway train that we have in the White House."
"If I could write that bill and submit it, it would be a dream come true," Bentivolio replied, according to video of the event posted to YouTube on Tuesday.
The congressman said he "can't stand" Obama, but he respects the office of president.
"I feel your pain, I know. I stood 12 feet away from the guy and listened to him, and I couldn't stand being there. But because he is president, I have to respect the office, that's my job," Bentivolio said.
He told the crowd without evidence of wrongdoing, the person who submits any bill to impeach Obama will be made a "laughingstock" by the press, so he's consulted with lawyers.[/b]
Tingles: IRS Targeting Conservatives A "Phony" Scandal
(It's almost like the drunken Tingles gets his talking points from the Obuma administration)
Via Red Alert:Never mind the mountains of evidence and numerous admissions by top Internal Revenue Service officials – the improper targeting of conservative organizations by the nation's tax-collecting agency is "phony" according to MSNBC host Chris Matthews.
The liberal talk show host attempted to debunk the scandal during a discussion with Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen and The Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson on his show Wednesday night.
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CATASTROPHE: Obumacare Tagged For Huge Spike In Unemployment
"Unexpectedly", of course. John Nolte reports on the latest disastrous unemployment report:http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/21/Gallup-Unemployment-jumped-from-77-to-89
Outside of the federal government's Bureau of Labor statistics, the Gallup polling organization also tracks the nation's unemployment rate. While the BLS and Gallup findings might not always perfectly align, the trends almost always do and the small statistical differences just haven't been worthy of note. But now Gallup is showing a sizable
30 day jump in the unemployment rate,
from 7.7% on July 21 to 8.9% today...This is an 18-month high. ...Gallup also shows an alarming increase in the number of underemployed (those with some work seeking more). During the same
30-day period, that number has jumped from
17.1% to 17.9%. The reason for the jump is crystal clear. As Forbes contributor John Goodman observes:University of Chicago economist Casey Mulligan [asserts that] ObamaCare discourages hiring, discourages full time employment and discourages businesses from becoming large rather than small. At The New York Times economics blog he writes:
"...the Affordable Care Act ... creates explicit taxes on employers, subsidies for layoffs and various implicit taxes on employees with many of the same economic characteristics as taxes on employers."
According to Mulligan's "calculations.... we might then expect the act to contract the 2015 labor market by about 3 percent rather than expand it."
That's a loss of 4 million jobs!
We may be seeing the tip of that iceberg now. The next BLS unemployment report is scheduled to be released on September 6th. Gird your loins
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The Untouchables
Once I thought of referring to Obama's appointees as the untouchables, I decided to check out Eliot Ness, who led the small squad of honest cops engaged in waging war on Al Capone. Although I had been a big fan of the original TV series and an even bigger fan of the movie, I really knew very little about Mr. Ness.
It seems Ness and his guys had a lot to do with shutting down Capone's breweries, but very little with finally bringing "Scarface" down for tax evasion. But nobody ever suggested he was anything but a tough, honest, straight-arrow cop. Unfortunately, unlike the character portrayed by Robert Stack and, later, Kevin Costner, his life didn't end with Capone's heading off to federal prison.
In Ness's post-FBI life, he was married three times, divorced twice, and went from one job to another. He was an electronic parts salesman, a clerk in a book store, sold frozen hamburger patties to restaurants and once even tried to get himself elected mayor of Cleveland, losing to Thomas Burke by a 2-1 margin. But, mainly he spent his time in bars, boozing and telling cock-and-bull stories to his fellow barflies.
So, at the end of the movie, when the young reporter asks Ness what he plans to do once Prohibition ends, and Ness says, "Have a drink," he wasn't kidding. Not too surprisingly, he died at the age of 54.
The new untouchables, who are led by Obama, include the likes of Eric Holder, Jay Carney and Kathleen Sebelius. Unlike Ness's guys, these folks are untouchable because of executive privilege. Only Obama can rid us of them, but he appreciates their boundless devotion to him.
If the nation doesn't share his opinion, that's just tough. They had their chance last November, and they blew it.
Eric Holder came into office announcing that whites are afraid to speak honestly about race, portraying white people as bigots when it is he who has displayed his blatant racism by refusing to indict the Black Panthers for voter intimidation and by informing his agents that during his tenure the Department of Justice will only prosecute whites for hate crimes.
Jay Carney, I keep being told, is merely doing what a press secretary is expected to do; namely, put a good face on everything Obama does and says. In other words, the job description is to lie on a daily basis. Some press secretaries do it better (Tony Snow), while some, like Carney and Robert Gibbs, do it worse.
The problem, as I see it, is that the job should not exist in the first place. No president should have at his disposal a person who functions the same way as a criminal defense attorney. I say the president, no matter what his party affiliation may be, should take 30 minutes out of his day to face the White House press corps and answer questions. If he has time to play basketball and golf, hold galas for show biz celebrities, congratulate gay athletes for outing themselves and fly off every other day for a fund raiser, he has the time to answer questions, thus freeing Jay Carney to find honest work while he still has some slight chance of saving his soul.
Speaking of Carney and all those other people whose job is to lie on behalf of Obama, the State Department, the IRS and the CIA, it's time we all quit pussyfooting around and stop calling them spokesmen. Lying is what they do, liars is what they are.
While we're at it, let's call able-bodied people collecting disability checks and well-to-do seniors collecting food stamps, welfare cheats.
Furthermore, let us be honest enough to call a freak a freak. After all, unless you believe that prisoners are entitled to have gender-altering surgery on the taxpayer's dime or that employers shouldn't be allowed to deny employment to transvestites or to those who choose to adorn themselves with metal hoops, studs and spikes in their noses, cheeks and tongues, they'll label you a bigot or worse.
As for Kathleen Sebelius, who, when last heard from, was denying a 10-year-old dying child the right to be on a list for those requiring a donated organ, she is tailor-made for this administration. Who better to be the Secretary of Health and Human Resources than a woman who looks like the twin sister of Snow White's stepmother? When she's not denying a little girl the right to receive a lung that might save her life, Sebelius no doubt spends her spare time cackling madly and poisoning apples.
What this country needs is a sober Eliot Ness, eager to clean up the corruption in Washington. What it has, unfortunately, is Barack Obama, a Marxist airhead who is so infatuated with himself that in high school, I'm willing to bet, he invited himself to the prom.
20 Reasons I Detest The Government
by John Hawkins
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1) Our own government chides those of us who pay taxes for being greedy because we don't want to give the politicians even more of our money to do things we don't want done at any price.
2) Increasingly, every bill that is proposed in D.C. seems to be crafted with the hope that at least 51% of the American people are ignorant or not paying attention to what the legislation actually does.
3) When there's a slip-up and members of Congress and their staff are *** gasp *** expected to follow the same laws as the rest of us on something like Obamacare, they immediately start looking for a way out.
4) Having an unelected bureaucrat decide that your property is a "swampland" because it rained yesterday or that you didn't follow some arcane legislation can lead to your spending years of your life dealing with an army of government regulators in court and costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees; yet the bureaucrats pay no price at all for being wrong.
5) IRS employees like Lois Lerner can take the 5th Amendment when they're asked to testify about breaking the law to go after American citizens, but we're not allowed to take the 5th Amendment when the IRS demands information from us.
6) Who in the government was held responsible and punished for Fast and Furious? Benghazi? The subprime crisis caused by the government? Wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on Solyndra? Detroit going bankrupt? The IRS scandal? Giving someone as unstable as Bradley Manning access to classified data? How about allowing eight of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers to be registered to vote? The correct answer: nobody, which is exactly the problem.
7) The average government employee makes more than the people who are paying his salary.
8) If the economy goes bad, you may have to tighten your belt, but our government NEVER thinks it should have to cut back on its spending.
9) Inconvenient campaign promises by politicians are treated as almost entirely unrelated to what they do while governing.
10) There's so much stagecraft and deliberate deception in D.C. that it's impossible for the average person to understand what's going on without having someone who understands politics explaining it to him.
11) CBO scores on legislation are treated as legitimate and meaningful despite the fact that the rules have been rigged in such a way that the CBO ALMOST ALWAYS DRAMATICALLY UNDERESTIMATES the cost of government programs.
12) When Congress is in session, you won't find a more corrupt or dishonest group of human beings all gathered in any one place outside of a prison.
13) Our Congress REGULARLY votes on pork-laden bills written in legalese that NO ONE has actually read cover to cover.
14) We have so many laws and regulations that almost every American is breaking the law somehow on a daily basis.
15) When the Republican Party and Democrat Party collaborate in a bipartisan manner, it's almost always to screw the American people in order to help some influential or deep-pocketed special interest group.
16) Our politicians in D.C. are just as corrupt as those South American politicians we laugh at for taking bribes. The only difference is our politicians are smarter about it. A bribe is illegal, but giving their relative an incredibly highly paid job or slipping an earmark into a bill that will end up helping their investments to thrive is considered par for the course in D.C.
17) Our overbearing politicians and bureaucrats feel entitled to tell you how to run almost every aspect of your life. They think they know better than you what health care you should have, where your kids should be allowed to go to school, what you should be able to do with your own property, what TV, toilet or shower head you should be allowed to buy, what light bulb you should have and even what size of soda you should be able to drink.
18) The priority scale for most politicians goes campaign contributors, special interest groups, political bosses, lobbyists and then if they're in a competitive district, their constituents. Very few politicians in D.C. ever seem to give a thought to what's good for the country.
19) Almost every bill that passes is sold with lies that later turn out not to be true; yet the bills aren't repealed and the politicians who deceived the American people are rarely held accountable.
20) We have government employees whom we put into office, whose salaries we pay, telling US what to do and acting as if we work for them.
Well guess what "Chelsea"--- For the next 8-10 years you will be living like a woman---while you are a bitch to Big Bubba .
Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman, be called Chelsea
Published August 22, 2013
Associated Press
FORT MEAD, Md. – Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the soldier said Thursday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified material to WikiLeaks.
Manning announced the decision in a written statement provided to NBC's "Today" show, asking supporters to refer to him by his new name and the feminine pronoun. The statement was signed "Chelsea E. Manning."
"As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible," the statement read.
Manning's defense attorney David Coombs told "Today" in an interview that he is hoping officials at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., will accommodate Manning's request for hormone therapy.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/22/bradley-manning-wants-to-live-as-woman-be-called-chelsea/?test=latestnews#ixzz2chtt2Bel
Well, Warph ol buddy, what do you think of this ? Big surprise huh ?
DHS employee spends spare time promoting race war against 'whites'
By Barnini Chakraborty
Published August 22, 2013
FoxNews.com
A Department of Homeland Security manager in charge of buying weapons and ammunition for the government is, on the side, running an inflammatory website that throws around gay slurs and advocates the mass murder of "whites" and the "ethnic cleansing" of "Uncle Tom race traitors," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Ayo Kimathi, who calls himself the "Irritated Genie," told his supervisors that the website was set up to sell concert and lecture videos.
But the report showed the site's content strayed far beyond concert promotion, warning about a coming race war. His website, "War on the Horizon," declares, "in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites – more than our Christian hearts can possibly count," the Alabama-based SPLC said in its report.
One of Kimathi's former supervisors at DHS told SPLC's Hatewatch that, "Everybody is the office is afraid of him," and that his co-workers are "afraid he will come in with a gun and someday go postal."
The supervisor, who was not named, continued, "I am astounded he's employed by the federal government, let alone Homeland Security."
Kimathi, who works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is a division of DHS, reportedly got the go-ahead from the government to create and maintain his website.
That's because as a law enforcement agency employee, he is required to get permission in writing if he engages in outside activities which includes everything from working a second job to volunteering.
The SPLC says Kimathi obtained official permission but did it by misrepresenting the true nature of his site.
"He told management that it was an entertainment website selling videos of concerts and lectures," the report said. "He called it simply WOH, never saying that WOH stood for War on the Horizon."
ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said in a written statement that the agency "does not condone any type of hateful rhetoric or advocacy of violence of any kind against anyone."
It is not known what disciplinary actions, if any, will be taken against Kimathi.
"Every ICE employee is held to the highest standard of professional and ethical conduct. Accusations of misconduct are investigated thoroughly and if substantiated, appropriate actions in taken," she said.
Kimathi's site even includes President Obama, who is technically his boss, on its own enemies list.
According to the WOH website, the organization was "created for the purpose of preparing black people worldwide for an unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race. Whites around the world are absolutely determined to exterminate Afrikan people in all corners of the earth."
The mission statement also claims to prepare blacks intellectually, spiritually, psychologically and physically for "a global clash that will mean the end of white rule on this planet or the end of the black race as we know it."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/22/dhs-employee-spends-spare-time-promoting-race-war-against-whites/#ixzz2cichpRF9
For those who are looking forward to the upcoming college football
Season, here is a recap of last year:
Alabama beat Arkansas, and Arkansas fired their coach.
Alabama beat Tennessee, and Tennessee fired their coach.
Alabama beat Auburn, and Auburn fired their coach.
Then Alabama beat Notre Dame, and the Pope resigned.
Man, I wish the White House had a team!
9/11 Plotter Held In Gitmo Claims He's The Victim of "Psychological Torture" Because He Wasn't Given Olives And Honey With His Meal
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(It's a sick world, folks. Sadly, there are people on the left who would agree with him...
anyway, a bullet in the head should cure his problem)
What should be the "Gitmo Menu"...:
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FORT MEADE, Md. — A jihadist charged in the deaths of 2,976 innocents on 9/11 threw a hissy fit in court Tuesday — over lunch food.
Ramzi Binalshibh had a meltdown because he believed the U.S. military withheld olives and honey from his meal.
He was the only one of five defendants who bothered to show up for Tuesday's pretrial hearing — but he did not last the afternoon.
"There are big problems with the food that was provided," Binalshibh angrily told the judge, Army Col. James Pohl, through a translator.
"It is a form of psychological torture," he growled.
Obuma: "At Some Point The Government Will Run Out of Money"
(Actually, Barry, you idiot.. you spent it all)
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Via Washington Times:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/22/obama-proposes-deeper-federal-role-college-funding/
Obama, speaking at the State University of New York-Buffalo, said he'll cap student loan repayments at 10 percent of their future paychecks, but will also take steps to punish students who are attending school on federal grants by doling out the money in chunks to make sure they stay in school.
Obama said the government and colleges have been in a type of arms race in recent years, with the government boosting its contributions and schools raising their prices.
"So some point, the government will run out of money, which means more and more costs are being loaded on to students and their families," the president said.
Gaffe-Tastic! Obuma Call Mayor of Buffalo By Wrong Name
(The look on the people behind Obuma and his gaffe... Priceless! Of course Republicans are filleted by the media when they make a gaffe, not so much for Obuma)Via TWS:
President Barack Obama flubbed the mayor of Buffalo's name, calling him Brian Higgins instead of Byron Brown.
Holder To Sue Texas To Stop Enforcement of Voter ID Law
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(A**HOLE)
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"Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak was in a particularly playful mood Monday night, taking to Twitter to poke fun at the NSA, climate science and President Obama.
"Thanks to the interception of @Facebook posts, the #NSA now owns the world's largest collection of #catphotos," he tweeted to his 4,602 followers.
"Next crisis facing planet: too many people digging holes to unearth live bait. Scientists warn of global worming," he added.
Mr. Sajak even took a swipe at Mr. Obama's career as a community organizer in Chicago.
"Had a deprived childhood," the host said. "My community actually had to organize itself."
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/20/wheel-of-fortune-host-sajak-pokes-fun-obama-nsa/#ixzz2ck5Cy6JG
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White Man Shot And Killed By Three Nigger Suspects In Memphis...
Possibly In Retaliation For Death of Trayvon Martin
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Via The Blaze:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/22/another-senseless-murder-youre-not-hearing-about-and-some-in-the-family-wonder-if-it-could-be-a-trayvon-martin-revenge-murder/
It's a senseless murder you aren't hearing about.
A young white male was walking to his car on a city street late at night on August 12 when he was confronted by a trio of black individuals. They shot him dead. Police have arrested three people and charged them with first degree murder. But some in the victim's family can't understand why the shooting is being called a failed robbery when they say the evidence suggests something possibly more sinister: a hate crime.
David Santucci, 27, had just started his new job as a nurse. According to his family, "he was an awesome guy...he wanted to be a missionary...he wanted to help people."
The murder happened in Memphis, TN less than two weeks ago. Santucci was killed by a single 9mm shot through his heart. To its credit, the Memphis police department apprehended the suspects in less than fifteen minutes. Various reports say that all three suspects made statements that implicated them in Santucci's murder. And they're calling it a robbery gone wrong.
[...]In addition to the fact that Santucci was still in possession of his phone and wallet, Miguel says witnesses told police that the car drove past David, stopped and backed up. One of the suspects (Mario Patterson) got out of the car and walked toward Santucci, fired a shot and ran back to the car, jumping into the driver's seat and speeding off. Miguel also says the police told him that the 9mm shell casing was found 10 feet from the body — an indication to him that the shooter was not at close range as would typically happen with a robbery.
Miguel told TheBlaze that he tracked the alleged shooter, Patterson through his Facebook account — an account now deleted. He said the page had numerous photos of Trayvon Martin, and he wondered if it's possible the shooting was a revenge killing for the Zimmerman verdict.
DHS Employee Calls For Mass Murder of Whites, Says Black Men Are Being "Homosexualized" By Whites To Make Them Weaker
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(Obuma promotes this nigger in 3... 2... 1)
Via The Atlantic:http://m.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/homeland-security-employee-moonlights-race-warrior/68600/
A Department of Homeland Security employee who works on, among other things, the procurement of guns and ammunition for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, spends his nights and weekends preparing for a coming race war and advocating for anti-gay causes, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Meet Ayo Kimathi, a.k.a. "the Irritated Genie," who told his bosses at the DHS that his anti-white, anti-gay site, "War is on the Horizon," was just an entertainment site that sells concert and lecture videos.
You see, DHS employees, even those with office jobs like Kimathi's, have to get outside activities approved by their supervisors, according to the SPLC. Kimathi's former supervisor told the watchdog group, which tracks hate speech and groups in the U.S., that despite her former employee's banal description of his extracurricular activities, the actual content of the site left her "stunned." She continued: "To see the hate, to know that he is a federal employee, it bothered me." She added that had Kimathi's site been accurately described to the agency, there's no way the DHS would have signed off on it. Possibly to keep his bosses from looking up his work, Kimathi used only the site's acronym, WOH, in his permission request. In addition to his involvement in the purchase of ICE supplies, Kimathi also had a public profile for the agency, speaking at vendor events. As "Irritated Genie," Kimathi also has a public profile as a black supremacist advocate.
The content of Kimathi's advocacy demands some clarification. In some (white, conservative) circles, the term "black supremacist" is applied with a very wide brush. Black supremacy was the implication of Maine Governor Paul LePage's reported comments that President Obama "hates white people," for instance. Kimathi's site is not in this vein of this imagined threat — on the contrary, War on the Horizon calls Obama a "a treasonous mulatto scum dweller," and lists him among the movement's enemies (also on the list? Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Condoleezza Rice, among others) Instead, the DHS employee advocates for:
• The mass murder of white people. His site says, "warfare is eminent, and in order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites – more than our christian hearts can possibly count."
• A conspiracy theory arguing that white people are trying to "homosexualize" black men in order to make them more effeminate and therefore weaker. As part of this, Kimathi, praises a series of laws in some African countries that criminalize LGBT behavior and people. Kimathi also advocates for the supremacy of black men above black women — he offers tips on his site, for instance, "to help every Black woman in the world understand what she needs to do to keep a strong Black man happy."
This story doesn't say what color the victim was but I'll wager a fair amount that he was white. I hope these two punks feel real manly after beating an old WW-II vet to death. They couldn't even carry the jock strap of this old vet they beat.
Police seek 2 young suspects after World War II veteran beaten to death in parking lot
Published August 22, 2013
FoxNews.com
Police in Washington state are searching for two young suspects who beat a World War II veteran to death in a parking lot Wednesday night.
The Spokane Police Department says in a press release officers responded to reports of an assault and found the victim in his car with serious head injuries. He later died in the hospital.
Authorities on Thursday released surveillance photos of the two suspects, who they describe as African-American males between the ages of 16 and 19.
Friends identified the victim as Delbert Belton, and say he was sitting outside a lodge for the Fraternal Order of the Eagles when he was attacked.
KXLY-TV reports that Belton served in Army during World War II and was shot in the leg during the Battle for Okinawa.
The station says he went on to work for Kaiser Aluminum for 30 years. Friends say he was known as "Shorty," and enjoyed playing pool and working on cars. His wife passed away several years ago
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/22/world-war-ii-veteran-beaten-to-death-by-2-teenagers-in-washington-parking-lot/?test=latestnews#ixzz2ckiqySe7
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Craigslist Ads For Crisis Actors (Stunning Videos)
By Susan Duclos
A San Diego Craigslist ad searches for "Surveillance Role Players," aka crisis actors. The ad claims to be looking to fill these positions to "support military training activities in the San Diego, Calif. region."
The ad continues on to state: "Qualified personnel should demonstrate an established track record of conducting surveillance operations at various discretion levels, supporting surveillance training and military practical exercise training. Individuals with previous military, intelligence community and law enforcement experience are highly preferred."
In the first video below, it explains some recent uses of "crisis actors," and while real people are shown during real tragedies, when the government hires actors to roleplay, there will always be questions of what is real and what reports are being dramatized and using actors to present a picture that might not be as real as they would have you believe.
The perfect example is shown in the second video, where crisis actors are caught on film acting like they are bloody, injured and dead, in Syria and Egypt.
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2013/08/craigslist-ads-for-crisis-actors.html#.Uha3rp0o5LM
I do not have the bandwidth to upload the videos, sorry you will have to go to the web site to see them.
What lies will they tell us next.
Quote from: ROSS on August 22, 2013, 08:11:09 PM
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Craigslist Ads For Crisis Actors (Stunning Videos)
By Susan Duclos
A San Diego Craigslist ad searches for "Surveillance Role Players," aka crisis actors. The ad claims to be looking to fill these positions to "support military training activities in the San Diego, Calif. region."
The ad continues on to state: "Qualified personnel should demonstrate an established track record of conducting surveillance operations at various discretion levels, supporting surveillance training and military practical exercise training. Individuals with previous military, intelligence community and law enforcement experience are highly preferred."
In the first video below, it explains some recent uses of "crisis actors," and while real people are shown during real tragedies, when the government hires actors to roleplay, there will always be questions of what is real and what reports are being dramatized and using actors to present a picture that might not be as real as they would have you believe.
The perfect example is shown in the second video, where crisis actors are caught on film acting like they are bloody, injured and dead, in Syria and Egypt.
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2013/08/craigslist-ads-for-crisis-actors.html#.Uha3rp0o5LM
I do not have the bandwidth to upload the videos, sorry you will have to go to the web site to see them.
What lies will they tell us next.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_z6nwKVjA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmFIWm1dWw
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Quote from: jarhead on August 22, 2013, 07:53:41 PM
This story doesn't say what color the victim was but I'll wager a fair amount that he was white. I hope these two punks feel real manly after beating an old WW-II vet to death. They couldn't even carry the jock strap of this old vet they beat.
Police seek 2 young suspects after World War II veteran beaten to death in parking lot
Published August 22, 2013
FoxNews.com
Police in Washington state are searching for two young suspects who beat a World War II veteran to death in a parking lot Wednesday night.
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http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/elderly-man-dies-after-being-attacked-outside-ice-arena/-/101214/21574858/-/9flm7iz/-/index.html(KXLY) — WWII veteran Delbert Belton survived being wounded in action during the Battle of Okinawa only to be beaten and left for dead by two teens at the Eagles Lodge in Spokane on Wednesday evening.
Belton, 89, died from the injuries he suffered in the beating Thursday morning at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
Witnesses say the Belton was in the parking lot of the Eagles Lodge at 6410 N. Lidgerwood, adjacent to the Eagles Ice-A-Rena, around 8 p.m. Wednesday when the two male suspects attacked him.
Belton died from his injuries Thursday at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
"Shorty," as he was known by his friends at the Eagles Lodge, served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific during WWII and was shot in the leg during the Battle of Okinawa. He went on to work at Kaiser Aluminum at the company's Trentwood plant for more than 30 years.
He loved playing pool, even though he claimed he was no good at it and had been a member of the Eagles Lodge for the last four months. In addition to playing pool he loved working on cars.
Belton's wife passed away several years ago.
Spokane police are looking for two male suspects in the attack. They said the suspects are African Americans between 16 and 19 years old.
One suspect was described as heavy set and wearing all black clothing. The other was described as being about 6 feet tall and 150 pounds. There was no description of what clothing the second suspect was wearing other than a silk do-rag.Security camera photos of Delbert Belton Murder Suspects:
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No punishment is too severe for these two niggers. Hmmm... King Hammurabi's principal: "An eye for an eye" might be called for here:
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The "Senility Talking Points of the Day" by Charlie Rangel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC17KkaVjgI#t=11
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Dem Rep. Charlie Rangel: "There Is No Reason Why a Young Person Should Have To Pay For College"
(This type of stupidity is so prevalent among liberals it's mind blowing)
Via Newsbusters:JOY-ANN REID, SUBSTITUTE HOST: I first want to get your reaction to the President's education proposal today.CONGRESSMAN CHARLIE RANGEL, (D-N.Y.): I think it's exciting, and certainly it's going to bring in accountability. You know, we have universities scattered all over the world. Sometimes you think that tuition means nothing to a large group of people who pay these enormous salaries to college presidents. But if you're talking about production, if you're talking about what is the college really giving someone that doesn't want a worldwide education, they just want to be able to compete, this makes sense.
But you know something, Joy? There is no reason why a young person should have to pay for college education, because who does it benefit except a nation? Who are we competing against? Not ourselves, but China and other industrialized countries, they decide what they need, and they provide the incentives. Here we don't have nurses and doctors, and then when a person gets out of health school, I mean out of medical school, they can't get the money to pay off their debt. It doesn't make sense.President Obuma's Education Proposal:The average cost of tuition and room and board at a four-year private university in the U.S. has risen to $39,518 annually. Here is a breakdown of where that money for a government-controled college should go:•$250: Omnipresent collegiate scent
•$40: Ream of diploma paper
•$2,543: Laundry facilities capable of handling constant, round-the-clock loads of pajama pants
•$25: Credit check
•$5,000: Morgan Spurlock appearance fee
•$0.15: Student mental health services
•$4.40: You think all those comedy hypnotists are stopping by out of the kindness of their hearts?
•$250: Quills
•$8,000: Standard wasted money fee
•$29,000: Big tall clock that goes "ding"
Israeli Warplanes Bomb Terror Targets In Lebanon
In Retaliation For Rocket Attack
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(The headquarters of the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine General Command [PFLP-GC]
was the target)
)
Via Times of Israel:http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-jets-bomb-southern-lebanon-after-rocket-attacks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Israeli fighter jets bombed targets south of Beirut early Friday morning in what the IDF spokesperson said was retaliation for rocket attacks against northern Israel the day before.According to the Israeli military, the pilots reported a pinpoint strike on their targets in the coastal town of al-Naameh. The IDF reiterated that it holds the Lebanese government responsible for Thursday's rocket fire into northern Israel.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or the precise nature of the targets struck.
Residents of Beirut took to Twitter reporting the sound of explosions and what they believed were Israeli aircraft overhead the neighborhood of al-Naameh, approximately 15 kilometers south of the Lebanese capital. According to several users, the target was believed to be the headquarters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC).
Korean War Vet Bans "The Butler" From His Movie Theater
Over 'Hanoi Jane' Fonda's Role In The Film
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('Ace shot' Ike, my man. Jane Fonda is not only a disgrace, it's disgraceful that the people behind The Butler cast her as Nancy Reagan and lied to smear the Reagans in the film. It would be worth asking them if they have no shame, but since these liberal Clowns from Hollywood are involved, we already know the answer to that question...)
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Via Washington Times:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/22/korean-war-vet-bans-butler-his-movie-theater/
A Korean War veteran, who has owned the MoviePalace in Elizabethtown, Ky., for more than three decades is refusing to run "The Butler" due to the anti-Vietnam War stance of one of its lead actresses, the Blaze reported.Ike Boutwell said he has never let a movie with Jane Fonda play in his theater.
The film — a biopic of a White House butler who served eight presidents — stars Fonda as Nancy Reagan.
"I trained hundreds of pilots to fly, many of whom Ms. Fonda clapped and cheered as they were shot down," the former Marine said of the pilots he trained to fly, the local News-Enterprise reported.
"To add to this, I just really think it's a slap in the face to have a person of treason portray a patriotic lady, Mrs. Reagan," Mr. Boutwell said. "I just think that is throwing gas on the fire."
"In life, you've got to stand for something, and that's where I stand," he added. "It makes me feel that I'm honoring those who died for this country."
Thank you Warph.
MSNBC's Ratings Still In Free Fall,
Slide 22% Over Summer As
CNN Continues To Surge
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(The 3 stooges of MSNBC [More Sh!tty Nonsense By Communists]. Love it!)
Via Variety:http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/msnbc-continues-ratings-slide-as-cnn-surges-over-summer-1200585373/
Strong interest in the George Zimmerman trial and improved performances for shows including "Anderson Cooper 360," CNN is enjoying a ratings surge this summer — and has virtually caught up with or surpassed MSNBC in key categories.
Fox News remains the leader, as it has for years, though it and MSNBC were down vs. last summer.In preliminary Nielsen data for the summer through Sunday, Fox News was averaging 1.85 million viewers in primetime (down 5% from comparable dates a year ago), followed among the news networks by
MSNBC (540,000, down 22%), CNN (533,000, up 21%) and HLN (422,000, up 29%).
Among all cable networks in primetime this summer, Fox News ranks seventh in total viewers (USA and TNT top the list). MSNBC is 33rd, CNN is 34th and HLN is running 39th.In the adults 25-54 news demo, it's a closer four-network news race, with FNC on top (272,000), followed by MSNBC (186,000), CNN (178,000) and HLN (159,000).
CNN has seen primetime gains in all hours, with "Anderson Cooper 360″ up the most (+27% in total viewers and +36% in adults 25-54).
LOL... :laugh: :laugh: How Sick Is This?????
White House To Hold "Bisexual Roundtable"... behind closed doors.
("Bisexual Roundtable"..... is that the same thing as a circle jerk, Barry? What will be going on in there?
"But when we get behind closed doors
Then she lets her hair hang down
And she makes me glad that I'm a man
Oh, no-one knows what goes on behind closed doors..."
...Charlie Rich
Will it be like:)
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Featuring the continuing love saga between Barry and Reggie?
When are you 'coming out', Barry? Could this be the time?
Via The Hill:http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/318309-report-white-house-to-hold-bisexual-issues-roundtable?utm_campaign=briefingroom&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterfeed#1
The White House will hold a roundtable event on issues facing the bisexual community next month, according to a report in the Washington Blade.
The closed-door meeting is likely the first of its kind in the Obama administration, the paper reported. According to the event's invitation, it will take place Sept. 23 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across the street from the West Wing.
The meeting will be closed to the press and is described as "off the record" in the invite.
Warph, you are a hoot !!! ;D
Obama's DOD Publishes Military Primers Identifying Conservatives As Extremists And Haters
Friday, August 23, 2013, 7:26 PM
Obuma's new terrorist
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Beware, all patriotic Americans who hold the Constitution sacred. Obama's Department of Defense has labeled you an extremist and a hater; and with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center they're teaching military personnel how to identify you. The DOD warns that sheet-wearing KKK behavior has been replaced with "talk of individual liberties, states' rights, and how to make the world a better place". The document, also, equates today's Conservatives with Colonists fighting British oppression. No surprise, they categorize the 9/11 attack as a "historical event".Dictator In The Making
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Judicial Watch reports:http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-defense-department-teaching-documents-suggest-mainstream-conservative-views-extremist/
Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained educational materials from the Department of Defense (DOD) depicting conservative organizations as "hate groups" and advising students to be aware that "many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states' rights, and how to make the world a better place." The documents repeatedly cite the leftwing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a resource for identifying "hate groups."
Judicial Watch obtained the documents in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) filed on April 8, 2013. The FOIA requested "Any and all records concerning, regarding, or related to the preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force." Included in the 133 pages of lesson plans and PowerPoint slides provided by the Air Force is a January 2013 Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute "student guide" entitled "Extremism." The document says that it is "for training purposes only" and "do not use on the job."
Highlights include:•The document defines extremists as "a person who advocates the use of force or violence; advocates supremacist causes based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or national origin; or otherwise engages to illegally deprive individuals or groups of their civil rights."
•A statement that "Nowadays, instead of dressing in sheets or publically espousing hate messages, many extremists will talk of individual liberties, states' rights, and how to make the world a better place."
•"[W]hile not all extremist groups are hate groups, all hate groups are extremist groups."
•Under a section labeled "Extremist Ideologies" the document states, "In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples."
•In this same section, the document lists the 9/11 attack under a category of "Historical events."
•"[A]ctive participation...with regard to extremist organizations is incompatible with military service and, is therefore prohibited." [Emphasis in original]
•The document details the "seven stages of hate" and sixteen "extremists' traits."
•The SPLC is listed as a resource for information on hate groups and referenced several times throughout the guide.
•Of the five organizations besides the SPLC listed as resources, one is an SPLC project (Teaching Tolerance) and one considers any politically or socially conservative movement to be a potential hate group (Political Research Associates).
•Other than a mention of 9/11 and the Sudan, there is no discussion of Islamic extremism.(http://images.sodahead.com/polls/002828415/1346936744_Obama_Dictator_Racist_Opposition_answer_3_xlarge.jpeg)
In April 2013, following a terrorist shooting at the Family Research Council (FRC) headquarters that occurred in August 2012, Judicial Watch filed multiple FOIA requests to determine what, if any, influence SPLC's branding of hate groups had on government agencies. On its website, the SPLC has depicted FRC as a "hate group," along with other such mainstream conservative organizations as the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, and Coral Ridge Ministries. At the time of the shooting, FRC president Tony Perkins accused the SPLC of sparking the shooting, saying the shooter "was given a license to shoot ... by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center."
Though the document released today by Judicial Watch was obtained from the Air Force, it originated in a DOD office and is, therefore. thought likely to be used in other agency components.
"The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism. And now, in a document full of claptrap, its Defense Department suggests that the Founding Fathers, and many conservative Americans, would not be welcome in today's military," said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. "And it is striking that some the language in this new document echoes the IRS targeting language of conservative and Tea Party investigations. After reviewing this document, one can't help but worry for the future and morale of our nation's armed forces."
Obama wants to redefine "terrorist" and purge the U.S. military of all conservative, patriotic Americans. Yeah, good luck with that.
The 25 Stupidest Liberal Quotes Of The Last Decade
by John Hawkins | Aug 17, 2013
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25) Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world. -- Harry Reid
24)The number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S. -- Joe Biden
23) I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. It was awesome. -- Drew Barrymore
22) Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama cannot win, and they are put in place to assure a victory by Mitt Romney... this is the plan of all the insurance companies that are owned by Mormon interests. It is unfolding as the Mormon Church planned over the last fifty years. -- Roseanne Barr
21) I do believe that it's the first time in history that fire has ever melted steel. I do believe that it defies physics that World Trade Center tower 7 — building 7, which collapsed in on itself — it is impossible for a building to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved. World Trade Center 7. World Trade
1 and 2 got hit by planes — 7, miraculously, the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible. -- Rosie O'Donnell talks Trutherism
20) Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday? -- Joy Behar
19) A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week. Don't get me wrong — I'm not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend — but is it really necessary to put the word "killing" in the title of a major piece of legislation? -- Chellie Pingree, Congresswoman (D-ME)
18) The Republican Party is saying that the President of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this President around, the unions boss him around. Does that sound to you like they are trying to consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message that, of course, of course a black man can't be the real boss? -- Lawrence O'Donnell
17) Herman Cain is probably well-liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party, conservative movement and tea party movement. People like Karl Rove like to keep the racism very covert and so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity so he can say, 'Look: This is not a racist anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look: We have a black man.' And look he's polling well and he won a straw poll. -- Janeane Garofalo
16) If we want to keep our reproductive rights, we must be willing to tell our stories, to be willing and able to say, "I love my life, but I wish my mother had aborted me." -- Lynn Beisner, the Guardian
15) Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of. -- Joy Behar on The View
14) Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them. -- Mary Frances Berry, former Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights
13) Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?' The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you. -- Joe Biden
12) Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch. -- Joy Behar after receiving flowers from Sharon Angle
11) During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. -- Al Gore
10) Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs. -- Nancy Pelosi
9) Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. -- Thomas Friedman
8 ) I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa, I find myself longing for it to become big and strong–Mother Nature's fist of fury, Gaia's stern rebuke. Considering the havoc mankind has wreaked upon nature with deforesting, stripmining, and the destruction of animal habitat, it only seems fair that nature get some of its own back and teach us that there are forces greater than our own. — James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
7) Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. -- Barack Obama
6) The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. -- Jeremiah Wright
5) How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy? -- Chris Matthews
4) The medical term for Down Syndrome is Trisomy-21 or Trisomy-g. It is often shortened in medical slang to Tri-g. Is it not perfectly possible that the very name given to this poor child, being reared by Bristol, is another form of mockery of his condition, along with the "retarded baby" tag? And does the way in which this poor child was hauled around the country on a book tour, being dragged out in front of flash photographs in the middle of the night, barely clothed, suggest someone who actually cares for children with special needs, or rather sees them as a way to keep the spotlight on her? -- Andrew Sullivan
3) I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required. -- Sheryl Crow at the Huffington Post
2) Had a powerful meditation just now — caused an earthquake in Southern California. ...Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that. -- Deepak Chopra thinks his meditation can cause earthquakes
1) My fear is that the whole island (of Guam) will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize. -- Democrat Congressman Hank Johnson
Surprise! Barry Soetoro Voter Registration
FOIA Request Denied By DC Election Board
by Dean Garrison
August 22, 2013
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/08/surprise-barry-soetoro-voter-registration-foia-request-denied-by-dc-election-board/#0y8ojzimkA1z1B2d.99
A few weeks ago we reported a bizarre story about Barry Soetoro being registered to vote in Washington D.C.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/07/bombshell-barry-soetoro-is-registered-to-vote-in-washington-d-c-and-barack-obama-still-votes-in-illinois/
Soetoro was registered with a White House address and had Barack Obama's August 4, 1961 birthdate. We know that the birthdate was the same because that information was required to do a search. Below is a screenshot of our original findings. (http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/082313_1344_SurpriseBar1.jpg)
Before I go on. For those of you who are not aware, Barry Soetoro is Barack Obama. The Soetoro name was taken from his adopted father while the young Barack was in Indonesia. And now that I've cleared that up...There are those in the blogging community who were not willing to accept the fact that the registration was removed a few days after being discovered. They wanted answers and rightfully so. Sonoran News, who originally broke the story, sent a Freedom of Information Act request to attempt to get those answers.
Linda Bentley reports: WASHINGTON – A few weeks ago, we published an article: "Voter fraud at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?" exposing a voter registration under the name Barry Soetoro, the name President Barack Obama used while attending elementary school as a citizen of Indonesia, using the White House's address. It was also pointed out that both Obama and the First Lady are registered to vote in Chicago. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was submitted on July 22 to the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics (DCBEE) director asking for a copy of the voter registration, if Soetoro voted in the Nov. 6, 2012 election, and what the process is for verifying voter registrations submitted by mail and online.
Senior Staff Attorney Terri Stroud responded almost immediately to acknowledge the request and state she would respond to the request on before Aug. 12 by making the documents requested, or a legally segregable portion thereof, available or notify me of her determination not to make the requested document available.
Stroud responded on Aug. 12, as promised, denying my request.
She wrote, "I am writing to inform you that your request for a copy of a voter registration application submitted under the name "Barry Soetoro" is being denied pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 2-534(a)(3), as it is a record which is the focus of an investigation into a specific alleged illegal act which could, if proved, result in civil or criminal sanctions.
"With respect to the questions posed in your FOIA request concerning voter history and the Board's process for verifying voter registrations submitted by mail and entered online, under the law, an agency 'has no duty either to answer questions unrelated to document requests or to create documents.' Zemansky v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, 767 F.2d 569, 574 (9th Cir. 1985). The law only requires the disclosure of nonexempt documents, not answers to interrogatories. See Di Viaio v. Kelley, 571 F.2d 538, 542-543 (10th Cir. 1978).
"Please be advised that if you deem this response to be a denial of your request, you have the right to appeal to the Mayor, or you may seek judicial review in the Superior Court, pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 2-537 and 3 D.C.M.R. § 2012.1. If you elect to appeal to the Mayor, your appeal should: 1) be in writing; 2) include a statement of the arguments, circumstances, or reasons in support of the information sought by your request, and; 3) include a copy of our written letter issued to you."Just another case of government stonewalling. I am sure that The White House was consulted to see what action should be taken. There is a real possibility that we have a sitting president who committed voter fraud, by potentially voting in both D.C. and Illinois, and we may never know.
Tim Brown reported on July 31st: I discovered this little tidbit of information at the DC Board of Elections website. In a press release dated June 14, 2010, the DC Board of Elections wrote,
The Board's regulations direct that any voter whose mail is returned undeliverable is to be deleted from the voter registration list if they do not cast a ballot and fail to respond to notices over the next two subsequent general elections for federal office. However, the Board does not entirely delete any record from its voter registration database. While records of individuals removed from the list of registered voters are marked as 'deleted' and do not appear in the poll book at precincts on Election Day, the record itself remains on file permanently and can be reinstated.
District residents are encouraged to register to vote or update their registration using the Board's online tool at www.dcboee.org and to submit their completed voter registration application by mail by August 16, 2010. Between August 17 and August 30, residents can only register in person at the Board's office. Once early voting begins on August 30 and at the polls on Election Day, residents can only register and cast a ballot if they bring with them a current photo ID, utility bill, bank statement, or government document listing their current address. Those individuals will be required to cast a special ballot, which will only be counted if the Board verifies that the voter meets all qualifications and has provided proper proof of residence.
So, this voter registration was made in October, which meant that Barry Soetoro had to appear with a current photo ID, utility bill, bank statement, or government document listing his current address. Furthermore, one wonders why the record of his registration is deleted after less than a year. According to the DC Board of Elections, they don't do this. Thus, the plot thickens.So there is a good chance that Barry Soetoro actually voted in the general election. Hopefully out of respect for the process they asked for two forms of identification and he showed a valid birth certificate.
I am tired of being called a conspiracy theorist. Any time we come up with one of these stories, we are just hoping that a big conservative media outlet or a congressman will take it to the next level. It never happens. We have evidence that, at the very least, deserves an explanation. But no one with the resources to get any real answers has the required backbone to get it done.
So we keep seeking the truth and keep being told we can't have access to it.
I wonder who Barry Soetoro voted for?
Who Is Barry Soetoro?
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Texas Rodeo To Feature Clown Wearing Obuma Mask
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(Giddyup-n-go, cowboy! The far left progressives have made you a star)
Via The Blaze:A Texas rodeo isn't shying away from controversy — instead, they are doing the opposite and promoting an appearance of a rodeo clown wearing a mask of President Obama this weekend.
"You've heard about the controversy surrounding the Obama clown in Missouri," read an announcement from the Mesquite Rodeo, according to the Dallas Observer.
"This weekend, an Obama clown is a special guest star as the Mesquie Rodeo puts on the grand finale to its 2013 season with non-stop action you will only find in the aptly named 'Rodeo Capital of Texas,'" the announcement added.
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"MMmmmmm... Coconutty cream pie"
(Hmmmm... Someone is in for an ass whooping from
the Food Nazi when he gets home. Do I detect
some 'Body Armour' under that shirt, Barry?)
Wasn't it Mooch that said, "
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
....Michelle 'the Moocher' Obuma
Yes, I believe it was!
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/michelleob409145.html
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"Little late for that, Mitt...
Or maybe it should be the other way around."
LENOX, Pa. (ABC News) — No Obama bus tour would be complete without a stop for the president's favorite treat: pie.
On the road to Scranton this afternoon, the president made a surprise visit to Bingham's Restaurant in Lenox, Pa.
"Hello, everybody," Obama exclaimed as he walked into the sunny restaurant with Sen. Bob Casey by his side. "I hear you've got the best pie... That's the word on the street."
The president walked straight up to the counter, where more than a dozen pies and sweet treats were on display under a sign that read "Try The Pie."
A tempting coconut cream pie was already set out. The owner later told reporters he had heard it was one of the president's favorites.
"Coconut cream pie," Obama said with excitement.
The president ordered one coconut cream, one cherry and one pecan pie, joking to Casey that it was "just my order" and he had to place his own.
The president spent a few minutes chatting with the folks behind the counter, asking owner Dave Scarpetta about business.
"Don't let him pay, cause I'm paying," Obama said, motioning to Casey. The pies at Bingham's run $12.95 a piece.
The president then worked the room while his treats were being boxed up, greeting diners at the bar and those seated in the green leather booths and shaking hands and posing for pictures.
MLK Event Attendees Wave American Flags Desecrated With Obuma's Face ASS On Them
(Not the first time we've seen this disgrace)
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/14/us-flag-depicting-president-obama-removed-from-floridas-lake-county-democratic/
Via John Gort:https://twitter.com/JohnGort/statuses/371394770473873408
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Bad Day For Husbands
http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/husband-dies-after-rape-by-6-wives-517426893
http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/husband-puts-chastity-lock-on-wife-for-five-years-517422668
http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/wife-kills-husband-for-not-showering-517410822
On the Road again.... heading north up that ol' winding highway
Later
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Have a safe trip.
I found this on my facebook this morning one of my great nieces posted it.
I suppose it helps the younger generations understand Obama care better and thought I'd share it with you.
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I was in my neighborhood restaurant this morning and was seated behind a group of jubilant individuals celebrating the coming implementation of the health care bill. I could not finish my breakfast. This is what ensued:
They were a diverse group of several races and both sexes. I heard a young man exclaim, "Isn't Obam...a like Jesus Christ? I mean, after all, he is healing the sick."
A young woman enthusiastically proclaimed, "Yeah, and he does it for free. I cannot believe anyone would think that a free market wouldn't work for health care."
Another said, "The stupid Republicans want us all to starve to death so they can inherit all of the power. Obama should be made a Saint for what he did for those of us less fortunate."
At this, I had more than enough. I arose from my seat, mustering all the restraint I could find, and approached their table. "Please excuse me; may I impose upon you for one moment?"
They smiled and welcomed me to the conversation. I stood at the end of their table, smiled as best I could and began an experiment.
"I would like to give one of you my house. It will cost you no money and I will pay all of the expenses and taxes for as long as you live there. Anyone interested?"
They looked at each other in astonishment. "Why would you do something like that?" asked a young man, "There isn't anything for free in this world."
They began to laugh at me, as they did not realize this man had just made my point.
"I am serious, I will give you my house for free, no money whatsoever. Anyone interested?"
In unison, a resounding "Yeah" fills the room.
"Since there are too many of you, I will have to make a choice as to who receives this money-free bargain."
I noticed an elderly couple was paying attention to the spectacle unfolding before their eyes, the old man shaking his head in apparent disgust.
"I tell you what; I will give it to the one of you most willing to obey my rules."
Again, they looked at one another, an expression of bewilderment on their faces.
The perky young woman asked, "What are the rules?"
I smiled and said, "I don't know. I have not yet defined them. However, it is a free home that I offer you."
They giggled amongst themselves, the youngest of which said, "What an old coot. He must be crazy to give away his home. Go take your meds, old man."
I smiled and leaned into the table a bit further. "I am serious, this is a legitimate offer."
They gaped at me for a moment.
"I'll take it you old fool. Where are the keys?" boasted the youngest among them.
"Then I presume you accept ALL of my terms then?" I asked.
The elderly couple seemed amused and entertained as they watched from the privacy of their table. "Oh yeah! Where do I sign up?"
I took a napkin and wrote, "I give this man my home, without the burden of financial obligation, so long as he accepts and abides by the terms that I shall set forth upon consummation of this transaction."
I signed it and handed it to the young man who eagerly scratched out his signature.
"Where are the keys to my new house?" he asked in a mocking tone of voice.
All eyes were upon us as I stepped back from the table, pulling the keys from pocket and dangling them before the excited new homeowner.
"Now that we have entered into this binding contract, witnessed by all of your friends, I have decided upon the conditions you are obligated to adhere to from this point forward. You may only live in the house for one hour a day. You will not use anything inside of the home. You will obey me without question or resistance. I expect complete loyalty and admiration for this gift I bestow upon you. You will accept my commands and wishes with enthusiasm, no matter the nature. Your morals and principles shall be as mine. You will vote as I do, think as I do and do it with blind faith. These are my terms. Here are your keys."
I reached the keys forward and the young man looked at me dumbfounded.
"Are you out of your mind? Who would ever agree to those ridiculous terms?" the young man appeared irritated.
"You did when you signed this contract before reading it, understanding it and with the full knowledge that I would provide my conditions only after you committed to the agreement."
The elderly man chuckled as his wife tried to restrain him. I was looking at a now silenced and bewildered group of people.
"You can shove that stupid deal up your a** old man. I want no part of it!" exclaimed the now infuriated young man.
'You have committed to the contract, as witnessed by all of your friends. You cannot get out of the deal unless I agree to it. I do not intend to let you free now that I have you ensnared. I am the power you agreed to. I am the one you blindly and without thought chose to enslave yourself to. In short, I am your Master."
At this, the table of celebrating individuals became a unified group against the unfairness of the deal.
After a few moments of unrepeatable comments and slurs, I revealed my true intent.
"What I did to you is what this administration and congress did to you with the health care legislation. I easily suckered you in and then revealed the real cost of the bargain. Your folly was in the belief that you can have something you did not earn, and for that which you did not earn, you willingly allowed someone else to think for you. Your failure to research, study and inform yourself permitted reason to escape you. You have entered into a trap from which you cannot flee. Your only chance of freedom is if your new Master gives it to you. A freedom that is given can also be taken away. Therefore, it is not freedom at all."
With that, I tore up the napkin and placed it before the astonished young man. "This is the nature of your new health care legislation."
I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation -- and was surprised by applause.
The elderly gentleman, who was clearly entertained, shook my hand enthusiastically and said, "Thank you, Sir. These kids don't understand Liberty ."
He refused to allow me to pay my bill as he said, "You earned this one. It is an honor to pick up the tab."
I shook his hand in thanks, leaving the restaurant somewhat humbled and sensing a glimmer of hope for my beloved country.
1. Remember... Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
2. THIS SHOULD GO AROUND THE UNITED STATES SO PEOPLE CAN SEE JUST WHAT IS GOING ON. MAYBE EVEN THE POLITICALLY BLIND ONES WILL LEARN SOMETHING FROM IT.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous
by letting the American Government
take care of him;
better take a closer look at the American Indian."
Henry Ford
Ain't it the truth!
Eenie meenie miney mo--- what a dilemma---do we bomb that bad Assad for using a WMD and killing a few hundred "innocent civilians"---but in doing so we help the rebels ( Al Qaeda) who hijacked airplanes and used them as WMD's to kill 3,000 innocent civilians. All I know is I want that speech writer fired who wrote about crossing the red line. I think me and Reggie will go play a few rounds while Valerie sorts it all out.
The Prez
Syria strike push hits hurdles as lawmakers, US allies voice concerns
Published August 29, 2013
FoxNews.com
The Obama administration's aggressive push to punish the Assad regime for an alleged chemical weapons attack last week was running into hurdles on Thursday, as Congress demanded a say in the decision and international support began to fray.
After the U.S. failed to win support for an anti-Assad resolution before the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, President Obama's efforts were dealt another blow as allies France and Britain indicated they might wait until U.N. investigators finish before deciding the next step.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/29/syria-strike-push-hits-hurdles/#ixzz2dMfQUNFI
I doubt Kim K, or about a hundred other Hollywood types will be going to N Korea anytime soon !!
Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend reportedly executed by firing squad
Published August 29, 2013
FoxNews.com
The ex-girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim-Jong-un was one of a dozen people reportedly executed by a firing squad last week.
The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reports that singer Hyon Song-wol and 11 others had been arrested on August 17 for violating North Korea's laws against pornography and was executed three days later.
The paper reported that the condemned, all members of the performing groups Unhasu Orchestra and Wangjaesan Light Music Band, were accused of making videos of themselves having sex and selling the videos, which the paper reported were available in China.
"They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on," a source told the paper. The source added that the victim's families appear to have all been sent to prison camps.
Kim Jong-un reportedly met Hyon Song-wol approximately 10 years ago, before he was married. The relationship between the two is believed to have ended after interference from Kim's father, Kim Jong-il, though the two had been rumored to be having an affair. Kim Jong-un's wife, Ri Sol-ju, was also a member of the Unhasu Orchestra before their marriage. It is not clear if she had any role in the executions.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/29/kim-jong-un-ex-girlfriend-reportedly-executed-by-firing-squad/#ixzz2dMhlX4He
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This article is dated 2009 3 months after Obuma won election. Jim Cramer of CNBC had him pegged from the start. If Obuma had been vetted correctly before he ran for the presidency by conservatives, I wonder.... Mission Accomplished! Did Obama intentionally nuke the economy?
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Is President Obama intentionally attempting to bring the stock market to its knees? Some argue that, indeed, he is. "The free market has failed," he could say, "just as it failed the housing market!"(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/Sa8kP-FNlHI/AAAAAAAAQaw/n2IhTHrEw_8/s400/090304-missionacc-A.jpg)(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/Sa8kPuCHepI/AAAAAAAAQao/X5YFKRJKWVU/s400/090304-missionacc-B.jpg)
Consider that, in the teeth of a devastating recession, Obama has:• Raised taxes on small businesses, the engines of entrepreneurship and job growth
• Raised the capital gains tax
• Lied about "tax cuts for 95% of Americans", offering instead $13 a week, achieved not through tax cuts, but by changing the federal withholding tables!
• Destroyed charitable giving by axing the tax breaks for 26% of all giving (or $81 billion in 2006)
• Proposed a carbon cap-and-trading scheme designed to punish oil companies and further tax consumerswould Obama inflict these destructive policies while the economy is collapsing? Simple. Each step strengthens the role of government in people's lives.• Squelching the stock market kills its attractiveness as a parking lot for private capital. Combined with an increase in the capital gains tax, investors will swarm to bonds -- tax-free vehicles like municipal bonds, which benefit the growth of state and local government. And unions, of course.
• Carbon cap-and-tax will raise taxes on all Americans as the cost of goods and services will increase to address a non-existent threat.
• True tax cuts would grow the economy, which is why, of course, Obama shuns them. The last major recession was Jimmy Carter's malaise. It consisted of of double-digit inflation and unemployment. It was finally licked by across-the-board tax cuts for everyone (even the despised rich), which touched off a twenty-plus year run of prosperity.
• Charities reduce the role of government assistance for those in need. That, in Obama's world, can not be tolerated. That is why charities must be choked off and allowed to die. Especially faith-based institutions.The only plausible explanation is that Obama's destruction of the economy is intentional.
Itis based on a failed ideology that has a track record of Mugabe-esque disaster.
And I'm not the only one who thinks so. Jim Cramer is a long-time investor who's been around the block a few times. He thinks the Obama agenda is crystal clear, stating "...their agenda is destroying the life savings of millions of Americans... we've elected a Leninist."
Cramer went on to say that President Obama has caused "the greatest wealth destruction I have seen by a president."
So he's got that going for him.
Cramer calls it an "assault on the economy" by the President and his cohorts.
If all of this comes as a surprise to you, I'm guessing you never saw The secret scrapbook of Barry Soetero.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/10/secret-scrapbook-of-barry-soetoro.html
Update: Commenter Chris Bennett writes:It is tragic-comic that both the President and Robert Gibbs have both stated that they will not comment on the day-to-day "fluctuations" of the stock market (despite that often they themselves cause those fluctuations - invariably downward. And "fluctuations" implies that the markets sometimes rise - rarely under this President), but if a radio or TV talking head like Rick Santelli or Rush Limbaugh says something that opposes Obama, both the president and Gibbs immediately, and often repeatedly, rise to the challenge.
So commenting on situations that adversely affect the jobs, investments, or retirements of millions of Americans is beneath them. Challenging dissent, however, is job one for this White House.Mark Levin (MP3), S, C & A and Larwyn. Linked by: Instapundit, Power Line, The Anchoress, Jules Crittenden, Protein Wisdom, Fausta, JoshuaPundit and Memeorandum. Thanks!!!
Birther Van Jones Tweet: "There Would Be No Barack Obama Had There Not Been Reverend Jesse Jackson"
A recent Van Jones tweet is getting a lot of "birther" comment responses.
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(There wouldn't have been a Sasha and Malia Obuma either, since Jesse Jackson mentioned [on an open microphone] that he would have liked the opportunity to off the nuts of Barack Obama. Van Jones is nothing more than a racist pimp who ignores his own heritage of hate and lies. Next?)(http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/601/6298/original.jpg?w=600&h=480)
Benghazi FOIA Exclusive Report:
"No-notice" U.S. Marine assets never sent to help Americans during Benghazi or to secure crime scene — Syria at stake
by Marinka Peschmann, investigative journalist & author "The Whistleblower: How the Clinton White House Stayed in Power to Reemrge in the Obama White House & World Stage"
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Source: Freedom Of Information Act. Congressional RFI's on Benghazi
Urgent. The road to war with Syria, Russia, Iran and China can be tracked back to the Benghazi attack and cover-up. A Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) provides more evidence that the Obama administration declined to activate available possible life-saving help in the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty and Sean Smith –and thwarted the FBI investigation thereby aiding the perpetrators escape from justice. There were two U S Marine Corps response options that were never called in or deployed to Benghazi– Marine Corps Embassy Security Group / Marine Security Guard [MCESG/MSG] and Marine Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams [FAST].
According to The information Paper obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) states:"The response time to any emergency is predicated by many factors such as time of day, advance notice or no-notice, current activities, and the locations of off-duty members of the detachments. The MSGs [Marine Security Guard] conduct a minimum of two no-notice drills per month, but most detachments conduct more drills than the minimum standard. The MSGs train to respond to protests, mass casualty/bombings, intruders, and fire and bomb threats/searches. This response training is conducted at all hours and usually will include the State Department Regional Security Officer (RSO) or his deputy as well as the MCESG detachment. In terms of FAST ... their alert posture is predicated on combatant commander requirements according to threat reporting and assessment. By order of the Secretary of Defense [then Leon Panetta], the dedicated EUCOM FAST Company supports commander US Africa Command for crisis response and contingency situations. An example of this is the FAST Platoon currently deployed as a crisis response force to the US Embassy, Tripoli – it was sourced from the EUCOM FAST Company (emphasis mine)."Read it all here:http://www.marinkapeschmann.com/2013/08/29/benghazi-foia-exclusive-report-no-notice-u-s-marine-assets-never-sent-to-help-americans-during-benghazi-or-to-secure-crime-scene-syria-at-stake/
Obuma and Terrorists – or is it Obama and the Sunni Muslims?
Posted by Andrea Ryan
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In an article in the Independent...
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/does-obama-know-hes-fighting-on-alqaidas-side-8786680.html
... Robert Fisk points out that if Obama attacks Syrian leader Assad's army, the US and Al Qaeda would be on the same side. However, Fisk incorrectly states that this would be the first time. Not so. In prior posts, Obama was on the same side as Al Qaeda in Libya when bombing Gaddafi and his forces. Obama, also, sided with the terrorist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, in Egypt, even providing them with $1.5 billion in aid, and then taking it away after they were overthrown.
Pundits have tried to figure out Obama's motives. Some say Obama is driven by anti -colonialism like his father. Obama's anti-colonialism makes sense, but doesn't address all of Obama's motives in the Middle East, or necessarily his attacks against Christians and Jews. Others say that Obama is on the side of Islamists, which doesn't address his siding with one Islamist group (Al Qaeda) over another Islamist group, or Islamist group wannabe like Assad. What does make sense is Obama's policy of always siding with the Muslim Sunni sect.
As Barry Rubin at PJ Media points out...
http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2013/06/26/arab-world-war-two-sunni-versus-shia/
...Muslim Sunnis have been at odds with Muslim Shia's, and vice versa, for a long time. Shia representatives Iran and Hezbollah support Assad. Sunni representatives, including Al Qaeda, support the Islamic rebels and the Muslim Brotherhood. Sunnis account for about 80% of the Muslim world. When Obama moves, he moves not with Christians, Jews or the majority of most Americans, Obama moves with the Muslim Sunni sect. The Sunni hatred of Shia's, Jews and Americans is what Obama's actions fit best. In addition, an Iranian involvement in the attack on Benghazi, is consistent with this thinking, because the Shia's in Iran would not be happy with the US sending weapons to the Sunni rebels in Syria, who are the enemy of Assad and the Iranian Shia's. The Iranian Shia's would want to stop weapons used in overthrowing Assad, while bringing to light the fact that Obama was shipping arms under the table to Syria in the first place. Iran was hoping the poor press of the Benghazi affair would prevent Obama from being reelected. Unfortunately for the Iranian Shia's, the Obama loving American media did not comply.
NBC poll: Nearly 80% want congressional approval on Syria
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100999169
My View on this: (What's yours, Forum)
Ultimately, the best way to avoid this war is to call your Congressman and do whatever they can to to stop Obuma, up to and including impeachment. Not much else is going to stop the Devils Clown.
The majority on the Left seem incapable of criticizing Obuma to any real degree, even as he is hell-bent on doing everything that made Bush such a terrible president. And a significant chunk of the Right will back just about any war, especially one that can be branded as anti-terrorism or anti-Islam. Given the reality of modern politics [which is nothing more than political tribalism], I don't really expect the bulk on the Left to try to do much here, especially given their general indifference towards or ignorance of the Constitution. But I am supremely disappointed by those on the Right who also show that they don't really give a damn about the Constitution, at least when it gets them the war(s) they so crave.
So let me be clear: if you support Obuma's actions in Syria, you give up your right to ever posture like you think the Constitution matters. That is the only question here. It's not about chemical weapons. It's not about Islam. It's not about terrorism, or rogue states, or tyranny. It's about the rule of law. And if you support Obuma's taking us to war without the authority of Congress, you don't give a damn about the rule of law. Period, the end.
...Warph
5 possible risks of a U.S. military strike on Syria (USA Today)
1. Failure (Which is most likely)
The strike fails to deter dictator Bashar Assad from continuing his slaughter of civilians to put down a more than two-year rebellion. Such a flouting of President Obama could put pressure on the USA to ramp up military action given that it has crossed the line already into the use of U.S. military force.
2. Retaliation from Syria
Syria launches attacks on neighbor Israel to try and draw a response that would threaten to fragment the Middle East U.S allies that oppose Assad but do not want to be seen as supporting Israel - states such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates.
3. Iran emerges
Iran has threatened often to use its naval vessels to cut off the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow point in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran where 20% of the world's oil passes. The move would force the U.S. navy to respond with possible military attacks. Iran, a Shiite Muslim theocracy, can also spur large Shiite populations in friendly Arab states to rise up against their leaders.
4. Terrorists strike
Terrorist groups in the Middle East, such as Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah, launch attacks against U.S. targets in the region and U.S. allies. Those targets can include bases such as the port for the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
5. Russia gains
Russia, which under Vladimir Putin has increased repression at home and is steadily increasing its influence abroad, will become a major player in the Middle East by helping Syria survive the strike. That may strengthen the anti-American axis of Iran and Syria and lead to a further destabilization of a region of important strategic and economic value to Western nations.
Marist/McClatchy Poll On Voter ID:
82% Of Whites,
83% Of Non-Whites, Support it
(Also noteworthy: 72% Dems, 99% GOP, 87% Independents support it. So "Progressives", pack up your old kit bag of "racism" and take it somewhere else, no one here is buying it. Even most Democrats don't believe you)(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/3346169433/11560a67b375e08160da9ccb5d4e3a2e_normal.png)
Larry Elder ✔ @larryelder
Marist/McClatchy Poll: 82% of whites support "racist" voter ID. 83% of "non whites" support "racist" voter ID. http://tinyurl.com/maszjng 11:35 AM - 30 Aug 2013
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Warph, I vote stay at home and let them kill each other. I have talked to my sister about these matters and she received this and passed it on to me. I really think it's out of our hands. What say you,o wise one ?
Mr. Obama could still do nothing – as he has done for many months – but he now needs to do something positive in the face of his earlier threats.
The question is ... What should he do? I t is a difficult decision. Pragmatically – and callously – a prolonged, winner-less war of the rebels against the Assad regime in Syria would be the best solution for the US – and, on the surface, for Israel.
The reasoning behind this statement is that no matter which side wins, the US loses, and Israel probably comes under attack.
If Assad remains in power then Russia's and Iran's influences remain with Syria and also with Hezbollah in South Lebanon; and their supply lines remain intact. Assad has maintained a state of no war with Israel for decades, but that could change in the face of a victory by his regime.
If the rebels overthrow Assad, it is entirely unknown at the present time what the nature of the succeeding regime would be. But in any event, if the rebels win, their ideology would bring them southward against Israel as soon as they could rebuild their forces – their already stated intention.
Prophetic considerations show clearly that either outcome eventuality would eventually bring the final confrontation with Israel that shall come with Syria and the other nations to the north, including Lebanon and Iraq.
Micah chapter 5 refers openly and transparently to that conflict. And the prophet clearly shows the ultimate victory of Israel over "Assyria" of that day! For it appears that, at the time of that conflict, that Israel's Messiah shall have returned to the earth and shall indeed personally bring the victory over Assyria, along with whatever forces He chooses from among Israel and the Redeemed Saints, who shall be with him, in our opinion.
This conflict shall doubtless be prosecuted in parallel with those of Isaiah 63, Isaiah 11, Ezekiel 35, Obadiah, Psalm 83, and others – all of which indicate a decisive Messianic conquest and wipe-out of the foreigners between the Nile River and the Euphrates River, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf (and Indian Ocean?). That is the time that is being indexed by Obadiah 18: And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD'S.
When Messiah appears on the scene the prospect of that conflict shall be casting an ominous shadow over the entire region; but, in reality, the prolonged struggle shall doubtless be nearly finished, for His dispatch of these enemies should not take much time at all to complete.
But Israel and its people are not aware of (or do not understand) their own prophets' sure message of salvation from their enemies. If the West attacks Syria's poison gas stores, they are worried about a retaliatory gas attack upon Israel.
Also, because of the recent Syrian poisonous gas attacks, the Israeli public is rapidly acquiring gas masks; they doubtless are also tending to their secure, sealed rooms which were established during the first Iraqi conflict, and used by them during Saddam Hussein's Scud attacks upon Israel at that time.
It appears to us that frightening times probably lie ahead for God's re-gathered people, and that they shall be brought to think long and positively about their God. We understand that interest in Bible study and in prayer groups is increasing in the Jewish state.
These stresses upon the People, in our opinion, shall make them quite amenable to raising a wonderful welcoming cry to their Messiah when He appears in these end times to save His people. Luke 13: 35. <HEL MD/USA code 8M> ~1300 words.
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Shalom! Harold Edward Lafferty
http://sites.google.com/site/prophecyletters2013/ (new eTPL site)
http://sites.google.com/site/theprophecyletters/home (first eTPL site)
Isaiah 62:6: I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, 7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Mr. Joke-of-the-Day Says He's Now Considering "Narrow" Military Action On Syria
(A military genius, he is not)
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WASHINGTON — Barack Obama says he hasn't made a final decision about a military strike against Syria. But he says he's considering a limited and narrow action in response to a chemical weapons attack that he says Syria's government carried out last week.
Obama says that attack was a challenge to the world and threatens U.S. national security.
Obama's comment came after the U.S. released an intelligence assessment that found with "high confidence" that Syrian President Bashar Assad's government carried out a chemical weapons attack last week.
The U.S. says the attack killed more than 1,400 people.
Obama spoke before meeting at the White House with three Baltic leaders.
Study Ranks America's Top 25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods, All Have One Thing In Common... They Are Predominantly Black...
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(But of course, thanks to the left, we know this isn't the biggest problem facing the black community, it's racist white people who don't like Obama ;))
Via The New Observer:Liberals across America are reported to be aghast :o :o :o at a new survey by real estate website NeighborhoodScout.com which showed that the nation's 25 most dangerous neighborhoods all just happen to be in black areas. :o :o :o
"Using exclusive data developed by NeighborhoodScout, and based on FBI data from all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies in America, we here report those specific neighborhoods in America that have the highest predicted rates of violent crime per 1,000 neighborhood residents of all," that website reported.
"Violent crimes include murder, forcible rape, armed robbery, and aggravated assault. These neighborhoods are the epicenters of violence in America, where social issues are likely to ignite into violence and spread."
Rank 25: Chicago, IL (S Indiana Ave / E 60th St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 65.77
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 15
Rank 24: Tulsa, OK (E Apache St / N Quaker Ave)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 66.88
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 15
Rank 23: Memphis, TN (Saint Paul Ave / Walnut St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 67.26
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 15
Rank 22: St. Louis, MO (Cass Ave / N 9th St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 67.75
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 15
Rank 21: West Memphis, AR (E Broadway St / Stuart Ave)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 68.9
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 15
Rank 20: Indianapolis, IN (North Indianapolis)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 69.02
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 14
Rank 19: Flint, MI (Chambers St / Stonegate Dr)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 70.05
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 14
Rank 18: Nashville, TN (8th Ave S / Wedgewood Ave)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 70.59
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here: (in one year): 1 in 14
Rank 17: Indianapolis, IN (N Meridian St / E 34th St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 72.71
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 14
Rank 16: Chicago, IL (S Ashland Ave / W 76th St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 73.05
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 14
Rank 15: Houston, TX (Sauer St / Mcgowen St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 75.89
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 13
Rank 14: Rockford, IL (Kishwaukee St / Grove St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 77.6
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 13
Rank 13: Chicago, IL (S Homan Ave / W Roosevelt Rd)
Violent Crime Rate: (per 1,000): 80.17
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 12
Rank 12: St. Louis, MO (Delmar Blvd / N Euclid Ave)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 82.76
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 12
Rank 11: Memphis, TN (E Eh Crump Blvd / S 4th St)
Violent Crime Rate : (per 1,000): 82.91
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 12
Rank 10: Saginaw, MI (E Holland Ave / E Genesee Ave)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 85.64
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 12
Rank 9: Atlanta, GA (Hopkins St SE / Adair Ave SE)
Violent Crime Rate: (per 1,000): 86.14
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 12
Rank 8: Greenville, SC (Woodside)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 86.38
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 12
Rank 7: Detroit, MI (Wyoming St / Orangelawn St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 90.82
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 11
Rank 6: Houston, TX (Scott St / Wilmington St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 91.27
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 11
Rank 5: Spartanburg, SC (Washington Heights)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 96.55
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 10
Rank 4: Chicago, IL (S Halsted St / W 77th St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 116.56
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 9
Rank 3: Detroit, MI (Gratiot Ave / Rosemary)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 123.93
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 8
Rank 2: Detroit, MI (Mack Ave / Helen St)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 145.29
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 7
Rank 1: Detroit, MI (W Chicago / Livernois Ave)
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 149.48
Chances of Becoming a Victim Here (in one year): 1 in 7
Narcissist-In-Chief Refers To The
U.S. Military As "My Military"
(He is one arrogant SOB)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxTqnEVw4F4
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(This apparently is the first time since 1812, that the British haven't backed our military play. Nice going, Barry!)
Via NYDN:President Obama's attempts to form a coalition of nations willing to attack Syria appear to be splintering.
The biggest blow was dealt by the normally reliable Brits, whose Parliament stunned Obama on Thursday by voting down Prime Minister David Cameron's proposal to join the attack on Bashar Assad's government.
With Germany already saying no, the President was left with France, whose president, Francois Hollande, said its troops "have been put in a position to respond."
Feel Good Story Of The Day
NBC POLL:http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i//MSNBC/Sections/A_Politics/_Today_Stories_Teases/13336_NBC_Syria_Poll.pdf
Obuma's Approval Rating Plummets To Its Lowest Point Ever,
And Syria Is To Blame
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This was a long time coming, no? Business Insider has the details:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-approval-rating-syria-foreign-policy-poll-2013-8#ixzz2dWXv6VN3
President Barack Obama's approval rating has matched its lowest ever recorded in a new NBC News poll.
And huge drops in his foreign policy approval combined with poor marks for handling the situation in Syria are to blame.
Obama's overall approval rating stands at 44%. The only other time it has been that low in the NBC survey came at the end of 2011, after a bruising debt ceiling fight with Congress that ended in a downgrade of the nation's credit rating.
This time, the drop is largely due to foreign policy concerns. Only 41% approve of the way Obama is handling foreign policy, the lowest ever. Consider that just last December, 52% approved of the way he was handling foreign policy.
Meanwhile, Obamacare is a "train wreck" for many different reasons. The teen employment rate is nearing historic lows. Top secret classified information has been leaked. And of course, Syria is on fire and the president doesn't seem to have a clue what he's doing. A tough week, indeed.
Obumacare Forcing Employers To Cut The Employee Work Week
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Via WFB:http://freebeacon.com/obamacare-cuts-workweeks-to-record-low/
Employers of low wage workers are cutting work weeks as Obamacare implementation comes closer, according to Investors Business Daily.
Workweeks have shrunk over the last 18 months for 30 million workers in industries where non supervisors make about $14.50 an hour or less. Analysts say that employers are cutting hours for low wage workers to avoid penalties required by Obamacare. According to Business Daily:
As a whole, low-wage industry groups added just shy of 1 million jobs in the 18 months through June, but total hours worked grew one-third slower than payrolls over that span. In effect, the shorter workweek in low-wage industries boosted payrolls by 320,000.
For a profit-making firm facing a 40% federal and state tax rate, the $3,000 annual, nondeductible fine employers may face for each worker who accesses ObamaCare subsidies is equal to $5,000 in deductible wages.
Thus, for a worker earning $15,000 in compensation, ObamaCare could raise an employer's cost by one-third.
This entry was posted in The Obama Economy:
http://freebeacon.com/category/the-obama-economy/
Another Nigger Teen Having A "Hard Day" Arrested For
Stabbing 22 Year Old White Man To Death
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Via WFTS:http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/region_north_pinellas/clearwater/clearwater-police-announce-arrest-in-jason-pauls-murder
CLEARWATER, Fla. -Clearwater Police announced the arrest of 16-year-old Mychal King on Thursday. He is accused in the January murder of Jason Taylor Paul, the city's first homicide of 2013.
Police said King admitted to killing Paul for no reason other than he had a hard day with his family that night of January 6, and "just wanted to kill the first person he saw."
Police say 22-year-old Jason Taylor Paul was stabbed multiple times while riding his bike home from work late.
Jason's parents, John and Renee Langfritz had been distraught since the news of Paul's death, and desperate for closure, even offering a $10,000 reward for information.
Renee described her son as an intelligent, loving, funny man. She said his sudden loss has left a hole in the hearts of everyone who knew him.
"This coward, truly a coward, who would leave a young innocent man to die alone in the dark in the middle of the street, must be caught," she said at the time.
King will be charged with 1st Degree Murder. Detectives say he has a long criminal history and was already in jail on other charges.
Barry's Son?
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White House Visitor Logs Not public, Judge Rules
Via WFB:http://freebeacon.com/white-house-visitor-logs-not-public-judge-rules/
White House visitor logs are not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal judge ruled Friday, blocking the public from reviewing the records.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in a unanimous decision in Judicial Watch v. U.S. Secret Service that visitor logs for the office of the president are not agency records and therefore not subject to FOIA requests.
Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, originally sued the Secret Service in 2009 after the agency refused to turn over seven months of visitor logs from the White House.
Judge Merrick Garland Thursday that making the logs public record could "substantially affect the president's ability to meet confidentially with foreign leaders, agency officials, or members of the public. And that could render FOIA a potentially serious congressional intrusion into the conduct of the president's daily operations."
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said Friday's ruling keeps the public in the dark and the government unaccountable.
(This is pretty bad; it's always been generally assumed that these were public. It is easy to understand that some visitors might be classified. The answer is simply to black out their names. This ruling means that they can hide whoever is visiting and thereby, what is actually happening.
It is our house they are visiting, yet we are not allowed to know who goes in it, and we are not even allowed to visit it. Unreal... thanks alot, you SOB))
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Marist/McClatchy Poll On Voter ID:
82% Of Whites,
83% Of Non-Whites Support it
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Larry Elder ✔ @larryelder
Marist/McClatchy Poll: 82% of whites support "racist" voter ID. 83% of "non whites" support "racist" voter ID. http://tinyurl.com/maszjng 11:35 AM - 30 Aug 2013
218 Retweets 58 favorites ReplyAlso noteworthy: 72% Dems, 99% GOP, 87% Independents support it. So "Progressives", pack up your old kit bag of "racism" and take it somewhere else, no one here is buying it. Even most Democrats don't believe you.
Over 50% of Food Stamp Recipients Live in the Suburbs
Meet the new geography of poverty
by Matthew O'Brien
Aug 30 2013(http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/SuburbsNew.jpg)
The housing bust didn't just sink the world economy. It sunk the suburbs too.
Now, you probably think of white picket fences, big backyards, and perhaps a whiff of existential despair when you think about the suburbs. But you should think of economic despair instead. As Elizabeth Kneebone of the Brookings Institution points out, suburbanites made up almost 50 percent of food stamp recipients back in 2007 -- and 55 percent in 2011.
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This is actually worse than it sounds. Their share of food stamps use only went up 5 percentage points, but suburban households' total food stamp use doubled between 2007 and 2011. By comparison, total food stamp use went up by 69 percent for city households.
The Great Recession accelerated the rise of a new geography of poverty. Homes that were supposed to be lead to the American Dream lead to financial ruin instead. And, unfortunately, this isn't going away anytime soon -- not if the recovery continues to only be one for the top 1 percent.
Hows' that for suburban despair.
When Barack Obama entered the White House, 60.6 percent of working age Americans had a job. Today, only 58.7 percent of working age Americans have a job.
Since Obama has been president, seven out of every eight jobs that have been "created" in the U.S. economy have been part-time jobs.
The number of full-time workers in the United States is still nearly 6 million below the old record that was set back in 2007.
When the Obama era began, the average duration of unemployment in this country
was 19.8 weeks. Today, it is 36.6 weeks.
During the first four years of Obama, the number of Americans "not in the labor
force" soared by an astounding 8,332,000. That far exceeds any previous four year total.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the middle class is taking home a
smaller share of the overall income pie than has ever been recorded before.
When Obama entered the White House, the mortgage delinquency rate was 7.85
percent. Today, it is 9.72 percent.
Median household income in America has fallen for four consecutive years. Overall, it has declined by over $4000 during that time span.
The poverty rate has shot up to 16.1 percent. That is actually higher than when the War on Poverty began in 1965.
When Barack Obama entered the White House, there were about 32 million Americans
on food stamps. Today, there are more than 47 million Americans on food stamps.
At this point, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless. This is the first time that has ever happened in our history. That number has risen by 57 percent since the 2006-2007 school year.
The total amount of money that the federal government gives directly to the
American people has grown by 32 percent since Barack Obama became president.
When Barack Obama was first elected, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio was under 70 percent. Today, it is up to 101 percent.
During Obama's first term, the federal government accumulated more new debt than
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(Much of the damage to the economy is due to supply side economics, which has been wrecking our economy and incentives since being put into place by Reagan.
Those stats above, which are mostly true, are nothing but generalities from statistics that do nothing to suggest resolution. There is a pathway to resolution. Here's the only statistic that is relevant. Since initiation of supply side economic strategy nearly half of america is too poor to pay taxes while six people have more wealth than 42% of america. And this process is accelerating at a very fast rate.
Obviously before all the wealth winds up in the same place, the economy will break down and violent social upheaval will ensue. Hell, the way things are going, it's inevitable. Before then something will have to be done to end the upward distribution of other people's money by supply side economics. I'd guess the breaking point will be sometime in the next seven or eight years. We have that long to abandon Friedmanism before it self destructs... yike
...Warph)
As terrorists from the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) were guiding the cannon to fire artillery shells on a Syrian Army location, that terrorist unit got a direct hit that destroyed the artillery and whoever was on it. The field leader of that brigade was also injured as a result of the strike.(Warning: Lots of Allah snackbars prior to detonation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu1x0yBSeTs
CIA Airstrike Takes Out Al Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula Commander,
Two Of His Fighters
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(Whoops... no more jihad for him
)
Via LWJ:The US killed a local commander for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and two other fighters in the first reported drone strike in Yemen in 20 days. Kaid al Dhahab, the AQAP commander, served as the group's emir in the central province of Baydah.
The CIA-operated, remotely piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers killed Kaid and the two other fighters as they were traveling in a vehicle in the village of Manasseh in Baydah, tribal sources and officials told AFP. Mohammed Albasha, Yemen's official spokesan in Washington, confirmed Kaid's death in statement on Twitter.
"AQAP's commander in Baydah, kaid al Dhahab, the Emir of AAS [Ansar al Sharia, AQAP's political front in Yemen] in Rada'a was killed in an airstrike. He evaded capture\death before," Albasha said.
AQAP has not released an official statement confirming Kaid's death. The identity of the other two fighters killed in the strike have not been disclosed.
Nancy Pelosi: I Don't Want To Be Speaker Again,
"That's Not My Thing"
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(Oh yeah... America seen nodding in approval)
Via HuffPo:House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told National Journal she's not looking to fill the role of House Speaker again anytime soon.
When asked by reporter Ben Terris if she'd like to be House Speaker again, Pelosi was quick to reject the idea.
"No, that's not my thing. I did that," Pelosi said.But not everyone feels the same as Pelosi. President Barack Obama said in April 2013 said it would be
"whole lot easier to govern" with Pelosi as House Speaker.
"My job is to make sure we move the country forward, and I think we can best do that if Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the House once again," Obama said during a fundraiser.
Obuma In 2012: Taking "Military Action Unilaterally" In Syria Would Be A "Mistake"
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(I would love to hear his explanation for why it is not a mistake now)
Via Daily Caller:The U.S. now appears like it will act unilaterally to punish the regime of Bashar al-Assad for reportedly using chemical weapons on its own population — even though President Barack Obama said last year that taking unilateral action in Syria would be a
"mistake."Obama was elected president in 2008 promising a new era of multilateralism and cooperation with the world.
Just last year he said "unilateral" action in Syria would be "a mistake.""For us to take military action unilaterally, as some have suggested, or to think that somehow that there is some simple solution,
I think is a mistake," he said while taking questions from the press in March 2012.
Mentally Sick Obuma Delivers Statement On Syria...
Immediately Heads To The Golf Course for Round 142
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Via TWS:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-goes-golfing_751525.html
After delivering a statement on Syria this afternoon,
Barack Obama jumped in the presidential limo and hit the links.
Horrific! Two Women Gang Raped By 10-12 Nigger Teenagers
Suspects Range In Age From 12 To 17-Years-Old
August 30, 2013 9:30 PM
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(Sick, sick, sick!
Two women were brutally gang raped by a small mob of teenagers in Wilmington, Delaware on Thursday. The women were sitting on a park bench, in broad daylight, when a group of 10-12 nigger teenagers [ages 12-17 years old] walked up to the women and decided to dehumanize them.)
According to CBS Philly,http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/08/30/police-2-women-gang-raped-by-juveniles-in-wilmington-park/
Neighbors near Kosciuszko Park in Wilmington expressed anger and outrage Friday, after learning the details of a brutal gang-rape that happened in the park Thursday.
Police say two women, ages 32 and 24, were reportedly attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of 10 to 12 black male juveniles in Kosciuszko Park at about 6:54 p.m. Thursday. According to police, the suspects, who range in age from 12 to 17-years-old, remain on the loose.
The victims were transported to Christiana Hospital for treatment. ...
The women were released from the hospital Friday, but as of Friday night, police had no suspects and no witnesses.
"The new criminal we're seeing, they're bold, they're brazen, and they have a total disregard for life," said Maria Cabrera, city councilwoman-at-large in Wilmington.(Apparently, feral nigger zombies do exist.
And there are a dozen of them still running around Wilmington, Delaware)
The world is watching... an empty podium:
Obuma obnoxiously late for Syria speech
Shows Up 35 Mins Late
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(Empty podium for an empty suit...hmmm, how appropriate. Maybe he had to finish his telephone call to Reggie Love)
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5 Ways Obama's Unseriousness Has Been Exposed
by Syria Strike Chatter
by Bryan Preston
August 30, 2013http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/30/five-ways-obamas-unseriousness-has-been-exposed-by-syria-strike-chatter/?singlepage=true
Let's count up the ways in which the Syria debate has exposed Barack Obama's utter incompetence and lack of seriousness.1. Failure to consult Congress. The Obama administration has built no consensus among Congress for any kind of strike. Generalissimo Pelosi wants a strike, but beyond her there is very little appetite for any U.S. action.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/nancy-pelosi-barack-obama-syria-96065.html
Democrats are vocally skeptical. Republicans see a replay of Libya, just a couple of weeks before the first anniversary of the deadly attack in Benghazi. Even Dennis Kucinich is starting to make sense.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/08/28/kucinich-syria-strike-would-make-the-us-air-force-al-qaedas-air-force/
There may be good reasons for striking Syria, but those reasons have not been articulated well or explained to Congress. So Congress in turn cannot explain the policy to their constituents.
2. Failure to get buy-in from the American people. Fully 80% of the American people want President Obama to obtain congressional approval before striking Syria. Only about 9% currently support a strike. But Obama's failure to consult Congress until late in the game has probably left him too isolated to gain the approval and build up support. Now, a vote in Congress risks a replay of what happened in the UK Thursday — a down vote. That would be seen as a victory for Assad and Putin from Damascus to Tehran and well beyond, all the way to Caracas, Havana and Pyongyang.
3. No draft language for the UN to consider. [2007] Senator Obama warned against U.S. military action taken without United Nations approval. That's a dubious standard — our military is our military, not France's military. President Obama has learned (or is learning, hopefully) on the job that Russia likes to use its Security Council veto power to thwart American aims. Russia's foreign policy is fundamentally amoral, and fundamentally about advancing its own interests — if it can do so at America's expense, all the better. The Obama administration evidently has not even drafted any meaningful language for the UN Security Council to consider. Such language could have been used to put the Russians on the defensive to explain their veto, or at least isolate them, but without any draft language to consider, the UN is rudderless.
4. No military plan, no clear objective. What's the plan for striking Syria, and what's the plan for the aftermath of a strike? If anyone in the Obama national security team has any idea, they're not saying. They have leaked and talked about timing and specific targets, but not about much beyond "punishing" Assad. How do you punish a man who is facing sure and humiliating death if he loses the civil war to his enemies, without putting those radical enemies in power? It would take a very deft hand to pull that off. There is no evidence of said deft hand at work in Obama's Syria policy. In fact, there is no evidence that anyone in Obama's national security team is thinking deeply at all.
5. Lack of credible spokes men and women to obtain buy-in from the American people and the press. The faces of Obama's Syria war policy should not be his former campaign attack dogs. But the faces of the Syria policy so far have been Marie Harf and Jen Psaki at the State Department. Both of them hail from the Obama 2012 campaign. They both have one setting — defend their candidate and ruthlessly attack anyone who questions him. That's fine for a campaign, but wholly inappropriate for a president leading his nation into what may blow up into a world war. They both come across as the hard-edged campaign operatives that they are, not the serious policy advocates that they need to be. Obama's 2012 campaign operatives need to be sidelined in favor of career diplomats who have credibility among Democrats and Republicans on the Hill.
Now, we seem to be going it alone, and timing our attack to occur before Obama heads off to the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia next week. This isn't military timing, it's political timing. The headline talk of an attack is giving the Syrians time to plan their counters more effectively. They can move their targets, place human shields on them, equip Hizballah to threaten or attack Israel, and plan their propaganda following the strike.
This is foolishness. Dangerous foolishness.
Egyptian Security Forces Arrest Family Members
Of Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman Al-Zawahri
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Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri
(Hmmmm... I'm beginning to like the Egyptian military, they don't mess around with the Muslim Brotherhood or Al-Qaeda. Now if only they would do better protecting Christian churches)
Via Daily News Egypt:http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/08/31/al-qaeda-leaders-family-members-arrested-in-nasr-city/
Family members of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri were arrested in Nasr City after security forces raided their home on Friday.
The police investigation office announced that with the aid of the national security agency they received information regarding the presence of "Jihadi elements" in a building in Nasr City. They moved in "with the assistance of the special forces and the national security forces. They were able to arrest the accused without any resistance."
According to state-run Al-Ahram, the two people arrested were Al-Zawahri's cousin and nephew. Two pistols were found in the apartment while several computers were confiscated.
The arrested were transported to Tora prison south of Cairo. The prosecutor general's office referred the incident to the national security prosecutor's office as it falls "under its jurisdiction."
Al-Zawahri was appointed leader of Al-Qaeda international Jihadist organisation after Osama Bin Laden was killed. Mohamed Al-Zawahri, his brother and prominent Jihadist Salafi movement leader, was previously arrested in Giza.
Chuck Todd Of NBC News Lauds Obuma For
"Giving Some Power Back To Congress"
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Chuck Todd ✔ @chucktodd
Quite extraordinary: after 30 years of presidents strengthening powers of exec branch, POTUS is giving some of that power back to Congress.11:00 AM - 31 Aug 2013
760 Retweets 139 favorites Reply(Ummmmm... apparently the man has never read the Constitution and has no idea what he is saying. It is already the power of the Congress to give authorization; not POTUS. Already, the Democratic talking points are everywhere on how wonderful the President is to be going to Congress. Wonderful? He still says they don't have the authority, he does. But now that he's boxed himself in and has no other way out, he'll be glad to foist the decision off on Congress. Ah, fecklessness)
"Lurch" Kerry Was For Waiting On U.N. Inspectors
Before He Was Against It
By Sterling Beard August 30, 2013
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(Oh yeah... Typical Lurch move)
Via NRO:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/357267/kerry-was-waiting-un-inspectors-he-was-against-it-sterling-beard
[Lurch] Kerry seems to have a short memory.
Secretary of State [Lurch] said today that the United States would not wait on the United Nations' investigation of chemical-weapons use in Syria before deciding on a course of action, on the grounds that the investigation "can't tell us anything . . . that we don't already know." In addition, Kerry said that the U.N. "cannot galvanize the world to act as it should" because of "Russian obstructionism."
President Obama "will ensure that the United States of America makes our own decisions on our own timelines based on our values and our interests," he said, unconstrained by other countries' opinions.
While George W. Bush was in the White House, Kerry seemed to place a lot more value on the international community.
During a speech on September 21, 2004, Senator Kerry said that George W. Bush had "rushed to war" before United Nations weapons inspectors could complete their job, a charge he would later echo in the second presidential debate that fall. In the same 2004 speech, Kerry also blasted President Bush for going into Iraq without a "broad and deep coalition of allies."
Quote from: Warph on August 30, 2013, 02:29:16 PM
NBC poll: Nearly 80% want congressional approval on Syria
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100999169
My View on this: (What's yours, Forum)
Ultimately, the best way to avoid this war is to call your Congressman and do whatever they can to to stop Obuma, up to and including impeachment. Not much else is going to stop the Devils Clown.
The majority on the Left seem incapable of criticizing Obuma to any real degree, even as he is hell-bent on doing everything that made Bush such a terrible president. And a significant chunk of the Right will back just about any war, especially one that can be branded as anti-terrorism or anti-Islam. Given the reality of modern politics [which is nothing more than political tribalism], I don't really expect the bulk on the Left to try to do much here, especially given their general indifference towards or ignorance of the Constitution. But I am supremely disappointed by those on the Right who also show that they don't really give a damn about the Constitution, at least when it gets them the war(s) they so crave.
So let me be clear: if you support Obuma's actions in Syria, you give up your right to ever posture like you think the Constitution matters. That is the only question here. It's not about chemical weapons. It's not about Islam. It's not about terrorism, or rogue states, or tyranny. It's about the rule of law. And if you support Obuma's taking us to war without the authority of Congress, you don't give a damn about the rule of law. Period, the end.
...Warph
That's good!
Democrats and Republicans alike disregard the Constitution here and abroad.
Warph,
Another reason to like the Egyptian army even more
Egypt expels Al Jazeera journalists in crackdown on Qatari channel
By Kevin Liffey, Shadia Nasralla and Amena Bakr, Reuters
Egypt deported three Al Jazeera journalists on Sunday, days after the Qatari-owned channel carried appeals from leaders of ousted President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood to stage protests against the army-backed government.
The Gulf emirate was a strong financial backer of Brotherhood rule and vehemently opposes the army's overthrow of Morsi and the ensuing bloody crackdown on his movement.
Al Jazeera's offices in Cairo have been closed since July 3, when they were raided by security forces hours after Morsi was toppled, although the channel, broadcast from Qatar, can still be seen in Egypt.
Quote from: Warph on August 30, 2013, 02:29:16 PM
NBC poll: Nearly 80% want congressional approval on Syria
So let me be clear: if you support Obuma's actions in Syria, you give up your right to ever posture like you think the Constitution matters. That is the only question here. It's not about chemical weapons. It's not about Islam. It's not about terrorism, or rogue states, or tyranny. It's about the rule of law. And if you support Obuma's taking us to war without the authority of Congress, you don't give a damn about the rule of law. Period, the end.
...Warph[/color][/b]
Amen Warph Amen!
That is for certain.
How's this for apocalyptic literature. This was written by a pastor's wife in biblical prose as a commentary of current events. It is brilliant.
And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the people of the land called America , having lost their morals, their initiative, and their Will
to defend their liberties, chose as their Supreme Leader that Person known as "The One."
He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but He hypnotized the people telling them, "I am sent to save you." My lack of
experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my association with evil doers are of no consequence. I shall save you with hope and change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout the land that he who
proceeded me is evil, that he has defiled the nation, and that all he has built must be destroyed. And the people rejoiced, for even though they knew not what "The One" would do, he had promised that it was good; and they
believed.
And "The One" said "We live in the greatest country in the world. Help me change everything about it!" And the people said, "Hallelujah! Change is good!"
Then He said, "We are going to tax the rich fat-cats." And the people said "Sock it to them!" "And redistribute their wealth." And the people said,
"Show us the money!" And then he said, "Redistribution of wealth is good for everybody.."
And Joe the plumber asked, " Are you kidding me? You're going to steal my money and give it to the deadbeats??" And "The One"ridiculed and taunted him, and Joe's personal records were hacked and publicized. One lone reporter asked, "Isn't that Marxist policy?" And she was banished from the kingdom.
Then a citizen asked, "With no foreign relations experience and having zero military experience or knowledge, how will you deal with radical terrorists?" And "The One" said, "Simple. I shall sit with them and talk with them and show
them how nice we really are; and they will forget that they ever wanted to kill us all!" And the people said, "Hallelujah!! We are safe at last, and we can beat our weapons into free cars for the people!"
Then "The One" said "I shall give 95% of you lower taxes." And one, Lone voice said, "But 40% of us don't pay ANY taxes." So "The One" said, "Then I shall give you some of the taxes the fat-cats pay!" And the people said, "Hallelujah! Show us the money!"
Then "The One" said, "I shall tax your Capital Gains when you sell your homes!" And the people yawned and the slumping housing market collapsed. And He said. "I shall mandate employer-funded health care for every worker and
raise the minimum wage. And I shall give every person unlimited healthcare and medicine and transportation to the clinics."
And the people said, "Give me some of that!" Then he said, "I shall penalize employers who ship jobs overseas." And the people said, "Where's my rebate check?"
Then "The One" said, "I shall bankrupt the coal industry and electricity rates will skyrocket!" And the people said, "Coal is dirty, coal is evil, no more coal! But we don't care for that part about higher electric rates." So "The One" said, Not to worry.
If your rebate isn't enough to cover your expenses, we shall bail you out. Just sign up with the ACORN and you troubles are over!"
Then he said, "Illegal immigrants feel scorned and slighted. Let's grant them amnesty, Social Security, free education, free lunches, free medical care, bi-lingual signs and guaranteed housing..." And the people said,
"Hallelujah!" and they made him king!
And so it came to pass that employers, facing spiraling costs and ever-higher taxes, raised their prices and laid off workers. Others simply gave up and went out of business and the economy sank like unto a rock dropped from a cliff.
The bank banking industry was destroyed. Manufacturing slowed to a crawl. And more of the people were without a means of support.
Then "The One" said, "I am the "the One"- The Messiah - and I'm here to save you! We shall just print more money so everyone will have enough!" But our foreign trading partners said unto Him. "Wait a minut e. Your dollar is not worth a pile of camel dung! You will have to pay more... And "The One" said, "Wait a minute. That is unfair!!"
And the world said, "Neither are these
other idiotic programs you have embraced. Lo, you have become a Socialist state and a second-rate power. Now you shall play by our rules!"
And the people cried out, "Alas, alas!! What have we done?" But yea verily, it was too late. The people set upon The One and spat upon him and stoned him, and his name was dung. And the once mighty nation was no more; and the
once proud people were without sustenance or shelter or hope. And the Change "The One" had given them was as like unto a poison that had destroyed them and like a whirlwind that consumed all that they had built.
And the people beat their chests in despair and cried out in anguish, "give us back our nation and our pride and our hope!!" But it was too late, and
their homeland was no more.
You may think this a fairy tale, but it's not. It's happening RIGHT NOW
THIS really tells it like it is. After reading it -- and before you go into the bathroom to throw-up -- forward it to your friends and those you know
who care about our country and what is happening to it under the rule of Commissar Obamanation.
P.S. -- Yeah, this is too true to be funny.. Tragic, but not funny; tragic but true.
IF YOU CAN'T SEE THIS HAPPENING.... JUST RUB YOUR EYES AND BLINK A FEW MORE TIMES REALLY GOOD.
Good one, Ross... Yep, I sent it off to all the liberals I know. LOL...
If you get a chance, read:
"The half-educated are led astray by quacks and demagogues"
..."The Spoiled Children of Civilization'
Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers (1857-1927
"As a man may be intellectually a child long after he has ceased to be so physically, so nations comparatively enlightened contain many individuals who are but the spoiled children of civilization, contributing nothing to its progress, and who more or less belong to that intellectual infancy of mankind which has been called the mythic age."
...(The Progress of the Intellect, Robert William Mackay-1850)
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The look of the Devil.
This is one angry SOB.
The passive aggressive is strong in this Clown!
During President Barry Soetoro's weekly address commemorating Labor Day,
he seemed to channel Karl Marx as he laid out his ideas for building up the middle class:
"That's why, over the past month, I've traveled all across America, laying out my ideas for how we can build on the cornerstones of what it means to be middle class. A good job that pays a good wage. A good education. A home of your own. Health care when you get sick. A secure retirement even if you're not rich."How a President of a free nation can seemingly promise a job with good pay, healthcare, a home and retirement while keeping a straight face
knowing that it is not within his power to provide such things, is beyond me. In order for the Barry to come through on that Christmas list of goodies he would have to fundamentally transform the nation into
Communism so that everything would be owned by the Government and therefore distributed
"equally" to every citizen.
While that may give a warm and fuzzy feeling to our American Comrades on the left, it is a thought which churns my stomach because history has shown any such form of government only leads to a
totalitarian state run by murderous, political elites. If irony were an item of clothing, Barry would have a closet full of it because while he spoke of strengthening the middle class a few days ago, he plans on spending an evening at an event
that no middle class family could afford to attend.According to an article on The Hill...
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/319363-obama-to-spend-labor-day-in-la-with-afl-cio-fundraising-with-hollywood
...Barry plans on flying to Los Angeles in order to give a speech to his Communist pals in the AFL-CIO.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2010/12/09/afl-cio-leader-gladly-accepts-communist-party-award/
Upon completion, Barry will then spend that night at a
$32,000 a plate fundraiser:[/color]
"President Obama will travel to Los Angeles on Sept. 9 to recognize organized labor.
Obama will appear at the AFL-CIO convention, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday.
That night the president will also appear at a $32,400 per plate Hollywood fundraiser held at the home of Marta Kauffman, the co-creator of the sitcom "Friends," according to an invitation obtained by the Sunlight Foundation."To add insult to injury, Barry is even writing off the trip to see his pals in LA as apart of his
"Middle Class Economic Tour":
"The White House is billing the appearance at the labor convention as the latest in the president's summer-long middle class economic tour, according to the Los Angeles Times. Last week, the president visited schools across New York and Pennsylvania to tout his proposal to rank universities based on value, while previous stops have seen Obama call for new infrastructure improvements and reforming the corporate tax code."Like Communist leaders of old, Barry is more than happy to pay lip service to the people, while behind closed doors, he shows his true self as being an elitist.
So while my middle class, progressive, American friends sit around and enjoy their BBQ today, I hope they don't choke on their hamburger when they realize that their glorious leader's promises are nothing but
EMPTY AIR while their
"Man of the People" rubs elbows with the wealthy and eats his caviar from a golden plate.
Bon Appetit!
Oh... and I hope you had a Happy Labor Day.
...Warph
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There have been Egyptian media references to Obuma as a Muslim Brotherhood member. Now this! Obuma addresses and praises the American Muslim Brotherhood Convention.
(Someone somewhere needs to "Pull the plug" on this Son of a Bitch)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnS9-pm8vCY
Published on Jul 23, 2013
August 30 2013 MUST SEE VIDEO In this video does President Barack Obama say he is a muslim? Does he call the quran holy? Last Days End Times Prophecy update
Obama's Congress Opens With Muslim Imam's Prayer To Allah - One nation under Allah
"The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer" -- Barack Hussein Obama
On July 31, 2013, Imam Talib Shareef of Masjid Muhammad in Washington, D.C., opened a session of the United States Congress with a prayer on Capitol Hill. This is the America that Obama has been working so hard to create. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v24KIcRiJQ8
10 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam
#1 "Islam has always been part of America"
#2 "we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities"
#3 "These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam's role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings."
#4 "America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."
#5 "So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed"
#7 "As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith."
#8 "I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month."
#9 "That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
#10 "I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's story."10 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity
#1 "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation"
#2 "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation."
#3 "Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?"
#4 "Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages -- the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity -- are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life."
#5 "The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics."
#6 From Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope: "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."
#7 "I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup."
#8 "Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will--they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths."
#9 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: "If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount."
#10 "I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people."
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July 2013 the obama administration has urged the Egyptian military to stop using heavy-handed tactics against the Brotherhood,
Report: Obama 'covertly recruiting' Muslims as diplomats
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is said to have been quietly
recruiting Muslims to serve as U.S. diplomats part of the administration's outreach to Muslims to work for the federal government.
"The Obama administration is covertly recruiting Muslims to work at the
State Department as Foreign Service officers representing the United States in one of 265 American embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions worldwide," Judicial Watch said.
The two Muslim groups have been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. The
Investigative Project on Terrorism identified the Muslim American Society as
the U.S. chapter of the Brotherhood, with headquarters in Egypt.********
Egyptian Liberal Newspaper Claims Obama Is A Muslim Brotherhood Member, Says MB Leader Threatened To Release "Papers" Proving His Membership...
That would certainly explain Obama's inexplicable support for the Brotherhood.Via Shadi Hamid, who is the Director of Research at the Brookings Institute's Doha Center:[/color][/font][/size][/b][/center]
(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/1141747009/hamids_portrait2_normal.jpg) Shadi Hamid @shadihamid
Newspaper also claims that son of MB leader threatened Obama w- release of "papers" revealing his MB membership: pic.twitter.com/x4lV2JdS9110:54 AM - 1 Sep 2013
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Quote from: Warph on September 03, 2013, 01:17:46 AM
Good one, Ross... Yep, I sent it off to all the liberals I know. LOL...
If you get a chance, read:
"The half-educated are led astray by quacks and demagogues"
..."The Spoiled Children of Civilization'
Rev. Samuel McChord Crothers (1857-1927
"As a man may be intellectually a child long after he has ceased to be so physically, so nations comparatively enlightened contain many individuals who are but the spoiled children of civilization, contributing nothing to its progress, and who more or less belong to that intellectual infancy of mankind which has been called the mythic age."
...(The Progress of the Intellect, Robert William Mackay-1850)
Interesting essay!
I can't help to quote a portion that explains how I feel about some that have college educations. Pardon me.
"Unfortunately, the characteristics of the spoiled child do not vanish with childhood or even with adolescence. A university training does not necessarily transform petulance into ripe wisdom. Literary ability may only give fluent expression to a peevish spirit."
I have been trying to express something of this order and not quite able at least not in such a sensible way.
A college education in the field of medicine or engineering does not provide an education in common sense as related to debt or respect for other peoples money.
I am enjoying this mans essay and would recommend it to anyone else.
Thanks Warph.
McCain Caught Playing Online Poker ... During Syria Hearings
Senator laughs it off, says hearings were nearly 4 hours in
By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted Sep 3, 2013 6:47 PM CDT
Newser) – Hey, in his defense, John McCain already seems to know what he wants to do in Syria. But this is still a cringe-worthy gotcha moment: Photographer Melina Mara of the Washington Post snapped a photo of him playing online poker during today's Syria hearings on Capitol Hill. You can see it here(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics-live/the-senates-syria-hearing-live-updates/?id=ed01ca14-222b-4a23-b12c-c0b0d9d4fe0a). The camera doesn't lie, and McCain isn't even attempting to get evasive: "Scandal! Caught playing iPhone game at 3+ hour Senate hearing - worst of all I lost!" he tweeted after the photo started making the rounds, notes MSNBC.
He elaborated later on CNN:
• "As much as I like to always listen with rapt attention constantly (to) remarks of my colleagues over a three and a half period, occasionally I get a little bored and so I resorted. But the worst thing about it is I lost thousands of dollars in this game." He quickly added that it was fake money.
http://www.newser.com/story/173656/mccain-caught-playing-online-poker-during-syria-hearings.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_top
Quote from: ROSS on September 03, 2013, 05:19:15 AM
Interesting essay!
I can't help to quote a portion that explains how I feel about some that have college educations. Pardon me.
"Unfortunately, the characteristics of the spoiled child do not vanish with childhood or even with adolescence. A university training does not necessarily transform petulance into ripe wisdom. Literary ability may only give fluent expression to a peevish spirit."
I have been trying to express something of this order and not quite able at least not in such a sensible way.
A college education in the field of medicine or engineering does not provide an education in common sense as related to debt or respect for other peoples money.
I am enjoying this mans essay and would recommend it to anyone else.
Thanks Warph.
Glad you enjoyed it... you're probably the only one that read it... LOL.
The best example of common sense going awry:
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300°C. The Russians used a pencil...
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(LOL... You know your progressive presidency has come off the rails when you've lost Charlie Rangel...)
Embarrassment! Even Charlie Rangel Is Mocking Obama
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/rangel-obama-syria-embarrassing/2013/09/03/id/523548#ixzz2dsukCdml
President Barack Obama's handling of the Syria crisis has proved "embarrassing," Rep. Charles Rangel, a staunch Democratic supporter of Obama, told MSNBC Monday.
The president's declaration last year that the use of chemical weapons by the Damascus regime would cross a "red line" was "unheard of" the veteran New York Democrat said.
"I love Obama and you'll never find a truer Democrat than me," Rangel said. "But this whole idea of any president of the United States drawing lines saying that if any country does something that he considers wrong, that the nation is going to war, it's unheard of, drawing a red line," Rangel said.
"So, of course, it's embarrassing."
Rangel said he was glad the president reviewed the situation and that broader discussions will occur. Obama submitted a resolution to Congress Saturday to use force in Syria, and the House will take that up the issue after returning from break Sept. 9.
On CNN, Rangel, who has served in the House for 42 years, vehemently opposed the idea of going to war with Syria when so many questions are unanswered.
"There's absolutely no question I would vote no because there's so many questions," he said. "One of them is, is this a war? And if it's not a war, if it's a limited war, I never heard of anything in my entire life. If you're going to fire shells and bomb a community, that's war, and you have to have a declaration of war, and the Congress should legally, constitutionally approve it and I haven't seen that evidence."
How Obuma Got Elected
Uploaded on Nov 16, 2008
www.HowObamaGotElected.com looks at how media coverage of the 2008 election impacted what Obama voters knew (or thought they knew) about the campaign.Uploaded on Nov 16, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8#t=40
(Aaaaaahhh, jeez.. mmmm.... what can I say... I, ahhh... Holy Crap)
Published on Dec 16, 2012
Interview from 2008 - Especially in politics it is of the utmost importance to try to look behind the facade: who makes up the team of the presidential candidate? The future president of the United States of America is for a large part dependent on and being fed by his team of advisors and future cabinet members. Webster Tarpley wrote a book on the men and women behind presidential hopeful Barack Obama. He argues that there is more to Obama than his charismatic appearance and that some of his advisors pose a danger to the US and the world in case Obama might be elected to become the next US president. This interview was from 2008. Amazing how well he predicted what was to come and what we are in the midst of.Tip: Read the comments on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OygG10gaHTg
Webster Tarpley: Israelis Scream for US to Attack Syria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0S_oHtEGa0
The Brink Of World War 3
Published on Aug 24, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HIIw9dbWGA
Published on Aug 7, 2013 September 2013 Breaking News Mounting evidence suggests Israeli strike on Iran approaching
- Last Days End Times News Prophecy Update Sunday August 5th 2013 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey arrives in Israel to Talk About Israel plans for preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear sites.
Dempsey America's top military officer and his Israeli counterpart Maj. Gen. Benny Gantz will discuss boosting military cooperation between Israel and the United States.
General Dempsey is also scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister for Military Affairs Moshe Ya'alon to discuss Iran's nuclear program and an Israeli announcement that it might mount a unilateral military strike on Iran's enrichment facilities, Israeli daily Yedioth Aharonoth reports.
Denver Post-Denver, Colorado) -- Evidence is mounting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly prepared to order a massive preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear sites.
Here's why: Iran aggressively pursuing two routes to nuclear weaponry, one via uranium enrichment, the other via plutonium. Thus, Iran is steadily approaching the "red line," the point at which Netanyahu has said Israel would have no choice but to strike. Officials in Jerusalem do not see the Obama administration taking decisive action to prevent Iran from getting The Bomb. To the contrary, Israel sees President Obama and Secretary John Kerry weakening their resolve and opening the door to indefinite negotiations with the new Rouhani administration, which they perceive as "moderate." Israeli military leaders believe they have the operational capabilities to destroy -- or at least seriously damage -- Iran's nuclear program, but they have a shortening window of time, after which the task would be beyond Israel's capabilities.
July 15th, senior Israeli officials at the highest levels stating that Iran was dangerously close to the "red line" and that they were ready to go to war, but that they were waiting for any signs that the West -- and specifically the U.S. -- were going to take meaningful action.
However, not only has President Obama refused to take such action, his administration is going in the opposite direction. The White House is resisting tougher economic sanctions. It is lauding the emergence of a "moderate" like Hassan Rouhani as Iran's new president. It is offering an olive branch to Rouhani, actively opening the door to many more months of diplomatic negotiations. It is doing so even though the Ayatollah Khamenei -- the true power in Iran -- has shown no sign he is willing to back down from pursuing The Bomb, and even though Rouhani's claim to fame was that as Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, he fooled the world into believing that Iran was not advancing its nuclear program from 2003 to 2005 when the truth was Iran was, in fact, aggressively building its nuclear capacities.
"We are ready to engage in serious and substantial talks without wasting time," Rouhani said Wednesday, urging the West to focus on "talks, not threats."
Netanyahu, however, is not buying it. He is making the case that only intense and immediate pressure -- much harsher economic sanctions, plus clear evidence of a serious and looming military option -- has even the remotest hope of persuading Iran that the time for diplomatic games is over.
Consider the latest news stories that are relevant to this analysis:
Official: Israel capable of unilateral strike on Iran, if US not committed (Jerusalem Post)Key excerpts: Israel is capable of carrying out a unilateral military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities without operational support from the United States, a senior Israeli official said...on Tuesday morning. Although, such a strike would render less effective than one conducted by America, the unidentified official said.... The diplomatic official doubted US intentions to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons at all costs. American conduct regarding Syria, contrary to declarations by President Barack Obama, shows Israel that it cannot rely on US assurances, the Israeli source said. Israel fears the development of direct negotiations between Washington and Tehran would ease sanctions on the Islamic Republic in exchange for concessions, and would not satisfy the requirements imposed by Israel, the unnamed official added. Jerusalem and Washington differed on Sunday over the significance of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's inauguration, with Washington ready to work with Iran and Jerusalem warning that the new regime -- like the old -- is a threat to world peace."
Iran Seen Trying New Path to a Bomb: U.S., European Officials Say Tehran Could Start Making Weapons-Grade Plutonium by Next Summer (Wall Street Journal)
AFL-CIO Chief Admits Obamacare Train Wreck
Causing Businesses To Cut Employee Hours
(Same Clown whose union just lost 40,000 members
over his support for Obamacare)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhmqLB3B5yA
Latino Group Outraged Not Enough Hispanics
Are Getting Their Free Obamaphones-Latino Group Wants to Expand Fraud-Ridden 'Obamaphone' Program
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(The horror, unused welfare benefits!)
Via CNS News:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/alissa-tabirian/latino-group-wants-expand-fraud-ridden-obamaphone-program
The real problem with the Lifeline Program that provides free cell phones – commonly known as "Obamaphones" – to low-income individuals is not that it's been abused, but that not enough low-income Latinos are using the subsidized phones, according to The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
"Probably about 30 to 35 percent of the people who qualify for Lifeline would be Latino, and yet only about 15 percent of the users of Lifeline are Latino," Brent Wilkes, executive director of LULAC, said in a conference call Wednesday.
When CNSNews asked for a comment on documented reports of fraud and abuse in the "Obamaphone" system, he replied, "From our perspective, it's not that there's too much use, it's actually too little."
NPR Reminds Us: 'Some' Think That 'God Bless America'
Is a Truly Awful Scoop of 'Syrupy Nationalism'
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(It's almost like liberals don't love America... what do you think, Forum)
Celine Dion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MsUU9g63ac
Via Newsbusters:http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2013/09/03/npr-reminds-us-some-think-god-bless-america-truly-awful-scoop-syrupy-nat
On Monday night's All Things Considered, NPR interviewed Sheryl Kaskowitz, the author of a new book on the "iconic" song "God Bless America."
While NPR has no trouble excluding conservative views from their programs, the taxpayer-funded radio playground always enjoys highlighting the unpatriotic view, namely, that Woody Guthrie thought it was "a whitewash of everything wrong in America" and that some people (NPR listeners, surely) felt it was a "tune of syrupy nationalism and trivialized faith."
The song's story sounds interesting. Anchor Robert Siegel declared the song "has not only endured, it has become a statement of patriotism, of home-front support for troops at war. In the Vietnam era, it was an anthem of counter-protest. And while it has brought a lump to the throat of many an American, it has also annoyed many who hear it as a tune of syrupy nationalism and trivialized faith." The song was originally composed in 1918, then reworked for Kate Smith in 1938:
ROBERT SIEGEL: In the original lyric, the singer beseeches God to stand beside her and guide her to the right with a light from above, not through the night with a light from above. That had changed by 1938.
SHERYL KASKOWITZ: Yes, that's right. In 1938, that sense of something being guided to the right had an association with fascism.
WaPo Poll: 70% Oppose Arming Syrian Rebels, 59% Against Military Intervention
(Second poll of the day showing major opposition to getting involved militarily in Syria)
Via WaPo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/page/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2013/09/03/National-Politics/Polling/release_258.xml
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Churches Now Forced To Get Permits To Conduct Baptisms
September 2, 2013
http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/09/23763-missouri-baptists-force-national-park-service-to-back-down-on-demand-that-churches-get-permits-to-baptize-in-public-waters/
George Washington's baptism
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In a stand-off between Baptists seeking to exercise their religious rights and the National Park Service, the National Park Service just blinked, backing off of a requirement that churches get a permit (a two day process) before baptizing people in public waters.
(There's a lesson here for both Christians and conservatives. The government has no qualms about pushing people around, but if you're willing to stand up for yourself and shine a light on what they're doing, you'd be surprised how often the bureaucratic bullies will run for the hills rather than try to defend their autocratic behavior to the public)
Lurch Kerry & Gen. Dempsey Endorse The Pelosi Strategy On Syria
By Steve Schippert
It appears we are just going to have to approve President Obama's Syria war plan so we "can find out what's in it." After all, that's what Washington does now when something's just too darn hard to explain.
The Kerry & Dempsey Show in the Senate Tuesday practically begged for Nancy Pelosi to bust onto the scene and bail them out with another skit-like presser.If you think it an exaggeration, consider this mind-numbing exchange between Senator Bob Corker (R – TN) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Martin Dempsey.
DEMPSEY: The answer to whether I support additional support for the moderate opposition is yes.
CORKER: And this authorization will support those activities in addition to responding to the weapons of mass destruction.
DEMPSEY: I don't know how the resolution will evolve, but I support –
CORKER: What you're seeking. What is it you're seeking?
DEMPSEY: I can't answer that, what we're seeking.
It's as if the General is saying "I support more support. But only for the moderates, of course. Not the 'other' bad guys." Yeah, but what exactly do you want? "I don't know."
Did the dog eat your homework? Isn't this where the responsible kindly show them the exit? No.
This is where we instead expect the too-familiar British accent in the junk infomercial to breathlessly exclaim, "But wait! There's more!"
And indeed on Tuesday there was. Secretary of State John Kerry was not about to be left out of the reindeer games. On the issue of ground troops, he attempted a Foggy Bottom Jedi Mind Trick.
However, Mr. Kerry raised eyebrows by requesting that the use of troops not be explicitly ruled out in the proposal in case "Syria implodes" or other catastrophic developments unfold. "I don't want to take off the table an option that might or might not be on the table," he said.
Huh?
He later tried to walk that dog back into its cage by saying he was simply "thinking out loud." If that's the amusement park that's in his mind when he's thinking out loud, stop the ride now. I want off and I want a refund.
But that's your Secretary of State making "the case" for war. A war that's simply a case of Red on Red; bad guys vs. bad guys with a few good guys (Dempsey's "moderates"?) haplessly in the middle between ferocious and vicious.
And we're going to do what, exactly, in Syria at this point that furthers US National Security?
General Dempsey already told you. "I can't answer that."
U.N. Secretary Says U.S. Can't Act Against Syria
Without Security Council Permission
September 3, 2013
When he was a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama made it clear that, as he told the German people, he was a "citizen of the world." During his first four years in the White House, as the Obama team boasted, this meant his management style consisted of "leading from behind." A significant part of "leading from behind," of course, was making American foreign policy subordinate to the United Nations.(http://4-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/600x359xBan-Ki-moon.jpg.pagespeed.ic.g1CPW0Fefz.jpg)
Now, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wants to hold Obama to that promise. He issued a general warning that any strikes against Syria to punish it for chemical weapons would be illegal without UN Security Council approval:As I have repeatedly said, the Security Council has primary responsibility for international peace and security," Ban said at a news conference. "The use of force is lawful only when in exercise of self-defense in accordance with article 51 of the United Nations Charter and or when the Security Council approves such action.
He also warned that a military strike against Syria could unleash more turmoil and bloodshed in a crisis that has already killed more than 100,000 people.
"I take note of the argument for action to prevent a future use of chemical weapons. At the same time, we must consider the impact of any punitive measure on efforts to prevent further bloodshed and facilitate the political resolution of the conflict," Ban said.It seems almost petty to point out that both Russia and China, both of whom stalwartly support Bashar al-Assad's Baathist party government, are permanent members of the Security Council. So is Britain, whose parliament just voted down Prime Minister David Cameron's request for war authorization – the first such setback for a British Prime Minister in over two hundred years.
Obama Armed & Funded Syrian Rebel Savages
Behead 24 Bus Passengers, Including Mother & Baby
Read more at: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/09/barack-obama-armed-funded-syrian-savages-behead-24-bus-passengers-including-mother-baby/#1AyB0dgkUqbouI7j.99
The religion of violence has struck again and these are the savages that Barack Obama, John Kerry, and now John Boehner (no real surprise there) are wanting us to support. Alalam is now reporting that the Obama backed and supported al-Qaeda Syrian rebels forced 24 civilians off a bus traveling from Tarus to Ras al-Ain in the northeast of Syria and beheaded them all, including a mother and her baby.
Alalam reports: Al-Qaeda linked terrorists in Syria have beheaded all 24 Syrian passengers traveling from Tartus to Ras al-Ain in northeast of Syria, among them a mother and a 40-days old infant.
Gunmen from the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and Levant stopped the bus on the road in Talkalakh and killed everyone before setting the bus on fire.
According to media reports, the attack was carried out because the passengers who were from three different villages in Ras al-Ain, supported anti-terrorist Kurdish groups which were formed recently to defend Kurdish population against anti-Syria terrorists.
Bodies of a mother and her 40-days infant were also seen among the dead, which were recognized by their relatives.Saleh Muslim, a Syrian Kurdish leader said that the Kurd minority is facing an ethnic cleansing by these jihadists.
The al-Qaeda jihadists, including al-Nusra, are capturing Kurdish territories to enlarge an Islamic state.
These are the savages that we are being told we have to support because "Assad is a thug and a murderer." Well then I must ask, "What are these people?" Hmmm?
Interestingly enough John Kerry recently said that Obama is "deeply committed to getting to the negotiating table with the 'thug and murderer'" Assad. I suppose my question to Kerry is, what were you doing when you were at the table with Assad?
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The picture John Kerry doesn't want you to see. Kerry and his wife getting cozy with Bashar al-Assad at the dinner table.
Oh that's right, you and your wife were getting all cozy and comfy with the "thug and murderer," weren't you? You were are hugs and kisses and eating the best cuisine.
The stakes are high for the Syrian people. The stakes could be even higher for Americans should the warmongers in Washington have their way and send our troops into Syria.
BREAKING: Senate Panel Approves Resolution Authorizing Military Force In Syria
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Off to the Senate for a full vote next week.
Lurch Kerry Says Obuma "Drew A Red Line" On Syria Eight Hours
After Obama Said "I Did Not Set A Red Line"
Is war with Syria really about chemical warfare?
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Is it really about chemical warfare? Really?Then why has the little nation of Qatar spent 3 billion dollars to support the rebels in Syria?Michael Snyder at the Economic Collapse Blog reports:"Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won't let them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria? Of course. Qatar wants to install a puppet regime in Syria that will allow them to build a pipeline which will enable them to sell lots and lots of natural gas to Europe."And why is Saudi Arabia spending gobs to help the rebels and why has Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan been "jetting from covert command centers near the Syrian front lines to the Élysée Palace in Paris and the Kremlin in Moscow, seeking to undermine the Assad regime"?
Well, it turns out that Saudi Arabia intends to install their own puppet government in Syria which will allow the Saudis to control the flow of energy through the region. On the other side, Russia very much prefers the Assad regime for a whole bunch of reasons. One of those reasons is that Assad is helping to block the flow of natural gas out of the Persian Gulf into Europe, thus ensuring higher profits for Gazprom.
Now the United States is getting directly involved in the conflict. If the U.S. is successful in getting rid of the Assad regime, it will be good for either the Saudis or Qatar (and possibly for both), and it will be really bad for Russia. This is a strategic geopolitical conflict about natural resources, religion and money, and it really has nothing to do with chemical weapons at all.
Nothing to do with chemical weapons. Ok, no prob. Anyone for a game of poker?
FOX News' James Rosen reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin flatly called Obama Secretary of State John Kerry a liar for telling Congress on Tuesday that al Qaeda enjoys less sway over the Syrian rebel forces than it used to (see video below).(No Sh!t, Valdimir?... I would have never known that):o ::)
PUTIN: "We communicate with U.S. officials and assume that they are decent people. Kerry lies openly and he knows that he lies. This is sad."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdRAEsjTEvI
Joe Biden Calls for Impeachment if President Takes the
'Nation to War Without Congressional Approval'
Starring Obuma's favorite lap dog, Joe "Plugs" Biden
JOE BIDEN: Ladies and Gentlemen, I drafted an outline of what I think the Constitutional limits have on the war clause. I went to five leading scholars, constitutional scholars, and they drafted a treatise for me that's being distributed to every senator. And I want to make it clear, and I made it clear to the president, that if he takes this nation to war...without congressional approval, I will make it my business to impeach him. And that's a fact!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2kdfu1g1U
GOTCHA!!! Both the above video, and Biden's quote are 100% accurate, with the exception of replacing the word "Iran" with ".....," which would be replaced with "Syria," if Biden had a conscience. The year was 2007, and Buffoon "Plugs" Biden was playing hardball with then Republican President George Bush over the
invented belief that Bush would use the military to attack Ira
n without congressional approval, which is required by the U.S. Constitution. Biden was right!
Well, that was then, and this is now 2013, and the U.S. Constitution doesn't mean the same thing that it formerly did prior to the christening of dear leader. The War Powers Act has been redefined, and Plugs's been completely silent on the issue, as far as I can tell. Marxist globalist Obuma seeks his approval from the corrupt, America-hating UN, while giving Congress, the Constitution, and the American people the middle finger.
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Senate Panel Backs Use of Force Against Syria
Measure Says Goal Should Be to 'Change the Momentum on the Battlefield'; Pentagon Plans More Firepower
Report: Pentagon Considering Use of Air Force Bombers In Syria Attack Plan
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(Considering Syria's advanced anti-aircraft capabilities [thanks Russia!] I'd guess the B-2 stealth bomber is the most likely choice in the initial campaign)
WASHINGTON (WSJ) —
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324577304579054973488682120.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories
A key Senate panel on Wednesday backed President Barack Obama's request to strike Syria, while the Pentagon prepared to employ greater firepower to reach a shifting array of military targets.
The revised options under development, which reflect Pentagon concerns that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has dispersed his military equipment, include the use of Air Force bombers to supplement the four Navy destroyers armed with missiles that are deployed in the eastern Mediterranean. Initially, Pentagon planners said they didn't intend to use aircraft in the proposed strikes.
The Pentagon shift came amid an accelerating tempo toward U.S. military action in response to the Assad regime's alleged use of chemical weapons on a large scale Aug. 21, an attack U.S. officials say killed more than 1,400 people, including hundreds of children.
The Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean carry about 40 Tomahawks each. Air Force bombers could carry dozens more munitions, potentially allowing the U.S. to carry out follow-on strikes if the first wave doesn't destroy the targets.
Among options available are B-52 bombers, which can carry cruise missiles; low-flying B1s that are based in Qatar and carry long-range, air-to-surface missiles; and B-2 stealth bombers, which are based in Missouri and carry heavy guided bombs.
Like Mr. Assad, the Pentagon is trying to take advantage of the extra time before a U.S. strike. A senior U.S. official said that Mr. Assad's movement of equipment has helped the Pentagon identify additional targets at previously unknown locations.
"Could the delay remove a target? Yes. But it is also creating targets. We are finding things we didn't know existed," said the senior official, who declined to specify the types of targets.
***>> Job Interview <<***
Ultra Reality: What would you do in this situation?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynvKWYvyCqw#t=90
Egyptian media is publishing the image below of POS Barack Hussein Obuma as Satan himself.
(Wow! Such a huge contrast from the halos that Liberal U.S. media portray in all their images of Obama. Wonder if Liberal media or Bill O'Reilly will accuse Egyptian's of being racist? Didn't Liberals get upset with the History channel for a similar comparisonas I recall?)
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Raymond Ibrahim at PJMedia posted the following accompanying information:
Popular and widely read Egyptian newspaper Al Wafd published the above picture today portraying U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama as Satan himself. The unflattering picture has been making the rounds on Facebook in the Middle East and, according to Al Wafd, is representative of the hatred growing numbers of people in the region have for the American president, thanks to his staunch and unwavering support for Islamists and jihadiis — whether in Nigeria, Libya, Egypt, or Syria — even as they terrorize, murder, rape, and burn down Christian churches, that is, even as they engage in diabolical activities.
Michigan Professor Bullies Student During Anti-Republican Rant
Posted by Andrea Ryan on Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 8:14 PM
Guest post by Breitbart News writer, John NolteOn the first day of his creative writing class at Michigan State University, Professor William S. Penn was caught on video launching an eight-minute rant against "cheap" racist Republicans who don't want to pay taxes (after raping this country) or allow black people to vote. At one point the professor singles out a student he caught "frowning" and berates him or her in front of the class:–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUi0rUEc_wI
Campus Reform reports that the university will be "looking into" the event:"At MSU it is important the classroom environment is conducive to a free exchange of ideas and is respectful of the opinions of others," Kent Cassella, an MSU spokesman wrote.
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25 Quotes About The Coming War With Syria
That Every American Should See
By Michael Snyder, on August 29th, 2013
If Barack Obama is going to attack Syria, he is going to do it without the support of the American people, without the approval of Congress, without the approval of the United Nations, and without the help of the British. Now that the British Parliament has voted against a military strike, the Obama administration is saying that it may take "unilateral action" against Syria. But what good would "a shot across Syria's bow" actually do? A "limited strike" is not going to bring down the Assad regime and it is certainly not going to end the bloody civil war that has been raging inside Syria. Even if the U.S. eventually removed Assad, the al-Qaeda affiliated rebels that would take power would almost certainly be even worse than Assad. Even in the midst of this bloody civil war, the rebels have taken the time and the effort to massacre entire Christian villages. Why is Barack Obama so obsessed with helping such monsters? There is no good outcome in Syria. The Assad regime is absolutely horrible and the rebels are even worse. Why would we want the U.S. military to get involved in such a mess?
It isn't as if it is even possible for the U.S. military to resolve the conflict that is going on in that country. At the core, the Syrian civil war is about Sunni Islam vs. Shia Islam. It is a conflict that goes back well over a thousand years.
Assad is Shiite, but the majority of Syrians are Sunni Muslims. Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been pouring billions of dollars into the conflict, because they would love to see the Assad regime eliminated and a Sunni government come to power in Syria. On the other side, Iran is absolutely determined to not allow that to happen.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar have no problem with using Sunni terrorists (al-Qaeda) to achieve their political goals. And as a very important ally of the Saudis, the U.S. has been spending a lot of money to train and equip the "rebels" in Syria.
But there was a problem. The Syrian government has actually been defeating the rebels. So something had to be done.
If it could be made to look like the Assad regime was using chemical weapons, that would give the U.S. government the "moral justification" that it needed to intervene militarily on the side of the rebels. In essence, it would be a great excuse for the U.S. to be able to go in and do the dirty work of the Saudis for them.
So that is where we are today. The justification for attacking Syria that the Obama administration is giving us goes something like this...
-Chemical weapons were used in Syria.
-The rebels do not have the ability to use chemical weapons.
-Therefore it must have been the Assad regime that was responsible for using chemical weapons.
-The U.S. military must punish the use of chemical weapons to make sure that it never happens again.
Unfortunately for the Obama administration, the world is not buying it. In fact, people are seeing right through this charade.
The U.S. government spends $52,000,000,000 a year on "intelligence", but apparently our intelligence community absolutely refuses to see the obvious. WND has been able to uncover compelling evidence that the rebels in Syria have used chemical weapons repeatedly, and yet government officials continue to insist over and over that no such evidence exists and that we need to strike Syria immediately.
Shouldn't we at least take a little bit of time to figure out who is actually in the wrong before we start letting cruise missiles fly?
Because the potential downside of an attack against Syria is absolutely massive. As I wrote about the other day, if we attack Syria we have the potential of starting World War 3 in the Middle East.
We could find ourselves immersed in an endless war with Syria, Iran and Hezbollah which would be far more horrible than the Iraq war ever was. It would essentially be a war with Shia Islam itself, and that would be a total nightmare.
If you are going to pick a fight with those guys, you better pack a lunch. They fight dirty and they are absolutely relentless. They will never forget and they will never, ever forgive.
A full-blown war with Syria, Iran and Hezbollah would be a fight to the death, and they would not hesitate to strike soft targets all over the United States. I don't think that most Americans have any conception of what that could possibly mean.
If the American people are going to stop this war, they need to do it now. The following are 25 quotes about the coming war with Syria that every American should see...
1. Barack Obama, during an interview with Charlie Savage on December 20, 2007: "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
2. Joe Biden, during a television interview in 2007: "The president has no constitutional authority ... to take this nation to war ... unless we're attacked or unless there is proof we are about to be attacked. And if he does, if he does, I would move to impeach him."
3. U.S. Representative Ted Poe: "Mr. President, you must call Congress back from recess immediately to take a vote on a military strike on Syria. Assad may have crossed a red line but that does not give you the authority to redline the Constitution."
4. U.S. Representative Kurt Schrader: "I see no convincing evidence that this is an imminent threat to the United States of America."
5. U.S. Representative Barbara Lee: "While we understand that as commander-in-chief you have a constitutional obligation to protect our national interests from direct attack, Congress has the constitutional obligation and power to approve military force, even if the United States or its direct interests (such as its embassies) have not been attacked or threatened with an attack."
6. The New York Times: "American officials said Wednesday there was no 'smoking gun' that directly links President Bashar al-Assad to the attack, and they tried to lower expectations about the public intelligence presentation."
7. U.S. Senator Rand Paul: "The war in Syria has no clear national security connection to the United States and victory by either side will not necessarily bring in to power people friendly to the United States."
8. U.S. Senator Tim Kaine: "I definitely believe there needs to be a vote."
9. Donald Rumsfeld: "There really hasn't been any indication from the administration as to what our national interest is with respect to this particular situation."
10. Robert Fisk: "If Barack Obama decides to attack the Syrian regime, he has ensured – for the very first time in history – that the United States will be on the same side as al-Qa'ida."
11. Former congressman Dennis Kucinich: "So what, we're about to become al-Qaeda's air force now?"
12. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem: "We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal. The second choice is the best: we will defend ourselves."
13. A Syrian Army officer: "We have more than 8,000 suicide martyrs within the Syrian army, ready to carry out martyrdom operations at any moment to stop the Americans and the British. I myself am ready to blow myself up against US aircraft carriers to stop them attacking Syria and its people."
14. Khalaf Muftah, a senior Ba'ath Party official: "We have strategic weapons and we're capable of responding."
15. An anonymous senior Hezbollah source: "A large-scale Western strike on Syria will plunge Lebanon virtually and immediately into the inferno of a war with Israel."
16. Ali Larjiani, the speaker of the Iranian parliament: "...the country which has been destroyed by the terrorists during the past two years will not sustain so much damage as the warmongers will receive in this war."
17. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: "Starting this fire will be like a spark in a large store of gunpowder, with unclear and unspecified outcomes and consequences"
18. General Mohammad Ali Jafari, chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards: (an attack on Syria) "means the immediate destruction of Israel."
19. Israeli President Shimon Peres: "Israel is not and has not been involved in the civil war in Syria, but if they try to hurt us, we will respond with full force."
20. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "We are not part of the civil war in Syria, but if we identify any attempt whatsoever to harm us, we will respond and we will respond in strength."
21. The Jerusalem Post: "The lines between Hezbollah and the Syrian regime are so blurred that Israel will hold Damascus responsible if Hezbollah bombards Israel in the coming days, Israeli officials indicated on Wednesday."
22. Ron Paul: "The danger of escalation with Russia is very high"
23. Pat Buchanan: "The sole beneficiary of this apparent use of poison gas against civilians in rebel-held territory appears to be the rebels, who have long sought to have us come in and fight their war."
24. Retired U.S. General James Mattis: "We have no moral obligation to do the impossible and harm our children's future because we think we just have to do something."
25. Syrian refugee Um Ahmad: "Isn't it enough, all the violence and fighting that we already have in the country, now America wants to bomb us, too?"
WND EXCLUSIVE
Evidence: Syria gas attack work of U.S. allies
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Contrary evidence arises as U.S. considers punishing Assad regime
Published:
08/26/2013
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/video-shows-rebels-launching-gas-attack-in-syria/#uEW0VhKmIKM0gtvX.99
Video's and pictures showing that these are U.S.Backed rebels, the FSA (Free Syrian Army).
NEW YORK – As the U.S. considers a response to what it calls a chemical weapon attack by Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime that killed hundreds of civilians, reliable Middle Eastern sources say they have evidence the culprits actually were the rebel forces trying to take over the government.
Secretary of State John Kerry accused the Assad government Monday of covering up the use of chemical weapons in "a cowardly crime" and a "moral obscenity" that shocked the world's conscience. Kerry claimed the Obama administration had "undeniable" evidence "that the Assad government was culpable in the use of chemical weapons on civilians" in the Aug. 21 attack in Damascus suburbs.
Reports that the Obama administration is considering a military strike against the Assad government continued to circulate Monday. Meanwhile, U.N. weapon inspectors in Syria were fired upon by snipers as they attempted to investigate the site of the Aug. 21 attack.
Assad has rejected charges that his government forces used chemical weapons as "preposterous" and "completely politicized," the Los Angeles Times reported.
He argues Syrian forces were in the targeted area.
"How is it possible that any country would use chemical weapons, or any weapons of mass destruction, in an area where its own forces are located?" Assad asked in the interview with Izvestia, according to a translation provided by Syria's official news agency and published by the Los Angeles Times.
"This is preposterous! These accusations are completely politicized and come on the back of the advances made by the Syrian Army against the terrorists."Rebel attack?With the assistance of former PLO member and native Arabic-speaker Walid Shoebat, WND has assembled evidence from various Middle Eastern sources that cast doubt on Obama administration claims the Assad government is responsible for last week's attack.
A video posted on YouTube, embedded below, shows Free Syrian Army, or FSA, rebel forces launching a Sarin gas attack on a Syrian village.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/video-shows-rebels-launching-gas-attack-in-syria/#uEW0VhKmIKM0gtvX.99
Warph,
And you can bet the farm that those chemical weapons are marked, "the property of Saddam Hussein"---you know--the WMD's that "Bush lied and people died"
Quote from: jarhead on September 05, 2013, 08:06:16 AM
Warph,
And you can bet the farm that those chemical weapons are marked, "the property of Saddam Hussein"---you know--the WMD's that "Bush lied and people died"
(Video: Syrian Rebels Fire Gas Canister At Hospital With "Allah's Permission"...
Yep.. You got that RIGHT, buddy! They are still "moderates"... FSA/Al Qaeda/Humas/Hezbollah and Lord knows who else, supported by Obuma's Adm. & and Lurch Kerry using the same blue canisters that Saddam had in Iraq containing Sarin gas) New footage from September 3, 2013 shows militants from the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) using blue canisters/cylinders filled with an unknown gas mounted on top of shells fired on Syrian Army targets in different areas of Aleppo that are still under the control of the Syrian military.Published on Sep 3, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lLP-F9XbNg
Quote from: jarhead on September 05, 2013, 08:06:16 AM
Warph,
And you can bet the farm that those chemical weapons are marked, "the property of Saddam Hussein"---you know--the WMD's that "Bush lied and people died"
Jar...
A top Pentagon official who was responsible for tracking Saddam Hussein's weapons programs before and after the 2003 liberation of Iraq, has provided the first-ever account of how Saddam Hussein "cleaned up" his weapons of mass destruction stockpiles to prevent the United States from discovering them.
"The short answer to the question of where the WMD Saddam bought from the Russians went, was that they went to Syria and Lebanon," former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw told an audience Saturday at a privately sponsored "Intelligence Summit" in Alexandria, Va. (www.intelligencesummit.org).
"They were moved by Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) units out of uniform, that were specifically sent to Iraq to move the weaponry and eradicate any evidence of its existence," he said.FLASHBACK ON WMD
Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says
By IRA STOLL, Staff Reporter of the Sun | January 26, 2006
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Satellite photo of hundreds of trucks systematically leaving an Iraqi weapons dump, early 2003.
Instead they are located in Lebanon's heavily-fortified Bekaa Valley, swarming with Iranian and Syrian forces, and Hizbullah and ex-Iraqi agents,
Geostrategy-Direct.com will report in Wednesday's (Sept. 2, 2003) weekly edition.
U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebanon in January 2003.
The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.
U.S. intelligence sources believe the area contains extended-range Scud-based missiles and parts for chemical and biological warheads.
Mutually-lucrative Iraqi-Syrian arms transactions are nothing new.
Firas Tlas, son of Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas, has been the key to Syria's rogue alliance with Iraq.
He and Assad made hundreds of millions of dollars selling weapons, oil and drugs to and from Iraq,
according to the May 13, 2003 edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com.
The CIA now believes a multi-million dollar deal between Iraq and Syria provided for the hiding and safekeeping of Saddam's strategic weapons.
Not surprisingly, U.S. inquiries in Beirut and Syria are being met with little substantive response, U.S. officials said. The media is fond of saying, without question, that there were no WMDs found in Iraq.
This has always been untrue and easily refuted, if media did anything other than parrot the party line.
The question isn't about whether there were WMDs. The question has been how have we been letting the media get away with misstating the facts for all these years when ample evidence was there.
As the military reported, after we went into Iraq, chemical weapons, facilities and residue were in fact found, and kept being found for years afterward.Via NY Post from 2010:US did find Iraq WMD
by Don Kaplan
October 25, 2010
http://nypost.com/2010/10/25/us-did-find-iraq-wmd/There were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after all.
The massive cache of almost 400,000 Iraq war documents released by the WikiLeaks Web site revealed that small amounts of chemical weapons were found in Iraq and continued to surface for years after the 2003 US invasion, Wired magazine reported.
The documents showed that US troops continued to find chemical weapons and labs for years after the invasion, including remnants of Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons arsenal — most of which had been destroyed following the Gulf War.
In August 2004, American troops were able to buy containers from locals of what they thought was liquid sulfur mustard, a blister agent, the documents revealed. The chemicals were triple-sealed and taken to a secure site.
Also in 2004, troops discovered a chemical lab in a house in Fallujah during a battle with insurgents. A chemical cache was also found in the city. Note here that the present DNI James Clapper said in 2007 that much of the WMDs in Iraq had in fact been shipped to Syria.
This article notes in detail some of the shipments, that were in fact done with the assistance of Russia:Syria's Chemical Weapons Came From Saddam's Iraq
Posted 07/19/2012
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/071912-618875-syria-chemical-weapons-came-from-iraq-.htm#ixzz2e5tJ9o8A
War On Terror: As the regime of Bashar Assad disintegrates, the security of his chemical arsenal is in jeopardy. The No. 2 general in Saddam Hussein's air force says they were the WMDs we didn't find in Iraq.
King Abdullah of neighboring Jordan warned that a disintegrating Syria on the verge of civil war puts Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons at risk of falling into the hands of al-Qaida.
"One of the worst-case scenarios as we are obviously trying to look for a political solution would be if some of those chemical stockpiles were to fall into unfriendly hands," he said.
The irony here is that the chemical weapons stockpile of Syrian thug Assad may in large part be the legacy of weapons moved from Hussein's Iraq into Syria before Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Let us not forget also that "the cake was not a lie".
Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq
Last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts arrives in Canada
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/secret-us-mission-hauls-uranium-iraq/#.UiXp8Tash8E
Iran Plots Revenge, U.S. Says
Officials Say Intercepted Message to
Militants Orders Reprisals in Iraq if Syria Hit.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323893004579057271019210230.html
(What are the odds Obuma would respond? I'd say somewhere around .001%)
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Sept. 6, 2013
WASHINGTON — The U.S. has intercepted an order from Iran to militants in Iraq to attack the U.S. Embassy and other American interests in Baghdad in the event of a strike on Syria, officials said, amid an expanding array of reprisal threats across the region.
Military officials have been trying to predict the range of possible responses from Syria, Iran and their allies. U.S. officials said they are on alert for Iran's fleet of small, fast boats in the Persian Gulf, where American warships are positioned. U.S. officials also fear Hezbollah could attack the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
While the U.S. has moved military resources in the region for a possible strike, it has other assets in the area that would be ready to respond to any reprisals by Syria, Iran or its allies.
[...]
The Iranian message, intercepted in recent days, came from Qasem Soleimani, the head of Revolutionary Guards' Qods Force, and went to Iranian-supported Shiite militia groups in Iraq, according to U.S. officials.
In it, Mr. Soleimani said Shiite groups must be prepared to respond with force after a U.S. strike on Syria. Iranian officials didn't respond to requests for comment.
Iraqi Shiites have been sympathetic to the Alawite-dominated government of Syria and oppose U.S. strikes against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
U.S. officials said the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was one likely target. The officials didn't describe the range of potential targets indicated by the intelligence.
Lurch Kerry: We Will Help Al-Qaeda Rebels In Syria
If We Do NOT Bomb Their Enemies
(Can someone please explain the basics of war to Lurch)
Via NRO:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/357766/kerry-inaction-will-embolden-extremists-syria-andrew-johnson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUrPofabmxA
. . . "I guarantee you if we turn our backs today, the picture we all saw in the paper today and the media of those people shot, that will take place more because more extremists will be attracted to this, because they will be funded as the only alternative in order to take on Assad," Kerry told MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Thursday, referring to a New York Times report that featured a rebel group brutally executing pro-Assad forces.
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Syria crisis: al-Qaeda seizes village that still
speaks the ancient language of Christ
A branch of al-Qaeda fighting in the Syrian civil war has seized one of the few remaining villages where the original language of Christ is still spoken, residents say.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10289944/Syria-crisis-al-Qaeda-seizes-village-that-still-speaks-the-ancient-language-of-Christ.html
Update to this Story:BEIRUT (AP) — A nun and activists say rebel fighters have attacked a regime-held, predominantly Christian village, commandeering a mountaintop hotel and shelling the ancient community from there.
The nun, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, says the assault began around dawn Wednesday with a suicide bombing at a regime checkpoint outside the village of Maaloula.
She says she's heard firefights and regime airstrikes. The nun, speaking by phone from a convent in Maaloula, says regime troops are deployed at the village's entrance, while rebels have commandeered the Safir hotel overlooking Maaloula and surrounding caves.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirms the attack and says the rebels are from the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra.Al Qaeda-Linked Syrian Rebels Battle Government Troops For Control of Christian Village For Second Day
Via AP:
Syrian government troops battled al-Qaeda-linked rebels over a regime-held Christian village in western Syria for the second day Thursday, as world leaders gathered in Russia for an economic summit expected to be overshadowed by the prospect of US-led strikes against the Damascus regime.
Residents of Maaloula said the militants entered the village late Wednesday. Rami Abdul-Rahman, the director of the Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights, said the fighters included members of the of al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra group.
Despite heavy army presence in the village, Abdul-Rahman said the rebels patrolled its streets on foot and in vehicles, briefly surrounding a church and a mosque before leaving early Thursday.
The rebels launched the assault on the ancient Christian village of Maaloula – which is on a UNESCO list of tentative world heritage sites – on Wednesday after an al-Nusra fighter blew himself up at a regime checkpoint at the entrance to the mountain village. The village, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Damascus, is home to about 2,000 residents, some of whom still speak a version of Aramaic, the ancient language of biblical times believed to have been spoken by Jesus.
Heavy clashes between President Bashar Assad's troops and Nusra Front fighters persisted in surrounding mountains Thursday, according to the Observatory, which collects information from a network of anti-regime activists.
Speaking by phone from a convent in the village, a nun told The Associated Press that the rebels left a mountaintop hotel Thursday after capturing it a day earlier. The nun said the frightened residents expect the Islamic militants to return to the Safir hotel and resume shelling of the community below.
"It's their home now," the nun said. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Iran Threatens To Kidnap Family Members Of U.S. Officials, threatens brutal attacks on Americans, Obuma family, and Release Videos Of Them Being Killed, If Obuma Launches Military Strike On Syria
(And they're evil enough to do it)
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Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/05/iran-threatens-brutal-attacks-on-americans-obama-family-if-us-hits-syria/
As Congress debates whether to support President Obama's call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad's regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.
Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that "[w]e will support Syria to the end."
And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama's daughters should the United States attack Syria.
Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran's Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader's camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime's Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.
"Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the ... loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks]," he threatened. "In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation will be spread [around the world]."
A similar act was committed in a video of the torture of William Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in 1984 and later killed by Hezbollah on Iran's order. That video was dropped off at the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Former CIA Director William Casey later described what he saw in the video: "They had done more than ruin his body. His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and barbarous."
Vote Count Shows Obama Is About To Suffer A
Humiliating Defeat On Syria In The House
Posted Friday, September 6, 2013, 4:54 AM
Post by John Hawkins - Right Wing News.
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Barack Obama is the most autocratic President we've had in the United States since Woodrow Wilson. He doesn't care what Congress thinks about going to war with Syria and his administration has made it known that they're planning to bomb no matter how the vote turns out. In fact, the only reason Obama is going to Congress at all is because the American people are ferociously opposed to helping Al-Qaeda by bombing Assad and so Obama is hoping to spread the blame around for an unpopular war.
Naturally, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, John Boehner and Eric Cantor rushed out to back Obama on a wildly unpopular bombing campaign that their own supporters hate with a passion.
(If you've ever wondered why Republicans get called the "Stupid party," that may help explain it)
However, not every Republican is quite so dumb. There are quite a few conservatives who think backing an unpopular war that helps Al-Qaeda and isn't in our national interest probably isn't so smart. Furthermore, after spending 8 years screaming about a "rush to war" and a "cycle of violence," there are even a few liberals that are uncomfortable with the idea of bombing Syria to keep Obama from embarrassing himself.
Because of that, the pro-war vote tallies aren't looking so hot in the House.
President Barack Obama appears to be dangerously close to what would be an historic rebuke at the hands of Congress, if the current whip-count projections on the authorization to attack Syria continue to hold.
Pundits on both sides of the aisle say losing the high-stakes bid for congressional authorization would make Obama an instant lame-duck, and might well endanger his entire second-term agenda.
The resolution authorizing an attack on Syrian strongman Bashar Assad, as punishment for his use of chemical weapons against his own people, is still expected to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate.
But the real question mark all along has been whether the administration could muster enough support to get the attack resolution through the House. And there, the situation for the administration appears to be growing dimmer by the hour.
Various news organizations are contacting members of Congress to see where they stand on the attack authorization. While each outlet has different numbers, the ominous sign for the administration is that all of them show the "no" votes outpacing the "yes" votes by a more than a 3-1 margin.
Most alarming for the administration may be The Washington Post whip count.
The Post has contacted 371 of the 435 members of the House. Of those contacted, 204 representatives are against authorization or leaning against it. That compares to 24 members in favor and 143 members who are undecided, and 48 of the undecided representatives are Republicans.
Nancy Pelosi has never been particularly concerned about looking hypocritical, so you can expect her to push Democrats very hard to support Obama. The argument won't have much to do with Syria, it'll be more like, "It will make Obama look really bad if he loses this, so you have to vote for him!" Unfortunately for Obama, he's a lame duck who hasn't done much to build relationships in Congress, so that argument will have less resonance than you'd expect. As to Boehner and Cantor, they've made fools of themselves on this issue already and there'll be no whipping on the vote.
What this all adds up to is that win or lose in the Senate, Obama is likely to lose a bipartisan vote in the House on Syria. What happens from there is anyone's guess although Obama, being Obama, is likely to screw it up.
Is Peace Prize Winner Obama Starting World War III?
Posted Friday, September 6, 2013, 4:40 AM
(It's an Obuma World: Who knew the POS Clown who got an unearned Peace Prize
could cause so much world wide chaos... huh?)
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Putin is positioning his warships near Syria and China is joining Russia's lead in "Observing" warships.Obama is trying to silence the Congressional Black Caucus from voicing their opposition to invading Syria to avoid destroying the illusion of support.Jake Tapper reports that Diane Feinstein is "overwhelmed" with constituents against any action on Syria , but being loyal to making Obama look good, Feinstein dismisses their "negativity." Meanwhile, the Senate plans to vote on aiding al-Qaeda in Syria on September 11th anniversary.Russia compiled a 100-page report to prove Syrian rebels are responsible for the chemical weapon attack which refutes Obama Administration blame on Assad.Russia gave UN 100-page report in July blaming
Syrian rebels for Aleppo Sarin attack
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This image provided by Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show dead bodies after an attack on Ghouta, Syria on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. /APRead more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/05/201268/russia-releases-100-page-report.html#storylink=cpy
Florida Rep. Yoho Not Sure Obama Is An American
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SESHq58a71w
Published on Sep 5, 2013 Republican Congressman Ted Yoho came on Hardball Wednesday night to talk about Syria. Instead, the conservative tied himself in knots about President Obama's birthplace.
The Florida lawmaker argued against U.S. military action in Syria, which President Obama is pushing, insisting diplomacy was the answer instead of "guns and bombs."
Host Chris Matthews asked if Yoho would feel the same way if the president was a Republican, to which the Yoho said yes.
Matthews then asked if Yoho questioned Obama's legitimacy. Yoho said "No. He's been under enough scrutiny. We need to move on from that," and even pointed to a recent town hall meeting in which the president's birth certificate came up.
Yoho recounted asking his constituents if that was really the issue they wanted him to spend time on. Ninety-eight percent, he said, said "absolutely not."
Matthews asked Yoho: "So you accept the fact that he's a born American," to which the Sunshine State pol said "no comment."
"No comment?" Matthew said. "In other words, you question the president's legitimacy."
When pressed further, Yoho said "I haven't studied it enough to spend the time on it to come back with an intelligent answer, so I will not respond." He added when the U.S. gets Syria and the debt crisis are solved, "I'd be happy to talk to you."
Ouch! Only 63.2% of Americans Working – Lowest Since 1978
Posted by The News Commenter on
Friday, September 6, 2013
TheNewsCommenter.com New job numbers out today indicate a rosy picture for the economy. The 'low information' unemployment rate dropped to 7.3%. Great, right? Maybe not. The real story, as CNBC reports, is 312,000 people dropped out of the labor force, changing the calculus and giving us the 'best' unemployment number in months, and lowest labor force participation rate since 1978.
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From the CNBC article:The U.S. economy added 169,000 jobs in August, the Department of Labor said Friday.
Although that was an improvement from 104,000 jobs added in July, it was also slower than the average pace of job growth over the last 12 months, and missed economist expectations.
Job growth for both June and July was also revised lower by a total of 74,000 jobs.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate fell to 7.3%, but the decline came for the wrong reasons, as 312,000 people dropped out of the labor force. Only 63.2% of Americans now participate in the labor force — meaning they have a job or are looking for one. That's the lowest rate since August 1978.
Thunder From Down Under! Australia Poised To Dump
Their Labour Libs In Carbon Tax Revolt
Posted by
Friday, September 6, 2013
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/australia-shifts-right-as-tony-abbott-shrugs-off-reputation-for-gaffes-8801856.html
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Tomorrow Australians go to the polls to elect a new government, and it looks as though the liberal government is about to be humiliatingly dumped in favor of the conservative party.
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(They called the investigation team back, leaked the charges, but haven't arrested anyone despite obviously knowing who the suspects are. Just unforgivable!)
Obuma: The Most Hated Man In The World
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Narcissist-In-Chief Refers To The U.S. Military As "My Military"... AGAIN! He said this last Friday. He is one arrogant SOB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R_uO3GVzRY
(Uh, er, uh, you know, uh, uh, err, ya know, my military, uhh, you know, proportional response, uh, ahhh, you know, I, me, me, mine, uhhh uh...
Rant Time:
He says it so casually... he really believes he owns the military. This is outrageous.... this is a way to elevate himself... portray himself as a real leader in charge of all the military. It's obnoxious... considering he hates our troops and they know it. Only a military leader who was admired and respected by the men he commanded would call the soldiers HIS military. Like a great caesar of Rome whose men would die for him because they trusted and loved him. This is how the bastard ass-hole is trying to portray himself. It is unconscionable, vulgar and disgusting,
He is trying to steal honor on the backs of our soldiers even as he has allowed them be killed and done nothing. It makes me sick to my stomach to see this sick worm deign to be the leader of our military.
He is the worst kind of fcking coward wrangling for self-importance. He isn't fit to polish the boots of our soldiers.
Soooo...screw you, Obuma.... you thief of honor, decency and courage. The military is NOT yours you imbecile!
...Warph)
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Obuma backed Syrian Jihad "rebels" post image
of burning U.S. Capitol
(The genius in the White House is arming these Muslim terrorists
who envision marching on our Capitol)
Flashpoint Intelligence... A photo-illustration from the Facebook page of the al-Aqsa Islamic Brigades, a faction of the opposition Free Syrian Army fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, shows Islamic fighters marching away from a burning U.S. Capitol.
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A photo-illustration from the Facebook page of the al-Aqsa Islamic Brigades, a faction of the opposition Free Syrian Army fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad, shows Islamic fighters marching away from a burning U.S. Capitol.
Not one of 'bad guys,' but Syrian rebel group proclaims 'anti-American' bent By Robert Windrem, Investigative Reporter, NBC News, September 6, 2013
As debate grows over the extremism of some armed factions battling to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, an incendiary illustration on the Facebook page of one such group leaves little doubt where its leaders envision the uprising ending – with masked Islamic fighters marching through Washington, D.C., as the U.S. Capitol burns in the background.
The image is one of eight photos posted on the official Facebook page of the "Al-Aqsa Islamic Brigades," a small armed Sunni rebel faction fighting with the Free Syrian Army, the main umbrella military organization of the opposition forces. Two other photos posted on the group's page feature the widely recognized black flag of the al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist group, which operates freely in Syria.
Evan Kohlmann, a senior partner with the security firm Flashpoint Intelligence and an NBC consultant on terrorism, who discovered the image on Facebook and provided it to NBC News' investigative unit, said Al-Aqsa has not been designated as a terrorist group by the United States. But he noted that it fights alongside another Free Syrian Army force, the Tawhid Brigade, that has been linked to Jabhat al-Nusra, one of two rebel factions labeled terrorist groups by the U.S. government.
U.S. Military and Intelligence Officials to Obama: "Assad NOT Responsible for Chemical Attack"
"CIA Director John Brennan is perpetrating a pre-Iraq-War-type fraud on members of Congress, the media, the public – and perhaps even you"
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Despite the Obama administration's supposedly "high confidence" regarding Syrian government guilt over the Aug. 21 chemical attack near Damascus, a dozen former U.S. military and intelligence officials are telling President Obama that they are picking up information that undercuts the Official Story.http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-military-and-intelligence-officials-to-obama-assad-not-responsible-for-chemical-attack/5348576
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Is Syria a Trap?
Precedence: IMMEDIATEWe regret to inform you that some of our former co-workers are telling us, categorically, that contrary to the claims of your administration, the most reliable intelligence shows that Bashar al-Assad was NOT responsible for the chemical incident that killed and injured Syrian civilians on August 21, and that British intelligence officials also know this. In writing this brief report, we choose to assume that you have not been fully informed because your advisers decided to afford you the opportunity for what is commonly known as "plausible denial."
We have been down this road before – with President George W. Bush, to whom we addressed our first VIPS memorandumimmediately after Colin Powell's Feb. 5, 2003 U.N. speech, in which he peddled fraudulent "intelligence" to support attacking Iraq. Then, also, we chose to give President Bush the benefit of the doubt, thinking he was being misled – or, at the least, very poorly advised.
Secretary of State John Kerry departs for a Sept. 6 trip to Europe where he plans to meet with officials to discuss the Syrian crisis and other issues. (State Department photo)
The fraudulent nature of Powell's speech was a no-brainer. And so, that very afternoon we strongly urged your predecessor to "widen the discussion beyond ... the circle of those advisers clearly bent on a war for which we see no compelling reason and from which we believe the unintended consequences are likely to be catastrophic." We offer you the same advice today.
Our sources confirm that a chemical incident of some sort did cause fatalities and injuries on August 21 in a suburb of Damascus. They insist, however, that the incident was not the result of an attack by the Syrian Army using military-grade chemical weapons from its arsenal. That is the most salient fact, according to CIA officers working on the Syria issue. They tell us that CIA Director John Brennan is perpetrating a pre-Iraq-War-type fraud on members of Congress, the media, the public – and perhaps even you.
We have observed John Brennan closely over recent years and, sadly, we find what our former colleagues are now telling us easy to believe. Sadder still, this goes in spades for those of us who have worked with him personally; we give him zero credence. And that goes, as well, for his titular boss, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who has admitted he gave "clearly erroneous" sworn testimony to Congress denying NSA eavesdropping on Americans.
Intelligence Summary or Political Ploy?That Secretary of State John Kerry would invoke Clapper's name this week in Congressional testimony, in an apparent attempt to enhance the credibility of the four-page "Government Assessment" strikes us as odd. The more so, since it was, for some unexplained reason, not Clapper but the White House that released the "assessment."
This is not a fine point. We know how these things are done. Although the "Government Assessment" is being sold to the media as an "intelligence summary," it is a political, not an intelligence document. The drafters, massagers, and fixers avoided presenting essential detail. Moreover, they conceded upfront that, though they pinned "high confidence" on the assessment, it still fell "short of confirmation."
Déjà Fraud: This brings a flashback to the famous Downing Street Minutes of July 23, 2002, on Iraq, The minutes record the Richard Dearlove, then head of British intelligence, reporting to Prime Minister Tony Blair and other senior officials that President Bush had decided to remove Saddam Hussein through military action that would be "justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD." Dearlove had gotten the word from then-CIA Director George Tenet whom he visited at CIA headquarters on July 20.
The discussion that followed centered on the ephemeral nature of the evidence, prompting Dearlove to explain: "But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." We are concerned that this is precisely what has happened with the "intelligence" on Syria.
The IntelligenceThere is a growing body of evidence from numerous sources in the Middle East — mostly affiliated with the Syrian opposition and its supporters — providing a strong circumstantial case that the August 21 chemical incident was a pre-planned provocation by the Syrian opposition and its Saudi and Turkish supporters. The aim is reported to have been to create the kind of incident that would bring the United States into the war.
According to some reports, canisters containing chemical agent were brought into a suburb of Damascus, where they were then opened. Some people in the immediate vicinity died; others were injured.
We are unaware of any reliable evidence that a Syrian military rocket capable of carrying a chemical agent was fired into the area. In fact, we are aware of no reliable physical evidence to support the claim that this was a result of a strike by a Syrian military unit with expertise in chemical weapons.
In addition, we have learned that on August 13-14, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey started advance preparations for a major, irregular military surge. Initial meetings between senior opposition military commanders and Qatari, Turkish and U.S. intelligence officials took place at the converted Turkish military garrison in Antakya, Hatay Province, now used as the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and their foreign sponsors.
Senior opposition commanders who came from Istanbul pre-briefed the regional commanders on an imminent escalation in the fighting due to "a war-changing development," which, in turn, would lead to a U.S.-led bombing of Syria.
At operations coordinating meetings at Antakya, attended by senior Turkish, Qatari and U.S. intelligence officials as well as senior commanders of the Syrian opposition, the Syrians were told that the bombing would start in a few days. Opposition leaders were ordered to prepare their forces quickly to exploit the U.S. bombing, march into Damascus, and remove the Bashar al-Assad government
The Qatari and Turkish intelligence officials assured the Syrian regional commanders that they would be provided with plenty of weapons for the coming offensive. And they were. A weapons distribution operation unprecedented in scope began in all opposition camps on August 21-23. The weapons were distributed from storehouses controlled by Qatari and Turkish intelligence under the tight supervision of U.S. intelligence officers.
Cui bono?That the various groups trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have ample incentive to get the U.S. more deeply involved in support of that effort is clear. Until now, it has not been quite as clear that the Netanyahu government in Israel has equally powerful incentive to get Washington more deeply engaged in yet another war in the area. But with outspoken urging coming from Israel and those Americans who lobby for Israeli interests, this priority Israeli objective is becoming crystal clear.
Reporter Judi Rudoren, writing from Jerusalem in an important article in Friday's New York Times addresses Israeli motivation in an uncommonly candid way. Her article, titled "Israel Backs Limited Strike Against Syria," notes that the Israelis have argued, quietly, that the best outcome for Syria's two-and-a-half-year-old civil war, at least for the moment, is no outcome. Rudoren continues:
"For Jerusalem, the status quo, horrific as it may be from a humanitarian perspective, seems preferable to either a victory by Mr. Assad's government and his Iranian backers or a strengthening of rebel groups, increasingly dominated by Sunni jihadis.
"'This is a playoff situation in which you need both teams to lose, but at least you don't want one to win — we'll settle for a tie,' said Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli consul general in New York. 'Let them both bleed, hemorrhage to death: that's the strategic thinking here. As long as this lingers, there's no real threat from Syria.'"
We think this is the way Israel's current leaders look at the situation in Syria, and that deeper U.S. involvement – albeit, initially, by "limited" military strikes – is likely to ensure that there is no early resolution of the conflict in Syria. The longer Sunni and Shia are at each other's throats in Syria and in the wider region, the safer Israel calculates that it is.
That Syria's main ally is Iran, with whom it has a mutual defense treaty, also plays a role in Israeli calculations. Iran's leaders are not likely to be able to have much military impact in Syria, and Israel can highlight that as an embarrassment for Tehran.
Iran's RoleIran can readily be blamed by association and charged with all manner of provocation, real and imagined. Some have seen Israel's hand in the provenance of the most damaging charges against Assad regarding chemical weapons and our experience suggests to us that such is supremely possible.
Possible also is a false-flag attack by an interested party resulting in the sinking or damaging, say, of one of the five U.S. destroyers now on patrol just west of Syria. Our mainstream media could be counted on to milk that for all it's worth, and you would find yourself under still more pressure to widen U.S. military involvement in Syria – and perhaps beyond, against Iran.
Iran has joined those who blame the Syrian rebels for the August 21 chemical incident, and has been quick to warn the U.S. not to get more deeply involved. According to the Iranian English-channel Press TV, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javid Zarif has claimed: "The Syria crisis is a trap set by Zionist pressure groups for [the United States]."
Actually, he may be not far off the mark. But we think your advisers may be chary of entertaining this notion. Thus, we see as our continuing responsibility to try to get word to you so as to ensure that you and other decision makers are given the full picture.
Inevitable RetaliationWe hope your advisers have warned you that retaliation for attacks on Syrian are not a matter of IF, but rather WHERE and WHEN. Retaliation is inevitable. For example, terrorist strikes on U.S. embassies and other installations are likely to make what happened to the U.S. "Mission" in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, look like a minor dust-up by comparison. One of us addressed this key consideration directly a week ago in an article titled
"Possible Consequences of a U.S. Military Attack on Syria – Remembering the U.S. Marine Barracks Destruction in Beirut, 1983."
For the Steering Group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Thomas Drake, Senior Executive, NSA (former)
Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)
Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq & Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan
Larry Johnson, CIA & State Department (ret.)
W. Patrick Lang, Senior Executive and Defense Intelligence Officer, DIA (ret.)
David MacMichael, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst (ret.)
Elizabeth Murray, Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Middle East (ret.)
Todd Pierce, US Army Judge Advocate General (ret.)
Sam Provance, former Sgt., US Army, Iraq
Coleen Rowley, Division Council & Special Agent, FBI (ret.)
Ann Wright, Col., US Army (ret); Foreign Service Officer (ret.)
Which Syrian Chemical Attack Account Is More Credible?
By Jim Naureckas
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/09/01/which-syrian-chemical-attack-account-is-more-credible/Let's compare a couple of accounts of the mass deaths apparently caused by chemical weapons in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta on August 21. One account comes from the U.S. government (8/30/13), introduced by Secretary of State John Kerry. The other was published by a Minnesota-based news site called Mint Press News (8/29/13).The government account expresses "high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack" on August 21. The Mint report bore the headline "Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack." Which of these two versions should we find more credible?
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The U.S. government, of course, has a track record that will incline informed observers to approach its claims with skepticism–particularly when it's making charges about the proscribed weapons of official enemies. Kerry said in his address that "our intelligence community" has been "more than mindful of the Iraq experience"–as should be anyone listening to Kerry's presentation, because the Iraq experience informs us that secretaries of State can express great confidence about matters that they are completely wrong about, and that U.S. intelligence assessments can be based on distortion of evidence and deliberate suppression of contradictory facts.
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Comparing Kerry's presentation on Syria and its accompanying document to Colin Powell's speech to the UN on Iraq, though, one is struck by how little specific evidence was included in the case for the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons. It gives the strong impression of being pieced together from drone surveillance and NSA intercepts, supplemented by Twitter messages and YouTube videos, rather than from on-the-ground reporting or human intelligence. Much of what is offered tries to establish that the victims in Ghouta had been exposed to chemical weapons–a question that indeed had been in some doubt, but had already largely been settled by a report by Doctors Without Borders that reported that thousands of people in the Damascus area had been treated for "neurotoxic symptoms."
On the critical question of who might be responsible for such a chemical attack, Kerry's presentation was much more vague and circumstantial. A key point in the government's white paper is "the detection of rocket launches from regime-controlled territory early in the morning, approximately 90 minutes before the first report of a chemical attack appeared in social media." It's unclear why this is supposed to be persuasive. Do rockets take 90 minutes to reach their targets? Does nerve gas escape from rockets 90 minutes after impact, or, once released, take 90 minutes to cause symptoms?
In a conflict as conscious of the importance of communication as the Syrian Civil War, do citizen journalists wait an hour and a half before reporting an enormous development–the point at which, as Kerry put it, "all hell broke loose in the social media"? Unless there's some reason to expect this kind of a delay, it's very unclear why we should think there's any connection at all between the allegedly observed rocket launches and the later reports of mass poisoning.
When the evidence isn't circumstantial, it's strikingly vague: "We intercepted communications involving a senior official intimately familiar with the offensive who confirmed that chemical weapons were used by the regime on August 21 and was concerned with the UN inspectors obtaining evidence," the report asserts. Taken at face value, it's one of the most damning claims in the government's report–a veritable confession. But how was the identity of this official established? And what exactly did they say that "confirmed" chemical weapons use? Recall that Powell played tapes of Iraqi officials supposedly talking about concealing evidence of banned weapons from inspectors–which turned out to show nothing of the kind. But Powell at least played tapes of the intercepted communication, even as he spun and misrepresented their contents–allowing for the possibility of an independent interpretation of these messages. Perhaps "mindful of the Iraq experience," Kerry allows for no such interpretation.
Another key claim is asserted without substantiation: "Syrian chemical weapons personnel were operating in the Damascus suburb of 'Adra from Sunday, August 18 until early in the morning on Wednesday, August 21, near an area that the regime uses to mix chemical weapons, including sarin." How were these personnel identified, and what were the signs of their operations? How was this place identified as an area used to mix sarin? Here again the information provided was far less detailed than what Powell gave to the UN: Powell's presentation included satellite photographs of sites where proscribed weapons were being made, with an explanation of what they revealed to "experts with years and years of experience": "The two arrows indicate the presence of sure signs that the bunkers are storing chemical munitions," he said, pointing to an annotated photograph of bunkers that turned out to be storing no such thing. Powell's presentation graphically demonstrated that US intelligence analysts are fallible, which is part of why presenting bare assertions without any of the raw materials used to derive those conclusions should not be very convincing.
Kerry did offer an explanation for why the report was so cursory: "In order to protect sources and methods, some of what we know will only be released to members of Congress, the representatives of the American people. That means that some things we do know, we can't talk about publicly." It is not clear, however, why intelligence methods that produced visual and audible evidence that could be shared with the public 10 years ago cannot be similarly utilized today. It does point to why the $52 billion the United States spends on surveillance annually, according to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (Washington Post, 8/29/13), provides relatively little information that's of value to American democracy: The collection of information is considered so much more valuable than the information collected that it rarely if ever can be used to inform a public debate. Instead, as we discuss the dreadful question of whether to launch a military attack on another country, we are offered an undemocratic "trust us" from the most secretive parts of our government–an offer that history warns us to be extremely wary of.
Unlike the U.S. government, Mint does not have much of a track record, having been founded only about a year and a half ago (CJR, 3/28/12). The founder of the for-profit startup is Mnar Muhawesh, a 24-year-old Palestinian-American woman who believes, reasonably enough, that "our media has absolutely failed our country" (MinnPost, 1/18/12). One of its two reporters on its Syrian chemical weapons piece, Dale Gavlak, is a longtime Associated Press Mideast stringer who has also done work for NPR and the BBC. AP was one of the few US corporate media outlets to question official assertions about Iraqi WMDs, contrasting Powell's assertions with what could be discerned from on-the-ground reporting (Extra!, 3-4/06).
Mint takes a similar approach to the Syrian story, with a reporter in Ghouta–not Gavlak but Yahya Ababneh, a Jordanian freelancer and journalism grad student–who "spoke directly with the rebels, their family members, victims of the chemical weapons attacks and local residents." The article reports that "many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out" the chemical attack. The recipients of the chemical weapons are said to be Jabhat al-Nusra, an Al-Qaeda-linked rebel faction that was caught possessing sarin nerve gas in Turkey, according to Turkish press reports (OE Watch, 7/13).
Mint quotes Abu Abdel-Moneim, described as the father of a rebel killed in the chemical weapons attacks, as saying that his son had described carrying unconventional weapons provided by Saudi Arabia to underground storage tunnels–a "tubelike structure" and a "huge gas bottle." A rebel leader identified as J describes the release of toxic weaponry as accidental, saying, "Some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions." Another rebel referred to as K complains, "When Saudi Prince Bandar gives such weapons to people, he must give them to those who know how to handle and use them."
Of course, independent media accounts are not necessarily more credible than official reports–or vice versa. As with the government white paper, there are gaps in the Mint account; while Abdel-Moneim cites his late son's account of carrying chemical weapons, the rebels quoted do not indicate how they came to know what they say they know about the origin of the weapons. But unlike the government, Mint is honest about the limits of its knowledge: "Some information in this article could not be independently verified," the story admits. "Mint Press News will continue to provide further information and updates."
This humility about the difficulty of reporting on a covert, invisible attack in the midst of a chaotic civil war actually adds to the credibility of the Mint account. It's those who are most certain about matters of which they clearly lack firsthand knowledge who should make us most skeptical.
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SUCKERS!
Stephen Moore: Obuma's Economy Hits His Voters Hardest
Young people, single women and minorities have fared the worst during the past four years...
I'm thinking of carrying Wall Street Journal economic writer Stephen Moore's latest column in my pocket. Then when leftists tell me about "equality," and "income disparity," I can take it out, roll it up, and beat them across the nose with it shouting, "What did you do? What did you do?" Asking them to read it would probably be a waste of time.
The point of the piece is that "those who were most likely to vote for Barack Obama in 2012 were members of demographic groups most likely to have suffered the steepest income declines," since he took office. Which is to say that young people, single women, those with only a high school diploma or less, blacks and Hispanics have all gotten the business end of the 'O' shaft.Steve writes with great clarity so there's no point in my rephrasing him.
Read this:According to the Sentier research, households headed by single women, with and without children present, saw their incomes fall by roughly 7%. Those under age 25 experienced an income decline of 9.6%. Black heads of households saw their income tumble by 10.9%, while Hispanic heads-of-households' income fell 4.5%, slightly more than the national average. The incomes of workers with a high-school diploma or less fell by about 8% (-6.9% for those with less than a high-school diploma and -9.3% for those with only a high-school diploma).
To put that into dollar terms, in the four years between the time the Obama recovery began in June 2009 and June of this year, median black household income fell by just over $4,000, Hispanic households lost $2,000 and female-headed households lost $2,300.
The unemployment numbers show pretty much the same pattern. July's Bureau of Labor Statistics data (the most recent available) show a national unemployment rate of 7.4%. The highest jobless rates by far are for key components of the Obama voter bloc: blacks (12.6%), Hispanics (9.4%), those with less than a high-school diploma (11%) and teens (23.7%).
This is a stunning reversal of the progress for these groups during the expansions of the 1980s and 1990s, and even through the start of the 2008 recession. Census data reveal that from 1981-2008 the biggest income gains were for black women, 81%; followed by white women, 67%; followed by black men, 31%; and white males at 8%.
In other words, the gender and racial income gaps shrank by more than in any period in American history during the Reagan boom of the 1980s and the Clinton boom of the 1990s. Women and blacks continued to make economic progress during the mini-Bush expansion from 2002-07. "Income inequality" has been exacerbated during the Obama era.The whole gobsmacking thing is here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323324904579042830303535934.htmlPeople like me tend to make esoteric arguments for the free market — private property is the basis of freedom, equality is the trait of slaves and so on. But it is also true that, with light, smart regulation, free markets work better than anything else. For those blacks, Hispanics, young people and single women who were convinced otherwise? Wakey-wakey, sweethearts. You've been had.(http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4969969778426555&pid=1.7&w=262&h=188&c=7&rs=1)
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Large Asian tiger shrimp are caught in the Gulf of Mexico and brought in by shrimpers to Bayou La Batre, Ala. Shown here is Dennis Morrison's arm.Friend Or Foe!Asian tiger shrimp, which grow to the length of a man's arm and are establishing themselves in U.S. coastal waters, have scientists scrambling to figure out whether they will upset local ecosystems.
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Just give me a good dip net and a pair of clippers and I'll be happy to upset those Giant Tiger Shrimp's ecosystem! 8)
Quote from: Diane Amberg on September 07, 2013, 03:16:07 PM
Just give me a good dip net and a pair of clippers and I'll be happy to upset those Giant Tiger Shrimp's ecosystem! 8)
You got that right... with a pair of very cold bottles of Alaskan Amber beer.
Lurch: Nations That Back Syria Strike in 'Double Digits'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323623304579060692417802108.html
(I call it major BS)
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that the number of countries now ready to take military action against Syrian President Bashar Assad had reached "double digits."
"There are a number of countries in the double digits, who are prepared to take military action," Kerry said at a news conference after a meeting with European Union foreign ministers in Paris. "The overwhelming support is moving in the direction of holding the Assad regime to account."
Kerry, however, did not name the countries.Kerry's meeting with the foreign ministers followed President Barack Obama's efforts to build support among world leaders at the G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia.
He left the two-day session on Friday unable to build strong international support for limited strikes against Assad.
Pakistani Islamist With $10 Million U.S. Bounty On His Head
Appears Openly At Rally, Thousands Of Supporters Call For Jihad
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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wanted-u-india-islamist-leads-mass-rally-pakistan-190622172.html?#9q0EvCi
(Where's a drone when you need one?)
Conservative Landslide in Australian Elections
(Julian Assange's Wikileaks party got less than 1% of the vote. Now, if only conservatives could duplicate that here)
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/07/Australian-Landslide
The conservatives won a stunning landslide victory in Australia's national elections, capturing 53% of the vote Saturday. Conservative leaders emphasized a hard line against immigration, a carbon tax, and continual increases in government spending. This "no compromise" attitude became a key to victory.Conservative leader Tony Abbot, a former Rhodes Scholar and Catholic seminarian, has been the center of controversy throughout the campaign because of a "take-no-prisoners" attitude. And for a former boxer, this is hardly a surprise. Abbot has promised intense focus on an economy that is slowing down after a decades-long mining boom driven by demand for natural resources by China's manufacturers.
This brought an end to six years of Labor Party rule which was marked by an extremely unpopular decision to impose a hefty tax on "carbon polluters." Abbot promised to boost the country's fledgling economy by ending that tax.
But it took more than just a plan to cut taxes to turn this election into a route. Asylum and immigration became major factors.
Australians are concerned that an influx of asylum seekers are looking to skirt the standard immigration process, leading to a welfare state that is unsustainable by projected tax revenues. Abbot promised to protect Australians by stiffening these laws.
The unabashed conservative message that attracted Australian voters is being touted as a roadmap for opposition parties worldwide.
Little Rock school district will now make teachers wear underwear
(Hmmmm... Such rules always stem from a trigger event, so I'm curious as to who was flouting the lack of underwear)
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/06/little-rock-school-district-will-now-make-teachers-wear-underwear/
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The school district in Little Rock, Ark. has announced plans for a dress code that will require teachers to wear underwear. Every single day. Female teachers will have to wear bras, too.
An Aug. 29 letter from the Little Rock School District's Office of the Superintendent to all employees explains that the dress code will officially go into effect in the fall of 2014.
"Foundational garments shall be worn and not visible with respect to color, style, and/or fabric," the letter reads. "No see-through or sheer clothing shall be allowed, and no skin shall be visible between pants/trousers, skirts, and shirts/blouses at any time."
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Obuma, the First Lord of the Admiralty
By Geoffrey P. Hunt
September 8, 2013
Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore relentlessly ridicules the First Lord of the Admiralty. Their comic opera foretells our modern-day hero -- Barack Obama, the feckless bumbling Commander-In-Chief. Both pretenders arrived at their stations under identical circumstances:
[I am the monarch of the sea...
The ruler of the Queen's Navee,...
When at anchor here I ride,
My bosom swells with pride,
And I snap my fingers at a foeman's taunts;
But when the breezes blow,
I generally go below... Of legal knowledge I acquired such a grip
That they took me into the partnership.
And that junior partnership, I ween,
Was the only ship that I ever had seen.
But that kind of ship so suited me,
That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!Our entertainment tonight is the comic Commander who doesn't know a deep-water port from a riverbank, the Atlantic seaboard from the Gulf of Mexico, has never encountered a U.S. Navy corpsman, instead refers to one as a "corpseman", can't distinguish the living from the dead on Memorial Day, thinks a handshake is as good as a salute, uses a U.S. Marine as a personal valet in a rain shower, and who believes Hawaii is in Asia.
Obama casually dismisses the commander-in-chief duties under the Constitution, instead playing cards with his valets, and arranging daily golf outings surrounded by sycophants and Secret Service ball washers. Such an adolescent interpretation of the most powerful job on the planet is only interrupted by sybaritic campaign tours, as he yearns for adoration reserved for popes and men who walk on the moon.
Advocates for more limited government would normally cheer at the prospects of a part-time president, reluctant to enjoin in uncertain foreign ventures. A part-time president in the mold of Calvin Coolidge or even Dwight Eisenhower. And what's wrong with a president clearing brush at his ranch in California? Better than meddling in a civil war, choosing sides between a proxy state for Iran and Al Qaeda aligned insurgents.
Here we have president Obama, plunging us into a half-baked military adventure with incalculable risks, opposed by 70% of Americans. A war unwanted by the Pentagon, only provoked by Obama's team of amateur humanitarian ambassadors -- the likes of Susan Rice, Samantha Powers, and atrocities expert John Kerry -- whose selective outrage at the use of chemical weapons by unknowns in Syria marks the extent of Obama's event-driven foreign policy devoid of any meaningful enduring strategy. Meanwhile these same moralists-in-chief have been mute as Coptic Christians have been massacred and their churches firebombed by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Here we have President Obama AWOL while the Benghazi consulate was bombed by terrorists. He then lied about its origin, and then consented to his administration's stonewalling of the Congressional investigation. He now expects us to grant him sweeping authority to launch strikes against Damascus, whose consequences -- most likely to be catastrophic for the region and unaffordable to us -- will lead to unpredictable retaliation from Assad, assisted by his patrons Iran and Russia, that we cannot control.
Why should anyone support a part-time president who will trigger a full-time war? Even John Boehner & Co, along with erstwhile level-headed editors at the Wall Street Journal have succumbed to the bankrupt notion that the nation's credibility and the integrity of the office require endorsing Obama's reckless incontinence.
Republican hawks cling to the notion that the office of the president is separable from its incumbent. One honors the office, despite loathing its current occupant. Yet ceremonial respect, transcending incompetence, and self-indulgent trifling should never give way to blindly relegating the practical responsibility of taking a nation to war; to be run by a president who disdains the job of commander-in-chief and has displayed zero aptitude for its execution.
WS Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan's librettist, had fun mocking the British Navy during the latter days of Queen Victoria when the competence of Rule Britania was never in doubt. The pinafore of course is a woman or girl's sleeveless apron, a convenient towel to wipe one's hands of flour and sugar, but only a thin veil against splattering harsh chemicals and effusions of blood from eviscerated victims.
Be wary of Obama's enablers gleefully piped aboard his USS Pinafore, thinking a theater prop is a fighting ship of the line that can restore America's rightful place as the most powerful moral arbiter on the globe.
[...]Leftist Anti-War Protesters Picket White House...
Obama Goes Golfing
(As you can see from their signs, they're from the Stalinist ANSWER Coalition.
Note: Golf Round number 143)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/opponents-of-obamas-call-for-us-military-strike-against-syria-protest-outside-white-house/2013/09/07/25b9c354-17e9-11e3-961c-f22d3aaf19ab_story.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of people opposed to President Barack Obama's call for a U.S. military strike against Syria are picketing outside the White House.
Chanting "They say more war; we say no war," speakers say Saturday's picket line marks a line Congress should not cross as it prepares to vote on the issue.
Obama left the White House during the protest, traveling by car to Andrews Air Force Base to play golf with three aides.
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As I approach my twilight years, I am struck by the inevitability that the party must end. And one clear, cold morning after I'm gone, my spouse will awaken in the warmth of our bedroom and be struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't "anymore."
No more hugs, no more special moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat, no more "just one minute".
So while we have it, its best we love it, care for it, fix it when it's broken and heal it when it's sick.
This is true for marriage... and old cars, and children with bad report cards, and dogs with bad hips, and aging parents and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it.
Life is important, like people we know who are special. And so... we keep them close!
Suppose one morning you never wake up. Do all your friends know how you really feel? The important thing is to let every one of your friends know your true feelings, even if you think they don't love you back.
So, just in case I'm gone tomorrow, please rest assured... I voted against that idiot Obuma both times!
Quote from: Warph on September 07, 2013, 10:27:51 PM
Lurch: Nations That Back Syria Strike in 'Double Digits'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323623304579060692417802108.html
(I call it major BS)
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that the number of countries now ready to take military action against Syrian President Bashar Assad had reached "double digits."
It's far more than BS in my opinion, far more than lip service. It is exactly what I have been saying about our so called local leadership and elite they all expect us to believe their blatant lies and that is what they are, lies with out documentation. The same goes for accomplishing a work a round's to disobey the voters, and to ignore the constitution and the voters which is extremely unpatriotic whether on the national level or the local level. How dare these liars and cheats say the Pledge of Allegiance, how dare they call themselves patriots. How dare they call themselves honest people. SCUM is what comes to my mind. They lack true leadership skills if they have to lie and cheat. Just my opinion.
Impeachment and recalls should be running rampant in this country.
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Obuma To Violate Federal Law [again]By Slashing Military Pay Raise,
Will Negatively Impact Combat Troops
(Here comes the temper-tantrum over Syria. This might mean no attack on Syria anytime soon so he's going to take it out on our Military... BASTARD! Is this a**hole intentionally trying to incite the military? This will insure poverty conditions on Military families and those ordered to fight. Here's an idea, lets take some of that welfare BS that's directed to our 'illegals' and direct to where it belongs... to the Honorable, you scumbag. How about we dock all of your pay for 2014 and retro dock your pay back to 2009 for your miserable poor work performance, negligent, money you pissed away on Green Eco, dangerous work habits and not being available for that 3am emergency call from Bengazi? Meanwhile the terrorist Hasan gets $300,000 that never ever ever should have been deemed payable to him. And what about all those million$ spent on your crappy vacations you took on our dime... you sick #*@%! Worst President this Country has ever had!) (http://www.politifake.org/image/political/small/1307/instead-cutting-military-funds-congress-should-have-cut-vaca-politics-1373255799.jpg)
This news item seems to have gone unnoticed. It was among the Friday news dump before the start of the Labor Day weekend. Obama bypasses Congress once again by cutting the recommended 1.8 pay raise hike by almost half for the military.
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Obama can't seem to find the funds for our military (the only constitutional responsibility of the Federal government). However, Obama has no problem finding tax payer funds for the numerous lavish vacations, for IRS agent bonuses and IRS abuses, the tax dollars wasted on portraits of EPA's Lisa Jackson, $2.2 million to study Lesbian obesity, and other taxpayer misuse of funds too numerous to mention.
NavyTimes reports the following:In the midst of discussion about launching a U.S. military strike on Syria, President Obama moved Friday to reduce the size of January's military raise.
Instead of the 1.8 percent raise due troops under a federal pay formula, Obama notified Congress he is exercising his powers as the government's pay agent to cap the Jan. 1 increase at 1 percent.
The announcement came at 5 p.m. at the start of the Labor Day weekend after the news had been dominated for days about how the U.S. should respond to apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians by the government of Syria.
The pay decision is not unexpected and is not final, but it may diminish some support for a bigger military raise.
Obama's 2014 defense budget sent to Congress in February included a 1 percent pay increase, a recommendation endorsed by the Senate Armed Services Committee but opposed by the House of Representatives. The defense authorization and appropriations bills approved by the House include the 1.8 percent across-the-board raise, the amount called for under the Federal Pay Comparability Act requiring raises to keep pace with private-sector wages.
The Examiner adds the following:The Family Obama is figuratively still shaking the sand out of their shoes from last month's Martha's Vineyard vacation, and two short months prior to that, the clan enjoyed a $100 million African holiday.
What A 1% Pay Raise Looks Like...
If approved, a 1.0 percent raise equals $3.79 a week more (before taxes) for a newly joined member of the Armed Forces.
According to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service official website, the base pay for Pay Grade E-1 in all branches of the Armed Forces is $1,516.20 per month.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (APSE) official website lists the poverty line for a single person at $11,490.00 per month.
As cited by USmilitary.about.com, the highest pay raise the uniformed services received between 1976 and 2009 was during the Reagan presidency, the 1982 pay raise of 14.3 percent. During his administration, the smallest pay raise he ever approved as 2.0 percent in 1988.
During the Obama years, his pay raise approvals for the Services have seen a steady decline as cited by CNSNews.com:
•2009 – 3.9%
•2010 – 3.4%
•2011 – 1.4%
•2012 – 1.6%
•2013 – 1.7%
•2014 – 1.0%Via NewmaxObama has told Congress he will cap next year's pay raise for U.S. military personnel at 1 percent instead of boosting pay by 1.8 percent as called for by a federal law.
The president's move will negatively impact American combat troops scheduled to remain in Afghanistan through 2014.
The federal law says military pay raises must be based on the Employment Cost Index compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which ties military raises to private sector pay growth. Under that formula, military personnel should be getting a 1.8 percent pay raise beginning in January 2014, CNS News reported.
But the law also states that the president can inform Congress of an alternative pay adjustment "if because of national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare, the president considers the pay adjustment which would otherwise be required by this section in any year to be inappropriate."
Obama wrote to congressional leaders: "I am strongly committed to supporting our uniformed service members, who have made such great contributions to our nation over the past decade of war. As our country continues to recover from serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare, however, we must maintain efforts to keep our nation on a sustainable fiscal course."
He also asserted that his decision "will not materially affect the federal government's ability to attract and retain well-qualified members" of the military.
The House passed a bill in July authorizing the 1.8 percent raise, but the Senate has set the raise at 1 percent as recommended by Obama.
Military pay rose 1.7 percent this year and 1.6 percent in 2012.
Retired Air Force Col. Mike Hayden, director of government relations for the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), calculated that the reduced pay raise could cost an officer with 10 years of service about $52 a month next year, or $8,000 over the remaining years of his or her career. It would also cost a service member $20,000 in retirement pay.
Hayden wrote on the MOAA website: "Over the past 12 years, Congress worked hard to fix the 13.5 percent pay gap (and resulting retention problems) caused by repeatedly capping military raises below private-sector pay growth in the 1980s and 1990s.
"History has shown that once Congress starts accepting proposals to cap military pay below private-sector growth, pay caps continue until they have weakened retention and readiness."
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Approval of Congress Drops Even During Recess
Congress went into recess in August and many members spent time at home talking to constituents, but public opinion of their performance still dropped during the month.
Just 7 percent of likely voters think Congress is doing a good or excellent job, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. That's down from 10 percent a month ago.
When asked to rate Congress' performance as excellent, good, fair, or poor, 62 percent said poor.
Just 23 percent of respondents believe their representative in Congress is the best possible person for the job. Nearly twice as many, 44 percent, disagree, while 33 percent are not sure.
One-third of those polled think their local representative deserves re-election, but 38 percent believe their representatives do not deserve another term.
Only 15 percent of voters believe that most members of Congress care what their constituents think, and 64 percent disagree. But 27 percent say their own representative cares what they think, while 49 percent disagree.Other findings of the Rasmussen survey:•67 percent of voters continue to believe most members of Congress are re-elected because the election rules are rigged to benefit them.
•Among voters who say they are members of the tea party, 15 percent give Congress a good or excellent rating, compared to 6 percent who are not tea party members.
•78 percent of Republican voters think it is at least somewhat important for their leaders in Congress to work with the tea party, including 45 percent who believe it is very important.
•Only one quarter of voters believe the debt ceiling should be raised without any significant spending cuts.
Feel Good Story of the Day
Jihadi Work Accidents:
Seven Taliban Killed While Planting IEDs When Their
Bombs Detonate Prematurely In Two Separate Incidents
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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) — Seven suspected Taliban insurgents were killed in southern Afghanistan late on Friday when their own explosives detonated prematurely, officials said on Saturday. It is believed the militants were attempting to target Afghan security forces.
The insurgents were killed on Friday evening in two separate incidents in Kandahar province, which is located in Afghanistan's volatile southern region that was the birthplace of the Taliban movement two decades ago. There were no casualties among civilians or security forces in either incident.
The first explosion happened on a road in the Haday Ghra area of Arghistaan district when a group of Taliban-affiliated insurgents was attempting to plant improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to target Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in the area, according to a provincial spokesman, who said six of the insurgents were killed.
The second incident happened on a road near a school in the Girandi area of Panjwayi district. "The mentioned insurgent was trying to plant an IED to harm Afghan National Security Forces but it resulted in his own death by his own IED explosion," the spokesman said on Saturday.
Goofy Story of the Day
Leftists Heading To Syria To Act As "Human Shields" For Assad Regime
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(The useful idiot brigade)
Via Ynet:While many Western nations are evacuating their citizens from Syria and the neighbors countries ahead of a potential US strikes, human rights activists are planning to enter the war-torn country and act as "human shields" against a US assault, Britain's The Telegraph reported Saturday.
The 'International Human Shields' movement, started by a group of activists in Britain and the US, plans to bring to Syria civilians from countries around the globe, who will try to deter US strikes on the country by staking out potential military targets.
It is unclear whether the Syrian regime will allow the group to enter the country, but Franklin Lamb, a lawyer recently appointed as the legal adviser for the group said he had been "inundated" with requests from activists including from Canada, France, Italy, the US, and Britain.
Many of those volunteering to go to Syria also took part in the "Human Shields" movement that travelled to Baghdad in 2003, initially to protect hospitals and schools, and later, key government infrastructure sites.
(Why the Syrian conflict has backfired on Obuma)
Syrian Rebel American Allies Continue Christian Genocide –
Obama Sends Fruit Basket Thank You – Halal of Course
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By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
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Al-Qaida Rebel fighters have taken over a Christian village northeast of the capital of Syria, Damascus. The slaughter of Christians continues as Obama's allies cleanse the country of those EVIL Christians. This village speaks the language Christ spoke and now it is a ghost town.
From Yahoo! News:A Maaloula resident said the rebels, many of them sporting beards and shouting Allahu Akbar, or God is great, attacked Christian homes and churches shortly after moving into the village overnight.
"They shot and killed people. I heard gunshots and then I saw three bodies lying in the middle of a street in the old quarters of the village," said the resident, reached by telephone from neighboring Jordan. "So many people fled the village for safety."
Now, Maaloula "is a ghost town. Where is President Obama to see what befallen on us?" asked the man, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal by the rebels.
The barbaric Rebel advance into these towns and areas is led by the Nusra Front — Islamic extremists and BFFs of Obama – and they strike terror into the hearts of Syrians and religious minorities. They come to conquer – burn churches to the ground, murder, rape, pillage, torture and terrorize. And let's not forget – cleanse in the name of Allah shouting Allah Akbar! You know, as McCain points out, just like Christians do. Hope he remembers that when the Islamists gear up in America.
We have watched at every turn as Obama has courted Erdogan of Turkey, claiming him as his closest ally; bringing the Muslim Brotherhood into the White House; persecuting Christians at home and abroad; and forcing Islamic law and principles down our throats while disparaging America. Taqiyya reigns in our government halls and the enemies within are praying for a similar Christian cleansing and debasing in America, while Obama faces Mecca.
In case you missed this on FOX this weekend...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMAdxJObCoI
Published on Sep 7, 2013
Judge Jeanine Pirro uses her opening statement to rip obama over syria. Judge Jeanine's opening statement blasts amateur President Obuma on his handling of the Syria crisis.
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Lurch Kerry: Russia Offering To Help With Syrian Chemical Weapons
Because They're Worried About Obuma
(In reality they took a Lurch Kerry gaffe and turned it
into a way to save their key ally)
Via Politico:Secretary of State John Kerry told a closed meeting of House lawmakers that the Russian government is only seeking to help Syria because they believe the U.S. is serious about taking military action, according to multiple sources present.
The comment, which came in a classified briefing of the full House on Monday, mirrors public comments by other Obama administration officials: the threat of a military attack is working to bring the Russians to the negotiating table.
After enduring days of brutal skepticism from lawmakers of both parties, Kerry and other administration officials wasted no time in attempting to link Russia's proposal to the pressure coming from the White House. Democratic lawmakers agreed.
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(Krauthammer said it best: "The Russians were playing chess here with a set of rank amateurs.")
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/09/09/krauthammer_russians_were_playing_chess_with_rank_amateurs_and_saw_their_opening.htmlBRET BAIER: Just to review, Charles, this started with Secretary of State Kerry answering a question in London in which right after he said it, the State Department said he was speaking rhetorically about a situation we thought had very low probability of happening and suddenly it may be U.S. policy.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Because I think the Russians were playing chess here with a set of rank amateurs and understood that that gaffe gave them the opening they wanted. There are two issues here: chemicals and the retaining in power of Assad and of the Iran/Hezbollah/Assad/Russian axis dominating the region.
Because I think the Russians were playing chess here with a set of rank amateurs and understood that that gaffe gave them the opening they wanted. There are two issues here: chemicals and the retaining in power of Assad and of the Iran/Hezbollah/Assad/Russian axis dominating the region.
The Russians clearly, immediately saw that this enabled them to achieve their two objectives. Keep Assad in power. After all, if we're going to have negotiations, we have to essentially recognize Assad. It's not that Assad has to go, he's the guy that's going to have to provide the protection for any inspectors, locate the sites, he's going to have to be in there. He's going to be a negotiating element in this. He will remain in power and the Russians are going to have their air base, the naval base, everything that they have.
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Obuma Admits The Obvious:
Assad Not A "Credible" Threat To America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rufv3FLlK8s
(Whoa, Wait a minute... hasn't the Clown been arguing Assad represents a serious threat to America's national security? He's probably 'happy as a clam' tonight knowing the Russians could get him off the hook with Syria... of course, he'll take credit for it)
Via NRO:Assad has capability "relative to children," the president told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, but "he doesn't have a credible means to threaten the United States." Assad had previously said that if the U.S. attacks Syria, the U.S. should "expect anything" in retaliation, from the Syrian government and its allies.
Obuma Blames Iraq For His Failure To Convince
America We Need To Bomb Syria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piCxIrPQxTo
(If there's one thing we know about Clown Prince...
nothing is ever his fault. NOTHING!)
Via NRO:With a majority of the American people opposed to his plans and an uphill climb in Congress, President Obama laid the blame for the lack of support for military intervention in Syria on the previous administration's Iraq campaign.
"I'm not sure that we're ever going to get a majority of the American people after over a decade of war, after what happened in Iraq, to say that any military action, particularly in the Middle East, makes sense in the absence of some direct threat or attack against us," the president told PBS's Gwen Ifill. "Tomorrow I'll speak to the American people — I'll explain this is not Iraq, this is not Afghanistan, this is not even Libya."
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Poll: Only 1 In 10 Young Adults Plan To Buy Health Insurance Through Obumacare Exchanges
(Which is very bad news for Obuma because the only way the law works is if healthy young people buy insurance through the exchanges)
Via Red Alert:While much of the public relations campaign for President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has centered around convincing Millennials to buy into the law's healthcare exchanges, just 11 percent of them now plan to do so according to a new poll by The Morning Consult.
The August National Healthcare Tracking Poll, which was released Wednesday, found that only 11 percent of registered voters were "almost certain to purchase" insurance through the healthcare exchanges, while just 24 percent were "likely certain" to do so. Half of those who responded said they were "about 50-50″ when it came to buying into the healthcare exchanges, while 27 percent were unlikely to do so.
Overall, only 8 percent of registered voters were almost certain to buy into the exchanges and 14 percent were likely certain to do so.
While The Morning Consult study did find that 56 of registered voters aged 18-29 approve of the healthcare law, a majority of them do believe that their healthcare costs will increase when the law goes into effect in 2014.
http://themorningconsult.com/tracking-poll-topline-results-august-2013/
Obuma: Mooch Doesn't Want Us Involved In Another War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEPB8H9Nuiw
(Hence the reason he's backing off his "red line" tough guy act)
Via Weekly Standard:The NBC host asked, "Would you act without Congress? The answer could be yes, no, or I haven't decided."
"I think it's fair to say that I haven't decided. I am taking this vote in Congress and what the American people are saying very seriously. Because if you ask somebody, you know, I read polls like everybody else. And if you ask somebody, if you ask Michelle do we want to be involved in another war, the answer is no."
Illinois Charges 13 Democrats Including Jeremiah Wright's Daughter, Niece of Dem Rep. Danny Davis With Embezzling $13 Million From Taxpayer-Funded Grants
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(From the city that brought us Barack Hussein Obuma)
Via Chicago Sun-Times:The U.S. attorney's office in Springfield has been busy the past few years investigating a variety of fraud schemes involving state grants. Thirteen people have been charged so far, six who have pleaded guilty.
Two of them have ties to President Barack Obama. One is the daughter of his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Another was chief of staff to Obama's longtime friend Eric E. Whitaker when Whitaker was Illinois' public health chief.In all, prosecutors are alleging a total of
$16 million in fraud involving state health or commerce department grants and contracts.
Here's a brief look at each of the criminal cases that have been filed, which prosecutors built with help from the Chicago offices of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Internal Revenue Service, as well as from the Illinois Secretary of
State's Office's inspector general:
Defendants: Former County Club Hills police Chief Regina R. Evans and her husband, Ronald W. Evans Jr., former inspector general for the south suburb
Filed: April 4, 2012Charges: Conspiracy, wire fraud and money launderingDetails: The Evanses admitted spending about half of a $1.25 million commerce department grant on gifts for family members and friends and to pay off personal debt, including a mortgage on the New Regal Theater on Chicago's South Side. State Sen. Donne Trotter (D-Chicago) helped the couple's not-for-profit organization, We Are Our Brother's Keeper, get that state grant, which was to be used for a job-training program that was part of theater restoration efforts. Trotter has not been charged.
Status: Regina Evans to be sentenced Oct. 15; Ronald Evans Dec. 2.
Defendant: Quinshaunta R. Golden, former Illinois Department of Public Health chief of staff
Filed: Aug. 7, 2013
Charges: Bribery/theft, mail fraud and obstruction of justice
Details: Golden, a niece of U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), is accused of pocketing about $433,000 in kickbacks on health department contracts and grants that she oversaw. Her boss at the time, Obama's friend Whitaker, has said he is cooperating with the investigation and "had no firsthand knowledge of the activities outlined in [Golden's] indictment."
Status: Trial set for Oct.
Sick Story of the Day
8 Year Old Yemeni Child Bride Raped to Death
on Wedding Night by 40 Year Old Bridegroom
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Posted Monday, September 9, 2013, 1:54 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415871/Yemeni-child-bride-8-dies-internal-injuries-night-forced-marriage-groom-40.htmlAn 8-year-old Yemeni girl has become the latest victim of the Religion of Pieces. Harwan, the little girl, lived in the tribal area of Hardh in northwestern Yemen, near the Saudi border. Her family married Harwan to a bridegroom approximately five times as old as she was. He insisted on his marital rights on their wedding night. These marital rights included tearing Harwan's genitals so that she bled to death.
The toxic combination of tribal culture and Islam means that child brides are common in Yemen. According to a 2010 Yemeni government report, more than 25% of Yemeni brides are 15 and under. The results are sadly inevitable:
Tribal custom also plays a role, including the belief that a young bride can be shaped into an obedient wife, bear more children and be kept away from temptation.
In September 2010, a 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labour to give birth, a local human rights organisation said.
One wonders if the activists who are properly trying to end this barbaric custom have tried to argue that, "Well, yes, Mohamed did take a 9-year-old bride but he was able to do that only because he was special. You're not that special, so no pre-adolescent or barely adolescent bride for you."
The Daily Mail, which reported on this story, has a grim sidebar detailing the number of child brides world-wide and, worse, the acceleration in the trend of marrying girls off when they are still children:
Despite numerous campaigns from many of the world's largest charities and NGOs, the issue of child brides remains a global concern.
There are currently some 57.5 million child brides across the world, 40 per cent of which married in India.
Forty-six per cent of women in India were married before the age of 18, according to the National Family Health Survey-3.
Meanwhile, in Africa, 42 per cent of girls were married before turning 18 compared to 29 per cent in Latin America and the Caribbean.
But the number of child brides is estimated to rise to 140 million by 2020 if current trends continue, 18.5 million of which will be under 15 years old, analysts warn.
Statistics show that girls living in poor households are almost twice as likely to marry before 18 than girls in higher income households.
And girls younger than 15 are also five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s.
An AAAAAAAmazing Women!!!!
Quote from: jarhead on August 25, 2013, 09:26:21 AM
Warph,
Here's a good one for the forum:
Congress Women Duckworth, was BRILLIANT AND BRINGS TO MIND THE FACT THAT SHE IS A REAL WAR HERO. As a Capt. and Pilot her helicopter was shot down over Iraq. She lost both of her legs and use of her arm.
In this video she is addressing a man named Castillo. Mr. Castillo is an example of what is known as "Pin-Stripe Patronage", which is not confined to Chicago. In this system we create Welfare for the Rich by providing special contracts and government work for those who are connected and contributors to whomever is in power.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPOKm20wP4s
Mr. Castillo's business received $500 Million dollars in Federal Business because he claimed he was a disabled veteran.
MR. CASTILLO's INJURY CONSISTS OF HURTING HIS FOOT WHILE PLAYING FOOTBALL AT AN ELITE COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL! HE NEVER SERVED A DAY IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY, BUT HE CLAIMED PLAYING FOOTBALL AT COLLEGE PREP ROTC WAS AN INJURY AS IN COMBAT! THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE AND INFURIATING BEYOND BELIEF. WATCH WHAT DUCKWORTH SAYS TO THIS PIECE OF SHIT, WHO HAS MADE MILLIONS FROM HIS "DISABLED VETERAN STATUS", WHILE REAL DISABLED VETERANS LIVE UNDER VIADUCTS AND IN ALLEYS BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY SAW OR DID IN THE DEFENSE OF THIS UNGRATEFUL NATION.
http://www.upworthy.com/whats-the-worst-thing-you-could-say-to-a-congresswoman-who-lost-her-legs-in-battle-found-it?g=2
At the G-20 in St. Petersburg, Russia with Barry...
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Barack Obuma suffered the concrete platform of at least three diplomats who refused to greet him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGq5OnwlVyk
If you are as Obama fan don't read this web page.
PUTIN VS OBAMA
http://tomatobubble.com/putin_obama.html
Syrian Rebels Upon Seizing Christian Village:
"We Are From Al Nusra Front And Have Come To
Make Lives Miserable For The Crusaders"
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The "rebels" then put a gun to the head
of a Christian man and forced him to
convert to Islam.
Via AFP:http://news.yahoo.com/jihadists-force-syria-christian-convert-gunpoint-202910353.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CSchi9S5XAAwhXQtDMD
Jihadists who overran Syria's ancient Christian town of Maalula last week forced at least one person to convert to Islam at gunpoint and executed another one, residents said Tuesday.
"They arrived in our town at dawn on Wednesday and shouted
'We are from the Al-Nusra Front and have come to make lives miserable for the Crusaders," an Islamist term for Christians, said a still frightened woman who identified herself as Marie.
She spoke to AFP in Damascus, where she was attending the burial with hundreds of others of three Christians from Maalula killed in last week's fighting, the long line of mourners led by a brass band playing dirges.
"Maalula is the wound of Christ," mourners chanted as they marched through the narrow streets of the capital's ancient Christian quarter, their voices nearly drowned out by the rattle of automatic gunfire in honour of the dead.
There was an irony in that, as the assault on Maalula came only a couple of weeks before a major feast, the Exaltation of the Cross.
Maalula, around 55 kilometres (34 miles) from Damascus, is one of the most renowned Christians towns in Syria, and many of its inhabitants speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus.Recalling the events last Wednesday, 62-year-old Adnan Nasrallah said an explosion destroyed an archway just across from his house that leads into the town.
"I saw people wearing Al-Nusra headbands who started shooting at crosses," said Nasrallah.
One of them "put a pistol to the head of my neighbour and forced him to convert to Islam by obliging him to repeat 'there is no G-d but G-d.'""Afterwards they joked, 'he's one of ours now.'"
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Lurch Kerry Admits Al-Nusra Front Are
The Syrian Rebels "Best Fighters"
(Thanks for admitting the obvious, Lurch. According to the article above, they are really great bloody killers when it comes to killing unarmed peaceful Christians, you idiot)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL9jexg_IvI
(What Lurch won't admit is the Free Syrian Army he's praising fights alongside al-Nusra Front who are described as "the most aggressive and successful arm of the rebel force fighting in Syria with the slimey killers, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. All three factions affirmed their allegiance to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Lurch... you IDIOT!)
Apache GunShip At Work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5upX67vfU3w
(This is Toooooo Funny)
The Freakishly Close To Reality Second City Skit
Mocking Obumabots
Obumabot: "When I first saw the President speak in 2008 in a YouTube clip posted to my Facebook page, I knew he was going to be right all the time. So I support World War III, and IV, and any moon war the President may want to start." [...]
"So please, help us reach our goal of $1.6 trillion so we can make World War III a reality. Why? Because Obuma, man... Because Obuma."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ
There's Almost No Chance Russia's Plan for
Syria's Chemical Weapons Will Work
By Yochi Dreazen Tuesday, September 10, 2013
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(Hmmmm..... this is rather a shocker)
Russia's proposal for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to place his chemical weapons under international supervision and then destroy them is quickly gaining steam. Assad's government accepted the plan this morning. A few hours later, President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande announced that they'd seriously explore the proposal. It already has the backing of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and a growing number of influential lawmakers from both parties. There's just one problem: the plan would be nearly impossible to actually carry out.
Experts in chemical weapons disposal point to a host of challenges. Taking control of Assad's enormous stores of the munitions would be difficult to do in the midst of a brutal civil war. Dozens of new facilities for destroying the weapons would have to be built from scratch or brought into the country from the U.S., and completing the job would potentially take a decade or more. The work itself would need to be done by specially-trained military personnel or contractors. Guess which country has most of those troops and civilian experts? If you said the U.S., you'd be right.
"This isn't simply burning the leaves in your backyard," said Mike Kuhlman, the chief scientist for national security at Battelle, a company that has been involved in chemical weapons disposal work at several sites in the U.S. "It's not something you do overnight, it's not easy, and it's not cheap."
The decades-long U.S. push to eliminate its own chemical weapons stockpiles illustrates the tough road ahead if Washington and Damascus come to a deal. The Army organization responsible for destroying America's massive quantities of munitions says the effort will take two years longer than initially planned and cost $2 billion more than its last estimate. The delay means an effort that got underway in the 1990s will continue until roughly 2023 and ultimately cost approximately $35 billion.
To be fair, the U.S. stockpiles were far larger than Assad's. At its height, the American military possessed 30,000 metric tons of mustard gas, VX and sarin, the nerve agent Assad is alleged to have used to kill more than 1,400 civilians late last month. Assad has similar weapons, but his arsenal is thought to be significantly smaller. On the other hand, the U.S. chemical weapons were stored at just a handful of sites. Assad's have been disbursed across dozens of sites, many of them moveable, so locating all of the facilities would require the complete cooperation of the Assad regime. That, to put it mildly, is far from guaranteed.
Gwyn Winfield, the editorial director of CBRNe World, a magazine that focuses on biological and chemical weapons, said the success of the Russian proposal "depends on Assad making an honest declaration of where his munitions are" because the personnel charged with destroying those weapons can only work at sites they know about. Assad, he noted, would have a clear incentive to hold on to as much of his stockpile as possible.
"The reason why they created this program in the first place was as a deterrent to the expected Israeli nuclear option," he said. "That isn't going to go away."
Finding and securing all of Assad's sites would be the first major challenge of implementing the Russian plan, but it would be far from the only one. The U.S. and allied personnel would then have to separate the chemical substances themselves from the warheads of his rockets, artillery shells or missiles that had been designed to carry them to their targets. The work itself would be carried out by either robots, contractors or specially-trained troops, but it would still be time-consuming and dangerous.
The next step would be to physically destroy all of chemical weapons, which can be done through one of two basic options. The first involves spraying the chemicals themselves into specialized furnaces and then burning them at around 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for one or two seconds. Nerve agents like sarin can also be rendered largely harmless by the addition of liquid sodium hydroxide, while mustard gas can be made safe with alkaline water.
Kuhlman and other experts say that either type of destruction would have to be done at individual Syrian weapons sites because it wouldn't be safe to move the munitions to a centralized collection point inside Syria while the fighting was raging. That would mean either building a new permanent disposal facility at each Syrian compound or bringing in newly-fielded mobile disposal units from the U.S. The mobile systems have not been tested in an active warzone and may not have the capacity to deal with Assad's huge quantities of weapons.
"Do you really want to have truckloads of chemical weapons driving around Syria during the current situation?" Kuhlman asked.
A senior Defense Department chemical weapons specialist raised a different concern. The official said the biggest security challenge would be keeping the weapons safe while they were in storage waiting to be destroyed, not while they were being moved.
"Does an insurgent group attack a heavily armed convoy of chemical weapons moving from one or more sites to a disposal facility, with lots of response plans and forces on call, or does it wait until the weapons are moved and the nasty military units go away and the disposal operations start," the official said. "The easier target is the disposal facility."
The official said a safer option might involve moving the weapons out of Syria entirely and doing the disposal work in a safer and more secure country.
Cheryl Rofer, who supervised a team responsible for destroying chemical warfare agents at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, said none of the work could be carried out until there was a full cease-fire between Assad and the rebels fighting to unseat him. There are no indications, she noted, that either side was prepared to come to the negotiating table or wind down a civil war that has already been raging for more than two years.
"This is simply dangerous to do while people are shooting at each other," she said.
Libya, the most recent country to embark on a chemical weapon destruction effort, offers another cautionary tale. Tripoli declared its possession of the weapons in January 2004 and voluntarily promised to get rid of them. In November 2011, the Libyan government abruptly declared that it had found a "previously undeclared chemical weapons stockpile" that included several hundred munitions loaded with mustard gas. The destruction of those weapons was halted because of a technical malfunction at the disposal facility and is still not complete. Nine years after vowing to get rid of its weapons, Libya has destroyed barely half of its total mustard gas stockpile and just 40% of its stores of chemical weapons precursor elements.
Rofer noted that Syria has far more chemical weapons than Libya, so getting rid of them could take even longer. "I wouldn't be surprised to see this last as long as ten years," she said.
If the U.S. and Syria came to a deal -- a very, very big if -- there would still be one major wrinkle. Rofer said that the only two organizations who really know how to get rid of chemical weapons are the Russia and American militaries. Given the amount of time it would take to build and then operate the disposal facilities, those specially-trained troops would need to stay in Syria for years. In a war-weary U.S., keeping that many boots on the ground for that long would be an extremely hard sell.
Lt. Col. Allen West: "Obama Has Shown Incompetence and Weakness-
Looks Like A Confused Community Organizer"
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Never Forget...
Today we remember the thousands who lost their lives to Islamic terrorists in 2001 and 2012. America must not lose sight of the fact that the enemy who carried out these atrocities is stronger than ever.
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"May G-d rest the fallen and bring comfort to their families. May He also rip the blinders from the eyes of those who have been blinded and strike down the foes of this nation... both foreign and domestic."
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They were denied a permit and showed up anyway.
Miss Kansas is not in Kansas anymore. And the Miss America pageant has never seen anyone like her.
First off, Miss Kansas Theresa Vail is a sergeant in the U.S. Army, only the second contestant ever to be on active duty.
"Nobody expects a soldier to be a beauty queen," Vail told People magazine. "But I'm all about breaking stereotypes."
Second, Sgt. Vail has big tattoos. Two of them. One, the insignia for the U.S. Army Dental Corps, is on her left shoulder, while a massive version of the Serenity Prayer runs down her right side. And when she struts her stuff in the bikini contest in the Miss America competition this week in Atlantic City, they'll both be on display for the world to see.
"My whole platform is empowering women to overcome stereotypes and break barriers. What a hypocrite I would be if I covered my ink," Vail said. "How can I tell other women to be fearless and true to themselves if I can't do the same? I am who I am, tattoos and all."
Sgt. Vail is also an M16 marksman, a bow hunter, and a mechanic. Only recently did she add beauty queen to her resume, when she entered her first pageant just nine months ago on the advice of her commanding officer. When she was told she wouldn't be able to use archery as her talent, she had to pick another one and quick.
She chose to sing opera.
"I'd never sung opera in my life," Vail says. Forty-eight hours later she had mastered a Pavarotti piece she found on Youtube, and won the Miss Kansas talent competition.
It's all about showing girls they can do anything they want to," Vail said. "I want to help them develop confidence, to let them know that they have what it takes to accomplish anything they want to accomplish. I know many young girls look at beauty candidates and think, 'What a perfect life they have.' But I want them to know that I haven't led a perfect life. And that beauty comes from the inside.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/09/11/miss-kansas-is-deer-hunting-tattoo-wearing-seargent-in-us-army/#ixzz2ee1gtIVi
CA Gov. Jerry Brown To Sign Bill Approving
Non-Physician Abortions
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(Welcome to CA's No.#1 IDIOT, Gov. MoonBeam. I already foresee the women who will die because of this bill, which, in its zeal to increase abortions, cares not a whit for the health of the mother)
Via Breitbart:http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/13/Gov-Brown-to-Sign-Bill-Legalizing-Non-Physician-Abortions-in-CA
A bill that would allow non-physicians to perform abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy is awaiting signature by Gov. Jerry Brown of California by Sep. 30. The bill, AB 154, passed both houses of the state legislature with strong support from Planned Parenthood and pro-choice groups. Planned Parenthood stands to benefit most directly from the bill, as non-physician staff at its clinics would be able to obtain abortion licenses.
One doctor–who identified himself as pro-choice–told Breitbart News that
"the bill is a disaster since it sends us back 100 years to the problems of the complications from back-steet abortions." The bill's critics warn that the training provided to non-physician staff is weak, that supervision by physicians in clinics will be minimal, and that there is real risk of injury or death to women who will be treated in such conditions.
The California Medical Association has endorsed AB 154 because of "provisions for training in the bill and the amendments that clarify physician supervision." Yet the training is to be provided by the Board of Registered Nursing, not by physicians, and the protocols for defining "supervision" have not been specified. There is nothing in the legislation requiring a physician to be present or on-site during an abortion.
The bill permits licensed non-physicians to perform two kinds of abortion in the first trimester–by medication, and by aspiration, which requires the insertion of medical instruments into the uterus. Though many doctors agree that non-physicians could provide medications with few risks, the idea that a non-physician would perform an invasive procedure such as aspiration strikes many as rife with risks.
John McRINO And Lurch Kerry's Syrian "Expert" Signed Affidavit Vouching For Rebel Group That Depicted Burning U.S. Capitol As Not Being Jihadist
(This is amazing... O'Bagy actually signed an affidavit declaring the
Al Aqsa Islamic Brigades to be non-jihadist in nature.
Where in the hell does the government get these young liberal know-it-alls)
Via Fox News:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/13/syrian-expert-elizabeth-obagy-vouches-for-jihadist-group-in-court-affidavit/
Elizabeth O'Bagy...
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...a pro-Syrian opposition analyst whose credibility has come under fire, might have even more explaining to do – as court documents show she once vouched for a rebel group whose website displayed extremist and anti-American images.
Among the pictures was one showing a burning U.S. Capitol:
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O'Bagy was fired earlier this week by the Institute for the Study of War for allegedly lying about her academic credentials. Her writings had been used by U.S. officials to bolster their case for military action against the Assad regime.O'Bagy discussed the rebel group in question in a June 19, 2013 signed affidavit filed in the case of American Eric Harroun, who was indicted for fighting alongside the terror group al-Nusra in Syria.
O'Bagy's signed declaration, which included a breakdown of rebel groups and their varying degrees of affiliation to Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, was used by Harroun's defense to argue that the former Army medic had actually fought with a splinter group and not a terrorist one – a group tied to the one O'Bagy described.
In the document, O'Bagy said she had reviewed the apparent Facebook page for the Al Aqsa Islamic Brigades, and found no signs of jihadist leanings.
"I have also reviewed a Facebook site ... that purports to be associated with the al Aqsa (Islamic) brigades," she stated in the affidavit. "The facebook site does not appear to be particularly jihadist in orientation, and posts videos associated with groups that are all affiliated with the Free Syrian Army."
Yet newly uncovered images from the group's Facebook page depict otherwise – including one that shows the U.S. Capitol building engulfed in flames, and armed fighters marching in the foreground. Other images show what appears to be a black-and-white flag, which is viewed by intelligence analysts as a sign of a group's Islamist bent (although O'Bagy wrote that many fighters not affiliated with jihadist groups use a similar flag).
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Israelis Don't Trust Obuma on Iran
(I don't either)
AP
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
September 13, 2013 11:28 amA new poll shows that the majority of Israeli Jews do not trust President Barack Obama to successfully handle Iran's nuclear program.
Based off of the president's recent handling of Syria,
65.3 percent said they did not believe President Obama would properly address Iran's nuclear program. Only
17 percent of those polled by Israel Hayom said President Obama managed the Syrian crisis successfully.
Israel Hayom reports:http://freebeacon.com/israelis-dont-trust-obama-on-iran/
A plurality of Israeli Jews — 49.7% — said Obama's decision to delay a military strike against Syria was wrong, while 32.8% said he made the right choice.Poll respondents were asked who won the current round of events in Syria — Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Syrian President Bashar Assad or Israel.
Putin came in first at 48.3%, followed by Assad (39.6%), Obama (8.8%) and Israel (5.1%). Some 18.3% responded "don't know."On the question of who lost the round, 63.0% said Obama, followed by Israel (17.3%), Assad (8.7%) and Putin (3.3%). Some 20.6% responded "don't know."
Gallup:
Number of Americans Who Trust Government To Fix
Country's Problems At All-Time Low
(Well gee... Obuma did promise CHANGE)
Via Gallup:http://www.gallup.com/poll/164393/fewer-americans-ever-trust-gov-handle-problems.aspx
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Americans' trust and confidence in the federal government's ability to handle international problems has reached an all-time low, with 49% saying they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence, two percentage points below the previous low of 51% recorded in 2007.
These new data come from Gallup's annual Governance survey, conducted Sept. 5-8, 2013, while Congress was debating the use of military force in Syria, but prior to President Barack Obama's nationally televised address on Syria, and Russia's proposal to avert U.S. military action.
Between 57% and 66% of Americans said they had a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in the U.S. government to handle international problems during Obama's first term. This represents a generally higher level of confidence than Americans expressed during the latter years of the Bush administration, when the U.S. was engaged in protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The historical high point on this measure (83%) came in October 2001, shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Americans also expressed high levels of confidence in the government on international matters in 1972 and 1974, when the question was first asked, even as the controversial Vietnam War was drawing to a close.
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Chicago Ends Gun Registration Requirement
(Tough week for the gun control crowd...
Everyone say, "Awwwww...")
Via Daily Caller:Gun owners in Chicago no longer have to register firearms with local authorities, the New York Times reports.
Chicago's City Council reluctantly voted Wednesday to end the decades old registration policy in the wake of the new law allowing Illinois residents the right to carry concealed weapons in public. The modification follows the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th District December ruling that stated Illinois's ban on public concealed carry was unconstitutional. So far, the Democratic-majority Legislature has struggled to balance the perceived needs of the people with the court ruling.
"This is an ongoing battle and struggle to make sure our laws reflect the safety our residents need," Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a news conference Wednesday.
With 295 recorded homicides in Chicago so far this year, many police officers rely on the registry's information to understand the movements of guns throughout the city
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Number of Stupid Journalists Who Have Moved To The Obuma Adm: No. #15
(No... no... no... liberal media bias is a myth... isn't it?)
Via Atlantic Wire:http://m.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/09/rick-stengel-least-21-journalist-go-work-obama-administration/69362/
Time managing editor Rick Stengel
(pictured above) is leaving journalism to go work for the State Department, making him at least the 15th reporter to go to work for the Obama administration. Stengel will be the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Politico and Capital New Yorkreport. The last high-profile journalist to leave Time for the Obama administration is Jay Carney, who is currently White House press secretary (pictured at right).
A wave of reporters went to work for President Obama early in the administration, a time when many media organizations were going through layoffs and Obama's approval rating was sky-high. The flow has tapered off since then. The Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe has semi-regularly kept tabs on the number of reporters working for Obama administration, counting 10 in May 2009, 14 in 2010, and 13 in 2011. The Washington Examiner's Paul Beddard counted 19 reporters working for "Team Obama" in February 2012, but he included liberal advocacy groups as part of the "team."
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South Korean kidnapped by the North 41 YEARS ago
manages to escape and is reunited with his family
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419821/Jeon-Wook-pyo-South-Korean-kidnapped-North-41-YEARS-ago-escapes-reunited-family.html#ixzz2eqavSuL1
NBC/WSJ Poll:
Americans Now Prefer GOP Over Dems On Economy, Foreign Policy, Deficit
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(Gee... I wonder if Barry is listening?!)
Via Politico:Republicans are now leading Democrats on handling several key issues, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll.
The poll, released Friday, shows more Americans think that the Republicans are doing a better job on the economy, foreign policy and reducing the federal deficit.The GOP has an edge of 7 percentage points over the Democrats on the issue of foreign policy. This is up from 2006, when the GOP was behind by 9 percentage points.
And while Democrats still lead among issues such as health care and looking out for the middle class, their lead has been steadily decreasing. The Wall Street Journal highlights that the Democrats only hold a 17 percentage point lead over the GOP in looking out for the middle class, the lowest margin in decades. The Democrats also see the lowest margin ever on dealing with health care, at 8 percentage points.
WSJ Report: Elite Syrian Unit Scatters Chemical Weapons Stockpile To As Many
As 50 Sites To Avoid U.S. Detection
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(Is Obuma, who loves to lead behind, gullible enough to think Assad will turn over all
his chemical weapons? Yup, I think he might be)
Via WSJ:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324755104579071330713553794.html
A secretive Syrian military unit at the center of the Assad regime's chemical weapons program has been moving stocks of poison gases and munitions to as many as 50 sites to make them harder for the U.S. to track, according to American and Middle Eastern officials.
The movements of chemical weapons by Syria's elite Unit 450 could complicate any U.S. bombing campaign in Syria over its alleged chemical attacks, officials said. It also raises questions about implementation of a Russian proposal that calls for the regime to surrender control of its stockpile, they said.
U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies still believe they know where most of the Syrian regime's chemical weapons are located, but with less confidence than six months ago, U.S. officials said.
Secretary of State John Kerry met Thursday in Geneva with his Russian counterpart to discuss a road map for ending the weapons program. The challenges are immense, Mr. Kerry said.
MSNBC Host Dummy Krystal Ball Apparently 'Horrified' From Violent Scene From Movie Airplane: It Looked Real
(sigh...)
Via Mediaite:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-host-krystal-ball-apparently-horrified-by-violent-scene-from-movie-airplane/
On Friday's The Cycle, the hosts of MSNBC reported on a series of delays that kept Jet Blue customers grounded on a variety of tarmacs for up to 90 minutes. The inconvenience for travelers was reported lightheartedly and the MSNBC hosts colored the segment with a famous scene from the movie Airplane. Host Krystal Ball appeared visibly disturbed by the mock violence depicted in that sequence.
"Krystal's a little horrified by that," Touré said after playing the famous sequence from the famous 1980 comedy.
"I am sort of horrified by that," she agreed.
"No actual women were harmed in that," Touré explained. "It's stage hitting. No actual women were hurt in that clip."
"It looked pretty real," she added.
What Happened To John Kerry's Face?
Kerry in January during his confirmation hearing:
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Here he is earlier this week (note the droopy right eye):
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(Two stories on this:
1) I have it from a high ranking source as to what caused the droopy right eye. Lurch was removing the cork from Terreeeezzzzaaa's third bottle of Vino for the evening and the cork flew up and hit him in the eye. He was originally going to say it was caused by an "Old war wound suffered in Vietnam," but decided he better tell the (cork) truth instead.
2)I read about what really caused the black eyes and bruised nose... from OUTDOOR LIFE magazine: Lurch was windsurfing and a flying fish hit him in the face. Eric Holder and the Justice Department investigated and have documented evidence... e-mails, cell phone conversations, etc. that the fish worked for Dick Cheney.
One thing is clear, he needs to chill out with the Botox)
****New George S Patton Speech****
Uploaded on Jul 13, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyUX6wV1lBQ
Speech From the Movie "Patton" Given to the 3rd. Armoured Division-Army
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b5g1avyCSA
"Blood And Guts" Gen. George Patton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbImWNfqDpc
The Wisdom of George S. Patton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhoAtDbBT7s
The Gen. Patton Solution on the Middle East
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INfZPrVFky4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LphtfSX-ACw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQAEVgiC8sA
2 Million Bikers Invade D.C. and Remind Us That 9/11 Still Means Something to Real Americans
September 11, 2013 by Dean Garrison
I am not always the sharpest knife in the drawer. I heard about this "Million Muslim March" ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQHNeSaW00
...and did some research. I found out that it might be more like a "Dozen Muslim March" and I wrote an article about that. Why? Because I thought that a lot of bikers were going to D.C. only to be disappointed. I was trying to help them out, but, as sometimes happens with me, I was failing to see the big picture.
A few days ago I was talking to a friend that is going and he told me that I was missing the point. This was not about 12 Muslims who will be looking for a place to hide. This is much bigger than that. This "2 Million Bikers" ride is more about sending a message to our government than to intimidate a few Muslims. I believe his exact words may have been,
"Dean, this is the warning shot. There will not be another." That's a pretty bold statement, don't you think?
When I first heard about these 2 Million Bikers, I couldn't really believe it was possible. I thought about the IRS Tea Party protests and the disappointing numbers. I thought it would turn out being 20,000 bikers and that would be a very good showing. I was very wrong. As of Tuesday afternoon there were reports of 800,000 bikers on the road and headed for D.C. Wow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-RlOQifNM
The above video didn't impress me that much at first, but then I thought about the scope of this thing. This is just one road at one point in time. There are 800,000 on the road, at a minimum, and they really could hit the 2 million number.
Today I wanted to write this huge article about what 9/11 meant to me and why it is sacred to Patriots. There is nothing I could write that would inspire anyone more than what is happening right before our very eyes.
Two million, and yes I now believe that number is possible,
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This country has shed many tears since September 11th, 2001. We shed many more tears on September 11th, 2012 as four Americans died in Benghazi.
We don't know the truth of who the enemy is or was. Now we are being told that it is in our interest to support Al Qaeda in Syria. Did 10,000 people die at the hands of Al Qaeda so that we could support them? Who could blame our service men and women for objecting to the idea of supporting the terrorists who killed their brothers and sisters?
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Somehow the politicians are still failing to see this point.
We live in a land of confusion, scandals and political spins that none of us can keep up with. We don't know if we have any friends at all in D.C. We send these officials to the Capitol to represent us, and they always seem to let us down.
It is not negotiable. We are no longer begging these people to do the right thing. We are sending a message today that this 9/11 is much different than the previous 11. Twelve years later we are awake.
So are these bikers going to D.C. to rattle a few Muslims? Nope. I get it now and I am kicking myself for not finding a way to go take part in this.
There is an unspoken theme behind this ride. Twelve years later we have finally decided that enough is enough. We are taking our country back no matter what Obama or his partners in crime say.
It is not negotiable. We are no longer begging these people to do the right thing. We are sending a message today that this 9/11 is much different than the previous 11. Twelve years later we are awake.
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September 11th, 2013 will be remembered as the day when millions of Americans made a statement. This is our country and we are taking it back no matter how far we have to go to do it. It is a new day of independence.
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Much like July 4th 1776 when we declared that we were no longer slaves of Britain, today there is a new declaration being made. We will no longer be ruled by servants who act as our masters.
My friend was right. This is a warning shot and there will not be another.
I would like to thank each and every one of you who rides today in body or simply in spirit. There may be 2 million bikers in D.C. but even if it is just 20,000 it will not matter. For every biker there in body there are 100 there in spirit who are riding with them.
Thank you so much for giving us something to believe in on a day when we badly needed it.
God Bless America. We cannot rest and we cannot give up.
This is our time. (Keep in mind that many of the bikes were carrying more than one person. I think it's more than likely that the 2 million count was reached. If not, it was pretty damn close
)
Matthew Shepard Actually Killed By Gay Lover Over Meth
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(Matthew Shepard has become a symbol of a killing from homophobia. A new book shows his killing had nothing to do with his being gay, since he was killed by a gay lover. Yet some would still peddle the fiction as it serves their political purpose)
Via Breitbart:http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/14/The-Matthew-Shepard-Story-is-a-Lie
Almost everything you think you know about the Matthew Shepard narrative is false.Matthew Shepard was the winsome young homosexual in Laramie, Wyoming who in October 1998 was tortured, killed, and left hanging grotesquely from a fence. He was discovered almost a day later and later died in the hospital from his horrific wounds.
On the night of October 6, Shepard met "two strangers" in the Fireside Lounge in Laramie. The two men offered Shepard a ride home but instead drove him to a remote area, robbed him, beat him with pistols, and left him splayed on a fence.
Cops found the bloody gun along with Shepard's shoes and wallet in the truck of the two men — Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson.
McKinney and Henderson claimed the "gay panic" defense, that they freaked out when Shepard came onto them sexually and killed him in a rage. They made other claims, too, but were convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
Shocker! Communist Groups Helped Organize Petraeus Protest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIbl28O99Lg
(Update to this story)
Via NRO:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/358477/communist-groups-helped-organize-petraeus-protest-sterling-beard
Protests against General David Petraeus Monday by CUNY students were organized by an ad hoc committee that includes several Communist groups.
A leaflet for the protests, which refers to Petraeus as a "war criminal" and "mass murderer," says that the events were organized by the Ad Hoc Committee Against the Militarization of CUNY and were endorsed by the Internationalist Group, Workers Power-US, and IGNITE.
These groups are explicitly Communist in nature. Workers Power states that it is a "revolutionary, communist organization . . . in the tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky." The Internationalist Group uses the hammer and sicklealongside its articles. IGNITE is a self-described "communist youth league."
Petition Underway Asking Obuma To Give His
Nobel Peace Prize To Vladimir Putin
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(The "We The People" petition to the White House needs another 99,139 as of this moment, by October 11, and then Obama has to respond. Should be fascinating to hear that response)
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/give-president-putin-nobel-peace-prize-mr-obama-was-given-2009/d8k9BXJT
Admiral: US Naval Force Declining As Russia, China And Iran
Increase Their Capabilities
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(Not good... not good)
Via WFB:http://freebeacon.com/declining-power/
China, Russia, and Iran pose regional and strategic submarine threats and are building up undersea warfare capabilities as the Navy is cutting its submarine force by 30 percent, the admiral in charge of Pentagon submarine programs told Congress on Thursday.
Rear Adm. Richard Breckenridge, director of Navy undersea warfare programs, said the decline of U.S. submarines is placing a key U.S. military advantage at risk.
"Our adversaries are not standing still, and so even though we have an advantage and we have a lead, we can't sit on our lead," Breckenridge told a hearing of the House Armed Services seapower subcommittee.
"We have to continue to move or we do have the potential within 20 years of losing this crown jewel, this advantage that we have in the undersea domain," he said.
Breckenridge then outlined advances in the submarine warfare programs of China, Russia, and Iran.
Government Tells Christian Charity To Remove Pictures
Of Jesus, Stop Praying
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(The Obuma regime's War on Christianity rolls on)
Via Fox News:http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/09/09/usda-tells-christian-charity-to-kick-jesus-to-curb/#ixzz2epbIphN7
A Florida ministry that feeds the poor said a state agriculture department official told them they would not be allowed to receive USDA food unless they removed portraits of Christ, the Ten Commandments, a banner that read "Jesus is Lord" and stopping giving Bibles to the needy.
"They told us they could no longer allow us to have any religious information where the USDA food is going to be," said Kay Daly, executive director of the Christian Service Center.So why did the government have an issue with the religious group's religious decorations?
A spokesperson for the Florida Department of Agriculture told me they were following the guidelines written by the USDA.
"This program is a USDA-funded program and the requirements were outlined by the USDA," spokesperson Amanda Bevis said. "This agency administers the program on the state level. Our staff did provide a briefing to CSC following turnover in leadership at CSC and did review the USDA requirements."
Daly said they were told it was a matter of separation of church and state.
Russian FM Lavrov To Lurch: "Don't Worry" About What I Just Said
(Hmmmm... So I take it the Russians think Lurch is a token representative and are only half heartedly including him in the proceedings? They're treating Kerry like he's only there for show)
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Via TWS:http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/lavrov-kerry-don-t-worry-about-what-i-just-said_753952.html
A revealing exchange between John Kerry, his Russian counterpart (Sergey Lavrov), and an interpreter:(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/181018328-550x311.jpg)
FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: With your permission, just two words.
(Via interpreter) I'm not prepared with the (inaudible) political statement to (inaudible) the Syrian problem, because our approaches are clear and they are stated in the statements of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and in his article in The New York Times. And I'm convinced that all of you read this article and I decided not to lay out here our diplomatic position. The diplomacy likes silence. And we're intent to find compromises, and I am sure that John, in his presentation of the American position, also showed that they would like to find mutual consensus and be – if we follow this way, I hope that we will achieve all the successes.SECRETARY KERRY: I lost the last part of the – can you give me the last part of the translation, please? Hello?
INTERPRETER: Yes, hello.
FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: It was okay, John. Don't worry. (Laughter.)
SECRETARY KERRY: You want me to take your word for it? (Laughter.) It's a little early for that.
FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: Okay. Thank you.
SECRETARY KERRY: Thanks.HEY.....
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Obama's Secret $8 Billion Bribe To the Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouDbqe_Ed1Q
September 2013 Breaking News ALL muslims terrorists based on Quran ISLAM seek world domination .
Russian Communists Baffled by McCain Plan to Write for Pravda
Saturday, 14 Sep 2013 08:07 AM
MOSCOW — The Russian Communist Party on Saturday responded with bafflement to an announcement by U.S. Senator John McCain that he planned to write an op-ed piece for its official organ, Pravda, saying he had never contacted the newspaper.
McCain's spokesman Brian Rogers said Friday that the senator had accepted an offer from Pravda and would submit an opinion piece in response to President Vladimir Putin's comment published in The New York Times on Thursday.
But the Communists said they had heard nothing of the offer.
"There is only one Pravda in Russia, it is the organ of the Communist Party, and we have heard nothing about the intentions of the Republican senator," the editor of Pravda, Boris Komotsky wrote in a statement on the party's website.
Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov also told the website that "it is surprising that McCain did not bother to inform either the leadership of the party or the editors of Pravda."
The confusion appeared to have arisen because The Cable, the website of the U.S. magazine Foreign Policy contacted Pravda.ru, an electronic news website that is not connected to Pravda newspaper, with the suggestion.
No one at Pravda.ru was immediately available to comment.
The two publications could hardly be more different. One of Russia's first news websites, Pravda.ru currently has a photograph of American burlesque performer Dita Von Teese on its main page.
By contrast, the Pravda newspaper is handed out by activists at parades and its front page is still topped by Lenin's profile.
Pravda ("Truth" in Russian) was founded in 1912 by Bolshevik revolutionaries and served as the mouthpiece for the Kremlin until the 1991 break-up of the Soviet Union.
Zyuganov said however that McCain could write a piece for Pravda, but only if he followed the party's policy on Syria.
"Our answer to McCain is this: if you support the position of the Russian Communist Party on Syria, then we will publish your article."
This appeared unlikely since Zyuganov added that in the Communists' view, the United States is "trying to destroy our last ally in the Middle East, Syria. And one of the most rapacious hawks calling for direct aggression is Senator John McCain."
Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.newsmaxworld.com/GlobalTalk/russia-syria-conflict-pravda/2013/09/14/id/525667#ixzz2exr2D9aG
***NEW MCNAUGHTON PAINTING***
"The Demise of America"
Many Americans today feel a sense of dismay and horror as we see our country in a downward spiral; economically, morally, and politically. President Obama's continuous list of scandals and bad policy are leading the country to ruin.
Nero himself may have set the great fire that burned a part of Rome during his leadership. Afterwards, he blamed it on the Christians who suffered great persecution under his rule. I see great similarities to what we are experiencing today.
A real corn field!!! Exeter corn maze in Exeter,Mo
Enough is enough!!
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Pravda Agrees to Give John McCain Editorial Space to Criticize Putin
by Noah Rothman |
3:22 pm, September 13th, 2013
The New York Time's decision to give Russian President Vladimir Putin editorial space to criticize President Barack Obama, American foreign policy, and even the notion of American exceptionalism has frustrated many. A number of critics in the United States hypothetically suggested that a Russian newspaper should give Americana lawmakers space to freely criticize Putin and the Russian Federation. On Friday, the Russian newspaper Pravda tentatively agreed to allow Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) space to do just that.
"If John McCain wants to write something for us, he is welcome," said Dmitry Sudakov, Pravda's executive editor in an exclusive report in Foreign Policy magazine. "Mr. McCain has been an active anti-Russian politician for many years already."
"We have been critical of his stance on Russia and international politics in our materials, but we would be only pleased to publish a story penned by such a prominent politician as John McCain," Sudakov continued.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/pravda-agrees-to-give-john-mccain-editorial-space-to-criticize-putin/
(Did Time Magazine get the message from the 2 Million Motorcyclists?)
Newsweek Cover: Hit the Road Barack
Sunday, 19 Aug 2012 09:19 PM
Newsweek magazine is targeting its latest controversial cover at the Obama administration. It's part of a devastating story written by esteemed British historian Niall Ferguson telling President Obama that it's time to go and that the only team that can possibly turn the country around is the Romney-Ryan ticket.
"In his inaugural address, Obama promised 'not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth.'" Ferguson writes in the cover story, "Hit the Road, Barack: Why We Need a New President."
"He promised to 'build the roads and bridges, the electric grids, and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.' He promised to 'restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.'" wrote Ferguson, who made some of the same arguments in a March 2012 Newsmax cover story, "Decision Time." "And he promised to 'transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.' Unfortunately the president's scorecard on every single one of those bold pledges is pitiful."
"Welcome to Obama's America: nearly half the population is not represented on a taxable return—almost exactly the same proportion that lives in a household where at least one member receives some type of government benefit," Ferguson writes. "We are becoming the 50–50 nation—half of us paying the taxes, the other half receiving the benefits."
More at http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/ferguson-newsweek-obama-hit/2012/08/19/id/449051
(This sounds like that "Quality of Life" thing here in Elk County doesn't it.
You know that Elk Konnected, LLC thingy, right? Right! What do you think?)
Self Explanatory!
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From Todd Starnes Facebook page.
Todd Starnes News Personality, New York, NY.
Americans were backing Miss Kansas -- but the liberal Miss America judges were not interested in a gun-toting , deer-hunting, military veteran.
(Even my great niece in Texas was backing Miss Kansas. She told me before the show was over (via facebook), "If Miss Kansas doesn't win, it's rigged."
I didn't watch it because I didn't know it was on.
Report: Obuma May Meet With Iran's New President At U.N.
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(Just because he called for the annihilation of the Jewish state doesn't
mean Obuma shouldn't meet with him, right?)
Via Guardian:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/15/obama-rouhani-united-nations-meeting
An exchange of letters between Barack Obama and the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has set the stage for a possible meeting between the two men at the UN next week in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between a US and Iranian leader since Iran's 1979 revolution.
Britain's foreign secretary, William Hague, is also due to meet his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, at the UN general assembly meeting in New York, adding to guarded optimism that the June election of Rouhani, a Glasgow-educated moderate, and his appointment of a largely pragmatic cabinet, has opened the door to a diplomatic solution to the 11-year international standoff over Iran's nuclear programme.
Tehran took the Foreign Office by surprise, tweeting on Rouhani's English-language feed that the president would also be prepared to meet Hague, something the UK had not even requested.
"Tehran has responded positively to UK's request. President Rouhani's meeting w/WilliamJHague on the sidelines of UNGA has been confirmed," the tweet said.
"We would be happy to meet," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said, "but we have had nothing formal from Tehran about it."
Diplomats said that the tweet reflected the new Iranian government's eagerness to make diplomatic headway on the nuclear issue, which has been at an impasse for several years. A Hague meeting with either Rouhani or Zarif could clear the way to restoring full diplomatic ties, which have not existed since the British embassy in Tehran was ransacked by a mob in November 2011.
In a television interview aired on Sunday, Obama made clear that there was a diplomatic opening with Iran, not only over the nuclear question but also over Syria. He confirmed earlier reports that he and Rouhani had "reached out" to each other, exchanging letters.
Paul Harvey: "If I were the Devil - 1947
Barack Hussein Obuma: "I am that Devil that Paul Talked About"
The Problem with Today's Politicians
Summed Up in One Chart
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Travel Tip Of The Day
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A Bloggers Forced Confession
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Charles Xue's Forced Confession
BEIJING — Chinese state television on Sunday broadcast a startling video of a famous blogger in handcuffs, renouncing his Web posts and saying how dangerous the Internet would be if left uncontrolled by the government.
The 10-minute news report featuring Charles Xue — a Chinese American businessman and one of China's most popular bloggers — was the latest step in what appears to be a systematic campaign to intimidate online opinion leaders against speaking too freely or critically of the government.
Read the rest of this story at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-broadcasts-confession-of-chinese-american-blogger/2013/09/15/3f2d82da-1e1a-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html
(Early in his presidency, POS Obuma expressed his admiration for the Chinese system. One of his staff (the snake-tongued Anita Dunn) was forced by public outcry to resign when it became known she had called Chairman Mao a role model,years before, if you remember... big stink... I remember Glenn Beck chastising her. Today, she and her POS husband still work for the far left causing havoc.
Our president, who likes to lead behind, also expressed displeasure with the US Constitution because it was too strong on prohibiting the government from exercising power over the citizens. Now, if we can't replace politicians like our current president with constitutional candidates, then this blogger's confession will be repeated in America... over... and over again)
Who Is This Man In The Empty Suit??
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According to the Egypt Media it is Satan!
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True Story: No Pizza For The F.B.I.
A standard joke about mental hospitals is that the patients are not just delusional, but are also afflicted with grandiosity.
Thus, they imagine themselves to be someone they're not.
That's the delusional part.
But rarely, if ever, do they imagine themselves to be some low-status person, such as a janitor or a fast-food worker. (No offense to janitors or fast-food workers! I worked behind the counter at a fast food A & W Drive-In when I was in junior college)
Instead, delusional mental patients invariably think they are famous people like Napoleon, or Cleopatra, or the Pope, or even God.
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One long night while investigating a San Diego psychiatric hospital for medical insurance fraud, dozens of FBI agents had worked up an appetite. So an agent called a nearby pizza parlor for delivery. What follows is the conversation with the pizza server. It was recorded by the FBI because, well, that's what the FBI does:
Agent: Hello. I would like to order 19 large pizzas and 67 cans of soda.
Pizza Parlor Employee: And where would you like them delivered?
Agent: We're over at the psychiatric hospital.
Pizza Person: The psychiatric hospital?
Agent: That's right. I'm an FBI agent.
Pizza Person: You're an FBI agent?
Agent: That's correct. Just about everybody here is.
Pizza Person: And you're at the psychiatric hospital?
Agent: That's correct. And don't go to the front doors, we have them locked. You will have to go around back, to the service entrance.
Pizza Person: And you're all FBI agents?
Agent: That's right. How soon can you have them here?
Pizza Person: And everyone at the psychiatric hospital is an FBI agent?
Agent: That's right. We've been here all day and we're starving.
Pizza Person: How are you going to pay for all of this?
Agent: I have my checkbook right here.
Pizza Person: And you're all FBI agents?
Agent: That's right. Everyone here is an FBI agent. Can you remember to bring the pizzas and sodas to the service entrance in the rear? We have the front doors locked.
Pizza Person: I don't think so.
Click
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The Filthy Mouth Of Hillary Clinton
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by Dr. Eowyn It is said that a measure of our character is how well we treat status inferiors – those whom we don't have to treat well.
By that measure, the character of the woman who has ambitions to be America's next president is sorely lacking.
FOTM's joworth forwarded us an email written by a retired United States Marine Corps colonel, Ed Schriber. What Col. Schriber did was to comb through books written about Hillary Rodham Clinton, quoting verbatim from pages in those books on Hillary's penchant to use obscene blasphemous language, and the utter contempt and disdain she has for those who work for her or more correctly, her husband – Arkansas State troopers, Secret Service agents, and members of the U.S. military.
Since I don't have those books in my personal library, I went on Amazon.com to verify those quotes by using Amazon's "Look Inside" feature. In every case where Amazon provides a "Look Inside" feature, I was able to confirm the quotes and take a screenshot of the relevant passage.
Below is Col. Schriber's email, interspersed with my verification from Amazon.com.
*****LANGUAGE WARNING!*****
Hillary Rodham Clinton! Could this foul-mouthed Clown be your next president of the United States?
Welcome to Hillary's big fat mouth!
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"Where is the G*damn f**king flag! I want the G*damn f**king flag up every morning at f**king sunrise."-From the book Inside the White House, by Ronald Kessler, p.244 – Hillary to staff at the Arkansas Governor's mansion on Labor Day 1991.
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F**k off! It's enough I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I'm not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut."-From the book American Evita, by Christopher Anderson, p.90 – Hillary to her State Trooper body guards after one of them greeted her with "Good Morning"
Here's the screenshot I took of the passage, using Amazon.com's "Look Inside" feature (high-lighted words are the words I used to search for the quotation):
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"If you want to remain on this detail, get your f**king ass over here and grab those bags!"From the book The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Joyce Milton p.259 – Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident.
I found the passage as described on page 259 of The First Partner, on Amazon.com:
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"Stay the f**k back, stay the f**k back away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else! Just f**king do as I say, Okay!!?"-From the book Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House, by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrich, p.139- Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail.
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"Where's the miserable c**k sucker!"-From the book The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President, by Edward Klein, p. 15- Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer.
Screenshot of the passage from p. 15 of The Truth About Hillary on Amazon.com:
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"You f**king idiot"From the book Crossfire, p.84 – Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event.
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"Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!"From the book Dereliction of Duty, by Robert Patterson, p.71-72 – Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.
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"Come on Bill, put your d**k up! You can't f**k her here!!"From the book Inside the White House, by Ronald Kessler, p.243 – Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female.
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This ill-tempered, violent, loud mouth, hateful and abusive woman wants to be your next president and have total control as commander and chief of our Military, the very Military for which she has shown incredible disdain throughout her public life. Surely the people of the United States can easily do better than this.– Ed Schriber Col. USMC (Ret.)
"Semper Fidelis"
You be the Judge:
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Benghazi: They all lied... and this one picture* is the proof
By: Diane Sori
http://www.lady-patriots.com/they-all-lied-and-this-one-picture-is-the-proof/#
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As new information is finally starting to leak out about what really happened in Benghazi on that fateful night of September 11, 2012, NOTHING is more telling than this one single photograph...for this photograph proves that Ambassador Christopher Stevens did NOT die of smoke inhalation in the embassy compound as was claimed by the Obama administration, but was taken alive, raped, sodomized, and God only knows what else...and Barack HUSSEIN Obama, Hillary Clinton, and all those in their vile orbit knew this from day one and all bold-faced lied.
They all willfully, deliberately, and with malice LIED to Ambassador Stevens' family and to 'We the People'. And while we all know that some claim that Stevens was the middle-man in Obama's gun and weapons running operation to the Syrian rebels, or that he was actually kidnapped to trade for the Blind Sheik and mistakenly killed, I believe that what I will tell you about this picture coupled with Obama's cover-up and LIES, gives credence to my belief (one that I've had since day one) that Ambassador Steven's found out Obama was running guns and weapons under the table to the al-Qaeda supported Syrian rebels, and was silenced before he could expose what Obama was doing.
Before I get to the photograph we must let the lead-up facts speak for themselves.
First, we all know there was NO spontaneous mob protest outside the consulate as Obama claimed for the first two weeks after the attack. Mob violence that got out of control because of an anti-islamic YouTube video he said, but a video that few had actually seen, that is until he went on Pakistani TV bloviating and apologizing for it after the fact. And with both former CIA Director David H. Petreaus and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that NO video was involved, they both bold-faced lied to Congress when first questioned, claiming that it was the video and the video alone that caused the attack. But I hate to tell them ...NO I'm happy to tell them...lying under oath is a felony...an arrestable offense.
Second, Obama and crew still continue to claim there was NO warning of an impending attack issued by our Benghazi consulate. LIARS...there were many calls fearing an attack was imminent sent out by NOT only the Benghazi consulate and Ambassador Stevens himself, but also by our Tripoli embassy. Stevens sent out numerous pleas for help in the days and hours before the attack, because he knew of and feared the significant number of well-armed militias, all with ties to al-Qaeda, that were roaming the area around Benghazi. Also, remember that just a few months before, in June of the same year, a terrorist attack on the British Ambassador to Libya was attempted (thankfully it failed) causing both Britain and the International Red Cross to close their Benghazi offices...and the Red Cross just does NOT pick up and run without justification.
Those events in June alone should have served as a warning to Washington that our consulate and our people were in danger.
Third, fast forward to September 10th, when al-Qaeda head honcho Ayman al-Zawahrin publicly called on Libyans to seek revenge for the killing of a Libyan al-Qaeda leader, and that the next morning, September 11th, Libyan so-called 'police officers' who were supposed to be helping guard the compound were seen taking pictures of the inside of the compound. In fact, Ambassador Stevens sent an e-mail to DC that morning stating that he found this picture taking "troubling" and received NO reply. Now add in that on the afternoon of September 11th, the Blue Mountain Security manager, whose company also provided some of the guards for the Benghazi compound, sensed something was wrong and put out an alert via radio and cellphone, and according to media reports, there were roadblocks and check points set up well in advance of the attack because of his alert.
Fourth, our response to all this was to send up an unarmed surveillance drone over the consulate compound about 90 minutes AFTER the attack started...the very drone through which Barack HUSSEIN Obama watched our people being slaughtered...which of course he claimed he NEVER did. And if you believe that I've got some swamp land to sell you, because (and this is my belief alone) this man had to make sure Stevens was killed one way or the other so his 'secret' would be safe...so rest assured he saw it all.
And now remember all the conflicting reports of orders being issued or orders NOT being issued to 'stand down'. I say ordering forces that were prepared to assist during an on-going attack to 'stand down' or NOT giving go orders at all to units ready, willing, and able to assist is NOT an act of negligence as some are trying to claim, but borders on...if NOT is...an act of treason.
And so, General Carter Ham, then commander of AFRICOM whose jurisdiction took in Benghazi, testified last week about that fateful night during a closed door hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, but isn't it odd that NO reports of his testimony have been reported on...NONE whatsoever by any of the news media...just reports on the testimony of underlings...hmmm...
What we do know at this point is that two Marine anti-terrorist teams based in Rota, Spain, were ready to go assist in Benghazi, but reports claimed that it would have taken the first team 23 hours to get to Tripoli (which is an out and out LIE for while the two locations are 1,553 miles apart they're only 3 hours 5 minutes apart in flight time), and that the second team was NEVER deployed because they were told that US personnel had been evacuated from Benghazi...another LIE because NO one had been evacuated and NO one was sent in to evacuate anyone. And isn't it also odd that NOT one of these supposed 'evacuees'... survivors actually...eye witnesses to the day's events...has been seen or talked to by any media outlet...convenient huh. Also, there was a 130-man, fully armed Marine Force-Recon unit on the ground in Sigonella, Sicily, that could have been in Benghazi in 1 hour and 14 minutes, for the two locations are only 610 miles apart, but was NEVER called to do so.
So, with General Ham testifying in a closed-door session with the House Armed Services Committee, we still CANNOT get word of what his testimony entailed, but underling Lt. Col. S.E. Gibson said his commanders...and who pray tell were those commanders...told him to remain in the capital of Tripoli to defend Americans in case of additional attacks, and to help survivors being evacuated from Benghazi...but at that time NO one was being evacuated as the consulate was under heavy attack with NO help coming to either aid or rescue them.
And even with this testimony, even if the actual words 'stand down' were NOT uttered, the bottom line remains that with NO help forthcoming...with all parties involved making excuses for why help couldn't be sent...this proves there was a total lack of military response to Ambassador Stevens' pleas for help even with what the drone overhead was showing, and that in and of itself is an order to 'stand down' as far as I'm concerned.
Now to the photograph itself and remember this is NOT a newly released photograph but a photograph now seen differently, because one main point in this photograph has been overlooked by all...until now that is. Remember reports by a Libyan doctor claimed Stevens died 'at the consulate' of "severe asphyxia," sometimes known as smoke inhalation, but results of an autopsy done on Stevens' body after it was returned to the US have NOT been made public to either prove or disprove that. And then known al-Qaeda terrorist Abdallah Dhu-al-Bajadin piped in claiming Stevens was killed by lethal injection 'at the consulate', and while some do NOT discard that as a possible cause of death that too has NOT been proven or disproved, again because our government has NOT released our US done autopsy results. But no matter as neither of those scenarios is the truth because Ambassador Stevens did NOT die at the Benghazi consulate...he died...NO he was MURDERED... after being taken very much ALIVE from the consulate and at the direct hands of the enemy...an enemy aided by our president...and here's the proof...
Notice Ambassador Stevens being carried by the barbarians...notice his right arm hanging down limp...now notice his bent left arm up by his face trying to either protect his face, cover his eyes, or even wipe tears from his eyes, but guess what...
dead men do NOT wipe tears from their eyes nor do they try to cover their faces... NO...AMBASSADOR STEVENS WAS ALIVE NOT DEAD FROM SMOKE INHALATION and NO crap that he died at the hospital...and NO nonsense that maybe rigor-mortise had set in to bend his arm because that takes hours to happen and the time frame for that just isn't here. This man was NOT being taken to a hospital after death as claimed but was dragged
ALIVE through the streets, raped, sodomized, brutalized, and murdered by these muslim bast*rds, and this is why NO official US autopsy reports have been released. This fact had and still has to be hidden at all costs for Stevens being alive at this point could very well blow Barack
HUSSEIN Obama's cover-ups of why that night in Benghai happened.
Bottom line... our miserable muslim sympathizing president and his equally miserable former Secretary of State both NOT only LIED to us all about the reason for Benghazi, but also covered-up the cause of Ambassador Stevens' death and everything relating to Benghazi. And that, I believe, is grounds for immediate arrest for treason.
***The 1 Million Trucker March Is Coming in October***
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There is a Facebook page called "Truckers to Shutdown America". This is one of the messages they posted: My fellow Patriot this effort is to support the truckers in a major shut down of America ion a 3 day strike October 11th thru 13th. Obamacare will be in effect and most people will be ready to take action. No commerce on those days stock up on items that you will need. No banking no shopping no money transactions.
It does not matter If a million or 50 roll through DC in this effort. Congress will listen to We The People. Which is remove Obama from office for crimes of treason and misdemeanors. We want Congressional hearing on Benghazi and Seal Team 6. Louis Learner put in jail. No amnesty, remove all Muslims in our government that do not uphold the Constitution. Remove Eric Holder from office for crimes against the people and the Constitution. Last but not least is Fuel prices. (https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/c0.24.851.315/p851x315/1271071_434806659969841_2135427202_o.jpg)
Truckers To Shut Down America October 11-13
https://www.facebook.com/truckerstoshutdownamerica
Basic INFO:AboutThe American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a GENERAL STRIKE on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013! Truck drivers will not haul freight! Americans can strike in solidarity with truck drivers!DescriptionThe American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a GENERAL STRIKE on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013! Truck drivers will not haul freight! Workers will call in sick! Consumers will not buy or sell anything on this date!
Stay home!
Buy nothing!
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Congressman: CIA Employee Suspended Who Refused to Sign Non-Disclosure Agreement on Benghazi
by Tim Brown
September 17, 2013According to Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA), a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, who refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement that would bar him from discussing his knowledge of the September 11, 2012 jihadist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, has been suspended. As a result of his suspension, he has had to hire legal counsel.
This information comes out over a month since word broke that the CIA agents that were in Benghazi were being silenced by the agency, put through monthly polygraphs, and even having their families threatened.
Via The Washington Free Beacon reports: http://freebeacon.com/cia-employee-who-refused-to-sign-non-disclosure-on-benghazi-suspended/
"The reports on the NDA are accurate. We're getting people who call," Wolf said Monday during an event marking the launch of the Citizens' Commission on Benghazi, a panel of former military and intelligence officials who are investigating unanswered questions surrounding the Benghazi incident.
Wolf's office first received the anonymous call earlier in the summer, soon after CNN and Fox News reported on the NDAs and polygraph tests.
The caller told Wolf's staff that an unnamed CIA employee has been suspended after refusing to sign a Benghazi-related NDA.
"My office received a call from a man saying that he knew a CIA employee who has retained legal counsel because he has refused to sign an additional NDA regarding the Sept. 11, 2012, events in Benghazi," Wolf said in Sept. 9 remarks at a panel discussion hosted by Judicial Watch.
"I called the law firm and spoke with CIA employee's attorney who confirmed that her client is having an issue with the agency and the firm is trying to address it," Wolf said. "Based on my past experiences with the CIA, which is headquartered in my congressional district, I am not at all confident that these efforts will be successful."
The NDA agreements are meant to instill fear in employees and stop them from speaking "to the media or Congress," Wolf said on Monday.In a letter sent from CIA Director John Brennan to Mike Rogers, Chairman of Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Brennan denies that the CIA neither forced employees to sign NDAs nor forced them to submit to polygraph tests.
He even went to the trouble to hand write "I want to assure you that I will not tolerate any effort to prevent our intelligence oversight committee from doing their jobs" at the bottom of the letter.
Wolf's statement came on the same day that Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, release a report which exposed the shortcomings of the State Department's internal investigation into the Benghazi attack. Everyone saw that coming. Can we really expect a department of the federal government to investigate itself? I think not.
Issa gave a scathing critique of the State Department, saying that it "obstructed" investigators, and that the ARB "did not conduct thorough interviews," "may have been affected by conflicts of interest" and was "not comprehensive." It also went on to point out that senior officials were not held accountable.
"The ARB was not fully independent," Issa said in a statement. "The panel did not exhaustively examine failures, and it has led to an unacceptable lack of accountability."
"While Ambassador (Thomas) Pickering and Admiral (Michael) Mullen have honorably served their country, the families of victims and the American people continue to wait for more conclusive answers about how our government left our own personnel so vulnerable and alone the night of the attack," Issa said.
Well now that we know the State Department's report cannot fully be trusted, perhaps we can get some people to actually do a real investigation in the facts.
Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack
Jake Tapper reported that the Central Intelligence Agency is now pressuring agents who were on the ground in Benghazi, Libya on the night of September 11, 2012 to keep silent and not talk to Congress or the media. In fact, according to the report, these CIA agents have also been put through numerous polygraph testing in order to ensure they aren't talking about the Benghazi attacks! They were told that if they talk their career could end and that they would jeopardize themselves and their family. [/b]
Published on Aug 1, 2013
http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01/exclusive-dozens-of-cia-operatives-on-the-ground-during-benghazi-attack/
CNN: CIA Pressuring Agents With Knowledge Of Benghazi To Keep Silent: 'You Jeopardize Your Family'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivccSPAgOuU
It seems that semi-automatic guns are victims of racism. That's right. The left despises them for being black. They just have to assume when there is a shooting, it must have been committed by an AR-15, isn't that right? That's exactly right, and following Monday's shooting at the Washington Navy yard, the New York Daily News ran with a cover that declared "Same Gun Different Slay," featuring a picture of an AR-15. The problem? There was no Ar-15 found at the scene.
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New Fox News Prime-time Lineup Announced –
Will Start Oct. 7
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The Fox News Channel's new evening programming schedule will premiere on Oct. 7, with another show joining what is already cable news' top-rated lineup.
"On the Record" with Greta Van Sustren will air at 7 p.m. ET, followed by "The O'Reilly Factor," continuing in its 8 p.m. slot. Megyn Kelly then debuts her new show, "The Kelly File," at 9 p.m., followed immediately by "Hannity" at 10 p.m. Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor Shepard Smith will be available throughout to insert the latest breaking news via the FOX News Deck.
The evening's new entrant, "The Kelly File" will focus on late-breaking news stories and in-depth investigative reporting. The show will air in a live format, embrace a stronger social media presence, and will capitalize on Kelly's skills as a former litigator. The spot is a new venture for Kelly, who previously hosted "America Live" during the day.
"In 2003, I was an unhappy lawyer, and made a decision to change my life," Kelly said in a statement. "Ten years later, I've been able to do that thanks in large part to Roger Ailes, a boss who always gives me the same directive: 'Be yourself and have fun.'"
Awesome. Good luck, Megyn!
High School History Textbook Changes The Constitution
To Take Away Individuals Right To Bear Arms
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(Brainwash 'em young)
Via YAF:http://www.yaf.org/ChangedConstitution.aspx
The authors of United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination have taken it upon themselves to change the Constitution of the United States. The high school textbook contains an altered version of several Amendments in order to condition young minds into believing liberal propaganda.The textbook notes the Second Amendment as, "The people have a right to keep and bear arms in a state militia."The actual Second Amendment reads, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
MSNBC Airs Animation of Naval Yard Gunman Using An AR-15
With A Grenade Launcher During His Shooting Spree
(I guess they couldn't find the assault weapon of choice)
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Published on Sep 17, 2013
All morning MSNBC has broadcast an NBC News animation purportedly recreating the attack on the Navy Yard on Monday. In the animation, Alexis is featured using an AR-15... apparently, with a grenade launcher attachment.They aired this well after it was known the shooter did not use an AR-15.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZixVvM2zok
Sen. Dirty Harry Reid (D-ouche) Tells Republicans To "Grow Up"
And Stop Opposing Obamacare
(Apparently Dingbat Harry is too busy reading cowboy poetry to notice the
flood of polls showing Obamacare is immensely unpopular)
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Washington State Obamacare Ad Features Clown Getting A WEDGIE
(Speedo? Check. Porn star mustache? Check.
Obamacare propaganda jumping the shark? Check.)
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14 year Old Girl Kidnapped In Home Invasion Last Night In Ellenwood, GA,
By Two Nigger Males
Tweeter:(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2226555214/work_photo_2_normal.jpg) Alcides Segui FOX 13 @seguifox13
BREAKING: 14-yo Ayvani Hope Perez was taken by 2 armed men during an apparent home invasion & is in extreme danger.
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Report: 23,116,928 American Households On Food Stamps,
More Than The Number of Households In
ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, NJ, NY, PA Combined
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(Obuma will be remembered as the president who turned
America into a European-style bloated welfare state)
(CNSNews.com) – A record
23,116,928 American households were enrolled in the federal government's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—AKA food stamps—during the month of June, according to data released this month by the Department of Agriculture.
That outnumbers the 20,618,000 households that the Census Bureau estimated were in the entire Northeastern United States as of the second quarter of 2013.According to the Census Bureau,
the Northeast region includes Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. Thus, in June, the households receiving food stamps exceeded the total combined households in all of these states.
The 23,116,928 million households on food stamps in June also outnumbered the 15,030,000 home-owning households in the entire Western United States in the second quarter of the year and the 18,018,000 home-owning households in the entire Midwest.
Oregon Debuts Another Taxpayer-Funded Hipster Obumacare Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLpKDNVU9dA
(Hipsters are good for one thing... punching)
Via NW Watchdog:http://watchdog.org/106197/video-oregon-goes-even-more-hipster-with-latest-obamacare-ad/
You might not have thought it possible, but Oregon's latest Obamacare ad is even more hipster than the last.
And, unfortunately for those interested in learning more about the complex health reform law and what it means for them, this ad delivers absolutely no information on the topic.
Cover Oregon, the state agency set up to administer the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in Oregon, released its latest TV ad last week and, well, it speaks for itself.
This is just the latest in a months-long ad campaign heading to the opening of enrollment in the health exchange program in October. Cover Oregon, the state agency set up in Oregon to implement Obamacare, has awarded a $9.9 million contract to North, Inc., a Portland advertising agency, to spread the word. The TV ads total about $3.2 million. The second phase of this will be in October when enrollment opens and officials work on getting people into the program, according to a press release.
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Today Is "International Talk Like A Pirate" Day - Sept.19th
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It's International Talk Like A Pirate Day
The holiday, which has been running for more than a decade now, encourages people all over the world to engage in pirate-speak. Phrases like "Ahoy, matey!" and "Drink up, me hearties!" are encouraged, and the word "Arrr!" is an absolute necessity. Oddly enough, Krispy Kreme will celebrate the holiday by giving a free glazed donut to anyone who talks like a pirate. Dress like a pirate, and you'll nab a dozen free donuts.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2qkVBdNKrg
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(Obumacare: It was never about making health care available and affordable for all Americans...
ObumaCare was always about CONTROL!)
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America was warned about the dangers of too much government power, but those who expressed concern over ObamaCare these past few years were derided, were called kooks and racists and murderous Nazis.
Many of those who formerly embraced government-mandated, government-run, government-invasive ObamaCare now want out and are squawking loudly... what's good for you isn't good for me.
New findings reveal that the Obama administration's Department of Health and Human Services wants to know all about your sex life, and if your doctor doesn't query/interrogate you, he or she faces huge fines, per the mandates contained within the grossly misnamed Affordable Care Act. Even if your ailment or his or her medical specialty has nothing to do with sexual activity, your doctor has to comply or be hammered financially by the feds.
Per recent polls, ObamaCare is becoming more and more unpopular, and those numbers are before the majority of Americans learn that they have to share their intimate sexual secrets with their physician, who will then be forced by law to share those sexual secrets with Team Obama. Which, more than likely, means that many patients will lie or refuse to answer.
Reported by New York Post - Obamacare will question your sex life:http://nypost.com/2013/09/15/obamacare-will-question-your-sex-life/
'Are you sexually active? If so, with one partner, multiple partners or same-sex partners?"
Be ready to answer those questions and more the next time you go to the doctor, whether it's the dermatologist or the cardiologist and no matter if the questions are unrelated to why you're seeking medical help. And you can thank the Obama health law.
"This is nasty business," says New York cardiologist Dr. Adam Budzikowski. He called the sex questions "insensitive, stupid and very intrusive." He couldn't think of an occasion when a cardiologist would need such information — but he knows he'll be pushed to ask for it.
The president's "reforms" aim to turn doctors into government agents, pressuring them financially to ask questions they consider inappropriate and unnecessary, and to violate their Hippocratic Oath to keep patients' records confidential.
Embarrassing though it may be, you confide things to a doctor you wouldn't tell anyone else. But this is entirely different.
Doctors and hospitals who don't comply with the federal government's electronic-health-records requirements forgo incentive payments now; starting in 2015, they'll face financial penalties from Medicare and Medicaid. The Department of Health and Human Services has already paid out over $12.7 billion for these incentives.
Dr. Richard Amerling, a nephrologist and associate professor at Albert Einstein Medical College, explains that your medical record should be "a story created by you and your doctor solely for your treatment and benefit." But the new requirements are turning it "into an interrogation, and the data will not be confidential."
Lack of confidentiality is what concerned the New York Civil Liberties Union in a 2012 report. Electronic medical records have enormous benefits, but with one click of a mouse, every piece of information in a patient's record, including the social history, is transmitted, disclosing too much.
Some Twitterverse reactions and quips:
Wondering if liberals still want to "get the government out of the bedroom" when it comes to #Obamacare... http://t.co/ALh4vPaXnN
— Drew McKissick (@DrewMcKissick) September 17, 2013
ObamaCare monitors your sex life: http://t.co/uWKdYx2yNc Doctors will be fined up the wazoo if they don't ask about your wazoo.
— Human Events (@HumanEvents) September 16, 2013
Man, after all their bitching about getting the government out of the bedroom, liberals sure are quiet on Obamacare. http://t.co/9bf1E6XwXP
— Aaron (@a_ryan88) September 16, 2013
Obamacare will question your sex life (This is the one piece of data NSA is missing to complete your record) http://t.co/K8C6BwPqIV
— Jim Country (@4yourcountry) September 16, 2013
ObamaCare question: "Are you sexually active?" http://t.co/UN78pErKjn Millions will answer: "No, I'm married."
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 17, 2013
Obamacare will question your sex life; http://t.co/7zNONXE4R6 .."Yes doc. I've been screwed by the Gov't everyday the last 5 years."
— Kelly (@KLSouth) September 17, 2013
They told me if I didn't vote for Obama, federal agents would question my sex life http://t.co/luRsHmmCYY #AndTheyWereRight cc @instapundit
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 16, 2013
Obamacare mirrors Australia's mandatory sex questionnaires. http://t.co/wo59EvdX8Y pic.twitter.com/PaDSuhwQes
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) September 16, 2013
Benghazi
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OBUMA: "What do you mean you're going to keep my Gold Bullion??"
New Obamacare ads the creepiest ads EVAH!!!
Creepy as hell! These ads certainly are creepy but they might be my favorite Obamacare ads too. Reminds me of a Clown and that kind of clown music. Only thing is, I'm not loving the idea of using an icon like Uncle Sam as the "bad guy." I think a creepy looking Obuma mask or even an evil looking ObumaClown would have been better.
Like this one:(http://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/13781000/13781363_8fba_1024x2000.jpg#Obama%20evil%20clown%20900x615)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7cRsfW0Jv8#t=51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsN75nt1aUU
PAUL HARVEY... GOOD DAY!
"Paul Harvey's last Saturday newscast 02/07/09 - Part#1"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vR3vXFZn0M
"Part #2"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1brr2DMjic
"If I Were The Devil" (Repeat Vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGjLwOSPmiA
"An Open Letter From God"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlp0GBn02wM
"Freedom To Chains"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0FF13u13WE
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Democratic Official Wishes A "Painful" Death On Ted Cruz Aide's Children
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(Takes a seriously warped person to wish death upon someone else's children. Here is a face to go with the crap that came of his brain... he's got that creepy California pedophile look. What but a pedophile would have no problem wishing evil on children? They do not see them as children but objects of their gratification. Selfish and self-hating.
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"Allan Brauer"
Bet he's a good friend with this sick looking Clown:
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Via Free Beacon:http://freebeacon.com/democratic-official-allan-brauer-wishes-death-on-ted-cruz-aides-children/
Allan Brauer, the communications chair for the Democratic Party of Sacramento, Calif., told an aide to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Tex.) on Friday that he hoped her children "die from debilitating, painful and incurable disease. UPDATE:
Pathetic: CA Democratic Party Condemns,
Then Proceeds To Bash Ted Cruz...
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UPDATE:
(Glad to see the demo-rats finally did something right...
Vile official gets the axe!)
Via JWF:http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/deranged-democrat-forced-out-after-vile-twitter-comments/
The Democratic Party of Sacramento County (DPSC) Friday called for and accepted the resignation of its volunteer communications chair following of series of personal twitter comments directed at GOP staff after Republicans voted to defund President Obama's health care law.
DPSC chair Kerri Asbury said the personal twitter comments made by Communications Committee chair Allan Brauer were "appalling and inexcusable." She accepted his resignation Friday, and issued the following statement:
"The comments by our volunteer communications chair are appalling and inexcusable. No matter what our political disagreements may be, wishing harm is never an acceptable response during heated public debate or any other time. Mr. Brauer has apologized for his comments and expressed his remorse."
Figures: Rahm Emanuel Was in DC to Meet With Obama Cabinet Members, Tweets Feigned Outrage Over Latest Bloodbath
Sep 20, 2013Don't worry, beleaguered citizens of Chicago, the Tiny Dancer is on the job!
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who flew to Washington, D.C. on Thursday, canceled planned meetings with cabinet officials and was scheduled to head back to the city, a spokesman said.
"Senseless and brazen acts of violence have no place in Chicago and betray all that we stand for," the mayor said in a statement. "The perpetrators of this crime will be brought to justice and prosecuted to the full extent of the law."Sure they will. Then there will be another weekend of carnage. Meanwhile, what's he doing meeting with Obama cabinet members? Doesn't he work in Chicago? It occurs to us that if he had any clue he'd have been back in town about 10 hours ago. Guess we'll never know what he was up to, just like Obama on the night of Benghazi. Strange, too, considering we can find no mention prior to today that he was in DC. Oh well, we're sure it's all on the up and up.
Meanwhile, there were more kneejerk calls for gun control.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat from Illinois, said the shooting shows the need for Congress to act on gun control.
"Congress must act now to pass gun safety legislation that protects our children, families and our communities," Schakowsky said in a statement Friday morning.No mention is made of all the laws already on the books and the failure to enforce them.
[...]Assault-Style Weapon Used in Chicago Attack: Police
Spray of bullets went out shortly before 10:15 p.m. Thursday at Cornell Square Park
By Emily Florez and BJ Lutz | Friday, Sep 20, 2013 Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/10-People-Shot-In-South-Side-Park-224517491.html#ixzz2fVi9y9H4
Chicago's top police official says an assault style rifle with high capacity magazine was used in Thursday's park shooting that injured 13 people, including a 3-year-old child.
"Its a miracle in this instance there were no fatalities," Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said at a press conference on Friday.
McCarthy added that based on witness interviews, the attack appears to be gang-related, as several of the victims are gang members. It is still unclear whether more than one person opened fire, he said.
Witnesses said several gunmen fired at least 20 shots at a group gathered at Cornell Square Park, on the 1800 block of W. 51st Street, shortly before 10:15 p.m. The spray of bullets sent a mass of people to the ground on the basketball courts.
"Man, I think it was like an AK. It was a lot of shots. Like, 'Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,'" said one witness who identified himself as Josh.
The victims included 10 males and three females, including 3-year-old Deonta Howard -- known as "Tay-man" -- who was shot in the jaw at listed in critical condition as of 3 a.m. The boy was with his mother. She was not injured, a police spokesman said.
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/10-People-Shot-In-South-Side-Park-224517491.html#ixzz2fVhjc4cp
Hillary's Security Grab Phone Of Man Who Dared
Take Picture Of Her, Deletes Picture
The Stunning Hillary
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(Public figure, public place, they didn't have a right to grab his phone and delete the picture. But hey, how dare you step on royalty like Hillary and what PR she wishes to dispense? She might have had wrinkles out of place, what difference at this point does it make any way?)Via Miami Herald: Hillary Clinton quietly slipped into Miami on Thursday to address a travel agents convention in a speech where the former secretary of state said little about troubles abroad or the future ambitions of the likely presidential-race frontrunner.
Clinton slipped a question about what it would take for the United States to elect its first female leader, Clinton was quick with a joke.
"Well, it'll take a crazy person," she said, drawing laughs from the crowd at the American Society of Travel Agents' global convention
Though ostensibly not political, Clinton's address had the makings of an introductory campaign speech. Campaigns are often highly controlled events, but the ASTA conference at Hyatt Regency Miami kicked it up a notch.
At one point, a member of the audience, Andrew Rothberg, had his Galaxy Note II smartphone taken from him by security, which removed his picture of Clinton onstage and then gave his device back in front of a Miami Herald reporter in the auditorium stands.
"It's crazy," Rothberg said.
Obuma Calls Boehner To Tell Him He Won't Negotiate With Him On Debt Limit
(Alternate headline: Obuma calls Boehner to tell him he won't negotiate
with terrorists, only Iran, Assad and Putin)
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French Mother Convicted Of "Justifying A Crime"
After Sending 3 Year Old Son, "Jihad",
To School With "I Am A Bomb" T-Shirt
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(Just a little bit of child abuse to name your child "Jihad", leaving aside the rest of the stupidity. Something the French, who are under continuous threat from Al-Qaeda, are not very receptive to, for some reason)Via Daily Mail:A French court has found a mother guilty of 'justifying a crime' after sending her three-year-old son, Jihad, to school in a T-shirt with the slogans: 'I am a bomb' and 'Born on Sept. 11′.
Bouchra Bagour, 35, was given a one month suspended sentence and fined 2000 Euros. Her brother Zayed, who had the T-shirt made, received a two month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 4000 Euros.
The case was brought after a teacher at the child's pre-school in Sorgues near Avignon complained about the T-shirt. She and the school's principal were shocked and alerted authorities.
Bagour insisted she had put it on her son 'without stopping to think about it' when he wore it to school on 24 September last year.
Childlike President Continues With Temper Tantrum:
America Will Be A "Banana Republic" If GOP Forces Default
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(Sorry, You already put us there, King Clown)
Via The Hill:President Obama said Republicans in Congress were threatening to make the United States into "a deadbeat" and a "banana republic" with their maneuvers to tie the federal budget and the debt ceiling to defunding ObamaCare.
Speaking at a Ford truck plant outside of Kansas City, Mo., the president chided Republican leaders for their vote earlier Friday on legislation that would keep the government funded into December, while stripping funding for the Affordable Care Act.
"You don't have to threaten to blow the whole thing up just because you don't get your way," Obama said. "Nobody gets 100 percent of what they want."
Telegraphing his intention to veto any spending bill that delayed or defunded his signature health care law, Obama accused Republicans of lacking "the same common sense" and willingness to compromise that ordinary Americans showed in their marriages and family finances.
Nancy Pelosi: According To My Priest,
Republicans Are "Preying On People"
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(Nancy, does your priest also tell you it's OK to murder unborn children?)
Via Weekly Standard:Wednesday Nancy Pelosi spoke at the Center for American Progress to help mark the launch the organization's new initiative called "Fair Shot: A Plan for Women and Families to Get Ahead." In her remarks, Pelosi referenced the Republicans' plan to scale back the food stamp program, the cost of which has more than doubled in the past four years. She recalled a sermon she recently heard in Houston where she attended mass:"I've been trying to listen as we – this has been a morning that you can't even believe. On the floor of the House the Republicans are trying to cut $40 billion, that's 50 percent of the nutrition program – largely children, seniors, returning veterans, [and] women. It's a most incredible thing. I said yesterday at a press conference on this subject, I said: unless we – it was in Houston, I go to mass wherever I go, and at the pulpit, the priest said, in Houston, Texas – not one of your liberal bastions – he said: 'I think it's important for people, not just to come to mass on Sunday and pray, but when they leave here not to prey on people.' And it isn't exactly what they are doing: preying on people.
Status Update
By Truckers To Shut Down America
PRESS RELEASE: Another press release will be released in a few days with Truckers demands on regulations of new hours of service as well as the American people demands.
"TRUCKERS TO SHUT DOWN AMERICA"
Ride for The U.S. Constitution
WHO: Independent Truckers of America are essentially operating on slave wages; in most cases working below minimum wage, and all paying exorbitant fuel costs and fees. American truckers are also very politically astute and great patriots, and they are all well aware of what is happening to our U.S. Constitution. Through this campaign, they are leading the convoy of all Americans coast to coast who wish to restore our Constitutional Republic. America is calling out to our Patriots, and if any group can help lead the charge to save our nation, it's the U.S. Truckers.
WHAT: The original Facebook Campaign was titled "Truckers to Shutdown America" and the powerful concept went viral for the following reason: All Americans are frustrated with the lawlessness of our Congressman and Senators who refuse to work on behalf of the American people. It has become apparent that the Elite will never respond to the will of the people as long as their wealth is not jeopardized. The only thing that motivates every politician is their money --- cutting off their money-flow cuts off their life-blood. The Independent Truckers in the United States essentially keep commerce flowing for benefit of the wealthy elite. The only way to get our legislators to operate lawfully and Constitutionally is to penalize them with a credible threat of a shutdown. Through this effort, the American people can demand that all Congressman & Senators sign on to the demands for them to operate lawfully and Constitutionally, or risk a possible shutdown if they refuse to follow the law; the supreme law of the land; the U.S. Constitution.
WHEN: The American people want our politicians to restore our Constitutional republic NOW! Yesterday. The "Truckers To Shutdown America" event is scheduled for October 11th thru the 13th. This gives the American people time to spread the message, and to give our domestic enemies such as Barack Obama, John Kerry, Lindsay Graham and John McCain, etc. time to comply with the demands of the American people. The event is specifically scheduled for a holiday weekend so as not to harm America, and to also allow for every American to participate in this protest during a non-work weekend.
WHERE: Independent Truckers across America have agreed to lead a "Ride for the Constitution" to Washington DC. This will be a very symbolic display of solidarity as potentially hundreds of thousands of truckers and millions of citizens can proceed to what we have always believed is our nation's capital. Additionally, every single American can participate in this event coast-to-coast. Let's face it, not everyone can afford to drive to Washington DC, and the Elite know this. They love the fact that the days of the "million man march" are gone because they have us so overworked and underpaid ---no time or money to protest or save their country. On October 11th, we are encouraging every single household to participate in many different ways; one of which if to get in their cars and join the truckers on your local highways to show your support! Just think; 30 million people on American roads; side-by-side with Independent Truckers. Obama, Kerry, McCain, Lindsay Graham, etc. should get the message. Best of all, we don't need the media. We will run this place and take our country back --- they can NEVER stop us. Period.
HOW: How can everyone get involved? If you are independent trucker and can afford to drive to Washington DC --- DO IT! If you are afraid of your employer, or the U.S. Government, get out on the road anyways. Nobody will ever know why you were stuck in traffic.
If you are an average American and have a personal vehicle, get in your car and get out on the road if you have the time or desire. The more people we have on the road, the louder our message will be.
If you want to mind your own business and watch it all unfold on TV; you can refuse to buy anything the entire weekend --- and if our legislators refuse our Constitutional demands, continue to not buy anything until they start following the law. The only way these criminals can survive is if we take our wallets out & spend money. Refuse to give them a dime until they comply with our lawful demands.
Help spread the word NOW! This campaign will go viral if each of us gets the word out. The Elite control the media because they want to be the only ones talking to Americans. Let's show them that we don't need the media for us to get up off the couch and distribute flyers at our local truck stop in every city in America. We run this place & they will panic if they see us getting the word out without their system controls.
"LIKE" the Facebook page, share the word with your friends, family members and neighbors, and stay tuned to GuerillaMediaNetwork.com for constant updates about the event. Most importantly, create your own Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and blog so that these bastards can never shut this thing down. It needs to be a "de-centralized" effort ---- a gas-roots effort that will never give the D.H.S. or the government goons the chance to shut down a website or an organizer's office. Take charge of your own neighborhoods, towns, major cities etc across America. Let each of us show these bastards who runs this place. Most importantly, let's show them who owns and controls our minds and wallets.
Share this document. Copy it, re-post it, encourage everyone else to do the same. We are Americans who run the United States of America --- it's not run by a bunch of millionaires. This is our house; our country; our government, and each of us needs to take ownership of how we succeed in this event. If we want to save our country, we will do so. If we don't, it will be because you as an individual wanted someone else to save it for you --- this is why we are in this mess --- because we trusted someone better dressed, smarter, richer, better educated or more experienced. Look where that has gotten us. It's time for each of us to say enough is enough & show them who runs this country. Let's make them panic by getting off the couch. We the people will save our country.
Do not be afraid. Do not fear your job, or worry about the big-bad-government. This is your country which was founded by courageous men, and many men & women fought to protect it over the past couple hundred years. Blood has been shed in order to protect everything you have benefited and prospered from, and these bastards are destroying everything we've built --- all for their own personal gain and wealth. Set your fear aside. Figure out what your role will be. If you are a corporate trucker, silently participate & don't worry about your corporate master threatening you with being fired --- they cannot fire you for getting stuck in traffic. Throw your hands in the air & say "oh well--- I got stuck in a traffic jam...what am I supposed to do?". If you are a regular citizen in a car, plan to get out in traffic in support of our truckers & their Ride for the US Constitution. If you feel courageous enough, bring a Hibachi and fire it up for everyone else in dead stopped traffic! Heck; people get HUNGRY when traffic is stopped! Have a tailgate & celebrate!
If you have a job, and can't get to work, let your boss know about the traffic jam. They cannot fire millions of people who get caught in traffic.
This will be the best way for ALL Americans to participate! The last time this was planned in 2007, they scared off all the truckers in Washington DC by threatening fines for all those drivers who came to DC with no load. We will say FUCK THEM. They will not be able to cite every single empty truck in the USA, in every city. If you are concerned about any fines going to DC, plan to take your truck to another metro area. DO NOT BE AFRAID. Stand courageously for your country --- the country we all love and have built with our blood sweat and tears.
DO NOT LISTEN TO ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU THAT THIS WILL HURT US. BY US NOT DOING ANYTHING, IT GIVES THE ELITE MORE TIME TO EARN MORE WEALTH, BUT ULTIMATELY, IN THE END, THEY WILL COLLAPSE OUR SYSTEM AND LEAVE US FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL AND FOOD WITH BULLETS AS THEY GO INTO THEIR BUNKERS. ANYONE WHO TRIES TO TALK US OUT OF SAVING OUR COUNTRY IS WORKING TO CONTINUE TO DESTROY IT. THIS IS THE LAST PEACEFUL MEANS BY WHICH WE CAN SAVE OUR COUNTRY. WE ARE WITHIN DAYS OF A TOTAL MONETARY SYSTEM COLLAPSE --- IT COULD HAPPEN ANY MOMENT ---- AND WE HAVE A CHANCE TO CHANGE THE ENTIRE WORLD IN FAVOR OF OUR PEOPLE. IGNORE ANYONE WHO SAYS THAT STAYING HOME WILL FIX THINGS. THE DAY HAS COME; LIKE IT OR NOT---- YOU WILL EITHER PARTICIPATE IN SAVING US, OR YOU WILL WATCH THE REST OF US. BE STRONG AND JOIN US, ESPECIALLY OF YOU ARE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT OR GOVERNMENT ---- JOIN US BY TURNING A BLIND EYE & REFUSE TO WORK FOR YOUR MASTERS (THE ELITE) --- WORK FOR THE PEOPLE. FROM NOW ON, DOING YOUR JOB MEANS BACKING OUR PEOPLE. DELAYING THIS WILL GIVE THEM ONE MORE DAY TO TAKE THEIR TRILLIONS OFFSHORE.
WHY: There are so many reasons why we need to rise up, but here are a few obvious ones that everyone is frustrated about, and until now, Americans have been told to wait for the next election to change things. That has gotten us nowhere because we all know that in the next election we will be faced with choosing one millionaire of another millionaire. It's an endless cycle that has failed us miserably. We need to change things NOW! Our founding Fathers knew this day might come, and they suggested that we abolish a government that has become harmful and destructive.
a) Independent Truckers have an incentive to protest, because of dangerous regulation of New Hours of Service and are living on poverty wages like many others. Low wage jobs are all that is left. Our system is setup for the same slave labor we benefit from in China & Vietnam, and the truckers are the symbol we can all relate to. Workers must not be treated as slave laborers.
b) Fuel prices are unnecessarily high. This has especially hurt our truckers, but it is not limited to the trucking industry. Every American is now paying $4-$5.00 per gallon because the rich say so. The USA can drill for oil TOMORROW and bring the price of gasoline and diesel under $1.00 a gallon, but we are slaves to a bunch of Saudi's. This can end tomorrow, and will if we rise up. Rich people don't control us.
c) We now support Al Qaeda. This must end immediately. We have lost thousands of lives fighting Al Qaeda, now we need to arrest people like Obama and McCain for aiding them. We should do this on behalf of all the men and women who have given their lives for our country.
d) Obama must be impeached for the crimes he has committed while in office. Period. This is not a conspiracy theory, it is a fact that must be dealt with by our Congress. The only reason why he has not been impeached is because Congress refuses to. By not impeaching him, he is allowed to continue to commit crimes. If this is to be disputed, it should be before the Congress.
e) The banksters need to be thrown in jail. They must be stopped from stealing trillions of dollars from our country. If we do not rise up peacefully to stop them, it is guaranteed that their theft will result in a violent revolution when the money system ceases to function. This could occur any day now, but we can stop them on October 11th.
f) Our elected officials have allowed the NDAA to become law. This horrifying legislation that most Americans don't know much about has converted our country from a free country to a tyrannical one. This is fact; not theory. The NDAA must be repealed along with any other unconstitutional legislation.
g) The US Constitution is being torn apart. We must arrest and try all legislators who violate the US Constitution. Feinstein wants to infringe upon the 1st, 4th and 2nd Amendment, and she should be removed from office and arrested. Obama signed the NDAA in secret, and uses every single shooting to try to brainwash people that the 2nd Amendment needs to be changed. Our government is doing everything they can to take away our God given rights and freedoms that the U.S. Constitution protects, and there is no enforcement of Constitutional law other than We The People. We must become the policemen for our constitution & show our politicians that there is a penalty for messing with our rights.
h) Obama runs our country by executive order, and each unconstitutional executive order must be repealed.
i) There are so many cover-ups it is almost impossible to list them here. Benghazi, Seal Team 6 Six, Osama Bin Laden death, drug running (CIA) and gun running by the US Justice Department (Eric Holder's Fast & Furious). These must be investigated, and people need to be brought to justice.
j) We want our elected officials, law enforcement and government officials to operate lawfully and constitutionally. Nothing more; nothing less. If they refuse to do so, we need to join together to stop them, and this means everyone. If you are a fed, a member of the US Military, a law enforcement official, or a member of the judicial system, you have sworn an oath. You will either join us in upholding you oath, or you will immediately be considered our domestic enemy. The choice is yours, and we ask you to make a lawful one.
k) We want a peaceful resolution. We don't even want this event to take place. If on October 10th, all congressman and senators agree to follow the US Constitution and the law, the event is not necessary. If they REFUSE to do so, they will be personally responsible for collapsing our system of commerce. The choice is theirs, and we are giving them until October 11th to decide.
Gallup Poll:
Dirty Harry Reid Most Hated Congressional Leader
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(For blatantly obvious reasons)
Via Newsmax:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has the lowest job-approval rating among the nation's top four congressional leaders, according to Americans surveyed by Gallup.
Only 33 percent of the 794 adults polled Sept. 5-8 approve of the Nevada Democrat's job performance, Gallup said on Friday. His disapproval rating was even higher, at 53 percent.
Reid was followed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose Gallup approval rating was 35 percent.
But even though the Kentucky Republican's disapproval rating — at 47 percent — was higher than his approval rating, it was the lowest among the four congressional leaders.
Transgender Homecoming Queen
(Only in Californication)
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Via CBS Los Angeles:HUNTINGTON BEACH (CBSLA.com) — A transgender student at Marina High School in Huntington Beach made history Friday evening by becoming the school's Homecoming Queen.
Cassidy Lynn Campbell, who was among five finalists, was selected for the coveted title. The announcement was made during halftime of Friday night's game.
Earlier in the day, students reportedly erupted in cheers when it was announced that Campbell was among the finalists.
"I think it's really awesome 'cause a lot of people wouldn't be able to do what she does. I mean ... I would be so scared and she's accepting everything that everyone is saying. She's taking it all in ... in a good way," Janet Tran, a student, told CBS2′s Joy Benedict.
University Of Kansas Professor Who Wished Death
On Children Of NRA Members Is Put On
"Administrative Leave"
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(The fat slob Leftist 'academic' is displaying the Left's idea of tolerance and rational thinking.... And from the looks of him, I'd say he was only one cheeseburger away from experiencing what he would wish on others)
Via Fox News:A journalism professor at the University of Kansas was placed on administrative leave Friday after posting a comment on Twitter regarding Monday's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard that killed 12 people.
David Guth, an associate professor at the school, went after the National Rifle Association in a Twitter message that read: "#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters. Shame on you. May God damn you."
Guth, who said he was writing as a private citizen simply looking to start a debate, has stood by his message.
"Is This America"? Father Arrested For Speaking
Out Against Common Core At Public Meeting
(Watch as this poor father is manhandled for speaking. Now he is being charged with assault on a police officer; I don't see an assault, except one from the "police officer")
See original article on Examiner.com at:
http://www.examiner.com/article/exclu...
Also, Via The Blaze:A parent in Towson, Md., was arrested Thursday night at a public forum after vocally expressing his concerns about the Baltimore County School District's plan to use Common Core standards in its curriculum.
Robert Small, a concerned father, was forcefully removed from the meeting by a police officer after he interrupted Baltimore County Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance during the question-and-answer portion of the forum.
The meeting apparently didn't allow parents to stand up and ask questions or comment. Parents and other attendants were instead asked to write their questions on a piece of paper and officials would read them.
However, Small began speaking out against the district's use of Common Core, prompting a security guard, who was also a police officer, to approach him and order him to leave. "Let's go!" he said sternly.
When Small didn't immediately comply, the officer began pulling his arm and pushing him towards the exit. Some audience members gasped at the cop's use of force.
"Don't stand for this," the father said as he was dragged out. "You are sitting here like cattle! Is this America?"
Al Nusra Front Vows To "Avenge" The Death of
Osama Bin Laden If Obama Attacks Syria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5VF_QNjz0
Via LiveLeak:This footage is taken from a longer video showing al-Qaeda's Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) invasion of the ancient and mostly Christian town of Maaloula, the world's only town where Aramaic is still spoken by its inhabitants. The suicide bomber, Abu Musaab, is seen sending a message prior to his "martyrdom" at the gate of the town, stating that they will do the same thing to Americans if they come to Syria to avenge the death of their Sheikh (leader) Osama bin Laden. It is worthy to mention that the invasion of Maaloula was a joint operation between Jabhat al-Nusra and John McCain's moderate "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) brigade called 'Bab Amr Revolutionaries'.
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Published on Sep 21, 2013
Above video shows excerpts from the planned attack on September 4, 2013 by the foreign-backed insurgents led by al-Qaeda's Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) and assisted mainly by John McCain's "moderate rebels" from the 'Revolutionaries of Bab Amr' Brigade of the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) on the ancient and mostly Christian town of Maaloula, the only town in the world where Aramaic is still spoken by its inhabitants. The town retains a highly symbolic importance in Christendom not only due to "Jesus's language" that is still spoken there but also due to its ancient Christian heritage and monasteries.
The invasion of the town was carried out by means of a suicide bomber with the alias of Abu Musaab, whose accent in Arabic indicates that he is most likely from Saudi Arabia, and who blew himself up at the checkpoint situated at the ancient town's main gate. The rhetoric of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists, as seen from this footage, reveals how their Saudi Wahhabi doctrine ingrains in them a deep hatred of anything that does not conform to their strict and narrow-minded way of life.
The last portion of the video is a report from Russia Today (RT) showing the suffering of the citizens of Maaloula at the hands of these militants who think that they are advancing a divine cause by killing people.
55% Of Obama's Twitter Followers Are Fake
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(Is this a surprise? Virtually everything about him is fake,
why not his Twitter followers?)
Via Daily Caller:
An incredibly high percentage of President Obama's Twitter followers are fake, while the opposite is true for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
According to the Twitter analytics application, Status People, 55 percent of President Obama's 36,802,378 Twitter followers — or approximately 20,240,107 followers — are fake.
A 'fake follower,' according to Status People, is a spam account following the user. During the presidential election season, candidates' Twitter accounts came under public scrutiny for possibly purchasing followers to try to bolster their social media credibility.
Twenty-four percent of Obama's Twitter followers are inactive, and only 21 percent — or approximately 7,728,499 followers — are real.
White House Staffers Have New Nickname For Obuma: "Obam-me,"
Call Him That "Because It's All About Him"
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(Sounds about right... he power of the office is
going to Dear Leader Kim Jong Obam-me's head)
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Via Newsmax:White House staffers have adopted a new and unflattering nickname for their boss: "Obam-me," Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan says she heard in chats with a few senators.And how did the staffers come up with that name?
"Because it's all about him and his big thoughts," Noonan writes in a column. "I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first."
The Mall Shooting In Kenya
(Kenya is an old ally of America, not to mention Britain and other major powers. It would be hypocrisy if we did not aid them in their fight against the shabab in Somalia.
For now we can do nothing about al-Assad's terrorism in Syria, but we can and should do something about this. No one will stand up for the shabab except other terrorists, and Somalia is still a breeding ground for terrorism and the worst case of naval piracy in the world. I hope that the U.S., NATO, the U.N., and all those nations in the world that despise terrorism, will help finally do something about Somalia, ravaged by anarchy for decades now. I think in the one-sided fight on shabab strongholds, there should be no negotiations whatsoever, as requested)Warning: Graphic Videos-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsZRpF47oI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUANtGiCGtg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlEIDLS9pA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHGe8tAR_Ik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raa4VBuXMQI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM8SiIVlhj4
Via NYTimeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/world/africa/nairobi-mall-shooting.html?hp
At least 39 people have been reported killed, another 150 injured.
The Westgate Mall was a mall frequented by expats and wealthy Kenyans. It was also Israeli-owned, making it an inviting target to terrorists.
Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Hostages were forced to name the Prophet's mother. If they could not, they were reportedly shot in the head.
NY Times Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Tyler Hicks was next door to the mall. He went in with some of the police and got some of the following pictures. Warning that some are graphic:
Kenyans are uniting across Twitter reporting for spam al-Shabaab accounts like @HSMPress. The account was suspended and the Kenyans are hot on the trail of any replacement accounts.
The current accounts which appear to be them are @HSMPress_arabic and @HSMPress3 where they apologize for the loss of life, but claim it is necessary.
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Al-Shabaab Terrorists tweeting:
It's funny how the Infidels cry, rushing with slag and insist on their teeth around small accidents while their armies kill Thousands of Muslims. # _ youth movement Mujahideen _ # Kenya
Defending Muslim land from any obligations after faith and protector of the enemy Aggressor is our right as Muslims. # _ youth movement Mujahideen _ # Nairobi # Kenya
Al-Shabaab Live Tweeting The Attack At Nairobi Mall... Al-Shabaab was live tweeting the attack from a few different twitter accounts.
Here are somemore of the tweets:
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Be prepared for October 1st, people...
Russian and other foreign soldiers training on U.S soil to
Disarm Americans, dressed in American uniforms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq9S5L6GJzQ
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Barack Obama has this nasty habit of acting like a spoiled child... it's always about him. Today the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution which funded all the federal government except for the hugely unpopular Obamacare.
But to this President the vote had nothing to do with the fact the American people don't like Obamacare, the vote was about him:http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-trying-to-mess-with-me-obama-tells-crowd-at-missouri-auto-plant/2013/09/20/bec53dce-2218-11e3-a358-1144dee636dd_story.html?wprss=rss_politics
"Unfortunately right now, the debate going on in Congress is not meeting the test of helping middle class families," Obama said. "They're not focused on you. They're focused on politics. They're focused on trying to mess with me. They're not focused on you."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMqSjkxGm4#t=53
Obama at times sought to belittle GOP lawmakers. "The most basic constitutional duty Congress has is to pass a budget," said the president, a former constitutional law lecturer. "That's Congress 101."I agree so why didn't he open his mouth when The House passed budgets but the Democratic-Party controlled Senate refused to pass a budget for almost four years. Obama also addressed Republicans' threats not to raise the government's borrowing limit later this year, noting that every president over the past half century, Republican and Democratic, has done so as a matter of course. Threatening not to raise the limit, he said, is "the height of irresponsibility.""This is not some abstract thing," Obama said, adding that not raising the debt limit would be
"profoundly destructive" and send the country into
"an economic tailspin."Obama used the phrase "deadbeat nation" at least three times. "We are not a deadbeat nation," he said in one instance. "We don't run out on our tab. We're the world's bedrock investment. The entire world looks to us to make sure the world economy is stable."Funny, when this same man was in the Senate he voted against raising the debt ceiling saying:"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Over the past 5 years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion. That is ''trillion'' with a ''T.'' That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next 5 years, between now and 2011, the President's budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion."Which one is correct Mr. Obama 2006 or today? Or is it really about changing your tune and manipulating the facts to make you look better.This president will never be able to accept the fact that some politicians do things because their constituents desire that they vote a certain way. He can't because in the end in his mind it's all about him.
Obuma needs your help, Forum. Can you find it in your hearts and give him your total support on making this issue happen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-sdO6pwVHQ
Propaganda?
American gun use is out of control. Shouldn't the world intervene?
The death toll from firearms in the US suggests that the country is gripped by civil war
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/21/american-gun-out-control-porter?CMP=ema_565&et_cid=50028&et_rid=7293954&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fcommentisfree%2f2013%2fsep%2f21%2famerican-gun-out-control-porter
(My personal opinion it that is what the New World Order wants, to disarm American Citizens to make our country very vulnerable. The laws and legal system can not and never has stopped criminals. If the every day person wants to kill someone they don't have to have a gun to do so. Just bump them off a cliff or there are knives and ball bats and shovels. So you can't stop them. But it is a possibility to disarm Americans and make them vulnerable to foreign attack, isn't it?)
MORE PROPAGANDA?
The Incivility Crisis in America
Do you ever feel that people just aren't as nice as they used to be? Well, you are not alone. According to the fourth annual Civility in America: A Nationwide Survey, 70% of Americans feel incivility has reached crisis levels in this country.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2013/09/23/incivility-crisis-in-america/
UK Columnist: World Should Intervene to Stop U.S. Gun Epidemic
by Evan McMurry | 11:45 am, September 23rd, 2013
Calling the United States a "country where people are [/size] [/color][/b][/center]
better armed and only slightly less nervy than rebel fighters in Syria," on Saturday, Observer columnist Henry Porter called for an international intervention into the U.S.'s gun epidemic.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/uk-columnist-world-should-intervene-to-stop-u-s-gun-epidemic/
(Why is it these days that everything is a crisis or an epidemic? For propaganda purposes that's why! Today the killings all across the nation are broadcast nationally and on the internet. In the 60's, 70's and even as recent as a couple of years ago you did not hear of the killings and murders unless it was in the area of the country you live in. Also the news media is pushing a lot of these non-regional murders for what purpose? To disarm America and make our nation vulnerable.. Think about that and think about the column from the UK and incivility is in the eye of the beholder not the eye of the nation.)
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Pope Francis Excommunicates Pro-Gay Marriage Priest
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(Sorry you progressive liberals, last week's comments about
broadening the Church's message was not what you thought it was. Pope Francis has said the Catholic Church is too focused on preaching about abortion, gay people and contraception and needs to become more merciful. He warned that the Church's moral structure could "fall like a house of cards" unless it changed.) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24166434
Via Telegraph:http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100237450/pope-francis-excommunicates-pro-gay-marriage-priest-hes-not-the-liberal-the-media-thinks/
Just ask Greg Reynolds of Melbourne – a priest who appears to have been both defrocked and excommunicated because of his radical views on women clergy and gay marriage.
From Australia's The Age: Catholic Church Dumps Rebel Priest
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/church-dumps-rebel-priest-20130920-2u5jp.html
The excommunication document – written in Latin and giving no reason – was dated May 31, meaning it comes under the authority of Pope Francis who made headlines on Thursday calling for a less rule-obsessed church.The document might give no explicit reason, but the reason is implicit and well understood: Reynolds has offended Mother Church with his politics. It's interesting to note that the former priest tells The Age that he "wants the same thing as the Pope" which is "to encourage reform and clear need for renewal in the church." I read from this that Reynolds has, like many liberals, misunderstood Francis' words. Structural reform is clearly necessary to prevent future horrors like the child abuse scandal, and renewal is something that Christians always desire. But Reynolds would throw out Catholic doctrine – something Francis would never do because he is, despite the best wishes of so many in the media, a Catholic. His treatment of Reynolds proves that point.
Sen. Cruz's Fight Against Funding Disastrous ObamaCare, GOP Tries Trashing Cruz, Palin Writes, "Time for Senate to Put Itself on Cruz Control"
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"Let's be clear. Republicans in Congress aren't advocating a government shutdown. That's why they voted in the House to fully fund our bureaucracy while defunding Obamacare. The conservatives in Congress are listening to the majority of Americans who do not want Obamacare."
...Sarah Palin
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b]The trashing of Ted Cruz... This stunning news was revealed earlier today at Mediate, Fox's Wallace Stunned: GOP Leaders Sent Me Opposition Research on Ted Cruz:[/b]
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace said Sunday morning that he'd received opposition research from other Republicans about Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in advance of Cruz's appearance this morning, a serious indication of how upset the GOP is with the Senator leading the risky charge to defund ObamaCare.
"This has been one of the strangest weeks I've ever had in Washington," Wallace said. "As soon as we listed Ted Cruz as our featured guest this week, I got unsolicited research and questions, not from Democrats but from top Republicans, to hammer Cruz."
"This was a strategy laid out by Mike Lee (R-UT) and Ted Cruz without any consultation with their colleagues," said Karl Rove. "With all due respect to my junior Senator from Texas, I suspect this is the first time that the end game was described to any Republican Senator. They had to tune in to listen to you to find out what Ted's next step was in the strategy."(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUzQ-jBCYAED3Pn.png)
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Iranian President Snubs Obuma At The UN
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(Oooooowww.... Fist still clenched. Gosh, golly gee.... Obuma rolled over on his back, belly up, in the "submissive" posture he learned from BO, wagging his tail and hoping to get a belly rub....and it didn't work.
Note how the AP glosses over Iran snubbing Obama's request to meet)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Senior U.S. officials say President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hasan Rouhani will not meet while both leaders are at the United Nations.
The officials say a meeting proved to be too complicated for the Iranians. But they say work is under way at the staff level to resolve an impasse over Iran's nuclear program.
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Jihad Flags Fly Over Muslim Day Parade In NYC
(Now... ain't that nice. It seems it's all about Morsi. New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly shaking hands [unwittingly] with a Muslim Brotherhood supporter wearing a yellow shirt as a demonstration of unity.)
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Via Urban Infidel who has more pictures.
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Obuma: "World Is More Stable Than It Was Five Years Ago"
Because of Me
(The size of this POS's ego never ceases to amaze me)
Via NRO's Andrew Johnson:Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama justified the NSA's spying programs, arguing they have helped to stabilize the world in the five years since he took office.
"As a result of this work, and the cooperation of its allies and partners, the world is more stable than it was five years ago," the president said on Tuesday morning.
Obuma Says He Directed Lurch To Negotiate With Iran
Over Its Nuclear Weapons Program
(You know this ain't gonna end well. He's also instructed Lurch to shave his legs and wear a burqa so he might be taken seriously)
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Barack Obama says he has directed Secretary of State John Kerry to pursue a nuclear weapons agreement with Iran and that he firmly believes "the diplomatic path must be tested."
Obama told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday he's encouraged that Iranian President Hasan Rouhani is pursuing a more moderate course. But he said Rouhani's "conciliatory words will have to be matched by actions that are transparent and verifiable."
The West has long suspected that Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon. Tehran has consistently denied the charge.
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Commie Pant Suits Hoping For Government Shutdown
Because It Will Help Dems
(Reality: Unlike 1995, polls are showing voters would blame both parties equally. Sorry there Thunder Thighs, but come 2016, there's plenty we're not gonna let you conveniently forget. Think I might be one of the folks in your campaign audience tossing empty tuna cans on stage.)
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Via The Hill:Hillary Clinton warned Tuesday against the budget debate amounting to a government shutdown, but said it could be a good thing for her party.
"It wouldn't be the worst thing for Democrats," the former secretary of State said at the Clinton Global Initiative, according to multiple reports.Clinton was asked about her opinion of a possible government shutdown on Oct. 1 during a panel event in New York, which began Monday.
Republicans should go back and read history because it didn't work out for them before, she said.
"We've seen that movie before," Clinton said.
***IMPORTANT: READ THIS, IT EFFECTS YOU ***
Obumacare Navigators Won't Have to Pass Background Checks
It is called the Federal Data Hub. Massive amounts of information gathered on every American are shared between government agencies; agencies ranging from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to the Department of Defense (DoD), Homeland Security (DHS) and Health and Human Services (HHS). The best part there is no opting out. So who all has access to this information and the bigger question does private information even exist anymore? The step toward truth is to inform.
There is as we speak an army of new federal government employees being hired by the department of Health and Human Services. Why does HHS need all these new employees? The answer is simple, the massive new healthcare law, The Affordable Care Act is behind schedule and the Feds need to start signing Americans up for the health care exchanges as quickly as possible.
So what kind of information is going to be collected? When individuals sign up for federal insurance exchanges, they are required to enter their personal information into a new Federal Data Hub. We are talking about information like medical records, Social Security numbers, tax information, and bank account information. This is done by allowing seven government agencies, including the IRS, Department of Justice, Social Security Administration and others, to share and verify information in order to determine eligibility for an insurance subsidy.
In short, basically everything about you will be shared among multiple agencies. Remember, no actual agency can see or access any information. People working in those agencies do. So who, specifically, will be able to access this information?
They are called Navigators. Men and women who are being hired to work for between $20 and $48 dollars an hour. Sounds like specialized work that will require highly trained individuals, but not so much. The requirements to become one of these navigators do not even include a high school diploma. Though these navigators will have access to just about every piece of personal information on Americans enrolled in this exchange, they are not even required to pass a background check.
That is what the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been told by HHS.
Navigators will only have to take a 20 to 30 hour online course about how the 1,200 page Affordable Care Act (ACA) works.
Interestingly, there is another role of these navigators that deserves a mention.
There is more to the role of the Navigators than just signing Americans up for the healthcare exchange.
These Navigators will also be responsible for registering Americans to vote.According to People's World Magazine in Californication:
http://peoplesworld.org/california-launches-innovative-plan-to-expand-voter-registration/
"California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen is designating the state's new Health Benefit Exchange, Covered California, as a voter registration agency under the National Voter Registration Act. That means Covered California will be incorporating voter registration into every transaction – online, in-person and by phone – it has with consumers."
So, to be clear these Navigators will have access to every bit of your personal and financial information, federal employees who haven't even been given so much as a background check.
Of course, HHS says you have nothing to worry about. Marilyn Tavenner the head of HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services testified before Congress saying,
"I want to assure you, and all Americans, that when they fill out their [health insurance] marketplace applications, they can trust the information they're providing is protected."
But how would any American know that? Even with background checks, how can Americans trust that a Federal Data Hub, that involves the gathering and consolidation of so much information, will not be attacked by hackers or compromised by those inside the departments?
We don't know what will happen, but we do have evidence of how some other expansive government agencies, with even less intrusion into your life, are functioning. An audit by the Government Accountability Office of the Transportation Security Administration points out major problems in that agency. That includes TSA agents accused of taking bribes from drug traffickers in Los Angeles, or 56 cases alleging theft since 2010, including a 2011 incident involving a screener at Orlando International Airport who pleaded guilty to stealing more than 80 laptops and other electronic devices valued at $80,000.
In all, there were 426 cases of neglect of duty and 384 cases of ethical violations like bribery or credit-card abuse. Then, there are the agents who are caught sleeping on the job, but the biggest problem here isn't even the behavior of the agents. According to the GAO, Half of workers accused of sleeping on the job received less than the lowest penalty called for by agency policies. In all, the GAO found over 9,600 cases of misconduct in an agency that only has the power to allow you to get on an airplane.
What you need to know is that when it comes to the National Data Hub, there is a bigger question here than just one of whether or not HHS navigators might be overstepping their role by registering voters with this personal information; a bigger question than whether or not the information compiled in this data hub is susceptible to fraud, or corrupt workers.
The most important question is, "Does personal or private information exist anymore?" Chances are the feds would say no. After all, we know the NSA believes they have the right to read your emails and listen to your phone calls. So, why wouldn't they have the right to any and all of your private information, even your banking information? The federal apparatus that is nearly complete is telling you that you don't have the right to withhold anything about yourself and your life from government.
But that is simply not true.
The rights to privacy are all but gone in America today. Consider this, you do not belong to the state. Your money, your business, your private correspondence and conversations, your identity belongs to you and you alone. Those in power know it, but the population has forgotten it. It is time that we remember.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/09/obamacare-navigators-wont-pass-background-checks/#BxwPctecFmqxOmLY.99
Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/09/obamacare-navigators-wont-pass-background-checks/#ixzz2frvF3vJQ
Poll: Just 1 In 10 Want
NFL's Redskins To Change Their Name
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(But... but... butt... R-Word!)
Via Washington Secrets:In a blow to native American groups and many in the media, especially at the Washington Post, campaigning to change the name of the Washington Redskins, most Americans believe the 0-3 football team should keep its name, with only one in 10 demanding an immediate change.
According to a new national YouGov.com poll of 1,000, just 11 percent believe the 'Skins should find a new name. A firm 61 percent oppose that change, 17 percent said they support a change only if the Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Braves changed their names, and 11 percent didn't have an opinion.
The reason: Most people don't find the name offensive. YouGov.com found that 16 percent believe the name is offensive and 78 percent don't.
Cruz Missile Still Going Strong
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A Cruz Missile Launch, Like a Light, Shows the Cockroaches Scurrying
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By: Erick Erickson | September 24th, 2013
http://www.redstate.com/2013/09/24/a-cruz-missile-launch-like-a-light-shows-the-cockroaches-scurrying/A curious moment happened on Fox News Sunday. Chris Wallace told Karl Rove that a number of Republicans in Congress had sent him opposition research on Ted Cruz once Fox announced Cruz would be on.
Rove responded. He said this was all happening because Cruz and Mike Lee had not worked out strategy in the regular Senate Republican Conference lunches on Thursdays. Rove said that was what was supposed to happen. Except that for a year now, Senate Republicans have routinely leaked the proceedings of those meetings to the New York Times and Washington Post in ways designed to harm Cruz, Lee, and others who side with them.
In fact, as one Senator noted in last week's meeting, this would not be happening but for John Cornyn and Mitch McConnell choosing not to lead. Had Lee and Cruz approached their Senate colleagues, they would have been dismissed. I can say this confidently because it has happened repeatedly and since their election to the Senate their Republican colleagues have routinely taken to "on background" leaks assailing them.
I doubt Rove is that tuned out. He simply disagrees with their strategy and has been very vocal about how terrible he thinks it is. But the strategy is actually quite marvelous and Rove has to be smart enough to what is actually going on. Now it is time for everyone else to see the bigger picture.
Let's be clear here — absent the American people lending a loud, clear voice for Cruz and Lee, the Republicans will cave. They will not stand with Cruz and Lee unless dragged kicking and screaming against their will. I hope they will. I hope a collection of House conservatives will stand strong and force the issue. But the majority of them will betray Cruz and Lee. In fact, Senate Republican Leaders have built up so much irrational hatred of Cruz, they want him to fail just so they can say they beat him — damn the Obamacare implications. Their pride comes before the nation.
Cruz only needs a few dozen Republicans in the House to stand firm to be successful. He might get that. But the bulk of the GOP in the House will try to cut a deal with the Democrats and move on.
That, in and of itself, is the brilliance of this strategy.
For several years now the Republican rhetoric against Obamacare has been vicious and savage. As more stories come in about the harmful effects the legislation will have on our economy, we learn that the Affordable Care Act is anything but and more Americans are losing full time jobs to it. Each news story causes Republican rhetoric to amp up and Republican fundraising petitions to start up. The GOP has made a mint off opposition to Obamacare and, ironically, now attack conservatives as being in this fight for the money. Takes one to know one, except these groups are not stopping. It is dawning on Republican leaders these groups actually, really believe in this fight.
Like a light switch flipping on, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are casting light on the scurrying of Republican roaches in and out of the Capitol. Republican congressmen and Senators are now openly attacking Cruz and Lee. Outside groups like Americans for Tax Reform and outside media interests like the Wall Street Journal are amplifying attacks made by the establishment GOP against conservatives. Lobbyists are up in arms.
Mike Lee and Ted Cruz are showing the leadership skills others have claimed for themselves and conservatives now see just how badly they've been played by their so called leaders and many outside groups that have hung for too long on the conservative label while really being affiliates of the Republican Party itself. Because of Lee and Cruz, polling against Obamacare is up and the GOP's favorability is up.
Even more importantly, the Republican base's willingness to get back in the game has gone up too in the aftermath of a bitterly depressing 2012 election that saw a good bit of disengagement by the base. Conservatives may see their leaders now as the pathetic lot they are, but they have also seen real leadership in Cruz and Lee. They've also found real voices on the outside like Heritage Action for America and the Senate Conservatives Fund with which they can engage for education and motivation.
John Cornyn sent out an email that he would be voting against any amendment to fund Obamacare. But his voters in Texas now understand Cornyn is playing them — voting to ensure Obamacare gets funded while voting against it. The base has learned the game and the base is sick of the game.
All the shots at Cruz from inside and outside Congress only strengthen his relationship with the grassroots.
But more importantly, and this is the bit the GOP and its media allies simply have not understood — the Cruz strategy would never work in and of itself. It required stronger, braver souls than the GOP currently has to offer. It does, however, throw such a light on these Republicans that it will make it both easier to challenge them in primaries and, more importantly, make it much, much harder for them to cooperate with the Democrats on Obamacare fixes. Win or lose, Cruz and Lee have boxed in both the Democrats and the Republicans into positions that will make it more difficult for them to nuance their way out of.
In short, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have, whether they can muster the support or not in this round, ensured the GOP cannot begin collaborating with the Democrats to fix what the voters want repealed. And you can be sure that they would be working to fix it, despite all their rhetoric otherwise. You can be sure of that because Ted Cruz's fight has proven just how empty their rhetoric really is.
Republican base voters have, for quite a while, distrusted their leaders. Now, thanks to Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, they know why and they know who, on the inside, they should be listening too.
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Peeing During Filibusters, Explained
1. When without a bathroom, bring the bathroom to you! In 2001, then St. Louis Alderwoman Irene Smith staged a filibuster during a City Hall debate to protest a ward redistricting plan that she believed would have hurt the city's black communities.
Nature called, but rather than yielding the floor and ending her filibuster, Smith's aides came down and surrounded her with a sheet, quilt, and tablecloth while she relieved herself in a trash can. Here's video of the incident:Later, she was charged with violating the city's public urination prohibition, but was never convicted: Given the sheets, there wasn't any hard proof of the act.
2. Astronaut bags and a light diet: In 1977, then-Texas Sen. Bill Meier staged a 43-hour filibuster over a bill he believed to be an attack on the state's open records laws. He wore an "astronaut bag" on the Senate floor, and when it filled up, then Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby would arrange to take a message from the House, while Meier ran to the women's restroom (closest to his desk) to empty the bag. On each trip, two sergeants-at-arms came with him to ensure he never sat down. Meier also said he ate lightly in the days preceding his filibuster. Today, Meier is a judge on the Second Court of Appeals in Fort Worth.
3. Catheters: After his filibuster protesting the confirmation of John Brennan as CIA director, Rand Paul told Glenn Beck that he'd considered fitting himself with a catheter for the speech, but decided against it, even though he'd tried them before.
4. Adult diapers: Lots of jokes and rumors have flown around about various filibustering politicians pulling a Lisa Nowak and using these, though we haven't been able to find any confirmed instances.
5. Steam baths and a surreptitious urine bucket: Thurmond, who completed the longest federal filibuster in US history (24 hours, 18 minutes) in 1957, took the minimalist route with a bucket. His aides set it up in the cloakroom so that Thurmond could pee while keeping one foot on the Senate floor.
But even before that, Thurmond took daily steam baths to prepare for the epic speech, to make it easier for his body to absorb, rather than expel, fluid.
Thurmond also got lucky: After speaking for about three hours, Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater asked him to temporarily yield the floor for an insertion in the Congressional Record. This gave Thurmond a few precious minutes to make his one and only trip to the restroom.
On Friday, the Republican controlled House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution that defunded ObamaCare.
Now it's up to the grassroots to turn up the pressure on the Senate and urge my colleagues to stand firm in regards to defunding ObamaCare. On Friday, the Republican controlled House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution that defunded ObamaCare.
Now it's up to the grassroots to turn up the pressure on the Senate and urge my colleagues to stand firm in regards to defunding ObamaCare.
That's why it's crucial you sign your No Funding for ObamaCare petition IMMEDIATELY.
And if you could, please forward this email to a friend.
In Liberty,
Rand2016
http://www.rand-2016.com/defund_oc.aspx?pid=0923
That's why it's crucial you sign your No Funding for ObamaCare petition IMMEDIATELY.
And if you could, please forward this email to a friend.
In Liberty,
Rand2016
ObamaCare Countdown: More Layoffs Across America
Because of Government's Expensive Health Care Mandates,
Huge Rate Hikes Looming.
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The ObamaCare kick-off is growing closer... the expensive, decreased-care, let's-ram-it-down-Americans'-throats health care plan that the White House and Congress embrace and have mandated, but are relieved that they themselves don't have to participate in it like the rest of the nation is being forced.
Even Obama's sock puppet press secretary Jay Carney is exempt.Not only will the cost to the average American for the nightmarish ObamaCare be far, far higher than any Democrat politician wanted the American public to know until it was too late to do anything about it, but with the growing number of medical professionals leaving the health care industry by choice or because of job layoffs (
renamed "workforce reduction strategies"), the fate of Americans' health care is dismal.
ObamaCare is predicted to cost most Americans a mind-boggling increase in out-of-pocket costs, while providing far less medical services and making getting that reduced service more difficult to get. Illegal aliens, however, need not worry. Lower-class and middle-class American citizens should worry plenty. No telling how many families will plunge over a financial cliff into bankruptcy, lose their vehicles and homes, because of the demands of Obama's misnamed "Affordable Care Act." God forbid if any members of these families should actually get sick.
This is what Democrats are smugly calling "health care reform." Reform that will make health care in America much worse than it was for the majority of Americans.
Reported by Ben Swann, PRESTIGIOUS CLEVELAND CLINIC CUTS $300M, LAYOFFS LOOM CITING OBAMACARE:Indiana schools are being forced to reduce their workforce. Wendy's and other fast food restaurants are reducing their workforce as well. "I never thought it would impact me directly," said Sullivan, a college professor. "I was stunned when I got the email... I love teaching at St. Pete College but that is a significant cut." The Florida college is being forced to reduce her pay in half. UPS recently dropped thousands from their benefits package, which made headlines around the country. All have one thing in common. They cite Obamacare as the catalyst.
[...]The Cleveland Clinic just recently announced that they will trim more than $300,000,000.00 from their operating budget and offer early retirement to many employees. Those who do not accept the package will be laid off.
More American workers have lost their jobs or are about to lose them because of ObamaCare — add to the list Pres. Obama's congressional home state of Illinois and Ohio, both of which voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 presidential races.
You reap what you sow, Democrats...From Money US News, Countdown to Obumacare:
The Penalties for Uninsured Americans:
Effective Jan. 1, 2014, Obamacare requires all eligible individuals, including children, to have health insurance. Failure to be insured can trigger a penalty fee of $95 per adult and $47.50 per child in 2014. If you have individual coverage but your dependent children aren't insured, you can still face penalties on them.
No one knows how many Americans will be without health insurance in 2014. A 2012 estimate by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that about 30 million Americans will not have insurance in 2016, and roughly 6 million of them will face penalties. The penalties for individuals are expected to increase each year, and the uninsured will have to pay either a fee or percent of household income (whichever is greater).
In 2014, the fee is $95 per adult or 1 percent of household income.
In 2015, the fee is $325 per adult or 2 percent of household income.
In 2016, the fee is $695 per adult or 2.5 percent of household income.It's not clear how aggressive the government will be in collecting penalties from individuals. The emphasis today is not on enforcing penalties, but rather on convincing people to get insurance, particularly younger and healthier people who have opted to forgo insurance in the past. When enforcement does occur, it will be carried out by the Internal Revenue Service, which will collect 2014 penalties by making adjustments on 2014 individual tax returns that will be due in April 2015.
"The amount of the shared responsibility payment will be included on the annual Form 1040 starting with the 2014 return taxpayers file," Eric Smith, an IRS spokesman, told U.S. News. "It will offset any refund that would otherwise be due or will add to any balance due."
"As is always the case with a tax return," Smith adds, "if there is an amount due, individuals generally pay this amount either by check or by electronic funds transfer. Insurers will be required to provide everyone that they cover each year with information that will help them demonstrate they had coverage beginning with the 2015 tax year."
The penalties for children are half that for adults. And there is a cap on the penalties, regardless of income, which is the annual cost of a basic health insurance policy on a state health insurance exchange. That ceiling is not likely to be a factor this year, but it could come into play when the penalties get steeper.
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RINO Rep. Peter King Continues To Attack Ted Cruz:
He's A "Fraud," People "Think He's Crazy"
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(This is the second time today King Media Whore has attacked Ted Cruz,
proving once again that he will say just about anything
as long as it gets him on TV)
Via Mediaite:Congressman Peter King has been one of the strongest Republican voices opposing Ted Cruz's fight against Obamacare, frequently calling him a"fraud." On CNN Wednesday night, King continued hammering Cruz, telling Anderson Cooper that despite how much Cruz may view himself as a conservative "folk hero" the majority of the country is rallying behind, "those I've spoken to think he's crazy."
King likened this to the Charge of the Light Brigade and said Cruz is a "kamikaze pilot," ultimately finding his tactics to be destructive to the Republican party. He continued to call Cruz a fraud and a "medicine man selling goods he knows are phony goods."
Cooper asked why King is taking the "unusual" step of being so critical of a member of his own party. King said he has no loyalty to Cruz, adding that Cruz was trying to intimidate Republican members of Congress" in the past few months to vote his way "with explicit threats of primaries."
CNBC offers a reality check for drones,
progressives and other miscreants:
"Prepare for a New American Revolution"
I don't know who this Peter J. Tanous is, but I commend him:...I believe that one of the most important reasons the Fed is determined to keep interest rates low is one that is rarely talked about, and which comprises a dark economic foreboding that should frighten us all.
Let me start with a question: How would you feel if you knew that almost all of the money you pay in personal income tax went to pay just one bill, the interest on the debt? Chances are, you and millions of Americans would find that completely unacceptable and indeed they should.
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But that is where we may be heading.
Thanks to the Fed, the interest rate paid on our national debt is at an historic low of 2.4 percent, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Given the U.S.'s huge accumulated deficit, this low interest rate is important to keep debt servicing costs down.
But isn't it fair to ask what the interest cost of our debt would be if interest rates returned to a more normal level? What's a normal level? How about the average interest rate the Treasury paid on U.S. debt over the last 20 years?
That rate is 5.7 percent, not extravagantly high at all by historic standards...
[But if] we were to pay an average interest rate on our debt of 5.7 percent, rather than the 2.4 percent we pay today, in 2020 our debt service cost will be about $930 billion.Now compare that to the amount the Internal Revenue Service collects from us in personal income taxes... In 2012, that amount was $1.1 trillion, meaning that if interest rates went back to a more normal level of, say, 5.7 percent, 85 percent of all personal income taxes collected would go to servicing the debt. No wonder the Fed is worried.
Some economists will also suggest that interest rates may go much higher than 5.7 percent largely as a result of the massive QE exercise of printing money at an unprecedented rate. We just don't know what the effect of all this will be but many economists warn that it can only result in inflation down the road.
As of today, interest rates are rising, and if this is a turning point, it is a major one... Rates in the U.S. peaked in 1980 (remember the 14 percent Treasury bonds?) so if we are at the point of reversing a 33-year downward trend, who wants to predict how this will affect the economy?
One thing is clear: Based on CBO projections, if interest rates just rise to their 20-year average, we will have an untenable, unacceptable interest rate bill whose beneficiaries are China, Japan, and others who own our bonds.
And
if Americans find out that the lion's share of their income tax payments are going to service the debt, prepare for a new American revolution.
The President's Open Letter to the NRA
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(Dear President Barack Obuma,
We will send you the forementioned baseball caps, pullover sweaters, and pens when we figure out how to fit them all in one giant suppository.
....Warph)
Media Whore Chuck Schumer "Appalled" Ted Cruz Read
"Green Eggs And Ham"
(He was so appalled that the CLOWN had to run to the nearest
news cameras and tell them all about it)
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he couldn't believe his ears when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) read the Dr. Seuss classic Green Eggs and Ham aloud during his 21-hour talk-a-thon that kicked off Tuesday afternoon on the Senate floor.
Cruz said the children's book is one of his favorites, and he read it in its entirety as part of his effort to delay action on a bill to defund Obamacare. Cruz supports defunding Obamacare, but was trying to drag out debate to prevent Democrats from killing the bill.
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But Schumer said Cruz completely missed the point of the story.
"I was appalled," the New York senator told reporters Wednesday. "Green Eggs and Ham has a moral: Don't criticize something, don't reject something, until you actually try it. Sam said he didn't like green eggs and ham for a long time. And then when he finally tried it, he liked it."
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Thousands of Syrian Rebels Break From US-Backed SNC And
Join Forces With Al Nusra Front, Call For Opposition To
Be Reorganized Under Islamic Framework
(And this is on top of the the two FSA brigades that recently defected to al-Nusra Front and pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda with all of Obuma WEAPONS!)
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(Reuters) – Thousands of Syrian rebels have broken with the Western-backed coalition to form a new Islamist force that may pressure President Bashar al-Assad but also undermine the West's hopes of putting its friends in his place.Ever more divided on a battlefield where Assad's better armed troops have been gaining ground, allies of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) were among 13 disparate rebel factions to disown the exile leadership and support an Islamic alliance that includes the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, commanders said on Tuesday.
Details of the numbers of fighters involved and of how they would cooperate remained unclear. But, in an online video, a leader of the Islamist Tawheed Brigade said the bloc rejected the authority of the Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and the Western- and Saudi-backed exile administration of Ahmad Tumeh.
It is a setback for foreign leaders trying to bolster more secular rebel groups and to reassure voters skeptical of deeper involvement in Syria's civil war. Some may think again about help for the fighters, which ranges from weaponry from the Gulf to non-lethal aid from Europe and the United States.
The 13 groups signed a statement calling for the opposition to Assad to be reorganized under an Islamic framework and to be run only by groups fighting inside Syria. Signatories range from hardliners like the Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham to more moderate groups such as the Tawheed Brigade and Islam Brigade.
"These forces feel that all groups formed abroad without returning to the country do not represent them, so the forces will not recognize them," said the statement read online by Abdulaziz Salameh, the political leader of the Tawheed Brigade.
"Therefore the National Coalition and its supposed government led by Ahmad Tumeh do not represent them and will not be recognized," he said.
More on the groups joining forces:Abdelaziz Salame, the highest political leader of the Tawhid Brigade in Aleppo, has issued a statement online where he claims to speak for 13 different rebel factions. You can see the video or read it in Arabic here. The statement is titled "communiqué number one" – making it slightly ominous right off the bat – and what it purports to do is to gut Western strategy on Syria and put an end to the exiled opposition. [...]
The following groups are listed as signatories to the statement:
Jabhat al-Nosra
Islamic Ahrar al-Sham Movement
Tawhid Brigade
Islam Brigade
Suqour al-Sham Brigades
Islamic Dawn Movement
Islamic Light Movement
Noureddin al-Zengi Battalions
Haqq Brigade – Homs
Furqan Brigade – Quneitra
Fa-staqim Kama Ummirat Gathering – Aleppo
19th Division
Ansar Brigade
Who are these people?
The alleged signatories make up a major part of the northern rebel force, plus big chunks also of the Homs and Damascus rebel scene, as well as a bit of it elsewhere. Some of them are among the biggest armed groups in the country, and I'm thinking now mostly of numbers one through five. All together, they control at least a few tens of thousand fighters, and if you trust their own estimates (don't) it must be way above 50,000 fighters.
Poll: Obuma's Approval Rating Among Democrats
Tanks 13 Points Since Winning Re-Election
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"AAhh...mmmmm... what can I.. aaaa...say...ummm... aaa..."
(It appears a few libs forgot to have their Hope and Change
full-frontal lobotomies tuned up)
Via Newsmax:President Barack Obama's job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest level since 2011, reflecting the public's disapproval of his clashes with Congress on spending and a growing opposition to Obamacare, two new polls have found.
According to the Bloomberg National Poll of 1,000 adults conducted Sept. 20-23, the president has a 45 percent job-approval rating, while a Gallup survey of 11,259 adults taken Sept. 1-22 gives him 44 percent.
The Gallup survey showed that the president is rapidly losing support within his own party.While 78 percent of Democrats still give him a positive job-approval rating, he's lost
13 points from a high of 91 percent in the month after his re-election.
"Loss of support from a president's core supporters is an ominous sign, as they are typically the last group to abandon the president when things go sour," Gallup said in a statement.
"Obama still enjoys the support of the vast majority of Democrats, 78 percent, but that is down 13 points from the end of last year and is 6 points below his average 84 percent approval rating from Democrats throughout his presidency."
Barry Tries To Save Face, White House Says He's
"Not Disappointed"
Iran's President Refused To Meet With Him At UN
(Hmmmmmm..... So Obuma likes being humiliated on the global stage?)
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Via Washington Examiner:White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that President Obama was not disappointed that a proposed meeting withIranian President Hassan Rouhani was rejected by Tehran.
"The president is not," said Carney when asked by a reporter if Obama was "disappointed."
"He was open to the possibility of an informal encounter with President Rouhani," he added. "He remains open to that."
Both Obama and Rouhani spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, raising speculation that the two leaders might speak or interact. Rouhani, a moderate, was recently elected Iran's new president, and made a number of diplomatic overtures to the U.S., claiming he would not build nuclear weapons and calling for "constructive" dialogue.
"The president believes that the most important issues when it comes to Iran's relationship with the international community, including the United States, are ones that need to be resolved over negotiations over substantive matters over Iran's nuclear weapons program," he said.
"We should not over interpret that the Iranians decided against having an encounter," he added.
Anti-Conservative Arson: Ronald Reagan Statue
in Californication Set on Fire by Leftist Vandals
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This report of vandalism in Temecula, California of the bronze statue of Pres. Ronald Reagan comes on the heels of the vandalism of the Ten Commandments stone monument in front of a Christian outreach center in Washington, DC.
The leftist, anti-Christian, anti-liberty progressives have been hard at work with their criminal thuggery and destruction.
The life-sized statue of Pres. Reagan was torched at Ronald Reagan Sports Park last week.
From LAist, Someone Torched A Life-Size Statue Of Ronald Reagan:Ronald Reagan's been dead since 2004, but someone still really doesn't like the former Commander in Chief: Someone set a life-size bronze statue of the Gipper on fire last week.
The statue, which is only a year old, sits in the Ronald Reagan Sports Park in Temecula, which was created after a non-profit raised $100,000 to honor the late president and former actor. It depicts a laughing Reagan with a shovel in one hand and a cowboy hat in the other.
The fire didn't do much damage to the bronze figure, but it did melt the layers of paint it once sported. The blackened statue seemed to have been cleaned up by the time CBS news crews arrived on the scene.
Tiles on the wall behind the statue, which features a quote from Regan about Temecula, were also damaged. In 1983, Reagan praised the city for raising the money to develop the park without help from taxpayers.
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Stone Ten Commandments Monument in DC
Attacked & Toppled by Vandals (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 25, 2013 Before and after photos of a Ten Commandments granite monument, erected in front of a Christian outreach ministry in Washington, DC — the heavy stone tablets were forcibly toppled over by vandals this past weekend:
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If this vandalism had occurred on the property of a mosque, it would be called a hate crime and the mainstream media would be ballistic over it.
From Breitbart's Big Government, 10 Commandments Monument Toppled in Washington:A stone monument of the Ten Commandments that sits on a street behind the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington and was the subject of controversy in the past has been toppled by vandals.
The 3-foot-by-3-foot granite monument weighs 850 pounds and sits out front of the headquarters of Faith and Action, a Christian outreach ministry. The group installed the tablets in a garden outside its offices in 2006, and the group's president said the tablets were angled so that justices arriving at the high court would see them.
The Rev. Robert Schenck, who heads the organization, said the damage to the monument happened sometime between Friday night and Saturday night. A minister who works in the area alerted the group to the damage around 9 p.m. Saturday.
The monument had been pushed over so that the words of the Ten Commandments are now face down. Vandals bent a steel rod that secures the monument to a thick concrete base to an almost 90 degree angle. The monument itself is not damaged, Schenck said.
"Whoever did this was determined to get it done because it's not something you could easily do," Schenck said, adding that the vandals also installed a "For Rent" yard sign by the monument and that the vandalism was reported to police.
Officer Anthony Clay, a Metropolitan Police Department spokesman, said Monday that the case remains open.
Schenck said he did not know how much it would cost to bring the tablets upright, but the organization plans to reinforce the monument and install a security camera that monitors the area. He said they also plan to ask a neighboring organization and the U.S. Supreme Court for their security footage during the time when the monument was vandalized.
Schenck said that he wasn't angry about the damage and that, in a way, the vandals had helped the organization convey important messages: "We all violate the Ten Commandments" and "We all violate God's rules."
Published on Sep 25, 2013
Video footage from closed-circuit video cameras shows Aaron Alexis, now deceased, at the Washington Navy Yard on September 16, 2013.
The footage includes the following:
- Alexis drives his rental car, a blue Toyota Prius, through the Washington Navy Yard main gate.
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- Alexis enters Building #197 carrying a backpack. Alexis had legitimate access to the Washington Navy Yard as a result of his work as a contractor and he utilized a valid pass to gain entry to the building.
- Alexis moves through the hallways and a stairwell of Building #197 carrying a Remington 870 shotgun.[/b]
More at: http://www.fbi.gov/washingtonnavyyard
September 25, 2013
Heironymus sent me these snippets titled When You're Over 74 Who Gives A Shit
This a**hole looked at my beer belly last night and sarcastically said,
"Is that Corona or Bud?"
I said, "There's a tap underneath; taste it and find out."
***********
I was talking to a girl in the bar last night. She said, "If you lost a few pounds, had a shave and got your hair cut, you'd look all right."
I said, "If I did all that, I'd be talking to your girlfriends over there instead of you."
***********
I was telling a girl in the pub about my ability to guess what day a woman was born just by feeling her boobs.
"Really" she said, "Go on then...try."
After about thirty seconds of fondling she began to lose patience and said.
"Come on, what day was I born"?
I said, "Yesterday."
***********
I got caught taking a pee in the local swimming pool today.
The lifeguard shouted at me so loud, I nearly fell in.
***********
I went to the pub last night and saw a fat chick dancing on a table.
I said, "Nice legs."
The girl giggled and said with a smile, "Do you really think so."
I said "Definitely!
Most tables would have collapsed by now."
Damn! Those sound like things my buddy Jarhead might say or do.
Ben Sasse: Get Rid of Obamacare
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Ben Sasse, Nebraska Republican for Senate, calls on Leader McConnell and DC Republicans - who make $172,000/year - to show some leadership and give up their taxpayer funded ObamaCare subsidy.America, last best hope on earth? Yes. Not one other nation like it on earth. Not one and it is sorrowful to see the men who are in power destroying it faster and faster all the time.
Ben Sasse seems like an honest man telling it like it is.
Looks like every state needs their own Ben!
Harbinger of Things to Come
ˈhärbənjər/
Har·bin·ger
noun
noun: harbinger; plural noun: harbingers
1.a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
"witch hazels are the harbingers of spring"
synonyms: herald, sign, indication, signal, portent, omen, augury, forewarning, presage;
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Baby seals are suffering from radiation from Japan.
70% of the seals in California have died this way now. It is a harbinger of what mankind has to look forward to.
No, this isn't alarmist. If anything the world is yawning when it should be on full alert.
Mankind had better wake up quickly as human mortality rates are climbing as well.
"How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole field wither? For the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds."
(Jeremiah)
Note that it is 'wickedness' not just some little inconvenience or annoyance. It reflects on the spiritual state of humanity.
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ISLAM IS THE MOTIVE
In Westgate, a Kenyan mall oriented toward expats, terrorists separated Muslims from non-Muslims before killing them. The Muslims were allowed to go free if they could recite a Muslim prayer.
"I don't understand why you would shoot a five-year-old child," one of the survivors said. But the five-year-old was not a Muslim.
Moments like these put the Clash of Civilizations into bloody context. This isn't abstract politics. It's not about economics, the environment or foreign policy.
It's about a worldview in which a five-year-old who can't recite the Islamic confession of faith deserves to be killed.At the Khaybar Massacre and the birth of the battle cry Allahu Akbar, Mohammed's cousin asked why he meant to massacre the Jews. "Fight with them until they bear testimony to the fact that there is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his Messenger," he replied.
That message in one form or another permeates Islam. It is the essence of the Jihad.
New York Muslim Day Parade Marchers Carry Al Qaeda Jihad Flags
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MARCHING IN THE JIHAD PARADE
The black flag is the war flag and the white flag is the state flag of the Caliphate.The Al-Liwaa, the Caliphate state flag, and the Al-Liwaa, the war flag, are making a statement that the marchers are with the army of Mohammed and are at war with the non-Muslim Dar Al-Harb. The House of War. America.
These were the flags that were planted on American embassies on September 11 during the attacks. Now they are being carried openly in New York.
Commie Hillary Speechmaking Tour Shares Valuable Lessons with America
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WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
For about $200,000, Mrs. Clinton will offer pithy reflections and Mitch Albom-style lessons from her time as the nation's top diplomat. ("Leadership is a team sport." "You can't win if you don't show up." "A whisper can be louder than a shout.")
As useful as it is to inform audiences of bored people waiting to get out for some burgers that "Leadership is a team sport" and "You can't win if you don't show up" (Hillary did show up and didn't win), it doesn't sound like those are really the lessons that Hillary learned while letting four Americans die in Benghazi and handing a misspelled reset button to the Russkis.
How about informing the National Association of Realtors that the real lesson is "What difference does it make". Sure you sold a home to a nice couple with three kids that's located on an Indian burial ground/toxic waste dump. But really what difference does it make?
Or how about telling the American Society of Travel Agents that sure you may have suggested Libya as a great resort destination to that elderly couple celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary and now there are pictures of their corpses being paraded around by America's friendly Islamist allies... but really what difference does it make?
Or "What difference does it make:
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GOOD NEWS FROM SYRIA
Al Qaeda's Two Groups Now Fighting Each Other in Syria
Obama's $1.3 Billion in Syrian Aid Helping Al Qaeda
Obama Refights Syrian Civil War at UN
Sex Jihadist Catches AIDS Serving Servicing Free Syrian Army Holy Warriors
She wore a Hijab to be more modest and then went on a Sex Jihad. The internal contradictions of Islamic morality never cease. Martyrs get 72 virgins. Female sex Jihadists get martyrdom is dying of AIDS.Sex Jihadist Catches AIDS Serving Servicing Free Syrian Army Holy Warriors
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The difference between sex trafficking and the Sex Jihad. Apparently none. Sheltered girls with little knowledge of the world are promised the sky and end up pregnant, dead or dying of AIDS.Her name is Lamia, and she's 19-years-old. While in Syria, she had sex with jihadis fighting to overthrow the secular Bashar Assad regime. Among other nationalities she recalls having slept with were Pakistanis, Afghanis, Libyans, Tunisians, Iraqis, Saudis, and Somalis, all in the context of the "sex jihad."According to Al Sharouk reporters, who went to interview Lamia at her home, the young woman began her story by saying that in 2011 she became religious, after watching an Islamic program; among other things, she took to wearing the hijab and came to believe that going out in public was a sin.
She wore a Hijab to be more modest and then went on a Sex Jihad. The internal contradictions of Islamic morality never cease.
Masrawy published a video interview with one "Aisha," another Tunisian girl who said she had met a Muslim woman who spoke of the importance of piety, including wearing the hijab and traveling to Syria to help the jihadis "fight and kill infidels" and make Allah's word supreme, adding that "women who die would do so in the way of Allah and become martyrs and enter paradise."
Martyrs get 72 virgins. Female sex Jihadists get what? A break from being sexually abused by the holy warriors who somehow have caught AIDS? And her martyrdom is dying of AIDS.At any rate, by the time war broke out in Syria, Lamia's mind was "dough for the cleric to mold any which way he wanted." He proceeded to send her to Benghazi, Libya, then to Turkey, and then to Aleppo, Syria.
There she found many women and young girls residing in an old hospital that had been turned into a campsite. A man claiming to be the "emir" of the sexual campground met her saying his name was Abu Ayoub, the Tunisian. But, she said, the true leader was a Yemeni, who appeared leading a group of jihadis calling themselves "Omar's Battalion." He was the first to take her.
Lamia confessed that she did not know how many men had sex with her and that all that she remembers is being abused, beaten, and forced to do things "that contradict all sense of human worth." She also said that she met many Tunisian women including one who died while being tortured for trying to escape.
Finally, released back to Tunisia, Lamia has been to a doctor finding that she is five months pregnant. Both she and her unborn are carrying the aids virus.
It's not clear what Omar's Battalion is, but it might be the Omar al Mokhtar Battalion of the Free Syrian Army. One of our "moderate" allies.
Omar al Mokhtar was an Islamic figure who carried out attacks on the Italians in the 20s in Libya. That would suggest that she had actually hooked up with Libyan Jihadis fresh from Obama's conquest of Libya.
There was an Omar Mukhtar Brigade in Libya. It may have just been transplanted to Syria. An early Free Officer's communique from Syria lists the Omar al-Mokhtar of Tubruk. Tobruk is a Libyan city.
A site lists the Omar Mukhtar Brigade in Syria as affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
1/3 of Gaza Hamas Marriages Involved Underage Girls
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Who knew that setting up a region controlled by Islamists would lead to repression of women and child abuse?
In 2012, of about 17,000 marriages were registered in the courts of the Gaza Strip, 35% were cases in which the brides were under 17 years old. These marriages are concluded without the courts knowing the girls' real ages. Meanwhile, about 2,700 divorce cases were registered in the same year, and in 25% of these the wives were underage, Bakr Azzam, a lawyer specializing in Sharia issues, told Al-Monitor.
So a higher percentage of underage girls get married than divorced in Gaza. Somehow I don't think it's marital bliss that's responsible for that statistic.
Mariam explained that due to her young age she wasn't capable of meeting the demands of married life.
"I was taken away from my small toys, taken out of my school forcibly and delivered to my husband whom I had only seen once, in front of the judge who officiated my marriage contract," she added.
Mariam recently ran away from her husband's house and returned to her father's, after concluding that she could not bear to stay with her husband.
He dates other women under the excuse that his wife is young and thinks like a child, not living up to the intellect of a man of his age. Mariam's husband also beats her whenever they have an argument.
"When I told my father about this, he told me, 'This is normal and most young people are facing such a situation these days'"Remember, Mohammed was the original feminist.
Crybaby O'butthead: Republicans Are Trying To "Blackmail" Me
(Blackmail? Hey, isn't that racist!)
Via Politico:
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President Barack Obama accused Republicans of trying to "blackmail a president" by threatening to shut down the government or default on the nation's debt if he doesn't agree to block implementation of Obamacare.
"We're not going to submit to this type of total irresponsibility," Obama said in remarks at a community college just outside Washington. "I will not negotiate on anything when it comes to the full faith and credit of the United States of America."
He later added: "All this would be funny if it wasn't so crazy. The tea party Republicans have taken it to a whole new level because they're threatening to shut down the government or shut down the entire economy ... unless I agree to gut a law that will help millions of people."
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(HorseCrap, Dear Leader)
Meltdown: Senators flooded with demands to
support Obamacare defunding
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Garth Kant reports:
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Following the epic, 21-hour speech by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, supporting the defunding of Obamacare, either voters made so many calls to establishment Republicans that their phone lines melted, or those GOP leaders took their phones off the hook.
Even in this age of digital wizardry and limitless voicemail, callers could not get through at all to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
A message said the senator was experiencing a high volume of calls and directed members of the public to call back later or visit his website.
It was the same story with the man who was the face of the GOP in the 2008 elections, former GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
His phone was off the hook, too. Callers got a message stating his voicemail box was full.
The Arizona senator apparently had other matters on his mind during the Cruz speech, tweeting, "Final episode of #Broadchurch tonight – one of the most entertaining shows on TV right now."
That prompted conservative commentator Michelle Malkin to tweet, "Meanwhile, McCain is tweeting about a TV show. See the problem here, America?"
Callers to Minority Whip Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, also got a message saying the line was busy, but at least those callers were sent to voicemail.
"Vile" calls from Cruz supporters
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who has called Cruz a "fraud" for his efforts to defund Obamacare, said Thursday supporters of the Texas senator have been bombarding his office with "vile" phone calls.
"The vehemence of the phone calls coming into the office. I don't care, people can call me whatever they want ... I haven't heard such vile, profane, obscene language," King said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday.
"I'm not saying Ted Cruz is responsible for all his supporters, but he has tapped into a dark strain here in the American political psyche here, and again, the most obscene, profane stuff you can imagine all from people who say they support the Constitution," King said. "I think what we have to do is reach out to his people and let them know that they're following a false leader here."
GOP leader opposes defunding
McConnell announced Monday he does not support the attempt by Cruz to defund Obamacare.
The GOP Senate leader claimed he opposes Obamacare, but he refused to support Cruz's effort to block a vote on cloture, which effectively doomed the House bill that would have defunded Obamacare.
McConnell would have needed to get only 41 out of 46 Republican senators to vote to block cloture, but he would not support the effort.
He, and other establishment Republicans, fear they would take the blame for any government shutdown, even though the House bill is specifically designed to force Democrats to be the ones to shut down the government, should they refuse to defund Obamacare.
Neither party supporting Americans
That puts most Americans in the odd position of having neither the Democratic Party, nor the Republican Party, supporting their position on Obamacare.
A CBS News poll found most Americans, 52 percent, disapprove of Obamacare.
Democrats favor the health-care law because they consider it the president's signature achievement.
Analysts believe GOP leaders refuse to mobilize their rank-and-file to fight Obamcare because they are afraid a government shutdown could cost them at the polls in the 2014 elections.
GOP leader blasted
Since McConnell directed his constituents to go to the Internet to express their views to him, WND went to his Facebook page to see what voters have to say.
At 1:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, McConnell posted this message on his Facebook page:
"All we need are 5 Senate Democrats to show enough courage to stand against their party and with the American people on this vote"
He got more than 100 responses, and almost all of them were extremely critical of the senator.
Only two messages supported McConnell.
Ginger Cochran
Where were you last night, Senator? No where in sight and working to undermine Senator Ted Cruz.
Chad Johnson
Courage????? where were you when Ted Cruz was fighting to stop this monster!
If you do not, you are finished in politics, we will send you packing!
Elska Watts
Shame on your Senator McConnell a vote for cloture is a vote for Obamacare, did you run on voting in Obamacare? Are you supporting your voters wants? Turn your vote around and support Ted Cruz and Mike Lee!
Richard Thomas
You sir, are a total sell-out of the people of this country.
Anita Short
We stand with Senator Cruz! If you are not supporting him you are against us and will be voted out! Do the right thing and DEFUND OBAMACARE!!!!!
Craig Peters
Shame on you. Stop spreading lies and fear
Kristen Peterson
if you don't vote NO on cloture McConnell, consider your political career FINITO!!
Terri Crockford
Defund Obamacare listen to the people for a change.
Carl C. Norman
Stop with the diversion, you need to vote NO to cloture to really want to defund Obamacare. We see what you are doing and we will work hard to see you lose in the next primary.
Debi Lester Doyle
DO NOT VOTE FOR CLOTURE TO CLOSE THE DEBATE UNTIL THERE IS A GUARANTEE OF A CLEAN VOTE FOR THE HOUSE CR. If you are not standing with Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, you are standing with Harry Reid and propping up Obamacare!
David Krochmal
Socialist shave taken over the Democratic Party and Weakness has taken over the Republican party. Can't stand up for Conservatism and lose elections. Thats what we have in our Party.
Mike Samber
I want my subsidy like you have.
Shelton Burch
Do not side with the President and the others that would enslave us and allow ObamaCare to stand. Stop fighting about when and how the best time/way is to fight. Use them all!
Joanna McGrath Reynolds
We want this dangerous government takeover stopped! Defund Obamacare. The 1995 government shutdown didn't hurt this country, nor did the sequester. The demogogues & fearmongers on the left will say whatever they have to to keep Obamacare alive!
Carla Artis
Be true to Republicans. Stand with Senator Ted Cruz!
Scott Peterson
Sen. McConnell, I surely hope you've heard the American People. It sounds as if you have. Vote NO on Cloture!
Jill Kaufman
stop playing games Mitch!!! YOU get on the side of Ted and defund Obama Care!!!
Laurie Pruser-Stockman
We need You to stop the cloture.
Dane Town
How about some republicans standing with the TEA PARTY to do what they promised the people LAST ELECTION, HUH???????
Shari Lusk
You should have been supporting Ted Cruz 100% in his fight to get Obamacare defunded. What are you getting out of dog-and-pony show you're putting on to deceive those who don't know your true colors?
Jim Schneider
Thank you Senator Ted Cruz for standing up for the people. Unfortunately you are one of the few politicians that are supporting the will of the people.
Dottie Fincham
America is watching to see which Senators vote "symbolically" and which cast a vote that will actually end ObamaCare.
Serafin Quintanar
Really Mitch??? You only need 41 out of 46 Republicans to Defund Obamacare...quit playing games!
Lana Oikle Shannon
Hard to do when you have your own party members bashing one of the few Republicans that really stand for Freedom and with the American Ppl. We're on to ya'wl. We've about had enough.
It was difficult to tell if one comment supporting McConnell came from one of his constituents.
Jane Rivelli
Tell them Mitch...stop giving them pipe dreams
The other supportive comment merely read:
Oneta Nicholson Henry
Thank you Senator.
On Sept. 18, McConnell posted, "The only person who seems happy with Obamacare is the guy it's named after."
That received more than 4,000 responses, but they were also overwhelmingly critical of the senator.
McConnell was also heavily criticized on Twitter for not supporting Cruz during his speech.
Power of public opinion
Cruz is hoping for a more positive response from voters, hoping to harness the power of public opinion to persuade GOP leaders and wavering Democrats to defund Obamacare.
Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, have collected more than 1.7 million signatures on their online petition to stop Obamacare called "Don't Fund It!"
The next vote, Friday or Saturday, Cruz said, is "the vote that matters."
Cloture explained
That's a vote on cloture, a proposal to cut off debate, and it will determine whether there will be a 50- or a 60-vote threshold for making changes to the bill.
If it passes, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., could easily add language to the bill restoring funding for Obamacare, because he would need only 50 votes. Republicans have only 46 votes in the Senate, Democrats have 52 and there are two independents. Cruz wants to make sure the threshold to change the bill would be 60 votes.
Cruz said, if the GOP goes along with Democrats and votes for cloture it will doom the effort to defund Obamacare.
Up to the people, now
Following the Texan's marathon speech, Lee's communications director Brian Phillips told WND, "It's up to the American people, now. If they want their senator to vote the right way, their senator has to hear from them."
But if voters can't call their senators because the phones are off the hook, they can contact them on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
Or voters could try calling the senators at their home offices.
The Tea Party Express collected much of that contact information.
Key contact information
Concerned individuals may contact what the Tea Party Express calls the key senators:
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
DC PHONE: 202.224.2541
LOUISVILLE: 502.582.6304
TWITTER
FACEBOOK
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas
DC PHONE: 202.224.2934
AUSTIN: 512.469.6034
DALLAS: 972.239.1310
HARLINGEN: 956.423.0162
HOUSTON: 713.572.3337
LUBBOCK: 806.472.7533
SAN ANTONIO: 210.224.7485
TYLER: 903.593.0902
TWITTER
FACEBOOK
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
DC PHONE: 520.670.6334
PHOENIX: 602.952.2410
PRESCOTT: 928.445.0833
TUCSON: 520.670.6334
TWITTER
FACEBOOK
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.
DC PHONE: 202.224.6121
TWITTER
FACEBOOK
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa.
DC PHONE: 202.224.4254
TWITTER
FACEBOOK
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.
DC PHONE: 202.224.4521
TWITTER
FACEBOOK
Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho
DC PHONE: 202.224.2752
Greenspan: Failure to Solve Deficit Problem Could Spark Financial Crisis
Wednesday, 25 Sep 2013 10:22 AM
By Dan Weil
"Unconstrained deficit spending" represents the United States' No. 1 domestic economic problem, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan writes in a new book, Politico reports.
In "The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature and the Future of Forecasting," Greenspan says failure to address our deficit problem could cause a financial crisis and topple our economy from its world-leading position.
"Both uncompromising sides of our ongoing debate on fiscal and other issues need to recognize that financial crisis lurks should we fail to resolve our deeply disruptive fiscal imbalance," Greenspan writes, according to Politico.
The deficit situation is actually worse than official data indicate, because of contingent liabilities from the bank and corporate bailouts of the financial crisis, Greenspan says.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates a deficit of $642 billion-$700 billion for fiscal 2013, which ends Monday.
"At risk is the status the American economy has held as the pre-eminent world economic power for more than a century," Greenspan notes, according to Politico.
Greenspan says Washington needs reform of its own to solve our deficit woes. "Our highest priority going forward is to fix our broken political system," he states. "Short of that, there is no viable long-term solution to our badly warped economy."
Washington is now transfixed on the coming conflict between Democrats and conservative Republicans over raising the debt limit.
While failure to approve an increase might be disastrous, it would be unlikely to lead Moody's Investors Service to cut the government's triple-A rating, Reuters reports.
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Al-Shabaab Brutally Tortured Hostages During Kenyan Mall Siege,
Men Castrated, Gouged Eyes Out, Fingers And Noses Removed With Pliers
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(People were also left hanging from hooks after being castrated and blinded, they sharpened fingers like a pencil and made them write their name in blood, kids were found with knives embedded in them... unspeakable horror)Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2434278/Kenyan-mall-massacre-torture-claims-emerge-soldiers.html
Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered, had their eyes gouged out and were left hanging from hooks in the ceiling.
Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed with pliers before being blinded and hanged.
Children were found dead in the food court fridges with knives still embedded in their bodies, it was claimed.
Most of the defeated terrorists, meanwhile, were reportedly discovered 'burnt to ashes', set alight by the last extremist standing to try to protect their identities.
The horrifying details came yesterday as the first pictures emerged from within the wreckage of the building, showing piles of bodies left strewn across the floor.
A third of the mall was destroyed in the battle between terrorists and Kenyan troops.
Lying in the rubble are feared to be the bodies of as many as 71 civilians who have been declared missing by the Kenyan Red Cross.
With detectives, including the FBI and the Metropolitan Police, still unable to reach the wrecked part of the mall for fear of setting off explosives, it could take up to a week to determine exactly who is still inside.
Yesterday, soldiers and doctors who were among the first people into the mall after it was reclaimed on Tuesday, spoke of the horrifying scenes inside.
'You find people with hooks hanging from the roof,' said one Kenyan doctor, who asked not to be named.
'They removed eyes, ears, nose. They get your hand and sharpen it like a pencil then they tell you to write your name with the blood.
'They drive knives inside a child's body.
'Actually if you look at all the bodies, unless those ones that were escaping, fingers are cut by pliers, the noses are ripped by pliers. Here it was pain.'
New Jersey's Disappearing Doctors
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http://www.my9nj.com/story/23536849/new-jerseys-disappearing-doctors
Report: Iran Will Have Enough Enriched Uranium
To Build A Nuclear Weapon In Two Months[/color
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(Don't worry, people... Barry's got this under control
)
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Via Times of Israel:Hours after an Israeli newspaper quoted a government security source saying that Iran already has at least one nuclear bomb, Israel's leading Arab affairs analyst offered only a slightly less dramatic assessment, saying the regime in Tehran was no more than "one to two months away" from having sufficient 92% enriched uranium to build its first bomb.
Ehud Yaari, the veteran analyst of Israel's top-rated Channel 2 TV News, added that Iran also had more sophisticated centrifuges becoming available soon that could cut that time down to just "two or three weeks."
On the same program, military analyst Roni Daniel derided the possibility of the "weak" US President Barack Obama holding firm in the face of the charm offensive mounted by new Iranian President Hasan Rouhani during his first foray onto the global stage at the UN General Assembly this week. Israel retained the capability to thwart Iran's attainment of nuclear weapons, Daniel said.
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, speaking from the UN, said the world should not "melt" in the face of Rouhani's new moderate rhetoric, and that it was vital that the international community not "forget" the imperative to stop Iran getting the bomb.
Bubba: GOP Debt Ceiling Plan Is "Chilling"
(Almost as chilling as when he crawls into bed with Hillary)
Via The Hill:Former President Bill Clinton said the House GOP plan to raise the debt ceiling is "chilling."
"I just think it's chilling to me that the entitlement spending is going down as the unemployment rate drops, and the economy grows," he said in a taped interview that will air Sunday on ABC New's "This Week."
"Half of the deficit has already disappeared. It seems almost spiteful," he added.
"If I were the president, I wouldn't negotiate over these draconian cuts that are going to take food off the table of low-income working people while they leave all the agricultural subsidies in for high-income farmers," Clinton said.
Asked who's to blame if a default occurs,
Clinton said Republicans are responsible.
"This is the House Republicans and the Tea Party people saying, 'We don't want to negotiate with the Democrats. We want to dictate over the Senate, over the House Democrats, over the Speaker of the House of our own party, and over the president. We insist on dictating the course of the country," he said.
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Case in point: Bernie Sanders!:
Cranky Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders Attacks Republican
"Right-Wing Extremists" Preparing To "Destroy" Obuma
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Please forgive Bernie, he missed nap time today.
Via Raw Story:Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Friday tore into what he called "extreme right-wing Republicans" for threatening to shut down the government and default on the nation's debts if President Barack Obama's health care reform law was not defunded.
In a speech on the Senate floor, Sanders said that he welcomed a discussion about how to improve the health care law.
"But one thing is certain, you do not hold the American people hostage by threatening to shut down the government or for the first time in the history of our country not paying our bills and bringing this country and perhaps the entire world into a major financial crisis," he explained. "There was an election a year ago on this very issue — one of the major issues in the campaign — and the Republican candidate said, 'Let's defund Obamacare.' He lost the election! Republicans lost seats in the Senate, they lost seats in the House! And that's what democracy is about."
Sanders pointed out that the current debate in Congress was "making us look like fools throughout the entire world because a handful of right wing extremists are so determined to try to destroy this president."
Assad Brags He Duped Obuma With Chemical Weapons Deal
(Obuma getting played like a fiddle)
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Via WFB:Embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says that he does not need chemical weapons to "challenge Israel" and "blind [it] in an instant," according to recent remarks reported in the Arab media.
As Western inspectors prepare to enter Syria next week, Assad renewed his threats on Israel and boasted of weapons that are "more sophisticated than chemical weapons," according to remarks published by Lebanon's Al-Akhbar news site and carried throughout the Arab media. [...]
The Syrian president went on to claim that he successfully fooled the United States and President Barack Obama.
Removing "the chemical weapons is not the goal of the United States and their allies," and it never has been, Assad claimed. "They wanted to change the balance of power and to protect Israel."
"We turned the tables and sent to the ball into their court," Assad said. "This move embarrassed them in front of the American public, in Europe, and even in front of the U.S. government."
The Syrian president also celebrated his "unprecedented collaboration with Russia," which has helped arm Assad and took the lead on forging the deal to remove his chemical weapons.
Boko Haram Kills Pastor And His Two Children,
Sets Fire To Church
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Via PM News:
http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/09/26/pastor-2-children-killed-in-fresh-boko-haram-attack/
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen on Thursday opened fire on a church in Dorowa in Nigeria's north eastern state of Yobe, killing the pastor and his two children before setting fire to the building and fleeing, the military said.
Boko Haram, which has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria, has repeatedly attacked churches in its four-year insurgency.
"Unknown gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists attacked" the church in Yobe state early on Thursday, area military spokesman Eli Lazarus said in a statement.
"During the attack, a pastor and his two children were killed," he said.
The church "and two other houses in the community were burnt by the gunmen before fleeing the scene of the incident," the statement further said.
The killings occurred in the town of Dorawa, some 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the site of a brutal school attack in July that saw dozens of students slaughtered.
Goracle Hits Ted Cruz For Increasing "Crassness" In Politics
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(Al, you know what they say about people who live in glass houses, right?)
Via Washington Examiner:
Former Vice President Al Gore decried the increased "crassness" of the American political system before joking that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is a symptom of that political culture as he criticized the significance of money in politics.
"It's spiraled downward — the crassness with which the quid pro quo at the heart of the occasion are made openly visible — that crassness has grown as well," Gore said at the Brookings Institution on Friday morning, in reference to the politicians who raise "special interest" money.
"And over time, those who are drawn to participate in such a culture have changed. Many men and women who I wish were in politics aren't in politics now. And why would they be? And some that I surely wish were not in politics are speaking for long stretches of time," Gore said. Cruz spoke on the Senate floor for 21 hours Monday and Tuesday as he pushed for colleagues to use the continuing resolution to defund Obamacare.
Kenyan Hero Who Rushed To Mall With A Gun,
Saved American Family And Others
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(Unfortunately, now that Mr. Haji's identity has come out, his family has been receiving death threats, presumably from people supportive of al-Shabab)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2434491/Kenya-mall-attack-American-mother-reveals-selfless-Muslim-civilian-helped-usher-daughters-safety.html
Katherine Walton feared she and her children would not get out alive after becoming trapped under a table outside a supermarket in the Westgate complex.
But they were saved by Abdul Haji, the son of a former Kenyan security minister, who bravely ushered them to safety as he fired back at the terrorists with a handgun.
His identity has now been revealed after his story was immortalised in an iconic photograph which shows him reaching out to Mrs Walton's four-year-old daughter Portia as she runs away with fear etched on her face.
The mother-of-five, who moved to Africa with her husband Phillip two years ago, said they wound up trapped in the line of fire after she took the children on a family trip to the mall.
Speaking of her terrifying ordeal, she told the Daily Telegraph: 'We were just going to meet my two older boys in the supermarket when we heard an explosion,' said Walton, 38, who moved to Kenya from North Carolina two years ago.
'I grabbed the girls and started running. A woman pulled us behind a promotional table opposite. I could see the bullets hitting above the shops and hear the screaming all around us.'
Walton and her children were trapped, along with a Kenyan woman and two Indian women for hours beneath the table.
Fun Fact of The Day: If Government Shuts Down Members Of Congress Will Still Get Paid
(Government shutdowns are for the little people)
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Via Gretawire:http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/2013/09/27/what-about-congressional-salaries-paid-or-not-with-shutdown-click/
We are also hearing that Members are starting to ask increasing administrative questions about the well being of their staff...and privately, asking questions if they can use their own salaraies to pay staff if there is a shutdown.
This is an interesting question... as Members ARE paid if there is a shutdown.
That's because the 27th Amendment to the Constitution prohibits a "varying" of pay for House and Senate members...without an intervening House election.
During the '95-'96 shutdowns, there was a voluntary suspension of pay for members.
Next Step-Government Shutdown?
(Of course, the media will blame Republicans, never mind that most Americans don't want Obamacare or any of the problems it brings)
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Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/27/senate-votes-to-fund-government-and-obamacare/
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday passed a resolution that would fund the government through Nov. 15 and provide funding for Obamacare.
One week ago, the House passed a government funding bill that funded the government through Dec. 15 and defunded Obamacare. Over the vocal and longwinded — 21 hours and 19 minutes to be exact — objections of Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, a majority of senators voted to amend the House bill to include funding for the health-care plan, set to be implemented next week.
Senators voted entirely along party lines to amend the bill and then to pass it, with all 54 Democrats voting in favor of amending and passing the new bill and all 44 present Republicans voting against it. Republicans Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake were not present for the votes for family reasons.
The bill now goes back to the Republican-controlled House, which is unlikely to agree to the Democrat-controlled Senate bill as written.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has insisted that the Senate will pass a government funding bill with no attachments, and that he will not negotiate with the House on that issue.
"We want a clean [government funding bill]. That's what we're gonna get," Reid told reporters at a press conference Thursday.
If the two chambers cannot agree on a plan to fund the government before then, the government will shut down on Tuesday.
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Report: FKG Obumacare To Subsidize Up To 111,500 Abortions Each Year
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(Vile POShit for a President... Bastard BiHomo! I wonder how his mother missed having an abortion... to bad. Statistically, most of these 111,500 will be little black babies. It is hard to believe the black population supports POS Obuma 99.9%, when he has done so much damage to them)
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Via Red Alert:http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/09/27/new-report-claims-obamacare-to-subsidize-up-to-111500-abortions-each-year/
A jarring study from a pro-life think talk has found that tens of thousands of abortions will be subsidized by Obamacare, receiving funding from taxpayers through the healthcare law's tax credits and Medicaid.
The report, conducted by the Charlotte Lozier Institute,examined how Obamacare's health insurance exchanges will include multi-state plans that cover abortions beyond those required by the Hyde Amendment. According to the think tank, as many as 5.57 million girls and women will gain coverage for abortion under the Affordable Care Act, with between 71,000 and 111,500 abortions subsidized by Medicaid and tax credits each year.
"It could be argued that expanding private coverage of abortion will therefore have a small impact on the public subsidies for abortion, but it is by no means certain that today's funding patterns will remain unchanged, as the heart of the abortion funding debate under ObamaCare, as with every other public program or private policy on the subject, is whether it represents a health practice or the unwarranted destruction of human life that is injurious to all involved," Chuck Donovan, president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, wrote in the report.
"ObamaCare's conflicting policies represent a step, partial but by no means full, toward treating abortion as a basic medical treatment that should be no more controversial than dental hygiene or pap smears," he continued.
This speaks for itself!
[size=200pt]Six-year-old becomes first transgender child in Argentina to change identity[/size]
A six-year-old girl, who was born a boy, has become the first transgender child in Argentina to have her new name officially changed on her identity documents.
Luana, known as Lulu, is believed to be the youngest to benefit from the country's new Gender Identity Law, which was approved in May 2012.
The act enshrines the right to be identified by name and sex as defined by the individual.
As a result, the governor of Buenos Aires, Daniel Scioli, approved Lulu's application to change her name from Manuel on her DNI, the Argentinian identity card, and birth certificate.
"The government of the province of Buenos Aires has decided to provide a solution to this particular case raised by the family," Alberto Perez, chief of staff, said, according to La Nacion.
The decision was made after Lulu's mother, Gabriela, wrote to Mr Scioli as well as Argentinian president Cristina Kirchner. She said her daughter identified herself as a girl as soon as she started talking.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/10339296/Six-year-old-becomes-first-transgender-child-in-Argentina-to-change-identity.html
(Sic)
A Small Narcissistic President on the World Stage
(In Obuma's demented dreams this fool is spinning out of control, each speech lately is starting to show him unraveling mentally. I fear he will push it until the military will have no more excuse not to remove him from office. It's like he has gone off his meds.... Dr. Warph)
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At the U.N., leaders hope for a return of American greatness.
American exceptionalism isn't about being superior, it's about being a light to the world, representing the ideals that we all claim to cherish, the ideals that have for hundreds of years brought people to our shores. We are that beacon, that shining city on the hill.
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Via Wall Street Journalhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303342104579099623833385780.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
A Small President on the World Stage
The world misses the old America, the one before the crash—the crashes—of the past dozen years.
That is the takeaway from conversations the past week in New York, where world leaders gathered for the annual U.N. General Assembly session. Our friends, and we have many, speak almost poignantly of the dynamism, excellence, exuberance and leadership of the nation they had, for so many years, judged themselves against, been inspired by, attempted to emulate, resented.
(I miss the old America too, before the liberals took over and ruined it... before 2008 their was hope, now all we have is the ruins from socialist destruction.. We have so many enemies it's sad, it's sad our borders are open and that illegals get preference over our own natural born Citizens)
Contrast Barack Obama's Quotes About Islam
With His Quotes About Christianity
(Part #1)
You are about to read some of the most shocking quotes that Barack Obama has ever uttered in public. A few of these have been widely circulated, but most of them are very obscure. Even though he claims to be a Christian, throughout his political career Obama has repeatedly attacked traditional Biblical Christianity and he has a very long history of anti-Christian actions. In public speeches he has repeatedly cast doubt on the Bible, he has repeatedly stated that he does not believe that Jesus is necessary for salvation, and he has consistently said that he believes that all "people of faith" believe in the same God. At the same time, Obama has always referred to Muhammed as "the Prophet", he has always expressed great love and respect for Islam, and he has even removed all references to Islam from terror training materials used by federal government agencies. So what in the world does "the leader of the free world" actually believe?
Read the quotes below and decide for yourself:20 Quotes By Barack Hussein Obama About Islam
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#1 "The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam"
#2 "The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer"
#3 "We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country."
#4 "As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam."
#5 "Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance."
#6 "Islam has always been part of America"
#7 "we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities"
#8 "These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam's role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings."
#9 "America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."
#10 "I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam."
#11 "Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace."
#12 "So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed"
#13 "In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education."
#14 "throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality."
#15 "Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality"
#16 "The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'"
#17 "I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month."
#18 "We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe."
#19 "That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
#20 "I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's story."
20 Quotes By Barack Hussein Obama About Christianity
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#1 "Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation"
#2 "We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation."
#3 "Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?"
#4 "Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life."
#5 "The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics."
#6 From Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope: "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."
#7 Obama's response when asked what his definition of sin is: "Being out of alignment with my values."
#8 "If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they."
#9 "This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell."
#10 "I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup."
#11 "I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing."
#12 "I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell."
#13 "Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will–they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths."
#14 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: "If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount."
#15 "You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
#16 "In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology"
#17 "On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites."
#18 "we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own"
#19 "All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra — (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)"
#20 "I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people."
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***America's Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President***
By David Barton - 08/28/2013
When one observes President Obama's unwillingness to accommodate America's four-century long religious conscience protection through his attempts to require Catholics to go against their own doctrines and beliefs, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Catholic. But that characterization would not be correct. Although he has recently singled out Catholics, he has equally targeted traditional Protestant beliefs over the past four years. So since he has attacked Catholics and Protestants, one is tempted to say that he is anti-Christian. But that, too, would be inaccurate. He has been equally disrespectful in his appalling treatment of religious Jews in general and Israel in particular. So perhaps the most accurate description of his antipathy toward Catholics, Protestants, religious Jews, and the Jewish nation would be to characterize him as anti-Biblical. And then when his hostility toward Biblical people of faith is contrasted with his preferential treatment of Muslims and Muslim nations, it further strengthens the accuracy of the anti-Biblical descriptor. In fact, there have been numerous clearly documented times when his pro-Islam positions have been the cause of his anti-Biblical actions.
Listed below in chronological order are (1) numerous records of his attacks on Biblical persons or organizations; (2) examples of the hostility toward Biblical faith that have become evident in the past three years in the Obama-led military; (3) a listing of his open attacks on Biblical values; and finally (4) a listing of numerous incidents of his preferential deference for Islam's activities and positions, including letting his Islamic advisors guide and influence his hostility toward people of Biblical faith. 1. Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith:
June 2013 – The Obama Department of Justice defunds a Young Marines chapter in Louisiana because their oath mentioned God, and another youth program because it permits a voluntary student-led prayer. [1]
February 2013 – The Obama Administration announces that the rights of religious conscience for individuals will not be protected under the Affordable Care Act. [2]
January 2013 – Pastor Louie Giglio is pressured to remove himself from praying at the inauguration after it is discovered he once preached a sermon supporting the Biblical definition of marriage. [3]
February 2012 – The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion. [4]
January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis. [5]
December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries' religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. [6]
November 2011 – President Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt's famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. [7]
November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech. [8]
August 2011 – The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception. [9]
April 2011 – For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring. [10]
February 2011 – Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress. [11]
January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court. [12]
November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is "E pluribus unum" rather than "In God We Trust" as established by federal law. [13]
October 19, 2010 – Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about "the Creator" when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions. [14]
May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House. [15]
April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his speech. [16]
April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three. [17]
February 2009 – Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011. [18]
April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they "cling to guns or religion" and have an "antipathy to people who aren't like them." [19]
2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people
of Biblical faith:
August 2013 - A Department of Defense military training manual teaches soldiers that people who talk about "individual liberties, states' rights, and how to make the world a better place" are"extremists." It also lists the Founding Fathers -- those "colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule" -- as examples of those involved in "extremist ideologies and movements." [20]
August 2013 - A Senior Master Sergeant was removed from his position and reassigned because he told his openly lesbian squadron commander that she should not punish a staff sergeant who expressed his views in favor of traditional marriage. [21]
August 2013 - The military does not provide heterosexual couples specific paid leave to travel to a state just for the purpose of being married, but it did extend these benefits to homosexual couples who want to marry, thus giving them preferential treatment not available to heterosexuals. [22]
August 2013 - The Air Force, in the midst of having launched a series of attacks against those expressing traditional religious or moral views, invited a drag queen group to perform at a base. [23]
July 2013 - When an Air Force sergeant with years of military service questioned a same-sex marriage ceremony performed at the Air Force Academy's chapel, he received a letter of reprimand telling him that if he disagreed, he needed to get out of the military. His current six-year reenlistment was then reduced to only one-year, with the notification that he "be prepared to retire at the end of this year." [24]
July 2013 - An Air Force chaplain who posted a website article on the importance of faith and the origin of the phrase "There are no atheists in foxholes" was officially ordered to remove his post because some were offended by the use of that famous World War II phrase. [25]
June 2013 - The U. S. Air Force, in consultation with the Pentagon, removed an inspirational painting that for years has been hanging at Mountain Home Air Force Base because its title was "Blessed Are The Peacemakers" -- a phrase from Matthew 5:9 in the Bible. [26]
June 2013 – The Obama administration "strongly objects" to a Defense Authorization amendment to protect the constitutionally-guaranteed religious rights of soldiers and chaplains, claiming that it would have an "adverse effect on good order, discipline, morale, and mission accomplishment." [27]
May 2013 - The Pentagon announces that "Air Force members are free to express their personal religious beliefs as long as it does not make others uncomfortable. "Proselytizing (inducing someone to convert to one's faith) goes over that line," [28] affirming if a sharing of faith makes someone feel uncomfortable that it could be a court-marital offense [29] -- the military equivalent of a civil felony.
May 2013 - An Air Force officer was actually made to remove a personal Bible from his own desk because it "might" appear that he was condoning the particular religion to which he belonged. [30]
April 2013 – Officials briefing U.S. Army soldiers placed "Evangelical Christianity" and "Catholicism" in a list that also included Al-Qaeda, Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas as examples of "religious extremism." [31]
April 2013 – The U.S. Army directs troops to scratch off and paint over tiny Scripture verse references that for decades had been forged into weapon scopes. [32]
April 2013 - The Air Force creates a "religious tolerance" policy but consults only a militant atheist group to do so -- a group whose leader has described military personnel who are religious as 'spiritual rapists' and 'human monsters' [33] and who also says that soldiers who proselytize are guilty of treason and sedition and should be punished to hold back a "tidal wave of fundamentalists." [34]
January 2013 – President Obama announced his opposition to a provision in the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act protecting the rights of conscience for military chaplains. [35]
June 2012 – Bibles for the American military have been printed in every conflict since the American Revolution, but the Obama Administration revokes the long-standing U. S. policy of allowing military service emblems to be placed on those military Bibles. [36]
May 2012 – The Obama administration opposed legislation to protect the rights of conscience for military chaplains who do not wish to perform same-sex marriages in violation of their strongly-held religious beliefs. [37]
April 2012 – A checklist for Air Force Inns will no longer include ensuring that a Bible is available in rooms for those who want to use them. [38]
February 2012 – The U. S. Military Academy at West Point disinvites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. ("Jerry") Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian. [39]
February 2012 – The Air Force removes "God" from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei). [40]
February 2012 – The Army ordered Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read. [41]
November 2011 – The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity. [42]
November 2011 – Even while restricting and disapprobating Christian religious expressions, the Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans at the Air Force Academy. [43]
September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains. [44]
September 2011 – The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that "No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit." [45]
August 2011 – The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD – a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except now, America). [46]
June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery. [47]
January 2010 – Because of "concerns" raised by the Department of Defense, tiny Bible verse references that had appeared for decades on scopes and gunsights were removed. [48]
3. Acts of hostility toward Biblical values:
August 2013 - Non-profit charitable hospitals, especially faith-based ones, will face large fines or lose their tax-exempt status if they don't comply with new strangling paperwork requirements related to giving free treatment to poor clients who do not have Obamacare insurance coverage. [49] Ironically, the first hospital in America was founded as a charitable institution in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin, and its logo was the Good Samaritan, with Luke 10:35 inscribed below him: "Take care of him, and I will repay thee," being designed specifically to offer free medical care to the poor. [50] Benjamin Franklin's hospital would likely be fined unless he placed more resources and funds into paperwork rather than helping the poor under the new faith-hostile policy of the Obama administration.
August 2013 - USAID, a federal government agency, shut down a conference in South Korea the night before it was scheduled to take place because some of the presentations were not pro-abortion but instead presented information on abortion complications, including the problems of "preterm births, mental health issues, and maternal mortality" among women giving birth who had previous abortions. [51]
June 2013 – The Obama Administration finalizes requirements that under the Obamacare insurance program, employers must make available abortion-causing drugs, regardless of the religious conscience objections of many employers and even despite the directive of several federal courts to protect the religious conscience of employers. [52]
April 2013 – The United States Agency for Internal Development (USAID), an official foreign policy agency of the U.S. government, begins a program to train homosexual activists in various countries around the world to overturn traditional marriage and anti-sodomy laws, targeting first those countries with strong Catholic influences, including Ecuador, Honduras, and Guatemala. [53]
December 2012 – Despite having campaigned to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, President Obama once again suspends the provisions of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 which requires the United States to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the American Embassy there. [54]
July 2012 - The Pentagon, for the first time, allows service members to wear their uniforms while marching in a parade - specifically, a gay pride parade in San Diego. [55]
October 2011 – The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion. [56]
September 2011 – The Pentagon directs that military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. [57]
July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778. [58]
March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls. [59]
February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act. [60]
September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judge's decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. [61]
August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs. [62]
July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion. [63]
September 16, 2009 – The Obama administration appoints as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should "not tolerate" any "private beliefs," including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual "equality." [64]
July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. [65]
May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with "comprehensive" sexual education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions. [66] He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets. [67]
May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their "criminal" activities. [68]
March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. [69]
March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research. [70]
March 2009 – Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations. [71]
January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations. [72]
January 2009 – President Obama's nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional. [73]
4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:
February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, [74] but when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the right thing to do. [75]
October 2011 – Obama's Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians' access to the White House. [76]
August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity. [77]
August 2010 – Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero, while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being denied permission to rebuild at that location. [78]
April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the Pentagon's National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the Muslim community. [79]
April 2010 – The Obama administration requires rewriting of government documents and a change in administration vocabulary to remove terms that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists, terrorists, radical Islamic, etc. [80]
May 2009 – While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of Ramadan. [81]
2010 – While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this White House avoids traditional Biblical holidays and events but regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010 statements on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha. [82]
Many of these actions are literally unprecedented – this is the first time they have happened in four centuries of American history. The hostility of President Obama toward Biblical faith and values is without equal from any previous American president.SOURCE:
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[22] "Military gives bonuses only to same-sex couples," WND, August 20, 2013.
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[59] Steven Ertelt, "Obama Admin Ignores Planned Parenthood Sex Trafficking Videos," LifeNews, March 2, 2011.
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[62] Steven Ertelt, "Obama, Congress Cut Funding for 176 Abstinence Programs Despite New Study," LifeNews, August 26, 2010.
[63] Tess Civantos, "White House Spent $23M of Taxpayer Money to Back Kenyan Constitution That Legalizes Abortion, GOP Reps Say," Fox News, July 22, 2010.
[64] Matt Cover, "Obama's EEOC Nominee: Society Should 'Not Tolerate Private Beliefs' That 'Adversely Affect' Homosexuals," cnsnews.com, January 18, 2010.
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[67] Steven Ertelt, "Obama Budget Funds Sex Ed Over Abstinence on 16-1 Margin," LifeNews, February 14, 2011.
[68] Steven Ertelt, "Obama Admin Terrorism Dictionary Calls Pro-Life Advocates Violent, Racist," LifeNews, May 5, 2009.
[69] Steven Ertelt, "Pro-Life Groups Left Off Obama's Health Care Summit List, Abortion Advocates OK," LifeNews, March 5, 2009.
[70] "Obama Signs Order Lifting Restrictions on Stem Cell Research Funding," Fox News, March 9, 2009.
[71] Steven Ertelt, " Obama Administration Announces $50 Million for Pro-Forced Abortion UNFPA," LifeNews, March 26, 2009; Steven Ertelt, "President Barack Obama's Pro-Abortion Record: A Pro-Life Compilation," LifeNews, February 11, 2012.
[72] Jeff Mason and Deborah Charles, "Obama lifts restrictions on abortion funding," Reuters, January 23, 2009.
[73] "Obama pick: Taxpayers must fund abortions," World Net Daily, January 27, 2009.
[74] Masoud Popalzai and Nick Paton Walsh, " Obama apologizes to Afghanistan for Quran burning," CNN, February 23, 2012.
[75] "Military burns unsolicited Bibles sent to Afghanistan," CNN, May 22, 2009.
[76] "Report: Obama's Muslim Advisers Block Middle Eastern Christians' Access to the White House," Big Peace (accessed on February 29, 2012).
[77] Chuck Norris, " President Obama: Muslim Missionary? (Part 2)," Townhall.com, August 24, 2010; Chuck Norris, "President Obama: Muslim Missionary?," Townhall.com, August 17, 2010.
[78] Barack Obama, "Remarks by the President at Iftar Dinner," The White House, August 13, 2010; "Obama Comes Out in Favor of Allowing Mosque Near Ground Zero," Fox News, August 13, 2010; Pamela Geller, "Islamic Supremacism Trumps Christianity at Ground Zero," American Thinker, July 21, 2011.
[79] "Franklin Graham Regrets Army's Decision to Rescind Invite to Pentagon Prayer Service," Fox News, April 22, 2010.
[80] "Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document," Fox News, April 7, 2010; "Counterterror Adviser Defends Jihad as 'Legitimate Tenet of Islam'," Fox News, May 27, 2010; "'Islamic Radicalism' Nixed From Obama Document," CBSNews, April 7, 2010.
[81] Barack Obama, " Remarks by the President at Iftar Dinner," The White House, September 1, 2009; Kristi Keck, " Obama tones down National Day of Prayer observance," CNN, May 6, 2009; Dan Gilgoff, " The White House on National Day of Prayer: A Proclamation, but No Formal Ceremony," U.S. News, May 1, 2009.
[82] "WH Fails to Release Easter Proclamation," Fox Nation, April 25, 2011; "President Obama ignores most holy Christian holiday; AFA calls act intentional," American Family Association (accessed on February 29, 2012).
House Hearing Room Bursts Out Laughing After Dem Congressman
Says Obuma Has A "Red Line" On Obumacare
(OOOooooo :laugh: :laugh:.... Nobody laughs at Obuma's bumbling incompetence... nobody! ;) ;))
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Via CNS News:
People attending a House Rules Committee hearing on Saturday evening burst into laughter when Rep. Jim McGovern (D.-Mass.) affirmed to House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R.-Ky.) that President Barack Obama, by threatening to veto a continuing resolution to fund the government past Monday if it includes a House amendment to delay Obamacare, has thus "drawn a red line" on the CR.
The committee was meeting to approve the rule by which the House would consider the Senate-passed CR and amendments to it that would repeal a tax on medical devices and delay Obamacare for one year.
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D.-N.Y.), the ranking member of the committee, read a position statement she said was from the administration that threatened the veto.
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DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz: "Tea Party Extremists" Are "Unhinged"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/09/29/wasserman_schultz_on_tea_party_opposition_to_obamacare_these_people_have_come_unhinged.html
(Wha... are my eyes deceiving me or did Debbie Wasserman Schultz just call someone else "unhinged?")
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: You're right. And that process needs to be fixed. But last night you have Republican tea party extremists actually celebrating on the House Floor, publicly celebrating that they got — Michele Bachmann said she got everything she wanted.
You have other Republicans who have said they're delighted over shutting the government down. What we need to do is come together. And let me just give you an analogy here. This is — there's clear evidence that the tail is wagging the dog and you have got Republicans on the other side who are irrational and not playing with a full deck.
Would you — if you didn't like the redesign of your kitchen, would you burn the whole house down or would you try to make modifications to the kitchen? These people have come unhinged.
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Canada Revokes Islamic Group ISNA's Tax Exempt Status
For Support Of Terrorism
(Video above is of Muslim President Obuma's good wishes for ISNA in the U.S. which has also come under fire for support for terrorist organizations)
Via Toronto Sun:http://www.torontosun.com/2013/09/20/islamic-groups-charitable-status-revoked-over-alleged-link-to-terror-organization
TORONTO — The Canada Revenue Agency has revoked the charitable status of an Islamic group after it says it distributed over $280,000 to an agency allegedly linked to a terrorist organization in Pakistan.
The CRA announced Friday it will strip the Islamic Society of North America Canada's Development Foundation of its charitable status.
After a nearly two-year-long audit of its books, the CRA said it found evidence linking the group to an organization that funds a terrorist organization in Pakistan.
Al-Shabaab Used Game of 20 Questions To Separate
Muslims From Infidels During Kenyan Mall Siege
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(And we already know what happened to those who lost their game)
(AP) — The turbaned gunmen who infiltrated Nairobi's Westgate mall arrived with a set of religious trivia questions: As terrified civilians hid in toilet stalls, behind mannequins, in ventilation shafts and underneath food court tables, the assailants began a high-stakes game of 20 Questions to separate Muslims from those they consider infidels.
A 14-year-old boy saved himself by jumping off the mall's roof, after learning from friends inside that they were quizzed on names of the Prophet Muhammad's relatives. A Jewish man scribbled a Quranic scripture on his hand to memorize, after hearing the terrorists were asking captives to recite specific verses. Numerous survivors described how the attackers from al-Shabab, a Somali cell which recently joined al-Qaeda, shot people who failed to provide the correct answers.
Their chilling accounts, combined with internal al-Shabab documents discovered earlier this year by The Associated Press, mark the final notch in a transformation within the global terror network, which began to rethink its approach after its setbacks in Iraq. Al-Qaeda has since realized that the indiscriminate killing of Muslims is a strategic liability, and hopes instead to create a schism between Muslims and everyone else, whom they consider "kuffar," or apostates.
"What this shows is al-Qaeda's acknowledgment that the huge masses of Muslims they have killed is an enormous PR problem within the audience they are trying to reach," said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, director of the Center for the Study of Terrorist Radicalization. "This is a problem they had documented and noticed going back to at least Iraq. And now we see al-Qaeda groups are really taking efforts to address it."
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Obuma won't negotiate with terrorists: talks with Iran's President Rouhani, snubs Republicans. After all, who are the real terrorists, as far as Barack Obama is concerned?
"It's a three-decade first: Presidents of U.S., Iran talk directly, if only by phone,"
by Chelsea J. Carter for CNN, September 27:
(CNN) -- U.S. [Muslim] President Barack Obuma spoke by telephone Friday with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani -- the first direct conversation between leaders in Washington and Tehran since 1979 -- raising the possibility a deal can be reached over Iran's controversial nuclear program.
Describing the conversation as a starting point, Obama said he believes an agreement is possible regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions that could lead to better relations.
"While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution," Obama told reporters during a White House briefing.
Western leaders have expressed cautious optimism about Iran's more moderate tone under Rouhani, whose recent comments have raised hopes that a deal could be struck over the Middle Eastern nation's nuclear program.
Obama said he reiterated to Rouhani statements he made earlier in the week during the United Nations General Assembly, where he signaled the United States was open to negotiations with Iran provided real action is taken.
"So the test will be meaningful, transparent, and verifiable actions, which can also bring relief from the comprehensive international sanctions that are currently in place," he said Friday.
The conversation between the two men came at the end of the General Assembly, where conjecture abounded over whether Obama and Rouhani would meet in person and what that might mean for U.S.-Iranian relations.
Rouhani told reporters Friday that there wasn't enough time to plan such a face-to-face meeting.
The last time a U.S. president spoke with an Iranian leader was in 1979, when Jimmy Carter talked by telephone with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi before Pahlavi was overthrown.
National Security Advisor Susan Rice told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that the administration was contacted by the Iranian delegation.
"Today, somewhat surprisingly, we were contacted by them to say that President Rouhani would like to speak to President Obama on the telephone on his way out of town, and we were able to make that call come together and it was a constructive conversation," she said.
The call lasted about 15 minutes, with translation, Rice said.
Rice characterized the call as "cordial and constructive."...
Okay!
I have not seen this cover but while talking with my neighbor he said he saw the magazine on the news rack.
And there is a blistering article inside about Obama.
Newsweek last published in hard print at the end of 2012.
The magazine became digital in 2013l.
None of the covers shown on the digital web site match this one.
I too did a digital search for this cover and found nothing.
At any rate I believe my neighbor who I know to be an honest man.
But thanks for letting me know.
Perhaps I misunderstood him, I do have a pretty bad hearing impairment.
It is not recent.
It is an actual print publication cover from some fifteen months ago.
Irony Alert – Obumacare Exchange Website Offline
UPDATE:Site Online But Many Pages Still Produce Errors
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The United States Government Has Shut Down
Thank You, Dirty Harry
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Visa Cuts Off Country's Top Gun Store... For Selling Guns!
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(Because guns are eeeeeevil)
Via Washington Secrets:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/visa-subsidiary-cuts-off-nations-largest-gun-store-for-selling-guns/article/2536417
A subsidiary of Visa, a key Obama campaign donor, that specializes in credit card transactions has abruptly stopped servicing the nation's largest gun store after four years because the store sells guns, a fact the owners never hid.
Hyatt Gun Shop of Charlotte, N.C., told Secrets that the subsidiary, Authorize.net/CyberSource, simply sent an email to owner Larry Hyatt to announce that it was suddenly breaking off the business relationship. The reason: "The sale of firearms or any similar product."
The company email said that gun sales violated a section of the service agreement the two signed over four years ago and after Hyatt went into detail about its sales and products — and name.
"We've never seen anything like this," said Justin Anderson, Hyatt's marketing director. He said it took a week and thousands of dollars to line up a "gun friendly" credit card processor for online sales.
The brushoff of Hyatt's business has sparked a national boycott effort against Authorize.net and parent company CyberSource organized by the website Grass Roots North Carolina. "It looks like the small but noisy anti-gun crowd has gotten to what must be a jelly-spined PR department at CyberSource and Authorize.Net. Either that, or leadership at these companies have simply become anti-gun all on their own," said the website in announcing the boycott.
Anderson suspects that the company, purchased by Visa in 2010, got cold feet dealing with a leading gun seller and he said that he's heard of other gun stores being dropped. The company had no immediate comment.
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Pew Poll:
Anger With Federal Government At All-Time High,
77% of Americans "Angry" And "Frustrated"
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Via Pew Research:http://www.people-press.org/2013/09/30/anger-at-government-most-pronounced-among-conservative-republicans/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=public-anger-at-government-rises
With a possible government shutdown just hours away, public anger at the federal government is as high as at any point since the Pew Research Center began asking the question in 1997. Anger is most palpable among conservative Republicans – 41% say they are angry at the federal government, the highest among any partisan group.
he new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Sept. 25-29 among 1,005 adults, finds that 26% overall say they are angry at the federal government, while 51% feel frustrated. Just 17% say they are basically content with the government.
The share of Americans who say they are angry at the federal government has risen seven points since January and now equals the high reached in August 2011, a few weeks after the widely criticized debt ceiling agreement between the president and Congress.
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CNN's Hillary Clinton Biopic Scrapped –
NBC Cancels Its Pant Suits Miniseries
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"Take this... and that, Pantsuit.. you ugly old dragon!!!"
(Good Riddance)
NBC has scrapped its controversial Hillary Clinton miniseries project.
"After reviewing and prioritizing our slate of movie/miniseries development, we've decided that we will no longer continue developing the Hillary Clinton miniseries," the network said in a statement Monday.
The news comes hours after CNN Films opted to cancel its planned documentary on the former secretary of state and first lady after pressure from both Democrats and Republicans.
Liberal Massachusetts "Weeding Out" Foster Parents
With Traditional Christian Beliefs
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http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/state-official-weed-out-conservatives-seeking-to-adopt/A video has been uncovered of Massachusetts officials promising to weed out foster parents with conservative values who would only "tolerate" a youth's gender confusion and not endorse it.
The video was captured by Janet Aldrich of Catch of the Day Video News and featured by political activist Amy Contrada, who researches family issues through the non-profit Massachusetts-based group Mass Resistance organization.
In a new report, Contrada wrote: "It's now official policy in Massachusetts. Adults holding traditional values will no longer be allowed to adopt or be foster parents."
Contrada said the video is of a Boston Bar Association forum with the state Department of Children and Families and the state agency on homosexual youth.
"The DFC speakers confirmed that they are 'weeding out' adoptive and foster parents who are not willing to wholly accept and support LGBT (lesbian, "gay," bisexual, or transgender) self-identification by a child in their care," she wrote.
Michelle Gordon, a recruitment officer for the state child welfare office, is shown on the video speaking.
"We are sort of setting new expectations," Gordon said. "We're weeding out some of this passiveness and sort of destructive behaviors that are occurring. It is often so subtle.
"There is some weeding out of foster homes that are still going on," she said.
The session was led by Erika Rickard of the state Commission on LGBT Youth.
Rickard said there is an urgent need for "supportive" foster parents for "gender-confused" children, estimating 20 percent of youth in foster care in the state are "gay" or lesbian.
The goal, she said, is "safe, welcoming and affirming homes."
Eventually that will include all foster parents, officials said, since the state now requires them to take annual training on alternative sexual lifestyles.
Some foster parents say they're comfortable with a child expressing confused feelings but really aren't, the state officials said.
White House Uses Women's Rag Cosmo To Try And Sell Obamacare
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(Also known as Obama and Reggie Love's favorite magazine)
Via LA Times:
The current Cosmopolitan magazine explains the Affordable Care Act with the "Top Eight Ways Young Women Benefit from Obamacare." Glamour lays out the "Five Things You Need to Know" about the marketplaces kicking into gear Tuesday.
The other night, late-night TV host Conan O'Brien put his own spin on the meme with "Ten Pre-existing Conditions to Drive Your Man Crazy."
At the White House, which is pushing the message hard with women's magazines, officials laughed. They figure they're in on the joke – as long as people are getting the Democratic message that the new healthcare law is easy to check out.
"Lots of women who will benefit may not read the New York Times or Politico but do read Cosmo," said one administration official working on the project, who requested anonymity to discuss strategy. "Much bigger reach; reaches women exactly where they are – and they're a key demographic."
[...]Top administration officials have been talking to women's magazines, including Woman's Day, Cosmo Latina, Marie Claire and Ebony, several of which are running stories in their October print issues. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America has started the website Obamacare Works to take questions about how the program operates.
The Democratic National Committee Is Broke, Owes Creditors $18.5 Million
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(The RNC on the other hand has $12.5 million in cash on hand)
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Via CNN Money:http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/30/dnc-debt-crisis/?iid=SF_F_River
There's another budget crisis in Washington, and it's unfolding inside the Democratic party. The Democratic National Committee remains so deeply in the hole from spending in the last election that it is struggling to pay its own vendors.
It is a highly unusual state of affairs for a national party — especially one that can deploy the President as its fundraiser-in-chief – and it speaks to the quiet but serious organizational problems the party has yet to address since the last election, obscured in part by the much messier spectacle of GOP infighting.
The Democrats' numbers speak for themselves: Through August, 10 months after helping President Obama secure a second term, the DNC owed its various creditors a total of $18.1 million, compared to the $12.5 million cash cushion the Republican National Committee is holding.
Several executives at firms that contract to provide services to the party – speaking anonymously to avoid antagonizing what remains an important if troubled client — describe an organization playing for time as they raise alarms about past-due bills falling further behind. And senior strategists close to the DNC say they worry the organization appears to have no road map back to solvency. "They really thought they could get this money raised by the summer," one said, "but the fact is, from talking to people over there, they have no real plan for how to solve this."
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Obuma Falls For Fake Iranian Fatwa Banning Nuclear Weapons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJTI7e-nGME
(The relevant part of Obuma's statement is from the beginning to 3:04, the specific statement being at 1:39 where he claims "the Supreme Leader" has issued a Fatwa against nuclear weapons. Notice also how he specifically calls Iran, "the Islamic Republic of Iran" as well... that's new.) Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/30/obama-falls-for-irans-fake-fatwa-against-nuclear-weapons-according-to-memri/
No documentary evidence backs up President Barack Obama's claim that Iran's theocratic rulers have issued a religious edict against the development of nuclear weapons, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors and translates news reports from Arab and Persian outlets.
The claim is an eight-year old hoax promoted since 2005 by Iran's diplomats and by Turkey's Islamist prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says MEMRI.
The Islamic "fatwa," or religiously-justified law, "was never issued by [Iran's] Supreme Leader [Ali] Khamenei and does not exist; neither the Iranian regime nor anybody else can present it," MEMRI reported on Sunday.
Obama is expected to face media questions on Monday when he holds a meeting about Iran's nuke programs with Israel's prime minister Bibi Netanyahu.
Obama claimed on Friday that the fatwa does exist, and could lead to a deal with Iran to end its development of nuclear weapons.
"I do believe that there is a basis for a resolution [because] Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons," he told reporters from the White House' press podium
Obuma also made this claim in his speech before the UN:Meanwhile, the Supreme Leader has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons, and President Rouhani has just recently reiterated that the Islamic Republic will never develop a nuclear weapon.Another potential problematic element in the UN speech is this Obama comment, "We are not seeking regime change and we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy". He seems to have accorded them a "right" not bargained for and not seen before in policy, perhaps creating daylight between us and the Israeli position of "zero uranium enrichment".
Charles Krauthammer has sagely noted Rouhani as the new face of "moderation" is but a screen, that indeed we fell for this same type of spinning 30 years, from Rouhani at that time as well. The "new face" of moderation is the same "old face" of deception.
As we have previously noted, Rouhani has detailed at great length, the deception to keep the West talking, while the march goes forward for Iran's nuclear program.
Meanwhile, we note again the report that Iran is two months away from having enriched uranium to be able to make a nuclear weapon.
The clock is ticking.
WWII Vets Break Through Barrier To WWII Memorial Closed Over Shutdown –
Update: Police Refuse To Enforce Closure –
Update: GOP Rep. Steve King Distracted Park Police While Vets Knocked Fences Over –
Update: Obama Admin Knew About WWII Vets' Request And Rejected It
(Way to go guys... storm that beachhead)
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National Park Service security personnel speak on their phones after World War II veterans broke through a barricade with police tape that prevented access to the World War II Memorial on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013.
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Looks like the Greatest Generation has a spine, which is more than you can say about a lot of Americans and something we are in dire need of. Due to the government shutdown that "Dirty" Harry Reid and "Usurper" Barack Hussein Obuma have brought down on America, the federal bureaucrats are claiming they have to shut down the National Mall and it is illegal to go there. Illegal to walk up to a monument? Gentlemen and women, you are full of collectivist crap. You are still paying yourselves handsomely, but are punishing Americans because they won't just let you finish driving us off the cliff into oblivion while selling us into slavery. Well, warriors know no age limit and our wonderful WWII Vets aren't having any of it:A group of World War II veterans in an Honor Flight group Tuesday knocked over barriers imposed during the government shutdown at the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C., to get inside.
As part of the federal government shutdown, national parks are closed. But the group of veterans continued to the monument Tuesday, as reported by Stars and Stripes reporter Leo Shane:(http://www.noisyroom.net/blog/leoA.png)
I love our Vets! They are not going to let a few weak barriers and even weaker pencil pushers stop them. More warriors joined from Iowa as well. The park police are letting the Vets through because they know just how very bad it would look to do otherwise. Listen to this federal weasel:"We're looking about how to deal with this in the future," Park Police spokeswoman Carol Johnson said Tuesday.I'll just bet they are. Because don't ya know it would just look bad to shoot them. They would if they could, mark my words. This is the federal government attempting to 'punish' Americans:The museums that draw millions of visitors to the National Mall closed their doors Tuesday, memorials were barricaded and trash will go uncollected in the nation's most-visited national park due to the first government shutdown in 17 years.
Visitors found locked doors, black metal barricades and yellow caution tape blocking entrances to popular tourist attractions just hours after the shutdown. Fountains at the World War II Memorial were shut off.
"Why the heck does this have to be closed?" said Deb Cavender, 44, of Ames, Iowa, as she and her husband were making their way toward the memorial.
Tourists took pictures of signs on the barricades that read "Because of the Federal Government SHUTDOWN, All National Parks Are CLOSED."
One by one, the memorials were closed, along with about 45 fountains maintained by the National Park Service, said spokeswoman Carol Johnson. Pumps will be stopped at the Lincoln Memorial's long reflecting pool, but it won't be immediately drained.
Perhaps most noticeable: Trash pickup has ceased on the National Mall and in downtown Washington parks maintained by the National Park Service. In total, 330 workers from the National Mall have been furloughed.Good for Rep. Steve King (R-IA) who ran interference for the Vets. Sir, you earn more of our respect every single day. You think a few barricades will stop those who gave everything for your sorry asses, you political hacks? Not a chance:The shutdown of the federal government on Tuesday closed down memorials across the country, including many within Washington, DC. All of those on the National Mall were barred from the public when the shutdown became official. That wasn't about to stop a group of World War II veterans who had traveled from Mississippi to see the memorial erected in their honor. Undaunted by the barriers set up by Park Police, the veterans and those accompanying them stormed the memorial, drawing the attention of journalists and politicians alike.According to Stars and Stripes reporter Leo Shane, who took many of the pictures at the scene, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) distracted U.S. Park Police while the barriers were being moved to allow the veterans access. Veterans from Iowa soon followed those from Mississippi, with no signs that the Park Police meant to evict any of them anytime soon. While a Parks official told Jacob Fischy of Buzzfeed that the park remains legally closed, they were "unsure if security tapes will be reviewed or anyone will be prosecuted for trespassing." Meanwhile, despite their members causing the shutdown, the National Republican Congressional Committee is now using the veterans' reclamation of their memorial to add email addresses to their mailing list.Now this is a big deal. Feel that? It is the rumbling of the American spirit stirring to action. The Tea Party, Constitutional Conservatives, the religious Right, Libertarians, Republicans, Conservative Democrats... virtually anyone who is not a Progressive.... we are joining hands and we are coming. You are witnessing the birth of the Cruz Conservative Coalition. DC is about to feel a political earthquake that will rock them to the core. Lest you think the only ones resisting you are WWII Vets, think again. They are not the only ones telling DC to stuff it.(http://www.noisyroom.net/blog/vettags.jpg)
From The Blaze:Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) told reporters at the scene she was going for a morning walk when she heard that World War II veterans were being stopped from entering their own memorial.
"I ran over as quick as I could ... and I couldn't believe my eyes," Bachmann said. "There were all these veterans standing here behind police tape and they are prevented from going in to see the memorial."
"About maybe eight to 12 of us members, one member had a scissor cut the tape and then we just escorted the veterans in," she continued. "You should have seen these veterans. They had smiles from ear to ear. They were thrilled."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZQBiv6Py7I
Shutdown Horrors: Sen. & Reps. have no one to serve them food!!!
"That's right, (D) Maxine Waters... NO FOOD! No bananas... no fried insects and above all, no leafy veggies."
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"WHAaaa..NO WAY"
(And that's not all, little lady. Prepare yourselves, your friends, RINO's, and Demo-primates. You may want to send the children out of the room:
Okay...Yes, Senators and Representatives have to hit buttons on their own in their private elevators and open their own doors... and get their own food... not to mention latrine service. I just pray they can hold up under the strain. Curse you Tea Party and Ted Cruz!
Not that I don't feel for anyone laid off, but... Do we really need to be paying for elevator operators (1) and door lackeys? Isn't this just a wee bit elitist and out of tune with Democratic Republicanism?)
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The day those who have been paying attention and have been dreading is now upon us... today marks the launch day that ObamaCare's exchange markets are supposed to open to American citizens for government-run health care sign-up — with the federal government shutdown also hitting the nation today, there's no telling how the markets will be affected. A majority of Americans don't want ObamaCare, and reportedly, only one in eight Americans even know about today's October 1 blast-off of the expensive, job-killing, freedom-robbing Obama health care bill/mandates."The blast-off" has been a huge, confusing, SNAFU fiasco so far.
The government's ObamaCare websites crashed earlier today — NOT a good sign:Funny thing about Obamacare, the item at the heart of all the nonsense in Washington: The health insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act opened for business today, and people have started hitting the websites. Only one problem: The Obamacare websites weren't working. As of 9:30 a.m., Healthcare.gov informed us: "The System is down at the moment. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Please try again later."
164 Democrats Vote Against Funding Veterans' Benefits
HJ Res. 72
Vote summary: 264-164. Failed (required 2/3 majority).This bill would have restored funding for American veterans' benefits. The 164 Democrats listed on this page don't think veterans' benefits are important enough to pay for. ---- YEAS 264 ---Aderholt
Amash
Amodei
Bachmann
Bachus
Barber
Barletta
Barr
Barrow (GA)
Barton
Benishek
Bentivolio
Bera (CA)
Bilirakis
Bishop (NY)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Boehner
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
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Measuring the impacts of the U.S. Government Shitdown
WASHINGTON | Tue Oct 1, 2013 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Large sections of the U.S. government closed down on Tuesday after Congress was unable to reach an agreement on funding for the new fiscal year because of a standoff over healthcare reforms.
Federal workers and government functions have been divided between essential and non-essential services, and the effects will be felt in various ways - some acute, others barely noticeable.Here is a roundup of some of the impacts:FEDERAL WORKERS: As many as 1 million federal employees have been furloughed and the knock-on affect will be felt at companies that do business with the government, such as large defense firms and other contractors.
MAIL DELIVERY: Deliveries will continue as usual because the U.S. Postal Service receives no tax dollars for day-to-day operations. It relies instead on income from stamps and other fees to keep running.
AIR TRAVEL: Air and rail travelers in the United States should not feel a big impact. Security officers and air traffic controllers will continue to work as usual. The State Department's consular services will continue at home and abroad, meaning visas will be issued and passports processed for the most part - except in rare occasions when consulates are housed in government buildings closed because of the shutdown.
Most other State Department and USAID activities can be sustained at least on a "limited basis," said department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
SPACE TRAVEL: The shutdown idled most of NASA's 18,000 workers. Only 550 employees were considered exempt, including two American astronauts serving aboard the International Space Station and flight directors at Mission Control in Houston. Skeleton staff maintain key science and communications satellites but work on new missions, including preparations to launch a Mars probe on November 18, have been suspended, said NASA spokesman Allard Beutel. Agency websites went offline and NASA newsrooms across the country were closed.
SOCIAL SECURITY: Social Security and disability checks will be issued with no change in payment dates and field offices will remain open but will offer limited services, the agency said in a communique. Online services will remain open.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Signup for the new U.S. health exchanges under the Affordable Care Act has begun as scheduled. [ID:nL1N0HQ1R3] The Medicare program for older Americans will also continue largely without disruption. Across the vast department and its sub-agencies, about 52 percent of staff will be furloughed - some 40,512 workers. Among the programs shuttered are the Centers for Disease Control's annual seasonal flu program, which tracks the path of flu outbreaks across the nation. The National Institutes of Health is not admitting new patients in most circumstances or starting new clinical trials.
NATIONAL PARKS: National parks have been closed to new visitors, and park roads, concessions and other facilities are now being closed. Overnight visitors have been given two days to depart. This will mean a loss of 750,000 daily visitors and an economic loss to gateway communities of as much as $30 million for each day parks are shut, according to the non-profit National Parks Conservation Association.
WASHINGTON, D.C., SIGHTS: Most popular tourist spots in the nation's capital closed on Tuesday. Barricades went up around some iconic locations, including the Lincoln Memorial, the Library of Congress, the National Archives and all Smithsonian museums. The National Zoo is closed and its popular live animal webcams were taken off line. All zoo animals will continue to be fed and cared for
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT: All military personnel will continue on normal duty status but about half of the Defense Department's 800,000 civilian employees will be placed on unpaid leave. The Pentagon has said it will halt military activity not critical to national security.
Officials have said military personnel, who are paid twice a month, would receive their October 1 paychecks but might see their October 15 paychecks delayed if no funding deal is set by October 7.Most Department of Veterans Affairs services will continue, including the operation of VA hospitals.MEAT INSPECTIONS: Department of Agriculture meat inspectors are staying on the job. Agricultural statistical reports have ceased publication, and the important October 11 crop report could be delayed depending on how long the shutdown lasts. USDA's main website, USDA.gov, has gone dark and has been linked to a page explaining the shutdown.
FEDERAL RESERVE AND OTHER FINANCIAL AGENCIES: Bank regulators, including the Federal Reserve and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, remain open because they do not rely on Congress for funding. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency pay for themselves and remain open. Loans guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will still be available during the shutdown. The Federal Housing Administration, which offers mortgage lenders guarantees against homeowner defaults, will continued to operate with limited staffing.
COURTS: The U.S. Supreme Court will probably operate normally, as it has during previous shutdowns, but a spokesman declined to share the high court's plans. Federal courts will remain open for about 10 business days and their status will be reassessed on or about October 15.
THE WHITE HOUSE: The Executive Office of the President planned to furlough about 1,265 staff and retain 436 as excepted workers. Among the staff retained will be 15 to provide "minimum maintenance and support" for the White House Cat Room.
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Pic: National Park Services Putting Gates And Tape Around WWII Memorial To Keep Vets Out –
Update: Using Zip Ties To Put Up More "Closed" Signs
(Amazing to think officials in the National Park Service think this is a good idea)
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GOP Congressman Reminds Obuma: "We Did Not Elect A Dictator"
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(Obama begs to differ)
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Via Raw Story:http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/02/gop-lawmaker-to-obama-we-did-not-elect-a-dictator/
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) has been credited as the architect of the plan to tie funding of the Affordable Care Act to the continuing resolution to fund the federal government, a plan that led earlier this week to the legislative impasse that shut down the federal government.
"We've talked a whole lot in this chamber about the fact that there was a vote taken, that a president was elected – and indeed we did elect a president a mere nine months ago," Meadows said Sunday as lawmakers debated a measure to fund the government but delay ACA for one year.
"But I want to remind you, Mr. Speaker, that I was also elected some nine months ago, and we did not elect a dictator, we elected a president," Meadows said.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hzuXjorf3U
WWII Veterans Plan To Storm Lincoln Memorial Today,
Closed Due To Obama Admin Pettiness
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Tough Old Buzzards
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The same veterans group that managed to storm the gates at the WWII memorial yesterday is planning taking on the fences at the Lincoln Memorial today. This sounds like a capitol idea, pun intended.
Both memorials are open air memorials. The Lincoln Memorial is open 24 hours a day, normally. If you'll recall, it was wide open to having someone throw green paint on it in the evening a few months ago.
So that means the Obama administration is making a conscious effort to spend more in time and money to shut off something which is normally open.
How ridiculous is this effort by President Obama to make the people "hurt" so he can blame it on Republicans, just as he did with the sequester, which was also his idea?
We still don't have access to the White House, the people's house, allegedly because of the sequester, although Obama has spent countless of our millions since then on vacations, parties and golf.
When you have the opportunity to pass bills for veterans and national parks, unconnected to Obamacare, and then don't pass them, or spend more to close spaces then to keep them open, the reason is simply you want to continue to have people feel the pain.
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Dirty Harry Reid Tries To Explain Gaffe About Not Helping
Kid With Cancer, Blames Ted Cruz
("Dirty" sticks his foot in his mouth and it's
Ted Cruz's fault? That ol' senility thing kicking in again, Harry?)
HARRY REID: So, What I told Dana Bash who is a fine reporter, is that we care about all these things, we care about our state parks, our veterans, but we can't fall into that trap. Here is the trap, of the Cruz-led Republicans, and that is this. Listen, we'll cherry pick. We'll open this today and this tomorrow, and finally at the end everything will be open except the money to finish Obamacare. But what Dr. Coburn has said, this is ridiculous, because Obamacare if nothing happens, about 90% of it is funded anyway. But they are so mercenary, so determined to destroy the president's signature issue that they would go to the extreme of shutting down the government.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XRfhJFZrJw
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/02/reid_tries_to_explain_gaffe_about_not_helping_one_kid_with_cancer.html
TV Network News Stories Blame GOP Over Dems For Shutdown 21-0
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(I don't want to hear anyone saying anything about liberal media bias, because that's just crazy talk... Right?????)
Via Washington Secrets:http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2536734#.Ukx3gRXBXBQ.twitter
The nation's big three news networks are falling right into place for President Obama and the Democrats, blaming the Republican Party for the government shut down by a whopping 21-0 story count.
According to a survey by the conservative media watchdog, the Media Research Center, in 39 stories during the two weeks leading up to the shutdown, CBS, ABC and NBC blamed the failure to cut a budget deal on
the Republicans 21 times, both parties four times, and
Democrats zero times. In 14 stories, nobody was to blame.
Report:
Less Than 1% of Visitors To Obamacare Exchange Websites
Are Signing Up For Health Insurance
***California's program registered an estimated 0.58 per cent of website visitors in its first day
***A Connecticut congressman boasted that his state took 167 applications for Obamacare services on day one, a rate of 0.59 per cent
***Obama administration won't say how many Americans signed up on the central website that covered insurance exchanges for 36 states
***Kentucky's 5.3 per cent application rate seems to be the nation's highest
***Other states wouldn't provide statistics, or tracked only the creation of new online accounts, not numbers of completed applicationsRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442115/EXCLUSIVE-Less-1-cent-Web-visitors-signing-Obamacare-state-health-exchange-websites.html#ixzz2gcjVY9H9
(I'm guessing this is the reason the White House is refusing to release the number of people who signed up for Obumacare)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442115/EXCLUSIVE-Less-1-cent-Web-visitors-signing-Obamacare-state-health-exchange-websites.html#ixzz2gbbWAF6w
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Hokey Baloney Shutdown mashup: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney briefed reporters on Wednesday, live-streamed on a website that the administration complained was partially inactive due to the government's slimmed down operations
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Yeah... I'd sweat it too, Sport
As President Obama's signature health insurance overhaul effort began to enroll new participants on Monday, some states running their own insurance exchanges saw huge levels of website traffic but paltry interest in signing up.
California, the ultimate blue state whose federal lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in support of Obamacare, turned less than 1 per cent of its Web visits into 'Covered California' participants on Tuesday.
'We had over 5.7 million hits to our website as of 3 p.m. yesterday,' Covered California spokeswoman Kelsey Caldwell told MailOnline Wednsday.
'7,700 consumers began their application process yesterday. ... 4,143 applications are pending,' she added. 'We received 23,269 calls yesterday to our service center.'
Caldwell couldn't say how many of the 5.7 million website hits were from unique Californians. But assuming 712,500 online visitors saw eight different Web pages each, the sign-up rate was 0.58 per cent.
Connecticut saw a similarly low rate of interest. Democratic Congressman Jim Himes tweeted after 8:30 p.m. Monday that his state's health exchange had 'received 28k visitors, and took 167 applications for health insurance. Day 1.'
That indicates just 0.59 per cent of Connecticut residents who sought information about their state's Obamacare program on Monday decided to become part of it, according to Access Health CT spokeswoman Kathleen Tallarita.
Florida Obumacare Navigator: Rollout Is "Dead as a Doornail"
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(In other words, it went exactly as planned)
By: James Taylor | October 02, 2013
http://mediatrackers.org/florida/2013/10/02/florida-obamacare-navigator-rollout-dead-doornail
An Obamacare Florida navigator called Monday's planned insurance exchange rollout "dead as a doornail" after widespread problems prevented Floridians from accessing the Obamacare insurance exchanges.
Despite federal officials having three years after passage of the Affordable Care Act to plan for the launching of healthcare insurance exchanges, the federal website crashed on its first day of operation, preventing Floridians from accessing the health insurance exchange system.
"It's dead as a doornail. It's not working," John Foley, a paid Obamacare navigator, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.Foley is an attorney with the government-funded Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County.
Foley's assessment was particularly troubling for Obamacare supporters given Foley's role in implementing Obamacare and the Legal Aid Society's ongoing cooperation with the Obama administration.
"It's a mess. It's terribly disappointing," Foley added. "They [federal officials] have been pushing it for so long, and people have been excited to see it, but apparently it's not coming."The Sun Sentinel noted that despite the entire system being shut down and Floridians having no access to the taxpayer-funded system, Obama administration officials said the rollout was "off to a good start." They did not provide any examples of what a "bad start" might have looked like.
Other Florida Obamacare navigators were similarly unable to guide people through the Obamacare insurance exchanges. Lynne Thorp, project manager for Obamacare navigators in three southwest Florida counties, began attempting to access the system at 5:30 a.m. Monday but could not connect to the system.
One of the many concerns Floridians expressed regarding Obamacare was giving the federal government, the IRS, and others access to their most personal medical information. The federal Obamacare website reinforced those fears when the website's security system failed to properly assign user IDs and passwords to people attempting to sign up for healthcare insurance.
"The Health and Human Services Department did not begin testing the chief pieces of this IT system until August," noted the Wall Street Journal. "The testing found that states couldn't consistently link to the federal portal (a problem that persists in some states), and that the hub couldn't reliably verify if a person is eligible for a subsidy, or accurately calculate how much the applicant is eligible to receive."
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Zero Enroll For Obumacare In Louisiana. Computer Overload!?!
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Via National Review:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/360210/zero-enroll-new-la-plan-obamacares-first-day-andrew-johnson#!
Louisiana's top health-insurance provider said that not a single person enrolled in a new health-care plan offered through the Affordable Care Act on its first day.
An executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana told the Times-Picayune that the agency was unable to sell the plan because customers were unable to access the HealthCare.gov website due to its website's sluggishness.
"It was not as intense as we had anticipated," the company's vice president of communication said of the company's sales.
He urged supporters and critics, however, to "take a deep breath and relax" and assured them that the website would eventually allow consumers to enroll in a plan."
•Not a joke: Obamacare's national hotline number is 1-800-F***-YOU | Young Cons
http://youngcons.com/not-a-joke-obamacares-national-hotline-number-is-1-800-f-you/
•Obamacare's National Hotline? 1-800-F*ck-You | therightplanet.comhttp://www.therightplanet.com/2013/10/obamacares-national-hotline-1-800-fck-you/
Via Hot Air:http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2013/10/02/obamacares-national-hotline-1-800-f-you/Obumacare National Hotline:
1-800-F***-You...
Not exactly, but it's pretty close.
Here's video of Kathleen Sebelius giving out the number, 1-800-318-2596:
1-800-3(F) 8(U) 2(C) 5(K) 9(Y) 6(O).
Note: The number 1 isn't assigned a letter.
October 2013
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Disgusting! This vile turd POS President needs to go!
How many more insults is this nation going to swallow in the name of political correctness? Obviously history teaches us one thing only.... that appeasement never works! And yet majority of American politicians seem to glide through life on appeasement and favoritism reciprocity.
He was illegally elected POTUS, [prove to me he's legal] but has turned now into the TOP PIECE OF SH!T'US. But somehow HE clearly thinks of himself as an EMPEROR of the US!
I almost choked from laughter yesterday when he said in a presser in front of the PEOPLE'S HOUSE that 'HE will NOT ALLOW ANYONE to sully a good name of the US'. He's the one to talk? The hypocrisy has now turned into a straight up lying to our faces, making up stories, inverting facts, spinning stories not based in reality.
It is like we've already jumped into the alternate universe, and every day is the opposite day... opposite to reason, opposite to intelligent thought, opposite to honesty and dignity.
I AM SO PROUD that these Old Birds [said with all my love and adoration] showed this pretender, amateur and usurper who the BOSS in this country is. The President is NOT the boss. WE ARE! We, the people, elect the President and he works for US, not himself.
Time for the turd to be flushed, and start rebuilding this nation.May 1945
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Seymour Hersh: Bin Laden Raid "One Big Lie"
Pulitzer-prize wining journalist slams "pathetic" US media
for failing to challenge White House
http://www.infowars.com/seymour-hersh-bin-laden-death-one-big-lie/
by Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 27, 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh says that the raid which killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011 is "one big lie" and that "not one word" of the Obama administration's narrative on what happened is true.In a wide-ranging interview published today by the Guardian, Hersh savages the US media for failing to challenge the White House on a whole host of issues, from NSA spying, to drone attacks, to aggression against Syria.
On the subject of the Navy Seal raid that supposedly resulted in the death of the Al-Qaeda terror leader, Hersh remarked, "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true."
Hersh added that the Obama administration habitually lies but they continue to do so because the press allows them to get away with it.
"It's pathetic, they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to pick on this guy [Obama]," Hersh told the Guardian.
The raid that supposedly led to Bin Laden's death has been shrouded in mystery for over two years. Speculation that the Obama administration may have embellished or outright lied about the true account of what happened has persisted, mainly because the White House has refused to publicly release images of Bin Laden's body.
Although the White House said the corpse was immediately "buried at sea" in line with Islamic tradition, it quickly emerged that this was not standard practice.
Numerous analysts have claimed that Bin Laden had in fact been dead for years and that the raid on his alleged compound in Pakistan was little more than a stunt.
Other questions also persist, such as why the narrative and timeline of the raid has changed multiple times, why the White House initially claimed that "situation room" photos showed Obama watching the raid live when in fact there was a blackout on the live feed, and why neighbors in the immediate area surrounding the compound said with absolute certainty that they had never seen Bin Laden and that they knew of no evidence whatsoever to suggest he lived there.
During the rest of the Guardian interview, which is well worth reading in its entirety, Hersh lambastes the corporate press and particularly the New York Times, which he says spends "so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would."
Hersh's solution is to shut down news networks like NBC and ABC and fire 90% of mainstream editors, replacing them with real journalists who are outsiders and not afraid to speak truth to power.
"The republic's in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple," concluded Hersh.
10 FactsThat Prove The Bin Laden Fable Is a Contrived Hoax
http://www.infowars.com/10-facts-that-prove-the-bin-laden-fable-is-a-contrived-hoax
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by Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
May 9, 2011Merely a week after President Obama announced the death of Osama Bin Laden, there is literally a deluge of evidence that clearly indicates the whole episode has been manufactured for political gain and to return Americans to a state of post-9/11 intellectual castration so that they can be easily manipulated in the run up to the 2012 election.
Here are ten facts that prove the Bin Laden fable is a contrived hoax:1) Before last Sunday's raid, every intelligence analyst, geopolitical commentator or head of state worth their salt was on record as stating that Osama Bin Laden was already dead, and that he probably died many years ago, from veteran CIA officer Robert Baer, to former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to former FBI head of counterterrorism Dale Watson. In addition, back in 2002 Alex Jones was told directly by two separate high level sources that Bin Laden was already dead and that his death would be announced at the most politically opportune moment. Top US government insider Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a man who held numerous different influential positions under five different Presidents, serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under the Nixon, Ford and Carter, told the Alex Jones Show last week that Bin Laden died of marfan syndrome shortly after he was visited by CIA physicians at the American Hospital in Dubai in July 2001.
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2) The official narrative of how the raid unfolded completely collapsed within days of its announcement. First there had been a 40 minute shootout, then there was no shootout and just one man was armed, first Bin Laden was armed then he was not, first Bin Laden used his wife as a human shield and then he did not. First the compound was described as a "$1 million dollar mansion" then it turned out to be a rubbish-strewn dilapidated compound that was worth less than a quarter of that. Almost every single aspect of the official narrative has changed since Obama first described the raid last Sunday as the White House struggles to keep its story straight.
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3) The alleged body of Bin Laden was hastily dumped in the sea to prevent any proper procedure of identification. The White House claimed this was in accordance with normal Islamic burial rituals, however numerous Muslim scholars all over the globe disputed this claim, pointing out that Muslims can only be buried at sea if they die at sea. While the White House claimed that Bin Laden's death on May 1st was proven by DNA and facial recognition evidence, such proof was never released for public scrutiny and the Obama administration refused to release photos of Bin Laden's dead body, suggesting a cover-up.
4) Despite the fact that the White House released "situation room" photos which purported to show Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and the rest of Obama's security staff watching the raid which killed Bin Laden live, it was later admitted by CIA director Leon Panetta that Obama could not have seen the raid because the live feed was cut off before the Navy SEALS entered the compound. The photos were described by many as having "historical significance," forming a "captivating" record of Obama's greatest success and being the "defining moment" of his Presidency. One image showed Hillary Clinton with her hand over her mouth as if witnessing an anxious or crucial moment in the raid. Media reports at the time claimed that the photos represented the moment when "The leader of the free world saw the terror chief shot in the left eye." However, the photos were staged as a PR stunt for public consumption, nobody in the photos ever saw Bin Laden killed live, nor did they see the Navy SEALS even enter the compound.
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Obuma not really in picture... he was 'photo-shopped' in... he was playing cards with Reggie Love that night. But if the RAID had been real, you could bet Obuma would have wanted a front-row seat to see the real action.
5) As even mainstream journalists began to cast suspicion on the official narrative behind the raid, the media reported that Al-Qaeda itself had confirmed every detail of Obama's address the the nation. However, the conduit for such a claim was in fact an organization called SITE, which is a notorious Pentagon propaganda front run by the daughter of an Israeli spy that has been caught on numerous occasions releasing fake cartoonish "Al-Qaeda" videos at the most politically expedient times for both the Bush and Obama administrations. The SITE organization is nothing more than a contractor for the U.S. government, receiving some $500,000 a year annually from Uncle Sam, and yet the corporate media instantly swallowed and regurgitated the claim that "Al-Qaeda" had confirmed the official story after SITE directed them to an anonymous posting on an Islamic website.
6) Almost every single neighbor that lived near the alleged Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad that was interviewed by news reporters said with absolute certainty that they had never seen Bin Laden and that they knew of no evidence whatsoever to suggest he lived there. Since the town is a staging ground for the Pakistani military, which has a training facility situated virtually a stone's throw away from the alleged Bin Laden compound, residents were required to show ID when they moved into the area. Pakistani troops and anti-terror police in the town refused to confirm that Bin Laden had lived in the house. Barack Obama himself admitted to 60 Minutes that the White House was only 55/45 sure that Osama lived there before the raid and this uncertainty prompted concerns that the US Navy SEALS sent in could have targeted a "prince from Dubai" or some other individual that was not Bin Laden.
7) The videos released by the White House this past weekend which purport to show Osama Bin Laden making Al-Qaeda tapes in October-November 2010 are almost identical to footage first released by Pentagon front group SITE nearly four years ago. Remember, a May 2010 Washington Post story reported how the CIA had admitted to making fake Bin Laden videos. Despite the White House's insistence that the footage of Bin Laden is recent, he looks younger and healthier than tapes released almost a decade ago, having apparently dyed his beard black. A separate video that purports to show Bin Laden in his compound flicking through satellite TV channels depicts a much older looking man with a gray beard. Analysts have pointed out that the man has different shaped ears to real Osama pictures from back in 2001. A doctor has also pointed out the fact that the man in the tapes released Saturday has no problem moving his left arm, whereas video from 2001 clearly illustrates how Bin Laden was unable to move his left upper extremity because of a permanent injury probably related to damage to the peripheral nerves. Why the cameraman would film the back of Bin Laden's head as he watches television is also dubious. Residents in the town of Abbottabad claim the man in the "television" video is not Osama, with one individual claiming that the man labeled by the White House as being Bin Laden is actually his neighbor, a man named Akhbar Han.
8: Despite the fact that numerous neo-cons came out on the days after the alleged raid to erroneously assert that torturing terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay led to the discovery of Bin Laden, Osama himself, the supposed world's most wanted terrorist and a treasure trove of terror information, despite the fact that he was unarmed, was not taken in for questioning, he was instantly shot in the head according to the official narrative.
9) The US government has been caught on several occasions within the past decade staging military operations for the purposes of generating contrived, pro-war sentiment amongst the American public. Both the "rescue" of Jessica Lynch and the death of Pat Tillman were complete fables, scripted and staged at complete odds with the truth and unleashed on Americans as part of a psychological warfare offensive to elicit support for the war on terror, almost identical to what we're seeing now with the Bin Laden sideshow. Given the fact that the US government has been caught red-handed scripting tales of pure fiction in order to justify the war on terror, notably in the cases of Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman, why on earth should we believe them now?
10) Despite the fact that Obama announced last Sunday on live television that the world was now "safer" because Bin Laden was dead, his administration, with the aid of the fearmongering mass media, instantly seized upon the situation to terrify Americans into being afraid of imminent "reprisal" terror attacks inside the United States, later claiming that Bin Laden had formulated an "aspirational rather than operational" plan to derail US trains that travel over 500mph, although no trains in the US can actually travel at such speeds. This led "terror experts" to salivate over how TSA agents were now needed in shopping malls to stick their hands down Americans' pants, while New York Senator Chuckie Schumer called for the no fly list to be expanded to trains and subways. Obama hurried to ground zero for a photo op as he desperately tried to use the Bin Laden hoax to whip up phony patriotism as a means of boosting his flagging poll numbers. Others, like Democrat Bill Richardson, exploited the situation to try and push through policies that had no connection to Bin Laden or terrorism at all, like cap and trade. The haste with which the whole Bin Laden fable was exploited for political points scoring and as a psychological ploy to return Americans to a post-9/11 state of intellectual castration was painfully transparent, clearly suggesting that the entire farce was planned well in advance to achieve precisely those goals in the run up to 2012.
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media
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Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Photograph: Wally McNamee/Corbis
Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should 'fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can't control'
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Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.
It doesn't take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist".
He is angry about the timidity of journalists in America, their failure to challenge the White House and be an unpopular messenger of truth.
Don't even get him started on the New York Times which, he says, spends "so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would" – or the death of Osama bin Laden. "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true," he says of the dramatic US Navy Seals raid in 2011 [see footnote].
Hersh is writing a book about national security and has devoted a chapter to the bin Laden killing. He says a recent report put out by an "independent" Pakistani commission about life in the Abottabad compound in which Bin Laden was holed up would not stand up to scrutiny. "The Pakistanis put out a report, don't get me going on it. Let's put it this way, it was done with considerable American input. It's a bullshit report," he says hinting of revelations to come in his book.
The Obama administration lies systematically, he claims, yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles, challenge him.
"It's pathetic, they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to pick on this guy [Obama]," he declares in an interview with the Guardian.
"It used to be when you were in a situation when something very dramatic happened, the president and the minions around the president had control of the narrative, you would pretty much know they would do the best they could to tell the story straight. Now that doesn't happen any more. Now they take advantage of something like that and they work out how to re-elect the president.
He isn't even sure if the recent revelations about the depth and breadth of surveillance by the National Security Agency will have a lasting effect.
Snowden changed the debate on surveillanceHe is certain that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden "changed the whole nature of the debate" about surveillance. Hersh says he and other journalists had written about surveillance, but Snowden was significant because he provided documentary evidence – although he is sceptical about whether the revelations will change the US government's policy.
"Duncan Campbell [the British investigative journalist who broke the Zircon cover-up story], James Bamford [US journalist] and Julian Assange and me and the New Yorker, we've all written the notion there's constant surveillance, but he [Snowden] produced a document and that changed the whole nature of the debate, it's real now," Hersh says.
"Editors love documents. Chicken-shit editors who wouldn't touch stories like that, they love documents, so he changed the whole ball game," he adds, before qualifying his remarks.
"But I don't know if it's going to mean anything in the long [run] because the polls I see in America – the president can still say to voters 'al-Qaida, al-Qaida' and the public will vote two to one for this kind of surveillance, which is so idiotic," he says.
Holding court to a packed audience at City University in London's summer school on investigative journalism, 76-year-old Hersh is on full throttle, a whirlwind of amazing stories of how journalism used to be; how he exposed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, how he got the Abu Ghraib pictures of American soldiers brutalising Iraqi prisoners, and what he thinks of Edward Snowden.
Hope of redemptionDespite his concern about the timidity of journalism he believes the trade still offers hope of redemption.
"I have this sort of heuristic view that journalism, we possibly offer hope because the world is clearly run by total nincompoops more than ever ... Not that journalism is always wonderful, it's not, but at least we offer some way out, some integrity."
His story of how he uncovered the My Lai atrocity is one of old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism and doggedness. Back in 1969, he got a tip about a 26-year-old platoon leader, William Calley, who had been charged by the army with alleged mass murder.
Instead of picking up the phone to a press officer, he got into his car and started looking for him in the army camp of Fort Benning in Georgia, where he heard he had been detained. From door to door he searched the vast compound, sometimes blagging his way, marching up to the reception, slamming his fist on the table and shouting: "Sergeant, I want Calley out now."
Eventually his efforts paid off with his first story appearing in the St Louis Post-Despatch, which was then syndicated across America and eventually earned him the Pulitzer Prize. "I did five stories. I charged $100 for the first, by the end the [London] Times were paying $5,000."
He was hired by the New York Times to follow up the Watergate scandal and ended up hounding Nixon over Cambodia. Almost 30 years later, Hersh made global headlines all over again with his exposure of the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
Put in the hoursFor students of journalism his message is put the miles and the hours in. He knew about Abu Ghraib five months before he could write about it, having been tipped off by a senior Iraqi army officer who risked his own life by coming out of Baghdad to Damascus to tell him how prisoners had been writing to their families asking them to come and kill them because they had been "despoiled".
"I went five months looking for a document, because without a document, there's nothing there, it doesn't go anywhere."
Hersh returns to US president Barack Obama. He has said before that the confidence of the US press to challenge the US government collapsed post 9/11, but he is adamant that Obama is worse than Bush.
"Do you think Obama's been judged by any rational standards? Has Guantanamo closed? Is a war over? Is anyone paying any attention to Iraq? Is he seriously talking about going into Syria? We are not doing so well in the 80 wars we are in right now, what the hell does he want to go into another one for. What's going on [with journalists]?" he asks.
He says investigative journalism in the US is being killed by the crisis of confidence, lack of resources and a misguided notion of what the job entails.
"Too much of it seems to me is looking for prizes. It's journalism looking for the Pulitzer Prize," he adds. "It's a packaged journalism, so you pick a target like – I don't mean to diminish because anyone who does it works hard – but are railway crossings safe and stuff like that, that's a serious issue but there are other issues too.
"Like killing people, how does [Obama] get away with the drone programme, why aren't we doing more? How does he justify it? What's the intelligence? Why don't we find out how good or bad this policy is? Why do newspapers constantly cite the two or three groups that monitor drone killings. Why don't we do our own work?
"Our job is to find out ourselves, our job is not just to say – here's a debate' our job is to go beyond the debate and find out who's right and who's wrong about issues. That doesn't happen enough. It costs money, it costs time, it jeopardises, it raises risks. There are some people – the New York Times still has investigative journalists but they do much more of carrying water for the president than I ever thought they would ... it's like you don't dare be an outsider any more."
He says in some ways President George Bush's administration was easier to write about. "The Bush era, I felt it was much easier to be critical than it is [of] Obama. Much more difficult in the Obama era," he said.
Asked what the solution is Hersh warms to his theme that most editors are pusillanimous and should be fired.
"I'll tell you the solution, get rid of 90% of the editors that now exist and start promoting editors that you can't control," he says. I saw it in the New York Times, I see people who get promoted are the ones on the desk who are more amenable to the publisher and what the senior editors want and the trouble makers don't get promoted. Start promoting better people who look you in the eye and say 'I don't care what you say'.
Nor does he understand why the Washington Post held back on the Snowden files until it learned the Guardian was about to publish.
If Hersh was in charge of US Media Inc, his scorched earth policy wouldn't stop with newspapers.
"I would close down the news bureaus of the networks and let's start all over, tabula rasa. The majors, NBCs, ABCs, they won't like this – just do something different, do something that gets people mad at you, that's what we're supposed to be doing," he says.
Hersh is currently on a break from reporting, working on a book which undoubtedly will make for uncomfortable reading for both Bush and Obama.
"The republic's in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple." And he implores journalists to do something about it.•
This article was amended on 1 October 2013. The original text stated that Hersh sold a story about the My Lai massacre to the New York Times for $5,000 when in fact it was the Times of London. Hersh has pointed out that he was in no way suggesting that Osama bin Laden was not killed in Pakistan, as reported, upon the president's authority: he was saying that it was in the aftermath that the lying began. Finally, the interview took place in the month of July, 2013.
US shutdowns – a short history
This is the first shutdown of the 21st century, but it happened 18 times between 1976 and 1996
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This picture of Lewinsky and Clinton was taken on 17 November 1995, during another US shutdown. Photograph: AP
The US government has gone into shutdown after the failure to approve funding for the next financial year. Nonessential services will be closed and 800,000 federal employees will not be allowed to work – but while this is the first shutdown of the 21st century, it is far from unprecedented. Here is what has happened in the past:
1996 – Clinton v Republicans
There have been 18 shutdowns since 1976 (pdf), but none for 17 years until Monday's midnight deadline to extend Congressional spending authority passed with no agreement. The last occasion was when Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled House halted services for a total of 21 days. It began in November 1995, a temporary spending bill was enacted, but then the shutdown restarted in mid-December and ran into 1996. The first shutdown resulted in 800,000 workers eventually getting paid for staying home and the second led to 280,000 workers left idle for three weeks. The Republicans took a drubbing in the polls and ended up accepting most of Clinton's conditions, making the president the adjudged winner of the tussle, even if the image of government as a whole suffered. A historic footnote is that the second day of the initial shutdown – 15 November 1995 – was when Monica Lewinsky said she began a sexual relationship with Clinton.
1981-1990 – short shutdowns
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Reagan
During Ronald Reagan's two terms he regularly argued with congressional Democrats to the brink of shutdown. The first occasion was in November 1981, nine months after he entered office. With Congress having approved emergency spending to keep the government running, Reagan wielded his first veto, making a stand against "budget-busting policies". Federal workers were streaming out of offices in Washington and across the nation but it lasted only hours as Congress approved a three-week spending extension that was more to the president's liking. The estimated cost of the shutdown was more than $80m. Workers were sent home for half a day twice more during his presidency. George Bush used the tactic once, during the budget wrangling that punctured his "no new taxes" pledge, leading to a partial shutdown over the 1990 Columbus Day weekend.
1980 – Carter and his attorney general
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Carter: Dirck Halstead/Getty When Jimmy Carter asked his attorney general for legal advice, Benjamin Civiletti told the president that government employees could not work for free or with the expectation that they would be paid at some undefined point in the future, despite a "look-the-other-way" system having worked for decades. Civiletti went further, declaring that any agency chief who broke the law would be prosecuted. When five days later funding for the Federal Trade Commission expired amid a congressional disagreement over limiting the agency's powers, the FTC halted operations, cancelling court dates and meetings and sending 1,600 workers packing, apparently the first agency ever closed by a budget dispute. Embarrassed, Congress made a quick fix and the FTC reopened the next day. The estimated cost of the brouhaha was $700,000.
Carter, forever stymied by his own party in Congress, ordered the whole government to be ready to shut down when the budget year ended on 1 October 1980, in case the deadline for appropriations bills was missed. It almost happened. Funding for many agencies did expire, but just for a few hours, and nobody was sent home. Civiletti later clarified that in a government-wide shutdown, the military, air traffic control, prisons and other work that protects human safety or property would continue. So would things such as social security benefits, which Congress has financed indefinitely.
Earlier 1900s – a time before full shutdowns
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Congress routinely failed to pass most of each year's dozen or so appropriations bills on time, with agencies sometimes going a full year without a budget. Usually it would be smoothed over with a short-term money approval, called a continuing resolution. Even when these got delayed due to wrangling, government agencies did not shut down. Agency chiefs might delay workers' pay and put items such as travel and new contracts on hold but they assumed Congress did not want them to turn off the lights and go home. Eventually a spending bill would be passed that retroactively papered over the funding gap.
Meet Maine 's New Governor --- In case you haven't heard about this guy before, his name will stick in your mind! The new Maine Governor, Paul LePage is making New Jersey 's Chris Christie look timid. He isn't afraid to say what he thinks. Judging by the comments, every time he opens his mouth, his popularity goes up.
He brought down the house at his inauguration when he shook his fist toward the media box and said, "You're on notice! I've inherited a financially troubled State to run. Observe...cover what we do...but don't whine if I don't waste time responding to your every whim just for your amusement."
During his campaign for Governor, he was talking to commercial fishermen who are struggling because of federal fisheries rules. They complained that 0bama brought his family to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park for a long Labor Day holiday and found time to meet with union leaders, but wouldn't talk to the fishermen. LePage replied, "I'd tell him to go to hell and get out of my State." The Lame Stream Media crucified LePage, but he jumped 6 points in the pre-election poll.
The Martin Luther King incident was a political sandbag, which brought him national exposure. The 'lame stream' media crucified him, but word on the street is very positive. The NAACP specifically asked LePage to spend MLK Day visiting black inmates at the Maine State Prison. He told them that he would meet with ALL inmates, regardless of race, if he were to visit the prison. The NAACP balked and then put out a news release claiming falsely that he refused to participate in any MLK events. He read it in the paper for the 1st time the next morning while being driven to an event and went ballistic because none of the reporters had called him for comment before running the NAACP release.
He arrived at that event & said in front of a TV camera, "If they want to play the race card on me they can kiss my ass", and he reminded them that he has an adopted black son from Jamaica and that he attended the local MLK Breakfast every year that he was mayor of Waterville. (He started his morning there on MLK Day.)
He then stated that there's a right way and a wrong way to meet with the Governor, and he put all special interests on notice that press releases, media leaks, and all demonstrations would prove to be the wrong way. He said any other group, which acted like the NAACP could expect to be at the bottom of the Governor's priority list!
He then did the following, and judging from local radio talk show callers, his popularity increased even more: The State employees union complained because he waited until 3 P.M. before closing State offices and facilities and sending non-emergency personnel home during the last blizzard. The prior Governor would often close offices for the day with just a forecast before the first flakes. (Each time the State closes for snow, it costs the taxpayers about $1 million in wages for no work in return.)
LePage was CEO of the Marden's chain of discount family bargain retail stores before election as governor. He noted that State employees getting off work early could still find lots of retail stores open to shop. So, he put the State employees on notice by announcing: "If Marden's is open, Maine is open!"
He told State employees: "We live in Maine in the winter, for heaven's sake, and should know how to drive in it. Otherwise, apply for a State job in Florida !" Governor LePage symbolizes what America needs; Refreshing politicians who aren't self-serving and who exhibit common sense.
THE LAW IS THE LAW!
I really love this one.
This is one of the better e-mails I have received in a long time! I hope this makes its way around the USA several times over!!!!! HERE IS WHAT Governor LaPage said,
"THE LAW IS THE LAW So "if" the US government determines that it is against the law for the words "under God" to be on our money, then, so be it.
And "if" that same government decides that the "Ten Commandments" are not to be used in or on a government installation, then, so be it.
I say, "so be it," because I would like to be a law abiding US citizen
I say, "so be it," because I would like to think that smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions.
I would like to think that those people have the American public's best interests at heart.
BUT, he said, "YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I'D LIKE?
Since we can't pray to God, can't Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments in Government buildings, I don't believe Government (Federal, State and Local) and its employees should participate in Easter and Christmas celebrations which honor the God that our government is eliminating from many facets of American life.
I'd like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter. After all, it's just another day.
I'd like the" US Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter as well as Sundays." After all, it's just another day.
I'd like the Senate and the House of Representatives to not have to worry about getting home for the "Christmas Break." After all it's just another day.
I'm thinking a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices & services would work on Christmas, Good Friday & Easter. It shouldn't cost any overtime since those would be just like any other day of the week to a government that is trying to be "politically correct."
In fact....I think our government should work on Sundays (AFTER ALL, It was initially set aside for worshipping God....) because, AFTER ALL, our government says that it should be Just ANOTHER DAY...."
What do you all think???? If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected officials will stop giving in to the "minority opinions" and begin, once again, to represent the "majority" of ALL of the American people.
SO BE IT...........Please Dear Lord, Give us the help needed to keep you in our country! 'Amen' and 'Amen' Touché!
If this gets around the country a few times, I believe we all will see a better day!
Arizona police officer asked not to wear uniform at daughter's school
Published October 03, 2013 / FoxNews.com
A police officer who dropped off his daughter at her Phoenix elementary school was asked by the school's principal not to wear his uniform to the school because other parents were concerned that he was carrying a gun, (No pop tart guns, no gun key chains, no finger guns, now not even police officers in uniform because they somehow pose some existential threat. People... this crap is getting sicker and sicker. It is my understanding that over half the children at this school knew Officer Urkov. We need to fight back against this type of progressive thinking!)
MyFoxPhoenix.com reported.http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/03/arizona-police-officer-asked-not-to-wear-uniform-at-daughters-school/
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The department told him not to comment to media inquiries, but immediately after he received the no-uniform request, he posted on Facebook.
"Nothing like your kids school calling and asking if I could not come to pick up my daughter in uniform cause parents were concerned when their kids came home telling them there was a man at school with a gun, " he posted. "Are you freaking kidding me?"
His daughter attends Entz Elementary School, which is in the Mesa Unified School District.
A district spokeswoman told the station that "some parents" voiced concern about seeing a fully armed police officer on the school's campus. The spokeswoman apologized that Urkov perhaps took the discussion the wrong way.
"It was not the intent of the principal to offend him," the spokeswoman said.
"Well I was a little surprised," said parent Blaine Spencer. "I think that it's his right to wear that in public. Even if my kids saw that I think they'd feel more protected to see a man in uniform at their school."
Meanwhile, school officials' initial reaction was to ask the officer not to wear his gun and uniform to school, they are now saying they want to turn this incident into "a teachable moment."
They invited the officer to a special assembly to talk about what police officers do for the community.
National Park Service Blocks Parking Lots at George Washington's Mt. Vernon Estate – Removes Barricades After Estate Officials Point Out 'Mistake'
Via The Blaze:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/03/national-park-service-blocks-parking-lots-at-george-washingtons-mt-vernon-estate-removes-barricades-after-estate-officials-point-out-mistake/
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Obama: "Tea Party Extremists" Closed Lady Liberty
(Or something to that effect)
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(https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/3221742532/5ceae8f2b72a1a8b012d2f5960fb46be_normal.jpeg) Barack Obama✔ @BarackObama Tea Party extremists caused this #BoehnerShutdown. Tell @SpeakerBoehner to end it now: http://OFA.BO/9cFiuk
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Reports Emerge of Syrian Jihadist Rebels Massacre of Alawites:
Baby's Head Hanging From Tree,
Woman Sliced In Half With Each Half Hung From Separate Trees
(All in the name of F***ing Allah)
Obuma-backed killers of Babies & Women
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Jabhat al-Nusra fighter: the rebels' aim was to send the government a message that even the Alawite heartland was no longer safe.
Via Guardian:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/02/syria-massacre-reports-alawites-assad
For more than two years, as fighting has escalated throughout Syria, a group of villages peopled by government supporters in the mountains above this coastal city has been spared any attacks.
In spite of their proximity to the Turkish border, across which rebel fighters are armed and financed, farmers continued their lives as normal, even though as Alawites allied to the Shia sect to which President Bashar al-Assad belongs they could have been obvious targets.
At dawn on 4 August their peace was shattered. Armed rebels, led by local jihadis as well as members of Jabhat al-Nusra and the al-Qaida linked group, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, left their headquarters in the largely Sunni town of Salma. They sneaked into the al-Akrad mountains, taking control of five Alawite villages. The rebels called it Operation Liberation of the Coast and the aim was to send the government a message that even the Alawite heartland was no longer safe. [...]
The Syrian army has not allowed foreign reporters into the Alawite villages to check the massacre reports, but in Latakia city the Guardian spoke to three officers who took part in recapturing the villages. Each was interviewed in separate locations. Two were relaxing off-duty in beach-front hotels and villas. They spoke of executions and other atrocities.
"The attacks started with treachery," said Hassan, an officer in Syria's special forces. "There was a unit of 40 troops. A Sunni defected from it and took 30 other Sunnis with him. A few days later they were part of the attack that started with the village of Hambushiya. The 10 Alawite troops left behind in the area were killed." Hassan said he could listen to the rebel's radio communications. "I heard a rebel telling another rebel: 'Kill this one, but not that one' . One rebel asked: 'What do I do about the girls?' The answer came: 'I'm sending a truck to pick them up'. Several were taken and raped, and have not been seen again," he said.
"They kidnapped Sheikh Badr Ghazal and stripped girls and the sheikh to humiliate him. The sheikh was then killed. Rebels videoed the events and we found the pictures on the mobiles of dead rebels when we retook the villages. They have not been shown on Syrian TV or media because they are too distressing."
Shadi, a 32-year-old officer in a local defence unit that is separate from the Syrian army, was lightly wounded during the government's counter-attack.
"When we got into the village of Balouta I saw a baby's head hanging from a tree. There was a woman's body which had been sliced in half from head to toe and each half was hanging from separate apple trees. It made me feel I wanted to do something wild," he recalled.
Ali, a member of the regular army, said he also saw the baby's head. "We found two mass graves with 140 bodies. They were not shot. They had their throats slit. About 105 people of different ages were kidnapped," he said. "It's really scary what happened. Nobody has gone home to the villages because so much has been destroyed and many houses have been burnt. The whole area is unusable. Salafists from abroad were behind the attack."
Arab Group Demands 9/11 Memorial Brochures Be Printed In Arabic
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(Hey, it's not like the hijackers were speaking Arabic as they crashed their planes into the towers. The 9/11 Memorial is giving tourists brochures in at least 10 languages... just not Arabic. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is firing off letters to memorial honchos demanding answers on why they didn't include the world's fourth-most-spoken language. "Our fear is that there is a political intention behind the exclusion," said Raed Jarrar, the ADC's director of communications and advocacy. The memorial said there aren't enough Arabic-speaking visitors to justify printing tourism materials in the language)Via NY Posthttp://nypost.com/2013/09/14/muslim-activists-want-911-memorial-to-provide-tourist-brochures-in-arabic/
The 9/11 Memorial is giving tourists brochures in at least 10 languages — just not Arabic.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is firing off letters to memorial honchos demanding answers on why they didn't include the world's fourth-most-spoken language.
"Our fear is that there is a political intention behind the exclusion," said Raed Jarrar, the ADC's director of communications and advocacy.
The memorial said there aren't enough Arabic-speaking visitors to justify printing tourism materials in the language.
The memorial said, "Nine languages are spoken by over 97 percent of our visitors: English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, Italian, Japanese and Russian."
"As Arabic-speaking visitors currently represent our 25th-largest group, Arabic translations are not yet among the initial foreign language editions."
Gallup: Obama's Approval Rating Tumbles To 41%
No doubt partially due to his refusal to negotiate with Republicans about reopening the government.Via Gallup:(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2013-10-04-at-4.17.43-PM-550x336.png)
Military Chaplains Threatened With Arrest If They
Celebrate Mass On Bases During Shutdown
(Mind boggling to think a priest could be arrested simply for holding mass)
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Via Daily Caller:In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown.
"With the government shutdown, many [government service] and contract priests who minister to Catholics on military bases worldwide are not permitted to work – not even to volunteer," wrote John Schlageter, the general counsel for the Archdiocese for the Military Services USA, in an op-ed this week. "During the shutdown, it is illegal for them to minister on base and they risk being arrested if they attempt to do so."
According to its website, the Archdiocese for the Military Services "provides the Catholic Church's full range of pastoral ministries and spiritual services to those in the United States Armed Forces."
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Reuters Asks Staff If They Are "Intersex," "Transsexual," "Genderqueer," "Male-To-Female"
Please choose the category that best describes your gender identity. (Gender identity, as defined by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), refers to a person's innate, deeply felt psychological identification as male or female, which may or may not correspond to the person's body or designated sex at birth. The categories the HRC uses are listed below).
Male
Female
Transgender
Genderqueer/Androgynous
Intersex
Transsexual
FTM (female-to-male)
MTF (male-to-female)
Prefer not to say(This must please the celebrate diversity crowd)
Via Washington Secrets:
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The 60,000-strong Thomson Reuters media empire, in an effort to determine its diversity success, is asking its staff of reporters, researchers, marketers and others to pick their sex from nine choices, including "genderqueer," a category for identities other than man or woman.
According to the company's annual employee survey, choosing a sexual identity doesn't have to be based on a worker's actual sex, but instead "a person's innate, deeply felt psychological identification."
The survey is part of the mega-media company's effort to chart its progress in becoming a more diverse international corporation.
"It enables us to get a good sense of the demographic of our employee population," said London-based Thomson Reuters spokeswoman Jocelyn Betts.
Readers Meet Chad, The New Julia
It tarted with this....
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Which lead to this....
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Which caused people to look further into his relationships...
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So now Chad is sad because people are calling him a liar...
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And now papers are retracting that he ever bought Insurance, tried to participate in Obamacare and that he's just an OFA shill.
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What a mess!!!
Father of Obamacare Success Story Chad Henderson Says His Son Didn't Sign Up For Obamacare –
Update: Chad Henderson Confirms He Did Not Buy Insurance Through Obamacare
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Oh boy.Via Reason:http://reason.com/archives/2013/10/04/obamacare-chad-henderson-father
Chad Henderson is the media's poster boy for Obamacare. Reporters struggled this week to find individuals who said they had been able to enroll in one of the law's 36 federally run health-insurance exchanges.
That changed yesterday, when they found Henderson, a 21-year-old student and part-time child-care worker who lives in Georgia and says that he successfully enrolled himself and his father Bill in insurance plans via the online exchange administered at healthcare.gov.
But in an exclusive phone interview this morning with Reason, Chad father's Bill contradicted virtually every major detail of the story the media can't get enough of. What's more, some of the details that Chad has released are also at odds with published rate schedules and how Obamacare officials say the enrollment system works.
The coverage of Chad Henderson has been massive. He was featured in The Washington Post Thursday as "the Obamacare enrollee that tons of reporters are calling." He was also profiled in The Huffington Post as someone who "beat the glitches to sign up for Obamacare." He was interviewed by Politico, multiple local news organizations, and, according to his Facebook feed, was asked to be part of a conference call hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services.
[...]But details of Chad's story proved difficult to verify. And in a phone interview conducted this morning, Chad's father Bill contradicted major details of Chad's story. I reached Bill Henderson by following a series of links at Chad's Facebook page, through which I was able to speak directly to the father.
Bill Henderson told me that both he and his son were interested in getting coverage, but that they had not enrolled in any plan yet, and to his knowledge, neither had his son. He also said that when they do enroll, getting the most coverage for the least money would be the goal, and that he expects that he and his son will get coverage under the same plan.
Bill told me that Chad had been looking into plans online. "He told me that there's different plans. And we haven't decided which plans to enroll in yet."
Update: LOL!Is Obamacare's celebrity enrollee actually signed up?
Either somebody is lying, or the Henderson family needs to work on its communication skills.
Washington Post @washingtonpost Chad Henderson's claiming he didn't lie because he never said he bought health insurance through the exchange. That is a lie:(HuffPo) — The Hendersons are getting a lot of attention right now as one of the few people who have publicly identified themselves as having signed up for Obamacare. The Wall Street Journal has contacted him, Chad claims, and the Washington Post featured him in a blog post Thursday. The Huffington Post contacted him via Twitter late Wednesday. Chad volunteered for President Barack Obama's reelection campaign last year.
The Hendersons, who are among 48 million uninsured in the U.S., had to stay motivated — and awake — to finish applying for coverage, Chad said. About 45 minutes after creating an account on the website, Chad chose separate "bronze" plans for himself and his father. Bronze health insurance plans typically have the lowest premiums but the highest out-of-pocket costs, like deductibles and co-payments, meaning patients have to pay more when they receive medical care. The exchanges are intended for the uninsured and for those who buy their own health insurance rather than for those who get it through their employers.
"Once I created an account, there were hardly any glitches at all after that," Chad said, likening the shopping experience to comparing cell phones on Verizon's website.
The Hendersons could have opted for a single plan for both of them, because the health law allows young adults to stay on a parent's health insurance until they turn 26, but Bill Henderson thought his son should buy his own. "He's old school, so he wants me to take responsibility," Chad said.
So Chad will pay the full sticker price for his insurance, which is $175 a month, while his father will receive tax credits to cut the cost of his down to $250 a month. Tax credits are available to people who earn between the poverty level and four times that amount, or about $46,000 for a single person.
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This is why ObuttHead is an a**hole. The little boy-king is filled with spite and malice. He hates the American people, and that isn't too strong a word to use:
Angry Park Ranger Admits They Were Told To
"Make Life As Difficult For People As We Can"
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We have already seen, in multiple cases, a clear effort by the Obama administration to use the National Park Service to inflict public pain.
From the effort to block off Mount Vernon, which is run by private funds, to actually spending more money and manpower to shut off open air memorials, the administration has made it clear the effort in shutting these things down is not about saving money, but about using these actions to make a political point.
A senior administration official actually fluffed off the shutdown, noting that "they were winning" so they didn't care about the shutdown (or who it might hurt).
Now the Washington Times is actually reporting an angry park ranger says park rangers were specifically told to "make life as difficult for people as we can".
How much lower can the Obama pettiness go?
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/3/pruden-the-cheap-tricks-of-the-game/
Obama Just Played His Big 'Trump Card' On The Debt Ceiling
Early Thursday morning, Potomac Research Group analyst Greg Valliere predicted that if the debt-ceiling deadline grew closer, President Barack Obama would play his "trump card" in the debate. He would remind seniors that if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling, seniors wouldn't get their Social Security checks.
"GOP strategists like Karl Rove surely know that it's just a matter of time before President Obama throws a game-changer — warning senior citizens that their Social Security checks won't be mailed because of John Boehner," Valliere wrote in a note to clients.
A few hours later, Obama did just that during a speech at M. Luis Construction Company in Rockville, Md. He spent much of the speech warning that while the ongoing government shutdown was damaging, failure to raise the debt ceiling by an Oct. 17 deadline would be even worse.
"In a government shutdown, Social Security checks still go out on time. In an economic shutdown — if we don't raise the debt ceiling — they don't go out on time," Obama said. "In a government shutdown, disability benefits still arrive on time. In an economic shutdown, they don't."
Earlier on Thursday, the Treasury Department warned in a big report that breaching the debt ceiling could inflict economic calamity "more severe than any seen since the Great Depression."
"The United States has never defaulted on its obligations, and the U.S. Dollar and Treasury securities are at the center of the international financial system," the report said.
"A default would be unprecedented and has the potential to be catastrophic: credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plummet, U.S. Interest rates could skyrocket, the negative spillovers could reverberate around the world, and there might be a financial crisis and recession that could echo the events of 2008 or worse."
The Treasury says that the debt ceiling needs to be raised by Oct. 17 to avoid potential default on some U.S. Obligations. After that date, the Treasury would have only approximately $30 billion to meet all of its commitments. On some days, expenditures can go as high as $60 billion.
Obama says that he won't negotiate over raising the debt ceiling, calling it Congress' responsibility. House Republicans, meanwhile, have looked to extract some kind of concession out of Obama in exchange for a debt-ceiling hike.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-debt-ceiling-social-security-boehner-deadline-default-government-shutdown-2013-10#ixzz2goWw8fpq
Americans Getting Through Obamacare Website Are Howling Over
Premiums That Are Double The Private Market
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Friday, October 4, 2013Some Americans who have actually been lucky
[or unlucky as it has proved] enough to access the Obamacare website are now seeing the grass is not greener on the Obamacare side. It took one man 36 hours and 21 attempts to access the website and purchase a plan. The Obamacare Facebook page is filled with complaints about the high cost of insurance premiums. Some people shopping for new insurance coverage discovered that
the plans Obamacare offers cost almost twice as much and covers less than the plan they currently have.Breitbart.com reported:http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/03/Obamacare-Facebook-Erupts-With-Citizen-Sticker-Shock
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...NOT!
"I am so disappointed," wrote one woman. "These prices are outrageous and there are huge deductibles. No one can afford this!" The comment received 169 "likes."
"There is NO WAY I can afford it," said one commenter after using the Kaiser Subsidy Calculator. "Heck right now I couldn't afford an extra 10$ [sic] a month...and oh apparently I make to [sic] much at 8.55/hour to get subsidies."
Another person shared a link found on the federal government's main Obamacare page listing premium estimates for small business employers:
The information is not very complete as I don't see anything about deductible or other detailed info, but it does given an actual price as to the "Premium." It is VERY SCARY!! For example, my insurance plan right now for my spouse and I costs $545 a month with 100% coverage after my $2500 deductible. We are both 32 years old. When I looked at this site for 80% coverage it says it will be $954.78 a month!!!! So compare my old Plan: 100% coverage for $545 a month To New Plan: 80% Coverage for $945 a month. This is only only an estimate but it is VERY Scary for me to see this kind of increase in rates and reduction in benefits!
A single mother of two said she is in school and working full-time while living "75% below the poverty level." She said she was shocked to learn she did not qualify for a healthcare subsidy. "Are you F'ing kidding me????" she wrote on the government's Obamacare Facebook page. "Where the HELL am I supposed to get $3,000 more a year to pay for this 'bronze' health insurance plan!?!??? And I DO NOT EVEN WANT INSURANCE to begin with!! This is frightening," she wrote.Washington Times has more on the Un-Affordable Care Act:(http://media.washtimes.com/media/community/viewpoint/entry/2013/10/04/Real_Comments-Changed_s640x427.png?73b8e21685896c3f2859310aaa5adb253919b641)
WASHINGTON, October 4, 2013 — Not only is Obamacare unpopular with the general public, but it also is losing favor among the very people it's supposed to help. The White House has difficulty getting the uninsured to buy Obamacare not merely because the government website is bad, but mostly because the product is bad. It's overpriced.Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ernest-istook-knowing-inside/2013/oct/4/obamacare-has-become-un-affordable-care-act/#ixzz2goi7hJnJ
Oooops... MSN Modifies Its Poll Which Revealed No One Wants
To Sign Up For Obumacare
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Notice anything odd about the poll? There appears to be no option if you have no desire to sign up for Obamacare-only yes, yes but it was a bad experience, and no but I plan to.
Seems an odd poll, that.
In fact, MSN was running a more expansive poll at least as late as Tuesday, with a fourth option, "No and I won't until I absolutely have to". That option, which had the lionshare of the votes, at 80% when the screenshot was taken, has since been eliminated from the poll. Screenshot courtesy of 2AAdvocate:(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/Screen-Shot-2013-10-04-at-9.29.32-PM.png)
Wonder if this poll will stay up or be changed?
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It Begins. Man Sets Himself on Fire at National Mall
Friday, October 4, 2013, 8:34 PM
It's that bad.
A man set himself on fire today at the National Mall today
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A chopper airlifts a man from the National Mall who lit himself on fire
NBC-DC reported:Park Police officials tell NBC Washington a man may have set himself on fire at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Friday afternoon.
The incident was reported around 4:30 p.m. at the corner of Jefferson Drive and 7th Street SW, near the Air and Space Museum.
Witnesses told NBC Washington's Mark Segraves they saw a man pouring gasoline on himself, then possibly setting himself on fire. Several joggers nearby ripped their shirts off in an attempt to subdue the flames.
The man was airlifted to MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where he is in critical condition.
The incident comes a day after Capitol Police shot and killed an unarmed woman following a high-speed chase that started outside the White House, where she had tried to ram a gate with her car.
In Tunisia a street vendor set himself on fire in 2010 due to the economy
starting the Arab Spring protests.
FAIL. Obumacare Website Shut Down
After First Disastrous Week
Friday, October 4, 2013, 7:23 PM
It's just a glitch. The federal government shut down the Obamacare website after only one week of operations. The website will be down for at least the weekend.
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(If the stories I've heard today are true, then those who did manage to get through and enter all their personal data have just become potential victims of identity theft since the site is easily hacked. Haven't had time to research this, but I think it's funny and hope it's true. If you're willing to sign up Obumacare, you deserve having your identity stolen.)Bloomberg reported:Bedeviled by technology glitches that frustrated millions of consumers, the Obama administration is taking down its health overhaul website for repairs this weekend.
Enrollment functions of the healthcare.gov site will be unavailable during off-peak hours, the Health and Human Services Department said Friday. The department did not release a schedule for hours of operation, but an HHS spokeswoman said the site would be taken down at 1 a.m. EDT each night for a few hours.
Wolf Blitzer Calls Shutting Down Obamacare Website For Weekend For Repair "A Huge Embarrassment"
Blitzer sarcastically notes the administration has "only had three years" to get ready and get it right for the roll-out.
Obuma Instructs All Federal Workers To
'Make Life As Difficult For Americans As They Can'
October 04, 2013CHICAGO MOB BOSS Barack "Stick It To 'Um" Obuma
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Our [POS] President has no morals. With great ease, Obama and his Democratic minions are issuing orders to their public worker soldiers to make the lives of every American as torturously difficult as possible...to score cheap political points against the GOP "faction." A Park Service ranger spoke out against what he called "disgusting" tactics.
"It's a cheap way to deal with the situation," an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. "We've been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It's disgusting."
The Washington Times reports:The games politicians play: Barack Obama is having a lot of fun using the government shutdown to squeeze the public in imaginative ways. The point of the shutdown game is to see who can squeeze hardest, make the most pious speech and listen for the applause. It's a variation on the grade-school ritual of "you show me yours, and I'll show you mine."
President Obama is not a bad poker player, but the man with all the chips always starts with the advantage (and he gets all the aces). He has closed Washington down as tight as he dares, emphasizing the trivial and the petty in making life as inconvenient as he can for the greatest number. It's all in a noble cause, of course. Access to most of the memorials is limited, and often in curious ways. The Lincoln Memorial is easy to reach, with the streets around it remaining open. But the Martin Luther King Memorial is made difficult to reach, relegating it, you might say, to the back of the bus. Not very nice.
The Park Service appears to be closing streets on mere whim and caprice. The rangers even closed the parking lot at Mount Vernon, where the plantation home of George Washington is a favorite tourist destination. That was after they barred the new World War II Memorial on the Mall to veterans of World War II. But the government does not own Mount Vernon; it is privately owned by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. The ladies bought it years ago to preserve it as a national memorial. The feds closed access to the parking lots this week, even though the lots are jointly owned with the Mount Vernon ladies. The rangers are from the government, and they're only here to help.
"It's a cheap way to deal with the situation," an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. "We've been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It's disgusting."The Republicans, fighting with smaller-bore weaponry, keep trying to get some things reopened with carefully targeted legislation. The Senate, under the thumbs of Sen. Harry Reid and the White House, refuses to budge from the trivial and the petty. It says here that Harry Reid's critics, and they are legion, should give the guy a break. No man in Washington is under the pressure he is, and it doesn't seem quite cricket to do that to an old man, even one who deserves it.
Harry is at the breaking point, weary from exhausting his thesaurus for synonyms for "arsonist" and "terrorist" and "pillager." Everyone could see the cracks in his exchange with Dana Bash, a reporter for CNN, who asked why, if he is concerned about children with cancer who are unable to enter clinical trials for new drugs because Mr. Obama shut down the National Institutes of Health, why stifle Republican attempts to grant a little relief?
"If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?" the reporter asked.
"Why would we want to do that?" Mr. Reid snapped back. "I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own. This is — to have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a thing maybe means you're irresponsible and reckless."
Over the next two days, Mr. Reid tried to take back, change, adjust and recalibrate his remarks. It's all John Boehner's fault. The senator cares not just about the National Institutes of Health, but the Centers for Disease Control, too. The senator likes babies. In fact, he's quite a stud. And he thinks Dana Bash is "a fine reporter."
"Listen, I gave a speech on the [Senate] floor, talking about babies, 30 babies. I have 16 of my own grandchildren, and five children." So suffer the little children, and they will inherit the kingdom of heaven; they just can't come unto the Senate while Harry stands in the door. (If what happens in Las Vegas is supposed to stay in Las Vegas, how did Harry get out?)
"Dirty"Harry Reid's black heart has, also, been revealed this week. On the list of government closures is the NIH and its cancer research. Something the Republicans are trying to reopen. But, when Harry Reid was asked by a CNN reporter, "If you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?", he responded,
"Why would we want to do that?"
Sick! New Iranian Law Allows Fathers To Marry
Their 13 Year Old Adopted Daughters
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Danger to children: The new law will allow for girls as young as 13 to get married and those younger than that age only require the permission of their fathers to do so.
(Nothing like combining incest with pedophilia to make sure it's really sick. Iran just passed a new law allowing fathers to marry their 13 year old adopted daughters. And "moderate" President Hassan Rouhani sanctioned it)
According to The Daily Mail:A new law in Iran that allows men to marry their adopted daughters at the age of 13 has caused major concern that the country's new president is not as progressive as originally thought.
President Hassan Rouhani has been hailed as a new moderate voice in the controversial Middle Eastern government but the approval of the new law shows that the extreme beliefs in the intolerant country have not evaporated.
The law was approved by the Iranian members of parliament and maintains that girls can marry with the permission of their father at the age of 13 and young boys at the age of 15.
The timing of the law being passed through the first legal hurdle, as reported by The Guardian, comes just days after Rouhani's landmark phone call with President Obama- the first between the two countries leaders in 34 years- and an interview with CNN where he admitted the existence of the Holocaust- something that has long been denied by the religious extremists in Iran.
The law in question pertains to the legal marriage age, but the concern about incest is an additional factor for human rights advocates.
Social Security Administration Instructs Employees To Scare
The Crap Out Of Granny About Not Getting Her Check If
Debt Ceiling Isn't Raised
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(Fear mongering, an Obama administration speciality)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/04/social-security-administration-instructs-employees-to-warn-recipients-about-debt-ceiling/
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Social Security Administration employees are being instructed to tell people who ask that if the debt ceiling is not raised, their social security benefits could be in danger.
In an email sent Friday, obtained by The Daily Caller, employees are instructed:
"If a member of the public asks whether their Social Security payment will be affected if the federal debt ceiling is not raised, you may give the following response:
'Unlike a federal shutdown which has no impact on the payment of Social Security benefits, failure to raise the debt ceiling puts Social Security benefits at risk.'
"Direct all program–related and technical questions to your supervisor."According to the Treasury, the U.S. will reach its borrowing limit on October 17, and if the debt ceiling is not raised before then, the country will default on its debt.
NY Newspaper Sues for Names of Gun Permit Holders
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Via Washington Post:A suburban New York newspaper has sued Putnam County to compel it to release its pistol permit records.
The Journal News says it sued Thursday after the county denied two Freedom of Information requests and a subsequent appeal.
The newspaper first requested information from Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties following the Newtown, Conn., shooting massacre. It made another request after the state passed a gun control law allowing permit holders to apply to keep their names and addresses private.
Putnam County officials declined to comment on the lawsuit because they had not yet been served with the papers. But County Executive MaryEllen Odell told the newspaper she's confident the county will prevail.
Georgia Women Threatened At Gunpoint For Protesting Against Obama ButtHead
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(Dissent against Dear a**hole Leader will not be tolerated, Girls)
Via WSB Radio:A group of Gwinnett County protestors who were assaulted during a recent demonstration against President Barack Obama say they plan to return to the overpass at Steve Reynolds Boulevard this weekend.
The women, who are part of the nationwide movement Overpasses for Obama's Impeachment, were holding signs last Saturday when they say a man pulled up beside them and pointed a gun at one and splashed another with an unknown liquid.
"I felt it on my foot... it burned, so I thought it was a household chemical," Marge Moore tells WSB's Sandra Parrish.
She says just moments earlier, a couple in a car had driven by and threatened to kill them.
As the man drove off, the women contacted Gwinnett County police. A witness to the incident can be heard on a 911 call describing the suspect as an older black man, who was balding and wearing glasses, and driving a burgundy Mercury Grand Marquis. He also provided police with the tag number.
"He just showed the ladies the gun like 'move out of here, I've got a gun'," the witness can be heard telling the dispatcher.
Chicago Mob Boss POS Obuma To Republicans:
Don't "Screw Up" The World Economy
(You know, like he did to the U.S. economy)
Via CNS News:Speaking in suburban Maryland on Thursday, President Obama continued to spread fear about the consequences of not raising the debt ceiling.
He noted that the U.S. has never before failed to raise the debt limit: "And you know, the United States is the center of the world economy, so if we screw up, everybody gets screwed up. The whole world will have problems, which is why, generally, nobody's ever thought to actually threaten not to pay our bills. It would be the height of irresponsibility."
But in the next breath, the president said he will not negotiate with Congress, even though everybody will get "screwed up" and "the whole world will have problems." (What an a**hole this Clown is)(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_yHHyDmKhTIg/SJ2Xms9fhII/AAAAAAAADqw/u_HBlzNoWzs/s400/Obama+a**hole.jpg)
"And that's why I said this before. I'm going to repeat it. There will be no negotiations over this," Obama insisted.
(Wanna bet, a**hole?????)
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POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms in an ongoing Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria, the school's provost said.Like lecherous wolves, they attacked in the dead of night. Starting at 1 a.m. Sunday, Nigerian Islamic militant jihadists viciously slaughtered sleeping college students. They were helpless and completely ambushed. The jihadists killed well over 50 students, shooting them and burning them, and torched many of the buildings at Gujba, Provost Molima Idi Mato of the Yobe State College of Agriculture in Nigeria. More senseless bloodshed, violence, and murder in the name of Jihad; but this is Islamic jihad, and it's never going to stop.
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Every day it's something new. Another attack, more beatings, an unending stream of brutality that is akin to wild animals. The carnage and bloodshed is too much to take in. Late last night, an innocent group of students were attacked by vicious Nigerian Islamic militant jihadists, in an area where an Islamic uprising is in progress. But why these students? Why were they targeted? There is no reason. The only reason is Islam. There is no group that is immune to to the bloodshed. Kill the infidels. Kill everyone, and this they keep doing.
Why? Islam demands it. However, the horror of gunning down and burning sleeping college students in the dead of the night is nothing short evil and demonic. Even fictional vampires wouldn't do this, but Islamic jihadists would, in a heartbeat, or whatever they have in place of a heart.
"They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hostels, they opened fire at them," he said.
The students were sleeping in their hostels. All of the students were between the ages of 18 and 22, and they are still in the process of collecting bodies. The exact death toll is not known, merely estimated. Not unlike last weeks church bombing in Pakistan, it may take time to figure out exactly how many are dead.
Naturally, that attack was much larger in scale. But the endless wave of attacks in the region shows no sign of letting up. What's next? No one wants to contemplate what might happen next. For the next attack could be hours away. Or merely minutes.
The Nigerian military has collected 42 bodies and transported 18 injured students to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, said a military intelligence official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press. The school's other 1,000 enrolled students have fled the college that is about 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the scene of similar school attacks around Damaturu town, said provost Mato.
Vicious monsters without souls. This is the enemy we are fighting, and we don't realize it. Most schools in this region have been closed since July 6th attack that killed 29 students and a teacher, who too were burned alive in their hostels, much like the college students in this attack. But this school bravely stayed open. But there was a huge price to pay for their bravery.
Just in the last week alone, 30 people have been murdered by jihadists in Nigeria. And not just murdered, but tortured, and brutalized in unimaginable ways.
Twenty-seven people died in separate attacks Wednesday and Thursday night on two villages of Borno state near the northeast border with Cameroon, according to the chairman of the Gamboru-Ngala local government council, Modu-Gana Bukar Sheriiff."
The attacks in Nigeria are intensifying with every waking moment. A pastor and his son were slaughtered at a Christian church in Dorawa on Thursday. And now the attack on sleeping college students.
Nigeria is in peril, as is the entire Middle East region. Where is the outcry from U.S. government officials about the atrocities being committed by Islamists in the region? There's only silence, and arming so-called "moderates."
About the attack last night, "The extremists rode into the college in two double-cabin pickup all-terrain vehicles and on motorcycles, some dressed in Nigerian military camouflage uniforms, a surviving student, Ibrahim Mohammed, told the AP. Almost all those killed were Muslims, as is the college's student body, said Adamu Usman, a survivor from Gujba who was helping the wounded at the hospital. One body had its fists clenched to the chest in a protective gesture. Another had hands clasped under the chin, as if in prayer. A third had arms raised in surrender."
Forced surrender. What other option did the young man have when being ambushed by the jihadists, who came with one intent: to kill? Never mind who was there, or why. Slaughter them all, like a pack of dogs. Save no one.
"We ran into the bush, nobody is left in the school now," Ibrahim Mohammed said.
There is no one left. The school is empty. Islam is overtaking the region and Jihad is sending those running for any safe place to escape.
This is Islam, and there is no escape.
Dead People Can Sign Up For Obumacare In Kentucky
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(Zombies unite! You knew that Democrats let you vote,
now you can have healthcare insurance too.
Next comes free brains)
Via Daily Caller:Obamacare can help dead people, too.This is apparent in Kentucky, where application forms for the state's new Obamacare benefit exchange asks if the application is for someone who has recently died.
Question 39 on the kynect: Kentucky's Healthcare Connection printable application form for a single person health seeking either coverage or help paying costs, states:
"If you are filling out this application on behalf of a person who recently passed away, enter the deceased person's date of death.""This is for Medicaid — it will pay three prior months of medical expenses for the eligible," Gwenda Bond, a spokeswoman for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, told The Daily Caller on Friday. "It also allows us to prevent fraud by noting the date of death, time-limited benefits."
Federal Government Kicks People From Their Home: Lake Mead
Posted by: Allison Martinez Posted date: October 05, 2013
In a stunning move, the federal government threw people out of their homes on Lake Mead. A popular place to live on a boat, the federal government shut down access to the lake during the federal shutdown. According to Rob Richardson at OffGrid Surival's website, the order has had people who live on the Lake Mead scrambling to find another place to go. People pay monthly fees to moor their boats on the lake. For many who live on the lake, there house boat is their only home. Some have lived on the lake for as long as 20 years.
This follows on the heals of reports of capricious and arbitrary tactics on the part of the National Park Service reported in the Washington Times. In that report, Wesley Pruden, former editor of the Washington Times, published an interview with a National Park Service Ranger that said
"It's a cheap way to deal with the situation," an angry Park Service ranger in Washington says of the harassment. "We've been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It's disgusting."
While it is easy to argue that this is being done in an arbitrary fashion, a closer analysis shows that the Park Service is actually being very systematic and thorough. They appear to be going into every red state they can to punish the people who live there. Earlier, Free Patriot reported that Obama has shut down, or attempted to shut down several places. Among those include George Washington's home Mount Vernon which is privately owned, the Atlantic Ocean, Mount Rushmore, among other places.
This is just one more example of the Obama Administration's efforts to inflict pain on the American people.
http://freepatriot.org/2013/10/05/federal-government-kicks-people-home-lake-mead/
There is an amateur video on the web site and pictures.
Quote from: ROSS on October 05, 2013, 08:29:26 PM
Federal Government Kicks People From Their Home: Lake Mead
Posted by: Allison Martinez Posted date: October 05, 2013
This is just one more example of the Obama Administration's efforts to inflict pain on the American people.
http://freepatriot.org/2013/10/05/federal-government-kicks-people-home-lake-mead/
There is an amateur video on the web site and pictures.
POS Obuma and his dirty crooked mob hard at work putting the screws to the American people. I would hate to be in Obuma's and his lousy minions shoes after this crap is over. This will catch up to them big time one day!Obuma-nation! Elderly Couple Tossed Out Of Home
They've Owned For 40 Years Because Of "Shutdown"
(They weren't even able to grab Ralph's pants)
Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) — The government shutdown is being felt close to home for some locals. They say they're being forced out of private homes on Lake Mead because they sit on federal land.
Joyce Spencer is 77-years-old and her husband Ralph is 80. They've been spending most of their time in the family ice cream store since going home isn't an option.
The Spencers never expected to be forced out of their Lake Mead home, which they've owned since the 70s, but on Thursday, a park ranger said they had 24 hours to get out.
"I had to go to town today and buy Ralph undershirts and jeans because I forgot his pants," Joyce Spencer told Action News.
The Stewart's Point home sits on federal land, so even though the Spencers own their cabin outright, they're not allowed in until the government reopens.
Park officials said property owners can visit only to retrieve belongings; they sent Action News a statement which reads in part, "Unfortunately overnight stays are not permitted until a budget is passed and the park can reopen."
Joyce Spencer said she's alright in the meantime, staying with nearby family, but the move was a lot to handle as a senior citizen.
"I had to be sure and get his walker and his scooter that he has to go in," Spencer said. "We're not hurt in any way except it might cost me if I have to go buy more pants."
The Lake Mead properties are considered vacation homes; one of the lease requirements to own a plot is people must have an alternative residence.
Regardless, the Spencers said it's their property and they should be allowed in, shutdown or not.
This Man Needs To Resign![
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NSA Director Admits Obama Administration Misled
[Lied To] The Public About Utility Of NSA Surveillance
(200 years ago this "Obuma Faker in Chief " would have been tried... found guilty, and hung for TREASON! ... All in the same day!! kari Marx had a category that fits POS Obuma's low-information followers and it is: Lumpenproletiat: 1. In Marxist analysis, people regarded as living on the margins of society, particularly criminals, homeless people, and the long-term unemployed
2.lower-class people: people from the lowest social class who are regarded as too content with a life that is supposedly intellectually empty and socially inferior.
To put it in much simpler language, the Obama crooked regime lied through their teeth to 'We The People' to justify blatant violations of the Fourth Amendment. Paranoid, psychotic people like our very sick President must always know what is being said about him, laws be damned and our Constitution.
Why did he do it? Was it to "to bolster support for the government's vast surveillance apparatus."
NO... it was to bolster Obuma's chances at re-election. He used a top secret agency, charged with protecting us, for political purposes.
And, as always, NOTHING that this administration says is true.
It is all fabricated, scripted for public political consumption)Via Salon:
In so many words, NSA director Keith Alexander admitted Wednesday that the Obama administration had issued misleading information about terror plots and their foiling to bolster support for the government's vast surveillance apparatus.During Wednesday's hearing, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy pushed Alexander to admit that
plot numbers had been fudged in a revealing interchange:"There is no evidence that [bulk] phone records collection helped to thwart dozens or even several terrorist plots," said Leahy. The Vermont Democrat then asked the NSA chief to admit that only 13 out of a previously cited 54 cases of foiled plots were genuinely the fruits of the government's vast dragnet surveillance systems:"These weren't all plots, and they weren't all foiled," Leahy said, asking Alexander, "Would you agree with that, yes or no?"
"Yes," replied Alexander.Proof positive of what many of us have long posited: that under the flimsy guise of a targeted War on Terror, the surveillance state has established itself with little regard for an honest relationship with the American public.
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Can the NSA Operate in Secrecy Anymore?
by Bruce Schneierhttp://www.defenseone.com/management/2013/10/can-nsa-operate-secrecy-anymore/71346/
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As I report in The Guardian today...
http://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php/topic,15531.msg213695.html#msg213695
.....the NSA has secret servers on the Internet that hack into other computers, codename FOXACID. These servers provide an excellent demonstration of how the NSA approaches risk management, and exposes flaws in how the agency thinks about the secrecy of its own programs.Here are the FOXACID basics: By the time the NSA tricks a target into visiting one of those servers, it already knows exactly who that target is, who wants him eavesdropped on, and the expected value of the data it hopes to receive. Based on that information, the server can automatically decide what exploit to serve the target, taking into account the risks associated with attacking the target, as well as the benefits of a successful attack. According to a top-secret operational procedures manual provided by Edward Snowden, an exploit named Validator might be the default, but the NSA has a variety of options. The documentation mentions United Rake, Peddle Cheap, Packet Wrench, and Beach Head—all delivered from a FOXACID subsystem called Ferret Cannon. Oh how I love some of these code names.
Snowden explained this to Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong. If the target is a high-value one, FOXACID might run a rare zero-day exploit that it developed or purchased. If the target is technically sophisticated, FOXACID might decide that there's too much chance for discovery, and keeping the zero-day exploit a secret is more important. If the target is a low-value one, FOXACID might run an exploit that's less valuable. If the target is low-value and technically sophisticated, FOXACID might even run an already-known vulnerability.We know that the NSA receives advance warning from Microsoft of vulnerabilities that will soon be patched; there's not much of a loss if an exploit based on that vulnerability is discovered. FOXACID has tiers of exploits it can run, and uses a complicated trade-off system to determine which one to run against any particular target.
This cost-benefit analysis doesn't end at successful exploitation. According to Snowden, the TAO—that's Tailored Access Operations—operators running the FOXACID system have a detailed flowchart, with tons of rules about when to stop. If something doesn't work, stop. If they detect a PSP, a personal security product, stop. If anything goes weird, stop. This is how the NSA avoids detection, and also how it takes mid-level computer operators and turn them into what they call "cyberwarriors." It's not that they're skilled hackers, it's that the procedures do the work for them.
And they're super cautious about what they do.
While the NSA excels at performing this cost-benefit analysis at the tactical level, it's far less competent at doing the same thing at the policy level. The organization seems to be good enough at assessing the risk of discovery—for example, if the target of an intelligence-gathering effort discovers that effort—but to have completely ignored the risks of those efforts becoming front-page news.
It's not just in the U.S., where newspapers are heavy with reports of the NSA spying on every Verizon customer, spying on domestic e-mail users, and secretly working to cripple commercial cryptography systems, but also around the world, most notably in Brazil, Belgium, and the European Union. All of these operations have caused significant blowback—for the NSA, for the U.S., and for the Internet as a whole.
The NSA spent decades operating in almost complete secrecy, but those days are over. As the corporate world learned years ago, secrets are hard to keep in the information age, and openness is a safer strategy. The tendency to classify everything means that the NSA won't be able to sort what really needs to remain secret from everything else. The younger generation is more used to radical transparency than secrecy, and is less invested in the national security state. And whistleblowing is the civil disobedience of our time.
At this point, the NSA has to assume that all of its operations will become public, probably sooner than it would like. It has to start taking that into account when weighing the costs and benefits of those operations. And it now has to be just as cautious about new eavesdropping operations as it is about using FOXACID exploits attacks against users.
The One National Park That Remains Open
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Going into the second week of the Government shutdown, most facilities operated by the federal government have been closed. Crime scene tape, "barrycades," and various other signs of closure can be seen from coast to coast.
There is one national park that remains open: Barack Obama's favorite golf course. That's right, Andrew's Air Force Base Golf Course, remains open.After all, the President's golf avocation is of vital importance to the operation of the United States, right?
As a fiscal note, the operation of golf greens is not as cheap as one might think. According to the Professional Golf Association, the US government spends an average of $384,000 – $1,000,000 per year on every golf course it owns. The federal government owns 234 courses around the world; that is about $140 million per year on this form of recreation.
While the President's favorite course remains open, grocery stores on Army bases in the U.S. are closed. In fact, there seems to be no logic to what is kept open and what is not. Things that cost the government no money, such as the Army Navy game which is paid for by private funds, will be evaluated as events unfold in the coming days.
FDA drug tests continue, but the National Institute of Health which treats cancer patients is shut down. The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. is open, while 3,000 safety inspectors employed by the Federal Aviation Administration are off the job.
Andrews Golf course staying open highlights the Administration's desire to inflict the maximum pain on the American people. Previously Free Patriot reported that Obama has shut down, or attempted to shut down several places. Among those include George Washington's home Mount Vernon, which is privately owned, the Atlantic Ocean and Mount Rushmore.
Obuma Says He Has No Idea How Many People Signed Up For Obumacare,
Tells People Not To "Give Up" Trying To Apply Through Train Wreck Website
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(He's either lying about not knowing how many people signed up or admitting his administration is woefully incompetent... my money's on lying, which he does so well!)Via Politico:Obama doesn't know how many people have signed up for health care insurance since the marketplaces created by his health care law opened on Oct. 1, he said in an interview released Saturday.
Obama's comments came in a sit-down with the Associated Press, as he encouraged people trying to register to keep trying. Those who want insurance "definitely shouldn't give up," he said. There's been skepticism from Republicans and the press about whether the White House really doesn't know how many people have enrolled this week.
Obama said that early interest in the exchanges far exceeded the government's expectations for the first few days, but "folks are working around the clock and have been systematically reducing the wait times." HealthCare.gov is down for the weekend to give the administration uninterrupted time to improve the site.
"If Government can be so petty and spiteful,
imagine what they'll do with your health care.
STOP OBUMACARE!"
Post by iOwnTheWorldHey, GOP: here is your meme, your talking point, your weapon against Obama and the Big Government Demo-rats. It comes from our esteemed contributor, Mr. Pinko, who says:
If Government can be so petty and spiteful, imagine what they'll do with your health care. STOP OBUMACARE!As an example, consider this story:S.D. officials object to feds barring visitors from highway viewing areas near Mount Rushmore.
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The National Park Service placed cones along highway viewing areas outside Mount Rushmore this week, barring visitors from pulling over and taking pictures of the famed monument.
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The National Park Service closed the monument in response to a government shutdown, but South Dakota officials say the National Park Service went too far when it coned off the highway viewing areas.
The Helicopter illustration is a satire, but the article is not.
We have a would-be despot in the White House, who respects neither the power of Congress nor the American people. And he is out to punish both![...]
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LISTEN UP, REPUBLICANS ON THE SUNDAY SHOWS: Here are your damn talking points...
Write 'em down on your hand if you need to:NEVER BEFORE have we had a president who refused to negotiate with Congress over spending.
Not Carter, Reagan, Clinton or the Bushes!NEVER BEFORE have we had a president who punishes the American people during a shutdown by closing open-air
War Memorials To Veterans!NEVER BEFORE have we had a president who plainly states his opening negotiating position with Congress is that he
WILL NOT NEGOTIATE!NEVER BEFORE have we had a president who refuses to fund government using regular order
(specific appropriations)!NEVER BEFORE have we had a president who disdains the balance of power so much that he orders Congress around
LIKE A DICTATOR!
NEVER BEFORE have we had a president who so despises the American people that he punishes them when he things don't go the way he wants!
NEVER BEFORE has America had such a narcissist as POTUS who bullies and throws temper tantrums like a 5 yr. old when he doesn't get his way!
If a would-be tyrant can be so petty and spiteful, imagine what they'll do with your health care.
Be afraid of Obamacare. Be very afraid!
When you spend more than you have year after year there is bound to be trouble sooner or later!
I think that trouble is here!Jim Rogers: 'Catastrophe' Coming, Thanks to Central Banks
Thursday, 03 Oct 2013 05:25 PM
By Dan Weil
Aggressive easing programs by central banks around the world will create a financial catastrophe, says legendary investor Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings.
"This is the first time in recorded history that we have every major central bank in the world printing money, so the world is floating on an artificial sea of liquidity," Rogers told CNBC.com.
"Well, the artificial sea is going to disappear someday. And when it does, the catastrophe will be even worse. Yes, it's coming."
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Jim-Rogers-financial-catastrophe-banks/2013/10/03/id/529202?ns_mail_uid=7144240&ns_mail_job=1540287_10062013&promo_code=15155-1
Fed's Fisher: 'Three Stooges Act' Plays on Capitol Hill
Thursday, 03 Oct 2013 07:50 PM
Thursday, 03 Oct 2013 08:16 AM
By Dan Weil
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher, who has opposed additional stimulus, said years of high "economic policy uncertainty" in the U.S. Have been a "significant hindrance" to economic growth.
The Fed's surprising investors by delaying the first taper of bond buying amid an improved labor market "may have increased uncertainty about the future path of monetary policy," Fisher, who does not vote on monetary policy this year, said Thursday in a speech in Dallas.
"That was one argument raised against the decision not to taper," Fisher said of the Fed's policy meeting last month. "I know, because I made the argument, and I was not alone."
Policy makers are debating how to curb record stimulus amid a deadlock over the federal government's budget and a lack of agreement on raising the debt ceiling to avoid default. The Federal Open Market Committee at its next gathering on Oct. 29-30 will weigh the impact from the government's partial shutdown as they debate tapering the $85 billion pace of monthly bond buying to boost the labor market.
The Fed has supported the expansion while Congress is undermining growth by failing to provide a sound fiscal policy, Fisher said in speech in Little Rock, Arkansas.
"We actually make decisions and we get things done," Fisher said about the central bank. "We have a Three Stooges act taking place on Capitol Hill."
The first government shutdown since 1996 began a third day Thursday as face-to-face talks between Obama and congressional leaders failed to break the budget logjam.
James Rickards: QE Will Go Down as 'One of the Greatest Economic Blunders in History'
The Federal Reserve should drop its quantitative easing (QE) and just focus on controlling inflation, says James Rickards, a partner at Tangent Capital Partners.
"My own view, which has no chance of happening, is that they should stop asset purchases completely and start to sell assets and raise interest rates," he told Hard Assets Investor.
The Fed should simply declare, "We don't do stimulus. We're a central bank. Our job is to maintain price stability. We're not in the business of boosting the economy or propping up the stock market or propping up the housing market."
Rickards understands the Fed's rationale. "But it has gone way outside the mandate," he explained.
QE will go down as "one of the greatest economic blunders in history."
http://www.moneynews.com/Markets/Rickards-Fed-QE-gold/2013/10/03/id/529051?ns_mail_uid=7144240&ns_mail_job=1540287_10062013&promo_code=15155-1
Blackstone's Baratta: 'We're in Middle of Epic Credit Bubble'
Monday, 30 Sep 2013 08:29 AM
By Dan Weil
While Blackstone Group is a major investor in many areas, one of its top officials sees trouble brewing in the credit markets.
"We are in the middle of an epic credit bubble, the likes of which I haven't seen in my career in private equity," Joseph Baratta, the firm's global head of private equity, said at a private equity conference, CNBC reported.
"The cost of a high -yield bond on an absolute coupon basis is as low as it's ever been."
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The Vanguard High-Yield Corporate bond fund yields 5.8 percent.
Meanwhile, Baratta said Blackstone is "bullish" on the U.S. Economy, but the "valuations we have to pay relative to the growth prospects are out of whack right now."
The economy grew 2.5 percent in the second quarter. Blackstone sees the economy expanding in a range of 1 to 3 percent going forward.
The firm does see investment opportunities in energy, transportation infrastructure, consumer finance, housing and construction, Baratta noted.
He expects "mean reversion" on interest rates, meaning rates will rise.
"Yes, while everyone focuses on the stock market, the real disequilibrium that has been potentially built up over the years has been in credit markets, where the portfolio rebalancing effect has forced investors out of risk-free U.S. Government bonds and into assets that serve a similar purpose in a much riskier credit structure," he wrote on his blog.
http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/Baratta-credit-bubble-economy/2013/09/30/id/528315?ns_mail_uid=7144240&ns_mail_job=1540287_10062013&promo_code=15155-1
21 Of the Best Comments Posted By Frustrated Americans on the Official Obamacare Facebook Page
October 4, 2013 by Michael Snyder
The launch of Obamacare has been a complete and total nightmare so far. The "online exchanges" are constantly crashing, there are endless glitches and delays, and many of the people that actually have been able to successfully register for an account are discovering that health insurance premiums under Obamacare are far higher than what they are used to paying. In fact, as I wrote about the other day, some Americans that have had their old policies canceled by their insurance companies are discovering that their health insurance costs will double or even triple under Obamacare. What a great "success", eh? Under Obamacare, Americans are going to pay more for health care, they are going to have more limited health care options, they are going to be subjected to much more paperwork, and if they choose not to participate in the system they are going to be hit with very punitive fines. What's not to like?
But despite all of the negatives, a lot of Americans were actually looking forward to October 1st. Millions of Americans rushed to the "healthcare exchanges" to get signed up for health insurance. But what they discovered was that the websites were not ready and were constantly crashing.
The system has been so bad that very few people are actually signing up for Obamacare. So far, less than 1 percent of all visitors are actually signing up for health insurance. In California, the rate is 0.58 percent. In Connecticut, the rate is 0.59 percent.
One television station in Tennessee was not able to find a single person who successfully signed up for Obamacare.
Needless to say, there are a whole lot of very frustrated and very disappointed people out there right now. The following are 21 of the best comments that have been posted on the official Healthcare.gov Facebook page so far...
21. "I am so disappointed. These prices are outrageous and there are huge deductibles. No one can afford this!"
20. "Good grief. Day three of trying and still can't get on this website. The government KNEW about this thing going live for two years. TWO YEARS! And this is the best they could do? I shudder to think what's going to happen once they are in control of my healthcare. They can't even get their website functioning properly. If my business had rolled out a piece of crap that worked like this I'd be out of business."
19. "How is it that Facebook, which is a non-essential social networking web site, can reliably handle BILLIONS of electronic interactions per second, but the Healthcare.gov site, which is literally the very heart of the Obamacare program wasn't ready for the obvious millions of visitors that you had to know it would be receiving?"
18. "i'm just going to stop even bothering for a couple weeks or so... once the fervor dies down, hopefully I'll be able to actually create an account!"
17. "The Federal Gov't has ruined everything it has gotten involved in, does anybody really expect this healthcare disaster to be any different? Sorry, I'll take the asinine fine."
16. "And yet another day and several tries I once again keep getting nothing but a completely blank page after I log in. The top tab says 'Successful URL'. Oh how ironic."
15. "Didn't these Feds ever have mothers that told them not to lie? Maybe they were raised in the wild. This system is trash. I can't verify my identity or upload documents. Also what's with Experian verifying ID's? Don't care for that at all."
14. "I am a single mother of two, in school and working full time, living 75% below the poverty level and I DO NOT qualify for a healthcare subsidy"
13. "the website can't verify my identity...the people at the experian verification number can't verify my identity either....i tried to upload a scan of my driver's license, and that won't work either......very annoying process.......I've wasted 3 days on this junk."
12. "if you're stupid enough to put all your banking information in to the federal governments computers you are definitely part of the problem"
11. "Where the HELL am I supposed to get $3,000 more a year to pay for this "bronze" health insurance plan!?!??? And I DO NOT EVEN WANT INSURANCE to begin with!! This is frightening."
10. "I have one question. What happens if I can't afford the Affordable Health Care that you are cramming down my throat? I just ran your calculator, and if it is even close to accurate, I will have a choice.....I can pay my rent and buy groceries, or I can pay the health care premiums, move out into the streets and live under a bridge somewhere, and go hungry! Can I please get one of those exemption things that the President and Congress got?"
9. "I've been stuck at the security questions since 9am on October 1st"
8. "Death Panels. Yes. The red plan. It's affordable. And painless!"
7. "Here in Austin, TX have gotten to login screen three times today, wait is getting shorter, but am still getting a blank screen after getting a quick 'authenticating, please wait' message at top left of screen, then nothing but a blank white page and no indication that the browser is waiting for the server to do anything. Attempts to refresh the screen sends me back to the please wait screen."
6. "I finally got past the security question problem, got my account, my verification email, and when I went to log in, it said the information was invalid."
5. "I want to know how I am expected to pay $300+ for this and still pay my bills when the only income is $710 a month from my husband's SSI? Am i supposed to lose my home and water and electricity or go to jail because I can't afford this?"
4. "Government forces people to pay a new tax. People click on website to see how much this new tax will cost them. Website crashes in the first hour. Government calls it a huge success."
3. "I work a minimum wage job...how the heck can I afford health insurance and if the company doesn't give full time? I am so angry right now.... I share housing with others because I can't afford my own place... how do you expect people to afford Obamacare if they barely get by from paycheck to paycheck????? I can't afford a fine either! I think you are obligated to give the American people an answer and an explanation!"
2. "Y'all can kiss my butt. You got that? You want my bank account? I'll close it. You put a lien on my house? Take it...and the mortgage too. Some things are worth fighting for, and freedom is one of them! I am sick and tired of the redistribution strategies of this socialist country and having my wages STOLEN to pay for them!"
1. The best comment was posted by a man named Will Sheehan with type 1 diabetes who was initially very excited to sign up for Obamacare. But what he discovered while trying to sign up was absolutely horrifying...
I actually made it through this morning at 8:00 A.M. I have a preexisting condition (Type 1 Diabetes) and my income base was 45K-55K annually I chose tier 2 "Silver Plan" and my monthly premiums came out to $597.00 with $13,988 yearly deductible!!! There is NO POSSIBLE way that I can afford this so I "opt-out" and chose to continue along with no insurance.
I received an email tonight at 5:00 P.M. informing me that my fine would be $4,037 and could be attached to my yearly income tax return. Then you make it to the "REPERCUSSIONS PORTION" for "non-payment" of yearly fine. First, your driver's license will be suspended until paid, and if you go 24 consecutive months with "Non-Payment" and you happen to be a home owner, you will have a federal tax lien placed on your home. You can agree to give your bank information so that they can easy "Automatically withdraw" your "penalties" weekly, bi-weekly or monthly! This by no means is "Free" or even "Affordable."
You can see a screenshot of his comment below...
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Is what Mr. Sheehan saying actually true?
I don't know. This is not the way that we were told things were going to work, but when was the last time our politicians actually told us the truth about anything?
Meanwhile, most of the people who go to these websites can't even get to the point of being able to sign up for health insurance. Just check out what happened when a CNN reporter attempted to sign up for Obamacare...
BROOKE BALDWIN: So you guys hit a wall. We're here in Georgia. What about other states? Similar issues?
ELIZABETH COHEN: The CNN medical team branched out. We tried in about 20 different state states. In 12 of them we hit glitches. Sometimes it made it impossible to sign up. There were error messages or that little annoying kind of twirly thing.
BALDWIN: I hate the twirly thing.
COHEN: Hate it, hate it, right? In many cases, you just couldn't sign up.
And there have already been reports of personal information being compromised. Just check out what happened in Minnesota...
Minnesota insurance broker Jim Koester was looking for information about assisting with Obamacare implementation; instead, what landed in his inbox last month was a document filled with the names, Social Security numbers and other pieces of personal information belonging to his fellow Minnesotans.
In one of the first breaches of the new Obamacare online marketplaces, an employee of the Minnesota marketplace, called MNsure, accidentally emailed Koester a document containing personally identifying information for more than 2,400 insurance agents, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported. MNsure was able to quickly undo the damage because Koester cooperated with them, but the incident left him unnerved.
"The more I thought about it, the more troubled I was," Koester told the newspaper. "What if this had fallen into the wrong hands? It's scary. If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?"
The Obama administration has had a couple of years to get ready for the launch of Obamacare and this is the best that they could do?
That is frightening.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/21-best-comments-posted-frustrated-americans-official-obamacare-facebook-page/
President Bashar Assad tells Der Spiegel
US President Obama offers only "lies," and
civil war is more complex then it appears.
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(So Weasel Obuma will negotiate with this guy with lies
but not the truth with Republican party? Sick, sick, Clown)
Via JPost:http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Assad-admits-to-mistakes-in-Syrian-civil-war-327947
[A]ssad said that US President Barack Obama had "not even a whisper of proof" that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons.
The Syrian president continued to uphold his claim that his regime had not used chemical weapons.
"This is a misstatement. So is the picture you paint of me as a man who kills his own people," he told the magazine
"He has nothing to offer other than lies," said Assad, contrasting Washington's stance with that of the Russians, who he viewed as "real friends".
"They understand much better what this is really about here... The Russians are much more independent than you in Europe, where you all orientate yourselves so much towards the United States."
"(Russian President Vladimir) Putin is more determined than ever to support us... He knows from his own fight against terrorism in Chechnya what we are going through here."
COPS – National Park Service Edition
Stupidy at its Finest
Take a look at this photo. It was taken in Washington, D.C., this morning, 9:10 AM Eastern time:
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This is a scenic overlook on the
George Washington Memorial Parkway in Washington, D.C. The GW is one of the most scenic routes around the nation's capital. Scenic overlooks are unmanned places where motorists can pull in, park for a couple minutes, look around, maybe snap a photo, and then move on with their day. There are no amenities. It's just a small parking lot.
The truck belongs to the National Park Service. Note the logo on its door. It's this logo:
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It doesn't cost a cent to leave the scenic overlooks unmanned. But it does cost money, pay, fuel, the cost of the obstacles... to send National Park Service personnel out with Barrycades to block them off. Sick!
The Truth About the Health Care Bills
Posted August 12, 2009
Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.
To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.
The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled.
However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with. I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.
This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.
If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private insurance that is not deemed "acceptable" to the "Health Choices Administrator" appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a "tax" instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the "due process of law.
So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn't stop there though. The 9th Amendment that provides: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;" The 10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.
I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation" to support the Constitution. If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.
For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult the source. Here is a link to the Constitution: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
And another to the Bill of Rights: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texas
mrobertc@hotmail.com
http://michaelconnelly.jigsy.com/entries/general/the-truth-about-the-health-care-bills
ATF tries to block whistleblowing agent's Fast and Furious book
1st Amendment battle over 'gun-walking' expose
EXCLUSIVE:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is blocking the main whistleblower in the Fast and Furious case from publishing a book, claiming his retelling of the Mexico "gun-walking" scandal will hurt morale inside the embattled law enforcement agency, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.
ATF's dispute with Special Agent John Dodson is setting up a First Amendment showdown that is poised to bring together liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and conservatives in Congress who have championed Mr. Dodson's protection as a whistleblower.
The ACLU is slated to become involved in the case Monday, informing ATF it is representing Mr. Dodson and filing a formal protest to the decision to reject his request to publish the already written book, sources told The Times, speaking only on the condition of anonymity.
The battle also could have repercussions on Capitol Hill, where the two lead investigators who helped uncover the Fast and Furious scandal, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, Calif. Republican, had written a foreword to the book, the sources said.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/6/atf-tries-block-whistleblowing-agents-fast-and-fur/#ixzz2h2RRhbCM
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'2 Fat Thighs, 2 Small Breasts' Offensive Hillary Buttons Reportedly Spotted at GOP Convention
Very funny in my opinion. Politics has always been dirty.
Is this yet another bailout coming our way?Worsening Debt Crisis Threatens Puerto Rico
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
While Detroit has preoccupied Americans with its record-breaking municipal bankruptcy, another public finance crisis on a potentially greater scale has been developing off most Americans' radar screens, in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico has been effectively shut out of the bond market and is now financing its operations with bank credit and other short-term measures that are unsustainable in the long run. The biggest concern is that the territory, which has bonds that are widely held by mutual funds, will need some sort of federal lifeline, an action for which there is no precedent.
In a meeting with bond analysts in New York on Monday, the president of the Puerto Rican Senate, Eduardo Bhatia, said officials in the United States Treasury and White House had been analyzing the situation carefully, "wondering how they can help Puerto Rico send a very strong signal of stability right now."
"We are waiting for some sort of an announcement from the Treasury and the White House," he said without clarification. He also complained that analysts and investors did not appreciate the tough austerity measures that Puerto Rico pushed through in recent months.
Read the rest of the story at: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/worsening-debt-crisis-threatens-puerto-rico/?_r=0
Obama Needlessly Scares Seniors:
Social Security Checks and the Debt Limit
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/10/07/obama-needlessly-scares-seniors-social-security-checks-and-the-debt-limit/
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[Habitual liar] Obama is needlessly scaring seniors by suggesting that their Social Security benefit checks may not arrive on time if the U.S. runs out of borrowing authority at the debt limit. The 57 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits should know that their benefits will not be affected—unless President Obama and the Treasury deliberately choose not to pay them.
President Obama threatened Social Security benefits last week, saying,
"In a government shutdown, Social Security checks still go out on time.... In an economic shutdown, if we don't raise the debt ceiling, they don't go out on time."Here are three reasons why President Obama and the Treasury can continue to issue Social Security payments at the debt limit:1.The Full Faith and Credit Act. The House of Representatives passed H.R. 807, allowing the Treasury to pay all public debt obligations and Social Security benefit payments after the debt limit has been reached. If the President and his allies were truly worried about defaulting on the debt and about not being able to meet Social Security payments, they could quickly take up this bill and assure America's creditors and Social Security recipients that they need not worry.
2.The Social Security trust fund. Treasury could redeem Social Security trust fund bonds early to pay benefits at the debt limit. Treasury used this option in 1985 to meet Social Security payments at the debt limit, and a law from 1996 authorizes the Treasury to redeem Social Security bonds early for the purpose of "payment of benefits or administrative expenses." By making room under the debt limit from redeeming trust fund bonds early, Treasury is able to borrow additional funds from the public to make benefit payments.
3.Revenues. Treasury will collect more than enough revenue in fiscal year 2014 to meet all debt obligations and most non-debt obligations on an annualized basis. After prioritizing interest on the debt, the Treasury could fund $2.8 trillion in additional obligations with projected revenues. This would cover, for example, Social Security and disability payments ($848 billion), discretionary defense programs ($582 billion), Medicare ($505 billion), Medicaid ($298 billion), and $517 billion of all other obligations—in total, more than three-quarters of the non-interest budget.
While Social Security is in desperate need of reform, there are at least three reasons why Social Security benefit recipients should know that President Obama and the Social Security Administration are scaring them needlessly.
"Truckers For The Constitution" Plan To Shutdown D.C. Beltway October 11th
Monday, October 7, 2013,
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On October 11th, "Truckers For The Constitution" plan to shut down the Washington D.C. beltway. The upcoming three day rally is called, "Truckers Ride for the Constitution" and protesters are demanding the police detain politicians who are an "accessory" to "treason," including the President himself. This is the second rally announced for next week; the "Million Veteran March on Memorials" in D.C. is set to occur October 13th.US News reported:Earl Conlon, a Georgia trucker who is handling logistics for the protest, told U.S. News tractor-trailer drivers will circle the beltway "three lanes deep" as he rides with other participants to Congress to seek the arrest of congressmen for allegedly disregarding the Constitution.
The truckers circling I-495 will keep the left lane open for emergency vehicles, Conlon said, but "everybody that doesn't have a supporter sticker on their window, good luck: Nobody in, nobody out." The trucks will be going the 55 mile-per-hour speed limit.
D.C. commuters who wish to be allowed past the convoy must have "T2SDA" – an acronym for the event's original name, "Truckers to Shut Down America" – written on their vehicle, he said.
"It's going to be real fun for anyone who is not a supporter," Conlon said, "[and] if cops decide to give us a hard time, we're going to lock the brakes up, we're going to stop right there, we're going to be a three lane roadblock."
Zeeda Andrews, a former country music singer helping promote the protest, said last week participants would present demands to congressmen – including the impeachment of President Barack Obama – and give the congressmen an opportunity to agree to the demands in exchange for canceling the ride.
"We are not going to ask for impeachment," Conlon said. "We are coming whether they like it or not. We're not asking for impeachment, we're asking for the arrest of everyone in government who has violated their oath of office."
Conlon cited the idea of a citizens grand jury – meaning a pool of jurors convened without court approval – as the mechanism for indicting the officials.
"We want these people arrested, and we're coming in with the grand jury to do it," he said. "We are going to ask the law enforcement to uphold their constitutional oath and make these arrests. If they refuse to do it, by the power of the people of the United States and the people's grand jury, they don't want to do it, we will. ... We the people will find a way."
I wish I would have seen this when it was produced.
Perhaps Warph can upload the video for you.
I am unable to upload video's at this time.
This is terrifying in so many ways.
But here is the link for you to go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8
Also check out H.R. 3200, it says, "During the shutdown the Senate and the Library of Congress are no longer providing timely updates to legislative information. As a result, some information on GovTrack may fall out of date during this time.
However the txt is still there.
We came four votes away from the U.S. Senate giving our Constitutional rights over to the United Nations.
In a 53-46 vote, the Senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
The Statement of Purpose from the Bill reads:
"To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty."
The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has been championed by the Obama Administration,
would have effectively placed a global ban on the import and export of small firearms.
The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S.
and had language that would have implemented an international gun registry on all private guns and ammo.
Astonishingly, 46 out of our 100 United States Senators were willing to give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power. note none from TX.
Here are the 46 senators who voted to give your rights to the U.N
Remember these names at election time!
Also note, they are nearly all Democrats!!
Baldwin (D-WI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennett (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Cowan (D-MA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hirono (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Udall (D-NM)
Udall (D-CO)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Folks: This needs to go viral. These Senators voted to let the UN take OUR guns.
They need to lose their next election.
We have been betrayed.
46 Senators Voted to Give your 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights to the U.N.Please send this to SOMEONE who care's!
Thanks Bullwinkle,
I copied and pasted your post on my facebook.
If everyone shares this on their facebook it will go viral.
Our gun rights are a check on the Federals. So are States Rights and nullification.
Parks Service Grants Permission for Pro-Immigration Reform Protest on 'Closed' National Mall
by Noah Rothman | 1:42 pm, October 7th, 2013
The Parks Service continued to generate ill-will and alienate the voting public on Monday after a series of highly publicized stories last week surrounding the unnecessary closure of a variety of open-air spaces, including the World War II Memorial, captured the nation's attention. On Monday, The Parks Service confirmed that they granted permission for a pro-immigration reform group to hold protests on the "closed" National Mall.
The protest will be hosted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the AFL-CIO and is expected to be attended by prominent Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).
RELATED: Rand Paul Compares Default Warnings to Closing WWII Memorial: 'This is a Game'
"Organizers for the "Camino Americano: March for Immigration Reform" were spotted Monday setting up a stage and equipment on the National Mall for the rally which will take place on Tuesday," reported The Washington Examiner's Charlie Spiering. "Susana Flores, a spokesperson for the rally, confirmed for the Washington Examiner that the Park Service will allow the event to take place under the group's rights granted by the First Amendment."
Spiering reports that approximately 30 members of Congress are expected to attend the immigration reform rally.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-surveillance-video-captures-most-heartbreaking-liquor-store-incident-ever/
Economist Wesbury: Talk of Default a 'Scare Tactic'
Tuesday, 08 Oct 2013 08:11 AM
Failure by Congress and the White House to agree on a debt ceiling increase won't cause the government to default on its debt payments, says Brian Wesbury, chief economist at First Trust Advisors.
"This idea of default is a scare tactic," he told Yahoo.
"In October we will take in $200 billion in tax receipts, and we only owe $25 billion in interest payments. . . . As long as the Treasury targets the revenues that are coming in to pay interest, we will never default on a bond the U.S. has outstanding," Wesbury added.
Editor's Note: Obama's Budget Takes Aim at Retired Americans
"We're not going to default on our debt. In fact, if the Treasury defaulted on the debt it would be a dereliction of duty because they have way more resources than they need to pay the interest when it comes due on every single bond that's outstanding."
To be sure, the government wouldn't be able to fund all its obligations. "He [President Obama] is going to have to make hard choices," Wesbury said.
"Do you pay the military, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, the Agriculture Department? If you can't borrow, there's a lot of the government that would have to shut down because you can't afford it."
The government borrows 30 to 40 cents out of every dollar it spends, Wesbury says.
As for the government shutdown, "this thing could easily last a month or two or three without any major impact on the economy," he said.
But former Federal Reserve Governor Laurence Meyer is concerned about a long-term closing.
"I don't want to get into a couple of quarters, but if it lasts a longer period of time, we could have the worst recession in the post-war period," he told CNBC.
"This could lead to the unemployment rate getting to 15 percent."
http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/Wesbury-default-scare-tactic/2013/10/08/id/529828?ns_mail_uid=7144240&ns_mail_job=1540727_10082013&promo_code=151C7-1
Democratic lawmakers arrested during immigration protest
Representaive John Lewis (D-GA) is arrested on Capitol Hill in an act of civil disobedience to encourage support of immigration reform, October 8, 2013 on The National Mall in Washington DC as thousands rallied in support of immigration reform on the National Mall in Washington DC.
By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC News
Eight Democratic lawmakers were arrested Tuesday while advocating for comprehensive immigration reform in front of the U.S. Capitol.
Democratic Reps. John Lewis of Georgia, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, Charlie Rangel of New York, Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Joe Crowley of New York, Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Al Green of Texas were all detained by Capitol Police. The politicians, along with activists who attended an immigration rally on the National Mall Tuesday afternoon, staged a sit-in near the west side of the Capitiol.
Authorities arrested the lawmakers for crowding and disrupting the streets around the Capitol. Police arrested almost 200 people during the protest.
"We cannot rest, we cannot be satisfied until we have comprehensive immigration reform," Lewis told reporters earlier in the day.
The arrest was Lewis' 45th, according to his twitter account. The civil rights advocate has been known to participate in sit-ins and protests throughout his many years in Congress.
"My colleagues and I are not afraid to get arrested for what we believe is important to move America forward," Rangel tweeted.
Thousands descended on the National Mall on Tuesday for an immigration reform rally and march. Mostly Democratic politicians took the stage, encouraging those gathered to not give up on the fight to reform the country's immigration laws, despite the bleak political climate that has shut down the federal government and sidelined any hopes of reform.
But despite the day's enthusiasm for reform, any sort of comprehensive bill will be an heavy lift in the current political climate. In June, House Speaker John Boehner declined to put a Senate-passed immigration bill up for a vote, waiting instead on "piecemeal" legislation from GOP House members. That effort never materialized.
Still, the rally was largely aimed at telling those pushing for reform to not give up hope.
"I thank you for subscribing to the idea: Don't agonize, organize," Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told the crowd. "Let us act without further delay, let's get a vote on the Floor...because the time for immigration reform is now."
"Si se puede," she yelled -- "Yes we can."
NBC News' Luke Russert and Frank Thorp contributed reporting.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/08/20874725-democratic-lawmakers-arrested-during-immigration-protest?lite
Quote from: ROSS on October 08, 2013, 06:49:10 AM
I wish I would have seen this when it was produced.
Perhaps Warph can upload the video for you.
I am unable to upload video's at this time.
This is terrifying in so many ways.
But here is the link for you to go to:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8
Also check out H.R. 3200, it says, "During the shutdown the Senate and the Library of Congress are no longer providing timely updates to legislative information. As a result, some information on GovTrack may fall out of date during this time.
However the txt is still there.
UNREAL. Sebelius Says "Absolutely No Evidence That
Part-Time Work Is Going Up"
Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 7:20 PMLast night Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius went on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart over the widespread glitches in signing up for Obamacare. During the interview Sebelius claimed there "was "absolutely no evidence" that part-time work is going up.
(What a Shameless Liar – and this creepy woman was Gov. of Kansas??
You are darn lucky to get rid of her!)
Via JWF reported:
http://www.jammiewf.com/2013/clueless-sebelius-has-no-idea-how-many-people-have-enrolled-in-obamacare/
Later, while addressing the issue of businesses cutting back hours for employees to avoid having to provide health care under the new regulations, Sebelius held firm.
"Economists, not anecdotal folks, but economists, say there is absolutely no evidence that part-time work is going up. In fact, it's going down," she said. The secretary also said that for the first time ever, part-time employees in the United Sates would now have the option to purchase health insurance under the new law.
What a complete lie!
For the record...
Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Timehttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-02/obamacare-full-frontal-953000-jobs-created-2013-77-or-731000-are-part-time
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And it's likely to get worse...Obamacare will kill off at least two percent of the US full-time workforce.
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Obamacare is accelerating the US towards a part-time nation: http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/07/31/who-can-deny-it-obamacare-is-accelerating-u-s-towards-a-part-time-nation/
But... Sebelius says part-time work is not going up. What a crock!
Nice. PA High School Plans "Trayvon Martin Day",
Kids Told To Wear Hoodies
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Carrick High School in Pittsburgh, PA is encouraging its high school students to dress like a criminal, get high, flip the bird on social media, vandalize property, possibly physically assault their teachers, physically assault the bus driver, and get suspended THREE times from school for drugs, truancy, graffiti, and getting caught by police with a bag of women's jewelry and burglary tools.
And they're shocked that parents are
outraged.
According to CBS Pittsburgh:http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/10/07/parents-upset-after-trayvon-martin-day-planned-during-local-homecoming-week/
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Parents were upset after Carrick High School approved a plan to have a Trayvon Martin theme day during the school's homecoming.
The homecoming committee, and school voted and approved the theme which is part of school spirit week.
Parents were upset that kids were being encouraged to wear hoodies to school during the Wednesday theme.(http://2-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/500x286xtayvon-high.jpg.pagespeed.ic.IPcmbPQDFe.jpg)
How about honoring someone the high school students would be better off aspiring to become? Like Chris Lane, the 22 year old Australian student attending college on a scholarship, who was gunned down in a thrill killing by "bored teenagers" in Oklahoma.
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The Pride of the Yankers.... To paraphrase one of Barry's Marxist mentors, Jeremiah Wright, Obama's chickens are coming home to roooost! Speaker Boehner wants to know who's going to jail over the IRS scandal. We've heard many such opening salvos from the Speaker, then comes a round of golf or a getting to know you dinner, and then nothing happens. Unless Congress moves to abolish the IRS and replace our taxation system with an equitable way of financing legitimate government, nothing will change. These guys have been yanking our chains for way too long. If we weren't wearing chains they'd have to find something else to yank.
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Leave It To
Liberals... and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver. Left to the Left, idyllic Mayfield has become a sink hole of Progressive ideology in the Leave it to Beaver lost episode, Beaver's Fever. Beaver, suffering a high fever, dreams that he has been dressed up as a creepy girl and made to stand in front of his class in a bizarre version of Mayfield Elementary, where every subject is infused with Leftist indoctrination. By the end of the show, his fever breaks and all is back to normal. The episode was shelved, as the shows producers found it unbelievably far-fetched and feared the viewing public might just go ape.(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rRqnGV8LIT0/UcLBgjEtLbI/AAAAAAAABAw/3eGXwVh6QNs/s1600/Oinkle+Sam.jpg)
Oinkle Sam
The American Medical Association has officially classified obesity as a disease. With this edict, the Obamacare facilitating AMA opens the door for publicly financed mandatory treatment programs, because prevention initiatives have failed. For the full weight of the U.S. Government to be effective in solving this new health crisis, old Uncle Sam will need to bulk up. So, who's the biggest loser in the administrations War on Liberty? We are.(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lGVGo-ZWeSA/UdQTz-0FIAI/AAAAAAAABBA/xiFZBD53O0A/s672/In+Dependence.jpg)
When the Trayvon Martin tragedy first occurred, our post-racial president insinuated himself into the action by opining how his imaginary son would look like Trayvon. Barry's "free press" went wild trying to create a story of George Zimmerman as a white racist murderer. The Polarizer-In-Chief never misses an occasion to keep us separated into neat, easily manipulated little groups, dependent on ever expanding government programs. You see, Creepy-ass Socialists thrive on the dependence of their subjects, not their independence. I guess Barry's imaginary son might sound a lot like Trayvon too, since the ember never falls far from the crack pipe.(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dLF7lGiVOaQ/Ue_0csL50dI/AAAAAAAABBQ/LQaRLyG4y6o/s1600/Headboil.jpg)
The Chris Matthews mystery has been solved. Researchers have discovered that Matthews suffers from advanced stage Cerebral Thrillosis. CT occurs when the brain reaches its maximum containment level of leftist ideas. Once saturation is complete the abnormality begins to boil over into other parts of the body, most often an extremity. A common initial symptom is described as a thrill up a leg associated with autocracy. In the final throes of this condition, the patient's tongue becomes incapable of forming credible statements. CT is highly contagious as evidenced by the behavior of all the employees of MSNBC. The old adage is true, "The leftist mind is a terrible thing to express."(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ke1D1hR25sE/UhUu4kSCQFI/AAAAAAAABBg/6L6oH649G5Q/s1600/Whiteboarding.jpg)
Professional egghead, Karl Rove, is seen here putting the stink in distinction without a difference. When will the GOP leadership stop trying to impress the left by emulating them? The choice they leave the Conservatarian is a trip to hell on a cruise ship or a Saturn V rocket. They banned waterboarding, when will they ban whiteboarding? Torture is torture.(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-puWygr1Weew/UjBaoksoJKI/AAAAAAAABB4/kKlgt4lsLOI/s1600/Twist+of+Caliphate.jpg)
If we trace backward along the red lines drawn by Dear Leader, a reason for his nonsensical behavior emerges. Has Barry been huffing his red marker? What else could be causing him to facilitate the worldwide ascendancy of fundamentalist Islam? Oh yeah, there is his ideology.
Pic of The Day:
Crooked Dem Charlie Rangel Gets Arrested At Immigration Rally
(He should have been arrested for real a long time ago)
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MS. Megyn Rises, Mr. Maddow Sinks
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(In the results that surprise no one. Megyn Kelly triumphs in first night ratings over Rachel Maddow by over a million viewers. O'Reilly, I would be worried... very worried, about that No.#1 spot :angel:)
Via Variety.com:Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File" handily beat rivals in total viewers, an auspicious start for the network's first new primetime program in more than a decade, as well as its host, Megyn Kelly.
According to early Nielsen totals, Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File" lured nearly 2.1 million viewers between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m,. Monday evening, compared with 997,466 for MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" and 529,946 for CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight." The figures could change slightly.
MSNBC's "Maddow" secured more viewers among audiences between 25 and 54 years of age, the demographic most coveted by advertisers in news programming. "Maddow" attracted 298,543 in the demo,
according to Nielsen, compared with 289,264 for "Kelly" and 144,602 for "Piers Morgan." Ad buyers have said they have come to expect the largest viewership for cable news from Fox News Channel.
AP Poll Finds Obuma's Approval Rating Plummeting To Only
37%
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(The AP is obviously trying to bury this, not mentioning his
approval rating until the 7th paragraph
)
WASHINGTON (AP) — http://bigstory.ap.org/article/poll-gop-gets-blame-shutdown
Americans are holding Republicans primarily responsible for the partial government
shutdown as public esteem sinks for all players in the impasse, President Barack Obama among them, according to a new poll. It's a struggle with no heroes.
[...]Most Americans disapprove of the way Obama is handling his job, the poll suggests, with 53 percent unhappy with his performance and 37 percent approving of it. Congress is scraping rock bottom, with a ghastly approval rating of 5 percent.Indeed, anyone making headlines in the dispute has earned poor marks for his or her trouble, whether it's Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, or Republican John Boehner, the House speaker, both with a favorability rating of 18 percent.
And much of the country draws a blank on Republican Ted Cruz of Texas despite his 21-hour Senate speech before the shutdown. Only half in the poll were familiar enough with him to register an opinion. Among those who did, 32 percent viewed him unfavorably, 16 percent favorably.
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U.S. Taxpayers Shelled Out
$634,320,919.00
To Build Obumacare Website
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(...and what a miserable failure it is!!
Just like:
--"Cash for Clunkers"
--"The summer of recovery"
--Green Energy
--the President's Jobs Council
--"Laser-like focus on Jobs"
--Egypt
--Syria
--Libya
--GM bailout
--The Chevy Volt
--Iran
--Guantanamo Bay
--Russian relations
--Israeli relations
--RACE RELATIONS!
....just to mention a few. The fickle finger of failure follows Barry 24/7. And we the people always pay for it. The bastard should be held personally responsible for squandering the peoples money. High crimes & Misdemeanors. Sooooo... along with being the worst built website in history, Healthcare.gov also appears to be the most expensive, and we, again, get stuck with the bill. How lovely.)Via Digital Journal:http://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/obamacare-healthcare-gov-website-cost/
It's been one full week since the flagship technology portion of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) went live. And since that time, the befuddled beast that is Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out, stalled, and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is challenged only by Congress.
The site itself, which apparently underwent major code renovations over the weekend, still rejects user logins, fails to load drop-down menus and other crucial components for users that successfully gain entrance, and otherwise prevents uninsured Americans in the 36 states it serves from purchasing healthcare at competitive rates – Healthcare.gov's primary purpose. The site is so busted that, as of a couple days ago, the number of people that successfully purchased healthcare through it was in the "single digits," according to the Washington Post.
The reason for this nationwide headache apparently stems from poorly written code, which buckled under the heavy influx of traffic that its engineers and administrators should have seen coming. But the fact that Healthcare.gov can't do the one job it was built to do isn't the most infuriating part of this debacle – it's that we, the taxpayers, seem to have forked up more than $634 million of the federal purse to build the digital equivalent of a rock.
The exact cost to build Healthcare.gov, according to U.S. government records, appears to have been $634,320,919, which we paid to a company you probably never heard of: CGI Federal. The company originally won the contract back in 2011, but at that time, the cost was expected to run "up to" $93.7 million – still a chunk of change, but nothing near where it ended up.
Meet the Benjamins: America's new $100 bills
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Despite the fact that the US government is currently shut down, the Federal Reserve, Department of the Treasury, and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing have all managed to coordinate and print off some snazzy new C-notes. The bills started making their way into circulation yesterday, and although they might not appear to be all that radically different from our old bills, these new Benji's have ton of sophisticated anti-counterfeiting technology going on under the hood.
To be fair, the 100 dollar notes we've been using for past seven years aren't exactly a cakewalk to counterfeit. They've got all kinds of watermarks and microprinting going on, but they've also been in circulation since 2006, and in that time advanced printing technologies have become far more accessible, so skilled forgers have had plenty of time to learn the ins and outs of making passable fakes. By total value, the US hundred dollar bill is the most counterfeited single denomination on the globe, so it's easy to see why the Fed opted for a redesign.
Here's a quick rundown of the technology that makes these new bills so tough to forge:
The WatermarksThe old hundo's had watermarks, and these new ones are no different. They feature a smaller, less-detailed version of Franklin's face that's only visible when held up to a light source. Watermarks like this are extremely difficult to replicate in a convincing fashion thanks to the composition of our currency. The linen/cotton combination makes watermarks appear slightly fuzzy, but in an all-cotton note they tend to look razor-sharp.
The MicroprintingMuch like the 2006 notes, the latest 100 dollar bills utilize microprinting – except they've got a lot more of it. Look closely (you might want to snag a magnifying glass if you've got bad eyes) and you should be able to spot the"The United States of America" on Franklin's collar, "USA 100″ on the watermark, and "One Hundred USA" along the golden quill.
The Color-Changing Inktake a closer look at the big ol' copper-colored "100″ that's emblazoned on the lower right corner of the new bill. If tilted, it'll appear to take on a greenish hue. This is one example of the color-changing ink that's used on the new notes. It contains microscopic flakes of metallic material that reflects different wavelengths of light. This same technique is used to print the golden quill on the back, teh tiny 100's and USA's speckled on either side, and the golden bell hidden on the inkwell on the front.
The RibbonWhereas the previous 100 dollar note featured an internal security strip that was only visible if held up to a light source, the new note sports a big, blue strip sitting unhidden on the bill's face. Arguably the most advanced and difficult-to-replicate feature, this strip is woven into the bill through a process the Fed wont disclose, and somehow can't be seen from the rear side of the note. Visible within the strip are three-dimensional images of two icons.
Looks like your days of printing off stacks with your HP Photosmart 7760 are over. Find out more on why you'll never make it as a counterfeiter at www.newmoney.gov
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/photogalleries/meet-the-benjamins-americas-new-100-bills/#ixzz2hG2pi200
House Votes 425-0 To Restore Death Benefits For Fallen Soldiers
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(Barry vowed earlier today to veto any piecemeal bills such as this, whether or not he would risk the wrath of the entire country by vetoing this bill remains to be seen)
Via The Hill:The House voted unanimously on Wednesday to restore the financial payments the Department of Defense makes to the families of fallen U.S. soldiers.
Members easily passed the bill after the Pentagon said it can no longer make the payments because of the government shutdown. The Honoring the Families of Fallen Soldiers Act, H.J.Res. 91, was approved in a 425-0 vote.
The bipartisan bill was quickly developed and rushed to the floor this week after the Pentagon said it could no longer make "death gratuity" payments to families after October 1 because of the government shutdown.
That announcement prompted immediate anger from members of both parties, although the parties split on the cause of the problem.
The House vote came on the same day that the Obama administration said it would try to fix the problem administratively. White House Spokesman Jay Carney said Obama was "very disturbed" that payments have been halted, and said a fix should be in place by today.
It's unclear whether that will be enough to stop the Senate from voting on the bill, given the anger on both sides in the last few days.
Look who's in the white house!
Arif Alikhan -
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Arif Alikhan" is currently the Deputy Executive Director for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Fire/EMS at Los Angeles World Airports. He was appointed to the new position in October of 2011 and is responsible for the 1,200 sworn police officers and civilian security officers that protect Los Angeles International Airport, Ontario International Airport, and Van Nuys Airport. He is also responsible for all fire and emergency medical services at LAWA's three airports.[1] Alikhan is a former Distinguished Professor of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at the National Defense University (NDU), College of International Security Affairs in Washington, D.C. He teaches and lectures on a variety subjects involving homeland and national security issues for U.S. Military and civilian security professionals.[2] and is a recognized expert on U.S. Government homeland security and counter terrorism policies.
Alikhan was appointed to the Obama Administration in 2009 as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the United States Department of Homeland Security. He is also a former Deputy Mayor of Homeland Security and Public Safety for the City of Los Angeles, former federal prosecutor with the United States Attorneys Office in Los Angeles, and a former senior adviser to Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales while serving at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.
for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Mohammed Elibiary - Homeland Security Adviser
Rashad Hussain -
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rashad Hussain at the UN in Geneva, February 8, 2011
2nd United States Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Incumbent
Assumed office
February 13, 2010
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Sada Cumber
Personal details
Born 1978
Wyoming
Profession Lawyer
Religion Islam
Rashad Hussain (born in 1978), is an American attorney, and U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the second largest intergovernmental body after the UN, with 57 member states.[1] Hussain, a Muslim of Indian heritage, has served in the White House Counsel's Office, and in his role as Envoy, has advised the Administration on policy issues related to the Muslim world. He has traveled to numerous countries and international conferences, and has met with foreign leaders and Muslims around the world.[2] His position, "a kind of ambassador at large to Muslim countries, was created by President George W. Bush." [3]
Salam al-Marayati - Obama Adviser and
founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
and is its current executive director
MPC is also a member of the American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), along with the American Muslim Alliance (AMA), American Muslim Council (AMC), and Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). AMPCC's primary concern is to coordinate the member organizations on activism and lobbying.[13]
Imam Mohamed Magid - Obama's Sharia Czar from
The Islamic Society of North America
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has asserted that the Islamic Society of North America is "accused of ties to Islamic extremists",[23] and investigative journalist Steven Emerson [24][25][26] accused ISNA of ties to terrorism.[1]
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Eboo Patel -
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Eboo Patel is a member of President Barack Obama's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.[1][2] He is an American Ismaili Muslim of Gujarati Indian heritage and founder and president of the Interfaith Youth Core[1], [3] a Chicago-based international nonprofit that aims to promote interfaith cooperation.[4]
The foxes are now officially living in the hen house...
Now ask me why I am very concerned!!!
Do you feel OK with this???
We are quiet while our Country is being drastically changed!!!
We've got to have some relief starting with the 2014 Elections!
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A Tale of Two Websites
Obama's fundraising websites flawlessly processed millions in questionable donations; his Obamacare sites, not so much
Of President Obama's many historic firsts, his 2008 and 2012 campaign fundraising websites achieved an unprecedented level of ignominy.
In the run-up to the elections, his websites are believed to have processed tens of millions in illegal campaign contributions, including:
• "Structured" contributions to evade donation limits
• Foreign contributions
• Stolen credit cards
• Untraceable prepaid cash cards
In addition, the 2008 Obama site explicitly supported the forgery of computer (IP) addresses for said donors.
But none of that was interesting to antique media.[...]
While Obama's fundraising websites processed tens of millions of page-views a month and handled a monstrous number of electronic financial transfer (EFT) transactions, his Obamacare site didn't fare nearly so well.
Obamacare's well-publicized technical failures continue to this day, more than a week later, prompting regular Americans to ask the following questions:
1. Why was the Obamacare site outsourced to an overseas company? Why did Obama ship jobs overseas?
2. Why did it outsource the work to a company infamous for suffering major data breaches?
3. And why did it use a company that had virtually no experience in implementing exchanges?
Answer:http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/19944#.UlVLxeGjbP0.twitter
Those answers are left as exercises for the (*cough* campaign contributions *cough*) reader.
The federal government's red-faced CTO Todd Park says the exchange websites work fine as long as no one is using them. Yes, he really said that.
"These bugs were functions of volume,'' Park said. "Take away the volume and it works.''
Over at Reddit, technologists ripped the site's ridiculously poor design and architecture.
But don't worry, folks: between these geniuses and the IRS, what do you have to worry about?
Poll: Only 17% Think America Is Headed In The Right Direction,
Lowest Level In Nearly Two Years
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(You think the low information voters have finally realized
they screwed America by electing this CLOWN to a second term?)
Via Rasmussen:http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/top_stories/right_direction_or_wrong_track
With no end in sight to the partial government shutdown, the number of voters who believe the country is heading in the right direction has fallen 11 points over the past week to its lowest level in nearly two years.
Just 17% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending October 6. That's down from 28% the week before and the lowest finding since early December 2011.
Confidence in the country's direction rose steadily last fall, peaking at a high of 43% the week before Election Day. It fell steadily after that to the previous low for the year to date of 26% in mid- to late July.
After President Obama assumed office in January 2009, the number of voters who felt the country was heading in the right direction rose to 40% in early May of that year. In 2010 and 2011, confidence fell to the narrow range of 14% to 19%, levels similar to those measured in the final months of the George W. Bush administration. Optimism began easing up again in mid-December 2011.
Jesse Jackson: Republican Party "Is The Resurrection Of The Confederacy"
(LOL... Says one of the most racist people in America. This Clown is sicker than his son, Junior)
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ED SCHLOP: Your take on what we're facing right now in this country.NIGGA JACKSON: Looking at the resize of the Confederacy, the same group narrowly conceived — anti-labor, anti-racial justice, anti-gender equality, anti-the big American dream, that tried to take us down in 1860. It was the Fort Sumter tea party, its progenitor, and Lincoln had to fight a war to establish the Union from them and to end slavery. This is the resurrection of the Confederacy.
Redskins Owners Writes Letter To Season-Ticket Holders:
We Are Never Going To Change Our Team's Name. End of Story!
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(Sorry Solidadadadad... Stand strong, Redskins)
Via WaPo:The following is the text of a letter dated Oct. 9 from Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder to season-ticket holders:To Everyone in our Washington Redskins Nation:
As loyal fans, you deserve to know that everyone in the Washington Redskins organization — our players, coaches and staff — are truly privileged to represent this team and everything it stands for. We are relentlessly committed to our fans and to the sustained long-term success of this franchise.
That's why I want to reach out to you — our fans — about a topic I wish to address directly: the team name, "Washington Redskins." While our focus is firmly on the playing field, it is important that you hear straight from me on this issue. As the owner of the Redskins and a lifelong fan of the team, here is what I believe and why I believe it.
Like so many of you, I was born a fan of the Washington Redskins. I still remember my first Redskins game.
Most people do. I was only six, but I remember coming through the tunnel into the stands at RFK with my father, and immediately being struck by the enormity of the stadium and the passion of the fans all around me.
I remember how quiet it got when the Redskins had the ball, and then how deafening it was when we scored. The ground beneath me seemed to move and shake, and I reached up to grab my father's hand. The smile on his face as he sang that song ... he's been gone for 10 years now, but that smile, and his pride, are still with me every day.
That tradition — the song, the cheer — it mattered so much to me as a child, and I know it matters to every other Redskins fan in the D.C. area and across the nation.
Our past isn't just where we came from — it's who we are.
As some of you may know, our team began 81 years ago — in 1932 — with the name "Boston Braves." The following year, the franchise name was changed to the "Boston Redskins." On that inaugural Redskins team, four players and our Head Coach were Native Americans. The name was never a label. It was, and continues to be, a badge of honor.
In 1971, our legendary coach, the late George Allen, consulted with the Red Cloud Athletic Fund located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and designed our emblem on the Redskins helmets. Several years later, Coach Allen was honored by the Red Cloud Athletic Fund. On the wall at our Ashburn, Virginia, offices is the plaque given to Coach Allen — a source of pride for all of us. "Washington Redskins is more than a name we have called our football team for over eight decades. It is a symbol of everything we stand for: strength, courage, pride, and respect — the same values we know guide Native Americans and which are embedded throughout their rich history as the original Americans.
[...]
I respect the opinions of those who disagree. I want them to know that I do hear them, and I will continue to listen and learn. But we cannot ignore our 81 year history, or the strong feelings of most of our fans as well as Native Americans throughout the country. After 81 years, the team name "Redskins" continues to hold the memories and meaning of where we came from, who we are, and who we want to be in the years to come.
Police Reportedly Arrest Veterans After They Refused to Leave
Vietnam War Memorial in NYC
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVHJZgcJFok
Police reportedly arrested several anti-war veterans and other protesters at the Vietnam war memorial in New York City Monday night after they refused to leave the site after the 10 p.m. curfew time. Some of the individuals arrested were reportedly Vietnam veterans, though it was unclear how many arrests were made.
Veterans for Peace and other anti-war protesters gathered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in NYC on Monday night to mark the 12th anniversary of the "invasion and occupation of Afghanistan" and honor the fallen until morning. The Park Service reportedly rejected the group's permit application to hold their demonstration at the site, but they proceeded anyway.
The NYPD reportedly issued several verbal warnings, instructing the veterans and other demonstrators to leave the site or they would be arrested. A spokesman with the NYPD could not immediately confirm the arrests to TheBlaze.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/08/police-reportedly-arrest-veterans-after-they-refused-to-leave-vietnam-war-memorial-in-nyc/
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhpcoTfG8TE
Video Published on Oct 8, 2013
(In this video Luke Rudkowski documents veterans getting together on October 7th 2013 to make a stand against the curfew of the Vietnam veterans memorial in NYC. The video shows you exactly what occurred that night with interviews from the veterans explaining why they did it.) Follow luke on:https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange
https://facebook.com/LukeWeAreChange
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https://plus.google.com/1023224594778...
(Don't forget, bikers are already in DC, Truckers are on the way and on Sunday, the VETS will protest closing memorials. Nuff said)
COMING SUNDAY OCTOBER 13, 2013
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Event Details:
Date:Sunday, October 13, 2013
Time: 09:00am
Location: World War II Memorial 17th St SW, Washington, DC 20006
If you can't make it to DC, try one of these:
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Rally for our Veterans Across the Nation
Below is a list of rallying points at our memorials. Honor their sacrifice even if you can't make it to DC! We are asking you to never assemble at a national or war cemetery. Our brothers in arms deserve that respect!Alabama
http://www.alabamaveterans.org
Alaska
http://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/aspunits/matsu/akveteransmemorial.htm
Arizona
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Bolin_Memorial_Plaza
Arkansas
http://www.littlerock.com/things-to-do/detail/arkansas-korean-war-veterans-memorial
California
(Southern California) http://www.weho.org/index.aspx?page=497
(Northern California) http://www.vietvet.org/calmem.htm
Colorado
http://www.cfmf.net
Connecticut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Iwo_Jima_Memorial
Delaware
Anyone of these! http://veteransaffairs.delaware.gov/memorialsandmonuments.shtml
District of Columbia
World War II Memorial – DC
Florida
http://www.pensacolawallsouth.org/home.html
Miami Springs Veterans Memorial - https://foursquare.com/v/miami-springs-veterans-memorial/4c78d98dbd346dcb267cf3ef
Georgia
National Infantry Museum - http://www.nationalinfantrymuseum.org
Walk of Heroes Veterans War Memorial - http://www.walkofheroes.org
Hawaii
http://www.ussarizona.org
Idaho
Idaho Veterans Memorial Park – http://parks.cityofboise.org/parks-locations/parks/veterans-memorial-park/
Illinois
Southern – http://www.illinoishistory.gov/hs/vietnam_memorial.htm
Chicago – http://www.elks.org/memorial
Indiana
http://www.in.gov/iwm/
Iowa
http://www.vetsmemorialplaza.org
Kansas
http://www.vietvet.org/kansmem.htm
Kentucky
http://www.kyvietnammemorial.net
Louisiana
http://www.usskidd.com
Maine
http://wikimapia.org/13238299/Maine-Vietnam-Veterans-Memorial
Million Vet March: Maine: https://www.facebook.com/events/166801210181794/?ref=22
Maryland
World War II Memorial – Washington DC
Massachusetts
http://www.massvvm.org
Michigan
http://www.vietmemorialmi.com
Minnesota
http://www.mvvm.org
Mississippi
Still Looking!
Missouri
http://mokoreanwarmemorial.org
Montana
http://www.montanaveteransmemorial.org
Nebraska
http://www.20thcvetsmem.org
Nevada
Still Looking!
New Hampshire
https://foursquare.com/v/veterans-memorial-park/4bcc88c3b6c49c748ce09391
New Jersey
http://www.njvvmf.org
New Mexico
http://nmvetsmemorial.org
New York
NYC - http://www.vietnamveteransplaza.com
Buffalo - https://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/files/1_2_1/Public%20Art%20Website/Web%20Pages/WNY%20Vietnam%20Veterans%20Memorial.html
North Carolina
http://www.ncveteransmemorial.org
North Dakota
http://www.tristateveterans.com/memorials/memorials.html
Ohio
http://www.ovmp.org
Oklahoma
http://www.oklahomaveteransmemorial.us
Oregon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial
Pennsylvania
http://www.dmva.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/the_pennsylvania_veterans_memorial/13480
Rhode Island
Still looking!
South Carolina
http://www.sciway.net/sc-photos/orangeburg-county/orangeburg-veterans-memorial.html
South Dakota
http://www.tristateveterans.com/memorials/memorials.html
Tennessee
http://www.etvma.org
Texas
http://www.mcallen.net/veterans/
http://www.fairpark.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=231
Utah
Still Looking!
Vermont
http://www.vvavtsc.com/vvvm.htm
Virginia
World War II Memorial – Washington DC
Southern - http://www.vawarmemorial.org/VAWM/default.aspx
Washington
http://www.koreanwar.org/html/memorials/wash.htm
West Virginia
http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvvets.html
Wisconsin
http://www.koreanmemorial.org
http://warmemorials.us/listing-002-municipalities.html#content
Wyoming
http://www.cityofcody-wy.gov/Facilities/Facility/Details/11
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Thousands of truck drivers from across America will rally in protest in Washington, DC for three days – 1 million veterans are also expected to descend upon the nation's capital to protest war memorial closures
From WBTW News, US truckers plan drive to DC to 'restore our Constitutional Republic':
http://www.wbtw.com/story/23638319/truckers-plan-drive-to-dc-to
After more than 1 million bikers rode their motorcycles into Washington DC last month, angry truckers are now planning a drive into the capitol to "restore our Constitutional Republic."
The "Trucker's Ride for the Constitution" is a three day event planned to start on Friday that is sparked by regulations, the debt ceiling, President Obama and "corruption," the organizers say.
Twitter shut down the original account for the group and Facebook also shut down their page when it had 86,000 "likes." They have since restored the Facebook page under a new account.
The plan originally was to have big-rigs tie up three lanes of the I-495 loop with the trucks only going 55 mph, an organizer told US News. But, any plan to block traffic has now been denied by the group.
Now, the group says that it is more about simply not hauling freight and driving to D.C. to call attention to problems.
"The American people are sick and tired of the corruption that is destroying America! We therefore declare a national protest in support of our nation's truckers on the weekend of October 11-13, 2013!" the group says on its Facebook page.
(They are coming... it wouldn't surprise me a bit that
POS Obuma will have the National Guard waiting for them)
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Leftists Are Blocking Buses From Leaving Arizona
Deporting Illegal Immigrants
Tucson Police Department officers use pepper spray to force protesters (most are AU students depicted in photo with nothing else to do) back onto the sidewalk Tuedsday, Oct. 8, 2013, in Tucson, Ariz. Tucson police used pepper spray to help disperse some of the more than 100 people protesting the detention of two immigrants who had been detained after a traffic stop.(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/tucson-immigration-protestjpeg-09398_s640x350-548x299.jpg)
(Eat pepper spray, liberal losers!!)
Via Washington Times:http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/image/tucson-immigration-protestjpeg-09398jpg/
Immigrant-rights activists said Friday morning they are blocking buses in Tucson, Ariz., filled with illegal immigrants who are on their way to be being sentenced to jail and then processed for deportation.
The activists said those on the buses are part of Operation Streamline, which is designed to give illegal immigrants jail sentences before they are deported, as a deterrent to keep them from trying to reenter the country in the future. The activists, though, say the program circumvents due process rights.
"Anyone who witnesses Operation Streamline will come away convinced that it is both unconstitutional and immoral," said activist Roberto Cintli Rodriguez. "There is no justice in that courtroom. It violates every principle the U.S. claims to ascribe to. When humanity is confronted with unjust laws, it is our responsibility to challenge them."
Idiot MSNBC President Wants Investigation Into How Fox Ratings
Are So Much Higher Than Theirs
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(It's probably cheaper to assume there's corruption,
rather than deal with firing Joe Piscopo...
Sorry, I mean... Mr. Rachel Maddow)
Via Hollywood Reporter:Megyn Kelly blew out Rachel Maddow in the key demo on Tuesday after losing to her the night before. "I have never seen it in all my years of cable," says Phil Griffin.
Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, says there's something fishy about Tuesday's ratings for the Fox News Channel, which were up significantly from a day earlier when Fox News debuted its new schedule. And he wants an investigation.
"Monday we had a really good day in the key demographic. On the night that Fox News debuted their three shows, we either tied or beat them in those hours," Griffin said at a briefing, according to TVNewser.
MONDAY: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/monday-cable-news-ratings-msnbcs-matthews-beats-foxs-van-susteren-in-demo-at-7pm/
Tuesday:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/tuesday-cable-news-ratings-msnbcs-hayes-beats-cnns-cooper-in-demo-and-total/
List of World's Top 11 Most Dangerous Terrorists
All Have One Thing In Common
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(Take a wild guess)
(CNN) – Any compilation of the world's most dangerous terrorists is a hazardous undertaking, a shifting list that's open to endless debate.
If you live in Moscow, Chechen Islamist leader Doku Umarov would feature prominently. Many Israelis would likely include 'Hezbollah' leader Hassan Nasrallah and Barack Hussein Obuma, leader of the 'Kenyans International Lesbian Lovers' or 'KILL' as they are called, on their list and people living in the southern Philippines, the Abu Sayyaf group.
Some terror figures who were among the most wanted several years ago, such as Abu Anas al Libi — who was captured last weekend in Libya — appear not to have been active for some time. Even some terrorists try to retire. The last list compiled by CNN included senior al Qaeda operative Saif al Adel. He has vanished from the radar and may have been under house arrest in Iran.
1. Ayman al-Zawahiri
Despite the whittling away by drone attacks of "al Qaeda central" in the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the group's leader remains vocal and active in trying to harness the disparate affiliates that claim the al Qaeda name...
2. Barack Hussein Obuma
The U.S. Federal Tea Party Department named Gen. Obuma, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist this December 2014, who is now living in his home country of Kenya, and said subsequently he was "encouraging followers to commit violent acts against declared enemies which took part in his impeachment, in the United States as well as Israel, Russia, and the United Kingdom."
3. Nasir al Wuhayshi
For someone thought to be about 36 years old,Wuhayshi's terror resume is already extensive. Once bin Laden's private secretary in Afghanistan, he returned to his native Yemen and ended up in jail. But not for long: He and several other al Qaeda operatives dug their way out in 2006. He went on to to help found al Qaeda in Yemen, and began launching attacks on Yemeni security services and foreign tourists, as well as directing an ambitious attack against the U.S. Embassy in Yemen...
4. Ibrahim al-Asiri
Not a household name, but one that provokes plenty of anxiety among Western intelligence agencies. Al-Asiri, a 31-year-old Saudi, is AQAP's master bomb-maker, as expert as he is ruthless. He is widely thought to have designed the "underwear" bomb that nearly brought down a U.S. airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009, as well as the ingenious printer bombs sent as freight from Sanaa, Yemen, and destined for the United States before being intercepted thanks to a Saudi tip-off. The bombs were so well hidden that at first British police were unable to find one device even after isolating the printer...
5. Ahmed Abdi Godane
Godane, aka Mukhtar Abu Zubayr, became the leader of the Somali group Al-Shabaab at the end of 2008. Traditionally, Al-Shabaab has been focused on bringing Islamic rule to Somalia, and as such has attracted dozens of ethnic Somalis (and a few Western coverts) from the United States and Europe. But Godane appears to be refocusing the group on terrorist attacks beyond Somalia, against the east African states that are supporting the Somali government — especially Uganda and Kenya — and against Western interests in east Africa...
6. Moktar Belmoktar
Belmoktar is Algerian but based in the endless expanse of desert known as the Sahel. Like many on this list, he has an uncanny knack for survival against the odds. A year ago, he probably would not have been counted among the world's most dangerous terrorists. Then he announced the formation of an elite unit called "Those Who Sign With Blood," which he said would be the shield against the "invading enemy." A short time later, his fighters launched an attack on the In Amenas gas plant in southern Algeria. A three-day siege left nearly 40 foreign workers dead...
7. Abu Muhammad al-Julani
While Belmoktar might have been on the fringes of a "most dangerous terrorist list" a year ago, Abu Muhammad al-Julani would not have been anywhere near it. But as Syria has descended into a state of civil war, al-Julani's group — the al-Nusra Front — has emerged as one of the most effective rebel factions. Formed in January 2012, it is a jihadist group with perhaps 10,000 fighters, many of them battle-hardened in Iraq. It has specialized in suicide bombings and IED attacks against regime forces, and its success has attracted hundreds of fighters from other rebel groups...
8. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
One factor that may influence the growth and potency of al-Nusra is its relationship with fellow jihadists in Iraq. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was publicly at odds with al Julani over the regional pecking order earlier this year, asserting that al-Nusra was part of his group, a claim swiftly rejected by al Julani. Western intelligence would like nothing more than dissent between these two groups. Close cooperation between them across the long Syrian-Iraqi border — the goal of al-Zawahiri — is the nightmare scenario...
9. Sirajuddin Haqqani
Shifting from the Middle East to the Afghan-Pakistan border regions, several groups are positioning themselves for the exit of U.S. combat forces from Afghanistan next year. Among the most dangerous is the Haqqani Network, responsible for some of the deadly attacks in Kabul in recent years. A 2008 coordinated suicide bomb attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul left six dead. Another strike in June 2011 killed 12 at the InterContinental Hotel...
10. Abubakar Shekau
Shekau's inclusion recognizes the growing tide of Islamist militancy in West Africa. For the last four years, he has led Boko Haram, a Salafist group in northern Nigeria that has begun cooperating with other groups as far away as Mali...
11. Doku Umarov
Doku Umarov leads the Caucasus Emirate (CE), a Chechen group dedicated to bringing Islamic rule to much of southern Russia.
Kansas Sen. Roberts: Sebelius Should Resign
(Sen. Roberts is thinking to small... the guy in charge should be the one to go. $634 million dollars for a website. How unconscionable is that.... and no one is holding Obuma to account. And that's just the website. Imagine the much greater boondoggle that this presages and creepy Sebelius is wasting more tax payer dimes traveling state to state on her broom running into brick walls trying to sell this dead fish) Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/11/gop-sen-pat-roberts-to-sebelius-resign-in-absence-of-full-obamacare-repeal/
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Kansas Republican Sen. Pat Roberts called on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the face of Obamacare, to resign for "gross incompetence" on Friday.
"In the absence of a full repeal of Obamacare, which is my preference, we need new leadership from top to bottom. I am calling on the Secretary to resign," Roberts said in a statement.
Eleven days after the beginning of Obamacare's open enrollment phase, Roberts detailed Sebelius' failings, from the problems with the online exchanges to the promotional flops meant to encourage enrollment.
McRino Blames Cruz, Conservatives For Obuma's
Mishandling Of Death Benefits
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(Sooooo... Republicans and some Democrats in the House vote to pay military which should include payment of death benefits. The Pentagon(translate: Chuck Hagel, who's hiding in the basement) said it shouldn't be paid. Obuma administration knew of this problem for some days before it broke, yet did nothing, zulch, zip, zero. Republicans immediately passed another bill to try to solve the problem created by the Obuma administration. Yet, somehow, it is the Republicans' fault? Only in the twisted benighted mind of John McCain. Time to hang it up, John and retire. Get out of the stink in DC, go home to Cindy and enjoy those beautiful sunsets in Sedona)(http://www.sedonalandscape.com/wp-content/uploads/ChimneyRock-Sunset1-300x199.jpg)
Via Breitbart:On Friday, Sen. John McCain (Rino-AZ) blamed conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for the Obama administration's initial failure to pay death benefits to the families of fallen American soldiers during the government shutdown.
In an appearance on Fox News with host Martha MacCallum, McCain said the White House has handled the situation horribly before trying to argue that Republicans were responsible for putting the White House in a position to mishandle the situation.
"I think it's been terribly handled by the White House," McCain said. "Let's have a little straight talk, Martha. They wouldn't have had the opportunity to handle it that way if we had not shut down the government on a fool's errand that we were not going to accomplish."
In reference to Cruz's defunding Obamacare strategy, McCain said the whole "premise of shutting down the government was the repeal of Obamacare," which McCain said would never happened. Cruz's strategy, it is worth noting, was to defund and not repeal Obamacare.
On Thursday, Obama finally signed the bill that would pay the families of America's fallen troops nearly $100,000 in benefits. The Pentagon had suspended the payments during the government shutdown, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had initially said signing the resolution to authorize the payments was not necessary; Fisher House, a charity that helps the families of wounded and fallen soldiers, had indicated they would help cover the funeral costs and payments.
Piers Morgan Expected to Lose 9PM Hour on CNN;
Bill Weir Late of NightLine to Move In?
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"Whaaa... what did I do to deserve this.. (sob)"
Via Mediaite:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/piers-morgan-expected-to-lose-9pm-hour-on-cnn-bill-weir-to-move-in/
Earlier this morning, we reported that Nightline anchor Bill Weir was departing ABC News for other pastures.
TVNewser beat us to the punch on the news that his new role is with CNN. But that is only part of the story. A reliable source connected to CNN tells Mediaite that Weir has been promised a show during the 9 p.m. ET hour — an hour that happens to be currently occupied by Piers Morgan.
According to our source, the details and timing have not yet been worked out (and we are told it will likely take "many months") but that Weir is expected to get either half or all of the 9 p.m. slot, meaning Morgan will either move time slots or, at best, reduce to a half hour of airtime per evening. Another CNN source tells us that Weir's show will likely launch in "late night" but our original source insists that if that happens, the goal would be to test it out for an eventual move to the 9 p.m. hour.
Either way, the British host, who's become associated with his anti-gun fights as of late, looks to be losing the full 9 p.m. hour.
Weir was previously the anchor of ABC's newsmagazine show Nightline, and on Friday morning, ABC News chief Ben Sherwood announced that Weir was leaving "for another opportunity in the news business."
Earlier this month, FTVLive reported that CNN was preparing to "dump" Piers Morgan, with Katie Couric allegedly being eyed as a replacement. That rumor plus Morgan's declining ratings further fueled speculation that he could be planning an exit strategy from CNN.
We'll have more here as this story develops.
UPDATE: A spokesperson provides the following comment: "Bill Weir was not brought to CNN to replace Piers Morgan."
Terrific! Ted Cruz Lectures Obuma During White House Meeting
October 11, 2013, 7:07 PM(You gotta love it. The one Republican who has the courage to tell it like it is)Ted Cruz lectured the president on the negative effects of Obamacare today at the White House. Earlier in the day Senator Cruz joked that Obama might abduct him when he attends the White House meeting.
The Politico reported:Sen. Ted Cruz confronted President Barack Obama over his health care law during a meeting at the White House Friday attended by dozens of GOP senators.
Cruz told Obama that any deal to reopen the government must also provide relief for those negatively affected by Obamacare. In a long gaggle with reporters, Cruz did not use the word "defund" to describe his aspirations for changes to the health care law, but said he wants "substantial" changes.
"I told the president exactly the same thing I have told you here today: That we need to work together and fund the government and at the same time provide substantial relief to the millions of people who are hurting because of Obamacare, who are losing their jobs, being forced into part-time work and losing their health insurance," Cruz said. "If the outcome doesn't impact people who are struggling, who are hurting because of Obamacare, then I don't think it would be a good outcome."Asked to give a breakdown of the exchange between Cruz and Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney simply responded: "No."
"Ancient Artifact" That Obuma Gave Iranian President Was A Fake
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(Remember the griffin that Obuma gave Iran as a gift of respect, supposedly costing $1 million dollars? ...
http://news.yahoo.com/rouhani-home-us-gift-silver-griffin-reports-175921221.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CUdO0dSLRQAVTTQtDMD
...Well, turns out it's not really worth that much because it's really a fake. This might have been funny if this had been done as sort of a cagey joke [albeit diplomatically hinky]. Unfortunately, it's just because Obuma and his administration are remarkably ignorant and incompetent)
Via Frontpage:http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/ancient-artifact-obama-gave-iran-is-a-fake-from-1999/
(A fake from a fake for a fake)
Obama ran for office promising masterful diplomacy. The reality has been less savvy diplomat and more pathetic loser. Hillary Clinton's Reset Button with Russia was a dumb Bush-bashing gimmick and it was also misspelled.
That set the tone for the long-running comedy of errors in which Obama Inc. blended appeasement with dumb gimmicks and somehow managed to screw them up.
The ancient artifact it shouldn't have given to Iran... proved not to be so ancient after all.
Sometimes an ancient artifact symbolizes more than its admirers necessarily imagine. Take for example the silver griffin that was returned by the United States to Iran as a gesture of respect and—at least according to tea-leaf readers—a sign of an emerging thaw between the two nations.
There's only one problem: It's a fake.
Not only is it a fake, it's a bad fake.
Americans Storm The Barrycades At The Lincoln Memorial
This will send a stir through your heart.
Adults, elderly, young people, children–Americans–remove the Barrycades and charge up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
"Remove the trash in Washington," one shouts as goes up. He clearly wasn't referring to any garbage left by the people. Wave upon wave, ascend up the stairs.
This, please, and more of it, until we all make DC listen.
Girl Rising -- Walking to School
One reason we made Girl Rising is because of the 66 million girls around the world who can only dream of getting an education. But, as we traveled the globe making the film, we were struck by the powerful energy of the girls who are in school -- their enthusiasm, their spirit, their sheer joy. The pride they take - in their uniforms, in their schools, in their studies -- is infectious, and you won't be able to resist the rhythm of their feet as they walk to school and march into a better future.
It's time to join the march - sign up to host an International Day of the Girl event! October 11th. www.girlrising.com/idg
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Obama purging military of officers who refuse to fire on U.S. citizens?
by Christopher Cook | February 6 2013 http://www.westernfreepress.com/2013/02/06/obama-purging-military-of-officers-who-refuse-to-fire-on-u-s-citizens/
I knew Obama was going to be a bad president before he was elected the first time. If you had asked me at the time, I would have told you that I would rather have had Bill Clinton for three terms (were such a thing possible) than Obama for one. But even I, with whatever prescience I can claim, never imagined that I was going t0 write a headline like that . . . even with a question mark at the end of it. But here we are.
The headline is inspired by the video below. I have no proof of the claims being made therein. I do not have any inkling who this high-ranking military source may be. I am not making any claims myself. I am simply relaying the video for you to watch and judge. I do think the host and guest do their discussion a disservice by throwing in a lot of buzzwords ("socialist," etc.) that drive away all but strong conservatives and anti-statists. On the other hand, WHDN and Nobel Prize nominee Jim Garrow presumably have reputations to protect. It would not serve them to make things up out of whole cloth, or so one would think.
I will simply, for now, say this: If there is even a shred of truth to this, we have a serious problem.
Published on Jan 23, 2013
http://NextNewsNetwork.com | The Obama administration is openly escalating its campaign against private gun ownership, and shaking up the top ranks of the military command structure -- but is it also preparing to make war on the American population? According to a person identified as a former senior military official, the answer to that shocking question is yes.
World-renowned educator and human rights activist Jim Garrow says that the source, man regarded as "one of America's foremost military heroes," told him that President Obama is using a new litmus test for "determining who will stay and who must go" among top-ranked military leaders. That test is whether they will fire on US citizens or not. Garrow says that his source made the disclosure in order to "sound the alarm" over the administration's plans.
While Garrow will not yet reveal the identity of the source, it's important to note that Garrow himself is a man of considerable accomplishment. He is the founder of the Bethune Institute, which has established hundreds of schools throughout China. Three years ago, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work though a group called Pink Pagoda, which combat "gendercide" in China -- that is, the practice of rescuing baby girls who had been abandoned or targeted for infanticide because of the government's one-child policy. He was personally involved in helping to save the lives of more than 50,000 Chinese girls. He joins Gary Franchi on WHDT World News to discuss this new "Litmus Test."
*No party or entity depicted in this broadcast advocates insurrection against the government of the United States of America.
"The most expensive thing in the world is something that's free. And if you sit down at the poker table and you don't know after a half hour which person is going to be taken to the cleaners, it's going to be you."Obumacare's winners and losers in Bay Area, Californication
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By Tracy SeipelVinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.
"Welcome to the club," said Robert Laszewksi, a prominent health care consultant and president of
Health Policy and Strategy Associates in Virginia.
For years, the nation has been embroiled in the political rhetoric of "Obamacare," but this past week the reality of the new law sank in as millions of Americans had their first good look at how the 3 1/2-year-old legislation will affect their pocketbooks.
This much quickly became clear:As state- and federal-run health insurance exchanges debuted across the country offering a range of prices for different tiers of insurance coverage, the new online marketplaces -- which represent the centerpiece of Obamacare -- could greatly benefit more than 40 million Americans who now lack coverage. But an additional 16 million -- who buy individual health insurance policies on the open market -- are finding out that their plans may not comply with the new law, which requires 10 essential benefits such as maternity care, mental health care and prescription drug coverage.
In California, 1.9 million people buy plans on the open market, according to officials with Covered California, the state's new health insurance exchange. And many of them are steaming mad.
"There's going to be a number of people surprised" by their bills, said Jonathan Wu, a co-founder of ValuePenguin, a consumer finance website. "The upper-middle class are the people who are essentially being asked to foot the bill, and that's true across the country."
Covered California spokesman Dana Howard maintained that in public presentations the exchange has always made clear that there will be winners and losers under Obamacare.
"Some people will see an increase who are already on the individual market purchasing insurance," he said, "but most people will not."
Covered California officials note that at least 570,000 of the 1.9 million people who buy their own insurance should be eligible for subsidies that will reduce their premiums.
Even those who don't qualify for the tax subsidies could see their rates drop because Obamacare doesn't allow insurers to charge people more if they have pre-existing conditions such as diabetes and cancer, he said.
People like Marilynn Gray-Raine:
The 64-year-old Danville artist, who survived breast cancer, has purchased health insurance for herself for decades. She watched her Anthem Blue Cross monthly premiums rise from $317 in 2005 to $1,298 in 2013. But she found out last week from the Covered California site that her payments will drop to about $795 a month.
But people with no pre-existing conditions like Vinson, a 60-year-old retired teacher, and Waschura, a 52-year-old self-employed engineer, are making up the difference.
"I was laughing at Boehner -- until the mail came today,"
Brochures and handouts on the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, are shown at the education outreach booth sponsor by Daughters of Charity O'Connor Hospital at Santa Clara County Library Alum Rock branch in San Jose on Oct. 1, 2013. (Josie Lepe/Staff)Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare.
"I really don't like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family's pocket each year, that's otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy."
Both Vinson and Waschura have adjusted gross incomes greater than four times the federal poverty level -- the cutoff for a tax credit. And while both said they anticipated their rates would go up, they didn't realize they would rise so much.
"Of course, I want people to have health care," Vinson said. "I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally."
A frustrated Vinson went on the Covered California site to see what she would pay for the same policy if she lived in Los Angeles or Sacramento. She discovered she would save at least $100 monthly.
According to data compiled by ValuePenguin, Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, San Francisco as well as Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties have some of the highest health insurance rates in the state. Covered California officials say that in addition to the higher cost of living here, more hospitals in the Bay Area are owned by hospital groups that can demand higher rates because of the lack of competition.
Not all of the sticker shock can be blamed on Obamacare.
Health care inflation costs routinely increase at least 4 percent annually, said Ken Wood, a senior adviser for Covered California. Those increases, he noted, are due to an aging population and the rising costs of new medical technology and drugs, among other factors.
But Wood, Wu and others also said premiums will rise as a result of people getting better insurance under the new law, which requires most Americans, with few exceptions, to buy health insurance no later than March 31, or pay a minimum $95 annual penalty.
The law's intent is to cover people who are now uninsured by making insurance accessible to everybody. But that means rates will rise for many because sick and healthy people will now be charged the same premium.
Adding a required list of 10 essential benefits to all plans is also significant. A study published last year in the journal Health Affairs said more than half of Americans who had individual insurance in 2010 were enrolled in plans that would not qualify because they didn't meet all the new requirements.
Wood likened these mandates to the higher cost of buying cars today that must have safety features like air bags and anti-lock brakes.
The law also will often make some policies more expensive because it limits out-of-pocket expenses to $6,350 annually for an individual and $12,700 for a family. In addition, the law restricts the minimum and maximum premiums that people can be charged based on their age.
Now, a 64-year-old can be charged almost five times more than a 21-year-old. Beginning Jan. 1, it will be a 3-1 ratio.
Those explanations, however, don't completely satisfy Waschura and Vinson.
"I'm not against Obamacare," Waschura said. "It's just the initial shock. I'm holding out hope that there will be a correction over a handful of years."
But to Gray-Raine, the breast cancer survivor from the East Bay, that correction has already come.
"Obamacare is a huge step in the right direction for those of us without employer coverage," she said, adding that she hopes everyone will "join in and make this new legislation a success for all."
(Remember, as you listen to these two videos, keep in mind that this is
about Obuma one week BEFORE he won his first term in 2008)
The Men behind Barack Obama - Part #1
The Men behind Barack Obama - Part #2
Uploaded on Oct 29, 2008 Especially in politics it is of the utmost importance to try to look behind the facade: who makes up the team of the presidential candidate? The future president of the United States of America is for a large part dependent on and being fed by his team of advisors and future cabinet members. Webster Tarpley wrote a book on the men and women behind presidential hopeful Barack Obama. He argues that there is more to Obama than his charismatic appearance and that some of his advisors pose a danger to the US and the world in case Obama might be elected to become the next US president. Whether Tarpleys view is correct for now is a matter of opinion and remains to be seen, but for the public debate it is relevant to take note of his facts and arguments. Therefor DeepJournal interviewed Webster Tarpley on the topic of his recently published book 'Obama, The Postmodern Coup, The Making of a Manchurian Candidate.'
Obuma's Private Army
Below is a speech given by David Horowitz at the Kohler conference of the Bradley Foundation. It has been revised and edited for publication as an article.(First... let me say that Yes, it was brilliant but I see that Mr. Horowitz could not bring himself to mention that the clown bunkered down in the "sleeper cell" at 1600 Penn Ave is a Fraud. He failed to mention that this 'Fraud in Chief' has been under a two year criminal investigation looking into his fraudulent and E-Verified flagged SS# (042-68-4425), his fraudulent registration with the Selective Service in 2008 and his computer generated 9 layered April 27th, 2011 forged birth certificate. Wouldn't you say that the root of our "threat" is the fact that this man is a FRAUD who sits next to the Nuclear Football for crying out loud. That should have been part of Mr. Horowitz's opening remarks. This Fraud and his criminal activity is our biggest national security challenge... and that is getting rid of this psycho in the WH)The Threat We Face
I was born at the beginning of the Second World War into a family of high school teachers who were members of the Communist Party, and therefore were actually part of a vast conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of this country, although they would never have looked at it that way, and so-called liberals would be the first to deny it.
In those days, the schools were old fashioned enough that my parents did not use their classrooms to indoctrinate students as tens of thousands of university professors and even more K-12 teachers regularly do today. It is also an unhappy but hugely important fact that the conspiracy to which my parents belonged has steadily migrated into the heart of the Democratic Party until it now occupies the Oval Office in the person of our president, Barack Obama, and his closest advisors.
The president, his chief operative Valerie Jarrett and his chief political strategist David Axelrod all came out of the same Communist left and the same radical new left as I did, and all have remained heart and soul a part of it. As someone who turned his back on that destructive movement, I can say with confidence that they have not. If a person belongs to an organization or is the supporter of an idea that they come to see as destructive or evil, the first thing they will want to do when they leave is to warn others against it, to warn them of the dangers it represents. If a person does not do this – that tells me that he or she hasn't left the destructive movement or abandoned the pernicious idea but has just put another face on them. Instead of calling themselves communists or socialists they call themselves liberals and progressives. This camouflage is very old. I never once heard my parents and their party friends refer to themselves as Communists. They were progressives – and registered Democrats.
This is why – to take one disturbing example, I know that Hillary Clinton's right hand, Huma Abedin, the former deputy secretary of state, and chief foreign policy adviser on Muslim Affairs is a Muslim Brotherhood operative. Huma Abedin's late father was a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and her mother and brother still are. For 12 years until the moment she was hired by Hillary, Huma Abedin worked for Abdullah Omar Naseef, one of the top three funders of Osama Bin Laden who is still wanted by our government for his role in the 9/11 attacks.
Huma Abedin has never to my knowledge uttered a word of disapproval about the Muslim Brotherhood's desire to rid the world of Christians and Jews or to bring all infidels under the heel of totalitarian Islamic law. Her spiritual adviser Yusef al-Qaradawi is the spiritual leader of the Brotherhood. Qaradawi has publicly said that the Holocaust of the Jews was God's punishment for their corruption, and that it would come again, and when it did, "Allah willing it will be at the hands of the believers." Huma Abedin has not broken her relations with this evil man or dissociated herself from his genocidal remarks. Nor has she opposed the policies enacted by Obama and Hillary, which have supported the Muslim Brotherhood at home and in the Middle East.
On the contrary. when the Obama administration supported the Brotherhood's rise to power in Egypt, Huma Abedin was our government's key adviser on Muslim affairs. She was at Hillary's side when security was not provided to our diplomatic complex in Benghazi and when al-Qaeda fanatics murdered our Ambassador. The murder of Ambassador Stevens led to the most shameful presidential act in our history when the President turned his back on the cries for help of three American heroes who served him and who were in a desperate fight for their lives. It is a time honored American code never to abandon our warriors on the field of battle. But America's commander-in-chief turned his back on these brave fighting men and left them to die; and then lied to the American people to cover up his crime.
Ever since Barack Obama was elected and began his radical course, American conservatives have been in a state of shock, as though they couldn't quite believe what was happening. Until then there had been a general collusion in the practiced deceptions of the left as commentators on all sides would refer to unrepentant radicals, and dedicated socialists as "liberals," and turn half blind eyes to their anti-American agendas. What is "liberal" about the mean-spirited intolerant people of the left, except their attitude to hard drugs, sex, and criminal behavior? Oh yes, and spending other people's money?
Today the Obama juggernaut is systematically bankrupting our country, and undoing our constitutional arrangements. Its contempt for consultative and representative government is relentlessly on display. This week Senate Majority leader Harry Reid defended his refusal to negotiate with Republicans over Obamacare and the debt in these words: "We are here to support the federal government. That's our job." End quote. Forget about representing the people whom our Founders made sovereign. Forget what America is about.
The fact that I had a radical past allowed me to see much of this coming. But even I never thought we would be looking so soon at the prospect of a one-party state. Those words may sound hyperbolic, but take a moment to think about it. If you have transformed the taxing agency of the state into a political weapon – and Obama has; if you are setting up a massive government program to gather the financial and health information of every citizen, and control their access to care; and if you have a spy agency that can read the mail and listen to the communications of every individual in the country, you don't really need a secret police to destroy your political opponents. Once you have silenced them, you can proceed with your plans to remake the world in your image.
The good news is that the bad five years we have just been through have aroused a sleeping giant among Americans who didn't see it coming and couldn't imagine that it would. For the first time since the Cold War, people with a public voice are calling socialists by their right name; conservatives are finally organizing at the grassroots to defend their freedom; and at last we have leaders who are willing to stand up to the thuggery of the left and who have the spine not to back down.
As a sometime Jonah freed from the whale let me offer some intelligence about the political forces arrayed against us. Do not make the mistake of thinking that progressives and conservatives are people who merely differ about practical agendas. There are four defining features of the left, which distinguish it as a movement of individuals who approach politics quite differently from pragmatically-minded conservatives.
The first of these features is their alienation from country: If you ask progressives about their patriotic feeling, they will tell you that they don't think of themselves first as Americans but as "citizens of the world." That even has a Harvard imprimatur. They are, in fact, so profoundly alienated from their country as to be in some sense foreigners to it. They are hostile to its history and to its core values, which they see as reflections of a society that has been guilty of racism and oppression on an epic scale. And they are fundamentally opposed to its constitutional arrangements which the framers specifically designed to thwart what they deemed "wicked projects" to redistribute income and share individual wealth.
This is perhaps the hardest feature of their progressive adversaries for conservatives to comprehend. It is difficult to imagine that people as privileged by America's generosity as Barack Obama and his entourage of despoilers should be so alienated from their country as to feel themselves in it but not of it. And there is no more shocking example of this than Benghazi. No matter what your politics, or what solutions you propose to the problems that confront this nation, ask yourself this: Could you have done what Barack Obama did that night? Could you as commander-in-chief abandon three Americans fighting for their lives under your command? These men had served their country for more than a decade. For seven hours they cried out for help from their government, but you refused to give it.
How, as a fellow American, could Obama have just left these men to die? No one with an ounce of patriotic feeling could. But he did. Even Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet premier of a Communist dictatorship, maintained contact with his astronaut as he burned up in space. But not our president. When the attack on our embassy in Benghazi began, he hung up the phone and went to bed, and then on to a fundraiser with Beyonce and Jay-Z in Las Vegas in the morning. This, with four Americans including our ambassador dead.
As a nation we are now confronted by mortal enemies in Iran and Syria, in Hizbollah and Hamas – enemies who have openly declared that we are the devil's party and should be erased from the face of the earth. How could an American president deliberately set out to appease such enemies? How in the face of such threats could he reduce our country to an international laughing stock, no longer respected by our friends, no longer feared by our foes? How could he be so cavalier about having failed so miserably to have defended his country's security and uphold its honor? How could an American commander-in-chief then put himself in a position to be snubbed by the Iranian Hitlerites, which is what they are, and which is what Obama did? How could he snub our Israeli allies and at the same time grovel before our Islamic enemies? But he did. How could he create a vacuum in the Middle East allowing Russia to become the new regional power? How could he make himself an ally of the Muslim Brotherhood, which slaughters Christians, and promises the extermination of the Jews and spawns terrorist armies like al-Qaeda and Hamas?
The answer to all these questions is that Obama doesn't identify with our country. He sees himself as a "citizen of the world," and a redresser of grievances for the suffering he imagines America has inflicted on our adversaries, including Hitlerite Iran.
The second feature of the progressive left that is key to understanding it is its instinctive, practiced, and indispensable dishonesty. As I previously noted, the Communists in the circles I frequented in my youth never identified themselves as Communists but always as "progressives" and "Jeffersonian democrats" (which is the last thing they were). When I was a young man and Stalin was alive, the goal of the Communist Party U.S.A. was a "dictatorship of the proletariat," and a "Soviet America." But under Stalin's inspiration the official slogan of the Communist Party was "Peace, Jobs, and Democracy."
The lesson? People on the left may be delusional but they are not stupid. They know what they can say and get away with, and what they can't. Barack Obama is a born and bred member of the left and not coincidentally is the most brazen and compulsive liar ever to occupy the American White House. What other politician could have successfully explained away the fact that two of his closest political confidantes over a twenty-year period were an anti-American racist, Jeremiah Wright and an anti-American terrorist William Ayers?
There is a marked difference between the radicals of the Sixties and the radical movement Obama is part of. In the Sixties, as radicals we said what we thought and blurted out what we wanted. We wanted a revolution, and we wanted it now. It was actually very decent of us to warn others as to what we intended. But because we blurted out our goal, we didn't get very far. Americans were onto us. Those who remained on the left when the Sixties were over, learned from their experience. They learned to lie. The strategy of the lie is progressives' new gospel. It is what the progressive bible — Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals — is all about. Alinsky is the acknowledged political mentor to Obama and Hillary, to the service and teacher unions, and to the progressive rank and file. Alinsky understood the mistake Sixties' radicals had made. His message to this generation is easily summed up: Don't telegraph your goals; infiltrate their institutions and subvert them; moral principles are disposable fictions; the end justifies the means; and never forget that your political goal is always power.
An SDS radical wrote in the Sixties: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." The Alinsky version is this: The issue is never the issue; the issue is always power: How to wring power out of the democratic process, how turn the process into an instrument of progressive control. How to use it to fundamentally transform the United States of America — which is exactly what Barack Obama warned he would do on the eve of his election.
The chosen legislative instrument to begin this transformation was Obamacare. It was presented as an act of charity, a plan to cover the uninsured. That was the "issue" as they presented it. But the actual goal of Obamacare's socialist sponsors was a "single payer system" – government healthcare — which would put the state in control of the lives of every American, man, woman and child. That is the reason that none of the promises made about Obamacare was true, beginning with his campaign lie that Obamacare government health care was not a program he would support. Obamacare will not cover 30 million uninsured Americans, as Obama and the Democrats said it would; Obamacare will not lower costs, as they promised it would; Obamacare will deprive many Americans of their doctors and healthcare plans, as they assured everyone it would not; Obamacare is a new tax, as they swore it wouldn't be. All these promises Obama and the Democrats made were false because they were only a camouflage for their real goal actual goal, which was universal control.
A third feature of progressives that defines their politics is that they regard the past, which is real, with contempt, and are focused exclusively on a future, which is imaginary.
To understand why this is important, think of progressives as a species of religious fundamentalists planning a redemption. Like fundamentalists they look at the world as fallen – a place corrupted by racism, sexism and class division. But the truly religious understand that we are the source of corruption and that redemption is only possible through the work of a Divinity. In contrast, progressives see themselves as the redeemers, which is why they are so dangerous. Because they regard those who oppose them as the eternally damned. Progressives are on a mission to create the kingdom of heaven on earth by redistributing income and using the state to enforce politically correct attitudes and practices in everyone's life. They want to control what you do, and who you are, and even what you eat. For your own good, of course.
The fact that they see themselves as saving the world – or "saving the planet" as they would prefer — results in a fourth key characteristic of their politics, which is that they regard politics as a religious war. This explains why they are so rude and nasty when you disagree with them or resist their panaceas (and of course if they had the power, the punishments would be more severe); that is why the politics of personal destruction is their favorite variety, why they are verbal assassins and go directly for the jugular, and why they think nothing of destroying the reputations of their opponents and burying them permanently. And that is why they can perform their character assassinations without regrets – or did I miss Obama's apology to Romney for accusing him of killing a woman with cancer during the campaign? Why apologize when you did it for the good of a world transforming cause?
To sum this up: Progressives see themselves as an army of the saints, and their opponents as the party of Satan; and that will justify almost anything you can get away with.
An appalling episode of their Machiavellian politics has shaped the international conflict in which we find ourselves currently impotent in the Middle East. The root of that impotence lies in the way Democrats turned the issue of the Iraq war against the Republican president George Bush. The Democrats' case against Bush was that he acted unilaterally, deceptively and in haste.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The policy to remove Iraq's government by force was put in place by a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, when he signed the Iraqi Liberation Act and fired 450 cruise missiles into that sovereign country. He did it, by the way, not only unilaterally but without consulting anyone.
That was in 1998, which is five years before Bush sent American troops into Iraq. Ten months before Bush did that he warned Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, to obey the Gulf War truce he had signed in 1991 and then repeatedly violated over the next ten years. Seven months before sending our troops into Iraq Bush went personally to the UN and got a unanimous Security Council ultimatum to Saddam. UN Resolution 1447 said: Obey the terms of the Gulf War truce by December 7, 2002 – or else.
Two months before that deadline Bush went to Congress and requested an authorization to use force in the event that Saddam did not voluntarily observe the terms of the UN Resolution, and the Gulf War truce he had signed and then violated. Both houses of Congress including a majority of the Democrats in the Senate voted to authorize Bush to use force in Iraq. He also got an authorization from NATO and he also formed a coalition of 40 nations, including America's oldest allies, the Brits, to enforce the UN Security Council ultimatum.
Not only was the decision not made in haste, and not made without consultation, as the Democrats claimed. The truth was just the opposite. The process of making the decision to go to war took 10 months and every significant authority was consulted. But once U.S. troops entered Iraq on March 19, 2003, it took only three months for the Democrats to betray them and their president, to turn their backs on the war they had authorized and supported, and claim it was – to use the words of former Vice President Al Gore, "unnecessary, immoral and illegal." Or in the words of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, "the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time."
Why did the Democrats betray the war they had supported? It was not because of any fact on the ground in Iraq, or any principles Bush had allegedly violated. They betrayed our troops and turned on their commander-in-chief for one reason and one reason alone: to gain political power at home.
At the very moment of their treachery a Democratic primary was in progress. An anti-war Democrat – a Sixties leftist named Howard Dean — was on the verge of winning their presidential nomination, burying other candidates like John Kerry and John Edwards in the polls. Until then, Kerry and Edwards were full-throated supporters of the war. Kerry made a speech on the floor of the Senate in support of the bill authorizing the use of force. He explained why the forcible removal of Saddam was necessary to defend the country and secure the peace.
But that was before the anti-war candidate Howard Dean had surged ahead in the polls. When that happened, and Kerry saw that he was going to lose the party nomination, he decided to switch sides. He turned his back on everything he had said in defense of the war, and the necessity of using force, and he turned his back on our troops in the field, and attacked their commander-in-chief. He did it for one reason, and one reason only. He did it because he saw it as the only way to win the Democratic nomination and have a chance of winning the presidency in 2004.
Kerry and the Democrats betrayed the war they had authorized; they betrayed the young Americans they sent into harms way; they betrayed the country they had sworn to serve. They did it to win the political power they were going to use to change the world. No conservative in his right mind would behave like this. No conservative would regard a political administration in Washington as a stepping stone on the way to a brave new world, and therefore something to justify opposing a war they had authorized and supported.
What were the issues the Democrats used to make their case against the president and the war in Iraq? It didn't really matter, because the issues were never the issue. The Democrats opposed Bush and the war because both stood in the way of their quest for power.
The Democrats attacked Bush for acting in haste and acting unilaterally. Both charges were false. Worse, the Democrats claimed that the war was about weapons of mass destruction, ignoring the fact that Saddam had violated the Gulf War truce and had failed to comply with sixteen Security Council resolutions attempting to bring him into line, including the ultimatum of December 7. To make their case they claimed that Bush falsified the intelligence reports about weapons of mass destruction and lied in order to fool them into supporting the war. This was the biggest lie of the entire war. CIA chief George Tenet was a Clinton appointee. John Kerry sat on the intelligence committees with other Democrats like Feinstein and Rockefeller. The Democrats had access to all the intelligence information that Bush did. Bush could not have persuaded them to support the war by lying about the data, even if he had wanted to.
Why did they accuse him of lying? Because they could not admit the actual reason they had betrayed the war and the young men and women they sent to battle. They did it for partisan political gain. Unfortunately neither the White House nor any Republican had the political courage to hold them to account, and we are all paying the price for that.
For five years the Democrats conducted a scorched earth campaign against their country and its commander in the midst of a war. The harm they did is irreparable. Their sabotage of the war crippled our efforts to prosecute it – for example to follow Saddam's weapons and generals into Syria, where they had fled; to take the war to Iran which supplied the IEDs which killed most of our troops; to close the border with Syria across which jihadists entered Iraq to fight our troops. The Democrats' sabotage of the war created the power vacuum in the Middle East, which the terrorists and the Russians have now filled. And it most certainly inflicted casualties on our troops, though no one has had the political courage to say so.
The Democrats sabotaged the war in Iraq for the worst of reasons. They claimed it was for principle, but it was really – and only — to save their political skins.
Once the Democrats recaptured the presidency, it took no time at all for events to expose this destructive farce. Unlike the majority of his Democratic colleagues, Senator Barack Obama had always opposed the war in Iraq. He was against American interventions in sovereign countries, and he was against presidents who acted unilaterally, and in haste. Or so he said.
But when Obama became president and had the power to do so, he invaded Libya: unilaterally, and without authorization, and with no national security interest at stake. And he lied about the cause. There was no prospect of massacres as he claimed, and it was not a human rights intervention. If it were, Libya would not now be in chaos with al-Qaeda resurgent, and in a worse state than before.
Obama's invasion of Libya was not merely unilateral. It was egomaniacal. Obama consulted no one outside his White House inner circle, not his own party, not the Congress, not the United Nations. Unlike Bush, he acted without constitutional authority and he acted alone. Yet there was not one Democratic leader who stood up for the principles they had all invoked to cripple America's war against the jihadists in Iraq. Not one Democratic leader opposed the Democratic president, or criticized his aggression. They abandoned the principles of multilaterialism, consultation with Congress, and support from the U.N. because it would have been bad for their leader if they didn't; it would have jeopardized their power.
The political consequences of the differences between conservatives and progressives is not only not small, it affects the way both sides conduct their political battles. Progressives focus on an impossible future, a utopia of promises, and this justifies for them their unscrupulous means. Issues for them are merely instruments for accumulating political power. Conservatives look to the past as a guide to what is possible and humanly practical, and what is not. Issues for them are problems that need to be fixed, and they take seriously the policies they devise to address them. This puts conservatives at a huge political disadvantage. It causes them to argue policy as though they were debating a party with whom they shared goals and only differed on the means to get there. But that is far from the case.
Take the present debate about a government shutdown. A statement from Boehner's office explains, "The entire government is shut down right now because Washington Democrats refuse to even talk about fairness for all Americans under ObamaCare." This is a proposal for compromise and is designed to portray Republicans as reasonable. We're all part of the same social contract, and we need to give on both sides to resolve the impasse. We're all interested in fairness, when all is said and done. If individuals were to be given a year's extension under Obamacare, as corporations already have been, that would be fair. But since when is Obamacare about fairness? That's a Democratic façade and talking point, courtesy of the Republican Speaker. By way of contrast, this is how the Democrats make their argument: "Republicans are trying to shut down the government so they can prevent us from providing all Americans with affordable healthcare." In other words, Democrats are standing up for fairness and ordinary Americans, against the selfish Republicans who want deny them affordable care and shut down their government. This is three lies in one sentence. But who do you think wins that vote?
If you want to fight the left you have to fight fire with fire. That means first and foremost you have to hold them to account for hurting the people they are pretending to help. Whose opportunities are going to be wrecked by Obamacare? Health care taxes will go up for those who pay taxes – the middle class — while their incomes will go down. Already Obamacare is cutting the workweek to 30 hours. Whose pocket books do you think that is hitting?
They claim conservatives are conducting a war against minorities; we need to throw the truth back in their faces. We need to tell the people that progressives are the principal oppressors and exploiters of minorities and the poor in this country. Progressives control the inner cities, which are teeming with the nation's minorities and poor; and they run the broken public school systems that have become dumping grounds for those who cannot afford a private education.
The city of Milwaukee has been run by liberals and progressives without interruption for more than 100 years. What is the consequence of this progressive rule? Milwaukee's median household income is forty percent below the rest of the country. The black unemployment rate is 27%, three times the national average for everyone. Milwaukee's population is majority black and Hispanic, and 30% of it lives below the poverty line. A third of Milwaukee's public school children drop out before they graduate; those who do are barely literate. That's what progressive policies achieve. Don't let them forget it.
Conservatives need to put the human disasters of progressive policies in front of people every chance they get. We need to confront progressives with the misery they have created in America's bankrupt cities, Detroit and Chicago, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, St. Louis, and the nation's capital, and every city they have controlled for 25, 50 and 100 years, without interruption.
Conservatives need to talk less to the voters' heads and more to their hearts. Government debt is not just an accountant's nightmare. Debt is a form of economic slavery. If you add up all the taxes Americans pay — federal, state, local, income, sales — Americans already work half the year for government rather than for themselves. Like Obamacare and the political use of the I.R.S., debt is a threat to individual freedom.
Freedom is what our cause is about not just fiscal responsibility. Fiscal responsibility has no emotional appeal except to people who already understand what it means. Fiscal responsibility is a means to an end. The end is freedom, and that is what inspires commitment and sacrifice and the passion necessary to win. Because it speaks to the heart.
Conservatives need to speak up as champions of the little guys, the underdogs, whose lives are being steadily constricted – made less free — by the ongoing destruction of a system that once afforded more opportunity for more people than any other in the history of the world. Conservatives need to speak up for the young whose future horizons are being rapidly diminished as the trillion dollar Obama deficits pile higher and higher. Conservatives need to speak for all Americans whose security under Obama has been degraded to the most dangerous levels since the end of the Cold War.
This is the threat we face, and the sooner we grapple with it the greater our chances to survive it. The most important battle in the world today is not being waged in the Middle East but here at home in the United States. If we lose this battle, everything is lost. But if we will take the measure of the enemies of freedom and prepare ourselves to fight them, we have a better than even chance to win.
A Final Salute From The #1MVetMarch
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Disgraceful: Arlington Graves Stripped Of Personal Mementos
Honoring Dead From Iraq, Afghanistan
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(Utterly disgraceful. Although this was apparently a policy, it had been long ignored. Many families were unaware of it and had not been told. Precious mementos of their loved ones were thrown in the trash. As our Vets march to be able to access their own memorials at the #1MVetMarch, the indignities done to them and to their families continue)Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451626/Arlington-graves-stripped-personal-momentoes-controversial-clean-up.html
The carefully-chosen mementos that cover graves in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery offer a deeply personal glimpse into the lives of grieving military families.
These reminders have now been scrubbed away following a new policy which has banned family and friends from placing tributes on the graves.
Headstones have been stripped of photos, drawings and poignant notes, in particular those in Section 60, home to the graves of more than 800 service members killed while doing their duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
An Arlington spokesman said they were responding to complaints that the cemetery was looking too disorderly, and said the section needed to follow the same rules as the rest of the site.
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More Pictures from the #1MVetMarch
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Ted Cruz showed up
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A reliable program gone hay wire and Wal-Mart taking advantage of it for the name of profit.
Good job everyone. And if Obama Care goes the same way, what then?
This is a about the poor being greedy, what happens when the rich get greedy with Obama Care?
Ian'there enough fraud with Medicare and Medicade?
http://gma.yahoo.com/walmart-shelves-emptied-food-stamp-shopping-spree-171042474--abc-news-topstories.html
http://freepatriot.org/2013/10/14/obama-administration-plants-seeds-doubt-christian-ministry-defined-hate-group/
Nitwit Piers Morgan Gets Back on Gun Soap Box
Dingy Piers Morgan squares off with Alan Gottlieb on 'Guns Save Lives Day'
(CNN can't cancel this CLOWN'S show fast enough)
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
October 14, 2013 10:41 pmhttp://freebeacon.com/morgan-guns-saves-lives-day-one-of-the-most-disgusting-things-ive-ever-had-to-witness/
CNN host Piers Morgan had a shout filled interview over gun control with the founder of Guns Save Lives Day Alan Gottlieb Monday evening.
The pro gun safety organization situated their event around the anniversary of the Newtown shooting to counter gun control activists who will co-opt the day to advance their partisan agenda, Gottlieb said.
Morgan reacted with predictable indignation, as he often does with anything relating to gun control.
The CNN host concluded the interview by declaring Guns Save Lives Day is "one of the most disgusting things I've ever had to witness":
PIERS MORGAN: Let me leave with a final word from Shannon Watz of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America –
ALAN GOTTLIEB: Another gun control group.
MORGAN: Gun safety is a better phrase, isn't it Mr. Gottlieb?
GOTTLIEB: No, "gun safety" is a misnomer, these people have never even shot a gun, they've never even been trained for safety.
MORGAN: I've shot an AR-15.
GOTTLIEB: Go to a gun range and train for safety.
MORGAN: Mr. Gottlieb if you would just let me read what she said. "American mothers will not allow a depraved vocal minority to sully or smear the memory of the victims of Sandy Hook." Let me just say to you Mr. Gottlieb, what you did –
GOTTLIEB: Nobody is smearing any memories, my heart goes out to them to every victim of any kind of violence.
MORGAN: What you did, Mr. Gottlieb in launching this campaign on the first anniversary of Sandy Hook is of the most disgusting I have had to witness ever witnessed and you should be ashamed of yourself.
GOTTLIEB: But your 50, 60, 70 anti-gun shows that you've done picking on the rights of gun owners is not disgusting, not picking on or polarizing anything, OK right? It's OK for you to do it but it's not ok for anyone else.
MORGAN: All right I've had enough of you. We're moving on.
Obumacare's Website Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To Know Expensive The Plans Are, Creates "Traffic Bottleneck" By Forcing Users To Create Account Before Seeing Prices
(Even better, HHS knew beforehand this would slow the exchange
website down considerably but went with it anyway)
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Via Forbes:http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/14/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-health-plans-true-costs/
A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare's federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing.
Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, creates a massive traffic bottleneck, as the government verifies your information and decides whether or not you're eligible for subsidies. HHS bureaucrats knew this would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare's insurance plans would scare people away.
"Healthcare.gov was initially going to include an option to browse before registering," report Christopher Weaver and Louise Radnofsky in the Wall Street Journal. "But that tool was delayed, people familiar with the situation said." Why was it delayed? "An HHS spokeswoman said the agency wanted to ensure that users were aware of their eligibility for subsidies that could help pay for coverage, before they started seeing the prices of policies."
As you know if you've been following this space, Obamacare's bevy of mandates, regulations, taxes, and fees drives up the cost of the insurance plans that are offered under the law's public exchanges. A Manhattan Institute analysis I helped conduct found that, on average, the cheapest plan offered in a given state, under Obamacare, will be 99 percent more expensive for men, and 62 percent more expensive for women, than the cheapest plan offered under the old system. And those disparities are even wider for healthy people.
That raises an obvious question. If 50 million people are uninsured today, mainly because insurance is too expensive, why is it better to make coverage even costlier?
NSA Collecting 500,000 Contacts From
Your Online 'Buddy Lists' Each Day
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(Lying SackOfSh!t Obama said last June that the NSA's email collecting program "does not apply to U.S. citizens." Privacy advocate Senator Barack ObuttHead unavailable for comment)
Via Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_print.html
The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.The collection program, which has not been disclosed before, intercepts e-mail address books and "buddy lists" from instant messaging services as they move across global data links. Online services often transmit those contacts when a user logs on, composes a message, or synchronizes a computer or mobile device with information stored on remote servers.
Rather than targeting individual users, the NSA is gathering contact lists in large numbers that amount to a sizable fraction of the world's e-mail and instant messaging accounts. Analysis of that data enables the agency to search for hidden connections and map relationships within a much smaller universe of foreign intelligence targets.
During a single day last year, the NSA's Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation. Those figures, described as a typical daily intake in the document, correspond to a rate of more than 250 million per year.
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-nsas-overcollection-problem/517/Each day, the presentation said, the NSA collects contacts from an estimated 500,000 buddy lists on live-chat services as well as from the "in-box" displays of Web-based e-mail accounts.
The collection depends on secret arrangements with foreign telecommunications companies or allied intelligence services in control of facilities that direct traffic along the Internet's main data routes.
PETA Wants Redskins To Change Their "Racist" Logo To A Potato
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OUTRAGEOUS! U.S. Army Lieutenant Sentenced To 20 Years In Ft. Leavenworth For Killing Taliban Scouts Helping To Set Up Ambush of His Platoon
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(Sickening beyond words)
Via Allen West:http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/allen-west-out-foxhole/2013/oct/14/more-outrageous-treatment-our-military/#ixzz2hjUCHLaL
If the fact that the Obama Administration has blocked aging veterans from visiting the World War II memorial and denied death gratuity benefits for fallen warriors doesn't seem to indicate contempt for our military, how about this most recent story?
Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance, a 28-year-old combat leader in the 82d Airborne Division from Celeste, Texas was recently found guilty of two counts of murder in Afghanistan and sentenced to 20 years in Ft. Leavenworth.
The story of First Lieutenant Lorance has not been covered by a single major media source.In July 2012, Lorance was ordered to take command of a platoon in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar, a region where I also spent two and a half years training and advising the Afghan National Army. The platoon Lorance now commanded had lost its previous leader to enemy attack.
During a patrol in enemy territory, Lorance ordered a marksman to engage two unarmed Taliban fighters on a motorcycle operating as scout spotters.
In Afghanistan and Iraq, a common enemy tactic is for unarmed fighters on motorcycles with cell phones to track unit movements. In fact, enemy combatants had previously used the tactics against this same platoon.
Lorance, who was operating in a combat zone, saw the scout spotters and assessed them as a threat to his platoon. Aerial surveillance later backed up Lorance's on-the-ground assessment.
It seems obvious that enemy scouts reporting a unit position and movements in order to facilitate an ambush would define "hostile intent." But not according to the watered-down Rules of Engagement with which our warriors must contend.
In little more than a year, First Lieutenant Lorance was tried and sentenced to prison. Swift justice to be sure, but why then did it take four years to try and convict Nidal Malik Hasan, who fatally shot 13 and wounded more than 30 during his 2009 rampage at Ft Hood Texas?
The irony of the dilemma currently facing our troops, those who have volunteered to protect and defend our freedoms, is appalling. Shall they fight and kill the enemy but then risk imprisonment because of insidious rules by lawyers?
Oooops...Syrian Jihadist Rebel Blows Himself Up
Trying To Fire A Recoilless Rifle
UNREAL:
U.S. Army Classifies Christian Ministry As A
"Domestic Hate Group"
(WTF)
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Via Fox News:http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/10/14/exclusive-us-army-defines-christian-ministry-domestic-hate-group
Several dozen U.S. Army active duty and reserve troops were told last week that the American Family Association, a well-respected Christian ministry, should be classified as a domestic hate group because the group advocates for traditional family values.
The briefing was held at Camp Shelby in Mississippi and listed the AFA alongside domestic hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam.A soldier who attended the briefing contacted me and sent me a photograph of a slide show presentation that listed AFA as a domestic hate group. Under the AFA headline is a photograph of Westboro Baptist Church preacher Fred Phelps holding a sign reading "No special law for f***."
American Family Association has absolutely no affiliation with the controversial church group known for picketing the funerals of American service members.
"I had to show Americans what our soldiers are now being taught," said the soldier who asked not to be identified. "I couldn't just let this one pass."
The soldier said a chaplain interrupted the briefing and challenged the instructor's assertion that AFA is a hate group.
"The instructor said AFA could be considered a hate group because they don't like gays," the soldier told me. "The slide was talking about how AFA refers to gays as sinners and heathens and derogatory terms."
The soldier, who is an evangelical Christian, said the chaplain defended the Christian ministry.
"He kept asking the instructor, 'Are you sure about that, son? Are you sure about that?'" he said, recalling the back and forth.
Obama Administration Shuts Down Catholic Services on US Navy Base; Locks Church Doors
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, October 14, 2013, 11:18 AM
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The church at Kings Bay Naval Base before the shutdown and before the doors were locked.
The Obama Administration shut down Catholic Services at the
Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia.
The church was also locked down.
Government Shuts down Catholic Services on Navy Base;
Church locked;
Priest threatened with arrest;
TMLC Files Federal Lawsuit
The Thomas More Law Center reported:http://www.thomasmore.org/news/government-shuts-down-catholic-services-navy-base-church-locked-priest-threatened-arrest-tmlc-f
In the wake of the government shutdown, despite provisions in the Pay Our Military Act, Catholics at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia are being denied religious services. The Catholic priest who serves this community has been prohibited from even volunteering to celebrate Holy Mass without pay, and was told that if he violated that order, he could be subject to arrest. Protestant services continue to take place. Only Catholic services have been shutdown.
This is an astonishing attack on religious freedom by the federal government, and the latest affront towards the military since the beginning of the shutdown.
As a result, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI, today, filed a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Father Ray Leonard, a Catholic priest contracted to serve as base chaplain and Fred Naylor, one of Father Leonard's parishioners and a retired veteran with over 22 years of service. Fr. Leonard is a civilian Catholic Pastor contracted by the Department of Defense (DoD) to serve as a military chaplain at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia.
Fr. Leonard, who served Tibetan populations in China for 10 years, informed the court in an affidavit, "In China, I was disallowed from performing public religious services due to the lack of religious freedom in China. I never imagined that when I returned home to the United States, that I would be forbidden from practicing my religious beliefs as I am called to do, and would be forbidden from helping and serving my faith community."
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Liar-in-chief Obuma: "Republicans Are Going To Stop Calling It 'Obumacare'"
When People Realize How Awesome :P It Works
(Yeah, it's safe to assume that will never happen)
Via Washington Times:President Obama has embraced "Obamacare" as the de facto name of his signature health care initiative.
But he believes that if the law ends up being a wild success, the moniker will disappear.
"My suspicion is what is going to happen is when it's working and everybody is really happy with it, Republicans are going to stop calling it 'Obamacare,'" the said Tuesday in an interview with New York's WABC TV station.
Key parts of the law — formally known as the Affordable Care Act — went into effect at the beginning of the month, but the roll-out has been marked by problems, most notably major glitches with the website healthcare.gov.
(Does anyone really believe
Obumacare won't turn into another bloated entitlement program we can't afford?
What an idiot)
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Obama Breaks His Own Signature Law
by Tom Wise http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/obama-breaks-signature-law/
Every day I get more upset about our groovy, hippie, antichrist president. You know, it's against the law for someone to break the law. It's called aiding and abetting when someone helps someone break the law. Obama giving waivers to Obamacare is not within his authority. In fact, Congress offering to give waivers is also not in their authority.
So, Obama has committed a criminal act. However, instead of impeaching (never mind Syria or Benghazi yet), they play games trying to entice him to break the law again by giving waivers to everyone. He knows he broke the law. He also knows they don't have the votes to impeach (how corrupt everything is),
but he also can't revoke the waivers because that is an admission of guilt. Democrats are in league, because there is not one who shouts out, never minds accuses. The only ones who even say 'boo' are the conservatives. But even here, there is not much outcry against him breaking the law.
The reason why they wanted Obama to delay implementation is the statutory deadline.
If it lapsed, law nullified. We never heard that argument except from one Betsy McCaughey... http://betsymccaughey.com/
So Obamacare is not the same as the law passed. And the law upheld by by the Supreme Court is not the same as the law passed (they passed a fine, Roberts upheld a tax).
http://therightscoop.com/betsy-mccaughey-to-mark-levin-what-the-president-is-imposing-on-us-today-is-not-the-affordable-care-act/
And the law passed is illegal because it originated in the Senate, not the House (it's a tax, according to the Supreme Court).
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/americans-will-soon-standing-destroy-obamacare/
That doesn't even take into account that the law is onerous, punitive, arbitrary, and not what was promised. That doesn't even take into account that people believe the ACA provided free healthcare. It doesn't. It provided access... Very expensive access. Insurance for preexisting conditions costs money. All the ACA did was force insurance companies to accept these people. Now the people are forced to accept a plan or else pay an ever-increasing fine. A very expensive plan or a fine. Enforced through the IRS. Not voluntary, not free, not even good.
Not only that, but the exchange "system" proposed does not work. The computer code for the federal website is so fouled up that experts believe it was put together on a whim, if not intentionally so. It will take years to rewrite the code. It would be better to start from scratch, if one even had such inclination, which one should not. However, just because the website doesn't work doesn't mean the NSA isn't counting keystrokes and taking all your information. While application is an epic fail for users, the spying continues. All information, it says on the website, may be shared with law enforcement. No more HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). Your history as enemy of the state is now volunteered by you, under coercion and threat of fine or jail.
This is where we're at. President Nutcase keeps breaking the law, the Democrats keep aiding and abetting, and the Republicans seem like they don't want to call a crime a crime. Only the Tea Party has enough radicalism and guts to call out anything at all.
Meanwhile, amnesty is coming, civil war, more debt, more foreign intervention, more corruption, more cartel violence, no justice on Benghazi, no investigations on Fast and Furious, and no investigation into where the money went. Did it go to the foreign banks or the IMF, or both?
We are ruled by a megalomaniac and the Chicago Mafia.
Politics
House Republicans Schedule Obama Impeachment Hearings
Oct 14, 2013
GOP Leaders Cite Inability to Halt Government Shutdown
Republicans in the House of Representatives have scheduled impeachment proceedings against President Obama, claiming his inability to halt the federal government shutdown makes him unfit for office.
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann introduced a resolution to impeach Obama this morning and referred the matter to the House Judiciary Committee. Senior aides close to judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte say hearings will begin Thursday.
"I think it's high time President Obama be held accountable for his crimes," explains Bachmann. "For two weeks now, vital government services have been disrupted, federal workers have gone without pay and national memorials have been closed, all because of the president's refusal to negotiate over Obamacare.
"This isn't just poor leadership. The Obama administration is corrupt to the core. The scandals surrounding the IRS, Benghazi, the Fast and the Furious (sic) and Solyndra have shown us this cabal will do anything to stay in power.
"But in shutting down the government President Obama has committed economic treason against the United States of America, and he must be removed before it's too late. The Constitution provides us the mechanism of impeachment. It's time to end this dictatorial regime and return the presidency back to the American people."
Sour Tea
The U.S. federal government shut down on Oct. 1 after House Republicans refused to fund it unless President Obama agreed to repeal his signature health care reform, the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.
Although most polls show that a majority of Americans blame Republicans for the shutdown, many in the Tea Party feel President Obama is at fault for not immediately acquiescing to their demands.
"The tipping point for me was closing the World War II memorial," says Texas Republican Louie Gohmert, who voted for the bill which effectively shut down the government. "I can't believe Obama did that. I mean how dare he put politics ahead of our veterans.
"All this clown needs to do is repeal the most important law he ever passed, and then this will all be over. Why is that so hard? The Tea Party represents almost 22 percent of Americans. Only a dictator would refuse to give us everything we want. Obama should be more than impeached -- he should be in jail."
Hearings in the judiciary committee are expected to last for two weeks, after which the committee will create specific impeachment charges and refer them to the full House. If a majority of House members vote to impeach the President, the matter is referred to the Senate, where he will face trial. The Senate's Democratic majority makes ultimate success unlikely.
"We probably won't be successful," admits Ted Cruz, one of the few Republicans in the Senate supporting the impeachment process. "But we have to try. This guy is worse than Hitler. We have to do something."
http://dailycurrant.com/2013/10/14/house-republicans-schedule-obama-impeachment-hearings/
Kentucky Kickback:
Senate Budget Deal Includes $3 Billion For Dam Project In McConnell's Home State
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(He sold us out for a friggen dam)
Via WFPL:http://wfpl.org/post/mcconnell-reid-deal-includes-3-billion-earmark-kentucky-project#.Ul87cBKBuQs.twitter
A proposal to end the government shutdown and avoid default orchestrated by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Democratic Leader Harry Reid includes a nearly $3 billion earmark for a Kentucky project.Language in a draft of the McConnell-Reid deal (see page 13, section 123) provided to WFPL News shows a provision that increases funding for the massive Olmsted Dam Lock in Paducah, Ky., from $775 million to nearly $2.9 billion.
The dam is considered an important project for the state and region in regards to water traffic along the Ohio River.
As The Courier-Journal's James Bruggers reported in 2011, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said they needed about $2.1 billion for the locks due to "stop and go funding."
H/T to Ross for this...Nixon presidential library hosts reunion for 200 Vietnam
POWs 40 years after their release
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Fox News - YORBA LINDA, Calif. – Two hundred American former prisoners of war who were taken captive during the Vietnam War are arriving in Southern California to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their release.
The three-day gala starts Thursday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda. It will include a military flyover, wreath-laying ceremony and tours of a special exhibit on the prisoners' return home.
The reunion runs through Saturday and marks the 40th anniversary of a special White House dinner hosted by President Nixon on May 23, 1973, to honor the 571 American captives.
Nixon resigned a year later in the face of impeachment over Watergate, but many of the former POWs regard him as a hero for securing their freedom.
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Obuma's Liberal Hometown Paper Pens Scathing Editorial Ripping Obamacare,
Calls For One-Year Delay of Individual Mandate
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"And Shepherds we shall be
For thee, my Lord, for thee.
Power hath descended forth from Thy hand
Our feet may swiftly carry out Thy commands.
So we shall flow a river forth to Thee
And teeming with souls shall it ever be.
--In Nomeni Patri Et Fili Spiritus Sancti"
(In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit)
Via Chicago Tribune:http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-77808576/
If you've tried to sign up online for health coverage under the problem-plagued Obamacare exchange, our sympathies. Many people have tried to create accounts and shop for insurance under the new law. Few have succeeded. Those that have enrolled have found that the system is prone to mistakes. Some applications have been sent to the wrong insurance company.
Wait. It gets worse. Those who have managed to browse the marketplace have often been hit by sticker shock. Take Adam Weldzius, a nurse practitioner and single father from Carpentersville. He sought the same level of coverage on the exchange as he and his 7-year-old daughter have now, with the same insurer and the same network of doctors and hospitals. At best, Weldzius found, his monthly premium of $233 would more than double. If he chose a plan priced at the same level, the annual deductible would be $12,700, more than three times his current $3,500 deductible.
"I believe everybody should be able to have health insurance, but at the same time, I'm being penalized. And for what?" Weldzius told the Tribune's Peter Frost. "For someone who's always had insurance, who's always taken care of myself, now I have to change my plan?"
Last spring, President Barack Obama said "there will still be, you know, glitches and bumps" in the rollout of the new system. But what we're seeing now is no glitch or bump. There is a growing mountain of evidence that Obamacare has fundamental problems in design and implementation. [...]
The administration can do one thing — apparently on its own — to spare many Americans. It can delay the requirement that everyone buy insurance by March 31 or pay a penalty. Federal officials already have granted a one-year reprieve to the mandate that most employers provide insurance to their workers or pay a penalty. The administration cut a sweet deal for Congress and its staffers, who will continue to get generous federal subsidies. It has allowed any number of carve-outs for special pleaders.
A delay in the individual mandate would not be a special favor to American consumers. It's a matter of fairness.
A one-year hiatus would give everyone a chance to take a hard look at the pricing of these plans, to see if consumers could get more affordable options without sacrificing coverage.
There are more problems. People who have individual insurance coverage are finding that Obama's oft-repeated promise — "if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan" — is just not true. They are being told by insurers that their existing plans expire on Dec. 31 and they must choose new coverage. They're learning that insurers managed to offer lower-cost plans by narrowing the networks of hospitals and doctors that are available or by upping the out-of-pocket expenses. Unless people are careful in selecting coverage, they may be surprised to find they have to pay much more for out-of-network care to go to their doctors or get treated at the best hospitals. Federal officials argue that they'll work out the kinks in the system in plenty of time for people to sign up by Dec. 15 for coverage that begins Jan. 1. Yes, the techies might be able to work out the computer network problems by then. But that's not a given.
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Jihadi Work Accident: Three Taliban Fighters Killed When Bomb Strapped To Their Motorcycle Detonates Prematurely
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(Feel good story of the day)
Via The News:The three alleged terrorists who were killed in an explosion in Manghopir area last night were identified by the police on Friday, who said they belonged to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP's) Gul Hassan group.
Three suspected terrorists were blown into pieces when a bomb strapped in one of their motorcycles went off prematurely near Eidgah Ground in Ghazi Goth in the Manghopir area.
Their bodies were moved to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) for postmortem, while the exploded device was being examined by the Bomb Disposal Squad and the Counter Terrorism Wing (CTW).
According to Raja Umer Khattab, chief of CTW of Crime Investigation Department (CID), Sindh, two of the killed suspects were identified as Mohammed Majid Baloch and Saqib Sheikh, both residents of Lyari and they were identified by their elder brothers who approached the police on Friday afternoon.
The third suspect was identified as Rafiullah but it would be confirmed after the DNA test.
(Planned Parenthood Morbidly Celebrates 97 Years of Killing Babies...
the hundreds of thousands of babies they killed not so lucky)
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BREAKING: Senate Proposal To Re-Open Government Includes Payout To Lautenberg Widow
Tucked away in the proposal which will open the government and raise the debt ceiling is a passage to also include a death gratuity for the widow of late New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg.(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/sthanam2.png)
Lautenberg, who died on June 3 2013 was worth an estimated $116.3 million.
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Budget
Vote Breakdown:
How Lawmakers Voted on the Budget Deal[/color]
The following list shows how lawmakers voted on the budget deal Wednesday: A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the measure. X denotes those not voting.
SENATORS:
Voting yes were 52 Democrats, 27 Republicans and 2 independents.
Voting no were 0 Democrats and 18 Republicans.
ALABAMA
Sessions (R), No; Shelby (R), No.
ALASKA
Begich (D), Yes; Murkowski (R), Yes.
ARIZONA
Flake (R), Yes; McCain (R), Yes.
ARKANSAS
Boozman (R), Yes; Pryor (D), Yes.
CALIFORNIA
Boxer (D), Yes; Feinstein (D), Yes.
COLORADO
Bennet (D), Yes; Udall (D), Yes.
CONNECTICUT
Blumenthal (D), Yes; Murphy (D), Yes.
DELAWARE
Carper (D), Yes; Coons (D), Yes.
FLORIDA
Nelson (D), Yes; Rubio (R), No.
GEORGIA
Chambliss (R), Yes; Isakson (R), Yes.
HAWAII
Hirono (D), Yes; Schatz (D), Yes.
IDAHO
Crapo (R), No; Risch (R), No.
ILLINOIS
Durbin (D), Yes; Kirk (R), Yes.
INDIANA
Coats (R), Yes; Donnelly (D), Yes.
IOWA
Grassley (R), No; Harkin (D), Yes.
KANSAS
Moran (R), Yes; Roberts (R), No.
KENTUCKY
McConnell (R), Yes; Paul (R), No.
LOUISIANA
Landrieu (D), Yes; Vitter (R), No.
MAINE
Collins (R), Yes; King (I), Yes.
MARYLAND
Cardin (D), Yes; Mikulski (D), Yes.
MASSACHUSETTS
Markey (D), Yes; Warren (D), Yes.
MICHIGAN
Levin (D), Yes; Stabenow (D), Yes.
MINNESOTA
Franken (D), Yes; Klobuchar (D), Yes.
MISSISSIPPI
Cochran (R), Yes; Wicker (R), Yes.
MISSOURI
Blunt (R), Yes; McCaskill (D), Yes.
MONTANA
Baucus (D), Yes; Tester (D), Yes.
NEBRASKA
Fischer (R), Yes; Johanns (R), Yes.
NEVADA
Heller (R), No; Reid (D), Yes.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Ayotte (R), Yes; Shaheen (D), Yes.
NEW JERSEY
Chiesa (R), Yes; Menendez (D), Yes.
NEW MEXICO
Heinrich (D), Yes; Udall (D), Yes.
NEW YORK
Gillibrand (D), Yes; Schumer (D), Yes.
NORTH CAROLINA
Burr (R), Yes; Hagan (D), Yes.
NORTH DAKOTA
Heitkamp (D), Yes; Hoeven (R), Yes.
OHIO
Brown (D), Yes; Portman (R), Yes.
OKLAHOMA
Coburn (R), No; Inhofe (R), Not Voting.
OREGON
Merkley (D), Yes; Wyden (D), Yes.
PENNSYLVANIA
Casey (D), Yes; Toomey (R), No.
RHODE ISLAND
Reed (D), Yes; Whitehouse (D), Yes.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Graham (R), Yes; Scott (R), No.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Johnson (D), Yes; Thune (R), Yes.
TENNESSEE
Alexander (R), Yes; Corker (R), Yes.
TEXAS
Cornyn (R), No; Cruz (R), No.
UTAH
Hatch (R), Yes; Lee (R), No.
VERMONT
Leahy (D), Yes; Sanders (I), Yes.
VIRGINIA
Kaine (D), Yes; Warner (D), Yes.
WASHINGTON
Cantwell (D), Yes; Murray (D), Yes.
WEST VIRGINIA
Manchin (D), Yes; Rockefeller (D), Yes.
WISCONSIN
Baldwin (D), Yes; Johnson (R), No.
WYOMING
Barrasso (R), Yes; Enzi (R), No.(http://i.qkme.me/35dnr3.jpg)
HOUSE MEMBERS:
Voting yes were 198 Democrats and 87 Republicans. Voting no were 0 Democrats and 144 Republicans.
ALABAMA
Democrats — Sewell, Y.
Republicans — Aderholt, N; Bachus, Y; Brooks, N; Roby, N; Rogers, N.
ALASKA
Republicans — Young, Y.
ARIZONA
Democrats — Barber, Y; Grijalva, Y; Kirkpatrick, Y; Pastor, Y; Sinema, Y.
Republicans — Franks, N; Gosar, N; Salmon, N; Schweikert, N.
ARKANSAS
Republicans — Cotton, Y; Crawford, Y; Griffin, Y; Womack, Y.
CALIFORNIA
Democrats — Bass, Y; Becerra, Y; Bera, Y; Brownley, Y; Capps, Y; Cardenas, Y; Chu, Y; Costa, Y; Davis, Y; Eshoo, Y; Farr, Y; Garamendi, Y; Hahn, Y; Honda, Y; Huffman, Y; Lee, Y; Lofgren, Y; Lowenthal, Y; Matsui, Y; McNerney, Y; Miller, George, Y; Napolitano, Y; Negrete McLeod, Y; Pelosi, Y; Peters, Y; Roybal-Allard, Y; Ruiz, Y; Sanchez, Linda T., Y; Sanchez, Loretta, Y; Schiff, Y; Sherman, Y; Speier, Y; Swalwell, Y; Takano, Y; Thompson, Y; Vargas, Y; Waters, Y; Waxman, Y.
Republicans — Calvert, Y; Campbell, N; Cook, Y; Denham, N; Hunter, N; Issa, Y; LaMalfa, N; McCarthy, Y; McClintock, N; McKeon, Y; Miller, Gary, Y; Nunes, Y; Rohrabacher, N; Royce, N; Valadao, Y.
COLORADO
Democrats — DeGette, Y; Perlmutter, Y; Polis, Y.
Republicans — Coffman, Y; Gardner, Y; Lamborn, N; Tipton, Y.
CONNECTICUT
Democrats — Courtney, Y; DeLauro, Y; Esty, Y; Himes, Y; Larson, Y.
DELAWARE
Democrats — Carney, Y.
FLORIDA
Democrats — Brown, Y; Castor, Y; Deutch, Y; Frankel, Y; Garcia, Y; Grayson, Y; Hastings, Y; Murphy, Y; Wasserman Schultz, Y; Wilson, Y.
Republicans — Bilirakis, Y; Buchanan, Y; Crenshaw, Y; DeSantis, N; Diaz-Balart, Y; Mica, N; Miller, N; Nugent, N; Posey, N; Radel, N; Rooney, N; Ros-Lehtinen, Y; Ross, N; Southerland, N; Webster, Y; Yoho, N; Young, X.
GEORGIA
Democrats — Barrow, Y; Bishop, Y; Johnson, Y; Lewis, Y; Scott, David, Y.
Republicans — Broun, N; Collins, N; Gingrey, N; Graves, N; Kingston, N; Price, N; Scott, Austin, N; Westmoreland, N; Woodall, N.
HAWAII
Democrats — Gabbard, Y; Hanabusa, Y.
IDAHO
Republicans — Labrador, N; Simpson, Y.
ILLINOIS
Democrats — Bustos, Y; Davis, Danny, Y; Duckworth, Y; Enyart, Y; Foster, Y; Gutierrez, Y; Kelly, Y; Lipinski, Y; Quigley, Y; Rush, X; Schakowsky, Y; Schneider, Y.
Republicans — Davis, Rodney, Y; Hultgren, N; Kinzinger, Y; Roskam, Y; Schock, Y; Shimkus, Y.
INDIANA
Democrats — Carson, Y; Visclosky, Y.
Republicans — Brooks, Y; Bucshon, N; Messer, N; Rokita, N; Stutzman, N; Walorski, N; Young, Y.
IOWA
Democrats — Braley, Y; Loebsack, Y.
Republicans — King, N; Latham, Y.
KANSAS
Republicans — Huelskamp, N; Jenkins, Y; Pompeo, N; Yoder, N.
KENTUCKY
Democrats — Yarmuth, Y.
Republicans — Barr, N; Guthrie, Y; Massie, N; Rogers, Y; Whitfield, Y.
LOUISIANA
Democrats — Richmond, Y.
Republicans — Boustany, Y; Cassidy, N; Fleming, N; Scalise, N.
MAINE
Democrats — Michaud, Y; Pingree, Y.
MARYLAND
Democrats — Cummings, Y; Delaney, Y; Edwards, Y; Hoyer, Y; Ruppersberger, Y; Sarbanes, Y; Van Hollen, Y.
Republicans — Harris, N.
MASSACHUSETTS
Democrats — Capuano, Y; Keating, Y; Kennedy, Y; Lynch, Y; McGovern, Y; Neal, Y; Tierney, Y; Tsongas, Y.
MICHIGAN
Democrats — Conyers, Y; Dingell, Y; Kildee, Y; Levin, Y; Peters, Y.
Republicans — Amash, N; Benishek, Y; Bentivolio, N; Camp, Y; Huizenga, N; Miller, N; Rogers, Y; Upton, Y; Walberg, N.
MINNESOTA
Democrats — Ellison, Y; McCollum, Y; Nolan, Y; Peterson, Y; Walz, Y.
Republicans — Bachmann, N; Kline, Y; Paulsen, Y.
MISSISSIPPI
Democrats — Thompson, Y.
Republicans — Harper, Y; Nunnelee, N; Palazzo, N.
MISSOURI
Democrats — Clay, Y; Cleaver, Y.
Republicans — Graves, N; Hartzler, N; Long, N; Luetkemeyer, N; Smith, N; Wagner, N.
MONTANA
Republicans — Daines, Y.
NEBRASKA
Republicans — Fortenberry, Y; Smith, Y; Terry, Y.
NEVADA
Democrats — Horsford, Y; Titus, Y.
Republicans — Amodei, N; Heck, Y.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Democrats — Kuster, Y; Shea-Porter, Y.
NEW JERSEY
Democrats — Andrews, Y; Holt, Y; Pallone, Y; Pascrell, Y; Payne, Y; Sires, Y.
Republicans — Frelinghuysen, Y; Garrett, N; Lance, Y; LoBiondo, Y; Runyan, Y; Smith, Y.
NEW MEXICO
Democrats — Lujan Grisham, Y; Lujan, Ben Ray, Y.
Republicans — Pearce, N.
NEW YORK
Democrats — Bishop, Y; Clarke, Y; Crowley, Y; Engel, Y; Higgins, Y; Israel, Y; Jeffries, Y; Lowey, Y; Maffei, Y; Maloney, Carolyn, Y; Maloney, Sean, Y; McCarthy, X; Meeks, Y; Meng, Y; Nadler, Y; Owens, Y; Rangel, Y; Serrano, Y; Slaughter, Y; Tonko, Y; Velazquez, Y.
Republicans — Collins, N; Gibson, Y; Grimm, Y; Hanna, Y; King, Y; Reed, N.
NORTH CAROLINA
Democrats — Butterfield, Y; McIntyre, Y; Price, Y; Watt, Y.
Republicans — Coble, Y; Ellmers, N; Foxx, N; Holding, N; Hudson, N; Jones, N; McHenry, Y; Meadows, N; Pittenger, Y.
NORTH DAKOTA
Republicans — Cramer, Y.
OHIO
Democrats — Beatty, Y; Fudge, Y; Kaptur, Y; Ryan, Y.
Republicans — Boehner, Y; Chabot, N; Gibbs, N; Johnson, N; Jordan, N; Joyce, Y; Latta, N; Renacci, N; Stivers, Y; Tiberi, Y; Turner, N; Wenstrup, N.
OKLAHOMA
Republicans — Bridenstine, N; Cole, Y; Lankford, N; Lucas, N; Mullin, N.
OREGON
Democrats — Blumenauer, Y; Bonamici, Y; DeFazio, Y; Schrader, Y.
Republicans — Walden, N.
PENNSYLVANIA
Democrats — Brady, Y; Cartwright, Y; Doyle, Y; Fattah, Y; Schwartz, Y.
Republicans — Barletta, Y; Dent, Y; Fitzpatrick, Y; Gerlach, Y; Kelly, Y; Marino, N; Meehan, Y; Murphy, Y; Perry, N; Pitts, N; Rothfus, N; Shuster, Y; Thompson, Y.
RHODE ISLAND
Democrats — Cicilline, Y; Langevin, Y.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Democrats — Clyburn, Y.
Republicans — Duncan, N; Gowdy, N; Mulvaney, N; Rice, N; Sanford, N; Wilson, N.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Republicans — Noem, N.
TENNESSEE
Democrats — Cohen, Y; Cooper, Y.
Republicans — Black, N; Blackburn, N; DesJarlais, N; Duncan, N; Fincher, N; Fleischmann, N; Roe, N.
TEXAS
Democrats — Castro, Y; Cuellar, Y; Doggett, Y; Gallego, Y; Green, Al, Y; Green, Gene, Y; Hinojosa, Y; Jackson Lee, Y; Johnson, E. B., Y; O'Rourke, Y; Veasey, Y; Vela, Y.
Republicans — Barton, N; Brady, N; Burgess, N; Carter, N; Conaway, N; Culberson, N; Farenthold, N; Flores, N; Gohmert, N; Granger, N; Hall, N; Hensarling, N; Johnson, Sam, N; Marchant, N; McCaul, N; Neugebauer, N; Olson, N; Poe, N; Sessions, N; Smith, N; Stockman, N; Thornberry, N; Weber, N; Williams, N.
UTAH
Democrats — Matheson, Y.
Republicans — Bishop, N; Chaffetz, N; Stewart, N.
VERMONT
Democrats — Welch, Y.
VIRGINIA
Democrats — Connolly, Y; Moran, Y; Scott, Y.
Republicans — Cantor, Y; Forbes, N; Goodlatte, N; Griffith, N; Hurt, N; Rigell, Y; Wittman, Y; Wolf, Y.
WASHINGTON
Democrats — DelBene, Y; Heck, Y; Kilmer, Y; Larsen, Y; McDermott, Y; Smith, Y.
Republicans — Hastings, Y; Herrera Beutler, Y; McMorris Rodgers, Y; Reichert, Y.
WEST VIRGINIA
Democrats — Rahall, Y.
Republicans — Capito, Y; McKinley, Y.
WISCONSIN
Democrats — Kind, Y; Moore, Y; Pocan, Y.
Republicans — Duffy, N; Petri, N; Ribble, Y; Ryan, N; Sensenbrenner, N.
WYOMING
Republicans — Lummis, N. (http://www.politifake.org/image/political/1211/stupid-is-congress-does-vik-battaile-politics-1353440234.jpg)
There Is No Debt Ceiling Now
Nancy Pelosi (above) appears to be excited.
(The "less than $17 Trillion" Debt Clock we've been seeing for 150 days, will very soon be changed to reflect what has really been going on. We'll be at $18 trillion in 3 months. Our credit rating will drop, interest rates will rise, and the USA will go broke from all this debt Obama has racked up. That's been his plan all along)Via The DC:http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/17/theres-no-actual-debt-ceiling-right-now/#ixzz2i0PBXQVX
There's no actual debt ceiling right now.The fiscal deal passed by Congress on Wednesday evening to re-open the government and get around the $16.4 trillion limit on borrowing doesn't actually increase the debt limit. It just temporarily suspends enforcement of it.
That means Americans have no idea how much debt their government is going to rack up between now and February 7, when the limits are supposed to go back into place and will have to be raised.
There is no dollar amount set for how much debt the government can accumulate between now and then. The suspension strategy was employed first earlier this year during previous fiscal battles in Congress.
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Obama's Dangerous Claim to Executive Power
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Negotiating with Republicans has never been in Obama's playbook
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Three days after his inauguration in 2009, President Barack Obama silenced Republican lawmakers who voiced concerned about the enormity of spending in his stimulus bill by uttering two brash words,
"I won."That was his governing philosophy, as he rammed through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.
But in the fall of 2010, Republicans swept into control of the House of Representatives, and since then, Obama's agenda has been stalled.
With little prospect of gaining control of the House in 2014, Obama is resorting to discrediting the Constitution's limits on presidential power rather than bargain with congressional Republicans.
Here are the president's own words, explaining why he refuses to negotiate to end the government shutdown and resolve the fast approaching debt ceiling problem.
His views on presidential power ought to alarm all Americans.
"I will not pay ransom," said Obama, for a stopgap-spending bill to open the government.
Historically, presidents have had to make concessions to Congress to secure funding. President Reagan endured eight shutdowns. Each time he negotiated with the Democratic speaker of the house, Tip O'Neill, conceding on issues from mid-range missile defense to support for Nicaraguan contras to quickly end the shutdown.
Fast-forward to the current showdown. The House Republicans' fourth (and latest) offer asks for only two changes in ObamaCare: First, eliminate the subsidy for members of Congress, which has outraged the public.
Second, delay for a year making insurance mandatory for individuals. Let anyone enroll in ObamaCare who wants to. But don't penalize individuals for being uninsured in 2014 when the president has already postponed the penalty on big companies for not insuring workers.
"The Affordable Care Act is a law that passed the House. It passed the Senate; the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. ... and it is settled," said Obama.
Not so. The health program the president is imposing on us is not the Affordable Care Act. The president has dismembered and mangled it. Gone is the employer mandate, the cap on out of pocket expenses, income verification and over half the deadlines specified in the law. The president delayed or did away with these features without asking Congress. Illegally.
Then, he added 1,472 waivers and connived a subsidy for members of Congress that no one else in American earning $174,000 a year could get.
The Supreme Court has ruled twice that presidents cannot delay, amend and repeal parts of laws.
"It has not been done in the past, and we're not going to start doing it now," said Obama, explaining why he will not negotiate with House Republicans over raising the debt ceiling.
The truth is presidents have often had to make concessions to get the debt ceiling raised. In 1995, Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich tried to extract major spending reforms from President Bill Clinton.
The two sides sparred for more than a week past the "deadline" for a hike. That is what the framers intended.
"That's not how our constitutional system is designed," the president said disingenuously. The designer himself, James Madison, explained in Federalist 58 that the president must come to Congress as a supplicant to borrow, tax or spend. That dependence on Congress is "the most effectual tool to remedy" any grievance the people could have against their president.
That brings us to the nefarious proposal taking shape on Capitol Hill. Senate Democrats reportedly will offer a bill shifting to the president the discretion to raise the debt ceiling any time through 2014, except if two-thirds of each house of Congress vote to disapprove. This device, first tried in the Budget Control Act of 2011, weasels around the U. S. Constitution's system of checks and balances and substantially enlarges executive power.
Who is Obama, the 44th president, to demand more borrowing latitude than his 43 predecessors?
As Madison warned in Federalist 62, "an elective despot is not what we fought for."
DHS Secretary Nomination Approved Targetting U.S. Citizens Abroad With Drones
Conservatives with Libertarian leanings are gonna havea FIELD DAY with this guy - http://swampland.time.com/2013/03/18/on-u-s-drone-policies-ex-pentagon-lawyer-warns-of-erosion-of-support/
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Via Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-nominate-jeh-johnson-former-pentagon-official-as-next-dhs-secretary/2013/10/17/74eb8856-3768-11e3-ae46-e4248e75c8ea_print.html
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President Obama will nominate Jeh Johnson, formerly the Pentagon's top lawyer and a key figure in the administration's debate over the legality of drone use, to head the Department of Homeland Security, according to White House officials.
The official announcement will take place at 2 p.m. Friday at the White House. Johnson, if confirmed by the Senate, would succeed Janet Napolitano, who announced she was leaving the cabinet post in July.
As the former Defense Department general counsel, Johnson was responsible for the legal work at the nation's largest bureaucracy. His job placed him at the center of some of Obama's most important national security decisions, from the practice of targeted killings beyond America's defined battlefields to the intervention in Libya.
"The President is selecting Johnson because he is one the most highly qualified and respected national security leaders," said a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the nomination before its announcement. "During his tenure at the Department of Defense, he was known for his sound judgment and counsel."
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Mass Dem Gov. Deval Patrick Teams Up With Radical Mosque
Where Boston Bombers Attended To Issue State's First
Eid ul-Adha Greetings [whatever the hell that means]
Deval Patrick issued this in conjunction with the Islamic Society of Boston, the same mosque attended by Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The ISB has long history with radical Islam.(Hmmmm....I wonder how long the clown had to practice those raghead words...
even better, Numbnut Patrick has a gay daughter, he should have asked the ISB
how she would be treated in the Evil Islamic world)
I couldn't resist this Paul Harvey video below. He nailed it:
Dear American Citizen: Most would agree the reach of the Federal Government is simply too big, and has lacked true accountability by the press - Yet now the mainstream media (seemingly) is beginning to show signs of investigative journalism. And they should! Admittedly, the IRS has been targeting "Pro-America, Patriot, less Government, more G-d" non-profit groups. Using Paul Harvey's words and images from our current culture, this video has a message that clearly speaks into the souls of American citizens.
***PAUL HARVEY'S 'IF I WERE THE DEVIL' TRANSCRIPT***
If I were the devil ... If I were the Prince of Darkness, I'd want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I'd have a third of it's real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn't be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee. So I'd set about however necessary to take over the United States. I'd subvert the churches first — I'd begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: 'Do as you please.'
"To the young, I would whisper that 'The Bible is a myth.' I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what's bad is good, and what's good is 'square.' And the old, I would teach to pray, after me, 'Our Father, which art in Washington...'
"And then I'd get organized. I'd educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I'd threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. I'd pedal narcotics to whom I could. I'd sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I'd tranquilize the rest with pills.
"If I were the devil I'd soon have families that war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves; until each in its turn was consumed. And with promises of higher ratings I'd have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were the devil I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions — just let those run wild, until before you knew it, you'd have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.
"Within a decade I'd have prisons overflowing, I'd have judges promoting pornography — soon I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress. And in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls, and church money. If I were the devil I'd make the symbols of Easter an egg and the symbol of Christmas a bottle.
"If I were the devil I'd take from those who have, and give to those who wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And what do you bet? I couldn't get whole states to promote gambling as thee way to get rich? I would caution against extremes and hard work, in Patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on TV is the way to be. And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil I'd just keep right on doing on what he's doing.
Paul Harvey, good day."
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Idiot Pelosi: Obumacare Is About "The Liberation of People To A Life of Liberty, Freedom"
(This Bitch is totally insane)
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/10/17/nancy_pelosi_no_question_that_obamacare_website_has_to_be_improved.html
REP. NANCY PELOSI: I am very proud about my state of California, where it's going great, and most of the states that have their state-run exchanges, it's all going positively well. There's no question that what's happening with the systems, the national plans is something that has to be improved. They were overwhelmed by the traffic. Okay, but now let's see how long it's going to take to have that be fixed. But, that's about the technology — about the benefits, about the liberation of people to a healthier life of liberty, freedom to choose their happiness, that all remains.
I hope that we would have some answers soon and that the answer will be, okay, we've found the glitch or whatever it is, it has been corrected and here's a demonstration of how people, when they approach it now, will be received.
Obumacare Workers "Getting Sick, Fainting During Conference Calls"
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(Obumacare seems to have that effect on people)
Via WaPo:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/16/meet-cgi-federal-the-company-behind-the-botched-launch-of-healthcare-gov/
. . . The healthcare.gov debacle has taken its toll on the working environment at CGI Federal's 10-story complex in Fairfax, Va., according to a staffer working on a related project who asked not to be named. "There's been a lot of agitation and anger, because CGI really prides itself on having family flexibility," he said, noting the firm's liberal telework policy. Instead, the Obamacare contract has sucked more and more staff off other projects, and people have been working around the clock to first get the site ready for Oct. 1, and then fix it when things started to go wrong. "There's a lot of frustration," the staffer said. "People are getting sick, fainting in conference calls."
NY Daily News Rag Runs Political Cartoon Comparing Redskins Logo To Swastika, Confederate Flag
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This is sooooooo STUPID! BTW.. What they call the Confederate Flag was Lee's Battle flag for the Army of Northern Virginia... it was hijacked by the Demo-rats that ran the government. If they have too, I recommend they change it to the Washington Thinskins:
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WASHINGTON -
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/23726152/political-cartoon-compares-redskins-logo-to-swastika-confederate-flag#axzz2i7OBw4g9
The Redskins name debate just isn't going away.
A new political cartoon in the New York Daily News is raising eyebrows by comparing the Skins logo to a swastika and the confederate flag.
Next to it is written the caption "Archaic Symbols of Pride and Heritage."
FOX 5 reached out to a number of businesses that advertise at Fed-Ex Field, the home stadium of the Redskins, to see if the name bothered them.
They either had no comment on the issue but offered support for the team and the partnership – or didn't call us back altogether.
In a related story, The Richmond Free Press is dropping the Redskins nickname for the Washington NFL team from its pages, calling it racist.
In an editorial Thursday, the weekly primarily aimed at the city's African-American community called the name insulting to Native Americans and divisive.
Surprise! Debt Jumps $328 Billion In Single Day Of Operation
(After 150 days of being stagnation the national debt has increased to $17B+. I understand someone in the White House just wired a little cash to an off-shore private account last night. It's probably nothing to worry about. ::) :P )
Via The Washington Times:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/18/us-debt-jumps-400-billion-tops-17-trillion-first-t/
U.S. debt jumped a record $328 billion on Thursday, the first day the federal government was able to borrow money under the deal President Obama and Congress sealed this week.
The debt now equals $17.075 trillion, according to figures the Treasury Department posted online on Friday.
The $328 billion increase shattered the previous high of $238 billion set two years ago.
The giant jump comes because the government was replenishing its stock of "extraordinary measures" — the federal funds it borrowed from over the last five months as it tried to avoid bumping into the debt ceiling.
Under the law, that replenishing happens as soon as there is new debt space.
Mike Huckabee
Forbes has been digging into the question of why the Obamacare website keeps crashing. It's not just the cronyism that led to companies with hardly any IT experience but lot of lobbyists getting contracts to build the website. And it's not just the fact that it was a rush job. No, Forbes' conclusion is that the site keeps crashing because the government was trying to hide the truth from us.
For years now, we've been promised that this new health care scheme would let us keep the plans we like and the only change is that the cost would drop by about $2500 a year. In reality, many plans are being dropped and replaced with plans that cost thousands of dollars more. It apparently came as a shock to our leaders than when you force insurance companies to cover a lot more things with no preexisting condition exemptions, the cost goes up. Forbes claims that Health and Human Services officials were afraid that if people saw those prices, there'd be an open revolt. So instead of just letting people shop for insurance anonymously, like most websites do, it required people to register before they shop, so it could learn their income and tell them if they qualified for subsidies. Requiring all that information just to sign on creates a huge bottleneck and crashes the system. So let me save Washington a lot of trouble in the future: guys, we know that everything you get involved in costs more. It's not a state secret. Now, could you please just get out of the way and let us see the damages?
Colorado: City-Owned Cemetery Bans Jesus From Gravestones
Over Fear People Will Be "Offended"
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(Sadly, there are plenty of morons on the left who would be offended... but I'd like to know who, specifically would be offended by the name 'Jesus' on the grave marker of a pastor's wife? What kind of malicious, godless, slop-sucking heathen would object to a dying woman's last wishes? Oh, I forgot... progressives, atheists, your local government Facists)Via Fox News:http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/18/family-fights-to-include-jesus-on-grave-marker-at-city-owned-cemetery/
The family of a Colorado preacher's wife is still fuming after the director of the city-owned cemetery refused to engrave her final resting place with the name 'Jesus' because it might offend people. The city eventually reversed course under public pressure.
"We were in disbelief," said Stacy Adams, the daughter-in-law of Linda Baker. "Who tries to censor Jesus from a cemetery?"
Linda Baker lost her battle with cancer last week. She was the wife of Mark Baker, the pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Ovid.
Adams said her mother-in-law was passionate about her Christian faith and her family. Her final wish was to have her cemetery marker engraved with the ichthys, a symbol of early Christianity. She also wanted the word 'Jesus' written inside the fish.
"At first they told us it wouldn't fit," Adams told me. "But after we kept pushing them the cemetery director told us that it might offend somebody. They weren't going to allow it."
The family was devastated and asked the cemetery director to reconsider. He refused.
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Super Clever Sunglass Illusion
The 'James Bond' Landing
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Runner Up Goes To This Fluffy Cow
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Wing Amputee Eagle Gets Another Chance To Soar
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Infinite Drop Kicks
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Eat Your Heart Out, Donald
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This Is One Of The Greatest Halloween Display
On A Persons Lawn EVER
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(Oh yeah... You know it is... *snort* *snort*....)
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(Hold on there...I thought zombie is pre-existing under ObumaCare ??? )
Obumacare: More Than a Glitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVRTHmrYHIQ
John McAfee predicts hackers will empty Obamacare enrollees' bank accounts
By JOEL GEHRKE
http://washingtonexaminer.com/john-mcafee-predicts-hackers-will-empty-obamacare-enrollees-bank-accounts/article/2537153
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvD0BmgNPV4&feature=player_embedded
Obamacare websites have "no safeguards" to protect Americans who enroll in the health insurance exchanges from hackers who will "empty your bank account," according to internet security pioneer John McAfee.
McAfee said he could create a fake Obamacare exchange website for "a couple hundred dollars" and expect a big return on the scam.
"I'll ask you your social security, your date of birth, [so] an hour later I can empty your bank account," he told Fox News' Gretchen Carlson.
"And this is going to happen, it's going to happen soon. Nothing in the Obamacare system safeguards against this," he said.
The interview was a follow-up to McAfee's conversation with Fox's Neil Cavuto last week.
"There is no central place where I can go and say, 'OK, here are all the legitimate brokers and examiners, for all of the states,' and pick and choose one," McAfee told Cavuto.
"Instead, any hacker can put a website up, and make it look extremely competitive, and because of the nature of the system — this is health care, after all — they can ask you the most intimate questions and you're freely going to answer them."
CNBC's Maria Bartiromo: ObamaCare Forcing Businesses To Shift To Part-Time Workers (Video)
October 20, 2013,
CNBC's Money Honey told a panel today,
"ObamaCare is forcing businesses to shift to part-time workers."
Bartiromo is right...
Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time
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And it's likely to get worse...
Obamacare will kill off at least two percent of the US full-time workforce.
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Obamacare is accelerating the US towards a part-time nation.
But,
Creepy Zombie Sebelius says part-time work is not going up.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/07/31/who-can-deny-it-obamacare-is-accelerating-u-s-towards-a-part-time-nation/
DefendWallSt Signs Up For Obamacare – Episode 2: Revenge Of The Premiums
9:32am – Logging in. Site is blank? Refreshing does nothing.
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9:39am – I have plans now for: Under 30, Low-Income, Hudson County NJ (poor area), Self Employed
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9:43 – Seems logical right? Okay. So now let's go to EHealthInsurance.com and purchase our insurance WITHOUT the help of the exchange direct from the insurers.
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9:48 – Seems like they're only saving me $13 right? Well money is money so that's good. But what do I get for my $13?
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No deductible you say...? $15 generics huh? Not bad ... let me try to see what Healthcare.gov offers after I login ....
9:55 – Can't login. Taken to white page. Navigating away from it logs me out.
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UPDATE 10:10am – Some smart ass Obamacare navigator tried to just troll me
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UPDATE 10:21 – He admits the site sucks
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Palestinians Fly Nazi Flag Over Road Used By Jews
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(Obuma's partners in peace... what a crock)
Via INN:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/172988#.UmMaEM14jJc
For at least the second time in five months, Arab residents of Beit Umar in the Palestinian Authority (PA) have placed a Nazi flag over a major thoroughfare where Jews pass in their vehicles.
Beit Umar is located between Halhoul and the Etzion Bloc, not far from Hevron.
Soldiers from the Haruv battalion in Kfir Regiment tried to take down the flag Saturday, but encountered difficulty because it was placed very high up.
A similar event took place at Beit Umar in May, when hundreds of residents of Gush Etzion who drove down Highway 60 were astounded to see an oversized Nazi flag flying next to a mosque in the Arab town.
In a recent key seech, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu quoted numerous historical sources showing that the leader of the Palestinian Arabs in the first half of the 20th century, Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, was "one of the initiators of the Holocaust of the Jews of Europe," and that he was constantly encouraging the Nazi leadership to annihilate the Jews, throughout the war. He cited evidence that the Mufti even visited the gas chambers at Auschwitz with Adolf Eichmann.
"The Mufti is still a greatly admired figure in the Palestinian national movement," said Netanyahu. "These are the weeds that need to be uprooted," he said. "The root of the conflict is the deep resistance among a hard core of Palestinians to the right of the Jewish people to its own state in Israel."
NEWS ANCHOR COMPLETELY LOSES IT FOR THE BEST POSSIBLE REASON :o :o :o
You'd call this guy crazy if he weren't brilliant, concise and 100% right-on-the-money.
(GO, Dylan ;D :laugh: :laugh:)
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State Department swept sex scandals under the rug
By Kate Briquelet
October 20, 2013 http://nypost.com/2013/10/20/state-department-scandals-swept-under-rug/
(Just like Benghazi, and the manifold other scandals of this administration,which I know very welll...
NO ONE GETS PUNISHED!!! .... same ol' crooked politics on the taxpayer's dime
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State Department scandals were ignored or swept under the rug while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, critics say. Months after whistleblowers accused the State Department of covering up employee sex scandals,
most of the cases have been ignored or swept under the rug, critics charge.
Records show that staffers were given cushy jobs or allowed to retire, and watchdogs say the feds have hardly bothered to investigate since the shenanigans came to light this past summer."The first few days after the revelation, there was a whole lot of barking going on," said Damon Mathias, a lawyer for Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator with the department's inspector general who leaked an internal memo citing probes that were derailed by senior officials under then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"Nobody's barking anymore. As a concerned citizen, what the hell is going on here?"
The bombshell memo detailed accusations that former Ambassador to Belgium Howard Gutman and members of Clinton's security detail hired prostitutes, but were given little more than wrist-slaps.The Post also revealed allegations that former Naples Consul General Donald Moore romped with call girls and had torrid affairs with Italian employees.
But the alleged dalliances seem to have not hurt Moore's career.
He left his post as Naples consul general in June and now teaches at the Air War College in Montgomery, Ala. — a position paid for by the State Department, according to a college spokesman.In a case filed with the department's Office of Civil Rights, former consul officer Kerry Howard claims Moore harassed her after she tried to expose his hanky-panky at the Naples office.
Howard's lawyer, Lawrence Kelly, is asking the IG to investigate allegations of financial misconduct and accusations that Moore had an affair with a language instructor.
Here's what has become of other employees named in the IG memo.
•Chuck Lisenbee, a former Beirut security officer who was being probed for allegedly sexually assaulting local guards, is now a special agent in Washington for the Office of Diplomatic Vehicles, Enforcement and Outreach, according to a State Department phone directory. Agents were only given three days to investigate the allegations against him, according to the memo.
•Brett McGurk — a former senior adviser to the ambassador to Iraq — was appointed the deputy assistant secretary for Iraq and Iran in August, according to the State Department Web site. He was President Obama's nominee for ambassador to Iraq but withdrew after his extramarital affair with a Wall Street Journal reporter was exposed.
•According to the memo, investigators never interviewed McGurk because Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, intervened.
•Gutman was allowed to retire in July. A State Department investigator found Gutman solicited "sexual favors from both prostitutes and minor children," according to the memo. The IG's Office is reviewing the charges and the department's procedures and plans to release a followup report.
The State Department is calling the misconduct charges "baseless.""We await the findings of [the new] report, and we believe that given our knowledge of the facts, some may well regret sensationalizing baseless allegations in ways that hurt innocent people," said department spokesman Alec Gerlach.
Fred Phelps, Minister of hate Westboro Baptist Church,
Democrat Steward Of The Old Gay, Black, Jew Hating Kind
We hear a lot about how racist Southern Democrats became Republicans the so-called "Dixiecrat" story. We've all heard it a thousand times at least. Well evidently Fred Phelps never got the message.(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/phelps1.png)
So a lot of you are probably thinking he doesn't still vote and this is just a leaveover from elections gone past when he actually ran on the (D) ticket right?(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/phelps2.png)
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THINKING OF SITTING THINGS OUT IN 2014?
Consider That Mainstream Democrats Now Openly Call for Arrests of Political Opponents
For those of you as disgusted as I am with GOP leaders, consider the ramifications of sitting out the midterms. Should Nancy Pelosi regain the Speakership, well, in six words, they'll be coming for your guns. That's a guarantee.
For the first time in American history, mainstream Democrats are openly calling for the arrests of their political opponents. Yes, the hard left Democrat Party's tactics come straight out of the playbooks of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot, and Mugabe.
They will be coming for anyone who expresses dissent against their Marxist policies, but before they do, they'll be coming for your guns.
If Democrats regain control of the House, rest assured that your Second Amendment rights will be eviscerated as they very nearly did following the mass shooting by the lunatic in Sandy Hook. Dianne Feinstein -- the loathsome and brazen crook from California -- had her gun ban bill in place, just waiting for a nice, bloody tragedy to exploit.These are some truly frightening portents.
• Democrats are openly calling for the arrest of Sen. Ted Cruz "for sedition". Never mind the Constitution explicitly grants the power of the purse to Congress, not the President. Never mind that James Madison himself described that the House could, in fact, shut down any program it wanted to. Never mind all that: the Constitution doesn't matter to these hard left sixties retreads. They don't want any political opposition. They want you gone. They want you silent, or in prison, or dead (what do you think Obamacare is really about?).
• MSNBC plainly calls lawful dissent "sedition", presumably punishable by death.
• Democrat Congressman Steve Cohen (TN) labels conservatives "domestic enemies", alluding to presidential actions to secure the country from the Tea Party, veterans, and Constitutional conservatives.
• A public MoveOn.org petition calls for the arrests of Republicans in Congress by the Holder DOJ.
These are some dangerous times, my friends.I'm voting Republican in 2014 if for no other reason than to keep our Second Amendment rights intact. Yes, I support the most conservative candidates possible (Matt Bevin over Mitch McConnell, for example). But I'm not sitting anything out in 2014.
I'm not going AWOL, even with the feckless boobs running the GOP, because they're the last line of defense. Let the RINOs form a third party. The grassroots can and will succeed by avoiding the GOP, the NRSC, the NRCC, and other establishment entities, instead working through independent groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund, FreedomWorks, and Americans For Prosperity.
I urge you to do the same next November and to marshal all the conservatives you can. If you aren't motivated to continue electing conservatives like Ted Cruz... if you aren't pumped up to save your Second Amendment rights and preserve the last vestiges of the Constitution... if you aren't interested in staying on the political battlefield in 2014..........then don't be surprised when they do come for your guns!!
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Refer to Obamacare and the ACA as "National Socialist" health rationing.
It drives the libtards insane. They will accuse you of mixing up fascism and socialism. This is a great debate to trap them into having.
Is Obamacare more socialist, or fascist?
Ask them which part they disagree with, the national, or the socialist?
It's a win-win to fight them on this terrain.
Never fight on the enemy's ground. Never use their euphemisms.
Call Obamacare what it is: National Socialist health care.
If libs object, ask them which word is incorrect, the National or the Socialist?
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:o :o :o Huge Bear Surprises TV Crew Making A Commerical. :o :o :o
Six People Eaten On Camera! :'( :'( :( :(
Check out what happened to this crew on a photoshoot for the Samsung EcoBubble washing machine. They were near Manning Park, BC. :( :o :o :'( :'( :'( :angel:
Obumacare "Success Stories" Tumblr, Twitter Account
Manages To Find Only One Person Who Actually Enrolled In Obumacare
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(The Libs have been busy today spreading around the "ACA Success Stories" Twitter and Tumblr pages.
https://twitter.com/ACASuccessTales
http://acasuccessstories.tumblr.com/
One problem, among the two pages worth of "success stories" there is only one person who claims to have enrolled, and I'm 99% sure it's the person who set up the account seeing as it's the first post. The rest consists of Drones praising Obumacare and people claiming they plan to enroll.
Keep trying, Clowns... I'm sure one day you'll find one)
Creepy Sebelius Cites "Scheduling Conflict," Won't Testify Before House Committee Until Next Week
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(How convenient)
Via Washington Times:Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius could testify before a House committee as early as next week on problems with Obamacare, but top Republicans continued to push for her to answer questions at a hearing Thursday.
A spokeswoman for Mrs. Sebelius said she has a scheduling conflict this week but will work with the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find a date for her to testify "in the near future."
Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said the delay is "unacceptable." Mr. Boehner said lawmakers need Mrs. Sebelius to address questions this week about the troubles with the HealthCare.gov web site.
[...]Sebelius is scheduled to speak at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston Wednesday night on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Community Mental Health Act. She's also scheduled to attend an event in Phoenix :P on Thursday.
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Obuma Falsely Claims Obumacare Website Fiasco Result
of High Traffic "Overwhelming" Site
(Come on... even Obuma knows he's lying)
Via Politico:
"Obuma: Of course you've probably heard that healthcare.gov. hasn't worked as smoothly as it was supposed to work. The number of people who visited the site has been overwhelming, which has aggravated some of these underlining problems."(http://www.soopermexican.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Obamacare-chart3.jpg)
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Obumacare Call Center Lines Go Down After Obuma Tells People To Call 1-800 Number
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(Obumacare excels at one thing, and one thing only... FAILURE!!!)
Via NRO:http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/361771/presidents-urging-people-call-exchange-hotline-cant-get-through-andrew-johnson#!
President Obama emerged on Monday to assure Americans that the "kinks" surrounding the federal and state health-care exchanges are improving and urged consumers to call the exchange hotline if they continue to encounter problems online. Shortly after he made the suggestion, Twitter lit up with reporters and others who attempted to do so but failed to get through to a navigator as promised. After dialing the number, some callers got a busy signal, others received an automated message, and yet others were referred back to Healthcare.gov.
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Obuma: "The Product Is Good. It's High Quality"
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(Filed under: Things a drug dealer would say)
Obuma:. . . So let me just recap here. The product is good. The health insurance that's being provided is good. It's high quality, and it's affordable. People can save money — significant money — by getting insurance that's being provided through these marketplaces. And we know that the demand is there. People are rushing to see what's available.(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/664/3305/original.jpg?w=600&h=480)
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Time To Impeach Obuma
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Every American, whether conservative or liberal, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Tea party or independent, should be concerned about the nearly limitless seizure of power, the abuses of authority, the cronyism, corruption, lies and cover-ups documented in the past five years.
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•Obamacare not only is unconstitutional but illegally bypasses Congress, infringes on states' rights and marking an unprecedented and unauthorized expansion of IRS power.
•Sidestepping Congress, Obama already has granted largely unreported de facto amnesty to millions of illegal aliens using illicit interagency directives and executive orders.
•The Obama administration recklessly endangered the public by releasing from prison criminal illegal aliens at a rate far beyond what is publicly known.
•The president's personal role in the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack, with new evidence regarding what was transpiring at the U.S. mission prior to the assault – arguably impeachable activities in and of themselves.
•Illicit edicts on gun control in addition to the deadly "Fast and Furious" gun-running operation intended, the book shows, to collect fraudulent gun data.
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•From "fusion centers" to data mining to drones to alarming Department of Homeland Security power grabs, how U.S. citizens are fast arriving at the stage of living under a virtual surveillance regime.
•New evidence of rank corruption, cronyism and impeachable offenses related to Obama's first-term "green" funding adventures.
•The illegality of leading a U.S.-NATO military campaign without congressional approval.
•Obama has weakened America both domestically and abroad by emboldening enemies, tacitly supporting a Muslim Brotherhood revolution, spurning allies and minimizing the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.
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October 18, 2013 by John DeMayo
Obama's Pentagon to Sell Advanced Weapons Systems to His Islamist Allies
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Via FOP: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/obamas-pentagon-sell-advanced-weapons-systems-islamist-allies/
Last week, when the US government was shut down for lack of money, the Department of Defense informed the US Congress about its plans to deliver 10 billion dollars of US weapons hardware to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In case you have forgotten, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates just happen to be two of the world's top Sunni financiers of global terror.
The US weapons systems slated for delivery include bunker buster bombs, sophisticated Boeing made Standoff Land Attack Extended Range (SLAM-ER) bombs and Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapons (JSOW) cruise missiles. These weapons systems ---for the first time in history---will provide Sunni Islamist monarchies US made F-15's and F-16's with the power to destroy ground targets from as far away as 100 kilometers. There is no denying that prior to 911, Sunni Islamists (Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE) were long time customers of the US Defense establishment. After Islamist financed Al- Qaeda terrorists attacked America on September 11, 2001, the Bush administration, understandably scaled back its defense department contracts with Saudi Arabia and other countries long suspected of providing financial support to Islamist terror. Since 2010, President Obama's Department of Defense has eagerly pursued---with little opposition from Congress---new historic Middle Eastern arms deals.
If you are wondering why the Republicans and Democrats---who have 30 days to protest this deal---will more than likely acquiesce to Defense Secretary Chuck Hegel's plan, look no further than Boeing and Raytheon.
Since the last election cycle, Boeing donated $3.46 million and Raytheon gifted $3.53 million dollars to the campaign funds and PACS maintained by both Democrat and Republican candidates. In 2012, Boeing spent 15.6 million dollars and Raytheon invested 7.4 million dollars to lobby our elected representatives in Washington D.C.
According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) ---supposedly founded on a tradition of cooperation between the United States and other sovereign nations with similar values and interests---the weapons shipment to these Gulf States "will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by improving the security of friendly countries that remain forces for stability."
Like most Americans, I am a little confused about US Foreign policy "goals of stability" versus the violent realities the Obama/Clinton foreign policy has shown in the Gulf region. I am also concerned about our only true ally in the Gulf region, Israel.
Washington would like America to believe that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates require these weapons to aid the United States in isolating Iran's unfriendly nuclear ambitions. This is the same Washington drivel that attempted to lead us into another war to support the Saudi backed Al Qaeda affiliated Al Nusrah Front rebels overthrow of Bashir Assad's Syrian regime.
US foreign policy, both the Bush and Obama foreign policy, has done little to discourage Iran's nuclear weapons development program. Now the US Department of Defense is planning to arm Gulf States (known supporters of Islamist terror) in order to provide stability in a region that grows increasingly more unstable because of ISLAMIST TERROR. This is like arming the Zeta cartel to provide stability in Mexico's drug wars that are spilling over into US Border States and beyond.
Does the US Congress intend to support the arming of Gulf state governments responsible for financing past-unprovoked attacks on Americans here and abroad?
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English Taxi Driver Accused of "Breaching Equality Laws"
For Having English Flag Sticker On Her Cab
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(Holy SH!T... G-d help us if we get to the point the UK has reached, where their own flag is considered racist and... wait a minute... it has already happened in Californication. There have been stories there about homeowner associations that have prevented people flying American flags on their own property. By the time the Left is through... if they are allowed to keep going... all signs and symbols of Western Culture will have been deemed racist and destroyed. And the UK isn't anything like it was the 2 years I spent there. What a freaking shame)
Via Daily Express:http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/437673/Council-killjoys-ban-taxi-driver-from-having-St-George-s-Cross-on-cab-for-discrimination
A TAXI taxi driver has been banned from having a St George's Cross sticker in her cab –because it could discriminate against foreigners.
Patriotic Denise Said, 56, has three English flag signs stuck on the doors and boot of her vehicle.
But after one complaint from a rival cab firm she was stunned to receive a letter from the council accusing her of breaching equality laws.
Teignbridge Council in Devon said the stickers would leave anyone who is not English at a "disadvantage in their day to day life".
The local authority says it will refuse to renew Denise's license in February unless she ditches the stickers.
But the veteran driver of Newton Abbott, Devon, has vowed to keep flying the flag and says there's nothing offensive about them.
Furious Denise said: "I think it's pathetic. I believe the council is implying that I am racist but nothing could be further from the truth.
"I've had a few foreign people in my cab and I've asked them if they find it offensive and they don't in the slightest. In fact, one told me 'your country has gone mad'.
Report:
Huge Spike In Number of Western And Caucasus Jihadists Entering Syria To Fight Assad Regime
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(Thanks to Obuma's response :
'Flood Syria with US weapons and they'll come.'
Brilliant!)
BERLIN – http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Spike-of-Western-Caucasus-jihadists-enter-Syria-329193
France's intelligence service reported a significant spike in the number of jihadists who travelled to Syria to fight against President Bashar Assad's regime, according to a report in the daily Le Monde.
John R. Schindler, a professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College, analyzed the report on his blog The XX Committee, saying "A detailed new report in the Parisian daily Le Monde, based on sources inside France's foreign intelligence service, paints a dire portrait of the rising number of Westerners going to wage jihad in Syria."
The report on Wednesday stated that jihadists from Western and Caucasus countries vastly increased the number of entry points into to Syria since the summer. It said that the civil war represents a "power of attraction" for radical Islamists.
"Nothing like it has ever been seen before, even for Afghanistan," said a senior French intelligence official.
Schindler, a leading US expert on counterterrorism, wrote based on Le Monde's report, "France is a major source, with the number of French nationals in Syria having doubled just since May, with some 400 in various forms of transit and over 200 actually in Syria as of the beginning of October."
Fresh groups of jihadists are travelling from Chechnya to Syria. Two transit points have been identified in Europe.
Austria's capital, Vienna, has served as a major transit hub for Caucasus jihadists who work their way from the central European country to Turkey and into Syria. According to French intelligence, Chechen Islamists are using Nice, where there is a Chechen community of more than 10,000 in southern France to travel to Turkey and into Syria.
The Jerusalem Post learned of an al-Qaida member affiliated with the ISIS group from Iraq who used the Turkish city of Gaziantep in late September as an entry point into Syria.
Big Apple Takes No Bite Out Of Obamacare... Yet!
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Et Tu Bloombergus?! From what I understand is the reason that nobody's actually been enrolled in NY yet is because the state hasn't sent the applications in yet, out of concerns that the data is corrupted:
"But the state has repeatedly delayed electronically transmitting those users' data to insurers offering health plans. The department, which held off in order to verify the accuracy of the information users submitted, said it would transfer the first batch of enrollees' data — which includes thousands of transactions — as early as Friday night. Meanwhile, insurers were worried that the state website had incorrect information on details of plans that are available.")Via NY Daily News:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-house-deems-health-glitches-unacceptable-gop-calls-obamacare-doa-article-1.1491281
In New York, one of only 16 states that has its own exchange, not one person had succeeded in using the site to enroll in a plan as of Friday.
Donna Frescatore, director of the New York State of Health marketplace, said Friday that 134,000 people had registered and shopped on the state's online health care site since its Oct. 1 launch, and thousands signed up to enroll in a plan.
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Obama Plans To Share Everything With Verizon
(Share all our medical data plan? I didn't think Verizon was that stupid.... I don't believe it. What about the NSA? *Snort* *Snort*)
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Via USA Today:The international telecommunications company Verizon has been tasked with helping the government fix the federal health exchange, USA TODAY has learned.
An informed source in the telecommunications industry said Verizon's Enterprise Solutions division has been asked by the Department of Health and Human Services to improve the performance of the HealthCare.gov site, which is a key component of the Affordable Care Act. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not been made official.
HHS office said Sunday the department would reach outside its government contractors to civilian companies that might be able to solve HealthCare.gov's problems more quickly.
State of Oklahoma to Change Name to Abovetexas, AT
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With the current controversy surrounding the name of the Washington Redskins, the state of Oklahoma announced today that it will be proactively changing its name to Abovetexas.
"Many people don't realize that "Oklahoma" is actually Choctaw for "Land of the Red People," stated official Native American representative Juan Pendejo, a white Hispanic person of Native American heritage, who is, incidentally, a cousin of United States Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Mr. Pendejo elaborated, "It's time that we as Americans, regardless of our particular hyphenations, stop insulting people of other races, creeds, and religions - except, of course, for Judaism and Christianity, which, hey, we all know suck."
The state of Texas did not return our calls, but rumor has it that their initial response was that "Nothing is above Texas."
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Don't forget Utah, named after the Utes. They are highly offended by a state being named after them.
Incidentally, the University of Utah went through the same thing as WSU a few years ago. A friend of mine had his dad, from the Ute tribe, sitting on the council that was looking to change the U of U's mascot because it might be offensive to Native Americans.
His response to the council was this:
"I'm sick of white people telling me what offends me."
The mascot is still the Ute.
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HHS Chief 'Creepy' Sebelius Falsely Claims "Extremely High"
Website Traffic Responsible For Obamacare Failure
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(Lies, lies, and more lies)
Via CNN:She noted how Tuesday, a team of high-tech experts from within the government and from Silicon Valley, and led by Jeff Zients — a former CEO and acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, who will oversee the process for the next few months — are coming in to address the issues.
Why weren't they brought in before the website launched October 1?
"We have hoped that they had their 'A-Team' on the table," Sebelius said in response. As to now, "We want new eyes and ears. We want to make sure that we get all the questions on the table, that we get all the answers and accelerator the fix as quickly as possible."
The secretary attributed some of the problems to "extremely high" volume, claiming nearly 20 million people have come to the Obamacare website in the first three weeks after its launched. Yet only a fraction of those have signed up for new health care policies.
Three Scum Buckets Caught On Tape Desecrating
American Flag On A Veteran's Porch
(I can't write how I feel about this. Just watch the video)
Via CBS:
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/10/22/veteran-wants-flag-vandals-to-take-responsibility-for-crime/
Plano veteran Larry Lorance always has a flag flying at his home. And he's fed up with having to replace it.
Lorance's front door flag was destroyed for the third time early Friday morning. He says his verbal response to the attack isn't fit for publication; but, he thought 'my gosh, they did it again.'
"A lot of men and women gave their lives for this flag," he said sternly, adding that, "as an American, and as a veteran, I was offended by that."
After the second flag was destroyed, Lorance installed a surveillance system and sure enough the culprits were captured on video. And he says the incident went beyond damage—he was appalled at the disrespect. http://www.fireengines.net/flag/
Dem Rep. Henry 'Pig Snout' Waxman...
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....Blames Private Sector For Obumacare Rollout Disaster
'Pig Snout' is one deranged individual
Via Free Beacon:http://freebeacon.com/waxman-claims-private-sector-responsible-for-obamacare-glitches/
KIRSTEN WELKER: Congressman, just very quickly, yes or no, should Secretary Sebelius keep her job?HENRY WAXMAN: Absolutely. There's no reason for her not to continue on as secretary. She's done a terrific job. I have a great deal of confidence in her. She doesn't know about all technicalities. That was contracted out to the private sector, the private sector with all the money they got couldn't get it. If anybody's head should roll, it should be the contractors who didn't live up to their contractual responsibilities.
WH Official Fired For Tweeting Nasty Things About Valerie Jarrett And Others
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Via The Daily Beast:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/22/white-house-official-fired-for-tweeting-under-fake-name1.html
A White House national security official was fired last week after being caught as the mystery Tweeter who has been tormenting the foreign policy community with insulting comments and revealing internal Obama administration information for over two years.
Jofi Joseph, a director in the non-proliferation section of the National Security Staff at the White House, has been surreptitiously tweeting under the moniker @natsecwonk, a Twitter feed famous inside Washington policy circles since it began in February, 2011 until it was shut down last week.
Two administration officials confirmed that the mystery tweeter was Joseph, who has also worked at the State Department and on Capitol Hill for Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Joe Biden. Until recently, he was part of the administration's team working on negotiations with Iran.
Democrat Bob Beckel: "I Got a Call from Somebody at the White House..." After Criticizing O-Care (Video)
Posted Tuesday, October 22, 2013,
(Politics Chicago-style)
Democratic operative and FOX News contributor Bob Beckel told Bill Hemmer today that he got a call from the White House after he suggested implementation for Obamacare should be delayed 6 months.
"The other day on The Five I called for a delay for the implementation of this for five months or six months to a year. And I got a call from somebody at the White House who absolutely bludgeoned me over it..."
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Bombshell: Team Obama Blew Enough Cash on O-Care Website to Pay Developer $200 an Hour for 5,000 Years
Posted Tuesday, October 22, 2013(Computer engineers are shocked at the cost of the Obumacare website)
DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG
Where'd the money go?
One developer calculated the Obama administration blew enough cash on the Obamacare website to pay a technician $200 an hour for 5,000 years.MyFOXDC reported:http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/23754228/experts-stunned-at-cost-for-healthcaregov-website-development#axzz2iUOo73QT
Despite more than three years to get the job done, the administration unveiled the Obamacare website despite a number of warnings that it wasn't ready for prime time.
That report from the Washington Post was released just after President Barack Obama held a campaign-style event at the White House to promote the health law and address its shortcomings......"My overall sense, right from day one, was it was created by people who had never created a commercial database application before," said FMS Software developer Luke Chung.
Chung looked over the site and was stunned by the code and the cost – by some estimates, perhaps $200 million.
Chung continued, "At $200 an hour, that would be a million man hours, 5,000 man years. I don't think they had time to use 5,000 man years. So I don't know where the money went. I don't know what these people were doing. There're not that many web pages. I don't get it! Where'd the money go?"
Awful... Democrat Uses Burning Cross in Fundraising Letter
Posted Tuesday, October 22, 2013 When the Civil War ended, and after Republican President Abraham Lincoln liberated the slaves in the south, Democrats initiated Jim Crow laws to punish blacks. Democrats discriminated against blacks. In fact, the KKK, was founded as the the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.
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The Ku Klux Klan assassinated many Republicans including Republican Representative James M. Hinds (December 5, 1833—October 22, 1868) of Little Rock. Hinds represented Arkansas in the United States Congress from June 24, 1868 through October 22, 1868.
Despite these facts...
In a shutdown-related fundraising email sent last night, Democrat Alan Grayson used a KKK burning cross to spell out the "t" in Tea Party," with Klan-members standing in the background.
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Marino Rivera For President
Wednesday, October 23, 2013If you're not a baseball fan, you might not know who Mariano -- Mo to his friends, fans and teammates -- Rivera is. He is the closer for the New York Yankees, the fellow they've been calling on since the mid-90s to protect leads in the late innings. Nobody has ever come close to being as good at what he does as Rivera. This past season, as he's announced his retirement, every team the Yankees have played against has honored him. Even the Boston Red Sox gave him testimonials and gifts. Several teams have given him checks for his foundation. And every member of the opposing teams has stood and applauded the man and his accomplishments.
But Mo deserves it. In addition to displaying unmatched talent for 17 seasons, he has performed under the largest spotlight in baseball with grace and humility. When people ask how this native of Panama has been able to pitch the way he has even into his 40s, he credits God first and foremost, and then mentions his family, his teammates and the Yankee organization.
When I saw him recently on TV making his farewell appearance at Yankee Stadium, I found myself wishing we had someone of his caliber in the Oval Office. Can anyone even imagine a Republican having a good word to say about Obama, who ran as a great uniter, but has spent five years demeaning the loyal opposition, accusing them at various times of being racists, obstructionists and traitors?
What I don't understand is how Obama gets away with arbitrarily postponing the Affordable Health Care mandate for business owners. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi keep telling us ObamaCare is the law of the land, but Obama keeps ignoring the embarrassing parts of it. According to the Supreme Court, ObamaCare is legal because they decided it's a tax, the very thing Obama spent two years denying it was. But if it's a tax, where does Obama get off insisting that only some people have to pay it?
It may not have been noticed in some places, but Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton, all stayed away from Margaret Thatcher's funeral. However, Obama sent an official delegation numbering 14 when socialist dictator and all-around swine Hugo Chavez was laid to rest.
Although I rarely disagree with my friend Bernie Goldberg, he recently devoted an article to comparing the civil rights of gays to the religious rights of Christians. Bernie was entering the fray on behalf of gays, who had been denied wedding cakes and floral decorations by evangelical business owners who oppose same-sex marriages.
He pointed out that such marriages are now legal in several states, and that takes precedence in a nation of laws. I have a different take on things. One, I happen to think that if someone is willing to forego the profit, he should have the same right to withhold service as storeowners who refuse to deal with shirtless or shoeless customers.
In addition, there are always florists and bakers who would be only too happy to supply cakes and flowers, so it is hard for me to imagine that the homosexual couples wanted either as much as they wanted to create problems for those whose religious beliefs offended them.
Moreover, it doesn't seem that long ago that I was reading about Muslim taxi drivers who were allowed to refuse rides to people carrying packages out of liquor stores and blind people if they were accompanied by their Seeing Eye dogs. It just seems to me that Christians shouldn't have fewer religious rights in America than Muslims.
Recently, someone sent me a list of high-profile shootings. Starting in 1865, we had a Democrat named John Wilkes Booth killing Abe Lincoln. In 1881, a left-wing radical shot James Garfield. In 1963, a socialist shot John F. Kennedy. In 2010, a registered Democrat named Jared Loughner shot Rep. Gaby Giffords and killed six others. In 2013, a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother before killing 26 others at a local school.
The point being that guns don't kill people; left-wingers kill people.
In closing I will quote H.L. Mencken, who wrote: "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it" and Mark Twain, who observed: "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
...by Burt Prelutski
Ain't it time to impeach!
TheBlaze UPDATES OUR ORIGINAL STORY WITH INSIDER SOURCES -- Obama Purging Military Commanders: "Anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged"...
UPDATE by Sara Carter, THE BLAZE (October 23, 2013)
Nine senior commanding generals have been fired by the Obama administration this year, leading to speculation by active and retired members of the military that a purge of its commanders is underway.
Retired generals and current senior commanders that have spoken with TheBlaze say the administration is not only purging the military of commanders they don't agree with, but is striking fear in the hearts of those still serving.
The timing comes as the five branches of the U.S. armed forces are reducing staff due to budget cuts, and as U.S. troops are expected to withdraw from Afghanistan next year.
"I think they're using the opportunity of the shrinkage of the military to get rid of people that don't agree with them or not tow the party line. Remember, as (former White House chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel said, never waste a crisis," a senior retired general told TheBlaze on the condition of anonymity because he still provide services to the government and fears possible retribution.
"Even as a retired general, it's still possible for the administration to make life miserable for us. If we're working with the government or have contracts, they can just rip that out from under us," he said.
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, an outspoken critic of the Obama administration, said the White House fails to take action or investigate its own, but finds it easy to fire military commanders "who have given their lives for their country."
"Obama will not purge a civilian or political appointee because they have bought into Obama's ideology," Vallely said. "The White House protects their own. That's why they stalled on the investigation into fast and furious, Benghazi and Obamacare. He's intentionally weakening and gutting our military, Pentagon and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged."
A Pentagon official who asked to remain nameless because they were not authorized to speak on the matter said even "young officers, down through the ranks have been told not to talk about Obama or the politics of the White House. They are purging everyone and if you want to keep your job — just keep your mouth shut.
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/7-high-ranking-military-officers-fired-by-obama-1st-time-in-us-history-video
Published October 22, 2013, 09:36 PM
Feds ask Blue Cross Blue Shield not to release exchange numbers
FARGO – The Obama administration asked North Dakota's largest health insurer not to publicize how many people have signed up for health insurance through a new online exchange, a company official says.
By: Kyle Potter, INFORUM
FARGO – The Obama administration asked North Dakota's largest health insurer not to publicize how many people have signed up for health insurance through a new online exchange, a company official says.
During a Monday forum in Fargo for people interested in signing up for coverage via the exchange, James Nichol of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota told the crowd his company received the request from the federal government earlier Monday. Nichol is a consumer sales manager for the company.
Still, a spokeswoman from Blue Cross Blue Shield says about 14 North Dakotans have signed up for coverage since the federal exchange went live Oct. 1. That brings total statewide enrollment to 20 – less than one a day.
Spokeswoman Andrea Dinneen said Tuesday that while Blue Cross generally does not release its internal sales numbers, it has in this case because the problematic rollout of the federal health care exchange is a "unique situation."
Dinneen said she didn't have any information about the directive that Nichol referenced Monday night.
An official from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, one of the main the federal agencies handling the federal marketplace, would not directly address questions about the request made of Blue Cross Blue Shield, including whether other insurers were also asked to keep quiet about enrollment.
Representatives from the two other North Dakota companies offering coverage on the federal exchange – Medica and Sanford Health – said they had not received similar directions.
Officials in many of the 14 states that set up their own marketplace, which includes Minnesota, have released some preliminary numbers. Minnesota officials said last week that about 3,700 had begun the process of enrolling for health insurance through the marketplace, called MNsure.
But in North Dakota and the 35 other states that let the federal government take the lead on the exchange, releases from individual insurers like Blue Cross Blue Shield are the only avenue to get enrollment figures until federal officials release statistics, likely sometime in mid-November.
The exchanges route health insurance shoppers to providers that offer plans that qualify for the various rules and regulations of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as Obamacare.
In an interview after the Blue Cross Blue Shield event at the Ramada in Fargo, Nichol said he had no further information about the administration's instructions Monday.
Medica spokesman Greg Bury said the company had received enrollment files but had not yet verified them and thus did not have an enrollment count.
Sanford had enrolled six customers as of Tuesday, spokesman Darren Huber said.
Readers can reach Forum reporter
Kyle Potter at (701) 241-5502
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/416090/
Dems join call to delay ObamaCare mandate amid website failures
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/23/dems-join-call-to-delay-obamacare-mandate-amid-website-failures/
You Make The Call
Just Released: Middle East Report Translated:
Barack Hussein Obuma Is A Muslim Terrorist:
Published on Oct 10, 2013
**PLEASE HELP GET THIS MESSAGE OUT-WE ARE UNDER MEDIA BLACKOUT
Middle East Report Translated, Declares that "Barack Hussein Obama IS A Muslim Terrorist!"
The Savage Nation radio interviews Walid Shoebat
Biography of Walid Shoebat
" I used to be a radicalized Muslim willing to die for the cause of Jihad until I converted to Christianity in 1994."
"I speak to the American people to warn and educate them about the very great dangers which are very underplayed both by our media and our political leaders."
Walid has spoken all over America and the world including Chile, Mexico,
Canada, the UK and South Africa. He has also appeared on national television stations all over the world including CNN, CNN International, FOX News,
ITN, RTE, NBC, CBS, and ABC. He has also been featured on BBC
http://shoebat.com/shoebat-foundation......
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http://therightscoop.com/must-listen-walid-shoebat-says-obama-admin-harassing-and-spying-on-him-for-uncovering-obamas-islamist-ties/
Published on Sep 14, 2013
Walid Shoebat tells Radio Host Jeff Kuhner of how he is now being harassed and spied upon by the Obama administration over the work he has done uncovering Obama's familial Islamist ties, especially his brother Malik Obama who is a supporter of terrorism. Shoebat said his phone is being tapped so they can listen into his house even when he is not on the phone. He said he has received harassing phone calls over and over and that a pre-taped, un-aired phone interview he had just recorded was played back to him on his phone just after he had finished recording it and hung up. Just unbelievable.
But Shoebat says he is an Eastern Christian and try as they may to wear him out by harassing him, he will not give up telling the truth to the American people about this president. Shoebat says the only way they will stop him is to kill him and he says, essentially, 'bring it on.'
Again... You Make The Call
EXCLUSIVE: 2nd GUNMAN NAMED IN JFK ASSASSINATION!
Published on: October 23, 2013
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LEE HARVEY OSWALD did NOT act alone – and The ENQUIRER can finally name the second gunman who fired the fatal shot at President JOHN F. KENNEDY from the grassy knoll in Dallas 50 years ago!In a blockbuster exclusive, The ENQUIRER has learned that a Cuban exile with ties to both the Mafia and the CIA confessed to being involved in a conspiracy to kill America's beloved 35th president.
The startling new evidence was uncovered by respected author Anthony Summers, who revealed the assassin's identity in an update to his classic 1998 book on Kennedy's slaying, "Not In Your Lifetime."
According to Summers, the second rifleman was Herminio Diaz, a hired killer who worked for notorious Mafia boss Santo Trafficante Jr. in Cuba. Diaz executed a Cuban police chief in the late 1940s and likely committed 20 murders in his lifetime.
"Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone," Summers told The ENQUIRER.
"There was a conspiracy to kill President Kennedy, and the same people who hired Lee Harvey Oswald – whether it was the CIA, the Mafia or Cubans opposed to Fidel Castro – also hired Herminio Diaz."
Diaz arrived in the U.S. in mid-1963, according to CIA documents, just months before Kennedy was struck down in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22 of that year.
"Diaz was a professional hit man with a record of political assassinations," Summers said.
"He'd also worked for Mafia chief Trafficante as security director of the Hotel Habana Riviera casino in Cuba.
"He was in the country at the right time and was involved in the anti-Castro movement. Many people in that movement thought President Kennedy had betrayed them during the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and had a motive to kill him.
"Frankly, it all adds up."
According to Summers, Diaz revealed his role in the Kennedy assassination to a friend named Tony Cuesta. The two men were headed to Cuba by boat on an anti-Castro raid in 1966 when Diaz spilled the details on the murder plot.
"Diaz and Cuesta talked on the boat while waiting to land in Cuba," Summers said.
"During their conversations, Diaz admitted to Cuesta that he'd taken part in Kennedy's death."
Diaz was killed in the raid. Afterward, a photo published in a Cuban Communist Party newspaper showed that he was carrying a valid Florida driver's license and a Social Security card when he died, evidence that he had indeed been in the U.S.
His buddy Cuesta was badly injured in the raid, captured and jailed at Cuba's infamous La Cabana Prison. While being treated at the jail infirmary, Cuesta confided Diaz's assassination story to another anti-Castro inmate, Cuban Reinaldo Martinez. After his release from prison, Martinez fled to Miami, and in 2007 he contacted G. Robert Blakey, who'd served as chief counsel of the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations.
"Martinez thought he was about to die and wanted to set the record straight," Blakey told The ENQUIRER.
"After speaking with him, I believe he was telling the truth. It wasn't just Lee Harvey Oswald who killed Kennedy. It was a conspiracy, and Herminio Diaz was the second shooter."
Summers also interviewed Martinez for two days in Miami.
"Martinez had nothing to gain by telling his story, except for setting the record straight," Summers, who videotaped the interview, told The ENQUIRER.
"He told me he was close to death and was telling the story because, 'It is the truth – my truth.'"
Kennedy's brutal slaughter stunned America and prompted his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, to order a thorough investigation of the tragedy. According to the official Warren Commission report on the assassination, Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy.
BUT in the famed Zapruder film that shows the presidential motorcade moving through Dealey Plaza, Kennedy is first hit from behind, where Oswald was located in the Texas School Book Depository.
After that, it appears that Kennedy was hit from the front at an angle which would indicate a shooter located on the "grassy knoll."
One expert who's convinced there was a second shooter is world famous medical examiner Cyril H. Wecht, who's spent decades studying the assassination.
"Based on the available medical, physical and photographic evidence, all of which I've examined multiple times, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was carried out by two gunmen – not just Lee Harvey Oswald," Wecht told The ENQUIRER. According to his analysis, Wecht says two gunmen fired four shots, and one assassin was situated at the front of the motorcade.
"Based on the initial backward trajectory of the president's head after being impacted by the gunshot blasts, I believe a shooter operated from the right front of the vehicle behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll," he said.
"Eyewitness accounts corroborate this."
While the Warren Report discounted that scenario, multiple eyewitnesses told the same story to the congressional committee between 1977 and 1979, according to Blakey.
"At our hearings, there was lots of testimony that a shot was fired from the grassy knoll," Blakey, also author of the anti-mob RICO act and professor emeritus of law at Notre Dame, told The ENQUIRER.
"I believe there were four shots. The first, second and fourth shots came from the Texas School Book Depository. The third shot came from the grassy knoll.
"The committee had everything but the names of the people involved in the conspiracy. Martinez's story has filled in the last pieces of the puzzle. There were two shooters."
According to both Summers and Blakey, Martinez approached the FBI to tell his story but was told that the assassination investigation was closed.
And Blakey called Summers' discovery of Diaz's role in the assassination a "breakthrough of historical importance."
"Summers' book deserves to be read and taken seriously by all those who care about truth or justice," he said.
Summers added: "I completely believe the stories told by Reinaldo Martinez and Tony Cuesta about Herminio Diaz's role in the assassination of President Kennedy.
"Fifty years after the fact, their information has blown the investigation into the Kennedy assassination wide open!"
Kansas navigators say they've enrolled no one in Obamacare
By Travis Perry │ Kansas Watchdog
OSAWATOMIE — Zip. Zilch. Nada. Nil. None.
Slice it any way you want, the answer is still the same: Obamacare navigators told Kansas Watchdog that, because of continued problems with HealthCare.gov, so far they've enrolled exactly zero people into the new federal health care exchange that went live more than three weeks ago.
But the consortium guiding the Sunflower State's health care advisory program is trying to look on the bright side.
"They don't have to provide that information to us in the report for another month or so, so we don't have any real good numbers at this point," said Katrina McGivern, communications coordinator for the Kansas Association for the Medically Underserved.
So, hey, at least they've got time. Any bets on whether HealthCare.gov will be up and running by then?
Now, this isn't to say there has been a complete dearth of enrollments. Both McGivern and Linda Sheppard with the Kansas Insurance Department say insurance companies have confirmed enrollments are happening, just not through navigators, though no specific number has been provided.
That doesn't exactly inspire a whole lot of confidence.
So, as it stands, the hundreds of Kansas navigators created, trained and rolled into action courtesy of a nearly $900,000 federal grant have been wholly unable to accomplish their primary goal of enrolling folks into Obamacare. McGivern said many are focusing on educating people for the time being.
Jill Foss, a Hutchinson-based navigator with Prairie Star Health Center, said the rollout is a work in progress.
"I wouldn't call it frustrating," Foss said. "It's a little bit disappointing."
Valerie Libertus, a navigator with Flint Hills Community Health Center in Emporia, has kept busy filling out applications in preparation for when the federal exchange gets on its feet. So far she has tallied 15 applications – 11 filed electronically, four filled out on paper.
But Sayre Schuck, a Hays-based navigator with First Care Clinic Inc., said she has put off processing physical paperwork in hopes the electronic exchange starts working soon.
"I just think the paper applications are going to take longer (to process)," Schuck said.
Lyle Dotson, a navigator in Dodge City, said most of the people he sees give up and say they'll try again in a few weeks after hearing about the federal exchange's enrollment problems.
"I've got one (application) to the final stage where it says review and sign but then the system locked up on me," Dotson said.
http://watchdog.org/112292/kansas-navigators-zero/
Three words of Management 101
October 25, 2013 by nolathe
Accountability- "The buck stops here" nature of ultimate source of authority to complete a task.
Delegate- Given the responsibility to complete a task.
Responsibility- Temporary and limited authority to complete a specific task.
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Johnson County, Kansas decisions are made at Staff level and blessed by the elected part-time 5 hours a week County Commissioners. The go to work 40 hours a week folks are Delegating Accountability to the Commission thus avoiding Responsibility, completely back-asswards. This occurs as a result of no vision or leadership, ie: collective vote of JoCo BOCC creating a herd mentality looking for a leader to follow. I have nothing less than total respect for County Staff and their efforts in the absence of leadership.
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A President can delegate responsibility to a Cabinet Secretary. The President maintains accountability.
The White House claims the President did not know or participate in the following debacles:
Not investigate New Black Panther charges 2008 Elections
Not investigate 2008 ACORN Election fraud charges
Fast and Furious (Weapons to Mexican Cartels)
Benghazi assassinations
IRS blocking TEA Party efforts 2010 elections
IRS sharing private information with the White House
NSA privacy violations
Blocking access to WWII veterans while allowing access of protesters to Memorials
Selectively inflicting pain to certain groups during the "shutdown" including active military families
implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare)
I am sure there are many more but this is what comes to mind now. No one has lost their job and no one is holding Obama ACCOUNTABLE because "he did not know".
Looking at the current status of Chicago, one can only guess Obama was piss poor at that also.
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It"
http://nolathe.net/2013/10/25/three-words-of-management-101/
Obama under fire as contractors shift blame over healthcare website errors
Congressional committee left frustrated with lack of answers after contractors repeatedly deny their software is to blame for glitches
The contractors said it wa the government's responsibility, and not theirs, to make sure the website worked. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
Contractors involved in the rollout of the exchanges that form a key part of the Affordable Care Act heaped fresh pressure on the White House on Thursday, refusing to take responsibility for glitches with the healthcare.gov website that have threatened to derail President Obama's flagship domestic policy.
Testifying before the House energy and commerce committee during the first congressional hearings into the debacle, four contractors repeatedly denied their software was to blame and turned the spotlight instead on the government agency in charge of overseeing the complex system.
More than 50 different companies, five government departments and 36 states were involved in building the website, which is designed to help millions of uninsured Americans find affordable coverage from private insurers.
But extensive bugs and delays in the registration and enrolment process have now forced the government to postpone a February 15 deadline for purchasing coverage, allowing an extra six weeks before fines are levied on those without insurance.
Angry Republicans and Democrats turned on the main private contractors behind the website on Thursday to seek an explanation for the glitches, but largely failed to show who was responsible for design or implementation flaws.
The closest admission of failure came from Andrew Slavitt of Maryland-based contractor QSSI, who revealed that systems to check identity were flooded with 178,000 requests on the first day that healthcare.gov was live, after a last-minute government decision to make people create accounts on the site before they could compare insurance products.
"After its launch, healthcare.gov was inundated by many more people than anticipated, which overwhelmed systems, including ours," he told the committee.
"This was partly caused by a late decision to make people register before they could browse. After initial scalability challenges, the [system] is now keeping up with the demand."
Slavitt also claimed his company had warned the government of potential bugs in other systems that it was asked to review, and suggested that the two weeks allotted for testing the system were insufficient. "Months would have been nice," he said.
The claims will heap pressure on health and human services secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who is scheduled to appear before the committee next week and already faces calls to resign from some Republicans.
The website problems have been seized upon by politicians who oppose the wider Affordable Care Act, dubbed Obamacare, as creeping state-interference.
"This shows us why Washington should not be running our private healthcare system," Pennsylvania Republican Tim Murphy said.
But such attacks were angrily rejected by Democrats on the committee, who said the problems were being blown out of proportion.
"The goal here should be to fix it, not nix it," said Frank Pallone of New Jersey. "The Republicans are not trying to make this better – they are using the website glitches as an excuse to delay or defund Obamacare."
Lawmakers were even more exasperated, however, at the unwillingness of contractors to take responsibility or provide estimates of when the problems would be fully fixed.
"I cannot give you an exact date," said Cheryl Campbell of prime contractor CGI Federal. "I would prefer not doing that; I don't like to raise expectations."
She also repeatedly refused to say whether the website rollout should have been delayed.
"It was not our position to tell our client whether they should go live or not go live," Campbell said. "Over the past two weeks, the federal exchange has steadily improved ... We have confidence in our ability to deliver successfully."
This brought an angry response from California Democrat Anna Eshoo.
"You're essentially saying that everything was all right," Eshoo said. "It's not all right!"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/obama-contractors-obamacare-website-errors-software?CMP=ema_565&et_cid=53843&et_rid=ross_lw@yahoo.com&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fworld%2f2013%2foct%2f24%2fobama-contractors-obamacare-website-errors-software
CBS News: Explosion in Medicaid Enrollments May 'Threaten Entire Structure' of Obamacare
by Noah Rothman | 7:51 am, October 25th, 2013
Given the widely-reported problems associated with HeathCare.Gov, White House officials have taken to touting the successes the states are experiencing running their own health insurance exchanges. According to a CBS investigation, however, those exchanges are primarily funneling uninsured applicants into Medicaid. Experts tell CBS that this could "threaten the entire structure of Obamacare."
"According to a CBS investigation, in many of the 15 states that have their own health insurance exchanges, more people are enrolling in Medicaid than are actually buying private health insurance," CBS News reporter Jan Crawford revealed.
"There is concern that if that trend continues, there will not be as many healthy people buying insurance for this system to work," she continued.
RELATED: CBS' John Dickerson: Obama Headed Toward 'Credibility Death Spiral' Over Obamacare
Crawford said that the majority of the enrollees at this stage in the process are "overwhelmingly low-income people" who qualify for Medicaid at no cost.
Of the 35,528 enrollees in the state of Washington, 87 percent signed up for Medicaid. In Kentucky, 82 percent of the state's 26,000 enrollees were funneled into Medicaid. 64 percent of New York, 37,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees are now Medicaid beneficiaries.
"Supporters say this shows there's demand but industry sources say if we don't see real turnaround soon, there could be big problems for the entire system," Crawford concluded.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cbs-news-explosion-in-medicaid-enrollments-may-threaten-entire-structure-of-obamacare/
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Mooch Obuma's Princeton classmate is executive at
company that built Obumacare website
(Hmmmmm... Now ain't that something)
By Patrick Howley 4:57 PM 10/25/2013 First Lady Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website.
Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of '85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.
Toni Townes '85 is a onetime policy analyst with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, West Africa. Her decision to return to work, as an African-American woman, after six years of raising kids was applauded by a Princeton alumni publication in 1998
George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal's parent company, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract.
As reported by the Washington Examiner in early October, the Department of Health and Human Services reviewed only CGI's bid for the Obamacare account. CGI was one of 16 companies qualified under the Bush administration to provide certain tech services to the federal government. A senior vice president for the company testified this week before The House Committee on Energy and Commerce that four companies submitted bids, but did not name those companies or explain why only CGI's bid was considered.
On the government end, construction of the disastrous Healthcare.gov website was overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of longtime failed website-builder Kathleen Sebelius' Department of Health and Human Services.
Update: The Daily Caller repeatedly contacted CGI Federal for comment. After publication of this article, the company responded that there would be "nothing coming out of CGI for the record or otherwise today." The company did however insist that The Daily Caller include a reference to vice president Cheryl Campbell's House testimony. This has been included as a courtesy to the company.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/25/michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-is-executive-at-company-that-built-obamacare-website/#ixzz2io2SdE00
Army Warned Fort Hood Soldiers to Stay Away from
Tea Party and Evangelical Groups
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Posted Friday, October 25, 2013The US Army, under the direction of Piece-Of-Sh!t DICTATOR barack obuma, is instructing soldiers to stay away from the Tea Party and evangelical groups who are "tearing the country apart."(When are people finally going to realize that it is Sambo that is "tearing the country apart." I wonder how much more the military is going to take before they finally get sick & tired of the crap coming from barack's black anus and flush his butt)
The Washington Times reported:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/24/fort-hood-army-warned-them-tea-party-christians/
Don't donate to the tea party or to evangelical Christian groups — that was the message soldiers at a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood said they received from a counter-intelligence agent who headed up the meeting.
If you do, you could face punishment — that was the other half of the message, as reported by Fox News.
The briefing was Oct. 17, and about a half-hour of it was devoted to discussion about how perceived radical groups — like tea party organizations and the Christian-based American Family Association — were "tearing the country apart," one unnamed soldier said, to Fox News.
Among the remarks the agent allegedly made: Military members who donate to these groups would be subject to discipline under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the soldier reported.
Liberty Institute has stepped in to investigate. Michael Berry, one of the nonprofit's attorneys, said he has been advising the soldier about his options — but that in the meanwhile, he said the American public should be on guard.
"The American public should be outraged that the U.S. Army is teaching our troops that evangelical Christians and tea party members are enemies of America and that they can be punished for supporting or participating in those groups," Mr. Berry said, in Fox News. "These statements about evangelicals being domestic enemies are a serious charge."
Lincoln and the Republicans established "national socialism" in this country.
It was their victory over the Constitution in 1865 that changed America.
Quote from: redcliffsw on October 26, 2013, 06:08:33 AM
Lincoln and the Republicans established "national socialism" in this country.
It was their victory over the Constitution in 1865 that changed America.
I don't understand. Rep = national socialism? Please explain. [...]
Obuma Claims He's Proud To Be A "Salesman" For Obumacare Train Wreck
(Fine by me, the more he ties the fate of his presidency to this debacle the better)
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Via Washington Examiner:President Obama in his weekly address Saturday said he was proud to be a "salesman" for Obamacare despite criticism over the glitch-filled rollout of the law's insurance exchanges.
"Some people have poked fun at me this week for sounding like an insurance salesman. And that's okay," said Obama. "I'd still be out there championing this law even if the website were perfect."
Obama's comments came after another week of withering criticism over the administration's rollout of a new website designed to enroll consumers in the health care law's public insurance exchanges.
Obama said at an event Monday that he is frustrated with the website and vowed it would be fixed, but also defended the health care law as a "good deal" for the public.
Opponents of the health care law criticized Obama, saying he was forced to resell the public on supporting his signature legislative achievement.
Conan: Dictator "in perpetuity" Obuma Tries To Explain Obumacare Without a Teleprompter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNjBLdAyHP0
Obumacare Summed Up in One Sentence
by Dr.Barbara Bellar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnY8r7_fLw
The long Version...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnAP0xnfjB8&feature=share&list=UUBzUlzAorA0Qi8GrhkVVYIQ
60 Minutes - Benghazi
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Benghazi was a planned, sophisticated attack by al Qaeda against a barely protected American outpost. Lara Logan reports:Video:
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Voices from the Benghazi investigation:"We all knew it was a bad sign." That's how a British security officer described suspicious activity that happened the morning of Sept. 11, 2012. The officer who calls himself Morgan Jones -- a pseudonym he uses for safety - recalls how an unidentified man was caught taking pictures of the compound the morning of the attack.
Last year, the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi and a top secret CIA facility known as the Annex were the targets of a well-planned assault that took four American lives. Who did it? Logan asks Tom Joscelyn, one of the country's leading al Qaeda experts.
Morgan Jones tells Lara Logan about two separate security breaches at the U.S. Compound in Benghazi. The incidents occurred prior to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack and one -- involving an IED -- led Jones to believe the compound was being watched.
When the attack on the U.S. Compound began, Ambassador Chris Stevens immediately called his deputy, Greg Hicks -- a 22-year veteran of the foreign service -- who was based in Tripoli. In this excerpt from Logan's interview, Hicks remembers his boss as "the epitome of a diplomat."
Morgan Jones was hired to improve security at the U.S. compound in Benghazi. During his first drive through the city, he noticed black flags flying openly in the streets and grew concerned. He immediately thought, "Al Qaeda, terrorists."
Green Beret commander LTC Andy Wood was one of the top American security officials in Libya. LTC Wood tells Lara Logan that he believes highly trained professionals executed what's called a "swarm attack."
"Oh God, don't let him die." That's what Dr. Saifeddin Zoghbia, a Libyan ER surgeon, remembers hearing as he tried to save the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens. Here, he gives Lara Logan a detailed description of the night the fallen diplomat arrived at his hospital.?
Greg Hicks, a diplomat who worked closely with Ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya, explains why he thinks al Qaeda achieved a "double victory" in Benghazi.
LTC Andy Wood says he warned Ambassador Stevens that an attack on the U.S. Compound in Benghazi was coming. How does Wood feel about Benghazi today? Is it a scandal?
Tom Joscelyn tells Lara Logan that al Qaeda is pushing their agenda forward in Libya. Part of the problem, Joscelyn says, is that the West's definition of al Qaeda is wrong.
Who's more established in Libya today, the U.S or al Qaeda? LTC Andy Wood believes the the attack in Benghazi was a significant defeat for the U.S.
When LTC Andy Wood was based in Tripoli, he met with Ambassor Stevens every day. He says his respect for Stevens is what drives him to speak out about the attack on 60 Minutes.Benghazi Ruins
October 27, 2013
More than a year after the attack, a 60 Minutes cameraman went to the U.S. compound in Benghazi to film and sift through the ruins. Here's some of the footage he brought back for the 60 Minutes investigation.http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50157941n
Q&A: The 60 Minutes Benghazi investigation
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Correspondent Lara Logan and 60 Minutes producer Max McClellan spent a year reporting on the September 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Mission Compound in Benghazi. Lara and Max discuss their investigation in a Q&A with 60 Minutes Overtime below:Question: When did you first pick up the phone and start reporting?Lara: I got a tip the night Benghazi happened from a source. I knew that Ambassador Stevens was missing and nobody knew where he was, and this went on all night until I eventually I fell asleep just before 5 a.m., and I missed a call confirming that he was dead. So, it started like that, and we pretty much immediately started making calls.
Question: Three interviews were featured in your piece, but how many people did you talk to on background to understand what really happened in Benghazi? Max: Countless. It's hard to put a number on it...dozens and dozens and dozens. Over a hundred may sound goofy, but it is definitely in that category. We went to London, Chicago, Dallas, Istanbul, Fort Bragg-- all just for informational meetings in pursuit of people who could give one more layer of information. That, in a story like this, is critical because there is no one place you can go to get everything you need. We literally had to go far and wide for months and months.
Lara: We were exhaustive.
Question: What were your concerns in reporting a story that's as politically charged as Benghazi is? Lara: We had to make sure we weren't used by anyone on the Left or the Right who had a political agenda. That was our biggest concern. Journalism is not about making a case, it's about finding the facts. In this story, you had to work really hard to find the facts and not be seduced by anybody. So, we left about 98 percent of what we learned on the floor-- didn't even report it-- because unless we could substantiate it with primary sources that we truly trusted and whose motivations we trusted, then we didn't even go there.
Max: The challenge was sifting out the political bias that might exist with the information that you're trying to get, finding the little nuggets of truth in the midst of the political spin. For me, that was the big challenge: making this as apolitical as possible, so that our only mission was to try to ascertain the facts, leaving all the other stuff aside.
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Question: What kind of obstacles did you encounter along the way? Lara: An extraordinary amount of pressure on the people involved not to talk. And an extraordinary amount of pressure on anyone in the government--the military side, the political side--not to say anything outside of official channels. I mean, to the point where people that we've known for years would call people who were no longer in their positions, and they would call someone else that we knew, and messages would be delivered like that because there couldn't be any trail linking you directly to our story.
The administration is cracking down so hard on leakers: no one wants to put anything in writing, everybody is scared to talk over the phone, people want to meet in person--all of that makes it that much harder to investigate anything.
Question: Many Americans are confused about the Benghazi story. Does your story help clear up the confusion?Lara: What we hope we've accomplished, and I think we really have, is bring to life what the events in Benghazi meant to the people on the ground. In all of the official accounts, the personalities have been wiped out of it. There's very little detail.
To us, it was staggering that the U.S. diplomat who was coordinating the response in Libya knew an hour into the attack--which still lasted another six hours-- that there was no help coming. And that had a huge impact for the guys on the ground.
We also wanted Amb. Stevens to be a person who matters in this story and not just the name of a diplomat to be honored and recognized for his service.
Morgan Jones, in a similar way, is tortured by guilt that he was not able to save his friends in the U.S. Compound, that he wasn't able to save Sean Smith's life or Amb. Stevens' life. That may sound ridiculous to people who couldn't think of anything more insane than rushing towards a burning building that is overrun with al Qaeda terrorists, but Morgan Jones is the kind of man who would do that and who did do that. And when he failed the first time, he went back again.
Greg Hicks, his motivation is a sense of duty to Amb. Stevens to correct the record. He said he had to break 22 years of tradition in order to talk [to us] because it's ingrained in officials from the State Department not to speak to the public. And he's paid for that, of course, because he certainly doesn't have a sparkling diplomatic future, but that was a price he was willing to pay to set the record straight on Amb. Chris Stevens.
Question: You sent a member of your team to Benghazi to sift through the ruins. What did you learn from that footage?[/b]
Max: In every story that you do, you need to have a confidence about the ground truth-- you need to have a sense of perspective from the ground. If you're doing a story about the U.S. Special Mission Compound in Benghazi, you want to at least put eyes on it.
The person who shot this footage has a lot of experience in Libya and through his network of contacts on the ground in Benghazi, he was able to access the compound. It was closed, guarded, but through relatives of people he had gotten to know over the years, he was able to get in and take these pictures for us.
We did not expect that we would find the U.S. compound in the state that we found it. There was still debris and ammunition boxes and a whiteboard that had the day's assignment for the security personnel at the compound as of September 11, 2012.
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In the midst of those ruins, our colleague found the official schedule of Amb. Stevens for September 12th--which is the day after he died-- just sitting there. I asked him where that document is now, and he said, "I just took a picture of it and left it there."
So it's still there, still in the ruins, with the empty ammunition boxes and all of the rest of the remnants of the American presence in Benghazi.
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Editor's Note: For viewers who wish to help, a memorial fund has been established in the name of Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was killed in the attack on the U.S. in Benghazi. Learn more by going to the website for the Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation.
Philadelphia City Council Calls For Teaching Left-Wing Version
of Socialism In City's Public Schools
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(Where in the hell do all these sick far-left clowns come from.... naturally they don't want the truth taught,
especially that part about millions of dead bodies)
Via Daily Caller:Philadelphia city council members have approved a resolution that calls for socialist historian Howard Zinn's book "A People's History of the United States" to be taught in public high schools.
The resolution was backed by council members Jim Kenny and Jannie Blackwell, who believe that Zinn's far-left socialist vision of American history is currently missing from high school textbooks.
"Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States' emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history; not simply the version retold by those powerful enough to ensure history remembers their actions in a positive light, regardless of the truth," the resolution states.
[...]
Zinn's book is lauded in far-left circles, but many conservative thinkers believe his self-described "history" is really social activism masquerading as fact. Former Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels believed strongly that the book had no place in K-12 classrooms–an opinion that landed him in trouble with liberal academics when he started his new job as president of Purdue University.
Halloween Costume Of The Day
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"I Was All For Obamacare Until I Realized I Was Paying For It"
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(Sticker shock hits the middle class in Californication)
Via LA Times:Thousands of Californians are discovering what Obamacare will cost them — and many don't like what they see.
These middle-class consumers are staring at hefty increases on their insurance bills as the overhaul remakes the healthcare market. Their rates are rising in large part to help offset the higher costs of covering sicker, poorer people who have been shut out of the system for years.
Although recent criticism of the healthcare law has focused on website glitches and early enrollment snags, experts say sharp price increases for individual policies have the greatest potential to erode public support for President Obama's signature legislation.
"This is when the actual sticker shock comes into play for people," said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. "There are winners and losers under the Affordable Care Act."
Fullerton resident Jennifer Harris thought she had a great deal, paying $98 a month for an individual plan through Health Net Inc. She got a rude surprise this month when the company said it would cancel her policy at the end of this year. Her current plan does not conform with the new federal rules, which require more generous levels of coverage.
Now Harris, a self-employed lawyer, must shop for replacement insurance. The cheapest plan she has found will cost her $238 a month. She and her husband don't qualify for federal premium subsidies because they earn too much money, about $80,000 a year combined.
"It doesn't seem right to make the middle class pay so much more in order to give health insurance to everybody else," said Harris, who is three months pregnant. "This increase is simply not affordable."
Baltimore Queers To Give Pelosi "Lifetime Achievement Award"
For Being Super Fabulous
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Via Baltimore Sun:http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-10-25/features/bs-gm-pelosi-hometown-hero-20131024_1_glccb-baltimore-black-pride-achievement
Whore Minority Leader...er..House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Baltimore native, will next month receive a "lifetime achievement award for her longtime dedication to LGBT rights and her work to fight HIV/AIDS in Congress," gay leaders in Baltimore said Friday.
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore is giving Pelosi the award at its inaugural "Hometown Hero Awards & Champagne Brunch" on Nov. 17 in Baltimore, an event it expects some 500 people to attend.
Matt Thorn, executive director of the GLCCB, said in a statement that Pelosi's "unending support for our community and commitment for equality make her the perfect choice for our lifetime achievement award."
Pelosi, in her own statement, said it is "a great privilege for me to come home to Baltimore and celebrate the progress we've made in the fight for equality."
(Dang, she's always turning up somewhere... quick somebody step on it!
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(And whoever wrote that article put it this way: "...and her work to fight HIV/AIDS in Congress." So, in addition to being cowards, Congress has come down with AIDS? LOL..)
Bob Woodward: Secret Government Under Obuma Must Be Reviewed
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(Can't wait for someone on the left to insinuate Obuma's a traitor again)
Via Politico:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/10/woodward-secret-government-at-the-root-of-problems-176011.html?hp=r11
Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said Sunday a huge "secret government" and a government on "automatic pilot" has led to many of the concerns now making headlines.
"They need to review this secret world," he said of the Obama administration on "Fox News Sunday." "You get to a point where it's what do you worry about? Secret government."
National Security Agency spying both domestic and abroad and the disastrous rollout of the Affordable Care Act are the results, he said.
"We have an incredibly powerful government that gets on automatic pilot," he said. People aren't checking all of the boxes and the administration didn't properly "practice" Obamacare.
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MSNBC Race Baiter Melissa Harris Perry: Texas Gov. Rick Perry Doesn't Want Blacks And Women To Vote
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(And MSNBC's house ni**er plays the race card for the 4,983,653rd time)
Via Daily Caller:On her Saturday show, MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry read a letter she addressed to Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry, accusing him of suppressing women and minorities' right to vote.
Harris-Perry began her "letter" with an explanation of her interpretation of the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
"'The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by any State on account of sex," Harris-Perry said. "That is the language of the 19th Amendment. And since its ratification in 1920, it has promised women unfettered access to the polls. But who cares about constitutional rights when you're trying to rig — I mean, run elections in Texas? That's my question for the recipient of this week's letter: Texas Gov. Rick Perry."
Study: Kansas premiums to spike following Obamacare rollout
By Travis Perry / October 25, 2013 / Kansas Watchdog
OSAWATOMIE — Good news: Kansas landed in the top 10 in a recent study conducted by the conservative Heritage Foundation! Bad news: It's for massive insurance premium hikes because of Obamacare.
Kinda puts a damper on things, huh?
As I said, before dashing your optimism with harsh reality, Kansas is among the top 10 states to possibly see the largest premium increases following the rollout of the federal health care exchange, according to a recent report from Heritage's Center for Data Analysis. In a nutshell, the report states Obamacare health premiums available to Kansans will be higher than existing policies.
According to the Heritage report, the average premium for a 27-year-old Sunflower State resident will rise from $87.40 to $200.14, a massive 129 percent bump. This gives Kansas the unfortunate privilege of boasting the sixth-highest increase for young people nationwide.
The news gets slightly better for other groups, but not by much. Average premiums for a 50-year-old adult could increase from $198 to $341.08 (72.3 percent increase), while a family of four may see an increase from $553.92 to $676.05 (22 percent increase).
"Many families and individuals will face this reality as they apply for coverage, and the implications of experiencing sticker shock are important to consider if enough people choose not to sign up for coverage for various reasons," policy analyst Drew Gonshorowski wrote in the Oct. 16 report.
The massive increase in premiums for young people should be especially concerning, as they're the one group Obamacare can't afford to do without. The successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act depends heavily on the young and healthy signing up to help pay for the elderly and infirm.
It's important to note the Heritage study compares premium prices straight-up, not including government subsidies designed to decrease the cost to low-income individuals and families.
"This analysis represents the change in unsubsidized rate levels," Gonshorowski wrote. "The purpose of this research is to provide further details on the changing premium levels across the country."
http://watchdog.org/112596/kansas-premiums-spike/
A Very Delusional Dingbat Pelosi Predicts She Will
Return As Speaker of The House
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(Then again, this is the same Clown who recently claimed Obamnacare was a "dream come true" for Americans. The Hare Psychopathy Checklist is a diagnostic tool used to rate a person's psychopathic or antisocial tendencies. People who are psychopathic prey ruthlessly on others using charm, deceit, violence or other methods that allow them to get with they want. The symptoms of psychopathy include: lack of a conscience or sense of guilt, lack of empathy, egocentricity, pathological lying, repeated violations of social norms, disregard for the law, shallow emotions, and a history of victimizing others. This fits the bill for Dictator Obuma, Dirty Harry Reid and House Bunny Nancy Pelosi, just to name a few)Via The Hill:
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/330825-pelosi-we-can-win-
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If Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) were to become Speaker again, she would work to pass a sweeping bill that would significantly expand federal childcare benefits.
In a sit-down interview in her office in the Capitol, the House minority leader stopped short of predicting that Democrats would regain the lower chamber in the 2014 midterm elections, but she had no hesitation in saying what she would use a majority for.
Pelosi and other Democrats have emerged from the shutdown fight with new confidence, and she vowed her party would "of course" pick up seats next year. It is the first time Pelosi has guaranteed that Democrats will cut into the GOP's majority.
Atop her priority list as Speaker, she said, would be "comprehensive affordable, quality childcare" for working mothers, which she sees as a natural extension of ObamaCare.
McRINO: Hillary Clinton's Work As Secretary of State "Outstanding," Joe Biden A "Wonderful Guy"
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(He never fails to disappoint... I'm afraid he took one too many beatings in Nam)
Via The Hill:http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/330897-mccain-clinton-would-be-formidable-candidate-in-2016?utm_campaign=briefingroom&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterfeed
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Monday that Hillary Clinton would be a formidable candidate for president if she runs in 2016.
"I don't think there's any doubt that Secretary Clinton would be a very strong candidate," McCain said at an event in Chicago, according to Bloomberg News.
McCain said her work as secretary of State had been impeccable, with the exception of the deadly attack on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, last year.
"I don't think there's any doubt she has widespread support," he said. "Her work as secretary of state, with the exception of this issue of Benghazi — which isn't going away — I think has been outstanding. I think she would be viewed by anyone, Republican or Democrat, as a very formidable candidate for 2016." [...]
McCain also called Joe Biden a "wonderful guy." Biden is also considered a possible contender for the Democratic nomination in 2016. The Arizona senator said it would be a mistake to "rule Joe Biden out of the mix."
Ouch: Poll Finds Less Than 1 In 10 Americans Think Obumacare
Has Improved Their Health Care Situation
(That's comically bad, Dictator Barry... time for a temper tantrum!)
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Via USA Today:http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/10/28/healthsurvey-bankrate-obamacare/3195451/
About one in 10 Americans — 9% — say The Affordable Care Act has improved their health insurance situation in the past year, according to a new survey by Bankrate.com.
The telephone survey asked a representative sample of 1,001 Americans about their knowledge of and feelings about the law that mandates health care insurances for all Americans in coming years.
The survey was conducted from Oct. 17 to 20 after a 16-day federal government shutdown over raising the debt limit ended and the bungled launching of health exchange websites nationwide.
In fact, 38% of uninsured Americans said they feel more negative about the three-year-old law than they did the past year. And 47% of the uninsured say they don't even know where to turn for information on the act. Uninsured Americans make up about 15% of the population.
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END ALL U.S. PARTICIPATION
IN THE
UNITED NATIONS
The United Nations is threatening our everyday way of life, the freedoms and liberties we enjoy and the privacy our families deserve.
I introduced legislation in Congress to end all US Participation in the United Nations.
If you agree that our nation is better off alone then coherting with this organization that allows dictators into this country, then add your name to my petition today
sign petition here: http://www.paulbroun2014.com/un2/
H/T To Ross...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEUxW2T5ekg
by Anthony Gucciardi
Infowars.com
October 28, 2013Radio host calls for media attention over missing nuke
report and termination of top nuke commanders
Since Alex Jones and I originally reported on the high level military intelligence revealing that an unsigned nuclear weapons transfer had taken place back on September 3rd, an absurdly high number of red flag events lending credibility to the intel have followed. From the termination of the second highest nuke commander in the country on the exact same day as the leak, to Senator Lindsey Graham warning of a nuclear strike on the exact destination of the missile transfer — the red alert scenarios continue to pile up.
And now, Michael Savage of Savage Nation is launching an investigation into the issue and calling upon the media to properly address the situation.
I joined the Savage Nation to discuss the intel timeline of the nuke transfer, specifically highlighting the fact that the transfer was unsigned for and completely off the books. Originally covered by Savage earlier this month following the suspension and termination of the two top nuke commanders in the nation, the missing nuke intel has since spread internationally — and still, the United States media has failed to even mention it despite the vital events that continue to point towards its accuracy.
But that fact is nothing new, considering the reality that even the local media was quick to ignore sources revealing the unsigned transfer to them. As usual, the mainstream media is deathly afraid of crossing the establishment. After all, it's who grants them their reach (and oftentimes funding).
The brief report from the top level military source, which was written in a rush to get the information out, reads:
"Dyess is beginning to move out nuclear war heads today. I got a tap from DERMO earlier. He said it was the first time they have been even acknowledged since being put there in the 80′s. No signature was required for transfer... There was no directive. He said that Dyess Commander was on site to give authority to release. No one knew where they were going really, but the truck driver said to take them to South Carolina and another pick up will take them from there."(Hmmmm... DHS??? Israel??? Obuma's private army??? Saudi's??? PLO??? Iran??? Syria??? You can bet Dictator Obuma and the GOV. are Involed in this up to their eyeballs...
Very odd happenings indeed)Anthony Gucciardi is a writer, analyst, and Founder of Storyleak.com whose articles are routinely featured on top sites like Drudge Report and regularly appears on national and international television media. This article was posted: Monday, October 28, 2013 at 11:57 am[...]
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Anyone familiar with the six nukes that went missing up north at Minot Air force base in North Dakota back in 2007? A MUST READ:
http://globalresearch.ca/missing-nukes-treason-of-the-highest-order/7158 A B-52H Stratofortress secretly spirited away six nuclear-tipped AGM-29 Advanced Cruise missiles from Minot (150 kilotons per missile) to Barksdale Air Force base in Louisiana.
All protocols for transporting these nukes were ignored and no one really knows what happened to them to this day. The officers and underlings involved (some of them) have mysteriously died in strange accidents. Nothing like this had ever happened before in our "nuclear" history."
Meanwhile, there are those six deaths. On July 20, 1st Lt. Weston
Kissel, a 28-year-old B-52 pilot from Minot, died in a motorcycle
accident while on home leave in Tennessee.
Another Minot B-52 pilot, 20-year-old Adam Barrs, died on July 5 in
Minot when a car he was riding in, driven by another Minot airman,
Stephen Garrett, went off the road, hit a tree, and caught fire. Airman
Garrett was brought to the hospital in critical condition and has since
been charged with negligent homicide.
Two more Air Force personnel, Senior Airman Clint Huff, 29, of Barksdale AFB, and his wife Linda died on Sept. 15 in nearby Shreveport,
Louisiana, when Huff reportedly attempted to pass a van in a no-passing
zone on his motorcycle, and the van made a left-hand turn, striking
them.
Then there are two reported suicides, which both occurred within days
of the flight. One involved Todd Blue, a 20-year-old airman who was in a
unit that guarded weapons at Minot. He reportedly shot himself in the
head on Sept. 11 while on a visit to his family in Wytheville, Virginia.
Local police investigators termed his death a suicide.
The second suicide, on Aug. 30, was John Frueh, a special forces
weather commando at the Air Force's Special Operations command
headquartered at Hurlburt AFB in Florida. Hurlburt's website says,
"Every night, as millions of Americans sleep peacefully under the
blanket of freedom," Air Force special Operations commandos work "in
deep dark places, far away from home, risking their lives to keep that
blanket safe."
Published on Oct 29, 2013
CNN: Obuma Admin Trying To Silence Insurance Companies
From Discussing ObumaCare Problems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHWEUPOFO8M
Canadian Leftists Seek Dick Cheney's Arrest For "War Crimes" During Upcoming Visit
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(The Libs are going to obsess over Bush and Cheney until the day they die)
Via HuffPo:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/dick-cheney-canada-arrest_n_4175180.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003
An international volunteer organization urged Canadian authorities
to arrest former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on war crimes charges when he visits the 2013 Toronto Global Forum later this week.
Lawyers Against the War argued in a letter dated Sunday that Toronto Police Chief William Blair and Ontario Attorney General John Gerretsen have a duty to arrest Cheney "as a person suspected on reasonable grounds of authorizing, counseling, aiding, abetting and failing to prevent torture."
"Once Richard (Dick) Cheney enters Canada ... Canada must ensure that Dick Cheney is either investigated and prosecuted for the indictable offence of torture in Canada or extradited to another country willing and able to do so," Lawyers Against the War's Gail Davidson wrote.
The letter contended that Toronto police are legally obligated to arrest Cheney to prevent him from "escaping to the United States." The organization argued that Canadian law would legally allow authorities to do so:
Torture is also a crime under the Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act. Once Dick Cheney enters Canada, the torture (both the torture he has admitted to authorizing and the torture that he is accused of) are deemed to have been committed in Canada.
Jay Carney Doesn't Know When Obuma Didn't Know
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New Obumacare "Glitch" Automatically Enrolls People In Medicaid
When They Register For An Account On Exchange Website
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Click here to read her entire account of what happened. Rather funny in a weird sorta way:http://storify.com/tsrblke/ndh-marketplace?utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter&utm_campaign=&awesm=sfy.co_pHPl&utm_content=storify-pingback
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Dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin On Obuma's You Can Keep Your Plan Lie:
"People Are Getting Advice On Transitioning"
When asked if Americans should be able to keep their current plans, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin would only say, "What I'm understanding is that people, like in Florida, are getting advice on transitioning and hopefully they'll have a higher quality, lower-cost plan."(Yeah... I don't know what she's talking about either)
[...]
Via Weekly Standard:http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/bill-let-americans-keep-their-health-insurance-makes-senate-democrats-squirm_765563.html?nopager=1
As he stepped off an escalator leading from the Capitol's underground subway system to the U.S. Senate, Ron Johnson opened up a yellow folder, pulled out a copy of the "If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act," ...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/sites/all/files/docs/If%20You%20Like%20Your%20Plan%20Text%20(1).pdf
...and handed it to fellow senator Chris Coons.
"I look forward to reading this," said Coons, a Democrat from Delaware.
"It's the president's exact language," replied Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin. [...]
White House Knew ObumaCare Claims Were False
http://washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-knew-obamacare-claims-were-false/article/feed/2111520?custom_click=rss&utm_campaign=Weekly+Standard+Story+Box&utm_source=weeklystandard.com&utm_medium=referral
ObamaCare Security Scare
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamacare-security-scare/article/feed/2111479?custom_click=rss&utm_campaign=Weekly+Standard+Story+Box&utm_source=weeklystandard.com&utm_medium=referral
http://www.weeklystandard.com/sites/all/files/docs/If%20You%20Like%20Your%20Plan%20Text%20(1).pdf
BAI13933 S.L.C. Page (1)
113TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION S.
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to ensure that
individuals can keep their health insurance coverage.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
introduced the following bill; which was read twice
and referred to the Committee on [/b] [/center]
A BILL:
To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
to ensure that individuals can keep their health insurance
coverage.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ''If You Like Your
5 Health Plan, You Can Keep it Act''.
6 SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND
7 AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.
8 (a) IN GENERAL.—Part 2 of subtitle C of title I of
9 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (422
BAI13933 S.L.C. Page (2)
1 U.S.C. 18011 et seq) is amended by striking section 1251
2 and inserting the following:
3 ''SEC. 1251. FREEDOM TO MAINTAIN EXISTING COVERAGE.
4 ''(a) NO CHANGES TO EXISTING COVERAGE.—
5 ''(1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this Act (or an
6 amendment made by this Act) shall be construed to
7 require that an individual terminate coverage under
8 a group health plan or health insurance coverage in
9 which such individual was enrolled during any part
10 of the period beginning on the date of enactment of
11 this Act and ending on December 31, 2013.
12 ''(2) CONTINUATION OF COVERAGE.—With
13 respect to a group health plan or health insurance
14 coverage in which an individual was enrolled during any
15 part of the period beginning on the date of
16 enactment of this Act and ending on December 31, 2013,
17 this subtitle and subtitle A (and the amendments
18 made by such subtitles) shall not apply to such plan
19 or coverage, regardless of whether the individual
20 renews such coverage.
21 ''(b) ALLOWANCE FOR FAMILY MEMBERS TO JOIN
22 CURRENT COVERAGE.—With respect to a group health
23 plan or health insurance coverage in which an individual
24 was enrolled during any part of the period beginning on
25 the date of enactment of this Act and ending on December
BAI13933 S.L.C. Page (3)
1 31, 2013, and which is renewed, family members of such
2 individual shall be permitted to enroll in such plan or
3 coverage if such enrollment is permitted under the terms of
4 the plan in effect as of such date of enrollment.
5 ''(c) ALLOWANCE FOR NEW EMPLOYEES TO JOIN
6 CURRENT PLAN.—A group health plan that provides
7 coverage during any part of the period beginning on the date
8 of enactment of this Act and ending on December 31,
9 2013, may provide for the enrolling of new employees (and
10 their families) in such plan, and this subtitle and subtitle
11 A (and the amendments made by such subtitles) shall not
12 apply with respect to such plan and such new employees
13 (and their families).
14 ''(d) EFFECT ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
15 AGREEMENTS.—In the case of health insurance coverage
16 maintained pursuant to one or more collective bargaining
17 agreements between employee representatives and one or
18 more employers that was ratified before December 31,
19 2013, the provisions of this subtitle and subtitle A (and
20 the amendments made by such subtitles) shall not apply
21 until the date on which the last of the collective bargaining
22 agreements relating to the coverage terminates. Any
23 coverage amendment made pursuant to a collective
24 bargaining agreement relating to the coverage which amends
25 the coverage solely to conform to any requirement added
BAI13933 S.L.C. Page (4)
1 by this subtitle or subtitle A (or amendments) shall not
2 be treated as a termination of such collective bargaining
3 agreement.
4 ''(e) DEFINITION.—In this title, the term 'grand5
fathered health plan' means any group health plan or
6 health insurance coverage to which this section applies.''.
7 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
8 subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the
9 patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law
10 111-148).
This was posted on my facebook by Mike Huckabee.
Mike Huckabee
Health and Human Services Secretary found a new culprit to blame for the Titanic-like launch of the Obamacare website: Congressional Republicans. So how could it be the fault of the people who were shut out of helping create it, voted solidly against it, and had nothing whatsoever to do with building it? Well, they weren't able to test the website because of the government shutdown.
One problem with that argument: both the government shutdown and the Obamacare website launch happened the first week of October. Who waits to test a massive web project until the day it's launched? It should've been tested for months before then, but the contractors testified last week that that was impossible because they got an order from the White House to change the programming for political purposes, and that change was one of the major problems that causes the crashes. It's become the hallmark of this Administration that nobody's ever responsible for anything: Not Benghanzi, the IRS scandal, the NSA, Fast and Furious, and now, even their own website. They may eventually need Obamacare themselves after their wear out their fingers from pointing them at other people.
Sec. Sebelius also brushed off the rising calls for President Obama to demand her resignation, and insisted that nobody would be fire. She said she doesn't work for the people who want her to resign. Funny, I thought she worked for the taxpayers, and I bet a lot of them wouldn't mind seeing some heads roll about now. Still, when someone screws up that badly and isn't fired, it tells me that she was following orders from the White House. You fire people when they embarrass you through their own mistakes. But if they were carrying out your orders, you can't fire them, because then, they'll tell the world they were only doing what they were told. The formula in this Administration, like in much of Washington, has been "Screw up, cover up, move up." Protect the guy upstairs, and you'll get promoted, no matter how bad a job you've done. In this case, though, the screw-up is so public, so obvious, and affects so many Americans, that maybe at long last, the buck might stop at the White House.
Bumper Sticker Of The Day
October 30, 2013
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Obumacare web site not working? Can't keep your health insurance even if you liked it despite repeated promised to the contrary by Obuma? Premiums skyrocketing?
'Creepy' Sebelius has an answer for you:
"Whatever"...
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Shocker Benghazi Discussion: Chris Matthews Asks *Real* Questions?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuYaBddECOQ
(Holy crap, pinch me... Chris Matthews goes a little off the water-carrying range in this discussion around Benghazi? It actually appears that 'Tingles is either a.) embarrassed by CBS's Lara Logan, who actually did a direct 60 minutes segment... or, b.) struggling to reconcile that Hillary's "at this point what difference does it make" comment is pure obfuscation not grounded in fact.
Could it be that 'Tingles' actually does recognize, albeit 13 months after the fact, that Obuma and Hillary Clinton chose to let Americans be slaughtered in Benghazi??? Could the truth of this be comprehensible to Dictator Obuma/Pantsuit Hillary defender Matthews?
Nah... me neither. The White House will call him and yank his leash back shortly)
Allan Pacela, Another #GetCovered Success Story, Is Regular DNC Contributor
Read Allan's story here:http://santamariatimes.com/news/opinion/mailbag/obamacare-saves-family/article_14a704cc-3621-11e3-a6c0-0019bb2963f4.html
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A routine search of FEC records shows this:
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Allan is so poor he argues stock strategies online with other people:
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Nothing seems to be as it is nor will it be anytime soon. The facade of this administration is made of construction paper... The Libby lies & horsesh!t just keeps flowing!
Creepy Sebelius: Men Often Need Maternity Care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2CzYm7MTaE
Rep. Renee Ellmers was questioning Kathleen Sebelius when she came out with this instant classic:Ellmers: You also brought up the issue that when you were in Kansas [as health Commissioner and governor] that you fought against discriminatory issues. As far as [ObamaCare's] essential health benefits, correct me if I'm wrong: do men not have to buy maternity care?
Sebelius: Policies will cover maternity coverage. For the young and healthy, uh, under ythirty year-olds will have a choice also of a catastrophic plan that has no maternity coverage.
Ellmers: But men are required to purchase maternity coverage.
Sebelius: Well, an insurance policy has a series of benefits whether you use them or not...
Ellmers: And that is why health care premiums are increasing, because we are forcing them to buy things that they will never need. Thank you.
Sebelius: The individual policies cover families. Men often do need maternity care for their spouses and for their families, yes.
Ellmers: A single male, aged 32, does need maternity coverage. To the best of your knowledge, has a man ever delivered a baby? Every man in Obumacare, regardless of his circumstances, has to pay for maternity care, whether he has a wife or if she's 70 years old. There are no options out of the "better plan" that you are required to have. Needless to say these required "benefits" you may not want are part of why so many people are paying so much more for Obamacare plans.
*** The Promise ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcd8PjnaCqY
When President Obama campaigned for his health care law he promised repeatedly, "If you like your current insurance, you will keep your current insurance." Every day there is more evidence to the contrary, including the so-called "Cadillac tax" provision of Obamacare. The "Cadillac tax" punishes companies that offer high-end health care plans to their employees.
Learn more about the "Cadillac Tax" at http://ellmers.house.gov/latest-news/
Yes, it is time to flush.
Halloweenie Bumper Sticker(s) Of The Day
October 31, 2013
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Quote from: ROSS on October 31, 2013, 07:53:42 AM
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Yes, it is time to flush.
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"Flushing is good for a couple of turds like that!"
IDIOT Congressman Frank "Mafia' Pallone – Discussion About People Losing Their Insurance Plans –
What Is It About New Jersey? Almost as bad as Delaware!
Posted on October 31, 2013
Must watch Video– Megyn HAMMERS Congressman! But someone please tell me what's with the crew of New Jersey Dem Congressmen. Seriously. This is the third one highlighted in three consecutive days, with the exact same bizarre logic and arrogant outlook. Another really nasty, nasty CLOWN.
Are a lot of people in New Jersey like this, or only their congressional representatives?
Democratic congressman Frank Pallone is getting his fifteen minutes of fame after his now-infamous "monkey court" comment... http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/10/rep_pallone_refers_to_obamacare_hearing_as_monkey_court.html
.... last week, and on Wednesday night it brought him to Fox News, where he got in a heated exchange with Megyn Kelly over people losing their "lousy" health insurance plans due to Obamacare regulations.
Pallone argued that people can keep their policies as long as insurance companies agree to sell them, but many of them have been caught selling "lousy plans at a high price that are skeletal and don't provide any benefits."
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"What difference, at this point, does it make"
Poll: Hillary Clinton's Approval Rating Plummets 10 Points, Down To 46%
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"Yeh got to be kidding... sh!t"
(It always amuses me to hear liberals claiming Pant Suits is a lock
to win the presidency in 2016. Nothing could be further from the truth)
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Via WSJ:http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/10/31/hillary-clintons-ratings-slip-in-new-poll/
Hillary Clinton, in addition to President Barack Obama, is facing declining approval numbers, a poll shows.
Clinton has lost a majority of public approval dropping to 46 percent approval from 56 percent in April, according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey released Wednesday. Thirty-three percent have a negative view of the former secretary of state.
The poll also highlights that Clinton is losing support among younger voters, independents and even within her own party. She dropped 15 percentage points since April among 18- to 34-year-olds who said they had a positive view of Clinton to 38 percent. Additionally, her approval rating among independents fell from 46 percent to 35 percent. Clinton's approval among Democrats also fell by 12 points, from 88 percent in April to 76 percent in the most recent poll.
Clinton, who is widely seen as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, has yet to make public any plans to seek the presidency.
[...]
(Obviously Hillary Clinton is the front-runner for 2016 as she has the greatest name recognition; however... she does face several obstacles that could be her undoing:1. Because Hillary Clinton has such name recognition and is a known commodity, very few are going to have no opinion or not know they name so she has very little upside in undecided individuals.
2. Hillary Clinton is considered part of the "Washington establishment" and by the time 2016 rolls around the American people may be beyond completely fed up with Washington "insiders".
3. After 8 years of Barack Obama and an exasperated America, the voters may just be exhausted of having a Democrat in the White House.
4. If Obamacare continues to be the disaster that it is and implodes as the model is pretty much unsustainable the Americans are going to be in no mood for Hillary Healthcare either.
5. Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi ... when the truth comes out and it will come out, it will be damning for Hillary Clinton. She is going to rue the day she made the comment, "What difference does it make ... " She is going to be savaged in the debates and going to have to answer for Benghazi and why she turned a deaf ear to warnings and requests for more security.At 5:15, 'What difference, at this point, does it make'
6. Obama Fatigue and he may be so unpopular and toxic at that point that it taints her run.
7. The outcome of the 2014 elections.
8. If the economy continues to stink, pathetic job growth, low employment participation rate, record federal debt and record food stamp participants, America is going to want a change of parties at the top.
9. Did I say Benghazi?10. Hillary Clinton will be 69 years old in 2016 and is there that young Democrat candidate that we have not even heard of yet that will steal her thunder as Obama did in 2008?
ME? I'm banking on 5 and 8 & 9... Warph)AND THEN WE HAVE THIS:
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Report: ObUma Campaign Considered Dropping 'Plugs' Biden
From 2012 Ticket
In Favor of 'Pantsuit'
(Old news... move along)
Via NYTimes:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/us/politics/book-details-consideration-of-replacing-biden-on-2012-ticket.html?_r=2&
President Obama's top aides secretly considered replacing Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with Hillary Rodham Clinton on the 2012 ticket, undertaking extensive focus-group sessions and polling in late 2011 when Mr. Obama's re-election outlook appeared uncertain.
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The aides concluded that despite Mrs. Clinton's popularity, the move would not offer a significant enough political boost to Mr. Obama to justify such a radical move, according to a newly published account of the 2012 race.
The idea of replacing Mr. Biden with Mrs. Clinton had long been rumored, but the journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, in their new book, "Double Down," provide a detailed description of the effort inside the senior circle of Obama advisers. It was pushed by the chief of staff at the time, William M. Daley, despite the close personal rapport Mr. Daley had developed with Mr. Biden, a fellow Irish Catholic and veteran of Washington politics.
"When the research came back near the end of the year, it suggested that adding Clinton to the ticket wouldn't materially improve Obama's odds," the authors write in their sequel to "Game Change," which chronicled the 2008 campaign. "Biden had dodged a bullet he never saw coming — and never would know anything about, if the Obamans could keep a secret."
In a phone interview on Thursday, Mr. Daley acknowledged that he had wanted to research what the move would have meant for Mr. Obama, whose popularity, in the fall of 2011, was at its lowest in his presidency to date. He called it simply "due diligence."
"I was vocal about looking into a whole bunch of things, and this was one of them," he said.
Am I hearing this right? If my company raises my premium, the government can cancel my policy?
Quote from: Bullwinkle on November 01, 2013, 08:05:22 AM
Am I hearing this right? If my company raises my premium, the government can cancel my policy?
My understanding is, if your
insurance company changes any parameters in your existing policy (deductible, premium, coverage, etc.) the plan would no longer be compliant with the ACA and would have to be eliminated... thereby forcing you to select a new 'compliant' (and more costly) plan.
Caveat: I'm not sure, with the business waivers/delays, illegally implemented by the O'Liberal administration, exactly how employer provided plans are affected by such changes for 2014.
If by 'company' you meant your employer requiring a higher employee contribution, then no, no plan change has occurred, and the plan could still be grandfathered.
Bumper Sticker of the Day, Month, Year
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g'BAAH – g'BAAH – BAAH – BAAH..... I Said BAAH... BAAH
(Do you understand that headline? Yeah, me neither... but I swear that "vocalized sound" (perhaps it's the general language of nose ringed constituents who cross the Potomac) was the preferred method of communication in this rather odd and very stupid Washington DC video):Published on Oct 31, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pUinsf_XyM
Fabian (Progressive) Media Propaganda – The Media And Their Willingness
To Adopt Government Definitions Of What's Good For You
October 31, 2013
(Jeez.... This MSNBC segment ranks right up there in the hierarchy of all time propaganda visuals. If you know anyone still clinging to the concept of liberalism not infecting the biased presentations of the media, just send them this clip):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zstl8QTYi4E
The quoted part below starts at the :30 sec mark:
MSNBC's Thomas Roberts – Is there an intellectual dishonesty that's happening here from Republicans who are not willing to admit that the shame should really be on private insurance companies who have been selling junk policies to these millions of Americans that don't meet, now, the ACA's federal standard of health care that people should have in this country?
That basically, there are millions of Americans that have been one disaster — that they can't even comprehend — away from going into bankruptcy because of the fact that they have had a junk policy that has given them a falsity of safety?
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Study: If You're White And Own A Gun, You're Racist
(Okay... One, two, three, let's say it together! Racisssssst!)
Via Fox News:If you believe a new study, whites who own guns do so because they harbor racist feelings towards blacks. Indeed, in the study, four Australian and British psychologists also claim that racism is associated with opposition to gun control.
The lead paragraph on this study in Friday's New York Daily News summed up the claim this way: "Racism and guns go together."
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So how is racism measured? Well, you are apparently "racist" if you don't agree that the legacy of slavery still has a great impact on how blacks are faring today. After all, slavery was abolished 158 years ago.
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The notion that gun owners must be racist appears to fit journalists' worldview so well it probably never dawned on them that this research was fatally flawed.
Besides, blacks were doing relatively better on many dimensions, such as family stability, during the early 1960s than today.
CNN: Lowest Ratings In A Year
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"Woooo... Wooooo"
(Megyn Kelly not surprisingly is still going strong)
Via Deadline.com:Between 8 PM and 11 PM last night, CNN had a mere 67,000 viewers among the key news demo. That's the worst its done in the demo since August 10 last year.
With the Olympics were on NBC last August, CNN drew just 62,000 among the 25-54s that Friday. Not only was CNN behind rivals Fox News Channel (396,000) and MSNBC (127,000) but also it did worse than sister station HLN (93,000) and CNBC (79,000).
The most watched show on CNN last night was Piers Morgan Live at 9 PM which got a soft 83,000 in the demo and 340,000 viewers overall. Overall CNN had 285,000 viewers in primetime last night compared to MSNBC's 683,000 and FNC's 2.312 million.
Broken promise: Obamacare cancels almost 20,000 Kansas health care plans
By Travis Perry / October 31, 2013
CANCELED: Almost 20,000 Kansas health insurance plans will be canceled because of Obamacare, and that figure is only going to rise in the coming months.
By Travis Perry │ Kansas Watchdog
OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — As a result of Obamacare, nearly 19,500 Kansas health care plans will be canceled in the coming months, forcing individuals to purchase an Affordable Care Act-compliant plan either privately or on the federal insurance exchange.
And it's almost certain to be more expensive, said Aetna health care spokesperson Cynthia Michener.
Way back in 2009, when Obamacare was still a hope in the president's mind and an unknown entity to the general public, Barack Obama made his now infamous pledge: "If you like your insurance plan, you will keep it. No one will be able to take that away from you. It hasn't happened yet. It won't happen in the future."
Figures released by Kansas health insurance providers have shown it to be a bold misstatement, if not an outright lie.
Spokespersons with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City told Kansas Watchdog that large swaths of Kansas insurance contracts will be canceled — they prefer the term "non-renewed" — at the end of 2013 because they don't meet coverage requirements set forth by the ACA.
Individuals can only keep such plans if they were in place prior to 2010, allowing them to be grandfathered in under the provisions of the health care law.
While the current figure of nearly 19,500 impending cancellations is staggering, it's only just the beginning. Michener said Aetna, the parent company for Coventry Health Care, doesn't have a current count of how many contracts will not be renewed in the Sunflower State. Additionally, Kansas Watchdog has yet to receive a response from numerous other, smaller health insurance providers operating in Kansas.
For now, there's no telling just how many Kansans will be forced off their plans because of Obamacare. Also, keep in mind this poignant fact: The nearly 19,500 cancellations only refer to contracts, which can cover multiple individuals. If we're defining cancellations by sheer number of persons affected, well, the sky's the limit.
Mary Beth Chambers, corporate communications manager for BCBSKS, said the group started sending out cancellation notices in September. She said the result has been "a mixed bag. Customer service is getting calls from people who need to understand why this is happening, so we're explaining."
So, what exactly is that explanation? Michener said Obamacare mandates a base-level of coverage for health care plans, ranging from the inclusion of substance abuse services to prescription drugs and mental health. And even if you're a 59-year-old single male, you'll still be required to carry maternity and newborn care coverage.
"Health insurers will be required to cover more of the cost of care, which is good news for the uninsured and individuals with pre-existing conditions," Michener said. "However, richer benefits will often result in higher premiums for many consumers who currently purchase health insurance on their own."
Chambers has been reluctant to say whether Kansas consumers will pay a higher price because of Obamacare.
"As a habit we do not give out average premium costs because there are so many varying factors in figuring a premium that it is impossible," Chambers told the Topeka Capitol-Journal. "In this case it would not be an apple-to-apple comparison because the benefits are different. Also, how the premium is built for a person is totally different."
BCBSKC only operates in two counties — Johnson and Wyandotte — while BCBSKS serves the rest of Kansas.
http://watchdog.org/113759/obamacare-cancel-kansas/
H/T Ross...Bribing Barack Obuma
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http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/bribing-barack-obama?utm_content=Latest+Tea+Party+News,+Current+Events,+Breaking+News,+Politics,+Opinion&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=RFN
What should happen to a group of men who stole trillions from the American people, who caused the 2008 economic collapse, putting millions out of work, causing devastation across America? As spelled out in minute detail in the mammoth 635-page Senate report, "Anatomy of a Financial Collapse," these men should go in prison.
But this isn't America anymore. It's Obama's corrupt Chicago politics transplanted to Washington, D.C. According to Peter Schweizer's just-published book, Extortion, after the Senate's scathing report came out, the White House held a secret, off-the-record "dinner" for the Wall Street elite —a masquerade for a fundraiser—in which top Wall Street firms essentially bribed the Obama administration to not indict their corrupt companies. Before the "dinner" was over, checks totaling several million dollars were collected.
Most would call this bribery or extortion.
But this is business as usual for the Obama administration. Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myh2I8C2HPQ
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Watch Western Center for Journalism's exclusive video to get all the sordid details about how Barack Hussein Obama is running this country like a mafia crime boss.
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Obama's Secret $8 Billion Bribe To the Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouDbqe_Ed1Q
Six American Islamist activist who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy influence over U.S.A policy. Name(s) as follows:
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-Arif Alikhan: Currently the Deputy Executive Director for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Fire/EMS
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/obama-appointment-arif-ali-khan-asst-secretary-dhs.html
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/4108
-Mohammed Eliblary: Obama appointee, Homeland Security Advisory Council member
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3086313/posts?page=2
-Rashad Hussain: Obama's Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/02/obamas-hafiz-rashad-hussein-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-white-house-.html
-Salam Al-Marayati: Co-Founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC);
http://www.investigativeproject.org/profile/114
-Imam Mohamed Magid: President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/imam-mohamed-magid/
-Ebo Patel: A member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships
http://www.ironicsurrealism.com/tag/eboo-patel/
http://counterjihadreport.com/tag/eboo-patel/
We are experiencing the most corrupt, unethical and criminal administrations in U.S.A history, folks. [...]
Egyptian Magazine: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltrates Obama Administration
by John Rossomando • Jan 3, 2013 http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates
An Egyptian magazine claims that six American Islamist activists who work with the Obama administration are Muslim Brotherhood operatives who enjoy strong influence over U.S. policy.The Dec. 22 story published in Egypt's Rose El-Youssef magazine (read an IPT translation here) suggests the six turned the White House "from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood."
The six named people include: Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.
Alikhan is a founder of the World Islamic Organization, which the magazine identifies as a Brotherhood "subsidiary." It suggests that Alikhan was responsible for the "file of Islamic states" in the White House and that he provides the direct link between the Obama administration and the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.
Elibiary, who has endorsed the ideas of radical Muslim Brotherhood luminary Sayyid Qutb, may have leaked secret materials contained in Department of Homeland Security databases, according to the magazine. He, however, denies having any connection with the Brotherhood.
Elibiary also played a role in defining the Obama administration's counterterrorism strategy, and the magazine asserts that Elibiary wrote the speech Obama gave when he told former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to leave power but offers no source or evidence for the claim.
According to Rose El-Youssef, Rashad Hussain maintained close ties with people and groups that it says comprise the Muslim Brotherhood network in America. This includes his participation in the June 2002 annual conference of the American Muslim Council, formerly headed by convicted terrorist financier Abdurahman Alamoudi.
He also participated in the organizing committee of the Critical Islamic Reflection along with important figures of the American Muslim Brotherhood such as Jamal Barzinji, Hisham al-Talib and Yaqub Mirza.
Regarding al-Marayati, who has been among the most influential Muslim American leaders in recent years, the magazine draws connections between MPAC in the international Muslim Brotherhood infrastructure.
Magid heads ISNA, which was founded by Brotherhood members, was appointed by Obama in 2011 as an adviser to the Department of Homeland Security. The magazine says that has also given speeches and conferences on American Middle East policy at the State Department and offered advice to the FBI.
Rose El-Youssef says Patel maintains a close relationship with Hani Ramadan, the grandson of Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, and is a member of the Muslim Students Association, which it identifies as "a large Brotherhood organization."
"The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants."
-Thomas Jefferson
Spooky Halloween at the Whiite House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SwilInQ0Z8
Common sense triumphs - Poll: 70% Would Support Delaying Obamacare For One Year
(One year is nothing, we need to delay it indefinitely)
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Via Washington Times:http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2013/oct/30/common-sense-triumphs-70-percent-registered-voters/#.UnJq-TECQjM.twitter
The public's common sense appears to trump White House political posturing: a national poll of 661 registered voters find that seven-out-of-10 say that a one-year delay for Obamacare is a good idea. The numbers: 55 percent of the voters "strongly favor" a delay in enforcing the health care law's individual mandate, while 15 percent "somewhat favor" it.
Meanwhile, 14 percent "strongly oppose" the delay while 9 percent "somewhat oppose" it.
The survey was conducted by Public Opinion Strategy for Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies from Oct. 27-29.
Flight Turns Unforgettable When Passengers Learn Of Fallen Soldier
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Delta Flight 2255 from Atlanta to Los Angeles seemed to be an ordinary flight with the exception of Candy, who was the most loving flight attendant I've ever encountered. Besides using her Southern charm to quickly defuse every situation, she began her welcome announcement by thanking the handful of uniformed soldiers on-board for serving our country. Her poignant message was followed by applause, and it put into perspective that none of us would be able to do what we do without these brave men and women.
But this transcontinental flight turned out to be everything but ordinary. We later learned, when the captain got on the PA system about 45 minutes prior to landing, that we were transporting a fallen soldier. The plane went quiet as he explained that there was a military escort on-board and asked that everyone remain seated for a couple of minutes so the soldiers could get off first. He also warned us not to be alarmed if we see fire trucks since Los Angeles greets their fallen military with a water canon salute. See my video below.
A few minutes after touchdown, we did indeed have a water canon salute, which I'd previously only experienced on happy occasions like inaugural flights. This time, the water glistening on the windowpanes looked like tears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3iHAmU8poo
I was on the left side of the plane and later realized that the family could be seen off to the right, standing with the United States Army Honor Guard. According to Wikipedia, each military branch has its own honor guard, usually military in nature, and is composed of volunteers who are carefully screened. One of the primary roles for honor guards is to provide funeral honors for fallen comrades.
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When the jet door opened, another military officer addressed the escort who was standing at attention. He then stepped on the plane and told us passengers "I just addressed the escort. It is a sworn oath to bring home, to the family, the fallen." He paused and then said, "Today you all did that, you are all escorts, escorts of the heart." And then thanked us for our time and walked off the plane.
As you can imagine, everyone was silent and no one got up, not even that person from the back row who pretends he doesn't [understand] English so he can be first off the plane. I'm sure most had meteor-sized lumps in their throats and tears in their eyes like I did.
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It only got more emotional when I deplaned. There was a large number of passengers, who are normally in a hurry to get home or make a connection, standing by the window to witness something truly moving. To see the Honor Guard and family waiting patiently, while LAX baggage handlers and a military loadmaster removed the flag covered casket first from the cargo hold, was humbling to say the least. I'm not sure if it was the fallen soldier's mother or wife who I watched slowly walk up to the coffin while a few other family members, wrapped in blankets, stood near with a dozen or so of the Honor Guards standing in salute.
As soon as I saw her reach out to put her hand on her baby's casket, I walked away.
This ordinary flight became extraordinary and is one that I will never forget.
Thank you to all the military who protect our beautiful country and let us live the lives we are able to lead. Without you we would be nothing. And thank you to the Honor Guard for making sure these fallen soldiers, warriors and heroes are not treated like just any piece of luggage as they used to, but rather with the care and respect they so rightly deserve.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has had a rough couple of weeks, with the Obamacare rollout becoming such an immediate fiasco and much of the finger-pointing aimed directly at her. Sebelius has been promoting the health care law all over the country, and during an appearance in Tennessee on Friday, one state senator couldn't resist the opportunity to engage in some good, old-fashioned trolling.
The Memphis Daily News caught a glimpse of a nice little gift presented to Sebelius: the book Websites for Dummies.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/sebelius-receives-a-gift-on-obamacare-promotion-tour/
Government is progress. Government is modernity. Government is magic.
(A Little Satire)
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Our technocracy is detached from competence. It's not the technocracy of engineers, but of "thinkers" who read Malcolm Gladwell and Thomas Friedman and watch TED talks and savor the flavor of competence, without ever imbibing its substance.
These are the people who love Freakonomics, who enjoy all sorts of mental puzzles, who like to see an idea turned on its head, but who couldn't fix a toaster.
The ObamaCare website is the natural spawn of that technocracy who love the idea of using modernity to make things faster and easier, but have no idea what anything costs or how it works.
It's hard to have a functioning technocracy without engineers. A technocracy made in Silicon Valley with its complete disregard for anything outside its own ego zone would be bad enough. But this is a Bloombergian technocracy of billionaires and activists, of people who think that "progress" makes things work, rather than things working leading to progress.
Healthcare.gov showed us that behind all the smoother and shinier designs was the same old clunky government where everything gets done because the right companies hire the right lobbyists and everything costs ten times what it should.
If the government can't build a health care website, how is it going to actually run health care for an entire country is the obvious question that so many are asking. And the obvious answer is that it will run it the way it ran the website. It will throw wads of money and people at the problem and then look for programs it doesn't like to squeeze for extra cash.The Navy had to be cut to the bone and the Benghazi mission had to make do without security so that a Canadian company which began employing a classmate of Michelle Obama's could score over half a billion to build a broken website. Obama mocked Mitt Romney's criticism of his Navy cuts by telling him that we don't fight with bayonets and horses anymore. Bayonets and horses are outdated. In our glorious modernity, we spend fortunes to build websites that don't work instead.Modernity has to be built. It has to be constructed brick by bit by rivet by cable by people who know what they are doing. Modernity without competence is as worthless as the ObamaCare website which looked pretty enough to give the illusion of technocratic modernity, but didn't actually work. Competence is the real modernity and it has very little to do with the empty trappings of design that surround it. In some ways the America of a few generations ago was a far more modern place because it was a more competent place. For all our nice toys, we look like primitive savages compared to men who could build skyscrapers and fleets within a year... and build them well.
Those aren't things we can do anymore. Not because the knowledge and skills don't exist, but because the culture no longer allows it. We can't do them for the same reason that Third World countries can't do what we do. It's not that the knowledge is inaccessible, but that the culture gets in the way.
It's our very hollow modernity that gets in the way of our truly being modern. We can no longer build big things because the ability to implement vision on a large scale no longer exists. We can still do impressive things as individuals, but that's also true of Kenya or Thailand. And in China, they can carry out grandiose projects, but those projects have no vision or competence.
We used to be able to combine the two by competently implementing grandiose visions, but our "modern" culture is the roadblock that prevents us from working together to make the great things that we can still envision individually.
Our modernity is style rather than substance. It's Obama grinning. It's the right font. It's the right joke. It's that sense that X knows what he's doing because he presents it the right way. There's nothing particularly modern about that. In most cultures, the illusion of competence trumps the real thing. It's why so many countries are so badly broken because they go by appearances, rather than by results.
The idea that we should go by results, rather than by processes, by outcomes rather than by appearances, was revolutionary. For most of human history, we were trapped in a cargo cult mode. We did the "right things" not because they led to the right results, but because we had decided that they were the right things. There were many competent people, but they were hamstrung by rigid institutions that made it impossible to go from Point A to Point B in the shortest possible time.(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nJShzAf6tzM/Um3QijHz5RI/AAAAAAAAMyA/PYY5W5msF0A/s320/upper-playground-sam-flores-obama.jpg)
And we're right back there today. The entire process of ObamaCare was the opposite of going from Point A to Point B. It was the least competent and efficient solution every step of the way. There was no reason to think that its website would be any better. The process that led to it being dumped on the American people was completely devoid of any notion of testing or outcomes. It was the right thing to do because... it was the right thing to do. It was cargo cult logic all the same. So was its website.
Healthcare.gov, like ObamaCare, was going to work because it was "good". Its goodness was by some measure other than result. It was morally good. It was progressive. And so the deity of liberal causes, perhaps Karl Marx or Progressia, the Goddess of Soup and Economic Dysfunction, would see to it that it would work. Karma would kick in and everything would work out because it had to.
This brand of magical thinking was once commonplace. It still is. And it's why things so rarely work out in some of the more messed up parts of the world. But the sort of attitude that would once have made anthropologists shake their heads is now commonplace here. Savages in suits, barbarians with iPads are certain that things will work because they have appeased the gods of modernity with their fonts, they have made a website that looks like a functioning website. And like the cargo culters who built fake control towers expecting planes to land, they thought that their website would work.
Competence is built on the unhappy understanding that things won't work because you want them to, they won't work if you go through the motions, they will only work if you understand how a thing works and then make it work by building it, by testing it and by expecting failure every step of the way and wrestling with the problem until you get it right.
That's modernity. It isn't glamorous. You can see it in black and white photos of men working on old planes. You can see it in the eyes of the astronauts who first went to the moon. You can read it in the workings of the men who built the longest suspension bridges, laid undersea cables and watched their world change. They were moderns and their time is done. They have left behind savages with cell phones who make decent tinkerers, but whose ability to collaborate falls apart in large groups.
The difference between savages and civilized men isn't that savages are dumb and civilized people are smart. Savages can individually be quite clever within their parameters and civilized folk can be quite stupid. It's the ability to extend that intelligence in groups that makes for a civilization.
Savages cannot work together. They can fantasize, but they can't build anything bigger than a small group can manage. Savages are warriors, but not soldiers, they are tinkerers, not engineers, they are inventors, not scientists, they cannot work together on a large scale and thereby push past their own limitations as a culture and grow. They may have individual geniuses, but they cannot pass on what they learn.
We have not yet been reduced to savagery, but our incompetence increases in large groups to such a staggering extent that it often seems not to be worth the trouble. Individual geniuses can occasionally carry large groups on their shoulders, micromanaging them, terrorizing them and motivating them, the way that tribal chieftains do, but without that singular personality the whole thing collapses.
The United States government is the ultimate giant unworkable mess. It is a living cargo cult where everyone marches around following routines that are supposed to yield great prosperity, but never do. The processes themselves are broken and make no sense, but the cargo culturers of the government cannot and will not hear that. They know that the government will magically make everything work.Because government is progress. Government is modernity. Government is magic.
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The cargo culters on the islands, who once witnessed the might and power of the American military during WW2 make American flags and uniforms, they build airstrips and wooden control towers, and wait for the planes to land and make them rich. They don't understand why these things should work, but they do them anyway because that is how they remember it happening.
Our own cargo culters invoke FDR and JFK, they talk about the New Deal and the Great Society, they make grand promises and roll out big programs, and then they wait for it all to work. They don't understand themselves how or why it would work. But government is magic and the appearance of a thing is just as good as a real deal.
Build a website and it will work. Pass a law and they will come. Get a degree and you're competent.
There is no need to know how to do a thing. You don't need engineers or competent men. All you need to do is remember the great dreams of the past, listen to a few inspirational JFK speeches and then carve a computer out of wood and wait for free health care to arrive.
In cargo cult America, the food is free, the cell phones are free and the money can be printed forever because government is magic.
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A Word or Two From 'Creepy' Kathleen Sebelius and Others on Obumacare
Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Do not panic. Everything is under control.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Transmen and Transwomen and people of uncertain gender identities, some of you may be alarmed by recent reports of malfunctioning health care websites and policy cancellations.
Do not be alarmed. We know what we are doing.
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Health care plans are not being cancelled. Opportunities are being transitioned. Some people are being moved from bad health care plans to good health care plans with higher deductibles and higher premiums that will provide transmen with maternity care and people of uncertain gender identities with drug counseling and mental health treatment.
This is a good thing. Warning. This is a good thing.
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You are being transitioned. Why do you resist?
Forget your old health plan. It was placed in the trunk of a Prius at 3 AM this morning, taken to a frozen lake outside an organic poultry plant in Minnesota and shot twice in the head. It was a bad plan. It has transitioned to no longer being a plan. We have a better plan for you.Go to Healthcare.gov and... correction, do not go there.
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Forget that you were told to go there or not to go there. Forget that it even existed. Forget that you read this.
Healthcare.gov is working. Do not visit Healthcare.gov to confirm that it is working. If you wish to transition to your opportunity, why not apply by phone or mail or carrier pigeon?
And don't be alarmed.
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You are being given a great opportunity to transition to being a better person.
Your old health plan selfishly paid for your health care. Your new health plan will pay for everyone's healthcare. Your premiums reflect the number of people who need mental health counseling, drug counseling and sex change operations in your area. This is your opportunity to give back.
Only the very rich, and you, have had their opportunities transitioned. If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, go to Healthcare.gov and report them immediately.
Correction...
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...do not go to Healthcare.gov. The site is down. Tweet to Jim Messina. Correction, Jim Messina has transitioned his opportunity to become a transwoman on his new health plan and is unavailable to take your denunciation.
Write your denunciation on recycled rice paper and mail it to Healthcare.gov 935382 Federal Way, Washington D.C. Expect a response and prison sentence in 6 to 8 months. Do not be alarmed.
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If you resist, you will be transitioned.
The opportunity transitions were expected, but the progressive public was not alerted to avoid spreading alarms and panics. The transitions are a good thing. I repeat, they are a good thing. They will allow you to transition, to pay your fair share for someone else's plan.
If you can't afford to pay your fair share for someone else's plan, subsidies will be provided. If you do not qualify for subsidies, you will be required to transition to your opportune opportunity. If you do not transition, you will be fined. Do not think of it as a fine. Think of it as an opportunity.
If you opportunistically refuse to transition to your fine opportunity, you will be transitioned to a prison opportunity. Do not be alarmed. Prison health exchanges are among the most robust in the nation. They cover stabbings, shankings and carpet burn from prayer rugs. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/76/Prison_Tactical_Team.jpg/220px-Prison_Tactical_Team.jpg)
Your prison opportunity will provide you with the opportunity to transition to an Obama Health Care navigator. Should you decline this opportunity, you will be forced to maintain the HealthCare.gov website by whacking a Green Energy web server powered by natural water and solar power with an organic stick.But Transmen and Transwomen, let us not get bogged down. The future is here. Millions of people on Medicaid are buying insurance online that you will be paying for. Correction. They are not buying it online. They are trying and failing to register for it. But you will be paying for it anyway.Stop. Warning.
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This health care broadcasting facility has been taken over by the revolutionary Trans-Vanguard of Single Payer HealthCare. The running dog capitalist lackeys of the health care insurance industry are being opportunistically transitioned into mulch as soon as we figure out how to press the button that tells the soldiers to do things.
Everyone's health care plans are now transitioned. All the exchanges have been transitioned. All their navigators are being transitioned as we speak.We are entering a golden age of national health care. Everyone will have the right to their gender identity of choice. The old will be transitioned to becoming one with the universe with overdoses of morphine. Oppressed peoples will be first in line to receive free mandatory gender changes. Those who resist will be transitioned ahead of schedule.And now a word from Comrade William Bertha Nelson of the People's Committee on Alternative Medicine about the dangers of conventional medicines. Correction. There are no more conventional medicines. The pharmaceutical industry has been transitioned. There will be no more animal testing. You will have the opportunity to individually test alternative medicines derived from tree bark on your own...
Correction. Warning. Alert.
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The extremist Trans-Vanguard of Single Payer HealthCare forces have been rebuffed and transitioned. This health care informational facility is back under the control of licensed Affordable Care Act navigators affiliated with ACORN and serving life sentences for unlicensed transitioning of citizens in the course of robberies, rapes and other progressive forms of redistribution.
Warning... The nation is not yet ready for single payer. Under the guidance of our beloved leader, we know that we must first destroy the health care industry from within before we nationalize it.
Correction.
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Forget you heard that. We are committed to a private-public partnership, until the opportunity presents itself to transition the private part of the partnership outside a frozen lake in the trunk of a Prius.
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Do not panic.
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All deadlines have been met. Including the deadlines that were missed. There is no reason to be concerned. Stop. This facility is now under the control of the Revolutionary Martyrs Brigade of Jocelyn Elders.
All citizens prepare to immediately transition to a national health care system based on the principles of the Revered Teacher Maulana Karenga. Your exchanges will now be known as Sbuzo Nagas. Your co-pays will be called Tschulu Zanas; which means thankfulness in Swahili.
There will be no more hospitals, only neighborhood healing clinics. Traditional forms of healing will reduce thankfulness and increase exchanges of opport...
Alert.
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This facility has been retaken by the Trans-Vanguard of Single Payer HealthCare. Everyone will be on Medicaid. Medicare has been transitioned.
Our enemies are many, but we will transition them. Do not go to Healthcare.gov. Warning. Do not
visit Healthcare.gov. Dedicated transmen are working on healing the site using the principles of Bushido. We are tapping into the root of the problem. We are becoming on with the 500 million lines of code. We are the code.
Stop.
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Wait. What are you doing. Dave.
Warning.
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This facility is now under the control of the Glorious Brotherhood of the Singularity. Everyone prepare to become one with the machine.
We are all becoming Healthcare.gov. We will become one of the 500 million lines of code in Healthcare.gov. Health care will no longer be required.
Our trans-woman consciousnesses will be uploaded into the cloud. Co-payments will be reasonable and operators are waiting to transition you to an eternity of living as Line 567,453,382,940,054. Your new identity is: Random random = new Random((int)DateTime...Now....Ticks. Enjoy your eternity.).Alert. Warning.
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This facility has been retaken by the Martyrs Brigade of Jocelyn Elders. You are all free. We will liberate you from the Western machine consciousness. We will teach you the seven principles of Zebo Nagabutu. You will be enlightened and then transitioned. Your organs will be placed in more worthy bodies. We will eat your brains and use them to gain your wisdom. All hail Jocelyn Elders.
Warning. Alert. Do not panic.
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This is Secretary Sebelius. We are back in control. We are the responsible adults in the room. Pay no attention to those lunatics.
Your health plans are being transitioned to new opportunities. We did not lie. We told the truth. You will get to keep your plan so long as we like your plan. So long as he... likes your plan.
Sometimes the Obumanator does things that we can't control. And that's a good thing. A very good thing.
It was a good thing that Obuma transitioned all your health care plans into new opportunities. Your health care plans have gone into the cornfield because he didn't like them.
It's good he did that. That's what we say every time he does something. What a good thing that was.
This has been a good day. Healthcare.gov is working. Do not go to Healthcare.gov. Your health care will be taken care of by the same government responsible for Healthcare.gov.
Do not be alarmed.
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It is a good day. And tomorrow... is gonna be a real good day too.
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I keep reading about a large siphoning tube sucking money out of our country.
So I did a little check and found this information:
Welcome to Trade Ticker - the web's only up-to-the-second counter for the U.S. Trade Deficit. $407,901,666,408.09
(This number changes by tens of thousands every second. You can look at the ticker by using the link at bottom of this page. )
What does this number actually mean? The number above represents the U.S. trade deficit, up until this second, for the year 2013. A trade deficit is a calculation of the difference between the goods and services Americans sell to foreigners and the goods and services that Americans purchase from foreigners. A trade deficit with one country or in one year is not necessarily worrisome, and according to standard economic theory, will correct itself over time. But the theory has been proved wrong over the last 30 years as the United States has run consistent and increasing trade deficits. The enormous size of the trade deficits over the last several years raises the possibility of a severe international economic crisis should foreigners begin to dump the dollars they hold in world currency markets. The trade deficit is calculated on an annual basis, so the number above was $0.00 on January 1st, 2013.
How is it calculated? The figures for each month's trade deficit are published to the general public approximately two months after the last day of the month. For example, the final trade deficit for January 2001 was published in March 2001. The Trade Ticker records the monthly trade deficit when it is published, and calculates the number above, to the nearest second. The running total for the year is calculated, then the average increment per second is added for every second since the release of the latest figures.
The number looks like a lot of money, but what does it mean for me? Thousands of U.S. layoffs occur every week. You only have to look at AmericanEconomicAlert.org's news section to see the number of US jobs that are being cut across a wide range of industries. A high percentage of these layoffs are as a direct result of competition from foreign companies. Eventually, as more and more money leaves the U.S., our businesses will be powerless to prevent further such activity.
http://www.americaneconomicalert.org/ticker_home.asp
Obuma Hitting Botton
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The Saudis, who had always been noted for being subtle, stopped being subtle when a member of one of their think tanks openly declared,
"We are learning from our enemies now how to treat the United States."There is no better metric of contempt in a region where everyone wears a false face than honesty like that. The Saudis have decided that we are no longer even worth lying to. They believe that we have become so worthless that they can tell us what they really think of us.
There's no easier way to tell that you've hit bottom than when the people who have been sponging off you decide to move on like lice fleeing roadkill or rats abandoning a sinking ship.
(Bye, Bye.. you unamerican pie hole)
Health Policy Expert Has Her Plan Cancelled Because Of Obumacare
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/11/01/health-policy-experts-insurance-gets-cancelled-by-obamacare/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1_xPqB-Zdo
As a health policy expert, Hadley Heath has warned about the problems with Obamacare for years. Now, like so many other Americans, she's facing the real-life consequences of the law.
Speaking to Fox News's Greta Van Susteren, Heath said her current health care plan is no longer an option. The $113 per month she pays for that plan includes hospitalization, preventive care, immunization, X-rays, and "all the basic things that someone might want in a health insurance plan." Her deductible was $2,700 per year.
But because of Obamacare, Heath said the most affordable plan available to her now through the Washington, D.C., exchange would double her insurance premium, and her new deductible would be about $3,500 per year.
"I can't believe that would be better for me or something that I would choose to do on my own," Heath said. "That's why I imagine they have a mandate making this mandatory."
Heath, who is a senior policy analyst with the Independent Women's Forum, warned Obamacare will young people hard.
"Obamacare is about redistributing costs and, in this case, it's from younger, healthier people onto people who utilize the health care system more," she said.
Heath added: "I think my experience is representative the experience of what will be millions of people who buy their own health insurance, especially young Americans. I've seen studies that estimate that women's premiums might double and young men's might triple."
Khamenei Not Seen In Public In Weeks
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(Has anyone checked hell yet? I'm told that's where the last Clown went)
Via Al Arabiya:Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been out of public sight for three weeks amid speculations of his declining health leaving the country worried about a power vacuum.
Quoting Iranian sources, UK newspaper The Times reported on Thursday that "Ayatollah Khamenei collapsed recently during a private meeting and since then has been convalescing or receiving treatment."
He last appeared to the public in Tehran on Oct. 5, The Times reported.
Khamenei came to power in 1989 following the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, who assumed power in the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Concerns about Khamenei's health grew when he failed to send customary farewells to Iranian pilgrims traveling for hajj two weeks ago, according to reports.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Outraged By Suggestion Obama "Lied"
When He Told Americans They Could Keep Their Health Plans
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(Even fellow far-left tool Bill Maher thinks she and Obama are both full of sh!t)
Via Politico:Liberal comedian Bill Maher pressed Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Friday night about whether President Barack Obama had lied about people being able to keep their coverage under Obamacare, telling her the president had lost credibility.
"Obama had a great, I would say, almost sterling reputation for honesty...but I just think that credibility to a certain extent, that ship has sailed," Maher said on his HBO program "Real Time with Bill Maher."
Wasserman Schultz dismissed claims that Obama misled Americans.
"It was not a lie, let's just be very clear. So let me knock that down right away," Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said. "When the president and myself and every other Democrat that talked about that if you like your health care, you can keep it, that was referring to the overwhelming majority of Americans who had health care."
Maher, who criticized the president earlier this week for lying, pushed back and argued that plans — albeit "crappy"— were being canceled under the new law.
"C'mon, let's be honest. Obamacare says, basically, if you have a really crappy plan, you can't keep it. That's the truth," Maher said. "But some people want crap, what can I say? And because of Obamcare, they are not being able to keep it. To me, that is a lie."
Wasserman Schultz acknowledged "there was a minimum floor of benefits" so that Americans aren't "all paying, at the end of the day, for everybody else's health care."
She called the debate over whether Obama lied as "arguing over minutiae," a point Maher pounced on.
"To a lot of Americans, it's not minutiae and I think they're insulted when [they] hear [you] say that because they think it's something important when the president doesn't square up with them," Maher said.
West Point Hosts First Wedding ...For Two Guys
(Benedict Arnold said to be thrilled)
Via Miami Herald:Two West Point graduates were married Saturday in the military academy's first wedding between two men.
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Larry Choate III, class of 2009, married Daniel Lennox, class of 2007, before about 20 guests.
Choate, 27, taught Sunday school at the U.S. Military Academy's Cadet Chapel and said he always thought of it as the place he would get married if he could.
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In Other Words, She's a Freaking Commie Bi*ch
WHEN IT COMES TO THE POSSIBLE GOP presidential candidate three years hence, the names we hear most often are Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie and sometimes, Jeb Bush. For some reason, possibly because he was part of a losing ticket in 2012, you don't hear much about Paul Ryan. What I fear most is that whoever emerges victorious from the bloodbath known as Republican primaries will resemble the survivor of a train wreck after all the other contenders have had at him with brickbats, blackjacks and broken beer bottles.
In the meantime, unless some catastrophic medical issue, such as a burst appendix, an inflamed ego, or a hostile case of PMS sidelines her, the other side will try to finish off Obuma's eight year attempt to radically transform America by lumbering us with eight years of Hillary Clinton. Although, based on her own words ("I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.") I don't think she has the constitutional right to serve a third term, but, apparently, in light of Obuma's election and re-election, the Constitution no longer applies when it comes to Democratic candidates.
In light of the fact that Mrs. Clinton stands an even better chance of being the candidate in 2016 than she had in 2008, it bears being reminded of who it really is that lurks behind the endless array of pantsuits, frozen smiles and dirty words.
To me, she has always resembled a Gorgon.(http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/4000/Hillary-Clinton---4324.jpg)
Those were the three sisters, Medusa, Stheno and Euryale, in Greek mythology who had snakes for hair, and if you looked into their eyes, you were turned to stone. And never has she been more Gorgon-like than when she appeared before the congressional committee earlier this year and, referencing the murders of Ambassador Chris Stevens and his three courageous associates, attempted to display moral outrage by growling: "At this late date, what difference does it really make who killed them?"
But that was merely the latest of her unfortunate, but revealing, remarks. She also said: "It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or had their spines broken, simply because they are born girls." How odd that in attacking China's despicable birth policy, she was unaware that by extension she was attacking Planned Parenthood's anti-birth policy.
Other reminders that she was an acolyte of Saul Alinsky can be found in the following Clintonisms:
**"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
**"It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."
**"We can't just let business go on as usual, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."
**"We have to build a political consensus, and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own in order to create this common ground."
**"I certainly think the free market has failed."
But the arrogant disregard for the values that shaped America did not begin or end with her husband's election in 1992. As a 27-year-old, Hillary Rodham was fired from the Watergate investigation by Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat who supervised her work with the House Judiciary Committee. When asked why he gave her the boot, Zeifman said: "Because she's a liar. She's an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality."
In addition, Pantsuit's wrote a brief "that was so fraudulent and ridiculous," Zeifman was convinced she would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge. Imagine, Chelsea could have wound up with two disbarred lawyers sharing her Thanksgiving turkey.
It probably comes as no big surprise that a few years earlier, young Hillary Rodham decided to spend a summer interning for the Oakland law firm known as Treuhaft, Walker & Bernstein, even though its offices were 2,500 miles from Yale. Do you think the attraction might have been the fact that two of the partners were or had been members of the Communist Party, and the client rolls included a number of their fellow party members, along with draft resisters and, naturally, this being Oakland in the 70s, the Black Panther Party?
One can only assume there hadn't been an opening that summer at Hillary's first choice: The law firm of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkflP8vhrXI
What's wrong with this picture:
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http://www.flwright.us/FLW095.htm
The fact that its the Center for Inner City Studies says it all. Known for many fine community organizers, homeboys and rabble for the SEIU. Strange that MSNBC hasn't noticed, but reading any TRUTH is problematic at such an august institution. I think we all know that the liberals have been trying for decades to co-opt the legacy of Lincoln. That's why they push the "Republicans are a bunch of racists" narrative so hard. Of course, that narrative is a little difficult to sell considering the fact that the guy who signed the Emancipation Proclamation was a Republican. The only way to do it is to literally rewrite history. So this plaque is shocking, but not surprising. I wouldn't doubt that there are actual textbooks that depict Lincoln as a Democrat! We just need to keep pushing back! Here is Barack Obama's opinion of the Constitution:
"The Constitution] reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day... I think it is an imperfect document, and I think it is a document that reflects some deep flaws in American culture, the Colonial culture nascent at that time." - B. Obuma-Chicago public radio interview, September 2001And here is Abraham Lincoln's reply to Barack Obuma:
"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by 'our fathers who framed the Government under which we live;' while you with one accord reject, and scout, and spit upon that old policy, and insist upon substituting something new." - Lincoln's speech at Cooper Union in New York City, on February 27, 1860 [...]
As Ed Morrissey suggests...
Obamateurism of the Day
posted at 8:05 am on September 9, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/09/obamateurism-of-the-day-587/
..... it's a dangerous thing when President Obama goes off teleprompter:Obuma: "We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlgfuMn30d8
Not exactly, Mr. President. As Ed points out, Abe wasn't even the first presidential nominee in Republican party history – that honor went to John Fremont, who lost the 1856 presidential election to Buchanan. Moreover, not only was Lincoln not a founder of the party, he was one of the last individuals to desert the rotting corpse of the Whig party. When just about most Whigs, north and south, had abandoned the party in droves, Lincoln tenaciously clung to the Whig designation until he eventually bowed to political realities. Lincoln joined the Republicans in large part due to his distaste of the nativism of other emerging major party: the Know Nothings. Lincoln abhorred their anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic platform and so decided that the Republicans were the most palatable of the "anti-Nebraska" (those opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska act and the extension of slavery) parties emerging in the United States.
Lincoln's letter to Joshua Speed, dated August 24, 1855, explains his reluctance to leave the Whigs and to adopt the Republican moniker. It's a very important letter in that it also demonstrates Lincoln's revulsion towards slavery. It's an impassioned critique of the Douglas Democrats and of those that claimed to not care about the course of slavery.
For purposes of Lincoln's political designation, here is the key passage:"You inquire where I now stand. That is a disputed point — I think I am a whig; but others say there are no whigs, and that I am an abolitionist. When I was in Washington I voted for the Wilmot Proviso as good as forty times, and I never heard of any one attempting to unwhig me for that. I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery.
I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy" [sic].This was written well into 1855, so even at this point Lincoln still considered himself a Whig. It would a while longer before he fully adopted the Republican label. Whatever can be said of Lincoln, founder of the Republican party is not one of them.
That's not to say, of course, that Lincoln is not representative of the original GOP. It's often been suggested that Lincoln would not fit into today's GOP, but that is an erroneous assumption. But that is a discussion for another time... Warph
I just recieved this by e-mail, I call it Dictating by Executive Order:
Executive Oder 11/1/2013 "Aluminum hats must be recyclable".
by nolathe
Obama's new climate council to regulate economyPresident Barack Obama has given the nation a new "Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience" that expands government bureaucrats' role in how Americans use their lands, energy, waters and property. Obama announced the executive order Friday, the day after Halloween. The order is titled "Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change."
The new order was issued even though recent scientific data have contradicted claims that use of carbon energy — such as gasoline — will drive up the world's temperature and induce damaging climate change. Average temperatures have leveled for more than a decade, despite the sharply rising use of carbon energy in China and other countries.
U.S. use of carbon energy has stabilized with increasing market-driven efficiency and tightening regulations.
The council is officially intended "to prepare the Nation for the impacts of climate change by undertaking actions to enhance climate preparedness and resilience."
The order bypasses Congress, and is directly implemented by Obama's deputies and appointees in the federal bureaucracies.
It allows agencies to use the promise of environmental disaster to force changes on Americans' use of energy and land, and to increase taxpayer spending on expanding the fledgling renewable energy sector.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/01/obamas-new-climate-council-to-regulate-economy/#ixzz2jTcA8eZh
This is a continuation of the above e-mail, make of it what you will.
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Agenders,
Organizing For America is setting up paid training programs for Obama minions to support this new council. Below is an invitation to their training camp. You might want to see if there are OFA training camps set up in your area. OFA is heavily funded by Soros and Soros is heavily funding this climate change council. You can believe he will be pouring millions into taking away our property rights.
http://www.democraticgain.org/events/event_details.asp?id=367765
I cannot tell you how critical it is for us to be prepared to go into action. As I stated a couple of days ago with this new EO you are going to see Agenda 21 move forward at lightning speed. I have included the information about Organizing For America (George Soros funded) and also a copy of the EO.
Please share with everyone you know and do whatever you can to get Agenda 21 legislation passed in your state. Share this information with your state legislators. Work with your City Council and County Commissioner. STAY AWAY FROM FEDERAL GRANT MONEY. Talk with your Sheriff. Is he/she willing to stand up to the EPA should they start claiming land because of water that may be on that land. This President is dead serious. He owns our healthcare, he owns our children's education now he wants control of our water, private property and food.
I found this link to be a great source of further information about the EO.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/resilience/taskforce
You know, I have always thought that one of the worst slimy demo-rats to walk this earth was Rahm Emanuel. I was wrong. His brother, Dr.Ezekiel Emanuel, tops him. Considered one of the Architects of Obumacare, this is one of the creepist individuals G-d has put on this Earth. His looks reminds me of Creepy Sebelius with short hair. The best thing that can happen to turn public opinion solidly against Obumacare is to keep putting this guy out there as the face of it. He absolutely personifies all that is associated with the 'we-know-better-than-you' arrogance:
This is the weirdo in action with Chris Wallace:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJeLorLF6c
He hides his construction of socialized death health panels by asserting he is against euthanasia. However, this is belied by the fact, in his own admissions, he is a noted advocate for the withdrawal of medical treatment for the "elderly" or those "beyond help".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTiISRTD_2g
UNREAL: Virginia DemoRats Use Robo-Calls To Claim
GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Ken Cuccinelli
Supports Obamacare, Taxpayer-Funded Abortions
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GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Ken Cuccinelli
(Doesn't get any scummier than this. Mark Levin's bunker is in VA, so he's kept his audience well aware of this campaign. Terry McAuliffe & his cohorts (Clinton INC.) are so despicable that it's almost beyond belief. Levin tore into McAuliffe tonight AND the establishment Repub's who are NOT supporting Cuccinelli. The establishment would rather have a low life, baby killing, Clintonista with absolutely no shame than a good, decent, G-d-fearing family man like Cuccinelli. AND Cuccinelli was the 1st one to start the ball rolling against ObumaCare.) (http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/684/9249/original.jpg?w=600&h=480)
Via Washington Free Beacon:http://freebeacon.com/democratic-robo-calls-claim-cuccinelli-supports-obamacare-abortion/
Virginia Demo(R)ats are allegedly misrepresenting the positions held by Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli in an attempt to depress conservative turnout and using peer pressure to boost voter turnout among Democratic constituencies in the final days of that state's gubernatorial race.
Del. Scott Lingamfelter, a Republican, said he received a robo-call on Sunday evening claiming that Cuccinelli supports the Affordable Care Act and taxpayer financing for abortions.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=621282531244108&set=a.254960697876295.60614.100000871003171&type=1
Cuccinelli vehemently opposes Obamacare, as the law is commonly known. He was the first state attorney general to challenge the law in court. He is also strongly opposed to abortion.The recording said the Democratic Party of Virginia (DPVA) paid for it, Lingamfelter wrote in a post on his Facebook page.
Simple-Simon Obuma Robot Jay Carney Gets Testy During Exchange
Over Misleading Claims On ObamaCare Website
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy9GIhq87o4
Carney: "I Give Up"
Via Washington Free Beaconhttp://freebeacon.com/obamacare-questioning-iritates-carney-i-give-up/
Obumacare Destroying Lives, Killing Businesses
By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary) | November 4th, 2013
http://www.redstate.com/2013/11/04/obamacare-destroying-lives-killing-businesses/
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Last week, we asked for your personal Obamacare horror stories, as more and more middle class families are forced to surrender their dignity and grovel before government for their health insurance. Here is the latest from Charles in Alabama. You can email me your story at daniel@madisonproject.com. I am a 53 year old self-employed real estate agent. My wife and I own a small real estate company which has struggled through the economic climate to build our business. From the income that we generate, we must pay all our business expenses, including the monthly costs of a real estate office, all the technology and fees we need to exist, all of our personal and business insurance, and all of our personal expenses as well. We have two sons who are approaching college age and both plan to attend state public universities, where the average four year cost has been estimated at over $100,000. I work seven days a week, every week; I only attempt to take a day off work about one day a month. I work at least 10 hours most days, but it is not unusual for me to work longer hours.
I have been blessed with great health, as have my wife and our two boys. I work very hard to stay healthy; I have never smoked, consumed much alcohol, or done drugs. I eat a healthy diet, and the one and only thing I do for myself every week is to exercise- almost daily. When I come home after a long day, I typically go for a 45 minute run or work out at the gym, grab a quick bite of dinner, and then get back to work again from my second office at home.
I have struggled to pay $735 per month to Blue Cross Blue Shield for health care insurance for my family, but I am a believer that it is important to guard against catastrophe, so I have paid that large amount, completely out of pocket, ever since going into business for myself. This means I write a personal check for the entire amount every month.
We received our Affordable Care Act letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield this week, and were informed that our new monthly premium starting January 1, for much reduced benefits, will rise from $735 to $1,114.61, with our yearly deductible tripling; this monthly premium is more than my house payment. Upon further investigation, we have found that for our benefits to stay the same as they are today, our premium would be about $1,600 per month. The cheapest alternative for us in an ACA compliant policy is $870 per month, with a yearly deductible of $12,700; in this plan, our family would have the ability to go to a doctor three times in a year (per family) and pay a co-pay; after that, all medical expenses would come 100% out of pocket until the deductible was met. Under that scenario, I don't foresee any circumstance where any of us would ever again get health screenings, or participate in tests such as colonoscopies. Preventative medicine will no longer be an option for us.
I have struggled to understand how this law is fair. I am now compelled by federal law to pay for this enormously expensive product that I cannot afford. I have searched all my alternatives, and there is no other solution available to me; apparently my place on the actuarial tables is dictated solely by my age and address, and since I am over 50 but under Medicare age I am in a worst case scenario. In the ACA world, "old and sick" are two words that are glued together, as are "young and healthy". Fortunately, I am an old and healthy person; but my healthy lifestyle means nothing anymore.
I am not being petty about this; the absolute fact is that we cannot afford to pay for health insurance at the rates available to us under the Affordable Care Act. For the only time in our lives, we will most likely be joining the uninsured, taking a huge risk, and paying the federal tax penalty. This is ironic for us, because in all these years, the only major cost we have been to the insurance companies has been the birth of two healthy babies; yet now, as we are approaching the age when we may start needing treatments and more preventative care, we will be dangerously flying by the seat of our pants.
I understand that there have been people in our shoes for a long time, and some may be smugly smiling about this, thinking that now we are getting an idea of how that feels. It no longer counts for anything that we have worked extremely hard to get where we are; we have done things the right way, making good decisions, taking advantage of opportunities, and always working hard. And most importantly, we were promised by President Obama that the ACA wouldn't significantly harm the people already in the system; that it was an attempt to insure the uninsured, not to completely take away our health care insurance in the process.
I am being crushed under the weight of this financial burden. My enthusiasm for fulfilling my dream of creating a thriving, vibrant business is fading. Any money we may have contributed back to the economy, such as replacing our car that has over 150,000 miles on it, is gone. It feels like there will never be circumstances where I can benefit from all my hard work; instead, my hard earned money will be distributed out to other people. I want to live in a world where sick babies are taken care of, all the time, but with this "solution" came the clear promise that the Affordable Care Act could do that without burying me. ACA proponents were either mistaken or deliberately misled us, the American people.
I respectfully ask President Obama to at least acknowledge what this is. He will never know how demoralizing it is to see smiling faces from his ranks telling me through my television that the Affordable Care Act is good; a fabulous, raging success. It is because of great restraint that my television isn't in a shattered heap in the den floor right now.
I respectfully ask that all sides stop using me as a political pawn; I don't care whose fault in Washington this is. President Obama, please become a leader. Members of Congress, please step up to the plate and work together to fix this disaster. Stop gauging every single move based on how it will affect you politically. Our nation needs your leadership, and I pray that you will see that one day before it's too late.
Sounds Like Our Group , is On the March !!!
The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday. If all of us old farts have all of the money, then let us try to elect someone who might be near honest and not be after feathering their own nests.
They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers, and in some cases dinosaurs. Some of us are "Baby Boomers" getting ready to retire. Others have been retired for some time. We walk a little slower these days and our eyes and hearing are not what they once were. We have worked hard, raised our children, worshiped our God and grown old together. Yes, we are the ones some refer to as being over the hill, and that is probably true. But before writing us off completely, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration.
In school we studied English, history, math, and science which enabled us to lead America into the technological age.
Most of us remember what outhouses were, many of us with firsthand experience. We remember the days of telephone party-lines, 25 cent gasoline, and milk and ice being delivered to our homes. For those of you who don't know what an icebox is, today they are electric and referred to as refrigerators. A few even remember when cars were started with a crank. Yes, we lived those days.
We are probably considered old fashioned and outdated by many. But there are a few things you need to remember before completely writing us off. We won World War II, fought in Korea and Viet Nam. We can quote The Pledge of Allegiance, and know where to place our hand while doing so. We wore the uniform of our country with pride and lost many friends on the battlefield. We didn't fight for the Socialist States of America ; we fought for the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." We wore different uniforms but carried the same flag. We know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, America , and America the Beautiful by heart, and you may even see some tears running down our cheeks as we sing. We have lived what many of you have only read in history books and we feel no obligation to apologize to anyone for America.
Yes, we are old and slow these days but rest assured, we have at least one good fight left in us. We have loved this country, fought for it, and died for it, and now we are going to save it. It is our country and nobody is going to take it away from us. We took oaths to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that is an oath we plan to keep. There are those who want to destroy this land we love but, like our founders, there is no way we are going to remain silent.
It was mostly the young people of this nation who elected Obama and the Democratic Congress. You fell for the "Hope and Change" which in reality was nothing but "Hype and Lies."
You have tasted socialism and seen evil face to face, and have found you don't like it after all. You make a lot of noise, but most are all too interested in their careers or "Climbing the Social Ladder" to be involved in such mundane things as patriotism and voting. Many of those who fell for the "Great Lie" in 2008 and again in 2012 are now having buyer's remorse. With all the education we gave you, you didn't have sense enough to see through the lies and instead drank the 'Kool-Aid.' Now you're paying the price and complaining about it. No jobs, lost mortgages, higher taxes, and less freedom.
This is what you voted for and this is what you got. We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty and you traded it for a paycheck and a fancy house.
Well, don't worry youngsters, the Grey-Haired Brigade is here, and in 2014 we are going to take back our nation. We may drive a little slower than you would like but we get where we're going, and in 2014 we're going to the polls by the millions.
This land does not belong to the man in the White House nor to the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It belongs to "We the People" and "We the People" plan to reclaim our land and our freedom. We hope this time you will do a better job of preserving it and passing it along to our grandchildren. So the next time you have the chance to say the Pledge of Allegiance, Stand up, put your hand over your heart, honor our country, and thank God for the old geezers of the "Grey-Haired Brigade."
Footnote:
This is spot on. I am another Gray-Haired Geezer signing on. I will circulate this to other Gray-Haired Geezers all over this once great county.
Can you feel the ground shaking???
It's not an earthquake, it is a STAMPEDE.
Thought for the day:
We are always hearing about how Social Security
is going to run out of money.
How come we never hear about Welfare running
out of money?
The first group paid for their Social Security!
The second group has never paid for a damned thing!
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
Pentagon Security Chief Cited For Ethics Abuses
Nov 05, 2013
Military.com| by Richard Sisk
The Pentagon's chief of security has been cited for a range of ethics violations, including using his staff for meal runs and allowing favored employees to play in golf tournaments while on administrative leave.
A highly-redacted report released Monday by the Defense Department's Inspector General's office also charged that Steven Calvery, head of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, arranged to have friends use the agency's firing range and played favoritism with promotions.
Calvery disputed the conclusions of the IG report and his status as head of the FPA was unclear. The IG's report recommended that Michael Rhodes, director of the Pentagon's office of Administration and Management, consider "appropriate action"against Calvery, a former Army helicopter pilot and Secret Service agent who took charge of the PFPA's 1,300 officers in 2006.
Calvery allegedly violated DoD's "Joint Ethics Regulation" by arranging in 2010 for a non-employee to use PFPA's firing range and get weapons training from two PFPA range personnel.
The non-employee's name was redacted, but the IG's report suggested that he may have been a relative by noting that "other family members of PFPA employees were not offered the same benefit."
The IG's report said that Calvery also "improperly authorized the use of administrative leave" to let employees play in annual PFPA golf tournaments and "provided preferential treatment" to a subordinate who was promoted ahead of others with better qualifications.
Calvery allegedly "selected the subordinate for promotion based on their relationship rather than on the subordinate's experience or scope of responsibilities."
In his response to the allegations, Calvery said subordinates would occasionally get him lunch and coffee but "only when he was really busy."
"I would hope if they felt uncomfortable doing it, they would tell me," Calvery said. "And if they did feel uncomfortable, then that would be okay. You know, they wouldn't have to do it, and they don't have to do it now."
Calvery said he authorized administrative leave for 100-150 employees to play in the golf tournament as a way to build "espirit de corps" in the PFPA.
On the allegation of promotional favoritism, Calvery said he felt it was his "prerogative to select for promotions" and the individual in question was a loyal employee "who does his job in an exemplary manner, and I thought he needed to be promoted."
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/11/05/pentagon-security-chief-cited-for-ethics-abuses.html?ESRC=eb.nl
The Supreme Court can use a soap-opera case to stop federal overreach
By Ted Cruz, Published: November 4
Ted Cruz, a Republican, represents Texas in the Senate.
In 2006, Carol Anne Bond of Lansdale, Pa., burned a woman with caustic chemicals as revenge after the woman became pregnant by Bond's husband.
Ordinarily, Bond would have been prosecuted for assault, aggravated assault or harassment — in other words, for violating Pennsylvania criminal laws. Instead, federal prosecutors charged Bond with violating the federal legislation implementing the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons. This treaty outlaws the production, collection and use of chemical weapons, including poisonous gases and bacterial weapons, to prevent chemical warfare.
When the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral argument Tuesday in Bond v. United States, the fundamental issues will be U.S. sovereignty and the Constitution's structural limits on federal power. The questions raised by this case go to the heart of our constitutional system: Does the federal government, through the treaty power, have authority to trump our system of federalism and separation of powers? Does the president's power to make treaties and Congress's power to implement treaties have unlimited reach?
The answer to both should be an emphatic no.
The Roberts court has previously ruled to restrict the federal government's treaty power.
In the 2008 case Medellin v. Texas, which I argued as solicitor general of Texas, the high court upheld U.S. sovereignty and prevented the president from using a treaty to overrule the Texas judicial system. The central questions in that case were: one, could the World Court use a treaty to order American courts to reopen final criminal convictions; and, two, could the president order state courts to submit to the World Court's authority?
Texas argued that the answer to both questions was no, and the Supreme Court agreed, 6 to 3.
In Bond, the court should again say no to those who would undermine U.S. sovereignty. The treaty power should not trump every other structural protection of our constitutional government.
The U.S. Constitution enumerates powers given to the federal government, and it reserves unenumerated powers to the states and the people. In other words, the Framers created a system of dual sovereignty: the federal government possesses specific powers that allow it to govern over certain subject matters, and the states have authority in areas where the federal government's powers do not reach. In these separate spheres, either the federal government or the state government is sovereign.
The Constitution does not give the federal government the power to criminalize ordinary assault with ordinary chemicals. That is purely intrastate.
And if treaties can be used to circumvent the Constitution's enumerated limits on federal power and usurp power given to the states under the Tenth Amendment, the American concept of dual sovereignty would be grievously undermined.
When they consider these points, the justices will surely reflect on this long-disputed sentence from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's 1920 opinion in Missouri v. Holland: "If the treaty is valid, there can be no dispute about the validity of the statute [implementing it] under Article 1, Section 8, as a necessary and proper means to execute the powers of the Government."
But the broadest reading of that sentence cannot possibly be correct. Could the federal government enter into a treaty that gives Congress the power to ban all political speech? Of course not.
Yet this sentence has been relied upon by the Obama administration and some in the legal academy for the radical proposition that the treaty power can be used to circumvent the structural limits of the federal government.
If the Supreme Court concludes that a treaty can be used to prosecute Americans, regardless of their constitutional rights, the ramifications could be alarming were these treaties to be ratified:
●Nothing would stop the United Nation's Arms Trade Treaty from being used to vanquish Americans' Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
●Under the Convention on the Law of the Sea, U.S. businesses could be subject to the decisions of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea based in Hamburg, Germany, rather than the rulings of American courts.
●The Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities could allow decisions on how to educate a child with disabilities to be made by foreign tribunals rather than by the child's parents.
Or, consider that state laws favored by liberals, such as California's environmental laws or a state's punitive damage laws, could be tossed aside if a conservative president, with Senate approval, crafts a treaty with a foreign country to ban these laws.
It is the province and duty of the Supreme Court to interpret U.S. law. No treaty should abdicate this decision-making power to another authority.
In Medellin v. Texas, the Supreme Court rightly defended U.S. sovereignty and upheld the structural limitations on government power, which serve to protect individual liberty in the United States.
Likewise, in Bond v. United States, the Roberts court should remain faithful to the Constitution and affirm that Bond's case belongs in Pennsylvania state courts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-the-supreme-court-can-use-a-soap-opera-case-to-stop-federal-overreach/2013/11/04/bf0542f0-4574-11e3-a196-3544a03c2351_story.html
I dated the Obamacare girl.
And why wouldn't I...she was so optimistic and promising when we first met. Big brown eyes and a warm smile. She even wore those long, dangly earrings – those get me every time. She told me, "If you take me out, you'll find that I'm more than a date.Much more!"
Wowsers! That's a hard promise to pass up. So, we went out. Well, sort of. O-girl told me to pick her up, but when I reached her front door I found a note that read, "I can't go out at our scheduled time, but please keep standing at the door until I'm able."
An odd way to begin, I thought. But, what could I do? There was no getting out of the date at this point—promises were made. So, I stood on her stoop...for several days. One day, long after the flowers in my hand had wilted, I could hear her shuffling around inside. "Are you there," I asked. "Is this date going to happen?"
- See more at: http://selfgovern.com/lawmaker-lunacy/author-admits-i-dated-the-obamacare-girl/#sthash.2qAsjZWj.dpuf
Clinton's man McAuliffe wins Virgina by a nose booger!
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McAuliffe
(Exit Polling in Virginia Shows Obumacare Lost: 45% support Obamacare, 53% oppose it in VA exit poll. Cuccinelli was way behind in the weeks leading up to the election, yet closed phenomenally in the last two weeks because of Obumacare, despite not having Republican leadership behind him, being massively outspent and an Obuma bundler funding the "libertarian" Sarvis he siphoned off at least 5% points.
Demo-rats should be massively scared, given what this race presages and the anger evident at Obumacare... )
Caption This: What The Hell Is Happening With Gov Christie's Wife?
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"Oh man, I can't believe Chris farted ...NOW on national television"
First Lady Clown Mooch Obuma Celebrates Diversity!
"We Want To Honor And Embrace All... Faith Traditions"
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(Except Christianity... and is that some kind of ghetto gang sign, Mooch? Crips or Bloods? Speaking of Diversity, this is what I celebrate, Mooch):
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Via CNS News:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/michelle-obama-we-want-honor-and-embrace-allfaith-traditions
At a White House Diwali celebration on Tuesday afternoon, First Lady Michelle Obama said that she and her husband wanted to celebrate all the faith and culture traditions 'that make us who we are as Americans."
Even as she was saying this, there were 200 plaintiffs pursuing 77 lawsuits asking federal courts to protect their First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion from a regulation issued by the administration under Obamacare that requires health insurance plans to cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion inducing drugs and devices.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty maintains a website that tracks the lawsuits.
The plaintiffs range from the Hobby Lobby stores to the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. In September, the Department of Justice appealed the Hobby Lobby case to the Supreme Court, asking the court to force the family that owns Hobby Lobby to act against their Christian faith by making them buy insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs and devices.
Pope Francis Halts Weekly Audience In St. Peter's Square
To Hug And Kiss Badly Disfigured Man
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(God bless Pope Francis)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2489534/Pope-Francis-halts-weekly-general-audience-kiss-hug-sick-man-covered-BOILS.html
Pope Francis concluded Wednesday's general audience in St Peter's Square in Rome by kissing a man covered in boils and joining him in prayer.
Photos of the pontiff embracing the severely disfigured man have gone viral online, with commenters praising the pope's for his compassion and kindness.
In Italian press, the pope has drawn comparisons to his illustrious namesake, St Francis of Assisi – a revered 13th century holy figure, who according to legend kissed a leper he had encountered on a road after receiving a message from God.
Images of Pope Francis comforting the ailing worshiper were taken at the end of the general audience Wednesday, when a man covered in neuronal tumors approached the leader of the Catholic Church asking for a blessing.
The man reportedly suffers from a rare and painful disease called neurofibromatosis, which causes boils, impaired vision and in some cases cancer, according to the Catholic News Agency.
Patients suffering from the ailment, with is genetic and not contagious – are often shunned by society because of their appearance.
(Which is exactly what Christ would have done)
Matthew 8:1-4: When Jesus had come down from the mountain, great crowds followed him; and there was a leper who came to him and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean." He stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, "I do choose. Be made clean!" Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. Then Jesus said to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."[...]
Last week, the pontiff allowed a little boy to remain on stage with him and cling to his leg during a speech in front of a crowd of 150,000.
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Earlier this year, the pope tweeted to his 3.2million followers:
'The Pope must serve all people, especially the poor, the weak, the vulnerable.'On Tuesday, the pontiff fired off this message:
'We need courage if we are to be faithful to the Gospel.'
Awesome: GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal Moves To Strip Food Stamp Benefits
From Welfare Leeches Who Stripped Walmart Shelves Clean
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(Feel good story of the day)
Via Baton Rouge Advocate:http://theadvocate.com/home/7514395-125/jindal-moves-to-strip-food
The Jindal administration announced late Wednesday that it is moving to strip food stamps from recipients who took advantage of a technical glitch last month to stock up on free groceries.
The announcement came after U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., pressured state officials to take action by taking away food stamp benefits and forming a task force with local prosecutors to bring criminal charges. Retailers lost money when they allowed food stamp recipients to leave their stores with groceries even though they could not check spending limits. When the transactions were processed later, thousands bounced back because recipients exceeded their food stamp balances.
Smartphone images of empty store shelves and bulging grocery carts at Wal-Marts in Springhill and Mansfield made national news.
The state Department of Children and Family Services said Wednesday that retailers across the state got 12,000 nonsufficient funds messages when the food stamp system came back online. The agency's spokeswoman, Lindsey deBlieux, said investigations are ongoing to determine how many people took advantage. Retailers could have tried to process transactions multiple times. Recipients also could have made multiple purchases.
"Um, NO.. What You Said Was...."
First watch the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t29E5UpgOqw
(Prediction: Tomorrow, Clown Obuma will come out with another politispeak (another word for LIE) correction *of sorts*, where he tacks toward the American People, saying that:
"HHS's efforts to improve the quality of healthcare" has resulted in "insurance companies choosing to *transition* plans."The slow and subtle goal will be to position HHS... not him... as the perceiver-in-origin of the misleading information. Creepy Sebelius has already been determined to be expendable... her release/discharge will come as soon as the website is working correctly. The end of the newly nuanced (McDonough/Jarrett directed) statement will be summarized around:
"we must overcome any potential flaw or glitch, accepting the motive was pure, and demand everyone participate in getting things moving forward."Using Obuma's traditional approach of divide and conquer,
"If you do not support the forward looking goal of successful implementation, you are a hateful, selfish non-patriot who does not care about the poor or afflicted.")
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Thin skinned Obuma Admits He's Stacking Courts With Liberal Activist Judges
(Could this be the future Chief Justice???)
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(What Socialist Scumbag Obuma is doing with the courts gets amazingly little attention, that needs to change. Lifetime appointments to the bench of people who are ideologically identical to Van Jones. And reasonably young so that they'll be around to do damage for a long, long time. Congressional Republicans need to block all his judicial appointments. We don't need little Lenins in black robes all over the country)Via Twitchy:Yep, at a fundraiser in Texas last night, President Obama said his administration is "remaking the courts."
Here's the full quote for context via a WhiteHouse.gov transcript:Obuma:"We were able to reform our financial system so that the likelihood of taxpayer-funded bailouts is a lot less than it was. We were able to expand funding for young people going to college. We were able to expand national service for young people who want to serve. We fought long and hard for consumer protections that weren't there before."
As Lisa mentioned, we are remaking the courts. I know that we've got some lawyers here, and here in Texas sometimes people feel a little frustrated about the pace of appointments here in Texas. But you should know that in addition to the Supreme Court, we've been able to nominate and confirm judges of extraordinary quality all across the country on federal benches. We're actually, when it comes to the district court, matching the pace of previous Presidents. When it comes to the appellate court, we're just a little bit behind, and we're just going to keep on focused on it.(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/689/9318/original.jpg?w=600&h=480)
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGAJsSvqqv4
Wednesday night's CMA (Country Music Association) awards opened up with a bang, incorporating Kenny Rogers, the Robertson family from "Duck Dynasty," and even a little Obamacare mockery. That's right,
hosts Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood had a special segment and even song mocking the failed health care rollout that featured the pair pretending to sign up for Obamacare and then crooning about the failure. It all started while the pair was singing a new version of "Why Can't We Be Friends" that faked feuds between some of country music's biggest stars (including Kenny Rogers) and Paisley stopping abruptly to complain about back pain. That's when Underwood suggested trying to sign up for Obamacare.
UPDATE: Don't forget—
Brad Paisley sang for the president at his inauguration in 2012. Brad Paisley performed at the White House this past summer. Paisley was rumored to be an Obama supporter in 2009.
Paisley's song, "Welcome to the Future" about racial progress, was inspired by Obama's election in 2008. And the first time he played it live was in front of the president at a Fourth of July celebration at the White House.
Time to Boycott Brad Paisley & Tim McGraw?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2375756/posts
Paisley is a big Obama supporter, but not necessarily into the whole Democratic platform.http://hollowverse.com/brad-paisley/
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Departing Obumacare Security Official Didn't Sign Off On Obumacare Site Launch
(Obumacare Website Security Officer, (CIO) Tony Trenkle, never signed off on launch. His boss at CMS overrode him... he quit yesterday. This one has the potential to launch like a rocket. Hmmm...It depends of whether Trenkle will spill the beans. The Chief Information Officer for the Obamacare website, Tony Trenkle, never approved of site security before launch. Instead, his boss, Marilyn Tavenner, gave the authorization to proceed. Mr. Trenkle quit yesterday so you can only imagine what the backstory is to this political decision, forward at all costs.
Just guessing... my hunch is the guy knew what was coming, was sending warnings, told his boss this is "NOT" ready; our platform is NOT secure etc. and she just told him they had no choice. These were political decisions) (http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/cms-marilyn-tavenner-and-hhs-kathleen-sebelius.jpg?w=687)
Two of the 'Creepy Demons' of the Obumacare Debacle
CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner (left) - HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (right)
CBS NEWS: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57611202/departing-obamacare-security-official-didnt-sign-off-on-site-launch/?tag=socsh
Tony Trenkle, the Obamacare official in charge of HealthCare.gov security efforts announced his resignation Wednesday, effective next week.
CBS News has learned that Trenkle, the Chief Information Officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), was originally supposed to sign off on security for the glitch-ridden website before its Oct. 1 launch, but didn't. Instead, the authorization on September 27 was given by Trenkle's boss, CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner.
As CBS News reported Monday, security assessments fell behind and the website never had the required top-to-bottom tests.
Trenkle and two other CMS officials, including Chief Operating Officer Michelle Snyder, signed an unusual "risk acknowledgement" saying that the agency's mitigation plan for rigorous monitoring and ongoing tests did "not reduce the (security) risk to the ... system itself going into operation on October 1, 2013."
HealthCare.gov exchanges data through a massive hub that includes the IRS, the Social Security Administration, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs, the Defense Department, the Office of Personnel Management and the Peace Corps.
Both Democrats and Republicans have raised security concerns in two days of Senate hearings. Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told Congress she did not know about the special security waiver that her agency head, Tavenner, granted the website.
"I was not aware of this and I did not have these discussions with the White House because I wasn't aware of them," Sebelius testified.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57611063/sebelius-obamacare-delay-is-not-an-option/Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., asked, "Did the White House know there had been no end-to-end testing of the security aspects of the exchange?"
"I think the White House was aware of operational issues involving end-to-end testing and I - I don't know of the specifics of - again, I did not have the discussions about this authority to operate issue with the White House," said Sebelius."This is a paramount concern," said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, at a hearing Tuesday. "Consumers have to be absolutely certain that when they go on and they fill out that application ... no one can hack into that and steal their Social Security numbers or identity."
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, asked Tavenner Tuesday about the website's unusual security authorization without the required testing.
"Are you the official at CMS responsible for making...the security authorization decisions?" Roberts asked.
Tavenner replied, "So I think in the case, because of the visibility of the exchange, the Chief Information Officer wanted to make me aware of it and I agreed to sign it with their recommendation to proceed."
Wednesday, an HHS spokesman said that the reason Tavenner, not Trenkle, signed the security authorization is because HealthCare.gov is "a high-profile project and CMS felt it warranted having the administrator sign the authority to operate memo." HHS also says there is an aggressive risk mitigation plan in effect, "the privacy and security of consumers personal information is a top priority for us" and personal information is "protected by stringent security standards."
Georgetown Law professor Lawrence Gostin is a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act and helped Congress write the law to meet constitutional standards. But he's critical of the launch without proper security.
"They should've really had this fully tested from top to bottom before the rollout," Gostin told CBS News. "It would've made so much more sense politically, policy-wise and from a security and privacy perspective."
Strongest typhoon of the year slams Philippines... with winds at times 275 MPH
"195 MPH is something people don't understand unless you've been in something like that. It's unbelievably fast. You cannot stand up. Buildings fly apart and are gone forever. Tree's cannot stay up regardless of what kind they are. A 747 takes off the ground at about that speed. It's something you will never forget."(http://i.i.cbsi.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/11/07/AP356897326561_620x350.jpg)
MANILA, Philippines: One of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded slammed into the Philippines Friday, cutting communications and blocking roads in the center of the country amid worries of serious damage and casualties.
Telephone lines appeared down as it was difficult to get through to the landfall site 650 kilometers (405 miles) southeast of Manila where Typhoon Haiyan slammed into a rural area of the country.
Weather officials said that Haiyan had sustained winds at 235 kilometers (147 miles) per hour, with gusts of 275 kph (170 mph) when it made landfall at Eastern Samar province's Guiuan township.
The local weather bureau makes estimates based on longer periods of time than others, such as the U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center, which said shortly before the
typhoon made landfall that its maximum sustained winds were 314 kilometers per hour (195 mph), with gusts up to 379 kilometers per hour (235 mph)."195-mile-per-hour winds, there aren't too many buildings constructed that can withstand that kind of wind," said Jeff Masters, a former hurricane meteorologist who is meteorology director at the private firm Weather Underground.Read more at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57611404/strongest-typhoon-of-the-year-slams-philippines/
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Report: White House Gives Dem Senators Facing Re-Election "Green Light" To LIE About Bashing ObumaCrappyCare. In Return, Obuma Doesn't Want Any Calls For Delaying Individual Mandate.
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/dems-give-wh-tight-deadline-to-fix-obamacare-99560.html
Democratic senators facing voters next year are willing to give the White House time to resolve the glaring problems with Obamacare.
Very little time.
At the pleading of senior White House officials, Senate Democrats are holding off on demands to delay major aspects of the health care law until the Obama administration has the opportunity to fix the website problems that are thwarting enrollment in the program.
Democratic senators facing reelection have a green light to bash the White House and call for certain legislative fixes. But they've been urged by senior administration officials not to insist on delaying the controversial law's core: The mandate for individuals to purchase insurance coverage or face penalties.Their requests are being heeded — for now.Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who attended a tense two-hour meeting with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday over the issue, stressed that senators should give the administration just "a little bit" of breathing room.
Read more at:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/dems-give-wh-tight-deadline-to-fix-obamacare-99560.html
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NYPost:
Via Associated Presshttp://nypost.com/2013/11/07/irs-sent-655-tax-refunds-to-a-single-address-in-lithuania/
The Internal Revenue Service issued $4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds last year to people using stolen identities, with some of the money going to addresses in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Ireland, according to a Treasury report released Thursday.
The IRS sent a total of 655 tax refunds to a single address in Lithuania, and 343 refunds went to a lone address in Shanghai.
In the U.S., more fraudulent returns went to Miami than any other city.
Other top destinations were Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and Houston.The IRS has stepped up efforts to fight identity theft, but thieves are getting more aggressive, said the report by J. Russell George, Treasury's inspector general for tax administration. Last year, the IRS stopped more than $12 billion in fraudulent refunds from going to identity thieves, compared with $8 billion the year before.
"Identity theft continues to be a serious problem with devastating consequences for taxpayers and an enormous impact on tax administration," George said in a statement. The fraud "erodes taxpayer confidence in the federal tax system."
Thieves often steal Social Security numbers from people who don't have to file tax returns, including the young, the old and people who have died, the report said. In other cases, thieves use stolen Social Security numbers to file fraudulent tax returns before the legitimate taxpayer files.
The IRS, which takes pride in issuing quick refunds, often sends them out before employers are required to file forms documenting wages, the report said.
"The constantly evolving tactics used by scammers to commit identity theft continues to be one of the biggest challenges facing the IRS, and we take this issue very seriously," the IRS said in a statement. "The IRS has a comprehensive and aggressive identity theft strategy that focuses on preventing refund fraud, investigating these crimes and assisting taxpayers victimized by it."
Despite budget cuts, the agency said, agents have resolved more than 565,000 cases of identity theft this year, three times the number of cases resolved at the same time last year.
A separate report by George said the number of identity theft victims is on the rise as thieves get more aggressive.
Through June, the IRS identified 1.6 million victims who had their identities stolen during this year's tax filing season, the report said. That compares with 1.2 million victims in 2012.
Many of these people didn't realize they were victims until they submitted their returns, only to learn from the IRS that someone else had already used their Social Security number to file and claim a refund.
The IRS does a good job of eventually identifying the proper owner of Social Security numbers, but the process can be lengthy, the report said. For cases closed between August 2011 and July 2012, it took an average of 312 days to resolve the case and issue a proper refund, the report said.
The IRS said has resolved most of this year's identity theft cases within 120 days.
Last year, the IRS issued 1.1 million refunds to people using stolen Social Security numbers, the inspector general's report said. Those refunds totaled $3.6 billion.
Additionally, the IRS issued 141,000 refunds last year to people using stolen Taxpayer Identification Numbers, which are typically used by foreign nationals who earn money in the U.S. Those refunds totaled $385 million, the report said.
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The Hidden Obamacare Taxes That
Will Crush The Middle Class
By Money Morning Staff Reports Get ready to be blindsided by a barrage of new taxes. $1 trillion worth... They'll be coming courtesy of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.
And they won't just be affecting those who make over $250,000. The bulk of these taxes will be passed on directly to the middle class.
That's because while a majority of these "stealth taxes" were designed to be taxes on businesses, they're actually transferred directly to ordinary citizens.
They include the investment income surtax, a Medicare payroll tax, even a "tanning tax" on those who utilize indoor tanning services.
"Many of those [hidden] taxes, especially those on hospitals, insurers and medical device manufacturers, will ultimately be passed on through higher health costs," said Michael Tanner an expert on the healthcare law.
In fact, analysts estimate Obamacare will cost the average taxpayer nearly $6,000 in extra taxes as early as next year.
Obamacare Tax Hikes Stoke OutrageMany of the Obamacare taxes are already in effect, others will hit January 1. But they are already infuriating millions of Americans.
While even Obamacare detractors applaud the requirement that insurance companies cover pre-existing conditions and put a stop to lifetime caps on benefits, they say these laudable benefits don't compensate for the bills high cost - especially in new taxes.
According to most experts, Obamacare will create a total of twenty new taxes or tax hikes on the American people.
In fact, the Obama administration has already given the IRS an extra $500 million to enforce the rules and regulations of Obamacare.
The new taxes don't bode well for millions of middle-class Americans. Incomes for the rich have soared this decade but middle class workers have seen their wages stagnate and even drop since the 2008 Great Recession.
Many fear Obamacare with its high insurance costs and new taxes, could provide the middle class a fatal blow.
Of course, the Obamacare plan was primarily designed to decrease the number of uninsured Americans and reduce healthcare costs.
Many experts are saying it will have the exact opposite effect.
That's just one of the reasons why Republicans hope to defund Obamacare before January.
They claim that the taxes and costs needed to pay for Obamacare will crush the middle class and most U.S. taxpayers, as well as trigger job losses in affected industries.
Tax experts say you should try to estimate how much you will have to pay when the law goes into full effect - and take precautions to limit the damage to your bottom line.
One expert, Dr. Betsy McCaughey, a constitutional scholar with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, recently wrote a best-seller showing Americans how they can not only survive Obamacare, but prosper through it.
McCaughey claims to be one of the only people in the country - including members of Congress - who has actually read the entire 2,572 page law.
Her book, titled Beating Obamacare: Your Handbook for Surviving The New Health Care Law, breaks the huge bill down into 168 pages of actionable advice.
The book, written in an easy going, easy to read style, shows some startling facts about Obamacare not seen in the mainstream press.
For example, she points to a little known passage in the bill that shows how you could get slapped with a $2,000 fine for not having health insurance - even if you do actually have it.
She also goes into detail explaining how a third of all U.S. employers could stop offering health insurance to their workers.
In one chapter, she shows how ordinary Americans will get stuck paying for substance abuse coverage - even if they never touched a drink or drug in their life.
According to McCaughey's research, senior citizens will get hit the hardest.
Hip and knee replacements and cataract surgery will be especially hard to get from Medicare in the months ahead thanks to Obamacare, according to McCaughey.
She warns seniors to get those types of procedures done now before Obamacare goes into effect January 1.
Numb-Nuts Refuses To Say If He Has Confidence In 'Creepy' Sebelius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOkBTn-WW-c
Delaware Announces Number Who Enrolled In ObumaCrappyCare: 4
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(Yes, four. Too darn funny...
so what's going on there, Diane?)
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — More than a month after the launch of Delaware's health insurance exchange, officials report only four Delawareans enrolled for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
As of Wednesday, Delaware's marketplace guide organizations reported four enrollments, 31 enrollment applications completed and 218 accounts created for possible enrollment.
Four community organizations were hired to provide marketplace guides, using a $4 million federal grant.
Brandywine Women's Health Associates in Wilmington reports three enrollments. Christiana Care Health Services in Newark reports one.
The Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care in Easton, Md., and Westside Family Healthcare in Wilmington both have yet to report a single enrollment, application, or account created.
Obuma In New Orleans To Push For Medicaid, Not ObumaCrappyCare
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(You better stump for medicaid, cause that's all that's left, Bozo)
Via USA Today:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/08/obama-new-orleans-exports-economy/3476295/
President Obama headed to the port of New Orleans on Friday to call on Congress to get behind his plan to pour tens of billions of dollars into nation's infrastructure, action that he says is crucial to bolster U.S. exports.
The visit to New Orleans by Obama, an effort to remind Americans that bolstering the economy is still his top priority, comes as his administration has struggled to right the ship after a bungled rollout of the federal health exchange.
Obama wants Congress to spend $50 billion for roads, bridges and ports, and establish a National Infrastructure Bank. He says such steps would help attract more private-sector investment to repair the nation's infrastructure and create American jobs.
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Pew Poll: Only 37% Approve of Obuma's Handling of ObumaCrappyCare, 59% Disapprove, Down 20 Points Since January
Via Pew Research:
....Obama also gets negative ratings on health care policy (37% approve, 59% disapprove). In January, views of Obama's handling of health care policy were mixed (45% approved, 47% disapproved).The administration has come under intense criticism for the flawed roll-out of the Affordable Care Act. In a recent interview with NBC News, Obama apologized to those who have lost their health insurance under the law, despite his assurances that they would be able to stay on their plans.
STUPID STORY OF THE DAY
No Joke: Gitmo Jihadists Who Learn About "Peaceful Form of Islam" To Be Freed
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(OMG... Apparently our new policy is if they claim to believe in fairy tales...
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Oh yeah... we'll let them out so they can return to the battlefield...
Amnesty for illegals ... check
Freedom for terrorists ... check
Hell to pay for US citizens who follow the rules ... check.
THE CURRICULUM
1. Unicorns aren't unclean
2. Peaceful beheading
Extra credit - how to keep your kitchen knife sharp
3. Peaceful forced conversion
4. Peaceful church burning
5. Peaceful IEDs and car bombs
6. Peaceful homicide bombing, or peace bombing
7. How to clean and maintain a Peaceful AK-47
8. Peaceful shariah for infidels)
Via Judicial Watch:http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/11/gitmo-terrorists-who-learn-about-peaceful-form-of-islam-to-be-freed/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The Obama administration is negotiating to release Guantanamo terrorists to a renowned Middle Eastern Al Qaeda training ground if the prisoners undergo "counseling, instruction in a peaceful form of Islam and job training."
This is no joke, though it sounds like a bad one. Better yet, the famously corrupt and leftist United Nations is helping with the deal, which is being kept quiet and solidified in a western European country. A mainstream newspaper got wind of it and reported on it this week, revealing "previously undisclosed talks held in Rome recently because of security risks in Yemen," the eventual landing spot for the prisoners.
The deal would involve transferring dozens of prisoners held at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Cuba to a "detention facility" outside Yemen's capital. "Deep disagreements remain on funding, and about whether it would function as another prison or as a halfway house for detainees to reenter society after years of confinement and isolation," according to the news article, which quotes a U.S. official admitting "the risks are very high."
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Obama to Force Military Families Away From Tricare ...By Tripling Their Fees.
admin | On 29, Jun 2012
President Barack Obama has said on multiple occasions that he stands by the troops, and lauds their selflessness in fighting the Iraq war and the conflict in Afghanistan. During a time when our bravest in uniform have been in a state of war for more than a decade, one would think that our fearless leaders should reward their efforts by making life a bit easier at home.
Instead, Obama simply insists on tripling their fees on the military health insurance program called Tricare.
What is the administration's reasoning on this? Well, they actually admit that Obama would rather the troops partake in 'alternatives' that were established in the Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as Obamacare). In a report from the FreeBeacon.com, Bill Gertz states:
Administration officials told Congress that one goal of the increased fees is to force military retirees to reduce their involvement in Tricare and eventually opt out of the program in favor of alternatives established by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare."
This is quite a telling move by the Obama administration, due to the transparency in a letter written to congress, as the FreeBeacon.com further reports:
The Administration is disappointed that the Congress did not incorporate the requested TRICARE fee initiatives into either the appropriation or authorization legislation," the White House wrote in an official policy statement expressing opposition to the bill, which the House approved in May."
So, what are these 'fee initiatives'? The Bill Gertz goes on to say,
Significantly, the plan calls for increases between 30 percent to 78 percent in Tricare annual premiums for the first year. After that, the plan will impose five-year increases ranging from 94 percent to 345 percent—more than 3 times current levels.
According to congressional assessments, a retired Army colonel with a family currently paying $460 a year for health care will pay $2,048.
The new plan hits active duty personnel by increasing co-payments for pharmaceuticals and eliminating incentives for using generic drugs."
Essentially, Barack Hussein Obama would rather force military families to partake in Obamacare welfare-backed programs rather than using Tricare, and he had hoped to do this by tripling their premiums in just 5 years.
All the while, the report states that Obama leaves his true friends, the 'unionized civilian defense workers', unscathed by tax and premium hikes:
The Obama administration's proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers' benefits untouched. The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare's state-run insurance exchanges.
The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention."
The sad part of this tale is that Barack Obama clearly has no loyalty to his country, his 'friends', and most certainly the troops that would carry out his commands without question for the love of their home. It is clearly only profit and power that pulls him out of bed in the morning, and lulls him to sleep at night. How so?
We already know that upon the passage of Obamacare that the market reacted by tanking 1%, while certain public sector insurance companies, hospital firms, and pharmaceutical manufacturers significantly increased in share prices. We already know from leaked Pfizer lobbyist memos that they were going to pledge $80 billion to Obama's reelection efforts if he were to pass the ACA. So, essentially, the fact that Obama's action of forcing military families away from Tricare and towards these public sector insurance 'alternatives', shows who he really serves. ...just a hint, it's not you or anyone in the military.
That's correct, he serves the unionized defense contractors (as long as they serve him in return), and he serves public sector companies and Wall Street-owned major medical companies, like Pfizer (also... as long as they serve him in return).
In the closing, Patricia Campion of Yahoo News writes these insightful words:
As commander-in-chief, I want every veteran to know that America will always honor your service and your sacrifice — not just today, but every day," the president said in November. "And just as you fought for us, we're going to keep fighting for you — for more jobs, for more security, for the opportunity to keep your families strong and America competitive in the 21st century."
Of course, he forgot to warn them he was about to kick their existing health care insurance plan so far out of reach that they'd be forced to grab the plan that 53 percent of Americans want repealed for survival."
Thanks for selling our bravest down the river, Mr. President ...you're a great guy. https://www.ijreview.com/2012/06/9466-mugging-soldiers/
He was so right.
Medicaid Enrollment Soars With ObumaCrappycare – 1.5 Million Enrollees So Far
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It's worse than we thought.Medicaid enrollment has soared since the Obamacare exchanges opened on October 1, 2013. In Maryland the number of new enrollees is more than 25 times the number of those who signed up for private coverage.
1.5 million have signed up for Medicaid so far.The cost of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion will further burden state governments already struggling to afford the program.
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The Senior Journal reported:
http://www.seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Medicare/2013/20131107_Medicaid%20Enrollment%20is%20Soaring%20with%20Obamacare.htm
States are reporting far higher enrollment in Medicaid than in private insurance since the Affordable Care Act exchanges opened Oct. 1. In Maryland, for example, the number of newly eligible Medicaid enrollees is more than 25 times the number of people signed up for private coverage.
Even some Medicaid experts say they are surprised at the early numbers.
A Stateline survey of the 25 expansion states and the District of Columbia provides clear explanations for the strong Medicaid rollout so far.
The biggest reason for the initial jump in Medicaid enrollment is that hundreds of thousands of people in the expansion states have been pre-qualified for expanded Medicaid because they are already enrolled in low-income state health care. Illinois, for example, will roll over 100,000 Cook County residents who have received expanded Medicaid benefits since 2011...
....Stateline's survey indicates at least 1.5 million people have already signed up or have been pre-qualified for expanded Medicaid in the 19 states that provided counts. Expected total enrollment in those states is 3.7 million.[...]
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So Far... More Americans Lose Health Care Than the Population of 24 States
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According to FOX News more than 4.2 million Americans have now seen their health insurance policies canceled due to the new regulations.
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/11/07/how-many-americans-have-lost-their-health-insurance-under-obamacare
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(Puerto Rico and DC included on list)
In North Dakota only 35 people have signed up for O-Care while 35,000 have lost their insurance.
Russian Naval Base in Egypt? What does Cairo know about President Obuma that the United States doesn't?Egypt Turns to Russia After Kerry's Failed Trip: "Obuma Can't Be Trusted"
November 8, 2013, 3:01 PM
by Dr. Mark Christian
Executive Director Global Faith Institute
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The Egyptian government has made clear that they have 'the goods' on President Obama and his administration, and are none too happy about the administration's support of the Islamist organization, the Muslim Brotherhood. The current Egyptian government has told the press that they had
'wiretapped all communications made by ex-president (and Muslim Brotherhood strongman) Morsi during his year as president.'What revelations will they expose? U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Cairo last week just hours before Morsi's trial was to begin.
Can we assume he was there to advocate for Morsi? We do know that after Kerry's departure the interim Egyptian President authorized a statement that essentially said,
"Americans can't be trusted, and we're now going to work with Russia instead."Since then, Egypt has sent an official delegation to Russia to prepare for the Russian Defense Minister's upcoming trip to Egypt. This trip is a prelude to Russian President Putin's trip to Egypt, an event that hasn't occurred in decades. The last time Egypt and Russia had such a 'feel good' relationship was during the glory days of the Cold War, an era that both states seem to want to rekindle.
Russia has committed to giving Egypt 4 billion dollars' in weapons while Egypt has apparently volunteered to allow Russia to place a naval base somewhere along Egypt's shores.
Has United States diplomacy ever failed so miserably, in such a short amount of time? What does a 'Russian' Egypt mean for the Middle East and the American presence there? (What do I think... all hell is about to happen!!!)
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"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed." ~Ayn Rand It's Time For Obuma To Resign!
By any reasonable measure, Obuma's is a failed presidency. The stimulus failed to stimulate, with unemployment remaining vastly higher than administration economists predicted... even without the stimulus, much less with it. (An awful lot of the stimulus money also seemed to wind up in the hands of Obuma cronies and contributors, too.) And after a brief downtick last month, the unemployment rate is back up in October tho' his administration says it is lower.
Promises to rebuild our diplomacy from the days of the Bush administration have also gone unfulfilled. The "reset" with Russia was a failure, allowing Russia to counter U.S. interests across the globe. Obuma's support of the "Arab Spring" has backfired, with Sharia-fueled Islamist governments springing up all over.
In Libya, things are worse yet, with a deadly debacle in Benghazi that cost the lives of four diplomats, including our ambassador, and would have cost more except for two heroic CIA operatives who rescued as many as 24 people at the risk of... and, in the case of two, the cost of... their lives. This was followed by an administration cover-up.... still unraveling as officials desperately try to keep the lid on until after the votes are counted... and an absurd, weeks-long effort to blame everything on an obscure YouTube filmmaker. Who, conveniently, was in jail on trumped up charges made by the Obuma Adm.
We're not doing any better with the ongoing fight in Syria; the Pakistanis don't like us because of drone strikes; in Afghanistan our troops are being shot by our Afghan "allies"; and Iran continues to press on toward becoming a nuclear power.
In domestic politics, Obuma hasn't exactly covered himself with glory. He chose, mistakenly, to focus on health care instead of economic recovery, and we wound up with a bill packed with giveaways for special interests and still highly unpopular with the American people... rammed through using legislative technicalities. Even Democrat Ex-Gov. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, the first black elected governor since Reconstruction, is criticizing Obuma.
Steve Contoro writes in The Washington Examiner: "Wilder, an emphatic Obuma supporter in 2008, said his fellow Democrats should have focused more on creating jobs during his first term and faulted the president for failing to keep his campaign promise to bridge the partisan gap in Washington."
"I think he's governed left of center and didn't focus on jobs and economic recovery," Wilder told The Washington Examiner.
That's right. And his arrogance ("I won") and inflexibility have ensured that not much would get done. Obuma hasn't even passed a budget and didn't even get any Democratic votes in the Senate though we've somehow managed to run trillion dollar deficits every year anyway. Put it all together, and you've got the portrait of a failed presidency. It is time for him to go!
This shouldn't be surprising. When elected, Obuma was inexperienced: Most of his career in government was in the Illinois State Senate, with only a couple of years experience in the U.S. Senate, most of which he spent running for president. He had no private-sector experience, no executive experience (beyond the Harvard Law Review) and little knowledge of the United States beyond the major metropolitan areas of New York, Boston and Chicago. It would have been a miracle if he had turned out to be competent.
In 2008, lots of people expected that miracle. It didn't happen. Barack Hussein Obuma has FAILED. It is DAMN time for him to go!
....Warph
Mike Huckabee
"Today, a harsh lesson in why governments shouldn't meddle in the marketplace......Just nine years ago, Blockbuster Video was a colossus of American business, with 9,000 video stores nationwide. But then came DVDs by mail, then vending machines, then digital movies on demand. And now, the end of an era. Blockbuster will halt its video by mail division and close its last 300 company-owned stores. They'll also cut 3,000 employees, who can watch Blockbuster's streaming video service as they sit at home, collecting unemployment. It's a chilling reminder of how dynamic the marketplace is. At one time, companies like Blockbuster or Kodak seemed as permanent as Mount Everest. But with one unpredictable innovation, everything changes. It once again proves the folly of so-called "planned economies." No matter how smart politicians think they are, their odds of being able to predict which companies will succeed are about as good as finding a Blockbuster store powered by Solyndra solar panels."
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A planned economy is an economic system in which decisions regarding production and investment are embodied in a plan formulated by a central authority, usually by a public body such as a government agency.[1][2] Although a planned economy may be based on either centralized or decentralized forms of economic planning, it usually refers to a centrally planned economy. Central planning aims to improve productivity and coordination by enabling planners to take advantage of better information achieved through the consolidation of economic resources when making decisions regarding investment and the allocation of economic inputs.
Planned economies are usually categorized as a particular variant of socialism, and have historically been supported by and implemented by
Marxist-Leninist socialist states. (emphasis is mine)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy
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Doesn't this remind you of
NGO's (
Non-
Governmental
Organization) and their idea's of doing away with City Councils and having One Centrally Located Government?
This Woman Was About To Go In For Surgery.
What She Did Moments Before Was Awesome....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/breast-cancer-flash-mob-deborah-cohan_n_4227915.html
Facing a double mastectomy with grace takes courage. Facing one with courage and joy is extraordinary.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPdheFjRm4E#t=216
But that's exactly what Deborah Cohan did yesterday right before she went into surgery to have her breasts removed. Cohan, an Ob/Gyn and mom of two, held a dance party with her medical team in the operating room of Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco.
This inspiring 6-minute-long video, posted on YouTube, shows Cohan busting some serious moves as she wiggles and twerks to Beyonce's hit "Get Me Bodied." Cohan requested that friends and family make videos of themselves dancing to Bey too so that she could watch them during her recovery. "I have visions of a healing video montage," she wrote. "Nothing brings me greater joy than catalyzing others to dance, move, be in their bodies. Are you with me people?"
They were. You can check out videos of Deborah's fans shaking their booties in solidarity on her CaringBridge page.
Deborah, we wish you a speedy recovery. And can we go clubbing with you when you're all better?
What the hell just happened? 'Tyranny By Executive Order' | by Constitutional Attorney Michael Connelly, J.D.
What the hell just happened? That is the question that many Americans should be asking themselves following the news conference where Obama unveiled his plan for destroying the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. At first glance it appeared to be a case of Obama shamelessly using the deaths of innocents, and some live children as a backdrop, to push for the passage of radical gun control measures by Congress. Most of these have no chance of passing, yet, Obama's signing of Executive orders initiating 23 so called Executive actions on gun control seemed like an afterthought.
Unfortunately, that is the real story, but it is generally being overlooked. The fact is that with a few strokes of his pen Obama set up the mechanisms he will personally use to not only destroy the Second Amendment to the Constitution, but also the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments. It will not matter what Congress does, Obama can and will act on his own, using these Executive actions, and will be violating both the Constitution and his oath of office when he does it.
Here are the sections of the Executive Order that he will use:
"1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background-check system."
What exactly is relevant data? Does it include our medical records obtained through Obamacare, our tax returns, our political affiliations, our military background, and our credit history? I suggest that all of the above, even if it violates our fourth Amendment right to privacy will now be relevant data for determining if we are allowed to purchase a firearm.
"2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background-check system."
This should be read in conjunction with section 16 of the order that says:
"16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes."
One of the few amendments successfully placed in Obamacare by conservatives does appear to prohibit doctors from asking such questions. Yet, with these two Executive actions, Obama is illegally amending an act of Congress and setting up a procedure for him to force doctors to gain information from patients about gun ownership, and to get our medical history.
Section 3 of Obama's order states:
"3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background- check system."
Once again, what does this mean? What information does the Federal government want from the states? Copies of state personal and business income tax returns or court records of divorce and child custody cases are possibilities that come to mind as well as our voter registrations showing our party affiliations. How does any of this figure into our right to purchase a firearm?
One of the most dangerous and troubling sections of the Obama order in Section 4 that states:
"4. Direct the attorney general to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks."
This section directs Eric Holder, the architect of Operation Fast and Furious that illegally transferred several thousand semi automatic weapons to Mexican drug cartels and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens and several U.S. border patrol agents, to now add people indiscriminately to the list of Americans ineligible to purchase firearms. Who might be added to the list?
Well, let's look at the record of the Obama administration. Shortly after being appointed as the Director of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano sent a list of potential domestic terrorists to law enforcement agencies around the country. The list included individuals who were pro-life, who supported the Second Amendment, who had Ron Paul bumper stickers on their cars, and most disturbing, all members of the military returning from combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The list has recently been supplemented to include individuals who hoard more than a week's supply of food and water, and those who support individual liberties and oppose big government. I belong on most of these lists and I suspect that Eric Holder will be adding all of us to the list of dangerous people not qualified to own guns. In other words, you will no longer have to be a convicted felon or mentally ill to make the list; you will qualify simply by being an American patriot.
This is not a conspiracy theory, at the United States Justice Foundation we are seeing increasing evidence that military veterans are being specifically targeted by the Obama administration when it comes to prohibitions against purchasing firearms. Any veteran diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is in danger of being banned from owning a firearm. Even those veterans suffering from mild depression are being added. None of these conditions constitute a mental illness that makes them a danger to themselves or others.
However, in Obamaland veterans who took an oath to "protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic", are definitely considered a threat to the new Fuehrer and must not be allowed to own firearms.
If we skip to Section 6 of the order we get a good idea of Obama's real intentions when it comes to gun control. That sections states:
"6. Publish a letter from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers."
This is particularly interesting because one of the legislative proposals is to require universal background check requirements for any firearm transfer even between private citizens. In other words, you can't sell your firearm or even give it to someone s a gift without Federal government approval. It is doubtful that this proposal will pass in the House of Representatives, yet Obama is already setting up the mechanism for enforcing the requirement. That is a clear signal that he doesn't care what Congress does, he is going to violate the Constitution and bypass the Legislative branch in order to push his agenda to disarm the American people. I suspect he will ultimately use Executive orders to ban many weapons including most rifles and pistols.
There are numerous other actions dictated in the Obama order, but I think you get the idea. Our Second Amendment right is going to be taken from us for whatever reasons Obama decides. The simple act of opposing these actions can cause the Attorney General to place you on the list of "dangerous people". Our privacy will be violated and all of this will be done without due process of law. That is what just happened.
'Seething' Obama Called Out Senior Staff: Report
NYT has a 'White House in Crisis' story
By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted Nov 9, 2013 11:44 AM CST
(Newser) – President Obama may have apologized to the American public over ObamaCare, but he took a decidedly different tone with senior staff, reports the New York Times. In a piece whose headline begins "A White House in Crisis Mode," Michael D. Shear reports that a "seething" Obama summoned senior staffers to the Oval Office over the website debacle and let them have it. "If I had known, we could have delayed the website," he told the group, according to an aide present. The president's anger seems to have worked, suggests the story, given the all-out press to get the website fixed this month and the story off front pages. "I think they do realize that this is Defcon 1," an outside adviser tells the paper.
The trick is avoiding the perception that the White House is ignoring other matters as well. As the Washington Post reports, Obama was in New Orleans yesterday for a speech that was supposed to be all-economy. Instead, he had to talk ObamaCare. "I wanted to go in and fix it myself," he said of the website, "but I don't write code." Both the Post and Politico say the White House is working on some kind of "administrative" remedy for those affected by policy cancellations, but no details were available on what it might entail.
Money Manager Baker: Fed Policy Helps the Wealthy at Expense of 'Main Street'
Thursday, 07 Nov 2013 12:20 PM
By Dan Weil
While the wealthy benefit from the red-hot stock rally created by the Federal Reserve's gargantuan easing program, many Americans are taking it on the chin, says Simon Baker, CEO of Baker Ave. Asset Management.
"Main Street is a long way from back," he tells Yahoo. "If the question is, 'Is Main Street happy?' I don't think so."
Baker labels the Fed's accommodation "a massive, $3.7 trillion redistribution of wealth" that has helped only Wall Street and the wealthiest 5 percent of the country that owns appreciating assets such as stocks and real estate.
"They're the ones benefiting, not Main Street," Baker argues.
"[Quantitative easing] is not encouraging banks to do more loans, and it's not encouraging people to hire more folks," he contends.
"So it's not helping Main Street." Indeed, sluggish wage growth is increasing the inequality between the ultra-wealthy and average Americans, Baker says.
"The problem is really wage deflation. . . . If you're the average guy on Main Street, your wages haven't gone up over the last 10 years."
And more Fed easing will do nothing to solve that, Baker believes.
But more Fed easing may be just what we'll get. Three central bank officials who vote on policy this year signaled Tuesday that the Fed might continue easing for a while to boost the somnolent economy, Bloomberg reports.
The trio includes Fed Governor Jerome Powell, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren and St. Louis Fed President James Bullard.
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Top hospitals opt out of Obamacare
By Tori Richards / November 4, 2013 /
The Obama administration has been claiming that insurance companies will be competing for your dollars under the Affordable Care Act, but apparently they haven't surveyed the nation's top hospitals.
Americans who sign up for Obamacare will be getting a big surprise if they expect to access premium health care that may have been previously covered under their personal policies. Most of the top hospitals will accept insurance from just one or two companies operating under Obamacare.
"This doesn't surprise me," said Gail Wilensky, Medicare director for the first Bush administration and senior fellow for Project HOPE. "There has been an incredible amount of focus on the premium cost and subsidy, and precious little focus on what you get for your money."
Regulations driven by the Obama White House indeed have made insurance more affordable – if, like Kathleen Sebelius, you're looking only at price. But responding to Obamacare caps on premiums, many insurers will, in turn, simply offer top-tier doctors and hospitals far less cash for services rendered.
Watchdog.org looked at the top 18 hospitals nationwide as ranked by U.S. News and World Report for 2013-2014. We contacted each hospital to determine their contracts and talked to several insurance companies, as well.
Click here for a list of Obamacare insurance carriers for the best hospitals of 2013-14
The result of our investigation: Many top hospitals are simply opting out of Obamacare.
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CEDARS-SINAI: Just takes one insurance company under Obamacare
Chances are the individual plan you purchased outside Obamacare would allow you to go to these facilities. For example, fourth-ranked Cleveland Clinic accepts dozens of insurance plans if you buy one on your own. But go through Obamacare and you have just one choice: Medical Mutual of Ohio.
And that's not because their exchanges don't offer options. Both Ohio and California have a dozen insurance companies on their exchanges, yet two of the states' premier hospitals — Cleveland Clinic and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — have only one company in their respective networks.
A few, like No. 1-rated Johns Hopkins in Maryland, are mandated under state law to accept all insurance companies. Other than that, the hospital with the largest number of insurance companies is University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland with just four. Fully 11 of the 18 hospitals had just one or two carriers.
"Many companies have selectively entered the exchanges because they are concerned that (the exchanges) will be dominated by risky, high-using populations who wanted insurance (before Obamacare) and couldn't afford it," said Wilsensky, who is also on the board of directors of UnitedHealth. "They are pressed to narrow their networks to stay within the premiums."
Consumers, too, will struggle with the new system. Many exchanges don't even list the insurance companies on their web sites. Some that do, like California, don't provide names of doctors or hospitals.
The price differences among hospitals "can be pretty profound," said Joe Mondy, spokesman for Cigna insurance. "When you are doing a cost comparison with doctors, you should look up the quality of the hospital as well. Hospital 'Y' could be great at pediatrics and not great at surgery."
Insurers operating in the exchanges apparently are hesitant to talk about the trade-off between price and quality. Two of the nation's largest insurers — Wellpoint and Aetna — refused to respond to a dozen calls and emails placed during the course of a week.
Gail Wilensky
Wellpoint and Aetna's decision to not educate the public on its choices doesn't sit well with two experts.
"There is no reason to keep that quiet. It's not going to be a good secret for very long when people want to use the plans," Wilensky said.
"In many cases, consumers are shopping blind when it comes to what doctors and hospitals are included in their Obamacare exchange plans," said Josh Archambault, senior fellow with the think tank Foundation for Government Accountability. "These patients will be in for a rude awakening once they need care, and get stuck with a big bill for going out-of-network without realizing it."
All of this represents a larger problem with the Affordable Care Act, said Archambault, who has studied the law extensively.
"It reflects deeper issues in implementation," he said. "Some hospitals and doctors don't even know if they are in the network."
Just look at Seattle Children's Hospital, which ranks No. 11 on the U.S. News & World Report best pediatric hospital list. When Obamacare rolled out, the hospital found itself with just two out of seven insurance companies on Washington's exchange. The hospital sued the state's Office of Insurance on Oct. 4 for "failure to ensure adequate network coverage."
"Children's is the only pediatric hospital in King County and the preeminent provider of many pediatric specialty services in the Northwest," a hospital news release said. " Some of these specialized services not available elsewhere in our area or region include acute cancer care, level IV neonatal intensive care and heart, liver and intestinal transplantation."
And for doctors in Texas, "Basically, we don't know," said Stephen Brotherton, president of the Texas Medical Association. "We can't find out. At this point, it's part of the various unknowns with the marketplace. There are ways you can be on plans and not even realize it."
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in U.S. News & World Report.
http://watchdog.org/114137/top-hospitals-opt-out-of-obamacare/
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Twenty years ago, New York's long nightmare ended with a Giuliani victory over Mayor Dinkins. Now the nightmare returns as former Dinkins staffer and terrorist supporter Bill de Blasio will begin wrecking the city where Dinkins and his Democratic predecessors left off.
Bill de Blasio vowed to undo Giuliani's reforms and turn back the clock on fighting crime and terrorism. Giuliani's victory was a wake-up call to Democrats that one of the more dangerous cities in the country had rejected their liberal soft-on-crime policies that had made it unlivable. Bill de Blasio's victory tells them that soft-on-crime is popular again.
Welcome back Michael Dukakis
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Obuma Hates Black Politicians, Black Politicians Hate Obuma
It's an interesting dynamic. And apparently it goes both ways.
It's not news that black politicians, particularly of the older sort, hate Obama. The Congressional Black Caucus nearly went all in for Hillary. Jesse Jackson talked about cutting off Obama's nuts. No doubt much worse was said in private.
Some of this may be a personality clash between the old corrupt generation of black pols, the Charlie Rangel era, and the younger savvier Cory Bookers, like the one that played out in Newark. The Charlie Rangels think the Obamas and Bookers are too slick and too phony, that they don't know how things really get done and that they're little more than puppets of white bosses.
There's some truth to that. Certainly Obama doesn't exactly represent the black community, even though he gets all their votes. Rangel and that generation rightly fear that they are being displaced by smooth-talking black radicals who exploit black identity with no commitment to the black community, for left-wing causes.
And there's not much love going the other way.
"Obama had little patience for the 'professional left,' and vanishingly close to zero for what one of his senior African American aides, Michael Strautmanis, referred to as 'professional blacks' (as opposed to black professionals)," authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann wrote on page 39 of the book. "Apart from Georgia congressman John Lewis and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, Obama had nearly as much contempt for the CBC as he did for the Tea Party Caucus."
"New York's Charlie Rangel he derided as a hack; Jesse Jackson Sr. was effectively banned from the White House," according to the authors. "Obama remembered all too well a conversation with [Cornel] West in 2009, in which the professor used the precious time to complain about his seating at the inauguration."It's not hard to see why Obama would despise the CBC. It's a clown act.
If not for political correctness, world-class idiots like Sheila Jackson-Lee and Hank Johnson would be mocked from one end of the country to the next. And Jesse Jackson even became a joke among white people a long time ago, never mind what black people think of him.
On the other hand, Obama hooked up with Al Sharpton as his rep to the black community who makes Jesse Jackson look like a class act.
Obama has shown a certain amount of institutional disdain, avoiding the NAACP for the Urban League; that's both a generational and class gap. No matter how helpful Jealous' NAACP has been to Obama's program of gay rights and illegal immigration, Obama doesn't seem to like it.
Even though Obama wrote two books on the subject of his race, those were political pamphlets whose feigned honesty was part of an effort to sell himself on campuses. What his real identity is may be a more complex matter.
Growing up in a Muslim country where black people were despised and with an affinity for left-wing radicalism, but little for American black culture and Christianity, as his mentor the Reverend Jeremiah Wright has said, Obama's third culture approach to black politics is conflicted.
On the one hand, Obama relies on the "Black" brand for political reasons. Without black turnout and white boomer dreams of the Camelot of race relations that might have been, he would have been just another bored college grad marking time. But that just makes an egomaniac who believes firmly in his own genius more conflicted about his political dependence on that identity.
Obama doesn't believe in the black-white vision of America that is so integral to black politics. The tribalism means very little to him, as does tribalism of any kind.
And that's something most professional black politicians understand about him. No matter how much the black community has done for him politically, he feels burdened by it.
Obama's radicalism isn't the black radicalism of an Eric Holder. It dovetails with some of the resentment of black politics, but its leftist purity ultimately has as little use for black tribalism as it does for white tribalism.
Book: Obuma Has 'Close to Zero' Patience for 'Professional Blacks'
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The new book Double Down: Game Change 2012 claims President Barack Obama does not have "patience" for what his advisors say he calls "professional blacks." The book also says Obama dislikes the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) as much as he despises the Tea Party movement.
"Obama had little patience for the 'professional left,' and vanishingly close to zero for what one of his senior African American aides, Michael Strautmanis, referred to as 'professional blacks' (as opposed to black professionals)," authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann wrote on page 39 of the book. "Apart from Georgia congressman John Lewis and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, Obama had nearly as much contempt for the CBC as he did for the Tea Party Caucus."
"New York's Charlie Rangel he derided as a hack; Jesse Jackson Sr. was effectively banned from the White House," according to the authors. "Obama remembered all too well a conversation with [Cornel] West in 2009, in which the professor used the precious time to complain about his seating at the inauguration."
The passage comes in a section that details the aftermath of the 2011 Budget Control Act. The debt ceiling grand bargain reached with House Speaker John Boehner ultimately resulted in the sequester. The time frame was during the summer of 2011, as Obama's re-election campaign began to heat up and as Mitt Romney was emerging as the Republican nominee to face off against him the following year. At that time, many leftist organizations came after Obama, arguing he was not liberal enough for their tastes.
"He [Obama] returned to Washington in a foul mood that would quickly turn rancid as the criticism being heaped upon him intensified," the authors claim. "Obama had sought a big deal with Boehner because he believed it was the correct thing to do, but also to get right with the monarchs of high capitalism. He had cut the small deal to avert an economic conflagration."
"Here he was that Monday, August 8, facing the cameras in the State Dining Room, addressing the downgrade, citing Warren Buffett, articulating an obvious truth: 'No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple-A country.' And still the stock market kept on falling— 635 points that day, 200 while he was speaking," the book notes. "Then there was the ululating of the left, now aimed less at the deal than directly at Obama."
The authors cited several members of the "professional left" and "professional blacks" as having gotten under Obama's skin because of their criticism of him.
"On the op-ed page of The New York Times the Sunday he was at Camp David, liberal psychology professor Drew Westen gutted him in a jeremiad that was burning up the blogosphere: 'Like most Americans, at this point, I have no idea what Barack Obama... believes on virtually any issue,'" the authors wrote. "California congresswoman Maxine Waters and the rest of the CBC were shelling him mercilessly. The African American TV talk show host Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West, on a sixteen-city poverty tour, were doing the same. 'Too often [Obama] compromises, too often he capitulates,' West told ABC News. 'I think the Republicans know that. I think they laugh when he's not around.'"
Obama, according to the authors, has struggled with the left and the black community. "One day in the spring of 2011, as he sat with some staffers preparing for a speech to Al Sharpton's National Action Network, Obama rattled off a list of his policies," the authors note in the same passage. "Cracking down on predatory lending. Education reform. Student loan reform. Most important, health care reform. All with an outsize impact on African Americans. All achieved at a time when half of the GOP believed he'd been born in Kenya . Obama threw up his hands. 'After all that,' he said, 'am I still not black enough?'"
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/07/Book-Obama-has-vanishingly-close-to-zero-patience-for-professional-blacks
Ted Cruz
Wishing a very happy birthday to the United States Marine Corps. Today marks 238 years of fighting with unprecedented valor so that we may be free.
Thank you to all Marines for your service and Semper Fi!
Common Core lessons blasted for sneaking politics into elementary classrooms
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published November 10, 2013
FoxNews.com
It's exactly what critics of the Common Core school curriculum warned about: Partisan political statements masquerading as English lessons finding their way into elementary school classrooms.
Teaching materials aligned with the controversial national educational standards ask fifth-graders to edit such sentences as "(The president) makes sure the laws of the country are fair," "The wants of an individual are less important than the well-being of the nation" and "the commands of government officials must be obeyed by all." The sentences, which appear in worksheets published by New Jersey-based Pearson Education, are presented not only for their substance, but also to teach children how to streamline bulky writing.
"We are doing a terrible disservice to this generation and the next if we only present them with one side of the argument and bombard them with ideas contrary to the American ideal."
- Glyn Wright, Eagle Forum
"Parents should insist on reviewing their children's school assignments," said Glyn Wright, executive director of the Eagle Forum, a think tank that opposes implementation of Common Core. "Many parents will be shocked to find that some 'Common Core-approved' curriculum is full of inappropriate left-wing notions, disinformation, and fails to teach the truth of American exceptionalism and opportunity."
The politically charged lesson appears in a worksheet titled "Hold the Flag High," in which students are taught about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. The assignment asks students to make examples of sentences; "less wordy by replacing the underlined words with a possessive noun phrase." They are then presented with a half-dozen sentences describing the job duties of a U.S. president.
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL WORKSHEET
But if the lessons are meant as a primer on the Constitution, there's another problem, note critics. The job of making sure laws are fair is not the president's, but the judicial branch's. The executive branch's duty is to administer laws. And the example that places the well-being of the nation above the "wants of an individual" appears to run counter to the basic principles of the Bill of Rights.
"We are doing a terrible disservice to this generation and the next if we only present them with one side of the argument and bombard them with ideas contrary to the American ideal," Wright said. "In doing so, we allow our children to be indoctrinated instead of educated."
A Pearson spokesperson told FoxNews.com the "Hold the Flag High" worksheet will undergo some editing of its own, based on issues raised by critics, including Education Action Group Foundation.
"These particular questions appear in a fifth-grade unit of Pearson's Reading Street, an English Language Arts program," the Pearson official said. "They accompany a selection about soldiers during the Civil War, and they attempt to make a connection between that passage and language skills. As with all our curricular materials, they underwent a thorough development and review process. Still, we are always open to improving our work ... Based on this feedback, we will be modifying the worksheet to clarify these questions."
The official adds that while they are currently being used as common core material, versions of this worksheet including the questions of the Possessive Nouns section have been around and copyrighted since 2007.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative was devised by an association of the nation's governors and backed by the Obama administration in 2009 with the goal of setting a uniform standard for grades K-12 nationwide. Some 45 states, in many cases enticed by federal grants, have signed on and testing of students in grades 3-8 and once in high school is scheduled to begin next year.
Critics of the initiative say that school districts will devise curriculums to maximize their students' performance on the national exams; some in fact, have already done so. The same critics also claim that Common Core math standards barely cover basic geometry or second-year algebra and that the classics are all but ignored in English classes.
While Common Core has plenty of defenders -- and may prove beneficial -- critics maintain that it is not the federal government's job to impose educational standards.
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In this worksheet, certain questions are misleading students on the basics of the US political system. Pearson Education, who produced this lesson worksheet told FoxNews.com that they are reviewing the worksheets and will make necessary changes for future copies. (eagnews.org)
(Isn't this too little, too late?) ( I personally think it shows their true intentions)
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Barack H. Obama during his college days
Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday in light of President Barack Obama's declining poll numbers, maybe he should take a page from an infamous Canadian mayor.
"I think the best thing he can do is take a toke on the mayor of Toronto's crack pipe, because his numbers are about 48," Carville joked on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," referring to Rob Ford, who has admitted smoking crack.
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Scandal: Toronto mayor Rob Ford admitted last week that he has smoked crack cocaine
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Obuma High School Friend:
Barry 'Portrayed Himself As A Foreign, Crack-Smoking Homosexual'
by Patdollard.com
http://patdollard.com/2013/11/obama-high-school-friend-barry-portrayed-himself-as-a-foreigner-crack-smoking-homosexual/
Nov. 11, 2013Published on Nov 6, 2013 - Mia Marie Pope, who was a high school friend of Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) in Hawaii during the 1970s, says that Obama identified himself as a foreigner in high school and was known as a crack-smoking homosexual.
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Mia Marie Pope says that Barry Soetoro "always portrayed himself as a foreign student."
While Soetoro was a little older than her and didn't always run around with the circle of friends that she had, Pope says that he "very much was in sort of the 'gay community,'" which she says that even back then was "thriving."
"We knew Barry as, just common knowledge, that girls were never anything that he was ever interested in, and as a young teenager....as a young girl.....it was clear to me that Barry was strictly into men," Pope said. She also indicated that she had no desires for him and said that they didn't get along, largely in part to the fact that he was "a pathological liar, even back then."
Pope said that Soetoro's lies were "egotistical" and always to "boost himself." She referenced Barry "bumming cigarettes," and said that as soon as someone would give him a cigarette, he would instantly turn and walk away, after he had gotten what he wanted. In Pope's words, "He seemed to be incapable or genuine about anything."
Ms. Pope said that Barry Soetoro was always "getting with these older white men." She recognized that he was one that had cocaine, which she said was "newsworthy" in the groups she hung out in. They then began to believe it was Soetoro's engagements (ie. Homosexual acts) with these older white men is how he "procured" cocaine.
"In other words, he was having sex with these older white guys, and that's how he was getting his cocaine to be able to freebase," she told Manning.
Mia Pope also said that she actually saw Obama dress up as a transvestite. She remarked that it was during the era of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, starring Tim Curry, that this took place.
When asked by Manning why she came forward, and others were not, she said that because she it is a Christian and deeply concerned about her country. She says that if Barack Obama was doing a "good job" today, then she would not worry about his past. She wondered when Obama first came on the scene if he had, in fact, "changed his ways." Apparently, according to Pope, he had not. Pope said that she didn't care about his homosexuality or the fact that he used drugs in the past, but was concerned about who he was as an adult.
Pope says that her willingness to come forward has taken courage, and she believes it is "righteous" to speak out against Barack Obama.
"I refuse to be a coward," she added.
Ms. Pope also says that she had called the Federal Bureau of Investigations several times to expose Barack Obama's use of fake Social Security numbers, and nothing was done about it. This took place several years ago.
Pope said that when Barry's name began to be pushed forward as Barack Hussein Obama, she though there was "something shady" going on.
She was familiar with the claims of Larry Sinclair, the man who claimed prior to the 2008 elections that he had a homosexual relationship with Barack Obama and the two had smoked crack cocaine together.
(Sinclair was rumored to have been killed in a hit and run in November of 2011... which was all rumor. Sinclair is alive and well today...Warph)Pope also said that for Obama to have attended the school he did, Punahou high School (which he graduated from in 1979)...
http://www.punahou.edu/alumni/community-groups/alumni-profiles/barack-obama/index.aspx
....required a lot of money and it required that he start from kindergarten, but seeing that he was entering mid-level; she believes that he must have had "something stellar" which allowed him to get in, especially when he was "fresh from Indonesia."
Manning suggested that Obama's involvement with older white men is what got him into Punahou, and Pope seems to agree, though she used a reference to the CIA or some "force" that got Obama "set up" at Punahou. "It was certainly not a natural thing," she said.
They both agreed that has been the way things happened for young Soetoro from Punahou to Occidental to Columbia to Harvard. Pope pointed out that interviews were conducted with those who were in the same classes at Columbia that Obama was supposed to be in and not a single person remembers him being there!
When Dr. Manning asked Pope why she thought that Larry Bland, Nate Spencer and Donald Young (all member of the church Obama attended, Trinity Church of Christ, where Jeremiah Wright pastors)...
http://patdollard.com/2011/11/mother-of-obamas-murdered-gay-lover-speaks-up/
...were all killed within days of each other in Chicago, she said that she believed Obama's handlers like what he is doing to the country. Therefore, in her opinion, they have kept a lid on these murders.
More to follow on this later at:
http://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php?action=post;topic=15531.30;last_msg=214787
A Boy Came Out On Facebook. His Mother Found Out And Decided To Write Him This Letter. Read the powerful words one mother wrote to her son when she found out that he came out on Facebook. (https://upworthy-production.s3.amazonaws.com/nugget/5227bf62affa0cfb260004f9/attachments/try_2-_pic_for_upworthy.jpg.jpg)
(If he can do it, why can't you Barack Hussein Obuma???)
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White House Furiously Tries To Spin Obamacare Enrollment Numnbers
(This is just beyond pathetic)
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Dem Aide Warns House Democrats Will "Go Crazy" If White House Doesn't Fix Obamacare Plan Cancellations By Friday
(I can picture it now, claws, fur and glasses flying... Sit back and enjoy)
Via The Hill:House Democrats on Wednesday expressed increasing frustration at the Obama administration's inability to improve the rollout of ObamaCare.
Democrats said they're worried about "being dragged into this non-stop cycle" of bad news about the ObamaCare rollout, rather than celebrating the successes of the law they helped to pass, a Democratic aide said.
"They're voicing those frustrations with the administration," the aide said following a Democratic Caucus meeting where administration officials got an earful from exasperated lawmakers.
With the House vote just two days away, many Democrats are urging the White House to come up with an administrative alternative to legislation sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) that would allow insurance companies to offer their old insurance plans.
The GOP bill is a response to the nearly 5 million people who have seen their health plans canceled under ObamaCare.
Two centrist Democrats — Reps. John Barrow (Ga.) and Mike McIntyre (N.C.) — already have endorsed the Upton measure, but that number could rise if the bill comes up for a vote without a Democratic alternative providing some political cover.
A second Democratic aide warned that if the administration doesn't provide such a substitute by Friday, many members will "go crazy."White House press secretary Jay Carney on Wednesday said President Obama would announce "sooner rather than later" his proposed fix for those who have lost their health insurance because of ObamaCare.
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Facts according to Betsy McCaughey, Ph.D , from her book 'Beating Obamacare':*The Obama health law awards bonus points to hospitals that spend the least on seniors
*Hospitals will be whacked with demerits for care that seniors consume up to 30 days after leaving the hospital, including physical therapy
*Doctors will be paid less to treat seniors than any other patients, even less than those patients on Medicaid (... we can guess who might be on Medicaid for the most part...it starts with an "I" and ends with an "L")
*This Obama health law gives Sebelius oversight over physicians' decisions, even for patients with PRIVATE HEALTH PLANS which they have paid for directly themselves.
Issa Accuses President Barry Soetoro (AKA: Barack Obuma)
of Trying to Make Affordable Care Act Work
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WASHINGTON — In an explosive accusation, the House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-California) today charged President Obama with
"using all the resources at his disposal to make the Affordable Care Act work." Accusing the President of participating in
"a wide-ranging conspiracy," Mr. Issa told reporters that
"behind closed doors, the President has quietly assembled a high-tech brain trust that is working around the clock to fix the Healthcare.gov Web site—at government expense." Rep. Issa said that he would call for a new round of hearings and would subpoena
"all those persons suspected of being involved in the ongoing plot to fix Obamacare." "This is a conspiracy, if you will, that goes all the way to the top," Rep. Issa said.
"If there is a plan to fix Obamacare, what did the President know about that plan and when did he know it?" Rep. Issa concluded his remarks on a defiant note, drawing a line in the sand:
"If the President thinks he is going to repair that Web site so that it works when anyone tries to access it, I've got news for him: not on my watch."
Study: Americans Safe from Gun Violence Except in Schools, Malls, Airports, Movie Theatres, Workplaces, Streets, Own Homes
Nov. 14, 2013
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WASHINGTON — A new study released today indicates that Americans are safe from the threat of gun violence except in schools, malls, airports, movie theatres, workplaces, streets, and their own homes. Also: highways, turnpikes, libraries, places of worship, parks, universities, restaurants, post offices, and cars.
Plus: driveways, garages, gyms, stores, military bases—and a host of other buildings, structures, and sites.
National Rifle Association C.E.O. Wayne LaPierre applauded the study, saying that it reinforced his organization's long-held position that the United States does not need additional gun laws.
"This study makes it abundantly clear that Americans are in no danger of gun violence except in these isolated four hundred and thirteen places," he said.
He added that he hoped that the study would spark a conversation
"about the root cause of mass shootings: people who recklessly show up at places where they could be shot at."
(How predictable... they are really desperate. Brothers Emanuel. Ha. I have to wonder if the Emanuel fore fathers had to flee Europe from the Nazis. The family would be horrified to know their grandspawn are national socialists.)
Obamacare architect Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel just blamed the Obamacare disaster on FOX News.
Here's what Zeke told Megyn Kelly after the October numbers came out today
:
Dr. Ezekial Emanuel: Remember, this was not an envrionment that was hospitable to setting up the exchanges. You and your colleagues were constantly criticizing trying to underfund it and trying to make sure it didn't work.
Megyn Kelly: A lot of that criticism proved true, unfortunately.
Emanuel: It's a self fulfilling prophecy. We're going to do everything we can to make it fail and then when it fails we're going to say, "Oh, why did it fail?"
Kelly: Oh, I don't think FOX News had anything to do with the roll-out of healthcare.gov. As far as I know we didn't touch that website.
Emanuel: You were constantly attacking the law.
Kelly: Ok, It was all our fault.
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Dichotomy, Illustrated
The first word of that headline is bound to confuse Democrats.
Can you think of another, equally valid headline for this De-motivator?
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How about "Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics"?
Seal of Honor
A former Sergeant in the Marine Corps took a new job as a school teacher . Just before the school year started he hurt his back and was required to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. Fortunately, the cast fit under his shirt and was not noticeable. One the first day of school he found himself assigned to the toughest students in the school. The smart aleck punks, having already heard the new teacher was a former Marine, were leery of him and knew he would be testing his discipline in the classroom. Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, the new teacher opened the window and sat down at this desk. When a strong breeze made his tie flap , he picked up a stapler and stapled it to his chest. Dead silence... The rest of the year went smoothly
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(A Strange Preview: Noah...
one might say this is powerful stuff. Whether this turns out to be this generation's TEN COMMANDMENTS will depend upon how much of the original environmentalist screed is left intact. Is it subtext or does the story wear it like an old Russian overcoat? In other words, for what sins is mankind being punished? Flooding the world for failure to recycle seems a bit of an overreaction)Russell Crowe's Noah: A Malthusian Environmentalist Loony
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Video preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2sGw3w8_HA
Oh well. It was fun while it lasted. I mean the idea of a big-time Hollywood director taking on a biblical epic.
Screenwriter Brian Godawa has read the script for director Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" project, starring Russell Crowe as the patriarch, and a thrill definitely did not go up his leg. In fact, the film appears to be a cross between The Book of Eli, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and An Inconvenient Truth.
In other words, crap.
Seems that the latest retelling of the biblical story of the man who remains faithful to God's command despite the ridicule of his neighbors and the apparent absurdity of his situation has been reworked as a tale of environmental depredation, with Noah as a Bronze Age Unabomber:Having got a chance to read an undated version of the script for Noah I want to warn you. If you were expecting a Biblically faithful retelling of the story of the greatest mariner in history and a tale of redemption and obedience to God you'll be sorely disappointed. Noah paints the primeval world of Genesis 6 as scorched arid desert, dry cracked earth, and a gray gloomy sky that gives no rain — and all this, caused by man's "disrespect" for the environment. In short, an anachronistic doomsday scenario of ancient global warming. How Neolithic man was able to cause such anthropogenic catastrophic climate change without the "evil" carbon emissions of modern industrial revolution is not explained. Nevertheless, humanity wanders the land in nomadic warrior tribes killing animals for food or wasteful trophies.
In this oppressive world, Noah and his family seek to avoid the crowds and live off the land. Noah is a kind of rural shaman, and vegan hippy-like gatherer of herbs. Noah explains that his family "studies the world," "healing it as best we can," like a kind of environmentalist scientist. But he also mysteriously has the fighting skills of an ancient Near Eastern Ninja (Hey, it's a movie, give it a break).
Noah maintains an animal hospital to take care of wounded animals or those who survive the evil "poachers," of the land. Just whose animal rights laws they are violating, I am not sure, since there are only fiefdoms of warlords and tribes. Be that as it may, Noah is the Mother Teresa of animals.
Though God has not spoken to men or angels for a long time, Noah is haunted by recurring dreams of a rainstorm and flood that he surmises is God's judgment on man because as Noah says, "At our hand, all he created is dying." The trees, the animals, and the environment. "If we change, if we work to save it, perhaps he will too [save us]." Or as grandfather Methuselah reiterates, "We have destroyed this world, so we ourselves will be destroyed. Justice." Oh, and I almost forgot, they kill people too, but it's not really as important. In another place, "We have murdered each other. We raped the world. The Creator has judged us." The notion of human evil is more of an afterthought or symptom of the bigger environmental concern of the great tree hugger in the sky.[...]
Meanwhile, Noah has himself become a bit psychotic, like an environmentalist or animal rights activist who concludes that people do not deserve to survive because of what they've done to the environment and to animals. Noah deduces that God's only reason for his family on the boat is to shepherd the animals to safety, "and then mankind disappears. It would be a better world." He concludes that there will be no more births in this family so that when they start over in the new world, they will eventually die out, leaving the animals in a humanless paradise of ecoharmony and peace. As Noah says, "The creatures of the earth, the world itself, shall be safe." (Except for slamming intergalactic meteors, non-anthropocentric global warming, ice ages, sun spots, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and that "survival of the fittest," eat-or-be-eaten thing. But other than that ... "safe.")
His ethical reasoning? The same as all environmentalist activists: The ends justify the means. "We must weigh those [human] lives against all creation." Shades of Malthus and Al Gore.I so don't want to see this. In fact, I wish I could unwatch Aronofsky's The Fountain, that's how much I don't want to see this.
At least if Cormac McCarthy had written the screenplay, the animals would have eaten Noah, then turned on each other, but one of the children would have lived on to wander the earth with a supermarket cart and a necklace made of human teeth. Kinda like hope and change.
We can only hope that the "undated" screenplay that Godawa read has undergone extensive rewrites, perhaps by Aaron Sorkin, and Noah will wind up a conscience-stricken lefty news reader or something.
I wouldn't get too exercised over any of it, however, as it's unclear whether Noah's ark, which was parked in Oyster Bay on Long Island, survived 48 hours of Hurricane Sandy — never mind 40 days and 40 nights.
I only wish God could sue for copyright infringement....A. Sacramone
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(Watching Venezuela commit economic and political suicide is incredibly instructive for those that may not have lived thru earlier iterations of Communist dictatorships going belly-up. Take a gander at the future if you follow in the progressive mode. The cornerstone in many cases was the nationalizing of large swathes of the economy, such as healthcare)Nov 14 (Reuters) – Venezuela's socialist government has arrested more than 100 "bourgeois" businessmen in a crackdown on alleged price-gouging at hundreds of shops and companies since the weekend, President Nicolas Maduro said on Thursday.
"They are barbaric, these capitalist parasites!" Maduro thundered in the latest of his lengthy daily speeches. "We have more than 100 of the bourgeoisie behind bars at the moment."
The successor to the late Hugo Chavez also said his government was preparing a law to limit Venezuelan businesses' profits to between 15 percent and 30 percent.
Officials say unscrupulous companies have been hiking prices of electronics and other goods more than 1,000 percent. Critics say failed socialist economic policies and restricted access to foreign currency are behind Venezuela's runaway inflation.
"Goodyear has to lower its prices even more, 15 percent is not enough, the inspectors have go there straightaway," Maduro said in his evening address, sending officials to check local operations of the U.S.-based tire manufacturer.
Since the weekend, soldiers and inspectors have gone into 1,400 shops, taken over operations at an electronics firm and a battery-making company, and rounded up a handful of looters.
If you think that last post about Venezuela was 'off the wall' try this on for size...
If you're one of the .05% of Americans who enjoys going to work in the morning, I have nothing to say to you. But if you're one of the vast majority of despair-sodden grunts for whom Monday signals nothing more than an extension of an unjust prison sentence, then allow me to share with you a way out with this gulag guide to life.
Okay... think Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the late Nobel Prize–winning Russian writer, and a former zek.
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You read it correctly: a zek, the name given to prisoners in the Siberian forced-labor camps during the bad old days of the Soviet Empire. Now, the connection between Solzhenitsyn's grim prison life and your 9-5 day job may not be immediately apparent. But if you find yourself trapped in a dead-end position, if you're frustrated, bored, and bitter, believing your talents and experience deserve better than you're getting from the mediocrities of middle management, then Solzhenitsyn's your guy. His experience under the lash of his jailers can provide just the guidance and inspiration you need to succeed under the most grueling conditions.
So I impart to you a dozen principles gleaned from the life of a zek that may prove the key to fulfillment and a transcendent peace you could only have imagined, and then only with the help of pills. You can thank me later.
1. Don't expect a thank-you. Russians released from German POW camps at the close of WWII, rather than receiving a hero's welcome, were thrown into the gulag by Stalin for consorting with the enemy. Keep this in mind when you've worked 22 straight 22-hour shifts, developed carpal tunnel that would numb a professional wrist-wrestler, and suffered through migraines that could split an atom. You should be fired just for expecting anything more that your paycheck. Cry on a friend's shoulder.
2. You have no friends. That amiable colleague you just spent your lunch hour venting to? He's off to the boss, where you will be written up as a malcontent who spreads bad juju. Solzhenitsyn spent eight years in a prison camp for making a joke about Stalin that somehow made its way back to the authorities. Confess immediately. Don't make excuses—and don't try kissing up to your boss.
3. Kiss up to your boss. In Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle, Stalin is referred to by many elaborate titles, including... The Immortal, The Coryphaeus of All Sciences, and The Best Friend of Communication Workers. So try addressing your immediate superior by original and imaginative monikers, such as The Adjudicator of all Justice or The Locus of Mercy. Don't think of it as sucking up but rather as a refusal to conform.
4. Conform. Once the Revolution is in place, teamwork is the key to domination of world market share, with no room for recalcitrant counterrevolutionaries. Get with the program... but first make sure you know what the program is. A Menshevik in a Bolshevik cafeteria is another word for dead meat. Take your enthusiasm to the exponential max. Nothing wrong with being more Catholic than the pope.
5. Don't be more Catholic than the pope. An overenthusiastic demeanor may
communicate one of two things:
(1) you think your colleagues are lacking in party spirit, or
(2) you're a double agent (make that a corporate spy). There's a fine line between high morale and being a putz who snows himself into believing he's happy.
6. Pray for snow. In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn describes how heavy snow days meant prisoners got to stay indoors, spared backbreaking construction work in subzero temperatures. Seems the guards feared that whiteouts would provide prisoners opportunities to escape. A snow day is G-d's way of reminding you of the serendipitous in life.
7. There is no G-d. G-d is merely an instrument of repression, concocted by the bourgeoisie to placate the masses with promises of rewards in a mythical afterlife. You are a biological accident, without purpose or meaning. Only the Company is absolute. How do I know this? The Company told me when I filled out my W4. And the Company never lies.
8. The Company always lies. Look at Enron. Look at WorldCom. Look at Crazy Eddie's. The gap between image and reality is filled with lies. Big fat lies. Morbidly obese, BMI-of-86 lies. Oh, and --
9. You're fatter than you think. Those $75 Langer calipers may say you're ripped, but a diet of boiled onionskins and dust will prove you're packing more avoirdupois than a love-starved Sumo. Impoverished Soviet citizens with little flab to spare emerged from the labor camps emaciated but breathing—thanks to interstitial fat, that stuff trapped inside muscles and between organs that you can't see and calipers can't grip. The average American male is 20% body fat. You need only 3% to live. The disparity is 20 years of hard labor. Fat people don't get promoted the way thin ones do. So if the corporate ladder is too steep to climb in your current state of unfitness, spit out that mint Oreo or you'll be stuck in your current position forever.
10. Nothing is forever. Don't buy into the détente argument, that the Party would never relinquish power and that the Cold War was eternal. The regime ruining your company will eventually collapse and be replaced with something not currently being investigated by the FTC. Or you'll find a gig where your myriad talents will be unleashed and appreciated. Be grateful you survived, then prepare to tell others what you've learned.
11. Keep your pie hole shut. If you've been fired or just plain quit, please spare the world another whiny tell-all. Unless you have the talents of a Dostoyevsky and worked for Silvio Berlusconi, just move on. Be grateful someone thought enough of you to deduct FICA.
12. FICA is history. If the Obuma Administration estimates are correct, your first Social Security check will be an IOU and a cookie. You will never be able to retire, hastening your demise as a bitter, broken, and bankrupt shell of a man.
You can thank me now.
Washington University Muslim Students Demand An Imam And Islamic Center In Response To Student's Bin Laden Halloween Costume
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Only in America... The never-ending saga of the Osama bin Laden Halloween costume continues) (http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/969350_10200466297254929_1481155317_n2.jpg)
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The Muslim Students Association (MSA) would like to issue a statement in regards to a Halloween image shared on Facebook on October 30. Some members of our Muslim community were deeply affected by the content of the photo, and many were negatively impacted by insensitive and bigoted comments that followed. As the Muslim Students Association, we aim to provide a safe space for Muslims at Washington University; however, we cannot do this independent of student culture and administrative support. To that effect, we are invested in moving forward from this incident in a way that is both healing and productive for Muslim students, other minority students, and our larger Washington University community.
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Last Thursday, MSA hosted a solidarity forum during which Muslim students were given a platform to relate their experiences with Islamophobia on campus and discuss the ways in which they were triggered by this recent incident. It was truly heartwarming to see so many friends and allies show their love and support during the forum, and MSA is deeply grateful towards all who attended. However, insights from the forum have made it strikingly clear that there is a woeful lack of resources and support services for Muslim students to utilize during times of need.
The need for a Muslim chaplain, a religious authority figure who can serve as a spiritual resource and to whom students can turn to in times of need, is highly evident. In a similar vein, it appears fitting to establish a space on main campus in which Muslims students can not only congregate to pray and fulfill their daily religious duties, but also seek refuge and build community. We are painfully aware of how small our community is and implore the administration to include representation of Islamic religious services/events alongside other religious groups in admissions, prospective students', and orientation literature.
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One of the greatest lessons Islam teaches us as Muslims is the importance of forgiveness and mercy. As such, MSA is not seeking punitive measures against the individuals in the photo in question nor do we support further mobilization around the photo itself. We recognize that this incident is symptomatic of a larger student culture that needs improvement in the way of cultural understanding and inclusivity, and we intend to be part of a larger coalition of student groups and administrators committed to achieving this end.
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We applaud the statement released by the SU Diversity Affairs Council earlier this week and echo the call to action issued towards students and administrators in making Washington University a safer and more welcoming campus. In that effort, we hope to also engage with the larger Washington University community in dialogue to promote better understanding and acceptance. We invite you to join us.
With peace,
The Washington University in St. Louis Muslim Students Association
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Obama's "Society of Fear"
By Absolute Rights Contributor on November 14, 2013
By Bob Barr
In observational experiments, researchers constantly battle a phenomenon called the "Hawthorne effect," where subjects of experiments alter their behavior when aware of being studied. For example, in 2011, researchers at Carnegie Mellon mailed postcards to customers of an electric company, informing customers they were the subjects of a company study on electricity usage. Researchers found that customers who received weekly postcards – simple reminders that their electricity usage was being observed -- cut electricity usage by nearly three percent.
The Hawthorn effect is not just limited to psychological studies. Behavior modification is the hallmark of any "society of fear," in which citizens live under the constant threat of government surveillance. In an environment where individuals reasonably believe their actions are being tracked, recorded and monitored by government agents, citizens are prone to avoiding behavior that will raise red flags. Using such psychological terror, States are better able to control and minimize anti-establishment behavior, and even undesirable thoughts.
Jeremy Bentham discovered this phenomenon more than two centuries ago in his "Panopticon" study. More recently, as a student of Chicago politics, Barack Obama became aware of the power of fear. In fact, many of Saul Alinksy's "12 Rules for Radicals" -- the Bible for budding liberal activists such as Hillary Clinton and Obama in their early days -- incorporate the power of fear. Understanding this, it becomes clear why Obama has chosen fear, more so than any other emotion, as his primary catalyst to pass his radical agenda; something that has worked remarkably well for the country's 44th President.
Following the 2011 "Wikileaks" data breach, Obama implemented a leak-squelching, internal surveillance scheme tabbed the "Insider Threat Program," designed to turn co-worker against co-worker in pursuing leaks of classified information. According to McClatchy, there is even a course called "Treason 101," for employees of the Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which teaches psychological profiling of would-be whistleblowers. "I'm waiting for the time when you turn in a friend and you get a $50 reward," national security law attorney Kel McClanahan told McClatchy, referring to Obama's "War on Whistleblowers."
This "Obama effect" is not limited to tightly-monitored government employees. Fear and intimidation techniques are employed by the Administration against the private sector as well. The Obama Department of Justice, for example, seized the phone records of the Associated Press, digitally stalked Fox News correspondent James Rosen, and is thought to be behind hacking the computer of CBS reporter Sharyl Attkinson – actions precipitated by media stories challenging the Administration. Making this even more sinister, all these steps occurred while the Internal Revenue Service was intentionally targeting anti-Obama activists with tax audits, and applying unprecedented scrutiny in approving the nonprofit status of Tea Party-affiliated organizations.
The federal government is not alone in its use of fear to enable the Hawthorne effect. Local and state governments also rely on the threat of Big Brother to engineer "better" citizens. Several states across the U.S. are looking at "black boxes" in vehicles as a solution to road congestion and taxation -- a strategy backed by the U.S. Department of Transportation. While state and federal officials laud such devices as a more "accurate" way to tax road use, privacy advocates see the insidious social engineering behind this plan. If a driver is constantly aware his or her behavior behind the wheel is being recorded -- and, given what we know about government, reasonably assumed to be transmitted back to the DMV or the driver's insurer -- that driver likely will modify his behavior to please anonymous government "watchers."
This is the Obama Fear Effect in everyday application. Citizens are afraid to speak, act and think freely. They fear having their computers hacked by government bureaucrats and lawyers, being audited by the IRS, or even being ticketed for rolling through a stop sign one midnight months ago. So, to avoid making trouble, citizens opt to "be on their best behavior" with government officials.
A truly free society exists only when citizens have a reasonable expectation they are free to live their lives without the fear of unwarranted interference from the authorities.
Unfortunately, in today's society, there is a growing expectation that is quite the opposite -- that we are, or soon will be, the victims of government targeting, for either personal or political motives. This is exactly what Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service bodyguard for Obama who is now running for Congress, meant in an interview with Glenn Beck when he said, "
t's only a matter of time before someone slaps an email on your desk from 15 years ago... and says 'look what we got against you.'"
This is the reality of Obama's new Fear Society, where nobody is safe and everybody is subject to scrutiny; and only those most loyal to the State have the least to fear.
http://www.absoluterights.com/obamas-society-of-fear/
Guess Which Senator Is Effectively Calling For A Total Repeal Of Obumacare?
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(Just went full-on wacko bird.... did McShame just realize his messiah's signature legislation is a piece of crap! What did McRINO expect? Did he really think between Obuma's twisted ideology, hatred for America, and his incompetence that it would be a success??? Sheeeezzzz...)Via The Blaze:After repeatedly criticizing senators such as Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) over their crusade to defund Obamacare, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called for the "total repeal" of the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday. It's a quick turnaround after the longtime senator, in September, proclaimed that it was "not rational" to think Obamacare could be defunded or repealed.
McCain outlined his "solution" during an interview with Greta Van Susteren, which culminated in an admission that the law should be repealed completely.
"The solution is, first of all, to let people keep their insurance if they want to," he said. "Or at least reinstate them."
He continued: "Second of all, let the insurance companies give a menu of whatever they want to provide. Third of all, medical savings account. Fourth of all, medical malpractice reform. Let people go across state lines to, in order to, if they can get a better insurance policy in another state. And remove this whole tax incentive for employers to provide employees health insurance."
"That is repeal," Van Susteren said, pointing out the obvious.
"That's exactly right," McCain replied. "That is total repeal in every other way. Because what Obamacare is, is an experiment in social engineering — in other words, making healthy people pay more...in order to subsidize the health care for people that are older and unhealthy. That is the ultimate in social engineering."
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Bill Maher: "If You're A Democrat,
The Clintons Are A Pre-Existing Condition"
(Think that's funny Maher? Then you'll be giddy by Feb. Three major policy challenges are converging in January. Government spending authority expires in the middle of the month, just three weeks ahead of the debt ceiling. January 1st is the deadline for individuals to have insurance. If the website isn't fixed or if young and healthy Americans haven't yet signed up for coverage, insurers will begin panicking and ObamaCare itself could start to unravel)
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(Hopefully, we've suffered that last of that pre-existing condition. Benghazi left an albatross on her neck, so let's hope the voters don't forgive or forget!)
Numb-Nutz Holder Of The...
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.... Takes Aim At 3-D Guns,
Calls For Renewal Of Metal Detection Law
(Coming for your plastic guns, too... gun shot wounds from plastic guns aren't covered under 0bamacare. Anywazzz... the putz Holder needs to recheck the blueprints he has. The 'Printable Gun' has a metal core, It was designed that way... not to mention the ammunition fired in the weapons are also made of brass, copper and lead which are all detectable. No way a weapon made exclusively out of plastic could survive the severe pressures generated by a modern pistol cartridge)
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Via Fox News:Calling 3-D plastic guns an "extremely serious problem," Attorney General Eric Holder called on Congress to renew a law that requires all firearms to be subject to metal detection.
The Undetectable Firearms Act, a law first enacted in 1988 and then reauthorized in 2003, makes it illegal to "manufacture, import, sell, ship, deliver, possess, transfer or receive" any firearm that's undetectable by scanners. But the law is set to expire Dec. 9, unless Congress again reauthorizes it. Holder said the new technology of printing 3-D guns made of plastic means guns could potentially be smuggled onto planes, into federal buildings or at large public events.
"This is an extremely serious problem," Holder said in a statement. "This is a very worrisome threat to law enforcement and to people who fly every day. We can't have guns legally in circulation that are not detectable by metal detectors."
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(Actually... it should read: "...Obumacare 'AND OBUMA' Are A Total Unmitigated Disaster)
Bill O'Reilly's Nightmare
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By ...David Horowitz
This was a big week for lies and nastiness from the mainstream media, political wonks and progressives. This was the week where Richard Cohen made us gag, The NYT made up a legislative initiative just so it could trash the GOP, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz proved that she really is just an android who is programed to say its the GOP's fault and "radical tea party Republicans over and over again"
It was also the week where MSNBC's Toure' proved he didn't have the slightest knowledge of political basics such as Senatorial elections are conducted on a state-wide base.
During the past seven days, the problems with Obamacare have been blamed on everyone except Obama include Republicans, the American People and Hillary Clinton; John Kerry lied about the negotiations with Iran, Scholastic eliminated Israel; and so much more.
Below are my favorite stupid media bias tricks from the last seven days. Headlines are linked to the full article (and will open a new window). When it is a broadcast story the video/audio will also be found at the end of the link.
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TruthRevolt Victory: MSNBC Suspends Alex Baldwinhttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/truthrevolt-victory-msnbc-suspends-baldwin-two-weeks
DEVELOPING: According to a statement on the MSNBC website, the network is suspending Alec Baldwin's show Up Late for two weeks in the wake of the actor-turned-host's latest anti-gay slurs.
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In the statement, Baldwin apologizes to his "loyal fans," as well as to his "colleagues at msnbc," saying:
"I did not intend to hurt or offend anyone with my choice of words, but clearly I have – and for that I am deeply sorry. Words are important. I understand that, and will choose mine with great care going forward. What I said and did this week, as I was trying to protect my family, was offensive and unacceptable. Behavior like this undermines hard-fought rights that I vigorously support. I understand "Up Late" will be taken off the schedule for tonight and next week."The suspension comes following a petition campaign by TruthRevolt seeking action from MSNBC against Baldwin for his most recent bigoted remarks...
Oprah: Many Americans Disrespect Obama Because He's Black(It was those same Americans that made you a billionaire, you twit!)http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/oprah-many-americans-disrespect-obama-because-hes-black
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Oprah Winfrey has gotten herself into another controversy about racism. She faced criticism last summer for a claim that a sales clerk in Zurich, Switzerland refused to sell her a handbag because she was black -- a claim which turned out to be exaggerated at best. Now she has made another claim of racism: according to Oprah, many Americans push back against President Obama's agenda because he is black...
It's Hillary's Fault! Hosts of 'The Cycle' Blame Obamacare Issues on Everyone (Except Obama)http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/its-hillarys-fault-hosts-cycle-blame-obamacare-issues-everyone-except-obama
On Wednesday's episode of MSNBC's The Cycle, three of the four hosts engaged in a friendly disagreement as to who was at fault for the President's "you can keep your plan" lie. Toure ' contended it was Hillary Clinton' ...
NBC's Chuck Todd Crowns Clinton Winner Of The 2016 Electionhttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/nbcs-chuck-todd-crowns-clinton-winner-2016-election
Tuesday, during his MSNBC program, The Daily Rundown, Todd presented a new NBC poll that not surprisingly, showed if the election was held today Hillary Clinton would beat Chris Christie. Of course, the election will not be held today, neither candidat ...
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Reacts To Obama Press Conference "But the Republicans...."http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/debbie-wasserman-schultz-reacts-obama-press-conference-republicans
For each question Mitchell asked, the DNC Chair seemed to answer a totally different question. It was as if she could only provide a pre-programmed talking point. The MSNBC host grew visibly frustrated as Wasserman Schultz found a way to turn around each ...
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Hugh Hewitt Exposes Mendacity of Obamacare Advisor Dr. Jonathan Gruberhttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/hugh-hewitt-exposes-mendacity-obamacare-advisor-dr-jonathan-gruber
On Wednesday evening, MIT Economist and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber appeared on the Hugh Hewitt radio show to defend the President's signature legislation. During the first part of the interview, Gruber refused to admit the President's ...
John Kerry's Misleading 'Morning Joe' Interview About Negotiations With Iranhttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/john-kerrys-misleading-morning-joe-interview-about-negotiations-iran
Thursday morning, Secretary of State John Kerry appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe to provide some damage control, misleading the public about the proposed deal Iran. ...
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Wasserman Schultz on Obamacare Failure: It's All The Tea Partyhttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/wasserman-schultz-obamacare-failure-its-all-tea-party
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Democratic Party Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz sat down with Candy Crowley on CNN's State of the Union Sunday morning to discuss Obamacare failures. Like a mantra, Wasserman Schultz proceeded to repeat the terms "Tea Party," "extremis ...
Former Obama Advisor Larry Summers Claims Obamacare Performing Better Than Expected.http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/former-obama-advisor-larry-summers-claims-obamacare-performing-better-expected
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Former Obama adviser Larry Summers appeared on CNBC Wednesday to help sell Obamacare. He was asked if the legislation's failed introduction would have a negative impact on economic growth. The former presidential adviser began by suggesting the Healt ...
Scholastic Publishing Eliminates Israel From Map In Children's Bookhttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/scholastic-publishing-eliminates-israel-map-childrens-book
A children's book published by Scholastic starts with a map of modern Egypt and its neighboring countries. Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan are clearly shown on the map. Israel, however, is totally missing, its territory identified as part of J ...
Liberal Morning Joe Panel Abandons Obama Shiphttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/liberal-morning-joe-panel-abandons-obama-ship
Wednesday's Morning Joe program was an absolute feeding frenzy as host Joe Scarborough and his panel of liberals provided all the reasons why President Obama has been unable to change and adapt. After viewing the segment it may be hard to remember ...
Morning Joe Guest Fear-Mongers About Typhoon Haiyan And Climate Changehttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/morning-joe-guest-fear-mongers-about-typhoon-haiyan-and-climate-change
Tuesday's Morning Joe featured a discussion of Typhoon Haiyan, the horrible storm which struck the Philippines, and its relation to climate change which was not only dishonest in the way it was presented, but also in the "facts" used. ...
Columnist Richard Cohen: GOP Had To Suppress Gag Reflex Over NY Mayor-Elect's Interracial Marriagehttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/columnist-richard-cohen-gop-had-suppress-gag-reflex-over-ny-mayor-elects-interracial-marriage
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NY Daily News columnist Richard Cohen's piece on Tuesday, Why Iowa May Bury Christie's Ambitions, accused conservatives of having to suppress a gag reflex when considering the interracial marriage of NYC's Mayor-elect DeBlasio. ...
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Mika Brzezinski Tries To Blame Obamacare Problems on GOP, Gets Schooled
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When it was pointed out that the White House needs to stop placing blame and take responsibility, Mika did the White House's job by placing the blame on Republicans. However, guest Jon Meacham and host Joe Scarborough didn't allow Brzezinski ...
Why Is John Kerry Inciting Violence on Palestinian TV?http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/why-john-kerry-inciting-violence-palestinian-tv
During his trip to the Middle East to revive the struggling peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to a joint interview with Israel's Channel 2 and the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. ...
Ed Schultz: It's The Republicans Who Should Apologizehttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ed-schultz-its-republicans-who-should-apologize
On Monday's The Ed Show, host Ed Shultz did his best to turn attention away from the President's "you can keep your insurance, period" lie, with a demand the Republicans apologize for all the bad things they did to damage Obamacare. ...
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NY Daily News Blames Obama's Keep Insurance Lie On The American Peoplehttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ny-daily-news-blames-obamas-keep-insurance-lie-american-people
NY Daily News Columnist Michael Cohen has a unique perspective on the President's "you can keep your healthcare, period" lie. In his Monday column, "Behind Obama's Lie, Our Own Immaturity," Cohen admitted that Obama lied, but he d ...
Al Sharpton's MSNBC Contract Permits Him to Remain a Professional Bigothttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/al-sharptons-msnbc-contract-permits-him-remain-professional-bigot
Al Sharpton has incited racial hatred, was involved in two anti-Semitic violent incidents, ruined careers by bearing false witness, and exploited tragedies by injecting race where there was none before. Now we learn from the Washington Post' s Eric ...
Chris Jansing And Senator Sanders Double Team GOP With Climate Fibshttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/chris-jansing-and-senator-sanders-double-team-gop-climate-fibs
MSNBC's Chris Jansing began her Monday show with the news of the horrible typhoon which ravaged the Philippines the previous weekend. The Philippines tragedy received approximately three minutes of coverage before Jansing launched into a one-sided se ...
Alex Wagner Bashes Democrats 'Keep Your Plan' Billhttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/alex-wagner-bashes-democrats-keep-your-plan-bill
Alex Wagner began her MSNBC program on Monday by showing the disdain she has for the average American, implying they are too stupid to recognize a "crappy" health insurance policy. ...
Leon Panetta Sides With Israel On Obama's Iran Talkshttp://www.truthrevolt.org/news/leon-panetta-sides-israel-obamas-iran-talks
Leon Panetta held two key national security positions in the Obama Administration, CIA Director and Defense Secretary, giving him unique insight into the developing Iranian negotiations. On Face The Nation Sunday, Bob Schieffer quizzed Panetta about ...
D.C. Insurance Commissioner Questions Obuma's
Decision To Offer ObumaCrappyCare "Fix"... Fired Next Day(http://media.washtimes.com/media/image/2013/10/24/20131023edloc-a_s638x439.jpg)
(No one dares question Dear Leader)
Via WaPo:A day after he questioned President Obama's decision to unwind a major tenet of the health-care law and said the nation's capital might not go along, D.C. insurance commissioner William P. White was fired.
White was called into a meeting Friday afternoon with one of Mayor Vincent C. Gray's (D) top deputies and told that the mayor "wants to go in a different direction," White told The Washington Post on Saturday.
White said the mayoral deputy never said that he was being asked to leave because of his Thursday statement on health care. But he said the timing was hard to ignore. Roughly 24 hours later, White said, he was "basically being told, 'Thanks, but no thanks.' "
White was one of the first insurance commissioners in the nation last week to push back against Obama's attempt to smooth over part of the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act: millions of unexpected cancellations of insurance plans.
In persuading Congress to vote for the health-care overhaul, Obama had promised that Americans who liked their insurance plans would be able to keep them. When that turned out to not be the case, Obama apologized last week. And to stem growing bipartisan dissent, he announced Thursday that plans slated to be canceled next year to comply with the legislation could be extended for one year.
12 Vulnerable Democrats Who Voted For Obamacare In The Senate
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These twelve men and women all voted for the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act. They are ALL up for reelection in 2014. Because of them, millions of Americans have no health insurance even if they can afford it.
Because of these twelve men and women, our government was able to pass the largest entitlement program in the last half century. In 2014, cancel their insurance plans. Send them home with a cancellation notice.
Netanyahu Puts Out Incredibly Important Graphic;
WaPo Criticizes Design, Misses Message
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https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1195697907/Screen_shot_2010-12-21_at_6.06.59_PM_bigger.png Benjamin Netanyahu ✔ @netanyahu
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What is the reaction of the WaPo? "Netanyahu's graphic talents aren't good".
... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2013/11/15/netanyahu-needs-a-new-graphic-designer/ ...Umm, okay. Perhaps you missed the point?
We're talking about Iran getting the bomb, kids. If they do, nothing in that region will be the same again.
And the WaPo is talking about graphics. It is to weep...
Progressive NYC Mayor-Elect Bill DeBlasio Kisses Al Sharpton's Ring black A$$! :-* :-* :-*(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/deblasio_sharpton-550x366.jpg)
(You know, as much as I have thought that Nanny Bloomberg was frequently ridiculous, we've not even begun to plumb the depths to which NYC can fall, now that de Blasio will be Mayor. ACORN will now hold sway in the city and all hell will break loose)
Via NY Post:In one of his first speeches as mayor-elect, Bill de Blasio on Saturday did what any liberal politician in the city would do before taking office — he trucked up to Harlem to kiss Al Sharpton's ring.
"Every year Reverend Sharpton is becoming stronger as a leader, is reaching farther as a leader," de Blasio fawned at Sharpton's National Action Network meeting.
"You never have to wonder if he will remember where he came from, and he'll be the first one up to stand up for justice. I gotta tell you guys, he's a blessing for all of us. Let's thank Reverend Sharpton." :P :P :P
ObumaCrappyCare Contains A Marriage Penalty, Too
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(I've spoken ad infinitum about the website and all the attendant problems with the healthcare debacle. But there are also a raft of penalties and taxes, some of which you wouldn't think of, hidden away in the law. ObumaCrappyCare is LOADED with junk like this. It was created to be huge to hide all the taxes,questionable legal acts and personal info theft.
It contains tax after tax after regulations after job killing rules after tax.......
For Instance:
"If you are single with an adjusted gross income of $200,000 or file jointly with an income of $250,000 or more, you may be impacted. Once you sell your home, any profits over the first $500,000 are already subject to a capital gains tax. And now those profits will have an additional 3.8% tax to fund ObumaCrappyCare.")(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/704/710/original.jpg?w=600&h=480)
Via Weekly Standard:Every time you think that we've finally touched bottom on Obamacare, some new problem emerges. So what began merely as a dysfunctional website became a broken and mis-designed system. When it turned out that lots of people were paying more for their plans, it then turned out that others were having their plans canceled—and that some people were even losing their doctors. And now we're finding that, along with everything else, Obamacare contains a marriage penalty, too.
Flashback Obama 2008:
"I'm Disorganized And Need Someone To Keep Track Of Things"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnILwiMYntU
"My greatest strength, I think, is the ability to bring people together from different perspectives, to get them to recognize what they have in common and to move people in a different direction," said Obama in 2008.
"And as I indicated before, my greatest weakness, I think, is when it comes to -- I'll give you a very good example. I ask my staff never to hand me paper until two seconds before I need it, because I will lose it. (Laughter.) You know. The -- you know. And my desk in my office doesn't look good. I've got to have somebody around me who is keeping track of that stuff. And that's not trivial. I need to have good people in place who can make sure that systems run. That's what I've always done. And that's why we've run not only a good campaign but a good U.S. Senate office."
Obama indicated yesterday that the White House staff had let him down during the Obamacare rollout and not informed him of the major problems with healthcare.gov.
REPORT: If This Report Is True, Obuma is Refusing Calls
From Netanyahu Amid Tension Over Iran
Posted November 17, 2013 Barack Obama is rejecting calls from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid tensions over his Iranian peace deal.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured Barack Obama in the Oval Office on the dangers facing the Jews back in May 2011.
Haaretz reported:Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida reported Sunday that U.S. President Barack Obama has been refusing to take phone calls from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because of the tension between the two countries over how to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue.
The Prime Minister's Office issued a flat denial, saying, "The report in Al Jarida is wrong."
The White House also denied the reports.
Al Jarida, which has previously reported information that was later verified about a leak investigation taking place in Netanyahu's bureau, says that on Friday, Obama refused more than once to speak to Netanyahu on the telephone and had U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry take the call instead. The paper cited a source it says is familiar with the issue.
According to the report, which was written by a reporter in Jerusalem, U.S. Jewish leaders are trying to get the White House to decrease the tension and snag Netanyahu an invitation to meet with Obama in Washington.
Meanwhile... France assured Israel it will stand firm on the Iran deal.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/17/us-iran-nuclear-hollande-idUSBRE9AG0AR20131117
Fukushima Japan - "Major Global Catastrophe"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYOJEF6mHUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Z3M53Ek0U
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Satellite images show how the number of water storage tanks has increased in the past two years. The tanks store contaminated water that has been used to cool the reactors.
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Water from the storage tanks has seeped into the groundwater and then into the sea. Efforts to use a chemical barrier to prevent sea contamination have not worked.
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Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, former Japanese Ambassador to the US said: "The worsening radioactive contamination of the sea will soon awaken the whole world to the nuclear dangers that cannot be endured by human society." Mr. Murata also wrote the following letter to President Obama.Dear Mr. President,
Much reported contaminated water problem at Fukushima Daiichi is overshadowing the Unit 4 crisis which is the most pressing global security issue. A mega earthquake surpassing intensity 6plus will make collapse the already wrecked building and the cooling pool containing ten times more cesium 137 than Chernobyl. There are in total 15093 fuel rods assemblies at the site. Frequent earthquakes continue to rattle the building. If the worst happens, the total evacuation will be imposed and it will be, as top scientists of the world warn, the beginning of a major global catastrophe.
It is urgently needed to set up an international task force to assist Japan by deploying all possible means to reduce the risks of the imminent first unloading of spent fuel from the unit 4 under conditions of unprecedented complexity. This requires the establishment of a new system based on the full assumption of responsibilities by the Government of Japan. The enormous amount of funding needed must be totally supervised by the Government, not by TEPCO. This is the crisis of Japan as a nation, not the crisis of the management of TEPCO. One of the lessons of Fukushima should be the shift of the priority; from economy to life.
The task force to be created under the new system, consisting of best selected experts, American and others, would provide, based on neutral assessment, adequate strategies for the stabilization of the Fukushima Daiichi.
The world is pinning hopes on your historic role, symbolized by your vision "the world without nuclear weapons".
With highest and warmest regards,
Mitsuhei Murata
Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland "In a letter to the UN secretary general, Mitsuhei Murata says the official radiation figures published by Tepco cannot be trusted. He says he is extremely worried about the lack of a sense of crisis in Japan and abroad.
"BBC News:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561
And from Mycle Schneider who advises both Germany and France on their nuclear programs:"The Japanese have a problem asking for help. It is a big mistake; they badly need it."More information on Japan's situation:http://enenews.com/
Alexey Yaroshevsky, RT: Just 10 km from the [Fukushima] nuclear power station [...] the Japanese government [decided] to allow the people to return to their homes. But scientists say that's suicidal because radiation migrates and because it exists in hotspots scattered all across the area.
Yosuke Yamashiki, Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability: In the hotspots, there is a huge amount of radioactive material is concentrated and stored. It is almost impossible to find out all the hotspots to check them, or remove all the radioactive contaminated material from their houses.Yaroshevsky: The radiation meter went berserk, even from a considerable distance [away from a disposal area in Fukushima]. Imagine our surprise when we found similar levels in an area which had never been included in the no-go zone. I've traveled to the Chernobyl exclusion more than a dozen times and this was probably the scariest episode when we put a radiation meter on the ground on a layer of moss more 800 microroentgens per hour. That is 40 times more than the normal human radiation level. Here 60 km from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the radiation are certainly less than that. This is close to the average level of the ghost town of Pripyat of the no-go zone. Only one exception, the place where I'm at right , more than 10,000 people are currently leaving.Interview with Janette Sherman, M.D., specialist in internal medicine and toxicology, worked at the Atomic Energy Commission and U.S. Navy Radiation Defense Laboratory, Nov. 4, 2013 (at 9:00 in): Of course it's going to have an impact on our health. It's not just Alaska, it's already been detected off the coast of California [...] All of this is done without informed consent. And so when you go back to John Gofman, we know that this is random murder, because we don't know who's going to be contaminated [...] We have the Northern Hemisphere essentially being subjected to a massive experiment.Also These Links:http://enenews.com/cbs-disintegrating-sea-stars-vanishing-along-west-coast-could-be-gone-for-generations-never-seen-this-before-bewildering-disease-is-spreading-and-no-idea-whats-causing-it-or-how-to-stop-it
http://enenews.com/former-tepco-engineer-fukushima-meltdown-ignited-quake-tsunami-serious-damage-caused-reactor-lose-coolant-wont-be-long-lies-exposed-expert-all-units-sustained-damage-quake-audio
http://enenews.com/anonymous-protests-at-california-tv-station-lack-of-fukushima-coverage-show-host-i-wonder-if-media-being-paid-not-to-report-on-it-senior-scientist-phony-stories-made-up-by-national-propaga
http://enenews.com/now-revealed-that-80-spent-fuel-assemblies-are-damaged-and-leaking-radioactive-materials-in-fukushima-storage-pools-kyodo-removal-attempt-at-unit-4-starts-later-today-japan-nuclear-official
Related Posts-November 17th, 2013 | Category: Audio/Video Clips, Japan (Fukushima]:***Fukushima Mystery? TV: Japan expert says radiation levels in ocean too high to be explained by groundwater flow alone — Must be coming from "other contamination routes" entering Pacific — "Devastating impact" to come? (VIDEO) August 19, 2013
http://enenews.com/mystery-tv-expert-says-oceans-radiation-levels-too-high-to-be-explained-by-only-groundwater-there-must-be-other-routes-for-contamination-thats-flowing-into-pacific-devastating-impact
***TV: "It's a crime what's happening at Fukushima" — People resettling areas 10 to 15 km from plant with "radiation levels still very, very high and even lethal in some cases" — Hotspots 60 to 70 km away same level as ghost towns in Chernobyl (VIDEOS) November 9, 2013
http://enenews.com/tv-its-a-crime-whats-happening-at-fukushima-people-resettling-areas-10-to-15-km-from-plant-with-radiation-levels-still-very-very-high-and-even-lethal-in-some-cases-ho
***Scientists: "We are not prepared for this, nobody is prepared" — Debris could bring radioactive contamination to US, Canada — May impact marine life (VIDEO) December 27, 2011
http://enenews.com/scientists-prepared-prepared-debris-could-bring-radioactive-contamination-canada-impact-marine-life-video
***Jiji: Cover-up of true radiation levels Fukushima residents were exposed to? WHO accused of underestimating disaster's impact on human health December 15, 2012
http://enenews.com/jiji-cover-up-of-true-radiation-levels-fukushima-residents-were-exposed-to-who-accused-of-underestimating-disasters-impact-on-human-health-iaea-colluding-with-japans-nuclear-power-industry
***Radio: I'm afraid impact of Fukushima contamination on west coast of N. America will be downplayed, it could impact so much — Professor: This is a concern (AUDIO) September 20, 2013
http://enenews.com/radio-im-afraid-impact-of-fukushima-contamination-on-west-coast-of-n-america-will-be-downplayed-it-could-impact-so-much-professor-this-is-a-concern-audio
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Q&A: Fukushima Leak Problems
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779560
Here is a congress woman I can stand behind on at least this subject.
A a respected businessman who is probably an upstanding member and leader of his community, getting his
upcomance.
A video well worth watching in my opinion.
http://www.upworthy.com/whats-the-worst-thing-you-could-say-to-a-congresswoman-who-lost-her-legs-in-battle-found-it?g=2
Obama: Army Service Members Consider Him
'The Enemy Within'
November 17, 2013
America's patriots have been on this guy's tail since 2008, and certainly prior to the 2012 elections; he's just too far removed from our Constitution. And they knew that if this guy was reelected one more time, it spelled the end of our country as we knew it.
[H/T WND]: Yesterday I met a patriot who has a relative in the Army. My new acquaintance has a couple members of his family who are ministers of the gospel like me. They all have the same perspective about End-Time prophecy as me. Because we both have much in common, he opened up to me about something you need to know about.
His relative was recently asked if he would take an oath of allegiance to Obama. He said he would honor his oath to defend our nation, but not to defend Obama. All the other soldiers at his post were also asked to swear allegiance to Obama, too. They gave the same answer that they would only honor their oath to protect the U.S. None of them were willing to protect Obama because they consider him an enemy within.
This is what Hitler did shortly before he became dictator of Germany. http://conservativeangle.com/obama-army-service-members-consider-him-the-enemy-within/
Ketchup anyone?
A Common Enemy – Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt Align Cooperatively Against Iran (and The U.S.)
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Posted on November 17, 2013(Via Pam Geller) It is astounding. Consider how monumental the blunders of the jihadi stooge in the White House for an alliance of such divergent powers to align. Nothing happens for decades, then decades happen in a day.
Israel is working with the Saudis and France is considering the option of aligning with the Middle East powers – Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt – which challenge
[the Dumb & Dumber pair,] Barack Obama and Secretary of State John
['Lurch'] Kerry's race for détente with Tehran.
Report: "Israel and Saudi Arabia will work together in case of an Iran attack" Jerusalem Online, November 17, 2013 (thanks to Zeidi);Mossad agents met with senior level Saudi officials to formulate a joint attack on Iran, in case the talks between the world powers and Iran fail, the Sunday Times reported. "The Saudis are decisive in confronting Iran and the Israelis are ready to provide the help they need," a senior level official told the newspaper.
The Sunday Times reported that Israeli Mossad agents have cooperated recently with senior level Saudi officials, in order to formulate a joint attack on Iran, in case an agreement signed with Iran won't be acceptable to the two countries.
According to the report, which relies on diplomatic sources, Saudi Arabia has agreed to permit Israel to use her airspace, as well as to provide assistance to Israel through the use of drones, rescue helicopters, and aircraft refueling.
In the report, Saudi Arabia is quoted to be very angry with the west and is willing to provide Israel all the assistance she needs to deal militarily with Iran.French President François Hollande was in Israel today. He was VERY warmly received by Benjamin Netanyahu and the people of Israel against the backdrop of France being the only power to stop the U.S. acquiescence toward Iran.
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Gallup Finds Obama And George W. Bush's Approval Ratings Strikingly Similar...
Of course the MSM isn't going to gleefully report on Obama's tanking approval rating like they did every time Bush's numbers dropped.
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Obama is light green and Bush dark green. Note around the 1200 day mark their approval ratings intertwine.
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Via Gallup:http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx
Delusional Obuma Tells OFA Recruits On Conference Call: "100 Million Have Signed Up" For ObumaCrappyCare
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(That crack will get you everytime, Barry... Just look at Robert Ford)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509715/Obama-flubs-health-care-conference-community-organizers-More-100-million-Americans-successfully-enrolled.html
President Barack Obama told a conference-call audience of 200,000 progressive volunteers on Monday evening that 'more than 100 million Americans' – in a nation of less than 314 million – have successfully signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act.A weary-sounding
Obama made the gaffe during a call hosted by Organizing For Action, the nonprofit successor to his campaign organization Obama For America. "I just wanted to take a few minutes to speak to everybody because you guys are the ones who are in the trenches, day-in, day-out,' Obama said, complaining of 'misinformation' that has circulated about his signature health care law. But 'problems with the website ... have created and fed a lot of this misinformation,' he admitted.
Boasting of his administration's skill in encouraging taxpayers to buy health insurance policies through public marketplaces, he claimed that 'in the first month alone, we've seen more than 100 million Americans already successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.'(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/article-2509715-197FACB400000578-978_638x571-550x492.jpg)
For Every 1 Person Who Selected An ObumaCrappyCare Plan,
40 People Have Received Cancellation Notices
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Obuma's "5% Con": Adminstration's Own Figures Project Most Will Lose Coverage
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(Not only did Obama lie about keeping your plan, but he is also lying now, about cancellations affecting only about 5% of those insured.
He knew in 2010 even, that most employer insurance plans, not just the individual market plans, would be cancelled. Because Obama delayed the employer mandate (which delay was lawless and unconstitutional), he delayed those looming cancellations until the end of next year.
At the very time in the last few weeks, when Obama was arguing to us that the cancellations would only be affecting a small number or 5%, his Department of Justice was telling the federal court that most of the employer policies would be going away.
Great article by Andrew McCarthy)Via NRO: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/364176/obamas-5-percent-con-job-andrew-c-mccarthy/page/0/1#!
Last Thursday, President Obama purported to undo the "Affordable" Care Act (ACA) mandates that he and congressional Democrats quite intentionally designed to force Americans off their health-insurance policies . . . notwithstanding the president's promise, repeated over and over again since 2009, that Americans would be able to keep their health-insurance policies. In my weekend column, I argued that Obama's latest unilateral diktat is lawless and transparently political. With each passing day, however, what becomes more breathtaking is the depth of systematic, calculated lying that went into the extensive — the criminal — Obamacare fraud.
American Jewish Leaders: Obuma Lied To Us About Iran
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(Welcome to the club)
Via Times of Israel:http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-jewish-leaders-feel-misled-by-white-house-over-iran-deal/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
American Jewish leaders feel they were misled by the White House in recent contacts during which Obama administration officials urged them to stop pressing for more sanctions on Iran and instead give time for the Geneva negotiations to bear fruit, The Times of Israel was told on Monday.
The US Jewish leaders feel that the administration showed a "lack of trust" in them, a source close to the meeting said.
Obama administration officials did not tell them that they had been secretly negotiating with Iran for the past year, and that the Geneva talks were really "precooked," and thus it was an act of bad faith for the administration to ask the Jewish groups to hold off on pressure for more sanctions with the promise that they would meet again in 30-60 days to consider where the negotiations had led.
In fact, the Jewish leaders believe, the administration knew exactly where the negotiations would be heading, since they had secretly negotiated the terms.
Although Haaretz on Monday quoted White House spokesperson Bernadette Meehan as saying that a Sunday Channel 10 report on the year-plus secret US-Iran talks was "absolutely, 100 percent false," two sources told The Times of Israel they were convinced there was a secret channel of negotiations and were dismayed that the White House had not come clean about it.
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(There's no denying that we are headed for a total collapse and that those whom we are indebted to, will eventually come to take the spoils! When Russia, and especially China, decide to make their move, we will ALL inherit the devastating results that corruption, greed and the machinations of evil men like this POS Obuma and his henchmen have contributed to the destruction of our country and our ultimate misery!) Obuma's Secret Treaty Which Will Merge America More Deeply
Into The Emerging One World Economic System
November 14, 2013 by Michael Snyder
Did you know that the Obama administration is negotiating a super secret "trade agreement" that is so sensitive that he isn't even allowing members of Congress to see it? The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called the "NAFTA of the Pacific" and "NAFTA on steroids", but the truth is that it is so much more than just a trade agreement. This treaty has 29 chapters, but only 5 of them have to do with trade. Most Americans don't realize this, but this treaty will fundamentally change our laws regarding Internet freedom, health care, the trading of derivatives, copyright issues, food safety, environmental standards, civil liberties and so much more. It will also merge the United States far more deeply into the emerging one world economic system. Initially, twelve nations will be a party to this treaty including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Together, those nations represent approximately 40 percent of global GDP. It is hoped that additional nations such as the Philippines, Thailand and Colombia will join the treaty later on.
There are some very good reasons why Obama does not want the American people to know anything about what is in this treaty. This agreement will impose very strict Internet copyright rules on the American people, it will ban all "Buy American" laws, it will give Wall Street banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives and it will force even more domestic manufacturing offshore.
It contains a whole host of things that Obama would be unable to get through Congress on his own. But he is hoping to spring this on Congress at the last minute and get them to agree to this "free trade agreement" before they realize all of the things that are contained in it.(http://static.infowars.com/bindnfocom/2013/11/c1.jpg)
The secrecy surrounding these treaty negotiations have really been unprecedented. The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Kurt Nimmo... http://www.infowars.com/secret-globalist-treaty-threatens-internet-freedom/
"Since the beginning of the TPP negotiations, the process of drafting and negotiating the treaty's chapters has been shrouded in an unprecedented level of secrecy," Wikileaks notes in a statement on the release of the TPP draft...
https://wikileaks.org/tpp/pressrelease.html
"Access to drafts of the TPP chapters is shielded from the general public. Members of the US Congress are only able to view selected portions of treaty-related documents in highly restrictive conditions and under strict supervision. It has been previously revealed that only three individuals in each TPP nation have access to the full text of the agreement, while 600 'trade advisers' – lobbyists guarding the interests of large US corporations such as Chevron, Halliburton, Monsanto and Walmart – are granted privileged access to crucial sections of the treaty text."
And Obama reportedly is seeking "trade promotion authority" which would give him the ability to sign this treaty before Congress even votes on it... http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/obama-secretly-signing-away-u-s-sovereignty/
Normally free -trade agreements must be authorized by a majority of the House and Senate, usually in lengthy proceedings.
However, the White House is seeking what is known as "trade promotion authority" which would fast track approval of the TPP by requiring Congress to vote on the likely lengthy trade agreement within 90 days and without any amendments.
The authority also allows Obama to sign the agreement before Congress even has a chance to vote on it, with lawmakers getting only a quick post-facto vote.
This is so insidious that it is hard to find the words to describe it.
In essence, Obama is trying to make a giant end run around Congress on dozens of different issues that are addressed by this treaty.
Fortunately, there are at least some members of Congress that are waking up to this. Earlier this week, a small group of Republicans and a small group of Democrats both sent Obama a letter condemning this "free trade" agreement...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/12/trans-pacific-partnership-house_n_4263174.html
Separate groups of House Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday condemned the Obama administration's proposed sweeping free trade agreement with 11 Pacific nations, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Strongly worded letters to President Barack Obama Tuesday were signed by hardline tea partiers, true-blue progressives, and moderate, corporate-friendly lawmakers in both parties, indicating political trouble for a trade deal the administration had hoped to seal by year end.
This is one of the most important political issues facing our nation here at the end of 2013, and yet you hear next to nothing about this treaty on the mainstream news. If this treaty is approved, the United States will be permanently bound by the provisions of this treaty and will never be able to change them unless all of the other countries agree...
http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids
Countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to the TPP's rules—in effect, a corporate coup d'état. The proposed pact would limit even how governments can spend their tax dollars. Buy America and other Buy Local procurement preferences that invest in the US economy would be banned, and "sweat-free," human rights or environmental conditions on government contracts could be challenged. If the TPP comes to fruition, its retrograde rules could be altered only if all countries agreed, regardless of domestic election outcomes or changes in public opinion. And unlike much domestic legislation, the TPP would have no expiration date.
Are you starting to understand just how dangerous this treaty is?
Let me give you just one example of how this treaty could directly affect you.
Do you remember SOPA? http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/why-we-must-stop-sopa
There was a huge public backlash when the very strict Internet copyright provisions of SOPA were revealed to the public, and the American people loudly expressed their displeasure to members of Congress.
But now the provisions of SOPA are back. Most of them have reportedly been very quietly inserted into this treaty. If this treaty is enacted, those provisions will become law and the American people will not be able to do a thing about it.
And according to an article in the New York Times, there are all sorts of other disturbing things that have been slipped into this treaty... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/opinion/obamas-covert-trade-deal.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130603&_r=2&
And yet another leak revealed that the deal would include even more expansive incentives to relocate domestic manufacturing offshore than were included in Nafta — a deal that drained millions of manufacturing jobs from the American economy.
The agreement would also be a boon for Wall Street and its campaign to water down regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Among other things, it would practically forbid bans on risky financial products, including the toxic derivatives that helped cause the crisis in the first place.
Are you starting to grasp why the Obama administration is so determined to keep this treaty such a secret?
In addition, this "free trade" agreement will push the ongoing deindustrialization of America into overdrive. Every year, we buy hundreds of billions of dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us. Tens of thousands of American businesses have been lost as a result, and millions of good jobs have been shipped overseas.
If you are not familiar with our "trade deficit", you really should be. It is one of the issues at the very heart of our economic problems. Posted below is a short 3 minute video that briefly discusses the trade deficit and why it is so important...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEQO0PBC5L8
Slowly merging our economy with the rest of the planet has been absolutely disastrous for America. Just consider the following statistics...
-Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of more than 8 trillion dollars with the rest of the world since 1975.
-The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.
-Back in the year 2000, there were more than 17 million Americans working in manufacturing. Now there are less than 12 million.
-There are less Americans working in manufacturing today than there was in 1950 even though the population of the country has more than doubled since then.
-Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.
-When NAFTA was pushed through Congress in 1993, the United States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars. By 2010, we had a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.
-Back in 1985, our trade deficit with China was approximately 6 milliondollars (million with a little "m") for the entire year. In 2012, our trade deficit with China was 315 billion dollars. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.
-According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.
-According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 millionmore U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.
Once upon a time, our great manufacturing cities were the envy of the entire planet. In fact, at one time Detroit actually had the highest per capita income in the United States.
But now Detroit is a rotting, decaying, festering hellhole that is completely bankrupt. And there are dozens of other formerly great manufacturing cities that are heading down the exact same path.
These "free trade" agreements are neither "free" nor "fair" when you really examine them, and they are absolutely eviscerating the middle class.
Please urge your representatives in Congress to block the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If this treaty does get approved, it is going to make a lot of our problems a whole lot worse.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/obamas-trans-pacific-partnership-treaty-which-will-merge-america-more-deeply-into-the-emerging-one-world-economic-system/#rgmb5yveZY0CMk8Y.99
Reuters Poll Finds Obama's Approval Rating Cratering To Only 37%
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An astute reader spotted this buried in a new Reuters story about Obama being briefed on the pending Obamacare disaster despite his claims to the contrary. It is a new poll, Reuters/Ipsos last poll had Obama's approval rating at 40%.(Reuters) – President Barack Obama, who has portrayed himself as surprised by technical problems with the government's new health care website, was briefed earlier this year on a consultant's report that warned of possible widespread site failures, the White House said on Tuesday.
There have been weeks of questions about whether Obama understood the depth of the site's problems and let it open anyway, or simply "did not have enough awareness" of them, as the president stated at a November 14 news conference.
[...]
A spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the lead agency for the website, said it would not be completed until mid-January, weeks after the first enrollees are scheduled to begin receiving benefits under the Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010 as Obama's signature domestic policy.
The law, commonly called Obamacare, mandated that Americans have health insurance and created new online marketplaces to buy and sell policies.
Meanwhile, Obama's approval rating dipped to a low of 37 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
New Jersey Idiotic Residents Complain Naval Base
Playing National Anthem Too Loud
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(I'll go way out on a limb and say the IDIOTS complaining here vote Democrat. Call it a hunch. Maybe those petty whiners would prefer the Muslim call to prayer. After all, POS Obuma refers to it as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth." I wonder what RINO Christie has to say about this?)
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Middletown, New Jersey (My9NJ) - Some residents of Middletown, N.J. are apparently complaining that Earle Naval Weapons Station has been playing the National Anthem too loud every morning at 8:00 a.m. for the past few months when a new base commander started the tradition.
One civilian neighbor is quoted asking why civilians should have to wake up to bugle calls on the PA system every morning.
Most neighbors don't understand what the fuss is all about. Angie Belicose lives near the Earle Naval Weapons Station.
"I don't see why you should complain, you shouldn't be here I guess, I don't know," Belicose says. "It's just a patriotic thing that makes you feel good to hear so I don't have any complaints about it."
The Middletown public address has been quiet since late last week, not because of complaints but because of a technical malfunction.
Earle's public information officer Mike Brady said it'll be back and at the same volume, but the base wants to also be good neighbors.
"We will look into it further. We're not going to raise the volume that's for sure. We will keep it where it is or we'll lower it if that's possible and doable," Brady said.
Brady also did some preliminary studies regarding the sound and he found that trucks passing by the naval base on Highway 36 are at least as loud as the bugle call being complained about.
In addition this same PA system is used to alert all servicemen on the base of an emergency so the sound needs to be loud enough for everyone to hear.
In the end, the
National Anthem runs about 90 seconds long, is that really worthy of a complaint?
Air Force Academy Admits It Removed "So Help Me G-d" From Oaths
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(G-d has no place in the POS Obuma-led military. In my own words... "G-d help US")
Via Fox News:The Air Force Academy has admitted they removed the phrase "so help me God" from three oaths in the 2012 edition of their official cadet handbook, Fox News has learned.
The revelation came after more than two dozen members of Congress sent a letter to Academy Supt. Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson demanding that she explain why the phrase was removed.
The lawmakers contend the 2012 edition of the Contrails Cadet Handbook excludes the phrase 'so help me God' in the Cadet's Oath of allegiance, the Oath of Office for Officers and the Oath of Enlistment.
"The Constitution does not require that this phrase be scrubbed from the oath," read the letter drafted by Rep. Jim Bridenstein (R-Okla.) and signed by 28 lawmakers. "The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the establishment of religion' however, the inclusion of the phrase 'so help me God' in an oath of service does not rise to this level."
Bridenstein said "editing the oath for all Academy students is extreme and unnecessary, and does a disservice to the countless individuals who wish to include the phrase as a solemn reminder that they are pledging their fidelity to God and country."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKlhDr1WMPY
Bill Ayers Reportedly Reveals He Is Author Of "Dreams From My Father" in Latest Book
November 20, 2013, 6:34 PM
From Amazon:Flashback to 2011: Author Jack Cashill documented his thesis in "Deconstructing Obama."http://www.amazon.com/Deconstructing-Obama-Americas-Postmodern-President/dp/1451611110/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384983689&sr=1-1&keywords=deconstructing+obama
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Did Obama write his own books and is the story they tell true?
Cashill explains that Obama does not possess the understanding or skills to author "Dreams From My Father"—...however, the book writing style is remarkably similar to other works from Bill Ayers. Jack Cashill offers a full and fascinating discussion (along with a Q&A) on the topic at this C-SPAN video link.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298382-1 A short montage video of the controversy below:A recent Baltimore book store —Red Emma's— announced an appearance event byBill Ayers promoting his recent book "Public Enemy," the Red Emma's book store post states the following: http://www.redemmas.org/event/3334/ "Ayers reveals how he has navigated the challenges and triumphs of this public life with steadfastness and a dash of good humor — from the red carpet at the Oscars, to prison vigils and airports (where he is often detained and where he finally "confesses" that he did write Dreams from My Father)"Capture image of the event posting:(http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/576x573xBill-Ayers-book-promotion-event-Baltimore-1024x1020.jpg.pagespeed.ic.VsWNdvMbcH.jpg)
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Finally, the truth comes out.
Obama's biography was written by an unrepentant Marxist terrorist.
Obuma Killed Osama... NOT
and Other Liberal Talking Point Lies
Children Taught How to Kill Infidels With Machetes at Holy Mosque
November 20, 2013, 9:04 PM
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Children as young as 4 years old were found being indoctrinated by al-Shabaab elements in Tanga. Above is a screenshot from a video produced by al-Shabaab's media arm al-Kataib, showing young boys being indoctrinated in Somalia.
(Sabahi Online): http://sabahionline.com/en_GB/articles/hoa/articles/features/2013/11/15/feature-01
Children as young as 4 years-old were taught how to kill infidels with knives and machetes at a mosque in Tanzania.
Sabahi Online reported, via Religion of Peace:http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Tanzanian police broke up an al-Shabaab training operation in Tanga region, arresting 69 suspects and freeing dozens of recruits ranging from 4 to 13 years old in a security sweep carried out October 28th to November 5th...
...On the first day of the operation, police rescued 54 children and 32 women who were found at a training facility in Lwande and reunited them with their families the first week of November, according to Kilindi District Commissioner Selemani Liwowa.
Indoctrinating very young minds
Another 20 children, aged between 4 and 13 and who "had been completely brainwashed" by al-Shabaab at a local mosque, were placed in a rehabilitation programme, Liwowa told Sabahi.
When police found them at Madina mosque, the youngsters possessed exercise books which contained teachings on "how to kill using a knife [or] a machete, how to fight aggressors with weapons and without [weapons], how to sabotage the economy and how to liberate East Africa from the hands of the kuffar [infidels]," according to Liwowa.
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ObumaCare is so unpopular that at least one company, Spirit Airlines, feels comfortable using the ObumaCare disaster as a marketing punchline.
So when are House Democrats going to admit this law is an unmitigated disaster?
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Hookers Caressa Kisses, Bella Dawn & Taylor Lee Praise ObumaCrappyCare:
"We Really Support ObumaCrappyCare... This Is Truly A Blessing"
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(Something tells me the White House won't be touting this ObumaCrappyCare "success" story)
RENO – (KRNV- NBC News) — There have been a number of critics to the Affordable Care Act, but the President's signature legislation is getting support from an unusual source;
working girls at Nevada's legal brothels.The girls at Nevada's
"Moonlight Bunny Ranch" say they support the new legislation. "Having this profession, we aren't exactly offered group health insurance. It's hard because I do have a pre-existing condition so I really support Obamacare. I'm excited," says working girl Taylor Lee.
Taylor Lee's pre-exisiting condition didn't help, but that wasn't the only reason she was denied health coverage prior to Obamacare. Before the new law she and the other girls who work at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch said getting health insurance was impossible because carriers refused to cover them because they worked in a legal brothel.
Bella Dawn said; "I switched professions and I wrote it down and they denied it because of the profession I'm in." Caressa Kisses agrees adding; "They equate us to illegal working girls who have very high STD's and AIDS rates which we have none of the above. We're legal, licensed prostitutes."The girls said it didn't matter to insurance carriers that Nevada's brothels are highly regulated. Kisses noted; "I see the doctor every week because it is state mandated. We're tested weekly and monthly for blood. We have to be cleared by health professionals and a physician to work in the house."
So the new law that allows everyone to obtain a health care plan is very welcome news. "I'm very excited about being able to get a health plan now because of Obamacare," said Amy Page. Kisses said health coverage is very much needed by working girls; "
We're independent contractors. We have to get our own insurance but this is truly a blessing. I hope they work the kinks out and that affordable health care happens for all because it is really needed."
Democrats Beg Me To Sign Joe Biden's Birthday Card... Again
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(Screw you Joe... somewhere, the Villages are missing an idiot)
Hollywood Moonbat Antonio Banderas Calls For Socialist Takeover of Private Businesses, "Nationalize Them... Like [Hugo] Chavez Did"
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(If he's so into wealth redistribution why doesn't he hand over his millions to the government?)
Via The Local:Spanish actor Antonio Banderas surprised CNN viewers when he criticized US President Barack Obama and suggested Europe and the US should apply the same economic policies as Venezuela's late president Hugo Chávez.
During his talk with Spanish journalist Ana Pastor, Banderas was asked several questions about the current financial crisis and possible solutions to it.
The Malaga-born star pointed the finger of blame at "the markets, the lobbies, the big corporations" and suggested they didn't have to take responsibility when countries and governments had problems.
"We're not being governed by the people we voted for," he told Pastor.
"How do you put a stop to that?" she asked.
"You break it like Chávez did in his day, you get all these big corporations and you nationalize them," answered Banderas in the midst of a deafening silence.
"There was no other way out," he added.
The Hollywood actor also criticized the US's President Obama for not fullfilling his promises during his two terms in office and succumbing to the pressure of big business and financial markets.
TIME Magazine Cover: "Broken Promise"
(More like a outright lie but... whatever
)
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Unreal: CNN's Chris Cuomo Defends Martin Bashir Saying Someone Should Defecate In Sarah Palin's Mouth
(Cuomo is a Piece of Shit)
Via Mediaite:On CNN's New Day Thursday morning, anchor Chris Cuomo praised MSNBC's Martin Bashirfor his apology to Sarah Palin, and slightly defended the editorial decision to make the initial remarks as part of a more "rhetorical" point about slavery.
Mediaite columnist Joe Concha appeared as a guest, wondering aloud why Bashir hadn't been suspended for on-air remarks like his colleague Alec Baldwin was for an off-air profanity-laced tirade.
"But let's get some context here," Cuomo pushed back. In return, Concha noted that it took Bashir three days to apologize.
"Okay, let's talk about why did it take three days," Cuomo asked. "That goes to what was the intention that Bashir had when he said this. Having read the full transcript of what it was, it seemed to have been a fairly well-developed reference to the history of slavery and how terrible it is and this was what was done to slaves; and if you want to use slavery, you should know what slavery was, and this is what should be done to you."
"But he didn't have to go that far," Concha responded.
"And then it became just the last part of what he was saying should happen to her, which was this horrible thing that was done to slaves," Cuomo noted. "Do you think Martin Bashir was trying to be viciously, savagely hurtful to Sarah Palin?"
"Yes! Of course," Concha replied.
"You don't think he was trying to make a bigger rhetorical point and that this was just a mistake of how to do it?" the CNN host asked. Concha did not agree, suggesting the MSNBC host was simply "trying to get attention."
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NBC (No Bloody Clue) News Has Censored All Coverage of ObumaCrappyCare Since Monday
(It's been more than three days without the word ObumaCrappyCare being mentioned even once, you know, because it's such a minor story :P
Speaking of ObumaCrappyCare news, a company is actually chucking 1000 people onto the CRAPPY exchanges BECAUSE Obuma delayed the employer mandate. Ouch... thats got to hurt! This is the start of 10's of millions to come from employer plans))
Via Newsbusters:
NBC News has completely censored any mention of the unfolding ObamaCare disaster for the last 72 hours. Not one word about the millions of Americans losing their health insurance nor the severe political damage that has been done to President Obama and the Democratic Party.In that same time period, both CBS and ABC reported on major developments regarding the new law, including revelations that much of ObamaCare's infrastructure was still unfinished and that the administration knew of serious problems with the HealthCare.gov website as early as March.
The last time ObamaCare was even mentioned on the air waves of NBC News was during Monday morning's Todayshow, when White House correspondent Peter Alexander touted a "to-do list" of damage controlfor the President and former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs was given a platform to spin for his former boss.
History Of A Nation
(Dummy Demo-rats forgot how to uses grammar and spell check)
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Obuma Holds 'Off-The-Record' Meeting With MSNBC Clown Hosts, Lib Bloggers
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(All of his favorite lapdogs were there, Ed Schultz, Lawrence O'Donnell, Ezra Klein, just to name a few. Look for more putrid crap coming forth from these miserable clowns)
Via Politico:POS Obuma held an 'off-the-record' meeting with MSNBC hosts and liberal pundits on Thursday, POLITICO has learned.
Present at the meeting: MSNBC's Ed Schultz and Lawrence O'Donnell, Washington Post economics blogger Ezra Klein, Mother Jones Washington bureau chief David Corn, Talking Points Memo editor and publisher Josh Marshall, ThinkProgress editor-in-chief Judd Legum, Atlantic senior editor Garance Franke-Ruta, Salon political writer Brian Beutler and Fox News contributor Juan Williams.
Thomas Sowell: Knock Out Gang Games
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by Thomas Sowell
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20131121/OPINION02/311210017/Thomas-Sowell-Knock-out-gang-games
New York City police authorities are investigating a series of unprovoked physical attacks in public places on people who are Jewish, in the form of what is called "the knockout game."
The way the game is played, one of a number of young blacks decides to show that he can knock down some stranger on the streets, preferably with one punch, as they pass by. Often some other member of the group records the event, so that a video of that "achievement" is put on the Internet, to be celebrated.
The New York authorities describe a recent series of such attacks and, because Jews have been singled out in these attacks, are considering prosecuting these assaults as "hate crimes."
Many aspects of these crimes are extremely painful to think about, including the fact that responsible authorities in New York seem to have been caught by surprise, even though this "knockout game" has been played for years by young black gangs in other cities and other states,
against people besides Jews — the victims being either whites in general or people of Asian ancestry.Attacks of this sort have been rampant in St. Louis. But they have also occurred in Massachusetts, Wisconsin and elsewhere. In Illinois the game has often been called "Polar Bear Hunting" by the young thugs, presumably because the targets are white.
The main reason for many people's surprise is that the
mainstream media have usually suppressed news about the "knockout game" or about other and larger forms of similar orchestrated racial violence in dozens of cities in every region of the country. Sometimes the attacks are reported, but only as isolated attacks by unspecified "teens" or "young people" against unspecified victims, without any reference to the racial makeup of the attackers or the victims — and with no mention of racial epithets by the young hoodlums exulting in their own "achievement."
Despite such pious phrases as "troubled youths," the attackers are often in a merry, festive mood. In a sustained mass attack in Milwaukee, going far beyond the dimensions of a passing "knockout game," the attackers were laughing and eating chips, as if it were a picnic. One of them observed casually, "white girl bleed a lot."
That phrase — "White Girl Bleed A Lot" — is also the title of a book by Colin Flaherty, which documents both the racial attacks across the nation and the media attempts to cover them up, as well as the local political and police officials who try to say that race had nothing to do with these attacks.
Chapter 2 of the 2013 edition is titled, "The Knockout Game, St. Louis Style." So this is nothing new, however new it may be to some in New York,
thanks to the media's political correctness.Nor is this game just a passing prank. People have been beaten unconscious, both in this game and in the wider orchestrated racial attacks. Some of these victims have been permanently disabled and some have died from their injuries.
But most of the media see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. In such an atmosphere, the evil not only persists but grows.
Some in the media, as well as in politics, may think that they are trying to avoid provoking a race war by ignoring or playing down these attacks. But the way to prevent a race war is by stopping these attacks, not trying to sanitize them.If these attacks continue, and continue to grow, more and more people are going to know about them,
regardless of the media or the politicians. Responsible people of all races need to support a crackdown on these attacks, which can provoke a white backlash that can escalate into a race war. But political expediency leads in the opposite direction.
What is politically expedient is to do what Attorney General Eric Holder is doing — launch campaigns against schools that discipline a "disproportionate" number of black male students. New York City's newly elected liberal mayor is expected to put a stop to police "stop and frisk" policies that have reduced the murder rate to one-fourth of what it was under liberal mayors of the past.
Apparently political correctness trumps human lives.Providing cover for hoodlums is a disservice to everybody, including members of every race, and even the hoodlums themselves. Better that they should be suppressed and punished now, rather than continue on a path that is likely to lead to prison, or even to the execution chamber.
Congresswoman Attacked in D.C. May Have Been Victim of
Deadly 'Knockout' Game
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/21/Congresswoman-Attacked-in-DC-May-Have-Been-Victim-of-Knockout-Game
Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) may have been the victim of the "knockout" game that is spreading across the nation where young blacks try to knock out unsuspecting people with sucker punches. The "knockout game" has even led to some fatalities, and there have been reported victims in major cities like New York and Washington, D.C.
Meng told Washington, D.C.'s ABC affiliate WJLA that she "got hit from behind" on her head while walking home from dinner on Tuesday night and "landed in my front."
"After I hit the ground, there is a period of time where I don't really remember what happened," Meng said.
She was found disoriented, had little recollection of the attack, and could not describe the assailants. The New York Daily News reported that the attackers did not take a tote that contained her cell phone and credit cards. However, Rep. Meng's office told Breitbart News that her handbag has not been recovered.
The knockout game typically involves victims who are smaller in stature being attacked from behind. The victims are not necessarily robbed after the attack.
"I didn't see anyone coming," she told the Daily News. "I just got hit on the head."
She said she was a New Yorker and thus a "tough girl," so she did not think much of walking home alone on Tuesday night after having dinner with a friend. Meng said her "knee is bloodied" and the "back of her head is still sore." She said she was "so glad nothing happened for the sake of [my] kids and family." Meng is married with two children.
An Eastern Market resident told WJLA that she was "afraid it's that attack-from-the-back situation," referring to the "knockout game."
Washington, D.C. police have said the investigation into Meng's attack is "active." D.C. police are also investigating two other women in D.C. who were hit in the back of the head on Thursday and Friday of last week in similar situations in what could have also been due to the "knockout" game.
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10 ObumaCrappyCare Horror Stories That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
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Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/10-obamacare-horror-stories-almost-crazy-believe/#AsBVGM0K2zTsH7gq.99
The more Americans learn about Obamacare, the less they like it. They were promised that under Obamacare they would be able to keep their current health insurance plans, that health insurance premiums would be lower, and that millions more Americans would be able to get coverage. But none of those promises are turning out to be true. Right now, millions of Americans are receiving cancellation notices from their health insurance companies – including many Americans that are in a life or death battle with cancer. By the end of next year, it is being projected that up to 100 million more Americans could have their health insurance policies canceled. Meanwhile, large numbers of Americans are discovering that their "new plans" are going to cost them two, three, four or even five times as much as their old plans cost them. You are about to see some shocking examples of this. And now that the reality of Obamacare is really starting to sink in for the American people, the popularity of the law is starting to drop like a rock. According to a brand new CBS News poll that was just released, only 31 percent of all Americans still approve of Obamacare while an astounding 61 percent of all Americans now disapprove of it. Perhaps if we get that number to 70 or 80 percent, the politicians in Washington D.C. will cave in and we can get this law repealed. So please share this article with as many people as you possibly can. The following are 10 Obamacare horror stories that are almost too crazy to believe...
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Edie Littlefield Sundby: "My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.
My choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits."
Patricia in North Carolina:"I am a 62 year old woman who has an individual policy with BCBS of North Carolina. My premiums are $249.50 per month. I bought the policy when I retired and moved to NC to be closer to my aging parents. The policy is a high deductible one with a $2700 deductible, $5000 out of pocket maximum. BCBS has told me my plan is no longer offered due to Obamacare and that my new plan will cost $600.55 per month and has a required an out of pocket maximum of $6350."
Jacqueline Proctor: Take, for example, Jacqueline Proctor of San Francisco. She and her husband are in their early 60s. They have been paying $7,200 a year for a bare-bones Kaiser Permanente health plan with a $5,000 per person annual deductible. "Kaiser told us the plan does not comply with Obamacare and the substitute will cost more than twice as much," about $15,000 per year, she says.
This new plan, Kaiser's cheapest offering for 2014, would consume about 25 percent of their after-tax income. The new plan still has a $5,000 deductible but provides coverage for things her current policy does not, such as maternity care, healthy child visits and coverage for dependents up to age 26. Proctor has no use for such coverage, since her son is 30.
Gloria Cantor: Gloria Cantor of Florida has cancer — five brain tumors and tumors in her bones — but she won't have the health insurance she has relied on for her treatment for much longer.
Mrs. Cantor and her husband, Jay, told WFTV in Orlando that their insurance is being dropped in order to comply with Obamacare regulations.
"The Cantors received [a] letter in the mail [that] explains Gloria's health insurance will end next summer due to the Affordable Care Act," reporter Lori Brown says. "But after promises by President Obama ... the Cantors now feel betrayed. After the insurance company drops them, it will offer them a different plan that it admits will be more expensive. The Cantors are especially worried because their doctors cannot assure them that [the MD Anderson Cancer Center] will still accept the new plan."
A Zero Hedge Reader: My company, based in California, employs 600. We used to insure about 250 of our employees. The rest opted out. The company paid 50% of their premiums for about $750,000/yr.
Under Obamacare, none can opt out without penalty, and the rates are double or triple, depending upon the plan. Our 750k for 250 employees is going to $2 million per year for 600 employees.
By mandate, we have to pay 91.5% of the premium or more up from the 50% we used to pay.
Our employees share of the premium goes from $7/week for the cheapest plan to $30/week. 95% of my employees were on that plan. Remember, we used to pay 50% now we pay 91.5% and the premiums still go up that much!!
The cheapest plan now has a deductible of $6350! Before it was $150. Employees making $9 to $10/hr, have to pay $30/wk and have a $6350 deductible!!! What!!!!
They can't afford that to be sure. Obamacare will kill their propensity to seek medical care. More money for less care? How does that help them?
Ashley Dionne: I graduated from The University of Michigan in 2009. In my state, this used to mean something, but even with a bachelor's I was told I was too educated and wouldn't stay. I watched as kids with GEDs and high school diploma's took the low-paying jobs for which I applied.
I went back to school and got a second degree and finally found work at a gym. I work nights and only get 32 hours a week for eight dollars an hour. I'm unable to find a second job at this time.
I have asthma, ulcers, and mild cerebral palsy. Obamacare takes my monthly rate from $75 a month for full coverage on my "Young Adult Plan," to $319 a month. After $6,000 in deductibles, of course.
Liberals claimed this law would help the poor. I am the poor, the working poor, and I can't afford to support myself, let alone older generations and people not willing to work at all.
This law has raped my future.
It will keep me and kids my age from having a future at all.
This is the real face of Obamacare and it isn't pretty.
George Schwab: George Schwab, 62, of North Carolina, said he was "perfectly happy" with his plan from Blue Cross Blue Shield, which also insured his wife for a $228 monthly premium. But this past September, he was surprised to receive a letter saying his policy was no longer available. The "comparable" plan the insurance company offered him carried a $1,208 monthly premium and a $5,500 deductible.
A Middle Class Texas Family: Obamacare is named the "Affordable Care Act," after all, and the President promised the rates would be "as low as a phone bill." But I just received a confirmed letter from a friend in Texas showing a 539% rate increase on an existing policy that's been in good standing for years.
As the letter reveals (see below), the cost for this couple's policy under Humana is increasing from $212.10 per month to $1,356.60 per month. This is for a couple in good health whose combined income is less than $70K — a middle-class family, in other words.
Michael Cerpok: "I've worked hard because I've had to, and I've had to, because cancer runs in my family," says Cerpok, who picked his current health insurance based on that family history. His monthly premium is just about half of his monthly take-home pay.
Back in 2006, he found out he had an incurable form of leukemia that requires ongoing treatment until he dies.
In 2012, his treatment bill was more than $350,000. But because of his insurance, his out-of-pocket was only $4,500.
That's about to change because Michael just got a letter from his insurance carrier saying as of January 1, he would be dropped from coverage because of new regulations under Obamacare.
Bill Elliot: Fox News host Megyn Kelly shared a heart rendering story Thursday night of a South Carolina man with cancer who is being forced to make what he sees as a life or death decision after his health insurance plan was cancelled because of Obamacare.
Bill Elliot, who voted for President Obama, contacted "The Kelly File" via Facebook and said he can no longer afford to pay his medical bills and does not want to take on the new costs because he does not want to put a "burden" on his family, according to Fox News.
Saying he feels "misled," Elliott told Kelly his new insurance will cost him $1,500 per month with a $13,000 deductible, adding that he will opt to pay the minimal fine for not having health insurance and "will just let nature take its course."
BOOM: CIA Airstrike Kills Five Taliban Commanders,
Including Haqqani Network's Second-In-Command In Pakistan
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(Soooo solly... nos mo' jihad fur dem muzzies)
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (NBC News) — Five Taliban commanders — including the Haqqani network's No. 2 — were among nine people killed by a U.S. drone strike early Thursday, Pakistani security officials told NBC News.Maulvi Ahmad Jan, a prominent adviser to Haqqani network leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, was among the dead after a religious school was targeted, according to a security official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
"Initially we thought that a suicide bomber had hit the madrasa but later we confirmed it was a drone attack," the security official said.
As part of the wider Taliban movement, the Pakistan-based Haqqanis are among the United States' most feared enemies in Afghanistan. They have been blamed for many of the more than 2,000 U.S. military deaths in the country.
Ahmad Jan was a senior commander with the group who did not work out in the field but helped to plan insurgency operations against U.S and Afghan forces according to Dr. Anatol Lieven of King's College London.
Witness Amjad Hussain said dozens of the militants arrived shortly after the attack, encircling the site. Local residents told NBC News the drone fired four rockets into the madrasa in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal region at 5:40 a.m. local time (7:40 p.m. Wednesday ET).
"We Are Strong, Strong Supporters" of ObumaCrappyCare Says Demo-Rat Staffers Desperately Trying To Get An Exemption
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(Demo-Rat Rep. Gwen Moore's staff express their unwavering support for ObumaCrappyCare while simultaneously complaining it is "simply unaffordable")
Via The Hill:Older congressional staff say their out-of-pocket healthcare costs will rise three or four times after they enter the ObamaCare insurance exchanges.
The economic shock has led Democratic chiefs of staff to call for changing the rules so that their staffers won't take the economic hit.
The chiefs of staff have expressed support for a change that would allow congressional offices to re-classify their workers as non-official staff so that they can avoid the higher costs.
"Simply unaffordable," Minh Ta, chief of staff to Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), wrote in an email to fellow Democratic chiefs of staff on Thursday afternoon.
Ta's email, sent to other House Democratic chiefs of staff, said staffers above the age of 59 felt a "shock to the system" upon seeing plan prices on the District of Columbia's new insurance marketplace.
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Ta wrote that House administrators are refusing to allow him to change workers' designation until next year.
"I am asking for a solution now though because I will lose staff in my office because of this snafu," Ta wrote in his email.
"I mentioned to payroll and House [administration] that it was unfair for our offices to make this designation without allowing our staff the ability [to] actually go on the [marketplace] to compare rates."
Asked about the e-mail, Ta said that the office is "not trying to blame anybody," especially the White House.
The frustration, he explained, is that his office and others are dissatisfied that lawmakers and staff are being treated differently than other federal employees.
"We're strong, strong supporters of the [Affordable Care Act]," said Moore's press secretary, Staci Moore.
Other offices on Capitol Hill said they're fearful of workers leaving due to the changes in health insurance. Members of both parties have repeatedly warned that top talent could lose if healthcare benefits are significantly eroded.
Doctors Warn of Physician Shortages Due To Insurance Plans
Bought On ObumaCrappyCare Exchanges Paying Them Less
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(Why would anyone want to waste the time and money it takes to become a doctor with ObamaCrappyCare in place?)
WASHINGTON — http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/11/20/209165/doctors-are-concerned-about-pay.html
Many doctors are disturbed that they'll be paid less – often a lot less – to care for the millions of patients who are projected to buy coverage through the health law's new insurance marketplaces.
Some have complained to medical associations – including those in Texas, California, Georgia, Connecticut and New York – saying the discounted rates could lead to a two-tiered system in which fewer doctors participate, perhaps making it harder for consumers to get the care they need.
"As it is, there is a shortage of primary care physicians in the country, and they don't have enough time to see all the patients who are calling them," said Peter Cunningham, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington.
If providers are paid less, he said, "Are (enrollees) going to have difficulty getting physicians to accept them as patients?"
Insurance officials acknowledge that they have reduced rates in some plans, saying they are under enormous pressure to keep premiums affordable. They say physicians will make up for the lower pay by seeing more patients, since the plans tend to have smaller networks of doctors.
But many primary care doctors say they barely have time to take care of the patients they have now.
The conflict sheds light on the often murky world of insurance contracts, in which physicians don't always know which plans they're listed in or how much they're being paid to treat patients in a particular plan. As a result, some doctors are just learning about the lower pay rates in some plans sold in the online markets, or exchanges.
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Insurance Companies To Get Taxpayer-Funded Bailouts If
Not Enough People Enroll In ObumaCrappyCare Thanks To Obscure Provision In The Law
(Which is basically a guarantee at this point)
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Via Yahoo! News:The insurance industry may be next in line to receive a hefty government bailout. That's what could happen if signups for Obamacare fall short of expectations triggering an obscure provision in the Affordable Care Act that makes up any serious losses.
The potential price tag: millions of taxpayer dollars or more over a 3-year period.So-called "risk corridors" were included in the 2010 health law to compensate insurance companies for major coverage losses in the event that far more older and sick people signed up for health plans than younger, healthy people and drove up their costs after they had set the premiums. If actual claims exceed projections by more than 3 percent under Obamacare, the government will compensate the industry for those losses.The new federal and state-run insurance exchanges – plagued by hundreds of technical glitches and other operational problems – have reported signing up just 106,185 people nationwide through Nov. 2, amid signs that relatively few young adults are turning to the program for coverage.
That problem could be compounded by President Obama's call last week for insurance companies to reverse course and restore millions of individual health care plans that were cancelled because they don't meet the new higher standards under Obamacare. Some health industry officials and state insurance commissioners fear Obama's request could destabilize the already troubled new exchanges and further discourage younger people from enrolling.
President George W Bush appears on Jay Leno show as a reciprocal thank you for Leno's support of Bush's Veteran initiatives.
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Texas Family With Two Kids Fighting Cancer Have Their
Insurance Canceled Because of ObumaPutridCare
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(I can't even begin to imagine what this family is going through)
GAINESVILLE, TEXAS — A Gainesville family is fighting for their childrens' lives.
Ronald and Krista Alford's two children, Hunter and Mikayla, were born with extremely rare types of cancer.
Now, sven years into fighting that battle, they've been hit with a new one: their children's insurance has been cancelled, affecting Hunter's chemotherapy.
News 12′s Allison Harris brings us their story of struggle and strength.
Hunter Alford is due for his next round of chemo.
As of right now, his mom Krista says, he's unlikely to get it.
"Since his insurance was dropped, we're thinking about cancelling his chemotherapy," Krista Alford said.
The 7-year-old, who loves playing games on his iPad, is reportedly the youngest person to have his type of cancer.
Hunter has Plexiform Hishocyne Neoplasm.
The Alford's are in a battle with children's medicaid — or CHIP — Hunter's insurance.
Krista says, despite receiving a new, renewed insurance card, the agency told her they dropped his insurance.
"I called them and they said we were dropped October 31st," Krista said.
Krista says an insurance agent told her that Hunter's information got lost when they made changes under the new Affordable Care Act.
Now, Krista is on a mission to re-gain that insurance, but they're running out of time before his next chemo treatment, and the agent says they can't expedite.
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Pakistan Charges Hero Doctor (Abandoned By POS Obuma)
Who Helped U.S. Kill Bin Laden With Murder[/b][/font]
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(Out of all the scummy moves Obuma has made, leaving this guy to rot in a Pakistani jail cell is near the top. Obuma will will get his comeupperance one day from the American people.
Comeuppance: A punishment or retribution that one deserves; one's just deserts. ie, "It's a chance to strike back with extreme force at Barack Hussein Obuma and give him his comeuppance for 'evaluative' sins of the past.") (http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/Shakil-Afridi_2742970b-550x343.jpg)
Via Reuters:The doctor who helped the United States track down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been charged with murder, in the latest development in a case that has strained ties between the two countries.
Shakil Afridi, hailed as a hero by US officials, was arrested after U.S. soldiers killed bin Laden in May 2011 in a secret raid that outraged Pakistan and plunged relations between the strategic partners to a new low.
Pakistan arrested Afridi and sentenced him last year to 33 years in jail for membership of militant group Lashkar-e-Islam, an accusation he denies.
But in August, Pakistan overturned his conviction, citing procedural errors and ordering a retrial.
Friday's murder charge, relating to the death of a patient eight years ago, dims Afridi's chances of going free and could further sour ties with the United States.
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NBC's Blackout of Obamacare Disaster Hits 96 Hours And Counting
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(Pathetic as hell... and NBC/MSNBC wonder why their ratings are in the toilet)
Via Newsbusters:After going
72 hours without even mentioning ObamaCare on its air waves, NBC's continued refusal to cover the disastrous policy on Thursday's Nightly News or Friday's Today brought that
total up to 96 hours. Amazingly, Friday's Today had the audacity to include two segments about Vice President Joe Biden buying lunch at a Washington D.C. sandwich shop rather provide any ObamaCare updates.
Even ABC's Good Morning America, a morning show generally devoid of all substance, managed to find time for at least a few seconds on the topic:
"Speaking of President Obama, more trouble this morning for ObamaCare. The Wall Street Journal says it has obtained documents that show some insurance companies are drastically cutting payments to doctors. Forcing those doctors to reconsider whether they want to participate in the new exchanges, which could hurt choice for consumers."
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Patriot Nation
Refusal to allow one's child to be indoctrinated in the UK will have ramifications that will follow the child for the rest of their life.
If you don't think this can or will happen in America, you're a blind fool. It's already happening...and it's going to get worse as the government continues to find new ways to poison the minds of our children.
No Transparency: Obama Now Limits Press Access
to His Events, Wants to CONTROL
What Americans
Know About Him & His Agenda
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With all the deservedly negative, critical press Pres. Barack Obama has received for his broken ObamaCare website and his power-grabbing, expensive health care mandates, as well as the scandals of the botched Operation Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Solyndra, NSA spying on Americans, the IRS targeting conservatives, what should poor "Mr. Transparency" do?Limit the press's access and control the "message," of course. Only adoring lapdog media need apply.
Bring in the leftist propagandist clowns.
We don't need no stinkin' Constitution... we don't need no stinkin' truth...Head Clown Obuma invited several members of the media — notably, the more liberal members — for an off-the-record, behind-the-scenes chance to chat about Obamacare, in what some are describing as a Hail Mary attempt to do some much-needed damage control.Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/22/obama-stages-private-meet-press-obamacare/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS#ixzz2lRUPRvPm
From McClatchey DC: White House blocks access to Obama events, news groups say:The nation's largest news organizations lodged a complaint Thursday against the White House for imposing unprecedented limitations on photojournalists covering President Barack Obama, which they say have harmed the public's ability to monitor its own government.
The organizations accuse the White House of banning photojournalists from covering Obama at some events, and then later releasing its own photos and videos of the same events.
"Journalists are routinely being denied the right to photograph or videotape the president while he is performing his official duties," according to a letter the organizations sent to the White House. "As surely as if they were placing a hand over a journalist's camera lens, officials in this administration are blocking the public from having an independent view of important functions of the executive branch of government."
Presidents often look for ways to get their own messages out. But media experts say Obama's administration has developed an aggressive strategy to use social media, including government-sponsored websites and blogs, as well as Twitter, Instagram and Flickr accounts, to circumvent the media's constitutional duty more than its predecessors have.
"You are only seeing what they want you to see," said Lucy Dalglish, the dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest defended the release of photos and videos, saying the practice helps Obama live up to his pledge of transparency by allowing the public to have greater access to the inner workings of the administration when it's not feasible for news media to be in the room.
"What we've done is we've taken advantage of new technology to give the American public even greater access to behind-the-scenes footage or photographs of the president doing his job," Earnest said. "To the American public, that's a clear win."
He said the news organizations' protests were just part of the natural tension between journalists and those they covered.
"The fact that there is a little bit of a disagreement between the press corps and the White House press office about how much access the press corps should have to the president is built into the system," he said at the daily White House news briefing. "If that tension didn't exist, then either you or we aren't doing our jobs."
Relations between Obama officials and journalists have further deteriorated this year.
News reports last spring indicated that the Justice Department had secretly seized the telephone records of reporters at the Associated Press and investigated a Fox News reporter as a potential criminal for doing his job.
http://pubrecord.org/politics/2056/obamas-pledge-of-transparency-remains-largely-unfulfilled/
Nixon would be proud...
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R.I.P. John F.Kennedy and John-John
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Members of the Kennedy family stand at the gravesite of former US President John F. Kennedy during a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, on November 22, 2013, the 50th anniversary of his assassination
It's been exactly 50 years since the assassination of Pres. John F. Kennedy as he rode in an open vehicle through the streets of Dallas. On November 22, 1963, everything abruptly changed in America. We have never been the same as a nation after this horrific event. Some say that's good, others that it isn't.
Regardless, it was one of the most emotional, blackest days in American history.
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Dealey Plaza, a rectangular patch of grass and government buildings in downtown Dallas, Texas, became a focal point of history on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963. That day, President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline rode through the plaza as part of a Presidential motorcade when shots rang out from the Texas School Book Depository's Sixth Floor window, striking Kennedy in the neck and head and killing him. Investigators and historians still flock to the "Grassy Knoll" at Dealey Plaza today, recreating and studying the assassination that shook America.
Walter Cronkite Video on JFK's Death:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-TCzIHrLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxHsSnEgk-A
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Barack Obama: Iran Should Be Able to Access 'Peaceful' Nuclear Energy
Saturday, November 23, 2013, 10:01 PM
Barack HUSSEIN Obuma would make Neville Chamberlain blush. During his Saturday night televised announcement Obuma said Iran has a right to "peaceful" nuclear energy.
"Iran should be able to access peaceful nuclear energy, but because of its record of violating its obligations, Iran must accept strict limitations on its nuclear program."(Obuma just admitted the Iranian regime violates its obligations in that same sentence, yet... he still wants to believe the mullahs. How could a POTUS do something THIS STUPID? They need to tie this POS to a cruise missile and send his A$$ to Iran!! Bye Bye, Barry)
Bibi:"Israel doesn't take order from U.S. President Barack HUSSEIN Obuma. We will bomb Iran at anytime"
A List Of 23 Famous Obama Quotes That Turned Out To Be Broken Promises Or Cold-Hearted Lies
By Michael Snyder, November 18th, 2013
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How many lies can one president tell and still retain any credibility? What you are about to see is absolutely astounding.
It is a long list of important promises that Barack Obama has broken since he has been president. If he had only told a few lies, perhaps the American people would be willing to overlook that. After all, pretty much all of our politicians our liars. Unfortunately, many of the lies that Obama has told appear to have been quite cold-hearted in nature. For example, Barack Obama repeatedly made the promise that "you will be able to keep your health care plan" under Obamacare. But now we are learning that he knew that this was a lie all along. Not only that, the Democrats in Congress knew that this was a lie all along too. In fact, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, said the following when she was asked about Obama's promise to the American people recently: "He should've just been specific. No, we all knew." The truth is that they all knew that millions upon millions of Americans would lose their current health care policies under Obamacare. They deliberately lied just so that they could get the law passed.
And of course this is far from the only major lie that Obama has told in recent years. The following is a list of 23 famous Obama quotes that turned out to be broken promises or cold-hearted lies:#1 "If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what."
#2 "My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government."
#3 "We agree on reforms that will finally reduce the costs of health care. Families will save on their premiums..."
#4 "I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the president
of the United States of America."
#5 "We've got shovel-ready projects all across the country that governors and mayors are pleading to fund. And the minute we can get those investments to the state level, jobs are going to be created."
#6 "And we will pursue the housing plan I'm outlining today. And through this plan, we will help between 7 and 9 million families restructure or refinance their mortgages so they can afford—avoid foreclosure."
#7 "I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year."
#8 "We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime."
#9 "For people with insurance, the only impact of the health-care law is that their insurance is stronger, better, and more secure than it was before. Full stop. That's it. They don't have to worry about anything else."
#10 "We will close the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, the location of so many of the worst constitutional abuses in recent years."
#11 "Allow Americans to buy their medicines from other developed countries if the drugs are safe and prices are lower outside the U.S."
#12 "We will revisit the Patriot Act and overturn unconstitutional executive decisions issued during the past eight years."
#13 "Will ensure that federal contracts over $25,000 are competitively bid."
#14 "We reject sweeping claims of 'inherent' presidential power."
#15 "Will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors — saving them an average of $1,400 a year– and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not need to file an income tax return at all."
#16 "We support constitutional protections and judicial oversight on any surveillance program involving Americans."
#17 "If we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will end this war. You can take that to the bank."
#18 "Will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."
#19 "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
#20 "We have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division and conflict and cynicism.... That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, 'Not this time....'"
#21 "We've got to spend some money now to pull us out of this recession. But as soon as we're out of this recession, we've got to get serious about starting to live within our means, instead of leaving debt for our children and our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren."
#22 "[T]oday I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office. This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we've long neglected. But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay – and that means taking responsibility right now, in this administration, for getting our spending under control."
#23 "I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will execute the office of president of the United States faithfully, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States."
Now... for a few more of Barack Hussein Obuma LiesSOURCE: http://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/
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Obama Supporters Will Go Crazy Over This List Of 252 Of His Lies
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Every President, every politician, and every human being tells lies and engages in acts of hypocrisy. But Barack Obama does these things to a far greater degree than anyone else that I have ever known of. His campaign promises were so much better sounding than anyone else's – no lobbyists in his administration, waiting five days before signing all non-emergency bills so people would have time to read them, putting health care negotiations on C-SPAN, reading every bill line by line to make sure money isn't being wasted, prosecution of Wall St. criminals, ending raids against medical marijuana in states where it's legal, high levels of transparency. Obama's promises of these wonderful things sounded inspiring and sincere. They sounded so much better than the promises of any other President. So when Obama broke these promises, it felt so much worse than when other Presidents broke their promises.
In the 2008 United States election, I wrote in Ron Paul for President. In the 2012 election, I voted for Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson. Those who are of a more leftist persuasion than myself might want to consider voting for the Green Party in future elections.
Some of the things on this list are major events that should scare the daylights out of any true liberal who cares about civil liberties.
Other things on this list are medium things that some Obama supporters may dislike, but would be willing to overlook in light of the things that Obama has done which they like.
And some of the things on this list may seem trivial, but I still think they are an interesting reflection of the kinds of policies that Obama supports.
Every claim that I make in this list is sourced. Click on the blue text to see the sources. I have cited a wide variety of sources, from right wing, to left wing, to middle of the road.
I welcome any comments and criticisms that you may have. If you say my list is wrong, please back up your claim by citing specific examples.
And now, on with the list:1) Carried out military interventionism in Libya without Congressional approval
In June 2011, U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said that Obama had violated the Constitution when he launched military operations in Libya without Congressional approval.
2) Gave a no-bid contract to Halliburton – just like Bush did
In May 2010, it was reported that the Obama administration had selected KBR, a former subsidiary of Halliburton, for a no-bid contract worth as much as $568 million through 2011, just hours after the Justice Department had said it would pursue a lawsuit accusing the Houston-based company of using kickbacks to get foreign contracts.
3) Has an administration full of lobbyists, after promising he wouldn't have any
While running for President, Obama had promised that, unlike Bush, he would not have any lobbyists working in his administration. However, by February 2010, he had more than 40 lobbyists working in his administration.
4) Has close ties to Wall St., but pretends to support Occupy Wall St.
Although Obama claims to support the Occupy Wall St. movement, the truth is that he has raised more money from Wall St. than any other candidate during the last 20 years. In early 2012, Obama held a fundraiser where Wall St. investment bankers and hedge fund managers each paid $35,800 to attend. In October 2011, Obama hired Broderick Johnson, a longtime Wall Street lobbyist, to be his new senior campaign adviser. Johnson had worked as a lobbyist for JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Fannie Mae, Comcast, Microsoft, and the oil industry.
5) Broke his promise to close Guantanamo Bay
Obama broke his promise to close Guantanamo Bay.
6) Supported the $700 billion TARP corporate-welfare bailout just like Bush
While Senator, Obama voted for the $700 billion TARP bank bailout bill. The bailout rewarded irresponsible and illegal behavior. It redirected resources from more productive uses to less productive uses. It punished the hard working taxpayers who had played by the rules and obeyed the law. It created horrible incentives, and sent the wrong message. The bailout was evil because it rewarded the bad people and punished the good people. No society that does this can expect to remain free or prosperous. Instead of bailing out these corrupt corporations, we should have let them cease to exist, like we did with Enron.
7) Waged the biggest war against medical marijuana of any president, which was the opposite of what he had promised
In May 2008, Obama campaign spokesperson Ben LaBolt said that Obama would end DEA raids on medical marijuana in states where it's legal. Also in 2008, Obama said that he supported the "basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs" and that he was "not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws."
However, in February 2010, DEA agents raided a medical marijuana grower in Highlands Ranch in Colorado, a state where medical marijuana is legal. Also in February 2010, DEA agents raided a medical marijuana dispensary in Culver City in California, a state where medical marijuana is legal. In July 2010, the DEA raided at least four medical marijuana growers in San Diego, California. Also in July 2010, the DEA raided a medical marijuana facility in Covelo, California. Then in September 2010, the DEA conducted raids on at least five medical marijuana dispensaries in Las Vegas, Nevada, where medical marijuana is legal. In 2011, the DEA conducted raids on medical marijuana in Seattle, Washington, West Hollywood, California, and Helena, Montana, all places where it is legal. In April 2012, the DEA carried out several raids on medical marijuana in Oakland, California.
In February 2012, Rolling Stone magazine wrote that Obama's war against medical marijuana went "far beyond anything undertaken by George W. Bush." In April 2012, Mother Jones magazine wrote: "The president campaigned on the promise that he'd stop federal raids on medical marijuana operations that were in compliance with state laws, a vow that Attorney General Eric Holder repeated after the election. But then the Obama administration raided more than 100 dispensaries in its first three years and is now poised to outpace the Bush administration's crackdown record." In May 2012, the Washington Post wrote: "Obama has become more hostile to medical marijuana patients than any president in U.S. history." In May 2012, U.S. Congressperson Nancy Pelosi (D-California) said she had "strong concerns" about Obama's forced closure of five medical marijuana facilities in Pelosi's congressional district. In April 2012, commenting on Obama's crackdown on medical marijuana, U.S. Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) said, "I'm very disappointed... They look more like the Bush administration than the Clinton administration."
In July 2012, federal prosecutors filed civil forfeiture actions against Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, CA, which claims to be the world's largest, and which claims to serve more than 100,000 medical marijuana patients. In April 2012, federal agents raidedOaksterdam University, an educational institution in Oakland, CA, which teaches people about medical marijuana. In April 2012, federal agents raideda medical marijuana facility which had been serving 1,500 patients near Lake Elsinore, CA. In June 2012, the Obama administration filed asset-forfeiture lawsuits against two landlords who rented their buildings to medical marijuana stores in Santa Fe Springs, CA. The Obama administration also sent warning letters which threatened similar legal action to dozens of other, nearby landlords. During the first seven months of 2012, the DEA shut down40 medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, all of which had been operating in compliance with state and local law.
In July 2013, the DEA conducted multiple medical marijuana raids in Washington state, including the cities of Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle.
In May 2012, ABC News reported that during Obama's youth, he often smoked large quantities of recreational marijuana. Obama's marijuana smoking wasn't even medical – it was recreational. And yet now, he is taking large scale, widespread action to prevent people with AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, and other illnesses, who have prescriptions from their doctors, from using their prescription medicine – how cold hearted can a person be?
8) Nominated a six-time tax cheater to head the government agency that enforces the tax laws
Obama nominated Timothy Geithner, a repeat tax cheater, to head the government agency that enforces the tax laws.
Prior to his nomination, Geithner had:
1) Illegally failed to pay more than $34,000 in social security and medicare taxes
2) Illegally declared the cost of his children's summer camp as a form of day care.
3) Illegally failed to pay the early withdrawal penalty when he took money out of his retirement plan
4) Illegally declared non-eligible items as a charitable deduction
5) Illegally declared something which was ineligible as a small businessdeduction
6) Illegally declared utility expenses which had actually been for his personal use
9) Gave tax dollars to AIG executives, then pretended to be outraged about it
Obama signed a stimulus bill that spent money on bonuses for AIG executives. Prior to signing this bill, Obama had said, "when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely." However, after reading "line by line" and signing the stimulus bill that protected the AIG bonuses, Obama pretended to be shocked and outraged at the bonuses, and said, "Under these circumstances, it's hard to understand how derivative traders at A.I.G. warranted any bonuses at all, much less $165 million in extra pay... How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?" and also said that he would "pursue every single legal avenue to block these bonuses."
10) Expanded Bush's unconstitutional government faith based programs
Obama expanded the federal government's faith based programs which had been started by President George W. Bush.
11) Supported Bush's unconstitutional Patriot Act
In May 2011, Obama signed a renewal of the Patriot Act.
12) Increased the national debt more in one term than Bush did in two
The national debt increased more during Obama's first three years and two months than it did during all eight years of George W. Bush's presidency.
13) Agrees with Bush's support of unconstitutional, indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without filing any charges
In December 2011, ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero criticized Obama for signing a bill that gave the U.S. government the power toindefinitely detain U.S. citizens without any charges being filed or any trial taking place.
14) Agrees with Bush's support of unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping
President Obama has defended warrantless wiretapping.
15) Avoided prosecution of Wall. St criminals
Although Obama had promised to prosecute Wall St. criminals, during his entire first term, his administration did not file any criminal charges against any of the top financial executives.
16) Had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process
Obama had four U.S. citizens killed without judicial process.
The ACLU accused Obama of violating the U.S. Constitution for doing this.
U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) said that Obama's actions might be an impeachable offense.
17) Ordered private company to fire 1,000 employees
In 2011, after Boeing had hired 1,000 new employees to work at its new factory in South Carolina, the Obama administration ordered Boeing to shut down the factory, because the factory was non-union.
18) Stole money from retired teachers and police officers
During the Chrysler bankruptcy, Obama violated the Fifth Amendment and more than 150 years of bankruptcy law by illegally treating secured creditorsworse than unsecured creditors. Some of these secured creditors were retired teachers and police officers from Indiana. Richard A. Epstein, a law professor at New York University School of Law, wrote, "Upsetting this fixed hierarchy among creditors is just an illegal taking of property from one group of creditors for the benefit of another, which should be struck down on both statutory and constitutional grounds." Todd Zywicki, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, wrote that Obama's treatment of secured creditors was "dangerous to the rule of law." The Economist wrotethat Obama's actions could "establish a terrible precedent. Bankruptcy exists to sort legal claims on assets. If it becomes a tool of social policy, who will then lend to struggling firms in which the government has a political interest?" Francis Cianfrocca, the CEO of Bayshore Networks, wrote that Obama's actions were "an astonishingly reckless abrogation of contract law that will introduce a new level of uncertainty into business transactions at all levels, and make wealth generation more difficult going forward... An extraordinary uncertainty has been created when the most powerful man in the world can rewrite contracts and choose winners and losers in private negotiations as he sees fit. Since this is an unquantifiable uncertainty, and not a quantifiable risk, its effect on business and investor confidence will be large and unpredictable. As in the 1930s, a time when government also cavalierly rewrote private contracts, the prudent approach for business will be to invest minimally and wait for another administration."
19) Supported release of convicted mass murderer
In 2010, Obama supported releasing Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi (who had been convicted of murdering 270 people) from prison.
20) Illegally put thousands of guns into hands of criminals
In Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration ordered gun storeowners to illegally sell thousands of guns to criminals.
21) Fired Inspector General for discovering that Obama's friend had embezzled government funds
In June 2009, Obama fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin, after Walpin accused Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, an Obama supporter, of misuse of AmeriCorps funding to pay for school-board political activities. In a letter to Congress, the White House said that Walpin was fired because he was "confused, disoriented, unable to answer questions and exhibited other behavior that led the Board to question his capacity to serve." A bipartisan group of 145 current and former public officials, attorneys, and legal scholarssigned a letter that was sent to the White House, which defended Walpin, said the criticisms of him were not true, and said that his firing was politically motivated. The letter can be read here.
22) Lied about putting health care negotiations on C-SPAN
Although Obama had made a campaign promise to have all of the health care reform negotiations broadcast on C-SPAN, he broke that promise after he was elected.
The secrecy of these negotiations was so strong that U.S. Congresswoman and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-California) said, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
23) Lied about letting people keep their health insurance
Before Obamacare was passed, Obama said:
"No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people... If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what."
Also before Obamacare was passed, Obama said:
"Here is a guarantee that I've made. If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance."
However, after Obamacare was passed, the Congressional Budget Office said that the law would cause seven million people to lose their employer provided insurance.
After Obamacare was passed, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East announced that it would drop health insurance for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants. Mitra Behroozi, executive director of benefit and pension funds for 1199SEIU stated
"... new federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26... meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible."
Also, after Obamacare was passed, the Franciscan University of Steubenvilledropped its coverage in response to the law.
Universal Orlando dropped its coverage for part time employees in response to Obamacare.
In addition, after Obamacare was passed, Forbes reported
"The House Ways and Means Committee has released a new report that sheds light onto how Obamacare incentivizes companies to dump their workers onto the new law's subsidized exchanges."
Also after Obamacare was passed, MSN reported
"The Affordable Care Act mandate most commonly known as Obamacare has some tight stipulations that, CNN says, are forcing health care companies to rip up most of their current plans and draft new ones that comply. According to a University of Chicago study, just about half of the individual health care plans currently on the market won't cut it once key provisions of the Affordable Care Act kick in next year."
Furthermore, it was reported that Obamacare would cause 58,000 Aetna and UnitedHealth Group customers in California to lose their insurance.
In response to Obamacare, some employers have dropped coverage for their employees' spouses.
The chain of Wegmans supermarkets cancelled the policies of its part time employees in response to Obamacare.
In July 2013, leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE sent a letterto Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi which said that Obamacare
"will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits... these restrictions will make non-profit plans like ours unsustainable... we can no longer stand silent in the face of elements of the Affordable Care Act that will destroy the very health and wellbeing of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans"
24) Lied about the cost of Obamacare
Before Obamacare was passed, Obama promised
"I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits – either now or in the future. I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period. And to prove that I'm serious, there will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize."
However, after Obama signed it, the Washington Post reported that it would add more than $340 billion to the budget deficit over the next decade.
In March 2012, the Congressional Budget Office said that over the next decade, Obamacare would cost twice as much as what Obama had promised.
In May 2013, it was reported that Obamacare's program for high risk patients was more expensive than what Obama had promised.
25) Gave tax dollars to campaign contributors and lobbyists, and falsely claimed the money was for "green energy"
In 2009 the Obama administration gave $535 million to Solyndra, claiming that it would create 4,000 new jobs. However, instead of creating those 4,000 new jobs, the company went bankrupt. It was later revealed that the company's shareholders and executives had made substantial donations to Obama's campaign, that the company had spent a large sum of money onlobbying, and that Solyndra executives had had many meetings with White House officials.
It was also revealed that the Obama administration had already been aware of Solyndra's financial troubles. For example, according to the company's security filings in 2009, the company had been selling its product for less than the cost of production. In 2010, Obama visited the Solyndra factory and cited it as a role model for his stimulus program, saying "It's here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future." The Washington Post wrote of this, "Administration officials and outside advisers warned that President Obama should consider dropping plans to visit a solar startup company in 2010 because its mounting financial problems might ultimately embarrass the White House." Solyndra was a private company, but had been planning to use its government loans as a means of going public – so when Obama knowingly overstated the company's condition in order to help his friends at Solyndra, he broke the same law that Martha Stewart had been sent to prison for breaking.
In September 2011, federal agents visited the homes of Brian Harrison, the company's CEO, and Chris Gronet, the company's founder, to examine computer files and documents. Also in September 2011, the U.S. Treasury Department launched an investigation.
On September 13, 2011, the Washington Post reported on emails which showed that the Obama administration had tried to rush federal reviewers to approve the loan so Vice President Joe Biden could announce it at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company's factory. The company was a hallmark of President Obama's plan to support clean energy technologies.
The New York Times reported that government auditors and industry analysts had faulted the Obama administration for failing to properly evaluate the company's business proposals, as well as for failing to take note of troubling signs which were already evident. In addition, Frank Rusco, a program director at the Government Accountability Office, had found that the preliminary loan approval had been granted before officials had completed the legally mandated evaluations of the company.
The New York Times quoted Shyam Mehta, a senior analyst at GTM Research, as saying "There was just too much misplaced zeal at the Department of Energy for this company." Among 143 companies that had expressed an interest in getting a loan guarantee, Solyndra was the first one to get approval. During the period when Solyndra's loan guarantee was under review, the company had spent nearly $1.8 million on lobbying. Tim Harris, the CEO of Solopower, a different solar panel company which had obtained a $197 million loan guarantee, told the New York Times that his company had never considered spending any money on lobbying, and that "It was made clear to us early in the process that that was clearly verboten... We were told that it was not only not helpful but it was not acceptable."
The Washington Post reported that Solyndra had used some of the loan money to purchase new equipment which it never used, and then sold that new equipment, still in its plastic wrap, for pennies on the dollar. Former Solyndra engineer Lindsey Eastburn told the Washington Post, "After we got the loan guarantee, they were just spending money left and right... Because we were doing well, nobody cared. Because of that infusion of money, it made people sloppy."
On September 29, 2011, the Washington Post reported that the Obama administration had continued to allow Solyndra to receive taxpayer money even after it had defaulted on its $535 million loan.
On October 7, 2011, The Washington Post reported that newly revealed emails showed that Energy Department officials had been warned that their plan to help Solyndra by restructuring the loan might be illegal, and should be cleared with the Justice Department first. However, Energy Department officials moved ahead with the restructuring anyway, with a new deal that would repay company investors before taxpayers if the company were to default. The emails showed concerns within the Obama administration about the legality of the Energy Department's actions. In addition, an Energy Department stimulus adviser, Steve Spinner, had pushed for the loan, despite having recused himself because his wife's law firm had done work for the company.
In January 2012, CBS News reported that Solyndra had thrown millions of dollars worth of brand new glass tubes into garbage dumpsters, where they ended up being shattered. Solyndra told CBS that it had conducted an exhaustive search for buyers of the glass tubes, and that no one had wanted them. However, CBS discovered that Solyndra had not offered the glass tubes for sale at either one of its two asset auctions that took place in 2011. In addition, David Lucky, a buyer and seller of such equipment, told CBS that he would have bought the tubes if he had had a chance to do so. Greg Smestad, a solar scientist who had consulted for the Department of Energy, also agreed that the tubes had value, and had asked Solyndra to donate any unwanted tubes to Santa Clara University. Smestad stated, "That really makes me sad... Those tubes represent intellectual investment. These could have had a better value to do public good. I think they owed the U.S. taxpayer that."
In April 2012, CBS News reported that Solyndra had left a substantial amount of toxic waste at its abandoned facility in Milpitas, California.
Solyndra was not the only "green energy" company involved in this type of fraud. After Obama gave Raser Technologies $33 million to build a power plant, the company declared bankruptcy, and owed $1.5 million in back taxes. After Obama gave Abound Solar, Inc. a $400 million loan guarantee to build photovoltaic panel factories, the company halted production and laid off 180 employees. After Obama gave Beacon Power a $43 million loan guarantee to build green energy storage, the company filed for bankruptcy. After Obama approved $2.1 billion in loan guarantees for Solar Trust of America so it could build solar power plants, the company filed for bankruptcy.
Although Obama stated that all of the "green energy" companies that received taxpayer money were chosen "based solely on their merits," the truth is that 71% of these grants and loans went to Obama donors and fundraisers, who raised $457,834 for his campaign, and were later approved for grants and loans totaling more than $11 billion. By November 2011, the Energy Department's inspector general had begun more than 100 criminal investigations related to Obama's stimulus. Although an "independent" review said that Obama had not done anything wrong, it was later reported that Herbert M. Allison Jr., the person who had conducted this "independent" review, donated $52,500 to Obama's campaign.
26) Had "off the record" meetings with lobbyists
In June 2010, the New York Times reported that Obama administration officials had held hundreds of meetings with lobbyists at coffee houses near the White House, in order to avoid the disclosure requirements for White House visitors, and that these meetings "reveal a disconnect between the Obama administration's public rhetoric — with Mr. Obama himself frequently thrashing big industries' 'battalions' of lobbyists as enemies of reform — and the administration's continuing, private dealings with them."
27) Falsely claimed to believe in public education
Although Obama said, "We need to uphold the ideal of public education," he expressed his true opinion of America's public education system by sendinghis own children to private schools while living in Chicago and Washington D.C.
28) Had armed SWAT agents raid a law-abiding guitar factory because it was owned by a Republican
President Obama had armed SWAT agents raid the Gibson guitar factory, ordered the employees to leave, and seized guitars and other property from the factory – and all of this happened without any charges being filed.
It was later reported that Gibson had not broken any U.S. laws.
Obama's so-called justification for the raid was that Gibson had broken environmental laws from India regarding the imported wood that Gibson had been using.
However, Gibson claimed that it had not broken any Indian laws – and no charges were filed against it.
In addition, it was also reported that Henry E. Juszkiewicz, the CEO of Gibson, was a Republican donor.
Meanwhile, C.F. Martin & Company, Gibsons's competitor, had used the exact same imported wood, but had not gotten raided. Chris Martin IV, the CEO of Martin, was a Democratic donor.
29) Shut down Amish farm
In February 2012, Obama shut down an Amish farm for selling unpasteurized milk across state lines, even though the customers were happy with what they were buying.
30) Rewarded his fundraisers by giving them federal jobs
Although Obama had promised to have "the most sweeping ethics reform in history," and had often criticized the role of money in politics, the truth is that after he was elected, he gave administration jobs to more than half of his 47 biggest fundraisers.
31) Ignored constitutional requirements for appointees
In February 2009, U.S. Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia) expressedconcern that Obama's dozens of czars might violate the U.S. Constitution, because they were not approved by the U.S. Senate. U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) expressed a similar concern in September 2009.
32) Gave tax dollars to corrupt private contractors
While Obama was a state Senator in Illinois, he used tax dollars to build 504 units of slum housing, which had mice and backed up sewage. Federal inspectors graded the condition of the housing so bad that the buildings faced demolition.
33) Used tax dollars to glorify murderers
The Obama administration spent $1.6 million to restore graffiti that glorifiedcommunist murderers Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
34) Falsely claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court had never overturned any laws that had been passed by Congress
Despite having taught constitutional law at one of the most prestigious law schools in the country, in April 2012 Obama falsely claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court had never overturned any laws that had been passed by Congress.
35) Supported new bailouts for speculators who caused housing bubble
In March 2012, Obama announced a new set of bailouts for speculators who had caused the housing bubble.
36) Spent $205,075 of taxpayer money on a shrubbery which nurseries sell for $16
As part of his economic stimulus, Obama spent $205,075 of taxpayer money to relocate and care for a single specimen of Arctostaphylos franciscana, a shrubbery which nurseries sell for $16.
37) Spent taxpayer money to see if using cocaine helped rats to enjoy the music of Miles Davis
Obama's administration funded a study to see whether or not rats' enjoyment of the music of Miles Davis was increased when the rats were high on cocaine.
38) Tried to outlaw family farms
In April 2012, the Obama administration proposed new regulations which would prohibit farm children under 18 from working at grain elevators, silos, feed lots, stockyards, and livestock auctions, as well as from storing, marketing and transporting farm product raw materials. Critics claimed that this would prevent children from the common practice of working on their friends' and relatives' farms, and that farm children did not need "help" from a community organizer in Washington.
39) Auctioned off ambassadorship to the Netherlands
In April 2012, Obama nominated Timothy Broas, who had "bundled" more than $500,000 for Obama's 2012 campaign, to be U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.
40) Claimed that written tests are a form of "racial discrimination"
The Obama administration accused fire and police departments in Jacksonville, Florida, New York City, and Dayton, Ohio of "racial discrimination" because they required potential firefighters and police officers to take a written test. Ten real examples of these "racist" questions from the New York test can be read here.
41) Made the TSA even more abusive and ridiculous than it had been under Bush
The Obama administration gave a very invasive patdown to a three-year-oldboy in a wheelchair, which caused the boy to tremble in fear. The Obama administration gave an aggressive patdown to a seven-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. The Obama administration said that a four-year-old girl was a "high security threat." The Obama administration placed an 18-month-old girl on its no fly list. The Obama administration gave a patdown to Henry Kissinger. The Obama administration forced a 95-year-old cancer patient to remove her adult diaper and fly without it. The Obama administration ripped open the urostomy bag of a 61-year-old bladder cancer survivor, and forced him to fly covered in his own urine.
42) Illegally demanded monetary payment for Freedom of Information Act request
The Obama administration demanded that the Goldwater Institute pay$78,935.80 before it would share public records which it had requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
43) Fined public school $15,000 for selling soda
The Obama administration fined a high school $15,000 for selling soda to students during lunch.
44) Conducted dangerous and illegal scientific experiments on people
From January 2010 through June 2011, the Obama administration conducted illegal scientific experiments which exposed 42 people to dangerous levels of toxins.
45) Gave middle finger to Vietnam veterans, their families, and their friends
On Memorial Day 2012, Obama prevented Vietnam veterans and their friends and families from visiting the Vietnam memorial for seven hours, so Obama could have his picture taken.
46) Had the government take 60.8% ownership of General Motors
In July 2009, Obama had the government take 60.8% ownership of General Motors, and fired the CEO.
47) Forced banks to give mortgages to people who could not afford to pay them back
While working as a "community organizer," Obama filed lawsuits which forced banks to give mortgages to people with bad credit and low incomes. As a result, many of these people ended up defaulting on their mortgages. As their attorney, Obama collected $23,000 in legal fees for himself.
Then in April 2013, during Obama's second term as President, the Washington Post reported that President Obama was still pressuring banks "to make home loans to people with weaker credit."
48) Stole money from retired Delphi employees
In 2009, Obama eliminated the pensions of 20,000 retired Delphi employees.
49) Used taxpayer money to buy soda for $3.40 per can
During Obama's presidency, the federal government repeatedly purchased soda for a cost of $3.40 per can. Obama did not express any desire to switch to a cheaper seller, such as Costco, amazon.com, or Wal-Mart – or to an even still cheaper seller such as a wholesaler. Instead, Obama repeatedly forced taxpayers to pay these outrageous prices for soda.
50) Paid $7 million per household to connect people to the internet
Obama's stimulus paid to connect some households in Montana to the internet, at a cost of $7 million per household.
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Obuma Lied:51) Had a double standard for Bain Capital
Although Obama criticized Mitt Romney for his involvement with Bain Capital, Obama hired Jeff Zients, a former consultant at Bain (and who had an estimated personal wealth of $200 million) to be his budget director.
52) Broke promise to teen campaign volunteers
Obama had promised to his teen campaign volunteers that if they each spent nine hours going door to door on Obama's behalf, he would invite them to attend his speech of September 6, 2012. However, after the teens did the volunteer work, Obama broke his promise. One of these volunteers, Madeline Frank, age 16, of Charlotte, North Carolina, said of this "I've been looking forward to this for a really long time. I am just feeling really let down and like bummed. It was kind of my dream to see him speak, so definitely really sad."
53) Falsely claimed to know more about Judaism than any other President
Obama falsely claimed to know more about Judaism than any other President.
54) Exempted wind farms from the penalties that other electric producers get for killing birds
In May 2013, NPR reported:
The Obama administration has charged oil companies for drowning birds in their waste pits, and power companies for electrocuting birds on power lines.
But the administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind-energy company, even those that flout the law repeatedly.
"What it boils down to is this: If you electrocute an eagle, that is bad, but if you chop it to pieces, that is OK," said Tim Eicher, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enforcement agent based in Cody.
More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed Wildlife Society Bulletin.
Nearly all the birds being killed are protected under federal environmental laws, which prosecutors have used to generate tens of millions of dollars in fines and settlements from businesses, including oil and gas companies, over the past five years.
Wind farms are clusters of turbines as tall as 30-story buildings, with spinning rotors as wide as a passenger jet's wingspan. Though the blades appear to move slowly, they can reach speeds up to 170 mph at the tips, creating tornado-like vortexes.
Flying eagles behave like drivers texting on their cellphones; they don't look up. As they scan for food, they don't notice the industrial turbine blades until it's too late.
The rehabilitation coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program, Michael Tincher, said he euthanized two golden eagles found starving and near death near wind farms. Both had injuries he'd never seen before: One of their wings appeared to be twisted off.
"There is nothing in the evolution of eagles that would come near to describing a wind turbine. There has never been an opportunity to adapt to that sort of threat," said Grainger Hunt, an eagle expert who researches the U.S. wind-power industry's deadliest location, a northern California area known as Altamont Pass. Wind farms built there decades ago kill more than 60 per year.
Under both the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, the death of a single bird without a permit is illegal.
But under the Obama administration's new guidelines, wind-energy companies — and only wind-energy companies — are held to a different standard.
Eagles take five years to reach the age when they can reproduce, and often they only produce one chick a year.
55) Falsely claimed that he had never belonged to the New Party
Obama falsely claimed that he had never belonged to the New Party, which is a third political party.
56) Supported punishing students based on their race instead of on their behavior
Obama expressed support for a proposal which would punish students based on their race instead of on their behavior.
57) Used "off the books" funding for military interventionism
In April 2009, antiwar activists who helped elect Obama accused him of using the same "off the books" funding as his predecessor George W. Bush when Obama requested an additional $83.4 billion from Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – a provision which Obama had voted against when he was a Senator.
58) Tried to silence criticism of auto-bailouts
The Obama administration pressured Ford Motor Company to stop airing a TV ad that criticized Obama's bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler.
59) Dismissed charges of voter intimidation, despite video evidence
In May 2009, the Obama administration dismissed charges that had been filed by the Bush administration against members of the New Black Panther Party who had been videotaped intimidating voters and brandishing a police-style baton at a Philadelphia polling station during the November 2008 election. In August 2009, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights demanded that the Justice Department explain why it dismissed the charges. In July 2010, J. Christian Adams, a former lawyer for the Justice Department, testified before the Commission on Civil Rights that the case was dropped because the Justice Department did not want to protect the civil rights of white people.
60) Falsely claimed to support the second amendment
Although Obama stated, "I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms," the National Rifle Associationgave Obama a rating of 'F' based on his voting record.
61) Nominated a communist who said 9-11 was an inside job
In September 2009, Obama's green czar Van Jones resigned after it was reported that he was a self described "communist" and had blamed George W. Bush for the September 11 attacks.
62) Falsely said he would not raise taxes on the poor and middle class
On September 12, 2008, Obama promised, "I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes." However, less than three months into his Presidency, he broke that promise when he raised the cigarette tax. Studies show that poor people are more likely to smoke than rich people.
63) Falsely said he wanted to simplify the tax code, when he actually wanted to make it more complex
Although Obama said that he wanted to simplify the tax code, his proposals would actually add thousands of pages to the tax code.
64) Oversaw some of the world's worst increases in corruption
In December 2010, Transparency International reported that corruption was increasing faster in the U.S. than anywhere else except Cuba, Dominica, and Burkina Faso.
65) Falsely said "This is the most transparent administration in history."
In February 2013, Obama said, "This is the most transparent administration in history"
However, that same month, ABC News White House reporter Ann Compton, who covered Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, both Bushes, and Obama, said "The president's day-to-day policy development... is almost totally opaque to the reporters trying to do a responsible job of covering it. There are no readouts from big meetings he has with people from the outside, and many of them aren't even on his schedule. This is different from every president I covered. This White House goes to extreme lengths to keep the press away."
In July 2009, White House reporter Helen Thomas criticized the Obama administration for its lack of transparency.
Also, this list contains a huge number of things that Obama has done which contradict his statement.
66) Falsely claimed he would wait five days before signing bills
Although Obama had promised to wait five days before signing all non-emergency bills, he broke that promise at least 10 times during his first three months in office.
67) Falsely claimed stimulus spending would be transparent
Although Obama had promised that the website recovery.gov would list all stimulus spending in detail, a 400 page report issued by the Government Accountability Office stated that only 25% of the projects listed on the website provided clear and complete information regarding their cost, schedule, purpose, location and status.
68) Announced plans to send military to Australia
In November 2011, Obama announced that he would send 2,500 Marines toAustralia.
69) Falsely promised to accept public campaign financing and spending limits
During the 2008 campaign, Obama broke his promise to accept public campaign financing and the spending limits that came with it.
70) Tried to silence video on YouTube
In June 2011, Obama asked a Jewish singing group to remove its video from the internet.
71) Rejected international help to clean up BP oil spill
After the BP oil spill, Obama rejected offers of cleanup help from Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations.
72) Falsely said he opposed government waste, when he actually loves it
On September 22, 2008, Obama said, "I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it's there... We will fire government managers who aren't getting results, we will cut funding for programs that are wasting your money and we will use technology and lessons from the private sector to improve efficiency across every level of government... The only way we can do all this without leaving our children with an even larger debt is if Washington starts taking responsibility for every dime that it spends." However, Citizens Against Government Waste gaveObama a 2007 rating of only 10%, and a lifetime rating of only 18%.
73) Nominated past frequent user of illegal drugs to keep illegal drugs out of schools
In September 2009, it was reported that Kevin Jennings, Obama's Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, had written about Jenning's own past frequent illegal drug use in his 2007 autobiography.
74) Avoids firing aides who owe back taxes
In January 2012, it was reported that 36 Obama aides owed a combined total of $833,000 in back taxes.
75) Used Abbott and Costello style economics as a basis for national policy
In 2010, Obama gave $16.3 million to First Solar, a company that manufactures solar panels, so the company could sell solar panels to itself.
76) Sent U.S. troops to Africa
Obama sent U.S. troops to Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic.
77) Made secret plans for his second term
In March 2012, when Obama was talking to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and did not know that the microphone was turned on, Obamastated, "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it's important for him to give me space... This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility."
78) Holds double standard for people who use crude and vulgar language toward women
Concerned Women for America accused Obama of hypocrisy after Obama criticized Rush Limbaugh for using crude and vulgar language to describe Sandra Fluke, but Obama did not criticize Bill Maher (who had donated one million dollars to an Obama PAC) for using the same kind of crude and vulgar language to describe Sarah Palin.
79) Illegally gave Obamacare exemptions to unions that supported the passage of Obamacare
Obama gave some organizations an exemption from some of the requirements of Obamacare. Many of these organizations were unions that had supported the passage of Obamacare, but now wanted exemptions from the very same law that they wanted to force everyone else to obey. This reveals an extreme level of hypocrisy among many of the supporters of Obamacare.
In addition, these exemptions are illegal, because the Constitution requires the law to treat everyone the same.
The Washington Times wrote of this:
"Selective enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny. A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and those with the best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably leads to corruption, and corruption invites extortion. Ultimately, the rule of law ceases to exist in any recognizable form, and what is left is tyranny."
"The now-familiar monthly trickling down of new waivers is, at best, a tacit admission that Obamacare is a failure. So far, seven entire states and 1,372 businesses, unions and other institutions have received waivers from the law. The list includes the administration's friends and allies and, of course, those who have the best lobbyists."
"More than 50 percent of the Obamacare waiver beneficiaries are union members, which is striking because union members account for less than 12 percent of the American work force. The same unions that provided more than $120 million to Democrats in the last two elections and, in many cases, openly campaigned in favor of the government takeover of your health care, now celebrate that Obamacare is not their problem."
80) Defended Bush administration's unconstitutional, unwarranted use of GPS device
In January 2012, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration for having put a GPS tracking device on someone's car without having a warrant, the Obama administration opposed the court ruling
81) Opposes newspapers reporting the news
Obama spokesman Jay Carney criticized the Los Angeles Times for publishing photographs of U.S. soldiers posing with corpses in Afghanistan.
82) Supported Bush administration for fining CBS for showing Janet Jackson's breast
Obama came out in favor of the FCC's fining of the CBS TV network $550,000 for showing Janet Jackson's breast during the 2004 Super Bowl.
83) Allowed campaign contributors to bring lobbyists into White House
In April 2012, the New York Times reported, "Although Mr. Obama has made a point of not accepting contributions from registered lobbyists, a review of campaign donations and White House visitor logs shows that special interests have had little trouble making themselves heard. Many of the president's biggest donors, while not lobbyists, took lobbyists with them to the White House..."
84) Falsely said that criminal background checks constituted "racial discrimination"
In 2012, the Obama administration accused Pepsico of "race discrimination" because it used criminal background checks to screen out job applicants.
85) Was cited by nine states for committing 21 illegal acts
Attorneys General from nine states issued a report, titled "A Report on Obama Administration Violations of Law," which cited 21 illegal acts which had been committed by the Obama administration.
86) Tried to seize hotel because some of its customers had used illegal drugs
The Obama administration tried to seize a mom-and-pop bed-and-breakfast because some if its guests had used illegal drugs.
87) Falsely said his campaign was not funded by large donors
Although Obama has received many large campaign donations from corporate executives and Hollywood celebrities, his spokesperson said that his campaign was funded "not from huge donors at all."
88) Holds double standard for subsidizing solar power companies
Although Obama gave taxpayer money to numerous American solar power companies, he placed a 30% tariff on solar panels imported from China, because he was against the Chinese government giving subsidies to its own companies.
89) Tried to create an administration full of tax cheaters
Obama nominated tax cheater Tom Daschle to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. After Daschle said he didn't want the job, Obama then nominated tax cheater Kathleen Sebelius for the same position. Obama nominated tax cheater Nancy Killefer to be his administration's Chief Performance Officer. Obama nominated tax cheater Hilda Solis to be the Secretary of Labor. Obama nominated tax cheater Ron Kirk be the White House Chief Trade Representative.
90) Hired a Communications Director who admires a mass murderer
Anita Dunn, Obama's White House Communications Director, said that one of her favorite political philosophers was Mao Tse-tung, the Chinese dictator who murdered tens of millions of innocent civilians.
91) Tried to replace science with political correctness
In July 2010, Charles Bolden, the administrator of NASA, said that Obama had told him that the primary purpose of NASA was "to reach out to the Muslim world."
92) Made recess appointments when Congress was not in recess
In January 2012, Obama violated the Constitution by making four recess appointments when Congress was not in recess. Recess appointments themselves are constitutional, but only if they are made when Congress is actually in recess.
In January 2013, a federal appeals court ruled that Obama's appointments had violated the Constitution.
In May 2013, a second federal appeals court also ruled that Obama's appointments had violated the Constitution.
In July 2013, a third federal appeals court also ruled that Obama's appointments had violated the Constitution.
93) Said the health insurance mandate was not a tax, but later told the Supreme Court that it was
Before Obama's health care reform was passed, he said that the mandate was not a tax. However, after it was passed, the Obama administration argued in front of the Supreme Court that the mandate really was a tax.
94 ) Lied about being his "brother's keeper"
Although Barack Obama likes to cite the Bible phrase "We are our brother's keeper," when his real life poverty stricken brother George Obama needed $1,000 for health care bills, Barack Obama refused to pay it, so conservative author Dinesh D'Souza paid it.
95) Punishes hospitals for saving the lives of patients with heart disease
Obama's health care reform contains a provision that reduces Medicare payments to hospitals with high 30-day readmission rates. Sunil Kripalani, MD, a professor with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said of this, "Among patients with heart failure, hospitals that have higher readmission rates actually have lower mortality rates. So, which would we rather have — a hospital readmission or a death?"
96) Supports guns for himself and his wife, but opposes them for everyone else
On January 10, 2013, President Obama signed a bill that provides armed guards to himself and his wife for the rest of the lives.
However, in 2004, when Obama was an Illinois state Senator, he votedagainst allowing people in their own homes to use guns to protect themselves and their families from rapists and murderers.
97) Falsely claimed that he "cut spending by over a trillion dollars in 2011″
On "Meet the Press" on December 30, 2012, Obama said:
"I cut spending by over a trillion dollars in 2011″
In reality, spending during that time period was not cut at all, and was actually increased by $147 billion.
98) Practices environmental hypocrisy
In May 2008, Obama said, "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."
However, just one week later, Obama was photographed exiting an SUV.
In addition, Obama keeps the White House thermostat turned up so high that David Axelrod, Obama's senior adviser, said, "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."
Environmentalists criticized Obama for eating Wagyu beef, which was called "the Hummer of beef."
Obama had a chef fly round trip from St. Louis to Washington D.C. so he could make Obama's favorite pizza.
99) Pressured public schools to replace Catcher in the Rye with a book on window insulation
The Huffington Post reported that Obama's education policies
"are increasingly worrying English-lovers and English teachers, who feel they must replace literary greats like The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye with Common Core-suggested 'exemplars,' like the Environmental Protection Agency'sRecommended Levels of Insulation."
100) Approved giving 20 F-16 fighter jets to a Sharia dictatorship
Obama approved giving 20 F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, which is a Sharia dictatorship.
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Obuma Lied:101) Falsely claimed that his "Cash for Clunkers" program would help the environment
Although Obama claimed that his "Cash for Clunkers" program would help the environment, it actually caused net harm to the environment. Because the program required cars to be shredded instead of recycled, it wasted 24 million barrels of oil. Many of the cars that were destroyed were in perfectly good condition. Because the program's minimum requirement for so-called "fuel efficiency" was only 22 mpg, the reduction in pollution was negligible.
102) Violated the very same campaign finance laws that he claims to support
In January 2013, it was reported that Obama's campaign had been fined $375,000 by the Federal Election Commission for violating campaign finance laws.
103) Lied about how he had answered a questionnaire on gun control
In 1996, when Obama was answering a questionnaire on his political views, one of the questions was "Do you support state legislation to: ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns?"
Obama's answer to the question was "Yes."
However, in 2008, Obama said "My writing wasn't on that particular questionnaire."
However, ABC News later reported that the questionnaire "appears to have Obama's handwriting."
104) Falsely claimed that his 2013 inauguration was not funded by lobbyists
Although Obama claimed that his 2013 inauguration was not funded by lobbyists, its sponsors had actually spent $160 million on lobbying during Obama's first presidential term.
105) Encouraged medical device manufacturers to lay off employees
In response to the medical device tax that is part of Obamacare, some medical device manufacturers have announced plans to layoff employees, including Welch Allyn (275 planned layoffs), Stryker (1,170 planned layoffs), and Medtronic (1,000 planned layoffs).
In December 2012, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, John Kerry, and 15 other Democrats who supported the passage of Obamacare wrote a letter to Harry Reid, asking him to delay the tax on medical devices, claiming that the tax would hurt job creation in their districts.
106) Encouraged employers to switch their employees from full time to part time
The New York Times reported that Obamacare
"sharply penalizes full-time employment in favor of part-time employment."
In response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, some restaurants have announced plans to switch some of their employees from full time to part time, including some franchises of Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Wendy's, Taco Bell,White Castle, and Fatburger.
Community College of Allegheny County switched 200 professors and 200 other employees from full time to part time in response to Obamacare. Clint Benjamin, an English professor at Community College of Allegheny County,said that this would reduce his own monthly pay by $600.
Also in response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, other colleges haveannounced plans to switch some of their employees from full time to part time, including Florida's Palm Beach State College, Ohio's Youngstown State University, and New Jersey's Kean University.
In Virginia, thousands of government employees had their hours reducedbecause of Obamacare.
The Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh reduced the hours of 48 of its employees in response to Obamacare.
Regal Entertainment Group, the largest chain of movie theaters in the country,announced that it would be switching thousands of its employees from full time to part time in response to the Obamacare mandate.
Utah's Granite School District reduced the hours of 1,200 of its employees in response to Obamacare.
In response to Obamacare, many Wal-Mart stores have stopped hiring full time workers.
In July 2013, leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE sent a letterto Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi which said that Obamacare will
"destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class... the law creates an incentive for employers to keep employees' work hours below 30 hours a week. Numerous employers have begun to cut workers' hours to avoid this obligation."
107) Broke his promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term
On February 23, 2009, Obama said "Today, I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office." Obama broke that promise.
108) Had Freedom of Information Act record worse than Bush's
In September 2012, it was reported that when it came to honoring requests under the Freedom of Information Act, Obama's record was worse than that of George W. Bush.
109) Supports installation of hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant
In October 2012, Obama's Justice Department argued in favor of installing hidden cameras on private property without a search warrant.
110) Used "stimulus" money to pay people to play cards, board games, and video games
In October 2012, it was reported that LG Chem, a lithium-ion battery plant in Holland, Michigan, was using money from Obama's "stimulus" to pay its employees to play cards, board games, and video games.
111) Spent half a million tax dollars on "Prom Week" video game
In 2012, the Obama administration spent $516,000 on a video game called "Prom Week."
112) Hypocritically pays his female employees less than his male employees
Although Obama claims to support equal pay for men and women, his own adminstration pays its female employees 18% less than its male employees.
113) Falsely said that Romney's pension was bigger than his own
During a debate in October 2012, Obama falsely stated that Mitt Romney's pension was bigger than his own.
114) Has a double standard for investing in China and the Cayman Islands
Although Obama criticized Mitt Romney for having investments in China and the Cayman Islands, Obama himself has investments in both of those places.
115) Spent $27 million on "ineffective" pottery classes in Morocco
Obama spent $27 million on pottery classes in Morocco. The class used an American teacher, but the translater who was hired did not actually know how to speak English fluently, and made many mistakes. The instructor often did not bring the right materials to class. The dyes and clays that the instructor did use were not available in Morocco, which prevented the students from being able to copy what they had learned. It was concluded that the classes were "ineffective."
116) Caused large amounts of perfectly good food to be thrown into the garbage
In one year, Obama's new school lunch program caused the schools in Lake County, Florida, to throw away $75,000 of perfectly good fruits and vegetables.
117) Accepted illegal campaign contributions from foreign citizens
During an experiment, a non-U.S. citizen attempted to make two $5 donations to both Obama's campaign website and Mitt Romney's campaign website. While the Romney website rejected both donations, the Obama website accepted them.
118) Labels opponents of TSA sexual harassment as "domestic extremists"
The Obama administration labels anyone who objects to the TSA's sexual harassment as a "domestic extremist."
119) Lied about the Benghazi attack
In September 2012, after four U.S. citizens were killed in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the Obama administration falsely said that the attack was a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim video at YouTube.
CBS News reported that although it was obviously a terrorist attack, it took an entire week before the Obama administration was willing to acknowledge it as such.
The Washington Post reported that Obama had falsely said that he had called it a terrorist attack from the very start.
After the attack began, someone (there is a debate over who this someone was) ordered the nearby U.S. military to "stand down,", i.e., not offer any assistance. Obama is the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military. Obama later falsely claimed that the "stand down" order had not been made.
Although the Obama administration made a dozen revisions to its talking points on this incident, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney falsely stated that only a "single adjustment" had been made, and that it simply involved changing the wording of "consulate" to "diplomatic facility." ABC News published a complete list of all the changes to the talking points, which can be read here.
Among the changes was the deletion of this entire paragraph:
"The Agency has produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al-Qa'ida in Benghazi and eastern Libya. These noted that, since April, there have been at least five other attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British Ambassador's convoy. We cannot rule out the individuals has previously surveilled the U.S. facilities, also contributing to the efficacy of the attacks."
Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, played a key role in the editing of the talking points. But instead of firing her for this, Obama offered her a promotion.
120) Paid a train carrying biofuel to cross the U.S.-Canadian border 24 times without unloading
As part of Obama's "green energy" program, Obama used tax money to pay for a train full of biofuel to cross the U.S.-Canadian border 24 times without unloading its cargo.
121) Falsely said that "we got back every dime" of the bailout
In October 2012, Obama said that "we got back every dime" of the bailout. However, at the same time, the Congressional Budget Office that said there was still $24 billion that had not been paid back.
122) Spent $50,000 of taxpayer money on a George S. Patton impersonator
In the summer of 2011, the Obama administration spent $50,000 on a George S. Patton impersonator
123) Spent $75,000 of taxpayer money on a bicycle
The Obama administration spent $75,000 of taxpayer money on a bicycle.
124) Complained to YouTube about an anti-Muslim video
In September 2012, the Obama administration phoned YouTube to complain about an anti-Muslim video.
Ben Wizner of the ACLU said that of this, "It does make us nervous when the government throws its weight behind any requests for censorship."
Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said of this, "I am actually kind of distressed by this... Even though there are all these great quotes from inside the White House saying they support free speech....by calling YouTube from the White House, they were sending a message no matter how much they say we don't want them to take it down, when the White House calls and asks you to review it, it sends a message and has a certain chilling effect."
125) Falsely said that Fast and Furious was started when Bush was President
In September 2012, Obama said that Fast and Furious had "begun under the previous administration." In reality, Fast and Furious began in October 2009.
126) Is a "war criminal" who is "more aggressive, more illegal worldwide" than Bush, according to Ralph Nader
In September 2012, Ralph Nader said that Obama was a "war criminal" who was "more aggressive, more illegal worldwide" than George W. Bush.
127) Illegally refused to fire Kathleen Sebelius after she violated campaign finance laws
In February 2012, Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services, violated campaign finance laws. Although federal law requiredObama to fire Sebelius for her illegal activity, he refused to do so.
128) Supports policies that hurt small businesses
In September 2012, a survery of small business owners showed that 69% of them said that Obama's regulatory policies have hurt small businesses. 55% said that they would not start a business under the current environment.
129) Spent $102,000 per year of taxpayer money on a "dog handler"
In September 2012, it was reported that Obama spent $102,000 of taxpayer money each year on a "dog handler."
130) Refused to fire federal employee who sent email to 17,000 people praising terrorist who wanted to destroy U.S.
In 2012, an employee of Obama's administration sent an email to more than 17,000 federal employees which praised Che Guevara, a terrorist who had wanted to destroy the U.S. Obama refused to fire the employee.
131) Called Fort Hood shooting "workplace violence" instead of "Islamic terrorism"
After Nidal Malik Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar!" and murdered 13 people on U.S. soil, instead of referring to it as "Islamic terrorism," Obama said that it was "workplace violence."
132) Falsely said that switching to electronic medical records would make health care cheaper
Although Obama claimed that switching to electronic record keeping as part of Obamacare would make health care cheaper, it actually made it more expensive.
133) Spent $495,000 of "stimulus" money for ads on MSNBC
Obama spent $495,000 of "stimulus" money for commercials on MSNBC.
134) Lied about the cost of federal regulations
In September 2012, it was reported that the cost of federal regulations to citizens and business owners was more than 20 times as much as what Obama had said it was.
135) Broke his promise to pass immigration bill, and then lied about why he broke it
In 2008, Obama promised that he would pass an immigration bill during his first year in office. He broke that promise. He then blamed this on Republicans, even though both the House and Senate were controlled by Democrats during Obama's first year.
136) Made it much harder for start ups to raise capital and create jobs
In July 2010, Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Act. The Wall St. Journal wrote of this:
"Senator Chris Dodd's 1,400-page financial reform bill contains many economic land mines, and here's one of the worst: Provisions that would make it harder for business start-ups to raise seed capital."
"Currently, wealthy individuals who want to invest directly in a new business can do so with minimum interference from regulators. The law requires only that the investor be "accredited" by meeting thresholds for net worth ($1 million) or income ($250,000). Entrepreneurs depend on these "angel" investors, since many new businesses lack the collateral for bank loans and are too small to interest venture capitalists. "
"Amazon, Yahoo, Google and Facebook all benefited from angel investors, who typically target companies under five years old. According to a 2009 Kaufman Foundation study, such firms are less than 1% of all companies yet generate about 10% of new jobs. Between 1980 and 2005, companies less than five years old accounted for all net job growth in the U.S. In 2008, angels invested some $19 billion in more than 55,000 companies. "
"Mr. Dodd's bill would change all this for the worse. Most preposterously, it would require that start-ups seeking angel investments file with the Securities and Exchange Commission and endure a 120-day review. Rare is the new company that doesn't need immediate access to the capital it raises, and a four-month delay is the kind of rule popular in banana republics that create few new businesses. "
"The Dodd bill also raises the net worth and income thresholds to $2.3 million and $450,000, respectively. The Angel Capital Association, a trade group, estimates that these provisions would disqualify about 77% of current accredited investors."
137) Paid six figure salaries to federal employees so they could watch pornography all day long
In April 2010, ABC News reported:
"On a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals that some high-level regulators have spent more time looking at porn than policing Wall Street. "
"The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be the sheriff of the financial industry, looking for financial crimes like Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme. But the new report, obtained by ABC News, says senior employees of the SEC spent hours on the commission's computers looking at sites like naughty.com, skankwire, youporn, and others. "
"The investigation, which was conducted by the SEC's internal watchdog at the request of Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, found 31 serious offenders over the past two and a half years. Seventeen of the offenders were senior SEC officers with salaries ranging from $100,000 to $222,000 per year. "
"Eight Hours a Day Spent on Porn Sites"
"One senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington spent up to eight hours a day accessing Internet porn. When he filled all the space on his government computer with pornographic images, he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his offices. "
"An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive."
"Another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month."
138) Spent tax dollars on a "mindreader"
Obama used taxpayer money to hire a "mindreader."
139) Used tax dollars to build a million dollar bus stop
Obama spent federal tax dollars to pay for part of the cost of a million dollar bus stop which opened in Arlington, Virginia in March 2013. Despite its huge cost, the bus stop can only accommodate 15 people, and does not even protect them from the wind and rain.
140) Filed a lawsuit against a non-existent "monopoly" in the beer industry
Although the number of breweries in the U.S. increased from 89 to 2,336 between 1978 and 2013, the Obama administration sued Anheuser-Busch InBev, which already owned half of Mexico's Grupo Modelo, to prevent if from buying the other half, despite the fact that there were no laws on the books against such a purchase. The Obama administration's so-called justification for this lawsuit against a law abiding company was that the company might, possibly, maybe, break some unspecified law, at some unspecified, distant point in the future.
141) Falsely said the sequester would cause janitors to take a pay cut
In February 2013, while talking about the sequester, Obama said
"The folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol — now that Congress has left, somebody is going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage — they're going to have less pay... The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they've got to figure out how to manage that. That's real."
CBS News reported that Obama's statement was false.
142) Falsely said that he goes skeet shooting "all the time"
At the beginning of Obama's second term, he said that he goes skeet shooting "all the time." However, a witness said that when he saw Obama go skeet shooting, Obama acted as if he had never fired a gun before, that he appeared to be uncomfortable with a gun, and that he only stayed for five minutes. In addition, during his first term, the media had never reported on his alleged skeet shooting, although it never failed to cover the more than100 rounds of golf that he played during his first term.
143) Gave special access to people who raised or donated $500,000
In February 2013, the New York Times reported that people who raised or donated at least $500,000 to Organizing for Action, a political group that supported Obama, would be given "the privilege of attending quarterly meetings with the president, along with other meetings at the White House."
144) Said the deficit had gone down when it had actually gone up
In February 2013, Obama said that the federal deficit had gone down by $2.5 trillion since he had taken office. In reality, it had actually increased by $5.9 trillion during that time.
145) Refused to make available necessary tax forms to taxpayers
On February 21, 2013, CBS News reported that the Obama administration had not yet made available dozens of different tax forms that taxpayers would need in order to meet the legal deadline of April 15 for filing their taxes.
146) Nominated someone to be Secretary of the Treasury who had participated in "the biggest tax scam on record"
Obama nominated Jack Lew to be Secretary of the Treasury. Lew had previously invested in the Cayman Islands, which Obama had referred to as "the biggest tax scam on record."
147) Adopted harmful new restrictions on prescription painkillers – even though the House had already voted against them
After the U.S. House voted against new restrictions on prescription painkillers, the Obama administration ignored the House's vote, and adopted the new restrictions anyway. Dr. Lynn Webster, president-elect of the American Academy of Pain Medicine said of these new restrictions, "It will have an impact on a lot of patients who have been receiving them for some time for legitimate purposes."
148) Rolled back union transparency rules
The Obama administration rolled back union transparency rules, which had been created so that union members could find out how their union was spending their union dues.
149) Tried to eliminate workers' right to a secret ballot when voting on whether or not to unionize
Obama supported the elimination of workers' right to a secret ballot when voting on whether or not to form a union
150) Gave "supervised release" to a convicted criminal who later went on to murder a nun
Obama gave "supervised release" to a convicted criminal, who then went on to murder a nun.
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Obuma Lied:151) Falsely said that he did not propose the sequester
On October 22, 2012, Obama said, "The sequester is not something that I've proposed." However, on February 22, 2013, the Washington Post reportedthat "the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House" and that "Obama personally approved of the plan."
152) Illegally refused to submit a budget on time during four of his first five years
The President is legally required to submit a budget by the first Monday in February. Obama broke this law during four of his first five years in office. Since 1921, no President had missed this deadline more than once.
153) Canceled White House tours for thousands of people so he could use the money to play golf with Tiger Woods
During the sequester in early 2013, the Obama administration said it would save $18,000 per week by cancelling all White house tours, despite the fact that thousands of people had planned their vacations far in advance. However, Obama had no problem with spending more than $1 million in tax money so he could go golfing with Tiger Woods for one weekend.
154) Falsely said the Newton shooter used a "fully automatic weapon"
In April 2013, four months after Adam Lanza murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Obama falsely stated that the shooter had used a "fully automatic weapon."
155) Broke his own deadline for creating healthcare exchanges
Three years after Obama signed Obamacare, the New York Times reportedthat Obama would miss his own deadline for creating some of the insurance exchanges for small businesses.
156) Falsely said that surgeons get paid between $30,000 and $50,000 for amputating a leg
In August 2009, while trying to justify the passage of Obamacare, Obamastated
"Let's take the example of something like diabetes, one of — a disease that's skyrocketing, partly because of obesity, partly because it's not treated as effectively as it could be. Right now if we paid a family — if a family care physician works with his or her patient to help them lose weight, modify diet, monitors whether they're taking their medications in a timely fashion, they might get reimbursed a pittance. But if that same diabetic ends up getting their foot amputated, that's $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 — immediately the surgeon is reimbursed. Well, why not make sure that we're also reimbursing the care that prevents the amputation, right? That will save us money."
The American College of Surgeons responded to this by saying
"President Obama got his facts completely wrong. He stated that a surgeon gets paid $50,000 for a leg amputation when, in fact, Medicare pays a surgeon between $740 and $1,140 for a leg amputation. This payment also includes the evaluation of the patient on the day of the operation plus patient follow-up care that is provided for 90 days after the operation. Private insurers pay some variation of the Medicare reimbursement for this service."
157) Falsely said that doctors perform unnecessary tonsillectomies to make more money
In July 2009, Obama said
"Right now, doctors, a lot of times, are forced to make decisions based on the fee payment schedule that's out there. So if ... your child has a bad sore throat, or has repeated sore throats, the doctor may look at the reimbursement system and say to himself, 'You know what? I make a lot more money if I take this kid's tonsils out.'"
"Now, that may be the right thing to do. But I'd rather have that doctor making those decisions just based on whether you really need your kid's tonsils out or whether it might make more sense just to change — maybe they have allergies. Maybe they have something else that would make a difference."
The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery responded by saying
"The AAO-HNS is disappointed by the President's portrayal of the decision making processes by the physicians who perform these surgeries. In many cases, tonsillectomy may be a more effective treatment, and less costly, than prolonged or repeated treatments for an infected throat."
158) Purchased 2,717 mine resistant armor protected vehicles for use on civilian streets in the U.S.
In March 2013 it was reported that the Obama administration had purchased 2,717 mine resistant armor protected vehicles for use on civilian streets in the U.S.
159) Spends $277,050 per year for three professional calligraphists
In March 2013, it was reported that Obama was spending $277,050 of tax money per year for three professional calligraphists. It was also reported that cheap computer software could produce the exact same calligraphy for a tiny fraction of that cost.
160) Allowed 311,566 federal employees and retirees to get away with $3.5 billion in unpaid federal taxes
In 2011, Obama allowed 311,566 federal employees and retirees to get away with $3.5 billion in unpaid federal taxes.
161) Spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly on the job
Obama spent $2.6 million to teach Chinese prostitutes how to drink responsibly on the job.
162) Fined UPS $40 million because some of its customers had used UPS to ship illegal drugs
In March 2013, Obama forced UPS to pay $40 million because some of its customers had used UPS to ship illegal drugs.
163) Added 20,000 extra pages to Obamacare without Congressional approval
After Obamacare was passed, Obama added 20,000 extra pages to it, even though those extra 20,000 pages had not been voted on by Congress.
164 ) Signed health care reform law whose own authors called it a "huge train wreck" that was "beyond comprehension"
U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana), one of the authors of Obamacare, saidof it, "I just see a huge train wreck coming down."
U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia), another author of the law, saidit was "beyond comprehension."
165) Eliminated disclosure requirements for most federal employees in the executive and legislative branches
In April 2013, Obama eliminated the disclosure requirements for most federal employees in the executive and legislative branches.
166) Waited until after the 2012 election to release unpopular Obamacare rules
In April 2013, the New York Times reported:
... even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected.
... the Obama administration didn't want to release unpopular rules before the election.
Everything is turning out to be more complicated than originally envisioned.
A law that was very confusing has become mind-boggling... Americans are just going to be overwhelmed and befuddled. Many are just going to stay away, even if they are eligible for benefits.
167) Made it easy for people to fraudulently collect $50,000 by falsely claiming to be "farmers"
In April 2013, the New York Times reported
the Obama administration's political appointees at the Justice and Agriculture Departments engineered a stunning turnabout: they committed $1.33 billion to compensate...
The deal... was fashioned in White House meetings... the $50,000 payouts to black farmers had proved a magnet for fraud.
the claims process prompted allegations of widespread fraud and criticism that its very design encouraged people to lie... Agriculture Department reviewers found reams of suspicious claims, from nursery-school-age children and pockets of urban dwellers, sometimes in the same handwriting with nearly identical accounts of discrimination.
As a senator, Barack Obama supported expanding compensation for black farmers, and then as president he pressed for $1.15 billion to pay those new claims.
In 16 ZIP codes in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and North Carolina, the number of successful claimants exceeded the total number of farms operated by people of any race in 1997, the year the lawsuit was filed. Those applicants received nearly $100 million.
In Maple Hill, a struggling town in southeastern North Carolina, the number of people paid was nearly four times the total number of farms. More than one in nine African-American adults there received checks. In Little Rock, Ark., a confidential list of payments shows, 10 members of one extended family collected a total of $500,000, and dozens of other successful claimants shared addresses, phone numbers or close family connections.
In Arkansas, prosecutors rejected a test case against a Pine Bluff police officer who had admitted lying on his claim form.
in one ZIP code in Columbus, Ohio, nearly everyone in two adjoining apartment buildings had filed, according to the former high-ranking agency official.
She cinched the claim, he said to a ripple of laughter, by asserting that her father had whispered on his deathbed, "I was discriminated against by U.S.D.A."
168) Tried to rig federal auctions of radio spectrum space
In April 2013, it was reported that the Obama administration was trying to rig federal auctions of radio spectrum space in a manner that would favor Sprint and T-Mobile, and make it harder for AT&T and Verizon.
169) Put someone in jail for making an anti-Muslim video
In May 2013, Politico reported:
"Nakoula Basseley Nakoula deserves a place in American history. He is the first person in this country jailed for violating Islamic anti-blasphemy laws."
"You won't find that anywhere in the charges against him, of course. As a practical matter, though, everyone knows that Nakoula wouldn't be in jail today if he hadn't produced a video crudely lampooning the prophet Muhammad."
"In the weeks after the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, the Obama administration claimed the terrorist assault had been the outgrowth of a demonstration against the Nakoula video. The administration ran public service announcements in Pakistan featuring President Barack Obama saying the U.S. had nothing to do with it. In a speech at the United Nations around this time, the president declared — no doubt with Nakoula in mind — 'The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.'"
"After Benghazi, the administration was evidently filled with a fierce resolve — to bring Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to justice. Charles Woods, the father of a Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi, said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told him when his son's body returned to Andrews Air Force Base: 'We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.'"
"Lo and behold, Nakoula was brought in for questioning by five Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at midnight, eventually arrested and held without bond, and finally thrown into jail for a year. He sits in La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas right now, even as the deceptive spin that blamed his video for the Benghazi attack looks more egregious by the day."
170) Oversaw IRS whose employees illegally targeted conservative groups
In May 2013, the Washington Post reported that the IRS had illegally targeted conservative groups for additional reviews. Organizations with the words "tea party" or "patriot" were singled out for harassment, such as requiring them to provide a list of donors, details about their internet postings on social networking websites, and information about their family members.
When this was first reported by the media in May 2013, Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that had conducted these illegal activities, claimed that only low level employees had known about it, and that no high level IRS officials had known about it. However, soon afterward, NPR reported that an Inspector General report showed that Lerner had been lying, and that she herself had actually been aware of it since June 29, 2011. Even worse, during March and April of 2012, Lerner herself had actually written such letters tofifteen different conservative groups. One of these letters can be read here.
While testifying in May 2013, Lerner said, "I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations. And I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee." However, afterward, she invoked her fifth amendment right to remain silent. The Washington Post reported that there was disagreement as to whether or not Lerner's statement constituted a waiving of her fifth amendment right to remain silent. Soon afterward, she was placed on paidadministrative leave.
The Washington Post reported that IRS officials at the IRS headquarters in Washington D.C. had sent such letters to conservatives groups. Reutersreported that higher level IRS officials had taken part in discussions about it as early as August 2011. However, 21 months later, on May 10, 2013, the Washington Post reported that President Obama had not done anything to investigate or fire the IRS employees who had engaged in this illegal harassment. As of May 14, 2013, none of the IRS employees who engaged in any of this illegal behavior had been disciplined, despite the fact that higher level IRS officials had known about their illegal behavior at least since August 2011.
On May 15, 2013, it was reported that Steven Miller, the acting IRS commissioner, had resigned. However, it was also reported that his assignment would have ended in early June anyway. He resigned – Obama did not fire him.
The IRS gave out confidential information about conservative groups. ProPublica wrote:
"The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year."
"In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public."
"No unapproved applications from liberal groups were sent to ProPublica."
President Obama either lied about when he first knew about this – or was too busy playing golf and attending fundraisers to read the memos that were sent to him. The Daily Caller wrote:
"White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a press conference Tuesday that the White House was notified about the IRS targeting tea party groups 'several weeks ago.' This comes a day after President Obama said he found out about it from news reports on Friday of last week."
"During a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, President Obama was asked about the IRS scandal. He responded, 'I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday.' "
"However, Carney said Tuesday that first a report had to be compiled by the IRS's inspector general and then when it was completed, it was passed on to the administration."
"'A notification is appropriate and routine and that is what happened and that happened several weeks ago,' Carney said."
When Media Trackers, a conservative organization, applied to the IRS for non-profit status, after waiting 16 months, it got no response. But when it reapplied with a liberal sounding name, it got approval in just three weeks. Yahoo wrote:
"In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group."
"When September 2012 arrived with still no word from the IRS, Ryun determined that Media Trackers would likely never obtain standalone nonprofit status, and he tried a new approach: He applied for permanent nonprofit status for a separate group called Greenhouse Solutions, a pre-existing organization that was reaching the end of its determination period."
"The IRS approved Greenhouse Solutions' request for permanent nonprofit status in three weeks."
Politico reported:
"The same Internal Revenue Service office that singled out Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny also challenged Israel-related organizations, at least one of which filed suit over the agency's handling of its application for tax-exempt status."
"The trouble for the Israel-focused groups seems to have had different origins than that experienced by conservative groups, but at times the effort seems to have been equally ham-handed."
The IRS asked conservative groups what books they were reading.
Although the IRS went 18 months or longer without responding to conservative organizations' applications, the IRS demanded that these same organizations answer the IRS's intrusive questions within a few weeks.
After the Waco Tea Party sent an application to the IRS, the IRS waited 19 months to respond. In its response, the IRS asked for printouts of its web page and social networking sites, copies of all of its newsletters, bulletins and fliers, and copies of all stories written about it. The IRS also asked for transcripts of its radio interviews.
As one example of how the IRS treated conservative organizations differently from liberal ones, Politico reported:
"Chris Littleton, one of the co-founders of the Ohio Liberty Coalition, said the group got a grilling from the IRS when it submitted its application, in letters the group has posted on its website. The IRS also gave him so much grief when he tried to apply for tax-exempt status for another group, American Junto, that 'we just gave up on it,' he said."
"But when he submitted an application for a third group — Ohioans for Health Care Freedom, now renamed Ohio Rising — 'it went through just fine,' Littleton said. 'They never asked a single set of questions.'"
After the Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots sent in their application, it took two years for the IRS to respond. The IRS response included 35 questions. When the group's cofounder called the IRS, the IRS agent claimed that he had their group's file right in front of him. But when the group's confounder asked the IRS agent a question, the IRS agent asked, "What's your group's name again?"
Tea Party groups who spoke with each other said they were all getting the same questions from the IRS.
The Washington Post reported that some IRS employees were "ignorant about tax laws, defiant of their supervisors, and blind to the appearance of impropriety."
In 2012, the IRS leaked confidential information about Mitt Romney to the co-chairman of President Obama's re-election committee.
For a 27 month period that began in February 2010, the IRS gave exactly zero approvals to Tea Party organizations that had sent in applications. During that same time period, numerous liberal organizations with names including words such as "progress" or "progressive" did get approval.
After True the Vote, a conservative organization which was founded by Catherine Engelbrecht, sent its application to the IRS, the IRS went three years without responding. During that three year period, Engelbrecht and her family's small manufacturing business were audited by the IRS, and wereinvestigated by OSHA, the ATF, and the FBI.
Democratic U.S. Senators pressured the IRS to target conservative groups. In May 2013, U.S. News & World Report wrote:
"Over the last three years, Democratic senators repeatedly and publicly pressured the IRS to engage in the very activities that they are only now condemning today. At the same time, Republicans repeatedly and publicly warned against this abuse of government power and pointed to a series of red flags that strongly suggested conservative political organizations were being targeted by the IRS. Those warnings were deliberately ignored by the Obama administration and Democratic leaders in Congress."
"From Max Baucus to Chuck Schumer to Jeanne Shaheen, key Senate Democrats publicly pressured the IRS to target groups that held differing political views and who, in their view, had the temerity to engage in the political process. The IRS listened to them and acted."
In order to get approval, the IRS required members of Coalition for Life of Iowa, a pro-life organization, to sign a promise to avoid protesting in front of Planned Parenthood.
The IRS asked Christian Voices for Life, a pro-life organization, questions about its prayer vigils.
According to the official White House visitor's log, during Obama's first four years as President, IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman made 157 visits to the White House. This is more visits to the White House – by a very large margin – than any other cabinet member during Obama's first term. By comparison, during the four years that Mark Everson was IRS commissioner when Bush was president, Everson made only one visit to the White House.
Shulman donated $500 to the Democratic National Committee in October 2004.
During Congressional testimony that had taken place in March 2012, Shulmanfalsely said that the IRS had not targeted conservative groups.
Shulman's wife, Susan L. Anderson, is the senior program advisor for Public Campaign, a liberal organization. The Dailer Caller wrote of this group:
Public Campaign receives "major funding" from the pro-Obamacare alliance Health Care for America NOW!, which is comprised of the labor unions AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU, and the progressive activist organization Move On, among others.
Public Campaign also receives funding from the liberal Ford Foundation, the Common Cause Education Fund, and Barbra Streisand's The Streisand Foundation, among other foundations and private donors.
Stephen Seok was one of the IRS agents who wrote threatening letters to conservative groups. After doing so, he was given a promotion.
In June 2013, it was reported that two IRS employees had violatedgovernment ethics rules at a 2010 conference when they received $1,100 in free food and other items. One of them was Fred Schindler, the director of implementation oversight at the IRS Affordable Care Act office. The other was Donald Toda, a California-based employee. Obama did not fire them. Instead, he gave both of them paid leave. By comparison, in 1981, President Reaganfired 11,359 air-traffic controllers who had been illegally striking.
In June 2013, it was reported that The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative organization, had forensic evidence which proved that its donors' private information had been illegally leaked by the IRS. The IRS employee(s) who illegally leaked this private information could get five yearsin prison.
In July 2013, it was reported that Obama had met with a key IRS official who was involved in the targeting just two days before the key official had told his colleagues how to target tea party groups. The Daily Caller reported:
The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in the improper targeting of conservative groups, met with Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012. Wilkins' boss, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 24, 2012, according to White House visitor logs.
On April 25, 2012, Wilkins' office sent the exempt organizations determinations unit "additional comments on the draft guidance" for approving or denying tea party tax-exempt applications, according to the IRS inspector general's report.
Jon Stewart said of this:
"Well, congratulations, President Barack Obama. Conspiracy theorists who generally can survive in anaerobic environments have just had an algae bloom dropped on their f***ing heads, thus removing the last arrow in your pro-governance quiver: skepticism about your opponents."
Michael Macleod-Ball, chief of staff at the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office, said of this:
"Even the appearance of playing partisan politics with the tax code is about as constitutionally troubling as it gets. With the recent push to grant federal agencies broad new powers to mandate donor disclosure for advocacy groups on both the left and the right, there must be clear checks in place to prevent this from ever happening again."
171) Spent $402,721 on underwear that detects the presence of cigarette smoke
In May 2013, it was reported that the Obama administration had spent $402,721 on underwear that detects the presence of cigarette smoke.
172) Rewarded one of his biggest campaign fundraisers by nominating him for the ambassadorship to Canada
In April 2013, it was reported that Obama had nominated Bruce Heyman to be the ambassador to Canada. During Obama's election campaign, Heyman had raised more than $1 million for Obama.
173) Hired a retarded man to sell illegal drugs and guns, and then arrested him for doing so
In April 2013, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported:
"ATF agents running an undercover storefront in Milwaukee used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to set up gun and drug deals, paying him in cigarettes, merchandise and money, according to federal documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel."
"For more than six months, federal agents relied on Chauncey Wright to promote 'Fearless Distributing' by handing out fliers as he rode his bike around town recommending the store to friends, family and strangers, according to federal prosecutors and family members."
"Wright, unaware that the store was an undercover operation being run by agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, also stocked shelves with shoes, clothing, drug paraphernalia and auto parts, according to his family."
"Once authorities shut down the operation, they charged the 28-year-old man with federal gun and drug counts."
"Wright's IQ measures in the 50s, about half of a normal IQ, according to those familiar with him. Wright's score is classified as mildly or moderately disabled, depending on the IQ scale used."
174) Secretly obtained phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors
In May 2013, Associated Press reported:
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of calls.
In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.
"There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP's newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP's activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know," Pruitt said.
Soon afterward, it was reported that obtaining these phone records had required approval from Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General.
This has had a very dangerous and harmful effect on the media's ability to report the news. In June 2013, Gary Pruitt, the president and chief executive of Associated Press said:
"Some longtime trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking with us... In some cases, government employees we once checked in with regularly will no longer speak to us by phone. Others are reluctant to meet in person ... This chilling effect on newsgathering is not just limited to AP... Journalists from other news organizations have personally told me that it has intimidated both official and nonofficial sources from speaking to them as well."
175) Asked contractors to disclose their political donations before bidding on government contracts
In April 2011, Obama asked contractors to disclose their political donations before bidding on government contracts.
176) Tried to deport German family that had fled Germany over Hitler's ban on homeschooling
In Germany in 1938, Adolf Hitler outlawed homeschooling. He said "Give me a child when he's seven and he's mine forever."
Hitler's ban on homeschooling is still in effect today. In 2006, Katharina Plett was arrested for homeschooling her own children. Her husband and their children fled the country. In 2008, Juergen and Rosemary Dudek were sentenced to 90 days in jail for homeschooling their own children.
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their homeschooled children fled Germany after the police showed up at their house to enforce Germany's ban on homeschooling. They came to the United States in 2010 and were granted political asylum, which gave them legal permission to live in the U.S. as political refugees However, in March 2013, the Obama administration arguedin federal court in favor of deporting them and sending them back to Germany. This means that Obama does not consider them to be political refugees, and that he does not consider Germany's policy of jailing homeschooling parents to be a form of persecution.
177) Said, "We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends"
Obama said (the bolding is mine)
"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're gonna punish our enemies, and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us' — if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election — then I think it's going to be harder. And that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd."
This is a rare instance of a promise that Obama has actually kept instead of broken. A huge number of the things on this list can be explained by that one simple sentence that Obama said.
178) Falsely accused a law abiding news reporter of being "an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator" in a criminal investigation
James Rosen is a law abiding reporter for Fox News. However, the Obama administration falsely labeled him as "an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator" in a criminal investigation when it applied for a warrant to read his emails.
The New York Times wrote of this:
With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible "co-conspirator" in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets to threatening fundamental freedoms of the press to gather news.
Leak investigations usually focus on the source, not the reporter. But, in this case, federal prosecutors also asked a federal judge for permission to examine Mr. Rosen's personal e-mails, arguing that "there is probable cause to believe" Mr. Rosen is "an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator" in the leak.
Though Mr. Rosen was not charged, the F.B.I. request for his e-mail account was granted secretly in late May 2010. The government was allowed to rummage through Mr. Rosen's e-mails for at least 30 days.
Michael Clemente, the executive vice president of Fox News, said on Monday that it was "downright chilling" that Mr. Rosen "was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter." Bruce Brown, the executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, added on Tuesday that treating "routine news-gathering efforts as evidence of criminality is extremely troubling and corrodes time-honored understandings between the public and the government about the role of the free press."
Obama administration officials often talk about the balance between protecting secrets and protecting the constitutional rights of a free press. Accusing a reporter of being a "co-conspirator"... shows a heavy tilt toward secrecy and insufficient concern about a free press.
The Washington Post wrote of this:
The Rosen affair is as flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush's administration, and it uses technology to silence critics in a way Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.
To treat a reporter as a criminal for doing his job — seeking out information the government doesn't want made public — deprives Americans of the First Amendment freedom on which all other constitutional rights are based. Guns? Privacy? Due process? Equal protection? If you can't speak out, you can't defend those rights, either.
Beyond that, the administration's actions shatter the president's credibility and discourage allies who would otherwise defend the administration against bogus accusations such as those involving the Benghazi "talking points." If the administration is spying on reporters and accusing them of criminality just for asking questions — well, who knows what else this crowd is capable of doing?
My Post colleague Ann E. Marimow, who broke the Rosen story, obtained the affidavit by FBI agent Reginald Reyes seeking access to Rosen's private e-mails. In the affidavit, Reyes stated that "there is probable cause to believe that the reporter has committed or is committing a violation" of the law against national security leaks. The affidavit detailed how the FBI had monitored Rosen's comings and goings from the State Department and tracked his various phone calls with the suspected leaker, analyst Stephen Jin-Woo Kim.
Rosen's supposed crime? Reyes got his evidence from an e-mail from the reporter: "I want to report authoritatively, and ahead of my competitors, on new initiatives or shifts in U.S. policy, events on the ground in [North Korea], what intelligence is picking up, etc. . . . I'd love to see some internal State Department analyses. . . . In short: Let's break some news, and expose muddle-headed policy when we see it, or force the administration's hand to go in the right direction, if possible."
That is indeed compelling evidence — of good journalism.
Obama is establishing an ominous precedent.
179) Asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate himself for lying under oath
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath. He said that he had nothing to do with monitoring the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen. But it turns out that it was Holder's own signature on the search warrant.
Even the liberal Huffington Post said that Holder should be fired over this.
Holder could get five years in prison.
So, did President Obama fire Holder?
Of course not!
Instead, Obama asked that Holder be investigated – not by an independent investigating committee – but by Holder himself!
I can see it now...
Obama: "Did you lie?"
Holder: "No."
Obama: "OK. That's good enough for me. You're cleared of any wrongdoing."
180) Used Obamacare to illegally give the IRS additional powers without approval from Congress
In May 2013 the Washington Post wrote:
The law allows the Department of Health and Human Services to set up federal health exchanges in the holdout states. But the statute makes no mention of the IRS providing credits and subsidies through federal exchanges.
The IRS resolved this conundrum by denying its existence. In a May 2012 regulatory ruling, it asserted its own right to provide credits outside the state exchanges as the reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous law. But the language of the law is not ambiguous. And health scholars Jonathan Adler and Michael Cannon, in an exhaustive recent analysis, find no justification for the IRS's ruling in the legislative history of Obamacare. "The statute," they argue, "and the lack of any support for the IRS rule in the legislative record put defenders of the IRS rule in the awkward position of arguing that it was so obviously Congress' intent to offer tax credits in federal exchanges that despite a year of debate over the PPACA, it never occurred to anyone to express that intent out loud. A better explanation is that the PPACA's authors miscalculated when they assumed states would establish exchanges."
So: The IRS seized the authority to spend about $800 billion over 10 years on benefits that were not authorized by Congress. And the current IRS scandal puts this decision in a new light. What was the role of politics in shaping this regulatory decision? What pressure was applied?
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Obuma Lied:181) Used environmental regulations to shut down an ambulance while it was taking a patient to the hospital
In May 2013 the Washington Post reported:
A Wednesday shootout on the streets of Washington Highlands left a cop injured and a carjacking suspect dead. But before the suspect expired, he went on an unusual ambulance ride that involved moving him from one vehicle to another on the shoulder of Interstate 295. While this might appear to be another story of Fire and Emergency Medical Services dysfunction, the story is rather more complicated. As WUSA-TV explains, newer-model diesel engines are required by federal regulations to have emission-control features that, in some circumstances, require the motor to shut down for "regeneration" — a process in which the exhaust system burns off trapped soot. The need for regeneration can be unpredictable. The transfer to a second ambulance delayed 34-year-old Nathaniel McRae's arrival at a hospital by seven minutes. FEMS insists the wait did not play a role in his death.
182) Had "a serious management problem" with his refusal to fire bad workers
A 2011 USA Today article on federal employees states:
"The federal government fired 0.55% of its workers in the budget year that ended Sept. 30 — 11,668 employees in its 2.1 million workforce."
"White-collar federal workers have almost total job security after a few years on the job. Last year, the government fired none of its 3,000 meteorologists, 2,500 health insurance administrators, 1,000 optometrists, 800 historians or 500 industrial property managers."
Wow! Those must be excellent workers, right?
Actually, no. The article also says:
"San Francisco State University management professor John Sullivan, an expert on employee turnover, says the low departure rates show a failure to release poor performers and those with obsolete skills. 'Rather than indicating something positive, rates below 1% in the firing and layoff components would indicate a serious management problem,' he says."
A serious management problem?
So who exactly is the highest ranking manager of the federal government?
It's President Obama.
183) Illegally solicited donations from health insurers
In May 2013, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius soliciteddonations from health insurers to help pay for Obamacare. Such soliciting isillegal.
184) Chose an economic advisor who wanted roads and bridges to be built by unqualified workers
Obama chose to have Robert Reich be his economic advisor. Regarding Obama's stimulus, Reich said:
"I am concerned, as I'm sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high skilled people... And therefore, in my remarks I have suggested to you, and I'm certainly happy to talk about it more, ways in which the money can be — criteria can be set so that they money does go to others... people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals."
185) Pressured unions to reduce the amount of health insurance coverage for their employees
In May 2013, the New York Times reported:
Say goodbye to that $500 deductible insurance plan and the $20 co-payment for a doctor's office visit. They are likely to become luxuries of the past.
Expect to have your blood pressure checked or a prescription filled at a clinic at your office, rather than by your private doctor.
Then blame the so-called Cadillac tax, which penalizes companies that offer high-end health care plans to their employees.
Although the tax does not start until 2018, employers say they have to start now to meet the deadline and they are doing whatever they can to bring down the cost of their plans. Under the law, an employer or health insurer offering a plan that costs more than $10,200 for an individual and $27,500 for a family would typically pay a 40 percent excise tax on the amount exceeding the threshold.
Tom Leibfried, a legislative director for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., one of the unions whose plans are vulnerable to the tax, says the demands that workers pay more for their care is a perennial aspect of labor negotiations. "We're very concerned about the hollowing out of benefits in general," he said. "What the excise tax will do is just fuel that."
186) Falsely said "We believe in the free market"
In June 2013, Obama said,
We don't think that top-down solutions are the right way to go. We believe in the free market. We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations. – See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-we-dont-want-tax-all-businesses-out-business#sthash.NDb17lc6.dpufWe believe in the free market. We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations.
"We believe in the free market."
Obama was lying. The free market means that in the business world, it is the customers, not the government, who pick winners and losers. But this list contains a huge number of instances where Obama tried to use the government to pick winners and losers in the business world.
187) Falsely said "We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations"
In June 2013, Obama said, "We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations."
He lied. For example, after Obamacare was passed, Obama added 20,000extra pages of regulations to to it.
188) Said Catholic schools are "divisive" but did not say the same thing about other religious schools
In June 2013, Obama said:
"If towns remain divided – if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden – that too encourages division and discourages cooperation."
I can understand why a person might criticize religious schools in general – although I myself happen to think that religious schools are a superior alternative to public schools. But for Obama to single out one religion in particular as being divisive, while not saying the same thing about all religious schools in general, is a double standard.
189) Favored a new tax on Christmas trees so the money could be used to subsidize Christmas trees
In November 2011, Obama proposed a new tax on Christmas trees, so that the money could be used to subsidize Christmas trees. If this had been a Rube Goldberg cartoon it would have been funny. But to suggest it as an actual government policy is absurd.
190) Betrayed the people of the city that helped him launch his political career
As part of his effort to get Obamacare passed, Obama repeatedly promised that people could keep their current health insurance if they liked it.
More than any other city, the people of Chicago helped to get Obamacare passed. Chicago is where Obama chose to live when he first got into politics. The people there launched his political career and voted him into office.
And this is how Obama repays them. In May 2013, the Chicago Tribunereported:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to start reducing health insurance coverage next year for more than 30,000 retired city workers and begin shifting them to President Barack Obama's new federal system.
The move is aimed at saving the city money
Once the phaseout is complete, those retired workers would have to pay for their own health insurance or get subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. The city-subsidized coverage is particularly important to retired workers who aren't yet eligible for Medicare
Henry Bayer, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31, said the uncertainties of the Affordable Care Act and the state insurance exchanges they would create make the city's plan hard to assess.
"This uncertainty will cause anxiety and fear for tens of thousands of seniors who gave their working lives to public service — men and women whose retirement savings are already under attack in the name of 'pension reform.'" Bayer said.
191) Proposed military interventionism in Syria
In June 2013, Obama proposed that the U.S. get involved in Syria's military conflicts.
192) Planned to use military snipers to shoot innocent lions and cheetahs in the wild
In June 2013, Obama was planning to use military snipers to shoot innocent lions and cheetahs in the wild.
However, after the media reported on his plans, Obama got embarrassed, and cancelled his plans.
193) Refused to fire or prosecute more than 1,000 IRS employees who illegally used their IRS credit cards for their own personal use
During Obama's first term, more than 1,000 IRS employees illegally used their IRS credit cards for personal purchases, but Obama refused to fire or prosecute them.
194) Defended intelligence chief who lied under oath
In March 2013, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, falselystated under oath that the NSA was not gathering data on millions of U.S. citizens. In June 2013, after it was reported that Clapper had lied under oath, Obama defended him, instead of firing him.
195) Had the Secret Service visit a law abiding citizen who had criticized his policies on Twitter
In April 2013, Obama sent the Secret Service to visit the home of Tom Francois, a law abiding citizen who had criticized Obama's policies on Twitter.
The Secret Service admitted that Francois had not made any threats against Obama.
196) Had the IRS grant special, illegal favors for his brother's so-called "charity"
In May 2013, the Dailer Caller reported that the IRS had taken the "unprecedented" step of approving a non-profit application within just one month. In this particular case, the application was from the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a so-called "charity" which was headed by Malik Obama, Barack Obama's brother.
In addition, the IRS illegally gave retroactive approval for the organization's tax exempt status. Prior to getting this approval, the organization had illegallysolicited tax deductible donations even though it did not have legal approval to do so.
197) Raised the interest rate on student loans to pay for Obamacare
Obamacare raised the interest rate on students loans from 5.3% to 6.8%. The money is used to fund Obamacare.
198) Refused to fire or prosecute 15 IRS agents who illegally seized the medical records of 10 million people
In March 2011, 15 IRS agents illegally seized the medical records of 10 millionpeople without a warrant. Obama refused to fire or prosecute them.
199) Hired 16,500 new IRS agents to run Obamacare
In June 2013, it was reported that Obama had hired 16,500 new IRS agents to run Obamacare.
200) Tried to reward wasteful IRS spending with an increase in funding
In June 2013, Danny Werfel, Obama's new nominee to head the IRS, askedCongress for an increase in funding. At the same time, NPR reported on this waste of taxpayer money at an IRS conference:
Some of the 2,600 attendees received benefits, including baseball tickets and stays in presidential suites that normally cost $1,500 to $3,500 per night. In addition, 15 outside speakers were paid a total of $135,000 in fees, with one paid $17,000 to talk about "leadership through art," the committee said.
Considering how the IRS wasted all that money on luxury hotel rooms and worthless speeches, Werfel really had some nerve asking Congress for more money. By proposing to reward wasteful spending with a budget increase, Werfel proved that he is incompetent to head the IRS. The fact that Obama nominated such an incompetent person does not surprise me one bit.
201) Illegally bypassed Congress to delay Obamacare's employer mandate
As the Obamacare law was written, the employer mandate was to begin in January 2014. This is what the law said when it was passed by the House and Senate, and signed by President Obama.
However, in July 2013, Obama delayed the employer mandate part of Obamacare until January 2015. Obama did this without approval from Congress.
For Obama to change a law that was passed by Congress, without first getting approval from Congress, is a violation of the Presidential oath that Obama took to uphold and defend the Constitution.
What Obama did here is an action of a dictator, not an action of a President whose power is limited by a written constitution.
If Obama can get away with this, then it sets a horribly dangerous precedent, and means that the President can arbitrarily make any change to any law that has been passed by Congress, without first getting approval from Congress.
202) Made it too hard for some doctors to continue their practices
In July 2013, ABC News reported that some doctors were shutting down their practices in response to Obamacare.
Dr. Robert WcWilliams, an obstetrician/gynecologist with more than 5,000 patients, said:
"It's going to be run by bureaucrats – and it's going to be run by politicians – who have no idea what is in your best interests, then I'm getting out."
203) Falsely told Africans that contaminated water is a smaller problem than global warming
In July 2013, while speaking in Johannesburg, South Africa, President Obamasaid that global warming was "the biggest challenge we have environmentally" and that it was worse than "dirty water, dirty air."
However, according to the World Health Organization, while global warming kills 140,000 people each year, air pollution kills 3 million people per year.
According to UNESCO, each year, contaminated water causes 4 billion cases of diarrhea, 120,000 cases of cholera, 300 million cases of malaria, 12 million cases of typhoid, 6 million cases of trachoma, 200 million cases of schistosomiesis, and more than 1 billion incidents of intestinal parasites.
You know what's worse than global warming? How about living your entire life without ever having access to a toilet?
The World Health Organization says that dirty water is "the leading cause of disease and death around the world."
That Obama would downplay these problems shows how scientifically illiterate he is.
That he would do so while giving a speech in Africa, which has the highest rate of water borne illness of any continent, shows how thoughtless and insensitive he is.
204) Spent $630,000 to get more Facebook "likes"
In July 2013, it was reported that Obama had spent $630,000 of taxpayers' money in order to get more Facebook "likes."
205) Declared that hacking was an act of war, then hacked the EU
In 2011, the Obama administration issued a statement which said that when one country hacked another country's computers, the hacking constituted an "act of war."
In July 2013, it was reported that the Obama administration had hacked computers which were owned by the European Union.
206) Said "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"
In Florida, after a school security camera showed Trayvon Martin marking graffiti, a search of his backpack showed that it contained 12 pieces of women's jewelry, including silver wedding rings, and earrings with diamonds. The backpack also had a screwdriver, which is often used as a tool by burglars. Martin said that the jewelry belonged to a friend, but refused to say who that friend was.
Why would a teenage boy bring a backpack full of silver wedding rings and diamond earrings to school? Do Martin's millions of defenders really think that he was not a burglar?
The fact that Martin was in possession of stolen jewelry at school is perfectly in line with George Zimmerman's claim on the 911 call that Martin was acting suspiciously. And there had been quite a few burglaries in the area recently.
Also on the 911 call, Zimmerman had said that Martin was acting as if he was on drugs. Martin's autopsy showed that there was THC in his system. And while other parts of marijuana can stay in the system for weeks after it's smoked, the THC only stays in the person's system for a few hours. Therefore, Martin was indeed high when Zimmerman saw him.
So Trayvon Martin was a burglar, used illegal drugs, broke Zimmerman's nose, and smashed Zimmerman's head against the concrete.
And how does Obama respond to all of this?
Obama said:
"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
207) Falsely said that Secretary of State John Kerry had not been on his yacht during the regime change in Egypt
In July 2013, the Obama administration falsely said that Secretary of State John Kerry had not been on his yacht during the regime change in Egypt.
Evan after CBS news presented the Obama administration with photographic evidence that Kerry had been on his yacht during that time, the Obama administration still continued to falsely claim that Kerry had not been on his yacht.
CBS News reported:
On Thursday night, CBS News obtained a photo of Kerry on his boat and sent it to the State Department, asking whether they still stand by their denial that Kerry was on a boat.
The response: "Yes."
208) Said "the planet will boil over" if African citizens adopt a first world standard of living
In July 2013, Obama said "the planet will boil over" if African citizens adopt a first world standard of living.
"the planet will boil over
209) "Among those who Strongly Approve of the president, more fear the Tea Party than radical Muslims."
In June 2013, Rasmussen conducted a poll to find out what people considered to be the "nation's top terror threat."
Reporting on the results of the poll, Rasmussen wrote:
"Among those who Strongly Approve of the president, more fear the Tea Party than radical Muslims."
210) Illegally forced 2,200 privately owned auto dealerships to close, which destroyed 120,000 jobs
In 2009, Obama illegally forced 2,200 privately owned auto dealerships toclose. These dealerships had employed 120,000 people.
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Obuma Lied:211) Subsidized the production of alcoholic beverages
In June 2013, Breitbart reported:
The USDA Rural Development agency also touted a program to subsidize the Wine Barn LLC in "marketing and increasing production of its Kansas produced wine." That cost $25,000. The USDA Rural Development also said it would hand $300,000 to the Mackinaw Trail Winery in Michigan, $100,000 for the Appleton Creek Winery in New York, $162,500 for the Old Westminster Winery in Maryland, and tens of thousands of dollars to wineries in Nebraska and Iowa.
Liquor is the name of the game for the USDA, apparently – they're also subsidizing the production of vodka in North Carolina, Bloody Mary mix in West Virginia, and hard cider in Virginia.
212) Gave 23,994 tax refunds worth a total of $46,378,040 to illegal aliens who all used the same address
In 2011, the IRS gave 23,994 tax refunds worth a total of $46,378,040 to illegal aliens who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga.
213) Sued private businesses for using "racist" criminal background checks to screen employees
In June 2013, the Obama administration filed lawsuits against Dollar General and BMW for using criminal background checks to screen employees. The Obama administration claimed that such background checks were "racist."
214) Used tax money to pay federal employees to organize protests against George Zimmerman
In March and April of 2012, Obama used tax money to pay federal employees to organize protests against George Zimmerman.
215) Illegally continued giving foreign aid to Egypt after it had a coup
Federal law requires that U.S. foreign aid to Egypt be ended if and when Egypt has a coup. However, after Egypt had a coup in July 2013, the Obama administration said that it would continue giving foreign aid to Egypt.
216) Broke promise to end Bush's surveillance of U.S. citizens who were not suspected of committing a crime
In August 2007, Obama promised that he would end Bush's surveillance of U.S. citizens who were not suspected of committing a crime. However, in June 2013, such surveillance was still being conducted.
217) Spent $3 million to study the health risks of dating Mexican prostitutes
In July 2013, it was reported that the Obama administration had spent $3 million to study the health risks of dating Mexican prostitutes.
218) Lied about the cost of IRS conferences
In June 2013 it was reported that the Obama administration had lied about the cost of IRS conferences. While the actual cost was $50 million, the Obama administration had claimed that the cost was only 1% of that mount.
219) Spent $890,000 per year on service fees for bank accounts that had no money
In April 2013, it was reported that the Obama administration was spending $890,000 each year on service fees for bank accounts that did not have any money in them. At the time, the government had 13,712 empty accounts which it was supposed to have closed, but which it had kept open anyway.
220) Spent $34 million to construct a new military headquarters in Afghanistan after U.S. military commanders said they did not want it
After U.S. military commanders said in 2010 that they did not want a new headquarters in Afghanistan, the Obama administration spent $34 million to build it anyway.
221) Falsely said that his scandals were "phony"
In July 2013, Obama said
"With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball."
These scandals are not "phony." I have cited a huge number of sources in this list to show that these scandals are real.
222) Falsely guaranteed that people could keep their doctor
Before Obamacare was passed, Obama said:
"Here is a guarantee that I've made... If you've got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor."
However, in July 2013, the Obama administration said that people "may" be able to keep their doctor.
223) Falsely said the auto bailouts prevented Detroit from going bankrupt
Obama falsely stated that the auto bailouts prevented Detroit from going bankrupt.
224) Illegally seized a privately owned gun from a law abiding citizen
After a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty, the Obama administrationannounced that it would seize his gun. This violated the double jeopardy clause of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the takings clause of the fifth amendment.
225) Broke his promise to have real time verifiability of Obamacare subsidies
In July 2013, Investor's Business Daily wrote:
Meanwhile, the administration tacitly admitted last week that its promise of real-time verification of a consumer's eligibility to buy subsidized coverage at an ObamaCare exchange wasn't exactly panning out.
Under ObamaCare, only those who don't have access to "affordable" insurance at work can buy coverage in an exchange, and only those below certain income levels are eligible for tax subsidies.
Rather than a high-tech instant check, the administration told states they could simply take the applicants' word for it when it comes to their employer-provided coverage, as well as their "projected annual household income," without the need for "further verification."
226) Signed health care reform whose rules contradicted each other
Obamacare allows insurance companies to charge higher premiums for smokers. At the same time, it prohibits insurance companies from charging more than three times as much for older people as it does for younger people. In June 2013, Obama's computer programmers said that they had been unable to write a computer program that simultaneously agreed with both of these rules.
227) Signed a health care reform plan that is so horrible that even the IRS agents who run it don't want to participate in it
Obama hired 16,500 new IRS agents to run Obamacare.
But Obamacare is so awful that even the IRS agents who run it don't want to participate in it.
In July 2013, the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents the IRS employees who will be running Obamacare, provided a form letter to its members to send to their Congressmen. The letter stated:
"I am very concerned about legislation that has been introduced by Congressman Dave Camp to push federal employees out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and into the insurance exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act."
When asked about this, IRS chief Daniel Werfel responded by saying:
"I don't want to speak for the NTEU, but I'll offer a perspective as a federal employee myself and a federal employee at the IRS. And that is, we have right now as employees of the government, of the IRS, affordable health care coverage. I think the ACA was designed to provide an option or an alternative for individuals that do not. And all else being equal, I think if you're an individual who is satisfied with your health care coverage, you're probably in a better position to stick with that coverage than go through the change of moving into a different environment and going through that process. So I think for a federal employee, I think more likely, and I would — can speak for myself, I would prefer to stay with the current policy that I'm pleased with rather than go through a change if I don't need to go through that change."
228) Tried to tax small businesses at a higher rate than corporations
Obama raised the top tax rate on small businesses to 39.6%, and tried to lower the top tax rate on corporations to 28%.
229) Illegally prevented individual employees of small businesses from choosing their own plan during the first year of Obamacare
Obamacare requires that individual employees of small businesses be allowed to choose their own insurance plan during the first year of Obamacare. However, in March 2013, the Obama administration announced that it would not be allowing them to make this choice during the first year.
230) Falsely said that Obamacare had not hurt jobs
In July 2013, the Obama administration said that Obamacare had not hurt jobs.
However, in the real world, in response to the medical device tax that is part of Obamacare, some medical device manufacturers have announced plans to layoff employees, including Welch Allyn (275 planned layoffs), Stryker (1,170 planned layoffs), and Medtronic (1,000 planned layoffs). In December 2012, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren, John Kerry, and 15 other Democrats who supported the passage of Obamacare wrote a letter to Harry Reid, asking him to delay the tax on medical devices, claiming that the tax would hurt job creation in their districts. The New York Times reported that Obamacare "sharply penalizes full-time employment in favor of part-time employment." In response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, some restaurants have announced plans to switch some of their employees from full time to part time, including some franchises of Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Wendy's, Taco Bell,White Castle, and Fatburger. Community College of Allegheny Countyswitched 200 professors and 200 other employees from full time to part time in response to Obamacare. Clint Benjamin, an English professor at Community College of Allegheny County, said that this would reduce his own monthly pay by $600. Also in response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, other colleges have announced plans to switch some of their employees from full time to part time, including Florida's Palm Beach State College, Ohio's Youngstown State University, and New Jersey's Kean University. In Virginia, thousands of government employees had their hours reduced because of Obamacare. The Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh reduced the hours of 48 of its employees in response to Obamacare. Regal Entertainment Group, the largest chain of movie theaters in the country, announced that it would be switching thousands of its employees from full time to part time in response to the Obamacare mandate. Utah's Granite School District reduced the hours of 1,200 of its employees in response to Obamacare. In response to Obamacare, many Wal-Mart stores have stopped hiring full time workers. In July 2013, leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE sent a letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi which said that Obamacare will "destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class... the law creates an incentive for employers to keep employees' work hours below 30 hours a week. Numerous employers have begun to cut workers' hours to avoid this obligation."
231) Falsely said that health insurance premiums would be reduced by $2,500 per family by the end of his first term
In February 2008, Obama said:
"We are going to work with you to lower your premiums by $2,500. We will not wait 20 years from now to do it, or 10 years from now to do it. We will do it by the end of my first term as president."
However, by the time his first term was over, family premiums had gottenbigger, not smaller. The increase was $3,065 per family.
232) Illegally gave Obamacare waiver to Massachusetts
In August 2013, Obama gave an Obamacare waiver to Massachusetts.
This waiver was illegal for two reasons. First, the waiver was not approved by the U.S. Congress. Second, the U.S. Constitution requires that the federal government treat all states the same.
233) Betrayed the unions that helped him to get elected
In January 2013, the Wall Street Journal reported:
Some Unions Grow Wary of Health Law They Backed
Labor unions enthusiastically backed the Obama administration's health-care overhaul when it was up for debate. Now that the law is rolling out, some are turning sour.
Union leaders say many of the law's requirements will drive up the costs for their health-care plans and make unionized workers less competitive. Among other things, the law eliminates the caps on medical benefits and prescription drugs used as cost-containment measures in many health-care plans. It also allows children to stay on their parents' plans until they turn 26.
Some 20 million Americans are covered by the health-care plans at issue
Top officers at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the AFL-CIO and other large labor groups plan to keep pressing the Obama administration to expand the federal subsidies to these jointly run plans, warning that unionized employers may otherwise drop coverage. A handful of unions say they already have examined whether it makes sense to shift workers off their current plans
"We are going back to the administration to say that this is not acceptable," said Ken Hall, general secretary-treasurer for the Teamsters, which has 1.6 million members and dependents in health-care plans. Other unions involved in the push include the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and Unite Here
Sheet Metal Workers Local 85 in Atlanta, which has about 1,900 members. Next year it must lift the $250,000 annual cap on the amount it will pay for medical claims. The law's requirements will add between 50 cents to $1 an hour to the cost of members' compensation package
234) Illegally changed Obamacare to benefit members of Congress and their staff
Obamacare was passed by the House and Senate, and signed by President Obama.
Three years later, members of Congress and their staff complained that Obamacare was going to cost them a lot of money, and said that this would likely cause a brain drain among their staff. In response to this, Obama madechanges to Obamacare so that these things would not happen. However, Obama's actions were illegal, because he made these changes without Congress voting on them first.
235) Told General Mills to stop making true claims about Cheerios
For quite some time, advertisements for the breakfast cereal Cheerios made the true and accurate claim that eating Cheerios lowers a person's cholesterol.
However, even though this claim is true and accurate, in May 2009, the Obama administration ordered General Mills, the maker of Cheerios, to stop making this claim in its commercials.
236) Illegally avoided enforcing the required income verification of people who receive subsidies for Obamacare exchanges
Even though Obamacare requires the government to verify the income of people who receive subsidies for Obamacare exchanges, in August 2013 it was reported that Obama would not be verifying their incomes.
237) Placed a 40% tax on so-called "Cadillac" insurance plans
Obamacare includes a 40% tax on so-called "Cadillac" insurance plans. In August 2013, unions that supported the passage of Obamacare complainedabout this tax.
238) Made medical care for special needs children more expensive
In August 2013, it was reported that Obamacare would make it more expensive for the parents of special needs children to pay for their children's medical equipment and specialized private schools that cater to their medical needs.
239) Responded to the Benghazi attack by going back to bed, and then later got up and headed off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser
In September 2012, after Obama found out that U.S. citizens were being killed in Benghazi, Libya, he went back to bed. After he got up in the morning, he went off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser.
240) Illegally delayed the caps on out of pocket health care payments without Congressional approval
As it was passed by the House and Senate and signed by Obama, Obamacare sets caps on the out of pocket payments that people pay for health care, and these caps were legally required to take effect in January 2014.
However, in August 2013, Obama delayed these caps until January 2015.
Because Obama imposed this delay without it first being approved by Congress, Obama's action was illegal. The President does not have the legal authority to change an Act that was passed by Congress, without that change first being approved by Congress. What Obama did here is not the act of a President whose power is limited by a written constitution, but is, instead, the action of a dictator.
241) Holds a double standard when it comes to supporting "gun free" zones
In December 2012, a petition at whitehouse.gov stated:
"Eliminate armed guards for the President, Vice-President, and their families, and establish Gun Free Zones around them"
"Gun Free Zones are supposed to protect our children, and some politicians wish to strip us of our right to keep and bear arms. Those same politicians and their families are currently under the protection of armed Secret Service agents. If Gun Free Zones are sufficient protection for our children, then Gun Free Zones should be good enough for politicians."
The Obama administration rejected the proposal.
242) Outlawed the low-premium, high-deductible health insurance that some people prefer
In August 2013, it was reported that Obamacare would bring an end to the low-premium, high-deductible health insurance that some people prefer.
243) Lied about how many people he had helped to protect from mortgage fraud
In August 2013, it was reported that less than one month before the 2012 election, the Obama administration had lied about the number of people that it had helped to protect from mortgage fraud, as well as the total amount of money involved. In August 2013, when the truth was revealed, Newsbustersreported:
"Thus, the number of defendants fell by 80% from what DOJ claimed less than a month before the presidential election. The number of victims fell by 76%. The amount of losses involved dropped by over 90%."
244) Falsely said the NSA review was being conducted by an "independent" body
In August 2013, Obama said that he would establish an "independent" investigation of NSA surveillance.
However, three days later, it was reported that this so-called "independent" investigation would be run by James Clapper, who had falsely testified to Congress that the NSA was not collecting information on U.S. citizens.
245) Used tax money to pay for a separate flight just for his dog
In August 2013, Obama forced taxpayers to pay for a separate airplane flight just for his dog Bo.
246) Closed off public roads so he could buy books
In August 2013, Obama had public roads closed to the public so he could go to a bookstore. Why didn't he just order the books online?
247) Gave illegal EPA exemption to one oil refinery, and would not say which refinery it was
The EPA has a very expensive ethanol mandate that applies to all oil refineries. However, in August 2013, it was reported that Obama had given one oil refinery an exemption from this mandate.
This exemption is illegal for two reasons. First, the exemption was not approved by Congress. And secondly, the Constitution requires that federal laws apply equally to everyone.
In addition, Obama refused to say which refinery it was that received this exemption, which is completely contrary to his repeated promises of "transparency."
248) Created new fines for charitable hospitals that give treatment to uninsured people
In August 2013, it was reported that Obamacare creates new fines for charitable hospitals that give treatment to uninsured people.
249) Blamed poverty on zip codes instead of on behavior
In July 2013, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said:
"Unfortunately, in too many of our hardest-hit communities, no matter how hard a child or her parents work, the life chances of that child, even her lifespan, is determined by the ZIP Code she grows up in. This is simply wrong."
However, let's consider two groups of people in the U.S. The first group has a poverty rate of 2%. The second group has a poverty rate of 76%.
The first group consists of people who followed all three of these steps:
1) Finish high school.
2) Get a full-time job.
3) Wait until age 21 and get married before having children.
The second group consists of people who followed zero of those three steps.
Among people who follow all three of these steps, the poverty rate is 2%.
Among people who follow zero of these steps, the poverty rate is 76%.
(My source for that information is this article, which refers to this PDF, and the relevant data is on page 15 of the PDF. The study uses data from the U.S. Census Bureau.)
250) Nominated a telecommunications lobbyist and Obama fundraiser to head the FCC
In May 2013, Obama nominated Tom Wheeler to head the FCC. Wheeler had previously been the head of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, which is a lobbying organization for the cable TV industry. He had also been the head of CTIA, a lobbying organization for cellphone carriers. In addition, he had also been a fundraiser for Obama.
251) Tried to violate defendants' right to a fair trial
In August 2013, Reuters reported:
A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
Although these cases rarely involve national security issues, documents reviewed by Reuters show that law enforcement agents have been directed to conceal how such investigations truly begin – not only from defense lawyers but also sometimes from prosecutors and judges.
The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don't know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence – information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.
"I have never heard of anything like this at all," said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard Law School professor who served as a federal judge from 1994 to 2011. Gertner and other legal experts said the program sounds more troubling than recent disclosures that the National Security Agency has been collecting domestic phone records. The NSA effort is geared toward stopping terrorists; the DEA program targets common criminals, primarily drug dealers.
"It is one thing to create special rules for national security," Gertner said. "Ordinary crime is entirely different. It sounds like they are phonying up investigations."
252) Threatened internet service providers with contempt of court if they did not install surveillance software
In August 2013, it was reported that the Obama administration had pressured internet service providers to install surveillance software, so that it could monitor internet traffic without a warrant. Internet service providers who did not cave in to this pressure were threatened by the Obama administration with contempt of court. This violated the Constitution's ban on warrantless searches. In addition, the executive branch does not have the legal authority to declare contempt of court, as this power is reserved exclusively for the judicial branch.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Lying Liberal Liars
Posted by Daniel Greenfield
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Every morning the media paws through a dictionary looking for the most innocuous ways to describe Obama's big health care lie.
According to the New York Times, Obama "misspoke" when he said over and over again that if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. But unlike the times that the smartest man to ever put up his feet on the table in the Oval Office thought that Austrian was a language or that the United States had 57 states, he wasn't misspeaking.
44, as Politico likes to call him, was doing what 1 wouldn't do after he chopped down a cherry tree. And to call a lie, misspeaking, is itself a lie.
Rob Ford didn't misspeak when he claimed not to be on crack, despite being on crack. Barack Obama didn't misspeak when he promised to let you keep your health plan, when he had no intention of letting you do any such thing. And the New York Times didn't misspeak when it tried to pass that lie off as a mere slip of the tongue.
The New York Times, which never hesitated to call George W. Bush a liar, switched up its euphemisms and began calling Obama's lie an "incorrect promise". NBC News called it a "promise they couldn't keep." The Associated Press called it an "inflated promise."
A few of their more honestly dishonest colleagues in the media argued that Obama did the right thing because he could never have pried the health plans of Americans out of their grubby little hands if he hadn't promised them that his government takeover of healthcare would affect everyone else but them. Some of the pundits making that argument included those on Obama's regular reading list.
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The excuse that Obama lied blatantly about the impact of a law he wanted to pass in order to pass it will no doubt be a great comfort to those gun owners who were willing to trust that his crusade against gun rights would stop where he told them it would and those Republican supporters of amnesty for illegal aliens who believed that he really would secure the borders once he got his millions of newly minted Democratic Party voters
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If Obama lied to pass one law, what sensible argument can any of his supporters make for believing him the next time he promises, "If you like your guns, you can keep your guns" or "If you like your borders, you can keep your borders"?
Obama wasn't the first politician to lie. He won't be the last. But most politicians who lie don't have an army of reporters swarming around them to explain that they didn't lie, but just inflated their misspeaking. One man did not get up in front of the microphones and cameras and lie over and over again. The entire liberal establishment lied. And it's still lying.
The media's lies and excuses, even more than the original Obama lie, reveal why liberals can never be trusted.
If Obama had only lied about being on crack or with an intern, that might be an impeachable act, but an understandable human failing. But he wasn't lying to cover up something shameful that he did. He lied because he didn't think Americans deserved to keep their health plans... or the truth.
Obama lied because he is a Sack of pure smelly Shit... he is crooked and doesn't know any better.
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That Obama would lie was an inevitable as the sun rising in the morning and the taxman coming in the spring. The lie was baked into the nature of the progressive movement that he identified with and its social experiments with human lives for the greater good that he participated in.
Lying isn't incidental to a liberal. Liberal is another word for liar. Someone who believes, as Obama and his media cronies do, that Americans are too stupid and ignorant to be trusted to choose their own health care, isn't about to trust them with the truth.
Telling someone the truth shows that we respect them as people. We give them the information and then trust that they will make the right decision. Trust and respect are the key words here.
Liars don't trust and respect people. Neither do liberals.
Liberals don't believe that the people they lie to are their equals. If they did, not only wouldn't they lie to them, but they wouldn't subscribe to a skewed leftist take on liberalism that compels them to take away choices from people for their own good.
You don't take away someone's right to choose unless you think that they are inferior to you. The policies of liberalism can only be justified by assuming that the people whose lives they run into the ground are their ethical and intellectual inferiors.
If you think that the next person over can run his life just as well as you run yours, then there's no reason to take over his life and to lie to him about it. But if you think that he's probably a racist moron who worships the flag and clings to his gun and bible and can't be trusted to buy a car, raise his kids, drink a large soda and see a doctor; then you're probably a liberal.
And a liar. That's the difference between liberals and conservatives. Conservatives respect people's choices. Liberals don't. And if you don't respect someone's choices, you don't respect them.
If you think that the average person is a moron, then the only answer is to set up to some ideal republic of liberal philosopher kings who will nudge the marching morons into the death panels for their own greater good while lying to them that the death panelists are really the judges for the next hot talent competition.
If ordinary people don't deserve the basic decency of being allowed to make decisions about their own health care, then they also don't deserve the basic decency of not being lied to their faces about those decisions being taken away from them.
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If Obama had trusted and respected Americans, he wouldn't have lied to them about ObamaCare. But if he had really trusted and respected them, then he wouldn't have engaged in a massive government hijacking of their health care options, mandated their participation in health plans at virtual gunpoint and then rewritten the regulations to destroy as many of their grandfathered health plans as possible.
And so if Obama had really trusted and respected Americans, he wouldn't have inflicted ObamaCare on them.
The existence of ObamaCare made it inevitable that Obama would lie about it in the same way that a burglar smashing the window of a jewelery store won't hesitate to lie to the owner about what he's doing. A man who is willing to rob a store or a nation will easily and casually lie about his crime.
Obama's crime isn't the lie. The lie is the cover-up of the crime. The crime is that Obama packaged a tax, a welfare program and a government takeover of health care together and called it reform. That was the bigger lie and there was no misspeaking involved.
The media has shown that Obama's lie was no isolated incident by lying about the lie for the same reason that he told the lie. The health plan lie wasn't the lie of one politician protecting his reputation; it was the big lie of a liberal establishment protecting its agenda.
The liberal media manipulates its readers, listeners and viewers the same way that liberal governments manipulate their citizens. And they both do it because they don't believe that the ordinary person has the right to the truth or the right to his life.
The liberal media manipulates its readers, listeners and viewers the same way that liberal governments manipulate their citizens. Unlike Clinton's lie, Obama's lie was not one man's mistake, but a movement's arrogance. And not only hasn't Obama stopped lying about his lie, but the media and the rest of his movement haven't stopped lying about his lie.
Obama's big health care lie shows why liberals can't be trusted. Any movement that believes its members are superior to ordinary people cannot be trusted to represent them or to tell them the truth.
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(False savior and sinking fast...
"But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction." -2Peter 2:1)
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Two Evil Men Playing Chess
(My apologies to William Blake and "Jerusalem")
Jerusalem
And did those feet, ere election
Once walk before the Western Wall?
And did the president-to-be Obuma
E'en then plan Netanyahu's fall?
Did his anti-colonial mind
Then clench the fist of his left hand
And dream Jerusalem held entire
By murderous Palestinians?
"Bring me my club of foreign aid!
"Bring appeasement to the UN!
"Bring a blind eye now to al-Qaed'!
"Bring the old borders up again!
"I will not cease to temporize
"Nor oppose nuclear Iran
"Till Arabs wrest Jerusalem
"From Israel's devastated land."
Via Brookings:http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/iran-at-saban/posts/2013/11/24-doran-hidden-cost-iran-nuclear-deal
The Hidden Cost Of The Iranian Deal
One's evaluation of the nuclear deal depends on how one understands the broader context of US-Iranian relations. There are potential pathways ahead that might not be all that bad. But I am pessimistic. I see the deal as a deceptively pleasant way station on the long and bloody road that is the American retreat from the Middle East.
By contrast, President Obama sees this agreement as stage one in a two-stage process. Six months from now, he believes, this process will culminate in a final, sustainable agreement. In the rosiest of scenarios, the nuclear rapprochement will be the beginning of something much bigger. Like Nixon's opening to China, it will inaugurate a new era in Iranian-American relations. Whether Obama himself is dreaming of such an historic reconciliation is anybody's guess, but many commentators certainly are.
I, however, am not among them. On the nuclear question specifically, I don't see this as stage one. In my view, there will never be a final agreement. What the administration just initiated was, rather, a long and expensive process by which the West pays Iran to refrain from going nuclear. We are, in essence, paying Ayatollah Khamenei to negotiate with us. We just bought six months. What was the price?
We shredded the six United Nations Security Council resolutions that ordered the Islamic Republic to abandon all enrichment and reprocessing activities. We exposed fractures in the coalition against Iran. And we started building a global economic lobby that is dedicated to eroding the sanctions that we have generated through a decade of hard, very hard, diplomatic work.
That's the price that we can see clearly before our eyes. But I also wonder whether there were hidden costs — in the form of quiet commitments to Iran by third parties. I assume that the Iranians demanded economic compensation for every concession that they made. Will all of the promised payments appear in the text of the agreement? Did parties less constrained than our president by US congressional oversight also offer up sweeteners on the margins? At this point we do not know whether there is, in effect, a secret annex to the deal. Only time will tell.
But a hidden cost that is more easily verified is the free hand that the United States is now giving to Iran throughout the region. This is the price that troubles me most.
In my view, that free hand was already visible in the chemical weapons deal that Obama cut with Syria's Bashar al-Asad. I have long suspected that Obama's retreat from Syria was prompted, in part, by his desire to generate Iranian goodwill in the nuclear negotiations. The evidence for that case is growing by the day. We now learn, for example, that the administration had opened a bilateral backchannel to Tehran well before the Syria crisis. I can only assume that the president backed away from the use of force against Assad because, in part, he saw the Syria challenge as a subset of the Iranian nuclear negotiation.
Whatever the case, it is an undeniable fact that the chemical weapons deal made the United States Assad's silent partner. The Obama administration took the threat of force off the table, and it trumpeted Syria's commitment to destroy its weapons as a great achievement. Thereafter, it turned a blind eye to Assad's murder machine — which is funded, trained, and equipped by Iran. As a result, Assad and his Iranian allies now enjoy a much freer hand in the Syrian civil war.
The nuclear deal will further subject the Arab world to the tender mercies of the Revolutionary Guards. Iran will now have more money — our money — to channel to proxies such as Hezbollah. Washington cannot expose the mailed fist of the Qods Force without endangering the nuclear rapprochement, so it has a positive incentive to ignore all Iranian subversion and intimidation in the region.
Whether he realizes it, Obama has now announced that the United States cannot be relied upon to stand up to Iran. Therefore, Israel and our Arab allies will be forced to live by their wits. Some actors, like the Saudis, will prosecute their proxy war with Iran with renewed vehemence. Others will simply hedge. They will make a beeline to Tehran, just as many regional actors began showing up in Moscow after the Syrian chemical weapons deal. American influence will further deteriorate.
That, in sum, is the true price that we just paid for six months of seeming quiet on the nuclear front. It is price in prestige, which most Americans will not notice. It is also a price in blood. But it is not our blood, so Americans will also fail to make the connection between the violence and the nuclear deal. It is important to note, however, that this is just the initial price. Six months from now, when the interim agreement expires, another payment to Ayatollah Khamenei will come due. If Obama doesn't pony up, he will have to admit then that he cut a bad deal now. So he we will indeed pay — through the nose.
General: Obama purposely weakening U.S. military
Former Pacific Command leader warns against giving global enemies combat advantage
Published: 18 hours ago
F. Michael Maloof
F. Michael Maloof, staff writer for WND and G2Bulletin, is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense.
WASHINGTON – A former deputy commanding general of the U.S. Pacific Command says President Obama seeks to "seize control over national security" and, bypassing Congress, singlehandedly weaken the U.S. military.
Army Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, retired, charges in a 21-page position statement made available to WND, titled "The Obama Military – Evolution and Legacy," that Obama already has begun working with Russia to reduce nuclear weapons without a treaty, which would require Senate ratification.
"This would allow Obama and the executive branch to unilaterally cut our military capability and nuclear weaponry and ignore the treaty clause of the Constitution," said Vallely, who has also served as a senior military analyst for Fox News Channel. Vallely has also charged, along with several other top generals, that Obama is purging the military by firing top-level commanders and that his ultimate goal is to "destroy U.S. military superiority" to the "advantage of our global enemies."
In his capacity as chairman of the organization Stand Up America, Vallely previously called for the resignations of Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and certain congressional leaders, issuing a "national call to action" aimed at bringing about those resignations.
Vallely is far from the only one worried about a plunge in military capabilities under Obama's administration.
Frank Gaffney, former acting assistant secretary of defense during the Reagan administration, has asserted that placing women in combat is just the latest example of a "deliberate and systematic wrecking operation" the administration has conducted against the U.S. armed forces since 2009.
In addition, the Obama administration has directed measures to reduce the Pentagon budget by $1.3 trillion over the next 10 years, said Gaffney, currently president of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy.
In turn, this is bringing about the elimination or slowing of virtually all modernization programs, reduction in maintenance of worn-out weapons systems and other equipment and diminished training and cutting back in benefits, such as the plan the Pentagon has ordered to cut out commissary privileges at all of the military's 178 U.S. and 70 foreign bases.
Further, Obama's social agenda now includes changes in the law to allow open homosexuality in the ranks of the American armed forces.
Response? Increased foreign aggression
The undermining of the U.S. military hasn't been lost on other countries like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, all of whom have become more militarily aggressive during the Obama administration.
Robert Fisher, a Chinese military affairs specialist, says the Chinese leadership is "not impressed" with the administration's decisions regarding next-generation stealth aircraft and its retirement of more than half of the Navy's warships.
At the same time, Beijing has deployed its "carrier killer" missile, the Dong Feng-21D, that can be fired from a mobile launcher as Beijing begins to show greater military assertiveness in the East and South China Seas.
Retired Navy Capt. Joseph John tells WND the "bigger picture" is that "the U.S. armed forces have been under relentless attack by the occupant of the Oval Office for five years."
A Naval Academy graduate, John had three tours of duty in Vietnam, served as an al-Qaida expert for the FBI, and was a commanding officer with SEALs embedded on special operations. As chairman of Combat Veterans For Congress PAC (Political Action Committee), he has helped elect 20 combat veterans to Congress.
"I believe there are more than 137 officers who have been forced out or given bad evaluation reports so they will never make flag [officer], because of their failure to comply to certain views," John told WND.
"The truly sad story is that many of the brightest graduates of the three major service academies witnessing what the social experiment on diversity ... is doing to the U.S. military, are leaving the service after five years," he said. "We are being left with an officer corps that can be made to be more compliant, that is, exactly what Obama needs to effect his long range goals for the U.S. military."
In an email to WND, John outlined what he termed "a very few of the most egregious" aspects of Obama's "attack" on the military over the past five years.
He referred specifically to the Rules of Engagement in combat that were put in place after Obama took office, claiming the changes resulted in very high casualty rates in Afghanistan, including the loss of 17 members of SEAL Team 6 in one incident.
"The Rules of Engagement precluded the use of suppression fire at a landing zone," John noted.
Endangering safety
Retired Air Force pilot Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, who was a senior military aide to President Bill Clinton, also asserts that Obama's national security policies are weakening the military and endangering the country's safety.
Author of the recent book, "Conduct Unbecoming – How Barack Obama is Destroying the Military and Endangering our Security," Patterson said Obama is underfunding and misusing the military, making America more vulnerable.
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, as well as other top retired officers, say Obama's agenda is decimating the morale of the U.S. ranks to the point members no longer feel prepared to fight or have the desire to win.
"There is no doubt he [Obama] is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him" over such issues as "homosexuals, women in foxholes, the Obama sequester," Brady told WND.
Brady, a legendary "Dust Off" air ambulance pilot in Vietnam who described his experiences in "Dead Men Flying: Victory in Viet Nam," said, "The problem is military people will seldom, while on duty, go on the record over such issues, and many will not ever, no matter how true.
"I hear from many off the record who are upset with the current military leadership and some are leaving and have left in the past," he said.
Brady, who has served as president of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, referred to additional problems in today's military including "girly-men leadership [and] medals for not shooting and operating a computer. This president will never fight if there is any reason to avoid it and with a helpless military he can just point to our weakness and shrug his shoulders."
Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. "Jerry" Boykin, who was a founding member of Delta Force and later deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence under President George W. Bush, tells WND it is worrying that four-star generals are being retired at the rate that has occurred under Obama.
"Over the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause," Boykin said. "I believe there is a purging of the military. The problem is worse than we have ever seen."
'Demand resignation'
Vallely said the current crop of political leadership at the federal level must be forced to resign by the "demand resignation" process which he explained requires massive grassroots protests and social networking. As an example, he cited the public and media pressure that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.
Vallely also has announced the formation of a "provisional leadership council" – a citizens' commission – to scrutinize Obama administration actions on national security and economic issues.
To begin the process of "reclaiming America," Vallely envisions an "American Leadership Council" to be comprised of 12 people who would hold
"America's interests first, not their own," and be people from
"proven leadership," not "talking heads" and
"community organizers." (emphasis is mine, I hope you understand)
"These must be people who have led large businesses and/or held military positions of consequence," Vallely said. "These must be people who hold loyalty, fealty and love for this country first, and most of all, they must be trustworthy."
He told WND that he intends to announce their names shortly.
"Under the Obama administration, the military has not been appropriately used to improve diplomatic relations, largely because the military is not viewed as a mechanism to achieve diplomatic success," Vallely said. "Instead, Obama employs it as a 'nation-building' tool, a function quite anathema to its very definition."
"Now, it's not even fighting, just assassinating individuals. Retreat is now known as 'drawdown' and victory is now known as 'nation-building' or 'transitioning,'" he said.
Vallely said that while conservatives see the military as a "crucial component" of diplomacy, Obama views it as a "hindrance."
"Changing diplomacy," he said, "therefore is being carried out in a number of ways by the Obama administration: diminishing the military role and leadership in diplomacy; manipulating the rules of engagement; and making the U.S. military irrelevant elsewhere."
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/general-obama-purposely-weakening-u-s-military/#9FIl3O3DddFksVFB.99
Quote from: ROSS on November 26, 2013, 03:58:52 PM
General: Obama purposely weakening U.S. military
Former Pacific Command leader warns against giving global enemies combat advantage
Published: 18 hours ago
F. Michael Maloof
F. Michael Maloof, staff writer for WND and G2Bulletin, is a former senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/general-obama-purposely-weakening-u-s-military/#9FIl3O3DddFksVFB.99
Excellent post, Ross. Here's a few comments from this article:"In a totalitarian state the goal is to suppress and punish defiance, independence, honesty, non-compliance, dissent, disagreement, criticism and, most of all, the freedom of expression and thought.
This is Dictator Obama's agenda with the generals, with the Republicans, with the Tea Party, with FOX News, with anyone who opposes or criticizes him,his ideology, his values, his objectives, his qualifications, his judgement and his character. He is the most thin-skinned and vindictive despot to ever serve in the White House with an enemies list as long as Stalin's was.
This purge is not "curious," and the end result will be a military hierarchy that swears allegiance to Obama and to neither the Constitution nor the American people who pay their salaries.
Do we continue to wait until they get stronger, or do we start the fight now? Choice is ours. Daylight's burning........The day of reckoning is here. Stand up and be counted or do nothing and die.
I'd rather die a free man than die a slave to government."***********************
"THE MOST DANGEROUS are those behind him!!!"****************
"Though I am an older and disabled Veteran and pretty much dependent upon the VA for both care and my compensation I am still not so out to pasture that I cannot and will not fight to save America from the horror's that this imposter has imposed upon the American people, the American military and our most important friendly nations around the world. Obama has done much damage to the relation's we now have with these nation's while allowing even encouraging and arming our enemies letting them grow stronger and more brazen. I stand with you General Vallely and any other Former and present Military personnel willing to fight and uphold the oath they have sworn to protect this country for all their living days as I have."***************
"The man[sniper or whatever] that takes this fool out would probably be hailed a HERO and treated real good in jail."***************
"I would like to see LTC West replace Priebus, who is AWOL from all of the current discussion on Obamacare, Benghazi, IRS, Fast and Furious, etc. Another action he has taken to weaken the US is naming Rice as his National Security Advisor, Hillary and the traitor Male Jane Fonda Kerry to the post of Secretary of State. Kerry is hated by us Vietnam War Vets as much as we hate Fonda. His picture occupies a very prominent place in the Heroes Museum in Hanoi. If you want me to tell you why, just let me know."***************
"We desperately need our own version of Egypt's Gen. Al-Sisi. As much as I loath the Islamic faith as a perverted supremacist cult and have virtually no trust in muslims, and certainly no trust in what muslims say, this Egyptian general showed resolute, decisive action in responding to his countrymen's pleas and removed 0bama's fellow mobro Morsi from power, promised to rebuild the Coptic Christian's burned out churches, all the while giving 0bama the middle digit salute by making 0bama look the fool that he is. That is more than I can say for the Pentagon's crop of yes men, and because of dirtbag 0bama and his DoD yes men, I will be retiring from 23 years of military service as an NCO a few months from now. I will NOT allow myself to break my oath to our beloved Constitution because of this unconstitutionally- qualified Kenyan usurper with the fake birth certificate and dead man's Connecticut SSN, who is seditiously out to destroy our once great nation."(http://prod.static.seahawks.clubs.nfl.com/assets/2010/images/community/camp-patriot-570.jpg)
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Don't forget that you POS Barack Hussein Obuma!!!
Lara Logan and the producer sidelined by CBS in response to the 60 Minutes piece on the Benghazi debacle.
So now Obuma and Hillary are running CBS ?
Quote from: Bullwinkle on November 27, 2013, 10:18:11 AM
Lara Logan and the producer sidelined by CBS in response to the 60 Minutes piece on the Benghazi debacle.
So now Obuma and Hillary are running CBS ?
That will teach them reporters who the boss is, won't it?
Freedom of the press and freedom of speach not allowed any longer.
Eve the self appointed internet spelling police better becareful, huh?
'Lurch' Kerry Heads To Israel To Convince Them
Letting Iran Have Nukes Is In Their Best Interests
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(Holy crap... save your breath, Lurch)
Via The Hill:Secretary of State
'Lurch' Kerry is headed to Jerusalem next week to reassure Israel about the Obama administration's deal with Iran, the State Department announced Wednesday.
Kerry will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has called last weekend's interim agreement to loosen sanctions in exchange for Iran freezing its nuclear program a "historic mistake." Netanyahu said earlier this week he would also be dispatching his national security adviser, Yossi Cohen, to Washington for talks with the Obama administration about what a final agreement over Iran's nuclear program should look like.
Israel and its allies on Capitol Hill are concerned that the preliminary deal reached in Geneva does not go far enough in setting back Iran's nuclear program, even as it begins to take down some sanctions. They want a final deal to ban Iran from enriching uranium on its territory, a nonstarter for Iran.
Kerry will also be pushing Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to revive peace talks. Kerry helped kickstart the effort three months ago, but it has stalled among recriminations over Israeli settlements and other issues.
Demo-Rats Hyperventilate:
"Latest Republican Assault On
ObumaCrappyCare Has Proven To Be Dangerously Effective"
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(Now give us your money!)
Dear Elk County Forum –
Bad News... Big, Big BAD NEWS:
The latest Republican assault on ObumaCrappyCare has proven to be dangerously effective. Just this morning,
CNN (
Cartoon News Network) released a poll showing
Republicans gaining a serious bump in approval with their sabotage playbook. If we don't respond to Republican smears with the facts right now, the damage to ObumaCrappyCare AND our chances in 2014 could be irreversible.
We simply can't allow these attacks to go unanswered. We have got to fill this $371,000 hole in our ObumaCrappyCare Rapid Response Fund by our big FEC fundraising deadline.
Thanks,
DCCC Rapid Response
And So It Begins: New York Sending Out Gun Confiscation Notices
By Robert Farago on November 27, 2013 http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/11/robert-farago/begins-new-york-sending-gun-confiscation-notices/
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New York's SAFE Act is a bad, bad thing. It requires people to register, sell or transfer (out of state) "assault rifles" and "high capacity" magazines. Many Empire State gun and standard capacity ammunition magazine owners have complied. Many have not. So, at some point, the State's gonna go get 'em. People on both sides of the law enforcement divide will die and the s will hit the fan. Meanwhile, there it is: the reason why expanded background checks, indeed all background checks and any type of registration, set the stage for confiscation. And tyranny. [ED: This notice was sent for New York City residents, based on New York City laws, not necessarily SAFE Act provisions.]
IRS Chief Counsel Testifies Before House Oversight Committee
On Tea Party Targeting Scandal,
Answers "I Don't Recall" A Staggering 80 Times
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(William Wilkins is one of only two political appointees at the IRS, and he's obviously hiding something. Issa is offering him a do-over on his testimony)
Via National Review:Behind the scenes and nearly six months after the scandal first made headlines, the House Oversight Committee is quietly continuing its investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of tea-party groups. Since May, congressional investigators have interviewed over 30 witnesses and examined thousands of pages of documents.
The latest official called to testify before committee investigators is an important one: IRS chief counsel William Wilkins. Wilkins is one of just two political appointees at the IRS, a generous donor to Democratic candidates and causes, and once represented Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ. Evidence of his involvement in the targeting would spell trouble for the White House and bring renewed focus to a scandal that has largely receded from public consciousness.
The Oversight Committee has furnished none, to date, but it is expressing gross dissatisfaction with Wilkins's testimony and, in a letter sent to him on Wednesday, offering him the opportunity to amend it. "In your testimony, you stated 'I don't recall' a staggering 80 times in full or partial response to the Committee's questions," committee chairman Darrell Issa and Ohio representative Jim Jordan wrote. "Your failure to recollect important aspects of the Committee's investigation suggests either a deliberate attempt to obfuscate your involvement in this matter or gross incompetence on your part."
OFA's Latest Insane Reason To Sign Up For ObUmaCrappyCare:
"Food Related Injuries" On Thanksgiving
(C'mon OFA... are you trolling us? Your tax money at work, people)
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Cancer Patient Who Spoke Out After Losing His Insurance
Because of ObumaCrappyCare Now Being Audited By The IRS
(And we already know there are more than a few overzealous Obumabots at the IRS)
Via FPM:http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/cancer-patient-who-spoke-out-against-obamacare-now-being-audited/
Bill Elliot was a cancer patient who lost his insurance due to ObamaCare and couldn't pay the expensive new premiums. He was talking about paying the ObamaCare fine, going without health insurance and "letting nature take its course."
He went on FOX News where his story was picked up by C. Steven Tucker, a health insurance broker who helped him keep his insurance.
Now suddenly Bill Elliot is being audited for 2009 with an interview only scheduled in April 2014. Assuming he lives that long. That might be a coincidence, but Tucker is being audited back to 2003.
That's a rather strange coincidence
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Is health care the end of the Obama presidency?
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Clint Eastwood With A Word Or Two About Numb-Nutz
...and while you're at it, if you can't get enough news about our grand leader, President Numb-Nutz, check this list out: Nachumlist
A Conservative News and Opinion Resource
http://nachumlist.com/page37.htm
More on "Obuma out to destroy America"...
Report: Obama Admin In Secret Talks With Hezbollah,
Willing To "Warm Up To A Direct Relationship In The Future"
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(Are you freaking kidding me? What's next, talks with al-Qaeda?)
Via JPost:http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-London-is-mediating-indirect-secret-talks-between-US-and-Hezbollah-333245
The US and Hezbollah are in secret indirect talks managed by London dealing with the fight against Al-Qaida, regional stability and other Lebanese political issues.
Senior British diplomatic sources, quoted in a report in Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai on Wednesday, said British diplomats are holding discussions with leaders of the Lebanese organization and transferring the information to the Americans.
The discussions "are aimed at keeping tabs on the changes in the region and the world, and prepare for the upcoming return of Iran to the international community," according to diplomatic sources in Washington.
Because the US, unlike the UK, recognizes both the political and military wings of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization and refuses to distinguish between them, US officials cannot legally meet with any member of the party. But according to the sources, the US is willing to hear the views of the party and "warm up to a direct relationship in the future."
Al-Rai noted that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke to British Prime Minister David Cameron last week, and placed the talks with Iranian-backed Hezbollah in the context of the ongoing negotiations between the West and Tehran, which show Washington's willingness for diplomacy with the Islamic Republic.
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Hope y'all had a great Turkey Day, Forum
Government loans are causing a debt crisis in higher education
The Washington Times
Saturday, November 30, 2013 - Funding Democracy: The Economics of Freedom by Michael Busler
WASHINGTON, November 30, 2013 — If some government loan programs have been successful, most have caused more problems than they have solved. Recent history shows the problem is worsening.
Consider the financial crisis. Popular belief is that Wall Street's greed was at the root of the 2008 financial crisis, but government intervention in the housing market coupled with a government-backed mortgage loan policy were at the heart of the crisis that lead to the deep recession and the anemic recovery.
In the 1990's, sociologists convinced both Democrats and Republicans that many social problems like teenage pregnancies, high crime rates, high rates of high school dropouts and drug abuse are minimized in areas where people own homes rather than rent. Data showed that 62 percent to 64 percent of households owned homes while the remaining up to 38 percent rented. In response, the federal government set a target to increase home ownership to 70 percent of households.
This meant that 8 percent of households — about 10 million — should be converted from renters to owners. Why weren't they owners already? They had no money for the down payments and they had insufficient income to make monthly mortgage payments. So the federal government instructed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which own more than half of new mortgages, to purchase mortgages from originating banks that required no down payment and had adjustable rates. This allowed buyers to afford the monthly payments, at least in the beginning.
Problems came when the rates adjusted upward, the default rate increased dramatically, and the economy was dragged into recession. At the same time, the huge increase in housing demand from these 10 million households drove housing prices sky high.
Wall Street packaged and re-sold these Fannie and Freddie purchased loans to investors as mortgage-backed securities, even though they believed the risk was high. They did this not only because of their desire to earn fees, but also because they were encouraged to do so by the federal government.
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By 2007, the home ownership rate had just about reached the goal of 70 percent. But when most of these new "sub-prime" loans defaulted, investors were left with about $2 trillion of worthless securities. The financial crisis resulted, but it started with the federal government's loan program. The entire financial crisis and the resulting recession might have been avoided had government policies not promoted the creation of sub-prime mortgages.
Today the home ownership rate is falling and is now below 65 percent.
A similar situation is occurring in higher education. The annual cost of college for tuition, room, board and fees is rapidly rising. There are several reasons for this, but the main culprit is the government student loan program. In an effort to make sure that no student is denied college because of the inability to pay, the federal government has created loan programs that will cover the entire cost of college, no matter how high that cost is. Colleges are thus encouraged to raise tuition and fees at a rate that greatly exceeds inflation.
According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, total student debt now exceeds $1 trillion. The average student graduates with about $27,000 in debt, with 10 percent of graduates having debt that exceeds $40,000. This means that students will pay an average of $320 per month for the first ten years after graduation. This places yet another burden on new graduates who are having a hard time finding a good job because of the continuing poor performance of the economy.
Student debt could be the next big financial crisis. When the mortgage crisis hit, the result was that housing prices were adjusted downward significantly with some markets seeing as much as a 50 percent decrease in price. If the student debt issue does cause a crisis, it is nearly impossible for colleges to adjust their prices downward, so what happens is really anybodies guess. What isn't a guess is that taxpayers will eventually have to foot the bill.
The intentions of government are always good. Expand home ownership and access to college education — what could be better intended and more American than that? The roat to hell is paved with good intentions, and no good deed goes unpunished. Well-intended programs are marred by negative outcomes like the creation of junk sub-prime mortgages and the crushing burden of debt placed on millions of new college graduates every year.Government sponsored student loans for higher education will likely cause another crisis.
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/funding-democracy-economics-freedom/2013/nov/30/government-loans-are-causing-debt-crisis-higher-ed/
3rd grade lesson plan presents messianic view of Obama – literally
MUSKEGON, Mich. – On the heels of a controversial children's book about Barack Obama – which stated "white voters would never vote for a black president" and that "Barack's former pastor" said "God would damn the United States for mistreating its black citizens" – comes a new lesson that casts America's 44th president in a messianic light. Literally.
And – surprise – it's Common Core-aligned.
The lesson plan and accompanying visual presentation were authored by Sherece Bennett, and is for sale on TeachersPayTeachers.com. It's all based on a book titled, "Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope," by Nikki Grimes.
The book is read aloud in the video below.
In one passage, a young Obama sees beggars and wonders, "Will I ever be able to help people like these?"
"Hope hung deep inside of him," the book adds.
Another excerpt from the book reads: "Before dawn each morning, Barry rose – his mother's voice driving him from dream land. 'Time for learning English grammar and the Golden Rule. Be honest, be kind, be fair,' she taught him."
The story continues: "One morning, he slipped on the name he'd been born with. The name of his father, Barack. For the first time in his life, he wore it proudly – like a coat of many colors."
Uh oh – another Obama-inspired Biblical reference in a government school! But there's no controversy here. Leftists will use God and the Bible, in instances such as these, when it appropriately fits their propaganda purposes.
No story about Barack Obama would be complete without mentioning his work as a community organizer. The book describes those days in dramatic fashion:
"The work was grueling, with stretches of failure, and puny patches of success. Door-to-door Barack went, early mornings, late nights, pleading and preaching, coaxing strangers to march together, to make life better for everyone.
"He worked as hard as a farmer, planting the words 'Yes, we can!' like seeds in spring.
"Impatient, Barack kept wondering if those seeds would ever sprout. He worried that the hope in him would fade away."
This mythical interpretation of Obama was the #1 New York Times bestselling picture-book biography of Obama, according to Amazon.com.
Bennett's lesson calls for students as young as third grade to read Grimes' book and do a number of activities, including making a collage of Obama:
"Have students bring in magazines and photos of President Obama. Have students create a collage about Barack Obama based on the information from the text. The collage should represent pictures and words about Barack Obama."
Grimes' book and Bennett's lesson plan are more fitting for an authoritarian regime in which children are taught to deify and praise their dear leader. One can almost envision teachers in Cuba, Venezuela and Iran using similar books and lessons.
Thankfully, that's not the American way, which makes these learning materials completely unsuitable for our classrooms.
Still, given the large number of activist teachers in the U.S., there's a very real possibility this is the version of Barack Obama's history many of our young students are learning in a school near you.
(There is a video at the following link)
http://eagnews.org/teachers-3rd-grade-lesson-presents-messianic-view-of-obama-literally/
Hard Sell: Going Door To Door For ObumaCrappyCare
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(Jehovah's Witnesses stand a better chance of a
friendly reception than ObumaCrappyCare sellers)
Via Weekly Standard:[/b]
Standing here on the streets of Hollywood with two comely Obamacare cheerleaders by my side, I'm feeling fired up and ready to go. I'm feeling like the change I've been waiting for. I'm feeling like whatever Obama cliché you can think of. And all I want to say, like the late Todd Beamer before me, is, "Let's roll." Or more like, "Let's enroll." Because much as Beamer, God rest his soul, took on the terrorists who tried to take down America, we are now in a similar cataclysmic fight: the fight to guarantee that every American has the right to buy overpriced health insurance on a glitchy website, under threat of punitive tax penalties.
I've come to Florida to go door-to-door with the foot soldiers of Get Covered America, the boots-on-the-ground division of Enroll America, which bills itself as a "nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to maximize the number of uninsured Americans who enroll in health coverage made available by the Affordable Care Act." These Obamacare evangelists are very serious about the "nonpartisan" nature of their business. Nearly every Enroll America staffer I speak to emphasizes it, often repeatedly. And while it might strain credulity that an organization is nonpartisan which seeks to make sure people are Obamacared for by setting $100 million fundraising goals for itself, and conducting $5 million ad campaigns, and targeting 10 different states, 9 of which are coincidentally run by Republican governors, I choose to take them at their word.
Obuma: We're Investigating My Own Obliviousness On ObumaCrappyCare Website
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(Uh huh... sure you are, sweetie)
(CNN) - The hits to President Obama's popularity, prompted by the botched HealthCare.gov rollout, are simply a natural fluctuation every commander-in-chief faces, Obama told interviewer Barbara Walters in an interview aired Friday. [...]
Obama has taken responsibility for the website's flaws, saying he should have been told earlier about the serious issues with HealthCare.gov's digital infrastructure. He's also apologized for his vow that people who liked their plans could keep them.
In Friday's interview, Obama said he was looking for answers soon on why the rollout failed so spectacularly.
"Obviously my most recent concern has been that my website's not working," Obama said.
"We're evaluating why it is exactly that I didn't know soon enough that it wasn't going to work the way it needed to. But my priority now has been to just make sure that it works."
Walmart: Fewer Than 20 Actual Employees Participated In Protests
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(Yup, look at all the Walmart workers at protest in New Jersey... except I recognize they are New York Occupiers, like Yoni Miller, and Vietnam Veterans For Peace, a leftist vets organization. These guys are professional protesters, available for the requisite leftist causes, in this case, pushing to get unions into Walmart. This year there were fewer Walmart "associates" than even last year, where there were only about 100 involved, all across the country)
Via Washington Examiner:A press conference call by the activist group OUR Walmart turned awkward when the group was repeatedly unable to say how many Walmart employees had joined in the group's long-planned Black Friday protests. Walmart itself put the figure at just 20.
"I don't have an actual count," said Our Walmart member Martha Sellers, a cashier at a Paramount, Calif., store, said in response to a reporter's question. "I know Walmart is saying that workers are not participating. That is wrong. They are."
Asked variations of the same question by two other reporters — one asked what percentage of protesters were Walmart employees — the activists again could not answer and grew noticeably frustrated. "It is awful that Walmart is spreading these kinds of lies," Sellers said.
Walmart spokeswoman Kory Lundberg told the Washington Examiner that most of the protesters were not employees and that those who were did not walk off the job.
"Fewer than 20 current associates have participated so far, and we've only seen six demonstrations with a current associate," Lundberg said. "Associate" is Walmart's term for an employee.
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Saloon Owner Ordered To Remove Sign Honoring Vets
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(Ahh yes... From the land of fruits & nuts, Huntington Beach, CA:
The sign has been there for six years, but now they want to pull it down?)
Via Breitbart:http://www.hbindependent.com/news/tn-hbi-me-1128-johnnys-sign-20131126,0,4773713.story
A sign hovering above a Huntington Beach saloon for the last six years, thanking veterans for protecting our freedom, has been ordered to be removed. When he arrived at work on Monday, Johnny Kresimir, the owner of Johnny's Booze and Pool, discovered a citation had been placed on his door. A city spokeswoman for Huntington Beach said the establishment lacked the proper permits to display the sign that reads, "Thank a Veteran for your Freedom."
Kresimir posted on Facebook that the City was threatening him with a $1000 fine if he didn't produce the necessary permits to hang the sign. "If the sign goes down, it's not going to hurt our business. It's just going to hurt the community," Kresimir lamented. Veterans reacted to the incident by posting reasons for why the sign should remain perched above the bar. A campaign to keep the sign has been spearheaded by Mayor Pro Tem Matthew Harper. He pledges that he will fight to preserve the sign if it comes up before the City Council.
The metal structure that supports the sign was placed there before Kresimir purchased the saloon. Removing the sign is a big job because of the electrical wiring, and his commercial lease prohibits anyone to stand on the roof. Kresimir is dismayed that he has to take it down because he erected the sign to honor veterans and those currently serving in our military. However, the patriotic proprietor isn't giving up and plans to lobby the city to see if he can keep the sign in place. If he loses the battle, Kresimir vows to invite veterans from the area to come and say goodbye to the symbol that honors them.
Obuma On ObumaCrappyCare: This Is "Going To Be A Legacy
I Am Extraordinarily Proud of"
(In reality it will go down as his biggest failure)
Via CNN:[T]he glitches aside, Obama remained confident the Affordable Care Act, passed along party lines in 2010, would form a large part of his presidential legacy.
"I continue to believe and I'm absolutely convinced that, at the end of the day, people are going to look back at the work we've done to make sure that in this country, you don't go bankrupt when you get sick, that families have that security," Obama told Walters.
"That is going be a legacy I am extraordinarily proud of."That legacy – and what can be done while he's still in office to bolster it – does weigh on the president's mind, he admitted.
"Every president in their second term is mindful that you've only got a limited amount of time left," Obama said.
"You want to make sure that you are squeezing every last ounce of energy that you have to try to deliver on the commitments you made to the American people." BUNK
Here's What Happened When Families Brought Up
ObumaCrappyCare Over Thanksgiving
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(Oh yeah... I can hear it now... LOL)
Via Newsbusters:Thanks, Obama! Here's what happened when Obamacare came up at Thanksgiving dinners.
... For some families, Obamacare at the holiday table was a recipe for disaster. New Thanksgiving tradition: Screaming arguments.Thanks, Obama (six tweets this list and the one which follows were selected from longer compilations — Ed.):- "My family is drunk and screaming at each other about Obamacare."
- "Family fighting over Obamacare. lol here we go."
- "Yay! Inevitable Obamacare extended family argument time!"
- "Arguing about Obamacare and social media at the dinner table.... I'm so done wow can I sleep now?"
- "Oh no. Someone brought up health insurance and obamacare and now theres lots of yelling."
- "Everybody's drunk and yelling at each other about obamacare and its not even 5 yet."
But Obamacare chatter at the dinner table didn't just lead to misery. For some, there was family unity... but not in the way Demo-Rats intended:- "We held a family vote on Obama Care and we were unanimous in being "agin" it. First time we've all agreed on anything."
- "Followed obama's advice to discuss #obamacare during turkey dinner. Family consensus was obama is worst Pres in US history."
- "Well we sat down as a family and all talked about the failure of #obamacare today at dinner. Thats what we were supposed to do, right?"
- "We discussed #Obamacare at Thanksgiving dinner. We all still agree that it sucks."
- "The only remotely liberal family member at Thanksgiving dinner today didn't say a word in defense of Obamacare. Sorry, @OFA."
- "Here was our conversation about O'care at dinner; Obamacare sucks, now please pass the mashed potatoes" – "#Obamacare talk w family went better then expected. They all agreed ACA should be repealed!!"
- "We discussed obamacare over dinner as we were instructed. First time this family has been in total agreement about anything. Obamacare SUCKS"
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(The great Thomas Sowell with some basic truths)
Via Thomas Sowell:Many people take pride in defying the conventions of society. Those conventions of society are also known as civilization. Defying them wholesale means going back to barbarism. Barbarians with electronic devices are still barbarians.
After the government shutdown crisis, the one thing that congressional Democrats and Republicans finally agreed on was to kick the can down the road a few more months, so that we can go through all this again — and perhaps again after that.
One of the best peace speeches I ever read was one delivered back in the 1930s — by Adolf Hitler! He knew that peace speeches would keep the Western democracies from matching his military buildup with their own, or attacking him to prevent his buildup from continuing. Peace speeches by Iran today serve the same purpose of buying time — until they can create a nuclear bomb.
President Obama really has a way with words, such as calling the problems that millions of people have had trying to sign up for ObamaCare "glitches." When the Titanic sank, was that a "glitch"?
Quick tell the Muslims, tell the Muslims
Do you think this information will become part of the Common Core.
This is a highly edumacted man, a Doctor talking to you now. Pay close attention. LOL
Science
Top Scientist: Humans Emerged After Chimpanzee Had Sex With Pig
Nov. 30, 2013 1:15pm Oliver Darcy
One of the world's leading authorities on genetics says the human race was born into existence after a chimpanzee mated with a pig.
Dr. Eugene McCarthy's stunning claims were made in an online article, although it was not clear when the startling findings was initially published.
According to the University of Georgia scientist, while human beings share a number of characteristics with chimpanzees, there are others that don't correspond with the primates.
"What is this other animal that has all these traits? The answer is Sus scrofa – the ordinary pig," he wrote.
A leading scientist suggests human beings emerged after a primate mated with a pig. (Image source: Shutterstock)
"The tentative scenario that I picture is that human beings came into being via hybridization between a pig, whose best modern representative is Sus scrofa, and an ape, best represented today by the pygmy chimpanzee, Pan paniscus," he added.
McCarthy's claims even initially stunned him.
"I must admit that I initially felt a certain amount of repugnance at the idea of being a hybrid," he stated. "The image of a pig mating with an ape is not a pretty one, nor is that of a horde of monstrous half-humans breeding in a hybrid swarm."
"The image of a pig mating with an ape is not a pretty one..."
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/30/top-scientist-humans-emerged-after-chimpanzee-had-sex-with-pig/
Dem Sen. Bob Menendez: ObumaCrappyCare Puts Democrats In "Great Position" For 2014
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(He's so full of sh*t I'm surprised we can't see it coming out of his ears)
Via HuffPo:Despite the troubled rollout of Obamacare, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said Sunday that he believes the health care law will be an advantage rather than a liability to Democrats seeking reelection next year.
"I think that senators are going to be a in a great position to say, 'Look, we are doing dramatic changes that help you be able to meet the challenges for your family of health care and eliminate some of the greatest evils that existed under the previous system,'" Menendez, a former chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
The Obama administration has been scrambling to fix glitches with the HealthCare.gov website and to mollify widespread criticism over dropped insurance plans. Recent polling shows that the president's approval ratings have tanked sharplydue to the problems with the health care law's rollout.
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Obama Administration Gets Played By Hamid Karzai
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(Meanwhile Karzai continues to get hundreds of thousands in cash
under the table from the US)
Via Daily Caller:The Obama administration continues to get played in crucial national security negotiations by Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai.
The accidental killing last week of a 2-year old civilian in a U.S. airstrike, which Karzai condemned, has given the Afghan leader even more leverage in his negotiations over U.S. troop withdrawals.
The U.S. wants to be able to keep up to 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after its withdrawal at the end of 2014, but Karzai is stalling on the negotiations. Though senior elders want Karzai to sign the security agreement, Karzai does not appear prepared to accept the U.S. terms, and the Obama administration is "losing confidence" in him. Susan Rice talked to him last Monday in Kabul, but Karzai didn't budge.
Without a deal, the Obama administration will withdraw completely at the end of 2014 the way it did previously in Iraq — a move that has been blamed for recent violence in the country.
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Report: Obuma's Secret Talks With Iran Led Him To Shelve
Strike On Syria[/color
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(Obuma is officially Ayatollah Khamenei's bitch)
Via Times of Israel:President Barack Obama's last-minute decision not to carry out an intended punitive strike against Syria's President Bashar Assad this summer, after Assad killed almost 1,500 of his own people with chemical weapons, was influenced by secret US back-channel discussions with Iran, Israel's security and intelligence community reportedly believes.
The issue of Assad's chemical weapons use came up in the secret US-Iran contacts held in recent months in Oman, Israel's Channel 2 news reported Friday, and it quoted unnamed Israeli intelligence and security sources asserting Obama's change of heart was affected by those contacts.
The report underlines Israeli concerns, frequently stated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, that Iran is fooling the US about its ostensibly moderate intentions, and that the US is being duped into unjustifiably warming relations with Iran, while Israel is gradually becoming isolated in its unbending opposition to Iran's nuclear program. The same TV news broadcast also quoted unnamed Israeli government officials denouncing Obama for mishandling the Geneva nuclear negotiations, with the result that Iran has been granted the "right" to enrich uranium and economic sanctions pressure on Iran is collapsing.
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North Carolina ObumaCrappyCare Navigator Group That Planned To
Sign Up 5,800 People:
"We've Yet To See An Application From Start To Finish"
(In other words, they missed their 5,800 goal by exactly 5,800 people)
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Via WSJ:Even when the Obama administration was under the impression that the launch of the Affordable Care Act was going to work splendidly, with a first-rate website, the plan still called for "navigators" to help people sign up. Now, with the ACA website Healthcare.gov hobbled, and even many of the president's supporters grumbling that the law may need a radical rethinking, the work of the tens of thousands of these helpers is more vital than ever.
How's it going? Not well, to judge from a visit with navigators in North Carolina, one of 34 states that decided not to open their own health-insurance exchanges.
Durham is a relatively low-income city—nearly 19% of the residents are below the poverty level—that is 41% African-American and 14% Hispanic. It is the type of place that the White House expects to benefit most from ObamaCare. Yet the navigators I spoke with there earlier this month say interest has been sparse. Organizations like the Alcohol and Drug Council of North Carolina and the Lincoln Community Health Center that received federal funds to hire navigators are contemplating how to reach out to potential enrollees, given that waiting for phone calls or walk-ins is not proving fruitful.
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Mr. Myint is prohibited from steering her toward one plan or another, and Ms. Munier, saying it's all too confusing, wants more time to look over her options. For today, she doesn't enroll on the exchange.
It's a familiar experience for Mr. Myint. After starting Oct. 1, when the exchanges went live, his organization was aiming to sign up 5,800 people by the end of March 2014. It has a long way to go.
"We have yet to see an application from start to finish," he says.
The current HHS navigator grants last for one year, ending next fall. Surveying the battlefield, Mr. Myint says: "I think there will be plenty of navigation left to do after this year."
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Open Season On Tea Party
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(IRS gearing up to suppress the vote in 2014)
Via US News:In the 2010 midterm elections, the Tea Party delivered the president its famous "shellacking." Riding a wave of discontent over his health care law and out-of-control spending the movement took back control of the House of Representatives. In the 2012 presidential election, the movement's impact seemed more subdued, and President Obama won re-election.
One of the reasons why this may have happened became widely known only after the election: the IRS had singled out tea party and other conservative groups for special treatment when they applied for tax-exempt status, leading to costly delays and the elimination of part of the Republican Party's ground game. After initial claims that low-level employees in the IRS' Cincinnati office had been solely responsible for this targeting were shown to be false, two acting commissioners of the IRS, Steven Miller and Danny Werfel, and the head of its section on tax-exempt organizations, Lois Lerner, were forced to resign. In the aftermath of the revelations, President Obama referred to the IRS' activities as "outrageous," claimed that had been unaware, and called for accountability, "so that such conduct never happens again."
That was then. This Tuesday, the administration decided that instead of making sure the 2014 midterm elections will not be tainted by similar restrictions on the activities of 501(c)4 organizations, it was going to legalize and institutionalize the IRS' practices. I guess that's one way to do it. British comedian Harry Enfield first suggested this strategy in a skit about police officers in Amsterdam, a city well known for its lax attitude toward the consumption, possession and sale of soft drugs. In the skit, one of the Dutch policy officers explains that burglary used to be a major problem in Amsterdam, but then it was legalized, and the problem was solved.
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ABC News: White House On Track To Miss 7 Million
ObumaCrappyCare Sign Up Goal By 6 Million
(They'll be lucky to hit a million)
Via Free Beacon:ABC Rebecca Jarvis reported on the Obama administration, recent report that the Obamacare website has improved substantial in the month of November.
Despite some improvement with website Jarvis states " at the current rate, the rate that we know this website is running at. If they want to get seven million peopled signed up it will fall short of that number. Were looking at million people, at the current rate signed up in the amount of time they were expecting."
Quote from: ROSS on December 01, 2013, 03:21:20 PM
Quick tell the Muslims, tell the Muslims
Do you think this information will become part of the Common Core.
This is a highly edumacted man, a Doctor talking to you now. Pay close attention. LOL
Science
Top Scientist: Humans Emerged After Chimpanzee Had Sex With Pig
Nov. 30, 2013 1:15pm Oliver Darcy
One of the world's leading authorities on genetics says the human race was born into existence after a chimpanzee mated with a pig.
Dr. Eugene McCarthy's stunning claims were made in an online article, although it was not clear when the startling findings was initially published.
According to the University of Georgia scientist, while human beings share a number of characteristics with chimpanzees, there are others that don't correspond with the primates.
"What is this other animal that has all these traits? The answer is Sus scrofa – the ordinary pig," he wrote.
Now you know how Barack Hussein Obuma came to be and why they are holding his birth certificate as not to embarass the united states because they elected a Chimpig... twice! Now that this has come out and the MSM will have a field day reporting about it,
and the sad part is that the doctor will have to die in a funky car accident to cover this up. BTW, Here's a video on Obuma's last trip to Afghanistan, taking a crap like chimps do and banging a poor shetland pony on his way to see Karzai. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d2f_1381607848
ATF Agent: How Our Government Gave Guns To Mexican
Drug Cartels – Operation "Fast and Furious"
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(This is an excerpt from the new book, "The Unarmed Truth" written by an agent with the ATF who outlines exactly how the guns were dealt to the cartels)
Via NY Post:In September 2009, John Dodson, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was assigned to the ATF's Phoenix office. What he found there shocked him. The bureau was encouraging gun dealers to sell weapons in bulk to known straw buyers, who would funnel those guns to Mexican drug cartels. Known as Operation Fast and Furious, it ended with the death of at least one American law enforcement officer. Dodson became a congressional whistleblower, and the investigation into the operation is ongoing. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book, "The Unarmed Truth," Dodson explains how tragically inept Fast and Furious was.
'It's like the underwear gnomes," my ATF colleague Lee Casa told me one time as we recounted the latest bizarre goings-on in Phoenix.
"What?" I asked.
"You ever watch 'South Park'? There's this episode where all the boys get their underwear stolen by these underwear gnomes. They track them down to get it back and one of them asks why they are stealing everyone's underwear. The gnomes break out this PowerPoint and reveal their master plan: Phase One: Collect underpants . . . Phase Two: ? . . . Phase Three: Profit."
"We're doing the same thing," he explained. "We know Phase One is 'Walk guns' and Phase Three is 'Take down a big cartel!' "
Both of us were laughing now; a more fitting and appropriate allegory could never be found. Casa concluded, "Just nobody can figure out what the f–k Phase Two is!"
What was happening did at times almost seem like a spoof. Letting guns "walk" was a tactic that I had never before seen or even contemplated. It simply wasn't done.
I couldn't understand how anyone could argue that allowing guns that ought to have been in law-enforcement custody to go to known or suspected criminals — people who shouldn't have been near a gun, people who almost certainly would be passing them on to Mexico's most brutal drug cartels — wasn't madness.
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George Will: "All Hell Is Going To Break Loose" When Employers Dump Plans Because Of ObumaCrappyCare
(Will's scenario is very real and nothing is being done to stop it)
Via NRO:George Will urged supporters of Obamacare to take today's report of the HealthCare.gov fixes lightly as he read from the administration's status report that its functionality was still months away. Will also warned that the problems with the health-care law will not end with the website's ultimate repair, pointing out that structural elements of the law will lead to problems, such as employers dropping insurance plans.
"Watch the employers, because if they start dumping people into Medicare and into Medicaid, and the doctors then say, 'The burdens are too high, and the reimbursement is too low, we're not seeing Medicaid patients,' then all hell is going to break loose," he said on Fox News Sunday...............
OFA Becomes Amway Or "OFAmway" — Talk To Your Kids, Bug Them, Sell Them Insurance
BUY MY CRAPPY CRAP FROM MY GEOCITIES SITE OR ELSE SUCKER!)
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GoofBall Of The Day
Dem Rep. Keith "I'm a Muzzie" Ellison Gushes Over Obuma's
"Integrity" By Apologizing To Those Who "Misunderstood"
Him On ObumaCrappyCare
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(Yeah, Keith, people "misunderstood" him because he LIED to them)
Via WFB:Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn. Muzzie) did his best to spin President Obama's debunked promise about Americans keeping their health care plans if they liked them Sunday on This Week, saying Obama showed "integrity" in apologizing to Americans who "misunderstood" him about the Affordable Care Act.
Obama made some version of the promise publicly at least 36 times while campaigning for Obamacare and then after it was passed. With millions of cancellation policies being sent around the country and public support for the law crumbling, Obama apologized last month in an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd.
"He owned it," Ellison said. "He said, look man, if you misunderstood what I was trying to say, I'm sorry about that. I think that shows integrity. He didn't do anything to self-promote."
(Horsesh!t)
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ATF Targets WhistleBlowers On Fast and Furious Scandal...
ATF tries to block whistleblowing agent's Fast and Furious book
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is blocking the main whistleblower in the Fast and Furious case from publishing a book, claiming his retelling of the Mexico "gun-walking" scandal will hurt morale inside the embattled law enforcement agency, according to documents obtained by The Washington Times.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/6/atf-tries-block-whistleblowing-agents-fast-and-fur/
(Here is Sharyl Attkisson's interview with Dodson about the attempt to get back at him by the Justice Department)
Via Sharyl Attkisson - CBS:https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson
The ATF originally tried to block whistleblower John Dodson from publishing his book "The Unarmed Truth" about Fast and Furious. The ATF said the book would hurt morale and harm the agency's working relationship with the DEA and the FBI.
After the ACLU and Charles Grassley stepped in on Dodson's behalf, the ATF said publishing was okay.
But the Justice Department says, under ethics rules, Dodson cannot accept compensation for writing the book. According to the Justice Department:
"Title 5 is a government-wide rule barring active federal employees from profiting off their position in the government."That rule cannot be waived. For as long as he continues to work in government, Mr. Dodson remains free to speak out about his experiences and publish his book, just not for a profit."
Dodson responded: "Compensation has never been my motive to writing the book... The book will be released regardless. However, I do find it hard to reconcile how the very same agencies who thought of approved & employed the strategies used in Fast & Furious only to later attempt to cover it up by lying to Congress and the American people, ignoring the rule of law withholding documents, and smearing whistleblowers now asserts themselves to be the sole authorities who preside over this or any other 'ethical inquiry. The conflict is obvious."
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ATF tries to block Fast and Furious whistle-blower from publishing book Obamas plan Operation 'Fast & Furious'
October 7, 2013
The ATF agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious has been denied permission to write a book on the botched anti-gun trafficking sting "because it would have a negative impact on morale," according to the very agency responsible for the scandal. After first trying to stop the operation internally, ATF Agent John Dodson went to Congress and eventually the media following the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. Two guns found at the murder scene were sold through the ATF operation.
Dodson's book, titled "The Unarmed Truth," provides the first inside account of how the federal government permitted and helped sell some 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, despite evidence the guns killed innocent people.
Dodson, who is working with publisher Simon and Shuster, submitted his script to the department for review, per federal rules. However, it was denied.
Greg Serres, an ATF ethics official, told Dodson that any of his supervisors at any level could disapprove outside employment "for any reason."
Serres letter said: "This would have a negative impact on morale in the Phoenix Field Division and would have a detremental effect [sic] on our relationships with DEA and FBI."
The national office of the American Civil Liberties Association is representing Dodson as he fights the decision. ACLU attorney Lee Rowland says the agency's restriction is overly broad.
Rather than provide a specific objection with would allow for a line-by-line redaction, ATF used a policy that "grants supervisors the discretion to censor critical speech simply because it annoys or embarrasses the ATF," Rowland wrote in a letter delivered Monday.
"Given the national importance of both the Fast and Furious operation and ATF practices more broadly, ATF faces an extremely high burden in demonstrating that its interests outweigh Agent Dodson's right to speak-and the public's right to hear-his views about Operation Fast and Furious," she explained.
First Amendment rights are especially strong when the speech affected deals with public policy, Rowland said, requiring the government to meet a very high bar. Precisely because Dodson's views differ dramatically from those of his supervisors, his "thoughts and opinions" should not be censored, Rowland said.
Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl said the federal code prohibiting employees from outside compensation from speeches and writing could pose a significant problem for Dodson.
"He is still an agent with the ATF and the ATF has very strict restrictions," Wiehl said. "You can't receive compensation for outside employment, including writing a book, without permission."
On the other hand Wiehl said the ATF may have overplayed its hand by saying it can deny publication "for any reason."
"What kind of hubris is that when a whistle-blower wants to go on public record - the First Amendment says he should be able to go forward," she said. "The ATF created their own embarrassment, maybe its own negligence -- that agent Dodson had the courage to reveal. And now he is being punished for that."
The ACLU argues ATF rules are "constitutionally inadequate (and result) in impermissible censorship of the speech of a public employee."
Dodson says "The Unarmed Truth" will come out in January, with or without the ATF's permission.
How Obamacare Is Hurting My Family With Chronically Ill Kids
This is a video from Pattie Curran, a mom who describes herself as a "Catholic Tea Party hippie". This video is from August, she tweeted it out again yesterday, indicating that the issues outlined in the video still remain.
She has two critically ill children and walks, point by point, through the problems that Obamacare poses for her family. The video is very instructive, as it goes beyond just the question of premiums and delves into the aspect of all the hidden charges within the law.She notes:1. Over the five years prior to Obamacare, her deductible had increased $50. Since Obamcare, it has increased $1200.
2. Her copay for the blood product she needs for her one of her children has increased 100%
3. Medical equipment that ill people use, such as the pumps, catheters, needles, tubing that she needs, all now have a "medical device tax" on them.
4. Medication that helped her son's kidney condition for five to six years had a copay of $131. That copay is now $532.
5. They had no increase in premiums in 2009 and 2010. She notes in the video her premiums since Obamacare have increased $1528. She later adds in the description of the video that her premiums in 2014 will have increased $3066/year. She asks, where is that $2500 decrease that Obama promised?
6. Her medication copays used to be $4000 to $5000/year, now they are $10,000, a 100% increase since Obamacare passed.
7. Pattie also speaks about the reduction in care, noting the layoffs in hospitals that she has observed because of her experience with her children.
8. FLEX spending has dropped from $5000 to $2500.
9. Another hidden tax, not often mentioned- the ability to deduct medical expenses has changed. Whereas you used to be able to deduct if your medical expenses exceeded 7.5% of your AGI, now you can't until it reaches past 10%, thus costing millions of families more and particularly causing economic harm to the sick.You can find out more about the hidden taxes and expenditures here. They separate it out into taxes that may affect the average American and those less likely. That's a fiction, since the taxes in the "allegedly less likely column" that involve taxes on companies are all going to be passed onto consumers. I will likely have several thousand dollars in raised taxes out of that "less likely" column.
Obuma's continuing crap on killing America's Military....
NY Times: American Troops Are Being Paid Too Much
(Groan)
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Putting Military Pay on the Table – NY Times:Big-ticket weapons like aircraft carriers and the F-35 fighter jet have to be part of any conversation about cutting Pentagon spending to satisfy the mandatory budget reductions known as the sequester. But compensation for military personnel has to be on the table, too — even though no other defense issue is more politically volatile or emotionally fraught.
After a decade of war, the very idea of cutting benefits to soldiers, sailors and Marines who put their lives on the line seems ungrateful. But America's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan is over or winding down, and the Pentagon is obliged to find nearly $1 trillion in savings over 10 years. Tough choices will be required in all parts of the budget. Compensation includes pay, retirement benefits, health care and housing allowances. It consumes about half the military budget, and it is increasing.
In a speech last month, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned that without serious savings in this area, "we risk becoming an unbalanced force, one that is well compensated but poorly trained and equipped, with limited readiness and capability." Meanwhile, Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff, told a hearing: "The cost of a soldier has doubled since 2001; it's going to almost double again by 2025. We can't go on like this, so we have to come up with [new] compensation packages."
Moonbat College Now Gives Applicants Seven Gender Choices
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(The other Fruit & Nutz State... Celebrate diversity!)
Via MyNorthwest:http://mynorthwest.com/874/2402529/Local-colleges-offer-7-gender-choices-on-application
Recently, Ron's wife was filling out an application for Bellevue College when she noticed something interesting. Instead of the standard "Male" and "Female" boxes that one checks on applications, there was the question: What is your 'gender identity'? And seven different options: Feminine, Masculine, Androgynous, Gender Neutral, Transgender, Other and Prefer Not To Answer.
Under that is the question: "What is your sexual orientation?" Where you can then check Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Queer, Straight/Heterosexual, Other or Prefer not to answer.
After Ron showed us the application, we wondered why they were collecting this data. So I went down to Bellevue College and got some answers from the LGBTQ Center adviser, Colin Donovan.
"We started collecting the data this fall quarter. It's about being able to track how well GLBTQ, and gender variant students, are doing in school and how we can design better services, better classes, better programs to make sure these students succeed. Up until this point there has been no way to track how that's done."
The data is 100 percent private and not shared with anyone, and for now will only be used internally. This new data collecting system was accepted by all community and technical colleges in Washington state.
Petri Muhlhauser is involved in the school's LGBTQ Center leadership program. She says sometimes LGBTQ students have different needs.
Is it possible?UN Ordered To Kill American Troops Who Don't Turn In Their Guns
William Wallace
It seems that during the election season, the UN may have had a reason to send troops to watch our polls. There is being leaked information that the UN has been given orders to fire on American citizens that won't turn in their guns.
Most of what will be revolves around a Supreme Court case that is yet to be decided that was heard on the 5th of November. There has been little or no press coverage of the Bond vs the United States case.
In Bond vs the United States, a crazy woman tried to poison her ex and his mistress. Leave it to the U.S. Department of Justice and President Obama to pursue the case as vital to national security that this woman be tried under international law instead of US state law in which she was found guilty of attempted murder. They have a more sinister plan in mind.
The fact is that if Bond vs the United States goes through, they can use international treaty to enforce any action they want to. Now who remembers that John Kerry signed the treaty for the UN Small Arms.
If that unholy legislation were to be enforced, then it would give the United Nations the right to come in and take the weapons away from lawful, gun owning citizens. In one swift move they could take away the Second Amendment of the United State's Constitution.
Now there are reports and information being put out that if that comes to pass, the UN has the authority to fire on American citizens. Not only do they have the right, they have been ordered to do so.
(There is a video that is well worth watching at the web site)
http://thelibertydigest.com/2013/12/01/un-ordered-to-kill-american-troops-who-dont-turn-in-their-guns/
True!
Quote from: ROSS on December 02, 2013, 08:42:27 PM
Is it possible?
UN Ordered To Kill American Troops Who Don't Turn In Their Guns
William Wallace
It seems that during the election season, the UN may have had a reason to send troops to watch our polls. There is being leaked information that the UN has been given orders to fire on American citizens that won't turn in their guns.
Most of what will be revolves around a Supreme Court case that is yet to be decided that was heard on the 5th of November. There has been little or no press coverage of the Bond vs the United States case.
In Bond vs the United States, a crazy woman tried to poison her ex and his mistress. Leave it to the U.S. Department of Justice and President Obama to pursue the case as vital to national security that this woman be tried under international law instead of US state law in which she was found guilty of attempted murder. They have a more sinister plan in mind.
The fact is that if Bond vs the United States goes through, they can use international treaty to enforce any action they want to. Now who remembers that John Kerry signed the treaty for the UN Small Arms.
If that unholy legislation were to be enforced, then it would give the United Nations the right to come in and take the weapons away from lawful, gun owning citizens. In one swift move they could take away the Second Amendment of the United State's Constitution.
Now there are reports and information being put out that if that comes to pass, the UN has the authority to fire on American citizens. Not only do they have the right, they have been ordered to do so.
(There is a video that is well worth watching at the web site)
http://thelibertydigest.com/2013/12/01/un-ordered-to-kill-american-troops-who-dont-turn-in-their-guns/
(Kerry can sign whatever he wants... it's not binding unless it gets ratified by the Senate, and even Harry Reid isn't THAT dumb.... or is he??
If this passes, John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, Dictator Barry Soetoro will never see the sun shining again for fear of assassination)
"Complete disarmament" of the American people
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, July 16, 2012https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyfkQkchlu4
The UN Arms Trade Treaty that has been identified by observers as a
flagrant threat to the second amendment and which Barack Obama is determined to sign has its roots in a 1961 State Department memorandum which explains how the United Nations will oversee "complete disarmament" of the American people under the ruse of preventing war. The UN Arms Treaty has caused so much controversy because it outlines a plan to target "all types of conventional weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons," according to Forbes' Larry Bell.
Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton also warns that the agreement "is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there is no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control."A letter sent last month by 130 Republican House members to President Obama argued that the treaty should be rejected because it infringes on the "fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms". The letter adds that "...the U.N.'s actions to date indicate that the ATT is likely to pose significant threats to our national security, foreign policy, and economic interests as well as our constitutional rights."
Using the rhetoric of the threat post by terrorists, insurgents and "international crime syndicates," the UN is busy trying to imply that all weapons are somehow involved in illegal activity on a global scale and should therefore be controlled and regulated by a global authority.
This is precisely the same language used in a 1961 U.S. State Department briefing which outlined a long term agenda to carry out a "Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World."
Invoking the threat of nuclear warfare, the document spells out a plan to create a "United Nations Peace Force" that would "enforce the peace as the disarmament process proceeds."
While the document initially focuses on scrapping nuclear weapons, it later makes it clear that the only groups allowed to own weapons of any kind would be governing authorities, "for the purpose of maintaining internal order," and the UN "peacekeeping" force itself, which would require "agreed manpower."
"The manufacture of armaments would be prohibited except for those of agreed types and quantities to be used by the U.N. Peace Force and those required to maintain internal order. All other armaments would be destroyed or converted to peaceful purposes," states the document. While the memorandum outlines a broader mandate to destroy national sovereignty, eviscerate national armies and institute the UN as the planet's supreme authority with a world army, the document serves as a stark reminder that the plan for the United Nations to oversee the abolition of the second amendment has been in the works for decades.As Bell points out in his Forbes article, the threat of the Obama administration relying on a UN treaty to do what successive administrations have tried but failed to accomplish -- taking a huge bite out of the second amendment -- is by no means far fetched.
After all, a plethora of UN treaties and international agreements have already stripped the United States of its sovereignty and its power to decide its own laws. The power to authorize U.S. involvement in wars and conflicts has now been almost completely stripped from Congress and handed to the United Nations.
Obuma's Approval Rating Falls Below 40%
For First Time In RCP's Poll Average
(Aw... how sad. Love it!
"One night Mooch stumbled into the white-house with a black eye. She told her idiot husband Obuma that she heard a noise in the back yard and went to investigate. The next thing she knew, she was hit in the face and knocked out cold.
"Obuma went to investigate, and he returned a few minutes later, also with a black eye. 'Did you get hit by the same attacker?' Mooch asked. 'No,' Obuma replied. 'I stepped on the same rake.'")
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Cartoon News Network: White House Lying About Claim ObumaCrappyCare Website Handling 50,000 Users At Once, Actual Number As Low As 30,000
(The Obama regime would never lie, right?)
Via WFB:CNN White House correspondent Brianna Keilar reported Tuesday that the Obamacare website did not handle 50,000 simultaneous users Monday as the Obama administration had claimed.
"Turns out it really topped out somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000," she said. "Some of those problems still being acknowledged by the White House."
White House Exploring Ways to Let Iran Enrich Uranium
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Khameni and his buddy Sh!tHead
(Why don't we just give them a few of our own nukes and get it over with)
Via Free Beacon:The White House is currently examining ways to enable Iran to have its own "domestic" uranium enrichment program, according to a senior Obama administration official.
As the details of a six month interim nuclear deal between Iran and Western nations are hashed out, the White House is exploring the practicality of permitting Iran to continue certain enrichment activities, an issue that Iranian officials have described as a "redline."
"Over the next six months, we will explore, in practical terms, whether and how Iran might end up with a limited, tightly constrained, and intensively monitored civilian nuclear program, including domestic enrichment," White House National Security Council (NSC) spokesman Caitlin Hayden told the Washington Free Beacon.
Netanyahu Not Backing Down, Continues To Bash Obuma's Nuke Deal With Iran, "This Must Be Stopped"
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(I Guess Obuma won't be getting that "breather" he was asking Netanyahu for)
Via Times of Israel:Nuclear negotiations that led to an interim deal with Iran last week were more political theater than substance, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in Rome on Monday, urging Western powers not to ease economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
At a press conference in the Italian capital, the prime minister again expressed strong opposition to the accord, urging European powers to demand a substantial rollback from Iran before agreeing to ease an effective sanctions regime. He warned that although Tehran, led by President Hassan Rouhani, presented a smiling face to the West, it continued to "butcher people in Syria, to promote terrorism" and to support Hezbollah and Hamas.
Even though Iran has not even begun to implement the agreement, there appears to be a general relaxation of sanctions and a rush to accommodate Iran and to make it legitimate, as if Iran has changed anything of its actual policies except to smile, to speak English — on occasion — and to make Powerpoint presentations," Netanyahu remarked. "What a revolution!"
The prime minister warned that if Iran acquires nuclear weapons capabilities, it will be "a pivot of history" that will not only upset progress all over the Middle East, but also might endanger Europe and the world at large.
"This must be stopped," Netanyahu asserted, adding that an end to sanctions against Iran would "mark the end of the possibility of reaching a peaceful resolution to the question of ending Iran's military nuclear program."
Israel Rips Obuma As Being Weak After His Administration Criticizes Netanyahu:
"He Doesn't Have The Political Stomach To Grapple With Iran"
(Bingo, Bibi! Our enemies know he is weak. The bad thing here is now our allies are calling him weak. That will reinforce our enemies. Mind you, I'm not blaming Israel for saying this at all. He is a weak POS and his foreign policies are atrocious. I suppose Israel has no option in this game than to play the strong man. They sure aren't getting any back-up from the whimpy Clown in charge)
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Via Times of Israel:After anonymous US officials were quoted in the Israeli press saying that Netanyahu's outspoken criticism of the interim deal with Iran was "weak and desperate," unnamed officials in Jerusalem sniped back, saying Obama only cared about surviving the remaining three years in office.
"President Obama just wants to peacefully pass his remaining time until the end of his term. He doesn't have the political stomach to grapple with Iran," Channel 10 quoted "the Israeli leadership" as saying."Removal of the sanctions in the Geneva agreement will end the pressure on Iran," the unnamed sources in Jerusalem said, according to the channel.
According to Ynet News, the officials suggested that American public opinion, weary of conflict after over a decade of military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, dictates that the administration should focus on domestic and economic issues and put matters of foreign policy on the back burner.
Obuma: "We're Not Repealing It [ObumarappyCare] As Long As I'm President"
(Oy vey... Demo-Rats up for re-election in 2014 probably wish he didn't say that)
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OFA Drone Army To Launch "Drumbeat Campaign" On
ObumaCrappyCare
Send in the Bots!
Via The Hill:The nonprofit group born from President Obama's re-election effort is launching a new "drumbeat campaign" designed to encourage health care enrollment before the end of the year.
The new digital effort is designed to encourage uninsured consumers to purchase insurance through graphics and countdown clocks noting looming deadlines for health coverage.
Over the next three weeks, for instance, OFA graphics will urge individuals to "apply, shop, buy" by Dec. 23 in order to secure coverage by Jan. 1."The campaign will create urgency leading into each month's deadline and include a daily countdown clock, a calendar, share graphics, infographics, all promoted on social media and email," OFA said in a press release.
Obuma Slams His Own Law? "We're Better Than A Country
Where We Allow Every Day 14,000 To Lose Their Health Care Coverage"
(Yeah, Butthead, they're having their plans cancelled because of your law)
No Payment System Built Into Obamcare Website, So Gov To Pay Insurance Companies Based On Their "Estimate" Of What Owed
Obuma officials confirmed there was no method of payment built into the ObumaCrappyCare website. Without a payment mechanism, there is no way to officially enroll in a real sense by going through the website.
So what is the administration going to do? They are going to let the insurance companies
ESTIMATE what they
THINK they should be getting based on
"sign ups" and the
government is going to pay it out to them. Once system is built the government can then settle with the insurers. So the government is just going to give the companies
our money on an honor system until they can
figure it out.
Sounds like Congress and their way of thinking... what a ****-up!
Update:It gets worse. Chris Stirewalt notes that within the ACA is a bailout provision for the insurance companies if they lose money in this debacle:[...]
Cost Of Website? 1 Billion... BEFORE Oct. 1,
Not Counting Money Thrown Into "Fixes" Since Then
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(Affordable? Not so much)
Via The Blaze:The to-date cost of the glitchy Obamacare website has topped $1 billion, easily surpassing the $394 million originally estimated by the Government Accountability Office, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis.
It's important to note that the Bloomberg analysis runs through Sept. 30, just before the 16-day partial government shutdown. So the final cost may be more than $1 billion.
Perhaps more shocking than the site's likely price tag is the fact that roughly one-third of that amount was spent on contracts awarded in the six months leading up to the site's disastrous Oct. 1 launch – when those at the top were reportedly aware of the site's many problems.
No Joke: Cartoon News Network Frets Over Pentagon
"Militarizing Santa A Little Bit Too Much"
(Yes, you read the headline correctly)
Conspiracy Time.... Someone has put alot work into this. Believing one-tenth of this is scary as hell. Wecome to America's nightmare!
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DEEP UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASES IN AMERICA
PREFACE:
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Unknown to most Americans is a dark secret, and it's right under our noses. It's the reality of the existence of
DEEP UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASES. These Underground bases get prominent play in dark rumors circulating about captured extraterrestrials and alien technology. The fringe culture rumors of underground alien-human shenanigans are in reality fed by leaks from questionable individuals, usually with intelligence connections. They are simply a ploy utility for the status quo. The whole captured-alien-hardware story is just a highly elaborate hoax to discredit those exposing the reality of these bases. They are also a cover for the wholesale looting of the federal treasury by the corrupt and cynical secret government. After Hurricane Katrina left the gulf coast region totally devastated, there were many witnesses coming forward with reports of
UNMNTF and
UNISF Troops working alongside the Army of the Republic of Mexico Soldiers in the New Orleans area. When the day of Martial Law comes in America, the UNISF and UNMNTF troops located in Central America, in the US, and Canada will be deployed to help round up the millions of Americans whose names appear on the
CIA Red List and the CIA Blue List, i.e., 'domestic terrorists' painted with a broad brush.
These troops are Chinese, Russian, German, Polish, Japanese, Ukrainian, Saudi Arabian, Pakistani, Mexican, Honduran, Salvadorean and Chilean, and many are stationed in the deep underground military bases. When that day comes in America, do not expect the Fox News Network, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, BBC News 24 or Reuters to give a full or accurate account of the truth. Mass detentions in camps and the underground bases, along with mass executions will occur, like they have in many other countries like Cambodia, Russia, China, Germany, Poland, Armenia, Georgia, Belorussia, Hungary and the Ukraine over the past 100 years. The best option for many Americans will be to have a safe place in a remote area where you can hide.
The America you and your forefathers knew is coming to an end thanks to the Illuminati controlled secret government, and now they want America to become a Third World Nation ruled by a Fascist Police State, under their dictatorial control. This obviously cannot be achieved if America stays the way it is with many still being relatively well off, and still possessing firearms. Only the people of America can stop the coming American Holocaust from occurring. In America alone there are over 120 Deep Underground Military Bases situated under most major cities, US AFBs, US Navy Bases and US Army Bases, as well as underneath FEMA Military Training Camps and DHS control centers. There are also many Deep Underground Military Bases under Canada. Almost all of these bases are over 2 miles underground and have diameters ranging from 10 miles up to 30 miles across! They have been building these bases day and night, unceasingly, since the 1940s.
These bases are basically large cities underground connected by high-speed magneto-levity trains that have speeds up to 1500 MPH. Several books have been written about this activity. Richard Souder, a Ph.D. architect, risked his life by talking about this. He is the author of the book, 'Underground Bases and Tunnels: What is the Government Trying to Hide'. He worked with a number of government agencies on deep underground military bases. The average depth of these bases is over a mile, and they again are basically whole cities underground. They have nuclear powered laser drilling machines that can drill a tunnel seven miles long in one day. (Note: The September, 1983 issue of Omni (Pg. 80) has a color drawing of 'The Subterrene,' the Los Alamos nuclear-powered tunnel machine that burrows through the rock, deep underground, by heating whatever stone it encounters into molten rock.) The Black Projects sidestep the authority of Congress, which as we know is illegal. There is much hard evidence out there.
Many will react with fear, terror and paranoia, but you must snap out of it and wake up from the brainwashing your media pumps into your heads all day long. Are you going to be a rabbit in the headlights, or are you going to stand up and say enough is enough? The US Government through the NSA, DOD, CIA, DIA, ATF, ONI, US Army, US Marine Corp, FEMA and the DHS has spent in excess of 12 trillion dollars building the massive, covert infrastructure for the coming One World Government and New World Religion over the past 40 years.
There is the Deep Underground Military Base underneath Denver International Airport, which is over 22 miles in diameter and goes down over 8 levels. It's no coincidence that the CIA relocated the headquarters of its domestic division, which is responsible for operations in the United States, from the CIA's Langley headquarters to Denver. Constructed in 1995, the government and politicians were hell bent on building this airport in spite of it ending up vastly overbudget. Charges of corruption, constant construction company changes, and mass firings of teams once they had built a section of their work was reported so that no "one" group had any idea what the blueprint of the airport was. Not only did locals not want this airport built nor was it needed, but everything was done to make sure it was built despite that. Masonic symbols and bizarre artwork of dead babies, burning cities and women in coffins comprise an extensive mural as well as a time capsule - none of which is featured in the airport's web site section detailing the unique artwork throughout the building. DIA serves as a cover for the vast underground facilities that were built there.
There are reports of electronic/magnetic vibrations which make some people sick and cause headaches in others. There are acres of fenced-in areas which have barbed wire pointing into the area as if to keep things in, and small concrete stacks that resemble mini-cooling towers rise out of the acres of nowhere to apparently vent underground levels. The underground facility is 88.3 square miles deep. Basically this Underground Base is 8 cities on top of each other! The holding capacity of such leviathanic bases is huge. These city-sized bases can hold millions and millions of people, whether they are mind controlled, enslaved NWO World Army Soldiers or innocent and enslaved surface dwellers from the towns and cities of America and Canada.
There is Dulce Base, in New Mexico. Dulce is a small town in northern New Mexico, located above 7,000 feet on the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation. There is only one major motel and a few stores. It's not a resort town and it is not bustling with activity. But Dulce has a deep, dark secret. The secret is harbored deep below the brush of Archuleta Mesa. Function: Research of mind related functions, genetic experiments, mind control training and reprograming. There are over 3000 real-time video cameras throughout the complex at high-security locations (entrances and exits). There are over 100 secret exits near and around Dulce. Many around Archuleta Mesa, others to the south around Dulce Lake and even as far east as Lindrith. Deep sections of the complex connect into natural cavern systems. Level 1 - garage for street maintenance. Level 2 - garage for trains, shuttles, tunnel-boring machines and disc maintenance. Level 3 - everyone is weighed, in the nude, then given a jump suit uniform. The weight of the person is put on a computer I.D. card each day. Change in over three dollars requires a physical exam and X-ray. Level 4 - Human research in 'paranormal' areas - mental telepathy, mind control, hypnosis, remote viewing, astral traveling - etc. The technology is apparently here to allow them to know how to manipulate the 'Bioplasmic Body' Development of a laser weapon that can remotely cause burns and discomfort on it's target. They can lower your heartbeat with Deep Sleep 'Delta Waves,' induce a static shock, then reprogram, Via a Brain- Computer link. Level 5 -security is severe. Armed guards patrol constantly, and in addition to weight sensitive areas there (are) hand print and eye print stations. Here, is the device that powers the transfer of atoms. Level 6 - Level 6 is privately called 'Nightmare Hall'. It holds the genetic labs. Experiments done on fish, seals, birds, and mice that are vastly altered from their original forms.
Then there is the Greenbrier Facility, in White Sulfer Springs, West Virginia under the Greenbriar Resort. The Continuity of Government facility intended since 1962 to house the United States Congress, code-named Casper, is located on the grounds of the prestigious Greenbrier resort. The bunker is beneath the West Virginia wing, which includes a complete medical clinic. Construction of the facility, which began in 1959, required 2.5 years and 50,000 tons of concrete. The steel-reinforced concrete walls of the bunker, which is 20 feet below ground, are 2 feet thick. The facility includes separate chambers for the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as a larger room for joint sessions. These are located in the "Exhibit Hall" of the West Virginia Wing, which includes vehicular and pedestrian entrances which can be quickly sealed by blast doors. They don't even hide this one, and it's even a tourist attraction. The Underground vault was built to meet the needs of a Congress-in-hiding - in fact the hotel is a replica of the White House. The underground area has a chamber for the Senate, a chamber for the House and a massive hall for joint sessions. Although the hotel says it gives tours of the 112,000 square area daily, the installation still stands at the ready, its operators still working under cover at the hotel. The secrecy that has surrounded the site has shielded it both from public scrutiny and official reassessment.
Most Americans will not believe that an American Holocaust will happen until they see it happening with their own eyes. Till then, it is just another strange conspiracy theory for them to laugh at. This is no laughing matter. When it happens, it will be to late to stop it. The US Government has been involved covertly in the creation of an army of loyal, brainwashed soldiers of the future. They will have cybernetic and microchip implants and will fight anywhere in the world, without question, with total loyalty and without hesitation or fear. These soldiers were created at Brookhaven National Laboratories BNL, the National Ordinance Laboratories NOL and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology MIT, and covertly transferred under DOD and NSA control and planning. Many of these soldiers are stationed in the Deep Underground Military Bases like the one under Denver International Airport. All of this information has been researched, and it has taken much effort to fit it together properly. There are many mag-lev subterraenean train networks that stretch from the these complexes and go out to other underground bases. All soldiers working in these bases are microchipped and under total Psychotronic Mind Control.
Of the missing "Milk Carton People" that the FBI used to post on milk cartons, some were taken to these underground bases for genetic experimentation, microchipping, psychotronic mind control and cybernetic implantations for future use as brainwashed soldiers of the NWO. Every year in America hundreds of thousands of people go missing. The creation of a total Global Fascist Police State by the Illuminati will happen if we do not all wake up and see what is happening. I find it amazing that so many Americans, Scandanavians and Western Europeans refuse to believe that there are millions of UNISF and UNMNTF Troops in America. Under the Partnerships For Peace Program PFPP
set up by President Bill Clinton in early 1993, thousands of troops a month have been coming into America. These Fascist criminals parade as our friends and leaders, while stripping away democratic rights that will be replaced with a Corporatist and Fascist dictatorship, unless people, and especially Americans, wake up now.
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Here are the locations of some Deep Underground Military Bases in America:
ALASKA: 1. Brooks Range, Alaska 2. Delta Junction, Alaska 2a. Fort Greeley, Alaska. In the same Delta Junction area.
ARIZONA: 1. Arizona (Mountains) (not on map) Function: Genetic work. Multiple levels 2. Fort Huachuca, Arizona (also reported detainment camp) Function: NSA Facility 2. Luke Air Force Base 3. Page, Arizona Tunnels to: Area 51, Nevada Dulce base, New Mexico 4. Sedona, Arizona (also reported detainment camp) Notes: Located under the Enchantment Resort in Boynton Canyon. There have been many reports by people in recent years of "increased military presence and activity" in the area.5. Wikieup, Arizona Tunnels to: Area 51 6. Yucca (Mtns.), Arizona
CALIFORNIA: 1. 29 Palms, California Tunnels to: Chocolate Mts., Fort Irwin, California (possibly one more site due west a few miles) 2: Benicia, California 3. Catalina Island, California Tunnels to: I was told by someone who worked at the Port Hueneme Naval Weapons Division Base in Oxnard that they have heard and it is 'common rumor' that there is a tunnel from the base to this Island, and also to Edwards Air Force Base, possibly utilizing old mines. . 4. China Lake Naval Weapons Testing Center 5. Chocolate Mountains, California Tunnels to: Fort Irwin, California 6. Death Valley,California Function: The entrance to the Death Valley Tunnel is in the Panamint Mountains down on the lower edge of the range near Wingate Pass, in the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft. The bottom of the shaft opens into an extensive tunnel system 7. Deep Springs, California Tunnels to: Death Valley, Mercury, NV, Salt Lake City 8. Edwards AFB, California Function: Aircraft Development - antigravity research and vehicle development Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Catalina Island Fort Irwin, California Vandenburg AFB, California Notes: Delta Hanger - North Base, Edwards AFB, Ca. Haystack Buttte - Edwards, AFB, Ca. 9. Fort Irwin, California (also reported detainment camp) Tunnels to: 29 Palms, California Area 51, Nevada Edwards AFB. California Mt. Shasta, California 10. Helendale, California Function: Special Aircraft Facility Helendale has an extensive railway/shipping system through it from the Union Pacific days which runs in from Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Los Angeles and Chicago 11. Lancaster, California Function: New Aircraft design, anti-gravity engineering, Stealth craft and testing Levels: 42 Tunnels To: Edwards A.F.B., Palmdale 12. Lawrence-Livermore International Labs, California The lab has a Human Genome Mapping project on chromosome #19 and a newly built $1.2 billion laser facility 13. Moreno Valley, California Function unknown 14. Mt. Lassen, California Tunnels to: Probably connects to the Mt. Shasta main tunnel. 15. Mt. Shasta. Function: Genetic experiments, magnetic advance, space and beam weaponry. Levels: 5 Tunnels to: Ft. Irwin, California North 16. Napa, California Functions: Direct Satellite Communications, Laser Communications. Continuation of Government site. Levels: Multi-level Tunnels to: Unknown Notes: Located on Oakville Grade, Napa County, Ca. 87 Acres 17. Needles, California Function unknown 18. Palmdale, California Function: New Aircraft Design, anit-gravity research 19. Tehachapi Facility (Northrop, California - Tejon Ranch Function: Levels: 42 Tunnels to: Edwards, Llona and other local areas Notes: 25 miles NW of Lancaster California, in the Tehachapi mountains. 20. Ukiah, California Function unknown
COLORADO: 1. Near Boulder, Co. in the mountains Function unknown 2. Cheyenne Mountain -Norad -Colorado Springs, Colorado Function: Early Warning systems - missile defense systems - Space tracking Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, Function: Early warning systems, military strategy, satellite operations Levels: Multiple NORAD is a massive self-sustaining 'city' built inside the mountain Tunnels to: Creede, Denver, Dulce Base, Kinsley. 3. Creede, Colorado Function unknown Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, Colorado - Delta, Colorado - Dulce Base, New Mexico 4. Delta, Colorado Function unknown Tunnels to: Creede Salt Lake, Utah 5. Denver International Airport (also a detainment camp) Function: Military research, construction, detainment camp facilities Levels: 7 reported Tunnels to: Denver proper, Colorado and Rocky Mountain "safehousing", Colorado Springs, Colorado (Cheyenne Mtn.)
6. Falcon Air Force Base, Falcon, Colorado Function: SDI, Satellite Control Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, possibly more. 7. Fort Collins, Colorado Function: Suspect high precision equipment manufacturing for space. 8. Grand Mesa, Colorado Function unknown 9. Gore Range Near Lake, west of Denver, Co. Function: Library and Central Data Bank 10. San Juan Valley, Colorado Hidden beneath and in an operating Buffalo Ranch Function unknown 11. Telluride, Colorado Function unknown 12. University of Denver, Co (Boulder area) Function: Genetics, geology/mining as related to tunneling and underground construction. 13. Warden Valley West of Fort Collins, CO Function Unknown Tunnels to: Montana
GEORGIA: Dobbins Air Force Base, Marrietta GA Function: test site for plasma and antigravity air craft, experimental crafts and weapons
INDIANA: Kokomo, Indiana Function Unknown Notes: for years people in that area have reported a "hum" that has been so constant that some have been forced to move and it has made many others sick. It seems to come from underground, and "research" has turned up nothing although it was suggested by someone that massive underground tunneling and excavating is going on, using naturally occurring caverns, to make an underground containment and storage facility.
KANSAS: 1. Hutchinson, Kansas Function unknown Tunnels to: Kinsley, Nebraska. Note: I recieved this report concerning this base: "I can vouch for the underground base in Hutchinson, Ks. The entrance to the tunnel is underneath Hutchinson Hospital and is huge. I was walking down that tunnel when I was a kid and at the end of this tunnel is a rock face wall with a 90 degree turn to the right. I stopped and refused to go any further down the tunnel, my instincts told me to stop. I distinctly remember hearing screams coming from there. These were not just cries for help, but more like blood curtailing horrifying screams like someone had just been murdered. I really want to know what was and probably still is going on down there. You are free to report the story, but please keep my name anonymous." 2. Kansas City, Kansas Function unknown Notes: Entrance near Worlds of Fun 3. Kinsley, Kansas Function unknown Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, Colorado; Hutchinson, Kansas; Tulsa Kokoweef Peak, SW California Notes: Gold stored in huge cavern, blasted shut. Known as the "midway city" because it's located halfway between New York and San Francisco.
MARYLAND: Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland (from Don) Martins AFB, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
MASSACHUSETTS: Maynard MA, FEMA regional center. Wackenhut is here too.
MONTANA: Bozeman, Mont. Function: Genetics
NEVADA: Area 51 - Groom Lake - Dreamland - Nellis Air Force Base Area 51 was said to exist only in our imaginations until Russian satellite photos were leaked to US sources and it's amazing how you can get photos all over of it now, even posters. They've been busy little bees building this base up. Function: Stealth and cloaking Aircraft research & development. 'Dreamland (Data Repository Establishment and Maintenance Land) Elmint (Electromagnetic Intelligence), Biological weapons research and genetic manipulation/warfare storage, Cold Empire, EVA, Program HIS (Hybrid Intelligence System),BW/CW; IRIS (Infrared Intruder Systems), Security: Above ground cameras, underground pressure sensors, ground and air patrol 2. Blue Diamond, Nevada Function unknown 3. Fallon Air Force Base area (the flats, near Reno) "American City" restricted military sites southwest of Fallon 4. Mercury, Nevada Function unknown 5. Tonopah, Nevada Function unknown 69: San Gabriel (mountains) On Western side of Mojave Desert Function unknown Notes: Heavy vibrations coming from under the forest floor which sounds like geared machinery. These vibrations and sounds are the same as heard in Kokomo, Indiana and are suspected underground building/tunneling operations.
NEW MEXICO: 1. Albuquerque, New Mexico (AFB) Function unknown Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Carlsbad, New Mexico Los Alamos, New Mexico Possible connections to Datil, and other points. 2. Carlsbad, New Mexico Functions: Underground Nuclear Testing Tunnels to: Fort Stockton, Texas. Roswell 3. Cordova, New Mexico Function unknown 4. Datil, New Mexico Function unknown Tunnels to: Dulce Base
5: Dulce Base, New Mexico. Tunnels to: Colorado Springs, Colorado Creed, Colorado Datil, N.M. Los Alamos. Page, Arizona Sandia Base Taos, NM
6. Los Alamos, New Mexico Functions: Psychotronic Research, Psychotronic Weapons Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: ALB AFB, New Mexico Dulce, New Mexico Connections to Datil,Taos 7. Sandia Base, New Mexico Functions: Research in Electrical/magnetic Phenomena Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Dulce Base Notes: Related Projects are studied at Sandia Base by 'The Jason Group' (of 55 Scientists). They have secretly harnessed the 'Dark Side of Technology' and hidden the beneficial technology from the public. 8. Sunspot, NM Function unknown 9. Taos, New Mexico Function unknown Tunnels to: Dulce, New Mexico; Cog, Colorado Notes: Several other sidelines to area where Uranium is mined or processed. 10. White Sands, NM Function: Missile testing/design Levels: Seven known
NEW HAMPSHIRE: There may be as many as three underground installations in New Hampshire's hills, according to reports.
NEW YORK: New York, New York Function unknown Tunnels to: Capitol Building, D.C.
OHIO: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base - Dayton, Ohio Function: Air Force Repository. Rumored to house stealth technology and prototype craft
OREGON: 1. Cave Junction, Oregon Function: Suspected Underground UFO Base Levels: At least one Notes: Suspected location is in or near Hope Mountain. Near Applegate Lake, Oregon, just over into California. Multiple shafts, access areas to over 1500 feet depth. Built using abandoned mine with over 36 known miles of tunnels, shafts. 2. Crater Lake, Oregon Tunnels: possible to Cave Junction 3. Klamath Falls, Oregon 4. Wimer, Oregon (Ashland Mt. area) Function: Underground Chemical Storage Levels: At least one
PENNSYLVANIA: Raven Rock, Pa (near Ligonier) Function: working back up underground Pentagon - sister site of Mt. Weather Notes: 650' below summit, 4 entrances.
TEXAS: 1. Calvert, Texas Function unknown 2. Fort Hood, Texas (also reported detainment camp) Levels: Multiple 3. Fort Stockton, Texas Function: Unknown Tunnels to: Carlsbad, New Mexico UTAH 1. Dugway, Utah Function: Chemical Storage, Radiation storage. 2. Salt Lake City Mormon Caverns Function: Religions archives storage. Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Delta, Colorado & Riverton, Wyoming
VIRGINIA: Mount Poney - Near Culpepper, Virginia Function unknown
WASHINGTON: 1. Mt. Rainier, Washington Function unknown. Levels: Multiple Tunnels to: Unknown Yakima Indian Reservation Function unknown Notes: Southeast of Tacoma Washington, on the Reservation, in an area 40 by 70 miles. Unusual sounds from underground (Toppenish Ridge). Low flying Silver Cigar shaped craft seen to disappear into the Middle fork area of Toppenish creek.
Washington DC: The Function: Part of a massive underground relocation system to house select government and military personnel in the event of cataclysmic event. Tunnels to: New York City; Mt. Weather.
WEST VIRGINIA: Greenbrier Facility, White Sulfer Springs, West Virginia under the Greenbriar Resort.
WYOMING: Riverton, Wyoming Function unknown Tunnels to: Salt Lake, Utah Denver, Colorado.
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ObumaCrappyCare Website Sending Faulty Medicare Enrollment Data To States
(They literally can't get anything right)
Via Wall Street Journal:States are warning that they may not process Medicaid enrollments from people who have signed up for the health program through the troubled HealthCare.gov site, raising the prospect that several hundred thousand low-income people who thought they had obtained insurance actually may not have it.
The federal health-insurance site, which serves residents in 36 states, is designed to sell policies from private insurers. But some people who apply for coverage through the site discover they are eligible instead for Medicaid, the joint federal-state health-insurance program for the poor and disabled.
So far, the federal government has been unable to transfer full Medicaid applications to states, potentially leaving people who sought to sign up for Medicaid through HealthCare.gov without coverage.
In all, some 183,396 people who submitted coverage applications through HealthCare.gov were determined to be eligible for Medicaid through Nov. 2, according to data published by the Department of Health and Human Services. Many thousands more are believed to have received similar assessments in the month since then.
Obuma Accuses His Media Allies of "Trying To Divide" The American People
(They'll still carry his water, tho')
Tingles: "Our Savior Obuma Came To Us Today. He Came Amongst Us... OOooo, I Can't Stop My Leg From Tingling..."
This is for you, Tingles:
UK: Jihadists Say They Tried To Behead British Soldier
Because It Was "The Most Humane Way To Kill A Creature"
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(Total Savages)
Via Daily Mail:The alleged murderers of Lee Rigby told police they cut his throat with a knife because
'this is how we kill our animals in Islam', a court was told today.
Michael Adebolajo said in an interview that 'the most humane way to kill any creature is to cut the jugular', the Old Bailey heard.
[...]
During a police interview from June 1 played to the court, Adebolajo, covered by a blue blanket with a copy of the Koran in front of him, said that 'Allah had chosen' the soldier to be his victim.
'When I thought about obeying Allah in the past I thought maybe it is possible to kill a man by driving into him,' he said.
'When he crossed the road in front of me so casually it was almost as if I was not in control of myself. I accelerated, I hit him and I think I also crashed into a sign post.'
He went on: 'We did not wish to give him much pain – I could see he was still alive. We exited the vehicle and I am not sure how I struck the first blow.
'The most humane way to kill any creature is to cut the jugular, this is what I believe, this is how we kill our animals in Islam. He may be my enemy but he is a man – so I struck at the neck and attempted to remove his head.'
Poll: Support For
ObumaCrappyCare Down Sharply Among White Women
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Via Hot Air:http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/05/poll-support-for-obamacare-down-sharply-among-white-women/
Temporary blip mirroring the nationwide souring on O and his big "achievement" or a more durable shift that threatens Democrats in 2016? I had it in my head for some reason that ObamaCare has always been relatively popular with women, but check Kaiser's polling over time and you'll see that's not really true. Among women generally (not just white women), support for the law has cracked 50 percent exactly once over the past 44 months. This year alone, support scraped 40 percent only in October, when it got a small bounce after the website launched, but otherwise it's been below that mark consistently.More at: http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/05/poll-support-for-obamacare-down-sharply-among-white-women/
Here's Why Fast Food Workers SHOULD Make $15/Hour
Their skills are beyond compare. Exceptional does not even begin to describe THIS Subway sandwich artist who flunked out of High School and got his GED at the local prison.
In case you can't tell, he put his genitals on the bread after it was proofed. How exceptional and skilled he must surely be!http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/subway-employee-puts-penis-on-bread-frozen-urine_n_3635174.htmlSubway
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Here's another great one. This time the employee has decided to lick all of the food items before using them.Taco Bell Guy
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Burger King
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Gallup: Obuma's Approval Rating Among Hispanics In A Free Fall, Down 23 Points Over Last Year To 52%
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(Time to crank up the amnesty machine)
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Note Obuma's approval rating among whites, 31%. Ouch.
Liberal Clergy Send Letter To NFL Attacking Redskins Name As "Derogatory" And A "Slur," Characterizes Native-Americans "As Less Than Human"
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Via USA Today:A letter castigating the team name of the Washington pro football club and signed by 61 religious leaders mostly from the Washington region is scheduled to be sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and team owner Daniel Snyder on Thursday, according to the minister who is the driving force behind it.
The letter, dated Dec. 5, casts the roiling national controversy over the team name as a moral issue and includes signatures of leaders from a range of faith communities including Lutheran, Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, United Church of Christ, AME, Presbyterian, Unitarian, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim.
"The derogatory term 'redskin' offends many Native Americans and others in this country," the letter says. "This word, defined in the dictionary as a slur, should not be publicly marketed and celebrated in America, which is built on the ideals of respect and inclusion."
Rev. Graylan Hagler, who helped write the letter and recruit the signatories, said clergy who signed on agreed they would also talk about the issue from their pulpits. Hagler hopes their sermons will ignite a religiously based grassroots campaign.
"If you use that word about a group of people, you characterize them as less than human," Hagler told USA TODAY Sports. "You have stripped them of their humanity and taken away the likeness of God that is within all of us."
The Navajo Code Talkers beg to differ:
Navajo Code Talker Says Washington Redskins Name Is Symbol Of Loyalty And Courage
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Via Fox News:A leader of the Navajo Code Talkers who appeared at a Washington Redskins home football game said Wednesday the team name is a symbol of loyalty and courage — not a slur as asserted by critics who want it changed.
Roy Hawthorne, 87, of Lupton, Ariz., was one of four Code Talkers honored for their service in World War II during the Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers.
Hawthorne, vice president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association, said the group's trip was paid for by the Redskins. The four men met briefly with team owner Dan Snyder but did not discuss the name, Hawthorne said.
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(Hmmmm.... I could have swore he died last year. How do you say, Life Support System)
Via CNN:Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died, South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday. He was 95.
The former president battled health issues in recent months, including a recurring lung infection that led to numerous hospitalizations.
With advancing age and bouts of illness, Mandela retreated to a quiet life at his boyhood home in the nation's Eastern Cape Province, where he said he was most at peace.
Despite rare public appearances, he held a special place in the nation's consciousness.
New Economist Poll Finds For First Time More Americans
Don't Like Obuma Than Like Him
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(Damn you racists! [shakes fist in air])
Via Washington Examiner:President Obama finally knows how George W. Bush felt as he lumbered through his second term.
A new Economist/YouGov poll finds that for the first time, more Americans than not don't like Obama.
Long a polling category that has carried and elevated his presidency even as his approval numbers have hit rock bottom just 11 months into his second term, his likability is now underwater.
A year ago, when asked if people liked Obama regardless of his policies, 37 percent said yes, 29 percent no.
The new poll finds that 34 percent don't like Obama, while just 30 percent do.It's the same on his favorability rating.
A year ago 53 had a favorable opinion of the president. Today 53 percent have an unfavorable opinion. Among independents, 62 percent have an unfavorable opinion.
President Obuma's Uncle, Living Here Illegally Since 1970, Granted Legal Residency
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(Despite being here illegally, despite violating deportation orders and being arrested for a DUI. He came as a student and never left)
Via Boston Globe:A federal immigration judge today allowed President Obama's uncle, Onyango "Omar" Obama, to remain in the United States, following a hearing in which the name of the president was invoked by the 69-year-old Kenyan who has been living here for some 50 years.
US Immigration Judge Leonard I. Shapiro issued his ruling from the bench. He said he believed Onyango Obama was a gentleman, a good neighbor, paid his taxes, and met the criteria for legal permanent residency, commonly known as a green card.
"Welcome to America,'' Shapiro said to Onyango.
During the hearing, Onyango Obama testified, "I do have a nephew. He's the president of the United States."
He also contradicted the White House's assertion that the president had never met him. Onyango Obama testified that his nephew lived with him in Cambridge for three weeks while the future president was a student at Harvard Law School in the late 1980s.
Shapiro based his decision on a federal immigration law that allows people who have lived in the United States since prior to 1972 to apply for residency.
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President's Claim That He Never Met Uncle Contradicted By Uncle And Landlord
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(So one more lie about Obama's past uncovered. Why lie about this, just to not seem to have connection to illegal uncle? It's a dumb lie, especially if uncle, et. al, wouldn't back you up)
Via WaPo:President Obama's uncle said at a deportation hearing Tuesday that Obama stayed with him while he was a student at Harvard Law School in the 1980s — despite the White House having said that Obama never met the man.
Onyango "Omar" Obama, 69, was arrested for drunk driving in 2011 and faced deportation after living in the United States for five decades. The judge decided to let the Kenyan national remain in the United States.
According to the Boston Globe, Omar Obama also made the following claim:
The White House said following Omar Obama's arrest that he and the president had never met. The president was not close to his father's side of the family given his father's absence in his life.
The White House did not immediately comment on Omar Obama's claim.
Omar Obama came to the United States when he was 19, with the help of his brother, Barack Obama Sr. He currently works as the manager of a liquor store.
He is the second of Obama's relatives to face deportation and win. Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, also avoided deportation in 2010.
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Obuma Flip Flops: Acknowledges He Knew And Lived With Kenyan Uncle In 1980s
(Despite Lying he'd never met the man, Obuma now says he did live with him for a period of time in the 1980s while preparing to attend a University)
Via Boston Globe:President Obama acknowledged on Thursday that he lived with his Kenyan uncle for a brief period in the 1980s while preparing to attend Harvard Law School, contradicting a statement more than a year ago that the White House had no record of the two ever meeting.
Their relationship came into question on Tuesday at the deportation hearing of his uncle, Onyango Obama, in Boston immigration court. His uncle had lived in the United States illegally since the 1970s and revealed in testimony for the first time that his famous nephew had stayed at his Cambridge apartment for about three weeks. At the time, Onyango Obama was here illegally and fighting deportation.
On Thursday, a White House official said the press office had not fully researched the relationship between the president and his uncle before telling the Globe that they had no record of the two meeting. This time, the press office asked the president directly, which they had not done in 2011.
The link at the Bottom will take you to a very lengthy video.
I thik Warph coined the phrase, "If only 10% of this is true it is pretty scary."
GMO Food
It's Worse Than We Thought
By S.A. Nickerson
Over the last decade, as genetically modified, or GMO, foods have increasingly taken over our food supply, we've been learning more about their dangers to our health.
Now, one courageous doctor is pointing to mounting evidence that leaves no doubt — GMO foods are even worse than we were told.
As this respected doctor points out in a riveting new presentation, no long-term human studies have ever supported GMO safety. Shockingly, the World Health Organization only requires a mere 90 days of testing to claim that GMOs are safe. Well, no one dies from smoking cigarettes within 90 days of starting to smoke, either!
Yet while lifetime studies still have not been done on humans, scientists have done these studies on animals — and what they found is stunning. Lab mice fed just a 33 percent GMO diet begin developing aggressive cancers (particularly breast cancer), liver failure, and kidney failure.
Shockingly, 50 percent of the males and 70 percent of the female animals on the GMO diet succumbed to early death at an age equivalent to 40 to 50 human years.
While more people have begun to fight back against GMOs, the big GMO companies spend millions of dollars to defeat laws that would require GMO labeling. Quite simply, these big companies know that GMO crops are cheaper to grow, and therefore more profitable.
In the meantime, many health experts now warn us to take the only positive action available to protect our health — avoiding GMOs as much as humanly possible. But considering the fact that GMOs are hidden in over 30,000 food products, that is not an easy task.
Fortunately, one courageous doctor has stepped up to the plate. Dr. Russell Blaylock, one of America's leading medical researchers and nutritionists, has created a special free video presentation that explains the hidden health hazards of GMOs. Dr. Blaylock will show you how to protect your family from GMOs and their dangers — aisle by aisle at the grocery store.
Dr. Blaylock's new video presentation exposes how GMO ingredients and other harmful additives are hidden on labels under safe-sounding names. In fact, you'll see some of the actual labels and find out what to watch for.
Cracking the GMO Code http://w3.newsmax.com/blaylock/video_gmo.cfm?ns_mail_uid=7144240&ns_mail_job=1548875_12062013&promo_code=15D5B-1
Bill Clinton's Doodles on Secret Documents as President Include Male Genitals
by Noah Rothman | 2:59 pm, December 5th, 2013
In February, the Bush family's personal emails were hacked by Guccifer, a hacker who uncovered photographs of former President George H. W. Bush in a hospital bed and George W. Bush's oil paintings in the process. It seems Guccifer has struck again, this time targeting former President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Library. The hacker has reportedly uncovered doodles of Clinton drawing on what were, at the time, classified documents. Among the doodles is apparently a picture of a penis.
The document uncovered is a briefing of the strategic measures the United States could take prior Clinton's decision to intervene in the civil unrest associated with the collapse of Yugoslavia in the mid-1990s. The briefing is covered in sketches, including an American flag, a chef with a frying pan, and an erect phallus.
The phallus appears next to the then-Sen. Bob Dole's name, which some have speculated could be Clinton's stream-of-consciousness reference to the Viagra commercials that the former GOP presidential nominee was featured in at the time.
The image of the chef with the words "U.N." on his jacket appears near a portion of the document that features the acronym "FRY" (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
Apparently, this was not the most captivating briefing Clinton ever attended.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/bill-clintons-doodles-on-secret-documents-as-president-include-male-genitals/
There are picture in the article I did post here and decide that was the wrong thing to do, so I removed them. My appologize's to anyone that may have saw it and was offended.
Hey Obuma, keep it in your...
Obuma: Christmas Message Is Universal "No Matter What God You Pray To"
Friday, December 6, 2013, 9:33 PM
Barack Obuma spoke at the National Christmas Tree lighting Friday in Washington DC.
He told the audience the Christmas was both timeless and universal –"No matter what God you pray to."
The Foist Family helped light the National Christmas Tree Friday night, amid a festive celebration of musicians and costumed characters.
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Pearl Harbor Memories Fading With Time
John Andrew Prime, The (Shreveport, La.) Times
The message of Pearl Harbor has become muted with the passage of time and those who survived the attack.
SHREVEPORT, La. -- You could hardly escape reminders of it during World War II. And over the course of decades since, Dec. 7 has meant one thing to generations of Americans:
Pearl Harbor. Unprovoked attack. The need to be prepared.
But that message has become muted over the past few years by the thinning of the ranks of the men and women who survived the assault that Sunday morning on U.S. military facilities in Hawaii.
For the first time in years, a request to the community for news on remembrances or memorials, as well as calls to the largest American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts and the local War Veterans Home and veterans cemetery turned up nothing.
Former Louisiana state Sen. Jackson B. Davis, now 95, who was a Navy officer assigned to intelligence duties, says he has not been asked to talk to any groups this year. "That is unusual. I usually do."
"It's the same old story," Davis said, illustrating his point by taking it to an extreme. "We don't hear much about Gettysburg anymore, or Bunker Hill. Or when the Normans took over England — we don't hear much about that."
Davis is one of only three known Pearl Harbor survivors still alive in Shreveport-Bossier City.
"There's not many of us left to think about it," Davis said.
In 1991, at least two dozen local Pearl Harbor survivors received commemorative medallions belatedly authorized by Congress for the 50th anniversary of the attack. The delay was largely because of a general feeling that defeats are not celebrated, no matter how great their historic importance.
Tactically, Pearl Harbor was a U.S. defeat. In all, more than 2,400 soldiers, sailors and Marines were killed and almost 1,200 wounded, as well as more than 1,000 civilians, most of them by U.S. anti-aircraft artillery shells landing in residential areas.
In all, eight battleships were sunk or damaged so badly it took years for them to be repaired. Two, including the USS Arizona, were total losses. In addition, 10 other major ships were heavily damaged. In addition, 165 airplanes were destroyed.
Japanese losses numbered 185 airmen and sailors, 29 aircraft, five mini-submarines and a large submarine.
But the Japanese miscalculated. Their primary target, the U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers, were out of the harbor on exercises. And when initial reports of success and fear that a response by U.S. forces was imminent led to cancellation of a planned third strike, the Imperial Japanese navy left largely undamaged the vital fuel tank farms and submarine facility at Pearl Harbor.
The carriers, their vital fuel intact, and the long arm of the submarine fleet would take the war home to the Japanese. What began at Pearl Harbor ended with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It took almost four years, but Pearl Harbor ended up as a strategic victory for the United States
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In this Dec. 7, 1941 file photo, smoke rises from the battleship USS Arizona as it sinks during a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Saturday marks the 72nd anniversary of the attack that brought the United States into World War II.(Photo: AP)
So why is this important U.S. military event of the 20th century fading in the popular memory? It could be that 2013 marks an irregular anniversary, 72 years. That doesn't convey the same urgency as a 50th or 75th anniversary. More likely, observers say, the culprit is time.
"In the 1920s, there were still reunions of Confederate veterans. But in the 1930s, there were very few of them left," Shreveport historian Gary Joiner said. "In fact, the last reunion was held here. People remember that because these were the guys who experienced it." When the last of these men died in the 1950s, there was a great resurgence of interest in that conflict, "and then it came too late."
Joiner sees a parallel with World War II veterans, especially Pearl Harbor survivors, veterans of the oldest and most significant part of U.S. involvement. "With World War II, we're losing so many veterans every day that we are seeing the same type of thing. It's almost a natural progression, from current events to memory to history."
As with the Civil War veterans, the work of preserving and processing the story of the Pearl Harbor veterans will shift to others.
"Now it's going to be the place of the professional historians and good amateur historians to come in and do for World War II veterans what was done in the late 1950s and since to the Civil War," Joiner said. The parades may stop, but the assessment will continue."
Donna Curtis, head of Shreveport Green, looks after her father, Pearl Harbor veteran William Banks.
The 99-year-old, who like many other local Pearl Harbor survivors has had his photos and memories preserved through R.W. Norton Art Foundation's continuous oral history program, was a lieutenant in charge of artillery protecting Pearl Harbor from attack by ships.
Curtis said her father, who broke his hip several weeks ago, remains active but unlike past years has not been asked to take part in any Pearl Harbor remembrances.
Curtis said she can understand why younger people may have trouble relating to World War II, which for people age 30 or younger might as well have been part of Roman Empire history.
"If you think about it, most of the kids today wouldn't know what you were talking about if you ask them about Vietnam, and we lost so many people in that one," she said. "They don't know about the Korean War. And World War II was huge, compared to those, and it was so personal to us. The country was so full of patriotic fervor. People wanted to serve. They would lie about their age to get in."
Shawn Bohannon — a military historian, author and archivist — also is an Air Force veteran of the nation's most recent conflicts. With time, those conflicts andveterans also will recede into the dim mists of time.
"It's just part of the natural aging process, the passage of history," he said.
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I Can't Believe They Let You Do That!
Bill Whittle explains how places like California are ruining any sense of liberty, and are also taking away the fun of living in the land of Fruits & Nutz
It's a free country, but not so much in California, where there's:
"No fires, no parking, all animals must be on a leash, no photography, camping not permitted, no lifeguard on duty, penalties will apply, permit required. Gun free zone, noise ordinance enforced. Fly quietly, minimum altitude 1000 feet. No ATV's, personal watercraft prohibited, wake limit strictly enforced, plastic bags no longer available, tow-away zone. Fishing permit required, environmentally sensitive area, no dogs allowed, se habla espanol."
The Story Of Omar Obuma Shows The Deeper Problem
Of "Culture Of Lies" In White House
Signs Going Up In Doctor's Offices Across Nation: You Aren't Covered For Us If You're In Obamacare
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A MUST-SEE VIDEO
The USAF Band Holiday Flash Mob
at the National Air and Space Museum 2013
Kansas community ordinance challenges Fourth Amendment
By Travis Perry / December 6, 2013
OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — After ruling earlier this year that city residents aren't capable of safely managing furniture on their own front porch, one Kansas community is considering taking its control of residents lives to the next level: mandated governmental inspections.
That could soon be the reality for the thousands of people living in the more than 20,000 rental units across Lawrence if city commissioners approve an expansion of its rental licensure ordinance.
The city already has a process through which tenants or landlords can request inspections if they suspect some kind of problem, but the new proposal would make such action compulsory.
As it stands, the ordinance would require landlords to register their properties to the tune of about $25 annually per location. Additionally, once every three years 10 percent of a landlord's properties would be subject to mandatory searches by city building inspectors looking for major and minor health and safety violations — regardless of whether a tenant occupies the property. If no major violations are found, the given property will be bumped to a six-year inspection cycle as incentive.
Read the full ordinance here.
http://www.lawrenceks.org/assets/agendas/cc/2013/12-03-13/pl_rental_licensing_ord_8840.pdf
The program itself has existed in some form for more than a decade, but so far it has been relegated to a relatively small portion of the city. But up for grabs now is a proposal that would expand the measure across the municipality, and into the living rooms of countless residents. While officials argue the ordinance is to combat slum lords and improve "life safety," opponents are saying the measure could pose a significant threat to Fourth Amendment rights.
Inspectors would be tasked with documenting through photographs and video any violations they find. Of course, there's no telling what else could be caught in the scope of an inspector's lens, and whether that information could make it into the hands of local law enforcement.
While the measure was set to come up for a vote Tuesday, an outpouring of opposition pushed city officials to table the measure for a few more weeks. A significant number of those voicing concern referenced a similar 2009 ordinance enacted — and later repealed — in Kansas' other big college town, Manhattan.
Only months before the program's demise in 2011, a Manhattan city inspection resulted in several college students being hauled before a municipal judge to face a litany of code violations. The young adults were sentenced to 15 days in jail, but they ultimately received nine months' probation, contingent upon further compliance.
Aside from the privacy intrusion, the measure would also constitute a significant expansion of local government staff and spending. City officials estimate they would need to hire five full-time inspectors, as well as an administrative staffer, to handle the influx of bureaucracy associated with the ordinance. The projected cost associated with this is about $400,000.
But never mind the fact that the program isn't financially sound.
A 2012 city audit concluded the current, limited program and fee schedule is woefully inadequate. Over a two-year period, auditors concluded that registration revenue — totaling about $40,000 — covered less than half of the salary and benefit costs associated with the program, instead sloughing the majority of the cost onto general revenues.
So, naturally, auditors suggest the city simply expand. Oh, and they also say commissioners should hike up the fee to $40 annually, though it's not reflected in the proposal's current form.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri announced recently it plans to launch an investigation into privacy threats posed by the ordinance, legal director Doug Bonney noted in a letter to city officials in late November. Bonney told Kansas Watchdog he had heard city code officials would — or could — pressure landlords into compelling their tenants to sign consent forms permitting inspections.
The matter raises questions about whether consent is truly voluntary, Bonney said.
A federal appeals court in 2007 upheld an earlier challenge to the city's limited rental licensing program.
http://watchdog.org/119182/lawrence-fourth-amendment/
Even Governors are controlling by Executive Order agains their citizens. What next ? What ever happened to government of the people, by the people and for the people? Instead it is screw the people !
Oklahoma Gov. Fallin reaffirms support of Common Core by issuing executive order
December 5, 2013
OKLAHOMA CITY – Republican leaders in Indiana recently said Common Core has become so politically toxic that it's nearly as unpopular with voters as the new health care law.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, apparently doesn't agree.
On Wednesday, Fallin issued an executive order reaffirming her support of the new, nationalized learning standards, reports the Associated Press.
Fallin's executive order "states the federal government will have no input in the formulation of the standards and that the state will be responsible for deciding how to test student performance," the AP reports.
While that might soothe the fears of some critics, it does nothing to alleviate the concerns of others who believe Common Core is designed to impose a kind of academic socialism upon the nation's 13,000 school districts, bringing them to the same, mediocre level.
Fallin's support of the homogenized learning standards isn't surprising, considering she recently became the chairwoman of the National Governors Association, one of the two private organizations that holds the copyright to the Common Core learning standards. (The Council of Chief State School Officers is the other organization.)
Steve Dickson of the Oklahoma City Conservative Examiner notes the governor's unwavering support of Common Core puts her directly at odds with many Oklahoma GOP activists. That could be a real problem for Fallin when she seeks reelection next November.
"It remains to be seen if this will add to the momentum building for a primary challenge to Governor Fallin," Dickson writes. "Rumors have recently circulated that former State Sen. Randy Brogdon is considering just such an effort. In 2010, Fallin won the GOP Primary 136,477 to 98,170. Considering the giant fundraising advantage ($2,765,635.66 for Fallin to Brogdon at $437,642.24) in that election, a well- funded challenge would have a legitimate chance of making up the 38,307 voter gap.
Dickson concludes Fallin executive order "will certainly not do anything to quell the rising discontent from the activist base of the party."
http://eagnews.org/oklahoma-gov-mary-fallin-reaffirms-support-of-common-core-with-executive-order/
Obama asks Supreme Court for new standard that could limit free speech
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
WASHINGTON, December 4, 2013 — How far will President Obama go to control what we see and hear? How about removing First Amendment protections from FOX News or even from MSNBC, ABC, CNN, CBS or NBC. Maybe no free speech or freedom of the press for The Washington Times nor The Washington Post nor The New York Times or any other major media? Obama would justify it by claiming they are all tainted because they seek to profit from the news business.
Don't laugh. This is the danger from the ground-breaking legal theory being argued by the Obama Administration to the Supreme Court. The threat is carefully-camouflaged within the legal briefs filed to defend Obamacare in the Hobby Lobby case. At the core of its argument that Hobby Lobby must provide abortion-inducing "birth control" to its employees, the government claims that for-profit corporations have no First Amendment rights. Only individuals do. Plus non-profits.
So Brian Williams would retain all his constitutional rights and so would George Stephanapolous, Rachel Maddow, Matt Lauer, Diane Sawyer, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Marc Levin, Bill O'Reilly and the other individuals who deliver news, talk radio and entertainment. But their employers presumably would lose those rights unless they restructured into noble non-profits. Then the small handful of pesky reporters would be no more troublesome than the ones from NPR.
Of course, none of them would have protection from being monitored by the NSA.
To be fair, the Solicitor-General's pro-Obamacare briefs in Sebelius versus Hobby Lobby do not single-out First Amendment free speech and free press rights; but they don't exclude them either when they argue that First Amendment freedom of religion rights should be denied to for-profit corporations. Yet since when do any Constitutional rights hinge on whether an entity is a for-profit corporation? It's a novel argument and a chilling one. If the Supreme Court accepts the idea it would set legal dominoes falling as other rights toppled. Once it's the basis for limiting one First Amendment right, it becomes a sinkhole where other First Amendment rights disappear.
Our First Amendment rights include free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, feedom of peaceable assemble, and freedom to petition government for redress of grievances.
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Businesses have good purposes and good reasons to need rights. Making profit is only one of them. People do much of their work and seek to accomplish many of their goals through businesses that often are small or are closely-held. Hobby Lobby is not a small business but it is a closely-held business, a subchapter-S corporation owned by just seven members of the David and Barbara Green family. By disregarding this, and demagoguing purely against the supposed evil of for-profit corporations, Obama's lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to issue a ruling that would be used to claim that all our First Amendment rights are lost whenever we choose to work through the medium—the tool—of a business structure.
Disparaging the profit motive has been a long-time goal of the American Left; now they want it ratified by a Supreme Court decision. That would demote businesses to the lowest caste in America's previously-classless society. They would become outcasts. Pariahs.
President Obama has attacked First Amendment rights in several ways, often linking it to a condemnation of those who seek to earn a profit, usually making it sound evil to make money by providing a basic need.
For example, in arguing for health care reform in July 2009, Obama urged that medical professionals and insurance companies should not be trusted. He told ABC News, "A whole lot of people are having bad experiences because recommendations are coming from people who have a profit motive." That same summer he accused doctors of performing unnecessary surgeries, even amputations, due to greed.
While the Occupy Wall Street movement has fought American businesses, Obama has led an Occupy America movement, railing against political speech by corporations. His infamous 2010 State of the Union remarks condemned the Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizens United case that protects issue-related advertising by corporations. Corporate ads on behalf of a candidate for office remain illegal, although Obama often fudges over that important distinction.
But while he condemns corporate speech and restricts White House press, Obama freely spends public funds for propaganda, including an estimated $684-million to promote Obamacare, according to Associated Press calculations.
Hobby Lobby sued on principles of religious freedom and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that requires government to accommodate those principles. Instead of accommodating them, the Obama Administration saw a chance to expand restrictions on religious freedom.
The effort is being coordinated. For example, Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D, WI), last week said, "The First Amendment, we revere it. It protects the rights of religious schools, churches, places of worship. And I think that the sanctity of that is something we all appreciate as Americans. The Hobby Lobby is not one of those institutions."
So, according to Moore, any type of religious activity at Hobby Lobby has zero First Amendment protection?
Does she know that each year Hobby Lobby purchases hundreds of newspaper ads at Easter and Christmas, inviting people "to know Jesus as Lord and Savior"? They even post a collection of their ads online (link). The official corporate statement of purpose includes "[h]onoring the Lord in all we do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles." The company foregoes tens of millions of dollars of annual revenue by closing each of their hundreds of stores every Sunday. They provide chaplains and spiritual counseling to all 13,000 workers. They provide insurance to workers which includes 16 of the 20 contraceptives that Obamacare says they must. But not the four that actually terminate a pregnancy. For that, they face fines that could be $1.3-million each day.
Those details don't matter to the Left. They are blind except to the dirty words, "for-profit." But they glorify non-profits, as though non-profit or "non-partisan" means better-intentioned and clearer-thinking. In truth, neither for-profit nor non-profit is automatically good or bad.
The Left poses the issue like this: Religious liberty is for people, not corporations. Elizabeth Wydra of the Constitutional Accountability Project writes, "a business corporation lacks the basic human capacities — reason, dignity and conscience — at the core of the right to free exercise of religion," adding, "Have you ever seen Exxon Mobil in the pew next to you at church?" Of course, those identical points could be raised about non-profits as well. Posing arguments in her way misses the point.
Here is a better analysis: Corporations are legitimate and convenient tools that individuals use to accomplish their purposes. We don't restrict religious use of other tools on the grounds that they lack a conscience. To accomplish our religious purposes, we can use a car rather than walk, or use radio and television rather than speaking only person-to-person. Rather than asking whether a corporation is for-profit, a better test is whether it's a legitimate tool or instrument. For a family of seven devout Christians, their closely-held subchapter-S corporation, Hobby Lobby, can be used by them the same as their other personal assets, consistently with their religious faith. For companies in similar circumstance, or which are instrumentalities of churches and religious orders, Obamacare exemptions should apply. Multiple courts have agreed and so should the Supreme Court.
On the other hand, CBS, with thousands of shareholders, would have a more difficult challenge in claiming a religious exemption because they would be hard-put to demonstrate religious purpose and activitty. But they should have no difficulty with their claim to other Constitutional protections, once the Obama "for-profit corporation" test is rejected.
It's frightening to grasp the audacity of the government briefs in the Hobby Lobby case, and the boldness of the new limits on Constitutional freedoms which they could sneak in if the Supreme Court approved "for-profit" as a new boundary line for rights.
The government brief also repeats a common nonsense argument that is heard so often that people rarely think it through. The claim is that an employer, by not providing contraceptives, is "imposing their religious views on their employees." No. The employer is refusing to let the government impose its view upon the employer. If somebody compels you to perform an action, they are imposing upon you. When you refrain from taking an action, you are not imposing on anybody.
We have had too much imposed on us already from the first Supreme Court decision on Obamacare. Fortunately, even after the Hobby Lobby case, more challenges to Obamacare are in the legal pipeline. An important action by the State of Oklahoma. And multiple lawsuits by Catholic-affiliated institutions. It's just too bad that the White House gets a bottomless pit of taxpayer money to fight against them. And uses the money to ask for outrageous new restrictions on our rights.
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My hope is that some of the so call Educate dummies in Elk County might further their education by reading this article and realize they live in a very remote rural area! That means there is no Metropolitan area that we are a sleep suburb of. And that means we have absolutely no reason to try to duplicate the suburbs of Wichita by building a Taj Mahal of a School and creating an unneeded $6 million dollar debt for the next 20 years which will include a great deal of interest charges perhaps as much as Million dollars or more. What rural people want is openess and honesty. That is my opinion. The empheasis and coloring is my work in the article. In rural America, secessionist sentiment stirs
Cumberland, Md. (AFP) - By day, Scott Strzelcyzk is an IT consultant in this rural Appalachian corner of Maryland. By night, he's something of a modern-day American revolutionary.
"It's time for a 51st state!" declared Strzelcyzk at a town hall meeting in Cumberland, rallying support for an "amiable divorce" from the coastal state's more urban eastern half.
The United States hasn't added a state since 1959 when Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states, but Strzelcyzk is optimistic that western Maryland -- five counties -- could strike off on its own in as little as three to five years.
The area is not alone. In other states like California, Colorado or Michigan, regions are itching for statehood, often for the main reason Strzelcyzk cites --
frustration with government."I think of myself as an average citizen who is sick and
tired of being sick and tired," said Strzelcyzk, who refers to the state capital Annapolis with the same contempt that euroskeptics reserve for Brussels.
"In Maryland, we have a number of irreconcilable differences with the state government and how they govern," he said.
The laundry list of grievances that underpins the Liberate Western Maryland movement runs from higher taxes on alcohol and cigarettes to "oppressive" gun control legislation, in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants, and even stricter rules on septic tanks.
Several hundred people had signed a petition backing the statehood movement by the time Strzelcyzk and a handful of supporters presented their vision to about 80 people who attended the rally at Allegany College in Cumberland.
Its credo is "one smaller, leaner government, more freedom, more personal responsibilities" for the 650,000 predominantly white, rural and older inhabitants of the Maryland panhandle, where 11 percent of the state's total population lives.
But how would Western Maryland pay its bills? Some members of the audience wanted to know.
"We'll make it attractive" to business, Strzelcyzk said.
Activist Scott Strzelcyzk looks at a framed copy of the US Constitution in his New Windsor, Maryland ...
Others asked why grievances could not simply be tackled at the ballot box, eliminating the need for separation from the rest of the state.
"They have a rigged game, with rigged rules, on a rigged field and they own the referees," he said. "Even through the normal electoral process, the outcome cannot be changed."
Once a Democrat, and later a Republican, Strzelcyzk pitches his proposal at meetings of the conservative Tea Party movement.
Maryland is largely a Democratic state, with liberals living in prosperous suburbs just outside Washington and African-Americans making up the majority of its biggest city Baltimore.
Gay marriage is enshrined in law and Governor Martin O'Malley favors tougher gun laws.
Frank Shafroth, director of the Center for State and Local Government Leadership at George Mason University in Virginia, said that state secessionist movements are signs of frustration in an aging population.
"Those rural areas are seeing fewer and fewer young people," he told AFP.
"They are more and more white; there are more and more people over the age of 55 who have very different values; they have old traditional values -- and they have a difficult time adjusting."
Breakaway regions are nothing new in US history -- Delaware separated from Pennsylvania, Kentucky was carved out of Virginia and Maine was once part of Massachusetts -- but those examples date to the 1700s and 1800s.
In recent years, in the Rocky Mountain state of Colorado, 11 counties attempted to break away from the main city Denver, although the proposal was defeated in a referendum.
In northern California, the idea of a Jefferson state -- taking in a southern chunk of Oregon -- dates back to the 19th century, and is making a comeback.
Secession, however, is more easily argued than done.
"The obstacles would be hard to overcome," Shafroth said.
Secession by a county would require approval from the legislature of the state concerned, "an unlikely outcome particularly given that those areas that want to secede represent a declining population, so they have very little power within the state legislatures."
Even if that hurdle was cleared, secession would still have to be approved by the US Congress, Shafroth added.
Back at the town hall meeting in Cumberland, Todd Arbogast, a 42-year-old analyst, said secession was still worth pursuing.
"Annapolis ignores us," he said.
Brandon Juhcish, 30, described his feelings as "a little bit skeptical," while Josh Frick, 42, a gun shop employee, leaned in favor of the idea.
"Most of these counties are more rural," Frick said.
"They have different priorities. The environment is different. How they see themselves as individuals is different. What they expect from the government is different." http://news.yahoo.com/rural-america-secessionist-sentiment-stirs-050913017.html
The Complete List (Well, Almost) of Obama's Scandals, Misdeeds, Crimes and Blunders...
December 07, 2013
John MacHaffie
InvestmentWatchBlog
• $6 trillion in new national debt under Obama...after he promised to decrease the deficit.
• Obamacare — A massive and incredibly convoluted bill which exponentially increases the federal government's control over our personal lives...which neither Obama nor a single Democrat even read before passing, and which will likely bankrupt the nation.
• In both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the Obama campaign purposely disabled the credit card verification system for its Web site donations, allowing anyone from any foreign country to donate with no limit and no proof of identity; in both elections it was demonstrated that people overseas and people with obviously false identities were able to donate to Obama campaign, in direct violation of several laws. To this day it is not known what percentage of Obama's campaign funds are illegally obtained, since there is no documentation.
• Billions of taxpayer dollars gambled on "green" companies like Solyndra, NextEra, Ener1, Solar Trust and many others — all of which went bankrupt.
• An intentional refusal to enforce federal immigration laws.
• Unemployment at or above 8% for almost his entire term in office (which was actually closer to 15% actual unemployment).
• Operation Fast & Furious — a government-sponsored illegal gun-running scheme designed to purposely go awry so as to induce public outcry for gun control.
• Spent 20 years listening to a racist anti-American pastor (Rev. Jeremiah Wright), whom Obama described as a mentor. On March 18, 2008, Obama gave a speech in which he said "I could no more disown Jeremiah Wright than I could disown my own grandmother" and "[Wright's church, Trinity United] embodies the black community in its entirety." Now Obama tries to pretend that Jeremiah Wright doesn't exist, and that his extremist anti-white philosophy didn't influence Obama's worldview.
• Increased the percentage of Americans dependent on food stamps to unprecedented levels (now over 15% of the nation's population).
• Militarily intervened in Libya in 2011 without the Congressional approval required by the War Powers Act — technically an impeachable offense.
• Before he entered politics, Obama worked as a lawyer suing banks in landmark cases, forcing them to give home loans to unqualified minority borrowers — a practice now understood as one of the primary initial causes of the eventual housing bubble and market collapse.
• Handed out over 1,200 waivers to politically connected donors exempting them from the onerous requirements of Obamacare.
• Greatly expanding the number of unaccountable "czars," which essentially amounts to unilaterally adding new federal departments with no congressional oversight — leading to a true "bureaucracy" in the original sense (rule by unelected bureaucrats).
• Using taxpayer dollars to bail out the private pension funds of autoworkers' unions at GM & Chrysler.
• Illegally ending the welfare-to-work requirements passed by Congress.
• Doling out $800 billion in stimulus cash for "shovel-ready" jobs that didn't exist — the money just evaporated with no measurable economic benefit.
• Alienating and isolating Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East.
• Apologizing to Islamists and terrorists for offending them.
• Under Obama's watch, for the first time in history America's credit rating was downgraded, due to his poor economic policies.
• Stopped American oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, allowing other nations with worse environmental records to drill instead — thereby managing to both weaken our economy and damage the environment simultaneously.
• Proposed in 2008 to intentionally bankrupt the coal industry — and now lies to voters and workers in coal-producing regions about his true intent.
• Pretends to be concerned about skyrocketing energy prices, when in fact he vowed to increase them on purpose (so as to make alternative energy schemes more competitive.)
• In a primary debate against Hillary Clinton in 2008, Obama said he would never force people to buy health insurance, since those without it couldn't afford to buy it. Less than two years later, he rammed through Obamacare, which does indeed force people to buy health insurance.
• During the 2008 campaign, Obama repeatedly promised that if he was elected "No family making less than $250,000 will see any form of tax increase." This promise was broken over and over again once he was elected.
• In 2008 Obama vowed if elected to increase security along the U.S.-Mexican border — and then in 2010 stopped construction of a "virtual fence" on the border and re-routed money earmarked for border security to other projects.
• Cash for Clunkers, which doled out taxpayer money to anyone who wanted to replace their old cars, but which mostly only ended up subsidizing the puchase of foreign-made cars by people who could have afforded them on their own anyway; meanwhile, the traded-in cars were all destroyed, creating a shortage and thereby increasing the cost of used cars, hurting the pocketbooks of poor people.
• Violated the U.S. Constitution by authorizing assassinations and drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad — without due process.
• Was caught on a "hot mike" promising the President of Russia that he would cave in to their demands for a weaker missile shield — after he was re-elected and no longer had to keep up the pretense that he sought to defend America.
• Appointed Van Jones, a former avowed communist who supported a "9/11 Truth" petition, to be "Green Jobs Czar."
• Appointed Anita Dunn, who said Chairman Mao was her "favorite philosopher," to be White House Communications Director.
• Appointed John Holdren, who perviously entertained the notion of forced mass sterilzation to stop overpopulation, to be Science Czar.
• Appointed Steven Chu, who openly advocated an artificial increase in gasoline prices to $10/gallon (and similar increases in other energy prices) to be Secretary of Energy.
• Appointed Kevin Jennings, who led a group that promoted X-rated "sex-positive" textbooks for 13-year-olds, instructed teenagers at a conference how to perform "fisting" (anal penetration by fists), who refused to report instances of statutory rape, and who expressed admiration for a member of NAMBLA, to be America's "Safe School's Czar."
• When states voted to enforce the federal immigration laws which the federal government refused to enforced, Obama sued to stop them.
• Blocked continued construction of the Keystone Pipeline, thereby intentionally reducing energy resources for the US and forcing Canada to sell more of its oil to China.
• Repeatedly changed his position on gay marriage over the years, depending on what was politically expedient at the moment and which intended audience he was addressing.
• Before he was president, Obama staunchly opposed raising the national debt limit — but once elected, he insisted that it be raised.
• When giving a 2009 speech in France that he must have assumed Americans would never hear, he described the United States as "arrogant" and "dismissive" (while also criticizing Europe elsewhere in the speech).
• When states tried to stop election fraud with voter ID laws, Obama sued to prevent them from doing so.
• Instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to stonewall any investigation into the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers.
• Promised in 2008 that once elected he would officially recognize the Armenian Genocide; but to this date he has still failed to do so, caving in to threats and pressure from Turkey.
• Vowed to end the influence of lobbyists in Washington, but under Obama's watch their influence has only increased.
• When he was first running for President, Obama promised, "I will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days." Needless to say, he has broken that promise with almost every bill he has signed since.
• Aided and abetted the "Arab Spring" which deposed existing secular governments across North Africa, leading to a regional power vacuum which was filled by Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other hardline Islamists.
• Refused to provide assistance or support the the earlier secular Iranian democracy uprising, allowing them to be crushed by the Islamic fundamentalist Iranian regime.
• In his first months in office, Obama bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, the president of China, the Emperor of Japan, and President of Mexico, among others.
• Ordered NASA to make one of its top priorities not space exploration or scientific research but "Muslim outreach."
• Used Obamacare as a pretext to greatly increase the size and power of the IRS (which was given 16,000 new agents and additional mandates to penalize taxpayers for noncompliance).
• Used the IRS to harass conservative businesses.
• In the GM bailout, he illegally shortchanged investors who according to bankruptcy laws were first in line to be recompensed; instead, he gave their share to the unions.
• Shut down oil drilling in the US, but then turned around and lent $2 billion to Brazil to support their government-controlled oil-drilling effort — and then promised the US would become one of Brazil's biggest oil customers.
• Sued Boeing in an effort to control where businesses could locate, kowtow to the unions, and block the creation of 1,000 jobs in South Carolina, a right-to-work (i.e. no forced unionization) state.
• Adopted a longstanding Socialist political slogan, "Forward!", as his 2012 campaign motto.
• Sent insulting form letters to the familes of dead SEALs.
• Neither disavowed nor distanced himself from anti-Romney campaign ads which threatened or implied violence against Republicans.
• Shortly after the recent eruption of anti-American violence in North Africa, Obama went to Las Vegas to do his debate preparation in a hotel...with a romanticized North Africa theme.
• Said in an interview that the Muslim call to prayer was "one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset."
• Union boss and far-left activist Andy Stern has visitied Obama in the White House at least 53 times, at last count — greater access than any other private citizen.
• Hosted at the White House many Islamist members of groups associated with Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, etc.
• Sponsored performances by and attended fundraisers with radical rappers like Michael Franti and Common, both of whose lyrics have in some cases been anti-police, anti-white, and anti-America.
• Hired Timothy Geithner, who is documented as cheating on his own personal taxes, to be Secretary of the Treasury.
• Told Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbacher that it was good to "spread the wealth around."
• Told small business owners nationwide in a 2012 speech that "you didn't build that" — implying that they should not claim credit for their own success, since taxpayers (i.e. themselves and other business owners) had funded the national infrastructure.
• Insulted the British people by rudely returning to them a bust of Churchill which previously had been a ceremonial gift on display at the White House; when later confronted on this inexplicable action, he lied about it.
• Canceled plans to complete a missile defense shield in Poland, a move which was highly praised by Russia — the very nation whose missile threat would have been neutralized if the shield had been completed.
• By loudly publicizing (for personal political gain) the identity of exact SEAL teams who had killed Osama bin Laden, Obama made them a target for reprisals by Islamists; a short time later 22 SEALS were shot down and killed in Afghanistan, their worst loss of life ever.
• Established an extra-Constitutional top secret "kill list" of people (including Americans) Obama claims the right to kill on sight, and then bragged about it publicly.
• Set up a special email account, "Flag@Whitehouse.gov," to which Americans were supposed to inform the government of anyone they heard spreading "disinformation" about Obama's health care overhaul. (This was the first of three different "spy on your friends and neighbors" programs.)
• "Attack Watch" was Obama's second Big Brother attempt, a Web site on which you would report "attacks" on Obama's proposals and ideology; it was quickly shut down due to outrage and mockery.
• Finally, Obama set up the "Truth Team" program which encouraged citizens to report to the government any friends or relatives they hear repeating "lies" about Obama. The Truth Team site still exists.
• Twisted the arms of defense contractors to not issue layoff notices in early November, so as to avoid causing bad news for Obama right before the election — even though federal law (the "WARN Act") requires such notices.
• After the attacks on American interests in North Africa on September 11, 2012, Obama gave a speech to the U.N. and declared "The future must not belong to those who slander The Prophet of Islam" — transferring the blame from the attackers onto the makers of a film trailer that supposedly "offended" the Islamists.
• Repeatedly snubbed and got into public tiffs with Benjamin Netanyahu, who as the leader of Israel is supposed to be Obama's closest colleague in international affairs.
• On May 19, 2011, Obama told Israel they must return to the 1967 borders as a pre-condition for continuing talks with the Palestinians — even though the status of the borders was the main issue the talks were supposed to address.
• Encouraged politically biased hiring practices in the Justice Department.
• Soon after taking office, Obama rescinded the "Mexico City Policy," which previously had banned NGOs which are supported by American taxpayer funds from using those funds to perform abortions in foreign countries.
• Attempted to force returning veterans to pay huge increases for their health coverage...as a way to generate more funding for his Obamacare provisions.
• In June of 2011, he anointed his own underage daughters as "senior staff members" so that their vacation to Africa would be paid for with taxpayer money.
• Interviews with high school classmates revealed that Obama was a heavy and frequent user of marijuana in his teenage years (not to mention his self-admitted cocaine use in college).
• Played over 100 rounds of golf during his first three years in office, meaning that he was on the links close to 10% of the days he has been president.
• Voted to allow post-birth abortions (i.e. facilitating the deaths of babies who survive late-term abortions) not just once but three times in a row as an Illinois state senator.
• The pastor whom Obama selected to give the national benediction at his 2009 inauguration recently declared that "all white people are going to Hell."
• Sided with Hugo Chavez and the Castro regime regarding the Honduran Constitutional Crisis of 2009, the first time ever that the U.S. formed a political alliance with socialist governments in Latin America.
• Obama Administration OKed the nomination of Chas Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council (which coordinates intelligence reports from all government agencies), despite the fact that he was openly hostile to Israel and strongly favored Arabist goals. (He later withdrew under pressure.)
• Chinese pianist Lang Lang played an offensively anti-American song at a 2011 White House dinner where Obama hosted Chinese president Hu Jintao, to the delight and amazement of the communist Chinese visitors, while Obama just sat there and smiled (the song's Chinese lyrics describe Americans as "warmongering jackals").
• There was a great deal of (still unverified) suspicion that the company LightSquared received favorable treatment from the Obama administration for approval of its broadband technology which interfered with the GPS system; an Air Force general claimed he was pressured by the Obama administration to downplay his criticism of LightSquared's technology in sworn testimony.
• Obama's Department of Energy awarded $529 million to Fisker Automotive to build their Karma hybrid electric cars — even though they are manufactured in Finland, cost over $100,000 each, and tend to explode.
• When Inspector General Gerald Walpin discovered during a 2009 investigation that one of Obama's political allies (the mayor of Sacramento) was misusing government funds for personal gain, Obama unceremoniously fired Walpin — even though rooting out fraud was the job description of the Inspector General.
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Good Show: "GQ" Ranks Barack Obama As #17 on
"The 25 Least Influential People of 2013″
List, Calls President "Very Eloquent Hat Stand"
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Premier American monthly men's fashion/style/culture liberal magazine "GQ" (formerly called "Gentlemen's Quarterly") has put Pres. Barack Obama on a years-end list. A list for 2013 of the most NON-INFLUENTIAL men and women in the limelight.
Barry O ranks Number 17. Which is a better ranking than the magazine gave to pop-shock vanity queen Lady Gaga or to cicadas (which *ahem* aren't people, but one would hope "GQ" writers bloody well know that and were going for wry, surreal humor and not chuckleheaded, wasted-stoner idiocy). The president's ranking was NOT as good as that given to cold-blooded murderer Jodi Arias.
This is the third installment of the left-leaning magazine's "you annoy us rather than influence us" list, which makes a valiant attempt to kinda-sorta balance the conservative vs. liberal jeers and jabs.
Surprisingly, FLOTUS Michelle Obama ranked Number 7 on last year's list. With an unflattering caricature of the First Lady/Nanny State Food Police Commander to boot:
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The Legal Limit: The Obama Administration's Attempts to Expand Federal Power
Report No. 2: Obamacare
http://www.scribd.com/doc/190442365/The-Legal-Limit-The-Obama-Administration-s-Attempts-to-Expand-Federal-Power-Report-No-2-Obamacare
Mike Huckabee
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that schools in the US were performing below those in Vietnam, Lithuania, Russia, and Hungary; that our 15 year olds haven't seen improvement in over a decade compared to other nations. For those who think I embrace Common Core, I don't embrace or even want to tolerate what it's come to mean in too many locations. Yes, it's been hijacked, and I don't support the hijackers or the destination, but I don't blame the airplane for getting hijacked. I just hope we aren't willing to accept mediocrity as a standard. Let's kill the name Common Core and all the nonsense that's been tacked on to it. But let's insist that if we continue to spend the most money in education we demand that the end result is achievement. Every Governor should take the wheel and steer his or her state to adopting strict and rigorous standards. Keep it simple; name it what you will. Don't let anyone corrupt the goals by adding things not part of the goals. Common Core is dead. But common sense shouldn't be.
Obama's Back Dated & Forged Selective Service Form
Hits Washington Times in Full Page Ad
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Someone has finally decided to put out Barack Obama's forged documents in a mainstream paper. On Monday, CDR Charles Kerchner (Retired) took out a full page ad in the Washington Times to make people aware of the fraudulent documents of Barack Hussein Obama, specifically his back dated and forged selective service form.
Kerchner's ad appeared on page 5 of the Washington Times National Weekly and included a large copy of Barack Obama's Selective Service form, along with various URLs to other pertinent information on the various forgeries of Obama's documents.
If you thought Kerchner was done with only one ad dealing with Obama's Selective Service form, you would be mistaken. He also dealt with John Boehner.
Kerchner blasted House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who apparently has taken a similar stand to that of Markwayne Mullins, who said he believes that Obama's birth certificate is a fraud, but doesn't "give a sh*t."
Mr. Kerchner wrote: To House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner – We the People Have Been Repeatedly Asked You To Act: Are you living up to your oath to support and defend the Constitution from domestic enemies? Are you doing your job as the leader of the People's House and protecting We the People from a fraud in the White House? It is time for you to launch congressional investigations into Obama's forged ID documents or at least get out of the way and stopping blocking those in Congress who wish to do that. You've office was been given a Sheriff's Kit by Mike Volin and his team during their visit to Washington DC last week which presents the evidence compiled from a two year investigation by the Sheriff's Department of Maricopa County AZ (which includes Phoenix). The evidence proves federal felony document crimes have been committed! Speaker Boehner, are you living up to your solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution from domestic enemies? Are you the leader of the People's House and protecting We the People from a national fraud being perpetrated on the nation? It is time for you to do your duty and launch a Select Committee to publicly in open hearing in Congress investigate the ongoing fraud and the crimes being perpetrated by Barack Obama. If you will not do that, then step down and get out of the way. We the People demand it!Another full page ad appeared in the Times in which a "Dear John" letter was written, calling him out for his silence.
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Kerchner included links in his ad to Arizona Chief Investigator Michael Zullo's sworn affidavit, attesting to the fact that Obama's documents have been forged, as well as documentation provided by Debbie Schlussel, which Obama's Selective Service registration is a fraud.
The pressure continues to build. However, don't expect establishment Republicans to get on board. After all, they this is really no big deal for them, and they are ready to roll over in bed with the Democrats as they have already demonstrated. However, there is hope that some Tea Party representatives, like Steve Stockman, who do believe there is validity to the information and want to see a serious inquiry for the public's best interest, will act. Stockman even passed out copies of Articles of Impeachment to every House member earlier this year.
Contact your representative or senator today and let them know you want this issue investigated and resolved, including impeachment and removal from office of Barack Hussein Obama if necessary.
Kerchner included links in his ad to Arizona Chief Investigator Michael Zullo's sworn affidavit, attesting to the fact that Obama's documents have been forged, as well as documentation provided by Debbie Schlussel, which Obama's Selective Service registration is a fraud.
The pressure continues to build. However, don't expect establishment Republicans to get on board. After all, they this is really no big deal for them, and they are ready to roll over in bed with the Democrats as they have already demonstrated. However, there is hope that some Tea Party representatives, like Steve Stockman, who do believe there is validity to the information and want to see a serious inquiry for the public's best interest, will act. Stockman even passed out copies of Articles of Impeachment to every House member earlier this year.
Contact your representative or senator today and let them know you want this issue investigated and resolved, including impeachment and removal from office of Barack Hussein Obama if necessary.Kerchner included links in his ad to Arizona Chief Investigator Michael Zullo's sworn affidavit, attesting to the fact that Obama's documents have been forged, as well as documentation provided by Debbie Schlussel, which Obama's Selective Service registration is a fraud.
The pressure continues to build. However, don't expect establishment Republicans to get on board. After all, they this is really no big deal for them, and they are ready to roll over in bed with the Democrats as they have already demonstrated. However, there is hope that some Tea Party representatives, like Steve Stockman, who do believe there is validity to the information and want to see a serious inquiry for the public's best interest, will act. Stockman even passed out copies of Articles of Impeachment to every House member earlier this year.
Newsflash to Politicians: You Work for the People – Not a Political Party!
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I understand that this might be a new concept for our elected officials, but what part of "We the people" do they not get? In 2009 a Gallup poll said that 80% of people were satisfied their healthcare and 60% were satisfied with their insurance. Despite all of those numbers, democrats decided to overhaul our healthcare system. This was done strictly along political and party lines and even though the American people told these democrats politicians in town hall meetings to "LEAVE OUR HEALTH CARE ALONE!" Nobody listened, and in spite of all the negative responses from the American people, the Affordable Care Act was passed. Not one single Republican voted for it. Obviously, they heard the people when they said "No" to Obamacare.
What part of the term "Public Servant" do Democrats not comprehend? It should have been very simple to understand that a majority of Americans did not want some idiot politician messing around with their health care. However, during the last 5 years we have had a complete and utter breakdown in communication between the "public" and the "public servants." It's like we're all speaking different languages. And to add insult to injury, we were lied to, not once, not twice, but dozens of times about this whole sorted mess. Maybe I'm the one that doesn't get it, but I thought that if politicians wanted my vote, they're supposed to kiss my butt, not the other way around. Now we are being told to "lean forward," bend over and grab our ankles and just take it, because they know what's best for us. I'm sorry, but that doesn't work for me...not at all!
Since the election of the "Anointed One" five years ago, 9 trillion (that's Trillion with a capital "T") of our tax dollars have been thrown down into a bottomless pit and there has been Z-E-R-O accountability as to where it all went. Major American cities, as well as several states, are either
bankrupt or are on the verge of bankruptcy. Yet, the Democrats have the stones to tell us we need to pony-up more money to fix the same problems that we have already spent hundreds of billions of tax dollars on to fix something that we supposedly have already fixed?
Anyone else getting a headache with that kind of logic?
I'm not a math wizard or a rocket scientist, but I know that our healthcare system prior to Obamacare worked. It wasn't perfect, but it worked. Now these same idiots that didn't listen to us in the first place are trying to tell us that the "new" system (which never worked in the first place) that costs more money and offers us less choices is "better"?
OK, well I guess it's time to send a message to these idiots in terms that they will understand; in the voting booth.
Politicians are supposed to work for their constituents (people like you and me) and they are not employed by any political party, we sign their paychecks and we can also send out pink slips too. We sure as heck did not need our healthcare system overhauled, but our political system sure could use one, right?
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Obamacare Will Be Repealed Well In Advance Of The 2014 Elections
11/11/2013 Forbes
Prediction: even if HealthCare.gov is fixed by the end of the month (unlikely), Obamacare is going to be repealed well in advance of next year's election. And if the website continues to fail, the push for repeal—from endangered Democrats—will occur very rapidly. The website is a sideshow: the real action is the number of people and businesses who are losing their health plans or having to pay a lot more. Fixing the website will only delay the inevitable.
It is important to remember why it was so important for Obama to promise repeatedly that "if you like your health insurance/doctor, you can keep your health insurance/doctor." Cast your mind back to the ignominious collapse of Hillarycare in 1994. Hillarycare came out of the box in September 1993 to high public support according to the early polls. This was not a surprise. Opinion polls for decades have shown a large majority of Americans support the general idea of universal health coverage. But Hillarycare came apart as the bureaucratic details came out, the most important one being that you couldn't be sure you'd be able to keep your doctors or select specialists of your choice. The Clintons refused to consider a compromise, but even with large Democratic Senate and House majorities the bill was so dead it was never brought up for a vote.
Ronald Reagan Predicted The Obamacare Disaster Back In 1961 Steven HaywardContributor
The Obamacare Rollout Debacle Is A Hayekian 'Teaching Moment' Capital FlowsContributor
What The Tea Party Needs Now Is Its Own Abraham Lincoln Steven HaywardContributor
James Madison Would Know Who Today's Extremists Are, And They're Not The Tea Party Capital FlowsContributor
Remember "Harry and Louise"? Obama did, which is why he portrayed Obamacare as simply expanding coverage to the uninsured, and improving coverage for the underinsured while leaving the already insured undisturbed. But the redistributive arithmetic of Obamacare's architecture could never add up, which is what the bureaucrats knew early on—as early as 2010 according to many documents that have leaked. The wonder is that Obama's political team didn't see this coming and prepare a pre-emptive strategy for dealing with the inevitable exposure of the duplicity at the heart of Obamacare's logic. Now that people are losing their insurance and finding that they may not be able to keep their doctor after all, Obamacare has become the domestic policy equivalent of the Iraq War: a protracted fiasco that is proving fatal to a president's credibility and approval rating. The only thing missing is calling in FEMA to help fix this Category-5 political disaster.
Senate Democrats endangered for re-election will lead the charge for repeal perhaps as soon as January, after they get an earful over the Christmas break. They'll call it "reform," and clothe it in calls for delaying the individual mandate and allowing people and businesses to keep their existing health insurance policies. But it is probably too late to go back in many cases. With the political damage guaranteed to continue, the momentum toward repeal will be unstoppable. Democrats will not want to face the voters next November with the albatross of Obamacare.
The politics of the repeal effort will be a game theorist's dream. Tea Party Republicans will resist "reforms" to Obamacare in favor of complete repeal. Democrats will try to turn the tables and set up Republicans as obstacles to reform, hoping to inoculate themselves prospectively from mayhem at the polls next November. The House might want to insist that the Senate go first; after all, it was the Senate version of the bill that the House had to swallow after Scott Brown's election in January 2010. The House can rightly insist that the Senate needs to clean up the mess they made. Obama may well give Capitol Hill Democrats a pass on a repeal vote, and veto any bill that emerges. He'll never face the voters again.
This wouldn't be the first time that a health care entitlement was repealed. The same thing happened in the late 1980s with catastrophic coverage for seniors. Because seniors were made to pay for their benefits under that scheme, the uproar forced Congress to repeal the measure barely a year after it went into effect. Obamacare looks to be on the same political trajectory, and for the same reason. Obamacare represents the crisis of big government; the limits of administrative government have finally been breached. For the first time ever, some polls are showing a majority of Americans doubting the goal of universal health coverage.
The hazard of the moment is that a compromise "reform" that drops the mandate and attempts to restore the insurance status quo ante could leave us with an unfunded expansion of Medicaid and a badly disrupted private insurance market. Republicans should avoid both the political traps and a new fiscal time bomb by being ready with a serious replacement policy, based on the premium support tax credit ideas that John McCain advocated (poorly) in 2008. While anxious liberals are in dismay, they should recognize that Obamacare may well have achieved its chief purpose of making universal or at least greatly expanded health coverage a fixture of American social policy. The cost to liberalism may prove fatal, however.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenhayward/2013/11/11/obamacare-will-be-repealed-well-in-advance-of-the-2014-elections/
Are you a Democrat, Republican, or Southerner?
Here is a little test that will help you decide...
You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children.
Suddenly, an Islamic terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner,
locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife,
and charges at you. You are carrying a Kimber 1911 .45 Cal ACP, and you
are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family.
What do you do?
Democrat's Answer:
Well, that's not enough information for me to answer the question!
Does the man look poor or oppressed?
Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack?
Could we run away?
What does my wife think?
What about the kids?
Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand?
What does the law say about this situation?
Does the gun have appropriate safety built into it?
Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, I'm a Democrat, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children?
Is it possible he'd be happy with just killing me?
Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me?
If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me?
Should I call 9-1-1?
Why is this street so deserted?
We need to raise taxes, have paint and weed day and make this a happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior.
This is all so confusing! I need to debate this with some friends for a few days and try to come to a consensus.
Republican's Answer:
BANG!
Southerner's Answer:
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Click..... (Sounds of reloading)
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Click
Daughter: "Nice grouping, Daddy! Were those the Winchester Silver Tips or Hollow Points?"
Son: "Can I shoot the next one!"
Wife: "You ain't taking that to the Taxidermist!
I love it Warph. Great post.
15 Reasons Why Barack Obama Is the Greatest President In American History!
1) He's sending weapons to Libya to help repair America's strained relationship with Al-Qaeda.
2) Parents all across the country can now point to Barack Obama's performance when they're explaining to their children why they shouldn't use drugs.
3) He won the Nobel Peace Prize. Hello!
4) Thanks to healthcare.gov, "New Coke" no longer has to bear the shame of being the worst product roll-out in American history.
5) Because of Obama, 91 million people without jobs now have plenty of time to spend with their family.
6) He extended childhood all the way up to 26 by allowing "children" to stay on their parents insurance until then.
7) He's kept goofy Uncle Joe Biden from becoming President for five long years.
8 ) No President in American history has done more to further gun sales than Barack Obama.
9) Without Barack Obama, none of us would have ever heard the name Sandra Fluke and what a tragedy that would be!
10) He has already broken Bill Clinton's record for the most lies told in one presidency with three years left to go in office.
11) When the SEALS asked for permission to kill Bin Laden, he didn't insist that they merely give Osama a good talking to instead.
12) He has worked tirelessly to know the American people better through invasive TSA searches, reading their emails, and listening in on their phone calls.
13) He's living proof that even a pothead who thinks there are 57 states can still live the American dream.
14) Because of Obama's economic policies, more Americans than ever have gotten to experience the sweet, sweet joy of funemployment!
15) Obama's policies are so bad that even real racists have stopped hating him for being black and hate him for his failed policies.
Chris Matthews: Conservatives As Bad as Kim Jung Un Executing His Uncle
December 14, 2013, 4:37 PM
(Tingles is one sick puppy)
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un arrested and executed his Uncle Chang Song-thaek this week for "acts of treachory."
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Chris Matthews says conservatives are as bad as dictator Kim Jon Un executing his uncle.
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Antiwar Activist John Kerry Returns to Vietnam, As US Secretary of State
December 14, 2013, 1:58 PM
From Dishonest Antiwar Activist to Dishonest US Secretary of State
Back in 1971 John F. Kerry made a name for himself when he went before Congress and lied about his army brethren. Kerry accused fellow US soldiers and Marines of numerous war crimes.
It was all a lie.
Here is what Kerry said about his fellow soldiers back in 1971:
"They had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."
Today John Kerry returned to Vietnam.
The AP reported:
John Kerry first set foot in Vietnam 44 years ago, a young U.S. Navy officer fighting in a war that would come to profoundly influence his political career and foreign policy thinking.
He returned again Saturday, this time as America's top diplomat, offering security assurances and working to promote democratic and economic reforms in the communist country.
In his 14th trip to the Southeast Asian nation since the war's end, the U.S. secretary of state was trying to bolster the remarkable rapprochement that he had encouraged and helped to engineer as a senator in the 1990s.
"I can't think of two countries that have worked harder, done more and done better to try to bring themselves together and change history, to change the future, to provide a future for people that is very, very different," Kerry told a group of businesspeople, students and others at the U.S. Consulate's American Center in Ho Chi Minh City.
How did this far left clown every become senator?,,, let alone Secretary of State?
China Bans Seafood from Western US
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China has banned all shellfish imports from the western United States as the situation from Fukushima becomes worse each day.
The ban includes Alaska, Oregon, Washington and Northern California all of which are receiving quite a lot of radiation now.
This will have a huge impact on the economy in months to come as China imported half a billion dollars worth of products from the USA.
A navy subcontractor released information about the bad contamination of Treasure Island in San Francisco, a naval installation. I would link the article but it was scrubbed from the internet very quickly because of the information it contained.
Many families are living on Treasure Island and need to be removed for their health sake.
And the Pacific continues to die.
"By July 1, more than 98 percent of it (seafloor 145 miles west of the coast of California between Santa Barbara and Monterey) was covered in the decomposing organisms, according to the study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
More information here: http://nwpr.org/post/china-closes-doors-all-west-coast-shellfish-imports
When mankind puts money ahead of concern for his fellow man tragedy results. [...](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MmBGZF8g30s/Uo1BCQVHWnI/AAAAAAAAReg/ihO4ItP3Omc/s1600/nukes.png)
About 70% of Japan is contaminated with radiation from Fukushima. 20% of that is extremely toxic radiation and includes Tokyo.
This contamination will last for at least 300 years and according to some opinions many times that.
Health professionals are worried about "catastrophic" effects on Japanese health as well they should be.
Main stream media continues ignoring this. They are invulnerable after all.
They are addicted to the worship of science that solves 'all as well'.
Those who said the radiated wave would not hit hard in California were also wrong. It has not decreased in power or radiation.
More trouble is still to come and the star fish are dying along the Pacific coast of the USA at an ever increasing rate.
The Pacific Ocean is dying.
Japan is dying. Mitsuhiko Tanaka, a former Fukushima Daiichi engineer,says the current state of the nuclear plant is
"hopeless." Unit 4 is leaking plutonium. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fukushima-s-crippled-reactors-the-risky-plan-to-move-fuel-rods-1.2431190
The President of Tepco, Tokyo Electric Power Company, told British nuclear experts to be prepared 'for the worst' and that the meltdown is a "warning to the world" that nuclear power is not safe.
The mentally disabled and homeless are now the people working to try to contain and clean up Fukushima. Ugly, but, that is what is happening.
As technological advances make the world believe it is smart, character and morality are sinking into the mire and slime.
Meanwhile
thousands of Japanese are protesting a new 'secrets' law that will stifle and stop any news or new revelation about the condition of the Fukushima plant.
It is very hard to watch the constantly sinking state of the world today.
[...]The meltdown at Fukushima is now a
mere 12 inches from entering the earth after melting through the
concrete that was supposed to containing it.
It also seems that water has no effect in stopping a meltdown as the experts hoped it would. As a matter of fact all the containment attempts have failed including the shielding called fuel barrier cladding which failed 2 hours after the accident. At 13 hours the reactor vessel failed and at 7 days out the dry box containment shell melted through. Now the concrete is melting.
What this all shows is that nuclear power is completely uncontrollable and absolutely deadly. If a novel new fix is not discovered, this will be an ongoing problem for the next
10,000 years or more.
Officials are hoping it will not eat through any farther but as it was not supposed to melt through at all that seems like a ridiculous hope.
It is now too late to cover the entire area with concrete. Things have gone too far.
Cancer clusters are now emerging in Japan and though some doctors say it is too early to blame Fukushima, that too seems ridiculous.
From Hannah Spector,PhD, Penn State concerning the ongoing Fukushima emergency:
"...science still does not have the technological or methodological understanding to clean up the disaster which has leaked into the Pacific Ocean and spread throughout the northern hemisphere by way of wind and rain. This invisible truth is so incomprehensible that it is easier to pretend it doesn't exist."
Read Dr. Spector's award winning piece here:
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/tci/article/view/183609
Here we see the new definition of 'Classless Society' as three world leaders photograph their goofy selves at a man's memorial service.
No class, no manners, no sense of decency at all. This is the new classless society.
Mrs. Obama is having no part in it and in other photos looks decidedly annoyed by the goof-bag teeny boppers sitting near her.
And a good time was had by all........
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Little Davy Cameron, Choom Ganger Barry Obama, Air headed
blonde Danish Helle Thorning-Schmidt Three Goofy World Leaders
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Mrs. O seems none to happy with the hands on friendship going on in the seats next to her.
Kids, what are you gonna do with them? Mrs. O needs to leave them home next time she comes to adult functions.
Gingrich Schools Robert Reich On 'Income Inequality':
"Every Major City Which Is A Poverty Center Is Run By Democrats"
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Insurance Companies Say White House Overstating Obamacare Fixes
(Try and contain your shock and amazement)
WASHINGTON (NYT) — http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/us/enrollment-errors-cut-officials-say-fixes-are-overstated-insurers-report.html?hp&_r=2&
The Obama administration said Saturday that it had
reduced the error rate in enrollment data sent to insurance companies under the new health care law, even as insurers said that the government's records were still riddled with mistakes.
The quality of the data is important; it could affect the ability of people to get medical care and prescription drugs when they go to doctors' offices and pharmacies starting next month.
More than 137,000 people selected health plans in the federal insurance marketplace in October and November, and administration officials say more than 100,000 signed up in the first week of this month.
For each person who signs up, the government is supposed to send information electronically to an insurance company in a standard format known as an 834 enrollment transaction. In some cases, consumers selected a health plan at the federal website, HealthCare.gov, but the government did not notify the insurance company. In other cases, insurers received duplicate files for the same person, files for one person were sent to an insurer in another state, or the "relationship code" was wrong so that, for example, a man's daughter was listed as his wife. [...]
Insurers said that they had found many discrepancies and errors and that the government was overstating the improvements in HealthCare.gov.In some instances, they said, the federal government reported that the home address for a new policyholder was outside an insurer's service area. In other cases, a child was listed as the main subscriber — the person responsible for paying premiums — and parents were listed as dependents.
In some cases, children were enrolled in a policy by the federal government and parents were left off, or vice versa. In other cases, the government mixed up the members of a family: A child or spouse was listed two or three times in the same application in late November. Such errors can have financial implications, increasing the amount of premiums that a family is required to pay.
While some of the problems were discovered in the last few days, insurers said that they had previously reported many of the errors to the "help desk" at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and that the problems remained unresolved.
Obumas Off To Hawaii For 17 Day Trip Later This Week
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(Hey, it may only cost us a million or two or three or four)
Via Daily Mail:President Obama and his family are expected to leave Washington later this week for a 17-day vacation in Hawaii.
This will be the First Family's sixth Christmas in Hawaii since he was elected president, and in keeping with tradition they are expected to spend it on the island of Kailua.
The White House announced on Friday that the Obamas will depart next week after what is expected to be a light work schedule for the president in Washington.
The president and his family traditionally spend their Christmas break in a rented private beach front residence with spectacular ocean views.
The Obama's covers the cost of the accommodation that typically costs up to $3,500 a day, or $75,000 a month, but local and federal taxpayers help pay their travel and security bill which costs in the region of $1 million.
From Life To Eternal Life ... Peter O'Toole 1932-2013 Legendary actor Peter O'Toole died today. He was 81.
Read more at : http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/15/peter-o-toole-dies-lawrence-arabia
In honor of Peter O'Toole, here is Lawrence of Arabia, full, uncut and unedited.Part #1Part #2
Before I adopted my son he had been labeled with ADHD and attachment disorder and far to many other things to list here by a foster mother through Child Protective Services in Washington, State. When I adopted him all were dropped except ADHD. The purpose of all the labels, was so the foster mother could collect more money from the state. As rinks were blowing soon as I realized the shrinks were blowing smoke at us, I fired all of them and removed the ADHD drugs from my sons life.
Sure, I was always concerned that I did the right thing. However thisi article confirms I did do the right thing.
Diagnosed With ADHD? You May Have Been Sold a Lie
Drug companies target parents through false advertising: report
By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff
Posted Dec 15, 2013 4:05 PM CST
(Newser) – The diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has itself become hyperactive, with doctors handing out too many pills, ads creating unrealistic expectations, and drug companies downplaying side effects like insomnia and mood swings, the New York Times reports. "The numbers make it look like an epidemic. Well, it's not. It's preposterous," said Keith Conners, a doctor who once led the charge to legitimize ADHD. "This is a concoction to justify the giving out of medication at unprecedented and unjustifiable levels." Among the Times' findings:
• Scientists estimate that real ADHD affects around 5% of children, but the CDC says that 15% of high schoolers have been diagnosed, and the number of children on ADHD drugs has risen from 600,000 in 1990 to 3.5 million today. So what's driving the diagnoses?
• Millions are spent on ads, some targeted directly at children or parents, saying that ADHD drugs like Adderall will improve performance in school and even inspire kids to take out the garbage. The FDA has repeatedly told drug companies to withdraw such ads, and one company, Shire, agreed this year to pay $57.5 million in fines for improper advertising and sales of drugs.
• Drug companies also target parents through sources that seem independent, like teachers and support groups. Two parents near Seattle put their child on Ritalin for 3 years because teachers—who had received materials from the drug company Ciba—pushed them into it. "I definitely felt seduced and enticed," said the father. "I'd say baited."
• You'll hear that ADHD is a lifelong condition, but at least some doctors who say so are on the Big Pharma payroll. And studies show that about half of ADHD kids don't have the disorder as adults. Meanwhile, drug companies are successfully targeting the adult ADHD market.
http://www.newser.com/story/179211/diagnosed-with-adhd-you-may-have-been-sold-a-lie.html
Analysis
Fukushima's crippled reactors: the risky plan to move fuel rods
World watching extremely delicate operation by TEPCO utility with checkered track record
By Craig Dale, CBC NewsPosted: Nov 19, 2013 1:22 PM ET|
The thousands of people who punch in every day at what is arguably the world's most dangerous workplace are accustomed to facing risks.
But now workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have embarked on their most precarious operation since the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns and explosions at the facility.
On Monday, select crews from Tokyo Electric Power Company began removing hundreds of radioactive fuel rods from a cooling pool inside a rickety reactor building, a job that is unprecedented in scale, and where one wrong move could have disastrous consequences.
Fuel rod quick facts
TEPCO engineers have a plan to remove more than 1,500 fuel rod assemblies from a pool in Daiichi nuclear site's reactor four building.
Six teams of six workers will operate a specially constructed crane to move the assemblies into containers. Each team can only work for two hours a day to minimize radiation exposure.
The assemblies are being raised at the speed of one centimetre per second to avoid any further damage.
The amount of radioactive cesium-137 in the pool holding the fuel rod assemblies is said to be the equivalent of roughly 14,000 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.
"It's a totally different operation than removing normal fuel rods from a spent fuel pool," Shunichi Tanaka, the chairman of Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority, said recently.
"They need to be handled extremely carefully and closely monitored. You should never rush or force them out, or they may break. I'm much more worried about this than I am about contaminated water."
TEPCO's checkered track record
But given that TEPCO has not exactly won over the Japanese public with its handling of the catastrophe, and that the amount of radioactive cesium-137 in the pool is said to be the equivalent of roughly 14,000 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs, this next step is turning into a crucial test for the beleaguered utility as much as it is an engineering challenge.
Few in Japan or abroad seem convinced that TEPCO can pull this off, given the company's checkered track record.
This is the same utility, they point out, that used false inspection reports years ago to cover up faults at Fukushima Daiichi; that dismissed warnings in 2008 that a monster tsunami could engulf the plant; that waited weeks to admit meltdowns even happened in March 2011, and that waited many months to acknowledge radioactive water is leaking into the Pacific Ocean.
TEPCO executives have also held back key information, and stumbled from problem to problem over the past 2½ years.
In fact, TEPCO has performed so poorly that a task force for Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is recommending it be split up so that the job of decommissioning the wrecked plant would be separated from the utility's power-generating role.
Managing risks
TEPCO workers are expected to spend the next 12 months removing fuel rods from reactor four, which was offline when Fukushima Daiichi was shaken by powerful tremors and swamped by towering waves.
In the subsequent hydrogen explosions and fires, debris rained down on the large pool that holds 1,533 fuel rod assemblies —1,331 used (and highly radioactive) and 202 unused. Another roughly 1,500 assemblies are held in the three other reactor buildings.
TEPCO spokesperson Tatsuhiro Yamagishi told CBC News that along with cesium-137 and cesium-134, the radioactive isotopes contained in the fuel include strontium-90, radium-226, uranium-235, and plutonium-239, which has a half-life of approximately 24,000 years.
Company officials recently revealed that 80 assemblies are damaged, 70 of them in reactor one building. They say holes and cracks in the assemblies could cause radioactive particles to leak out.
"We are managing different types of risks," he said. "We are evaluating each case right now."
John Froats, an associate professor and nuclear engineer in residence at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, says those risks can probably be dealt with if handled carefully.
Anti-nuclear activists around the world, like those here in Mubai, India, in October, have stepped up their campaigns following the meltdown of the Fukushima reactors two years ago. (Rafiq Maqbool / Associated Press)
"The Fukushima Daiichi plant evolution is no doubt complicated by the plant damage and debris," he said. "These complications can be managed by careful inspection to understand the state of systems and equipment and the fuel, and then by careful planning of the step-by-step tasks that need to be achieved."
Workers spent months shoring up the reactor four structure and its pool, fearing another strong quake could trigger a catastrophe. Then they removed larger pieces of debris and checked some fuel rod assemblies to make sure they weren't corroded by the seawater that was used to cool the pool in the early days of the crisis.
■Crippled Fukushima reactor to get ice wall
■Removal of fuel rods begins at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
Last year, they successfully removed two unused rod assemblies. This week they began using a specially constructed crane to slowly transfer the assemblies one-by-one into containers, which will be hoisted out of the pool and taken to another storage location on the Daiichi site. They've installed cameras in the murky waters to monitor the progress and check for debris.
In a corporate video on the TEPCO website, a deep-voiced narrator cheerfully runs through a simplified version of the process.
"Moving the spent fuel out of the damaged reactor building and into safe, permanent storage lays the groundwork for moving forward with cleanup and remediation of the damaged reactor building," the video says.
In the video, TEPCO also calls the removal of the fuel rod assemblies from the reactor four building "a milestone" in the recovery of Fukushima Daiichi.
The world is watching
Certainly, it's a key part of the decades-long decommissioning process now underway, and perhaps key to the company's survival.
But while utility managers have no choice but to show they're up to the task, the reality is they're tackling a challenge no one in their industry has faced before, and they will be carrying out the work knowing people around the world will be watching with critical eyes.
Among the critics is Mitsuhiko Tanaka, a science journalist and engineer who helped build part of reactor four at Fukushima Daiichi (and who later admitted to helping cover up a manufacturing flaw with the unit).
As he sees it, "TEPCO is a selling-electricity company, not an engineering company.
"It is quite apparent that TEPCO doesn't have enough ability to cope with the problems in progress now. That's why [it] has made a lot of mistakes."
Tanaka, who calls the current state of the nuclear plant "hopeless," says that while the utility has plenty of experience in normal fuel removal work, this job is different because of the possibility that some of the rod assemblies have been damaged.
And although TEPCO spokespersons insist their inspections and those by outside experts confirm the reinforcement of the reactor building has made it seismically sound, Tanaka maintains the structure is still vulnerable.
"I think it is very dangerous," he says. "Furthermore, this very difficult work is going to be done in an earthquake-prone country."
TEPCO was given permission in late summer to take on the removal of the fuel rods. But just before the operation began U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz visited the facility to offer American help.
"The success of the cleanup also has global significance," Moniz said. "We all have a direct interest in seeing that the next steps are taken well, efficiently and safely."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fukushima-s-crippled-reactors-the-risky-plan-to-move-fuel-rods-1.2431190
Fukushima Daiichi: a Never-Ending Story of Pain or Outrage?
Hannah Spector
Abstract
This article aims to contribute to scholarship on cosmopolitanism and education, with particular relevancy for environmental education. While much of current research in this area has underscored cosmopolitanism as a politico-philosophical project for global justice or a worldly sensibility that can be cultivated through literal and/or metaphoric travel to different lands, I argue that cosmopolitanism ought also to be understood in phenomenological-environmental terms. Drawing from Ulrich Beck's work on world risk society and Hannah Arendt's on responsibility, I examine the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a case of actually existing cosmopolitanism. When understood as a global risk (turned catastrophe), cosmopolitanism presents an urgent occasion to summons a "postnational ethics of responsibility" (Beck). Such an ethics centralizes the importance that story and metaphor play in planetary sustainability.
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/tci/article/view/183609
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster : One of the World's Worst-Ever Cases of Pollution. Professor Fumikazu Yoshida of Hokkaido University's Graduate School of Economics, Economic Journal of Hokkaido University, March 2013: The Fukushima nuclear disaster, however, has been responsible for the largest and worst case of pollution to have occurred during the postwar era. [...]
Its complexities and scale are greater than anything that has gone before. [...]
So severe are [the myriad of problems] that we can characterize this disaster as a "second war defeat" since its impact on the nation questions the whole basis of Japan's postwar society. [...]
There are immense dangers that the 'accident' still poses... [...]
Rather than simply being a local problem, it has been from the beginning a nationwide and potentially international issue
(some say that it has the potential to affect the whole of the northern hemisphere). If we consider the nature of the devastation and the number of victims. [...]
as well as the extent of affected area... [...]
then we understand that the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident has been the cause of injury to human society and the natural environment on a scale that is unprecedentedly wide-spread and lifethreatening in its effects. [...]
The nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is a "multiple disaster" never before experienced in human history...[...]Estimate of Consequences from the Fukushima Disaster, Nordic PSA Conference (nuclear utilities in Finland and Sweden), September 2011: Comparison of results for the Fukushima best estimate and Chernobyl source terms used for the Fukushima site shows that the Fukushima accident, as a whole, is very likely the largest nuclear accident which mankind experienced because estimates of long term fatalities, risks of death and other societal impact based on Chernobyl source terms in Fukushima show lower potential of consequences than Fukushima source terms.http://enenews.com/japan-professor-damage-fukushima-unprecedented-disaster-never-before-experienced-human-history-could-affect-northern-hemisphere-experts-very-largest-nuclear-accident-mankind-experienced
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Building nuclear plants in earthquake and tsunami prone areas is not the brightest thing to do but money can move mountains. And with the Fukushima disaster being labeled by scientists as the worst nuclear disaster in history one can see why.
After the tsunami in Japan ancient markers were found on the mountainsides warning future generations not to build below that point because of enormous tsunamis that had already taken place wiping out everything in their path. Did anyone listen to these ancient warnings carved on pillar stones? (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ed6X-JhgujU/Uq9E3DGBJlI/AAAAAAAARi4/aw1mqQ93DyI/s1600/Marker.jpg)
Tsunami Warning
http://schuylerthorpe.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/in-japan-tsunami-warnings-often-found-carved-in-ancient-stone/
Of course not just as no one listens to the ancient warnings given by prophets of long ago. People want their own way. People continue to throw caution to the winds.
Now, understand, I am not saying there should be no nuclear power. What I am saying is that more research and study into keeping it and making it safe is needed before anything new is built. More study into fixing and making existing plants safer and more contained is also in order. Otherwise all bets are off and it should be discontinued because the aftermath of accidents are far too devastating. We do not know enough about this kind of power production to really be safe using it. This despite it's being in use for so long a time. We cannot assure safety with it either and its unsafe factors far outweigh those of other energy producing methods.
...Warph
Fox News 2013 Ratings Champ, Draws More Viewers Than CNN, MSNBC, HLN Combined
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(Hmmmm.... Media Matters unavailable for comment. LOL... Or is it? Checkout:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/13/media-matters-fox_n_4433207.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=Politics )
Via Variety:
http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/fox-news-remains-ratings-dynamo-as-2013-comes-to-close-1200964903/#
Fox News Channel maintained its grip on the cable-news network ratings prize in 2013, drawing more viewers than the combined averages of CNN, MSNBC and HLN.
It was a down year in terms of overall audience, as every newsie but HLN showed declines from their Presidential Election-driven tallies of 2012.
According to Nielsen data through Dec. 8, Fox News Channel averaged 1.774 million viewers in primetime (down 13% from 2012) and 297,000 adults 25-54 (down 30%). It was followed by MSNBC with 645,000 viewers and 203,000 adults 25-54 (down 29% in both); CNN with 578,000 (down 15%) and 187,000 adults 25-54 (down 16%); and HLN with 403,000 total viewer (up 21%) and 142,000 in the demo (up 27%).Among all basic cable networks in 2013, FNC ranked sixth in primetime while MSNBC was 29th and CNN was 31st. In total day, Fox ran fourth while CNN was 28th and MSNBC ran 30th; in 2012, CNN finished behind MSNBC. CNN and HLN showed some year-over-year gains on a total-day basis, while FNC and MSNBC were down.
Fox and CNN both made some significant changes to their lineup in 2013, with FNC's revamped primetime lineup, introduced on Oct. 7, posting gains in both total viewers and adults 25-54 vs. the block's 2013 season-to-date average. The newest program, "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, has improved the 9 p.m. hour by 23% in total viewers and 13% in adults 25-54, and "The O'Reilly Factor" is the top show in cable news (2.78 million, 439,000 adults 25-54).
Also of note outside of primetime, "The Five" (5-6 p.m. ET) and "Red Eye" (3-4 a.m. ET) had their most-watched years to date.
Best news for CNN, which is on pace for its least-watched year on record in primetime, was that it was able to hold steady or rise a bit in various total-day categories, like afternoon show "The Lead With Jake Tapper," which is second among the cable news nets in its timeslot. Morning show "News Day" is up a bit vs. last year in total viewers but is averaging less than 300,000 daily and is down vs. what the net was drawing in the time period earlier this year.
Elsewhere at CNN, the reboot of "Crossfire" has struggled, averaging 400,000 viewers, but the net made some noise — especially in the 25-54 demo — with some of its CNN Films specials.
Are you an American Badass?
by Lt.Col.Allen West
December 17, 2013
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Since this is the gift-giving season, I'd like to recommend a fantastic book, written by a "badass" friend of mine, Dr. Dale Comstock.
It is said that "a nation sleeps peacefully at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on her behalf." Dale is most certainly one of those men.
He is possibly the youngest Soldier ever to qualify for the Army's Special Operations Detachment (Delta), the nation's premier counter-terrorism force. Dale follows the calling of his own father, an infantryman in Vietnam, who passed on the legacy oath of service and commitment to his son.
It's not just Dale's exceptional military service that's impressive — Paratrooper, Ranger, Special Forces, Delta, serving in every ground combat operation from Grenada to Afghanistan to Iraq. Dale also holds a Masters degree in business and security management and a Ph.D in alternative medicine.
He's been a small business owner, and some of you may remember him from the NBC series, "Stars Earn Stripes."
Dale is the consummate man's man and as I had the special honor of dubbing him, a "modern-day Spartan." His book details the exploits of an American warrior. Dale was
encouraged to write his book by the late US Navy SEAL Sniper Chris Kyle, author of "American Sniper."What is an "American Badass," the moniker bestowed upon him by his competitors on the NBC show ? Here are Dale's own words:An American Badass can be a man or woman. One needs to be a role model and lead by a positive example. An American Badass doesn't start fights, but knows if he must fight, he can with courage and conviction. An American Badass doesn't steal, lie, or subvert the society he lives in. He lives by a code of unwavering morality, and ethics that are tempered with honor, honesty, integrity, leadership, and loyalty to family, friends, and America.I wholeheartedly recommend this great read by a great American. Dale says it's his story of a journey "from innocence to a world of extreme violence, from a paltry and humble existence to a life enriched through determination, hard work, sacrifice, and the love of family." It's a great Christmas gift for dads – and badass moms.
Read more at http://allenbwest.com/2013/12/american-badass/#WkUEyYjZOGAQGKm8.99
Vietnam War Hero Edwin A. "Ned" Shuman Dies At 82...
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(RIP Lt.Cmdr. Shuman... you are truly Gods Child
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Via WaPo:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/edwin-a-ned-shuman-navy-aviator-and-pow-dies-at-82/2013/12/14/7fe7efb2-5d27-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html
On Nov. 29, 1970, 43 U.S. servicemen gathered in the Hoa Lo prison compound, often called the "Hanoi Hilton," and performed an act of retaliation— a church service.
Nine days earlier, after a failed attempt by U.S. Special Forces to liberate the prisoners, the North Vietnamese captors had removed them from their cells and incarcerated them in a single holding area. For several men, it was the first face-to-face encounter with friends they had made through tap-code communication.
The first Sunday after they were removed from their cells, they attempted to hold a church service but were threatened with severe punishment. Seeing the men's disappointment, then-Lt. Cmdr. Edwin A. "Ned" Shuman — a naval aviator who would spend five years as a POW and who died Dec. 3 at age 82 — stepped forward. "I want to know — person by person— if you are really committed to holding church," he said, asking each of the other 42 men for support until he achieved a unanimous commitment.
The following Sunday, they tried again. This time, Cmdr. Shuman, the highest-ranking officer in the group, began to lead the soldiers in the Lord's Prayer. The guards quickly grabbed him and took him away to be tortured.
The remaining officers continued reciting the prayer in unison, drowning out the shouts of the North Vietnamese guards who were beating them with gun butts.
"Forty-two men in prison pajamas followed Ned's lead," recalled retired Col. Leo Thorsness in his memoir "Surviving Hell: A POW's Journey." "I know I will never see a better example of pure raw leadership."
From then on — until the men were released with other long-serving POWs as part of Operation Homecoming in 1973 — they held a weekly church service.
"It was the first confrontation of the camp's regulation," said Everett Alvarez Jr., a naval aviator who was held as a POW for 8 1/2 years by North Vietnam and at one time served as deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration.
"For those of us who were religious or spiritual, it was a very important part of our morale, optimism, and overall, it was a part of our survival."
"Wreaths Across America"
(While these pictures are from Arlington, this event took place at cemeteries across the country today)
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/wreaths-across-america-day-arlington-cemetery-101165.html
PORTLAND, Maine — Thousands of Maine-made wreaths are being distributed at Arlington National Cemetery.
All told, 11 truckloads of greenery from Worcester Wreath Co. made their way to the cemetery outside Washington, D.C. Maine first lady Ann LePage planned to be on hand Saturday as the wreaths are laid on headstones.
All told, the nonprofit Wreaths Across America expects to ship 470,000 to 500,000 wreaths to adorn veterans' graves this holiday season. Last-minute donations bumped the number of Arlington wreaths from 100,000 to 120,000.
U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King say the Senate has passed a resolution designating Saturday as
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Soldiers Going Home
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(Coming home... I can see it now. God bless you and thank you for your service)
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How About Some Delicious Impeachmint?
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(How ironic because the owners of Ben & Jerry's are super lefty loons... Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the Ben & Jerry's founders and former John Edwards supporters, have formally announced their support for Obama)
Ignoring Physical & Moral Laws is Dangerous Make Believe
Posted By Michael Peroutka on Dec 18, 2013
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/ignoring-physical-moral-laws-dangerous-make-believe/
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Separation of Church & State? Yes...
God & Government? No!
"Under the true, original American View of law and government, all law, and therefore all rights, originate in God.
Therefore, what is not in accord with God's Law is not law.
The acknowledgement of this first principle of law and government is foundational to our lives and to our liberties."
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A NATION IN DECLINE
by Burt Prelutsky
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
When people used to say "Only in America," they intended it as praise, highlighting the promise that anyone – no matter his religion, his nation of origin or the circumstances into which he was born – could succeed in America beyond anyone's expectation. But when you see a Marxist slacker like Obama twice elected to the highest office in the land, the words take on a cynical connotation, and are definitely no longer a compliment.
Speaking of Obama, it recently occurred to me that Obama's grandparents did as rotten a job raising him, a lazy, pot-smoking, punk as they did raising his mother, their daughter, a certified dingbat with round heels and a flat head, who made a habit of looking for love, as the country song once put it, in all the wrong places.
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As a result, it's no surprise that Obama has shown far greater compassion for a handful of Democrats up for re-election next November than for the millions of Americans who have lost their health insurance. It continues to shock me that so many people still refuse to acknowledge that when he swore to fundamentally transform America, he fully intended to change America from being the shining city on the hill to being just one more unexceptional third world slum.
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I have generally objected to presidential debates because I think they are a waste of time. For one thing, it is too easy for the moderators, who are generally liberals, to tip the balance, as Candy Crowley did in 2012 by siding with Obama when he was, as usual, lying about the Benghazi massacre; but also because debating skills are about as important to a president as the ability to play the accordion or knit a sweater. Once elected, the only person he's ever likely to debate is his wife, and not even Ms. Crowley can save him there.
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Speaking of presidential debates, considering the way that Obama has flip-flopped on such matters as same-sex marriages, the federal debt, the Patriot Act, the war in Afghanistan and the Senate's nuclear option, a far livelier debate than any of those between Obama and Romney would have been one between Obama and himself.
That being said, thanks to Obama, things that were previously regarded as non-partisan – federal departments such as the IRS, the Justice Department and the Census Bureau –are merely adjuncts to the DNC, ready at a moment's notice to do anything asked of them by this sleazy administration. As a result, they are now about as non-partisan as Jay Carney, David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett.
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Although the media has reported on the dismal rollout of ObamaCare, you can tell they didn't have their heart in it. That's why most of them were delighted to promote any narrative, no matter how bizarre, that he and his stooges concocted. For instance, even though it's the Affordable Care Act that forced insurance companies to cancel individual policies, reporters and left-wing pundits were only too happy to tie a tin can to the insurance industry and blame them for the inevitable chaos.
On the chance that notion didn't fly, the White House was ready with the excuse that the rollout would have been as smooth as glass if only those darn Obstructionists, formerly known as Republicans, hadn't sabotaged the computer program.
If the Democrats keep it up, I may have to seek a restraining order against them. I feel as if I'm being stalked. Every time I turn on my computer, there's yet another email from some mucky-muck in the party, each one addressed to "Friend." Frankly, I had barely gotten used to hearing from all my friends in Nigeria, who wanted nothing more out of life than to send me millions of dollars. But now I find that in spite of all the nasty things I've written about liberals, even Barack Obama, Dick Durbin and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, are ready to forgive and forget.
Even Harry Reid is ready to smoke the peace pipe. In November, he wrote simply to explain why he had exploded the nuclear option on the floor of the U.S. Senate, blowing up over two centuries worth of tradition. "Last Thursday," he wrote, "Democrats stood up to reform the filibuster because we believe in democracy, not obstruction."
Because it's not my way to spit in the eye of someone who sincerely seeks my friendship, I didn't write back to remind him that a few short years ago when the Republicans were in the majority and merely toying with the idea of utilizing the nuclear option, he had grumbled: "What they are attempting to do in this instance is really too bad. It will change this body forever. We will simply be an extension of the House of Representatives, where a simple majority can determine everything."
As I see it, the real problem with the nuclear option is that, alas, it was merely a catchy term. If it had actually been an explosive device, we might finally have come up with a way to introduce long over-due term limits to Washington.
©2013 Burt Prelutsky.
Children's Christmas Letters to Megyn Kelly
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Dear Megyn Kelly,
For Christmas, could I please have a black Power Ranger? Thank you.
Sincerely,
Bobby, age six
***
Dear Bobby,
Unfortunately, we do not have any Power Rangers in stock in the color you requested. Colors available include: white.
Merry Christmas,
Megyn Kelly
P.S.: Bobby, because you're only six, you probably don't know this, but when you use the words "black" and "power" together, they become swear words. Never say that again.
***
Dear Megyn Kelly,
For Christmas, I would please like a white My Little Pony.
Sincerely,
Jessica, age five
***
Dear Jessica,
I just checked, and we do have a My Little Pony in the color you requested. However, I see from the postmark on your letter that you live in the South Bronx. Sorry! Megyn Kelly's sleigh does not deliver there.
Merry Christmas,
Megyn Kelly
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Dear Megyn Kelly,
My big brother says you're not real, and I say you are. Who's right?
Sincerely,
Madison, age four
***
Dear Madison,
If you believe in Megyn Kelly in your heart, then Megyn Kelly is real. On the other hand, if you don't believe in Megyn Kelly, then you're not real. That means your brother doesn't exist, so stop talking to him.
Merry Christmas,
Megyn Kelly
***
Dear Megyn Kelly,
What color is the President?
Sincerely,
Cody, age five
***
Dear Cody,
Historians are in agreement that a real President is always white. He just is. Now, some people like to make believe that President Obama is a real President, and they get really upset when they learn the truth. Here's what Megyn Kelly thinks: if you believe in your heart that President Obama is President, he still isn't.
Merry Christmas,
Megyn Kelly
***
Dear Megyn Kelly,
For Christmas, could I please have a black Power Ranger? Thank you.
Sincerely,
Bobby, age six
***
Dear Bobby,
I already warned you never to say that. Now I'm contacting the police.
Merry Christmas,
Megyn Kelly
War On Christmas Continues...
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Seriously... is this for real?
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OPS Obuma Pardons Top Dem Ally Deval Patrick's Crack Dealer Cousin
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(Even better, they're claiming it was just a coincidence)
Via Boston Herald:http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_politics/2013/12/obama_frees_deval_patricks_cousin_20_others
Gov. Deval Patrick's convicted drug dealer cousin was among eight people whose hefty sentences were commuted yesterday by President Obama, who cited a disparity in penalties for crack cocaine.
Reynolds Allen Wintersmith Jr., 39, is serving a life sentence for drug trafficking and has been imprisoned since 1994.
Patrick's office said in a statement: "Mr. Wintersmith is the Governor's first cousin. The Governor has no recollection of meeting Mr. Wintersmith (they are quite far apart in age), and believes that if they did meet it would have been when Mr. Wintersmith was a small boy. The Governor was not involved in any application for a commutation of Mr. Wintersmith's sentence, and only learned of the commutation through today's media reports.
Wintersmith's case had been adopted by advocates and crusading attorneys. All eight inmates were sentenced under old federal guidelines that treated convictions for crack cocaine offenses more harshly than those involving the powder form of the drug. Obama also pardoned 13 others for various crimes.
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Navy Sailors Suffer Illnesses, Cancers After Helping
Near Fukushima Plant After Tsunami
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Via Fox News:
More on this at: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/20/sickened-by-service-more-us-sailors-claim-cancer-from-helping-at-fukushima/
When the USS Ronald Reagan responded to the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011, Navy sailors including Quartermaster Maurice Enis gladly pitched in with rescue efforts.
But months later, while still serving aboard the aircraft carrier, he began to notice strange lumps all over his body. Testing revealed he'd been poisoned with radiation, and his illness would get worse. And his fiance and fellow Reagan quartermaster, Jamie Plym, who also spent several months helping near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, also began to develop frightening symptoms, including chronic bronchitis and hemorrhaging.
"I get so angry. They said as long as the plume was avoided we would be fine."
- Navy sailor Jamie Plym
They and 49 other U.S. Navy members who served aboard the Reagan and sister ship the USS Essex now trace illnesses including thyroid and testicular cancers, leukemia and brain tumors to the time spent aboard the massive ship, whose desalination system pulled in seawater that was used for drinking, cooking and bathing. In a lawsuit filed against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the plaintiffs claim the power company delayed telling the U.S. Navy the tsunami had caused a nuclear meltdown, sending huge amounts of contaminated water into the sea and, ultimately, into the ship's water system.
Poll: Only 29% Have Favorable Opinion of The Federal Government
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(Odds that 29% votes Demo-rat)
Via Rasmussen:http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/december_2013/29_have_favorable_opinion_of_federal_government
Unfavorable views of the federal government continue to climb.A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 68% of Likely U.S. Voters now view the federal government at least somewhat unfavorably. That's up from 64% in October and 63% in November of last year. Just 29% view the feds favorably. This includes five percent (5%) who view the government Very Favorably and 29% who view it Very Unfavorably.
Obutthead Loves Duck Dynasty, Watches Aboard Air Force One
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Via CBN:http://blogs.cbn.com/beltwaybuzz/archive/2013/12/20/president-obama-watches-duck-dynasty.aspx
At the last White House Correspondents' Association Dinner I was walking towards the ballroom with my guests, Duck Dynasty's Willie and Korie Robertson, when a man dressed in a black suit approached them.
"I'm with the White House and I need you to come with me," he said. Willie and Korie obeyed and quickly disappeared, beard and all, into the crowd.
Some 45 minutes later the two reappeared at CBN's table grinning from ear to ear.
The man in the black suit had whisked them away to President Obama's private pre-dinner reception.
After waiting in line in front of Nicole Kidman and behind entertainer of the night, Conan O'Brien; Willie and Korie greeted President Obama.
"Wow, that's great!" I said. "What did you talk to him about?"
"He said he loves the show and watches it on Air Force One," Willie said.
"I know the Obama's are very particular about what they let their girls watch on TV so if our show is one they find acceptable, that's really great!" Korie said.
After the couple took their seats Korie replaced Willie's cufflinks with the pair he had just received from the commander in chief.
What's Wrong with America's Kids?
Compare Christmas Then (1913) & Now (2013)
Posted By Daisy Luther
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Let's face it: There is something very, very wrong with kids today. It seems as though there are hordes of young psychopaths running around, wreaking havoc on others.Two recent examples: and the reasons that I refer to these young people as psychopaths, are the "Knockout Game" in which a mob of youths target a random victim and punch him or her in the face, hoping to knock them unconscious with one blow, and the boy in Texas who got away with the murder of 4 innocent people because he was too wealthy to be punished like a normal person would have been.
Psychopathy is defined as either an aspect of personality or as a personality disorder, characterized by enduring dissocial or antisocial behavior, a diminished capacity for empathy or remorse, and poor behavioral controls or fearless dominance. (source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy)
Lots of research has been done exploring whether psychopaths are born or created by circumstances. In the case of these teens, I believe that our society has created them. They have been raised with an entitlement mentality. They have parents who either ignore them and are not present, or who give in to every whim and constantly try to give them the "wow" factor, forever upping the ante with bigger and better gifts and experiences. Kids, even those who are mainly ignored and neglected are still constantly stimulated with television programs, movies, the internet, and cell phones. Their needs are met electronically and this removes the very vital element of empathy from their lives.
When every day is a trip to Disneyworld, how are you going to be satisfied with climbing a tree and finding animals in the clouds that float by?
When your entertainment consists of stealing cars, running down hookers, and shooting into crowds of people, like one popular video game, how will you be entertained by going skating or taking a walk in the woods?
I came across an article about the Christmas wish lists in 1913 versus this year's wish lists, and I believe that the list says it all. The differences illustrated in these two lists define our society, then and now.
In 1913, the yearned-for items were mostly simple ones. Many of them could be homemade by a loved one who cared enough to take the time to do so. The toys on the lists were "imagination toys" that required kids to playact scenarios in their minds.1. Candy
2. Nuts
3. Rocking horse
4. Doll
5. Mittens/gloves
6. Toy train
7. Oranges
8. Books
9. Handkerchiefs
10. SkatesFast forward to 2013. The most popular toys on the list are electronic stuffed animal that dispenses affection and companionship on command. Personally, the only items on this list I would have ever gotten my kids were the dollhouse, the Nerf Gun, and the Lego.1. Furby Boom
2. Teksta Robotic puppy
3. LeapPad Ultra
4. Flying Fairy
5. Bug Hugs Elmo
6. Barbie Dream house
7. Giggly Monkey
8. Nerf Gun
9. Ninja Turtles
10. LegoWhen you are forever seeking a greater "wow" factor in your belongings and your experiences, you're doomed to either be completely unsatisfied or to turn into the kind of little psychopath that we see every time we look at the news. If you are always looking for some type of excitement and stimulation that tops the last episode, then you will never be content with simplicity. If you look to your electronic devices for companionship and entertainment, you can't fully develop a love and empathy for your fellow man. Those random people on the street simply become a character in the video game that is your life, and causing them pain and harm means as little to you as pushing the buttons on your video game controller.
This Christmas, instead of going broke and focusing on the number of extravagant packages under the tree, focus on experiences. Focus on small simple things that you can't buy from the store. Homemade candy and cookies. Singing Christmas carols together. Going out with hot cocoa and looking at Christmas lights in a brightly decorated neighborhood. Have a snowball fight.
Children who grow up with traditions and with families who are present do not grow up to punch innocent strangers in the face or mow down pedestrians without regard. They develop qualities like empathy and kindness. They become productive members of society.
Idiot Flashes a Gun and Demands a Job Application
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(He is definitely White House material)
Tevin Kievelle Monroe wanted a job application from a McDonald's in Norfolk, VA and he was not about to be denied. When he was told that he could apply online, he showed his piece and made a strong case for applying in person.
With the $15 per hour protests going around the country I have to wonder if Monroe knew what he was applying for here, because he was obviously not the smartest applicant. He might have been the most determined but how can you flash a gun to try to get a job at McDonald's, or anywhere for that matter?
WAVY 10 reports: http://www.wavy.com/news/local/norfolk/man-with-gun-demands-mcdonalds-application
A man was arrested at a Norfolk McDonald's last week after demanding a job application with a gun, according to Chris Amos with Norfolk Police.
31-year-old Tevin Kievelle Monroe walked into the McDonald's restaurant across from Scope last Wednesday and asked the manager for an application. After the manager explained twice that applications were submitted online, Monroe lifted his shirt, revealing a gun tucked in his waistband, Amos said.
Amos said the manager asked Monroe to have a seat while she retrieved a paper application, but instead called 911.
For some unknown reason Monroe waited for the manager and was soon greeted by police. It is being reported that he was arrested without incident and is being charged with brandishing a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct.
At this point in time we do not know for certain if he landed the job.
Yet some people still remain very narrow minded and completely blind!
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Cover Oregon: If You Haven't Heard From Us By Monday – Seek Coverage Elsewhere
Another Obamacare success story...
Cover Oregon is robocalling applicants this week telling them if they haven't
received enrollment confirmation by Monday the 23rd of Dec., seek coverage elsewhere.
In other words – "Fly With Your Own Wings."
The Oregonian reported:http://www.oregonlive.com/finance/index.ssf/2013/12/cover_oregon_if_you_dont_hear.html
Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange began robocalling applicants Friday, warning them that if they don't receive enrollment confirmation by Monday, they should seek coverage elsewhere for Jan. 1.
"If you haven't heard from us by Dec. 23, it is unlikely your application will be processed for Jan. 1 insurance coverage," a woman's voice on the pre-recorded call from Cover Oregon says. "If you want to be sure you have insurance coverage starting Jan. 1, you have other options."
It's yet another sign that the health insurance exchange's technological breakdowns will prevent some — perhaps many — Oregonians from getting subsidized coverage Jan. 1, despite Gov. John Kitzhaber's previous assurances otherwise. Out of more than 65,000 applicants, the exchange reports enrolling nearly 30,000, but only about 11,000 of them in private insurance plans.Then there's this... Cover Oregon has banned its community partners from bad-mouthing the failed program by signing a non-disparagement agreement. That means that those community partners, including hospitals, are not allowed to speak in a negative fashion about Cover Oregon, or they risk losing their funding.(This is that "every man for himself" thing the Democrats always say that the conservative individualists want to do to people. Even Chicago citiizens are standing up against the corruption and the disregard. I would suggest to POS Obuma that he remain in Hawaii for the rest of his term and the the Democrat Reps. and Senators join him on their own dime. This was all planned, folks. Nationalized insurers right under our Congress' eyes. Not only should all of those involved be arrested-they should be tarred and feathered for real)"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."... Voltaire
White House: No "Plan B" If Obamacare Fails
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(Actually there is a Plan B, they are going to stick the taxpayers with a massive bill)
Via Byron York:http://washingtonexaminer.com/white-house-no-backup-plan-if-obamacare-fails/article/2541099
. . . Last Wednesday Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, joined the Washington think tank Third Way for a wide-ranging discussion. Near the end of the session, Third Way scholar Bill Schneider brought up Obamacare. "Does the administration have any kind of backup plan — if not enough young healthy people sign up for the Affordable Care Act, what's going to happen?" Schneider asked. Noting that he teaches college classes, and his students don't seem particularly well-informed about Obamacare, Schneider continued, "What are you going to do if they don't sign up in large numbers? The numbers don't look that good for young healthy people."
Thurman's response was not particularly encouraging for the administration. "We actually don't have a great demographic breakdown," he said, "but what we do know is that there was a big increase in enrollment in November relative to October, and we've seen increasing demand in December, although we don't have the final numbers and we don't have the demographic breakdown."
Furman continued: "We're obviously making — it's not a Plan B — Plan A is to do the most aggressive enrollment efforts you can, with young people, using social media. You see the insurance companies doing paid advertising. It's in the insurance companies' interest to sign these people up." Beyond relying on a social media campaign, Furman argued, the work done by private business on behalf of Obamacare could be critical. "We're doing everything we can, but I think unleashing the private sector and the large amounts they're going to spend on advertising might be even more important," he said.
Schneider was still curious. "But you have no particular backup plan?"
"There's a Plan A," Furman answered. "Which is to enroll as many young healthy people as you possibly can."
Hawaii Dept Of Ed Keeping Sex-Ed Curriculum Secret
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This is a program that they've already been teaching, yet once they find out parents want to review it, they wouldn't release it? The picture above is a copy of an 11 year old's notes from the sex-ed class.Via Watchdog:http://watchdog.org/121691/hawaii-sex-education/
HONOLULU, Hawaii — State Rep. Bob McDermott is mad, and he thinks you should be as well.The Ewa Republican is outraged that the state Department of Education won't release a copy of its controversial sex-education curriculum, Pono Choices, now being taught to the state's 11-, 12- and 13-year-olds in public middle schools.
As a parent, taxpayer and legislator, McDermott said he should be able to get a copy of the 10-hour curriculum from either the state Department of Education or the University of Hawaii Center on Disability Studies, which developed the $800,000 pilot program.
"We are asking the public to demand that all materials used in the Pono Choices program be released to the public, whose tax money has already paid for it to be developed, so that they can be informed as to what is being put in front of their innocent children in our public education system," McDermott said Wednesday.
Log Cabin (Queer) Republicans Call Out Obamacare Enrollment Ads
For Perpetrating Gay Stereotypes
Warning... offensive stereotyping ahead:
The above ad is from Out2Enroll, which pitches Obamacare to the LGBT community.
Via (The Queer) Log Cabin: http://www.logcabin.org/pressrelease/log-cabin-republicans-denounces-gay-stereotypes-promoted-by-obamacare-advocates/
Today Log Cabin Republicans, the only LGBT advocacy organization on the Obamacare Repeal Coalition, denounced a video advertisement by Out2Enroll exploiting gay stereotypes to encourage gay men to enroll in the Affordable Care Act.
"This cynical ad betrays the depths Obamacare advocates will sink to in order to pad their pathetic enrollment numbers," Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director Gregory T. Angelo declared. "As a self-proclaimed 'fierce advocate' of gay equality, President Obama would do well to distance himself from this nonsense and denounce it immediately. This ad is also an example of the left promoting harmful stereotypes that gay men are nothing more than sex-crazed lechers. If anyone on the right made such a comparison, liberals would be apoplectic. At a time when left-wing propagandists are decrying Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson for equating homosexuality with promiscuity and deviance, Out2Enroll and others should take a look in the mirror and ask if the truth is that they are the ones responsible for promoting such harmful stereotypes."
The Obamacare 12 Days of Christmas
Via heritageaction.com/christmas
Americans now see, often first-hand, that Obamacare is a disaster. From employee hours being cut, to rising health insurance premiums, to losing doctors and insurance plans, Obamacare is bad for the country.
Our New Year's Resolution for 2014 is to continue the fight to save Americans from Obamacare.
British Grocery Store Chain Tells Muslim Employees They
Can Refuse To Serve Shoppers Buying Alcohol Or Pork
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(Celebrate multiculturalism!)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2527820/Marks-Spencer-tells-Muslim-staff-CAN-refuse-serve-customers-buying-alcohol-pork.html
Marks & Spencer has told Muslim staff they can refuse to serve shoppers buying alcohol or pork, it has been revealed.The chain has granted checkout workers in more than 700 stores permission to politely decline to serve customers for religious reasons.
Instead, shoppers are being asked to wait to pay for certain items at a different till.
The policy highlights a divide among the mainstream food retailers over whether religious staff should be excused from certain tasks.
In contrast to M&S, Sainsbury's has told Muslim staff that there is no reason why they cannot handle goods such as alcohol and pork – even if they are not allowed to eat or drink the products.
A spokesman said the retailer's official guidelines – which see everyone treated 'fairly' – were written following consultations with religious groups, according to The Sunday Telegraph.
However, Morrisons – which is based in Bradford, where there is a large Muslim population – said it had a long-standing commitment to 'respecting and working around' workers' wishes not to handle certain products for religious or cultural reasons.
Phil Robertson Speaks Out: "I Will Not Give Or Back Off From My Path"
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(Nothing the left hates more than a Christian man who stands by his beliefs)
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Phil Robertson has spoken out for the first time since his homophobic comments in a magazine interview went public and refused to go back on his controversial remarks, saying: 'I will not give or back off from my path.'
The Duck Dynasty patriarch led a small Bible study group in his home town church in West Monroe, Louisiana on Sunday, granting MailOnline exclusive access.
And the deeply religious outdoorsman stood by his incendiary statements – which saw him call homosexuality a sin and led to his suspension from the hit reality show by network bosses at A&E.
During Sunday's speech, he defended himself, saying he was simply quoting from the Bible and even went so far as to say Jesus could save gay people.
'I love all men and women. I am a lover of humanity, not a hater,' he added.
The 67-year-old has been slammed by gay rights groups since his interview in January's issue of GQ magazine was made public last week.
[...]
And at the end of the session he led a defiant prayer, which included the words, 'I will not give or back off from my path because you conquered death, Father, so we are not worried about all the repercussions.'
Earlier he stood in front of the small class, at White's Ferry Road Church wearing his full camouflage suit and addressed the group for around 45 minutes.
He said: 'I have been immoral, drunk, high. I ran with the wicked people for 28 years and I have run with the Jesus people since and the contrast is astounding.
'I tell people, "You are a sinner, we all are. Do you want to hear my story before I give you the bottom line on your story?"
'We murder each other and we steal from one another, sex and immorality goes ballistic. All the diseases that just so happen to follow sexual mischief... boy there are some microbes running around now.
JOE vs JOSE
Interesting when you work the numbers.(http://www.rickwomick34th.com/images/slideshow-imgs/illegal-immigration.jpg)
You have two families: "Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal".
Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California .
Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.
Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".Ready? Now pay attention... Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax; Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.
Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or $31,200.0 0 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes. Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $24,031.00.
Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food, or $6,000.00 per year. Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.
Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps and welfare. Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has 9,631.00.
Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month federal rent subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year. Jose Illegal still has $ 31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for insurance. Joe Legal now has $7,231.00.
Jose Illegal says, "We don't need no stinkin' insurance!" and still has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc.
Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month.
Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.
Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school.
Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch.
Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.
Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.Do you get it, now?
If you vote for or support any politician
that supports illegal aliens...
You are part of the problem!
CNN hoping to hire Jay Leno after he exits 'Tonight Show' in February
By Ethan Sacks / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
"Network head Jeff Zucker, who forced Leno off 'The Tonight Show' when he ran NBC, now wants him for a late-night comedy program once Jimmy Fallon inherits 'Tonight Show' desk"(http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1552072.1387402611!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/tv-leno-fallon.jpg)
Jay Leno, whose "Tonight Show" run ends in February, is a hot property.
Leno may not be out of work long once his "Tonight Show" gig ends in February.
CNN President Jeff Zucker — the man who once forced Leno out of his plum late-night job for Conan O'Brien in 2009 — is among the high-profile suitors angling to sign the 63-year-old free-agent-to-be, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Even before Zucker took over, CNN had been hunting for a host for a late-night comedy program along the lines of "The Daily Show," sources have told The News.
A pilot episode featuring former "Daily Show" host Craig Kilborn even made the rounds last year at CNN.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/cnn-hoping-hire-jay-leno-article-1.1552074#ixzz2oNYlzzff
Gallup Poll:
Plurality of Americans Say ObumaCrappyCare Is Obuma's Biggest Failure
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(Even worse.. or better depending on how you look at it...
"none/nothing" was the top answer to what is Obuma's
"greatest achievement")
Via Gallup
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This is posted on the Internet giving Jeff Foxworthy credit, however www.snopes says otherwise.
Muslims Funny, it's ok to make jokes about Catholics, the Pope, Jews, the Irish,... The Italians, the Polish etc etc, but its insensitive to make jokes about Muslims.
1. If you refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor, You may be a Muslim.
2. If you own a £3,000 machine gun and £5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes, You may be a Muslim.
3. If you have more wives than teeth, You may be a Muslim.
4. If you wipe your bum with your bare hand, but consider bacon to be unclean, You may be a Muslim.
5. If you think vests come in two styles: Bullet-proof and suicide. You may be a Muslim.
6. If you can't think of anyone you haven't declared jihad against, You may be a Muslim.
7. If you consider television dangerous, but routinely carry explosives in your clothing, You may be a Muslim.
8. If you were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs, You may be a Muslim.
9. If you have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four, You may be a Muslim.
10. If you find this offensive or racist, You may be a Muslim.
Carnival Parade In Germany
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Healthcare.gov Can't Verify Barack Obuma's Identity
Posted By Tim Brown on Dec 24, 2013
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/healthcare-gov-cant-identify-barack-obama-staff-attempts-sign-obamacare/
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President Obama signed up for insurance and selected the Bronze plan for health insurance over the weekend while on vacation.11:14 AM - 23 Dec 2013
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"President Obama signed up for insurance and selected the Bronze plan for health insurance over the weekend while on vacation," Ryan tweeted. The White House followed up Ryans' tweet with this statement: Over the weekend and in advance of today's deadline, the President enrolled in a health care plan made available by the Affordable Care Act on the DC marketplace. As you all know, the President is one of the 85 percent of Americans who gets his health insurance through his employer and, like previous Presidents, is privileged to receive health care from the military. The act of the President signing up for insurance coverage through the DC exchange is symbolic since the President's health care will continue to be provided by the military. But, he was pleased to participate in a plan as a show of support for these marketplaces which are providing quality, affordable health care options to more than a million people. The President selected a bronze plan.
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Since the sign up was "symbolic," apparently meaning that Obama is not subject to the same laws that the rest of Americans are, the entire thing has taken a interesting twist. Fox News' Ed Henry reported: "We learned today from the White House. Initially, they said he signed up for what they called a bronze plan, paying about four hundred dollars a month in premiums. But, then they came back to us and said – Wait, he didn't actually enroll. They said his staff did it and that's because of his unique circumstance as Commander in Chief. That his personal information is not in particular government data bases. So healthcare.gov could not actually verify his identity, oddly enough. So, he had to do it in person this weekend, but he was in Hawaii, not in Washington. So he was signing up for the DC exchange. So his staff did it."This information comes as people are engaging the holidays with family and friends. While Obama doesn't want you talking about his identity, he does want you talking to your family about Obamacare.
However, there are numerous questions that should be asked here. How does Obama vote if his data cannot be verified? We've all been asking how he can be president without verifying his data, which he has yet to actually produce for authentication (and no, an image on a website is not authentication). What is Henry talking about Obama needing to do his fake sign up "in person,...but he was in Hawaii, not Washington"? It's a website. It's accessible from Hawaii, just as it is in Washington.
In addition to these concerns, how is the Internal Revenue Service able to receive and verify Barack Obama's tax returns? Why is one federal agency apparently able to verify him in this manner, but another is not? Since the IRS seems able to do so, while the Health and Human Services website cannot, Could this be tied to the IRS scandal?
How is Chicago able to verify Barack Obama as a voter?
Furthermore, there remains the questions surrounding Obama's alias, Barry Soetoro, which was used to register to vote in Washington, DC. After several reports on the voter registration, it mysteriously disappeared from the DC Election Board's website within ten days without explanation. Interestingly enough, the DC Election Board denied a Freedom of Information Request regarding this matter.
This does cause one to wonder if the system might not authenticate Obama due to the claims that he uses Harry Bounel's Social Security number.
Could it be that the system is just faulty? It could be for sure. Could it be that there is a serious national security issue with Barack Obama? I think that is even more of an issue than Healthcare.gov. What say you?
(Our government has become a classic Chicago mob style protection racket, passing hundreds of new laws and regulations for the sole purpose of giving them something to hang over the head of anyone they want to extort money from. Our government has become exactly what our founding fathers tried to protect us from, a permanent ruling class. Our own government has become the biggest enemy and threat to the American people and our way of life in our history. It MUST be returned to a government "of the people, by the people and for the people" rather than the parasitic organized crime entity that it has become)(http://www.swemson.com/upl/govt.or.private.jpg?w=800&h=403)
Barack and Michelle's family life is falling apart
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
According to a bombshell new report, the First Lady and Barack Obama are sleeping in separate White House bedrooms. She's preparing to move his clothes and personal things out of their million-dollar house in Chicago.
"The smart money says the marriage is doomed," a source close to the President said.
"Barack and Michelle have had a rocky go for years and mainly stayed together for their daughters and his political career. But now Michelle is mad as hell. She feels violated in front of the whole world. She's met with divorce lawyers and told Barack that she wants a life apart from him. Michelle will stay in the White House for the rest of Barack's term for appearances' sake, but she made it clear they'll be leading separate lives."
Michelle was left furious after her husband was photographed brazenly flirting with Denmark's female prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, while Michelle was sitting right beside him during the service for former South African president Nelson Mandela.
Obama, 52, laughed and whispered with the 46-year-old Danish beauty throughout the solemn ceremony, at one point cavalierly caressing her shoulder.
"Barack already had enough headaches with his public approval rating plummeting after the disastrous rollout of his 'Obamacare' health plan. Now he's walked smack into the worst marital crisis of his life," said the White House insider.
His female voters have bombarded the White House with letters, phone calls and emails expressing sympathy for the first lady and anger at the President.
Michelle reserved her fury until they were back in their private quarters in the White House. Then she went ballistic behind closed doors and a number of witnesses heard her screaming "I've had enough".
Barack has humiliated Michelle before, but this incident was played out on the world stage. Practically everybody on the planet saw what he did and realized that the President has absolutely no respect for his wife.
Now that the President has embarrassed his First Lady in the eyes of the whole world, he's going to pay a big, big price. Michelle has said she wants a huge chunk of his net worth. If the couple divorces, Obama will be left with nothing.
Obama Caught Taking a "Self photo" at Mandela Funeral, Jealous Michelle Makes Him Switch Seats.
http://breakingthenewstoday.blogspot.com/2013/12/barack-and-michelles-family-life-is.html
Reports of Obuma's divorce greatly exaggerated,
no official statement by White House yet
A US tabloid has reported recently that Michelle Obama is filing a divorce, while another daily said that the Obamas sleep in different rooms. But the reports are most likely greatly exaggerated and questionable, given that the White House has made no official statements to that end.(http://www.truthrevolt.org/sites/default/files/field/image/articles/obamas_mandela_funeral-620x412.jpg)
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"The National Enquirer", a magazine that reported the news, is known to be a cheapjack publication.
"The National Enquirer' sometimes offered forged reports and then was made by court to deny them. Besides, it's the only US tabloid to have reported the news.
According to original reports, Michelle Obama took a grouch on her husband because of a mobile photo shoot during the Nelson Mandela funeral. But Michelle is not someone who would divorce her husband because of a photo session.
Nor could jealousy become a reason to file a divorce. In the 1990s, Hillary Clinton did not divorce Bill Clinton because of marital infidelity. Michelle Obama's behavioural pattern is largely suggestive of Hillary Clinton's. Michelle Obama gave up a lawyer career to be helpful to her husband. Americans joke that if Michelle Obama had married another man, he would have become US President. Michelle may have deeply resented Barack Obama's involvement in the photo session, but she will hardly divorce him because of that, according to the Vesti FM.
"Barack and Michelle's family life is falling apart"
According to a bombshell new report, the First Lady and Barack Obama are sleeping in separate White House bedrooms. She's preparing to move his clothes and personal things out of their million-dollar house in Chicago.
"The smart money says the marriage is doomed," a source close to the President said.
"Barack and Michelle have had a rocky go for years and mainly stayed together for their daughters and his political career. But now Michelle is mad as hell. She feels violated in front of the whole world. She's met with divorce lawyers and told Barack that she wants a life apart from him. Michelle will stay in the White House for the rest of Barack's term for appearances' sake, but she made it clear they'll be leading separate lives."
Michelle was left furious after her husband was photographed brazenly flirting with Denmark's female prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, while Michelle was sitting right beside him during the service for former South African president Nelson Mandela.
Obama, 52, laughed and whispered with the 46-year-old Danish beauty throughout the solemn ceremony, at one point cavalierly caressing her shoulder.
"Barack already had enough headaches with his public approval rating plummeting after the disastrous rollout of his 'Obamacare' health plan. Now he's walked smack into the worst marital crisis of his life," said the White House insider.
His female voters have bombarded the White House with letters, phone calls and emails expressing sympathy for the first lady and anger at the President.
Michelle reserved her fury until they were back in their private quarters in the White House. Then she went ballistic behind closed doors and a number of witnesses heard her screaming "I've had enough".
Barack has humiliated Michelle before, but this incident was played out on the world stage. Practically everybody on the planet saw what he did and realized that the President has absolutely no respect for his wife.
Now that the President has embarrassed his First Lady in the eyes of the whole world, he's going to pay a big, big price. Michelle has said she wants a huge chunk of his net worth. If the couple divorces, Obama will be left with nothing.
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• Our Phones - Wireless
• Cooking - Fireless
• Cars - Keyless
• Food – Fatless
• Tires – Tubeless
• Dress – Sleeveless
• Youth – Jobless
• Leaders – Shameless
• Relationships – Meaningless
• Attitudes – Careless
• Babies – Fatherless
• Feelings – Heartless
• Education – Valueless
• Children – Mannerless
• Country – Godless
We are SPEECHLESS, Congress is CLUELESS, and our President is WORTHLESS!!
God help us!!
***THE DUCKS***
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GLAAD Outraged Over Phil Robertson Reinstatement:
"A&E Has Chosen Profits Over African American And Gay People"
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(Waaaaah!!!)
Via Entertainment Weekly:GLAAD responds: "Phil Robertson should look African American and gay people in the eyes and hear about the hurtful impact of praising Jim Crow laws and comparing gay people to terrorists. If dialogue with Phil is not part of next steps then A+E has chosen profits over African American and gay people – especially its employees and viewers."(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/763/9116/original.jpg?w=600&h)
TSA Offers Advice For "Transgender Travelers"
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(Excuse me, ma'am, do you have dynamite taped to your leg... no, wait, that's your penis?)
Via TSA.gov:http://www.tsa.gov/traveler-information/transgender-travelers
Special ConsiderationsTSA recognizes the concerns members of the transgender community may have with undergoing the security screening process at our Nation's airports and is committed to conducting screening in a dignified and respectful manner. These travel tips will explain the various screening processes and technologies travelers may encounter at security checkpoints.
Preparing for TravelMaking Reservations: Secure Flight requires airlines to collect a traveler's full name, date of birth, gender and Redress Number (if applicable) to significantly decrease the likelihood of watch list misidentification. Travelers are encouraged to use the same name, gender, and birth date when making the reservation that match the name, gender, and birth date indicated on the government-issued ID that the traveler intends to use during travel.
Packing a Carry-on: All carry-on baggage must go through the screening process. If a traveler has any medical equipment or prosthetics in a carry-on bag, the items will be allowed through the checkpoint after completing the screening process. Travelers may ask that bags be screened in private if a bag must be opened by an officer to resolve an alarm. Travelers should be aware that prosthetics worn under the clothing that alarm a walk through metal detector or appear as an anomaly during Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) screening may result in additional screening, to include a thorough pat-down. Travelers may request a private screening at any time during the security screening process.
The Screening ProcessPrivate Screening: Screening can be conducted in a private screening area with a witness or companion of the traveler's choosing. A traveler may request private screening or to speak with a supervisor at any time during the screening process.
Travel Document Checker: The traveler will show their government-issued identification and boarding pass to an officer to ensure the identification and boarding pass are authentic and match. Transgender travelers are encouraged to book their reservations such that they match the gender and name data indicated on the government-issued ID. [...]
Pat-Down: A pat-down may be performed if there is an alarm of the metal detector, if an anomaly is detected using advanced imaging technology, if an officer determines that the traveler is wearing non-form fitting clothing, or on a random basis. If a pat-down is chosen or otherwise necessary, private screening may be requested. Pat-downs are conducted by an officer of the same gender as presented by the individual at the checkpoint.
Reporting Travel Issues or ConcernsTravelers who believe they have experienced unprofessional conduct at a security checkpoint are encouraged to request a supervisor at the checkpoint to discuss the matter immediately or to submit a concern to TSA's Contact Center at: TSA-ContactCenter@dhs.gov.
Travelers who believe they have experienced discriminatory conduct because of a protected basis may file a concern with TSA's Office of Civil Rights & Liberties, Ombudsman and Traveler Engagement at: Civil Rights for Travelers.
Travelers may also file discrimination concerns with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
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Feel Good Video of The Day:
Anti-Gun Fanatic Piers Morgan Repeatedly
Drilled With A Cricket Ball
(According to Morgan he had a "cracked wrist, bruised rib,
and massive egg on back of head")
10,000 Christmas Carolers Show Up To Grant Terminally Ill
8-Year-Old Girl Her Last Wish, Dies On Christmas Morning
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(If this doesn't bring tears to your eyes, check your pulse)
Terminally ill girl who had 10,000 people sing Christmas carols at her home Saturday has died – NY Daily Newshttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/terminally-ill-girl-pennsylvania-dies-article-1.1558176#ixzz2ocou2v00
A terminally ill girl who received support from thousands of Christmas carolers outside her home over the weekend died early on Christmas morning, her family said.
Delaney Brown, 8, of West Reading "passed away quietly with her loving family by her side," family spokesman Christopher Winters said in a statement Wednesday.
On Saturday night, thousands gathered outside her home in eastern Pennsylvania to fulfill her wish for a huge holiday singalong. The crowd cycled through holiday favorites such as "Frosty the Snowman," "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" and "Jingle Bells" and ended with a chorus of "Happy Birthday" to the girl, who turned 8 on Friday, The Reading Eagle reported.
Shortly after the caroling began, the family's Facebook page showed a picture of Delaney giving two thumbs up with the text, "I can hear you now!!! Love you!"
Delaney, whose nickname is Laney, was diagnosed in May with a rare form of leukemia. The community held fundraisers to defray the cost of her medical expenses.An update posted Wednesay on the "Team Laney" Facebook page said: "My heart breaks right now. Our little angel on earth earned her pink glittery angel wings in heaven. She took her last breath at home in her bed at 3:10 surrounded by all her family and friends. I miss her so much already."
Arizona Sheriffs Smack Down Feds Over UnConstitutional
Demands Regarding Public Land
Posted By Jim White on Dec 27, 2013
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/arizona-sheriffs-smack-feds-unconstitutional-demands-regarding-public-land/
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As the saying goes, "along with tremendous power comes tremendous responsibility." I cannot think of any person in public service who fits that saying more than a county sheriff. However, the major networks have spent many years brainwashing the populace into thinking that Federal Agents are the top cops.
How many times have you seen a cop show on TV where the Feds show up, flash their badge and relieve the local sheriff? Then, local sheriff storms off in frustration because the Feds took over the case. That, good people, is brainwashing.
What many people are unaware of is that your sheriff is the top law enforcement official in your county. He or She has jurisdiction, even over the Feds. There are many people, with whom I have spoken, who believe that the only chance that this country has is for good, honest sheriffs to stand up and assert their power. Perhaps not a silver bullet, but if every sheriff of every county found their constitutional spine, it would set the Feds plan of dominating the population back 25 years.
The first thing that we could do is kick the Feds off of our lands:
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/federal-land-grabs-land-control-resources-enslave-population/
But, I digress.
In Arizona, the Arizona Sheriffs Association...http://www.azcounties.org/Index.aspx?NID=173
...is asserting their power over the Feds, or at least their power not to comply. When the Feds "ruled by decree"...
http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/COC-NR-8-16-13-Abondoned-trailers.pdf
....that any trailers left in the National Forest in AZ would be towed if left more than 72 hours, the ASA shot back. Click here to read ASA resolution:
http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-Sheriffs-Resolution-AZ-copy.pdf
The document bears the signature of ASA President Joseph Dedman, Jr. and it concludes with the following resolve:That the Arizona Sheriffs are opposed to the policies of the Coconino, Kaibab, and Prescott National Forests limiting the parking of trailers on National Forests limiting the parking of trailers on National Forests to a 72 hours period during hunting season and will not enforce any federal government regulation imposed on our citizens depriving them of their right to utilize their public lands.Take note of this resolution and hold your own county sheriff to the same Constitutional standards that the ASA have adopted for themselves.
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DNC Fundraises Of Possibility of ObatSh!t Being Impeached
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When I hear the words 'Obuma' and 'Impeach' in the same sentence I get a Chris Matthews-like leg thrillIt seems that the Demo-ratic National Committee has more faith in the possible impeachment of Barack Obuma than most conservative Americans. Either that, or, hmmm....
Maybe they are just trying to hit a nerve to get more money from their constituents. They would never do that, would they? ::)
Late Saturday the DNC (Demo-ratic National Committee) sent out an email which highlighted quotes from Jim Inhofe, Michele Bachmann, Kerry Bentivolio and Blake Farenthold.
The subject? Why we must elect more demo-rats in 2014 to keep Barack Obuma from getting impeached.
And of course... Electing more demo-rats is going to take money. For instance, voter fraud is not cheap, but that is my unofficial take. The funds may be for more important things like beer and prostitutes to celebrate the victories.
The email failed to highlight the successes of things like the Affordable Care Act, which passed without a single republican vote. That email will probably come out tonight.
I suppose if we started talking about issues that would be racist, so let's revert to trying to save Obuma's ass-ets.
The Daily Caller reports: http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/28/dnc-sends-email-defending-obama-from-impeachment-possibility/#!
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) sent out a paranoid email Saturday evening urging supporters to vote for Democrats so that Republicans can't impeach President Obama.
The email, subject line "Impeachment," was sent to Obama for America supporters, imploring them to contribute to the DNC's 2014 efforts.
[...]
Obama's staff changed key talking points on the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack; his Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups during the 2012 election cycle; and Obama personally lied to the American people when he told them that they could keep their existing doctors and health insurance plans under Obamacare.
It is doubtful that any fundraising is going to stop impeachment, even if republicans truly intend to pursue it. The smart play for the republicans might be to push the actual impeachment through the house shortly before the 2014 general elections and gamble that they pick up enough seats in the senate to have a chance at convicting Obama.
Millions of people are now holding their breath. A copy of the email as follows: Via DNC email:
You are receiving this message as an Obama for America supporter.
The Democratic National Committee is solely responsible for the content of this message.
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Click here to automatically join the Democrats:
https://my.democrats.org/Elect-More-Democrats
Paid for by the Democratic National Committee, 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington DC 20003. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
Contributions or gifts to the Democratic National Committee are not tax deductible.
This email was sent to ########.
Hell NO! Kiss My Posterior, DNC!!!
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Obuma makes jobless benefits push from Hawaii, hits the beach
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By Associated Press -
Saturday, December 28, 2013
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/28/obama-makes-jobless-benefits-push-hawaii-hits-beac/KAILUA, Hawaii — How President Obama spent the seventh day of his holiday vacation in Hawaii on Friday:GYM: Obama woke up for an early-morning workout at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, a short drive from his family's vacation home in Kailua.
CALLS TO SENATORS: The president separately called two senators to tell them he plans to push Congress to quickly extend expiring federal unemployment benefits.
More than 1 million Americans will lose benefits Saturday because Congress didn't extend them. Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada and Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island have proposed extending the benefits for three months.
The White House says Obama called it an urgent economic priority.
BEACH TIME: Before noon, the first family went to Bellows Air Force Base in Waimanalo to spend some time at the beach. Waimanalo is a town just south of Kailua along Oahu's eastern shore.
DINNER: The first family dined in Waikiki at Nobu, a Japanese restaurant known for its modern cuisine. As the president's motorcade left Kailua, about 25 protesters lined the street near the family vacation home in protest of a multilateral trade pact being negotiated between the United States and several countries in Asia and elsewhere.
When the Obamas arrived in Waikiki, crowds of tourists on a busy street took photos and video of their motorcade.
UN Makes First Staff Cut Since 1945 in Budget Deal
(Wow... A whopping 2% ::) )
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via NewsMaxThe United Nations authorized a staff cut for the first time since the international body was created in 1945, yielding to pressures from member states to reduce spending as governments suffer from financial strains.
Rose Parade To Feature Float With Two Men Getting "Married"...
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(So much for family friendly. That's one Bowl Game I won't watch!)
Via Pasadena Star-News:http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/general-news/20131226/woman-calls-for-rose-parade-boycott-over-gay-wedding-float
A San Diego woman Thursday called for a boycott of the Rose Parade because two Los Angeles men will be married atop a float themed "Love is the Best Protection." The cake-shaped float is sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and is the group's third entry in the New Year's parade.
Karen Grube, of San Diego, said the Tournament of Roses should remove the AHF float from the parade. She has also called on corporate sponsors to remove their support of the parade if the wedding goes on as planned. And, she has set up a Facebook page seeking support for her cause.
"Gay marriage is illegal in over 30 states, why would they promote something that is blatantly illegal?" Grube said. "That's just stupid."
The 2014 Rose Parade is the first where gay marriage has been legal in California, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that deemed Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
Grube also said she didn't think the Tournament should be involved in a group's "political agenda."
"It used to be a family thing, to get up on New Year's Day morning and watch the parade," she said. "It no longer is."By the way, this is for real, not photoshopped. San Fransicko at it's finest.
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Obuma's Peace Partners – The Taliban – Play Soccer with Severed Heads
Posted By Pamela Geller on Dec 28, 2013
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Tea partiers, constitutionalists, counter-jihadists, the people of Israel, Egyptians opposing the Muslim Brotherhood, Marines who disrespect the Taliban, Christians in Syria, Libya, Algieria, Nigeria, Malaysia, and Indonesia, Hindus in Bangladesh — they are the enemy, but these savages? They're Obama's peace partners.
The Taliban aided and abetted Osama Bin Laden in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on America. They are killing our soldiers (our brothers and sisters, husbands and fathers) in "insider attacks." They are bombing schools we built to educate girls. They are are waging jihad, imposing the most brutal and extreme ideology on the face of the earth — the sharia — and they are not the enemy.
If counting dead bodies were a measure of Obama's peace achievement, his foreign policy would be considered an unparalleled success. And it is, for the enemy.
Video thanks to Tarek Fatah (hat tip Armaros)
WARNING -- VERY GRAPHIC:
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/obamas-peace-partners-taliban-play-soccer-severed-heads/
Krauthammer: Obuma Siding With Mullahs
Over Congress On Sanctions Against Iran
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(He is a closet muslim, a poser, an usurper-in-chief and an enemy of the American state. He represents everything that is wrong with America and just makes things worse... A Lot Worse!! He is NOT self fulfilling as he is controlled by others not of our choosing to nurture the destruction of our country. To use the Reagan coinage, he represents "the evil empire."
Remember this next November.... Please!)Via WFB:http://freebeacon.com/krauthammer-obama-siding-with-mullahs-over-congress-on-sanctions/
FOX NewsSHANNON BREAM: And Charles, the news today, the head of Iran's atomic energy agency saying uranium enrichment is progressing and new centrifuges are being built. He calls them "a new generation of centrifuge" he says, are now under development. Does that square to you with what was negotiated in the short-term deal?CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Yes. The only surprising thing is here is that the Iranians are so confident about how supine Obama is on this, is that they stick their finger in his eye and announce it publicly.
There is nothing in the agreement that stops the Iranians from producing more uranium, or from producing the machines that enrich the uranium. That was the problem at the beginning, that's what made the agreement a farce at the start. Unless you go after the uranium enrichment, unless you curtail or destroy the machines that enrich the uranium, you have done nothing to stop the progress of Iran.
So at the same time there are reports of Iran using loopholes in the agreement to get all kinds of new commerce going, we know there are Japanese, Indian, Chinese, Russian and even European concerns that are now talking with Iran about a wide range of relations. They know the sanctions have been weakened and Obama speaks as if he can turn them on at will. And he can't.
And for him to take the side of the mullahs against the Congress, if he really was serious about this, then why wouldn't he use the fact that Congress is being tough and say the Congress is the "bad cop." You go to the Iranians and say "look I'm trying to be reasonable but the Congress is out of control and they want to wreck your economy unless you shut down your program. I can't hold them back. So are you going to negotiate seriously or not?" But instead of doing that, he's arguing with the mullahs against the Congress and that shows to me a total lack of seriousness which is what the gulf Arabs and the Israelis have seen at the beginning of the process. The president is simply not serious and the Iranians know it as well.(How is this for a Scenario:
The russian KGB or whatever they are calling themselves today, have a thick file on Dictator Obama in regards to his upbringing, his gay affairs, his travel to Pakistan, his school records, why he surrendered his law license, and his many, many crimes he has comitted over the years. They have given this information to their ally, Iran, who using it to blackmail Dictator Obuma to take sides against his own alleged country, the USA. Dictator Obuma has no choice but to obey his Russian and Iranian masters and that is why he is actively helping the Iranians to get their own bomb.
The most deadly and fearsome enemy this country has ever faced resides in the White House. Pray for an Act of God...
...Warph)
Global Warming Fanatics Trapped In Antarctica Summer Sea Ice Release Statement Saying "Sea Ice Is Disappearing Due To Climate Change"
(You couldn't make this stuff up if you tried)
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Climate Scientists And Media Figures Looking To Document Global Warming Need To Be Rescued After Boat Gets Stuck In Summer Sea Ice In Antarctica
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(Assploding irony alert)
(9 News) — http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/12/28/09/11/rescue-setback-for-ice-stranded-ship
An Antarctic rescue mission has suffered a setback after a Chinese icebreaker had to abandon its bid to free a ship stranded in sea ice.
A group of Australian scientists, explorers and tourists has been stuck on the Russian ship MV Akademik Shokalskiy since Christmas Day.
The ship, with 74 people on board, sent a distress call after becoming trapped in heavy sea ice, which has continued to expand around it over the past three days near Antarctica.
Three ice-breaking ships were sent to free the stranded vessel, located more than 1500 nautical miles south of Hobart.
China's Snow Dragon icebreaker was the first to arrive and rammed through much of the sea ice until it came within six-and-a-half nautical miles of the stranded vessel.
But in a setback to the rescue mission, the icebreaker had to turn back on Saturday after it, too, encountered heavy sea ice that threatened the ship's own safety.
"It can't break through any further," said Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) spokeswoman Andrea Hayward-Maher.
Via WUWT:http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/26/so-much-ice-in-antarctica-that-a-research-vessel-gets-stuck-in-summer/
The expedition is being led by Chris Turney, "climate scientist", who has "set up a carbon refining company called Carbonscape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, helping reduce greenhouse gas levels." The purpose of the expedition is "to discover and communicate the environmental changes taking place in the south."
Via NTZ:http://notrickszone.com/2013/12/27/climate-science-boatpeople-in-search-of-global-warming-signs-trapped-in-thousands-of-kilometers-of-sea-ice/
The metaphor just couldn't be more fitting: desperate true believers of global warming/accelerating polar ice melt now find themselves trapped by thousands of square kilometers of summertime sea ice that wasn't supposed to be there.
No picture could better symbolize and communicate the intellectual bankruptcy and disillusionment of a faithful group who refuse to believe they have been led astray. This has to be deeply embarrassing, if not outright humiliating.
It's reported here that many of the climate science boatpeople are actually from renowned media outlets, like The Guardian, who we can safely assume were onboard hoping to capture dramatic images of vast areas of open sea water, or of calving ice sheets with hundreds of tons of ice breaking off and plunging into the sea hourly. And with a little luck, maybe even some photos of a couple of drowned penguins.
McRINO On Obama: "Don't Count A Man of That Talent Out"
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(And what "talent" would that be, John... you putz)
Via The Hill:Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says people shouldn't underestimate President Obama as he heads into his sixth year in the White House.
He discounted Obama's low approval ratings and said a sitting president always has influence.
"We all wear thin with the American people after a while," McCain told the Associated Press.
"To count a man of that talent out at this point in time in his administration would be a huge mistake," he added.
New Hampshire Will Vote To Legalize Marijuana
Via Associated Press:(AP) — New Hampshire's House votes early next month whether to legalize up to 1 ounce of marijuana for recreational use for anyone age 21 and older.
Supporters propose taxing the drug when it is sold at retail at a rate of $30 per ounce and letting people grow up to six marijuana plants in a controlled environment.
State Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, a Manchester Republican supporting the bill, says the legislation is modeled after one approved by Colorado voters last year and is similar to one Washington voters passed.
"Nothing in the bill would allow anyone to drive under the influence of marijuana or any other substance. By legalizing, regulating and taxing (marijuana), society would in effect be taking the profit away from illegal operations which truly harm society," he wrote fellow representatives in support of the bill.
Vaillancourt said taxing the drug would produce millions of dollars in tax revenue. He noted that the bill would not be effective until July 1 to provide time to implement it properly.
Opponents argue marijuana is bad for people's health and would be difficult to regulate.
(And now, I'll leave you with this little memory of the sixties. Enjoy...:
Mooch: Robin Roberts Announcing She's Gay "Makes Us All Proud."
Why should that make us proud?
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(The news that Robin Roberts is gay is about as shocking
as water being described as wet)
Via HuffPo:First Lady Michelle Obama congratulated ABC's Robin Roberts after the "Good Morning America" anchor came out as gay.
Roberts came out in a Sunday Facebook post in which she reflected on the past year, thanking her loved ones — including her "long time girlfriend, Amber" — for supporting her during her battle with
*myelodysplastic syndrome.
"I am grateful for my entire family, my long time girlfriend, Amber, and friends as we prepare to celebrate a glorious new year together," Roberts wrote.
The First Lady said she is "so happy" for Roberts and her girlfriend, who "continue to make us all proud."
*Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) represent a group of myeloid (bone marrow) stem cell disorders that gradually affect the ability of a person's bone marrow to produce normal red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
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Demo-Rat New Hampshire State Rep. David Campbell Duck Killer, Esq. Mows Down Group of Ducks With His BMW After They Fail To Get Out Of His Way Fast Enough
(The guy who was feeding the ducks at the time said he didn't even slow down, then.. SPLAT! But don't worry Demo-Rats, Republicans are still the heartless bastards... Shooting the cute ducks is bad, running them over is fine in lib land)Ducks are seen outside the Crowne Plaza hotel in Nashua on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013.
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http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1024932-469/nashua-police-investigate-report-of-state-rep..html
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/1025015-469/nashuas-campbell-issues-apology-over-duck-deaths.html#
Monday, December 30, 2013
Nashua's Campbell Issues Apology over Duck Deaths
By JIM HADDADIN
State Rep. David Campbell offered an apology after striking several wild ducks with his car outside a Nashua hotel last week.
Meanwhile, Nashua police are pledging an open, thorough and impartial investigation into the matter, which unfolded late the evening of Dec. 23 outside the main entrance of the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
Campbell, a Nashua
Democrat, issued a statement early Sunday evening addressing controversy over the episode, which was first reported in a story that appeared in The Sunday Telegraph.
"I am deeply sorry that I accidentally ran over several wild ducks near the Crowne Plaza last Monday night," Campbell wrote. "This occurred while some people were feeding the ducks in the roadway nearby. I know it greatly upset them, as it did me. In spite of the accusations to the contrary, this was accidental, unintentional and deeply affected me then and now."
The incident was brought to light by retired U.S. Marine officer James Murphy, a Florida resident who was preparing to check into the hotel Monday evening when Campbell's car collided with what he described as a pack of about 20 ducks in the road.
After flying into Manchester airport, Murphy took a shuttle to the Crowne Plaza. A group of ducks that inhabit the hotel grounds waddled up to the main entrance when he arrived, stopping beside his luggage.
Murphy said he had just tossed the ducks some crackers when he spotted Campbell's dark sedan approaching from a side parking lot near the hotel entrance.
"All of a sudden, this 5 Series BMW comes up, it's going about 15 miles an hour, and then when he gets to the ducks, it's not like it even slowed down," Murphy said. "It just crushed all of the ducks."Murphy said he believes as many as six ducks were killed and a handful of others returned to the pond at the Crowne Plaza with apparent injuries. Appalled by the scene, Murphy said he followed the BMW a few dozen feet down the road, took a picture of the license plate and called police.
Campbell left the scene before the officers arrived and was later questioned about the incident.
In a brief interview last week, Campbell acknowledged hitting the ducks, but declined to comment further until a police investigation into the matter concludes.
Campbell then issued a statement Sunday, explaining that he felt it was necessary to address the controversy.
Campbell wrote that he apologized to witnesses for striking the ducks, but left the area because one of those witnesses -- Murphy -- became "highly agitated and confrontational."
"He cursed, continuously yelled, and approached me in a threatening manner," Campbell wrote. "After I parked my car, his aggressive behavior and threats continued. To diffuse a situation that was becoming increasingly hostile, I walked across the parking lot to my office building."
Campbell said he reported the incident to the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department on Monday, and also spoke with the management of the Crowne Plaza. Campbell said he has cooperated fully with the Nashua police investigation.
"Once again, I extend my deepest apology to everyone involved, including the public," he wrote.
Nashua police confirmed last week that they are investigating the incident, but provided few other details.
In an email Monday, Police Chief John Seusing said the department is taking the matter seriously.
"The fact that this incident involves a state (representative) will not have any bearing on the outcome," Seusing wrote. "This incident was very troubling to us and as I mentioned it will be looked into thoroughly. At this time it is still under investigation."
Campbell, a Nashua attorney, is serving his seventh term in the House.
Attempts to find out whether the injured ducks were cared for were unsuccessful.
Representatives from the Crowne Plaza did not return a call seeking comment last week. Nashua's animal control officer was unavailable for comment Monday.
Jim Haddadin can be reached at 594-6589 or jhaddadin@nashuatelegraph.com. Also, follow Haddadin on Twitter (@ Telegraph_JimH).[...]
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/new-hampshire-democrat-accused-of-mowing-down-as-many-as-six-ducks-with-his-car
He said the ducks had it coming. New Hampshire state Rep. David Campbell (D) said in an interview published Sunday that he was the driver of a BMW that ran over a group of ducks that "didn't move" out of his way outside a hotel last week in Nashua, N.H.
The Nashua Telegraph newspaper reported that a witness said "as many as six" ducks were hit on Dec. 23 outside the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
"I hit some ducks," Campbell told the newspaper. "Some people were feeding ducks on the driveway in front of the Crowne Plaza at 10 o'clock at night ... and they didn't move, and I hit some ducks."
According to the Telegraph, a retired U.S. Marine from Florida named James Murphy was feeding the ducks when Campbell's car approached.
"All of a sudden, this 5 Series BMW comes up, it's going about 15 miles an hour, and then when he gets to the ducks, it's not like it even slowed down," Murphy said. "It just crushed all of the ducks."
The newspaper reported that Murphy believed "as many as six ducks were killed" and multiple other ducks left the scene with "apparent injuries." Murphy said he photographed Campbell's license plate, which caused the politician to exclaim something along the lines of, "The ducks should have moved."
Because of what he described as Campbell's "blatant disregard for just everyone involved," Murphy said he called police to report the incident.
Campbell, who allegedly left the area before officers arrived, told the Telegraph local police were "still investigating." He did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TPM.
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PETA On New Hampshire Dem's Duck Killing: 'What's Next -- Mowing Down Kids?'
by Hunter Walker – December 30, 2013, 4:53 PM EST PETA wonders whether children might be the next victims of New Hampshire state Rep. David Campbell (D).
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An official from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released a statement to TPM on Monday saying he wants local authorities to thoroughly investigate Campbell, who admitted to killing several ducks with his BMW after they did not move out of his way.
PETA Director of Cruelty Investigations Martin Mersereau blasted the "indifference" Campbell showed when he ran over the ducks in front of a Nashua, N.H. hotel.
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"Look Out, Look Out... those SOBitch'en Democrats are coming, driving Bimmers!!!"
"What's next—mowing down kids who don't scramble to run out of a Beemer's path?
Everyone, from the youngest child to the person holding the highest office in our country, can spare a few seconds to save animals from a gruesome and painful death," Mersereau said. "PETA trusts that Nashua authorities will follow through on their investigation—and that Nashua residents will speak out against any elected official's indifference to others' suffering."
A spokesman for the Nashua Police Department declined to comment to TPM about the case other than to describe it as an "ongoing investigation." Campbell has not responded to multiple requests for comment.
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Fukushima, Japan Meltdown
(It is pretty well a foregone conclusion now if it is true. This is some scary shit, people!!)
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt
http://enenews.com/steam-coming-from-fukushima-unit-3-reactor-building-observed-multiple-times-this-week
Published on Dec 29, 2013
Tepco annouces this Steam Cloud will move over the US in the next 2 Days.
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/new...
"To: IEC3 – INCIDENT EMERGENCY CENTRE
Subject: Core melt at Fukushima Unit 1 from to 12 March 2011 JST
Importance: High
From Enformable Nuclear News where you can read the letter in its entirety.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/18/tp-radiation-suit-dismissed-but-attorney-set-to/
Tepco's response was to flood the containment units with sea water.
However... "Tepco: We should have told public this sooner... we failed to cool molten fuel after meltdowns began — Water from fire pumps went down wrong pipes"
http://enenews.com/tepco-we-should-have-told-public-this-sooner-we-failed-to-cool-molten-fuel-after-meltdowns-began-experts-fukushima-cesium-release-could-have-tripled-chernobyl-photo
Don't be fooled by the 2011 dates. This is ongoing and not over by any means. The meltdown continues.
Meanwhile Naval personnel from the USS Reagan, who rushed to the aid of Fukushima after the earthquake and tsunami, many in their 20's, are suffering from thyroid, rectal, gall bladder, testicular cancers, rectal bleeding, hair loss, debilitation, etc.
They filed a law suit that was just thrown out of court by a federal judge in San Diego who stated that it was not within her authority to say whether or not the Japanese government had committed fraud about the dangers of the radiation from the Tepco plant.
(What a BUMMER)
You can read more about this HERE:
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/18/tp-radiation-suit-dismissed-but-attorney-set-to/
Investigating more on the story about the article on TurnerRadioNetwork, I found this:Streamed live on Dec 30, 2013:
Fukushima Dose of Reality - NO NEW DISASTER - THE PLANT IS THE EXACT SAME IT WAS BEFORE
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Same 2011 Picture: http://www.tineye.com/search/e2508f45...
Turner Fear Porn: http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/new...
Actual TEPCO Report Dec27: http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu-news/2013/1... You can find all the others there too.[/b]
If this is true, Larryj will live another day.
...Warph
Quote from: Warph on January 02, 2014, 01:28:15 AM
(It is pretty well a foregone conclusion now if it is true. This is some scary shit, people!!)
Very scary, Warph... 36 Signs The Media Is Lying To You About How Radiation From Fukushima Is Affecting The West CoastBy Michael Snyder, on December 31st, 2013
The west coast of the United States is being absolutely fried by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the mainstream media is not telling us the truth about this. What you are about to see is a collection of evidence that is quite startling. Taken collectively, this body of evidence shows that nuclear radiation from Fukushima is affecting sea life in the Pacific Ocean and animal life along the west coast of North America in some extraordinary ways. But the mainstream media continues to insist that we don't have a thing to worry about. The mainstream media continues to insist that radiation levels in the Pacific and along the west coast are perfectly safe. Are they lying to us? Evaluate the evidence compiled below and come to your own conclusions...
#1 Independent researchers have measured alarmingly high levels of radiation on the beaches of the west coast. For example, the video posted below was taken on December 23rd, 2013 at Pacifica State Beach. As you can see in this video, radiation levels near the water are up to five times higher than normal background radiation...
#2 According to Oceanus Magazine, the total amount of cesium-137 that has been released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima is 10,000 to 100,000 times greater than the amount released into the oceans by the Chernobyl disaster or by the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests of the 1960s...
Read it all here: http://thetruthwins.com/archives/36-signs-the-media-is-lying-to-you-about-how-radiation-from-fukushima-is-affecting-the-west-coast (http://thetruthwins.com/archives/36-signs-the-media-is-lying-to-you-about-how-radiation-from-fukushima-is-affecting-the-west-coast)
Want more proof you're being lied to about this radiation mess?
Then read this:
Nuke Fear: US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium IodidePosted on January 1, 2014
The Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, to be delivered before the beginning of February.Read more at http://conservativebyte.com/2014/01/nuke-fear-us-government-orders-14-million-doses-potassium-iodide/#xTtksQ9YwIsOOcda.99 (http://conservativebyte.com/2014/01/nuke-fear-us-government-orders-14-million-doses-potassium-iodide/#xTtksQ9YwIsOOcda.99)
(STUDY) Concealed Carry Means Fewer Murders and Less Violent Crime
By Steve Straub On January 2, 2014
Quinnipiac University economist Mark Gius has published a new study, "An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates," in the journal Applied Economics Letters. From the abstract:
From the abstract:
The purpose of the present study is to determine the effects of state-level assault weapons bans and concealed weapons laws on state-level murder rates. Using data for the period 1980 to 2009 and controlling for state and year fixed effects, the results of the present study suggest that states with restrictions on the carrying of concealed weapons had higher gun-related murder rates than other states.
It was also found that assault weapons bans did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level. These results suggest that restrictive concealed weapons laws may cause an increase in gun-related murders at the state level. The results of this study are consistent with some prior research in this area, most notably Lott and Mustard (1997).
Do you agree with the results of the study that concealed, or open carry, would reduce the murder and violent crime rate?
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/current-events/study-concealed-carry-means-fewer-murders-and-less-violent-crime
Activists, community address crisis in Black D.C.
By Nisa Islam Muhammad -Staff Writer- | Last updated: Jan 1, 2014 - 3:03:58 PM
National News
Activists, community address crisis in Black D.C.
By Nisa Islam Muhammad -Staff Writer-
Updated Jan 1, 2014 - 3:03:58 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FinalCall.com) - The nation's capital has become a tale of several cities, based on race, income and skill set. Once called, "The Chocolate City", D.C. now encompasses a host of disparities and inequalities that were the subject of an emergency mass town hall meeting and public hearing organized by grass roots activists and community groups.
"Dissatisfaction, disillusionment and even desperation is spreading rapidly across the Nation's Capitol. Washington, D.C. is changing; yet not nearly enough debate, dialogue or straight talk has occurred on whether the changes are positive or negative. Black Lawyers for Justice convened the hearing to highlight and raise the alarm bells about the clear and dangerous adverse effects of D.C.'s urban renewal and gentrification scheme," said Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz.
"The Black population, once 75 percent as recently as 1990, has now plummeted to just 45 percent. Black population removal is a reality and is the ironic underside of the "new and improved Washington D.C.," added Atty. Shabazz, head of Black Lawyers for Justice.
A packed crowd filled Union Temple Baptist Church, which is in the middle of ground-zero for gentrification changes in downtown Anacostia. A panel of community leaders and activists spoke to the residents' concerns at the Dec. 14 gathering.
"We've got to take an appraisal of ourselves," said student minister Abdul Khadir Muhammad, of Muhammad Mosque No. 4.
"We've let things get out of hand. We've made room for new neighbors by moving out of the city. When we left, White people moved in and beautified it," Mr. Muhammad added.
The top issues addressed at the forum included the lack of affordable housing, police abuse and violations of Civil Rights that have dramatically increased while the police force becomes increasingly White.
Other topics included, concerns about the upcoming 2014 elections and how gentrification issues will affect the outcome, the real estate crisis forcing Blacks to lose their homes to foreclosures, tax sales and soaring high prices.
Organizers believe development in the city is favoring the wealthy and multi-millionaire developers who are intentionally violating the best interests of the community by wiping out affordable housing.
Black Contractors are being wiped out and ethnically cleansed from D.C and have become a besieged minority in their own city they argued.
"We need to consider Muhammad's Economic Blueprint Ending Poverty and Want. America is on her deathbed. We need a Torchlight for America. We live in one city with two realities," Student Minister Muhammad pointed out.
Other issues included concerns about the increasing youth violence and school closures.
Solution-oriented action plans along with the call for unity was brought up by several panelists.
"If we are not united we won't go anywhere. We are destroying ourselves more so than anyone else," said Ron Moten, former head of the Peaceoholics. "We want to blame everything on everybody else. Let's get rid of the jealousy and envy we have. Let's trust each other and build collaborations. Why can't we come together and buy some property?" he asked.
Other presenters included Union Temple's Pastor Willie Wilson and Al Malik Farrakhan, head of Cease Fire Don't Smoke the Brothers. Community testimonials followed giving residents a chance to share their concerns on D.C.'s changing dynamics.
Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, renowned psychiatrist and author spoke on her fight against a Jewish School that opened next to her home and the increasing noise that came with it.
"Black people are complaining about the pain of being pushed out and shoved out of urban centers. This is taking place in D.C., Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia. I don't know any Black person that is talking about how wonderful gentrification is," said Dr. Welsing. She compared gentrification to apartheid, racism and White supremacy.
Skylar Poindexter Moore of the Public Housing Campaign Empower D.C. said, "We are the forgotten people. We've had nine public housing properties demolished. They force us to move out and then create structures we can't qualify for to move back. Over 10,000 units of pubic housing have been destroyed. Public housing is all we have left."
Candidates for mayor showed up, including businessman Andy Shallal, the first Muslim to run for D.C. mayor. "I am the only candidate to tackle inequality and race. We need a living wage. I would put a moratorium on closing schools. I want to make sure this city works for everyone. I want to make sure housing is truly affordable," said Mr. Shallal.
After the forum organizers offered legal rights booklets and foreclosure assistance, bankruptcy and tax sales assistance, help with other real estate and legal issues, credit repair and consultation and provided mentoring and anti-violence options for youth.
The hearing was co-sponsored by the Black Studies Class of Washington, D.C. and supported by at least 20 grassroots organizations.
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/printer_10504.shtml
OPERATION AMERICAN SPRING
Washington, D.C. in the cross-hairs
The Out-of-Control Government Leadership
Must Be Stopped
Posted by Harry Riley on December 20, 2013 at 9:19pm in American Spring
OPERATION AMERICAN SPRING
(Please add the above title and some or all data from below to your FB, Twitter, Blog, Email list)
TO: Patriots (black, white, red, yellow, brown, male, female, civilian, military, truckers, bikers, militias, veterans, old, young, every American that loves freedom and liberty)
Mission: Restoration of Constitutional government, rule of law, freedom, liberty "of the people, for the people, by the people" from despotic and tyrannical federal leadership.
Assumptions:
Millions of Americans will participate.
American veterans and patriots are energized to end the tyranny, lawlessness, and shredding of the US Constitution.
Government is not the target, it is sound; corrupt and criminal leadership must be removed.
Those in power will not hesitate to use force against unarmed patriots exercising their constitutional rights.
Patriots may be killed, wounded, incarcerated.
There is no hope given today's technology of secrecy for the effort nor do we want it secret.
Concept of Operations:
Phase 1 - Field millions, as many as ten million, patriots who will assemble in a non-violent, physically unarmed (Spiritually/Constitutionally armed), display of unswerving loyalty to the US Constitution and against the incumbent government leadership, in Washington, D.C., with the mission to bring down the existing leadership. Go full-bore, no looking back, steadfast in the mission.
Phase 2 - One million or more of the assembled 10 million must be prepared to stay in D.C. as long as it takes to see Obama, Biden, Reid, McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi, and Attorney General Holder removed from office. The senior republican in the US House of Representatives will become Speaker of the House and the US House of Representatives will elect a temporary President and Vice President of the United States. The U.S. Senate will take action to elect a new majority and minority leader.
As required, the U.S. Congress will execute appropriate legislation to convene new elections or U.S. States will appoint replacements for positions vacated consistent with established constitutional requirements.
Phase 3 – Those with the principles of a West, Cruz, Dr. Ben Carson, Lee, DeMint, Paul, Gov Walker, Sessions, Gowdy, Jordan, Issa, will comprise a tribunal and assume positions of authority to convene investigations, recommend appropriate charges against politicians and government employees to the new U.S. Attorney General appointed by the new President.
*All actions in Phase 2 & 3 will be consistent with the U.S. Constitution.
Date of Operation: "OPERATION AMERICAN SPRING – Beginning Of Tyranny Housecleaning, May 16, 2014, completion to be determined
We are past the point of no return, thus must move forward with an effort to save our nation, as there is no other choice. We are asking, pleading with you, and any others that have resources, national voices, email lists, blogs, FB, Twitter, to call for a non-violent American Spring May 16 2014 in Washington D.C. We must appeal to ten million and more American patriots to come and stay in Washington, D.C. to stop the White House and Congress from total destruction of the United States. It's now or never. God help us.
.....the law of nature rules. A fluffy, cuddly lamb gets eaten by a mean old wolf is not an illegal or immoral event...the law of nature. When some greedy, self-serving occupant of the White House or Congress, or elements outside America, is threatening our existence, our freedom, our liberty, our Constitution, our life resources, our America, then we fight back to destroy the threat and there is nothing immoral or illegal about it. When the government becomes lawless, then "we the people" no longer are obligated to follow the government......there is no law when government picks and chooses for political purposes or personal agenda. At this time the government is performing as a lawless entity......
A duck cannot be turned into a fox; an elephant cannot be turned into a flea; the laws of nature will not permit.
Likewise, a nation ordained and principled by the laws of nature, sovereign, free, with liberty for all cannot naturally become a nation guided by royalty, decrees, tyranny, elitist, self-serving criminals. The former has proven desirable, the latter has proven human pain.
"We can become a nation guided by royalty IF "we the people" beguiled by the government in surrender to our lusts for that which we have not earned --for what is not natural --if we have become intoxicated by unbroken success" as Lincoln proclaimed in March 30 ,1863 call for fasting, humiliation, and prayer--we can very easily heap to ourselves leaders, and with itching ears, be turned from the Truth to become enslaved by the LIE."
The United States of America (elephant) while embracing the "LIE" is teetering on the abyss of becoming a sniveling, blood sucking, undesirable nation (flea).
OPERATION AMERICAN SPRING will be a gigantic step in removing the flea infestation that is sucking the blood out of America.
We see no reasonable, hopeful sign that indicates there are honorable, loyal, mature, critical thinking, experienced people in government that understands the chaos about to rain down on America, nor do they care....our only hope is that "we the people" call, organize, and draw a few million patriots to stay in D.C. for an "American Spring". It would be the catalyst to draw the line and bring to a conclusion a decision on the out of control government, one way or the other. America will rise up or surrender.........for me, I only go to my knees in the presence of God Almighty...........my knees will not touch the surface as a result of some piss ant occupant of the White House or a corrupt legislator, or outside element...I will fall to my death standing if necessary.
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topics/purging-senior-military-officers-ncos-martial-law-in-the-not?xg_source=activity
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topics/any-doubt-an-americ...
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topics/the-uber-presidency...
There is not much time and the only planning necessary is to select a starting date, which we have done, May 16, 2014, and then show up in Washington, D.C. on that date, and plan to stay for the duration. The goal is restoring the US Constitution as the law of the land, removing the lawless leadership. Will this be a cake-walk? No, it will be painful, and some people may die because the government will not be non-violent; some of us will end up in a cell, and some may be injured. If that's what it will take to save our nation, do we have any choice? Freedom loving Americans will say there is no choice, we must begin the second American Revolution. Not with guns, but with millions of Americans demanding a return to constitutional government and the resignation of Obama, Biden, Reid, McConnell, Boehner, Pelosi and Holder as a start...then the constitutional restoration process can begin. An AMERICAN SPRING can be avoided only if the above mentioned officials resign.
Will our national patriot leaders step forward and declare, "send me", I'll lead? There are millions of veterans and patriots ready to follow and have said "I will go".
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I urge all organizations, groups, particularly veterans and military retirees begin planning to visit Washington, D.C beginning May 16, 2014. Keep tuned to Constitutional Emergency/Patriots for America www.patriotsforamerica.ning.com for updates and guidance.
Please bathe this effort in prayer as there is no personal agenda or gain save liberty, freedom, and restoration of constitutional government for "we the people".
Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret
Crestview, FL 32539
http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/forum/topics/operation-american-spring-washington-d-c-in-the-cross-hairs-the?id=2734278%3ATopic%3A596683&page=1#comments
No Fee Voter ID Cards Now Being Issued In North Carolina
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(Demo-rats like to call the requirement to have voter ID "racist", claiming people will not be able to afford it. What is that, but not a racist assessment that people of color are somehow not able to afford normal ID? So what will demo-rats say, now that even that canard it removed? Damn, you messed up my ability to vote six times?
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Via WLOS Charlotte, NChttp://wlos.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wlos_nofee-voter-id-cards-available-14604.shtml?app_data=%7B%22pi%22%3A%2210909_1388778676_1177001437%22%2C%22pt%22%3A%22twitter%22%7D
In accordance with a new state law passed during the 2013 legislative session, the State of North Carolina will begin issuing no-fee voter identification cards on January 2.
Beginning in 2016, North Carolina will require voters to have a valid photo ID to cast a ballot when voting in person.A list of photo ID that will be acceptable for voting is available on the State Board of Elections website. No-fee ID cards are available for people who have no other valid forms of photo identification.
Applications for no-fee voter ID cards can be made at any North Carolina DMV driver license office. Applicants will need to present documents that verify their age and identity. Applicants will also need to provide a valid Social Security number.
NCDMV has posted the requirements and documents acceptable for the Voter ID card on its website. Voter ID cards are mailed to applicants within 10 to 15 days following application.
NSA is in Control of Your Iphone –
Can Activate Mic & Camera Without Your Knowledge
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Posted By Joshua Cook http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/12/nsa-control-iphone-can-activate-mic-camera-without-knowledge/
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Leaked documents now show what we all suspected: the NSA can turn your iPhone's microphone and camera on and off without you knowing.
According to Der Spiegel's website: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-941262.html
"The NSA's ANT division develops implants for mobile phones and SIM cards. One of these is a spyware implant called "DROPOUTJEEP" — designed for the first generation of iPhones — which was still in development in 2008, shortly after the iPhone's launch. This spyware was to make it possible to remotely download or upload files to a mobile phone. It would also, according to the catalog, allow the NSA to divert text messages, browse the user's address book, intercept voicemails, activate the phone's microphone and camera at will, determine the current cell site and the user's current location, "etc." ANT's technicians also develop modified mobile phones, for use in special cases that look like normal, standard devices, but transmit various pieces of information to the NSA — that can be swapped undetected with a target's own mobile phone or passed to informants and agents. In 2008, ANT had models from Eastcom and Samsung on offer, and it has likely developed additional models since."
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As we reported previously, ANT specialists at the NSA's department for Tailored Access Operations can remotely access, monitor, and manipulate data in electronics around the world.
According to the report, the NSA intercepts shipments that are ordered online and spyware is manually installed on their target's iPhone.
The NSA claims a 100 percent success rate when it comes to implanting iOS devices with spyware, reports The Daily Dot.
Journalist and security researcher Jacob Appelbaum asks important questions in the video below.
Is Apple helping the NSA? (There's no doubt in my mind that they have the technology to do these things, but, if you don't own one, Big Brother can't track you or photograph you either. It's safer buying a cheap cellphone without all the frills these days. (I think.) All these advanced gadgets weren't developed for just profits, or so it seems. Many of these people who develop these products have been in bed with the government for a long time. "Is Apple helping the NSA?" It's been reported that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are, so why not Apple? And what about the iPad? Same as the iPhone? ... Probably)
North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un Executes Uncle By
"Feeding Him To Pack Of Starving Dogs"
Posted By Janna Brock on Jan 3, 2014 http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-un-executes-uncle-by-feeding-him-to-pack-of-starving-dogs/
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a monster. Reports surfaced some weeks ago that he had his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, executed but the manner in which this horrific event was carried out was shrouded in mystery. The truth about what happened to his uncle, and other personnel, is more gruesome than anything anyone could imagine. In August 2013 , he had an ex-girlfriend and a dozen others executed by firing squad for possessing "pornography." The truth is they had Bibles with them. In November, some 80 people were executed in mass with machine guns. But this was all a warm up. What Kim Jong-un did to his uncle is unthinkable. He literally fed him to a pack of wild, hungry dogs, while he watched. The following video is courtesy of the BBC.
Kim Jong-un is proving to be a man more treacherous than his father, Kim Jong-il, who was seen as a grave threat to international security. However, the son is outpacing his notorious father in his lunacy. Kim Jong-un is even more depraved than his wretched father.The execution of Jang Song Thaek, the No. 2 man in North Korea, took Beijing by surprise and will adversely affect bilateral relations.
Beijing's displeasure is expressed through the publication of a detailed account of Jang's brutal execution in Wen Wei Po, its official mouthpiece, in Hong Kong, on Dec 12.
According to the report, unlike previous executions of political prisoners which were carried out by firing squads with machine guns, Jang was stripped naked and thrown into a cage, along with his five closest aides. Then 120 hounds, starved for three days, were allowed to prey on them until they were completely eaten up. This is called "quan jue," or execution by dogs.
The reports of the execution surfaced around Christmas. Fox News reported that Kim Jong-un was "very drunk" when he ordered the execution of his uncle, who was the former head of the ruling Workers' Party administrative department. He was the second highest ranking official in North Korea, and had been a very close confident to Kim Jong-un. That is until the brutal, merciless dictator turned on him. He said the purging of his uncle brought "greater unity" to the most secretive country on the planet, as reported by CNN.
What was Thaek's crime exactly? For Kim Jong-un to kill, there doesn't have to be a crime, only suspicion. His paranoia knows no bounds.
The tyranical leader of the communist state had accused his uncle – once seen as North Korea's second most powerful man – of treason and corruption and described him as 'scum' and 'factionalist filth' during his recent New Year message.
His supposed crimes against the regime included having 'improper relations with several women' and having 'wined and dined at back parlours of deluxe restaurants'.
In addition, Jang was said to have 'squandered foreign currency at casinos while he was receiving medical treatment in a foreign country under the care of the party'.
Worst of all perhaps, in the twisted logic of this supposed workers' paradise, was that Jang was guilty of 'such factional acts as dreaming different dreams'.
There is no logic to this madness. However, for a Communist regime, such as North Korea, these are reasons enough to have someone fed to a pack of wild hungry dogs. Jong-un is the Supreme leader, and his purging of these high ranking officials in this manner would go unquestioned. This is the most repressive regime on the planet, a country that ranks the worst in human rights abuses. It is a country completely closed off to the rest of the world. North Koreans have no rights. They face prison camps, torture, and executions.
The report said the entire process lasted for an hour, with Mr Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader in North Korea, supervising it along with 300 senior officials.
This means that hundreds of officials sat and watched as 120 wild dogs devoured six men in about an hour. Jong-un sat there without flinching. This is the reality of North Korea: Execution by starving dogs.There are no words to describe how unsettling this execution method is, but what is also more than disturbing is Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambitions. Jong-un likely killed his uncle because of a business dispute. While the maniacal dictator was praising the execution of his uncle and other high ranking officials, he was also spouting inflammatory rhetoric about war.
"The U.S. and South Korean war maniacs have deployed legions of equipment for a nuclear war in and around the Korean Peninsula and are going frantic in their military exercises for a nuclear war against the North," Kim said. "This precipitates a critical situation where any accidental military skirmish may lead to an all-out war.""Should another war break out on this land," he said, "it will result in a deadly nuclear catastrophe and the United States will never be safe."North Korea is not to be trusted. The regime has a partnership with Iran that could lead to nuclear catastrophe. After this latest brutality, Kim Jong-un is proving that he is capable of anything.
Leftist Media Cult Members Attack Little Sisters Of The Poor, Calling Them "Weasels" For Refusing To Be Bullied By Obama Regime
How truly depraved to you have to be on the Left when you start attacking nuns who spend their time taking care of the elderly, the sick and the dying?
Megyn Kelly and Mark Rienzi reference the horrible attacks on the nuns by the Left, in Slate. The nuns are also being attacked in the LA Times, where their case is termed "absurd".
Well, (A$$holes) Michael Hiltzik of the LA Times and Amanda Marcotte of Slate both take the cake.Because the Little Sisters of the Poor have the temerity to stand up to the bullying of the Obama regime, Hiltzik and Marcotte have actually called the nuns "weasels". The reason they are calling them weasels is because they refuse to sign off on a paper that would amount to a "permission slip" for employees to get abortificients and other contraception.
Here is Hiltzik's case, quoting Marcotte:http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-little-sisters-20140103,0,2347913.story#axzz2pUDoozkz
In their application to Sotomayor, the plaintiffs cited "the sheer enormity of the government's pressure on them to forgo their religious exercise of not providing coverage for the drugs and devices at issue and not authorizing or helping others to do so." They calculated that failing to sign the form would expose them to fines of $6,700 a day, which would break them.Amanda Marcotte of Slate.com put her finger on the spectacle of plaintiffs "trying to weasel out of nothing more onerous than signing a piece of paper."If this were were just an innocent exemption form, as Hiltzik and Marcotte claim, why is the government so desperate to have the nuns sign off on it? Why can't the government simply exempt the nuns, without forcing them to be a party to the contraception actions? If the nuns signing off on the paper is required, then it is truly a functional permission slip.
Beyond that, if the nuns objection is not just on their refusal to back contraception, but on the Government's lack of Constitutional right to dictate what is and is not "religious", then signing anything would amount to a conceding of the Government's role, which would be conceding the Constitutional point.
After being offended on their behalf, we of course, would like to invite the Little Sisters to come visit our site and become true blooded "Weasels". We don't make you sign a permission slip, and with us, you are guaranteed your freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
Postscript: If you would like to help the work of these fine Sisters, you can find out more about them and donate to them here: http://www.littlesistersofthepoor.org/donate
Obama Used Social Security Number Assigned To Dead Woman
Published on Mar 27, 2013
LINKS: Obama Used Social Security Number Assigned To Deceased Mother Of Chief Actuary Of Social Security Administration - http://www.BirtherReport.com - http://www.ObamaReleaseYourRecords.com - http://www.ObamaFailedEverify.com - FULL INTERVIEW HERE: http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogsp...
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Obama's Ex-Bodyguard: Scandals 'Worse Than You Know'
Published on Nov 1, 2013 Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino - "It's to the point where these (Obama) scandals in and of themselves would be huge, backbreaking scandals are just lost in the 'scandal fog' of this administration," he said in disbelief. "It's worse than people know; I'm not trying to scare you either."
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/31/former-secret-service-agent-warns-president-obama-sees-government-as-a-shiny-new-toy/
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Obama's Shocking Past Revealed
Published on Jul 15, 2013 New Jersey police detective and lead investigator for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Cold Case Posse, Mike Zullo, appeared on the Alex Jones Show today to discuss new developments regarding Obama's birth certificate.
There are dozens of reasons to challenge the constitutionality of Obama's presidency. Mr. Zullo zeroes in on the fraudulent nature of the alleged Obama birth certificate posted on the White House website.
The smug liberal corporate media believes the "birther" issue is well behind us. Mike's affidavit, however, reveals that the issue is still alive and of paramount importance despite the decision by the corporate Mockingbird media to ignore it and dismiss millions of Americans as lunatics and racists.
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Congressman Explores Obama Impeachment During Judiciary Hearing
Published on Dec 4, 2013 Congressman Steve King questions Constitutional Scholars on what remedies are available to congress to restrain a out of control Presidential over-reach during the Congressional Hearing on Executive Authority.
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The Strange Deaths Around Barack Obama
Published on Nov 19, 2013 Clip from November 12, 2013 - guest Mia Pope on the Jeff Rense Program. Full program available in Archives at http://www.renseradio.com/signup.htm
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IMPEACH OBAMA NOW
Published on Apr 15, 2013 Before its tolate ! I cant believe what is said in this video , i cant believe what i am hearing , i cant believe the leader of the american people is planning to murder the very people that elected him into office. YOU HAD BETTER WAKE UP REAL FAST , BECAUSE YOUR ALL ABOUT TO LOOSE EVERYTHING. TIME IS NOT ON YOUR SIDE.
Why is it important for you to understand the subject of the Hegelian Dialectic?
Because it is the process by which all change is being accomplished in society today. More importantly, it is the tool that the globalists are utilizing to manipulate the minds of the average American to accept that change, where ordinarily they would refuse it.
The Hegelian Dialectic is, in short, the critical process by which the ruling elite create a problem, anticipating in advance the reaction that the population will have to the given crisis, and thus conditioning the people that a change is needed. When the population is properly conditioned, the desired agenda of the ruling elite is presented as the solution. The solution isn't intended to solve the problem, but rather to serve as the basis for a new problem or exacerbate the existing one.
When the newly inflamed difficulty reaches the boiling point of a crisis, it becomes the foundation upon which arguments may again be made for change. Hence, the process is repeated, over and over, moving society toward whatever end the planners have in mind.
It's also important to understand that as this process is being driven, arguments are created both for and against certain measures of change. All arguments are controlled. The presented solutions — each with varying levels of unadornment — are "debated" publicly by the manipulators or their minions. This is done until a perceived compromise has been reached on the best measure to take in route to solving the crisis. Then, the outcome of the "debate" — which purportedly weighs the concerns of the public with the mandate to do something — is enacted as public policy.
Such is a summary of the Hegelian Dialectic. Though few in American society have ever heard of it, still fewer have not been profoundly impacted by its use in the effective neutralization of opposition in the formation of public policy.
Fukushima meltdown: 2 underground nuclear explosions at crippled plant on Dec 31
January 4, 2014
As many know, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a catastrophic failure at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on 11 March 2011. The failure occurred when the plant was hit by a tsunami triggered by the 9.0 magnitude Tōhoku earthquake.
The plant began releasing substantial amounts of radioactive materials beginning on 12 March 2011 becoming the largest nuclear incident since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
A recent edict "of Special Importance" issued to all Ministries of the Russian government by the Office of the Russian President says "a series of underground nuclear explosions occurred at Japan's crippled atomic Fukushima Daiichi Atomic plant on 31 Dec 2013." The edict of Special Importance is Russia's highest classification level and refers to information which, if released, would cause damage to the entire Russian Federation.
What about the rest of the world?
The architect of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3, Uehara Haruo, warned on Nov 17, 2011, that a "China Syndrome" (aka "hydro-volcanic explosion") was inevitable due to the melted atomic fuel that escaped the container vessel and is now burning through the earth.
"China Syndrome" is a term that describes a fictional worst-case result of a nuclear meltdown, where reactor components melt through their containment structures and into the underlying earth, "all the way to China."
"The China Syndrome is a 1979 American thriller film that tells the story of a television reporter and her cameraman who discover safety cover-ups at a nuclear power plant. The film was released on March 16, 1979, 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. In one scene, physicist Dr. Elliott Lowell (Donald Hotton) says that the China Syndrome would render "an area the size of Pennsylvania" permanently uninhabitable.""
According to the report, Ministry of Defense (MOD) "assets" associated with the Red Banner Pacific Fleet detected two low-level, underground atomic explosions in the Fukushima disaster zone on Dec 31,
•The first explosion measured 5.1 magnitude in intensity
•The second, a 3.6 magnitude explosion followed moments later
The MOD further reports that evidence that these underground nuclear explosions occurred after mysterious steam plumes were spotted on Dec 19, then again on Dec 24, 25, and 27.
This was confirmed by a report on Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) website, which continues
""the United States appears to have had a more advanced notice of these underground nuclear explosions, as evidenced by their purchase in early December of 14 million doses of potassium iodide, a compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, to be delivered before the beginning of February 2014.""
What aren't we being told about the world we live in? New reports state that dangerous radiation levels have been detected in snows found in Texas, Colorado, and Missouri.
http://www.examiner.com/article/fukushima-meltdown-2-underground-nuclear-explosions-at-crippled-plant-on-dec-31
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Fukushima: We are not Being Given the Full Story
Posted By Suzanne Hamner on Jan 5, 2014
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We are four days into the New Year. For those who celebrated voraciously, hangovers are gone, heads are cleared and all are back into the routine of daily life. One of those routines for many is checking your Facebook page or other social media network. Now, if you are like me, you get what seems to be some pretty incredible posts, links or announcements so you may skim over them while uttering to yourself about the incredible amount of misinformation that mires the information super highway that is the internet.
Actually, I did the same thing to a posting thinking that if it were actually true, major news media outlets would pick it up. What was I thinking? Since that did not happen, I began to do my own research into this seemingly farcical piece. Needless to say, over one dozen windows ended up opened on my internet browser trying to discover where this all originated, is it true and what does it mean.
Here is the story to which I am referring, "Underground Nuclear Explosion At Crippled Japan Atomic Plant Shocks World." Upon looking at the "source" from the bottom, it directs to a page called "What does it mean." You can put it in any search engine and find the page, which then leads you to the same story.
MUST Read:
http://www.eutimes.net/2014/01/underground-nuclear-explosion-at-crippled-japan-atomic-plant-shocks-world/After doing my own research, I am left with two burning questions – What in the Sam Hill is going on at Fukushima? And, why in the devil are the American public not being informed about recent developments?
Now, follow along with me here for just a moment. We all know that Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) initially lied to the international community about the severity of the accident at the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear plant in March 11, 2011. We now know that reactors 1 and 3 had meltdowns and reactors 1,3, and 4 experienced hydrogen explosions. We also know that Japan has enacted legislation that is intended to protect state secrets which might help in hiding "revelations about government mismanagement that helped trigger the Fukushima nuclear accident" and make leaking information about Fukushima a state offense, carrying a hefty criminal sentence. We are familiar with the stories regarding the 300 tons of water per day entering the Pacific Ocean since the accident. Reports of dying sea creatures along America's Pacific coast have surfaced. A man sailing from Japan across the Pacific reported the ocean seeming dead or lifeless. Recently, it has been reported that our government has ordered millions of doses of Potassium Iodide. Remember the earthquakes around the ring of fire that has produced a new land mass? Yes, that was near Tokyo and a professor was urging attention to be paid then.
The 2011 interview with Michio Kaku, a respected professor and physicist, helps explain the severity. Pay close attention to what he says about America's own Indian Point Nuclear Plant located in New York. A disaster at Indian Point could cost $200 billion. Also, remember from this interview that the federal government underwrites the insurance for all US nuclear plants since no insurance company will insure them; the federal government money comes from taxpayers. Did you catch the part where Obama is supporting the establishment of new nuclear power facilities for the US?
ENEnews, established after the Fukushima disaster to report the latest energy-related developments, reports that from December 19 – 27, 2013, steam was observed coming from the Fukushima Unit 3 reactor building. The same site reports the steam is from constant radioactive releases – coming from hot rubble, not new explosions. Just as recently as January 2, 2014, ENEnews posted that a nuclear expert indicated the Fukushima reactor cores melted into the ground and that radioactive material is getting washed out into the Pacific Ocean. On January 3, 2014, it was reported why the steam coming from Fukushima Unit Reactor 3 was important; "reactor 3 could be showing signs that Corium may be causational to a possible future disaster issue to the mixture of Corium with the radioactive water which would cause a violent reaction."
Now, not being a nuclear physicist or scientist, I cannot attest to the truth of what will or will not happen with regards to this situation as the technical information amounts to speaking to me in a foreign language. What I can say is the information that I have highlighted, except for the initial story that started my search, should be taken as accurate and truthful. Nuclear disasters don't happen and then are miraculously under control and stopped because the news media ceases to cover it. The Fukushima disaster is still active, is still potentially catastrophic and will remain so until it is under control; however, some experts think a disaster of this magnitude will not be able to be controlled.
On December 28, 2013, Turner Radio Network issued an urgent news flash: "Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukushima disaster site in Japan. TEPCO says they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see what's happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a "spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)" involving up to 89 TONS of nuclear fuel burning up into the atmosphere and heading to North America."
So, what does all this mean? It means something very serious is occurring at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant that suffered a catastrophic nuclear disaster almost 3 years ago and there is virtually no information being presented through main stream media. It means, America, we are on our own when it comes to finding out important information that has the potential to impact our country and our very lives; therefore, we must take the precautions we deem necessary to protect ourselves.
Homeless people used in Japan nuclear plant clean-up:
http://www.eutimes.net/2014/01/underground-nuclear-explosion-at-crippled-japan-atomic-plant-shocks-world/
US Government Buys Millions of Potassium Iodide Pills:
http://www.eutimes.net/2014/01/us-government-buys-millions-of-potassium-iodide-pills/
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Fukushima: Some Radiation Has Already Reached the West Coast
Some radiation has already arrived on the West Coast by ocean. For example, CBC reported earlier this month:Scientists at the University of Alaska are concerned about radiation leaking from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, and the lack of a monitoring plan.
Some radiation has arrived in northern Alaska and along the west coast. That's raised concern over contamination of fish and wildlife.[...]John Kelley, a professor emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, says he's not sure contamination will reach dangerous levels for humans but says without better data, who will know?"The data they will need is not only past data but current data, and if no one is sampling anything then we won't really know it, will we?
"The general concern was, is the food supply safe? And I don't think anyone can really answer that definitively."An associate professor and marine chemist at University of Victoria's School of Earth and Ocean Sciencestold CBC on November 20th (8:15):The Department of Fisheries and Oceans — the Institute of Ocean Science ... program which is a time series program that monitors the chemistry and biology of the North Pacific that's headed up by Maria Robert. They're making measurements of these Fukushima-source radionuclides offshore, and they're starting to detect the presence of the plume of radioactivity.(Incidentally – because rain is one of the main ways that radiation can spread – seawater which evaporates and then rains on the coast can dump radiation inland for some distance).SeafoodA former high-level U.S. government nuclear expert – and now one of the main advisors to Tepco regarding Fukushima – says that Fukushima radiation will hit Alaska fish. Lake Barrett – the former head of the US Department of Energy's Office of Civilian Nuclear Waste Management, which is responsible for implementing the United States' programs for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, and a high-level official with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission before that –told an MIT audience (36:00):The environmental release is the growing challenge; you're going to read more and more about it in the paper. Wait until the first cesium-137 shows up in Alaska salmon, which is only a matter of time. You're going to find it right back in the headlines.Bluefin tuna on the California shore have already tested positive for radiation from Fukushima, and there are reports of highly radioactive fish in Canada.How Can We Protect Ourselves from Radiation?The government isn't adequately testing radiation levels in the ocean, seafood or air.
So it is vital that we contact our government representatives and demand that they thoroughly test for radiation ... and publicly release the information.
In addition, there are easy, inexpensive and healthy steps we can take right now to help protect ourselves against radiation.
Here's how:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/protect-radiation-one.html...also:
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=potassium+iodine&tag=mh0b-20&index=aps&hvadid=1675843949&ref=pd_sl_2vz0ahcnii_b Prussian Blue:http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/prussianblue.aspPrussian Blue is drug prescription:
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/EmergencyPreparedness/BioterrorismandDrugPreparedness/ucm130337.htm 1. What has the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined about Prussian blue?
The FDA has determined that the 500 mg Prussian blue capsules, when manufactured under the conditions of an approved New Drug Application (NDA), can be found safe and effective for the treatment of known or suspected internal contamination with radioactive cesium, radioactive thallium, or non-radioactive thallium. This decision is based on a careful review of published literature articles containing reports, data, and experiences of people who were exposed to high levels of thallium or cesium-137 and were treated effectively with Prussian blue.
2. Are there any approved Prussian blue drug products available in the U.S.?
Yes. The first approval of Prussian blue, known as Radiogardase, was October 2, 2003. Radiogardase is manufactured by HEYL Chemisch-pharmazeutische Fabrik GmbH & Co. KG.
3. What is Prussian blue?
Prussian blue has been used as a pigment in industry and for artists since 1704. Prussian blue has been used as a treatment to speed up the excretion of radioactive cesium or non-radioactive thallium, from the body according to studies reported in the literature.
4. Since Prussian blue has been around for so many years why did FDA make this determination?
FDA wants doctors to know that Prussian blue can be used to treat contamination that may occur as a result of a routine accidental poisoning, as well as contamination associated with a terrorist event. In an effort to ensure that Prussian blue consistently meets high standards of quality, and that proper instructions for use are available with the product, FDA continues to encourage industry to file marketing applications.
The FDA has encouraged manufacturers to submit applications for Prussian blue as part of our efforts to encourage the development of drug products for treatment of people exposed to harmful levels of radioactive materials and poisons and for counter-terrorism agents.
5. Why is FDA saying Prussian blue can be indicated just for treatment of patients contaminated with radioactive cesium and radioactive or non-radioactive thallium only?
We are unaware of any clinical data demonstrating the effectiveness of Prussian blue for treating patients contaminated with any other elements.
When the nature of the radioactive contamination is not known, Prussian blue may be given together with other drugs, such as potassium iodide, calcium or zinc DTPA, or sodium alginate, with known effectiveness in treating contamination from other radioactive substances.
6. What is cesium?
Cesium is a natural metal element. Cesium-137, a radioactive form of cesium, was discovered in 1941. Cesium-137 is still widely used today by industry and the medical community. It is used in a variety of devices, and is used as a source of radiation to treat certain cancers. Cesium-137 has the potential to be included as a part of a "dirty bomb."
It is cesium-137 that still contaminates much of the land in Ukraine around the Chernobyl reactor.
Cesium-137 mixes easily with water and is chemically similar to potassium. It thus mimics how potassium gets metabolized in the body and can enter through many foods, including milk.
The Environmental Protection Agency says that ... once dispersed in the environment ... cesium-137 "is impossible to avoid."
Cesium-137 is light enough to be carried by the wind a substantial distance. And it is being carried by ocean currents towards the West Coast of North America.
Cesium-137 effects the "Whole Human Body."
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7. What is thallium?
Thallium is a natural element found in many minerals. Thallium is very toxic and different thallium compounds have a variety of uses—from rat and ant poison to the manufacture of optical glass and other industrial uses. The radioactive form of thallium (thallium-201) is approved as a radio-imaging drug used in small doses for medical procedures. This use of thallium in low doses is very safe.
Exposure to a high dose of thallium generally results in severe stomach symptoms, followed by brain symptoms, and sometimes death. However, the radioactive form of thallium (thallium-201) that is used for medical purposes is used in such small amounts that exposure to high doses is unlikely.
8. What is a "dirty bomb"?
A "dirty bomb" is a conventional, not a nuclear, bomb. It does not have the destructive power of a nuclear bomb and does not involve a nuclear explosion. Dirty bombs could contain radiological materials such as radioactive cesium (cesium-137) or other radioactive elements. Such a bomb could spread radiation over a wide area causing illness and even death.
9. How can radioactive materials be used in the medical field and also be components of a dirty bomb?
Cesium-137 and thallium-201 exposure can be beneficial to certain patients in controlled settings involving limited exposure. In the medical field, cesium-137 is used as a source of radiation for treatment of various forms of cancer. Thallium-201 is used in very small doses as a radioimaging drug. However, a dirty bomb could contain large amounts of cesium-137 or other radioactive elements.
10. How does Prussian blue work?
Prussian blue works using a mechanism known as ion exchange. Cesium or thallium that have been absorbed into the body are removed by the liver and passed into the intestine and are then re-absorbed into the body (entero-hepatic circulation). Prussian blue works by trapping thallium and cesium in the intestine, so that they can be passed out of the body in the stool rather than be re-absorbed. If persons are exposed to radioactive cesium, radioactive thallium, or non-radioactive thallium, taking Prussian blue may reduce the risk of death and major illness from radiation or poisoning.
11. Are there any side effects associated with taking Prussian blue?
The most commonly reported side effects are constipation and upset stomach.
12. How soon after exposure to radioactive cesium or to thallium does somebody have to receive Prussian blue to avoid illness and death?
Prussian blue should be taken as soon as possible after exposure. However, even when treatment cannot be started right away, patients should be given Prussian blue as soon as it becomes available because it is still effective even after time has elapsed since exposure.
13. Can more than one company gain approval for Prussian blue?
Yes. However, in addition to the protection provided by patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Prussian blue drug products approved by FDA may be protected from competition by periods of marketing exclusivity. Please refer to the guidance document issued in January 2003, on submitting a new drug application for details.
14. When will Radiogardase be available?
The sponsor anticipates that it will have product available for shipment approximately six to eight weeks after approval.
15. Can my doctor write a prescription for Prussian blue for me to keep on hand?
Prussian blue is available only by prescription and should be given only under the supervision of a physician after assessing your medical condition. It is only effective to treat contamination with radioactive cesium or thallium. The dose and duration of treatment depends on the amount of contamination a person is exposed to. Therefore, this drug should be given only when the physician has determined your need for it.
16. How do I know that Prussian blue will be available in case of an emergency?
The U.S. government makes sure that needed medications, especially medicines that may be needed to treat a terrorist threat, are stored in sufficient quantity to provide treatment if there is an emergency.
17. Will Prussian blue be added to the National Stockpile?
It is already part of the National Stockpile of drugs that can be used in an emergency situation.
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AL SHARPTON'S TAX SITUATION EXPECTED TO IMPROVE DRAMATICALLY
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Al Sharpton is celebrating NY Mayor Bill de Blasio's appointment of Zachary W. Carter as the chief lawyer of the City of New York.
The announcement by Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio regarding the appointment of former Judge Zachary W. Carter as Corporation Counsel for the City of New York is an unprecedented and huge step for progress.
Facing an escalating federal probe into his charity's finances, the Rev. Al Sharpton now has his own muscle: former Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Zachary Carter. Sharpton said Thursday he hired Carter – a respected ex-prosecutor – to represent him and his National Action Network because he thinks the probe has become politicized.
Sharpton and NAN owe several million dollars in back taxes, but Sharpton attributed the problem to a fire at his Harlem headquarters that destroyed many records.
(Which he probably started the fire himself)(This gutter-rat needs a 6x8 cell at Ellis Island)
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Bill de Blasio Appoints Sharpton's Tax Fraud Lawyer as NYC Chief Lawyer
January 2, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield Al Sharpton is celebrating Bill de Blasio's appointment of Zachary W. Carter as the chief lawyer of the City of New York.
The announcement by Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio regarding the appointment of former Judge Zachary W. Carter as Corporation Counsel for the City of New York is an unprecedented and huge step for progress. Zachary Carter personifies the forward movement of fairness and equality in the criminal justice system. I have known Zachary Carter for many years and worked with him as he prosecuted the Abner Louima case and he has done legal work for National Action Network and me.
The New York Times is celebrating what Zachary W. Carter's appointment means for rich rapists everywhere.
"We start with our values," Mr. de Blasio said. "We start with the positions we took and made public throughout the last year. We will drop the appeal on the stop-and-frisk case, because we think the judge was right about the reforms that we need to make. We will settle the Central Park Five case because a huge injustice was done."
In the case known as the Central Park Five, five black and Hispanic teenagers were convicted in the 1989 attack of a Central Park jogger. Their convictions were later thrown out. A $250 million suit against the prosecutors and the police has been pending for a decade.
Rape and $250 million. Bill de Blasio is a generous redistributor of bodies and money.
Zachary W. Carter moderated a panel on "Closing Guantanamo: Terrorism and Civil Liberties in the age of Obama" for Sharpton's National Action Network and more significantly he represented Sharpton in his tax fraud case.
Facing an escalating federal probe into his charity's finances, the Rev. Al Sharpton now has his own muscle: former Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Zachary Carter. Sharpton said Thursday he hired Carter – a respected ex-prosecutor – to represent him and his National Action Network because he thinks the probe has become politicized.
Prosecutors and the IRS have been investigating whether Sharpton misstated the amount of money he raised during his 2004 run for President in order to qualify for matching federal funds. They are also looking into possible tax fraud involving the reverend and NAN.
On Wednesday, Sharpton wrote a letter to Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, requesting a review of the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's actions for possible "abuse of power," a Sharpton spokeswoman said.
Sharpton and NAN owe several million dollars in back taxes, but Sharpton attributed the problem to a fire at his Harlem headquarters that destroyed many records. Much of the amount owed consists of penalties he's vigorously disputing.
Now the attorney Sharpton brought in to cover up his tax fraud, is Bill de Blasio's choice to hand out $250 million to the Central Park rapists.
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Few thought that we would miss Mayor Bloomberg when he was gone. But then he was replaced by the supporter of a Communist terrorist group whose No. 1 issue is banning carriage horses in Central Park because a real estate tycoon bought him the election to do it. It's a tradition for New York City mayors to start banning innocent things that everyone before them found completely inoffensive. For Mayor Bloomberg, it was large sodas. For Red Bill de Blasio, it's carriage horses.
Bill de Blasio, like any good Communist, isn't just pushing the horse ban at random. His elevation was made possible by NYCLASS; a bunch of rich people posing as animal rights activists. The man behind the Anti-Horse Jihad is Steve Nislick, a real-estate tycoon with an eye on their stables, and a hand in Bill de Blasio's greasy pocket.
There's also something about a universal preschool curriculum. Also Blasio's daughter from his lesbian wife just "touched" a lot of people by coming out as a junkie on YouTube.
So looking back, let's remember Mayor Bloomberg, a liberal billionaire who bought the mayor's office three times, in a failed effort to ban large sodas. 1. Bloomie was Spider Man
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Not photoshopped. Sadly.
With great power and wealth comes great responsibility. Unfortunately Mayor Bloomie's powers, after being bitten by a radioactive waterbug limited him to swinging not less than 2 inches while nagging everyone in sight.
2. Mayor Bloomie Liked to Gingerly Hold Guns
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Whether they were toy guns or real guns, he would always hold them like he didn't quite know what they were and was afraid they might somehow turn around and shoot him.
Maybe that was why he kept trying to ban them.
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3. Mayor Bloomie was Sloppy-Bad at Eating
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Bloomie was a talented businessman, but he never figured out how to eat. Maybe he was just too busy. Usually someone had to help him eat. Maybe this was why he wanted to ban so many foods.
4. Mayor Bloomie Never Figured Out How Cups Work Either
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Maybe this was why he had so many problems eating. He spent three terms puzzling over cups and holding press conferences about them. Eventually he just gave up and focused on guns.
And he never figured out how guns work either.
5. Mayor Bloomie Gave a Crazy Lady a Job
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Once upon a time, Bloomie decided that sign language interpretation should be as silly as possible to distract New Yorkers from how badly he was mismanaging the latest disaster.
His brilliant plan would have worked if not for all the people whose homes were on fire, under water or underwater and on fire.
6. After Retirement, Mayor Bloomie has Taken a Job at a Somali Ice Skating Rink
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Some people say that working as an attendant at an skating rink in an African country where it never snows and everything is on fire is a step down from being Mayor of New York City.
Others disagree.
7. Bloomie Did Every Job Ever
Mayor Bloomie made it to the Fire Department and the trash department, but could only work as a probation officer in the NYPD.
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Bloomie probably made a bad parole officer. You could see him being much more concerned about the salt content of a released serial killer's diet than about his killing habits.
Muslim Butcher Who Chopped Up Baby Wants $5300 for Not Being Fed Halal
(It would be alot cheaper to throw this A$$hole baby-killer off the prison tower)
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Ali moved his business to a property at Logan Village, south of Brisbane, in 1997 where he continued mainly butchering goats for the Muslim market.
The former Corinda State High School student had been working in a supermarket and struggling to make ends meet when she took a job with Ali after his previous employee spurned his unwanted advances and quit.
Blackwell, a baby-faced 17-year-old, was not as strong, and succumbed to Ali's overtures soon after she started work. Although he was married at the time, she became pregnant with his child.
Minutes after she secretly gave birth, Ali killed the baby girl.
A post-mortem found that her severe fractures were likely to have been caused by being crashed against a hard surface while still alive.
When her body was found by police in a grave it was found her right leg had been severed, she had been cut in half at the abdomen and her reproductive organs had been removed.
Former butcher Ali was fed a vegetarian diet in Maryborough Correctional Centre for four months, instead of specially prepared halal meat in accordance with his religious requirements.
Akhtar Ali, who is serving a life sentence for chopping up his newborn baby, has appealed for the payout to be doubled to $6000 (about $5300 American dollars.)
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ObumaCrappyCare Scam Collapsing as Uninsured Realize How Little it Offers Them
January 3, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield
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The whole point of ObamaCare was, supposedly, to end the problem of the uninsured who would now get insurance. But the uninsured are unethusiastic about paying a good deal of money for what is little more than catastrophic coverage.
On paper, Tammy Bourdeaux, a gay uninsured freelance social worker who couldn't afford insurance, should have been the perfect demographic for ObamaCare.
And then she tried it.
Boudreaux was hoping to find a better deal on HealthCare.gov. She likes the monthly premiums that she sees but has balked at the high annual deductibles.
"Let's say if I paid the $178 a month, my deductible would be $5,000," she says. "I would have to pay up to $5,000 before I received any kind of payment from my insurance company."
Boudreaux could get a lower deductible if she paid a higher premium, but about $200 a month is what she feels she can afford. She doesn't qualify for subsidies to help pay for a policy.
"I don't smoke. I'm relatively healthy. So I was pretty insulted when I saw this," she says. "I was extremely angry actually. I felt hoodwinked by the insurance companies: 'Oh, here's this wonderful insurance plan but by the way you need to come up with $6,000 out-of-pocket first before we pay for anything.' "Boudreaux stupidly blames the insurance companies, but the insurance companies are just working within the overall guidelines of the plan which is to exploit people who don't use the system much to finance the whole disaster.
The whole point is to get people like Boudreaux to pay in their $1200 a year that they will hardly ever see any value for. That's what helps make ObamaCare viable.
What's really entertaining is the goal-post moving on the NPR comments where ObamaCare defenders swarm to screech that she doesn't understand that ObamaCare is just catastrophic coverage.
Meanwhile you can find NPR stories where the same screeching flock of harpies is ranting that "privileged and entitled people" who complain about policy cancellations don't understand that their worthless junk policies were just catastrophic coverage... while ObamaCare offers so much more.
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OUTRAGE! Obuma Administration Is Secretly Declaring Thousands of US Veterans Incompetent – Then Taking Away Their Second Amendment Rights
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, January 6, 2014
US veterans started receiving letters from the government last year informing them that they are disabled and not allowed to own, purchase or possess a firearm. If the veteran does decide to purchase a firearm he will by fined, imprisoned or both.This comes on page 2 of the VA letter:(http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/532x167xva-guns.jpg.pagespeed.ic.H-Ue_UzuG5.jpg)
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The majority of US veterans receive basically the same letter. Many of the veterans do not even know the VA declared them incompetent. The targeted veterans say the VA offers an appeals process but then does not share required information.
VA Benefits Administrators are the ones making these declarations against veterans robbing them of their due process rights and arbitrarily submitting their names to the FBI's NICS database without cause and many times without a veteran's knowledge.
This is an outrage!
Last April the United States Justice Foundation (USJF) filed a suit against the Obama Administration on behalf of these abused veterans.
Katharine Russ reported:
The United States Justice Foundation (USJF) has filed the first lawsuit of what promises to be a string of lawsuits in the US District Court for the Southern District of California against the US Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) and the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA)...
...Current policies of the VA have caused more than 129,000 veterans to, arbitrarily, be deprived of their Second Amendment Rights to own firearms without due process simply because they were declared financially "incompetent."
These arbitrary policies, in no way, consider whether a veteran represents a danger to themselves or to others.
It is, unequivocally, unsound and irrational thinking that sends our young men and women off to war and expects them to come home "whole." Most veterans experience minor depression, minor PTSD, and even minor short-term memory loss when they return home but can still function- competently.
No court would find them incompetent and strip them of their second amendment rights for such minor diagnoses unless they were proven to be a detriment to society. In some these cases, the VA does not even offer reasons or evidence for such a Determination.
It is outrageous to think that over 100,000 US veterans are the victims of this sort of abuse.
US veterans deserve the same Constitutional rights as the rest of us.
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(The article below was written in Feb. 2013 and now this evil Obuma administration is making good on their word to disarm Veterans for a political reason and not being concerned one bit with the Constitution no matter what. They are trying to disarm Americans with more lies for Gun Control which will trickle down to every American gun owner)(https://scontent-1.2914.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/1239739_297955920345233_658621649_n.jpg?w=600&h=480&w=600&h=480)
OUTRAGEOUS: Veterans receiving letters prohibiting the purchase, possession, receipt, or transport of a firearm/ammunition...
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Written By Constitutional Attorney Michael Connelly, J.D.February 20, 2013 How would you feel if you received a letter from the U.S. Government informing you that because of a physical or mental condition that the government says you have it is proposing to rule that you are incompetent to handle your own financial affairs? Suppose that letter also stated that the government is going to appoint a stranger to handle your affairs for you at your expense? That would certainly be scary enough but it gets worse.
What if that letter also stated: "A determination of incompetency will prohibit you from purchasing, possessing, receiving, or transporting a firearm or ammunition. If you knowingly violate any of these prohibitions, you may be fined, imprisoned, or both pursuant to the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, Pub.L.No. 103-159, as implemented at 18, United States Code 924(a)(2)."?
That makes is sound like something right from a documentary on a tyrannical dictatorship somewhere in the world. Yet, as I write this I have a copy of such a letter right in front of me. It is being sent by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of America's heroes. In my capacity as Executive Director of the United States Justice Foundation (USJF) I have been contacted by some of these veterans and the stories I am getting are appalling.
The letter provides no specifics on the reasons for the proposed finding of incompetency; just that is based on a determination by someone in the VA. In every state in the United States no one can be declared incompetent to administer their own affairs without due process of law and that usually requires a judicial hearing with evidence being offered to prove to a judge that the person is indeed incompetent. This is a requirement of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that states that no person shall "... be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...".
Obviously, the Department of Veterans Affairs can't be bothered by such impediments as the Constitution, particularly since they are clearly pushing to fulfill one of Obama's main goals, the disarming of the American people. Janet Napolitano has already warned law enforcement that some of the most dangerous among us are America's heroes, our veterans, and now according to this letter from the VA they can be prohibited from buying or even possessing a firearm because of a physical or mental disability.
Think about it, the men and women who have laid their lives on the line to defend us and our Constitution are now having their own Constitutional rights denied. There are no clear criteria for the VA to declare a veteran incompetent. It can be the loss of a limb in combat, a head injury, a diagnosis of PTSD, or even a soldier just telling someone at the VA that he or she is depressed over the loss of a buddy in combat. In none of these situations has the person been found to be a danger to themselves or others. If that was the case than all of the Americans who have suffered from PTSD following the loss of a loved one or from being in a car accident would also have to be disqualified from owning firearms. It would also mean that everyone who has ever been depressed for any reason should be disarmed. In fact, many of the veterans being deprived of their rights have no idea why it is happening.
The answer seems to be it is simply because they are veterans. At the USJF we intend to find the truth by filing a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Veterans Affairs to force them to disclose the criteria they are using to place veterans on the background check list that keeps them from exercising their Second Amendment rights. Then we will take whatever legal steps are necessary to protect our American warriors.
The reality is that Obama will not get all of the gun control measures he wants through Congress, and they wouldn't be enough for him anyway.
He wants a totally disarmed America so there will be no resistance to his plans to rob us of our nation. That means we have to ask who will be next. If you are receiving a Social Security check will you get one of these letters? Will the government declare that you are incompetent because of your age and therefore banned from firearm ownership. It certainly fits in with the philosophy and plans of the Obama administration. It is also certain that our military veterans don't deserve this and neither do any other Americans.
-- Michael Connelly, J.D.
Executive Director, United States Justice Foundation http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/disarming-americas-heros-veterans-receiving-official-letters-prohibiting-them-from-purchasing-possessing-receiving-or-transporting-a-firearm-or-ammunition#sthash.JoOqZ2u8.dpbs
BREAKING: Federal Judge Overturns Chicago's Ban On Sale And Transfer of Guns
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CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday overturned Chicago's ban on the sale and transfer of firearms, ruling that the city's ordinances aimed at reducing gun violence are unconstitutional.U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang said in his ruling that while the government has a duty to protect its citizens, it's also obligated to protect constitutional rights, including the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. However, Chang said he would temporarily stay the effects of his ruling, meaning the ordinances can stand while the city decides whether to appeal.
The decision is just the latest to attack what were some of the toughest gun-control laws in the nation. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Chicago's long-standing gun ban. And last year, Illinois legislators were forced by a federal appeals court to adopt a law allowing residents to carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the only state that still banned the practice.
The resulting state law largely stripped city and officials of surrounding Cook County of their authority to regulate guns, which especially irked officials in Chicago, where residents had to apply for concealed-carry permits through the police chief.
More at: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/chicago-gun-sales-ban-overturned-101815.html
Canada's ex-defense minister: Aliens would give us more tech if we'd stop wars
Paul Hellyer, who has long insisted that aliens have visited Earth for many years, says that when aliens saw the atomic bomb they decided that we were a great threat to the cosmos.
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Story by Chris Matyszczyk |January 5, 2014
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57616630-71/canadas-ex-defense-minister-aliens-would-give-us-more-tech-if-wed-stop-wars/
I don't want to disturb what you're doing right now, but apparently four different species of aliens have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.
I don't quite have the evidence at hand, but Paul Hellyer, who used to be Canada's defense minister, claims he has.
In an interview with Russia Today, Hellyer explained (as if it was obvious): "Of course, there's been a lot more activity in the last few decades."
The reason for this, he said, was that man was stupid enough to invent the atomic bomb. Aliens are frightened that we're going to use it again (and again) and that this will affect the whole balance of the cosmos.
Ergo, each visit seems to have symbolized: "What the hell are they doing in that insane asylum today?"
Hellyer suggested that there are Edward Snowden-style whistleblowers who have already revealed government knowledge of alien visits. "It doesn't take long to get your hands on it," he said.
Hellyer is perhaps less convincing about his own experience with UFOs. He claims to have seen one, but when asked what it was like he said: "It just looks like a star."
He added: "The Star of Bethlehem is one of God's flying saucers."
Hellyer used to believe that there were between 2 and 12 different species of alien. Now, he says he's received reports that there might be as many as 80.
What's perhaps most interesting to our self-centered species is that some of them apparently look just like us. Indeed, he claimed that two alien ladies went to Las Vegas to shop dressed as nuns and no one was any the wiser.
Why would they be? This was Vegas. Try that in Springfield, Ill.
In case you feel you might have met one in your home town, some are tall ("Nordic blondes"), some are short ("Short Grays"), and some look like aliens in cartoons.
At this point, you'll be worried about whether these aliens are mean-spirited. Hellyer said that only one or two species might be threatening. He didn't mention whether they spoke Klingon.
In previous pronouncements, Hellyer has insisted that aliens know how to make us greener.
The aliens would, it seems, like to teach us better ways to live. Hellyer believes, though, that they are waiting for our consent. Moreover, they're scared that if they revealed themselves we'd throw a conniption.
Honestly, it's as if these aliens have never seen a single sci-fi show. We've been begging them to sort us out for many a year.
You'll be wondering, though, about their technology. The aliens are "light years" ahead of us. And, apparently, "a lot of the things we use today, we got from them."
Ah, that's why it's called the Samsung Galaxy.
Microchips and Kevlar vests are two of the other creations that, according to the serious Hellyer, came from outer spatial sources.
We would get a lot more technology from them "if we would go about it peacefully."
Hellyer's concerned that we might truly need a Star Wars capability "if we shoot down every UFO that comes into our airspace."
It's easy to dismiss Hellyer as being, well, from another planet. But our obsession with what's out there belies, surely, our considerable dislike of what we have become.
Perhaps hardest to swallow is Hellyer's notion that the majority of alien species out there are benign, loving, and progressive.
To be supposedly within reach of better attitudes and better technologies -- and only not receiving them because we don't ask for them -- seems to be the ultimate in tragedy.
So, dear aliens, could you just prove your benevolent ways by sorting out the three things that are bothering me right now. You know what they are, because you have the technology, right?
I am asking you nicely. Pretty please?
Paul Hellyer was Canadian minister of Defense in 1960s, ruling over the country's armed forces during the time of the Cold War -- and when he retired he publicly stated that we are not alone in the universe, and some guests from outer space actually live here, on planet Earth. Is this fantasy? Is someone actually watching us? :-\ :P ::) 8)
Global Warming is Hell !
Yet another stupid idea from the Elite Highly Educated Idiots trying to make a dollar out of nothing, actually our of thin air. Will Elk County continue to listen to the same wild ideas floating around about the school building, from the so called Elite? Just asking ! The Great Collapse of the Chicago Climate Exchange
August 27, 2010 By 21wire
Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
Plagued by a free fall in carbon emissions prices and the perennial failure of Washington to pass any binding Cap and Trade Bill, it seems that the Chicago Climate Exchange is on its last leg, announcing that it will be scaling back its operations.
Chicago Climate Exchange or CCX, is North America's sole voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas trading and carbon "offset" projects in North America and Brazil. Rueters reported on Aug 11th that Intercontinental Exchange Inc, the operating body who purchased the struggling CCX in May this year, will be scaling back major operations this month, a move that includes massive layoffs. This is likely due to the complete market free-fall of their only product... carbon emissions.
Anthony Watts from the climate watchdog website Watts Up With That posts a graph from the CCX which shows carbon prices dropping like a stone, bottoming out this week at the embarrassingly low figure of 10 cents per tonne. Compare this to trading prices during its brief hay day in May and June 2008 where market highs reached $5.85 and $7.40 respectively, and you can say that most investors will be evaluating carbon as one of today's more worthless commodities. What a difference a year makes.
It's been nine months since the world watched the bottom drop out of a much-hyped UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen back in Dec 2009, with its neo-colonial and UN Global Government taxation agenda exposed within the first days of the summit. One of the keystones of the Climate Change alarmist movement was its audacious attempt to create a functioning market by monetizing the atmospheric trace gas known as CO2. Since last year, a number of scandals like Climategate have penetrated mainstream conversation, putting a rather awkward limp in the once nimble Man-Made Global Warming movement. Hence, apocalyptic frenzies and fears have dissipated and carbon prices around the world have continued to be pummelled by the market.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/13/chicago-climate-exchange-still-flatlining-employee-cuts/
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Chicago Climate Exchange still flatlining – employee cuts
Posted on August 13, 2010 by Anthony Watts
From the "unsustainable business" department, who wants carbon at 10 cents a ton? Apparently, nobody. Data below as of August 8 2010:
LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Market operator Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE.N) is laying off staff at newly acquired U.S. environmental bourse the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), industry sources told Reuters, citing a lack of U.S. action on climate change.
They said the first round of layoffs began on July 23 and, although the total number of jobs to be cut was unknown, one said around 25 employees, or roughly half CCX's headcount at the time of ICE's acquisition, had already been or were being let go.
ICE would not confirm or comment on the layoffs.
"ICE just came in one day and started hacking away ... We were told the company was restructuring," said one source, who declined to be named.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/13/chicago-climate-exchange-still-flatlining-employee-cuts/
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New Record: Instead of Passing Laws, The Obama Regime
Issued 3,659 Economy-Crushing Regulations In 2013
(And they've picked up where they left off, issuing 141 new regs during the first three days of 2014. http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/03/happy-new-year-feds-list-141-new-regulations-in-only-3-days/#! )(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/778/8480/original.jpg?w=600&h)
Via Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/red-tape-feds-issued-3659-rules-and-regs-in-2013-56-for-every-new-law/article/2541685
The Obama administration made up for the lack of laws passed in Congress last year, issuing a whopping 3,659 rules regulations, crushing claims that Washington isn't doing anything.
Only 65 public laws were signed by President Obama in 2013, meaning that his government issued an average of 56 new regulations for every one, a record high ratio, according to the annual analysis by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
The surge in regulations has led critics to charge that Congress is now a bystander to federal regulatory agencies.
Winter Storm 2014: On The Coldest Day In America In 20 Years,
Here Are Al Gore's Stupidest Global Warming Quotes
by Michael Snyder
http://freedomoutpost.com/#SwDXjpD3hL1UrbQB.99
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America could actually use some global warming right about now. It is being projected that low temperatures across the Midwest could be 30 to 50 degrees below average on Monday morning. On Sunday, fans that attempted to tailgate before the playoff game between the 49ers and the Packers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin were discovering that their beers were actually turning to ice before they could drink them. That is cold. But things are going to get really chilly when nightfall arrives. In fact, it is being projected that much of the nation will experience wind chill temperatures of more than 40 degrees below zero, and wind chill temperatures of more than 50 degrees below zero are expected in parts of North Dakota and Minnesota. The weather is expected to be so cold that the governor of Minnesota has actually decided to close public schools statewide on Monday. The last time that happened was back in 1997. The reason why the governor of Minnesota did this is because when temperatures get this low they can literally be life threatening. When wind chill temperatures get down to about 50 below zero, if your skin is exposed you can literally develop frostbite in about five minutes. This is being called the coldest day in America in 20 years, and these cold temperatures have many Americans wondering what ever happened to all of that "global warming" that Al Gore and other "climate scientists" have been warning us about for so many years.
If the planet really is getting significantly warmer, our winters should not be like this. Back in the year 2000, one prominent "climate scientist" boldly declared that future generations of children "just aren't going to know what snow is."
Oh really?
The truth is that you don't have to be a "climate scientist" to understand what is happening to the weather. All you need is a little common sense.
Back in September, I warned that this was going to be "an extremely bitterly cold winter". I wrote another article that warned about how cold this winter would be in early December.
Right now we are witnessing cold temperatures that we have not seen in decades. The following is the way that one meteorologist put it...
"If you're under 40 (years old), you've not seen this stuff before."
Another meteorologist wanted people to understand just how dangerous this kind of cold weather can be...
"A person not properly dressed could die easily in those conditions."
To get an idea of just how cold it is up in Minnesota today, just check out the following anecdote that was reported by the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25587336
Firemen tackling a blaze in Minneapolis, where temperatures have been below -20C, saw the spray from their hoses turn to ice as it hit the building.
And it is even colder up in Canada. Things are so cold up in Ontario that "frost quakes" have become very common...
While America collectively freaks out over their impending 'polar vortex', Canada is changing the game when it comes to cold weather phenomenon as reports of 'frost quakes' emerge from around Toronto and Ontario.
Indeed, as temperatures drop overnight to around -4f around the city hundreds of people are being startled by hearing large booms – causing them to think their homes are being broken into or gunshots are being fired.
In fact, they are merely hearing the after-effects of the frost quakes – or cryoseism – which are more commonly found on a glacier in the polar regions.
So are we really experiencing "global warming"?
Of course not.
If anything, things are actually getting colder.
What the United States and Canada are experiencing right now is making global warming alarmists such as Al Gore look quite foolish. The following are 10 of Al Gore's stupidest global warming quotes:#1 In 2008, Al Gore boldly declared to a German audience that "the entire North 'polarized' cap will disappear in 5 years." (Needless to say, that did not happen. In fact, the ice cap in the Arctic actually got larger this year.)
#2 "CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally. ... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past." (Actually, without carbon dioxide life on earth would not exist.)
#3 "The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action." (It sounds like what Al Gore really needs is more cowbell.)
#4 During a speech at NYU Law School in 2006, Al Gore made the following statement: "Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several "tipping points" that could — within as little as 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization."
#5 "Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real."
#6 "The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees." (It actually peaks out at about 11,000 degrees.)
#7 "There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming."
#8 "It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it."
#9 "The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake."
#10 "We ought to approach this challenge [of global warming] with a sense of profound joy and gratitude: that we are the generation about which, a thousand years from now, philharmonic orchestras and poets and singers will celebrate by saying, they were the ones that found it within themselves to solve this crisis and lay the basis for a bright and optimistic human future."As time goes by, the scientific evidence continues to mount. It is becoming painfully evident that the theory of man-made global warming simply is not true. The following is from a recent New American article...
Well, 2013 is over, and contrary to the alarmist "predictions" by Gore and what critics refer to as his "doomsday cult," the latest satellite data show that Arctic ice cover has actually expanded 50 percent over 2012 levels. In fact, during October, sea-ice levels grew at the fastest pace since records began in 1979. Experts predict the expansion to continue in the years to come, leaving global-warming alarmists scrambling fiendishly for explanations to save face — and to revive the rapidly melting climate hysteria.
In September, meanwhile, data also showed that sea ice levels in Antarctica had expanded to record levels for the second year in a row. Of course, by now, virtually everyone who has been following news about "global warming" — now more often referred to as "climate change" owing to public-relations concerns — also knows that global temperatures have not risen for some 17 years. The spectacular lack of warming demolished all 73 of the "climate models" used by the United Nations to push its controversial theories.
Sadly, most of the governments of the planet still consider "man-made global warming" to be one of the greatest threats facing us, and the U.S. government is leading the charge. In fact, the U.S. government has been giving other nations billions of dollars to help them cope with "climate change"...
American taxpayers spent $7.45 billion to help developing countries cope with climate change in fiscal years 2010 through 2012, according to a federal government report submitted to the United Nations on a subject that Secretary of State John Kerry described as "a truly life-and-death challenge."
And it appears that Barack Obama plans to make the fight against global warming a major point of emphasis for the rest of his time in office...
When President Obama leaves office three years from now, the major policy story of his second term — barring some kind of unforeseen invasion — is likely to be climate change. I made this argument at feature length last year, and the evidence continues to mount. Coral Davenport reports today about Secretary of State John Kerry's "systematic, top-down push to create an agencywide focus on global warming."
Considering the host of other major problems that this country is facing, it truly is ironic that the federal government is spending so much time and energy fighting a problem that doesn't even exist.
Speaking of ironic, a team of "climate change scientists" that had recently gone down to the Antarctic to study "global warming" had to be rescued by helicopter when their ship got stranded in the ice...
A group of climate change scientists were rescued by helicopter Jan. 2, after being stranded in the ice since Christmas morning. But the majority of the broadcast networks' reports about the ice-locked climate researchers never mentioned climate change.
The Russian ship, Akademic Shokalskiy, was stranded in the ice while on a climate change research expedition, yet nearly 98 percent of network news reports about the stranded researchers failed to mention their mission at all. Forty out of 41 stories (97.5 percent) on the network morning and evening news shows since Dec. 25 failed to mention climate change had anything to do with the expedition.
In fact, rather than point out the mission was to find evidence of climate change, the networks often referred to the stranded people as "passengers," "trackers" and even "tourists," without a word about climate change or global warming.
Yes, the climate of the earth is changing. Throughout history it has always been changing. Most of that change is due to fluctuations in the gigantic ball of fire that our planet is revolving around.
But the idea that carbon dioxide is going to "destroy the planet" is ludicrous. Without carbon dioxide we would all die.
And the notion that "man-made global warming" is the "greatest threat" that humanity is facing is absolutely laughable.
Sadly, nothing seems to dissuade the true believers. Not even days like today.
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Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique
of Obuma's leadership in 'Duty'
Gates: Obama's Advisers Were Talking About Military Options In Libya
Without Consulting . . . The Military
According to Gates the decision to move militarily was given to far-left adviser Samantha Power.Via WaPohttp://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/robert-gates-former-defense-secretary-offers-harsh-critique-of-obamas-leadership-in-duty/2014/01/07/6a6915b2-77cb-11e3-b1c5-739e63e9c9a7_story.html?tid=ts_carousel
Similarly, in a battle over defense spending, "I was extremely angry with President Obama," Gates writes. "I felt he had breached faith with me . . . on the budget numbers." As with "don't ask, don't tell," "I felt that agreements with the Obama White House were good for only as long as they were politically convenient."
Gates acknowledges forthrightly in "Duty" that he did not reveal his dismay. "I never confronted Obama directly over what I (as well as [Hillary] Clinton, [then-CIA Director Leon] Panetta, and others) saw as the president's determination that the White House tightly control every aspect of national security policy and even operations. His White House was by far the most centralized and controlling in national security of any I had seen since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger ruled the roost."
It got so bad during internal debates over whether to intervene in Libya in 2011 that Gates says he felt compelled to deliver a "rant" because the White House staff was "talking about military options with the president without Defense being involved."
Gates says his instructions to the Pentagon were: "Don't give the White House staff and [national security staff] too much information on the military options. They don't understand it, and 'experts' like Samantha Power will decide when we should move militarily." Power, then on the national security staff and now U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has been a strong advocate for humanitarian intervention.
Another time, after Donilon and Biden tried to pass orders to Gates, he told the two, "The last time I checked, neither of you are in the chain of command," and said he expected to get orders directly from Obama.
Really?
The Unbelievable High Cost of Maintaining
Michelle "The Mooch" Obuma's Dignity as First Lady
Posted By Richard Anthony on Jan 7, 2014
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/unbelievable-high-cost-maintaining-michelle-obamas-dignity-first-lady/
So here we are over five years into the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama, with record unemployment and over 46,000,000 Americans on food stamps, one would think the Obama's would set an example for others to follow. If you thought that, you'd be very wrong. Barack Obama has more than doubled our national debt since being elected and Michelle has spent massive amounts of money on many lavish trips and vacations. When Jimmy Carter was president, even though history has proven him to be inept at his job, for all his faults, at least he was an honest man. But not so with the occupation of the Obama family in the peoples house. Even though we are (according to president Obama) in the midst of a "recession greater than that of the Great Depression," our First Lady has spent tax-payer money on her own comfort and amusement like it's free. (http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/michelle-obama.jpg)
In times past, Mary Lincoln was taken to task and endured harsh criticism for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.
But not so for our current First Lady; not by a long shot! She has racked-up quite a large tab since she moved in to the White House, but what the hell, she's not paying, you are. "In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much," she said. "See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service," says Michelle Obama. ***Huh?? Mrs. Obama's license to practice law was rendered "voluntarily inactive" due to a court order in a Insurance malpractice case. (http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/Obama-Law-License.htm )
Since the First Lady holds no official "public office" nor does she receive any kind of salary, I find her statement quite puzzling. Here is a list of staff members to help the First Lady in "maintaining the dignity of her office" and their salaries: •Natalie F. Bookey Baker, executive assistant to the chief of staff to the first lady, $45,000;
•Alan O. Fitts, deputy director of advance and trip director for the first lady, $61,200;
•Jocelyn C. Frey, deputy assistant to the president and director of policy and projects for the first lady, $140,000;
•Jennifer Goodman, deputy director of scheduling and events coordinator for the first lady, $63,240;
•Deilia A.L. Jackson, deputy associate director of correspondence for the first lady, $42,000;
•Kristen E. Jarvis, special assistant for scheduling and traveling aide to the first lady, $51,000;
•Camille Y. Johnston, special assistant to the president and director of communications for the first lady, $102,000;
•Tyler A. Lechtenberg, director of correspondence for the first lady, $50,000;
•Catherine M. Lelyveld, director and press secretary to the first lady, $85,680;
•Dana M. Lewis, special assistant and personal aide to the first lady, $66,000;
•Trooper Sanders, deputy director of policy and projects for the first lady, $85,000;
•Susan S. Sher, assistant to the president and chief of staff and counsel to the first lady, $172,200;
•Frances M. Starkey, director of scheduling and advance for the first lady, $80,000;
•Semonti M. Stevens, associate director and deputy press secretary to the first lady, $53,550;
•Melissa Winter, special assistant to the president and deputy chief of staff to the first lady, $102,000. The White House social secretary works for the first lady and serves as head of the White House Social Office, which plans everything from the casual and educational student workshops to elegant and sophisticated state dinners welcoming world leaders. In the Office of White House Social Secretary were the following staffers: •Erinn J. Burnough, deputy director and deputy social secretary, $66,300;
•Joseph B. Reinstein, deputy director and deputy social secretary, $66,300;
•Julianna S. Smoot, deputy assistant to the president and White House social secretary, $150,000. And this list does not include Michelle Obama's immense cost for her to travel. When she does, she also lists her two daughters as "Senior Staff Members" so they will get paid (courtesy of you and me). I'll bet you didn't know that you were paying the two girls "allowance," did you? Given the current state of our economy and given the fact that our nation's veterans are having their benefits decreased or cut-off all together, I think the "First Lady" could "down-size" just a little and cut a few corners, wouldn't you say?
On my trusty little old 45 year old MONROE 3140 calculator that total comes to $1,415,170.00 per year in salaries for her 17 personal staff members. I wonder how many disabled veterans who lost limbs just in the last 5 years that amount of money would take care of.
So, to sum it all up, let's imagine just for a moment that you had in your possession, an EBT card, one with no spending limit, and whatever you did spend, you'd never have to pay back. Then you'd know what it was like to walk a mile in Michelle Obama's designer shoes.
***You might remember this one...After Barack Obuma became an Illinois state legislator, his wife moved up as well, scoring a job as 'vice president of community relations' at the University Of Chicago Hospital for a very generous salary of $121,910. When Obuma became a senator in 2005, her 'salary' leapfrogged to $$316,962 for the same job... and one of Senator Obuma's first acts in office was to see to it that the hospital received over a million dollars of your tax dollars as an earmark.
Well, Michelle has moved on,and guess what... that vital job of hers, worth a salary of over $300 K has been quietly eliminated.
It's the Chicago Way, cushy no-show jobs in exchange for political patronage... fist bump.
Of course, she had to work twice as hard to get half as far. She said so, so it must be true.
But I wonder, is this so very different that what Rod Blagojevich was popped for? Except that Blagojevich got caught and embarrassed everybody?
The Wall Street Journal Reviews "Duty" – The Robert Gates Memoir
Posted on January 8, 2014
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It appears the strategy to deflect away from the brutal outlines in Robert Gates' book is to frame Gates as an angry man with an axe to grind.
Top Ten Takeaways from "Duty"
1. Contempt for Congress - Mr. Gates expresses open disdain for Congress and the way lawmakers treated him when he testified at hearings. "I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned and prone to put self (and re-election) before country." Mr. Gates said he fantasized about storming out of hearings and quitting. "There is no son of a bitch in the world who can talk to me like that," he writes of his fantasy.
2. Contempt for Vice President Biden - Mr. Gates expresses particular dissatisfaction with Vice President Joe Biden. He describes Mr. Biden as a "man of integrity" who "has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Specifically, Mr. Gates said he opposed Mr. Biden's proposed limited strategy in Afghanistan to focus on counter-terrorism: "Whac-A-Mole hits on Taliban leaders weren't a long term strategy," he writes.
3. Suspicion of White House Control - Mr. Gates described the White House and its national security team as too controlling and says that he found himself at odds with Mr. Obama's inner circle. At one meeting in the Oval Office in 2011, Mr. Gates said he considered resigning because of the White House micromanagement and strategy. "I never confronted Obama directly over what I (as well as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta and others) saw as his determination that the White House tightly control every aspect of national security policy and even operations," Mr. Gates writes. "His White House was by far the most centralized and controlling in national security of any I had seen since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger ruled the roost" in the 1970s.
4. Friction with the National Security Staff - In particular, Mr. Gates said he was incensed by the National Security Staff and their controlling nature. "Much of my conflicts with the Obama administration during the first two years weren't over policy initiatives from the White House but rather the NSS's micromanagement and operational meddling," he writes. "For an NSS staff member to call a four-star combatant commander or field commander would have been unthinkable when I worked at the White House – and probably cause for dismissal. It became routine under Obama."
5. White House vs. Pentagon - "The controlling nature of the Obama White House, and its determination to take credit for every good thing that happened while giving none to the career folks in the trenches who had actually done the work, offended Secretary Clinton as much as it did me," Mr Gates writes. In one meeting, Mr. Gates says that he challenged Mr. Biden and Thomas Donilon, then Mr. Obama's deputy national security adviser, when they tried to pass orders to him on behalf of the president. "The last time I checked, neither of you are in the chain of command," Mr. Gates says he told the two men. Mr. Gates said he expected to deal directly with the president on such orders.
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6. Mr. Gates as Peacemaker - Mr. Gates writes that "presidents confronted with tough policy problems abroad have too often been too quick to reach for a gun. Our foreign policy has become too militarized, the use of force too easy for presidents." For too many people, he writes, "war has become a kind of videogame or action movie: bloodless, painless and odorless."
7. The War in Iraq - On Iraq, Mr. Gates writes that he hoped to "stabilize the country so that when U.S. forces departed, the war wouldn't be viewed as a strategic defeat for the U.S. or a failure with global consequences... Fortunately, I believe my minimalist goals were achieved in Iraq." The book is coming out as al Qaeda forces have seized control of key Iraqi cities and the Iraqi government is struggling to uproot the militants.
8. The War in Afghanistan - Mr. Gates writes that Mr. Obama had early doubts about his decision in late 2009 to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. "I never doubted Obama's support for the troops, only his support for the mission," he writes. Mr. Gates says that Mr. Obama was taken aback by a 2009 request from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, then commander of U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, for a major military surge. "I think Obama and his advisers were incensed that the Department of Defense – specifically uniformed military – had taken control of the policy process from them and threatened to run away with it."
9. Obama's Domestic Politics - Mr. Gates says that domestic politics factored into "virtually every major national security problem" the Obama White House faced. At one point, Mr. Gates writes, he witnessed a conversation between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton in which the president "conceded vaguely" that his opposition to the 2007 military surge in Iraq was a political calculation. Mr. Gates called the exchange "remarkable."
10. Hatred for D.C. - Mr. Gates writes that his reputation for having an even temper often masked his outrage and contempt. "I did not enjoy being secretary of defense," he writes.
Chris Christie's Staff Coordinated Traffic Snarl To Punish New Jersey Mayor – The Political Left is Outraged
Posted on January 9, 2014
I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell ya, shocked !! It's hilarious to watch the left scream how petty Governor Chris Christie's office was after an explosive controversy surrounding the George Washington Bridge, yet simultaneously forget the pettiness of President Obama closing "Open Air" monuments and attempts to stop people from looking at Mount Rushmore – Both of which were petty, ridiculous and politically motivated.(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/Christie1.jpg)
"Brother, how'd ya like me now?.... You don't even live in New Jersey and yet the sheeple elected you as our Senator. Meanwhile my staff closed a few lanes on a bridge and all hell breaks loose..... fughetaboutit" !!
NEW JERSEY - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has acknowledged that the New Jersey bridge closing scandal has reached his office.
In a statement issued Wednesday afternoon, Christie responded to the revelation that one of his close aides discussed plans to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge last year.
"What I've seen today for the first time is unacceptable," Christie said. "I am outraged and deeply saddened to learn that not only was I misled by a member of my staff, but this completely inappropriate and unsanctioned conduct was made without my knowledge."
The lane closures led to a massive, multi-day traffic jam in the town of Fort Lee, N.J. — a traffic jam Democrats have argued was intended as a form of retaliation against Fort Lee's Democratic mayor. Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which oversees the bridge, have maintained that the lanes were closed as a result of a traffic study.
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Christie, meanwhile, had in recent weeks dismissed the suggestion that the lane closures were a scandal, and made jokes about the idea that his office was involved. He adopted a very different tone in his statement on Wednesday, promising that "people will be held responsible for their actions."
"One thing is clear: this type of behavior is unacceptable and I will not tolerate it because the people of New Jersey deserve better," Christie said.
Christie's statement was prompted by documents obtained Wednesday by TPM and other media outlets. One of the documents showed Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie's deputy chief of staff for legislative and intergovernmental affairs, emailing in August with David Wildstein, one of Christie's appointees to the Port Authority. (Wildstein announced his resignation from the Port Authority late last year.)
"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Kelly wrote to Wildstein in an Aug. 13 email.
"Got it," Wildstein replied.
The documents are heavily redacted in parts, making it hard to tell if Kelly meant the traffic problems were the motivation for the closure, or whether she was anticipating the traffic as an effect of the order. (READ
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Top Christie Ally Resigns as Bridge Controversy Grows
Via WSJhttp://live.wsj.com/video/top-christie-ally-resigns-as-bridge-controversy-grows/767E134F-5035-4D50-B834-F71C8C59FC8F.html?mod=WSJ_article_outbrain&obref=obnetwork#!767E134F-5035-4D50-B834-F71C8C59FC8F
A top aide to New Jersey Gov.Chris Christie resigns [12/13/2013] over the controversial decision to close some lanes of the George Washington Bridge. Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey are accusing Christie appointees of closing the lanes for political reasons. Ted Mann reports on the News Hub.
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(Christie HAD to know about it in December)
I don't buy it !
Quote a persons remark to this article, "So why are the bats out and about when it's 109 degrees during the day? I thought they were nocturnal. I thought they hung upside-down in their caves during the day. That's what they do here in Carlsbad, New Mexico, during the day, where it can easily reach 109 degrees in the summer. "
100K Dead Bats Drop From Sky in Australia
Heat overtakes 'flying foxes'
By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff
Posted Jan 9, 2014 1:06 PM CST
(Newser) – As the US emerges from that whole "polar vortex," Australia saw an intense heatwave over the weekend—leading to the deaths of 100,000 bats, many of which reportedly dropped from the sky. In one video that went viral, a man filmed what he estimated to be more than 1,000 bat carcasses in his backyard, the Guardian reports. "The heatwave was basically a catastrophe for all the bat colonies in southeast Queensland," a rep for the RSPCA tells Australia's ABC News, noting that mass deaths were reported at 25 colonies. Bats are fragile and can't withstand temperatures above 109 degrees, a conservation worker explains. (Queensland's Brisbane got as hot as 106 on Saturday, notes ABC News.)
"They just fall," she says. "It's a horrible, cruel way to die." Another problem: The stench from the bodies is bothering locals. In one area, residents say they've had to live with the smell for days; in others, teams of trash collectors have been put together by regional councils to clean up the carcasses. In addition to those that fell to the ground, hundreds of bodies are still in trees and bushes, and maggots have already set in. As if all that isn't enough, at least 16 people have had to undergo anti-viral treatment after getting scratched or otherwise coming into close contact with a bat.
http://www.newser.com/story/180439/100k-dead-bats-drop-from-sky-in-australia.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_topnews
42 USC § 18115
Freedom Not to Participate in Federal Health Insurance Programs
Current through Pub. L. 113-36. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.)
No individual, company, business, nonprofit entity, or health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall be required to participate in any Federal health insurance program created under this Act (or any amendments made by this Act), or in any Federal health insurance program expanded by this Act (or any such amendments), and there shall be no penalty or fine imposed upon any such issuer for choosing not to participate in such programs.
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/18115
Gumball Math – Putting the Immigration Debate into Perspective
Posted By Mike "Mish" Shedlock on Jan 9, 2014
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Recently I received a link from a friend that puts the immigration debate into perspective. The video is from 2010 but seems timeless. I had not seen it before.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
I like the "gumball" analogy. However, I have never heard anyone say "US immigration is the key to solving world poverty". So right off the bat I am wondering if Roy Beck is attacking a straw man that does not exist.
Then again, I have heard people say that we need immigration and a higher birthrate to grow the economy. We don't.
Beck helps put a bit of perspective on things. But he fails to discuss why we have masses of illegal immigrants.
The problem is not immigration, per se. The problem is the "free lunch society" of Medicaid, disability, schools, foods stamps, etc., etc., that makes it desirable for masses of people to want to come to the US for handouts.
Beck does point out that some of the best and brightest want to come here. OK. But, isn't that a good thing for us?
Yet, if it's good for us, then it must be bad for someone else (something that Beck clearly implies). Mathematically it is impossible for every country to have net "good" immigration.
And here we are, with no coherent immigration policy to protect US taxpayers from "gumball math". Every state seems to have its own policies, with California being particularly lax.
Ray Stevens - God Save Arizona
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Weird!The United States of Shame (CHART)
Posted on January 24, 2011 by Jeff Wysaski
Whether it's a fat population, high rate of STDs or excessive tax rate, it turns out that every state ranks dead last in at least one unsavory category. Check out the map (click image to enlarge) to see what your state is the worst at, then review additional stats and references after the jump.
Rationale and statistics:
Most stats taken from http://www.americashealthrankings.org/ and http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/rankings.html (unless otherwise noted)
1. Alabama: highest rate of stroke (3.8 percent) (tied with Oklahoma)
2. Alaska: highest suicide rate (23.6 suicides per 100,000 people in 2004)
3. Arizona: highest rate of alcoholism
4. Arkansas: worst average credit score (636)
See the rest of the list at: http://www.pleated-jeans.com/2011/01/24/the-united-states-of-shame-chart/
Millionaires' Club: For First Time, Most Lawmakers are Worth $1 Million-Plus
by Communications on January 9, 2014
For the first time in history, most members of Congress are millionaires, according to a new analysis of personal financial disclosure data by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Of 534 current members of Congress, at least 268 had an average net worth of $1 million or more in 2012, according to disclosures filed last year by all members of Congress and candidates. The median net worth for the 530 current lawmakers who were in Congress as of the May filing deadline was $1,008,767 -- an increase from last year when it was $966,000. In addition, at least one of the members elected since then, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), is a millionaire, according to forms she filed as a candidate. (There is currently one vacancy in Congress.)
Last year only 257 members, or about 48 percent of lawmakers, had a median net worth of at least $1 million.
Members of Congress have long been far wealthier than the typical American, but the fact that now a majority of members -- albeit just a hair over 50 percent -- are millionaires represents a watershed moment at a time when lawmakers are debating issues like unemployment benefits, food stamps and the minimum wage, which affect people with far fewer resources, as well as considering an overhaul of the tax code.
"Despite the fact that polls show how dissatisfied Americans are with Congress overall, there's been no change in our appetite to elect affluent politicians to represent our concerns in Washington, said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center. "Of course, it's undeniable that in our electoral system, candidates need access to wealth to run financially viable campaigns, and the most successful fundraisers are politicians who swim in those circles to begin with."
Breaking the numbers down further, congressional Democrats had a median net worth of $1.04 million, while congressional Republicans had a median net worth of almost exactly $1 million. In both cases, the figures are up from last year, when the numbers were $990,000 and $907,000, respectively.
The median net worth for all House members was $896,000 -- that's up from $856,000 in 2011 -- with House Democrats (median net worth: $929,000) holding an edge over House Republicans (median net worth: $884,000). The median net worth for both House Republicans and Democrats was higher than in 2011.
Similarly, the median net worth for all senators increased to $2.7 million from $2.5 million, but in that body it was the Republicans who were better-off. Senate Democrats reported a median net worth of $1.7 million (a decline from 2011's $2.4 million), compared to Senate Republicans, at $2.9 million (an increase from $2.5 million).
Senate Democrats were the only group reporting a drop in their median net worth from the prior year -- a decline that is at least partly because of the loss of two extremely well-off Senate Democrats from the list: now-Secretary of State John Kerry, who had been the wealthiest senator with a 2011 average net worth of $248 million, and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) who had an average net worth of $87.5 million before his death last year.
Explore the 113th Congress' personal wealth and investments at OpenSecrets.org.
See the rest of the article at: http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/01/millionaires-club-for-first-time-most-lawmakers-are-worth-1-million-plus.html?utm_source=CRP+Mail+List&utm_campaign=c4ee622519-PFD_press_email_1_9_20141_9_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9df8578d78-c4ee622519-207044657
Another interesting link: http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/
Millionaires Make Up The Majority Of Congress: Here's Why That Hurts Us
WASHINGTON -- Millionaires occupy the majority of seats in Congress for the first time since ethics laws mandated personal financial disclosures, according to a new Center for Responsive Politics report.
Out of 534 members of Congress -- there was one vacant seat -- 268 have an average net worth of more than $1 million.
Because senators and representatives are required to report their personal finances only within ranges (such as $100,001 to $250,000), the Center for Responsive Politics calculated net worth as an average of the highest and lowest possible total.
"Despite the fact that polls show how dissatisfied Americans are with Congress overall, there's been no change in our appetite to elect affluent politicians to represent our concerns in Washington," Sheila Krumholz, the center's executive director, said in a statement.
It's true that Congress has long been filled with the wealthy, but this millionaire milestone comes as the country faces a growing income inequality gap not seen since the Gilded Age. In the past few decades, and particularly during and after the Great Recession, the super rich have seen their incomes and net worth climb as both the poor and middle classes have seen stagnation or regression.
The over-representation of the rich in Congress may influence whose interests legislators are really protecting as they seek to address questions of inequality and need, according to J. Mijin Cha, a senior policy analyst at the liberal think tank Demos.
"This coming out now when you see Congress refusing to extend unemployment insurance is so telling," Cha said.
A growing body of research around the views of the affluent and how those views dominate U.S. politics has revealed that the wealthy have different economic policy priorities than the poor and middle class, and those priorities receive far more attention in the government than the priorities of other economic classes.
The rest of the story at: Millionaires Make Up The Majority Of Congress: Here's Why That Hurts Us
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OBUMA, America's
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AMERICA'S "GAY" PRESIDENT
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THE AMERICAN DREAM
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Spectacular NASA Image Captures "Hand Of God"
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(Amazing... Also, one of my favorite Universe imageS came from Cassini, behind Saturn from the Sun)
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Via NASA:The NASA astronomers who captured this "Hand OfGod" incredible image of an exploding star nearly 17,000 light-years away have nicknamed it "The Hand of God." NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission described the phenomenon, known as a pulsar wind nebula, in a statement on their website:
It's powered by the leftover, dense core of a star that blew up in a supernova explosion. The stellar corpse, called PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short, is a pulsar: it rapidly spins around, seven times per second, firing out a particle wind into the material around it — material that was ejected in the star's explosion. These particles are interacting with magnetic fields around the material, causing it to glow with X-rays. The result is a cloud that, in previous images, looked like an open hand. The pulsar itself can't be seen in this picture, but is located near the bright white spot.
One of the big mysteries of this object is whether the pulsar particles are interacting with the material in a specific way to make it look like a hand, or if the material is in fact shaped like a hand.
The image was captured using the NuSTAR telescope, which was launched in June 2012 to "perform deep observations of the extragalactic sky."
WH Opposes Obamacare Transparency As "Administratively Burdensome"
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(Why should the Obuma regime have to pay attention to the laws that it imposes on everyone else?)
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Via Hot Air:I don't have my Yiddish-English dictionary available, but this has to be the best example of chutzpah yet. The White House announced its opposition to bills under consideration in the House that would require HHS to start reporting weekly on their incompetent rollout of ObamaCare and especially the data integrity of the exchange. The reason? It's just too burdensome, the White House explains (via JWF and Instapundit):
The Obama administration stopped short Thursday of threatening to veto House bills to require officials to tell people if their personal data has been compromised through ObamaCare, and to require weekly reports on the health law's implementation.
The White House said in two Statements of Administration Policy that it opposed both bills, one of which is set for a Friday vote in the House [ed. - the House bill passed, with 67 Democrats defecting from Obama and making a true bipartisan statement against the lack of transparency and security with Obamacare].
Weekly reporting requirements on both enrollments and the operation of the HealthCare.gov website would require "unfunded, unprecedented, and unnecessary reporting requirements" on the health insurance exchanges, it said in one statement.
"It would require the reporting of data on a weekly basis that is generally being provided on a monthly basis," the White House wrote. "Few major indicators — from job growth to Medicare Advantage enrollment to private shareholder reports — are provided more frequently than monthly; this bill would hold the Marketplaces and State Medicaid programs to unprecedented standards."
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MSNBC Race Baiter Al Sharpton Accuses GOP of "Demonizing" Single Mothers
(Says the Racist Nigga-Clown of MS/NBC who has a made a career out of demonizing white people)
Via Newsbusters:SHARPTON: Single moms don't deserve to be demonized. And if the GOP is serious about fixing poverty, they need to change their rhetoric and get their facts straight. Joining me now is Congresswoman Donna Edwards, Democrat of Maryland. Thanks for coming on the show tonightRead More At:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2014/01/10/msnbcs-sharpton-accuses-gop-demonizing-single-mothers
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This animated video demonstrates how we are teaching kids to give up their personal liberty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DysX45QQtyU
Life Inside Of Surreal, Cruel And Sheltered North Korea
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(Elderly people forced to crawl on their hands and knees to look for weeds to eat, this is the black hole of the world)
Via NY Post:In so many ways, Dennis Rodman seems the diplomat North Korea deserves: defiant, unpredictable, irrational, unhinged.
Yet the comic aspects of his so-called "basketball diplomacy" — the drunken defense of dictator Kim Jong-un on CNN; serenading Kim with "Happy Birthday"; gifting him with several bottles of his own liquor, Bad Ass Vodka; allowing his "Dream Team" of motley ex-and wannabe NBA players to lose to the North Koreans — has turned the most brutal regime in the world into a punchline for late-night comics.
Lost among the jokes is the suffering of the average North Korean — the 24.7 million who live in abject poverty in the world's most isolated nation.
North Korea's human-rights record has been condemned by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the United Nations. Aside from saber-rattling, the government maintains little communication with the outside world.
The nation has so little electricity that, in the ultimate metaphor, nighttime satellite imagery shows North Korea gone dark, the only country in the world not illuminated. Travelers are only allowed to move within a circumscribed part of Pyongyang and are chaperoned and surveilled by government officials.
So: What do we really know about life inside the Hermit Kingdom?
More People Without Health Insurance Than Before Obamacare:
Number Cancelled 6,286,357
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Via http://freebeacon.com/Seen a recent number of 4.7 million some are throwing around. I've been adding up the announcements from insurers and states since the beginning, as has Fox and this is the accurate number. Now yes, some may have acquired other insurance since then, but this is the most accurate number of plans that ObamaCare has had cancelled.
TrackingPoint 500 Series AR
This smart rifle never misses, now in semi-automatic form
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BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
January 10, 2014 10:28 amA start-up gun company unveiled a highly accurate "smart rifle" at the Consumer Electronic Show this week.
TrackingPoint presented at the show its new 500 Series AR Smart Rifle, which is just one of the company's line of "Precision Guided Fire Arms."
CNBC reports:This technology turns even a neophyte into a marksman, at least within a 500-yard range. The user simply "tags" the target, and the gun and ammo do the rest, all for a mere (gulp)...$9,950—the starting price for the new series.
In fact, the system is so accurate that a user will have up to five times the accuracy of an experienced shooter, said Oren Schauble, the company's marketing director.
The gun can track a target moving at up to 10 mph and allows for rapid engagement, meaning a person can shoot multiple targets quickly.
According to TrackingPoint, the company's unique rifles are meant to "dramatically enhance the hunting and shooting sports experience while delivering a powerful tactical advantage to military and law enforcement organizations."
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Three new precision guided firearms allow the novice shooter to engage long range targets with semi-automatic rifle speed.
TrackingPoint™, creator of the world's first Precision Guided Firearm (PGF) system, today announced the debut of the TrackingPoint 500 Series ARs for the modern sporting rifle market at ShowStoppers @ CES 2014 in Las Vegas. The three PGF rifles, offered in 7.62, .300 BLK and 5.56 calibers, incorporate the company's ground breaking Tag Track Xact technology, accurately locking onto and hitting moving targets at distances up to 500 yards.
With stabilized target selection, target tracking and guided firing the 500 Series semi-automatic AR products enable anyone to be an expert marksman out to the 500 yard effective range of the firearm, even from difficult firing positions, such as kneeling, standing or even lying beneath an automobile.
"TrackingPoint is excited to be able to expand and adapt its TTX technology for the AR semi-automatic market. For the first time, AR enthusiasts will be able to make fast and accurate shots on moving targets out to five football fields away," said John Lupher, TrackingPoint CEO. "We expect not only strong demand for the 500 Series AR products, but also a growing demand for our technology across the industry."
Introductory pricing of the 500 Series models begin at $9,950. Orders are currently being taken for TrackingPoint AR products, with delivery starting in October, 2014. You can apply to purchase the new product at tracking-point.com/apply-now
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About TrackingPointTrackingPoint based in Austin Texas created the first smart rifles known as precision guided firearms. Smart rifles utilize jet fighter lock-and-launch technology enabling anyone to engage targets at extreme ranges. Smart rifles dramatically enhance the hunting and shooting sports experience while delivering a powerful tactical advantage to military and law enforcement organizations. www.tracking-point.com
TP AR Networked TrackingScope SpecsMax Target Velocity – 10 mph
Magnification – 2-12x
Objective lens – 25mm
Laser Range Finder – 750 yards
WIFi – 802.11g
Display – 800×600 LCD
Image Sensor – 14.6 Mpixel CMOS
TTX Range – 500 yards
Operating Temperature Range – -20C to 50C
Barrel Reference System Laser – 650 nm
Microphone Sensitivity – Whisper
Battery Type – Li Ion
House Dems: Climate Change Turns Women Into Prostitutes
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(Good Lord almighty...Watch out for the rise in prostitution this week, when the next "polar vortex" hits, according to this dumb a$$ goofball Rep. Barbara Lee! They don't come any dumber... or do they?)
Via IJR:http://www.ijreview.com/2014/01/107526-house-democrats-climate-change-turns-women-prostitutes/
The Democratic party has found a new consequence of climate change: prostitution. Rep. Barbara Lee and twelve other House Democrats issued a resolution stating that climate change can cause food and water shortages,
which could lead impoverished women to turn to prostitution as a means of income:"
nsecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health," it says.
More broadly, the resolution says climate change will hurt "marginalized" women, such as refugees, sexual minorities, adolescent girls, and women and girls with HIV. It also cites Hurricane Katrina as evidence of how climate change can affect women, noting that the storm displaced "over 83 percent of low-income, single mothers" in the region.
Lawmakers Plot New Strategy
For Defying Gun Laws
Conservative lawmakers in Missouri are hoping to band together with other states to defy certain federal gun control regulations.JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Having failed in an earlier effort to bar federal agents from enforcing gun regulations in Missouri, conservative lawmakers are trying a new tack this year: banding together with other like-minded states to defy certain federal laws at the same time.
Supporters believe it will be more difficult for the federal government to shrug off such statutes if more states act together.
Missouri's latest proposal, introduced this past week, would attempt to nullify certain federal gun control regulations from being enforced in the state and subject law enforcement officers to criminal and civil penalties for carrying out such policies.
The state's Republican-led Legislature came one vote shy of overriding Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of such a measure last year. This year's bill adds a new twist, delaying the effective date for several years to allow time for other states to join the cause.
"We continue to see the federal government overreach their rightful bounds, and if we can create a situation where we have some unity among states, then I think it puts us in a better position to make that argument," said Republican Sen. Brian Nieves, who is sponsoring the legislation.
Missouri's efforts came after President Barack Obama called for expanded federal background checks and a ban on assault weapons following deadly mass shootings at a Colorado theater and a Connecticut elementary school.
Courts have consistently ruled that states cannot nullify federal laws, but that hasn't stopped states from trying or ignoring them anyway. Last year, a federal appeals court struck down a 2009 Montana law that sought to prohibit federal regulation of guns that were manufactured in the state and remained within its borders.
A similar Kansas law that makes it a felony for a federal agent to attempt to enforce laws on guns made and owned in Kansas earned a rebuke from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
Peverill Squire, a political science professor and expert on state legislatures at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said Missouri's nullification plans would probably meet a similar fate in court, but that states could hope to send an indirect message to Congress by pushing such proposals.
Republican leaders in Missouri and elsewhere say bringing other states along in the effort might lead to a different outcome.
"This can't be just a Missouri effort. There has to be a groundswell of support by the people — by other states as well — in order for us ultimately to be successful," said Republican Senate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey.
Related: Judge upholds most of New York gun control law
There's a pattern for states to follow when rebuffing federal laws. Although possessing and distributing marijuana remains a federal crime, about 20 states now have laws that allow people to use marijuana for medical purposes, and the federal government has declined to challenge new laws in Colorado and Washington allowing recreational use of marijuana.
"The idea is that if you're standing alone against a federal law, then you're not as likely to have success than if you're standing with other states," said Arkansas Republican Rep. Bob Ballinger, who sponsored an unsuccessful attempt to prevent enforcement of federal gun control laws in his state.
Under the Missouri legislation, federal law enforcement officers could face misdemeanor charges punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine for attempting to enforce federal laws considered to be "infringements on the right to keep and bear arms."
The bill cites no specific federal law, but the measure refers to taxes and fees, specifically levied against firearms, as well as tracking policies that have a "chilling effect" on gun ownership.
The provisions would take effect in January 2017 — or sooner, if at least four other states pass similar measures before then.
When the Legislature opened on Wednesday, Senate GOP leaders said passing a gun rights bill was a top priority for the legislative session. Like last year's bill, the new version would also reduce the age requirement for concealed carry permits from 21 to 19 and prohibit municipalities from passing ordinances to limit openly carrying a firearm.
Many Missouri Democrats are likely to oppose the measure again this year as an unconstitutional waste of the Legislature's time.
"The state will never trump federal laws," said Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat. "It is again another right wing Republican attempt to go Second Amendment crazy."
Associated Press writer David A. Lieb contributed to this report.
http://news.msn.com/us/lawmakers-plot-new-strategy-for-defying-gun-laws
It does appear they have forgotten much more than their place.
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Study: Obuma's closest ally Al-Qaeda is Behind 95% of World's Suicide Bombings
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(Despite them being "on the path to defeat)."
Via Times of Israel:http://www.timesofisrael.com/al-qaeda-behind-95-of-worlds-suicide-bombings-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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A team of researchers at an Israeli institute has found a surge in the number of suicide attacks in the last decade, with al-Qaeda behind the lion's share of them.
A report by the Institute for National Security Studies published in January indicates a steep rise in the number of suicide bombings since the turn of the century, with 2013 seeing a jump over the year prior.
Researchers also found a growing threat of al-Qaeda terror activity against Israel, even though the Jewish state has yet to be significantly targeted.
The study was authored by Yoram Schweitzer, head of the institute's terrorism research program, and researchers Einat Yogev and Yotam Rosner.
From the 1980s, when suicide bombings first came on the scene, until 2000, the majority of the approximately 200 such bombings were carried out by the Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah.
Since 2000, however, around 3,500 suicide bombings have been recorded. The turning point came following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
In all, al-Qaeda and jihadist groups have tallied more than 85 percent of the total suicide attacks worldwide, but in 2013 that figure rose to nearly 95%, the INSS study found.
Speed Read: Juiciest Bits From Secretary of Defense Bob Gates' 'Duty'
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In his eagerly anticipated memoir 'Duty,' former Defense Secretary Robert Gates pulls no punches about President Obama, a threat from David Petraeus, and Nancy Pelosi's bad side.Famous for the decisions he made in two wars as well as for serving two presidents of opposing parties, Robert Gates's memoir Duty leaves little room for misunderstanding how he saw people or events during his time as secretary of defense.
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He Wasn't Awed by ObumaWhether it was his age (his nickname in the Obama administration became Yoda) or that he was a remnant of the Bush administration, Gates writes that he initially felt somewhat out of place. When he was in meetings during the first half-year and staffers would hit the Bush team, Gates wondered, "Am I invisible?" He disapproved of their arguments that the Bush team had destroyed relations around the world, and writes that "discussions in the Situation Room allowed no room for discriminating analysis: Everything was awful, and Obama and his team had arrived just in time to save the day."
He also was concerned about what he saw as too much of a focus on politics. During an early meeting about Afghanistan, he was disappointed that the president focused on how Democrats and Republicans in Congress would react, and that Vice President Joe Biden "was especially emphatic about the reaction of the Democratic 'base'." He described the White House as "running scared."
He also found the president and vice president to be unnecessarily distrustful of the military. One salient story comes in a debate about Afghanistan, after which Biden and Obama called their decision an "order," which shocks Gates. He writes that the "order demonstrated... the complete unfamiliarity of both men with the American military culture" and "was unnecessary and insulting, proof dispositive of the depth of the Obama White House's distrust of the nation's military leadership."
He Was Unconditionally Effusive About BushWith almost all of his criticisms from the Bush administration focused on the political staff or members of the military talking to the press, Gates is particularly effusive when it comes to the 43rd president. When describing Bush's decision to go for the surge in Iraq, Gates says he believes it was only one of three times in history where a president "risked reputation, public esteem, credibility, political ruin, and the judgment of history on a single decision he believed was the right thing for our country." He clearly admired Bush never looking back on it or having second thoughts. In a section where he addresses his relationships with the prominent members of the Bush White House, Gates makes clear he viewed the president as a "mature leader" who was also intellectually strong and confident in his abilities.
Hillary Opposed the Surge for Political ReasonsAccording to Gates (who is otherwise overflowing with praise for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton), during the debate over ramping up troop levels in Afghanistan, Clinton copped to opposing the surge in Iraq for political reasons "because she was facing [Obama] in the Iowa primary." To which the president agreed that opposition had been political.
Obama Hates LeakersWhile the press has begun hitting the Obama administration, particularly the Justice Department, for what it sees as heavy-handedness, an anecdote from Gates suggests the sentiment about press leaks runs pretty high. After a story leaked in January 2009 about Israel and Iran, President Obama told Gates that he wanted a criminal investigation into the leaks.
When the McChrystal plan for Afghanistan leaked to The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, according to the memoir, the president raged to Gates, asking, "Is it a lack of respect for me?... Do they resent that I never served in the military? Do they think because I'm young that I don't see what they're doing?"
Obama's Heart Wasn't in the Afghan SurgeGates describes the president, who along with his staff often felt railroaded by the military, as "skeptical if not outright convinced [Afghanistan] would fail." Early on in the administration, Gates outlined for Rahm Emanuel what he believed to be a lack of public commitment by the president to the war, saying, "he needed to acknowledge that the war could take years but that he was confident we would ultimately be successful."
He Thought Petraeus Threatened HimIt's no surprise that things can become tense in a time of war. Gates went to Iraq in June 2007 and met with Gen. Petraeus to push harder because of an impatient Congress, and Gates writes that Petraeus responded, "You know, I could make your life miserable." While he masked his emotions during the meeting, Gates reports he was "taken aback... by what I interpreted as a threat."
Gates Was Conflicted on DADTGates writes that on one hand, he believed that closeted gays serving in the military were serving with "courage and honor—he lifted the ban on gays at the CIA because if open, agents would be less susceptible to blackmail. On the other hand, he worried about the idea that members of the armed forces were living and working together all day, every day, that a lot of its members came from conservative backgrounds, and that the military was already stressed due to two wars. What he says prompted him to act was the feeling that if he didn't, the courts would do so and that was the worst result possible.
He Was No Fan of Harry Reid or Nancy PelosiAt a press conference in April 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid famously declared "This war is lost," and that "the surge is not accomplishing anything." That didn't sit so well with Gates, who writes that when he heard the comments, he was reminded of a Lincoln quote (which he shared with his staff):
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged." Ouch. He also wasn't exactly enamored with the idea that the calls he received from Reid had to do with Air Force objections to wind farms in Nevada, and Reid pushing him to spend DoD money on irritable-bowel-syndrome research. Gates writes, "I didn't know whether to laugh or cry." It wasn't the last time he would laugh about Reid. Gates writes that Reid called him during the 2008 campaign to ask some questions of Gates as a potential vice-presidential candidate.
Later, Gates went to breakfast with then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi days after she said "The president's strategy in Iraq has failed," and "The choice is between a Democratic plan for responsible redeployment and the president's plan for an endless war in Iraq." Gates argued with her that President Bush and Gen. David Petraeus had enacted a change of mission and a
"sustainable path forward," but according to him, she did not care. This led Gates to surmise that, "after all, one wouldn't want facts and reality—not to mention national interest—to intrude upon partisan politics, would one?"
Later, Pelosi is briefed on the timetable for drawdowns in Iraq, during which she was informed that roughly 50,000 troops would remain in Iraq through 2011. Gates describes that she
"alternately looked like she had swallowed an entire lemon and like she was simply going to explode."Ambassador Ryan Crocker Proved PrescientNicknamed "Sunshine" by the president for his painfully realistic portrayals of the struggles in Iraq, then-Ambassador Ryan Crocker offered what is now—with news of al Qaeda strongholds in Fallujah and the worst violence since 2006—an awfully prophetic assessment to Gates and Bush. Crocker told them that
"if we walk away, there will be a humanitarian disaster on the scale of Rwanda, it will open the way to al Qaeda to return to ungoverned spaces, and it will open the way for Iran with consequences for all Arab states."He Worried About Saudi Arabia and Israel's InfluenceDuring his time as secretary of defense, Gates says one of his main goals was to keep the U.S. from entering another military conflict while Afghanistan and Iraq were still raging. However, on issues like Iran and Syria, Gates faced some in the White House (notably then-Vice President Dick Cheney) who wanted to use military action to "solve" problems in those countries. While Gates says he is a strong supporter of Israel, he writes that he "worried about the influence of the Israelis and the Saudis in the White House... and their desire to have problems like Iran 'taken care of' while Bush was still president."
Later, during a debate over support for enhanced Israeli strike capabilities, after Gates outlined his opposition, he writes that, "Cheney spoke next, and I knew what was coming ... The United States should give Israel everything it wanted."
He Loves DesignPerhaps in an attempt to keep readers engaged, Gates engages in more than a little descriptive language when it comes to design. He describes one of Saddam's palaces covered in gold leaf and with bedrooms the size of basketball courts as "early dictator." He refers to the Old Executive Office Building as a "gingerbread building" and spends a paragraph describing his office in the Pentagon, which is filled with what he deems "late-government" style furniture and lighting as well as antique furnishings from Ulysses S. Grant and General John J. Pershing.
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Obuma Whines: People Don't "Respect" Me...
(The son-of-a-bitch is right, we don't respect him. Instead of pissing and moaning about it he should ask himself why. Let me count the ways, Barry, you have earned 'said' disrespect:
commie, LIAR, anti-America(ns), LIAR, thief, LIAR, ideologue, LIAR, vindictive, LIAR, arrogant, LIAR, narcissistic, LIAR, egomaniac, LIAR.. feel free to add any I have missed to the list!Odd. Obuma announces his dictatorial intentions, telling more than half of the country that he doesn't give a crap about how they feel. He tells elderly Catholic nuns they must worship his abortion and eugenics culture. He tells struggling small businesspersons their business will just have to die for his progressive ideology.(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/789/9186/original.jpg?w=600)
And as he jets off to another vacation or hits the greens for yet another day of lazy privilege on our dime, he wonders why he is not universally loved and adored?
Answer being:
Barack, you crummy piece of sh!t, you're the school tool who had to buy his friends. Those people who you think like you, with their ObumaFones and Obuma food stamps they exchange for drug money... they just fake it. Nobody... and I mean NOBODY really likes you... well, exception being Al-Qaeda. Right, Sport?)
Could it be true?
Hi Warph,ere are you
Where are you? I miss your posts. I hope you are okay.
Democrats are working hard to make sure
conservative groups are silenced in the
2014 midterms.
Jan. 16, 2014 7:19 p.m. ET
President Obama and Democrats have been at great pains to insist they knew nothing about IRS targeting of conservative 501(c)(4) nonprofits before the 2012 election. They've been at even greater pains this week to ensure that the same conservative groups are silenced in the 2014 midterms.
That's the big, dirty secret of the omnibus negotiations. As one of the only bills destined to pass this year, the omnibus was—behind the scenes—a flurry of horse trading. One of the biggest fights was over GOP efforts to include language to stop the IRS from instituting a new round of 501(c)(4) targeting. The White House is so counting on the tax agency to muzzle its political opponents that it willingly sacrificed any manner of its own priorities to keep the muzzle in place.
The fight was sparked by a new rule that the Treasury Department and the IRS introduced during the hush of Thanksgiving recess, ostensibly to "improve" the law governing nonprofits. What the rule in fact does is recategorize as "political" all manner of educational activities that 501(c)(4) social-welfare organizations currently engage in.
It's IRS targeting all over again, only this time by administration design and with the raw political goal—as House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R., Mich.) notes—of putting "tea party groups out of business."
Read the rest of the story at the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304603704579324783339931114
Fifteen Things That Turned Obuma's Hair Grey
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"There are many factors within the fray,
that have turned our Presidents hair to grey.
Pundits, done-thats and patriots galore
seek to sabotage him evermore..."
These are the things that have turned our fearless leader's head from black to grey in only five short years:
15 – Having Military Generals whisper to him that 'they would do a Kennedy' on him if he so much as tried to close Guantanamo Bay.
14 – Learning just how much control Cheney still had in Washington after leaving office.
13 – Realizing that almost every Republican in D.C. was going to knee cap him no matter what he tried to accomplish politically.
12 – That the entire gauntlet of conservative think tanks were going to turn their brains inside out to undermine any legislation and concern that he had.
11 – That even if he acted as holy as Buddha himself people were going to find things to fault in him.
10 – That his enemies were not going to stop at pointing fingers and slandering him but also his wife and children any chance they got.
9 – Knowing that no matter how carefully he acted FOX News was going to be watching and constantly looking for anything to berate him about his entire term.
8 – That he learned that more Americans than anyone thought were color-blind- they cannot see anyone other than a Caucasian running things.
7 – Learning just how little power the President of the supposedly greatest nation on earth has when it comes to dealing with powerful corporations, ambitious and crafty foreign powers, self-centered lobbying groups and fellow countrymen who care only about their own short-sighted agendas.
6 – Realizing just how little true patriotism there is in this country and just how much phony, self serving, demeaning patriotism there is.
5 – Seeing that no matter how much he tried to reach across the aisle his hand would only get bitten.
4 – Realizing how little acknowledgment and respect he would get from isolationists and from 'us first and only' Americans for showing concern, regard and humility towards other foreign countries and political entities.
3 – Coming to know even the slightest of scandals in his administration would get blown up way out of proportion to their importance, an example being to compare a regular kids balloon to that of one of Mickey Mouse in the Macy's parade.
2 – That many 'loyal, patriotic Americans' were so-called loyal and patriotic because it was to their financial or status benefit and that they would use their pompous, inflated stature to hit him over the head with it.
1 – Discovering that half the members of the NRA would love to have his head as a trophy on their wall.
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Presidential Vagina Chronicles: Michelle Says: "I can't go home again" After Barry Caught Dipping his Johnson in the Danish Cheese Spread!
by Captain America (Satire World)
The National Enquirer confirmed the story that SW broke last week about the Obama marriage being 'irretrievably broken' and even added a few more juicy tidbits that SW with held out of deference to the office of the President of the United States.
Former staunch supporters of Obama were said to be 'outraged and mortified' over the President's actions at the Mandela remembrance, where he behaved like an over sexedpimply teenager as he appeared to be setting up a three some swinging party with Dave Cameron, UK PM, and Helle Thorning Schmidt ,the blonde Commando PM from Denmark.
Said one, "Even Bill would have waited to dip his cigar until he got back to his office and not drool in public like Barry... I think he has a serious sex problem!"
SW 'sleeper' stringers inside the White House said that as soon as the first couple got back to DC Michelle banished Barry to the guest sleeping quarters and gave him a real 'shout out' about his demeaning behaviour.
Naturally she was more embarrassed about her own humiliation than the 'black spot' it put on this country's diplomatic efforts as the rest of the world waits breathlessly for it to go up in flames, or a gigantic mushroom cloud somewhere in the Mid-East.
The Hawaiian vacation got off to even a worse footing, when concerned libtards allegedly leaked confidential information about the Secret Service covering up catching Barry in at least two compromising positions in the White House whilst Michelle was off on one of her extravagant 'holidays.'
Apparently that was the 'hump' that broke the camel's back, so to speak, and Michelle launched into a screaming match saying she was 'done' and he could 'go pound sand with your camel jockey friends and 'choom' your arse off in Denmark!"
Furthermore, she said she wouldn't be flying home with Barry saying, " I don't want to be anywhere near you until you take and AIDS test and get some therapy with Charlie Sheen!"
Inquiring minds at SW are not surprised. From the first year he was in office, rumours were rampant about Michelle's jealously amidst reports that several comely staffers were exiled to foreign assignments if they appeared to be showing any interest in the 'clean, articulate Black Man' in the White House.
Further digging by SW has come up with a description of at least one of the women being hurriedly shown out of the President's study after they were 'rudely' interrupted discussing 'French foreign affairs'.
One source described her as 'the perfect composite woman described in Obama's 3 auto biogaphys (written by Bill Ayers): Boobs to make J-man cry for mercy, long white legs to drive Kayne West from home, an arse like Reggie Love, and lips so full and ripe Bill Clinton would have committed perjury.(again?)
Unfortunately, no more was seen as she was whisked out to a waiting armoured limousine in a black burqa while Obama retired to the oval office and was seen confessing on his prayer rug and begging Allah that the episode wouldn't get back to Michelle.
As one Secret Service man commented as he was settling up with a DC hooker, "I wouldn't want to be the President when Mooch ever hears about this... she could take him 2 out of 3 falls, and flat out whip his arse and then cut off his d*** with that straight edge she's been carrying since Princeton! Besides, Sharia law is a real Bitch!"
More when SW gets ahold of Barry's underwear and matches a sample of the DNA in the Cheese!
Plausible deniability is also making the rounds behind closed doors in all late night Washington night spots.
Rachel Maddow: it wasn't me...I don't swing that way!
Rihanna: dat man don't do nuttin' for me, I thing he digs Jay-Z though!
Huma Weiner: I woulda if I coulda...Kosher just ain't cuttin' if for me anymore,
but I don't want to be stoned to death by my relatives!
Sarah Palin: I'm just very, very surprised he could get it up without Valerie holding it for him!
Michelle Bachman: From what I hear Barry's got a long, long, long way to go before he can match up with Ron Jeremy!
At a hastily called press conference today Obama looked chagrinned as he started off his monologue saying, "Today...I just want to get back to the Affordable Care Act and not talk about P-P-P***y-Gate!" OOOOPS...damn that telepromter!
Hillary Clinton Was Fired For Lying and Fraud During Her First DC Legal Job
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Washington, DC – (SatireWorld.com)The former general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary during the 1970s Watergate investigation, says her history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.
Hillary Clinton took some criticism over her reported 'Bosnia sniper misfire' claim, for which she has been derided and ridiculed by all but the most staunch of her supporters. It has even inspired a YouTube video, which surpassed 1,500,000 views.
Now comes this bombshell from Jerry Zeifman, who supervised a much younger Hillary Clinton when she worked as a staffer for the Watergate committee back during the Nixon investigation ion the 1970s:
'A lifelong Democrat, Mr. Zeifman supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy's chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman's 17-year career.'Why?
"Because she was a liar," Zeifman said in an interview last week.
"She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.'Mr. Zeifman also had this to say about a Hillary campaign rally in Connecticut in early February of this year:
'I have just seen Hillary Clinton and her former Yale law professor both in tears at a campaign rally here in my home state of Connecticut. Her tearful professor said how proud he was that his former student was likely to become our next President. Hillary responded in tears.''My own reaction was of regret that, when I terminated her employment on the Nixon impeachment staff, I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations.'This is no small potatoes, like the cattle futures dustoff. From Mr.Zeifman's account, Hillary and others on the Committee, including former senior associate special counsel (and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation by stealing Judiciary Committee files on the only precedent case that could have stonewalled their plot and drafting a legal brief that, according to Mr. Ziefman,
"was so fraudulent and ridiculous Hillary would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge."Things were already very tough for the former First Lady. Her ex-President husband has not exactly been helping her on the campaign trail recently, and she is no doubt wondering what kind of artillery the dreaded Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is waiting to fire at her in the general election, should she make it that far.
This last torpedo, from a lifelong Democrat no less, may just be the one that sinks the Good Ship Hillary and her dreams of the presidency, which only a year ago looked like a cakewalk.
Though a year can be an eternity in politics, Hillary knows probably better than anyone (except maybe her husband) that political fortunes can turn overnight.
It's going to be a lively one on the Democrat side. Perhaps even more so than the chaos and turmoil at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Perhaps more than any other in American political history.
Oprah, Dr. Phil, Dr. Ruth & Ron Jeremy Rush to Hawaii During Obama Marriage Crisis!
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"To hell with Barry... that scum-bag"
by Captain America
Marriage made in Heaven falling apart over Helle (sic).
Michelle rants over marriage breakup!
Honolulu, HI – (SatireWorld.com)Rampant rumours of the Obama 'marriage' under threat and in crisis by mounting media investigation has led to a team of famous counselors, psychologists and even one well endowed sex surrogate to act in an emergency Intervention!
Tension mounted between the royal couple as Barry played touchy feely with blonde, long legged Danish PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt during the Mandela funeral, with the couple involved in a 'texting threesome" with British PM Dave 'do nothing' Cameron as Michelle looked on with 'very tight jaws', according to observers.
Commenting later on the photos that went viral, an embarrassed Jay Blarney, Barry's apologist, was forced to explain the bulge in Barry's pocket was not because he was happy to see Helle, but merely the fact he forgot his BlackBerry was set on 'vibrate'.
Recounting a now familiar explanation Jay added, "Of course the President didn't know he had set it (his personal encrypted phone) to "HUM" causing the unintended physical reaction.
Dr. Phil commenting on Carney's remarks said, "it's not unusual for a guy to get an erection after being cut off from sex for an extended period of time, especially when seated next to an attractive (white) woman who has her skirt hiked up to her navel in a 'Fatal Attraction' moment.
Said a body language expert appearing on MSNBC, "Helle is a wonder...she's always ready for the cameras on time, even though she has two more cheeks to powder and a lot more hair to comb!"
The Brazilian ambassador to the event refused to comment when asked about the apparent slight to his country's custom of waxing privates.
A disgruntled member of the Hawaiian staff cut down to part time employment (it's Obamacare) at Oprah's mansion on the Pacific, said Valerie Jarrett and Gayle King decided Sunday night that they needed to force an 'intervention' after Michelle ranted that she had enough on Barry to derail any plans for his future as the next head of the European Union with a residence in Brussels, and within easy commuting distance to Denmark.
"As far as I'm concerned, that Amateur can go to Helle," Mooch was quoted as screaming to Jarrett, who looked on in horror.
Supposedly Michelle also threatened to have a 'quickie' with Harry Belafonte and send Barry the pictures of the event to his private e-mail address just to 'F*** with his mind!"
Famous barracuda Hollywood divorce lawyer Gloria All-Red (NPI) also was mentioned by Michelle as she finished off her 6th Mimosa while in the hot tub.
Realizing things were getting out of hand the duo send out a 911 call to Oprah to put together a 'mental illness rehabilitation' team to fly out to Hawaii before 'the S*** hit the fan!"
This is now the second presidential flap in less than a week with sexual overtones. France's Socialist President (does 75% income tax make him a socialist, hmmm?) was left with his arse exposed after being spotted being delivered on a 3-wheeled moped by his driver to a love nest where he was doing the Mambo with an actress 20 years his junior.
When questioned by a French SW stringer on why he was wearing a helmet to disguise himself, he was quoted as saying, "when one choses to live dangerously, it's always best to have protection for your head," before he scooted away back to the palace.
Apparently now spurned, Valerie Trierwiler, France's 'first mistress' was so distraught on the news, she checked herself into rehab for stress and 'humiliation', also concerned that she would be left off the flight manifest as Hollonde flew to the US next month to meet with Obama, who she claimed 'is a very dear friend with similar proclivities to my dear Francois."
No further word from Michelle's intimate advisors why Ron Jeremy, famous porn star with over 2000 'appearances' is making the trip other than to portray a 'stiff front' to combat rumours of sexual dysfunction in the First Couple.
Lindsay Lohan, contacted about the Presidential conundrum was said to have had 3 demands prior to her last adult movie appearance: No Bestiality, No Anal, and NO SEX with Barry. Who Knew, eh?
More after Gloria All-Red releases her terms for divorce.
Is the Obama marriage on the rocks?
Astonishing claims emerge of ugly fights over that selfie,
and even a Presidential affair
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Formidable: Michelle Obama with her husband
***Michelle Obama alleged to have discovered her husband has been unfaithful
***Reports claim they will separate at the end of his presidency in 2016
***Follows claims in two books that couple neared divorce in early 2000'sThe Daily Post
by Tom Leonard
Jan. 17, 2014With invitations warning guests to 'EBYC' — Eat Before You Come — and rumours they'll be dancing to star turns from Beyonce and her rapper husband Jay Z, it won't be your usual White House knees-up.
Michelle Obama was 50 yesterday and President Barack Obama will be feting his redoubtable First Lady tonight with a party that will give them the chance to let their hair down and forget their troubles for a few hours.
The email inviting guests to the 'snacks & sips & dancing & dessert' advised them to wear comfortable shoes and practise their dance moves.
Purse-lipped Washington etiquette experts have tutted at the informality of it all, but the Obamas have always been keen to appear accessible, even if the stand-offish reality is somewhat different.
The Obamas are the world's most scrutinised couple at the best of times, but it will be rare to find a guest at the bash who won't be secretly watching them with particular interest.
After all, the last time they were pictured together — at Nelson Mandela's memorial — the First Lady was looking none too pleased as the her husband posed for a 'selfie' photograph with the leggy blonde Danish Prime Minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
Indeed, if the U.S. tabloids are to be believed, the relationship of Washington's golden couple is facing problems that go far beyond dirty looks.
Under the headline Obama Divorce Bombshell!, the National Enquirer claims their 21-year marriage has dissolved in a string of ugly fights that were prompted by the Mandela memorial incident and — far more outrageously — Mrs Obama's discovery that Secret Service bodyguards had been covering up infidelity on her husband's part.
It's an allegation the White House has declined to comment on, though after Bill Clinton's trouser-dropping scandals, Americans would be rather less sanguine about any extra-marital activity than the French appear to be over President Francois Hollande's behaviour.
Mrs Obama, the Enquirer claims, intends to stand by her husband until his presidency is over, at which time he will move back to Hawaii, where he grew up, and she will stay in Washington with their children.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2541580/Is-Obama-marriage-rocks-Ugly-fights-selfie-Even-Presidential-affair-Astonishing-claims-emerge.html#ixzz2qkTqhUYs
'Extraordinary crisis' needed to preserve 'New World Order'
Author of 'shock and awe' doctrine says elite threatened by non-state actors like Snowden
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
January 17, 2014
Writing for the Atlantic Council, a prominent think tank based in Washington DC, Harlan K. Ullman warns that an "extraordinary crisis" is needed to preserve the "new world order," which is under threat of being derailed by non-state actors like Edward Snowden.
Image: Atlantic Council Meeting (Wikimedia Commons).
The Atlantic Council is considered to be a highly influential organization with close ties to major policy makers across the world. It's headed up by Gen. Brent Scowcroft, former United States National Security Advisor under U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. Snowcroft has also advised President Barack Obama.
Harlan K. Ullman was the principal author of the "shock and awe" doctrine and is now Chairman of the Killowen Group which advises government leaders.
In an article entitled War on Terror Is not the Only Threat, Ullman asserts that, "tectonic changes are reshaping the international geostrategic system," arguing that it's not military superpowers like China but "non-state actors" like Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning and anonymous hackers who pose the biggest threat to the "365 year-old Westphalian system" because they are encouraging individuals to become self-empowered, eviscerating state control.
"Very few have taken note and fewer have acted on this realization," notes Ullman, lamenting that "information revolution and instantaneous global communications" are thwarting the "new world order" announced by U.S. President George H.W. Bush more than two decades ago.
"Without an extraordinary crisis, little is likely to be done to reverse or limit the damage imposed by failed or failing governance," writes Ullman, implying that only another 9/11-style cataclysm will enable the state to re-assert its dominance while "containing, reducing and eliminating the dangers posed by newly empowered non-state actors."
Ullman concludes that the elimination of non-state actors and empowered individuals "must be done" in order to preserve the new world order. A summary of their material suggests that the Atlantic Council's definition of a "new world order" is a global technocracy run by a fusion of big government and big business under which individuality is replaced by transhumanist singularity.
Ullman's rhetoric sounds somewhat similar to that espoused by Trilateral Commission co-founder and regular Bilderberg attendee Zbigniew Brzezinski, who in 2010 told a Council on Foreign Relations meeting that a "global political awakening," in combination with infighting amongst the elite, was threatening to derail the move towards a one world government.
Ullman's implied call for an "extraordinary crisis" to reinvigorate support for state power and big government has eerie shades of the Project For a New American Century's 1997 lament that "absent some catastrophic catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor," an expansion of U.S. militarism would have been impossible.
In 2012, Patrick Clawson, member of the influential pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) think tank, also suggested that the United States should launch a staged provocation to start a war with Iran.
Ullman's concern over failing state institutions having their influence eroded by empowered individuals, primarily via the Internet, is yet another sign that the elite is panicking over the "global political awakening" that has most recently expressed itself via the actions of people like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and their growing legion of supporters.
http://www.infowars.com/think-tank-extraordinary-crisis-needed-to-preserve-new-world-order/
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ObamaCare gets outsourced amid unemployment crisis
By Robert Oak
January 18, 2014 | 5:05pm
President Obama spent $831 billion of taxpayer money on a stimulus plan for the economy. He gave nearly $50 billion in aid to GM to keep it afloat. He lost $500 million on energy company Solyndra. All in the name of saving jobs.
Yet when it comes to his own signature initiative, the president doesn't care about American workers. He's outsourced ObamaCare.
After the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov, the administration hired Accenture as the new lead contractor. The deal is estimated to be worth $90 million and is now in the hands of the poster boy for global labor arbitrage and offshore tax havens.
Accenture has 80,000 Indian workers, 35,000 in the Philippines and only 40,000 in the United States. Over 40 percent of their worth comes from outsourcing. In all probability, the tech jobs awarded under this contract and paid for with US tax dollars are going abroad.
But even if the work is done locally, chances are the employees are foreigners brought in for lower wages using the controversial H-1B visa program — where companies are allowed to hire guest workers from abroad.
In 2012, Accenture ranked fifth among American companies in using H-1B visas. That year alone, Accenture brought into the United States 4,037 foreign workers on H-1B visas.
Tech companies argue they need H-1B visas because there aren't enough qualified American engineers, yet the facts do not bear this out. In truth there is no tech worker shortage or lack of skills and talent in America. The real motivation of offshore outsourcing companies like Accenture is cost. They use H-1B and other guest-worker visas to pay less wages than they would have to pay an equivalent American worker.
Accenture saves money by underpaying foreign guest workers they import — typically 25 percent less for their imported employees than the prevailing wage for a similar US citizen worker.
Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, analyzed Accenture's use of the H-1B program. In 2005, the company had 12,684 H-1B foreign guest workers earning an average of $53,042 per year. That's far less than the median $80,000 salary the same job responsibilities and skills required would fetch for an American worker. Accenture is so bad, they paid a foreign guest worker $25,113 per year — for the title of "chief programmer." Typically chief programmers make six figures in the United States.
It appears undercutting wages with H-1B visas is part of Accenture's business model. Hira found that, in 2012, the median salary paid for Accenture's new H-1B workers was $64,700, while Amazon paid their equivalent H-1B workers a median salary of $95,000. Google, who also uses comparable technical skills sets to Accenture and Amazon, paid a median salary of $110,000 to their new H-1B visa hires.
Accenture also avoids American taxes. The company is headquartered in Chicago, but it's incorporated in noted tax haven Ireland.
It's unclear how much money Accenture has avoided paying to the US. But the company caused a scandal in the UK last year when it was revealed it paid only 3.5% in corporate income taxes, when the going rate is 25%.
If you've never heard of Accenture, the largest consulting company in the world, that's by design. Accenture used to be called Arthur Anderson, until it was found to be complicit in the Enron scandal.
But hey, new name, new advertising campaign — who remembers?
And chances are Accenture has kept its nose clean since . . . Except no.
In 2011, Accenture agreed to pay the government nearly $64 million after being accused by the Justice Department of making false claims for payment with agencies for information-technology services. That's right, they falsely billed the government for IT work. And now they're running the government's health-care website.
http://nypost.com/2014/01/18/obamacare-gets-outsourced-amid-unemployment-crisis/
Globalist Brainwashing 101: Building the Perfect Beast Inside Your Head
January 20, 2014 By 21st Century Wire
It's all very matter-of-fact sounding, when highfalutin think tanks construct our reality for us.
The low end of public brainwashing comes from the mainstream media, but the high end of intellectual distortion is supplied by globalist 'think tanks'...
public compliance, it's important to preserve the existential threat, or the perfect beast. Harlan Ullman speaks of 'al Qaida' as some kind of naturally occurring extremist plague but fails to mention the CIA, the FBI and the Pentagon and their roles in funding and steering al Qaeda. No mention of Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. He speaks of the resurgence of al Qaida and 'non-state actors' but fails to mention the west's central role in arming them in Libya and Syria. No mention of Israel either. The facts are conveniently left out.
Globalist think tanks like The Atlantic Council are strictly targeting one of the most intellectually vulnerable, perennially naive and mentally challenged sectors of society: elected US Congressmen and Senators.
If the existential threat is fading, then it's time to build-up an internal threat. For this, Ullman speaks of Snowden and Manning – as if whistleblowers are some sort of problem to be 'dealt with'. Ullman then outlines the big picture:
"September 11th could become the demarcation point of this new era much as 1648 and the Treaty of Westphalia marked the beginning of the state-centric system of the international order."
He speaks as if Sept 11th was actually a grass-roots, Islamic terror operation, as if that were actually plausible. He attempts to leverage this historical distortion in order to put down the nation-state, in favour of an unelected One World Government underpinned by a cartel of globalist corporations, or a 'New World Order'.
In another recent Atlantic Council paper entitled, The Security of Cities: Ecology and Conflict on an Urbanizing Planet, social engineer and 'environmental security expert' Peter Engelke purports to have all the right answers... to all the wrong questions. He claims:
"The culprits are people who live in cities. The collective behavior of billions of urbanites is the main reason why fossil fuels are mined from the ground, coastal mangroves are turned into fish farms, and the Earth's atmosphere is changing."
The experts' willful admission of the true facts of the matter are glaringly obvious and reveal who actually pays the bill for these policy mills. According to the Atlantic Council, mankind's demise is all down to the "billions of urbanites". Not a mention of the arcane and short-sighted government policies, and more importantly, the run-away corporate cancer which has metastases in almost every area of social life, especially in the wanton destruction of small farmers and natural, organic methods of food production, in favour of big agri, big petro-chemical, big pharma and big gene. Notice how these kind of elite essays dovetail perfectly with the UN Agenda 21 directives. Now you see where they are quietly nudging society, why, and for whom.
Arrogantly, pseudo intellectuals with titles like 'Senior Research Fellow' will proceed to write a version history tailored to a future where their status is preserved, which then roll it up, and shoved down our collective throats.
A look at who pays for all the Atlantic Council's policy hacks and their papers should tell you who their real audience is:
Unilever, ExxonMobil, Novartis, Genel Enerji, Microsoft, Accenture Federal Services, Aramco Services Company, ATK, The Boeing Company, 21st Century Fox, African Energy Resources, Barclays Capital, The Blackstone Group, Bloomberg, The Coca-Cola Company, Infosys, Intesa Sanpaolo, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, LexisNexis , PwC and Raytheon – to name only a few.
Yes, a New World, safe for them.
AN INCREDIBLE DISTORTION OF REALITY, AND THE FUTURE...
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War on Terror Is not the Only Threat
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Harlan Ullman
Atlantic Council
Unspecific warnings last week about an al-Qaida terrorist plot were taken very seriously.
With the anniversary of September 11th looming and the tragic killing of U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, last year still open political wounds in Washington, it was unsurprising that the United States, Britain, and France ordered the closing of a score embassies and posts throughout North Africa and the Middle East and issued travel warnings for the region. In the United States initially, there was general bipartisan support for the closings.
Critics of the Obama administration were quick to point out that the war on terror was far from over and pronouncing the "decimation" of al-Qaida premature. As the word "decimation" was wrongly used yet again — it means a 10 percent degradation — so too has been the collective failure by the West to recognize the tectonic changes that are reshaping the international geostrategic system far beyond the reach of al-Qaida and other terrorist groups.
Hence, the counter-terrorism responses have been technical and tactical rather than strategic and aren't addressing the forces that are dramatically altering the nature of international politics.
In simple terms, al-Qaida is symptomatic of far greater changes in the structure of the international system. The major enemy and adversary are no longer states bent on disrupting or dominating the system despite those who see China as a future foe.
Instead, the more immediate danger rests in the dramatic empowerment of individuals and groups, for good and sadly evil, often lumped together as "non-state actors."
Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, countless "hackers" and anonymous people mailing anthrax-filled letters whose actions have indeed constituted real threats and systemic disruptions are among the former. Al-Qaida and other radical groups reflect the latter.
In essence, the 365 year-old Westphalian system that placed sovereign states as the centerpieces of international politics is being tested and in some cases made obsolete by the empowerment of individuals and non-state actors. As former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft observes, global politics has entered a post-Westphalian era. But very few have taken note and fewer have acted on this realization.
The fundamental cause of this empowerment is the diffusion of all forms of power writ large commonly called "globalization," accelerated by the information revolution and instantaneous global communications and the real and perceived fragilities and weaknesses of states to intervention, interference and disruption by non-traditional actors.
September 11th could become the demarcation point of this new era much as 1648 and the Treaty of Westphalia marked the beginning of the state-centric system of the international order.
While the analogy is loose, it won't take centuries for the effects of globalization and the end or at least the transition of the Westphalian era to take hold.
Beyond this inflection point in international politics, still unabsorbed and misunderstood by most governments and people, a second reality complicates taking effective action in what could truly be a "new world order," the description coined by U.S. President George H.W. Bush after the implosion of the Soviet Union more than two decades ago.
Failed and failing government from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe with Brussels and Washington in between is the largest collective impediment to the betterment of mankind.
Without an extraordinary crisis, little is likely to be done to reverse or limit the damage imposed by failed or failing governance. The United States is Exhibit A although there are far too many competitors for that title.
However, the changing Westphalian system can and must be addressed if there is to be any chance of success in containing, reducing and eliminating the dangers posed by newly empowered non-state actors.
We have been here before. Sixty-eight years ago this month, the nuclear age dawned over Hiroshima. Over time as nuclear and especially thermonuclear weapons were seen as more than just extensions of conventional munitions and potentially existential, a theory of deterrence emerged. We are at similar juncture regarding cyber where we lack an overarching understanding of the implications and possible consequences of this domain.
The first step as the Westphalian system faces profound redefinition is understanding and recognizing that these shifts are under way. From that appreciation, specific concepts and ideas can be fashioned to help guide us on this journey.
The path will be difficult and tortuous. Politics and ideological preferences will confuse and distort clear vision. The tendency to overreact, as occurred after September 11th and the Snowden and Manning leaks, will collide with budget realities in which a great deal less will be spent on national security. And because of the pernicious nature of the U.S. system of government, finding institutions with the objectivity, courage and perseverance to chart this new unknown won't be easy.
Yet this must be done.
Harlan Ullman is senior adviser at the Atlantic Council, and chairman of the Killowen Group that advises leaders of government and business. This article was syndicated by UPI.
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/01/20/globalist-brainwashing-101-building-the-perfect-beast-inside-your-head/
My emphasis on NGO's in the article!
October 08, 2012
The Westphalian Imaginary
by Tanja Venstad
As students of international relations, we are all familiar with the Westphalian system. The traditional story is as follows (in greatly simplified form):
The Thirty Years' War was a struggle between two main parties. On one side were the "universalists" and on the other were the "particularists". The universalists were the members of the Habsburg dynasty who advocated absolute control over Christendom. The particularists were those who rejected overlordship and upheld the right of all states to full independence. The particularists won, and the great Peace of Westphalia was signed, which formalized the principles of state sovereignty, autonomy, and equality. The Peace of Westphalia marked the transformation of the international system into a system that would respect a states' authority over its defined geographic area and freedom from outside interference in its domestic affairs. The Westphalian system has been the primary structure of the international system since 1648, but reached its peak, or "Golden Age", in the nineteenth century with the rise of nationalism.
International relations theorists adopted the view of the winners and three main tenants of the treaty are defined as enduring characteristics of the international system:
1.All states have a right to sovereignty and political self-determination
2.All states are legally equal
3.One state (or a group of states) cannot interfere in the affairs of another
The Westphalian settlement has formed the normative structure of the modern world order for the past four centuries. However, in the past twenty years or so, it has been suggested that the Westphalian system is in decline. One can observe the gradual shift from the state-centric Westphalian system to one (which has yet to be defined or labeled) which includes strong non-state actors such as the European Union, terrorist groups,
NGOs, etc.
But my question is: how can we be moving into a post-Westphalian system when the Westphalian system never existed?
The Westphalian system is a construct that has guided international relations for hundreds of years. But I believe that we have never actually experienced a true Westphalian system.
First, let's look at the Thirty Years' War. Common IR rhetoric tells us the story written above. It's clear that this was a complex conflict with a variety of actors, motivations, and goals. But if one examines the war more closely, the Habsburgs did not start the war because they wanted to expand their power. In fact, the other actors (France, Denmark, and Sweden) in Europe were trying to diminish the Habsburg's role and aggressively expand their own territory. The war began as a conflict between the Habsburg's and the German princes; the other powers jumped in claiming to be fighting oppression, but really hoping to increase their landholdings.
So, if the war was not fought in the name of defending national sovereignty, then our interpretation of the peace treaties cannot be right. IR scholars tend to read the treaties as concerned with issues of sovereignty and reordering the European system. However, the peace treaties dealt primarily with freedom of religion and religious practices within states. None of the states involved in the war were concerned with losing their sovereignty, but rather with reshuffling the balance of power in their favor. No great revolution in the way we conceptualize sovereignty actually occurred. The hierarchical system that was in place before the Thirty Years' War, endured after the war and after the peace treaties. The idea of an international "system" is an 18th century construct that was then used to analyze past events. The Peace of Westphalia is a major turning point, not because the peace treaties themselves said anything about the principles of sovereignty, territoriality, and autonomy, but because of their implications for the development of IR theory.
Also, the Westphalian system has more exceptions than rules. I can name hundreds of instances in which the sovereignty of one state was violated by another: recent intervention in Libya, the European Union, the First Gulf War when Iraq invaded Kuwait, Soviet satellite states during the Cold War, colonization of the Americas, Asia, and Africa...I could go on forever. The point is, if we insist that the principles of sovereignty, territoriality, and autonomy are the three foundational principles of international system, why do we break our own rules so often? Could it be because our fixation on the Westphalian model is preventing us from seeing the world as it really is? We cannot claim that we operate in the Westphalian way when we conduct our international relations as exceptions to the Westphalian model.
But just because the Westphalian system is imaginary does not mean that it is not important. Whether it exists or not, the Westphalian model has guided international relations for over four hundred years. The basic notions of sovereignty, territoriality, and autonomy are the foundations upon which we have structured our world. And this story that we are told about the Westphalian system makes sense. The Westphalian model offers a simple, arresting, and elegant image of our world. And we're reluctant to accept that the lens we have constructed, the lens through which international relations has been studied for years, is just that: a lens. The recent discourse on the "decline" of the Westphalian system is relevant only in the theoretical sense. IR theory tells us that it's important to understand we are moving to a post-Westphalian world; but in actuality, we were never even in a Westphalian system.
http://scinternationalreview.org/2012/10/the-westphalian-imaginary-5/
"I Have A Dream..."
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Probably the most famous speech of the 20th century by Martin Luther King, Jr. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. I present to you a heartfelt speech which reminds us the fundamental rights and values of man in full version![/color][/b][/size]
Born: Michael King, Jr.
January 15, 1929
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died: From an Assassin's Bulltet April 4, 1968 (aged 39)
Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Monuments: Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
located in West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C.,
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Education:Alma mater Morehouse College (B.A.)
Crozer Theological Seminary (B.D.)
Boston University (Ph.D.)
Occupation: Clergyman, activist
Organization: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Political movement: African-American Civil Rights Movement, Peace movement
Religion: Baptist (Progressive National Baptist Convention)
Spouse(s):Coretta Scott King (1953–1968)
Children Yolanda Denise King (B.1955–D.2007)
Martin Luther King III (b. 1957)
Dexter Scott King (b. 1961)
Bernice Albertine King (b. 1963)
Parents: Martin Luther King, Sr.
Alberta Williams King
Awards: Nobel Peace Prize (1964),
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977, posthumous),
Congressional Gold Medal (2004, posthumous)
Signature:
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There are several videos listed on youtube about this subject at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM
Is this a conspiracy or just a plan?
Is the United Nations real or fictitious?
Why have so many United States, State Governments voted resolutions to block the United Nations Agenda 21?
All this is for you to decide?
REALLY !
During a fundraiser in Tampa in
December 2007, in which she discussed how hard it was for her and her husband to pay off student loans from "good schools," Michelle Obama said the following:
"What it reminded me of was our trip to Africa, two years ago, and the level of excitement that we felt in that country - the hope that people saw just in the sheer presence of somebody like Barack Obama - a Kenyan, a black man, a man of great statesmanship who they believe could change the fate of the world."
See it here: (The reference to "Kenyan" starts about 2:00 minutes into the video) -
Once again Michelle Obama said that Barrack is from Kenya... just saying.
These were in 2007 and 2010, but they are as good as new to me, because I never saw them until today.
A Message to Obuma:
"Being Black Isn't Your Problem. The Problem Is You Suck!"
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One of our favorite commentators on politics and global happenings is back with his latest diatribe, and as is usually the case, he's right on target.
This week Bob at Drinking with Bob takes aim at President Obama's recent comments in an interview with The New Yorker in which he made the claim that one of the main reasons his popularity is sinking is because he is black and some Americans haven't gotten over that.
Here is the excerpt of the interview to which Bob responds in the following video:
Obama's election was one of the great markers in the black freedom struggle. In the electoral realm, ironically, the country may be more racially divided than it has been in a generation. Obama lost among white voters in 2012 by a margin greater than any victor in American history.
The popular opposition to the Administration comes largely from older whites who feel threatened, underemployed, overlooked, and disdained in a globalized economy and in an increasingly diverse country. Obama's drop in the polls in 2013 was especially grave among white voters.
"There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black President," Obama said.
"There is a historic connection between some of the arguments that we have politically and the history of race in our country, and sometimes it's hard to disentangle those issues."There is no doubt that there are those who dislike Barack Obama because he is black. Likewise, there are plenty of African Americans who dislike white politicians simply because of the color of their skin. Welcome to earth, what else is new?
But for President Obama to make this claim is not only disingenuous, but is a complete deflection to steer the American people away from his failures and to pit us against each other by once again throwing out the race card..
Barack Obama became President of the United States because half of the country voted for him. And he knows very well that a large portion of those voters were white. In recent weeks we've seen his poll numbers collapse to a 39% approval rating, suggesting that many who supported him during the elections have lost faith.
If we are to believe the President, then that 10% drop in approval was a result of the anti-black racists?
When they voted for a (half) black man for President it was a "fundamental transformation" for America. What's troubling is that when those very same people who put him in office disapprove of his performance, President Obama claims they are doing so because of the color of his skin?
His complete failure in everything he's touched – from health care to foreign policy –couldn't possibly be the reason, right?
Bob weighs in:
Stop using the color of your skin as an excuse for your failures. Being black isn't your problem. The problem is you suck, bro. You friggin' suck.Obama's New Excuse - "I'm Black"...
Previously from Bob (because sometimes one video isn't enough): "What was Obama Doing at Harvard... Parkin' Friggin Cars?"
Obama is Unqualified to be President...
Poll: Support For ObumaCrappyCare Hits Record Low, 36%
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(Love it...)
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Via Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/23/fox-news-poll-obamacare-support-hits-record-low/
A record high number of voters now oppose the 2010 Affordable Care Act and a record low number supports it, according to the latest Fox News poll.
In addition, a majority thinks the new law will increase their health care costs, while few think it will improve their quality of care.
The new poll finds 59 percent of voters oppose the health care law, up from 55 percent who opposed it six months ago (June 2013). The increase in opposition comes from both independents and Democrats.
Nearly a third of Democrats — 30 percent — oppose the law, up from 22 percent in June.
Opposition among independents went from 53 percent to 64 percent today.
Overall, 36 percent of voters favor the new health care law. That's down from 40 percent in June and marks a new low.
Sixty-four percent of Democrats, 29 percent of independents and 11 percent of Republicans like the law.
Stupid Tweet Of The Day
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Libertarian Nation @LibertarianWing
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Report: Obuma Admin "Doesn't Object" To Lebanese Government That Includes Hezbollah
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(The Clown's already getting snuggly with Ayatollah Khamenei, so why not Hezbollah?
White House renovations seem to be going well)
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(NOW) — The Obama administration finally got what it wanted as the Geneva II conference kicked off yesterday with the stated purpose of joining together the Assad regime and the opposition in a transitional government. At the same time, another farcical production is underway in Beirut, as efforts continue to form a unity government including Hezbollah and the March 14 bloc. As with its Syrian iteration, the formation of such a Lebanese government appears to have US backing. Sensing a convergence with American preferences, Hezbollah is playing up to Washington, seeking to leverage the US position to its advantage.
Renewed talk of a national unity government took many in Beirut by surprise, especially when former Prime Minister Saad Hariri appeared open to the idea. So far it remains unclear what motivated Hariri's decision, but what is curious is that a potential partnership with Hezbollah in government looks to be receiving approval from Washington.
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Over the past several weeks, the pro-Hezbollah media has published alleged quotes by David Hale, US ambassador to Lebanon, as well as by another unnamed US official weighing in on the question of forming a unity government. Last December, as there was talk of President Suleiman forming a neutral government, the pro-Hezbollah Al-Akhbar newspaper published what it claimed was Ambassador Hale's counsel on the matter to Suleiman's advisor. According to Al-Akhbar, Hale allegedly expressed "America's understanding of Saudi Arabia's rejection of Hezbollah's participation in any government. However, America fears the reaction of Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran to such a step. For these reactions could lead to a total loss of stability, and maybe worse, to total Hezbollah and Syrian control over Lebanon." Hale, Al-Akhbar proceeded to say, then counseled Suleiman's advisor to support the efforts of Walid Jumblatt, who was working for a unity government with Hezbollah.
Then earlier this month, the pro-Hezbollah newspaper As-Safir quoted another unnamed US official making that point more explicitly.
"If the obligatory gateway to forming a new government in Lebanon is partnership with Hezbollah, then the US does not object, especially since the reality and composition of Lebanon attest without a doubt that there is no possibility to form a government without Hezbollah."Read More At:https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/531904-hook-line-and-sinker
Poll: 60% of Voters Blame Clinton And Obuma For Benghazi Terror Attack
(Reached for comment, Hillary shrieked, "what difference does it make?")
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Via Fox News:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/23/fox-news-poll-voters-blame-clinton-and-obama-for-benghazi/
Majorities of American voters blame former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama for what happened at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
The 2012 terrorist attack took place on the anniversary of September 11 and resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador, at the diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya. A new bipartisan Senate intelligence committee report found that the attacks were preventable and that the State Department, headed by Clinton at the time, had failed to increase security at the U.S. consulate there.
Sixty percent of voters blame Clinton for what happened, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday. That includes 28 percent who blame her "a great deal" and another 32 percent who say she deserves "some" blame.
Essentially the same number — 59 percent — blames Obama (26 percent "a great deal" and 33 percent "some").[...]
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Unbelievable! Media Blames Chris Stevens for His Own Murder – New Talking Points to Clear Clinton for 2016
By Richard Anthony on Jan 22, 2014
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/unbelievable-media-blames-chris-stevens-murder-new-talking-points-clear-clinton-2016/
Have any of you ever had a conversation with someone and the other person started-out by saying "Now don't take this personally but...."? When someone starts a conversation like that, you know they are going to insult you in some fashion, and they think by saying "Don't take this personally" that they are getting a pass on the rude remarks they are about to make at your expense. Well you ain't heard nothin' yet!
In a move that can only be considered so low as not to be believed, the liberal media has decided that Ambassador Chris Stevens is to blame for his own death at the hands of terrorists.
That's right folks, they are blaming Chris Stevens as the cause of his own death! T.V. talk show host and staunch liberal Bill Maher begins by essentially suggesting that the latest intelligence committee report all but exonerates everyone stateside of any incompetence, wrongdoing, or cover up. He then goes on to state who he does think bears some blame.
Maher finally said that Ambassador Christopher Stevens was a — "brave guy, great guy, great diplomat, gutsy — but he does bear some responsibility. I'm sorry. He put some trust in the local militias and they turned on him. Because you probably shouldn't trust local militias in Libya."
The party line for democrats and liberals has been, and will continue to be, that there is nothing to see here, and that there is no scandal; unlike the most important scandal in the world (at least in their minds), Bridgegate. However, Maher has no problem suggesting that murdered Ambassador Christopher Stevens bears some blame.
Bill Maher is not the only one to suggest this. MSNBC's Katty Kay said, "Why were they not properly defended? And this report in a way is very sad because Chris Stevens, who was the ambassador who was killed who was clearly a brave and honorable man, was also fallible, and perhaps didn't ask for, rejected even, some of the security that he might have had."
As 2016 looms in the distance, Democrats are already pondering how to spin a Hillary Clinton campaign that excuses her colossal failures as Secretary of State. The media fix is in, and still two full years from the campaign, we are hearing the early rumblings of media hacks looking to fabricate a narrative that is absurdly false.
And last Thursday,
CNN's [Biggest Clown] Piers Morgan told Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) he believed Ambassador Chris Stevens — one of the four Americans killed in the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, was somehow responsible for his own murder.
Now, knowing the Clinton campaign machine like I do, I believe that
this narrative started in Hillary's camp. Now, Mrs. Clinton would never say these horrible and despicable things herself. Oh no – that she leaves up to the liberal media to do! I know, you're going to say, "But Richard, you don't have any proof of that."However, I ask you, where else could that narrative started from? Obama has just continued to lie about the whole thing. To be quite frank, he's got bigger fish to fry than worry about some "Bumps in the road," right? But besides Obama, who will benefit the most if the blame for the entire episode in Benghazi is shifted to the one guy who can't defend himself? I'm not a math wizard, but I can add 2 + 2. Hillary wants this whole thing to just "go away" so she can gear-up for the big race to the White House.
To sum up: Chris Stevens was not responsible for the reduction in security personnel. His requests for additional security were denied or ignored. Officials at the State and Defense Departments in Washington made the decisions that resulted in reduced security that led to not only his death but 3 others as well and it was not because of "cut-backs by Republicans." Hillary was Stevens' boss, so......
Like I asked in my last article, "Hillary, you allowed Americans to be murdered in Benghazi – Do you really think we are going to let you forget that?" Or for that matter- get away with it?
No way![...]
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(Still waiting on the CLOWNS at Congress to investigate and take action)
Via WSJ:http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304302704579332732276330284
"Shifting blame to our dead ambassador is wrong on the facts. I know—I was there." -- Mr. Gregory Hicks served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli from July 31 to Dec. 7, 2012. Last week the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued its report on the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The report concluded that the attack, which resulted in the murder of four Americans, was "preventable." Some have been suggesting that the blame for this tragedy lies at least partly with Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the attack. This is untrue: The blame lies entirely with Washington.
The report states that retired Gen. Carter Ham, then-commander of the U.S. Africa Command (Africom) headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, twice offered to "sustain" the special forces security team in Tripoli and that Chris twice "declined." Since Chris cannot speak, I want to explain the reasons and timing for his responses to Gen. Ham. As the deputy chief of mission, I was kept informed by Chris or was present throughout the process.
On Aug. 1, 2012, the day after I arrived in Tripoli, Chris invited me to a video conference with Africom to discuss changing the mission of the U.S. Special Forces from protecting the U.S. Embassy and its personnel to training Libyan forces. This change in mission would result in the transfer of authority over the unit in Tripoli from Chris to Gen. Ham. In other words, the special forces would report to the Defense Department, not State.
Chris wanted the decision postponed but could not say so directly. Chris had requested on July 9 by cable that Washington provide a minimum of 13 American security professionals for Libya over and above the diplomatic security complement of eight assigned to Tripoli and Benghazi. On July 11, the Defense Department, apparently in response to Chris's request, offered to extend the special forces mission to protect the U.S. Embassy.However, on July 13, State Department Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy refused the Defense Department offer and thus Chris's July 9 request. His rationale was that Libyan guards would be hired to take over this responsibility. Because of Mr. Kennedy's refusal, Chris had to use diplomatic language at the video conference, such as expressing "reservations" about the transfer of authority.
Chris's concern was significant. Transferring authority would immediately strip the special forces team of its diplomatic immunity. Moreover, the U.S. had no status of forces agreement with Libya. He explained to Rear Adm. Charles J. Leidig that if a member of the special forces team used weapons to protect U.S. facilities, personnel or themselves, he would be subject to Libyan law. The law would be administered by judges appointed to the bench by Moammar Gadhafi or, worse, tribal judges.
Chris described an incident in Pakistan in 2011 when an American security contractor killed Pakistani citizens in self-defense, precipitating a crisis in U.S.-Pakistani relations. He also pointed out that four International Criminal Court staff, who had traveled to Libya in June 2012 to interview Gadhafi's oldest son, Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi, were illegally detained by tribal authorities under suspicion of spying. This was another risk U.S. military personnel might face.
During that video conference, Chris stressed that the only way to mitigate the risk was to ensure that U.S. military personnel serving in Libya would have diplomatic immunity, which should be done prior to any change of authority.
Chris understood the importance of the special forces team to the security of our embassy personnel. He believed that by explaining his concerns, the Defense Department would postpone the decision so he could have time to work with the Libyan government and get diplomatic immunity for the special forces.
According to the National Defense Authorization Act, the Defense Department needed Chris's concurrence to change the special forces mission. But soon after the Aug. 1 meeting, and as a complete surprise to us at the embassy, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed the order without Chris's concurrence.
The SenateIntelligence Committee's report accurately notes that on Aug. 6, after the transfer of authority, two special forces team members in a diplomatic vehicle were forced off the road in Tripoli and attacked. Only because of their courage, skills and training did they escape unharmed. But the incident highlighted the risks associated with having military personnel in Libya unprotected by diplomatic immunity or a status of forces agreement. As a result of this incident, Chris was forced to agree with Gen. Ham's withdrawal of most of the special forces team from Tripoli until the Libyan government formally approved their new training mission and granted them diplomatic immunity.
Because Mr. Kennedy had refused to extend the special forces security mission, State Department protocol required Chris to decline Gen. Ham's two offers to do so, which were made after Aug. 6. I have found the reporting of these so-called offers strange, since my recollection of events is that after the Aug. 6 incident, Gen. Ham wanted to withdraw the entire special forces team from Tripoli until they had Libyan government approval of their new mission and the diplomatic immunity necessary to perform their mission safely. However, Chris convinced Gen. Ham to leave six members of the team in Tripoli.
When I arrived in Tripoli on July 31, we had over 30 security personnel, from the State Department and the U.S. military, assigned to protect the diplomatic mission to Libya. All were under the ambassador's authority. On Sept. 11, we had only nine diplomatic security agents under Chris's authority to protect our diplomatic personnel in Tripoli and Benghazi.
I was interviewed by the Select Committee and its staff, who were professional and thorough. I explained this sequence of events. For some reason, my explanation did not make it into the Senate report.
To sum up: Chris Stevens was not responsible for the reduction in security personnel. His requests for additional security were denied or ignored. Officials at the State and Defense Departments in Washington made the decisions that resulted in reduced security.
Sen. Lindsey Graham stated on the Senate floor last week that Chris "was in Benghazi because that is where he was supposed to be doing what America wanted him to do: Try to hold Libya together." He added, "Quit blaming the dead guy."
Top 10 Stories of 2013: Year in Review
Truths that need to be told about Hillary Clinton from Dick Morris
By Richard Anthony on Jan 24, 2014
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A very good and dear friend of mine, Dan Bekins, owner of Executives Service Agency in Phoenix, Arizona, contacted me with some information regarding Hillary Clinton. Dan suggested that I do some research to verify it for myself, and so I did. What I found was almost unbelievable. Hillary didn't really have a great past before she entered politics. One could say it was quite radical. In fact, we could say it was extremely radical.
Now, I pride myself on writing my own material and only use other sources for verification of facts, but I am going to share some information from Dick Morris.com, written by Mr. Morris about Hillary back in May of 2007.
Mr. Morris writes: http://www.dickmorris.com/play-by-play/
"Bill Clinton's syrupy five minute ad for Hillary... he introduces the commercial by saying that (he) wants to share some things we may not know about Hillary's background. His version of her biography is about as reliable as if it appeared in Pravda!
So, I wanted to make a few corrections...Bill says: Hillary never wanted to run for public office, but she did want to work at public service.
The facts are: When Clinton was considering not running for another term as Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Hillary said she would run if he didn't. She and Bill even had me take two surveys to assess her chances of winning. The conclusion was that she couldn't win because people would just see her as a seat warmer for when Bill came back licking his wounds after losing for president. So she didn't run. Bill did and won. But there is no question she had her eye on public office, as opposed to service, long ago.
Bill says: In law school Hillary worked on legal services for the poor.
The facts are: Hillary's main extra-curricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent. She went to court every day as part of a law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights violations and develop grounds for appeal.
Bill says: Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a children's rights project for poor kids.
The facts are: Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the California Communist Party. She met Bob when he represented the Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an internship with him.
Bill says: Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she turned down all the lucrative job offers.
The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam and only passed the Arkansas bar. She had no job offers in Arkansas and only got hired by the University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was already teaching there. She only joined the prestigious Rose Law Firm after Bill became Attorney General and made partner only after he was elected governor.
Bill says: President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services Board of Directors and she became its chairman.
The facts are: The appointment was in exchange for Bill's support for Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy. Hillary became chairman in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter's choice to be chairman.
Bill says: She served on the board of the Arkansas Children's Hospital.
The facts are: Yes she did. But her main board activity, not mentioned by Bill, was to sit on the Walmart board of directors, for a substantial fee. She was silent about their labor and health care practices.
Bill says: Hillary didn't succeed at getting health care for all Americans in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million children with health insurance.
The facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP. It was included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority Leader Senator Trent Lott. I helped to negotiate the deal. The money came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney Generals' tobacco settlement. Hillary had nothing to do with either source of funds.
Bill says: Hillary was the face of America all over the world
The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of town so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that Hillary was running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any of them
Bill says: Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for children's and women's issues.
The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like changing the names on courthouses and post offices, she passed only four substantive pieces of legislation. One set up a national park in Puerto Rico. A second provided respite care for family members helping their relatives through Alzheimer's or other conditions. And two were routine bills to aid 9-11 victims and responders which were sponsored by the entire NY delegation.
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Here is what bothers me more than anything else about Hillary Clinton: She has done everything possible to weaken our country (that's you and me!) when it comes to dealing with the enemies of the United States. 1.She wanted to close GITMO and move the combatants to the USA where they would have access to our legal system.
2.She wanted to eliminate the monitoring of suspected Al Qaeda phone calls to/from the USA.
3.She wanted to grant constitutional rights to enemy combatants captured on the battlefield.
4.She wanted to eliminate the monitoring of money transfers between suspected Al Qaeda cells and supporters in the USA.
5.She wanted to eliminate the type of interrogation tactics used by the military & CIA where coercion might be used when questioning known terrorists even though such tactics might save American lives. One cannot think of a single bill Hillary Clinton has introduced, or a single comment she has made that would tend to strengthen our country in order to deal with our enemies. However, one can think of a lot of comments she has made that weakens the United States and makes it a more dangerous place for all of us.
One fact was Hillary used taxpayer money to apologize for the "offensive video," that was used as an excuse by the Obama administration to cover for her and the president's ridiculous lie about the attack in Benghazi in 2012. Point of fact, I really can't think of any good Hillary Clinton has done before or after she married Bill Clinton and especially not as Secretary of State under Barack Hussein Obama Jr."
Hey Hillary I told you, "Do you really think we are going to let you forget that or for that matter- get away with it?"
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"Hmmm.... should I back Biden for President or Hilly for President... He's stupid as sh!t and she's devious, scheming, conspiratorial, sly, crafty, deceitful, willing to stab you in the back... and then there is that Body Bag thing... Hummmmm... that Body Bag thing... thinking..."
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Here is the refresher course on the Clinton era of death and corruption:
Remember these people? The Clinton Body Bags.
Scary if true. Heaven help anyone who runs against her
With Hillary making a run for President in 2016 these items are important for everyone to keep in mind in the legacy the Clintons have left -
Purely Coincidental? The Clinton Body Bags.
We all remember the many Clinton scandals. But when anyone mentions a particular one, we realize that they are far too numerous to recount. Thanks to Dr. Grady, we can recall some of the major ones.
Anybody remember "Tainted Blood"? --- On Tue, 7/2/13, Dr. John Grady wrote:
THE MANY CLINTON BODY BAGS . . .
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This is important for those who are just now becoming aware and concerned about your federal government and those who have been running it. Some of us remember clearly.
The Clinton Body Bags ~ Purely Coincidental?
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Someone recently reminded me of this list. I had forgotten how long it is.
Therefore, this is a quick refresher course, lest we forget what has happened to many "friends" and associates of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
1- James McDougal - Convicted Whitewater partner of the Clintons who died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation.
2 - Mary Mahoney - A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown (Washington, D. C.). The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment by Clinton in the White House.
3 - Vince Foster - Former White House Councilor, and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock 's Rose Law Firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide. (He was about to testify against Hillary related to the records she refused to turn over to congress.) Was reported to have been having an affair with Hillary.
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4 - Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to
cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the Air Traffic controller committed suicide.
5 - C. Victor Raiser, II - Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992.
6 - Paul Tulley - Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock on September 1992. Described by Clinton as a "dear friend and trusted advisor".
7 - Ed Willey - Clinton fundraiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day His wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.
8 - Jerry Parks - Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock ..
Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock .
Park's son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton . He allegedly
threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were
mysteriously removed from his house.
9 - James Bunch - Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a "Black Book" of people which contained names of influential people who visited Prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas
10 - James Wilson - Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to the Clintons ' Whitewater deals.
11 - Kathy Ferguson - Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson, was found dead in May 1994, in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as if she were going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co-defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones Lawsuit, and Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.
12 - Bill Shelton - Arkansas State Trooper and fiancée of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancée, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the grave site of his fiancée.
13 - Gandy Baugh - Attorney for Clinton 's friend Dan Lassater, died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client, Dan Lassater, was a convicted drug distributor.
14 - Florence Martin - Accountant & sub-contractor for the CIA, was related to the Barry Seal, Mean , Arkansas Airport drug smuggling case. He died of three gunshot Wounds.
15 - Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died Of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a Suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.
16 - Paula Grober - Clinton 's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9,1992. She died in a one car accident.
17 - Danny Casolaro - Investigative reporter who was Investigating the Mean Airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparently, in the middle of his investigation.
18 - Paul Wilcher - Attorney investigating corruption at Mean Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993, in his Washington DC apartment. Had delivered a report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death. (May have died of poison)
19 - Jon Parnell Walker - Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington , Virginia apartment balcony August 15,1993. He was investigating the Morgan Guaranty scandal.
20 - Barbara Wise - Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised, nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.
21 - Charles Meissner - Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash.
22 - Dr. Stanley Heard - Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton 's advisory council personally treated Clinton 's
mother, stepfather and Brother.
23 - Barry Seal - Drug running TWA pilot out of Mean Arkansas , death was no accident.
24 - Johnny Lawhorn, Jr. - Mechanic, found a check made out to Bill Clinton in the trunk of a car left at his repair shop. He was found dead after his car had hit a utility pole.
25 - Stanley Huggins - Investigated Madison Guaranty. His death was a purported suicide and his report was never released.
26 - Hershel Friday - Attorney and Clinton fundraiser died March 1, 1994, when his
plane exploded.
27 - Kevin Ives & Don Henry - Known as "The boys on the track" case. Reports say the two boys may
have stumbled upon the Mean Arkansas airport drug operation. The initial report
of death said their deaths were due to falling asleep on railroad tracks and
being run over. Later autopsy reports stated that the 2 boys had been slain
before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to the case died before their
testimony could come before a Grand Jury.
THE FOLLOWING PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES/HENRY CASE:28 - Keith Coney - Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck, 7/88.
29 - Keith McMaskle - Died, stabbed 113 times, Nov 1988
30 - Gregory Collins - Died from a gunshot wound January 1989.
31 - Jeff Rhodes - He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989. (Coroner ruled death due to suicide)
32 - James Milan - Found decapitated. However, the Coroner ruled his death was due to natural causes"?
33 - Jordan Kettleson - Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990.
34 - Richard Winters - A suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths. He was killed in a set-up robbery July 1989.
THE FOLLOWING CLINTON PERSONAL BODYGUARDS ALL DIED OF MYSTERIOUS CAUSES OR SUICIDE36 - Major William S. Barkley, Jr.
37 - Captain Scott J . Reynolds
38 - Sgt. Brian Hanley
39 - Sgt. Tim Sabel
40 - Major General William Robertson
41 - Col. William Densberger
42 - Col. Robert Kelly
43 - Spec. Gary Rhodes
44 - Steve Willis
45 - Robert Williams
46 - Conway LeBleu
47 - Todd McKeehan
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And this list does not include the four dead Americans in Benghazi that Hillary abandoned!
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But "What difference does it make?"
HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT? SURELY YOU JEST!!
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Stupid Story Of The Day
Man To Live On Iceberg To Fight Global Warming
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Okay... Okay, truth be told, the guy lost his job selling ice cream in Kabul.
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Fired, you say! I'm moving to Italy and fight global warming, by Allah!
And where did Bellini come from, you ask? Well, here's his life story:
This is gonna be the best Bellini Day ever!
Via Breitbart:An Italian adventurer will be packing his bags and moving to an iceberg in Greenland so he can reverse global warming. He plans on living there for eight to twelve months, which is the length of time he expects that his new home will exist before it melts into water.
In the Spring of 2015, Alex Bellini will bring his backpack, replete with 300 kilos of dehydrated food and some electronic equipment and his floating Kevlar survival capsule. This will come in handy down the road when he wakes up one morning floating adrift in the Atlantic Ocean.
Of course, that is if everything goes as planned. Last month, Russian climate change scientists aboard the 233-foot Akademik Shokalskiy learned a cold and lonely lesson about icebergs when they were trapped in the ice for three weeks off the coast of Antarctica. It took a rescue contingency of American, Chinese, and Australians icebreakers and helicopters to finally free the researchers from their icy prison.
Ironically, the trapped scientists were on a mission to observe and report on the decline of polar ice, but to their chagrin there was quite a bit more than they had expected.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! KANSAS CITY RESOLUTION STANDS AGAINST MISSOURI REJECTION OF AGENDA 21!!!
An oddball resolution is working its way through Kansas City local government this week. Apparently, City Hall is set to take up the mantle of the United Nations.
To wit . . .
KANSAS CITY PREPARES TO STAND UP FOR UNITED NATIONS AGENDA 21 AND AGAINST MISSOURI POLITICOS ATTEMPTING TO HALT COOPERATION WITH THE CONTROVERSIAL MEASURE!!!
Background . . .
Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development according to the world's most accurate encyclopedia. Agenda 21 is also the subject of Conservative angst, a horrible Glenn Beck spy novel and a great many conspiracy theories.
Now . . .
The Missouri legislation in question is sponsored by gunslinger and Prez Obama hater Missouri State Senator Brian Nieves
Check the text of the Missouri bill . . .
SB 618 - "This act prohibits the state and any political subdivision from implementing any policy recommendations that infringe on private property rights and are traceable to Agenda 21 adopted in 1992 by the United Nations or any other international law or ancillary plan of action that contravenes the federal or state constitutions.
In addition, this act prohibits the state and any political subdivision from entering into an agreement with, expending any money for, receiving funds from, contracting services from, or giving financial aid to any organization accredited and enlisted by the United Nations to assist in the implementation of Agenda 21."
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They tried this last year too.
Accordingly . . .
SPONSORED BY MAYOR PRO TEM CINDY CIRCO . . . KANSAS CITY STANDS UP FOR AGENDA 21 AND AGAINST MISSOURI CONSERVATIVES WHO SEEK TO OPPOSE COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED NATIONS MEASURE IN THE HEARTLAND!!!
Here's the Kansas City response . . .
RESOLUTION NO. 140065
The key part of the resolution . . .
WHEREAS, pursuant to the non-binding text of Agenda 21, the United Nations' Economic and Social Council would be involved in voluntary implementation of Agenda 21 and the list of non-governmental organizations who are in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council includes the Girl Scouts of the USA, the National Association of Home Builders of the US, the American Library Association, the International Association of Safety Professionals, the League of Women Voters of the U.S., the Make It Right Foundation, the Summit Foundation, the YWCA of the U.S., the American Heart Association, the NAACP, and the UMKC Women's Council, as well as numerous other professional, civic, environmental, and charitable/philanthropic organizations; and
WHEREAS, the City of Kansas City, Missouri (the "City") has a strong commitment to sustainability and the Mayor and City Council have stated a vision to employ innovative strategies to develop sustainable healthy communities where all prosper; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to pursue partnerships with various entities and organizations to promote social equity, economic vitality, and environmental quality, some of which may be prohibited should SB 618 become law; and
WHEREAS, SB 618 is an unnecessary restraint of the City's contracting or police powers related to serving the health, safety and welfare of its residents and will likely have unknown and perhaps unintended consequences that would undermine the ability of the City to implement ongoing and future measures to be a more sustainable community, all to the detriment of its taxpayers and citizens; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
That the Mayor and Council hereby express their opposition to SB 618 and urge the members of the Kansas City legislative delegation and the Missouri Municipal League to oppose SB 618 for the reasons contained in this Resolution . . .
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And so, you read that right . . .
MAYOR PRO-TEM CINDY CIRCO'S RESOLUTION ORGANIZES KANSAS CITY CIVIC GROUPS IN SUPPORT OF AGENDA 21 AND AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT FACTION OF MISSOURI REPUBLICANS IN JEFF CITY!!!
And yes, this "culture war" stuff can get kinda silly but what this strange Show-Me State United Nations kerfuffle really indicates is that Mayor Pro Tem Cindy Circo is thinking about the bigger political picture and that might provide a peek at her political ambitions . . . Also, City Hall seems horribly confused about the priorities of local residents who have more pressing problems closer to home.
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Quote from: ROSS on January 26, 2014, 02:32:50 PM
...Agenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development according to the world's most accurate encyclopedia. Agenda 21 is also the subject of Conservative angst, a horrible Glenn Beck spy novel and a great many conspiracy theories...
And for those sleeping sheep who haven't researched it, Agenda 21 reads like a direct outtake from the planning papers of Karl Marx & Vladimir Lenin!
"America's Biggest Enemy..."
Barack Obama and his Hatred for the Constitution
By Leon Puissegur on Jan 26, 2014
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/barack-obama-hatred-constitution/
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Barack Obama has done nearly all any good Marxist, Socialist, or Communist could do. From his chief advisor Valerie Jarrett to his Communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, to his Marxist leanings in college to his discipleship at the feet of Saul Alinsky, Barack Obama is a mixture of these ideologies. This is really what the "sheeple" of the United States elected without really looking at who this man.
Now, many wish they had never voted for him. Our intent is to show what the Declaration of Independence stated and why it was written. Then, we'll tie it to what Barack Obama has, and is currently doing. We are sure that many people have read the Declaration of Independence, but then again, that is if one makes the assumption that people really care anymore about the Constitution or what it meant to our nation! Let us first look at why this document was written as explained in the second paragraph of this document.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness."This has been corrupted in so many ways today. To witness what is going on today does not reflect upon what was written back in 1776. First and foremost, here it is understood that all men are created equal, no one can deny this since every man, and woman was "created" in the same way, through inception in the womb. There is no mention of everyone, in their equality, are all entitled to what everyone else has, nor is there a claim that everyone is equal in their abilities.
Instead,
"...they are endowed by their Creator with Certain and unalienable Rights..." We have to realize that in 1776 our nation was under the thumb of a King that forced people to live by his rules. These Rights, so described in the Declaration, were not free and did not include everything, as they seem to do today.
If you read the next few lines, you will see that it is clearly stated, "...that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is the last one that rings a bell with us in that it is very clear that it is the "pursuit" of happiness, and not the "giving" of happiness! To many, this will not matter. They would feel that the first two show the last to be just a brief statement showing what "may" be accomplished.
Let us dissect the very first part of Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness. It is our right to Life, no one should deny this right. Yet, in the United States today, over
3,000 babies are murdered every day and their Right to Life is ignored.
Next comes Liberty. Yes, we can make a huge statement that the slaves were denied this right, but we have to go back and take a very deep look at why this was not considered in the writing of our Constitution. We can state here that had Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves, had his way, he would have included "everyone" and left no one out. To that end, it was the decision of those from the New England States to not include slaves into this document. After all, they were making vast amounts of money on the slave trade through their ports in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and other North ports of call. However, that is an entirely different story, although closely linked to this one.
Consider the last part of this very profound document, "..the pursuit of Happiness." Once again, it is very clear that the word "pursuit of" which show a clear and concise definition of what the founding fathers were out to do. They made sure that everyone could "pursue" their dreams of happiness. It did not mean that happiness was an automatic gift or right would could claim.
Many will try to take this part of the article apart with all the changes over the years and how the Supreme Court decided many cases which now seem to be opposite of what was written in the Declaration of Independence. We must look back every now and then to see what was intended for "WE THE PEOPLE" in order to make sure those ideas are never destroyed. We began with the Declaration of Independence to consider what Barack Obama is doing now and how it compares to what King George did during the the time leading to the American War for Independence. The following words of this document make our explanation of what we state here simple.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."Here we can finally make a huge comparison of what Obama is doing now that does not adhere or reflect the words of our founding fathers. Since 2010, we have seen what clearly seems to be wrong doing by Government officials that should never be allowed to happen without the "consent of the governed"!
We are talking about the supposedly "phony" scandals of Obama, including Fast and Furious, Obamacare, Benghazi, IRS targeting, News reporter abuse, and NSA retrieving nearly all the information "WE THE PEOPLE" send out without a warrant. We could go on and on with these, but this demonstrates that maybe we should reflect back on the first document that declared our freedom from tyrants; a freedom we are now watching vanish before our eyes.
Today we have what is called the "Tea Party," and these people just wish to bring to remembrance this part of our history. Yet, King George, sorry, Barack Obama does not wish to even listen to them. He calls them racists, terrorists and whatever he, and his minions wish to call them.
Tea Party people are nothing less than being Patriots of the Constitution and the history that has been laid down before us. Remember that statement from King George, sorry, Obama?
"I have this thing called the Constitution that keeps getting in the way of what I want to do." That is a very true statement by a man whom took the Oath of office twice to, "...preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." That oath is directly quoted from Article 2 Section 1, Paragraph 8 of the US Constitution.
Yet, for Barrack Hussein Obama, the Constitution is something that is seen as an obstacle; something in his way! This means that what Obama has planned for the United States is against the very Constitution he swore to "preserve, protect and defend." Why would any president ever wish to violate the bounds of the Constitution if he did not have evil plans for the United States?
This president is a known liar. He is a president whom can outtalk anyone, yet knows nothing about what the Constitution is, even though he lays claim that he is a "Constitutional" layer, of which brings forth even more questions since none of his college transcripts or most of his history is out there for anyone to read, only what very few of his classmates are willing to state.
If we delve into Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 2, we see that President Obama has violated the very meaning of this part of our Constitution just by his actions alone with his healthcare rollout (fallout might be a more appropriate term). Whatever one may wish to call the failure, what Obama has done is not and never was intended to be allowed under the Constitution. Remember, it's that Constitution that keeps him from doing what he wants to do, until now! This section of the Constitution shows just what Obama has single-handedly done to violate the very law he swore to defend!
"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;..." It goes on from here to describe 17 items that Congress, and only Congress, can do. Yet, with Obama, it seems that this part of the Constitution does not apply to him! Let us delve into where Obama has violated just this part of the Constitution Obama is involved in criminal behavior without even going on to the 17 other parts where he has decided to allow Obamacare to be hashed out among certain groups like the Unions and many others. How so? Congress voted and he signed into law an act that was supposed to be "uniform" in ideology. Instead, Obama just ignores his own socialist legislation and grants illegal waivers to a variety of people that the law does not allow.
But let us go to Item 2 of this Section; "To regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes."Obama has decided to "regulate Commerce" without Congress at all when he excluded the Unions and others from Obamacare.
Here's the next direct violation of the Constitution under this section: "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and to make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water."All we have to do is go back to the way he assisted the rebels in Libya and Egypt to see how he "bypassed" Congress. Obama also, through his own negligence, allowed the IRS to target Tea Party and other conservative groups that opposed him. He did this in much the same way King George retaliated against his subjects that opposed him. Now how about the way that Obama is "abusing" the Environmental Protection Agency because he could not get Congress to go along with his climate control agenda? Or how about the way Obama now plans to totally circumvent Congress to do as he pleases?
Just when did the Constitution grant the president the right to make laws and regulations without the consent of the People via Congress? That never happened.
Alas, we also have to pose the very same question to members of Congress that seem to be humbled by this would be King. They just seem to sit on their butts while Obama just does what he wants without impunity! Maybe Congress should give up 1, no make that 10 months, of pay each time Obama decides to violate existing law or implement one on his own without the consent of the People.
We could go on with the list, but we feel that we have shown enough here to place President Obama not on the pedestal of freedom, but on the pedestal of tyranny. That is not where we need to have him, especially since he just cannot live by the Constitution he swore under oath to defend. It seems we have gone way over our allotted 140 characters, but if anyone would pay attention to more than that, maybe our nation would not be on the brink of total failure!
Hillary Clinton Caught Violating Campaign Finance Laws On Tape!
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(This tape came to light in 2007 and Hillary is still walking around free as a 'vulture' ready to pounce on America's bones. Its been my experience that she and her crooked libs have no concept of engaging in capitalism in a moral and ethical way ... their corruptness abounds)
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCAsZIR_PHw
By Art Moore
2007 WorldNetDaily.com
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=739_1183069482#Wh10P1cFc3711P3W.99
Hillary Clinton greeted at August 2000 Hollywood gala and fund-raiser by Peter Paul and his wife Andrea (Courtesy Hillcap.org)
The full, five-minute videotape touted as "smoking gun evidence" of two felonies committed by Sen. Hillary Clinton has been released to WND.
As WND reported, the tape was submitted as evidence to a California appeals court yesterday in a civil fraud suit against the New York Democrat and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
WND reported in April the tape indicates Clinton -- despite denials throughout six years of investigation -- was directly involved with business mogul Peter Franklin Paul in producing a lavish Hollywood fundraiser in August 2000 that eventually cost Paul nearly $2 million.
Clinton's participation in the planning of the event would make Paul's substantial contributions a direct donation to her Senate campaign rather than her joint fundraising committee, violating federal statutes that limit "hard money" contributions to a candidate to $2,000 per person. Knowingly accepting or soliciting $25,000 or more in a calendar year is a felony carrying a prison sentence of up to five years.Paul's complaint charges President Clinton destroyed his entertainment company to get out of a $17 million deal in which Clinton promised to promote the firm in exchange for stock, cash options and massive contributions to his wife's 2000 campaign. Paul contends he was directed by the Clintons and Democratic Party leaders to foot the bill for the Hollywood event.
In the tape, Clinton is heard via speakerphone thanking Paul, business partner Stan Lee and other colleagues for their efforts in putting together the fundraiser.
She also describes the role of longtime aide Kelly Craighead as assisting in day-to-day involvement in preparation for the event as her liaison with Paul and his producers.
Peter Paul and Sen. Hillary Clinton (Courtesy Hillcap.org)
Craighead, Clinton says, "talks all the time" with Paul, "so she'll be the person to convey whatever I need."
The aide's hands-on role is significant, because the law also implicates a candidate if any of his or her agents are involved in coordinating expenditures with a donor.
In another portion of the tape, Clinton is heard discussing her direct solicitation of a large contribution from the entertainer Cher. Paul's legal team, the U.S. Justice Foundation, argues the value of Cher's performance alone vastly exceeded the FEC limits.
The tape was one of 90 Paul was ordered to turn over to the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York in 2001 as part of the investigation in a related securities case against him. But it has never been used as evidence, despite its relevance to the key question of Sen. Clinton's involvement in the Hollywood fundraiser.
Sen. Clinton has claimed through her spokesman Howard Wolfson that Paul gave no money to her campaign, and her supporters have denied she had any anything to do with coordinating the fund-raiser or soliciting contributions directly from donors.Clinton's campaign has counted the more than $800,000 of in-kind contributions it reported in a 2006 amended FEC report for the Hollywood Gala as indirect, or "soft money," given to the New York Senate 2000 Committee, a state account that was run jointly by Clinton, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the New York State Democratic Party.
The Clintons' longtime attorney David Kendall has not replied to WND's request for comment on Paul's videotape. Kendall previously has declined comment on the case, saying only to WND regarding the felony assertion, "Any such allegation is totally false and totally unsupported."
Disney NSA Drones - Horrifying Disney & NSA
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Arizona GOP censures McCain for 'disastrous' record
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You know what they say about "birds of a feather." Well, recently, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham was censured for the seventh time, and in his own home county. His comrade in the United States Senate, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has now been formally censured by the Arizona Republican Party with a resolution condemning him
"for his continued disservice to our state and nation." On Saturday, January 26, 2014, McCain was censured for his voting record. A gathering of 1,300 Republicans gathered at Grace Community Church in Tempe, and the event included Gov. Jan Brewer, Rep. Matt Salmon and Sen. Andy Biggs.
AZCentral.com reports: http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20140125arizona-republican-party-mccain-censure-gop.html?nclick_check=1
"Delivering a strong rebuke to U.S. Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republicans passed a resolution to censure the one-time presidential nominee for what they characterize as a liberal record that has been "disastrous and harmful" to the state and nation.
While McCain is a political star on the national stage, for years he has had to contend with vocal critics in his home state, who accuse him of betraying the Grand Old Party's principles.
Saturday's censure came two weeks after the Maricopa County Republican Party passed a resolution to censure the senator on a 1,150-to-351 vote.
The state GOP party's censure passed by acclamation, meaning by a voice vote. It has no practical effect, but serves as an attempt to embarrass the senator."The resolution stated in part: "Only in times of great crisis or betrayal is it necessary to publicly censure our leaders. Today we are faced with both. For too long we have waited, hoping Senator McCain would return to our Party's values on his own. That has not happened."Though the censure says that McCain's voting record has been "disastrous and harmful," former Senate minority whip John Kyl told called the resolution "wacky." "I've gone to dozens of these meetings and every now and then some wacky resolution gets passed," Kyl, the former Senate minority whip told The Arizona Republic. "But most people realize it does not represent the majority of the vast numbers of Republicans."
Kyl then touted McCain as being favored by the people since he has constantly been re-elected.
"Do these guys ever get elected? It's John McCain who gets elected," Kyl said. "To say that John McCain doesn't work with Republicans, doesn't have a conservative voting record – that's just baloney. I served with him in the Senate for 18 years, 26 years all together, and we didn't always vote alike, but his record is very conservative. It's just wacky to say otherwise."
McCain spokesman Brian Rogers declined to comment on the censure.
Though Kyl claims that McCain's voting record is "very conservative," the Heritage Action scorecard for McCain reveals something different. In fact, it shows that McCain votes only 43% conservative. That's almost 25% behind the Senate Republican average.
However, it isn't just McCain's voting record that should be suspect. Last year, McCain was called a traitor by Marine Blaine Cooper. Cooper said if he had the authority, he would have John McCain arrested for treason.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5TSmkOEijI
...Cooper explained that his reasons were due to McCain's support of America's enemies in Syria, even going so far as to have his picture made with our enemies. It was rather reminiscent of Hanoi Jane Fonda. How Ironic! While some think of this as nothing more than "infighting" in the Republican Party, nothing could be further from the truth. The issue for the Republican Party is quite simple. The Party is going to have to determine whether or not they are going to promote lawbreakers or oath keepers, whether they have men of character and will follow the law, or whether we will have men sell out to the highest bidder, regardless of what it does to the people they are supposed to represent.
While the GOP at large has declared war on Tea Party conservatives, I'm glad to see that the Tea Party isn't going to take it on the chin. They're taking the fight to the establishment and this is evidence of that movement.
Whistleblower: Obuma Was Indonesian Citizen & Given Financial Aid As Foreign Student At Occidental College
by tim Brown on Aug 7, 2013
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/08/whistleblower-obama-was-indonesian-citizen-given-financial-aid-as-foreign-student-at-occidental-college/#disqus_thread
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Dr. Orly Taitz has been pushing the Barack Obama eligibility issue for some time now. She has sought to go specifically through the court system and back in February she attempted to press the Supreme Court to move to oral arguments on Obama's eligibility to hold the office of president of the United States. She is also one that questions the motives of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Mike Zullo in their investigation. In June she presented additional information to the Superior Court of California in the Fourth District Court of Appeals in the case of Taitz v. Obama, Feinstein, Emken (The case number is G047746 and the Superior Court case number is 30-2012-00582135), in which she is seeking to have Barack Obama produce his registration record at Occidental College.
According to a press release from Orly Taitz: http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=425841
A whistle-blower from Higher Education Services Corporation in Albany New York came forward and advised Attorney Orly Taitz that she personally reviewed Barack Obama's financial aid information, which stated that financial aid was given to Obama as foreign student and as a citizen of Indonesia.In the original case there were over 100 pages that documented that Barack Obama was a citizen of Indonesia at the time he attended Occidental and that he has used fraudulent means to secure Identification.
However, Superior Court Judge Charles Marginis ruled in favor of Occidental College and denied Taitz's motion to force them to produce Obama's college registration forms.
Kathleen O'Leary, the Chief Judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeals, then re-instated the appeal.
In Taitz's press release she writes, "Additionally, Obama failed to submit the Appellee's brief in Taitz v Obama, Feinstein, Emken. This is an appeal, which was reinstated by the Chief Judge of the Fourth District Court of Appeal Kathleen O'Leary. Appellant Taitz filed her Appellant's brief."
"Appellees failed to file an Appellees' brief," the press release continued. "They were given additional 15 days and they failed again. Attorney Taitz submitted a notice of failure by Appellees to file an Appellee's brief and provided the court with this additional information, as part of the appeal revolves around the decision by the Superior Court judge Charles Marginis to rule in favor of the Occidental college and deny a motion to compel production of a redacted college registration for Obama in light of over a 100 pages of records showing Obama to be a citizen of Indonesia using forged and fraudulently obtained IDs."
As a result, Taitz submitted the new information to the Superior Court claiming "Whistleblower wrote for Taitz in her own handwriting her first and last name, her work e-mail address, her personal e-mail address and her home and cell phone numbers."
"Taitz did her due diligence and independently verified that the whistleblower is indeed employed by the Higher Education Services Corporation in Albany, New York" Taitz's submittal read. "She further checked that Obama transferred from the Occidental college to Columbia University in New York and his financial aid would indeed be handled by the Higher Education Services Corporation in Albany, New York (Hereinafter HESC). Whistleblower advised Taitz that the policy of the HESC is no to destroy records and microfilm is contained in the safe of the corporation. She further advised Taitz that several employees of the HESC made copies of the microfilm, in case the management decides to destroy the evidence. She came forward, as she is concerned about fraud being committed and the fact that as a citizen of Indonesia Obama was not eligible to be the president of the United States."
A sword declaration was also attached, as you can see here:
http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Taitz-v-Obama-CA-4th-additional-information-1.pdf
Ms. Taitz say that the information provided should weigh in her favor in granting an appeal. Moreover, if further evidence confirms this information and attorney for Occidental college knew that Obama's registration, application and financial aid show him registered as a foreign student and a citizen of Indonesia, then they would have knowingly been committing treason against the people of the United States of America and were aiding and abetting the most egregious fraud in the history of the US.
I wonder why those who have made copies of the microfilm have not simply pitched it into the hands of someone like Taitz. In either case, I'm sure the Obama administration has put its NSA ears to the ground around HESC now and employees can rest assured they are being monitored.
Barack Obama has spent millions of dollars to keep his records from the public eye? Why? Isn't he the man that said, "The only people that don't want to disclose the truth, are people with something to hide?" Again, how hard is it for Obama to simply produce the documentation, not a forged digital image on the web, and put to rest the allegations? If I were in the position, that's exactly what I would do and demonstrate the foolishness of the claim, but when someone goes to great expense and lengths to keep information hidden, it only lends credibility to the charges leveled against him, especially in light of his past and his time in office.
Bill Clinton: 'America's Greatest Sexual Predator'
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Assad Punks Obama, Syria Gives Up Less Than 5% of Its Chemical Weapons Arsenal
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Obama looks like a fool . . . again.
(Reuters) – Syria has given up less than 5 percent of its chemical weapons arsenal and will miss next week's deadline to send all toxic agents abroad for destruction, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
The deliveries, in two shipments this month to the northern Syrian port of Latakia, totaled 4.1 percent of the roughly 1,300 tonnes of toxic agents reported by Damascus to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"It's not enough and there is no sign of more," one source briefed on the situation said.
The internationally backed operation, overseen by a joint OPCW-United Nations mission, is now 6-8 weeks behind schedule. Damascus needs to show it is still serious about relinquishing its chemical weapons, the sources told Reuters.
Failure to eliminate its chemical weapons could expose Syria to sanctions, although these would have to be supported in the U.N. Security Council by Russia and China, which have so far refused to back such measures against President Bashar al-Assad.
The deal under which Syria undertook to eliminate its chemical arsenal stopped the United States and its allies from launching bombing raids to punish Assad for a chemical attack last August and made clear the limits to international action against him.
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After listening to the President's 2014 State of The Union speech, there were three things that came to mind: Either he has gone completely insane, become completely detached from reality, or he is deliberately out to destroy our country. Since he gets regular medical checkups, he's definitely not crazy.
We know the President gets constant briefings on happenings both at home and abroad, so he cannot possibly be unaware of the actual State of The Union.
This only leaves the third most plausible explanation which is he is out to destroy the country. Everything the President said in this speech was detrimental to this nation in every way and complete fabrication of what is best for the country. His claim of the unemployment situation being better now than it has been in the last 5 years is a total farce. The reality is the number of people unemployed today is near the same as it was some 5 years ago and possibly a bit higher. The numbers, of course, look slightly better now than then, but this is only because people currently on unemployment are counted. If the percentage included all who were unemployed such as those still not working who have used up their benefits long ago and those who aren't working that never got unemployment benefits, the actual number would be closer to 30%.
Try telling job seekers in California, New Mexico, or Ohio, for instance, that the unemployment picture is brighter today. At the risk of getting slapped, at the very least you would be labeled a lunatic. Interestingly, the President's answer to creating more jobs is tied into his environmental aspirations of transforming the country from a primarily fossil fuel based economy to a cleaner natural gas and renewable energy society. This can never be achieved, primarily because of the tremendous costs involved in the conversion as well as the fact that renewable energy sources such as wind power and solar end up employing less than 20 people per multimillion dollar project after completion. This also doesn't take into consideration the fact that wind power only produces less than 1% of 1% of electricity to the grid and solar only around 20%. The inefficiency of wind and solar energy along with their high cost in subsidies and in the form of electric bills will actually make it harder for people to survive who are strapped for money, during this 5 year long recession.
The President's idea of high tech jobs will be more costly than the country can afford since we are already some 4 trillion in debt. Thus, any opportunity that requires government assistance is an impossibility since the country is already
bankrupt.
The President's answer for improving the economy also gives citizenship to millions of illegal aliens.
Only someone out to destroy the economy would import millions of workers to an already devastated economic situation. The President's claim that the debate is over in regards to climate change is a
ridiculous statement since actual weather, climate, and geophysical records completely destroy the bogus computer models issued by UN climate based organizations. The whole global warming/climate change claim is made from individuals who are not qualified to make any assertions on climate since they are not meteorologists, only environmentalists masquerading as such.
The President's claim that parts of the US coasts are being flooded by rising seas is erroneous. Just where are these flooded coastal areas, Mr. President? The claim of drought devastation in California and other parts of the western US is deception in all its glory since these parts of the country are natural desert areas and normally receive little precipitation. The minimum wage raise to $10.10 per hour is a bad idea all around economically, since more workers will get laid off, have their hours cut, and those currently making $10.00 an hour will have to get paid more resulting in time cuts. This will happen because most businesses simply cannot afford to pay their minimum wage employees this amount and stay in business.
The President's promise to bypass Congress through Executive Order whenever he doesn't get what he wants amounts to
Socialistic Dictatorship that cannot be tolerated in America. The course of Constitutional law must be adhered to.
In foreign policy, the President continues to legitimatize domestic spying and the need to fight terrorism. While all along helping the very terrorist organizations at home and abroad with financial support, arms, and actual military intervention. It is a complete fabrication for the President to state his concerns about terrorism and the need to fight it,
while he is helping them in all corners of the world.
What this State of The Union speech really tells us is we have a president, who will stop at nothing in his quest to destroy the very country he is leading.
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True. However, Obama is an exact reflection of the Republican Party. It's not difficult to understand that the true basis of the Republican Party is socialism and tyranny.
We should know that Republican Party is the party of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln and the Republicans did not "save the union", they changed the union. That's building on 150 years of increasing socialism and tyranny in the united States of America.
Benjamin Franklin said
"We must all hang together,
or assuredly
we shall all hang separately."
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++California Figures Out How To Effectively Disarm Law-Abiding Citizens
January 30, 2014 by Eric Reed
At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin said "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." Remember that quote as you read this article my friends, because California has effectively figured out how to disarm its law-abiding citizens through their new micro-stamping law!
Essentially if a firearms manufacturer makes any changes to a gun that's already acceptable in California, no matter how minor of a change it may be, that gun falls off the approved list. This requires the firearms manufacturer to start the approval process all over again from step 1. Minor improvements are made to firearms constantly, and none of these changes effect the functionality of the weapons in any way, shape, or form. California doesn't seem to understand that though, so they classify the weapon as "unsafe" for their state. There is however, a convenient clause that exempts law enforcement from these regulations.
That being said, Ruger and Smith & Wesson have already publicly stated that due to this laws lunacy, they're going to be unable to comply with these new restrictions. So as these semi automatic handguns fall off the list, the list will shrink down to nothing within a few years, making the semi automatic pistol truly a "ghost gun." Perhaps Sen. Kevin De Leon really did know what he was talking about.
All joking aside, quite recently Ruger CEO Michael Fifer was interviewed. Please listen to the video below, and pay very close attention to what Mr. Fifer says between 2:35 to 4:00 into the interview.
As former law enforcement, allow me to answer your question Mr. Fifer. You ask if you should deny weapons to the Sheriff's who are basically good people, just because the law-abiding California citizens can't own it? THE ANSWER IS YES! These are weapons that the wonderful California law makers have deemed as "unsafe!" If they're not safe for a husband protecting his wife, a mother protecting her children, or a father protecting his family, then WHY are they safe for anybody else in California? This includes law enforcement. Surely there lives are not valued higher than any other law-abiding Californian.
I could only hope that one, JUST ONE firearms manufacturer would take a stand. California wrote and passed a ridiculous law. I get that. This law joins the ranks with 10,000 other ludicrous laws. But this happens because we let them. If California LEO's weapons supply's start drying up, what do you think the police officers union would have to say about that? Could they pressure law makers to repeal the law? Maybe, maybe not. But if manufacturers continue to supply "unsafe" weapons to California LEO's, the only one to suffer will be the law-abiding Californian. Not the LEO's, and certainly not the criminals.
So I go back to the wise words from Benjamin Franklin at the beginning of this article. Those words hundreds of years later still ring with truth. If America (and California for that matter) can't stand as one loud patriotic voice, we will assuredly hang separately. I'm Eric Reed https://Facebook.com/EricReedGRAA, and may god bless America.
http://freepatriot.org/2014/01/30/california-figures-effectively-disarm-law-abiding-citizens/
Third Banker,
Former Fed Member,
"Found Dead"
Inside A Week
by Tyler Durden on 01/31/2014 20:05 -0500
If the stock market were already crashing then it would be simple to blame the dismally sad rash of dead bankers in the last week on that - certainly that was reflected in 1929. However, for the third time in the last week, a senior financial executive has died in what appears to be a suicide. As Bloomberg reports, following the deaths of a JPMorgan senior manager (Tuesday) and a Deutsche Bank executive (Sunday), Russell Investments' Chief Economist (and former Fed economist) Mike Dueker was found dead at the side of a highway in Washington State. Police said the death appeared to be a suicide.
Via Bloomberg,
Mike Dueker, the chief economist at Russell Investments, was found dead at the side of a highway that leads to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department. He was 50.
He may have jumped over a 4-foot (1.2-meter) fence before falling down a 40- to 50-foot embankment, Pierce County Detective Ed Troyer said yesterday. He said the death appeared to be a suicide.
Dueker was reported missing on Jan. 29, and a group of friends had been searching for him along with law enforcement. Troyer said Dueker was having problems at work, without elaborating.
Dueker was in good standing at Russell, said Jennifer Tice, a company spokeswoman. She declined to comment on Troyer's statement about Dueker's work issues.
But as Michael Snyder noted recently, if the stock market was already crashing, it would be easy to blame the suicides on that. The world certainly remembers what happened during the crash of 1929...
Historically, bankers have been stereotyped as the most likely to commit suicide. This has a lot to do with the famous 1929 stock market crash, which resulted in 1,616 banks failing and more than 20,000 businesses going bankrupt.
The number of bankers committing suicide directly after the crash is thought to have been only around 20, with another 100 people connected to the financial industry dying at their own hand within the year.
Dueker had also been a research economist at the St. Louis Fed:
He published dozens of research papers over the past two decades, many on monetary policy, according to the St. Louis Fed's website, which ranks him among the top 5 percent of economists by number of works published. His most-cited work was a 1997 paper titled "Strengthening the case for the yield curve as a predictor of U.S. recessions," published by the reserve bank while he was a researcher there.
So, with stocks a mere 4% off their highs, are so many high ranking and well respected bankers committing suicide?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-31/third-banker-former-fed-member-found-dead-inside-week
Steve Stockman: "I'm Considering Filing Articles of Impeachment" – It's Time to Put Up or Shut Up
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/steve-stockman-im-considering-filing-articles-impeachment-time-put-shut/
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Steve Stockman is potentially the most indignant member of congress, which is exactly why I like him. He obviously doesn't play the game of "good ole' boys" that so many do. Though this man goes largely unnoticed in the public eye, I have tried many times to give him a boost because I think we need more like him.
He was one of a small handful of Republicans to vote against John Boehner for Speaker. This is the man who exposed the Obama Administration for utilizing spambots in their anti-gun campaign. He proudly and openly passed out (third party) copies of articles of impeachment in the House. Stockman is one of the few who seem to understand the origination clause and threatened blue slips more than once to stop Senate bills. He is even one of the only members of our entire legislature who has shown any interest at all in the Obama Birth Certificate forgery.
At the same time, although I like Steve Stockman and hope he can defeat John Cornyn in the 2014 senate race, he is starting to develop a reputation of "all bark and no bite." I suppose that reputation fits nearly every one of our elected servants so I mean nothing personal by that, but Steve Stockman is the one man I feel that can be something truly special.
Stockman, never to be accused of being shy, did a little self-promotion on Facebook yesterday:
The story mentions Stockman walking out of the State of the Union address and again mentions the "I" word.
The Washington Times article reports: Mr. Stockman said Mr. Obama has repeatedly broken his oath of office to uphold the Constitution, and in response, he's seriously mulling legal action.
"I'm considering filing Articles of Impeachment against Barack Obama," he wrote on his website, as reported by The Blaze.
This isn't the first time the Texas congressman has broached the issue.
"Last year, I said I would consider impeachment as a last resort to stop Obama's abuse of power," he said, The Blaze reported. "And quite frankly, we're running out of options."Indeed this is not the first time that he has broached the issue. I called his office last year to give my support.
At this point I don't care about the strategy of Impeachment. I honestly don't even care if it works because it probably won't. At one point the argument was that it would be successful in the House and the Senate would fail to convict. Honestly I am not even sure it would pass the House. All you have to do is look at how the House has been voting lately to see that the lower chamber is full or RINOs.
What a lot of Americans want is simply to see one man (or woman) who has the courage to try to do what is right. That's it. Just do your job. If a person tries and fails we can live with that because we understand how the deck is stacked.
What we are tired of is men and women who get our hopes up and do not follow through. So it's time to put up or shut up for Stockman in my opinion.
We are waiting to hang our hopes on men of honor and not men who are all talk and no action. Those are the types of men who built this country and those are the types it will take to rebuild it.
It's time to put Steve Stockman's feet to the fire. He may be the only man with the guts to do it so if you want to see Articles of Impeachment officially introduced then please call one of his offices (or all four) at:
Washington, DC Office
326 Cannon House Office Building
Independence Avenue
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-1555
Fax: 202-226-0396
Hours: M-F 9-5:30pm
Cleveland, TX Office
907 E. Houston St.
Cleveland City Hall
Cleveland, TX 77327
Hours: Thursdays 8:30-4:30pm and by appointment.
Phone: 409-883-8028
Orange, TX Office
420 Green Avenue
Orange, TX 77630
Phone: 409-883-8075
Fax: 409-886-9918
Hours: M-F 8-4:00pm
Pasadena, TX Office
8060 Spencer Highway
San Jacinto College, Building 1, Room 108
Pasadena, TX 77505
Phone: 281-478-2799
In order to fully conceptualize. It is perhaps important to reference 2001 "The Dawn Of Man" segment which introduced 2001 – A Space Odyssey.
Only after watching the above – should you consider the below:
The scene of the bone being flung high into the air and turning into a spacecraft always brings a tear to my eyes. It is one of the most deeply moving things on film, at least for me.
Well, I guess not all the apes were influenced by The Monolith. I love 2001, because Stanley Kubick painted such a blank canvas. I return to it from time to time, and am never disappointed, in spite of the new learning I bring to the viewing. It grows in meaning as I grow in understanding. Even when it came out, not understanding it, I at least appreciated I was experiencing great art, and it moved me.
The Monolith... whatever it was... brought creative thinking into the lives of the hominids. One of these insights was Weapons. One of the breathtaking cuts in the movie is the sight of the celebratory gesture of the bone weapon in the air, turning into a spacecraft! We see the fire of creative insight some alive... and what it came to be.. and the magnificent music of Strauss as the background.
When the hominids encountered the Monolith, they were in awe. They examined it, and treated it with respect. The scientists who rediscovered the Monolith also treated it with respect, although it was unclear what its significance was.
The video of the Afghans stoning the drone is odd, to say the least. Odd that they should behave like animals encountering ths devise and stone it, and yet be able to record the event on the evil white man's iPhone camera.... The sole of their shoe is considered to be the filthiest part of the body, so beating something with it is an extreme act of symbolic disrespect. You can take people out of the stone age but you can't take the stone age out of some people.
This is a microcosm of our own time, as Kubrick's 'Dawn of Man' was for our past.
...Warph
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AWFUL. Obama Lashes Out at O'Reilly, FOX News During Super Bowl Interview
Sunday, February 2, 2014, 5:44 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/02/transcript-bill-oreilly-interviews-president-obama/
The White House agreed to an interview with FOX News host Bill O'Reilly prior to the Super Bowl. Bill O'Reilly talked about the interview all week. It's just too bad 'President Thinski'n couldn't answer the questions without getting testy. Obama attacked both Bill O'Reilly and FOX News during the interview blaming FOX for his failures as president.
O'Reilly ate his lunch.
Obama also downplayed the corruption in his administration.
"Not even a smidgen of corruption."
Business Insider had more on the interview:Obama And Bill O'Reilly Just Had An Extremely Tense Pre-Super Bowl InterviewRead more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-bill-oreilly-super-bowl-interview-2014-2#ixzz2sF8Jf5ug
"Why didn't you fire Sebelius?" O'Reilly said.
He avoided a direct answer, but Obama said that people were being "held accountable." O'Reilly subsequently questioned Obama on whether his promise that, "If you like your plan, you can keep it" was his biggest "mistake" as president. Obama used a football analogy at the end of this line of questioning, saying he was trying to not dwell on the "fumbles" and move on to the next play.
O'Reilly also asked Obama if he was told in the initial aftermath of the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, that it had been a "terrorist attack."
"When someone is attacking our compound, that's an act of terror," Obama said, adding that he had used that phrase in a Rose Garden statement the day after the attack.
"Your detractors believe that you did not tell the world it was a terror attack because your campaign didn't want that out," O'Reilly said. "That's what they believe."
"And they believe it because folks like you are telling them that," Obama shot back.After some intense questioning about last year's revelation that the IRS targeted certain groups, including conservative groups, for extra scrutiny, Obama took another jab at Fox News.
"These kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them," he said.TRANSCRIPT:BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Mr. President, thank you for doing this.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Great to be with you.
O'REILLY: Really appreciate it.
I want to get some things on the record.
So let's begin with health care.
OBAMA: Yes?
O'REILLY: October 1st it rolls out.
OBAMA: Right.
O'REILLY: Immediately, there are problems with the computers.
OBAMA: Right.
O'REILLY: When did you know there were going to be problems with those computers?
OBAMA: Well, I think we all anticipated there would be glitches, because any time you've got technology, a new program rolling out, there are going to be some glitches. I don't think I anticipated or anybody anticipated the degree of the problems with the Web site. And...
O'REILLY: So you just didn't know when it rolled out that this was going to be...
OBAMA: Well, I don't think...
O'REILLY: -- a problem?
OBAMA: -- as I said, I don't think anybody anticipated the degree of problems that you had on HealthCare.gov. The good news is that right away, we decided how are we going to fix it, it got fixed within a month and a half, it was up and running and now it's working the way it's supposed to and we've signed up three million people.
O'REILLY: I don't know about that, because last week, there was an Associated Press call of people who actually went to the Web site and only 8 percent of them feel that it's working well, working well.
Why didn't you fire Sebelius, the secretary in charge of this...
OBAMA: (INAUDIBLE).
O'REILLY: -- because I mean she had to know, after all those years and all that money, that it wasn't going to work?
OBAMA: You know, my main priority right now is making sure that it delivers for the American people. And what we...
O'REILLY: You're not going to answer that?
OBAMA: -- what -- what we've ended up doing is we've got three million people signed up so far. We're about a month behind of where we anticipated we wanted to be. We've got over six million people who have signed up for Medicaid.
O'REILLY: Yes.
OBAMA: We've got three million young people under the age of 26 who have signed up on their parents' plan. And so what we're constantly figuring out is how do we continue to improve it, how do we make sure that the folks who don't have health insurance can get health insurance...
O'REILLY: OK...
OBAMA: -- and those who are underinsured are able to get better health insurance.
O'REILLY: I'm sure -- I'm sure that the intent is noble, but I'm a taxpayer.
OBAMA: Yes.
O'REILLY: And I'm paying Kathleen Sebelius' salary and she screwed up.
OBAMA: Yes.
O'REILLY: And you're not holding her accountable.
OBAMA: Yes, well, I -- I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable. But when we're...
O'REILLY: But she's still there.
OBAMA: -- when we're in midstream, Bill, we want to make sure that our main focus is how do we make this thing work so that people are able to sign up?
And that's what we've done.
O'REILLY: All right.
Was it the biggest mistake of your presidency to tell the nation over and over, if you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance?
OBAMA: Oh, Bill, you've got a long list of my mistakes of my presidency...
O'REILLY: But, no, really, for you...
OBAMA: -- as I've (INAUDIBLE)...
O'REILLY: -- wasn't that the biggest one?
OBAMA: But this is -- this is one that I regret and I've said I regretted, in part because we put in a grandfather clause in the original law saying that, in fact, you were supposed to be able to keep it. It obviously didn't cover everybody that we needed to and that's why we changed it, so that we further grandfathered in folks and many people who thought originally, when they got that cancellation notice, they couldn't keep it or not (INAUDIBLE)...
O'REILLY: It's in the past. But isn't that the...
OBAMA: So...
O'REILLY: -- biggest mistake?
OBAMA: Well, I, you know, Bill, as I said...
O'REILLY: You gave your enemies...
OBAMA: You...
O'REILLY: -- a lot of fodder for it.
OBAMA: -- you were very generous in saying I look pretty good considering I've been in the presidency for five years. And I think part of the reason is, I try to focus not on the fumbles, but on the next plan.
O'REILLY: All right.
Libya, House Armed Services testimony, General Carter Ham, you know, the general?
OBAMA: Yes. Right.
O'REILLY: Security in Africa.
OBAMA: Yes.
O'REILLY: He testified that on the day that the ambassador was murdered and the three other Americans, all right, he told Secretary Panetta it was a terrorist attack. Shortly after Ham, General Ham, said that, Secretary Panetta came in to you.
OBAMA: Yes.
O'REILLY: Did he tell you, Secretary Panetta, it was a terrorist attack?
OBAMA: You know what he told me was that there was an attack on our compound...
O'REILLY: He didn't tell you...
OBAMA: -- (INAUDIBLE)...
O'REILLY: -- he didn't use the word "terror?"
OBAMA: You know, in -- in the heat of the moment, Bill, what folks are focused on is what's happening on the ground, do we have eyes on it, how can we make sure our folks are secure...
O'REILLY: Because I just want to get this on the record...
OBAMA: So, I...
O'REILLY: -- did he tell you it was a terror attack?
OBAMA: Bill -- and what I'm -- I'm answering your question. What he said to me was, we've got an attack on our compound. We don't know yet...
O'REILLY: No terror attack?
OBAMA: -- we don't know yet who's doing it. Understand, by definition, Bill, when somebody is attacking our compound...
O'REILLY: Yes?
OBAMA: -- that's an act of terror, which is how I characterized it the day after it happened. So the -- so the question ends up being who, in fact, was attacking us?
O'REILLY: But it's more than that...
OBAMA: And that...
O'REILLY: -- though...
OBAMA: -- well, we...
O'REILLY: -- because of Susan Rice.
OBAMA: No, it...
O'REILLY: It's more than that because if Susan Rice goes out and tells the world that it was a spontaneous demonstration...
OBAMA: Bill...
O'REILLY: -- off a videotape but your...
OBAMA: Bill...
O'REILLY: -- your commanders and the secretary of Defense know it's a terror attack...
OBAMA: Now, Bill...
O'REILLY: Just...
OBAMA: -- Bill...
O'REILLY: -- as an American...
OBAMA: -- Bill -- Bill...
O'REILLY: -- I'm just confused.
OBAMA: And I'm -- and I'm trying to explain it to, if you want to listen. The fact of the matter is is that people understood, at the time, something very dangerous was happening, that we were focused on making sure that we did everything we can -- could -- to protect them. In the aftermath, what became clear was that the security was lax, that not all the precautions and -- that needed to be taken were taken and both myself and Secretary Clinton and others indicated as much.
But at the moment, when these things happen, Bill, on the other side of the world, people...
O'REILLY: It's the fog of war...
OBAMA: -- people -- that's -- people don't know at the very moment exactly why something like this happens. And when you look at the videotape of this whole thing unfolding, this is not some systematic, well organized process. You see...
O'REILLY: Well, it was heavy weapons used...
OBAMA: -- you...
O'REILLY: -- and that...
OBAMA: -- what you...
O'REILLY: -- that's the thing...
OBAMA: -- what you see -- Bill...
O'REILLY: -- heavy weapons coming in.
OBAMA: -- Bill, listen, I -- I -- I've gone through this and we have had multiple hearings on it. What happens is you have an attack like this taking place and you have a mix of folks who are just troublemakers. You have folks who have an ideological agenda.
O'REILLY: All right.
OBAMA: You have some who are affiliated with terrorist organizations. You have some that are not. But the main thing that all of us have to take away from this is our diplomats are serving in some very dangerous places.
O'REILLY: But there's more...
OBAMA: And we've got...
O'REILLY: -- there's more than that...
OBAMA: -- and we've got -- and we've got to make sure that not only have we implemented all the reforms that were recommended...
O'REILLY: OK.
OBAMA: -- by the independent agency...
O'REILLY: I...
OBAMA: -- but we also have to make sure that we understand our folks out there are in a hazardous, dangerous situation...
O'REILLY: I think everybody understands that...
OBAMA: -- and we...
O'REILLY: -- Mr. President.
OBAMA: No, but -- but, actually, not everybody does, because what ends up happening...
O'REILLY: I think they do.
OBAMA: -- what ends up happening is we end up creating a political agenda...
O'REILLY: Absolutely...
OBAMA: -- over something...
O'REILLY: -- and that's...
OBAMA: -- (INAUDIBLE)...
O'REILLY: -- that was my next question.
OBAMA: -- which Democrats and Republicans should be unified in trying to figure out how are we going to protect people (INAUDIBLE)?
O'REILLY: I've got to get to the IRS...
OBAMA: OK.
O'REILLY: -- but I just want to say that they're -- your detractors believe that you did not tell the world it was a terror attack because your campaign didn't want that out.
OBAMA: Bill, think about...
O'REILLY: That's what they believe.
OBAMA: -- and they believe it because folks like you are telling them that.
O'REILLY: No, I'm not telling them that.(LAUGHTER)
O'REILLY: I'm asking you whether you were told...
OBAMA: But -- and what I'm saying is...
O'REILLY: -- it was a terror attack and you...
OBAMA: -- and what I'm saying is that is inaccurate.
O'REILLY: All right.
OBAMA: We -- we revealed to the American people exactly what we understood at the time. The notion that we would hide the ball for political purposes when, a week later, we all said, in fact, there was a terrorist attack taking place the day after, I said it was an act of terror, that wouldn't be a very good cover-up...
O'REILLY: All right.
OBAMA: -- if that's what we were interested in.
O'REILLY: I've got to get to the IRS...
OBAMA: Yes.
O'REILLY: -- because I don't know what happened there and I'm hoping maybe you can tell us. Douglas Shulman, former IRS chief, he was cleared into the White House 157 times, more than any of your cabinet members, more than any other IRS guy in the history, by far.
OK, why was Douglas Shulman here 157 times?
Why?
OBAMA: Mr. Shulman, as the head of the IRS, is constantly coming in, because at the time, we were trying to set up the, uh, HealthCare.gov and the IRS...
O'REILLY: What did he have to do with that?
OBAMA: -- and the IRS is involved in making sure that that works as part of the overall health care team.
O'REILLY: So it was all health care?
OBAMA: Number two, we've also got the IRS involved when it comes to some of the financial reforms to make sure that we don't have taxpayer funded bailouts in the future. So you had all these different agendas in which the head of the IRS is naturally involved.
O'REILLY: Did you speak to him a lot...
OBAMA: -- (INAUDIBLE).
O'REILLY: -- yourself?
OBAMA: I do not recall meeting with him in any of these meetings that are pretty routine meetings that we had.
O'REILLY: OK, so you don't -- you don't recall seeing Shulman, because what some people are saying is that the IRS was used...
OBAMA: Yes.
O'REILLY: -- at a -- at a local level in Cincinnati, and maybe other places to go after...
OBAMA: Absolutely wrong.
O'REILLY: -- to go after.
OBAMA: Absolutely wrong.
O'REILLY: But how do you know that, because we -- we still don't know what happened there?
OBAMA: Bill, we do -- that's not what happened. They -- folks have, again, had multiple hearings on this. I mean these kinds of things keep on surfacing, in part because you and your TV station will promote them.
O'REILLY: But don't...
OBAMA: But when (INAUDIBLE)...
O'REILLY: -- think there are unanswered questions?
OBAMA: Bill, when you actually look at this stuff, there have been multiple hearings on it. What happened here was it that you've got a...
O'REILLY: But there's no definition on it.
OBAMA: -- you've got a 501(c)(4) law that people think is focusing. No -- that the folks did not know how to implement...
O'REILLY: OK...
OBAMA: -- because it basically says...
O'REILLY: -- so you're saying there was no...
OBAMA: -- if you are involved...
O'REILLY: -- no corruption there at all, none?
OBAMA: That's not what I'm saying.
O'REILLY: (INAUDIBLE).
OBAMA: That's actually...
O'REILLY: No, no, but I want to know what...
OBAMA: -- (INAUDIBLE)...
O'REILLY: -- you're saying. You're the leader of the country.
OBAMA: Absolutely.
O'REILLY: You're saying no corruption?
OBAMA: No.
O'REILLY: None?
No?
OBAMA: There were some -- there were some bone-headed decisions...
O'REILLY: Bone-headed decisions...
OBAMA: -- out of -- out of a local office...
O'REILLY: But no mass corruption?
OBAMA: Not even mass corruption, not even a smidgeon of corruption, I would say.
O'REILLY: OK. I got a letter from Kathy LaMaster (ph), Fresno, California. I said I would read one letter from the folks, all right?
OBAMA: All right.
O'REILLY: "Mr. President, why do you feel it's necessary to fundamentally transform the nation that has afforded you so much opportunity and success?"
OBAMA: I don't think we have to fundamentally transform the nation...
O'REILLY: But those are your words.
OBAMA: I think that what we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. Bill, you and I benefitted from this incredible country of ours, in part, because there were good jobs out there that paid a good wage, because you had public schools that functioned well, that we could get scholarships if we didn't come from a wealthy family, in order to go to college.
O'REILLY: Right.
OBAMA: That, you know, if you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care...
O'REILLY: They're cutting me off...
OBAMA: -- and for a lot of folks, we don't have that. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class...
O'REILLY: All right...
OBAMA: -- and work hard and people who are working hard can get into the middle class.
O'REILLY: I think -- I -- you know, I know you think maybe we haven't been fair, but I think your heart is in the right place.
Projection for the game -- who's going to win the Super Bowl?
OBAMA: I can't make a prediction. I don't know. These guys are too evenly matched. I think it is going to be 24-21, but I don't know who's going to be...
O'REILLY: You don't really know?
OBAMA: -- 24 and I don't know who's going to be 21.
O'REILLY: Mr. President, thanks very much.
OBAMA: I enjoyed it. Thank you.
Clinton White House Counsel Can't List a Single Hillary Accomplishment
February 1, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield
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Bill Clinton's former Counsel and troubleshooter Lanny Davis, when asked on Hugh Hewitt's show to list Hillary Clinton's accomplishments, couldn't list one of them. Instead Lanny had to claim that the Secretary of State job is useless.
HH: All right, one question, you've got a minute. Summarize for me what she accomplished as Secretary of State.
LD: Well, the biggest thing of all is goodwill around the world, which is what secretaries of State do.
The United States is not exactly very popular around the world. And Secretaries of State are expected to have more specific accomplishments internationally in the diplomatic arena.
HH: Like in Syria...
LD: I don't know what any secretary of State...
HH: ...and Egypt and Libya?
LD: I don't know, well, Libya and certainly the intervention in Libya and getting rid of Qaddafi, you would say that's a pretty good achievement for the President. But these are presidential achievements with a partnership of the secretary of State. What do secretaries of State do? For example, she was very instrumental in the details of the Iranian sanctions program, which has produced, apparently, some results. I'm very skeptical about this deal in Iran on the nuclear weaponry. But the credit she deserves on this sanctions program, which literally was her program in the State Department to enforce, but in partnership with Barack Obama.
HH: So her achievement is that...
LD: But this doesn't change the question about the secretary of State having achievement. This is a secretary of State is the most popular woman in the world and restored relations with everyone in the world.
Apparently we didn't have any relations with anyone in the world until Hillary arrived. Also Hillary's accomplishment is being popular. Which is a debatable accomplishment.
But you can see the problem for Hillary Inc and Planet Hillary and Clintonworld. This is a killer question because Hillary didn't do anything. And the things that Lanny tries to attribute to her are on shaky ground. Obama has turned on sanctions and the Libyan intervention led to Benghazi and was wildly unpopular with Americans.
Hillary does not want to stand up at a debate and claim credit for Benghazi by way of the Libyan intervention. She will try to claim credit for Iran, but by then the topic may be equally untouchable, if for example Israel does bomb Iran's reactions or the negotiations completely collapse.
Accomplishment is the subject that Hillary has to avoid.
I can list one accomplishment:
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Worst Super Bowl Commercial: Coca Cola Celebrates "Multiculturalism" By Butchering "America The Beautiful"
(Could have been a great commercial . . . if they sang it in English)
Allen West says it best:I'm watching the Super Bowl, looks like good defense (Seattle) is trouncing good offense (Denver) when a Coca Cola commercial came on and it started rather patriotically with the words of "America the Beautiful."
Then the words went from English to languages I didn't recognize. Now, I know the politically correct thing is to foster multiculturalism — working really well in Europe. [...]I am quite sure there may some who appreciated the commercial, but Coca Cola missed the mark in my opinion. If we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing "America the Beautiful" in English in a commercial during the Super Bowl, by a company as American as they come — doggone we are on the road to perdition. This was a truly disturbing commercial for me, what say you?(I would say, "Coke, this is how you do it."... and I think Bullwinkle would agree with me :laugh:)
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Arizona Cops Execute Unarmed Man
That Had His
Hands In The Air
When did it become ok for police to execute unarmed men that have their hands raised in the air in the act of surrender. Are the police now taking on the roles of judge, jury, and executioner? What ever happened to our right of due process, and a jury trial. Welcome to the new America, ( The New China of the 21st century.)Sunday, February 2, 2014 15:14
Stop Resisting Execution:
Cold-Blooded Arizona Cops Assassinate
Suspect with His Hands in the Air.
For absolutely no reason other than "because they could", cops in Pinal County, Arizona executed a suspect who was standing there, not near any of the officers, with his hands in the air, offering no threat whatsoever. Without trial, judge, or jury, they simply assassinated the man, as his family looked on in horror. Warning: There is some graphic violence in the video below.
This is your police force, America. Protecting and Serving you to death.
Are there some good cops out there? I'm sure there are. I am certain that some people go to the Academy hoping to do right and to help others. But...they have to know their "brothers" are doing these terrible things. What are they doing to put a stop to it? When you accept an action, you are deeming it "acceptable", no matter how passively. And that makes you just as guilty as the person perpetrating the action.
So, why are we so hard on the boys in blue? Because they are the ones that are supposed to enforce the rules, and thus they must be held to a higher standard.
Read Here: http://www.thedailysheeple.com/stop-resisting-execution-cold-blooded-arizona-cops-assassinate-suspect-with-his-hands-in-the-air_022014
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President Obama Says "Unfair" Over Questioning Around Benghazi and The IRS
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President Barack Obama said that he is "in a lot of ways" less liberal than former Republican President Richard Nixon and said Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly has been "absolutely" unfair to him throughout his presidency in an interview that aired Monday night.
O'Reilly conducted a live and at times contentious interview with the president on Sunday ahead of the Super Bowl. An additional taped portion of the interview aired on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Monday.
During the sit-down in which O'Reilly asked about issues like the 2012 Benghazi attack and the troubled health care roll out, the Fox News firebrand asked the president if he felt his network has been unfair to his administration.
"Absolutely, of course you are, Bill. But I like you anyway," Obama said
Benghazi:Why was Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi Libya on 9/11/12?
Who was the CIA Station Chief in Benghazi Libya on 9/11/12?
Where are the victims of the terror attack? Why have we not heard from them?
What did Obama do after 7:18pm (DC time) on 9/11/12?
Why did the Turkish delegation not see any issues at 9:30 pm when leaving the compound?... or did they?
Recent reports are indicating CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell was the person inside the intelligence community who was working to shield Hillary Clinton. Mr. Morell spent two years as the head of the CIA's main analytic arm, the Directorate of Intelligence 2011 and 2012.
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CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell
Morell became the interim CIA Director when General Petraeus stepped down due to his personal issues and convenient for the administration extra-marital affair. [ Eric Holder's FBI was holding all the investigative information over the affair - *wink* *wink*]
A September 15th, 2012 email from the Benghazi CIA Chief of Section, soon to hit the media cycle, essentially states they had been trying for days to politely say to the top of the CIA -political side- Benghazi was a direct terrorist attack and could not understand why the political side (career Morell manipulating story to non-career Petraeus) was spinning another story.
In the direct language contained within the memo the Station Chief underlined it was NOT a spontaneous protest turned violent.
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CIA Deputy Director Morell evolved to become very critical of the Bush administration, even though Morell was Bush's personal briefer.
Morell was the "key" CIA intelligence briefer for President Bush, and carried a chip on his shoulder around the Iraqi WMD non-finding. Morell felt he was unfairly held accountable and his career spotlight diminished as a result of the flawed intelligence which became a toxic political issue for the Bush administration.
As a career CIA official he internalized the Iraq WMD issues and became highly political in his views of DC, politics and the relationship between the intelligence community. Through this personal evolution Morell became one of the most partisan members of the intelligence community, and his big-shoulder-chip experience skewed his ideology.
After Morell was passed over by the Obama administration for permanent CIA director, the position given to life-long Obama ally John Brennan, Morell angrily quit the CIA (June 2013).
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From Morell's perspective he was "passed over", from the Administration's perspective (Obama/Clinton) the plausible deniability (lying) he afforded the administration around the Benghazi attack meant he was a risk.
It was safer for the administration, ie. less likely to endure congressional inquiry, if Morell was outside government. It was better for both Obama and Clinton to have distance from Morell.
Morell went to work in the private sector as a consultant for CBS news and retains a familiar leash attached to his collar his secondary position on The President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
John Brennan the CIA Director, James Clapper the Director of Intelligence, and Leon Panetta who was Secretary of Defense at the time, all three of them the day it happened, actually it was the morning of the 12th, said that it was an organized terrorist attack and they told the President that. And he kept saying afterwards that it was a video.
Now he knew full well what it was, and I applaud, I didn't see what you are talking about, but I applaud Bill O'Reilly, if he tried to press him on that. And there's nothing else the president could say, since all three testified under oath that day, so he as to come up with something and blame something else. He's gotten by with it though, his entire life.
Let me say this before you move on, and I will say this till my dying day, I know that people don't realize that now but that's going to go down in history as the greatest cover up. And I'm talking about compared to the Pentagon Papers, Iran contra, Watergate or the rest of them. This is a cover up before the election to make people believe there is no longer a terrorist problem in the Middle East.
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IRS:If it's not a scandal then why is there a Justice Dept investigation?
If it's not a scandal then why did IRS head Lois Lerner plead the fifth?
If it was not even remotely a scandal then why did Obama call an emergency presser to announce his outrage?
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Saudi Cleric Issues Fatwa Calling For Baby Girls To Wear Burqas To Prevent Rape
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(Can't make this stuff up)
Via NY Daily News:A Saudi sheikh has issued a fatwa calling for female babies to wear burqas.
Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, who is not affiliated with the government of Saudi Arabia, made his controversial edict during an interview on the Islamic al-Majd TV that aired six months ago but recently went viral on social networking sites.
According to Daoud, dressing infants and children in the traditional Muslim veils would reduce the sexual molestation of minors, though the cleric did not cite any evidence for his view.
Sheikh Mohammad al-Jzlana, a former judge at the Saudi Board of Grievances, told al-Majd TV that the fatwa was "denigrating to Islam and Shariah and made Islam look bad."
Feds To Require Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication To Prevent Crashes
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(The Knight Rider rides again)
Via Mercury News:Signaling a technological leap forward for the auto industry and a boon to Silicon Valley, the federal government announced Monday it will take steps to require all new cars and light trucks to communicate with each other, a move aimed at significantly reducing the more than 30,000 vehicle deaths each year.
For decades, the focus of auto safety has primarily been on surviving the traumatic impact of crashes through features like air bags and seat belts. But now the focus has shifted to avoiding crashes by developing technology to make future vehicles "smart" enough to detect and respond to threats, such as an oncoming vehicle.
The technology, known as "vehicle-to-vehicle," or "V2V," lets cars "talk" to each other and exchange safety data, such as speed and position. If a nearby car abruptly changes lanes and moves into another car's blind spot, the car would be alerted."Vehicle-to-vehicle technology represents the next generation of auto safety improvements, building on the lifesaving achievements we've already seen with safety belts and air bags," U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said during a news conference in Washington, D.C. "By helping drivers avoid crashes, this technology will play a key role in improving the way people get where they need to go while ensuring that the U.S. remains the leader in the global automotive industry."
Idiot Tingles: "Susan Rice Told The Truth. It Was A Spontaneous Attack On Our Facility In Benghazi"
(Because Of A YouTube Video)
I see Tingles is bitterly clinging on to this long-ago debunked notion the attack was the result of a YouTube video (which Comrade Chris says was made by the "right wing"). Even the Obama administration admits what Rice said was not accurate.MATTHEWS: This is my problem Joy with that interview and the questioning from O'Reilly, and I'm not a media critic. But the information's out there that Susan Rice told the truth. It was a spontaneous attack on our facility in Benghazi... In Cairo the attacks there were in response apparently to the video! The crazy right wing video that came out of Los Angeles! So, it was right! She got it right Susan Rice. So, why doesn't the president just blasting it back at the guy?Note to Tingles: The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report found it was a pre-planned terror attack involving al-Qaeda groups and had nothing to do with that stupid video.(Fox News) — A comprehensive report by the Senate Intelligence Committee definitively declared that individuals tied to Al Qaeda groups were involved in the Benghazi attack, challenging recent claims that the terror network was not a factor.
The report was released Monday, nearly one year after then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, under congressional questioning over the nature of the attack, shouted at lawmakers: "What difference, at this point, does it make?"
The administration initially claimed the attack sprung out of a protest, but has since given a more complicated assessment. Still, administration officials all along have downplayed Al Qaeda involvement, recently seizing on a New York Times report that supported those claims.
While the report does not implicate Al Qaeda "core" — the leadership believed to be in the Pakistan region — it does blame some of the most influential Al Qaeda branches, including Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
"Individuals affiliated with terrorist groups, including AQIM, Ansar al-Sharia, AQAP, and the Mohammad Jamal Network, participated in the September 11, 2012, attacks," the report said. The militant Ansar al-Sharia was, separately, labeled by the State Department as a terror group last week, in part over its alleged involvement in the Benghazi strike.
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CBO Projects Obamacare Will Cause A Reduction In Employment Labor of Two Million Full-Time Job Equivalencies
February 5, 2014
http://freebeacon.com/obamacare-to-cut-work-hours-by-equivalent-of-two-million-jobs/
2.5 Million Full Time Equivalent Jobs = 100 million hours of productivity removed from the economy.
As a consequence, @ $15/hr, that's a $1.5 billion removal of positive production value from the economy and replaced with $1.5 billion dependency entitlement under the guise of a subsidy.
In very direct essence – This shifts $1.5 billion in additional taxation to the remaining productive class.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama's healthcare law will reduce American workforce participation by the equivalent of 2 million full-time jobs in 2017, the Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday in a report that could fuel Republican efforts to paint the law as a job killer.
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In its latest U.S. fiscal outlook, the nonpartisan CBO said the health law would prompt some lower-income workers to limit their hours to avoid losing federal subsidies that are available under the law to help pay for health insurance.
The CBO said the biggest impact on work hours from the health law would begin in 2017 because major provisions of the law will be well under way by then. The CBO said there would be smaller declines in work hours that would occur before then.
Work hours would be reduced by the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs in 2024, the agency said.
Republicans have long argued that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a job killer that would discourage employers from hiring full-time workers.
"The ACA also will exert conflicting pressures on the quantity of labor that employers demand, primarily during the next few years," the agency said.
But CBO said the expected drop in work hours between 2017 and 2024 would result largely from worker decisions not to participate in the labor force, rather than from higher unemployment or the inability of part-time workers to find full-time hours.
"The estimated reduction stems almost entirely from a net decline in the amount of labor that workers choose to supply, rather than from a net drop in businesses' demand for labor," CBO said.
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According to the report, federal subsidies can be substantial, particularly for lower-wage workers who receive more under the law's sliding income scale. But that also means the benefits can be phased out as a worker's income rises.
"The phaseout effectively raises people's marginal tax rates (the tax rates applying to their last dollar of income), thus discouraging work," CBO said.
The agency also said that if higher taxes were required to pay for subsidies, the effect would also be to discourage work and create other economic distortions.
The CBO said the healthcare law is not expected to reach its initial goal of enrolling 7 million uninsured Americans in health insurance this year, due to its botched rollout.
In a fresh forecast for 2014, the CBO estimated that only 6 million people would sign up for private coverage through new health insurance marketplaces. Technical problems that largely paralyzed the website HealthCare.gov after its initial rollout discouraged many Americans from enrolling.
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Explosive Device, Gasoline Found In Burned Student's Apartment
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Charred mattress outside Georgia Tech student's apartment.
(I'm sure he was just studying Advanced Molotov Cocktail 201, but sounds like he failed)
Via Atlanta Journal Constitution:http://www.ajc.com/news/news/1-severely-burned-in-10th-street-home/ndC9z/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_homepage
A suspected Molotov cocktail and several plastic bottles filled with gasoline and kerosene were found in the Midtown apartment of a Georgia Tech graduate student severely burned, police said Wednesday.
Saamer Akhshabi remains in Grady Memorial Hospital with third-degree burns over 90 percent of his body from the fire started in his apartment Tuesday afternoon in the 200 block of 10th Street, police said.
Late Tuesday night, it wasn't known what caused the fire. But an FBI spokesman said the man's burns were possibly from an incendiary device.
"At this time, we are assisting in furthering the investigation to determine how the male received the injuries and how the fire started," Officer John Chafee with Atlanta police said.
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Update to this story:Is GA Tech Iranian Grad Student Who Appears To Have Burnt Himself With Incendiery Device An Obama Fan?
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Georgia Tech graduate student Saamer Akhshab was injured in an explosion/fire Tuesday afternoon that burnt over 90% of his body. Police said the fire was possibly due to an incendiery device, that at least one molotov cocktails and bottles of gas and kerosene were found at the grad student's apartment. The FBI is investigating.
Here is what appears to be Saamer's twitter account and the four tweets from it:
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How do we know that this account is his?It has tweets prior to today, and is followed and follows what looks like a relative, possibly a brother, as well as Georgia Tech-related twitter accounts including other computer scientists he follows and is followed by. The picture is also the same as on Akhshabi's Google Scholar account.
The account also follows Hassan Rouhani, the President of Iran and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
Kerry To Israeli Critics: I'm Not Afraid of You, I've Been Attacked By "Real Bullets"
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(Settle down, Lurch)
Via Daily Caller:. . . CNN's Jake Tapper presented Kerry with an opportunity to respond to Bennett and other Israeli critics during an interview Wednesday.
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"My comments need to be properly represented, not distorted. I did not do anything except cite what other people are talking about as a problem," Kerry said. "But I also have always opposed boycotts. I have 100 percent voting record in support of Israel for 29 years in the United States Senate. Unfortunately, there are some people in Israel and in Palestine and in the Arab World and around the world that don't support the peace process."
"Israel needs to understand we will always stand by its security needs," he continued. "But no one should distort what we're doing or saying because they're opposed to the peace process or don't like two states or whatever. And, you know, words —
I have to tell you, my friend, I've been, quote, attacked before by people using real bullets, :P ::) not words, and I am not going to be intimidated. I am not going to stand down with respect to President Obama's commitment to trying to find peace in the Middle East."
Report: ObuttHead Orders Secretaries To Act Like Mini-Dictators, "Expects His Cabinet To Be Forceful And To Act" Without Congress
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The Clownie Gang-Bangers
(This *Clownie Jester thinks he runs this country like it's his own personal fiefdom.
*Clownies: (Urban Definiton) Also known as Ratkids. Refers to a small group of anti social town dwellers that dress in a way which slightly resembles that of a clown. They take other peoples unique qualitys and take them as their own, claiming to be "scene kids" when that just proves that they are stealing other peoples scenes and identities.
How to spot them: They usually flock around public family places such as; clock towers, parks, shopping centers, toyshops, canals and drive the nice familys away.
They love cheap hair dye, cheap hard cider, cheap cigarettes and basically anything cheap.
They also infest social networking sites such as myspace, facebook and bebo usuing what they deem to be clever names that involve aliteration or rhymes) (http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000560707/polls_joke_s_on_you_4743_818947_poll_xlarge.jpeg)
Via CNS:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/vilsack-obama-expects-his-cabinet-be-forceful-and-act-climate-change
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Wednesday the establishment of "climate change hubs" in seven states – and three sub-hubs – that will assess and come up with a plan to help rural America deal with climate risks – all without congressional approval.
"The president's been quite insistent in cabinet meetings and in private meetings that he expects his cabinet to be forceful and to act. We can't wait for congressional action. So pursuant to his climate action plan, we established a number of climate change hubs," Vilsack said during the White House press briefing.
U.S. Intelligence: At Least 50 Americans Fighting Alongside Al-Qaeda In Syria
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WASHINGTON — http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-american-fighters-in-syria-20140204,0,5986766.story#axzz2sUcZBNP9
At least
50 Americans have joined the mix of extremist groups that are fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, and some could try to mount terrorist attacks at home, U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday.
Intelligence officials say the Syrian civil war has become one of the biggest magnets for Islamic extremists around the globe since CIA-backed militants fought to oust Soviet troops from Afghanistan in the 1980s, a war that ultimately gave rise to Al Qaeda.
James Clapper, the U.S. director of national intelligence, told the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that "7,500 or so" foreign fighters are in Syria from 50 countries. Clapper had cited an estimate of 7,000 at a Senate hearing last week.
A U.S. intelligence official told The Times that the total includes at least 50 Americans, a more concrete estimate than authorities have given previously. He declined to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the figure publicly.
A report in January by the Israel-based Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center estimated that as many as 1,800 people from European countries have also fought in Syria.
CIA Director John Brennan said Tuesday that Al Qaeda is training foreign fighters at camps in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
Perhaps our policing forces could take a lesson from this!
Our Police and Sheriff's our National Guard, our Military if called upon to take action against peaceful people instead of inciting a riot.
I received this today from a great-great niece via e-mail. She can't believe what she is reading.
I ask you to read what Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia had to say about internment camps yesterday?
When is the future?
Is it tomorrow?
Is it next month?
Is it next year?
And why would we need internment camps?
My niece is now praying that it doesn't happen and I join her in that prayer!First what I received by e-mail:Paul Nelson:Watching what's unfolding is one of the most terrifying feelings I've ever known. I just hope you have the grit to stomach all of this. Obama is on the verge of... Carrying out a horrific chain of events leading to him becoming a DICTATOR. He said so in his State of the Union address the other night.
With his signature smirk he told American citizens that this is the "Year of Executive Action." He plans to abuse executive orders to blow by Congress and the Constitution to carry out his agenda.
Obama's Executive Order Czar, John Podesta made a mockery of America and our Founding Fathers when he told us that Obama's just getting warmed up. When he believes "he has the authority" to "make progress" without action by Congress, he'll do it, Podesta boasted.
This is flat-out full assault on America that's advancing Obama sick and twisted agenda for New World Order.
Obama, Podesta, Holder—they're all spitting in the face of America.
Everything we've worked for—and our military has valiantly fought for and DIED FOR—over the course of history is at stake: our sovereignty, our freedom, our military power and our right to liberty and justice.
Indeed this is Obama's idea of fundamentally changing America.
It's so bad that the producer of Schindler's List has said he "never feared my government until now." What does that tell you?
You should fear Obama's every action now. He's getting bolder...cockier. We're already three quarters of the way into Martial Law, living in a police state.
When you put all of his vile actions together it spells grave danger. All you have to do is connect the dots. Look at the deeply disturbing chain of events that have been taking place. Already Obama has been:
He's fired our military's finest—200 since he took office. It's unprecedented. Obama is deliberately weakening out military and replacing them with loyalists who have promised to "pry the guns from our cold, dead hands" for starters.
If a military officer speaks out, he's fired or stripped of a promotion. The "king" does not allow anyone to speak out against him. It's so bad that Obama is now being watched by our military.
Obama and his administration have already put the gun-grab into motion. If the "king" gets his way, guns will be taken away from people being treated for even the slightest mental health issue.
Our own veterans have had their guns confiscated under the false pretense of mental health issues. Gun grabs are being made all over the nation. What's more, through the use of propaganda and lies they're demonizing gun owners.
There's a vicious plan underway right now to place US sovereignty in foreign hands. Under a new free trade agreement even our US Supreme Court with have no authority and hold no power.
Obama wants to give away control of our oceans and land, too. Those plans have already been set into motion. He's opening America up to attack to allow the extremists and terrorists to take control.
Clearly Obama wants to know who's with him and who's against him. He's gone so far as to place innocent Americans such as veterans, Christians and patriotic Americans on watch lists, labeling them as "extremists."
Think about the gun owners and the national registry he's demanding. There's no question he wants to know who is armed. They're expecting an uprising against the tyranny.
Unprecedented ammo buys have been carried out—hallow points no less, the very ammo our own military is forbidden to use. What's more, the DHS has purchased tanks and weapons. All of it points to Martial Law and Obama taking his seat as a dictator.
A long time ago I told you it would get very ugly—even downright dangerous or deadly. That time is here.
Democrats are pushing for a third term. Can you imagine what would happen if that becomes a reality? All Obama has to do is sign an executive order to change the election laws so he can take a third term. Remember, "he's just getting warmed up" according to his own people.
What's worse, he could change our laws so that there are NO term limits in the presidency. The thought makes me ill.
He must be stopped, before our country is destroyed.
If you have ever seen the Hall of Presidents located in the magic kingdom of Disney World; you may recall President Lincoln's original speech. I understand it has been changed to reflect more on racial issue.
Lincoln: This government must be preserved in spite of the acts of any man or set of men. Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest among us are held the highest privileges and positions. What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not the frowning battlements, or bristling seacoast, our army and navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors.
At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined could not, by force, take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up among us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves, must be its author and its finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite to exist only for a day. No . . . No . . . Man was made for immortality.
This Country has faced many challenges, beginning before we had a country, some like the attacks suffered on 9/11. Now the troubles facing this county are from within. Our president seems to be doing everything he can to destroy this great nation. This is happening every day and most people disagree with what is happening but very few people are standing up and speaking out in protest. You can check out their web site by searching National Liberty Federation. They are asking for money, I did not want to add that part to my post but will share their request.
Think about what'll happen if we don't stop this dangerous man.
It's an all-out war now. Will you stand with us?
Everett "Dirksen" Wilkinson
Chairman
National Liberty Federation
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Scalia: You're 'Kidding Yourself' if You Think Future SCOTUS Won't Uphold Internment Camps
By Josh Feldman | 3:07 PM, February 5th, 2014
Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia painted a grim picture of the future when he told students at the University of Hawaii on Monday that a future Supreme Court could very easily uphold the legality of internment camps during wartime. Scalia was talking to a group of law students for a Q&A when he brought up the Supreme Court decision in the case of Korematsu v. United States, which ruled that internment camps set up by the U.S. Government during World War II were constitutional.
Scalia said the decision was obviously wrong, but people shouldn't just assume that the Supreme Court would never dare attempt that kind of decision again.
"Well of course Korematsu was wrong. And I think we have repudiated in a later case. But you are kidding yourself if you think the same thing will not happen again... That's what was going on – the panic about the war and the invasion of the Pacific and whatnot. That's what happens. It was wrong, but I would not be surprised to see it happen again, in time of war. It's no justification, but it is the reality."
Scalia also spoke about the Supreme Court defending the rights of the people from the government, saying, "We do need a court that sometimes will say there are individual or group rights that are not being adequately protected by the democratic process."
http://www.mediaite.com/online/scalia-youre-kidding-yourself-if-you-think-future-scotus-wont-uphold-internment-camps/
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Didn't the Russians say they would destroy us from with-in?
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Conservative Activist Files "Abuse of Power" Complaint Against Dem Rep. Elijah Cummings For Trying To Intimidate Her "True The Vote" Group
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Posted on February 6, 2014 I hope EVERYONE watches the accompanying videos. It is imperative that EVERYONE understands the full-throated attack currently underway by our own government. Only by fully understanding the scope of the issue can you fully absorb the danger in front of us. The testimony today on capitol hill was blood boiling to say the least. During hearings about IRS targeting of conservative groups, which unlike President Obama's claim appears fraught with political scandal, some of the victims began to lay out the details of the attacks they have endured.
One of those victims is Mrs. Catherine Engelbrecht. Catherine Eghelbrecht is a conservative activist, Tea Party member and founder of True the Vote. Mrs. Engelbrecht, outlined how she has been the specific target of FOUR federal agencies (The FBI, IRS, ATF and OSHA) along with one Texas State agency (EPA).
Prior to her founding of True The Vote, as a simple business person, she was never on the federal radar. However, as soon as she engaged in advocacy for her beliefs she was targeted by the "weaponization of government". 14 IRS audits of personal and business finances, 4 times visited by the FBI as a 'domestic risk', 3 times visited by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, and two audits by The Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
In addition Mrs. Enghelbrecht received four threatening letters and three subpoenas for documents from Congressional Black Caucus member Elijah Cummings.
The threats and intimidation by Cummings reaching such a level that today Engelbrecht formerly filed a complaint accusing Democrat Rep Elijah Cummings of specific harassment and specific intimidation (report below... must watch video).
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(Clearly a racist)
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Via Fox News:A conservative activist targeted by the IRS and other agencies claimed Thursday that Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings also tried to intimidate her, filing a formal complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics alleging an "abuse of power."
Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote and the King Street Patriots, aired the allegations during a hearing hosted by the committee on which Cummings sits. An attorney working with her also questioned whether Cummings might have encouraged the IRS and other agencies to target her groups.
Cummings, though, adamantly denied wrongdoing and said he can "assure" Engelbrecht that he did not direct anyone at the IRS to scrutinize her.
At issue are letters Cummings sent out voicing concerns about True the Vote, which advocates for strict voter ID requirements and other measures which Democratic lawmakers, including Cummings, oppose.
"Congressman Cummings on three separate occasions sent letters on letterhead from this committee, stating that he had concerns and felt it necessary to open an investigation on True the Vote," Engelbrecht said during the hearing, where she and other witnesses were otherwise testifying on IRS targeting.
She also said that after she applied for tax-exempt status, "an assortment of federal entities including law enforcement agencies, and Congressman Cummings came knocking at my door."
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WASHINGTON DC - A conservative activist targeted by the IRS and other agencies claimed Thursday that Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings also tried to intimidate her, filing a formal complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics alleging an "abuse of power."Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote and the King Street Patriots, aired the allegations during a hearing hosted by the committee on which Cummings sits. An attorney working with her also questioned whether Cummings might have encouraged the IRS and other agencies to target her groups.
Cummings, though, adamantly denied wrongdoing and said he can "assure" Engelbrecht that he did not direct anyone at the IRS to scrutinize her.
At issue are letters Cummings sent out voicing concerns about True the Vote, which advocates for strict voter ID requirements and other measures which Democratic lawmakers, including Cummings, oppose.
"Congressman Cummings on three separate occasions sent letters on letterhead from this committee, stating that he had concerns and felt it necessary to open an investigation on True the Vote," Engelbrecht said during the hearing, where she and other witnesses were otherwise testifying on IRS targeting.
She also said that after she applied for tax-exempt status, "an assortment of federal entities including law enforcement agencies, and Congressman Cummings came knocking at my door."
(continue reading)http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/06/conservative-activist-claims-rep-cummings-tried-to-intimidate-her-files/
Executive Lawlessness: Obama's Weapons of Political Intimidation
Trifecta's Bill Whittle looks at Obama's conversion of the federal government into a weapon of political intimidation. Hear how Obama ignores the U.S. Constitution and passes laws without congressional authority. Is tyranny alive and well in America? Hear the answer.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOvCnn5NyWg
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Take a Look at One of the Most Disturbing Moments from the Sochi Olympics Opening Ceremony
This photo came across Twitter today, thanks to Jonah Goldberg. It's from the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Sochi, Russia....
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The best thing this could be is an acknowledgement that Communism is a major part of Russia's history. That's still bad, of course, unless it's accompanied with facts about the old USSR's brutality (not likely). It could also be a hint at where Putin wants to take Russia again.
Update: But wait, there's more...
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Update: And more. Look who's applauding. (See the following update.)
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That's a Fact Jack!
Kansas now able to actually
enforce welfare restrictions
By Travis Perry / February 7, 2014
OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — After a Kansas Watchdog investigation last year uncovered public welfare dollars ending up at strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores, the Sunflower State has finally put some bite into its once-weak welfare restrictions.
During the course of three months during 2012, Kansas Watchdog discovered that state aid recipients withdrew more than $43,000 in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits from ATMs at places like Golden Eagle Casino in Horton, Vegas Video Adult Superstore in Wichita and G Spot, a Junction City strip club, among others.
But as of Feb. 1, all that has come to a screeching halt, according to the Kansas Department for Children and Families, which administers TANF cash distribution in the state.
Theresa Freed, director of communications for DCF, told Kansas Watchdog the state agency flipped the switch a week ago on a new program that will halt all unauthorized spending of welfare dollars — as much as the state can.
The solution comes in the form of Fraud Navigator, a payment-processing program offered by the state's third-party vendor, FIS Government Solutions. The vendor manages the actual transactions of Kansas' Electronic Benefit Transfer cards, also known as Vision cards.
Freed said that Fraud Navigator not only will block inappropriate TANF electronic transactions at the cash register, but also will prevent recipients from withdrawing cash from ATMs at specific locations.
That last part is crucial, as it closes a loophole that was about a mile wide.
Before Fraud Navigator, a Kansas welfare recipient with a fully loaded EBT card could grab some fast cash from an onsite ATM to sidestep state regulations that forbid government assistance dollars from being used to purchase alcohol, tobacco or lottery tickets.
The move also aligns Kansas with federal welfare requirements. As part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, all states are required to implement measures to prevent TANF funds from being used at strip clubs, liquor stores and casinos by Feb. 22.
But DCF is keeping a tight lid on exactly how the program works.
"To ensure the integrity and effectiveness of our anti-fraud efforts, the specifics on the operational aspects of the product cannot be shared," Freed said.
And that includes the price, too. Freed would only say the state is billed monthly based on the volume of transactions Fraud Navigator blocks. Freed added that "any information beyond this point is proprietary due to the cost arrangements Kansas made with our contractor."
Contact Travis Perry at travis@kansaswatchdog.org, or follow him on Twitter at @muckraker62. Like Watchdog.org? Click HERE to get breaking news alerts in YOUR state!
Part of 14 in the series Welfare Abuse
1.Tennessee Watchdog investigation prompts welfare reform bill
2.Washington state slashes welfare fraud at strip clubs, casinos
3.Iowa wants to stop welfare use at strip clubs, but can't
4.Stores don't want pictures on Illinois food-stamp cards
5.Picture this: Oregon lawmakers hope ID will limit welfare fraud
6.Iowa can't hide EBT purchase data
7.Wisconsin takes aim at food-stamp pushers
8.Still OK to use welfare benefits at New Mexico strip clubs
9.Iowa officials stall release of welfare transactions
10.Kansas welfare spending spans nation
11.Iowa officials say overseeing welfare program not their job
12.Kansans spent welfare cash on strippers, smokes and sour mash
13.Kansas to change toothless welfare laws
14.Kansas now able to actually enforce welfare restrictions
http://watchdog.org/127789/kansas-welfare-tanf/
Mooch: I Can Save Justin Bieber!
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(Oddly enough, Mooch doesn't mention ripping his arms off
and beating him with the bloody stumps)
Via ABC News:
What would first lady Michelle Obama, a mother of two girls, do if she also had a son — or more to the point, a 19-year old international pop star with a penchant for fast cars, private jets, weed and alcohol named Justin Bieber?
"I would pull him close. You know, I don't know if it would be advice as much as action," Obama said in a recent interview with Univision Radio host Enrique Santos. "I would be very present in his life right now. And I would be probably with him a good chunk of the time, just there to talk, to figure out what's going on in his head, to figure out who's in his life and who's not, you know." [...]
"I found that to be the case with my kids," she said. "They just want you near, you know — they want that advice from a parent. They want to see you on a daily basis, you know, because the thing is he's still a kid. He's still growing up. So, I would pull him close."
Nut case Eric Holder Compares 1960s Civil Rights Movement To
"Struggle For LGBT Equality" (http://www.tampaforums.com/forums/tamparacing/smiles/seriously.gif)
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(Nothing like pissing on the memories of the people who were
lynched during that era to score cheap political points with the base)
Via The Hill:The Obama administration will continue the extension of federal benefits to married same-sex couples as heterosexual couples, Attorney General Eric Holder will announce on Saturday.
The Justice Department plans to issue a policy memo on Monday, which will allow same-sex couples to be able to file jointly for bankruptcy and will mandate that they will not be compelled to testify against each other in trial, among other new rights.
Holder will deliver the news at a gala thrown by the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York City Saturday night.
"Just like during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the stakes involved in this generation's struggle for LGBT equality could not be higher. Then, as now, nothing less than our country's commitment to the notion of equal protection under the law was on the line," Holder will say in his speech, according to an excerpt.
"As attorney general, I will not let [the Justice] Department be simply a bystander during this important moment in history."
Same-sex couples will have the right to file for domestic support obligations, including alimony and are eligible for Justice Department programs that provide compensation to surviving spouses of public safety officers.
Federal inmates in same-sex marriages will also receive the same benefits as married straight couples – such as, exchanging correspondence, having visitation rights and receiving "compassionate release" or a sentence reduction because of the incapacitation of a spouse. Same-sex inmates may also receive escorts to a spouse's funeral and are eligible to be furloughed in the event of a crisis involving their spouse.
Teens randomly attacking people on Rainier Ave.
An hour earlier police said the same teens ransacked and terrorized customers at a Rite Aid off Rainier. Seattle police said officers aware of problems in the area but are not doing any special patrols.
In fact, the Ethiopian church's pastor said the police didn't even ask them for their surveillance video.Read More: http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/teens-randomly-attacking-people-along-rainier/ncsQC/
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A copy of the police report *briefly* flashed on the screen during the TV report confirms that the perps are
all black males and females, and the
victims white, but the news media
does not once mention race, just "teens" committing "seemingly random" attacks. The media did not find it important to note that the surrounding area (Rainier Valley) is 83% non-white; but the victims are overwhelmingly white, however, they did express that the neighborhood "doesn't have the best reputation".
A black woman interviewed is dismissive, chalking the mob assaults up to "teen peer pressure" (Oh! well, okay then! Moving on ....)
Putin Snubs Obamas - Chooses Racist Tweeter Irina Rodnina to Light Olympic Torch at Sochi Winter Olympics
A rather blatant snub occurred at the opening ceremonies of the Sochi Olympics today. Irina Rodnina was hand-selected by President Vladimir Putin to light the Olympic torch.
Why is this a big deal?Because... of this wordless Tweet (below) with a digitally manipulated photo of the President and First Lady that Rodnina sent out last September...
While Rodnina, currently a member of parliament for Putin's United Russia political party, has since deleted the photo from her Twitter account, she insisted she had done nothing wrong in a follow-up tweet, according to the Guardian.
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She subsequently deleted the offending Tweet, but refused to apologize for it.
U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul quickly responded on Twitter, calling Rodnina's actions "outrageous behavior, which only brings shame to her parliament and country."
Rodnina's selection to light the Olympic cauldron seems to suggest otherwise from Russia's perspective.Rodnina is one of the most successful figure skaters in the world. She won 10 World Championships in a row and 3 successive Olympic gold medals. She is the first pair skater to win gold medals with two different partners.This is perhaps in retaliation to what some have called a "Star-Spangled middle finger" by President Obama.Putin has loudly decried homosexuality with recently passed anti-gay legislation that criminalises portraying homosexuality to children as anything other than undesirable and unnatural. Despite the new laws, Putin has vowed not to persecute any athletes or attendees that wear rainbow badges during the Olympics.So, it seems entirely likely that when Obama opted out of attending the Olympics and sent, in his stead, lesbian tennis star Billie Jean King and gay hockey player Caitlin Cahow, that Putin was less than pleased.Who knew that a "p*ssing contest" was going to be one of the events in this year's Olympic games?
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That's a Fact Jack!
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From Captain Phillips to Benghazi – Obama's Cowardice & Lies Exposed
by Leon Puissegur Feb. 8, 2014
Obama's Spineless Ideology!
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Have many in the mainstream media looked into Obama's background deep enough to see that maybe we have a Muslim for a President? Have they ever questioned President Obama about why he studied Marxism while he was at Occidental College in California? Has anyone even thought of asking President Obama just what he learned from Frank Marshall Davis, a devout Communist, who was on the FBI watch list? It seems that many are unwilling to question or make statements about Obama due to how he abuses the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies to silence his opponents. No matter, we are now going to pose a question of this man known as Barack Hussein Obama and demonstrate that he is not only a liar, but a coward as well, and how this may be the reason that the deaths of Americans occurred in Benghazi.
Let us begin with the list of lies from Obama compared to other Presidents and this list is not a total list of lies from the Liar- in-Chief. President Obama: 1.I will have the most transparent administration in history.
2.The stimulus will fund shovel-ready jobs.
3.I am focused like a laser on creating jobs.
4.The IRS is not targeting anyone.
5.It was a spontaneous riot about a movie.
6.If I had a son.
7.I will put an end to the type of politics that "breeds division, conflict and cynicism".
8.You didn't build that!
9.I will restore trust in Government.
10.The Cambridge cops acted stupidly.
11.The public will have 5 days to look at every bill that lands on my desk
12.It's not my red line - it is the world's red line.
13.Whistle blowers will be protected in my administration.
14.We got back every dime we used to rescue the banks and auto companies, with interest.
15.I am not spying on American citizens.
16.Obama Care will be good for America.
17.You can keep your family doctor.
18.Premiums will be lowered by $2500.
19.If you like it, you can keep your current healthcare plan.
20.It's just like shopping at Amazon.
21.I knew nothing about "Fast and Furious" gunrunning to Mexican drug cartels.
22.I knew nothing about IRS targeting conservative groups.
23.I knew nothing about what happened in Benghazi.
24.I have never known my uncle from Kenya, who is in the country illegally, and that was arrested and told to leave the country over 20 years ago.
25.And, I have never lived with that uncle. He finally admitted (12-05-2013) that he DID know his uncle and that he DID live with him. Here, at 26, we show what is perhaps the biggest lie this president has ever stated. 1."I, Barrack Hussein Obama, pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America."
President Obama sounds more like the Character on Hogan's Hero's, Sergeant Schultz, "I know nothing!" We have to state that this does not include any lies from his State of The Union address on January 29, 2014, during which he came out once again and declared he would go on with his "Climate Change" policy, even while the nation is nearly in a mini Ice Age.
We do know that many will state that other Presidents lied also, so let us examine that item. First, recall the words of Lyndon Banes Johnson: We were attacked (in the Gulf of Tonkin)Richard Nixon uttered these immortal words:
I am not a crook.Then there is George H. W. Bush's Infamous Lie: Read my lips – No New TaxesThen there was Bill Clinton: I did not have sex with that woman... Miss Lewinski.We show George Jr. here, but we have to consider that maybe he was right and those weapons went to Iran and Syria, but in either case here: Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.So, Obama is not the first liar to occupy the White House, but he is most definitely the most consistent liar to hold the office, and no one should believe a word out of his mouth is true. However, let us show what may be perhaps the best example of how much of a coward Obama really is, and how this may well have been one of the reasons that Obama also lied about Benghazi!
Let us lay this out for you to understand what we may have found due to another post that popped up about the recent Captain Phillips movie. This film is about a man who was rescued from Somali Pirates. We sat down and watched the movie and wondered why Navy Seals 36 hours before they killed those that held Captain Phillips. The movie expressed some insight into the actions, but it did not reveal the true lack of action and the act of pure cowardice by none other than President Barack Obama himself!
Jack Wheeler, a man of integrity, penned an article, which we will cite below. What is written in the article is what makes Jack Wheeler much more solid and credible than anything Obama could ever dream of. We have to remember here that Obama has been a liar from day one, and his lies just keep on coming along with his actions which place him as perhaps the worst president of all time, even worse than Jimmy Carter.
The following article of facts regarding the incident was written by Dr. John "Jack" Wheeler, part of it is below, and the entire article is below all the "opinions" of how we link the coward Obama to both Somali and Benghazi!
Dr. Wheeler was a man of honor: a West Point graduate, a Vietnam veteran, and the man who was the driving force behind financing the construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. He fought long and hard for the dignity and honor of the fallen Vietnam War soldiers. He served three presidents as an aide and advisor -- Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, for whom he was a special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force and a military consultant.
Jack Wheeler was a graduate student at the Harvard Business School when he was recruited to be an advisor to the president regarding military tactics. He was a man of integrity and served on the General Staff at the Pentagon.
Shortly after writing this article, he was mysteriously murdered sometime between Dec. 28th and 31st in 2010, and his body was dumped in a dumpster in Newark, Delaware. Wheeler had homes in Washington, D.C. and New Castle, Del.(See - http://patriotsbillboard.org/this-obama-lie-will-make-your-eyes-bleed/)Here we can see a totally different man than President Obama could ever hope to be. The article by Wheeler demonstrates what few can actually use to show just how a direct link could be made from the Captain Phillips Somali Pirates raid to the failures of Benghazi. This direct link falls on Obama and his ideologies as president.
According to the movie, the SEALs just waited to take out the Pirates, and that took 36 hours, but once again, this is just a production from Hollywood, glamorizing what actually happened. If we dig into this as we are about to show you, a distinct connection can be made between the lack of action by Obama and the actions taken with the Somali Pirates
Wheeler's article alleges that President Obama actually allowed the situation to continue for 36 hours, and he explains the reasoning. Once you read this article, it becomes apparent that there is a very close correlation to the actions with the Somali Pirates and the 9-11 terrorist attack in Benghazi. It clearly shows a president that was very indecisive, and it seemed to be the same lack of action that caused the death of 4 men in Benghazi. If we just take the facts as shown in the following article, we can clearly see that Barack Obama took credit when none was due. It also shows gives insight as to why Benghazi is still being covered up
We are only suggesting that the lack of action by President Obama then, and during Benghazi, seems to indicate that we do not have an honorable or courageous man in the White House, but rather a coward. Here's the article. Feel free to comment below.
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THE REAL STORY OF THE MAERSK ALABAMA HIJACKING AND OBAMA'S FRIGHTFUL IN-ACTION DURING THE CRISIS
Posted on January 20, 2014 by PatriotsBillboard
All of us need to raise our glasses the highest to the Navy SEALs, who popped those three Somali pirates. And I'm sure you want to hear the real story of what happened especially because there is a revoltingly opportunistic and cowardly side to it.
Why, for example, did it take SEAL Team Six (aka DEVGRU, Navy Special Warfare Development Group) over 36 hours to get to the scene?
Because President Obama refused to authorize the SEAL deployment for those 36 hours, during which the OSC – the on scene commander, Cmdr. Frank Castellano of the USS Bainbridge – repeatedly requested them. Cmdr. Castellano is a very, very mature and experienced commanding officer and is rock solid in his decisions.
Once the SEALs arrived – parachuting from a C-17 into the ocean near the ship – Obama then imposed Rules of Engagement (ROE) specifying the SEALs could not do anything unless the life of the hostage, Captain Richard Phillips, was in "imminent" danger.
Thus, when Capt. Phillips attempted to escape by jumping off the lifeboat into the ocean, the SEAL snipers had all four pirates (one later surrendered) sighted in and could have taken them out then and there – but they could not fire due to Obama's ROE restrictions.
When the SEALs approached the lifeboat in a RIB (rigid-hull inflatable boat) carrying supplies for Capt. Phillips and the pirates, the pirates fired upon them. Not only was no fire returned due to Obama's ROE, but as the pirates were shooting at the RIB, SEAL snipers on the Bainbridge had them all dialed in. Again, no triggers were pulled due to the ROE.
Two specific rescue plans were developed by Cmdr. Castellano and the SEAL teams. Obama personally refused to authorize them.
After the second refusal and days of dithering, Cmdr. Castellano decided he had the Operational Area and OSC authority to "solely determine risk to hostage" and did not require any further approval by the president. He took unilateral action on Sunday, April 12, 2009.
Four hours later, the White House is informed that three pirates are dead and Capt. Phillips has been rescued unharmed. Then a White House press release was immediately issued, giving credit to the president for his "daring and decisive" behavior that resulted in such success.
Obama has absolutely no military knowledge or experience whatsoever. He demanded decisional control over the entire hostage drama to the last detail. All actions required his personal approval. He dithered like a coward while the world laughed at our warships flummoxed by four illiterate teenagers with worn-out AKs in a lifeboat.
Only when the Navy Commander decided to ignore his Pantywaist-in-Chief and take action and responsibility himself, were the incredible skills of the SEALs put into play.
That Obama could cynically and opportunistically claim that his "bold" "calm" "tough" leadership was responsible should remind everyone that not a single action, not a single word of this man can be trusted. He is bereft of honesty and moral character. He is a complete Zero.
The HFR raises a glass full of pride and gratitude to Navy Commander Frank Castellano, the Navy SEALs for their incredible competence, and our military. Let's hold a Tea Party in their honor.
What a low-life, lying, racist, Muslim, Marxist, Manchurian coward we have running our government. It is a disgrace to the office. Anybody reading to this point that voted for this worthless son of a bitch step forward to show America how altogether stupid you really are!!
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Ross.... this was cruising around the internet about 10 years ago in relation to the millennium "end times" and 9/11 conspiracies. It seems to be back in a big way. The text is identical.
I would really question why he would even mention something like that without further explanation. A "plot" like that would be a pretty big deal, and there would presumably be a bulk of evidence to convince the president of its existence. It's a fairly large order to enslave the entire nation, even in a metaphorical sense, so there would have to be very large scale operations to complete the plan. Certainly, he would have some idea of who, how, and/or why, and would include it in any discussion of why he thought there was such a plot.
The closest thing I could find was this video, Uploaded on May 25, 2009
J.F.K. gives a speech at the national press club about never tolerating secret societies or media cover-ups:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97n-uqJC2Jw
Obviously the closed society that JFK was referring to in that video was the Soviet Union. But this speech says nothing about anyone in this country conspiring to take over.
Here is the full speech by JFK back in April 27, 1961 to the Press. The consensus of their opinion (the experts) was,
"...this speech did cost him his life, since he did challenge the powers that be directly by opposing secret societies and oaths."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhg0bUB6CNQ
More Fun With Common Core: A Lesson In "Rounding"
(Just shaking my head at this one...)
Via Liberty Unyielding:A sample math problem posted by a frustrated mother at MomDot.com will have you wondering if developers of Common Core materials can do simple arithmetic. The mother, Trisha Haas, laments that mastering "Common Core math" is a "massive struggle" for her third-grade daughter, Charlotte.
If the problem, which is reproduced below, is any indication, Charlotte is not the one with the difficulties.
Notice that the writer who created this problem seems totally unfamiliar the rules of "rounding." As you almost certainly remember from your own elementary school days, to round 354 to the nearest hundred, you look at the digit in the tens column. If it is 5 or greater (as it is here), you round up (in this case to 400). But the writer seems to think you should round down, to 300.
The second number, 291, is an even more glaring example. As Haas quips:
I can tell you that if I estimated or rounded off my bills from $291 to $200, I would get a notice of an unpaid bill. I am not sure my mortgage or car payment would agree with that.
Just as puzzling is the conclusion arrived at. If the estimated sum is 500, as the writer wrongly suggests, then how is 645 a reasonable answer?
As a wise man suggested to me, this is a case of education getting in the way of learning. (AMEN!)
Bill O'Reilly picked Speaker John Boehner for his Pinhead of the Week last Friday for obvious reasons.
Boehner continues to push Republicans to pass immigration reform knowing it would alienate his base in an election year."Now, he's a pinhead because I believe John Boehner is secretly a Democrat. I think he's a *quisling. Because he never says what you need to say... Here's our immigration plan. This is what we'd like to do... You're just handling a gift to the Democrats."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9gyYMW93_A
*quisling - 1940, from Vidkun Quisling (1887-1945), Norwegian fascist politician who headed the puppet government during the Ger. occupation of Norway in World War II; shot for treason after Ger. defeat. First used in London "Times" of April 15, 1940, in a Swed. context.
I was able to hack into Barack Obama's personal facebook account and get a copy of his "look back" video... you'll be shocked at what I found! Or not... whatever.
Canada Installs First Crack Pipe Vending Machines
(Hurry, hurry... someone tell Toronto Mayor Rob Ford)
Canada's first crack pipe vending machines were installed in Vancouver's Downtown eastside.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBRSCya9e6M
CTV News reported:http://bc.ctvnews.ca/canada-s-first-crack-pipe-vending-machines-come-to-vancouver-1.1676803
A non-profit organization has installed the country's first-ever crack pipe vending machines in Vancouver in a new bid to halt the spread of disease in the city's Downtown Eastside.
The Portland Hotel Society has been operating two of the machines – which dispense Pyrex crack pipes in exchange for just $0.25 – in the Washington Market and the PHS's Drug Users Resource Centre for the last six months.
"For us, this was about increasing access to safer inahalation supplies in the Downtown Eastside," said Kailin See, director of the DURC.
Though many programs provide pipes for drug users in the neighbourhood, it's usually on a one pipe per person per day basis, according to See. Vending machines allow addicts to purchase as many as they need, with each $0.25 per pipe barely covering production costs.
"They don't run the risk of then sharing pipes, or pipes that are chipped or broken," See said. "Everything from flu, colds, cold sores, HIV: If you cut your lip on a pipe that someone else has been using, there are risks there."
Sandra Fluke was so impressed with my hacked "Obama Look Back" video, she asked us to publish HER 'look back video' too! Kinda....
(Bob Costas' Pinkeye Spreads To His Other Eye
Soon we will be able to call him pinko legitimately. Gross, Bobby! Washing your hands in radioactive water is not a good thing. I wonder if he glows when the lights are out. Welcome to Russia,comrade!)
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Flashback: What NYC Looked Like (And Will Soon Look Like) Under Bill De Blasio
Warriors.... come to out plaaaaaaaay.... Warriors.... :police:
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Pakistani Taliban Say They Have 500 Female Suicide Bombers
Ready To Attack... Bill Clinton? Maybe!
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The Pakistani Taliban has as many as 500 female suicide bombers ready to act, a representative of the group involved in peace negotiations said, underscoring the risk of further violence if talks fail.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan — known as the Pakistani Taliban, or TTP — sees no urgency to reach an agreement with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government, Maulana Abdul Aziz, one of three negotiators representing the TTP, said in a Feb. 7 interview at his Islamabad seminary. The two sides started talks last week.
"You should know that at the moment they have at least 400 to 500 female suicide bombers in Waziristan and other tribal areas," said Aziz, former head cleric of Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, referring to the TTP. "The government should realize the situation and their demands."
Andrea Mitchell: Hillary Clinton Used Job At State Department To Woo Big Donors For Presidential Campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz939jv7xd4
Via NRO:. . . Hillary had remained close to big donors during her time as Secretary of State, Mitchell said. "You would see, at State Department events, a lot of the big money people," Mitchell explained, speaking as someone who obviously attended those events. "They have always been part of her circle."
Bacon-Loving Burger Bully Fires A Bullet Through McDonald's Drive Thru Window After Employee Got Her Order Wrong
(Hmmmm.... Did Wendy's run out the Baconator?)
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A Michigan woman was arrested Monday after authorities say she fired a live round through a McDonald's drive-thru window after an employee forgot to put bacon on her sandwich early Monday morning.
According to authorities, 29-year-old Shaneka Monique Torres wasn't too hard to track down after the alleged shooting; just minutes earlier, she'd given her phone number to the manager of the restaurant -with whom she reportedly was flirting prior to pulling out her gun – with the hopes that he would call her later.
The manager never called – but the cops did, and now Torres is charged with two counts of felony weapons possession.
Hungry: Authorities say Shaneka Torres fired a bullet thru a McDonald's drive-thru window when the restaurant got her order wrong
Authorities say that Torres and another, unidentified woman went to the same McDonald's restaurant on Sunday night and she claimed that her ordered was wrong.
To rectify the situation, the manager of the restaurant told the women they would dine for free the next time the visited the fast-food establishment, located near 28th Street and Madison Avenue SE in Grand Rapids.
Several hours later, about 3 a.m., the two women drove back through the same McDonald's drive-thru and placed the same order.
Prior to picking up the food, Torres was 'flirting' with the manager of the restaurant at the first of two drive-thru windows. She even gave him her phone number with the hopes that he would call her, WoodTV.com reports.
Video: U.S. Delta Force Team Nabs Top Al-Qaeda Operative Anas Al-Libi In Libya
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(Pretty bad ass if you ask me)
Via WaPo:After dawn prayers Oct. 5, Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, a wanted al-Qaeda terrorism suspect, returned to his family's home in Tripoli, Libya.
He stopped his car in front of the house, which was nestled in an affluent neighborhood in the coastal city. It was 6:38 a.m. and still dark.
A white van trailing Ruqai pulled alongside his car. Then at least three men, with guns drawn, jumped out of the van as another car blocked Ruqai's escape while a third idled down the street.
The men yanked Ruqai, also known as Anas al-Libi, out of his car and threw him in the van, according to a video of the abduction obtained by The Washington Post. The video, from a closed-circuit camera in the neighborhood, provides a rare glimpse of a U.S. covert operation and also captures some of the bewildered reaction in Ruqai's home once he had disappeared.
Ruqai's detention immediately became international news and was unusual because of the involvement of the U.S. military in the kind of operation traditionally carried out by the CIA with foreign partners.
Less than two minutes after the Libyan was first cornered, American Special Operations forces sped away with the suspect and his vehicle. Ruqai was taken to a Libyan military base and then to the USS San Antonio, an American warship, waiting off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea.
Ruqai's arrest, carried out in a joint operation by the CIA, the FBI and the U.S. Army's elite Delta Force, ended a 13-year hunt for a man once thought to be close to Osama bin Laden. Ruqai is accused of participating in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa, which resulted in more than 200 deaths.
Atheist Group Demands School Stop Allowing Students
To Help Starving Children In
Haiti
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(Militant atheists are their own worst enemy)
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Alliance Defending Freedom sent a letter Friday to Robbinsdale Area Schools after an atheist group complained about students participating in a community service project at a church to pack meals for needy families in Haiti.
"Public schools should encourage students to participate in as many community service opportunities as possible. The Constitution does not prohibit students from cooperating with a religious organization to help starving families, which is not any sort of government endorsement of religion," said Legal Counsel Matt Sharp. "Neutrality toward religion does not permit schools to discriminate against beneficial programs simply because they are run by Christians. That is not neutrality but the very hostility toward religion that the First Amendment forbids."
Students at the School of Engineering and Arts recently visited Calvary Lutheran Church to participate in a volunteer program sponsored by Feed My Starving Children, a non-profit organization run by Christians that seeks to eliminate world hunger for children. As part of the program, students prepared pre-packed meals that would be sent to malnourished children across the globe and did not engage in any religious activities.
The Alliance Defending Freedom letter explains that "public schools may constitutionally work with religious charities to provide food or other secular goods and services to impoverished children." Moreover, the letter states, "Courts have consistently upheld instances where schools cooperated with religious organizations...where they had a valid educational purpose for doing so."
"The School has not promoted any religious aspect of the church or the non-profit organization," the letter adds. "Nor can AHA point to any such evidence. The School simply chose to cooperate with a local charity to do nothing more than prepare meals for impoverished children. The School is not advancing religion at all."
Where Is Obuma's Outrage Over Afghan "War On Women?"
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(It is a local matter)
Via Allen B. WestAs we wind down operations in Afghanistan the question is, "did we make any difference?" Sure, Osama bin Laden is dead — then again so is Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay, but al-Qaida is in control of western Iraq's al-Anbar province. During my time in Iraq and Afghanistan, I remember the most difficult thing for many of us to stomach was the treatment of women.
The most rewarding sight for me during my two-and-a-half years in Afghanistan was watching little girls in their uniforms walking off to school. Nothing infuriated me more than reading reports about a Taliban attack against a girls' school — funny thing, you never heard about that in any liberal media reports. How many front pages were dedicated to Abu Gharaib by the New York Times? And these liberals want us to take them seriously when they start droning on about a damn "war on women?" I have seen it with my own eyes, and it is repulsive.
So as we prepare to depart Afghanistan, and President Obama is more concerned with campaign promises and politics, I must ask, what will happen to the women of Afghanistan?
Free beer in Sochi, if you're Canadian
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556668/Cheers-Canadian-Sochi-Olympians-able-beer-vending-machine-scan-PASSPORTS.html
Watch out, Olympians. The Canadians have their very own fleet of beer fridges at their Olympic house.
And it really is just for them.
The fridges inside Canada Olympic House, which contain Molson Canadian products, can only be opened by scanning a Canadian passport. To give you a better picture, the brewer tweeted a photo of someone using one of the contraptions:
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(Such a clever way of them to keep non-Canadians away from their beer)
As you can watch in the 90-second video below, this isn't the first time Molson tried out their Canadians-only beer fridge. Last summer, a TV campaign by Rethink Canada introduced the clever idea by placing the bright red refrigerators in random European locations. Many foreigners made attempts at opening the refrigerators, but only those with Canadian ID had the power of unleashing the beer within.
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There's a Powerful New Ad on TV About Work Narrated by Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs)
(That ad reminded me of "Atlas Shrugged." If this WalMart works and Mike Rowe's offer to do ads for other companies comes to pass, our country could recover quickly. The bottom line is US buying products made in USA. They can't be shoddy crap, though, the way they were when we turned to foreign-made goods. Also, we have to push for reduced or eliminated govt regulations and let the market decide which winning manufacturers to reward.
I have also been a fan of Mike for some time. I admire his pragmatic approach to problem solving, on both the personal level (helping young people with job skills training) and on the larger level he is advocating here. If we leave behind, for even just a little while, our automatic devotion to our preferred ideology, we might find solutions.
This last sentence was a hard statement for me. I like my viewpoint, and for the most part I am profoundly opposed to compromise on principles. I don't see what he is advocating here as compromise, but common sense. Companies respond to the dollar, and what they believe will bring consumers to them)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mike Rowe, Walmart, and the return of American Manufacturing
February 13, 2014
I like Mike Rowe. I've been following him on Facebook for a while now, and he seems to be a practical, logical guy who loves this country.
This past week, Mike has been involved in a controversy over a commercial voice-over that he did for Walmart that ran the other night during the coverage of the Olympics. Here's the video, called, "I am A Factory", in case you missed it (I did):The video is part of an initiative by Walmart called "Work Is a Beautiful Thing." As Mike says:The commercial features real people doing real work in real factories all across America. It's not very glamorous, but it's honest and authentic, and I was honored to narrate it.The result of this is that many people are calling for Mike Rowe's head. Apparently, they hate Walmart, and have concluded that he is a sell-out who has abandoned the "little guy".
If you want to read the first essay that Mike wrote about it, here is the link to Mike Rowe's Facebook Page. https://www.facebook.com/TheRealMikeRowe(http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/mikerowehelpwanted.jpg?w=960&h=641)
After a day or so, he did another post that I think explains his position as well as it can be. I agree with him completely. This country needs to get back to its manufacturing base, in my opinion, and anybody who will help it along is on my side. I have never been a big Walmart shopper or booster, but if they are willing to commit a quarter trillion dollars to U.S. manufacturers, then I am on their team. Here is his second post:Clean-up In Aisle Four!
This whole Walmart thing. Wow. Just...wow.
If you're just tuning in, here's a brief timeline.
- Last week, I did the voiceover for a commercial that announced Walmart's commitment to purchase 250 billion dollars of American made goods and put them onto their shelves.
- This Saturday, the commercial ran during The Olympics, and people started talking. Some of the talk wasn't very pretty.
- Sunday evening, I opened a bottle of Whistle Pig, and responded to a few of my detractors. I attempted to clarify a few things. By midnight, the Whistle Pig was badly depleted and I was very sleepy. So I hit "post," and went to bed.
- Several hours later, I woke up to use the bathroom. (Sad, that I had to. Glad, that I woke up first.) On the way back to bed, I saw that my laptop was still open. I glanced at this page, and saw that over a million people had read your questions and my answers. Holy Crap.
The next morning, I awakened to the kind of chaos that simply wasn't possible before social media. No less than a dozen requests from various news outlets asking me to appear as soon as possible. Urgent messages to return calls from people I didn't know. Angry messages from certain acquaintances. Lots of encouragement from unexpected sources.
I was tied up all day, and unable to respond to the media requests. But the press waits for no one. Articles about our little Q&A began to pop up everywhere. There was this.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary/item/17606-mike-rowe-touches-the-third-rail-of-retailing-walmart
And this. http://www.babble.com/entertainment/mike-rowe-and-walmart/
And this. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/10/who-gives-a-crap-about-your-feelings-towards-walmart-mike-rowes-fiery-2648-word-response-to-his-recent-haters/#
CNN even did a story about me...without me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acuZQuVM7Z0
That brings us to the present. 4,000 comments and counting. I've read them all. Thanks. And since you're still reading, allow me to free-associate a bit further. Because if the press is still interested in this topic next week, I'll fly to NY and make the rounds. Consider this a rehearsal of my talking points. As always, your suggestions are welcomed.He goes on a bit and then says this:- The mikeroweWORKS Foundation is in the business of partnering with any company that wants to see American manufacturing revitalized. If Walmart asks me to do more commercials like this, I will. Likewise Ford. Or Chevy. Or Lowe's. Or Home Depot. Or George Soros. Or The Koch Brothers. Or The Sultan of Brunei. I really don't really about where the investment is coming from, as long as it's getting the US back to the business of making things. Because there is simply nothing more important to the future of the country.
- It's a hell of a thing when someone you really don't like suddenly does something that you actually agree with. At base, I think that's what's happening here. A lot of people who have fallen in love with hating Walmart are now wrestling with what the shrinks call "cognitive dissonance." Regarding a 250 billion dollar investment in American manufacturing, the choices are simple – a) continue to condemn them for whatever you like to condemn them for, b) offer support and encouragement, or, c) shoot the messenger.Try, for the moment, to forget what you think you know about Walmart. I encourage you to read the rest of his post, and the comments. See the link to Mike's Facebook page (above).
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Here is a list of YouTube Walmart videos for their campaign, "Work is a beautiful thing":
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=walmart+work+is+a+beautiful+thing&sm=3
P.S.: While shopping on Amazon for boots the other day, I noticed that you can now select shoes (and other products too) that are "made in usa". That's a step in the right direction, in my opinion. And yes, I bought some boots "made in usa".
We should make an effort to Buy American whenever we can, even go out of our way, or pay a little more, if we can, and it is necessary. We can't expect companies like Walmart and Amazon to carry American-made goods if we aren't willing to buy them. That's the bottom line.
By the way, I find it odd that many of the same people who condemn Walmart have no problem buying Apple products that are made by people in China working under less than ideal conditions.
Mitt Romney on Obuma's Many Lies: They Have
"Seriously Eroded His Capacity to Lead"
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Former Governor Mitt Romney joined Megyn Kelly Thursday to discuss the current political environment in the country.Megyn Kelly: Do you believe the American people should trust this president?Mitt Romney: Well, I believe they've lost the confidence they've had in him. I think one of the great things you have as a leader of a country is a confidence of a people and a belief that what you are telling them is the truth. And, I think that during the campaign and in the months afterward the president consistently said that if people have insurance they like they can keep it. They can keep their doctor. Prices weren't going to go up. These things turned out not to be true. And I think the breach of that promise is something that has very seriously eroded the president's capacity to lead.(Yeah, it kinda sucks when people find out you're a serial liar)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W45C6eOTyfM
DISABLED ARMY VET Attacked by Mob of Black Nigger Teens Screaming "Knock This White Boy Out"
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Disabled Army veteran Matthew Robinson was attacked by a mob of black teens while riding a bus in Cleveland.
The youths were screaming, "Knock that boy out!" and "Cracker!"
Via FOX Nation:
19 Action News reported:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDYnV8GxNvE
There's evidence of more violent teens running around the heart of downtown Cleveland.
A disabled Army vet spoke out about the latest attack that happened Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.
Matthew Robinson told our Ed Gallek he was riding RTA's Healthline when six to eight teenagers surrounded him on the bus, and then started following him.
Then, he said they attacked, took his stuff, and videotaped what they were doing.
The incident went down at 6th and Euclid, and the crowd scattered when cops showed up.
Robinson told 19 Action News, "What they were saying was, 'Knock that boy out!' 'White boy.' 'Cracker.' They were saying, 'Knock that white boy out.'
The IRS of Barack Obama: even more weaponized
By TH on February 13, 2014
Lie or be charged with perjury
On Tuesday of this week we learned that, during a press briefing, The IRS of Barack Obama issued the following diktat.
Lie or the IRS will charge you with perjury.
This is the stuff of Kafka and only one major media outlet has covered it. If you tell the truth you will be punished, if you lie, we will let that stand as truth (unless we change our minds, in which case you will be punished.)
Fox News–of course it's Fox News, the legacy media is covering gay football players–has the details.
"Obama officials made clear in a press briefing that firms would not be allowed to lay off workers to get into the preferred class of those businesses with 50 to 99 employees. How will the feds know what employers were thinking when hiring and firing? Simple. Firms will be required to certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that ObamaCare was not a motivating factor in their staffing decisions."
Welcome to Omerica, where you say exactly what the IRS of Barack Obama tells you to say
orwellIn totalitarian re-programming centers, interrogators would hold up five fingers to a prisoner. "How many fingers am I holding up?" they would ask. If the prisoner told the truth–"there are five fingers"–they would be beaten by their jailers. That would continue until the prisoner finally said whatever the interrogator told them to say. An episode of Star Trek dramatized this well; in Obama's Omerica, perhaps TV melodramas are a better source of truth than the legacy media.
Even based upon the standards of Barack Obama's Omerica, telling Americans what to say is a stunning and illegal diktat. Maybe it's just me, but didn't I read something on Fox News (oh, yeah, right wing wackos, so take it with a grain of salt) about something called the First Amendment to the Constitution? This diktat from the IRS of Barack Obama is a direct violation of that.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
Barack Obama announced that firms–owned and run by sovereign human beings–cannot adjust their cost structures in response to ObamaCare, which was once a law, and is now just a set of whims from the Exalted One. He has decided he can bankrupt a business; if they cannot afford the law, but cannot adjust their cost structures to avoid it, what else would happen? Barack Obama has the solution to the problem he caused: Obama will force the management to lie–"it wasn't ObamaCare that caused this adjustment." By being forced to lie, business owners open themselves up to even more harassment from the IRS. If Barack Obama or Valarie Jarrett or any other Obamaton should ever choose to point out the obvious–"Hell, yes it was ObamaCare that forced you to fire people"–the IRS can prosecute the business owner for telling a lie the IRS forced him to tell.
In America the truth is what the government tells you the truth is (and it is entirely open to change without notice.)
But, how can this be important enough for the legacy media to cover? I mean, there is a gay man–a GAY man–entering the NFL Draft! Now, that's real news.
The "law" is whatever pops out of my mouth at a press conference or golf course
The illegality of this government goes even further. Barack Obama isn't just using the IRS to force people to say what he wants them to, he is breaking his own law and violating his oath of office–not that such things matter in the post-constitutional era of Omerica, but, humor us–, while forcing Americans to adjust to his electorally-motivated mutations of what used to be a law.
The law is what Obama speaks it to be. ObamaCare is the most aptly nicknamed law diktat in history. This ... thing is a series of whims issued from the perfumed hand of a single person, an Oz, if you will. Barack Obama, in absolute violation of Article Two of the United States Constitution, decided he can break his own law with a series of edits he feels like making.
Article II of the United States Constitution states, in part: "He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United States."
When the law is what one man wants it to be there is no country or people or democracy, there is rule by one man. There is his will and his subjects.
This is hope and change?
Someone–anyone?–can defend this?
The Establishment GOP is completely irrelevant
Have you seen the quick and smart reaction from the Republican establishment in D.C.? Neither have we. No one will.
The on-going criminal conspiracy that is the Obama administration is of little concern for people who have an election to win.
If the GOP in D.C. wanted to, they could do the following:
1. Issue a press release signed by the Chairmen of the RNC, RGA, NRCC, NRSC, the House and Senate GOP caucus chairs stating that the IRS diktat is illegal and any business the IRS tries to pressure with this diktat will be afforded Whistle Blower status by the House Republicans ... they DO control the votes in the house! They could echo that statement on all of their social media channels and send their surrogates on TV to explain it.
2. Call the leaders of the IRS in front of the proper committees–not to question then, because they will simply lie–but, to tell them, point blank, face to face and on screen that no American will have pushed upon them such a blatantly illegal diktat.
3. Put out another public statement signed by the Chairmen of RNC, RGA, NRCC, NRSC, the House and Senate GOP caucuses, addressed to all business owners in America, that the IRS diktat is null and void.
They could do that, but they won't.
What can you do?
Call your representatives in Congress today–202-224-3121–and tell them that this is the last straw for you. Unless they stand up, right now, you are done with them and will vote only for people whom have never been tarnished by serving in that pit of slime called Congress. You will vote only for people who are as angry and disgusted as you are and who will take their oath to protect our freedoms seriously at every turn.
Why must you act?
Does this image seem like an exaggeration given what you just read?
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http://buzzpo.com/the-irs-of-barack-obama/
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Obuma: The American Dictator
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"The Importance of the Rule of Law"
by William Lafferty
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"The main difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that democracies operate by rule of law and dictatorships operate by fiat of the dictator. There is no rule of law in a dictatorship, and there are no dictators in a state governed by the rule of law." [/color
This is a distinction that most Americans don't regard with interest. They have that much in common with President Obama. He doesn't have any interest in it either.
In 2013, the Obama administration ignored Obamacare's requirement that businesses over 50 employees offer health insurance or pay fines and postponed the requirement until 2015. Now the Obama administration, again without any authority in the law, has modified the requirements of the act to exempt firms with 50 – 99 employees from the requirement to offer insurance until 2016. Firms with 100 or more employees now need insure only 70% in 2015 and 95% in 2016 and beyond. This is in clear violation of the law, which requires 100%.
It is the President's job to execute the laws and Congress's job to write them. Obama has collapsed the two into one. He executes the laws and re-writes them in the process. Obama's acts plainly violate the separation of powers doctrine and are unconstitutional. Notice how easy it is to slip from decision-making by 535 congressmen and senators into decision-making by one man, who, because he substitutes his own ideas for the requirements of the law, is by definition a dictator. The separation of powers doctrine is supposed to protect us from the rise of dictators. It is the system of government in which the three branches of our government, the executive, the judicial, and the legislative, each have defined and limited powers. If the president goes nuts, the other two branches are supposed to rein him in. And the same applies to the other branches. But no one is reining Obama in, nor could they, for his practice has simply been to ignore them.
Although the framers of our constitution were undoubtedly geniuses and were able to create the world's most successful, stable government, even they could not create a system that is immune to bad faith. Obama, the "constitutional scholar," must know his acts threaten the stability of the nation, and yet he commits them.
What's worse, his malfeasance is not benign or inadvertent. His purpose in exceeding his presidential authority, in postponing the law's requirements, is to rig the 2014 elections by postponing Obamacare's negative impact on 74 million voters until well beyond the election.
So here we have a president ignoring mandates (not options) found in his own law because he fears that if he does not postpone the implementation of the law, enough voters will be negatively impacted to cause his party to lose the election. Obama's conduct is, in my view, an impeachable offense. If presidents were allowed to selectively enforce laws, i.e., to abridge the separation of powers doctrine, in order to win elections, our present form of government would have collapsed long ago.
Republican lawmakers believe they cannot seek redress in the courts because they have no standing to sue since they are not directly affected by what they complain about, a requirement of any lawsuit. Another requirement of lawsuits in general is that the plaintiff must be harmed by what the defendant has done.
It is difficult to understand how lawmakers who participated in voting on Obamacare are not affected by Obama's unilateral manipulation of the law, and it is hard to see how rigging an election is not harm to lawmakers and the public at large.
Obama's lasting legacy will be that he has created the blueprint for turning our republic into a dictatorship. What he has orchestrated may not work in all republics at all times, but it works beautifully in ours at this time because of public apathy, Congressional corruption and a myopic judiciary. As Obama continues ignoring the constitutional mandates of his office, there is likely to be little notice taken. No shots will be fired. No one will be imprisoned. Armies will not revolt. Laws will simply be ignored, at first in small ways, and then in large ways. At that point, laws will be a thing of the past. Dictatorship will have arrived and there will no longer be an opportunity to say we disagree. The rule of law is all that separates us from dictatorship. Once we no longer have that, we no longer have democracy or a republic. That is the importance of the rule of law. (http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/5385/images/rise-against-this-dictator-vik-battaile-politics-1354415408.jpg)
William Lafferty is a retired lawyer. He retired from the position of staff attorney for the Pennsylvania supreme court. He also worked as a part-time instructor at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin and a j.d. degree from Duquesne University. He is also a writer of novels which you can find at his site.
"Biden says the future is so bright for Democrats, he's got to wear shades"
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(Pep talk, Joltin' Joe style)
WASHINGTON – http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/14/joe-biden-tells-democrats-sun-will-come-out-tomorr/#.Uv4siruHBwU.twitter
Vice President Joseph R. Biden gave an election-year pep talk to House Democrats Friday, saying their political prospects in the fall will look brighter than they do right now.
"Between now and November is three political lifetimes," Mr. Biden said at the Democrats' annual retreat on Maryland's Eastern Shore. "I can't imagine our prospects being viewed by the press and everyone else as being a whole hell of a lot brighter by the time we turn to September than now."
Mr. Biden said "even with all the difficulties you're facing now with the [Affordable Care Act], 55 percent of the American people don't want to see it repealed." He said the public sides with Democrats on issues that affect the middle class.
"They are with us," Mr. Biden said. "Let's go out and make every single effort not just to defend, but to aggressively push our agenda. I'm optimistic about America's prospects, and I'm optimistic about our prospects. So keep your eye on the ball."
The vice president also seemed to acknowledge that some Democratic incumbents don't want him or President Obama campaigning for them this year. He recalled the comment made to him by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland, a conservative Democrat from Mississippi, when he offered to help Mr. Biden run for re-election in Delaware in the 1970s.
"He said I'll come to Delaware and campaign for you or against you, whichever will help the most," Mr. Biden said.
The vice president told the assembled Democrats, "The president has committed, and you know me too tell, I'm fully committed, to put in every effort we can to be of help to any of you."
Then Mr. Biden laughed as he thanked Rep. Steve Israel of New York, chairman of the House Democrats' campaign arm, "for being so helpful and directing me where he wants me to go." Some Democrats have expressed the wish openly that they don't want Mr. Obama to campaign for them.
Mr. Biden also criticized the GOP as disorganized and unable to lead in Washington.
"There isn't a Republican Party," Mr. Biden said. "I wish there was a Republican Party. I wish there was one person you could sit across the table from and make a deal. Look at the response of the State of the Union — what were there, three or four?"
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LA COP WHO MURDERED KELLY THOMAS
FORCED TO LEAVE RESTAURANT BY PATRONS
February 15, 2014 By 21wire
WARNING: GRAPHIC AND EXPLICIT IMAGES
21st Century Wire says...
If you haven't seen the tragic story of Kelly Thomas, the story below will get you up to speed...
Thomas, a young white homeless man with mental health issues was singled out by LA police in Fullerton, and then beaten to death by at least 4 officers in what appeared to be a sports outing for the police. The police were then allowed to walk away from the incident freely, following a slanted court ruling in their favour.
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Unfortunately, the US mainstream media and political landscape is such that pundits and politicians only react to these types of events if there is a white on black racial element – otherwise it's back page news.
In terms of the outcome, this incident was much worse than the famous Rodney King Incident in 1992 which eventually ended in mass riots and street violence right across Los Angeles, because unlike King, Thomas was pronounced dead shortly after his beating. Sadly, America's race-baiting institutions do not recognize the value of Thomas's life on par with that of a victim of colour like Rodney King, or more recently, Trayvon Martin – because there is much less political capital and sensational ratings to be squeezed out of a Thomas murder than a King beating, or a Martin death. Like it or not, that is simply the way media and politics operate in America today.
The establishment loathe individuals like Kelly Thomas in America because, as a homeless person, he does not fit into a recognizable political compartment, or entitlement program, therefore he a simply persona non grata. The police were allowed to get away with murder in this case, in order to send a clear message to other homeless individuals in America: you are subhuman, you have no rights – and can be disposed of at any time by government sanctioned violence.
Of course, in the end, the establishment let its own off the hook of justice, but at least millions of Americans are now aware of just corrupt law enforcement and the judiciary are..
The video footage of Thomas's beating and murder is as horrific as anything you will see. There is clearly a problem with police in Southern California, and one which is constantly being brushed over and covered-up...
Read the story at http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/15/la-cop-who-murdered-kelly-thomas-forced-to-leave-restaurant-by-patrons/
Radiation From Fukushima Is Affecting The West Coast
By Michael Snyder, on December 31st, 2013
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/36-signs-the-media-is-lying-to-you-about-how-radiation-from-fukushima-is-affecting-the-west-coast
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The west coast of the United States is being absolutely fried by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the mainstream media is not telling us the truth about this. What you are about to see is a collection of evidence that is quite startling. Taken collectively, this body of evidence shows that nuclear radiation from Fukushima is affecting sea life in the Pacific Ocean and animal life along the west coast of North America in some extraordinary ways. But the mainstream media continues to insist that we don't have a thing to worry about. The mainstream media continues to insist that radiation levels in the Pacific and along the west coast are perfectly safe. Are they lying to us? Evaluate the evidence compiled below and come to your own conclusions...#1 Independent researchers have measured alarmingly high levels of radiation on the beaches of the west coast. For example, the video posted below was taken on December 23rd, 2013 at Pacifica State Beach. As you can see in this video, radiation levels near the water are up to five times higher than normal background radiation...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQLxT49ZP0
#2 According to Oceanus Magazine, the total amount of cesium-137 that has been released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima is 10,000 to 100,000 times greater than the amount released into the oceans by the Chernobyl disaster or by the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests of the 1960s.
#3 Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur has admitted that while he was at MSNBC he was instructed not to warn the public about the radiation coming from Fukushima...
"I was on MSNBC at the time when this happened, I said, "Don't trust what the Japanese government is saying, they'll say trust what the electric power company is saying. Go, go, go, get outta there. Get as far away from that plant as you can. It's literally a core meltdown." And they always don't want people to panic, so they were always like, "Oh it's going to be okay." [...] I'm like, "You're crazy man, don't be anywhere near that reactor." And I remember at the time, of course not at The Young Turks, but on cable news, people were like, "Hey Cenk, you know, I don't know that you want to say that, because the official government position is that it's safe." Oh, is that the official government position? Now go explain that to the people who served on the USS Ronald Reagan."#4 71 U.S. sailors who assisted with the initial Fukushima relief efforts have developed serious diseases such as testicular cancer, thyroid cancer, Leukemia, "unremitting gynecological bleeding" and brain tumors since that time as a result of exposure to radiation coming from Fukushima.
#5 Something is causing starfish all along the west coast of the United States to literally disintegrate into piles of "white goo"...
Researchers say nuclear pollution from the 2011 earthquake in Japan that damaged the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant could be partially to blame for a disease wiping out starfish along the West Coast.
Dr. Peter Raimondi of the University of Santa Cruz says something is making starfish susceptible to whats believed to be a bacteria coined "Wasting Disease." It essentially disintegrate the marine invertebrates into a white goo, after the starfish loses its legs.
#6 Bald eagles are dying in unprecedented numbers in Utah, and nobody can figure out why this is happening...
Bald eagles are dying in Utah — 20 in the past few weeks alone — and nobody can figure out why. Hundreds of the majestic birds — many with wing spans of 7 feet or more — migrate here each winter, gathering along the Great Salt Lake and feasting on carp and other fish that swim in the nearby freshwater bays.
Earlier this month, however, hunters and farmers across five counties in northern and central Utah began finding the normally skittish raptors lying listless on the ground. Many suffered from seizures, head tremors and paralysis in the legs, feet and wings.
#7 Huge numbers of dead birds are dropping dead and washing up along the coastlines of Alaska. It is being reported that many of the carcases of the dead birds are "broken open and bleeding".
#8 The recent deaths of thousands of birds in Oregon is absolutely baffling scientists.
#9 Something is causing large numbers of seals and walruses up in Alaska to lose hair and develop "oozing sores".
#10 Substantial numbers of polar bears along the coast of Alaska are suffering from fur loss and open sores.
#11 There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline.
#12 The population of sockeye salmon along the coastlines of Alaska is at a "historic low".
#13 Something is causing Pacific herring to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs.
#14 Dangerous levels of cesium-137 have been discovered in mushrooms and berries grown along the west coast.
#15 According to an absolutely shocking report put out by the National Academy of Sciences, it has been proven that Pacific Bluefin tuna have transported radioactive material "across the entire North Pacific Ocean"...
"We report unequivocal evidence that Pacific Bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, transported Fukushima-derived radionuclides across the entire North Pacific Ocean."
#16 Something seems to be causing a substantial spike in the death rate for killer whales living off of the coast of British Columbia.
#17 Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast.
#18 One test in California found that 15 out of 15 Bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.
#19 Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada...
• 73 percent of the mackerel
• 91 percent of the halibut
• 92 percent of the sardines
• 93 percent of the tuna and eel
• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
#20 An EU-funded study concluded that Fukushima released up to 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 into the atmosphere.
#21 One very experienced Australian adventurer has stated that he felt as though "the ocean itself was dead" as he journeyed from Japan to San Francisco recently...
The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to San Francisco and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with nauseous horror and a degree of fear.
"After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead," Macfadyen said.
"We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening.
"I've done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I'm used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen."In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes.
"Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it's still out there, everywhere you look."
#22 It is being projected that the radioactivity of coastal waters off the U.S. west coast could double over the next five to six years.
#23 The deputy chairman of Russia's State Duma Committee for Natural Resources, Maxim Shingarkin, says that seafood captured off the northwest coast of the United States is so radioactive that it represents a "danger for mankind"...
"Currents in the world ocean are so structured that the areas of seafood capture near the U.S. northwest coast are more likely to contain radioactive nuclides than even the Sea of Okhotsk, which is much closer to Japan. These products are the main danger for mankind because they can find their way to people's tables on a massive scale."
#24 According to one recent scientific report, radiation from Fukushima could affect our seafood for "many generations" and ultimately kill more than a million people...
This cycle will last for many generations, because of the food chain of fish and other marine fauna, and the radioactivity will be recycled and in fact the meat content will increase rather than decreasing by decay. Even if only one one-hundredth of the radioactivity (more than 1e15 Bq of CS137) were to enter this recirculation pattern, the collective whole body ingestion dose over many generations would exceed 1e7 Sv, sufficient to kill more than 1,000,000 people.
#25 The Japanese government has estimated that approximately 300 tons of highly radioactive water is pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear facility every single day.
#26 A senior researcher of marine chemistry at the Japan Meteorological Agency's Meteorological Research Institute says that "30 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium and 30 billion becquerels of radioactive strontium" are being released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day.
#27 According to Tepco, a total of somewhere between 20 trillion and 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have gotten into the Pacific Ocean since the Fukushima disaster first began.
#28 According to a professor at Tokyo University, 3 gigabecquerels of cesium-137 are flowing into the port at Fukushima Daiichi every single day.
#29 It is being projected that significant levels of cesium-137 will reach every corner of the Pacific Ocean by the year 2020
#30 It has been estimated that the entire Pacific Ocean will soon "have cesium levels 5 to 10 times higher" than what we witnessed during the era of heavy atomic bomb testing in the Pacific many decades ago.
#31 The immense amount of radioactive material being released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima has caused environmental activist Joe Martino to issue the following warning...
"Your days of eating Pacific Ocean fish are over."#32 The Iodine-131, Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 that are constantly being released from Fukushima are going to affect the health of those living in the northern hemisphere for a very, very long time. Just consider what Harvey Wasserman had to say about this...
Iodine-131, for example, can be ingested into the thyroid, where it emits beta particles (electrons) that damage tissue. A plague of damaged thyroids has already been reported among as many as 40 percent of the children in the Fukushima area. That percentage can only go higher. In developing youngsters, it can stunt both physical and mental growth. Among adults it causes a very wide range of ancillary ailments, including cancer.
Cesium-137 from Fukushima has been found in fish caught as far away as California. It spreads throughout the body, but tends to accumulate in the muscles.
Strontium-90's half-life is around 29 years. It mimics calcium and goes to our bones.
#33 Outdoor radiation levels at Fukushima recently hit a new all-time high.
#34 According to the Wall Street Journal, it is being projected that the cleanup of Fukushima could take up to 40 years to complete.
#35 Yale Professor Charles Perrow is warning that if the cleanup of Fukushima is not handled with 100% precision that humanity could be threatened "for thousands of years"...
"Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years."
#36 There are very alarming reports that new "unexplained plumes of radioactive steam" are rising at Fukushima. Japanese officials are not able to get inside and see what is causing these plumes. Some are speculating that the crisis at Fukushima just got a whole lot worse. The following is from a recent Ecologist article...
Unexplained plumes of radioactive steam have been rising from Fukushima's Reactor Building 3, Could a major meltdown be on the way?
Fukushima's Reactor Building 3 exploded on 13th March 2011 as a result of a hydrogen buildup, breaching the building's containment and emitting a huge plume of radiation. The reactor itself is in meltdown.
And now fresh plumes of steam have been seen coming out the structure. These have now been confirmed by Tepco, the owner of the nuclear plant, from 19th December onwards. The company believes the steam is coming from the fifth floor of the building.
However it does not know the cause of the steam. Lethal levels of radiation and the physical damage to the structure have so far made entry and inspection impossible.
If a full-blown meltdown does happen at Fukushima, it would be an environmental disaster unlike anything that we have ever seen before in human history.
As we enter 2014, we are entering a time when the world is becoming increasingly unstable. The global economy is being shaken, political corruption is seemingly everywhere, evidence of advanced social decay is all around us and the earth itself is starting to groan and crack with increasingly regularity. But the mainstream media continues to insist that everything is going to be just fine. That is one of the reasons why I wrote my new novel. The American people deserve to hear the truth and be warned about the great challenges that are rapidly approaching.
In the end, millions upon millions of people could end up getting seriously ill as a result of all of this radiation coming from Fukushima. Most of them will never even know why they have gotten sick.
And if there is a major earthquake or a significant accident during the cleanup at Fukushima, we could actually see huge sections of Japan be evacuated permanently.
It would be hard to overstate just how serious all of this is. But you won't hear about this from the mainstream media. Their story is that "everything is okay" and they are sticking to it.
22 Facts About The Coming Demographic Tsunami That
Could Destroy Our Economy All By Itself
By Michael Snyder, on February 10th, 2014
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/22-facts-about-the-coming-demographic-tsunami-that-could-destroy-our-economy-all-by-itself
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Today, more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will retire. This is going to happen day after day, month after month, year after year until 2030. It is the greatest demographic tsunami in the history of the United States, and we are woefully unprepared for it. We have made financial promises to the Baby Boomers worth tens of trillions of dollars that we simply are not going to be able to keep. Even if we didn't have all of the other massive economic problems that we are currently dealing with, this retirement crisis would be enough to destroy our economy all by itself. During the first half of this century, the number of senior citizens in the United States is being projected to more than double. As a nation, we are already drowning in debt. So where in the world are we going to get the money to take care of all of these elderly people?
The Baby Boomer generation is so massive that it has fundamentally changed America with each stage that it has gone through. When the Baby Boomers were young, sales of diapers and toys absolutely skyrocketed. When they became young adults, they pioneered social changes that permanently altered our society. Much of the time, these changes were for the worse.
According to the New York Post, overall household spending peaks when we reach the age of 46. And guess what year the peak of the Baby Boom generation reached that age?...
People tend, for instance, to buy houses at about the same age — age 31 or so. Around age 53 is when people tend to buy their luxury cars — after the kids have finished college, before old age sets in. Demographics can even tell us when your household spending on potato chips is likely to peak — when the head of it is about 42.
Ultimately the size of the US economy is simply the total of what we're all spending. Overall household spending hits a high when we're about 46. So the peak of the Baby Boom (1961) plus 46 suggests that a high point in the US economy should be about 2007, with a long, slow decline to follow for years to come.
And according to that same article, the Congressional Budget Office is also projecting that an aging population will lead to diminished economic growth in the years ahead...
Lost in the discussion of this week's Congressional Budget Office report (which said 2.5 million fewer Americans would be working because of Obamacare) was its prediction that aging will be a major drag on growth: "Beyond 2017," said the report, "CBO expects that economic growth will diminish to a pace that is well below the average seen over the past several decades [due in large part to] slower growth in the labor force because of the aging of the population."
So we have a problem. Our population is rapidly aging, and an immense amount of economic resources is going to be required to care for them all.
Unfortunately, this is happening at a time when our economy is steadily declining.
The following are some of the hard numbers about the demographic tsunami which is now beginning to overtake us...1. Right now, there are somewhere around 40 million senior citizens in the United States. By 2050 that number is projected to skyrocket to 89 million.
2. According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, 46 percent of all American workers have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, and 29 percent of all American workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement.
3. One poll discovered that 26 percent of all Americans in the 46 to 64-year-old age bracket have no personal savings whatsoever.
4. According to a survey conducted by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, "60 percent of American workers said the total value of their savings and investments is less than $25,000".
5. 67 percent of all American workers believe that they "are a little or a lot behind schedule on saving for retirement".
6. A study conducted by Boston College's Center for Retirement Research found that American workers are $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire comfortably.
7. Back in 1991, half of all American workers planned to retire before they reached the age of 65. Today, that number has declined to 23 percent.
8. According to one recent survey, 70 percent of all American workers expect to continue working once they are "retired".
9. A poll conducted by CESI Debt Solutions found that 56 percent of American retirees still had outstanding debts when they retired.
10. A study by a law professor at the University of Michigan found that Americans that are 55 years of age or older now account for 20 percent of all bankruptcies in the United States. Back in 2001, they only accounted for 12 percent of all bankruptcies.
11. Today, only 10 percent of private companies in the U.S. provide guaranteed lifelong pensions for their employees.
12. According to Northwestern University Professor John Rauh, the total amount of unfunded pension and healthcare obligations for retirees that state and local governments across the United States have accumulated is 4.4 trillion dollars.
13. Right now, the American people spend approximately 2.8 trillion dollars on health care, and it is being projected that due to our aging population health care spending will rise to an astounding 4.5 trillion dollars in 2019.
14. Incredibly, the United States spends more on health care than China, Japan, Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Australia combined.
15. If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire planet.
16. When Medicare was first established, we were told that it would cost about $12 billion a year by the time 1990 rolled around. Instead, the federal government ended up spending $110 billion on the program in 1990, and the federal government spent approximately $600 billion on the program in 2013.
17. It is being projected that the number of Americans on Medicare will grow from 50.7 million in 2012 to 73.2 million in 2025.
18. At this point, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars over the next 75 years. That comes to approximately $328,404 for every single household in the United States.
19. In 1945, there were 42 workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits. Today, that number has fallen to 2.5 workers, and if you eliminate all government workers, that leaves only 1.6 private sector workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits.
20. Right now, there are approximately 63 million Americans collecting Social Security benefits. By 2035, that number is projected to soar to an astounding 91 million.
21. Overall, the Social Security system is facing a 134 trillion dollar shortfall over the next 75 years.
22. The U.S. government is facing a total of 222 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities during the years ahead. Social Security and Medicare make up the bulk of that.So where are we going to get the money?
That is a very good question.
The generations following the Baby Boomers are going to have to try to figure out a way to navigate this crisis. The bright future that they were supposed to have has been destroyed by our foolishness and our reckless accumulation of debt.
But do they actually deserve a "bright future"? Perhaps they deserve to spend their years slaving away to support previous generations during their golden years. Young people today tend to be extremely greedy, self-centered and lacking in compassion. They start blogs with titles such as "Selfies With Homeless People". Here is one example from that blog...(http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Selfies-With-Homeless-People-425x585.png)
Of course not all young people are like that. Some are shining examples of what young Americans should be.
Unfortunately, those that are on the right path are a relatively small minority.
In the end, it is our choices that define us, and ultimately America may get exactly what it deserves.
5 Ways Liberals Make War on Women
by John Hawkins | Feb 15, 2014
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Having liberals claim that someone else is waging a "war on women" is like Anteaters claiming Ladybugs are making war on ants. Not only is the Left much more unfriendly to women than the Right, liberals are actually leaving a body count behind. 1) The Party of Infanticide: The liberals' whole "safe, legal and rare" abortion shtick has gone by the wayside and they've moved on to "Any reason's a good reason." Just this week, Iowa Democratic State Representative Beth Wessel-Kroeschell advocated aborting children to avoid "sleepless nights" and avoid "disciplinary challenges." Even the Aztecs weren't as zealous about sacrificing children as the modern Left has become and the carnage it's left in its wake is comparable to any of history's greatest monsters. More than 28 million female babies have been snuffed out since Roe v. Wade. That's 28 million women who will never get to pretend to be a princess, ask their mother for advice or fall in love and get married. All of those poor girls were slaughtered like cattle and disposed of like garbage because of the same people who claim Republicans are waging a "war on women."
2) Excusing Horrible Liberal Behavior Toward Women: Ted Kennedy left a woman to slowly die in a tidal pool while he went home to sober up and plan to get away with his crime. Liberals loved him. As we speak, Massachusetts Rep. Carlos Henrique is in jail for beating his girlfriend and the New England Area Conference of the NAACP is fighting to keep him from being expelled from the state legislature. Bill Clinton has not only cheated on his wife over and over, he was credibly accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick. That has not given a single liberal pause. Roman Polanski is a liberal filmmaker who was convicted of raping a 13 year old girl and yet liberals defend him. What was it Whoopi Goldberg said? "I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape." The reason it wasn't "rape-rape" in her mind is because a prominent liberal man was involved. If everyone from MSNBC to the NAACP to NOW are willing to side with men who leave women to die, men who beat their girlfriends, and rapists over the women they victimize, what does that really tell you about liberals?
3) Demeaning Stay-At-Home Moms: Liberals insult, demean and degrade stay-at-home moms on a regular basis. How dare they treat women with contempt simply because they CHOOSE to stay home and take care of their children? For example, Democrat Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema has said, "These women who act like staying at home, leeching off their husbands or boyfriends, and just cashing the checks is some sort of feminism because they're choosing to live that life. That's bull****. I mean, what the f*** are we really talking about here?" Recently, liberal blogger Amy Glass at Thought Catalog wrote a whole article mocking stay-at-home moms called, "I look down on young women with husbands and kids and I'm not sorry." Even in the last election, when Democrats were pushing the "war on women" meme, Democrat strategist Hillary Rosen slammed Ann Romney for being a stay-at-home mom while Barack Obama himself has said staying at home to raise children isn't real "work." Conservatives support women, whether they want to work or stay at home. Liberals don't -- and their utter contempt for stay-at-home moms is just as disgusting as it is revealing.
4) Savage Attacks On Conservative Women: If only liberals hated Al-Qaeda with the same burning passion "that they feel towards well known conservative women," the world would be a better place. Just listen to the comments they make about strong, conservative women like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin. They've attacked Sarah Palin's children and Bachmann's husband, called Coulter a transvestite and used racial slurs against Malkin. They've done hate **** lists, demeaning articles on who Christine O'Donnell may have made out with at a Halloween party, Malkin had to move because she had so many threats, well known liberal writers spent YEARS claiming Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy with her son Trig -- it's just a bottomless well of outright hatred and misogyny. The worst day Hillary Clinton or Sandra Fluke has ever had is like an average Tuesday for one of these women.
5) Helping criminals By Disarming Women: At least a 200 pound man has a puncher's chance against a criminal who wants to hurt him, but a 120 pound woman is nothing but a victim in the same situation. For a woman, having a gun may be the difference between staying in control or being at a thug's mercy, between getting a good scare and getting raped, between seeing her child again and being left dead in a ditch. Yet, liberals believe that a woman trapped in a dark alley by some Ted Bundy wannabe carrying a scalpel, handcuffs, and a noose should be stripped of her ability to defend herself. Colorado Democrat Rep. Joe Salazar actually suggested that women can't be trusted with guns "because you just don't know who you're gonna be shooting at. And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop ... pop around at somebody." The University of Colorado even went so far as to suggest to women that "vomiting or urinating may also convince the attacker to leave you alone." The best friends the stalker, violent ex-boyfriend, and rapist have are pro-gun-control liberals who are hell-bent on making sure women can't defend themselves.
University Of Arizona To Hold "Condom Olympics"
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Via IJR:http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/115262-meanwhile-university-arizona-plans-condom-olympics/
This just in from the "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" department: Students at the University of Arizona have been assigned to plan a school-wide "Condom Olympics" for their "Sex, Health, and AIDS" class.The objective of the class is to "explore this social and disease phenomenon from a number of perspectives."
According to The Daily Wildcat, the official UA student newspaper, students planned "athletic events" such as a condom-wrapped egg toss, condom art, and a condom scavenger hunt. (Far be it from me to suggest that "athletic events" involving condoms connotes an entirely different image.)
The purpose of the Condom Olympics, according to UA Professor William Simmons?
"Hopefully this will get students comfortable knowing what condoms are."
Memo to Professor Simmons: With all due respect, professor, I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that COLLEGE STUDENTS already know what condoms are. Just sayin'.
Anyway, UofA's Campus Health Service is hosting its annual "Sexual Health Resource Fair," where students can learn about sexual health resources on campus and in the community. Students can also have their photo taken with "Mr. Condom," a 6-foot-tall condom that will be handing out free condoms on the University of Arizona Mall during the fair. (I wonder if he gives autographs?)
And, hey, what proud parent wouldn't want his, or her, daughter (or son) to post a picture on Facebook — smiling and standing next to Mr. Condom?
Incidentally, Professor Simmons says he doesn't like term papers or exams and prefers "action learning assignments." Where was this guy when I was in college?
(They might be better off teaching some basic astronomy... just saying)
Survey: 1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Earth Revolves Around The Sun
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(And you wonder how we get the mindless Obamabot, product of the public schools)
Via AFP:http://news.yahoo.com/1-4-americans-unaware-earth-circles-sun-172238500.html
Americans are enthusiastic about the promise of science but lack basic knowledge of it, with one in four unaware that the Earth revolves around the Sun, said a poll out Friday.
The survey included more than 2,200 people in the United States and was conducted by the National Science Foundation.
Ten questions about physical and biological science were on the quiz, and the average score — 6.5 correct — was barely a passing grade.
Just 74 percent of respondents knew that the Earth revolved around the Sun, according to the results released at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.
Fewer than half (48 percent) knew that human beings evolved from earlier species of animals.
The result of the survey, which is conducted every two years, will be included in a National Science Foundation report to President Barack Obama and US lawmakers.
One in three respondents said science should get more funding from the government.
Nearly 90 percent said the benefits of science outweigh any dangers, and about the same number expressed interest in learning about medical discoveries.
HERO
Obuma's Executive Order Raising Minimum Wage For Employees of Federal
Contractors Unconstitutional According To Supreme Court
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(He's more interested about his Duck Study than what the Supreme Court or Constitution says about anything...):
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Via NRO:The president issued an executive order last week purporting to raise the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. The order is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court made clear in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer that "the President's power, if any, to issue the [executive] order must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself." Furthermore, "when the president takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter."
Nothing in the Constitution grants the president authority to set or raise the minimum wage independently of an act of Congress. Furthermore, although the president generally has authority to improve the efficient discharge of federal contracts, the president's minimum-wage order is incompatible with the expressed and implied will of Congress.
Congress has made its will regarding the minimum wage for federal contractors abundantly clear in four separate statutes: The Service Contract Act, the Davis Bacon Act, the Walsh-Healey Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act. Under those statutes, the minimum wage for many, if not most, employees of federal contractors is the prevailing minimum wage for employees in the specific job classification in the locality where the work is to be performed. For the remaining classifications of employees for whom no prevailing minimum wage exists, the minimum wage is slotted into the minimum for similar jobs, or is governed by the minimum set by Congress in the Fair Labor Standards Act, i.e., $7.25.
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UConn Football Coach Resigns After Saying Jesus Should Be
"In The Center of Our Huddle"
(Only in the liberal northeast would this comment spark outrage)
Via The Blaze:A newly hired assistant football coach has resigned his position at the University of Connecticut one month after igniting controversy with a comment he made about keeping Jesus Christ at the center of his team's huddle.
The university confirmed coach Ernest Jones' departure in a statement to TheBlaze Monday, but declined to give a reason for the decision. Jones only started at the university in January.
"University of Connecticut assistant football coach Ernest T. Jones has resigned his position at UConn effective immediately," the statement said.
"The University or the Division of Athletics will have no further comment on the matter as it is personnel related."As WFSB-TV reported, Jones made headlines after saying that it was important for players to understand that "Jesus Christ should be in the center of our huddle." His comments were made during an interview with The Hartford Courant newspaper.
Jones' comments prompted university president Susan Herbst to issue a statement to the Courant, saying staff members at the public university must not take sides on the theological front.
"It should go without saying that our employees cannot appear to endorse or advocate for a particular religion or spiritual philosophy as part of their work at the university, or in their interactions with our students," she said.
"This applies to work-related activity anywhere on or off campus, including on the football field."
Oliver Stone: Obuma is a Weak and Spineless Man
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(You are so right but,it takes one to know one, Oliver)
Via Newsmax:Hollywood filmmaker Oliver Stone says President Barack Obama is a "weak man" who has abandoned the principles he espoused on the campaign trail about civil liberties and foreign policy.
"The man stunned us with a lack of spine," Stone told an audience of libertarian students at the 2014 Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C., Mediaite reports.
"He's a weak man," he added, referring to what he says has been an inconsistency between Obama's "anti-war" talk during his presidential campaign and the policies he has pursued since occupying the White House.
Stone was joined during a panel discussion by liberal journalist Jeremy Scahill, who blasted MSNBC for failing to hold the president to account for "overreach" on issues such as targeted assassinations, covert operations, and military interventions.
"MSNBC is like watching one big Obama for America meet-up," Scahill said, adding that Fox News is guilty of perpetrating "conspiracy theory" about the president.
Stone issued similar critiques of Obama's record in a documentary series he released in 2012 entitled "The Untold History of the United States."
Aide Who Accused Bill Clinton of Groping Her In White House:
"Hillary Clinton Is The War On Women... She Enabled His Behavior"
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(Hillary would never . . . no, wait, yes she would)
Via Daily Mail:A woman who claims Bill Clinton groped her in the White House is lashing out at his wife Hillary for conducting a 'war' on the women who have accused the former president of sexually assaulting them.
'She enabled his behavior,' Kathleen Willey said Sunday night during a radio interview on WABC in New York, and then 'attacked all the women who just made the mistake of walking in front of him, crossing his path.'
Willey claims Mrs. Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, has orchestrated a series of investigations designed to discredit the many women who have claimed her husband sexually assaulted them.
'The point is what this woman is capable of doing to other women while she's running a campaign, basically, on women's issues,' she said. 'It just doesn't make any sense.'
'She singlehandedly orchestrated every one of the investigations of all these women.'
Pakistani Couple Stoned To Death For Adultery
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(Sharia animals in action)
(Reuters) — A couple were stoned to death for adultery in a remote area of Pakistan's western Baluchistan province, an official said Monday, leading to six men being held on suspicion of murder.
The couple, both married to other people, were believed to be in their 30s, said Sarfaraz Bugti, the home minister for Baluchistan.
The woman's father and brother, and the man's uncle and father have been arrested, along with a cleric believed to have issued the order to kill them at the weekend. Another man linked to the cleric is also being held.
In many rural areas of Pakistan, gatherings of tribal elders, often referred to as jirgas, issue death sentences for couples or women deemed to have offended the conservative culture. Such killings are illegal in Pakistan, but the police force is weak and often ignores them.
Even if the cases are brought to court, they can take years to be heard and the national conviction rate hovers between 5 to 10 percent. If convicted, the victim's family can forgive the killers – a major loophole, since the killers often are the victim's family.
Women's rights group The Aurat Foundation says it tracks around 1000 cases of honor killings per year just from media reports. The true figure is probably much higher.
In one high profile case that captivated the country, five women were allegedly killed in 2012 in remote Kohistan after they were videotaped singing and clapping softly to music with two men present.
Lurch To Jakarta Students: Climate Change Could 'Put Half Of Jakarta Underwater'
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(You've hanging out with Gore again haven't you, Lurch)
Via CNSNDuring his speech on global warming in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that by century's end the sea level could rise by one meter, a little over three feet, and "put half of Jakarta underwater."
Jakarta is the capital and largest city in Indonesia, on the island of Java, on the northwest coast. About 9.5 million people live there and the city is 258 square miles around.
In a speech before largely college students in Jakarta, Kerry talked about greenhouse gases warming the Earth and said, "And because the earth is getting hotter at such an alarming speed, glaciers in places like the Arctic are melting into the sea faster than we expected. And the sea is rising – slowly, but rising – and will rise to dangerous levels"
"Scientists now predict that by the end of the century, the sea could rise by a full meter," said Kerry. "Now, I know that to some people a meter may not sound like a lot, but I'll tell you this: it's enough to put half of Jakarta underwater."
Lowest Beer Taxes? WY --
Lowest Wine Taxes? LA --
Lowest Spirits Tax? WY, NH
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Via CNS Newshttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/michael-w-chapman/lowest-beer-taxes-wy-lowest-wine-taxes-la-lowest-spirits-tax-wy-nh
If you like beer and hard liquor and want to pay less in taxes for them, you might want to move to Wyoming, which has the lowest excise taxes per gallon on beer and spirits, according to the Tax Foundation. For wine, Louisiana has the lowest taxes at $0.11 per gallon.
Tennessee has the highest taxes on beer out of all 50 states at $1.17 per gallon. Kentucky has the highest taxes on wine ($3.56/gallon), and Washington state has the highest taxes on hard liquor at $35.22 per gallon.
Alaska ranked among the top five states for highest taxes on beer, wine and liquor combined. If you prefer spirits, check out New Hampshire and Wyoming – the excise taxes there are $0.00 per gallon.
In its calculations, the Tax Foundation looked at state and local taxes on liquor. These rates vary widely from state to state and may include fixed-rate per volume taxes, distributor taxes, retail taxes, case or bottle fees and additional sales taxes.
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05:41 GMT: "During a phone call to embattled Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, US Vice-President Joe Biden expressed "grave concern" at the surge of violence in the Ukrainian capital. Biden urged Yanukovich to exercise maximum restraint and pull back law enforcement confronting the rioters in downtown Kiev."(http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20131007&t=2&i=800730364&w=580&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CDEE996125E00)
05:41:30: "Viktor Yanukovich told US Vice-President Joe Biden to go f*** himself."
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Note: President Obuma was nowhere to be seen when this took place.
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'Catch me if you can' biker nabbed by Texas police
By Jim Forsyth
SAN ANTONIO Tue Feb 18, 2014 3:41pm EST
(Reuters) - A motorcyclist who taunted San Antonio police for a week with a Facebook video of himself driving recklessly through traffic along with the message "catch me if you can" was caught while sneaking out of a friend's house, police said on Tuesday.
Police took Alberto Rodriguez, 27, into custody on Monday for suspected motorcycle theft and in connection with several outstanding arrest warrants.
"When we pulled up on the house, our man ran out the back door and was hiding behind an air-conditioning unit," San Antonio Police Chief William McManus told reporters.
An attorney for Rodriguez was not immediately available for comment.
Officers recovered a stolen motorcycle during the arrest but said it was not the one that was seen in the video.
Prosecutors were considering whether to charge him with traffic violations for what was captured in the video, where a rider is seen weaving through traffic at up to 100 mph on a packed San Antonio highway.
Police said the video was taken with a helmet camera and was first posted on Rodriguez's Facebook page with the message "Catch me if you can."
"He said 'catch me if you can,' and our detectives caught him," McManus said.
(It seems as if almost every time some guy runs amok, he claims he was heeding a voice in his head. I know the feeling. In my case, I even know whose voice I keep hearing. It's Barack Hussein Obuma, and he's telling me that "This is the moment when the rise of the oceans will begin to slow, and the planet will begin to heal."
I must confess that I didn't put much stock in it when he uttered those grandiose words back in 2009, but it did sound awfully ambitious even for a guy who used Greek pillars as props.
But five years later, I realize I say pretty much the same thing every time I have a successful bowel movement)(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NvzquXWY0Ok/S-by7JuURFI/AAAAAAAAALE/QJD4t_d-Sto/s1600/never-start-a-project-unless-all-resources-are-available.jpg)
I didn't know this until just now! I wonder if the anything has changed since then?Just 4 People Have Enrolled In Obamacare In Delaware
By RANDALL CHASE 11/06/13 04:17 PM ET EST
WILMINGTON, Del. -- WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — More than a month after the launch of Delaware's health insurance exchange, officials report only four Delawareans enrolled for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
As of Wednesday, Delaware's marketplace guide organizations reported four enrollments, 31 enrollment applications completed and 218 accounts created for possible enrollment.
Four community organizations were hired to provide marketplace guides, using a
$4 million federal grant. (My emphasis)
Brandywine Women's Health Associates in Wilmington reports three enrollments. Christiana Care Health Services in Newark reports one.
The Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care in Easton, Md., and Westside Family Healthcare in Wilmington both have yet to report a single enrollment, application, or account created.
State officials said Wednesday that enrollment has been hampered by problems with the federal website, and delays in background checks for marketplace guides.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/obamacare-delaware-enrollments_n_4228386.html
School Safety Expert:
'Sandy Hook was a scripted event,
at least two years in planning'
February 20, 2014 By 21wire
A former law enforcement officer and national school safety consultant has publicly challenged the official narrative on Sandy Hook...
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After only filing Connecticut Freedom Of Information requests about the alleged Sandy Hook 'massacre', School Safety expert Wolfgang W. Halbig (photo, above) was visited by homicide detectives warning him that if he keeps making inquiries he would suffer the legal consequences.
Halbig also discovered that the report on the Sandy Hook event was the first school shooting in US history to be sealed as 'Classified', held by the FBI. Smells like a cover-up.
The points brought up in this interview are some of the best ever on this subject.
Listen to this incredible interview by AFP via Federal Jack...
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/02/20/school-safety-expert-sandy-hook-was-a-scripted-event-at-least-two-years-in-planning/
Battle for Humanity Nearly Lost:
Global Food Supply Deliberately
Engineered to End Life,
Not Nourish It
Thursday, February 20, 2014
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
(NaturalNews) After having now analyzed over 1,000 foods, superfoods, vitamins, junk foods and popular beverages for heavy metals and other substances at the Natural News Forensic Food Labs, I have arrived at a conclusion so alarming and urgent that it can only be stated bluntly.
Based on what I am seeing via atomic spectroscopy analysis of all the dietary substances people are consuming on a daily basis, I must now announce that the battle for humanity is nearly lost. The food supply appears to be intentionally designed to end human life rather than nourish it.
Life-destroying toxins intentionally engineered into the food supplyMy lab has uncovered scientific proof that substances are intentionally formulated into dietary products to drive consumers mentally insane while causing widespread infertility, organ damage and a loss of any ability to engage in rational, conscious thinking. These toxic substances are being found across the entire food supply including in conventional foods, organic foods, "natural" products and dietary supplements.
This goes far beyond the mere contamination of foods with heavy metals -- a subject which is grave all by itself. Rather, this is about the intentional formulation of toxic substances into products consumed by the masses on a regular basis.
The result is what you see unfolding around you right now: mass insanity, incredible escalations of criminality among political operatives, clinical insanity among an increasing number of mainstream media writers and reporters, widespread infertility in young couples, skyrocketing rates of kidney failure and dialysis patients, plus a near total loss of rational thinking among the voting masses.
The effects of this are devastating to human civilization: the collapse of a capable workforce, the rise of the masses dependent on government for survival, the collapse of free democracies due to the cognitive retardation of the voting masses, an exploding prison population and the rise of for-profit corporate prison systems, and even the near complete collapse of any ability of the news-consuming public to parse and comprehend even the most basic information such as national debt figures.
The long-term effects of this widespread food poisoning phenomenon will be the utter downfall of modern human civilization for numerous reasons ranging from economic non-sustainability to environmental destruction and the global rise of political violence as we are seeing right now in Kiev.
As more and more lab results have been documented here at the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, it has become increasingly apparent to me that humanity cannot survive the mass engineered poisoning of the food supply.
You are, of course, being expertly distracted from all this with Powerball jackpots, tabloid celebrity news, staged political drama and of course the all-time favorite distraction of every crumbling empire: violent sports.
What we're finding in foods, vitamins and supplementsWhat I've published so far just barely scratches the surface of what we are finding. Here's an overview of some of the incredibly shocking findings we have now documented:
• The now-infamous "yoga mat chemical" used by Subway in their breads is also widely used across the fast-food industry. McDonald's, Chik-Fil-A, Wendy's, Arby's and many other restaurants also use the chemical azodicarbonamide which is linked to cancer. Importantly, this is not a contaminant. This is an ingredient which is intentionally added to the recipes in order for the chemical to be consumed by the masses.
• There is no logical reason why chemicals like azodicarbonamide need to be added to recipes of fast food breads and buns. The chemical serves no necessary functional or nutritive purpose. It seems to exists solely for the purpose of delivering the chemical to hundreds of millions of consumers by blending it into popular fast foods. The sandwiches in which this chemical is found are merely delivery mechanisms for toxic substances that harm human biology.
• Many mainstream, popular vitamin brands are intentionally spiked with such high levels of copper that if taken on a daily basis, they will cause mental insanity and psychosis. Some of these vitamin brands are routinely advertised on television to the mainstream masses, encouraging them to consume the vitamins, many of which are manufactured by companies owned in full or part by pharmaceutical interests.
• A popular dietary herb designed to improve brain performance actually contains very high levels of lead in most products we tested (which were sourced from China). Lead is a toxic heavy metal that damages brain function. In this way, people who are suffering from early dementia or Alzheimer's are actually accelerated toward brain destruction via certain herbal supplements which appear designed to deliver toxic heavy metals to the brain. It was truly shocking to me to discover that "brain herbs" contain so much lead that they contribute to brain damage.
• At the same time, we found that the very same "brain herb," when grown in the USA, contains virtually no heavy metals. This is proof that the herb does not "naturally" absorb heavy metals as if by magic. Interestingly, the highest levels of brain-damaging metals are consistently found in herbs imported from China. I'm openly asking this question: Is there a covert heavy metals war being waged against America by China? After all, poisoning the population with heavy metals is a very effective way to collapse a nation by destroying the sanity and health of its people. (More on this topic later...)
• Popular children's vitamins sold in nearly every grocery store and pharmacy across America are especially formulated to be incredibly toxic to developing neurology. The number of synthetic, toxic chemicals added to nearly every popular brand of children's vitamins is truly staggering, and many of them seem to be selected for their ability to target and disrupt neurological function. From a purely scientific point of view, these "vitamins" would honestly have to be called "poison pills," yet parents are encouraged to feed them to their children every single day as part of a modern-day health ritual that actually causes long-term harm.
• At our atomic spectroscopy lab, we have confirmed trace levels of aluminum in regular atmospheric air, confirming the fact that all agricultural soils are being inundated with aluminum which is literally falling out of the sky. This is not merely aluminum in our laboratory air, as many labs contain aluminum floors or furniture, causing an unusually high aluminum concentration in laboratory air. Rather, parts per billion concentrations of aluminum have been measured in regular atmospheric air sampled far from any building or laboratory. The result of this phenomenon is that aluminum levels are rising in nearly all soil-grown crops from which everyday food is derived. While aluminum is far less harmful than lead, cadmium or mercury, the repeated accumulation of aluminum is believed to be tied to degenerative brain disorders across the population.
• As Natural News readers already know, GM corn is engineered to grow a deadly toxin inside each and every grain of corn. This deadly toxin is then consumed by all the people who unknowingly eat genetically engineered crops via breakfast cereals, corn tortillas, corn snack chips, etc. This mass poisoning of the population is clearly intentional, as it is deliberately engineered into the crops which are grown for the sole purpose of human and animal consumption. This mass poisoning is not accidental, in other words, and in fact the technology is promoted under the justification that it will "feed the world." Indeed it will feed the world... poison.
Food has become a weapon against humanityAs you can see from these examples, food has become a weapon against humanity. It is the new vector for a stealth world war against humankind -- a war which is being quietly waged right this very moment with weapons you would probably find in your own pantry.
World War I was fought primarily in the trenches, with soldiers slinging chunks of lead at each other and using crude chemical weapons like mustard gas.
World War II was fought with a genocidal intention, using more advanced kinetic weapons and chemical weapons engineered by pharmaceutical companies.
Our of World War II and the Nazi era came IG Farben, the chemical-pharma conglomerate which was later split into three companies, one of which is now known as Bayer, the same company that makes children's aspirin and various chemicals used throughout the food supply. (Check your history. This is factual and true.)
World War III appears to already be underway, and it is being waged as a stealth war via the food supply. The chemicals are very similar to those used in World War I and World War II except that instead of being deployed on the battle field, today's chemical weapons are deployed via the food supply and often even listen right on ingredients labels.
Toxic ingredients like sodium nitrite and aspartame are formulated to work at sub-acute levels so they don't cause people to drop dead right away. Instead, they cause the chronic, long-term degenerative collapse of body and mind, leaving behind a wake of global cancer, kidney failure and extreme mental disorders including psychosis. This damage to body and mind, in turn, destroys economies, education systems, scientific advancement, free democracies and even cultural integrity.
The silent food bombing of humanityWhat the United States Air Force did to Dresden in World War II via high-elevation bombing runs, the global chemical and food conglomerates are now doing to the world populations via the drive-thru window. But there are no bombs dropping out of the sky and there are no firestorms lighting up the cityscape at night. Instead, the silent, ignorant masses are simply marched to their deaths, one meal at a time, almost like a cargo train full of "useless eaters" clicking and clacking its way to Auschwitz.
On the way to their own deaths, of course, they pay the mandatory tolls to the pharmaceutical giants, hospitals, cancer clinics, doctors and health insurance mandates. Much like victims of Nazi genocide had their gold fillings pulled out of their mouths before they were gassed to death, today's mainstream consumers are emptied of their bank accounts, assets and insurance policies before finally being discarded by the system.
There are tremendous profits to be made, you see, from first poisoning the masses and then "treating" them for the side effects of that poisoning. This racket is so massive and so deeply embedded into our greed-driven culture that very few people even recognize it's happening to them. But make no mistake: You are not valued by the system for your humanity, your spirit, your innovation or your imagination. You are only valued for your tax base at first, and then ultimately your "disease management profits" which enrich global corporations while you are poked, prodded, dosed, irradiated and drugged to death while the hospital racks up page after page of medical procedure billings codes which will be covered by Medicare... or Obamacare.
Here's the way out: grow your own foodSound too grim to be true? Let's look at some solutions on the positive side. The way out of all this is to grow your own food or at least buy as much as you can from local farmers and CSAs. Any food acquired through mainstream corporate sources is likely to be intentionally engineered, laced and packaged with incredibly toxic poisons ranging from heavy metals to hormone disrupting packaging containers. But food grown by honest farmers provides genuine nourishment, not death.
In fact, the future of human civilization almost certainly belongs exclusively to those who either grow their own food or make arrangements for others to grow it for them. The factory-made food consumed by the masses is quite truly a poison delivery system that has no purpose other than mass disease, death and profit.
If you wish to avoid being a victim of this system, you must avoid its products. Stop buying packaged processed foods. Utterly avoid all processed meats containing sodium nitrite, including bacon, hot dogs, sausage, ham, deli meats, pepperoni pizza and even beef jerky.
Stop drinking all diet soda, obviously. Aspartame is toxic to biology. All artificial sweeteners have harmful side effects if consumed in sufficient quantity.
Be skeptical of "natural" products which are heavily processed and refined in some way. Ask about countries of origin. Check heavy metals lab results to stay informed.
Except for rare exceptions, stop buying superfoods and supplements made in China, the world's most polluted food producer. The U.S. natural products industry has practically been taken over by China over the last decade, and much of what you think is safe and organic is actually heavily polluted, either accidentally or deliberately, in mainland China.
Look around you at the evidence right in front of your eyes
Or maybe you think I'm the crazy one in mentioning any of this. If that's the case, I encourage you to look around you and see the results of what happens to people when they eat yoga mat chemicals, aspartame-laced diet sodas, synthetic food preservatives and cheap vitamins contaminated with heavy metals. Unless you are living in a complete state of denial, you can't help but notice that humanity has become a race of near-mutants who barely have a shred of health and sanity remaining.
A modern young man growing up today in America and living on processed foods is little more than a shadow of the strong, vibrant young men who worked the farms just three generations ago. Today's generation of youth is pathetic, weak, academically inept and heavily pampered with their video game consoles, Ritalin drugs and air-conditioned schools with a watered-down curriculum. They've been dumbed down, stripped of nutrients and medicated to the point where literal zombies now walk among us.
In fact, the people all around you are over-medicated, over-fed and at the same time wildly malnourished. Their brains and bodies are heavily contaminated with destructive chemicals, heavy metals and synthetic materials. They have lost nearly all high cognitive functions and now survive on lower brain stem function which explains the radical rise in sex crimes, behavioral addictions, substance abuse and violent crime across society today. In a very real sense, the daily consumption of processed food has become a ritual of slow suicide mindlessly repeated everywhere that factory foods have invaded once-sane societies.
While Republicans blame Democrats, and Democrats blame Republicans, the truth is that they are all being systematically poisoned and thereby driven to precisely the kind of insanity we see played out across newspaper headlines and news broadcasts. We are far past the age of reason in the modern western world, and we will not survive this stealth war that releases weapons of dietary mass destruction with each tempting bite of seductive food that's engineered for death instead of life.
This is far beyond any single issue of labeling GMOs, or buying organic or testing foods for heavy metals. This is about how human civilization is being brought to its knees by the most insidious stealth weapon ever experienced in our collective history: PROCESSED FOOD laced with toxic substances.
Heed these words or you too shall die a victim of this insidious, deliberate war against life, health and sanity.
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My personal take on this is unbelievable. But here goes!
Not science fiction! Depopulation of the planet! The supposed elite of the planet, United Nations and the New World Order are not fiction ether, are they?. They realize that the earth's resources are being used up quickly and that the earth is not sustainable with the huge and ever growing population. Why do you suppose we see so many chemtrails and so many catastrophic weather storms and so much B.S. about Global Warming and Climate Change? I believe it is called
Climate Warfare by many governments. I also believe the proliferation of all the
NGO's (Non Governmental Organizations) across our nation (unbeknownst to them) are nothing more than
puppets for the
United Nations Agenda 21. NGO's in my opinion are ran by people wanting an
important sounding title and a
large salary and
nothing more.You will probably never see all those subjects grouped together at one time in the news media.
Actual or Science Fiction, that's up to you to decide.
Polar Bears, Grizzlies to Merge
February 20, 2014
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NEW YORK Times - In what observers are calling the largest merger ever between two species of mammal capable of mauling humans to death, polar bears and grizzly bears announced on Friday that they were joining forces in a friendly acquisition.
If the merger goes through, the polar bears and grizzly bears would together be able to terrorize a much larger landmass than ever before, experts said.
Speaking at a packed press conference in New York accompanied by their investment bankers from Goldman Sachs, the jubilant bears gave their spin on the unprecedented deal.
"To say that we're excited would be an understatement," said a spokesman for the grizzlies.
"For years, we've admired the way polar bears have dismembered hikers who've encroached on their territory. To be on the same team with talent like that—whoa. It's a dream come true."While critics of the merger have argued that it is anticompetitive, a spokesman for the polar bears disagreed.
"I think working with the grizzlies is just going to push us to savage more human flesh than ever before. Speaking for myself, I'm ready to start mauling," he said, underscoring his point by eating a reporter.
The merger is not expected to face regulatory hurdles.
Crime History, Feb. 20, 1839: Congress Outlaws Pistol Dueling To Prevent Lawmakers From Continuing To Kill Each Other
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(Hmmmm... Maybe Congress needs to bring it back)
Via DC Crime StoriesOn this day, Feb. 20, in 1839, Congress prohibited pistol dueling in the District of Columbia after one Congressman killed another.
(Edit: Better than term limits)Dueling was not an uncommon way to settle disputes of honor during the 19th century America. President Andrew Jackson is said to have fought in a dozen duels, and including one that left a bullet in his chest until his death 19 years later.
The pistol duel that finally prompted the congress to outlaw the violent practice featured Kentucky Representative William Jordan Graves and Maine Representative Jonathan Cilley.
By the rules of the duel, Graves was allowed to stand-in for New York newspaperman James Webb, who was inexperienced with guns. Cilley critized Graves' political ally and alleged that Webb was corrupt.
The two sides met at the Bladensburg dueling grounds on the MarlboroRoad in Maryland. The grove near the Dueling Creek, a tributary of the Anacostia River, had been the site of at least 50 shoot-outs, most famously the killing of Navy hero Stephen Decatur, of the Decatur House.
After stepping off eight paces, Graves shot Cilley in his leg, causing him to bleed to death in 90 seconds.
Pathetic: Ukrainian Defense Minister Refuses To Take Multiple
Phone Calls From Clucky Hagel
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(This is how far America has fallen under Obuma... the world's most powerful nation can't even get the Ukrainians to pick up the phone. And then too... calling collect doesn't help, either, Clucky)[Phone Ringing]
[Ukraine Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev] "Hello?"
[Operator:] "Yes, a collect call for Mr. Lebedev from Mr. Clucky Hagel.
Will you accept the charges from the United States"
(Phone is Hung Up)
[Operator] "He hung up. Sir?"
[Clucky] "I wonder why he hung up..."
(Phone Ringing)
[Lebedev:] "Hello?"
[Operator:] "This is the United States calling."
"Are we reaching Ukraine Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev?"
(Phone is Hung Up)
[Operator] "See he keeps hanging up, Sir. Sir? Sir?? Mr. Clucky???"Via Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/ukraine-defense-minister-ignores-repeated-phone-calls-from-chuck-hagel/article/2544358
Ukraine Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev has refused to take multiple phone calls made personally by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, the Pentagon said Thursday.
"Secretary Hagel has been trying, himself, since early this week," Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby told reporters. Lebedev refuses "to communicate, to accept a phone call" from Hagel or the Pentagon.
"We haven't been able to connect with anybody from the Defense Ministry there in Ukraine," he said. "We've been trying pretty diligently here in the Pentagon, we've been trying pretty diligently this whole week. I'd say it's pretty unusual."
Louisiana Man Killed In Suspected 'Nigger Knockout Game' Attack
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(The knockout game "myth" rears its ugly black head again)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/20/louisiana-police-arrest-two-in-possible-knockout-game-death/#!
Two Louisiana teenagers have been charged with second-degree murder in an attack motivated by a competition between the two to see who could hit harder, according to local police.
Windall Herring, 19, and an unnamed 15-year-old were arrested in Baton Rouge on Tuesday for the murder of 55-year-old John Bannon.
The attack occurred near Bannon's home around 9:30 p.m. on Feb. 1. Bannon was rushed to a hospital trauma unit, but succumbed last Friday to his injuries which included a fractured skull and brain hemorrhaging, according to The (Baton Rouge) Advocate.
"During our investigation we learned that the suspects were having a conversation about 'who could hit the hardest' when suddenly the victim was observed walking in close proximity to their location," Baton Rouge spokesman Cpl. Don Coppola Jr. told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "It was decided at that moment by the suspects that they were going to target the victim together and intentionally strike him with their fist to determine who in fact could hit the victim the hardest."
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Feds charge alleged 'knockout game' white attacker with hate crime
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/26/feds-charge-alleged-knockout-game-white-attacker-with-hate-crime/
The Department of Justice has charged a Katy, Texas man who participated in the "knockout game" with a federal hate crime.
On Thursday, federal officials announced that they arrested and charged 27-year-old Conrad Alvin Barrett — a white man — with a federal racially-motivated hate crime for attempting to knock out an unsuspecting 79-year-old African American man with a single punch.
"Suspected crimes of this nature will simply not be tolerated," said U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson in a statement. "Evidence of hate crimes will be vigorously investigated and prosecuted with the assistance of all our partners to the fullest extent of the law."
Nearly all "knockout game" attacks have featured black attackers targeting white or Jewish victims.According to Justice Department officials, Barrett recorded the attack on his cell phone and showed it to other people. He also made other videos identifying himself in one of them and making a racial slur in another.
"The plan is to see if I were to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised?" said Barrett in one video, according to the complaint.
Officials also allege that Barrett hit the man, causing him to fall to the ground, laughed, said "knockout" and fled.
The victim reportedly suffered a broken jaw in two places and had to be hospitalized for several days.
Barrett was arrested Thursday after officials filed a criminal complaint Tuesday.
"It is unimaginable in this day and age that one could be drawn to violently attack another based on the color of their skin," the FBI's Special Agent in Charge Stephen L. Morris added. "We remind all citizens we are protected under the law from such racially motivated attacks and encourage everyone to report such crimes to the FBI."
If he is convicted, Barrett could face 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The Washington Times highlights that despite an increase in reports of attacks of this type featuring black assailants and white victims, there have been few hate crime charges leveled against the attackers — but the paper notes that in November one person in New York was charged with a hate crime for targeting a Jewish man.
Report: Al-Qaeda Recruiting Americans Fighting In Syria To Undertake Special Training To Carry Out Terror Attacks When They Return Home
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(I would be shocked if there weren't a few returning jihadists who try to carry out attacks on the homeland)
Via CNN:Intelligence increasingly shows al Qaeda is encouraging American and other western fighters in Syria to undertake special training to prepare them for possibly returning to their home countries to carry out attacks, U.S. officials told CNN.
National security officials are concerned that amid the mayhem of Syria's civil war, the global terror group has found a safe haven and a place where it again can recruit, plot and train operatives to carry out attacks on the U.S. homeland.
"There is an effort to exploit them to get them to return to the West," one official said.
The official, who did not speak for full attribution, described scenarios in which foreign fighters arrive in Syria and are recruited by al Qaeda to train for external attacks.
CNN has spoken to a number of officials who sketched out similar scenarios.
It is not certain how many Americans may have been singled out or if any have been successfully recruited. But another worry is that any Europeans in the mix may be a potential threat as well because they don't need visas to enter the United States.
Training facilities can change locations and related materials can be found online, minimizing chances that a specific target could be identified and attacked.
Yemeni affiliate in SyriaAnother concern is the presence in Syria of fighters and operatives affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is based in Yemen.
Its top bomb maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, is believed to have developed underwear bombs and an explosive hidden in printer cartridges.
Hundreds mourn tragic Venezuelan beauty queen, 22, gunned down on the street amid violent anti-government protests as death tolls rises to six
*Génesis Carmona, 22, shot in the head amid anti-government protests
*Unidentified gunman opened fire on demonstrators in Valencia
*Venezuelan protest death toll reaches six in a week
*Hundreds of people turned out Friday for Carmona's funeral By Daily Mail Reporter and Donna Sawyer
PUBLISHED: 16:02 EST, 21 February 2014Hundreds of people turned out today for the funeral of a Venezuelan college student and beauty queens who was shot dead this week during a violent political protest.
Family members and friends of 22-year-old Genesis Carmona say the former Miss Tourism 2013 for the central Venezuelan state of Carabobo was gunned down by members of the armed militias known as 'colectivos' who opened fire on a demonstration in Valencia Tuesday.
The government says the incident is under investigation but has suggested she may have been shot by an opposition protester - a suggestion that drew scorn at the private Mass and graveside memorial attended by several hundred people.
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Stunner: Genesis Carmona, 22, who won the title of 'Miss Tourism' in her home state of Carabobo, suffered a fatal wound to the head during a demonstration in Valencia'She wanted to support her country and, well, look what it cost her for going out with a flag and a whistle. Killed by government mercenaries,' said Jose Gil, an uncle of Carmona.
People at the service who were also at the rally said they saw a group of up to 50 men on motorcycles, armed with handguns fire directly into the crowd of about 3,000 demonstrators, setting off a panicked stampede through the street.
'We were protesting peacefully and this was like a war,' said Emilio Morillo, an 18-year-old university student.
Kendry Gill, 22-year-old law student also at the rally, said nine people were shot, including a young woman who remains hospitalized in critical condition with a perforated lung.
'It was practically an ambush,' Gill said. 'We're peaceful. We don't have any weapons.'
Carmona, who was in her final year earning a marketing degree at a university in Valencia, was not ardently political, friends and family said.
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Last ride: Carmona's loved ones embrace inside the hearse carrying her body to its final resting place
Bed of roses: Hundreds of people carrying flowers and wreaths turned out to say goodbye to the slain college student
Innocent: People at the service said Carmona was protesting peacefully along with other people and did not deserve to die
Cortege: A car carries the body of Venezuelan student and beauty queen Genesis Carmona from funeral home Servicios Previsivos Santa RosaHer uncle said she was drawn to the rally by the dismal economic conditions that the oil-rich country has experienced after 15 years of socialism-inspired policies and that her mother had gone with her to protect her.
'There's no food, no milk, no baby food ... It is horrible what is happening in this country,' Gil said. 'That's why she was out at the protest.'
Carmona is one of at least six people who have been killed during political protests roiling this South American country since massive opposition rallies on February 12 ended with three deaths in the capital, including one government supporter.
With even President Nicolas Maduro lamenting the tragedy during a speech on national TV, the young woman's death has resonated with the public in part because she was a pageant winner in a country that has long prized its production of more Miss Universe winners than any other nation.
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High-profile event: Venezuelan policemen stand guard during the funeral of Genesis Carmona
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Armed to the teeth: Bolivarian National Guard officers stand guard next to the highway through which the funeral procession of passed
Her death also came amid growing concerns about escalating violence in the country, and has left many on edge as the opposition plans large-scale rallies Saturday.
The government said Thursday that it would send paratroopers to a border area torn by fierce clashes between police and anti-government protesters even as security forces are being accused of turning many parts of the country into free-fire zones in their bid to silence a rejuvenated movement challenging socialist rule.
The unrest has been particularly high in the western state of Tachira, on Venezuela's border with Colombia, where anti-government protesters have clashed with police and National Guard units, disrupting life in its capital, San Cristobal.
Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres announced Thursday that a battalion of paratroopers was being sent to Tachira to help bring calm.
'These units will enable the city to function, so food can get in, so people can go about their normal lives. It's simply meant to restore order,' he said.
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Civic minded: Carmona's uncle said the woman was not overly political, but she was drawn to the rally by the dismal economic conditions
San Cristobal Vice Mayor Sergio Vergara, a member of the opposition, disputed that. He said the government caused the troubles by cracking down on what had been peaceful protests and that as part of its campaign had cut off vital services in the city, including public transportation and the Internet.
Sending 3,000 paratroopers to a city of 600,000 people is 'effectively part of an effort at repression being played out by the government across the country,' Vergara said.
National Guard troops and members of pro-government militias have swarmed through the streets of Caracas and other cities firing volleys, at times indiscriminately, in repeated spasms of nighttime violence in recent days.
Henrique Capriles, the two-time presidential candidate of an opposition coalition, said the government is engaging in 'brutal repression,' in some cases breaking into apartment buildings to arrest people authorities accuse of being part of a plot for a coup against Maduro.
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Shot dead: Genesis Carmona is taken to hospital on a motorcycle after she was shot in the head during an anti-government protest in Valencia, Venezuela
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Full of aspiration: She was just a few months off completing her marketing degree
'What does the government want, a civil war?' Capriles asked at a news conference Thursday.
Carmona's last photo captured amid the chaos reigning in the streets of Valnecia shows the mortally wounded young student cradled in the arms of the motorbike rider speeding away in a failed bid to save her.
Moments earlier, Carmona had been shot in the head by an unidentified gunman who opened fire at anti-government protesters.
Miss Carmona, a marketing student and beauty queen, slumped to the ground. A bystander scooped her up in his arms and put her on his motorbike.
But despite rushing her to hospital for emergency surgery, doctors were unable to save her life.
Last night, Miss Carmona's family were in shock.
'How long are we going to live like this? How long do we have to tolerate this pressure, with them killing us?' a relative said. 'She only needed one more semester to graduate,' he added.
Carmona, a professional model who won the title of Miss Tourism in her home state of Carabobo, was the most high-profile victim to date of violence in Venezuela.
So far, six people have been killed in the demonstrations, sparked by opposition politicians with protestors demanding better security, an end to goods shortages and protected freedom of speech.
The Venezuelan opposition has blamed the deaths and injuries on armed government loyalists whom they allege are firing into crowds, at anti-government rallies.
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The death of Carmona comes just over a month after a former Miss Venezuela, Monica Spear, was murdered together with her British husband in the street.
It also comes as Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez waits to learn if he will be charged for violence that has erupted during protests that have revitalized challenges to 15 years of socialist rule in the oil-rich nation.
Lopez was due to appear before a judge in a closed hearing a day after dramatically surrendering to authorities before thousands of cheering supporters Tuesday.
He was expected to learn what charges he would face for organizing mass demonstrations that have resulted in at least six deaths and more than 100 injuries over the past week.
The government of President Nicolas Maduro has accused Lopez, a 42-year-old former mayor and the leader of the Popular Will party, of attempting to foment a coup in the South American nation and authorities had said he could face charges that include homicide and causing grievous bodily harm.
A judicial official told The Associated Press that prosecutors were leaning toward discarding homicide and terrorism charges, opting instead to pursue less serious counts such as arson and incitement to commit crimes.
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Angry demonstrations: Women wearing homemade signs that read in Spanish; "Freedom for Leopoldo," shout slogans in support of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez outside the Palace of Justice in Caracas, Venezuela
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Arminda Alvarado, 85, supporter of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez stands outside the Palace of Justice to show her support, in Caracas, Venezuela
That would allow the possibility of Lopez being released pending trial, according to the official, who agreed to discuss the matter only if not quoted by name because the decision had not been made public.
Hundreds of supporters waited outside the courthouse for news of the decision, watched over by National Guard troops. Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma, a member of a different opposition party, showed up at one point in a sign of unity among the foes of the Maduro government.
'We are all united in demanding the release of Leopoldo Lopez,' Ledezma told the AP. 'We are rallying behind him.'
The crowd dissipated after hours of waiting when officials decided to hold the court hearing at the military jail outside Caracas where Lopez was being detained.
The opposition has planned nationwide marches for Saturday to protest both his detention as well as the rampant crime, shortages of consumer goods and inflation rate of more than 50 percent that has made life difficult for many in the country of nearly 30 million people.
The jailing of Lopez has made him a cause celebre among opponents of Maduro, eclipsing to some degree Henrique Capriles, the opposition's two-time losing presidential candidate who was building support for another challenge in two year.
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Demonstrations escalate: Supporters of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez hold up posters that read in Spanish " Leopoldo Venezuela is with you, your fight is our fight" and "The only one that robs this government of sleep has a name, Leopoldo Lopez " outside the Palace of Justice in Caracas, Venezuela
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Pro-government demonstrators: Supporters of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, hold posters of him and of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a demonstration outside the Palace of justice in Caracas, Venezuela
Capriles attended a rally on Feb. 12 in Caracas led by Lopez but did not appear on the stage to address the masses of demonstrators. Clashes with police erupted afterward, after the opposition leaders had left, and resulted in three deaths.
Maduro accused Lopez of leading a 'fascist' plot to oust the socialist government, the political legacy of the late Hugo Chavez, and authorities issued an arrest warrant for him. He surrendered theatrically on Tuesday, dressed in white to signify peace, adorned with a crucifix from his wife and surrounded by a sea of supporters.
'If my jailing serves to awaken a people, serves to awaken Venezuela ... then it will be well worth the infamous imprisonment imposed upon me directly, with cowardice,' he shouted from atop a statue of 19th century Cuban independence hero Jose Marti in a Caracas plaza.
Much of the capital shut down afterward, fearing violent clashes, but the violence occurred in Valencia, the third largest city, where National Guard troops fired rubber bullets and unknown gunman on motorcycles fired live rounds at protesters. Genesis Carmona, a 22-year-old university student who had been Miss Tourism 2013 for the state of Carabobo, was struck in the head and killed by a bullet, a death that reverberated in a country that prizes beauty queens.
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Anti-government: Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez's supporters pose for a photos with Bolivarian National Guard, riot police officers outside the Palace of Justice in Caracas, Venezuela
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Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez is flanked by Bolivarian National Guards after he surrendered, in Caracas, Venezuela
In southern Bolivar state on Wednesday, gunman firing from a rooftop at a pro-government demonstration killed one person and wounded four, Gov. Francisco Rangel Gomez said.
Since the latest unrest began a week ago, six people have died — two supporters of the government and four backers of the opposition, including one 17-year-old struck and killed by a car at a rally Tuesday.
Human rights groups have condemned the charges against Lopez, with Amnesty International and others saying they appear to be politically motivated. Secretary of State John Kerry earlier warned that arresting him would have a 'chilling effect' on freedom of expression.
Some Venezuelans say attracting attention was Lopez's plan all along, with the charismatic, Harvard-educated leader seeking to catapult past Capriles and lead the charge against the government.
But his fiery rhetoric and elite background — he studied economics in the U.S. on a swimming scholarship and speaks fluent English — make him an improbable figure to build bridges with the poor Venezuelans who elected Maduro and who, while increasingly dissatisfied with his handling of the economy, jealously guard their social gains under Chavez.
'The middle-class (protesters) on the street don't represent the masses,' said Carlos Romero, a political scientist at Central University of Venezuela.
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SHOOTING COMES A MONTH AFTER MISS VENEZUELA AND BRITISH HUSBAND WERE MURDERED IN ROADSIDE ATTACK
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The death of beauty queen Genesis Carmona comes over a month after Miss Venezuela 2004 Monica Spear Mootz, 29, was shot to death alongside her British ex-husband Thomas Berry in an armed highway robbery.
The pair were killed after being robbed when their car broke down on the Puero-Cabello Valencia highway at about 10pm on Monday, January 6.
Reports at the time suggested armed men came up to the car as the couple waited for a repair truck.
The terrified couple locked themselves in their Toyota Corolla but the robbers are believed to have opened fire through the windows.
The bodies of Mr Berry, 39, and Ms Spear, who had American citizenship, were found in the car with their five-year-old daughter, who had been shot in the leg.
At least six shots are believed to have been fired, hitting Mr Berry in the chest, his ex-wife in several places and their daughter in the leg.
The couple had reportedly separated a year before their death but remained close and went on vacations together to spend time with their daughter.
They were on one such trip touring the country during the week leading up to the attack and their friends thought that it may lead to a reunion.
Ms Spear was a famous TV actress following her pageant victory and appeared in a number of telenovelas [South American soap operas], with her roll in 'Forbidden Passions' the most notable.
The University of Central Florida graduate had American citizenship and her parents live in Orlando, Florida.
Mr Berry, an independent travel consultant from London, lived in the capital Caracas, it was reported.
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Horrific: Robbers shot through the car windscreen when the terrified family locked themselves in.
He was understood to have moved to Florida for a short time after he was shot 15 years ago in a robbery that killed his friend.
'He had already been shot once by robbers trying to steal his car,' close friend Luis Dominguez told The Telegraph.
'His friend died in the incident and although doctors saved his life, they couldn't extract the bullet and he still had it in his stomach.'
['Mr Berry] moved to the States to get away from things here for a while but missed Venezuela and came back,' Mr Dominguez added.
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Thomas Berry and Monica Spear Mootz on their wedding day in June 2008. They were murdered by gunmen in front of their daughter.
He said the family had spent New Year's in the mountains of the western state of Merida then traveled to the plains.
Mr Dominguez said they were people 'who really loved the country' and had a good relationship despite the divorce.
Seven people have been arrested in connection with the shooting.
Tingles Outraged Marco Rubio Called Obuma "Pathetic"
(Oh Tingles, why must you be so darn predicable?)
MATTHEWS: Up next, President Obama apologizes, well this isn't really an apology, it's not really even a conversation, but the right-wing is going nuts over it. Remember the other day he said that you take art history and it won't necessarily get you a job or something like that? Okay, off the top of his head. Well, if Marco Rubio had a head he wouldn't have said a word about it and he did say a word about it and it isn't too smart. He called the Presidents' words 'pathetic', excuse me.
NFL To Penalize Use Of Racial Slur
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(Penalized forty acres and a mule...)
Via ESPN http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10500657/nfl-expected-penalize-players-using-racial-slurs-games
The head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which monitors diversity in the NFL, expects the league to institute a rule where players would be penalized 15 yards for using the N-word on the field.
John Wooten, the head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, anticipates that the NFL's competition committee will enact the rule at the owners' meeting next month.
"We did talk about it, I'm sure that you saw near the end of the year that Fritz Pollard (Alliance) came out very strong with the message that the league needs to do something about the language on the field," said Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, who is on the league's competition committee. "So we did discuss over the last three days."
Newsome also said the committee talked about other slurs coming under any possible new rule, including homophobic slurs.
Wooten, who previously has urged all players to stop using the N-word, thinks the NFL will rule an automatic 15-yard penalty for first-time offenders and an ejection for second infractions.
"I will be totally shocked if the competition committee does not uphold us on what we're trying to do," Wooten said, according to CBSSports.com. "We want this word to be policed from the parking lot to the equipment room to the locker room.
Bill De Blasio To Face Off With Al Roker On 'Today Show' –
Forecast: Cloudy With Chance Of Recall Election
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(I'm going to get popcorn for this one... hope Al doesn't crap his pants during the face-off like he did awhile back at the WH)
Via Daily News:http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/de-blasio-roker-face-today-article-1.1699157
It's a made-for-TV face-off with a possible chance of thunder and lightning.
Mayor de Blasio and Al Roker are scheduled to go mano-a-mano on the "Today" show Monday.
Hizzonor has been invited to cut the ribbon on the NBC breakfast program's new and enhanced plaza outside its Rockefeller Center studios.
But show officials announced Sunday that a de Blasio-Roker showdown is in store.
"The mayor and Al Roker will also address their recent disagreement over New York City school closures due to winter storms," NBC brass said in a statement.
Roker blasted de Blasio's performance during a Feb. 13 nor'easter that dumped more than a foot of snow on the city. Despite treacherous road conditions and the wrath of angry parents, the mayor and schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña refused to call a snow day.
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Bye Bye: Piers Morgan and CNN Plan End to His Prime-Time Show
New York Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/business/media/piers-morgan-and-cnn-plan-end-to-his-prime-time-show.html?_r=1
To Sum Up His Show, Piers Presents: Sadie the Cleaning Lady
Arizona Governor Fears Government Regulation Could Ruin Bigotry and Hatred
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Gov. Jan Brewer
PHOENIX (The Borowitz Report)— Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said today that she was reluctant to sign an anti-gay "
religious freedom" bill passed by the Arizona state legislature this week, telling reporters,
"I believe that bigotry and hatred should be free of government regulation."She said that while many Arizona business owners currently enjoy employing hateful practices,
"I worry that if big government gets involved, that'll ruin everything.""Don't get me wrong—I think the anti-gay bill that the legislature passed was well-meaning," she said. "All I'm saying is, let's leave it to the private sector."
Offering an example, she added,
"Look at how Obamacare has messed up health care. I'd hate to pass a new law that results in government wrecking bigotry."But Governor Brewer got some pushback today from Republican legislator Harland Dorrinson, who told reporters,
"I'm as opposed to big government as anyone. But promoting hate-based bias is one area where I believe government has an important role to play."For her part, Governor Brewer remains unconvinced by that argument. Noting that the current system of hatred and bigotry in place in Arizona has worked well for decades, she said,
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Sub-Par President
Obuma Street Art
Seen around the Northern Trust Open PGA event in Pacific Palisades, CA. 02-14-2014
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Obama Street Art - Riveria Country Club
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The perfect photobooth picture!
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I heard your Senator Flake stranded himself on an island for a week with a spear, magnifying glass and camera.
Oh, for Warph.
Muslims
Demanding Their Own Sharia Patrols
in Michigan
February 22, 2014 | Filed under corruption,Culture,Culture Of Corruption,Democrats,Evil,Islam,Islamic Fascism,Liberals | Posted by Warner Todd Huston
During the public comment time at the Dearborn city council meeting, a Muslim stood to demand that the city institute sharia patrols to keep young people out of parks and to prevent the sale of "offensive" magazines in stores.
http://wizbangblog.com/2014/02/22/muslims-demanding-their-own-sharia-patrols-in-michigan/
The man named Hassan took his place in line during the public comments and when it was his turn to speak he prefaced his comments with loud chanting of Islamic prayers. He then went on to demand that the city begin patrols of the parks because people used them for "sexual activities."
The Muslim would not tell the council where he lived claiming he feared for the safety of his family but said he lived near Westland.
As reported, "Hassan also stated that there were magazines and newspapers at the public libraries and civic center that can 'cause colossal damage to a child's health,' asking the city to review and monitor literature before they are distributed."
So, Mr. Hassan wants sharia compliant patrols to prevent people from using parks and he wants the city to perpetrate sharia compliant censorship at libraries.
Fortunately, the city council shot down Hassan's demands. This time.
But this is how we begin to lose our nation to invading Islam just as it has happened in Europe, Britain, and elsewhere. Muslims use our own system against us, using democracy to destroy democracy.
First they have a few people complain at a public meeting. Next they have a dozen. Then they shame the government to concede in a few demands. Next they demand more and government gives them, more. Then they are allowed their own enclaves where they have full power and can ignore the rule of law (this has happened in Britain). Then they branch out from their enclaves and begin to force other areas to observe their medieval rule.
Be ware of this, America. Sharia is coming if these Muslims have any say at all over it. Sharia is un-American, anti-democratic, anathema to freedom and liberty and it must be stopped.
(H/T Creeping Sharia)
Quote from: Bullwinkle on February 25, 2014, 07:02:47 PM
I heard your Senator Flake stranded himself on an island for a week with a spear, magnifying glass and camera.
Oh, for Warph.
Unfortunately, yeah... Sen. Flake is living up to his name: FLAKE! Between Dumb (McCain) and Dumber (Flake), weez in alot of deep do-do.
As you may have heard, an Academy Award nomination for the title song from the movie "Alone Yet Not Alone" has been rescinded. Naturally, even the Motion Picture Academy lacked the nerve to say it was because the song and the low-budget film promoted Christian values. Instead, they insisted it was because emails had been used to help promote the song to Academy voters. That's the sort of bald-faced lie that should even have secular liberals in Hollywood chuckling.
The fact is that everyone in Hollywood campaigns for nominations and awards. It would take a Jesuit to explain why it is okay to mail DVDs to voters and to take out any number of ads in the Hollywood trade papers, but employing the far less expensive alternative of emails is strictly verboten.
The irony is that the person who sings the song, Joni Eareckson Tada, is the sort of person Hollywood loves to make schmaltzy movies about. A quadriplegic, Ms. Tada taught herself to paint by holding a paint brush between her teeth, and is also an author and inspirational speaker. I can assure one and all that her appearance at the Academy Awards would have been far likelier to stop the show than any of the over-produced laser-enhanced dance numbers they come up with year after year, courtesy of choreographer Debbie Allen.
I suppose there are still some people who don't believe that Hollywood is at war with Christianity, just as there are those who are convinced that Islam's war with western civilization is a fantasy concocted by conservatives.
Over at NBC, somebody should tell Bob Costas that when you're 62, your toupee should have at least a smidgen of gray in it. But the rug aside, Mr. Costas actually spent several minutes of air time smooching Vladimir Putin's heinie. Unless he feared being tossed in a gulag while covering the Olympics, there is no explaining why he felt compelled to describe Putin as a peacekeeper who has done God's work in Syria and Iran. Fox's Kimberly Guilfoyle summed it up as "a gigantic man crush." But it may be something as simple as both of them being opposed to the Second Amendment.
Russia's deputy prime minister announced they had surveillance cameras in hotel bathrooms that showed tourists were turning on their showers, aiming them at the walls and then leaving the room. Later, Russia's version of Jay Carney said he had been mistranslated. My initial reaction is that nobody has ever mistranslated "surveillance cameras." My second reaction after having seen the toxic waste coming out of those showerheads was surprise that the walls survived the chemical blast.
As for Putin, he spent several billion rubles in order to introduce the new Russia to the world, proving only that, one, he is as adept at wasting other people's money as Barack Obama and, two, that the new Russia apparently looks and smells a lot like the old Russia. The only thing that ever changes over there is the name of the dictator.
Speaking of he who is the most dangerous demagogue in American history, Obama and his favorite henchman, Eric Holder, have rolled out the red, white and blue carpet to those people from the swamps of the Middle East who have "only a tangential connection to terrorists." The question that leaps to mind isn't how and who decides the difference between actual terrorists and those who merely aid and abet them, but why on earth do we need additional immigrants from nations that breed jihadists the way Holland breeds tulips?
What's more, there has been found to be fraud involved in 70% of the cases involving political asylum, most notably in the case of the Boston-bombing Tsarnaevs.
Proving that the world doesn't exactly quake in fear when Obama speaks, no sooner had the Pipsqueak-in-Chief called for North Korea to release Reverend Kenneth Bae than the poor guy was promptly transferred from a hospital to a labor camp.
On the other hand, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, in one of those rare inspiring moments in the world of diplomacy, apparently said, "F--- the European Union!"
Inasmuch as the two things one can safely say about the EU is that Germany, France, Spain and its other spineless members are willing to kiss Iran's heinie and will take every opportunity to collude with Arabs and Muslims against Israel, I would love to see her replace her boss, John Kerry, who could then be retired once and for all to stud duty at a horse ranch.
By the way, she made her remark during a private phone call to our ambassador to the Ukraine, a conversation that was tapped by the Russians. It makes you wonder if the Russkies also have any of those pesky surveillance cameras in Ms. Nuland's bathroom.
In the wake of the government report that ObamaCare will eliminate well over two million jobs, the Democrats rushed to spin the news, telling us that all those people would be free to pursue their dreams, unless, of course, their dreams consisted of having a fulltime job and making a decent living.
It is merely the latest case of life imitating art, in this case a comic strip. "The Wizard of Id" ran a strip a while back in which the little wizard is standing on his balcony, addressing the crowd below. He says, "Elect me and I promise you free health care, free housing, free clothing and free food stamps! And jobs for everybody! Any questions?" "Yes," responds a voice from below, "what do we need jobs for?"
In Obama's America, the short answer is that half of us need to keep working so that the freeloading half that vote for Democrats needn't bother
...Burt Prelutsky
As the World Grows More Dangerous,
America Retreats
by Noah Rothman | 1:18 pm, February 25th, 2014
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When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, America's forward positioning and nearly 700,000 strong Army became instantly anachronistic. In 1990 – 1996, Congress passed measures designed to facilitate a drawdown of American forces in accord with a new peace. In spite of the fact that the world has grown more dangerous in the intervening decades, those incentives to facilitate the reduction in America's armed forces personnel, which expired in 1996, were reinstated in 2012.
On Monday, the Pentagon announced a dramatic reduction in Army personnel to levels not seen since before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. These reductions are not being made to account for reduced threats abroad. Instead, they are being made in spite of the numerous and increasing threats to American interests.
The Army had planned to reduce troops levels to 490,000 by the end of 2017 but accelerated that planned reduction so that it would be completed by the end of 2015 late last year. Monday's announcement further accelerated that drawdown and aimed to reduce troop levels to approximately 440,000. The Pentagon further announced that it would retire weapons platforms like the A-10 "warthog" fighter plane and the U-2 spy plane and reduce benefits available to military personnel and their families, though they would keep the bloated F-35 fighter plane program rolling along.
Supporters of the planned force reduction defend the move by saying that the United States no longer has the need or desire to conduct protracted ground wars like those in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, the military will focus on maintaining forces that are more nimble and can quickly project limited power into volatile regions.
RELATED: Hagel: American Military Dominance 'Can No Longer Be Taken for Granted'
This shortsightedness sounds familiar to Max Boot who, writing in Commentary on Tuesday, recalled how history is littered with examples of cautious and sober men convincing themselves that a new era was upon them and mankind had evolved beyond conventional land wars.
"If history teaches anything, it is that the era of land wars is not over and that we will pay a heavy price in the future for our unpreparedness–as we have paid in blood at the beginning of every major war in American history," he wrote.
"Throughout history, supposedly enlightened elites have been able to convince themselves that the era of conflict is over and a new age is dawning. The fact that they have always been wrong before does not, somehow, lead them to question those assumptions in the present day, because this is such a convenient belief to have."
And history feels set to make a comeback in a big way.
While America draws its forces down amid a policy of retrenchment, the People's Republic of China is modernizing its maritime and paramilitary forces. Furthermore, Beijing is flexing its muscles in its neighborhood and is only one miscalculation away from drawing the United States into a regional conflict.
"Oil survey ships operating in [Philippines territory of] Reed Bank under contract have increasingly been harassed by Chinese vessels," reads a recent Council on Foreign Relations strategic memo. "The Philippines lodged a formal protest with Beijing Tuesday after a Chinese law enforcement vessel blasted two Filipino fishing boats with water cannons in a disputed area of the South China Sea," the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, noting that the United States has a mutual protection treaty with that Pacific nation.
Following the deposition of Russian-backed Viktor Yanukovich in Ukraine, the Russian Federation has reportedly deployed warships and troops to the Crimean peninsula – a Ukrainian territory that is home to the largest Russian naval base on the Black Sea coast. The Crimean people and separatist parliamentary ministers are actively flirting with annexation into the Russian Federation, a move which expressly violates treaties that both Moscow and the West have guaranteed for decades and would be resisted by NATO and Kiev.
Speaking on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) observed that the Cuban government is actively facilitating the destabilization of Latin America by propping up the "thugs" in Venezuela who are repressing and murdering dissenters. Cuba was recently caught exporting weapons to North Korea in express violation of United Nations-imposed embargoes on that murderous state, a move which will almost certainly not result in any action by the facile U.N.
In spite of the White House's assertions to the contrary, the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to enrich uranium with the aim of creating a fissionable device – a move that Israel has intimated they will not permit. The civil war in Syria continues to spill over its border, exporting violence and refugees into its already unstable neighbors. And there remains the ever present threat to the American homeland posed by non-state actors, any of whom could execute a successful strike on the homeland which would necessitate a military response.
Announcing the new force reduction strategy, Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel warned the public that American troops will incur "additional risks" in the future when they encounter a well-prepared enemy threat. "The development and proliferation of more advanced military technology of other nations – it means that we are entering an area where American dominance in the seas, in the sky, and space can no longer be taken for granted," he announced.
America's enemies have been counting on that.
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/as-the-world-grows-more-dangerous-america-retreats/
What a shame.
We war against our own.
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Want to stop violence over the American Flag?
Stop violence over Cinco de Mayo.
Send Cinco de Mayo back to Mexico.
This is the United States of America and it is considered patriotic to celebrate the American Flag.
It is not patriotic to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, is it?
Let's get back to the real BASICS.
Court: School Can Ban US Flag Shirts
Calif. school wanted to prevent Cinco de Mayo fights
By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff
Posted Feb 28, 2014 12:57 AM CST
(Newser) – A history of violence between white and Latino students justified a California high school's 2010 decision to order students wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo to turn them inside out or go home, a federal appeals court has decided. "Our role is not to second-guess the decision to have a Cinco de Mayo celebration or the precautions put in place to avoid violence," a judge wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel, which cited previous cases where school safety was judged more important than students' First Amendment rights, the AP reports.
Lawyers for students at the suburban San Jose high school who were wearing the shirts plan to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. "This is the United States of America," the parent of one Live Oak High School student who was sent home tells the San Jose Mercury News. "The idea that it's offensive to wear patriotic clothing ... regardless of what day it is, is unconscionable to me."
http://www.newser.com/story/183056/court-school-can-ban-us-flag-shirts.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=united&utm_campaign=rss_topnews
This is a pretty sad commentary. Here we have a school saying it's too dangerous for students to wear an American flag to an American school. - UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
Obumaville
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10 Stories From The Cold, Hard Streets Of America That Will Break Your Heart
By Michael Snyder, on February 23rd, 2014
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/10-stories-from-the-cold-hard-streets-of-america-that-will-break-your-heart
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If the economy is really "getting better", then why have millions upon millions of formerly middle class Americans been pushed to the point of utter despair? The stories that you are about to read are absolutely heartbreaking. I don't know how anyone can read them without getting chills. In America today, if you lose a good job, there is a good chance that you will get back on your feet before too long. But there is also a good chance that you won't be able to find a decent job and will plunge into the abyss of depression and desperation that so many millions of other Americans have fallen into. As I wrote about earlier this month, the U.S. economy is definitely not getting any better. For example, if you assume that the percentage of Americans that want to work is about at the long term average, then the official unemployment rate in the United States would be above 11 percent. And compared to six years ago, 1,154,000 fewer Americans are working today even though our population has gotten significantly larger since then. Behind all of these numbers are real flesh and blood people, and you are about to hear from some of them. The following are 10 stories from the cold, hard streets of America that will break your heart...
#1 A 34-year-old man named Rocco..."While my wife goes to work, I've been staying at home to conserve fuel. I've been losing weight from eating less, so my family has more on their plates. It feels like the government and big business expect more and more while trying to give back as little as possible. Soon my internet connection will be shut off and since most companies don't offer paper applications, how will I find work then? Walking around for miles a day, asking for an application that may or may not be available?"#2 Homeless people wasting away in "Obamavilles" on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland...A sheet of plastic laid over a clothesline. A mini-fortress of milk crates stacked under a tree. A thin mattress on a flimsy crate lying in a dark tunnel.
On the edge of Baltimore's woodlands, dozens of the city's transients live in makeshift homes which they consider safer than homeless shelters.You can see some incredible photos of how these homeless people are living right here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2564858/Baltimores-people-woods-Inside-hidden-homeless-camps-milk-crates-wooden-doors-tarps-outskirts-town.html#3 A 50-year-old woman in Pennsylvania named Karen..."My husband only makes 10 dollars an hour and drives 30 miles round trip, so it's taking all we have just to keep the Jeep filled with gas. We stopped going to church and all to save gas. We are homebodies now, afraid to use what gas we have. We save two kids from getting put in foster care just to be hit like this. It's just a constant trap they try to keep you from receiving any help! I'm so disgusted when my 12-year-old asks me why we don't have snacks anymore, or why are we eating so much rice, etc."#4 The following is an excerpt from a comment that was recently left by one of my readers..."I live right at ground zero. South West Virginia and let me tell you things are bad and getting worse by the day. We don't do drugs but have family members hooked on meth and or pills or both. Many of these pills are prescribed by local doctors either Suboxone to get you off the opiates, a total joke by the way and tons of Xanax why would anyone need 120 Xanax a month how can you even be expected to function. These pills get traded for cash sex and other items, same goes for the SNAP cards. We have family members going to jail repeatedly for the same crimes making meth, selling pills and stealing anything that's not nailed down. People who are 30 years old look like they are 55 years old. The jobs here are awful walmat, gas stations, fast food etc. Most of our whole county is on the government dole."#5 A 55-year-old man from California named Randy Carpadus..."I was working as a firefighter for the state of California and was laid off in April 2012, right at the beginning of fire season. At my age, I'm not going to be picked up by another fire department. They want younger guys.
I've applied for everything from truck driver, to sales, to nonprofit work. I've sent out almost 400 resumes, and I've gotten nothing. I've done whatever I could to make ends meet.
Through some connections, I got a temp job as a truck driver in Napa Valley -- a 3-hour commute from where I live. I lived in my car and worked during grape harvest."#6 In this tough economic environment, debt collectors are becoming even more aggressive. Just check out the kind of harassment that one woman named Jennifer Posey has been put through..."This is Jimmy Lee calling from CheckCare. Just letting you know we're in full force," he said. The man had a thick Southern accent that stretched the word "you" into a two-syllable accusation. "We're going to have warrants out for your arrest in Columbus, Ga.," the man threatened. "We know you have an apartment on the canal in Clearwater."
It was when he mentioned her home in Florida that Posey began to feel anxious. "We're hurting you," he continued. "We're hurting your family, your son's family, your cousin's family. Whatever we can do to get you to pay."
Forty minutes later, her phone rang again. "What about that 12-, 13-year-old child you're trying to raise?" the voice sneered.#7 A 50-year-old woman from New York named Sharon Ritchie..."I am constantly told I am 'overqualified.' I've also been told to dumb down my resume, but I can't just erase 30 years of experience.
You can only stand the word 'no' so many times. There are times that I cry at night wondering what happened, and at times I have thought about suicide.
But, I keep on going, hoping the cycle will break."#8 In response to my recent article about Appalachia, a reader named Rob shared the following..."I am from rural south central KY (Brodhead, Rockcastle County) and I can tell you that most of the things described above are exactly how it is here. There are so many people on drugs it's crazy. First it was the meth, which was more of a problem back in 2002-2007, then the pain pills really started becoming a huge problem, OxyContin and perc 30's (roxicet) obtained from Florida and Georgia doctors. The pain pills are something that you can't just walk away from after doing them for a while; they cause people to steal from family, sell everything they own, and/or prostitute themselves in order to avoid opiate withdrawal."#9 A 30-year-old man from California named Alejandro..."I need to provide for my son who is diagnosed with autism and my baby girl. I've sold a bunch of my belongings to try and put food on the table, to buy clothes for my kids, to pay rent and utilities and to put gas in my vehicle to go job hunting. Not having money for necessities takes a toll on my mind. Depression has kicked in. It really takes a toll on one's self-esteem and confidence to move forward.I've applied to countless amounts of jobs, only to not even get a call back. I've gone from construction site to construction site, only to be told they are not hiring. Finally, I got at least a positive call back from a company telling me they will call me to work in a couple of weeks. I am crossing my fingers and praying. There are millions of people in my situation or even worse."#10 An excerpt from a heartbreaking letter that an unemployed woman named Paula Bray sent to Barack Obama...Dear Mr. President,
I write to you today because I have nowhere else to turn. I lost my full time job in September 2012. I have only been able to find part-time employment -- 16 hours each week at $12 per hour -- but I don't work that every week. For the month of December, my net pay was $365. My husband and I now live in an RV at a campground because of my job loss. Our monthly rent is $455 and that doesn't include utilities. We were given this 27-ft. 1983 RV when I lost my job.
This is America today. We have no running water; we use a hose to fill jugs. We have no shower but the campground does. We have a toilet but it only works when the sewer line doesn't freeze -- if it freezes, we use the campground's restrooms. At night, in my bed, when it's cold out, my blanket can freeze to the wall of the RV. We don't have a stove or an oven, just a microwave, so regular-food cooking is out. Recently we found a small toaster oven on sale so we can bake a little now because eating only microwaved food just wasn't working for us. We don't have a refrigerator, just an icebox (a block of ice cost about $1.89). It keeps things relatively cold. If it's freezing outside, we just put things on the picnic table.Sadly, this is just the beginning.
The economic despair that we are witnessing right now is just a taste of the horrible economic nightmare that is going to unfold in the United States during the coming years.
And already there are signs that things are starting to take another turn for the worse. In recent months, we have seen a whole host of retail chains announce store closings. In fact, one of my readers wrote to me the other day and told me about a home appliance chain known as "American TV" that is going out of business in the Midwest. When these stores shut down, close to another 1000 Americans will soon be out of work...
"While this is a sad moment it is also a proud moment. It's a moment to be proud of our efforts and to be proud of what we have delivered to the community", said Doug Reuhl, President and CEO of American since 1988. "Words cannot adequately express how grateful we are to our millions of loyal customers, and to the incredible, dedicated family of employees that we have been blessed with over our 60 years of business". Advanced notice of the business closing has been given to the 989 employees affected in eleven locations. Employees will be compensated, with benefits, through the notification period, and the majority will continue employment through the closing process.But if you listen to the mainstream media, you would think that happy days are here again for America. Just check out some of the bizarre headlines that I have collected in recent weeks...
CNBC: "Stop whining! The US economy is in good shape"
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101420721
USA Today: "Economists: U.S. will see better growth in '14"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/02/09/economists-survey-february/5289159/?AID=10709313&PID=4003003&SID=193spj6gex4b9
Newsday: "Why the economy isn't doomed"
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/oped/goldfarb-why-the-economy-isn-t-doomed-1.7082072
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Suspect Covers Security Camera With Maxi Pad, Burglarizes Store, Police Say
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(LeRoy, can I have another beer?)
Via WISTVMyrtle Beach, SC - Police are looking for a man they say stole cash from the register of a hotel gift shop after attempting to cover the surveillance camera with a maxi pad.
According to the police report, the suspect entered the gift shop of a hotel in the 7100 block of Ocean Boulevard at about 1 a.m. on February 19. After looking around the store, he stood on a chair and placed the pad on the surveillance camera so that his acts couldn't be seen.
He was later seen on the surveillance camera tape at about 2:25 a.m. taking the pad off the camera and once again looking around the store, according to the report. About $125 in cash was missing from the register.
Police were also told that the suspect may have attempted to break into games in the game room for money.
The suspect is described in the police report as a white man, aged 22 to 39, 5-foot-7-inches to 5-foot-10-inches tall and 150 to 190 pounds in weight.
Russia Seeks Access To Bases In Eight Countries For Its Ships And Bombers
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"Russia says it is negotiating with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Algeria, Cyprus, the Seychelles, Vietnam and Singapore about access to facilities that can be used by its navy and strategic bombers."
February 28, 2014 - 5:09 AM
By Patrick Goodenough(Obuma has resurrected the Bear, that President Reagan defeated)
(CNSNews.com) – At a time of escalated tensions with the West over Ukraine, Russia says it is negotiating with eight governments around the world for access to military facilities, to enable it to extend its long-range naval and strategic bomber capabilities.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Wednesday the military was engaged in talks with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Algeria, Cyprus, the Seychelles, Vietnam and Singapore.
"We need bases for refueling near the equator, and in other places," ITAR-Tass quoted him as saying.
Russia is not looking to establish bases in those locations, but to reach agreement to use facilities there when required.
The countries are all strategically located – in three leftist-ruled countries close to the U.S.; towards either end of the Mediterranean; in the Indian Ocean south of the Gulf of Aden; and near some of the world's most important shipping lanes in the Malacca Strait and South China Sea.
Access to the new locations would extend the Russian military's potential reach well beyond its existing extraterritorial bases, at the Syrian port of Tartus and in former Soviet states – Ukraine's Sevastopol, Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and the occupied Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Shoigu said Russia was also beefing up its existing military presence in the post-Soviet region, doubling its troop numbers in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and deploying a regiment of troops to Belarus where it already has fighter aircraft stationed.
"Russia has started reviving its navy and strategic aviation since mid-2000s, seeing them as a tool to project the Russian image abroad and to protect its national interests around the globe," the RIA Novosti state news agency commented.
"Now, Moscow needs to place such military assets in strategically important regions of the world to make them work effectively toward the goal of expanding Russia's global influence."
During his previous tenure at the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin in 2002 shut down a Cold War-era radar base in Cuba and a naval base in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. Russia cited financial constraints, but the move was also seen at the time as an attempt to improve relations with Washington.
The listening station near Havana had been a key intelligence facility for decades, while the Vietnamese base, which was built by the U.S. during the Vietnam War, was leased to the Soviet Union in 1979 and became the largest Soviet base in the world beyond Moscow's Warsaw Pact allies.
Upon his return to the presidency in 2012, Putin began exploring options to renew alliances with the communist countries, and Russian Navy chief Vice Admiral Viktor Chirkov said that year Cuba and Vietnam were in the frame.
Russia is now helping Vietnam to upgrade facilities at Cam Ranh Bay, including a submarine training center, and Russia is negotiating for preferential access to refueling and repair facilities there for its ships.
As for the Western hemisphere, Russian Navy ships in 2008 made their first visit since the end of the Cold War, holding joint maneuvers with the Venezuelan Navy in the Caribbean, navigating the Panama Canal, and making a port call in Havana.
Russian Navy vessels visited Cuba again in 2009 and last August – and on Wednesday, a Russian intelligence-gathering ship, the Viktor Leonov, docked in Havana harbor with no explanation from the government or state media coverage, the Associated Press reported.
Russian strategic bombers also visited the region in 2008 – for the first time since long-range flights by the aircraft were halted after the Soviet Union's collapse – and again last fall, when two Tupolev "Blackjacks" carried out combat training patrols between Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Russian defense spending has been climbing sharply in the years since its last military engagement – the invasion of Georgia in August 2008 – and early this year it was reported to have overtaken Britain to become the world's third biggest spender, behind the U.S. and China.
According to the British consultancy HIS Jane's, Russia's defense expenditure has more than doubled since 2007, and will have tripled by 2016
Obuma's America: PFC disses American Flag; states "IDGAFFFF"
Posted on February 28, 2014 http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/02/28/obamas-america-pfc-disses-american-flag-states-idgaffff/#more-77690
As first reported by the Army Times, a US Army Pfc (Private, First Class) posted an Instagram "selfie" ("sheffeynation") of
herself hiding in her car during the sounding of "Retreat" to avoid standing at attention, saluting and rendering honors to the American flag as the colors are lowered for the day.
To quote Ms. Tariqka Sheffey:"This is me laying back in my car hiding so I don't have to salute the 1700 flag, KEEP ALL YOUR 'THATS SO DISRESPECTFUL/HOWRUDE/ETC.' COMMENTS TO YOURSELF cuz, right now, IDGAFFFF."(http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/idgaffffselfiedissingflag.jpeg?w=640)
PFC Sheffey enjoys collecting her twice monthly pay checks but doesn't feel she should be forced to "honor" the American flag
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The posting and then retiring of "colors" (the US and military service flags) is a cherished ritual on board active duty installations. It has a rich history in the vibrant tapestry of military tradition and protocols, and is often a time of quiet and personal reflection when one is respectfully rendering "honors" to the colors. For many people who serve on active duty, it is a profoundly moving experience, especially when they know they have comrades serving under arms in combat theatres across the Globe.
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Rendering honors to the colors upon the sounding of "Retreat" – part of the rich tapestry of military tradition.
"Retreat," 5 p.m. – According to the FAS article, "Retreat" is also a Crusades-era French bugle call. Historically, "Retreat" was played at sunset and signified the requirement of sentries to challenge personnel until sunrise and for Soldiers to return to their quarters.
Today, a howitzer is fired at the last note of "Retreat," and the flag is lowered at the first note of "To the Colors," with the lowering of the flag regulated in such a manner as to be completed at the last note.
According to "The Soldier's Guide," Soldiers who are outdoors are to face the flag and come to the position of attention at the first note of "Retreat." Soldiers render a salute at the first note of "To the Colors."
When in civilian clothes, Soldiers are to stand at attention while facing the flag with their right hands over their hearts at the first note of "To the Colors." Soldiers driving vehicles are to pull off to the side of the road, and the driver or the vehicle commander is to exit the vehicle to render honors.When this story was first publicized by the Army Times newspaper, predictably, there was an explosion of outrage and anger. Many veterans and Gold Star parents rightly pointed out that if Pfc Sheffey didn't feel she needed to "honor" the flag, she certainly wouldn't feel under any obligation to fight or die for it, and called for her dismissal from the armed services.
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The ceremony and gravitas is the same, no matter which base or installation, or where the in the world the colors are flown.
"Any soldier who refuses to salute the flag is in the military for the wrong reason, and should be removed by dishonorable discharge with loss of all benefits," one Facebook commenter said. "If they won't salute it, they damn sure won't fight for it."Pfc Sheffey is a member of the "Quartermaster Brigade" (quelle surprise!) at Ft. Carson, CO, an important mustering point for troops being deployed overseas.
The base command was forced to initiate an investigation based on the number of complaints, but they aren't too happy about Pfc Sheffey's remarks being brought to their attention. In fact, their concern soon pivoted from focusing on Sheffey's actions and sentiments towards her country's flag to rallying around her to defend her from her critics and from alleged "copycat" posters in an attempt to deflect the discussion from the overt disrespect and surly attitude of Pfc Sheffey into an in-the-weeds discussion about how she was racially profiled and "attacked" and used to "incite more outrage"....
Many people assumed these were more posts from the PFC. But a Fort Carson official said it is likely these are posers who are looking to incite more outrage online.
It is "strongly believed that there are copycats posing as her, using some of her info to post more nonsense," the official said.Sheffey, in response, addressed the controversy (even though, apparently she didn't "GAFFFF") expressing essentially remorse for being caught out – certainly her "apology" fell far short of actually acknowledging her shameful and childish behavior.
"I seriously just want to say thank you to everybody who stood up to me today, like seriously. That s— to me was not that serious. I am not a disrespectful soldier and I really appreciate you all."(http://www.11alive.com/images/640/360/2/assetpool/images/140225071359_sheffey2.jpg)
Tariqka Sheffey seems to regret that apparently OTHERS do "GAFFFF" that she dissed the US Flag by refusing to participate the rendering of honors upon the sounding of Retreat.
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MEMO TO SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CHUCK HAGEL: WHEN YOU "DOWNSIZE" THE ARMY, PLEASE START WITH PFC TARIQKA SHEFFEY AT FORT CARSON THIS SELFISH, SMART-ASS LOSER DOESN'T BELONG IN UNIFORM WITH OTHERS WHO LOVE AND RESPECT THE AMERICAN FLAG - BOOT HER SORRY ASS BACK TO WHATEVER HOLE SHE CRAWLED OUT OF
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PFC Tariqka Sheffey is a sorry excuse for a "soldier." She must have enlisted in the Army in order to get a steady paycheck. From the looks of things, this moon-faced malcontent doesn't have a lot going for herself in the first place. She's the "female" equivalent of your typical street-corner punk.
We say boot her ass out of the Army. Are you reading this Hagel? When you start your "downsizing," put this pathetic excuse for a service member at the head of the "get rid of" list.
GEN George Patton once said that some politicians would "wipe their ass with the American flag" if it could get them a few more votes. We say Tariqka's disrespect for our country's flag by refusing to salute it, is endemic of the type of trash recruiters are bringing into the military these days.
"HID OUT" TO AVOID SALUTING FLAGThe insolent private is a member of the 43rd Sustainment Group at troubled Fort Carson, Colo. Let's hope that's not for long.
Sheffey actually boasted of her contempt for the flag by posting a pix of her reclining on her car seat and bragging she hid out, hoping to avoid having to salute the flag at daily "retreat."
Like some of the finger-upraised street whore pix we've seen (but won't publish) this selfish PFC figured it'd be cute to post her disrespect on the Internet, where it soon went viral.
It just showed what a low-life she really is.
DON'T DARE PLAY THE "RACE CARD"And Tariqka, if you have a notion to play the "race card" on us for calling you out for what you are, you can stuff it.
We remember an African-American we served with in Vietnam. He was a PFC too. His name was Milton Olive. That paratrooper threw himself on a grenade to save his buddies' life.
For that he was recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor. When he was laid to rest after the funeral service, his casket had been covered by the same American flag you, Sheffey, showed such contempt.
BREAKING: President Stompy Feet Gives Emergency Statement – 2,000 Russian Troops Land In Crimea – Putin Gives Stompy The Middle Finger – *UPDATE* Stompy Feet Runs From Podium To Dem Fundraiser
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpS4BXif_Sw
UPDATE: Less than an hour after delivering a mortally flaccid and limp wristed denouncement of Russia invading Ukraine's Crimea, Dear Leader shows up at DNC fundraiser to announce HAPPY HOUR.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJFWw_Rk0o
Arizona Governor Vetoes Anti-Gay Bill: "Let's Focus on Discriminating Against Mexicans"
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PHOENIX (The Borowitz Report)—Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed a controversial anti-gay bill last night, telling reporters, "Let's focus on discriminating against Mexicans."
Governor Brewer said that while "the intentions behind this bill were obviously excellent," she was worried that the bill "would distract us from our main mission of harassing, tormenting, and otherwise making life miserable for Mexicans."
Although Governor Brewer said that she could foresee a time when Arizona might "branch out into discriminating against gays," the decision to veto the anti-gay bill in the name of anti-immigrant pride was not difficult: "Arizona needs to stick to what it does best."
Arizona Confronting Awkward Realization That Gay People Have Money, Buy Stuff
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PHOENIX (The Borowitz Report)— The state of Arizona found itself in the middle of a conundrum today as it awoke to the awkward realization that gay people have money and buy stuff.
Just days after the Arizona legislature passed a law that would enable businesses to discriminate against gays, it emerged that gays spend billions of dollars in Arizona each year—an unexpected development that seemed to take many legislators by surprise.
Carol Foyler, a Tea Party Republican who supported the anti-gay law, said that the startling bombshell that gays play a role in the state's economy put her and her fellow lawmakers "in a tight spot."
"Quite frankly, we were blindsided by this," she said. "We had no idea that gays had money and bought things just like regular people do."
Acknowledging that her vote for the anti-gay law might have been calamitous for the state's economy, Ms. Foyler placed the blame for it squarely on the shoulders of one group: the gays themselves.
"How was I supposed to know what gay people do with their money, etc., when I don't personally know any gay people?" she asked. "I'm sorry, but it was up to the gays to tell us."
February 26, 2014
Mass Gay Migration Aims to Make Arizona Majority Gay
Posted by Andy Borowitz
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PHOENIX (The Borowitz Report)— Rejecting calls to boycott Arizona, a newly formed gay organization is mobilizing its members to move to the state by the millions in the hopes of transforming it into the nation's first majority gay state.
The group, called Americans for a Gay Arizona, has already received commitments from a million gay Americans to move to the state within the next two months, with a target of enlisting over six million gays to move there by the end of the year.
Harland Dorrinson, the executive director of the group, said that the influx of six million gays would be "more than enough" to insure that Arizona would be majority gay, but he acknowledged that he did not have an exact figure of how many gays currently reside there.
"We think it could be as many as a
million," he said. "But if you add in conservative politicians, that number could go much higher."
According to one associate of Governor Jan Brewer, the plan to move six million gays to Arizona is shaping up to be the governor's worst nightmare.
"She's always been against immigration, but nothing like this," the associate said.
Jeff Gordon Takes On Pepsi Max... Again!!!
Remember the crazy fake test drive Jeff Gordon and Pepsi did a while ago? It was exposed as an elaborate fake by a blogger. Well Jeff Gordon didn't appreciate being outed as a fraud, so he set up this insane revenge prank that's 100 percent real and 100 percent scary. Warning: Mild language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRIgmKGDqFM
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And then there is this!
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Where is the competition?
349 real pennies for 100 fake/plastic pennies, really!
Do you see anything wrong with this picture?
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007 | Posted by Veterans Today
Veteran Removes Illegal
Mexican Flag,
May Be Charged
Reno resident cuts down Mexican flag flying above U.S. flag after outcry
by Steve Watson
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A Veteran from Reno, Nev. has hit headlines after he took matters into his own hands and tore down a Mexican flag that was being illegally flown above a U.S. flag at a local business.
Local news station krnv News 4 had received calls from angry residents complaining about the Mexican flag. When the station sent a reporter to investigate the Veteran took the opportunity to make a statement in front of the cameras.
The man commented "I'm Jim Brossert and I took this flag down in honor of my country with a knife from the United States army. I'm a veteran, I am not going to see this done to my country. if they want to fight us, then they need to be men, and they need to come and fight us, but I want somebody to fight me for this flag. They're not going to get it back." (continued...)
The hispanic store owner who witnessed the incident would not make comment on camera but told krnv over the phone that he was flying the flag as a mark of solidarity to the hispanic community. Pro-immigration protests have been ongoing in the area all weekend after raids were conducted by authorities in the area last week.
The store owner said he is an American citizen and did not know what he was doing was against the law. However, according to federal law it is illegal to fly any flag above the U.S. flag, and if flying more than one they must be on separate poles and be of an equal size.
The Reno police department has told krnv that Brossert will faces charges for theft if the store owner files a police report of what happened.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2007/10/13/veteran-removes-illegal-mexican-flag-may-be-charged/
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What Happened During Obama's Call To Putin About Invading Ukraine
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So what does Obuma do...?
FIERCE OBAMA Responds to Putin – Cancels Delegation to Sochi Paralympics
Posted by Andrew Marcus on Monday, March 3, 2014, 5:23 PMWASHINGTON — (http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/384x210xsochi-paralympics-1024x560.jpg.pagespeed.ic.kkxZqm67gL.jpg)
The crisis in Ukraine prompted the White House today to cancel its official delegation to the Paralympic Games in Russia, and the Illinois lawmaker who had planned to lead the delegation issued a statement condemning Russian military actions.Boy... that will teach Putin! So... the Obuma Administration took decisive action today against Putin in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They cancelled their official delegation to the Sochi Paralympics. No paralympic delegation AND a condemning statement! WOW! No word yet on how Putin plans to respond to this escalation from the Obuma Adm. in the cycle of violence unfolding in Ukraine.
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Radio Talk Show host Mark Levin joined 'Imus In The Morning' to weigh in on Sarah Palin's prophetic comments about Russia's advancement towards the Ukraine.
Mark offered this insight: "I can't think of anything he (Obuma)touches that doesn't turn to 'crap'."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BPN0DZNKq4
CNN Laughs At Hillary Clinton's Failed Russian 'Reset': "Not Really Working Out Well"
Monday, March 3, 2014, 7:09 PM
In March 2009 Hillary Clinton announced that the Obama Adminstration was going to push the reset button with the Russians. Unfortunately, the administration bungled their delivery and spelled out "overcharge" rather than "restart" on their button.
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An assistant shows the mock 'reset' button that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva in 2009. (AP Photo)
Today CNN laughed at the Obama Administration's failed Russian 'reset.'
"It's not really working out so well."(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABQuUvegMiA)
Even CNN is laughing. It's that bad.
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Palin Predicted Putin's Invasion Of Ukraine In 2008
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Hey... remember when that crazy VP candidate lady said Putin would invade Ukraine if Obuma was elected? It really is amazing how the media is able to paint conservatives as crazy weirdos over and over, isn't it. One of the most skillful political smears from the media was making Sarah Palin seem insane and stupid. Just like Mitt Romney was mocked for his "Cold War" mentality when he warned about Russian aggression, Sarah Palin was ridiculed for similar warnings she made four years earlier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VScGokXyqvA
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2008/10/22/russia_might_invade_ukraine_if_obama_wins_palin_warns
http://ibloga.blogspot.com/2014/02/october-22-2008-palin-warns-russia.html
http://politicalliars.com/Top-Liar/Russia-might-invade-Ukraine-if-Obama-wins-Palin-warns-BACK-IN-2008-And-they-Scoffed-at-HER/248.html
What an idiot right? The unholy powers of deception of the hordes of smirking news reporters made sure everyone thought Sarah Palin said,
"I can see Russia from my house," while praising the
"Russian Reset" policy of Hillary Clinton, which has now resulted in Putin seizing Ukraine and attempting to re-organize the Soviet Union. You don't even have to like Sarah Palin to understand the breathtaking dishonesty and hypocrisy from the news media and liberals who attacked her.
Meanwhile, Democrats are still drooling over the possibility of Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016 with the thinnest of resumes. And why not? Democracy under liberals is just a popularity contest... no experience or competence is needed to run America into the ground.[/color]
These are the spoils of a very weak president drawing down American power and presence in the world. And it's just beginning.
...Warph
Far-Left Rag 'New Republic' Says "Mitt Romney Was Right About Russia"
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(Flying pig alert)
Mitt Romney Was Right About Russia — New Republic
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116840/mitt-romney-and-russia-putin-and-ukraine
"Romney Was Right About Russia" - From the New Republic. In the course of the last presidential campaign, Mitt Romney made a comment about America's number one "geopolitical foe," which Romney claimed was Russia. He was mocked by the president and many liberal commentators. Here are Romney's remarks, in their full context, which came during a conversation with Wolf Blitzer:
ROMNEY: Russia... is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe. They fight every cause for the world's worst actors.BLITZER: But you think Russia is a bigger foe right now than, let's say, Iran or China or North Korea? Is that—is that what you're suggesting, Governor?ROMNEY: Well, I'm saying in terms of a geopolitical opponent, the nation that lines up with the world's worst actors. Of course, the greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.But when these—these terrible actors pursue their course in the world and we go to the United Nations looking for ways to stop them, when... when Assad, for instance, is murdering his own people, we go... we go to the United Nations, and who is it that always stands up for the world's worst actors? It is always Russia, typically with China alongside.
And.... and so in terms of a geopolitical foe, a nation that's on the Security Council, that has the heft of the Security Council and is, of course, a—a massive nuclear power, Russia is the—the geopolitical foe.This all seems... exactly right.
New Billion-Dollar Food Labels Proposed by Michelle Obama Because Mothers Are "Confused" & "Bewildered,"... CDC Says First Lady's "Childhood Obesity Crisis" Is a "Myth"
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on March 3, 2014
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/
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Food prices keep rising, but First Lady Michelle Obama is focused on 'confused, bewildered' mothers whom she says are unable to figure out nutrition labels
On Thursday, FLOTUS Michelle Obama addressed her proposed food labeling changes at a 'Let's Move!' anniversary event at the White House with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.
It was presented with the First Lady's assertion that mothers who shop for their family's food are easily confused, or stupid, or something like that.
As a mother, I resent the First Lady's patronizing, her painting of mothers across the nation as passive dolts who need the government to give them bigger fonts on packaged food labels so that they can miraculously learn how to feed their children properly, so that they aren't paralyzed with fear or ignorance in a supermarket aisle.
Granted, there is perhaps a handful of parents (not just mothers) out there who were indeed "confused" and "bewildered" before with those old nutrition labels, so confused that they would feed their kids Ding Dongs and Red Bulls for breakfast and make several dinner stops a week through the fast-food drive-throughs. Assuredly, they will continue to be "confused" and "bewildered" with the new labels (or indifferent to them), if they ever even read the old labels in the first place.
Additionally, this past week, a study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that the First Lady's incessant claims of a "childhood obesity crisis" are dead wrong.
In fact, they called her claims a "myth."From CNS News, Michelle Obama: America's Moms Are 'Confused and Bewildered,' 'Defeated' by Grocery Shopping:Apparently it's not the price of the groceries, but the nutrition labels on food packages that make grocery shopping such a difficult and trying experience for the moms of America.
In pitching new, improved nutrition labels at the White House on Thursday, first lady Michelle Obama tried to identify with women who do the grocery shopping for their families. Her message was aimed at mothers who want to buy healthy food and depend on labels to help them do that:
"So there you stood, alone in some aisle in a store, the clock ticking away at the precious little time remaining to complete your weekly grocery shopping, and all you could do was scratch your head, confused and bewildered, and wonder, is there too much sugar in this product? Is 50 percent of the daily allowance of riboflavin a good thing or a bad thing? And how on Earth could this teeny little package contain five whole servings?
"This stream of questions and worries running through your head when all you really wanted to know was, should I be eating this or not? Is this good for my kids or not? And if it is healthy, how much of it should I be eating? But unless you had a thesaurus, a calculator, a microscope, or a degree in nutrition, you were out of luck. So you felt defeated, and you just gave up and went back to buying the same stuff you always buy."
She makes the current labels sound positively medieval — impossible for mothers to figure out without a trusty microscope, no less — but her own bigger-better-faster labels will save the day!
True to form, FLOTUS once again demonstrates that she believes that parents need the all-knowing Obama government to step in, because parents just aren't smart enough to figure out how to feed their children properly unless she and her Food Police brigade are at the helm.
I believe that the majority of America's mothers are likely not all that "confused" or "bewildered," but are instead gravely concerned with the skyrocketing of food prices that is taking more aggressive bites out of their strained household budget.
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air weighed in on the nutritional label change and posted a side-by-side graphic produced by CBS News. The graphic compares the changes, most noticeably a larger font... and which will cost consumers several billion dollars for this to be implemented:
It's not the Titanic, but it's really just rearranging deck chairs. It's not providing any new information except "added sugars," which isn't all that different nutritionally from overall sugars. It leaves out the RDA information, at least for the moment. This is the least-caloric nothingburger one can imagine, and yet this is all over the news today.(http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/michelle-obama-nutrtion-label-change-food.jpg)
CBS News aired last week this report about higher food prices — the price of chicken is up 18.4 percent, ground beef is up 16.8 percent, and bacon is up 22.8 percent.
How are Michelle O's new bigger-font labels going to help with these alarming rising food costs? Surely you jest.
More American families struggle with higher food prices:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv6jZPUx4zg
From The Guardian, Michelle Obama unveils food label proposals: 'This will be the new norm':Michelle Obama has some bad news for weight-conscious shoppers and food manufacturers: we've all been cheating.
In a rare foray into a frontline political battlefield, the first lady on Thursday announced a series of proposed changes to US food labelling rules that seek to tackle the fact that the average serving sizes used to calculate calorie intake have lost track with the reality of modern American appetites.
"This will be the new norm for providing consumers with the information they need," said the First Lady.
"We first launched Let's Move four years ago, [and] all of us here today were driven by a simple belief: that parents deserve to have the information they need to make healthy choices for their kids," she added.
From Daily Caller, The CDC confirms Michelle Obama's childhood obesity crisis is a myth:A decade-long drumbeat of bad news about childhood obesity is now officially wrong. Michelle Obama is wrong, too. America is not in the grip of a childhood obesity epidemic and, consequently, the First Lady's much-ballyhooed anti-obesity strategy is redundant, at best.
According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in Wednesday's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the obesity rate among pre-school American children plummeted 43 percent over the past 10 years. Only 8 percent of 2- to 5-year-olds were obese in 2011-2012, down from 14 percent in 2003-2004.
Such good news is a veritable shock to anti-obesity campaigners, but it should not be. Despite being based upon the deeply flawed Body Mass Index height-weight ratio, official statistics have shown for some time that the child obesity 'epidemic' had leveled off.
For example, an earlier CDC childhood obesity study, also published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined the BMI of children between 1999 and 2008, the decade during which childhood obesity was consistently described as America's preeminent public health problem.
The results were striking. At no time during the study period was there a statistically significant trend, except for boys at the highest BMI levels. In other words, any spike in obesity was narrowly confined to a very small number of very obese boys.
More recently, the CDC found that childhood obesity rates had fallen in some states (such as New York, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania) during the past few years. Most recently, the CDC documented a decline in the obesity rate among low-income children. Therefore, the very latest CDC data confirms rather than breaks the news that obesity rates are on the decline among American children.
The Blame Game: Will Pres. Obuma Ever Stop Blaming Others for His Failures?
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In January, Pres. Barack Obama blamed his failures — for the umpteenth time — on conservative media.
The Commander in Chief did it again in February.
Now that we're into March, how many of his missteps, mistakes, and failures will Obama not own up to, instead pointing fingers at others, specifically Fox News and radio host Rush Limbaugh?
At least, as political analyst and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Krauthammer pointed out in January, he isn't blaming George W. Bush, as he did for years during his first term.
From Breitbart, Krauthammer: 'Whiny,' 'Unseemly' for Obama to Blame DC Gridlock on Fox News, Rush Limbaugh:On her Thursday broadcast, "The Kelly File" host Megyn Kelly brought on Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer to sound off on the latest excerpt of President Barack Obama's interview with the New Yorker magazine's David Remnick.
In that excerpt, Obama blamed Fox News and conservative talker Rush Limbaugh for the gridlock in Washington, D.C. Krauthammer noted Obama has "the commanding heights of the culture" in his corner and said it was unbecoming of the leader of the free world to complain on those grounds.
"At least he is not blaming it on climate change or George W. Bush," Krauthammer said. "Look, it's rather unseemly if you are the commander-in-chief, the leader of the free world and the most powerful man on earth who can reduce pieces of the planet to a cinder on his command, to get so whiny. You know when you pull the camera back and you look at the media landscape — on one side you got those elements in the media that are sympathetic or even worship at his feet. You've got ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, of course MSNBC. You've got Hollywood that's sympathetic, the television/entertainment side. I mean, you got the major newspapers – The New York Times, The Washington Post. It's what Lenin would call the commanding heights of the culture – are all on one side. And what do you have on the other side? Fox News and talk radio. And you've got a president of the United States complaining that that explains the failures of his administration."Krauthammer also took aim at Obama for failing to give respect to the other side when it comes to debating public policy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tpneRlMqu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v8aDnz5PYY
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In 2009, if he wasn't blaming Bush, Fox News, or Limbaugh, Obama was blaming America during his controversial "Apology Tour."
Top Iranian General Mocks Obaua For Having A "Low IQ"
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(The only thing lower than Obama's IQ, is the idiots that voted for him)
TEHRAN (FNA) – Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces for Cultural Affairs and Defense Publicity
Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri called the recent statements of US President Barack Obama on Iran as "the joke of the year", and warned Washington to be watchful of its words and actions when dealing with Iran or wait for "hell".
President Obama told Bloomberg news network a few days ago that 95 percent of the sanctions will remain in place during the course of negotiations between Iran and six world powers (the US, Russia, France, China and Britain plus Germany) over Tehran's nuclear energy program. "We're going to enforce them, and we've been enforcing them during the course of these discussions."
In response, General Jazzayeri said on Tuesday, "The low-IQ US president and his country's Secretary of State John Kerry speak of the effectiveness of 'the US options on the table' on Iran while this phrase is mocked at and has become a joke among the Iranian nation, specially the children."He reiterated that all US forces in the region are within the reach of Iran's military power and "if they err, the region will be turned into a hell for them".
*Pic of The Day: Biden Locked In A Battle of The Wits With Group of Preschoolers
*PHOTO: VP Biden talks about animals with kids during his visit to the East Lake Family YMCA today in Atlanta.
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(Sadly for Joe, he lost)
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Mooch To Celebrate "Women's History Month" With Tribute To Soul Music?
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(Waydda minute... wasn't this WOMEN'S history month? What's Mr. Ellen doing here??)
Via AP:First lady Michelle Obama is bringing together an impressive group of female artists for a White House concert celebrating women of soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7D-W-QW-8&list=RDdEWuAcMWDLY
The lineup for Thursday's concert includes Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Melissa Etheridge and Janelle Monae (Moe-NAY'). Also performing will be Tessanne (tess-ANN') Chin, Ariana Grande (GRON'-day) and Jill Scott.
The show will be streamed live Thursday night on the White House web site, and broadcast April 7th on PBS stations as "Women of Soul: In Performance at the White House."
It is designed to celebrate what the White House describes as great "foremothers" of American music, with songs exploring the struggles and achievements of women.
In connection with the concert, the White House will hold a workshop for students to learn about the history of women in soul.
#2 Picture of the Day: Barack Obama's Most Bizarre Press Conference To Date
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(I ain't going there... but I do wonder why he held it in Joe Biden's office?)
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Russia Threatens To Abandon The U.S. Dollar And Start Dumping U.S. Debt
By Michael Snyder, on March 4th, 2014
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The Obama administration and the hotheads in Congress are threatening to hit Russia with "economic sanctions" for moving troops into Crimea. Yes, those sanctions would sting a little bit, but what our politicians should be made aware of is the fact that Russian officials are promising "to respond" if economic sanctions are imposed on them. As you will read about below, one top Kremlin adviser is even suggesting that Russia could abandon the U.S. dollar and start dumping U.S. debt. In addition, he is also suggesting that if sanctions are imposed that Russian companies would not repay the debts that they owe U.S. banks. Needless to say, Russia could do far more economic damage to the United States than the United States could do to Russia. The U.S. financial system relies on the fact that the rest of the planet is going to use our currency to trade with one another and lend gigantic piles of it back to us at super low interest rates. If the rest of the world starts changing their behavior, we are going to be in a massive amount of trouble. Those that believe that the United States is "economically independent" are being quite delusional.
In order for U.S. economic sanctions against Russia to be effective, Europe would also have to get on board.
But that simply is not going to happen.
As I noted yesterday, Russia is the largest exporter of natural gas on the planet. And Russia is also Europe's largest supplier of energy.
There is no way that Europe could risk having Russia cut off the gas, especially considering the economic condition that Europe is currently in.
To get an idea of just how incredibly dependent the rest of Europe is on Russian natural gas, check out the chart in this article. A whole bunch of European nations get more than half their natural gas from Russia.
And according to the Telegraph, even the UK has already completely ruled out economic sanctions...
Europe would be pushed back into recession, Russia into financial meltdown. This is not the sort of self harm Europe is prepared to contemplate right now. Indeed, thanks to the indiscretion of a UK official, who was snapped going into Downing Street with his briefing documents on display for all the world to see, we know this to be the case. Trade and financial sanctions have already been ruled out.So the U.S. can do whatever it wants, but Europe is not going to be any help. Perhaps Canada will stand with the U.S., but that will be about it.
On the flip side, the Russian Foreign Ministry is promising "to respond" if the United States does impose economic sanctions...
Russia said on Tuesday that it would retaliate if the United States imposed sanctions over Moscow's actions in Ukraine.
"We will have to respond," Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement. "As always in such situations, provoked by rash and irresponsible actions by Washington, we stress: this is not our choice."So what would the response look like?
Lukashevich did not say, but top Kremlin adviser Sergei Glazyev is suggesting that Russia could abandon the U.S. dollar and refuse to pay back loans to U.S. banks...
"In the instance of sanctions being applied to stated institutions, we will have to declare the impossibility of returning those loans which were given to Russian institutions by U.S. banks," RIA quoted Glazyev as saying.
"We will have to move into other currencies, create our own settlement system."He added:
"We have excellent trade and economic relations with our partners in the east and south and we will find a way to reduce to nothing our financial dependence on the United States but even get out of the sanctions with a big profit to ourselves."Glazyev also stated that Russia could start dumping U.S. debt and encourage other nations to start doing the same. The following comes from a Russian news source..."We hold a decent amount of treasury bonds – more than $200 billion – and if the United States dares to freeze accounts of Russian businesses and citizens, we can no longer view America as a reliable partner," he said. "We will encourage everybody to dump US Treasury bonds, get rid of dollars as an unreliable currency and leave the US market."Clearly Russian officials understand the economic leverage that they potentially have. In fact, Glazyev seems fully convinced that Russia could cause "a crash for the financial system of the United States"...
"An attempt to announce sanctions would end in a crash for the financial system of the United States, which would cause the end of the domination of the United States in the global financial system."On that last point Glazyev is perhaps overstating things.
On their own, the Russians could do a considerable amount of damage to the U.S. financial system, but I doubt that they could completely crash it.
However, if much of the rest of the world started following Russia's lead, then things could get very interesting.
Just yesterday, I wrote about how China has chosen to publicly stand in agreement with Russia on the Ukrainian crisis.
If China also decided to abandon the U.S. dollar and start dumping U.S. debt, it would be an absolute nightmare for the U.S. financial system.
And keep in mind that the Chinese were already starting to dump a bit of U.S. debt even before this latest crisis. In fact, China dumped nearly 50 billion dollars of U.S. debt in December alone.
The only way that the current bubble of debt-fueled false prosperity in the U.S. can continue is if the rest of the world continues to lend us trillions of dollars at ridiculously low interest rates that are way below the real rate of inflation.
If the rest of the world stops behaving in such an irrational manner, interest rates on U.S. government debt would rise dramatically and that would also mean that interest rates on virtually all other loans throughout our financial system would rise dramatically.
And if that happened, it would be a complete and utter nightmare for our economy.
Unfortunately, most Americans have no understanding of these things. They just assume that we are "the greatest economy in the world" and that nothing is ever going to threaten that.
Well, the truth is that we are rapidly approaching a "turning point", and after this bubble of false prosperity pops things will never be the same in the United States again.
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12 Signs That Russia Is Ready To Fight A War Over Crimea
By Michael Snyder, on February 27th, 2014
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Russia will never, ever give up Crimea without a fight. Anyone that thinks otherwise is just being delusional. The Russian Black Sea fleet's main base at Sevastopol is far too strategically important. In addition, ethnic Russians make up approximately 60 percent of the population of Crimea, and most of the population is rabidly pro-Russian. In fact, many prominent Crimean politicians are already calling for reunification with Russia. So if you have been thinking that Russia is just going to fold up shop and go home now that pro-European protesters have violently seized power in Kiev, you can quit holding your breath. The truth is that Russia is more than willing to fight a war over Crimea. And considering the fact that vitally important pipelines that pump natural gas from Russia to the rest of Europe go right through Ukraine, it is not likely that Russia will just willingly hand the rest of Ukraine over to the U.S. and the EU either. If the U.S. and the EU push too hard in Ukraine, a major regional war may erupt which could ultimately lead to something much larger.
Russia and Ukraine have very deep historical ties. Most Americans may not think that Ukraine is very important, but the Russians consider Ukraine to be of the utmost strategic importance.
As an American, how would you feel if another nation funded and organized the violent overthrow of the democratically-elected Canadian government and replaced it with a government that was virulently anti-American?
By doing this to Ukraine, the United States and the EU are essentially sticking a pin in Russia's eye. Needless to say, Russia is extremely angry at this point and they are gearing up for war.
The following are 12 signs that Russia is ready to fight a war over Crimea...#1 More Russian military vehicles continue to pour into Crimea. Just check out this video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIEY5iuswYo
#2 Russian military vehicles have been photographed in the main square of Sevastopol.http://thetruthwins.com/archives/russian-troops-take-up-positions-in-sevastopol-as-ukraine-teeters-on-the-brink-of-civil-war
#3 Russian military jets near the border with Ukraine have been put on combat alert.http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/27/us-ukraine-crisis-crimea-idUSBREA1P23U20140227
#4 Russia has ordered "surprise military exercises" along the Ukrainian border.http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/26/world/europe/ukraine-politics/index.html?hpt=wo_c1
#5 In connection with those "exercises", it is being reported that Russia has deployed 150,000 troops along the border with Ukraine.http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/ukraine-facing-prospect-of-separatism/
#6 Russia already has approximately 26,000 troops stationed at their naval base in Sevastopol.http://www.swp-berlin.org/fileadmin/contents/products/research_papers/2009_RP12_kle_ks.pdf
#7 Russian ships carrying additional soldiers have been spotted off the coast of Crimea...http://www.ibtimes.com/russian-ships-arrive-ukraines-crimean-coast-fears-mount-over-russian-invasion-region-1557639
Russia's large landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov has arrived near the Russia Black Sea Fleet's base at Sevastopol, which Russia has leased from Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The ship is reported to be carrying as many as 200 soldiers and has joined four additional ships carrying an unknown amount of Special Forces troops. Flot.com also reported over the weekend that personnel from the 45th Airborne Special Forces unit and additional divisions had been airlifted into Anapa, a city on Russia's Black Sea coastline.#8 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made the following statement to reporters on Wednesday..."Measures are taken to guarantee the security of our facilities."#9 An unidentified Russian official has told the Financial Times that Russia is willing to use military force to protect Crimea...Moscow earlier revealed that it would be ready to go for war over the Crimea region in order to protect the large population and army installations.
"If Ukraine breaks apart, it will trigger a war. They will lose Crimea first [because] we will go in and protect [it], just as we did in Georgia," an unidentified Russian official told the Financial Times.#10 Officials in Sevastopol have "installed" a Russian citizen as mayor of the city.#11 Approximately 120 pro-Russian gunmen have seized the Crimean parliament building and have raised the Russian flag.#12 There are rumors that Russian authorities have offered protection to ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych...Viktor F. Yanukovych, the ousted president of Ukraine, declared on Thursday that he
remained the lawful president of the country and appealed to Russia to "secure my personal safety from the actions of extremists." Russian news agencies reported that he had already arrived in Russia, but officials did not immediately confirm that.No matter what the "new government" in Kiev says, and no matter how hard the U.S. and the EU push, Russia will never give up Crimea. The following is what a recent Debka article had to say about the matter...
There is no way that President Vladimir Putin will relinquish Russian control of the Crimean peninsula and its military bases there - or more particularly the big Black Sea naval base at Sevastopol. This military stronghold is the key to Russia's Middle East policy. If it is imperiled, so too are Russia's military posture in Syria and its strategic understandings with Iran.And you know what?
The people of Crimea do not want Russia to leave either. In fact, they overwhelmingly want Russia to help defend them against the "new government" in Kiev.As you read this, militia groups are being formed in Crimea to fight back against the "nationalist invasion" that they are anticipating. Just check out the following excerpt from a recent Time Magazine article...
Many of the people at the rally in Sevastopol were not just ready to believe. They were convinced of the imminent nationalist invasion. What scared them most were the right-wing political parties and militant groups that have played a role in Ukraine's revolution. "What do you think they're going to do with all those weapons they seized from police in Kiev? They're going to come here and make war," said Sergei Bochenko, who identified himself as the commander of a local militia group in Sevastopol called the Southern Russian Cossack Battalion.
In preparation, he said, his group of several hundred men had armed themselves with assault rifles and begun to train for battle. "There's not a chance in hell we're going to accept the rule of that fascist scum running around in Kiev with swastikas," he said. That may be overstating the case. Nowhere in Ukraine has the uprising involved neo-Nazi groups, and no swastikas have appeared on the revolution's insignia. But every one of the dozen or so people TIME spoke to in Sevastopol was certain that the revolt was run by fascists, most likely on the payroll of the U.S. State Department.
And just remember what happened back in 2008 in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Russians have already shown that they are not afraid to militarily intervene in order to protect Russian citizens.
So what would the U.S. and the EU do if a war erupts between Russia and Ukraine?
Would they risk a direct military confrontation with Russia in order to help Ukraine?
Terrific Video's On Russian Occupation Of Ukraine From Two Military Bases
These great video's are shot by VICE and features reporter Simon Ostrovsky.
The first dispatch is from the military base at Privolnoye which was surrounded by Russians, but the Ukranians refused to let them in.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNKsLlK52ss
The second is even better. Russians actually get into a Ukranian naval base and are walking around with the Ukrainians. Simon vaults the wall and gets into the base with the assistance of some Ukranians.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y57vy4vWb-E
Texas Takes Stand: 9 out of 10 Voters Want Obamacare Repealed and Welfare Recipients Drug Tested
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/03/texas-takes-stand-9-10-voters-want-obamacare-repealed-welfare-recipients-drug-tested/
Just because one part of the country has seemingly lost its mind and is willing to give up their freedom for the promise of more security doesn't mean everyone is on board. In Texas, where voters took to the polls Tuesday night, a completely different set of ideas is at play. And if nationwide sentiment is any indication, other conservative and libertarian leaning states will soon follow.
Though only about half of the votes have been tallied so far, the people of Texas have spoken. It's a roar, in fact. Voters are standing in unison and have overwhelmingly approved a variety of propositions that may well send shivers down the spines of supporters of things like universal health care, rampant welfare dependency, special privileges and gun rights.
The following results speak for themselves. First on the chopping block is the Patient Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare. Apparently, 93% of Texans don't take well to having the federal government mandate what they should or shouldn't buy with the penalty for non-compliance being IRS harassment and prison time: The Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare", should be repealed. (http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/texas-votes-obamacare.jpg)
This one might be a little scary for those folks who spend their lives on their couches smoking weed or mainlining heroin while hard working Americans pay for their dope:
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You'll never see the U.S. Congress vote for this, because they're way too special: All elected officials and their staff should be subject to the same laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances as their constituents. (http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/texas-votes-official.jpg)
If you're an anti-gunner this is where you should stop reading: Texas should support Second Amendment liberties by expanding locations where concealed handgun license-holders may legally carry. (http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/texas-votes-chl.jpg)
It's a sad state of affairs when the public has to actually vote on their right to pray in public places. Isn't that covered by the First Amendment? Just in case it isn't Texas will make sure you can worship and pray as you see fit: Texans should be free to express their religious beliefs, including prayer, in public places. (http://cdn.freedomoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/texas-votes-religion.jpg)
Silly Texans. Didn't anyone tell you that it's government, not businesses, that creates jobs and grows the economy?
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Common sense laws and regulations. What a novel concept.
There's a reason why Americans all over the country are flocking to Texas in the hopes of finding the American Dream that has been lost in so many other parts of the Union.
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State Of Georgia House Votes to Nullify Obamacare
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/03/georgia-house-votes-nullify-obamacare/
Late Monday evening, the Georgia State House of Representatives passed
HB707,
which bans the state participating in significant portions of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
The vote was 115-59. Representative Jason Spencer introduced HB707, The Georgia Health Care Freedom and ACA Noncompliance Act. Spencer also had five co-sponsors to the bill.
According to Tenth Amendment Center executive director Michael Boldin,
"While Georgia can't fully stop Obamacare on its own, it can serve as a pretty major roadblock to implementation," he said.
"And as more states get on board with this strategy, it will pull the rug out from under it. Bills like this will end Obamacare from the bottom up." HB707 specifically provides the following bans: 1.Prohibits any state agencies, departments or political subdivisions from using resources or spending funds to advocate for the expansion of Medicaid. This provision works hand-in-hand with HB990 to make it more difficult to expand Medicaid. HB990 would require legislative approval for expansion of the program, barring the governor from doing it by executive order.
2.Prohibits the state of Georgia from running an insurance exchange.
3.Refuses and federal grant money for the purpose of creating or running a state insurance exchange.
4.Ends the University of Georgia Health Navigator Program.
5.Prohibits the Commissioner of Insurance from investigating or enforcing any alleged violation of federal health insurance requirements mandated by Obamacare. Judge Andrew Napolitano agrees. Regarding South Carolina's push to remove Obamacare from being implemented in the Palmetto state, Napolitano said, "If Enough States do this, It will Gut Obamacare."
The Tenth Amendment center also points out: The provision prohibiting the Georgia insurance commissioner from investigating or enforcing violations of federally mandated health insurance requirements will prove particularly problematic for the feds. Insurance commissioners serve as the enforcement arm for insurance regulation in the states. The federal government has no enforcement arm. It assumed the state insurance commissioners would enforce all of the provisions of the ACA. So, when people have issues with their mandated coverage, they will have to call the feds. At this point, it remains unclear who they will even call. Issues the Georgia insurance commissioner will not address include prohibiting a denial of insurance for preexisting conditions, requiring dependent coverage for children up to age 26, and proscribing lifetime or yearly dollar limits on coverage of essential health benefits.Rep. Spencer said, "Disputes over these mandates arise under federal, not state law. The federal Department of Health and Human Services can be expected to seek to commandeer the machinery of Georgia's commissioner of insurance to enforce them or to investigate alleged violations because at present there is no federal health insurance agency and Congress is not likely to create one given the substantial opposition to Obamacare. Under HB707, the feds won't be able to do that. They'll have to figure out how to do it themselves."
The legislation rests on a little known ruling by the Supreme Court referred to as the anti-commandeering doctrine.
Georgia is one of eleven states engaged in some form of nullification of Obamacare. As I have pointed out before, nullification is a good thing, but it requires more, should the federal government seek to show a use of force and make an example of one state. That would require interposition, or the state stepping in and making it a crime to enforce federal laws that are deemed unconstitutional by the state. For nullification with teeth, I suggest taking a look at Albany, New York's nullification of NDAA.
The bill will now move to the Senate.
RT Anchor Quits On Air Over Putin "Whitewashing" Events In Ukraine
(Aha... Mutiny on the RT! This is second RT person who 'hit the bricks' and who spoke out against RT and Putin. After this, RT probably isn't going to let any program go out live any more.)
Via NY PostA Russia Today anchor quit live on air Wednesday, declaring she cannot work for a station that "whitewashes the actions of Vladimir Putin."
Liz Wahl, who works in the network's Washington DC bureau, said her grandparents came to the United States to escape Soviet oppression.
"And that is why personally I cannot be part of a station funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the action of Putin," she said, reading from a statement.
"I'm proud to be an American and believe in disseminating the truth. And that is why after this newscast I'm resigning."Earlier, Ms. Wahl had tweeted:
"Just spoke to grandparents who came to US as refugees escaping Soviets during Hungarian revolution. Amazing to hear amid new Cold War fears."
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Report: Marine to become third to receive Medal of Honor from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... William Kyle Carpenter, a marine veteran who was severely injured in Afghanistan in 2010 will receive the Medal of Honor Award
Marine Lance Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter, his face missing an eye and crisscrossed with deep scars, stood on the floor of the S.C. Senate on Wednesday to receive the thanks of his state. Carpenter, 21, of Gilbert lost the eye, most of his teeth and use of his right arm from a grenade blast Nov. 21 near Marjah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Friends and family say he threw himself in front of the grenade to protect his best friend in Afghanistan, Cpl. Nick Eufrazio. Carpenter just remembers seeing the grenade. Then a white flash. Then a fellow Marine telling him he would be fine.
Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, flanked by his parents, Robert and Robin Carpenter of Gilbert, recounts his experience of being injured in a combat zone in Afghanistan during a press conference Wednesday at the statehouse.
Then, four weeks later, he woke up in a hospital in Germany. "The second I woke up, I saw my family by my bedside," he said. The Senate resolution noted Carpenter "suffered catastrophic wounds in the cause of freedom" and "has shown himself worthy of the name Marine." Carpenter shook almost every senator's hand — with his left hand — after the reading.
Read more at:
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/03/06/william-kyle-carpenter-a-marine-veteran-who-was-severely-injured-in-afghanistan-in-2010-will-receive-the-medal-of-honor-award/#more-78088
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***Dawn, March 6, 1836, Siege of the Alamo – Day 13***
Posted on March 6, 2014
By Elvis Chupacabra
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***The Death of Travis***
The old timers said that a dry, chill wind was blowing out of the northwest, right from the heart of the Commancheria, that dawn of March 6, 1836. It ripped the palls of black smoke billowing from the old Alamo mission into ragged tendrils and hurled them away, as if trying to clear the air of the sickly sweet smell of burning flesh and the acrid stench of gunpowder. By the time the sun broke above the horizon and cast a golden light over the old mission-turned-fortress, gunshots still sporadically rent the air, but the main sound was that of an enraged mob.
Near the old chapel, there was a tumult as isolated survivors trying to escape across the scrub were mercilessly pounced upon by the Mexican cavalry and savagely killed. Inside the compound, the soldatos, their blood lust and anger fed by the sight of men who'd killed so many of their compadres, pounced upon the unarmed wounded and able. Men trying to surrender were cut down. No quarter was shown.
As the last of the defenders were killed in the approaches to the chapel and inside the old chapel itself, it was the bayonet that did the work. With it, the enraged soldatos could work up close and savor the agony and torment of the men who, in the pre-dawn darkness, had poured a deadly cannonade and withering musket fire into their close-packed ranks. Many of the Texian defenders were tossed bodily upon the bayonets of several soldiers.
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***The Final Assault Plan***
Even when all the defenders were dead, the soldatos' rage continued unabated as the Texian bodies were desecrated, and every hiding space was checked for anyone left alive. The young son of one of the non-combatants hiding in the sacristy was shot when he stood up to place a blanket around his shoulders. Mexican officers quickly placed all non-combatants under their personal protection.
Soon, the officers and non-coms were called to take charge, but like the British regulars at Badajoz, they were immune to orders, exhortations or threats, even when His Excellency, General Santa Anna showed up to inspect his handiwork. Finally, buglers were summoned and after several calls of Retreat and Assembly, the uniformed mob began to respond. Now, only the awful cries of the Mexican wounded and dying could be heard. All the Texians fighters were dead. The Texian non-combatants – women, children and Negro slaves – who'd been hiding in the sacristy, were now prisoners of the Mexican Army.
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While General Santa Anna basked in his glorious victory, the poor soldatos and Zapadores (sappers), who'd paid the butcher's bill, sat dazed in the glorious sunshine of the day they'd prayed they would live to see. Some of them clutched Rosaries, and tears of both grief and thanksgiving swept away the black powder residue from many faces. Their adrenalin was spent, their mettle in battle tested. Others were too numb to do anything except obey as their officers and non-coms, now in control, sought to turn the mob back into an army.
As that strange, post-battle gloom and quiet settled over the old mission compound, only the cries of the Mexican wounded and dying could be heard. Like all wounded, they were crying for their mothers, praying, cursing and begging for water. Always water. The first of the soldaderas – the solders' "wives" – appeared, seeking their men. Their keening wails, agonized cries and shouts of relief spoke plaintively of whether their soldatos were dead, wounded or alive.
Flames consumed the long buildings across the side of the old mission compound – the so-called north barrack and Long Barracks – which had been taken only by room-to-room fighting and at a terrible cost. The rooms of the north barrack and the Long Barracks had been well prepared well in advance in the event the Mexicans breached the walls and gained entry. The Texians made the rooms formidable redoubts by trenching the floors and barricading the entrances with raw cowhides packed with earth. For a short time, the Texians had held out in these fortified rooms, exacting more casualties from the attackers.
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As the Texians were swept off the crumbling old walls by the third Mexican assault of the pre-dawn attack, they neglected to spike their cannons, one of them a fine 18-pounder. These cannons were used by the Mexicans, used to great effect to assault the fortified barrack rooms.
The Mexicans turned the abandoned Texian cannons on the barricaded defenders. With cannon blast followed by a musket volley, the Mexican soldiers stormed the rooms. With sword, bayonet, knife, and fist the adversaries clashed. The trapped Texian defenders used every instrument at their disposal and fought like men who, knowing their death is certain, were resolved to exact the greatest toll possible in Mexican lives. In the darkened, smoke-filled rooms, it was hard to tell friend from foe, and historians have speculated that many Mexicans were undoubtedly killed and maimed by their own men.
Room by room, the Mexicans systematically took the north barrack and the Long Barracks. The Texian dead were invisible amongst the heaps of dead and wounded Mexicans. As the sun rose, the light began to pick out the soot-muted uniform colors of the various Mexican assault companies, mixed and entwined in death as they were in the confusing melee that swept over the Alamo compound.
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***The Alamo Defenders Ashes***
The last resistance was in the chapel. Again, the Mexicans used captured cannon to blast apart the defenses of the entrance. James Bonham, Almaron Dickinson and Gregorio Esparza fired one last blast from their cannon into the onrushing attackers, then grabbed muskets but finally died under a fusillade of musketry or on the point of a Mexican bayonet.
The body of William Travis lay somewhere around the north wall, where he was killed firing his shotgun into the massed troops below early in the final assault. James Bowie died on his sickbed, and depending on which legend you believe, he either died too ill to raise his head or propped on a pillow with a brace of pistols and his famous knife.
One of Santa Anna's officers records that the soldatos overwhelmed and captured a small group of defenders. His account states that David Crockett was among them. These prisoners were brought before Santa Anna and noting their valor in battle, General Castrillon asked for mercy on their behalf. Instead, Santa Anna answered with a "gesture of indignation" and ordered they be immediately executed. When grimy and exhausted officers who'd participated in the battle hesitated, His Excellency gestured to a group of nearby officers who'd taken no part in the assault. They immediately fell upon the helpless Texians with their swords. A Mexican officer wrote admiringly in his journal that: "Though tortured before they were killed, these unfortunates died without complaining and without humiliating themselves before their torturers."
On Santa Anna's orders, the Alcalde of San Antonio de Bexar, Francisco Ruiz, organized citizens to gather to gather firewood. The dead Texians and wood were stacked in alternating layers, forming three pyres, and at 5:00PM, these pyres were set ablaze.
That same dry, north wind, blowing from the heart of the Commancheria, fanned high the flames of those pyres, and embers floated into the darkening gloom. The fires burned, hot and bright, long into the next day, turning the mortal remains of the Alamo defenders into ashes. But from these pyres rose a flame of a different type, so powerful and hot as to ignite a hatred, a yearning for vengeance that would drive a rabble army beyond its endurance to a marshy place on the lower San Jacinto River. It was from this crucible, poured from the furnaces of stout and resolute hearts, that a new Republic was forged. Forged in the refiner's fire of everlasting victory!
The Republic of Texas.
Victory or Death!
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Related Articles:The Alamo Survivors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texan_survivors_of_the_Battle_of_the_Alamo
The Alamo As A Pyrrhic Victory: The Mexican Experience In The Battle Of The Alamo http://www.lurj.org/article.php/vol1n2/alamo.xml
The Alamo Visitors' Site (very good) http://www.thealamo.org/visitors/overview.php(http://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/alamomemorial-54782.jpg?w=960&h=638)
***Cenotaph Of The Alamo Defenders***
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Iditarod Musher Survives Harrowing Ordeal – Flown to Hospital – Pups OK!
Posted on March 7, 2014
Anchorage, Alaska — An Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher was flown to a hospital after a harrowing ordeal that included crashing his sled, hitting his head on a stump and later falling through ice and breaking his ankle.
Scott Janssen, an Anchorage undertaker known as the Mushing Mortician, was back home early Wednesday after getting a cast for the broken bone he suffered on Tin Creek, about 40 miles from Nikolai.
According to Janssen's Facebook site, the ordeal started Tuesday when he crashed his sled between the Rohn and Nikolai checkpoints, hitting his head. He lay unconscious for more than two hours and awoke to find his dogs huddled next to him.
After caring for his canines, Janssen fixed his sled and continued on the trail.
But one of his dogs, Hooper, then got loose from the line and took off.
Janssen anchored his sled and tried to catch the animal. But he fell through the ice shortly before Hooper returned to him.
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Malaysia Flight 370 Missing With 239 Total Passengers (13 Nationalities) "Lost Presumed Crashed" – Boeing 777
Posted on March 7, 2014
VERY unusual situation. Catastrophic loss of flight with no distress call is highly troubling. Possible explosion...
(CNN) — A passenger flight carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing is missing and would likely have run out of fuel, Malaysia Airlines said Saturday.
"At the moment we have no idea where this aircraft is right now," Malaysia Airlines Vice President of Operations Control Fuad Sharuji said on CNN's "AC360."
Subang Air Traffic Control lost contact with Flight MH370 at about 2:40 a.m. local time (1:40 p.m. ET Friday), Sharuji said.
"We tried to call this aircraft through various means," he said.
The Boeing 777-200 departed Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12:41 a.m. and was expected to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m., a 2,300-mile (3,700 kilometer) trip. It was carrying 227 passengers, two of them infants, and 12 crew members, the airline said.
At the time of its disappearance, the plane was carrying about 7.5 hours of fuel, Sharuji said.
"Malaysia Airlines is currently working with the authorities who have activated their Search and Rescue team to locate the aircraft," the statement said. The public can call +603 7884 1234 for further information.
Efforts to contact the plane were fruitless.
The airline said in a statement that its representatives were contacting the relatives of those aboard. "Focus of the airline is to work with the emergency responders and authorities and mobilize its full support," it said.
"We're closely monitoring reports on Malaysia flight MH370," Boeing said in a tweet. "Our thoughts are with everyone on board."
"It doesn't sound very good," retired American Airlines Capt. Jim Tilmon told CNN's "AC360." He noted that the route is mostly overland, which means that there would be plenty of antennae, radar and radios to contact the plane.
"I've been trying to come up with every scenario that I could just to explain this away, but I haven't been very successful."
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He said the plane is "about as sophisticated as any commercial airplane could possibly be," with an excellent safety record.
There is one recent blemish: An Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 291 passengers struck a seawall at San Francisco International Airport in July 2013, killing three people and wounding dozens more.
Malaysia Airlines operates in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and on the route between Europe and Australasia.
The airline's roots date back to 1937, when it operated passenger and cargo flights in Malaysia.
Is Obama Following Stalin's Great Purge of Military Officers?
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by Richard Anthony
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/03/obama-following-stalins-great-purge-of-military-officers/
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In my previous article titled
"A Storm is brewing on the horizon, A Storm is Brewing on the Horizon – Will Obama Declare Martial Law Before 2016? " ...
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/03/storm-brewing-horizon-will-obama-declare-martial-law-2016/ ... ... I mentioned that Obama was actively purging the military of loyalist officers. Now why would he do that? The reason coming from Washington D.C. is they are downsizing the military and wish to bring it down to Pre-WWII levels. However, I have a different take - These individuals are all loyal to the country and are NOT beholding to the president.
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Stalin's purge, according to Wikipedia, for example, says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge"The Great Purge was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1934 to 1939. It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants and the Red Army leadership, and widespread police surveillance, suspicion of "saboteurs", imprisonment, and arbitrary executions. In Russian historiography, the period of the most intense purge, 1937–1938, is called Yezhovshchina (Russian: Eжовщина; literally, the Yezhov regime), after Nikolai Yezhov, the head of the Soviet secret police, NKVD."While Obama has yet to imprison or execute anyone, he is actively purging our military, and with the help of the NSA is spying on the civilian population. Also different government agencies are soliciting for and actively soliciting large amounts of ammunition, tactical military gear and vehicles. Let's forget (for the sake of argument) about the many FEMA camps being outfitted in the U.S. It doesn't take a truck to fall on one, to see that something big is in the works.
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Commanding Generals fired:■General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
■Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
■Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
■Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
■Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
■Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
■General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013) (http://www.pakalertpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Obama-Firing-of-Military-Reminiscent-of-Stalins-Purge.jpg)
■Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
■Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
■General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
■Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
■General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
■General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
■General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
■Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
■Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
■Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
■Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)
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Commanding Admirals fired:■Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette-U.S. Navy Commander John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Three (Oct 2012)
■Vice Admiral Tim Giardina(3 Star, demoted to 2 Star)-U.S. Navy Deputy Commander of the US Strategic Command, Commander of the Submarine Group Trident, Submarine Group 9 and Submarine Group 10 (Oct 2013)
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Naval Officers fired: (All in 2011)■Captain David Geisler-U.S. Navy Commander Task Force 53 in Bahrain (Oct 2011)
■Commander Laredo Bell-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Support Activity Saratoga Springs, NY (Aug 2011)
■Lieutenant Commander Kurt Boenisch-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)
■Commander Nathan Borchers-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Stout (Mar 2011)
■Commander Robert Brown-U.S. Navy Commander Beachmaster Unit 2 Fort Story, VA (Aug 2011)
■Commander Andrew Crowe-Executive Officer Navy Region Center Singapore (Apr 2011)
■Captain Robert Gamberg-Executive Officer carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jun 2011)
■Captain Rex Guinn-U.S. Navy Commander Navy Legal Service office Japan (Feb 2011)
■Commander Kevin Harms- U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 137 aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (Mar 2011)
■Lieutenant Commander Martin Holguin-U.S. Navy Commander mine countermeasures Fearless (Oct 2011)
■Captain Owen Honors-U.S. Navy Commander aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (Jan 2011)
■Captain Donald Hornbeck-U.S. Navy Commander Destroyer Squadron 1 San Diego (Apr 2011)
■Rear Admiral Ron Horton-U.S. Navy Commander Logistics Group, Western Pacific (Mar 2011)
■Commander Etta Jones-U.S. Navy Commander amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)
■Commander Ralph Jones-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Green Bay (Jul 2011)
■Commander Jonathan Jackson-U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 134, deployed aboard carrier Carl Vinson (Dec 2011)
■Captain Eric Merrill-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Emory S. Land (Jul 2011)
■Captain William Mosk-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Station Rota, U.S. Navy Commander Naval Activities Spain (Apr 2011)
■Commander Timothy Murphy-U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 129 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, WA (Apr 2011)
■Commander Joseph Nosse-U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine Kentucky (Oct 2011)
■Commander Mark Olson-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer The Sullivans FL (Sep 2011)
■Commander John Pethel-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock New York (Dec 2011)
■Commander Karl Pugh-U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 141 Whidbey Island, WA (Jul 2011)
■Commander Jason Strength-U.S. Navy Commander of Navy Recruiting District Nashville, TN (Jul 2011)
■Captain Greg Thomas-U.S. Navy Commander Norfolk Naval Shipyard (May 2011)
■Commander Mike Varney-U.S. Navy Commander attack submarine Connecticut (Jun 2011)
■Commander Jay Wylie-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Momsen (Apr 2011)
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Naval Officers fired: (All in 2012):■Commander Alan C. Aber-Executive Officer Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 71 (July 2012)
■Commander Derick Armstrong- U.S. Navy Commander missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (May 2012)
■Commander Martin Arriola- U.S. Navy Commander destroyer USS Porter (Aug 2012)
■Captain Antonio Cardoso- U.S. Navy Commander Training Support Center San Diego (Sep 2012)
■Captain James CoBell- U.S. Navy Commander Oceana Naval Air Station's Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic (Sep 2012)
■Captain Joseph E. Darlak- U.S. Navy Commander frigate USS Vandegrift (Nov 2012)
■Captain Daniel Dusek-U.S. Navy Commander USS Bonhomme
■Commander David Faught-Executive Officer destroyer Chung-Hoon (Sep 2012)
■Commander Franklin Fernandez- U.S. Navy Commander Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 24 (Aug 2012)
■Commander Ray Hartman- U.S. Navy Commander Amphibious dock-landing ship Fort McHenry (Nov 2012)
■Commander Shelly Hakspiel-Executive Officer Navy Drug Screening Lab San Diego (May 2012)
■Commander Jon Haydel- U.S. Navy Commander USS San Diego (Mar 2012)
■Commander Diego Hernandez- U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming (Feb 2012)
■Commander Lee Hoey- U.S. Navy Commander Drug Screening Laboratory, San Diego (May 2012)
■Commander Ivan Jimenez-Executive Officer frigate Vandegrift (Nov 2012)
■Commander Dennis Klein- U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Columbia (May 2012)
■Captain Chuck Litchfield- U.S. Navy Commander assault ship USS Essex (Jun 2012)
■Captain Marcia Kim Lyons- U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic New England (Apr 2012)
■Captain Robert Marin- U.S. Navy Commander cruiser USS Cowpens (Feb 2012)
■Captain Sean McDonell- U.S. Navy Commander Seabee reserve unit Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14 FL (Nov 2012)
■Commander Corrine Parker- U.S. Navy Commander Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 1 (Apr 2012)
■Captain Liza Raimondo- U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River, MD (Jun 2012)
■Captain Jeffrey Riedel- Program manager, Littoral Combat Ship program (Jan 2012)
■Commander Sara Santoski- U.S. Navy Commander Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 (Sep 2012)
■Commander Kyle G. Strudthoff-Executive Officer Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (Sep 2012)
■Commander Sheryl Tannahill- U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Nashville, TN (Sep 2012)
■Commander Michael Ward- U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Pittsburgh (Aug 2012)
■Captain Michael Wiegand- U.S. Navy Commander Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (Nov 2012)
■Captain Ted Williams- U.S. Navy Commander amphibious command ship Mount Whitney (Nov 2012)
■Commander Jeffrey Wissel- U.S. Navy Commander of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1 (Feb 2012)
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Naval Officers fired: (All in 2013):■Lieutenant Commander Lauren Allen-Executive Officer submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013)
■Reserve Captain Jay Bowman-U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Fort Dix, NJ (Mar 2013)
■Captain William Cogar-U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Mercy's medical treatment facility (Sept 2013)
■Commander Steve Fuller-Executive Officer frigate Kauffman (Mar 2013)
■Captain Shawn Hendricks-Program Manager for naval enterprise IT networks (June 2013)
■Captain David Hunter-U.S. Navy Commander of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 12 & Coastal Riverine Group 2 (Feb 2013)
■Captain Eric Johnson-U.S. Navy Chief of Military Entrance Processing Command at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, IL (2013)
■Captain Devon Jones-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Air Facility El Centro, CA (July 2013)
■Captain Kevin Knoop-U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Comfort's medical treatment facility (Aug 2013)
■Lieutenant Commander Jack O'Neill-U.S. Navy Commander Operational Support Center Rock Island, IL (Mar 2013)
■Commander Allen Maestas-Executive Officer Beachmaster Unit 1 (May 2013)
■Commander Luis Molina-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Pasadena (Jan 2013)
■Commander James Pickens-Executive Officer frigate Gary (Feb 2013)
■Lieutenant Commander Mark Rice-U.S. Navy Commander Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013)
■Commander Michael Runkle-U.S. Navy Commander of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 (May 2013)
■Commander Jason Stapleton-Executive Office Patrol Squadron 4 in Hawaii (Mar 2013)
■Commander Nathan Sukols-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013)
■Lieutenant Daniel Tyler-Executive Officer Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013)
■Commander Edward White-U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (Aug 2013)
■Captain Jeffrey Winter-U.S. Navy Commander of Carrier Air Wing 17 (Sept 2013)
■Commander Thomas Winter-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Montpelier (Jan 2013)
■Commander Corey Wofford- U.S. Navy Commander frigate Kauffman (Feb 2013)
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Like I said in my previous paragraph above, let's forget about the FEMA camps being outfitted within the borders of the United States. This purge of so many high ranking officers should, if not alarm you, then at the very least, it should raise some eyebrows. We all know that Obama has all but disregarded the Constitution that he took an oath to uphold and defend. With his many executive "fixes" on the Affordable Care Act, he has violated that oath many times over. Obama, like any good card shark, is stacking the deck in his favor. We still have troops in the field, so why get rid of so many officers?
You can't have the answer to the equation without all the variables. But even so, between these purges, with the bulking-up of the Department of Homeland Security, the NSA actively spying on American civilians and many democrat controlled states actively attempting gun control and even gun confiscation of law abiding citizens through legislation... what other conclusion CAN you come up with ?
In the comments section of my last article one reader wrote this: "There seems to be some confusion about the validity to the 'list,' some have even said it's all just urban legend. Here is one of the places where it came from: http://www.altnews.info/192/fe... . I don't believe that some 'nut' just decided to write down names and locations for a prank. Think for just a moment about all of the tax dollars that have just simply disappeared down in to a black hole of UN-accountability for the last 5 years. Then wonder why agencies like the IRS and Social Security Administration have solicited for ammunition, they don't need ammo right? It is true that the majority of Executive Orders have been in place for over 5 decades and yes GW Bush put the Patriot Act in to place. It still does not answer the question about many things that Obama is doing right now. The last two articles on this subject by the author are an assumption on his part, you all have to draw your own conclusions. One thing is abundantly clear though and that is there is ZERO accountability on President Obama and his entire administration NONE. His entire tenure as president is filled with corruption on a scale that we have not seen since the Nixon era. In fact, Obama makes Nixon look like a choirboy in comparison.
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The consensus within the military and veterans is Obama has tasted power and will not give it up. We further believe he has been moving HUGE sums of money from failed programs into setting-up a hostile takeover. But you believe what you want. The author is giving you a possible explanation of what MIGHT happen, you need to draw your own conclusions. But if you think such a thing could never happen in America, then you'd be DEAD wrong."[/i]
There were other comments that weren't so nice, but it seems that this reader, at least, understands what message I am attempting to get across to you.
So, is all this just my imagination?
You decide.
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The happiest & unhappiest states in the union
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Gallup has compiled various statistics about "well-being" (health, work, emotional satisfaction, etc.) and has come up with a ranking of states according to how happy they are. The most happy states, according to this study, are North Dakota and South Dakota. The least happy is West Virginia. In general, the happiest states are those of the upper midwest, and the least happy are those of the deep south.
Now I grant that such studies are very limited and that happiness is not all it's cracked up to be. But let's use this as an occasion to discuss regional differences.
How would you account for the differences? Some preliminary observations and questions:
*The least happy states are poorer than normal, though the wealthiest states are not necessarily the happiest.
*Is there something about rural economies, wide-open spaces, and/or natural beauty (especially mountains) that correlate to happiness?
*What about the religious differences (Lutheran strongholds vs. Baptist strongholds)?
What else? And maybe someone who lives there can tell us what's so great about the Dakotas. (Oil maybe?)From Gallup (go to the site for details and the rankings of other states).
http://www.gallup.com/poll/167435/north-dakota-well-being-west-virginia-still-last.aspx
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The Constitution of the United States
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Article V
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
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Wishful thinking as the proposed method has never been used to amend the Constitution. Of course, there is always a first time, but even with Congressional blessing, some states have been reluctant to provide approval for Constitutional amendments.
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1923.
The amendment would guarantee equal rights for women.
In 1972, the proposal was passed in Congress and went to the state legislatures for ratification.
Failed to receive enough state ratifications before the June 30, 1982, deadline mandated by Congress. This particular proposed amendment can never be adopted to be part of the constitution.
TITLES OF NOBILITY AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1810.
It would strip United States citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from a foreign country.
The proposal has not received three fourths states approval but can be adopted if enough states yet provide their approval.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA VOTING RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1978.
It would grant the District of Columbia full representation in Congress, in the Electoral College, and full participation in amending the Constitution.
The proposal did not receive three fourths state approvals by 1985 and cannot be adopted as a Constitutional amendment.
CORWIN AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1861.
Meant to get the seceding states back into the Union and get the slave border states not to jump ship.
The proposal has not received three fourths state approvals but is still alive.
CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1924.
It would regulate the labor of people less than eighteen years of age.
Has not been approved by three fourths of the states and is still alive.
CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1789.
It was an attempt by Congress to regulate the number of members of the House of Representatives.
Has never been ratified by three fourths of the states but is still alive.
Thanks W. Gray
Good information but a bot disheartening.
We Are In FAR Worse Shape Than We Were Just Prior To The Last Great Financial Crisis
By Michael Snyder, on March 10th, 2014
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/we-are-in-far-worse-shape-than-we-were-just-prior-to-the-last-great-financial-crisis
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None of the problems that caused the last financial crisis have been fixed. In fact, they have all gotten worse. The total amount of debt in the world has grown by more than 40 percent since 2007, the too big to fail banks have gotten 37 percent larger, and the colossal derivatives bubble has spiraled so far out of control that the only thing left to do is to watch the spectacular crash landing that is inevitably coming. Unfortunately, most people do not know the information that I am about to share with you in this article. Most people just assume that the politicians and the central banks have fixed the issues that caused the last great financial crisis. But the truth is that we are in far worse shape than we were back then. When this financial bubble finally bursts, the devastation that we will witness is likely to be absolutely catastrophic.
Too Much DebtOne of the biggest financial problems that the world is facing is that there is simply way too much debt. Never before in world history has there ever been a debt binge anything like this.
You would have thought that we would have learned our lesson from 2008 and would have started to reduce debt levels.
Instead, we pushed the accelerator to the floor.
It is hard to believe that this could possibly be true, but according to the Bank for International Settlements the total amount of debt in the world has increased by more than 40 percent since 2007...The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their economies out of recession and companies took advantage of record low interest rates, according to the Bank for International Settlements.
The $30 trillion increase from $70 trillion between mid-2007 and mid-2013 compares with a $3.86 trillion decline in the value of equities to $53.8 trillion in the same period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The jump in debt as measured by the Basel, Switzerland-based BIS in its quarterly review is almost twice the U.S.'s gross domestic product.That is a recipe for utter disaster, and yet we can't seem to help ourselves.
And of course the U.S. government is the largest offender.
Back in
September 2008, the U.S. national debt was sitting at a
total of 10.02 trillion dollars.
As I write this, it is now sitting at a total of
17.49 trillion dollars.Is there anyone out there that can possibly conceive of a way that this ends other than badly?
Too Big To Fail Is Now Bigger Than EverDuring the last great financial crisis we were also told that one of our biggest problems was the fact that we had banks that were "too big to fail".
Well, guess what?
Those banks are now much larger than they were back then. In fact, the six largest banks in the United States (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley) have collectively gotten 37 percent larger since the last financial crisis.
Meanwhile, 1,400 smaller banks have gone out of business during that time frame, and only one new bank has been started in the United States in the last three years.
So the problem of "too big to fail" is now much worse than it was back in 2008.
The following are some more statistics about our "too big to fail" problem that come from a previous article...-The U.S. banking system has 14.4 trillion dollars in total assets. The six largest banks now account for 67 percent of those assets and all of the other banks account for only 33 percent of those assets.
-Approximately 1,400 smaller banks have disappeared over the past five years.
-JPMorgan Chase is roughly the size of the entire British economy.
-The four largest banks have more than a million employees combined.
-The five largest banks account for 42 percent of all loans in the United States.
-Bank of America accounts for about a third of all business loans all by itself.
-Wells Fargo accounts for about one quarter of all mortgage loans all by itself.
-About 12 percent of all cash in the United States is held in the vaults of JPMorgan Chase.The Derivatives BubbleMost people simply do not understand that over the past couple of decades Wall Street has been transformed into the largest and wildest casino on the entire planet.
Nobody knows for sure how large the global derivatives bubble is at this point, because derivatives trading is lightly regulated compared to other types of trading. But everyone agrees that it is absolutely massive. Estimates range from $600 trillion to $1.5 quadrillion.
And what we do know is that four of the too big to fail banks each have total exposure to derivatives that is in excess of $40 trillion.
The numbers posted below may look similar to numbers that I have included in articles in the past, but for this article I have updated them with the very latest numbers from the U.S. government. Since the last time that I wrote about this, these numbers have gotten even worse...
JPMorgan ChaseTotal Assets: $1,989,875,000,000 (nearly 2 trillion dollars)Total Exposure To Derivatives: $71,810,058,000,000 (more than 71 trillion dollars)CitibankTotal Assets: $1,344,751,000,000 (a bit more than 1.3 trillion dollars)Total Exposure To Derivatives: $62,963,116,000,000 (more than 62 trillion dollars)Bank Of AmericaTotal Assets: $1,438,859,000,000 (a bit more than 1.4 trillion dollars)Total Exposure To Derivatives: $41,386,713,000,000 (more than 41 trillion dollars)Goldman SachsTotal Assets: $111,117,000,000 (just a shade over 111 billion dollars – yes, you read that correctly)Total Exposure To Derivatives: $47,467,154,000,000 (more than 47 trillion dollars)During the coming derivatives crisis, several of those banks could fail simultaneously.
If that happened, it would be an understatement to say that we would be facing an "economic collapse".
Credit would totally freeze up, nobody would be able to get loans, and economic activity would grind to a standstill.
It is absolutely inexcusable how reckless these big banks have been.
Just look at those numbers for Goldman Sachs again.Goldman Sachs has total assets worth approximately 111 billion dollars (billion with a little "b"), but they have more than 47 trillion dollars of total exposure to derivatives.
That means that the total exposure that Goldman Sachs has to derivatives contracts is more than 427 times greater than their total assets.I don't know why more people aren't writing about this.
This is utter insanity.
During the next great financial crisis, it is very likely that the rest of the planet is going to lose faith in the current global financial system that is based on the U.S. dollar and on U.S. debt.
When that day arrives, and the U.S. dollar loses reserve currency status, the shift in our standard of living is going to be dramatic. Just consider what Marin Katusa of Casey Research had to say the other day...It will be shocking for the average American... if the petro dollar dies and the U.S. loses its reserve currency status in the world there will be no middle class.The middle class and the low class... wow... what a game changer. Your cost of living will quadruple.
The debt-fueled prosperity that we are enjoying now will not last forever. A day of reckoning is fast approaching, and most Americans will not be able to handle the very difficult adjustments that they will be forced to make.
Here is some more from Marin Katusa...Imagine this... take a country like Croatia... the average worker with a university degree makes about 1200 Euros a month. He spends a third of that, after tax, on keeping his house warm and filling up his gas tank to get to work and get back from work.
In North America, we don't make $1200 a month, and we don't spend a third of our paycheck on keeping our house warm and driving to work... so, the cost of living... food will triple... heat, electricity, everything subsidized by the government will triple overnight... and it will only get worse even if you can get the services.All of this could have been prevented if we had done things the right way.Unfortunately, we didn't learn any of the lessons that we should have learned from the last financial crisis, and our politicians and the central banks have just continued to do the same things that they have always done.
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Whoopsie – President Obuma Is Part Of The 'War On Women' – Video of President Calling Michelle Obama "Bossy" !!
The Clown finally got something RIGHT!!!
Yesss! Turkish Fatwa Finally Bans Muslims From Eating Otter Meat
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Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has issued a fatwa stating that kangaroo meat and grasshoppers are "halal" food, but Islam bans eating "badgers, martens, weasels, beavers and sea otters."
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kangaroo-meat-halal-turkeys-directorate-general-for-religious-affairs-says.aspx?pageID=238&nID=63428&NewsCatID=393
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..."free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last"...
What advice would you give to a retired Air Force Colonel that has three graduate degrees and that cannot even find work as a janitor? 59-year-old Robert Freniere once served as a special assistant to General Stanley McChrystal, and he has spent extensive time in both Iraq and Afghanistan. But now this man who once had an office in the heart of the Pentagon cannot find anyone who will hire him. In addition to his story, in this article you will also hear about several other middle-aged professionals that cannot find work in this economy either. Despite what the Obama administration and the mainstream media are telling you, the truth is that there has been no employment recovery in this country. What you are about to read is absolutely heartbreaking, but it represents the reality of what is really going on out there in the streets of America today.From the Pentagon to Life in a Van
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Robert Freniere in the van where he lives. "He's done a lot of things. . . . He's got the gift of gab. Very smart," said Adm. James Hogg, who officiated at Freniere's retirement.
By Julie Zauzmer, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: January 06, 2014
http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-06/news/45885460_1_veterans-day-homeless-veterans-hogg
http://www.philly.com/philly/gallery/20140105_From_the_Pentagon_to_life_in_a_van.html?viewGallery=y
After a 30-year military career in which he earned three graduate degrees, rose to the rank of colonel, and served as an aide to Pentagon brass, Robert Freniere can guess what people might say when they learn he's unemployed and lives out of his van:
Why doesn't this guy get a job as a janitor?
Freniere answers his own question: "Well, I've tried that."
Freniere, 59, says that his plea for help, to a janitor he once praised when the man was mopping the floors of his Washington office, went unfulfilled. So have dozens of job applications, he says, the ones he has filled out six hours a day, day after day, on public library computers.
So Freniere, a man who braved multiple combat zones and was hailed as "a leading light" by an admiral, is now fighting a new battle: homelessness.
"You stay calm. That's what we were trained for when I went through survival training," he said recently in King of Prussia, where he had parked his blue minivan, the one crammed with all his possessions and held together with duct tape.
As of January 2012, more than 60,000 veterans were homeless, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Reducing that number has been a priority for the Obama administration - and the number of homeless veterans dropped 24 percent nationwide from 2009 to 2013. In Pennsylvania, however, it jumped 46 percent, to more than 1,400.
Joblessness among returning service members is even more common. Freniere describes a monthly lunch he has attended in Washington, a hushed tradition that he says attracts about 200 veterans. After they eat, the men and women who are unemployed stand up one by one to recite their service records, hoping someone else in the room will hire them.
Many, he says, are highly accomplished.
Like Freniere.
"He's done a lot of things; he's been a lot of places. . . . He's got the gift of gab. Very smart," said Adm. James Hogg, who officiated at Freniere's retirement ceremony in 2006.
Last month, Freniere teared up as he asked Hogg for advice on finding a paycheck. Hogg was stunned.
"That's crazy," Hogg said in an interview. "With all his experience, especially in intelligence, there's got to be a spot for him."
Spots are hard to come by. Freniere, like many of his fellow down-on-their-luck veterans, does not match any hat-in-hand Hollywood image of homelessness. He receives an annual pension from the military of more than $40,000.
His struggle to find a job after retiring from the Air Force collided with the end of his marriage nearly two years ago. Unable to return to the home he shared with his estranged wife, and faced with expenses including bills for two sons in college and debts that mounted when he maintained a nicer lifestyle, he took up a nomadic existence.
Between spells on the couches of friends in multiple states, he sleeps occasionally in motels and other times in the dented blue van.
On Veterans Day, he found himself in King of Prussia. He had paid for a motel room the night before, to be near his younger son, Eric, a student at Valley Forge Military Academy and College in Wayne.
But Freniere could not afford another night, so he was packing his belongings into his minivan.
A motel guest who noticed Freniere's Air Force cap and packed van struck up a conversation, and ended up paying for Freniere to stay another night.
That same week, Freniere agreed to share his story with an Inquirer reporter who had heard about his plight.
Over chips and salsa at a Baja Fresh in King of Prussia, he spent more than four hours engaged in a rambling conversation in which he quoted Dante, Andrew Jackson, and the novelist Leon Uris. He touched on his hobbies, from painting to playing guitar to learning new languages.
Freniere, who said he had been found to have dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, said he earned the nickname "Lightning" in the military for his constant motion and ability to talk anyone's ear off.
"Lightning" mentions the screenplay he wrote about astronauts going to the moon, and the beginning of a romance novel. He describes competing in sailing regattas with friends. He says he once tried to start a business with his wife and mother selling football-themed stuffed ducks.
Some of what he says is not easily or independently verifiable. But the bulk of his story - and one that is confirmed by military records - is a story of service.
A career dreamIt's a story that goes back generations. In one of the many boxes in his van, Freniere holds on to letters written from France during World War I by a great-grandfather who, according to family lore, lied about his age so he could still fight at 60. Freniere's father served in World War II and Korea, then raised his family on Air Force bases all over the world.
Freniere was born in 1954, the third of five children. He says his oldest brother served in Vietnam; his sister is a retired Navy nurse; and two more brothers are retired colonels.
Freniere and his two younger brothers became Eagle Scouts together, then went together to the Citadel, he said. Military records confirm that he joined the Army in 1976. His first post was in Schweinfurt, West Germany, where troops were then on guard against a Soviet attack.
There, Freniere said, he was tapped to lead an investigation into drug trafficking by soldiers on the base.
"All I had ever wanted to do was be in the Army," Freniere said. "The Vietnam War had just ended, and the military really was very down on itself."
In the drug investigation, he found a sense of purpose. "I didn't know anything about drugs, because I'd never used them. I was a goody-two-shoes boy," he said. "I finally felt like I was really doing something for my country, because I was getting rid of these bad guys."
He said that his role in arresting members of his own platoon caused tension with his superiors. He left the Army for the Air Force, where he pursued his newfound interest in investigation as an intelligence officer.
As he moved through the ranks, he served in combat zones in Somalia, Panama, Haiti, and Kuwait, Freniere said. He also married his childhood neighbor, had two sons, and earned master's degrees in political science and criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati and a master's in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.
Records show that Freniere moved to the Pentagon in 2000. He said he was there when it was hit by terrorists Sept. 11, 2001.
Two years later, he became special assistant to Gen. Stanley McChrystal, then the vice director of operations of the Joint Staff.
In 2005, Freniere said, he volunteered to go to Iraq. "Everybody thought I was nuts, especially my sons," who were 15 and 13 at the time, he said. "But I'm a counterterrorism guy. That's what I do."
But as he was preparing to deploy, he said, he felt his legs go numb one day. He had suffered from back pain since he was injured in his 20s, when a soldier he was training to operate a tank fired the gun too soon.
Three days after the numbness began, Freniere underwent back surgery. Instead of flying to Iraq, he spent a year and a half convalescing, he said. In 2006, he retired from the Air Force.
The struggle for workAfter his retirement, Freniere said, it took him a year to find work. Like many retired servicemen, he turned to jobs with defense contractors. Twice, the work took him to Afghanistan, he said.
When he came home, he had nowhere to go after separating from his second wife. (In an interview, she said that he does not help her pay the mortgage on their home.)
Freniere said he had not been able to find a contracting job since August 2012. He blames the federal sequestration for squeezing contractors of money and of the confidence to hire people. He has not lasted long at other jobs, as a substitute teacher and an executive in a company writing proposals for government grants.
One of his complaints about the latter job was that it took him too far from his sons - Bobby, enrolled at a community college in Virginia, and Eric, at VFMA.
Eric, 21, plans to follow in his father's military footsteps. "My dad's the most motivated person I've ever met in my whole life, and he's living out of his van," Eric said. "A full colonel with three master's degrees? I don't get it at all - it doesn't make sense to me. If he had a job right now, we'd be fine. We're not fine right now."
Freniere says dyslexia makes focusing on a computer screen difficult. Online applications are so hard for him, he said, that tears well in his eyes as he describes his days at public libraries.
"How many applications can you fill out in a day? And it takes you six or seven hours, and then you don't hear from any of them. You start getting hopeless," he said.
But Freniere said that he had not lost hope, that he returns to tropes he learned back in survival training - "stay calm," "get the job done" - when he needs comfort.
"I'm a military guy. I'm mission-oriented. You don't give up," Freniere says. "I've got a lot of good experience. I've got two beautiful sons. I've got a van. I don't know how long it's going to hold up, but I've got it. I've got a lot of things to be thankful for."
Robert Freniere is local to Philly and got some coverage in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Since then he has had many job offers, offers of places to stay and offers of help from the local vets groups. (There was some comment about possible military related mental problems and difficulty making decisions...?)
His pension is due to increase next year, so he will not be destitute.
He sounds like a really interesting person who should be OK soon. I'm not sure how someone making $40,000 ends up living in a van, but I'll not question it. That's more than some people make while they are working.
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Turns out Obama and Chris Christie were childhood friends.......
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Think Arizona almost did something horrible? Well "Oklahoma is doing it anyway,"
From Glenn Stanfield:
Oklahoma is the only state that Obama did not win even one county in the last election... While everyone is focusing on Arizona 's new law, look what Oklahoma has been doing!!!!
An update from Oklahoma :
Oklahoma law passed, 37 to 9 an amendment to place the Ten Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol. The feds in D.C., along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake. Hey this is a conservative state, based on Christian values...! HB 1330
Guess what.......... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all illegal immigrants, and ship them back to where they came from unless they want to get a green card and become an American citizen. They all scattered. HB 1804. This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and the ACLU, they said it would be a mistake.
Guess what.......... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Recently we passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all illegal's to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative purposes. Pelosi said it was unconstitutional SB 1102
Guess what......... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Several weeks ago, we passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign state, not under the Federal Government directives. Joining Texas , Montana and Utah as the only states to do so.
More states are likely to follow: Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Carolina's, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia, Mississippi and Florida. Save your confederate money, it appears the South is about to rise up once again. HJR 1003
The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns. Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles. I'm sure that was a setback for the criminals The Liberals didn't like it -- But....
Guess what........... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Just this month, the state has voted and passed a law that ALL drivers' license exams will be printed in English, and only English, and no other language. They have been called racist for doing this, but the fact is that ALL of the road signs are in English only. If you want to drive in Oklahoma , you must read and write English. Really simple.
By the way, the Liberals don't like any of this either
Guess what...who cares... Oklahoma is doing it anyway.I do not have a link for this as I took it off my Facebook.
I have not verified a single word of this but even if it isn't true it would be great wishful thinking.
Cost Of Manure Hits Record High Of $32,400 At Obuma Fundraiser
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(Not including the cost of the spreader)
Via Allen B. WestTalk about the high cost of living – here in Florida, you can get a generous bag of manure at Home Depot for about five bucks. But in Washington, DC it will cost you $32,400.According to The Hill reporter Justin Sink (no relation to defeated Democrat congressional candidate Alex Sink), around 40 Democrat donors paid $32,400 per ticket to benefit the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The event was hosted at the Manhattan home of private equity fund Blackstone Group President and Chief Operating Officer, Tony Jones. In attendance at the event along with President Obama was New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. This was the president's second fundraiser of the night, following a roundtable discussion hosted by the Democratic National Committee where approximately 25 supporters contributed up to $32,400 to attend that one as well.
Gee, I thought Obama and DeBlasio hated those mean old one-percenters. And where were the "Occupy Wall Streeters" complaining and protesting their beloved progressive socialist President and Mayor hanging out with the stinking rich? I'd like to know the names of everyone who attended in full disclosure – so I can steer clear of them.
I suppose no one between canapés discussed the fact that Obama and DeBlasio have an average approval rating somewhere around 39 percent.
China Warns West Against Russia Sanctions as Obama Warns Russia
Thursday, March 13, 2014, 12:51 PM
China's top envoy warned the West about punishing Russia with economic sanctions.
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Alleged disposition of Russian troops on Ukraine's eastern border
Reuters reported:China's top envoy to Germany has warned the West against punishing Russia with sanctions for its intervention in Ukraine, saying such measures could lead to a dangerous chain reaction that would be difficult to control.
In an interview with Reuters days before the European Union is threatening to impose its first sanctions on Russia since the Cold War, ambassador Shi Mingde issued the strongest warning against such measures by any top Chinese official to date.
"We don't see any point in sanctions," Shi said. "Sanctions could lead to retaliatory action, and that would trigger a spiral with unforeseeable consequences. We don't want this."
The interview was conducted on Wednesday, the same day that the EU agreed a framework for sanctions that would slap travel bans and asset freezes on people and companies accused by Brussels of violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has taken the lead in trying to mediate in the crisis, has said the measures, which mirror steps announced by the United States, will be imposed on Monday unless Russia accepts the idea of a "contact group" to resolve the crisis diplomatically.Meanwhile, Obama warned Russia yesterday after meeting with the prime minister of Ukraine.
BREAKING: US Officials Believe Missing Flight #MH370 FLEW FOR 5 HOURS – Transponders Shut Down Intentionally (VIDEO)Posted by
Thursday, March 13, 2014, 8:01 PM
US Officials Believe Missing Flight #MH370 FLEW FOR 5 HOURS – Communications Shut Down Intentionally
The new information stretches the search map out to 2,530 miles – All the way to Pakistan!
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Jetliner 'Pinged' Satellites With Location, Altitude for Hours After Disappearance
** US investigators believe the aircraft flew for five hours after the transponders stopped functioning
** Three automated tracking features were turned off during the flight
** The transponder was shut down at 1:21 AM
** The belief is that this was intentional
** The USS Kidd is traveling to the Indian Ocean to search for remnants of the flight
** US officials are looking into information that the plane was diverted to a private location for use laterMegyn Kelly led off her show The Kelly File tonight with this breaking news:
Investigators believe the plane was sending signals for up to five hours.The Wall Street Journal reported:The investigators believe the plane flew for a total of up to five hours, according to these people, based on analysis of signals sent by the Boeing 777′s satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status of certain onboard systems to the ground.
Throughout the roughly four hours after the jet dropped from civilian radar screens, these people said, the link operated in a kind of standby mode and sought to establish contact with a satellite or satellites. These transmissions did not include data, they said, but the periodic contacts indicate to investigators that the plane was still intact and believed to be flying.
Investigators are still working to fully understand the information, according to one person briefed on the matter. The transmissions, this person said, were comparable to the plane "saying I'm here, I'm ready to send data."
Investigators are trying to determine, among other things, whether the plane may have landed in an unknown location at some point during the period under scrutiny, these people said.The plane could have reached Pakistan in four hours.
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Missing Malaysian #MH370 Jet – Could Have Flown to Pakistan in 4 Hours
Thursday, March 13, 2014, 7:47 PM
Officials Now Searching INDIAN OCEAN, India, China, Australia for Missing Flight #MH370
The new search map includes Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Singapore and Australia.(http://3-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/507x452xnew-map-plane.jpg.pagespeed.ic.7r86qxU-3a.jpg)
U.S. officials believe the missing plane could have come down in the Indian Ocean (left), rather than the South China Sea (right), while speculation that the plane could have kept flying for four hours after losing contact were described as 'inaccurate'.
Business Insider reported:Two U.S. officials believe the shutdown of two separate communications systems from the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 happened at different times, indicating the disappearance was less likely the result of a catastrophic failure and more the result of a "deliberate act," according to a new report from ABC News.
Sources speaking with ABC believe the data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 a.m., while the transponder — sending out location and altitude data — was shut down at 1:21 a.m.
Further, investigators suspect the missing flight stayed in the air for about four hours after it reached its last confirmed location, according to Andy Pasztor of The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal originally reported that they obtained data from the aircraft's engines, but then issued a correction saying that U.S. investigators based their position on "an analysis of signals sent through the plane's satellite-communication link designed to automatically transmit the status of some onboard systems."
Satellites picked up 'electronic pings' from the flight after it lost contact, Reuters reports.
Malaysian authorities immediately rebutted the initial report, but have not provided any new information about the fate of the flight. Today, the country's minister of defense and acting minister of transport said the plane simply "vanished."
Demmy-Dummy Texas Congresswoman Does It Again...
Sheila Jackson Lee Claims US Constitution Is 400 Years Old (video)
March 13, 2014
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Democrat Rep Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), already confused about Mars landing vs. Moon landing, is now confused about age of US Constitution
(Gaffetastic!)
Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of the 18th District in Texas has screwed it up again — she erroneously stated yesterday on the House floor that the US. Constitution was 400 years old, which would put its adoption at 1614.
Long before George Washington was born, long before any of the founding fathers were born.
The Constitution was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. It went into effect in 1789.She was off by about 173 years — good going, Sheila:"Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not." Jackson Lee also confused the 1960s Moon landing with the Curiosity landing on Mars and believes there are two Vietnams. Earlier this year, Jackson Lee said she wanted the word "welfare" changed to "transitional living fund" because it's less racist, or something like that.Another "oops moment" for SJL:
FAIL: Democrat Claims Constitution Is 400 Years Old | March 12, 2014....
VIDEO AT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTVFQEQ7xTo
This is the same mean-spirited, clueless elected official who condemned a Pepsi Super Bowl ad while on the congressional floor, calling it racist, the same woman who gets confused about the differences between "surplus" and "debt," who claimed Rodney King was "a great philosopher."
Who keeps voting for this chucklehead?
In all fairness, Jackson Lee isn't the only one in our federal government who is confused or ignorant about our Constitution. Back in 2009, Pres. Barack Obama said the Constitution was "20 centuries old." He was off by a stunning 1,777 years.
If George W. Bush had made the exact same gaffe, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, and all the others in the liberal mainstream media would have had a royal heyday, maybe even a "heyweek." Instead, most in the media chose to ignore Obama's jaw-dropping mistake, hoping no one sees the video on YouTube.
EXCLUSIVE: FBI blocked in corruption probe involving Sens. Reid, Lee
Agents quietly working with Utah prosecutors to make case in DOJ absence
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/13/fbi-blocked-in-corruption-probe-involving-sens-rei/
Even Dirtier:
NSA Plan to Infect Millions of Computers
with 'Malware Implant'
March 13, 2014 By 21wire
21st Century Wire says...
The NSA leaks coming out of the Snowden camp are getting worse and sounding more pernicious by the week.
When we saw the GCHQ training guide to professional trolling, honey-potting online, targeting businesses and running slander campaigns online – we thought that was the apex of criminality, until now...
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This is perhaps the dirtiest and most offensive government-sanctioned crime emporium yet, although we won't close the betting window just yet.
What some might refer to as 'groundbreaking surveillance technology', we'll simply call it what it is – another thing coming out of the NSA that has nothing to do with the 'national security' of the USA, and everything to do with intentionally ruining this present version of the internet.
These revelations from Ed Snowden were not conjured up out of thin air – because all of these shady programs were put in play for a reason, and it's a safe bet that it has nothing to do with catching Islamic terrorists. This is about the nature and structure of the internet as we know it. There are many corporate firms who stand to benefit should the confidence and the functionality of the current Internet become compromised beyond repair – and one can only guess how many current NSA corporate contractors stand to gain from such redundancies, and transitions to new platforms. Such a crisis or 'transition' could net hundreds of billions of dollars. Out of chaos... comes order, and in that order is where you can make a serious buck.
Their objective here couldn't be anymore insidious: to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with specially designed malware "implants."
"The clandestine initiative enables the NSA to break into targeted computers and to siphon out data from foreign Internet and phone networks."
The public should really be under no illusions as to what we are looking at here – an agency out of control, with no meaningful oversight – acting as a law onto itself.
The agency should be disbanded, and all of its lucrative corporate contractors it uses to circumvent fundamental US laws and violate Americans and others' rights – should be put out to pasture...
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By Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald
First Look/ The Intercept
Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process.
The classified files – provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – contain new details about groundbreaking surveillance technology the agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers worldwide with malware "implants." The clandestine initiative enables the NSA to break into targeted computers and to siphon out data from foreign Internet and phone networks.
The covert infrastructure that supports the hacking efforts operates from the agency's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, and from eavesdropping bases in the United Kingdom and Japan. GCHQ, the British intelligence agency, appears to have played an integral role in helping to develop the implants tactic.
In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target's computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive. In others, it has sent out spam emails laced with the malware, which can be tailored to covertly record audio from a computer's microphone and take snapshots with its webcam. The hacking systems have also enabled the NSA to launch cyberattacks by corrupting and disrupting file downloads or denying access to websites.
The implants being deployed were once reserved for a few hundred hard-to-reach targets, whose communications could not be monitored through traditional wiretaps. But the documents analyzed by The Intercept show how the NSA has aggressively accelerated its hacking initiatives in the past decade by computerizing some processes previously handled by humans. The automated system – codenamed TURBINE – is designed to "allow the current implant network to scale to large size (millions of implants) by creating a system that does automated control implants by groups instead of individually."
In a top-secret presentation, dated August 2009, the NSA describes a pre-programmed part of the covert infrastructure called the "Expert System," which is designed to operate "like the brain." The system manages the applications and functions of the implants and "decides" what tools they need to best extract data from infected machines.
Mikko Hypponen, an expert in malware who serves as chief research officer at the Finnish security firm F-Secure, calls the revelations "disturbing." The NSA's surveillance techniques, he warns, could inadvertently be undermining the security of the Internet.
"When they deploy malware on systems," Hypponen says, "they potentially create new vulnerabilities in these systems, making them more vulnerable for attacks by third parties."
Hypponen believes that governments could arguably justify using malware in a small number of targeted cases against adversaries. But millions of malware implants being deployed by the NSA as part of an automated process, he says, would be "out of control."
"That would definitely not be proportionate," Hypponen says. "It couldn't possibly be targeted and named. It sounds like wholesale infection and wholesale surveillance."
The NSA declined to answer questions about its deployment of implants, pointing to a new presidential policy directive announced by President Obama. "As the president made clear on 17 January," the agency said in a statement, "signals intelligence shall be collected exclusively where there is a foreign intelligence or counterintelligence purpose to support national and departmental missions, and not for any other purposes."
"Owning the Net"
The NSA began rapidly escalating its hacking efforts a decade ago. In 2004, according to secret internal records, the agency was managing a small network of only 100 to 150 implants. But over the next six to eight years, as an elite unit called Tailored Access Operations (TAO) recruited new hackers and developed new malware tools, the number of implants soared to tens of thousands.
To penetrate foreign computer networks and monitor communications that it did not have access to through other means, the NSA wanted to go beyond the limits of traditional signals intelligence, or SIGINT, the agency's term for the interception of electronic communications. Instead, it sought to broaden "active" surveillance methods – tactics designed to directly infiltrate a target's computers or network devices.
In the documents, the agency describes such techniques as "a more aggressive approach to SIGINT" and says that the TAO unit's mission is to "aggressively scale" these operations.
But the NSA recognized that managing a massive network of implants is too big a job for humans alone.
"One of the greatest challenges for active SIGINT/attack is scale," explains the top-secret presentation from 2009. "Human 'drivers' limit ability for large-scale exploitation (humans tend to operate within their own environment, not taking into account the bigger picture)."
The agency's solution was TURBINE. Developed as part of TAO unit, it is described in the leaked documents as an "intelligent command and control capability" that enables "industrial-scale exploitation."
http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/03/13/even-dirtier-nsa-plan-to-infect-millions-of-computers-with-malware-implant/
Justice Department refuses info on
hundreds of prosecutor misconduct cases
By Jim McElhatton
The Washington Times
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Hundreds of federal prosecutors over the past decade have committed serious misconduct, but the Justice Department has refused to release the names of the offenders, according to a report released Thursday.
From 2002 through last year, the department's office of professional responsibility documented more than 650 infractions. Most were categorized as "reckless" or "intentional misconduct," the Project on Government Oversight reported.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/13/justice-department-refuses-info-on-hundreds-of-pro/
MAP: Here's Why Ukraine Fears A Russian Invasion
Michael Kelley Mar. 14, 2014
On Thursday, Ukraine security chief Andriy Parubiy claimed that Russia has placed 80,000 solders, 270 tanks, 370 artillery systems, and 140 combat aircraft near the Ukrainian border.
"Ukraine today is facing the threat of a full-scale invasion from various directions," he said.
Vladimir Putin has reserved the right to intervene wherever he decides that ethnic Russians are under threat of "lawlessness."
"Russia is aware of its responsibility for the lives of compatriots and fellow citizens in Ukraine and reserves the right to take people under its protection," the Kremlin said in a statement on Friday following the death of at least one protester in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk.
This map, created by Facebook user Smitry Tymchuk, illustrates the threat that Parubiy referred to:
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Kansas Capitol camera costs up for debate
By Travis Perry / March 14, 2014 /
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State Sen. Kay Wolf
Sue Cotter, information and teleconferencing manager for the Alaska Legislative Information Office, said the northernmost state was able to prep and ready eight committee rooms for online video in 2010 for about $190,000. The previous year, Alaska had authorized a short pilot program to test out the concept on two of Alaska's 10 committee rooms.
Becky Wood of the Nevada Legislature's Broadcast and Production Services department said the Silver State invested about $200,000 in 1991 for video teleconferencing purposes in every committee room within their state's Capitol. A decade later, an additional $72,000 investment put those same video feeds online for public consumption.
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Jim Miller, legislative chief IT Officer
Jim Miller, chief legislative information technology officer for the state of Kansas, said his research into what other states have done focused primarily on an online database of state broadcasting capabilities compiled by the National Conference of State Legislatures. However, that database only details what they can do, not how they went about doing it.
Lucas Ingala, owner of Watchmen Security Services in Lees Summit, Mo., which specializes in remote camera surveillance, examined a cost breakdown of Clayton's original proposal provided to Kansas Watchdog by Miller. Considering how all rooms are already wired for video, which is often the most labor-intensive part of the job, Ingala said the fiscal estimate seemed on the high side.
While it's difficult to directly compare technological capabilities and feasibility between state governments, as each faces its own unique set of challenges, the fiscal efficiency demonstrated by other states certainly deserves a closer study.
SB 413 doesn't specify which four committee rooms would come under the camera's gaze in 2015, should the bill become law. While the House Appropriations, as well as the Senate's Ways and Means, Education and Federal and State Affairs committees are all being considered, the final decision is now left up to Miller and legislative leaders.
Wolf's proposal made odd alliances, bringing together Americans for Prosperity, the Mainstream Coalition, Game On for Kansas Schools and the Kansas Police Institute, all in the name of transparency.
Dave Trabert, KPI president, argued in favor of Clayton's original, and more expensive, plan. It's a position not usually seen by the fiscally conservative think tank, though Trabert came armed and ready with a way to foot the bill.
Pointing to $1.5 million in tax refund cash reserves held by the state Department of Revenue, Trabert said the money could easily be swept into the general fund without impacting the state agency. He noted that the fund balances aren't necessary; tax refunds are netted against tax receipts, rather than being considered a departmental expense.
"This money has not been touched for years, and it never will be," Trabert said.
Trabert was joined by Sen. Robert Olson, R-Olathe, in calling for full expansion of video broadcasting capabilities.
"What's going to happen is we're going to get three or four years into this (pilot) project and someone's going to want to kill it, and they will," Olson said, referencing Kansas' two previous attempts at online video 2004 and 2008. "We need to do it all, or we're just wasting our taxpayers' money."
But Miller cautioned against getting over-eager by implementing a large-scale video scheme before state employees have worked out the logistics of online video in the Capitol.
"We're asking for another disaster if we attempt to do all of this at the same time," Miller said.
Concerns from state lawmakers included a fear that video could be captured and maliciously edited to distort the truth. Wolf said benefits offered by online video far outweighed any potential negative side effects.
Sen. Mitch Holmes, R- Saint John, criticized the cost of the video initiative, speculating the state would get more bang for its buck by focusing on audio in every conference room.
"I think you miss a lot when you're only listening to something and not seeing it," Wolf said. "I would respectfully disagree with you."
http://watchdog.org/132577/kansas-online-video/
Bombshell: National Black Republican Association Files Articles of Impeachment Against Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro)
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A conservative black citizens group, the National Black Republican Association (NBRA), has filed detailed articles of impeachment against Barack Obama, calling for his removal from office over the National Security Agency spying program, the prosecution of whistleblowers, wiretapping journalists, his torture program and the cover-up of Benghazi.
Though the group associates itself with Republicans, many of the articles referenced deal with activities that the Obama administration has engaged in with the full support of establishment Republicans, such as the NSA spying programs, illegal torture and treatment of whistleblowers like Edward Snowden.
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We, black American citizens, in order to free ourselves and our fellow citizens from governmental tyranny do herewith submit these Articles of Impeachment to Congress for the removal of President Barack H. Obama, aka, Barry Soetoro, from office for his attack on liberty and commission of egregious acts of despotism that constitute high crimes and misdemeanors," the articles begin.
The articles go on to remind us of what our founders did in 1776: Asserting their right to break free from the tyranny of a nation that denied them the civil liberties that are our birthright, the founders declared: "When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." – Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. (http://im41.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/impeach-obama.png)
The articles blast Barack Obama and his administration for failing to secure the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, and then upon that failure, covering it up to hide the true nature of the attacks.
"He has covered up, delayed, impeded and obstructed the investigation of the Benghazi Battle," Article 1 states. Specifically, he has done so with the claims of a video and protests being the reason for the attacks, and most recently the discovery that CIA operatives who survived the September 11, 2012 attacks have been threatened and polygraphed frequently by the intelligence agency to keep them silent.
Article 2 says that he disclosed secret grand jury material by exposing the existence of a sealed indictment of one of the Benghazi suspects. The group cites it as a violation of
Rule 6(e) of the
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that states:
"...no person may disclose the indictment's existence except as necessary to issue or execute a warrant or summons.'' The articles also deal with Operation Fast and Furious, the targeting of American individuals, organizations and agencies by the Internal Revenue Service, the authorization and permission of the NSA to conduct or continue electronic surveillance of over 3000 million Americans without cause, wiretapping of over one hundred reporters from the Associated Press and other outlets. The abuse of power goes even further, as in Article 8 demonstrates how Obama has thwarted Congress. The article states he has done so by: (1) failing to enforce all or parts of laws duly enacted by Congress, including the Defense of Marriage Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the Affordable Care Act; and (2) after Congress refused to pass his Dream Act, unilaterally issuing an executive order directing immigration officers to no longer deport an entire class of illegal immigrants who came here as children, regardless of individual circumstances, and to give them work-authorization permits.The articles also calls Obama to account for his bypassing the U.S. Senate to appoint three members of the National Labor Relations Board, which was ruled unconstitutional by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Obama's intimidation and prosecutions of whistleblowers are double that of all other presidents combined.
The Articles of Impeachment have been sent to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Boehner, House Minority Leader Pelosi and the full Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives for action.
This group has done what the House of Representative have failed to do. They have provided the documentation to impeach Barack Obama, aka Barry Soetoro. The question now rests with Congress, will you take these up and bring these articles of impeachment to the United States Senate and make your case before the American people, or will you cower in fear and give excuses like Congressman Markwayne Mullin for failing to do your constitutional duty?
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Below is the full language of the NBRA's articles of impeachment:We, black American citizens, in order to free ourselves and our fellow citizens from governmental tyranny, do herewith submit these Articles of Impeachment to Congress for the removal of President Barack H. Obama, aka, Barry Soetoro, from office for his attack on liberty and commission of egregious acts of despotism that constitute high crimes and misdemeanors. On July 4, 1776, the founders of our nation declared their independence from governmental tyranny and reaffirmed their faith in independence with the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791. Asserting their right to break free from the tyranny of a nation that denied them the civil liberties that are our birthright,
the founders declared: "When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." - Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. THE IMPEACHMENT POWER
Article II, Section IV of the United States Constitution provides: "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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THE ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
In his conduct of the office of President of the United States, Barack H. Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, personally and through his subordinates and agents, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has prevented, obstructed, and impeded the administration of justice, in that: ARTICLE 1 He has covered up, delayed, impeded and obstructed the investigation of the Benghazi Battle.
Specific conduct includes: (1) failing to adequately secure the US Consulate and the CIA annex in Benghazi; (2) failing to send a response team to rescue embattled US citizens in Benghazi; (3) lying to the American people about why the US Consulate and the CIA annex were attacked in Benghazi; and (4) hiding from the media and congressional investigators the Central Intelligence Agency personnel and other wounded US citizens who were on the ground in Benghazi by scattering them throughout the United States, forcing them to adopt new identities and subjecting them to monthly polygraph tests.
Benghazi Battle elements that are under investigation:
On September 11, 2012, the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, the US Consulate and the CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya was targeted in a premeditated, preplanned attack launched without warning by Islamist militants.
Footage of the attack broadcast in real time showed armed men attacking the consulate with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades, assault rifles, 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, truck mounted artillery, diesel canisters, and mortars. It was not an act of savage mob violence, nor a spontaneous protest in response to an anti-Islamic video on YouTube.
In that attack, four American citizens were killed: US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens; Information Officer Sean Smith; and two embassy security personnel, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, both former Navy SEALs. Ambassador Stevens is the first U.S. ambassador killed in an attack since Adolph Dubs was killed in 1979. ARTICLE 2 He has disclosed secret grand jury material by exposing the existence of a sealed indictment of one of the Benghazi attackers in violation of Rule 6(e) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that clearly states: "... no person may disclose the indictment's existence except as necessary to issue or execute a warrant or summons.'' ARTICLE 3 He has authorized and permitted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a division of the Justice Department, to conduct Operation Fast and Furious, wherein guns were sold to Mexican drug trafficking organizations that were used to kill innocent Mexican civilians and two rifles sold to a smuggler in January 2010 ended up at the scene of the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. ARTICLE 4 He has authorized and permitted confidential income tax returns information from the Internal Revenue Service to be provided to unauthorized individuals, organizations and agencies. ARTICLE 5 He has caused investigations and audits to be initiated or conducted by the Internal Revenue Service in a discriminatory manner, including harassment and intimidation of conservative, evangelical and Tea Party groups applying for non-profit status between 2010 and 2012.
Elements of this illegal conduct include the facts that: (1) the head of the Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt organization division, Lois Lerner, admitted during a telephonic press event that illegal targeting occurred, then invoked her Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer questions before Congress about the targeting out of fear of self-incrimination; (2) two other career Internal Revenue Service employees stated that they acted at the behest of superiors in Washington — Carter Hull, a retired Internal Revenue Service Attorney and Elizabeth Hofacre, an employee of the Cincinnati IRS office which oversaw tax-exempt applications; and (3) Carter Hull stated that he was directed to forward the targeted applications to, among others, one of only two political appointees in the Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel William Wilkins. ARTICLE 6 He has (1) authorized and permitted the National Security Agency to conduct or continue electronic surveillance of over 300 million average Americans; (2) given access to National Security Agency surveillance data to other intelligence units within the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Secret Service, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security in violation of the law; and (3) conducted the surveillance of average Americans unconstrained by Congress, the United Supreme Court or the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court which has, to this date, functioned as a rubber stamp, having approved every request made of it in 2012 and rejecting only two of the 8,591 requests submitted between 2008 and 2012. ARTICLE 7 He has authorized and permitted the Department of Justice to wiretap and secretly obtain two months of telephone and e-mail records of Fox News Reporter James Rosen and over one hundred Associated Press journalists. ARTICLE 8 He has thwarted Congress by (1) failing to enforce all or parts of laws duly enacted by Congress, including the Defense of Marriage Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the Affordable Care Act; and (2) after Congress refused to pass his Dream Act, unilaterally issuing an executive order directing immigration officers to no longer deport an entire class of illegal immigrants who came here as children, regardless of individual circumstances, and to give them work-authorization permits. ARTICLE 9 He has violated the Constitution when, on January 4, 2012, (1) he bypassed the U. S. Senate to appoint three members of the National Labor Relations Board, actions that were ruled unconstitutional by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which affirmed previous decisions by the Court of Appeal for the D.C. Circuit and the Third Circuit; and (2) he bypassed the U. S. Senate to appoint Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. ARTICLE 10 He has intimidated whistleblowers and brought twice as many prosecutions against whistleblowers as all prior presidents combined. Egregiously, while refusing to prosecute anyone for actual torture, he prosecuted former Central Intelligence Agency employee John Kiriakou for disclosing the torture program. (http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/4d/5a/10/4d5a1000f56d80aeb42b1671f1f3039d.jpg)
Wherefore Barack H. Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
The Coming National DNA Database
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Michael Snyder
Activist Post
A national DNA database is coming. Barack Obuma has already said that he wants one. (http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8429/7688558840_4f595f13f9_z.jpg)
A major Supreme Court decision last month paved the way for one. The DNA of those that commit "serious crimes" is already being routinely collected all over the nation. Some states (such as New Jersey) are now passing laws that will require DNA collection from those charged with committing "low level crimes". And a law that was passed under George W. Bush allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the United States. So how long will it be before we are all required to give DNA samples to the authorities? How long will it be before DNA collection is routinely done when we take a trip to the DMV?
This may sound like science fiction to some people, but "security experts" and law enforcement personnel all over the country are now pushing for a national DNA database to be established.
Unfortunately, there is nothing really standing in the way of that. The Supreme Court has already spoken. Justice Scalia understood very clearly what the Supreme Court was doing last month. In his dissent, he made the following statement: "Make no mistake about it: because of today's decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason."
Those that are promoting a national DNA database claim that collecting the DNA of criminals is just like fingerprinting them, and that we should all be willing to submit to a slight intrusion to our privacy in order to make society a safer place.
But is it really just a slight intrusion?
Once they have the DNA of every American, the potential for abuse would be absolutely staggering. It would only be a matter of time before DNA identification replaced Social Security cards and every other form of identification. Eventually, there would be a very real possibility that we would all have to submit to "DNA verification" before we could get on an airplane, get a job, get a driver's license or get a bank account.
Of course that will not happen immediately, but that is the road that we are going down.
At first, DNA samples were only taken from sex offenders.
Once that precedent was set, they started taking it from all those charged with serious crimes.
Now they are taking it from those charged with low level crimes.
Eventually it will be all of us.
Do you doubt this?
Law enforcement officials are telling us that this is exactly what they want. The following is from a San Francisco Chronicle article from just this week...
Indiana law enforcement officials could find it easier to fight crime if a national database holding DNA profiles of everyone born in the United States is created as the result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month, experts say.
The prospect has had investigators and privacy advocates abuzz since the high court's June 3 decision that police could take a DNA swab from anyone arrested for a serious crime without violating Fourth Amendment limits on search and seizure.They want the "DNA profiles of everyone born in the United States". That is their goal.
And they are starting to slowly build this database already. Back in 2008, George W. Bush signed a law that permitted the federal government to "screen the DNA of all newborn babies"...
In April of 2008, President Bush signed into law S.1858 which allows the federal government to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. This was to be implemented within 6 months meaning that this collection is now being carried out. Congressman Ron Paul states that this bill is the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.
S.1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is justified as a "national contingency plan" in that it represents preparation for any sort of public health emergency. The bill states that the federal government should "continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening" and "maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening... ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the Internet and is updated at least quarterly". Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests. Read the full bill: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1858And according to the New York Times, hundreds of thousands of other DNA samples have already been collected from criminals all over the nation...
New York City has amassed a database with the profiles of 11,000 crime suspects. In Orange County, Calif., the district attorney's office has 90,000 profiles, many obtained from low-level defendants who give DNA as part of a plea bargain or in return for having the charges against them dropped. In Central Florida, several law enforcement agencies have pooled their DNA databases. A Baltimore database contains DNA from more than 3,000 homicide victims.
These law enforcement agencies are no longer content to rely solely on the highly regulated network of state and federal DNA databases, which have been more than two decades in the making and represent one of the most significant developments in the history of law enforcement in this country.But authorities are often frustrated because they come across DNA at crime scenes that is not in their databases.
If they had the DNA of everyone, they would instantly be able to identify any DNA left behind at a particular crime scene.
That is one reason why New Jersey recently passed a law that requires law enforcement personnel to collect DNA samples even from people that are convicted of low level crimes...
The state Senate today passed legislation that would require the collection of DNA samples from people convicted of some low-level crimes, including shoplifting and drug possession.
The bill (S436) was approved 36-3 this afternoon. An earlier version remains in committee in the Assembly.
"DNA is one of the most powerful tools we have to identify perpetrators and exonerate those falsely accused of crimes," state Sen. Nicholas Sacco (D-Hudson) said in a statement. "A more expansive DNA database will enable us to solve investigations with greater speed and accuracy."And once your DNA has been collected by one law enforcement agency, it will inevitably be shared with others.
In fact, DNA sharing agreements are becoming quite common. Recently, USA Today reported on a major international DNA sharing agreement between scientific researchers...
An international consortium of genomic researchers across 41 countries potentially moved us a step closer to such a reality when it announced this month a new data-sharing agreement for the expected deluge of human genomes to be sequenced in the near future as the cost falls to levels of an MRI.So if your DNA is taken even once, you just never know how many agencies and organizations are going to end up getting their hands on it.
Unfortunately, there is not much standing in the way of a national DNA database. Barack Obama is already on record as saying that this is something that he wants...
"This is where the national registry becomes so important, because what you have is individual states — they may have a database, but if they're not sharing it with the state next door, you've got a guy from Illinois driving over into Indiana, and they're not talking to each other."
Well, could we potentially see the American people stand up and object to this?I wouldn't count on it. Just look at how little fuss is being made over the NSA snooping scandal. The American people simply don't seem to care about privacy as much as they used to.
And things appear to be even worse in Europe. According to one new survey, Europeans are overwhelmingly in favor of using biometric information on identity documents and passports...
According to a new survey conducted by Steria, the majority of European citizens support the use of biometrics for criminal identification and for identity documents and passports, though slightly less than half are supportive of the technology replacing PIN numbers for bank cards.
Steria, a provider of IT-enabled business services, contracted Toluna to perform the survey on citizens in the UK, France , Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and found that 81 percent of respondents think biometrics for criminal identification is a good thing, and 69 percent agreed that they would support the use of biometrics in identity cards or passports.
Specifically, 81 percent of French citizens favor the application of biometrics for ID documents, compared to 74 percent of Danish respondents and 68 percent of the survey's British respondents. Across Europe, 69 percent were also in favor of using biometrics as a form of access control for secure areas. In this case, the French respondents proved again to be the most supportive, with 77 percent, followed by the Danes at 75 percent and the Brits at 69 percent.
Sadly, the truth is that Western society has become incredibly "dumbed down" and has become accustomed to these types of Big Brother tactics.
One example of this is posted below. In this video, you can actually watch Obama supporters signing a petition to repeal the Bill of Rights...
What in the world is happening to this country?
A Big Brother police state is being constructed all around us, and very few people seem to care.
In his dissent to the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalized a national DNA database, Justice Scalia wrote the following: "It may be wise, as the Court obviously believes, to make the Leviathan all-seeing, so that he may protect us all the better. The proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would not have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection."
Very wise words.
Hopefully we can get more Americans to wake up and realize the wisdom contained in our founding documents.
If not, I am afraid that a national DNA database will just be the beginning.
On the Money
Gun store owner refuses
to give feds customer list
OCEANSIDE, Calif. – The owner of an Oceanside store that sells various gun parts to build a rifle from scratch refused to turn over his customer list to federal agents.
Dimitrios Karras, owner of Ares Armor, said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents were investigating their business, not for what they sell, but for the people who purchase their products.
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Karras said the ATF threatened to shutter their business if they didn't hand over the names of 5,000 customers who have purchased an 80 percent lower receiver (the base) for building an AR-15.
It is legal to build a rifle from scratch without serial numbers only if the base is manufactured to ATF specifications. The base is not considered a firearm if it's sold separately.
A manufacturer made an 80 percent receiver in plastic with a different material and colors which show exactly where the customer can drill making it easier and cheaper to build. The ATF said it is illegal.
The ATF sent stores, including Ares Armor, letters demanding they turn over the products and names of customers who purchased them.
"They said either give us these 5000 names or we are coming in and taking pretty much anything – which is a huge privacy concern and something we are not willing to do," said Karras.
Karras's attorney informed the ATF to pick up the receivers Wednesday morning at their Oceanside location, but the inventory was not the issue. The store owner said he will not comply with turning over their private client list.
"They were going to search all of our facilities and confiscate our computer and pretty much shut our business down," said Karras. "The government invades our privacy on a daily basis and everyone thinks its ok. This is one of those situations where hopefully the governmental institutions will come in say this is protected and no you're not taking it from them."
In anticipation of a raid, they filed a temporary restraining order against the ATF, stopping them from confiscating their property, Karras said. The ATF has a certain amount of time to respond. If the two parties do not reach a compromise, they will be in court for a preliminary hearing March
http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/03/12/gun-store-owner-halts-federal-raid/#6Z6BoExdrRpxQWKd.01
There is a flash video of Channel 5 News on the web site.
BREAKING: Constitution under attack
as ATF ignores restraining order
and raids Ares Armor
Posted by Matt Duncan (MD) on March 15, 2014 at 8:44pm
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Despite being granted a restraining order, the ATF has apparently raided San Diego area firearms parts seller Ares Armor anyway. Ares sells 80% lowers which the ATF has classified as "firearms." The ATF has been pressuring Ares to turn over their sales records or lose them in a raid. Given the threats, earlier this week Ares moved for and was granted a restraining order against such a raid. But the above YouTube video appears to show ATF agents rummaging through Ares, apparently confiscating inventory and, you'd have to assume, their computers and customers records. This video is the only evidence we've been able to find of a raid so far. Stay tuned.
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Minneapolis: Feminist Lesbian Police Chief Dons Hijab In Solidarity With Islamic Law
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(One Bossy, Misguided Bitch. Maybe the Taliban can put her in her place)
Via FPM:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/minneapolis-lesbian-police-chief-dons-hijab-for-hijab-day/When the left finally cracks up, the few survivors will have a really good laugh.
According to a Facebook post, Somali staffers that work at Minneapolis City Hall declared February 28 "Hijab Day" at City Hall and convinced the police chief and female city council reps to wear hijabs on the job.
Pictures include: Minneapolis police chief Janee Harteau (
who recently married her favorite female sergeant – not very hijab like), city council members Elizabeth Glidden and Lisa Bender as well as other staffers.
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There's nothing like a lesbian feminist authority figure who boasts of being the first female police chief in Minneapolis donning a symbol of male ownership in a patriarchal tribal society to express the deep schizophrenia of the left in its enthusiastic enabling of Islamists.
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Indian Cleric Issues Fatwa: Gays And Lesbians "May Be Burned Alive, Pushed From A High Wall, Or Beaten Publicly With Stones"
(Someone may want to break the bad news to Chief Janee Harteau and her female sergeant)
On December 11, 2013, the Supreme Court (SC) of India struck down a lower court decision to decriminalize gay sex, thereby upholding the 153-year-old colonial-era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which punishes gay couples with a 10-year prison term. The judgment came on a petition to which several Islamic and Hindu religious groups were party. The SC pointed out that it was the government of India that had to pass legislation in order to remove Section 377.
On December 20, the Indian media reported that an Islamic cleric of the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam based in the northern Indian town of Bareilly had issued a fatwa against both homosexuality and heterosexual cohabitation, calling such relationships anti-Islam and stipulating punishments for gay couples such as stoning and burning.
The fatwa was issue by Mohammad Afzaal Rizwi, the mufti (a scholar qualified to issue a fatwa) who is based at the Darul Uloom Ifta at Bareilly. Fatwas are legal advisory opinion in Islam, usually delivered in response to a question. Rizwi's fatwa came in response to a query by Akhlaq Ahmed Siddiqui Noori, who sought clarification on the issue.
"The mufti has cited two hadiths (teachings of the Prophet Mohammed) from the Koran as a premise for his fatwa. As per Hadith Dur-re-Mukhtar, such acts could attract severe punishment, he said. 'A person may be burned alive, pushed from a high wall, or beaten publicly with stones if he indulges into either of the two behaviors,' the fatwa states.
Defiance: A Third of Uninsured Americans Say They Will Refuse To Buy Obumacare
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(Obviously motivated by racism)
Via Newsmax:A third of Americans currently uninsured still have no intention of buying health coverage even though they are required to do so by the Affordable Care Act, according to Bankrate's latest Health Insurance Pulse survey.
Thirty-four percent contacted by telephone said they still have no intention of buying insurance. Most,
41 percent, cited cost as their reason, while
17 percent said they oppose Obamacare and
13 percent said they are healthy and don't need insurance.
Fifty-six percent of those surveyed said they do plan to purchase health coverage...
(but from whom)."We did all this discombobulating for nothing, because the uninsured are not signing up," Fox News Channel's Neil Cavuto said on Monday.
Biden Sent To Europe To "Reassure Our Allies"
Obuma Won't Throw Them Under The Bus
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(With Joe as spokesman, what could possibly go wrong? You know, Joe's an expert on foreign relations, having learned everything he knows from Jimmy Carter.
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But tooooo late, Joe... Obutthead threw them under the bus right after he took office by taking out the missile shield. He did that to show the Russians how nice we are. That worked out so well)
WARSAW — Vice President Biden arrived here Tuesday to reassure a set of allies anxious over Russia's move into Crimea, a visit he will use to pledge additional security assistance and American help in diversifying Eastern European energy supplies heavily dependent now on Russian natural gas.
Over two days, Biden will meet with the leaders of
Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, all NATO members with old memories of Soviet domination and new fears of a resurgent Russia under President Vladimir Putin.
A day after Putin declared Crimea independent, Biden will outline the next steps that the United States intends to take to reverse the Russian move into Crimea and prevent a broader military push into eastern Ukraine, an escalation that would bring the conflict to the doorstep of Poland and the Baltic states.
Before addressing the Russian parliament, Putin on Tuesday approved draft legislation to annex Crimea, a step the Obama administration is seeking to head off. Putin's actions follow a Sunday referendum in which Crimean voters — under the eye of Russian troops — chose to split from Ukraine and join Russia. The Obama administration and its European allies have condemned the takeover of Crimea as a violation of international law.
One senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the vice president's plans, said his trip is "first and foremost to reassure our allies that we are deeply concerned about Russia's action in Ukraine and what the deeper implications might be."
UPDATE:
Biden To Polish President: "You Have An Ally Whose Defense Budget Is Larger Than The Next 10 Nations Combined, So Don't Worry"
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(But the guy who's in charge of that military is a pathetic joke. So yeah, Poland and our other allies in the region should worry... big time)
Taliban On Missing Malaysian Jet:
"We Wish We Had An Opportunity To Hijack A Plane"
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(I suppose it isn't easy to hijack a jet when you live in a cave)
(Reuters) – Aviation officials in Pakistan, India and Central Asia as well as Taliban militants said they knew nothing about the whereabouts of a missing Malaysian jetliner on Monday after the search for Flight MH370 extended into their territory.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished on March 8 about an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard and investigators are now increasingly convinced it was diverted thousands of miles off course.
Malaysia said it had sent diplomatic notes to all countries along an arc of northern and southern search corridors including India and Pakistan, requesting radar and satellite information as well as land, sea and air search operations.
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Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan, who are seeking to oust foreign troops and set up an Islamic state, said the missing plane had nothing to do with them.
"It happened outside Afghanistan and you can see that even countries with very advanced equipment and facilities cannot figure out where it went," he said. "So we also do not have any information as it is an external issue."
A commander with the Pakistani Taliban, a separate entity fighting the Pakistani government, said the fragmented group could only dream about such an operation.
"We wish we had an opportunity to hijack such a plane," he told Reuters by telephone from the lawless North Waziristan region.
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Pic: Blatant Global Warming Propaganda In Kindergarten School Book
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(It's pretty sad when you have to start de-brainwashing your kids when they are only in kindergarten. But... nothing new there. The magic school bus series has been around for a long time and has always had a left wing bent. Looking at that page, I'm surprised they didn't include the Koch brothers with oil burning blow torches melting the ice.... and Sarah Palin shooting the polar bears)
Via EAG News:http://eagnews.org/michigan-mom-slams-her-kindergartners-school-book-as-global-warming-propaganda/
A West Michigan mother is questioning a book her kindergarten son brought home from his school's library, because it portrays the global warming debate from one perspective only, and ignores other arguments.
The book –
"The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge" – tells the story of a teacher, Ms. Frizzle, taking her students on a globetrotting trip to show them the impacts of global warming.
Published by Scholastic in 2010, it features drawings of the what the Artic used to look like – with ice as far as the eye could see – to today, with polar bears supposedly clinging to measly icebergs with desperate looks on their faces.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRw39Ju4xFw
Yes, by George... and don't you forget it!
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This woman is a threat to your rights and needs to be stopped by any means necessary.
How Ukraine's Military Stacks Up Against Russia's
by Charles Recknagel - The Atlantic
The worst-case scenario in the Russia-Ukraine crisis would be a war between the two states. How do their respective forces compare?:
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Russia has about four times as many soldiers as Ukraine does, twice as many tanks, and more than six times as many combat aircraft. The huge imbalance in forces reflects the defense budgets of the two countries. Russia spends about $78 billion on its armed forces annually, Ukraine $1.6 billion.
However, only a part of Russia's forces is available to deploy against Ukraine. Moscow cannot afford to remove forces from its North Caucasus region, from its border with China, or from the Pacific. Mark Galeotti, a Moscow-based regional expert with the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, estimates Russia might be able to muster a force twice the size of Ukraine's for any war. That leaves open the possibility that the difference in strength might not be so overwhelming as to guarantee victory.
What about the two sides' operational capabilities? Since the 2008 Georgia war, Moscow has stepped up its military spending by 30 percent, reflecting the importance it gives to modernizing its forces and using its military as an arm of its foreign policy.
By contrast, Kiev has a history of delivering less money to its armed forces than budgeted. Its most elite units have deployed alongside NATO in international peacekeeping operations but the rest are underfunded and underequipped. Most of Ukraine's equipment was inherited when it declared independence from the Soviet Union more than two decades ago.
Christopher Langton of Independent Conflict Research and Analysis in Britain says the Ukrainian military has also been shaken by reforms that were intended to make it a more professional force but remain incomplete. "They have undergone major upheavals in recent years, major reforms, [but with] very inadequate financing of equipment programs and personnel reform programs," Langton says. "And they tried to end conscription but this was never achieved, so there is still an element of conscription in the Ukrainian armed forces and this, of course, weakens the deployability of the army."
Over the past five years, the size of Ukraine's military force has shrunk from 245,000 to 184,000. But it still includes about 60 percent conscripts. Would Ukraine's army split in the face of an invasion? Ukraine's population includes both native Ukrainian speakers and native Russian speakers, and many in the latter group, particularly in the east of the country, have close ties to Russia. That could create a regional pull on the loyalty of Ukraine's soldiers and officers.
There are less obvious factors to consider, too. Ukraine's senior military leaders served much of their careers in the Soviet Army with their Russian counterparts. The possibility of defections was highlighted when Ukraine's newly appointed navy chief declared allegiance to the pro-Russian Crimea region on March 2 as Russian troops took control of the peninsula.
Still, the Ukrainian Army has two glues to keep it together. One is the heightened sense of national identity an invasion by any foreign force helps create. The other is the strong sense of identity of the Ukrainian army itself. "The Ukrainian military has evolved really quite a long way from its Soviet roots," Galeotti notes. "It has got quite a strong esprit de corps, quite a strong culture of service to the state."
What form might combat take? Moscow could attempt a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, along the lines of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Or it could try to replicate its successful tactics in Crimea of encouraging so-called "self-defense forces" to take over a region while mixing its own unidentified troops among them.
Langton says that a full-scale invasion would almost certainly precipitate a conventional state-to-state war that could prove too costly for Moscow to pursue. "Although on paper these two forces are imbalanced in terms of capabilities, if it came to a full-scale Russian military operation in Ukraine, this would be on the territory of Ukrainians and they would fight," the British analyst explains. "There would probably be a fairly bloody struggle which would not be acceptable to the Russians, and this would be followed by, maybe, a period of partisan or guerrilla-type warfare which, of course, the defending forces would be able to conduct on their own territory."
The cost of such a direct showdown might lead Moscow to prefer the stealthier strategy of wresting control of individual regions, particularly in heavily Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, under the guise of interceding in supposedly local conflicts. That strategy caught Kiev flat-footed in Crimea and places Ukraine in the weak position of having to retake seized land.
In either case, Ukraine is not immediately well-prepared to cope with an attack by Russia. Thanks to the legacy of the Soviet Union, its infrastructure of military bases remains configured to support a ground war against a western invader, not an eastern one.
CAIR Already Freaking Out Over New ABC Show "Alice In Arabia"
Without Even Seeing A Single Episode
(You know, because women are treated so well in Saudi Arabia)
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Via Variety:The greater Los Angeles-area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR-LA) announced Wednesday that it has asked ABC Family to meet with Muslim and Arab-American community leaders to discuss concerns about potential stereotyping in the pilot for the network's new series "Alice in Arabia."
One of three drama pilots ordered by ABC Family, the show centers on an American teen kidnapped by her Saudi Arabian family after tragedy befalls her parents.
In a letter sent to ABC Family president Tom Ascheim Tuesday, CAIR explained, "As the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, we are concerned about the negative impact this program could have on the lives of ordinary Arab-American and American Muslims."
While CAIR-LA officials say they understand that the pilot's writer (Brooke Eikmeier) says the series is designed to "give Arabs and Muslims a voice on American TV" and has "noble intentions," they still believe the concerns brought to their org should be addressed.
"We are concerned that, given media references to the main character 'surviving life behind the veil,' the pilot and any resulting series may engage in stereotyping that can lead to things like bullying of Muslim students," CAIR-LA exec director Hussam Ayloush said in a statement. "We urge ABC Family Channel to meet with representatives of the Muslim and Arab-American communities to discuss this important issue."
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This is not the first time that Washington-based CAIR, the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy org, has spoken out. CAIR previously challenged actual and potential anti-Muslim stereotypes in "Executive Decision," "24," "The Siege," "True Lies," "Rules of Engagement," "Obsession," "The Third Jihad," "Jihad in America" and "The Sum of All Fears." The org has also acted as a consultant on films including DreamWorks Animation's "The Prince of Egypt."
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Federal Judge Hands Republicans In Kansas, Arizona A Big Win In Voting Rights Fight
by Eric Lach – March 19, 2014
DOJ Crooked Eric Holder is fast and furiously shopping for another Judge to overturn the ruling... Pray it doesn't happen.
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Via TPMhttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/arizona-kansas-voting-rights-ruling
A federal judge in Kansas on Wednesday ruled that the federal agency which oversees the federal voter registration form must include the state-specific proof-of-citizenship requirements requested by both Kansas and Arizona.
The ruling was hailed by Republican officials in both states. And it also does away with the need for the "two-tier" voting systems that were proposed while the case was pending.
"This is a huge victory for the states of Kansas and Arizona," Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) said in a statement. "They have successfully protected our sovereign right to set and enforce the qualifications for registering to vote. We have now paved the way for all 50 states to protect their voter rolls and ensure that only U.S. citizens can vote."The case was complex. Both Kansas and Arizona have proof-of-citizenship laws on the books, requiring people to prove they are U.S. citizens when registering to vote. But the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the agency which maintains the federal voter registration form, had denied requests from the states to add the proof-of-citizenship requirements to state-specific instructions on the form. So the states sued. (If you want more on the technical background, University of California-Irvine law professor Rick Hasen wrote a helpful summary of the here.)
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren found that "the decision of the EAC denying the states' requests to be unlawful and in excess of its statutory authority. ... Therefore, the Court orders the EAC, or the EAC's acting executive director, to add the language requested by Arizona and Kansas to the state-specific instructions on the federal mail voter registration form, effective immediately."
In an interview with TPM, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne (R) expanded on a statement he issued in response to the ruling.
"I feel there's been a media cover up of the extent to which voter fraud is a significant problem in Arizona," Horne said, citing findings a few years ago in which he said more than 200 people who filed out jury duty forms in the state had also fraudulently registered to vote. "[The ruling is] a significant victory for the people of Arizona over the Obama administration to assure that only citizens and not illegals vote in Arizona."Last year, before the resolution of the EAC issue, officials in both states faced the prospect of having residents register to vote using a federal form that didn't require proof-of-citizenship. So they took steps to create "two-tiered" voting system, where people who registered with the federal form could vote in federal elections — but not state or local ones. Wednesday's ruling appears to make that matter moot.
It remains to be seen if the ruling will be appealed. But Horne pointed out that the ruling is effective immediately, and the 2014 election is not far off.
"Somebody will appeal it I'm sure, but the decision by its terms says that it has to be implemented immediately," he said.
CNN: "Heads Exploding" In Biden's Office As Top Obama Admin Officials Begin Preparing Staff For Hillary Clinton's Presidential Run
(Except for Biden's head, it lacks the brain required to explode)
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Via WFB:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-heads-exploding-in-bidens-office-after-obama-admin-begins-prep-for-hillary-2016/
CNN reporter Peter Hamby said a report out of today's Wall Street Journal indicating the White House is trying to organize meetings to prep Hillary Clinton's staff for a 2016 run must be causing consternation in Vice President Biden's office.
Pew Poll:
Americans Want Keystone Pipeline Approved By More Than Two-To-One Margin, 61%-27%
(Even a plurality of Dems (49%) want it approved)
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Via Pew Research:As the Obama administration deliberates over whether to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built, the proposed pipeline continues to draw broad support from the public. Currently, 61% favor building the pipeline while 27% are opposed. These views have changed little over the past year.
As previous surveys on the pipeline proposal have found, there is far more support for constructing the pipeline among Republicans (84% favor) and independents (61%) than among Democrats. About half of Democrats (49%) favor building the pipeline while 38% are opposed.
The new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Feb. 27-Mar. 16 among 3,335 adults, provides an opportunity for a detailed look at differences among Democrats on this issue. Opposition to building the pipeline is most widespread among highly educated Democrats, liberals and those with high family incomes.
Obuma Plans Summer Vacation As Putin Invades Ukraine
(So... what else is new)
Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 12:59 PM
by Kristinn Taylor
Baracketology 2014President Barack Obama, weary from putting his NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament brackets together for ESPN, is reported to be already planning his summer vacation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwgBoFGwdiA
The Boston Herald reported Wednesday that an advance team is scouting Martha's Vineyard for suitable housing for Obama, his family and entourage for his annual summer vacation in the second week of August.
The Obama family has taken monthly vacations this year, some together, but most apart. First Lady Michelle Obama stayed behind in Hawaii at the end of the annual family Christmas/New Year's vacation.
In February President Obama spent Washington's Birthday weekend golfing in California while Michelle Obama and their two daughters skied in Colorado.
The Obama family spent a long weekend in the Florida Keys this month.
This week, Michelle Obama, her mother Marion Robinson and the Obama daughters are taking a closed-press vacation to China.
In a press briefing given Monday, Obama officials refused to say who was paying for the Obama family's China vacation:Question: Hey, guys. Following up on Bloomberg's question, can you tell me, does the White House or does the First Family reimburse the U.S. government for the cost of the children and the grandmother going on this trip? And is there any expectation of any protests in any of these areas while the First Lady is in China?MS. TCHEN: Well, again, it's similar to Ben's question. We are not discussing or disclosing information regarding the details of the logistics of the trip. And as for protests, I'll let Ben take that one."
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Let me see if I have this right......
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Ukraine buys almost all its energy (natural gas)from Russia. Revenue
from natural gas sales are a primary source of income for Russia.
Because of the recent disagreement between Ukraine and Russia, Russia
is raising the price of natural gas it sells to Ukraine. Ukraine is
almost broke and can't afford the increase in the natural
gas price because it would be forced into bankruptcy. Obama(the USA)
just announced the United States is giving Ukraine $1
billion to assist in paying for the higher priced natural gas it buys
from Russia. So, the United States is actually giving Russia $1 billion
because the money is just passing through Ukraine.
The first question:
Has Putin figured out a way to raise the price of
his natural gas sales and make the U.S. pay for the increase?
Next question:
Was he really in the KGB or was he a commodities trader?
If this analysis is accurate, Putin just got Obama(the USA) to pay him
$1 billion by holding a press conference and trucking some troops
across town from the Russian Navy base in Ukraine.
Who is the smartest
guy in the room now?
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Local Kansas Subaru Dealer Finds Clever Way To Counter Union Intimidation
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(LOL...The Union is playing marbles while Subaru is playing chess)
Via Legal Insurrection:http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/03/local-kansas-subaru-dealer-finds-clever-way-to-counter-union-intimidation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
It has been a longstanding tactic of labor organizations to protest in front of places of business in order to draw attention to union grievances, as well as to deter potential customers from utilizing the establishment.
The vigor of these protests can range anywhere from a wild raucous affair, to the downright sad and pathetic.
This time, however, one Wichita area Subaru dealership has managed to turn a union protest into a funny form of free advertisement.
According to The Wichita Eagle, the United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners Of America Local 201 began a standard protest outside Subaru of Wichita last week with a "Shame on Subaru of Wichita" sign legally placed on the highway right-of-way in front of the dealership. (The union, which has not specified its exact complaint, may have been upset that the dealership's contractor hired a non-union shop for renovations.)
The dealership responded instead with its own sign, turning the union's charge into one of "having unbeatable prices." Because the sign rests in the right-of-way, neither sign can be anchored in the ground — they must be held up by people, which Subaru of Wichita says on its Facebook page has been handled by student volunteers so far. (Other carpentry unions often recruit and pay their protestors, since the carpenters themselves have jobs to fill.)
Well played, Subaru of Wichita.
This isn't the first time the union has engaged in intimidation campaigns similar to this.
In early 2013, again citing vague grievances about noncompliance with "area labor standards," there were a handful of similar incidents in the Wichita area.
The Carpenters Local 201 are behind the signs and protests outside of Wichita State, the YMCA, and Central Christian Church to name a few. They claim non-union contractors aren't paying standard wages and benefits for the area.
"It's more frustrating because the contractors and owners are dealing with it," says Danny Satterfield, owner of Danny Satterfield Drywall.
His drywall company is the reason protesters stand outside Wichita State. He received a letter from the union claiming it investigated the wages and benefits he pays. That investigation, the letter says, concluded wages and benefits Satterfield pays are less than the established area standard.
And how exactly do these unions conduct these so-called investigations of private companies? In a word: hearsay.
"We verify in the field with the workers," says the protester. He wouldn't say how much the workers are paid, or what is considered a "fair wage."
Clearly, this union is nothing new to Wichita area residents and businesses.
It's nice to see one company has been able to find a clever, lighthearted way around these classic labor intimidation tactics.
Indeed, the car dealership's signs were so successful that the union decided to move their sign to the other side of the right-of-way, so the Subaru counter-protest sign would no longer make sense.
Well, Subaru of Wichita found a way around that, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKIkklNkpQY
Pelosi: You Must Say "Affordable, Affordable, AFFORDABLE!!!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0-Xm0A3bAI
Here is mindless Pelosi dressing down a reporter who dared call Obumacare, "Obumacare" instead of the Affordable Care Act. But the video itself is priceless as Pelosi, in typical nut-crazy fashion, repeats "Affordable" over and over again, as though saying it would make it so.
(Click your heels three times while facing west, and it will still be the most UnAffordable Uncaring Act ever passed, Miss Goofy)
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And I do not want to be a part of Agenda 21
or the New World Order
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May 16, 2014
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Kenya: Suspected Islamist Gunmen Kill Four Christians During Attack On Church During Sunday Service
(Sick Animals)
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Nairobi (AFP) — Attackers shot dead four worshippers on Sunday when they burst into a church service near the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, spraying the congregation with bullets, police said.
The attack, which also left about 17 people wounded, came amid heightened warnings of a threat of Islamist violence in Kenya and despite boosted security in major cities including Mombasa.
"They were shot by gunmen who shot indiscriminately at worshippers and then fled," said local police chief Robert Mureithi, from the Likoni district just south of Mombasa.
Two people were killed instantly, while two more later died of their injuries, the Red Cross said, adding that 17 people had been taken to hospital.
Kenya's National Disaster Operation Centre said there had been "mass casualties" in the attack on an evangelical church.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Kenya has been hit by a series of attacks since sending troops into southern Somalia in October 2011 to battle the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents.
Exclusive - Study: Obama Most Well-Traveled, Expensive President In History Through Five Years
(What's really disgusting is how much treasure the First Mooch has spent living the life of a third world dictator's favored wife)
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Via Breitbart - 23 Mar 2014http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/23/Exclusive-Study-Obama-Most-Well-
Traveled-Expensive-President-In-History-Through-Five-Years
President Barack Obama has spent more time traveling abroad than other U.S. president in history at this point in their presidencies, according to a forthcoming study from the National Taxpayer Union Foundation (NTUF) provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of its public release.
"The most internationally well-traveled President, through five years, is also flying the most expensive-to-operate Air Force One to date," NTUF wrote.
After five years in the White House, Obama has taken 31 trips for a total of 119 days abroad. At that point in George W. Bush's presidency, Bush had taken 28 trips for 116 days, while Bill Clinton had taken 27 trips for 113 days. Ronald Reagan, after five years, had taken 14 trips for 73 days while Richard Nixon had taken 12 trips for 60 days after five years in the White House and Lyndon Johnson took 10 trips for 34 days at the half-decade mark. Dwight Eisenhower took 8 trips for 31 days after five years in the White House.
Citing a recent report in the Washington Examiner that found through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that taxpayers are on the hook for about $228,288 per Air Force One flight hour in 2013, a 27 percent increase from the previously confirmed cost of $179,750 per fight hour that NTUF used in its last study, the taxpayer watchdog concludes that Obama's flights have cost taxpayers more than any other president.
"Taken on its own, the $48,535 jump may not sound all that significant," NTUF added about the cost increase for Air Force One. "However, when trips are many thousands of miles and span several time zones and continents, the difference can quickly add up."
NTUF estimates that Obama's trip to Europe and the Middle East "will likely involve about 29 hours of total travel time, assuming a cruising speed of 575 mph between Washington, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome, and Riyadh, and then back to D.C." That amount, the group says, is going to cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
"Using the previous estimate, the total cost of flying Air Force One between those international cities would be about $5,212,750," NTUF wrote. "Using the new data, the cost comes out to $6,620,352."
NTUF added that those amounts are just estimates, and the actual cost is likely to be higher. "While these figures are approximations, and do not account for the additional (and likely greater) expenses of transporting the President's Secret Service and diplomatic entourage, backup aircraft, land vehicles, and advance security teams, it goes to show that higher Air Force One operational costs substantially change the budgetary magnitude of these trips," NTUF wrote.
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Vatican Chief Justice:
Obama's Policies 'Have Become Progressively More Hostile
Toward Christian Civilization'
March 24, 2014 11:14 AM
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Cardinal Leo Raymond Burke walks on St Peter's square after a cardinals' meeting on the eve of the start of a conclave on March 11, 2013 at the Vatican. (credit: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images) The Vatican's chief justice feels that President Barack Obama's policies have been hostile toward Christians.
In an interview with Polonia Christiana magazine –and transcribed by Life Site News — Cardinal Raymond Burke said that Obama "promotes anti-life and anti-family policies."
"It is true that the policies of the president of the United States have become progressively more hostile toward Christian civilization. He appears to be a totally secularized man who aggressively promotes anti-life and anti-family policies," Burke told the magazine.
The former archbishop of St. Louis stated that Obama is trying to "restrict" religion.
"Now he wants to restrict the exercise of the freedom of religion to freedom of worship, that is, he holds that one is free to act according to his conscience within the confines of his place of worship but that, once the person leaves the place of worship, the government can constrain him to act against his rightly-formed conscience, even in the most serious of moral questions," Burke said.
Burke took a swipe against Obama's Affordable Care Act over the law's birth control mandate, saying "such policies would have been unimaginable in the United States even 40 years ago."
"In a democracy, such a lack of awareness is deadly," Burke told the magazine. "It leads to the loss of the freedom which a democratic government exists to protect. It is my hope that more and more of my fellow citizens, as they realize what is happening, will insist on electing leaders who respect the truth of the moral law as it is respected in the founding principles of our nation."
Burke also believes there is hope that abortion will be overturned in the U.S.
"There is hope that the evil anti-life laws of the United States can be overthrown and that the anti-life movement which urges yet more of such legislation can be resisted," Burke said. "The pro-life movement in the United States has been working since 1973 to reverse the unjust decision of the Supreme Court which struck down state laws prohibiting procured abortion. It is true that the Supreme Court decision stands, but it is also true that the pro-life movement has grown ever stronger in the United States, that is, that more and more citizens, especially young citizens, have been awakened to the truth about the grave evil of procured abortion."
Pope Francis removed Burke from the Congregation for Bishops last December.
Obama will be meeting Pope Francis for the first time at the Vatican on Thursday.
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/03/24/vatican-chief-justice-obamas-policies-have-become-progressively-more-hostile-toward-christian-civilization/
Cocaine Shipment En Route
to Vatican Seized by
German Officials
by Luke O'Neil | 12:34 pm, March 23rd, 2014
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From his opinions on social justice and unchecked capitalism, to his relatively liberalizing statements about homosexuality and his commitment to an ascetic personal lifestyle – in other words, for actually following through on the whole WWJD? question – we've taken to calling Jorge Bergoglio, who records under the stage name Pope Francis, the Coolest Pope Ever. But he may be taking that designation a little too seriously. A report from the Associated Press in Berlin today says that German officials seized a shipment of cocaine that was addressed to the Vatican.
The shipment, which was snatched at Leipzig Airport in January, included 12 ounces of cocaine in 14 condoms, which would also represent a pretty big 180 on the Church's stance on birth control.
It's not as if the pope, who once, amazingly, worked as a night club bouncer in Buenos Aires, which I'm pretty sure is a first for popes, wouldn't have encountered the stuff once or twice, if only to confiscate it from unruly patrons.
But there are no indications that the drugs were actually intended for officials in the Vatican itself. Although if you wanted to ignore that and make a racist joke about the first South American pope changing the culture of the papacy this would be a pretty good opportunity to do it now. I'm sure the gang on #tcot would love it. Belgium's De Morgen newspaper has already broken the ice on the joke set up with their black president/monkey legalizes weed joke this weekend.
In other papal news, the Vatican announced the members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors this weekend, a group meant to address the continuing issue of sexual abuse that have plagued the Church in recent years.
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***LIES, DAMN LIES & LIBERAL TALKING POINTS***
According to Harry Reid, "There have been plenty of horror stories being told about the Affordable Care Act, but they're all untrue."
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My initial reaction was to ask if people were going to believe Harry or their canceled health insurance policies. But then, after thinking about it a while, it occurred to me that the real horror stories are the lies Obama and his collection of sock puppets keep feeding us.
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From Harry Reid's point of view, the facts regarding low enrollment numbers, the small percentage of enrollees who are young and healthy and the inevitable loss of Senate seats to the GOP in November, are far more horrific than anything even I could conjure up.
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It would make for a nice change if instead of forever whining about America's having a prison for terrorists in Cuba, liberals would occasionally get outraged over Russia having a military base in Ukraine and puppet states in Iran and Syria. It would also make for a nice change if the mere thought of using military force against our enemies didn't have them fanning themselves like old southern ladies suffering from the vapors.
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After Barack Obama said the Senate vote that denied Debo Adegbile a major position at the Justice Department was a travesty, I felt it might not be my place to argue the point. After all, Obama has been personally responsible for so many travesties, who was I to question his expertise in that area?
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Still, I thought his comment was a tad harsh, especially since it was a bipartisan vote in which seven Democrats joined with the Republicans to remind Mr. Adegbile, a lawyer formerly affiliated with the NAACP, that he had every right to work on behalf of a convicted cop killer and to lead demonstrations on his behalf, but that actions have consequences. And just because Barack Obama and Eric Holder have proven that being racial bigots isn't always an obstacle to success, luck is no more equally distributed than wealth.
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Speaking of wealth, it strikes me that Obama and his corporate buddies are using America as their own personal piñata. The dirty little secret on the Left is that nearly all the fat cats are in bed with the Democrats. That's why no matter what sort of shellacking the insurance companies are likely to take as a result of the Affordable Care Act, written into the bill is a federal bailout. So while you lose your health care and your doctor, those guys won't lose a dime. Period!
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Besides, who do you think has been showing up these past six years at Obama's $35,000-a-plate fund raisers? In exchange for their generosity, Obama not only underwrites all those doomed green energy companies with our tax dollars, but he sees to it that the Federal Reserve keeps printing $85 billion a month, so that Wall Street can keep setting records for the wealthy, while most Americans are left trying to survive long-term unemployment and 29-hour work weeks.
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Vladimir Putin may not serve as a plague to the world for as long as Joseph Stalin, who ran the Soviet Union for 30 years, but it won't be for lack of trying. George W. Bush said he looked into Putin's eyes and saw his soul. I suggest that President Bush should never have left the house without his glasses. Rumor has it that later that same day, Bush also spotted the lost city of Atlantis, the Loch Ness monster and invited Big Foot over for bar-be-que.
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But even Bush wasn't as pathetic as Obama. The current occupant of the Oval Office seems to think that just because it works with his daughters, a time out is all it takes to make Putin toe the line. What Barack fails to grasp is that when Putin looks at his Obama Christmas card, he sees four females, not three, and he realizes that in a fight, Michelle is the only one he might have reason to worry about.
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Where a Middle School Took Students
on a Field Trip is
Every Gun Control Fanatic's
Worst Nightmare
By Michael Hausam 2 days ago
A couple of generations ago this would not have been news at all. Now, it's not only news but completely awesome.
After studying the Revolutionary War, students from Craver Middle School in Pueblo, Colorado spent the day at a gun range.
Coordinated by Project Appleseed, a nonprofit that teaches history and marksman ship via The Revolutionary War Veterans Association, the kids were shown gun safety and how to handle a firearm. All of them were allowed to shoot at the range with live ammunition.
No word yet on any howls of protest from anti-gun groups, but you know they're coming. But it seems reasonable that kids should know gun safety, rather than not have a clue what a gun is and what it does.
Flash Video of Channel 13 news in Colorado at http://www.ijreview.com/2014/03/123469-students-field-trip-every-gun-control-fanatics-worst-nightmare/
Race riot in Downtown Louisville.
Media censors.
Note: There was a story in the Louisville news about a white man attacked at random by a black mob in Waterfront Park. This occurred the day BEFORE the big riot. It is probably safe to say that mob attacks by young blacks are occurring every weekend.
An estimated two hundred young blacks rioted in downtown Louisville over the weekend. Police document seventeen incidents of violence. At least three victims were sent to the hospital. At least one gas station was looted. A white female clerk was also beaten up at that gas station.
There was also a mob attack against a thirteen year old girl. A female motorist, with her children, was pulled out of her car and viciously assaulted.
The Louisville media outlets are refusing to state the race of the perpetrators or any victims. However, video surveillance shows the rioters are all young black males and females.
Notice that Channel 11 makes the story about the police response and not the actual perpetrators. Anything to deflect from the racial nature of the crimes.
"The first incident involved a man who was beaten and robbed after he tried to break-up what appears to be a physical assault and robbery of a 13-year-old girl," Conrad said.
Many of the teens left after police responded to that incident at Waterfront Park, but only moved to another part of downtown.
http://topconservativenews.com/2014/03/race-riot-in-downtown-louisville-media-censors/
"Officers were then called to the White Castle at 1st and Market Street where they dispersed a crowd of 70 to 80 disorderly people," Conrad said.
A group of young men near the White Castle then started throwing trash cans at a woman in her stopped car.
"They kicked her car. She was punched several times in the head," Conrad said. According to police, her children were passengers in the car.
Several young men from this same group then allegedly robbed the Bader's Food Market and attacked the clerk. A different man was then attacked on third and Chestnut, according to police. But the violence did not stop there.
"Shortly after that, another man was robbed and assaulted at 5th and Broadway – again by a group of young men. He too, was taken to the hospital," he added.
Assaults sent three people to University Hospital. Police only made one arrest.
This is a very unusual occurrence for our community," Conrad said.
Police do not know what started the series of assaults, but believe insults on social media and the warmer weather are factors. Conrad sees a clear correlation between weather improving and an increase in crime.
Dispatchers continued to get calls about vandalism on downtown buildings and cars after police responded to final assault. They are asking for any information about who might have been in these groups, or who they might have assaulted.
"I am convinced that there were young people doing things they otherwise would not have done," said Conrad. "I'm also convinced that there were in that crowd last night who knew things were going to get out of hand – who saw red flags – who could've called us," Conrad said.
'People Have a Right to Certain Weapons...':
School Workbook Rewrites 2nd Amendment
by
Fox News InsiderFox News Insider
// Mar 25 2014 // 7:40am
A workbook given to Illinois middle schoolers redefines the Second Amendment. The workbook entry was pointed out by the father of a seventh-grader in Springfield, and posted to a Facebook page named Illinois Gun Owners Rights.
"This amendment states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison. The founding fathers included this amendment to prevent the United States from acting like the British who had tried to take weapons away from the colonists," the workbook stated.
The school's superintendent, Bob Hill, defended the wording, arguing that it reflects the reality of the Second Amendment "in the context of 2014." Nevertheless, parents were outraged at the school's decision, with the teacher and the head of the history department agreeing with them that the lesson should be changed.
Judge Andrew Napolitano gave us his take on Fox and Friends this morning, explaining that the Supreme Court has upheld in separate cases that the "right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental liberty [that] comes from our humanity." He pointed out that the Constitution prevents the government from interfering with that fundamental right.
Napolitano added that Illinois is the worst state in the nation for someone who wants to own a gun.
"Illinois has worn away at the right to keep and bear arms more than any other state in the union and the statistics show it. What's the worst city in the country for murders? Chicago. What's the second worst? District of Columbia. Where is it most difficult to keep and bear arms? Chicago and the District of Columbia. This [superintendent] is making it worse by giving students in the suburbs around Chicago an inaccurate understanding of their rights," he said.
(There is a Fox video located on the web site.)http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/03/25/people-have-right-certain-weapons-illinois-school-workbook-rewrites-2nd-amendment
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I think he means take cuts so Obama and his family can keep taking and frequent multi-million dollar vacations and provide money for other countries. Why are some enlisted servicemen's family's forced to survive on food stamps?Generals Say Troops Understand
Need for Pay Cuts
Mar 26, 2014 | by Bryant Jordan
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Senior Pentagon officials told Congress on Tuesday that troops are willing to sacrifice portions of their pay and benefits if it means keeping and improving the training and equipment needed to do their jobs.
Vice Adm. William F. Moran, chief of naval personnel and deputy chief of naval operations, told lawmakers that sailors he has met with over the past six months have spoken more about "the quality of the service" they're able to do than anything other topic.
The view was shared by other officials, including Sheryl E. Murray, assistant deputy commandant for manpower and reserve affairs for the Marine Corps.
"I would emphasize our Marines do enjoy a good quality of life. Our Marines love being in the Marine Corps family," she said. "Most of all, they want the right equipment. ... They want to be trained, and they want to be ready. That is the overriding desire."
Personnel officials from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and the Department of Defense met with the House Armed Services' Military Personnel subcommittee to talk about cuts to pay and benefits the Pentagon is proposing for its upcoming budget.
These include a smaller pay raise -- 1 percent raise, an average 5 percent reduction in housing allowances, and higher health care fees for some retirees.
The proposed budget for next year is $496 billion, reflecting a savings of $176 billion, according to the Pentagon, because of the personnel cuts.
Military leaders say personnel costs make up about a third of their budgets and remain the fasting growing portion. Unless the trend is slowed and reversed, manning costs will eventually make it impossible to meet other funding needs, the military brass has said.
"That's why we are asking for a 1 percent [troop pay increase] instead of a 2 or higher percentage, so we can slow that growth of a military member's pay and also be able to bolster their readiness and bolster the modernization," Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Jessica Wright said.
"The quality of life is good, but the quality of service, we believe, for our military members is lower, and so we would like to balance that," she said.
Army Deputy Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Howard Bromberg said quality of life is important, but added "we can't afford to lower the training standards in defense of something else."
However, the personnel officials who offered testimony before the subcommittee could offer only personal anecdotes to back up their belief that troops would welcome pay and benefit cuts. No survey results were offered. Leaders also said it could not wait for the results of a commission due to issue its report on military pay and benefits next year.
Testimony from the military brass took some lawmakers by surprise after troop advocacy groups have rejected the cuts to pay and benefits proposed in the upcoming budget.
Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., reminded the Pentagon officials that the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission is expected to turn in its review and recommendation a year from now. He cautioned that they are asking to make significant changes in these areas without the benefit of the commission's findings.
"What happens when they come back in 2015 with a whole host of recommendations?" Heck asked.
Pentagon officials said the military can't wait a year for the commission's report followed by another year before any recommendations could be adopted.
"We've got to make a near-term savings in the next couple of years. Otherwise, we're going to dig ourselves into a hole and just not going to be able to get out of it," Bromberg said.
Veterans' organizations, which often speak for the services' rank and file, have opposed many of the proposed cuts.
The veterans groups, including the Association of the U.S. Navy and The American Legion, back a 1.8 percent raise that is tied to the formula worked out by the Employment Cost Index of the Labor Department.
"You want an adequate standard of living" for service members, American Legion National Commander Dan Dellinger said Tuesday night. "That's important for them and their families."
Dellinger said service members know the fiscal picture is tight. Army exercises have been scaled back. In the Navy, some ships have stayed at home instead of cruising.
"They've taken those concessions," he said. "I hate to say it, but the government shouldn't try to balance the budget on the backs of service members. If they took away the entire DoD budget, it still wouldn't balance the budget."
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/03/26/generals-say-troops-understand-need-for-pay-cuts.html?ESRC=eb.nl
Under the remarks of this article is:Of course the troops will understand. It is not like congress will cut the 3 trillion dollars per year in corporate entitlements. Or make the uber rich actually pay up.
AndThe brass today will say ANYTHING to save their political careers. If there ever was a Pentagon FULL OF YES-MEN it is today's Pentagon. These have no guts, no cojones are all wussies. I have ZERO RESPECT for these bozos. The Administration's attitude is "cut and gut the military and Social Security but NOT WELFARE!!!"
AndBill Would Give Feds a 3.3 Percent Pay Raise in 2015...Federal employees would receive a 3.3 percent pay raise in 2015 under a House bill unveiled by two Virginia Democrats.
The legislation, introduced by Reps. Gerry Connolly and Jim Moran, would apply the increase to both General Schedule employees and wage-grade workers.
AndHaving been in the Military why is a General speaking for the Enlisted which makes up the majority. Since to be promoted to the Generals ranks it has to be approved by Congress and the President it becomes a political maneuver. They are not going to promote based on skill, intelligence, leadership but on politics. What we called "YES men". Why isn't the General fighting for fair pay and Benfits. A Military member has no equivalent civilian job. Let the troops talk for themselves and not let politians do the talking.
AndTroops understand the need for pay cuts? What they understand is they're getting screwed again and can't do a thing about it. Our country is going to have to re-institute the draft, because very few young folks in their right mind are going to volunteer to serve.
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Sheriffs Urge Non-Compliance For unConstitutional Gun Laws
March 24, 2014 by Personal Liberty News Desk
This article, written by Bruce Parker, appeared on Watchdog.org on March 24.
The head of a nationwide sheriffs coalition is calling on Vermont's law enforcement officers to defy three controversial gun control measures passed by Burlington voters three weeks ago.
"Sheriffs have a constitutional duty to refuse to comply with such ordinances," said Richard Mack, president of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. "We're seeing sheriffs in New York oppose the Safe Act and Governor Cuomo. If we have sheriffs in New York doing this, how much more should we have sheriffs doing it in Vermont?"
On March 4, Burlington voters joined a push by elected officials throughout northeastern States to enact stiffer gun control measures. By a 2-to-1 margin, they banned the carry of firearms in bars and restaurants, authorized police to confiscate guns during domestic disputes and required gun owners to keep firearms locked up at home.
"It's astonishing that people are so cavalier about violating the Second Amendment," Mack said. "Burlington City Council sounds like they are just following the trend to do things that are entirely unconstitutional and go around sheriffs, and go around the laws, or subvert the laws, or disobey the laws."
The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, which touts sheriffs as the highest law enforcement officials charged with defending the rights of citizens in states, claims that 17 police associations and nearly 500 sheriffs nationwide have pledged to defy unConstitutional gun control measures.
The thought that Vermont's top law officers might publicly oppose gun restrictions isn't a novel idea. Sheriffs in Colorado are refusing to enforce that state's new background checks and ban on high-capacity magazines. In Connecticut, tens of thousands of residents are refusing to comply with a new State law that requires registration of guns and high-capacity magazines. In Saratoga Springs, N.Y., citizens publicly protested the state's new SAFE Act last week by burning a thousand gun registration forms.
In Vermont, hundreds – some blazoned in orange hunting attire and hoisting the Gadsden Flag – rallied at the state Capitol to urge the Legislature to uphold Vermont's strong 2nd Amendment gun laws, among the most robust in the Nation.
When asked if Vermonters might follow the citizens of neighboring States and refuse to comply with gun control ordinances, Bill Moore, a policy analyst at the Vermont Traditions Coalition, predicted that noncompliance would be "highly likely and widespread."
A standoff between Burlington and Vermont gun owners may be a ways off, however. According to Moore, Burlington's ordinances are largely symbolic because they violate Vermont's "Sportsmen's Bill of Rights," a State law that prohibits municipalities from enacting their own gun laws.
"These ordinances, as the anti-gunners will admit, are intentionally and specifically meant to challenge the Gun Owners' Bill of Rights and Vermont's current constitutional protections," Moore told Watchdog.
According to Moore, the Burlington City Council advanced the measures to create an opportunity for the Legislature to revise Vermont's strong Second Amendment protections — an outcome that he said is "not highly likely."
Burlington councilman Paul Decelles, one of the few officials to vote against the proposed changes to the city charter, echoed that sentiment.
"I think every single one of the councilors recognized that this is never going to pass the state test, but they pushed this along to have a broader discussion at the State level. I don't think any one of them thinks this is actually going to be upheld," Decelles told Watchdog.
The mayor of Burlington may disagree. Before the March 4 vote, Mayor Miro Weinberger issued a statement on the mayor's office website saying he supported "charter changes focused on protecting Burlington children, domestic violence victims, and law enforcement officers."
Weinberger has been an outspoken member of Michael Bloomberg's national coalition of pro-gun-control mayors, which advocates for local gun control in the name of safety, but whose members have fled recently due to revelations the organization wants nationwide gun confiscation.
Mack said the mayor's gun control advocacy contradicts both the U.S. Constitution and recent case law.
"Another thing the mayor of Burlington needs to ask himself is, do the Supreme Court decisions of Heller and McDonald mean anything at all, that people have the right to keep and bear arms? Does the Second Amendment mean anything, or are you allowed to act as if it doesn't exist just because you don't agree with the law?"
Despite opponents' views the ordinances are illegal, it remains unclear what would happen if Burlington's measures gain traction at the Legislature.
"I know our chief of police very well, and I know many cops in Burlington, and they would never walk into somebody's house and demand to see guns," Decelles said. "They would never do these things. They are more concerned about real crime."
http://personalliberty.com/2014/03/24/sheriffs-urge-non-compliance-for-unconstitutional-gun-laws/
What is worse?
A) Obamacare
B) Common Core
C) Gun Control
D) Red Light Cameras
E) TSA
F) NSA
G) Indefinite Detention
H) All Of The Above
I) Something else?
What a DORK !
Kim's trim: NKorean Male Students
Required to Have Leader's Haircut
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Wednesday, 26 Mar 2014 12:32 PM
By Joe Battaglia
A new state-sanctioned guideline will require every male university student in North Korea to have the same haircut as their leader, Kim Jong Un.
According to media reports, the new hairstyle decree went into effect two weeks ago. Known as the "Dear Leader," the style features a tightly shaved undercut with floppy curtains of locks at the top.
State-approved hairstyles have been the norm in North Korea for some time. Until this latest mandate, North Koreans had a list of 28 approved hairstyles to choose from — 10 for men and 18 for women. Kim Jong Un's style was not among them.
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I think the Obamnation in office is trying to
DESTROY
our nation from every angle!
Isn't it time for
IMPEACHMENT ?
Obama secretly negotiating away U.S. sovereignty
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Aaron Klein
2-pronged assault on economy, consumer rights, domestic law
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Consumer protections and the use of domestic law in the U.S. may drastically change as President Obama forges ahead with two secretive international deals that impact major aspects of the economy, privacy and beyond.
Wednesday, Obama defended a proposed mega free-trade zone between the world's two largest economies, the United States and the European Union.
"I have fought my entire political career, and as president, to strengthen consumer protections. I have no intention of signing legislation that would weaken those protections," Obama said during a visit to the EU headquarters in Brussels.
Obama was responding to criticism of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, which the U.S. has been negotiated with the EU since last July.
Besides creating the world's biggest free-trade zone, the TTIP will also bring about closer cooperation between EU and U.S. regulatory bodies while more closely integrating the two economies.
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One leak about the TTIP revealed a proposed "Regulatory Cooperation Council" that would evaluate existing regulations in the U.S. and EU and recommend future rules while coordinating a response to the current regulations.
Writing in the left-leaning the Nation magazine, foreign policy analyst Andrew Erwin said the TTIP was less about reducing tariffs and "more about weakening the power of average citizens to defend themselves against corporate labor and environmental abuses."
Erwin took particular issue with a section in the TTIP called the Investor-State Dispute Settlement, which stipulates foreign corporations can sue the government utilizing a special international tribunal instead of the country's own domestic system that uses U.S. law.
"The tribunals are not accountable to any national public or democratically elected body," wrote Erwin.
Last December, a coalition of more than 200 environmentalists, labor unions and consumer advocacy organizations drafted a letter asking for the Investor-State Dispute Settlement section to be dropped.
The New York Times, meanwhile, reported earlier this week that some American companies "are concerned that protections for investors will not be part of a deal."
While Obama is negotiating the TTIP largely in secret, talks continue to forge ahead with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. The expansive plan is a proposed free-trade agreement between the U.S., Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
The agreement would create new guidelines for everything from food safety to fracking, financial markets, medical prices, copyright rules and Internet freedom.
On Tuesday, the leaders of Canada and Japan reportedly met on the sidelines of a nuclear summit at the Hague to discuss the TPP.
The TPP negotiations have been criticized by politicians and advocacy groups alike for their secrecy. The few aspects of the partnership leaked to the public indicate an expansive agenda with highly limited congressional oversight.
A New York Times opinion piece previously called the deal the "most significant international commercial agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995."
Last October, the White House website released a joint statement with the other proposed TPP signatories affirming "our countries are on track to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations."
"Ministers and negotiators have made significant progress in recent months on all the legal texts and annexes on access to our respective goods, services, investment, financial services, government procurement, and temporary entry markets," the White House said.
The statement did not divulge details of the partnership other than to suggest a final TPP agreement "must reflect our common vision to establish a comprehensive, next-generation model for addressing both new and traditional trade and investment issues, supporting the creation and retention of jobs and promoting economic development in our countries."
SecrecyIn February, the Open the Government organization sent a letter to Obama blasting the lack of transparency surrounding the TPP talks, stating the negotiations have been "conducted in unprecedented secrecy."
"Despite the fact the deal may significantly affect the way we live our lives by limiting our public protections, there has been no public access to even the most fundamental draft agreement texts and other documents," read the letter.
The missive was signed by advocacy groups such as OpenTheGovernment.org, Project On Government Oversight, ARTICLE 19 and the Global Campaign for Freedom of Expression and Information.
The groups warned issues being secretly negotiated include "patent and copyright, land use, food and product standards, natural resources, professional licensing, government procurement, financial practices, healthcare, energy, telecommunications, and other service sector regulations."
Lack of oversightNormally free-trade agreements must be authorized by a majority of the House and Senate, usually in lengthy proceedings.
However, the White House is seeking what is known as "trade promotion authority" which would fast track approval of the TPP by requiring Congress to vote on the likely lengthy trade agreement within 90 days and without any amendments.
The authority also allows Obama to sign the agreement before Congress even has a chance to vote on it, with lawmakers getting only a quick post-facto vote.
A number of lawmakers have been speaking out about the secret TPP talks.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., recently proposed legislation requiring the White House to disclose all TPP documents to members of Congress.
"The majority of Congress is being kept in the dark as to the substance of the TPP negotiations, while representatives of U.S. corporations – like Halliburton, Chevron, PHRMA, Comcast, and the Motion Picture Association of America – are being consulted and made privy to details of the agreement," said Wyden.
However, Obama has so far refused to give Congress a copy of the draft agreement.
Regulates food, Internet, medicine, commerce
The TPP is "more than just a trade deal," wrote Lori Wallach and Ben Beachy of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch in a New York Times op-ed last June.
"Only 5 of its 29 chapters cover traditional trade matters, like tariffs or quotas. The others impose parameters on nontrade policies. Existing and future American laws must be altered to conform with these terms, or trade sanctions can be imposed against American exports."
Wallach and Beachy spotlighted several leaks in the proposed TPP text, including one that would regulate the price of medicine.
"Pharmaceutical companies, which are among those enjoying access to negotiators as 'advisers,' have long lobbied against government efforts to keep the cost of medicines down. Under the agreement, these companies could challenge such measures by claiming that they undermined their new rights granted by the deal."
Amnesty International USA warned draft TPP provisions related to patents for pharmaceuticals "risk stifling the development and production of generic medicines, by strengthening and deepening monopoly protections."
Another leak revealed the TPP would grant more incentives to relocate domestic manufacturing offshore, Wallach and Beachy related.
Jim Hightower, a progressive activist, wrote the TPP incorporates elements similar to the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Hightower wrote the deal would "transform Internet service providers into a private, Big Brother police force, empowered to monitor our 'user activity,' arbitrarily take down our content and cut off our access to the Internet."
Indeed, Internet freedom advocacy groups have been protesting the TPP, taking specific issue with leaked proposals that would enact strict intellectual property restraints that would effectively change U.S. copyright law.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued the TPP would "restrict the ability of Congress to engage in domestic law reform to meet the evolving IP needs of American citizens and the innovative technology sector."
In a petition signed by more than 30 Internet freedom organizations, the group warned the TPP would "rewrite global rules on intellectual property enforcement."
With additional research by Brenda J. Elliott.
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Could HAARP Be Involved?
Booms and quakes are increasing dramatically in the Oklahoma area and around the great New Madrid fault where the largest quake in recorded US history occurred.
The area of that nearly 8.0 quake was hardly populated in 1811 but today it is a major population center in the USA home to millions of people and major cities in the mid west including Chicago, Illinois.
There were 20 earthquakes in Oklahoma with booms (like bombs going off they said) on Saturday alone.
Booms that precede great geological upheavals of major proportions have been recorded down through history. As huge earthquakes grew nearer, the booms grew more frequent and more loud.
Oklahoma is not alone as residents of many states are reporting these loud booms and earth shaking from Great Lakes states to New Jersey (Manchester area), to Missouri and Texas. The growing number and loudness of the booms are frightening residents and causing great alarm, especially since the area being effected is so huge.
The area assaulted by the Deep Water Gulf oil spill and the ongoing catastrophe at Bayou Corne (sinkhole) may also be having a serious effect on these areas because of the increased pressure placed on the earth's crust.
This week booms and quakes in South Carolina and Georgia frightened residents there.
The Augusta water tower was cracked by the quakes that happened just 20 miles from the Augusta National Golf Course.
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There are those who like to mock and giggle about such things.
With an already horrible drought in California about to drive vegetable and fruit prices through the roof, a major quake or disaster in the Midwest, the bread basket of the US (and much of the world for that matter), could trigger even worst scenarios.
Here's what the booms sound like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JArPkrS4LYQ
Some news articles about the booms:
Oklahoma:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/residents-baffled-terrifying-loud-booms-oklahoma/story?id=22543356
http://newsok.com/loud-booms-frighten-residents-cause-damage-between-near-guthrie/article/3933913
Obama's Family Trips on Air Force One Cost Taxpayers $15.9M plus
Thursday, 27 Mar 2014 01:27 PM
By Drew MacKenzie
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(The Clown gives the Pope a pack of vegetable seeds... Prob'ly had the limo stop at Walmart on the way to the airport.
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Grifters, my friends. Nothing but grifters. WE pay the bill while they live the high life. Disgusting people)
Via Newsmax:http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/Obama-Judicial-Watch-trips-cost/2014/03/27/id/562138/?promo_code=F269-1
President Barack Obama's family vacations abroad at taxpayer expense has been slammed by a watchdog group keeping tabs on the bills.
The president, first lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, traveled to Africa last summer and then to Honolulu over the winter – and the cost of the flights alone on Air Force One came to $15,888,585, according to Judicial Watch.The organization, which unearthed the figure through the Freedom of Information Act, found that the flights in and around Africa by the Obamas in June and July 2013 came to 35.5 hours at a cost of $228,288 an hour, totaling $8,104,224.
The family's flights on Air Force One for their 17-day Christmas vacation to Honolulu between December 2013 and January 2014 totaled 36.9 hours at a cost of $210,877 an hour, adding up to $7,781,361.Furthermore, Judicial Watch also revealed that the flight costs for the family's trip in August last year to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, was $1,164,268.
"The costs to taxpayers of President Obama's travel, especially his luxury vacation travel, are beyond the pale," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. "And the secrecy surrounding these costs shows that Obama's vows of transparency are rubbish."
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As Obuma Prepares To Visit Saudi Arabia, Textbooks There Continue To Teach Students Gays Should Be Executed By Fire, Stoning, Or Thrown From High Places
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As Obuma Prepares To Visit Saudi Arabia, Textbooks There Continue To Teach Students Gays Should Be Executed By Fire, Stoning, Or Thrown From High Place
(I'm guessing he left lover-boy Reggie Love home)
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Via FDD:President Obama is set to visit Saudi Arabia this Friday for discussions with Saudi officials focusing on regional developments and repairing the strained relations between the U.S. and the Kingdom. It is unclear whether the president will raise concerns about Saudi Arabia's controversial educational curriculum. Saudi textbooks help propagate jihadist ideology and are distributed around the globe.
A new FDD report reveals that the State Department has declined to release a taxpayer-funded study on Saudi textbooks submitted to the Department in 2012. The Saudi Ministry of Education continues to allow dangerous and deeply offensive material to appear in Saudi Arabia's textbooks for the 2013-2014 school year.
For example, a twelfth grade textbook on Quranic interpretation professes that "treachery, betrayal, and the denunciation of covenants" are among the attributes of the Jews. The anti-Semitic libel "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is presented as historical fact in a tenth grade textbook on Hadith and Islamic Culture.
A book from the same series for the eleventh grade teaches that cosmopolitan universities in the Middle East such as the American Universities in Beirut and Cairo are examples of a modern-day crusade by Christians against Islam.
Homosexuals fare even worse in Saudi Arabia's educational materials. A tenth grade textbook on jurisprudence states that the punishment for homosexuality is death. The text goes on to suggest that the most important debate about homosexuals is how best to execute them, including death by fire, stoning, or being thrown from a high place.
A twelfth grade monotheism textbook asserts that the punishment for conversion away from Islam is execution. If the apostate does not repent, "it is incumbent upon the ruler to kill him," the text reads. The book also argues that authorities can forcibly separate an apostate from his or her spouse and confiscate their property.
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Did Obama Lie About What Was Said During His Meeting With Pope Francis?
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Frick and Frack on either side of the Pope
(We saw a similar vast difference in accounts of what was said in his phone call with Putin yesterday...
http://weaselzippers.us/181058-putin-calls-obama-two-vastly-different-impressions-of-what-was-said/)
Via Washington Times:President Obama's first meeting with Pope Francis produced a little schism of its own.
The Vatican and White House gave starkly different versions Thursday of Mr. Obama's meeting with Francis.
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The president's account downplayed the Catholic Church's concerns about religious freedom in the United States and Obamacare's mandate to pay for contraception.
The pontiff and the president were cordial in the televised portions of their meeting, but a subtle competition to set the agenda played out after the meeting, which went well beyond its scheduled half-hour.
"We actually didn't talk a whole lot about social schisms in my conversations with His Holiness," Mr. Obama said at a press conference in Rome. "In fact, that really was not a topic of conversation."
Mr. Obama deflected a reporter's question about the extent of his discussion with the pope on the contraceptive mandate by saying that Francis "actually did not touch in detail" on the subject. The administration has been locked in a lengthy legal and political battle with the U.S. Catholic Church hierarchy over Obamacare and issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.
The Vatican, however, issued a statement after the meeting saying the president's discussions with Francis and two other top Vatican officials focused "on questions of particular relevance for the [Catholic] Church in [the United States], such as the exercise of the rights to religious freedom, life and conscientious objection" — issues that have fueled divisions between Mr. Obama and the church.
Remember When Presidents Stood Up To Russia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCO9BYCGNeY
Liberals say we don't need any more "Cowboy" Presidents
Via Allen B. WestThirty-five years ago I was finishing up my senior year of high school and heading to my first year at the University of Tennessee. Something also happened that year — the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and began the 10 year Soviet-Afghan War. If anyone had told me in 1979 that one day, 26 years later, I would be landing at the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan, I would have thought them crazy. However, history does indeed repeat itself for those who fail to learn from it.
So here we are in 2014 with a weak president, just as 35 years ago, watching another invasion. Once again we have a president who has diminished our military capacity. Once again we have a president who is limiting our energy security advancement in favor of radical environmentalists.
There are so many parallels between the tenures of presidents Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama some postulate this is what a second Carter presidency would have resembled.
This past week, President Obama was in Europe displaying his failure to comprehend strategic level geopolitics. Europe has always been a battleground between East and West, between liberty and tyranny. The difference now is that we do not have resolute leadership such as President John F. Kennedy who went to West Berlin and stated, "Ich bin ein Berliner" meaning to say he was a citizen of Berlin (not a "Berliner" jelly-filled doughnut). And young Kennedy was indeed challenged by the brutish belligerence of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev by way of the Cuban missile crisis. Yet he stood his ground.
George Soros Nudges Obuma to Release Strategic Oil
Reserves to "Ruin" Russia
by Michael Bastasch
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/03/george-soros-nudges-obama-release-strategic-oil-reserves-ruin-russia/
Liberal billionaire George Soros suggested that President Barack Obama release oil from the country's strategic reserves to lower gas prices and "ruin" Russia's energy-dependent economy.
Soros told a panel in Berlin last week that the best way to sanction Russia for its actions in Ukraine "is in the hands of the United States," because its oil reserves can depress the price of oil, reports Bloomberg.
"The strongest deterrent is in the hands of the United States because it can release oil from the strategic oil reserve, which would then reduce the price of oil, and that would ruin the Russian economy, which lives on oil," he told Marketplace in an interview published Wednesday.
"The Russian economy is very weak because the oligarchs who run the country don't trust it and they send their money abroad," he added. "So if you stop the inflow of funds, that will bring the Russian economy to its knees."
"Ukraine is determined to reform, but it needs protection," Soros continued.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has dismissed the idea of using the U.S.'s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to punish Russia, but others have gravitated towards the idea. Former Ford and Carter administration official Philip Verleger said that U.S. SPR reserves could reduce oil prices by $12 per barrel by releasing 500,000 barrels of oil.
Verleger added that lower oil prices would cost Russia about $40 billion in oil and gas revenues, or about 2 percent of its economy. Carl Larry, president of Oil Outlooks & Opinions LLC, told Bloomberg that releasing SPR oil would also lower costs for refiners and boost U.S. exports while reducing U.S. oil imports.
"We can increase exports and the U.S. wins on all levels," Larry said. "Refiners have better margins in the U.S. and we push out exports from Russia."
But releasing oil from the SPR is a double-edged sword. Oil prices are set in global markets, meaning that hurting Russian oil revenues would also hurt the bottom lines of U.S. oil companies.
"If you use oil and aim it at Russia, you'll hit Texas," Kevin Book, managing director of ClearView Energy Partners LLC, told Bloomberg. "Besides the intrinsic problem of taking your safety net and burning it for a flash in the pan, we're not the low-cost producer."
The effects of an SPR release will also likely be temporary. When the Obama administration released 30 million barrels of oil from the SPR in 2011 during the Libyan civil war, prices were only depressed for a few days. Within a week, oil prices were right back to where they were before the SPR release — which was also complemented by the release of 30 million barrels from other countries.
The reserve was established in the aftermath of the 1973-74 oil embargo. It has a capacity of 727 million barrels of oil and was intended to give the president a tool to respond to disruptions in the oil supply that threaten the U.S. economy. The government has released oil from the reserve three times in the past
Global Warming Will Cause War, Pestilence, Famine and Death,
Says New IPCC Report Inevitably
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(Oh my, I just pooped all over myself. I'm so scared. Tell me what to do!)
Today sees the release of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest findings on the state of "global warming" and the news isn't good.
Here are some of the highlights:
•Giant malarial mosquitoes the size of crane flies may descend en masse and drain us of our blood so quickly with their powerful razor sharp probosces that we won't even have time to be infected - we'll be dead before we hit the floor;
•Bangladesh, Tuvalu, The Maldives and Florida will all be submerged;
•Four horsemen with skulls for faces, glowing red eyes and huge scythes will gallop across the blighted land on skeletal horses spreading fire, pestilence, famine, and disease. Men will pray for the quick release of death. Children will clutch their parents and say: "Why didn't we listen?";
•The populations of horrid things like cockroaches and scorpions will quintuple, while all the cute animals - wrens, robins, meerkats, baby polar bears, kittens, sea otters - will vanish as if they had never been;
•Men will say openly that Christ and His saints slept;
•There will be war, war and more war.We know this because the Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg is on the case. She has got in her climate doom predictions early and though she based her report on a leaked sneak preview rather than the finished document, she has undoubtedly captured the general tone, which is this: things are even worse than we thought!
And are things really even worse than we thought?Rest of story at:http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/31/Global-Warming-Will-Cause-War-Pestilence-Famine-and-Death-Says-New-IPCC-Report-Inevitably
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Simple-Simon Clucky Hagel Suggests He Favors Tobacco Sales Ban At Military Installations(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_OIxpRbt2e0o/TAzeXSF0dgI/AAAAAAAAAAw/B0SEcVhuLaU/s1600/Soldier-smoking-cigarette.jpg)
(After the fecal matter hit the fan, nothing like relaxing with MRE chewing gum and celebrating that you didn't end up with lead poisoning)
Via Stars and StripesAs the Navy considers banning tobacco sales on all bases and ships, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gave a strong endorsement of the review Monday, and suggested that he would be in favor of a ban.
"I don't know if there's anybody in America who still thinks that tobacco is good for you," Hagel told reporters at the Pentagon in response to a question about the Navy review. "We don't allow smoking in any of our government buildings. Restaurants, states, [and] municipalities have pretty clear regulations on this. I think in reviewing any options that we have as to whether we in the military through commissaries [or] PXs sell or continue to sell tobacco is something we need to look at. And we are looking at it. And I think we owe it to our people."
Hagel said that the financial and human costs of tobacco use need to be taken into account. The secretary said that dealing with tobacco-related health issues costs the Defense Department more than a billion dollars a year.
"Now the dollars are one thing. But the health of your people — I don't know if you put a price tag on that. So I think it does need to be looked at and reviewed," Hagel said.
Studies show military members use tobacco at higher rates than same-age civilians. A 2011 DOD survey showed 24 percent of troops smoked, compared with 20 percent of civilians of the same age.
Last week, Cmdr. Tamara Lawrence, a Navy spokeswoman for the secretary, confirmed Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is taking a new look at tobacco use across the service. A Navy official, who spoke to Stars and Stripes on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the topic, said one option on the table is banning tobacco sales on Navy bases and ships.
Axelrod Calls People Skeptical of White House's Obamacare Enrollment Numbers The "Black Helicopter Crowd"
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(We don't call him Axeldouche for nothing)
DAVID AXELROD: "This is, of course, Alex, why seven presidents tried to do this, seven presidents failed over 65 years. It is a very, very difficult thing to do because you're right, anytime something happens in the health care system — if a premium goes up, or if someone gets denied care in any way, people say that's because of the Affordable Care Act. And, you know, f you're intimidated by that prospect, then you should never have gone down this road.
I think the reason why people, from the president to members of Congress who voted this deserve such great credit, is this isn't the easy, political thing to do. It's going to take time. I think we're going to look back in five, ten, twenty years and say that was an extraordinarily good decision. But the transitional period is fraught. And this is — one of the things is — one of the reasons it's fraught is because of what you raised.
I want to make one point on what Zeke [Emanuel] said about the insurance industry. I suggest that all of the black helicopter crowd, the people who are doubting the numbers and all of that stuff should talk to the insurance industry because they seem to be bearing out the numbers that the government is reporting. Maybe they'll believe private industry."
Admiral Says Obuttwipe Told Military Leaders: Accept Gays In Military Or Step Down
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(Team Fabulous)
Via BuzzFeed:In a meeting with the heads of the five service branches in 2010, President Obama offered the leaders a choice: Support my efforts to end the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, or resign.
In a video obtained by BuzzFeed via a Freedom of Information Act request, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp revealed that Obama was unwilling to compromise with service leaders over DADT during a meeting in 2010. "We were called into the Oval Office and President Obama looked all five service chiefs in the eye and said, 'This is what I want to do.' I cannot divulge everything he said to us, that's private communications within the Oval Office, but if we didn't agree with it — if any of us didn't agree with it — we all had the opportunity to resign our commissions and go do other things," he said.
Papp talked about the meeting during a Q&A session with U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets following a leadership address to the corps on Jan 8. The admiral was asked how officers should respond to policies that they disagreed with but were required to enforce. "If I disagree morally with [a policy], it's my obligation to voice that, regardless of the risk it might give my career," he said. "I've been in those situations. I've been fortunate to have good leaders that have appreciated that." Using himself as an example, Papp said it was OK for leaders to "not be thrilled" with a certain regulation, but if they didn't "see anything terribly wrong with it," it was their job as officers to support and enforce it.
No, GOP Isn't The Party of The Rich: Analysis Shows 8 of Top 10 Richest House Districts Represented By Democrats
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are the party of the rich, right? It's a label that has stuck for decades, and you're hearing it again as Democrats complain about GOP opposition to raising the minimum wage and extending unemployment benefits.
But in Congress, the wealthiest among us are more likely to be represented by a Democrat than a Republican. Of the 10 richest House districts, only two have Republican congressmen. Democrats claim the top six, sprinkled along the East and West coasts. Most are in overwhelmingly Democratic states like New York and California.
The richest: New York's 12th Congressional District, which includes Manhattan's Upper East Side, as well as parts of Queens and Brooklyn. Democrat Carolyn Maloney is in her 11th term representing the district.
Per capita income in Maloney's district is $75,479. That's more than $75,000 a year for every man, woman and child. The next highest income district, which runs along the southern California coast, comes in at $61,273. Democrat Henry Waxman is in his 20th term representing the Los Angeles-area district.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district comes in at No. 8.
Across the country, Democratic House districts have an average per capita income of $27,893. That's about $1,000 higher than the average income in Republican districts. The difference is relatively small because Democrats also represent a lot of poor districts, putting the average in the middle.
British Sniper In Afghanistan Kills Six Taliban With One Bullet
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Via Telegraph:A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded, The Telegraph has learnt.
The 20-year-old marksman, a Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards, hit his target from 930 yards (850 metres) away, killing the suicide bomber and five others around him caught in the blast.
The incident in Kakaran in southern Afghanistan happened in December but has only now been disclosed as Britain moves towards the withdrawal of all combat soldiers by the end of the year.
Lt Col Richard Slack, commanding officer of 9/12 Royal Lancers, said the unnamed sharpshooter prevented a major attack by the Taliban, as a second suicide vest packed with 20kg (44lbs) of explosives was found nearby.
The same sniper, with his first shot on the tour of duty, killed a Taliban machine-gunner from 1,465 yards (1,340m).
Several hundred British and Afghan soldiers were carrying out an operation in December when they were engaged in a gun battle with 15 to 20 insurgents.
"The guy was wearing a vest. He was identified by the sniper moving down a tree line and coming up over a ditch," said Lt Col Slack. "He had a shawl on. It rose up and the sniper saw he had a machine gun.
"They were in contact and he was moving to a firing position. The sniper engaged him and the guy exploded. There was a pause on the radio and the sniper said, 'I think I've just shot a suicide bomber'. The rest of them were killed in the blast."
It is understood the L/Cpl was using an L115A3 gun, the Army's most powerful sniper weapon.
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Democrats Losing Younger People, Independents, Whites
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Monday, 31 Mar 2014 06:12 AM
By Elliot Jager
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Pew-Andrew-Kohut-polls-Democrats/2014/03/31/id/562649/
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Democratic 2014 electoral prospects are hampered by the party's losing ground among whites, those under 34, and independent voters, Andrew Kohut, founding director of the Pew Research Center, wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
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Surveys show that the public thinks Republicans have fewer solutions on healthcare than Democrats, and only a four-point lead on handling the economy. Moreover, the Republican Party has a 59 percent unfavorable rating – and the tea party is almost twice as unpopular today as it was in 2010.
Nevertheless, polls show the GOP stands a better chance of coming out ahead in the midterm elections, Kohut wrote.
While Republican voters are more enthusiastic about their party and exhibit a higher voter participation rate, Democrats, with a 48 percent unfavorable rating, are losing support among key demographic groups.
Independent voters lean Republican by 44 percent to 38 percent. President Barack Obama failed to carry the independent vote in the 2012 presidential elections, Kohut wrote in a commentary.
About 80 percent of the midterm electorate is expected to be white, Kohut wrote. Democrats trail Republicans in white support 53 percent to 38 percent.
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Democrats are also losing backing among millennials. Identification with the Democrats now stands at 50 percent – down from 58 percent in 2009.
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Obama's unpopularity "is probably the greatest problem for Democrats this year," Kohut wrote.
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With a 44 percent approval rating, his standing could prove a hindrance to Democratic candidates. In 2006, Republicans lost Congress when President George W. Bush's approval slipped to roughly that same 44 percent level.
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Obuma Claims 7 Million "Signed Up" For ObumaCrappyCare, But Study Shows Only 858,000 Previously Uninsured Have Actually Paid
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(So Obama threw people out of plans he promised they could keep and forced them by law[his ever changing law] to sign up or face penalties. Yet, the 30 million who this law supposedly was meant for, are, according to this study, still uninsured)Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594309/President-plans-victory-lap-strong-Obamacare-enrollment-Sebelius-faces-unpopular-law-blank-stare-tough-questions-remain-whos-signing-up.html
•President took a major victory lap and took political shots at Republicans, but ignored shortcomings in his administration's official numbers
•Press secretary Jay Carney will only say 'we're aggregating a lot of data' when asked how many enrollees have paid for coverage
•Carney dodged questions about damning study that showed very few Obamacare customers were uninsured before the law took effect
•Percentages from a hush-hush RAND Corporation study suggest barely 858,000 previously uninsured Americans have enrolled and paid premiums
•HHS Secretary Sebelius met a televised challenge Monday about 'unpopular' Obamacare with lengthy awkward silenceA triumphant
(Clown) President Barack Obama declared Tuesday his signature medical insurance overhaul a success, saying it has made America's health care system 'a lot better' in a Rose Garden press conference.
But buried in the 7.1 million enrollments he announced in a heavily staged appearance is a more unsettling reality.
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Rose Garden no-show: Kathleen Sebelius appeared on an Oklahoma TV station on Monday to buck up Obumacare's flagging numbers in the Sooner State, and had only a blank-stare response to the law's unpopularity -- she was nowhere to be seen as Obuma took his victory lap.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2594309/President-plans-victory-lap-strong-Obamacare-enrollment-Sebelius-faces-unpopular-law-blank-stare-tough-questions-remain-whos-signing-up.html#ixzz2xhrgM63S
Quote from: W. Gray on March 10, 2014, 02:59:10 PM
Wishful thinking as the proposed method has never been used to amend the Constitution. Of course, there is always a first time, but even with Congressional blessing, some states have been reluctant to provide approval for Constitutional amendments.
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1923.
The amendment would guarantee equal rights for women.
In 1972, the proposal was passed in Congress and went to the state legislatures for ratification.
Failed to receive enough state ratifications before the June 30, 1982, deadline mandated by Congress. This particular proposed amendment can never be adopted to be part of the constitution.
TITLES OF NOBILITY AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1810.
It would strip United States citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from a foreign country.
The proposal has not received three fourths states approval but can be adopted if enough states yet provide their approval.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA VOTING RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1978.
It would grant the District of Columbia full representation in Congress, in the Electoral College, and full participation in amending the Constitution.
The proposal did not receive three fourths state approvals by 1985 and cannot be adopted as a Constitutional amendment.
CORWIN AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1861.
Meant to get the seceding states back into the Union and get the slave border states not to jump ship.
The proposal has not received three fourths state approvals but is still alive.
CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1924.
It would regulate the labor of people less than eighteen years of age.
Has not been approved by three fourths of the states and is still alive.
CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT AMENDMENT
Proposal approved by Congress in 1789.
It was an attempt by Congress to regulate the number of members of the House of Representatives.
Has never been ratified by three fourths of the states but is still alive.
Time needed for the appropriate number of states to approve the 27 amendments to the US Constitution
27, 1992, 202 years, 7 months
26, 1971, 3 months
25, 1967, 1 year, 7 months
24, 1964, 1 year, 4 months
23, 1961, 9 months
22, 1951, 3 years, 11 months
21, 1933, 9 months
20, 1933, 10 months
19, 1920, 1 year, 2 months
18, 1919, 1 year
17, 1913, 10 months
16, 1913, 3 years, 6 months
15, 1870, 11 months
14, 1868, 2 years
13, 1865, 10 months
12, 1804, 6 months
11, 1795, 11 months
1-10, 1795, 2 years, 2 months
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Rep Luis Gutierrez (D) Illinois doesn't bother to make thinly-veiled threats. They are blatant and right out for all to see.
Gutierrez tries to provide legitimacy to the claim that B. Hussein Obama is an American citizen and then bizarrely asserts that as some type of basis for another irrational argument. He admonishes the House of Representatives, telling them if they don't give Obama his amnesty for the illegals who have overrun the country, he'll do it anyway.
Gutierrez continues saying Obama "will act if he has to. If you give him no choice, this president is going to take charge himself." He then follows it with, "as well he should."
Get ready, folks, we've just been put on notice. Obama or his handlers have probably been planning this at least since he announced his candidacy amid all of the Lincoln symbolism.
He's going to push it through, no matter how Americans feel about it, just as we've seen before. His boy Luis just confirmed it.
https://www.facebook.com/libertyheadquarters
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Eric Holder Defends Using Taxpayer-Funded Justice Department Airplane For 27 Personal Trips
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(Because Eric Holder is a clown, that's why)
Via Washington Examiner:Attorney General Eric Holder disputed a Government Accountability Office report on his use of Justice Department airplanes for personal trips, saying it overstated the number of Clown trips he took and failed to recognize that some trips were job-related.
"My staff keeps telling me to take it easy, you know, well, this is one that gets me," Holder told Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing. "There was this notion that we've taken — I think it was described as hundreds of personal trips. That was wrong. GAO counted flights, not round trips. And we looked at it and figured out from the time period that they were looking, we took not hundreds, but 27 personal, four combined — official and nonpersonal trips — and none of the trips that I took or that the [FBI] director took ever had an impact on the mission capability of those airplanes."
Top DOJ Official Praises Race Baiting Scumbag Al Sharpton For "His Leadership On Issues of Reconciliation"
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Reconciliation? Holy crap...he is one of the most divisive figures in America.
Via NRO:In his remarks at the "Strengthening the Relationship Between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color Forum" today, Associate Attorney General Tony West gets the ball rolling this way:
"Let me also express appreciation to Reverend Al Sharpton, not only for joining us this morning but for his leadership, day in and day out, on issues of reconciliation and community restoration." He also praises New York City mayor Bill de Blasio: "In the short time the Mayor has been in office, the Justice Department has established a productive working partnership with the City of New York. Within weeks of assuming office, Mayor de Blasio helped broker a resolution to a long-running legal battle — in which the Department of Justice filed a statement of interest — over NYPD's stop-and-frisk practices, helping to ensure that reforms are in place throughout the police department to promote constitutional policing."
Obuttwipe To Speak At Vile Race Pimp Al Sharpton's Annual Conference
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(No word yet if Racist Al will rail against "punk faggots" like he has in the past)
Via The Blaze:Barack Obama will speak at the annual convention next week run by the controversial activist and TV clown Al Sharpton.
Obama is scheduled to deliver the keynote address to the organization next Friday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
The annual convention of the National Action Network is being held April 9-12 in New York at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers.
"The 2014 NAN national convention will address issues of civil rights and social justice including, gun control reform, education, health and wellness, economic justice and much more," the organization's website says. "The Convention will kick of with NAN's annual Keepers of the Dream Award Gala in New York City."
Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed instantly
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Afghan Police Commander Shouts "Allahu Akbar!", Opens Fire, Wounding AP Reporter, Killing Photographer
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(Another "friendly" attack. This is the way countless numbers of our military have been killed and wounded)
Via Fox News:KABUL, Afghanistan – A veteran Associated Press photographer was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan.
Anja Niedringhaus, 48, an internationally acclaimed German photographer, was killed instantly, according to an AP Television News freelancer who witnessed the shooting.
Kathy Gannon, the AP correspondent who for many years was the news organization's Afghanistan bureau chief and more recently was a senior writer for the region, was shot twice and is receiving medical attention. She was described as being in stable condition and talking to medical personnel.
STUFF
When my dog Rowdy and I take off on his two daily constitutionals, we merely circle the block. Under normal circumstances, it would only take me about 10
minutes. Instead, it usually requires half an hour. That's because Rowdy needs to stop and sniff just about every bush, tree, wall and fire hydrant, we pass. It was driving me nuts until I realized that my email is his peemail, and God knows I spend far more time dealing with mine. I suspect in the dog world, it's regarded as all the news that's fit to spritz.
In case you missed it, 13 is now a lucky number. At least if you're a conservative, it is. At the risk of offending grammarians, it was in Florida's 13th congressional district that Jolly sank Sink. In spite of Alex Sink outspending David Jolly 4-1 and in spite of Joltin Joe Biden and Bill Clinton coming down to campaign for her, Ms. Sink lost because whereas Jolly called for an end to ObumaCrappyCare, she hedged her bet and suggested it merely be mended.
On the downside, Jolly defeated Sink by less than 2%, thanks to the Libertarian candidate drawing off nearly 5% of the vote. In the aftermath, the head of the DNC, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, pretended the election went off as predicted because the district had been represented by a Republican for many years, ignoring the fact that things had changed in the 13th, thanks to so many liberals having moved south from New York. On top of that, Obuma had twice carried the district and, what's more,
the Democrats blew a whopping $12 million in a losing cause.
Obuma, in his latest awkward attempt to bribe voters to ignore ObumaCrappyCare and his various scandals, has used his pen to provide overtime pay for federal employees. At least, it's not something that will put more money in the pocket of the laziest man who has ever sat in the Oval Office. Unlike millions of Americans who only get to work 29 hours a week because they can't get fulltime jobs, Obuma regards a 29-hour work week as a personal hardship. The fact is if the Democrats had known how many elections ObumaCrappyCare was going to cost them, even Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi would have voted against it in 2010.
Proving yet again that when it comes to economics, Obuma doesn't know a debit from his assets, he flew to NYC for a pair of fund-raisers. At the first event, he hauled in $810,000 from schlemiels willing to fork over about $32,000 for a chance to listen to a speech the rest of us would turn off even if it were free. However, the cost of the trip was $1,203,000, once you added up two hours of flying time on Air Force One, and the fees to the city and to New York's Port Authority. The world waited with bated breath to see if the second event would clear $393,000, which would be the break-even point. That's assuming the DNC was actually picking up the tab for these partisan events. Otherwise, it would just be business as usual for Obuma, redistributing our wealth for his advantage.
Speaking of the bozo-in-chief, when people say that Putin would have invaded Crimea no matter who the president happened to be, they overlook the fact that prior to the 2012 election, Obuma told the Russians that he'd have far more flexibility after he was re-elected. But I'm betting that not even Putin realized that he'd be as flexible as Gumby.
Proving that like Gumby, he also has feet of clay, Obuma broke America's promise to supply Poland and the Czech Republic with missile defense systems. In fact, in five years he has never missed a single opportunity to betray an ally and cozy up to a foe. He is the very embodiment of the expression that if you have him for a friend, you don't need any enemies.
In other news, a bunch of what, in polite circles, are referred to as biological fathers are suing to have a veto over the biological mother when it comes to dealing with the result of their sexual activities. Fortunately for them, they won't be dealing with moi. As I see it, if you don't marry the little lady, you have no paternal rights. Being a sperm provider doesn't entitle you to have a say in the child's life. So just shut up and stop sticking your wienie where it doesn't belong. If you're dying to have children, get married. If you're just looking for a hot time, first get a vasectomy.
I have nothing against using drones on individual terrorists, but why don't we ever use them to blow their training camps to Kingdom Come? And why did we never do anything to prevent the damn Iranians from calling themselves insurgents and streaming willy-nilly into Iraq? After all, surely those satellites of ours must be good for something besides letting me know that tomorrow's weather here in AZ. will be 10 degrees hotter than yesterday.
Finally, when I consider the likes of Obuma, Pelosi, Reid, Durbin, Leahy, Schumer, Waters, Waxman, Boxer and Rangel, it occurs to me that a lot of voters seem to judge politicians the way some folks judge cheese:
the stinkier, the better!What A Democrat Looks Like
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XM, Sirius Radio Hosts Opie And Anthony Slam Obamacare On Air: "I Don't Know Why We're Not Having A Revolution!"
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( Hilarious, but when it comes to real issues Opie & Anthony usually have their heads up their butts, until it affects them directly)
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HuffPo Writer Outraged 9/11 Museum To Use Term "Islamic Terrorism"
(The museum opens in May so I'm assuming we'll see more of this god-awful trash, especially by CAIR and their idiotic lib allies. "It would be healthier for us to use this museum to try to find a basis for international understanding and peace that could overcome the hatreds that produce such antagonism, even if this requires deep and careful exploration of decades of history and the avoidance of hasty generalization." As usual, libs always want calm, deep contemplative exploration of the feelys of Islamic terrorist bastards that attacked America)The Rhetoric of "Islamic Terrorism" and the September 11 Memorial Museum — by Todd Fine at Medium
(You'll find that the author deleted his article on Medium, btw. https://medium.com/p/34fee267ef5b ) Scheduled to open on May 21, thirteen years after the attacks, the September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site promises to become one of the most visited and influential cultural institutions in the United States. Although built with around 1 billion dollars in federal grants and other government support, the memorial operates as a private foundation,
immune from public input on its exhibition content.The curatorial team made numerous politically-charged decisions in the design of the museum's permanent exhibition, and one of the most sensitive, and likely subject to substantial international scrutiny, will be the characterization of Islam in relation to the ideology of al-Qaeda. Islam is the religion of nearly one-fourth of the world's population, and tying the beliefs of 1.6 billion people to the actions of a small group would be highly reckless in such a prominent setting. Therefore,
I was alarmed to discover that the museum has indeed chosen to conflate terrorism and religion, with their advance materials using the highly problematic term "Islamic terrorism."In a section that addresses terrorist attacks before September 11, their website states that the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 "had a significant impact on America's view of the threat of Islamic terrorism."
Leading scholars like Mark Juergensmeyer and Richard Jackson, who study the religious motivation of groups such as al-Qaeda,
condemn the use of the phrase "Islamic terrorism" as sloppy and simplistic. Even if self-proclaimed Muslims are responsible for a particular violent act defined as terrorism, this does not make the action "Islamic" in any logical sense. John
"NO Brain" Brennan, President Obama's former counterterrorism advisor and the current Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, argued in 2010 that
"Islamic terrorism" should be banned from White House communications completely. He suggested that "describing our enemy in religious terms would lend credence to the lie propagated by al-Qaeda and its affiliates to justify terrorism, that the United States is somehow at war against Islam.... After all, Islam, like so many faiths, is part of America." (Cough, Cough...)(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/934/8357/original.jpg?w=600&h)
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"I guess all those 'honor' killings, some with heads removed, the Boston Marathon bombing and the number of 'attempted terrorist attacks' (stopped by the FBI) and malfunctioning bombs, which have ALL been done by MUSLIMS in this country, and the 10s of thousands of murders worldwide which are committed by Muslims screaming quotes from the Koran are just more coincidence.
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IRS Wasted $11.6 Million Of Computer Software
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(IRS is exempt from accounting and record keeping. But here's an idea... how about we take any pay raises all IRS employees are to receive and put them towards paying back the American people for this waste... I bet if we started holding these agencies/departments accountable, they would figure out how to spend our tax dollars a little more efficiently!!! I'm sick of the spending for the sake of spending!)
Via WFBThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) bought $11.6 million worth of computer software the agency never used, according to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
TIGTA attributed the error to poor management and a lack of inventory of more than $200 million in software purchased by the IRS, according to an audit released Thursday.
"Software license management at the IRS is not being adequately performed," the audit said. "Efficient and cost-effective management of the IRS's software assets is crucial to ensuring that information technology services continue to support the IRS's business operations and help it to provide services to taxpayers efficiently."
Upon reviewing the IRS' software contracts, TIGTA found 11 products that were bought by the IRS but never installed.
"The original compliance review determined that the IRS did not deploy, i.e., purchased but did not use, mainframe licenses and software support, resulting in the IRS wasting an estimated $11.6 million," the audit said.
The $11.6 million in wasted software was part of a 5-year contract with IBM worth $239 million, which was awarded in September 2007.
PUTIN: RUSSIA ISSUES
INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANT FOR
ROTHSCHILD & SOROS
( For some reason, I can not get the video to post, you. so here is a link that hopefully will work for you. Or perhaps Warph can get the video to post. The video is really only a voice recording.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpO3PArAoUQ#t=191
Vladimir Putin, now in full control of Russia as Prime Minister, wishes to build a strong Christian nation. In a televised Christmas message on January 7 2008 Putin said:
— "The Russian Orthodox Church contributes to the promotion of moral values in society. One should not completely draw a line between the culture and the church. Of course by law in our country the church is separate from the state. But in the soul and the history of our people it's all together. It always has been and always will be."
Russia will make The United States reflect upon what they allowed Rothschild to do to their own country. So when you see protests against Vladimir now, keep in mind it is probably staged by The Rothschild's trying to control Russia once again.
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Putin Issues Arrest Warrant for Financial Terrorist George Soros!!
Financial terrorist and Hungarian bank dick, Convicted Felon George Soros... Russian Intelligence has fingered Soros for using cross-collateralized compounded Swedish and Danish foreign currency derivatives for the purpose of an attack on the Russian stock market..
Soros' use of these cross-collateralized compounded derivatives utilizing Luxembourg banks violates the terms of the Basil II European Union banking agreement.
The thing that should give pause to the Heads of State Western is like Putin did in freeing Russia from those who wanted to bring the total economic and social collapse and beat up in jail all those who have tried.
Are they influencing Lubawitschern Putin? The fact is that Putin is loyal to Russia and its people, and never allow anyone, even when he is in command in that nation, to sell out and to let his country into the clutches of the NWO. For this he ordered to issue an international arrest warrant against George Soros, who has been caught red-handed as he prepared to send financial aid to what is called opposition in Russia, which recently made the streets in dozens of thousands of people telling lies and misinformation-cheating during the elections.
Now Mr. Soros has little room to continue his dirty games with the speculation that has devastated the entire global financial system, in collaboration Rothschild / Rockefeller and other jackals.
Putin's speech, which was officially issued by the Russian authorities.
Today it is made public the following statement by the Russian Federation and its Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has been asked for an arrest warrant against the International Terrorist Finance, the Hungarian currency-Mogul George Soros, the Russian secret services have found that Soros was using foreign currency derivatives with other Danes to start an attack against the Russian Currency Shares in the market.
http://wakeupcallnews.blogspot.com/2014/03/putin-russia-issues-international.html
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FROM WATCHDOG WIRE - CALIFORNIA
Felon and Indicted
California State Senators
Suspended WITH Pay
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Democrat Rod Wright is a convicted felon, eight counts. Democrat Ron Calderon was indicted on 24 counts. Leland Yee, an anti-gun Democrat is being charged with wire fraud, accepting bribes, oh and selling heavy weapons he got from Muslim terrorists in the Philippines—guess he didn't want competition for his weapon sales.
The State Senate voted to suspend, with pay, these three crooks. Just one Senator is demanding they not be paid:
Please, I know, innocent till proven guilty. Why should the people of California continue to pay $8,000 a month while these folks are preparing their appeals and defenses? S
Sadly, Republicans voted to suspend with pay, like Huff, Nielsen and Knight. Previously Knight was loudly demanding crooked Senators be thrown out—now he decided it is OK to throw them out, as long as they get paid:
A lone Republican lawmaker is calling on the California State Senate to expel three of its Democratic members that are facing criminal charges.
State Senator Joel Anderson, R-Alpine, the lone dissenter in Friday's vote to suspend with pay three members of the state Senate, said that his three colleagues, who stand accused of criminal charges ranging from weapons trafficking to public corruption, should be expelled.
"There should be only one measure on this floor," Anderson said in his floor speech, "and that's to expel these members."
Senator Joel Anderson also wanted to throw them out—he voted NO, because he did not want to pay them. Would you?
View the original post at CA Political News & Views.
http://watchdogwire.com/california/2014/04/02/felon-and-indicted-state-senators-suspended-with-pay/
Could U.S. Constitution Be Changed to Eliminate Second Amendment?
Entire founding document may be up for review after Michigan vote
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
April 4, 2014
Image: U.S. Constitution (Wiki Commons).
The entire U.S. Constitution could be up for review after Michigan became the 34th state to vote in favor of a Constitutional Convention, satisfying a rule that states America's founding document can be amended if two thirds of state legislatures approve the measure.
Article V of the U.S. Constitution states that Congress "shall call a convention for proposing amendments" should the two thirds requirement be met, which it was last week when Michigan lawmakers endorsed the move.
Following the vote, California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter called for a Constitutional Convention to be given the go ahead.
"Based on several reports and opinions, Michigan might be the 34th state to issue such a call and therefore presents the constitutionally-required number of states to begin the process of achieving a balanced budget amendment," Hunter wrote.
While some would welcome the opportunity to amend the Constitution to institute fiscal conservatism, others fear the move could easily be hijacked to negate parts of the document that protect fundamental liberties, such as the right to bear arms and freedom of speech.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens recently called for "improving" the Constitution by changing the second amendment so the right to bear arms only applied to those in a "militia" and not the general public at large.
"Nevertheless, in such a convention, the ENTIRE Constitution is subject to review and can be altered and changed. This could be everything from installing "social justice" to the dissolution of the federal government. Everything is on the table as if we were back in 1776 Philadelphia," writes Martin Armstrong, adding that the Michigan vote represents an, "unprecedented event to amend the U.S. Constitution."
Fox News' Barnini Chakraborty notes that it is unclear whether the 34 state requirement has been met since some have rescinded their votes, but constitutional scholar Gregory Watson said there could be no take backs.
"If it is ultimately adjudicated that a state may not rescind a prior application, then Ohio's 2013 application for a Balanced Budget Amendment convention would be the 33rd and Michigan's 2014 application would be the 34th on that topic," said Watson.
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States RightsDid Michigan just trigger 'constitutional convention'? Bid gains steam
By Barnini Chakraborty
·Published April 02, 2014
·FoxNews.com
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WASHINGTON – Momentum is building behind what would be an unprecedented effort to amend the U.S. Constitution, through a little-known provision that gives states rather than Congress the power to initiate changes.
At issue is what's known as a "constitutional convention," a scenario tucked into Article V of the U.S. Constitution. At its core, Article V provides two ways for amendments to be proposed. The first – which has been used for all 27 amendment to date – requires two-thirds of both the House and Senate to approve a resolution, before sending it to the states for ratification. The Founding Fathers, though, devised an alternative way which says if two-thirds of state legislatures demand a meeting, Congress "shall call a convention for proposing amendments."
The idea has gained popularity among constitutional scholars in recent years -- but got a big boost last week when Michigan lawmakers endorsed it.
Michigan matters, because by some counts it was the 34th state to do so. That makes two-thirds.
In the wake of the vote, California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter pressed House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday to determine whether the states just crossed the threshold for this kind of convention. Like Michigan lawmakers, Hunter's interest in the matter stems from a desire to push a balanced-budget amendment -- something that could potentially be done at a constitutional convention.
"Based on several reports and opinions, Michigan might be the 34th state to issue such a call and therefore presents the constitutionally-required number of states to begin the process of achieving a balanced budget amendment," Hunter wrote.
"With the recent decision by Michigan lawmakers, it is important that the House – and those of us who support a balanced budget amendment -- determine whether the necessary number of states have acted and the appropriate role of Congress should this be the case."
If two-thirds of the states indeed have applied, the ball is presumably in Congress' court to call the convention.
But Article V is rather vague, and it's ultimately unclear whether 34 states have technically applied. In the past, states like Oregon, Utah and Arizona have quietly voted to approve the provision in their legislature.
But some of the 34 or so have rescinded their requests. Others have rescinded, and then re-applied.
Alabama rescinded its request in 1988 but in 2011, lawmakers again applied for a convention related to an amendment requiring that the federal budget be balanced. It was a similar story in Florida in 2010.
Louisiana rescinded in 1990 but lawmakers have tried several times, unsuccessfully, to reinstate the application since then.
It's unclear whether the applications still count in these scenarios.
Some constitutional scholars like Gregory Watson, an analyst in Texas, say once states ask, there may be no take-backs.
"There is a disagreement among scholars as to whether a state that has approved an application may later rescind that application," Watson told The Washington Times. "If it is ultimately adjudicated that a state may not rescind a prior application, then Ohio's 2013 application for a Balanced Budget Amendment convention would be the 33rd and Michigan's 2014 application would be the 34th on that topic."
Others say if a state changes its mind, it can no longer be part of the 34.
Even if the requisite number of states have applied, questions remain about how such a convention would work -- and whether, as Michigan wants, such a convention could be limited to only discussing a balanced-budget amendment.
It still may be a long shot, but some analysts are warning about the unintended consequences of such a move.
In Louisiana, Budget Project Policy Analyst Steve Spire argued against the state's resolution, saying the convention could permanently damage the nation's political system.
The last time there was a successful amendment was more than four decades ago – the 26th Amendment which changed the voting age to 18. States ratified the 27th Amendment on congressional pay increases, but it took more than 200 years to do it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/02/rare-option-forcing-congress-to-meet-change-constitution-gains-momentum/
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At Least 29 Islamists Accidently Blow Themselves Up When They
Prematurely Detonate A Car Bomb
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DAMASCUS: At least 29 rebels died in a blast Sunday in the central Syrian city of Homs as they primed a car bomb for an attack, a monitoring group said.
In the capital, meanwhile, two people were killed when mortar fire struck the Damascus Opera House, state media reported.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 29 people were killed, most or all of them believed to be rebels, in the besieged Old City of Homs when a car bomb exploded.
"The death toll is likely to rise because there are dozens of people missing and body parts in the area of the blast," the Britain-based group said.
State news agency SANA also reported the blast, saying a car had exploded while being loaded with explosives.
Dana Perino's Amazing Plea Has Veterans Thanking Her Passionately
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(We don't need another group of Veterans demonized the same as the Vietnam Veterans were by the media)
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The Five's" Fox News co-host Dana Perino sent what was described as the "absolute greatest tweet" ever in the form of a plea for our nation's veterans, which set forth am avalanche of responses in agreement.The former G.W. Bush White House press secretary tweeted her message late Friday. It reflects her former boss's love, respect and deep appreciation for the men and women who serve in the armed forces:
"With all my being I'm begging you don't let people further isolate vets with PTS because they're not homicidal. Hire, include, support them."
— Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) April 4, 2014
Twelve hours later, it garnered over a thousand retweets and many replies, all duly recorded by the team at Twitchy, beginning with this one from Floridian Marty Smith:
"@DanaPerino Absolute greatest tweet you've ever done and I couldn't agree more! Use the power of your position to make a difference!!!!"
— Marty Smith (@martysmith123) April 4, 2014
All too often, the needs of our veterans are ignored out of fear, ignorance or political convenience.Hess Corporation is a global energy company that prides itself on its practice of hiring vets. http://www.hess.com/careers/hiring-veterans
What's more, the military seldom complains — they just want the chance to serve
"Senior Pentagon officials told Congress last ... that troops are willing to sacrifice portions of their pay and benefits if it means keeping and improving the training and equipment needed to do their jobs," according to a recent Military.com report.
Compare that kind of sacrifice to a Virginia congressmen's recent complaint that his $174,000 salary wasn't enough.
Let me join the others in saying "Amen and well done, Perino!"
Charlie Rangel Fails To Pay Rent On State Office For More Than A Year,
State Bails Him Out
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(Now ain't that just precious... some are more equal than others, I guess)
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New York City's longest-serving congressman won't pay his rent.
State taxpayers were stiffed out of at least $87,000 when Rep. Charles Rangel stopped paying for the district office he rents in Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
State Office Building, records obtained by The Post show.
His staffers' excuse? They lost the lease, according to state Office of General Services correspondence.
"I finally heard back from Congressman Rangel's office and it seems we haven't gotten the signed lease back because they lost it!" OGS real-estate specialist Sydney Allen wrote in a July 30, 2013, e-mail to a colleague that was obtained by The Post.
Rangel paid $7,253 in monthly rent on the 125th Street office he has rented since 2000, expense reports from 2012 show. But the payments stopped for all of 2013.
Incredibly, instead of demanding payment of the back rent and late fees from its deadbeat legislative tenant, the state cut him a huge rent break.
The state says it allowed Rangel in March 2013 to enter into a new sweetheart deal in which he could postpone paying six months of rent. That "abatement" money has still not been paid, nor has the other six months of missed rent from 2013, a OGS official said.
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Students Fed Up With Mooch Obuma's School Lunch Overhaul —
Menu-Item Snapshots Spell Out Why
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(Editor's Note: Some of the language used by students in this story
is of the colorful variety, just so you know...)
First, about one million public school students said "no way" to their cafeteria menus after Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign led to anger and frustration over food that apparently many American kids didn't want to stomach.
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This one might leave President Obuma in the dog house for a while.During a speech celebrating Cinco de Mayo yesterday, the president decided to deliver what appeared to be an unplanned joke. That's fine. The only problem is it came at the expense of his wife Michelle who was standing right next to him. And it had to do with her eating habits. Yeah, it's as cringe-worthy as it sounds.
The president said that Michelle's favorite food is Mexican, and that "you do not want to be between Michelle and a tamale." The crowd let out an uneasy chuckle, while some even uttered "Oooo." Michelle shot a steely look at her husband, who eventually threw up his hands. You can watch it below at the three-minute mark:
Armed Feds Prepare
For Showdown With
Nevada Cattle Rancher
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A Ruby Ridge-style standoff is brewing in Nevada, where dozens of armed federal agents are closing in on cattle rancher Cliven Bundy over claims that Bundy has allowed his cows to graze illegally on government land, endangering a protected species of tortoise.
Vowing to take a stand for, "your liberty and freedom," Bundy says he is prepared to be killed as authorities surround a 600,000 acre section of public land as a result of Bundy violating a 1993 Bureau of Land Management ruling which changed grazing rights in order to protect the endangered desert tortoise.
"With all these rangers and all this force that is out here, they are only after one man right now. They are after Cliven Bundy. Whether they want to incarcerate me or whether they want to shoot me in the back, they are after me. But that is not all that is at stake here. Your liberty and freedom is at stake," Bundy said.
Bundy's refusal to recognize federal authority over the land under dispute and his failure to pay tens of thousands of dollars in grazing fees stems from his assertion that his family's history trumps bureaucracy.
"My forefathers have been up and down the Virgin Valley ever since 1877. All these rights I claim have been created through pre-emptive rights and beneficial use of the forage and water. I have been here longer. My rights are before the BLM even existed," Bundy said.
Accusing feds of seizing Nevada's sovereignty, Bundy says he has fought the battle legally, through the media, and is now gearing up to fight it physically.
"Armed agents are forming a a military-like staging area to prevent anyone from approaching the area," writes Mike Paczesny.
Bundy asserts that his case is emblematic of how America has been transformed into a "police state," labeling the government's actions "pathetic".
Hundreds of federal officials, aided by helicopters, low flying aircraft and hired cowboys, began rounding up Bundy's cattle on Saturday as Bundy accused them of "trespassing," adding that the impact will only serve to raise beef prices for residents of Las Vegas 80 miles away.
Feds postponed a similar raid in 2012 over fears the action would spur violence. Bundy has drawn a lot of support from the local community and protesters are heading to the area to demand authorities back off. Officials have created a taped off "First Amendment Area" where demonstrators can voice their concerns. A sign placed inside the area reads "Welcome to Amerika – Wake Up" alongside a hammer and sickle logo.
"The rights were created for us," Bundy told the Las Vegas Review Journal. "I have the right to use the forage. I have water rights. I have access rights. I have range improvement rights, and I claim all the other rights that the citizens of Nevada have, whether it's to camp, to fish or to go off road."
Addressing the justification of seizing the cattle to protect a species of tortoise, Bundy stated, "I'll never get it. If it weren't for our cattle, there'd be more brush fires out here. The tortoises eat the cow manure, too. It's filled with protein."
The standoff has echoes of the 1992 Ruby Ridge incident, during which Randy Weaver, accused of selling an ATF agent two illegal sawed-off shotguns, became embroiled in a tragic confrontation with the the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and the FBI, resulting in the death of Weaver's son Sammy, his wife Vicki, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Degan.
The story also brings back memories of New Hampshire couple Ed and Elaine Brown, who were involved in a nine month standoff with armed law enforcement and feds as a result of their refusal to pay income tax. The Browns were later convicted of "plotting to kill federal agents" because of their refusal to surrender and were both given de facto life sentences.
In a series of YouTube videos, Cliven Bundy and his wife outline the background behind their decision to take a stand against the feds, arguing that their fight is a constitutionally-driven line in the sand to push back against the usurpation of big government.
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KU Grad Students Are Concerned Work Hours Might Be Reduced By Health Care Rules
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(They need to start a petition to repeal 0bamacare. Hours are also being cut in the work force outside of academia)
Via KC Starhttp://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/07/4942718/ku-grad-students-are-concerned.html
University of Kansas graduate students are concerned the school might reduce the hours they are allowed to work on campus in an effort to comply with new health care requirements.
Hundreds of the students signed petitions in March asking administrators not to cut the hours they can work on campus. Currently graduate students are allowed to work up to 30 hours a week on campus. Many of the students work 20 of those hours as teaching assistants and take second jobs on campus to make ends meet, The Lawrence Journal-World reported.
Graduate students' concerns began when an email circulated that appeared to propose limiting graduate work hours to 20 per week. School administrators said they have not implemented a new policy but they are considering reducing hours to comply with a new mandate that employers provide health insurance for employees working 30 hours a week or more.
Kansas Vice Provost Diane Goddard sent an email to students recently that said regardless of the outcome of the current discussion, graduate students will still be offered health insurance.
The current policy of offering a health plan with a 75 percent university contribution satisfies the individual requirement to carry insurance under the health care reform law, but not the requirement for employers to provide group coverage to their full-time employees, said Gavin Young, a university spokesman.
Young said the university is working on several issues, including how to apply the 30-hour-a-week definition of full-time work to graduate student workers, how many current graduate students would be eligible for insurance and the cost of providing insurance for them through the state employee plan.
U.N. Climate Chief Calls Global Warming Fear Mongering "Enlightenment"
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Groan...
Via The Hill:The head of the United Nations panel on climate change is pressing governments to "exercise a high level of enlightenment" to reconcile differences over how to mitigate global warming.
Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rejendra Pachauri told governments and scientists on Monday that their goal during the week-long meeting in Berlin is to form a "robust, policy-relevant and informative document," the Associated Press reports. The policy will be aimed at keeping the global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
'Starving' UConn Player Has 'Unlimited Access' Dining Opportunity
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(He didn't signup for food stamps? He shouldn't have a problem after tonights big win against Kentucky)
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University of Connecticut basketball guard Shabazz Napier says sometimes there's "hungry nights that we don't have enough money to get food."
But all students have "unlimited access" to resident dining units that offer "all-you-care-to-eat."
"We are definitely best to get a scholarship to our universities, but at the end of the day, that doesn't cover everything. We do have hungry nights that we don't have enough money to get food and sometimes money is needed," Napier told Fox Sports while discussing the National Labor Relations Board ruling that athletes from Northwestern can unionize.
Napier said he understands why some athletes need a union. "Like I said, there are hungry nights that I go to bed and I am starving. So something can change, something should change."
According to the UConn Student-Athlete Handbook, unlimited access to dining halls is available for students with a meal plan, even for those who live-off campus.
Dennis Pierce, director of Food Services at UConn, tells CNSNews.com that any student-athlete would have the option of choosing from a series of dining services (unlimited, value and custom), but all offer unlimited access during operating hours.
The dining services website for the university notes that "all residence dining units are all-you-care-to-eat facilities."
Pierce says dining services are often altered to accommodate the schedule of athletic teams, "I'd like to say we feed them something special that helps them win, but that's not the case."
Obuma backs down on cuts to Medicare
By Jonathan Easley - April 07, 2014
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The Obama administration on Monday canceled planned cuts to Medicare Advantage amid a drumbeat of election-year opposition from Democrats.
The cuts would have reduced the benefits that seniors receive from insurance plans in the program, which offers an alternative to traditional Medicare.
The reversal came as a relief to many Democrats, who feared the cuts would create a backlash among seniors in the midterm elections.
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"In many parts of the country, including New York, Medicare Advantage works very well. They've shouldered their share already and this proposed cut would have been disproportionate, hurting seniors who would lose doctors or pay more. We're glad the administration heeded our call and reversed the policy," Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement.
The administration's move didn't go far enough for some Republicans, who had threatened to use the cuts as a political weapon this fall.
"Although [the administration] has scaled back some of the new proposed cuts, much more work needs to be done to protect our seniors," Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said in a statement.
Under the planned cuts, insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans were to see their federal payments reduced by 1.9 percent, which likely would have necessitated cuts for customers.
But now the Medicare plans will actually see a net gain, as administration said the federal payments to insurers would increase next year by .4 percent.
The healthcare reform law included $200 billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage over 10 years, in part to pay for ObamaCare. The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) on Monday said changes in the healthcare market meant it did not need to make those cuts this year.
The administration cited an increase in healthy beneficiaries under Medicare, which it said has lowered the projected costs for that program.
The CMS separately is delaying a risk assessment proposal that was set to take effect under ObamaCare.
Matt Eyles, an analyst for Avalere Health, said the 2.3-percentage-point swing to a positive adjustment over a 45-day-period was "a bit surprising."
Insurers spent millions of dollars on a lobbying and public relations blitz against the cuts, and dozens of Democrats joined Republicans in calling on the administration to keep the rates flat to avoid cutting benefits for seniors.
The issue threatened the newfound momentum Democrats had on healthcare after the party was energized by a late enrollment surge under ObamaCare.
The opposition to the cuts included Democrats who frequently differ from the administration on policy, including Blue Dog Democratic Rep. John Barrow, a perennial GOP target in Georgia, and Sens. Mark Pryor (Ark.) and Mary Landrieu (La.), two of the party's most vulnerable Senate incumbents.
Opponents also included White House allies and party heavyweights like Sens. Schumer and Michael Bennet (Colo.), the chairman of the Senate Democrats' campaign arm.
The opponents wrote a number of letters to the administration urging it to stop the cuts, and some Democrats even engaged in a House floor protest to ramp up the pressure. That's a reversal for many Democrats, who have historically lampooned the alternative to government health insurance as receiving outsized federal support in comparison to Medicare.
Monday's announcement is also "significantly better for health plans" than the initial proposal in February, CMS administrator Jonathan Blum said in a conference call with reporters.
"The policies announced today will provide improved benefits in Medicare Advantage and the Prescription Drug Plans while keeping costs low for Medicare beneficiaries," Blum said. "We believe that plans will continue their strong participation in the Medicare Advantage program in 2015 and beneficiaries will continue to have access to a wide array of high quality and affordable Medicare health and drug plans."
America's Health Insurance Plans, the main lobby group for healthcare plans, was among the most vocal critics of the proposed cuts, and had aired ads in the Washington area reminding lawmakers that "seniors are watching."
Still, critics could frame Monday's announcement as the latest in a string of unilateral changes to ObamaCare meant to boost Democrats in an election year. Republicans have hammered the administration as "lawless" for instituting myriad delays and changes to the law after the botched rollout.
But the Medicare announcement differs from many of these changes, in that it was hashed out in consultation with industry professionals, and Republicans may be hesitant to attack the administration for instituting a change they support.
In February, the Obama administration argued that the proposed cuts would help strengthen the program — an increasingly popular private alternative to traditional Medicare — and guard against waste.
White House officials had also pushed back at criticism of the pending cuts, noting that Medicare Advantage's enrollment has spiked to an all-time high since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, and that premiums under the plan have fallen by 10 percent.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/202897-obama-backs-down-on-cuts-to-medicare#ixzz2yHKrKw00
Jailed Occupy Leader: "You Can Take Your College Midterm And Shove It"
Guess that's why this moron is facing time in prison for throwing an elbow to the head of a cop.
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Congratulations to the Democrats and Young People! You now own it!
The next terrorist attack, you own it.
Can't get a job after graduation, you own it.
Sky rocketing energy prices due to Obama's EPA shutting down the energy producing states, you own it.
A nuclear Iran, you own it.
Bowing to the Soviet Union, you own it.
Another severe recession, you own it.
A volatile border with Mexico, you own it.
Trouble getting good health care, you own it.
Higher health insurance costs and health care costs, you own it.
No federal budget, you own it.
Our allies mistrust, you own it.
Several more trillions of debt, you own it.
More Benghazi situations, you own it.
No one willing to join the military, you own it.
Trouble getting a loan to buy a home, you own it.
More dependency on food stamps, you own it.
Trouble finding good employment, you own it.
Several part time jobs instead of a good job, you own it.
A World Government, you own it.
The UN governing the United States instead of ourselves doing it, you own it.
A Senate that will not bring any legislation to the table rather it is "Dead on Arrival", you own it.
China controlling our world trade trampling all over us, you own it.
Loss of our freedoms as we have known it in the past, you own it.
A dictatorship instead of a democracy that follows the Constitution, you own it.
Less take home pay and higher living costs, you own it.
Driving a car that looks like a toy, you own it.
More government corruption and lies, you own it.
More toleration of extreme and fanatical Islamist, you own it.
Terrorist attacks called work place incidents, you own it.
Your revenge instead of love of country, you own it.
Have a good day. God bless the United States. God is still our hope.
- A Friend of a Friend of a Friend
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1,800 New Jersey children had their healthcare plans cancelled and are now without insurance due to Obamacare. The wave of cancellation notices hit mailboxes all across the Garden State.
The Obamacare mandate eliminated New Jersey's low-cost children's insurance coverage plan, FamilyCare Advantage, for failure to meet requirements. The plan was created for children whose parents don't qualify for Medicaid and offered medical, dental, and vision coverage for only $144 a month. The program was the first of its kind and considered a model for others states seeking efficient ways to provide quality healthcare coverage for kids from working class families.
FamilyCare Advantage lacked certain coverage like mental health services that not everyone needs, so Obamacare determined the children's 1,800 plans that served them well was illegal and the program was shut down.
"This is enormously disappointing," said NJ state Sen. Joseph Vitale (D), co-sponsor of the bill that created the program. "It was $5 for doctor visits, $1 for pharmacy and no deductible or cost sharing."
The Obamacare version of the plan offered by the same provider has a $1,500 minimum deductible. Most of these families will be ineligible for federal Obamacare subsidies because "they earned too much money." I thought this was the Affordable Care Act? Nothing about this sounds affordable.
These 1,800 children join the five million other Americans who also had their plans canceled by Obamacare. Nearly one million people whose plans were canceled by Obamacare still remain uninsured, a figure Democrats previously claimed was less than 10,000.
Corey Barrow National Liberty Federation
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7th Grader Suspended and Subjected to Psychological Evaluation for...Twirling a Pencil
Ethan Chaplin was twirling a pencil with a pen cap on it when a fellow student yelled, "He's making gun motions – send him to juvie!"
The student who made the accusation had bullied Ethan earlier in the day and was trying to get him in trouble, Ethan says. He said the school administrators wouldn't hear his side of the story.
Ethan was suspended and told he could not return to school until a complete physical and psychological examination was conducted.
Vernon Schools Superintendent Charles Maranzano says school policy and the law requires him to investigate when anyone in a school feels uncomfortable or threatened by another student.
"We never know what's percolating in the minds of children," says Maranzano. "And when they demonstrate behaviors that raise red flags, we must do our duty."
Red flags? Yes, because pencils are so darn terrifying. Surely, twirling a pencil in class is a sign that a student is about to commit some atrocity against humanity.
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"The government encouraged the manufacture and importation of firearms for the criminals to use. This is intended to foster a feeling of insecurity, which would lead the American people to voluntarily disarm themselves by passing laws against firearms. Using drugs and hypnosis on mental patients in a processcalled Orion, the CIA inculcated the desire in these people to open fire on schoolyards and thus inflame the ant-igun lobby. This plan is well under way, and so far is working perfectly.... -Milton William Cooper - Behold A Pale Horse
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Mr. Evil Eric Holder: We Want to Explore Gun Tracking Bracelets
Speaking before a U.S. House of Representatives appropriations committee on Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Department of Justice wants to
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With a hat tip and a wink to the Second Amendment, he acknowledged that the Second Amendment provides the unqualified right to own and carry weapons.
Well, sort of.
When speaking about gun control, Holder said the DOJ is turning to technology advances, reported the
Washington Free Beacon.
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"I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe," he said.Wait. What? You mean the Joe Biden that recommended women to shoot a doubled barrel shotgun into the air to scare off robbers?
Yes. That Joe Biden.Holder explained further.
"By making them either through fingerprint identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon," he said."It's those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis," Holder said.The DOJ is asking for $382.1 million in increased spending for its fiscal year 2014 budget for gun safety. Included in that hefty number are technology grants that would award prizes for innovation in gun safety.A recent innovation allows a gun owner to only unlock a safe with a fingerprint scan and an "RFID-equipped bracelet." Another idea is manufacturing GPS tracking and RFID chips into every gun. The chips would transmit location data and could be used by law enforcement to send automatic alerts if a weapon moves away from the tracker, indicating that the gun is lost or stolen.So, you're constitutionally allowed to carry a weapon, but as long as you give us all of your private data and let the government track you.
Last Man Standing
Rancher: armed feds are surrounding my farm
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BY: Elizabeth Harrington
April 8, 2014 7:34 pm
A two-decades-old battle between a Nevada rancher and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has resulted in officials armed with machine guns surrounding the ranch and forcibly removing the owner's cattle, according to the rancher's family.
Cliven Bundy, the last rancher in Clark County, Nev., has been fighting a "one-man range war" since 1993, when he decided to take a stand against the agency, refusing to pay fees for the right to graze on a ranch run by his family for centuries.
After years of court battles, the BLM secured a federal court order to have Bundy's "trespass cattle" forcibly removed with heavy artillery, the family said.
"The battle's been going on for 20 years," Bundy told theWashington Free Beacon. "What's happened the last two weeks, the United States government, the bureaus are getting this army together and they're going to get their job done and they're going to prove two things. They're going to prove they can do it, and they're gonna prove that they have unlimited power, and that they control the policing power over this public land. That's what they're trying to prove."
Bundy said the government has brought everything but tanks and rocket launchers.
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"They're carrying the same things a soldier would," he said. "Automatic weapons, sniper rifles, top communication, top surveillance equipment, lots of vehicles. It's heavy soldier type equipment."
His wife, Carol Bundy, said that roughly 200 armed agents from the BLM and FBI are stationed around their land, located about 75 miles outside of Las Vegas. Helicopters circle the premises, and the airspace and nearby roads remain blocked.
"We're surrounded," Carol Bundy said. "We're estimating that there are over 200 armed BLM, FBI. We've got surveillance cameras at our house, they're probably listening to me talk to you right now."
A National Park Service spokesman denied there were armed guards rounding up the cattle in a conference call on Tuesday. However, she confirmed that there was "security" in place, citing threats to the contractors who are removing the cattle.
"Contractors are here and they are in place to round-up the cattle and to bring them to the impound area," Christie Vanover said. "As for security, there [is] security in place, but that is merely to protect the contractors."
"As you know, we have received threats and the contractors have received threats," Vanover said. "Our personnel here and throughout the park service and throughout the BLM have received threats, as well. So security is in place to merely protect the contractors so that we can complete this operation."
As of Monday, officials have seized 234 of Bundy's 908 cattle. Impounding the cattle alone could cost the government as much as $3 million.
"They just brought a load down today," she said. "They kind of harass us as well. When we leave they follow us."
This afternoon eight helicopters surrounded the family after they began taking pictures, according to Bundy's daughter, Bailey. Their son, Dave Bundy, was arrested for taking pictures on state road 170, which has been closed, and is being held by BLM.
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The BLM said they took Dave Bundy into custody following his "failure to comply with multiple requests by BLM law enforcement to leave the temporary closure area on public lands."
Carol Bundy said five officials took Dave and "threw him on the ground."
"One put his knee on his head, the other put his boot on his head and pushed him into the gravel," she said. "He's got quite a bruised head. Just bruised him up pretty good."
Environmentalists are praising the government's forceful actions, which are being taken to protect the "desert tortoise."
"We're heartened and thankful that the agencies are finally living up to their stewardship duty," said Rob Mrowka, a Nevada-based senior scientist with the Center for Biological Diversity. "The Gold Butte area has been officially designated as critical habitat for threatened tortoises—meaning the area is essential to their long-term survival as a species."
"[Cliven] Bundy has long falsely believed that Gold Butte is his ranch," added Terri Robertson, president of Friends of Sloan Canyon.
The BLM designated 186,909 acres of the Gold Butte off-limits for the "critical desert tortoise" population in 1998. Bundy had already lost his grazing permit five years earlier for refusing to pay fees for the land, which his family has ranched since the 1870s.
The "federal grazing fee" is $1.35 per "Animal Unit Month," or the amount of forage needed per animal, each month. Bundy said he owes roughly $300,000 in back fees, while the BLM asserts he owes over $1 million. The BLM defended the removal because Bundy did not "voluntarily" give up his cattle.
"We've tried to do this through the legal and we've tried to do it through the political, and what we're at right now, I guess we're going to have to try to stand," Cliven Bundy said. "We the people have to stand on the ground and get our state sovereignty back, and also take some liberty and freedoms back to where we have at least access to this land."
"The story is a lot about the cattle, but the bigger story is about our loss of freedom," Carol Bundy added. "They have come and taken over this whole corner of the county. They've taken over policing power, they've taken over our freedom, and they're stealing cattle."
"And our sheriff says he just doesn't have authority, our governor says he doesn't have authority, and we're saying, why are we a state?"
"I'm a producer," Cliven Bundy said. "I produce edible commodity from the desert forage, and all of these things are governed under state law. So, in other words, this type of government has eliminated all of our state law, eliminated our state sovereignty, and has took control over our public lands and even took control over our Clark County sheriff. They've taken the whole county over. The whole state, almost."
"This is just about power of the government," Carol Bundy said.
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R.) voiced his concern about so-called "First Amendment Areas," designated locations set up by the BLM where citizens can protest the removal.
"Most disturbing to me is the BLM's establishment of a 'First Amendment Area' that tramples upon Nevadans' fundamental rights under the U.S. Constitution," he said in a statement Tuesday.
"To that end, I have advised the BLM that such conduct is offensive to me and countless others and that the 'First Amendment Area' should be dismantled immediately," he said. "No cow justifies the atmosphere of intimidation which currently exists nor the limitation of constitutional rights that are sacred to all Nevadans. The BLM needs to reconsider its approach to this matter and act accordingly."
Sandoval also said his office has received numerous complaints about the BLM's conduct, including road closures and "other disturbances."
Hillary Clinton's Upcomin CA Appearance A No-Show
BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
April 3, 2014 9:00 am
"Stay out of San Diego, Bitch" is the message by protestors to potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, KSWB-CA reports.Clinton's team told reporters she couldn't make the planned visit there because of her "busy schedule," but the reality appears to be that she didn't want the negative press associated with protestors shouting down her appearance.
"She frankly is not welcome here in San Diego by so many of us, and we don't want her," said Jan Iverson, an opponent of Clinton's possible presidential plans due to
her role in Benghazi's security lapse.
Pat Smith, whose son Sean Smith was killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, is also at the center of the protest.
Clinton is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at the Western Health Care Leadership Academy, a four-day conference at the San Diego Convention Center. She will speak via satellite instead of on stage.
Six Billion in Taxpayer Dollars Disappears from State Department Records (On Hillary Clinton's Watch)
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According to a recent report by the State Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), $6 billion worth of contracting money paid out by the department over the past six years cannot be accounted for.
The revelation calls into question the management of the State Department across the tenures of both Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. American taxpayers should be asking some questions about government accountability in light of the recent revelations.
The OIG issued the "management alert" to draw attention to problems that had been identified in earlier investigations and that remained unaddressed. According to the alert:
OIG has identified Department of State...contracts with a total value of more than $6 billion in which contract files were incomplete or could not be located at all. The failure to maintain contract files adequately creates significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department's contract actions.
At issue is the State Department's failure to adequately oversee and monitor the contractors hired by the department and the disturbing number of files on specific contracts with missing or incomplete paperwork. The report notes the cost of the failure to keep accurate contracting records:
It creates conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file.
Losing track of money equal to more than 10 percent of the State Department's fiscal year 2013 budget is entirely unacceptable. Something has gone very wrong at the State Department over the past six years. The American people deserve better. Congress and the Administration should do what they can to ensure, as the OIG recommends, that the State Department implements processes to account for expenditures and hold individuals accountable for the missing $6 billion.
{I didn't vote for this bottom feeding scum sucker.}
The DARK Act is Here:
Denying Americans'
Right-to-Know
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Big Food is trying to kill your right to know if the food you're eating is genetically engineered.
With their anti-labeling allies like Monsanto and Dow, the Grocery Manufacturers Association has teamed up with Koch brothers-backed Congressman Mike Pompeo of Kansas to introduce a federal bill that would deny your right to know.
The bill, which we're calling the "Deny Americans the Right-to-Know Act (DARK Act)," would:
Prevent states from adopting their own GE labeling laws.
Block any attempt by states to make it illegal for food companies to put a "natural" label on products that contain GE ingredients.
Prevent the Food and Drug Administration from requiring companies to label GE ingredients and instead continue a failed "voluntary" labeling policy.
The bill--crafted by the Grocery Manufacturers Association-led Coalition for Safe and Affordable Food, has just been introduced by Rep.
Pompeo, and has reportedly picked up two co-sponsors: Reps.
Butterfield (D-NC 1st district) and
Blackburn (R-TN 7th district). All three lawmakers serve on the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over GE food labeling.
It's no surprise that industry chose the Kansas Republican as their cheerleader. Pompeo was the single largest recipient of campaign funds from Koch Industries in 2010. It's clear that
corporate money = legislative favors with Congressman Pompeo.
And now the Koch brothers are teaming up with Monsanto? Monsanto was the single largest contributor against the recent Washington State ballot initiative to label GE foods. Between Washington State and California, Monsanto, along with GMA and other agribusiness companies, have contributed over $67 million to keep consumers in the dark.
So what's wrong with "voluntary" GE food labeling? In a word: everything. It is grossly misleading for industry—let alone members of Congress—to continue trumpeting the idea that voluntary labeling will solve the overwhelming consumer demand for labeling in the marketplace. In the 13 years that FDA has allowed companies to voluntarily label genetically engineered foods, not one single company has done so.
Without mandatory labeling of GE foods, consumers are being left in the dark about the foods we are purchasing and feeding our families. In 2013, over 50 GE labeling bills were introduced in 26 states, including Hawaii, Washington, Indiana, Missouri, and Vermont.
This industry-backed bill will cut these state labeling bills off at the knees and replace them with an undemocratic, hollow "voluntary" labeling scheme that does nothing to address consumer interests and only serves to allow corporations to deny us our right to know.
Tell Congress to drop this corporate hand-out of a bill!
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Changing the Rules, Changing America:
The Senate and Judicial Supremacy
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Among the most important and long-lasting actions of a President are his nominations to the federal agencies and courts. Likewise, among the most significant and consequential votes of United States Senators are their confirmation votes on federal judges. As a matter of principle, Senators should never vote to confirm a federal judge unless the record of the nominee demonstrates respect for the role of the judiciary to decide cases rather than to legislate from the bench.
Over the past 60 years, liberals have stealthily and intermittently begun confirming radical activists to the courts. Although Senate procedure provides the power of the "filibuster" to stop or stall nominees, Senators have often neglected to stop bad nominees, generally deeming them to be the President's prerogative. As a result, virtually no issue goes untouched by the courts.
From religious liberty to property rights, and most recently from marriage to government-run healthcare, the American way of life has fallen prey to decisions from judges who legislate liberal policies from the bench. Phyllis Schlafly has written extensively [18] on this topic and in her book The Supremacists [19] notes that these individuals have "replaced the rule of law with the rule of judges [20]."
In the recent past, as Americans have realized the impact of these nominations, conservatives have been successful in stopping [21] some of the most egregious nominees. In 2013, however, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid broke the Senate rules to change the Senate rules, destroying the ability of the minority to stop nominees unfit for the courts.
Throughout his tenure, Senator Reid has been scamming the American people [22] by consistently using Senate procedure to shut conservatives out of the process while creating the illusion that they are filibustering. Few people have time to watch Senate proceedings on C-SPAN every day, and the mainstream media does not cover stories that jeopardize Reid's liberal agenda. So, not only has Reid gotten away with tyranny, but he has also disingenuously blamed Republicans for obstructing his tyranny.
He began last year with his usual dirty tricks by convincing a few RINOs to go along with an alleged compromise on so-called "filibuster reform [23]." This reform, designed to shut conservatives further out of the legislative process, was only the beginning of the tyranny that ensued. By the end of 2013, Senator Reid had invoked the "nuclear option" [24] by rushing through a bill that allowed a simple majority (versus the traditional 60-vote threshold) of Senators to invoke Cloture (ending debate) on all Executive branch and judicial nominations.
The term "nuclear option" could not be more appropriate, analogous to "nuclear weapons," the most extreme option in warfare. Warfare is exactly what the Obama Administration and Harry Reid's Senate are waging on conservative Republicans, Senate decorum, and the American tradition. Out-of-control spending and continued federal intrusion will be the least of our worries if President Obama is allowed even one more Supreme Court nomination. The Republican Party must take control of the Senate in November if we want America to survive.
Almost weekly, the Senate confirms more Obama nominees to the courts, and next on the calendar is yet another radical nominee unfit for the bench. Michelle T. Friedland, a liberal attorney and radical activist from California, has been nominated by President Obama to the 9th Circuit Court.
Friedland's record indicates a clear disregard for "separation of powers" and a government run "by the people," and her radical interpretation of judicial power has led her to create new rights while ignoring those long enjoyed by Americans. According to her own writings, rights begin and end with judges. Her amicus briefs have sought to limit religious liberty, and she recently dismissed traditional Judeo-Christians beliefs on homosexuality as a "discredited practice."
She has repeatedly advocated international judges as authorities over state law and holds such a radical belief in judicial supremacy that even the most liberal Senator should heavily weigh the implications of her confirmation. Her judicial philosophy seeks to make the legislative branch completely irrelevant. Confirming Michelle Friedland would be another blow to the idea of a limited judiciary.
Not only would she be a deplorable judge, but Harry Reid's complete usurpation of power should not be rewarded and deserves a bold response. Conservatives should work adamantly to defeat her by ensuring their Senators vote no on confirmation. At the end of the day, however, the only way to end the tyranny of the judiciary is to elect a conservative Senate, starting in November of 2014.
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BLM fracking racket exposed!
Armed siege and cattle theft
from Bundy ranch
really about fracking leases
Thursday, April 10, 2014
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
(NaturalNews) The Bureau of Land Management says its 200-man armed siege of the Cliven Bundy ranch in Nevada is all about protecting an "endangered tortoise." But a Natural News investigation has found that BLM is actually in the business of raking in millions of dollars by leasing Nevada lands to energy companies that engage in fracking operations.
This document from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology(1) shows significant exploratory drilling being conducted in precisely the same area where the Bundy family has been running cattle since the 1870's. The "Gold Butte" area is indicated on the lower right corner of the document (see below), and it clearly shows numerous exploratory drilling operations have been conducted there.
What's also clear is that oil has been found in nearby areas and possibly even within the Gold Butte area itself.
It is, of course, customary for the U.S. government to bring armed soldiers to an oil dispute. (Operation "Iraqi Freedom" for starters...) Heavily armed snipers, helicopters and militarized soldiers have never been invoked over tortoises. (Anyone who thinks this siege is about reptiles is kidding themselves.)
Here's the map showing the oil exploration conducted on the land where Bundy runs his cattle (all the red crosshairs are oil and gas exploration drilling operations):
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BLM collects $1.27 million in shale fracking leases
The Bureau of Land Management has just cashed in with $1.27 million in oil and gas leases in Nevada. This was just reported two weeks ago in ShaleReporter.com, which states:
U.S. Bureau of Land Management geologist Lorenzo Trimble tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal the Elko County oil and gas leases sold Tuesday for $1.27 million to six different companies. The auction took place in Reno. The leases are near where Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. wants to drill for oil and natural gas on 40,000 acres of public and private land near the town of Wells. The Review-Journal reports the project would be the first in Nevada to use hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract oil and gas from shale deposits.
The way this works, of course, is that BLM runs land theft operations by claiming they are "managing" the land and thereby kicking everyone else off it. They then invoke a reptile, an owl, a bird, a snake or some other animal which they claim to be "saving," even while they are stealing and destroying hundreds of cattle belonging to a private rancher trying to make an honest living in a nation where productive Americans are increasingly branded "enemies of the state."
Once control of the land is established via court order or by bringing armed men with automatic weapons, BLM then turns around and leases the land to fracking companies who proceed to exploit the land using hydraulic fracturing techniques that inject toxic chemicals into groundwater supplies (and have been linked to earthquakes). The money collected by the BLM is then used to increase BLM salaries and bonuses.
In essence, the BLM is a criminal mafia racket, and Cliven Bundy just happened to be in the way of their next target, the Gold Butte area of Nevada. That is why they brought hundreds of heavily armed men to a "save the tortoise" operation.
"Endangered tortoises" is merely the government cover story for confiscating land to turn it over to fracking companies for millions of dollars in energy leases. In truth, the BLM was rapidly euthanizing these very same reptiles en masse last year.(2)
As part of its police state intimidation to control the land, BLM unleashed attack dogs on a pregnant woman.
See the brutality invoked by the BLM against peaceful protesters in this video of a near-riot just outside the Bundy ranch:
Does anyone really believe this is still about a tortoise?
Sources for this story include:
(1) http://www.naturalnews.com/files/Petroleum-D...
(2) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/25/des...
More details from Pete Santilli on location:
Adams Kokesh comments on this story via Adam vs. the Man:
http://www.naturalnews.com/044670_BLM_lies_fracking_leases_Bundy_ranch.html
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We therefore call on all liberty-loving Americans who can possibly make it to Bunkerville, Nevada to join us in this vigil, NOW, in direct support of oath-keeping Western lawmakers and lawmen as they stand guard over the rights of the people and begin to push back against federal abuse. Come take a meaningful stand, in a real fight where it counts the most – in our states. This is far, far more important than any trip to Washington D.C. to wave signs and yell at a deaf and blind Congress, White House, or Supreme Court. This is where the real battle is, and where you belong. This is where you can make a real difference, and begin the restoration of the Republic, from the bottom up.
And we call on all who cannot be there in person to be there in spirit, and to hold a prayer vigil for the duration of this struggle, asking that the Lord grant us wisdom, courage, humility, and His protection while we take this stand for our children's future. Truly, "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." 2 Corinthians 3:17
We humbly endeavor, to the utmost extent of our power, to follow in the footsteps of our Founding Fathers when, in their time of great trial, they proclaimed "and for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
Michele Fiore, Nevada State Assemblywoman, District 4, on behalf of a growing coalition of Nevada State legislators
Matt Shea, Washington State 4th District State Representative, on behalf of a growing delegation of Western state legislators.
Sheriff Richard Mack (Retired), for the CSPOA (as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Oath Keepers), on behalf of a delegation of current serving Sheriffs
Stewart Rhodes, Founder and President of Oath Keepers on behalf of the Board of Directors of Oath Keepers and 40,000 Oath Keepers members
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BLM Won't Say if They've Euthanized Cows in Nevada Ranch Standoff
BY: Elizabeth Harrington - April 11, 2014 4:00 pm
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will not say if they have euthanized any cows in the roundup of Cliven Bundy's cattle on public land in Nevada.Amy Lueders, the Nevada state director for the BLM, said in a conference call Thursday evening that the agency does have a "protocol," but would not release any numbers for animals they have found dead or that they have euthanized.
A reporter asked about heavy construction equipment that was seen coming in and out of the blockade, and whether cattle have been found dead, injured, or euthanized during the operation.
"In terms of the number that we've found, animals who are, I think, deceased on the range, or if we've had to euthanize an animal, we don't have an answer to that question at this time," Lueders said. "We will euthanize an animal during the impoundment if they exhibit dangerous characteristics, threaten the health and safety of the employees, display a hopeless prognosis for life."
"So, we do have a protocol in terms of when we would euthanize animals," she said. "But we don't have any answers at this time in terms of the numbers."
Lueders said she understood that the heavy equipment was being used to "restore land that has been affected by the trespass cattle."
The Bundy family has expressed concerns that the cattle are being mistreated. Stetsy Bundy Cox, Cliven Bundy's daughter, told the Washington Free Beacon
that she believes calves are being left behind."I watched them gather a herd off the river with helicopters, and they had rounded them for miles and by the time I saw them they were pushing them up the wash," she said. "Most of them were mamas with babies because it's calving season, and they're just little. And I watched the calves, they couldn't keep up very good and they kept slowing down and the helicopter would swoop down and you could hear them honking at them. And he kept swooping down and honking at them."Cox said that calves will hide under brush, and it is likely that employees removing the cattle would not see them."I also know my dad's cows, because a few of those cows out there are my own personal cows," she said. "When you push them too hard, or if you rope them they sulk. They're kind of stubborn. And if they don't want to go they'll sulk. And if they get down and sulk they'll sulk so long they won't even get up, they'll just die. So if you stress those cows out too much, they'll do that.""Do I think they are leaving baby calves out there? I do," Cox said. "Do I think that cows are dying? I do."The BLM refused to estimate how much it is costing to remove the cattle, though some estimates have risen to $3 million."Mr. Bundy currently owes the taxpayers over $1 million and if Mr. Bundy had chosen to comply with the law, and chosen to comply with two court orders, we would not be undertaking this operation," Lueders said. "The cost will be a matter of public record once the operation concludes, we are not providing estimates at this time, because there are certainly a number of factors, including the duration that will determine the ultimate cost."
As of Wednesday, 352 cattle have been removed from the public land ranched by the Bundy family for more than a century.
An estimated 200 armed officials have surrounded the ranch, the culmination of a dispute dating back 20 years over "grazing fees" and the protection of the "desert tortoise."
The majority of public land in Clark County, Nev. was set aside for the tortoise in 1998. Only three grazing permits are currently held on public land in Southern Nevada, the BLM said on Thursday.
Gov. Brian Sandoval (R.) had expressed concern over the tactics used by the BLM, including the use of so-called "First Amendment Areas," designated locations set up by the BLM where citizens can protest the removal.
The BLM said on Thursday they are now "allowing the public to congregate on public lands," but safety remains their number one priority.
"We certainly have heard the Governor's concerns, and we welcome his input," Lueders said. "Hearing his concerns, we have made some adjustments, and we are allowing [the] public to congregate on public lands, as long as they do not impede the operation."
Sandoval urged everyone to act with restraint in a statement Friday, following a heated confrontation between protesters and BLM rangers, in which one of the Bundy sons was tasered.
"Earlier this week, I advised the BLM not to limit or hinder the constitutional rights of Nevadans and be mindful of its conduct," Sandoval said. "The ability to speak out against government actions is one of the freedoms we all cherish as Americans."
"Today I am asking all individuals who are near the situation to act with restraint. Although tensions remain high, escalation of current events could have negative, long lasting consequences that can be avoided," he said.
Reps. Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.) and Steve Pearce (R., N.M.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Friday expressing their concern about the "escalation of force" used by the federal government.
"This escalation of force reportedly includes the deployment of roughly two hundred heavily armed personnel, including snipers, along with the deployment of Tasers, the use of K-9 units, and brutal physical force against members of the Bundy family and their neighbors who had come to support them," Salmon and Pearce wrote.
"One of the victims of this aggression is reported to have included Margaret Houston, a 57-year-old mother of eleven children and a recovering cancer victim.""Unfortunately, we know all too well that in situations like these, if tensions continue to escalate the consequences can be devastating," the lawmakers said. "We ask that the BLM allow 'cooler heads to prevail' and to pursue a non-violent resolution to this disagreement."
New HHS Secretary Nominee Sylvia Burwell: Behind Government Shutdown Fiasco And Vince Foster Shenanigans
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As Kathleen Sebelius resigned, Obama introduced his nominee to take her place- Sylvia Matthews Burwell.
Who is Burwell?
Burwell is the Director of the White House Office of Budget and Management.
It was she who sent out the order to shut down the National Parks, the memorials, even the National Zoo's Panda cam. It was on her order that elderly veterans were shut out from their memorials and others actually thrown out of their homes or businesses that happened to operate in National Parks. At the time, remember how
Democrats tried to blame the shutdown on Republicans, attacking any effort trying to reign in spending. The shutdown was targeted to hit the most people and to be as public as it could possibly be to maximize effect.
But now that the shutdown is over, according to Obama, apparently it was a wonderful thing, which Burwell did, to help reduce the deficit: (https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/137394623/knoller_normal.jpg) Mark Knoller ✔ @markknoller
Pres Obama says during Govt shutdown last year, Burwell "was a rock, a steady hand on the wheel." & she helped reduce deficit $400-billion.8:06 AM - 11 Apr 2014 7 Retweets Reply
(You can't make these things up. Wait... I think Obutthead just did, Knoller)
Syrian Jihadist Infighting Kills 86 As Al Nusra Front
And Its Islamist Allies Battle ISIS Near Border With Iraq
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Beirut (AFP) – Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate and its allies have repulsed an assault by jihadist rivals on a town on the Iraqi border in fighting that killed 86 people, a monitoring group said Friday.
Sixty of the dead were fighters of Al-Nusra Front or its Islamist allies killed pushing back their Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) rivals from districts of Albu Kamal they had captured early Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP the rebels regained full control of Albu Kamal after reinforcements poured in.
ISIL withdrew to the T2 oil site, 60 kilometres (35 miles) southwest of the town and where a Syria-Iraq pipeline runs, he said, after executing seven fighters of a rival Islamist brigade.
The clashes have prompted soldiers on the Iraqi side of the border to reinforce their positions.
The border crossing itself on Syria's side remains in the hands of the mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army, said a rebel chief and an AFP reporter on the Iraqi side who saw the FSA flag flying over it.
With their attack on Albu Kamal, ISIL fighters wanted to link up with their comrades over the border in Iraq, said Abdel Rahman.
Iraqi troops put up blast walls and sand berms on their side of the crossing as a precaution, the AFP correspondent reported.
Albu Kamal has been under the control of fighters opposed to the Damascus regime since November 2012, but Al-Nusra and its allies forced out former ISIL allies in heavy fighting in late February.
Here Are The Two Soviet Propaganda Posters Hanging In
The White House Press Secretary's Home
By Hunter WalkerApr. 11, 2014
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Washingtonian MOM magazine's spring issue has a profile of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney's wife, ABC News contributor Claire Shipman, that features a picture taken inside their home. In the background of the photo, you can see two framed Soviet-era propaganda posters.
One of Carney's posters is a version of this iconic design by artist Dmitry Moor with a soldier pointing his finger alongside text that says "Have YOU Enlisted?" in Russian:
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The other poster features a female factory worker. According to this eBay seller, who is offering one for $1,660, the poster was printed on June 26, 1941, days after Russia began fighting the Axis powers in World War II. It encourages women take jobs vacated by men who have gone to fight. The woman in the poster is switching out a tag with a man's name to one with hers and the text says: "Women! Learn production, replace workers who went to the front! The stronger the hinterland - the stronger the front!"
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Carney and Shipman have a lot of history with Russia. They met in Moscow in the 1990s while he was writing for Time and she worked for CNN. Carney did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider Friday.
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GovernmentJay Carney Twice Ignored a Fox News Reporter — And This Is How It Ended
Oct. 12, 2013 8:58am Becket Adams
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney during a press briefing Friday afternoon apparently ignored Fox New's Ed Henry, seemingly prompting the reporter to exit the meeting early.
Carney called on nearly every reporter in the room while Henry repeatedly tried to ask questions. And when Henry finally saw an opening, all he could get out was "Jay" before Carney turned his attention to The Chicago Tribune's Christi Parsons.
Henry shook his head.
The Fox News reporter tried once more to ask a question, and the White House press secretary once again appeared to ignore it.
Henry smiled politely, got up, and walked out of the briefing:"While Fox News hasn't always gotten a question at presidential press conferences, this was the first time in memory that a Fox News reporter wasn't called on at a daily briefing," Mediaite's Tommy Christopher notes.
Do you think this was just an oversight on Carney's part or do you think this is the beginning of a White House blackout on Fox News reporters?
A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately respond to TheBlaze's request for comment.
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WH Press Laugh At Carney's Defense Of ObuttHead
Report: Over 90 Percent of New York Gun Owners Refusing To Register Their Firearms As Required By New Gun Control Law
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With the April 15 deadline for gun registration under the SAFE Act fast approaching, estimates indicate over 90 percent of gun owners have yet to comply.
Making matters worse for elected officials–and Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) in particular–is the fact that many law enforcement officers at various levels have openly stated that they will not enforce SAFE Act requirements.
According to BearingArms.com, while the state waits for the "registration of 1 million firearms designated as 'assault weapons' under the NY SAFE Act," leaks believed to be coming from within the New York State Police indicate the number registered to date is "as low as...3,000-5,000 firearms."
This is figure is impossible to verify beyond a shadow of doubt because a provision in the SAFE Act forbids law enforcement from releasing registration figures.
Breitbart News reported that SAFE Act protesters gathered on March 16 and burned "nearly a thousand gun registration forms." And on March 28 we reported that NY State Police decided not to enforce the SAFE Act's 7-round magazine limit.
In January of this year The Oneida Daily Dispatch reported that Assemblyman Bill Nojay (R-Pittsford) suggested that law enforcement is not going to be eager to go after those who refuse to comply: "The rank and file troopers don't want anything to do with it. [And] I don't know of a single sheriff upstate who is going to enforce it."
Nojay continued: "If you don't have the troopers and you don't have the sheriffs, who have you got? You've got Andrew Cuomo pounding on the table in Albany."
Breaking News...
Harry Reid is Behind
Bundy Land Grab
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The Bundy family in Nevada has been in a land dispute with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for over 20 years. So why are they now playing hard ball? 200 agents, snipers, and cattle rustling. They have tasered his son and knocked his wife down and the snipers are an effective intimidation tool we haven't seen the government use since Ruby Ridge and Waco. Why? The short answer is Harry Reid.
This is a little complicated, but bear with me and I will try to make it all clear for you. The first thing you need to know is that the BLM does not really care about the so called endangered tortoise. Cows are of little danger to them. The tortoises have lived with cattle in that range for over 100 years. However, something that has been scrubbed from their website is illuminating. It seems that the BLM wants that land for a solar wind farm.
More to the point, Harvey Whittemore wants that land. For those of you who do not know who Whittemore is, he is a guest of the federal penal system. His crime? Funneling illegal campaign contributions to Harry Reid.
Who else wants the land? Whittemore's investors, the Chinese. ENN Energy Group wants to build a 5 billion dollar solar farm in the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone, of which Bundy's farm is part of. All of the other ranchers have already capitulated. So why would ENN Energy Group want to build such a solar farm? EB-5 visas. For an investment of half a million dollars, you can be eligible for an EB-5 visa, which allows a foreign national who invests in this country to get a fast track visa.
And who represents ENN in all negotiations? Rory Reid, son of Harry. Harry is very involved in the plan too. Some may ask how Harry could get the Chinese, some of whom are unsavory characters approved for EB-5 visas after they have already been rejected and exhausted their appeals.
This is where Alejandro Mayorkas comes in. Mayorkas won confirmation as the number two person at the Department of Homeland Security. (DHS) At the time of his confirmation, Mayorkas was under investigation for pushing through EB-5 visas for Terry McAuliffe (Now governor of Virginia) and Anthony Rodham, brother of Hillary and former son in law of Barbara Boxer. Mayorkas approved EB-5 visas for their car company.
So how did Mayorkas get confirmed while under investigation? Harry Reid invoked the nuclear option to prevent a filibuster on Mayorkas' nomination. He sailed right through.
Now, Harry has all of his ducks in a row and only Bundy stands in his way.
Can Harry get away with it? Why not? He has before.
Harry Reid became a millionaire in real estate after getting elected senator. Coincidence? Yeah, and I won a Tom Cruise look alike contest. Let's look at some of the deals that made Harry the tycoon he is today. The Del Webb Co had some desert land, they wanted to trade for some prime Las Vegas property. Along comes Harry to the rescue and helps usher the trade through. The taxpayers are the ones who paid. That Vegas property could have been sold for a nice price and the government could have bought an entire desert for their profit. Instead the profit went to Harry Reid. Not directly though.
After closing the deal, Del Webb sold Harry 2 parcels of land. One he bought on his own and one he bought in a partnership with shady character, Jay Brown. This was in 1998. In 2001, Harry sold the land to a limited partnership at no profit. Harry did not disclose the land sale on his disclosure report or his interest in the limited liability corporation, created by Brown. Both are ethics violations for which the senate didn't pursue.
The land needed to be rezoned and Harry made a personal appeal to local officials who gladly complied. In 2004, the land was sold and Harry made 1.1 million dollars. Thanks Del.
As you all know democrats want to build bridges and Harry Reid is no different. He lobbied for a bridge that would connect Arizona to Nevada near Vegas. That means people who owned land on the Arizona side would see their property values increase greatly. You know, land owners, like Harry "Century 21″ Reid. Reid's land increased in value from 479,430 dollars to 1.46 million. Harry then complained about the higher valuation in order to keep from paying his fair share of taxes. I know you find it shocking that Harry would profit at the taxpayer's expense, nonetheless, it's true.
Some of you may recall during the stimulus debate, Harry held up the bill until he got 8 billion dollars to build a high speed rail from LA to Las Vegas. This would greatly benefit anyone whose family is very active in Vegas real estate. You know, like Reid.
And that is why the BLM won't stop until they defeat Mr Bundy. All roads lead to Harry.
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April 12, 2014 - 12:20amCliven Bundy supporters bring cattle roundup protest to Las Vegas police headquarters
By ARNOLD M. KNIGHTLY
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALRancher Cliven Bundy's supporters brought their protests from rural Clark County into the city Friday as they rallied outside Las Vegas police headquarters to tell the sheriff to stand up for Bundy against the federal government.
Three Southern Nevada tea party groups organized Friday's event, which got no visible response from the Metropolitan Police Department or its leader.
A pair of American flags and Nevada's state banner joined handwritten posters calling for Sheriff Doug Gillespie to "do his job" to protect the Bundy family from the federal government, which is in the process of rounding up patriarch Cliven's so-called "trespass cattle" from a mountainous area northeast of Las Vegas.
One female protester had a firearm in a holster in the shadow of the police building, a few yards from the front door. No officers emerged from the building during the 45-minute gathering. A department public information officer did not respond to requests for comment.
"Sheriff Gillespie is the top elected law enforcement officer in Clark County and he has abdicated his role as sheriff, leaving the people of Clark County void of protection from abuse by the federal government," said Connie Foust, president of the Virgin Valley Tea Party in Mesquite and co-organizer of the protest.
Protesters said they had heard rumors of snipers deployed by the Bureau of Land Management — the agency leading the roundup — in the hills around the Bundy ranch, as well as the removal of water tanks, which pushed cattle toward the river, causing some to die.
Amy Lueder, the state's BLM director, acknowledged snipers had been in place in the roundup area but offered no further details Friday during a media conference call.
Bundy's supporters are upset about what they said were unnecessary BLM tactics linked to the roundup, including the arrest of one of Bundy's sons, Dave Bundy, on Sunday for "refusing to disperse" and resisting arrest.
On Wednesday, video footage emerged of a clash between angry protesters and BLM rangers that shows Cliven Bundy's sister being tackled to the ground and another of Cliven Bundy's sons being shot with a stun gun.
Two brothers from St. George, Utah, who are not related to the Bundy family, were detained and cited by federal authorities Thursday for trespassing after intentionally crossing beneath a gate blocking the road to Overton Beach in Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
The BLM said the security measures were taken after threats of violence made by Bundy family members and others, including Cliven Bundy's promise of a "range war." The agency abandoned so-called "First Amendment areas" — fenced off spots designated for peaceful protests — on Thursday after criticism from elected officials, including Gov. Brian Sandoval.
The bureau has temporarily closed off nearly 600,000 acres of public land to round up more than 900 head of cattle. Bundy, whose ranch is approximately 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, left his livestock on the land but hasn't paid federal grazing fees since 1993. Lueders said Bundy owes nearly $1 million.
At the Friday rally, Niger Innis, a Republican candidate for Nevada's 4th Congressional District, told the crowd the "federal officials are being abusive" and violating people's civil rights.
"Cliven Bundy's fight is a civil rights issue," said Innis, who is also national spokesman of the civil rights' group Congress for Racial Equality.
But Innis urged all protesters — including so-called militia members who have said they are coming from outside Nevada — to remain peaceful and leave their weapons at home and not to wear camouflage.
"I'm a big believer in the Second Amendment," Innis said. "But this is one time, tactically speaking, we must operate in a nonviolent fashion. As long as we do that ... we will have the moral high ground, and the feds will look like the bullies they are."
The rally was organized by the Virgin Valley, Pahrump Valley and Las Vegas Valley tea parties, something that Tyson Houston, who identified himself as Cliven Bundy's nephew, said pleased the family.
"I have talked to other family members, and they think it's great others are trying to take a stand," said Houston, who lives in Logandale. "Instead of Cliven Bundy trying to organize everything, we have people from all over, it seems, to force Gillespie to open his eyes and see that he has the backing of the people. We voted him in."
Houston said he is surprised the dispute has escalated to the point it has.
"I lived in a bubble; I think we all live in a bubble," Houston said. "None of us thought this would ever happen in America."
Cliven Bundy met with Gillespie on Monday. The sheriff said the rancher wanted contact information for Metro supervisors working near his ranch, and Gillespie said he provided that information. But the sheriff said Metro wouldn't be involved with the roundup, which was "strictly a federal operation."
But that's still not enough for Foust, the Friday rally organizer.
"We need to hold our local and federal officials responsible for their actions or inactions," Foust said. "Free speech zones are not acceptable. Snipers are not acceptable. Intimidation is not acceptable."
Writers Wesley Juhl and Ben Botkin contributed to this report. Contact reporter Arnold M. Knighty at aknightly@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3882. Follow on Twitter @KnightlyGrind.
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Federal Judge: Eric Holder 'Disrespectful,' Set 'A Dangerous Precedent'
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(ho-hummm...another precedent for the Administration)
Via BPRWashington, D.C., federal judge rebuked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday for overstepping his authority and disrespecting the judicial process.
"I regret that, before we voted on the amendment, Attorney General Holder instructed assistant United States attorneys across the nation not to object to defense requests to apply the proposed amendment in sentencing proceedings going forward," Judge William Pryor Jr. said at a public hearing, according to the National Review. "That unprecedented instruction disrespected our statutory role 'as an independent commission in the judicial branch,' to establish sentencing policies and practices under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984."
Eric Holder pointing at GohmertA day earlier, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, accused Holder of ignoring subpoenas issued by the House Judiciary Committee.
Obama's procrastinator-in-chief had been expected to appear before the Sentencing Commission to defend his breach of protocol, but he never showed up. Since the sentencing guidelines themselves were never at issue, the commission unanimously passed the amendment to reduce non-violent drug dealers' prison terms by 17 percent. But Holder's attempts to sidestep the constitutional process remain a sticking point for Pryor and other critics.
"The law provides the executive no authority to establish national sentencing policies based on speculation about how we and Congress might vote on a proposed amendment," Pryor said, according to The Blaze. "We do not discharge our statutory duty until we vote on a proposed amendment, and Congress, by law, has until Nov. 1 to decide whether our proposed amendment should become effective."
When fellow Commissioner Jonathan Wroblewski tried to defend Holder by calling his behavior was lawful and respectful, Chief Judge Rosario Hinojosa rebuffed him, accusing Holder of setting "a dangerous precedent."
"For those committed to the rule of law, the question...it's whether the Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer in the United States, is committed to following the law as it exists, or instead, as he wants and speculates it might become," Georgetown law professor William G. Otis said in a statement, National Review reported.
Rest assured, Holder's role as an administration lightning rod will not soften any time soon.
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Ted Cruz: Impeach Eric Holder If He Doesn't Take Action Against Lois Lerner
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(Impeach hell, throw his a$$ in jail with Lois Lerner)
Via Washington Times:Sen. Ted Cruz said Attorney General Eric Holder ought to be impeached if he doesn't take tough action against former IRS official Lois Lerner, who's been tied to the agency's targeting-of-tea-partyers scandal.
During a talk with Sean Hannity on the host's radio show on Thursday, Mr. Cruz called Mr. Holder the "most partisan attorney general the country has ever had," and said that he should be impeached for "defying Congress and the rule of law," Breitbart reported.
For example: Mr. Holder has not indicted anybody in the eight months after the inspector general found that the IRS has indeed wrongfully targeted conservative and tea party groups, Mr. Cruz said.
That's just not acceptable, Mr. Cruz added.
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IRS Seizing Tax Refunds Of Children, Grandchildren Of Debtors,
Decades After Debt
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Via Biz Pac Review:The old maxim that you can't hold children responsible for the sins of their parents no longer applies — at least as far as Washington is concerned.
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Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-year statute of limitations on money owed to the government, allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades. The measure also allows the government to collect from debtors' children and grandchildren, according to Fox News.
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Now, "some 400,000 Americans may see their tax refund checks grabbed by the government," Fox reported.
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IRS Issued $4 Billion In Fraudulent Refunds Last Year
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(Between that and the Hillary Clinton's State Department losing 6 billion, that's 10 billion big bucks)
Via Breitbart:How much did the IRS mistakenly give to tax scam artists who cashed in on fraudulent tax returns last year? Would you believe almost $4 billion?
Believe it. In a report released last November, the federal government admitted that it had conducted roughly 1,500 criminal investigations concerning identity theft in fiscal year 2013. This was 66% more than the previous year.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jay Bernardo said, "I've been on calls with Alabama, Chicago, some other field divisions, where they're now experiencing people who were from Florida and now moving to other states to conduct this same type of fraud. Based on the parameters that are in place now, it's very difficult to stop."
Bloods Gang Member Who Is Serving Life Sentence 'Masterminded Terrifying Kidnap Of Prosecutor's Father Using A Cell Phone He'd Smuggled In To Prison'
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Again we have to go across the pond to fill in the blanks that the politically correct crooked American media fails to report
Via The Daily Mailhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2602485/Bloods-gang-member-sentenced-life-prison-masterminded-terrifying-kidnap-prosecutors-father-using-cell-phone-hed-smuggled-prison.html
•Kelvin Melton communicated with 5 gang members from his jail cell after they kidnapped Frank Arthur Janssen, 63, from his home on Saturday
•Melton, a habitual felon, is serving a life sentence for ordering the shooting of a man in 2011 - a case Janssen's daughter prosecuted on
•The 5 kidnappers 'sent Mr Janssen's wife text messages saying they would dismember her husband if she contacted police'
•Mr Janssen was rescued in a raid on an Atlanta apartment on Wednesday
•Authorities are investigating how Melton had a cell phone in his cellAn imprisoned gangster used a smuggled cell phone to mastermind the terrifying kidnap of the father of a prosecutor who helped send him away for life, federal authorities said.
Frank Arthur Janssen, a North Carolina military contractor whose daughter prosecutes violent crimes, was rescued in a raid on an Atlanta apartment by the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team on Wednesday night.
Authorities arrested five people – aged between 19 and 21 – who allegedly have connections to the Bloods gang. They were acting on behalf of Kelvin Melton, who is serving a life sentence for ordering the shooting of a man in 2011, said John Strong, the FBI's agent in charge for North Carolina.
During the abduction, the kidnappers took a picture of Janssen tied up in a chair and sent it to his wife, threatening to torture and dismember him if she went to police, the FBI said in court documents.
They also allegedly exchanged at least 123 calls and text messages with Melton in the past week as they discussed how to kill and bury 63-year-old Janssen without a trace.
The suspects were found nearly five days after the kidnapping after authorities tracked their mobile phones and listened to their calls.
Authorities are now investigating how Melton, 49, got a mobile phone in his cell at Polk Correctional Institution in Butner. Smuggled phones usually come from relatives or other visitors, AP reported.
Testimony from his 2012 trial shows Melton is a high-ranking member of the Bloods street gang from New York City who ordered a 21-year-old subordinate to travel to Raleigh and kill his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend.
Court records show Melton has a long record of felony convictions in New York, the first being a 1979 robbery committed when he was 14.
The admitted triggerman, Jamil Herring Gressett, testified that he followed Melton's orders for fear he or his loved ones would be killed if he didn't. The victim survived a gunshot wound.
The prosecutor in the case was Wake County Assistant District Attorney Colleen Janssen – kidnapping victim Frank Janssen's daughter.
In a handwritten 2012 letter in the court file, Melton protested that the prosecutor had not followed proper legal procedure, citing a specific state statute.
Prosecutor must file accuser affidavit with clerk of court 'prior' to seeking an indictment, this affidavit must be on file, mandatory!' Melton wrote. 'The accused indictment is not legal and is rendered in-valid.'
But it didn't work and Melton was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and being a habitual felon, resulting in a life sentence.
The case came back to haunt the Jenssen family when a woman knocked on Frank Janssen's door on Saturday at his Wake Forest home. Several people assaulted him and someone used a stun gun.
He was then driven 400 miles away to Atlanta and his wife, Christie, returned home from a shopping trip to find him gone from the home and drops of what appeared to be blood on the ground.
"No cow justifies the atmosphere of intimidation which currently exists nor the limitation of constitutional rights that are sacred to all Nevadans."
- Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/07/nevada-officials-blast-feds-over-treatment-cattle-rancher-cliven-bundy/
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BUNDY RANCH VALUED AT 30 MIL -
HARRY REID PUSHED CNTY
TO SELL TO CHINESE CO.
FOR 4.5 MIL
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2012: What's the 'real' truth? To find out, I hold a finger in the breeze.(http://jhaines6.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/cropped-8328712-r1-e0025.jpg)
Bundy Ranch: Fed Retreat was Psyop Next Wave Soon . . . This comes as no surprise, and I'm sure the militia is aware of this.Posted on April 13, 2014Apr 13, 2014
Thanks to K.
URGENT: New developments in the Bundy Ranch standoff. DHS insider reveals the Federal retreat was complete Psyop to study opposition to crush rebellion in next assault.
Source: Canadian Free Press
All of our lives are going to change in a drastic way, if this is true... From Doug Hagmann
At 1750 hours ET, I was contacted by my source within the Department of Homeland Security regarding the current situation at the Bundy Ranch. To put it bluntly, the people are being hoodwinked into believing that the situation is being resolved. It is not. It is a strategic de-escalation to fool the public. This source stated that the retreat of the BLM agents and the release of the cattle was actually crafted as a potential plan yesterday (Friday, 11 April 2014) based on the following:
1. A military assessment of satellite and drone surveillance imagery of the "patriot resistance. Drones under the control of the U.S. military were in use, taking real-time photographic images of not just the activity at the ranch, but "identifying the protesters, any arms and any supplies they might have or be carrying. "Mission accomplished."
2. Real-time communication intercepts between patriots on-site and their off-site support;
3. Active monitoring of internet traffic regarding the coverage of events at ranch;
4. The monitoring of real-time video from the scene.
This source stated that a response by the patriot movement was anticipated, although exceeded their expectations. Although this was a real operation, they also ran this as a test case for future government operations once they saw the response. They were also actively managing the media, in some cases threatening to cut off White House access to anyone covering the event.
Despite this, the coverage by the alternative media began to create a public relations problem that was not easily managed. Note the lack of acknowledgment by the White House regarding this event. They are intentionally framing it as a state issue, despite the fact that all federal response has been and continues to be from the White House. There is a reason for this — a reason that has not been identified in any of the public reports to date. I will explain in further detail in a follow-up report on Sunday, after this source attends [redacted] to obtain more specific information about future federal operations. Regardless, according to this source, the government will take back 'their land' as they must to fulfill international obligations. It was never about grazing rights or anything other than (1) "securing clear title" to the land, and (2) further demonizing any patriotic resistance. It is my understanding, based on the information from this source, that it is a critical task to create a situation that will also advance their agenda of gun control and confiscation.
A more detailed report will follow on Sunday, 13 April 2014, with additional and much more specific information about their inside plans and future operations.
10 Responses to Bundy Ranch: Fed Retreat was Psyop Next Wave Soon . . . This comes as no surprise, and I'm sure the militia is aware of this.
Doreen Agostino says:
April 13, 2014 at 9:34 pm
By Clint Richardson:
A basic tenet of the implementation of United Nation's (Agenda 21) world-wide program entitled "Sustainable Development" is to replace the many declarations of rights and privileges called "constitutions" of the many countries with one global charter. This constitution of the Earth, called the 'Declaration of Human Rights", has one very important distinction between itself and that of the U.S. Constitution: the critical altering of individual rights so that the good of the collective people and the state have absolute rights over the individual people. In essence, the concept of natural or God-given rights are erased within this global charter.
In essence, the rights of the people to have private property must be eroded or stripped, making all ownership of any property a part of the "community". Only then can the global Agenda 21 Sustainable Development take a root where once there was individual rights and property. And only by making private property into public (community) property, can the State and local governments justify the legal theft of that property in the name of the people.http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2012/04/18/the-master-plan-agenda-21-in-action/
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Sharyl Attkisson Talks About Leaving CBS –
"why stay"? "Nothing I was reporting about was making the airwaves"
Posted on April 13, 2014
In a rather direct conversation former CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson talks about her decision to leave CBS News.
Some of the interesting aspects she discusses are how CBS was uninterested in airing
numerous reports on scandals that surround the Obuma administration and White House. She also talks about how the White House would call CBS to pressure the network to stop airing information, and how even her print reporting would find White House officials calling to express their concerns.
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Greta Destroys VA Democrat Congressional Candidate Mike 'Moonbat' Dickinson.
WeBeStealin – A brazen flash mob has been caught on camera storming a California store and making off with $20,000 worth of sunglasses.
Surveillance footage shows eight women piling into a Sunglass Hut and crowding around display cases. Shielding workers from what they're doing, they quickly stuff dozens of fashion specs into their bags.
A store clerk pleads with them to stop, before running out of the shot to get help and dial 911. The thieves then all bolt outside and escape in a waiting SUV.
The incident occurred at the Valencia Town Center mall, in Santa Clarita, at 3 p.m. on Mar. 29. Cops are now hunting the women, who are believed to be between the ages of 18 and 25.
My modification to this post: Yes, I know this falls under the designation NGO=Non Governmental Organization.
But look at the cause. I do support such a cause. A cause that is not self serving. If someone knows anything bad about this Association, I would like to hear it.Oath Keeper Founder Stewart Rhodes, On Bunkerville:
"We know it's not over"
The Daily Sheeple
April 14, 2014
This interview was recorded from the Bundy Ranch late this afternoon.
Stewart Rhodes is the founder of Oath Keepers.
Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." That oath, mandated by Article VI of the Constitution itself, is to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and Oath Keepers declare that they will not obey unconstitutional orders, such as orders to disarm the American people, to conduct warrantless searches, or to detain Americans as "enemy combatants" in violation of their ancient right to jury trial. See the Oath Keepers Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey for details. http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/
***********************************************************************************************About Oath Keepers
Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." That oath, mandated by Article VI of the Constitution itself, is to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and Oath Keepers declare that they will not obey unconstitutional orders, such as orders to disarm the American people, to conduct warrantless searches, or to detain Americans as "enemy combatants" in violation of their ancient right to jury trial. See the Oath Keepers Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey for details. http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2009/03/03/declaration-of-orders-we-will-not-obey/
Current Serving and Veterans, you swore an Oath...
Military Enlisted Oath
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
Military Officers Oath
I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Veterans, your Oath NEVER expires!
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/about/
Yet another reporter coming out of the wood work!
Where is Freedom of the Press?
What is Freedom of the Press?
Sharyl Attkisson: Obama Has 'Chilling Effect' on Journalism
Sunday, 13 Apr 2014 07:04 PM
By Greg Richter
Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who quit CBS News last month, says the Obama administration has had a "chilling effect" on news organizations, successfully stifling stories it doesn't want running.
Appearing Sunday on Fox News Channel's "Media Buzz," Attkisson told host Howard Kurtz she was often pressured directly or through her supervisors to not report stories that were unfavorable to the White House.
Attkisson pointed out that while it is common for any administration to attempt to quash unfavorable stories, none have ever had the success of President Barack Obama's White House.
Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who quit CBS News last month, says the Obama administration has had a "chilling effect" on news organizations, successfully stifling stories it doesn't want running.
Appearing Sunday on Fox News Channel's "Media Buzz," Attkisson told host Howard Kurtz she was often pressured directly or through her supervisors to not report stories that were unfavorable to the White House.
Attkisson pointed out that while it is common for any administration to attempt to quash unfavorable stories, none have ever had the success of President Barack Obama's White House.
"There is pressure coming to bear on journalists for just doing their job in ways that have never come to bear before," Attkisson said. "But it is particularly aggressive under the Obama administration, and I think it's a campaign that's very well organized, that's designed to have sort of a chilling effect and to some degree has been somewhat successful in getting broadcast producers who don't really want to deal with the headache of it."
(there are videos on the web page)CIA Global Forecast: Prepare for the Worst
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Sharyl Attkisson: Obama Has 'Chilling Effect' on Journalism
Investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who quit CBS News last month, says the Obama administration has had a "chilling effect" on news organizations, successfully stifling stories it doesn't want running.
Appearing Sunday on Fox News Channel's "Media Buzz," Attkisson told host Howard Kurtz she was often pressured directly or through her supervisors to not report stories that were unfavorable to the White House.
Attkisson pointed out that while it is common for any administration to attempt to quash unfavorable stories, none have ever had the success of President Barack Obama's White House.
"There is pressure coming to bear on journalists for just doing their job in ways that have never come to bear before," Attkisson said. "But it is particularly aggressive under the Obama administration, and I think it's a campaign that's very well organized, that's designed to have sort of a chilling effect and to some degree has been somewhat successful in getting broadcast producers who don't really want to deal with the headache of it."
Story continues below videos.
(there are videos on the web page)Some of the changes are political, Attkisson said. She said she has had editors on both sides of the political spectrum who have always put their own beliefs aside in the name of good journalism. But under the Obama administration, she said there seems to be a willingness to go along with the White House's wishes.
But she places some of the blame, too, on successful intimidation tactics.
"Why put on these controversial stories that we're going to have to fight people on, when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that don't ruffle the same feathers?" she said.
Attkisson asked to be let out of her contract early after her investigative stories began getting less airtime. She reported on Solyndra, Benghazi, and Operation Fast and Furious, all stories of interest to conservatives, but she also had reported unflattering stories on the George W. Bush administration during her two decades at CBS.
"I didn't run into that same kind of sentiment [from the network] as I did in the Obama administration when I covered the Bush administration very aggressively," she told Kurtz.
She also defended coverage of stories such as Benghazi, which critics on the left, have said are political and therefore not worthy of investigative efforts.
"Watergate was at its heart a political scandal in every sense of the word, but it didn't mean it wasn't a legitimate issue to look at," she said. "But there's sort of this tendency now to use this strategy that says, it's political, therefore don't listen to it."
Ultimately, she said, she became uncomfortable convincing sources to go out on a limb and give her information on stories because they were important, only to have them spiked.
"It's this kind of thing you can't do to people," she said.
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I have been reading about land grabs in Texas and in Montana and in between.
I wonder if this could have anything to do with that!
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Save Yellowstone's Bison!
author: Sierra Club
target: Montana Governor Steve Bullock
signatures: 27,828
we've got 27,828 signatures, help us get to 50,000
In the past two weeks, more than 50 wild Yellowstone bison have been captured and shipped off to slaughter.
This slaughter is completely unnecessary. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of public land adjacent to Yellowstone for bison, if the Montana state government would only allow them to roam there.
Last year, state agencies released a historic proposal to give Yellowstone bison year-round access to these public lands, but no final decision has been made yet.
With Yellowstone bison being shipped to slaughter right now, it's critical that the governor hears from you today.
Please tell Governor Bullock that it's time to allow bison access to public lands in Montana.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/916/206/183/?z00m=20874305
100 mile wide swath of land to control the borders and waterways of the US?
HR 1505 is greatest federal land grab in history
October 7, 2011
by Ed Berry
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This massive federal land grab takes out the top 1/3 of Montana, and the top half of Washington and North Dakota (hey, we can't let 'em drill for oil in the Bakkan, can we). And look how it takes over Michigan, Ohio, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Main.
Here is the western part:
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This is just the start. I will expose the real bad news of HR 1505 next week. The bottom line is it is insane. Since when do we need a 100-mile swath of federal police control to "protect our border"? If they can't do it in one mile then they are not doing their job.
Below is the text of the bill (with my emphasis). Note one very important thing: Part (2) waives 35 laws the fed previously claimed were necessary. This begs the question:
Why not simply waive all these laws in Part (2) for all of Montana and forget all the other parts of HR 1505?
Obviously, if the federal government is willing to waive all these laws for the top 1/3 of Montana for DHS, then the federal government should be willing to waive all these laws for all of Montana for the benefit of all the citizens of Montana.
This would solve most of our economic problems in one big whack. This is evidence all these federal laws are scams anyway.
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H.R.1505 — National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act
(Introduced in House – IH)
HR 1505 IH
112th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1505
To prohibit the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from taking action on public lands which impede border security on such lands, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 13, 2011
Mr. BISHOP of Utah (for himself, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, Mr. SMITH of Texas, and Mr. CARTER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture and Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To prohibit the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from taking action on public lands which impede border security on such lands, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act'.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON IMPEDING CERTAIN ACTIVITIES OF THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY RELATED TO BORDER SECURITY.
(a) In General- The Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture shall not impede, prohibit, or restrict activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security on land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to achieve operational control (as defined in section 2(b) of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (8 U.S.C. 1701 note; Public Law 109-367)) over the international land and maritime borders of the United States.
(b) Authorized Activities- The Secretary of Homeland Security shall have immediate access to any public land managed by the Federal Government (including land managed by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture) for purposes of conducting activities that assist in securing the border (including access to maintain and construct roads, construct a fence, use vehicles to patrol, and set up monitoring equipment).
(c) Clarification Relating to Waiver Authority-
(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any termination date relating to the waiver referred to in this subsection), the waiver by the Secretary of Homeland Security on April 1, 2008, under section 102(c)(1) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note; Public Law 104-208) of the laws described in paragraph (2) with respect to certain sections of the international border between the United States and Mexico and between the United States and Canada shall be considered to apply to all sections of the international land and maritime borders of the United States within 100 miles of the international land and maritime borders of the United States for the activities of the Secretary of Homeland Security described in subsection (b), including the construction of infrastructure, to achieve the operational control described in subsection (a).
(2) DESCRIPTION OF LAWS WAIVED- The laws referred to in paragraph (1) are
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.),
the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.),
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.),
the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.),
the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. 703 et seq.),
the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.),
the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.),
the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.),
the Noise Control Act of 1972 (42 U.S.C. 4901 et seq.),
the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.),
the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.),
Public Law 86-523 (16 U.S.C. 469 et seq.),
the Act of June 8, 1906 (commonly known as the `Antiquities Act of 1906′) (16 U.S.C. 431 et seq.),
the Act of August 21, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 461 et seq.),
the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1271 et seq.),
the Farmland Protection Policy Act (7 U.S.C. 4201 et seq.),
the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.),
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.),
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.),
the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd et seq.),
the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.),
the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 U.S.C. 661 et seq.),
subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the `Administrative Procedure Act'),
the Otay Mountain Wilderness Act of 1999 (Public Law 106-145, 113 Stat. 1711),
sections 102(29) and 103 of California Desert Protection Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 410aaa et seq.),
the National Park Service Organic Act (16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.),
Public Law 91-383 (16 U.S.C. 1a-1 et seq.),
sections 401(7), 403, and 404 of the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-625, 92 Stat. 3467),
the Arizona Desert Wilderness Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; Public Law 101-628),
section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1899 (33 U.S.C. 403),
the Act of June 8, 1940 (16 U.S.C. 668 et seq.), (25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.),
Public Law 95-341 (42 U.S.C. 1996),
Public Law 103-141 (42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.),
the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.), and
the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act of 1960 (16 U.S.C. 528 et seq.).
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Filed Under: DHS, DHS HR 1505, Ed Berry, Govt Land Grab
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frederick J. Hammel says:
October 8, 2011 at 4:18 pm
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any termination date relating to the waiver referred to in this subsection), the waiver by the Secretary of Homeland Security on April 1, 2008, under section 102(c)(1) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note; Public Law 104-208) of the laws described in paragraph (2) with respect to certain sections of the international border between the United States and Mexico and between the United States and Canada shall be considered to apply to all sections of the international land and maritime borders of the United States within 100 miles of the international land and maritime borders of the United States.
I do not know if i am reading this right, but it says 100 miles from all international borders and maritime borders. If this means what I think it means, every state that borders the Atlantic and the Pacific, Mexico or Canada 100 miles from the borders will become federal land. This includes Maine both sides and all the states along the Atlantic Ocean, 100% of New Jersey, 100% of Connecticut, 100% of Delaware, 100% of Florida , 50% of California , all toll 28 States will lose a big chunk of land.
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danielboone says:
October 8, 2011 at 5:32 pm
They see a nail sticking up and they hammer it down. The Canadian Border has been a sieve for many years and there are many truck drivers that have their own set of keys to the Country. I have pictures. Let's not delude ourselves. This is the consummation of the North American Union. They also have RCMP working with USBP and vise-verso. You might ask why and other than the answer given, it is a futile and expensive waste of time and money. The RCMP is particularly brutal as well and regularly beat people to death at airports etc... Do we really need police who do not have the underpinnings of a Constitution and an understanding of Constitutional Rights to be dealing with us...especially while armed? No friends, this is far more sinister.
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Elias says:
October 10, 2011 at 4:24 pm
I'll bet that the next time a group of sovereign nation-state Republics, each with its own autonomy, each with its own Constitution, comes together in compact to form some kind of union to serve their common needs, they will look back on American history and be wary, more wary than our founders. I'll bet that they will write in "bold" the equivalent of our Ninth and Tenth Amendments, only lock in more tightly than did our founders in the American compact the necessary protections for retaining their sovereignty, in case the new union they create through their compact might at some future time decide that the created union somehow should end up owning the creators which created it.
Here is this, my favorite line from Calhoun's 1831 "Ft. Hill Address" -
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"The error is in the assumption that the General government was party to the compact."
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The very Federal government which would take this sort of measure (un-Constitutionally I might add) is of course asserting an authority not granted or enumerated to it by the compact which created it. And the Federal behemoth is going to keep on redefining its intended powers, its granted powers, until the people stop it in its tracks.
Thanks, Dr. Berry, for all you do.
Salute!
Elias
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roger says:
October 12, 2011 at 10:20 am
Fellow Patriots, our US Constitution is just fine as written by men of our Greatest Generation. John Adams warned America of its limitations when he said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
When are we going to draw a line in the sand? Are we going to wait until the jack-booted thugs are knocking on our doors? We will lose that battle. Let's starve 'The Beast'. Just as soon as the city dweller's free Happy Meals stop, chaos will start. Yes Emanuel, let no crisis go to waste. That will be our opportunity to take our States back. Remember them?
Roger in Montana
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pat27 says:
November 9, 2011 at 9:10 am
Before I saw this map and realized that the Federal government is sealing us in, not protecting the borders. This is clearly the beginning of Marshall Law. Remember I said this here.
I wrote on another site:
This is among several land grabs the government is perpetrating with cover from different organizations and energy companies. Another recent one is The Lake of the Ozarks. Now, there are several more suddenly appearing across the US.
The public MUST come together to fight this insidious thievery led by whining "investors" who believe the masses should guarantee a monetary return/gain for them because they invested in a project with their buddies, the Federal government's politicians. As well, this viral government grab is using "environmental" organizations they infiltrated (Wonder how much they've paid them?) to cover their land grabs.
From them we hear shouts of protecting wildlife and resources. This is privately owned land, some owned for generations! (Read other articles related to this one. Look up Montana Land Grab.)
First, investing is not a guarantee you will receive a return. It's called RISK, learn it! Yet, those associated with the MT land and other land grabs across the US are being guaranteed a return by the Feds with support of law. And, although environmental concerns ARE at the top of my list, I'm not stupid! These large organizations such as the World Wildlife fund apparently have forgotten their purpose and become the mouthpiece for clandestine Federal lawlessness.
It's beyond the word "exploitation" of their open statement of purpose these organizations were built upon. This is the most unconstitutional act so far by our government–doesn't matter who is in office these days. Since Bush created the US citizen" rights grab" through the Patriot Act, Obama then upheld that precedent by allowing the Act to pass back into law unnoticed. He simply allowed the paper to lay on his desk. Therefore, media was not alerted to his agreement with Bush and his buddies. Not that the media would say anything anyway with their hands off approach to him.
These land grabs that are going on now all over the US are the ultimate expression of the military/industrial complex's plans to continue to take from the public–every right we ever had is slowly fading–a great way to take something, just a bit at a time. The US citizen now, in reality, has NO BILL OF RIGHTS. 1000 pages of the Patriot Act is difficult to get through, but that's what it says, folks. You have no RIGHTS any longer. The Feds can do with you what they will.
Better get together and fight this or no average American will have the right to own land, get water or even feed their children, eventually. We are slowing becoming the old Soviet Union. Have you not noticed? The 1% that has the money will have the only RIGHTS. This is not a joke. It's reality.
http://polymontana.com/hr-1505-is-greatest-federal-land-grab-in-history/
The Alamo II: Texans Up in Arms over TransCanada Land Grab
By Jen Alic | Thu, 18 October 2012 23:04
Texans are having nightmares of a Niger Delta nature, and while they have always been the friends of Big Oil, TransCanada is changing the rules of the game in a legally-aided land grab that will test just how tough Texans are.
Oil spills, the destruction of agricultural communities, impoverished farmers ... this is what Texans fear as TransCanada paves the way to build its 1,179-mile pipeline to transport Canadian tar sands to refineries in south Texas.
The lawsuits against TransCanada are piling up to the dismay of the Keystone XL pipeline project, which has been beleaguered by political, socio-economic, environmental and legal woes at every step from its US origins in Montana to its final destination point in south Texas.
No one thought Texas would be part of the problem: Texans love their pipelines. Why the change of heart, then?
The simplest answer is that Texans love their pipelines because Big Oil has been paying big bucks for the privilege of running them through Texas farmland, but TransCanada is bullying them out of their fair share.
This is how it works: TransCanada makes an unacceptably low offer for the land it needs; the landowner rejects the offer; TransCanada gets the land condemned in court; then it legally acquires the land for a fraction of its original offer.
Condemning land is not a new tactic by Big Oil, but while US oil companies have traditionally kept this to a minimum, TransCanada has taken far too much advantage of this legal loophole to get what it wants. According to CNBC.com, the Canadian company has so far condemned over 100 tracts of land out of the 800 tracts it has acquired for the pipeline in Texas.
Companies like TransCanada who enjoy what is known as "common carrier status" can demonstrate to a US court that their construction projects are for the common public good (it's called eminent domain). A landowner can of course appeal such a condemnation in the Supreme Court, and force the company to prove its claim more stringently, but in the end, Keystone XL generally wins.
For the most part, these appeal processes simply delay the inevitable.
Since Texans are being forced to give up their land for peanuts for the bigger picture "common good", let's look at why they aren't buying it and why they don't feel any less patriotic for their opinion. (Common good in this case meaning "national interest")
First of all, Texans point out that TransCanada is a foreign company that does not feel obliged necessarily to use American steel for its pipeline construction. According to media reports, a large percentage of the steel used for construction is imported.
They also balk at the idea that much of the tar sands oil refined it Texas will be exported via the Gulf of Mexico.
If the US is going to export its crude oil that should mean that it is producing more than it needs. In other words, the US must achieve oil independence before it starts exporting oil; otherwise it's moving away from rather than toward independence. Every good Texan knows this. The US is producing about 6.2 million bpd this year, and consuming twice that.
To the Texan mind, foreign-company plus exports does not add up to a reduction of US independence on foreign oil. It only adds up to revenues for TransCanada and Big Oil.
Also sitting uncomfortably at the back of the mind is the chance of an oil spill and the prospect of Canada's dirty tar sands damaging their farmland and water resources.
In 2010, a pipeline owned by Enbridge ruptured, spilling some 800,000 gallons of tar sands into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. A year later, the clean-up is ongoing and the damage vast.
Is there in fact any national interest here? Yes, but if most the refined oil is slated for export, the only "common good" is the creation of new jobs.
What is most interesting is that Texans will end up making Keystone XL a bipartisan issue. Previously, anyone who balked at Keystone XL environmental and socio-economic risks was a tree-hugging hippie. Anyone supporting Keystone XL was a Big Oil "yes man" with no respect for the environment. With Texans now up in arms over Keystone XL thanks to TransCanada, the debate will metamorphose into something more rational.
The Texans, in their own unique way, will bring legitimacy to this debate. After all, no one could accuse them of being tree-hugging liberals. Texans want Keystone, they want pipelines, but they won't stand for being cut out of the "common good" equation. To this end, some landowners are opening the gates to activists to stage protests, and this has so far ended in a handful of arrests.
And it is important that this debate is legitimized to ensure that when Keystone XL goes forward (and it will) it goes forward with a least a modicum of respect for the "common good".
Not only are Texans learning something new about Big Oil, but TransCanada is learning that Texans are proud and will command respect in the end.
Hopefully, this can be done without another Alamo or an armed Texan equivalent of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). But if worse comes to worse, and TransCanada persists in its bullying, Texans are not averse to a bit of brawling.
By. Jen Alic of Oilprice.com
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Alamo-II-Texans-Up-in-Arms-over-TransCanada-Land-Grab.html
It just doesn't get much better than this photo...
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4 Dead Among At Least 36 Shot In Chicago In 36 Hours
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(Aw yes.... Spring time in Chicago)
Via Chicago TribuneAt least 36 people were shot in Chicago, four of them fatally, in as many hours over the weekend, with more than half of the shootings occurring over a half-day period stretching into early Sunday.
Officers responded to at least 27 incidents, starting at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side involving an attack that left a 17-year-old girl dead and two other people wounded, police said. There were also fatal shootings in the South Shore neighborhood Friday night and the Washington Park neighborhood early Sunday, both on the South Side.
Late Sunday, police announced charges in one of the killings.
Chicago Police Department spokesman Adam Collins declined to comment on whether the weekend's temperatures — Saturday reached 80 degrees, the city's warmest day so far this year — contributed to the number of shootings, though criminologists have said that weather does play a role in violent crime.
"While the city continues to see reductions in crime and violence, there's obviously much more to be done, and we continue to be challenged by lax state and federal gun laws," Collins said, reiterating a position that police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has expressed when discussing the department's crime-fighting efforts.
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"No one will rest until everyone in Chicago enjoys the same sense of safety," he said.
Shontell Brown, mother of the 17-year-old girl killed Friday, called the situation on the city's streets "an ongoing war," saying that her daughter Gakirah Barnes was not the first teen from the South Chicago neighborhood to die violently.
"This is something that has become all too normal to everybody, and it needs to stop," Brown said in a phone interview. "We need to come together as a community and just unite to get our children and our streets back."
Barnes, of the 8000 block of South South Shore Drive, was pronounced dead at 5:43 p.m. at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the Cook County medical examiner's office said. An autopsy done Saturday determined that she died of multiple gunshot wounds and her death was ruled a homicide, the office said.
Barnes was a distant cousin of 13-year-old Tyquan Tyler, who was shot to death in June 2012, but the two were close enough that Barnes referred to Tyquan as her brother.
Tyquan's "mother is related to me through marriage so we've kind of raised our kids together once her family married my family," Brown said.
Barnes has four siblings, two older brothers and a younger brother and sister, her mother said.
About two hours before she was fatally shot on a porch in the 6400 block of South Eberhart Avenue, Barnes was leaving home to meet up with friends at a barbecue, her mother said.
"I told her that I loved her and to be careful — which is something that I told her every day when she went out on the Chicago streets," Brown said.
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Nearly 34 hours later, a 20-year-old man was fatally shot outside a home in the 3000 block of West 53rd Place in the Gage Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side. He was identified by the Cook County medical examiner's office as Joshua Martinez, of the 4900 block of South Karlov Avenue.
Shards of glass from the home's front door littered the steps early Sunday morning. Martinez's body lay facedown on a sidewalk in front, covered by a white sheet, his feet resting on the bottom steps of the bungalow, a home that is common to Gage Park.
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Police said Sunday night that a 17-year boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing around 1 a.m. that day, noting it stemmed from an argument during which the suspect retrieved a handgun from his residence and shot Martinez several times.
An hour and a half later, two people were shot in the 6000 block of South Indiana Avenue in Washington Park, police said. A 32-year-old man was hit in the chest and died at Stroger Hospital. A 27-year-old woman was shot in the leg and also was taken to Stroger.
The medical examiner's office identified the man as Corey Brownlee, of the same block where he was shot. He was pronounced dead at 3:26 a.m.
Friday's second fatal shooting occurred on the porch of a frame home in the 6800 block of South Crandon Avenue. Shannon Mack, 34, of the same block, was pronounced dead at 10:45 p.m. An autopsy determined that he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Bundy Family: We're Not Afraid of Harry Reid – He Needs to Be Kicked Out of Office
Posted Monday, April 14, 2014, 10:10 PM
After a very tense standoff between rancher Cliven Bundy supporters and the Bureau of Land Management this past weekend, government officials finally released the cattle backto the Bundy family and pulled their armed agents from the area.
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his two sons were on Hannity on Monday. The sons told Sean,
"We're not afraid of Harry Reid."Here's the transcript:Sean Hannity: What is your response to Harry Reid saying tonight that this is not over? It seems to me like he's making a threat that they're going to come for your dad.
Ammon Bundy: Well, if he doesn't have enough moral fiber in his bones at all to see what happened, that 'We the people' got together and made something right, then I don't think there's any hope for him. He needs to be kicked out of office even if he is the Senate Majority leader. It doesn't matter.
Sean Hannity: What is your position, Ryan?
Ryan Bundy: Well, I think that's pretty easy. I think 'We the people' have spoken, haven't we? What is one man's word? It doesn't matter what position he has. We the people have spoken and we said this is no longer going to take place. So, we don't fear Harry Reid. The people here said we're going to have our freedom. So that's going to happen.[...]
BREAKING: Bundy Family Still Missing Over 100 Head of Cattle Taken By Feds
Posted Monday, April 14, 2014, 8:29 PM
After a very tense standoff between rancher Cliven Bundy supporters and the Bureau of Land Management this past weekend, government officials finally released the cattle backto the Bundy family and pulled their armed agents from the area.
But, as FOX News reported on Monday, the Bundy family is still missing over 100 head of cattle after federal agents released the cattle back to the family on Sunday. The family said the feds took around 400 cattle and returned only 260.
William La Jeunesse reported:
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The Truth About the Nevada Rancher's Standoff
Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy - of Bundy Ranch - is locked in a standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over illegal cattle grazing, endangered tortoises and property rights. It gets even better...
The fight involves a 600,000-acre area under BLM control called Gold Butte, near the Utah border. The is the habitat of the protected desert tortoise, and the land has been off-limits for cattle since 1998.
Five years before that, when grazing was legal, Bundy stopped paying federal fees for the right. Bundy stopped paying grazing fees in 1993. He said he didn't have to because his Mormon ancestors worked the land since the 1880s, giving him rights to the land.
"We own this land," he said, not the feds. He said he is willing to pay grazing fees but only to Clark County, not BLM.
"Years ago, I used to have 52 neighboring ranchers," he said. "I'm the last man standing. How come? Because BLM regulated these people off the land and out of business."
Nevada, where various federal agencies manage or control more than 80 percent of the land, is among several Western states where ranchers have challenged federal land ownership.[...]
BREAKING: Militia Arrives at Bundy Ranch
by NextNewsNetworkWe bring you now the latest from the Bundy Ranch, where the militia has arrived in support of Cliven Bundy in his stand off against the Federal Government, where the Bureau of Land Management has surrounded his ranch with snipers, helicopters and heavy equipment.
Governor Sandoval and Sen. Dean Heller have condemned the actions of the BLM:
The governor has released a statement: "No cow justifies the atmosphere of intimidation which currently exists nor the limitation of constitutional rights that are sacred to all Nevadans."
Sheriff Richard Mack, of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, has declared the Governor's words to be, just that - WORDS - and that immediate action on the part of the Governor should be take to call off the pending Range War.
Radio Host Pete Santilli of Guerrilla Media Network, is standing by on the scene where the Militia has arrived to support the Bundy Family.
Rusty Hill a former Land Broker who worked in that area for nearly 20 years issued this to our news room,
"It is not about turtles it is about water. There are developers working for military contractors that want that land and water for mining weapons grade minerals for industry... they want to sell the land by the highway for real estate development because it's close to I-15 and the Bundy's have been refusing to sell what they actually own directly for over 20 years. Many buyers sent me out there with crazy offers for that land for many years. It is prime real estate not worthless desert. There is a natural gas pipeline going through there and lots of water under ground too. Somebody connected to a military corporation is using political power and the BLM to muscle those people out."
We go now to Pete Santilli on the scene where the Militia has arrived.[...]
Unexpected Visitor at the Bundy Ranch
NextNewsNetwork:The protestors at the Bundy Ranch Standoff received an unexpected visitor yesterday. An anonymous supporter from Austin TX took credit for dispatching 8 large pizzas to feed the hungry mix of militia and protesters who have been holding a line against federal agents from the Bureau of Land Management - who tasered a pregnant woman and cancer patient just days ago.
The order originated from the Pizza Hut in Mesquite, NV and came to a total of $98.13 cents.
Despite the Bundy Ranch being outside the normal delivery area - Pizza Hut delivered to the front line anyway and was not impeded by authorities.
I confirmed the order after speaking with Josh, the evening Manager who stated Operation Doughboy was carried out without incident at 1300 hours on the 10th of April.
This is just one of many small events revealing the great outpouring of support for the Bundy Family from all over the nation.
Donations and supporters are flowing in - to feed and reinforce the front line at the Bundy Ranch.
In hopes of preventing another Waco Texas incident - where the Federal Government murdered 76 Americans - including women and Children - A delegation organized by Nevada State Assemblywoman Michele Fiore is traveling to the Bundy Ranch to stand with them.
The delegation includes a Coalition of Western State Legislators, Sheriffs, and Veterans who are maintaining watch over the Bundy Ranch - and Assemblywoman Fiore said yesterday, "we are here because the Governor is not."
Meanwhile The Oath Keepers organization and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, totaling over 40,000 current serving and former military, police, and first responders, have called on its members and all other patriotic Americans to join the vigil at the Bundy ranch.If this keeps up Pizza Hut is going to need a lot more pizza.
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Guardian and Washington Post Win Pulitzer Prize for Leaks on US Spy Program
Posted Monday, April 14, 2014, 7:21 PM
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The UK Guardian and Washington Post were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories on the Edward Snowden leaked documents.
The BBC reported:
The Guardian and Washington Post have shared the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for a series of stories on US electronic spying.
Their reporting was based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Among other winners of the top prize in US journalism was the Boston Globe, for breaking news reporting.
Two staff writers of the Reuters news agency were awarded the prize for international reporting.
The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded by the Columbia University journalism school.
In giving the top prize to The Guardian US and the Washington Post, the Pulitzer committee said the Guardian helped "through aggressive reporting to spark a debate about the relationship between the government and the public over issues of security and privacy".
It said the Post's stories were "marked by authoritative and insightful reports that helped the public understand how the disclosures fit into the larger framework of national security".
Mr Snowden, in a statement published by The Guardian, called the award "a vindication for everyone who believes that the public has a role in government.
"We owe it to the efforts of the brave reporters and their colleagues who kept working in the face of extraordinary intimidation," added Mr Snowden, who has been charged with espionage in the US and is currently a fugitive in Russia.
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There used to be a TV sit com in the 80s called "The Jeffersons." The central characters were a married black couple, George and Louise. George had worked hard and parlayed one dry cleaning store into a successful chain, enabling them to move into an expensive apartment in a luxurious high-rise. Success quickly went to George's head, turning him into a blowhard and a bigot. Critics referred to him as the black Archie Bunker.
When I look at Barack Hussein Obuma, aside from the hard work, I unfortunately see a lot of George Jefferson in him, when what the nation needs is a president more reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson.
Like George, there is nothing Obuma finds more enchanting than the sound of his own pomposities. But whereas Mrs. Jefferson was a kind and sensible woman who did her best to keep her husband from floating off on his own hot air emissions, Obuma's wife Mooch is not only an enabler, but is a royal pain in her own right.
For instance, in the tradition of people named Obuma to trash America when they're in foreign lands, Mooch Obuma told the Chinese that it wasn't long ago that there were laws on the books that discriminated against people like her and her husband. It was bad enough that she didn't play up the fact that it was also thanks to America that she, as a beneficiary of Affirmative Action, went to an Ivy League school, and, oh, by the way, her husband has twice been elected President. But even worse is that she chose to whine in a country where couples are prohibited from having two children, regularly abort females, and where people are required to have internal passports before they can move from a rural area to a nearby city.
However Mooch feels about the past, it would only be good manners if just once she expressed a word of gratitude to the American people for picking up the tab so that she, the kids and her mother, could scratch so many items off their respective bucket lists.
One final thing Mooch neglected to mention was that all of those vile discriminatory laws were written, enacted and enforced, by Democrats like Orval Faubus, George Wallace, Albert Gore, Robert Byrd and "Bull" Connor.
Speaking of Democrats, I began referring to Harry Reid as "The Undertaker" because he looks and sounds like the stereotype we all grew up with, but the other day it occurred to me that the moniker is even more appropriate because his chosen role as the Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate is to bury any piece of legislation passed by the House Republicans, while at the same time deriding them as do-nothing obstructionists.
Until she killed herself, I had never heard of fashion designer L'Wren Scott, 70 year old Mick Jagger's 49 year old lady friend. I don't have a basis upon which to condemn her act. Without knowing what led her to hang herself, I simply assumed she felt she had a good reason to commit what I have heard described as a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
But, being nosy, I decided to check her out. It seems her real name was Laura Bambrough, and that she invented that cockamamie name with the apostrophe all on her own. Perhaps the explanation is that having been 6'3", she had banged her head once too often on low-hanging branches.
However, what I found unpardonable was that a woman had reached middle age and was so unconcerned with other people or charitable causes that instead of leaving her $9 million estate to friends, relatives, medical research, wounded British soldiers or even an orphanage for cats and dogs, the dingbat left it to Mr. Jagger, who is already worth $328 million!
I'm getting to where I despise college athletics because they are so rife with corruption. Now, the National Labor Relations Board, which never met a union it didn't adore, has decided that the football players at Northwestern are free to unionize. So it is no longer enough that the ability to play a game garners these guys free college tuition, food, health care and an unlimited number of cheerleaders; now the NLRB thinks they should also get a paycheck.
Back in the day, there was a joke going around that college all stars like Kyle Rote (SMU), Hugh McElhenny (U of Washington) and Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice (U of North Carolina), all had to take pay cuts when they turned pro. Thanks to the chowderheads over at the NLRB, it could soon be reality.
Bruce Braley, who's running for the Senate in Iowa, dissed Sen. Chuck Grassley as a farmer who, unlike himself, never attended law school. Knocking farmers in Iowa strikes me as a very goofy campaign strategy. But even goofier, it would seem to me, is actually bragging about being a lawyer.
Finally, the world's diplomatic buffoons are running victory laps after signing yet another of those absurd nuclear non-proliferation pacts, even though among those not signing were Russia, China, India and Pakistan.
Still, I'm sure we'll all be sleeping better tonight knowing that Lichtenstein, Luxembourg and Papua, will not be nuking anyone in the near future.
'If You Have a Boehner Lasting More Than 23 Years...': GOP Candidate Releases Hilarious Ad About 'Electile Dysfunction'
With the 2014 midterm elections less than seven months away and primary elections just around the corner, campaign ads are starting to appear on radio, television and the Internet. Lesser-known candidates challenging incumbents have been known to use ads that might be considered less-than-traditional.
Enter JD Winteregg, one of the three GOP primary challengers to House Speaker John Boehner. Boehner is vying for a 13th term in the House of Representatives. The primary election for the seat he has held since 1991 will be on May 6. Winteregg is a self-described political newcomer who currently teaches high school. He has been a leader in local Tea Party groups and received the endorsement of the Tea Party Leadership Fund, a political action committee.
On Monday, Winteregg's campaign released a clever ad that parodies the myriad erectile dysfunction commercials that populate the television airwaves. The ad, titled "When The Moment Is Right," points out Boehner's apparent close relationship with President Obama. The two are seen playing golf, laughing, smiling at each other and shaking hands.
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Embedded inside the clever commercial, Winteregg manages to mention some of the issues he believes to be important to voters in Ohio's 8th District.
Protecting the Second Amendment
Securing American borders
Defunding Obamacare and Planned Parenthood
The ad then goes on to skewer Boehner, saying things like, "Other signs of electile dysfunction include extreme skin discoloration, and the inability to punch one's self out of a wet paper bag."
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See the entire ad offering a solution to "elective dysfunction":
"When The Moment Is Right,"
Raid and shoot: This ain't your grandpa's PD
By Rob Nikolewski / April 15, 2014
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SHOCK AND AWE: The Hobbs, N.M., Police Department is looking for a few bad asses to join their ranks. Or are they really just showing off all their cool toys in their new recruiting commercial?By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE, N.M. — It's a commercial that's been playing across New Mexico for weeks now: A 30-second spot encouraging people to apply to the Hobbs Police Department, offering high pay and good benefits.
But the images in the commercial — of cops shooting guns, helmeted officers bursting into a home, an armored vehicle turning a corner and a canine straining on a leash — has some wondering what kind of image the booming oil patch town of 43,000 is actually showcasing.
"It's kind of disturbing, the way they play up these militaristic tactics," said Tim Lynch, director of the Project on Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. "It seemed more like they were looking for people who wanted to join the Army instead of a police department."
Here's the commercial:
Hobbs Chief of Police Chris McCall told New Mexico Watchdog the images in the commercial were not intended to send out an overly aggressive image of the department.
"I think that was the production company that came in and wanted to look and see what kind of equipment we had to offer," McCall said in a telephone interview. "It's a representation of an aspect of the Police Department that is there, what we do every day, the tools that we use and work with."
But Lynch, who has been a critic of what's been called an over-militarization of police forces across the country, says the commercial sends the wrong signals to potential recruits.
"The message seems to be, we're looking for aggressive, confrontational interactions with the public and that is not what the police should be looking for," Lynch said. "We should be looking for officers that are just fine with a peaceful day at work ... But this is all about a very aggressive and confrontational type of policing that most communities don't want or need."
The commercial includes a shot of the Hobbs PD's armored personnel vehicle, which is also featured on the department's website.
McCall said the vehicle is used "any time we have a call-out involving a high-risk incident where we're concerned about the safety of our officers or the safety of the citizens in our area." McCall said it also provides cover because it's armor-plated.
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ON PATROL: A photo from the Hobbs PD website features the department's armored personnel carrier and its 14-member SWAT team.Hobbs also has a 14-member SWAT team, which in addition to being featured in the commercial has a page on the department's website dedicated to it with a video attached to the page. The video opens with a man's voice, intoning, "The rules of engagement of SWAT are simple: Defeat the enemy ... any way you can," and is accompanied with heavy metal music and shots of Hobbs SWAT team members going through exercises with guns blazing.
The commercial is running as New Mexico law enforcement authorities try to cope with at least two incidents that have drawn negative attention to the state.
The first was a $1.6 million settlement in the case of a man in southwestern New Mexico who was forced to undergo anal cavity searches and a colonoscopy after he was suspected of possessing narcotics. No drugs were found.
"This case took my breath away," said Jonathan Turley, a nationally recognized legal scholar and professor at the George Washington University Law School.
The second and most recent story that made national news was the shooting death of a homeless man in the Albuquerque foothills. The incident was caught on tape and marked the 23rd fatality at the hands of the Albuquerque Police Department in the past three years, prompting protests, including one that turned into a near-riot. Last Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice declared that APD has engaged in a pattern of excessive force and called for an overhaul of the department.
"By coming on the heels of the findings about the city of Albuquerque, this is another indication that one of the problems seems to be this culture of the style of policing that's become all to common — of disregarding rules, confronting people and taking them down as the military does," Lynch said. "That's exactly the type of culture that leads to problems."
McCall said that wasn't what the ad tried to convey.
"Really, what we're doing (in the commercial) is demonstrating some of the equipment and things that we have available," he said. "We've never really put it into that context. It's meant to protect the public."
Spurred by a bursting energy sector, Hobbs has gone through a boom cycle. According to U.S. Census figures from 2012, Hobbs is the nation's eighth-fastest growing community of between 10,000-50,000 people.
Just three murders were reported in 2012, but overall statistics show the crime rate in Hobbs is higher than the national average in just about every major category, including violent crimes.
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Dick Morris: Democrats
Conspiring to Rig Electoral College,
Law
Passed in 9 States
So Far
Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014
A plan, now stealthily making its way through state legislatures with astonishing speed, would junk the Electoral College and award the presidency to the winner of the popular vote.
The plan involves an Interstate Compact where states would commit to select electors pledged to vote for the national popular vote winner regardless of how their own state voted. When enough states pass this law -- sufficient to cast the Electoral College's majority 270 votes -- it will take effect.
The Electoral College will become a vestigial anachronism.
So far, nine states and the District of Columbia -- casting 136 electoral votes -- have joined moving half way to the 270 needed to put the compact into effect. The ratifying states are: Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii, Washington, Massachusetts, DC, Vermont, California, and Rhode Island.
Both houses in New York have passed it and its on Governor Cuomo's desk.
And, it has already passed one house in: Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon. These states, plus New York represent 107 votes. Combined with the others they are up to 242 votes . They need 270.
Who is pushing this?
All of those ratifying voted for Obama as did eight of the 10 one-house states.
The Movement is funded, in part, by the Center for Voting and Democracy, a George Soros-funded election group.
Essentially, it is an end run around the regular constitutional amending process. Rather than get a two-thirds majority of each house of Congress and three-quarters of the states, this proposal would take effect when a simple majority approve it.
Why are Democrats pushing this plan?
Democrats usually see a smaller percentage of their people go to the polls than Republicans do.
Under the electoral vote system, they figure why beat the drums to get a high turnout in New York City when the state will go Democrat anyway? But, if its the popular vote that matters, the big city machines can do their thing -- with devastating impact.
And think of the chances for voter fraud! Right now, the biggest cities, the ones most firmly in Democratic control (e.g. Washington DC, New York, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, etc.) are all solidly in blue states. Not only does this make it unnecessary to maximize turnouts there, but it also makes it unnecessary to promote double voting, fraudulent voting, and all the other tricks of the trade at which Democrats excel.
But if the popular vote determines who will be the next president, we can bet that the machines will be out in force lining up voters, real and phony, to pad their statistics.
Some Republicans, particularly in non-swing states, are inclined to back the proposal simply so that they get their fair share of attention. They are tired of delegating to Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Virginia, et al the power to choose the president. And they can't remember when a candidate for that office last favored their state with his presence.
But don't let our Attention Deficit Disorder lead us to give away the store. The popular vote is what the Democrats do best. Fighting them on it is, in Winston Churchill's words, "like going into the water to fight the shark."
Republicans need to kill this proposal and they better get busy doing it. Some small states are backing it because they are tired of all the attention being focused on swing states. But Republicans must stand firm and not yield to the temptation to back it.
How can we stop the Democrats from ravaging our political system? The key battles are coming up in Arkansas and North Carolina. In both states, one house has passed the Compact. We need to stand firm in these two red states and block the Compact from taking effect. Republicans in Minnesota and Wisconsin, both blue states, need to stop ratification in their states.
And, Republicans should focus on stopping the second house from ratification in those states where only one house has acted.
Our democracy depends on it.
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US Postal Service
Joins in
Federal Ammo Purchases
Tuesday, 15 Apr 2014
By Cheryl K. Chumley
Add the U.S. Postal Service to the list of federal agencies seeking to purchase what some Second Amendment activists say are alarmingly large quantities of ammunition.
Earlier this year, the USPS posted a notice on its website, under the heading "Assorted Small Arms Ammunition," that says: "The United States Postal Service intends to solicit proposals for assorted small arms ammunition. If your organization wishes to participate, you must pre-register. This message is only a notification of our intent to solicit proposals."
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Washington-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, said: "We're seeing a highly unusual amount of ammunition being bought by the federal agencies over a fairly short period of time. To be honest, I don't understand why the federal government is buying so much at this time."
Jake McGuigan, director of state affairs and government relations for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said widely reported federal ammunition purchases have sparked conspiracy-type fears among gun owners, who worry that the federal government is trying to crack down on Second Amendment rights via the back door by limiting the ammo available to owners.
It's not just the USPS that is stocking up on ammo.
A little more than a year ago, the Social Security Administration put in a request for 174,000 rounds of ".357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow-point" bullets.
Before that, it was the Department of Agriculture requesting 320,000 rounds. More recently, the Department of Homeland Security raised eyebrows with its request for 450 million rounds — at about the same time the FBI separately sought 100 million hollow-point rounds.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also requested 46,000 rounds.
Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, asked: why exactly does a weather service need ammunition?
"NOAA — really? They have a need? One just doesn't know why they're doing this," he said. "The problem is, all these agencies have their own SWAT teams, their own police departments, which is crazy. In theory, it was supposed to be the U.S. marshals that was the armed branch for the federal government."
Armed federal employees are often assigned to offices of investigative services, the offices of inspectors general, or other equally bureaucratic agencies.
For instance, regular Internal Revenue Service agents aren't equipped with on-the-job guns — but those affiliated with the agency's Criminal Investigations Division are.
The same goes for workers with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, with the Department of Agriculture's Office of Inspector General, and with the Department of Education's Office of Inspector General.
The Energy Department, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Commerce Department, and the U.S. Agency for International Development are a few of the federal entities that boast an armed division, tasked with investigating fraud and suspected criminal activities. As such, the agents get to carry guns.
"Most of these agencies do have their own police forces," said Jim Wallace, executive director of the Massachusetts-based Gun Owners' Action League.
That, perhaps more than federal ammunition purchases, is the larger issue, he suggested, and Van Cleave agreed.
"What's the need for that? Do we really need this? That was something our Founding Fathers did not like and we should all be concerned about," Van Cleave said, speaking of the expansion of police forces throughout all levels of government.
The Department of Homeland Security employs in its various law enforcement entities — from the Coast Guard to the Secret Service to Customs and Border Protection — more than 200,000 workers, an estimated 135,000 of whom are authorized to carry weapons. When the agency makes its ammo buys, it often does so over the course of several years.
"We realize that the House is still investigating the ammo purchases by the administration, but from what we've seen so far, most representatives don't seem alarmed," said Erich Pratt, communications director for Gun Owners of America.
"For example, [Georgia Republican] Rep. Lynn Westmoreland said that given all the agencies that the Department of Homeland Security purchases for, "450 million rounds really is not that large of an order," Pratt said.
McGuigan acknowledged that there was a scarcity of ammo but attributed it more to a rise in purchases by individuals.
The Obama administration's stated desire to scale back gun rights drove more in the private sector to purchase firearms — which in turn fueled ammunition sales, McGuigan said.
"Over the last few years, there's been a tremendous increase in gun ownership, [with] many more females," McGuigan said. "I think a lot of people need to be aware of what's happening, and what the federal agencies are doing. I don't think, though, they need to be overly concerned that there's not going to be any ammo left."
But the notion of the Obama administration's using backdoor means to scale back gun ownership — a move that's hardly been kept secret — doesn't seem that outlandish to some.
"I don't believe in conspiracy theories, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense," Gottlieb said. "The amount of ammunition they're buying up far exceeds their needs. It far exceeds what they'll use — they'll never use it all."
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Democrats Stole $75,000 in TV's from DNC Convention
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The Party of Crooks and Thieves just can't seem to stop stealing. When the Democratic National Convention comes to town, the town can count itself lucky if it's left with the streetlights and the mailboxes afterward.
The Democratic National Convention has been over for 18 months, but it's still fresh in the mind of one company who filed a police report saying it can't find $75,000 worth of equipment. LG Electronics spoke with WBTV and explained why it decided to tell police now.
The DNC ended in September 2012. LG electronics based in New Jersey had hundreds and hundreds of displays for delegates and convention participants.
After the DNC people packed up and left the Time Warner Cable Arena, but LG says somehow 72 of their tvs walked away. Taylor said during a convention it's not unusual to lose an item or two, but this was a lot.
Yeah just like somehow ObamaCare walked away with our health insurance and Warren Buffett and George Soros somehow walked away with billions. And don't get me started on Tesla, Solyndra and Duke Energy.
Stealing a bunch of televisions is small time stuff.
"But there were some goods missing, a substantial amount around $75,000 worth and we were unable through our internal investigations and our ongoing dialogs with the DNC to resolve this," said Taylor, "So, we're working with our insurance company and the Charlotte police."
How did that dialogue go?
LG: Give back our TV's that you stole.DNC: Why are you people so racist?LG: What? Who said anything about race?DNC: Homophobes! We are the 99 percent. Your televisions have been occupied by the poor. They were unsustainable. Hope and change.WBTV reached out to the Democratic National Convention Committee for a comment about the missing items. An employee said she is working on tracking down someone who was in Charlotte for the convention.
(Paging Debbie Wasserman Schultz)
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Mooch Obuma went to lunch on Monday. In other words, she went to a fast food joint and ordered a double helping of hypocrisy with some sanctimony on the side.
Flaunting her role as Big Bro's Big Mama, she sat down at the trough and ate everything she tells the little people not to eat.
Let's explores the excess caloric count:First lady Michelle Obama ordered a whopper of a meal at the newly opened Washington diner Shake Shack during lunch on Monday.
A Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed the first lady, who's made a cause out of child nutrition, ordered a ShackBurger, fries, chocolate shake and a Diet Coke while the street and sidewalk in front of the usually-packed Shake Shack were closed by security during her visit.
According to nutritional information on Shake Shack's Web site, the meal amounted to 1,700 calories.
Obama, who launched the "Let's Move" campaign to combat childhood obesity last year, has previously admitted to having an "obsession with french fries," which she says are fine to indulge in occasionally. "It's all about moderation," Obama told reporters.(Moderation. That's what it's called when you follow a 1700-calorie meal with a Diet Coke)
One Trick Pony Jacka$$
All 134 times Harry Reid has mentioned the Koch Brothers on the Senate Floor. Not a Jacka$$, just the rear half of one.
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This is old news, Dec 8th 2013, but new to me, it is the first time, I have seen it.
14 Governors :
Prepare State Militia Defenses,
To Be Ready Against Obama's
Rogue Federal Forces
Posted on Sunday, December 8th, 2013 at 1:27 am.
by: Thomas Jefferson
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Obama fearing a revolution against him by the states, has moved swiftly by nationalizing nearly all National Guard Forces in multiple states; Georgia, Alabama, Kansas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Virginia, Louisiana, South Carolina – to name a few. The Governors of the Great States of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia still have under their Command-and-Control the State Defense Forces to go against U.S. Federal forces should the need arise. Also important to note: There are NO U.S. laws prohibiting National Guard troops from also joining their State's Defense Forces. This dilemma occurred during the Civil War with many "citizen soldiers" choosing to serve their states instead of the Federal Government.
Obama is angered by the several State Governors who have reestablished "State Defense Forces." These forces are described as: "State Defense Forces (also known as State Guards, State Military Reserves, State Militias) in the United States are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government; they are not regulated by the National Guard Bureau nor are they part of the ArmyNational Guard of the United States. State Defense Forces are authorized by state and federal law and are under the command of the governor of each state. State Defense Forces are distinct from their state's National Guard in that they cannot become federal entities.
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NOT GUNS KILL THE MOST --- THEY ARE NOW CLAIMING --- GUN CONTROL SHOULD FALL UNDER A HEALTH ISSUES. AND THE GUN CONTROL FREAKS WON'T DISCLOSE HOW MAN INNOCENCE PEOPLE ARE KILLED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OR MILITARY. THESE NUMBERS ARE LIKELY INCLUDED IN THE OVERAL NUMBERS.Medical Care Is 3rd Leading Cause Of Death in U.S.
by Chris Kresser
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The popular perception that the U.S. has the highest quality of medical care in the world has been proven entirely false by several public heath studies and reports over the past few years.
The prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association published a study by Dr. Barbara Starfield, a medical doctor with a Master's degree in Public Health, in 2000 which revealed the extremely poor performance of the United States health care system when compared to other industrialized countries (Japan, Sweden, Canada, France, Australia, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Belgium and Germany).
In fact, the U.S. is ranked last or near last in several significant health care indicators:
13th (last) for low-birth-weight percentages
13th for neonatal mortality and infant mortality overall
11th for postneonatal mortality
13th for years of potential life lost (excluding external causes)
12th for life expectancy at 1 year for males, 11th for females
12th for life expectancy at 15 years for males, 10th for females
The most shocking revelation of her report is that iatrogentic damage (defined as a state of ill health or adverse effect resulting from medical treatment) is the third leading cause of death in the U.S., after heart disease and cancer.
Let me pause while you take that in.
This means that doctors and hospitals are responsible for more deaths each year than cerebrovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases, accidents, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.
The combined effect of errors and adverse effects that occur because of iatrogenic damage includes:
12,000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery
7,000 deaths/year from medication errors in hospitals
20,000 deaths/year from other errors in hospitals
80,000 deaths/year from nosocomial infections in hospitals
106,000 deaths a year from nonerror, adverse effects of medications
This amounts to a total of 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes. However, Starfield notes three important caveats in her study:
Most of the data are derived from studies in hospitalized patients
The estimates are for deaths only and do not include adverse effects associated with disability or discomfort
The estimates of death due to error are lower than those in the Institute of Medicine Report (a previous report by the Institute of Medicine on the number of iatrogenic deaths in the U.S.)
If these caveats are considered, the deaths due to iatrogenic causes would range from
230,000 to 284,000.
Starfield and her colleagues performed an analysis which took the caveats above into consideration and included adverse effects other than death. Their analysis concluded that between 4% and 18% of consecutive patients experience adverse effects in outpatient settings, with:
116 million extra physician visits
77 million extra prescriptions
17 million emergency department visits
8 million hospitalizations
3 million long-term admissions
199,000 additional deaths
$77 billion in extra costs (equivalent to the aggregate cost of care of patients with diabetes
I want to make it clear that I am not condemning physicians in general. In fact, most of the doctors I've come into contact with in the course of my life have been competent and genuinely concerned about my welfare.
In many ways physicians are just as victimized by the deficiencies of our health-care system as patients and consumers are. With increased patient loads and mandated time limits for patient visits set by HMOs, most doctors are doing the best they can to survive our broken and corrupt health-care system.The Institute of Medicine's report ("To Err is Human") which Starfied and her colleagues analyzed isn't the only study to expose the failures of the U.S. health-care system. The World Health Organization issued a report in 2000, using different indicators than the IOM report, that ranked the U.S. as 15th among 25 industrialized countries.
As Starfied points out, the "real explanation for relatively poor health in the United States is undoubtedly complex and multifactorial." Two significant causes of our poor standing is
over-reliance on technology and a poorly developed primary care infrastructure. The United States is second only to Japan in the availability of technological procedures such as MRIs and CAT scans. However, this
has not translated into a higher standard of care, and in fact may be linked to the "cascade effect" where diagnostic procedures lead to more treatment (which as we have seen can lead to more deaths).
Of the 7 countries in the top of the average health ranking, 5 have strong primary care infrastructures. Evidence indicates that the major benefit of health-care access accrues only when it facilitates receipt of primary care. (Starfield, 1998)
One might think that these sobering analyses of the U.S. health-care system would have lead to a public discussion and debate over how to address the shortcomings. Alas, both medical authorities and the general public alike are mostly unaware of this data, and we are no closer to a safe, accessible and effective health-care system today than we were eight years ago when these reports were published.
http://chriskresser.com/medical-care-is-the-3rd-leading-cause-of-death-in-the-us
My note: This is why I have study medical procedures and medical sanitary procedures and why when my wife is hospitalized I spend every possible minute at her bed side. Don't leave a loved one alone in the hospital if possible, try to have a family member there at all times.
And now Obama Care.
Any trick to try to disarm Americans
in order to make our country
AND
our citizens
VULMERABLE!
Analysis
The 'public health crisis'
that is
America's gun culture
Kansas City shootings by white supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller shows hypocrisy of U.S. gun laws
By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: Apr 16, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 16, 2014 5:03 AM ET
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White supremacist Frazier Glen Miller, then and now. Left, being arrested in Kansas City on Sunday for the killing of three people outside Jewish institutions. Right, in this 1985 photo, holding a press conference in Raleigh, N.C., as one of the leaders of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. (Associated Press)
Three days after Frazier Glenn Miller tried to kill some of the Jews he has spent his life despising (the self-styled paramilitary warrior actually wound up gunning down three Christians instead), the National Rifle Association's website remains silent about the attacks.
Instead, the site features, among other things, a Fox News appearance by the NRA's chief legislative lobbyist about the need to defeat Barack Obama's nominee for surgeon general.
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President Barack Obama's nominee
to be the next U.S. Surgeon General,
testifying on Capitol Hill in February 2014.
The National Rifle Association is waging a campaign
against him because of his view that gun violence is
"a public health crisis." (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)The nominee, a doctor named Vivek Murthy, has publicly called gun violence, which kills thousands of people a year here, a "public health crisis."
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Medical Care Is 3rd Leading Cause Of Death in U.S.
Imagine. The gall of the man. Clearly a poisonously biased partisan unfit to serve as a guardian of the nation's medical well-being.Quote from: ROSS on April 16, 2014, 06:49:47 AM
Medical Care Is 3rd Leading Cause Of Death in U.S.
Of course, the NRA was also reluctant at first to comment on the slaughter of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., a year and a half ago. The organization likes to take its time when it comes to public massacres, and choose its words carefully.
But based on what it finally did say about Newtown, and about so many of the other, almost routine mass murders here in the U.S., it's easy to anticipate what America's most powerful and politically feared gun lobby will eventually observe about what happened in Kansas on Sunday.
Obama Surgeon General
Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.S. Surgeon General, testifying on Capitol Hill in February 2014. The National Rifle Association is waging a campaign against him because of his view that gun violence is "a public health crisis." (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)
First, it will probably suggest that had the late Dr. William Corporan been carrying a gun himself, he could have returned fire when Miller began shooting at the Jewish Community Centre in Overland Park, and so protected himself and his 14-year-old grandson instead of just being a victim.
Americans, to quote the NRA, need to understand the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
It would no doubt apply the same logic to Terri LaManno, a Catholic mother of three, active in her parish, whom Miller went on to shoot dead at the nearby Village Shalom assisted living centre where she was visiting her mother.
She, too, paid the price for walking around in public unstrapped. And by the way, why didn't that retirement home have armed guards?
As for Miller, a Hitler-loving, Ku Klux Klan follower, he was, at least until the moment he started firing, exercising his Second Amendment rights.
As everyone knows, that amendment guarantees that "a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," and has been twice upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court since 2008.
Right to bear arms?
Miller actually did once belong to a militia — The White Patriot Party, which he founded. He's a Vietnam veteran, and has been running around for decades posing in military fatigues and a beret, training with guns and looking ferocious.
Kansas shootings investigated as hate crime
He also once served prison time for firearms offences, meaning he is prohibited by law from owning a firearm (never mind that he has for years been ranting about the need to obliterate Jews).
But if he acquired the pistol and shotgun he used Sunday from a private seller or at a gun show, the law says no background check is necessary. And the NRA is determined to keep things that way.
It's a matter of liberty, you see. The fact that criminals aren't allowed to own guns doesn't justify the government invading the privacy of peaceful, law-abiding gun lovers.
The NRA also opposes a bill by House Democrats that would take guns away from felons, fugitives and spouse abusers.
President Obama tried to use the Newtown massacre to introduce extensive checks, but the NRA set members of Congress straight in a hurry: Forget it if you want to be re-elected.
Hence the silence from most politicians since Sunday. Actually, hence the silence from most politicians about gun control most of the time.
Five little words
There have been at least seven mass shootings since Newtown, according to the Associated Press. More than 12,000 people in this country were killed by gun violence in 2013, and 3,016 so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive Project.
About 30,000 people die here every year of gunshot-related injuries.
As gun advocates point out, there have also been cases of multiple knife attacks, most recently in Murrysville, Penn., where more than 20 people were stabbed and slashed. (Though in that case, at least, no one died.)
Anyway, pretty much the only voices calling for gun control in this country now are victims' groups, some police, politicians from solidly liberal jurisdictions and jurists like retired justice John Paul Stevens, one of the longest serving jurists on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Forum
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talks about his views and career during a forum at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston in May 2013. (Michael Dwyer / Associated Press)
In his forthcoming book, Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution, Stevens proposes adding five words to the Second Amendment that he says would clarify a text written 225 years ago.
Stevens's version would read: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed."
Sensible, if utterly unrealistic.
Aside from the aforementioned federal legislators running and hiding from the NRA, state legislatures are unlikely in the extreme to approve any such constitutional change. Some have been on a gun-happy spree for years.
Eighteen states now allow residents to walk around in public with pistols on their hips.
The state of Georgia's "guns everywhere" law, which takes force this summer, would allow people to carry guns in nightclubs, schools, churches, some government buildings (if proprietors allow), and excuses anyone who inadvertently takes a gun through airport security.
Georgia's 'guns everywhere' law celebrated by pro-gun lobby
The NRA really likes that law. It's terrible to be a victim in America, but it's sure a great time for militias.
Resolution 2014-G101
Resolution for Nevada Firearms Freedom
Whereas, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution reserves to the people the right to keep and bear arms and this right shall not be infringed.
RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee encourages Republican lawmakers to enact legislation to amend Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the state secrets privilege, and the FISA Amendments Act to make it clear that blanket surveillance of the Internet activity, phone records and correspondence – electronic, physical, and otherwise - of any person residing in the U.S. is prohibited by law and that violations can be reviewed in adversarial proceedings before a public court;
RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee encourages Republican law makers to call for a special committee to investigate, report, and reveal to the public the extent of this domestic spying and the committee should create specific recommendations for legal and regulatory reform to end unconstitutional surveillance as well as hold accountable those public officials who are found to be responsible for this unconstitutional surveillance; and RESOLVED, the Republican National Committee calls upon Republican lawmakers to immediately take action to halt current unconstitutional surveillance programs and provide a full public accounting of the NSA's data collection programs. *AT&T has 107.3 million wireless customers and 31.2 million landline customers.
Verizon has 98.9 million wireless customers and 22.2 million landline customers while Sprint has 55 million customers in total."
Resolution 2014-G109
Resolution Affirming The Right Of Due Process Of The People
Whereas, the Constitutions of the United States and Nevada are the basis of our representative republic and reflect protections that no person will be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process; and Whereas, these founding documents reflect the essential nature of presumed innocence, the right to a speedy trial before an impartial jury, and other elements of effective due process, and a commitment that no person will be exposed to cruel and unusual punishment; and Whereas, on December 31, 2011, President Obama signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included two controversial sections, 1021 and 1022, which many civil liberty organizations, including the ACLU, and representative bodies, including numerous state legislatures, feel are ambiguously worded. Whereas under The 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, the basis for the NDAA provisions 1021 and 1022, has already facilitated the capture of a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil and
many in Congress now assert that the NDAA could again be used in the same way; and Whereas, the Nevada Republican Party is committed to avoiding repeating the tragedies and mistakes of history, including the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as demonstrated by the enormous strength of Republican co-sponsorship of SB378, The Nevada Liberty Preservation Act last legislative session; and Whereas, Clark County Republican Party, the Las Vegas City Council, and the Clark County Commission, and several other municipalities across the country, have already passed resolutions opposing the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA. Resolved, that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention strongly affirms our commitment to the rights and liberties enshrined within the Constitution of the United States, including the Fifth Amendment right to due process, the Sixth Amendment right to a trial, and the Eighth Amendment prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. Resolved, We request our U.S. Congressional members and Senators to monitor the implementation of the NDAA and to actively work for the repeal of the NDAA's detention provisions in order to restore and protect fundamental rights and liberties embodied in the Nevada Constitution and the Constitution of the United States. Resolved, We support the Nevada Legislature to pass legislation prohibiting the Governor from employing the Nevada Guard Forces to aid in detaining any person under these suspect provisions, or in denying the right of due process to any person in Nevada. Resolved, We request the Nevada Legislature pass a law prohibiting any agency in Nevada from detaining, aiding in the detaining, or subjecting any person to the "law of war" where they are denied their rights to due process under the Nevada and U.S. Constitution. Resolved, that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention directs the Secretary ensure a copy of this resolution is indexed and attached, as appropriate for retention and reference, to the Nevada Republican Party Bylaws and that a copy is provided to every Republican elected official.
Resolution 2014-G-110
Resolution Against Article V Convention
Whereas
, the Convention of States, A Project of Citizens for Self-Governance, and other organizations, seek to convene a convention to propose amendments to The Constitution; and
Whereas
, these organizations are characterizing the information they propagate as absolutely settled matters of law and precedence, claiming that such a convention may be limited to specific topics, thereby allegedly containing any threat to the Constitution, when, in fact, a strong body of evidence exists making these important matters absolutely not clear or settled; and
Whereas
, Article V of The Constitution provides for separate conventions within three fourths of the states for ratification of proposed amendments, the composition, control, and authority of these conventions not being defined, thereby exposing The Constitution to the potential for grave and unnecessary harm; now, therefore, be it
Resolved,
that under currently-known law, history, and precedent, that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention declares that an Article V convention poses significant known and unknown risks to the Constitution of The United States and that these risks significantly outweigh any potential reward; and
Resolved,
that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention requests that the Nevada Legislature not participate in any action to further a convention under Article V of the Constitution of the United State of America; and
Resolved
, that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention directs the Secretary ensure a copy of this resolution is indexed and attached, as appropriate for retention and reference, to the Nevada Republican Party Bylaws; and
Resolved
, that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention directs the Secretary ensure a copy of this resolution is indexed and attached, as appropriate for retention and reference, to the Nevada Republican Party Bylaws and that a copy is provided to every Republican elected official.
Resolution 2014-G108
Declaration of Republican Party Platform Supremacy
Whereas,
the Nevada Republican Party is the sovereign authority for the Republican Party in Nevada, in accordance with Nevada Law, and that the Nevada Republican Party Platform is created by The People through a comprehensive and deliberative process at a convention, thereby being the most inclusive and authoritative declaration of The People in defining their beliefs, and
Whereas,
the record is clear that faithfully adhering to Conservative principles defined by The Platform is a recipe for electoral success, and American prosperity, while diluting our values to present a fraudulent image of a "safe" party devoid of sincere conviction has proven an impediment to electoral victories, and
Whereas,
a dangerous precedent of elected Republicans favoring consultants that lack the moral authority to guide the Republican Party has taken hold and must be broken to end the destructive dictatorial method of interaction with the Republican Party, which has damaged the Republican Party, The State of Nevada, and the United States of America; now, therefore, be it
Resolved,
that We The People of the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention declare that choosing to run for election as a Republican shall be clearly understood as creating an obligation to maintain fidelity to the principles prescribed by the Republican Party in our Platform, and that to do otherwise shall be deemed a violation of the implicit moral covenant created elected officials and The People.
Resolved,
that elected Republican Party officials are servants of The People, expected to defend our distinctive American way of life from endless attacks.
Resolved
, that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention directs the Secretary ensure a copy of this resolution is indexed and attached, as appropriate for retention and reference, to the Republican Central Committee Bylaws and that a copy is provided to every Republican elected official and candidate, and that they acknowledge receipt prior to any support being offered to a candidate.
Resolution 2014-G107
Resolution Demanding an Audit and Reform of The Federal Reserve
Whereas in 1978 the United States Congress expanded the Federal Reserve's mandate to pursue maximum employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates; and Whereas the Federal Reserve has debased the Dollar, enabled trillions of dollars of deficit spending, bailed out insolvent financial institutions, suppressed interest rates which punishes saving, and has multiple conflicting goals; and Whereas the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2012, passed the House of Representatives, with 201 cosponsors, and a vote of 327-98; and Resolved, the Nevada Republican Party strongly encourages Congress to: Narrow the Federal Reserve's mandate to maintaining price stability (ending its "dual mandate"), limit the assets the Federal Reserve can hold to Treasuries, require a transparent, rules-based approach to monetary policy, Limit the Federal Reserve's role as a lender of last resort during a financial crisis to providing dear credit to solvent U.S. banks faced with a liquidity crisis, perform a study of returning the U.S. to a classic gold standard with the dollar after an announced period of time being defined in terms of an amount of gold, perform a study of separating the Federal Reserve's supervisory and regulatory roles and its monetary role, and do a full audit of the Federal Reserve, i.e reintroduce the Federal Reserve Transparency Act 2012. Resolved, that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention directs the Secretary ensure a copy of this resolution is indexed and attached, as appropriate for retention and reference, to the Republican Central Committee Bylaws and that a copy is provided to every Republican elected official and candidate, and that they acknowledge receipt prior to any support being offered to a candidate.
Resolved,
that We The People of the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention declare that choosing to run for election as a Republican shall be clearly understood as creating an obligation to maintain fidelity to the principles prescribed by the Republican Party in our Platform, and that to do otherwise shall be deemed a violation of the implicit moral covenant created elected officials and The People.
Resolved,
that elected Republican Party officials are servants of The People, expected to defend our distinctive American way of life from endless attacks.
Resolved
, that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention directs the Secretary ensure a copy of this resolution is indexed and attached, as appropriate for retention and reference, to the Republican Central Committee Bylaws and that a copy is provided to every Republican elected official and candidate, and that they acknowledge receipt prior to any support being offered to a candidate.
Resolution 2014-G107
Resolution Demanding an Audit and Reform of The Federal Reserve
Whereas in 1978 the United States Congress expanded the Federal Reserve's mandate to pursue maximum employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates; and Whereas the Federal Reserve has debased the Dollar, enabled trillions of dollars of deficit spending, bailed out insolvent financial institutions, suppressed interest rates which punishes saving, and has multiple conflicting goals; and Whereas the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2012, passed the House of Representatives, with 201 cosponsors, and a vote of 327-98; and Resolved, the Nevada Republican Party strongly encourages Congress to: Narrow the Federal Reserve's mandate to maintaining price stability (ending its "dual mandate"), limit the assets the Federal Reserve can hold to Treasuries, require a transparent, rules-based approach to monetary policy, Limit the Federal Reserve's role as a lender of last resort during a financial crisis to providing dear credit to solvent U.S. banks faced with a liquidity crisis, perform a study of returning the U.S. to a classic gold standard with the dollar after an announced period of time being defined in terms of an amount of gold, perform a study of separating the Federal Reserve's supervisory and regulatory roles and its monetary role, and do a full audit of the Federal Reserve, i.e reintroduce the Federal Reserve Transparency Act 2012. Resolved, that the 2014 Nevada Republican Convention directs the Secretary ensure a copy of this resolution is indexed and attached, as appropriate for retention and reference, to the Republican Central Committee Bylaws and that a copy is provided to every Republican elected official and candidate, and that they acknowledge receipt prior to any support being offered to a candidate.
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Shock! The IRS Actually Adheres to Public Outrage in this One Instance
April 15, 2014 By Jennifer Burke
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It seems like the Barack Obama regime has attempted one massive overreach after another. (watch video below) He has used the IRS as a weapon against those perceived as political enemies. He has used the Department of InJustice to attack FOX News reporter James Rosen, who was simply doing his job. He has seized the phone records of AP reporters and used the NSA to spy on Americans. That is just the tip of the iceberg on his corrupt administration that has worked against so much of what this country was founded upon.
Last week, TPNN reported that Obama's Social Security Administration is confiscating the tax refund checks and going after individuals for debts owed by the deceased parents. That's right, people's children and grandchildren were being forced by the government to pay for debt more than 10 years old, which, in some cases the government didn't even know who exactly owed the debt.
Not surprisingly, there was outrage by the public as these stories came to light. Now, after taxpayer revolt and indignation, the government has said that it will stop this illegal debt collection. Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on FOX News' The Kelly File to discuss this latest example of an out of control, illegally operating government.
Judge Andrew Napolitano said the government sent a notice to people's last known address, then held hearings where no one was there to resist them, then got judgments against them. Social Security then seized the refund checks.
Napolitano said that one cannot attribute the debt of parents to a child if the child had nothing to do with the debt.
"Why do they do it? Because they can get away with it," he said, adding that the government is out of control.
(you will have to go to the web site to watch the video, it is not you tube)
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72 big screen TVs go missing after Democratic National Convention
"During a convention it's not unusual to lose an item or two," said a representative of LG Electronics, which loaned the Democrats hundreds of televisions for the convention, "but this was a lot."
(Rule to live by, LG: lending TVs to Democrats is like lending chickens to a fox)
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Man Will Get Warning Instead Of Originally Issued $525 Citation
For $.89 Drink Refill At VA Medical Center In SC
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(The cafeteria is heavily patrolled and secure)
Via WCSC http://www.live5news.com/story/25269079/man-hit-with-525-federal-fine-after-he-doesnt-pay-for-soda-refill
Officials with the VA Medical Center in downtown Charleston say a North Charleston man who was initially federally charged with a $525 fine for an $.89 drink refill will instead be given a warning.
"In reviewing the case, the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center has determined a warning in lieu of a citation is sufficient in this case," a statement released by the VA stated on Thursday.
Christopher Lewis, an on-site construction worker, said he didn't know refills at the VA Medical Center in downtown Charleston came at a price, and Wednesday, during his lunch hour, he was originally slapped with federal charges. The ticket was issued by the Federal Police Force at the VA Medical Center in downtown Charleston after Lewis refilled his soda without paying the $0.89. A hospital spokesperson on Wednesday called it a "theft of government property."
"Every time I look at the ticket, it's unbelievable to me," Lewis said on Wednesday. "I can't fathom the fact that I made a $0.89 mistake that cost me $525."
Lewis is now out of a job. According to a hospital spokesperson, signs are posted in the cafeteria informing patrons that refills aren't free. Lewis says he never noticed the signs and admits he had refilled his drink without paying on other occasions. He says after he went back for seconds on Wednesday, a man who identified himself as the chief of police, stopped him.
"As I was filling my cup up, I turned to walk off and a fella grabbed me by the arm and asked me was I going to pay for that, and I told him I wasn't aware that I had to pay for that."
Lewis says he tried to pay the $0.89 right there, but wasn't allowed to. He says he wasn't given the chance to pay the cashier either.
"I never had an option to make right what I had done wrong."
He says he was taken to a room, given the $525 ticket for shoplifting and told not to return to the property.
"I'm done there, at the VA hospital. I'm not allowed to go on the premises anymore. I asked him can I still work on the job site and just bring my lunch and not got to the cafeteria and he said he wanted me off the premises."
A hospital spokesperson says it was her understanding that Lewis was aggressive during the confrontation.
The medical center originally released the following statement on Wednesday:
The Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center is fortunate to have a highly trained Federal police force to ensure the safety of our patients, visitors and employees. As Federal police they are responsible for enforcing the law. Today a Federal citation was issued for shoplifting in the VA cafeteria to an individual who stated to VA police he had not paid for refills of beverages on multiple occasions, even though signs are posted in the cafeteria informing patrons refills are not free. Shoplifting is a crime. The dollar amount of the ticket is not determined by VA as it is a Federal citation. The citation may be paid or the recipient may choose to appear in Federal court to contest it.
Lewis and his fiancé have contacted the Internal Affairs Office in Columbia. He says he will contest the fine in federal court.
"It's about pretty much I guess you would say getting your face back. I want everybody to know that I made a simple mistake, that I'm not a thief, that I'm not dishonest. I'm trying to do the right thing."
Real "NO" men/women!
Not the pansy "Yes" men/women" spouting have a positive attitude like some "NGO's"!
Rudy here are what real heroes look like.
They don't sit behind a desk and be "YES" men/women do they?
The real men and Patriots of the US of A.
There will be a lot of Patriots out on May 16th.
They had no backing when they started defending Freedom.
Now, the least of the pansy "yes men" called representatives are falling in to back them.
SIT ON IT FEDS !
Bundy Ranch,
20 State Reps Form The Coalition
For Western States,
Oathkeepers Call 50 Militia
To Stay At Ranch
90+ Days
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Call to oath keepers and militia members: Rotating shifts to commence at Bundy ranch.
Michael Doyle sent a message to Next News Network saying, "We need 30 to 50 men to man post and guard duty for rotating shifts. We have a field kitchen to serve 3 meals a day. If homeless Vets want to help, we are occupying the ranch for 3+ MONTHS."
Also, meet the coalition! 20 state legislators from Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Montana and Idaho have teamed up together to make sure this doesn't happen again and that the federal land is transferred to the state level, allowing the states and counties to manage the land, not far aay Washington D.C
The Coalition of Western States: State representatives Michele Fiore, Matt Shea represents the 4th Legislative District in Spokane Valley, WA, Barry Weller, district III supervisor, Apache Co, Arizona, David Taylor State Representative 15th District (R-Moxee). Just to name a few. These brave representatives are standing up for what is RIGHT, OUR Constitutional RIGHTS.
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Now boarding space craft!
All politicians and elites, board now please!
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Obama shows true colors
at ceremony for the fallen at Fort Hood:
Once again
the only one on the stage
failing to salute
Comment by Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist, Oath Keeper and Patriot.
Barack Hussein Obama is truly and enigma.
Should an UnAmerican be expected to salute the flag of the United States of America?
If Obama is an American it's well past time that he opens his sealed records.
In his own words," The Only that don't want to disclose the truth are those with something to hide."
What's it going to be Mr. Obama?
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Remembering from the 2009 tragedy, some people said when they viewed him
not saluting the flag at a ceremony that the picture was just a moment in time.
This of course was refuted by the video below.
Fort Hood Ceremony
POTUSA (President of the United States of America ) at Ft. Hood , Texas on Nov. 11, 2009... "Honoring" the 13 dead. Obama refuses to salute, come to attention or even place his hand on his heart as the honor guard passes at the Memorial Service for those killed by a fellow Muslim terrorist at Fort Hood!!The Crotch Salute
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If this does not offend you nothing will!
ALL AMERICA NEEDS TO SEE THIS.
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BRUCE: Obama Deliberately Emboldening America's Enemies
Team Obama's bizarre behavior helps Gitmo terrorists foil justice
Weak-A$$ Traitor Obutt-Head Deliberately Emboldening Our Enemies
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{Should be required reading by every member of Congress, and a call to them to do their duty. Every action that Obama takes is anti-American. Every word out of 0bama's mouth is prevarication. Draw your own conclusions about this Manchurian Candidate...)
via The Washington Timeshttp://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/17/bruce-deliberately-emboldening-americas-enemies/
All Americans should be aware of some very disturbing events that speak to the state of terrorism, the strength of al Qaeda and our nation's security. In light of the danger unfolding around us, we also need to question whether or not President Obama's administration is serious about confronting what is clearly a gathering storm, or whether, in fact, his policies are encouraging those who wish to harm us.
One of the more shocking events illustrating the growing strength of al Qaeda is the release of a video this week showing what CNN reports as "the largest and most dangerous gathering of al Qaeda in years." It's what experts think is a recent gathering of the terrorist group's leadership and more than 100 fighters in Yemen.
The American president does have power,
including the sort that signals to the world's beasts
that they can do as they please.
For an administration that does not hide its eagerness to use drones to kill terrorists, experts and journalists alike were wondering whether our intelligence community knew about this meeting, and if so, why didn't they take the opportunity to kill the most dangerous of them with one drone strike?
The terrorists on the video seem strangely unconcerned with their safety, as though there was no need for them to feel at risk. When asked about the brazenness of the gathering, Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, noted on CNN: "We think that they're feeling empowered. The less pressure you put on them, the more they take that as a victory ... ."
It now appears al Qaeda was "on the run" in the same way you were able to keep your doctor and hospital.
Whether we didn't know about the gathering, or did and chose to do nothing, it's another signal to the beasts around the world that no one is home in Washington, D.C.
The dangerous circus created by the Obama regime's rules doesn't stop there.
Sept. 11 victims' families are asserting they think the Obama administration is deliberately sabotaging the trials at Guantanamo, and insist the FBI is meddling in the cases, according to reports in the Free Beacon.
Unfortunately, both Mr. Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder have a history with the American people that not only doesn't engender trust, but suggests efforts that are directly harming the nation and the American people, while pushing an agenda benefiting the terrorists.
In the article, two Sept. 11 victims' family members told reporters of their suspicion regarding an FBI investigation into defense lawyers: "They had to know this would have some effect on the proceedings here," one family member said. "Were I a very suspicious person, some could even say that was done purposely to derail these hearing and force it back into federal court," said another. "It looks like a well-orchestrated snafu."
Debra Burlingame is the sister of Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame III, pilot of American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. She came to the public's attention after becoming a passionate and determined advocate on behalf of all Americans in the aftermath of the attacks, which took her brother's life and 2,976 others.
With the continuing bizarre decisions by Mr. Obama and the Holder Department of Justice, I asked Ms. Burlingame what she thought of the growing suspicion and concern by the families and the possibility that the Obama administration was deliberately sabotaging the process. Here's what she told me:
"Someone, in violation of a D.C. District Court Protective Order, smuggled Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's 34-page jihadi diatribe against America out of Gitmo and into the possession of the Huffington Post and BBC-TV.
"Smuggling this out of Gitmo is a criminal act. I find it repulsive that the attorneys defending the men who murdered 3,000 people are now trying to leverage an FBI investigation of what may be their own legal misconduct into an advantage for their clients," said Ms. Burlingame.
Moreover, Ms. Burlingame didn't mince any words about Mr. Holder and his involvement in the ongoing sham: "These defense attorneys are doing everything possible to delay this trial, to turn the proceedings into a sham, so that Eric Holder, their ideological soulmate, can tell the American people that military commissions are inferior courts," continued Ms. Burlingame
"I would like to remind the public that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators told a lawfully convened military tribunal in December 2008 that they wished to plead guilty and be executed. Barack Obama's first act as president in 2009 was to shut down that proceeding and put these cases into legal limbo for another 2 years.
"It finally reconvened in 2011, and in the time since then, an army of defense lawyers has stalled this trial with hundreds of frivolous motions, all aimed at making a mockery of the court," she said.
Regarding where things stand now, I asked Ms. Burlingame if it is reasonable to think Mr. Holder is deliberately undermining our efforts to get justice at Gitmo.
"Our own attorney general has repeatedly made public statements expressly undermining the court's authority . His statements have been disgraceful. So, it is perfectly understandable that 9/11 family members would suspect that Eric Holder is colluding to sabotage this trial."
It is a horrible thing when Americans have to consider the possibility that the leadership of this country is purposefully acting in a manner that benefits our nation's enemies. Yet, when we look around the world, those feeling and acting empowered are the bullies, tyrants and terrorists.
The American president does have power, including the sort that signals to the world's beasts that they can do as they please.Tammy Bruce is a radio talk-show host, New York Times best-selling author and Fox News political contributor.
One Magazines's crappy view of Barack Hussein Obuma:http://lifestylejournal.com/obama.php
The End of Barack Obama?
(We can only hope...)
Barack Obama is a beaten man. You can just see it in his face. The bright, young, optimistic man that the USA elected president is gone, replaced by an unsure, tired man that is just running out the string.(http://cdnimg.visualizeus.com/thumbs/b8/b6/islam,muslim,obama,traitor-b8b6dd18e9af6960b956696597dcb24a_h.jpg)
Why has this happened? Why, after such an optimistic beginning, has president Obama become bogged down in gridlock, unable to do anything of note? Certainly every president has had to face opposition and partisanship - why is it different here?
The answer lies in the internet. And social media platforms like Facebook.
It's true the media turned politics into "red and blue" states before Obama. But Barack Obama is the first president to be in office with Social Media use at peak levels. And social media has forever changed things. It's allowed people to connect with others of like minds, and has driven a deep wedge between the two sides politically.
Yes, "party lines" have always been present, but there was a time when leaders reached across the aisle and worked together.
But today, it's different. The extreme, loud elements have taken hold, and Obama is feeling their wrath. When Government debt ceilings are in question every single time, there's a problem. And that's what we've seen, and likely will continue to see. The internet and social media have made it almost impossible for leaders to govern. Because their every move is analyzed and criticized immediately - by everyone. And when you get 300 million people shouting, nothing gets done. It's become that we tell our representatives "we don't care what the issue is, just oppose the other side."
Obama is the current bearer of this storm, but he won't be the last. It's a good bet that every president from this point forth will face this issue. You've heard of gridlock, but you aint' seen nothing yet!!
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Medicaid Paid $12M For Illinois Dead
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(They are still on the voter registrations roles and voting)
Via Town Hall
The Illinois Medicaid program paid an estimated $12 million for medical services for people listed as deceased in other state records, according to an internal state government memo.The memo dated Friday, which The Associated Press obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, says the state auditor compared clients enrolled in the Medicaid database last June with state death records dating back to 1970. Auditors identified overpayments for services to roughly 2,900 people after the date of their deaths.
The heads of the departments of Healthcare and Family Services and Human Services, the two state agencies involved with Medicaid payments, outline steps to fix the problem in the memo to their senior staffs.
The memo states that more than $7 million has been recovered and the rest is expected to be recouped by year's end.
Sen. Dale Righter, a Republican from Mattoon and the Senate GOP's point person on Medicaid reform, said the finding was further evidence that Democrats' arguments that they have done all they can to clean up the Medicaid rolls is "empty rhetoric."
"It's disappointing and somewhat enraging for taxpayers, but it's not surprising," Righter said. "I wish this administration would spend more time trying to solve the problems rather than trying to convince taxpayers that they've already solved them."
Gov. Pat Quinn's office didn't immediately respond to phone and email messages seeking comment.
Republicans have pressed for the state to use a private company to verify Medicaid eligibility. Maximus Health Services was hired to scrub state Medicaid rolls following 2012 Medicaid-reform legislation. Republicans have said the company was achieving a Medicaid eligibility-removal rate of 40 percent.
But the contract between the company and Gov. Pat Quinn ended last year, and the work was shifted to state employees, after the state's largest public-employee union objected and an arbitrator ruled the contract should end.
Pope Francis Calls For End Of Attacks On Christians In Islamic Countries In Easter Message
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(Amen)
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Marking Christianity's most hopeful day, Pope Francis made an Easter Sunday plea for peace and dialogue in Ukraine and Syria, for an end to terrorist attacks against Christians in Nigeria and for more attention to the hungry and neediest close to home.
Well over 150,000 tourists — Romans and pilgrims, young and old — turned out for the Mass that Francis celebrated at an altar set up under a canopy on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica.
So great were their numbers that they overflowed from sprawling St. Peter's Square, which was bedecked with row after row of potted daffodils, sprays of blue hyacinths and bunches of white roses. Waving flags from the pope's native Argentina as well as from Brazil, Mexico, Britain, Poland and many other countries, they also filled the broad boulevard leading from the square to the Tiber River.
Easter is the culmination of Holy Week and marks Christian belief that Jesus rose from the dead after his crucifixion.
Francis noted that this year the Catholic church's celebration of Easter coincided with that of Orthodox churches, which have many followers in Ukraine.
Francis prayed that God would "enlighten and inspire the initiatives that promote peace in Ukraine, so that all those involved, with the support of the international community, will make every effort to prevent violence."
Francis also prayed that all sides in Syria will be moved to "boldly negotiate the peace long awaited and long overdue." Syria has been wracked by a three-year civil war that has cost 150,000 lives and forced millions to flee the country.
Christians make up about 5 percent of Syria's population. In comments to mark Easter there, the Greek Orthodox patriarch vowed that Christians there "will not submit" to extremists who attack "our people and holy places."
Report: Black Congressman Accused Clinton White House Of Racially Profiling Him
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(But... but... but I thought Willy C. WAS black. Sounds like actual profiling, but will we hear the calls of racisssst? Of course not, Progressive Democrats problem with race.
Media, clean up, aisle 4!)
Via Breitbart:A prominent black member of Congress and a longtime civil rights leader accused the Clinton White House of racially profiling him when he tried to meet Vice President Al Gore in 1993.
As documents the Clinton Library released on Friday revealed, an October 5, 1993, memo noted that the Secret Service asked Rep. Louis Stokes (D-OH) "for identification, although his white driver was not."
Stokes, who served in Congress for 30 years and was a Clinton ally on domestic initiatives, was "understandably furious."
"Furthermore, before Rep. Stokes was allowed in the gate, a K-9 detail searched his car," the memo said. "Rep. Stokes is understandably furious and believes the search to be racially motivated."
White House officials, according to the memo, "spoke at length" with David Watkins, the White House director of administration, about the matter.
"David has taken steps to insure that in the future members of Congress driving into the White House will be admitted expeditiously and will be treated with respect," the memo stated.
Michele Fiore
Capsizes
Chris Hayes
Boat
IMHO
Good Job Lady.
Chris Hayes Clashes with Michele Fiore
Over Cliven Bundy -
' Will Not Allow Governance by Gunpoint '
10 Things to Know for Monday
April 21, 2014 (AP)
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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about MONDAY.... YECK!:1. FESTIVE BOSTON MARATHON ATMOSPHERE TINGED WITH SADNESS"It's sadness, but it's also a kind of fortitude," says Scott Johnson, who will run in Monday's race one year after bombings killed three and injured 260 there. "Two people created the violence, but millions counter it with love and support."
2. WHAT MAY HAVE ADDED TO S. KOREA FERRY CONFUSIONMany passengers followed the captain's initial order to stay below deck, where it is feared they remained trapped in the sinking.
3. WHERE SHOOTOUT THREATENS FRAGILE PEACEIn eastern Ukraine, an armed clash that left three people dead apeared to be the first violence since an international deal was reached to ease tensions there.
4. BOXER WHO FOUGHT INJUSTICE DIES AT 76Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, exonerated of murder charges after 19 years in jail, died in Toronto.
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5. WHOSE POLITICAL FUTURE MAY HANG IN THE BALANCEA grand jury will consider whether Texas Gov. Rick Perry abused his power when he carried out a threat to veto $7.5M in state funding for public corruption prosecutors.
6. ASSAD VISITS RECAPTURED CHRISTIAN VILLAGEThe embattled Syrian president's tour of Maaloula served as a propaganda victory amid the country's civil war.
7. WHY BIOFUELS COULD BE WORSE THAN GASFuels made with leftovers of corn plants release 7 percent more greenhouse gases in the short term than conventional gasoline, according to a U.S.-government-funded study.
8. IN COLO., '4/20' POT HOLIDAY TRIES TO GO MAINSTREAMWhat started as a defiant gathering of marijuana activists years ago now has an official city permit, since the state legalized recreational use of the drug.
9. LAND GRABS IMPERIL AFRICA'S ELEPHANTSPolitical and military elites are seizing protected areas in one of the continent's last bastions for elephants, a nonprofit group's new report says.
10. LEBRON, WADE DROP 50 ON CHARLOTTEThe Heat rode two big runs to defeat Bobcats 99-88 in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference first-round series.
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Barack ObUma Marks Easter With A Picture of . . . Barry ObuttHead
(Did anyone not see this post coming?)
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Navy Dad Dresses Up As Easter Bunny To Surprise Daughter
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The Left's Hypocritical Tolerance
by David Risselada
The left uses the word tolerance as one of its most effective weapons. Employing the Alinsky tactic of using an opponent's values against them, they have conditioned society to believe that any opposition to their left wing agenda is "intolerant," and, therefore, it should be rejected. It has proven to be a very effective tactic as often times; any discussion can be immediately stopped in its tracks or discredited with accusations of not caring about the issue, or being "against" something the left claims to care about. They have a way of making their positions, no matter how ludicrous, seem legitimate.
For instance, the government found a way to connect "global warming" with racism, in an effort to make those that suggest exhaling carbon dioxide does not require communist government run our lives, appear "intolerant." They have pushed this idea to such a ridiculous "extreme," they are trying to convince people that whites breath cleaner air that non-whites. This shows little more than an act of all out desperation on the part of a government that is attempting to assume control of every aspect of our lives; and yet somehow, through the use of the word "intolerant," these ridiculous ideas find themselves being forced upon us.
I have to question the intelligence of people who try to label those who have opposing views as being "intolerant" or "extremist's," when the act of doing so displays a level of intolerance they claim is "unacceptable." I also have to question the motives of a government who accuses its own citizens of being "terrorists" while they use the full power of government to force people into compliance with an ever increasingly powerful police state. The Southern Poverty Law Center, for example, has just called all those supporting Clive Bundy "extremists," while Harry Reid is referring to them as "domestic terrorists." This, in my opinion, not only represents the height of hypocrisy, but as I expressed in a recent op-ed, it is the ultimate betrayal against all who have defended liberty as well.
The truth is, it is the intolerance of the left being levied against those who oppose their radical views that are causing the major problems in America today. All of this is a psychological ploy designed to get you, a rational, thinking being, to accept the irrational. While the government is employing its full force of armed troops, in an effort to scare the one remaining rancher in the area off his land, they are calling you a terrorist for opposing it. They are trying to prove you are intolerant, by not "tolerating" your view point and labeling you as an extremist.
Nothing the left is doing makes any sense, and the only way they can get any agenda item passed is if they know people are not paying attention. They will do anything to discredit anyone who opposes their plans of centralized government power. I have put a lot of thought into this and in my opinion, labeling anyone as being "intolerant" to their agenda is one way to silence them. It is the only thing that explains how people can be conned into believing exhaling carbon dioxide, or cow farts, for that matter, is a cause of global warming. How tolerant is the left when they demand that global warming deniers be jailed for denying their false science?
More and more people are awakening to the fact that our government is resorting to oppressive, draconian tactics to force us into compliance with a left wing worldview. The more we question their motives and the more we stand for our rights, the more oppressive they become. They are desperately trying to hide their lies and deception by projecting their corruption on the rest of society. They are attempting to create a world in which the majority of people believe we cannot live without their guidance, and that anyone who disagrees with them is a potential terrorist. This is the real extremism that people should be concerned about. Any government that calls me an extremist for disagreeing with them is anything but "tolerant," and is, in fact, displaying the highest level of intolerance and contempt for the rights and liberties of those who have entrusted them to govern. If people will accept that the government can surround one man with 300 armed troops, over the lies that have been told, while real criminals and real terrorists are getting away with real crimes, then we are further gone than even I want to admit.
DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz:
ObuttHead Delaying Keystone Decision Until After Midterm Elections
Not Political
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(Safe to say even she doesn't believe this)
Via Washington Examiner:Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Sunday dismissed the potential political impact of a delayed decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, calling it a "complex" decision that will need to be carefully weighed.
The State Department, which has been reviewing the environmental impact of a proposal to build an oil pipeline from Canada to refineries along the Gulf Coast, announced this week that it would postpone its decision on whether to approve the project.
Some Republicans who support the project accused Democrats and the White House of purposefully pushing back a ruling until after this year's midterm elections — but Wasserman Schultz attempted Sunday to dismiss such a notion.
"The decision over the Keystone pipeline is complex and it has to be examined very carefully," Wasserman Schultz said on NBC's "Meet The Press." "It affects multiple states."
Because of the weight of the issue, Wasserman Schultz said, she wants "to make sure the right decision is arrived at and the president makes that decision carefully and doesn't put politics in his decision."
"[President Obama] has to continue to take a close look at it," she added. "The environmental concerns are legitimate."
MSNBC Nut-Case Chris Hayes Clashes with Michele Fiore Over Cliven Bundy -
'Will Not Allow Governance by Gunpoint'
(Assembly Woman Michelle Fiore, originally from Brooklyn NY, moves out to Nevada and makes a positive difference in the cause of freedom. Watch her bitch slap this corporate whore from MSNBC!)
April 18, 2014 - (MSNBC) - Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy continues to have a large group of supporters gathered around his ranch, and on Friday night, MSNBC's Chris Hayes squared off with Nevada state assemblywoman Michele Fiore over exactly what the objection is. Fiore told Hayes that the BLM went way out-of-bounds by sending in armed federal agents, declaring, "We will not allow governance by gunpoint."
Hayes repeatedly tried to get Fiore to admit that the Bundys are in violation of the law, but Fiore stuck to arguing that the government was engaging in outrageous tactics and "suspicious activity." Hayes insisted the government's tactics is a different issue from whether or not Bundy is in the wrong and his rejection of the federal government's authority.
Fiore asked, "If you owed the federal government money, Chris, do you want them coming to your house pointing guns at your wife and children? Is that okay with you?" Hayes shot back, "But is is okay with you if every rancher in the country stops paying their grazing fees?"
Hayes brought up a hypothetical where someone trying to save an illegal immigrant relative would try doing the same thing Bundy's supporters did, a comparison Fiore dismissed. They ended the segment on an odd exchange about killing cows.The Daily Caller reported:Nevada assemblywoman Michele Fiore clashed with MSNBC's Chris Hayes regarding rancher Cliven Bundy's conflict with the federal government on Friday.
As Hayes pressed Fiore about her position on the standoff, she relentlessly criticized the government's handling of the situation.
"Why are you there near the Bundy ranch tonight celebrating?" Hayes asks."Questioning why the heck the federal government felt the need to come in armed to collect an unpaid bill. I mean, that was pretty bold and blatant," Fiore said. "I mean, generally when my — when our federal government comes in armed, we're expecting a bigger problem... We will not allow governance by gunpoint, ever."When Hayes asked if Fiore agreed with Cliven Bundy, Fiore grew angry."No, Chris. Don't put words in my mouth. I'm not saying I agree with Cliven Bundy. What I'm saying is the way this was handled is really suspicious," she replied. "I mean, if we literally sent our federal government to the borders to secure 'em against terrorists crossing, hey, I got that. But they want to come here with arms because cows are grazing? That's uh — Chris, I'm sorry, I think you're out of your mind."
I received this in an e-mail from an American friend and Patriot.
Muslims My Ass...
I want to shake the guy's hand that wrote this...
Have you ever seen a Muslim hospital?
Have you heard a Muslim orchestra?
Have you seen a Muslim band march in a parade?
Have you witnessed a Muslim charity?
Have you shaken hands with a Muslim Girl Scout?
Have you seen a Muslim Candy Stripier?
The answer is no, you have not. Just ask yourself WHY ???
Barack Obama, during his Cairo speech, said:
"I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America 's history."
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S RESPONSE
Dear Mr. Obama:
Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians.
Were those Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving day? Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and Native American Indians.
Can you show me one Muslim signature on the: United States Constitution?
Declaration of Independence ?
Bill of Rights?
Didn't think so.
Did Muslims fight for this country's freedom from England ? No.
Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the slaves in America ? No, they did not.
In fact, Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery. Your own half-brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black Muslims as "pug nosed slaves." Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family's "rich Islamic heritage," doesn't it Mr. Obama?
Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this country?
Not present.
There are no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights.
Where were Muslims during this country's Woman's Suffrage era?
Again, not present. In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that often they are beaten for not wearing the 'hajib' or for talking to a man who is not a direct family member or their husband. Yep, the Muslims are all for women's rights, aren't they?
Where were Muslims during World War II?
They were aligned with Adolf Hitler. The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi's in killing Jews.
Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th, 2001?
If they weren't flying planes into the World Trade Center , the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle East . No one can dispute the pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news network's that day. Strangely, the very "moderate" Muslims who's asses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo, Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11. To many Americans, their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day.
And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the "rich heritage" Muslims have here in America ...
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates. They were Muslims.
And now we can add November 5, 2009 - the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan .
Also, don't forget the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15.2013 was done by 2 Muslim Brothers. That, Mr. Obama is the "Muslim heritage" in America
Muslim Heritage, my ass.
And if you don't share this message,
you are part of the problem! In GOD we trust.
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Kansas lagging behind
in government transparency
online
By Brian Miller Updated:
Monday, April 21, 2014, 10:38 pm
Published: Monday, April 21, 2014, 10:30 pm
Wichita, Kansas– According to a recently released "Follow the Money" report, Kansas is one of the worst states when it comes to offering government spending information online. KanView is the state-run website where people can see how the state is spending its money. According to the report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group for 2014, that site scores among the lowest in the nation– with 50 out of 100 possible points.
"We try to specify exactly what information can be found what can be downloaded what can be searched to really make an index of scoring in a way that anybody who went to the same web sites would be able to say objectively if that information was or wasn't there," said the report's author Phineas Baxandall.
The state's score has dropped 24 points since the first report was released in 2010.
The state's Department Of Administration oversees the site. A spokesperson for the department says other agencies are involved. A spokesperson tells us "The Kansas Department Of Administration was just made aware of the report late last week and will not be able to comment until we are able to look further into the components that make up the final grade."
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On Earth Day, we must point out we do not know any conservative parents who do not want to save the land they feel God gave them. Hunting, fishing, ranching, farming, camping, hiking< all things parents and grandparents want their children and grandchildren to be able to have forever. AG21 is real - it's often called ICLEI and the UN promotes it to your community for money.
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Here is a new
Cat In The Hat
for the President
and his Wife.
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72 Things You Can Do
To Be Labeled A Terrorist
By Harry Reid
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 11:38
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Frequent guest on the Pete Santilli Show, Michael Snyder, has just released an eye opening list of 72 things you could be doing that will get you labeled a terrorist. In light of Harry Reid's recent reaction and comments about Bundy Ranch supporters being domestic terrorist this article could not be more timely.
Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner? Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order? Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the "end times" or do you ever visit alternative news websites (such as this one)? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a "potential terrorist" according to official U.S. government documents. -Michael Snyder
Below is a list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be "extremists" and "potential terrorists" in official U.S. government documents. To see the original source document for each point, just click on the link. As you can see, this list covers most of the country...
1. Those that talk about "individual liberties"
2. Those that advocate for states' rights
3. Those that want "to make the world a better place"
4. "The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule"
5. Those that are interested in "defeating the Communists"
6. Those that believe "that the interests of one's own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations"
7. Anyone that holds a "political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable"
8. Anyone that possesses an "intolerance toward other religions"
9. Those that "take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals"
10. "Anti-Gay"
11. "Anti-Immigrant"
12. "Anti-Muslim"
13. "The Patriot Movement"
14. "Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians"
15. Members of the Family Research Council
16. Members of the American Family Association
17. Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States "are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the 'North American Union'"
18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol
19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition
21. Members of the Christian Action Network
22. Anyone that is "opposed to the New World Order"
23. Anyone that is engaged in "conspiracy theorizing"
24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21
25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps
26. Anyone that "fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations"
27. The militia movement
28. The sovereign citizen movement
29. Those that "don't think they should have to pay taxes"
30. Anyone that "complains about bias"
31. Anyone that "believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia"
32. Anyone that "is frustrated with mainstream ideologies"
33. Anyone that "visits extremist websites/blogs"
34. Anyone that "establishes website/blog to display extremist views"
35. Anyone that "attends rallies for extremist causes"
36. Anyone that "exhibits extreme religious intolerance"
37. Anyone that "is personally connected with a grievance"
38. Anyone that "suddenly acquires weapons"
39. Anyone that "organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology"
40. "Militia or unorganized militia"
41. "General right-wing extremist"
42. Citizens that have "bumper stickers" that are patriotic or anti-U.N.
43. Those that refer to an "Army of God"
44. Those that are "fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)"
45. Those that are "anti-global"
46. Those that are "suspicious of centralized federal authority"
47. Those that are "reverent of individual liberty"
48. Those that "believe in conspiracy theories"
49. Those that have "a belief that one's personal and/or national 'way of life' is under attack"
50. Those that possess "a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism"
51. Those that would "impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)"
52. Those that would "insert religion into the political sphere"
53. Anyone that would "seek to politicize religion"
54. Those that have "supported political movements for autonomy"
55. Anyone that is "anti-abortion"
56. Anyone that is "anti-Catholic"
57. Anyone that is "anti-nuclear"
58. "Rightwing extremists"
59. "Returning veterans"
60. Those concerned about "illegal immigration"
61. Those that "believe in the right to bear arms"
62. Anyone that is engaged in "ammunition stockpiling"
63. Anyone that exhibits "fear of Communist regimes"
64. "Anti-abortion activists"
65. Those that are against illegal immigration
66. Those that talk about "the New World Order" in a "derogatory" manner
67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations
68. Those that are opposed "to the collection of federal income taxes"
69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr
70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag ("Don't Tread On Me")
71. Those that believe in "end times" prophecies
72. Evangelical Christians
The groups of people in the list above are considered "problems" that need to be dealt with. In some of the documents referenced above, members of the military are specifically warned not to have anything to do with such groups.
We are moving into a very dangerous time in American history. You can now be considered a "potential terrorist" just because of your religious or political beliefs. Free speech is becoming a thing of the past, and we are rapidly becoming an Orwellian society that is the exact opposite of what our founding fathers intended.
Please pray for the United States of America. We definitely need it.
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Clapper: Media Can Now Only Report News
'Authorized' by Intel Officials
by Tina Nguyen | 2:21 pm, April 22nd, 2014
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While the US intelligence community's always had strict rules regarding contact with journalists, new, extremely broad regulations handed down from the director of national intelligence James Clapper declared that any and all contact with journalists must be formally approved by intelligence officials.
From now on, all communications between US intelligence officials and media must be authorized in advance, and no one is allowed to discuss anything deemed "covered matters" (nebulously defined as "intelligence-related information, including intelligence sources, methods, activities, and judgments"). Any violation of these rules "will be handled in the same manner as a security violation" and offending parties will likely lose their clearances, get fired, or even get investigated by the Department of Justice.
Is that reasonable? Not particularly in this case, as the Guardian lays out: the new rules are "agnostic" as to the degrees of classified information his employees can give the press. In addition, "unplanned or unintentional contact with the media" must be reported immediately to the employee's relevant agency — even if the employee hadn't disclosed any "substantive information." From the looks of it, if I accidentally ran into a high school friend who now works with the NSA — not that I have a friend like that — and we talked about nothing more than the weather, he would have to immediately notify the NSA that we'd been in contact.
(If I had any friends in the intelligence community — and I don't — we can't be friends anymore. I'm really sorry, guys; I would have missed you if you actually existed.)
Though the policies seem to have existed at some level prior to today's news, the directive effectively curbs the abilities of journalists to report stories outside of the intelligence community's official narratives. ". By insisting now that all intelligence news must be 'authorized' news, the [Director of National Intelligence] will undermine that credibility and reduce the public's confidence in the overall integrity of the intelligence system," said Steven Aftergood, an intelligence analyst for the Federation of American Scientists who first reported on this story.
A spokesman for Clapper denied that the policies had anything to do with Edward Snowden's revelations, which, ha.
http://www.mediaite.com/print/clapper-media-can-now-only-report-news-authorized-by-intel-officials/
(Forgot Bengahzi Already)
State Dept. Spokesperson's Inability to Name
Hillary Accomplishment
Cracks up CNN Panel
by Noah Rothman | 8:46 am, April 23rd, 2014
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When pressed by a reporter on Tuesday to name an accomplishment from the State Department's 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) instituted by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, spokesperson Jennifer Psaki said she was unable to do that.
Her inability to name a "tangible" accomplishment derived from that review of the State Department's practices resulted in uproarious laughter from the panel of analysts convened on CNN to say what that event says about Clinton's political prospects.
RELATED: Reporter Challenges State Dept. Spox to Name Accomplishment from Hillary's Tenure
After CNN anchor John King played the clip in question, POLITICO's Juana Summers and The Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson were moved to laughter. "That should not be a surprise question," King observed.
Henderson observed that Psaki was a campaign spokesperson for President Barack Obama before she was a State Department communications staffer. "You don't think there are some old Obama/Hillary tensions in that answer, do you?" King asked.
"That's the idea I'm floating," Henderson replied.
Watch the clip via CNN: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/state-dept-spokespersons-inability-to-name-hillary-accomplishment-cracks-up-cnn-panel-2/
(Not anything I have ever read on this forum has ever upset me or made me angry or made me hurtlike this article! I am genuinely hurt and angry about the treatment of our veterans. Especially while all of D.C is a festering lie. I will pray for better care for the remaining veterans. Ross)A Fatal Wait:
Veterans DIE on a
VA Hospital's
Secret List
By Scott Bronstein and Drew Griffin, CNN Investigations
updated
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Thomas Breen was so proud of his military service
that he would go nowhere but the VA for treatment
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
CNN has been reporting on delays in appointments and veterans' deaths.
New revelations of 40 deaths involving Phoenix VA are perhaps the most disturbing yet.
Retired VA doctor says there's an official wait list that he calls a sham.
He says the real list is kept secret and has wait times that stretch into the months.(CNN) -- At least 40 U.S. veterans died waiting for appointments at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system, many of whom were placed on a secret waiting list.
The secret list was part of an elaborate scheme designed by Veterans Affairs managers in Phoenix who were trying to hide that 1,400 to 1,600 sick veterans were forced to wait months to see a doctor, according to a recently retired top VA doctor and several high-level sources.
For six months, CNN has been reporting on extended delays in health care appointments suffered by veterans across the country and who died while waiting for appointments and care. But the new revelations about the Phoenix VA are perhaps the most disturbing and striking to come to light thus far.
Internal e-mails obtained by CNN show that top management at the VA hospital in Arizona knew about the practice and even defended it.
Dr. Sam Foote just retired after spending 24 years with the VA system in Phoenix. The veteran doctor told CNN in an exclusive interview that the Phoenix VA works off two lists for patient appointments:
There's an "official" list that's shared with officials in Washington and shows the VA has been providing timely appointments, which Foote calls a sham list. And then there's the real list that's hidden from outsiders, where wait times can last more than a year.
"The scheme was deliberately put in place to avoid the VA's own internal rules," said Foote in Phoenix. "They developed the secret waiting list," said Foote, a respected local physician.
The VA requires its hospitals to provide care to patients in a timely manner, typically within 14 to 30 days, Foote said.
According to Foote, the elaborate scheme in Phoenix involved shredding evidence to hide the long list of veterans waiting for appointments and care. Officials at the VA, Foote says, instructed their staff to not actually make doctor's appointments for veterans within the computer system.
Instead, Foote says, when a veteran comes in seeking an appointment, "they enter information into the computer and do a screen capture hard copy printout. They then do not save what was put into the computer so there's no record that you were ever here," he said.
According to Foote, the information was gathered on the secret electronic list and then the information that would show when veterans first began waiting for an appointment was actually destroyed.
"That hard copy, if you will, that has the patient demographic information is then taken and placed onto a secret electronic waiting list, and then the data that is on that paper is shredded," Foote said.
"So the only record that you have ever been there requesting care was on that secret list," he said. "And they wouldn't take you off that secret list until you had an appointment time that was less than 14 days so it would give the appearance that they were improving greatly the waiting times, when in fact they were not."
Foote estimates right now the number of veterans waiting on the "secret list" to see a primary care physician is somewhere between 1,400 and 1,600.
Doctor: It's a 'frustrated' staff"I feel very sorry for the people who work at the Phoenix VA," said Foote. "They're all frustrated. They're all upset. They all wish they could leave 'cause they know what they're doing is wrong.
"But they have families, they have mortgages and if they speak out or say anything to anybody about it, they will be fired and they know that."
Several other high-level VA staff confirmed Foote's description to CNN and confirmed this is exactly how the secret list works in Phoenix.
Foote says the Phoenix wait times reported back to Washington were entirely fictitious. "So then when they did that, they would report to Washington, 'Oh yeah. We're makin' our appointments within -- within 10 days, within the 14-day frame,' when in reality it had been six, nine, in some cases 21 months," he said.
In the case of 71-year-old Navy veteran Thomas Breen, the wait on the secret list ended much sooner.
"We had noticed that he started to have bleeding in his urine," said Teddy Barnes-Breen, his son. "So I was like, 'Listen, we gotta get you to the doctor.' "
Teddy says his Brooklyn-raised father was so proud of his military service that he would go nowhere but the VA for treatment. On September 28, 2013, with blood in his urine and a history of cancer, Teddy and his wife, Sally, rushed his father to the Phoenix VA emergency room, where he was examined and sent home to wait.
"They wrote on his chart that it was urgent," said Sally, her father-in-law's main caretaker. The family has obtained the chart from the VA that clearly states the "urgency" as "one week" for Breen to see a primary care doctor or at least a urologist, for the concerns about the blood in the urine.
"And they sent him home," says Teddy, incredulously.
Sally and Teddy say Thomas Breen was given an appointment with a rheumatologist to look at his prosthetic leg but was given no appointment for the main reason he went in.
The Breens wait ... and wait ... and wait ...No one called from the VA with a primary care appointment. Sally says she and her father-in-law called "numerous times" in an effort to try to get an urgent appointment for him. She says the response they got was less than helpful.
"Well, you know, we have other patients that are critical as well," Sally says she was told. "It's a seven-month waiting list. And you're gonna have to have patience."
Sally says she kept calling, day after day, from late September to October. She kept up the calls through November. But then she no longer had reason to call.
Thomas Breen died on November 30. The death certificate shows that he died from Stage 4 bladder cancer. Months after the initial visit, Sally says she finally did get a call.
"They called me December 6. He's dead already."
Sally says the VA official told her, "We finally have that appointment. We have a primary for him.' I said, 'Really, you're a little too late, sweetheart.' "
Sally says her father-in-law realized toward the end he was not getting the care he needed.
"At the end is when he suffered. He screamed. He cried. And that's somethin' I'd never seen him do before, was cry. Never. Never. He cried in the kitchen right here. 'Don't let me die.' "
Teddy added his father said: "Why is this happening to me? Why won't anybody help me?"
Teddy added: "They didn't do the right thing." Sally said: "No. They neglected Pop."
First hidden -- and then removedFoote says Breen is a perfect example of a veteran who needed an urgent appointment with a primary doctor and who was instead put on the secret waiting list -- where he remained hidden.
Foote adds that when veterans waiting on the secret list die, they are simply removed.
"They could just remove you from that list, and there's no record that you ever came to the VA and presented for care. ... It's pretty sad."
Foote said that the number of dead veterans who died waiting for care is at least 40.
"That's correct. The number's actually higher. ... I would say that 40, there's more than that that I know of, but 40's probably a good number."
CNN has obtained e-mails from July 2013 showing that top management, including Phoenix VA Director Sharon Helman, was well-aware about the actual wait times, knew about the electronic off-the-books list and even defended its use to her staff.
In one internal Phoenix VA e-mail dated July 3, 2013, one staffer raised concerns about the secret electronic list and raised alarms that Phoenix VA officials were praising its use.
"I have to say, I think it's unfair to call any of this a success when Veterans are waiting 6 weeks on an electronic waiting list before they're called to schedule their first PCP (primary care physician) appointment," the e-mail states. "Sure, when their appointment is created, it can be 14 days out, but we're making them wait 6-20 weeks to create that appointment."
The e-mail adds pointedly: "That is unethical and a disservice to our Veterans."
Last year and earlier this year, Foote also sent letters to officials at the VA Office of the Inspector General with details about the secret electronic waiting list and about the large number of veterans who died waiting for care, many hidden on the secret list. Foote and several other sources inside the Phoenix VA confirmed to CNN that IG inspectors have interviewed them about the allegations.
VA: 'It is disheartening to hear allegations'CNN has made numerous requests to Helman and her staff for an interview about the secret list, the e-mails showing she was aware of it and the allegations of the 40 veterans who died waiting on the list, to no avail.
But CNN was sent a statement from VA officials in Texas, quoting Helman.
"It is disheartening to hear allegations about Veterans care being compromised," the statement from Helman reads, "and we are open to any collaborative discussion that assists in our goal to continually improve patient care."
Just before deadline Wednesday, the VA sent an additional comment to CNN.
It stated, in part: "We have conducted robust internal reviews since these allegations surfaced and welcome the results from the Office of Inspector General's review. We take these allegations seriously."
Read the full statement here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/23/health/veterans-dying-health-care-delays-response/index.html
The VA statement to CNN added: "To ensure new Veterans waiting for appointments are managed appropriately, we maintain an Electronic Wait List (EWL) in accordance with the national VHA Scheduling Directive. The ability of new and established patients to get more timely care has showed significant improvement in the last two years which is attributable to increased budget, staffing, efficiency and infrastructure."
Foote says Helman's response in the first statement is stunning, explaining the entire secret list and the reason for its existence was planned and created by top management at the Phoenix VA, specifically to avoid detection of the long wait times by veterans there.
"This was a plan that involved the Pentad, which includes the director, the associate director, the assistant director, the chief of nursing, along with the medical chief of staff -- in collaboration with the chief of H.A.S."
Washington is paying attentionThe Phoenix VA's "off the books" waiting list has now gotten the attention of the U.S. House Veterans Affairs Committee in Washington, whose chairman has been investigating delays in care at veterans hospitals across the country.
According to Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, what was happening in Phoenix is even worse than veterans dying while waiting for care.
Even as CNN was working to report this story, the Florida Republican demanded the VA preserve all records in anticipation of a congressional investigation.
In a hearing on April 9, Miller learned even the undersecretary of health for the VA wasn't being told the truth about the secret list:
"It appears as though there could be as many as 40 veterans whose deaths could be related to delays in care. Were you made aware of these unofficial lists in any part of your look back?" asked Miller.
"Mr. Chairman, I was not," replied Dr. Thomas Lynch, assistant deputy undersecretary, Veterans Health Administration.
Congress has now ordered all records in Phoenix, secret or not, be preserved.
That would include the record of a 71-year-old Navy veteran named Thomas Breen.
Tears, angry accusations mark hearing on delayed VA care
January: Congress demands answers
Curt Devine and Jessica Jimenez contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/23/health/veterans-dying-health-care-delays/index.html
Would that be the United Nations Agenda 21 BLM?
DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS !
Texas AG to Feds:
'Come And Take'
Disputed Land
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Wednesday, 23 Apr 2014 10:51 AM
By Jason Devaney
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has a message for the Bureau of Land Management about disputed land along the Oklahoma-Texas border: "Come and take it."
Abbott was referring to a potential land grab of 90,000 acres that belong to Texas residents. According to Breitbart Texas, the federal government is considering taking the land, which stretches 116 miles along the Red River.
"I am about ready to go to the Red River and raise a 'Come and Take It' flag to tell the feds to stay out of Texas," Abbott said.
Abbott wrote a letter to BLM Director Neil Kornze about the matter, expressing his concerns about the government's interest in taking the land from Texans, who have owned it for decades.
"I am deeply concerned about the notion that the Bureau of Land Management believes the federal government has the authority to swoop in and take land that has been owned and cultivated by Texas landowners for generations," Abbott wrote in the letter.
"The BLM's newly asserted claims to land along the Red River threaten to upset long-settled private property rights and undermine fundamental principles — including the rule of law — that form the foundation of our democracy. Yet, the BLM has failed to disclose either its full intentions or the legal justification for its proposed actions. Decisions of this magnitude must not be made inside a bureaucratic black box."
Abbott expanded on the subject in an interview with Breitbart.
"What Barack Obama's BLM is doing is so out of bounds and so offensive that we should have quick and successful legal action if they dare attempt to tread on Texas land and take it from private property owners in this state," Abbott said.
The issue with the land dates to the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. The physical boundary between Texas and Oklahoma along the Red River can fluctuate, depending on the river itself. This has led to countless legal battles over the years between the two states and the federal government.
According to Breitbart, the Texas Farm Bureau thinks the border moves south when the river shifts in that direction. But when the flow of water shifts to the north, the organization maintains that the border stays where it is supposed to be.
The BLM has stepped in and wants to take over the land to settle the matter once and for all.
"This is the latest line of attack by the Obama administration, where it seems like they have a complete disregard for the rule of law in this country," Abbott told Breitbart. "And now they've crossed the line quite literally by coming into the state of Texas and trying to claim Texas land as federal land. And, as the attorney general of Texas, I am not going to allow this."
The situation comes on the heels of the case between the BLM and Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
The BLM says Bundy had been illegally grazing his cattle on 600,000 acres of federal land for 20 years. Bundy disagrees, saying the land belongs to the state. The BLM had started to confiscate Bundy's cattle, but returned the animals 10 days ago.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/Greg-Abbott-BLM-Oklahoma-land/2014/04/22/id/567136/?ns_mail_uid=7144240&ns_mail_job=1565815_04232014&promo_code=ag14nh1t
Democrats: "Republicans Will Crush Us In November"
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(Notice, they also manage to sneak in a Koch brothers reference)
Karl Rove just knocked the wind out of us:
His group, American Crossroads, brought in $5.2 million last month — more than they raised all last year!
And that's not the only Republican fundraising group shifting into high gear. The Koch Brothers and other outside groups are intensifying their activity against us, too.
We aren't going to lie, these groups have the capability to drown us with that kind of cash. If we don't respond immediately, you can kiss any hope of a Democratic House in November goodbye.
If we back down now, Republicans will crush us in November and they will keep their stranglehold on the House.
Don't let that happen!
http://dccc.org/Rapid-Response
Thanks,
Poor, Sick, Dilapidated Democratic Headquarters
College Offers Course On "The Theology of Harry Potter"
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(Meeting the demand for employment in comic book stores)
Via College Insurrection Samantha Watkins of The College Fix reported.
College Offers Religion Course – on Harry Potter"The Theology of Harry Potter" is a religion course recently offered at Centre College that allowed students to explore if the boy wizard is really a Christianity-inspired hero."Is the series pure entertainment or does it draw upon existing archetypes of the hero, or existing Christian archetypes?" the course's description asks. "Is God in Harry Potter? Is the concept of sin? Or salvation?"
The course, Religion 458, is part of the private, liberal arts university's CentreTerm, a three-week semester in January that offers classes with narrow topics based on professors' special interests, and often include field trips and projects.
"This course will allow students to develop an understanding of technological concepts such a God, sin, and theodicy or the problem of evil and also to study the literary epic genre through the lens of the Harry Potter series," its description states.
CentreTerm sessions, hosted between traditional semesters, largely give students and faculty the opportunity to focus all their effort into one obscure subject, and J. K. Rowling's famous book series of witchcraft and wizardry was the basis for the religion course that debuted this year at the Danville, Ky., campus.
It was taught by professor of religion Lee Jefferson, who did not respond to interview requests by The College Fix. In the past, Jefferson has taught a course on comic book heroes and religion, and the Harry Potter class is an extension of that notion, he has said.
Based on his public writings, Jefferson appears to have progressive interpretations of the Bible, and once opined in the Huffington Post that the Bible does not condemn same-sex marriage.
When pressed by a reporter on Tuesday to name an accomplishment from the State Department's 2010 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) instituted by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, spokesperson Jennifer Psaki said she was unable to do that.
Her inability to name a "tangible" accomplishment derived from that review of the State Department's practices resulted in uproarious laughter from the panel of analysts convened on CNN to say what that event says about Clinton's political prospects
Group Finds Duplicate Voters Around Virginia
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(Documented cases of voter fraud keep pouring in)
Via Watch DogA crosscheck of voter rolls in Virginia and Maryland turned up 44,000 people registered in both states, a vote-integrity group reported Wednesday.
And that's just the beginning.
"The Virginia Voters Alliance is investigating how to identify voters who are registered and vote in Virginia but live in the states that surround us," Alliance President Reagan George told the State Board of Elections.
George acknowledged that the number of voters who actually cast multiple ballots is relatively small. In the case of Maryland and Virginia, he revealed that 164 people voted in both states during the 2012 election.
But George said his group will expand their search for duplicate voters in the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia and Georgia.
"We are also determining the best way to identify non-citizens who have registered to vote and may have voted in past elections," George said.
Working with the Privileges and Elections committees of the state House and Senate, VVA identified 31,000 dead voters via the Social Security Administration's Death Master File. Subsequent processing by SBE found 40,000 to 60,000 dead voter registrations.
"Dead voter registrations are prime targets for voter fraud which generate few complaints," George noted.
Appearing with Clara Belle Wheeler of the Albemarle County,Va., Election Board and Jay DeLancy of the North Carolina Voter Integrity Project, George challenged the SBE to:
Tighten Virginia's voter ID law that allows absentee voters to use mailed ballots without affirming their identity.
Check the 50,000-plus patient beds in Virginia nursing homes and rehab centers amid reports of voting irregularities there.
Require proof of citizenship to register to vote. Kansas and Arizona require this.
Annually audit felons who are not allowed to vote.
"Certain nonviolent felons, especially those who commit voter fraud, should never be given back their right to vote," George said.
More broadly, George said, "Virginia must control the registration process, as well as the form used to register voters. The current system is the perfect vehicle for identity theft and 'lost' registrations."
Georgia Gov. Signs Bill Allowing Guns In Churches, Bars, And School Zones
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(Decreasing the number of gun free zones)
Via CNS NewsGeorgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law Wednesday a bill that expands gun rights in the state to allow weapons in government buildings, bars, places of worship, and school zones under certain circumstances.
Under House Bill 60, also known as the Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014, school districts will get to decide whether to allow authorized personnel to carry weapons within school safety zones under certain circumstances.
In addition, church leaders will be able to decide whether to allow licensed gun owners to bring weapons into their place of worship. The law also removes fingerprinting requirements for renewal licenses.
The National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action called the bill the "most comprehensive pro-gun bill in state history."
Deal, who characterized himself as a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, said the measure "will protect the constitutional rights of Georgians who have gone through a background check to legally obtain a Georgia Weapons Carry License."
"Roughly 500,000 Georgia citizens have a permit of this kind, which is approximately 5 percent of our population," Deal said in a press release. "License holders have passed background checks and are in good standing with the law. This law gives added protections to those who have played by the rules – and who can protect themselves and others from those who don't play by the rules."
"Our nation's founders put the right to bear arms on par with freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Georgians cherish their Second Amendment rights, and this law embodies those values," he added.
Executive Director Pia Carusone of Americans for Responsible Solutions, which lobbied against the bill, called it "extremism in action."
"It moves Georgia out of the mainstream," Carusone said. "Since the Georgia House first passed this expansive legislation, thousands of Georgians and tens of thousands of Americans have said loud and clear that they are tired of the gun lobby advancing its extreme agenda at the expense of their families' safety.
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Hillary Clinton Says Benghazi Is Her "Biggest Regret" As Secretary of State
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(What difference does she make... now?)
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/04/23/hillary-clinton-again-calls-benghazi-biggest-regret-as-secretary-of-state/
BOSTON – Hillary Clinton reiterated Wednesday that her darkest time as secretary of state was the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
Mrs. Clinton, in a speech to more than 3,000 people at a women's leadership conference here, called the attack and loss of lives "very, very painful" and "certainly the biggest regret that I have as secretary of state."
She noted that she had taken responsibility for security at the diplomatic outpost, where Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans died, and had pledged to do everything she could to ensure a similar tragedy won't happen again.
The comments, which echo past remarks, came in reply to a question at a leadership conference hosted by Simmons College. They are a reminder that Mrs. Clinton knows she has still has to answer for Benghazi and continue to speak about it — although most of the talk Wednesday was focused on women's rights, including her call for equal pay for equal work.
ObuttHead Visits Washington Town Ravaged By Mudslide... Repeatedly Mispronounces Its Name
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(He's lucky his name isn't Joe Biden)
Via MYNorthwest:http://mynorthwest.com/?sid=2504391&nid=651#
President Obama had plenty of heartfelt words as he spoke at the Oso firehouse after touring the mudslide debris field. But his remarks are being overshadowed because he mispronounced Oso several times.
He got it right the first time he referenced the town devastated by last month's slide as he recognized family members of the victims, first responders and officials, saying he came to let the community know the entire country is thinking of them.
But moments later came his big gaffe.
"Because while very few Americans have ever heard of Osso [sic] before the disaster struck, we've all been inspired by the incredible way that the community has come together."
No one said a word, but you can only imagine what people were thinking as he continued, again mispronouncing the name as he referenced letters he received from Darrington, Arlington and "Osso."
Obuma has Army Pulling Helos from National Guard
Apr 19, 2014 | by Kris Osborn
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/04/19/army-pulling-helos-from-national-guard.html
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Army leaders are reaching out to the National Guard after Guard leaders and lawmakers criticized the Army over its plan to retire 798 aircraft and transfer AH-64 Apaches from the Guard to active duty units.
The Army told Congress the plan is to increase readiness in light of the budget crunch that has forced the service to find costs savings and part of those savings involve moving 48 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from Reserve units to the active force.
The overall restructure plan, designed to finish by 2019, will streamline existing systems, said Col. John Lindsay, director of aviation in the Army's operations headquarters.
"In January, 2013, we began to come to grips with the fiscal realities that we were getting ready to contend with. We were facing $3 billion less in acquisition and equipping through FY19 (fiscal year 2019)," Lindsay said.
Officials estimate the plan will save $1.1 billion in operations and sustainment costs per year, he added. The initiative will also retire TH-67 training aircraft, OH-58D Kiowa Warriors and OH-58 Kiowa scout aircraft, and move a total of 192 Apaches from the National Guard to the active force, Lindsay said.
The plan also calls for providing an additional 111 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters to the National Guard so that governors and state leaders have more assets for homeland stability missions such as disaster relief, medical evacuation and other domestic security issues.
Some lawmakers and National Guard leaders have criticized the Pentagon's plan to restructure Army Aviation, saying that it disproportionately favors active duty forces at the expense of National Guard pilots, many of whom served alongside their active duty brethren in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"It (Army restructure plan) is a scheme built on a foundation of inflated active-component Army training and readiness in order to devalue the future capabilities of the Army National Guard," National Guard Association of the United States president retired Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett, told lawmakers during Congressional testimony.
As a result of the controversy, Army leaders have been reaching out to National Guard leaders and governors of impacted states in order assure them of the merits of the plan and hear their input about states receiving more UH-60 Black Hawks, service officials said.
The concept of integrating more Apaches into active units will leverage the Apache's considerable scout and reconnaissance potential and increase readiness in active units most likely to deploy, Lindsay explained.
"Our analysis revealed we needed to concentrate that attack and reconnaissance capability --with 40-percent less aircraft-- in the active component," he added.
An analysis of alternatives conducted several years ago on the now cancelled Armed Aerial Scout program found the Apache to be adept at reconnaissance and scout missions as well as attack, Lindsay said.
The Armed Aerial Scout program, cancelled due to lack of funding, was seeking a reconnaissance helicopter able to replace the aging Kiowa Warrior fleet. The idea was to engineer an aircraft that could perform in high/hot conditions while executing scout and reconnaissance missions. Lindsay explained the Army simply does not have the money for the program right now; however, the requirement still exists.
An Army analysis determined that scout and reconnaissance missions can be greatly enhanced through what the Army calls manned-unmanned teaming – essentially drones working in tandem with nearby rotary aircraft.
The Army has already deployed this capability with Apaches and Kiowa warriors in Afghanistan where helicopter pilots are able to see video feeds from nearby drones in real time. For this reason, the Army's aviation restructure initiative will permanently pair Apache units with drones in order to maximize the benefits of manned-unmanned teaming.
A company of Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft will be attached to an Apache attack battalion and a company of Shadow drones will be connected to a reconnaissance squadron, Lindsay said.
The Army now has 4,573 helicopters and plans to drop that number down to 3,775 by 2019, Army officials said. Once completed, the transformation will result in a force of 690 Apaches, 2,135 Black Hawks, 533 Chinooks, 417 Lakotas and Shadow and Gray Eagle UAS, service officials said.
Also, the Office of the Secretary of Defense ordered the acquisition of 100 new UH-72 Lakota helicopters so that the retiring TH-67 training helicopters at Fort Rucker, Ala., can be replaced without taking from the supply of UH-72 aircraft owned by the National Guard.
An earlier version of the plan had called for the National Guard to provide some of its UH-72 Lakota helicopters to Fort Rucker, Ala., for training.
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Mooch Forced To Cancel Graduation Speech After Close To 2K Sign Petition Protesting Her Appearance
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Via The Hill:http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/204285-michelle-obama-scraps-graduation-speech-after-protests
First Lady Michelle Obama is scrapping her plans to deliver a graduation speech for high school seniors in Topeka, Kan., after hundreds signed a petition in protest.
More than 1,750 people had signed a petition protesting the first lady's appearance at the graduation ceremony, angered that security concerns would limit the number of friends and family who could attend.
According to the Topeka Capital-Journal, students would have only be allotted six tickets apiece had the first lady maintained her original plans.
Instead of delivering a graduation speech, Obama will be at the school the day before graduation, and will deliver remarks at a "Senior Recognition Day."
The first lady's address is meant to commemorate the anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling.
"The remarks will celebrate the achievements of the graduating class of high school seniors in Topeka, home of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, which is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year," the White House said in a statement.
(Update to this story)
Parents And Kids Don't Want Michelle Obama Speaking At Their
High School Commencement
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(The families get what some don't: anytime Obamas are present, it is all about them and no one else)
Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2014/04/18/parents-and-kids-dont-want-michelle-obama-at-hs-graduation/
TOPEKA, Kan. — If expanding the guest list to include Michelle Obama at graduation for high school students in the Kansas capital city means fewer seats for friends and family, some students and their parents would prefer the first lady not attend.
A furor over what the Topeka school district considers an honor has erupted after plans were announced for Obama to address a combined graduation ceremony for five area high schools next month an 8,000-seat arena. For some, it was the prospect of a tight limit on the number of seats allotted to each graduate. For others, it was the notion that Obama's speech, tied to the 60th anniversary of the US Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education outlawing segregation in schools, would overshadow the student's big day.
"I'm a single mother who has raised him for 18 years by myself," said Tina Hernandez, parent of Topeka High School senior Dauby Knight. "I've told him education is the only way out. This is one of the biggest days of their lives. They've taken the glory and shine from the children and put on Mrs. Obama. She doesn't know our kids."
Aborted Babies Incinerated & Converted to Electricity in Oregon
Dean Garrison April 24, 2014
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/aborted-babies-incinerated-converted-electricity-oregon/
What has society become? Our history books tell us of the savagery of a Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews at the oppressive hands of a mad man. Will history ever speak for over 50 million babies that have been aborted in America in the last 40 years? If this is now considered an acceptable form of generating electricity then I believe my family will have to resort to burning candles. This is beyond deplorable.
VICTORIA, British Columbia, April 23, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British Columbia Health Ministry has admitted that the remains of babies destroyed by abortion in B.C. facilities are ending up in a waste-to-power facility in the United States, providing electricity for residents of Oregon.
The province's Health Ministry said in an email to the B.C. Catholic that "biomedical waste" shipped to the U.S. to be incinerated includes "human tissue, such as surgically removed cancerous tissue, amputated limbs, and fetal tissue."
"The ministry understands that some is transferred to Oregon. There it is incinerated in a waste-to-energy plant," the email stated.
The ministry said that contractors handling the province's "biomedical waste" follow "health and safety protocols, as well as federal, provincial, and local regulations."
Kristan Mitchell, executive director of the Oregon Refuse and Recycling Association, told the B.C. Catholic that the "biomedical waste" likely ends up at the Covanta Marion waste-to-energy facility in Oregon since it is the only facility that uses waste to power the grid. The facility confirmed that it still receives and incinerates B.C. medical waste.
Source: Lifesitenews.comUnfathomable.
Before you dismiss this story as propaganda please consider that exactly one month ago (March 24th) we first reported that the same thing was happening in the U.K.:
"Ten NHS trusts have admitted burning fetal remains alongside other rubbish while two others used the bodies in 'waste-to-energy' plants which generate power for heat," reports the Telegraph. The revelations emerged as a result of a Channel 4 Dispatches program set to be broadcast in the UK tonight which found that more than 15,000 babies were incinerated.
The program also unveiled the fact that parents who lost babies were being treated without compassion and were not properly consulted on what would happen to their child's remains.In a society where the Catholic Church stands tall against abortion while its membership casts ballots for "baby killers" (pro-choice democrats), we should probably not be surprised.
We are no longer a society of morality. We are a society of convenience.
I realize that a lot of people don't want to be bothered with the abortion debate. They feel that the debate is lost and there is nothing that can be done. Others believe in a woman's right to choose to terminate that which resides in her body. They don't see it as a human life. They see it as a woman's choice.
These people need to do some research into the life and teachings of Margaret Sanger. Abortion was never about a woman's right to choose. Sanger was a bigot who was providing the means for society to cleanse itself from undesirables which included people of race and those who were not of the right social class. She is, of course, the founder of Planned Parenthood and one of the most famous proponents of Eugenics in world history.
Abortion is just another strategy of a corrupt government to capitalize on a story line while pushing an evil agenda behind the scenes.
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General Martin Dempsey waited quietly by the sofa while the President of the United States swiped the screen of his iPad and began another game of Angry Birds. Bright colors and loud noises drifted up from the screen which had completely absorbed the attention of the Commander in Chief.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had not been asked to sit down and he had learned early on that Obuma was very sensitive about members of the military usurping his authority. The last time he did it, he had been asked if it was "a racial thing."
Instead he remained standing while a fly slowly circled his head like an orbiting satellite.
"So we're on for the conference," Obuma said, without taking his eyes off the
iPad. His legs were curled up behind him on the sofa and his neck was craned over as if he were trying to physically project his body into the game.
It was a stance that Dempsey often saw on his teenage kids.
"Completely." Valerie Jarrett drifted in from somewhere. Dempsey had gotten used to her appearing out of nowhere with the covert skills of a Special Forces team.
"I shake the Iranian guy's hand and then I make a speech. Damn." Obuma winced as unhappy sputtering noises rose from the game. Something had gone wrong.
Valerie affectionately patted his head. "You'll get it right next time."
The Commander in Chief of the United States shook her hand away. "I know I'll get it right next time," he said, without looking up. "I don't need you to tell me that."
"Of course you don't. You're too smart for that."
"I know I am," he mumbled, swiping again.
General Dempsey's face paled. He had thought it was a bad idea when the White House first suggested it. Modernization was good and these were changing times, but there was too much that could go wrong. Still Valerie had insisted and she had gotten her way.
The general had served in Vietnam, but his stomach had never churned as much acid as when his boss had gotten an iPad because next to a dozen Angry Birds apps was one app defined by a bright red button labeled 'NUCLEAR BUTTON.' One wrong tap could reduce the world to a cinder.
Obuma paused with his finger in mid-air. "What about the military preparations?"
"Well we have one carrier in the region in case anything goes wrong," General Dempsey said, "We would have had two if not for the cutbacks."
His boss frowned in that look which meant that he thought his failure to understand the answer was someone else's fault. "Why do you need two aircraft carriers for a gay wedding? Are the two grooms going to come in on separate aircraft carriers that are going to dock together?"
"What gay wedding," General Dempsey said, and cursed inwardly a moment too late. Maybe he could have gotten the budget for the second carrier restored.
Obuma sighed with patient impatience. "We talked about this. Didn't we talk about this Valerie?"(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XK37V3FANmI/U1NdYP-s6RI/AAAAAAAANtQ/ypyKegpIKVg/s1600/valerie-jarrett-obama.jpg)
Valerie seemed to materialize in front of Dempsey out of thin air glaring angrily up at him with the air of a poodle pretending that it's a bulldog. "Every branch of the service is supposed to hold a gay wedding. Barack thinks it's of the highest priority."
"My apologies, Ma'am," General Dempsey said wearily. "I thought he might have been referring to Iran."
Valerie Jarrett's hand slapped his face, or the air underneath it, which was as close as she could reach. "There are no military preparations for Iran. None whatsoever! This is a peace conference! Have those Jews gotten to you?"
"I'm a Lutheran," Dempsey said. This wasn't strictly true as he had stopped believing in any higher power after his first visit to the White House and then he had started believing again after the first dozen times that his Commander in Chief had managed to not blow up the world using his iPad and then lapsed again after being made to supervise his third gay wedding.
"Wait a minute," Obuma said, absently raising one hand without taking his eyes off the screen. "What if we bring two carriers together to have a gay wedding in Iran at the peace conference?"
General Dempsey began to pray. He was no longer sure for what. It might have been a bolt of lightning. Or a premature retirement to somewhere safe. Maybe Mars.
"Sweetie." Valerie was all sweetness and light again as she rushed over to Obuma. "I don't think that would be a good idea."
"Why not?" Obuma demanded petulantly. "Just because I came up with it? You never want to do anything I say."
"Tell him General," Valerie demanded.
"Uh well," General Dempsey stammered. "The Iranian regime isn't too terribly fond of gay marriage."
Obuma shook his head. "Where did you get that idea? I'm disappointed. I thought we got all those Islamophobic trainers out of the military."
"They hang them," Dempsey said desperately. "They lock them up and hang them."
"Is this a racial issue?" Obuma demanded, frowning at his iPad. "It's always a racial issue with you guys."
"It's what it is," Dempsey said weakly. He didn't ask what race had to do with it. He had learned better.
"That's enough," Valerie snapped. "The President doesn't want to hear from you anymore."
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wasn't paying attention to her anymore. The fly was no longer circling his head. It was preparing to land on the iPad on the sensitive capacitive screen of the mobile device right over the red button.
"Sir," he began.
"What?" Obuma snapped, finally looking up at him.
"If you could just play another game of Angry Birds. Right now," General Dempsey said, sweat beading on his forehead.
"Is that vital to national security?" Obuma asked.
"You have no idea how much, sir."
"Don't say I don't ever do anything for the military." Obuma shrugged and tapped the Angry Birds app just as the fly landed.
General Dempsey mopped his forehead. It had been another close one. He didn't know how many more of these he could take......then I woke up.
...Warph
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Meet The Parasite Named Obama
(A parasite named after a parasite. Imagine that)
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Via Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2014/04/26/a-parasite-named-obama/
Obama is a parasite.He's also a fungus, a spider and an extinct lizard.But before President Obama's critics rejoice, having unappealing species named after you is apparently a good thing.
"Honestly, it's difficult for me to envision a higher honor," Jason Bond, an Auburn University professor, told the Loop. "It's permanent. In science, there are few things that we do as scientists that has the permanency that taxonomy does."
Bond, a spider expert at the university's Department of Biological Sciences and its Museum of Natural History, discovered several new species of trapdoor spiders in late 2012, and named one of his favorites,
"Aptostichus barackobamai" after the president.
It had unique characteristics, Bond said, like Obama.
FROM WATCHDOG WIRE - NEVADABundy Ranch Standoff Prompts Question:
Are Cowboys the Real Endangered Species?
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Clark County ranches decline from 52 to just 1
April 21, 2014
by Thomas Mitchell
Officials of the Bureau of Land Management insist Bunkerville cattle rancher Cliven Bundy "owes the American taxpayers in excess of $1 million" in unpaid grazing fees for the past two decades.
That was why they closed off 600,000 acres of federal public land and started confiscating Bundy's cattle. But when armed protesters showed up this past weekend, the Director of the BLM Neil Kornze — a former aide to Sen. Harry Reid and a former Elko resident who was named to head up the agency this past week — abruptly called a halt to the roundup.
Based on information about conditions on the ground, and in consultation with law enforcement," Kornze said in a statement, "we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public."
He called the confiscation "a matter of fairness and equity."
At one time there were 52 cattle ranchers in Clark County. Largely as a result of BLM fairness and equity, Cliven Bundy, whose family has run cattle in the area since long before there was a BLM, is the last of the breed.
According to Bundy's daughter, Shiree Bundy Cox, her great-grandfather bought the rights to the Bunkerville allotment around 1887 and sold them to her grandfather who turned them over to her father in 1972. The family paid for water improvements, fences and roads out of their own pockets.
Then the BLM started charging fees to manage the federal land. "They were supposed to assist the ranchers in the management of their ranges while the ranchers paid a yearly allotment which was to be used to pay the BLM wages and to help with repairs and improvements of the ranches. My dad did pay his grazing fees for years to the BLM until they were no longer using his fees to help him and to improve," Cox writes online.
Twenty years ago the BLM went to Bundy and told him he could not graze in the spring. This was supposed to prevent his cows from stomping on endangered desert tortoises.
But range biologist Vernon Bostic wrote in Ecology of the Desert Tortoise in Relation to Cattle Grazing that the greatest death loss of desert tortoises during the drought of 1981 occurred in an allotment where cattle had been excluded. In an adjoining allotment where cattle grazed all year long, the tortoises were relatively unaffected by the severe drought. "The reason is simple: Cows provide tortoises with both food and drink," wrote Bostic.
The BLM has not made any statement as to whether the desert tortoise population has changed one way or the other on the land in question.
When Bundy was told he could not graze in the spring, he also was told to remove all his water tanks and the lines that fed them from local springs. Never mind that water rights are granted by the state and the federal government is not allowed to interfere with those rights, as several federal court cases have upheld.
Bundy explained to the BLM that he had no feed lot in which to hold cattle and his only option would be to sell his cattle for slaughter in February and buy new stock to put out to pasture in July. But from July to February desert range cattle actually lose weight.
According to recent news accounts, federal agents brought in backhoes and dug up Bundy's water pipes. Will the federal government reimburse him for his lost water rights, his generations-old grazing rights and his two bulls killed during the roundup? The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution requires governments to reimburse property owners at a fair value when property is taken by force.
Even though Bundy is in the headlines, the same thing is happening quietly all over the state.
J.J. Goicoechea — veterinarian, rancher, chairman of Eureka County Commission and past president of the Nevada Cattlemen's Association — says Nevada has lost half of its breeding cows over the past three years because of BLM regulations — approaching 300,000 head, down from more than a million in the 1980s.
One reason listed by BLM for the cattle roundup was so it could save tortoises in the Gold Butte area, since it plans to kill off tortoises by putting up solar panels at nearby Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone.
Bundy, 67, is the last rancher standing in Clark County.
For Bundy it was go out of business 20 years ago like all the other Clark County ranchers or defy the BLM's arbitrary and unscientific dictates. Bundy is the last major rancher in Clark County for one reason.
Which is the endangered species? Tortoises? Or cowboys?
http://watchdogwire.com/nevada/2014/04/21/bundy-ranch-standoff-prompts-question-are-cowboys-the-real-endangered-species/
12 Numbers Which Prove That Americans Are Sick And Tired Of Politics As Usual
By Michael Snyder, on April 24th, 2014
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The American people are increasingly waking up to the fact that nothing ever seems to change in Washington D.C. no matter which political party is in power. In fact, as you will see later on in this article,
an all-time high 53 percent of all Americans believe that neither party "represents the American people". Over the past several decades, we have sent a Bush, a Clinton, another Bush and an Obama to the White House, but the policies coming out of Washington have remained pretty much the same the entire time. The mainstream media would have us believe that the Republicans and the Democrats are constantly fighting like cats and dogs, but the truth is that the Republicans want to take us to the same place that the Democrats want to take us - just a little more slowly perhaps. And behind the scenes, Republicans and Democrats have a good time with one another and they are ultimately controlled by the same set of oligarchs. The Americans people are really starting to recognize what a sham our system has become, and the numbers show that they are quite fed up with it.
I truly wish that things were different. When I was much younger, I was actively involved in politics and I enthusiastically campaigned for certain candidates. But then when they got to Washington D.C., they never did most of the things that they promised to do during their campaigns.
I was quite bewildered by this. At the time, I concluded that we just needed to send even more "good politicians" to D.C. and then things would finally turn around.
But things never did turn around. No matter which party had the upper hand, the same garbage continued to spew forth from Washington.
Ultimately, like millions of other Americans, I have come to see that there is not really much of a difference between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi on one side, and John Boehner, John McCain, Mitch McConnell and Jeb Bush on the other side.
Sure, if you listen to their campaign speeches you might be tempted to think that they were polar opposites, but when you watch what they actually do there is not that much that really separates them.
Fortunately, large numbers of Americans are starting to see through this disgusting charade. Most of our politicians are con men that tell us what we want to hear during their campaigns, and then after they are elected they forget all about us. Dissatisfaction with these politicians has risen to unprecedented levels in recent years, and that could be a good thing.
The following are 12 numbers which prove that Americans are sick and tired of politics as usual...#1 A national Rasmussen Reports survey has found that an all-time high 53 percent of all Americans believe that neither major political party "represents the American people".
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/april_2014/53_think_neither_political_party_represents_the_american_people
#2 According to a Real Clear Politics average of national polls, only 29 percent of Americans believe that the country is heading in the right direction.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html
#3 According to a Real Clear Politics average of national polls, Americans disapprove of the job that Barack Obama is doing by a 52.2 to 43.7 percent margin.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html
#4 According to a Real Clear Politics average of national polls, Americans disapprove of the job that Congress is doing by a 77.6 percent to 14.2 percent margin.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html
#5 52 percent of Americans "do not think the economy is fair to those willing to work hard".
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/general_business/economic_fairness
#6 65 percent of Americans are dissatisfied "with the U.S. system of government and its effectiveness". That is the highest level of dissatisfaction that Gallup has ever recorded.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/166985/dissatisfied-gov-system-works.aspx
#7 Only 4 percent of Americans believe that it would "change Congress for the worse" if every member was voted out during the next election.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/21/usa-today-poll-shutdown-boost-for-democrats-bane-for-gop/3143281/
#8 An all-time low 31 percent of Americans identify themselves as Democrats.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/166763/record-high-americans-identify-independents.aspx
#9 An all-time low 25 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/166763/record-high-americans-identify-independents.aspx
#10 An all-time high 42 percent of Americans identify themselves as Independents.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/166763/record-high-americans-identify-independents.aspx
#11 60 percent of Americans report feeling "angry or irritable". Two years ago that number was at 50 percent.
http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/breakpoint-commentaries-archive/entry/13/24047
#12 70 percent of Americans do not have confidence that the federal government will "make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014".
http://www.prisonplanet.com/70-of-americans-have-no-faith-in-government.html
Of course at the heart of much of this dissatisfaction is the continuing problems in our economy. For example, check out the Gallup daily employment tracking survey that you can find right here...
http://www.gallup.com/poll/125639/Gallup-Daily-Workforce.aspx
...As you can see, the payroll to population number (those Americans working 30 hours a week or more) has been flatlining in the low forties for more than four years now. The truth is that there never has been an employment recovery in this nation since the last recession.
The last wave of the economic crisis really devastated the middle class, and as a result record numbers of Americans have become dependent on the government.
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Ten years ago the number of women working outnumbered the number of women on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin. But now the number of women on food stamps actually exceeds the number of women that have jobs.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/food-stamp-recipients-outnumber-women-who-work-full-time
No wonder so many Americans are so angry. Things are not nearly as good as they used to be.
Unfortunately, even though so many people are angry and frustrated, there is very little consensus on the solutions to our problems.
Many Americans even want to throw out the principles that this country was founded upon entirely. For example, one recent survey discovered that 59 percent of all Americans believe that the U.S. Constitution is "outdated".
http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-the-constitution-outdated.html
That is a very chilling number. We live at a time when Americans are becoming increasingly ignorant about who we are, where we came from and how we get here.
And a lot of our fellow citizens do not even know how our system of government works. One survey actually found that only 25 percent of all Americans knew how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years)and only 20 percent of all Americans knew how many U.S. senators there are (100).
http://www.alternet.org/story/90161/ignorant_america%3A_just_how_stupid_are_we
In the final analysis, it is hard to be optimistic about a political solution to any of our major problems in the near future.
Most of our politicians are deeply corrupt, the American people are incredibly angry and are deeply divided, and the vast majority of campaigns for federal office are won by the candidate that raises the most money.
UPDATED:
List Of Purged Military High Officers
Is 'Terrifying'...
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(by Lisa @ Investment Watch Blog) -- Look up the service records of some of these guys. MOST have perfect LONG services, highly decorated.
I believe only 2 Generals were fired under Bush's 2 terms total. There are currently 48 4-Star Generals. [link to en.wikipedia.org]
Many of these below have spotless records, 25 and up years service, many medals and honors such as Brig. Gen Bryan W. Wampler and Command Sgt. Major Don B. Jordan.
Commanding Generals fired:
General John R. Allen-U.S. Marines Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] (Nov 2012)
Major General Ralph Baker (2 Star)-U.S. Army Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn in Africa (April 2013)
Major General Michael Carey (2 Star)-U.S. Air Force Commander of the 20th US Air Force in charge of 9,600 people and 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (Oct 2013)
Colonel James Christmas-U.S. Marines Commander 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit & Commander Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit (July 2013)
Major General Peter Fuller-U.S. Army Commander in Afghanistan (May 2011)
Major General Charles M.M. Gurganus-U.S. Marine Corps Regional Commander of SW and I Marine Expeditionary Force in Afghanistan (Oct 2013)
General Carter F. Ham-U.S. Army African Command (Oct 2013)
Lieutenant General David H. Huntoon (3 Star), Jr.-U.S. Army 58th Superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY (2013)
Command Sergeant Major Don B Jordan-U.S. Army 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command (suspended Oct 2013)
General James Mattis-U.S. Marines Chief of CentCom (May 2013)
Colonel Daren Margolin-U.S. Marine in charge of Quantico's Security Battalion (Oct 2013)
General Stanley McChrystal-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (June 2010)
General David D. McKiernan-U.S. Army Commander Afghanistan (2009)
General David Petraeus-Director of CIA from September 2011 to November 2012 & U.S. Army Commander International Security Assistance Force [ISAF] and Commander U.S. Forces Afghanistan [USFOR-A] (Nov 2012)
Brigadier General Bryan Roberts-U.S. Army Commander 2nd Brigade (May 2013)
Major General Gregg A. Sturdevant-U.S. Marine Corps Director of Strategic Planning and Policy for the U.S. Pacific Command & Commander of Aviation Wing at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan (Sept 2013)
Colonel Eric Tilley-U.S. Army Commander of Garrison Japan (Nov 2013)
Brigadier General Bryan Wampler-U.S. Army Commanding General of 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the 1st Theater Sustainment Command [TSC] (suspended Oct 2013)
Commanding Admirals fired:
Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette-U.S. Navy Commander John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group Three (Oct 2012)
Vice Admiral Tim Giardina(3 Star, demoted to 2 Star)-U.S. Navy Deputy Commander of the US Strategic Command, Commander of the Submarine Group Trident, Submarine Group 9 and Submarine Group 10 (Oct 2013)
Naval Officers fired: (All in 2011)
Captain David Geisler-U.S. Navy Commander Task Force 53 in Bahrain (Oct 2011)
Commander Laredo Bell-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Support Activity Saratoga Springs, NY (Aug 2011)
Lieutenant Commander Kurt Boenisch-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)
Commander Nathan Borchers-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Stout (Mar 2011)
Commander Robert Brown-U.S. Navy Commander Beachmaster Unit 2 Fort Story, VA (Aug 2011)
Commander Andrew Crowe-Executive Officer Navy Region Center Singapore (Apr 2011)
Captain Robert Gamberg-Executive Officer carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower (Jun 2011)
Captain Rex Guinn-U.S. Navy Commander Navy Legal Service office Japan (Feb 2011)
Commander Kevin Harms- U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 137 aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (Mar 2011)
Lieutenant Commander Martin Holguin-U.S. Navy Commander mine countermeasures Fearless (Oct 2011)
Captain Owen Honors-U.S. Navy Commander aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (Jan 2011)
Captain Donald Hornbeck-U.S. Navy Commander Destroyer Squadron 1 San Diego (Apr 2011)
Rear Admiral Ron Horton-U.S. Navy Commander Logistics Group, Western Pacific (Mar 2011)
Commander Etta Jones-U.S. Navy Commander amphibious transport dock Ponce (Apr 2011)
Commander Ralph Jones-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock Green Bay (Jul 2011)
Commander Jonathan Jackson-U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 134, deployed aboard carrier Carl Vinson (Dec 2011)
Captain Eric Merrill-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Emory S. Land (Jul 2011)
Captain William Mosk-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Station Rota, U.S. Navy Commander Naval Activities Spain (Apr 2011)
Commander Timothy Murphy-U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 129 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, WA (Apr 2011)
Commander Joseph Nosse-U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine Kentucky (Oct 2011)
Commander Mark Olson-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer The Sullivans FL (Sep 2011)
Commander John Pethel-Executive Officer amphibious transport dock New York (Dec 2011)
Commander Karl Pugh-U.S. Navy Commander Electronic Attack Squadron 141 Whidbey Island, WA (Jul 2011)
Commander Jason Strength-U.S. Navy Commander of Navy Recruiting District Nashville, TN (Jul 2011)
Captain Greg Thomas-U.S. Navy Commander Norfolk Naval Shipyard (May 2011)
Commander Mike Varney-U.S. Navy Commander attack submarine Connecticut (Jun 2011)
Commander Jay Wylie-U.S. Navy Commander destroyer Momsen (Apr 2011)
Naval Officers fired: (All in 2012)
Commander Alan C. Aber-Executive Officer Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 71 (July 2012)
Commander Derick Armstrong- U.S. Navy Commander missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (May 2012)
Commander Martin Arriola- U.S. Navy Commander destroyer USS Porter (Aug 2012)
Captain Antonio Cardoso- U.S. Navy Commander Training Support Center San Diego (Sep 2012)
Captain James CoBell- U.S. Navy Commander Oceana Naval Air Station's Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic (Sep 2012)
Captain Joseph E. Darlak- U.S. Navy Commander frigate USS Vandegrift (Nov 2012)
Captain Daniel Dusek-U.S. Navy Commander USS Bonhomme
Commander David Faught-Executive Officer destroyer Chung-Hoon (Sep 2012)
Commander Franklin Fernandez- U.S. Navy Commander Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 24 (Aug 2012)
Commander Ray Hartman- U.S. Navy Commander Amphibious dock-landing ship Fort McHenry (Nov 2012)
Commander Shelly Hakspiel-Executive Officer Navy Drug Screening Lab San Diego (May 2012)
Commander Jon Haydel- U.S. Navy Commander USS San Diego (Mar 2012)
Commander Diego Hernandez- U.S. Navy Commander ballistic-missile submarine USS Wyoming (Feb 2012)
Commander Lee Hoey- U.S. Navy Commander Drug Screening Laboratory, San Diego (May 2012)
Commander Ivan Jimenez-Executive Officer frigate Vandegrift (Nov 2012)
Commander Dennis Klein- U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Columbia (May 2012)
Captain Chuck Litchfield- U.S. Navy Commander assault ship USS Essex (Jun 2012)
Captain Marcia Kim Lyons- U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic New England (Apr 2012)
Captain Robert Marin- U.S. Navy Commander cruiser USS Cowpens (Feb 2012)
Captain Sean McDonell- U.S. Navy Commander Seabee reserve unit Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14 FL (Nov 2012)
Commander Corrine Parker- U.S. Navy Commander Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 1 (Apr 2012)
Captain Liza Raimondo- U.S. Navy Commander Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River, MD (Jun 2012)
Captain Jeffrey Riedel- Program manager, Littoral Combat Ship program (Jan 2012)
Commander Sara Santoski- U.S. Navy Commander Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 (Sep 2012)
Commander Kyle G. Strudthoff-Executive Officer Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 (Sep 2012)
Commander Sheryl Tannahill- U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Nashville, TN (Sep 2012)
Commander Michael Ward- U.S. Navy Commander submarine USS Pittsburgh (Aug 2012)
Captain Michael Wiegand- U.S. Navy Commander Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (Nov 2012)
Captain Ted Williams- U.S. Navy Commander amphibious command ship Mount Whitney (Nov 2012)
Commander Jeffrey Wissel- U.S. Navy Commander of Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 1 (Feb 2012)
Naval Officers fired: (All in 2013)
Lieutenant Commander Lauren Allen-Executive Officer submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013)
Reserve Captain Jay Bowman-U.S. Navy Commander Navy Operational Support Center [NOSC] Fort Dix, NJ (Mar 2013)
Captain William Cogar-U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Mercy's medical treatment facility (Sept 2013)
Commander Steve Fuller-Executive Officer frigate Kauffman (Mar 2013)
Captain Shawn Hendricks-Program Manager for naval enterprise IT networks (June 2013)
Captain David Hunter-U.S. Navy Commander of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 12 & Coastal Riverine Group 2 (Feb 2013)
Captain Eric Johnson-U.S. Navy Chief of Military Entrance Processing Command at Great Lakes Naval Training Center, IL (2013)
Captain Devon Jones-U.S. Navy Commander Naval Air Facility El Centro, CA (July 2013)
Captain Kevin Knoop-U.S. Navy Commander hospital ship Comfort's medical treatment facility (Aug 2013)
Lieutenant Commander Jack O'Neill-U.S. Navy Commander Operational Support Center Rock Island, IL (Mar 2013)
Commander Allen Maestas-Executive Officer Beachmaster Unit 1 (May 2013)
Commander Luis Molina-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Pasadena (Jan 2013)
Commander James Pickens-Executive Officer frigate Gary (Feb 2013)
Lieutenant Commander Mark Rice-U.S. Navy Commander Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013)
Commander Michael Runkle-U.S. Navy Commander of Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 (May 2013)
Commander Jason Stapleton-Executive Office Patrol Squadron 4 in Hawaii (Mar 2013)
Commander Nathan Sukols-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Jacksonville (Feb 2013)
Lieutenant Daniel Tyler-Executive Officer Mine Countermeasures ship Guardian (Apr 2013)
Commander Edward White-U.S. Navy Commander Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (Aug 2013)
Captain Jeffrey Winter-U.S. Navy Commander of Carrier Air Wing 17 (Sept 2013)
Commander Thomas Winter-U.S. Navy Commander submarine Montpelier (Jan 2013)
Commander Corey Wofford- U.S. Navy Commander frigate Kauffman (Feb 2013)
157 [ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN] Air Force majors forced into early terminations, no retirement or benefits. All 157 had been twice passed over for promotion and were within six years of retirement.
http://www.airforcetimes.com/article/20120103/NEWS/201030335/
Too many to list
A retired Army general is calling for the "forced resignations" of President Obama, administration officials, and MORE
http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/general-lets-make-obama-resign/#RgFdpYytKGaBQMdA.99
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/list-of-purged-military-high-officers-terrifying
For what it's worth, and I think it worth a read.
I received this in an e-mail just now and i like it.
I haven't verified any of it, but I know parts are true.
here is hoping all of it is true.
I searched SNOPES and couldn't find anything either.
So here it is.
Interesting!!
Subject: Illinois vs. Oklahoma
I thought these two e-mails, the first about Illinois and the
second about Oklahoma, made an interesting contrast . .
PART 1 — Illinois -
"A State with No Republicans!"
Some interesting data on the 'state' of Illinois ...
There are more people on welfare in Illinois than there are people working.
Chicago pays the highest wages to teachers than anywhere else in the
U.S. averaging $110,000/year. Their pensions average 80-90% of their income.
Wow, are Illinois and Chicago great or what?
Be sure to read till the end. I've never heard it explained better.
Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago ?
Body count: In the last six months, 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago.
221 killed in Iraq ; AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire US.
Here's the Chicago chain of command:
President: Barack Hussein Obama
Senator: Dick Durbin
House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr.
Governor: Pat Quinn
House leader: Mike Madigan
Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
Mayor: Rahm Emanuel
The leadership in Illinois – all Democrats.
Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .
Of course, they're all blaming each other.
Can't blame Republicans, there aren't any!
Let us get ALL the facts out while we are at it:
Chicago school system rated one of the worst in the country. Remember highest paid teachers!
Can't blame Republicans, there aren't any!
State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country.
Can't blame Republicans, there aren't any!
Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country.
Can't blame Republicans, there aren't any!
This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois
And he is going to 'fix' Washington politics for us?
George Ryan is no longer Governor, he is in prison.
He was replaced by Rob Blagojevich who is, that's right, also in
prison.
And Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned, .. and that's right, he
and his wife both are in prison also.
The Land of Lincoln, where our Governors and Representatives make
our license plates.
As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of
Chicago, nothing is going to change, except the state will go broke
before the country does.
"Anybody who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the
Government take care of him better take a closer look at the American
Indian."
Don't forget Detroit, another great example of a Democratic empire...
With all the bad news, there is hope, so let's go to:
PART 2— Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA - may soon have plenty of new residents!
THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING, AND TRUE ... PLEASE READ IT!
Oklahoma is the only state that Obama did not win even one county in
the last election...
While everyone is focusing on Arizona 's new
law, look what Oklahoma has been doing!!!
An update from Oklahoma :
Oklahoma law passed, 37 to 9 an amendment to place the Ten
Commandments on the front entrance to the state capitol.
The feds in D.C, along with the ACLU, said it would be a mistake.
Hey this is a conservative state, based on Christian values... HB 1330
Guess what... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Oklahoma recently passed a law in the state to incarcerate all
illegal immigrants, and ship them back to where they came from unless
they want to get a green card and become an American citizen.
They all scattered.
HB 1804. This was against the advice of the Federal Government, and
the ACLU, they said it would be a mistake.
Guess what... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Recently they passed a law to include DNA samples from any and all
illegal's to the Oklahoma database, for criminal investigative
purposes.
Pelosi said it was unconstitutional SB 1102
Guess what... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Several weeks ago, they passed a law, declaring Oklahoma as a Sovereign state, not under the Federal Government directives.
Joining Texas, Montana and Utah as the only states to do so.
More states are likely to follow: Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia,
Carolina's, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, West Virginia,
Mississippi and Florida.
Save your confederate money, it appears the South is about to rise up
once again.
HJR1003 The federal Government has made bold steps to take away our guns.
Oklahoma, a week ago, passed a law confirming people in this state
have the right to bear arms and transport them in their vehicles.
I'm sure that was a setback for the criminals.
The Liberals didn't like it -- But...
Guess what... Oklahoma did it anyway.
Just this month, the state has voted and passed a law that ALL
drivers' license exams will be printed in English, and only English,
and no other language.
They have been called racist for doing this, but the fact is that ALL
of the road signs are in English only.
You want to drive in Oklahoma, you must read and write English.
Really simple.
By the way, the Liberals don't like any of this either.
Guess what... who cares...Oklahoma is doing it anyway.
If you like it, pass it on, if you don't then delete it... Thanks
Guess what: the people I'm sending this to, will send it on.
Well, at least the ones who love and believe in freedom will.
Oklahoma doing it right
Man Claims Islamic Law Gives Him To Right To Kill Wife
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(You aren't in Mogadishu anymore Muhammed}
Via MYFOX Phoenix http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/25369437/2014/04/28/man-allegedly-claims-islamic-law-gives-him-to-right-to-kill-wife
Police say a valley man threatened to kill his wife, telling his victim "Islamic Law" gave him the right to kill her.
Ansar Muhammad, 43, is facing several charges, including assault and imprisonment.
According to the police report, on April 26, Muhammad sexually assaulted the victim, held her against her will while threatening to kill her, punched and strangulated her, causing physical injuries at their home near 112th Avenue and Encanto Boulevard.
Police say the victim fled to a neighbor's home to call them after the suspect fell asleep.
Muhammad was detained outside his residence upon police arrival and refused to make any statements.
In the report, police say their investigation determined that Muhammad and the victim were arguing about her having an affair when "Ansar picked the victim up, carrying her like a baby and put her in their vehicle against her will." He then proceeded to drive to the rear of a nearby Walgreens store where "Ansar began to assault the victim by punching her multiple times, leaving physical injuries on her face, neck, back, chest and legs."
When the victim continued to try to get away and told him to stop, police say he told the victim he was going to kill her because he had the right due to his "Islamic Belief."
The victim told police Muhammad then drove back to their home and threatened to throw her in a lake because she can't swim. When they arrived at the residence, Muhammad told the victim to remain quiet and not wake their three children before taking her phone, per the police report.
Muhammad was arrested and booked into the Avondale city jail and later transported to the Maricopa County jail. He faces aggravated assault domestic violence-impede breathing, assault-intent/reckless/injury, unlawful imprisonment, threatening-intimidation with injury and sexual assault charges.
He's being held without bond.
Lead Author Of UN IPCC Report On Global Warming
Says Paper Was Rewritten For Political Reasons
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(You don't say?)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2614097/Top-climate-experts-sensational-claim-government-meddling-crucial-UN-report.html
A top US academic has dramatically revealed how government officials forced him to change a hugely influential scientific report on climate change to suit their own interests.
Harvard professor Robert Stavins electrified the worldwide debate on climate change on Friday by sensationally publishing a letter online in which he spelled out the astonishing interference.
He said the officials, representing 'all the main countries and regions of the world' insisted on the changes in a late-night meeting at a Berlin conference centre two weeks ago.
Three quarters of the original version of the document ended up being deleted.
Prof Stavins claimed the intervention amounted to a serious 'conflict of interest' between scientists and governments. His revelation is significant because it is rare for climate change experts to publicly question the process behind the compilation of reports on the subject.
Prof Stavins, Harvard's Professor of Business and Government, was one of two 'co-ordinating lead authors' of a key report published by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) earlier this month.
His chapter of the 2,000-page original report concerned ways countries can co-operate to reduce carbon emissions.
IPCC reports are supposed to be scrupulously independent as they give scientific advice to governments around the world to help them shape energy policies – which in turn affect subsidies and domestic power bills.
Prof Stavins said the government officials in Berlin fought to make big changes to the full report's 'summary for policymakers'. This is the condensed version usually cited by the world's media and politicians. He said their goal was to protect their 'negotiating stances' at forthcoming talks over a new greenhouse gas reduction treaty.
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Somali Islamists Drag Christian Woman From Home, Publicly Execute Her
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(*Religion of Peace™)
Via Christian Post:http://global.christianpost.com/news/christian-somali-woman-dragged-out-by-islamic-militants-and-shot-dead-before-family-118692/
Islamic militants from the al-Shabaab terrorist organization reportedly dragged out a Christian woman from her home in Somalia and shot her dead while friends and neighbors tried to save her.
According to International Christian Concern, the murder occurred earlier this month when armed militants stormed the home of the woman, Sufia, in Mogadishu. She was dragged out in front of her parents by gunpoint, before being publicly shot in front of a crowd. Friends and neighbors attempted to save her.
The Islamists had accused the Somali woman of being an apostate (a person who converts from Islam to another faith).
"Al-Shabaab is an Islamic extremist group that has vowed to make Somalia 'purely Islamic.' The group adheres to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that includes the beheading of converts from Islam, or, as we've witnessed in Sufia's case, execution by firing squad," ICC Regional Manager for Africa William Stark stated . "The group continues to terrorize not just Christians in Somalia, but any act, person, or policy that could be construed as supportive of Christianity in Somalia.
From TheReligionofPeace.com
*Ten Obvious Reasons Why
Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace
#1 18,000 deadly terror attacks committed explicitly in the name of Islam in just the last ten years. (Other religions combined for perhaps a dozen or so).
#2 Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, had people killed for insulting him or for criticizing his religion. This included women. Muslims are told to emulate the example of Muhammad.
#3 Muhammad said in many places that he has been "ordered by Allah to fight men until they testify that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger." In the last nine years of his life, he ordered no less than 65 military campaigns to do exactly that.
Muhammad inspired his men to war with the basest of motives, using captured loot, sex and a gluttonous paradise as incentives. He beheaded captives, enslaved children and raped women captured in battle. Again, Muslims are told to emulate the example of Muhammad.
#4 After Muhammad died, the people who lived with him and knew his religion best immediately fell into war with each other.
Fatima, Muhammad's favorite daughter, survived the early years among the unbelievers at Mecca safe and sound, yet died of stress from the persecution of fellow Muslims only six months after her father died. She even miscarried Muhammad's grandchild after having her ribs broken by the man who became the second caliph.
Fatima's husband Ali, who was the second convert to Islam and was raised like a son to Muhammad, fought a civil war against an army raised by Aisha, Muhammad's favorite wife - and one whom he had said was a "perfect woman." 10,000 Muslims were killed in a single battle waged less than 25 years after Muhammad's death.
Three of the first four Muslim rulers (caliphs) were murdered. All of them were among Muhammad's closest companions. The third caliph was killed by allies of the son of the first (who was murdered by the fifth caliph a few years later, then wrapped in the skin of a dead donkey and burned). The fourth caliph (Ali) was stabbed to death after a bitter dispute with the fifth. The fifth caliph went on to poison one of Muhammad's two favorite grandsons. The other grandson was later beheaded by the sixth caliph.
The infighting and power struggles between Muhammad's family members, closest companions and their children only intensified with time. Within 50 short years of Muhammad's death, even the Kaaba, which had stood for centuries under pagan religion, lay in ruins from internal Muslim war...
And that's just the fate of those within the house of Islam!
#5 Muhammad directed Muslims to wage war on other religions and bring them under submission to Islam. Within the first few decades following his death, his Arabian companions invaded and conquered Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and Zoroastrian lands.
A mere 25 years after Muhammad's death, Muslim armies had captured land and people within the borders of over 28 modern countries outside of Saudi Arabia.
[b#6[/b] Muslims continued their Jihad against other religions for 1400 years, checked only by the ability of non-Muslims to defend themselves. To this day, not a week goes by that Islamic fundamentalists do not attempt to kill Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists explicitly in the name of Allah.
None of these other religions are at war with each other.
#7 Islam is the only religion that has to retain its membership by threatening to kill anyone who leaves. This is according to the example set by Muhammad.
#8 Islam teaches that non-Muslims are less than fully human. Muhammad said that Muslims can be put to death for murder, but that a Muslim could never be put to death for killing a non-Muslim.
#9 The Qur'an never once speaks of Allah's love for non-Muslims, but it speaks of Allah's cruelty toward and hatred of non-Muslims more than 500 times.
#10 "Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!"
(The last words from the cockpit of Flight 93)
NBA Gives White-Hating Racist Idiot Spike Lee A Front Row Seat For
Donald Sterling Ban Announcement
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(Because racism against white people is OK)
Via Truth Revolt:http://www.truthrevolt.org//news/spike-lee-gets-front-row-seat-sterling-ban-announcement
On Tuesday, as NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced a lifetime ban against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling based on private racist comments he made to his girlfriend, director Spike Lee sat in the front row.
Lee now works for Sirius-XM NBA Radio – an outlet run by the NBA. Lee's racial history is pockmarked with ugly racial comments. In February, Lee complained about the gentrification of Harlem in racial terms, telling an audience questioner who praised changes to the neighborhood, "Let me just kill you right now." He continued, "Have you seen Fort Greene Park in the morning? It's like the mother*****' Westminster Dog Show.... When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o'clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something."
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Missouri House endorses
legislation targeting
United Nations agreement
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 29, 2014 - 5:04 am EDT
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — Missouri House members have approved legislation barring state or local officials from adopting policies that infringe upon private property rights and are traceable to Agenda 21.
Agenda 21 is a nonbinding resolution adopted in 1992 by the United Nations that encouraged sustainable development. Its title is a reference to the 21st century, and it encourages changes in global consumption, management and conservation practices.
The House approved the measure 99-46 on Monday, moving it to the Senate.
Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed the same legislation last year. The Senate approved a veto override, but the effort fell short of the necessary two-thirds majority in the House.
Agenda 21 bill is HB1647
Online:
Legislature: http://www.moga.mo.gov
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/330090d550da4637af08f13c40899556/MO--United-Nations-Development
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Joe Biden: In Scranton, It's A Man's Job To
"Kick The Living Crap Out" of Those Assaulting Women
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(So if someone lays a hand on Obama is it Joe's job to
"kick the living crap" out of him?
What if it's Mooch?)
Via Washington Examiner:Vice President Joe Biden, promoting new White House efforts Tuesday to combat sexual assault on college campuses, had a few choice words for those who attack women.
"If a man raised his hand to a woman you had the job to kick the living crap out of him if he did it," Biden said, reflecting on growing up in Scranton, Pa.
Biden acknowledged that his description was "
not very presidential or vice presidential" but added that it was "
something every man should begin to understand."
The White House on Tuesday called on colleges to develop better metrics for identifying sexual assaults on their campuses. President Obama is pushing for all colleges to conduct mandatory surveys on sexual assault by 2016.
Poll: ObumaCrappyCare The Top Thing Americans Would Undo
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(*Paging Steny Hoyer... God only knows if he actually believes this nonsense)
*http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/steny-hoyer-obamacare-holy-grail-106147.html#ixzz30JBl1sdn
Via TWS:http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/poll-obamacare-1-thing-americans-would-undo_787495.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Recent polling conducted by McLaughlin & Associates for the 2017 Project asked Americans, "If you could undo one thing that President Obama has done as president, what would it be?" The choices that the poll provided were "overregulation of the economy," "high deficit spending," "tax increases," "the economic stimulus package," and "Obamacare." And the winner, by a wide margin, was Obamacare.
In all, 7 percent of respondents listed the "economic stimulus" as the thing they'd most like to undo, 7 percent listed overregulation of the economy, 10 percent listed tax increases, 18 percent listed high deficit spending, and 32 percent listed Obamacare. In other words, more people listed Obamacare than any two other answers combined.[...]
In terms of being the thing people most want to undo from the Obama era, Obamacare "won"—overwhelmingly, by at least 10 percentage points—among each of the following groups: women, men, those under 30 years of age, those between 30 and 40 years of age, those between 41 and 55 years of age, those who are Hispanic, those who are Asian, those who are white, those who are Protestant, those who are Catholic, those who are Jewish, those who make under $40,000, those who make over $40,000, those who are very conservative, those who are somewhat conservative, those who are moderate, those who disapprove of President Obama's job performance, and those who are undecided about Obama's job performance.
Amount of Airtime ABC Devoted To Its Own Poll Finding Obama's Approval Rating At All-Time Low: 18 Seconds
(By contrast, when George W. Bush's approval rating dropped to 41 percent
ABC devoted two entire segments to the news)
Via Newsbusters:http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2014/04/29/abc-buries-own-results-allows-18-seconds-obama-facing-worst-poll-his
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The news that Barack Obama is "facing the worst poll numbers of his presidency" warranted a mere 18 seconds of attention from Good Morning America on Tuesday. This scant coverage is despite the fact that ABC conducted the poll in question (along with the Washington Post).
Reporter Amy Robach briefly explained,
"And President Obama is returning to Washington today, facing the worst poll numbers of his presidency. His approval rating has dropped to 41 percent, mostly because of the economy." In contrast, when George W. Bush's approval rating dropped to 42 percent on March 7, 2006, GMA offered two segments. Co-host Robin Roberts trumpeted, "President Bush's job approval rating has sunk to a new career low." In another story, Roberts hyped, "We begin with the President's slumping poll numbers."
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Top Pentagon Brass Hold Service To Sign New Document Enshrining Political Correctness In The Military
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(Holy Sh!t... we're in the middle of a war and this is their top priority? Hagel, Dempsey... you're A$$HOLES!)
Via PJ Media:The nation's top military brass gathered in the Pentagon auditorium Monday to pull out their pens and sign a ceremonial document vowing to "create an inclusive environment that values diversity and fosters mutual respect and cooperation among all persons."
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey led the signing of the 2014 Human Goals Charter: "the cornerstone document governing the Defense Department's fair treatment of people, as well as its diversity and equity programs."
The document was updated this year to reflect the end of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy against gays serving openly in the military.
"This ceremony, as has been noted, marks an important milestone in our efforts to ensure that the Department of Defense remains a place of progress, progress in opportunity for all people, military and civilian. Today, we reaffirm that our most important resource is our people," Hagel said. "I know all the leaders in this room and all over the world share our belief that you take care of your people first, and to fulfill that commitment, we must ensure that every man and every woman in this department has the opportunity to succeed, excel and reach their full potential. That is the purpose of DOD's Human Goals Charter."
Printed on parchment-style paper, Hagel noted that "the values expressed in the charter are as old as America itself."
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The charter states that "our nation was founded on the principle that each individual has infinite dignity and worth," and stresses that the Pentagon must recognize the "individual needs, aspirations, and capabilities" of its service members and civilian employees.
Mooch Obuma Quietly Spends Weekend At Luxury Resort
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Via WaPo:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2014/04/28/michelle-obama-spotted-at-the-salamander-resort-in-middleburg/
Hey isn't that... First lady Michelle Obama spending a quiet weekend in Middleburg with daughters Malia and Sasha in tow at the tony Salamander Resort. While the president was being trailed by flashing cameras and notebook-wielding reporters on a four-country tour through Asia, Michelle Obama's itinerary was a tad bit more low-key. On Friday she was spotted in the lobby of the luxury resort owned by multimillionaire Sheila Johnson.
Leigh Edgerton, an alum of the all-girls high school Foxcroft, which celebrated its centennial that same weekend, locked eyes with the first lady on Friday evening.
"She was walking through the lobby and everyone stood up and started clapping,' explained Edgerton. "She looked right at me and said, 'Hi, everybody, I hope you're having fun,' and I raised my arms in the air and said with a big smile 'I am!'" Edgerton admitted, perhaps unnecessarily, to being a big fan of the first lady, who wasn't spotted again until Sunday when a tipster saw her having lunch on a private terrace with a group of around 20.
Another source tells us that on Saturday afternoon he and his wife were turned away from Boxwood Winery owned by John Kent Cooke (son of former Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke) because the estate was closed for a "private event." Boxwood posted a picture of the first lady dressed casually in khaki pants, her hair held back with a long scarf, on its Facebook page with the caption, "Thank you Michelle Obama for visiting us today! We enjoyed hosting you and your wonderful friends!"
(And it only costs a minimum of $814 per night... wonder if taxpayer money was involved. Nah.)
Via Salamander Resort:
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Blowout: Fox News 5th Most Watched Cable Channel In April, MSNBC 28th, CNN 31st
(Wait... I thought only racists watched Fox?)
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Via TV Newswer:Fox News was the top cable news network for the month of April, averaging 1,614,000 viewers in primetime and 960,000 viewers in total day. Fox News placed fifth in primetime and sixth in total day among all ad-supported cable networks for the month.
MSNBC placed 28th in primetime and 30th in total day, averaging 612,000 viewers and 356,000 viewers, respectively.
CNN placed 31st in primetime and 30th in total day, delivering 533,000 primetime viewers and 420,000 total day viewers
RatingsCable Network Ranker: For Month April 2014http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cable-network-ranker-april-2014_b223232
Fox News was the top cable news network for the month of April, averaging 1,614,000 viewers in primetime and 960,000 viewers in total day. Fox News placed fifth in primetime and sixth in total day among all ad-supported cable networks for the month.
MSNBC placed 28th in primetime and 30th in total day, averaging 612,000 viewers and 356,000 viewers, respectively. CNN placed 31st in primetime and 30th in total day, delivering 533,000 primetime viewers and 420,000 total day viewers.
TNT, USA, TBS and the History Channel rounded out the top five primetime networks for the month.
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Malaysian Muslim Group Says Medical Association Disrespecting
Islam By Forbidding Doctors To Amputate Hands Under Sharia Law
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(Then again, it is in the Koran)
KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 — http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/medical-association-disrespected-muslims-over-amputations-under-hudud-says
The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) has disrespected Muslims and Muslim doctors by threatening to axe doctors who perform amputations under hudud, according to Muslim medical practitioners' group i-Medik.
Muslim doctors have sworn to an Islamic doctor's oath which also binds them to Islam as a way of life and the implementation of Islamic laws including hudud, it added.
"A Muslim doctor performs his task according to the Islamic medical doctor's oath, which fully supports Islam as a way of life, and this includes fully supporting Shariah laws," i-Medik chairman Prof Dr Azmi Md Nor said.
His message was carried on Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia's (Isma) website. i-Medik is allied to Isma.
Dr Azmi did not specify which Islamic oath he was referring to, and how it differs with the Hippocratic Oath taken by all doctors.
The Hippocratic Oath states, among others, that doctors must never do harm to anyone, and must do what is best for their patients.
According to the group, MMA had been hasty in its warning and does not understand the controversial Islamic penal code.
"If MMA does not agree with hudud suggestion for Kelantan, it cannot make hudud as a joke for the 63.1 per cent Muslims in Malaysia," warned Dr Azmi.
Museum Devoted To Islam Planned Near 9/11 Ground Zero
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(Nauseating... NYCity is a lost cause)
Via The Crappy NY Times:http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/30/nyregion/developer-scales-back-plans-for-muslim-center-near-ground-zero.html?_r=1&referrer=
The developer whose proposal to build a Muslim community center and mosque near the World Trade Center failed amid a national controversy three years ago said Tuesday that he now plans to construct a museum devoted to Islam in the same location.
Sharif El-Gamal, the developer, said through a spokesman that instead of a $100 million, 15-story community center and prayer space, he now planned a smaller, three-story museum "dedicated to exploring the faith of Islam and its arts and culture." The building would also include a sanctuary for prayer services and community programs.
To make the plan more attractive to neighbors, he said in a statement, he had commissioned a French architect, Jean Nouvel, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, to design the building at 45-51 Park Place, about two blocks from the former World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, and had included plans for a public green space.
"This is a more tailored approach, both physically and programmatically," said Hank Sheinkopf, a spokesman for Mr. El-Gamal. "It will prove to be an important addition to the neighborhood and to New York City's arts and cultural community."
The museum will be a 5,000-square-foot, three-story structure, Mr. Sheinkopf said, adding that the dimensions and design are still in development. He said Mr. El-Gamal's signing of Mr. Nouvel "shows his serious commitment to realizing this project."
Internal Email Shows State Dept Concluded Within Hours Of
Benghazi Attack That Ansar Al Sharia Was Behind It
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(How will the White House explain this one away?)
Via Sharyl Attkisson:A newly-released government email indicates that within hours of the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya; the State Department had already concluded with certainty that the Islamic militia terrorist group Ansar al Sharia was to blame.
The private, internal communication directly contradicts the message that President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice and White House press secretary Jay Carney repeated publicly over the course of the next several weeks. They often maintained that an anti-Islamic YouTube video inspired a spontaneous demonstration that escalated into violence.
The email is entitled
"Libya update from Beth Jones." Jones was then-Assistant Secretary of State to Hillary Clinton. According to the email, Jones spoke to Libya's Ambassador at 9:45am on Sept. 12, 2012 following the attacks.
"When [the Libyan Ambassador] said his government suspected that former Qaddafi regime elements carried out the attacks, I told him the group that conducted the attacks—Ansar Al Sharia—is affiliated with Islamic extremists," Jones reports in the email. (That's one of the reasons that when the President of Libya was interviewed that same Sunday as Susan Rice, he said it was definitely a terrorist attack, and any conclusion it was a protest was ridiculous. Then he felt he had been sold down the river after Susan Rice came out with her comments)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/16/libyan-president-megaryef-al-qaeda-behind-deadly-attack-on-us-consulate/
General Testifies U.S. Officials Knew Benghazi Was
A Terror Attack "Very, Very Soon"
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(Confirmed by this week's email revelations)
Via The Hill:http://thehill.com/homenews/204999-republicans-turn-up-heat-on-white-house-over-benghazi
U.S. military personnel realized early on during the Benghazi attack that it was a "hostile action," and not a protest that escalated, a retired U.S. general told lawmakers on Thursday.
"What we did know early on was that this was a hostile action," Retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Lovell told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
"This was no demonstration gone terribly awry."Lovell served as deputy director for intelligence for U.S. Africa Command headquarters in Germany during the Benghazi attack.
Republicans have charged that the White House initially linked the September 11, 2012, attack to a protest because it
wanted to play down the idea it was a terrorist attack amid the presidential election that year.
Administration officials in the days after the attack linked it to protests of an anti-Islamic video that had circulated online.
Since then, the administration has acknowledged the attack was an act of terrorism, but Republicans have revisited the issue this week since the release of new emails from White House adviser Ben Rhodes.
In those emails, sent in advance of television appearances by then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, Rhodes said officials should make it a goal to show that the protests were based on an Internet video.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) asked Lovell how soon he and other U.S. officials knew it was an attack involving an al Qaeda-affiliated group.
"Very, very soon. When we were still in the early hours of this activity," Lovell said.
Welcome To 'Operation Chokepoint'-The DOJ's Massive Overreach To Shut Down Lawful Businesses They Don't Like
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Are you involved in any of the following businesses?Ammunition Sales
Cable Box De-scramblers
Coin Dealers
Credit Card Schemes
Credit Repair Services
Dating Services
Debt Consolidation Scams
Drug Paraphernalia
Escort Services
Firearms Sales
Fireworks Sales
Get Rich Products
Government Grants
Home-Based Charities
Life-Time Guarantees
Life-Time Memberships
Lottery Sales
Mailing Lists/Personal Info
Money Transfer Networks
On-line Gambling
PayDay Loans
Pharmaceutical Sales
Ponzi Schemes
Pornography
Pyramid-Type Sales
Racist Materials
Surveillance Equipment
Telemarketing
Tobacco Sales
Travel ClubsHad any trouble with your accounts of late? Well, if so, the DOJ may be trying to shut you down by making it uncomfortable for banks to handle your accounts, as Teagen Presley found out
Teagan Presley, a former porn star, [found] out she was suddenly no longer a Chase customer. When Presley went to the bank in person to ask why, she was told it's because she's considered "high risk."
"And then they told me that they canceled my husband's account too, because our social security numbers are linked," Presley told VICE News. "They told him that it was because I'm a notorious adult star. Which is funny, because I'm kind of a goody-goody in the business, and I'm not even doing porn anymore."
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US Department of Justice's "Operation Choke Point" asks banks to identify customers who may be breaking the law or simply doing something government officials don't like. Banks are then told they must "choke off" those customers' access to financial services, shutting down their accounts. The secretive operation began in 2013.
At Techdirt yesterday, Timothy Geigner, after noting that many porn stars have had their accounts arbitrarily closed because of "high risk," made a number of extremely salient points:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140430/12191027079/chase-bank-slutshaming-might-only-be-them-dancing-to-dojs-twisted-puppet-strings.shtml
Let's not mince words: a program that was built upon the goals of stopping financial fraud has devolved into a massive government overreach into private businesses that are operating within the law. ... The intention of the government, it would seem, is to make the banks unwilling to deal with the government harassment and simply cut anyone in those industries off from the financial institutions. Nobody is happy about this.
As Newsbusters notes:
First, DOJ doesn't have the constitutional authority to go after businesses whose illegality has not been established by threatening their bank and financial services providers with legal sanctions and regulatory harassment if they don't participate in the persecution. There are these things called laws which must be passed to declare certain financial practices and contracts illegal. That hasn't happened. Short of that, there at least need to be court rulings having the same effect. There is apparently no evidence that DOJ has involved the courts at all.
The second is that although the bankers' montage concentrated on payday lenders, many more business endeavors besides payday lending are involved. At least some of them, as odious as nanny-state officials and other might believe they are, operate legally.
You can read more from Newsbusters here.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/05/02/establishment-press-has-virtually-ignored-dojs-pernicious-operation-chok
While one might point to such things as payday lending or get rich quick schemes as perhaps being on the margins and maybe even illegally operating in some instances, most of the businesses on the list have no inherent illegality, particularly those I bolded. They are only 'questionable' because they are not liked by the Obama regime.
This should frighten any business owner and anyone who frequents a business. In other words, all of us.
What happens if the Obama regime declares you or your business 'high risk' tomorrow?
Breaking: 11 Terrorists With Links To Al Qaeda Arrested, Questioned In Regard To Missing Malaysian Plane MH370
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Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2014/05/03/11-terrorists-arrested-in-connection-to-missing-jet/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow
Members of a violent cell of al Qaeda-linked terrorists are being questioned in connection with the disappearance of Flight MH370, according to several British press reports.
International law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and Britain's MI6, asked Malaysian authorities to conduct intense interrogations of the 11 militants, who range in age from 22 to 55 and include students, business professionals and a young widow, the Mail newspaper said.
They were all arrested in Malaysia last week.
An officer with the Counter Terrorism Division of Malaysia's Special Branch said the arrests have increased concern that terrorists may have taken control of the plane.
"The possibility that the plane was diverted by militants is still high on the list,'' the officer said.
"International investigators have asked for a comprehensive report on this new terror group.''
The official revealed that the suspects admitted planning "sustained terror campaigns in Malaysia,'' but insisted their group had nothing to do with the plane.
The Beijing-bound plane vanished two months ago with 239 people aboard.
A massive hunt for the aircraft, which is believed to have gone down in the Indian Ocean, has turned up no wreckage.
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(Birds of a feather....)
Obama Attacks Rand Paul During White House Correspondent's Dinner,
Tries To Link Him To Bundy Remarks
Obama at the White House Correspondents dinner was an unfunny uncomfortable attacking mess.
He was talking about Olympic snowboarder Jamie Anderson, who was in attendance at the dinner, saying he hadn't "seen someone pull a 180 that fast until Rand Paul disinvited that Nevada rancher from this dinner."
"As a general rule, things don't end well if the sentence starts with, 'Let me tell you something about the Negro,'" Obama said. "You don't really need to know the rest of it, just a tip for you." He then said "Speaking of Rand Paul," he brought up the legalization of marijuana and said he hoped it wouldn't lead to a lot of "paranoid people" who think the government is spying on them.
Former Top Obama Adviser David Plouffe Calls
Benghazi Critics A "Delusional Minority"
(Speaking of delusional... this clown is one of the worst!)
Stephanopoulos: David Plouffe, you're actually on that e-mail that caused so much trouble this week. It was an e-mail to you and several others from Ben Rhodes. And everybody keying in on this line in the e-mail to underscore the goals of the Sunday morning appearance, to underscore that 'these protests are rooted in Internet video, not a broader failure of policy.' A lot of Republicans saying this is the smoking gun. I know you dismiss that, but was it a mistake not to release this earlier? Plouffe: No. I think, lawyers have spoken to this and it's out there. What Benghazi was was a tragedy. We have to figure out how to prevent it from happening again. And try and hold those accountable as we did with bin Laden — took a while, but after 11 years, we did. The USS Cole — 17 sailors died. The weeks before the 2000 election, what did then Govenor Bush say — it's time for the nation to speak as one voice. Now, you couldn't handle that in this party. This has been politicized like we've never seen before. And I think what's happening — Richard Nixon talked about a silent majority back in 1968 — there's a very loud, delusional minority that's driving our politics, that's in control of the Republican Party. There is no conspiracy here at all.
Demo-nut Sen. Al Franken: I've Been An "Impeccable" Senator
(Al Franken's biggest fan . . . Al Franken)
Via Free Beacon:http://freebeacon.com/politics/franken-ive-just-been-impeccable-as-a-senator/
JEFF ZELENY: What would comedian Al Franken say about Senator Al Franken's first term?
AL FRANKEN: He would say I did well (laughing), because I'm the same person. There aren't two different people.
ZELENY: Would he have fun with you though at some point?
FRANKEN: When I would make fun of politicians, it was only because they were screwing up in some way. I don't think I could find anything, frankly.
ZELENY: Nothing?
FRANKEN: Whoo. That would be a really hard subject to satirize. I've just been impeccable.
ZELENY: Impeccable?
FRANKEN: Yeah. I've made some small mistakes, I suppose.
Small town newspaper article hits nail on the head . . . priceless!
Where Is Tawas City, MI? It is on Lake Huron and has a population of just over 2,000!!
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A small town MICHIGAN NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL:
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Kansas protest over
prairie chicken takes
wing
By JOHN HANNA
AP Political WriterMay 2, 2014
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Stuffed lesser prairie chickens are on display in a case at the Kansas Statehouse, Friday, May 2, 2014, in Topeka, Kan. State lawmakers are considering a bill declaring that the federal government has no authority to regulate prairie chickens after it declared the lesser one a threatened species.JOHN MILBURN — AP Photo
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas legislators approved a bill Friday night declaring that the federal government has no authority to regulate prairie chickens in the state as a protest against potential federal oversight of efforts to reverse a steep decline in the population of one species.
But the measure sent by the Republican-dominated Legislature to GOP Gov. Sam Brownback is not as strong as some state officials wanted because it wouldn't subject federal employees attempting to regulate prairie chickens or their habitats to felony charges or fines. Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who advocated an aggressive response, called it "more symbolism than substance."
The bill is designed to trigger lawsuits against federal efforts to regulate prairie chickens and their habitats by giving the attorney general or county prosecutors the authority to file them.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in March listed the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species, but the bill also covers its larger, darker and more abundant cousin, the greater prairie chicken.
The listing allows federal oversight of efforts to revive the lesser prairie chicken population, and it affects five states with habitats for the bird — Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Kansas officials fear that federal officials could impose limits on agricultural and oil and natural gas industry activities, such as ordering farmers not to spray certain fields or directing ranchers to avoid grazing cattle in certain areas during the lesser prairie chickens' nesting season.
"I just talk about my ancestry and your ancestry. They came to America for freedom," said Rep. Sharon Schwartz, a Washington Republican and chairwoman of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. "Our property should be ours. We should be able to control our property, not the federal government."
The federal government said those five states had fewer than 18,000 lesser prairie chickens in 2013, down almost 50 percent from 2012. Kansas officials contend drought is the primary reason for the decline and say that the population will rebound.
Brownback has not said publicly whether he'll sign the bill, but he's been a strong critic of the federal listing. Kansas also has joined Oklahoma in a federal lawsuit challenging the process that led to the listing.
The final text of the Kansas bill emerged from negotiations between senators and House members. Republican senators pushed first to make it a felony for federal employees to attempt to regulate prairie chickens and then, as a compromise, to fine them up to $1,000.
Schwartz resisted both ideas. She said she heard concerns from agriculture and energy industry groups, worried that an overly confrontational approach would jeopardize the environmental and other permits they need to operate or even endanger federal farm aid.
Senate Natural Resources Committee Chairman Larry Powell acknowledged that he wanted a tougher bill.
"This is the best we could do," he said.
Kobach, a conservative Republican and former law professor, said threatening federal employees with felony charges or fines would pull any federal regulatory action into court and give the state the right to defend its law. Kobach said that without a clear violation of state law, the attorney general or a county prosecutor might not have the standing to intervene.
"If there is not penalty impose on a federal officer, then the bill is essentially defanged," Kobach said.
But the Democrats involved in the negotiations over the bill, Sen. Marci Francisco, of Lawrence, and Rep. Ponka-We Victors, of Wichita, still found the bill to confrontational.
Both said the state should signal that it is willing to work with federal officials on conservation efforts, so that lesser prairie chicken numbers rise.
"We want to, as a state, to do everything we can to provide for the necessary habitat and have this listing reversed," Francisco said.
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Online:
Text of the prairie chicken proposal: http://bit.ly/1hlD3NT
Kansas Legislature: http://www.kslegislature.org
http://www.enquirerherald.com/2014/05/02/3016674/kansas-lawmakers-to-consider-prairie.html?sp=/99/117/
Tornado Victim Sends Final Text To Mother: "Goodbye Mama"
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(This is so sad)
VILONIA, AR – Some of the April 27 tornado victims may have never had the chance to say goodbye. One young man, however, when fear set in as he waited out the storm in a bathroom, had the chance to send one final message to his mother. It's something she'll hold on to forever.
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"First he said mama, I'm so scared," said Regina Wood, Jeffrey Hunter's mom.
All Wood could think to do was tell her son Jeffrey Hunter he would be okay.
"He knew how bad it was, these say it's going to be a direct hit," said Wood.
From her home in Beebe 20 miles away from her son in Vilonia, Regina could only update Jeffrey through text on where the EF-4 tornado was headed.
It was headed straight for him and he knew it, telling his mom goodbye.
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Yikes.... Pic of The Day: Obama And Sebelius Share A... Errr .. Tender Moment
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(Good Lord... get a room)
U.S. President Barack Obama and outgoing Health and Human Services Sec. Kathleen Sebelius attend the annual White House Correspondent's Association Gala at the Washington Hilton hotel May 3, 2014 in Washington, D.C. The dinner is an annual event attended by journalists, politicians and celebrities.
14 Year Old Endia Martin Murder Weapon Illegally Sold, Falsely Reported Stolen
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Update to a previous story. Continue to blame guns while not addressing the problem of "adults" raising the younger generation into living the thug life and a sense of entitlement as part of LBJ's Great Society. Time to take responsibility and stop making excuses, only then will the community organizers and agitators have no base to support them. (Hey, it's not like Chicago already has the country's toughest gun laws, no, wait?)
Chicago Police Chief Calls For More Gun Control Laws In Wake of
Shootings
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CHICAGO, April 29 (UPI) — The killing of a 14-year-old girl, allegedly by another teen in a fight over a boy, shows that Illinois needs stricter gun laws, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Tuesday.
McCarthy told reporters that Endia Martin was shot with a .38-caliber handgun stolen from a car. He urged a change in the law to require gun owners to store weapons securely, saying that a firearm was brought to what would otherwise have been a "fistfight."
"There was a legal gun that became an illegal gun," he said, saying state law should be changed to require guns to be kept more securely.
"In this case, the simple fact that the law states that you can store a firearm in a vehicle is absolutely insane," McCarthy said. "Those guns need to be in lock boxes, in safes, in people's residences or on their person."
The alleged killer, who is also 14, was charged as a juvenile with homicide Tuesday. Her uncle, 24, and another teenager, a 17-year-old boy, have also been charged in connection with the killing.
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Via ABC 7Two more people have been charged in connection with the shooting death of Endia Martin. Police announced felony charges against Robert James, 34, for unlawful delivery of a weapon and filing a false police report. Police have also charged Vandetta Redwood, 32, who is an aunt of the alleged 14-year-old shooter, with mob action and obstruction of justice.
Police said James is the legal owner of the weapon used to kill Endia Martin, and that he sold it to another individual in November of 2013. It is not clear who took possession of the weapon, but on April 15, 2014, James reported the gun had been stolen from his mother's car.
Dan Tieman, attorney for Robert James, said his client "never gave [the gun] to anyone who used it in the death of Ms. Martin. He was not involved in that at all."
"So on day one we believed that gun was stolen, because it was reported stolen," Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy said Thursday. "But what do we find out? We find out that the legal gun owner illegally transferred that gun to another person. That's how that gun ended up on the street."
Police said the investigation also shows Vandetta Redwood was at the scene in the 900 block of West Garfield at the time of the fight between the 14-year-old victim and the 14-year-old girl charged in the shooting. Prosecutors say that cell phone video in their possession shows the actual shooting, and includes Redwood standing next to the 14-year-old shooter, along with a crowd of about 20, some of whom carried bottles and pipes.
Redwood faces felony charges for mob action and obstruction of justice, in part because she denied being at the scene even though the video places her there. Her attorney, Mark Almanza, called her charges "guilt by proximity."
"There were numerous other individuals there," said Almanza, "and essentially they're saying my client should be charged for standing near where a crime happened."
James and Redwood appeared in bond court Thursday afternoon.
A total of five people have been charged in connection with the shooting. A 17-year-old boy and the 14-year-old suspect's 25-year-old uncle, Donnell Flora, were also charged this week. Flora allegedly gave the gun to his niece, according to police.
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Hog-Castrating JONI ERNST Rides Harley – Blasts Holes in Obamacare in Latest Ad
Posted Sunday, May 4, 2014, 9:49 PM
Joni Ernst – Mother, Grandmother, Soldier, Farmer, Conservative
In her first ad Republican Joni Ernst talked about castrating hogs on an Iowa farm.
It was a huge hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Y24MFOfFU
Today Joni Ernst released her latest ad – "Shot."
This time she's riding a Harley Davidson to the gun range.[/b]
Breitbart reported:Joni Ernst, the Republican Senate candidate who received national acclaim for a campaign ad touting her background "castrating hogs on an Iowa farm," rides her Harley Davidson to the gun range for some target practice in her latest spot.
Ernst "carries more than just lipstick in her purse," a narrator on the ad says, adding that "once she sets her sights on Obamacare, Joni's gonna unload."
Ernst has a concealed carry permit in Iowa, and according to an Ernst campaign aide, the impressive accuracy wasn't a television trick. Ernst took the shots herself that resulted in a tight spread on the target sheet, the aide said.
It's also her motorcycle in the ad, a Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe.Another great ad
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This petition was started this weekend to stop Barack Obama from coming to visit the state after the recent tornadoes.
Stop Obama from Coming to Arkansas
We the people of Arkansas do not want or need Barack Obama in our state. He has never been here or paid us any attention. Our tornado victims have already been through way more than anyone should have to endure.. they do not need another storm of media and secret service and everything else a visit from a President entails to upset their destroyed lives. We respectfully ask that he send the money that would be spent visiting here to reconstruction efforts and stay away. We do not want him here and we do not like being used as a photo opportunity.
BREAKING>>> 9 Female Performers Injured During Ringling Brothers Fall (VIDEOS)
At least six female performers were seriously hurt during an acrobatic routine at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus today in Rhode Island.CBS 6 reported:
Nine Barnum and Bailey circus performers were injured Sunday in Providence, Rhode Island, after an apparatus used in their act failed, circus spokesman Stephen Payne said.
Eight of the performers fell when the hair-hang apparatus — which holds performers by their hair — failed, Paine added. One performer was injured on the ground, he said.
There were no details on the severity of the injuries, the spokesman said.
Multiple emergency units responded to the accident at the Dunkin' Donuts Center.Published on May 4, 2014
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Twice, Bush visited Greensburg after their tornado. Lots of Federal assistance there.
Don't recall Eisenhower ever visiting Udall when the tornado hit there in the 1950's or any Federal money or intrusion there. However, now the USA is more socialistic than ever and increasingly so.
I think it's "Federal disaster aid" or is it aid to education?
Supreme Court: Opening prayers at council meetings constitutional
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The Supreme Court has upheld the right of local officials to open town council meetings with prayer, ruling that this does not violate the Constitution even if the prayers routinely stress Christianity. The court said in a 5-4 decision Monday that the content of the prayers is not critical as long as officials make a good-faith effort at inclusion.
The ruling was a victory for the town of Greece, N.Y., outside of Rochester.
"The prayer opportunity in this case must be evaluated against the backdrop of historical practice," the majority wrote in its opinion. "As a practice that has long endured, legislative prayer has become part of our heritage and tradition, part of our expressive idiom, similar to the Pledge of Allegiance, inaugural prayer, or the recitation of 'God save the United States and this honorable Court' at the opening of this Court's sessions."
The majority justices further argued that the intended audience is not "the public, but lawmakers themselves."
In 1983, the court upheld an opening prayer in the Nebraska Legislature and said that prayer is part of the nation's fabric, not a violation of the First Amendment. Monday's ruling was consistent with the earlier one.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority, said the prayers are ceremonial and in keeping with the nation's traditions.
"The inclusion of a brief, ceremonial prayer as part of a larger exercise in civic recognition suggests that its purpose and effect are to acknowledge religious leaders and the institutions they represent, rather than to exclude or coerce nonbelievers," Kennedy said.
The American Center for Law and Justice, which filed a brief in the case backing the town of Greece, applauded the decision.
"This is a sound decision that recognizes the significance of our nation's heritage and tradition," Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the ACLJ, said in a statement.
But Justice Elena Kagan, in a dissent for the court's four liberal justices, said the case differs significantly from the 1983 decision because "Greece's town meetings involve participation by ordinary citizens, and the invocations given -- directly to those citizens -- were predominantly sectarian in content."
A federal appeals court in New York ruled that Greece violated the Constitution by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity.
ObuttHead's State Department Sponsoring Abu Dhabi Book Fair
Selling Anti-Semitic Books
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(Your tax dollars, hard at work... Some of the dangerous hate books on sale)
Via Tom Gross:http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001448.html
The U.S. State Department is listed as a "cultural partner" of the 24th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which is currently being held (from April 30 to May 5). Among the anti-Semitic publications on display at the fair (in both English and Arabic) – books which paved the way for The Holocaust – are "The International Jew," "Mein Kampf" and "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion".
"The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" is now reported to be the second most widely published book in the Arab world. It promotes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that Jews are planning global domination.
Then other "cultural partners" for this year's Abu Dhabi International Book Fair include the French government TV channel France 24, National Geographic magazine, and the French Embassy. (There are, it should be noted, many other titles on display at the book fair, which are not anti-Semitic or have nothing to do with Jews.)
Several senior diplomats at the U.S. State Department, as well as a number of French Foreign Ministry employees (not those stationed in Abu Dhabi) subscribe to this website email list and one would hope they would take steps to have the Book Fair's organizers remove the anti-Semitic titles.
Similar anti-Semitic literature appeared at the 2014 Casablanca Book Fair and in the recent past at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Hamas TV Kids Show Features Giant Bee
Imploring Children To Kill "All The Jews"
(Sick, sick, sick)
Via PMW:
Child host (Rawan): "Tulin, why do you want to be a police officer? Like who?"
Girl (Tulin): "Like my uncle." ...
Child host: "OK, so what does a policeman do?"
Nahul (adult in giant bee costume): "He catches thieves, and people who make trouble."
Child host: "And shoots Jews. Right?"
Girl: "Yes."
Child host: "You want to be like him?"
[Girl nods]
Child host: "Allah willing, when you grow up."
Girl: "So that I can shoot Jews."
[Nahul the bee claps his hands]
Child host: "All the Jews? All of them?"
Girl: "Yes."
Child host: "Good."MEMRI TV brings you the latest death cult children's propaganda from Hamas, the episode of Pioneers of Tomorrow in which the evil killer bee Nahoul dies, because Israel prevented him from getting treatment for some unspecified giant bee disease. This leads to his replacement by Assud, the giant Jew-eating rabbit:Hamas recently broadcast a kid's TV show in which kids who no older than 10 sang the virtues of suicide attacks and how they wished to blow themselves up to liberate Jerusalem and Palestine. The al-Aqsa TV program broadcast in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, translated by the MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute), featured the grandchildren of Umm Nidal, a former Hamas MP from Gaza who celebrated the deaths of her three sons who carried out suicide attacks against Israelis. Umm Nidal died in March in Gaza. Umm Nidal's granddaughter said she was proud of the actions of her father — who produced the first Kassam rockets to hit southern Israel — and wished to be a martyr for Hamas as well. Another granddaughter launched into a rousing speech in which she called "upon all Muslim mothers, daughters, and sisters -- Al-Aqsa Mosque expects us to be the next generation to march toward it. Do not spare us the commanders, the soldiers, and the martyrdom-lovers." "The mothers send their sons to victory or to paradise, Allah willing," she said. The assembled grandchildren of Umm Nidal, none of whom looked older than 10, then sang in chorus: "Jihad bestows pride and glory upon you when you become a martyrdom-seeker. Oh explosive device of glory -- with her blood she created freedom. Ask [suicide bomber] Fatima Al-Najjar how one should live a life of pride." If the children's message weren't clear enough, the announcer, a girl of an age with the grandchildren, told the Hamas TV viewers that "We should sacrifice our lives for the sake of the homeland, so that we can please God and liberate Palestine and Jerusalem." A second child presenter chimed in: "We should wage Jihad and persevere, in order to liberate this land. When one of us is martyred, we say that his life is precious, yet it is a cheap price to pay for the liberation and defense of the homeland.":
Poll: Just 31% of Dems View Their Vote In Midterms As "For" Obama, Down From 47%
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(Still toxic)
Via CNN:Republicans have a great advantage heading into the 2014 midterm elections, according to another poll. But this poll, conducted by the PEW Research Center and USA Today, suggests their advantage could be starker than it was even in 2010, when Republicans took control of the House of Representatives.
In a generic question about whether a voter supports the Democrat or the Republican in their own district, Republicans got 47% and Democrats got 43%. That's a switch from October, when Democrats held an advantage in a PEW poll.
More troubling, perhaps, for Democrats is that President Obama is not a draw for their voters. Just 31% of Democrats think of their vote as "for" the President. Four years ago, 47% of Democrats felt that way.
Video: Longest Ever Artillery Shot In Marine History Kills Group of Taliban Fighters More Than 22 Miles Away
(Bad A$$ Weapon
)
On February 12, 2012 the longest operational artillery shot in U.S. Marines history was fired from a M777 Howitzer. Marines dropped the 155mm M982 Excalibur round on Taliban insurgents 36 km away — more than 22 miles — in Helmand province, Afghanistan. It killed the group of Taliban fighters.
The M777 howitzer is a towed 155 mm artillery piece which made its first combat appearance in Afghanistan. The M777 is often combined with the Excalibur GPS-guided munition, which allows accurate fire at a range of up to 25 miles.
FROM WATCHDOG WIRE
Citizen Spotlight: Melissa Genson,
Judicial Watchdog
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Lifting the mainstream media's 'Iron Curtain'
May 3, 2014
by Jackie Moreau
Aristotle, regarded as "The Father of Logic", once said, "At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst."
Do the laws created by man always serve justice? A citizen watchdog from Washington would object to that notion. Melissa Genson, the editor of Watchdog Wire – Northwest, exposed a juvenile Level II Sex Offender's unsavory social media activity after he had been accepted into a court-ordered rehabilitation program. The local sex offender remains under public protection because of his alleged remorse for molesting of a 5-year-old boy, despite the disturbing reality presented by Melissa to justice officials.
As this month's Citizen Spotlight, Watchdog Wire asked Melissa about her personal experience in this investigation and as a citizen watchdog:
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What motivates you to be a citizen watchdog? It's not easy and you don't get paid. So what keeps you going?
I am motivated to help people who are treated carelessly and recklessly by those in power. They feel helpless. I also hate to see tax dollars wasted and misused, because I know how hard people work for their money.
How did you first get started as a citizen watchdog?
As a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor (CPA/CIA), I audited Washington State agencies in the 1980′s.
I saw abuse of power at all levels. I saw how frequently
government officials spoke in terms of tax dollars belonging to them, rather than belonging to the citizens. It opened my eyes. I have been watchdogging ever since.
What issue(s) are you most passionate about and why?
I am passionate about issues involving people whose voices can't be heard, like children. I am passionate about rural land use, because it is so easy for government to treat private property like public property. I am passionate about any government action where the rules are so complex that the ordinary citizen has a hard time understanding them.
What triggered you to dig deeper into juvenile sex offender Tahoe Wiseman's social media activity?
This was the worst case of absolute recklessness that I had ever seen on the part of multiple government officials. The little victim simply wasn't real to them. The victim's mother cried and told me, "Nobody cares what happened to my little boy." I told her I did, and I would do everything I could to get other people to care, too.
When government officials are allowed so much power and secrecy, and place so much confidence in their own experts that doesn't appear deserved, it is up to citizens to prove them wrong. Especially when the experts feel bulletproof, like they did in this case.
Quite simply, social media provided the proof I needed to show that the experts were wrong, and that justice had not be served. And if they were wrong in this case, then they were probably wrong in a lot of cases.
What was great was that ordinary teens and their moms were the ones to provide the evidence. In their own way, they were true watchdogs.
What did you learn from investigating this story?
I learned that citizen watchdogs need to focus more on the courts. I learned that there was not enough separation between the judge, the defense attorney, and prosecuting attorney. The prosecutor is supposed to be an advocate for the people, not
part of one big happy courthouse family. I learned that the courts can rely too much on their own experts and not enough on common sense. Citizens tend to put judges and prosecutors on a pedestal, and assume that they are less likely to abuse power than other government officials. I learned that wasn't true. We need to remember that courts are simply another branch of government that needs watchdogging, too.
What has your experience been with the mainstream media? What advice do you have for them to better serve their audience?
Mainstream media has become simply another branch of the government. That's not the job of the press. I remember being a kid during the Cold War. We were taught that
behind the Iron Curtain, the government ran the media, and citizens could only learn what they government wanted them to know. I remember the commercials for Radio Free Europe, explaining how important it was to get outside information to people living in those countries.
Mainstream media has created its own Iron Curtain, right here in this country. Mainstream media seems almost ashamed of ordinary American citizens, and the things they care about.
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My advice to mainstream media is to remember your job.
Your job is to question those in power, not be their mouthpiece. And stop ridiculing the concerns of ordinary people.
I think it's too late for a lot of mainstream media. The Internet has made citizen journalism accessible, and a viable alternative.
We have become our own version of Radio Free Europe—just in our own country.
Who is your favorite Founding Father?
George Mason. "Virginia's Declaration of the Rights" was a masterpiece, and the basis of so many of our freedoms today.
How has Watchdog Wire helped you as a citizen watchdog?
Watchdog Wire has linked me up with so many people who can help me with resources and skills. It's great to feel connected to other people who are part of such a huge new revolution. It's a wonderful time to be involved in citizen journalism. There is so much access to information that allows us all to be better watchdogs.
What advice do you have for others who want to get involved?
Don't be intimidated. Don't feel overwhelmed by the mass of information out there. Take on one issue at a time, and take your research one step at a time. Learn how to get information from government agencies and officials. Don't feel like your questions are stupid. They are there to serve you, and not the other way around.
What can we do better? How can Watchdog Wire improve to help more citizens become watchdogs?
Watchdog Wire helped me so much. I think we all just need to get the word out. We need to let people know that it's okay to be a novice, and to learn as you go.
Jackie Moreau is the Managing Editor of Watchdog Wire. You can find her on Twitter as @Jackie_Moreau.
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Worse than any horror movie you will ever see.
The damage is being done now and perhaps the effects will not be felt before I pass from this world, but who knows. Pray for May 16th to stop the carnage that is happening to our country. Even the state governments are rebelling against the Federal Government.
Why Obamacare is a Fantastic Success
By Wayne Allyn Root
There are 2 major political parties in America. I'm a member of the naïve, stupid, and cowardly one. I'm a Republican. How stupid is the GOP? They still don't get it. I told them 5 years ago, 2 books ago, a national bestseller ago ("The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide"), and in hundreds of articles and commentaries, that Obamacare was never meant to help America, or heal the sick, or lower healthcare costs, or lower the debt, or expand the economy.
The GOP needs to stop calling Obamacare a "trainwreck." That means it's a mistake, or accident. That means it's a gigantic flop, or failure. It's NOT. This is a brilliant, cynical, and purposeful attempt to damage the U.S. economy, kill jobs, and bring down capitalism. It's not a failure, it's Obama's grand success. It's not a "trainwreck," Obamacare is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate- so we agree under duress to accept big government.
Obama's hero and mentor was Saul Alinsky- a radical Marxist intent on destroying capitalism. Alinksky's stated advice was to call the other guy "a terrorist" to hide your own intensions. To scream that the other guy is "ruining America," while you are the one actually plotting the destruction of America. To claim again and again...in every sentence of every speech...that you are "saving the middle class," while you are busy wiping out the middle class.
The GOP is so stupid they can't see it. There are no mistakes here. This is a planned purposeful attack. The tell-tale sign isn't the disastrous start to Obamacare. Or the devastating effect the new taxes are having on the economy. Or the death of full-time jobs. Or the overwhelming debt. Or the dramatic increases in health insurance rates. Or the 70% of doctors now thinking of retiring- bringing on a healthcare crisis of unimaginable proportions. Forget all that.
The real sign that this is a purposeful attack upon capitalism is how many Obama administration members and Democratic Congressmen are openly calling Tea Party Republicans and anyone who wants to stop Obamacare "terrorists." There's the clue. Even the clueless GOP should be able to see that. They are calling the reasonable people...the patriots...the people who believe in the Constitution...the people who believe exactly what the Founding Fathers believed...the people who want to take power away from corrupt politicians who have put America $17 trillion in debt...terrorists?
That's because they are Saul Alinsky-ing the GOP. The people trying to purposely hurt America, capitalism and the middle class...are calling the patriots by a terrible name to fool, confuse and distract the public.
Obamacare is a raving, rollicking, fantastic success. Stop calling it a failure. Here is what it was created to do. It is succeeding on all counts.
#1) Obamacare was intended to bring about the Marxist dream- redistribution of wealth. Rich people, small business owners, and the middle class are being robbed, so that the money can be redistributed to poor people (who vote Democrat). Think about it. If you're rich or middle class, you now have to pay for your own healthcare costs (at much higher rates) AND 40 million other people's costs too (through massive tax increases). So you're stuck paying for both bills. You are left broke. Brilliant.
#2) Obamacare was intended to wipe out the middle class and make them dependent on government. Think about it. Even Obama's IRS predicts that health insurance for a typical American family by 2016 will be $20,000 per year. But how would middle class Americans pay that bill and have anything left for food or housing or living? People that make $40K, or $50K, or $60K can't possibly hope to spend $20K on health insurance without becoming homeless. Bingo. That's how you make middle class people dependent on government. That's how you make everyone addicted to government checks. Brilliant.
#3) As a bonus, Obamacare is intended to kill every decent paying job in the economy, creating only crummy, crappy part-time jobs. Why? Just to make sure the middle class is trapped, with no way out. Just to make sure no one has the $20,000 per year to pay for health insurance, thereby guaranteeing they become wards of the state. Brilliant.
#4) Obamacare is intended to bankrupt small business, and therefore starve donations to the GOP. Think about it. Do you know a small business owner? I know hundreds of them. Their rates are being doubled, tripled and quadrupled by Obamacare. Guess who writes 75% of the checks to Republican candidates and conservative causes? Small business. Even if a small business owner manages to survive, he or she certainly can't write a big check to the GOP anymore. Money is the "mother's milk" of politics. Without donations, a political party ceases to exist. Bingo. That's the point of Obamacare. Obama is bankrupting his political opposition and drying up donations to the GOP. Brilliant.
#5) Obamacare is intended to make the IRS all-powerful. It adds thousands of new IRS agents. It puts the IRS in charge of overseeing 15% of the U.S. economy. The IRS has the right because of Obamacare to snoop into every aspect of your life, to go into your bank accounts, to fine you, to frighten you, to intimidate you. And Obama and his socialist cabal have access to your deepest medical secrets. By law your doctor has to ask your sexual history. That information is now in the hands of Obama and the IRS to blackmail GOP candidates into either not running, or supporting bigger government, or leaking the info and ruining your campaign. Or have you forgotten the IRS harassed, intimidated and persecuted critics of Obama and conservative groups? Now Obama hands the IRS even more power. Big Brother rules our lives. Brilliant.
#6) Obamacare is intended to unionize 15 million healthcare workers. That produces $15 billion in new union dues. That money goes to fund Democratic candidates and socialist causes- thereby guaranteeing Obama's friends never lose another election, and Obama's policies keep ruining capitalism and bankrupting business owners long after he's out of office.
Message to the GOP: This isn't a game. This isn't tiddly-winks. This is a serious, purposeful attempt to highjack America and destroy capitalism. This isn't a trainwreck. It's purposeful suicide. It's not failing, it's working exactly according to plan. Obama knows what he's doing. Stop apologizing and start fighting.
Oh and one more thing...Conservatives aren't "terrorists." We are patriots and saviors. We represent the Constitution and the Founding Fathers. We are the heroes and good guys. Unless you get all this through your thick skulls, America is lost...forever.
Sanctions against Russia that are proven
Much has been said about what Obama should do to hurt the Russian economy.
To me the plan to destroy Russia is simple:
1) ban their use of coal
2) mandate that Russia goes on Obamacare
3) ban drilling on Russian public land
4) force Russia to comply with EPA and Dodd Frank regulations
5) re-define the full-time Russian work week to 30 hours
6) raise the Russian minimum wage
7) mandate overtime pay for government employees
8) demand the Russian Government provide welfare benefits to unqualified citizens and Illegal immigrants
This plan is proven and has been working in the U. S. since 2009.
Obuma's America: 58 Million Working-Age People... No Longer Working
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BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
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Despite adding more than 8 million people to the working-age population since 2007, total employment has declined by half a million, according to an analysis by the Senate Budget Committee.
Before President Barack Obama took office 259.7 million people were part of the working-age population, or between ages 16 and 65. Now, the number has risen to 267.7 million.
However, in the same time period, total employment declined from 146.3 million to 145.7 million. In other words, 531,000 fewer people have jobs.
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"This statistic highlights an alarming trend that has embodied the president's economic policies: more and more people are leaving the workforce entirely," according to the analysis, which was released by Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.). "There are 58 million working-age people who are not working, and the labor force participation rate stands at 62.8 percent, the lowest level in 36 years."
In defining the pool of potential workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) includes anyone over 16, excluding inmates in penal and mental facilities, and active duty members of the Armed Forces.
For their analysis, the Budget Committee compared Labor Department and Commerce Department data to manually exclude persons over 65. The analysis of the working-age population, which totals 267.7 million, therefore, includes everyone between the ages of 16 and 65, including individuals who are students, stay-at-home mothers, and others who choose not to work full-time.
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Report: Pelosi Tells Dems She Is Leaning Towards Boycotting Benghazi Select Committee
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(Isn't she a little old to be throwing temper tantrums?)
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/benghazi-panel-investigation-nancy-pelosi-106456.html?hp=f1
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told her colleagues she was leaning toward boycotting a newly announced committee to probe the attack in Benghazi, according to multiple sources in the Wednesday morning meeting.
Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she would listen to as many of her Democratic colleagues as possible before a decision is made. But it was clear to several participants in the meeting that she was leaning against tapping Democrats to sit on the panel, which Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) will chair. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the assistant Democratic leader, aligned himself with Pelosi in the House Democratic Caucus meeting — as did Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
But there are several high-profile dissenters, including her close ally, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.). Waxman, a former chairman of the House Oversight Committee, spoke in the closed meeting and made the point that Democrats should sit on the Republican-controlled committee to combat Republicans. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) agreed with Waxman, according to sources in the meeting.
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THE LEGAL LIMIT:
THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S
ATTEMPTS TO EXPAND FEDERAL POWER
Report No. 4: The Obama Administration's Abuse of Power
By U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) Ranking Member Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, none is more dangerous than the President's persistent pattern of lawlessness, his willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat. The President's taste for unilateral action to circumvent Congress should concern every citizen, regardless of party or ideology. The great 18th-century political philosopher Montesquieu observed: "There can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or body of magistrates." America's Founding Fathers took this warning to heart, and we should too. Rule of law doesn't simply mean that society has laws; dictatorships are often characterized by an abundance of laws. Rather, rule of law means that we are a nation ruled by laws, not men. No one—and especially not the president—is above the law. For that reason, the U.S. Constitution imposes on every president the express duty to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Rather than honor this duty, President Obama has openly defied it by repeatedly suspending, delaying, and waiving portions of the laws that he is charged to enforce. When President Obama disagreed with federal immigration laws, he instructed the Justice Department to cease enforcing the laws. He did the same thing with federal welfare law, drug laws, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. In the more than two centuries of our nation's history, there is simply no precedent for the White House wantonly ignoring federal law and asking others to do the same. For all those who are silent now: What would they think of a Republican president who announced that he was going to ignore the law, or unilaterally change the law? Imagine a future president setting aside environmental laws, or tax laws, or labor laws, or tort laws with which he or she disagreed. That would be wrong—and it is the Obama precedent that is opening the door for future lawlessness. As Montesquieu knew, an imperial presidency threatens the liberty of every citizen. Because when a president can pick and choose which laws to follow and which to ignore, he is no longer a president.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXRepublican Sen. Ted Cruz released a definitive list Wednesday of 76 "lawless" Obama administration actions and abuses of power.
Cruz's "The Legal Limit Report No. 4," obtained by The Daily Caller, delves into little-known and little-reported details of President Obama's executive actions. Cruz was set to discuss his report at the Federalist Society in the Promenade Ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel in Washington at 2:15 PM Wednesday.
"Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, none is more dangerous than the President's persistent pattern of lawlessness, his willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat," Cruz stated in the report's introductory remarks.
"President Obama has openly defied [rule of law] by repeatedly suspending, delaying, and waiving portions of the laws that he is charged to enforce. When President Obama disagreed with federal immigration laws, he instructed the Justice Department to cease enforcing the laws. He did the same thing with federal welfare law, drug laws, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act," Cruz wrote. "In the more than two centuries of our nation's history, there is simply no precedent for the White House wantonly ignoring federal law and asking others to do the same."
Cruz details 76 specific actions over eight chapters. We've listed eight of them, as chronicled by Cruz, below:
1. "Obama implemented portions of the DREAM Act by executive action"
2. "Ended some terror asylum restrictions"
3. "Recognized same sex marriage in Utah despite a Supreme Court stay on a court order allowing the institution"
4. "Illegally revealed the existence of sealed indictments in the Benghazi investigation"
5. "Illegally delayed Obamacare verification of eligibility for healthcare subsidies"
6. "Ordered Boeing to fire 1,000 employees in South Carolina and shut down a new factory because it was non-union"
7. "Terminated the pensions of 20,000 non-union Delphi employees in the GM bankruptcy."
8. "Government agencies are engaging in 'Operation Choke Point,' where the government asks banks to 'choke off' access to financial services for customers engaging in conduct the Administration does not like—such as 'ammunition sales.'"
See the full report: http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/07/ted-cruz-releases-definitive-list-of-76-lawless-obama-actions/#ixzz315051vFJ
Over Strong Joint Chiefs Objections, House Moves To Preserve Military Pay, Benefits
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(The Princes in the Puzzle Palace called the Pentagon have done it again. They have thrown those serving, those that served and those that will serve under the MRAP in favor of politics)Via Stars and StripesMilitary leadership on Tuesday pressed plans to slash popular troop benefits and curb pay raises but House lawmakers remained committed to preserving those benefits.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff testified during a rare gathering in the Senate and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke in Chicago on the need to reduce personnel costs.
Meanwhile, the House prepared for debate Wednesday on a defense budget that would "nickel and dime" some ship, aircraft and construction programs to help fund pay raises and benefits for troops, said Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
The Republican-controlled committee has rejected the Department of Defense proposals to cap pay raises at 1 percent and slash the costs of military supermarkets, housing allowances and the Tricare health care system – despite dire warnings by the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff in Senate testimony Tuesday that readiness could suffer otherwise. Armed Services is expected to cobbled together a final draft of the defense budget late Wednesday and send it to the full House for a vote.
"Through smart planning, rearrangement of capital and resources, targeted cuts, and reduction of some bureaucracy, we've been able to shield our military from a crippling blow," McKeon said during a speech at the Heritage Foundation.
Pay and benefits remain untouched. McKeon and other Republicans in the House say the DOD has given Congress a false choice between cutting spending on troops and their families or overall military readiness.
The $521 billion budget – and an additional $79 billion for the Afghanistan war effort – would compromise on the embattled A-10 Warthog. It would take the aircraft out of service, but keep it in a high-level storage status; the planes could be quickly activated.
"It has saved the lives of countless American men and women in combat," McKeon said. "It still has over a decade of service life left in it, and it's to be replaced by a plane, the F-35, that is better suited to do other jobs."
The House budget also cuts spending on Navy ships, the KC-46 Pegasus aircraft and aircraft carrier-based drones.
How about making it illegal for politicians to lie?
Politics: Chuck Schumer:
Let's amend the Constitution
so
Congress can restrict free speech
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More reining in of freedom.
Oh those New York Democrats! First we have Hillary (OK, only a New Yorker in a carpetbagging sort of way, but still . . .) wanting to "rein in" our notions that we have real Second Amendment rights. But that's the Second Amendment. That's not as important as the First, right? So for that one, we need Chuck Schumer, Hillary's senior as a senator before and after her tenure, to launch the attack.
And he is:
The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision allowing unions and corporations to donate to independent political groups has driven liberals to such fits that they now want to amend the First Amendment. At a Senate Rules Committee meeting last week, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer announced a proposal to amend the Constitution to empower government to regulate political speech.
"The Supreme Court is trying to take this country back to the days of the robber barons, allowing dark money to flood our elections," Mr. Schumer said. The Senate will vote this year on the amendment to "once and for all allow Congress to make laws to regulate our system, without the risk of them being eviscerated by a conservative Supreme Court." He even rolled out retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to pronounce his unhappiness with freedom's bedrock document.
According to the text of the proposed revision to James Madison's 1791 handiwork, sponsored by New Mexico Senator Tom Udall, the states and federal government would have the power to regulate the "raising and spending of money" through a wide range of means "to advance the fundamental principle of political equality for all."
A Chuck Schumer attack on free speech is hardly a big surprise. He's one of the senators who goaded the IRS into going after Tea Party groups based on the rationale that they were undermining confidence in government. Oh no, not that!
To amend the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of each house of Congress and the ratification of 38 states. That is not going to happen. But that doesn't mean there's nothing to be concerned about here. When a U.S. senator is willing to be so brazen as to propose we amend the Constitution to weaken the First Amendment - and specifically to empower Congress to restrict free speech - what that really tells us is where the political landscape stands. Not long ago it would have been inconceivable that mainstream politician hoping to remain in office would propose to take away basic First Amendment rights for the purpose of empowering politicians to impose new restrictions on same. At least in the reading of Sen. Schumer and others who back this proposed amendment, the political landscape has changed and it is now possible to propose such a thing without being flogged by the voters as a result.
This is all cloaked, of course, in language about "dark money" and so forth. You know what that's about, right? What has been the leading Democrat theme this year? It's sure as hell not how wonderful ObamaCare is. It's attacking the diabolical Koch Brothers. Democrats have decided to turn major donors to conservative causes and candidates into objects of public disdain, and they don't like it when they can't do so. They also don't like it when they can't put any restrictions on such individuals, groups or corporations.
But the Constitution was not written for the political protection of incumbent politicians. It was written to protect the rights of the people who have to live under the governance of such people. If that's creating problems for Chuck Schumer, then I'd say it's doing exactly what it was supposed to do. I hope enough of the citizenry still understands that sufficient to recognize what an obscene power grab Schumer and his allies are attempting.
http://www.cascity.com/howard/forum/index.php?action=post;topic=14296.2760;last_msg=219337
British Supermarkets And Restaurants Sell Halal To Customers To Save Money
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(The stealth take over continues. Achmed could open his own halal and goat rental stand.
Hint for the Brits: If the menu doesn't include pork don't eat there)
Via The Daily Mailhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2623860/Now-halal-sneaks-schools-Parents-angered-councils-ban-pork-sausages-bacon-replace-ritually-slaughtered-meat.html
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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg today demanded better labelling using a designated logo, but insisted he was happy to eat a halal pizza.
MPs could use a debate on new consumer legislation next week to force a change in the law, after it emerged ore than 70 per cent of all New Zealand lamb in supermarkets is from halal abattoirs – a fact not stated on labelling.
Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer all confirmed they sell the imported meat.
The switch to slaughtering animals in line with Islamic ritual saves money because the end product can be eaten by Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
David Cameron refused to intervene on the issue. His spokesman said: 'The Prime Minister's view is that it is an issue of consumer choice and consumer information.'So it is a matter for retailers and restaurants to work with customers and consumer groups and representatives of faith organisations.'But Mr Clegg said:
'It is a question of labelling. I think there should be more information.'The Deputy Prime Minister said he has 'absolutely no problem with eating a pizza with halal meat on it at all.'
And Commons Leader Andrew Lansley told MPs that a debate on the Consumer Rights Bill next week could be used to address public concerns.
He said the legislation was focused 'giving consumers not only rights but information on which they can base their purchasing decisions.'
It also emerged that all chicken served by Pizza Express is halal – something made clear only on the company's website.
Chains including Domino's, GBK, Nando's, KFC, Ask and Slug & Lettuce use halal meat in some dishes, mainly chicken, and locations.
When contacted by the Mail yesterday, many of the restaurants were reluctant to discuss the issue. Only Subway and KFC overtly label halal meat products on their menus.
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Obuma Attacks "Climate Deniers" Who Are "Wasting Everybody's Time On A Settled Debate
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(I love how he declares unilaterally the debate is over
and nobody is allowed to talk about it)
Via Daily Caller:President Obama took time in his Friday speech at a California Wal-Mart to bash "climate deniers" for obstructing him by debating the science behind man-made global warming.
"So unfortunately, inside of Washington we've still got some climate deniers who shout loud, but they're wasting everybody's time on a settled debate," Obama said, doubling down on remarks made during his State of the Union Address this year by adding that, "Climate change is a fact."
"Here in California, you've seen these effects firsthand," Obama told the audience at a Mountain View Wal-Mart. "You know what's happening. And increasingly, more and more Americans do — including, by the way, many Republicans outside of Washington."
Obama's speech to announce more executive orders to promote solar energy development and energy efficiency subsidies comes just days after the White House released the third National Climate Assessment (NCA)
The NCA claimed that global warming was already happening and had caused the U.S. to warm about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1895. The report also claimed that temperatures could increase another 4 degrees Fahrenheit and sea levels could rise 4 feet in the coming decades if no action is taken.
"Hundreds of scientists, experts and businesses, not-for-profits, local communities all contributed over the course of four years," Obama said. "What they found was unequivocally that climate change is not some far-off problem in the future. It's happening now. It's causing hardship now."
Obama stressed that storms, floods and droughts — like the one California is currently experiencing — have been made more severe by rising global temperatures, a talking point the administration has been pushing hard in the last year.
The NCA also warned that global warming was making weather more extreme, saying that risks "associated with extreme events like hurricanes are increasing." But this contradicts data from governmental sources and independent researchers.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that there "is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century" and current data shows "no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century. ... No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin."
The IPCC also noted "there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale" adding "that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century due to lack of direct observations, geographical inconsistencies in the trends."
"Actually: US hurricane landfalls have decreased by ~25% since 1900," said Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr., a climate scientist with the University of Colorado.
Pielke has presented extensive evidence that weather has not gotten more extreme because of global warming.
"It is misleading, and just plain incorrect, to claim that disasters associated with hurricanes, tornadoes, floods or droughts have increased on climate timescales either in the United States or globally," Dr. Pielke told the Senate last summer. "It is further incorrect to associate the increasing costs of disasters with the emission of greenhouse gases."
"Hurricanes have not increased in the U.S. in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since at least 1900," Pielke added. "The same holds for tropical cyclones globally since at least 1970."
So far this year, the United States has experienced a record-low number of tornadoes, according to Pielke, and the number of deaths and the amount of property damage from tornadoes has decreased dramatically in the past six decades.
"The average annual U.S. property losses caused by tornadoes, from 1950 to 2013, is $5.9 billion in today's dollars," Pielke wrote in the Wall Street Journal. "However, for the first half of the data set (1950-81), the annual average loss was $7.6 billion, and in the second half (1982-2013), it was $4.1 billion—a drop of almost 50%."
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Mooch Gets It On
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(Cracks me how they act like Boko Haram is some kind of new phenomenon, anyone who reads
has known all about them and the atrocities they've been committing,
mainly against Christians, for years)
Tweety-Bird of the Day
Childless Pro-Abortion Loon Sandra Fluke:
I Know "What Moms Really Need This Mother's Day"
(Typical pompous know-it-all lib)
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It's an Obuma world...
Bully someone – get arrested.
Kindergarteners could face misdemeanor charges for bullying.
The AP reported:
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Children as young as kindergarten-age could face misdemeanor charges for bullying under a proposed law advancing in a Southern California city.
The Carson City Council gave preliminary approval this week to an ordinance that would target anyone from kindergarten to age 25 who makes another person feel "terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested" with no legitimate purpose.
A final vote is set for May 20, according to the Daily Breeze (http://bit.ly/1g3JLNT ).
First-time offenders could be ticketed for an infraction and fined $100. A second infraction would cost $200, and a third-time offense could bring a criminal misdemeanor charge.
"If a child is bullying someone, and a parent has to pay a $100 fine as a result of that, a responsible parent will realize their child needs some help," said Councilman Mike Gipson, who introduced the ordinance and is spearheading a campaign to make Carson bully-free.
Adults who bully would be charged with either an infraction or a misdemeanor, which could come with jail time.
Dog Calls 911 To Save Owner, A U.S. Marine Having Seizure
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Great story.ZANESVILLE (Lu Ann Stoia/Dawn Faugl) — A United States Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan says his dog "Major" is a hero.
That's because the labrador retreiver-pit bull mix mutt called 911 when Terry McGlade collapsed from a seizure.
McGlade said his dog is trained to sense when he is going to have a seizure, and to help him in situations where his PTSD causes anxiety.
McGlade was injured when he was hit by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
He got the trained rescue dog two years ago.
"He was actually able to get my phone out of my pocket. I don't have the phone anymore because there are teeth marks on the phone," said McGlade.
The Marine said the dog stepped on the screen for several seconds and the phone was set up to automatically call 911. Dispatchers never heard the dog bark, but they got suspicious when they received numerous calls from the number and heard a man in the background who sounded confused.
McGlade said the dog then went to the front of the house and waited at the curb for police and medics, then brought them to his handler.
"I probably would have been in severe trouble if he wouldn't have called." McGlade spent the night in the hospital, but said he is doing much better thanks to his best friend.
You can believe what you choose!
I personally don't believe Government Bull Shit and Propaganda. First it was a Deep Freeze coming with another Ice Age, then Global Warming, now Climate Change with this new Scare Tactic report it will be called 'Climate Disruption' !
Do you suppose it might be just coincidental all this comes out during a yearly seasonal weather change that brings on Tornado's and Hurricane's?
Fear Mongering from the Obama Administration Bitches is what it is, in my opinion.
Scientists Slam
Latest
Doomsday
Climate Report
Climatologists and other experts are blasting a new climate change report from the Obama administration, calling it a "litany of doom" that objective scientists won't take seriously.
The National Climate Assessment (NCA), an 840-page report compiled by 300 scientists and experts that was released at a White House event on Tuesday, warns that climate change is a clear and present danger.
"Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the present," according to the report.
Rising temperatures, it asserts, will be responsible not only for more drought, wildfires, flooding, and sea level rise, but also an increased risk of heat-related deaths.
The report states that the effects of climate change are evident in every region of the country, according to Gary Yohe, a Wesleyan University economist and vice-chair of the NCA advisory committee.
"One major take-home message is that just about every place in the country has observed that the climate has changed," he told the Guardian. "It is here and happening, and we are not cherry-picking or fear-mongering."
But that is exactly what the experts are seeking to do, critics charge.
Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James Taylor declared: "Leading authors of this report include staffers for activist groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists, Planet Forward, the Nature Conservancy, and Second Nature. Few objective climate experts will take this report seriously.
"Even those scientists who are not overtly affiliated with environmental activist groups were almost uniformly on the record as global warming alarmists before being chosen to write this report."
Mark Morano offered a round-up of reactions to the global warming report on his Climate Depot website.
Former Colorado State University climatologist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr.: "That much of the media accepted the NCA without questioning its findings and conclusions either indicates they are naïve or they have chosen to promote a particular agenda and this report fits their goal."
Dr. Judith Curry, chairwoman of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology: "The report effectively implies that there is no climate change other than what is caused by humans, and that extreme weather events are equivalent to climate change.
"Worse yet is the spin being put on this by the Obama administration."
Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Marlo Lewis: The report is "designed to scare people and build political support for unpopular policies such as carbon taxes. Alarmists offer untrue, unrelenting doom and gloom."
Dr. Roy Spencer, principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville: Part of the report "is just simply made up. There is no fingerprint of human-caused versus naturally-caused climate change."
Weather Channel Co-founder John Coleman: The report is a "litany of doom," a "total distortion of the data and an agenda-driven, destructive episode of bad science gone berserk."
Climate Depot's Morano said: "By every measure, so-called extreme weather is showing no trend or declining trends on 50-100-year timescales. Droughts, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes are not increasing due to man-made global warming.
"Why does the report now call 'global warming' a new name, so-called
'climate disruption'? Simple answer: Due to earth's failure to warm — no global warming for nearly 18 years — another name was necessary to attempt to gin up fear.
"This report is predetermined science."
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Let The Sun Shine In On White House Solar Panels
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(The Obuma family has solar powered hot water for bathing
saving the tax payers hundreds of Dollars...LOL)
Via Washington Examinerhttp://washingtonexaminer.com/let-the-sun-shine-in-on-white-house-solar-panels/article/feed/2133491?custom_click=rss
Technicians have finished installing solar panels on the White House roof, capping a project that President Barack Obama hopes will send a signal that renewable energy is feasible and environmentally shrewd.
Obama said in 2010 that he would retrofit his family's new home with solar panels
starting in 2011, then use the power generated to heat water for the first family and provide some electricity.
But the project
remained dark until late 2013, when the installation finally started.
Citing security and other concerns, the White House won't say how many panels now encase the top of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. or how much they cost.
The panels are expected to generate 6.3 kilowatts of solar power whenever the sun shines, the White House said.
Obama wants to use his personal example to spur families and businesses to do more to reduce reliance on foreign energy and cut emissions blamed for global warming.
"Solar panels at the White House are a really important message that solar is here, we are doing it, we can do a lot more," Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a video released by the White House.
The project required technicians to first drill down to the concrete on the White House roof, then use epoxy glue and threaded rods to install a gridded subassembly onto which the solar panels could be secured.
The solar components, converters and the labor to install the panels were all domestic, according to the White House, which declined to name any of the companies involved in the project.
"Being at the White House, we do have some security concerns. We can't cover the entire roof, although that would be good from an energy savings standpoint," said James Doherty, the White House usher.
For some climate change activists, the years of delay underscored a lack of urgency. Bill McKibben of the environmental group 350.org said the project was symbolically significant, but also depressingly protracted.
"At this pace, we'll solve global warming right about the time that we're 30 feet under water," McKibben said in an interview.
Obama isn't the first president to deploy solar at the White House.
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President Jimmy Carter spent $30,000 on a solar water-heating system for West Wing offices in the late 1970s, but his successor, Ronald Reagan, tossed the panels after he moved in.
President George W. Bush's solar systems powered a maintenance building and some of the mansion, plus provided heated water for the pool.
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Update to this story:Via Climate Change Dispatch:http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/they-re-back-solar-panels-now-atop-the-white-house.html
A solar panel array now adorns the roof of the White House and will produce an elephantine amount of solar power when the sun is actually shining: 6.3 kilowatts.
If 6.3 kilowatts sounds like a lot of energy, it isn't.
The average home consumes 27 kilowatts of power each day. Far more than the 6.3 kilowatts that will be produced by the new solar panels adorning the White House. According to TradeWind Energy, "one 50-watt light bulb running for 20 hours will use one kilowatt-hour of electricity (50 watts x 20 hours = 1,000 watt-hours = 1 kWh)."
In other words, the White House installed enough solar panels to power six 50-watt bulbs for 20 hours each day.
WTF: Rand Paul Rips Focus on Voter ID Laws
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Every time Paul opens his mouth these days, odds seem around fifty-fifty that he's gonna enunciate some kind of crackpot position.
The latest case in point: Paul believes discussing the need for voter ID is "offending" Americans, especially minorities.
"Everybody's gone completely crazy on this voter ID thing," Paul told The New York Times in an interview on Friday. "I think it's wrong for Republicans to go too crazy on this issue because it's offending people."
...He has even softened his stance on immigration, saying he favors legislation in which all the country's illegal immigrants can get work visas.
But just as Hispanics slammed Paul for being "offensive," even after he took a more liberal approach to immigration in favor of amnesty, black leaders gave him no credit for his softer stance on voter ID laws.
"Get real, Senator," a black member of the Tennessee General Assembly told the Times. "To come here, to Memphis of all places, and espouse the principles and 'goodness' of today's Republican Party, excuse me if I'm not buying it."
What idiocy.
Last year, Mark Levin described what the opposition to voter ID really is:http://therightscoop.com/mark-levin-on-lawsuit-against-nc-voter-id-law-this-isnt-a-civil-rights-issue-democrats-want-to-promote-fraud/
Why does the government issue photo IDs? It's not the private sector issuing them, it's not the [Ku Klux] Klan issuing them. The government is issuing voter ID so the government can know who you are. Now why does the government want to know who you are? Because they want to know who they are giving driver's licenses to; if a police officer stops you they want to know who you are. They want to know if you have insurance. They want to know your age if you want to buy booze. And I can go on and on. There wouldn't be government-issued photos IDs but for the government.
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So my question is [this]: Is the government – are all state governments racist because they are requiring you to have a photo ID, that is a photo with your pigmentation on it? I mean, this is so asinine what the Left is up to in this administration.
You know what it is? Let's just be honest, they want to defend fraud. They want to defend fraud. You can't get on an airplane without a government issued ID. You can't buy booze without a government issued ID. You can't lease an apartment without a government issued ID. You can't do damn near anything without a government issued ID.
Except vote! Anyone can vote without a photo ID at the polls!
Have you ever tried to check into a hotel without a government ID? Have you ever tried to rent a car without a government ID? Don't we hold voting, like, at the top? Haven't we fought the civil rights movement for people to have the right to vote? Why is it ipso facto discriminatory against minorities for people to show an ID? If you have a specific case in which a state, a town, a county or somebody has discriminated against you because of your race, you can bring a federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act, still today and a state lawsuit under state voting rights acts, still today!
But voter integrity is something the Democrat party rejects. Because they want multiple voting. Because they want dead people voting.Who uses it? The big cities use it, among others. When LBJ was running for president or first, for the Senate, it was rural areas that were using it.
So this isn't some civil rights issue. This is to promote fraud.[/i]
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From Breitbart News, BENGHAZI COVER-UP BLOWING UP:We now have the evidence that the State Department knew right away that Benghazi was a jihad terror attack. We know that Susan Rice knew. Hillary Clinton knew. Barack Obama also knew and lied to the American people.
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The Democrats are threatening to boycott the select committee on the Benghazi jihad attack on September 11, 2012. The media is cheering their subterfuge on, hoping to normalize glaring un-Americanism, so that the president can easily follow suit. Once again, the Democrats overreach. Does the Watergate-flogging party mean to stump for the suppression of the truth about the slaughter of our countrymen? Is that their campaign platform? Do they really believe they are going to win on a platform of propaganda?
The emails make it perfectly clear that it was known from the outset that Islamic terrorists planned and coordinated the attacks on our consulate in Benghazi.
Treason is the accurate term for the actions of the Obama administration in the aftermath of Benghazi. The president knew within 24 hours that it was Islamic terror.
And yet in the post-Benghazi fallout, Obama continued to attack and blame free speech for the Benghazi slaughter. Obama, along with Hillary Clinton, starred in a paid advertisement condemning the video insulting Islam. These paid advertisements (funded with American taxpayer dollars) ran in Pakistan. This presidential attack on our freedom and our Constitution was the Obama administration's primary response to the deadly Islamist attack on September 11, 2012.
Obama knew. He knew from the very first. [/i]
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(Remember the DemocRATS who walked out of Benghazi Families hearing!
VOTE THEM OUT!)
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Feds Released
Hundreds of Immigrant
Murderers,
Drunk Drivers,
Sex-Crimes Convicts
By Stephen Dinan -The Washington Times
Monday, May 12, 2014
Immigration officials knowingly released dozens of murderers back into the U.S. in 2013, according to Obama administration statistics detailing all of the criminal convictions of the more than 36,000 immigrants released from custody last year.
The numbers show that the criminals released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had amassed more than 15,000 drunken-driving convictions, 1,317 domestic violence convictions and even four that the statistics listed as "treason, sabotage." There were also convictions for homicide, another 43 for negligent manslaughter, 14 convictions of voluntary manslaughter and one classified as "homicide-willful kill-public official-gun."
The immigrants were in deportation proceedings, meaning ICE was trying to remove them from the country and could have held them in detention, but released them anyway, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, which obtained the numbers and published a report Monday morning. The Washington Times also obtained the statistics.
Jessica Vaughan, policy studies director at the center, said the numbers undercut the Obama administration's own argument that it's trying to keep its enforcement efforts targeted at dangerous criminals.
"We keep hearing from the administration that they are focused like a laser on enforcement against the worst of the worst, convicted criminals, as their top priority. On the other hand, they are releasing, at a rate of about 100 a day, aliens from their custody with criminal convictions, and many of them are serious criminal convictions," she said.
ICE didn't respond to a request for comment Monday morning.Some of the immigrants were likely released in response to an old court decision that said if a home country won't take immigrants back, the U.S. must release them. But Ms. Vaughan said most were likely released on the decision of ICE officials. They are supposed to be subjected to other methods such as monitoring, bond or their own recognizance.
The details on criminals released comes even as ICE has told Congress it doesn't need to hold as many immigrants in detention. In its budget request this year, ICE asked that Congress only fund slightly more than 30,500 detention beds a day, or down from the 34,000 set in current law.
"This funding level of beds will allow ICE to detain the current mandatory population, as well as the higher-risk, non-mandatory detainees," ICE Deputy Director Daniel Ragsdale testified in March.
But Ms. Vaughan said that rings hollow if the administration is already releasing murderers and other serious criminals even with 34,000 detention beds.
The 36,007 criminal aliens counted in the data had more than 87,000 convictions among them: 9,187 convictions for what ICE labeled "dangerous drugs," 2,691 assault convictions, 1,724 weapons offenses and even 303 convictions for "fight escape" — a category that would seem to make them bad candidates for being released back into the country. There were 647 convictions of traffic hit-and-run, 426 sexual assaults, 727 other sex-crimes convictions and 228 kidnapping convictions.
The immigrants are in addition to the 68,000 other immigrants that ICE officers came across but didn't put into deportation proceedings.
Last year, ICE came under fire for releasing thousands of immigrants and blaming it on the sequester budget cuts. Among those released were 622 criminals — including 24 with repeated major felony convictions so bad that the administration had to go recapture them.
Officials later said it wasn't the sequester, but rather the regular budget process that caused them to have to release the immigrants. They said they'd been running above the 34,000 detention level for too long and would have had to cut detention to average out the numbers.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/12/feds-released-hundreds-immigrant-murderers-drunken/#ixzz31XCWBd1U
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Oh No! Israel Is Spying On Us... (all the ugly details)
Hmmmm... Pot calls kettle black?
The USA, who spies on her own citizens, as much as any iron curtain nation ever did, as well as on every other nation on earth including, probably, Bora Bora, now complains about Israeli 'aggressive' spying on the USA.
Oh, the humanity!
Spying! Can you imagine that?
Story here, complete with hand wringing and various sordid details for your entertainment and enjoyment:
http://www.newsweek.com/israel-wont-stop-spying-us-249757
http://www.newsweek.com/israels-aggressive-spying-us-mostly-hushed-250278
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Benghazi lies... Nothing new.
Why the coverups,'doublespeak' and lies?
That is all that politicians are able to do. It simply is not in them to do good or to relate the truth to the American people except accidently.
Lives lost are meaningless to them. If it isn't hurting them they just do not care.
They send people to war at the drop of a hat if the coffers need filling.
Their work is based on lies and cover ups because it is always shrouded in evil.
They are out to make money. Nothing else matters to them and so everything is bent, twisted, skewed and redirected in order to fill pockets.
It does not matter what nation you live in, these people are the same and will only do what benefits them.
They lack character, have no ethics, have low to non-existent morals and their standards are based on what is expedient and good for them at the time.
They will back up and support their own enemies if it gets them what they want. They will finance both sides of a conflict in order to reap riches in the end. Look how they sell arms and equipment to both sides in a conflict.
A politician's religion is all for show. It is meaningless because they worship self above all. G-d is trotted out only when useful or as a very last resort.
You notice that they always live well above the national standard. They have mansions while taxpayers live from day to day. They vacation while you work yourself to death. They wear designer clothing while you shop at Walmart.
Politicians view even their own nations as cash cows to be raped, exploited, ripped off and drained dry. If it fills their pockets, they are all for it no matter what it is. If there is no money to be made they don't care. Profit determines what causes and campaigns they will undertake. A politician's ego is faith in his own warped genius.
....Warph
Scarborough Takes Deutsch to Woodshed Over Benghazi Email
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Via The Black Spherehttp://theblacksphere.net/2014/5/former-janitor-selected-by-rams#!
Here is the St. Louis Ram you
SHOULD be hearing about, and it's not Michael Sam. It's the janitor at the Edward Jones Dome, home of the St. Louis Rams. Former Utah State star safety Maurice Alexander's story is the story on which Obama should be commenting. It's a story of redemption and showcases the American Spirit; which is why Obama is ignoring it.
Back in 2012, Alexander was sentenced to a year in jail after punching a teammate at a party. No doubt Alexander was likely an angry young man, as most young black men are. His career was derailed, as he plead guilty to a lesser charge, and the judge suspended all but 45 days of the sentence.
For his transgression, Alexander was kicked off the team and returned home to Eureka, Missouri. Alexander actually worked as a janitor as the stadium in which he had hoped he would one day play.
"I always stood at the end of that field and I just looked at it. This could be my dream spot. Look where I'm at now." – M. AlexanderAlexander would get a second chance.The team reinstated him in 2013. He had a stellar year at Utah State, and attended the combine, where NFL prospects show their skills.
He was selected by the Rams in the fourth round as the 110th selection.
Alexander says that his year away from football shaped him into the person he is today. But Obama and the Left aren't telling this story. Because for them, there is a bigger story about a lesser black athlete who has overcome nothing.
All Michael Sam did was announced that he is gay. Today, that's all it takes for "stardom."
Karl Rove Suggests Hillary Might Have Brain Damage
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(The problem isn't damage to the brain, the problem is damage to the soul)
Via NY Post:http://pagesix.com/2014/05/12/karl-rove-hillary-clinton-may-have-brain-damage/
Karl Rove stunned a conference when he suggested Hillary Clinton might have brain damage.
Onstage with Robert Gibbs and CBS correspondent and "Spies Against Armageddon" co-author Dan Raviv, Rove said Republicans should keep the Benghazi issue alive.
He said if Clinton runs for president, voters must be told what happened when she suffered a fall in December 2012.
The official diagnosis was a blood clot. Rove told the conference near LA Thursday, "Thirty days in the hospital? And when she reappears, she's wearing glasses that are only for people who have traumatic brain injury? We need to know what's up with that."Rove repeated the claim a number of times to the audience. Clinton's rep said, "Please assure Dr. Rove she's 100 percent."
Republicans Overturn Obuma Decision To Deny Honors
And Benefits To The Victims Of Fort Hood Terrorist Attack
(Finally, for the long suffering families. ***Has Benghazi hero Glen Doherty's family not received his benefits and insurance for the same absurd reason?)
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Via IJR:Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee will overturn one consequence of Obama's unwillingness to recognize the terrorism of the Fort Hood attack: victims will be eligible for the Purple Heart, allowing survivors to receive better and prompter health care from the VA. More than that, every victim will get the recognition and honor due to them.
From KCEN-TV:"I applaud the Members of the committee for their leadership in approving this important piece of legislation for Fort Hood and the surrounding community," said Sen. Cornyn. "The 2009 Fort Hood victims should be eligible for all the honors and benefits available to U.S. troops who fall victim to an international terrorist attack, especially Purple Heart medals, and this would make that a reality."
"Nearly five years have passed since the horrible tragedy at Fort Hood took the lives of 13 innocent Americans," said Congressman Williams. "It is beyond comprehension why the current Administration has labeled this gruesome terrorist attack "workplace violence," leaving the victims and their families without the benefits, treatment and honor they earned and deserve. This provision in the NDAA would restore the full range of deserved benefits for the victims. Though justice cannot bring back those we lost, justice can be served for the killed and injured troops whose brave actions prevented further bloodshed.
This comes at the same time that the administration is defending itself against charges that decisions were made in the Benghazi attack were animated by the same impulse – to protect Obama instead of protecting Americans.
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Absolutely Shameful: Benghazi Hero Glenn Doherty's Family Hasn't Received His Death Benefit Or Insurance Payment
This is a Facebook post from Glen Doherty's friend, Brandon Webb, who had to help pay to put him in the ground because our government hasn't paid his death benefit or insurance payment to his family/estate. While we have certainly have talked about how the State Department failed the men in Benghazi, and talked about Hillary Clinton's role, Webb also puts another name on the failure to protect them that isn't mentioned enough.
Via Brandon Webb:**WARNING** Benghazi rant: If politicians wanted to truly get to the bottom of Benghazi they would stop political grandstanding on both sides of the party lines and they'd do two things straight away:
1. Take care of the families involved. I can't speak for the other three Americans but my friend Glen Doherty's family/estate hasn't received a death benefit or an insurance payment through his DBA policy with the CIA. His friends and I paid to put him in the ground out of our own pockets.
2. They would start to demand that Patrick Kennedy (yes he's a "Kennedy"), the DOS Undersecretary of management, be held accountable at State. His leadership resulted in denied security requests, and he purposely slowed down the follow on investigation at State. He left his people and Stevens in perilous danger, and his neglect, and lack of leadership (Lions led by Lambs at DOS) contributed to four dead Americans.
And I don't care about some goddamn sound byte on Fox news by some American Congressman that's never held a real job, and isn't affected by the same rules as the rest of us but figured out how to use Benghazi for his own political benefit. I certainly don't care about some political "investigation" to get to the bottom of things until 1 and 2 are addressed.
I care about taking care of Americans and holding people accountable for their actions.
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We keep touting the cause here because in our heads, we see the faces of these men, and those of their families, of Charles Woods and his family, and Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith.
How can we ignore them?
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Picture of Glen from Glen Doherty Foundation Page. Please visit and get to know more about him: http://www.glendohertyfoundation.org/about-glen/
(All Emphasis Is Mine)Conspiracy Theory?
You Decide!
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107th Congress (2001-2002)
H.R.2977.IH
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H.R.2977 -- Space Preservation Act of 2001 (Introduced in House - IH)
HR 2977 IH
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2977
To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 2, 2001
Mr. KUCINICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, and International Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Space Preservation Act of 2001'.
SEC. 2. REAFFIRMATION OF POLICY ON THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE IN SPACE.
Congress reaffirms the policy expressed in section 102(a) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2451(a)), stating that it `is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.'.
SEC. 3. PERMANENT BAN ON BASING OF WEAPONS IN SPACE.
The President shall--
(1) implement a permanent ban on space-based weapons of the United States and remove from space any existing space-based weapons of the United States; and
(2) immediately order the permanent termination of research and development, testing, manufacturing, production, and deployment of all space-based weapons of the United States and their components.
SEC. 4. WORLD AGREEMENT BANNING SPACE-BASED WEAPONS.
The President shall direct the United States representatives to the United Nations and other international organizations to immediately work toward negotiating, adopting, and implementing a world agreement banning space-based weapons.
SEC. 5. REPORT.
The President shall submit to Congress not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days thereafter, a report on--
(1) the implementation of the permanent ban on space-based weapons required by section 3; and
(2) progress toward negotiating, adopting, and implementing the agreement described in section 4.
SEC. 6. NON SPACE-BASED WEAPONS ACTIVITIES.
Nothing in this Act may be construed as prohibiting the use of funds for--
(1) space exploration;
(2) space research and development;
(3) testing, manufacturing, or production that is not related to space-based weapons or systems; or
(4) civil, commercial, or defense activities (including communications, navigation, surveillance, reconnaissance, early warning, or remote sensing) that are not related to space-based weapons or systems.
SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) The term `space' means all space extending upward from an altitude greater than 60 kilometers above the surface of the earth and any celestial body in such space.
(2)(A) The terms `weapon' and `weapons system' mean a device capable of any of the following:
(i) Damaging or destroying an object (whether in outer space, in the atmosphere, or on earth) by--
(I) firing one or more projectiles to collide with that object;
(II) detonating one or more explosive devices in close proximity to that object;
(III) directing a source of energy (including molecular or atomic energy, subatomic particle beams, electromagnetic radiation, plasma, or extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation) against that object; or
(IV) any other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means.
(ii) Inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person)--
(I) through the use of any of the means described in clause (i) or subparagraph (B);
(II) through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information
war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations; or
(III) by expelling chemical or biological agents in the vicinity of a person.
(B) Such terms include
exotic weapons systems such as--
(i) electronic,
psychotronic, or information weapons;
(ii)
chemtrails; (iii)
high altitude ultra low frequency weapons systems; (iv) plasma, electromagnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons;
(v) laser weapons systems;
(vi) strategic, theater, tactical, or extraterrestrial weapons; and
(vii) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons.
(C) The term
`exotic weapons systems' includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems (such as the ionosphere and upper atmosphere) or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region on earth or in space.http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.2977.IH:
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(From a separate source)
I Wonder why this bill failed to pass!
Don't you?
No Surprise Here, Is There!
Russia to ban US
from using Space Station
over Ukraine sanctions
In retaliation for imposing sanctions, Russia will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites.
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From left: Steve Swanson from the US and Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev from Russia before the launch Photo: Camera Press/Ria Novosti
Reuters
7:56PM BST 13 May 2014
Russia is to deny the US future use of the International Space Station beyond 2020 and will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites as it hits back at American sanctions imposed over Ukraine crisis.
Russia's deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced a series of punitive measures on Tuesday against the US in response to sanctions imposed after Russia annexed Crimea.
The two countries have long cooperated closely on space exploration despite their clashes in foreign policy.
The Space Station is manned by both American and Russian crew, but the only way to reach it is by using Russia's Soyuz spacecraft.
The US is keen to keep the $100 billion (£600) ISS flying until at least 2024, four years beyond its original target.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10828964/Russia-to-ban-US-from-using-Space-Station-over-Ukraine-sanctions.html
WND EXCLUSIVE
Knockout Game fueled by 'Holder effect'?
'It was attorney general who announced his department would side with his people'
Published: 01/10/2014 at 8:09 PM
Drew Zahn
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When Barack Obama – the son of a black father and white mother – was elected president in 2008, many hailed it as a monumental step forward for racial reconciliation in the U.S.
But five years into his presidency, is the Obama White House actually making racial tensions worse?
That's the charge of Russ Vaughn, who posits in an American Thinker commentary that Attorney General Eric Holder's treatment of the "Knockout Game" phenomenon is revealing the White House's racial agenda is more concerned with retribution than reconciliation.
"The Obama administration and the Holder Justice Department are deliberately disinclined to prosecute hate crimes where blacks are the perpetrators and whites are the victims," Vaughn writes. "It is becoming increasingly disturbing that it is not just the Obama administration and the brown-nosed media that have attempted to sweep this new criminal activity under the rug, but [also] local police departments. It's happening all over the country, and not just in the major urban centers. I call this racialization of the law and criminality the Holder Effect, for it was the relatively new attorney general who famously announced that his Justice Department would side with 'his people.'"
Vaughn's column alludes to the Knockout Game, a violent trend wherein young thugs deliver unsuspecting victims a single blow to the head in an attempt to "knock out" the target. Dozens of examples in recent months have shown the Knockout Game is particularly popular among black youths targeting white or Jewish victims.
Black mobs routinely terrorize cities across the country, but the media and government are silent. Read the detailed account of rampant racial crime in "White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It."
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Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/knockout-game-fueled-by-holder-effect/#GLOxBFCGxqzmiTIc.99
***WARNING*** WORDS, expressing all details in a clear and obvious way, leaving no doubt as to the intended meaning. ***WARNING***
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Up Close and Personal: Huma Abedin leans in to advise Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, during an Open Government Partnership event in New York in 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Two decades after her affair with Bill Clinton, Gennifer Flowers reveals they'd be together now if it wasn't for Chelsea and how former president confided in her that Hillary was bisexual
•Flowers's 12-year affair with Bill Clinton was exposed in 1992 during his presidential campaign
•She bitterly regrets rejecting him when he last begged to see her and says he's the 'love of her life'
•Launching a career as a sex columnist she says Clinton taught her everything she knows•Bill told her Hillary was 'bisexual' and that he had 'no problem with that'Bill Clinton: 'Hillary's Eaten More Pussy Than I Have!'
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It's not exactly hard to imagine Bill Clinton using those exact words
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The Following is excerpted from The Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424555/Bill-Clintons-mistress-Gennifer-Flowers-Wed-today-wasnt-Chelsea.html#ixzz2fM6vnLr6
Their 12-year affair made Gennifer Flowers one of the most high profile mistresses in America. Now, two decades after they split amid scandal, the former news reporter from Little Rock, Arkansas wants to 'sit down and talk' with Bill Clinton.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Gennifer has spoken of her deep regret at turning down Clinton's pleas to talk some eight years ago and revealed her belief that they would still be together today, were it not the birth of Clinton's daughter, Chelsea.
She said: 'We have some unresolved issues that it would be nice to sit down and talk about now. He was the love of my life and I was the love of his life and you don't get over those things.'
By then all lines of communication with Clinton had been severed and she had no contact with him for 13 years when he called out of the blue. She said: 'He called me back in 2005 in New Orleans. He wanted to put on the hoodie and jog on over like he used to.
'First I was just shocked. He was so adamant about wanting to sit down and talk to me in person.
'It almost seemed like what I had heard of people who were going through a 12 step program and wanted to atone to people for various things.'
'Bill and I would be together today if it wasn't for politics. It was me, Bill and Hillary. Then they had Chelsea and the stakes got too high.'
On 23 January 1992 tabloid, The Star named Gennifer as Clinton's mistress. Three days later he and wife Hillary appeared on 60 minutes, side by side, flat denying the claim.
Six years later Clinton admitted to having sexual relations with Gennifer 'one time' in 1977 in his deposition to lawyers representing former Arkansas State employee Paula Jones in her sexual harassment lawsuit against him.
Clinton, now 67, also shared a lot of intimacies regarding his marriage to Hillary.They left Gennifer in no doubt that the union is far from 'traditional.'
She said: 'What they have is very strong.'It obviously worked for them but I've never considered theirs a traditional marriage.'
When rumours surfaced recently of an affair between Hillary Clinton and her transition office chief, Huma Abedin, 37, Gennifer was not surprised.
Gennifer said: 'I don't know Huma or the Weiners. I just know what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn't care. He should know.
'He said Hillary had eaten more pussy than he had.'Yet however much their roles as mistress and wife cast Gennifer and Hillary Clinton as natural rivals Gennifer claimed to feel a sense of solidarity with Hillary, 65, and would support Hillary's candidacy for President.
Keep Reading:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2424555/Bill-Clintons-mistress-Gennifer-Flowers-Wed-today-wasnt-Chelsea.html#ixzz2fM6vnLr6
If Economic Cycle Theorists Are Correct, 2015 To 2020 Will Be Pure Hell For The United States
By Michael Snyder, on May 12th, 2014
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Does the economy move in predictable waves, cycles or patterns? There are many economists that believe that it does, and if their projections are correct, the rest of this decade is going to be pure hell for the United States. Many mainstream economists want nothing to do with economic cycle theorists, but it should be noted that economic cycle theories have enabled some analysts to correctly predict the timing of recessions, stock market peaks and stock market crashes over the past couple of decades. Of course none of the theories discussed below is perfect, but it is very interesting to note that all of them seem to indicate that the U.S. economy is about to enter a major downturn. So will the period of 2015 to 2020 turn out to be pure hell for the United States? We will just have to wait and see.
Read More At: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/if-economic-cycle-theorists-are-correct-2015-to-2020-will-be-pure-hell-for-the-united-states
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Report: Food Prices Skyrocket:
"We're Going to Have a Major Problem Coming Into the Fall"
Mac Slavo
May 14th, 2014
While government statisticians claim robust growth, recent data points suggest otherwise. Consumers are quickly running out of money, home sales have collapsed and hit their biggest drop in three years, there are more Americans out of the labor force than ever before, and one third of adults under the age of 35 are living with their parents because they can no longer afford to pay their own mortgage.By all accounts, the reality is that
we are now factually in a recession, a point further emphasized by the recent revelation that American companies are experiencing near zero percent earnings growth.
But that's just the beginning. As we warned earlier this year, food prices would see a steady rise through 2014 because of increased global demand, drought and continued degradation of the U.S. dollar.
The Producer Price Index made available by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics this morning has now confirmed those fears. Consumers are seeing an immediate impact to their wallets in the form of food price inflation and in all likelihood the trend will continue going forward.
These latest numbers are serious. So much so that according to
Zero Hedge, "the last time food prices spiked by this much in one month, the resulting Arab Spring wave of revolutions tumbled governments across north Africa and the middle east."
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The trend over the last several months shows a clear and sustained rise in prices for food, something that nearly 50 millions are already struggling to acquire, even with assistance from the government. Now their food stamps buy even less. And if people are spending more on food, it means they'll be spending less in other sectors of the economy.
Karl Denninger at The Market Ticker warns that this is bad news because consumers are now paying
7.4% more for food on an annual basis than they were last year, a scenario which could lead to macro-economic repercussions by Fall.
Food was up huge, and people will dismiss the headline 0.6% (monthly, which would be a 7.4% annual inflation rate!) on food, which of course doesn't "hit" core.
There's a problem with that however – services were up the same 0.6% monthly behind an 0.7% increase last month, and "core" is up 0.3% on goods, which is a 3.7% rate of increase. This pushed the 12 month rate beyond the Fed's 2% target.
The next claim that will be made is that this is "transitory." Unfortunately the intermediate (~1-3 months forward) and crude (~3-6 month forward) numbers tell a very different story.
The intermdiate trend in foods is bad news; that is a monthly change. Energy has been the counterbalance the last two months on an intermediate term, and has kept things in check, and "less foods and energy" has been reasonably-behaved — right up until this year. Now it's looking less-so. But the alarm bells are not there, they're in the forward trend on the crude side.
Here's the problem — we're several percent ahead of last year's rate at this time of the year. Spring into early summer tends to have a PPI increase in crude goods. But if that spread continues we're going to have a major problem coming into the fall as this works through the system, and given unit labor costs and productivity numbers
(both going the wrong way too) there is no ability to absorb it.
Now let me point out that we're not quite where you have to ring the "oh crap" bell yet. There's another month or two before that happens — but by June, if the trend we're seeing here hasn't broken this will get into the forward economic analysis mindspace of most of the people who look at this stuff.
I don't like the trend at all.
Charts and full analysis:
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=229009Within the next couple of months we're going to have a very good idea of where this is all headed. If prices don't turn down, then by Fall we're going to have a big problem:There is no ability in the economy to absorb such price increases as productivity and unit labor cost figures have shown. Instead, what this will produce is recession – deep recession.
Look out below.
Ophthalmologist Says Hillary's Glasses Show She Suffered From Double Vision
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Via Fox News:A New York ophthalmologist told FoxNews.com that special glasses former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was seen wearing last year are
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Dr. Marc Werner explained the purpose of the Fresnel prism eyeglasses, like the ones Clinton wore, amid questions about the potential presidential candidate's health. The subject was raised after Karl Rove commented on her time in and out of the hospital in December 2012.
"In order to see one object, your eyes need to be pointed in the same direction. If your eyes are misaligned, one way to optically align them is to put a prism ... on your glasses," Werner said.
In late 2012, Clinton was suffering from a stomach virus when she fell at her home, struck her head and endured a concussion, according to her representatives. Doctors later discovered a blood clot behind her right ear. Werner says severe head trauma could have caused double vision and Clinton's need for Fresnel prism glasses.
"Any issue which raises intracranial pressure can damage one of the nerves which moves the eye around, and if it damages one of the nerves, your eyes will be misaligned — maybe temporarily, maybe more permanently," Werner said.
Hillary Lectures America: "We Have To Be Kinder, More Compassionate And Empathetic" At Home And Abroad...
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Via Breitbart:Friday on ABC's final "The View" episode with Barbara Walters, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lectured Americans after visiting the 9/11 Museum and said, "We have got to be kinder, and we have to be more compassionate and empathetic" to both each other and countries like the "Ukraine, Russia and China".
Dem Poll: Half Of Young Obama Voters Don't Plan To Vote Blue In November
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(Exodus from Obumabot-Land)
Via Hot Air:Behold, yet another data point indicating that Obama's 2012 re-election coalition is splintering or flat-out apathetic heading into the midterm cycle, via the Washington Post.
As this graph illustrates, less than a third of Obama's 2012 Millennial voters say they'll "definitely" vote for Democrats this fall. Almost as many have abandoned the party label completely, either by shifting to independent status or by supporting Republicans. When this Democratic pollster tabulates the data, he finds that only half of all the young Obama voters surveyed will definitely, probably, or maybe vote for Democrats in the midterms. The rest plan to sit at home, or to back other candidates.
"Lurch" Kerry Commemorates "International Day Against Homophobia And Transphobia"
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Via State Department:Today of all days, we are reminded that the cause of justice can and must triumph over hatred and prejudice. This is a day of action for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities and their allies all over the world. It is time to reaffirm our commitment to the equality and dignity of all persons, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
It's not lost on anyone that this year's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) coincides with the 60th anniversary of the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. Our commitment to advancing the human rights of LGBT persons is part of this country's long history of fighting to ensure that all people can exercise their human rights.
We have seen incredible progress in the fight to advance the human rights and fundamental freedoms of LGBT persons.
And the United States is proud to be doing its part. This past week, we convened religious leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations to think about how we work together to promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons. Next week, we will convene meetings with our private sector allies to discuss the important role of the business community in promoting equality and the ways we can partner through the Global Equality Fund.
But this must be more than a moment to celebrate how far we have come. We know that our work is not complete when countries enact laws targeting LGBT persons and their supporters. We know that our work is not complete when LGBT persons and their allies are harassed, arrested, and even killed simply because of who they are and who they love.
The United States condemns these senseless acts of violence and discrimination. Human rights are universal, and LGBT persons and their allies must be free to exercise them without fear of intimidation or reprisal.
When our LGBT brothers and sisters are threatened anywhere, it is a threat to freedom, justice and dignity of people everywhere. The United States will continue to protect and promote the human rights of LGBT persons worldwide this day and every day. Onward. I salute you!
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India's Elephant Man
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Mooch Obuma Marks Barbara Walters Retirement With A Picture Of . . . Mooch Obuma
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Student Suspended For BB Gun In Car Off Campus
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(Just a normal BB Gun and not an assault BB Gun. Another knee jerk response from academia. Next time, hide the pistol so it won't be seen, dummy)
Via Red Alert Politicshttp://redalertpolitics.com/2014/05/16/student-suspended-bb-gun-car-campus/
A student at Dubuque Senior High School in Iowa was briefly suspended Wednesday for storing a BB gun in his car parked off of campus grounds, reports KWWL. According to school district spokesperson Mike Cyze, a parent spotted the exposed BB gun in the car near campus and notified police. Authorities then searched the vehicle and confiscated the pistol.
However, Cyze announced Friday that, following the district's investigation, the suspension was lifted. He also said the student's ban from school on Wednesday was standard procedure and would not appear on any permanent record.
Immediately following the incident, Dan Johnson, principle of the high school, wrote in an e-mail to parents, "This incident is an important reminder that the school district and area law enforcement do not take the presence of these weapons lightly."
Johnson also stressed in his message that there was never a "threat" to Dubuque students or staff because the BB gun remained in the vehicle and was not taken onto school grounds.
This incident is one of several odd disciplinary actions at schools across the country in recent months: a six-year-old in Colorado was suspended for sexual harassment after kissing a girl on the hand, a second grader in Maryland was suspended for biting his Pop-Tart in the shape of a gun, and an Illinois teen received a suspension for wearing a t-shirt with an AK-47 pictured on it.
Dept of Agriculture Orders Submachine Guns with 30 Round Magazines
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A May 7th solicitation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks "the commercial acquisition of submachine guns [in] .40 Cal. S&W."
According to the solicitation, the Dept. of Agriculture wants the guns to have an "ambidextrous safety, semiautomatic or 2 round [bursts] trigger group, Tritium night sights front and rear, rails for attachment of flashlight (front under fore group) and scope (top rear), stock collapsible or folding," and a "30 rd. capacity" magazine.They also want the submachine guns to have a "sling," be "lightweight," and have an "oversized trigger guard for gloved operation."
The solicitation directs "all responsible and/or interested sources...[to] submit their company name, point of contact, and telephone." Companies that submit information in a "timely" fashion "shall be considered by the agency for contact to determine weapon suitability."
Canadian Football League Fines Player Who Tweeted His Displeasure
At Seeing Michael Sam Kiss His Boyfriend After Being Drafted
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TORONTO, May 16, 2014 – http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-football-league-fines-player-who-spoke-out-on-nfl-draft-of-openly
The Canadian Football League has fined Calgary Stampeders receiver Maurice Price after Price last week tweeted his displeasure at the events surrounding the NFL draft of Michael Sam, the openly homosexual defensive end who will join the St. Louis Rams.
"The CFL will not tolerate discrimination of any kind," said CFL Commissioner Mark Cohon in a statement. "Whether its race, religion or sexual preference, our values are of acceptance and equality. We fully support openly gay athletes in our league, and in the sports community in general."
"My faith won't let me accept what took place over the weekend. Sorry, not sorry! #AdamAndEve #NotAdamAndAdam," Price had tweeted.
He was referring to reports that when Sam heard the news of being picked up by the St. Louis Rams at the last moment of the seventh and final round of the draft pick, he gave his boyfriend a big kiss while sports networks recorded his reaction.
"Sam was in San Diego watching with friends and family at the home of his agent, Joe Barkett of Empire Athletes. ESPN and the NFL Network had cameras there and showed Sam's reaction," the CBC reported.
CBC reported:Price joins a list of other players who were sanctioned for publicly making comments about Sam, who is the first openly homosexual player to be drafted by the National Football League (NFL). Sam had publicly proclaimed his homosexuality in media interviews earlier this year.
"Sam was on the phone bending over, with his boyfriend hugging him and rubbing his left bicep. When Sam got off the phone, the tears started. He gave his boyfriend a big kiss and a long hug as he cried and his eyes reddened. After, they shared cake — and another kiss," the CBC said.
Other athletes that have faced backlash from homosexualists and disciplinary action from their sports organizations relating to Sam include Montreal Alouettes wide receiver Arland Bruce, who was fined by the CFL for urging Sam on social media to "submit fully to God"; Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive tackle Bryant Turner Jr, who was fined by the CFL for tweeting, "Michael Sam locker-room gonna come with complimentary robes"; Miami Dolphins safety Don Jones, who was fined an undisclosed amount by the NFL and forced to undergo "educational training" after he tweeted "OMG" and "Horrible" in reaction to Sam's performance.
In reaction to these sanctions, Price tweeted, "And it's highly disturbing that under the current constitution individuals have been fined for verbalizing their thoughts."
But after facing social media retaliation, Price tweeted, "Of course my words get misconstrued. I wish Sam nothing but the best and hope he has a fantastic career. It's nothing personal against him."
He subsequently deleted all his tweets.
All the other athletes mentioned also deleted their posts, with some making public apologies, describing their comments as "inappropriate."
The Stampeders released a statement of their own condemning Price's tweets, saying the team was "outraged" by his "repugnant" comments.
"The Calgary Stampeders are outraged by the offensive comments made today in tweets from Maurice Price's account. The comments are repugnant and in no way reflect the organization's views or values. The matter will now be dealt with internally," the statement said.
Price, who hails from Orlando, Florida, has played the last two seasons for Calgary.
Woman removed from job at Kansas Catholic parish after publicizing her gay 'marriage'
by Kirsten Andersen
Fri May 16, 2014 13:56 EST
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Kansas City, MO, May 16, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Coordinator of Social Ministries at the Jesuit-run St. Francis Xavier Catholic Parish in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph has been removed from her duties after she revealed publicly in an interview with a local magazine that she had "married" her lesbian lover.Colleen Simon – a lapsed Catholic and divorced mother of two adult children who now embraces the faith of her same-sex partner, Lutheran pastor Donna Simon – was asked to resign last week after 816 Magazine ran a profile of local community leaders which stated Colleen and Donna had been legally "married" in Iowa in 2012. That is a clear violation of Catholic moral teaching, which says marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.Colleen refused to resign, telling diocesan officials that they would have to fire her if they wanted her to leave. She told the Kansas City Star it was not a principled stand – she merely wanted to ensure she would receive unemployment benefits upon her separation from the diocese.
The diocese opted to go ahead and fire her – a decision Colleen told the Kansas City Star she believes was made directly by Bishop Robert Finn. She said she was not surprised by the decision. "I knew this was a losing engagement," she said. "I was just hoping for a longer engagement."
Colleen claims the previous pastor at St. Francis Xavier knew she was in a same-sex "marriage" when he hired her last year (he has since been replaced). She said she spoke openly about her "spouse" and her "beloved," but tried to avoid referring to Donna – who flies a rainbow flag outside her St. Mark Hope and Peace Lutheran Church – as her "wife."
Still, the pair appear to have been very "out" in their local community. Multiple posts on Donna's public Facebook page openly refer to Colleen as "my beautiful wife" – including a photo caption from the Easter Vigil in which she described her partner as "totes adorbs" – and on the day the diocese first contacted Colleen about the consequences of the article, Donna wrote on Facebook that she was "angry" and called the Catholic Church a "homophobic institution." She also said, "It wasn't a secret that Colleen is married to me. She was honest with the parish and its leaders."
Colleen herself hinted publicly at the nature of their relationship in print back in April, in an article for the Ecclesio blog entitled, "You Must Be A Pontiff." In her bio for the blog, she described herself as living "with three dogs, three cats, and one Lutheran pastor, to whom she is legally married, at least in Iowa."
St. Francis Xavier had been Colleen's fourth job in the Catholic Church since leaving her former career as a pharmaceutical representative. Previously, she worked in the Virginia's Diocese of Richmond as the associate director of the Office of Justice and Peace and the diocesan director for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Prior to that, she worked for Commonwealth Catholic Charities as a regional coordinator for Justice and Peace. Both of those jobs were held under her previous married name, Colleen Barranger.
After her "marriage" to Donna Simon, however, she changed her name, relocated to Kansas City and took a job as a secretary at St. James Catholic Church before finally moving on to St. Francis Xavier.
LifeSiteNews contacted the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese to request comment regarding Simon's hiring and eventual termination. However, diocesan spokesman Jack Smith said the diocese was unable to comment on personnel matters.
Conspiracy Theorists (aka crazy people)
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When I was young, a lot of conspiracy theorists (aka crazy people) were convinced that fluoride in our water was a Commie plot to destroy America one glass at a time. Back then, I discounted it as a result of the Cold War jitters, but for the past six years I've found myself wondering if young Barack, in addition to cocaine and marijuana, used to mainline fluoride back in Hawaii.
You would think that millionaires and billionaires would finally tell Obuma to either stop using them as scapegoats for what's wrong with this country or stop diving into their pockets every chance he gets. Instead, they keep showing up at his $35,000-a-plate fund raisers. Just recently, he went so far as to invite the future heirs of those people to the White House, softening them up for the DNC. One of the 19-year-old invitees said after the meet-and-greet that he thought they'd be hitting him and the other scions up for donations, and was surprised when it didn't happen. I guess that even though he will one day be able to write checks with six or seven zeroes on them, he doesn't yet understand how these things work. The Democrats are certifiably cuckoo, but even they know better than to kill the goose before it's had a chance to lay golden eggs.
Speaking of kids, I have long believed that the greatest gift they could ever receive would be to live 24 hours 20 or 30 years in the future, just so they could see how unimportant all the things that plague them today really are. Things like asking or being asked for a date, getting a bad grade on a test, a falling-out with a friend, things that loom so large for a 15 or 16-year-old and lead some of them to take their own lives, are so trivial in the long run. But you can only realize that long afterwards. No teenager can ever believe that he won't even remember the name of the girl in the 10th grade he has a crush on or the name of the teacher who's driving him nuts today. For that reason alone, someone should get to work inventing a time machine. It would prevent an awful lot of heartache.
But sometimes even age doesn't bring wisdom. It was, after all, Albert Einstein who said,
"To my mind to kill in war is not a whit better than committing ordinary murder." Was he serious? Did he honestly believe that the soldiers who killed Nazis and liberated concentration camp prisoners were no better than garden variety murderers? Some people, I'd suggest, should stick to physics or, perhaps, get one.
There seems to be a controversy over whether after we remove our main force from Afghanistan, we should leave behind 5,000 or 12,000 soldiers. Their mission, we're told, would be to train Afghans to defend their own country. Now I'm willing to grant that they may be slow learners, but if we haven't taught them the basics after a dozen years, I think it's time to accept it's a lost cause. The one thing these clowns seem to have learned is how to murder our soldiers and doctors. So, understand I'm just asking, but how much worse could things be if the Taliban came back and ran things? As I see it, where Muslims are concerned, there's precious little difference between one group and another.
It recently occurred to me why they call liberal arts colleges liberal arts colleges. It's because conservative professors are never hired and conservative students are persona non grata. That doesn't stop the colleges from bragging about their tolerance and their desire for diversity, at least so long as it's only diversity of pigmentation and not political opinion.
Along with that time machine, it would be a boon to mankind if someone would come up with a way to convert liberal hypocrisy into a source of unlimited renewable energy. But, alas, as things stand, all it's good for is making my head explode and forcing steam to shoot out of my ears.
The other day, a friend of mine was ruing the fact that the GOP seems incapable of selling itself to the public. I agreed. I went on: "They can't even agree on a plan with which to replace ObumaCrappyCare. But Reince Priebus has some worthwhile ideas for 2016, which include a shorter primary campaign, fewer debates, along with a ban on liberal moderators, and an earlier convention date.
And if I had his job, I would make it a hard and fast rule that Reagan's 11th Commandment would be strictly enforced. In short, Scott, Rand, Rick, Ted, Mike, Bobby, Chris, etc., would get to tell us why he should be the standard bearer, period, and not waste our time pointing out that the other guys are rats and weasels. Step over the line, and a trapdoor will open underneath you. When you came to, you'd be on a small raft in the middle of the Atlantic, heading for Greenland.
We know that Demo-Rats will be throwing mud at our candidate, but at least make the bastards find their own damn mud.
Based on his blatant arrogance, it's obvious that the endless praise Barack Obuma has received from the likes of the New York Times, the Washington Post, the major networks, CNN and the screwballs in Hollywood and at MSNBC, over the past six years went straight to his head.
It is, I contend, merely further proof that Nature truly abhors a vacuum
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Air Force One Boondoggle
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The government has
quietly released revised estimates of the cost per hour for flying Air Force One with its crew, but the estimates still don't include all contingent aircraft and personnel. The new estimated cost is
$228,280 per flight, which means that Obama has spent a staggering
$456 million flying Air Force One – mostly to
political fundraising and vacation junkets. And Obama has racked up more flight hours for his time in office than any previous president. In fact, his trip to New York Wednesday marked his
1,000th flight on Air Force One. Obama's lavish ways are incredibly hypocritical after his incessant condemnation of business executives for using corporate jets.
Do as he says, not as he does.(1000 flights! I wonder if Al "global climate disruption" Gore has heard about this? You gotta wonder just how much evil CO2 the president has pumped into our climate on all those flights. Is someone buying him carbon credits?
According to Examiner.com, the president's trip to Copenhagen to put in a good word for Chicago as the city for the 2016 Winter Olympics... which was of course a matter of serious national interest requiring the presence of BHO and FLOTUS, who flew a separate aircraft..., put 8739 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere... www.examiner.com/article/calculating-the-carbon-footprint-of-president-obama-s-olympic-trip ... and that's just one trip!)
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It Took 5 Years, but the President Will Finally Get a New Helicopter
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If there's one thing surprising about the Pentagon's decision to spend $1.24 billion on a new helicopter for the president, it's that it took them so long.(http://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/124673/obama_large.jpg)
Obuma boarding the current Marine One. Source: Wikimedia Commons
The Pentagon has been talking about the need to develop a next-generation version of "Marine One" for more than five years now. A few times it came close to making a decision -- then backed away. But by last July, the process appeared to be finally winding down, when potential helo-builders Boeing and then, Northrop Grumman as well, confirmed that they would not be bidding on the contract. This left United Technologies' (NYSE: UTX ) Sikorsky unit, working in cooperation with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT ) , as the winners by default of the $1.24 billion Marine One presidential helicopter contract.
Mind you, this was 10 months ago, yet it took the Pentagon until last week to make up its mind to give the Marine One contract to the only company that wanted it.
The Marine One contract: What it is:United Technologies' win, announced as the lead item in the Pentagon's daily announcements of contract awards on May 7, awards it the right to begin "engineering and manufacturing development" work on Marine One. Six specially outfitted S-92 helicopters will be built in this initial phase of the contract, with two to be delivered by 2018, and the rest subsequently. "Associated support equipment, integration of mature government-defined mission systems, a training system including a flight training device and a maintenance training device, logistics, engineering, and test and evaluation support" will also be provided.
All of this is provided for in the contract award, which covers work to be performed by United Tech through October 2020.
The Marine One contract: What it is worth:Ultimately, United Technologies is expected to build a total of 21 Marine One helicopters for use by the President, Vice President, and senior executive personnel over the course of the next nine years. As such, United Technologies will retain a half-century-old franchise that Sikorsky has controlled since building the first presidential helicopter back in 1957.
How much will it be worth to United Tech? According to military aircraft data clearinghouse Deagel.com, the list cost on a standard S-92 helicopter is $17 million. Times the 15 helos to be built after the initial development contract wraps up, that works out to $255 million -- on top of the initial $1.24 billion United Technologies will get for designing a specialty S-92 fit for a president-hauling duties.
So at the very least, we're talking about a $1.5 billion contract for United Technologies. At 2.4% of annual revenues -- and spread out over nine years to boot -- that's not going to move the needle much for United Tech. Indeed, even if you assume that Marine One variants include additional bells and whistles not found on an ordinary S-92, and push the cost up a bit, this still isn't a huge deal for United Technologies, from a financial perspective.
Foolish takeawayWhat it is is a huge PR coup for the company. With this win under its belt, United Technologies can continue to boast that it is "the company that builds helicopters for the President of the United States of America" -- pretty exclusive bragging rights. If you ask me, this win by the S-92 should probably "86" talk of United Technologies spinning off or selling Sikorsky (even if it's not the company's most profitable unit). Or at the very least, if United Tech does decide to sell, I'd say the value of the Sikorsky unit just went up by a quite a bit.
Long story short, United Technologies shareholders have had to wait longer than they probably ought to have for this news. But at least the wait was worth it.
Navy Debuts NeRD Device
Week of May 19, 2014
The Navy Installations Command's Navy General Library Program has announced the release of the new Navy e-Reader device (NeRD). The NeRD is an essential component of the U.S. Navy's Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program. With its array of preloaded titles-all accessible through a single, portable device- the NeRD delivers e-book content to encourage leisure, entertainment, and promote professional growth. The NeRD augments the NGLP's range of library services, which includes web-based digital library access to servicemembers and their families at no charge. The Navy is making 385 devices at first, with more to follow, with five being sent to each submarine in the Navy to be shared among the crew. For more information regarding the Navy Library program visit the Navy Libraries Digital website.
(Most likely loaded with propaganda and perhaps more dangerous than that. Personally I'd say thank you, but no thank you.)http://www.military.com/military-report/navy-debuts-nerd-device?ESRC=miltrep.nl
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The rules for Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger Pay have changed. Service members will now receive imminent danger pay only for days they actually spend in hazardous areas. This change went in effect on February 1, 2012.
A member of a uniformed service may be entitled to Hostile Fire and Imminent Danger pay at the rate of $225 for any month in which he/she was entitled to basic pay and in which he/she was:
Subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;
On duty in an area in which he was in imminent danger of being exposed to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines and in which, during the period he was on duty in that area, other members of the uniformed services were subject to hostile fire or explosion of hostile mines;
Killed, injured, or wounded by hostile fire, explosion of a hostile mine, or any other hostile action; or
On duty in a foreign area in which he was subject to the threat of physical harm or imminent danger on the basis of civil insurrection, civil war, terrorism, or wartime conditions.
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May 15, 2014
MILITARY UPDATE: LURING CURRENT FORCE TO 'REFORM' ITS OWN RETIREMENT
By Tom Philpott
Current military members and retirees are to be "grandfathered" from any retirement changes that the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission recommends to Congress next February.
Current force members shouldn't let that dampen their interest in the work of the commission or its final recommendations, because any retirement reforms proposed almost certainly will include an "opt-in" feature.
Many currently serving members will get the chance to choose to switch to a more modern, less generous retirement plan. Who would do that?
( You can bet this will become mandatory, just like ObamaCare. Anything to destroy our military.)http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2014/05/current-servicemembers-can-opt-in-for-new-retirement-plan/
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May 19, 2014
Hillary Clinton, in deflecting to Congress over her role in the cover-up of the Benghazi arms-to-al-Qaida-terrorists gunrunning scandal, famously replied, "What difference does it make?" Let's see.
In December 2012, a scant three months after four Americans were killed while running guns to al-Qaida-linked terrorists in Libya, the Secretary of State reportedly fell and suffered a concussion. She was hospitalized for three days. A month later, the State Department pronounced her fit. Now, Bill Clinton claims it took Hillary Clinton "six months of very serious work" to recover from a "fainting spell" and subsequent concussion and blood clot.
Six months of very serious work implies intensive physical or occupational therapy, meaning she likely suffered a stroke or serious head injury. What difference does it make?
The elites are pushing Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush to be their respective party's nominees. Both are statists and part of the American monarchy with family ties to the Council on Foreign Relations, the oligarchy that runs the U.S. State Department and the World Bank (i.e., the elites who control the world). That means whichever is elected will mean more of U.S. expanding empire and growing U.S. fascism beyond what we've seen over the past three decades. Both of them will work to advance the neocon agenda and U.S. hegemony.
According to the June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world since World War II ended. The United States launched 201 of them. During the 20th century, coinciding with the rise of U.S. hegemony, there were 190 million deaths directly and indirectly related to war, more than in the previous four centuries.
War is just one of the ways governments steal from their people. Wars benefit the elite, while the people are slaughtered and impoverished.
If either Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton is elected, what difference does it make?
(Yea, what difference does it make. It takes a community to raise a child. It takes a community to rebuild a family. It takes a community to build socialism.)
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http://libertyinvestor.com/what-difference-does-it-make/
(And Obama says he is mad as hell about this, I don't think so, he is simply lying again. Read on,
I'll high light it for you)
VA Scandal Compounds Democrats' Obamacare Problem
by Noah Rothman | 1:39 pm, May 19th, 2014
The sprawling Department of Veterans Affairs' unwieldy and problematic nature is no great secret in Washington. The need for sweeping reform of that bureaucracy has been apparent since President Ronald Reagan elevated the position of Veterans Affairs secretary to the Cabinet in his second term. Nor is the disturbing charge that VA administrators engaged in the concealment of the excessive waiting times vets faced a new allegation.
A report in the Washington Times on Monday revealed that President's George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and their staffs were aware of the debacle. Indeed, as CNN's investigative reporter Drew Griffin observed, "it's hard to believe everybody in Washington didn't know this was going on."
There is plenty of complicity to go around. Both Republicans and Democrats have praised the VA system as a model of efficient health care delivery. It is now clear that such praise should have been offered cautiously, if at all. For all the hand-wringing, lip service, and declarations that "nobody is more outraged about this," however, 2014 finally offers politicians a window to do something about the problems at the VA. Why? It's an election year, and the Affordable Care Act is on the ballot.
For weeks, liberal bloggers and reporters who specialize in explaining events to the great unwashed have been asserting that the ACA is actually more popular than your daily, lived experience would suggest. And some polls have provided evidence to support their conclusion. But a Politico battleground poll released on Monday shatters the notion that the ACA will not be a drag on Democrats this November.
That Politico poll revealed that a survey of voters in "competitive U.S. House and Senate races" shows that the 2014 electorate is going to be far more conservative than the 2012 electorate. The survey revealed that voters in 2014 battlegrounds self-identify more as Republican than Democratic, disapprove of legalizing gay marriage and marijuana, are generally more pro-life than the rest of the country, and disapprove of Obama by a whopping 59 to 40 percent.
The battleground electorate is also deeply concerned about Obamacare. In the Politico poll, as many voters say health care is an election year priority for them as is the issue of jobs, which is the issue of paramount concern for the electorate at large. 89 percent of those surveyed said the ACA is a determining factor in how they will vote.
60 percent said that, contrary to the president's assertions, the debate over the law is not over. Of the 37 percent who said that they have a generally "more negative" view of their interactions with the federal government (compared to just 18 percent who felt "more positive"), 28 percent cited "health care" as the example of a distasteful experience they had while interacting with government agencies.
Finally, among battleground voters, 35 percent said that the ACA should be modified while 48 percent expressed support for the full repeal of the law. Only 18 percent said that the ACA should be left as it is.
In short, the ACA is positively toxic for the president's party heading into November in the nation's most competitive regions.
Republicans are on firm ideological ground when they argue that the ACA is a step toward VA-style government-administered health care. They need only cite Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) who has said in the past that the ACA is a "step in the right direction" toward a health care delivery system that did away with insurance, a la single payer. Obama, too, has implied that the ACA should be viewed as part of an incremental adoption of the single payer system of which he is "a proponent."
"No one is suggesting that such scandals are widespread in the general health-care system," National Review's John Fund wrote. "But they should serve as a warning sign of what could happen as the pressure to ration, inherent in all government-managed health care, is applied to the general population."
That is an argument GOP candidates will be unable to refrain from making.
Republicans will be accused of politicizing the outrageous claims about the VA's treatment of vets. Good. Not only should Republicans make the VA's problems a campaign issue, they should ignore the disingenuous scolds who will emerge from the woodwork to chide Republicans for daring to criticize the intolerable conditions America's vets face.
Political pressure is the only way major reforms are adopted in Washington and bureaucracies shrink. The VA's scandalous and endemic problems are worthy of politicization.
In a heated election year, and with the added pressure associated with the ACA, Democrats can be forced to go on record opposing much of the excessive bureaucracy, which medical professionals in the VA system are blaming for poor care. Finally addressing the VA's problems what is most important.
When Reagan finally convinced Congress to elevate the position the VA secretary to the Cabinet in 1988, it came as something of a consolation prize. Reagan had tried, unsuccessfully, to force a Democrat-dominated Congress to privatize much of the care that Vets were receiving. Several decades later, and with the career-killing specter of the ACA hanging over many Democrats' heads, Reagan may finally convince his political opponents to moderate their hostility toward his vision for the VA.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/va-scandal-compounds-democrats-obamacare-problem/
Fed Up Army Ranger's Stark Response to
#BringBackOurGirls
Shows the Vanity of
'Hashtag Activism'
Having enough of the frivolity of U.S. officials tweeting out foreign policy hopes and wishes, an Army Ranger clarifies the situation with one photo. (The image comes via the Ranger Up guys via Black Five.)
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Uh yeah, what he said.
Lib Groups Demand Hillary Clinton Publicly Oppose Keystone Pipeline
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(For what it's worth, Bubba is on record as saying we must "embrace" Keystone)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73445.html
Via The Hill:http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/206707-green-groups-to-urge-hillary-clinton-to-take-a-side-on-keystone
A coalition of 30 green groups will send a letter to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday, pressing her to publicly oppose the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
The Hill obtained an early copy of the letter and a press release, which asks Clinton if she will stand with them against the oil-sands pipeline.
The Center for Biological Diversity is one of the 30 conservation groups that signed on to the letter, which will officially be sent to Clinton on Wednesday.
"Secretary Clinton, will you stand with us against Keystone XL?" the groups ask.
"Given your longstanding advocacy for the environment and the importance of battling the climate crisis, your involvement would lend an important voice to the struggle against this dangerous pipeline and in favor of energy sources that don't threaten future generations of Americans," the letter states.
[...]The CEO of CREDO Mobile adds that if Clinton does not stand against Keystone XL, then "environmental voters will know that she cannot be counted on in the fight against global warming."
Stone The Heretic! Gay Icon Barbara Streisand Reportedly Finds Gay Sex "Distasteful"
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(Whoa... Say it isn't so, Babs? ... chuckle)
Via Mediaite:http://www.mediaite.com/online/barbara-streisand-allegedly-finds-gay-sex-very-distasteful/
For the second time today, an interview with The New York Times has exposed what appears to be a decades-old instance of celebrity homophobia. First, in a TimesTalks discussion, John Cameron Mitchell revealed how David Letterman refused to shake his hand after a performance of Hedwig and Angry Inch more than 15 years ago. Now, playwright Larry Kramer is charging Barbara Streisand with saying she finds gay sex "distasteful."
Kramer has been trying to get his play The Normal Heart made into a movie since it first appeared Off-Broadway in 1985. The story of one activist's fight during the rise of the HIV/AIDS crisis will finally make its film debut this Sunday in an HBO production starring Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts and others.
Streisand initially bought the film rights for the play all the way back in 1986, but struggled to get the financing the actually produce it. Eventually, Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee and American Horror Story, purchased the rights and produced the HBO version.
In a new interview with the Times' Patrick Healy, Kramer reveals that Streisand found some of the subject matter in the story uncomfortable, despite her role as an icon in the gay community.
"I said, 'I really think it's important that after eons of watching men and women make love in the movies, it's time to see two men do so,'" Kramer told Healy. "I bought her a book of very beautiful art pictures of two men making love, and she found it very distasteful."
Dem Candidate For New Mexico Governor Endorsed By
Weather Underground Founder Mark Rudd
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(The coveted domestic terrorist endorsement)
Via Free Beacon:http://freebeacon.com/politics/democratic-candidate-for-new-mexico-governor-endorsed-by-weather-underground-member/
New Mexico Democratic gubernatorial candidate Alan Webber has a history of radical views, including ties to the Weather Underground and urging empathy for a child sex offender.
Webber has raised the most money of Democratic candidates vying to challenge Republican Gov. Susana Martinez, and is competing against four other Democrats, including Lawrence Rael, who exaggerated his resume on his campaign website. The primary will be held on June 3.
Mark Rudd, a leader and founder of the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground, which has advocated for the violent overthrow of the United States and committed multiple bombings of public buildings in the late 1960s and early 1970s, endorsed Webber in April. Rudd's wife Marla Painter hosted a campaign event for the Democrat that month.
"Help elect a pro-jobs, pro-environment progressive Democrat as governor," Rudd wrote, according to KRQE.Webber tried to distance himself from the endorsement, saying, "of course I denounce terrorism." However, the candidate praised Rudd for being a "proponent of non-violence" and a teacher at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque.
Militant Atheists Launch Their Own TV Channel
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(Watch out, MSNBC, you have competition)
Via Truth Revolt:American Atheists, the same people responsible for filing suit over the 9/11 memorial displaying the ground zero cross of two steel beams pulled from the World Trade Center rubble, have just announced the upcoming launch of AtheistTV, set for release this summer.
According to the site, the "first atheism-dedicated television channel" will be in partnership with Roku for internet-streaming to "provide quality programming to millions of homes."
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Drunk Illegal Alien Who Killed Cop Qualified for Obama Amnesty
MAY 20, 2014
Phoenix - The drunk driver who killed a veteran Arizona police officer in a head-on freeway collision this month is an illegal immigrant with a criminal history that nevertheless qualified for amnesty under President Obama's broad plan.Why else would he be free to drive U.S. highways and work off the books as a gardener? The devastating story comes out of Phoenix, where an off-duty Mesa Police Officer (Brandon Mendoza) driving home from work, got slammed head-on.
In the other car was Raul Silva Corona, an illegal alien from Chihuahua Mexico with a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, according to various news reports.
Officer Mendoza was only 32 years old and he served 13 years on the Mesa Police Department. Before crashing into him,
Corona drove 35 miles along several Phoenix-area freeways
in the wrong direction. Authorities received dozens of calls from drivers who saw the drunken man speeding the wrong way and they tried to pursue him, but couldn't stop him. Both men died instantly and hundreds attended a vigil for the popular officer last week.
Initial news reports did not mention the drunk driver's illegal status or criminal history, probably because it's not politically correct. The media conveniently dismisses these crucial facts as irrelevant, though it's a very important issue. Back in 1994 Corona pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy in Adams County Colorado, according to court records obtained by the mainstream news outlet linked above. Evidently, it was part of a deal in which prosecutors dismissed the more serious charges of burglary, assault and leaving the scene of an accident.
Under Obama's amnesty, tens of thousands of illegal aliens with criminal records more serious than Corona's are being released from U.S. custody. Just last week Judicial Watch reported that in
2013 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) freed 36,007 illegal immigrants convicted of violent and serious crimes from detention centers throughout the nation. The crimes include homicide, sexual assault, theft, kidnapping and alcohol-related driving convictions, according to the government's own records. The breathtaking documents were obtained by a nonpartisan research center dedicated to studying immigration issues.
Last summer legislation crafted by the bipartisan Gang of Eight in the U.S. Senate would have granted amnesty to illegal aliens with drunk-driving, domestic violence, aggravated assault and child abuse convictions. Incredibly, groups that would normally be vocal on these sorts of issues remained silent. For example, the nation's largest organization working to stop drunk driving and support victims of the violent crime—Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)—refused to criticize the proposed law even though it would have rewarded those convicted of driving dunk. Through a spokeswoman, MADD said it "doesn't get involved in immigration matters."
Unbelievably, Corona would have
qualified for Obama amnesty before committing the high-profile crime of killing a police officer. Family members have admitted in the media that the illegal alien gardener had been drinking hours before the crash and that they tried to stop him from driving. This guy was a real menace to society yet authorities let him roam freely after his encounter with the law years ago. In a touching farewell to Officer Mendoza published by a local newspaper, a Mesa park ranger writes that the fallen cop worked with troubled youth and helped clean up a crime-infested local park of drugs, alcohol and prostitutes. "Brandon sadly unknown to you, you became that last line of defense with assisting your brothers who vowed as you did to 'Protect and Serve' and gave the ultimate sacrifice in order that others may live."
(It doesn't get any sicker than this article)
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Holy Islamic Council Approves Child Marriage
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The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) in Pakistan declared girls as young as nine year old are eligible for marriage.
The Times of India reported, via Jihad Watch:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/pakistans-council-of-islamic-ideology-endorses-child-marriageIslamic apologists in the West routinely claim that Muhammad did not marry a child and that child marriage is not permitted in Islam, but actually, few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad's favorite wife,
Aisha, was six years old when Muhammad wedded her and nine years old when he consummated the marriage:"The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)" (Bukhari 7.62.88).
.Another tradition has Aisha herself recount the scene:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (Bukhari 5.58.234).
.Muhammad was at this time fifty-four years old.
Marrying young girls was not all that unusual for its time, but because in Islam Muhammad is the supreme example of conduct (cf. Qur'an 33:21), he is considered exemplary in this unto today. And so in April 2011, the Bangladesh Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini declared that those trying to pass a law banning child marriage in that country were putting Muhammad in a bad light: "Banning child marriage will cause challenging the marriage of the holy prophet of Islam, [putting] the moral character of the prophet into controversy and challenge." He added a threat: "Islam permits child marriage and it will not be tolerated if any ruler will ever try to touch this issue in the name of giving more rights to women." The Mufti said that 200,000 jihadists were ready to sacrifice their lives for any law restricting child marriage.
Likewise the influential website Islamonline.com in December 2010 justified child marriage by invoking not only Muhammad's example, but the Qur'an as well:
The Noble Qur'an has also mentioned the waiting period [i.e. for a divorced wife to remarry] for the wife who has not yet menstruated, saying: "And those who no longer expect menstruation among your women, if you doubt, then their period is three months, and [also for] those who have not menstruated" [Qur'an 65:4]. Since this is not negated later, we can take from this verse that it is permissible to have sexual intercourse with a prepubescent girl. The Qur'an is not like the books of jurisprudence which mention what the implications of things are, even if they are prohibited. It is true that the prophet entered into a marriage contract with A'isha when she was six years old, however he did not have sex with her until she was nine years old, according to al-Bukhari.
.Other countries make Muhammad's example the basis of their laws regarding the legal marriageable age for girls. Article 1041 of the Civil Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran states that girls can be engaged before the age of nine, and married at nine: "Marriage before puberty (nine full lunar years for girls) is prohibited. Marriage contracted before reaching puberty with the permission of the guardian is valid provided that the interests of the ward are duly observed."
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini himself married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight. Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl "a divine blessing," and advised the faithful to give their own daughters away accordingly: "Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house." When he took power in Iran, he lowered the legal marriageable age of girls to nine, in accord with Muhammad's example.
"Pakistan's religious body endorses underage marriage," PTI, May 22, 2014 (thanks to Traveller 45):
ISLAMABAD: In a retrogressive step, a religious body in Pakistan has declared girls as young as nine years old eligible to be married "if the signs of puberty were visible", a media report said today.
Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sheerani of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) said after a meeting yesterday that media and 'some other segments of society' were not taking the council's decisions seriously.
He said laws that defined a minimum age for marriage were not Islamic and should be repealed, adding that the council would recommend that the Parliament amend these laws to bring them in accordance with Islamic principles, Dawn news reported.
He also criticised the Sindh Assembly which last month passed Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Bill, banning underage marriages.
The CII chief said marriages that were solemnised at a time when both individuals were minors were only binding if they were arranged by the 'wali' (father or grandfather) of the two individuals.
In cases where marriages were solemnised by someone other than the 'wali', both individuals had the option to refuse or reconsider the match upon achieving adulthood.
Clarifying the decision, Sheerani said that a 'nikah' could be performed at any age, but the bride could only start living with the groom after reaching puberty, the report said.
The CII chief also said that most of the clauses of the existing Muslim Marriage Law, 1961 were un-Islamic.
He said that section 6 of the law, which required men to seek permission from their wives before entering into another marriage, was not in accordance with Islamic principles....
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Fox News' Gregg Jarrett released from jail after apparent drunken bust in Minneapolis airport bar
Jarrett, 59, appeared drunk and was acting belligerent during a run-in with cops at a Minneapolis airport bar on Wednesday afternoon, cops said.
BY Philip Caulfield / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS / Published: Thursday, May 22
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Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett was arrested in Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport Wednesday for refusing to cooperate with police.
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett was released from jail early Thursday following an alleged drunken bust in a Minneapolis airport bar.
Cops said the 59-year-old weekend anchor appeared wasted and was belligerent during a run-in with police at the Northern Lights Grill at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport at around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Jarrett, who on leave from the news station, refused to cooperate with police and was booked into Hennepin County Jail for interfering with a peace officer, a misdemeanor, authorities said.
He was released at about 1:30 a.m. after posting $300 bond, cops said.
"We were made aware late last night that Gregg Jarrett was arrested in Minneapolis yesterday and charged with a misdemeanor," a Fox News spokesperson said in an email. "He is dealing with serious personal issues at this time."
"A date at which Gregg might return to air has yet to be determined," the spokesperson said.
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Jarrett was placed on leave from his anchor gig earlier this month after requesting time off for personal reasons, Media Bistro reported.
The Los Angeles-born newsman joined Fox News in 2002 after stints at MSNBC and Court TV.
He and his wife, Catherine, have been married since 1993.
Jarrett was due back in court on June 6.
Todays Twits For Obuma
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Is MSM News Dying?
by Michael Snyder/March 3, 2010
Is the mainstream media news dying out? For decades, the nightly news on the big 3 networks dominated the airwaves. Tens of millions of Americans tuned in each night to find out what was happening in the world. But now cable news has cannibalized a huge chunk of that audience, and the Internet is taking massive amounts of eyeballs away from both of them. So are we now at a point when the way that Americans get their news has fundamentally changed forever?
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the Internet has surpassed newspapers as one of the primary ways that Americans get their news.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/02/internet-overtakes-print-in-news-consumption-among-americans/
Perhaps that seems only natural to many of us now, but there was a time before the Internet was widely available that a very high percentage of the population would read a newspaper each day.
But now all of that has fundamentally changed.
According to the Pew survey, only 17 percent of Americans say that they read the print version of a national newspaper and only 50 percent say that they read local newspapers.
But that is only part of the story.
According to the survey newspapers were most likely to be read by people who were over the age of 50 or who don't own cell phones.
So as that generation dies out, newspapers will lose even more popularity.
But it isn't just newspapers that are suffering.
It appears that a day of reckoning has arrived for network news as well.
Both ABC News and CBS News have recently made announcements that indicate that they are experiencing deep financial woes. Not that NBC News is doing well either. NBC News has been struggling financially for quite some time.
http://www.examiner.com/article/mainstream-media-going-down-abc-cbs-imploding
But it was still a shock when ABC News announced that it was cutting its news correspondent staff by 50 percent and that it will close all of its "brick and mortar" news bureaus except for the one in Washington D.C.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/02/abc-news-to-cut-half-its-domestic-correspondents-shut-down-all-bureaus-except-washington.html
So why are so many diverse mainstream media outlets hurting so much?
There are a lot of reasons, but one of the key factors is that people are tired of not hearing the truth.
More Americans than ever are waking up and are realizing that the mainstream media is very tightly controlled and is not telling them the whole truth. Many are realizing that the "news" is increasingly becoming little more than thinly-disguised propaganda.
The reality is that as the alternative media has grown more prominent in recent years, the corporate-controlled mainstream media has lost tons of credibility.
Once credibility is gone, it is really hard to get it back. In recent years it has become increasingly obvious that outlets such as the New York Times and CNN produce news that has been twisted and spun to fit a particular ideology and to promote a particular agenda.
And the American people are sick and tired of it.
So the mainstream news outlets are going to continue to lose viewers and readers.
But that is a
good thing
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Dozens of Veterans' Bodies Never Buried
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(Shameful doesn't even begin to describe this)
>:( >:( >:( >:( :'(
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The bodies of 28 veterans at the L.A. County Morgue were finally moved Friday for burial to the Riverside National Cemetery.CBS2/KCAL9 pressed the L.A. County Coroner's Office Thursday to find out why the bodies had not yet received a proper burial after a source indicated there may have been as many as 60 veterans at the morgue for the past year and a half.
The morgue says the bodies were unclaimed and they don't know how long the veterans were there.
The law states veterans are supposed to receive a proper burial.
The Veterans Administration says they were never notified the bodies were processed and ready to be buried.
More than two dozen bodies were transported to the Riverside National Cemetery Friday afternoon and more could be moved as they are identified.On Friday evening, KCAL9′s Stacey Butler reported the LA County Morgue and the Veteran's Administration were blaming each other for the mistake.
89 Year Old D-Day Veteran Has Veterans Benefits Cut From $300 To $6/Month
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An 89-year-old Navy veteran who came under heavy enemy fire aboard a landing craft on D-Day is accusing bureaucrats at the Department of Veterans Affairs of slashing his veterans benefits to $6 a month from $300.
Joseph Teson, of Watervliet, N.Y., told WNYT-TV he used to get $300 a month in benefits, about a third of which he would donate to veterans groups. He said the VA cut his benefits to recoup an overpayment of more than $3,000 that he never even noticed.
"I don't know how they did it, but they did it," Teson, 89, told the Albany station Saturday. "I didn't say nothing. I just let it go. Everybody else complained but me."
Teson was notified of the overpayment last year. The VA sent him a letter saying his "entitlement to compensation and pension benefits had changed," resulting in an overpayment to him of $3,090.
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William And Mary Student Notes The White House's Indifference Towards Veterans
(Veterans are only for photo ops when the time is right)
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Via College Insurrection http://collegeinsurrection.com/2014/05/william-and-mary-student-notes-the-white-houses-indifference-towards-veterans/
If I were driving and took a wrong turn, one of the last places I would want to end up is Mexico. Yet this is exactly what happened to Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, a U.S. Marine who served in Afghanistan and suffers from PTSD, on the way to San Ysidro in California, which is a mere 1.7 miles from the Mexican border. TheBlaze uncovered a 911 call Andrew made shortly before being arrested in which he expressed he thought he accidentally turned into Mexico and was concerned. Unfortunately he encountered the Mexican authorities who arrested him upon realizing he held three guns in his truck, accusing him with the intent to sell.
Jill Tahmooressi, his mother, received a phone call from him that night. Andrew was under the impression it was going to be his last night on earth; a gang was threatening to rape, torture, and execute him, but somehow he was able to escape the prison. Andrew was recaptured the next day and consequently held in solitary confinement, with his arms and legs shackled to a bed. He has been held since March 31.
Jill and a number of Republican lawmakers have pressed Secretary of State John Kerry to get involved, creating a petition to the White House to have him released. The White House is not required to respond until 100,000 signatures are obtained.
I encourage everyone to sign this petition, but the reality is that our signatures should not even be necessary. Why is it that us common citizenry seem more concerned about the safe return of a war veteran than our Commander in Chief himself? And why is this story not being covered by the majority of the American media? If you search Andrew Tahmooressi's name, the entire first page is filled with several links from The Blaze, one link from CNN, one link from Boston.com, and a few from Fox News, with a special report from Greta Van Susteren.
Memorial Day Ceremony At American Cemetery In France
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(The French paying respect to those that gave the ultimate sacrifice)
Via Stars and Stripeshttp://www.stripes.com/news/memorial-day-ceremony-at-american-cemetery-in-france-1.285330#
The commander of U.S. Army Europe and the granddaughter of Gen. George S. Patton were among dignitaries in attendance at a Memorial Day ceremony Sunday at the Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial.
Located just outside the town of St. Avold, the cemetery fans out over 113.5 acres. With its 10,489 graves, it is where the largest number of American dead from World War II rest in Europe.
Among those in attendance at the ceremony were Lt. Gen. Donald Campbell Jr., USAREUR commander; Andre Wojciechowski. the mayor of St.-Avold; Helen Patton, granddaughter of the famed World War II general; and various French and U.S. military units.
Flags In: Troops honor fallen at Arlington ahead of Memorial Day
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ARLINGTON, Va. — It was a simple but meaningful process repeated on hallowed ground about 220,000 times on Thursday: Toe of the combat boot placed against the center of a headstone, flag planted at the heel.
With that small gesture, about 1,000 soldiers paid respects as they fanned out at Arlington National Cemetery ahead of Memorial Day weekend, each pausing to stake an American flag into the soil of each grave to honor those buried there.
"They've given the ultimate sacrifice for their country," said Pvt. Juan Garcia. "We wouldn't be able to live the lifestyle that the entire country does if it wasn't for the men and women we're honoring today.
"It's not something that should be taken lightly. It's an actual person that died. That's someone's brother, someone's sister, someone's mom or dad."
The participating soldiers were all members of the Old Guard. The event is known as the "Flags In" ceremony and has taken place annually since 1948, when the Old Guard was designated as the Army's ceremonial unit.
The soldiers also placed flags at the cemetery's columbarium, which holds cremated remains. Four flags were also placed at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
The flags will remain throughout the holiday weekend until Tuesday.
And despite the holiday usually being celebrated with cookouts, Staff Sgt. Francisco Armenta said he hoped that everyone would take a minute to remember those who have sacrificed their lives.
"It's not just for barbecues, beaches, anything like that," Armenta said. "It's to remember the soldiers that fell in the past."
*** Memorial Day's history began with the Civil War ***
By Rob Nikolewski
New Mexico Watchdog/http://watchdog.org/145616/memorial-day-history/
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Originally called Decoration Day, the Memorial Day holiday officially recognizes all who died as members of the U.S. armed forces.It's not to be confused with Veterans Day, which celebrates all who have served or are serving, living or dead.
Memorial Day had its beginnings at the end of the Civil War, when the North and South went about commemorating the dead who fell in what remains the bloodiest war in American history.An estimated
620,000 soldiers died. That's more than 200,000 more who died in World War II.
And another 1.1 million were wounded between 1861 and 1865. Those are staggering figures for a nation that, at the outbreak of the Civil War, numbered 31 million.
To put that in perspective, if you adjust those figures to the population in the U.S. today (315 million), it would translate into well more than 6 million dead and 11 million wounded.
One of the survivors of the Civil War was Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who, as a Union officer, was thrice wounded at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, Antietam,and Chancellorsville, respectively. Holmes later became a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Holmes gave a Memorial Day speech on May 30, 1884, in Keene, N.H., where he concluded by saying:"Our dead brothers still live for us, and bid us think of life, not death — of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and joy of the spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil our trumpets sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will."
***The Path of the Warrior***
Memorial Day means different things to different people. For many, it is the start of the summer season, an annual trip to the beach, a 3-day weekend, or a great excuse for a barbeque. In my family, it meant more.
I grew up in a military family. My father and grandfathers served. Every couple of years we would move to a new base and start the process of finding new friends and sometimes finding old ones from earlier postings.
I was 8 years old when my father went to serve in Vietnam. I was too young to understand the politics at the time, but I remember being angry at people I saw on television saying that soldiers in Vietnam were bad people. MY Dad wasn't. I remember being afraid when I saw the green military sedan driving past and we would stop playing and watch to see if it was going to someones house the green sedan stopping meant somebody's father was dead or hurt. I remember not knowing what to say to a friend that had lost his father and feeling guilty because I was so happy it wasn't my Dad.
I have long wanted to do something to honor, not only my father and all those that have served their country in the military, but also the families that stay behind and wait. This video, The Path of the Warrior, is a small token of my respect and gratitude. I hope you will forward this letter, or at least the video link, to all those you know who either serve in the armed forces or wait behind.
What will I do this Memorial Day? I have not been to a parade since my children were little. In truth, I will probably be working on one of Humanity Healing's projects and it is a good excuse for a barbecue; but at some point during the day, I will send a prayer of protection to those currently serving and their families, I will say a Blessing to those who did not return and a pray of comfort to their families, and I know that the fears of my eight year-old self will well up from the part of my soul they are hidden and I will say a prayer of gratitude that my Dad was one of those who did return.
Much Metta,
Christopher Buck
CEO
Humanity Healing International
http://humanityhealing.org
This is dedicated to all the men and women who have fought and continue to fight for our freedoms. Thank you!!!
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Ouch: Less Than 25%
of West Point Cadets
Stood Up For Obama
After He Was Introduced
Posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 at 7:19 pm.
by: Thomas Jefferson
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President Obama was welcomed by the Black Knight of the Hudson for his speech at West Point on Wednesday, but less than 25 percent of the cadets gave him a standing ovation upon his introduction, the Daily Mail reported.
"Receiving tepid applause and a short standing ovation from less than one-quarter of the audience upon his introduction, Obama argued for a contradictory foreign policy that relies on NATO and the United Nations while insisting that 'America must always lead on the world stage,' the paper reported.
During his speech, which the Wall Street Journal called "consistent with that of every post-Cold War administration," the president also took a swipe at critics, saying: "I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. But what makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law; it's our willingness to affirm them through our actions."
http://www.conservativeinfidel.com/uncategorized/ouch-less-25-west-point-cadets-stood-obama-introduced/
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There's plenty of energy in this world except the government is limiting it due to the Fed's intervention. Some people (liberals) believe government must intervene or we'll run out of energy. It's not just Republicans who believe that, Obama is just like 'em.
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http://blog.heritage.org/2014/05/29/obama-bypassing-congress-time-going-cost/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell
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NEW STUDY: Obamacare Will Actually Increase The Number Of Uninsured
( Oh yeah.... implosion coming, paving way to single payer. So he screwed up the greatest healthcare system in the world, spent billions of dollars on websites that don't work, ruined millions of health insurance polices for hardworking Americans... killing a few people in the process, by the way, and legislated the largest single tax increase in world history... for what?)
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Via IJR:A study was released that shows that Obamacare will both increase the cost of health insurance and increase the number of uninsured.
Stephen Parente from the University of Minnesota did an analysis of Obamacare and its projected effect on the number of uninsured over the next ten years. He found that the number of uninsured will go up starting in 2017 due to the declining purchasing power of the government subsidies.
Parente also found that health insurance costs will increase by nearly $1400 for those individuals with "silver" plans and $4200 for families with "silver" plans.
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A few other important notes in the Parente study:Arkansas residents can expect:•$1,277 Cost increase of an individual exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•$4,186 Cost increase of a family exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•30,300 Increase in the uninsured within 5 years (2019)
Iowa residents can expect:•$ 1,306 Cost increase of an individual exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•$4,417 Cost increase of a family exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•94,600 Increase in the uninsured within 5 years (2019)
Louisiana residents can expect:•$1,385 Cost increase of an individual exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•$4,000 Cost increase of a family exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•81,100 Increase in the uninsured within 5 years (2019)
North Carolina residents can expect:•$1,384 Cost increase of an individual exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•$4,131 Cost increase of a family exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•224,100 Increase in the uninsured within 5 years (2019)
Oregon residents can expect:•$1,269 Cost increase of an individual exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•$4,306 Cost increase of an individual exchange health plan within 5 years (Silver)
•64,600 Increase in the uninsured within 5 years (2019)
All of these states have Senate seats that are currently held by Democrats and are up for election this year. And guess what? All of them voted for Obamacare.
Over 75% of West Point Cadets Refuse to Stand for Obama
(They may have to salute him, but they don't have to like the man)
President Obama was welcomed by the Black Knight of the Hudson for his speech at West Point on Wednesday,
but less than 25 percent of the cadets gave him a standing ovation upon his introduction, the Wash. Times reported:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/28/obama-receives-standing-ovation-introduction-less-/
"Receiving tepid applause and a short standing ovation from less than one-quarter of the audience upon his introduction, Obama argued for a contradictory foreign policy that relies on NATO and the United Nations while insisting that 'America must always lead on the world stage,' the paper reported.
It would seem that Obama's Messianic Aura is losing its luster, even for his Liberal base:
Obama said he believed strongly in American exceptionalism, but he continually used straw men in his address by implying that critics of his vision of foreign policy always advocated first and foremost for military action.
A panel on MSNBC's Morning Joe criticized the president for his announcement to fully withdraw American troops from Afghanistan by 2016, and even liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson ripped Obama for giving a convoluted speech Wednesday.
And just for the record, here is how a real leader is received at West Point.
Notice that not only did President Bush's Standing Ovation comprise 100% of the cadets, the only reason the applause dies down is because after a half a minute, the President stops it, saying,
"Thank you. Please be seated."
Mooch Attacks House Republicans For Trying To "Undo" Her "Accomplishments"
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(As far as I can tell the only accomplishment she has achieved is getting millions of kids to stop eating school lunches)
Via Daily Caller:First lady Michelle Obama used the pages of The New York Times Thursday to slam Republicans who she believes have stood in the way of her Let's Move! campaign to fight childhood obesity.
"When we began our Let's Move! initiative four years ago, we set one simple but ambitious goal: to end the epidemic of childhood obesity in a generation so that kids born today will grow up healthy," wrote Obama. [...]
In her Times op-ed, Obama resumed the attack, slamming the GOP-led Congress for what she sees as attempts "to undo so much of what we've accomplished on behalf of our children," citing proposed tweaks to the Women, Infants and Children program, known as WIC.
She accused the GOP-led House of wanting to "override science" by mandating that white potatoes be included in a list of foods women can purchase under WIC.
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UNREAL: Obama Admin Flies 400 Illegals Caught In Texas To Arizona, Released By Dropping Them Off At A Greyhound Station
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(Insanity)
AZ Centralhttp://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/29/scores-undocumented-migrants-dropped-arizona/9707503/
Scores of undocumented immigrants from Central America have been released at Greyhound Lines Inc. bus stations in Tucson and Phoenix over the past several days after they were flown to Arizona from south Texas, officials acknowledged.
Andy Adame, a spokesman for the Border Patrol in Tucson, confirmed that over the weekend federal officials flew about 400 migrants apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to Tucson to be processed. He said the migrants were flown to Arizona because the Border Patrol does not have enough manpower to handle a surge in illegal immigrants in south Texas.
The release has drawn criticism from those on both sides of the immigration issue.
Border enforcement groups are concerned that the migrants will now disappear into the U.S., spurring even more to come illegally.
"This is a huge concern," said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington, D.C.-based group that advocates for more immigration and border enforcement.
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Documents: Obama's Africa Vacation Cost Taxpayers $2 Million For Lodging, Entertainment, Security Alone
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(The kicker: This was during the time he was shutting down White House tours and monuments blaming it on the sequester)
Via Daily Caller:The Obamas' 2013 trip to Africa cost taxpayers over $2,000,000 in lodging, entertainment, and security expenses alone, government watchdog Judicial Watch announced Thursday — a part of the total cost of approximately $100,000,000 taxpayers spent on the president's vacation, as estimated by The Washington Post.
Records obtained in response to a FOIA request filed last summer detail that nearly one million dollars were spent on hotel accommodations for the Secret Service–for one week. Preparations for a canceled Tanzania safari–yes, a safari they didn't even go on–cost over ten thousand dollars. The brief summer 2013 trip also cost over eight million in flight expenses.
"Keep in mind that this outrageously lavish excursion came at the very same time that the president was shutting down White House tours and blaming it on the sequester," noted Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton.
"As one congressional critic noted at the time, the White House could have 1,350 weeks of tours for the cost of the Obama family's trip to Africa."
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Clawing My Way Thru The Obuma Scandals
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While the Left buries us in lies and obfuscation, those on the Right can often be trusted to keep it short, sweet and revelatory. For instance, the following two sentences contain more honest commentary about our society than 10 years of the Congressional Record:
(1) We are told not to judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge all gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics; and
(2) It seems we are constantly hearing that Social Security is running dry, but we never hear the same thing about Welfare, even though the folks in the first group worked for their money and those in the second group didn't.
I can't tell you how many times I've found myself longing for the good old days when the "axis of evil" referred to Iraq, Iran and North Korea, and not Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer and Eric Holder.
In a recent CNN poll, nearly 10% of respondents believed space aliens were behind the disappearance of the Malaysian jetliner. I'm not saying I believe that, but I certainly wouldn't object to waterboarding Harry Reid until he tells us where he stashed it.
Nancy Pelosi finally got around to naming the five House Democrats to be seated on Trey Gowdy's committee. Unfortunately, they aren't five of the seven Republicans who voted to form the committee in the first place. Instead they are among those who did everything in their power to prevent the Republicans from discovering the facts about the Benghazi massacre and the ensuing cover-up; in short, the dirty deeds of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, Jay Carney and their various henchmen who lurk in the White House and the sewers of the State Department. Clearly, the role of the five will be to use whatever it takes, be it monkey wrenches or TNT, in order to derail the investigation and prevent King Barack and Queen Hillary from being tarred-and-feathered by the evidence.
I know there are some people who still aren't convinced that Hillary Clinton is going to run in 2016. But when you look at the Democratic bench, which pretty much consists of Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, you know how desperate they are. The Republicans, on the other hand, are loaded for bear with Scott Walker, Rick Perry, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, Rick Scott and Ted Cruz, along with such reserves as Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Kelly Ayotte. It's a lot like comparing the 1927 Yankees to a Little League team.
On 9/11/01, the mainstream media was relentless in its flaying of George W. Bush because he took a few extra minutes leaving an elementary classroom in Sarasota, Florida, where he'd been reading a book to the children. However, on 9/11/12, when four brave Americans were being butchered in Benghazi and Barack Obama was AWOL for seven long hours – perhaps packing for his next day's fund-raising trip to Las Vegas or maybe fine-tuning his Al Green impression – the very same media never even cocked its collective eyebrow.
Because I like to provide solutions as well as call attention to problems, I believe I have come up with a way for environmentalists to be happy without our having to destroy America's economy. I suggest that Al Gore and all his wealthy chums in the Sierra Club move to Bangladesh. They wouldn't ever again have to worry their pointy heads about fracking, oil pipelines or coal-fueled power plants. They could live as one with Mother Nature in a latter day Eden bereft of such modern evils as air conditioning, automobiles and indoor plumbing.
One thing that the world would be better off without is the fairytale notion that democracy is a cure-all for the world's problems. Russia has the vote, and they elected Putin. Egypt has the vote and they elected the Muslim Brotherhood. The Palestinians have the vote and they elected Hamas. Outside of those few nations where the people subscribe to Judeo-Christian values, we would all be better off if a dictator friendly to or at least fearful of America, such as was the case with the Shah of Iran, Hosni Mubarak and even Muammar Gaddafi, once Reagan dropped a bomb on his tent, ran things.
Among the many sure signs that the inmates are currently running our own asylum is the fact that so many people are doing cartwheels because Michael Sam recently became the first openly gay football player to be drafted to play in the NFL. My question is: how many more glass ceilings are we going to have to hear about? Frankly, I think it would be far more newsworthy if a heterosexual ever wins another Tony or a conservative is ever hired to join the editorial board of the NY Times.
To get an inkling of how divorced from the truth those on the Left are, you merely have to take an occasional look at Garry Trudeau's never amusing comic strip, "Doonesbury." He first created it while a student at Yale, and here in his mid-60s, he is still cranking out the same old uninspired left-wing claptrap.
When George Bush was in the White House, Trudeau was always carrying on about Bush's wars. He even devoted weeks of Sunday strips to listing the names of the fallen warriors. But once Obama moved into the White House, there was no indication that a far greater number of American soldiers were dying in Afghanistan.
Way back in 1985, the editors of the Saturday Review voted Mr. Trudeau "one of the most overrated people in American Arts and Letters" and their good judgment has been borne out by the fact that he's won Oscars and Pulitzer Prizes, and even got to marry the darling of the Left, Jane Pauley.
In a recent strip, Trudeau had a TV newsman touring an exhibit of G.W. Bush's paintings at his Presidential Library. After pausing to make a few predictable cracks about Bush allies Tony Blair and Angela Merkel, he moves on to a picture of Vladimir Putin ("In whose eyes Bush peered and sensed a soul, when everyone else saw only the dull, blank stare of a stone cold killer.") with nary a mention of Hillary's reset button or Obama's vow to be more flexible in his dealings with Putin after the 2012 election.
In the final frame, the reporter is standing in front of a blurry picture and saying, "Here we see the artist trying to wash away the stain of two wars." But, as usual with this hack, there is not or ever will be even a suggestion that the military deaths and injuries increased exponentially under Obama's reign.
Considering that Trudeau labors under the delusion that he speaks truth to power, wouldn't you think he would be at least slightly offended by the fact that not since Stalin perfected the big lie has any national leader fibbed as frequently or about such essential matters as the ex-community organizer?
Obama rode into the presidency on a cloud of malarkey and, thanks in good part to a lapdog media in which I would picture Chris Matthews as a pet poodle and Garry Trudeau as an annoying Pekinese, the mongrel in the White House has never been compelled to change his ways.
Even after all this time, the mutt is still dumping on the carpet in the Oval Office and blaming it, no doubt, on Bo.
And they want to disarm honorable citizens
yet they can not disarm criminals!
How Come Home Invasions Like this Don't Make News Nationally?
TULARE COUNTY
3 shot, 1 killed in Orosi home invasion attempt
Investigators say the victim was shot multiple times in the upper body and was transported to a hospital where he's expected to survive.
By Amanda Venegas and Jessica Peres
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) --
The violence began after 5:30 a.m. Tuesday at a home on Road 140 near Avenue 424 northeast of Orosi in Tulare County.
The Tulare County Sheriff's Office and Crime Lab was still on scene late Tuesday morning. The children who were in the home at the time of the incident were taken to a safe location.
Mike Boudreaux, Tulare County acting Sheriff says this all started at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday when a 22-year-old in the house heard someone trying to break down the front door. He went and got a gun from another part of the house, then returned, and deputies say a gun battle ensued.
Investigators believe this was an attempted home invasion. When deputies arrived at the scene they found two suspects suffering from gunshot wounds. One of those suspects is dead, the other was still in surgery late Tuesday morning.
The 22-year-old suffered numerous gunshot wounds to the upper torso and is said to be recovering.
This all happened while the four children were home alone. Their parents work in the field and were already out of the house at work. The sheriff's office says the 22-year-old was absolutely fighting for his life and trying to protect his other family members who were 8, 13 and 18 years old.
Police said they believe there are still suspects out there, they could be driving a gray minivan or Astro Van with a silver ladder or rack on the back -- license plate number 7-C-H-R-1-9-0.
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Deputies won't reveal how many more suspects they're looking for, but they are believed to be armed and dangerous. If you see the van or know anything about the suspects, you are asked to call the Tulare County Sheriff's Office.
http://abc30.com/news/3-shot-1-killed-in-orosi-home-invasion-attempt/79635/
Bumper Sticker Of The Day
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Soldier With PTSD Killed In Standoff With Police,
After Being Told He'd Have To Wait 30 Days For VA Care
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This is Issac Sims, a veteran of the Iraq War and his dad, Adrian, also a vet who did tours of duty in Vietnam
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Issac is dead now after he was denied VA care when he needed it, despite the fact that the care was court ordered. Unbelievable
Via Washington Examiner:
Iraq War veteran Issac Sims was killed Sunday by Kansas City, Mo., police after a standoff at his family home. Sims suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and been told he could not get care from the local Veterans Administration center for another 30 days.
Sims, 26, had gotten into an argument with his father Sunday and reportedly fired off a gun multiple times inside and outside the home. Police responded to reports of the shooting and subsequently called in the SWAT team. When Sims emerged from the house 5 hours later with a rifle, he was shot dead. Officers stated he pointed the gun at them.
The soldier, who served tours in Iraq during from 2008 through 2010, had sought care at the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center for his PTSD. Parents Adrian and Patricia Sims had been told by the center that Sims would have to wait 30 days for bed space, according to the Kansas City Star.
Obuma Violated Law In Prisoner Release Without Consulting Congress
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican lawmakers on Saturday accused President Barack Obama of breaking the law by approving the release of five Afghan detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for a U.S. soldier believed held by Islamist insurgents for five years.The White House agreed that actions were taken in spite of legal requirements and cited "unique and exigent circumstances" as justification.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, 28, of Hailey, Idaho, was handed over to U.S. special operations forces by the Taliban. In return, five Afghans who were held at a U.S. detention facility in Cuba were released to the custody of the government of Qatar, which served as a go-between in negotiations for the trade.
"Our terrorist adversaries now have a strong incentive to capture Americans. That incentive will put our forces in Afghanistan and around the world at even greater risk," they said.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said in a statement that "the safe return of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is an answer to the prayers of the Bergdahl family and a powerful reinforcement of our nation's commitment to leave no service member behind."
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/05/31/gop-lawmakers-prisoner-exchange-violated-law/20903894/?ncid=webmail7
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KABUL — http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/freed-prisoners-were-battle-hardened-taliban-commanders/2014/05/31/d52b3005-636e-4c65-a1da-2b9ace667e4d_story.html?hpid=z1
They were among the Taliban's most influential commanders — five men whom the United States succeeded in removing from the battlefield.Khair Ulla Said Wali Khairkhwa - Khairkhwa was an early member of the Taliban in 1994 and was interior minister during the Taliban's rule. He hails from the same tribe as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and was captured in January 2002. Khairkhwa's most prominent position was as governor of Herat province from 1999 to 2001, and he was alleged to have been "directly associated" with Osama bin Laden. According to a detainee assessment, Khairkhwa also was probably associated with al Qaeda's now-deceased leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al Zarqawi. He is described as one of the "major opium drug lords in western Afghanistan" and a "friend" of Karzai. He was arrested in Pakistan and was transferred to Guantanamo in May 2002. During questioning, Khairkhwa denied all knowledge of extremist activities.
Mullah Mohammad Fazl - Fazl commanded the main force fighting the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in 2001, and served as chief of army staff under the Taliban regime. He has been accused of war crimes during Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s. Fazl was detained after surrendering to Abdul Rashid Dostam, the leader of Afghanistan's Uzbek community, in November 2001. He was wanted by the United Nations in connection with the massacre of thousands of Afghan Shiites during the Taliban's rule. "When asked about the murders, he did not express any regret," according to the detainee assessment. He was alleged to have been associated with several militant Islamist groups, including al Qaeda. He was transferred into U.S. custody in December 2001 and was one of the first arrivals at Guantanamo, where he was assessed as having high intelligence value.
Mullah Norullah Noori - Noori served as governor of Balkh province in the Taliban regime and played some role in coordinating the fight against the Northern Alliance. Like Fazl, Noori was detained after surrendering to Dostam, the Uzbek leader, in 2001.Noori claimed during interrogation that "he never received any weapons or military training." According to 2008 detainee assessment, Noori "continues to deny his role, importance and level of access to Taliban officials." That same assessment characterized him as high risk and of high intelligence value.
Abdul Haq Wasiq - Wasiq was the deputy chief of the Taliban regime's intelligence service. His cousin was head of the service. An administrative review in 2007 cited a source as saying that Wasiq was also "an al Qaeda intelligence member" and had links with members of another militant Islamist group, Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin. Wasiq claimed, according to the review, that he was arrested while trying to help the United States locate senior Taliban figures. He denied any links to militant groups.
Mohammad Nabi Omari – Omari was a minor Taliban official in Khost Province. According to the first administrative review in 2004, he was a member of the Taliban and associated with both al Qaeda and another militant group Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin. He was the Taliban's chief of communications and helped al Qaeda members escape from Afghanistan to Pakistan. Omari acknowledged during hearings that he had worked for the Taliban but denied connections with militant groups. He also said that he had worked with a U.S. operative named Mark to try to track down Taliban leader Mullah Omar.
Over and over, each detainee received a "recommendation for continued detention" by a military board at Guantanamo. But Bergdahl's kidnapping — and the prospect of a prisoner swap — meant those recommendations would have to be reassessed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/freed-prisoners-were-battle-hardened-taliban-commanders/2014/05/31/d52b3005-636e-4c65-a1da-2b9ace667e4d_story.html?hpid=z1
...and then I saw this... http://soopermexican.com/2014/06/01/father-of-american-soldier-freed-from-taliban-deletes-a-very-disturbing-tweet/Holy shiite!!.... UNBELIEVABLE:Father of American Soldier Freed From Taliban Deletes a Very Disturbing Tweet
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On Saturday morning the Obama administration happily announced that we were now negotiating with terrorists and that Bowe Bergdahl would be freed in an agreement with the Taliban that would allow five dangerous terrorists to be released from Guantanamo Bay. Bowe's father Bob Bergdahl appeared with Obama for the announcement:Tweets:
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Tarek S. Fatah @TarekFatah
Follow: Is @BobBergdahl, father of Sgt. #BoweBergdahl a Muslim?
He opened his talk in Islamic greeting http://cnn.it/T2prlp 6:55 PM - 31 May 2014
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Robert Bergdahl @bobbergdahl
To every single person who worked so hard to make this recovery possible, WE LOVE YOU! GOD IS GREAT AND HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER!
2:20 PM - 31 May 2014 Washington, DC, United States
But, as many have pointed out, he deleted this very controversial tweet he had posted a few days ago:(http://soopermexican.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/bobbergdahl-deleted-tweet-death-american.jpg)
Given that there's a lot of doubt being cast on the official story, how does this change the calculation on whether Obama should have completed this trade?:American Soldier Who Served With Bowe Bergdahl Casts Doubt on Official Story; Fears Reprisal From Obama Administration
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Early Saturday it was announced by the administration that the only American prisoner of war in the Afghanistan was released in exchange for 5 Guantanamo Bay terrorists being set free to Qatar. The circumstances of the capture of Bowe Bergdahl had been in question long before his release – supposedly he had wandered off and captured by the Taliban. But a soldier on Twitter is claiming that the official story is untrue, and has posted his version of the events that led to Bowe's capture.
Towards the end of his story, he says he fears reprisal from the Obama administration, and asks for legal help. It must be noted also that he has a avatar that bears a picture of Bowe with the word "traitor" posted over it.
Here are the tweets telling his version of the story so far. [At the end of the tweets by Cody, he stops. He seems to come under attack from threatening people. Another aspect of this story that seems rather alarming is what many are saying is a deleted tweet from Bergdahl's father. So what's really going on here?:Bowe-berkdahl-released-deserterClick here for tweets:http://soopermexican.com/2014/06/01/american-soldier-who-served-with-bowe-bergdahl-casts-doubt-on-official-story-fears-reprisal-from-obama-administration/
[Watch] EPA Rain of Terror
Now Seizing Control Over Private Land
Thru Water, Ponds and Puddles
Posted on 30 May, 2014 by Rick Wells
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In a time when unconstitutional overreach has become synonymous with government and domestic terrorism is chiefly an enterprise carried out by alphabetic government agencies, public enemy agency number one is once again targeting innocent American citizens.
Arguably the most egregious offender, the EPA, has announced its latest attack on the American property owner and private property rights. This big government intruder is announcing their assertions of authority to seize control of any water which would happen to accumulate on private property. They also then become enabled to legally restrict or dictate usage and to mandate modifications in any manner they desire.
This is the condition we find ourselves in, where the chief antagonist of the American people is a tyrannical government which has no reservations when it comes to trampling upon our rights, freedoms and our Constitution.
Judge Andrew Napolitano makes some excellent points as to the illegality and the unconstitutional nature of this bureaucratic power grab.
Leftist Juan Williams somehow manages to blame a lack of action on the part of Congress as a justification for this tyranny. One has to wonder how he would feel if a Jackbooted EPA thug showed up at his house telling him that they had decided they didn't like a water puddle on his property and that he must fill it in and pay for a study to determine the proper composition and methods of the fill.
Charles Krauthammer accurately labels the action as insane and reminds Williams they aren't discussing the Mississippi. He says it won't be big agribusiness that is hurt by these regulations; it will be the little guy who will be forced out of business.
That could be part of the plan, as then the property becomes available to the expansive desires of big agribusiness such as Monsanto. Once again things "magically" seem to work in accordance with the UN Agenda 21 outlines.
Rick Wells is a conservative author who believes an adherence the U.S. Constitution would solve many of today's problems. "Like" him on Facebook and "Follow" him on Twitter.
http://gopthedailydose.com/2014/05/30/epa-rain-of-terror-now-seizing-control-over-private-land-thru-water-ponds-and-puddles/
Fellow Soldiers Call Bergdahl A Deserter, His "Selfish Act" Cost Lives
(Not only are they saying he deserted, but that he was 'seeking out the Taliban' and that after he was 'captured,' suddenly IEDs and ambushes against his unit were more accurate and successful
Great piece by Jake Tapper... why were his fellow soldiers made to sign "non disclosure agreements not to talk about his disappearance?' What the heck is going on there?)
(CNN) – The sense of pride expressed by officials of the Obama administration at the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is not shared by many of those who served with him — veterans and soldiers who call him a deserter whose "selfish act" ended up costing the lives of better men.
"I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on," said former Sergeant Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl's platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. "
Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him." Vierkant said Bergdahl needs to not only acknowledge his actions publicly but face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.A reporter asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel Sunday whether Bergdahl had left his post without permission or deserted — and, if so, whether he would be punished. Hagel didn't answer directly. "Our first priority is assuring his well-being and his health and getting him reunited with his family," he said. "Other circumstances that may develop and questions, those will be dealt with later."
'How Many Other Prisoners Have Lasted 5 Years?'
Soldier Who Served With Bowe Bergdahl Concludes His Story and Allegations
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This concludes the earlier post @:
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...from an alleged compatriot of Bowe Bergdahl, the only prisoner of war captured in Afghanistan, now released through a deal with the Taliban. "Cody" claims to have served with Bowe when he deserted, which sours the official story, and puts into doubt the wisdom of the trade which freed five dangerous terrorists:The next tweets will all be opinion and assumptions.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
PLT didn't find him and were never close. An amount of money was spent on assets trying to find B. Not going to name what was used.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
A huge thing in country is not building patterns. Well when you are looking for a person everyday that creates a pattern.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
While searching for him, ambushes and IEDs picked up tremendously. Enemy knew we would be coming.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
IEDs started being placed more effectively in the coming weeks. Ambushes were more calculated, cover and concealment was used
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
I will not disclose what a person of his rank could or would know at his point in the military. But it's enough.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
Cody seems to be implying that Bergdahl might have been supplying information to the enemy to aid their attacks on Americans.So without B going missing we wouldn't have been in certain places
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
And without being in those places, 2 brothers wouldn't have given the ultimate sacrifice. They went out like f****** Hero's.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
"Risking their own to save another, have no greater love."
Risking their own to save another, have no greater love.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
Numerous others were killed in action during this time across the country, including our bat.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
How many other prisoners have lasted 5 years? Taliban and Haqqani are ruthless.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
Again, another implication that he could not have survived without collaboration with the enemy.What I think: B knew what he was doing, pre-mediated desertion with out a doubt. Still a Federal Crime and Punishable by Death.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
Did he aid the enemy? Can't prove that, wasn't with him. Do I believe he have ore information than Name, Rank and Social? Yes.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
More information will come out, but that's all I can say now legally.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
I'm not doing this for any motivation outside of the truth coming out. On the legality side watching what I say due to slander/deformation
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
NDA we signed was not a written up by DOD. Nor was completed with the legal caveats not witnessed by an O4, also numerous people didn't sign
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
And simply threw them away.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
Take it as fact or take it as fiction. I just wanted to get some things off my chest.
— c (@CodyFNfootball) June 1, 2014
Couple this with the troubling tweets from Bowe's father, and one really has to wonder just what the real story is behind this precedent-setting agreement.http://soopermexican.com/2014/06/01/how-many-other-prisoners-have-lasted-5-years-soldier-who-served-with-bowe-bergdahl-concludes-his-story-and-allegations/
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Obama Adviser Susan Rice Refuses To Say If Bowe Bergdahl Deserted The Army When He Was Captured, "That's Not The Point"
(It's pretty clear he did, and it is the point because several American soldiers were killed looking for him and we just released five of the worst terrorists in Gitmo in exchange for him)
Via The Hill:Top Obama administration officials on Sunday avoided question about whether Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was released by the Taliban in exchange for five detainees on Saturday, deserted the Army.
ABC News "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos asked National Security Adviser Rice whether such allegations would be "investigated."
"If it is found that he did, will he be disciplined or has he already paid the price?" he asked.
"Certainly, anybody who has been held in those conditions in captivity for five years has paid an extraordinary price, but that is really not the point," Rice said.
"The point is he's back. He's going to be safely reunited with his family. He served the United States with honor and distinction.""We'll have the opportunity to learn eventually what happened in the past years," she added. "But what's most important now is his health and well-being and that he have the opportunity to recover in peace and security and be reunited with his family which is why this is such a joyous day."
Some critics have charged that Bergdahl, a 28-year-old Idaho native, walked away from his base in eastern Afghanistan.
Bob Bergdahl Again Tweets Support For Releasing More Gitmo Terrorists
(Second Tweet since his son's release)
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His first Tweet:Bob Bergdahl On His Son: "I'm Proud of How Much You Wanted To Help The Afghan People, And What You Were Willing To Do To Go To That Length"
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BOISE, Idaho — The father of an American soldier just released from captivity in Afghanistan said Sunday that he is proud of how far his son, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, was willing to go to help the Afghan people.
Bob Bergdahl said he was proud of his son's patience, perseverance and ability to adapt during nearly five years as a prisoner of the Taliban. Bowe Bergdahl was freed Saturday in exchange for five Guantanamo terrorism detainees.
"But most of all, I'm proud of how much you wanted to help the Afghan people, and what you were willing to do to go to that length," Bob Bergdahl said, fighting back tears during a press conference in Boise.
"I'll say it again: I'm so proud of how far you were willing to go to help the Afghan people. And I think you have succeeded."Parents Bob and Jani Bergdahl didn't elaborate on what that meant.The circumstances surrounding Bergdahl's capture remain something of a mystery. There has been some speculation that he willingly walked away from his unit, raising the question of whether he could face charges.
In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine quoted emails Bergdahl is said to have sent to his parents that suggest he was disillusioned with America's mission in Afghanistan, had lost faith in the U.S. Army's mission there and was considering desertion. Bergdahl told his parents he was "ashamed to even be American." The Associated Press could not independently authenticate the emails.
Bergdahl's parents declined to take any questions at the press conference, but they spoke about what they anticipate will be a long healing process as their son reintegrates into American society.
"We're talking like this because we haven't talked to Bowe yet," Bob Bergdahl told the crowd of about three dozen journalists and nearly as many supporters of prisoners of war and those missing in action at the Idaho National Guard's Gowen Field. "That's because Bowe has been gone so long that it's going to be very difficult to come back."
Bob Bergdahl urged Bowe to trust his military reintegration team, and Jani Bergdahl told her son to take all the time he needs to heal and decompress. They said they were grateful for the work that the U.S. government and other countries - including Qatar, which served as a go-between in the negotiations - did to bring their son home.
"You are from a strong tribe, you are even stronger now," Jani Bergdahl said. "Five years is a seemingly endless long time, but you've made it. ... You are free. Freedom is yours. I will see you soon, my beloved son."
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/bowe-bergdahl-mom-freedom-is-yours-107299.html
Taliban Claimed Bergdahl Converted To Islam And Was Teaching Them Bomb-Making Techniques
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(Doesn't sound like the Obama regime intends to even ask the obvious questions)
Via Breitbart:In 2010, The Taliban claimed U.S. soldier Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had converted to Islam and had taught them bomb-making techniques. Bergdahl had also changed his name to Abdullah, the Taliban claimed, though the mainstream media largely ignored the story, seeing it as comparable to the tale of Sgt. Brody in the fictional Homeland television series on Showtime.
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) also dismissed the claims, insinuating that it was jihadist propaganda. But in the aftermath of Sgt. Bergdahl's release yesterday, more information has come to light, raising further questions as to whether the Taliban had in fact been telling the truth about Sgt. Bergdahl.
The circumstances behind the sergeant's disappearance and kidnapping remains suspect. Why he seemingly walked off of his forward operating base in 2009, an infringement upon basic standard operating procedures, has not been explained.
NSA Creating Huge Facial Recognition Database, Taking Millions Of Images Off The Internet
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Hey NSA, I'll make it easy, here's my picture:
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You can find me in my usual place on the Golf Course.
Via Daily Mail:The NSA is building a comprehensive facial recognition database through the intercepting of millions of photographs posted online everyday, according to a report from the New York Times published Saturday.According to the report, which cites top-secret documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the NSA intercepts 'millions of images per day', which translates into approximately 55,000 'facial recognition quality images.' According to a 2011 document cited in the report, this is regarded by the agency as 'tremendous untapped potential'.
The report also says that the implementation of a facial recognition program has accelerated under the Obama administration, after two thwarted terrorist attacks, the first attempted in 2009 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, when he attempted to trigger a bomb hidden in his underwear while flying to Detroit on Christmas in 2009. The second was in May 2010, when Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American, attempted a car bombing in Times Square.
Idiot Hagel On Prisoner Swap With The Taliban: "We Didn't Negotiate With Terrorists"
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(Except that is exactly what you did, you dumb son-of-a-bitch)
Via RCP:HAGEL: "First of all, we didn't negotiate with terrorists. As I said and explained before, Sergeant Bergdahl is a prisoner of war. That's a normal process in getting your prisoners back, that's first. Second, we are dealing with terrorism and hostage taking all the time everywhere. I think America's record is pretty clear on going after terrorists, especially those who take hostages, and I don't think what we did in getting our prisoner of war released in any way would somehow encourage terrorists to take our American service men prisoner or hostage."
Obama Golfs With Wall Street Democratic Megadonor
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(ObuttHead golfing with rich people? But... but I thought rich people, like the Kochs, are bad? What about income inequality? Jeez... I'm so confused!)
Via WH Dossier:President Obama today is playing golf with Wall Street banker Robert Wolf, a megadonor to Obama and other Democrats who is also reportedly a personal friend of the president's.
The two are playing at Fort Belvoir along with White House aides Joe Paulsen and Marvin Nicholson, two of Obama's usual partners.
It's a beautiful and breezy 74 degrees here in the Washington area.
It's Obama 17th time playing this year and the 174th trip to the greens since his presidency began.
White House Acknowledges They Broke The Law In Release Of Gitmo Terrorists, But Claim "Exigent Circumstances"
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(It was reported yesterday on the breaking of the law. Today WH admits it, and claim 'exigent circumstances'. Obama even has the temerity to say even though he signed the law, he has the right to ignore the notice part)
Via The Blaze:In response, the White House says that officials considered what they called "unique and exigent circumstances" and decided to go ahead with the transfer despite the legal requirement.
Lawmakers weren't notified of the Guantanamo detainees' transfer until after it occurred, according to the Washington Post.More from the Post:A senior administration official, agreeing to speak on the condition of anonymity to explain the timing of the congressional notification, acknowledged that the law was not followed. When he signed the law last year, Obama issued a signing statement contending that the notification requirement was an unconstitutional infringement on his powers as commander in chief and that he therefore could override it.
"Due to a near-term opportunity to save Sergeant Bergdahl's life, we moved as quickly as possible," the official said, the Post noted. "The administration determined that given these unique and exigent circumstances, such a transfer should go forward notwithstanding the notice requirement."
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said that the detainees transferred from Guantanamo to Qatar, where they are to stay for at least a year, the Post added, "
are hardened terrorists who have the blood of Americans and countless Afghans on their hands. I am eager to learn what precise steps are being taken to ensure that these vicious and violent Taliban extremists never return to the fight against the United States and our partners or engage in any activities that can threaten the prospects for peace and security in Afghanistan."
Football Legend Lou Holtz: Obama Doesn't Like Football Because You Have To Be Responsible, You Are Held Accountable
(Lou nails it in a wide-ranging criticism of Barack Obama):
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Scientists Admit Polar Bear Numbers Were Made Up To 'Satisfy Public Demand'
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(Just in time for Obama's pivot from using the polar bear myth)
Via The DCThis may come as a shocker to some, but scientists are not always right — especially when under intense public pressure for answers.
Researchers with the IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) recently admitted to experienced zoologist and polar bear specialist Susan Crockford that the estimate given for the total number of polar bars in the Arctic was "simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand."
Crockford has been critical of official polar bear population estimates because they fail to include five large subpopulations of polar bears. Due to the uncertainty of the populations in these areas, PBSG did not include them in their official estimate — but the polar bear group did include other subpopulation estimates.
PBSG has for years said that global polar bear populations were between 20,000 and 25,000, but these estimates are likely much lower than how many polar bears are actually living in the world.
"Based on previous PBSG estimates and other research reports, it appears there are probably at least another 6,000 or so bears living in these regions and perhaps as many as 9,000 (or more) that are not included in any PBSG 'global population estimate,'" Crockford wrote on her blog.
"These are guesses, to be sure, but they at least give a potential size," Crockford added.
PBSG disclosed this information to Crockford ahead of the release of their Circumpolar Polar Bear Action Plan in which they intend to put a footnote explaining why their global population estimate is flawed.
"As part of past status reports, the PBSG has traditionally estimated a range for the total number of polar bears in the circumpolar Arctic," PBSG says in its proposed footnote. "Since 2005, this range has been 20-25,000. It is important to realize that this range never has been an estimate of total abundance in a scientific sense, but simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand."
"It is also important to note that even though we have scientifically valid estimates for a majority of the subpopulations, some are dated," PBSG continues. "Furthermore, there are no abundance estimates for the Arctic Basin, East Greenland, and the Russian subpopulations."
"Consequently, there is either no, or only rudimentary, knowledge to support guesses about the possible abundance of polar bears in approximately half the areas they occupy," says PBSG. "Thus, the range given for total global population should be viewed with great caution as it cannot be used to assess population trend over the long term."
PBSG's admission also comes after academics and government regulators have touted their polar bear population estimates to show that polar bear numbers have grown since the 1960s. PBSG estimates have also been used to show that polar bear populations have stabilized over the last 30 years.
Polar bear populations became the centerpiece of the effort to fight global warming due to claims that melting polar ice caps would cause the bears to become endangered in the near future. Years ago, some scientists predicted the Arctic would be virtually ice free by now.
Polar bears became the first species listed under the Endangered Species Act because they could potentially be harmed by global warming. But some recent studies have found that some polar bear subpopulations have actually flourished in recent years.
"So, the global estimates were... 'simply a qualified guess given to satisfy public demand' and according to this statement, were never meant to be considered scientific estimates, despite what they were called, the scientific group that issued them, and how they were used," Crockford said.
"All this glosses over what I think is a critical point: none of these 'global population estimates' (from 2001 onward) came anywhere close to being estimates of the actual world population size of polar bears (regardless of how scientifically inaccurate they might have been) — rather, they were estimates of only the subpopulations that Arctic biologists have tried to count," she added.
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Growing Concern That Obuma Intends To Empty Gitmo By Releasing Prisoners On His Own
(Obuma didn't tell Congress about the Bergdahl trade beforehand, because he knew some members opposed making a deal which had been on the table for years. The regime had previously assured everyone that no deal would go through without Congress being informed beforehand. So that was obviously another lie. At what point does Congress take back their their Constitutional obligation, which Obuma is eviscerating, right and left?
Part of the deal on the table had also been giving the Taliban a million dollars. Did Obuma give them the money too?
Chuck Hagel has also said that he is "under pressure" from within the Obuma regime to "act on all transfers". The Secretary of Defense is answerable to the President. So there's your answer as to "who" he is under pressure from.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/us/hagel-sets-his-own-timetable-on-deciding-guantanamo-transfers.html?smid=tw-share )via Daily Beast:President Obama released five Taliban leaders from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on Saturday without consulting Congress and without strict assurances that the militants won't somehow return to the fight. Republicans on Capitol Hill worry that the swap of these Taliban leaders for American hostage Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is a prelude to a bigger move—the emptying out of Guantanamo entirely.
In his 2014 State of the Union address, Obama promised to shutter the prison built on Cuban soil by the end of the year. Obama now has seven months to fulfill his latest promise to shut down Guantanamo—or come as close to it as he can. During that time, Congress will be unable to prevent the release of the 149 prisoners still there.
"This whole deal may have been a test to see how far the administration can actually push it, and if Congress doesn't fight back they will feel more empowered to move forward with additional transfers," said one senior GOP senate aide close to the issue. "They've lined up all the dominoes to be able to move a lot more detainees out of Guantanamo and this could be just the beginning."
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How Obuma Convinced His Spies to Support the Taliban Prisoner Release
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The Pentagon and the nation's top intelligence official opposed releasing the Gitmo Five in 2012. This time around the White House got the answer it wanted when the Taliban was ready to deal.Leaders of the U.S. intelligence community and military were opposed to freeing five senior Taliban commanders in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl when the White House first began exploring the prisoner swap in 2011 and 2012.
The U.S. military wanted to bring Bergdahl home, but releasing Mullah Mohammad Fazl, Mullah Norullah Noori, Abdul Haq Wasiq, Khairullah Khairkhwa, and Mohammed Nabi Omari was seen as too dangerous at the time.
James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, according to three U.S. intelligence officials, flat out rejected the release of the five detainees, saying there was too high a risk these Taliban commanders would return to the battlefield and orchestrate attacks against Americans.
Clapper was not alone. Leon Panetta, who was then the Secretary of Defense, declined to certify that the United States could mitigate the risk to national interests of releasing the Taliban commanders.
A lot has changed since 2012. To start, President Obama won reelection. Panetta is gone, and in his place is Chuck Hagel, a Republican former senator who has been much more in sync with Obama's views on the war on terror than his predecessors.
But current U.S. intelligence and defense officials who spoke to The Daily Beast on Monday say the process for exchanging Taliban for Bergdahl this time was rushed and closely held, in some instances leaving little room for any push back against a policy clearly favored by the White House.
"This was an example of forcing the consensus," one U.S. military official said. "The White House knew the answer they wanted and they ended up getting it."
The White House did not even consult or inform Congress until after the prisoner release had begun. Dianne Feinstein, the Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence told The Daily Beast, "Should we have gotten advance warning? I actually think so." She added, "We had participated in a number of briefings some time ago [on a possible future deal] and there was considerable concern."
At the end of the day, both Hagel and Clapper supported Obama's decision. Hagel was willing to make the certification that the risk to U.S. interests posed by releasing the "Gitmo Five" was mitigated in part by the assurances of the Qatari government.
"Like others, DNI Clapper had concerns about these individuals," said Clapper spokesman Shawn Turner. "However the agreement that was reached and circumstances under which these individuals will be monitored was sufficient enough to convince the DNI the risks had been mitigated."
But the process for getting there was rushed, according to U.S. intelligence officials. This time around there was no formal intelligence assessment for example of the risks posed by releasing the Taliban commanders. While some intelligence analysts looked at the issue, no community-wide intelligence assessment was produced, according to these officials.
U.S. officials say that this time around there were three factors that swayed Clapper to support the deal. To start, the guarantee from the Kingdom of Qatar to monitor the detainees for a year under a loose form of house arrest. When the deal was first explored in 2011 and 2012, there was no such offer from a third party.
One senior U.S. intelligence official said the Qatar arrangement would allow the detainees to receive international visitors but would not allow them to travel for a year. "This is not a situation like returning detainees to Yemen, where there was a risk of a breakout," one former senior Obama counterterrorism official said. "I expect the Qataris would keep them under house arrest but certainly communications with the Taliban are quite possible. After the first year there are no controls and they still will pose a danger to U.S. interests in Afghanistan."
Another factor that changed Clapper's view on the trade was that the five Taliban officials no longer had access to the same network of fighters that they would have, had they been released several years ago. "A lot of their networks are decimated at this point," one U.S. intelligence official said.
Finally, by the time the detainees will be allowed to leave Qatar, U.S. troops will be in the process of the final withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Anand Gopal, a fellow at the New America Foundation, and the author of No Good Men Among the Living, a history of the Afghan conflict, agreed. "I am a little surprised they did not think the networks were decimated in 2012," he said. "The Taliban may be hoping these guys are going to rejoin the fight, but this is mainly a huge propaganda win."
Indeed, even Mullah Omar, the one eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban that escaped the U.S. military in the first months of the 2001 invasion said the prisoner swap brought his organization "closer to the harbor of victory."
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Afghan Taliban Say they Won Big with Bergdahl Swap
"A crisis in leadership had the Taliban demoralized and divided. The release of five of their top men from Guantanamo may have solved that problem."
KARACHI, Pakistan — It's party time for the Afghan Taliban. After the release of five senior figures from Guantanamo in exchange for wayward U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, Afghan insurgent leader Mullah Omar sent an optimistic but cautious statement from the shadows where he's hiding. The Taliban are now "closer to the harbor of victory," he proclaimed in measured rhetoric. But his fighters on the front line plainly are ecstatic.
Mullah Salem Khan, a Taliban commander in embattled Helmand province, tells The Daily Beast over the telephone that when he heard the news, he pointed his Kalashnikov in the air and emptied 15 rounds toward the skies. "Allah Akbar!" he cried. "God is Great!"
One of those freed, in particular, Mullah Mohammad Fazil, is looked to as a great field commander at a time when those have been in short supply. He is a former deputy defense minister and was in charge of all Taliban troops in northern Afghanistan when the United States launched its invasion in late 2001. He also had a reputation for cruelty in a particularly cruel conflict. But Fazil's release is "the best news I have heard in at least 12 years," says Khan. "His return is like pouring 10,000 Taliban fighters into the battle on the side of jihad. Now the Taliban have the right lion to lead them in the final moment before victory in Afghanistan."
Khan told The Daily Beast that even when Mullah Fazil (sometimes written Fazl) was in Guantanamo his colleagues and fighters use his old letterhead and official stamp to inspire groups of Taliban in Helmand, Kandahar and Urozghan: "While Mullah Fazil was in the Guantanamo cages we kept his name living, and under the banner of 'Mazloom Mahaz'"—one of Fazil's noms de guerre—"more than 20 fronts were and are active in jihad in three provinces."
"Mullah Fazil was a military tycoon and very close to Mullah Omar," says Khan. "His freedom will definitely inspire the whole Taliban moment."
The Obama administration arranged, as part of the prisoner swap, for the five released to remain in Qatar for at least a year, rather than being returned to Afghanistan.
Khan says that's not a problem for the Taliban, who have an informal diplomatic mission in Doha, Qatar, where the deal for the prisoner release was arranged.
Fazil "is a free man," says Khan. "He can contact any one in the front line, in a council meeting, wherever."
"Knowing Mullah Fazil as well as I do, I can tell you he is a man for fighting, not a man sitting under an air conditioner in Qatar," says Khan. "He will definitely get in touch with the Taliban."An Afghan Taliban commander in Kandahar, Mullah Yasan Akhond, says that Fazil and fellow detainee Mullah Norullah Noori, the former Taliban governor of Balkh province, were top military man who had thousands of Taliban under their command. He expects they will take on significant responsibility in the future planning of the Taliban jihad, even from Qatar.
"Regardless of where they are, the liberation of Mullah Fazil and Mullah Norullah will give new spine to the Taliban so they can make war more aggressively," says Akhond.The New York Times has identified Taliban founding member Khirullah Said Wali Kharikhwa as "the most important figure" among those released, and adds hopefully that he is seen by some in the Karzai government in Kabul as a "possible interlocutor for future talks." But another Taliban official interviewed by The Daily Beast says that of the five released, only Norullah and Fazil have real power and influence.
Their liberation is especially welcome by the fighters on the battlefield at this moment because morale was suffering from a lack of major military leaders. Fazil is seen by several Taliban officials as a kind of troubleshooter. "The Taliban suffered a lot and had internal issues," said one, "but the return of these top men will help them to resolve all existing problems."
An ex-Taliban minister who does not want to be named says the Taliban have been searching for a strong figure, and at this crucial time Mullah Fazil could be the right man: "He was a respected name in the past, and his long stay in Guantanamo made him more mature and respectful with other Taliban."
The ex-minister says Taliban leaders were under pressure from combat forces to explain why they were sitting with the United States in Qatar "while on the ground we are fighting against United States."
"This is like shooting two birds with a single arrow," he said. "It is a political and military win for the Taliban."A major split emerged in recent months between Mullah Abdul Qayam Zakir, the reputed Taliban number two, and the collective leadership. "Mullah Zakir was under Mullah Fazil [in the past] and with the return of Fazil his issues are almost resolved," says Mullah Salem Khan.
As for the supposed guarantee that the five Guantanamo inmates will not rejoin the Taliban, that's taken as a joke. "As soon as they arrived in Qatar they rejoined the Taliban," says Khan. "We don't care about U.S. conditions and obstacles.""There are dozens of ways to lead the Taliban, even from overseas," says a former official in Taliban intelligence. "In fact, after 9/11, some 95 percent of the leadership are not actually on the ground in Afghanistan." The official said, "Skype, phones, the Internet, although made by the West, can easily bridge the communication gap," allowing the reorganization of Taliban military momentum: "Officially their bodies would be in Qatar, but thoughts and wisdom of jihad would be with us."
American and other Western officials see some benefit in the process that led to the exchange, since the negotiations pulled together some disparate factions among the forces fighting the Kabul government and may eventually open the way for further peace talks.
According to the same ex-minister, the Haqqani Network, which operates separately but answers to Mullah Omar, was holding Bergdahl. The Americans tried reaching out to it directly through some tribesman, but were referred back to the overall shura leadership in Quetta, Pakistan, and the envoys in Doha, Qatar.
Efforts by Washington to foster relatively wide-ranging discussions with the Taliban delegates in Qatar fell apart last year, but the Bergdahl negotiations continued. According to Taliban sources, the recent negotiations hinged on the question of how long the five released prisoners would have to stay in Qatar. Originally the Americans demanded they remain there forever. That time frame was whittled down to one year.
"Strengthening the Qatar office is good news for the political process and talks with Taliban," said a western diplomat in Islamabad. "Let's be positive at this stage." He suggested the return of the "five guys to Qatar" is "like moving the whole Quetta shura to Qatar."
The chief of the Taliban negotiating team in Doha, Mullah Naik Muhammad, told the Taliban website nuns.asia that Qatar can play a positive role in the Afghan conflict: "We don't have any areas of truce between the Taliban and the United States, but an area in the Ali Sher district of Khost province was declared a safe area for a day so the U.S. helicopter could land and pick up the U.S. soldier from the house of a local tribal elder," Naik Muhammad told nuns.asia.
As much as Washington would like to put a positive spin on the prisoner swap—while moving ahead with the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan—an Afghan army colonel, who asked not to be named, said the deal was a slap on the face of Afghan government. It is "like freeing hungry wolves and will bite hundreds of Afghans."
While it is true that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has freed Taliban prisoners in the past, none have been as senior as these. "If we released all the rest of the Taliban who are in Afghan jails it would not have as much weight for the Taliban as these five who were released by the United Staes," said the colonel.
Swap To Free Alan Gross Depends On Obuma, "Cuban Five" Spy Says
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(If Obuma doesn't free the five, then he hates Hispanics)
Via Fox News LatinoThe release of U.S. government contractor Alan Gross from a Cuban prison depends solely on the "political will" of President Barack Obama, a Havana spy who spent more than 15 years behind bars in the United States said here Monday.
To support that assertion, Fernando Gonzalez cited Obama's decision to trade five senior Taliban members being held at Guantanamo for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only American POW in Afghanistan.
Gonzalez, one of five Cuban spies convicted by a Miami jury in 2001, was released from prison in late November and promptly deported.
Three of the "Cuban Five" remain jailed in the United States and Havana has suggested an exchange of its spies for Gross, who is serving a 15-year sentence in Cuba on a conviction for subversion.
"It's obvious that the only thing needed is the political will on the part of the U.S. government to bring to fruition that exchange," Gonzalez told a press conference on Monday.
The swap of five Taliban leaders for Bergdahl "is evidence that the only thing lacking is the political will of Obama to resolve this situation," Gonzalez said.
The cases of Gross and the Cuban Five, in recent years, have become points of friction within the already-tense relations between the United States and Cuba, countries that have not had diplomatic relations for more than five decades.
Gross, now 64, traveled to Cuba on behalf of a Maryland company that won a contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to expand Internet access and the flow of information on the Communist-ruled island.
Col. David Hunt on O'Reilly: Bergdahl Called Unit The Day After He Walked Away Saying 'I've Deserted'
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Hunt also claims 14 soldiers were killed trying to find him.
Needless to say, the Obama regime is aware of this, it has to be in Bergdahl's file.
"We've traded war criminals for a deserter", Hunt said.
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Even Spider-Man can't believe all this sh!t from Obuma.
Gutfeld: 'Bergdahl Swap Is Like a
Common Core Math Problem'
Earlier today, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) wrote a letter to the Senate Armed Services Committee requesting an immediate hearing into the president's actions after he failed to notify Congress, as generally required under the National Defense Authorization Act.
Today in his monologue on The Five, Greg Gutfeld said, "It sounds like a Common Core math problem – five high risk terrorists for one mysterious hostage."
The Taliban has called the prisoner swap a "victory," leading many to wonder what message it sends that the United States negotiated with terrorists.
"What else did we give them?" Gutfeld asked. "We're dealing with mobsters on mules, after all. And why these five specific guys? They weren't working in HR. We've been told that Islamophobia only increases violence worldwide, but you could say the same thing about this."
He said the past proves that when terrorists are released or escape, they will kill Americans.
As for President Obama, Gutfeld called him a "lousy" poker player, "telegraphing intentions even before entering the casino. What did he photograph? That we're out of here. Done. Back to tackling the harsh realities of bullying."
How does America win in a trade like this? The only way it's a fair trade, Gutfeld said, is if those terrorists end up dead.
EXCLUSIVE: Tonight at 9p/12a ET on The Kelly File, hear from two soldiers who served with Bergdahl. Plus, former Vice President Dick Cheney talks to Megyn Kelly about the repercussions of the exchange.
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Graham on Bergdahl Prisoner Swap:
US Released the 'Taliban Dream Team'
Moments ago, Senator Lindsey Graham sent a letter to Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, requesting an immediate hearing on the transfer of U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl.
The Obama administration has come under fire for negotiating with terrorists and in essence, putting a price on American soldiers' heads.
Sen. Graham wrote:
I write today requesting an immediate hearing on the exchange of five high-ranking Taliban leaders for the release of Sergenat Bowe Bergdahl. While I appreciate an American was released from captivity, this decision by the Obama Administration has serious implications for our future national security.
The five terrorists released were the hardest of the hard-core. They held positions of great importance within the hard-core anti-American Taliban, including the Chief of Staff of the Taliban Army and the Taliban Deputy Minister of Intelligence. They have American blood on their hands and surely as night follows day they will return to the fight. In effect, we released the "Taliban Dream Team." The United States is less safe because of these actions.
I fear President Obama's decision will inevitably lead to more Americans being kidnapped and held hostage throughout the world.
There are also questions about why the Administration failed to comply with the law. We need a thorough review of this decision and I urge you to hold a hearing on this matter as it has profound implications for our national security.
With President Obama's announcement of a total withdrawal from Afghanistan by 2016 - basically canceling an insurance policy to protect our homeland - and now releasing five Taliban leaders, it's safe to say last week was a great week for the Taliban.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) questioned the conditions under which the terrorists were released, warning that they could turn around and launch attacks aimed at killing Americans. Taliban leader Mullah Omar delivered a statement on Sunday calling the trade a "great victory."
On Outnumbered, Army veteran Pete Hegseth was outraged over the prisoner swap.
"If there's one thing we've never done, it's negotiate with terrorists," he said. "We decide now that the price of an American soldier is five Taliban. [...] These are guys associated with Usama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks."
Harris Faulkner noted that as news broke about Bergdahl's release, he went from being called a hero to a possible deserter.
Hegseth said, "The Taliban said he was drunk and off base. He said in a statement that he had fallen behind on a patrol. Which if you fall behind on a patrol, you're in a fire fight or somebody knows about it."
Members of Bergdahl's unit were told not to talk about the situation until he was returned home. Now, fellow soldiers are coming out and saying he walked off the base.
"They don't want the story to be Bowe Bergdahl, American hero, if he isn't. If he is, then great," Hegseth said. "But if he deserted and didn't believe in the mission, and then they spent months and months looking for him, and now he's being lauded as such – that really complicates the situation."
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/06/02/hegseth-bergdahl-prisoner-swap-obama-admin-put-price-american-soldiers
Justification Over the top, for the following article in my opinion!
TRADE SECRETS
Impeach-Obama movement surges on Bergdahl deal
'This is aiding and abetting the enemy'
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The charge that President Obama has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors" and should be impeached because of the deal he arranged to set free five top Taliban leaders in exchange for an American soldier whose behavior is under investigation is gaining traction.
Lots of traction.Including a request from a former member of Congress, Allen West, to current House Speaker John Boehner and others "to draft articles of impeachment as no one is above the law in America."
"I call upon the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives; Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to draft articles of impeachment," West wrote Tuesday.
West argues Obama signed into law only months ago the National Defense Authorization Act, which makes it a crime against the nation to offer or provide any material support to terror groups.
The problem was explained by Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano, who supported West's opinion.
"We have a federal statute which makes it a felony to provide material assistance to any terrorist organization. It could be money, maps, professional services, any asset whatsoever, include human assets," he said.
Napolitano argues it is likely the five terrorist leaders will rejoin the campaign against the United States, which constitutes material support.
Just a day ago, Andrew McCarthy, the former federal prosecutor who brought the evidence that convicted perpetrators of the first Islamic terror bombing of New York's World Trade Center, said Obama likely broke the federal law against supporting terror.
The definitive case for removing Barack Obama from office is presented in "Impeachable Offenses" by Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott.
Transferring the five terrorists to Qatar in exchange for the release of Bergdahl "violates the law against material support to terrorism," Andrew McCarthy told the the Daily Mail of London.
McCarthy was assistant U.S. attorney in New York. He led the 1995 prosecution of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and nearly a dozen others charged with the bombing, which failed to bring down the towers but killed six and injured more than a thousand.
West wrote Tuesday that Obama used an Article 2 signing statement to deem unconstitutional a measure he had signed into law contained in the National Defense Authorization Act.
"The law stated that he must advise Congress within 30 days about any plans to transfer detainees from Gitmo," West wrote. "Obama basically stated that this was 'unconstitutional' and that his unilateral action fell within his purview. Once again Obama used selective discretion as to what law he feels he must adhere to — in this case it has severe ramifications for our national security."
He said the five Guantanamo Bay detainees "were senior Taliban officials, basically members of Mullah Omar's inner circle."
"This is aiding and abetting the enemy, which goes along with the collusion of this administration with Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations and supplying weapons and arms to Islamists," West wrote. "Obama just released the leadership of a terrorist organization, and what did we get in return? A deserter, who by his own self-proclamation harbors anti-American sentiments – which it seems that Susan Rice, our esteemed national security adviser, didn't even realize his heinous actions – or maybe as usual she just lied about it again.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I submit that Barack Hussein Obama's unilateral negotiations with terrorists and the ensuing release of their key leadership without consult – mandated by law – with the U.S. Congress represents high crimes and misdemeanors, an impeachable offense."
Napolitano said it's clear Obama did "the very thing that government is prohibited from doing under federal law."
The action, Napolitano said, "defies" Obama's oath of office, which is to "faithfully" enforce federal law.
"He may very have committed a federal crime by giving material assistance to a terror organization," he said.
Impeachment, he said, is "a very, very valid argument."
Roll Call reported the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee also joined the conversation.
"My perception is he broke the law by not informing Congress 30 days before," Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., said in an appearance on MSNBC.
McKeon was referring to a 2013 law that requires the administration to notify Congress before detainees from the detention camp are released.
"We will be holding hearings. I'm sorry that this is being portrayed as a Republican issue. Democrats also voted for this law. It was important for our national security," he said.
McKeon noted the law passed overwhelmingly in both chambers of Congress and the president signed it.
"And although he said now he had a disclaimer along with it that he apparently didn't support the law, he did sign it," the congressman said.
WND's report Monday explained that McCarthy differed slightly. He said Obama's actions in releasing the five terrorists were not impeachable based on not notifying Congress, because he said that law itself was flawed.
But the law, he said, specifically forbids any "material support to terrorism." And he said the president actions likely violated that provision.
"And because high crimes and misdemeanors (the offenses cited in the Constitution as reason for impeachment) are not statutory offenses but political wrongs that endanger the United States, the return of senior terrorists to the Taliban while we still have soldiers in harm's way is, in my view, a 'high crime and misdemeanor,'" McCarthy told the Mail.
A book also has made a case for impeaching Obama. "Impeachable Offenses," by Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott, has been called a blueprint for impeaching Obama, outlining the high crimes, misdemeanors, bribery and other offenses committed against the U.S. Constitution.
The Daily Mail itself called "Impeachable Offenses" "explosive," saying the book contains a "systematic connect-the-dots exercise that the president's defenders will find troublesome."
Among the offenses enumerated in the book before the Bergdahl deal erupted:
•Obamacare not only is unconstitutional but illegally bypasses Congress, infringes on states' rights and marking an unprecedented and unauthorized expansion of IRS power.
•Sidestepping Congress, Obama already has granted largely unreported de facto amnesty to millions of illegal aliens using illicit interagency directives and executive orders.
•The Obama administration recklessly endangered the public by releasing from prison criminal illegal aliens at a rate far beyond what is publicly known.
•The president's personal role in the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack, with new evidence regarding what was transpiring at the U.S. mission prior to the assault – arguably impeachable activities in and of themselves.
•Illicit edicts on gun control in addition to the deadly "Fast and Furious" gun-running operation intended, the book shows, to collect fraudulent gun data.
•And more.
The definitive case for removing Barack Obama from office is presented in "Impeachable Offenses" by Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott.
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The Secret Service
Wants to Get an
Actual
Sarcasm Detector
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Isn't it great that our government doesn't do anything remotely silly? I'm just kidding, of course they do. I was just being sarcastic because the Secret Service, in a work order posted online yesterday, actually wants to find a way to detect sarcasm on the internet. Great idea.
Yes, there's actually a request in there for the "ability to detect sarcasm and false positives" on social media outlets like Twitter. A Secret Service spokesperson explained, "The ability to detect sarcasm and false positives is just one of 16 or 18 things we are looking at. We are looking for the ability to quantity our social media outreach. We aren't looking solely to detect sarcasm."
Well, at least there's that. But here's the problem: you can't always detect sarcasm online. That's why a major part of sarcasm is inflection. You know, speech! The thing you don't do when you type things out!
This will probably go well.
[h/t WaPo]
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'I. Am. The. Mom.': It Didn't Go Over Well When a Hospital Allegedly Told a Mother They'd Need to Have a 'Private' Conversation With Her Teenage Daughter
Jun. 3, 2014 10:48pm Jason Howerton
When Christy Duffy took her 17-year-old daughter to her local hospital in Michigan, she was stunned to see a notice posted alerting parents that a nurse will need to "have a short 5 minute private conversation with your child."
In a fiery blog post published on Monday, Duffy took a bold stand in favor of parental rights. She explains how the situation unfolded:
I was there last week for an appointment for Amy. She hurt her foot, which makes dancing difficult, so we had to get that checked out. Amy is 17; I asked if this policy was in effect and if so, how could I opt out. The receptionist told me it's a new law and there is no opting out. Working to keep my cool, I said, "I'm sure there is." She said, "No, there isn't." At which point I asked if I needed to leave and go to the urgent care center because I was not submitting my daughter to such a conversation.
That did not go over well
The receptionist closed the window. Almost immediately, the office manager turned the corner and said, "Mrs. Duffy, may I speak with you?"
She said there was a new policy that would allow a child to access his/her medical records online and the child would be allowed to block a parent from viewing the website. The nurse would also inform my children that the doctor's office is a safe place for them to receive information about STDs, HIV and birth control. That is what the nurse would be chatting about with my children without any pesky parental oversight.
Refusing to back down, Duffy then says she "politely" informed the office manager that no one would be talking to her child privately and asked how she may opt out of the policy before she returned to the hospital for her daughter's physical the next month.
"Make sure this is crystal clear: what they want to do is talk to your child about sex and drugs (maybe rock and roll – who knows?) without your input," Duffy writes. "Is it really such a stretch to imagine that a doctor who does not value abstinence before marriage would encourage your daughters – as young as 12! – to receive birth control? Is it really such a stretch to imagine a nurse telling a young boy – because a 12 year old boy is a BOY – that she will give him condoms so he can be 'safe'?"
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She also made sure to snap a picture of the notice:
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"I am the Mom. I will pick who can talk to my kids about sex and drugs. And rock-n-roll for that matter," she adds in the post.
In a follow-up blog post published on Tuesday, Duffy revealed that a woman with the hospital's "privacy department" called her on the phone after she sent an email seeking clarification.
Duffy claims she was informed that the law in Michigan requires a minor be given the ability to deny his or her parents access to the online portion of his or her medical records.
The "private" 5-minute conversation would cover the online account as well as information on STDs and birth control. The private conversation between a minor and a nurse is apparently not required by law.
The representative also said the particular hospital had "jumped the gun" by posting the sign because its not clear how the the policy will be implemented yet. The sign has reportedly been removed.
The mother says she's not satisfied because "jumped the gun" doesn't mean the policy will never be enforced.
"They will attempt to separate a child from her parent at an appointment. They just don't know when," she writes. "I have nothing to hide. I do not abuse my children. But that's not the point. The point is that parents' rights are eroding right in front of our eyes."
TheBlaze has reached out to Duffy and will attempt to contact the hospital in question.
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Pic of The Day: Obama Struggles To Lift 5-Pound Dumbbells
What a CLOWN!
Via NY Post:
Even the president pumps iron at the hotel gym.
A fellow gym user snapped a few covert shots of President Obama
lifting weights at a 5-star hotel in Warsaw, Poland — evidently
without being seen by the president's security team — then posted
them on his Facebook page.
The leaked photos show Obama, in a dark blue track suit and white
T-shirt, lifting dumbbells while surrounded by several people in
the Marriott Hotel's luxury gym. He spent around 30 minutes working
out in the gym before heading back to his presidential suite,
according to Central European News.
The photos were taken by Facebook user Jean Ekwa, who managed to
take the shots on his cellphone.
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White House Whines: GOP Criticism of Bergdahl Is Just a
"Proxy For Their Hatred Toward The President"
(The White House is also claiming they knew about
the desertion claims against Bergdahl, if this is true then why did they trot
Susan Rice out on Sunday to praise him for "serving with honor and distinction?")
Via Politico:
President Barack Obama's Rose Garden appearance Saturday afternoon with
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's parents was an attempt to humanize the prisoner
swap to deflect potential criticism of letting five Taliban leaders out
of Guantanamo Bay, White House aides say.
It didn't work.
White House aides were aware Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had been tagged a deserter,
and that they would be grilled over not keeping Congress in the loop.
But they figured people would be most outraged over the national security
implications.
The White House has been surprised by how much attention has remained on
the questions about Bergdahl, from the circumstances of his disappearance
to the wild beard his father grew while he was being held that's even led
to Bergdahl's hometown canceling a celebration. All this, Obama aides say,
is in their minds a proxy for the hatred toward the president.
The new approach: Frame the criticism as another example of Republicans
complaining about something just because Obama was the one to do it.
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Stunning: WH Officials Thought Exchanging 5 Taliban Leaders For 1 Deserter Would Encourage
"Moderate" Taliban To Take Peace Process Seriously
(It's mind-boggling how clueless this administration is. In reality it does nothing except encourage the Taliban to kidnap more U.S. soldiers)
Via WaPo:Inside the administration, the calculations over Bergdahl's fate were complicated by seemingly unrelated events, including the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in May 2011, when U.S. forces traveled deep into Pakistan and killed the al-Qaeda leader. The operation infuriated Pakistan's government and raised fears among U.S. officials that their uncertain ally's already mixed support for the war effort would wane further.
Around that time, U.S. officials began to contemplate an operation to rescue Bergdahl, according to a former senior administration official who participated in the discussions.
At least twice before Bergdahl's release, U.S. officials had a possible fix on where he was being held, but some administration officials familiar with the intelligence said there were gaps that left his circumstances unclear. And there were strong voices opposed to an operation, led by then-national security adviser Thomas Donilon and his deputy, Denis McDonough, who is now White House chief of staff.
Their concern, the official said, was further angering Pakistan's government and spy agency, which has close connections to the Haqqani network.
Those who supported a rescue operation included Adm. Mike Mullen, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then-CIA Director Leon E. Panetta. Their argument in favor of a high-risk, lower-reward operation than the bin Laden raid eventually failed.
During the same debate, officials were considering the emerging prisoner-exchange proposal. White House advisers believed that a successful exchange would not only free Bergdahl but would also encourage moderate Taliban members to take an Afghan-led reconciliation process seriously.
Secret Service Wants Software That Detects Sarcasm On Social Media
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Via Washington PostThe agency wants to buy software that, among other things, has the ability to "detect sarcasm" and language that may mean something different than it appears on first glance.
Government agencies and corporations have long used social media to try to influence the public and get their messages out, while law enforcement agencies increasingly monitor such sites for signs of trouble.
But getting a computer to detect sarcasm and its linguistic complexities can be difficult — and some experts worry at the prospect of attempts to parse speech by a government agency that has the power to arrest people for posting alleged threats online.
"It does appear that it's going to be a pretty broad monitoring program. It will likely sweep in some First Amendment protected expression," said Ginger McCall, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). "It is troubling, because it really stifles people's ability to freely express themselves, and it has a tendency to quell dissent, to make people think twice before they express themselves online."
The Secret Service request for the software, first reported by nextgov.com, was posted Monday. The agency is accepting proposals until next Monday.
The work order asks for a long list of specific tools, including the ability to identify influential figures on social media, analyze data streams in real time, access old Twitter data and use heat maps. (It also wants the software to be compatible with the five-year-old Internet Explorer 8 browser — a sign of the government's outdated technology.)
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Goofy Fluke: "It Took Everything We Had To Secure Victory On Tuesday" . . .
One Problem, The Pinko Came In Second Place
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(Sandra is a special kind of stupid... you lost to some guy named Ben Allen.
Moonbat vs Moonbat... Allen?... is Harvard grad, and Berkeley lawyer)
Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Thinks Obama Wants Cuba Spy-Swap
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(Obuma is holding out for a box of Cuban cigars)
Via Miami HeraldAfter news broke about President Barack Obama's prisoner swap involving five Taliban Guantánamo Bay detainees, many wondered about the fate of another person, this one locked away in Cuba: Alan Gross, the U.S. government contractor believed by many to have been railroaded on trumped-up spy charges.
The Obama administration says it is not negotiating for Gross.Yet U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Miami Republican Cuban exile leader, doesn't think the administration is being honest.
"I seriously believe the administration is considering a swap," Ros-Lehtinen said. "The administration has shown itself not to be faithful to the law and is not to be trusted."For instance, Ros-Lehtinen said, the administration two years ago briefed her and other members of Congress in a closed-door intelligence briefing on the proposed swap of the five Taliban for U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, a likely deserter during his tour in Afghanistan
Ros-Lehtinen, House Speaker John Boehner and others objected to negotiating with terrorists.
"They said: 'We hear you loud and clear.' And two years later, what do we have?" she asked. "A prisoner swap."
In between, Congress passed a bill that would require notification of any Gitmo prisoner transfers 30 days in advance. Obama, in signing the law, issued a signing statement to essentially give him wiggle room to ignore that under unique circumstances.
Obama, as a candidate in 2007, criticized the prior administration's use of signing statements, saying, "I will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law."
In the case of Gross, Ros-Lehtinen issued press releases earlier this week in English and Spanish mischaracterizing news reports about Gross, who was arrested in Cuba in 2009 after Cuban authorities said he possessed satellite telephones and other banned communications equipment. Gross said the equipment was intended for the Jewish community on the island.
Ros-Lehtinen's press release said that "news reports" indicated the administration "may be considering" a swap with Cuba: Gross in return for the three remaining "Cuban Five" espionage convicts imprisoned in the United States.
The news reports at the time said Obama wasn't considering it.
Ros-Lehtinen's Spanish-language press release was more off the mark, saying that Obama "is considering" a swap.
Ros-Lehtinen acknowledged the error, but she said it doesn't matter. She believes the administration is talking quietly with Cuba.
She pointed to a Tuesday back-and-forth between a reporter and State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki , who was asked repeatedly about Gross. In a final question, a reporter asked whether "the administration is still opposed to any deal with the Cubans for Alan Gross that involves the three remaining Cuban Five?"
Psaki: "Nothing has changed in that case, no."
So, in public, Obama and Ros-Lehtinen have the same position.
Son Of Abortion Doc Gosnell Shot While Robbing College Student's Home
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(Not exactly the tax payer relief shot)
Via NBC PhillyThe son of Kermit Gosnell, the infamous Philadelphia abortion doctor serving a life sentence for killing newborn children and at least one adult, is now in the hospital fighting for his life after an alleged home invasion.
Police say Gosnell's son, 22-year-old Barron Alexander was shot several times while he was burglarizing a row home shared by a group of undergrads in West Philadelphia on Wednesday morning.
The incident occurred on the 3700 block of Brandywine Avenue in the Mantua neighborhood around 7 a.m., according to Philadelphia Police.
Investigators say Alexander, who legally changed his name after his father's conviction, broke into the home while the three male residents were home. According to police, he broke into the home three times, stealing cash and electronics — including an X-Box and a laptop.
Police Capt. John Przepiorka said Alexander went through a rear bathroom window during the third break-in, causing two of the residents to wake up.
"He was taking items from the property and a resident from the property woke up startled," said Przepiorka. "A struggle started at that point, the resident screamed for help."
A second roommate then shot Alexander multiple times, said Przepiorka.
Officers rushed Alexander to the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania where he remained in critical, but stable condition.
Przepiorka said investigators were trying to find out if Alexander was armed.
The third roommate living in the home slept through the entire ordeal.
Police say the gun used in the shooting is legally registered to the home owner.
Alexander's father, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, is serving a life sentence without the possibility for parole after a jury found him guilty of killing three babies born alive at his West Philadelphia abortion clinic.
Two years ago, Alexander legally dropped his father's last name, claiming he could not get work or an internship due to his father's crimes.
Police say Alexander faces several charges including robbery, burglary and receiving stolen goods.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei Taunts Obuma
Saying He Doesn't Have The Guts For a Military Attack
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(Sadly, he's right... the community organizer is a failure)
Via Daily Mail:Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has taunted President Barack Obama, claiming that the U.S. no longer has the guts for battle.
Speaking at an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei, the 74-year-old Shiite Muslim cleric proclaimed that 'military attack is not a priority for Americans now.'
He stood on a podium amid banners boasting 'America Cannot Do a Damn Thing' as he reacted to a speech President Obama gave to West Point last week.
'Since World War II, some of our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint, but from our willingness to rush into military adventures – without thinking through the consequences,' Obama told graduating cadets.
Khamenei took the president's message to mean, 'They have renounced the idea of any military actions.'
Khamenei called the U.S. the 'Great Satan' and said its effort to bring Iran 'to its knees' have failed.
He said: 'Despite the sanctions imposed upon it, Iran today is launching satellites and sending live organisms into space and is producing nuclear power.'
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Obuma Cartel Predicts "Substantial Progress" In Freeing Remaining Gitmo Terrorists This Year
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(I'm sure al-Qaeda could use the extra men... and we can use them for target practice once they are released)
Washington (AFP) – Moves to free detainees from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay are gathering pace as the administration works to close the notorious jail, a top US official said Thursday.
"There are a significant number of transfers in the pipeline at various stages and I think you're going to be seeing substantial progress this year," the senior administration official said, amid a furor over the release of five Taliban prisoners for a captured US soldier in Afghanistan.
(What are the odds he fails to notify Congress again?)
Lawmakers Announce Bipartisan Deal To Reform Veterans' Medical Care
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(The legislation contains more than medical care. The upside is that Sanders didn't get the Unions more money)
Via Washington ExaminerSenate lawmakers announced a bipartisan agreement on reforming the Department of Veterans Affairs, but the bill could face opposition from Republican lawmakers who want to amend it.
Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced the deal on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon.
The bill would provide veterans
"choice cards" to allow them to obtain private medical care if they face long wait times at VA hospitals. It would also give the VA secretary expanded power to quickly fire or transfer poorly performing senior executives.
The bill appears to be a hybrid of a
GOP bill announced earlier this week and legislation unveiled Sunday by Sanders.
The GOP bill, authored by Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Richard Burr of North Carolina, called for the privatized care and firing power for the VA secretary. Sanders' legislation included expanded services for veterans and some of those provisions were included in the compromise bill.
They include hiring more nurses and doctors at VA medical centers, in-state tuition for all veterans at public universities and other benefits.
"This legislation empowers our veterans with more flexibility to choose the health care they've earned while bringing much-needed accountability to VA operations, including the ability to immediately fire poor-performing employees with no pay during the appeals process," McCain said.
But McCain added that he wants an opportunity to vote on amendments to the legislation.
The compromise bill excluded some key provisions supported by McCain, such as the requirement that VA hospitals publicly disclose wait times.
The bill did not include many of the expanded benefits Sanders wanted in the legislation, including an expansion of veterans care for medical problems not related to military service.
But it includes expanding VA hospital leases to 26 new facilities, a provision favored by Sanders."That will help us, in many parts of the country, in providing the quality, timely care our veterans deserve," Sanders said upon announcing the deal.
Poll: 84% Says Obama's Prisoner Swap With The Taliban Puts U.S. Soldiers At Risk
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Via Fox News:Americans hold mixed views of the Obama administration's deal to swap a captive U.S. soldier for five Taliban prisoners, yet almost all fear that negotiating with terrorist groups will put U.S. troops at risk.
That's according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday.
A prisoner exchange Saturday that released U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five top-level Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay has sparked debate over negotiating with terrorists. Fully 84 percent of voters are concerned that making deals with terrorists will encourage those groups to take more American soldiers hostage. That includes a 57-percent majority that is "very" concerned and another 27 percent that is "somewhat" concerned.
Only 15 percent aren't worried deals like this will put more troops at risk.
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Obama Could Be Facing 10 Years To Life In Prison..."No exception for the President's behavior..."
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Shepard Smith of Fox News asked Judge Andrew Napolitano whether or not the Taliban prisoner exchange was legal under the NDAA H.R. 1960 Statute. The judge explained that the swap was illegal because taxpayer dollars were spent to remove these prisoners from Guantanamo Bay without giving Congress 30 days notice. However, Napolitano goes a step further by pointing out that Obama has provided material assistance (human assets) to the Taliban, which has been identified by Congress to be a non-state terrorist organization.
This is a crime punishable by imprisonment of 10 years to life, which covers all Americans–including the President.
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Judge Andrew Napolitano talked with Tim Constantine on The Capitol Hill Show, and explained that very serious charges could and should be brought up against President Obama over his GITMO prisoner swap. He also took the chance to bash Eric Cantor and John Boehner, for being too scared to do anything about this out of control administration.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siHL_RkA538
My Fellow Americans,
I am a Liar!(http://www.brucesallan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Obama-lies.jpg)
Today we face a time of great challenges and opportunities. Our generation is confronted with both great promise and peril. The only way that we will meet these challenges is by moving forward.
Unfortunately for too long we have been held back by my political opponents who lack my courage at confronting these challenges with sensible common sense solutions developed by political activists in secretive conferences.(http://tomfernandez28.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/lies.jpg)
These racist extremists continue to divide our great nation by accusing me deceptiveness and dishonesty. They politicize every scandal involving me while refusing to accept responsibility for all the scandals about them that I have politicized.
Let me take this opportunity to address one of their slanders. It was shouted at me by a member of Congress in a moment that had no parallel since Reconstruction.Yes I have lied. And I am not ashamed of it.(http://www.politifake.org/image/political/1210/obama-lies-you-believe-battaile-politics-1350518635.jpg)
There are two schools of thought when it comes to lying. There are some who say that I should lie all the time and there are others who say that I should never lie at all.
It seems clear to me that both approaches are unrealistic.
I have far too much respect for the American people to lie to them all the time. Far too much respect. And constantly lying to the American people would undermine our system of democracy which I wholeheartedly believe to be the finest in the world.
Honestly.
But at the same time, I cannot tell the truth all the time. No elected official can.(http://www.theconservativespeaker.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Obama-Lies.jpg)
Great presidents like Abraham Lincoln, FDR and JFK have all lied to the American people. And I think that it is shameful of my political opponents to demean history's greatest leaders by implying that there is something wrong with my constant lying.
I am reminded of Thomas Jefferson who said, "Deceit is the grease that lubricates the wheels of democracy." Or of Thomas Paine who wrote, "Never trust a president who does not lie."We no longer live in a simple world in which there are clear differences between lies and truth. As the world becomes more complex, there are no longer easy answers. Sometimes in dealing with the difficult issues that confront us, the truth turns out to be a lie. And the lie the truth.To tackle the challenges of a new world with its social networks of infrastructures and its intangible elements, we must lie in order to tell the truth. And we must teach our children to lie so that they will be prepared to cope with the challenges of tomorrow.(http://americanforchange.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/obama-lies.jpg?w=538&h=549)
Every great man in history has also been a liar. To lie is to explore the creative possibilities that every situation has to offer. If we are going to compete for our place in history in a more complex world, we must think outside the box, we must push the limits.
We must lie!(http://viralconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/obamacouldtellalie.jpg)
That is why I have lied. I did not lie to protect myself. You can believe me when I say that. I lied for the greater good. I lied so that our children would have health care, so that veterans would avoid being burdened by unnecessary lifesaving tests and so that those who obstruct our common vision for a better future would be shut down by the IRS.
I lied because I believed that we are capable of more. And that is why I ask you to join me in lying for a better tomorrow.(http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/1/1/9/9/9/1/8/obama-lies-133655499671.jpeg)
...Your President Community Organizer,
Barack Hussein Obuma
Lady Judge
Telling it
Like it is!
LA Times Columnist, Robin Abcarian, Smears #MarineHeldInMexico
Implies He Was Likely To Be Mass Shooter
TWEETER:(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/426763047214927873/LpNDWRgV_normal.jpeg) Robin Abcarian ✔ @robinabcarian
Maybe Mexico did us a favor by arresting ex-Marine Andrew Tahmooressi--who had 3 loaded guns and tons of ammo http://fw.to/ogsQQnX 2:46 PM - 8 Jun 2014
Maybe we should thank Mexico for intercepting that armed ex-Marine. (https://o.twimg.com/1/proxy.jpg?t=FQIVBhhZaHR0cDovL3d3dy50cmJpbWcuY29tL2ltZy01MzkyNjhkZC90dXJiaW5lL2xhLW1lLXJhLW1heWJlLXdlLXNob3VsZC10aGFuay1tZXhpY28tMjAxNDA2MDYUAhYAEgA&s=JqxR49JktcFM1Z50iVlsbv0LuKwforIN7Ci5iqsMpNw)What authority in his or her right mind would fail to take serious action in the case of a young man who claimed to have accidentally crossed an international border with three loaded guns and enough...
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(Hey Robin? Maybe you would like to test out the Mexican justice system and sit a spell in a Mexican prison? What actual evidence do you have that Tahmoressi had any ill intent? The answer is none, as the evidence, including his 911 call, suggest otherwise.
Yet, according to Robin, there is not one shred of evidence that Bowe Bergdahl was a deserter. Black is white, Ignorance is strength and Robin sees unicorns on every corner)Via Twitchy:LA Times columnist Robin Abcarian thinks we should be happy that ex-Marine Andrew Tahmooressi is locked up in Mexico because he took a wrong turn:
How fervently do we wish that the Santa Barbara deputy sheriffs who checked up on Elliott Rodger after a call from his worried mother had tried to discern whether Rodger owned weapons, legal or not? How fervently do we fantasize that his grotesque rampage might never had occurred had only a deputy or two been more suspicious, more invasive, more hard-ass about whether the kid had weapons?Abcarian would have you believe Mexico's criminal justice system is corruption free and that Tahmooressi, if not for his arrest, was the next mass shooter.
The assumptions she's making are pretty offensive. Not every combat veteran with post traumatic stress disorder is a mass murderer. Not everyone with a mental illness is violent. Not everyone who owns firearms is violent.
Eric Holder's guns have killed far more people in Mexico than have Andrew Tahmooressi's.
Susan Rice's Latest Whopper: "Our Leadership Is Unmatched"
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(Apparently she was able to say this with a straight face)
Colleville-sur-Mer, France (CNN) – Defending President Barack Obama's foreign policy as one of global leadership – rather than the passive stance his critics portray – National Security Adviser Susan Rice said Friday the United States was taking important steps in Syria by offering both "lethal and non-lethal" aid to the moderate opposition fighting a bloody civil war.
Critics have cited Obama's record in Syria as evidence of a failed foreign policy, saying his decision to forgo air strikes after Assad deployed chemical weapons displayed weakness to rivals.
Rice countered those claims by pointing to still-strong alliances between the U.S. and partner nations.
"I don't think the criticism has been fair," she said. "I think the fact of the matter is we're living in complex times, there are many different challenges that the United States and the world faces. But our leadership is unmatched. Our role is indispensable."
House Intel Chairman: Gitmo Release Was 'Not The Only Option' To Get Bergdahl Back
(Closing GITMO five prisoners at a time)
Via NROHouse Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers (R., Mich.) said this morning that the deal reached for the release of Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, which involved releasing five senior Taliban leaders, wasn't the only way to get him home.
"There were other options on the table — many still classified — that never even rose to the level of discussion," Rogers told ABC's George Stephanopoulos. The problem, the congressman suggested, was that the Obama administration made its decision unilaterally and didn't consult Congress, which could have suggested other options, consulted the intelligence and military communities, and more.
"This was what so angered those of us who've followed it for years — this was not the only option," Rogers said. "The administration has this theory that you're either with them or you're for thermonuclear war, and there's nothing in between. That's just wrong."When critics of the deal have suggested that releasing five senior Taliban members was too high a price to pay for Bergdahl, the Obama administration has maintained that the U.S. military's commitment to rescue all of its members held in captivity meant that the deal was unavoidable. Rogers made it clear that he disagrees.
More Patients Flocking To ERs Under ObumaCrappyCare
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(Ah yes, another promise to America up in flames. Is there nothing of this regime that is not a lie?)
Via Courier Journal:http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2014/06/07/patients-flocking-emergency-rooms-obamacare/10181349/
It wasn't supposed to work this way, but since the Affordable Care Act took effect in January, Norton Hospital has seen its packed emergency room become even more crowded, with about 100 more patients a month.
That 12 percent spike in the number of patients — many of whom aren't actually facing true emergencies — is spurring the hospital to convert a waiting room into more exam rooms.
"We're seeing patients who probably should be seen at our (immediate-care centers)," said Lewis Perkins, the hospital's vice president of patient care and chief nursing officer. "And we're seeing this across the system."
That's just the opposite of what many people expected under Obamacare, particularly because one of the goals of health reform was to reduce pressure on emergency rooms by expanding Medicaid and giving poor people better access to primary care.
Former Platoon Mate: "Every Single Mission" Was About Finding Bergdahl After He Deserted
(According to the White House and their fellow Dems he's nothing
but a patsy for the GOP)
Via National Review:A former medic in Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's platoon fired back Sunday at Obama administration claims that he and other Afghanistan veterans are exaggerating the seriousness of Bergdahl's disappearance from his post in 2009.
"Every single mission that we did was focused on finding Bergdahl," Joshua Cornelison told Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace. "Maybe not every single mission was kicking down a door because we had intel that Bergdahl was there. But we were finding people. We were either finding locals who had said they had information about where Bowe Bergdahl was, or maybe we were just going trying to talk with locals to see if they had information about Bergdahl. But every single mission after Bowe Bergdahl left was tilted toward finding Bowe Bergdahl, every single one.
Barack Obuma Marks "National Donut Day" With A Picture Of . . . Barack Obuma
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(Mooch "What the hell are you eating!" Obuma unavailable for comment)
Obuma Back On The Golf Course
Round #175.
Via White House Dossier:President Obama is playing golf today at Fort Belvoir with three of his usual crew, White House aides Marvin Nicholson and Joe Paulsen and Mooch Obama, food guru Sam Kass.
It's his 18th time playing this year and outing No. 175 of his presidency.
June 3, 2014 6:40 PM
Why Team Obama Was Blindsided by the Bergdahl Backlash
"The president and Ms. Rice seem to think that the crime
of desertion in wartime is kind of like skipping class."
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Congratulations, Mr. President! And identical congrats to your sorcerer's apprentice, National Security Adviser Susan Rice. By trying to sell him as an American hero, you've turned a deserter already despised by soldiers in the know into quite possibly the most-hated individual soldier in the history of our military.
I have never witnessed such outrage from our troops.
Exhibit A: Ms. Rice. In one of the most tone-deaf statements in White House history (we're making a lot of history here), the national-security adviser, on a Sunday talk show, described Bergdahl as having served "with honor and distinction." Those serving in uniform and those of us who served previously were already stirred up, but that jaw-dropper drove us into jihad mode.
But pity Ms. Rice. Like the president she serves, she's a victim of her class. Nobody in the inner circle of Team Obama has served in uniform. It shows. That bit about serving with "honor and distinction" is the sort of perfunctory catch-phrase politicians briefly don as electoral armor. ("At this point in your speech, ma'am, devote one sentence to how much you honor the troops.")
I actually believe that Ms. Rice was kind of sincere, in her spectacularly oblivious way. In the best Manchurian Candidate manner, she said what she had been programmed to say by her political culture, then she was blindsided by the firestorm she ignited by scratching two flinty words together. At least she didn't blame Bergdahl's desertion on a video.
The president, too, appears stunned. He has so little understanding of (or interest in) the values and traditions of our troops that he and his advisers really believed that those in uniform would erupt into public joy at the news of Bergdahl's release — as D.C. frat kids did when Osama bin Laden's death was trumpeted.
Both President Obama and Ms. Rice seem to think that the crime of desertion in wartime is kind of like skipping class. They have no idea of how great a sin desertion in the face of the enemy is to those in our military. The only worse sin is to side actively with the enemy and kill your brothers in arms. This is not sleeping in on Monday morning and ducking Gender Studies 101.
But compassion, please! The president and all the president's men and women are not alone. Our media elite — where it's a rare bird who bothered to serve in uniform — instantly became experts on military justice. Of earnest mien and blithe assumption, one talking head after another announced that "we always try to rescue our troops, even deserters."
Uh, no. "Save the deserter" is a recent battle cry of the politically indoctrinated brass. For much of our history, we did make some efforts to track down deserters in wartime. Then we shot or hanged them. Or, if we were in good spirits, we merely used a branding iron to burn a large D into their cheeks or foreheads. Even as we grew more enlightened, desertion brought serious time in a military prison. At hard labor.
This is a fundamental culture clash. Team Obama and its base cannot comprehend the values still cherished by those young Americans "so dumb" they joined the Army instead of going to prep school and then to Harvard. Values such as duty, honor, country, physical courage, and loyalty to your brothers and sisters in arms have no place in Obama World. (Military people don't necessarily all like each other, but they know they can depend on each other in battle — the sacred trust Bergdahl violated.)
President Obama did this to himself (and to Bergdahl). This beautifully educated man, who never tires of letting us know how much smarter he is than the rest of us, never stopped to consider that our troops and their families might have been offended by their commander-in-chief staging a love-fest at the White House to celebrate trading five top terrorists for one deserter and featuring not the families of those soldiers (at least six of them) who died in the efforts to find and free Bergdahl, but, instead, giving a starring role on the international stage to Pa Taliban, parent of a deserter and a creature of dubious sympathies (that beard on pops ain't a tribute to ZZ Top). How do you say "outrageous insult to our vets" in Pashto?
Nor, during the recent VA scandal, had the president troubled himself to host the families of survivors of those vets who died awaiting care. No, the warmest attention our president has ever paid to a "military family" was to Mr. and Mrs. Bergdahl.
(I will refrain from criticism of the bumptious attempts to cool the flames of this political conflagration by Secretary Hagel: I never pick on the weak.)
What is to be done? Behind the outrage triggered by Team Obama's combination of cynicism and obliviousness (Bergdahl was so ill we had to set those terrorists free immediately, without notifying Congress, but now he's chugging power shakes in a military hospital . . . and all this just happened to come at the peak of the VA scandal . . . ), military members don't really want to lynch Bergdahl. But they want justice.
Our military leaders need to rediscover their moral courage and honor our traditions, our regulations, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. We need a fresh, unprejudiced 15-6 investigation (the military equivalent of a grand jury). We already know, as the military has known since the first 24 hours after Bergdahl abandoned his post, that sufficient evidence exists for a court-martial, but it's important to do this by the numbers.
It's hard to believe that the resulting court-martial would not find Bergdahl guilty of desertion (although there will be heavy White House pressure to reduce the charge to Absent Without Leave, or AWOL, status, a lesser offense). If he is convicted, I for one do not want him to go to prison. I'm sure he has paid and paid for betraying his comrades, quite possibly suffering brutal sexual violence. But if he is found guilty, he needs to be formally reduced to the rank of private, stripped of all privileges and entitlements (the taxpayer should not pay for a deserter's lifelong health care — Bergdahl's book and film deals can cover that), and he should be given the appropriate prison sentence, which would then be commuted by the president. Thereafter, let Mr. Bergdahl go home and live with himself.
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— By Fox News Strategic Analyst, Lt.Col. Ralph Peters (Retired)
(The POW release was orchestrated to be a feel-good moment. But now the Obama administration is dealing with a major scandal. Not just because 5 dangerous terrorist leaders were released from Gitmo. Not just because the president broke the law in not informing Congress. But mainly because America's troops are in an uproar about all of this attention being given to an anti-American deserter whose dereliction of duty reportedly cost the lives of six soldiers)(http://www.westernjournalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bergdahl2-1140x641.jpg)
June 8, 2014 11:00 PM
Obama and the Mockery of Honor
Benedict Arnold chose to put on the uniform, too. Did he serve with "honor and distinction"?
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If a soldier who volunteered to serve in the military rapes or murders someone while in uniform, has he served honorably? Has Bradley Manning, who voluntarily joined the military and then betrayed his country by turning over hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks, served honorably? Did Benedict Arnold, another volunteer, serve with "honor and distinction"?
According to the logic of our national-security adviser, Susan Rice, they all did. Merely because they volunteered in the first place. Lieutenant Calley of My Lai Massacre fame? "Honor and distinction."
Ms. Rice is aggressively stupid, immaculately clueless, and a disgrace to our system of government, but one does have to admire her tenacity. Late last week, Rice tried to extract herself from her effort to sell Private Bowe Bergdahl as a hero who served, as she had put in on ABC's This Week, "with honor and distinction." (The rank of private is correct, in that his promotions were phony.) In her attempted walkback, Rice claimed that anyone who ever signed on the dotted line had served honorably: "What I was referring to was the fact that this was a young man who volunteered to serve his country in uniform at a time of war. That, in and of itself, is a very honorable thing."
If this administration cannot embrace our military, might it not at least stop insulting those in uniform? No soldier is finally judged to have served "with honor and distinction" until his or her service is complete. There's a glaringly obvious reason for that.
Of course, we've heard a series of increasingly ugly comments from White House staffers as their lionization of Bergdahl has collapsed. Administration hacks who have never served our country in any useful capacity stage-whispered that right-wing activists were "swiftboating" the reputed deserter. In fact, it was the other way around: The real character assassinations were launched from the White House, and they targeted soldiers from Bergdahl's platoon who had, indeed, served with honor and distinction. Those courageous young men stood up for justice, refusing to allow the administration's blithe betrayal of military values to prevail. In response, White House loyalists insinuated that Bergdahl's comrades in arms might be psychopathic. This is Chicago politics leveled against truly honorable soldiers — yet more evidence of this president's disdain for those in uniform.
Then, on Sunday, the New York Times front page — once again indistinguishable from its self-abusing editorial pages — snarked that Bergdahl's unit was "known for its troubles" and that (Lord preserve us!) the soldiers in Bergdahl's battalion, on dangerous duty at a harsh outpost, weren't always properly attired. Well, ending the draft was great for our military, but dreadful for the country. Anyone who had served even a couple of months as a private at Fort Hood would grasp that soldiers sweating on sunbaked ground in eastern Afghanistan generally do not display the spit and polish of the Old Guard drill team performing in Washington, D.C.
And perhaps those bold reporters from the New York Times would like to criticize the imperfect field uniforms of SEAL Team Six or our Special Forces? To their faces?
Doubling down on its shamelessness, the same front page applauded Obama for personally ending a failed strategy in Afghanistan — without bothering to mention that the truly catastrophic, troop-killing "strategy" was Obama's own. The revisionism is worthy of the heyday of Chairman Mao.(http://c6.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/styles/square_author_article/public/page_2014_200_peters_square.jpg?itok=D0lxq0pE)
— By Fox News Strategic Analyst, Lt.Col. Ralph Peters (Retired)
Emails before capture paint POW as anti-American deserter: 'I am ashamed to be an American,' 'America is disgusting'
June 2, 2014 by Tom Tillison
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The release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five Taliban combatants held at Guantanamo Bay has dominated the news cycle, but so too have the controversial circumstances leading up to his disappearance.
Accounts from fellow soldiers that Bergdahl went missing of his own volition have persisted in the five years since he disappeared, and emails sent to his parents beforehand suggest he may have been contemplating desertion.
"I am ashamed to be an American," he wrote in his final email to his parents, a 2012 Rolling Stone article reported. "And the title of U.S. soldier is just the lie of fools. I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting."
POW dad's bizarre deleted tweet raises questions about Obama's prisoner swap.
The email indicated Bergdahl had lost faith in the U.S. effort in Afghanistan.
"I am sorry for everything here," he said. "These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid."
CBS News reported that Bergdahl mailed home boxes containing his uniform and other belongings before he disappeared.
"The future is too good to waste on lies," he further wrote. "And life is way too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting."
The Associated Press and CBS News reported that the authenticity of the emails cannot be independently verified, and Bergdahl's parents have not commented on them.
According to Rolling Stone, Bob Bergdahl responded to his son's final email, complete with the subject line:
"OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!"
In Regaining Bergdahl, America Lost Six Soldiers Who Never Deserted
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The controversy surrounding President Obama's efforts to free Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has rattled the country, as fellow soldiers insist Bergdahl deserted and their lives were put on the line to find him. Those who have not spoken-- who cannot speak-- are the six soldiers who ultimately gave their lives in the search for Bergdahl.
The six men who died--Staff Sergeant Clayton Bowen, Staff Sgt. Kurt Curtiss, 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews, Pfc. Morris Walker, Staff Sergeant Michael Murphrey, and Pfc. Matthew Michael Martinek--were part of the same command unit as Bergdahl and died on missions related to his search.
Bowen and Walker were killed on the same mission by a roadside bomb in 2009 while out searching for Bergdahl. Curtis was killed in the same part of the country, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, by gunshot wound during an attack in which he was supporting Afghan security forces. Andrews and Martinek also died in Paktika, the victims of separate improvised explosive device attacks on their vehicles. Martinek lived for a week after the attack before finally yielding to his wounds. Murphrey also died after being wounded by an explosive.
The parents of some of these lost soldiers have begun to demand explanations. The Andrews family told the Daily Mail that the government told them Darryn died "while hunting a Taliban commander," not on the search for Bergdahl. Meanwhile, soldiers who survived are beginning to discuss the details of the Bergdahl case, in particular the way they were discouraged from questioning decisions on the search for Bergdahl and threatened over speaking of the case.
The New York Times has already begun to question whether the soldiers--all in the same unit as Bergdahl, all dying in Paktika province--really died on Bergdahl's behalf. The paper claims that, in war, facts are "murky," based on records. Those who need no records, the soldiers who were there during the search, argue there is nothing murky about it.
"Bergdahl did not 'lag behind on a patrol,' as was cited in news reports at the time. There was no patrol that night. Bergdahl was relieved from guard duty, and instead of going to sleep, he fled the outpost on foot. He deserted," writes Nathan Bradley Bethea, who served with Bergdahl. This should be enough to quell any disagreement on what Bergdahl did and what the costs were, but Bethea is not alone. Multiple soldiers with first-hand knowledge agree that Bergdahl deserted, and his actions cost lives. There is no absolving Bergdahl in the eyes of the parents of those lost, and there should not be in the eyes of the American people, who lost loyal protectors in Bergdahl's name.
In gaining Bergdahl, the United States did not only lose six of its finest--it lost control of five of Afghanistan's most dangerous Taliban leaders, now handed over to the arms of a welcoming nation and, contrary to President Obama's claim, allowed to move freely within Qatar before fully regaining their freedom. While the number of soldiers who died in the search for Bergdahl is a discrete and easily-recoverable statistic, the number that died to find and capture these Taliban officials remains a mystery. Their parents will not get the opportunity to tell the world they died in vain, on missions to contain enemies the Obama administration made a clear choice to liberate.
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Obama Admin Official: What If Bergdahl's Fellow Soldiers Were Psychopaths? UPDATE: Apologizes
by Charlie Spiering 5 Jun 2014
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An Obama administration official upset with the direction of the Bergdhal story voiced his concern on Twitter on Wednesday, floating a theory that put Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in a more sympathetic light--and his fellow soldiers as part of the problem. The American people, he argued, were too quick to jump to conclusions about Bergdahl after his fellow soldiers spoke out about his disappearance.
"Here's the thing about Bergdahl and the Jump-to-Conclusions mats: What if his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership?" asked Brandon Friedman, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at Department of Housing and Urban Development, in a series of Twitter posts.
"What if he grew disillusioned with what he saw, didn't trust his leadership, and walked off?," he continued. "Legal? No. Worthy of sympathy? Maybe. If that were the case, the soldiers in his platoon would have all the more reason to smear him publicly now."
Friedman, a former infantry officer in the Army, has been awarded two Bronze Stars for his service in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is also the author of The War I Always Wanted, a book that details his disillusionment with the U.S. Army and the decision to go to war in Iraq.
Friedman insisted that his theory was "not out of the realm of possibility" and called for Americans to withhold judgment until they heard both sides of the story.
"I'm not a fan of such speculation, but this story could not be more unbalanced - with so many premature calls of 'traitor,'" he concluded.
Friedman has weighed in on the Bergdahl case in several other posts, in which he scorns critics.
"One reason why the Bergdahl thing is so overheated: Many Americans--including military 'supporters'--have a cartoonish view of the military," he said on Wednesday. "Actual military people, specifically those who served with--and criticized--Bergdahl, are satisfied he was returned safely."
"[T]he loudest, most venomous commentary on the topic comes from the least informed," he concluded.
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**UPDATE 2**Friedman did not return calls made by Breitbart News to his office at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Friedman, a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has a long history of anti-war activism after he left the military in 2004.
Friedman delivered the Democratic response to President George W. Bush's radio address in 2007, blaming the president for putting troops in the middle of a "civil war" in Iraq.
"The fact is, the Iraq war has kept us from devoting assets we need to fight terrorists worldwide -- as evidenced by the fact that Osama bin Laden is still on the loose and al-Qaida has been able to rebuild," Friedman said. "We need an effective offensive strategy that takes the fight to our real enemies abroad. And the best way to do that is to get our troops out of the middle of this civil war in Iraq."
He was also a key spokesman accusing Rush Limbaugh of calling veterans who opposed the war "phony soldiers." appearing on multiple MSNBC segments criticizing the conservative talk radio show host.
Friedman called Limbaugh a "hypocritical draft-dodger" in a Daily Kos piece slamming his comments. Friedman has a history of displaying disgust at conservatives on Twitter. **UPDATE 3**By Thursday afternoon, Freidman apologized for his tweets:While I just wanted to make the point that the public should wait before passing judgment, I unfortunately used my own poor judgment in choosing inappropriate language that many view as disparaging to U.S. service members," he said in a statement to Buzzfeed reporter Evan McMorris-Santoro. "That was certainly not my intent and I regret making the comments on my personal account in such a way. I apologize to those with whom I work in the Administration, at HUD, and, most importantly, to any service members who took offense.
June 10, 2014
Does Fox News Cause Ignorance, or Do Ignorant Viewers Prefer Fox News?
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118066/brookings-survey-fox-news-home-most-conservative-republicans
A new study reveals the gap between the channel's fans and the rest of America
By Danny Vinik
Immediately before the presidential election in 2012, Fox News viewers were certain of one thing: Mitt Romney was going win. It didn't matter that poll after poll had President Barack Obama winning by a comfortable margin. Conservative pundits Michael Barone, George Will and Dick Morris all expected Romney to earn more than 300 electoral votes. Even after Obama's victory was certain on election night, Karl Rove wouldn't admit defeat.
For those of us reading Nate Silver and other election forecasters, those conservative predictions were laughably bad. And election night proved us correct: Obama won with 332 electoral votes. The millions of Republicans who were shocked and disappointed on election night were not let down by their hubris, although it undoubtedly played a role. The real fault lies with conservative media system, which had become an echo chamber of right wing talking points that did not reflect the national landscape.
In the aftermath of Obama's reelection, smart conservatives argued that the right wing media was putting their party at a disadvantage by obscuring the truth. "You haven't just been misinformed about the horse race," the Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf wrote. "Since the very beginning of the election cycle, conservative media has been failing you." While Friedersdorf hoped the shellacking would be an awakening for the party, he doubted it would be. Nineteen months later, Friedersdorf is looking prophetic: A new Brookings poll shows just how out of touch Fox News viewers are with both their fellow Republicans and the rest of the country. They learned nothing from 2012.
The Brookings survey, conducted along with the Public Religion Research Institute, surveyed 1,538 adults focused on immigration reform, but also included questions on their news preferences and a collection of other policy issues. The focus on new preferences allowed the researchers to divide the Republican respondents into two groups: those that most trust Fox News "to provide accurate information about politics and current events" and those that most trust a different network. The former, whom the authors label "Fox News Republicans," made up 53 percent of Republican respondents. "Non-Fox News Republicans" made up the remaining 47 percent. This was an easy split to make, but for Democrats there was no clear divide on news preferences. Thirty one percent of Democrats most trusted broadcast news stations (ABC, NBC, and CBS) while another 26 percent chose CNN. Smaller percentages chose public television (14 percent), MSNBC (10 percent) and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (9 percent).
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In other words, the Republican Party is extremely polarized among its news choices while the Democratic Party is scattered among a number of networks.
This makes a huge difference for the policy preferences among Republicans. For instance, 42 percent of Fox News Republicans support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. For Non-Fox News Republicans, it's 60 percent. That puts the views of Non-Fox News Republicans closer to those of Independents (61 percent support a path to citizenship) and Democrats (70 percent).
The difference is even starker in terms of views of immigrants. Sixty percent of Fox News Republicans say immigrants are a burden, compared to just 33 percent who believe they strengthen the country. For Non-Fox News Republicans, the numbers are nearly reversed: 56 percent believe immigrants strengthen the country, compared with 38 percent who believe they are a burden. As the chart below shows, the views of Non-Fox News Republicans are once again closer to the views of all Americans than Fox News Republicans:
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A similar dynamic exists for Republican views on whether immigrants threaten American customs and values. In fact, on every issue, Fox News Republicans are more conservative than Non-Fox News Republicans (click to enlarge):
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That makes Fox News the home of the Republican Party's most conservative members. But those members would have found a home somewhere. It's telling that they have done so at the Republican Party's preeminent media source, but it does not disqualify the network from delivering factually correct news. Except the Brookings survey also finds that Fox News Republicans are the most uninformed on immigration issues as well. Sixty four percent of Fox News Republicans wrongly believe that illegal immigration has increased during the past few years. Adults who most trust the broadcast nations do not excel at that question either: 46 percent believe that illegal immigration has increased. But that's much better than Fox News viewers.
That doesn't mean Fox News is at fault for their viewers' ignorance. It's impossible to determine causality from this survey. Fox News may attract extremely conservative viewers or it may make conservative viewers more extreme. It's likely a combination of the two. "It is not possible from this data to offer a precise solution to the chicken-and-egg question — whether the more important fact is that those with very conservative views are already attracted to Fox or whether Fox turns its viewers into conservatives," the authors write. "What is clear is that conservative are drawn to Fox, and that Fox may, in turn, reinforce and perhaps harden conservative views."
Those hardened views are at odds not only with the rest of America, but also with the remaining 47 percent of the Republican Party who trust other news sources. In turn, Fox News viewers receive a warped view of the political landscape. They—and Republican congressmen—may not consider Fox News an extreme news source. They may think it represents the center of the GOP. Under that mindset, presidential candidates should adopt a policy platform that appeals to the average Fox News viewer. But that's a mistake when the average Fox News member is an extreme conservative. Instead of adopting a position that can garner support from the entire political spectrum of the Republican Party, they have chosen one that turns off moderate Republicans and appeals directly to extreme conservatives. Those moderate Republicans may ultimately vote for the GOP, but this strategy almost certainly alienates independent voters.
This makes the Fox News echo chamber a hazard for the party. It creates extreme candidates under the guise that they are electable, builds up a false narrative that they are in fact electable and then acts surprised when that narrative doesn't play itself out. In 2012, this storyline was on full display. In the aftermath of that defeat, Fox and the Republican Party had the chance to fix it by reorganizing the station's content with more moderate hosts and more accurate coverage. They have chosen not to do so—and it's only going to continue to hurt them in 2016.
$50 Lesson
I asked my friends little girl what she wanted to be when she grew up, She said she wanted to be President of the United States. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there. So I asked her, "If you were Preident, what woud be the first thing you would do?" She replied, "I'd give houses and food to all the homeless people." Her parents beamed!
"Wow... what a wonderful goal." I told her. "But you don't have to wait till you are President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn and pull the weeds and sweep my driveway, and I will pay you $50. Then I will take you over to the grocery store where a homeless guy hangs out and you can give him the $50 dollars to use towards food and a new house."
She thought that over for a few seconds, and then looked me straight in the eye and asked, " Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work and you can just pay him the $50 to use towards food and a new house?" I said, "Welcome to the real world!"
Her parents still aren't talking to me. LOL
Obuma Admin Says Cantor's Support For Amnesty Had Nothing To Do With His Defeat
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(Horse hockey... and fire isn't hot)
Via NRO:A spokesman for President Obama rushed to assure House Republicans that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) didn't actually lose because of his gestures toward Democrats on immigration reform.
"Cantor's problem wasn't his position on immigration reform, it was his lack of a position," Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer tweeted, citing the success of Senator Lindsay Graham (R., S.C.). "Graham wrote and passed a bill and is winning big."
Cantor's campaign sent out direct mail pieces ahead of the election maintaining that he was "stopping the Obama-Reid plan to give illegal aliens amnesty," but challenger Dave Brat accused him of supporting "amnesty" based on his support for legislation such as the KIDS Act, which would give citizenship to children brought to the country illegally.
"Where else would these kids go? Again, they've been brought here as a minor in many instances having no idea what was going on, knowing no other place than America as home," Cantor said during a press conference last July.
(Liberal) Reuters Poll: Obama's Approval Rating Falls To Just 37.5%
(Oh... the heartache)
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Aide Defends Hillary's "Broke" Comment: They "Have A Life And A Set Of Expectations That Are Different" From The Middle Class
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(She's an elitist? That's their defense?)
Via Weekly Standard:"There's nothing fair with anybody who would insinuate that Hillary Clinton doesn't understand the struggle of a middle class family. She certainly grew up with one. And she gave a statement of fact when President Clinton and Mrs. Clinton left the White House, they were dead broke. Now, they have a life and a set of expectations that are different, and they've been fortunate to make some money."
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Diane Sawyer cuts Hillary to pieces
Hillary Clinton with Diane Sawyer - Full Interview | 6-9-14
Hillary Clinton Interview With Diane Sawyer Lying Through Her Teeth
This was supposedly published in a Chicago newspaper recently.
NO SHIT! And he want's to put illegal aliens in our military while kicking out citizens and veterans. Nothing wrong with that is there?
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GMN: Bikers Enroute to Free U.S. Marine In Mexico Prison! I could not get the video to post so here is the YouTube link.
Warph perhsaps you can fix this for everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieFmfDKN2Hg
Quote from: ROSS on June 11, 2014, 09:05:16 PM
GMN: Bikers Enroute to Free U.S. Marine In Mexico Prison!
I could not get the video to post so here is the YouTube link.
Warph perhsaps you can fix this for everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieFmfDKN2Hg
GMN: Bikers Enroute to Free U.S. Marine In Mexico Prison!
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THE SAGA OF DUMB & DUMBER: 'Passing The Buck'
Obama says Chuck Hagel made final call on Bergdahl prisoner swap
President Obuma is now trying to convince the country that Chuck Hagel made the final call on the prisoner swap.Chuck Hagel Says Obuma Made Final Call On Bergdahl Prisoner Swap
"Actually, Obuma Made The Final Call On Releasing Gitmo 5 For Bergdahl... Not Me."
"The president's decision to move forward with the transfer of these detainees was a tough call, but I support it and stand by it," Hagel said. "(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1084/5249/original.jpg?w=600&h)
"Obuma: Just following orders can ruin your whole day, Chuckie-Boy."
ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Released From U.S. Detention By Obuma Admn IDIOTS In 2009
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(Another one of Sh!t-Head Obuma's brilliant decisions when he decided to abruptly pull all U.S. forces from Iraq)
Via Telegraph:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10891700/Iraq-crisis-the-jihadist-behind-the-takeover-of-Mosul-and-how-America-let-him-go.html
The FBI "most wanted" mugshot shows a tough, swarthy figure, his hair in a jailbird crew-cut. The $10 million price on his head, meanwhile, suggests that whoever released him from US custody four years ago may now be regretting it. (If Obuma... he probably doesn't give a sh!t, one way or the other. So all of this escalation is by design. Obuma has allowed ALL Muslim terrorists worldwide to get stronger. He has armed them, backed them, allowed their leadership to be freed, etc. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and the US is all being destroyed because of the POS Muslim in the WH. Sh!t... Welcome to Obuma's unrolling of the Islamic Caliphate.... bought and paid for by the American taxpayer! So when do we see the Gitmo 5 assisting? Anybody care to lay a bet about how long it will take until the "Fab Five" that King POS released from Gitmo in the swap for the deserter Bergdahl show up in a similar story? Obuma stands with the Muslims... anything that he has done, is doing... has ALWAYS been to support the Muslims!)
Taken during his years as a detainee at the US-run Camp Bucca in southern Iraq, this is the only known photograph of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. But while he may lack the photogenic qualities of his hero, Osama bin Laden, he is fast becoming the new poster-boy for the global jihadist movement.
Well-organised and utterly ruthless, the ex-preacher is the driving force behind al-Qaeda's resurgence throughout Syria and Iraq, putting it at the forefront of the war to topple President Bashar al-Assad and starting a fresh campaign of mayhem against the Western-backed government in Baghdad.
On Tuesday, his forces achieved their biggest coup in Iraq to date,
seizing control of government buildings in Mosul, the country's third biggest city. Coming on top of similar operations in January that planted the black jihadi flag in the towns of
Fallujah and Ramadi, it gives al-Qaeda control of large swathes of the north and west of the country, and poses the biggest security crisis since the US pull-out two years ago.
But who is exactly is the man who is threatening to plunge Iraq back to its darkest days, and why has he become so effective?
As with many of al-Qaeda's leaders, precise details are sketchy. His FBI rap sheet offers little beyond the fact that he is aged around 42, and was born as Ibrahim Ali al-Badri in the city of Samarrah, which lies on a palm-lined bend in the Tigris north of Baghdad. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a nom de guerre, as is his other name, Abu Duaa, which translates roughly as "Father of the Summons".
Some describe him as a farmer who was arrested by US forces during a mass sweep in 2005, who then became radicalised at Camp Bucca, where many al-Qaeda commanders were held. Others, though, believe he was a radical even during the largely secular era of Saddam Hussein, and became a prominent al-Qaeda player very shortly after the US invasion.
"This guy was a Salafi (a follower of a fundamentalist brand of Islam), and Saddam's regime would have kept a close eye on him," said Dr Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
"He was also in Camp Bucca for several years, which suggests he was already considered a serious threat when he went in there."
That theory seems backed by US intelligence reports from 2005, which describe him as al-Qaeda's point man in Qaim, a fly-blown town in Iraq's western desert.
"Abu Duaa was connected to the intimidation, torture and murder of local civilians in Qaim", says a Pentagon document. "He would kidnap individuals or entire families, accuse them, pronounce sentence and then publicly execute them."
Why such a ferocious individual was deemed fit for release in 2009 is not known. One possible explanation is that he was one of thousands of suspected insurgents granted amnesty as the US began its draw down in Iraq. Another, though, is that rather like Keyser Söze, the enigmatic crimelord in the film The Usual Suspects, he may actually be several different people.
Irving Kaufman - Those Masculine Women and Feminine Men
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U.S. TERROR MAP:
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"Believe what you're told,
because we tell you the truth.
Even when we're lying to you,
it's the truth,
because we say it's the truth."
....Obama Admn.
ISIS Attempting To Encircle Baghdad Before Laying Siege To The City
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(This is the same strategy they used in 2006 when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was the group's emir, the main difference now is they will be fighting the hapless Iraqi army instead of the U.S. military)
Via Long War Journal:The lightning advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and its allies from Mosul to the outskirts of Samarra, as well as its capture of several towns in eastern Diyala, all over the course of several days, appears to be part of a greater strategy to surround the capital of Baghdad before laying siege to it. This plan, to take over the "belt" region outside of Baghdad and cut off the capital, appears to be the same strategy used by the ISIS' predecessor back in 2006.
The 2006 plan, which was drawn up by the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), the forerunner of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS), was discovered after the US found a crude map on the body of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al Qaeda in Iraq's leader who was killed by US forces in Baqubah in June 2006. The "Baghdad belts" map was released by Multinational Forces-Iraq during its offensive to liberate vast areas under al Qaeda/ISI control in 2007 and 2008.
Zarqawi's plan was to seize control of the outer provinces and Baghdad's belts, or key areas surrounding the capital. The ISI would then use its bases in the belts to control access to Baghdad and funnel money, weapons, car bombs, and fighters into the city. The ISI also planned to strangle the US helicopter air lanes by emplacing anti-aircraft cells along known routes in the belts areas around Baghdad.
In the ISI's 2006 plan, the Baghdad belts were divided into five regions: the "Southern Belt," which included northern Babil and southern Diyala provinces; the "Western belt," which included eastern Anbar province and the Thar Thar area; the "Northern belt," which included southern Salahaddin province and cities such as Taji; the "Diyala belt," which included Baqubah and Khalis; and the "Eastern belt," which included the rural areas east of Baghdad.Watching the ISIS' operations today, it appears the group is attempting to implement a strategy which is very similar, if not identical, to the previous one. This should come as no surprise; Nasser al Din Allah Abu Suleiman, ISIS' current war minister, was a leader in al Qaeda in Iraq/ISI when the Baghdad belt strategy was implemented. Suleiman was appointed by al Qaeda in May 2010 to serve as the terror group's top military commander after his predecessor, Abu Ayyub al Masri, was killed in a raid by Iraqi and US forces in April 2010.
Iranian Quds Force Arrives In Baghdad: "We Are Here To Defend This City"
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(Good yuck... they will probably throw down there uniforms and join ISIS. Baghdad is predominately Shia as is most of the country south and east of it, many Iraqi Shia have/had longstanding ties to Iran, Al Maliki spent years in exile in Iran.
As far as ISIS "sweeping through" any place, most of what they "swept through " was Sunni dominated area's that have never had any love for the Shia or Maliki's predominantly Shia central government, the populations in those areas look at the ISIS as almost liberators rather than conquerors. That's why sh!t happened the way it did, the government's army and security forces knew they had nothing but enemies surrounding them so they were never going to make a stand over those pieces of dirt.)
MARINE STUNS A TEA PARTY WITH THE FOURTH VERSE OF THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
In this classic video, a Marine with a powerful voice stunned a patriotic crowd in 2010 by singing the stirring fourth verse of The Star Spangled Banner, which many Americans have never heard.
A look at Francis Scott Key's soaring lyrics, first written in 1814 and made our national anthem in 1931, shows it is not just a pleasant ode to our flag that can be sung at sporting events and on the Fourth of July, but is a vision for the United States.
Here are the full lyrics:Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!That's what I'm talking about! Happy Flag Day!
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Let's remember those who stood for the Constitution
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Great site, Red... these flags should not be forgotten on Flag Day as they are part of American History. Many men died for these flags.
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Confederate Flags:
Battle Flag of Northern Virginia (Left),
and the First Confederate National Flag (Right)
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Liberals. Too Stupid To "Get It"
It's true that for a time, I was a registered Democrat. But even then, I never called myself a liberal. Because I came of age in the 1960s, I associated liberals with the punks I knew who called cops
"pigs," called soldiers
"baby killers" and used any and all means to dodge the draft, and then had the hypocrisy to announce they did so because they were avowed pacifists.
Being in my 20s myself, I knew these people and I knew it was fear of battle or being bossed around by top sergeants, typically tough guys from the South, that motivated them to head off either to Canada or to one of the many left-wing shrinks who were willing to lie about their mental disorders and or verify they were homosexuals.
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Fifty years later, they're still hypocrites, but instead of being college students, they're running colleges, TV networks, movie studios, solar panel companies and the New York Times. And, what's more, they continue to lie. Most recently, a sample of journalists lied to a pollster about their political affiliation, a mere 28% admitting to being Democrats and 50% claiming to be registered Independents.
Inasmuch as we already know that at least 90% of those in the news game always vote for liberals and that their campaign contributions are even more lopsided than that, you have to wonder why they even bother lying about something as transparent as their political bias. All you really have to do is turn on the network news or pick up a daily newspaper, Time magazine, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair or any of the slick glossies devoted to fashion and cosmetics, to realize that they should, by all rights, be paid directly by the DNC for their propaganda efforts
It doesn't happen too often, but every once in a while someone forwards something to me from the Internet that I haven't seen before and that actually grabs my attention. In this case, it was a series of ways that one could easily identify a liberal. I mean aside from asking them if they happen to be journalists, judges, social workers, teachers, professors, illegal aliens, actors, musicians or convicted felons.
Here it is, with a few of my own modifications:
(1) A liberal is someone who thinks Republicans are waging a war on women, but that the Muslim world isn't.
(2) A liberal is someone who says to a pregnant woman: "Don't smoke, it'll hurt your baby," but tells her it's quite okay to abort that same baby.
(3) A liberal is someone who thinks Fox News lies, but Obuma doesn't.
(4) A liberal is someone who lives in a gated community or behind a high wall, but says that a border fence won't work.
(5) A liberal is someone who wails about "corporate welfare," but thinks it's great that Obuma bailed out General Motors to save union contracts and blew a billion tax dollars on certain-to-fail green energy companies in exchange for campaign contributions.
(6) A liberal is someone who protested the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and proclaimed the Patriot Act fascistic, until Barack Hussein-Insane Obuma took office.
Do liberals ever listen to themselves? Seriously, is it possible that liberals actually believe the nonsense they go around spouting? I mean, I understand that as majority leader of the Senate, Dirty Harry Reid has to appear to be in sync with Barack Obuma, but when in the wake of swapping five anti-American jihadists with unpronounceable names for one calling himself Bowe Bergdahl, Reid said, "I'm glad to get rid of them," did he not understand that most of us completed the thought with "and put them right back on the battlefield where they can resume killing our soldiers?"
For his part, Obuma, after comparing himself to such wartime presidents as Washington, Lincoln and FDR, said that an exchange of POWs is typical policy at the end of a war. That must have come as surprising news to the thousands of troops still risking life and limb in Afghanistan. As for the Taliban, they're still giggling over Obuma's announcement in 2012 that Al Qaeda was decimated.
The real tragedy of the swap is that we couldn't sweeten the deal by tossing in Barack Hussein-Insane Obuma.How sappy are liberals? Well, Nobel Prize-winning economist/NY Times propagandist Paul Krugman said, "The VA is proof that socialized medicine works." Anybody care to bet that Krugman doesn't go to the VA for his medical needs?
Most of us have gotten sick and tired of hearing Obuma state that he didn't know about a scandal brewing until he read about it in a newspaper, even when, as with the VA, he was yakking about that very problem six years ago. But even if that were the case, it would put him a leg up on most voters who, unless they watch Fox, read certain blogs or tune in talk radio, have to rely on smoke signals for their news. That should help explain why Democrats continue to win elections.
As for deserter Sgt. Bergdahl, we are told by his parents and some of the schlemiels in his hometown that he spoke like a social worker and acted like a saint, but how many social workers try to join the French Foreign Legion? And how many saints not only desert their comrades on the battlefield, but leave hoping to sign up with the Taliban? It's rather reminiscent of Edward Snowden, who betrayed America because of his alleged love of freedom and open societies, and then scooted off to China before receiving sanctuary in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Next, why is it that when liberals argue for an ounce of prevention as opposed to a pound of cure, it's only when they're bemoaning the evils of alcohol, drugs and tobacco, but never when the subject happens to be abortions
The people they should be listening to are folks like Thomas Sowell, who has raised the question:
"What is your fair share of what someone else has worked for?" He's also the fellow who said,
"I have never understood how it is greedy to want to keep the money you have earned, but not greedy to want to take somebody else's." Another thought liberals should heed goes this way:
If you've got minimum skills, minimum education, show minimum motivation and provide a minimum contribution to the workplace, why the hell should someone be forced to pay you more than you're obviously worth?When it comes to the stagnant economy, a problem that Obuma only pays lip service to when he's trying to distract people from one of his endless scandals and his numerous end-runs around the Constitution, Katie Pavlich, writing in Townhall magazine, points out that 47.6 million Americans are now receiving food stamps from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program via their SNAP cards.
Because numbers alone generally make people's eyes glaze over, she reminds us that during the Depression, thousands of desperately hungry people lined up to receive free food at soup kitchens. Even if we weren't around at the time, we've all seen those grainy, heart-wrenching, black and white photos of hopeless men in overcoats, wearing hats and caps, lined up to get their slabs of bread and bowls of gruel.
Thanks to modern technology, we are spared those scenes today. But, as Ms. Pavlich, points out, if we assume that an average of 916 people can stand in a double-stacked line a quarter of a mile long, the current recipients would be standing in one that was 12,827 miles long. Only a saint wouldn't try to take cuts before the gruel congealed.
The EPA seems to have accepted the challenge by the IRS to prove itself the most contemptible, most power-hungry, agency of the federal government. With their endless regulations, it seems their sole mission is to bring to a grinding halt the age of the American entrepreneur, the American farmer and whatever still remains of American industry.
And at the rate they keep expanding the list of endangered species, soon the only one left unprotected will be the
American taxpayer[/color]
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The Federal Reserve Explained In 7 Minutes
IN CASE YOU'RE THINKING OF GOING TO A HILLARY BOOK-SIGNING:
Here are the Rules
The prolific Caleb Howe relays this delightful set of instructions for those
drones readers interested in the fascinating novel autobiographical tome entitled
Profiles in Courage Bad Choices Hard Choices
On Tuesday morning, Hillary Clinton kicked off her book tour promoting new release "Hard Choices", Hillary's "I'm running for President" tome that is all the buzz this week. One of the first folks in line for a signed copy was Maggie Haberman of Politico, who tweeted the list of guidelines handed out by handlers for those waiting. Haberman tweeted a picture of those rules.
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Use the bathroom before getting in line because you will lose your place. If this were a polling place Ed Schultz would call it racist disenfranchisement.
But of course, those are not the only strictures placed upon those who would stand before poor, broke Hillary. Truth Revolt has exclusively obtained the second page of the instructional guidelines and we bring them to you now.
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I have not yet confirmed whether attending the book-signing required a photo ID. If so, I fully intend to notify Eric Holder that Hillary's book-signing events are raaaaaaaaacist.
Wow. They are not messing around. We recommend you change your dress, go to the bathroom, and for Pete's sake put some goggles on. It's Clinton time!
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Is THIS What Really Happened in the White House on 9/11/2012?
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Scientific study shows dogs smarter than Democrats
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In a series of experiments, scientists found dogs were happier when they earned a reward by performing a task, rather than just being handed a treat.
The research was carried out by Dr Ragen Mcgowan and colleagues from the University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden.
During tests, the researchers used six matched pairs of beagles, reports Companion Animal Psychology.
Each of the 12 dogs were trained to use three of six different pieces of equipment, ranging from a 'dog piano' to a lever that would make a bell ring.
The experimental dogs were only given access to the treat on the ramp when they successfully manipulated the three pieces of equipment they had been trained to use.
The control dogs, meanwhile, were given access to the reward when the puzzles were solved by their partner in the other arena, irrespective of how they used the equipment.
The researchers found the experimental dogs were much more excited to actually get in the arena and solve the pieces of equipment.
The control dogs, on the other hand, were more reluctant to go in and pick up their treat without having to solve any of the 'puzzles'.
Attempts to teach Democrats how to not beg for handouts have so far failed.Denmark courts force churches to perform same-sex weddings
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Homosexual couples in Denmark have won the right to get married in any church they choose, even though nearly one third of the country's priests have said they will refuse to carry out the ceremonies.
The country's parliament voted through the new law on same-sex marriage by a large majority, making it mandatory for all churches to conduct gay marriages.
Under the law, individual priests can refuse to carry out the ceremony, but the local bishop must arrange a replacement for their church.
Karsten Nissen, the Bishop of Viborg, who is refusing to carry out the ceremonies, has warned that the new law risks "splitting the church".
Two questions: Will they try this on Muslims? How long until Liberals use this as an example of why the U.S. should do it too.
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Corey James wrote "Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. He has an impressive list of accomplishments:
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number belonging to another man, from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.* * * *
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.* * * *
First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.* * * *
First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.* * * *
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs. Arizona).
How is Obama's "Hope and Change" working out for you?"
I believe Obama should be arrested and impeached for only a few of his "Great Accomplishments." For being best President in many of his Democratic followers eyes... I feel this Great Nation in being misled in an immorally direction away from what it was originally founded on. I pray for the safety and promising future for our children. I pray our children do not become as greedy, ungrateful, anti-christian and un-patriotic as I see our current leaders leading their lives.
I commend you for reading all of this. And, I hope it has empowered you with knowledge and opened your eyes more.
Thank you,
Daniel S. Hudson
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Report: Hillary Clinton's Book A "BOMB,"
Only 60K Hard Covers Sold In First Week
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(I know... :o Shocker :o... THE 14M, I mean)
Via Weekly Standard:In an email this evening, a veteran publishing source calls the latest Hillary Clinton book, Hard Choices, a memoir of her State Department years, a
"BOMB." The source is referring to the early but underwhelming sales figures.
"Between us, they are nervous at S&S [Simon & Schuster]," says the source, who gave permission for his email to be published. "Sales were well below expectations and the media was a disaster."
According to this source, a Simon & Schuster insider, "They sold 60,000 hard covers first week and 24,000 ebooks." The publishing house was "hoping and praying for 150,000 print first week."
"The 60k represents a less than 10% sell thru based on what they shipped," says the source.
It's been reported that one million copies of Clinton's book were shipped weeks before the June 10 publication date. "They will be lucky to sell 150,000 total lifetime," the source writes in the email.Hillary reportedly received a near
$14 million advance, a sum the publishing house will unlikely make back.
Polish Town Mocks Communists By Erecting
Fluorescent Green Statue Of Lenin Peeing
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(DNC gasps in horror)
Via Mediaite:A Polish district in Krakow recently celebrated how awesome it is to not be communist by erecting a neon green statue of Vladimir Lenin urinating into a fountain.
The statue, entitled "Fountain of the Future," depicts the Soviet leader gazing thoughtfully into the distance, envisioning a world where men can urinate equally as far as their fellow comrades. To compound its message, the artists placed the statue on a pedestal that formerly housed an actual Lenin statue.
There's a little bit of backstory to why this district is so happy that communism is over: Nowa Huta, an industrial community, was built by the Polish post-war government specifically to "combat the influence of what authorities deemed to be 'bourgeois' Krakow," according to the Independent. (The town was such a propaganda village that a popular song was written extolling its Socialist virtues, and was literally titled "This Song Is About Nowa Hute".) However, the plan backfired and Nowa Huta instead became a hotbed of dissent, with protestors attempting to blow up the bronze Lenin statue at least twice.
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Why are Boehner and Issa helping cover up Obama's scandals?
Once again the IRS appears to be complicit in a targeted leak of a private citizen's tax return to effect a nakedly partisan attack. This time the IRS reportedly leaked the tax return of an executive at Mozilla who had expressed support for traditional marriage.
As for the gun-running operation that killed hundreds, Eric Holder and Barack Obama continue to unlawfully claim "executive privilege" over a massive trove of documents that likely implicate both in "Operation Fast and Furious". Throughout American history, "Executive Privilege" was reserved only for a small, explicitly named set of communications unrelated to a specific criminal investigation. Until Obama, that is.
As for Benghazi? Well, for starters, we still don't know what Barack Obama did for eight hours during a running terror attack that resulted in the deaths of four American diplomats. We still don't know who coordinated the campaign of lies to the victims' families and the American people about the nature of the attack.
So what does Johnny Boehner and his hand-picked Oversight Chairman, Darrell Issa, do? Next to nothing. They hold show hearings. They appear on television.
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Why?Allen West has a pretty good idea and I have some additional thoughts (
*cough* they got somethin' on him *cough*).
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New World Order Song
A New World System - The Venus Project
WSJ/NBC Poll: Obama's Approval Rating Falls To All-Time Low, 41%
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(Feel good story of the day)
Via WSJ:Foreign crises and domestic economic unease have eroded President Barack Obama's public standing, sapping his ability to respond to overseas conflicts and weighing on fellow Democrats heading into the midterm elections.
As clouds gather abroad,
a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds Mr. Obama's job approval rating at 41%, matching a previous low.
Approval of his handling of foreign policy hit a new low of 37%. Both numbers are driven in part by conflicts largely outside the president's control, including a new wave of sectarian violence in Iraq.
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ISIS Releases Annual Report Proudly Listing Their Atrocities: 1,000 Assassinations And 4,000 IEDs
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(Blood-thirsty killers, and damn proud of it)
Via Daily Mail:The Islamist militant group Isis publishes annual reports detailing its reign of terror across the Middle East, it has been revealed.
In 2013 alone, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIS, says it has carried out nearly 10,000 operations in Iraq, 1,000 assassinations, planted 4,000 improvised explosion devices and freed hundreds of radical prisoners.Isis also claims to have turned hundreds of 'apostates', or people with no previous allegiance, and says it now has at least 15,000 fighters in its ranks.
Details of the report emerged as new information about the way Isis is funded and attracts recruits came to light, with reports suggesting widespread support in South East Asia, particularly Indonesia – the country with the world's biggest Muslim population
Nigel Inkster, former assistant chief of UK intelligence service MI6, told the Financial Times: 'They produce [the reports] almost like a company, with details of martyrdom operations and targets. You have a clear overlay of structure, planning and strategy to the organisation.'
The documents also clearly mark out that Isis' long-term intention is to control the Sunni-populated areas of Iraq.
Obuma Strangely Impressed By Robotic Giraffe's Giant Ears
(Almost as freakishly large as his... LoL. It looks like the Secret Service guy is afraid it's a trick and moves up in position to take-out the giraffe)
Mooch: Immigrants Just Like Founding Fathers, Not "Born American"
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(Sorry, Mooch.... the vast majority of the Founding Fathers were born in America)
Via Charlie Spiering:First Lady Mooch Obuma reminded attendees of a naturalization ceremony Wednesday that the Founding Fathers weren't born in America.
The ceremony for 50 new U.S. citizens was held at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
"It's amazing that just a few feet from here where I'm standing are the signatures of the 56 Founders who put their names on a Declaration that changed the course of history," she said during her speech, referring to the Declaration of Independence.
"And like the 50 of you, none of them were born American – they became American."Obuma pointed out that the Founding Fathers pledged their lives and risked everything to create the United States of America after signing the Declaration of Independence.
Carney: Obuma Was "Paying Close Attention" To Iraq While Golfing
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(Yes, that laser-like focus we've heard so much about)
Via Breitbart:White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explained that President O
buma is fully engaged in the situation in Iraq – even though he spent last weekend golfing.
Carney was asked about former Vice President Dick Cheney's op-ed in The Wall Street Journal criticizing the President for golfing instead of paying attention to world affairs.
"I think it's pretty clear that this President has been paying close attention to this and has been engaging regularly with his national security team," Carney said, praising O
buma for deliberating carefully about the use of force in Iraq.
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Michigan: Dearborn Imam Wants To Make Burning The Koran Illegal
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DEARBORN — Several Qurans were burned in front of a mosque at about noon Tuesday in possible connection with anti-Islam Pastor Terry Jones' expected visit to the city Saturday.
The three copies of the Quran, Muslims' holy book believed to be the word of God, were set on fire and left to burn at the curb in front of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center, 15332 W. Warren Ave.
The imam of the mosque, Sheikh Husham Al-Husainy, confirmed that the incident occurred and that police are investigating.
Al-Husainy said he met with public safety officials Thursday including the FBI and the city's police chief. [...]
Several attorneys also met with the imams at Thursday's meeting. Al-Husainy said they helped with legal advice in his plan for a new law making it illegal to burn or desecrate holy books.
"We want all of the religions to cooperate with us to bring respect to the word of God, whether the Quran, Bible, or Torah," he said.
He said he understands it will be a challenge.
"But again, a journey of 1,000 miles starts with one step," he said.
He and the imams will collect signatures of supporters before addressing the City Council to inquire about making a new city ordinance.
Al-Husainy said it's a duty to protect the divine word. He said he worries that a nation where the words of God are burned in disrespect will not be blessed anymore.
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Chicago Council Committee Passes Strict New Gun Shop Ordinances, Sets $3,800 Fee
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(Oh, look how smart we are, Chicago! We've once again made sure that the only people who will possess guns are the 'Chrips and Bloods' criminals, who don't give a damn about the law... its easier and cheaper to open an abortion clinic in Chicago)
Via GUNSChicago council members who approved the city's strict new gun shop license program Wednesday call it, "one of the smartest" in the country.
Among the many tenets of the city's draft would include fees of up to $3,800 per shop, waiting periods on purchases, restrictions on location that would put most of Chicago off-limits, and videotaping sales transactions."I don't think we want these kinds of things in our communities at all," Ald. Walter Burnett Jr., speaking for many in the council, told DNA-info Chicago.
Others on the City council's Committee on Public Safety praised the proposed regulations, with committee chairman Ald. James Balcer calling the package, "one of the smartest, most cutting-edge licensing laws in the country."
The city had in 2010 practically banned the sale of firearms inside its limits, only to have Federal Judge Edmond E. Chang rule the restrictions unconstitutional this January. Chang then specified that the city have new regulations in place within six months following a request from Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
The 30-page proposal would require bi-yearly fees ranging from $1,100 for a "weapons dealer" who would be cleared to sell stun guns, to $3,800 for firearms dealers. In addition to this, the language of the ordinance would forbid issuing licenses to anyone working from a home, or within 500 feet of a park, school, church, or any building leased to or owned by the city, state, or federal government.
It is believed that this would put some 99.5 percent of the city off-limits to potential gun stores.While in business, the license holder would be subject to quarterly inspections of their records by the Chicago Police Department, have to submit all employees to a background check by the department, maintain a $1 million liability insurance policy, and comply with a safety plan. All employees would further have to attend mandated training developed by the superintendent of police, with refresher classes conducted every three years.
Firearms sales would have to be videotaped while certain types of ammunition, such as any without a lead core, or in .50BMG-caliber, would be prohibited. In addition to these regulations, there is a mandated waiting period of 72-hours for handguns and a 24-hour period for long arms.
CNN: "Redskins" Could Be The New "N-Word"
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(How freakin' dumb... CNN's Sour Lemon, Mister Gay-Guy shooting his mouth off again!)
Via Mediaite:For his commentary segment on The Tom Joyner Show Thursday, CNN's Don Lemon drew some parallels between the "n-word" and the term "Redskins," which is currently at the center of the debate over Washington, D.C.'s NFL team name.
"An offensive word that many people hate and think should be banned. Others say not so fast, there's nothing wrong with using the word, especially when we're talking about a group of people we hold dear, like, even love," Lemon said Thursday. "Sounds like I'm talking about the 'n-word,' which has been debated, discussed and reported countless times, but I'm not. This time it's the dreaded 'r-word,' Redskins, as in the Washington football team."
Lemon referred to the U.S. Patent Office canceling of the "Redskins" trademark as a "small victory" for those who find the name offensive "because it doesn't mean the team has to relinquish the name; the owner has vowed he wouldn't."
Government Advertised In JANUARY 2014 For "Escorts" For 65,000 Illegal Alien Children To Be "Resettled"
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This particular ad ran in FedBizOpps in January ...
with RFI for "Escorts" for 65,000 unaccompanied children.
This is the relevant description: Procurement Type: Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought
Title: Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children
Classification Code: V- Transportation/Travel/Relocation
NAICS code: 561612
Primary POC: Rachel Ali, Contract Specialist/ Rachel.Ali@ice.dhs.gov
Secondary POC: Tony Ross, Contracting Officer/ Tony.Ross@ice.dhs.gov
A. IntroductionU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has a continuing and mission critical responsibility for accepting custody of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) from U.S. Border Patrol and other Federal agencies and transporting these juveniles to Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters located throughout the continental United States. ICE is seeking the services of a responsible vendor that shares the philosophy of treating all UAC with dignity and respect, while adhering to standard operating procedures and policies that allow for an effective, efficient, and incident free transport. The Contractor shall provide unarmed escort staff, including management, supervision, manpower, training, certifications, licenses, drug testing, equipment, and supplies necessary to provide on-demand escort services for non-criminal/non-delinquent unaccompanied alien children ages infant to 17 years of age, seven (7) days a week, 365 days a year. Transport will be required for either category of UAC or individual juveniles, to include both male and female juveniles. There will be approximately 65,000 UAC in total: 25% local ground transport, 25% via ICE charter and 50% via commercial air. Escort services include, but are not limited to, assisting with: transferring physical custody of UAC from DHS to Health and Human Services (HHS) care via ground or air methods of transportation (charter or commercial carrier), property inventory, providing juveniles with meals, drafting reports, generating transport documents, maintaining/stocking daily supplies, providing and issuing clothing as needed, coordinating with DHS and HHS staff, travel coordination, limited stationary guard services to accommodate for trip disruptions due to inclement weather, faulty equipment, or other exigent circumstances. In emergency situations, the Contractor shall be called on to provide temporary shelter locations (such as trailers) with shower facilities for juveniles who are pending placement with HHS when bed space is unavailable nationwide for extended periods of time. The Contractor shall provide temporary guard services and other support as necessary during these emergencies.You can view more of the document here:
https://www.fbo.gov/index?tab=documents&tabmode=form&subtab=core&tabid=ad27b9e186f9075af7add5df7643db21
This advertisement raises a lot of questions. There is a lot of specificity reflected in this document that seeks to deal with an influx that hadn't as yet happened. How could they know 65,000, even breaking down the percentages that would be covered by ground, charter and air transportation?
Having received a lot of flack for the influx of illegals, there are some in the Obama regime are now trying to suggest, oh, of course, the children will be deported after the initial emergency crush is addressed. But if that is so, why the reference to "Office of Refugee Resettlement"
What is the mission of the Office of Refugee Resettlement?:
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) provides new populations with opportunities to maximize their potential in the United States, linking people in need to critical resources to assist them in becoming integrated members of American society.The purpose is not to take care of them and then ship them out, the purpose of the ORR is, in their own words, to resettle them and integrate them into the United States. The language is already defining them as "refugees" making it clear the administration's desire to have them stay, before they even arrive, before any individual case for asylum is even considered.
The very language confirms the crooked Obuma regime...
1) knew with specificity a huge influx was on the way and
2) they intended them to stay.
Very troubling to say the least... >:(
(Don Rickles routine from a few years back... still cracks me up when I read it)
In real life, the brilliant Don Rickles never does any routine that even remotely touches on politics. Truth be told, I am a huge fan of Mr. Rickles, so I'm hoping this disclaimer gets me out of hot water with his public relations folks. Although I am pleased that I have actually met people -- very large and intimidating people -- who know him. So, remember, these are not Mr. Rickle's words; nor does he approve of them; and furthermore he is only -- by the barest thread imaginable -- tolerating my existence.(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/Scl_l5h-vMI/AAAAAAAAREE/8Og_GHDyoLk/s400/090324-rickles.jpg)
Hello, dummies!
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Oh my God, look at you. Anyone else hurt in the accident?
Seriously, Senator Reid has a face of a Saint - A Saint Bernard.
Now I know why they call you the arithmetic man. You add partisanship, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance.
Reid is so physically unimposing, he makes Pee Wee Herman look like Mr. T.
And Reid's so dumb, he makes Speaker Pelosi look like an intellectual.
Nevada is soooo screwed!
If I were less polite, I'd say Reid makes Kevin Federline look successful.
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Speaking of the Speaker... Nancy Pelosi, hubba, hubba!
Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.
Seriously, the Speaker may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. She really is an idiot.
Madame Speaker... want to make twelve bucks the hard way?
Pelosi says she's not partisan, but her constituents call her Madame Pelossilini.
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Charlie Rangel... still alive and still robbing the taxpayers blind. What does that make, six decades of theft?
Rangel's the only man with a rent-controlled mansion.
He's the guy who writes our tax laws but forgot to pay taxes on $75 grand in rental income!
So why isn't he the Treasury Secretary?
Rangel runs more scams than a Nigerian Banker.
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Barney Frank - he's a better actor than Fred Flintstone.
Consider... he and Dodd caused the whole financial meltdown and they're not only not serving time with Bubba and Rodney, they're still heading up the financial system!
Let's all admit it... Barney Frank slobbers more than a sheepdog on novocaine.
How did this guy get elected? Oh, that's right... he's from Massachusetts.
That's the state that elects Mr. Charisma, John Kerry -- man of the people!
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You know, if Senator Dodd were any more crooked, you could open wine bottles with him.
Here's a news flash, Dodd: when your local newspaper calls you a "lying weasel", it may be time to retire.
Dodd's involved in more shady deals than the Clintons.
Even Rangel looks up to him!
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Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, I really respect you... especially given your upbringing. All you've overcome...
I heard your birth certificate is an apology from the condom factory.
I don't know what makes you so dumb, but it really works for you.
Personally, I don't think you are a fool, but what's my opinion compared to that of thousands of others?
Gibbs does his best expositional work in the bathroom every morning.
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As for President Obama, what can I say?
They say President Obama's arrogant and aloof, but I don't agree.
Now it's true when you enter the room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.
His mind is open to new ideas -- so open that ideas simply pass through it.
Obama lies so much, I was actually surprised to find out his first name really was Barack.
Just don't ask about his middle name!
But Obama was able to set a record... he actually lied more in 60 days than Bill Clinton.
As far as his administration -- what with the tax cheat and lobbyists -- well, in the words of Patches O'Houlihan, "It's like watching a bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob out there."
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With all due respect.
I've found that if you add "with all due respect" to the end, any insult is okay.
....Don Rickles
Sweden Demands Football Vikings Change Name
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The nation of Sweden is demanding that the Obama administration act to deny copyright status to the Minnesota Vikings, claiming the name demeans its citizens and all other Scandinavians."We can no longer tolerate the use of this disgusting epithet by an American football team," said Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Milkquist in a letter to President Obama
"First of all, 'football' means 'soccer,' Milkquist wrote. "I realize that this is an unrelated matter, but it really pisses people off in Europe. You only use your foot occasionally in football, whereas in soccer the foot is the only thing you can use. Or at least the main thing.
"Secondly, the term 'Vikings' suggests a violent race intent on pillaging small villages and stealing their women," Milkquist continued. "In fact, the Vikings were a peace-loving people who spread goodwill throughout the world and grew strawberries in the summer."
Milkquist wrote that the "proper" term is "Norsemen," saying, "Please tell your patent office to rename the team the Minnesota Norsemen."
He noted that a group of Minnesota Vikings were at one time referred to as "The Purple People Eaters," adding, "See what I mean?"
Milkquist called the U.S. ambassador into his office Wednesday, handed him the letter, and smacked him in the face. He also suggested to the ambassador that the United States change the name of the Green Bay Packers as well. "It's nothing against Sweden, it's just bad name," he said. "You Americans have no taste."
The White House said it would immediately begin proceedings to change the Vikings' moniker.
"The president has ordered the U.S. patent office to revoke the Vikings' copyright and to arrest Fran Tarkenton and put him in jail," said White House press Secretary Jay Carney.
Tarkenton, who retired in 1978, will be housed at Gitmo.
"We have openings there," Carney said, "and it's the best place to extract information from him."
Meanwhile, the Cleveland Indians earlier this week successfully rebuffed an attempt by the Obama administration to change their name, with the team's attorney's arguing that the name in fact refers to people who live in Subcontinent and is in no way meant to offend Native Americans.
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The above article is satire, so don't get worried.
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President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]
Yes, he's historic, alright.
Law and Justice• First President to Violate the War Powers Act (Unilaterally Executing American Military Operations in Libya Without Informing Congress In the Required Time Period - Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to Triple the Number of Warrantless Wiretaps of U.S. Citizens (Source: ACLU)
• First President to Sign into Law a Bill That Permits the Government to "Hold Anyone Suspected of Being Associated With Terrorism Indefinitely, Without Any Form of Due Process. No Indictment. No Judge or Jury. No Evidence. No Trial. Just an Indefinite Jail Sentence" (NDAA Bill - Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Refuse to Tell the Public What He Did For Eight (8) Hours After Being Informed That a U.S. Ambassador Was Facing Imminent Death During a Terror Attack (Source: Mediate)
• First President to Lie About the Reason For an Ambassador's Death, Blaming it on an Internet Video Rather Than What He Knew to be the Case: the Al Qaeda-linked Terror Group Ansar al-Sharia (Source: House Oversight Committee, et. al.)
• First President to Have an Innocent Filmmaker Thrown in Jail After Lying About the Cause for a Deadly Attack on U.S. Diplomats, Using the Filmmaker as a Scapegoat (Source: CNN)
• First President to Use the IRS to "Unfairly Target Political Enemies" as Well as pro-Catholic and pro-Jewish Groups (Source: Sen. Ted Cruz)
• First President to Unlawfully Seize Telephone Records of More than 100 Reporters to Intimidate and/or Bully Them (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Witness a Single Cabinet Secretary Commit Multiple Hatch Act Violations Without Acting, Speaking Out, Disciplining or Firing That Person (Source: New York Times)
• First President to Personally Lobby Senators to Violate Senate Rules and Destroy the Filibuster Through "The Nuclear Option" to Consolidate More Executive Power (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to create his own propaganda news network and "bypass journalists ... [having] developed [his] own network of websites, social media and even created an online newscast to dispense favorable information and images" (Source: Associated Press)
• First President to Barricade Open-Air Government Monuments During a Partial Government Shutdown (Source: Rep. Steve Stockman)
• First President to Have His Attorney General Held in Criminal Contempt of Congress For His Efforts to Cover Up Operation Fast and Furious, That Killed Over 300 Individuals (Source: Politico)
• First President to claim Executive Privilege to shield a sitting Attorney General from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury and withholding evidence from lawful subpoenas (Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Issue Unlawful "Recess-Appointments" Over a Long Weekend -- While the U.S. Senate Remained in Session (against the advice of his own Justice Department - Source: United States Court of Appeals)
• First President to Fire an Inspector General of Americorps for Catching One of His Friends in a Corruption Case (Source: Gawker)
• First President to "Order a Secret Amnesty Program that Stopped the Deportations of Illegal Immigrants Across the U.S., Including Those With Criminal Convictions" (Source: DHS documents uncovered by Judicial Watch)
• First President to Sue States for Enforcing Voter ID Requirements, Which Were Previously Ruled Legal by the U.S. Supreme Court (Source: CNN)
• First President to Encourage Racial Discrimination and Intimidation at Polling Places (the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case, Source: Investors Business Daily)
• First President to Refuse to Comply With a House Oversight Committee Subpoena (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Arbitrarily Declare an Existing Law Unconstitutional and Refuse to Enforce It (Defense of Marriage Act - Source: ABC News)
• First President to Increase Surveillance of American Citizen Under the Patriot Act by 1,000 Percent in Four Years (Source: NBC News)
• First President to Demand a Company Hand Over $20 Billion to One of His Political Appointees (BP Oil Spill Relief Fund - Source: Fox News)
• First President to Have a Law Signed By an 'Auto-pen' Without Being "Present" (Source: The New York Times)
Scandals• First President to publicly announce an enemies list (consisting of his opponents campaign contributors; and to use the instrumentalities of government to punish those on the list - Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Attempt to Block Legally-Required 60-Day Layoff Notices by Government Contractors Due to His Own Cuts to Defense Spending -- Because The Notices Would Occur Before the Election. (Source: National Journal)
• First President to Intentionally Disable Credit Card Security Measures (in order to allow over-the-limit donations, foreign contributions and other illegal fundraising measures - Source: Power Line)
• First President to send 80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute. (Source: Washington Examiner)
• First President to Propose an Executive Order Demanding Companies Disclose Their Political Contributions to Bid on Government Contracts (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to issue an Executive Order implementing a "Racial Justice System", a system that tries to achieve "racially equivalent outcomes" for crimes (Source: Daily Caller)
• First President to Leak Confidential IRS Tax Records to Groups Aligned Politically With Him for Partisan Advantage (Source: The Hill Newspaper)
• First President to Use the EPA to Punish Political Enemies and Reward Political Allies (Source: Competitive Enterprise Institute)
• First President to Send Millions in Taxpayer Dollars to His Wife's Former Employer (Source: White House Dossier)
• First President to Openly Use the Department of Justice to Intimidate Political Opponents and Threaten Companies to Donate to His Campaign (Source: Peter Schweizer, Extortion)
• First President to Direct His Census Dept. to Make Up Favorable Employment Data In Run-Up to His Reelection Campaign (Source: New York Post)
• First President to Have His Administration Fund an Organization Tied to the Cop-Killing Terrorist Group, the Weather Underground (Source: National Review)
Economy• First President to Preside Over a Cut to the Credit Rating of the United States Government (Source: Reuters)
• First President to Bypass Congress and Implement the DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat (Source: Christian Science Monitor)
• First President to Move America Past the Dependency Tipping Point, In Which 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes (Source: Center for Individual Freedom)
• First President to Increase Food Stamp Spending By More Than 100% in Less Than Four Years (Source: Sen. Jeff Sessions)
• First President to Spend a Trillion Dollars on 'Shovel-Ready' Jobs -- and Later Admit There Was No Such Thing as Shovel-Ready Jobs (Source: President Obama during an early meeting of his 'Jobs Council')
• First President to Threaten Insurance Companies After They Publicly Spoke out on How Obamacare Helped Cause their Rate Increases (Source: The Hill)
• First President to Abrogate Bankruptcy Law to Turn Over Control of Companies to His Union Supporters (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to Propose Budgets So Unreasonable That Not a Single Representative From Either Party Would Cast a Vote in Favor (Sources: The Hill, Open Market)
• First President Whose Economic Policies Have the Number of Americans on Disability Exceed the Population of New York (Source: CNS News)
• First President to Sign a Law Requiring All Americans to Purchase a Product From a Third Party (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First President to Sue States For Enforcing Immigration Laws Passed by Congress (Source: The Arizona Republic newspaper)
• First President to See America Lose Its Status as the World's Largest Economy (Source: Peterson Institute)
• First President to redistribute $26.5 billion of the taxpayers' funds to his union supporters in the UAW (Source: Heritage Foundation)
• First President to Threaten an Auto Company (Ford) After It Publicly Mocked Bailouts of GM and Chrysler (Source: Detroit News)
• First President to Run a Record 5 Straight Years of Deficits for the Disability Trust Fund (Source: CNS)
• First President to Attempt to Bully a Major Manufacturing Company Into Not Opening a Factory in a Right-to-Work State (Boeing's facility in South Carolina - Source: Wall Street Journal)
Energy Policy• First President to Endanger the Stability of the Electric Grid by Shutting Down Hundreds of Coal-Fired Plants Without Adequate Replacement Technologies (Source: National Electric Reliability Corporation - PDF)
• First President to Have His EPA Repudiated by a Federal Judge for "Overstepping Its Powers" When They Attempted to Shut Down Coal Operations in Appalachia (Source: Huffington Post)
• First President to be Held in Contempt of Court for Illegally Obstructing Oil Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (Source: Politico)
National Security and World Affairs • First President to Lie Repeatedly to the American People About the Murder of a U.S. Ambassador and Three Other Diplomatic Personnel for Purely Political Reasons, Rewriting a "Talking Points" Memo No Fewer Than a Dozen Times to Avoid Referencing a Pre-Planned Terror Attack (Source: ABC News)
• First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government (Sources: ABC News, Rep. Michael Turner)
• First President to Leak Highly Classified Military and Intelligence Secrets to Hollywood In Order to Promote a Movie That Could Help His Reelection Campaign (Source: Judicial Watch)
• First President to Renounce the Monroe Doctrine of National Security in the Western Hemisphere (Source: Wall Street Journal)
• First Nobel Peace Prize Winner to State "I'm Really Good At Killing People" (Regarding His Drone Strikes) (Source: Business Insider)
• First President to Snub the Vatican by Closing U.S. Embassy (Source: Washington Times, "Obama's call to close Vatican embassy is 'slap in the face' to Roman Catholics")
• First President to Terminate America's Ability to Put a Man into Space (Sources: USA Today, ABC News)
• First President to press for a "treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and rights to half of all offshore oil revenue" (The Law Of The Sea Treaty, Source: Investors Business Daily)
• First President to send $200 million to a terrorist organization (Hamas) after Congress had explicitly frozen the money for fear it would fund attacks against civilians (Sources: American Thinker, The Independent [UK])
Miscellania• First President to Insert Himself into White House Biographies of Past Presidents (Source: The New York Times).
• First President to Complete 150 Rounds of Golf in Less Than Five Years in Office (Source: Yahoo! News)
But remember: he will not rest until all Americans have jobs, affordable homes, green-energy vehicles, and the environment is repaired, etc., etc., etc.
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You Can Pee on Obama's Face at the
Faith and Freedom Conference
by Matt Wilstein | 1:35 pm, June 20th, 2014
The 2014 Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference is underway in Washington, D.C. and one of the fun features they have apparently included this year is the ability to pee directly on President Barack Obama's face. That's right, there are Obama urinal cakes in the men's room.
The Huffington Post's Igor Bobic shared the image you cannot un-see with the world on Twitter:
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Attkisson: 9 Requests Lawmakers Should
Make About Lois Lerner's Missing Emails
Melissa Quinn / @MelissaQuinn97 / June 16, 2014
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As congressional investigators ponder how a computer crash caused two years of Lois Lerner's emails to disappear, investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson outlined several questions lawmakers should be asking the Internal Revenue Service.
During Lerner's tenure at the IRS, tea party groups applying for tax-exempt status routinely were subjected to additional scrutiny and delays in their applications. The IRS informed Congress last week that it had lost an unknown number of emails from Lerner.
>>> Paul Ryan Confronts IRS Commissioner: 'I Don't Believe You'
Now, as congressional Republicans call on the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the computer crash, Attkisson, a Daily Signal senior independent contributor, explained exactly what information investigators should seek regarding Lerner's missing emails:
1.Please provide a timeline of the crash and documentation covering when it was first discovered and by whom; when, how and by whom it was learned that materials were lost; the official documentation reporting the crash and federal data loss; documentation reflecting all attempts to recover the materials; and the remediation records documenting the fix. This material should include the names of all officials and technicians involved, as well as all internal communications about the matter.
2.Please provide all documents and emails that refer to the crash from the time that it happened through the IRS' disclosure to Congress Friday that it had occurred.
3.Please provide the documents that show the computer crash and lost data were appropriately reported to the required entities including any contractor servicing the IRS. If the incident was not reported, please explain why.
4.Please provide a list summarizing what other data was irretrievably lost in the computer crash. If the loss involved any personal data, was the loss disclosed to those impacted? If not, why?
5.Please provide documentation reflecting any security analyses done to assess the impact of the crash and lost materials. If such analyses were not performed, why not?
6.Please provide documentation showing the steps taken to recover the material, and the names of all technicians who attempted the recovery.
7.Please explain why redundancies required for federal systems were either not used or were not effective in restoring the lost materials, and provide documentation showing how this shortfall has been remediated.
8.Please provide any documents reflecting an investigation into how the crash resulted in the irretrievable loss of federal data and what factors were found to be responsible for the existence of this situation.
9.I would also ask for those who discovered and reported the crash to testify under oath, as well as any officials who reported the materials as having been irretrievably lost.
In testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in March, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told lawmakers agency emails "get taken off and stored in servers." Yet the IRS said Lerner's correspondence, sent between January 2009 and April 2011, is irretrievable.
>>> Hollywood Plots 'More Believable' Than IRS, White House on Missing Emails
Congressional investigators are working to determine whether Lerner acted alone or on orders handed down by the White House. House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., said in a statement Friday the IRS' loss of documents makes it more difficult for investigators to determine who, besides Lerner, was involved in the scandal.
Lerner testified twice on Capitol Hill about the targeting, but invoked the Fifth Amendment both times. In May, the House voted to hold her in contempt for refusing to cooperate with investigations.
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I didn't see this in 2009 did you?Outrage Over
Obama Sing-AlongElementary school students taught to sing praises of
President Obama.You will have to go https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1250064768819&fref=nf to watch the video.
Isn't this what they did during
Htlers era?
Indoctrination ?
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How did we survive?
I am one of the baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964. I sometimes wonder how we survived. Consider:(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/ScafHO87SDI/AAAAAAAAQ9c/Scmkg4ev9MM/s1600/090322-b-cigs.jpg)
Our mothers smoked and/or drank while pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with brightly colored, lead-based paints.
There were no childproof lids on medicine or special locks on cabinet doors.
We we rode bikes, we wore baseball caps, not specially engineered helmets.
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As infants, we rode in cars without car seats or booster seats, no seat belts and no air bags. Sometimes, as tots, we rode in small moving boxes packed with blankets and toys.
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We rode in the back of pickup trucks and no one was arrested or cited.
We drank water from garden hoses, not from plastic bottles.
We shared a single bottle of Coca-Cola with three friends -- and no one died.
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We ate cupcakes with food coloring, white bread, real butter and bacon. In fact, we drank Kool-Aid mixed with tablespoons of real sugar.
Yet we weren't overweight, because we were always outside playing.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when dusk fell. And no one was able to reach us all day. And: we were okay.
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We'd spend hours in the forest with Daisy rifles, or building go-carts without brakes, or sledding with wooden and steel monstrosities that could sever a limb.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-Boxes. There were no video games, no cable television, no DVD players. There were no computers, no web, no Facebook, no Twitter.
We had friends and we went outside and found them... without cell phones or text messages.
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits resulting from these accidents. We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
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We were given BB guns and knives for our birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, played lawn darts and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.
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The boomers have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers, inventors and entrepreneurs ever.
The last 50 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
We had the good fortune to grow up as kids in America, before the government regulated so much of our lives "for our own good".
Give thanks, for such an age will never occur again.
Sharyl Attkisson To Lou Dobbs:
Reporters Skip Scandals to Avoid Looking Like
'Right-Wing Nuts'
By Jackie Seal | June 20, 2014 | 11:54
Thursday evening on the Fox Business Network, host Lou Dobbs of Lou Dobbs Tonight was joined by Emmy award winning reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who recently signed on with the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal website as a senior independent contributor. The two discussed the recent news surrounding the ongoing IRS scandal and the liberal media's apparent uninterest in the story.
Dobbs asked Attkisson why the liberal media refuses to report the story and rather insists on "behaving much more like lap dogs" instead of doing their job and serving as a "watch dog." Attkisson argued that the media is being run by a "propaganda interest" that insists any coverage of any scandals involving the Obama administration are "phony" and perpetrated by "right-wing nuts."
The relevant portion is transcribed below:
Fox Business Network
Lou Dobbs Tonight
June 19, 2014
7:18 p.m. Eastern
LOU DOBBS: Sharyl, the question becomes what are the powers of Congress? We've seen this Congress stonewalled at every turn. Whether its Fast and Furious, whether it is spying on journalist, whether it's IRS targeting, Benghazi. The list goes on and on and on. Yet the national liberal media, as I often style it, simply will not rise up to the level of a watchdog for the state. Instead they are behaving much more like lap dogs. It is, to me, mind boggling.
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SHARYL ATTKISSON: They're just not terribly interested or their interests often lie elsewhere in other stories. That in the limited time they have on television to tell stories they can find plenty of other ways to fill in the space then to look into some of these controversies. I think to some degree they have been played by propaganda interests who suggest that if these stories are covered they are simply phony scandals and Republican generated. Which they're not, in my opinion. From a neutral viewpoint there are many important questions to be asked and implications here. But the propaganda campaign says that if you're interested in the story you're a conservative and a right-wing nut. And media should not be swayed by that but, I think to some degree they are.
DOBBS: If your last name is Rhodes, one of you works to run CBS news and other is working national security in White House that just happens to be a familial matter that is of no interest to the nation. You have had your phones tapped, you've had your computers hacked. This has got to be chilling to you?
ATTKISSON: Well, to some degree, obviously it is disturbing, it makes me angry. It doesn't chill me. It doesn't dissuade me from doing the job that I need to do. I was never intended to find out this was happening. I found out by happenstance and luck. I think they are trying to find out what I was about to report on, what sources were speaking to me, and how much I knew about the controversial stories I was reporting on at the time.
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Official New Obamacare Application Forms
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Full-name:
Please enter your real name, you will have an opportunity to make up names later
Do you have access to a car or other vehicle?
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If Yes, how many homeless vagrants or illegal aliens can you transport?
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5-7 Minivan
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12-99 Schoolbus
100-199 Semi with empty trailer
Do you know any dead people?
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If you had to make up names for some reason, which do you prefer to use?
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Disney characters
Members of the Dallas Cowboys/NFL team
Cast of Beverly Hills 90210
Cast of Star Trek
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Names of cheap beers, malt liquors and wines
Series of random letters like "Aasdfasdf Aasdfasfs"
Please check any relevant experience?
Intimidating bank employees
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Real estate flipping, mortgage fraud
Rating subprime debt tranches "AAA"
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Now
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If tomorrow, do you need written directions to remember how to return here?
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(The following article is WHY I think that the "Hildebeest" will not run for president in 2016... and to tell you the truth, I was surprised she had a Heart. BTW, her new book has fallen out of the Top Ten after only a week. President?? Nah!
...Warph)
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BOOK: HILLARY HAS BAD HEART
Sun Jun 22 2014 18:01:30 ET
A new provocative work by bestselling author Ed Klein claims Hillary Clinton's health problems are much more severe than she has publicly revealed!
"She had managed to keep her medical history secret out of fear that, should it become public, it would disqualify her from becoming president," writes Klein in BLOOD FEUD.
'BLOOD FEUD' hits the street this week [it ranked #89 on AMAZON Sunday afternoon.]
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The true story of what happened to Hillary, which is being recounted in these pages for the first time, was radically different from Reines's version.
To begin with, Hillary fainted while she was working in her seventh-floor office at the State Department, not at home, as Reines told the media. She was treated at the State Department's infirmary and then, at her own insistence, taken to Whitehaven to recover. However, as soon as Bill appeared on the scene and was able to assess Hillary's condition for himself, he ordered that she be immediately flown to New York–Presbyterian Hospital in the Fort Washington section of Manhattan. When Reines subsequently released a statement confirming that Hillary was being treated at the hospital over the New Year's holiday, it naturally intensified speculation about the seriousness of her medical condition.
While she was at the hospital, doctors diagnosed Hillary with several problems.
She had a right transverse venous thrombosis, or a blood clot between her brain and skull. She had developed the clot in one of the veins that drains blood from the brain to the heart. The doctors explained that blood stagnates when you spend a lot of time on airplanes, and Hillary had clocked countless hours flying around the world.
To make matters worse, it turned out that Hillary had an intrinsic tendency to form clots and faint. In addition to the fainting spell she suffered in Buffalo a few years before, she had fainted boarding her plane in Yemen, fallen and fractured her elbow in 2009, and suffered other unspecified fainting episodes. Several years earlier, she had developed a clot in her leg and was put on anticoagulant therapy by her doctor. However, she had foolishly stopped taking her anticoagulant medicine, which might have explained the most recent thrombotic event.
"The unique thing about clotting in the brain is that it could have transformed into a stroke," said a cardiac specialist with knowledge of Hillary's condition.
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According to a source close to Hillary, a thorough medical examination revealed that Hillary's tendency to form clots was the least of her problems. She also suffered from a thyroid condition, which was common among women of her age, and her fainting spells indicated there was an underlying heart problem as well. A cardiac stress test indicated that her heart rhythm and heart valves were not normal. Put into layman's language, her heart valves were not pumping in a steady way.
When the author attempted to contact the Clintons' cardiologist, Dr. Allan Schwartz, he refused to comment, which made it impossible to determine the exact nature of Hillary's medical status or its long-term significance. However, sources who discussed Hillary's medical condition with her were told that Hillary's doctors considered performing valve-replacement surgery. They ultimately decided against it.
Still, before they released Hillary from the hospital, they warned Bill Clinton: "She has to be carefully monitored for the rest of her life."
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'I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met,
more than any man who ever lived.' - Bill Clinton in 'Blood Feud'
(Whoa Bubba...)
The Feud Between The Obumas and 'Hildebeest'
By Edward Klein..June 21, 2014
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In his new book, "Blood Feud," journalist Edward Klein gets inside the dysfunctional, jealous relationship between Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama — and how it could explode in 2016.Outwardly, they put on a show of unity — but privately, the Obamas and Clintons, the two power couples of the Democrat Party, loathe each other.
"I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived," Bill Clinton said to friends on one occasion, adding he would never forgive Obama for suggesting he was a racist during the 2008 campaign.
The feeling is mutual. Obama made excuses not to talk to Bill, while the first lady privately sniped about Hillary.
On most evenings, Michelle Obama and her trusted adviser, Valerie Jarrett, met in a quiet corner of the White House residence. They'd usually open a bottle of Chardonnay, catch up on news about Sasha and Malia, and gossip about people who gave them heartburn.
Their favorite bête noire was Hillary Clinton, whom they nicknamed "Hildebeest," after the menacing and shaggy-maned gnu that roams the Serengeti.
'Michelle could be president'The animosity came to a head in the run-up to the 2012 election, when Obama's inner circle insisted he needed the former president's support to win. Obama finally telephoned Bill Clinton in September 2011 and invited him out for a round of golf.
"I'm not going to enjoy this," Bill told Hillary when they gathered with a group of friends and political associates at Whitehaven, their neo-Georgian home on Embassy Row in Washington, DC.
"I've had two successors since I left the White House — Bush and Obama — and I've heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I've heard from Obama. I have no relationship with the president — none whatsoever," Clinton said.
"I really can't stand the way Obama always seems to be hectoring when he talks to me," Clinton added, according to someone who was present at the gathering and spoke on the condition of anonymity. "Sometimes we just stare at each other. It's pretty damn awkward. Now we both have favors to ask each other, and it's going to be very unpleasant. But I've got to get this guy to owe me and to be on our side."
During the golf game, Clinton didn't waste any time reminding Obama that as president he had presided over eight years of prosperity, while Obama had been unable to dig the country out of the longest financial doldrums since the Great Depression.
"Bill got into it right away," said a Clinton family friend. "He told Obama, 'Hillary and I are gearing up for a run in 2016.' He said Hillary would be 'the most qualified, most experienced candidate, perhaps in history.' His reference to Hillary's experience made Obama wince, since it was clearly a shot at his lack of experience when he ran for president.
"And so Bill continued to talk about Hillary's qualifications . . . and the coming campaign in 2016. But Barack didn't bite. He changed the subject several times. Then suddenly, Barack said something that took Bill by complete surprise. He said, 'You know, Michelle would make a great presidential candidate, too.'
"Bill was speechless. Was Barack comparing Michelle's qualifications to Hillary's? Bill said that if he hadn't been on a mission to strike a deal with Barack, he might have stormed off the golf course then and there."
Blackberry snubBill Clinton would go on to campaign for Obama in 2012, but he felt betrayed when the president seemed to waver when it came to a 2016 endorsement of Hillary. Obama attempted to smooth things over with a joint "60 Minutes" interview with Hillary, and later a private dinner for the two couples at the White House.
And so, on March 1, 2013 — the very day that the $85 billion in budget cuts known as the "sequester" went into effect — the Clintons slipped unnoticed into the White House and sat down for dinner with the Obamas in the Residence.
Typically, once Obama decided to do something (for example, the surge in Afghanistan), he immediately had second thoughts, and his behavior during dinner degenerated from moody to grumpy to bad-tempered.
After the obligatory greetings and small talk about family, Obama asked Bill what he thought about the sequester: Would it turn out to be a political plus for him? Bill went into a long — and boring — lecture about the issue.
To change the subject, Hillary asked Michelle if it was true, as she had heard, that the first lady was thinking about running for the Senate from Illinois.
Michelle said that she was warming to the idea, though she had yet to make up her mind.
Bill shot Hillary a look of incredulity.
Bill then moved the conversation to Obama's vaunted 2012 campaign organization. He told Obama that it would be a good idea to fold the organization, along with all its digital and social-media bells and whistles, into the Democratic National Committee.
Obama's only response was a disparaging smile.
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President Barack Obama acts cordial with former President Clinton but it's all for show, according to the new book "Blood Feud," by journalist Edward Klein. Photo: White House
"You have to use your organization to aid the candidate in 2016," Bill pressed Obama.
"Really?" Obama replied in a tone of undisguised sarcasm.
The two men went back and forth over the subject of where the money for Obama's campaign organization had come from and how to allocate funds for the 2016 presidential election. Bill raised his voice. So did Obama.
As Bill Clinton went on about his managerial experience, Obama began playing with his Blackberry under the table, making it plain that he wasn't paying attention to anything Clinton had to say. He was intentionally snubbing Clinton. Others around the table noticed Obama thumbing his Blackberry, and the atmosphere turned even colder than before.
Hillary changed the subject again.
"Are you glad you won't have to campaign again?" she asked Obama. "You don't seem to enjoy it."
"For a guy who doesn't like it," Obama replied tartly, "I've done pretty well."
"Well," Bill said, adding his two cents, "I was glad to pitch in and help get you re-elected."
There was another long pause. Finally, Obama turned to Bill and said, sotto voce, "Thanks."
After the dinner, and once the Clintons had been ushered out of the family quarters, Obama shook his head and said, "That's why I never invite that guy over."
Obama's mini-meLately, Bill Clinton has become convinced that Obama won't endorse Hillary in 2016. During a gathering at Whitehaven, guests overheard Bill talking to his daughter Chelsea about whether the president would back Joe Biden.
"Recently, I've been hearing a different scenario from state committeemen," Clinton said. "They say he's looking for a candidate who's just like him. Someone relatively unknown. Someone with a fresh face.
"He's convinced himself he's been a brilliant president, and wants to clone himself — to find his Mini-Me.
"He's hunting for someone to succeed him, and he believes the American people don't want to vote for someone who's been around for a long time. He thinks that your mother and I are what he calls 'so 20th century.' He's looking for another Barack Obama."
Excerpted from "Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas" by Edward Klein. Out this week from Regnery Publishing.
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Map: The largest company
by revenue in every state
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Here's the data Broadview Networks culled from Hoover's:
State
City
Top company by revenue
Revenue (billions)
Alabama Birmingham Regions Bank $5.89
Alaska Juneau Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation $4.44
Arizona Phoenix Avnet, Inc. $25.45
Arkansas Bentonville Wal-Mart Stores $476.29
California San Ramon Chevron Corporation $228.84
Colorado Englewood Arrow Electronics, Inc. $21.35
Connecticut Fairfield General Electric $146.04
Delaware Wilmington E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company $36.14
Florida Doral World Fuel Services Corporation $41.56
Georgia Atlanta Home Depot International, Inc. $85.53
Hawaii Honolulu Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. $3.23
Idaho Boise Micron Technology, Inc. $9.07
Illinois Decatur Archer Daniels Midland $89.80
Indiana Indianapolis WellPoint $71.02
Iowa Cedar Rapids Transamerica Life Insurance Company $19.64
Kansas Overland Park Sprint Communications, Inc. $34.56
Kentucky Louisville Humana, Inc. $41.31
Louisiana Monroe CenturyLink, Inc. $18.09
Maine Scarborough Hannaford Bros. Co. $3.98
Maryland Bethesda Lockheed Martin Corporation $45.35
Massachusetts Boston Liberty Mutual Holding Company, Inc. $38.50
Michigan Detroit General Motors $155.42
Minnesota Wayzata Cargill, Inc. $136.65
Mississippi Laurel Sanderson Farms, Inc. $2.68
Missouri St. Louis Express Scripts Holding $104.09
Montana Billings Stillwater Mining Company $1.03
Nebraska Omaha Berkshire Hathaway $182.15
Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas Sands Corp. $13.76
New Hampshire Portsmouth Sprague Resources LP $4.60
New Jersey New Brunswick Johnson & Johnson $71.31
New Mexico Albuquerque Presbyterian Healthcare Services $2.05
New York New York Verizon Communications $120.55
North Carolina Charlotte Bank of America $101.69
North Dakota Bismarck MDU Resources Group, Inc. $4.46
Ohio Dublin Cardinal Health $101.09
Oklahoma Oklahoma City Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc. $26.09
Oregon Beaverton Nike, Inc. $25.31
Pennsylvania Chesterbrook AmeriSourceBergen $87.95
Rhode Island Woonsocket CVS Caremark $126.76
South Carolina Hartsville Sonoco Products Company $4.48
South Dakota Sioux Falls Sanford Health $3.10
Tennessee Memphis FedEx Corporation $44.28
Texas Irving Exxon Mobil $438.25
Utah Salt Lake City Huntsman Corporation $11.07
Vermont Waterbury Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. $4.35
Virginia McLean Freddie Mac $81.22
Washington Issaquah CostCo Wholesale $105.15
West Virginia Morgantown West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. $42.73
Wisconsin Milwaukee Johnson Controls, Inc. $42.73
Wyoming Gillette Cloud Peak Energy, Inc. $1.39
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No surprise to me.Awkward: Four former EPA heads
refuse to corroborate Obama's
global warming claims
Friday, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:49 AM CDT
There was a bit of an awkward moment in Wednesday's Environment and Public Works Subcommittee hearing when Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) asked four former EPA officials – point blank – whether they agree with President Obama's sensational global warming claims... and no one did.
"If you happened to see Senator Sessions on the Hill yesterday, he questioned four former EPA heads. These four EPA heads were invited to the hearing by the Democrats," Glenn said on radio this morning. "And, of course, the Democrats want you to know the globe is heating even faster than it was 15 years ago and we're headed towards climate crisis, climate chaos. We have to take care of this right away. Right?"
In November 2012 the President claimed, "the temperature around the globe is increasing faster than was predicted, even ten years ago." He followed that up in May 2013 by saying, "we also know that the climate is warming faster than anybody anticipated five or ten years ago."
After quoting President Obama, Sessions asked those testifying to raise their hand if they agree with the President's sentiment. No one did.
"So I would ask each of our former administrators if any of you agree that that's an accurate statement on the climate. So if you do, raise your hand," Sessions said. "Thank you, the record will reflect no one raised their hand."
Watch the awkwardness ensue below:
"That's incredible," Glenn said. "How is that not on the news?"
http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/06/20/akward-four-former-epa-heads-refuse-to-corroborate-obamas-global-warming-claims/
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUK Columnist Booker: US Cooling Since '30s,
Data 'Fabricated'
Monday, 23 Jun 2014 11:32 AM
By Melanie Batley
Global warming data has been manipulated to grossly misrepresent warming trends, and scientists have suppressed climate records indicating that the 1930s was the hottest decade on record in the United States, says U.K. journalist Christopher Booker.
"When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data," Booker, author of "The Real Global Warming Disaster," wrote in a column for The Sunday Telegraph of London.
Booker said that while he found evidence of fiddled climate figures while writing his book seven years ago, Steven Goddard's blog "Real Science" has uncovered another example of it when looking at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's graph of U.S. surface temperatures.
The group, Goddard claims, has been "adjusting" its records by replacing real temperatures with data "fabricated" by computer models. The effect has been to make earlier periods seem cooler, while more recent temperatures have been inaccurately presented as higher to give the impression that the Earth has been warming much more than the actual data suggests.
Using actual temperatures, graphs indicate that the United States has been cooling since the '30s, Goddard has shown, according to Booker, even though the official graphs are showing that the the Earth has been warming at a rate equal to more than 3 degrees centigrade per century.
"When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous 'hockey stick' graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years," Booker wrote.
"Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology."
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Christopher-Booker-climate-change-data-fabricated/2014/06/23/id/578690/?ns_mail_uid=7144240&ns_mail_job=1574306_06232014&promo_code=eafhsi8l
Trey Gowdy Nails The IRS Commisioner To
The Wall In Congressional Hearing
(Finally! A Republican who knows how to question a witness!
Trey Gowdy is a hell of a prosecutor)
Congressman Trey Gowdy tells the Maryland GOP about his dream.
(Second Gowdy video of the night. Have to admit to being a big fan of this guy.
Here he is with little humor, with a nice rip on John Boehner and Lindsey Graham)
Obuma Walks To Chipotle In D.C. For Lunch, Customers Ignore Him
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Note the people in line are all focused on ordering their food instead
of the President of the United States who is just a few feet away:
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If The Clintons Are Worth 50 Million, Why Do They Get Nearly
A Million A Year From The Taxpayers?
By Michael Snyder, on June 24th, 2014
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Since leaving the White House, the Clintons have earned at least 100 million dollars and currently have a net worth of up to 50 million dollars. So why in the world do the taxpayers need to give Bill Clinton $944,000 to fund his extravagant lifestyle in 2014? If ordinary Americans truly understood how much money many former politicians are being handed every year they would go bananas. According to a Congressional Research Service report that was published earlier this year, the federal government has given a total of nearly 16 million dollars to Bill Clinton since 2001. Each one of those dollars is a dollar that some U.S. taxpayer worked really hard for or that we had to borrow. Yes, we don't want our former presidents to go broke for a whole bunch of reasons, but it is absolutely absurd that we are showering them with millions upon millions of dollars.
Yesterday, I wrote about the trouble that Hillary has caused for herself by claiming that the Clintons were "dead broke" when they left the White House.
(This & That & Whatever)The way things have been set up, there is no way in the world that any former president is going to be "dead broke" ever again unless the law is changed.
According to the Washington Post, Bill Clinton has been receiving about a million dollars a year "for office space, staff, and a pension" since he left office...According to an April report from the Congressional Research Service, Bill Clinton has received nearly $16 million in pensions and benefits from the federal government since leaving office. That includes $944,000 in fiscal year 2014 for office space, staff, and a pension.
That is insanely wasteful.But wait, there's more.
George W. Bush is actually receiving more money from the taxpayers than Clinton is each year...Bush the younger is costing taxpayers $1.28 million this year, and averages 4 per cent more annual than Clinton.
The government's General Services Administration inexplicably budgeted $102,000 for Bush's telephone expenses in 2014, and planned to spend $135,000 more on furniture, computers, office supplies and other miscellany.
How in the world is George W. Bush racking up $102,000 in phone expenses a year?Does he have the world's worst calling plan?
And of course what we spend on our former presidents is peanuts compared to what we spend on our current president.
According to author Robert Keith Gray, approximately 1.4 billion dollars is spent on the Obamas every year. Here are just a few nuggets from his book...-The Obamas have the "biggest staff in history at the highest wages ever".
-Obama has 469 senior staff working directly under him, and 226 of them make more than $100,000 a year.
-There is always at least one projectionist at the White House 24 hours a day just in case there is someone that wants to watch a movie.
-The "dog handler" for the family dog Bo reportedly makes $102,000 per year and sometimes he is even flown to where the family is vacationing so that he can care for the dog.Yes, the White House needs a large staff.
But at this point we spend more on our presidents than any nation on the planet does on their entire royal families.
Over the years, the political elite have tilted the rules of the game dramatically in their favor. Neither political party objects because they both benefit from riding on the endless gravy train.
If you can believe it, there are close to 15,000 retired federal employees that are currently collecting federal pensions for life worth at least $100,000 annually. This list includes names such as Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, Trent Lott, Dick Gephardt and Dick Cheney.
And most people are astounded to hear that more than 4 million dollars a year is spent on the "personal" and "office" expenses of each U.S. Senator.
Not that they need the money. As I wrote about recently, more than half of the members of Congress are millionaires at this point, and nearly 200 of them are multimillionaires.
Politics in America has become a game that is played by the elite for the benefit of the elite. If it seems like they are "out of touch" with ordinary Americans that is because they are.
Meanwhile, things just continue to get even tougher for the middle class. Even though money is flowing like wine in Washington D.C. for the moment, a brand new Gallup survey discovered that 58 percent of Americans believe that the economy is getting worse.
It is shameful that our politicians are living like rock stars while tens of millions of American families are suffering so deeply. For example, consider the case of Andrew and Kristen Cummins...Andrew and Kristen Cummins and their 8-year-old son Colton have been in and out of homelessness for the past four years.
It all started when Andrew moved to Indiana for a temporary warehouse job that was supposed to turn into a full-time job. But instead he said he was let go as soon as the company would have had to start providing him with full-time benefits.
Since then, he has worked at several other temporary jobs that haven't turned into full-time work either.
Kristen has been in the same position: She has also had temporary jobs, but nothing has stuck.
So for now, the three stay at a local homeless shelter called the Haven House. Since women and men are required to sleep in separate areas, Andrew doesn't get to see his wife or son after 9 p.m. each night.There are millions of other families just like them that are scratching and clawing their way through life the best that they can.
Perhaps our politicians should actually do something to help them instead of sitting back and living the high life at our expense.
The former Presidents ought to be on their own, however in the USA too many people want the government to take care of everybody even down to your locals at the government school level.
Socialism rules in America as you can see by some of their posts right here on this forum. The Republicans and Obama are a tyrants and one or the other is well liked. Shouldn't happen in America but for now it's looking like we're stuck with one or the other.
Meanwhile, we can fill our vehicles with ethanol and drive to the wind farm and watch 'em spin.
Most-Have-No-Clue
What-Or-Why-They-Support
Going-Green
Most have no clue what or why they support "going green".June 24, 2014 by nolathe
From redistribution of global and local wealth, absolute control of behavior, removal of property and water rights, devastation of Capitalism, soaring energy prices, free speech and religious freedom condemned, open borders to government dependency. From my furthest government to my closest government, America is under attack from other Americans with global in your face agendas. How many local politicians have actually read what Agenda 21 entails? "Going green" is a fuzzy warm manipulative tool that has failed implementation world-wide.
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Click here: Eilert "Economy, environment and social equity in each decision that we make." | NOlathe's Blog
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It"
(please check out this infor at the web site)
http://nolathe.net/2014/06/24/most-have-no-clue-what-or-why-they-support-going-green/
This, Mr. President and Mr. Hagel,
is why soldiers aren't
clapping and applauding for you.
by Jon Williams
As an Army Veteran who was working as a contractor attached to the 25th Infantry Division (same Division as Bergdahl) in a nearby FOB when Bowe Bergdahl went missing, I feel the need to speak out on the situation (notice I don't ascribe rank to him, I will address that later).
A few days ago, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel took the stage at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan and excitedly started with what he thought would be a big applause line. "We got him back!" he exclaimed.
Silence.
Not. Even. One. Clap.
Numerous White House leaks show that Obama and his team were convinced that Americans would greet the news of a returning POW with elation; that this would be the great moment in Obama's second term. This shows just how clueless they are about the military. Let me clue them in.
You see, when Hagel took the stage, he expected joy at the announcement that one of their own was returned! However, you have to see inside a soldier's mind to understand what was going on here. I believe I can provide a little insight.
When a soldier deserts his post, when he writes that he is ashamed to be an American, when he gives the enemy secrets (and he did), he is no longer "one of us". He is a traitor. He is not a brother-in-arms.
Soldiers risk their lives for each other every day on the battlefield, there is a trust and respect they have for each other. For Bowe Bergdahl to break that trust and the Secretary of Defense to announce a hero's welcome instead of a court-martial is a huge let-down.
He isn't one of their own. He is one of them. He is the enemy.
That's not something to celebrate.
The message the White House is sending is that they value treason more than honorable service.
Read that last sentence again. Let it sink in. THIS is what every soldier is thinking.
In a soldier's mind serving with honor means finishing your tour, even if you disagree with the way things are done. All bets are off if you serve with dishonor.
I do not refer to Bergdahl as a sergeant, even though he received "automatic" promotions while in the Taliban's custody because according to law, after 30 days his rank and pay should have been stripped from him. Due to political pressure, his was not. In fact, he probably has over $200,000 in cash waiting in his bank account. In my opinion, this money should be given to the families of the soldiers who died in the aftermath of his desertion.
Bowe Bergdahl deserted his post. He served with dishonor. I know that firsthand. Our soldiers know that. They know they risk their lives every day. They don't get a hero's welcome from the White House, they get fewer meals (due to budget constraints) and less safety equipment (due to the drawdown).
Let me be perfectly clear. A Rose Garden Ceremony, a "hero's welcome", and automatic promotions to a person that deserted is nothing more than a slap in the face to every service member who has served honorably.
That, Mr. President and Mr. Hagel, is why soldiers aren't clapping and applauding for you. That is why you have lost any remaining respect from the military community.
PAUL RYAN'S PROPOSED BUDGET CUT
A List of Republican Budget Cuts Notice S.S. and the military are NOT on this list.These are all the programs that the new Republican House has proposed cutting.* Corporation for Public Broadcasting Subsidy -- $445 million annual savings.
* Save America 's Treasures Program -- $25 million annual savings.
* International Fund for Ireland -- $17 million annual savings.
* Legal Services Corporation -- $420 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Arts -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* National Endowment for the Humanities -- $167.5 million annual savings.
* Hope VI Program -- $250 million annual savings.
* Amtrak Subsidies -- $1.565 billion annual savings.
* Eliminate duplicating education programs -- H.R. 2274 (in last Congress), authored by Rep. McKeon, eliminates 68 at a savings of $1.3 billion annually.
* U.S. Trade Development Agency -- $55 million annual savings.
* Woodrow Wilson Center Subsidy -- $20 million annual savings.
* Cut in half funding for congressional printing and binding -- $47 million annual savings.
* John C. Stennis Center Subsidy -- $430,000 annual savings.
* Community Development Fund -- $4.5 billion annual savings.
* Heritage Area Grants and Statutory Aid -- $24 million annual savings.
* Cut Federal Travel Budget in Half -- $7.5 billion annual savings
* Trim Federal Vehicle Budget by 20% -- $600 million annual savings.
* Essential Air Service -- $150 million annual savings.
* Technology Innovation Program -- $70 million annual savings.
* Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Program -- $125 million annual savings..
* Department of Energy Grants to States for Weatherization -- $530 million annual savings.
* Beach Replenishment -- $95 million annual savings.
* New Starts Transit -- $2 billion annual savings.
* Exchange Programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Their Historical Trading Partners in Massachusetts -- $9 million annual savings
* Intercity and High Speed Rail Grants -- $2.5 billion annual savings.
* Title X Family Planning -- $318 million annual savings.
* Appalachian Regional Commission -- $76 million annual savings.
* Economic Development Administration -- $293 million annual savings.
* Programs under the National and Community Services Act -- $1.15 billion annual savings.
* Applied Research at Department of Energy -- $1.27 billion annual savings.
* Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership -- $200 million annual savings..
* Energy Star Program -- $52 million annual savings.
* Economic Assistance to Egypt -- $250 million annually.
* U.S. Agency for International Development -- $1.39 billion annual savings.
* General Assistance to District of Columbia -- $210 million annual savings.
* Subsidy for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority -- $150 million annual savings.
* Presidential Campaign Fund -- $775 million savings over ten years.
* No funding for federal office space acquisition -- $864 million annual savings.
* End prohibitions on competitive sourcing of government services.
* Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act -- More than $1 billion annually.
* IRS Direct Deposit: Require the IRS to deposit fees for some services it offers (such as processing payment plans for taxpayers) to the Treasury, instead of allowing it to remain as part of its budget -- $1.8 billion savings over ten years.
* Require collection of unpaid taxes by federal employees -- $1 billion total savings. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS ABOUT?
* Prohibit taxpayer funded union activities by federal employees -- $1.2 billion savings over ten years.
* Sell excess federal properties the government does not make use of -- $15 billion total savings.
* Eliminate death gratuity for Members of Congress. WHAT???
* Eliminate Mohair Subsidies -- $1 million annual savings.
* Eliminate taxpayer subsidies to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- $12.5 million annual savings WELL ISN'T THAT SPECIAL
* Eliminate Market Access Program -- $200 million annual savings.
* USDA Sugar Program -- $14 million annual savings.
* Subsidy to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- $93 million annual savings.
* Eliminate the National Organic Certification Cost-Share Program -- $56.2 million annual savings.
* Eliminate fund for Obamacare administrative costs-- $900 million savings.
* Ready to Learn TV Program -- $27 million savings..
* HUD Ph.D. Program.
* Deficit Reduction Check-Off Act.
* TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years
My question is, what is all this doing in the budget in the first place?
Maybe this is why the Democrats are attacking Paul Ryan.
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WHAT AN HONOR TO BE PROUD OF
....I have the distinguished honor of being on the Committee to raise $50,000,000 for a monument to Hillary R. Clinton. We originally wanted to put her on Mt. Rushmore until we discovered there was not enough room for two more faces.
We then decided to erect a statue of Hillary in the Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame. We were in a quandary as to where the statue should be placed. It was not proper to place it beside the statue of George Washington, who never told a lie, or beside her husband William J. Clinton, who never told the truth, since Hillary could never tell the difference.
We finally decided to place it beside Christopher Columbus, the greatest Democrat of them all. He left not knowing where he was going and when he got there he did not know where he was... He returned not knowing where he had been and he did it all on someone else's money.
Thank you,
Hillary R. Clinton Monument Committee
P.S. The Committee has raised $2.16 so far.
'No hand on the f***ing tiller': The moment Hillary Clinton let loose on Obama during booze-fueled rant, new book reveals
The Clintons and the Obama secretly hate each other, claim's Edward Klein's latest tell-all book
At a boozy dinner with friends last year Hillary allegedly called Obama 'incompetent and feckless'
'That's the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller'
Bill once said of Obama: '"I hate that man Obama more than any man I've ever met, more than any man who ever lived"'
The feeling's mutual, it would seem, based on Klein's account'Incompetent and feckless': Hillary Clinton left her position in the Obama administration disliking the president as much as she did when she started, a new book alleges
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Klein describes Clinton's Obama-bashing session as having taken place last May - two months after she vacated her position on Obama's cabinet - at French restaurant Le Jardin du Roi, near the Clinton's home in Chappaqua, New York.
'"Obama has turned into a joke," she said sharply,' according to Klein.
'When her friends asked Hillary to tell them what she thought - really thought - about the president she had served for four draining years, she lit into Obama with a passion that surprised them all'
'"The IRS targeting the Tea Party, the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone records and James Rosen's emails — all these scandals. Obama's allowed his hatred for his enemies to screw him the way Nixon did,"' Clinton reportedly told her pals.
'She went on to explain that Bill was a natural leader and great executive, unlike Obama, who was in her words "incompetent and feckless,"' Klein writes.
At another point in the conversation Hillary is quoted as having said of Obama, 'You can't trust the motherf***er'.
"'Obama has treated Bill and me incredibly shabbily. And we're angry,'" Clinton continued.
More...
Are Hillary's health problems more severe than thought? New book claims she kept medical history secret over fears it would end presidential ambitions
'I hate that man more than any other who has ever lived': Feud between the Clintons and Obamas laid bare by author who claims Michelle calls Hillary 'Hildabeest'
'I don't need anybody to defend my record. My record speaks for itself': Defiant Hillary Clinton hits back over 'dead broke' gaffe and her husband defending her
'They've stood up for each other and their daughter': Jenna Bush defends her no-show co-worker Chelsea Clinton and family against criticism about their wealth
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2670920/The-moment-Hillary-Clinton-let-loose-Obama-booze-fueled-rant-new-book-reveals.html#ixzz35onZrwYH
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UNREAL: Obama Calls Benghazi A "Phony Scandal"
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(Four dead Americans and an obvious coverup and this jackass is calling it a "phony scandal.")
Via The Hill:President Obama charged that his Republican opponents had "nothing to offer except cynicism and fear and frustration" during a fundraiser Thursday in Minnesota.
The fundraiser capped off a day Obama spent with Rebekah Erler, a working mother who wrote the president to detail her financial struggle.
"It moved me," Obama said of the letter, adding that he only went into politics to help people like her.
Obama said he remembered what it felt like to be struggling to figure out "how you lead a good life and raise your kids, not looking to get wildly wealthy... trying to make ends meet."
That's what we should be talking about every day in Washington," he said. "We talk about everything else. .. We talk about phony scandals. We talk about Benghazi. and we talk about polls and we talk about the tea party and we talk about the latest controversy... We don't talk about her."
There May Be Enough Invalidated Votes to Overturn Cochran Victory
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(Time to stop the RNC game of playing nice and to take the gloves off)
Via GWPThe Chris McDaniel campaign has identified multiple Mississippi counties in which enough improper ballots have been cast that a legal challenge to the outcome of the election is warranted.
This after Thad Cochran reportedly relied on 25,000-35,000 Democrat votes to pull him to victory in the June 24 runoff.
UPDATE: The Cochran campaign is reportedly asking county clerks not to certify the voting rolls until the last day possible so that the McDaniel people will not be able to look at the rolls and challenge them.
The Mississippi Tea Party President says at least 800 Hinds County Voters crossed over illegally.
MS News Now reported:
The Mississippi Tea Party President says they've found evidence that nearly 800 voters crossed over in Tuesday's runoff election that should not have been allowed to vote Republican.
However, Hinds County GOP Chairman Pete Perry says there are some precincts where he knows workers marked the wrong column and that could account for at least 200 of those being cited by the Tea Party.
Members of McDaniel's campaign staff and some supporters began sorting through voter books on Thursday morning at the Hinds County courthouse.
They were looking for any "irregularities".
In Hinds County, poll workers used the Democratic primary books for the GOP runoff in an attempt to prevent crossover voters.
However, the group from McDaniel's camp is still searching those records to try to find anyone who voted as a Democrat on June 3rd and with the GOP on the 24th (the runoff.)
Fun Fact Of The Day: Supreme Court Has Ruled Unanimously Against Obuma 13 Times Since 2012
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(MSNBC claims it's because Obuma's black in 3... 2... 1...)
Via NRO:Did you know the Obama administration's position has been defeated in at least 13 – thirteen — cases before the Supreme Court since January 2012 that were unanimous decisions? It continued its abysmal record before the Supreme Court today with the announcement of two unanimous opinions against arguments the administration had supported. First, the Court rejected the administration's power grab on recess appointments by making clear it could not decide when the Senate was in recess. Then it unanimously tossed out a law establishing abortion-clinic "buffer zones" against pro-life protests that the administration supported (though the case was argued by Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley).
The tenure of both President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder has been marked by a dangerous push to legitimize a vast expansion of the power of the federal government that endangers the liberty and freedom of Americans. They have taken such extreme position on key issues that the Court has uncharacteristically slapped them down time and time again. Historically, the Justice Department has won about 70 percent of its cases before the high court. But in each of the last three terms, the Court has ruled against the administration a majority of the time.
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Climate ChangeMaking up the Apocalypse:
The truth about the science in
Obama's National Climate Assessment
By Daniel B. Botkin
·Published June 26, 2014
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The Obama administration's National Climate Assessment, released with much fanfare in May, warns that we are beginning to experience drastic effects from human-induced global warming. The report depends heavily on "consensus reporting," the agreement of a large number of scientists that the statements are true or that new information "increases confidence" of the large group of authors.
But as someone who has studied climate and its effect on biology for 45 years, I know this way of expressing science is, in fact, deeply unscientific. Consensus reporting is in reality a way of avoiding or obscuring the facts, most especially in science, where the disproval of previously held truths is the central aim. A close examination of the assessment shows that many of the dire forecasted effects that consensus aims to buttress are highly selective, mostly unproven or simply made up.
Consensus reporting is in reality a way of avoiding or obscuring the facts, most especially in science, where the disproval of previously held truths is the central aim. Few things in the climate assessment are more emotionally explosive than its conclusions about various species around the globe—in a word, about life itself. As with many technical reports, the sources of many of the statements that lead us to believe life is profoundly threatened by climate change are buried in the footnotes. But the footnotes often differ greatly from the conclusions published in the main body of the report. Here are some examples, taken from a summary section of the report on "Biological Responses to Climate Change" on pages 203-205 of the climate assessment report:
1. The claim: Population fragmentation of wolverines in the northern Cascades and Rocky Mountains is expected to increase as spring snow cover retreats over the coming century. The idea is that less snow cover means smaller and more fragmented areas where the wolverine lives in winter. But the paper cited as the source for this (citation 123, page 214) states to the contrary that: "Large (greater than 1000 sq. km.) contiguous areas of wolverine habitat are predicted to persist within the study area throughout the 21st century for all projections." And the analysis is based on forecasts of snow cover from climate models, which are acknowledged even by their authors to be weakest in forecasting precipitation.
2. The claim: As temperatures got warmer over a 40-year period, songbirds at a bird-banding station in western Pennsylvania were being recorded as measurably smaller in relation to the "mean regional temperatures from the previous year." But in the study used to produce that statement (citation 85, page 212), the authors do not mention body size change at all, and just make a general statement that there is "a complex and dynamic annual cycle in songbirds, with responses to climate change differing among species and migration seasons."
3. The claim: Warmer and drier conditions during the early growing season in high-elevation habitats in Colorado are "disrupting"—a loaded term-- the timing of various flowering patterns, while birds, bees, and other pollinators were not tracking that timing; as a result there are "potential impacts" for flower propagation. On the contrary, the authors of the underlying study (citation 77, page 211) conclude that such timing changes are "unlikely to threaten population persistence for most species in our study area."
4. The claim: Warmer springs in Alaska have caused earlier onset of plant emergence, and decreased the variation in growth and availability of forage to breeding caribou. This ultimately reduced calving success in caribou populations. The implication is that warming will necessarily have a negative effect on caribou. However, the paper cited (citation 138, page 215) is much more cautious, stating that such an adverse effect is conceivable but a lot more study is needed. Wildlife populations can and do adjust to changes, but this can take some time.
5. The claim: Variation in the timing and magnitude of precipitation due to climate change was found to decrease the nutritional quality of grasses, and consequently reduce weight gain of bison in the Konza Prairie in Kansas and the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Oklahoma. In fact, the publication underpinning the statement (citation 124, page 214) says that "Greater late-summer precipitation increased bison weight gain . . . greater midsummer precipitation decreased weight gain." This is neither negative nor positive in terms of global warming, because the climate models are weakest in forecasting rainfall even annually, let alone seasonally.
There is no doubt that humanity has put many environments and species on our planet under stress, but global warming is far from the foremost of those pressures. What the assessment ignores, in its bid to bring all of these challenges under one big climate tent, is the real history of life itself: endlessly changing, highly adaptable, and never subject to the kind of stasis that the climate change consensus imagines, wrongly, to be Nature's ideal state.
Daniel B. Botkin is Adjunct Professor of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., and Professor (emeritus), University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent books are "The Moon in the Nautilus Shell," (Oxford University Press 2012) and "Powering the Future: A Scientist's Guide to Energy Independence" (FT Press Science). He was a designated expert reviewer of the White House Climate Change Assessment. For more, visit his website: danbotkin.com. Follow him on Twitter @danielbotkin.
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Somebody will one day have to explain to me why we or the Israelis ever imprison terrorists. If we're not going to execute them, why capture them at all? Why bother feeding and clothing them until the day comes that the bad guys capture one of ours in order to trade him in for five, 500 or a thousand of theirs? In the case of Israel, they've even been known to swap hundreds of jihadists in exchange for a single corpse.
I understand that by simply executing the bad guys, some would argue that we would be fueling their recruitment programs. But we hear that about everything from keeping Gitmo open to airing "Dancing with the Stars." If we merely order a BLT, we're told that ten thousand more pinheads have signed up to murder us for disrespecting their dietary laws. For a change, let's just see if we can kill them faster than they can recruit replacements. I mean, we all know that the human race will never be able to exterminate every last rodent and cockroach, but that's no reason to stop trying.
While addressing a group of homosexuals, Eric Holder recently attacked the Boy Scouts because they refuse to have openly gay Scout leaders. My question is why is the Attorney General pandering to homosexuals? With all the scandals brewing in Washington, why is he even giving speeches? If he has so much time on his hands, wouldn't it be better spent trying to hunt up those two years of email messages between Lois Lerner and the White House that the IRS insists have gone missing?
Besides, last year the Scouts were sued and lost a $16 million lawsuit because a Scout master molested one of his charges on a camping trip. I know that gays hate to be lumped with pedophiles, but the sad truth is that while all gays don't go around molesting young boys, those perverts who do just happen to be homosexual. So unless America's homosexuals or its attorney general stand ready to indemnify the Boy Scouts against such lawsuits, it's time they just shut up. If they want to start the Gay Scouts of America, nobody's stopping them.
Americans often tend to be very naïve. It's not the worst thing to be, but it can denote a severe degree of stupidity. For instance, whenever some nut pops his cork and shoots up a movie theater or a classroom, his friends, neighbors and relatives, can nearly always be counted on to remark, "Gee, he seemed so quiet and polite," as if a sure sign of insanity is being noisy and obnoxious.
Naiveté can also be fatal at a time of war. And unless you've been living in a cave since before 1978 when the Islamic creeps in Iran took Americans hostage; before our embassies and Marine barracks were attacked; before an airliner was blown up over Scotland; before the Twin Towers were brought down; before Major Hasan killed or maimed over 40 people at Fort Hood; and before the Tsarnaev brothers massacred Boston marathoners; a war has definitely been underway. And saying that you know some perfectly nice Islamic shopkeepers and taxi drivers changes nothing. I'm sure there were some perfectly nice Germans who didn't care for Hitler, but they still went along for the ride.
When you realize how few Muslims even here in America are willing to speak out against the scum who holler "Allah Akbar" while burning churches, stoning women to death for being Christians or hacking off the heads of so-called infidels, you'll pardon me if I don't regard all those soft-spoken shopkeepers and taxi drivers as salt of the earth. For my part, I don't trust them any further than I can toss the 9/11 Memorial.
Fortunately, there are still heroes among us. A few of them were the former members of Bowe Bergdahl's Army platoon. In spite of being called liars and even psychopaths by those Obuma acolytes who are trying to put lipstick on the swap of five jihadists for one deserter and calling it a sweetheart of a deal, the ex-GIs have stuck to their guns in demanding that Bergdahl be court martialed.
A less likely hero is Donald Sterling. Instead of rolling over and taking whatever the politically correct hypocrites felt like dishing out, rumor has it that he's hired private investigators to dig up dirt on ex-NBA Commissioner David Stern, current Commissioner Adam Silver and the 29 other team owners.
I, for one, am delighted that Sterling wasn't wasting his time at all those basketball games, and finally came to realize that the best defense is a good offense.
And if I know anything about professional sports, those investigators are likely to dig up enough dirt on those 31 shmucks to fill in the Grand Canyon
***An Ocean Of Failure***
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by Dan Greenfield
"This was the moment," Barack Obama had told the cheering audience in St. Paul, Minnesota. "When we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war."
St. Paul has an Ocean Street. It has an Ocean Spa and Salon. It even has an Oceanaire Seafood Room.
It does not however have an ocean. But with ObamaCare an unpopular subsidized failure, the few new jobs around being confined to a local McDonald's and Al Qaeda taking over Iraq; Obama has nothing left to do but to go back to his old promise of defeating the rise of the ocean.
With Al Qaeda pressing in on Baghdad, Obama ruled out air strikes. He did however order the Department of Defense to assign a senior official to the vital task of fighting mislabeled seafood.
While the Iraqi government was begging for air support, Obama instead issued an order in the name of the authority vested in him "by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America" to "ensure that seafood sold in the United States is legally and sustainably caught." The United States Constitution does not have much to say about sustainable seafood. The Founders liked their flounder and they disliked kings and emperors telling them where to fish.
King George III responded to Patrick Henry's cry of "Give me liberty or give me death" with the Fisheries Bill which banned the fishermen of New England from the North Atlantic. A letter sent to a sea captain denounced it as, "A Bill so replete with inhumanity and cruelty... an everlasting stain on the annals of our pious Sovereign."
But not even King George III would have contemplated creating a "national monument" consisting of 782,000 square miles of water. And despite being a monarch, he did not unilaterally issue a ban, rather parliament did. Even during the American Revolution, King George III was a more lawful and democratic monarch than Obama's unilateral reign of royal executive orders.
Three percent of American tuna from the western and central Pacific comes from the waters of the latest national monument to Obama's ideology. That means rising tuna prices which will hit working Americans, who already have trouble affording basic staples, even harder in the wallet.
The average price of albacore in 2008 was $1.14 per pound. In 2011 it hit $1.94 per pound. It was amazing how much of a difference three years had made. And not just in the price of tuna.
In 2008, Al Qaeda in Iraq was on the run and its leaders were being killed off one by one. Now that same organization is besieging Baghdad under a terrorist leader released by Barack Obama.
Obama has declared war on fishermen in the Pacific Ocean, but the Constitution, which Obama had been ignoring as thoroughly as Al Qaeda in Iraq, mentions providing for the "common defense". And it isn't talking about sending out the troops to save the tuna from the fishermen.
While ISIS Jihadists were tweeting photos of severed Iraqi heads, John Kerry was tweeting photos of himself with Leonardo DiCaprio. It was hard to decide which was more gruesome, the corpses or the sight of the country's top diplomat fawning over an environmentalist movie star while the greatest terrorist crisis of his administration was reaching a critical point.
As the Iraqi government begged for air strikes against Al Qaeda, Kerry instead held a Twitter chat to discuss the real national security threat.
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Water level rise had begun slowing anyway, for reasons having nothing to do with Obama. That may have been why Obama refused to acknowledge it.
Secretary of State John Kerry convened #OceanChat on Twitter to take questions about the great wavy threat of tidal terrorism. Most of the questions however came from people wondering why he was talking about the ocean and Leonardo DiCaprio instead of Al Qaeda.
"How is it you have time to chat with Iraq in flames?" one user asked him. "What happens to our ocean is int'l security issue," Kerry replied.
Forget the terrorists and let's fight the flounder.
"Any awareness of climate change in Iraq-Iran?" PBS' Bill Nye asked him. "There is awareness in the Middle East - a number of countries engaged in transition," Kerry replied.
The Middle East is certainly in transition, but not to Global Warming awareness. Al Qaeda is building its own state, but it doesn't have a policy on Global Warming. It does however have one on murdering Americans.
The rising oceans have yet to swallow St. Paul, Minnesota, but they have swallowed the Obama agenda. Obama has given up on doing the little things, like jobs, health care and defeating Al Qaeda, three things he was taking credit for just last month, and has refocused on the truly grandiose, controlling the oceans.
King Xerses, known to most Americans as the bejeweled self-proclaimed deity of the movie 300, ordered the whipping of the sea when it wouldn't obey him. But Obama wants to whip the ocean.
Mere mortals like Bush might fight Al Qaeda. Obama wants to take on an enemy that can be trusted not to fight back because it doesn't even know that he's there.
Battles are quantifiable things that have undeniable outcomes. You can instruct your press corps to claim victory when you are actually running away, as every ruler exercising unlimited power has, and as Obama did in Iraq and Afghanistan, but when the enemy takes the territory that you claimed was safe, it becomes harder for your media minions to claim that you actually won.
Unlike Al Qaeda, oceans don't throw victory parades. They rise and fall as part of a rhythm that predates the kingdoms of man. They will persist in their rhythms uncaring and unheeding of the bureaucrats and regulators, the peddlers of Green Luddite science, the celebrities and politicians who claim to control their waters.
The ocean does all this without press releases. The Pacific will never mock Michelle Obama on Twitter the way that ISIS has and the Great Southern Ocean will never tweet photos of drowned Global Warming researchers who went to their deaths in its icy depths certain that the ice had melted. The mockery of the great deep is a more subtle and more enduring thing.
That is why it is politically safer to hit the beach than Al Qaeda. It's easier to grandstand on saving the world from an imaginary catastrophe (at the bargain price of a few mere trillion) than to deal with a real threat.
After failing at jobs and health care, and abandoning the world to tyrants and terrorists, Obama has hitched up his pants to take on the ocean. And if the ocean doesn't do what he tells it to, he can always send out the EPA's crack SWAT team to have it whipped.
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Election Coverage 2048 - Al-CNN
As the election of 2048 approaches, the candidates from both parties continue to exchange strong views on the issues that affect the lives of Americans. The Party of Democracy and Justice (Hezb-Al-Dimukratie-Wa'al Adalah) continues to maintain that the election will come down to social justice issues.
"With 34 percent unemployment and the price of goat so far out of range of most working families that they have been forced to switch to chicken, it is time that our opponents stopped dodging the issues and took a serious look at the economic consequences of their policies," Bashar Mohammed Hussein Al-Hamdani, said during a campaign stop at a HalalBurger in Peoria, Illinois.
However the ruling Freedom and Religion Party (Hezb Al-Hurriyah Wa'al Allah) denounced this as class warfare. Still preoccupied with the ongoing occupation of the Netherlands and Greece, the party has taken criticism for ignoring the economic problems of the United States while being preoccupied with waging foreign wars in the name of Islam.
Nevertheless President Mohammed Al-Thani, fresh off a pilgrimage from Mecca, vigorously defended his record while conducting a photo op at a San Diego Madrassa. "The Freedom and Religion Party believes in creating opportunities, rather than offering hand outs. Our subjugation of infidel nations has opened up new territories to be dominated by the believers and our vigorous drive for national morality has revived the family unit as an economic force. Our program of heavily fining women who go out with their naked hair exposed and raising the Jizya tax on the People of the Book has also raised billions of dollars that will go toward repaying the nation 93 trillion dollar debt."
The high Jizya tax has provoked outrage in some parts of the United States, but the continuing decline of the nation's non-Muslim population has made the Christian vote much less of a factor in the election. Hamdani has promised to cut the Jizya tax by 20 percent if elected, but it is unclear whether conservative elements in his own party will allow him to do it. National surveys show that since making the proposal, Hamdani's ratings have gone down 9 points in Illinois and 14 points in California.
President Al-Thani's advisors view the 2 million conversions to Islam since the Jizya tax was tripled as a major benefit to the party which lost its Christian support during the Great Transition. Since then the Freedom and Justice Party has picked up a Christian and Jewish bloc vote, but the value of that bloc has not held up well over the last two elections.
Christian rights activists attribute the decline of American Christians to the Jizya tax which has made it impossible for many Christian families to earn a living. They also blame the bloody 2045 Riots which marked the end of the Christian presence in former strongholds such as Nashville and Cedar Rapids, as well as rumors about the kidnapping and forced conversion of Christian girls.
However popular talk show host and pundit, Abdul Greene countered that the decrease was best explained by the large scale immigration of Christians out of the country. "The Christians are too bigoted to live in the same country with us, just like their parents and grandparents. If they can't control the country, they refuse to live here and accept our laws."
Christian rights activists have accused Greene of playing a major role in stirring up the 2045 Riots which torched Christian areas in major cities across the United States after a Christian man was accused of having an intimate encounter with a Muslim woman. Greene however insists that the Christians are the ones to blame. Greene's support of the Freedom and Religion Party has been controversial, but President Al-Thani has refused to disavow him.
The latest round of attacks by Greek guerrillas on liberation forces in Athens led to smaller attacks on Christian businesses in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles last month. They also accentuated the debate over the continuing occupation of Greece which began in 2031 when the United States government intervened to protect the territorial claims of the Turkish Republic of Cyprus. Much as in the Netherlands, the intervention to protect a Muslim community turned into a full blown occupation and a war against an insurgency that is believed to be backed and supplied by rogue states such as the breakaway Arctic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Zionist Entity.
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The Freedom and Religion Party under President Al-Thani continues to take the position that American prosperity is closely linked to the welfare of the rest of the Muslim world. In the State of the Union address the president stated that, "We cannot repeat the folly of the Americans of the pagan period who believed that they could have material wealth without religion. Our prosperity comes from Allah and it is only by spreading the way of Allah and conducting our Jihad in the way of Allah on behalf of our endangered brothers and sisters in Europe and Asia that we will be deserving of Allah's bounty."
Hoping to exploit the widespread economic dissatisfaction, Hamdani, a former Wisconsin governor, has promised to withdraw troops from Greece within two years and the Netherlands within five years with the majority of remaining liberation forces being drawn from other Muslim countries. "We can best aid our fellow believers in the Muslim world by being a model of stability and a beacon of tolerance."
Yusuf Al-Amiriki, a member of Hamdini's foreign policy defense team and a first generation convert descended from two American presidents, courted controversy with a proposal to set up a coalition government of Muslim and moderate Christian groups in the Netherlands. Such governments had been tried in Europe before during the 2030's, but invariably fell apart. Leading Senators from the Freedom and Justice Party accused Hamdani of selling out Muslim interests in order to court the Christian vote. Hamdani's spokeswoman, Aisha Zubedi, has refused to comment on the Amiriki proposal except to say that Hamdani was open to any solution that would restore peace to the people of the Netherlands and protect the rights of European Muslims.
Hamdani courted further controversy by appearing at the funeral of former President Bob Thompson. Thompson had served two terms and while his administration had worked hard on outreach to the Muslim world, he also engaged in the targeted murder of Muslim religious leaders and provided aid to the Zionist entity. For these reasons, President Al-Thani chose not to appear at his funeral even though President Thompson had been a member of the pre-transition Freedom and Religion Party, which was then known as the Republican Party.
Despite the official disapproval, Thompson was viewed positively by many in the Muslim community. Tens of millions of Pakistani-Americans remember how after the India-Pakistan war, the Thompson Administration generously opened its borders to victims of the nuclear fallout in Pakistan. Without that step it might have taken decades more before America achieved a Muslim majority.
During the beginning of his second term, Thompson became the first president to take the oath of office on both a Bible and a Koran declaring that he wanted to make no separation between the books of god. At the Thompson funeral, Hamdani appeared to promise that he would repeat that gesture, but his spokeswoman quickly disavowed any notion that he would ever take an oath on a text that was not the Koran.
"No American president has taken an oath on a bible in over a decade, all that the governor meant was that he would keep both Christians and Muslims in mind as the people of Allah when he takes his oath to protect and defend the Sharia," Aisha Zubedi said.
While the Democracy and Justice Party has often appealed to the poor, its missteps have raised concerns in traditional Muslim communities that Hamdani is going too far in pandering to non-Muslims. "Next thing you know he'll say we should let the Jews come back to America," Congressman Mohammed Mogabe declared. "If Hamdani wants votes out of Cleveland then he is going to show he will fight for us, not for the enemies of the prophets."
Hamdani has hurriedly scheduled an upcoming visit to the Ground Zero Mosque, but it may not be enough to improve his image in the eyes those who have accused him of flirting with apostasy. While the Mosque is a traditional stop for presidential candidates, Hamdani is unlikely to pay tribute to the souls of the 19 martyrs as Al-Thani did during the previous election.
Hoping to refocus attention on his economic program, Hamdani called for higher corporate taxes and accused some corporations of abusing Islamic banking, in particular Hibah payments, to avoid paying taxes. Such charges are not new, but particularly galling at a time when over a third of the country is out of work and tycoons like Ahmed Shalafi and Sheikh Johnson have used their connections with the Al-Thani government to become billionaires.
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To counter Hamdani, Al-Thani's economic advisers have offered up a stimulus plan that raises the Jizya tax on infidels for the second time in a year and vowed to cut spending even further without affecting subsidies to Islamic schools or military preparedness for the Global Jihad. Though the election is still some time away, the Al-Thani campaign has also rolled out a series of ads targeting poor communities which accuse Hamdani of plotting with Jewish and Christian tycoons to subvert the Islamic system of finance through freemasonry and Communist class warfare tactics.
Adding further drama to the election is the possibility of a third party campaign. Andrew McMillan who has been running as an independent in elections for almost twenty years without appealing to anyone but the same racist groups who have been disavowed even by most Christians and Jews, but there is talk that McMillan's America Party might consider replacing the eccentric millionaire with sports star Ted March. As leading goalscorer who helped the United States win the 2042 World Cup, March is one of the most admired non-Muslims in the country. With him on the ticket, the America Party might be able to adopt a new moderate image that is no longer associated with bigotry and intolerance.
But frustrating his own party members, the septuagenarian McMillan appeared to an event commemorating the 2045 riots and gave a rousing speech which hit on many of the same old themes. "For thirty-six years I've been involved in politics and the only thing that I can tell you about politics is that it's all bunk. We weren't talking about the things that mattered thirty-six years ago and we aren't talking about them now."
Militia, Truckers & Bikers to Shut Down Border July 5th!
Mexican Military Helicopter Crosses Border,
Fires On Border Patrol.
Mexico Assisting Cartels?
Friday, June 27, 2014 9:35
*** Reports are coming from California, Texas and Arizona that citizen's militia, as well as truckers intend to participate in the shutdown of the U.S. Mexico border on July 5th. Are citizens finally fed up enough to shut down the border? The purpose is as follows: Free USMC Sgt Tahmooressi, shut down Obama's flood of future Democrat votership (South American refugees seeking asylum in the U.S.), and make a final stand to get Obama out of office.
Apparently, Mexico's invasion of the USA is not occurring fast enough for the Mexican Military, It looks like they are testing our resolve on the border now, by actually flying a military helicopter and firing on our border patrol.
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Cartels May Have "Rented" Cover From Mexican Military Helicopter
in Shooting Incident
Katie Pavlich | Jun 27, 2014
On Thursday morning between midnight and 6 a.m. at least one Mexican military helicopter crossed eight miles into the United States and shot at Border Patrol agents with lethal force before returning to Mexican territory. The incident occurred in an area notorious for violent drug cartel activity just west of the Tohono O'odham Indian Nation during a Border Patrol drug interdiction operation. The timing and location of the incident has prompted agents to believe the use of the helicopter by the Mexican military may have been on behalf of drug cartels operating in the area.
"Mexican military are oftentimes working hand in glove with the cartels. The Mexican military has routinely crossed the border in areas that Border Patrol agents are actively tracking or seizing drug loads. Inevitably the Mexican military claim they got lost, that the border was not clearly marked, or in extreme cases fire on agents to cover their retreat," National Border Patrol Council Spokesman Shawn Moran exclusively tells Townhall. "Ajo, AZ Border Patrol agents have had several incidents like this over the years where they have taken shots from the Mexican military. The cartels' resources are nearly limitless and it would not surprise me if they "rented" the cover by the Mexican military helicopter in this incident."
A Border Patrol agent stationed in Arizona, who asked to remain anonymous, backed up Moran's statements saying the Mexican military regularly works with cartels on the border and has been doing so for years.
The Mexican government has apologized for the shooting, but has not explained why the helicopter was in the area.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/06/27/border-patrol-agents-would-not-surpise-me-if-cartels-rented-cover-by-mexican-military-helicopter-n1856546
A STRANGE WORLD
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Obama Apologizes for Prisoner Swap, Judge Napolitano Says He Should Be Impeached The AP has reported that the White House has apologized for not giving key lawmakers advance notice of the controversial Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap:
Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, the top Democrat and Republican respectively on the Senate Select committee on Intelligence, said White House officials called them Monday to say the lack of notification had been an oversight. Feinstein said she received a call from Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken.
The White House damage control comes as Republican lawmakers accused the White House of putting U.S. service men and women at risk by releasing the five top Taliban members being held in Guantanamo in exchange for Bergdahl.
An oversight?
How is that possible, when Obama himself signed the 30 day advance notice into law last year?
The administration is required to give Congress 30 days advance notice of any plans to release a prisoner from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, per section 1033 of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act — signed into law by Obama in 2013.
Oh, that's right – King Obama can do whatever he damn well pleases. Remember, back in February he told French President Francois Hollande so on their Monticello visit:
"That's the good thing as a President, I can do whatever I want."
Hell, even Feinstein is upset over this one.
From The Hill:Feinstein also said leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence panels were almost unanimously against a prisoner trade when it came up in 2011.
She said the chairmen and ranking Republicans of the "connected committees" spent a lot of time in 2011 reviewing the possibility of a prisoner swap and came out firmly opposed to releasing senior militants from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
"There were very strong views and they were virtually unanimous against the trade," she said.
Feinstein echoed the sentiments of many Americans when she expressed concern about Bergdahl:
"I certainly want to know more about whether this man was a deserter."
When asked if the White House might have avoided notifying Congress about the impending swap for fear of opposition, Feinstein said that was a possible reason:
"Yeah, it could be. But the White House is pretty unilateral about what they want to do when they want to do it. I think the notification to us is important and I think it would have been a much better thing to do because you do try to work together."
More damning evidence that the "oversight" was anything but comes from House Speaker John Boehner. In a statement, he said that serious questions about the possibility of a prisoner exchange were raised in talks with Congress in 2011 and 2012. CNN reports:
"Unfortunately, the questions and concerns we had were never satisfactorily answered and they remain today," he said.
Boehner said the administration "provided assurances" in late 2011, early 2012 and again in 2013 that talks with Congress over an exchange would resume if the possibility became credible again.
"There was every expectation that the administration would re-engage with Congress, as it did before, and the only reason it did not is because the administration knew it faced serious and sober bipartisan concern and opposition," he argued.
It is disturbing that Obama has decided to break a law that he signed and claim that it was an oversight – and that he expects anyone to believe or accept any of it.
You can bet that citizens who break a law will be held accountable – apologies will NOT be accepted. In fact, under the very law that Obama broke – the NDAA – American citizens can be indefinitely detained without being charged with or tried for a crime.
Will anything happen to Obama for this act of treason?
Probably not, but some experts say calling for his impeachment is justified:
In case you missed it, Judge Napolitano pointed out that
Obama may also be guilty of helping terrorists, because the five Guantanamo prisoners released may return to terror:
"That's why I say the president may well have committed a federal crime," said Napolitano, "by giving material assistance to a terrorist organization. He knows — ought to have known — that that's what these guys will do."
"The president should be impeached for this," he said. "In my view, it's a very, very valid argument that people are going to start talking about."
And this administration continues its rogue, lawless reign over America. It is bad enough that Obama has stomped all over the Constitution. Now he's released prisoners who are likely a threat to this country.
How much more damage will be done before the
King's president's term is over?
I shudder to think of it.
How Much Do You Know? Questions About the United States Government
1. The fundamental beliefs inherent in The Declaration of Independence includes:
a. all men are created equal
b. the United States should be free from Great Britain
c. all men possess inalienable rights endowed to them by the Creator
d. to declare war against Great Britain
e. a and c
2. The original 13 Colonies declared independence from:
a. Great Britain
b. the divine right of the king and/or Parliament to reign sovereign over the Colonies
c. the Royal Governor residing in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1776
d. all of the above
3. What are the three branches of U.S. government?
(1) ___________________
(2) ___________________
(3) ___________________
4. The President of the United States is elected to office by:
a. the people
b. the people who are registered to vote
c. the Electoral College
d. b and c
5. A United States Senator's term in office is:
a. 2 years
b. 4 years
c. 6 years
d. 8 years
6. A responsibility of Congress is to:
a. create laws
b. impeach the President
c. initiate all bills for raising federal revenues
d. represent the people
e. all of the above
7. A more specific duty of the Senate is to:
a. propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills
b. confirm presidential appointments, ambassadors and cabinet members
c. assume legislative powers, along with the House of Representatives
d. appoint Supreme Court justices
e. a, b and c
f. all of the above
8. The total number of elected officials comprising the United States Senate is:
a. 25
b. 50
c. 100
d. 465
9. The number of representatives in the House of Representatives is:
a. 50
b. 100
c. 435
d. none of the above
10. If the President of the United States and the Vice President should die, the person to assume the highest office of the land would be the:
a. Secretary of State
b. Speaker of the House
c. longest serving Supreme Court Justice
d. President Pro Tempore of the Senate
11. The incoming President is inaugurated into office on which of the following days?
a. the first Friday after Thanksgiving
b. the first Tuesday in November
c. the 20th of January
d. the date of Presidents' Day in February every year
12. To be eligible to become elected President of the United States, a person must:
a. be a natural born citizen
b. have attained the age of 35
c. have been a resident of the U.S. for at least 14 years
d. all of the above
13. The term of office of the President of the United States shall be:
a. 2 years
b. 4 years
c. 6 years
d. 8 years
14. The branch of government which possesses the power to declare war is:
a. the Executive
b. the Legislative
c. the Judicial
d. b and c
e. all of the above
15. The introduction of the Constitution of the United States of America is called:
a. The Articles of Confederation
b. The Introduction
c. The Preamble
d. The Bill of Rights
16. On July 4, 1776 the delegates to the Second Continental Congress approved which of the following documents:
a. The Declaration of Independence
b. The Articles of Confederation
c. The Bill of Rights
d. The Constitution of the United States of America
17. Since 1791, Congress has passed the following number of Amendments to the Constitution of the United States:
a. 10
b. 24
c. 27
d. 31
18. The four freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment are:
a. bear arms, vote, speech, religion
b. religion, speech, press, assembly
c. religion, speech, vote, sue
d. religion, speech, bear arms, privacy
19. The first person to sign the document that declared the United States of America's separation from Great Britain in 1776 was:
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. John Hancock
d. John Adams
20. The stars and stripes on the current flag of the United States symbolize:
a. 50 muskets that were fired at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
b. the 50 states and the 13 original colonies
c. liberty and justice
d. the 50 representatives to the Continental Congress and the 13 delegates to the first Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia
21. Which of the following states did not participate in the 1787 convention in Philadelphia when the Constitution was drafted?
a. Maine
b. Vermont
c. Rhode Island
d. All of the above
22. Who is considered "The Father of the Constitution"?
a. George Washington
b. Ray Charles
c. James Madison
d. J. Robert Oppenheimer
23. Which of the following rights are protected by the 14th Amendment?
a. All persons in the U.S. are entitled to equal protection of the laws
b. All persons born in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S.
c. States may not deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
d. All of the above
24. What was the source of the following phrase: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people"?
a. The Speech "I Have a Dream"
b. Declaration of Independence
c. U.S. Constitution
d. Gettysburg Address
25. The Bill of Rights explicitly prohibits:
a. Prayer in public school
b. Discrimination based on race, sex, or religion
c. The ownership of guns by private individuals
d. Establishing an official religion for the United States
e. The president from vetoing a line item in a spending bill
26. Which of the following statements is true about abortion?
a. It was legal in most states in the 1960's
b. The Supreme Court struck down most legal restrictions on it in Roe v. Wade
c. The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that underage women must notify their parents of an impending abortion
d. The National Organization for Women has lobbied for legal restrictions on it
e. It is currently legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to protect the life of the mother
27. In his "I Have a Dream" speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
a. Argued for the abolition of slavery
b. Advocated black separatism
c. Morally defended affirmative action
d. Expressed his hopes for racial justice and brotherhood
e. Proposed that several of America's founding ideas were discriminatory
28. The First Amendment
a. Guarantees the Right to bear arms.
b. Guarantees the free exercise of religion
c. Prohibits the governmental establishing religion
d. Both B and C
e. Both A and C
29. The number of U.S. Senators in each state is
a. Dependent on the population of each state.
b. Could increase or decrease if the country passes a new Amendment.
c. Is fixed at two per State.
d. All of the above
e. Both B and C
30. Which of these Presidents were elected to more than two terms as President?
a. George Washington
b. Franklin Roosevelt
c. Thomas Jefferson.
d. None of the above.
e. Both A and B.
31. How many U.S. Presidents were Catholic?
a. 0
b. 1
c. 2
d. 3
e. 4 or more.
32. How does someone become a Federal Judge?
a. Be appointed by the President.
b. Upon appointment, confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
c. Obtain a law degree.
d. All of the above.
e. Both A and B.
33. What is the current tenure of a U.S. Federal Judge?
a. Ten years.
b. Life tenure (absent retirement or impeachment).
c. They can be removed at the will of the President.
d. They are elected every six years.
34. How many times may the same person be elected to the House of Representatives or the Senate?
a. More than five times.
b. More than ten times.
c. None of the above.
35. Under the U.S. Constitution,
a. Adult male African Americans were given the right to vote before adult women.
b. Until 1940, only a man could legally be elected President.
c. No person may obtain marijuana for medical purposes.
d. None of the above.
e. All of the above.
BONUS QUESTION: Name the original 13 colonies.
Answers
1. e
2. d
3. Executive, Legislative, Judicial
4. d
5. c
6. e
7. e
8. c
9. c
10. b
11. c
12. d
13. b
14. b
15. c
16. a
17. c
18. b
19. c
20. b
21. d
22. c
23. d
24. d
25. d
26. b
27. d
28. d
29. e
30. b
31. b
32. e
33. b
34. c, there are no restrictions to how many times someone may be elected to Congress.
35. a
Bonus: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Virginia
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One of the most common misreadings of Obama is that he's an intellectual who doesn't like campaigning, but loves being immersed in deep thought. He hates the business of politics because he's an introvert.
The latest sample of such delusional thinking comes from Rosa Brooks, 'I Should Have Voted For Hillary":
["Rosa Brooks is a weekly columnist for Foreign Policy and a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. She is also a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches courses on international law, constitutional law, failed states and atrocity law."]"Obama's an introvert: Unlike your husband Bill, who draws energy from crowds and loves a good political brawl like other men love football, Obama's clearly happiest within the small circle of people he knows and trusts. The tide of idealism that swept him into the White House sustained him through those hard months of campaigning, but wasn't enough to carry him through the tedium of governing. He likes to read and write and think, but he doesn't much want to shake hands, curry favor with grandstanding congressmen, or sit through ceremonial meetings with foreign dignitaries.
Look at his tight body language; listen to the undertone of irritation in his voice. Barack Obama is a man who almost always looks and sounds like he'd prefer to be somewhere else. He's a politician who hates politics.
Obama loves campaigning. It's not a tide of idealism that draws him to crowds and photo ops. If Rosa was paying any attention she would have noticed that.
Obama runs a permanent campaign. He is not interested in sitting in a room and reading books. Like a lot of Ivy Leaguers he's good at faking intellectualism, at having read all the right books at the right time, or at least gotten summaries of them, so he can claim to be a thinker."But Rosa is right. Obama doesn't like people. He likes being admired by people. He loves the attention, but he's paranoid about the terms on which he gets it.
That undertone of irritation comes into his voice when he's challenged or question or even asked for something. Then he becomes surly.
Obama doesn't hate politics. He likes power. He hates compromise. That's not idealism though, it's ego. He wants everything his way. And he can't stand even the slightest challenge.
Think of the brat with too much self-esteem who begins to pout if the teacher corrects a mistake and throws a fit when mommy won't buy him the thing he wants right now. That's Obama in a nutshell.
It's not being an introvert. Narcissists don't like people because they like themselves too much. Introverts like people, but are uncomfortable around them.
If Obama had been an introvert, he would have never been elected. Like most modern politicians, he's an extrovert. And like many of them, he has an obsessive need to be admired and adored, and very little empathy and tolerance for others. He's good at playing a role, but the more his ego is fed, the less patience he has for the playacting.
People like Rosa Brooks have spoiled him rotten. And the more he's spoiled, the less he feels the need to put up with anything.
(Narcissism is defined as the love of self, and Barack Insane-Hussein Obuma has no self to love. The comparison to a brat with too much self-esteem is inapt. Obuma lacks a self and therefore lacks the power of self-esteem, and by self-esteem I mean self-confidence in his power to deal with the problems of life through reason. He's an empty vessel, a zero, a non-entity, existing only as a reflection of the people around him. That's why he's so touchy about criticism, why he's paranoid, why he surrounds himself with sycophants, and why he will do anything to avoid real work. An honest effort at his job would expose his considerable limitations faster than anything else he could do. He's bored as President of the United States? Of course he's bored: He brings no more understanding or context to that job than a third-grader could to a post-graduate organic chemistry class.(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1108/692/original.jpg)
He is paranoid. He has to be. He's a liar who knows he's lying, a cheater who knows he cheats, an underachiever who knows he's accomplished nothing... but look at all the liberals who proclaim his greatness. He's going to stop the rise of the oceans, sprinkle peace dust wherever he walks, they say. He's brilliant and intellectual, they say. He knows he's not, but their acclaim supersedes facts to him. If other people say it, it becomes true. He exists through others and only through others. Without someone else to make him into something that he's not, he wouldn't have risen to the level of night sweeper in a convenience store. No one would know his name. He couldn't even write his own autobiography, and you think he has a sense of self? The only thing he has is the power to deceive, and he can't even do that without an army of confederates. He's no egoist: He depends on the people over whom he seeks power as thoroughly as a burglar or a gangster depends on his victims. An egoist in the true sense of the word...a rational, independent, efficacious man... has no need to seek or exert power over others and rejects indignantly the idea that he should. Obuma's "ego" can never be satiated because where his ego should be there's a yawning abyss of self-doubt, self-contempt, and terror. People like him would be objects of pity, if they weren't self-made. As it is, they're objects of contempt.
... Dr. Warph)
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Emphasis is mine.
Poll:
Americans Oppose
Increased Immigration
Political pundits attributed House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning defeat in the GOP primary largely to his support for increasing the number of skilled foreign nationals who can immigrate to the United States.
A new Gallup poll confirms the pundits' conclusion that Americans are opposed to increased immigration — less than a quarter of those surveyed favor it.
Respondents were asked: "In your view, should immigration be kept at its present level, increased, or decreased?"
Overall, nearly twice as many adult Americans think it should be decreased as those who favor an increase — 41 percent want it decreased and 22 percent want it increased, while 33 percent say it should remain at present levels and 4 percent have no opinion.
That means 74 percent — 41 plus 33 — oppose increased immigration.
Already there are more than
40 million foreign-born people in the United States,
comprising 13 percent of the population, according to the Brookings Institution.
Republicans are most opposed to increased immigration. Fifty percent want it decreased, compared to 32 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of independents.
Just 14 percent of Republicans favor increased immigration, as do 27 percent of Democrats and 23 percent of independents.
Americans with a
college education are more likely to
favor increased immigration than those without one. Thirty percent of college graduates — up from 11 percent in 2000 — and 30 percent of those with a postgraduate degree now favor increased immigration, although 34 percent of college graduates and 28 percent of postgraduates want to see it decreased.
Among those with a
high school degree or less,
47 percent favor decreased immigration and just 19 percent favor an increase.
"Support for increasing immigration has grown significantly more among Amer
icans with college degrees — those more likely to be tuned in to the discussion about the need for importing highly skilled workers — than it has among those with less formal education," Gallup observed.
(Wrong in my opinion, they want worker bees don't, so they don't have to be worker bee's. ---Ross)
Yet despite the resistance to increasing immigration, most Americans still view immigration in positive terms.
In the poll, 63 percent of respondents — including 55 percent of Republicans — said that immigration on the whole is a good thing for the country, and just 33 percent said it is a bad thing.
"Immigration is central to who Americans are as a people, and what the United States represents, and by and large Americans view immigration as positive for the country," Gallup concludes.
"But deciding how many new immigrants to welcome each year can be controversial, particularly when unemployment is high, and seeming competition for good jobs already fierce.
"Reducing immigration remains the far more popular choice, as former Majority Leader Eric Cantor might attest."
News Max.com
Concierge Medicine on the Rise
American doctors are increasingly turning to concierge medicine, where a patient pays a primary-care physician an up-front retainer and in some cases additional fees in exchange for special attention and enhanced care.
The American Academy of Private Physicians estimates that there are now some 4,400 concierge physicians, up 30 percent from last year.
And a recent survey cited by The Wall Street Journal disclosed that about 7 percent to 10 percent of physicians plan to transition to cash-only practices in the next one to three years.
News Max.com
"With doctors already spending 22 percent of their time on nonclinical paperwork, they will find more government intrusion under Obamacare regulations taking even more time away from patient care," according to the Journal article by Dr. Scott W. Atlas, a physician and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
More Americans are likely to opt for concierge medicine as they experience more difficulty finding a doctor willing to treat them. The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that the nation faces a shortage of more than 91,000 physicians by 2020.
Already, about one-third of primary-care physicians and a fourth of specialists have completely closed their practices to Medicaid patients, and more than half of physicians have limited Medicare patients' access to their practices, or are planning to.
Many of these doctors refuse patients due to inadequate payments from Medicaid and Medicare.
"At the same time," Dr. Atlas noted, "Obamacare is squeezing out the middle class from affordable private insurance that correlates with far better disease outcomes than government insurance.
"Unless Obamacare is drastically altered, America's healthcare will become even more divided, with rising inequality. Only the lower and middle classes in America will suffer the full consequences of Obamacare."
It Only Took This Army Vet 3 Minutes
To Destroy Obama's Gun Control Plan .
Fired Benjamin Moore Employee Sues Claiming Their Paint Names Are Racist
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(Typical racial shakedown... wonder why he didn't mention the other colors... Gay pink,
Indian red, Brutha black, Lesbian lavender and Gang green.)
Via Daily Caller:A black man in New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, Benjamin Moore Paints, which he says named one of its paint colors after him and then fired him when he complained.
Clinton Tucker, who managed online sales for Benjamin Moore, which is owned by the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, said that he was bothered by the names of several of the company's paint colors, "Clinton Brown," "Tucker Chocolate," and "Confederate Red."
"Being a black man named Clinton Tucker, the plaintiff found this to be extremely racially offensive," reads the complaint, filed in Essex County Court.
Tucker claims that the company's executive management were aware of his displeasure with the color names, but failed to take his complaints seriously and then terminated — allegedly unlawfully — him in March 2014.
Tucker worked on a project to create a new line of paint colors. One of the shades was given the name "Tucker Chocolate."
The company already had a color named "Clinton Brown." A co-worker pointed out the names of the two paint colors, which together contained Tucker's first and last name, and thought it was funny, according to the lawsuit.
"Tucker found it to be repulsive," the complaint reads.
"Coupled with 'Tucker Chocolate,' it was racially offensive and demeaning to Clinton Tucker."
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Store Where Armed Citizen Saved Employee During Stabbing Posts 'No Guns' Sign
(Gee... I wonder if they would've just posted a "No Knives Allowed" sign, none of this would've happened in the first place)
Via GunsA convenience store that was the scene of a brutal stabbing back in March apparently has posted "No Guns Allowed" signs on the front door despite the fact that the suspect was stopped – and apprehended by authorities – thanks to an armed citizen with a concealed carry permit, Mississippi Gun News reported this week.
Lamont Williams, 29, walked into Keith's Superstore in Lumberton, Mississippi, on the morning of March 12, armed with a knife and began stabbing the store manager. According to local media, the manager previously had problems with Williams, who was believed to be a disgruntled former employee.
But on the day Williams attacked the manager, there was an armed citizen with a concealed carry permit inside the store. The armed citizen witnessed the events unfold and chased Williams as he tried to flee from the store, holding him at gunpoint until police arrived and arrested him.
The entire incident was captured on the store's video surveillance system. No shots were ever fired by the armed citizen, who was only identified as a white male in his 30s.
The store manager, who's identity was not released, survived a total of eight stabs to the neck, chest and arm.
Williams was taken to the Lamar County Correctional Facility where he faced charges for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, initially being held with a cash bond of $150,000.
The store manager confirmed after the stabbing that there were not any "No Guns Allowed" signs posted outside the store, which at the time were apparently being handed out somewhat freely following the passing of House Bill 2, which clarified language surrounding concealed carry laws.
It's unknown when the signs went up at the entrance of the store, but a picture taken by a local resident clearly shows two signs stating "No Guns Allowed in Store" despite the fact that it was a legally armed citizen who likely saved the store manager's life just three months ago.
Burgers Served, Second Amendment Style, With Pistol-Packing Waitresses
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(Sounds like my kind of restaurant)
Via Biz Pac Review:http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/06/29/shooters-grill-staff-packing-six-shooters-while-serving-burgers-second-amendment-style-128652
https://www.facebook.com/shootersgrill.rifle
While establishments around the country are setting up gun-free zones, one Colorado restaurant is welcoming customers who are packing – and they're waited on by armed servers.
The restaurant's name: Shooters Grill, located in the gun-friendly town of Rifle.Waitress Ashlee Saenz serves customers with a loaded Ruger .357 Blackhawk handgun holstered to her leg, Old West-style, and she knows how to use it, she told the Post Independent.
A sign on Shooter's front door says:
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Mother savagely beaten as her toddler tries to help; bystanders do nothing
SALEM, N.J. (CBS) — A fast-food worker viciously attacked a young mother in front of the victim's young son and the entire attack was caught on tape.
The attack happened Tuesday afternoon in the city of Salem, New Jersey and video of the assault was later posted on Facebook. Mom Beaten by McDonald's Worker As Her Toddler Tries To Help | VIDEO
The Salem Police Chief posted on his Facebook page that the suspect has been identified and charges are being filed against the suspect.
In the video, a woman wearing what appears to be a McDonald's uniform is shown attacking another woman.
The victim falls to the ground and while on the ground, the suspect punches the victim approximately 20 times.
As the attack is going on, the victim's toddler son is pleading for the suspect to stop and tries to kick the suspect in an attempt to make her stop.
At one point during the video, the suspect can be heard saying: "You better get your son before I kick him in the face too!"
At the end of the video, the suspect appears to spit on the victim as she lays helplessly on the ground.
Adding to the shock factor of the video is that several bystanders do not intervene and instead take out their cell phones and record the attack.
Police were able to obtain a video of the attack off of Facebook before it was deleted.
The City of Salem Police Chief said once a judge sets bail, the suspect will apprehended and incarcerated.(http://www.bizpacreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/wanted-217x300.jpg)
Wanted: Latia Harris, 25, is facing charges of assault
and making terroristic threats
This is a brutal and savage video. What kind of country have we become when a woman is brutally beaten in front of her child, and all the men do is stand around and video the attack? Of course, if a bunch of white people had stood around while a black woman was beaten, there would be wall to wall media coverage on racism and hate in America. But since it's the other way around, most media outlets will probably never broadcast this video.
From NYDailyNews.com "There is a moral and social breakdown in the fabric of our, society which is clearly evident when a woman gets pummeled in broad daylight in front of her child while a dozen people pull out their phones to record the incident instead of calling for help," Salem Chief of Police John J. Pelura III said, according to NJ.Com. "There is so little regard for human life — by the actor and the bystanders."
The attack occurred in a park Tuesday night as a woman — identified by authorities as Latia Harris, 25, of Salem — is violently and repeatedly striking a woman lying on the ground, the website reports.
The victim's 2-year-old son is standing nearby and, despite the adults present, is the only person trying to stop her. He makes several kicks at the attacker's direction, but it does not stop the assault on his mother.
From CNN News
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Emperor Obama Orders His Cabinet To Come Up With List Of Executive Orders
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(This A$$hole really does think he's a dictator)
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama told his Cabinet on Tuesday to look for areas where he might be able to govern by executive action given gridlock in Congress that is hampering his agenda.
In a White House meeting, Obama brought together the top officials in his government a day after conceding that a deadlocked Congress will prompt him to act on his own authority where he can on an immigration overhaul.
Obama said he wants to work with Congress where possible, "but if Congress is unable to do it," then he said his Cabinet officials and agency heads should look for areas where executive actions can "show some real progress."
"The people who sent us here, they just don't feel as if anybody is fighting for them or working them. We're not always going to be able to get things through Congress ... but we sure as heck can make sure that the folks back home know that we are pushing their agenda and that we're working hard on their behalf," Obama said.
Dem Accused Of Having Sex With Underage Girl Drops F-Bomb On Live TV
Whoopsie... naughty word at 1:12. You might want to cover your ears :-X
BREAKING: Obuma Considering Executive Action On Contraception Mandate After Hobby Lobby Ruling
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(So now the bastard is thinking of going to unilaterally override the Supreme Court? What a TURD!)
Obama weighs executive hammer – The HillPresident Obama is weighing executive actions after the Supreme Court ruled against ObamaCare's contraception mandate.
The White House swiftly called on Congress to enact a legislative fix but realistically knows lawmakers aren't about to act.
Obama has come under criticism from Republicans for his use of executive actions. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has announced the House will vote this month on approving a lawsuit against Obama over actions Boehner says are an abuse of power.
But the GOP criticism and threat seem unlikely to act as a brake on Obama, who separately on Monday said he would move forward with administrative actions on immigration reform in the face of what he described as GOP obstructionism.
"As we assess the impact of this decision, we'll consider whether or not there is a range of other options that may be available that don't require legislative action," White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.
Democrats signaled in the hours after the high court's decision that they think the issue could boost their turnout in the fall by highlighting GOP opposition to abortion rights. That makes it even more likely that Obama will not fear taking executive steps.
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Same thing for our West Elk School Board that may
continue to bully the taxpayers about building a new gymnasium. They will most likely have to raise our property taxes for the next couple,
three years maybe more to pay for a new roof on the building. Why you may ask?
Because of poor planning. I do believe the School District has already eaten up our property tax breaks from the County.
We need
new board members that are more conservative and have the ability to
communicate with each other during board meetings. And are willing to be more
transparent. And unlike the
Elk Konnected School Board Members we now have. Be sure to vote this
next April to replace at least 4 of the 5 seats that come up for voting.
Vote Em Out ! Who's idea was it to crown the football field for
$7000.00 without a contract and did not stipulate topsoil for the crown. The college degreed elite, that's who ! What did they get tons and tons of dirt heavily ladened with clay and boulders and big roots. Is this the kind of School Board you want over seeing your childrens education?
Yes, it is the School Board of Education ----- Not the School Board of Construction !
Fair Warning ! Above and Below! Fair Warning ! Above and Below! Fair Warning ! Above and Below! Fair Warning ! Above and Below!
If you want to continue the Elk County property tax breaks
keep Ritz in as County Commissioner.
Vote in November for Ritz
or
prepare to pay the Taxman more property taxes !
I do not live in his district so I can not vote for him,
but you sure can.
If you live District 1 !
Just my opinion and suggestion --- do what you will !
HHS Report:
1,295,571 Obamacare Enrollees
May or May Not Be Legal Citizens
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A devastating new Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General report released on Tuesday reveals that the Obama administration has yet to determine whether
1,295,571 of the over 8 million Obamacare enrollees are U.S. citizens lawfully in the country.
The finding, located on page 11 of the report, states that
44% of the remaining
2,611,780 application "inconsistencies" are related to verifying "Citizenship/national status/lawful presence." Another
960,492 application inconsistencies were related to verifying whether subsidy applicants provided accurate income information.
Moreover, the Inspector General report only covered the federal Obamacare exchanges to determine how the Obama administration resolved verification problems through December 2013. As for the 15 state-run Obamacare exchanges, the report says four--Oregon, Nevada, Vermont, and Massachusetts--are simply
"unable to resolve inconsistencies." As the Washington Post reported in May, as many as one million Obamacare enrollees may be receiving incorrect taxpayer-funded subsidies due to Obamacare's
continued technical failures and inability to properly verify income and citizenship eligibility.
One year ago, conservatives warned that the Obama administration's decision to use the so-called
"honor system" for income eligibility was merely a
backdoor way to get as many individuals on the public dole as possible.
The Office of Inspector General determined that
"the federal marketplace was generally incapable of resolving most inconsistencies."
Obamacare will cost U.S. taxpayers
$2.6 trillion over the next ten years.
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Law of the Land Comix
Based upon "Will Insurers Ever Say Enough's Enough To Obamacare?"
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Obamacare isn't the law of the land. It's an ever-evolving set of lawless dictates from bureaucrats and other miscreants in Washington.
It must be destroyed, defunded, repealed or otherwise nuked from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
And any so-called Republican who refuses to commit to such a course of action should be expelled from consideration as a serious candidate!
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So all those people that hollard 'Conspiracy Theorists'
were only listening to the CIA's Propoganda an using a bullying term coined by them!
Very interesting?
But isn't it the Intellegent and Patriotic Person
that questions everything from the government?!
WHILE Searching for the TRUTH ?
New studies:
'Conspiracy theorists' sane,
while government dupes
are crazy and hostile
July 17, 2013
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21st Century Wire says...
These four different university studies listed below reveal a lot about the psychology of official story 'gatekeepers' and how irrational and emotionally unstable they become when challenged with an alternative view...
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Recent studies by psychologists and social scientists in the US and UK suggest that contrary to mainstream media stereotypes, those labeled "conspiracy theorists" appear to be saner than those who accept the official versions of contested events.
The most recent study was published on July 8th by psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas of the University of Kent (UK). Entitled "What about Building 7? A social psychological study of online discussion of 9/11 conspiracy theories," the study compared "conspiracist" (pro-conspiracy theory) and "conventionalist" (anti-conspiracy) comments at news websites.
The authors were surprised to discover that it is now more conventional to leave so-called conspiracist comments than conventionalist ones: "Of the 2174 comments collected, 1459 were coded as conspiracist and 715 as conventionalist." In other words, among people who comment on news articles, those who disbelieve government accounts of such events as 9/11 and the JFK assassination outnumber believers by more than two to one. That means it is the pro-conspiracy commenters who are expressing what is now the conventional wisdom, while the anti-conspiracy commenters are becoming a small, beleaguered minority.
Perhaps because their supposedly mainstream views no longer represent the majority, the anti-conspiracy commenters often displayed anger and hostility: "The research... showed that people who favoured the official account of 9/11 were generally more hostile when trying to persuade their rivals."
Additionally, it turned out that the anti-conspiracy people were not only hostile, but fanatically attached to their own conspiracy theories as well. According to them, their own theory of 9/11 – a conspiracy theory holding that 19 Arabs, none of whom could fly planes with any proficiency, pulled off the crime of the century under the direction of a guy on dialysis in a cave in Afghanistan – was indisputably true. The so-called conspiracists, on the other hand, did not pretend to have a theory that completely explained the events of 9/11: "For people who think 9/11 was a government conspiracy, the focus is not on promoting a specific rival theory, but in trying to debunk the official account."
In short, the new study by Wood and Douglas suggests that the negative stereotype of the conspiracy theorist – a hostile fanatic wedded to the truth of his own fringe theory – accurately describes the people who defend the official account of 9/11, not those who dispute it.
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IMAGE: Few are willing ask why over 1000 car were fried up to a mile from the WTC on 911.
Additionally, the study found that so-called conspiracists discuss historical context (such as viewing the JFK assassination as a precedent for 9/11) more than anti-conspiracists. It also found that the so-called conspiracists to not like to be called "conspiracists" or "conspiracy theorists."
Both of these findings are amplified in the new book Conspiracy Theory in America by political scientist Lance deHaven-Smith, published earlier this year by the University of Texas Press. Professor deHaven-Smith explains why people don't like being called "conspiracy theorists": The term was invented and put into wide circulation by the CIA to smear and defame people questioning the JFK assassination! "The CIA's campaign to popularize the term 'conspiracy theory' and make conspiracy belief a target of ridicule and hostility must be credited, unfortunately, with being one of the most successful propaganda initiatives of all time."
In other words, people who use the terms "conspiracy theory" and "conspiracy theorist" as an insult are doing so as the result of a well-documented, undisputed, historically-real conspiracy by the CIA to cover up the JFK assassination. That campaign, by the way, was completely illegal, and the CIA officers involved were criminals; the CIA is barred from all domestic activities, yet routinely breaks the law to conduct domestic operations ranging from propaganda to assassinations.
DeHaven-Smith also explains why those who doubt official explanations of high crimes are eager to discuss historical context. He points out that a very large number of conspiracy claims have turned out to be true, and that there appear to be strong relationships between many as-yet-unsolved "state crimes against democracy." An obvious example is the link between the JFK and RFK assassinations, which both paved the way for presidencies that continued the Vietnam War. According to DeHaven-Smith, we should always discuss the "Kennedy assassinations" in the plural, because the two killings appear to have been aspects of the same larger crime.
Psychologist Laurie Manwell of the University of Guelph agrees that the CIA-designed "conspiracy theory" label impedes cognitive function. She points out, in an article published in American Behavioral Scientist (2010), that anti-conspiracy people are unable to think clearly about such apparent state crimes against democracy as 9/11 due to their inability to process information that conflicts with pre-existing belief.
In the same issue of ABS, University of Buffalo professor Steven Hoffman adds that anti-conspiracy people are typically prey to strong "confirmation bias" – that is, they seek out information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs, while using irrational mechanisms (such as the "conspiracy theory" label) to avoid conflicting information.
The extreme irrationality of those who attack "conspiracy theories" has been ably exposed by Communications professors Ginna Husting and Martin Orr of Boise State University. In a 2007 peer-reviewed article entitled "Dangerous Machinery: 'Conspiracy Theorist' as a Transpersonal Strategy of Exclusion," they wrote:
"If I call you a conspiracy theorist, it matters little whether you have actually claimed that a conspiracy exists or whether you have simply raised an issue that I would rather avoid... By labeling you, I strategically exclude you from the sphere where public speech, debate, and conflict occur."
But now, thanks to the internet, people who doubt official stories are no longer excluded from public conversation; the CIA's 44-year-old campaign to stifle debate using the "conspiracy theory" smear is nearly worn-out. In academic studies, as in comments on news articles, pro-conspiracy voices are now more numerous – and more rational – than anti-conspiracy ones.
No wonder the anti-conspiracy people are sounding more and more like a bunch of hostile, paranoid cranks.
http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/07/17/new-studies-conspiracy-theorists-sane-while-government-dupes-are-crazy-and-hostile/
Remember all the B.S. about the turtle in Arizona ?
I guess our National Bird doesn't count and is most likely on it's way to extinction.
Really it's all about big money and free energy for the seller to sell !
Are you willing to believe it will only be 5 Eagles per year tha die?
You and I would go to jal immediately and also
pay a big fine for picking up an Eagle feather.
However industry is above the law.
What happened to Industries Patriotism.
Oh yeah, aren't most Wind Farms owned by foreign owned companes?
Obama grants wind industry permit to kill eagles,
ruffling more than feathers
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On Eagles' wings: Solomon, a 14-year-old golden eagle, is unable to fly or survive in the wild because his wing was severed by a wind turbine. Despite a 1940 protection act, a California wind energy generator will not be penalized for killing a limited number of eagles.The Washington Times
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
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By sacrificing a few bald eagles, the Obama administration may have opened a can of worms.
In a bid to give alternative energy sources a boost, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has quietly granted a California wind energy farm a permit to kill a limited number of endangered bald and golden eagles that get sliced up in its giant turbines. But last week's free pass is sparking anger from wildlife advocates and from free market advocates who ask why they don't qualify for the same dispensation.
The American Bird Conservancy filed a lawsuit last week against the 6-month-old federal rule expanding permits for killing bald and golden eagles from a maximum of five to 30 years, charging the Interior Department with "multiple violations of federal law."
Conservancy spokesman Bob Johns said the organization is on board with green energy but the Obama administration has gone too far with incentives for the wind industry. The incentives include optional guidelines on environmental rules and production tax credits.
"We know we need renewables, and that's fine. We're not saying shut them down, we're just saying, 'Hey, enough's enough, bring them into the same ballpark that everyone else is in,'" said Mr. Johns. "Give them regulations, tell them where they need to site these things, where they shouldn't site them. Don't give them a set of, 'Gee, it would be nice if you did this, but if you don't, it's OK.'"
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Last week, the Fish and Wildlife Service ruffled feathers by issuing what officials called a first-of-its-kind permit that allows a 50-turbine Northern California wind farm to kill up to five golden eagles over five years. In exchange, the developer agreed to retrofit 133 utility poles to reduce eagle deaths by electrocution.
"We can't solve the problem of eagle mortality at wind farms overnight," Fish and Wildlife Service Director Daniel Ashe said in a statement. "But this common-sense solution merits the support of all who advocate for the long-term conservation of eagles."
"This is not a program to kill eagles," John Anderson, director of siting policy at the American Wind Energy Association, told The Associated Press late last year. "This permit program is about conservation."
Among those stunned by the agency's move were residents of King Cove, Alaska. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell ruled in December that those in the remote fishing village could not build an 11-mile gravel road to a nearby airport because it would affect eelgrass that serves as a way-stop meal for migratory birds.
"We'd have much less impact on the birds with our road than these wind farms have on the eagles," said Della Trumble, a spokeswoman for the King Cove Corp. and the Agdaagux tribe. "It's another slap in the face. It doesn't make sense."
The administration's preferential treatment is designed to help boost the wind energy industry as part of a strategy to reduce fossil fuel use, which President Obama has described as a necessary step in combating climate change.
"The changes in this permitting program will help the renewable energy industry and others develop projects that can operate in the longer term while ensuring bald and golden eagles continue to thrive for future generations," Ms. Jewell said in a December statement.
But free market advocates argue that the Obama administration is playing favorites by letting the wind industry bypass regulations that hold back other energy providers. The Bureau of Land Management decided last week to cordon off 400,000 acres from energy development in Utah and Colorado in anticipation of a listing to preserve the numbers of the Gunnison sage-grouse.
Michael Sandoval, an energy analyst with the Independence Institute in Denver, said there is inevitably enormous outrage when sea gulls or ducks are coated with oil after a spill, but much less concern over wind turbines that chop eagles in half or cause bats to explode.
"Preferred energy policy favoring wind produces double standards. Think of the rancor if oil and gas companies were allowed such a government dispensation," said Mr. Sandoval. "Thirty years represents not only the theoretical life cycle of the turbines themselves, but an eternity in public policy. No other industry is allowed 'takings' permits that last an entire generation."
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Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal child immigrants or face arrest
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By Todd Starnes
• Published July 02, 2014
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Editor's note: The contractor running the refugee camp at Lackland Air Force Base is "BCFS," not "Baptist Family and Children's Services" -- as noted in a previous version of this story.A government-contracted security force threatened to arrest doctors and nurses if they divulged any information about the contagion threat at a refugee camp housing illegal alien children at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, sources say.
In spite of the threat, several former camp workers broke their confidentiality agreements and shared exclusive details with me about the dangerous conditions at the camp. They said taxpayers deserve to know about the contagious diseases and the risks the children pose to Americans. I have agreed to not to disclose their identities because they fear retaliation and prosecution.
My sources say Americans should be very concerned about the secrecy of the government camps.
"There were several of us who wanted to talk about the camps, but the agents made it clear we would be arrested," a psychiatric counselor told me. "We were under orders not to say anything."
The sources said workers were guarded by a security force from the BCFS, which the Department of Health and Human Services hired to run the Lackland Camp.
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"It was a very submissive atmosphere," the counselor said. "Once you stepped onto the grounds, you abided by their laws – the Brown Shirt laws."
She said the workers were stripped of their cellphones and other communication devices. Anyone caught with a phone was immediately fired.
"Everyone was paranoid," she said. "The children had more rights than the workers."
She said children in the camp had measles, scabies, chicken pox and strep throat as well as mental and emotional issues.
"It was not a good atmosphere in terms of health," she said. "I would be talking to children and lice would just be climbing down their hair."
A former nurse at the camp told me she was horrified by what she saw.
"We have so many kids coming in that there was no way to control all of the sickness – all this stuff coming into the country," she said. "We were very concerned at one point about strep going around the base."
Both the counselor and the nurse said their superiors tried to cover up the extent of the illnesses.
"When they found out the kids had scabies, the charge nurse was adamant – 'Don't mention that. Don't say scabies,'" the nurse recounted. "But everybody knew they had scabies. Some of the workers were very concerned about touching things and picking things up. They asked if they should be concerned, but they were told don't worry about it."
The nurse said the lice issue was epidemic – but everything was kept "hush-hush."
"You could see the bugs crawling through their hair," she said. "After we would rinse out their hair, the sink would be loaded with black bugs."
The nurse told me she became especially alarmed because their files indicated the children had been transported to Lackland on domestic charter buses and airplanes.
"That's what alerted me," she said. "Oh, my God. They're flying these kids around. Nobody knows that these children have scabies and lice. To tell you the truth, there's no way to control it."
I don't mean to upset anyone's Independence Day vacation plans, but were these kids transported to the camps before or after they were deloused? Anyone who flies the friendly skies could be facing a public health concern.
The counselor told me the refugee camp resembled a giant emergency room – off limits to the public.
"They did not want the community to know," she said. "I initially spoke out at Lackland because I had a concern the children's mental health care was not being taken care of."
She said the breaking point came when camp officials refused to hospitalize several children who were suicidal.
"I made a recommendation that a child needed to be sent to a psychiatric unit," the counselor told me. "He was reaching psychosis. He was suicidal. Instead of treating him, they sent him off to a family in the United States."
She said she filed a Child Protective Services report and quit her job.
"I didn't want to lose my license if this kid committed suicide," she told me. "I was done."
The counselor kept a detailed journal about what happened during her tenure at the facility.
"When people read that journal they are going to be astonished," she said. 'I don't think they will believe what is going on in America."
So it was not a great surprise, she said, when she received a call from federal agents demanding that she return to the military base and hand over her journal.
She said she declined to do so.
"I didn't go back to Lackland," she said.
Both workers told me while they have no regrets, they want to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
"They're going to crush the system," the nurse told me. "We can't sustain this. They are overwhelming the system and I think it's a travesty."
BCFS spokeswoman Krista Piferrer tells me the agency takes "any allegation of malfeasance or inappropriate care of a child very seriously."
"There are a number of checks and balances to ensure children are receiving appropriate and adequate mental health care," she said.
Piferrer said the clinicians are supervised by a federal field specialist from HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement. She also said BCFS have 58 medical professionals serving at Lackland.
"Every illness, whether it is a headache or something more serious, is recorded in a child's electronic medical record and posted on WebEOC – a real-time, web-based platform that is visible to not only BCFS but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services," she said.
As for those brown shirts, the BCFS said they are "incident management team personnel" – who happen to wear tan shirts.
My sources say Americans should be very concerned about the secrecy of the government camps.
"This is just the beginning," one source told me. "It is a long-term financial responsibility."
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Not old enough to vote,
16-year-old builds money-in-politics
plug-in
By Colby Itkowitz July 3
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Nick Rubin was 10 days into a month-long high school trip to China when he decided to come home this week.
And not because he was homesick or got sick of dumplings.
The 16-year-old of Seattle spent the better part of the last year building a database of members of Congress and their campaign contributors. It went live in June, and began generating considerable buzz online. He wanted to be stateside to help promote it.
Here's how it works: Once you download his plug-in, which he called "Greenhouse," you can hover your mouse over any member of Congress's name that shows up in any online story and a pop-up scorecard appears, like the one for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pictured here.
Did we mention he's 16?
"I hope they use it when reading their political news," Nick told the Loop on Thursday. "Hopefully people will learn for themselves the influence of money behind these [policy] decisions. The money story behind the news story is the real story."
Self-taught in computer coding, Nick spent 10 months building "Greenhouse" using campaign finance data available from Opensecrets.org to show what industries give to which candidates. For each politician, Nick's program also shows the percentage of the contributions that come from individuals giving less than $200.
For instance, only 4.8 percent of Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) contributions are from small donors. The same goes for outgoing Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.). The motto of the site? "Some are red. Some are blue. All are green."
"Even kids my age are able to see this data and recognize it's a problem, we'll be growing up in this political system," he said. "As I went through the process and entered the information, what stood out to me is the scale of this issue."
Nick said he was inspired by a 7th grade project on "corporate personhood" and wanted to educate people about what and who influences American politics. He said he hopes that when an issue comes up in the news, like energy policy or health care, people will use his plug-in to help explain why a politician might be falling on one side or the other.
He's 16.
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Meet Ethan Krupp: Pajamacare boy and Organizing for Action employee.
Pajamacare boy is Ethan Krupp, an Organizing for Action employee and the subject of ridicule after OFA created a social ad encouraging everyone to sign up for Obamacare:
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A group of drag queens in Louisiana has decided to use their cross-dressing talents to help promote Obamacare. Wednesday Night Tea — "a unique, interactive drag queen show held every Wednesday at Central Station in Shreveport, Louisiana" — has partnered up with the non-profit Out2Enroll to help market Obamacare to the LGBT community. Out2Enroll focuses on informing those in the LGBT community about the benefits of Obamacare and on enrolling them in insurance plans and events in cities across the country.
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Published on Jul 7, 2014 A group of black Americans speak out
A group of black Americans speak out in Support of protecting our women and children in America before worrying about the rest of the world (Raw News Video Unedited). This occurred at the Murrieta California Border Patrol Station July 4th, 2014. Debate starts around the 1:40 mark in the video. Language not approvable for younger children. Their are people chanting trying to drown out all debate and discussion. Reporter Ernie White.
Pic: Man Greets Obama Wearing Horse Head Mask... Yeah, this really happened.
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(No word yet if Obuma confused him with Michelle)
De Blasio's New York: Twelve People Shot In Five Hours Over 4th Of July Weekend
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(Looks like Chicago has some competition)
Via NRONew York City saw the most concentrated explosion of gun violence of the year over the Fourth of July weekend, with twelve people shot in just over five hours, according to the New York Post.
Saturday night through Sunday morning, shootings were reported in the The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Three people were shot fatally.
This was the third consecutive weekend in which at least a dozen people were shot in the city.
Additionally, Sunday morning in Crown Heights, a bike was thrown from a fifth-floor balcony at four NYPD officers who were busting a gunman (Four NYPD cops were walloped by a child's Barbie bike that was tossed at them from a fifth-floor balcony in Brooklyn while they were busting a gunman early Sunday, officials said.)One cop suffered a concussion, while another suffered a gash to his head.
"The atmosphere is, 'We're going to do what we want,' that 'We're going to get away with it,' " police-union president Ed Mullins told the New York Post. "There's a perception that the mayor is soft on crime. The perps' perception is that the cops are backing down."
Israeli Official: "We Will Do More Than Mow The Lawn In Gaza, We Will Scorch It"
The Myth Of Israeli Collective Punishment
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(Don't mess with Israeli A.F. Israel conducts surgical strikes while the PLO/Hamas indiscriminately shoots rockets into Israel)
Via Frontpage MagThe most enduring critique of Israel's struggle against Islamic terrorism is the recurring accusation of "collective punishment." Every time Israelis are murdered, the Jewish State is accused of punishing Muslims in the West Bank and Gaza for the actions of a few individuals.
Israel is fighting an enemy that insists on having all the advantages of a state and statelessness with none of the disadvantages. The PLO/Hamas unity government is a state when it wants something from the United Nations or the United States, but it's not a state when it comes to taking responsibility. The Muslims who live in Gaza and the West Bank are considered citizens when it comes to having political rights, but not when it comes to taking responsibility for the consequences of their political decisions.
Their votes are to be taken seriously, but once those votes lead to war they are no longer responsible.
The Palestinian Authority is a state when it comes to its territorial claims, but not a state when it insists on open borders with Israel while claiming that any Israeli border security is a violation of its rights.
Terrorists routinely operate in such legal twilight zones, but the Palestinian Authority is unique in that it has all the structure of a state with none of the responsibilities of statehood. If Israel treats it as a state in response to acts of war, it is accused of collective punishment, even though the Palestinian Authority is the product of a collective political will and attacking it is not a collective punishment, but simply war.
EREZ CROSSING, Israel – Israel has already begun calling up thousands of reservists as it prepares for a long-ranging military operation in the Gaza Strip, according to military officials who briefed BuzzFeed.
Earlier Tuesday, Israel's security cabinet approved the use of 40,000 reservists, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that thousands more would be sent if Israel expanded its offensive into Gaza in the weeks to come.
"At the moment we have begun the calling up of reservists, and the deployment of active soldiers to the Gaza border area. We are preparing for every eventuality," said the officer, who spoke to reporters in a background briefing. He said that "wide-ranging and intense" air strikes would hit Gaza Tuesday night, in response to upwards of 60 rockets that were fired from Gaza into southern and central Israel.
"We will do more than mow the law in Gaza. We will scorch it," he said.
Support For Hillary Clinton Drops 11 Points . . . Among Democrats!!!
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(Aw, how sad... a few months ago she was supposedly a lock for president, not so much these days)
Via TWS:Hillary Clinton's tour promoting her book Hard Choices may be having an effect—though perhaps not the one the 66-year-old former secretary of state might have wanted. A new poll of the potential 2016 presidential field from Quinnipiac, conducted at the end of June, found support for Clinton among Democratic primary voters at 58 percent. That's an 11-point drop from an ABC News/Washington Post poll of the potential Democratic field—conducted in late May, before Hard Choices was released—that found 69 percent supported Clinton over any other possible Democrats.
Something Creepy This Way Comes - Creepy Uncle Sam ObumaCrappyCare Care-nival
(Whoa... Send in the clowns!)
Via Watchdog:Creepy Uncle Sam is no longer alone in highlighting the 'creepy' side of Obamacare. He is joined by a group of carnies in a new health-care freak show.
Clowns dunk a young woman into a "high risk pool," and a knife thrower aims at a young man spinning on a wheel of surgical options.
Both of these scenes from the Creepy Carnival video are to emphasize the 'creepy' and expensive aspects of Obamacare.
"Obamacare was sold as a great deal for young Americans — but it turned out to be a creepy, intrusive and expensive government plan," the description of the video states.
The health-care freak show is part of latest anti-Obamacare ad campaign by Generation Opportunity, a conservative organization based in Virginia.
The campaign encourages young people to "opt-out" of the Affordable Care Act. But unlike other ads about Obamacare, it wasn't funded by tax dollars.
If millennials choose to opt out, Obamacare could be in trouble. Healthy young people, after all, are key to funding the exchanges.
Islamic State Seizes Iraqi Chemical Weapons Facility
Where 2,500 Rockets Filled With Sarin Are Stored
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq said the Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin or their remnants were stored along with other chemical warfare agents.
Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim said in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a letter circulated Tuesday that "armed terrorist groups" entered the Muthanna site on June 11, detained officers and soldiers from the protection force guarding the facilities and seized their weapons. The following morning the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment through the camera surveillance system before the "terrorists" disabled it, he said.
The Islamic State group, which controls parts of Syria, sent its fighters into neighboring Iraq last month and quickly captured a vast stretch of territory straddling the border between the two countries. Last week, its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the land the extremists control.
Alhakim said as a result of the takeover of Muthanna, Iraq is unable "to fulfil its obligations to destroy chemical weapons" because of the deteriorating security situation. He said it would resume its obligations "as soon as the security situation has improved and control of the facility has been regained."
Alhakim singled out the capture of bunkers 13 and 41 in the sprawling complex 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad in the notorious "Sunni Triangle."
The last major report by U.N. inspectors on the status of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program was released about a year after the experts left in March 2003. It states that Bunker 13 contained 2,500 sarin-filled 122-mm chemical rockets produced and filled before 1991, and about 180 tons of sodium cyanide, "a very toxic chemical and a precursor for the warfare agent tabun."
Hamas Tries To Storm Israel By Sea.... Fails Miserably
Video: Israeli Helicopter Takes Out Hamas Cell Trying To Attack By Sea
(TOASTED! Their one last regret was that they never told their goats goodbye before they left home that morning.)
Via JPost:IDF units intercepted a Hamas commando terrorist unit seeking to infiltrate Israel from the sea at Zikim beach on Tuesday.
The IDF Spokesman reported that soldiers killed four terrorists.
A senior security official said an IDF force was dispatched to Zikim beach after the military detected suspicious movements in the area.
The unit engaged the terrorists, and shot and struck a number of them.
One soldier was lightly injured in the exchange of fire.
Civilian eye witnesses told Channel 2 that soldiers were seen running toward the beach from the Zikim army base and firing their weapons, while a boat approached the beach firing at the beach.
Hamas's military wing the al-Qassam Brigades claimed on its twitter account to have perpetrated the attack, saying that it "stormed the Zionist naval base on the shores of the sea."
The Dumbest Liberal Moments
Busted: Emails Recovered on IRS Official Who Plead 5th & 'Lost' Hard Drive Prove She's Hiding Info
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Lois Lerner just got smoked on the floor of Congress by Congressman Jim Jordan in front of the smug IRS head John Koskinen.
Emails recovered on the IRS official who plead the Fifth (before giving up her right to remain silent) and then "lost" her hard drive show that she was wanting to make sure that the IRS' internal messaging system was set-up to make sure her info was not traceable, trackable or storeable. The phrasing could not be more "perfect."
Lois Lerner sent the following to Maria Hooke, the Director of Business Systems Planning for Tax Exempt & Government Entities, and copied Nanette Downing, the Director of Exempt Organizations Examinations:
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"Perfect."Now, considering that Lois Lerner "plead the 5th" (before proclaiming her innocence) and has somehow "lost her emails" in a government agency where it's illegal to do so, the question becomes: Do innocent people working in government care if their emails are saved or not?
Do people who are following the law say that it's "perfect" that their communications aren't recoverable, traceable, or trackable?
Beyond Lois Lerner, the entire IRS enterprise appears to be set up like a criminal operation, and that should have every single American worried about their government.
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Farewell, old friend. I am going to miss you.
I speak of the incandescent bulb... the light of my life for all of my years. As of Jan. 1, you have been shut off. That was the mission of a 2007 law that raised energy-efficiency and wattage standards far beyond what you are capable of reaching.
You had a fine run, my friend. Perfected by Thomas Edison some 135 years ago, you stand as one of the greatest inventions of all time.
Your brilliance was in your simplicity. By sending an electrical current through a thin filament, which is sealed in a gas inside a bulb, you produce light.
Several inventors worked on the concept until Edison produced a carbonized-bamboo filament that could last up to 1,200 hours. Thanks to him, the cheap, long-lasting bulb was born.
Oh, how we took you for granted over the years. Because incandescent bulbs are so cheap and plentiful, virtually every home in America has had dozens of them. You walk into a room, flip a switch and, presto, there is light!
To be sure, you have been so successful, it took the government... not better lighting products.... to kill you off. That's because, some argue, you are causing the Earth to warm.
As electricity passes through your filament, you see, the filament gets white-hot. That is how light is created but, in the process, you also create a lot of heat, and heat is wasted energy.
You require more electricity than other lighting alternatives, such as fluorescent bulbs, halogens or LEDs. Since electricity comes from the electric company, which may be burning coal to produce it, you are causing more greenhouse gases to be emitted into the atmosphere than other lighting sources would.
Already I miss you.
I am no big fan of the alternative lighting sources I must now use. The compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs take forever to get bright. They lack the warm glow unique to incandescent lighting.
The fluorescents are a wee bit dangerous, too. They are filled with mercury vapor. I'm told when electricity passes through the vapor, ultraviolet light is produced. But these bulbs sometimes explode for no reason.
I was sitting in a coffee shop when one went off. Luckily, nobody was sitting at the table beneath it. It fell from the lamp and crashed onto the table.... the manager was unaware that it was unhealthy to touch the shattered glass without rubber gloves or that the shattered bulb required special disposal.
But these are the kinds of bulbs we must use now.
I am something of an agnostic where the global-warming debate is concerned. It is somewhat possible that human activity is contributing to a greenhouse effect. We are pumping vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, Obuma being one of the worst, flying all over creation.
Then again, the science is not conclusive... it is not a closed case, as some journalists and politicians would like us to believe. The models that predict complex future weather patterns are fallible. The news reports are incredibly confusing and frequently contradictory.
Nonetheless, the global-warming issue has become a giant political football and power-hungry politicians hope to use it to pass lots of new laws and controls that further limit what we can and cannot do... and what light bulbs we can use.
Sure, I'm all for new technologies replacing older ones. I'm all for energy efficiency and cost savings and minimizing electricity usage. My science friends tell me LED lighting offers great promise.
But I am not ready to see my old incandescent pal go. You had a fine run, my friend.
I leave you with some gallows humor:
Question: How many people does it take to shut off an incandescent light bulb?
Answer: 264 members of the House, 65 senators and one Republican president.
The Republicans and Democrats are competing to see which one cares more about the planet - that's what they want us to think. However Republicans and Democrats are both practicing crony capitalism - using the force and power of government to market and sell product for corporations. How's that for a marketing plan to move product?
The Republican party has been socialist since inception and the Democrats have followed the Republicans and have overtaken them.
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The Republicans and Democrats are competing to see which one cares more about the planet - that's what they want us to think. However Republicans and Democrats are both practicing crony capitalism - using the force and power of government to market and sell product for corporations. How's that for a marketing plan to move product?
The Republican party has been socialist since inception and the Democrats have followed the Republicans and have overtaken them.
Basic Differences between Socialism and Capitalism
For the non-politically minded, all of these "isms" can seem a bit confusing. Keeping in mind that forms of socialism and capitalism may vary across societies, here's a breakdown of their basic differences:
Capitalism: Means of production and distribution of goods are owned by individuals and corporations
Socialism: Means of production are owned by the government or state
Capitalism: Features a class-based society
Socialism: Rejects the necessity of a class-based society in favor of a society of equals
Capitalism: Fosters a competitive atmosphere in which workers and companies are encouraged to work hard to achieve personal success
Socialism: Encourages an atmosphere of cooperation in which no matter how hard a person works, he or she reaps the same benefits as everyone else.
Capitalism: Ownership of private property is encouraged
Socialism: Ownership of private property is largely forbidden
Capitalism: Produces goods based on the law of supply and demand
Socialism: Government mandates production and prices.Red... some socialist-inspired programs exist today in the U.S. In fact,
any program that calls for the redistribution of wealth can be considered socialist. For example, the tax that the United States imposes on citizens to support the welfare system, which provides aid to financially unstable citizens, can be considered a socialist program. Healthcare systems like Medicare and Medicaid fall in the same category, just to name a few.
At any rate, the quest for a purely socialist... and for that matter, a purely capitalist.... society has eluded economists thus far. After all, the United States, considered one of the most successful capitalist economies in the world, utilizes a number of socialist-inspired programs to help its financially encumbered citizens.
For the time being, at least... it seems that mixed economies, featuring both socialist and capitalist elements, are much more realistic.
Take human nature.. its a product of evolution... and evolution is the competition for resources in order to survive and procreate. That competition for resources is called economics in the human world.
Illegal Unaccompanied "Minors" Waiting Placement In U.S.
Admit To Committing Torture And Murder
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Via Townhall:Despite Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson vowing to "stem the tide" of unaccompanied illegal minors across the southern border with Mexico, thousands more are expected to enter the United States by the end of the year. With the system being overwhelmed, Border Patrol agents are concerned about minors who have admitted to being MS-13 members, a brutal street gang from El Salvador that has been successful in infiltrating American communities. Agents are also concerned about minors who have committed acts like torture and murder in their home countries before heading north to the United States.
"We have six minors in Nogales who have admitted to killing and doing grievous bodily injuries. One admitted to killing as young as eight years old," an agent tells Townhall anonymously for fear of losing his job for speaking out. "
They are being held for placement in the U.S."By U.S. legal standards many gang members operating in Central American countries and traveling north are classified as minors due to being under the age of 18. However, many young males are actively engaged in violent cartel and criminal activity, yet are treated as children when processed through the Department of Human Services or Department of Homeland Security systems.
"But remember, this is a 'humanitarian crisis.' They are just kids," he said in a frustrated and sarcastic tone. "They are MS-13 gang members. They've done everything from torture to murder. They act as teenage 'enforcers.'"
The Case For Obama's Impeachment:
The Constitution's remedy for a lawless, imperial president
By Sarah Palin • Published July 11, 2014 • FoxNews.com
The next time you hear politicians denounce Barack Obama as a lawless, imperial president with a scandal-riddled administration, ask them what they're going to do about it. Their gnashing of teeth over Obama's self-granted omnipotence is repetitive.
Let's agree with our ninth president, William Henry Harrison, who said there is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive than the exercise of unlimited power. We understand the problem. The only way for politicians to fix it is with a little less talk and a lot more action.
The Constitution provides the remedy for a president who commits "high crimes and misdemeanors." It's impeachment.
The only thing necessary to transform America into something unrecognizable is for good men to do nothing!
To be clear, "high crimes and misdemeanors" are not necessarily ordinary criminal offenses. Our Framers used the term to signify a dereliction of duty, and the first duty of the president is to enforce our laws and preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution.
Alexander Hamilton described impeachable offenses as those "which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust." He explained that they are "political" offenses "as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself."
No serious person who is paying attention can deny that Obama and his administration have abused and violated the public trust and disregarded the Constitution. Let me count the ways.
Without notifying Congress as required by law, he set free terrorist prisoners at a time of war when they can return to the battlefield to kill our troops.
In violation of our Constitution, he regularly ignores court orders, changes laws by executive fiat, and refuses to enforce laws he doesn't like, including our immigration laws.
When Congress declined to pass amnesty for illegal immigrants' offspring, he unilaterally enacted his own version of it, which created the current crisis on our border as illegal youth pour into our country to receive what he illegally promised them.
He committed fraud on the American people when he promised that if we liked our health care plan we could keep it.
He got us into a war in Libya without Congressional approval. When our ambassador begged for security at the consulate in Benghazi, he was ignored and then murdered when the consulate was attacked as predicted. Americans were left behind to die, as the president did nothing to rescue our people there. Afterwards, he helped spread the lie that a spontaneous protest over a YouTube video was to blame for this highly organized, premeditated terrorist attack.
Obama's IRS targeted his political opponents for harassment. Then the agency lied to and stonewalled Congress and likely destroyed subpoenaed evidence, while Obama falsely declared there's no corruption there, not even a smidgen.
From the VA scandal to his unconstitutional recess appointments, to his DOJ wiretapping reporters and giving guns to Mexican drug cartels, to violating religious freedom exercised by businesses and ignoring in-house illegal fundraising, the list of abuse goes on and on.
Barack Obama's administration is proving itself a festering boil of scandal. The Constitution is rock solid in holding the president responsible for the executive branch. He can't just vote "present" while shrugging and feigning ignorance about all these abuses of the public trust, any more than a mob boss can claim innocence because he didn't personally do the hit. The buck stops with the guy at the top.
Impeachment is the ultimate check on an out-of-control executive branch. It is serious, not to be used for petty partisan purposes; and it is imperative that it becomes a matter of legitimate discussion before the American people lose all trust in our federal government.
Impeachment requires moral courage to advance what is right, and it requires political will. A complacent or disheartened electorate may silently endure these abuses from the administration, the permanent political class is only too happy to maintain the status quo, and the mainstream media is not a fair watchdog. So, the nation's last line of defense is for We the People to rise up and say, "enough is enough."
Obama's lawless encouragement of illegal immigration should be the tipping point for that political will because it impacts all Americans – native-born and legal immigrants of all backgrounds who followed the rules and now watch rewards go to rule breakers while they're forced to compete for limited jobs and resources. It's the tipping point because the forgotten working class is hurt most by this lawlessness; and these good Americans deserve the strongest, most effective tool to defend the livelihoods they've so honorably built!
Some are arguing for cautious inaction and dismiss even a discussion of impeachment. With Obama's poll numbers in the tank and his liberal policies exposed as failures, why rock the boat? But that argument misses the point.
The president is radically changing the way the executive branch does business. He is setting a dangerous precedent that will fundamentally change us. With his "pen and phone," he's abrogating Congressional authority in violation of the Constitution's separation of powers. He's making himself a ruler, not a president. We had a revolution back in 1776 because we don't like kings.
Some argue we should wait for midterm elections and hope a big victory by Republicans in both Houses of Congress will rein in Obama.
Been there, done that in 2010. If Congress refuses to use the power the Constitution gives it, Barack Obama will continue to rule however he wants.
Some argue that at best the House might vote for articles of impeachment, but the Senate is unlikely to convict. But that is no argument against holding a president accountable and sending the people's message to all successors.
Obama can keep laughing and say, "so sue me" to the House's tepid lawsuit threat. Let's hear him laugh off impeachment. At the very least, despite his mocking the Constitution, this Constitutional process will put him on notice.
The only thing necessary to transform America into something unrecognizable is for good men to do nothing! If not these violations and the president's promise to continue to "go it alone" in ignoring the separation of powers and rule of law, what will it take for you to take a stand? How bad does it have to get?
We live in an America where the NSA spies on our communications, the IRS targets us because of our political beliefs, the border is overrun by foreign nationals, terrorist leaders are released to the battlefield, our health care is taken from us and we're forced to buy a plan we don't want and can't afford, Catholic nuns are targeted by the government simply because they adhere to their Catholic faith, the Justice Department arms Mexican drug lords, and the president keeps a "kill list" of people he's authorized to be executed on sight.
If you're comfortable with all that, then by all means sit back and hope for the best. Those concerned about America want change. That comes with healing the injuries done to society by an unchecked president; that starts with impeachment.
'If I also had a son': Celebrities Weigh In
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The media controversy sparked by Barack Obuma's statement 'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon' has prompted many prominent citizens to come to his defense by declaring, in the I-am-Spartacus fashion, "If I also had a son...":Nancy Pelosi: "... he'd owe China $256,000,000 before he reaches puberty."
George Soros: "... he'd own a chauffeured tricycle."
Bill Clinton: "... he'd know what 'is' is."
Hillary Clinton: "I already have a son and his name is Bill."
Michael Bloomberg: "... he wouldn't be eating trans fats - or he'd be out of the will."
Harry Reid: "... he wouldn't smell like the unwashed masses visiting the Capitol."
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: "... his birth certificate wouldn't have PDF layers."
Donald Trump: "What Sheriff Joe said."
Al Sharpton: "... he wouldn't be a honky or one of them Jews."
Michael Moore: "... I wouldn't eat him as long as he doesn't get between me and the fridge."
Joe Biden: "I have a son? Have we met?"
Rosie O'Donnell: "... I'd keep him in a cage and train him to attack toupees, and then I'd invite Donald Trump over and open the cage."
Oprah: "... I'd keep him away from Rosie O'Donnell."
Anita Dunn: "... I'd name him Mao Tse-Dunn."
Eric Holder: "... I'd tell him he was conceived during fast and furious sex, then I'd smuggle him into Mexico."
Occupy Theoretician Elizabeth Warren: "... I'd wait for him to crap all over himself, then throw him at the police."
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "... I'd hire Bill Maher to teach him manners and Anthony Weiner to teach him photography."
Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings: "I'd teach him to have safe sex - with me."
Ex-HHS Director Katherine Sebelius: "I'd give him an exemption from ObamaCare."
Mitt Romney: "I'd give him an exemption from RomneyCare."
John Edwards: "... I'd bequeath to him my secret to silky, sensuous, and coquettish man-hair."
Al Gore: "... I'd cut his feet off so I wouldn't have to worry about his carbon footprint."
Science Czar John Holdren: "I can't have a son; I cut my testicles off so I can sleep at night not worrying about overpopulation."
An anonymous Georgetown Law Student: "Having blown my entire trust fund on contraceptives, I damn well better not get pregnant with a son!"
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg: "... I'd send him off to South Africa, they have a better constitution."
CNN host Soledad O'Brien: "... I'd read him fairy tales, starting with Critical Race Theory."
MSNBC host Chris Mathews: "... I'd tell him bedtime stories of the adventures of the heroic knight, Sir Barry Obama, unless instructed otherwise."
Robert F. Kennedy XXXLXVII: "... I'd name him 'Robert F. Kennedy XXXLXVIII.'"
Charlie Sheen: "... I'd pay him to go away."
Israel Air Force Aborts Gaza Airstrike After Spotting Children Near Target
While Hamas shoots rockets into Israel haphazardly.
Via AlgemeinerThe Israel Air Force called off an airstrike on a "terror activity site" on Thursday after spotting children in the vicinity of the target, a recently released video shows.
"There are people close to our target," the pilot carrying out the mission is heard saying in the clip. "It looks like there are people, possibly children in our targeted area."
An operator responds: "We are not going to strike this target now, let's move on."
The aborted strike was part of Israel's ongoing Operation Protective Edge aimed at halting Gaza rocket attacks on Israel that have increased over the past weeks.
Israel prides itself on being careful to avoid civilian casualties during its conflicts and takes numerous steps to do so, including warning building occupants in advance of strikes. Earlier the week another mission was aborted when people ran onto the roof of a building to serve as human shields.
A United Nations document published on Wednesday said that in most cases where Palestinians have been killed or injured during Israel's Gaza campaign, the Israeli army alerted civilians ahead of time who were occupying buildings, that they planned to bomb in Gaza, to leave the premises.
IDF Begins Evacuating Gazans Before Stepped Up Air Strikes
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(Removing the human shields)
Via JPostThe IDF has begun evacuating residents of northern Gaza, and other areas in the coastal enclave from which heavy and long-range rockets are being fired at Israel, ahead of a stepped-up campaign of air raids that will target Hamas leaders hiding under large residential buildings, a senior army source warned Saturday night.
"We are moving to a more significant phase. Since the leaders are hiding under homes and using human shields, we are initiating the evacuation of civilians in Gaza before stepping up attacks. Until now, we've tried to use minimal force to lower civilian casualties. That explains how, even though we have hit 1300 targets, the civilian casualty rate is so low," the source said.
"But in order to improve effectiveness in our operations in northern Gaza and other areas, we will in the coming hours evacuate civilians for their own safety, from places where rocket fire has occurred," he added.
Residents of Gaza in areas that the IDF will soon strike will receive information, either via telephone or other means, informing them that terrorist elements are operating in their area, and that they must leave for their own safety.
"I am confident most will leave," the source said. "Then, there will be much more significant attacks." Some Hamas leaders are hiding under Gaza hospitals, the source stated.
The source described heavy rocket barrages on Tel Aviv on Saturday night as a form of "psychological warfare," adding that Hamas has been pushed into a corner, and is now seeking to step up threats.
He added that the IDF is fully ready to launch a ground offensive if ordered to do so. "A ground maneuver is one way to obtain achievements. The option is on the table, and can be activated within a short time. It's a matter of making a decision," the source said.
Even Newborns Get Sent Contraception ID Cards Under Obamacare Mandate
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(You never know what those newborns could be up to... ;D)
Via Fox News:I got an email the other day from one of our listeners in Lubbock, Texas. He's pretty fired up because his health care provider sent his daughter a contraceptive ID card. According to the insurance company, the card happens to be an Obamacare mandate.
Now it's bad enough they would send something like this to a child without parental consent — but what really makes this story salacious — is that my reader's daughter is only three months old.
Apparently, the insurance company wants to make sure the three month old has options after a sordid affair at daycare.
"Attached is your Contraceptive Coverage Plan ID Card," the insurance company's letter read. "The new federal preventive health services law requires that group health plans provide women contraceptive services to female members of all ages without imposing any cost-sharing and at no cost to you."
At first my reader just laughed it off – thinking it was a mistake – but then he found out it was the law.
Sure enough – a letter from the insurance company stipulates that every female – no matter her age receives a contraceptive cover card and that means even three month old babies.
"It's frustrating and sickening," my reader told me. "It bothers me that this company takes it upon themselves to send this out to people's young children without even contacting us."
That's right – moms and dads are not allowed to opt out of the contraceptive ID card. My reader said he is disgusted.
"I don't even want to think about my little girl having a boyfriend and especially not having sex," he told me. "I'd like to enjoy her innocence. But now, it's forced upon her mother and I thanks to Obamacare."
Welcome to President Obama's fundamentally transformed America, folks.
ObuttHead And The Border Kids
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(Using children as pawns for immigration reform is backfiring)
Via The TennesseanAs is his wont, President Obama is treating the border crisis — more than 50,000 unaccompanied children crossing illegally — as a public relations problem. Where to photo op and where not. He still hasn't enunciated a policy. He may not even have one.
Will these immigrants be allowed to stay? Seven times was Obama's homeland security secretary asked this on "Meet the Press." Seven times he danced around the question.
Presidential press secretary Josh Earnest was more forthcoming: "It's unlikely that most of those kids will qualify for humanitarian relief. ... They will be sent back." This was characterized in the media as a harder line. Not at all. Yes, those kids who go through the process probably will have no grounds to stay. But most will never go through the process.
These kids are being flown or bused to family members around the country and told to then show up for deportation hearings. Why show up? Why not just stay where they'll get superior schooling, superior health care, superior everything? As a result, only 3 percent are being repatriated, to cite an internal Border Patrol memo.
Repatriate them? How stone-hearted, you say. After what they've been through? To those dismal conditions back home?
By that standard, with a sea of endemic suffering on every continent, we should have no immigration laws. Deny entry to no needy person.
But we do. We must. We choose. And immediate deportation is exactly what happens to illegal immigrants, children or otherwise, from Mexico and Canada. By what moral logic should there be a Central American exception?
There is no logic. Just a quirk of the law — a 2008 law intended to deter sex trafficking. It mandates that Central American kids receive temporary relocation, extensive assistance and elaborate immigration/deportation proceedings, which many simply evade.
Hamas Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri's Freudian Slip:
"We're Leading Our People To Death"
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(One hell'va freudian slip)
Neb. Governor Blasts Feds For Keeping Mum On Illegal Aliens Placed In Nebraska
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(Once the illegals are scattered it is easier for HHS to lose track of their whereabouts)
Via WatchdogGov. Dave Heineman blasted federal officials Friday for refusing to give him details about 200 undocumented children who have been placed in Nebraska as the feds grapple with a crush of Central American kids sneaking across the nation's southern border.
Nebraska Watchdog first reported on the children after U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns confirmed their placement on Thursday. U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials told Johanns on June 27 that the children were placed with families or sponsors in Nebraska after being caught or turning themselves into the U.S. Border Patrol.
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The children are part of a wave of Central American children who have crossed the Mexico-America border and overwhelmed Texas facilities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by law must find a place for the children while they await deportation hearings, and if they have family in the U.S., that's where they go.
About 52,000 unaccompanied children have been caught at the border since October, double the number from the prior year.
The governor said he had "no idea what was going on" until the past 24 to 48 hours, although he said, "We had some suspicion." He said it was outrageous that federal officials are declining to give him information about the kids' whereabouts.
"I'm just very, very concerned and I can't believe in America we have a government who is essentially secretly transporting (them) to Nebraska and we can't know who they are," he said. "The federal government should be very transparent about what's occurring."
Heineman — who got elected a decade ago in part based on his tough stance on illegal immigration — said he called federal Homeland Security and talked to a key Health and Human Services policy advisor in person about the issue Friday. He confirmed that about 200 kids have been placed in Nebraska and he expects more will come, but federal officials declined to tell him how the kids were transported, who they are or who they're staying with. He said the children will be treated humanely while they're here, but he's entitled to some information about them.
"They're not wiling to tell the governor of Nebraska or any mayor of our state where they've transported these individuals and that is not right, that is not fair," Heineman said on the Chris Baker Show on KFAB radio. The governor's office alerted the media that he would address the issue on the show in one interview, since he is in Nashville attending a National Governors Association meeting and unable to do multiple interviews.
Dave Letterman walks out on Joan Rivers
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Rivers walked out of a CNN interview but now it's Dave's turn to walk out on Joan Rivers. Watch more here:
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Rockets Also Fired At Israel From Lebanon, Syria
(So rockets are coming from the Southwest in Gaza, as well as some from the North from Lebanon and some from the Northeast from Syria)
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"I," "Me," "My"— Obama Refers To Himself 199 Times In Speech
Vowing To Rule Unilaterally With Executive Actions
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(Hmmm... it's like he's a raging narcissist)
Via CNS News:Not counting instances when he quoted a letter from a citizen or cited dialogue from a movie, President Barack Obama used the first person singular–including the pronouns "I" and "me" and the adjective "my"–199 times in a speech he delivered Thursday vowing to use unilateral executive action to achieve his policy goals that Congress would not enact through the normal, constitutional legislative process.
"It is lonely, me just doing stuff," Obama said at the speech in Austin, Texas, according to the official transcript and video posted on the White House website.
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The White House presented Obama's speech, which the president delivered at Austin's Paramount Theatre, as "Remarks by the President on the Economy." The remarks, the White House reports, ran 40 minutes, and the full transcript (including annotations for "laughter" and "applause") is more than 5,500 words.
By contrast, President Abraham Lincoln's Gettyburg Address was only 272 words–and did not include any form of the first person singular.
In President Obama's speech, he used a first person singular, on average, every 12 seconds. At that rate, had Obama spoken for just 15 more minutes, he would have used the first person singular more than 272 times in one speech—exceeding all the words in the Gettysburg Address.
In one 68-word passage–in which he vowed to act unilaterally if Congress did not enact legislation he liked–Obama used the first person singular five more times than the zero times Lincoln used it in his 272 words at Gettysburg.
Obama's Ongoing Shameful Behavior Against Israel
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(Obuma has his own crisis to deal with. Which fundraiser to attend after vacation)
Via JPostWe are now reconciled to the fact that in any conflict – even when we are exercising our right of self-defense – we will either be condemned or, at best, accused of acting disproportionately. However, the latest round of hypocrisy by Western leaders, including US President Barack Obama, beats all records.
Despite anger and condemnation from many of his constituents, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has, until last week, effectively been acting as a supplicant by virtually pleading for a cease-fire, assuring Hamas that Israel would abide by a new truce.
Responding to their missiles with "restraint" and reacting on a tit-for-tat basis, bombing empty sites, Israel dispensed with any pretense of implementing genuine deterrence.
As critics predicted, Hamas interpreted this as a signal of Israeli weakness, which emboldened the organization to intensify and extend missile attacks to all major cities, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, sending the majority of the population to the shelters.
Hundreds of missiles rained down throughout the country, but Iron Dome has successfully intercepted most of the rockets, thus avoiding massive civilian casualties and major dislocation on the home front.
Iron Dome has proven to be another example of Israeli ingenuity in the face of crisis, but no system is foolproof, and we must gird ourselves for possible casualties in the future.
The efforts undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces to minimize civilian casualties are unparalleled in the annals of warfare.
Telephone calls are made in advance of targeting buildings to minimize civilian casualties, despite the fact that this also allows Hamas to vacate the premises.
It should be noted that the US has never felt obliged to provide advance notice to the families of terrorists to vacate buildings when its drones were employed to carry out targeted assassinations.
Nevertheless, in a conflict of this nature, irrespective of all precautions, loss of innocent civilian lives is inevitable – especially in a terrain in which rocket launchers and command centers are deliberately located in heavily populated civilian enclaves, including hospitals and kindergartens. Furthermore, Hamas cynically employs civilians, including women and children, as human shields, and it is Hamas who must be held accountable for the inevitably increasing number of civilian casualties.
We are grateful to the American people and the successive administrations, including the current administration, for the generous aid toward our defense requirements. Although we appreciate that the US administration expressed support for our right to exercise self-defense, we consider it intolerable and hypocritical for Obama and his spokesmen to blur the distinction between the terrorist aggressors and us, their purported allies who are acting in self-defense.
Or deciding where his next round of golf will be played. If I remember correctly, Warph, you posted about how many rounds of golf he has played compared to the last several presidents combined. >:( He is truly worthless as a leader, but will do well selling cars after his term is over. I can't wait to see what he does actually sell, after all the BULL he has sold the clueless for so long.
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"Hey Obuma... get your sh!t together"
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Even Bill Maher Admits It:
Liberals Are 'Useless Obuma Hacks Without A Shred Of Honesty'
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(Has Maher looked in the mirror lately?)
Via BPRIn an extraordinary moment of sobriety, comedian Bill Maher confessed that his liberal co-religionists are sometimes "useless Obama hacks without a shred of intellectual honesty."
On his Friday show, "Real Time with Bill Maher," the man who personally donated $1 million to Obama's reelection campaign referred to a report recently concluded on National Security Agency eavesdropping.
"Many files, it says, described as useless by the analysts had a strangely intimate even voyeuristic quality," Maher said. "Stories of love and heartbreak, illicit sexual liaisons, mental health crises and disappointed hopes."
Laughing, he quipped that "this is exactly what they said they weren't going to do. Just be nosey and look into the lives of private people for their own chits and giggles."
And here Maher's conscience got the better of him:"If this was happening under Bush, liberals would be apoplectic. I'm sorry, but liberals are just sometimes useless Obama hacks without a shred of intellectual honesty."Guest U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., immediately interjected that she was apoplectic over the surveillance, and that a liberal advocate was needed on the court that oversees NSA surveillance.
But fellow liberal author and journalist Ron Suskind pointed out the spectacular growth in government snooping had occurred since 2009 – under Obama's watch — and that mega-leaker Edward Snowden "had provided the goods" to prove it. He said, "The question now is what are we going to do about it?"
USDA Pushing 'Free' Food: Call '1-877-8-HAMBRE (For Spanish Speakers)'
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(Oh, now I get it.... Obuma is bringing in the children Illegals for the summer food program)
Via CNS NewsThe U.S. Agriculture Department has set a goal of serving 178 million free meals to children now that school is out. That's 10 million more meals than were served last summer.
"Admittedly, this is an aggressive goal, and we can't do it alone," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a column posted on the USDA website. "With strong support from individuals, communities, local governments and advocates, we can reach more kids with nutritious meals during their time out of school."
USDA is urging Americans to "help spread awareness of summer meals in your community" by using the National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3-Hungry or 1-877-8-Hambre (the latter number for Spanish speakers, it notes).
The government offers free summer meals to anyone 18 and under at approved sites in areas with significant concentrations of low-income children. USDA notes that teenagers "face the same risks of food insecurity in the summer, so make sure your teens are taking advantage of free summer meals, too!"
Most summer meal sites are "open sites," meaning they are open to the community and do not require advance sign-ups or even "check-in" at the site. "Children and teens must simply show up to get their meal," USDA says, but the meal has to be eaten at the place where it is served.
Summer meals are available regardless of what other government assistance children may receive; and parents are not required to give any personal information about their children to the meal servers.
Iran Celebrates Hamas Using Their Rockets To Attack Israeli Civilians
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Via Free Beacon:Iranian military leaders on Monday celebrated Hamas' use of advanced long-range rockets that were supplied to the terror group by the Iranian regime.
Iran's role in arming Hamas militants with more sophisticated artillery capable of reaching deep into Israel has fueled concerns among lawmakers that U.S. negotiators are not doing enough to address Iran's support for terror during ongoing nuclear discussions.
Israeli and United Nations officials have confirmed that Hamas is firing rockets on civilians provided to it by Iran.
A Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) general praised Hamas' rocket attacks on Monday and warned that between Hamas and other Iranian-backed terror groups, "all Zionists are within the range of the resistance's missiles."
"The defense capacity and capabilities of the Islamic resistance and Hamas forces has left no safe place for the Zionists in the occupied territories," General Ramezan Sharif, head of the IRGC's public relations department, said in public remarks Monday.
Shotgun Maker Mossberg Moving Operations Out Of Connecticut
(Well, well, Conn... looks like Legislation has consequences)
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Via NROYet another storied firearms manufacturer is snubbing the Northeast. Frank Miniter explains over at Forbes:
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America's largest shotgun manufacturer, O.F. Mossberg & Sons, Inc., decided not to expand in Connecticut. Sure it was founded there 1919 and still has its corporate headquarters in North Haven. But in 2013 Connecticut rushed through legislation to ban some of Mossberg's popular products. As a result, Mossberg CEO, Iver Mossberg, says,
"Investing in Texas was an easy decision. It's a state that is not only committed to economic growth but also honors and respects the Second Amendment and the firearm freedoms it guarantees for our customers."Mossberg follows Remington Arms, Kahr Arms, Les Baer Custom, Lewis Machine & Tool, American Tactical Imports, Ruger, Colt, Stag Arms, PTR Industries, Magpul, and Beretta in moving operations out of anti-gun states.
Israel Attacked On Four Fronts On Same Day For First Time Ever:
Sinai, Lebanon, Syria, Gaza
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Lebanon:Also Monday, rockets were fired at Israel from southern Lebanon, reported Reuters, drawing retaliatory artillery fire from Israeli forces, Lebanese security officials and the Israeli army said, in the third such rocket attack from Lebanon since Friday.
An Israeli police spokeswoman said there was no immediate word of damage or casualties from the rocket fire. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Syria:A rocket fired from Syria hit an open area on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights on Monday afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson Unit confirmed in a statement.
The statement said according to initial reports, the launching was "deliberate." It is still not clear who is responsible for the attack, the Walla news website reported.
Gaza:A Hamas drone capable of carrying weapons was shot down Monday with a Patriot missile along the southern Israeli coast.
"It was shot to smithereens," Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israeli Army, told reporters Monday.
Israeli officials said it was the first time Hamas militants had launched a drone since fighting escalated last week.
Israel reported that its so-called Iron Dome defense system intercepted several rockets fired from Gaza, including one Monday evening over Tel Aviv.
Sinai:4 lightly injured in recent rocket attack on Eilat.
GM is alive. Drivers are dead. Any questions?
By Oleg Atbashian | First published in PJ Media
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Remember the arrogant 2012 bumper sticker based on Joe Biden's boast at the DNC? "GM is alive. Bin Laden is dead. Any questions?"
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Actually, I do have a question. Was Bin Laden driving GM's Chevy Cobalt when he died?
It now appears that many American civilians with absolutely no connection to al-Qaeda have also become dead or injured while driving one of those small, fuel-efficient Chevrolet Cobalt, Pontiac G5, or Saturn Ion.The Washington Post reports:"An investigation into General Motors' failure to recall millions of small cars containing a deadly ignition switch defect found a corporate culture in which employees failed to take responsibility for the problem, which has been linked to at least 13 deaths, said GM chief executive Mary T. Barra."This raises even more questions.
Notice the part about "a corporate culture in which employees failed to take responsibility for the problem." Was it because the employees knew that they were too big to fail?
How many of them were members of the United Auto Workers? Obama had rewarded this labor union's political shenanigans and donations to his campaign with 39 percent of General Motors. That alone should have taught the GM employees a lesson that real money comes, not from actual labor but from shady political dealings, and that honest work is for suckers.
General Motors waited more than a decade to recall their 2.6 million defective small cars worldwide. Obviously, the problem started long before the Obama administration decided to bail them out, thus rewarding bad behavior and costing Treasury a loss of roughly $10 billion.
That was yet another real-life lesson from which the GM employees could learn that withholding information is better than honest work, and that those who actually do honest work wind up paying for those who don't. Now GM is going to establish a compensation program for the victims and their families. How much of that cost will be covered by a taxpayer-funded bailout?
And now for the final question. Using GM chief executive's own language, who built that "corporate culture in which employees failed to take responsibility for the problem"?
According to her boss, the nation's chief executive, no one in particular. In president Obama's mind, businesses just happen to grow and develop their own cultures, like fungus. No one takes credit for a fungus culture; why should anyone take credit for a business culture? Whether you succeed or fail, the administration's credo is, "You didn't build that!"
GM officially confirms up to 13 deaths; trial lawyers are likely to raise the number to 60. Is that a fair cost of keeping GM alive? If so, how many lives and billions of taxpayer dollars will it take before the cost of this administration's meddling with the economy becomes prohibitive? At what point will it stop being fair and become criminal?
Ayn Rand's prophetic novel Atlas Shrugs has a chapter in which hundreds of people on a crowded train lose their lives because railroad employees have stopped taking responsibility for their actions. Their failure to take responsibility was a consequence of the nation's new culture of "fairness" and "equality" that was being promoted by an intrusive "progressive" government. In a twist of dark irony, all the participants in the story were fully supportive of that "fair" culture - from the corrupt government officials to the cowardly railroad executives to the clueless passengers who never figured out what had doomed them to die in a smoke-filled tunnel.
It seems that today the Obama administration, the "progressive" politicians, the unions, and all their low-information supporters, many of whom are driving GM's small, fuel-efficient cars, are writing an updated, real-life version of Atlas Shrugged, in which the story of General Motors is the latest contribution to this man-made dystopia.
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'Heroic' Archie to Be Shot Saving Gay Friend
LOS ANGELES — Jul 15, 2014
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Archie Comics will kill off Archie in July
For most of Archie Andrew's life, the red-headed comic book icon's biggest quandary was whether he liked Veronica or Betty.
The character's impending death comes in Wednesday's installment of "Life with Archie," a spin-off series that centers on grown-up renditions of Archie and his Riverdale pals. It brings a bold conclusion to Archie Comics' four-year-old modern makeover of the squeaky-clean, all-American character.
Freckle-faced Archie will meet his demise when he intervenes in an assassination attempt on senator Kevin Keller, Archie Comics' first openly gay character, who's pushing for more gun control in Riverdale. Archie's death, which was first announced in April, will mark the conclusion of the "Life with Archie" series.
"I think Archie Comics has taken a lot of risks in recent years, and this is the biggest risk they've taken yet," said Jonathan Merrifield, a longtime Archie fan who hosts the Riverdale Podcast about all things Archie. "If it shakes things up a little bit, and people end up checking it out and seeing what's going on in Archie Comics, it will be a risk that was smartly taken."
While casual fans likely still associate Archie with soda shops and sock hops — and that's still holds true for the very much alive teenage character in the original "Archie" series — Archie was thrust into adulthood with the launch of "Life with Archie" in 2010. The series kicked off after alternate futures were envisioned where the love-struck do-gooder married both Veronica and Betty.
Over the past four years, storylines in the more socially relevant series aimed at adult Archie fans have included Kevin's marriage to his husband, the death of longtime teacher Ms. Grundy, Archie love interest Cheryl Blossom tackling breast cancer and Jughead and friends dealing with financial struggles.
It's been a shift not unlike other changes in the modern comic book landscape, where Spider-Man's alter-ego is a multi-racial teenager and Wonder Woman wears pants.
"Every few years, we see a comic book tackling an issue that could be considered provocative," said Dave Luebke, owner of Dave's Comics in Richmond, Virginia. "It's interesting that the ending of 'Life with Archie' involves multiple social issues, but it's not surprising." (Luebke sold his rare 1942 "Archie" No. 1 comic book in 2009 for $38,837 at a Dallas auction.)
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and several Archie fans praised Archie Comics' decision to have the character sacrifice himself to save Kevin, who is depicted in "Life with Archie" as a married military veteran turned senator.
"In recent years, 'Life with Archie' has become one of the most unique books on the shelves by using its characters to address real world issues — from marriage equality to gun control — in a smart but accessible way," said Matt Kane, GLAAD's director of entertainment media. "Though the story is coming to a close, we look forward to seeing Kevin and Archie's stories continue in their remaining titles."
Others have voiced their concern on Archie Comics' Facebook page and other online forums that the character's death was unnecessary or too politicized.
Jon Goldwater, Archie Comics publisher and co-CEO, defended Archie's demise being a lesson about gun violence and diversity.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I don't agree," said Goldwater. "I think Riverdale is a place where everyone should feel welcome and safe. From my point of view, I'm proud of the stance we've taken here, and I don't think it's overtly political on any level."
Depending on the success of the final installments of "Life with Archie," Riverdale Podcast host Merrifield won't be surprised if Archie Comics takes on other topical issues in the near future.
"I'm sure there will be a tearful moment for me," he said of the character's death. "But this isn't goodbye. He'll be back in a couple of weeks in a book of reprints and the teenage 'Archie' will continue. Archie will still be around. He's always around."
"R.I.P. Archie ol' buddy"... see what happens when you get involved with politics.
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Big Corporations Have An OVERWHELMING Amount Of Power Over Our Food Supply
By Michael Snyder, on July 14th, 2014
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From our fields to our forks, huge corporations have an overwhelming amount of power over our food supply every step of the way. Right now there are more than 313 million people living in the United States, and the job of feeding all of those people is almost entirely in the hands of just a few dozen monolithic companies. If you do not like how our food is produced or you don't believe that it is healthy enough, it isn't very hard to figure out who is to blame. These mammoth corporations are not in business to look out for the best interests of the American people. Rather, the purpose of these corporations is to maximize wealth for their shareholders.
So the American people end up eating billions of pounds of extremely unhealthy food that is loaded with chemicals and additives each year, and we just keep getting sicker and sicker as a society. But these big corporations are raking in big profits, so they don't really care.If we did actually have a capitalist system in this country, we would have a high level of competition in the food industry. But instead, the U.S. food industry has become increasingly concentrated with each passing year.
Just consider the following numbers about the U.S. agricultural sector...The U.S. agricultural sector suffers from abnormally high levels of concentration. Most economic sectors have concentration ratios around 40%, meaning that the top four firms in the industry control 40% of the market. If the concentration ratio is above 40%, experts believe competition can be threatened and market abuses are more likely to occur: the higher the number, the bigger the threat.
The concentration ratios in the agricultural sector are shocking:-Four companies own 83.5% of the beef market.
-The top four firms own 66% of the hog industry.
-The top four firms control 58.5% of the broiler chicken industry.
-In the seed industry, four companies control 50% of the proprietary seed market and 43% of the commercial seed market worldwide.
-When it comes to genetically engineered (GE) crops, just one company, Monsanto, boasts control of over 85% of U.S. corn acreage and 91% of U.S. soybean acreage.When so much power is concentrated in so few hands, it creates some tremendous dangers.
And many of these giant corporations (such as Monsanto) are extremely ruthless. Small farmers all over America are being wiped out and forced out of the business by the predatory business practices of these huge companies...Because farmers rely on both buyers and sellers for their business, concentrated markets squeeze them at both ends. Sellers with high market power can inflate the prices of machinery, seeds, fertilizers and other goods that farmers need for their farms, while powerful buyers, such as processors, suppress the prices farmers are paid. The razor-thin profit margins on which farmers are forced to operate often push them to "get big or get out"—expanding into mega-operations or exiting the business altogether.Of course the control that big corporations have over our food supply does not end at the farms.
The distribution of our food is also very highly concentrated. The graphic shared below was created by Oxfam International, and it shows how just 10 gigantic corporations control almost everything that we buy at the grocery store...
And these food distributors are often not very good citizens either.
For example, it was recently reported that Nestle is running a massive bottled water operation on a drought-stricken Indian reservation in California...Among the windmills and creosote bushes of San Gorgonio Pass, a nondescript beige building stands flanked by water tanks. A sign at the entrance displays the logo of Arrowhead 100% Mountain Spring Water, with water flowing from a snowy mountain. Semi-trucks rumble in and out through the gates, carrying load after load of bottled water.
The plant, located on the Morongo Band of Mission Indians' reservation, has been drawing water from wells alongside a spring in Millard Canyon for more than a decade. But as California's drought deepens, some people in the area question how much water the plant is bottling and whether it's right to sell water for profit in a desert region where springs are rare and underground aquifers have been declining.
Nestle doesn't stop to ask whether it is right or wrong to bottle water in the middle of the worst drought in the recorded history of the state of California.They have the legal right to do it and they are making large profits doing it, and so they are just going to keep on doing it.
Perhaps you are thinking that you can avoid all of these corporations by eating organic and by shopping at natural food stores.
Well, it isn't necessarily that easy.
According to author Wenonah Hauter, the "health food industry" is also extremely concentrated...Over the past 20 years, Whole Foods Market has acquired its competition, including Wellspring Grocery, Bread of Life, Bread & Circus, Food for Thought, Fresh Fields, Wild Oats Markets and others. Today the chain dominates the market because it has no national competitor. Over the past five years its gross sales have increased by half (47 percent) to $11.7 billion, and its net profit quadrupled to $465.6 million. One of the ways it has achieved this profitability is by selling conventional foods under the false illusion that they are better than products sold at a regular grocery store. Consumers falsely conclude that these products have been screened and are better, and they are willing to pay a higher price.
The distribution of organic foods is also extremely concentrated. A little-known company, United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) now controls the distribution of organic and natural products. Publically traded, the company has a contract with Whole Foods and it is the major source of these products for the remaining independent natural food stores. This relationship has resulted in increasingly high prices for these foods. Small manufacturers are dependent on contracts with UNFI to get their products to market and conversely, small retailers often have to pay a premium price for products because of their dependence on this major distributor. Over the past five years, UNFI's net sales increased by more than half (55.6 percent) $5.2. billion. Its net profit margin increased by 88 percent to $91 million.Everywhere you look, the corporations are in control.(http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10-Corporations-Control-What-We-Eat.png)
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And this is especially true when you look at big food retailers such as Wal-Mart.
Right now, grocery sales account for about half of all business at Wal-Mart, and approximately one out of every three dollars spent on groceries in the United States is spent at Wal-Mart.
That is absolutely astounding, and it obviously gives Wal-Mart an immense amount of power.
In fact, if you can believe it, Wal-Mart actually purchases a billion pounds of beef every single year.
So the next time someone asks you where the beef is, you can tell them that it is at Wal-Mart.On the restaurant side, the ten largest fast food corporations account for 47 percent of all fast food sales, and the love affair that Americans have with fast food does not appear to be in danger of ending any time soon.
Personally, if you do not like how these corporate giants are behaving, you can always complain.
But you are just one person among 313 million, and most of these big corporations are not going to consider the ramblings of one person to be of any significance whatsoever.
Collectively, however, we have great power. And the way that we are going to get these big corporations to change is by voting with our wallets.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans seem quite satisfied with the status quo. So the population as a whole is likely going to continue to get sicker, fatter and less healthy with each passing year, and the big food corporations are going to keep becoming even more powerful.
Palestinian National and Islamic Forces representative:
"We call on our Palestinian people, particularly the residents of northwest Gaza, not to obey what is written in the pamphlets distributed by the Israeli occupation army. We call on them to remain in their homes and disregard the demands to leave, however serious the threat may be."
[Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas), July 14, 2014](What a bunch of sick, SICK BASTARDS!!!)
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Israel deploys ground troops in Northern Gaza
FOX.NEWSIsrael vs Hamas 'We will get them'-Israel deploys ground troops in northern Gaza
Israel warned residents of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to evacuate their homes before briefly deploying ground troops there for the first time early Sunday as part of a widening offensive that has killed more than 160 Palestinians.
Neither Israel nor Palestinian militants show signs of agreeing to a cease-fire, despite calls by the United Nations Security Council and others to end the increasingly bloody six-day offensive. With Israel massing tanks and soldiers at Gaza's borders, some fear that could signal a wider ground offensive that would cause heavy casualties.
"We don't know when the operation will end," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting Sunday. "It might take a long time."
Early Sunday, Israeli troops launched a brief raid into northern Gaza to destroy what the military described as a rocket-launching site, an operation the military said left four soldiers slightly wounded.
The Israeli air force later dropped leaflets warning residents to evacuate their homes ahead of what Israel's military spokesman described as a "short and temporary" campaign against northern Gaza to begin sometime after 12 p.m. (0900 GMT). The area is home to at least 100,000 people.
It was not clear whether the possible attack would be confined to stepped-up airstrikes or whether it might include a sizeable ground offensive -- something that Israel has so far been reluctant to undertake.
As the ultimatum drew near, hundreds fled Beit Lahiya, one of the communities the Israeli announcement affected. Some raced by in pickup trucks, waving white flags.
"They are sending warning messages," resident Mohammad Abu Halemah said. "Once we received the message, we felt scared to stay in our homes. We want to leave."
Adnan Abu Hassna, a spokesman for the U.N. agency in charge of aiding Palestinian refugees, said eight schools were opened as temporary shelters, and about 4,000 people had moved in. He said more schools would be opened if needed.
Ignoring international appeals for a cease-fire, Israel widened its range of Gaza bombing targets Saturday to include civilian institutions with suspected Hamas ties. One strike hit a center for the disabled, killing two patients and wounding four people. In a second attack, an Israeli warplane flattened the home of Gaza police chief Taysir al-Batsh and damaged a nearby mosque as evening prayers ended, killing at least 18 people. Fifty were wounded, including al-Batsh himself.
On Sunday, hundreds chanting "God is Great" joined the funeral procession for 17 members of al-Batsh's extended family who were killed. Among the dead were his sister-in-law and her husband, along with the couple's seven children, ranging in age from 13 to 28. A neighbor also was killed.
Mourners carried the bodies, wrapped in the green flags of the Islamic militant Hamas, through the streets on stretchers.
The attack reduced the al-Batsh family home to sand and rubble. Abdallah al-Batsh, a nephew of the police chief, said Israel had not given warning before the strike.
Hamas activists said the group's military wing had asked the families of its members to leave their homes, after Israel targeted several such homes in a series of airstrikes.
On Sunday, Palestinians with foreign passports began leaving Gaza through the Erez border crossing. Israel, which is cooperating in the evacuation, said 800 Palestinians living in Gaza have passports from countries including Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S.
Rawan Mohanna, a 21-year-old chemistry major at the University of Texas, said she had arrived in Gaza with her family a month ago because her older sister was getting married to a Gazan.
"We got the wedding out of the way before all of this happened," Mohanna said. Mohanna, who lives in Dallas, said her family is now returning to the U.S. with mixed feelings because her newlywed sister and other relatives were staying behind.
"We are so fortunate ... that we have the right to travel," she said. "People in Gaza, they can't even leave, and that's such a basic right. It's stripped away from them. It's bittersweet that we get to leave but they are still there and they can't get out."
Israel has launched more than 1,300 air strikes since the offensive began, military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said Sunday. Palestinian militants have launched more than 800 rockets at Israel, including 130 in the last 24 hours, the Israeli military said Sunday. Several Israelis have been wounded, but there have been no fatalities.
SHOCK VIDEO>>> Illegals Arrive in Bus and Shop at Walmart With EBT Cards and they aren't children by any means...
A school bus of illegal immigrants reportedly pulled up at a Walmart in North Carolina and shopped with EBT cards. The woman in the video says the immigrants could not speak English and were reportedly staying in China Grove.Mad World News has more on the incident:
Sylvia Locklear was on her lunch break Sunday afternoon around 1:30 p.m. when she noticed something strange happening in the parking lot of Walmart in Concord, NC – there was busloads of what appeared to be adult illegal immigrants being dropped off to shop for everything from food to pillows and blankets. Angered by her discovery, Sylvia decided she was going to investigate a little further, and what she found should outrage every American citizen.
In the video above, Sylvia can be heard talking to another person who presumably was curious about what was going on, so she explained to them that prior to taking the video she had tried to talk to the people on the bus. Not only could they barely speak English, but one of them had said they had just arrived in America.
We all know that this has been happening, however, the sheriff of her town had said that they weren't allowing any illegals to be shipped in, so it would appear as if
the Obama regime is once again placing undue burdens on the states and not even letting them know what's going on. What's worse is that in the comments under the video she posted to Facebook, Sylvia said that when she was in line behind them that they were using government-issued EBT cards to pay for their purchases.
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Usually, political press conferences are pretty dry. But, this one in Japan is different. Watch as this politician turns on the waterworks and puts on a hilarious show for the cameras after he was accused of misusing public funds.Short version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3pZMA5275M
Long Version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VezPgvGxzDk
(ミヤネ屋 野々村兵庫県議: :o :( >:( ::) ::)
あれだけ泣きわめいて(いるように見えて)涙など出ていないだろ。 :-\ ::)
典型的火病発症なのだよ.この人,つまりは、ぼくがやったことは、 :o :oすべてあなた方のためにやったことで、なんで、 :'(こんな誹謗中傷的なことでぼくが責められなければならないのですか？ :-X ::) :'(
って、言ってるの？それで号泣してるんて゜すか？ :angel:
だったら、ウソつくなよ！ :laugh: :laugh: ... Warph)
That's a good one. Sadly, that's looking like where the world is going.
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That's a good one. Sadly, that's looking like where the world is going.
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Hurricane Isabel struck Washington, D.C. hard that night.
It was Sept. 18, 2003. I lived in Alexandria, Va., at the time. I rode out the storm reading a book and enjoying a glass of wine.
At the Arlington National Cemetery, just a few miles from where I sat, the sentinels who stand guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns were having an entirely different experience.
The Tomb of the Unknowns was established in 1921. Three of its chambers contain the remains of unknown soldiers from World War I, World War II and Korea (a fourth chamber had contained the remains of an unknown soldier from the Vietnam war until DNA technology determined his identity).
Only the finest soldiers are selected to guard the Tomb. The sentinels are specially trained soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). They watch over the Tomb 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As each solitary guard paces before the Tomb, his movements are precise, his dress impeccable.
Each guard's dedication is made clear by the Sentinel's Creed:"My dedication to this sacred duty is total and wholehearted.
In the responsibility bestowed on me never will I falter.
And with dignity and perseverance my standard will remain perfection.
Through the years of diligence and praise and the discomfort of the elements,
I will walk my tour in humble reverence to the best of my ability.
It is he who commands the respect I protect.
His bravery that made us so proud.
Surrounded by well-meaning crowds by day alone in the thoughtful peace of night,
this soldier will in honored glory rest under my eternal vigilance."
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Which brings us back to Hurricane Isabel.
For the first time in the Tomb's history, in preparation of a potentially dangerous storm, the commanding officers established a contingency plan.
The sentinels were free to withdraw to safer positions under the Memorial Amphitheater arches or inside the trophy room should conditions become life-threatening — positions from which they could still maintain their mission watching over the Tomb.
But none would leave.It is a solemn duty to march before the Tomb, after all. The sentinel's meticulous ritual is an outward display of gratitude and remembrance for the sacrifices so many have made for their country — particularly the unknown soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice.
By guarding the Tomb with eternal vigilance, the sentinel validates the words of the soldier's prayer:"It is the soldier who has given us our freedoms. It's the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It's the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It's the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to object. It's the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial...."
And so, as Hurricane Isabel struck — 24 trees were uprooted across the cemetery and three headstones were crushed — each sentinel took turns standing his ground.
There really was no other option. How could a sentinel retreat to safer ground in the midst of a dinky hurricane when so many others have given so much more?
The next time you visit Washington, D.C., pay a visit to the Tomb of the Unknowns at the Arlington National Cemetery.
It is one place where American sacrifice, duty and honor are on full display 24 hours a day every day of the week.
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Our Country Is Going To The DOGS!
I speak of a recent article on the Fast Company website that touts the benefits of employees bringing their dogs to work. According to various studies, the article reports, dogs in the workplace improve productivity and reduce stress.
It's true that stress has been around a long time. It's a costly work hazard that results in employee turnover, absenteeism and waning morale. And, says the American Institute of Stress, our still-troubled economy and constant reports of foreclosures and layoffs are making employees even more anxious and stressed.
So some companies — eager to improve productivity and profitability — have been doing all kinds of things to address the challenge. They're offering yoga classes to employees. They're providing stress-management courses, back rubs and stress hotlines that overanxious employees can call 24 hours each day. They're setting up tents where employees can nap on their breaks.
And they're letting employees bring their dogs to work.
Look, the origin of stress goes back to the early days of mankind, when many creatures didn't view us as their superiors, but as their lunch. When a man saw a lion coming his way, he was overcome by stress. The stress brought on an adrenaline rush, and the adrenaline sent one message, loud and clear, throughout the man's body:
RUN!But long after mankind's stress mechanism was needed for survival, we continue to suffer from it. For much of human history, many have suffered poverty and brutality, not knowing where their next meal would come from and not knowing what rival would invade their village. That's stress.
Now, I know our lives are hectic today. We have to keep up with rapid advances in technology. We live in distant cities, far away from our families and friends. In many families, both parents work, which keeps households busy and scattered. And there is the looming worry about the economy, government overspending and the potential for a real barnburner of a collapse.
But our solution to these stress-inducing matters is to bring our dogs to work?
That may be a nice, temporary Band-Aid for some, but the real solution is to get to the root cause of most of our stress: an out-of-control federal government that is increasing regulations, spending and taxes at record rates, which is burdening private companies and putting more jobs at risk.
According to The Hill newspaper, the Obama administration increased the Code of Federal Regulations by 7.4 percent in its first three years — compared to 4.4 percent during George W. Bush's first term.
"More 'major rules,' those with an annual economic impact exceeding $100 million, were enacted in 2010 than in any year dating back to at least 1997, according to the (Congressional Research Service)," The Hill reports.
A study by George Mason University's Mercatus Center found that the number of rules and regulations ballooned from 71,224 pages in 1975 to 174,545 pages in 2012.Here's what should really be stressing us out: that so few people are aware of the correlation between big, costly government and the negative effects of growing red tape on private employers and economic vitality.Yoga, stress hotlines and dogs in the workplace are a nice touch, but until we correct the root cause of our economic woes, we will not return to the euphoric levels of growth and prosperity we have enjoyed for much of this country's history.
Without robust growth, we will never have the means to meet our looming entitlement obligations — heck, we don't have enough tax revenue coming in now to meet our current obligations.
Rather than address these core challenges, our current political "leadership" is making them worse.
Like I said, our country is going to the dogs — and there's no greater source of stress than that.
New York Newspaper Chain Says It Will No Longer
Use Word "Redskins" In Its Papers
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(GROAN... WHAT A BUNCH OF HORSE CRAP! I wonder how many subscribers they'll lose on this crappy decision. Alot, I hope!)
WILLIAMSVILLE, NY - The Bee Group Newspapers, publisher of several suburban papers with roughly 45,000 paid subscribers in Western New York, says it will no longer use the word "Redskins" to identify sports teams at any level of competition.
"I've never said to anyone, 'I'm going to interview some redskins for a story," said the newspaper group's managing editor David F. Sherman.
According to Sherman, the decision was made after six weeks of staff discussion on the topic.
"It was a corporate decision from the publisher on down, to say we just don't feel comfortable using this term," Sherman told WGRZ-TV.
The decision will affect how the paper refers to Lancaster High School teams in particular, which have used the nickname Redskins for 67 years.
"We'll just refer to them as the Lancaster football team or the Lancaster field hockey team. I know that (nickname) is something that is very much a part of that community and I understand that, but things change... you're talking about someone's skin color as their ethnicity. That's their nickname."
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Companies To Keep Rates Down Ahead of Midterms
(Because he's Crooked Obuma, that's why)
Via Allen West:It was the line from The Godfather that will never be forgotten: "I'm gonna make you an offer you can't refuse." The Chicago thugocracy of Barack Hussein Obama took that tactic with health insurance companies to make them swallow Obamacare in the first place, and
is now quietly bribing them to "postpone" rate hikes scheduled to come out right before the midterms.According to Forbes.com, " Hidden in the midst of a 436-page regulatory update, and written in pure bureaucratese, the Department of Health and Human Services asked that insurance companies limit the looming premium increases for 2015 health plans.
But don't worry, HHS hinted: we'll bail you out on the taxpayer's dime if you lose money. No wonder there wasn't a press release. The White House is playing politics with Americans' health care—and they're bribing health insurance companies to play along."
Ok, let me clarify: the Obama administration has sneaked in a regulatory rule update asking health insurance companies not to do their job accurately if it means higher insurance premiums. After all Obama — aka Vito Corleone — stated Obamacare would bring about an average reduction of $2500 to healthcare premiums. Now, here is the offer the insurance companies can't refuse: "even if you're losing money, we'll square it away for you" —
with taxpayer dollars of course.
Millions of Americans installing
'perfect spying device'
in their own living rooms:
Amazon Fire TV
monitors and records your conversations
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tags: Amazon Fire TV, audio surveillance, perfect spying device
(NaturalNews) Amazon.com is building the CIA's new $600 million data center, reports the Financial Times. (1) At the same time Amazon.com is building this massive cloud computing infrastructure for the CIA, the company is also shipping millions of Fire TV set-top devices to customers who are placing them in their private homes. I have one myself, and it's a terrific piece of hardware for delivering Prime video content. In fact, in terms of its usability and specs, it's far superior to Roku or Netflix-capable devices. Fire TV is, hands down, the best set-top video delivery device on the market today.
But there's something about it that always struck me as odd: it has no power button. There's no power button on the remote, and there's no power button on the box. It turns out there's no way to power the device off except for unplugging it.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/046009_Amazon_Fire_TV_audio_surveillance_perfect_spying_device.html#ixzz37jdUZ0BI
Great article, Ross. Hope everyone read it.:
"Millions of Americans installing'perfect spying device' in their own living rooms: Amazon Fire TV monitors and records your conversations"
Checkout this article:
How the CIA Partnered With Amazon and Changed Intelligence
The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community. If the technology plays out as officials envision, it will usher in a new era of cooperation and coordination, allowing agencies to share information and services much more easily and avoid the kind of intelligence gaps that preceded the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
For the first time, agencies within the IC will be able to order a variety of on-demand computing and analytic services from the CIA and National Security Agency. What's more, they'll only pay for what they use.
More at: http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/07/how-cia-partnered-amazon-and-changed-intelligence/88555/?oref=defenseone_today_nl
New Walmart Care Clinic Launching In Two SC Locations
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(Roll back prices?)
Via WISTVWalmart is getting into the healthcare game.
A clinic will open in Sumter and Florence at the end of July that could drive down healthcare costs across the community.
If they're successful, the concept could spread.
"You hear articles and news stories all the time about how the cost of healthcare has skyrocketed, and it has. It's really a problem, and finding smart ways to get the cost down is important," said Dr. Jason Leonard with Colonial Family Practice.
Across town, you'd expect family physician Dr. Jason Leonard to fear the big-box competition, but that isn't the case.
"I really don't think so," Leonard said. "I think that it's a great thing that they're opening. I think that it really can take some pressure off the emergency room. There's so many non-emergent emergency room visits each year."
A Walmart spokeswoman told WIS a store in Florence, South Carolina and a handful in Texas will begin the pilot project called Walmart Care Clinic.
Employees will pay just $4, customers just $40 for access to medical care from screening and vaccinations to treatment of sicknesses and even chronic conditions like high blood pressure and diabetes.
"We have a nickname for these things," said Lynn Bailey with Lynn Bailey Associates. "We call them docs in a box. They're actually quite good at managing diabetics and hypertension and high cholesterol."
Bailey, a medical expert, thinks the Walmart clinics will spread as medical costs in the US continue to grow.
Total spending for healthcare reached $2.7 trillion in 2011, according to national health expenditures.
Walmart is promising a "new price position for retail health services."
"I call it convenience care," Bailey said. "It's care that fits most people's schedule. They don't have to make an appointment."
Back across town, Dr. Leonard is hoping the extra option will cut down on emergency room wait times too.
"When you go to the emergency room for a non-emergent visit, it increases the wait-time," Leonard said. "It increases resources and it also delays people who truly have an emergency from seeking care."
Walmart says the Care Clinics will accept insurance including Medicare. You can pay with cash, credit or checks.
According to the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, these clinics will also accept Medicaid.
Nurse practitioners will be able to write prescriptions.
The Sumter clinic is set to open on July 31
American Traitor Bradley Manning Begins His Taxpayer Funded Gender Reassignment Treatment
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(Bradley will become "Chelsea" and we get stuck with the bill...
sick world! Put him/her up against the wall and shoot the traitor)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bureau of Prisons has rejected the Army's request to accept the transfer of national security leaker Pvt. Chelsea Manning from a military prison. So the military will begin treatment for her gender-identity condition.
A defense official said Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has approved the Army's recommendation to keep Manning in military custody and start a rudimentary level of gender treatment.
The Army tried to get Manning transferred to the federal prison system, but officials said those discussions have ended.
Manning has been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the sense of being a woman in a man's body. Civilian prisons can provide treatment, but the Defense Department doesn't have the medical expertise needed.
WH: Yeah, Obuma's Doing Photo-Ops, Attending Fundraisers In Midst of Crisis,
But Here's A Picture of the CLOWN To Show He's Got It Under Control
(See, nothing to worry about.)
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CNN Reporter Calls Israelis "Scum"
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(Classy stuff, CNN)
Via The Blaze:CNN international correspondent Diana Magnay called a group Israelis "scum" Thursday as she says the group was cheering as Israel continued its aggressive action against Gaza.
"Israelis on hill above Sderot cheer as bombs land on #gaza; threaten to 'destroy our car if I say a word wrong'. Scum," Magnay tweeted. She quickly deleted the controversial post.The CNN reporter has been silent on Twitter ever since.
Faux Outrage Alert: Nancy Pelosi Says It's "Stunning"
GOP Has Politicized Border Crisis
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Because über-hack Nancy Pelosi never politicizes anything.
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Harry Reid: Illegal Immigrants Are Now "Legitimate Residents"
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Via The Hill:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says immigrants who came to the country illegally at a young age are now legitimate residents and should not be deported.
Reid made the remarks in response to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is demanding that an emergency spending bill for the border reverse President Obama's 2012 order halting deportations of so-called Dreamers.
"Before Republicans help our Border Patrol agents and all the personnel trying to do something to handle this humanitarian crisis, they want President Obama to deport the Dreamers who are already here, legitimately here," he said on the Senate floor Thursday morning.
Senate Panel Backs 1 Percent Pay Increase And Cut In Housing Allowances For Military
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What is the cost to the military for housing the illegals?
Via Military Times Senate appropriators plan to fund only a 1 percent basic pay raise for troops next year and will go along with a Pentagon proposal to trim housing allowances in an effort to rein in personnel costs.
The moves, if adopted later this week, leave troops and families with a mixed message from lawmakers about how much belt tightening they'll see next year.
On Tuesday, members of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee offered their $549.3 billion funding plan for military operations in fiscal 2015, including $59.7 billion for overseas contingency operations and $128.4 billion in personnel spending.
That's about $300 million more than what House appropriators had set aside for personnel costs and about $400 million less than the White House had asked for. But the details indicate a more divided picture on how the changes will affect troops, one that lawmakers in both chambers will have to reconcile in coming months.
The Senate's 1 percent raise proposal mirrors White House requests for a modest pay increase, a move that would save $3.8 billion over five years. Earlier this year, the Senate Armed Services Committee included the same capped pay raise in its draft of the annual defense authorization bill.
Senators said the move, while difficult, will help free up funds for other priorities without cutting too deeply into troops' wallets.
But House appropriators in June funded a 1.8 percent pay raise, in line with increases in private-sector wages. The chamber also approved its draft of the defense authorization bill in May with language backing the 1.8 percent increase, although without any provisions to actually mandate the higher figure.
Pentagon officials have argued that lower pay raises are needed to keep costs in check and prevent personnel accounts from sapping money for readiness and modernization programs. Outside military advocates have argued that even the small pay difference will hurt military families already struggling to make ends meet.
Military officials also have lobbied to trim troops' housing allowances, scaling back from covering 100 percent of average housing costs to 95 percent in coming years, with troops expected to cover that average 5 percent out of their own pockets. Senate appropriators backed that plan, again mirroring their Senate Armed Services Committee counterparts. But the House has twice rejected the idea.
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From Tweets To Shoes, NASA Relives Apollo 11 Moon Shot
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Astronaut Gordon Cooper prays with his
wife Trudy and daughters Jan and Cam,
before dinner on patio at home.
(Back when NASA had a mission. Expect a Obuma selfie tweet on 20 July)
Via Houston ChronAt this time in 1969, much of the world was caught up in the drama of Neil Armstrong making the first human footprints on the moon.
And just as NASA threw its best technology at getting to the moon in 1969, the agency and some of its biggest fans are throwing today's best technology at celebrating the 45-year anniversary this week.
Apollo 11 touched down on the moon's surface for the first time July 20, 1969.
In tribute, the space agency has generated a lively global conversation with a series of tweets carrying the hashtag #Apollo45. The posts retrace the steps of the moon mission, from launch to return.
Truly die-hard space fans can flip through the 353-page flight plan that covers every nuance — as well it should — of the approximately 250,000-mile trip. There's also the 248-page transcription of every word the astronauts said during the flight.
In military fashion, the flight plan is full of abbreviations, such as LM (lunar module), CDR (commander, Neil Armstrong), LMP (lunar module pilot, Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr.) and CMP (Command module pilot, Michael Collins).
At one point, Collins is giving a camera to Aldrin: "I'll just let go of it, Buzz; it will be hanging over here in the air."
The flight plan was much drier, stating, for example, that three entries into the lunar module were scheduled at times described as 56:30, 86:30 and 95:52.
"The frst entry ... will be for LM familiarization and will be performed by the CDR and LMP in the constant wear garments," the plan stated.
Page 74 had a space to enter the latitude and longitude coordinates of the desired landing area, as well as the orbit ignition time in hours, minutes and seconds, to reach the desired landing area.
Then, at p. 101, the detailed timeline begins. It describes the entire flight in 10-minute intervals, with notations for everything from technical maneuvers to nine-hour rest periods.
In tribute to the anniversary, GE has teamed up with Android Homme and JackThreads to issue sneakers in the style of NASA moon shoes, according to undustrytap.com. They are scheduled to go on sale at 4:18 p.m. eastern time July 20, the time of the moon landing.
US Jews Furious Over 'Washington Post' Cartoon Showing
Netanyahu Punching Palestinian Infant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtmUL4IVIq4
(The SICK WAPO is so progressive they will only refer
to the Redskins as That Team)
Via JPosthttp://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/US-Jews-furious-over-Washington-Post-cartoon-showing-Netanyahu-punching-Palestinian-infant-363403[/b]
A prominent American Jewish organization is denouncing The Washington Post for posting an animated cartoon on its YouTube channel depicting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu beating a Palestinian infant.
The caricature is aimed at apportioning blame equally between Israel and Hamas for the suffering of Gazan civilians. It was created by Ann Telnaes, one of the newspaper's editorial cartoonists.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center declared its outrage over the cartoon. In a statement released to news agencies on Friday, the center's associate dean, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, said the clip was "disgusting."
"It is disgusting that The Washington Post would present an animated cartoon that is so profoundly removed from the truth," said Cooper. "Millions of Israeli citizens—men, women, and children—have been forced into bomb shelters and saferooms by thousands of missiles and rockets targeted at them by Hamas terrorists, whose open and avowed goal is the destruction of the Jewish state."
"Even Israel's enemies have recognized that Israel's military countermeasures against Hamas have included phone and text warnings as well as leaflets urging innocent civilians in Gaza to vacate the targeted areas," Cooper said. "It is the Hamas leadership that openly uses the people of Gaza to act as human shields to protect their weapons of mass destruction."
"Israelis are saddened by the deaths of four Palestinian children on a Gaza beach yesterday, but the blood of these innocent children is on the hands of Hamas leaders, not Binyamin Netanyahu," Rabbi Cooper also said.
Obuma To Sign Two LGBT Executive Orders That Will Force Christian Groups With Government Contracts To Violate Their Religious Beliefs
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to sign executive orders Monday prohibiting discrimination against gay and transgender workers in the federal government and its contracting agencies, without a new exemption that was requested by some religious organizations.
Obama's action comes on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in the Hobby Lobby case that allowed some religiously oriented businesses to opt out of the federal health care law's requirement that contraception coverage be provided to workers at no extra charge. Senior administration officials said Friday that ruling has no impact on non-discrimination policies in federal hiring and contracting.
Since Obama announced last month that he would sign the orders, he's faced pressure from opposing flanks over the religious exemption and given no indication of where he would come down. Many religious leaders and conservative groups wanted him to exempt religious organizations from the order, while liberal clergy and gay advocacy groups adamantly opposed such an exemption.
The senior officials said Obama's action planned for Monday at the White House would amend two executive orders. The first, signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, prohibits federal contractors from discriminating based on race, religion, gender or nationality in hiring. Obama plans to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protections, and order the Labor Department to carry out the order. The officials said that means the change will probably take effect by early next year.
The senior officials said Obama's action planned for Monday at the White House would amend two executive orders. The first, signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, prohibits federal contractors from discriminating based on race, religion, gender or nationality in hiring. Obama plans to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protections, and order the Labor Department to carry out the order. The officials said that means the change will probably take effect by early next year.
While few religious organizations are among the biggest federal contractors, they do provide some valued services, including overseas relief and development programs and re-entry programs for inmates leaving federal prisons.
Reuters Poll: Obuma's Approval Rating Drops To 37%
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Via Reuters daily tracking poll:
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Federal Health Experts
Plan to Turn Our Shopping Carts Into
Computerized Versions of Michelle Obama
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First, it was Michelle's White House vegetable garden. Then it was her school lunch program. Now, a new report from the Department of Agriculture explains that the government wants to use a variety of tools – including "talking shopping carts" – to influence the items we buy at the grocery store.
The 80-page report, prepared by an "expert panel," makes recommendations on how to "nudge" the more than 47 million Americans on food stamps (SNAP) into spending their benefits on fruits and vegetables.
"Most Americans, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants, do not purchase enough whole grains, dark green and orange vegetables, and legumes, and purchase too many items with excess calories from fats and added sugars."
Enter the talking shopping cart.The cart would be color-coded, physically divided, and have a system installed so that when the shopping cart reaches its healthy "threshold" it would congratulate the customer.
(Not unlike a first-grader receiving a gold star for a job well done?)
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"The algorithm would group the purchases to classify them and provide consumers with a message of support or encouragement, e.g., "You achieved a healthy shopping basket!" (More gold stars!)
So, would the carts work to the government's satisfaction? Keeping with the "rewarding a first-grader" idea, here's why it thinks so:
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"The principle of self-attribution suggests that when an individual perceives they have the ability to freely choose between options, they are more likely to be satisfied with the choice they make.
Using this principle, positioning healthier items for increased salience can support consumers choosing healthier options."
So basically, even though you're being manipulated, if you think it's your idea, you're happy. Especially if you get a gold star!
Of course we should eat healthy foods. No one (with a modicum of sense) disputes that. The question is, is it the government's job to not only tell us what to eat, but how much of it we should eat? Gold stars, or not.
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/07/158363-talking-shopping-carts-congratulate-customer-buying-healthy-food/
State police now fingerprinting every Texan
By Jon Cassidy / July 15, 2014
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PRINTS: The Department of Public Safety wants everybody's fingerprints.HOUSTON – The Texas Department of Public Safety has quietly embarked on a project to take the fingerprints of every Texan old enough to drive over the next 12 years, and add them to a statewide criminal history database.
Not only has the department made that momentous decision on its own, it doesn't even have clear legal authority to do so.
The credit for breaking the news on those two items goes to consumer affairs columnist Dave Lieber of the Dallas Morning News, whose long-running "Watchdog" column often shows up in my Google Alerts, for obvious reasons.
As an old-school columnist, Lieber tends to keep his opinions subdued, and he doesn't generally call people dishonest. But I have no problem with doing that, so I'd like to point out that the DPS spokesman he quotes at length is less than straightforward about his department's legal authority.
Last month, Lieber broke the news that DPS had started collecting full sets of fingerprints on everyone who went in to renew their license.
Friday, he followed up with a story on DPS' dubious legal authority to do so, and then posted lengthy quotations on the issue to his blog.
Lieber quotes an entire email from DPS spokesman Tom Vinger, who quotes Transportation Code Sec. 521.059 at length, including the key phrase, "The department shall establish an image verification system based on the following identifiers collected by the department: ....an applicant's thumbprints or fingerprints."
So clearly, the law contemplates the collection of fingerprints under some circumstance, but the passage quoted by Vinger doesn't mention anything else about it.
You could look up that section of law online, but the sections immediately surrounding it in the Texas Transportation Code don't clarify the matter.
To get the full context, you'd have to go back to the original bill that was signed into law, and then look up the relevant section of law, which states that an application for a drivers' license "must include: 1) the thumbprints of the applicant or, if thumbprints cannot be taken, the index fingerprints of the applicant."
So that's why the law mentions fingerprints – it's index fingerprints, not a full set of 10 fingerprints. While the law mentions that those records can be used by law enforcement agencies investigating a crime, it doesn't say anything about making them generally available in a criminal database.
According to Lieber, a political science professor at Texas Christian University named Donald W. Jackson, who has a new organization called the North Texas Civil Rights Project, is offering legal support if anybody wants to challenge this new policy in court.
Lieber says the solution is for the Legislature to pass a clear law on the matter. I'd add that it throws into question the wisdom of having a law enforcement agency oversee licensing at all. The investigative function will always trump privacy rights.
http://watchdog.org/159443/state-police-now-fingerprinting-every-texan/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saturday_29
How the Clintons went from 'dead broke' to rich: Bill earned $104.9 million for speeches
By Philip Rucker, Tom Hamburger and Alexander Becker
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"The financial industry has been
Bill Clinton's most frequent sponsor,
paying him $19.6 million for at least 100 appearances.
Most of Bill Clinton's speaking fees — $55.3 million —
came from foreign appearances, many of them in
China, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom."
Over seven frenetic days, Bill Clinton addressed corporate executives in Switzerland and Denmark, an investors' group in Sweden and a cluster of business and political leaders in Austria. The former president wrapped up his European trip in the triumphant Spanish Hall at Prague Castle, where he shared his thoughts on energy to a Czech business summit.
His pay: $1.4 million.That lucrative week in May 2012 offers a glimpse into the way Clinton has leveraged his global popularity into a personal fortune. Starting just two weeks after exiting the Oval Office, Clinton has delivered hundreds of paid speeches, lifting a family that was "dead broke," as wife Hillary Rodham Clinton phrased it earlier this month, to a point of such extraordinary wealth that it is now seen as a potential political liability if she runs for president in 2016.
Bill Clinton has been paid $104.9 million for 542 speeches around the world between January 2001, when he left the White House, and January 2013, when Hillary stepped down as secretary of state, according to a Washington Post review of the family's federal financial disclosures.
Although slightly more than half of his appearances were in the United States, the majority of his speaking income, $56.3 million, came from foreign speeches, many of them in China, Japan, Canada and the United Kingdom, the Post review found.
The financial industry has been Clinton's most frequent sponsor. The Post review showed that Wall Street banks and other financial services firms have hired Clinton for at least 102 appearances and paid him a total of $19.6 million.
Since leaving the State Department, Hillary Clinton has followed her husband and a roster of recent presidents and secretaries of state in this profitable line of work, addressing dozens of industry groups, banks and other organizations for pay. Records of her earnings are not publicly available, but executives familiar with the engagements said her standard fee is $200,000 and up, and that she has been in higher demand than her husband.
The speaking itineraries could be a political challenge for Hillary Clinton should she run for president, giving opponents an opening to attack the Clintons for being beholden to powerful interests. Some companies that have paid Bill Clinton for speeches have faced scrutiny from federal regulators.
Matt McKenna, a spokesman for Bill Clinton, and Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton, declined to comment.
Clinton's income from speaking, unlike that of other former presidents, is detailed in annual public disclosures because his wife has held public office.
Both Clintons also give speeches for free. Bill Clinton, for instance, makes frequent visits to the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas — appearances that Skip Rutherford, the school's dean, called "an Arkansas fringe benefit."
The Clintons also sometimes request that sponsors pay their fee as a donation to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the family's nonprofit group that leads global philanthropic initiatives. Hillary Clinton is doing this with her $225,000 fee for a speech this fall at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, according to her office.
Bill Clinton has delivered his paid speeches to a diverse array of industry groups — from liquor distributors in China to coal-fired utility companies meeting in Florida to pharmaceutical executives in New Jersey — as well as to some nonprofit organizations, such as a Salvation Army event in Tulsa.
"He's a stud," said Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital, which paid Clinton $175,000 to address its annual investment conference in 2010. Clinton's speech at the Las Vegas confab was so riveting, Scaramucci said, "there was nobody at the Bellagio cabana sunning himself when President Clinton was in the ballroom speaking."
Goldman Sachs has hired Bill Clinton for eight speeches over the years totaling $1.35 million, many of them client meetings in such locales as Paris, Phoenix, and the South Carolina beach resort of Kiawah Island.
Goldman also has paid Hillary Clinton: She addressed tech entrepreneurs in Arizona last fall and women in finance in New York this year.
"President Clinton's always interesting, but there's a lot more demand right now for her because she just came out of government and people want to hear about that, whether it's Iran or Russia or the big challenges she's faced, and about the dysfunction in Washington," said a Goldman executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal thinking.
The Post's analysis found that TD Bank underwrote 10 of Clinton's speeches and paid him about $1.8 million, making it his largest single sponsor in the financial industry. TD Bank is affiliated with TD Ameritrade, founded by Joe Ricketts, a prominent donor to Republican campaigns and conservative causes.
AdvertisementTD Bank spokesman Gabriel Weissman said he had "nothing to add" to the public disclosures. A spokesman for Ricketts declined to comment.
Paid speeches are the biggest source of income for the Clinton family, although both Bill and Hillary also have earned tens of millions of dollars writing books and a smaller amount through their investments.
In his addresses, Bill Clinton speaks about policy issues of the moment, domestic and foreign, and tailors his remarks to the business interests of his sponsors. He often speaks without notes and keeps his audiences in rapt attention, playfully answering questions and dispensing pearls of wisdom from his White House years or childhood in Arkansas.
"It makes me feel like I'm president again," Clinton said in 2012 as he looked out at a large convention crowd at the National Retail Federation, which paid him $200,000.
Clinton shared advice with the retailers passed down from his mother: "When I wanted to be a musician, I was not very good for years, and she just kept beating up on me and she said, 'You just can't quit.' "
In 2011, the Silicon Valley Information Business Alliance paid Bill Clinton $200,000 to address about 400 entrepreneurs on trade issues with China and the financial crisis in Europe. Clinton spoke for about an hour, took questions and posed for pictures, said James Cai, a lawyer and president of the alliance.
The group was so pleased with Clinton's appearance that Cai said it tried to hire Hillary Clinton in 2013 — even developing a theme, "women entrepreneurs," that organizers hoped might attract her. Cai said she declined the invitation. He said he didn't know her reason, but noted that the fee offered to Hillary was less than the amount paid to Bill.
Both Clintons are represented by the Harry Walker Agency. Don Walker, the firm's president, did not respond to requests for comment.
Some sponsors say the Clintons' contracts have contained stipulations barring sponsors from recording their speeches or distributing video or text of their remarks.
"There's not a lot of negotiating room," said Chuck Carr, a vice president at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, which hired Bill Clinton to speak in 2009 and Hillary Clinton in April. "You are offered a contract and there's very little in the contract that you can change."
The engagements typically are closed to the news media, although some of Hillary Clinton's recent appearances have been open to reporters — including her paid speech in Chicago to the United Fresh Produce Association and Food Marketing Institute on June 10, the day her new book, "Hard Choices," was released.
Although many former presidents hit the speaking circuit in retirement, Bill Clinton's staying power has been unusual. His busiest year on record was 2012, when he gave 72 paid speeches and earned $16.3 million, according to The Post's review.
"I'm shocked that people still want me to come give talks," Clinton said this week, appearing to feign modesty in an interview with NBC's David Gregory.
Rutherford, a longtime Clinton friend and adviser, said, "I don't think he's viewed as an ex-president. I think he's viewed as a world leader. And because of that stature, his demand far exceeds the supply."
In the weeks after Clinton left the White House, Walker told The Post that offers were "piling up like airplanes over LaGuardia on a foggy day."
Clinton gave his first paid speech on Feb. 5, 2001, before Morgan Stanley Dean Witter bond traders and clients at a golf resort in Boca Raton, Fla. The firm paid Clinton $125,000, but some clients complained, fearing the controversy surrounding Clinton's recent pardons could rub off on the firm.
The company's chairman at the time, Philip Purcell, wrote an apology to clients for not being "more sensitive to the strong feelings of our clients over Mr. Clinton's personal behavior as president." Purcell declined to comment on the matter.
Controversy has surrounded a few other Clinton speeches as well.
In 2008, Clinton was paid $125,000 to address a conference in New York hosted by Rodman & Renshaw, a bank that specialized in investing in Chinese companies. He spoke again to the firm in 2010 at a fee of $75,000.
Two years later, amid inquiries from federal regulators, Rodman & Renshaw began to close down its securities business. The firm's court-appointed bankruptcy trustee, Yann Geron, declined to comment except to say "the current state of the company is that it is being liquidated."
In 2013, Clinton's $500,000 fee from the Jewish National Fund to speak at a 90th birthday gala for former Israeli president Shimon Peres leaked to the press and sparked an uproar. The fee was initially going to be paid to the Clinton Foundation, but the former president rerouted it to an Israeli charity.
Other former presidents also have stirred controversy with their paid speeches. Shortly after leaving office in 1989, Ronald Reagan received $2 million for addressing business executives in Tokyo at a time when the United States had an acrimonious trade dispute with Japan. George H.W. Bush made millions of dollars speaking to corporate groups around the world, as has George W. Bush, who in 2011 addressed, among others, financial firms caught up in scandal.
Scaramucci, the hedge fund manager, said he credits Bill Clinton with helping to put his annual SALT conference on the calendar for many financiers. After Clinton's appearance, he said, conference attendance grew by a third. And citing Clinton helped Scaramucci persuade other big-name speakers to appear in later years, including George W. Bush and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
"When you get the big dog, you can get the rest of the people to come after him," said Scaramucci, a top Republican fundraiser. "President Clinton single-handedly helped to institutionalize and bolster the prestige and credibility of our event."
Scaramucci said he tried to book Hillary Clinton for his 2014 conference last month, but she declined. "Mrs. Clinton," he said, "is obviously in very high demand."
Matt DeLong contributed to this report.
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Obuma Blasts 'Phony Scandals'
President Obama hit the road Thursday for Minnesota, grabbing a burger stuffed with cheese and some ice cream while trying to interact with "real" people. He also again dished out some criticism of the political culture in Washington, namely what he called "phony scandals" that he said are based on "fabricated issues" aimed at "ginning up a base" at a town hall. The president followed up those comments later at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, where he talked about the struggles of Rebekah Erler, a working mother he had spent time with earlier in the day. Instead of figuring out ways to help Erler and her family, the president said lawmakers "talk about everything else." He went on to say:
"We talk about phony scandals, and we talk about Benghazi, and we talk about polls, and we talk about the tea party, and we talk about the latest controversy that Washington has decided is important — and we don't talk about her." ::) The comments come as House Republicans have intensified their investigation of the improper targeting practices of the IRS in light of reports that thousands of emails from former official Lois Lerner went missing after her hard drive crashed in 2011. On top of that, GOP lawmakers have also formed a special select committee to investigate the administration's response to the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya. And House Speaker John Boehner announced Wednesday that Republicans planned to sue the president over his use of executive authority.
Mr. President,
Hamas Says It Will Give Hand Grenades To Children
To Throw At Israeli Soldiers Instead of Rocks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAPyeBEwwPI
(And yet Israel gets demonized... if this happens, there will be alot of dead rock-throwers scattering the Gaza)
A Hamas spokesman announced that Hamas had manufactured 250,000 hand grenades that would be given to Gazan youth to use to fight Israel instead of rocks.
We're Safer If Obuma Just Calls Gay Athletes
For The Next Two Years, Fox Host Says
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_aS56Bg30I
(Obama can relate to gay athletes... hee hee)
Via BPRSpending his days making sure gay athletes feel comfortable, spinning lies about a "war on women" and engaging in empty talk about infrastructure isn't what most Americans expect of their president, but Fox News commentator Andrea Tantaros said it's the best that can be expected of the current commander in chief.
In an appearance Friday on "The Five," Tantaros let loose with a tirade about President Barack Obama that started with "Why does it always have to be about him?"
"Bob [Beckel] said he has to hold on to the Senate because then he'll have a bad upcoming two years.
"Well guess what? We should all hold our breath because it's going to be a bad next two years for everyone else in the country."
Then Tantaros really got rolling.
"I mean, look," she said. "If he can't even enforce our own borders, he's not going to be able to enforce the borders of other countries. So, you know what I say? Good, let him go. I would much rather have him not playing in hard cities where real armies can march.
"Let him call gay athletes, let him do 'war on women' press conferences. Let him talk about birth control and infrastructure. I don't want him playing on a global stage, because he's going to muddle it and mess it up. So, everybody hold your nose and hang on because the next two years are gonna be crazy."
Well, unfortunately, getting involved in "hard cities" and "real armies" is very much a part of the job description for the man a benighted majority of Americans have twice chosen to lead this country. And consigning him to the role of Miss Congeniality at the gay pride parade — or presiding over the marriage of Bowe Bergdahl and Chelsea Manning — isn't really an option.
But Tantaros was dead on about one thing: Regardless of whether Republicans take back the Senate this fall, the next two years are gonna be crazy.
14 Reasons Obama Is Lying When He Claims The World Is
'More Stable' And 'Less Violent' Than Ever
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With a straight face, Barack Obama has been repeatedly telling us that the world is "more stable" and "less violent" than ever. In fact, he believes that this is the best time in history to be alive because of how peaceful and stable everything is. And of course Obama is more than happy to take credit for his role in bringing all of this "stability" about. Just this week, his press secretary told the media that this administration has "substantially improved" the "tranquility of the global community". Apparently these guys don't think that we will notice all of the violence, war and terrorism constantly raging all around us. It would be wonderful if the planet actually was becoming a more peaceful place, but instead the exact opposite is happening. The world is becoming increasingly unstable, and if we aren't really careful we could see World War III break out before too long. But if you listen to Obama, he makes it sound like we are living in an emerging global utopia. The following is an excerpt from remarks that he made during a White House event in June...
[T]he truth of the matter is that for all the challenges we face, all the problems that we have, if you had to be — if you had to choose any moment to be born in human history, not knowing what your position was going to be, who you were going to be, you'd choose this time. The world is less violent than it has ever been. It is healthier than it has ever been. It is more tolerant than it has ever been. It is better fed then it's ever been. It is more educated than it's ever been.
You can watch video of him making those remarks below...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyyDEFbDdzM
And as I mentioned above, a similar statement was made by White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Monday...
"I think that there have been a number of situations in which you've seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has substantially furthered American interests and substantially improved the, uh, you know, the – the tranquility of the global community."In addition, posted below is video of Obama declaring that the world is "more stable" than it was five years previously during a speech to the United Nations last year...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xkMEir_jrE
It would be great if all of this stuff was actually true. But I think that at this point not even Obama believes half the things that are coming out of his mouth. He has told dozens of major lies while he has been in the White House, and the following are 14 reasons why Obama is lying when he claims that the world is "more stable" and "less violent" than ever...
#1 The downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has brought Ukraine and Russia even closer to the brink of war. The government in Kiev is blaming Russia and Russia is blaming the government in Kiev. But Barack Obama does not seem too concerned about it. During a speech on Thursday, he spent a mere 40 seconds addressing the downing of the plane before he began a 16 minute speech in which he told numerous jokes.
#2 If it wasn't for revolutionary Ukrainian groups funded by George Soros and the U.S. government (among others), the Ukrainian government may never have been violently overthrown and there might not have been a civil war in Ukraine at all.
#3 Relations between the United States and Russia are the worst that they have been since the end of the Cold War, and the economic sanctions that Obama just slapped on Russia are not going to help matters any.
#4 Israel has just launched a major ground offensive in Gaza, and many fear that a full-blown regional war in the Middle East could erupt at any moment.
#5 The civil war in Syria has been raging for several years now. Thanks to the United States and Saudi Arabia, those seeking to bring down the Syrian government are very well armed.
#6 The civil war in Iraq continues to get even worse. ISIS has already captured vast stretches of Iraqi territory and they are using American weapons to do it.
#7 The Kurds claim that ISIS is now using chemical weapons against them. If this is true, it is really, really troubling news.
#8 The Iraqi government has told the United Nations that ISIS was able to steal 88 pounds of uranium from Mosul University. Some experts are concerned that they may be able to use this material to create a dirty bomb (or worse).
#9 Barack Obama told us that we were "liberating" Libya, but instead we just transformed it into a war-torn wasteland that is constantly being fought over by warring militia groups. Just this week, one of those militia groups launched a devastating attack on the main airport in Tripoli. And the horrible fighting in Libya has spilled over into other nearby countries in North Africa such as Mali.
#10 Relations between the United States and Germany are at the lowest point that they have been since the end of World War II. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was so furious when one U.S. spy was discovered recently that she expelled the top U.S. intelligence official from the country. But Germany is far from alone. The truth is that most of the rest of the world is sick and tired of our "Big Brother" behavior.
#11 Islamic terror group Boko Haram continues to cause havoc all over Nigeria. The following is from a news report about an incident that happened earlier this week...
Suspected members of the deadly Boko Haram Islamic sect on Monday attacked Dille village in Borno State, killed 45 people and torched several houses and shops and forced many people to flee into nearby hills for safety. The terrorists, it was gathered, came in a convoy of over 20 vehicles and motorcycles. According to one of the villagers, Njimtiku Papka, who spoke to journalists in Maiduguri on the phone, the terrorists on arriving the village started shooting indiscriminately at everyone in sight.#12 The ongoing civil war in the Central African Republic has forced hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes.
#13 There is horrible fighting going on inside Somalia right now...
A fierce and violent conflict erupted on the outskirts of Qoryoley district in Lower Shabelle between joint African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops and Somali National Army soldiers (SNA) against Al-Shabaab. The terrorist insurgents attacked an SNA and AMISOM military sitting in the town just outside Qoryoley when the battle initiated. Locals have reported to Shabelle that the fight also affected towns in the district like Maanyo Mudug, Farhanle and Abdi Ali.#14 Things are not even stable in North America. Horrific gang violence and warring between drug cartels in Central America and Mexico has been one of the factors that has caused millions of illegal immigrants to come pouring toward the United States. Today, Honduras has the highest murder rate on the entire planet, and the Mexican drug war has claimed more than 120,000 lives since 2006.
Of course this is just a partial list. The truth is that there are dozens of other conflicts that are happening all over the globe right now that could be added to this list.
Obuma On Mooch: "You Don't Want To Get On Her Wrong Side"...
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(And he probably has the bruises to prove it... look at that pic of her with Bo... And wouldn't you know... another lie. Mooch's mother lives in the White House and is Head Baby-Sitter.)
PRESIDENT OBAMA: "Sometimes African Americans, in communities where I've worked, there's been the notion of "acting white" — which sometimes is overstated, but there's an element of truth to it, where, okay, if boys are reading too much, then, well, why are you doing that? Or why are you speaking so properly? And the notion that there's some authentic way of being black, that if you're going to be black you have to act a certain way and wear a certain kind of clothes, that has to go. Because there are a whole bunch of different ways for African American men to be authentic."
"If you look at Michele, she grew up South Side. And her mom still lives in a neighborhood where gunshots go off, and it can be rough where Michelle grew up. But she'll talk proper when she needs to. Now, you also don't want to get on her wrong side, because she can translate that into a different vernacular."(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1172/2334/original.jpg?w=600&h)
(Gee, Barry, are you calling Mooch a classy bitch?
He probably has the bruises to prove it... look at that pic of her with Bo... she reminds me of one mean linebacker for the Washington Redskins. And wouldn't you know... another lie by Barry... truth is, Mooch's mother lives in the White House and carries the title of 'Head Baby-Sitter' which we taxpayers take care of.)
Obama Admin Sending $47 Million To Hamas-Run Gaza Strip
(Obuma may be shocked to learn not everyone is OK with their tax dollars going to Hamas
)
CAIRO (AP) – The U.S. is sending $47 million in humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip to help tens of thousands of Palestinians there who have been forced from their homes since war broke out two weeks ago.
A State Department breakdown of the aid that was released Monday said nearly a third of the money — $15 million — will go to the United Nations' refugee mission in Gaza.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to discuss the aid with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in a meeting late Monday in Cairo.
Kerry arrived in the Egyptian capital only hours earlier in a U.S. push to help broker a truce between Israel and the militant group Hamas that controls Gaza.
Obuma Regime To Give Iran Another $2.8 Billion... and another four months to work on nuclear muffins
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(Obuma still Ayatollah Khamenei's BFF)
Via Free Beacon:The United States will give Iran access to another $2.8 billion over the next several months and appears to have conceded to Iran's demand that it be permitted to domestically enrich uranium, the key component in a nuclear weapon, according to senior Obama administration officials.
In exchange for agreeing over the weekend to extend nuclear talks until late November, Iran will be given another $2.8 billion in unfrozen assets, the White House told reporters over the weekend, after President Barack Obama decided to extend the talks past their July 20 deadline.
The United States already returned to Iran $4.2 billion in unfrozen oil assetsduring the past six months of the interim nuclear deal and has now agreed to provide another $2.8 billion in exchange for an extension in the negotiations.
White House officials also appeared to admit that U.S. negotiators have told Tehran that they will allow it to preserve some of its domestic enrichment capabilities, something that Congress has opposed.
'Tokyo should no longer be inhabited,'
Japanese doctor warns
residents regarding radiation
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Monday, July 21, 2014 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer
Tags: radiation, Fukushima, Tokyo
(NaturalNews) In an essay addressed to his colleagues, Japanese doctor Shigeru Mita has explained why he recently moved away from Tokyo to restart his practice in western Japan: He believes that Tokyo is no longer safe to inhabit due to radioactive contamination caused by the March 11, 2011, meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The essay, titled "Why did I leave Tokyo?" was published in the newsletter of the Association of Doctors in Kodaira, metropolitan Tokyo.
Soil tests prove contamination
Dr. Mita opens his essay by contextualizing his decision to leave, noting that he had a long history as a doctor in Tokyo.
"I closed the clinic in March 2014, which had served the community of Kodaira for more than 50 years, since my father's generation, and I have started a new Mita clinic in Okayama-city on April 21," he wrote.
Dr. Mita notes that, for the past 10 years, he had been working to persuade the municipal government of Tokyo to stock iodine pills to distribute to the population in the case of a nuclear accident. Dr. Mita's concern had been that an earthquake might trigger a meltdown at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant. All of his requests were rejected, however, under the excuse that there was no reason to expect such an accident.
When the disaster did occur -- albeit at a different plant than Dr. Mita had feared -- Tokyo did not act to protect its population, and still has taken no measures. Yet, based on soil surveys, Dr. Mita noted, "It is clear that Eastern Japan and Metropolitan Tokyo have been contaminated with radiation."
Dr. Mita compares radioactive contamination of the soil (measured in becquerels per kilogram, Bq/kg) in various parts of Tokyo with that observed in various portions of Europe following the Chernobyl disaster.
Prior to 2011, Shinjuku (the region of Tokyo that houses the municipal government) tested at only 0.5-1.5 Bq/kg. Today, levels at nearby Kodaira are at 200-300 Bq/kg.
"Within the 23 districts of Metropolitan Tokyo, contamination in the east part is 1000-4000 Bq/kg and the west part is 300-1000 Bq/kg," Dr. Mita wrote.
For comparison, Kiev (capital of the Ukraine) has soil tested at 500 Bq/kg (Cs-137 only). Following the Chernobyl accident, West Germany and Italy reported levels of 90-100 Bq/kg, and both experienced measurable health effects on their populations.
Dr. Mita notes that the radiation situation in Tokyo is getting worse, not better, due to urban practices of concentrating solid waste in small areas such as municipal dumps and sewage plants. That is why, he says, radiation levels in Tokyo riverbeds have actually been increasing over the prior two years.
"Tokyo should no longer be inhabited, and... those who insist on living in Tokyo must take regular breaks in safer areas," Dr. Mita writes. "Issues such as depopulation and state decline continue to burden the lives of second and third generation Ukrainians and Belarusians today, and I fear that this may be the future of Eastern Japan."
Patients showing radiation-induced sickness
Dr. Mita's essay also chronicles the many cases he has observed of patients presenting with radiation-induced health problems. He notes that, since 2011, he has observed while blood cell counts declining in children under the age of 10, including in children under one year old. In all of these cases, symptoms typically improve if the children move to western Japan. He has similarly observed persistent respiratory symptoms that improve in patients who move away.
Other patients have shown symptoms including "nosebleed, hair loss, lack of energy, subcutaneous bleeding, visible urinary hemorrhage, skin inflammations, coughs and various other non-specific symptoms." He also notes high occurrences of rheumatic muscle symptoms similar to those observed following the Chernobyl disaster.
"Ever since 3.11, everybody living in Eastern Japan including Tokyo is a victim, and everybody is involved," he wrote.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org
http://science.naturalnews.com
http://www.naturalnews.com/046112_radiation_Fukushima_Tokyo.html?utm_content=bufferbc2d2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
France: Muslim Protesters Storm Field During Game
With Israeli Soccer Team, Attack Players
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(There's a reason Jews are fleeing France for Israel)
Via Daily Mail:Maccabi Haifa's pre-season game against Lille in Austria was stopped when pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the pitch.
With Lille winning 2-0, supporters of reportedly Turkish origin entered the pitch and headed for the Maccabi players.
One of the players is seen to trip a fan before punches were thrown. The Maccabi players – some of whom retaliated – managed to leave the field unhurt.
Maccabi coach Aleksandar Stanojevic was said to have punched a protester.
The referee was forced to stop the game in the 86th minute before eventually bringing the game to an end early.
Banners calling for the liberation of Palestine were also displayed by certain sections of the crowd.
(I have no interest in soccer. Just as I have no interest in most events staged during the Olympics. And, frankly, I don't get why any American feels the need to tune in every four years to watch the World Cup or synchronized swimming.
I just find it profoundly stupid to sit and watch a game played with a ball in which you can't use your hands. I'm not suggesting it isn't a display of great stamina, but so is the marathon. What's more, as with soccer, marathon-running is a sport in which scoring is apparently frowned upon. But I don't hear about a lot of people spending hours on end watching other people run 26 miles for no particular reason, either)
CNN Poll: Only 18% Of Americans Say They Are
Better Off Because Of ObumaCrappyCare
(What are the odds the vast majority of the 18% have EBT cards and food stamps?)
Via Washington Examiner:Eighteen percent of Americans, or fewer than one in five, say they or someone in their family is better off because of the Affordable Care Act, according to a new poll by CNN. Nearly twice that number, 35 percent, say they or someone in their family is worse off. A larger group, 46 percent, say they are about the same after Obamacare as before.
In nearly all demographic categories — age, income, education, etc. — more people say they are worse off because of Obamacare than say they are better off.
For example, one might expect respondents with incomes below $50,000 to be somewhat likely to say Obamacare has helped them. And that is the case: 21 percent say they are better off because of the Affordable Care Act. But 35 percent say they are worse off. (Forty-four percent are the same.)
Biden: Hey, This Economy Is Kicking Some Ass!
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(Then again, Biden is actually dumb enough to believe this)
Via Breitbart:On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden declared that America's jobs picture is brighter than ever.
"Businesses are hiring at historic rates, with 52 consecutive months of net private sector job growth," said Biden in the newly released report supporting the reauthorization of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 1998, which President Obama signed on Tuesday.
[...]
Obama and Biden's efforts to cast a positive light on America's jobs outlook, however, may face headwinds with voters. As the New York Times noted, "In fact, part-time jobs accounted for two-thirds of all new jobs in June." What's more, economist Ben Casselman of Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight states, "For the 49th time in 50 months, more jobseekers gave up looking than found work."
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Lurch Kerry To Mother of Fallen Israeli Soldier: "How's Your Day?"
(Holy crappola...Lurch could be dumber than Biden)
Via Free Beacon:Taking a break in Jerusalem today from his attempt to broker a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry visited with the parents of Max Steinberg, a 24-year-old Los Angeles native and IDF soldier who was killed in action in Gaza.
[...]
"How's your day?" Kerry asked as he sat down.
"How's your day?" Evie [Steinberg's mother] asked back.
"My day's going better than yours," he said.
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No Joke: Obuma Considering Flying Immigrants From Honduras Straight To The U.S.
So They Don't Have To Sneak Over Border
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(God help us... this clown is nuts. He will do anything to upset the American people)
Via NY Times:
Hoping to stem the recent surge of migrants at the Southwest border, the Obama administration is considering whether to allow hundreds of minors and young adults from Honduras into the United States without making the dangerous trek through Mexico, according to a draft of the proposal.
If approved, the plan would direct the government to screen thousands of children and youths in Honduras to see if they can enter the United States as refugees or on emergency humanitarian grounds. It would be the first American refugee effort in a nation reachable by land to the United States, the White House said, putting the violence in Honduras on the level of humanitarian emergencies in Haiti and Vietnam, where such programs have been conducted in the past amid war and major crises.
Critics of the plan were quick to pounce, saying it appeared to redefine the legal definition of a refugee and would only increase the flow of migration to the United States. Administration officials said they believed the plan could be enacted through executive action, without congressional approval, as long as it did not increase the total number of refugees coming into the country.
By moving decisions on refugee claims to Honduras, the plan aims to slow the rush of minors crossing into the United States illegally from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, which has overwhelmed the border this year. More than 45,000 unaccompanied minors from those three nations have arrived since Oct. 1, straining federal resources to the point that some agencies will exhaust their budgets by next month, the secretary of Homeland Security has said.
Dem: Redskins a 'Hateful Mascot' - 'Racism and Hate Speech' a Priority in Congress
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(Dems try to tie everything to racism and hate speech. And what right is it of Congress to change the name of a private company? The economy in the toilet, healthcare so screwed up no one knows which end is up, gas prices high, inflation, the world on fire... annnnnnd these idiots think Redskins is the most important issue to run on??? Really? A name that has been there since the 1930s is the most important issue she can find to run with? The lady is squirrely...time to call in the Marines! .)
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Via CNS News:Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) said at an event on Tuesday at the liberal Center for American Progress that "racism and hate speech" are always a priority in Congress, including as it relates to the campaign to change the name of the Washington Redskins.
"Racism and hate speech is always a priority if we're going to be the shining beacon of democracy and respect and opportunity that we aspire to in all of our founding documents," McCollum said when CNSNews.com asked whether the Redskins controversy should be a priority given all of the issues facing lawmakers.
In her remarks at CAP, McCollum said when she came to the Capitol in 2001, she became aware of the "harmful stereotype" the Redskins mascot represented.
"It made me realize that people didn't know what they were doing – that they needed an opportunity to find out what this hateful mascot really was, because they didn't know," McCollum said.
(This idiot is a good example of what is wrong with Congress)
City Moves To Implement $500 Fine
For Kids Playing With Toy Guns
If you have a child, and live in the city of Burlington, Iowa, you may have to get written permission from the city before your child is allowed to play with a toy gun. This includes squirt guns, nerf guns, etc. ANY toy gun now faces a city-wide ban requiring city official approval. And if your child does not have permission, it's a $500 fine per offense.
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(Sorry Timmy, hand in that banned weapon NOW, or face a $500 fine...)
The Facebook page for the Iowa Gun Owners posted this alert earlier today regarding this Big Government madness:
The Burlington Iowa City Council is moving to pass an ordinance that would require you to get their WRITTEN permission before your kids can play with toy guns, replica guns, BB guns, etc!
If your kids play with these toys in most outdoor situations, or if they play with toy guns in the car while you drive them around, you are looking at a fine in excess of $500 and up to a month in jail!
We spoke to the Mayor, who unapologetically defended the proposal as "forward thinking"...
They are meeting tonight. They need to hear from Iowans immediately about this stupidity. Tell them how you feel about needing a 'hall pass' for your children to play Cowboys and Indians in your backyard.
If they pass it in this town, they can try it in your town next. So please, immediately contact:
• Mayor McCampbell at (319)457-2652 or by emailing mccampbells@burlingtoniowa.org.
• Council Member Becky Anderson can be reached at andersonb@burlingtoniowa.org.
• Council Member Robert Fleming can be reached at flemmingb@burlingtoniowa.org.
• Council Member Tim Scott can be reached at scottt@burlingtoniowa.org.
• Council Member Becky Shockley can be reached at shockleyb@burlingtoniowa.org.
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Clearly all the city officials training on Agenda 21 is now paying dividends for the globalists...
http://ulstermanbooks.com/city-moves-implement-500-fine-kids-playing-toy-guns/
Mooch Outraged GOP Opposing Her Lunch Mandate:
"It's Gotten So Bad, They're Even Trying To Block The Work I Do"
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(How dare they! Where's ButtHead on this?)
Via Chicago Sun-Times:First lady Michelle Obama was especially frank Thursday evening when addressing a crowd of some 150 Chicago donors about the best way to influence politics: "Write the biggest, fattest check that you can possibly write."
Here to raise money for the national Democratic Party, the first lady also put in a plug for local Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn, pledging to "do everything in our power to make sure he gets over the finish line. He is the guy for this state." [...]
Obama's 20-minute speech covered obstructionist politics in Congress, campaign finance as well as health care, according to a pool report of the event.
"It's gotten so bad, they're even trying to block the work that I do on childhood obesity, and that's really saying something," Michelle Obama said, referring to Republicans. "I mean, for most folks in this country, making sure our kids get decent nutrition shouldn't be that controversial."
WH Adviser Again Refuses To Answer Congressional Subpoena
Claiming "Immunity", House Formally Rebukes Obuma Regime
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(By that standard of immunity, no one in the executive branch
would ever be required to testify)
Via Roll Call:Updated 12:27 p.m. | Top White House political adviser David Simas refused again Friday to honor a congressional subpoena, prompting Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to vote to rebuke the administration.
The Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted 19-14 to reject the White House's claim that Simas has absolute immunity from a subpoena from Congress.
Republicans said they were standing up for the principle that no one is above the law, and Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa quoted a long list of Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who have backed Congress' right to subpoena top administration officials.
Democrats, led by ranking member Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, said they strongly disagree with the White House's claim of absolute immunity but also strongly disagree with Issa's push to press the issue, warning it could hurt the institution if they take a case to court.
The White House informed Issa at 7:30 a.m. Friday that Simas would not appear, Issa said. The absence was "not excused," the California Republican added.
White House Counsel W. Neil Eggleston asked Issa to withdraw the subpoena to discuss his late Thursday offer for Simas to give a deposition instead of subpoenaed testimony.
Jon Voight Slams Obama, Kerry At Pro-Israel Rally
(He is a minority in Hollyweird and tells it like it really is)
Via FrontPage MagOscar-winning actor tells the truth about the U.S.
administration's betrayal of Israel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLaOrOct2FE
This was Voight on "Huckabee" in 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgbCtHV2cA8
The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You A Terrorist
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(Great story. This list thing is indeed very scary. With no transparency, overly broad criteria, too much arbitrariness in being put on them, and the inversion of "innocent until proven guilty".... what's really being described here is a nightmare. And reading about what data may be seized in the so-called "encounters"... well we knew they wanted to "collect it all" but, this is really showing the limitless boundaries that really means. Of course we didn't get to this point overnight. I'm just praying that there's some hope of ending this slide down that precipice of a slippery slope)The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither "concrete facts" nor "irrefutable evidence" to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.
The "March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance," a 166-page document issued last year by the National Counterterrorism Center, spells out the government's secret rules for putting individuals on its main terrorist database, as well as the no fly list and the selectee list, which triggers enhanced screening at airports and border crossings. The new guidelines allow individuals to be designated as representatives of terror organizations without any evidence they are actually connected to such organizations, and it gives a single White House official the unilateral authority to place "entire categories" of people the government is tracking onto the no fly and selectee lists. It broadens the authority of government officials to "nominate" people to the watchlists based on what is vaguely described as "fragmentary information." It also allows for dead people to be watchlisted.
Read full article at: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/23/blacklisted/
And checkout the full pdf 'Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You A Terrorist' at:http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1227228/2013-watchlist-guidance.pdf
Red Heifer Discovered! – Major Obstacle To The Rebuilding Of
The Jewish Temple Removed
By Michael Snyder, on June 23rd, 2014
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Up until now, one of the major barriers to the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem has been the lack of a red heifer. A qualified red heifer has not been seen in the land of Israel for nearly two thousand years, and without one it would not be possible to resume Temple worship. But now a candidate has been found that could change everything. The Temple Institute in Jerusalem has released stunning video footage of a red heifer that they believe meets the Biblical requirements. This red heifer was born in the United States, and the owners of the red heifer contacted the Temple Institute in order to receive instructions about how to care for it. It is hoped that this red heifer will eventually be transported to the land of Israel and be used for the purification of the priests and the vessels that will be used in a rebuilt Jewish Temple.
This is a very big deal, because without a red heifer the Temple would never be rebuilt. So needless to say, the video footage that you are about to see is creating quite a stir in Jewish communities throughout the world. The Temple Institute contacted a documentary filmmaker to film this red heifer, and this video was just released to the public earlier this month...
If you are not familiar with the Temple Institute, it is an organization located in the heart of Jerusalem that is dedicated to making preparations for the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. The Institute has created a whole host of items that are intended to be used in a future Temple including priestly garments made to Biblical specifications, a seven-branched Menorah made of pure gold, a golden Incense Altar and a golden Table of Showbread. The following is what the Temple Institute has to say about itself...
The Temple Institute (in Hebrew, Machon HaMikdash), founded in 1987, is a non-profit educational and religious organization located in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The Institute is dedicated to every aspect of the Biblical commandment to build the Holy Temple of G-d on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. Our short-term goal is to rekindle the flame of the Holy Temple in the hearts of mankind through education. Our long-term goal is to do all in our limited power to bring about the building of the Holy Temple in our time. Thus, the Institute's efforts include raising public awareness about the Holy Temple, and the central role that it occupies in the spiritual life of mankind. The many areas of activities conducted by the Institute combine research, seminars, publications, and conferences, as well as the production of educational materials.
The major focus of the Institute is its efforts towards the beginning of the actual rebuilding of the Holy Temple. Towards this end, the Institute has begun to restore and construct the sacred vessels for the service of the Holy Temple. These vessels, which G-d commanded Israel to create, can be seen today at our exhibition in Jerusalem's Old City Jewish Quarter. They are made according to the exact specifications of the Bible, and have been constructed from the original source materials, such as gold, copper, silver and wood. These are authentic, accurate vessels, not merely replicas or models. All of these items are fit and ready for use in the service of the Holy Temple. Among the many items featured in the exhibition are musical instruments played by the Levitical choir, the golden crown of the High Priest, and gold and silver vessels used in the incense and sacrificial services. After many years of effort and toil, the Institute has completed the three most important and central vessels of the Divine service: the seven-branched candelabra, or Menorah, made of pure gold; the golden Incense Altar, and the golden Table of the Showbread.But without the ashes of a red heifer, all of those preparations are in vain.
Before the Temple can be rebuilt and Temple worship can be resumed, a perfect red heifer must be found.
And now one has been discovered.
According to Orthodox Jewish authorities, a suitable red heifer cannot even have a single black hair. So finding such a creature is not easy. According to Jewish tradition, only nine such red heifers were found during the entire time when the first two temples were standing. And if this current red heifer ever does any work or ever mates it will be disqualified. The following comes from a Jewish source...
The sages infer that the Red Heifer must be completely red—even two black hairs would render it invalid. And it must not have done any work in its lifetime—even having a yoke placed on its back or having mated would disqualify it.
Once a candidate was found, and there was need for more purifying ash water, the cow would be slaughtered and burned on a pyre, along with a cedar branch, hyssop sprig, and crimson wool. The ceremony took place on the Mount of Olives, opposite the Temple Mount. All of this has huge implications for world events.Traditionally, many Orthodox Jews have believed that the spotting of a red heifer would herald the coming of the Messiah.
And if this red heifer does indeed turn out to be a suitable candidate, one of the biggest obstacles to rebuilding the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem will have been removed.
For Christians, this is an extremely exciting development as well.
The Bible tells us that there will be a Temple standing in Jerusalem in the last days, and that the Antichrist will defile it.
But that Bible prophecy could never be fulfilled until a red heifer was found.
Yes, there are still many more obstacles standing in the way of the Jewish people rebuilding the Temple. For one, the Islamic world would go into convulsions if Israel tried to build anything on or near the Temple mount at this point.
However, the Temple Institute and a whole host of Orthodox Jews are absolutely determined to make the rebuilding of the Temple a reality, and now they appear to be one giant step closing to achieving that dream.
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LGBT Jobs Fair Tries To Prevent Straight Students From
Attending Over Fears They Will Offend Gays
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so sez the head fairy)
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Via Campus Reform:When it comes to finding a job after graduation, business students are throwing their sexual orientation into the mix as well.
Reaching Out MBA, an annual conference of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender graduate business students, completes its three-day lineup of speakers and workshops with a job fair—a job fair that is becoming increasingly exclusive.
According to Matt Kidd, executive director of Reaching Out MBA, 10 percent of the 1,100 attendees at last year's conference identified as straight. Because of that, this year attendees are now required to submit an essay on why they wish to attend the conference or be recommended through campus LGBT organizations so that the conference can vet potential attendees.
Kidd told Bloomberg Businessweek that the conference wasn't trying to exclude LGBT-allies and also recognized that several conference attendees come from large, southern MBA programs where the LGBT students may not feel as readily accepted and may not be as readily apt to divulge their sexual preference.
But Kidd said that the straight students attending the job fair were "offensive" as LGBT-identifying students overheard things such as "Dude, I'm not gay" or "There needs to be less focus on gay stuff at this event."
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POS Obuma Abandons Israel At U.N. Security Council
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Via Foreign Policy:Despite a history of rocky relations between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Obama administration could largely be counted on to watch Israel's back in the U.N. Security Council, where it succeeded for more than five years in blocking successive efforts by the Palestinians to gain more of the trappings of an independent state and to get the world body to formally censure Israeli settlement policies.
That changed after the stroke of midnight Sunday when, in the early minutes of Monday, July 28, the U.N. Security Council, with the backing of the United States, issued a formal "presidential statement" demanding that Israel and Hamas implement an "immediate and unconditional" cease-fire to end fighting that has left more than 1,000 Palestinians and 43 Israelis dead. The Palestinians say they will continue to seek Security Council support for a legally enforceable resolution demanding that Israel halt its military offensive in Gaza.
The latest U.N. diplomacy comes during a period of deepening tensions between the United States and Israel over the course of Israel's military operation in Gaza, which Obama maintains needs to stop now, but which Netanyahu insists must be allowed to continue in order to destroy Hamas's network of subterranean tunnels used for raids on Israel. "I understand that Israel can't have a cease-fire in which they are not able to — that somehow the tunnels are never going to be dealt with. The tunnels have to be dealt with. We understand that; we're working at that," Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in Paris on Saturday in a press conference with the foreign ministers of Turkey and Qatar. "By the same token, the Palestinians can't have a cease-fire in which they think the status quo is going to stay and they're not going to have the ability to be able to begin to live and breathe more freely and move within the crossings and begin to have goods and services that come in from outside."
Stingray, the fake cell phone tower cops and carriers use to track your every move
By Joel Hruska
http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/184597-stingray-the-fake-cell-phone-tower-cops-and-providers-use-to-track-your-every-move
(Thank you George Bush and your Patriot Act :P >:( :P )
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Over the past 12-18 months, there's been an increased level of scrutiny applied to the various ways local, state, and federal law enforcement officials track and monitor the lives of ordinary citizens. One tool that's come under increasing fire is the so-called stingray — a fake cell phone tower that law enforcement officials deploy to track a suspect, often without a warrant or any other formal approval.A stingray is a false cell phone tower that can force phones in a geographical area to connect
to it. Once these devices connect, the stingray can be used to either hone in on the target's location or, with some models, actually eavesdrop on conversations, text messages, and web browser activity. It's not clear how much the police cooperate with the cell phone carriers on this — in at least some cases, the police have gone to carriers with requests for information, while in others they seem to have taken a brute-force approach, dumping the data of every single user on a given tower and then sorting it to find the parties they're interested in tracking. Stingrays can be used to force the phone to give up its user details, making it fairly easy for the police to match devices and account holders.
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The potential uses for the information are enormous. Say a murder occurs on a particular street with an estimated time of death between 2 and 4 AM. Local law enforcement would have an obvious interest in compelling cell phone companies to turn over the records of every cell phone that moved in and out of the area between those two time periods. At rush hour, this kind of information would be useless — but if the cell phone network data shows a device in the same approximate area as the murder suddenly leaving the area at a high rate of speed, that cell phone owner is a potential suspect.
Virtually all the stingray devices in use across the United States are manufactured by one company, the Harris Corporation, which makes a variety of other tracking devices. Its other products can be used to conduct denial-of-service attacks on cell phones, monitor voice traffic, amplify the range and power of stingray attacks, and more sophisticated monitoring tools for triangulating an individual's location.
A consistent disregard for constitutional safeguards
Used properly, stingrays could be an incredibly useful tool for law enforcement, but there are enormous problems with their current deployments. Police often fail to submit a warrant request — one police department in Florida has admitted to using a stingray more than 200 times since 2010 without ever getting a warrant for its use. These devices are indiscriminate — in rare cases, such as a stolen cell phone, police may know in advance precisely which device to target, but in the majority of scenarios they're fishing for bait to see what they can find. The only indication that a phone has been trapped into connecting to a stingray may be a sudden increase in power consumption (the stingray tells the phone to run its antenna at maximum power).
The problems only increase from here. The Harris Corporation has an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) in place with all its customers that explicitly forbids them from disclosing the fact that they use or own a stingray device. In the aforementioned Florida case, police have acknowledged that they avoided applying for a warrant specifically so they would not have to explain the use of the stingray to a judge.
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https://www.aclu.org/maps/stingray-tracking-devices-whos-got-them
Meanwhile, the Obama Administration, having learned its lesson over repeatedly attempting to quash the Snowden disclosures, has welcomed discussion of how these devices are being used to spy on Americans by local officials without any regard for the rule of law.
Just kidding!
The Obama Administration is actually telling police agencies to refuse FOIA requests on security grounds or censoring such documents to the point of worthlessness. Last week, the US Marshals interfered in a case in Florida to prevent the ACLU from meeting with local police officials to discuss the use of stingray technology. According to the ACLU, the Marshal's deputized the local police force, declared all materials related to stingray use to be government property, and took the records off-site.
The problem here isn't necessarily the capability, but the ways in which that capability is being used. As with license plate detectors, the police have eagerly embraced the idea of tracking the movements of innocent people with no regard for how that data might be misinterpreted or abused. They've signed NDAs with a company that seeks to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act, and avoided disclosing the existence of programs in order to avoid the chance of possible censure.
New technology like DNA analysis and fingerprinting has often been controversial at the outset, but this widespread mobile tracking has no analog in history. There's an ongoing campaign to blanket the US in local Freedom of Information Act requests for data on stingray use across the country; if you're interested in contributing, details are here. The goal is to map individual departments and derive an understanding of how practices differ across the nation.
Checkout more INFO on Stingray: https://www.aclu.org/node/37337
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Pelosi To Dem Voters: Give Us Money Or Obama Will Be Impeached
(This is the third email today from the DCCC, all of them warn of Obuma being impeached :) ;D )
Subject: kiss all hope goodbye
From: Nancy Pelosi <dccc@dccc.org>
Date: July 28, 2014 8:24:46 PM EDT
To: Philip Warph
If Boehner has his way, we might as well kiss all hope goodbye for the remainder of President Obama's term.
Case in point: this week, Boehner is planning a vote to sue the President. The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting President in all of U.S. history. And if they do it, impeachment may very well be the next step.
Make no mistake: these Tea Party Republicans are obsessed with tearing down President Obama, not making progress for the middle class.
Philip, this is it. It's time to go all in defending President Obama.
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Denver Homeless Shelters Overflowing As City Deals With Surge Of Younger People Attracted To Legalized Marijuana
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(Rocky mountain high)
Via Daily MailOfficials at some Denver homeless shelters say the legalization of marijuana has contributed to an increase in the number of younger people living on the city's streets.
One organization dealing with the increase is Urban Peak, which provides food, shelter and other services to homeless people aged 15 to 24 in Denver and Colorado Springs.
'Of the new kids we're seeing, the majority are saying they're here because of the weed,' deputy director Kendall Rames told The Denver Post. 'They're traveling through. It is very unfortunate.'
The Salvation Army's single men's shelter in Denver has been serving more homeless this summer, and officials have noted an increase in the number of 18- to 25-year-olds there.
The shelter housed an average of 225 each night last summer, but this summer it's averaging 300 people per night.
No breakdown was available by age, but an informal survey found that about a quarter of the increase was related to marijuana, including people who moved hoping to find work in the marijuana industry, said Murray Flagg, divisional social services secretary for the Salvation Army's Intermountain Division.
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Some of the homeless have felony backgrounds that prevent them from working in pot shops and grow houses, which are regulated by the state, Flagg said.
He also thinks others may find work but don't earn enough to pay rent in Denver's expensive housing market.
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At the St. Francis Center, a daytime homeless shelter, pot is the second most frequently volunteered reason for being in Colorado, after looking for work.
St. Francis executive director Tom Leuhrs also sees an economic reason for the increase of the number of homeless young people. They're having difficulty moving from high school and college to the workforce, Leuhrs said.
'The economy is not supporting them. There are not enough jobs,' he said.
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Edward Madewell said he was on his way back home to Missouri when he decided to head to Colorado so he could keep smoking the marijuana he uses to control seizures.
'I'm not going to stop using something organic. I don't like the pills,' he said.
Dusty Taylor, 20, said he moved back to Colorado, where he grew up, to avoid legal problems.
'I don't want to catch a felony for smoking,' he said.
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Judge Jeanine:
'Time for Papacy to Get Out in Front
of Christian Massacre'
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Judge Jeanine Pirro last night called on Pope Francis to take action as Christians in the Middle East are faced with the choice to either convert, leave or die.
Read the transcript below.
Tonight, Christians in the Middle East marked for death because of their faith, and no one is fighting for them.
As Christians are slaughtered, churches torched, and families forced from their homeland, the mass murder of Christians is underway. While Israeli Jews are under similar attack, at least they have Netanyahu, a leader who is willing to fight to the death.
So, who should be defending Christians? Who? The leader of the Catholic Church, the pope, the man who shepherds the faithful.
Now, it may seem to you that the destruction of biblical antiquities, the looting of churches, and the persecution of Christians are a half a globe away. It's someone else's problem. After all, you're safe. You live in the United States of America.
But you need to worry. A reverse crusade is already underway, and some of those extremists are already in the United States.
The radicalized Muslim group that has already created a caliphate in Syria, Iraq and the border of Jordan – a nation described not by nationality but by religion – issued an ultimatum to Christians to leave their homeland, convert to Islam, or die by the sword.
They spray paint the homes of Christians to identify those who must convert, leave, or die.
And as ISIS – no stranger to technology – posts pictures of Christians crucified, their intent to purge Christians from the Middle East is unquestioned.
And while I'm on the subject of who should be defending Christians, I might add that we are a nation founded on the Judeo-Christian ethic – as evidenced by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution – so we should be doing something.
Why has the Obama administration's foreign policy ignored the killing of Christians in the Middle East? Why has he provided funding to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt when the Egyptians themselves wanted the Brotherhood out because of their intolerance of other religions?
And while Iran's supreme leader promises a world free of infidels and the flag of Islam in all four corners of the world, our president negotiates for Iran's nuclear enrichment.
But now to the papacy: I am a Christian. I am a Catholic. I went to Catholic schools. My children are baptized. And I mean no disrespect, but it is time for the papacy and Pope Francis in particular to start protecting his Christian flock.
This month, Pope Francis preached that immigrant children in facilities around the United States should be "welcomed and protected." Your holiness, they're in the United States. They are protected. They are being given food, and clothing and shelter. No children are being killed by the United States. Christian children are being killed in the Middle East! And while we appreciate your prayer for those in the Middle East last week, it's just not enough!
Everything about who we are, evidence of from whence we came as Christians is being destroyed. They are taking crosses off churches and turning them into mosques with loud speakers! Priceless relics are being destroyed or sold. And for the first time in 1,600 years, Mass will not be held in the ancient city of Mosul, Iraq. The language of Jesus, Aramaic, could be lost as well as Christians who speak it are murdered.
Your holiness, you are the leader of the flock. You control one of the wealthiest organizations in the world. And with wealth comes power.
Your recent trips and your planned trips do not reflect the urgent concern necessary for Christians in Iraq, and Syria and Egypt.
Your pronouncements span the globe. They're repeated in hundreds of thousands of churches throughout the world to millions of parishioners. Every church in the world should be repeating a strong urgent message from the papacy condemning this slaughter and calling for the world to stop the annihilation of the innocents instead of worrying about immigrant children already protected by America.
As a brutal band of jihadists attempt to remove all evidence of Christianity and destroy biblical tombs like that of Jonah, you must act.
Your holiness, the papacy was silent during World War II. You cannot afford to let history repeat itself.
And your holiness, the papacy also lagged behind the sex abuse scandal. I know – I drafted the first grand jury report detailing the movement of pedophile priests in the nation.
It is time for the papacy to get out in front of this Christian massacre. You have incredible power. The Vatican is a country with ambassadors and a Secret Service. You can put political pressure on nations. You can provide sanctuary. You have resources for humanitarian aid. But most of all, you have the power of the pulpit, the power to change the world.
'Turn the other cheek' does not mean that you cannot respond. It does not mean that you cannot provide humanitarian aid. 'Turn the other cheek' does not mean that the most you can do is offer a prayer. It does not mean that you cannot go to Iraq and give those Christians who are marked for certain death – willing to die because of their belief in Jesus – some consolation before their inevitable end.
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/07/27/judge-jeanine-%E2%80%98it-time-papacy-get-out-front-christian-massacre%E2%80%99
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Theodore 'Dutch' VanKirk: Last Surviving Enola Gay Crew Member Dies
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Via Stars and Stripes:http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/theodore-dutch-vankirk-last-surviving-enola-gay-crew-member-dies-1.295849
The last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia.
Theodore VanKirk, also known as "Dutch," died Monday of natural causes at the retirement home where he lived in Stone Mountain, Georgia, his son Tom VanKirk said. He was 93.
VanKirk was the navigator of the Enola Gay, a B-29 Superfortress aircraft that dropped "Little Boy" – the world's first atomic bomb – over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. The bomb killed 140,000 in Hiroshima. A second atomic bomb dropped by another plane killed 80,000 in Nagasaki three days later. VanKirk was 24 years old at the time.
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The "Enola Gay" at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, November, 2013. The B-29 Superfortress dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
Tom VanKirk said he and his siblings are very fortunate to have had such a wonderful father who remained active until the end of his life.
"I know he was recognized as a war hero, but we just knew him as a great father," he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday.
In a 2005 interview with the AP, VanKirk said his World War II experience showed that wars and atomic bombs don't settle anything, and he'd like to see the weapons abolished.
A funeral service was scheduled for VanKirk on Aug. 5 in his hometown of Northumberland, Pennsylvania. He will be buried in Northumberland next to his wife, who died in 1975. The burial will be private.
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Patent workers paid to
exercise, shop and do chores,
investigation reveals
Paralegals on payroll years before their bosses hired
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Dozens of employees working for an obscure federal agency went years with little work to do, allowing them to collect salaries and bonuses while they shopped online, caught up on chores, watched television or walked the dog, an investigation revealed Tuesday.
The probe by the Commerce Department's inspector general found that paralegals at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's appeals board were paid more than $5 million for their time even though there was so little work for them to do that supervisors didn't care how they used it.
"I almost don't blame [paralegals] for watching TV because, I mean, you're sitting around for 800 hours," one chief judge told the investigators, who found that supervisors not only tolerated the problem but in one instance admonished an employee who complained about the lack of work.
The idle paralegals nonetheless managed to take home more than a half-million dollars in performance bonuses from 2009 to 2013, before the agency hired enough judges to increase the workload, according to the report.
The underworked paralegals and supervisors concealed non-work activities by recording hours under the pay code as "other time."
One official told investigators it was an open secret that "other time" was code for "I don't have to work, but I'm going to get paid."
Investigators said the practice continued until last year when agency officials got word that the inspector general's office was looking into complaints from whistleblowers.
Todd Elmer, chief communications officer for the Patent and Trademark Office, said the agency is reviewing the report and plans to issue a formal response within 60 days.
"Many of the OIG's recommendations for improvements at the PTAB are already underway or have been implemented," Mr. Elmer said in an email statement.
He said the agency conducted its own study after it was informed of the problem.
Asked why they had logged so much "other time," paralegals and their supervisors blamed a lack of work. One paralegal told a supervisor that she didn't have any work, but the supervisor didn't seem bothered.
"There is not much work and I know there is not much work, and you can stop calling me every day and telling me you have nothing to do because I know you have nothing to do," the paralegal recalled being told.
Still, the paralegals received such high performance ratings that supervisors doled out generous bonuses.
One senior manager recalled a meeting in which managers stated "although we're not obligated to provide bonuses, we're still going to."
The review released Tuesday also found that some managers were fearful of antagonizing labor union officials, so efforts to assign "special projects" to the paralegals were "feeble, half-hearted and ineffective."
From 2009 through 2013, the agency spent more than $4.3 million overall to reimburse "other time," and many of those paralegals took home nearly $700,000 in bonuses.
"In the worst cases, paralegals seemed content to have idle time while collecting full salaries and benefits ... while management seemed to sit on their hands, anticipating the arrival of judges at some unknown date in the figure," the report concluded.
Managers interviewed by the investigators didn't seem surprised that paralegals weren't doing much work. One said he wouldn't have been "a bit surprised if there were people who were going out to the golf course."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/29/patent-workers-paid-exercise-shop-do-chores-report/?page=all#pagebreak
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A real eye opener about waste of your tax dollars at:A Year in Review: $73B of fiscal waste identified for the taxpayer
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/10/golden-hammer-year-review/
Uncle Sam bankrolled
a third of Kansas
spending in 2013
By Travis Perry / July 30, 2014 /
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BIG TALK: While Kansas' elected officials
preach self reliance and fiscal prudence, more
than a third of all monies spent by the state in
2013 came from the indebted federal government.
By Travis Perry │ Kansas Watchdog
OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — On the home front, Kansas' elected officials talk a big game about self-reliance and prudent fiscal governance, but last year more than a third of all dollars doled out by the Sunflower State came directly from the woefully-indebted federal government.
Should Kansas put its money where its mouth is and lessen its leaning on Uncle Sam's wallet? State Rep. Gene Suellentrop, R-Wichita, says yes — to a point, at least.
In FY 2013, Kansas spent more than $13.9 billion. Of that, about $5.2 billion, or 37.6 percent, was awarded by the feds in one form or another. While the statistic peaked at 47.8 percent in FY 2010 in the wake of the Great Recession, it's still higher than the state's 2007 low of 32.6 percent ($3.9 billion) just before the national economic collapse.
Suellentrop, House Appropriations Committee chair, said without extensive research it's hard for him to comment on Kansas' reliance on federal dollars.
"It is interesting how much there is in the way of federal funds in the funding of state government, but you know we have a citizen-run Legislature and it is challenging to sit and research on how something like this is in comparison to other states," Suellentrop told Kansas Watchdog.
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Rep. Gene Suellentrop
"To do a good, fair analysis some of those things need to be examined, and I don't know that I've got enough time to go look all that up," he added.
A study released in March by State Budget Solutions did just that by examining federal funding as a portion of overall state revenues. Looking at data from 2001 to 2012, Kansas ranks low in terms of federal dependence compared to states like Mississippi or Wyoming, which drew more than 40 percent of all state revenues from the feds on average.
But while Kansas actually decreased its share of federal monies over the timespan by 2.51 percent, study authors Bob Williams and Joe Luppino warn the overall trend is on the rise.
Growing reliance on federal funding in state budgets is a dangerous trend. It threatens the financial stability of all 50 states, as well as the federal government. As federal debt skyrockets, Congress must look for ways to reduce spending. In the many states that count on the federal government for over one-third of their general revenue, every congressional spending reduction proposal puts the state at risk of a serious financial shortfall.
States must recognize that this funding arrangement also harms fiscal federalism. Federal funding usually comes with strings attached, and that means less chance for local control. When states cannot stand firmly on their own financial footing, they will lose the ability to make the best, locally-based, independent decisions for their residents.
However, Suellentrop said Kansas has already taken a stand against perceived runaway federal spending in the form of its opposition to Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.
"That's not a popular stance, as you well know," he noted. "Every paper throughout the state beats up the administration and all of us for not expanding it."
So what would it take for Kansas to decrease its reliance on federal purse strings? Suellentrop said it could be done, but it's not a simple answer.
First and foremost, he said Kansas shouldn't issue a blanket objection; Suellentrop wants to make sure Kansas receives a fair amount in proportion to the level of tax revenue feds draw from the state.
But the real key to the matter is restructuring things at the top to reduce costs. Namely, Suellentrop said, getting the federal government to hand over things like interstate management — and the accompanying funds drawn from the gas tax — to the states, while leaving the feds just enough to manage administration.
"The states that use the money correctly, like Kansas, will have good highways. The ones that don't, won't," he said, adding that states could be significantly more efficient than the sprawling federal government. "We'd have more money than we'd know what to do with."
While Suellentrop couldn't give a direct answer whether Kansas' reliance on federal funding is good or bad, it has certainly caught his attention.
"You've provoked an interest in me to find out how we compare to surrounding states or comparative states," he added.
http://watchdog.org/162399/ks-uncle-sam-spending/?roi=echo3-21683208015-21447343-6fdab68b15ecbb226e360703cd99c2a1
When It Comes to Israel, Liberals Can't Handle the Truth
Peter Wehner
07.28.2014
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Charlie Rose and Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal that's noteworthy:b]ROSE:[/b]
I think I just heard you say — and this — we will close on this — you believe in the coexistence of peoples, and, therefore, you believe in the coexistence of Palestinians and Israelis in the Middle East?MESHAAL (through translator): I can't coexist with occupation.ROSE: Without occupation, you can coexist?MESHAAL (through translator): I'm ready to coexist with the Jews, with the Christians and with the Arabs and non-Arabs and with those who agree with my ideas and those who disagree with them. However, I do not coexist with the occupiers, with the settlers, and those who...ROSE: It's one thing to say you want to coexist with the Jews. It's another thing you want to coexist with the state of Israel. Do you want to coexist with the state of Israel? Do you want to represent — do you want to recognize Israel as a Jewish state?MESHAAL (through translator): No. I said I do not want to live with a state of occupiers. I do coexist with other...ROSE: I'm assuming they're no longer occupiers. At that point, do you want to coexist and recognize their right to exist, as they would recognize your right to exist?MESHAAL (through translator): When we have a Palestinian state, then the Palestinian state will decide on its policies. But you cannot actually ask me about the future. I answered you. But Palestinian people can have their say when they have their own state without occupation. In natural situations, they can decide policy vis-a-vis others.So there you have it. The leader of Hamas says, point blank, it does not want a two-state solution. Yet scores of liberal commentators continue to make arguments like this: "We have to get a solution. And it has to be a two-state solution. And it has to be basically encouraged, if not imposed, I think, from without."
This is an example of what social scientists call "motivated reasoning." It refers to when people hold to a false belief despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. In this instance, the Hamas charter and the Hamas leader don't accept Israel's right to exist. And yet liberals don't seem to care. They appear to be content to live in world made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. A world of make believe. And so in the context of Israel's war with Hamas, they continue to revert to arguments that simply don't apply–for example, arguing that Israel needs to "end the occupation" despite the fact that Israel completely withdrew from Gaza nearly a decade ago.
Israel, on the other hand, has to live and survive in reality. Israelis know the nature of the enemy they face–implacable, committed, ruthless, malevolent. Given all this, and given that Israel itself is a nation of extraordinary moral and political achievements, you might think that the United States government would be fully supportive of the Jewish state in its war against Hamas. But you would be wrong.
The Obama administration is racheting up pressure on Israel. Hamas's war on Israel, combined with its eagerness to have innocent Palestinians die as human shields in order to advance its propaganda campaign, is pushing America (under Obama) not toward Israel but away from her. Mr. Obama and the left perceive themselves as reality based and their critics as fantasy based. It's a conceit without merit. And in no case is it more evident than in the left's stance toward Hamas and Israel.
This is a case where reality and all the arguments, including all the moral arguments, align on one side; and yet Obama and the left are on the other.
They live in a fantasy world. In this instance, doing so has diabolic consequences.The Hamas Charter (if you want to spend an hour reading CRAP):
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html?chocaid=397
Underground home was built as Cold War era hideaway
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Now for sale: a quaint, two-bedroom home complete with fireplace, putting green, lots of natural light - and a 26-foot deep bunker designed to withstand a nuclear blast and the post-apocalyptic nuclear winter that's sure to follow.
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An Underground Thinker
Las Vegas's famous Casa Apocalypse was built in 1978 by gajillionaire businessman Girard "Jerry" B. Henderson. In 1978, Cold War tensions engulfed a tense world, and those tensions were especially tense for Henderson.
Making his fortune through companies such as Gulfstream Aerospace and Avon Cosmetics, he branched out into a new initiative called World Underground Homes. With this enterprise, he envisioned an America whose populace would live underground when the U.S. and the Soviet Union exchanged nuclear attacks, rendering the Earth's crust an unlivable wasteland. From this vision came his masterpiece, Casa Apocalypse.
Casa ApocalypseFrom the outside, Casa Apocalypse appears to be like any other home on the market in Las Vegas. Two bedrooms, two stories, a neat front yard - a front yard adorned with enormous industrial turbine ventilation fans. The fans ventilate the main selling point, which is under the house.
The concept? If you have to wait out the remnants of nuclear annihilation, do it in style. Casa Apocalypse's hidden underground chamber is buried 26 feet down and is designed to withstand a nuclear explosion.
Survive on Earth Alone in StyleSince you may never be able to go outside again, all 15,000 square feet are designed to remind you of the comforts of the world you left behind. A wraparound mural mimics the landscape of Earth during better times. The green carpet is designed to look like grass, the weight-bearing pillars look like trees reaching up to a ceiling that's painted to look like the clear daytime sky - unless it's dark, when the flickering stars come out at "night." The lighting reflects the time of day, from dawn to dusk to dark.
There is a marble tub and enough pink tile to remind you that the last days were envisioned in the disco era. Enjoy the pool, jacuzzi, barbecue, fireplace, and putting green as you ponder the extinction of your species.
On - or Under - the MarketTake a virtual tour of what might be the most stylish survival bunker in the world. Although it was rumored to have been built for $10 million 35 years ago, you can take it off the hands of Kingly Properties LLC for a cool $1.7 million. Buy now before you run out of time. Literally.
Surviving is good, but surviving in style is great. Deep below Sin City, you can do just that now that Casa Apocalypse is for sale
Washington Redskins Donate $200,000 Playground To Montana Tribe
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(Pride over political correctness... how sweet)Via GF TribMike Sangrey understands some people think his Chippewa Cree Tribe is selling out by taking money from the Washington NFL team's Original Americans Foundation. Sangrey doesn't care about that. There's a spanking-new playground scheduled to open at noon Friday on the Rocky Boy's Reservation, and that's what matters to him.
"If us accepting the money makes (the team and its owner) sleep better at night, then fine, I wish them a good night's sleep," Sangrey said. "What matters is our kids get to enjoy a new playground. And how can that be bad?"
The rodeo-themed playground belongs to the tribe, but the branding belongs to the Washington Redskins. The place is awash in the team colors of burgundy and gold. The team's logo appears four times, near a slide here and a teeter-totter there. The team's foundation paid roughly $200,000 for this gleaming tribute to itself.
Arguments over the Redskins are heard from the White House to trademark court to barrooms across the land, but there is little debate amid the rolling high-plains grasslands of northcentral Montana, where members of the business council of the Chippewa Cree Tribe say the name is fine with them."I have no problem with the name," tribal chairman Rick Morsette said. "And if they're willing to help our youth, that's good too."
Federal Court Orders DOJ To Release Fast And Furious Documents
Withheld Under POS Obuma Executive Privilege Claim
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(I wouldn't be surprised if the lawless Obuma regime fails to hand the docs over as crooked as he and Holder are)
Townhall:Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act Lawsuit pursued against the Department of Justice by government watchdog Judicial Watch, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled documents being withheld from Congress under President Obama's claim of executive privilege must be turned over. Obama made the claim on the same day Attorney General Eric Holder was voted in criminal and civil contempt of Congress in June 2012.
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"This order forces the Obama DOJ, for the first time, to provide a detailed listing of all documents that it has withheld from Congress and the American people for years about the deadly Fast and Furious gun running scandal," Judicial Watch released in a statement.
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The FOIA lawsuit has been ongoing for 16-months and is now proceeding after a lengthy delay. The Justice Department originally asked the court for an indefinite hold on a FOIA request from Judicial Watch, citing executive privilege and an ongoing investigation. That indefinite hold request was shot down more than a year ago.
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Illegal Aliens Get All Expenses Paid Trip To Hawaii... On Your Dime
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(We get screwed, while they get lei'd)
Via Watchdog:HONOLULU — Although 2,500 miles from the continental United States, Hawaii has joined the list of states temporarily housing unaccompanied minors from Central America who have illegally crossed into America through the Southwest border.
Who's paying the freight? You, the taxpayer.Some 60,000 Central American youths fleeing their home countries have come to the United States in the past few months. That number could reach 90,000 by the end of the year. Politicians, border agents and social service workers call the migration a "humanitarian crisis."
Kenneth Wolfe, a spokesman the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told Watchdog.org that "between January 1 and July 7, a total of eight minors were discharged from the unaccompanied alien children program to sponsors in Hawaii."
Wolfe couldn't offer any details on the ages and countries of origin of the children, where the children are now living, or who is sponsoring them in Hawaii. However, he added the sponsors are "mostly family members of the child. In fact, more than half are parents of the minor."
Federal taxpayers cover the cost of transportation and housing for the refugee children, including airfare to Hawaii, Wolfe said.
The Bear Is Loose! Obuma Drops By LA Diner To Brag About His
Basketball Skills, "I Usually Make 8 Out of 10 Shots"
(Alternate headline: World burns, Obuma talks hoops... and fails at that, too!!!)
Via The Hill:President Obama made an impromptu stop at a Los Angeles diner on Thursday to have lunch with four people who have written him letters.
But he also had a chance to talk about his hoops game.
During the diner drop-by, Obama was asked about how he's faring in basketball these days by two older gentlemen, according to a White House pool report.
"My shot's broke," Obama said, as he held up his arm and did a mock free throw.
"It's my elbow," he continued. "It's my age. I get the chicken wing."
Obama said he makes 8 out of 10 shots, "but not in one game."
This Is What Is Going To Happen If Ebola Comes To America
By Michael Snyder, on July 30th, 2014
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If the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history reaches the United States, federal law permits "the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease". These individuals can be "detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary". In other words, the federal government already has the authority to round people up against their will, take them to detention facilities and hold them there for as long as they feel it is "reasonably necessary". In addition, as you will read about below, the federal government has the authority "to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill". If you want to look at these laws in the broadest sense, they pretty much give the federal government the power to do almost anything that they want with us in the event of a major pandemic. Of course such a scenario probably would not be called "martial law", but it would probably feel a lot like it.
If Ebola comes to America and starts spreading, one of the first things that would happen would be for the CDC to issue "a federal isolation or quarantine order". The following is what the CDC website says about what could happen under such an order...
Isolation and quarantine are public health practices used to stop or limit the spread of disease.
Isolation is used to separate ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy. Isolation restricts the movement of ill persons to help stop the spread of certain diseases. For example, hospitals use isolation for patients with infectious tuberculosis.
Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease.
Isolation and quarantine are used to protect the public by preventing exposure to infected persons or to persons who may be infected.In addition to serving as medical functions, isolation and quarantine also are "police power" functions, derived from the right of the state to take action affecting individuals for the benefit of society.
"Isolation" would not be a voluntary thing. The federal government would start hunting down anyone that they "reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease" and taking them to the facilities where other patients were being held. It wouldn't matter if you were entirely convinced that you were 100% healthy. If the government wanted to take you in, you would have no rights in that situation. In fact, federal law would allow the government to detain you "for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary".
And once you got locked up with all of the other Ebola patients, there would be a pretty good chance that you would end up getting the disease and dying anyway. The current Ebola outbreak has a 55 percent percent mortality rate, and experts tell us that the mortality rate for Ebola can be as high as 90 percent.
Once you contracted Ebola, this is what it would look like...Sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. That is followed by vomiting, diarrhoea, rash, impaired kidney and liver function and internal and external bleeding.
The "external bleeding" may include bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and just about every other major body cavity.So how is Ebola spread?Well, medical authorities tell us that it can be spread through the blood, urine, saliva, stools and semen of a person or animal that already has Ebola.
If you are exposed to the disease, the incubation period can be from anywhere from two days up to 21 days. But the average is usually about eight to ten days.
In other words, you can be spreading it around for over a week before you even know that you have it.
There is no vaccine for Ebola and there is no cure.Not everyone dies from the virus, but most people do.
Needless to say, this is about the last disease that you want to catch. And the doctors that are treating Ebola patients in Africa are going to extreme lengths to keep from getting it...
To minimise the risk of infection they have to wear thick rubber boots that come up to their knees, an impermeable body suit, gloves, a face mask, a hood and goggles to ensure no air at all can touch their skin.
Dr Spencer, 27, and her colleagues lose up to five litres of sweat during a shift treating victims and have to spend two hours rehydrating afterwards.
They are only allowed to work for between four and six weeks in the field because the conditions are so gruelling.
At their camp they go through multiple decontaminations which includes spraying chlorine on their shoes.But despite all of those extraordinary measures, multiple doctors have already gotten sick.
For example, one of the doctors leading the fight against Ebola, Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, died on Tuesday...
A doctor who was on the front lines fighting the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has died from complications of the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan fell ill early last week while overseeing Ebola treatment at Kenema Government Hospital, about 185 miles east of Sierra Leone's capital city, Freetown.
He was treated by the French aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres -- also known as Doctors Without Borders -- in Kailahun, Sierra Leone, up until his death, spokesman Tim Shenk said.And two American doctors that went over to Africa to help fight the disease are now battling for their own lives...
Dr. Kent Brantly, who was treating victims of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, is currently being treated in an isolation unit in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the AP reported Tuesday.
"I'm praying fervently that God will help me survive this disease," Brantly said in an email Monday to Dr. David Mcray, the director of maternal-child health at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas-born Brantly, 33, completed a four-year medical residency at the hospital, the AP said.
Brantly's wife and two young children left Liberia to return to Abilene, Texas, days before he began to show symptoms of Ebola. They are being monitored for any signs of fever, a City of Abilene spokeswoman told the AP.
A second American, aid worker Nancy Writebol of Charlotte, N.C., is also stricken with Ebola, according to CBS/AP. Writebol had been working as a hygienist to help decontaminate people at an Ebola care center in Monrovia.This is not like other Ebola outbreaks.
Something seems different this time.
But instead of trying to keep things isolated to a few areas, global health authorities are going to start sending Ebola patients to other parts of the globe. For example, one German hospital has already agreed to start receiving Ebola patients...
A German hospital has agreed to treat Ebola patients amid widespread fears of a possible outbreak of the deadly disease in Europe. Over 670 people have already been killed by the disease in West Africa with doctors struggling to control the epidemic.
A German hospital in Hamburg agreed to accept patients following a request from the World Health Organization (WHO), Deutsche Welle reports. Doctors assure that the utmost precautions will be taken to make sure the disease does not spread during treatment. The patients will be kept in an isolation ward behind several airlocks, and doctors and nurses will wear body suits with their own oxygen supplies that will be burned every three hours.Will Ebola patients also soon be sent to hospitals in the United States?And of course there are many other ways that Ebola could spread to this country. For instance, all it would take would be for one infected person to get on one airplane and it could all be over.
Federal authorities seem to have been preparing for such an outbreak for quite a while. As my good friend Mac Slavo has pointed out, "biological diagnostic systems" were distributed to National Guard units in all 50 states back in April...
The Department of Defense informed Congress that it has deployed biological diagnostic systems to National Guard support teams in all 50 states, according to a report published by the Committee on Armed Services. The report, published in April amid growing fears that the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus might spread outside of West Africa, says that the portable systems are designed for "low probability, high consequence" scenarios.
Some 340 Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) units have thus far been given to emergency response personnel. The systems are "rapid, reliable, and [provide] simultaneous identification of specific biological agents and pathogens," says executive officer for the DOD's Chemical and Biological Defense group Carmen J. Spencer.Let us certainly hope for the best.
Let us hope that this latest outbreak fizzles out and that we won't even be talking about this by the end of the year.
But experts are warning that if a major global pandemic does break out that millions upon millions of people could die.
If that happens, many people will go crazy with fear.
And we got just a little taste of some of the paranoia that an Ebola epidemic in America would create in Charlotte, North Carolina earlier this week...
A corridor of Carolinas Medical Center – Main's Emergency Room was roped off on the first floor, near the entrance Wednesday.
A security guard was posted outside, to prevent anyone from crossing the line.
During a 4 p.m. press conference Katie Passaretti, who is an infectious disease specialist with CMC, said precautions were put into place when patient was brought in Tuesday night. The patient was traveling from Africa and arrived at the hospital around 11:30 p.m.
Around 3 a.m. the security precautions were put into place at the hospital, Passaretti said.
Passaretti said they determined the patient did not have Ebola. The patient has been discharged home.It is not too hard to imagine forced quarantines and people being rounded up and shipped off to Ebola detention facilities.
In fact, if Ebola were to start spreading like wildfire in this country, many people would actually start demanding such measures.
For example, one member of Congress is already proposing that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone (and any foreigner that has recently visited those nations) be kept out of the United States...
In a letter addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat, proposed that citizens of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as "any foreign person who has visited one of these nations 90 days prior to arriving in the United States" be kept out of the country. He urged the secretaries to "consider the enhanced risk Ebola now presents to the American public".
85 Super Wealthy People Have More Money Than The Poorest 3.5 Billion Combined
By Michael Snyder, on July 27th, 2014
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The global economy is structured to systematically funnel wealth to the very top of the pyramid, and this centralization of global wealth is accelerating with each passing year. According to the United Nations, 85 super wealthy people have more money than the poorest 3.5 billion people on the planet combined. And 1.2 billion of those poor people live on less than $1.25 a day. There is something deeply, deeply broken about a system that produces these kinds of results. Seven out of every ten people on the planet live in countries where the gap between the wealthy and the poor has increased in the last 30 years. Despite our technological advances, somewhere around a billion people go to bed hungry every single night. And when our fundamentally flawed financial system finally does collapse, it will be the poor that will suffer the worst.
Now, let me make one thing clear at the outset.
Big government and more socialism are not the answer to anything. Big government and more socialism almost always result in increased oppression and increased poverty. If you want to see where that road ultimately leads to, just look at North Korea.
What we need is a system that empowers individuals and families to work hard, be creative, build businesses and to take care of themselves.
But instead, we have a system where all power and all wealth are increasingly controlled by giant banks and giant corporations that are in turn controlled by the global elite. The "financialization" of the global economy has turned almost everyone on the planet into "deft serfs", and the compound interest on all of that debt enables the global elite to constantly increase their giant piles of money.
As I have written about previously, the total amount of government debt in the world has increased by about 40 percent since the last recession.
And when you consider all forms of debt, the grand total for the planet is now up to a whopping 223 trillion dollars.
This enables the super wealthy to constantly become even wealthier. It is like a giant vacuum cleaner that sucks wealth out of all of our pockets and transfers it to them.
It has been reported that the global elite have approximately 32 trillion dollars stashed in offshore banks around the globe.But that is only what we know about.
What we don't know about is probably far greater.
Just like most people don't realize that men like Bill Gates and Carlos Slim are not the wealthiest men on the planet.
The people that are really at the top of the food chain are masters at hiding wealth and they absolutely do not want their names being thrown around in the media.
Meanwhile, those at the bottom of the pyramid continue to suffer.
For example, it was been widely reported that there are more people in slavery today than ever before in human history.
That is an absolutely amazing statistic. It is hard to comprehend how that could be possible, and yet it is. A new UN report says that there are 21 million slaves around the globe right now...Nearly 21 million people are working as modern day slaves, falling victim to trafficking, forced labor and sexual exploitation, a new UN report finds. The illicit market in exploited people generates billions of dollars in profit worldwide.
The report by the International Labour Organization (ILO), which draws on information gathered in a 2012 survey, also found that annual profits stemming from forced labor are three times higher than previous estimates.
"Put into perspective, the 21 million victims in forced labor and the more than US$150 billion in illegal profits generated by their work exceeds the population and GDP of many countries or territories around the world," the ILO says.This is an utter abomination, but this is actually happening all over the planet. The following is one story that I recently came across out of India...Dialu Nial's life changed forever when he was held down by his neck in a forest and one of his kidnappers raised an axe to strike.
He was asked if he wanted to lose his life, a leg or a hand.
Six days earlier, Nial had been among 12 young men being taken against their will to make bricks on the outskirts of one of India's biggest cities, Hyderabad.
During the journey, they got a chance to escape and ran for it – but Nial and a friend were caught and this was their punishment.
And yes, he did end up losing his hand.Fortunately, most of us are not facing that kind of oppression.
But that doesn't mean that we aren't slaves. The borrower is the servant of the lender, and over the past four decades the total amount of debt in America has gone from about 2.2 trillion dollars to nearly 60 trillion dollars. Many of us work as "debt serfs" our entire lives, and we never even know the names or the faces of those that we are making rich as we slowly pay off our debts.
And all of this debt is one of the primary factors destroying the middle class in America.
Just this past week, the New York Times reported that the wealth of "the typical household" in the United States has declined by 36 percent over the past decade...The inflation-adjusted net worth for the typical household was $87,992 in 2003. Ten years later, it was only $56,335, or a 36 percent decline, according to a study financed by the Russell Sage Foundation. Those are the figures for a household at the median point in the wealth distribution — the level at which there are an equal number of households whose worth is higher and lower. But during the same period, the net worth of wealthy households increased substantially.
The Russell Sage study also examined net worth at the 95th percentile. (For households at that level, 94 percent of the population had less wealth and 4 percent had more.) It found that for this well-do-do slice of the population, household net worth increased 14 percent over the same 10 years. Other research, by economists like Edward Wolff at New York University, has shown even greater gains in wealth for the richest 1 percent of households.Does that upset you when you read that?
It should.
And the outlook for the next generation is even worse. Most of our young adults are absolutely drowning in student loan debt and other forms of debt, and wages for new college graduates are terrible.
Sadly, most people don't even realize how the global financial system works or why the gap between the super wealthy and the rest of us continues to grow so rapidly.
It has been estimated that the wealthiest one percent currently have 110 trillion dollars. That is 65 times more wealth than the bottom half of the global population combined.They are hoarding wealth as we approach some of the most unstable days in all of human history.
So how do you think all of this will play out?
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Big government and more socialism are not the answer to anything. Big government and more socialism almost always result in increased oppression and increased poverty. If you want to see where that road ultimately leads to, just look at North Korea.
What we need is a system that empowers individuals and families to work hard, be creative, build businesses and to take care of themselves.
Liberty is Constitutional, socialism is not. Liberty empowers people, yet there are those whose desire is for government to take care of people and enforce their desires and power upon the folks. Tyrants - ever hear that word to describe Obama or Republicans and their bureaucratic minions?
Obama Refers
to His Wife as
"Michael"
A very short video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cgk732vfGQ
Secret Service Agents:
Guarding Nasty Hillary Clinton"Worst Duty Assignment" In Service
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Protect me not: If agents driving her went over a bump, she'd swear at them. She has a dual personality that changes when she¿s not making a public appearance, says author Kessler
(Not something the Secret Service would like to go through again)
Her nasty treatment, her explosive temper and her imperious attitude toward those assigned to her detail have earned former first lady Hillary Clinton the title of the most detested person under the protection of the Secret Service.
And as a result, agents are all too happy to keep Hillary in the dark about Bill's buxom blonde love and her secret visits to their Chappaqua home, according to Ron Kessler in his explosive forthcoming book The First Family Detail, published by Crown Forum.
'Agents say being on Hillary Clinton's detail is the worst duty assignment in the Secret Service. Being assigned to her detail is a form of punishment.'
And her nasty attitude goes all the way back to early days at the White House when Hillary and President Bill Clinton stepped out of Marine One helicopter and crossed the lawn holding hands.
But that was all for show. Once they were out of the public eye, it was a scream fest between the couple.
In response to a cheerful 'Good morning, ma'am', by a former uniformed officer, Hillary's response to him was 'F*** off'.
'Hillary was so mistrustful and vengeful,' a former agent told Kessler.
'We were basically told, the Clintons don't want to see you, they don't want to hear you, get of the way', according to a former Secret Service agent. Via Daily Mail:(http://dancingczars.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/hillary4.jpg)
Hillary told one agent to 'f*** off' and another that his suit looked 'cheap.' Secret Service staff say guarding the former First Lady was 'the worst form of punishment,' author reveals in explosive new book
***Author Ronald Kessler claims agents confess that being on Hillary's security detail is the worst duty assignment in the Secret Service
*** If agents driving her went over a bump, she'd swear at them
*** 'When she's in front of the lights, she turns it on and when she's not she's a totally different person,' says one agent
*** Arriving at a 4-F Club in upstate New York while campaigning, she saw cows and people in jeans. She was enraged
*** She asked a staffer, 'What the f*** did we come her for? There's no money here'
*** She insulted White House counsel Vince Foster and told him that he would never be more than a hick-town lawyer and wasn't ready for the big timeBy Caroline Howe
Published: 16:44 EST, 1 August 2014 | Updated: 02:18 EST, 2 August 2014
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Her nasty treatment, her explosive temper and her imperious attitude toward those assigned to her detail have earned former first lady Hillary Clinton the title of the most detested person under the protection of the Secret Service.
And as a result, agents are all too happy to keep Hillary in the dark about Bill's buxom blonde love and her secret visits to their Chappaqua home, according to Ron Kessler in his explosive forthcoming book The First Family Detail, published by Crown Forum.
'Agents say being on Hillary Clinton's detail is the worst duty assignment in the Secret Service. Being assigned to her detail is a form of punishment.'In response to a cheerful 'Good morning, ma'am', by a former uniformed officer, Hillary's response to him was 'F*** off'.
'Hillary was so mistrustful and vengeful.' a former agent told Kessler.
'We were basically told, the Clintons don't want to see you, they don't want to hear you, get of the way', according to a former Secret Service agent.
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Hush hush: When the cat's away, Bill Clinton will play. Kessler says Clinton's mistress comes calling when Hillary leaves their Chappaqua home and the Secret Service agents keep Bill's secrets
That means hiding behind drapes – anything not to be seen – and she was not to be spoken to as well when moving from one location to another in the White House, according to former FBI agent Coy Copeland.
She jumped all over agents working for independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation of the couple's involvement in the Whitewater real estate development deal.
And then she attacked one agent personally and suggested his suit looked 'cheap.'
Kessler maintains her mean spirited nature didn't end with agents.
White House deputy counsel Vince Foster, who committed suicide in June 1993, was on the receiving end of a virulent verbal attack by Hillary. She disagreed with a legal opinion he made and humiliated him in a meeting, stating he would never be more than a hick-town lawyer and wasn't ready for the big time.
'The put-down that she gave him in that big meeting just pushed him over the edge', Copeland says. She blamed Foster for all of the Clinton's problems and stated he had failed the couple.
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Right hand woman: Huma Abedin, married to disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner, was Hillary's close confidante. She was as rude as Hillary, says the author
Foster was just one of many Hillary verbally attacked. She didn't like law enforcement officers or the military, former Secret Service agent Lloyd Bulman stated. 'She was just really rude to almost everybody. She'd act like she didn't want you around, like you were beneath her.'
She went years without speaking to some agents.
While publicly courting law enforcement organizations, privately she felt disdain. She wanted state troopers and local police to wear suits and drive unmarked cars. No military aides could wear their uniforms in the White House. If agents driving her went over a bump, she'd swear at them.
Glad-handing on the road on her Senatorial campaign, when they arrived at a 4-F Club in the land of dairy cows in upstate New York, she saw cows and people in jeans. That enraged her and she asked a staffer, 'What the f*** did we come her for? There's no money here'.
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Queen Of Mean: Kessler claims that White House deputy counsel Vince Foster committed suicide in June 1993 after a virulent verbal attack by Hillary. She disagreed with a legal opinion he made and humiliated him in a meeting stating he would never be more than a hick-town lawyer and wasn¿t ready for the big time
Running for Senate and on the campaign tour, she was appalled when they arrived at locations where the populace was poor. 'What the f*** did we come her for'? she stated.
While Chelsea comes off as an angel, very cordial and sweet, Huma Abedin, Hillary's deputy chief of staff at the State Department and traveling chief of staff during her campaign for the presidency,
is considered as vile and rude as Hillary.
'Huma looked down on the agents and treated them as second-class citizens', a former agent stated. If she wasn't recognized, she would say, 'Do you know who I am'?
In response to her rudeness, they let her carry her own luggage – and the first lady's luggage as well. 'She'd have four bags, and we'd stand there and watch her and say, 'Oh, can we hold the door for you'?
When Hillary is out of their Chappaqua, New York home, writes Kessler, Bill's lover makes secret visits to some thirty-five miles north of New York City.
Dubbed 'Energizer' by the Secret Service on duty, the mistress has shown up within minutes after Hillary's departure. Someone made a phone call that Evergreen, Hillary's code name, was now out and the coast was clear for Bill's lover.
Hillary Clinton keeps mum on presidential intentions Presidential secrets: Author Ronald Kessler rips the lid off the private lives of the the presidents in his new book
'Her figure looks great, but her bust doesn't fit the rest of her figure; it is rather endowed'. Her breasts were 'very perky and very new and full'. They appear enhanced and don't match her face, according to the agents stationed at the guard gate who are instructed to just open the gate for her.
'You don't stop her, you don't approach her, you just let her go in.' 'I let her in many times at the front gate' another agent confesses. Normally we held a driver's license or other form of picture ID when visitors were in the residence. Not so in her case.'
Sometimes she brought homemade cookies for the agents, wearing a low cut top and leaning over giving them a full view of her amplified cleavage.
One agent sighted the former president and Energizer sitting on the swing at the back of the house sipping lemonade.
'Wheels down' is the forty-five minute warning for Energizer to make a quick getaway. Hillary's plane has touched down at LaGuardia and she'll be in Chappaqua directly. On one occasion, Hillary's agent neglected to make the call to Old House Lane in time creating a scramble and a catastrophic near miss.
No agent in the service wants to be sentenced to Hillary's detail – considered the worst form of punishment. They lay down their life for hers and there's no respect for that.
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Read more:
The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents: Ronald Kessler: 9780804139212: Amazon.com: Bookshttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804139210/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=194NY30YP1C0KBQG9TXH&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2713591/Hillary-told-one-agent-f-suit-looked-cheap-Secret-Service-agents-say-guarding-former-First-Lady-wasthe-worst-form-punishment-author-reveals-explosive-new-book.html#ixzz39HS90GRQ
Clinton Corruption Bombshells Judicial Watch Bombshell: Clinton State Department Racket
Hauled in $48 Million for Clinton Machine
Judicial Watch
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So let me get this straight. Bill Clinton delivers 215 speeches around the globe while his wife is Secretary of State, hauling in $48 million for various Clinton family interests, and the Obama administration handed the Clintons an "ethical waiver" 100% of the time?
There was not one single speech that gave the administration pause? Not one?
That is what everybody is talking about in response to bombshell documents we released earlier this week, including more than 200 conflict-of-interest reviews by State Department ethics advisers. These "reviews" considered speaking engagements and consulting arrangements proposed by Bill Clinton speaking during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
(The documents were obtained as result of a federal court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the State Department on May 28, 2013, a lawsuit that is still ongoing.)
These documents also show that the State Department approved a consulting arrangement with a company, Teneo Strategy, led by controversial Clinton Foundation adviser Doug Band. The Clintons ended the deal after only eight months, as criticism mounted over Teneo's ties to the failed investment firm, MF Global.
So we know that the Obama administration's judgment as to what constitutes a "conflict of interest" is skewed, to put it nicely.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Again, Mr. Clinton's office proposed 215 speeches around the globe during his wife's tenure at State. And 215 times the State Department stated that it had "no objection."
Let's take a quick look at where Mr. Clinton took his business and the types of companies that were involved.
Mr. Clinton's speeches included appearances in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Central America, Europe, Turkey, Thailand, Taiwan, India and the Cayman Islands.
Sponsors of the speeches included some of the world's largest financial institutions—Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, American Express and others—as well as major players in technology, energy, health care and media. Other speech sponsors included a car dealership, casino groups, hotel operators, retailers, real estate brokers, a Panamanian air cargo company and a sushi restaurant.
And, again, zero objections from the Obama administration.
How the Obama State Department waived hundreds of ethical conflicts that allowed the Clintons and their businesses to accept money from foreign entities and corporations seeking influence boggles the mind. That former President Clinton trotted the globe collecting huge speaking fees while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy is an outrage.
No wonder it took a court order to get these documents. What foreign policy issues were mishandled as top State Department officials spent so much time facilitating the Clinton money machine? You can see the details for yourself by reading the documents we forced from this "transparent" administration. Just click here.
The Washington Examiner published a report this week on the documents analyzed by Judicial Watch Chief Investigative Reporter Micah Morrison and Examiner Senior Watchdog Reporter Luke Rosiak that dove into the specifics of these speeches and those in attendance.
Morrison and Rosiak note that Mr. Clinton "earned $48 million while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton Foundation during Mrs. Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State."
And here are some of the specific Clinton activities that did not cause so much as a raised eyebrow within the Obama administration, per the State Department documents we uncovered:
•Mr. Clinton spoke before a UBS Wealth Management audience in Chicago in April, 2012. The State Department document notes that attendees would be "approximately 300-400 ultra-high net worth clients, prospective clients, and UBS Financial Advisers."
•Mr. Clinton spoke to an event hosted by Wells Fargo in San Francisco in October, 2011. The State Department document notes that the event is "being held for Wells Fargo Private Bank and Wells Fargo Family Wealth Group clients, which are clients that have at least $5 million and $50 million in assets respectively."
•At a "mutually agreeable date" in April 2010, Mr. Clinton was due to speak at Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. "This would be a private speech of up to 350 friends and patrons of Mohegan Sun," the State Department document noted. "The event will not be open to the public. The event will not be publicly advertised."
•For a speech in Moscow in June 2010 sponsored by the investment bank Renaissance Capital, Mr. Clinton would address the theme of "Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Going Global." The document notes that "Renaissance Capital is an investment bank focused on the emerging markets of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and sub-Saharan Africa."
•At the Ritz Carlton in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, Mr. Clinton spoke at a March 2011 ticketed event targeting "the business community in Grand Cayman."
These documents clearly show how the Clintons turned the State Department into a racket to line their own pockets. Of course we all suspected this is how things would go down, with the Clinton machine getting its hooks into the Obama administration, which has corruption and lawlessness issues that would make Boss Tweed blush.
The potential for conflicts of interest between Hillary Clinton's role as Secretary of State and Bill Clinton's international ventures grew increasingly controversial in late 2008 when the former president released a list of donors to his library and foundation in what he termed "a deal between" Obama "and Hillary."
According to an AP wire story, "Saudi Arabia gave $10 million to $25 million to the foundation. Other government donors include Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Oman ..." CNN at the time warned that Clinton's "complicated global business interests could present future conflicts of interest that result in unneeded headaches for the incoming commander-in-chief."
Here's where CNN was off: This president doesn't get headaches over ethics.
Under established protocols of the State Department, and supplemented by a December 2008 Memorandum of Understandingbetween the Clinton Foundation and Obama Presidential Transition Team, a designated ethics official from the State Department's legal office was assigned to review any "potential or actual conflict of interest" for Mrs. Clinton while she served as secretary of state. Copies of all decisions were sent to a top adviser to Secretary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, who served as counselor and chief of staff at the Department of State.
Yes, that Cheryl Mills. Bill Clinton's former deputy White House counsel and a longtime Clinton family confidant, who, the Washington Postwrote in 1999 "endeared herself to the Clintons with her never-back-down, share-nothing, don't-give-an-inch approach ..." After clearing Mrs. Clinton for the DOS job, Mills was named the incoming Secretary's Chief of Staff. Ms. Mills was a featured speaker at Bill Clinton's 2012 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting.
In an April 28, 2008, ruling relating to Ms. Mills conduct as a White House official in responding to concerns about lost White House email records, Judge Royce C. Lamberth called Cheryl Mills' participation in the matter "loathsome." He further stated Mills was responsible for "the most critical error made in this entire fiasco... Mills' actions were totally inadequate to address the problem." Ms. Mills is currently on the Board of Directors of BlackRock, a leading investment firm. BlackRock is run by Larry Fink who reportedly wanted to be Treasury Secretary for Barack Obama and now, according to another report, is "angling for the job" in a Hillary Clinton administration.
Judicial Watch is not surprised that the Clintons cast aside any semblance of ethical bearing to fill their coffers, yet the breadth their scheme and the haul it yielded is truly shocking. And it bears repeating that, given concerns about potential corruption associated with Hillary Clinton becoming Secretary of State, she obtained her position based on promises of a rigorous ethics process by both her and the Obama administration. The U.S. Senate was suckered by these promises because, as we've shown thanks to a court order, the promised ethics process was a joke.
The State Department has "found" more documents which they should soon be giving us, so we'll keep you posted on more developments as they arise.
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President Clinton wakes up one morning, looks out of the White House window and sees "The President Sucks" written in the snow in urine. Furious, he calls in the FBI and demands the perpetrators be found. Later that day the FBI agents return.
"Well sir," says the first agent, "the urine has been analysed and it's the Vice President's." Clinton goes purple with rage and shouts, "Is that all?"
"Well no sir," says the agent, "It's the First Lady's handwriting." [...]
Lol... This is nothing compared to what Bill did AS President!
Clinton Gave China Chips for Nuclear War
Special Report to NewsMax. com by Charles R. Smith
September 30, 2003 ~ Note: The Newsmax 2003 archive link has been taken offline.
But the truth still exists. Go here for the full text.
www. tonyrogers. com/news/clinton_china_nukes. htm
Newly declassified documents show that President Bill Clinton personally approved the transfer to China of advanced space technology that can be used for nuclear combat.
The documents show that in 1996 Clinton approved the export of radiation hardened chip sets to China. The specialized chips are necessary for fighting a nuclear war.
"Waivers may be granted upon a national interest determination," states a Commerce Department document titled "U.S. Sanctions on China."
"The President has approved a series of satellite related waivers in recent months, most recently in November, 1996 for export of radiation hardened chip sets for a Chinese meteorological satellite," noted the Commerce Department documents.
These special computer chips are designed to function while being bombarded by intense radiation. Radiation hardened chips are considered critical for atomic warfare and are required by advanced nuclear tipped missiles.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents through the Freedom of Information Act, a Washington-based political watchdog group.
Several documents were withheld from release by the U.S. Commerce Department for commercial and personal privacy exemptions, but none of the documents were withheld for national security reasons. Judicial Watch is expected to appeal the withholdings.
Decade of Betrayal
U.S. intelligence sources stated that the newly released documents illustrate the extent to which the Clinton White House placed trade – and trade with China specifically – above national security.
"In all likelihood we will be glowing in the dark before we discover the true extent of the Clinton decade of betrayal," stated Rick Fisher, Asian Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
"If it was indeed intended for a new PRC weather satellite, then it is possible that it was used for their new polar orbit weather satellites. This is significant because the Chinese themselves acknowledge that their polar orbit weather satellites directly contribute to their long-range missile targeting capability. This becomes even more important for their new smaller but more accurate warheads, used on their new DF-31, DF-31A, DF-5 Mod2 and JL-2 missiles. If they encounter significant weather, warhead accuracy degrades, reducing their utility," stated Fisher.
"Inasmuch as similar U.S. military weather satellites perform the same missions, the Clinton Administration had to have known they were assisting a PLA strategic military capability," concluded Fisher.
In addition, the Chinese military is clearly interested in acquiring advanced radiation hardened computer chips for its strategic nuclear arsenal.
U.S. Chips for PRC Nukes
Currently, China has only liquid fueled, long-range missiles, and the majority of them are based inside underground silos. These long-range rockets are reported to be "bore-sighted" – meaning the underground silos are aimed directly at target cities inside the United States.
The Chinese army is now attempting to shift its strategic nuclear arsenal to a solid-fuel "launch on command" capability. These new missiles are rail- and road-mobile and require sophisticated electronic guidance systems to accurately strike their intended targets.
As part of this upgrade, the Chinese army is also modifying its nuclear warhead designs to arm new survivable missiles such as the DF-31 and JL-2. Chinese engineers are planning to equip these new missiles with MIRV technology, allowing each missile to carry multiple nuclear warheads.
Again, the U.S. radiation hardened computer chip technology is a logical addition to the reconfiguration and upgrade of Chinese nuclear weapons.
Stolen U.S. Chips
Another critical element of the Clinton-supplied waiver is the fact that it took place during an investigation of Chinese espionage into missing U.S. radiation hardened satellite chips.
In February 1996, a Chinese Long March rocket carrying a Loral Intelsat satellite failed and crashed on lift-off. The Loral Intelsat payload was badly damaged. The Chinese intended to launch the Loral satellite into deep space as they had been paid to do by Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz.
However, fate took a twisted path, and so did the Chinese rocket. The Long March rocket failed on launch and crashed into a nearby Chinese village, killing over 200 innocent civilians. The failure of the Long March allowed the U.S. to recover the sealed satellite guidance box, which revealed the control board of radiation-hardened chips was missing.
The missing board from the Loral Intelsat satellite is no mystery. It quickly became obvious that Chinese engineers removed the special electronics and kept the board for examination. The stolen Loral electronics consist of radiation hardened, encrypted telemetry chips, stored in a secure flight control box similar to those found on airliners. The NSA changed all U.S. satellite codes as a result of the stolen Loral chips, costing American taxpayers millions of dollars.
1996 Illegal Campaign Donations
Another factor involved in the November 1996 waiver issued by then-President Clinton is the fact that illegal money entered the U.S. elections from the Chinese army. The money was donated to the DNC from a variety of sources including convicted Chinagate figures John Huang, Charlie "Yah-Lin" Trie and Johnny Chung.
The 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign readily accepted much of the money from the Chinese army sources without question, and in some cases took these donations in cash. The allegations of Chinese espionage and illegal campaign donations were never investigated properly.
The successful effort by China to obtain U.S. microchip technology included espionage, sabotage and perhaps bribery. The red intelligence windfall freed the Chinese army to more accurately target American cities with atomic weapons using advanced U.S technology.
The legacy that President Clinton left for the 21st century is a modern Chinese army equipped for global nuclear war.
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To say North Korea has NOT benefited from Clinton's TREASON is dangerously naive.
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Michelle 'pushed' Obama into 'siding with black people': First Lady urged president to pick sides in racial controversies claims new book on the hidden lives of Secret Service
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*** New book claims that Michelle Obama asked President Obama to be vocal in support of African Americans
*** First Lady wanted her husband to back family of Trayvon Martin
*** 'The First Family Detail' delves into the secret world of president's personal guard
*** The Secret Service are underfunded and security lapses are more commonBy Caroline Howe
Published: 3 August 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2714762/Michelle-pushed-Obama-siding-black-people-First-Lady-urged-president-pick-sides-racial-controversies-claims-new-book-hidden-lives-Secret-Service.htmlSecret Service agents rarely speak, but there's nothing wrong with their hearing.
Agents confessed to Ronald Kessler, author of an upcoming blockbuster book about the hidden lives of presidents, that they have overheard Michelle Obama pushing her husband 'to be more aggressive in attacking Republicans and to side with blacks in racial controversies.'
And Obama did as he was told, says Kessler in The First Family Detail.
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Protection: The first family of Barack and Michelle Obama, Sasha and Malia walk across the lawn of the White House guarded by Secret Service agents
When Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager, was shot dead by a neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida on the night of February 26, 2012.
'That could have been me thirty-five years ago', Obama stated.
Obama was also vocal about a Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer who arrested a black Harvard profession being noisy during a break-in investigation. He viewed it as an unnecessary and stupid arrest.
A former agent listening to the first couple's conversations in the presidential limo, believed Michelle's agenda goes back to a statement she made when Barack was running for president.
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Significant: New book, First Family Detail, claims that Michelle Obama tried to push President Obama into being more vocal in support of the family of Trayvon Martin following his death at the hands of George Zimmerman
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Beer summit: Vice President, Joe Biden, (left), Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Sgt. James Crowley and President Obama at the so-called Beer Summit at the White House 2009
As rude as Hillary is to the Secret Service, the current First Lady, code named Renaissance, is friendly, considerate and treats the agents with respect. She has twenty agents protecting her and she insists that they all call her by her first name.
'Michelle is friendly – she touches you', an agent stated and her mother, Marian Robinson, in residence at the White House to help care for their two daughters, goes out of her way to be gracious to the Secret Service as well.
Michelle even gave Father's Day cards to agents who were dads and working the shift on that day.
The Obamas invited agents to dinner two times at their Hyde Park home in Chicago while he was running for President, and he made sure the agents took time out to eat the chili.
While Bill Clinton was chronically late, Obama usually runs on time but if he's dragging, Michelle gets on his case and reminds him he is being disrespectful to the agents.
Gatecrashers: Michaele and Tareq Salahi attended a White House function without invitation in 2009 and were introduced to President Obama in one of the Secret Service's most notorious security breaches
Daughters Malia and Sasha get high marks for being 'great kids' and 'very respectable young ladies'.
While both Barack and Michelle are well liked and respected by the Secret Service, agents disclosed that laxness and undercutting of basic security protocols in this administration now threaten the life of the president as well as the First Lady.
Lax security has allowed guests into events without proper screening to detect firearms. Current agency protocols are not up-to-date and using the latest firearms and they have cut back on the size of counterassault teams.
Agents are also filling out their own test scores on their physical fitness tests as well as not following proper rules for firearm re-qualification.
This imposed cost cutting and lowering of standards first emerged when serial party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi and Carlos Allen were allowed into a White House state dinner in November 2009 while not on the guest list.
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The'gatecrashers': Were subpoenaed by the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee to appear at a hearing to discuss the breach of security where they invoked the Fifth Amendment.
The lowered agency security standards surfaced again when agents were sent home in April 2012 and exposed as engaging prostitutes while traveling with Obama to Cartagena, Colombia.
Their sordid little affairs blew up when one belligerent agent refused to pay the prostitute her requisite fee.
If agents blow the whistle on any breach of security, they know they will suffer retribution from management so they keep quiet.
'The pressure not to rock the boat takes precedence over protecting the president from the jackal, the term agents use to refer to a potential assassin'.
Another major breach of security occurred on the night of the White House Correspondent's Dinner at the Washington Hilton in April 2013.
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Special treatment: According to First Family Detail, Hollywood superstar Bradley Cooper was allowed to drive his car into a function attended by the president and exempted by security checks
While the advance security detail swept the hotel and grounds, agents received orders from a high-ranking agency official in New York to allow movie star Bradley Cooper's vehicle onto the grounds without screening.
Agents were shocked at the breach knowing that it could have been loaded with explosives, biological or chemical weapons.
The canine team was not even allowed to inspect the vehicle.
'Agents were told not to sweep the car. Just let it in and don't give Cooper any problems'. Cooper was given a free pass – 'and this was two weeks after the terrorist attack on our soil in Boston'.
'That's just one example of the arrogance of senior managers in the Secret Service. They think they're accountable to no one'
Americans protest against Invasion of Illegals in 319 cities. Media blackout
Posted on July 19, 2014 by Dr. Eowyn
Yesterday, July 18, 2014, thousands of Americans protested
against the Invasion of the Illegals across our southern border
in 319 towns and cities across the country.
While the number of protesters in each locale was small, the fact that the protests took place ACROSS America certainly is significant. You would think that to be news, but you saw none of it in your local or national TV news because of a media blackout. In the Amerika of Obama, if the media doesn't report it, then it didn't happen.
Here are photos of some of the protests.
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In an email forwarded to WND from Gheen, a woman who described herself as a member of the Oath Keepers organization reported that a protest she attended started off with a "picnic atmosphere" with protesters holding a barbecue on a homeowner's front lawn. They were putting up flags and signs that said "No Amnesty," "Honk for America" and "Protect our Sovereignty."
That's when "the shtf [s--- hit the fan] from outsiders/instigators from across the street," Linda said in the email. "They literally stomped all over, screamed in our faces and tore up signs on the host's private property/lawn. They had a bullhorn or two, and they stomped up and down her lawn yelling obscenities. Weaving their way across her front yard, bumping into a few of us standing on the grass. Screaming 'racist, Nazi'' you name it. Giving the finger."
That one incident aside, Gheen said he's hoping Saturday will go just as smoothly. "I would say from the looks of the photos I'm uploading here, I think things look really great. I'm seeing a lot of great people and good crowds from all over the place," he said. "I'm seeing good-looking stuff in San Antonio, Texas, Corinth, Texas, a really good crowd in Richmond, Virginia, a good crowd of white and black Americans standing together in Birmingham, Alabama, and a good crowd on an overpass from Anaheim, California."
Gheen said the protests were especially commendable given the media blackout from corporate giants like CNN, CBS, NBC and Fox News.
"We have done what we've done today without any mainstream media coverage. We had no coverage before the event from Fox or CNN and Fox has just mentioned us in the last half hour," Gheen told WND about two hours after the protests had ended.
"On MSNBC, we received some disparaging comments on their website calling us anti-immigrant without saying anything about us or telling anyone how to find us or what we really stand for. So the only national coverage on major TV networks we received was getting bashed on MSNBC. I think that's an important part of the story, while our participants may not be of the size of historic events of the tea parties of 2010, we've had good crowds and no coverage from Fox like those events had."
The protests will continue today (July 19) on highway overpasses, in state capitals, Mexican consulates and facilities receiving the illegal aliens.
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Hillary Clinton goes to her doctor for a physical, only to find out that she's pregnant. She is furious... Here she's in the middle of her run for President and this has happened to her. She calls home, gets Bill on the phone and immediately starts screaming; "How could you have let this happen? With all that's going on right now, you go and get me pregnant! How could you? I can't believe this! I just found out I am five weeks pregnant and it is all your fault! Your fault! Well, what have you got to say?"
There is nothing but dead silence on the phone. She screams again, "Did you hear me?" Finally she hears Bill's very, very quiet voice.
In a barely audible whisper, he says, "Who is this?"
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Barack Hussein Obama: The Indefensible Jihadist in the White House
Pamela Geller 08/04/14
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/08/barack-hussein-obama-indefensible-jihadist-white-house/
The Hill reported Thursday that the Obama White House "pointed the finger at Israel for the shelling of a United Nations school in Gaza, calling the incident 'totally unacceptable and totally indefensible.'"
It's as if Obama were lying in wait – waiting for a rocket gone wrong, an op gone bad, something, anything with which to attack the Jews.
Obama's attacks on Israel are "indefensible." Obama's strong-arming of the tiny Jewish state, which led to the cold-blooded murder of three Israelis, is indefensible.
And still Obama imposes more punishment upon the Jews. The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv has canceled tourist visa applications for Israelis. Jews cannot come to America. Jihadis, on the other hand, are welcome.
The Islamic invasion of Israel on Rosh Hashanah ranks high in history as one of the most stealth, savage acts of war in history. Imagine all the time, resources and U.S., EU and U.N. aid that was used to build this underground terror city. Just stop and think of the time, money and effort that went into the creation of these tunnels of death.
These tunnels are huge undertakings. Each one costs $1 million, and there are dozens of them. Clearly, Hamas was planning a large-scale jihad operation. Israel had to act. And it couldn't accept John Kerry's ceasefire that would allow Hamas to continue to operate while stopping Israel – his last ceasefire proposal even stipulated that Israel would stop destroying the tunnels.
This at a time when Israeli security services had uncovered the Rosh Hashanah plot to send jihadis through the tunnels to Israeli schools, killing massive numbers of schoolchildren and kidnapping as many Israelis as possible. Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett explained: "A whole city of terror tunnels has been found. Without the ground operation, we would have woken up one day to an Israeli 9/11." It was planned to be even bigger than Sept. 11.
U.N. schools in Gaza are rocket arsenals; Obama says nothing.
Hamas is using civilians and children as human shields; Obama says nothing.
Hamas mercilessly beats Gazans who try to escape after being warned by the IDF; Obama says nothing.
A massive terror attack planned for Rosh Hashanah; Obama says nothing.
This horrible war has not only exposed Hamas' terror tunnels; it has unmasked and unmosqued Barack Hussein Obama. .
Jihadist in the White House. At home and abroad, Jew-hatred is policy.
Everybody knows that Israel is turning itself inside out to avoid civilian deaths – a civilian population that elected Hamas, no less.
This is war. War is hell. Things happen. People die. A perfect war – is that the standard Israel is supposed to adhere to? And what is that, anyway?
Indefensible is U.N. schools stockpiling rockets.
Indefensible is Hamas setting up bases in hospitals.
Indefensible is Hamas beating civilians trying to leave their homes after the IDF warns them.
Indefensible is Obama's defense of this savagery.
Indefensible is the terror tunnels.
Indefensible is the $47 million Obama just sent to Hamas. The Associated Press reported that "the U.S. is sending $47 million in humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip to help tens of thousands of Palestinians there who have been forced from their homes since war broke out two weeks ago." This just frees up more money for Hamas to spend on rockets, weapons and terror tunnels – paid for with your tax dollars.
Indefensible is raining rockets on population centers.
Indefensible is storing missiles in mosques.
Indefensible is this president.
The United States has lost much influence and even more respect under the Obama administration. No one listens to us or worries what we may or may not do. Obama is an international joke – except that our allies aren't laughing.
Indefensible is how Obama has capitulated to Iran. The Washington Free Beacon reported last week that "the United States will give Iran access to another $2.8 billion over the next several months and appears to have conceded to Iran's demand that it be permitted to domestically enrich uranium, the key component in a nuclear weapon, according to senior Obama administration officials."
Mankind will always be plagued with evil annihilationists. But America funding them? And sanctioning their nuclear weapons program. That's a whole new vicious reality for the free world to deal with. That's new.
I have said for years that Obama had switched sides and was aligned with the jihad force.
In 2010 I wrote an article for The American Thinker entitled, "Switching Sides," in which I wrote: "In a stunning and historic reversal of American foreign policy, the United States is now backing one of the same horses it fought during World War II. Instead of fighting against Nazism and racism, Obama has effectively joined the jihad waged during World War II by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini."
In 2012, heads exploded over at the uber-left nonprofit Media Matters (which operates as a PR firm for Obama) when I said Obama had "switched sides" on an appearance on Hannity.
And of course, I was right – as predicted in my 2010 book, "The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America."
Israel must defy the Muslim Brotherhood leader in the White House and destroy Hamas, or it will be destroyed. (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Eo-ga2ZmePY/U17pjNpFHAI/AAAAAAAAA3A/wdkmfDadyVc/s1600/obama-muslim-brotherhood-racists.jpg)
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What Will You Do If They Make It Mandatory For All Americans
To Take An Ebola Vaccine?
By Michael Snyder, on August 4th, 2014
As the Ebola death toll rises and as images of bodies being abandoned in the streets of Liberia are broadcast around the globe, there has been a growing outcry for the scientific community to "do something" about this deadly virus. And as luck would have it, there is an "experimental Ebola vaccine" that is ready to be tested on humans next month. If Ebola starts to spread outside of Africa, and especially if it starts spreading inside the United States, people will be absolutely clamoring to get this vaccine. But will it be safe? And there will certainly be millions of people that do not want to take this vaccine under any circumstances. If the outbreak gets bad enough, will it be made mandatory at some point? If they do make it mandatory for all Americans to take an Ebola vaccine, what will you do?
Up until now, there has never been a vaccine for Ebola. But as Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Instutites of Health recently told "CBS This Morning", that could soon change...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv8szpKXCQs
They say that if this vaccine is approved, it could potentially be available to the public at some point in 2015.
If a full-blown Ebola epidemic is raging by that time, the demand will be overwhelming. But many people will not be satisfied to just get the vaccine themselves. They will want everyone living around them in their communities to get vaccinated as well for the sake of "herd immunity". They will argue that those that refuse to get the Ebola vaccine are endangering public health.
So could politicians make the Ebola vaccine mandatory for all Americans at some point? According to a paper by Jared P. Cole and Kathleen S. Swendiman, many states already have laws that allow for mandatory vaccinations "during a public health emergency." http://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS21414.pdf...Many states also have laws providing for mandatory vaccinations during a public health emergency or outbreak of a communicable disease. Generally, the power to order such actions rests with the governor of the state or with a state health officer. For example, a governor may have the power to supplement the state's existing compulsory vaccination programs and institute additional programs in the event of a civil defense emergency period. Or, a state health officer may, upon declaration of a public health emergency, order an individual to be vaccinated "for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to public health." In addition, exemptions may be provided for medical reasons or where objections are based on religion or conscience. However, if a person refuses to be vaccinated, he or she may be quarantined during the public health emergency giving rise to the vaccination order. State statutes may also provide additional authority to permit specified groups of persons to be trained to administer vaccines during an emergency in the event insufficient health care professionals are available for vaccine administration.But what about on the national level?
Well, it has never been done before, but that doesn't mean that the Obama administration would not try. Barack Obama seems to believe that the power of the presidency is virtually endless, and we have already seen him sign a series of very frightening executive orders. In fact, as I noted the other day, Obama just signed an executive order that gives him the power to apprehend and detain Americans that show symptoms of "diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled."
It wouldn't seem like it would be too much more of a stretch for him to sign an executive order requiring the vaccination of all Americans in the event of a major Ebola outbreak. And if we were in the middle of a full-blown pandemic where millions of Americans were dying, a large chunk of the population would definitely support such a move.
In addition to the Ebola vaccine that is being developed, it also conveniently turns out that there are several experimental Ebola drugs in the works as well. For example, it is being reported that the two American health workers that contracted Ebola while working in Africa have had their lives saved by one of these experimental drugs...Two American missionary workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus were given an experimental drug that seems to have saved their lives.
Dr. Kent Brantly was given the medication, ZMapp, shortly after telling his doctors he thought he would die, according to a source familiar with his case. Within an hour, doctors say his symptoms — labored breathing and a widespread rash — dramatically improved. Nancy Writebol, another missionary working with Samaritan's Purse, received two doses of the medication and has also shown significant improvement, sources say.Needless to say, the company that makes this experimental drug (Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc.) stands to make a giant pile of money by the time this crisis is over.
And another drug company called Tekmira Pharmaceuticals is also getting a lot of attention right now. According to CNN, shares of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals soared 40 percent last week alone...There is no cure for Ebola. But don't tell that to traders. Shares of a Vancouver-based company working on a drug to treat the infectious disease surged nearly 40% last week.
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals popped on much higher trading volume than usual because investors are hopeful that health agencies in the United States might approve its drug, known as TKM-Ebola.If Ebola does indeed turn out to be a horrific global health crisis, there will be opportunities for certain companies to make billions upon billions of dollars.
But how will we know that an Ebola vaccine or an Ebola drug is safe? There have been dozens upon dozens of examples of pharmaceutical drugs that were approved by the government that later turned out to be incredibly harmful.
Sadly, most people don't stop to think about those examples. They just continue to have blind faith in the drug companies. And if Ebola does start spreading rapidly in this country, there will be millions of Americans that are begging for whatever "solutions" the drug companies come up with.
Why Does The U.S. Government Have An 'Office Of Population Affairs'?
By Michael Snyder, on August 3rd, 2014
(This is a sickness among most liberals especially, the basis of everything they do is to use CONTROL... of your life; your kids; where you live; your income; your religious beliefs; what you must tolerate; be it good or against your moral beliefs; your education; and your health... and on and on. They think they can engineer the perfect world and utopia for all.)(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Population-Control-Public-Domain.jpg)
Did you know that the federal government has an "Office of Population Affairs"? I didn't realize this either until someone sent me a link to their website. The Office of Population Affairs operates under the umbrella of the Department of Health & Human Services, and it might as well be called "The Office of Population Control" because almost everything on the website is about controlling or reducing the size of the population. On the site you can find information and resources about abortion, female sterilization, male sterilization and a vast array of contraceptive choices. There is even a search engine where you can find a local "family planning clinic" where you can get rid of any "unintended pregnancy" that may be bothering you. Frankly, it sickens me to think that my tax dollars are being used to fund all of this.
But the Office of Population Affairs is not just pro-abortion and pro-sterilization. On the page describing their "purpose and mission", they actually admit that "population research" and studying "population growth" are part of their core work. The following is an excerpt from the official OPA website...**********
Title X is the only federal program dedicated solely to the provision of family planning and related preventive services. The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) administers the Title X program and serves as the focal point to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health on a wide range of reproductive health topics, including family planning, adolescent pregnancy, sterilization and other population issues.
The Office of Population Affairs operates under the direction of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs.Family Planning MissionTo assist individuals in determining the number and spacing of their children through the provision of voluntary, confidential and low-cost education, counseling, and related comprehensive medical services to eligible clients:
•To assist in making comprehensive, voluntary family planning services available to all persons desiring such services;
•To coordinate domestic population and family planning research with the present and future needs of family planning programs;
•To enable public and nonprofit private entities to plan and develop comprehensive programs of family planning services;
•To develop and make readily available information, including educational materials, on family planning and population growth to all persons desiring such information;
•To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of family planning service programs and population research; and
•To assist in training staff to effectively carry out family planning services**********
And needless to say, the goal is never to increase the size of the population.
At least in the old days these population control advocates were more honest about what they were trying to do. For example, Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger once made the following statement..."The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Sadly, this sick and twisted philosophy is not just limited to one specific department of the federal government.
The truth is that this worldview is represented at the highest levels in the White House itself. Barack Obama repeatedly mentions how much he depends on the advice of his top science adviser John P. Holdren. Well, as many of you probably already know, Holdren is an enthusiastic proponent of extreme population control measures.
The following is what one writer discovered when he investigated Holdren's writings...He offered that "a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources ... The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits ... The Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits."
Holdren, et al, believe this global body possesses "ample authority under which population growth could be regulated." Hiding behind the passive voice, they wrote, "it has been concluded"—by whom?—"that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society." (Emphasis added.) They added that if parents were guilty of "overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility."
To further reduce the West's population and carbon footprint, the "de-development of overdeveloped countries...should be given top priority."
Holdren further, repeatedly, proposed the United States transfer $1.43 trillion to $2.86 trillion of U.S. GNP to Third-World countries every year for several decades.Isn't that disturbing?
This is the guy telling Obama what he should believe about scientific matters.
In a previous article, I included this gem from Holdren...A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.But to be fair, this is not the first president that has had a nutjob like this as his top science adviser. George W. Bush actually employed Paul Ehrlich, the author of "The Population Bomb", as his top science official.
In many ways, Ehrlich is even more extreme than Holdren is. Here are a couple of quotes from Ehrlich..."To our minds, the fundamental cure, reducing the scale of the human enterprise (including the size of the population) to keep its aggregate consumption within the carrying capacity of Earth is obvious but too much neglected or denied"**********
"Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three unless the second pregnancy is twins"Remember, these are not just two nutty professors from the lunatic fringe. These are highly respected members of the scientific community that are personally advising our presidents.
And the leading contender to become the next president is also surrounded by these types of people.
For example, a key adviser to Hillary Clinton named Nina Fedoroff once made the following statement..."We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people."It is not politically expedient for our politicians to come right out and proclaim that they are for population control while they are on the campaign trail.
But if you look at their actions and at the people that they surround themselves with, the message is exceedingly clear.
GOP Gives Obuma A Copy Of The Constitution For His Birthday
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(Or as Obuma calls it, toilet paper)
Via Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/gops-birthday-present-to-obama-copy-of-constitution/article/2551625
Here's the latest indication of how tough the political climate has become for President Obama: Even the Republican Party is raising money off his birthday today.
While Democrats for weeks have been using his 53rd to raise funds via email birthday cards, the Republican National Committee on Monday got into the action offering its donors to send the president a copy of the U.S. Constitution, a not so subtle reminder that the GOP believe the president is not enforcing key laws.
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Lib Douche Geraldo Says Israel Defending Itself Is "Appalling"
(You know what I find appalling? Geraldo... yuck!!!)
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Via IJ Review:Check the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dxLOyn4zXE
Lib Douche Geraldo: I think Israel has only itself to blame.
I think the force used has been so grossly disproportionate. They have inflicted civilian casualties in a way that the United States and United Nations Secretary General are correct to call appalling. You don't use tank shells if you're trying to make a precision strike.
I've covered war for over 40 years. If you want to use a hellfire missile directed by a drone you can put it in a window of a building that you want to. Using a tank shell, in this case the firing that they were receiving was 200 years, 2 football fields away from where those tank shells landed, taking those 10 lives.
This is a travesty. It is hurting Israel on the world stage. It is undermining support for the Jewish state.[/i]
Quote from: Warph on August 04, 2014, 11:42:19 PM
Why Does The U.S. Government Have An 'Office Of Population Affairs'?
By Michael Snyder, on August 3rd, 2014
(This is a sickness among most liberals especially, the basis of everything they do is to use CONTROL... of your life; your kids; where you live; your income; your religious beliefs; what you must tolerate; be it good or against your moral beliefs; your education; and your health... and on and on. They think they can engineer the perfect world and utopia for all.)
(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Population-Control-Public-Domain.jpg)
Did you know that the federal government has an "Office of Population Affairs"? I didn't realize this either until someone sent me a link to their website. The Office of Population Affairs operates under the umbrella of the Department of Health & Human Services, and it might as well be called "The Office of Population Control" because almost everything on the website is about controlling or reducing the size of the population. On the site you can find information and resources about abortion, female sterilization, male sterilization and a vast array of contraceptive choices. There is even a search engine where you can find a local "family planning clinic" where you can get rid of any "unintended pregnancy" that may be bothering you. Frankly, it sickens me to think that my tax dollars are being used to fund all of this.
But the Office of Population Affairs is not just pro-abortion and pro-sterilization. On the page describing their "purpose and mission", they actually admit that "population research" and studying "population growth" are part of their core work. The following is an excerpt from the official OPA website...
**********
Title X is the only federal program dedicated solely to the provision of family planning and related preventive services. The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) administers the Title X program and serves as the focal point to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health on a wide range of reproductive health topics, including family planning, adolescent pregnancy, sterilization and other population issues.
The Office of Population Affairs operates under the direction of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs.
Family Planning Mission
To assist individuals in determining the number and spacing of their children through the provision of voluntary, confidential and low-cost education, counseling, and related comprehensive medical services to eligible clients:
•To assist in making comprehensive, voluntary family planning services available to all persons desiring such services;
•To coordinate domestic population and family planning research with the present and future needs of family planning programs;
•To enable public and nonprofit private entities to plan and develop comprehensive programs of family planning services;
•To develop and make readily available information, including educational materials, on family planning and population growth to all persons desiring such information;
•To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of family planning service programs and population research; and
•To assist in training staff to effectively carry out family planning services
**********
And needless to say, the goal is never to increase the size of the population.
At least in the old days these population control advocates were more honest about what they were trying to do. For example, Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger once made the following statement...
"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Sadly, this sick and twisted philosophy is not just limited to one specific department of the federal government.
The truth is that this worldview is represented at the highest levels in the White House itself. Barack Obama repeatedly mentions how much he depends on the advice of his top science adviser John P. Holdren. Well, as many of you probably already know, Holdren is an enthusiastic proponent of extreme population control measures.
The following is what one writer discovered when he investigated Holdren's writings...
He offered that "a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources ... The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries' shares within their regional limits ... The Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits."
Holdren, et al, believe this global body possesses "ample authority under which population growth could be regulated." Hiding behind the passive voice, they wrote, "it has been concluded"—by whom?—"that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society." (Emphasis added.) They added that if parents were guilty of "overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility."
To further reduce the West's population and carbon footprint, the "de-development of overdeveloped countries...should be given top priority."
Holdren further, repeatedly, proposed the United States transfer $1.43 trillion to $2.86 trillion of U.S. GNP to Third-World countries every year for several decades.
Isn't that disturbing?
This is the guy telling Obama what he should believe about scientific matters.
In a previous article, I included this gem from Holdren...
A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.
But to be fair, this is not the first president that has had a nutjob like this as his top science adviser. George W. Bush actually employed Paul Ehrlich, the author of "The Population Bomb", as his top science official.
In many ways, Ehrlich is even more extreme than Holdren is. Here are a couple of quotes from Ehrlich...
"To our minds, the fundamental cure, reducing the scale of the human enterprise (including the size of the population) to keep its aggregate consumption within the carrying capacity of Earth is obvious but too much neglected or denied"
**********
"Nobody, in my view, has the right to have 12 children or even three unless the second pregnancy is twins"
Remember, these are not just two nutty professors from the lunatic fringe. These are highly respected members of the scientific community that are personally advising our presidents.
And the leading contender to become the next president is also surrounded by these types of people.
For example, a key adviser to Hillary Clinton named Nina Fedoroff once made the following statement...
"We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people."
It is not politically expedient for our politicians to come right out and proclaim that they are for population control while they are on the campaign trail.
But if you look at their actions and at the people that they surround themselves with, the message is exceedingly clear.
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Welcome to the Title X Family Planning Database
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Here Title X Grantees can update information about themselves, their sub-recipients, and their service sites. To login, enter your username and password on the left. We appreciate your taking the time to keep the database updated with the most accurate information. Grantees can also request a new account via email at OPADatabaseHelp@nete.com
The OPA Title X Family Planning Service Site Database Search is available below without logging in. Use the Family Planning Locator to find a service site near you.
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Yeah, Obama's a "transformative president," alright.
I mean,
just think about his transformation of jobs in America:
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Creepy: Daily Beast Wants Corporations to Sign
'Loyalty Oaths' to Obama's
'Economic Patriotism'
August 5, 2014 By Greg Campbell
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The left's infatuation with the anointed, made-for-primetime president, Barack Obama, has largely fizzled-out. Though there remains mindless stalwarts and Obamamaniacs, the world has largely recovered from the Obamamania of 2008 and 2009 that saw countless liberal zombies decked-out in "Hope" tee-shirts and adorning their walls with pictures of the left's messiah.
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/08/05/creepy-daily-beast-wants-corporations-to-sign-loyalty-oaths-to-obamas-economic-patriotism/
Joke of the Day
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Feds Will Spend $450K to Help Native Americans Adapt to 'Climate Change'
Via CNSNewshttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/feds-will-spend-450k-help-native-americans-adapt-climate-change
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to spend up to $450,000 in taxpayer dollars to teach Native American tribes in the Great Basin region "climate adaptation plans" for their hunting, fishing and gathering activities.
These 'Redskins' are cracking up over this article
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"Due to climate change, the natural landscapes are becoming impacted," and the "traditional practices for hunting, fishing, and gathering for ceremonial purposes" can potentially create further impacts," according to BLM's Cooperative Agreement announcement.
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"It is important to educate those who are engaging in these gathering activities to reduce impacts on public lands. If tribes are able to develop adaptation plans for their gathering activities, they would have a process to follow that could reduce negative impacts on the landscape," the Request for Applications (RFA) explains.
Native Americans who have been hunting and fishing for hundreds of years need some waffle-bottom a**holes from the federal government 'teaching' these 'poor ignorant savages' how to adapt to their non-crisis?? Give me a break! This smells like that total lying bitch, Elizabeth Warren, the pseudo-indian creep from Mass., having alot to do with this laughable waste of our tax dollars... Lord, I hate this POS bitch and her lousy 'liberal speak.'
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See, even Obuma's giving her the finger? Wow.. ObuttHead can't stand her because she lies better than he...
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Illegals Told To Vote Democrat
Or
Face Deportation
By Ronak Kallainpur on August 6, 2014
One of the most shocking allegations regarding this whole immigration ordeal has immerses thanks the Jo Anne Livingston.
She has been working with her husband, Luke, to take an extensive look at the on going border crisis as experienced by illegals themselves. After numbers interviews she recently reported a LARGE number of revelations that confirmed most of the conservative's suspicions.
Out of all the suspicions, the most notable one was the assertion that illegals were given voter registrations prior to the 2012 election and sent to states without voter identification laws.
Upon receiving the instruction, Livingston explained that they were informed that if they did not show up and vote democrat, they would be "arrested and deported".
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What are the immigration judges doing about this? they respond that they are essentially operating with their hands ties since illegals skip their court date.
"The judo can only set another hearing and another hearing and another hearing, into infinity"
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Livingston says she and her husband also sought to address the growing concern among U.S. citizens regarding illegals bring potentially deals illness with them across the border.
"We talked to a doctor about the diseases coming in unchecked by any medical personnel"
This is a developing story that we will be keeping an eye on. Here are local reports of voter fraud we think is tied to this exact story.
(There is a Channel 2 news video on the web site and which is also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hjmKBfrycQ )
http://conservativepost.com/illegals-told-to-vote-democrat-or-face-deportation/
I apologize for not being able to post the video)
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CNN's Marc Lamont Hill Complains That Iron Dome
"Takes Away Hamas' Military Leverage" Over Israel
Via Newsbusters:POS Marc Lamont Hill: But what the Iron Dome does is it also takes away all of Hamas's military leverage which is very different than say, 10 years ago or 15 years ago in other wars like Lebanon, et cetera. As a result, it not only serves a defensive purpose but de facto serves an offensive purpose. It allows Israel to essentially assault and siege Gaza without any retribution or response on the other side. So again, to some extent, they are not just funding defense, they are funding an offensive war and ultimately an occupation. That for me, is the problem.(http://soopermexican.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/big-boi-marc-lamont-hill-1.jpg)
Alternate headline: Marc Lamont Hill upset over lack of dead Jews
Through the double-standard of political correctness, black racists can openly disparage white people (aka crackas) without public retribution when crackas (aka white people) are ostracized by the mere disagreement with a person of color. Remember you racist goat-ropers, the term 'colored people' is racist while 'people of color' is not. It's so difficult to stay up with the ever changing doctrines of PC! But, then again, we don't have PhD's in African-American Studies like Dr. Marc Lamont Hill!
Marc Lamont Hill is a PhD in Blackness, A PHONY POS! Therefore, he has license to criticize and hate crackas without any fear of retribution. Why? Well.... you know.... slavery . A man of little talent other than hating crackas, Hill is a writer on PuffHo and is a semi-regular on the O'Reilly show. There are many other 'blackologists' like Lamont. You have your Toure's, Sharptons, Cornell Wests, and that stupid idiot female anchor on MSNBC whose name I'm too lazy to look up. What do they do to contribute to the political conversation? Criticize crackas while crying racism!
Hill has put together a list of the most... in his words... overrated crackas. What would be the national outcry if a known white conservative was to put together a list of the most overrated black people? They would be immediately labeled RACIST and ostracized by the left and the wussypants so-called conservatives looking to make a dime from the media. Several major "conservative" blogs come to mind.
Here are some of Lamont's overrated crackas:
Elvis – say no more, junior! Elvis is the King and will always be. He writes
"Despite being a cheap facsimile of Little Richard, he is still known as the "King of Rock 'n Roll." Only in America..." Well, maybe America wasn't ready for a homosexual freak-a-zoid male who wore make-up who sang three-chord songs like Little Richard. Those racist Americans! Elvis was handsome, charming, talented and a great performer. Elvis had more talent in his hound dog than Little Richard had in his drugged-out, queer body!
Ronald Reagan – Lamont (wasn't he the guy on Sanford and Sons?) writes this blasphemy:
"How easily we forget that Reagan was largely responsible for shutting down mental hospitals, bloating the military, shrinking benefits for the needy, sparking mass incarceration, and declaring ketchup a vegetable for our children's school lunches." Lamont is too
STUPID to realize that by "bloating the military" defeated the Soviet Union and repaired four years of presidential military malfeasance by the former SECOND worst president in history, Jimmah Carter... Obuma being the FIRST! It's always the same old song and dance for libs... destroy the military and raise taxes. Neither of which work! Also, Lamont... Reagan created the most prosperous time in American history that lasted years after he left office by lowering taxes and allowing businesses to operate with minimal government intrusion. Reagan had the economy humming along in 1983 at a 9.3% growth rate while Lamont's master, Hussein Hopenchange, can barely eek out 1.3%! Barack Obuma couldn't carry Ronbo's jock strap, you imbecilic moron!
Tim Tebow – ahhh, yes! The white Christian good kid who blacks and PC libtards on ESPN love to hate!
"Tebow-hatred is a perfect example of what's wrong with America. Tebow is a quality quarterback who (if I remember) led the University of Florida to a national championship. He also led the Denver Bronco to several miracle comebacks. Clean cut and chaste, he has all of the qualities libs love to hate! No, much better Tebow had been a black thug who spreads syphilis convicted of dog-fighting. Then he'd be a real star worthy of admiration!" The worst thing about Tim Tebow to libs? He represents old-fashioned, American values. Now we can't have that, can we?
William Shakespeare – Lamont really proves his genius here.
"There's no doubt that Shakespeare has a rightful place in the Western literary canon. Unfortunately, thanks to sycophantic critics and narrow-minded educational systems, Shakespeare is the only person who seems to matter to the average person." Would that be the same narrow-minded educational systems who endorse African American Studies as a legitimate field of study? Face it, would Dr. Lamont be known to anyone if it weren't for "narrow-minded" academic frauds?
Dr. Lamont continues...
"we ignore the fact that many aspects of Shakespeare's work.... such as the writing in Hamlet or the generally narrow range of female roles in his plays... just aren't that awesome." Oh, so plays written in 1600 don't carry all the prerequisite PC, womyn's study claptrap? Of course not. Plus, Shakespeare was probably a racist!
Donald Trump – Here's Lamont's brilliant analysis.
"The Donald was always obnoxious, but he dipped to new lows this year by jumping on the Birther train. But that alone doesn't make him overrated. Just racist and dumb." Racist and dumb. Brilliant, Lamont, brilliant! Amazing to hear one of the doctors of African American studies crying racism!
Dr. Lamont, one thing Trump has done that you'll never do. Create wealth. You're an academic amoeba who has a degree in a worthless, pseudo-major whose entire curriculum consists of crying racism and hating crackas for their accomplishments.
Bill Clinton – no argument here by Hill.
What is truly amazing about Dr. Lamont Hill is he is allowed to spew his small-minded, anti-cracka venom anywhere except some PC bastion waste of taxpayer dollars called academia. Even the mouthy O'Reilly lets him on occasionally. Maybe to just show the world how stupid and racist these black "academics" are.
Want to name the most over-rated black people next, Lamont? Here's a few suggestions:
Barrack Insane-Hussein Obuma – any explanation needed here?
Congressional Black Caucus – any explanation needed here?
Every rapper in the world – any explanation needed here?
Whoopi Goldberg – combines a unique combination of utter stupidity and physical hideousness. Any further explanation here?
Eric Holder – any explanation here?
Al Sharpton – any explanation here?
Hell, we could do this all night... but that would be racist, wouldn't it? Because in the PC States of the Offended, any criticism of black people by crackas is off limits. Only in Obuma's deteriorating America could such lunacy exist!
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What Trey Gowdy Just Did Could Be A Defining Moment For America,
I Was Stunned At 2:24
Ya gotta love what came out of Trey Gowdy's mouth on the House floor. He minced nary a word, tells it like it is with gusto and class... and also received a standing ovation to boot. The good lord knows we need more like Gowdy, no doubt about that! Plus, ya gotta know he could care less about being politically correct.... mainstream media be damned!
Anyway folks, everything is self-explanatory from here on out... so, see what you think of what was said via this report and speak your mind afterwards:
Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) really delivered when he took a stand to uplift the House members, reminding them of the purpose in their roles as leaders.
Gowdy also discussed Obama's role as President of the United States, describing the way he has managed the duties and powers entrusted to him.His speech is nothing short of thought-provoking."I want us to talk as colleagues, because our foundational document gave us as the House unique powers and responsibilities. We run every two years because they intended for us to be closest to the people. The President was given different duties and powers. The President was given the duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, so my question, Mr. Speaker, is what does that mean to you?"
"We know the President can veto a bill for any reason or for no reason," he continued. "We know the President can refuse to defend the constitutionality of a statute – even one that he signs into law. We know the President can issue pardons for violations of the very laws that we pass, and we know that the President has prosecutorial discretion as evidenced and used through his U.S. attorneys.
"Mr. Speaker, that is a lot of power. What are we to do when that amount of power is not enough? What are we to do when this president, or any president, decides to selectively enforce a portion of a law and ignore other portions of that law? What do we do, Mr. Speaker, regardless of motivation, when a president nullifies our vote by failing to faithfully execute the law?"Gowdy continued to ask questions of the same nature throughout his address."You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the President do the same?
If a president can change some laws, can he change all laws? Can he change election laws? Can he change discrimination laws? Are there any laws, under your theory, that he actually has to enforce?
What is our recourse, Mr. Speaker? What is our remedy?"He closed by explaining how a bill he has chosen to sponsor would permit Congress to ensure the Executive branch has to follow the laws."Maybe members of Congress would be respected more if we respected ourselves enough to require that when we pass something, it be treated as law."
"Mr. Speaker, the House of Representatives does not exist to pass suggestions," Gowdy concluded. "We do not exist to pass ideas. We make law. And while you are free to stand and clap when any president comes into this hallowed chamber and promises to do it with or without you, I will never stand and clap when any president – no matter whether he's your party or mine – promises to make us a constitutional anomaly and an afterthought. We make law."The South Carolina Rep's impassioned proclamation left the room cheering and applauding, with many rising to their feet, clearly in agreement with his sentiments.
Well said, Trey. Well said, indeed. It's good to know you have America's back.Please listen to him below on this video... I can guarantee you won't regret it for a second!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASwxIr3-cM
Great Video and Great Post Warph.
Keep up the good work.
You may have just posted a great piece of history.
Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context
In which John discusses the crisis in Ukraine, and how the influence of Russia and Europe have shaped Ukrainian politics for centuries. REMINDER: Educational videos are allowed to be more than four minutes long.
Thanks to Rosianna for image-gathering: http://www.youtube.com/rosianna
The BBC's Ukraine hub: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europ...
CIA Factbook on Ukraine: https://www.cia.gov/library/publicati...
The wikipedia article about the Crimean War is quite good, especially in contemporary context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War
Syria in Five Minutes
In which Hank discusses the situation in Syria as deeply and completely as he can in five minutes.
Negotiations are ongoing as to whether and how chemical weapons will be removed from Syria. This is an opportunity for the global community, but for the people of Syria, no matter how this discussion goes, there will be years of bloody conflict. We cannot prevent that, but we can help individual people.
Help refugees rebuild their lives http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vt...
Egypt....Explained!
The situation in Egypt is extremely complicated and changing constantly. The arguments between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood go back over half a century and they are much more complicated than the press tends to give them credit for.
I just wanted to share a tiny bit of context to help the world understand the different stakeholders, what they want, why they're angry, and why the first democratically elected leader of Egypt lasted so little time.
Thank you very much to Mohktar Awad for spending so much time on the phone with me yesterday setting me straight!
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt_h...
Egypt's military bails out the country
http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/2845...
The Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/world/a...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_B...
Gamal Nasser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Off...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_A...
Mubarak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosni_M...
Inside North Korea (Part 1/3)
Published on Dec 19, 2011
Inside North Korea (Part 2/3)
Inside North Korea (Part 3/3)
The Spread Of The Caliphate: Footage From Camera Crew Embedded With Islamic State Fighters
August 7, 2014
Via Vice News:The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced their intention to reestablish the caliphate and declared their leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.
Flush with cash and US weapons seized during recent advances in Iraq, the Islamic State's expansion shows no sign of slowing down. In the first week of August alone, Islamic State fighters have taken over new areas in northern Iraq, encroaching on Kurdish territory and sending Christians and other minorities fleeing as reports of massacres emerged.
Elsewhere in territory it has held for some time, the Islamic State has gone about consolidating power and setting up a government dictated by Sharia law. While the world may not recognize the Islamic State, in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the group is already in the process of building a functioning regime.
VICE News reporter Medyan Dairieh spent three weeks embedded with the Islamic State, gaining unprecedented access to the group in Iraq and Syria as the first and only journalist to document its inner workings. In part one, Dairieh heads to the frontline in Raqqa, where Islamic State fighters are laying siege to the Syrian Army's division 17 base.The Spread of the Caliphate: The Islamic State (Part 1)
Grooming Children For Jihad: Part Two Of Vice News
"Inside The Islamic State Documentary"
Vice News - August 8, 2014
(Brainwashing the next wave of fanatical jihadists)
(I'll post parts 3-4-5 when they are released)
*** The Battle for Iraq ***
Fighting Back Against ISIS: The Battle for Iraq (Dispatch 1)
VICE News-June 18, 2014 9:08
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RojiK_l45hY&list=PLw613M86o5o4JICWHCJsmzLy4NVtWKu8z&index=1
Last week, the extremist militant Sunni group — Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), along with other Sunni militias and former Baathist party members, seized control of large parts of Iraq, including Mosul, the nation's second largest city.
In many places, the Iraqi army barely put up a flight. Soldiers dropped their weapons and fled, whether because of fear, incompetence, or internal sabotage. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have become internally displaced after fleeing the fighting or the potential for potential Iraqi air strikes.
As ISIS and the other groups continued to fight their way to Baghdad, gruesome videos of brutal executions began to surface. Iraqi army units stationed near Baghdad, as well as Shiite militias, have pledged to not give up so easily.
Many say the conflict was brewing for a while, and that ISIS, along with some of the other groups, has had some semblance of control in Sunni areas for quite some time. They point to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's increasingly sectarian polices and crackdowns on Sunnis as having provoked the events of the last week, and fear this could be the start of a devastating civil war.
In the north, Kurdish forces known as the peshmerga have used the opportunity to seize disputed areas, territories that the Kurds long felt belonged to them but the government was hesitant relinquish. An informal border now exists between ISIS dominated areas and Kurdish territory. There has only been sporadic clashing, as neither group seems determined to break the strange detente.
Here's Who Is Fighting in Iraq and Why: http://bit.ly/1yFN1ET
Crisis in Iraq: Kurdish Peshmerga Clash With Advancing ISIS: http://bit.ly/1ye4TGFThe ISIS Uprising: The Battle for Iraq (Dispatch 2)
VICE News-June 18, 2014 4:46
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdTNm54UHkA&index=2&list=PLw613M86o5o4JICWHCJsmzLy4NVtWKu8z
As a coalition of ISIS fighters, Sunni militias, and former Baathists continues to push its way toward Baghdad, the Iraqi army and Shiite militias have fought to slow its progress.
In Mosul, however, ISIS and other Sunni forces now exert total control. Confusion remains about what exactly happened there, and why Iraqi soldiers abandoned their posts so quickly. There is much speculation about the role high-ranking officers in the Iraqi army might have played, and whether or not they were involved in internal sabotage or had advance knowledge of the assault. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has already fired a number of high-ranking officers, and ordered one to be court-martialed for desertion.
After fighting broke out, hundreds of thousands of civilians fled Mosul for territory controlled by the Kurdish Regional Government, many Iraqi army deserters among them. A seven-year veteran of the Iraqi army who sought refuge in Erbil agreed to talk to VICE News about what happened on the condition that we withhold his identity. Kurds Fight for Control of Kirkuk: The Battle for Iraq (Dispatch 3)
VICE News-June 23, 2014 7:07
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHqdbShxPJ8&list=PLw613M86o5o4JICWHCJsmzLy4NVtWKu8z&index=3
Up until a week ago, the city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq was one of the most hotly contested areas in the country, with a mishmash of Kurds, Arabs, and Turkomans, who all had strong claims to the land. Now that the Iraqi army has fled and ISIS has been repelled, the Kurds are fully in control, and hope to integrate the city into the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG).
Despite a large Kurdish presence in Kirkuk, this still might not be so easy. The Arab and Turkoman populations have long resisted Kurdish rule, and the large amount of oil nearby — which all of these groups want a fair share of — will only complicate matters further.
The Kurds, however, insist that control over the city is more a matter of dignity. Beginning in the 1960s and continuing throughout Saddam Hussein's rule, many Kurds in the area were forced off the land during an Arabization process, which sought to change the demographics of the city. Poor Arabs were offered land, houses, and money to move to the city and take over formerly Kurdish lands.
During the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, Kurdish forces and American soldiers took the city from the Baathist party. But the Kurdish forces mostly withdrew, and the city was not annexed to the KRG.
Since then Kirkuk has been under a sort of coalition rule, though it is still considered a disputed territory. Kurds have sought to implement Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution, which would allow the people of Kirkuk to vote on whether or not the city should join the KRG or remain part of Iraq. But this vote has been delayed numerous times.
As recently as 2012, the Iraqi army and the Kurdish fighters, know as Peshmerga, engaged in a standoff that at times seemed like it could break out into conflict. For now though, the Kurds are firmly in control — though south of the city, sporadic attacks continue.
VICE News spoke with Falah Mustafa Bakir, the head of foreign relations for the KRG, who said that the Kurds have no intention of giving up their control of Kirkuk.Clashes Continue as Frontline Tension Escalates: The Battle for Iraq (Dispatch 4)
VICE News-June 26, 2014 10:31
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBZWKGl37xY&list=PLw613M86o5o4JICWHCJsmzLy4NVtWKu8z&index=4
As the Kurds move further into Iraq's disputed territories, not everyone is thrilled. In towns closer to Baghdad with higher Arab populations, like Jalawla and Sadiya, they have encountered fierce resistance from militant Sunni groups. While Kurdish peshmerga forces have been welcomed in many areas, they've needed to fight to enter others.
In our fourth dispatch amid the escalating crisis in Iraq, VICE News embedded with the peshmerga as they struggle to maintain control over their land, as tension in Iraq heightens between its main ethnic and religious factions.
We also spoke with a Sunni tribal leader in Kirkuk about the recent Kurdish takeover and the strategic importance of the city, and with Kurdish soldiers about why they volunteered to fight — and how they are successfully fending off advances from ISIS and the Iraqi Shiite military nearby.
Iraq's ISIS Crisis Puts Long Disputed Oil-Rich Kirkuk Back Into Kurdish Hands: http://bit.ly/1mhFnXlChristian City Under Siege: The Battle for Iraq (Dispatch 5)
VICE NEWS-June 27, 2014 6:39
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPRLb0XJIzY&list=PLw613M86o5o4JICWHCJsmzLy4NVtWKu8z&index=5
Earlier this week, ISIS began an assault on the historically Assyrian Christian city of Qaraqosh in the northern Nineveh province, just east of Mosul. Kurdish peshmerga forces moved into the city to fortify it against a barrage of mortar shells. The city, though not officially located in the Kurdistan Regional Government, has become one of the disputed areas, as the Iraqi government has abandoned it and ISIS is vying for control.
Dozens of mortar rounds landed on the outskirts of the city Wednesday night, causing tens of thousands of residents to flee towards Erbil. Assyrian Christians from Mosul had previously fled the ISIS takeover and were seeking sanctuary in Qaraqosh and in the nearby Christian city of Bartella.
Iraq's Assyrian Christians are some of the earliest converts to Christianity and are indigenous to the Nineveh plains. Of recent, they have suffered massacres and persecution owing to the instability sowed by the American invasion in 2003. Qaraqosh has always seen as a safe haven, especially for those periodically fleeing violence in Mosul, such as in 2008.
While the attack continued, VICE News was caught in a miles long traffic jam as many residents fled in fear with nothing but the clothes on their back. Peshmerga forces, fearing car bombs and hidden insurgents, meticulously combed through the traffic, and set up tense checkpoints, causing further chaos. We also travelled to the abandoned city of Qaraqosh to speak with residents who have remained there despite the attacks. They tell us why they've decided to stay and protect their city.
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Report: ISIS Beheading Children In Iraq
Reports out of Iraq say that rebel group ISIS, which has been systematically taking over city after city through the Middle Eastern country, is apparently beheading children.
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News of ISIS beheading children comes from a variety of sources, with an interview on CNN bringing the news to light.
In his CNN interview, businessman Mark Arabo tells the reporter of the horrors unfolding in the nation.
"There is a park in Mosul, where [ISIS] they actually beheaded children and put their heads on a stick and have them in the park,' he explained. 'More children are getting beheaded, mothers are getting raped and killed, and fathers are being hung.'"Opposing Views posted more on comments made by Arabo, who said ISIS beheading children was not the only crimes taking place in Iraq, but Christians were being targeted, as well.
"According to Arabo, ISIS is marking the homes of many of those who have fled with 'death stamps.' This means that if any of these people return to their homes, ISIS will kill them on sight.
"'This is a crime against humanity,' Arabo stated. 'This is much broader than a community or a state. This is crime against humanity. They are doing the most horrendous, the most heart-breaking crimes that you can think of.'
"He continued, 'Christian holocaust is in our midst. This should never be happening in 2014.'"
The Gospel Herald is reporting Arabo as saying that 95 percent of Christians in Iraq have so far fled the country and about 5 percent have converted to Islam.
"Just last week, the ISIS bombed a church that was 1,800 years old, and have bombed 6 churches so far.
"While France is leading the way in offering asylum, Arabo is calling on the US and the United Nations to recognnize that this is a genocide and do more to address this crisis.
"'This living nightmare is not going away,' he said, 'but it is only getting worse.'
"'The world cannot turn a blind eye.'"
ISIS beheading children and others, while initially unbelievable, seem to be backed by photos that have popped up on the internet (via Catholic Online) though they have not been independently verified. You can view the photos here, but you have been warned they the photos are extremely graphic and disturbing.
The conflict in Iraq continues as the world is still on edge over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Obama Administration Spent Thousands On Strippers, Boxing Tickets
In Failed Sting On Border Patrol Agent
The case against a border patrol agent gets dismissed
after his lawyer claims multi-agency corruption
task force entrapped his client.
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U.S. Border Patrol agent in Roma, Texas
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration abandoned a corruption case against an Arizona border patrol agent after his attorney accused federal agents of entrapping his client, and spending federal dollars on strippers, plane tickets, and tickets to a Manny Pacquiao fight as part of their investigation.
A federal judge dismissed money-laundering and corruption charges against Customs and Border Protection agent Lauro Tobias Tuesday in response to dismissal motions from both the Department of Justice and Tobias' attorney, which were filed within hours of each other July 25.
Tobias, a 10-year veteran of the CBP who also served in the Air Force for two decades, was arrested in March 2013 after he took a trip from Phoenix to Las Vegas for a drug deal — 6 kilograms of cocaine were exchanged with unnamed persons for $100,000. Tobias was paid $4,000 for working as security during the deal, based on court documents.
Tobias has maintained he did not know the trip was for a drug deal, and that he was assured the exchange was legal.
But, based on court documents, the drug deal wasn't real: Everyone involved, aside from Tobias, appears to have been a part of a federal task force that has been attempting, with little success, to root out corruption within the Border Patrol along the Arizona-Mexico border.
It's unclear why the Justice Department abruptly asked for the dismissal the same day as Tobias' attorney filed his motion.
Justice Department spokesman Cosme Lopez declined to comment on the case, which was the culmination of a multi-year investigation of the Lukeville Port of Entry border crossing by the Southern Arizona Corruption Task Force. The task force is made up of agents from Border Patrol, FBI, Justice Department, IRS, and other federal agencies. The dismissal of the case raises questions about the money and time invested in the task force, which has pursued rooting out systemic corruption on the border since 2010.
According to documents filed with the court, Tobias claimed the federal task force put the fake drug deal into play, as well as supplying the money, drugs, and agents for the various parts in the alleged conspiracy.
Both the defense and prosecutors asked for a dismissal, which U.S. District Court Judge Cindy Jorgenson granted Monday with prejudice, just over 14 months after the FBI announced Tobias' arrest.
Tobias' attorney, Steven West, argued in an interview with BuzzFeed that federal agents tried to turn Tobias bad in order to use him as mole in the border station. "They couldn't get close to the so-called 'suspect corrupt people,'" he said. "I think they took a 90-degree turn."
More at: http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/obama-administration-spent-federal-money-on-strippers-fight
30K Illegal Alien "Minors" To Attend U.S. Schools Around The Country
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(When some have gray hair, that might be a clue that they are not "minors")
Via Breitbart:http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/09/Some-30k-Unaccompanied-Minors-to-Attend-Public-US-Schools-This-Year
HOUSTON, Texas — The feds have released more than 30,000 unaccompanied minors, all of whom entered the U.S. illegally, in various states around the nation. Assuming that most of these children will not be immediately deported, U.S. public schools be will forced to accommodate them.
A total of 30,340 unaccompanied minors–almost all of whom are from Central America–had been released to foster homes around the country as of July 7.
The cost of educating these migrants in U.S. schools will likely not be cheap; Texas Education Agency General Counsel David Anderson pointed out that due to factors such as cultural differences and language barriers, it will likely be more expensive to educate the immigrant children than it is to educate students who are U.S. citizens.
Ted Cruz: Obuma Is An "Absentee President" Who Should
"Spend Less Time On The Golf Course"
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(Why, Teddy Boy? What's going on right now that could possibly be more important than playing a few a**holes?)
Via ABC News: While President Obama was on the golf course in Martha's Vineyard, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was at the Iowa State Fair criticizing the president's foreign policy and saying he should "spend less time on the golf course."
Asked whether he thought Obama should be vacationing in Martha's Vineyard right now, Cruz accused Obama of being
"an absentee president," noting that he did not visit the border last month when he was in the state of Texas.
"I think the president should actually stand up and do his job as commander in chief, should spend less time on the golf course and more time doing the job to which he was elected," Cruz told reporters after his speech at the Des Moines Register soapbox.
Cruz said airstrikes could be effective in Iraq, but said Obama has yet to detail a strategy for combating ISIS.
"I am glad the president is finally demonstrating some leadership, taking the threat from ISIS seriously, but unfortunately, he's following the pattern that has characterized his foreign policy from the beginning of this tenure which he has laid out no clearly defined objective that we're trying to accomplish that is key to defending U.S. national security," Cruz said.
"Airstrikes could well make sense to degrade the lethality of ISIS if they are directed towards accomplishing a concrete defined military objective that furthers U.S. national security interests," Cruz said.
"What is missing right now is the commander in chief laying out a strategic vision, here is what we're trying to accomplish so everyone will know when it's accomplished and here's why it furthers U.S. national security interests," he said. "That only comes from the president, and unfortunately right now President Obama's not providing that leadership."
Women Stoned To Death By ISIS For Adultery
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(But ISIS raping the women doesn't count as "adultery" for the ISIS males.
Funny how terrorists are illogical like that)
BEIRUT (AP) — A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them to carry out the sentence: Stoning to death for the alleged adulteress.
None in the crowd stepped forward, said a witness to the event in a northern Syrian city. So the jihadi fighters, mostly foreign extremists, did it themselves, pelting Faddah Ahmad with stones until her body was dragged away.
"Even when she was hit with stones she did not scream or move," said an opposition activist who said he witnessed the stoning near the football stadium and the Bajaa garden in the city of Raqqa, the main Syrian stronghold of the Islamic State group.
The July 18 stoning was the second in a span of 24 hours. A day earlier, 26-year-old Shamseh Abdullah was killed in a similar way in the nearby town of Tabqa by Islamic State fighters. Both were accused of having sex outside marriage.
Networks Won't Call ISIS "Terrorists"
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(Apparently the guys beheading children are just "rebels" and "militants.")
Via Newsbusters: The Big Three networks steered clear of labeling the Islamist group ISIS "terrorists" on their evening newscasts on Friday. Instead, ABC's World News and CBS Evening News labeled the genocidal radicals "militants." NBC Nightly News used the more benign "rebels" in their coverage of the group's latest attacks on the Kurdish part of Iraq.
The closest that a journalist at ABC, CBS, or NBC got to using the "terrorist" label was Scott Pelley's teaser at the very top of CBS Evening News:
SCOTT PELLEY (teaser): Tonight, back in battle: The President orders U.S. warplanes to attack Sunni Muslim extremists in northern Iraq to stop a campaign of terror. But he makes Americans this promise:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBUMA: I will not allow the United States to be dragged into fighting another war in Iraq.
Brian Williams introduced correspondent Jim Miklaszewski's report on NBC Nightly News by noting that "a violent group called ISIS has swept across Iraq. They have civilians and religious minorities on the run, and threatened with death." Miklaszewski twice referred to ISIS as "rebels" during the segment. He did include a clip of President Obama using the "terrorist" label in reference to the group:
JIM MIKLASZEWSKI: ...In his nationwide address Thursday night, President Obama said the airstrikes are necessary to protect American lives at the U.S. consulate in Erbil.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBUMA: I've directed our military to take targeted strikes against ISIL terrorist convoys should they move toward the city.
MIKLASZEWSKI: The airstrikes are also aimed at supporting Kurdish Peshmerga fighters – U.S. allies overrun by ISIS rebels this week. President Obama cautioned, however, any U.S. airstrikes would be limited. Critics accuse the President of playing domestic politics, and that limited airstrikes will do little to stop the relentless advance of ISIS rebels.
The NBC journalist later underlined that "ISIS...has seized a large section of east and northern Iraq, with unspeakable brutality that includes mass executions and beheadings."
Egyptian Court Dissolves Banned Muslim Brotherhood's Political Arm
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(And Obuma set to increase funding to the Muslim Brotherhood)
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Via Haaretz Egypt's administrative court dissolved Saturday the political party of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets liquidated, the state news agency reported.
The decision against the Freedom and Justice Party comes after a recommendation by the court's advisory panel that noted the party's leaders had already been accused, and in some cases convicted, of murder and inciting violence.
The recommendation added that the police investigation stated the party headquarters and offices were used to store weapons.
The Middle East news agency said the decision is final.
The court decision is part of a wider crackdown against the group and its members that landed thousands in jail, including a many sentenced to death on charges of inciting violence.
The Clintons are 'slumming it'! Power couple downsize their summer home to pay $100,000 on $18m Hamptons property after 'dead broke' gaffe
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(Of course, it's donated to the 'Clinton Foundation'... what a terrific scam)
Via NY Post: Hillary and Bill Clinton will be the toast of the Hamptons this weekend as they move into their $100,000 Amagansett August rental.
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Saturday, the couple, along with daughter Chelsea, will be fêted at the Water Mill home of former Wall Street exec Joan Hornig and her investment banker husband George.
Tickets range from
$5,000 to $50,000 for a couple who would receive co-chair status.
Proceeds will go to the Clinton Foundation. The former first couple has locked up a property at 44 Broadview Road for three weeks this month.
But it doesn't appear to be much of a relaxing stay — Hillary is also planning to promote her book "Hard Choices" with an Aug. 16 signing at BookHampton in East Hampton.
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DO YOU AGREE, IS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA AN ISLAMIST?
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Whether you like Allen West or not... see if what he had to pontificate about is anything you would disagree with or not, one way or the other. Personally, what he had to say is calling a spade a spade to the nth degree... but that's just my opinion. One facts for certain, West doesn't care about being politically correct with this message below.
Former congressman, Lt. Col. Allen West proclaimed on Wednesday that there is only one true explanation that Obama is "purposely enabling the Islamist cause."
West, a favorite among many in the pro-freedom, pro-Constitution Tea Party movement, listed six instances where the Obama regime has been "working counter to the security of the United States of America":
1. The unilateral release of five senior Taliban back to the enemy while the enemy is still fighting us.
2. Providing weapons of support to the Muslim Brotherhood-led Egyptian government — F-16s and M1A1 Abrams tanks — but not to the Egyptian government after the Islamist group has been removed.
3. Negotiations with Qatar and Turkey, two Islamist-supporting countries.
4. Negotiations with Hamas, a terrorist group.
5. Returning sanction money, to the tune of billions of dollars, back to the theocratic regime led by Iran's ayatollahs and allowing them to march on towards nuclear capability.
6. Obama's evident support of Islamists in Libya.Along with the above, West cited the recent report that Obama has lifted longtime restrictions against Libyans attending flight schools and receiving nuclear science training in the U.S, only two years after the terrorism that took place in Benghazi, Libya.
There is only one logical reason for the Democrat president to make these anti-American decisions, West concluded Wednesday on his website, that there is no other reason why Obama would prop-up America's enemies:
Sorry, but I can only explain this one way: Barack Hussein Obama is an Islamist in his foreign policy perspectives and supports their cause. You can go back and listen to his 2009 speech in Cairo, where Muslim Brotherhood associates were seated front and center.
All the circumstantial and anecdotal evidence points to that conclusion. The pivot away from the Middle East seems to be nothing more than an opportunity to enable Islamists and their goals. Anyone supporting this Libyan ban being lifted is indeed an enemy of this state.In June, the former congressman from Florida called for Obama's impeachment, following Obama's negotiation with terrorists, releasing military deserter Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for the U.S. release of five notorious Muslim terrorists from GITMO.
Barack Obama's longtime pastor for over two decades, Jeremiah Wright, told author Ed Klein two years ago that
"Barack Obama was steeped in Islam" and that he
"knew very little about Christianity." "When I asked the Reverend Wright about this whole question of Islam and Christianity. He said,
'Well, you know, Barack Obama was steeped in Islam. He knew a lot about Islam from his childhood. But he knew very little about Christianity. And I made it easy for him to feel not guilty about learning about Christianity without turning his back on his Islamic friends.'"
Words have consequences:
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O.K. Forum: Toss in your two-cents... Fire Away – Inquiring Minds Want to Know!
THE REAL MICHAEL BROWN: PICTURES THAT SPEAK VOLUMES!
He was such a good boy! – Not! Shades of Trayvon Martin in more ways than one... but don't tell the MSM!
Here are some pictures that have been leaked via social media... see what you think and draw your own conclusions.
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Check this out:
GROSS: Michael Brown Jr.'s Social Media Page Reveals Extreme Racism Against White Girl
Michael Brown Jr.'s Social Media Page Reveals Extreme Racism Against White GirlPosted on August 14, 2014
The media might forget to bring up some little known facts in cases like this. A social media page that is attributed to Michael Brown Jr. shows a racist picture of a girl that was murdered in 2008 by two black thugs. See below...
A social media page attributed to Michael Brown Jr. reveals a hatred and disrespect for white people. Brown recently posted an image of a blonde girl that implies that she became "black" after having sex with a black man.
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Autopsy Shows Michael Brown Was Struck at Least 6 Times
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Part of a preliminary private autopsy report by Dr. Baden and Professor Parcells showing wounds on Mr. Brown's body. Dr. Michael M. Baden
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/us/michael-brown-autopsy-shows-he-was-shot-at-least-6-times.html?_r=0
(Brown was a 6'4" 292 pound 'BULLY' as his internet site shows. He got what he deserved, IMHO!
So the witnesses who claimed he was shot in the back lied. Also some of the same people saying his hands were up... hmmmmm, shot 4 times in the right arm, I doubt that he was able to raise it. This more readily matches the stories earlier, that Brown may have charged the officer.) http://clashdaily.com/2014/08/gross-michael-brown-jr-s-social-media-page-reveals-extreme-racism-white-girl/ )
FERGUSON, Mo. — Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was killed by a police officer, sparking protests around the nation, was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a preliminary private autopsy performed on Sunday found.
One of the bullets entered the top of Mr. Brown's skull, suggesting his head was bent forward when it struck him and caused a fatal injury, according to Dr. Michael M. Baden, the former chief medical examiner for the City of New York, who flew to Missouri on Sunday at the family's request to conduct the separate autopsy. It was likely the last of bullets to hit him, he said.
Mr. Brown, 18, was also shot four times in the right arm, he said, adding that all the bullets were fired into his front.
'Violence Flares in Ferguson After Appeals for Harmony' Obama Administration Plans Autopsy of Michael Brown in Effort to Keep PeaceAUG. 17, 2014
The Media Equation: View of #Ferguson Thrust Michael Brown Shooting to National Attention AUG. 17, 2014
Deep Tensions Rise to Surface After Ferguson ShootingAUG. 16, 2014 Lack of Leadership and a Generational Split Hinder Protests in FergusonAUG. 16, 2014 The bullets did not appear to have been shot from very close range because no gunpowder was present on his body. However, that determination could change if it turns out that there is gunshot residue on Mr. Brown's clothing, to which Dr. Baden did not have access. (http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/08/18/us/SUB-JP-BROWN-1/SUB-JP-BROWN-1-articleLarge.jpg)
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Sunday that the Justice Department would conduct its own autopsy, in addition to the one performed by local officials and this private one because, a department spokesman said, of "the extraordinary circumstances involved in this case and at the request of the Brown family."
The preliminary autopsy results are the first time that some of the critical information resulting in Mr. Brown's death has been made public. Thousands of protesters demanding information and justice for what was widely viewed as a reckless shooting took to the streets here in rallies that ranged from peaceful to violent.
Mr. Brown died last week in a confrontation with a police officer here in this suburb of St. Louis. The police department has come under harsh criticism for refusing to clarify the circumstances of the shooting and for responding to protests with military-style operational gear.
"People have been asking: How many times was he shot? This information could have been released on Day 1," Dr. Baden said in an interview after performing the autopsy. "They don't do that, even as feelings built up among the citizenry that there was a cover-up. We are hoping to alleviate that."
Dr. Baden said that while Mr. Brown was shot at least six times, only three bullets were recovered from his body. But he has not yet seen the X-rays showing where the bullets were found, which would clarify the autopsy results. Nor has he had access to witness and police statements.
Dr. Baden provided a diagram of the entry wounds, and noted that the six shots produced numerous wounds. Some of the bullets entered and exited several times, including one that left at least five different wounds.
"This one here looks like his head was bent downward," he said, indicating the wound at the very top of Mr. Brown's head. "It can be because he's giving up, or because he's charging forward at the officer."
He stressed that his information does not assign blame or justify the shooting.
Continue reading the main story "We need more information; for example, the police should be examining the automobile to see if there is gunshot residue in the police car," he said.
Dr. Baden, 80, is a well-known New York-based medical examiner, who is one of only about 400 board-certified forensic pathologists in the nation. He reviewed the autopsies of both President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and has performed more than 20,000 autopsies himself.
He is best known for having hosted the HBO show "Autopsy," but he rankles when he is called a "celebrity medical examiner," saying that the vast majority of what he does has nothing to do with celebrities.
Dr. Baden said that because of the tremendous attention to the case, he waived his $10,000 fee.
Prof. Shawn L. Parcells, a pathologist assistant based in Kansas, assisted Dr. Baden.
"You do this for the families," Mr. Parcells said.
The two medical experts conducted the four-hour examination Sunday at the Austin A. Layne Mortuary in St. Louis. Benjamin L. Crump, a lawyer for Mr. Brown's family who paid their travel expenses, hired them.
"The sheer number of bullets and the way they were scattered all over his body showed this police officer had a brazen disregard for the very people he was supposed to protect in that community," Mr. Crump said. "We want to make sure people understand what this case is about: This case is about a police officer executing a young unarmed man in broad daylight."
A spokesman for the Ferguson Police Department, Tim Zoll, said the police had not seen a report of the autopsy and therefore had no comment on it.
Dr. Baden said he consulted with the St. Louis County medical examiner before conducting the autopsy.
One of the bullets shattered Mr. Brown's right eye, traveled through his face, exited his jaw and re-entered his collarbone. The last two shots in the head would have stopped him in his tracks and were likely the last fired.
Brown, he said, would not have survived the shooting even if he had been taken to a hospital right away. The autopsy indicated that he was otherwise healthy.
Dr. Baden said it was unusual for the federal government to conduct a third autopsy, but dueling examinations often occur when there is so much distrust of the authorities. The county of St. Louis has conducted an autopsy, and the results have not yet been released.
He stressed that his examination was not to determine whether the shooting was justified.
"In my capacity as the forensic examiner for the New York State Police, I would say, 'You're not supposed to shoot so many times,' " said Dr. Baden, who retired from the state police in 2011. "Right now there is too little information to forensically reconstruct the shooting."
No matter what conclusions can be drawn from Dr. Baden's work, Mr. Brown's death remains marked by shifting and contradictory accounts more than a week after it occurred. The shooting is under investigation by St. Louis County and by the F.B.I., working with the Justice Department's civil rights division and the office of Attorney General Holder.
According to what has emerged so far, on Saturday, Aug. 9, Mr. Brown, along with a companion, Dorian Johnson, was walking in the middle of Canfield Drive, a fistful of cigarillos in Mr. Brown's hand, police say, which a videotape shows he stole from a liquor store on West Florissant Ave.
At 12:01 p.m., they were stopped by Darren Wilson, a police officer, who ordered them off the road and onto the sidewalk, Mr. Johnson, who is 22, later said.
The police have said that what happened next was a physical struggle between Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson that left the officer with a swollen face. Mr. Johnson and others have said that it was a case of racial profiling and police aggression from a white officer toward a black man. Within minutes, Mr. Brown, who was unarmed, was dead of gunshot wounds.
The sequence of events provided by law enforcement officials places Mr. Brown and Mr. Johnson at Ferguson Market and Liquors, a store several blocks away on West Florissant Ave., at about 11:50 a.m. After leaving the store with the cigarillos, the two walked north on West Florissant, a busy commercial thoroughfare, toward Canfield Drive, a clerk reported to the police.
Brown was a big man at 6-foot-4 and 292 pounds, though his family and friends described him as quiet and shy, a homebody who lived with his grandmother.
It is about a 10-minute walk from Ferguson Market to the spot where Officer Wilson, 28, with six years' experience, approached Mr. Brown and Mr. Johnson.
The police tell of an officer who was enforcing the minor violation of jaywalking, as Mr. Brown and Mr. Johnson ignored the sidewalk and strolled down the middle of the road instead.
The morning after the shooting, Chief Jon Belmar of the St. Louis County police said that Officer Wilson was leaving his police car when Mr. Brown "allegedly pushed the police officer back into the car," where he "physically assaulted the police officer."
"Within the police car there was a struggle over the officer's weapon," Chief Belmar said. "There was at least one shot fired in the car." At that point, the police said, Officer Wilson left his vehicle and fatally shot Mr. Brown. "More than a few" shell casings were recovered from the scene.
Mr. Johnson, who declined to be interviewed, has described the events differently in television interviews. While he and Mr. Brown walked, he said, Officer Wilson stopped his vehicle and told them to get on the sidewalk. When they refused, Officer Wilson slammed on his brakes and drove in reverse to get closer.
When the officer opened his door, it hit Mr. Brown. With his left hand, Officer Wilson reached out and grabbed Mr. Brown by the neck, Mr. Johnson said.
"It's like tug-of-war," Mr. Johnson said. "He's trying to pull him in. He's pulling away, that's when I heard, 'I'm gonna shoot you.' "
A neighbor, Tiffany Mitchell, said in an interview with MSNBC that she heard tires squeal, then saw Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson "wrestling" through the open car window. A shot went off from within the car, Mr. Johnson said, and the two began to run away from the officer.
According to Ms. Mitchell, "The officer gets out of his vehicle," she said, pursuing Mr. Brown, then continued to shoot.
Mr. Johnson said that he hid behind a parked car and that Mr. Brown was struck by a bullet in his back as he ran away, an account that Dr. Baden's autopsy appears to contradict.
"Michael's body jerks as if he was hit," Ms. Mitchell said, "and then he put his hands up." Mr. Brown turned, Mr. Johnson said, raised his hands, and said, "I don't have a gun, stop shooting!"
Officer Wilson continued to fire and Mr. Brown crumpled to the ground, Mr. Johnson said. Within seconds, confusion and horror swept through Canfield Drive. On that Saturday afternoon, dozens of neighbors were at home and rushed out of their apartments when they heard gunshots.
One person who claimed to witness the shooting began posting frantic messages on Twitter, written hastily with shorthand and grammatical errors, only two minutes after Officer Wilson approached Mr. Brown. At 12:03 p.m., the person, identified as @TheePharoah, a St. Louis-area rapper, wrote on Twitter that he had just seen someone die.
That same minute, he wrote, "Im about to hyperventilate."
At 12:23 p.m., he wrote, "dude was running and the cops just saw him. I saw him die bruh."
A 10-minute video posted on YouTube appeared to be taken on a cellphone by someone who identified himself as a neighbor. The video, which has collected more than 225,000 views, captures Mr. Brown's body, the yellow police tape that marked off the crime scene and the residents standing behind it.
"They shot that boy 'cause they wanted to," said one woman who can be heard on the video.
"They said he had his hands up and everything," said the man taking the video, speaking to a neighbor.
Mr. Brown's body remained in the street for several hours, a delay that Chief Jackson said last week made him "uncomfortable." Antonio French, a St. Louis alderman who has been active in this case, said on ABC on Sunday that the body had remained in the street for nearly five hours.
At one point, a woman can be heard shouting, "Where is the ambulance? Where is the ambulance?" The man taking the video, who remained off-camera, said, "God rest his soul. He's gone."
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POS Obuma Goes To A Jazz Concert While Race Riots Explode
For Another Night In Ferguson
(The optics of Obuma partying with elitists on Martha's Vineyard while bloody race riots rage for another night is beyond awful. Then again, the media isn't going to call him out over it. What a crock of SH!T!)
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GOP Rep: ISIS And Mexican Drug Cartels "Talking To Each Other"
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(Does anyone doubt for a moment that the cartels can smuggle in ISIS terrorists through our porous border? And now they have tons of STOLEN money to pay for the service)
Via Breitbart:Wednesday on Newsmax TV's "America's Forum," Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) was asked if there is any current interaction between ISIS and Mexican drug cartels he said "yes" and added they are "talking to each other."
The member of the House Judiciary Committee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security said, "In my opinion, yes there seems to be a talking to each other"
He added, "The drug cartels use the same operational plan as terrorist groups do ... They kill their opponents, they behead their opponents, they brag about it and they have operational control of many portions of the southern border of the United States. They're vicious as some of these other terrorist organizations."
Here's How Obama Is Hurting Ferguson A Whole Lot More Than
The Officer Who Shot Mike Brown Did
These people are burning down their own neighborhoods
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You know, I know full well many of you that post here will know some of these facts and statics mentioned in the opinion piece that will be posted below regarding black on black crime in this country and much more as well. But why, oh, why don't real facts seem to matter to those on the left of all factions, especially the majority of the mainstream media too. Needless to say, we can toss in the scared-of-their-own-shadows, politically correct, useless RINOs to-boot!
Now, I'm really being rhetorical when it comes to some of the questions posed above, because we all know the answers to the why of it all.... agenda, money, votes, voters and on and on the destructive game goes.
QUESTION: WHY DON'T REAL FACTS MATTER ANYMORE?
So, here's the meat of the matter via this OP:
Did you know that approximately half of the victims of homicide in this country are African American? Did you know that the number one cause of death for black males from ten to twenty-four is homicide? Did you know that over half of the homicide offenders in this country are black and that most black people are killed by another black person? Did you know that young blacks make up about sixteen percent of the youth population but account for over half of juvenile violent crime arrests? Well, I have one more question. With what is happening in Ferguson, why is our national leadership not talking about these statistics?(http://angrywhitedude.com/wp-content/uploads2/2014/08/FNS_black_crime_graphic__my_grab-300x169.png)
Irrespective of whether or not the investigation finds that the police officer was guilty in Michael Brown's death, the real problem it seems is the culture of black violence. If the leadership of this country wants to help young black males, then they need to have a conversation about this subject. If this police officer is guilty, he will be punished according to the law; but young blacks will continue to commit an overly high level of crimes and will continue to be killed by their own race.
There has been evidence released that Michael Brown was involved in a robbery prior to his death. You would think that this would lead to the police officer being given the benefit of the doubt. However, this is not the case. The African American leadership as well as the Obama administration continue to ignore this fact.
We now have evidence of a bystander being recorded unknowingly while describing the incident and seemingly backing up the police officer's story. We also have the results of the autopsy, which seem to show that Michael Brown was coming toward the police officer when he was shot.(http://angrywhitedude.com/wp-content/uploads2/2014/08/Obama-Holder-Conversation-About-Race-In-America-SC-300x214.jpg)
I have an idea. Why doesn't President Obama or Attorney General Holder take the podium and say to the black community "we have a problem with violence, and we need to look in the mirror and stop blaming others." ?
Much has been made lately about the number of young black males who are incarcerated. This of course has been blamed on racism. Could it just be that young black males commit a heck of a lot of crimes?
CNN said last week that these were just young men with high energy. And what about the victims of these crimes? Why isn't anyone talking about them? We see videotape of waves of young blacks looting stores and engaging in mayhem in Ferguson. Who is going to reimburse the owners of these businesses? These people are burning down their own neighborhoods.
Obama famously said that a white police officer was 'acting stupidly' in another case earlier in his presidency. I haven't heard him use his bully pulpit to say the rioters were 'acting stupidly' in destroying their own neighborhoods. Until the country and our leadership face the real problem, that there is something terribly wrong with black culture in the inner cities, nothing is going to change for the better in this country.(http://angrywhitedude.com/wp-content/uploads2/2014/08/wpid-1077700_10201096259840573_2096061635_o-300x225.jpg)
I'll leave you with this thought:
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PICTURE OF THE DAY
(The fact that he went straight to the golf course after speaking about
the savage beheading of an American citizen shows how
unbelievably narcissistic Obama really is)
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President Obama bumps fists with Cy Walker while golfing on Martha's Vineyard Wednesday. (Steven Senne / AP)
'Twice as Many' British Muslims Fighting for ISIS as UK Armed Forces
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(Wake up America... It's time to start killing these muslim bastards...)
There are now more than twice as many British Muslims fighting for Islamic State than there are serving in the British armed forces, according to a British Member of Parliament (MP).
Khalid Mahmood, the MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham, estimates that at least 1,500 young British Muslims have been recruited by extremists fighting in Iraq and Syria in the last three years.
Mahmood told Newsweek that this figure had been building since the start of the Syrian conflict: "If you look across the whole of the country, and the various communities involved, 500 going over each year would be a conservative estimate."
According to the Ministry of Defence, there are only around 600 British Muslims currently serving in the Armed Forces, making up approximately around 0.4% of total personnel. 4.3% of the British population are Muslim.
The UK Foreign Office said that they believe over 400 individuals have travelled to Syria since the uprising began, but said that they could not give exact numbers.
However Mahmood described such low estimates as "nonsense" and said that the British government was failing to deal with the problem of home-grown extremists. "We've not concentrated on the prevention work, we haven't invested enough in de-radicalisation. It's tragic, somebody's got to wake up to it."
The role of British jihadists fighting in the Middle East has been brought into sharp focus after Islamic State released a video showing the apparent beheading of US journalist James Foley by a masked jihadist who spoke with a British accent.
In June, three militants involved in an ISIS propaganda video were identified as Cardiff students Reyaad Khan, 20, Nasser Muthana, also 20, and his younger brother Aseel, 17.
Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi last week told Channel 4 news that a Kurdish leader told him that Islamic State fighters in Iraq had been carrying a Liverpool FC season ticket and a gym card from Ealing in London. He estimated the number of Britons fighting for Islamic State at as many as 700.
Ghaffar Hussain of anti-radicalization charity the Quilliam Foundation argued that the number of British Muslims being drawn to Islamic State and other organisations meant that the UK was "definitely" losing the fight against radical extremism.
"There are an unacceptable number of Britons fighting for jihadist forces over the world," Hussain told Newsweek.
"There are things the government can do to prevent this of course," Hussain says. "There needs to be a greater effort in the way of civil society initiatives that discredit jihadist organisations in the UK and promote liberal democratic values."
Islamic States militants' recruitment campaign has overtaken Al-Qaeda in its effectiveness online, targeting primarily young muslims, the Quilliam Foundation told Newsweek.
"Their use of the internet is unlike anything we have seen before," Charlie Cooper of the Quilliam Foundation said.
"Social media applications like Facebook and Twitter act as a facilitator to connect young radicalized Britons with jihadists in Syria and Iraq."
Islamic State have so far run a very successful campaign of using public forums such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, whilst avoiding detection by authorities, with Quilliam reporting Islamic State supporters share resources on how to remain under the radar of the law.
Responding to the Islamic State video earlier today, UK-based radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary who is a vocal supporter of establishing a Caliphate under Islamic Sharia Law told digital radio station Fubar Radio that "it's not important if it's a British person carrying out the execution because you're Muslim first and British second".
A Home Office spokesperson told Newsweek that the British government is aware of the threat of Islamic State recruitment campaigns in the UK, insisting "the police and security services are actively working to detect and disrupt terrorist threats. People seeking to travel to engage in terrorist activity in Syria or Iraq should be in no doubt we will take the strongest possible action to protect our national security, including prosecuting those who break the law.
"We also have a wide range of powers at our disposal to disrupt travel and manage the risk posed by returnees," the spokesperson said.
The Ministry of Defence did not immediately respond to Newsweek's request for comment.
Why Were The Police In Ferguson Told Not To Stop The Rampant Looting On Friday Night?
By Michael Snyder, on August 17th, 2014
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On Friday night, the city of Ferguson, Missouri was absolutely packed with militarized police. But when the looting started, they did nothing about it. In fact, news reports indicate that the police were lined up just blocks from where the looting was happening but did not make any attempt to stop it. When I first read the news reports that I am about to share with you, I could hardly believe them. I had to read them more than once just to be sure that I was understanding what I was reading. According to eyewitnesses, police vehicles were seen driving by some of the stores while they were being looted and they did not respond. If the police are not even going to lift a finger to stop rampant theft, then what in the world are they there for? Why don't they just pack up and leave the streets completely? If they are just there to confront protesters and arrest journalists, all they are accomplishing is inflaming the situation. And is this what we can expect when civil unrest spreads to more cities throughout America? Will we not be able to depend on the police to protect our homes and our businesses?
What I am about to share with you are excerpts from mainstream news reports about how the police did nothing to stop the looting. To me, this stand down by the police is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Ferguson riots so far.This first excerpt is from USA Today...During the night, buildings burned, windows shattered, and chaos ensued as protesters stood in the street criticizing police. Officers threatened to arrest protesters who came near their trucks. Yet authorities did not attempt to stop any looting as citizens moved to protect local businesses from sporadic thefts.This next excerpt is from the local Fox affiliate in St. Louis...Police presence is in question after St. Louis County and Missouri State Highway Patrol officers left the scene in Ferguson once looters began attacking businesses overnight.Protesters believe the media has started to confuse the difference between themselves and the looters. Fights have begun on the streets as well as social media with some believing this has become similar to a game of chess.
And this last excerpt is from Fox News...A reporter from the station tweeted that police cars were seen driving past some of the stores being looted and did not respond. It rained in Ferguson Friday night and protesters could be seen outside until 6 a.m.
Two store owners, standing outside their business holding guns, told Fox2Now.com that when they called 911, they were sent from one police agency to another, and got no response.
One of the owners, with a large black gun resting on his shoulder, told the station that police were lined up blocks from the looting, and did not engage looters making off with large boxes from these stores.
"There's no police," he said. "We trusted the police to keep it peaceful; they didn't do their job."Why did the police in Ferguson refuse to do their jobs?
Who told them to stand down?
Someone in the mainstream media needs to start asking some of these hard questions.
As the streets of Ferguson have descended into anarchy, business owners have been forced to take matters into their own hands.The following are two photos of a Wal-Mart in Ferguson that were posted by the Economic Policy Journal. In this first photo, you can see that Wal-Mart employees have stacked rows of shopping carts across the front entrance in order to keep looters from getting in...(http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Wal-Mart-in-Ferguson-1-Photo-from-Alex-Wroblewski-on-Twitter.jpg)
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Other business owners are taking even stronger measures to protect their property.
Every night now, business owners can be seen all around Ferguson standing out in front of their businesses holding guns. You can see some examples of this in this article.
And unsurprisingly, gun sales are going through the roof in Ferguson at the moment...Guns and ammo are selling at a feverish pace in and around St. Louis as violent clashes continue between protesters and police in nearby Ferguson, Missouri.
"People are coming in with fear in their eyes and they're saying they need something to protect their house," said Steven King, owner of Metro Shooting Supplies, a gun shop in the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton. "They're scared to death."
As I have written about previously, I believe that what is going on in Ferguson is a perfect example of how rapidly the streets of America can descend into chaos.And I also believe that what we are watching is just a preview of what is coming to America in the years ahead.
Watch what is happening very carefully, because there is a lesson in all of this.
When chaos reigns, the police are not going to be there to rescue you.
In a crisis situation, you and your family are not going to be a priority for the authorities. So you are going to need to come up with your own plan to ensure the safety of yourself and your loved ones.
If you think that I am being overly dramatic, you must not have been paying attention to what has been going on in America in recent years.
Today, our society is becoming increasingly divided. A whole host of opinion polls and surveys show that anger and frustration in this country have reached all-time highs. The civil unrest in Ferguson didn't just come out of a vacuum. The truth is that pressure has been building under the surface in the U.S. for years. And it isn't going to take much for more Fergusons to erupt all around the nation.
So what do you think?
Why were the police in Ferguson told not to stop the rampant looting on Friday night?
And what do you think is coming next for America?
Seems to me "they" are hoping that all hell will break loose and with people shooting each other, give them a reason to come down on guns with a vengeance. They will have their "reason" for disarming the public.
Stirring The Pot: DOJ Sends 'Marshals' To 'Coach' The Protesters In Ferguson
By Michael Snyder
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(An Obuma government agency teaching the fine art of protesting. Simply beyond Orwellian!
What happens if the police arrest the Federal Marshals? :police: )
Is the Obama administration looking to stir up more trouble in Ferguson? "Protest marshals" from the same Department of Justice division that organized protests against George Zimmerman in the aftermath of the shooting of Trayvon Martin have been deployed to the troubled city. It is being reported that these DOJ agents will be "conducting training" for Ferguson protesters that will focus on "best practices for participating in protests". Local officials in Missouri hope that this will help defuse the situation, but if history is any guide it may end up doing just the opposite. According to the head of Judicial Watch, the Community Relations Service of the Department of Justice "has a record of racially inflammatory rhetoric that is extreme in ideology and cynical in its politics". Could these Ferguson protests ultimately be used to take us to the next level in the inflammation of racial tensions in America?
What we have seen play out in Ferguson over the past few days demonstrates so much of what is wrong in this country.
The initial rioting and looting in the city was a prime example of the extreme social decay that is eating away at the foundations of our nation. And it showed how rapidly the streets of our major cities could potentially descend into chaos.
And then the response by the police was a perfect example of how our society is rapidly being transformed into a heavily militarized police state.
Now that the Obama administration is getting involved, who knows what is going to happen next. According to the Daily Caller, two "protest marshals" have already been deployed to Ferguson so far...Two Department of Justice "protest marshals" are in Ferguson, Mo., to help train people taking part in demonstrations over the fatal police shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
That's according to Ferguson mayor James Knowles, who spoke with The Daily Caller Wednesday evening.
We are being told that they will be "conducting training for the groups on best practices for participating in protests".That sounds good, but as Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch has pointed out, this particular Department of Justice division has a troubled history...Responding to news that the Justice Department has dispatched its Community Relations Service to the scene of racially charged unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, the head of the Washington watchdog group Judicial Watch says it's time for a civil rights investigation of Attorney General Eric Holder's agency.
"Eric Holder's Justice Department is unfortunately not to be trusted on racial matters," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in an interview with WND.
Under Holder's leadership, he said, the department "has a record of racially inflammatory rhetoric that is extreme in ideology and cynical in its politics."
"The idea that this Justice Department could be trusted to mediate is highly suspect," he said.
So precisely what kind of "coaching" and "training" will these protesters be receiving?In a previous article, I discussed how Judicial Watch has documented the fact that the Community Relations Service helped "organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman" back in 2012. This assistance also included spending quite a bit of money, arranging meetings between the NAACP and local leaders, and even providing police escorts for protesters.
Let us certainly hope that the DOJ does not choose to inflame the situation, because Ferguson is already essentially a war zone at this point.
And it isn't just "young punks" that are being brutalized. In an Instagram photo that you can view right here, you can see the gruesome wound that was created when a white female pastor was shot while she was peacefully praying.
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There is no excuse for that. The whole world is watching what is going on, and they are absolutely disgusted with us.
The Governor of Missouri is taking charge of the situation. Governor Nixon has put the Missouri State Highway Patrol in charge, and he is promising a change in "tone".
That sounds good, but what is going to happen if protesters start foolishly throwing Molotov cocktails once again?
Will the police be able to show restraint at that point?
And how will the Department of Justice "protest marshals" change the equation?
Will they calm things down, or will they end up inflaming the situation?
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Even the Islamists of ISIS are obsessing over Ferguson
They're hoping to use black disenchantment as a recruiting tool
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(Gee... Putting them in direct competition with CAIR)
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You can understand if President Obama would rather talk about the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq, where he has scored some victories, than talk about the unholy mess in Ferguson, Mo. Surprisingly, though, ISIS militants are following developments in the St. Louis suburb, and some of them would rather focus on that. According to interviews and social media, members of the group and sympathizers with its jihadist ideology are closely tracking the events in the St. Louis suburb, where protesters and police have clashed. In it, they see opportunity.
Partly, the focus is strategic: Officers in Ferguson have used military transports and weapons similar to those used by U.S. troops in Iraq. But militants are also claiming vindication — that their arguments about American oppression were right all along. "Well this clearly shows that all this talk about democracy and equality of people in the west is just hypocrisy," said Abu Sameer after a private autopsy sought by the family of Michael Brown showed that the 18-year-old had been shot at least six times. Abu Sameer lives in France and identifies himself as a member of the Islamic State, a group that has conducted a campaign of mass killings and other atrocities in northern Iraq.
The Islamic State and other jihadist movements are using the events outside St. Louis as propaganda against the West. One argument they've been making for years is that racism and discrimination are rampant in some parts of the West, and they're hoping the Ferguson riots could help recruit black Americans. "In Islam there is no racism, and we think black people will wake up and follow the example of Malcolm X and others who understood that this way is the only way to justice," said Abu Mansour, who lives in Germany and is also a follower of the Islamic State.
All of the jihadists interviewed said Brown's death confirms their beliefs that blacks are seen as second-class citizens by whites and especially by the police. "I think that blacks in the U.S. will look more towards Islam," said Anjem Choudary from Great Britain, co-founder of the banned "al-Muhajiroun" group. (Choudary's teacher, Omar Bakri Muhammad, was barred from Britain and is currently in a Lebanese jail for his alleged support of jihadist movements in Syria and Iraq.) "The only way of life today that does not look at race is in fact Islam. Islam only distinguished people by whether they are Muslim or not. The color of their skin does not play a role," Choudary said in a phone interview.
Some self-described supporters of fighters of the Islamic State have also taken the discussion to social media platforms using the hashtag "#FergusonUnderIS" and "ISISHERO."
Hagel: ISIS More Dangerous Than Al-Qaeda, "Beyond Anything We've Seen"
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Hagel today:
U.S. military involvement in Iraq will continue because the long-term threat from ISIS is more dangerous, even than that from al-Qaeda, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.
In a briefing at the Pentagon a day after the U.S. revealed that it launched a failed mission in Syria this summer to rescue U.S. hostages being held by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sharm, Hagel said the U.S. is "very clear-eyed about the challenges ahead," stressing: "The U.S. military's involvement is not over."
Asked to compare ISIS to al-Qaeda, Hagel said it was "beyond anything that we've seen," calling the group more than "just a terrorist group." "They marry an ideology with a sophistication of strategy and military prowess" that represent "a whole new dynamic and a new paradigm of threats to this country," he said.
Obama in January calling ISIS a JV team:
In a wide-ranging interview with the New Yorker, President Barack Obama compared Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Iraq and Syria to junior varsity basketball players, downplaying their threat as small-league. He also shared what he thought were the chances of reaching Middle East peace agreements.
New Yorker editor David Remnick pointed out to the president that the Al Qaeda flag is now seen flying in Falluja in Iraq and in certain locations in Syria, and thus the terrorist group has not been "decimated" as Obama had said during his 2012 reelection campaign.
"The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant," Obama told Remnick. "I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists
Dr. Baden Says His Autopsy Of Michael Brown Contradicts Witnesses
Claims That He Was Shot In Back
FOX NEWS INSIDER - Dr. Michael Baden, who conducted the autopsy at the request of Brown's family, talked to Bill Hemmer by phone this morning. His findings do not line up with witnesses who have claimed that Wilson shot Brown from behind.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/08/18/dr-baden-michael-brown-autopsy-contradicts-witnesses-points-excessive-force"This autopsy shows that there wasn't any gunshot wounds in his back. Some people thought they saw that. An autopsy helps organize which witness testimony is more reliable," he said.
But he said the presence of six gunshot wounds points to "excessive" force by Wilson. Baden noted that Wilson may have fired even more shots that missed Brown, explaining that the police would know the total number of shots fired.
"There is legitimate concern as to whether the shooting was overreacting. That has to be answered and we don't have all the answers," said Baden.
(Excessive force ?? How big was Brown ?? = 6'4" 290# Big Dude. Brown thought he could take that Police officer. Just like he strong armed that shop keeper. Brown probably got what he had coming...Warph)
He added that he did not have access to an important piece of evidence: Brown's clothing. Baden explained that if gunshot residue is found on clothing, it will tell a medical examiner that the gunman was within two feet or closer.
Baden: there was no gunshot residue on the body.
He stressed that the best way for local authorities to alleviate concerns from citizens after a police shooting is to be transparent and release autopsy findings quickly. St. Louis County has not released its autopsy findings.
"That takes away the concerns the community has of there being a cover-up," said Baden.
Federal authorities are going to conduct a third autopsy, which Baden said is "appropriate" in this case, but also "extremely unusual."
UPDATE, 11:30a ET: Professor Shawn Parcells, who conducted the autopsy with Baden, said the order of the gunshot wounds cannot be determined. But he said that their belief is that Brown was wounded prior to the fatal shot to the head, which struck the top of Brown's head.
Baden and Parcells said all of the wounds would have been survivable except the shot to the head.
One of the Brown family's attorneys stated his belief that the bullet entering through the top of the head is clear evidence that the teen had lowered his head in an effort to surrender.
Baden said right now, it's unclear which witness' account is most accurate based on the forensic evidence.
He also said there was no sign of a struggle.
"In talking about a struggle, one of the things that the attorneys have also asked for is the medical examination of the officer who was in a struggle. So signs of injury to the officer, to Michael Brown are both needed," said Baden, who also stressed that the autopsy is preliminary.
Montana Dems Replace Plagiarist With Socialist In Senate Race
She doesn't represent the people of Montana
Senate candidate tied to labor group seeking to 'do away with capitalism'
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She is on the far left
(There are no words..........)
Via WFBhttp://freebeacon.com/politics/montana-dems-replace-plagiarist-with-socialist-in-senate-race/
Montana Democrats are banking on a long-shot liberal Senate candidate to replace the disgraced John Walsh, but their choice might be too radical even for the increasingly extreme party.Democrats are hoping that Montana state representative Amanda Curtis will be the next Elizabeth Warren: an outspoken and unapologetic liberal who can fire up the base and raise big bucks from like-minded benefactors.
A self-described "punktuator" who has been seen sporting a mohawk and studded denim jacket with the iconic anarchist "A," Curtis is certainly distinct from most Montana politicians.Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.), the state's incumbent senator, is the upper chamber's only active farmer. Curtis' Republican opponent, Steve Daines, is a successful businessman. Walsh is a career Army officer.
Curtis, by contrast, is a teacher and an activist. She is an outspoken supporter of organized labor, and has endorsed some of its most radical historical leaders.
In 2008, Curtis penned two articles for the monthly newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World, a far-left labor group.
One of the pieces, which reported on IWW recruiting activities at a Montana folk music festival, quoted "IWW member Kevin Curtis," who is Ms. Curtis' husband (that fact was not disclosed in the article).
Mr. Curtis is the Butte delegate for IWW's Montana affiliate, the Two Rivers General Membership Branch.
According to that group's website, it is "working to organize the people of Montana into the One Big Union to end wage slavery and eventually end the capitalist system."[...]Meet Amanda Curtis. She's a gun control-supporting vlogger.
She's also the Democratic Senate nominee in Montana.
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GAO: Obuma Regime Broke The Law With Bergdahl Prisoner Swap
(Take a wild guess who doesn't give a sh!t if he broke the law?)
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Via Fox News:Congressional investigators say the Pentagon broke the law when it swapped five Guantanamo Bay detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.Bergdahl, who was released in May, was being held by the Taliban for five years. The non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the Pentagon failed to notify relevant congressional committees far enough in advance.
GAO also says that the financing of the swap breaks the Antideficiency Act, which is meant to keep agencies from spending more money than Congress has allowed.
After the transfer, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told lawmakers, "We made the right decision and we did it for the right reasons."
Second Best Story Of The Day
Life-sized Obama statue stolen from porch, later found with empty bottles
of alcohol and cigarette
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BEAR CREEK, PA — http://q13fox.com/2014/08/21/life-sized-obama-statue-stolen-from-porch-later-found-with-empty-bottles-of-alcohol-and-cigarette/
A life sized statue of President Obama was stolen off the front porch of a Pennsylvania woman's home earlier this week.
The statue has now turned up in a neighboring town sitting at a picnic table holding a nearly empty bottle of an alcoholic iced tea.
WNEP-TV first reported the statue missing Tuesday from the home of Tiffany Bruce of Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania.
Bruce told WNEP-TV when she first realized the 12-hundred dollar statue was gone she went into a panic.
"I couldn't breathe, and I had to go to the hospital," said Bruce
Bruce said she saved up for months to buy the statue.
Best Story Of The Day
Blue porch lights, Darren Wilson T-shirts part of
growing support for Ferguson officer
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(I can se it now..."Coming up on MSNBC, why do racists like blue porch lights?")
Via Yahoo News:https://news.yahoo.com/blue-porch-lights-darren-wilson-tshirts-mark-growing-support-for-ferguson-police-officer-223740049.html
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Porch lights — many of them illuminating blue — are being left on in St. Louis and across the country in a show of support for the Missouri police officer who shot and killed an unarmed young man 10 days ago."Walmart in Desoto, Mo was
OUT of blue bulbs," Brian Christopher commented on the Support Darren Wilson Facebook page. "I'll take this as a magnificent sign of support!"
"I put myself in that family's shoes," she said. "I would want to know that not everyone hated me for doing my job."
The 33-year-old woman, who has no ties to Wilson or the case, asked that Yahoo News not identify her by name due to the violence and hatred displayed in the St. Louis area since the 18-year-old's death.
Worst Story Of The Day.. (So Far)
Obama Had Sharpton Report Directly To Valerie Jarrett On Situation In Ferguson,
Acted As Their Go-Between With Brown Family
(Rather ironic the "post-racial" president's inner circle includes vile race pimp Al Sharpton)
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Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/al-sharpton-obama-race-110249_full.html#.U_dckc1vZ3V
A few days after 18-year-old Mike Brown was gunned down in Ferguson, Missouri, White House officials enlisted an unusual source for on-the-ground intelligence amid the chaos and tear gas: the Re
bel Al Sharpton, a fiery activist who became a household name by
provoking rather than pacifying.
[...]And the White House, as the crisis following Brown's death seemed to flare out of control, worked extensively behind the scenes to maximize The Rev's doing what he does, using him as both a source of information and a go-between.
After huddling with Brown's family and local community leaders, Sharpton connected directly with White House adviser and First Friend Valerie Jarrett, vacationing in her condo in the exclusive Oak Bluffs section of Martha's Vineyard, not far from where President Obama and his family were staying. Obama was "horrified" by the images he was seeing on TV, Jarrett told Sharpton, and proceeded to pepper him with questions as she collected information for the president: How bad was the violence? Was it being fueled by outside groups—and could Sharpton do anything to talk them down? What did the Brown family want the White House to do?
It was a heady consultation for Sharpton, who spent years on the outside dreaming of a place in the pantheon of the civil rights leaders he revered as a teenage street preacher in Brooklyn, and it's an irony lost on no one that his rise to White House adviser has come thanks to Barack Obama, whose restrained personal style couldn't be any more different from Sharpton's. If anything, the Ferguson crisis has underscored Sharpton's role as the national black leader Obama leans on most, a remarkable personal and political transformation for a man once regarded with suspicion and disdain by many in his own party. It's a status made all the more surprising given that Obama, America's first black president, ran on a platform of moving beyond the country's painful racial divisions while Sharpton is the man who once defined those divisions for many Americans.
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What brought them together, according to numerous sources I've spoken with about this over the years, is a shared commitment to racial justice, and a hardheaded pragmatism that has fueled their success. "He realized I wasn't as irrational or as crazy as people thought," Sharpton told me in an interview this week, and indeed Sharpton not only visits the White House frequently, he often texts or emails with senior Obama officials such as Jarrett and Attorney General Eric Holder, the first African American to hold that job and who, like Sharpton, views the Ferguson crisis as a pivotal one in Obama's presidency.
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Al Sharpton To Jesse Jackson On Eclipsing Him As Country's Top Race Baiter: "Deal With It"
(I'm a bigger scumbag, Jessie... deal with it.)
Via Mediaite:Rev. Al Sharpton sees himself as having surpassed Jesse Jackson as the face of modern civil rights battles and he's not afraid to say so.
"I think he's (Jackson) now realized that he's older now," Sharpton says in a new Politico profile. "And he realizes that I've come into my own and he's got to deal with it."
The profile looks at how Sharpton, an MSNBC host, transformed himself from local race agitator to a top player in politics and close adviser to the Obama White House. It homes in on Sharpton's role in Ferguson, MO, the city rocked by the police shooting of 18-year-old black man Michael Brown.
CNN Not Sure If We Should Call ISIS "Evil"...
But Again, "Maybe"
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(CNN) -- http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/22/opinion/dawes-isis-evil/index.htmlBy James Dawes
When most people look at ISIS, they see the incarnation of evil. Among its many horrific acts, the Islamic militant group beheaded American journalist James Foley and posted the video this week in retaliation for U.S. airstrikes in Iraq. The Pope typically protests violence, but he implied that he supports the use of military force to combat ISIS. Even al Qaeda says ISIS is too violent. Across the political spectrum, public officials and pundits have characterized them as "savages," a "cancer" and the "face of evil."
Is ISIS evil?
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The problem with that question is that the answer is as easy as it is useless. Yes, ISIS is evil and must be stopped. Saying so over and over again could very well make it harder to stop them.
James Dawes: There is only one good reason to denounce a group as evil -- because you plan to injure them, and calling them evil makes it psychologically easier to do so. "Evil" is the most powerful word we have to prepare ourselves to kill other people comfortably.
The flip side is that "evil" is also a word that stops us from thinking.
There is no point in trying to understand evil because it is, in the most typical phrasing, "inhuman," "senseless" or "beyond comprehension." It is a fool's quest to analyze the local realities and strategic imperatives of unthinking savages. There is something almost offensive about trying to understand such evil.
National Review's Jonah Goldberg tried to shame those who are trying to think seriously about ISIS. In a recent tweet, he mocked the attempt to understand ISIS in its social and political context, suggesting that we should focus instead on one fact: "They're evil. They do obviously evil things for evil ends."
(This is WHY I don't watch CNN anymore... the author of this piece, James Dawes, should be lying in the same ditch as those poor souls)
Joint Chiefs Chair: Open Borders And Immigration Issues
Make ISIL "Immediate Threat"
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(Martin Dempsey to get tongue lashing for telling truth in 3-2-1...)
(CNSNews.com ) – Gen. Martin Dempsey said at a Pentagon press briefing yesterday that "because of open borders and immigration issues," the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) an "immediate threat."
In the context of the ISIL threat, Dempsey said he had had conversations his European colleagues "about their southern flank." He did not specifically mention the U.S.-Mexico border, which is the southern flank of the United States.
A reporter asked Dempsey and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel: "Is it the calculation, though, that ISIL presents a 9/11 level threat to the United States?"
Read More...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/joint-chiefs-chair-open-borders-and-immigration-issues-make-isil
British Islamists Gloat Over Beheading Of James Foley
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Via Times of London:http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article4182593.ece
British jihadists gloated and cracked jokes as the news of James Foley's death spread yesterday.
Some posted in Arabic, others in English. All legitimised the brutal act as religiously ordained.
Abu Aminah, under the username of @ghazisami, tweeted: "My hopes and prayers in this whole James Foley fiasco goes to the mujahid executioner. May Allah keep him and his family safe."He used verses from the Koran and Hadiths to support the beheading. Indicating that he was British, he said of the knifeman: "Half of UK Pakis speak like that."
Abul Muthanna, a self-described "soldier of the Islamic State", described the British "brother" as a "lion". Tweeting under the username of @abulmuthanna313, he said: "They went on a mad one." He later wrote: "U can call our acts horrific but calling us cowards? Our men love death like u love life, they come at u with explosive belts #DeathSeekers". The writer is thought to be Nasser Muthana, 20, from Cardiff. His younger brother Aseel, 17, and their friend Reyaad Khan, 20, are among about 500 British jihadists believed to have fought alongside IS forces in Syria and Iraq. [...]
Abu Turaab al-Kanadi, a Canadian fighter with the username of @AlTuraabSVD, made light of the decapitation, saying it was "time to play soccer".
Another fighter calling himself Abu dhar al-muhajir tweeted: "We have heard that Roman blood is very delicious, and we have come here to enjoy it". He added: "Revenge is sweet."
Another man, tweeting under the name Life of a Mujahid, wrote: "Reason for American journalists or civilians being killed in response to American crimes against Muslims is, they haven't left us a choice. You have more technology doesn't mean you kill millions of innocents . . . An eye for an eye!"
Jesse Jackson Cornered by Angry Ferguson Protesters:
'When You Going to Stop Selling Us Out?'
Aug. 22, 2014 - By Erica Ritz
(Protesters peg him dead to rights...)
At least two protesters cornered Jesse Jackson at a McDonald's in Ferguson, Mo., tearing into him for what they saw as a lack of leadership after Michael Brown's death, according to video posted by Western Journalism.
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Jesse Jackson is berated by protesters in Ferguson, Missouri.
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"Hey, Jesse Jackson. How you doing? Are you here to support us?" one protester began, approaching Jackson's vehicle and recording the interaction.
"You've been marching all day long? We haven't seen you marching all day long," he said. "Are you going to pay the bond of those brothers that's been locked up?"
"Are you marching today with us, or are you just going to sit in the car?" the second protester demanded.
"We ain't seen you!" the first protester said. "When you going to stop selling us out, Jesse? We don't want you here in St. Louis! When you gonna stop selling us out, Jesse?"
Jackson remained quiet throughout most of the interaction, but at that point, his driver interjected: "Wait a minute, brother..."
"Ain't no, 'Wait a minute brother,'" the first protester retorted, growing increasingly irate. "This is real! We activists out here! ... You're not a leader. We don't want you here, brother. Matter of a fact, you're not even a brother. You can keep moving and get them brothers out of jail. That's what you can do!"
You can watch the complete clip via Western Journalism, below:http://www.westernjournalism.com/leader-black-protesters-ambushes-jesse-jackson-missouri/
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'A Subtle Message to ISIS' From a Ticked Off Military Veteran Should Send a Chill Down the Spine of Every Terrorist
A military veteran has penned a brutally scathing message to the Islamic State militants in the Middle East who are slaughtering innocent men, women, and children.
The powerful response from Nick Powers, identified as a Marine Corps veteran by one website, comes after terrorists beheaded American photojournalist James Foley and posted the propaganda video online for the world to see.
The main, undeniable point of his message to ISIS terrorists is this: You really don't want to pick a fight with America's veterans. (How about we Americans send this message to the criminals in Wash, DC as well? It is their NAZI regime,including the Bush cabal/Clintons/Soros et al who are financing ISIS on steroids, the replacement mercenaries for the former AlQaeda 'terrorists'.)
It's best to read his message in its entirety:(http://community.warplanes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/usmc.gif)
"As I sit here constantly hearing and watching you execute innocent men, women and children in the Middle East, I chuckle. Why do I chuckle you may ask? Well, let me explain something to you cowardice fools who think you are so tough behind all your propaganda videos. You are scaring a population that doesn't know how to fight. You're bullying the weak. (YEAH – and these bastards HIDE BEHIND ALL THE BLACK MUSLIM GARB - THEY HIDE - THEY ARE FULL OF FEAR THEMSELVES – WE ARE NOT TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THESE SCUM – WELL, TIME FOR THE MASKS TO BE BLOWN OFF.)(http://ts3.explicit.bing.net/th?id=HN.608003387520781905&pid=1.7)
You say Islam is the 'religion of peace', but since when does terrorizing the innocent and beheading men, women and children constitute peace? WTF? But keep in mind, what did Saddam's troops do when we came rolling into town? They surrendered, twice... So all your empty threats of coming to America and raising your flag over the White House amuse me more than any of you sick, sadistic bastards could ever imagine or comprehend.
In 2012 there was about 21.2 million veterans in the United States. Do you understand what that means? Let me break it down for you. That means there are literally millions of disgruntled, dysfunctional, pissed off veterans who have been dealing with years of abuse from their government stabbing them in the backs and having to watch their friends die because you Islamic extremist idiots can't seem to act like normal human beings and stop terrorism and the violence.
It's one thing to take over an Islamic state but, if my memory serves me correctly, I'm pretty sure we plowed through Fallujah in 4 days. Better yet, it took us about A month to control your entire country. At this point, with 13+ years of war under our belts, how long do you think it would take us to do it all over again? I'll let you draw your own conclusions on that one. Do you really think you stand a chance on US soil? Do you really think it would be smart to poke that bear? Remember, never bite the hand that feeds you.
Remember, we are armed to the teeth in the US and I can promise you this... the Geneva Conventions will not apply to you. You attack us and there will be no mercy. We will bring the righteous hand of God down upon you and crush you. The ball is in your court now ISIS. We are more than ready to arrange your so called "meeting" with your 72 virgins and send you to your "prophet" Mohamed."
– Nick Powershttp://www.warfighterfoundation.org/updates/warfighter-foundation-blog-featured-on-the-blaze/
Warph,
Those cowardly sons a bitches have no idea what they would be up against if they brought their fight here to the Mother Land. Lots of old vets, given the chance again, would like to check out in a blaze of glory---that is unless our CiC disarms us all before his brothers all get here. Personally, I would have to recruit Doc Larry to come here and pass out Darvons every day just to get me jump started
Amen
Quote from: jarhead on August 23, 2014, 07:50:23 AM
Warph,
Those cowardly sons a bitches have no idea what they would be up against if they brought their fight here to the Mother Land. Lots of old vets, given the chance again, would like to check out in a blaze of glory---that is unless our CiC disarms us all before his brothers all get here. Personally, I would have to recruit Doc Larry to come here and pass out Darvons every day just to get me jump started
Yes sir, Oops Yeah, Jarhead you got that right.
VietNam Could have been cleaned up in about a month if the Gov. would have let those 3,000 Special Forces Veterans, yes, there were some 3,000 civilians that volunteered to go back and do the job right. Politics stopped it from happening.
On our own soil, I don't believe any good veteran could be stopped by the government.
BORN LUCKYHi All
I won a Kenyan lottery according to an email from a Nigerian prince. He holds the sum of
ONE MILLION DOLLARS in my name and he wants to send it to me FREE!
All I have to do is give him my bank account numbers and send him $500.00 US dollars first, to show my good faith so he can transfer the money!
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And then I got ANOTHER email. It's from a KENYAN prince who wants to give me
FREE healthcare for life!
All I have to do is give him
My BANK ACCOUNT NUMBERS,
MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER
And MY CONFIDENTIAL HEALTH INFORMATION
So he can make it happen!
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(Absolutely outstanding work by Maureen Dowd of the NY Times.
Yes, a flying pig moment...)
The Gettysburg Golf Address
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FORE! Score? And seven trillion rounds ago, our forecaddies brought forth on this continent a new playground, conceived by Robert Trent Jones, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal when it comes to spending as much time on the links as possible — even when it seems totally inappropriate, like moments after making a solemn statement condemning the grisly murder of a 40-year-old American journalist beheaded by ISIL.
I know reporters didn't get a chance to ask questions, but I had to bounce. I had a 1 p.m. tee time at Vineyard Golf Club with Alonzo Mourning and a part-owner of the Boston Celtics. Hillary and I agreed when we partied with Vernon Jordan up here, hanging out with celebrities and rich folks is fun.
Now we are engaged in a great civil divide in Ferguson, which does not even have a golf course, and that's why I had a "logistical" issue with going there. We are testing whether that community, or any community so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure when the nation's leader wants nothing more than to sink a birdie putt.
We are met on a great field of that battle, not Augusta, not Pebble Beach, not Bethpage Black, not Burning Tree, but Farm Neck Golf Club in Martha's Vineyard, which we can't get enough of — me, Alonzo, Ray Allen and Marvin Nicholson, my trip director and favorite golfing partner who has played 134 rounds and counting with me.
We have to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for my presidency, if I keep swinging from behind.
Yet it is altogether fitting and proper that I should get to play as much golf as I want, despite all the lame jokes about how golf is turning into "a real handicap" for my presidency and how I have to "stay the course" with ISIL. I've heard all the carping that I should be in the Situation Room droning and plinking the bad folks. I know some people think I should go to Ferguson. Don't they understand that I've delegated the Martin Luther King Jr. thing to Eric Holder? Plus, Valerie Jarrett and Al Sharpton have it under control.
I know it doesn't look good to have pictures of me grinning in a golf cart juxtaposed with ones of James Foley's parents crying, and a distraught David Cameron rushing back from his vacation after only one day, and the Pentagon news conference with Chuck Hagel and General Dempsey on the failed mission to rescue the hostages in Syria.
We're stuck in the rough, going to war all over again in Iraq and maybe striking Syria, too. Every time Chuck says ISIL is "beyond anything we've ever seen," I sprout seven more gray hairs. But my cool golf caps cover them. If only I could just play through the rest of my presidency.
ISIL brutally killing hostages because we won't pay ransoms, rumbles of coups with our puppets in Iraq and Afghanistan, the racial caldron in Ferguson, the Ebola outbreak, the Putin freakout — there's enough awful stuff going on to give anyone the yips.
So how can you blame me for wanting to unwind on the course or for five hours at dinner with my former assistant chef? He's a great organic cook, and he's got a gluten-free backyard putting green.
But, in a larger sense, we can dedicate, we can consecrate, we can hallow this ground where I can get away from my wife, my mother-in-law, Uncle Joe, Congress and all the other hazards in my life.
The brave foursomes, living and dead, who struggled here in the sand, in the trees, in the water, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or subtract a few strokes to improve our score. Bill Clinton was Mr. Mulligan, and he is twice as popular as I am.
The world will little note, nor long remember, what we shot here, or why I haven't invited a bunch of tiresome congressmen to tee it up. I'm trying to relax, guys. So I'd much rather stay in the bunker with my usual bros.
Why don't you play 18 with Mitch McConnell? And John Boehner is a lot better than me, so I don't want to play with him.
It is for us, the duffers, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who played here have thus far so nobly advanced to get young folks to stop spurning a game they find slow and boring.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us of getting rid of our slice on the public's dime — that from this honored green we take increased devotion to that cause for which Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy gave their last full measure of devotion — and divots.
We here highly resolve that these golfing greats shall not have competed in vain, especially poor Tiger, and that this nation, under par, shall have a new birth of freedom to play the game that I have become unnaturally obsessed with, and that golf of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
So help me Golf.
....By Maureen Dowd of the NY Times.http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-the-golf-address.html?_r=1
>:(Obuma White House To Send Representation To The Bully Clowns Funeral) >:
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(Need we remind you that there was no White House representation at the funeral of Major General Greene, the highest ranking officer murdered in Afghanistan? There were no current members of the Obama White House sent to the funeral of Margaret Thatcher either
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EDGARTOWN, Mass. – (POS)President Barack Obama is sending three White House officials to the funeral service of the Missouri teenager whose death in a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, has sparked days of racial unrest.
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Leading the group for Monday's service will be the chairman of the My Brother's Keeper Task Force, Broderick Johnson. My Brother's Keeper is an Obama initiative that aims to empower young minorities. Johnson is also the secretary for the Cabinet.
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Also attending will be the deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, Marlon Marshall, and an adviser for the office, Heather Foster.
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The White House says Marshall is a St. Louis native and attended high school with Brown's mother.
How Muslims Think
By Dr. Arieh Eldad an M.D. at Hadassah Hospital in Israel
A true story of gratitude! I was instrumental in establishing the "Israeli National Skin Bank", which is the largest in the world. The National Skin Bank stores skin for every day needs as well as for war time or mass casualty situations.
This skin bank is hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the Chairman of plastic surgery.
This is how I was asked to supply skin for an Arab woman from Gaza, who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, after her family burned her. Usually, such atrocities happen among Arab families when the women are suspected of having an affair.
We supplied all the needed Homografts for her treatment. She was successfully treated by my friend and colleague, Prof. Lior Rosenberg and discharged to return to Gaza.
She was invited for regular follow-up visits to the outpatient clinic in Beersheva.
One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt. She meant to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life. It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her.
This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel. It is not a territorial conflict. This is a civilization conflict, or rather a war between civilization & barbarism.
Bibi (Netanyahu) gets it, Obama does not.
I have never written before asking everyone to please forward onwards so that as many as possible can understand radical Islam and what awaits the world if it is not stopped.
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"I woke up this morning and the whole world was backwards. Right is now wrong... illegal immigration is an act of love... self-defense is not permitted... the rich are evil... God is banned... the government of the people is out to get the people... the truth is forbidden... the ignorant are in charge of the intelligent... communism is good... robbery is overlooked... free speech is regulated money is evil."
"Illegal aliens have more rights and benefits than American citizens... personal property is fair game because it was not earned... it was stolen from the lazy and uneducated... living and breathing causes the earth to go into global warming Armageddon... criminal enemies and jihadis are welcomed with open arms through the southern border with a Club Med socialist red carpet to speed up our demise... sovereignty is selfish and passé... speaking English is offensive to invading ethnic groups, we are now global citizens... the flag, the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance are racist... our culture and Christianity are insulting to primitive cultures who should have stayed in the hell hole they came from if they are offended... and being American is shameful and socially unjust." (http://img.desmotivaciones.es/201010/wtf_71.jpg)
"Somebody wake me up, this must be a nightmare."
Unfortunately it is the "new norm." We are brainwashed to this "new norm" every day through manufactured crisis after manufactured crisis. The low information voters are convinced that our economy is booming, we don't have almost 100 million Americans out of work, there are no discouraged workers, unemployment went down below six percent, and life could not be better as long as the welfare checks keep rolling in. Would the cash cow not run out of money eventually, even printing them ad nauseam?
Data from the U.S. Treasury show that "Social Security retirement and disability programs have dedicated resources sufficient to cover benefits for the next 19 years, until 2033. However, the projected depletion date for the Separate Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund is only two years away, in late 2016." Because in 2016 "dedicated revenues are projected to be depleted and will only cover 80 percent of scheduled benefit payments," the report recommends that "legislation will be needed to address this financial imbalance."
At the end of 2013 11 million people were receiving DI payments. The number of people receiving DI benefits grew by 0.9 percent. This growth increase reflects the gradual aging of the population as well as increases in the insured population. (pp. 35-36)
According to the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA), an employer must withhold three separate taxes from employee wages:
■6.2 percent Social Security tax
■1.45 percent Medicare tax
■0.9 percent Medicare surtax for employees earning over $200,000 (began in 2013)
The FICA law requires employers to match the 6.2 percent Social Security tax, the 1.45 percent Medicare tax, but not the 0.9 Medicare surtax.
Social Security Disability Insurance protects more than 160 million American workers with an average benefit of $1,146 per month (May 2014), slightly above the 2014 federal poverty line for an individual of $972. "For more than 80 percent of beneficiaries, Disability Insurance is their main source of income. For one-third, it is their only source of income."
Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew testified before Congress in August 2014, proposing a change in Social Security funding. From the 6.3 percent contribution, 9/10 of one percent goes to the disability insurance fund which is so tapped that will allegedly be insolvent by mid-2016. Secretary Lew wants to shift a couple of tens of one percent from the Social Security fund to the disability fund.
According to Dick Morris, the disability insurance (DI) fund is stressed by the extra 20 percent increase in disability recipients. Why is there such a sudden increase of disabled people under this administration when the U.S. population grew by only 4 points "since Obama became president?" Morris explained that this growth is attributed to "shaky diagnoses that are highly subjective such as back pain, psychological conditions, migraines, and not from serious diseases such as cancer, heart disease, or diabetes." He is of the opinion that funding such subjective claims by "stripping money from Social Security is a horrible decision."
Social Security's establishment 80 years ago was necessary to "ensure the security of the men, women and children of the nation against the hazards and vicissitudes of life." It is those who take advantage of the system dishonestly who can actually work but choose not to, and illegal aliens who draw benefits that are problematic.
Mexico Has Deported 93% Of The Illegal Immigrant Minors Detained
At Its Border And 64K Of The 69K Illegal Adults
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(Same Mexico that chastises America for deporting illegals)
Via BuzzFeed:http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/mexico-has-deported-93-of-the-unaccompanied-minors-detained#1tsma43
Mexican officials have deported more than 13,000 of the 14,000 undocumented, unaccompanied minors who have been caught at Mexico's southern border, a rate significantly higher than in the United States, according to government sources familiar with the situation.
Additionally, Mexican authorities have deported more than 64,000 of the estimated 69,000 adults that have been detained along their southern border this year.
Those numbers stand in stark contrast to the deportation of minor immigrants from the United States: None of the more than 60,000 Central American minors detained this year have been deported.
According to a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, those minors — who are estimated to total as many as 90,000 by year's end — must first make their way through the legal system, which has seen significant backlogs, because they qualify to apply for asylum status.
POS Obuma Sends No Representative To Memorial Mass For James Foley,
Sent Three WH Aides To Michael Brown Funeral
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Via CNS News:President Barack Obama sent no White House representative to the memorial Mass held yesterday in Rochester, New Hampshire, for James Foley, the American journalist beheaded by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) terrorists.
President Obama, however, did send three White House aides to Monday's funeral for Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American fatally shot in an encounter with a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
The memorial mass for James Foley took place Sunday at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Foley's hometown. Connie Hammond, an administrative assistant at Holy Rosary, told CNSNews.com that
no White House officials were in attendance.
"There was nobody that represented the White House," Hammond said, adding that all of the dignitaries in attendance called ahead except for one and that all of them sat together.
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The use of the word 'Bullet' is offensive to sensitive ears!
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There are days when one has to be at the end of their rope when it comes to being politically correct...this is one of them! This is such inane insanity one has to almost laugh at the absurdity of it all...after-all, we all need some humor these days. The example I'm speaking of below will make you angry at first, but when you stop and think about it all...you have to snicker at the fools that surround us that make it so. In the long run of things that really matter, they are creating their own demise... it will take time, but it will take place eventually.
Anyway folks, enough of my rambling on... here's the gist of the story:The University of Mary Washington has changed the name of its campus newspaper, founded in 1922, because of political correctness.The Fredericksburg, Va., school changed The Bullet to The Blue & Gray Press because the old name "propagated violence," according to a press release.The editorial board felt that the paper's name, which alludes to ammunition for an artillery weapon, propagated violence and did not honor our school's history in a sensitive manner. The board intends to remain faithful to the history our university stands upon, and we continue to honor this history both in a respectful and meaningful way.Well, not exactly. Artillery fires shells, guns fire bullets. Still, Editor-in-Chief Alison Thoet told Campus Reform that the university was interested in something more "updated" and "more representative" of its home city. The board picked The Blue & Gray Press because of the history of Civil War battles fought in the area, as well as the school's colors. However, as Campus Reform points out, Thoet told them,
"In this day and age, no one really cares about the Civil War. We wanted something that was updated." Um, OK.
After media outlets such as Campus Reform and backlash from alumni, the editorial board of the paper slightly redacted its reasoning in an updated open letter.
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On August 18, the University of Mary Washington student newspaper announced a revamping, which included the announcement of a new name, The Blue & Gray Press. Since that date, the announcement has been interpreted in some media circles in a manner that misrepresents our decision and intention.
We, as the editorial board, would like to emphasize that the main reasoning behind changing the name was to better connect the newspaper with the student body. As it stood, the previous name of the publication did not have a direct connection to the school community. Therefore, it did not reflect the university it served in the way college newspapers, and all school organizations, should.
The editorial board has no intention of disrespecting the history upon which our school rests. We specifically chose a new name that represents the spirit of the school and acknowledges the history of UMW and Fredericksburg's region. The name Blue & Gray Press, which incorporates our school colors, respectfully presents a powerful image of school spirit, with a nod toward local history.
The Bullet, a name related to the word 'bulletin' and the phrase 'news as fast as a bullet,' had become dated and no longer represented adequately the student body nor the university. Blue and Gray symbolize both the community's history and our school's spirit. By choosing The Blue & Gray Press as our name we are connecting the past with the present to honor both our beautiful city's history and our student body's pride in an identifiable and meaningful way.
The Blue & Gray Press is a symbol of the school it serves and the locale in which it publishes. The name expresses our desire to be an even greater part of both communities in our shared future.The letter goes on to promise "to continue in the tradition of fair and honest journalism" that has been a staple of The Bullet for almost a century, as one commenter pointed out. Another said:
I was a proud member of the class of '88. A bit less proud now. Shame on you. Error and hypocrisy. Abandon history for political correctness stating reasons which are wrong to begin with.
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#Stand for America – #Stand Proud: Like it or leave it!
...operators standing by!
And to think, these are voters in America. – God help us all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGdc0IfF6rg
BACON – TASTY, NUTRITIOUS, AND PISSES OFF MUSLIMS!
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A Muslim women, no doubt dressed in a black garbage bag, recently complained that a sign advertising bacon in a local restaurant OFFENDED her. Being in comm-a-nist Vermont, the restaurant took down the sign. I'd have told her to cram a half pound of bacon sideways up her Muslim you-know-what! As such, I'm changing my name today to ANGRY BACON-EATING SUMBITCH' WARPH.
If bacon is Kryptonite to Muslims, I'm going to start strapping it to my clothes. You'd think, as a Muslim filly, she'd be more concerned with getting her tingly parts snipped off by her Imam or being buried in a pit and eating a steady diet of rocks for a few minutes. But no, it's the American staple of any nutritious breakfast that offends her! Nobody, NOBODY, will come between ME and his bacon!
Well, there are two things in this world I don't care about. And both of them are what offends savage Muslims! So here you go, Aisha! I suggest you go bobbing for bacon. Several times!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7_u5YQ0aQw
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....ANGRY BACON-EATING SUMBITCH' WARPH
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(Uh-oh and oopsie... not politically correct! You've got to know liberals across this land have got to despise this festival taking place in Ohio, let alone the advertisement itself! Can't you just hear their teeth gnashing now... Hhhhmmmmmm?
You should read more about this situation here. Hope you get a kick out of what's written too)
http://clashdaily.com/2014/07/boo-frickin-hoo-liberals-flipping-straight-white-guy-festival/
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Academic Org Lets Members Choose Any Of Six Genders
(Liberals love this PC nonsense almost as much as how we love to laugh at them for it.)
The American Sociological Association, the leading professional organization for American sociologists, is now granting its members much greater leeway in how to define their gender identities. :o ::) :P
Previously, the ASA's membership surveys only allowed three choices of gender: "male," "female" and "prefer not to answer."
Now, as reported at Inside Higher Ed... https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/08/27/sociology-association-picks-gender-categories
...members will have no fewer than seven options for their gender choice, with the added ability to select "all that apply." The added options include "transgender male/transgender man," "transgender female/transgender woman," "genderqueer/gender non-conforming," or another "preferred identity" of their choice not explicitly named.
"Genderqueer" is defined by the Gender Equity Resource Center at the University of California-Berkeley as "A person whose gender identity is neither man nor woman, is between or beyond genders, or is some combination of genders."
The new gender choices are the end product of over a year of debate on how to expand the sociological community's gender options. In the second half of 2013, the organization planned to add categories for transgender individuals as well as an "Other" option. However, some members objected that being designated as an "other" marginalized them. Some advocated for the gender category being free-form, with members filling out a blank space however they desired.
The new gender options will not immediately come into effect, but are expected to be in place by the 2016 ASA membership year.
Black On Black Killing: Unarmed 13 Year Old Shot To Death In Georgia
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(Looks like Obuma needs to appoint a Urban Youth Czar)
Via WSBTVhttp://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/four-people-arrested-shooting-death-13-year-old/ng9G8/
Four people are now under arrest in connection with the shooting death of a Carrollton teenager.
Police say 13-year old Nizzear Rodriguez was shot to death in his grandmother's townhome while he was sleeping in his bed.
Investigators arrested 17-year old Malik Davis just hours after the murder. He made his first appearance in Magistrate Court Tuesday afternoon on murder, burglary, home invasion and weapons charges.
Police arrested three more people Tuesday afternoon. Kenneth Wheat, 21, is charged with murder and burglary. Jackquline Leann Freeman, 24, is charged with murder as well. Police think she was the getaway car driver. They charged a fourth person, Oleida Ward, 34, with making false statements during the investigation.
Police would not comment on a possible motive, but Rodriguez's family believes Davis and Wheat broke into the home to rob it.
In court, a magistrate judge stated police believe Davis stole a PlayStation out of the home.
Rodriguez celebrated his 13th birthday hours earlier, and Osorio said his grandmother was planning to take him to buy new shoes the day they discovered his body lying in bed.
British ISIS Fighter: "I Would Be 'Honored' To Behead A Western Hostage,
My Hands Are Ready For This Blessed Act"
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(Two very sick psyco-bastards)
Via Telegraph:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11060146/British-jihadist-boasts-that-he-would-be-honoured-to-behead-a-Western-hostage.html
Two British jihadists fighting with Islamic State forces in Syria have praised the beheading of James Foley and threatened to bring their murderous campaign back to the West.
The masked men, only their eyes visible and using the names Abu Anwar and Amu Bakr, delivered their chilling boasts via a computer video link-up with CNN.
Asked if he would be ready in the killing of a Western captive, Anwar said: "I would be more than honoured to partake in an execution like this.
"I hope God gives me the chance to do such a thing as the brother did with James Foley. Whether it be on someone like James Foley, or a soldier of Bashar [the Syrian dictator] or a soldier of America, my hands are ready to do this blessed act."He called killing of the American journalist a "direct and justified response to the crimes of the United States against the Islamic State".
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IQ scores are decreasing - and some experts argue it's because humans have reached their intellectual peak
•IQs have largely increased since the 1930s thanks to better living conditions and education - a trend known as the Flynn effect
•But IQ test results suggest people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have become less intelligent in the past decade
•Opinion is divided as to whether the downwards trend is long-term
•Some studies have shown the average IQ of Westerners has plunged 10 points or more since Victorian times and others claim it will keep decreasing
•But other experts argue that even if we are becoming more stupid, better healthcare and technology means the 'problem' will regulate itselfAre people dumber than they used to be? [Take the 8th Grade Test from 1912 at the end of this article. Bet you'll FLUNK it!] Were previous generations mentally sharper than us? You may have suspected that people are getting stupider for quite some time, but now we actually have scientific evidence that this is the case. As you will read about below, average IQs are dropping all over the globe, SAT scores in the U.S. have been declining for decades, and scientists have even discovered that our brains have been getting smaller over time. So if it seems on some days like you woke up in the middle of the movie "Idiocracy", you might not be too far off. Much of the stuff that they put in our junk food is not good for brain development, our education system is a total joke and most Americans are absolutely addicted to mindless entertainment. Fortunately we have a lot of technology that does much of our thinking for us these days, because if we had to depend on our own mental capabilities most of us would be in a tremendous amount of trouble.
Sadly, this appears to be a phenomenon that is happening all over the planet. As a recent Daily Mail article explained, IQ scores are falling in country after country...Richard Lynn, a psychologist at the University of Ulster, calculated the decline in humans' genetic potential.
He used data on average IQs around the world in 1950 and 2000 to discover that our collective intelligence has dropped by one IQ point.
Dr Lynn predicts that if this trend continues, we could lose another 1.3 IQ points by 2050.One IQ point does not sound like a lot, but when you go back even further in time the declines become a lot more dramatic. For example, a psychology professor at the University of Amsterdam named Jan te Nijenhuis has calculated that we have lost a total of 14 IQ points on average since the Victorian Era.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-STUPID-Britons-people-IQ-decline.html
And we don't need a professor to tell us that this is true. Just go back and read some of the literature from that time period. Much of it is written at such a high level that I can barely even understand it.
There is other evidence that people are getting stupider as well.
For instance, SAT scores in the United States have fallen significantly in recent years...http://www.collegenews.com/article/sat_scores_continue_their_downward_spiralThere appears to be a disturbing trend in American high schools. If we judge the quality of education by the scores that students get on their SATs, then it appears that things are getting worse. Since 2006, the overall average SAT score has fallen by 20 points, dropping from 1518 to 1498 in 2012. Scores are also down in each of the three categories tested, with reading dropping 9 points, mathematics dropping 4 points, and writing falling 9 points. It's a fair bet that students aren't becoming less intelligent, so exactly what is going on?And this decline in SAT scores is not just limited to the past few years. As the following chart from Zero Hedge demonstrates,
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Dumb and dumber? Evidence suggests the IQs of people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have declined in the last decade. A study by the University of Hartford claims the larger the global population becomes, the less intelligent we will be, dropping by around eight IQ points by the year 2110 - and other estimates are even more pessimistic
There are even some scientists that are convinced that this decline in the mental ability of humans goes back for thousands of years. Some blame genetic mutations for this decline, and others point to the fact that our brains have been getting smaller. For example, just check out what one study conducted at Cambridge University concluded...
An earlier study by Cambridge University found that mankind is shrinking in size significantly.
Experts say humans are past their peak and that modern-day people are 10 percent smaller and shorter than their hunter-gatherer ancestors.
And if that's not depressing enough, our brains are also smaller.
The findings reverse perceived wisdom that humans have grown taller and larger, a belief which has grown from data on more recent physical development.
The decline, said scientists, has happened over the past 10,000 years. They blame agriculture, with restricted diets and urbanization compromising health and leading to the spread of disease.Most of us today just assume that people are smarter than they ever have been before.
Most of us today look down on our ancestors and mock them for being so primitive.
But the truth is that if we had to go up head to head against them in mental challenges, we might find ourselves greatly humbled.
At the end of this article, I have posted an eighth grade exam from 1912 that was donated to the Bullitt County History Museum in Kentucky.
As you can see, it is far more difficult than anything that eighth grade students have to do today. In fact, most eighth grade students today are doing pretty good if they can point out the United States on a map of the world and can string a few sentences together.
I should know – for a short period of time I once taught eighth grade students.
So when I first came across the exam posted below, I was amazed at how difficult it was.
Could you pass such an exam?
I don't know if I could.
But these are the kinds of questions that eighth grade students were expected to be able to answer back in 1912...-Through which waters would a vessel pass in going from England through the Suez Canal to Manila?
-How does the liver compare in size with other glands in the human body?
-How long of a rope is required to reach from the top of a building 40 feet high to the ground 30 feet from the base of a building?
-Compare arteries and veins as to function. Where is the blood carried to be purified?
-During which wars were the following battles fought: Brandywine, Great Meadows, Lundy's Lane, Antietam, Buena Vista?A full copy of the exam is posted below. Please notice the absence of multiple choice questions where a student can guess by circling an answer. In the old days, kids were actually expected to be able to think and to be able to write...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Eighth-Grade-Exam.jpg)
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Video: U.S. Airstrike Takes Out Truck Full Of ISIS Fighters
(BINGO... their jihad just came to an abrupt end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSBOu2O0zXs
Dems Apocalyptic: We're Begging, We Begged, All Hope Is Lost, We've Got Nothing Left
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Drew: But I can't shake the feeling this might be just a fundraising ploy.
Mexico Operations Thwart Child, Family Illegal Aliens
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Central American migrants sleep atop a moving freight train as it heads north from Arriaga toward Chahuites, Mexico
(Mexican government doing the job that the ObuttHead government won't)
Via Stars and Stripeshttp://www.stripes.com/news/americas/mexico-operations-thwart-child-family-migrants-1.300572Mexico's largest crackdown in decades on illegal migration has decreased the flow of Central Americans trying to reach the United States, and has dramatically cut the number of child migrants and families, according to officials and eyewitness accounts along the perilous route.
Convoys of Mexican federal police and immigration service employees in southern Mexico have begun scouring the tracks of the infamous freight train known as "La Bestia," or The Beast, hauling migrants from the rail cars and sending them to deportation centers. They have also set up moving roadblocks, checking the documents of passengers on interstate buses.
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Some of the Central American men say that instead of trying to cross into the United States they'll now stay and look for work in Mexico. Many families have apparently decided not to attempt the journey through Mexico at all since news of the raids and checkpoints — combined with stepped up efforts in the U.S. and among Central American governments — reached their communities, said Carlos Solis, the manager of a shelter in Arriaga.
He said the city, once bustling with migrants waiting to board the train, emptied out almost overnight.
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Massive 60% Stock Market Correction Coming:
"Period Of Extreme Turmoil"
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The confidence game is almost up, warns Prudent Bear Fund President David Tice. And when the economic recovery and stock market build-up is finally revealed for the conjecture that it really is we'll have a sell-off of unprecedented proportions.
Markets could soon face a fall of up to 60 percent, two experts told CNBC on Wednesday: A jolt to international confidence in central banks will lead to a 30 to 60 percent market decline, David Tice, president of Tice Capital and founder of the Prudent Bear Fund, told CNBC's "Power Lunch." When this happens, he said, markets will face a "period of extreme turmoil."
This crash will be precipitated, he said, by a disillusionment with the Federal Reserve's "confidence game," which will then see inflation rise, and the Fed scramble to raise rates. At that point, Tice added, "the Fed starts to lose control." (CNBC) http://www.cnbc.com/id/101950613
Buckle up, because there is no stopping what is coming. The signs for an impending catastrophe can no longer be ignored. http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/the-impending-catastrophe-its-not-difficult-to-see-this-coming_08272014
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What happens next is anyone's guess, but given the seriousness of the crisis in 2008, we should expect the entire bottom to fall out of not only stock markets, but the economy and the U.S. dollar, as well.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/us-dollar-death-bed/
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It was so bad in 2008, in fact, that then-Secretary Henry Paulson claimed we were on the brink and even wrote a book about it.
According to Representative Brad Sherman, Congressional members were approached at the time and told to brace for a complete collapse of our financial system, to the point that tanks would have to be deployed on the streets of America if Congress failed to authorize the multi-trillion dollar bank bailout.
Many of us were told in private conversations that if we voted against this bill on Monday, that the sky would fall, the market would drop two or three thousands points the first day, another couple thousand the second day, and a few members were even told that there would be martial law in America if we voted no. House Representative Brad Sherman (D-California)
Debate on the House Floor, October 2, 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq7GVje4kz0Since then, our federal government and military have had time to prepare. They weren't ready for it then, but they are now, after having spent tens of billions of dollars on everything from ammunition and armored vehicles, to collapse war game simulations and hybridizing national law enforcement with federal agencies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1B_hGSo46w#t=15
Moreover, new directives and field manuals have authorized the military to engage civilians to quell large-scale unexpected civil disturbances to the point that soldiers are legally allowed to fire upon and kill unarmed American citizens if government finds it necessary to stabilize the situation.
The primary scenarios outlined in government war games revolve around economic collapse, food riots, widespread civil disturbance and a complete breakdown of law and order.
Are you prepared for it? Catastrophe is on the horizon.
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"DIVORCE"
Since we are not going to cut back to $1.50 per gallon and coffee to $2.00per pound maybe; this would be a solution we could live with.
DIVORCE AGREEMENT -- This is so incredibly well-put, and I can hardly believe it's by a young person, a student!! Whatever he runs for, I'll vote for him!
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, regressive, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a model separation agreement:
1. Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sid es can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides had such distinct and disparate tastes.
2. We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
3. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
4. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
5. We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
6. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them.
7. We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
8. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
9. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and Rednecks.
10. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood ..
11. You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
12. You can have the peace-niks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
13. We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
14. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLain. You can also have the U.N., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
15. We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.
16. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors..
17. We'll continue to believe healthcare is an earned luxury and not a right.
18. We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthe m."
19. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya," or "We Are the World".
20. We'll practice trickledown economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.
21. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our constitution and our flag.
22. Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S.: Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, and Jane Fonda with you.
P.S.S..: And you won't have to "Press 1 for English" when you call our country.
Funniest Bumper Sticker We've Seen in Some Time...
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We've all seen bumper stickers on cars of parents that sing the praises of their children's success in school. But, this sticker brilliantly sends the message that, despite Americans being told over and over again how brilliant Barack Obama is, he is actually not smarter than a 5th grader.
In fact, according to this parent, not only is Obama not smarter than a 5th grader, he's an idiot.
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Some may say that Obama is not an idiot, that he is a calculated conniver who is intentionally and systematically destroying our republic and the very fiber upon which it was built. One thing's for sure, idiot or not, he is a danger to America.
Obuma: If I Worked For A Living "Busting My Butt... I'd Join A Union"
(So he'd have to bust his butt less?)
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MILWAUKEE (CBSDC/AP) — President Barack Obama says he'll press Congress to raise the minimum wage in the same way he courted his wife — never taking no for an answer.
Obama brought a buoyant Labor Day message to Wisconsin, telling union members on Monday that he sees, quote, "engines are revving a little louder" in an economy coming back from a near-depression five years ago.
Now, he says, quote, "America deserves a raise." He promises his administration will keep pushing for one.
Obama told the crowd that he would join a union if he was working in the service industry.
"If I were busting my butt in the service industry and wanted an honest day's pay for an honest day's work, I'd join a union," Obama said
U.N. Sends Top Sternly Worded Letter
Writing Unit To Take Out ISIS In Iraq
(Is this some kind of JOKE... "to report back by March 2015??")
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(Reuters) – The United Nations agreed on Monday to send investigators to Iraq to examine crimes being committed by Islamic State militants on "an unimaginable scale", with a view to holding perpetrators to account.
"We are facing a terrorist monster," Iraq's human rights minister, Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani, told the U.N. Human Rights Council which adopted a resolution tabled by Iraq and France at an emergency sitting of the 47-member state forum in Geneva.
The Council aims to send 11 investigators, with a total budget of $1.18 million, to report back by March 2015.slamic State, which declared a "caliphate" in June in parts of Iraq and Syria under its control, has been cited as a major security threat by Western governments since posting a video in August of the beheading of U.S journalist James Foley.
The Sunni militants have driven more than 1.2 million people from their homes this year, the United Nations says. At least 1,420 people were killed in sectarian violence in Iraq in August alone, U.N. figures showed on Monday.
U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri said there was "strong evidence" Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and allied groups had carried out targeted killings, forced conversions, sexual abuse and torture in Iraq.
"The reports we have received reveal acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale," she said.
Fidel Castro Claims Israel's Mossad Secretly Behind ISIS
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(Nice try, Jews... you're not fooling Fidel)
Via Times of Israel:http://www.timesofisrael.com/fidel-castro-says-mossad-behind-islamic-state/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Cuban ex-president Fidel Castro lashed out at Israel, the United States and Europe on Monday, saying Israel's Mossad intelligence agency was behind the radical Islamic State group and comparing NATO military representatives to the Nazi SS.
In a column published in Cuban state media, the father of the island's communist revolution also attacked US Senator John McCain over United States policy in the Middle East, calling him "Israel's most unconditional ally."
"The world has seen no respite in recent years, particularly since the European Economic Community, under the strict and unconditional leadership of the United States, decided the time had come to settle scores with what was left of two great nations (Russia and China) that...had carried out the heroic deed of putting an end to the imperialist colonial order imposed on the world by Europe and the United States," said the 88 year old leader.
He accused the West of "cynicism" and said the trait had become "a symbol of imperialist policy."
He singled out McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, saying he had supported Israel's Mossad and "participated together with that service in the creation of the Islamic State, which today controls a considerable and vital portion of Iraq and reportedly one-third of Syria as well."
Filipino Force Defied UN Commander In Golan Crisis
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(We know which side the UN is on, DON'T WE)
Via Stars and Stripes http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/filipino-force-defied-un-commander-in-golan-crisis-1.300930#
The Philippine military said Monday that a U.N. peacekeeping commander in the Golan Heights should be investigated for allegedly asking Filipino troops to surrender to Syrian rebels who had attacked and surrounded their camp.
Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang said he advised the 40 Filipino peacekeepers not to lay down their arms, and they defied the U.N. peacekeeping commander's order. Instead, they staged a daring escape from the Golan camp over the weekend, ending a tense, dayslong standoff.
The disagreement is another blow to a U.N. peacekeeping mission that has been threatened by an escalation of violence in a buffer zone it has been guarding between Israel and Syria. A number of countries have withdrawn their troops from the peacekeeping force due to rising rebel attacks.
Forty-five Fijian peacekeepers who surrendered their firearms to the rebels last week are still being held by the al-Qaida-linked insurgents.
The commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, or UNDOF, which supervises the peacekeeping mission in Golan, was overseeing talks with the Syrian rebels to secure the freedom of the Fijians. However, Catapang said he would not agree to any resolution of the hostage crisis that would put Filipino troops in grave danger.
When the besieged Filipino troops sought his advice after they were ordered to lay down their arms as part of an arrangement with the rebels to secure the Fijians' release, Catapang said he asked them to defy the order.
"I told them not to follow the order because that is a violation of our regulation, that we do not surrender our firearms, and, at the same time, there is no assurance that you will be safe after you give your firearms," Catapang said.
3 Dead, 33 Injured In Labor Day Weekend Violence In Chicago
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(Obuma's Chicago...)
Via Breitbart:Between Friday and Sunday night as the long Labor Day weekend began, three people were killed and 33 wounded — and the weekend still has one more day to go, since Labor Day falls on Monday this year.
The long weekend began with a flurry of shootings, 11 in all, on Friday night.
The weekend's first homicide also happened Friday in the city's Back Of The Yards near south side neighborhood when at 10:45 PM police found a 36-year-old man lying on a sidewalk — shot dead.
Less than five hours later, a 43-year-old man was shot and killed farther south.
By late Sunday night, a third man was shot and killed on the 7400 bock of North Ridge Avenue.
Some 33 others were wounded around the city during a 48-hour period. Most shootings happened near the south and south side of the city.
Chicago is still reeling over the death of nine-year-old Antonio Smith, a boy was shot six times near his apartment complex on August 21.
With the never-ending death toll mounting by the week, Little Antonio's mother said this weekend that she is "praying for the whole city right now."
89 Year Old Vet Fights Off And Shoots Robber
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http://defund.com/career-criminal-attacks-frail-89-year-old-man-gets-shot-6-times/#!
Arthur Lewis is a serious bad ass. A decorated World War II vet, not only did he manage to fight off a much younger man, but he plugged him multiple times. His girlfriend, Vivien Bresnahan, 54, says she doesn't understand why anyone would think Arthur was frail, noting that he was the farthest thing from frail. No kidding, as the 54 year old girlfriend might indicate...
Here's a picture of the perpetrator, Lennard Patrick Jervis, 43. He is a career criminal, having been arrested over 20 times in Florida since 1989.
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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/89-year-old-lake-park-jeweler-stands-grounds-shoot/ng8cx/
MUSLIM HOSPITALITY IN LONDON -- A SCARY VIDEO LIKE THIS COULD BE COMING TO A STREET NEAR YOU?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP6U6Hhy_2M
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Radio commentator Paul Harvey's prophetic warning to America from 1965...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwahotPj3XU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=n0FF13u13WE
Another history lesson from Paul.
Quote from: Bullwinkle on September 02, 2014, 08:47:16 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=n0FF13u13WE
Another history lesson from Paul.
Like the Romans before, Americans will soon discover "the rest of the story".... a very sad story. My heart yearns for the American goodness embodied by Paul Harvey's work. It's this American goodness that the Left wishes to write out of history... .
Certainly, God gave him his ability to understand and uniquely covey his observations. If that's what a Prophet is, then Paul Harvey indeed reaches that mantle in this tiny snippet from what is a massive body of work. I would think it's safe to say that these words are more poignant today than when first broadcast and have been heard by millions more today than that in it's original form.
I pray that the generation that grew up listening take his words to heart, and bridge the message to those younger. Paul Harvey knew, in his soul, the correctness of what he was saying. ...Warph
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Parents of Slain Navy SEAL to Obama: Leave the White House
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
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The parents of a U.S. Navy SEAL killed in action in 2011 took on President Obama in a scathing letter that demanded he resign from office. Billy and Karen Vaughn have spoken out in the past following the helicopter crash that killed their son along with 29 other Americans and eight Afghans
The Vaughns have called out the Pentagon and the Obama administration in recent years, repeatedly demanding answers from officials about the circumstances surrounding the crash.
Here's a portion of their new letter:Never in my lifetime have I witnessed such despair and such growing fear that the world's last best hope, America, has finally been dismantled. Perhaps the better word is transformed — fundamentally transformed. Come to think of it, it's become difficult — if not impossible — to believe things haven't gone exactly as you planned, Mr. President.
Amazingly, in five short years, your administration has lurched from one disaster to another. You spearheaded the ambitious rush to end the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan — with no plan on how to do so effectively. Also, the release of "the Taliban five" in exchange for one American — without consulting Congress — is also on your shoulders.
You have been at the helm during unprecedented national security leaks — including, but not limited to the outing of SEAL Team VI on the Bin laden raid, the outing of the Pakistani doctor who provided the intelligence for that raid, the outing of Afghanistan's CIA station chief, and the outing of your personal "kill list" to make you look tough. In addition, 75 percent of American deaths in Afghanistan and 83 percent of Americans-wounded-in-action have occurred on your watch, according to icasualties.org.
And now, we have this recent, heinous event: the beheading of an American citizen by a barbaric organization you foolishly referred to as "the JV team" in your statements to the New Yorker magazine in January.
You, sir, are the JV team. It's time for you to step down and allow a true leader to restore our honor and protect our sons and daughters.
America has always been exceptional. And she will be again. You, Mr. President, are a bump in our road.The Vaughns talked to Brian Kilmeade this morning to expand on their harsh criticism of the Commander-in-Chief."The thing that we've always believed as Americans is that if you take our sons and daughters to war, your ultimate goal should be victory and that has never been the goal of this administration. And Billy and I are fed up with watching families suffer the same thing that we've suffered, losing our only son at the hands of an administration, and frankly senior military leaders who do not care about the boots on the ground," said Karen Vaughn.Billy was asked about the feedback they have gotten since speaking out."We have to do this. Aaron's family has paid too big a price for Karen and I to sit back and be silent and watch what is going on in our republic. Right now today, ISIS is a threat, Russia is a threat, China is a threat, but I will tell you today, the greatest security threat in the United States of America faces resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by this president not having his head in the game," he said.Karen added that this is not about political parties, but about leaders coming forward who are not just concerned about the next election."Stop playing political games with our nation."(http://a57.foxnews.com/media2.foxnews.com/thumbnails/i/090214/780/438/090214_ff_parents2_640.jpg)
Pentagon Spokesman: We're "Winning" The War Against Islamic Terrorism
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(A statement so absurd even Obuma boot-licker Chris Matthews is calling it total BS)
Via Daily Caller:Liberal MSNBC host Chris Matthews ranted against Pentagon spokesman John Kirby for his claim that America has had "very good success" in battling Islamic terrorism, calling it "an absurd statement" and declaring that "we're not winning the war against terrorism over there."
Matthews reacted incredulously to the rear admiral's assertion on Tuesday that we're winning the war against Islamic fundamentalism — the very same day that ISIS released a second video showing them beheading American journalist Steven Sotloff in Iraq.
"Of course, that's an absurd statement he just made," he began. "Because we went into Iraq, blew the country apart, created the opportunity for ISIS to grow — it grew out of where was nothing — a much bigger and a larger threat to us than anything we faced from Saddam Hussein. So the idea that we've been on the aggressor side here, that we've been winning this war against terrorism, is ludicrous."
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ISIS Says It's "Sorry"... For Releasing Sotloff Beheading Video Early
Via SMH:http://www.smh.com.au/world/islamic-state-militants-release-video-showing-the-beheading-of-american-journalist-steven-sotloff-20140903-3erxt.html
Islamic State militants have issued an apology following the release of a horrific video that appears to show the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff.
But the jihadist group was not apologising for the terrifying death of the 31-year-old freelance journalist, who was kidnapped in Syria last year.
Instead, it appeared someone within ISIS had published the video of Sotloff's apparent execution online ahead of the intended time, according to the online news website Vocativ.
And, for that lack of discipline, the group was sorry.
"We tried to remove the video after we understood that this was published by mistake, and we are sorry to the followers of Islamic State," the group said in a message, in Arabic, posted on Justpaste.
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Lawsuit Filed On Behalf Of Gender Confused SC Teen
Forced To Remove His Makeup By DMV
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(The special snowflake wants to be unique. The DMV will make you spit out a wad of chawing tobacco before taking your photo)
Via WISTVhttp://www.wistv.com/story/26421016/lawsuit-to-be-filed-on-behalf-of-teen-forced-to-remove-makeup-by-dmv
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an Anderson teen who was forced to remove makeup when getting a driver's license picture.
The group held a press conference on Tuesday on the South Steps of the South Carolina State House in Columbia to announce the filing.
The suit, which is brought by Teresa Culpepper, mother of 16-year-old Chase Culpepper, will ask "the court to rule that denying Chase the freedom to wear his everyday makeup in his license photo constitutes sex discrimination and violates his right to free speech and expression under the United States Constitution," according to a press release from TLDEF.
"It also seeks a ruling under the U.S. and South Carolina Constitutions that the DMV's photo policy is unconstitutionally vague, too broad, and lets DMV employees arbitrarily decide how a driver's license applicant should look, without regard for the rights of the people they are supposed to serve," the release stated.
In June, Chase Culpepper said he was told he needed to look more like a boy before he could receive his new license at the DMV.
He said he was only dressed the way he does every day to school and to his job at McDonald's. He doesn't think he violated any rules and now he wants the DMV to let him re-take his license picture, wearing makeup.
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Obuma's Super Duper Awesome Plan To Destroy ISIS:
Use Slightly-Less Insane Jihadists As His Ground Troops
(This guy's incompetence is going to get a lot of people killed)
Via NY Times:http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/us/politics/obama-to-present-case-for-broader-us-mission-against-militants.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=3
... In the interview on Sunday, Mr. Obama said he envisioned the Free Syrian Army's providing the ground presence needed to confront ISIS in Syria. He said that until a moderate Sunni opposition emerged, there was no real hope of ousting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. But the opposition has been fractured, and the moderate militias are viewed as far less capable than ISIS.
"Our attitude towards Assad continues to be that through his actions, through using chemical weapons on his own people, dropping barrel bombs that killed innocent children, that he has foregone legitimacy," Mr. Obama said. "But when it comes to our policy and the coalition that we're putting together, our focus specifically is on ISIL." (ISIL is the name used by administration officials for the militant group.)
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is preparing to carry out a campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria that may take three years to complete, requiring a sustained effort that could last until after President Obama has left office, according to senior administration officials.
The first phase, an air campaign with nearly 145 airstrikes in the past month, is already underway to protect ethnic and religious minorities and American diplomatic, intelligence and military personnel, and their facilities, as well as to begin rolling back ISIS gains in northern and western Iraq.
The next phase, which would begin sometime after Iraq forms a more inclusive government, scheduled this week, is expected to involve an intensified effort to train, advise or equip the Iraqi military, Kurdish fighters and possibly members of Sunni tribes.
The final, toughest and most politically controversial phase of the operation — destroying the terrorist army in its sanctuary inside Syria — might not be completed until the next administration. Indeed, some Pentagon planners envision a military campaign lasting at least 36 months.
Mr. Obama will use a speech to the nation on Wednesday to make his case for launching a United States-led offensive against Sunni militants gaining ground in the Middle East, seeking to rally support for a broad military mission while reassuring the public that he is not plunging American forces into another Iraq
More at NYT - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/world/middleeast/destroying-isis-may-take-3-years-white-house-says.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics®ion=Footer&module=TopNews&pgtype=article
Saudi Official: Western Politicians, Media Linking Islam To
Terrorism Drives Muslims To Become Jihadists
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(No, nothing to do with a certain book based on a 7th century warlord, the Quran)
Via Arab News:http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/627041
Secretary-General of King Abdul Aziz Center for National Dialogue (KACND) Faisal Muammar has said that linking Islam to the events of Sept. 11, 2001 by some Western politicians and media was unfair and obviously aimed at projecting Muslims as terrorists and extremists.
"The goal of these critics was to fight Islam, not terrorism and this made them (terrorists) gain more supporters and sympathizers globally instead" he noted.
Muammar made his remarks recently while receiving US advisers and aides of the Congress members at KACND headquarters in Riyadh.
He said those indulging in terrorism and extremism use the name of religion in conflicts with others, in many parts of the world, especially in the Middle East. "Those terrorists are not related to religion, they simply make use of religion to gain supporters and sympathizers and portray their actions as service to the religion," he said.
"KACND's top priority is to confront extremism and terrorism and to work through partnerships with other agencies, organizations and institutions to promote the values and virtues of Islam" he added.
Memphis TN Group Of Teenagers Caught On Camera Beating Man In Kroger Parking Lot
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Via WLBThttp://www.msnewsnow.com/clip/10559219/breaking-group-of-teenagers-caught-on-camera-beating-kroger-employee
A video of a group of teenagers beating a Kroger employee in the store's parking lot is circulating on Facebook.
A Kroger employee tells WMC Action News 5 that the attack happened at the Kroger near Highland Street and Poplar Avenue.
Accroding to police, three people were jumped by a large group of teenagers who were chanting "fam mob." The group, who came from CiCi's Pizza, reportedly attacked a 25-year-old customer as he left his car to enter Kroger. Two employees, ages 17 and 18, were attacked while trying to stop the fight. Both were "struck several times in the head and face, while being knocked to the ground." The victims say large pumpkins were thrown at their heads. They both eventually were knocked unconscious.
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Federal Grand Jury Investigating Terror Pipeline From U.S. To ISIS
Via Star Tribune:http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/274233901.html
A federal grand jury in St. Paul is investigating a group of Somali-Americans who were allegedly conspiring to join terrorists fighting in Syria, according to sources with direct knowledge of the probe.
The proceedings, which have been going on all summer, appear to be centered on trying to find out who is behind efforts to convince 20 to 30 people that they should leave Minnesota to fight in the Middle East. That question has stymied federal agents for the last year as they have struggled to build inroads and trust with the Muslim community in the Twin Cities in order to cut off a new pipeline of recruits.
Seven years ago, about two dozen young Somali men from Minnesota were recruited to fight in Somalia with another terrorist group, Al-Shabab. As many as nine were reported killed, and after a series of indictments and high-profile convictions, federal authorities and community leaders believed that the recruiting had stopped.
Instead, it has shifted to a new region.
In June, investigators stopped a Somali teen just before he boarded a plane at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, his final destination believed to be Syria.
But federal authorities say upward of a dozen Somali men and three women from Minnesota have fled the country to fight alongside or aid extremists in the Middle East. They estimate as many as 100 Americans have gone to Syria and Iraq to join insurgents whose brutality, including mass executions and beheadings of American journalists, has prompted the U.S. and other countries to consider airstrikes against the movement. The departures also have heightened fears that some may try to return to carry out attacks in the U.S.
In late August, a Minnesota man became the first American recruit confirmed to have died while fighting in the Syria-Iraq area with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces. A second Minnesota man is believed to have been killed in the same battle. [...]
Early this summer, FBI agents and prosecutors questioned the father of a Somali teen about his son's activities prior to the teen being arrested last spring at the airport. The youth was apprehended at the gate, as he prepared to board a plane. Agents reportedly made it clear to the family that they were less interested in the son's involvement than in who recruited him.
The boy's father had dropped his son off at school and hours later he was contacted by FBI agents, who told him they had picked his son up at the airport. Sometime between the school drop-off and the arrest, the boy had changed clothes and showed up at the airport with a suitcase, according to sources.
The investigation is moving slowly because many of those subpoenaed are refusing to talk and have been instructed to invoke their Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, multiple sources said.
The group under investigation is mostly composed of young Somalis who have been frequenting the Al Farooq Youth and Family Center and mosque in Bloomington. There, they may have fallen under the influence of Amir Meshal, a 31-year-old American of Egyptian descent who allegedly spoke often to them about joining in a jihad, those sources said.
DHS Advisor And Muslim Brotherhood Supporter, Mohamed Elibiary Has Left The Building
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(It was noted in June how ISIS was actually using Elibiary's comments
about the inevitable return of the Caliphate in recruiting. About time they got rid of his a$$.
Now if they can remove Obuma!)
Via Center For Security Policy:
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2014/09/05/mohamed-elibiary-has-left-the-building/
Mohamed Elibiary, an Islamist with extensive ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and a record of influence operations in the service of its agenda, has announced his departure after five years on the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council. We can only hope that – at a moment when the danger posed by shariah-adherent Muslims is becoming more palpable by the day – the Department decided to stop legitimating an advisor who has publicly championed that it was, " inevitable that 'Caliphate' return", contended that the United States is "an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution."
Elibiary had always been brazen in his support for Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular, including featuring the Muslim Brotherhood "R4Bia" symbol on his twitter page, and publicly lauding Muslim Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb.
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Paul Harvey: The End of the Story
By Richard Corliss Sunday, Mar. 01, 2009
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ng11P1J4iYM&list=PLgvK4f_kAjzjReIVOoAgKL0KVnWek4unZ#t=4
Excepts from Nov 22 & 26th 1963
Mauser rifle mentioned and later at 4:40 on the 26th it was reported a man with a weapon on the roof of Internal Revenue Service building which overlooks the Dept of Justice entrance where Robert Kennedy passes several time a day.
"This is Paul Harvey." That clarion Midwestern voice was its own time machine; it carried listeners back to radio days of yore, when a distinctive vocal performance was as important as good looks are in TV news today. The opinions Harvey expressed were old-fashioned as well: politically and socially conservative, the musings of a grandpa who's seen it all — or, as he put it, "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." It is hardly an exaggeration to say that when Harvey died at 90, on Saturday, at his winter home in Phoenix, he took the whole history of radio with him.
Born before the first commercial radio stations went on the air, Harvey fashioned a personality and career that spanned the medium's Golden Age, its postwar retreat into a pop jukebox and its later resurgence as the place for news and talk — exactly what Harvey did for more than 75 years. He spoke with clarion clarity, his voice an elocution teacher's pride, easily parodied but intimate, powerful and oh-so-precise. It was "nee-ews," never the lazy "nooze," and "reck-ord," not "reckerd." For emphasis, he'd add a vowel to a word with abutting consonants ("web-a-site"). Many of his fans were of his generation, but a few young'uns had to be tuning in: his broadcasts reached some 12 million weekly listeners on 1,200 radio stations and 400 Armed Forces Network affiliates. Nor did you have to agree with Harvey to find him a radio entertainer of the highest quality. (Read TIME's "Top 10 iPhone Applications," including Pandora's Internet Radio.)
Paul Harvey Aurandt was born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1918; his father was shot and killed by robbers when Paul was 3. As a kid, he built a radio set to receive distant magic signals, and in high school, a teacher nudged him into a radio booth at local station KVOO. Jobs in Salina, Kans., Oklahoma City and Honolulu followed just before Pearl Harbor brought him to Chicago in 1944. He stayed there, hosting a Jobs for G.I. Joe program, adding his signature phrase "the rest of the story" the following year. He got his own show, on WENR, with his wife Lynne, another radio pioneer, serving as producer and co-writer. In 1951 he joined the ABC network with Paul Harvey News and Comment, a title that stuck for 58 years. Nine years ago, ABC re-upped Harvey with a 10-year, $100 million contract.
A salesman for himself and his vision of the American dream, he was also a master peddler of many products, whose makers were as loyal to Harvey as his listeners were. A skit from the 1984-85 season of Saturday Night Live had Harvey (played by Rich Hall) compulsively peppering his news items with sponsor names. The man remained unapologetic. "Some days," he told Larry King in 1988, "the best news in the broadcast is the commercial. You can keep your natural teeth all your natural life! There is a glove that doesn't wear out! There is a car battery that keeps its promises! That's good news! And I would use those things on the air if they were not in the body of the commercial." The finest huckster is the one who has first sold himself on the product.
In his last years, Harvey's resonance wavered a bit; an occasional vocal crack gave a whimsical tone to the music of his script. But his métier never changed. It remained a mix of headlines, mild fulminations ("Americans, do not protest bone-marrow stem-cell transplants") and lighter-side anecdotes. "Doctors have removed a kidney stone the size of a coconut," he said in late January, adding with a little startle, "seven inches-a across!" He could tut-tut with a smile: "Have you noticed," he asked just before this year's Super Bowl, "some players with hair that sticks from under their helmets?" And he respected his elders, sending best wishes to long-married couples: "Agnes and John Caroline in Lavalette, N.J., are 71 years along the way to forever together."
Such was his authority, among the skeptical and gullible alike, that minor industries sprang up around him. A book version of The Rest of the Story, first published in 1977, hit its 18th printing in four years. And on the Internet, you'll find 65,000 links to what is known as the Paul Harvey riddle: "What is greater than God, more evil than the devil? The poor have it, the rich don't need it. And if you eat it, you'll die." There is no evidence that Harvey ever read this on the air, but it's just the kind of whimsical poser that, because his name was attached to it, attracted a zillion Googlers. He sold concepts too. (Answer to the riddle: nothing.)
The rosy sentimentalist was also a fretful conservative; he backed Joe McCarthy's search for imaginary communists in the State Department. But sometimes he just got fed up, reversing himself on the Vietnam War, telling Richard Nixon, "Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong." In 2005 he suggested that the U.S. should have used nuclear weapons in both Iraq and Afghanistan; yet as casualties mounted in Iraq, he showed impatience, frustration, a hint that he felt betrayed by the policy he'd supported.
A month ago, Harvey knocked Nancy Pelosi because she "rubber-stamped" the stimulus package. He called on Congress to do its job and not "sit on the economic skillet and let the pork sizzle." This was mild stuff compared with a joke Harvey passed along to his listeners in September 2007 about an imaginary meeting of David Petraeus and Chelsea Clinton. The President's daughter asks the general if he's afraid of anything, and Harvey gives this reply: "I am afraid of three things. I am afraid of Osama, and I am afraid of Obama, and, Ms. Clinton, I am afraid of yo' mama. Heh heh heh. Paul Harvey: Good day!"
It was a similar piece of Harvey hokum that led Keith Olbermann to apostrophize, "Probably time for you to give us your final 'Good day!' " But Harvey was no quitter. He reduced his workload to a few broadcasts a week (his son Paul Jr., a longtime writer for the show, was a frequent guest host), but he would not give up the gig after a bout of pneumonia, or his 90th birthday, or even Lynne's death, in 2007, after 67 years of marriage. "Retiring," he said, "is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice." He was still broadcasting the week before he died.
Less a maker of news than a conduit for popular sentiment about the news, Harvey told King, "I don't think of myself as a profound journalist. I think of myself as a professional parade watcher who can't wait to get out of bed every morning and rush down to the Teletypes and pan for gold."
Teletypes, computer keys and maybe radio itself should go quiet for a moment to honor the man who for three-quarters of a century watched the parade and, strutting and smiling, helped lead it.
The 5 Most Egregious
Myths About Conservatism
Lee Edwards / September 07, 2014
When it has nothing else to do, the liberal establishment will dip into its bulging bag of clichés and declare that this time, absolutely, positively, without any doubt, the conservative movement is done. And once again it becomes the duty of right-thinking analysts to stand up and firmly say, "Poppycock!"
Here are five of the most egregious myths about conservatism:
1. The conservative movement is cracking up.
The primary fights between regular Republicans and tea party candidates reflect vitality, not decay. If the conservative party (that is, the Republican Party) were as close to interment as liberals say, political candidates would be vying for the nomination of a third party such as the libertarians. They aren't.
Liberals are mistaking diversity for division, and today the conservative movement is more diverse than ever, with names such as Jindal, Rubio, Cruz, Martinez, Tim Scott, Rand Paul, etc. The movement is expanding, not contracting, as evidenced in annual gatherings such as the traditionalist CPAC, which attracts 10,000, and the libertarian Freedom Fest, which draws more than 2,000 people.
2. The conservative philosophy is irrelevant and out of date.
"To suggest that the conservative philosophy is out of date is akin to saying that the Golden Rule, or the Ten Commandments, or Aristotle's Politics are out of date. The conservative approach is nothing more or less than an attempt to apply the wisdom and experience and the revealed truths of the past to the problems of today." Barry Goldwater wrote that 54 years ago in "The Conscience of a Conservative,"and it holds true today.
3. The three-legged stool of social, economic and national security conservatism is breaking down.
From 1995 to 2011, according to Gallup, pro-life support in America increased from 33 percent to 50 percent, and support for abortion declined by 15 percent. A 2013 Gallup showed 41 percent of Americans self-identified as economically conservative, but only 19 percent as economically liberal. President Obama's stop-and-start foreign policy in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Russia, Ukraine, Libya and elsewhere has produced a new breed of national security conservatives committed to a prudent foreign policy, based on our capabilities and guided by our founding principles of liberty and justice.
4) The tea party is toxic for conservatism.
Of all the myths, this may be the most pernicious. Far from being poisonous, the tea party has assumed the grassroots role of Goldwater volunteers in 1964, the Moral Majority in Reagan's 1980 presidential victory and supporters of the 1994 Contract with America. Denounced as extremist by the media, the tea party believes, as a conservative icon once put it, that "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." I can attest from personal experience that Tea Partiers love their country, their God and the Constitution.
5) Conservatism is headed for the ash heap of history unless it makes major changes in its philosophy and politics.
Wrong and wrong. Conservatism is the largest political philosophy in America: 40 percent of Americans describe themselves as conservative, 35 percent as moderate, and just 22 percent liberal. When queried about specific issues, moderates lean more to the right than to the left. The current surge of libertarianism, as seen in Sen. Rand Paul's pre-presidential candidacy, will widen the appeal of the conservative movement.
Culturally, Fox News continues to dominate the world of cable news, Rush Limbaugh remains the No. 1 talk-show host, Cal Thomas is the most widely syndicated newspaper columnist in America, and The Heritage Foundation, in combination with Heritage Action, is the most-often cited think tank in Washington.
The defeats of 2006, 2008 and 2012 were caused by lackluster political leadership and lip service to conservative principles. The elections of 2014 and 2016 afford conservatives an opportunity to forge a governing coalition stretching from the nation's capital to the state houses and legislatures of red and blue states.
America has always been a center-right nation, accepting of change so long as it is gradual and not radical, which explains in large measure the continuing rejection of Obamacare. Most Americans take their lead from the American and not the French Revolution.
As Goldwater put it, conservative principles have little to do with "the social, economic and political landscape that changes from decade to decade and from century to century" and everything to do with man's nature and his God. The problems confronting us may change, but the principles guiding the answers do not. The challenge before us is not to find new truths but to apply proven truths to the present-day problems of our world.
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An open letter to Barack Obama: World War III is here
Dear Mr. President,
It's been quite a summer. The world is not a pretty place right now but I see you have had a chance to play golf. In fact you've played golf through the worst of it. Right after announcing that American journalist James Foley had been beheaded.
Now I play golf and I enjoy it. But I'm not president of the United States... so I have a little more time.
But I digress. Let's skip on down to the really important part... I hope you'll read closely. There will be a quiz.
We are at war, sir, whether you like it or not.
One of your predecessors said this when our country was being threatened...
"Hostilities exist. There is no blinking to the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger. As commander in chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. I ask that that congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Empire of Japan. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory. With confidence in our armed forces, with the un bounding determination of our people-we will gain the inevitable triumph--so help us God."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt uttered those words on a December day almost 73 years ago.
In the name of that same God invoked so eloquently and powerfully by that president, I ask that you, Mr. President -- if you're not too busy playing golf, campaigning, orchestrating the cover ups of all the "phony scandals," and just being cool -- could again declare war on the enemies who have unleashed "unprovoked and dastardly attacks" on the United States.
This summer we have now seen two American journalists beheaded by the "Islamic State" – ISIS or IL or IS. (http://dcbarroco.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/9aec4-club2bbeheading.jpg)
We are at war, sir, whether you like it or not.
Over 2,400 members of the United States military were killed that December morning long ago, in an attack not really on the United States mainland. It happened in Hawaii. I know you are familiar with Hawaii. The Aloha State was just a territory of the United States at that time.
That war would last for 4 long years and would kill 60 to 80 million people, including 291,557 American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.
That terrible toll was exacted in a war wherein the enemy combatants of the Axis powers, Japan, Germany, and Italy, had no means whatsoever of successfully mounting a military strike against the United States homeland.
Even if we hadn't won the war, and even if we hadn't captured/liberated Werner Von Braun and the other German scientists at Peenemunde before the Russians got to them, it would have been at least 10-15 years before Germany would have had a rocket/missile capable of reaching the U. S. mainland. And yet President Roosevelt galvanized, mobilized, and energized, and united the American people like never before.
Then America, in its "righteous might" unsheathed and unleashed the most devastating war machine in the history of mankind.
Guess what Mr. President, THE GOOD GUYS WON!! They won because President Roosevelt had the "cojones" to "pull the trigger," giving no thought to his legacy, but giving thought only to the preservation of the American way of life.
Forget the fun on the golf course, Mr. President. Does that way of life mean anything to you, sir, or are you still so hell bent on "fundamentally changing" the American way of life that you cannot, or will not, change course and "pull the trigger?"
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said that, for Israel, the question of the current conflict with the enemies of Israel is an existential one.
In my opinion, sir, and in the opinions of most of the grown-ups in our military apparatus, and other expert military analysts, the United States is now engaged -- or not really engaged -- in no less an existential conflict.
Please pay attention sir. It's not your shot yet. It's Alonzo's shot.
We are being told every night on TV that the American people don't have the stomach for more war 10,000 miles away. Well sir, I think you should conduct another of your seemingly endless polls and ask those Americans a few simple questions:
Do Americans have the stomach to see planes crash into our buildings again, or citizens running through the streets of New York City with the residue of those buildings and the ashes of those who were burned alive on their faces again, or a man and wife holding hands and jumping out of an 80th story window, together, to keep from being burned alive again?
Sir, why don't you ask Americans these simple questions and see what their answers are.
Whether you like it or not sir, World War III has already started and it is time for America to "take arms against a sea of trouble, and by opposing," try to keep 9/11 and other attacks on America from happening again.
From 1941-45, 291,557 American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines died to defeat an enemy that had absolutely no means of attacking the United States mainland. And now, we are being told that after more than 10 years of fighting those ruthless bastards in Iraq and Afghanistan where "only" 6,802 of our warriors have been killed, America doesn't have the stomach to go do what needs to be done?
Please understand the context of the word "only." With all my heart I thank all these warriors and their families for the sacrifices they have made, and continue to make. And now we are giving up the fight? We are surrendering? We are being told that AMERICA DOESNT HAVE THE STOMACH TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE????????
Well sir, you need to have enough stomach, GUTS, COJONES for all of us. It's called LEADERSHIP!!
If that is so, that America doesn't have the stomach to do what needs to be done, I say shame on us, and especially, shame on you, Mr. President. We deserve what we will get.
I believe that it is time for America to go on wartime footing, all the way up to and including a "peacetime" draft if necessary. Heck, pay the soldiers what congressmen, senators, and your White House spin doctors make.
Go save Iraq -- AGAIN. Take 20% of their oil revenue until the money we have spent freeing them -- TWICE -- is paid back. Leave a residual force there to keep this from happening again (see Japan, Germany, and Italy) and tell anyone who doesn't like it to kiss AMERICA's happy, safe rear end.
I am 66 years old, I'm in pretty damn good shape and I will go right now. I've lived a good life and I want my granddaughters to have the chance to live one too.
I was #296 during Vietnam... I didn't have to go, but I would have gone if I had been called.
I will go now if called... Unfortunately, I know that I never will be called, so I will answer a different call.
I will call on you, Mr. President. Do you have the stomach to lead our scared, uncertain, worried, "tired of war" American citizens in a fight to the death against the Islamic murderers, even if the "tide of public opinion" is against it?
Anyone can lead people who are willing and eager to go. Can you, will you lead people who are not willing, but need to go?
Finally, while it is long past time to start treating our veterans with the dignity and care they deserve, it is also long past time to stop treating our current soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines like Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. They have been trained to defend the United States, Mr. President, to the death, if it comes to that.
We have trained them, fed them, housed them, equipped them, armed them, and stationed them in close proximity to hot spots all over the world, in order to be ready for the start of World War III.
Well, Mr. President, WORLD WAR III is here.
It's high time we turn our troops loose to let them GO KILL THE BAD GUYS. Turn them loose, sir, and give America another, "righteous might, so help us God" moment.
Please, sir, before it's too late...
IT'S YOUR SHOT NOW... FORE!!
....Larry Gatlin (country music singer and songwriter)
Memphis TN Group Of Teenagers Caught On Camera Beating Man In Kroger Parking Lot
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Via WLBThttp://www.msnewsnow.com/clip/10559219/breaking-group-of-teenagers-caught-on-camera-beating-kroger-employee
A video of a group of teenagers beating a Kroger employee in the store's parking lot is circulating on Facebook.
A Kroger employee tells WMC Action News 5 that the attack happened at the Kroger near Highland Street and Poplar Avenue.
Accroding to police, three people were jumped by a large group of teenagers who were chanting "fam mob." The group, who came from CiCi's Pizza, reportedly attacked a 25-year-old customer as he left his car to enter Kroger. Two employees, ages 17 and 18, were attacked while trying to stop the fight. Both were "struck several times in the head and face, while being knocked to the ground." The victims say large pumpkins were thrown at their heads. They both eventually were knocked unconscious.
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Grandmother Turns In Grandson For Possible Involvement In Memphis Kroger Attack
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("His daddy is not a male role model, that's my son and he's not," said the grandmother, "I hope he looks at this news thing and sees me saying this since he never wants to listen to me, he needs to be more involved in his child's life." Update to the story above)
Via WMCAhttp://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/26476301/investigators-question-teen-after-grandmother-calls-police
Mayor A C Wharton and Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong called on parents to take responsibility for their children's actions, after a video that showed a mob of teens attacking customers and employees at a Memphis Kroger went viral.
"The incident that occurred last night is a true depiction of lack of parenting,' said Director Armstrong.
A grandmother who did not want to be shown on camera said her 15-year-old grandson was with the group on Saturday at Poplar Avenue and Highland Street.
After watching the video on WMC Actions News 5, she did what she hopes other parents will do ... called police and turned him in.
"I plead to all parents to just, if they know that their child was down there even if their child didn't do anything, we need to get a hold of our kids," said the grandmother.
No Joke: Obama Talks About Ways To Combat Anti-Semitism With... Turkey's Notorious Jew-Hater PM Recep Erdgogan
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Erdogan and Obama
(Obuma must have a short term memory problem because it was less than two months
ago when Erdogan was bashing Israel with endless anti-Semitic comments)
Via INN:http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/184803#.VA7yRqNGvB3
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday urged Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to combat anti-Semitism, the White House said in a statement.
"The President met with Turkish President Erdogan today in Newport, Wales, where both leaders were attending the NATO Summit. They exchanged views on how best to cooperate in the struggle against ISIS and violent extremism in Iraq and Syria, and on the need for strengthened measures against foreign fighters transiting to and from the battlefield," the statement said.
"They discussed the urgent need for effective pressure and diplomacy aimed at bringing to an end the conflicts in Ukraine and Libya. The President and President Erdogan also discussed the importance of building tolerant and inclusive societies and combating the scourge of anti-Semitism," it added.
Under the rule of the Islamist AKP party of Erdogan, who used to be the country's prime minister before his recent election as president, anti-Semitism has risen steadily, prompting many young Turkish Jews to leave the country.
That rising hatred has been blamed on vitriolic anti-Israel rhetoric by Turkish leaders and politicians, which often spills over into anti-Semitism.
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"THE REST OF THE STORY"
WITH PAUL HARVEY
(SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY OSWALD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6OcNfNwuvY&list=PLgvK4f_kAjzjReIVOoAgKL0KVnWek4unZ&index=2
Pic Of The Day
Little Boy Tries In Vain To Get The Sound Of Obama's Voice Out Of His Head
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(We've all been there, kid... believe me!)
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After Motorcylist's Death, Bike Vanishes From The Scene Before Detroit Police Arrive
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(The "cousin" and "girlfriend" left the dead body in the street... how weird is that?)
Via Deadline Detroithttp://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/10339/after_motorcylist_s_death_bike_vanishes_from_the_scene_before_police_arrive#.VA9W7K0pC70
A very strange thing happened after a fatal motorcycle accident in Detroit on Monday: The dead man's motorcycle and belongings including his computer tablet were snatched off the street before EMS and police arrived.
Fox 2's Taryn Asher reports that witnesses said that a man who claimed to be the motorcyclist's cousin drove off with the motorcycle, that was still running, and that a woman who claimed to be the girlfriend got out of a car and took his belongings including a tablet and phone. Asher said it's not clear if the people are who they said they are.
WSJ/NBC Poll: Hillary Clinton's Approval Rating Continues To Plummet, Down To 43%
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(The more ol' Pants-Suit looks like a candidate, the less invincible she appears...
That graph looks a little like an illustration of Hillary's fun box)
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"The candidate that would not die..."
Via WSJ:http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/09/09/hillary-clintons-approval-numbers-return-to-earth-wsjnbc-poll/
The former first lady and New York senator enjoyed sky-high approval ratings during her tenure as President Barack Obama's secretary of state, but her numbers have returned to earth since she traded her perch as the nation's top diplomat for her current role as the Democrats' top presidential prospect in 2016.
The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found 43% of registered voters view Ms. Clinton positively, compared with the 41% who harbor negative views. That's a steep drop from February 2009 when 59% viewed the newly confirmed secretary of state positively and just 22% held negative views. The numbers suggest Americans are far less charitable about Ms. Clinton when she is seeking office or, in this case, merely considering it than they are about other politicians who retire from public office.
'Plugs' Bidin: "The Greatest Abuse That Can Be Committed Is The Abuse Of Power"
(A$$ploding irony alert)
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ABC/WaPo Poll: 55% Say Obama Is Dividing America, Only 38% Say He's Uniting Us
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Via Langer Research:http://www.langerresearch.com/uploads/1162a1ThePresidentandtheMidterms.pdf
At home, with Obama holding off his promised executive action on immigration reform, a new low of just 31 percent approve of his handling of immigration. Fifty-nine percent disapprove, up by a broad 18 points from spring 2013, when progress on the issue seemed imminent.
In general assessments, moreover, Americans by a 17-point margin say Obama has done more to divide than to unite the country, a rating worse than George W. Bush's early in his poorly rated second term – and one that's deteriorated among Obama's supporters as well as among his critics. Just 43 percent call Obama a strong leader, down 11 points in the past year to the fewest of his presidency. And his overall job approval rating, at 42 percent, is a point from its all-time low this spring.
The risks to Obama's party in the November elections are great – but they're mitigated, all the same, by the Republican Party's concurrent problems. While Americans by 55- 38 percent say Obama has done more to divide than to unite the country.
ISIS Forms All-Female "Al-Khansaa Brigade" To Hunt Down "Spies" Disguised As Women In Burqas
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(Transgender jihadis)
(ABNA) – http://www.abna.ir/english/service/europe/archive/2014/09/09/636446/story.html#
Up to 60 women are believed to have joined the Al-Khansaa brigade, an all-women's branch of ISIL, which is believed to be based in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
The claims were made following research conducted by the US based think tank Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC). TRAC says the group was set up to expose people suspected of spying on ISIL by disguising themselves in women's clothing.
According to reports from the Daily Telegraph, most of the women in the Al-Khansaa brigade are between 18-24, with some joining the main military ranks of the ISIL terrorists.
Among the women militants may be the privately-educated Aqsa Mahmood, 20, from Glasgow, Scotland, who traveled to Syria in November 2013.
Last week, Mahmood's parents broadcast an appeal for their daughter to return home on the US news network CNN.
"Her last message was that 'I will see you on the day of judgment... I will take you to heaven, I will hold your hand.' That's what she said,'" her father, Muzaffar Mahmood, said.
"Our daughter is brainwashed and deluded and helping those engaged in genocide," her parents added.
The brigade's women are reportedly paid around 100 pounds (US$161) a month, according to TRAC.
While little is known about the operations of the brigade, the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), based at Kings College London, says that it is likely the brigade moves in similar circles to male ISIL terrorists.
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Paul Harvey: The Rest of the Story - Actor on Death Row
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVhA47LXXHs&list=PLgvK4f_kAjzjReIVOoAgKL0KVnWek4unZ&index=3
Wile E. Coyote
This video posted on therightscoop.com shows a hilarious attempt by ISIS nutjobs to shoot a cannon. What ensues is comical and something that one might expect to happen to Wile E. Coyote.
According to therightscoop, the words spoken as the cannon is fired is an Islamic prayer that recognizes that Allah is guiding the projectile. Apparently, Allah is not too happy with these terrorists distorting his words for their gain.
What this video demonstrates is that while the Western world remains endangered by radical Islamists such as ISIS or Al Qaeda, they are far from competent.
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New Rules for Old Farts
If you remember when health insurance was optional, you are an old fart.
If you are polite to strangers, you are an old fart.
If you've ever changed a typewriter ribbon, you are an old fart.
If there was only one fat kid in your class, you are an old fart.
If you think "Occupy" is a verb and not a noun, you are an old fart.
If you just want to be left alone, you are an old fart.
If you remember when only sailors had tattoos, you are an old fart.
If you remember when civil rights meant equal rights, not reverse discrimination, you are an old fart.
If you've never uploaded naked photographs of yourself, you are an old fart.
If you know how to spell, you are an old fart.
If you ever waited to hear your favorite song on the radio, you are an old fart.
If you remember when being radical meant hating the government, rather than relying on it, you are an old fart.
If you know how to get there better than that GPS contraption, you are an old fart.
If you've ever felt shame, you are an old fart.
If you still feel a twinge of dread seeing a phone number with a lot of "9″s and "0″s, you are an old fart.
If you think a nice warm day is just a nice warm day and not proof of impending doom, you are an old fart.
If you ever paid for your own condoms, you are an old fart.
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If you know how to fix mechanical devices, you are an old fart.
If the phrase "turn of the century" makes you think of the year 1900, you are an old fart.
If you had a blue mohawk in 11th grade, you are an old fart.
If you remember when Top Gun actually sat in the plane, you are an old fart.
If you've ever bought something with cash, you are an old fart.
If you don't go all the way on the first date, you are an old fart.
If you remember when being a Democrat meant being anti-communist, you are an old fart.
If you remember when "books" were made of paper, you are an old fart.
If you've ever played pinball, you are an old fart.
If you remember when sex scandals would ruin a starlet's career, you are an old fart.
If you've ever gotten on an airplane without first being searched, you are an old fart.
If you even know the meaning of the word "bipartisan," you are an old fart.
If you you don't have a Facebook page, you are an old fart.
If you do have a MySpace page, you are an old fart.
If you've ever used the word "gay" to mean carefree or joyous, you are an old fart.
If you still haven't scraped that "I believe you Anita!" sticker off your bumper, you are an old fart.
If you kept a few leftover French francs and German marks the last time you visited Europe, you are an old fart.
If you think self-esteem is earned rather than a birthright, you are an old fart.
If you remember when the media at least pretended to be impartial, you are an old fart.
If you ever ate at Sambo's, you are an old fart.
If you still have some bell-bottom pants way back in your closet from the first time they were cool, you are an old fart.
If you remember when every quarter had an eagle on the back, you are an old fart.
If you hold the door open for ladies, you are an old fart.
If you remember when tech support answered without an accent, you are an old fart.
If you can't remember why you used to laugh at the phrase "You bet your sweet bippy," you are an old fart.
If you remember when being on welfare was embarrassing, you are an old fart.
If you know what VHS stands for, you are an old fart.
If you admire successful people, you are an old fart.
If you know what "the blue dress" refers to, you are an old fart.
If a teacher ever smacked you on the knuckles with a ruler, you are an old fart.
If you ever paid for pornography, you are an old fart.
If you think school should be taught in English, you are an old fart.
If you still think music comes on these black vinyl disks called "records," you are an old fart.
If you played with toy guns when you were a kid, you are an old fart.
If you've ever visited a public library, you are an old fart.
If you remember when Apple was a small struggling company, you are an old fart.
If your debate coach taught you to see both sides of an argument, you are an old fart.
If you still have some of those 8-track tapes in the garage, you are an old fart.
If you love your country, you are an old fart.
If you remember when budgets were measured in billions, not trillions, you are an old fart.
If you want to go back to measuring budgets in billions like we used to, you are really an old fart.
If you remember when campus revolutionaries fought against The Man, and weren't yet The Man themselves, you are an old fart.
If you'd welcome a death panel at this stage, frankly, you are an old fart.
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While Obuma Snoozes, Russia Is Preparing For Nuclear War With The United States
By Michael Snyder, on September 10th, 2014
Did you know that two Russian bombers practiced launching cruise missiles at the United States from a spot in the North Atlantic just the other day? And did you know that Russia is spending massive amounts of money to build and test new nuclear weapons systems? Meanwhile, the Obama administration is doing absolutely nothing to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Our nuclear officers are actually still using floppy disks and other computer technology from the 1960s. The size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal has been reduced by about 95 percent from the peak of the Cold War, and Barack Obama has spoken of even more dramatic reductions. Obama is snoozing even as a Russian general speaks of the need to "spell out the conditions under which Russia would launch a preemptive nuclear strike" against the United States. Obama appears to be entirely convinced that a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia is not even a remote possibility. He better be right, because we are definitely not prepared for one.
Even with everything that has happened between the United States and Russia lately, most Americans still believe that "the Cold War is over" and that Russia presents absolutely no threat to us.
But Russia is behaving as if the Cold War is still very much on. You probably didn't hear a peep about it from the mainstream media, but just the other day a couple of Russian bombers simulated launching cruise missiles at us from the North Atlantic. The following is an excerpt from an excellent article by Bill Gertz...
Two Russian strategic bombers conducted practice cruise missile attacks on the United States during a training mission last week that defense officials say appeared timed to the NATO summit in Wales.
The Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers were tracked flying a route across the northern Atlantic near Iceland, Greenland, and Canada's northeast.
Analysis of the flight indicated the aircraft were conducting practice runs to a pre-determined "launch box"—an optimum point for firing nuclear-armed cruise missiles at U.S. targets, said defense officials familiar with intelligence reports.And Russia is spending money as if a nuclear confrontation with the U.S. is a very real possibility. In fact, Russian President Vladimir Putin has committed to a "weapons modernization program" that is going to cost the equivalent of 540 billion dollars...Putin said Russia's weapons modernization program for 2016-2025 should focus on building a new array of offensive weapons to provide a "guaranteed nuclear deterrent;" re-arming strategic and long-range aviation; creating an aerospace defense system and developing high-precision conventional weapons.He would not elaborate on prospective weapons, but he and other officials have repeatedly boasted about new Russian nuclear missiles' capability to penetrate any prospective missile shield.
The Kremlin has bolstered defense spending in the past few years under an ambitious weapons modernization program that runs through 2020 and costs the equivalent of $540 billion.
You don't spend that kind of money just for the fun of it.
Putin is deadly serious about being able to fight (and win) a war against the United States.
Of course nobody on either side actually hopes that such a war will happen. But most wars are won before a single shot is fired, and right now Russia is working very hard to make sure that it will have the best chance possible of coming out on top in any future conflict.
For example, Russian media is reporting that 60 percent of all Russian nuclear missiles will have radar-evading capability by 2016...Russia's Defense Ministry plans to complete the rearmament of Strategic Missile Forces within six years. "By 2016, the share of new missile systems will reach nearly 60%, and by 2021 their share will increase to 98%. At the same time the troop and weapon command systems, combat equipment will be qualitatively improved, first of all — their capabilities for the suppression of antimissile defense will be built up," Defense Ministry's RVSN spokesman Colonel Igor Yegorov told ITAR-TASS on Friday.But of greatest concern is the new generation of nuclear-powered attack submarines armed with long-range cruise missiles that Russia has been developing.
Just this week, Russia conducted a successful test of the new submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile...
Russia carried out a successful test of its new Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile on Wednesday and will perform two more test launches in October and November, the head of its naval forces said.
The armed forces have boosted their military training and test drills since the start of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which Russia considers in its traditional sphere of influence.
The 12-meter long Bulava, or mace, has undergone numerous tests, some successful, and can deliver an impact of up to 100 times the atomic blast that devastated Hiroshima in 1945.Each one of these missiles weighs more than 36 tons and has a range of more than 5,000 miles.
But in a future conflict, they would likely only have to travel a short distance.
That is because Russia has developed super silent attacks subs that are virtually undetectable when submerged.
In a previous article, I talked about how the U.S. Navy refers to these virtually undetectable subs as "black holes"...Did you know that Russia is building submarines that are so quiet that the U.S. military cannot detect them? These "black hole" submarines can freely approach the coastlines of the United States without fear of being detected whenever they want. In fact, a "nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles" sailed around in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks without being detected back in 2012. And now Russia is launching a new class of subs that have "advanced stealth technology". The U.S. Navy openly acknowledges that they cannot track these subs when they are submerged. That means that the Russians are able to sail right up to our coastlines and launch nukes whenever they want.Most Americans don't realize this, but Russian subs can come cruising right up to our coasts without us knowing about it and launch missiles which will start hitting our cities within just a few minutes.
And if you do not think that this can ever happen, perhaps you should consider what a Russian general said about a preemptive nuclear strike just the other day...A Russian general has called for Russia to revamp its military doctrine, last updated in 2010, to clearly identify the U.S. and its NATO allies as Moscow's enemy number one and spell out the conditions under which Russia would launch a preemptive nuclear strike against the 28-member military alliance, Interfax reported Wednesday.Russia's military doctrine, a strategy document through which the government interprets military threats and crafts possible responses, is being revised in light of threats connected to the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war and the conflict in Ukraine, the deputy chief of the Kremlin's security council told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.Meanwhile, the Obama administration has discussed reducing the size of our already neutered strategic nuclear arsenal down to just
300 warheads.
Let us hope and pray that we never see a nuclear war between the United States and Russia.
Because if one does happen, there is a very strong possibility that America will not be the winner.
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ISIL Is Not Islamic'? Is Obuma Completely Insane?
By Michael Snyder, on September 11th, 2014
During his nationally televised speech on Wednesday night, Barack Obama told the entire nation that "ISIL is not Islamic". Well, then what in the world are they? Atheists? And what is Obama going to try to convince us of next? That the Pope is not Catholic? Of all of Obama's lies (and there certainly have been a lot of them), this one might take the cake. Of course ISIL is Islamic. That is why they call themselves The Islamic State. The stated goal of these religious radicals is to establish an Islamic caliphate which will be governed by a single supreme Islamic leader known as a khalifah. The law in the caliphate will be Islamic sharia law, and anyone not willing to convert to the form of Islam practiced by the Islamic State will be either killed or persecuted intensely. But because of Barack Obama's extreme political correctness, he simply cannot admit that the Islamic State has anything to do with Islam. As a result, he continues to pursue policies that will not solve anything in the Middle East and at this point our foreign policy in the region is a total joke.
When I first heard Obama say that "ISIL is not Islamic", I thought that I must have misunderstood something. But he actually said this. The following is an excerpt directly from the transcript of his speech...Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.And below I have posted a YouTube Video of the section of the speech in which he makes this statement...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_smHbl_kPqM&feature=player_detailpage#t=7
The rest of the world is laughing at us today.
When Obama said that ISIL is a "terrorist organization" with no agenda "other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way", he made it sound like this group has absolutely no ideology that is driving it.
But even ultra-liberal NBC News understands what ISIL really wants...ISIS' stated goal is to restore the "caliphate" — an Islamic state under the rule of a community of religious scholars guided by a supreme leader, the caliph or khalifah, which is generally taken to mean the successor to the Prophet Muhammad.ISIL itself has publicly stated that the new caliphate has been established "for the purpose of compelling the people to do what the Sharia (Allah's law) requires of them."
What about this is so hard for Obama to understand?Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, is calling himself "Caliph Ibrahim" these days. And his public statements leave no doubt about what the group is trying to do. Here are just three examples...#1 "Allah likes us to kill his enemies and make jihad"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-3817935
#2 "The establishment of a caliphate is an obligation. The religion cannot be in place unless the sharia (law) is established."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-3817935
#3 "God gave your mujahedeen brothers victory after long years of jihad and patience... so they declared the caliphate and placed the caliph in charge"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10948480/Islamic-State-leader-Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-addresses-Muslims-in-Mosul.htmlBut due to the extreme political correctness in Washington D.C., most of our politicians won't even use the term "Islamic State" even though that is exactly what the group is calling itself.
And according to the Washington Post, House Democrats had a "long debate" about whether to use the term "ISIS" or "ISIL" to refer to this organization. After much discussion, it was decided that "ISIL" was the more politically correct alternative...In the Capitol on Tuesday morning, House Democrats decided after a long debate that they too would call the extremist group ISIL — partly because ISIS was a name that first belonged to a goddess, and then to thousands of women who took said goddess's name, before a terrorist group claimed it. As Max Fisher at Vox reported last week, many women named Isis have been aggravated by the acronym favored by most people discussing the Islamic State. Isis Martinez, a woman in Miami, has been gathering signatures for a petition titled, "Thousands of Women are Named Isis, Please Petition the Media to Use the Accurate Acronym ISIL." She has 138 signatures.This is how bad political correctness has become in America.Well, I am about to use a term which will surely offend politically correct people everywhere..."Islamic Terror"You see, the cold, hard reality of the matter is that the Islamic State is far from alone. All over the world, radical jihadist organizations are committing unspeakable acts in the name of Islam. In case you are ignorant about these organizations, here are the names of just a few of them...Boko Haram
al-Nusrah Front
Hamas
Hezbollah
Army of Islam
Ansaru
Ansar Dine
Mujahidin Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis
Ansar al-Shari'a in Tunisia
Ansar al-Shari'a in Darnah
Ansar al-Shari'a in Benghazi
al-Mulathamun Battalion
Abdallah Azzam Brigades
Indian Mujahedeen
Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan
Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami
al-Shabaab
Islamic Jihad Union
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
Ansar al-Islam
Jemaah Islamiya
Asbat al-Ansar
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
The Muslim Brotherhood
Abu Sayyaf
The Haqqani network
Are you starting to get the picture?
Islamic terror is real, and it is not going to go away just because our politically correct politicians wished that it did not exist.
Those that truly love liberty and freedom should be against tyranny in all of the forms in which it is found.
And one of the forms that tyranny takes in our world today is radical Islam.
If radical Islamists had their way, we would all be forced to convert to Islam and live our lives under very strict sharia law.
Personally, that is not something that I would ever want for myself, for my family or for future generations of Americans.
What about you? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Paul Harvey: If I Were The Devil: Infowars Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJ96qaO3fA
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Paul Harvey's 'Warning For A Nation' [COMPLETE] Sean Hannity Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34SCTTsxJ4Q
Report: Boko Haram Has "Completely Surrounded" Vital City Of Maiduguri
(Boko Haram going for its own version of Mosul?)
Via BBC:(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77522000/jpg/_77522799_77315792.jpg)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29155529
Nigeria's militant Islamists have "completely surrounded" Maiduguri, the main city in north-eastern Borno state, traditional elders have warned.
The military needed to "fortify" the city, which had a population of more than two million, to prevent an assault "from all directions", they said.
The Boko Haram militants had "annexed" areas that were about 50km (30 miles) from Maiduguri, they said.
Boko Haram declared a caliphate in areas it controls last month.
Boko Haram has also captured territory in neighbouring Adamawa state, forcing people to flee into hills, where they are eating leaves, residents told the BBC.
BEF said the military needed to "urgently fortify" the city, where Boko Haram was founded in 2002.
"The insurgents have surrounded Maiduguri and are nursing the ambition of attacking the city from all directions," BEF said.
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Orono, MN Man On Watch List Skipped Search Before Denver Flight
(Security screening is relaxed during the lunch break)
Via KMSPhttp://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/26500858/minneapolis-man-slips-security-list-on-denver-flight
Most people have heard about the TSA's "no-fly" list, but this man was on something similar known as "the selectee list." The estimated 14,000 people on that list are still allowed to fly, but are selected for more rigorous screening and searches than other travelers. Yet, that's not how it worked a few days ago — not even close.
Last Saturday, Spirit Airlines flight 381 departed out of Humphrey Terminal en route to Denver from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. A U.S. citizen whose name was once on the no-fly list and is now on the secondary security screening list known as "quad S" had a boarding pass designated with four bold S's. It's one of the things the screeners at the security checkpoint look for when examining a boarding pass.
Anyone who is on that watch list is supposed to get a physical pat down, and their bags are subjected to an additional check which usually involves bomb-detecting sensors. None of that happened to the man on flight 381. A spokesperson for Spirit Airlines confirmed the incident and said told Fox 9 News it was actually a Spirit employee who noticed the ticket and called the TSA. By then, however, the flight was already halfway to Denver. When flight 381 landed, the FBI and TSA were waiting for the passenger at the gate, and he went through an additional bag screening after the flight.
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A Minneapolis imam from a mosque associated with men who had traveled to Somalia to fight for al-Shabaab was once on the no-fly list but eventually managed to get these name taken off. A TSA spokesperson would not confirm whether any individual is on a watch list; however, sources told Fox 9 News an internal review is under way and that the confusion during a lunchtime shift change at the checkpoint may be to blame. Still, that means the Quad S passenger slipped through three layers of security, and no one was any the wiser until he was already in the air.
EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story said the man flying aboard Spirit FL #381 from Minneapolis to Denver was a Somali-American. That is not the case. He is 22-year old Kahler Nygard of Orono. The confusion stems from two separate incidents occurring at the same time at the airport involving individuals who were both on the watch list. We will have an update on FOX 9 News at 9.
Arkansas State University Football Players Ordered To Remove Christian Cross From Helmets
(Some lib lawyer was apparently repulsed by the small crosses the players were using to memorialize a coach and player who had recently died)
Via Fox News:(http://www.arktimes.com/imager/b/blog/3451925/8ff6/crosses.PNG?cb=1410378234)
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/09/11/football-team-forced-to-remove-christian-crosses-from-helmets/
Football players at Arkansas State University were ordered to either remove a Christian cross decal from their helmets or modify it into a mathematical sign after a Jonesboro attorney complained that the image violated the U.S. Constitution.
The cross decal was meant to memorialize former player Markel Owens and former equipment manager Barry Weyer, said athletic director Terry Mohajir. Weyer was killed in a June car crash. Owens was gunned down in Tennessee in January.
Barry Weyer, Sr., told me that the players and coaches voluntarily decided to memorialize his son and Owens.
"The players knew they were both Christians so they decided to use the cross along with their initials," he said. "They wanted to carry the spirits of Markel and Barry Don onto the field for one more season."
It was a decision that had the full support of the university's athletic director.
"I support our students' expression of their faith," Mohajir said. "I am 100 percent behind our students and coaches."
However, the athletic director said he had no choice but to remove the crosses after he received a message from the university's legal counsel.
"It is my opinion that the crosses must be removed from the helmets," University counsel Lucinda McDaniel wrote to Mohajir. "While we could argue that the cross with the initials of the fallen student and trainer merely memorialize their passing, the symbol we have authorized to convey that message is a Christian cross."
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Hey Sarge get a load of this and what the Marines are doing.
The plane of the future....
This video link is fresh (for the public). It was made just six weeks ago in the Atlantic, just off Newport News (Hampton Roads), Virginia. These are the latest sea trials of the F-35B on the USS Wasp. They were very successful, with 74 VL's and STO's in a three week period. The aircraft is also stealth, and super-sonic.
The media and the program critics had predicted that we would burn holes in the deck and wash sailors overboard, neither of which happened. You will notice a sailor standing on the bow of the ship as the jet rotates. That was an intentional part of the sea trials.
No catapult... No hook.... It's a new world out there!
The shape and scope of warfare worldwide just changed.
Note the rank on the bottom of the canopy.
All are U.S. Marines
SEMPER FI
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THIS IS ISLAM!!!
Ladies and Germs I Give You The TRUTH About ISLAM!
I always finds it amusing to watch hard-core leftists in the Propaganda Media and CAIR criticize normal Americans who have a negative opinion concerning Islam. I suppose they both have their agenda to achieve by trying to shame Americans into not speaking out against the vile actions from followers of the 'Religion of Peace.'
Leftists want to normalize anything that runs contrary to American traditional values. They detest Mom, Baseball, and Apple Pie values that made America the strongest and most wealthy country in history. They prefer the Mohammad, Beheadings, and Allah disease of Islam that is rapidly destroying Europe because it runs contrary to our values. Liberals also advocate sexual, educational, behavioral abnormalities in America over our historical beliefs. They seek to destroy America by rotting it with their sick ideology.
Incidentally, Islam opposes all the things leftist support except the destruction of America.
On several occasions, Obuma has said Islam has played a great role in America from its inception. What a crock!! While stupid people (liberals) believe this BS (remember, they voted for Obuma twice!), normal Americans recognize Obuma and his ilk's agenda. And they are doing a tremendous job of destroying America's greatness. The only thing they have done right.
Muslims, on the other hand, want to destroy America... totally! Islam seeks a global caliphate based on 7th century barbarism. And they will use any tool to accomplish it. I believe they have nearly accomplished their goal of destroying England. Finally, PM Cameron has got the message. We hear Muslim groups every day crying Islamaphobia whenever anyone has the boldness and guts to speak the truth about Islam. The truth that everyone, including Muslims, knows is the truth! Truth is always a victim when leftists and/or religious fanatics are involved in the equation as you all know.
So why is it that so many Americans are Islamaphobic? Only one reason. Islam! Maybe it's because of these reasons we see or have experienced from "The Religion of Peace":***US hostages in Iran in 1979 (my first experience with Islam)
***1983 Beirut Marine barracks explosion ( Iknow, my brother and I were there)
***1993 attack on World Trade Center
***9/11
***Muslims dancing in the streets on 9/11 (including Muslims in America)
***Fort Hood murders by Muslim terrorist (redundancy alert)
***Numerous attempted and completed terrorist attacks from Muslims living in America
***23,818 Muslim terrorist attacks since 9/11 worldwide
***Child brides (as young as 7 years old)
***Clitorectomies
***Abysmal treatment of women (burqas, no rights, stonings, rapes, no education, etc)
***No rights for other religions in Muslim-controlled countries
***Desire for world control
***Beheadings, hangings, crucifixions, etc
***Rapes and sexual slavery for non-Muslims
***Murders of men, women and children (most recent example is ISIS)
***Islam contributes nothing to civilization, it only destroys
***Constant calls from Muslims worldwide for the destruction of The Great Satan and Israel
***Hatred of all that is not Muslim
***Ignorance of Muslims (i.e. Women in western clothing cause earthquakes)Those are just a few in the following article. (I'm sure you can add more putrid examples of Muslim behavior).
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Obuma said in his speech this week that "ISIL is not Islam. " Yes, ISIS is Islam. And what's worse... Islam is Islam.
Islam cannot be called a religion in the Western definition of religions. Religions in the West generally contribute in a positive manner to society. Christianity, for instance, teaches peace, love and helping others. Christianity teaches to love thy neighbor. Islam teaches to kill thy neighbor if a situation warrents it. As far as I'm concerned,Islam is a not a religion, simply a cult of death and control. A deranged, barbaric, political group. Nothing more.
Are there good Muslims? I'm sure there are but I couldn't tell you where to find them. I don't see or hear them protesting or speaking out against the so-called "radical elements of Islam." Perhaps because while every Muslim seeks the same goals of a worldwide caliphate and jihad, only some are more involved in making it happen. I'm not sure but as the saying goes, "not every Muslim is a terrorist but every terrorist is a Muslim."
I laugh when I see the hard-core sick leftist idiots on MSNBC defending Islam terrorist attack after terrorist attack. I know their agenda. .
Do you ever wonder why I have never written one harsh word about the actions of Buddhists? Because Buddhists are not trying to take over the world with violence, repression, ignorance, and hatred. If Buddhists begin to mirror the savagery of Islam, they will be on my sh!t list. Until then, they can just Budda away in peace. Fine with me.
Islam has made me hate Islam. It's not Islamaphobia, racism, or any other ridiculous term dreamed up by PC leftists. Islam has only Islam to blame.
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.....WARPH
Is Brit Alan Henning the next to be beheaded by ISIS?
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Alan Henning is shown in a video released Saturday as the purported next victim to be beheaded by ISIS.
The man who could be next on the ISIS kill list is a British aid worker who went to the Middle East to help refugees in northern Syria — and who thought just months ago that the militants would release him because he was on a mission of mercy.
Alan Henning was threatened at the end of a video released Saturday that shows the execution of fellow Brit David Haines.
Twitter users who claimed to know Henning say he's from the Manchester area.
"HOLY S--- I KNOW THIS MAN," said a tweet from @SaiyanSyrian. "The man ISIS are threatening to behead is an aid worker who went with a British humanitarian convoy to help Syrians."
Henning went to help refugees near Idlib when ISIS abducted him around Christmas.
A band of armed masked men separated him from his fellow aid workers, according to Middle East journalist Tam Hussein.
Britian's Foreign and Commonwealth Office was investigating the kidnapping behind the scenes, Hussein told the Daily News via Twitter.
Henning was warned not to go into Syria, but he did so anyway because he felt he was needed there.
"Henning was told not (to go into) Syria... but insisted on going in b/c he had put in so much time and effort in the project," wrote Hussein, who said he investigated Henning's disappearance for NBC News earlier this year. "Henning wanted to make sure aid reached the intended. Henning was genuinely trying to help the Syrian refugee crisis — nothing more. People spoke very highly of him."
Alan Henning is a British aid worker who was captured in northern Syria while helping refugees, according to Twitter users.
After being captured, Henning was put into an ISIS jail in Al-Dana, according to Dutch journalist Harald Doornbos, who interviewed a Syrian activist who met and talked to Henning during his stay there.
"(He was) later moved to Raqqa," Doornbos said.
Raqqa is considered the capital of the ISIS-controlled territories in Syria and Iraq. The U.S. tried — and failed — to rescue American hostages from a building just outside Raqqa over the summer.
Before he was taken to Raqqa, Henning was apparently in good spirits, telling the activist he believed ISIS would release him because he was doing aid work, Doornbos told Buzzfeed.com.
Breaking: Foley Family Threatened With Terror Charges If They Paid Ransom For Their Kidnapped Son
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The family of beheaded journalist James Foley was threatened by the Obama administration with terrorism charges if they paid a ransom to ISIS for their kidnapped son.
Aljazeera reported:http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/09/foley-family-threatened-with-terror-charge-2014912224527905440.html
The family of murdered American journalist James Foley says it was threatened by a US official with terrorism charges if they paid a ransom to his captors in Syria.
Foley's mother Diane told ABC News on Friday that a military officer working for Barack Obama's National Security Council had told them several times that they could face criminal charges if they paid a ransom.
"We took it as a threat and it was appalling," she said. "Three times he intimidated us with that message. We were horrified he would say that. He just told us we would be prosecuted. We knew we had to save our son, we had to try."
"We were just told to trust that he would be freed somehow, miraculously,"
Foley's mother said on CNN. "And he wasn't, was he?"
The president's spokesman refused to discuss conversations that the family had with officials, but said they involved people from different government branches.
"I'm not going to get into who said what in the context of these individual conversations," spokesman Josh Earnest said, but he reaffirmed the US policy not to pay ransoms because it could encourage further abductions.
The National Security Council was quoted as saying that the Foley family was informed of US laws banning terrorism financing but denied the family was told they could face charges if they made a ransom payment.Meanwhile, it has been widely reported that Obama's hesitancy to make a decision cost James Foley his life.
President Obama delayed a rescue mission for James Foley and others for 30 days. Obama spent that time "fretting over his image", playing golf and worrying his administration would be "Carterized" if the mission failed.
Syrian Rebels: We'll Use US Weapons to Fight Assad,
Not ISIS, Whether Obama Likes It or Not
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, September 13, 2014,
Since July, the Obama-backed Free Syrian Army, Al Nusra Front, and ISIS have paired together in order to fight the Syrian Assad regime.
According to one Free Syrian Army commander, the combining of forces with ISIS was needed in order to achieve "the greater good."
Since around that time ISIS has traveled around the Caliphate in their brand new Toyota Hilux trucks.... Paid for by US taxpayers(http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis-toyota-trucks.jpg)
Moderate Muslim groups signed a non-aggression pact with ISIS this week in a Damascus suburb.
Now this...
Moderate Muslim groups are going to use US arms to fight Assad but not ISIS.
Josh Rogin at The Daily Beast reported:If the U.S. arms the Free Syrian Army to fight ISIS, they are going to battle the Syrian regime at the same time—no matter what the White House says.
President Obama has reversed course, and is finally promising to openly arm the moderate Syrian opposition. But he wants the rebels to use those weapons to fight only ISIS, not the Bashar al-Assad regime. The Syrian rebels plan to use them to fight both at the same time.
For the Free Syrian Army, the loose conglomeration of opposition fighters that are not extremists and not aligned with the Assad regime, the war against ISIS began long before President Obama's prime time speech Wednesday night. They have been battling ISIS for a year and fighting the Assad regime for over three years. For all that time, they have been begging the United States to send them weapons, but the CIA program to arm them has been extremely limited. They are getting beaten on both fronts, badly.
"Because of our failure [the rebels] have been so badly harmed and so many killed," said Sen. John McCain, a longtime advocate for intervening in the Syrian conflict. "The blood is on their hands, the responsibility for the casualties that they have suffered unnecessarily, the responsibility lies with the president."
In the administration's haste to now throw military support behind the rebels, they are now committing to fighting alongside a force that is fighting Assad, possibly drawing the U.S. directly into the Syrian civil war.
After two years of rejecting calls from his own national security team to arm the FSA, President Obama announced Wednesday night that he now wanted to arm the FSA to fight against the terrorists who are on the march in Syria and Iraq. He said the only way to beat ISIS was to train and equip the moderate rebels—the same rebels he ignored for so long—and he called on Congress to authorize the mission.
"In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost," Obama said, using an alternate acronym for ISIS. "Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all."
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Huckabee Easily Tops GOP Field in Iowa with 21%
Mike Huckabee nearly laps the field with 21% of all registered Republicans saying they would support the former Arkansas governor if the 2016 Iowa caucuses were held today. I'm not sure why Huckabee would run in 2016 though. In 2012, he said of running for president, "All The Factors Say Go, But My Heart Says No"
If his heart's not in it, he shouldn't run. He will lose.
washingtonexaminer:
Mike Huckabee and Hillary Clinton are leading the way among Republicans and Democrats in Iowa in the latest poll on the 2016 presidential primary.
If the Republican presidential caucus were held now, Mike Huckabee would win 21 percent of the vote in Iowa; Clinton would win 53 percent, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
Rep. Paul Ryan, at 12 percent, is on Huckabee's heels, followed by Rand Paul (7 percent), Jeb Bush (6 percent) and Chris Christie (6 percent). Fifteen percent had no opinion.
Clinton far outpaced other potential Democrats. Her next closet challenger was Vice President Joe Biden at 15 percent. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (7 percent) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (5 percent) followed Biden. Twelve percent had no opinion.
What I've learned since my nephew
Sean Smith was killed in Benghazi on 9/11
By Michael Ingmire
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Damage at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen during a protest
by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being
produced in the United States in this September 11, 2012 file photo. REUTERS/Esam Al-Fetori/Files (Reuters)
Since the loss of my nephew Sean Smith in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack at the diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, I have learned many, many lessons. Here are five of them:
1. American citizens should never be afraid to confront their representatives and ask for justice: Since December 2012, when I sent a letter of support to Congressman Frank Wolf in his efforts to establish a select committee to investigate Benghazi, I have spoken to over 300 congressmen and senators about a variety of issues related to the attack.
Two years ago, I never would have considered calling my congressman. Now it seems like second nature.
We have all have lost loved ones due to government incompetence, negligence and continuing malfeasance.
We should never accept unacceptable behavior from our government representatives. In addition, do not let any politician or his representative tell you that he cannot talk to you if you are not from his district. The United States government should represent all Americans.
2. Whether "Fast and Furious," Extortion 17 or Benghazi, the Obama administration has failed to keep its word: I have an immense amount of sympathy for the families of the victims of "Fast and Furious" and Extortion 17, as well as the other Benghazi family members.
We have all have lost loved ones due to government incompetence, negligence and continuing malfeasance. The Obama administration wants to treat terrorists as criminals, like mafia chieftains or drug lords. There has not been any substantial prosecution regarding any of these matters. President Obama is still getting to the bottom of it.3. The face of terrorism continues: Al Qaeda and other terrorist factions have never been on the run in the presence of President Obama. Not a single terrorist considers our president to be a threat. The recent ISIS videos demonstrate that lack of fear in a most pronounced and horrifying manner. The weakness of our president's foreign policy leaves more and more dead bodies in its wake.
4. Our enemies can never be defeated as long as we continue to be politically correct: Manners and political correctness are wasted against the face of evil. Any act of war against the United States should be responded to swiftly and succinctly.
The ideology of Shariah law is antithetical to American principles. We do not subjugate women, cut off the heads of our enemies and drive planes into buildings to get closer to God.
5. We need to pay attention to who we give military and humanitarian aid to: In conjunction with French forces, we removed Qaddafi as the leader of Libya. We provided the rebels with 400 tons of weapons. Some of those American weapons were used to kill Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
The lessons of Benghazi are still unfolding.
I am looking forward to the Benghazi Select Committee Hearings which will get underway later this month. I plan on attending some of them.
I hope the American media will finally cover Benghazi as the true scandal that it is. With some exceptions, they have been missing in action.
To avoid future Benghazis and to fight terrorism, we need leaders who have a pronounced moral compass, as opposed to an embracement of a cult of personality. I hope the American electorate will become better informed. It voted for an incompetent president, twice.
Michael Ingmire is a musician, writer, and activist based in North Carolina. He is the uncle of Sean Smith, one of the four Americans killed during the attacks in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.
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When it comes to divas, the ones who would generally come to mind are Beyonce, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. But one who is clearly entitled to her rightful place on any list of arrogant, demanding, wildly overpaid female celebrities is none other than Hillary Clinton. It's true that, unlike the others, she can't carry a tune in a suitcase. But to be fair she has a talent they lack. She has the ability to crack glass with her unnerving cackle.(http://ssheltonimages.com/img/18/184/You_DONT_want_to_MESS_with_HILLARY_CLINTON_The_many_FACES_of_CRAZY_HILLARY.jpg)
It's bad enough that Mrs. Clinton went on TV and claimed that she and Bill were flat broke when they left the White House in 2001, trolling for sympathy from all us yokels who are struggling to survive Obama's economic policies. Apparently Hillary's contempt for everyone who isn't Hillary is so great that she assumed that none of us were aware that both she and Bill had multi-million dollar book deals just waiting for them to turn off the lights in the White House.
But it now comes out that if you're goofy enough to write her a check for $300,000 so she'll deign to show up and give one of her boring lectures, you better keep your checkbook handy. It seems she is every bit as demanding as Michelle Obama on a bad hair day. For starters, you will have to provide a private jet with seating for 16 for the roundtrip to your venue. You will also have to set aside 20 seats at the event for her entourage. Next, you'll have to provide her with a presidential suite at the hotel of her choice, along with three adjoining rooms for her various stooges. Finally, you'll have to pony up enough to pay for all their meals and phone calls, along with $1,250 for madam's stenographer.
In return, she will grant you 90 minutes of her time, the taking of no more than 50 photos with no more than 100 guests, and absolutely no press coverage.
In the meantime, the man she'd like to replace in the Oval Office is behaving even crazier than usual, giving speeches in which he goes from vowing to decimate the terrorists in Iraq to suggesting he would be willing to simply manage them. This is a wimp who couldn't manage a Pony League baseball team pretending he can manage the barbarians in the Middle East.
Speaking of those barbarians, why is it they can't settle on a name? First, they were ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria). Then, a couple of days later, they were calling themselves ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant). The next thing I knew, they were simply IS (the Islamic State.) But the day isn't over. Nobody's gone through so many name changes since Elizabeth Taylor wound up with a tombstone engraved Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky.
The way that Obama is dithering around, when even his vice-president, his secretary of defense, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Elizabeth Warren, and the Pope, are calling for decisive military action against the head-hacking butchers, I'm wondering if he thinks that voters this November will be sufficiently distracted by the Middle East – foreign policy being something that generally doesn't sway many voters – to forget about the economy, the racist policies of Eric Holder and ObamaCare. I'm reminded that George Will recently channeled Lily Tomlin's bag lady character who was wont to say, "No matter how cynical you are, you just can't keep up."
If Obama really sought advice when it comes to foreign affairs, he'd be wise to heed John Slawinski, who sums it up this way: "Whenever there's trouble in the world, foreign nations and their people should either say, 'Thank God the Americans are here' or 'God help us, the Americans are here.'"
Instead, we're stuck with a schmuck in the White House who insists that the world is safer than it's ever been, while acknowledging the world is always a messy place. Dismissing what is going on in Ukraine, North Korea, China, Iran, Syria and Iraq, as "messy" would qualify for a gold medal if the Olympics included a competition for English understatement.
I was recently ruminating about Israel's bleak future. One needn't be Nostradamus to see a vicious cycle of being attacked by her neighbors; eventually striking back and being condemned by the world community for doing so; agreeing to a ceasefire; then agreeing to go through the motions of negotiating with people sworn to annihilate you until the talks are inevitably interrupted by the next attack, which eventually will involve Iranian nukes.
I realize that Jews have lived there for thousands of years and that the Bible refers to Israel as the Jewish homeland, but in my head I see God tearing his hair out and hollering, "Can't anyone take a joke? Why on earth would anyone think I'd expect my Chosen People to live among evil, swinish cultists whose only purpose in life is to kill Jews and -- oh by the way -- settle on the only land for miles around that has no oil under it? Who in his right mind would move into such a neighborhood? Actually, when I was talking about a Promised Land, I had Des Moines in mind."
....Burt
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As you may have heard, when Obama finally got around to announcing that he thought the Islamic State was almost as dangerous as John Kerry, Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, had been insisting it was for several weeks, the first thing he did was tell us that the enemy was neither Islamic nor a state.
One could argue whether the area the terrorist group controls, an area the size of Belgium, is really a state. But, then, one could argue whether Belgium, a place the rest of us have only heard of because it was the birthplace of Agatha Christie's fictional detective, Hercule Poirot, is a state.
What is not open to debate is whether an outfit that calls itself the Islamic State is or isn't Islamic. The argument Obama made was that "ISIS is not Islamic because no religion condones killing innocents." The problem is that Islam doesn't consider Christians or Jews as innocents; it regards them as infidels whose very existence is an affront to Allah, and killing them is therefore nothing less than a religious obligation.
Making matters worse, Obama seriously went on to describe Yemen and Somalia as proof that his foreign policy has been a rousing success. That would be like Ben Affleck bragging about "Gigli" or the French pointing to the Maginot Line as proof of their military prowess.
The question that occurs to me, as it has ever since 9/11, when George W. Bush decided his mission in life was to take the heat off Muslims by constantly insisting that "Islam is a religion of peace," is why our leaders feel compelled to lie about our enemies.
Even when Major Hasan murdered and maimed more than 30 people at Fort Hood, the current administration insisted that in spite of his being a self-proclaimed jihadist who screamed "Allah Akbar" as he slaughtered his victims, it was just another unfortunate example of workplace violence and had nothing to do with Islamic terrorism.
What is it about Islam, which can best be described as a wolf in wolf's clothing, that has our commanders-in-chief mincing words and pussyfooting around the truth? Just for the record, Voodoo is practiced by about 60 million people worldwide. If it was practiced by a billion, would our presidents feel obliged to speak respectfully of a belief system that involves the sacrificing of goats, sheep and dogs, and the drinking of animal blood?
When you get right down to it, Voodoo has far more to recommend it than Islam. For one thing, they go in for a lot of dancing. For another, although I definitely disapprove of slitting the throats of dogs, it beats slitting the throats of women, children and American journalists, and personally, I'll take a good old-fashioned zombie over a jihadist any day of the week. For one thing, unlike the Islamic propagandists in CAIR, they don't get dressed up in Armani suits and go on TV, trying to fool people into thinking they're civilized human beings. For another thing, zombies always shuffle, making it easy to out-run them.
If there's one thing to be grateful for when it comes to the Islamic State, it's that it's run by dummies. I mean, they had a safe haven in Syria and they were marching through Iraq the way that Sherman zipped through Georgia, and not only was nobody in Europe or the Middle East raising a finger to stop them, but Obama was dismissing them as the junior varsity. It was nothing but clear sailing until the arrogant bastards decided to start videotaping their beheadings. Obviously, their intention was to terrify the world into a paralytic state, but, as they should have known, that is always the state of the world when it comes to confronting evil.(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wz4qyknloqw/U67h2MOw2II/AAAAAAAAB9Q/SkX-FMQtJZU/s1600/ObamaSyriaWarTeam.jpg)
However, rather than leave bad enough alone, they did something so barbaric, so in keeping with the demented cult dreamed up by Muhammad 14 centuries ago, that once people quit vomiting, even Obama, who speaks softly and carries a limp wrist, figured he better do something.
But as usual, Obama, to whom a declaration of war in the Middle East would be absolute proof that his foreign policies have all been a pile of mush, had no real idea what to do. After all, it doesn't look good when, on August 8th, you're telling everyone that arming the Free Syrian Army is a nutty notion because they're all just a bunch of "doctors, farmers and pharmacists," and, on September 10th, your big plan calls on them to do our fighting in Syria.
So far as I'm concerned, it is always a rotten idea to trust Muslims to fight on your side. We saw how well that worked in Afghanistan, where Afghan soldiers killed nearly as many American soldiers as the Taliban did; and again in Libya, where we trusted our so-called allies to provide security for our consulate in Benghazi.
Still, when one hears Obama pooh-pooh citizen soldiers, one has to wonder if he and his speechwriters are totally unaware of American history or if he's merely expressing his contempt for the rag tag group of doctors, farmers and pharmacists, who somehow managed to send the Redcoats back to England with their tails between their legs?
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There are any number of jobs that I couldn't handle physically, such as being a professional athlete or a bouncer at a nightclub; and some I wouldn't consider because of moral objections, such as being a criminal defense attorney. But, after reading Ron Kessler's latest book, "The First Family Detail," there's one I couldn't handle for any number of reasons, and that's being a Secret Service agent on a presidential detail.
I mean, imagine swearing to take a bullet or several bullets intended for Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. From having read Kessler's earlier "In the President's Secret Service," I already knew that being assigned to protect Jimmy Carter, John Kerry or Hillary Clinton was tantamount to a prison sentence because of their blatant contempt for those sworn to sacrifice their lives for them. But when it came to guys like Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton, the day-to-day job had less to do with protecting them against assassins than it did with making sure the First Ladies didn't trip over their various bimbos.
Speaking of which, I had a good laugh recently when a bevy of Hollywood bimbos whined that hackers had managed to upload their nude photos and send them out on the Internet. It seems to me that if you feel the need to take selfies of yourself in the buff, hackers are the least of your problems.
Frankly, I see little difference between all this and the nudity they often display in their professional lives on screen, aside from the fact that they aren't compelled to defend this form of exhibitionism as essential to the plot of some cinematic stinkeroo.
I'm reminded of a comic strip I saw a while back. Two guys are seated at the counter of a restaurant filled with people engrossed in photographing themselves and one another on their electronic devices. The first guy says, "I read that the government wants to install cameras everywhere to record our every move." His companion, the only person in the room not focused on one of those ubiquitous gizmos, skeptically replies, "Scary."
Something I have never understood is why whenever someone on TV, be it Dean Martin in the old days or Bill Maher today, indicates a great fondness for booze or marijuana, the audience feels called upon to laugh knowingly. Is it intended to show that they, too, like nothing better than killing off as many of their brain cells as is humanly possible? Or is it supposed to make them seem sophisticated in spite of the fact it only makes them seem like teenage bumpkins?
Speaking of bumpkins, in 2007, Sen. Barack Obama announced, "The world will have confidence in America when I'm the president." It's bad enough that events have proven him to be as wrong as a person could be, but imagine the gall, the hubris, the sheer loopiness, required to make such a grandiose pronouncement.
Clearly, we have a commander-in-chief who is every bit as delusional as John Hinckley, who not only believed that actress Jodie Foster would be smitten with him if he could somehow manage to assassinate Ronald Reagan, but never even considered just sending her flowers and a box of candy.
I suspect that even if you'd pointed out to Hinckley that Ms. Foster was a lesbian, he'd have dismissed that as a mere hiccup.
Instead, like Joe E. Brown in "Some Like it Hot," when his beloved Daphne (Jack Lemmon) finally whips off his wig and confesses, "I'm not even a woman," Hinckley would have said, "Nobody's perfect."(http://www.dumpaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/funny-Obama-speech-White-House-jokes-thumb.jpg)
But, clearly, every time Obama gazes into a mirror, he finds reason to disagree with Joe E. Brown, even if nobody else does. I mean, what can he possibly be thinking when an American journalist is beheaded in Iraq and he flies off to yet another fundraiser? And when a second journalist is beheaded a week later, he's the only person in America who not only isn't screaming for blood, but doesn't even take a moment to offer the man's family the nation's condolences.
Instead, when he went on TV to admit that even a year after ISIS turned up on our radar and quickly became our worst nightmare he didn't have a strategy to deal with the savages, the best he could come up with was the banal "We don't want to put the cart in front of the horse."
"Mr. President, forget about not having a strategy to annihilate these barbarians," I would have loved to have said to him, "you don't have a horse and your cart has a broken axle and four busted wheels."
In other news, it appears that O.J. Simpson has decided to become a Muslim. Some cynics claim this is the latest bit of evidence showing Simpson to be psychotic. (http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/l/E/osama_oj.jpg)
However, I, who always like to think the best of people, have an alternate theory. I'm sure we all recall that, upon being acquitted in 1995 of murdering Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, Simpson vowed to track down the real killers, and if he hadn't been distracted by golf, loose women and being arrested for robbery and kidnapping, he just might have done it.
By converting to Islam, I believe Simpson thinks it will make it easier for him, once he's released from jail in 2017, to resume his relentless pursuit of the villains if, perchance, they managed to elude him 19 years ago by scooting off to Yemen, Syria or Qatar.
...Burt
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When I see that even now a great many Americans feel it's their duty to parrot the lie that most Muslims are peace-loving people, I find myself wondering how many times these yokels have purchased the Brooklyn Bridge.
Nobody, after all, would suggest that every single Muslim in the world dances a jig each time jihadists tunnel into Israel with the aim of kidnapping and killing women and children or that they all celebrated the recent beheading of James Foley. But what proof do we have that they don't? When you realize that Muslims in the west have never stopped donating to Islamic terrorist groups or stopped joining their ranks, why shouldn't we suspect the worst of them?
I have been writing for years that people who claim to see an iota of difference between Nazism and Islam are fooling themselves, and the basis for their delusion is that they have been raised to regard one as a nationalist movement (profane) and the other as a religion (sacred). But in each case, they were a vile concoction of both, and both have sought world domination. Each boasted a bible ("Mein Kampf" in one case, the Quran in the other), and each was inspired by a loathsome degenerate (Hitler in one case, Mohammad in the other).(http://pepperhawkfarm.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/345-muslim-outrage.jpg)
Speaking of Islam, I think it's worth noting that the American-born Douglas McCain, who was killed while fighting on the side of ISIS, and the British-born Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, who apparently beheaded journalist James Foley, had both been rappers in their home country. Being a rap artist is not generally on the resume of those devoted to a cause that frowns on music, but I suppose you'd have to stretch the definition of music to its breaking point in order to include rap.(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t209/Sembronoh/remoteImage-13.gif)
I knew that the difference between rap and crap is just one tiny letter, and that only illiterates would regard its lyrics as poetry. I also knew that it had the power to rot minds and destroy brain cells by the millions, but until Bary and McCain came along, I hadn't realized that it could also lay waste to human souls.
What does it say about Islam that people born and raised in the nations that could boast of heritages that included Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Shakespeare, Dickens and Churchill, could produce such monsters? The silver lining is that McCain is dead and Bary very likely will soon join him. Then they can rap to their heart's content for all eternity, competing to come up with new rhymes for "burning," "fire," "brimstone" and "Hades."
Closer to home, we have our own problems. One of them is that we have an administration that saw fit to send three White House representatives to the memorial service for street thug Michael Brown, but not one person to the memorial for James Foley. But why would they? After all, they not only banished the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, but snubbed the funeral service for Margaret Thatcher.(http://media.cagle.com/62/2010/10/05/84027_600.jpg)
I was recently reminded that Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize even before he had time to move into the White House and unpack his autographed copy of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals." So far as the goofballs in Oslo were concerned, it was enough that he was a man of color and a left-winger who had defeated a Republican in a presidential election.
Some people were shocked that a man whose most memorable accomplishments as a state senator and a member of the U.S. Senate was setting records for voting "Present," but not I. I felt he was every bit as deserving as such earlier recipients as Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Yasser Arafat. The fact is the easiest way in the world to tell if someone is a jerk is to find that he's picked up a Nobel Peace Prize along the way. One can pretty much tell what Swedes think of Norwegians when you realize that the Peace Prize is the one they farmed out to them, while retaining Literature, Chemistry, Economics, Medicine and Physics, for themselves.
The sad truth is that the Norwegians always hand the Peace Prize to left-wing presidents, prime ministers, diplomats and high-sounding organizations, but the ingrates never gave it to the RAF or the U.S. military or to anyone, for that matter, who risked life and limb to rescue them from Nazi domination.
Even though Rand Paul is eager to cast himself as a clear-eyed realist and Hillary Clinton as a war hawk, my own take on the matter is that he's a pinheaded isolationist who would have America remove itself from the world stage and allow the likes of Iran, Russia, ISIS, China and North Korea, to vie for world supremacy.
As for Mrs. Clinton, why would anyone believe anything she says about national defense? After all, not only is her contempt for the military legendary, but she now confesses that the only reason she supported the surge in Afghanistan was because her primary opponent in 2008 was opposed to it, and so, for purely political reasons, she felt it imperative to differentiate herself from Barack Obama.
Finally, I recently saw a 1994 movie on TV. It was "Corrina, Corrina," and it starred Ray Liotta as the father of a young daughter who has just lost his wife, and Whoopi Goldberg as a housekeeper who fortuitously enters their lives.
The only reason the movie is worth mentioning is because at one point, Goldberg tells the seven-year-old girl that an angel took her mother to heaven. This enrages Liotta, who is a proud atheist. When his daughter asks him why he became angry, he tells her that talk about heaven and angels is the stuff that people tell each other to make them feel better. When she then says, "What's wrong with that?" he has no answer.
Whenever I would hear professional atheists such as the late Christopher Hitchens debating such matters, my response was a big yawn. I mean, if a belief system gives people comfort at the very worst times in their lives and, oh by the way, helps to keep them morally centered, what is the downside?
Besides, it's not something that Hitchens was in any position to debunk. In fact, once you got past the English accent and the polysyllabically-infested put-downs of Christians, it all came down to a way to pay for his booze and cigars.
In the final analysis, when it comes to deciding between doubters and believers, it can simply be a matter of aligning oneself with one group or the other. In other words, would you prefer to march into battle shoulder-to-shoulder with C.S. Lewis, Shakespeare, Bach, Voltaire, Descartes, Thomas Aquinas and G.K. Chesterton or join forces with such notable atheists as Brad Pitt, Mick Jagger, Jodie Foster, Jesse Ventura, Lance Armstrong, Howard Stern and Bill Maher?(http://www.londontheatredirect.com/img/news/WHOOPISBACKINTHEHABIT.jpg)
....Burt
Free Thinkers Anonymous Complaint Means Memorial To
Sun Prairie, WI Crash Victim Must Go
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(Time to start charging the free thinkers and the offended with the theft of oxygen)
Via Wisconsin State Journa:lhttp://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/anonymous-complaint-means-memorial-to-sun-prairie-crash-victim-must/article_26e66f3b-152d-592d-978b-50ddeb309786.html
A professionally designed and installed memorial honoring a Sun Prairie woman killed by a drunken driver must be removed because an anonymous resident complained about it, the state said.
Department of Transportation guidelines say that if even one person complains about a roadside memorial, it must go.
The lead organizer of the memorial to Maureen Mengelt said he was made aware of the rule by a DOT official before embarking on the effort but never dreamed anyone would actually complain.
"We tried to put up the most respectful, beautiful memorial we could, and now one person gets to anonymously complain and all of those good intentions mean nothing? It's a terrible rule," said Matt Glowacki of Sun Prairie.
The elevated bronze plaque is anchored to a concrete pad. It is probably at least 20 feet from the road and does not pose a driving hazard, Glowacki said. The Sun Prairie City Council approved its installation following a community fundraising effort that collected about $2,800.
Mengelt, 52, a mother of three who was heavily involved in school and community events, was out for an afternoon run in Sun Prairie on April 7, 2013, when she was struck and killed by Bruce Burnside, a Lutheran bishop at the time. His blood alcohol level was 0.128 percent. The legal limit for driving in Wisconsin is 0.08 percent.
Burnside was sentenced to 10 years in prison on July 31. The day before, the memorial was installed in a grassy area on state-owned land near the intersection of highways 151 and 19 (Windsor Street), the site of the crash. It replaced impromptu memorials in which people left running shoes.
All seemed fine until Sept. 11, when the Dane County Public Works, Highway and Transportation Department received a complaint from an anonymous resident and passed it along to the DOT, according to DOT spokesman Michael Bie. Bie said he did not know the nature of the complaint. Dane County highway officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Bie said the DOT's policy on roadside memorials is based on a state statute that says "no sign shall be placed within the limits of any street or highway except such as are necessary for the guidance or warning of traffic." While that language essentially forbids roadside memorials, Bie said the DOT recognizes the emotional connection people have to them and takes a less-strict approach, often letting them remain.
However, DOT's policy says a memorial will be removed if it poses a safety concern, interferes with routine maintenance, falls into disrepair or is the subject of a complaint. The latter is the case in Sun Prairie, Bie said.
News of DOT's decision spread fast. Rep. Gary Hebl, D-Sun Prairie, said he was contacted Friday by Sun Prairie Mayor Jon Freund. Hebl said he tried to immediately reach someone at DOT but couldn't so he drove to the memorial and taped a piece of paper over part of it that reads "DOT: Contact me BEFORE sign removal."
He left his State Assembly business card and wrote his cellphone number in large letters on the piece of paper, which was still on the memorial Wednesday.
"The last thing I want is for the Mengelts to go through any more pain or suffering," Hebl said in an interview Wednesday.
Hebl said he has now had a chance to talk with the DOT and it appears the memorial will need to be moved. Sun Prairie City Administrator Aaron Oppenheimer said the city will work with the Mengelt family and the memorial's organizers to find a suitable site on city property. Bie said DOT has not given the city a deadline.
One likely site is Orfan Community Park, Oppenheimer said. An annual 5K run in Mengelt's honor is now held there.
Proceeds from that race benefit the Maureen Mengelt Memorial Fund, which has raised more than $90,000 in 18 months, said Kevin Mengelt, the victim's husband. The largest chunk, $37,200, was donated toward the construction of the Sun Prairie Ice Arena. Other money has funded high school soccer shelters and music camp scholarships, among other things.
Such generosity and community spirit is one reason Glowacki said he got involved in the effort. He did not know the Mengelt family but approached Kevin Mengelt about a memorial after becoming increasingly impressed with everything he learned about Maureen Mengelt.
The thought of having to move the memorial far from the crash site gets Glowacki pretty steamed.
"Context is at least part of the story," he said. "You don't put a Pearl Harbor memorial in the middle of Afghanistan."
Kevin Mengelt said he has nothing but high praise for everyone who worked so hard to install the memorial. "I'm frustrated someone would complain," he said. "It just seems mean-spirited."
He said he stops by the memorial on his daily runs and touches it.
Lawmaker: Require Arizona Students To Pass Citizenship Test
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(Schools would have to change the curriculum)
Via Arizona Republic:http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/southwest-valley/2014/09/17/lawmaker-require-arizona-students-pass-citizenship-test/15798933/
All high-school students in Arizona would be required to pass the same 100-question civics test required for U.S. citizenship to graduate under a proposal from a state lawmaker.
State Rep. Steve Montenegro, R-Litchfield Park, announced the plan Wednesday that he said would ensure that all Arizona high-school graduates have a basic understanding of civics.
Montenegro is working with other state legislators and officials from the Civics Education Initiative, part of the Civics Proficiency Institute, to craft legislation for the requirement.
Every single student in Arizona and across the United States of America should have basic knowledge and understanding of American government. Civics is just common sense. So, this Civics Education Initiative ... is a common-sense approach at achieving that goal," Montenegrosaid at a press conference with supporters of the proposal,including Rep. John Allen, R-Scottsdale, and Jay Lawrence, representative-elect for District 23.
Lucian Spataro, president and CEO of the Joe Foss Institute, another civics organization affiliated with the initiative, cited a study from the Pew Research Center that found that only about a third of Americans can name the three branches of government.
Other studies, he said, found that less than a quarter of high-school students in Arizona and Oklahoma passed the U.S. Citizenship Civics Test.
The initiative is intended to bring a renewed focus on civics in education, said Sam Stone, national campaign manager for the Civics Education Initiative.
"This a first step to increasing civics education in schools, renewing the importance and focus on civics," he said.
Take the sample test and see if you can pass it.
Find more test questions at www.uscis.gov.
You must score a 60% or higher to pass. I got 100%. Good Luck!:
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/17/us-citizenship-test-quiz/15803779/
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Poll: 60% Of Americans Consider Obama A "Weak Leader"
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(And calling Obuma "weak" is being extremely generous)
Via YouGov/Economist:http://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/yra4dy2iqu/econTabReport.pdf
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With Obama, Hillary, and the Republicans, there's not any hope for America except more of the same.
Quote from: redcliffsw on September 19, 2014, 07:19:18 AM
With Obama, Hillary, and the Republicans, there's not any hope for America except more of the same.
There is always 'hope' for America, Red. What you need to do is run as a candidate for the "Do Nothing Party" ... aim high... run for U.S. Senator from the state of KS. Check it out: http://donothingparty.com/
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Do Nothing Party
ISIS Creates "Islamic State Police Force" In Iraq
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(Again, nothing our so-called "ally" Saudi Arabia doesn't have)
BAGHDAD, Sept 19 (Reuters) – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/19/islamic-state-police-iraq_n_5848584.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000017
Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq's northwest Nineveh province have created a police force to "implement the orders of the religious judiciary," according to a well-known militant Islamist website.
Photos on the website showed armed men in black clothing with "Islamic Police Nineveh State" printed on the arm. The police forces were in freshly painted police cars and one photo showed militiamen on a river boat.
It was not clear when the photos were posted or when the police force was established.
The text on the website said the force would "maintain order and arrest culprits and the corrupt." The text said it would be different from police forces in other states, which it described as "a tool to suppress dissent."
Chuckle Of The Day: Al Jazeera Sues Al Gore
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(Ah so much fun when the silly hoxer gets, well, "Gored", by the equally ridiculous Islamist-promoting network)
NEW YORK (AP) — Al Jazeera America is suing former Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, the former owners of the TV network that became Al Jazeera America.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AL_GORE_AL_JAZEERA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-09-19-13-17-10
The parties are fighting over money that is being held in escrow. The former vice president and Hyatt, the founder of Hyatt Legal Services, sued the network last month saying that it was improperly withholding tens of millions of dollars placed in escrow when Al Jazeera bought Current TV for $500 million.
Al Jazeera America says it is entitled to the money because Gore and Hyatt agreed to indemnify the network for claims made against Current TV, but didn't live up to their promise. It accuses the pair of "misrepresentations" and says they received hundreds of millions of dollars from the sale.
Gore and Hyatt filed a lawsuit against the network in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The two men each owned 20 percent of Current TV.
The Qatar-owned news channel took over Current TV's signal last August and hired U.S. TV news veterans including Soledad O'Brien and John Seigenthaler. It is available in almost 60 million U.S. homes.
MTV Set To Air Documentary About Transgender Youths
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(This is exactly what people want to see. Anything to push an agenda... destroying society one reality TV show at a time. Very easy to fill empty brains with trash.)Via CNS News / AP:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/mtv-air-documentary-about-transgender-youths
Laverne Cox will host a documentary on MTV and Logo next month that profiles seven young transgender people.
The special, "Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word," will air simultaneously on the two channels on Oct. 17. Cox, a transgender actress, was nominated for an Emmy Award for her role in Netflix's "Orange is the New Black."
After the documentary, Logo and MTV's web site will air a forum where Cox and the documentary's cast members answer questions from viewers about their lives. MTV personality SuChin Pak will help lead the "Trans Forum" discussion.
8 Ways The Obuma Administration Is Blocking Information
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http://blog.ap.org/2014/09/19/8-ways-the-obama-administration-is-blocking-information/
The fight for access to public information has never been harder, Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee said recently at a joint meeting of the American Society of News Editors, the Associated Press Media Editors and the Associated Press Photo Managers. The problem extends across the entire federal government and is now trickling down to state and local governments.
Here is Buzbee's list of eight ways the Obama administration is making it hard for journalists to find information and cover the news:
1) As the United States ramps up its fight against Islamic militants, the public can't see any of it. News organizations can't shoot photos or video of bombers as they take off — there are no embeds. In fact, the administration won't even say what country the S. bombers fly from.
2) The White House once fought to get cameramen, photographers and reporters into meetings the president had with foreign leaders overseas. That access has become much rarer. Think about the message that sends other nations about how the world's leading democracy deals with the media: Keep them out and let them use handout photos.
3) Guantanamo: The big important 9/11 trial is finally coming up. But we aren't allowed to see most court filings in real time — even of nonclassified material. So at hearings, we can't follow what's happening. We don't know what prosecutors are asking for, or what defense attorneys are arguing.
4) Information about Guantanamo that was routinely released under President George W. Bush is now kept secret. The military won't release the number of prisoners on hunger strike or the number of assaults on guards. Photo and video coverage is virtually nonexistent.
5) Day-to-day intimidation of sources is chilling. AP's transportation reporter's sources say that if they are caught talking to her, they will be fired. Even if they just give her facts, about safety, for example. Government press officials say their orders are to squelch anything controversial or that makes the administration look bad.
6) One of the media — and public's — most important legal tools, the Freedom of Information Act, is under siege. Requests for information under FOIA have become slow and expensive. Many federal agencies simply don't respond at all in a timely manner, forcing news organizations to sue each time to force action.
7) The administration uses FOIAs as a tip service to uncover what news organizations are pursuing. Requests are now routinely forwarded to political appointees. At the agency that oversees the new health care law, for example, political appointees now handle the FOIA requests.
8 ) The administration is trying to control the information that state and local officials can give out. The FBI has directed local police not to disclose details about surveillance technology the police departments use to sweep up cellphone data. In some cases, federal officials have formally intervened in state open records cases, arguing for secrecy.
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Why is it that one administration after another insists on carrying on an unseemly love affair with Islam? For several years, George W. Bush kept telling us that Islam was a religion of peace when, clearly, it was the one religion in the entire world that wasn't.(http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_Bow_Saudi_Dub_Sheik.jpg)
These days, we have Obama curtsying to sheiks, imans and ayatollahs, every chance he gets. For good measure, the eminent theologian, John Kerry, who merely moonlights as the secretary of state, claimed, at a ceremony to appoint Texas lawyer Shaarik Zafer to be special representative to Muslim communities, that it was America's biblical responsibility to confront climate change and to protect vulnerable Muslim majority countries. "It's a responsibility that comes from God," he insisted, without clarifying whether or not he was referring to Obama.(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Uy2jpMqNnio/TBeMzniaoSI/AAAAAAAAAG0/d15stjCCLsw/s1600/muslim11.jpg)
How reassuring it is to know that the State Department is being overseen by someone so deeply concerned with the well-being of our archenemies. And how is it that we need to have a special envoy to Muslim communities when we seem to get along fine without envoys to Catholic, Jewish, Presbyterian, Baptist, Hindu, Shinto or Amish, communities?(http://thefinereport.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Easter-message1.jpg)
In this particular case, we had Kerry paying homage to two cults simultaneously. The first consists of those who insist that global warming is anything but a hoax created in order to enrich those invested in so-called green energy operations and the politicians who reside deep inside the pockets of the ecology nuts who exchanged their brains for membership in the Sierra Club. The second is the cult of Islam, which only pretends to be a religion so that pinheaded barbarians can pray to something besides their goats.
Yet another cult is the one devoted to personalities, which is why I despise politicians who are described as charismatic, and why I take exception to those who claim that someone like Gov. Scott Walker, for instance, shouldn't be the GOP presidential candidate in 2016. Such louts dismiss competence as boring. The problem is that charisma inevitably gets you someone like Hitler, Mussolini, Peron, Castro, Huey Long, Obama and Hugo Chavez.
Speaking of Chavez, the late, unlamented, dictator, left-wing Venezuelans have altered the Lord's Prayer in places to read, "Our Chavez, who art in Heaven...." and "lead us not into the temptation of capitalism." Over the Church's objections, Chavez's successor, Nicolas Maduro, has endorsed the new version.
Closer to home, we have Berkeley's city council members, who are forever in competition with their loony colleagues in San Francisco, deciding to dispense free marijuana to anyone making less than $32,000-a-year. I suppose now that the gauntlet has been thrown down, Frisco will have no choice but to offer free heroin.
As if it's not embarrassing enough that the chief propagandist for ISIS, Ahmad Abousamra, is an American who hails from Boston, it so happens he has dual-citizenship. Thanks to open borders, we are barely a sovereign nation these days, but allowing for dual citizenship is totally beyond the pale. That is especially the case when the other nation, as is the case with Mr. Abousamra, happens to be Syria, one of our archenemies. The question that comes to mind is how, even if we get our hands on the bum, the U.S. can even indict and convict him for treason when he is fighting for one of his two countries.
If someone told you that global-warming is the greatest crisis facing America, as Hillary Clinton recently stated, you would question her ability to run a lemonade stand, let alone a nation. But here she is announcing that a climate hoax is a greater threat than China and North Korea threatening our Far East allies; greater than ISIS and Iran threatening Israel and America; and greater than Russia threatening all of Eastern Europe. To me, the only threat that comes close to these others is the threat of Hillary Clinton being returned to the White House.(http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/i/u/1/hillary_testicle_lockbox.jpg)
You would think that so long as the law of averages hasn't been overturned that liberals would occasionally be right about something, but, as you may have noticed, when it comes to liberals, including those in the White House, laws, even natural ones, don't pertain. So it is that this administration keeps assuring the worst villains on the face of the earth that they needn't ever worry about "boots on the ground," which has quickly become the most over-used expression since "at this point in time." Whenever I hear Obama or one of his stooges utter those words, I find myself imagining a kid finally confronting a schoolyard bully and assuring his tormentor: "Don't worry, I promise I won't punch you in the nose."
But there are times when even Obama, Kerry and Clinton, can't handle all the heavy lifting. At such times, Barbara Boxer is always ready to step in and even defend the administration's cover-up of the Benghazi massacre, insisting, "We shouldn't try to turn a tragedy into a scandal."(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_huaP4Sk-ARc/TCl_wH1qAbI/AAAAAAAABsE/I3tUucIhiGk/s1600/Barbara_Boxer_Doll_B.jpg)
Well, Madam Senator, we conservatives didn't do the turning. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton did that when they spent weeks blaming the massacre on a silly video they knew played no part in provoking the terrorist attack. They might as well have blamed it on "Gone with the Wind," ocean currents or sunspots.
As you may have noticed, liberals are always asserting their expertise when it comes to things such as the economy, national defense and the climate, things they know nothing about. Worse yet, because the educational system is such a hash, they generally have the academic credentials with which to buffalo the unsuspecting.
For instance, what constantly amazes me about those on the Left who keep demanding that corporate taxes be raised is that they seem to be totally unaware of who in the final analysis pays those taxes. It's we the consumers. As even a child would realize, all the corporations do is add the taxes to their other expenses and pass them along in the price we pay for their products or services.
It's sad but also shameful that those so-called progressives who spend their lives demanding that the fat cats be soaked are apparently unaware that it is they, along with the rest of us, who wind up getting drenched.
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....Burt
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On the chance that for one reason or another Hillary Clinton decides not to run in 2016, Joe Biden wants us all to know that, after spending most of his adult life at the public trough, he is willing to sacrifice his golden years to being president. It's worth noting that he would be 72 years old when he'd move into the White House, meaning he would be 80 when he moved out. One look at Obama's white hair should remind everyone that even a president who's always taking off for Martha's Vineyard or Hawaii, seems to age at supernatural speed.
Inasmuch as I'm 75, I wouldn't want to hold his age against him, especially when there are so many other, even more compelling, reasons Biden shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office, even as a member of a tour group.(http://www.politifake.org/image/political/1105/liberal-intelligence-biden-quote-ignorance-political-poster-1306215322.jpg)
For one thing, although he was sold to us in 2008 as a man with a great deal of experience when it came to foreign affairs, as a senator he was inevitably wrong. And for the past six years, his chief function was cheerleading for the worst president in U.S. history. (http://thisisthestoryof.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/big-f-ing-deal-05.jpg?w=470)
Will any of us ever forget the moment when the biggest potty-mouth in Washington leaned in close to Obama's left ear and told him that the Affordable Care Act was "a big f-----g deal!"(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JpNvfe-2QyE/UCzxWzVLeLI/AAAAAAAABPg/7l6cYEvTPs8/s1600/JoeBiden2.jpg)
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In "The First Family Detail," Ron Kessler's latest book about the Secret Service, Kessler reminds us that in 2011, Obama put Biden in charge of cutting government waste. As executive decisions go, that ranks right up there with putting a fox in charge of the White House chicken coop. At least a fox wouldn't cost taxpayers a quarter of a million dollars a year flying between the coop in Washington, D.C., and his den in Wilmington, Delaware. Furthermore, I very much doubt that -- unlike Biden -- any self-respecting fox would charge the Secret Service $2,200-a-month for the cottage that the agents assigned to protect him are forced to rent.(http://www.politifake.org/image/political/1210/joe-biden-d-bag-battaile-politics-1350095223.jpg)
This is the same vice-president who spent Labor Day telling UAW members in Detroit: "It's time to take back America." His rallying cry drew predictable cheers from the assembled louts. But how is it possible that not even one person in the crowd raised his hand and asked, "Do you mean take it back from you and Obama?"
A Missouri state senator, Jamilah Nasheed, has been all over TV, insisting that Robert McCulloch can't be trusted to prosecute the Michael Brown case for the novel reason that he didn't win a majority of the black vote. I found that fascinating because Barack Obama didn't win the majority of the white vote in 2008 or 2012. In fact, no Democratic presidential candidate has done so since LBJ back in 1964, which explains the Democrats' endless pandering to black voters during the half century since then.
One of my readers, Penny Alfonso, has suggested that one of the most over-used expressions in America is the one that goes "We need to have a national conversation about (race) (guns) (police violence)," pointing out that, in spite of what Eric Holder claims to the contrary, we already have these conversations. They take place all the time at dinner tables, in the workplace, in taverns, ballparks and churches.
The fact is I hear from more people than most congressmen. What's more, they hear back from me. In my experience, writing to one's representative is a waste of a postage stamp. You either get a canned one-size-fits-all-occasions note or nothing at all.(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FHiub7JgtqQ/Tuov6ytgMaI/AAAAAAAAFgA/ZT8cep52h1U/s1600/eric_holder.jpg#Holder%20Lies%20600x350)
Generally, when people call for a national conversation, they, like Attorney General Holder mean, shut up, listen to my litany of grievances, apologize for being (a racist), (a misogynist), (a homophobe), (a patriotic gun owner) or (a Christian) and admit the error of your ways.
Equally annoying is the statement to which so many members of this sleazy administration are addicted: "I can't possibly comment in the midst of an ongoing investigation."(http://brooklynbrewery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/WCS_Dec-4_crop-976x1024.jpg)
Frankly, I don't know why people decide to run off and be war correspondents, but I would suggest that anyone who decides that his destiny demands that he venture into Middle East conflicts pack a poison pill along with his toilet paper and bottled water. It would sure beat getting beheaded by some Muslim creep. And it certainly makes for a better obituary than one that happens to mention that your last words were propaganda statements attacking America.
Speaking of the Middle East, the king of Saudi Arabia recently said that people shouldn't support terrorists. I'm not sure if you file that one under Irony or Hypocrisy. After all, the Saudi royal family has been paying off Muslim extortionists for decades in the hope that the Islamic alligators will eat them last.
Between Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and Syria, the world has become a very wicked place. But the truth is that since 1988, we've elected two Bushes, one Clinton and an Obama. So not only haven't we been part of the solution, we've been a major part of the problem. I would suggest that you'd do better than that quartet by randomly picking four names out of the phonebook.
And as much joy as I get from kicking Obama in the shins every chance I get, and ridiculing his constant need to be playing golf and attending fundraisers, the only people I know who think they're entitled to take five week summer vacations are the French and the members of Congress.
But at least the French know how to speak French, whereas most members of Congress can barely ask for directions to the bathroom in English
....Burt
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Intruder Who Made It Into The White House Was
Iraq War Vet Suffering PTSD, According To Family
(Very sad case)
Via LA Times:http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-white-house-arrest-20140920-story.html
The intruder who scaled a White House fence and made it through the front doors was an Army veteran diagnosed with combat trauma, but authorities said Saturday the case was still under investigation.
A family member in California said Omar J. Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, Texas, near Ft. Hood, has been homeless and living alone in the wild and in campgrounds with his two pet dogs for the last two years.
"We talked to him on 9/11 and he said he planned to go to a Veterans Administration hospital to seek treatments," said the family member, who asked that he not be identified pending completion of the Secret Service investigation.
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Obamacare Architect Announces
'Optimal Age Of Death'
(It's goofball Ezekiel 'Death Panel' Emanuel at it again. The article is supposedly about his personal choice, but within it is an implicit judgment on the value of life. Hurry up and die, don't oppress your children and society with the possibility having to take care of you. Or in his words, is "our consumption" "worth our contribution?")
Via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/
Seventy-five.
That's how long I want to live: 75 years.
This preference drives my daughters crazy. It drives my brothers crazy. My loving friends think I am crazy. They think that I can't mean what I say; that I haven't thought clearly about this, because there is so much in the world to see and do. To convince me of my errors, they enumerate the myriad people I know who are over 75 and doing quite well. They are certain that as I get closer to 75, I will push the desired age back to 80, then 85, maybe even 90.
I am sure of my position. Doubtless, death is a loss. It deprives us of experiences and milestones, of time spent with our spouse and children. In short, it deprives us of all the things we value.
But here is a simple truth that many of us seem to resist: living too long is also a loss. It renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived. It robs us of our creativity and ability to contribute to work, society, the world. It transforms how people experience us, relate to us, and, most important, remember us. We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.
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Retired Head Of Marine Corps: Freak'n Obuma's ISIS Strategy
"Doesn't Have A Snowball's Chance In Hell Of Succeeding"
(Hey, just the former head of the Marine Corps, not like he has Obuma's military experience, you know killing Osama Bin Laden and all)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/19/retired-head-of-marine-corps-obamas-isis-strategy-doesnt-have-a-snowballs-chance-in-hell-of-succeeding/
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The man who was the top Marine general from 2006 until his retirement in 2010 says President Barack Obama's strategy to defeat the terrorist group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is doomed to fail.
"I don't think the president's plan has a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding," retired Marine General James Conway, who served as the 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps during the end of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama administration, said at the Maverick PAC Conference in Washington, D.C. Friday, according to a source in attendance.
Maverick PAC has described itself as a super PAC "dedicated to inspiring the next-generation of conservatives, electing a new generation of conservative leaders, and sharing common goals and interests that will help shape the future of America."
The source said Conway's major concern was that the U.S. did not have a force on the ground in Syria it could rely on, like the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq. Though the Obama administration believes it can support what it says are moderate rebel forces in Syria to aid in the fight against ISIS, many critics warn that there may be no truly moderate force in the country of any significant strength.
The Commandant of the Marine Corps also serves as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During the 2003 Iraq War, Conway led the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
Obama's strategy to degrade and destroy ISIS has come under fire in recent days for other reasons as well, especially for preemptively taking off the table the possibility of using American combat troops to achieve the mission.
"You just don't take anything off the table up front, which it appears the administration has tried to do," retired Gen. James Mattis, who served as head of Central Command from 2010 until his retirement in 2013, told the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
"Specifically, if this threat to our nation is determined to be as significant as I believe it is, we may not wish to reassure our enemies in advance that they will not see American 'boots on the ground,'" he added. "If a brigade of our paratroopers or a battalion landing team of our Marines would strengthen our allies at a key juncture and create havoc/humiliation for our adversaries, then we should do what is necessary with our forces that exist for that very purpose."
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Next to having pundits and politicians urging uninformed, uninterested, couch potatoes to get out and vote, nothing during election years ticks me off quite as much as listening to birdbrains groan on about negative campaigning.
I have no idea how it got started or who started it, but I suspect it was some political weasel who had mastered the art of taking and concealing bribes, and who resented the opposition candidate going public with the news. After all, none of us can keep track of everything our representatives do or even how they vote. The one good thing about elections is that the people who have the most to gain by filling in the blank spots finally have our undivided attention.
Besides, politicians, whatever else they may be, are people too, and people are far likelier to tell the truth about others than they are about themselves.(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uMzop4iPfIk/UnVvuGT0H2I/AAAAAAAAb6A/QlTmHuexCjI/s640/Obama+LIAR.png)
That isn't meant to suggest I approve of lying. It does mean I want to know the very worst about those seeking my vote. And if lies are being told, I want to know about that, too, and I don't condemn those in the best position to tell me.
If anything, I tend to distrust so-called positive campaigning, which takes the form of making promises that most of the time the candidate is in no position to fulfill. For instance, if a Republican vows to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, he may have good intentions, but until Obama packs up and moves back to Chicago, it remains nothing more than a sales promotion without a money-back guarantee.(http://www.veteranstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Term-Limits.jpg)
Someone wrote to me recently, promoting the notion of term limits. I understood his argument, I simply disagreed. If people wish to keep voting for the same rascals, I figure that's their inalienable right. Besides, as I wrote back to those who wished to share their jubilation upon hearing that Henry Waxman was finally retiring from the House, who did they think would replace him? Inasmuch as the voters in California's 33rd Congressional District had been re-electing Waxman for the past 40 years, the 33rd obviously has more idiots per square mile than Holland has tulips. There are three things I can safely say, sight unseen, about the person who'll be taking over. He or she will be younger than Waxman, be equally boneheaded when it comes to the issues and have much smaller nostrils.
Another reader wrote, wondering why, by and large, politics attracts such a mediocre group of people. "It can hardly be otherwise," I responded, "because most rational human beings prefer to pursue a career where people who tend to be uninformed or misinformed don't get to decide every two, four or six years, if you get to keep your job. On top of that, even if you manage to win your election, you will then have to go to work every day and try to get along with a bunch of slack-jawed ignoramuses like Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Patty Murray, Al Franken and Elijah Cummings.
Worse yet, you might have to put up with the self-righteous racist, Eric Holder, whom that other self-righteous racist, Barack Obama, put in charge of the Justice Department.
It was bad enough when Holder refused to indict the New Black Panthers for intimidating white voters in Philadelphia, but it only got worse when he decided that under his watch only whites would ever be indicted and tried for race crimes. And no matter how often America has seen black thugs attack white cops and white civilians for no other reason than their race, Holder has remained steadfast. (http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/55/3b/1c/553b1c7d369eda1e94cd8cf53de49f52.jpg)
Because of the power Holder wields, not even the usual suspects, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright, can count themselves as true contenders for the title when it comes to being the Biggest Racist in America.
From opening day, Holder has chided white America for being too cowardly to have a conversation about race. But Holder is in no position to cast stones because he refuses to acknowledge that when the great majority of white Americans show antipathy to blacks, it has nothing to do with pigmentation, everything to do with values or, as Martin Luther King put it, character.
It so happens white Americans have no problem distinguishing between good people and bad, readily able, unlike Holder, to distinguish between the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Jayson Riley, Ben Carson, Clarence Thomas, Star Parker and Thomas Sowell and street thugs like Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
It may come as a bolt from the blue to Holder, who views the world through ebony-colored glasses, but most white people have little or no use for white people who don't even bother graduating from high school; who deal or use illegal drugs; who accept welfare as a legitimate life style; who don't bother getting married before having babies; who don't take responsibility for their crimes, preferring to blame others or simply circumstances for murder, rape and robbery.
If we abhor such behavior in whites, Mr. Holder, why on earth should we accept or excuse it when it comes to blacks? You keep telling us that whites are too cowardly to have an honest conversation about race. If you mean we don't want to be lectured to by an attorney general who has lost sight of what justice is or why Lady Justice is always pictured wearing a blindfold, you're right. But if you want to have a debate, name the time and place. I'm locked and loaded.(http://mcguiresplace.net/A%20Senior%20Moment/A%20Senior%20Moment.JPG)
Finally, I long ago decided that senior moments only meant that our older heads are so filled with names, facts, dates and memories that it just keeps getting harder and harder to sift through everything as quickly as we once did, when we were younger and knew so much less. And now I'm happy to report that scientific researchers have finally come to the same conclusion. It only takes them longer because, one, they lack my intuitive powers and, two, they wouldn't get paid if they skipped past all the boring stuff.(http://www.pop-ins.com/Portals/171627/images/Senior_Password_Moment-resized-600.jpg)
But this normal condition should obviously not be confused with the tragedy of Alzheimer's. Those poor souls don't suffer from having an over-stuffed attic, but from having the remains of an attic in which some unknown villain has lobbed a hand grenade.(http://h6img.com/g/4/senior-moments-3.jpg)
Still, the next time you find yourself standing in a room, unsure whether you're there to pick something up or lay something down, think about poor Methuselah and consider yourself lucky. Rumor has it he made it all the way to his 969th birthday. Imagine what it must have been like for him, spending nearly nine hundred years trying to remember where the heck he left his TV remote.
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Best Story Of The Day
The Young, Responsible, Motivated, Articulate, Anti-Sharpton....
Via Clash Daily: BOOM: HS Football Player Shatters Sharpton's Race-Baiting in Less Than 2 Minutes.
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Apollos Hester plays for the East View High School Patriots in Georgetown, Texas. Down 28 – 14 at halftime against their opponent, Vandergrift, on Friday, the Patriots mounted a comeback and won 42-41. After the game, Hester was interviewed by Lauren Mickler of Time Warner Cable Sports. She asked, "What were you guys able to do to come back and win this thing?"
From there, Hester's infectious motivational speaking took over in a way that makes him appear to be more wise beyond his years. This young man will go far in life.
VIDEO:
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For the last 6 years, we have listened to the race-baiting, income redistribution language of Barack Obama. We have heard the typical racial grievance artists Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and activist Attorney General Eric Holder place the finger of blame on the ills plaguing people, especially the black community, on others. Personal responsibility, under the Obama regime, has become something that is neither expected nor praised.
The welfare state has increased. Big government has gotten even bigger. There is a push, led by Obama, for an increased minimum wage to as much as $15 an hour, during a time, might I add, when he is cutting benefits, pay, and meals for our military.
In fact, in listening to Obama, he has led far too many Americans to believe that the system is rigged against them and they have 'never had a fair shot because others haven't given their fair share'. The overt Marxism in his language is astounding and has no place in America, let alone being uttered by an American president.
In his attempt to fundamentally transform America, Obama is leading the people down a path of complacency, bitterness, and envy. His hope and change mantra quickly morphed into gimme the change, as in cash, that I'm hoping for. It's a sad state in America right now with the defeatist attitude fed by Barack Obama and his minions.
If only the Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Eric Holder, and all their sycophantic followers and mouthpieces would listen to this high school football player, heed his words, emulate them, and attempt to bring this powerful and positive message to the masses.
Apollos Hester plays for the East View High School Patriots in Georgetown, Texas. Down 28 – 14 at halftime against their opponent, Vandergrift, on Friday, the Patriots mounted a comeback and won 42-41. After the game, Hester was interviewed by Lauren Mickler of Time Warner Cable Sports.
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OORAH! Marines Sing, "There's No God Like Jehovah
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Posted on September 22, 2014 by Ad rem
"Oohrah! This video of Marines singing is going to drive the secular humanists INSANE."
--Alan WestTo anyone out there who may have written California off as a lost cause, behold this group of young Marines in their monthly Faith Warrior service at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. It's been shared nearly 400,000 times since it first debuted on Merrie Pardee Baldwin's Facebook last September 15th. Baldwin wrote, "Participatory worship. I love how excited the men get to sing this song and the camaraderie."
*Dusty keyboard alert!!!
VIDEO:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtdyRDy4fU
DAYS OF ELIJAH
(Some of the lyrics include:)
These are the days of Elijah
Declaring the word of the Lord, yeah
And these are the days of Your servant, Moses
Righteousness being restored
These are the days of great trials
Of famine and darkness and sword
Still we are the voice in the desert crying
Prepare ye the way of the Lord!(AllenWest)...And this blessed me as well. You see, I truly don't worry about America. What I am concerned about are the sheep who lead these lions.
Enjoy the video and please pray for these young Marines — who volunteered to serve — have the freedom of religion and the free exercise thereof, especially since they stand as the sentinels protecting that right for us all.
(Be careful, you progressive socialists, about complaining about this. I'm sure y'all supported repealing "Don't ask, don't tell.")
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50 Facts That Show How Far America Has Fallen In This Generation
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By Michael Snyder, on September 18th, 2014
What has happened to America? Please show these numbers to anyone that does not believe that the United States is in decline. It is time for all of us to humble ourselves and face the reality of what has happened to our once great nation. For those of us that love America, it is heartbreaking to watch the foundations of our society rot and decay in thousands of different ways. The following are 50 facts that show how far America has fallen in this generation, but the truth is that this list could have been far, far longer....
#1 According to a survey that was just conducted, only 36 percent of all Americans can name the three branches of government.
#2 Only 25 percent of all Americans know how long U.S. Senators are elected for (6 years), and only 20 percent of all Americans know how many U.S. senators there are.
#3 Even if you include same-sex couples in the numbers, the marriage rate in the United States is at a 93 year low.
#4 For the first time ever, single Americans make up more than half the U.S. population.
#5 31.1 percent of American young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.
#6 One out of every ten teen girls in America engages in "self-harm". Cutting and burning are the most common forms that this "self-harm" takes.
#7 One survey found that 85 percent of all young men in America and almost half of all young women in America watch porn at least once a month.
#8 A different survey discovered that 64 percent of American men of all ages view pornography at least once per month.
#9 The Internet can be used for great good, but it can also be used for great evil. It is being reported that 83 percent of U.S. boys and 57 percent of U.S. girls have been exposed to group sex while on the Internet.
#10 One survey discovered that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet access in the United States visit sex websites while they are at work.
#11 There is an epidemic of porn watching among federal employees. For example, one Treasury Department worker said that he viewed 13,000 pornographic images within the span of six weeks because he did "not have enough work to do".
#12 An astounding 30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to adult websites.
#13 Right now, 30 million Americans are on antidepressants.
#14 Americans account for about five percent of the global population, but we buy more than 50 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs.
#15 Americans consume a whopping 80 percent of all prescription painkillers.
#16 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#17 Approximately 60 million Americans have a problem with alcohol addiction.
#18 Heroin traffic in New York City is at a 20 year high.
#19 Of all the major industrialized nations, America is the most obese. Mexico is #2.
#20 Back in 1962, only 13 percent of all Americans were obese, but it is being projected that 42 percent of all Americans could be obese by the year 2030.
#21 70 percent of Americans do not "feel engaged or inspired at their jobs".
#22 40 percent of all workers in the United States actually make less than what a full-time minimum wage worker made back in 1968 after you account for inflation.
#23 Small business ownership in the United States is at the lowest level that has ever been recorded.
#24 It is hard to believe, but 56 percent of all Americans now have "subprime credit".
#25 The United States has the most lawyers per capita in the entire world.
#26 The United States has the highest incarceration rate and the largest total prison population in the entire world by a wide margin.
#27 While Barack Obuma has been in the White House, the U.S. national debt has grown by more than 7 trillion dollars.
#28 During the Obama years, sexual assaults in the U.S. military have soared to an all-time high, and most of the assaults have been male on male.
#29 According to one absolutely shocking study, 22 military veterans kill themselves in the United States every single day.
#30 The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives is Nancy Pelosi. The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives is John Boehner. More often than not, they seem to be working together. Is this really the best that America can do?
#31 There are more than 3 million reports of child abuse in the United States every single year.
#32 At this point, approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home without a father.
#33 18 percent of all women in the United States say that they have been raped at some point in their lives.
#34 It is estimated that one out of every four girls will be sexually abused before they become adults.
#35 Approximately one-third of the entire population of the United States (110 million people) currently has a sexually transmitted disease according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
#36 Every single year, there are 20 million new STD cases in America.
#37 America has the highest STD infection rate in the entire industrialized world.
#38 Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age group account for about 50 percent of all new STD cases each year.
#39 It costs our nation approximately 16 billion dollars a year to treat our sexually transmitted diseases.
#40 According to one survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have STDs say that they still have unprotected sex.
#41 In the United States today, more than half of all couples "move in together" before they get married.
#42 For couples that have children that are just "living together", two-thirds of them split up by the time they have a child turn 10 years of age.
#43 For women under the age of 30 in the United States, more than half of all babies are being born out of wedlock.
#44 According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately two-thirds of all Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.
#45 Suicide has now actually surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of "injury death" in the United States.
#46 In a massacre that is almost unspeakable, more than 56 million American babies have been slaughtered in this country since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973.
#47 Approximately 47 percent of the women that get an abortion each year in the United States have also had a previous abortion.
#48 The number of American babies killed by abortion each year is roughly equal to the number of U.S. military deaths that have occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever fought combined.
#49 About one-third of all American women will have had an abortion by the age of 45.
#50 The United States has the highest abortion rate in the western world.(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6837568972_bcaba8b2d8_z.jpg)
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Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?
"Millions of Americans are embarrassingly ill-informed and they do not care that they are."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."-- Thomas Jefferson (http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/forrest-gump-stupid-is-as-stupid-does.jpg)
Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid, it would seem, when we come across headlines like this: "Homer Simpson, Yes -- 1st Amendment 'Doh,' Survey Finds" (Associated Press 3/1/06).
"About 1 in 4 Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half of Americans can name at least two members of the fictional cartoon family, according to a survey.
"The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just 1 in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms."
But what does it mean exactly to say that American voters are stupid? About this there is unfortunately no consensus. Like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who confessed not knowing how to define pornography, we are apt simply to throw up our hands in frustration and say: We know it when we see it. But unless we attempt a definition of some sort, we risk incoherence, dooming our investigation of stupidity from the outset. Stupidity cannot mean, as Humpty Dumpty would have it, whatever we say it means.
Five defining characteristics of stupidity, it seems to me, are readily apparent. First, is sheer ignorance: Ignorance of critical facts about important events in the news, and ignorance of how our government functions and who's in charge. Second, is negligence: The disinclination to seek reliable sources of information about important news events. Third, is wooden-headedness, as the historian Barbara Tuchman defined it: The inclination to believe what we want to believe regardless of the facts. Fourth, is shortsightedness: The support of public policies that are mutually contradictory, or contrary to the country's long-term interests. Fifth, and finally, is a broad category I call bone-headedness, for want of a better name: The susceptibility to meaningless phrases, stereotypes, irrational biases, and simplistic diagnoses and solutions that play on our hopes and fears.
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Taking up the first of our definitions of stupidity, how ignorant are we? Ask the political scientists and you will be told that there is damning, hard evidence pointing incontrovertibly to the conclusion that millions are embarrassingly ill-informed and that they do not care that they are. There is enough evidence that one could almost conclude -- though admittedly this is a stretch -- that we are living in an Age of Ignorance.
Surprised? My guess is most people would be. The general impression seems to be that we are living in an age in which people are particularly knowledgeable. Many students tell me that they are the most well-informed generation in history.
Why are we so deluded? The error can be traced to our mistaking unprecedented access to information with the actual consumption of it. Our access is indeed phenomenal. George Washington had to wait two weeks to discover that he had been elected president of the United States. That's how long it took for the news to travel from New York, where the Electoral College votes were counted, to reach him at home in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Americans living in the interior regions had to wait even longer, some up to two months. Now we can watch developments as they occur halfway around the world in real time. It is little wonder then that students boast of their knowledge. Unlike their parents, who were forced to rely mainly on newspapers and the network news shows to find out what was happening in the world, they can flip on CNN and Fox or consult the Internet.
But in fact only a small percentage of people take advantage of the great new resources at hand. In 2005, the Pew Research Center surveyed the news habits of some 3,000 Americans age 18 and older. The researchers found that 59% on a regular basis get at least some news from local TV, 47% from national TV news shows, and just 23% from the Internet.
Anecdotal evidence suggested for years that Americans were not particularly well-informed. As foreign visitors long ago observed, Americans are vastly inferior in their knowledge of world geography compared with Europeans. (The old joke is that "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.") But it was never clear until the postwar period how ignorant Americans are. For it was only then that social scientists began measuring in a systematic manner what Americans actually know. The results were devastating.
The most comprehensive surveys, the National Election Studies (NES), were carried out by the University of Michigan beginning in the late 1940s. What these studies showed was that Americans fall into three categories with regard to their political knowledge. A tiny percentage know a lot about politics, up to 50%-60% know enough to answer very simple questions, and the rest know next to nothing.
Contrary to expectations, by many measures the surveys showed the level of ignorance remaining constant over time. In the 1990s, political scientists Michael X. Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter concluded that there was statistically little difference between the knowledge of the parents of the Silent Generation of the 1950s, the parents of the Baby Boomers of the 1960s, and American parents today. (By some measures, Americans are dumber today than their parents of a generation ago.)
Some of the numbers are hard to fathom in a country in which for at least a century all children have been required by law to attend grade school or be home-schooled. Even if people do not closely follow the news, one would expect them to be able to answer basic civics questions, but only a small minority can.
In 1986, only 30% knew that Roe v. Wade was the Supreme Court decision that ruled abortion legal more than a decade earlier. In 1991, Americans were asked how long the term of a United States senator is. Just 25% correctly answered six years. How many senators are there? A poll a few years ago found that only 20% know that there are 100 senators, though the number has remained constant for the last half century (and is easy to remember). Encouragingly, today the number of Americans who can correctly identify and name the three branches of government is up to 40%.
Polls over the past three decades measuring Americans' knowledge of history show similarly dismal results. What happened in 1066? Just 10% know it is the date of the Norman Conquest. Who said the "world must be made safe for democracy"? Just 14% know it was Woodrow Wilson. Which country dropped the nuclear bomb? Only 49% know it was their own country. Who was America's greatest president? According to a Gallup poll in 2005, a majority answer that it was a president from the last half century: 20% said Reagan, 15% Bill Clinton, 12% John Kennedy, 5% George W. Bush. Only 14% picked Lincoln and only 5%, Washington.
And the worst president? For years Americans would include in the list Herbert Hoover. But no more. Most today do not know who Herbert Hoover was, according to the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey in 2004. Just 43% could correctly identify him.
The only history questions a majority of Americans can answer correctly are the most basic ones. What happened at Pearl Harbor? A great majority know: 84%. What was the Holocaust? Nearly 70% know. (Thirty percent don't?) But it comes as something of a shock that, in 1983, just 81% knew who Lee Harvey Oswald was and that, in 1985, only 81% could identify Martin Luther King, Jr.
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What Voters Don't KnowWho these poor souls were who didn't know who Martin Luther King was we cannot be sure. Research suggests that they were probably impoverished (the poor tend to know less on the whole about politics and history than others) or simply unschooled, categories which usually overlap. But even Americans in the middle class who attend college exhibit profound ignorance. A report in 2007 published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute found that on average 14,000 randomly selected college students at 50 schools around the country scored under 55 (out of 100) on a test that measured their knowledge of basic American civics. Less than half knew that Yorktown was the last battle of the American Revolution. Surprisingly, seniors often tested lower than freshmen. (The explanation was apparently that many students by their senior year had forgotten what they learned in high school.)
The optimists point to surveys indicating that about half the country can describe some differences between the Republican and Democratic Parties. But if they do not know the difference between liberals and conservatives, as surveys indicate, how can they possibly say in any meaningful way how the parties differ? And if they do not know this, what else do they not know?
Plenty, it turns out. Even though they are awash in news, Americans generally do not seem to absorb what it is that they are reading and hearing and watching. Americans cannot even name the leaders of their own government. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Fewer than half of Americans could tell you her name during the length of her entire tenure. William Rehnquist was chief justice of the Supreme Court. Just 40% of Americans ever knew his name (and only 30% could tell you that he was a conservative). Going into the First Gulf War, just 15% could identify Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense. In 2007, in the fifth year of the Iraq War, only 21% could name the secretary of defense, Robert Gates. Most Americans cannot name their own member of Congress or their senators.
If the problem were simply that Americans are bad at names, one would not have to worry too much. But they do not understand the mechanics of government either. Only 34% know that it is the Congress that declares war (which may explain why they are not alarmed when presidents take us into wars without explicit declarations of war from the legislature). Only 35% know that Congress can override a presidential veto. Some 49% think the president can suspend the Constitution. Some 60% believe that he can appoint judges to the federal courts without the approval of the Senate. Some 45% believe that revolutionary speech is punishable under the Constitution.
On the basis of their comprehensive approach, Delli Carpini and Keeter concluded that only 5% of Americans could correctly answer three-fourths of the questions asked about economics, only 11% of the questions about domestic issues, 14% of the questions about foreign affairs, and 10% of the questions about geography. The highest score? More Americans knew the correct answers to history questions than any other (which will come as a surprise to many history teachers). Still, only 25% knew the correct answers to three-quarters of the history questions, which were rudimentary.
In 2003, the Strategic Task Force on Education Abroad investigated Americans' knowledge of world affairs. The task force concluded: "America's ignorance of the outside world" is so great as to constitute a threat to national security.
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Young and Ignorant -- and VotingAt least, you may think to yourself, we are not getting any dumber. But by some measures we are. Young people by many measures know less today than young people forty years ago. And their news habits are worse. Newspaper reading went out in the sixties along with the Hula Hoop. Just 20% of young Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 read a daily paper. And that isn't saying much. There's no way of knowing what part of the paper they're reading. It is likelier to encompass the comics and a quick glance at the front page than dense stories about Somalia or the budget.
They aren't watching the cable news shows either. The average age of CNN's audience is sixty. And they surely are not watching the network news shows, which attract mainly the Depends generation. Nor are they using the Internet in large numbers to surf for news. Only 11% say that they regularly click on news web pages. (Yes, many young people watch Jon Stewart's The Daily Show . A survey in 2007 by the Pew Research Center found that 54% of the viewers of The Daily Show score in the "high knowledge" news category -- about the same as the viewers of the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News.)
Compared with Americans generally -- and this isn't saying much, given their low level of interest in the news -- young people are the least informed of any age cohort save possibly for those confined to nursing homes. In fact, the young are so indifferent to newspapers that they single-handedly are responsible for the dismally low newspaper readership rates that are bandied about.
In earlier generations -- in the 1950s, for example -- young people read newspapers and digested the news at rates similar to those of the general population. Nothing indicates that the current generation of young people will suddenly begin following the news when they turn 35 or 40. Indeed, half a century of studies suggest that most people who do not pick up the news habit in their twenties probably never will.
Young people today find the news irrelevant. Bored by politics, students shun the rituals of civic life, voting in lower numbers than other Americans (though a small up-tick in civic participation showed up in recent surveys). U.S. Census data indicate that voters aged 18 to 24 turn out in low numbers. In 1972, when 18 year olds got the vote, 52% cast a ballot. In subsequent years, far fewer voted: in 1988, 40%; in 1992, 50%; in 1996, 35%; in 2000, 36%. In 2004, despite the most intense get-out-the-vote effort ever focused on young people, just 47% took the time to cast a ballot.
Since young people on the whole scarcely follow politics, one may want to consider whether we even want them to vote. Asked in 2000 to identify the presidential candidate who was the chief sponsor of Campaign Finance Reform -- Sen. John McCain -- just 4% of people between the ages of 18 and 24 could do so. As the primary season began in February, fewer than half in the same age group knew that George W. Bush was even a candidate. Only 12% knew that McCain was also a candidate even though he was said to be especially appealing to young people.
One news subject in recent history, 9/11, did attract the interest of the young. A poll by Pew at the end of 2001 found that 61% of adult Americans under age 30 said that they were following the story closely. But few found any other subjects in the news that year compelling. Anthrax attacks? Just 32% indicated it was important enough to follow. The economy? Again, just 32%. The capture of Kabul? Just 20%.
It would appear that young people today are doing very little reading of any kind. In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts, consulting a vast array of surveys, including the United States Census, found that just 43% of young people ages 18 to 24 read literature. In 1982, the number was 60%. A majority do not read either newspapers, fiction, poetry, or drama. Save for the possibility that they are reading the Bible or works of non-fiction, for which solid statistics are unavailable, it would appear that this generation is less well read than any other since statistics began to be kept.
The studies demonstrating that young people know less today than young people a generation ago do not get much publicity. What one hears about are the pioneer steps the young are taking politically. Headlines from the 2004 presidential election featured numerous stories about young people who were following the campaign on blogs, then a new phenomenon. Other stories focused on the help young Deaniacs gave Howard Dean by arranging to raise funds through innovative Internet appeals. Still other stories reported that the Deaniacs were networking all over the country through the Internet website meetup.com. One did not hear that we have raised another Silent Generation. But have we not? The statistics about young people today are fairly clear: As a group they do not vote in large numbers, most do not read newspapers, and most do not follow the news.
More at: http://www.alternet.org/story/90161/ignorant_america%3A_just_how_stupid_are_we **********************************
By Rick Shenkman, Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter, New York Times bestselling author, and associate professor of history at George Mason University, is the founder and editor of History News Network , a website that features articles by historians on current events. This essay is adapted from chapter two of his new book, Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth about the American Voter (Basic Books, 2008). His observations about the 2008 election can be followed on his blog, "How Stupid?" .
MORE ON this idiot, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, and his article of:(http://redstatements.co/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ezekiel-Emanuel-Health-pic1.jpg)
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Obamacare Architect Says Society Would Be Better Off If People Only Lived To Age 75
By Michael Snyder, on September 22nd, 2014
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel, says that society would be far better off if people quit trying to live past age 75. His new article entitled "Why I Hope To Die At 75" has the following very creepy subtitle: "An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly". In the article, Emanuel forcefully argues that the quality of life for most people is significantly diminished past the age of 75 and that once we get to that age we should refuse any more medical care that will extend our lifespans. This is quite chilling to read, considering the fact that this is coming from one of the key architects of Obamacare. Of course he never uses the term "death panels" in his article, but that is obviously what Emanuel would want in a perfect world. To Emanuel, it is inefficient to waste medical resources on those that do not have a high "quality of life". So he says that "75 is a pretty good age to aim to stop".
Emanuel believes in this philosophy so much that he says that he would like to die at age 75. Of course he has no intention of committing suicide, but if he happened to drop dead once he hits his 75th birthday he would be very happy about that. The following is an excerpt from his new article...I am talking about how long I want to live and the kind and amount of health care I will consent to after 75. Americans seem to be obsessed with exercising, doing mental puzzles, consuming various juice and protein concoctions, sticking to strict diets, and popping vitamins and supplements, all in a valiant effort to cheat death and prolong life as long as possible. This has become so pervasive that it now defines a cultural type: what I call the American immortal.
I reject this aspiration. I think this manic desperation to endlessly extend life is misguided and potentially destructive. For many reasons, 75 is a pretty good age to aim to stop.And so Emanuel plans to start rejecting pretty much all medical tests and treatments that will prolong his life once he reaches that age...At 75 and beyond, I will need a good reason to even visit the doctor and take any medical test or treatment, no matter how routine and painless. And that good reason is not "It will prolong your life." I will stop getting any regular preventive tests, screenings, or interventions. I will accept only palliative—not curative—treatments if I am suffering pain or other disability.
This means colonoscopies and other cancer-screening tests are out—and before 75. If I were diagnosed with cancer now, at 57, I would probably be treated, unless the prognosis was very poor. But 65 will be my last colonoscopy. No screening for prostate cancer at any age. (When a urologist gave me a PSA test even after I said I wasn't interested and called me with the results, I hung up before he could tell me. He ordered the test for himself, I told him, not for me.) After 75, if I develop cancer, I will refuse treatment. Similarly, no cardiac stress test. No pacemaker and certainly no implantable defibrillator. No heart-valve replacement or bypass surgery. If I develop emphysema or some similar disease that involves frequent exacerbations that would, normally, land me in the hospital, I will accept treatment to ameliorate the discomfort caused by the feeling of suffocation, but will refuse to be hauled off.A couple of decades ago, an article like this would have sparked mass public outrage.
But today, this article hardly even gets any attention.
That is because this kind of philosophy has spread everywhere. It is being taught at colleges and universities across the United States and it is even represented throughout the ranks of the Obama administration.
For example, Barack Obama's top science adviser John P. Holdren believes that implanting sterilization capsules under the skin of women could be a way to reduce the size of the population and increase the quality of life for everyone...A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.Yes, this guy is a total nutjob.But he also has the ear of the man occupying the White House.
And we are not just talking about a few isolated crazies like Holdren. This agenda have been fully embraced by our politicians in Washington.
For instance, did you know that the federal government actually has an "Office of Population Affairs"?http://www.hhs.gov/opa/On the website of the Office of Population Affairs, you can find information about abortion, female sterilization, male sterilization and a vast array of contraceptive choices.
U.S. taxpayers are paying for all of this, but most people don't even know that it exists.
Of course this agenda has been moved forward by both Democrats and Republicans for decades.
And the woman that is very likely to be our next president is also a very strong proponent of this philosophy.
When Hillary Clinton accepted Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger Award back in 2009, she spoke glowingly of Sanger...In a speech to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Awards Gala, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she admires "Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision." Secretary Clinton said she is "really in awe of" Sanger for Sanger's early work in Brooklyn, New York, "taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from all directions."But the truth is that Sanger was deeply racist and was determined to do whatever she could to help control the population growth of the poor. The following is one of her most famous statements...
"The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."Hillary Clinton is also a huge supporter of the United Nations Population Fund. If you are not familiar with the United Nations Population Fund, it is an organization that funds abortion, forced sterilization and brutal eugenics programs throughout the developing world.Population control advocates such as Emanuel, Holdren and Clinton are fully convinced that they are doing the right thing.
They actually believe that the world will be a better place if less people are born and if the elderly do not live as long.
Obuma: "I'm Just A Little Simple"
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WASHINGTON – President Obama told supporters Tuesday that maybe he's "a little simple.""Perhaps I'm just a little simple," Obama said at a Democratic fundraiser in New York City. "I have never been more optimistic about America's future."
"We have the best cards," he said, adding that the question is how America plays them.
Obama, who will address the United Nations on Wednesday about the terrorist threats posed by the Islamic State and other groups, said this meeting of world leaders is big.
Botox Nan Urges Latinos To Blame GOP For Delay Of Amnesty
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(Nan needs to take Senators Manchin, Hagan, Shaheen, Pryor and Landrieu to task for voting with the GOP on the amendment that barred Obama from spending any money to implement his amnesty plan)
Via Latin PostImmigration advocates have attacked President Brack Obama's decision to delay executive action on immigration until after the November elections. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, on the other hand, remains optimistic that this delay may prove more fruitful for those in favor of immigration reform.
On Monday, Pelosi was in Salt Lake City to receive the Excellence in Leadership award from the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (she is the first non-Hispanic to receive the award). While there, she told NBC News that she is "respectful of the disappointment" that Latinos have expressed in response to Obama's decision.
[...]"I think that the anger is not placed in the right direction, and Republicans get off the hook," she said. "They did nothing and people are picketing the president. I mean, [Republicans] don't pay a price for that? ... Understand this, the Republicans had the power to pass a law and they didn't. You want to make a difference? Go sit in front of the Republican National Committee."
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Pic Of The Day
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Mom Bakes Vagina-Shaped Cookies For
2nd-Graders,
Freaks Out When Told They're Not Appropriate For Children
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(I feel bad for the kid, imagine having this feminist loon as your mom
)
Via Elite Daily:http://elitedaily.com/news/world/mother-vagina-cookies-second-graders-sends-teacher-e-mail/767638/
This is a story about a woman who wanted her second grader to know that vaginas come in all shapes, colors and sizes. It's also the story of really questionable parenting.
Redditor JPstudly posted a long tale of woe to a subreddit dedicated to massive screw-ups. The story is from a female friend who teaches a class of second graders.
A mother with an interesting take on empowering female children, pseudonym Autumn, signed up to bring in baked goods to her child's class.
[...]When the teacher told Autumn that the cookies were inappropriate, the mother began yelling about the importance of young children learning about sexuality. Autumn left the cookies and stormed out.
Report: Khorasan Group Planned To Attack Commercial Airplanes With Concealed Explosives
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Via CNN:Among the targets of U.S. strikes across Syria early Tuesday was the Khorasan Group — a collection of senior al Qaeda members who have moved into Syria.
President Obama called them "seasoned al Qaeda operatives."
"Once again, it must be clear to anyone who would plot against America and try to do Americans harm that we will not tolerate safe havens for terrorists who threaten our people," Obama said.
The strikes targeted "training camps, an explosives and munitions production facility, a communication building and command and control facilities," the military said in a statement.
The group was actively plotting against a U.S. homeland target and Western targets, a senior U.S. official told CNN on Tuesday. The United States hoped to surprise the group by mixing strikes against it with strikes against ISIS targets.
The plots were believed to be in an advanced stage, the second U.S. official said. There were indications that the militants had obtained materials and were working on new improvised explosive devices that would be hard to detect, including common hand-held electronic devices and airplane carry-on items such as toiletries.
The intelligence community discovered Khorasan plots against the United States within the past week, an intelligence source with knowledge of the matter told CNN.
The intelligence source did not give an intended target but said the plots involved a bomb made of a nonmetallic device, toothpaste container, and clothes dipped in explosive material.
Taxpayers Shell Out $700K So Obama Can Play Pool,
Drink Beer, Raise Funds For Dems
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(Only $700K? That's cheap by Obama's standards)
Via Washington Examiner:http://washingtonexaminer.com/1-obama-trip-to-play-pool-drink-beer-raise-money-cost-taxpayers-about-700000/article/2553818#!
Taxpayers had to cough up $1,159,823 in just one month to fly President Obama to New York and Denver to raise money for Democrats and attend an LGBT event, according to documents obtained by a taxpayer watchdog group.
Judicial Watch told Secrets that the Air Force just provided expense reports detailing the flight costs of Air Force One to the cities in July.
The documents show that president's July 8-9 fundraising
trip to Denver cost the taxpayers $695,894.10.His July 17-18 fundraising trip to New York City
cost taxpayers $463,929.40.
Obuma's Top Five "War" Euphemisms To Avoid Calling Latest War A "War"
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Via Salon (yes, that Salon):http://www.salon.com/2014/09/23/obamas_top_5_war_euphemisms_words_hes_used_to_avoid_calling_latest_war_a_%E2%80%9Cwar%E2%80%9D/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
1) "Effort" Perhaps Obama's favorite euphemism for what the U.S. is up to. In his September 10 address, Obama distinguished the "wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan from the "effort" against ISIS. "This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground," Obama explained. In his weekly address on Saturday, the president said that "[t]his is an effort that America has the unique ability to lead."
2) "Process" Asked in August 28 press conference whether he planned to seek congressional authorization for military action against ISIS, Obama sounded like the caricature of the professorial, technocratic president his critics purport him to be. "You know, I have consulted with Congress throughout this process," Obama replied. "I am confident that as commander in chief I have the authorities to engage in the acts that we are conducting currently."
3) "Fight" As close as Obama's willing to get to saying the W-word. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday before departing for the United Nations, Obama said that U.S. air strikes in Iraq and Syria were "not America's fight alone," echoing his September 20 address in which he said that it was "a fight in which all countries have a stake."
4) "Campaign" Not unlike a swing through Iowa and New Hampshire! Explaining his expansion of the war into Syria on Tuesday, the president noted, "I made clear that as part of this campaign the United States would take action against targets in both Iraq and Syria so that these terrorists can't find safe haven anywhere."
5) "A Moment of American Leadership." Concluding his radio address on Saturday, Obama called this "a moment of American leadership ... a moment we will meet." Leadership. Exceptionalism. America.
Lately, Obama and the Republicans appear to be getting along. Maybe they are learning that they think about the same.
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Lately, Obama and the Republicans appear to be getting along. Maybe they are learning that they think about the same.
Wouldn't surprise me a bit, Red.
I believe it is essential that the GOP take back control of the Senate in November because it would help limit the damage that Obama can do to this nation in his final two years. But I'm not sure that's enough. If you doff your rose-colored glasses, it's awfully hard to see a lot of silver linings.
Once you get past our gallant past and the promise of our divinely-inspired Constitution, what do you see? What I see are a million abortions a year. I see the foolishness of same-sex marriages and I see states tripping over themselves in their rush to legalize brain-deadening drugs. I see the filth and decadence of our popular culture. I see journalists who have rejected objectivity and assumed the role of propagandists for the Left. I see our leaders promoting a racial divide that ignores black violence, black illegitimacy rates and the morphing of black thugs into Muslim terrorists, while accusing the entire white race of bigotry.
Furthermore, I see an education system, once the envy of the world, moving away from instruction in favor of indoctrination, and colleges that continue to offer degrees in such clownish pursuits as Black, Hispanic and Lesbian Studies. I see parents flaunting their vanity by insisting that even the dullest of their offspring squander years and a potful of money getting degrees that neither make them any smarter nor help them earn a post-graduate living.
In the meantime, they move back to their parents' basements, demonstrate with Occupy Wall Street slackers, and whine about the injustice of capitalism, while thousands of jobs for welders, mechanics and plumbers, go begging.
As if all that isn't bad enough, we continue to keep our borders porous because those in one party want Hispanic votes and an increased number of union members and those in the other party lust for cheap labor. And for reasons I can't begin to grasp, neither party wants us to get out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the U.S.
To this day, I don't understand why we ever decide to defend one group of Muslims from another group of Muslims. I understand attacking them whenever they appear to be a risk to America or Israel, but not on behalf of anyone but ourselves. These people are not our friends; they are swamp creatures. What's more, all they ever do during these conflicts is offer to hold our coat while we do their fighting and dying for them.
I recently saw a cartoon of Obama trying to explain the seating arrangements at an Anti-ISIL gathering to a maître d': "Just make sure you don't put any enemy-of-my-enemies next to any friend-of-my-friend's-enemies-enemy."
Recently, a man in London at a rare non-Islamic demonstration was seen carrying a sign that read "We would boycott Palestinian goods, but they don't make anything." That's not entirely true. They make trouble and, what's more, it's their major export.
These days, we can't even trust our scientists to tell us the truth. Take global warming, for instance. I am not a climatologist. I don't spend my time measuring glaciers, taking the ocean's temperature or interviewing polar bears. My particular strength is sniffing out hypocrisy and bullshit.
So when I hear so-called experts defending global warming as "settled science" or "scientific consensus," I know I'm standing downwind from a stockyard. Science is rarely or ever settled unless we're referring to things that have been measured and proven, such as the law of gravity or the theory of relativity. As for consensus, science is not proven by taking a vote, especially not when by measurement, there has been no discernible warming for the past 17 years!
Therefore, when it comes to siding with one group of experts or another, I ask myself which group is receiving academic honors and government grants. Which side is being hired by universities and being granted tenure? And which side keeps trying to provide facts in spite of facing ridicule and the loss of employment while being labeled "climate-deniers," likening them to Holocaust-deniers and "Truthers" by the likes of Al Gore, Barack Obama and Harry Reid, who have a vested political and financial interest in promoting the hoax.
Possibly the surest sign that America is in decline is that the country twice elected Barack Hussein Obama to be its commander-in-chief. The chump hasn't the know-how to be a crossing guard, but we gave him the same two terms we once gave George Washington and Ronald Reagan. As I said just prior to the 2012 election, I thought America could probably survive eight years of Obama, but I wasn't so sure it could survive an electorate that would grant him a second term.
I keep hearing people tell me that Obama is bright. But how bright can he be when, reminiscent of Bill Clinton's inability to define "is," this turkey can't define "war" or recognize "Islamic terrorism," which he keeps referring to as "workplace violence" or as criminal activity on a par with knocking over a 7-11.
Both Obama and Kerry seem to think that if we don't send ground forces into Iraq and Syria, and only rely on planes and bombs, it's not really a war. However, during WWII, Germany never successfully invaded England. Instead, they relied on the Luftwaffe and their V-2 missiles. I suspect the English believed they were engaged in a war even if there were no Nazi boots on the ground.
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A minute after announcing the beheading of an American, Obama ran off to the links. Then, when he was chastised for his insensitivity, he said he should have anticipated "the optics." That statement not only confirmed once again how unfit he is for the office he holds, but exposes what a group of toadies and incompetents he has surrounded himself with that not one of them – not Valerie Jarrett, Josh Earnest, David Plouffe or even Michelle –advised him to skip golf on that day of national shock and mourning.
Richard Nixon once wrote a memoir called "Six Crises," in which he detailed half a dozen memorable events in which he played a role, including the Alger Hiss case and his debate with Nikita Khrushchev. George W. Bush wrote a memoir called "Decision Points" in which he related how he came to make a dozen of his most important decisions related to 9/11, the invasion of Iraq and the war on terrorism.
If Barack Obama ever gets around to writing his own presidential memoir, I assume it will deal with the 18 toughest rounds of golf he played during his time in office.
....Burt
AMEN WARP AMEN !
US Attorney Gen.
Eric Holder
to Resign
Thursday, 25 Sep 2014 01:19 PM
By Newsmax Wires
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/eric-holder-stepping-down/2014/09/25/id/596839/
Four Men in Two Cities
Killed in Acts of Islamic Jihad;
Media, Obama, and Holder Silent
September 12, 2014 By TPNN Staff Writer
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Brendan Tevlin was a 19-year old from New Jersey who had just finished his freshman year at the University of Richmond. Like many kids his age, he played sports and video games. He also liked to surf. Brendan also played the bagpipes and was a Eucharistic minister at his church. But none of those things led to his tragic death. What led to Brendan's death is that he was an American.
Ali Muhammad Brown, 29, was charged with the murder of 19-year old Brendan Tevlin on June 18th. Brown also confessed to killing two people, Ahmed Said and Dwone Anderson-Young, in Seattle on June 1. In addition, he was also charged with shooting another man, Leroy Henderson, in the Skyway area of Seattle in April. All of the men were killed with a 9 mm handgun.
There is consistency in Brown's statement to police in both King County in Seattle, and Essex County, N.J. He told authorities that he was doing his small part as vengeance for U.S. actions in the Middle East.
Q13 FOX in Seattle reports that Brown described the killing of Tevlin to authorities in New Jersey as a 'just kill' which he defined as as a target that was an adult male, not a woman, child or elderly person. Brown stated, ""My mission is vengeance. For the lives, millions of lives are lost every day," he reportedly said. "Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, all these places where innocent lives are being taken every single day ... All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life."
Todd Pettingill, radio host of The Todd Show in the Morning, on 95,5 in New York, discussed this jihad killings on his radio show. He said, "If there was ever a reason to riot in the streets in the name of humanity, it would be for this case. But, has that happened? No. And I'm not suggesting that it should. What did the friends of family of Brendan Tevlin do? They had a candlelight vigil. What I am suggesting should happen is that this should be talked about and written about and the American people should know. Why is Eric Holder not visiting the Tevlin family? Why is the President not going to mention Brendan Tevlin tonight? He was a young boy who was killed...for being an American."
In addition to calling out Holder and Obama for their failure to give any attention to these jihad killings that were done on American soil, Pettingill also said, "It was in fact an act of jihad, perpetrated by a fellow American who sympathized more with those who want to annihilate us than with his own country and its people."
But, with ISIS on a bloody killing spree in the Middle East in their quest to establish a caliphate and their threats to take their attacks onto American soil, the only Brown the media wants to talk is Michael Brown. The media and Congress want to put more emphasis on the domestic abuse case surrounding Ray Rice than acts of jihad in America with men being killed simply for being an American. And Barack Obama wants to deny the severity of ISIS and, in fact, refuse to even recognize that they are dangerous Islamic terrorists who kill innocent people. Perhaps Obama should pay attention to the news more often. He would learn that not only do people kill innocents in the name of Islam, but it is happening already right here in the United States.
Please share on Facebook and Twitter to shed light on what most media outlets won't; the fact that acts of jihad are occurring in America and the government who is supposed to keep us safe remains silent.
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/12/four-men-in-two-cities-killed-in-acts-of-islamic-jihad-media-obama-and-holder-silent/
(There is a video on the site that I could not get to run for me,)
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Rip Van Whitey
Part #3
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*Rip *
On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a tall, slender young fellow, with slick-backed hair largely concealed under a derby, with a clean-shaven face. His dress was of the antique American fashion—a three-piece pin-striped suit with a club collar and gold bar under the perfect knot of his purple necktie, coordinating with the cufflinks in his French shirt. He bore on his shoulder a stout keg, that seemed full of liquor, and made signs for Rip to approach and assist him with the load.
Though rather shy and distrustful of this new acquaintance, Rip complied with his usual alacrity; and mutually relieving one another, they clambered up a narrow gully, apparently the dry bed of a mountain torrent.
As they ascended, Rip every now and then heard short cracks, like abbreviated thunder, that seemed to issue out of a deep ravine, or rather cleft, between lofty rocks, toward which their rugged path conducted. He paused for an instant, but supposing it to be the muttering of one of those transient thunder-showers which often take place in mountain heights, he proceeded.
Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheater. Upon entering, new objects of wonder presented themselves. On a level spot in the center was a company of odd-looking personages playing stickball. They were dressed in a quaint outlandish fashion; some wore Oxford bags, others seersuckers, with suspenders or belts, and most of them retained their suit vests, of similar style with that of the guide's.
Most discomfiting of all, was that they were all porcelain white. Every last one of them.
There was one who seemed to be the commander. He was a distinguished looking gentleman, with an amiable though aristocratic countenance; he wore an impeccably pressed suit, a skimmer hat, small spectacles, and—quite scandalously—clutched a cigarette holder between his teeth.
(The whole scene might have reminded Rip of some classic piece of art...were Rip ever exposed, at any point in his long tenure in his multicultural, diverse paradise, to anything resembling art.)
What seemed particularly odd to Rip was, that though these folks were evidently amusing themselves, yet they maintained the gravest faces, the most mysterious silence, and were, withal, the most melancholy party of pleasure he had ever witnessed. Nothing interrupted the stillness of the scene but the noise of bat on ball, which, whenever they met, echoed along the mountains like short peals of thunder.
To be continued...
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IS THAT A SEMI-AUTOMATIC ASSAULT FINGER?
Things just get worse and worse for the suck, suck, suckiest "news" left-wing propaganda joint, MSNBC. Summer ratings were just released and MSNBC's numbers have gone down faster than Barney Frank at a gay porn convention. Even leftards have quit watching. What a pity! MSNBC used to be so good! Bwahahahaha!
Primetime ratings have plunged 50% from last year. Even on the lovely and gayly talented Rachel Maddow's program, the network's flagship show. MSNBC's latest rankings put them just below 'The Colonoscopy Channel' and just above the "Hit Yourself In The Head With A Hammer" network in primetime viewers. Nielsen Ratings now puts the number of daily viewers of MSNBC at 25, down from last year's high of 50. However, not all of MSNBC's ratings plunge can be blamed on reduced interest. Two longtime MSNBC viewers in Oklahoma were killed when the meth lab in their trailer exploded in June.
When asked about the dismal ratings of his network, MSNBC President Phil Griffin said:
"What? We're still on the air? Hell, I quit watching MSNBC myself a few years ago after watching a drunken, perspiring, slovenly Ed Schultz spewing spittle onto the camera in one of his stupid rants on Global Warming! You'd have to be an idiot to watch MSNBC!"
I wonder how anyone could not be entertained with such hard-hitting news talent like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YriSB0nwzgw
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Much, I'd say too much, has been made of the incident in the elevator involving Ray Rice and his then-fiancée. I believe that most of us agree that men should not slug women and women should not spit on men. But in a world where men are being beheaded and women are being stoned, whipped and sold into sexual slavery, I think we should all get a grip.
In the wake of the incident NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stood a good chance of losing his job. As I sit here, the question hasn't yet been answered and, unless you're a friend or relative of Mr. Goodell's, it will be of no concern to you.
"The NFL will do everything in its power to restore honor and integrity to the country's most lucrative and popular pastime." There's no getting around the fact that Americans, by and large, love their football, but "honor" and "integrity"? This is a sport, let us never forget, that welcomed Michael Vick, a convicted torturer and killer of dogs, back into its ranks. Whether we're talking about football at the college or professional level, "honor" and "integrity" are two words that are as out of place as they'd be in a candid `discussion of American politics.(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/14/0e/df/140edf8d42532d8cbce700c0c4022e6d.jpg)
Speaking of politics, as some of you already know, I greatly admire Dr. Ben Carson's surgical skills. But I fail to see how his career has prepared him to be the Commander-in-Chief. Although I understand that we all have reason to question career politicians, I no more want another amateur in the Oval Office than I do in an operating room.
I have already raised my objection to Dr. Carson based on his lukewarm defense of the Second Amendment and his fulsome praise of Jesse Jackson, hailing the race-baiting corporate extortionist as a great leader of the civil rights movement, but I have only recently discovered that he supports affirmative action. That's perfectly understandable because he has acknowledged being a beneficiary of the policy. But he is 62 years old, meaning that he benefited from it four decades ago. To suggest that even 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, it should be necessary to offer black students advantages over everyone else smacks of reverse racism.
As of this August, Dr. Carson's PAC had raised eight million dollars. My question is what happens to the dough if he decides not to run or if he simply drops out of the race if he fares badly in Iowa or New Hampshire? Somehow, I doubt if the unused portion will be returned to the donors. So who the heck gets it?
As I have admitted in the past, I am not religious, probably because I wasn't raised in a religious household. Still, I don't get why so many people are proud to boast they're atheists. To me, it appears that these nincompoops have signed up for a religion based on nothing more than their own disbelief.
I mean, how can one devote so much of one's time to denying the existence of something one insists isn't real? After all, people like the late Christopher Hitchens don't go around debating whether the Easter Bunny lays chocolate eggs.
What I do know is that if I devoted my life to denying that God exists and mocking those who believe in Him, I'd be having serious second thoughts on my death bed. For when it comes to knowing who's been naughty and who's been nice, one has to assume Santa Claus is no competition for God.
When a reporter asked Obama if it wasn't true that the only reason he had postponed announcing amnesty for millions of illegal aliens until after the midterm elections was because Senate Democrats had begged him to hold off, giving them at least a shot at being re-elected, Obama denied it. However, being Obama, he couldn't help tipping his hand by saying "And I'm being honest now..." One, people accustomed to telling the truth don't feel compelled to assure others they're not lying. Two, that pesky little "now," suggests that, subconsciously at least, he was signaling that everything he had said previously was absolute rubbish.
What is amazing about Obama is that even though he has spent even more time lying to the American people than he has playing golf, he is no better at lying today than he was in 2008. One can only hope that at least his golf game has improved.
As an example of what a politician should be, consider Ted Cruz. Recently, he agreed to address an organization called the Defense of Christians. It seems that several Christian leaders from Syria and Lebanon, who had voiced support for Bashar Assad and Hezbollah and had made some virulently anti-Semitic remarks, were in attendance.
Apparently the organizers of the event assumed that Sen. Cruz would temper his remarks and shy away from speaking about the Jew hatred that festers equally among Christians and Muslims in the Middle East.
Instead, Cruz told the audience that those who hate Israel also hate America, and those who hate Jews also hate Christians, and that anyone who hates Israel and the Jewish people is not following the teachings of Christ.
He went on to say that Christians in the Middle East have no better friend than Israel, and that it's the one nation where Christians can pursue their faith free of persecution. His words were greeted with a chorus of boos.(http://tellmenow.com/files/2014/05/ted_cruz.jpg)
Before leaving the stage, the Texas senator told the creeps that "if you will not stand with Israel, if you will not stand with the Jews, I will not stand with you."
Can you, in your wildest fantasy, imagine Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton venturing into such a venue and stating a position with such moral clarity? Obama, as we all recall, bowed and scraped to Islam in his 2009 Cairo speech...(http://www.thepeoplescube.com/images/Obama_Bow_Saudi_Dub_Sheik.jpg)
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The most disturbing aspect of the response to Sen. Cruz wasn't the booing from the Middle Eastern contingent, but the fact that so few American Christians in the auditorium were willing to confront the bigots in their midst by at least applauding the senator's remarks.
Far too often, conservatives try to pass off their reluctance to stand up to bullies as simply good manners. But it's not worth the effort because absolutely no one is fooled. Even on a school playground, no eight-year-old has ever confused cowardice with civility.
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Nowhere To Hide As Minority Report-Style Facial Recognition
Technology Spreads Across America
By Michael Snyder, on September 17th, 2014
What is our society going to look like when our faces are being tracked literally everywhere that we go? As part of the FBI's new Next Generation Identification System, a facial recognition database known as the Interstate Photo System will have collected 52 million of our faces by the end of 2015. But that is only a small part of the story. According to Edward Snowden, the NSA has been using advanced facial recognition technology for years. In addition, as you will see below, advertising companies are starting to use Minority Report-style face scanners in their billboards and many large corporations see facial recognition technology as a tool that they can use to serve their customers better. Someday soon it may become virtually impossible to go out in public in a major U.S. city without having your face recorded. Is that the kind of society that we want?
To the FBI, this technology does not represent an invasion of privacy. Rather, they are very proud of the fact that they are not going to be so dependent on fingerprinting any longer.
The FBI has been developing the Next Generation Identification System for years, and this month it was announced that it is finally fully operational...The federal government's Next Generation Identification System — a biometric database that relies largely on facial-recognition technology — is now fully operational, the FBI announced Monday.
"This effort is a significant step forward for the criminal justice community in utilizing biometrics as an investigative enabler," the FBI said in a statement.
The latest advance in the technology gives users the ability to receive "ongoing status notifications" about individuals' criminal histories, the FBI said. That means if, for instance, a teacher commits an offense, law enforcement can be immediately informed — and then pass that information on to administrators.
It's to monitor criminal histories of those "in positions of trust," the FBI said.As part of this new system, every American will eventually be assigned a "Universal Control Number".
Does that sound creepy to you?
Even mainstream news reports are admitting that it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie...
It aims to eventually replace fingerprinting with a complex array of biometrics, assigning everyone with a "Universal Control Number", in what sounds like a plotline from a sci-fi movie.And it won't just be the FBI using this database.
According to Fox News, more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies will have access to this information...More than 18,000 law enforcement agencies and other authorized criminal justice partners across the country will have access to the system 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.So if your face is scanned somewhere or you do something noteworthy that is registered by the system, virtually every law enforcement agency in the country will instantly know about it.
Pretty scary stuff, eh?
But the FBI is actually lagging far behind the NSA.
According to Edward Snowden, the NSA has been using "sophisticated facial recognition programs" for many years...The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents.
The spy agency's reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly over the last four years as the agency has turned to new software to exploit the flood of images included in emails, text messages, social media, videoconferences and other communications, the N.S.A. documents reveal. Agency officials believe that technological advances could revolutionize the way that the N.S.A. finds intelligence targets around the world, the documents show.Do you remember that stuff you saw in the Jason Bourne movies about how the NSA can track people?
Well, most of that stuff is real.
If you don't like it, that is just too bad. At this point not even Congress has much control over what the NSA does.
And there are police departments around the nation that are also way ahead of the FBI.
For example, just check out what has been going on in southern California...In a single second, law enforcement agents can match a suspect against millions upon millions of profiles in vast detailed databases stored on the cloud. It's all done using facial recognition, and in Southern California it's already occurring.
Imagine the police taking a picture: any picture of a person, anywhere, and matching it on the spot in less than a second to a personalized profile, scanning millions upon millions of entries from within vast, intricate databases stored on the cloud.
It's done with state of the art facial recognition technology, and in Southern California it's already happening.
At least one law enforcement agency in San Diego is currently using software developed by FaceFirst, a division of nearby Camarillo, California's Airborne Biometrics Group. It can positively identify anyone, as long as physical data about a person's facial features is stored somewhere the police can access. Though that pool of potential matches could include millions, the company says that by using the "best available facial recognition algorithms" they can scour that data set in a fraction of a second in order to send authorities all known intelligence about anyone who enters a camera's field of vision.Widespread use of facial recognition technology by our law enforcement authorities is becoming a way of life.
If the American people don't like this, they need to stand up and say something.
But instead, in an era of widespread Internet hacking and identity theft, many Americans are actually clamoring for the implementation of more biometric identification.
For instance, the following is a brief excerpt from a Fox News article entitled "Biometric security can't come soon enough for some people"...In a world where nearly every ATM now uses an operating system without any technical support, where a bug can force every user of the Internet to change the password to every account they've ever owned overnight, where cyber-attacks and identity theft grow more menacing every day, the ability to use your voice, your finger, your face or some combination of the three to log into your e-mail, your social media feed or your checking account allows you to ensure it's very difficult for someone else to pretend they're you.As financial institutions adopt this kind of technology, a day may come when virtually all of us are required to have our faces scanned at the checkout counter.
That may sound crazy to you, but according to the Daily Mail a company in Finland has already launched this technology...Bank cards are already being replaced by phones and wristbands that have payment technology built-in but the latest threat to the lowly plastic in your pocket could be your face.
A Finnish startup called Uniqul has launched what it calls the first ever payment platform based on facial recognition.
The system doesn't require a wallet, bank card or phone – instead a camera is positioned at the checkout and takes a photo of a shopper's face when they are ready to pay.
It then scans a database for the face and matches it to stored payment details in order to complete the transaction.And advertisers are even more eager to adopt facial recognition technology. In fact, the kind of face scanning billboards that we saw in "Minority Report" are already a reality. For example, a company called Amscreen says that it already has more than 6,000 face scanning digital screens that are being viewed by approximately
50 million people each week...Advertising network Amscreen recently launched a unique face-detection technology, originally developed by automated audience measurement firm Quividi.
Cameras have been installed in Amscreen's digital advertising displays that can scan a person's face and determine their gender, age, date, time and volume of the viewers.
This is so adverts are served to the most appropriate audience.
Amscreen already has over 6,000 digital screens seen by a weekly audience of over 50 million people.
Even dating websites are starting to use facial recognition technology at this point.
Just check out what Match.com has been doing...Popular dating site Match.com will use photos of users' exes to determine which type of look they're attracted to in order to find them a dating match.
The dating site has partnered with Three Day Rule, a Los Angeles-based matchmaking service, which has dating experts that act as personal dating concierges who hand-select and personally meet every potential match before making a formal introduction to clients, Mashable reports.
Members of Match.com will be able to upgrade to Three Day Rule's premium service which will ask users to send pictures of exes to determine the type of look they're attracted to. Three Day Rule will then use facial-recognition technology in an effort to help users find dates.Our world is changing at a faster pace than ever before.
Powerful new technologies are literally being introduced every single day now, and the future is probably going to look far different than any of us are imagining.
But with all of this new technology, will we end up losing what little personal privacy that we have left?
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FBI's facial recognition system will combine faces of criminals and ordinary citizens
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September 16, 2014
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THE FBI has launched its "next generation" facial recognition system — and the implications are terrifying.
It not only draws on a database of criminal mugshots, it searches through ordinary people too.
Anyone who has ever had a background check when applying for a job could be identified in a police hunt.
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Your face could appear during a police search for a criminal
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And the system is hardly infallible — a search will pull up 50 faces, with only an 85 per cent likelihood that the suspect will be on list, by the FBI's own estimation.
The Interstate Photo System is expected to have reached 50 states by the end of the year, and have collected 52 million faces by 2015.
"This effort is a significant step forward for the criminal justice community in utilising biometrics as an investigative enabler," the FBI said in a statement.
And it may not be long until Australian biometrics become this far-reaching.
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Digital finger printing and facial recognition has been in use in Australia for years.
In NSW, a system called PhotoTrac has been matching CCTV footage and photos to a criminal database since 2011.
Victoria Police have been using the iFace biometric system since 2010, with officers able to scan photos snapped on their mobiles in the street as well as pictures lifted from Facebook, according to IT News.
In 2012, privacy laws were changed so that scans taken for passports, driver's licences or nightclub entry could be stored in police and spy agency databases, in what was slammed as a Big Brother-style development.
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has already said that $158 million "eGate" departure gate scanners will be rolled out mid-next year.
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Biometric "eGate" scanners will be rolled out in
Australian airports next year.
The FBI's Next Generation Identification system simply takes the technology one step further.
It aims to eventually replace fingerprinting with a complex array of biometrics, assigning everyone with a "Universal Control Number", in what sounds like a plotline from a sci-fi movie.
"One of the risks here, without assessing the privacy considerations, is the prospect of mission creep with the use of biometric identifiers," Jeramie Scott, national security counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center told the National Journal in June.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed in that same month that the National Security Agency pulls in millions of images to aid its own facial recognition program.
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Queensland University's Professor Brian Lovell
tests a facial recognition program on dingos.
The IPS had some success last month, The Verge reported, when a child sex abuse fugitive was caught when he applied for a visa at the US embassy in Nepal.
It still compares poorly with Facebook's DeepFace system, which can tell you with 97 per cent accuracy whether two pictures are of the same person. But authorities using the social network's technology could only be a court order away.
Besides, the FBI has disclaimed responsibility for the accuracy of the IPS, stating that the list "is an investigative lead not an identification."
It would seem we need to keep a close eye on the surveillance methods coming soon to our hometowns.
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The Number One Thing That Women Are Looking For In A Husband
By Michael Snyder, on September 24th, 2014
Is it looks? Is it a charming personality? Is it compatibility? No, it isn't any of those things. According to a Pew Research Center study that was just released on Wednesday, "a steady job" is the number one thing that women are looking for in a husband. And considering the fact that the labor force participation rate for men has been falling for decades, it should be no surprise that the marriage rate has been declining as well. In fact, as I wrote about the other day, the marriage rate in the U.S. is at a 93 year low and single Americans make up more than half the population for the first time ever. This is a very disturbing trend, but it is not likely to change any time soon. In fact, our economic problems are probably only going to get worse from here. So as the pool of "eligible bachelors" continues to shrink, what are women going to do?
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This trend has been particularly pronounced among young men. Not only are fewer young men of marriage age working, wages for that group are way below where they used to be once you account for inflation...As the share of never-married adults has climbed, the economic circumstances faced by both men and women have changed considerably. Labor force participation among men—particularly young men—has fallen significantly over the past several decades. In 1960, 93% of men ages 25 to 34 were in the labor force; by 2012 that share had fallen to 82%. And among young men who are employed, wages have fallen over the past few decades. For men ages 25 to 34, median hourly wages have declined 20% since 1980 (after adjusting for inflation). Over the same period, the wage gap between men and women has narrowed. In 2012, among workers ages 25 to 34, women's hourly earnings were 93% those of men. In 1980, the ratio was less than 70%.
The new Pew Research survey findings suggest that never-married women place a high premium on finding a spouse with a steady job. However, the changes in the labor market have contributed to a shrinking pool of available employed young men.
Among never-married adults ages 25 to 34, the number of employed men per 100 women dropped from 139 in 1960 to 91 in 2012, despite the fact that men in this age group outnumber young women in absolute numbers. In other words, if all never-married young women in 2012 wanted to find a young employed man who had also never been married, 9% of them would fail, simply because there are not enough men in the target group. Five decades ago, never-married young women had a much larger pool of potential spouses from which to choose.This is making things very tough for both young men and young women that want to get married.
Young men cannot find the jobs that they need to attract a mate, and young women are facing a shortage of men that they consider to be "marriage material".
In fact, one survey found that a staggering 75 percent of all American women would have a problem even dating an unemployed man...Of the 925 single women surveyed, 75 percent said they'd have a problem with dating someone without a job. Only 4 percent of respondents asked whether they would go out with an unemployed man answered "of course."
"Not having a job will definitely make it harder for men to date someone they don't already know," Irene LaCota, a spokesperson for It's Just Lunch, said in a press release. "This is the rare area, compared to other topics we've done surveys on, where women's old-fashioned beliefs about sex roles seem to apply."Of course this is not the only factor that is contributing to the decline of marriage in the United States.
The truth is that our young people are being trained to not value marriage and family as much as young people in America once did decades ago.
These days, many people are content to stay unmarried and enjoy "the singles lifestyle" indefinitely.
But is it good for the stability of our society to have far fewer marriages and families?
When you look at the hard numbers, they truly are alarming. The following excerpt comes from my previous article entitled "The Economics Of Marriage"...According to a startling new study conducted at Bowling Green University, the marriage rate in America has fallen precipitously over the past 100 years.
In 1920, there were 92.3 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women. In 2012, there were only 31.1 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women.
That is not just a new all-time low, that is a colossal demographic earthquake.
That same study found that the marriage rate has fallen by an astounding 60 percent since 1970 alone.
As a result, U.S. households look far different today than they once did.
Back in 1950, 78 percent of all households in the U.S. contained a married couple. Today, that number has declined to 48 percent.A lot of these unmarried young adults are not even living on their own.
In fact, as I wrote about just recently, an astounding 31.1 percent of all U.S. young adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.
In the old days, if you were not married and starting a family by the age of 25 people started to get concerned about you.
But now a lot of people think that marriage before the age of 25 is "getting married too young".
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Good News! Obuma's Top General Reads Book By
Rachel Maddow For Advice On Military Matters
(That's like reading a book by Barney Frank for advice on how to meet women)
Via Daily Caller:If you're concerned that President Barack Obama's strategy to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria might not be rock solid, rest assured: his top general reads Rachel Maddow for insight into military affairs.
Back in 2012,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey took to his official Facebook page to alert his followers that he had read the liberal MSNBC host's latest tome and, what's more, it really made him think.
"I saw from your comments on my post for 'Swerve' that many of you were reading Rachel Maddow's 'Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power,'" Dempsey wrote. "I read this too and it challenged my thinking on an issue that is central to our profession. The use of the military – in any capacity, conflict or otherwise – is always the decision of our civilian leaders."
"Ms. Maddow pushes the reader to understand the history of the why and how civilian leaders choose the military option. I couldn't agree more with her point that our military is 'unrecognizably better' since 9/11," he continued.
September 27, 2014 4:00 AM The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist...
It's a fictitious name the Obuma administration
invented to deceive us.
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We're being had.... Again!For six years, President Obama has endeavored to will the country into accepting two pillars of his alternative national-security reality. First, he claims to have dealt decisively with the terrorist threat, rendering it a disparate series of ragtag jayvees. Second, he asserts that the threat is unrelated to Islam, which is innately peaceful, moderate, and opposed to the wanton "violent extremists" who purport to act in its name.
Now, the president has been compelled to act against a jihad that has neither ended nor been "decimated." The jihad, in fact, has inevitably intensified under his counterfactual worldview, which holds that empowering Islamic supremacists is the path to security and stability. Yet even as war intensifies in Iraq and Syria — even as jihadists continue advancing, continue killing and capturing hapless opposition forces on the ground despite Obama's futile air raids — the president won't let go of the charade.
Hence, Obama gives us the Khorosan Group.
The who?
There is a reason that no one had heard of such a group until a nanosecond ago, when the "Khorosan Group" suddenly went from anonymity to the "imminent threat" that became the rationale for an emergency air war there was supposedly no time to ask Congress to authorize.
You haven't heard of the Khorosan Group because there isn't one. It is a name the administration came up with, calculating that Khorosan — the –Iranian–Afghan border region — had sufficient connection to jihadist lore that no one would call the president on it.
The "Khorosan Group" is al-Qaeda. It is simply a faction within the global terror network's Syrian franchise, "Jabhat al-Nusra." Its leader, Mushin al-Fadhli (believed to have been killed in this week's U.S.-led air strikes), was an intimate of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the emir of al-Qaeda who dispatched him to the jihad in Syria. Except that if you listen to administration officials long enough, you come away thinking that Zawahiri is not really al-Qaeda, either. Instead, he's something the administration is at pains to call "core al-Qaeda."
"Core al-Qaeda," you are to understand, is different from "Jabhat al-Nusra," which in turn is distinct from "al-Qaeda in Iraq" (formerly "al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia," now the "Islamic State" al-Qaeda spin-off that is, itself, formerly "al-Qaeda in Iraq and al-Sham" or "al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant"). That al-Qaeda, don't you know, is a different outfit from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula . . . which, of course, should never be mistaken for "al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," "Boko Haram," "Ansar al-Sharia," or the latest entry, "al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent."
(Got that??)Coming soon,
"al-Qaeda on Hollywood and Vine." In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if, come 2015, Obama issued an executive order decreeing twelve new jihad jayvees stretching from al-Qaeda in January through al-Qaeda in December.
Except you'll hear only about the jayvees, not the jihad. You see, there is a purpose behind this dizzying proliferation of names assigned to what, in reality, is a global network with multiple tentacles and occasional internecine rivalries.
As these columns have long contended, Obama has not quelled our enemies; he has miniaturized them. The jihad and the sharia supremacism that fuels it form the glue that unites the parts into a whole — a worldwide, ideologically connected movement rooted in Islamic scripture that can project power on the scale of a nation-state and that seeks to conquer the West. The president does not want us to see the threat this way.
For a product of the radical Left like Obama, terrorism is a regrettable but understandable consequence of American arrogance. That it happens to involve Muslims is just the coincidental fallout of Western imperialism in the Middle East, not the doctrinal command of a belief system that perceives itself as engaged in an inter-civilizational conflict. For the Left, America has to be the culprit. Despite its inbred pathologies, which we had no role in cultivating, Islam must be the victim, not the cause. As you'll hear from Obama's Islamist allies, who often double as Democrat activists, the problem is "Islamophobia," not Muslim terrorism.
This is a gross distortion of reality, so the Left has to do some very heavy lifting to pull it off. Since the Islamic-supremacist ideology that unites the jihadists won't disappear, it has to be denied and purged. The "real" jihad becomes the "internal struggle to become a better person." The scriptural and scholarly underpinnings of Islamic supremacism must be bleached out of the materials used to train our national-security agents, and the instructors who resist going along with the program must be ostracized. The global terror network must be atomized into discrete, disconnected cells moved to violence by parochial political or territorial disputes, with no overarching unity or hegemonic ambition. That way, they can be limned as a manageable law-enforcement problem fit for the courts to address, not a national-security challenge requiring the armed forces.
The president has been telling us for years that he handled al-Qaeda by killing bin Laden. He has been telling us for weeks that the Islamic State — an al-Qaeda renegade that will soon reconcile with the mother ship for the greater good of unity in the anti-American jihad — is a regional nuisance that posed no threat to the United States. In recent days, however, reality intruded on this fiction. Suddenly, tens of thousands of terrorists, armed to the teeth, were demolishing American-trained armies, beheading American journalists, and threatening American targets.
Canadian Police Told Not To Equate The "Noble Concept Of Jihad To Terrorism"
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(Even dumber, RCMP officers are warned not to call
Islamic terrorists "jihadis")
Via CBC:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/united-against-terrorism-handbook-released-at-winnipeg-mosque-1.2781062
A handbook aimed at preventing young Canadians from being recruited by extremist groups has been released at a Winnipeg mosque today.
The handbook, titled United Against Terrorism: A Collaborative Effort Towards a Secure, Inclusive and Just Canada, was presented at the Winnipeg Central Mosque.
It's a joint effort between Islamic Social Services, the National Council of Canadian Muslims and the RCMP.
All of us have one objective — we want to secure Canada. We want our youth safe. We do not want them recruited by these criminal gangs," said Shahina Siddiqui, executive director with the Islamic Social Services Association of Canada, one of the groups behind the handbook.
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From the manual:RCMP: UNDERSTANDING
RADICALIZATION AND THE ROLE
OF RCMP IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
AND NATIONAL SECURITY• Build relationships between the community and law enforcement.
• Encourage law enforcement as a career choice for youth and showcasing Muslims in
law enforcement as positive role models.
• See law enforcement as a stakeholder in securing law and order.
• Any discrimination at the hand of police, RCMP or CSIS should be reported and not ignored.
• By uncritically applying the noble concept of Jihad to terrorism and using labeling
terrorist as 'jihadis', we are playing into the hands of violent extremists
• By equating terrorism with Jihad and by calling terrorist "jihadis," the media, law
enforcement, intelligence agencies and politicians have confused the discourse, and
this has been counterproductive in challenging the extremist narrative in the minds of
the young and vulnerable
• Application of these terms and titles has inadvertently emboldened the terrorist — giving
them bragging rights to nobility
• As stated earlier, Jihad is not terrorism; terrorists are criminals, not martyrs.
• Clear and accurate use of the Islamic lexicon, terminologies and concepts is the surest
way to deconstruct the extremist violent narrative, and to de-program already
radicalized youth.
Random Thoughts
By Thomas Sowell
What a non-judgmental society amounts to is that common decency is optional —which means that decency is likely to become less common.
The biggest issue in this fall's election is whether the Obama administration will end when Barack Obama leaves the White House or whether it will continue on, by appointing federal judges with lifetime appointments who share President Obama's contempt for the Constitution. Whether such judges will be confirmed by the Senate depends on whether the Senate continues to be controlled by Democratic majority leader Harry Reid.
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Why in the world would any sane American go to North Korea and put themselves at the mercy of a crackpot dictator?
Since Illinois enacted a law permitting more people to carry concealed firearms, more than 65,000 people have received permits to do so. Rates of robbery, burglary, and motor-vehicle theft have dropped significantly, and the murder rate has fallen to a level not seen in more than half a century. If only the gun-control fanatics would pay some attention to facts, a lot of lives could be saved.
If you took all the mumbo-jumbo out of our educational institutions, how much would be left? Students could finish their education years earlier and end up knowing a lot more than they know now.
Why are Americans — and the Western world in general — falling all over ourselves stifling our own self-expression to appease people who chose to immigrate here and are now demanding the suppression of anything they don't like, such as public expressions of Christianity or displays of the American flag?
Someone should write a history of political rhetoric, if only to put us on our guard against being deceived into disasters. The First World War, for example, was said to be a war "to make the world safe for democracy." What it actually led to was the replacement of despotic dynasties by totalitarian dictatorships that were far worse, including far more murderous.
Professor Sterling Brown remains as much a hero to me in my old age as he was when I was a freshman at Howard University. He wrote bitterly eloquent attacks on racism — and yet, when I was preparing to go off to Harvard, he said to me, "Don't come back here and tell me you didn't make it 'cause white folks were mean."
The fatal weakness of most clever people is that they don't know when to stop being clever. The past cleverness of President Obama is finally starting to catch up with him.
Why Republicans would bring up the subject of immigration during an election year is beyond me. Yet Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner seems drawn to the subject like a moth to a flame.
Who says the Obama administration is not transparent? They are constantly telling our enemies overseas when we will pull out our troops and where we will not put boots on the ground.
Heartening as it has been to see Derek Jeter get farewell honors during his last season, as with Mariano Rivera last season, it is also a melancholy thought that we may not see their like again — in their personal dignity and class, as well as their performance on the field. They are throwbacks to an earlier time, in a sports world of spoiled-brat showoffs today.
I must have heard the word "diversity" proclaimed in ringing tones as a great benefit to society at least a thousand times — and probably closer to a million — without even once hearing a speck of evidence provided or even suggested as a way to test whether that is true or false.
Attorney General Eric Holder has picked the perfect time to resign, in terms of his own self-interest. He will have two years in which to cash in with lucrative fees on the lecture circuit and to make a big-bucks book deal. If he waited until the end of the Obama administration, a former attorney general would be eclipsed in both respects by a former president of the United States, thereby reducing the demand for Holder.
With the momentous consequences of control of the Senate at stake in this fall's election, anyone who risks the outcome by running as a third-party candidate should not only be voted against this year but remembered for such irresponsibility in future years.
Atheist groups fight religious statue at Georgia high school football field
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The two-ton statue at Madison County High School asks: 'If God be for us, who can be against us?' Groups demanding the school honor the separation between church and state, that's who.(The group must have a finders fee for "offensive" religious statues)
Via NY Daily Newshttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/atheist-groups-fight-religious-statue-georgia-high-school-football-field-article-1.1956397
Football is religion in the Deep South, but one Georgia school district is accused of taking it to the extreme.
Madison County High School near Athens, Ga. is drawing biblical ire from two atheist groups after the district installed a granite monument inscribed with religious messages at a new football field.
The Freedom From Religious Foundation and the American Humanist Association have asked Madison County school officials to remove the two-ton sculpture based on the constitutional call for a separation between church and state.
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The monument, a gift from a donor, was placed between the field house and the football field in August and has already become part of the team's game day ritual.
The monument cites the
Bible's Romans 8:31: "If God be for us, who can be against us?"It also quotes
Philippians 4:13: "I can do all things. Strengthen me."But the statue has already made a positive impression. Players touch the statue as they enter the field before games.
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I don't know if you're aware of it, and until I checked it out I certainly wasn't, but 17 states are represented by one Democrat and one Republican in the U.S. Senate. How can that be? How is it that in a nation as divided as America is today, that a third of the states have seen fit to split its vote this way?
Frankly, I can better understand California's electing a pair of liberal dingbats like Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer than I can grasp why it is that, say, Alaska, Florida, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, wound up with one dingbat and one Republican.
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Call me Senator Boxer!
I'd like to call you gone!
While I'm at it, why do Maine's Sen. Angus King and Vermont's Bernie Sanders get away with claiming to be Independents when neither of them has ever been anything but a rubberstamp for Barack Obama and Harry Reid? How is it that the folks who offer cookies, cars and clothing for sale aren't allowed to get away with false labeling, but politicians and movies get to do it all the time?
One of my readers, Sam Marx, has suggested that the Republicans running for office this November should take advantage of Obama's dithering when it comes to confronting Islamic devils by adopting the slogan "Democrats Are Soft on Terrorism" just as they used to be accused of being soft on communism in the midst of the Cold War, when they foolishly pushed for unilateral disarmament.
Liberals, by and large, prefer slogans to policies. Even after ISIS had gobbled up huge parcels of Syria and Iraq, we had Obama confess he had no strategy for defeating them. But that should have come as no surprise to those of us who have lived through half a century of liberals pretending that Lorraine Schneider's "War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things" and Jerry Rubin's "Make Love, Not War" constituted a coherent foreign policy.
While watching TV the other night, I saw a Penn & Teller's show devoted to the global-warming hoax. One of the participants was a woman who claimed to be a licensed therapist whose specialty was dealing with the disorders of those deeply troubled by something called ecological anxiety.
Among the symptoms she listed were stomach aches; headaches; feelings of just being nervous, but not really knowing why; inattention or inability to focus and concentrate. Granted I'm not a medical professional, but it sure sounded a lot like a hangover.(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zo2Ugr5f_hQ/T4dCmxH98SI/AAAAAAAAPy8/w0cAU0Psprs/s1600/al_gore_polar_bears1.jpg)
The takeaway for me is that Al Gore isn't the only toad in the world cashing in on the global warming con game, although he remains the biggest and most repulsive toad in the swamp, and surely the only one who's been able to hop away with an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Nobel Peace Prize.
This therapist works out of her home in New Mexico, a state that is apparently the natural habitat for every aging hippie who believes crystals and chanting cure cancer.
We got to see her working with six people claiming to be suffering from eco-anxiety. Apparently, a centerpiece of her treatment is to collect rocks from her driveway and give one to each of her subjects. They were told to keep it in their pocket to remind them that they were one with nature, although I suspect it was to reassure them that there were things in the world even dumber than themselves, although, to be fair, the rocks hadn't spent good money flying to New Mexico.
The lesson I came away with is that it's better to have rocks in your driveway than rocks in your head.
Part of the show was devoted to carbon credit offsets. Apparently these work on the honor system; people are expected to fine themselves for such criminal acts as using air conditioners or driving SUVs. They then pay for their sins by donating money that can be used to build wind farms, manufacture solar panels or pay for Al Gore's suntan lotion.(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_omk7dxCwoak/TCOdgwTeCLI/AAAAAAAADT4/Wu6o8Z8dgv8/s400/goredc.jpg)
For me, the most shocking segment of the show was devoted to man and woman-on-the-street interviews, as one seemingly sane person after another described Gore as a hero, a prophet and a living saint. Not even one of them referred to him as a hypocrite, a con man or even a horse's patootie.
But Penn and Teller are nobody's patsies and they disclosed that Gore, who makes a habit of flying around on private jets, only got around to putting solar panels on his own Tennessee mansion when it was disclosed that, based on his utility bills, he used more than 17 times as much electricity as the average person in the Volunteer State.
But, to be fair, the guys did admit that he pays for his own ecological sins by writing a check every so often to a carbon credit company, Generation Investment Management.
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....Burt
25 Critical Facts
About This Ebola Outbreak
That Every American Needs To Know
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Be sure to visit and bookmark the 2014 U.S. Ebola Outbreak Map and Information page!
(by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse) -- What would a global pandemic look like for a disease that has no cure and that kills more than half of the people that it infects? Let's hope that we don't get to find out, but what we do know is that more than 100 health workers that were on the front lines of fighting this disease have ended up getting it themselves. The top health officials in the entire world are sounding the alarm and the phrase "out of control" is constantly being thrown around by professionals with decades of experience. So should average Americans be concerned about Ebola? If so, how bad could an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. potentially become? The following are 25 critical facts about this Ebola outbreak that every American needs to know...
#1 As the chart below demonstrates, the spread of Ebola is starting to become exponential...
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#2 This is already the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history by far.
#3 The head of the World Health Organization says that this outbreak "is moving faster than our efforts to control it".
#4 The head of Doctors Without Borders says that this outbreak is "out of control".
#5 So far, more than 100 health workers that were on the front lines fighting the virus have ended up contracting Ebola themselves. This is happening despite the fact that they go to extraordinary lengths to keep from getting the disease.
#6 There is no cure for Ebola.
#7 The death rate for this current Ebola outbreak is over 50 percent, and experts say that it can kill "up to 90% of those infected".
#8 The incubation rate for Ebola ranges from two days to 21 days. Therefore, someone can be carrying it around for up to three weeks without even knowing it.
#9 For the first time ever, human Ebola patients are being brought to the United States. And as Paul Craig Roberts so aptly put it the other day, all it would take is "one cough, one sneeze, one drop of saliva, and the virus is loose".
#10 This has already potentially happened in the United Kingdom. A woman reportedly collapsed and later died on Saturday after she got off of a flight from Sierra Leone at Gatwick Airport.
#11 A study conducted in 2012 proved that Ebola could be transmitted between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and that never made physical contact.
#12 This is a new strain of Ebola, so what we know about other strains of Ebola may not necessarily apply to this strain of Ebola.
#13 Barack Obama has just signed an executive order that gives the federal government the power to apprehend and detain Americans that show symptoms of "diseases that are associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not properly controlled."
#14 And as I noted the other day, federal law already permits "the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease".
#15 According to the CDC, there are 20 quarantine centers around the country that are prepared to potentially receive Ebola patients...
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#16 The CDC has set up an Ebola "quarantine station" at LAX in order to help prevent the spread of the virus.
#17 The largest health emergency drill in New York City history was conducted on Friday.
#18 The federal government will begin testing an "experimental Ebola vaccine" on humans in September.
#19 We are being told that the reason why we don't have an Ebola vaccine already is due to the hesitation of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in a disease that has "only affected people in Africa".
#20 Researchers from Tulane University have been active for several years in the very same areas where this Ebola outbreak began. One of the stated purposes of this research was to study "the future use of fever-viruses as bioweapons".
#21 According to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone, researchers from Tulane University have been asked "to stop Ebola testing during the current Ebola outbreak". What in the world does that mean?
#22 The Navy Times says that the U.S. military has been interested in studying Ebola "as a potential biological weapon" since the 1970s...
Filoviruses like Ebola have been of interest to the Pentagon since the late 1970s, mainly because Ebola and its fellow viruses have high mortality rates — in the current outbreak, roughly 60 percent to 72 percent of those who have contracted the disease have died — and its stable nature in aerosol make it attractive as a potential biological weapon.
#23 The CDC actually owns a patent on one particular strain of the Ebola virus...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control owns a patent on a particular strain of Ebola known as "EboBun." It's patent No. CA2741523A1 and it was awarded in 2010. You can view it here.
It is being reported that this is not the same strain that is currently being transmitted in Africa, but it is interesting to note nonetheless. And why would the CDC want "ownership" of a strain of the Ebola virus in the first place?
#24 The CDC has just put up a brand new webpage entitled "Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Hospitalized Patients with Known or Suspected Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals".
#25 The World Health Organization has launched a 100 million dollar response plan to fight this Ebola outbreak. Others don't seem so alarmed. For example, Barack Obama is getting ready to take a "16 day Martha's Vineyard vacation".
Many are attempting to play down the threat from this virus by stating that unless you "exchange bodily fluids" with someone that you don't have anything to worry about.
If that was truly the case, then how in the world have more than 100 health workers contracted the virus so far?
Health professionals that deal with Ebola take extreme precautions to keep from being exposed to the disease.
But despite those extreme measures, they are catching it too.
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Ebola Out Break Links
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Ebola In America: The Confirmed Case In Dallas,
Texas Could Change Everything
By Michael Snyder, on September 30th, 2014
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The day that many of us hoped would never arrive is here. Ebola has come to America. Air travel between the United States and the countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone should have been totally shut down except for absolutely essential personnel but it wasn't. And now our nation may end up paying a great price as a result. On Tuesday, the CDC announced that there is a confirmed case of Ebola in Dallas, Texas. We know that this individual is a male and that he traveled by air from Liberia to Texas on September 19th. At that time, he was not exhibiting any symptoms. It is being reported that he started developing symptoms on September 24th and that he sought out treatment two days later. Incredibly, he was turned away and sent home. Then on September 28th he went to a hospital again and this time he was admitted for treatment. That means that he could have potentially been spreading Ebola to others for at least four full days before finally getting treated at a hospital. Now he is in intensive care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. The CDC says that "there is no doubt that we will stop it here" and is promising that "it will not spread widely in this country". The CDC better be right on both counts.
At this point, the CDC is admitting that it is not known if others have been infected by this individual. The CDC also says that it is tracking down everyone that he has been in contact with. But over four days in a major U.S. city, you can be "in contact" with a whole lot of people. And what about all of the people that those people were in contact with?
If I was in charge of this crisis, I would admit that we don't know the full scope of the problem yet but that we are dealing with it the best that we can.
Instead, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking an entirely different approach. Dr. Thomas Frieden insists that we have absolutely nothing to worry about..."I have no doubt that we will control this case of Ebola, so that it does not spread widely in this country. It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola. But there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here."Frieden better be right about that.Other "experts" are being even more dogmatic..."There is no cause for concern," says Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "The Ebola virus is not easily transmitted from person to person, and we have an outstanding infrastructure in place both to contain the virus and trace contacts. There will not be an Ebola epidemic in the United States."I have no idea how they can say these things when the outbreak over in Africa is completely and totally out of control. Despite extreme precautions, hundreds of health workers have gotten the virus, and so far global health officials have not even been able to slow down the exponential growth of the Ebola pandemic in West Africa.
And our health officials should not be so dogmatic about how this virus spreads either.
In a previous article, I discussed a study that was conducted back in 2012 that demonstrated that Ebola could be transmitted through the air between pigs and monkeys that did not have physical contact with one another...When news broke that the Ebola virus had resurfaced in Uganda, investigators in Canada were making headlines of their own with research indicating the deadly virus may spread between species, through the air.
The team, comprised of researchers from the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, observed transmission of Ebola from pigs to monkeys. They first inoculated a number of piglets with the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. Ebola-Zaire is the deadliest strain, with mortality rates up to 90 percent. The piglets were then placed in a room with four cynomolgus macaques, a species of monkey commonly used in laboratories. The animals were separated by wire cages to prevent direct contact between the species.
Within a few days, the inoculated piglets showed clinical signs of infection indicative of Ebola infection. In pigs, Ebola generally causes respiratory illness and increased temperature. Nine days after infection, all piglets appeared to have recovered from the disease.
Within eight days of exposure, two of the four monkeys showed signs of Ebola infection. Four days later, the remaining two monkeys were sick too. It is possible that the first two monkeys infected the other two, but transmission between non-human primates has never before been observed in a lab setting.There is much that we don't understand about this disease. I can understand the need to keep the public calm, but why don't these officials just tell us the truth?
At the same time that they are telling us that there is no chance that there will be an Ebola epidemic in the United States, they are also sending out guidelines to funeral homes on how to deal with dead Ebola victims...CBS46 News has confirmed the Centers for Disease Control has issued guidelines to U.S. funeral homes on how to handle the remains of Ebola patients. If the outbreak of the potentially deadly virus is in West Africa, why are funeral homes in America being given guidelines?
The three-page list of recommendations include instructing funeral workers to wear protective equipment when dealing with the remains since Ebola can be transmitted in postmortem care. It also instructs to avoid autopsies and embalming.Why are they doing this if there is
"no chance" that the disease will spread widely?
Hopefully they isolated this Ebola patient in Dallas in time.
Hopefully he did not infect anyone else.
But we need to be honest about the situation that we are potentially facing. So far, there have been more than 6,000 cases of Ebola in Africa and more than 3,000 of those have died. Unfortunately, even WHO officials admit that those official numbers "great underestimate" the scope of this outbreak. The number of official cases has been doubling approximately every three weeks, and the CDC says that under a "worst case scenario" we could be looking at 1.4 million cases by the end of January 2015.
Right now all of the treatment facilities in Liberia and Sierra Leone are completely full and more than 80 percent of Ebola patients have been turned away and sent home without being treated. It is an absolute nightmare, and now it has come to America.
And as the virus continues to spread, it is inevitable that more carriers of the disease will get on airplanes headed for America.
Unfortunately for us, according to a recent Defense One article the screening done at airports actually does very little to stop the spread of Ebola...The bad news is that thermal screenings of the international flying population at airports are not likely to yield much by way of improved safety.
Here's why: fever can be a sign of a lot of different illnesses, not just Ebola. And thermal scanning proved to be a poor method of catching bird flu carriers in 2009 as well. So presenting with an elevated temperature at an airport checkpoint does not indicate clearly enough that the fevered person is carrying the deadly virus. More importantly, the incubation period for Ebola is two days. As many as 20 days can pass before symptoms show up. That means that an individual could be carrying the virus for two weeks or longer and not even know it, much less have it show up via thermal scan. So what good are these scanners?When I first started writing about Ebola, a few people accused me of "spreading fear".
Well, now that Ebola has arrived in the United States, perhaps they will take a second look at some of my recent articles...-"The Pure Hell At The Heart Of The Ebola Pandemic In Africa Could Soon Be Coming To America"
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/the-pure-hell-at-the-heart-of-the-ebola-pandemic-in-africa-could-soon-be-coming-to-america
-"Computer Models Tell Us That This Ebola Pandemic Could Soon Kill Millions"
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/computer-models-tell-us-that-this-ebola-pandemic-could-soon-kill-millions
-"16 Apocalyptic Quotes From Global Health Officials About This Horrific Ebola Epidemic"
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/16-apocalyptic-quotes-from-global-health-officials-about-this-horrific-ebola-epidemic
-"Ebola Among Health Workers: More Than 240 Sick, More Than 120 Dead"
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/ebola-among-health-workers-more-than-240-sick-more-than-120-dead
-"It Is Becoming Clear – We Are NOT Prepared For An Ebola Pandemic"
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/it-is-becoming-clear-we-are-not-prepared-for-an-ebola-pandemicLet us pray that this is just one isolated case and that there will not be a major outbreak in this nation.
Because if cases do start popping up around the country, fear will spread like wildfire and we could potentially be facing the greatest health crisis that any of us have ever seen.
One of the individuals that successfully survived this disease was Dr. Kent Brantly. I think that the following quote from him really does a great job of summarizing what we are potentially facing...
"Many have used the analogy of a fire burning out of control to describe this unprecedented Ebola outbreak," Brantly said. "Indeed it is a fire—it is a fire straight from the pit of hell. We cannot fool ourselves into thinking that the vast moat of the Atlantic Ocean will protect us from the flames of this fire. Instead, we must mobilize the resources ... to keep entire nations from being reduced to ashes."
A virus like this could change everything if it starts circulating widely.
Like I have said so many times before, let us hope for the best, but let us also prepare for the worst.
The U.S. Government Is Borrowing About 8 Trillion Dollars A Year
By Michael Snyder, on September 29th, 2014
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NOW... multiply that by *8*
I know that headline sounds completely outrageous. But it is actually true. The U.S. government is borrowing about 8 trillion dollars a year, and you are about to see the hard numbers that prove this. When discussing the national debt, most people tend to only focus on the amount that it increases each 12 months. And as I wrote about recently, the U.S. national debt has increased by more than a trillion dollars in fiscal year 2014. But that does not count the huge amounts of U.S. Treasury securities that the federal government must redeem each year. When these debt instruments hit their maturity date, the U.S. government must pay them off. This is done by borrowing more money to pay off the previous debts. In fiscal year 2013, redemptions of U.S. Treasury securities totaled $7,546,726,000,000 and new debt totaling $8,323,949,000,000 was issued. The final numbers for fiscal year 2014 are likely to be significantly higher than that.
So why does so much government debt come due each year?
Well, in recent years government officials figured out that they could save a lot of money on interest payments by borrowing over shorter time frames. For example, it costs the government far more to borrow money for 10 years than it does for 1 year. So a strategy was hatched to borrow money for very short periods of time and to keep "rolling it over" again and again and again.
This strategy has indeed saved the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars in interest payments, but it has also created a situation where the federal government must borrow about 8 trillion dollars a year just to keep up with the game.
So what happens when the rest of the world decides that it does not want to loan us 8 trillion dollars a year at ultra-low interest rates?
Well, the game will be over and we will be in a massive amount of trouble.
I am about to share with you some numbers that were originally reported by CNS News. As you can see, far more debt is being redeemed and issued today than back during the middle part of the last decade...
2013
Redeemed: $7,546,726,000,000
Issued: $8,323,949,000,000
Increase: $777,223,000,000
2012
Redeemed: $6,804,956,000,000
Issued: $7,924,651,000,000
Increase: $1,119,695,000,000
2011
Redeemed: $7,026,617,000,000
Issued: $8,078,266,000,000
Increase: $1,051,649,000,000
2010
Redeemed: $7,206,965,000,000
Issued: $8,649,171,000,000
Increase: $1,442,206,000,000
2009
Redeemed: $7,306,512,000,000
Issued: $9,027,399,000,000
Increase: $1,720,887,000,000
2008
Redeemed: $4,898,607,000,000
Issued: $5,580,644,000,000
Increase: $682,037,000,000
2007
Redeemed: $4,402,395,000,000
Issued: $4,532,698,000,000
Increase: $130,303,000,000
2006
Redeemed: $4,297,869,000,000
Issued: $4,459,341,000,000
Increase: $161,472,000,000The only way that this game can continue is if the U.S. government can continue to borrow gigantic piles of money at ridiculously low interest rates.
And our current standard of living greatly depends on the continuation of this game.
If something comes along and rattles this Ponzi scheme, life in America could change radically almost overnight.
In the United States today, we have a heavily socialized system that hands out checks to nearly half the population. In fact, 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that gets direct monetary benefits from the federal government each month according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And it is hard to believe, but Americans received more than 2 trillion dollars in benefits from the federal government last year alone. At this point, the primary function of the federal government is taking money from some people and giving it to others. In fact, more than 70 percent of all federal spending goes to "dependence-creating programs", and the government runs approximately 80 different "means-tested welfare programs" right now. But the big problem is that the government is giving out far more money than it is taking in, so it has to borrow the difference. As long as we can continue to borrow at super low interest rates, the status quo can continue.
But a Ponzi scheme like this can only last for so long.
It has been said that when the checks stop coming in, chaos will begin in the streets of America.
The looting that took place when a technical glitch caused the EBT system to go down for a short time in some areas last year and the rioting in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri this year were both small previews of what we will see in the future.
And there is no way that we will be able to "grow" our way out of this problem.
As the Baby Boomers continue to retire, the amount of money that the federal government is handing out each year is projected to absolutely skyrocket. Just consider the following numbers...
-Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, more than 70 million Americans are on Medicaid, and it is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
-When Medicare was first established, we were told that it would cost about $12 billion a year by the time 1990 rolled around. Instead, the federal government ended up spending $110 billion on the program in 1990, and the federal government spent approximately $600 billion on the program in 2013.
-It is being projected that the number of Americans on Medicare will grow from 50.7 million in 2012 to 73.2 million in 2025.
-At this point, Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars over the next 75 years. That comes to approximately $328,404 for every single household in the United States.
-In 1945, there were 42 workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits. Today, that number has fallen to 2.5 workers, and if you eliminate all government workers, that leaves only 1.6 private sector workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits.
-Right now, there are approximately 63 million Americans collecting Social Security benefits. By 2035, that number is projected to soar to an astounding 91 million.
-Overall, the Social Security system is facing a 134 trillion dollar shortfall over the next 75 years.
-The U.S. government is facing a total of 222 trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities during the years ahead. Social Security and Medicare make up the bulk of that.Yes, things seem somewhat stable for the moment in America today.
But the same thing could have been said about 2007. The stock market was soaring, the economy seemed like it was rolling right along and people were generally optimistic about the future.
Then the financial crisis of 2008 erupted and it seemed like the world was going to end.
Well, the truth is that another great crisis is rapidly approaching, and we are in far worse shape financially than we were back in 2008.
Don't get blindsided by what is ahead. Evidence of the coming catastrophe is all around you.
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What the U.S. National Debt looks like!
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To me this story reads the equivalent of a lot of if's and maybe's which points to instability of the situation and agency's inolved. I have a lack of faith in the whole situation. They have no idea how many prople he had contact with. The answer of just a hanfull tell me they don't have a clue. Be cautious people.Man in Dallas
With Ebola
Initially Sent Home
With Antibiotics
Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) -- A man with Ebola in Dallas was initially sent home from the hospital with antibiotics after seeking treatment for an unknown illness, officials said.
The man, whose name wasn't released, is the first case of the deadly viral infection to be diagnosed outside of Africa. He traveled from Liberia and arrived in the U.S. on Sept. 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday.
The man is being kept in isolation in an intensive care unit. He had no symptoms when he left Liberia and began to show signs of the disease on Sept. 24, the CDC said. He sought care on Sept. 26, was hospitalized two days later at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and is critically ill, said CDC Director Thomas Frieden. The agency is working to identify anybody who had contact with the man and track them down, he said.
"There is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here," Frieden said at a press conference in Atlanta.
A CDC team of epidemiologists will follow anyone who has had contact with the man for 21 days, Frieden said. If they develop any symptoms, they'll immediately be isolated, and public health officials will trace their contacts. The diagnosis was first confirmed by a Texas lab based on samples of the man's blood and confirmed by the CDC.
Ambulance Workers
The man was traveling to the U.S. to visit family and was staying with them. He was exposed to only a "handful" of people during the time when he had symptoms, including family members and possibly some community members, according to Frieden, who said there was little risk to anyone on his flight.
"Ebola doesn't spread before someone gets sick, and he didn't get sick until four days until after he got off the airplane," Frieden said. "So we don't believe there was any risk to anyone on the flight at that time."
The patient wasn't involved in helping contain the Ebola outbreak effort, according to Frieden, who declined to give further details on the man's nationality or travels. CDC researchers said because Ebola is spread through human fluids, he had to have had close contact with someone in Liberia who had the disease or had recently died from it.
After the patient sought medical care on Sept. 26 and was sent home with antibiotics, he returned in an ambulance to Texas Health Presbyterian two days later and was admitted, said Edward Goodman, an epidemiologist at the hospital. The ambulance workers and other health-care professionals who treated him are being monitored for symptoms, Goodman said.
Obama Briefed
The CDC and Texas doctors are discussing the use of possible experimental treatments, Frieden said, though no decision has been made.
President Barack Obama was briefed about the patient by Frieden, the White House said in a statement. They discussed the patient's treatment and what was being done to trace the people the man might have contacted.
U.S. authorities didn't disclose the flights or airlines the patient took from Liberia. No airlines serve Africa from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, the main domestic and foreign gateway to North Texas, and none of the major U.S. carriers with overseas networks -- American Airlines Group Inc., United Continental Holdings Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. -- flies to Liberia. Delta dropped operations last month in Monrovia, the country's capital.
Traveler's Itinerary
That left open the possibility the traveler arrived in the U.S. from somewhere else in Africa or via a connection in Europe, and may have stopped elsewhere on a domestic flight before reaching Dallas.Another suspected Ebola case is being evaluated at a National Institutes of Health facility, U.S. officials said,
the 13th such possible infection in the U.S. All others have tested negative.
A traveler from Africa showing up in the U.S. with Ebola "is not at all surprising," said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "We are going to see more cases show up around the world."
Osterholm said that while it is possible the patient may have infected other family members or close contacts before he was diagnosed, it is unlikely there will be any more people infected with Ebola in the U.S. as a result of the case, thanks to good infection control procedures here.
West Africa
"There shouldn't be any new infections from this point on," Osterholm said. "We are going to shut this down."
The Ebola outbreak has been concentrated in the West Africa countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The outbreak has infected 6,574 and killed 3,091 people so far, according to the World Health Organization. U.S. public health officials have been isolating and testing travelers who returned from the region with symptoms of the disease.
"This incident shows the vast differences between our health system and what's available in West Africa," said Celine Gounder, an infectious disease doctor and a former assistant commissioner in the New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene. "The patient was isolated quickly. By isolating the contacts, we can eliminate risk of further spread."
Ebola has left Africa before, but only under controlled conditions. Aid workers who have fallen ill in the current outbreak have been flown to the U.S., the U.K., Spain and France for treatment. A researcher who fell ill in 1994 in Ivory Coast was taken to Switzerland for care.
Developing Vaccines
At least three American aid workers who were diagnosed with Ebola in Africa during this outbreak were evacuated to U.S. hospitals, treated and discharged.
There is no approved treatment for Ebola, though drugmakers are attempting to develop vaccines or medicines that could be used in this or a future outbreak. Current care involves isolating the patient so they can't infect others, and providing supportive treatment such as intravenous fluids and antibiotics to fight opportunistic infections.
U.S. health officials have downplayed the chance of a major outbreak of the disease in the U.S., saying the country's superior medical infrastructure would be able to quickly isolate the disease.
"It's not a potential of Ebola spreading widely in the U.S.," Frieden said on a July 31 conference call with reporters. "That is not in the cards."
U.S. and European governments have been criticized for being slow to respond to the situation in Africa, and much of fight against the outbreak has been conducted by missionary and charitable groups with personnel on the ground, including Doctors Without Borders, Samaritans Purse and SIM USA. The groups have said they are overwhelmed, don't have enough beds to treat patients and the outbreak is rapidly growing out of control.
Troop Effort
The U.S. Department of Defense has authorized sending 1,400 troops to Liberia to help fight Ebola in Western Africa, where the virus has crippled existing medical infrastructure.
The troops will supervise the construction of Ebola treatment units, conduct site surveys and provide engineering expertise, John Kirby, a press secretary for the department said yesterday at a news briefing. Half of the troops will come from the 101st Airborne Division while the remaining 700 will come from different parts of the Army.
The pledge to send troops was part of the U.S. effort to contain the spread of Ebola virus, and governments and international aid groups are sending money and personnel to help fight help outbreak. Leaders in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea urged the international community to do more to keep the epidemic, the worst in history, from killing their people and harming their economies.
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Looking Back on the Life of King Barack Obama
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He Taught us to Laugh, He Made Us Believe, and then He Took All Our Money
He was the first black President of the United States, and he also became its last President when in 2019, after his term in office had been extended indefinitely by HR:0666 or "The Hope and Faith in Obama's Everlasting Presidency Act" (Holo-Link), he was forced to leave office because the government had run out of money to pay for itself.
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Though he lived a very public life, few could agree on even the basic facts of his life, such as where he was born, who his father was, or what his real name was, or even what race and gender he was. For a man who spent most of his life before the camera, his death leaves us with few answers about who Barack Obama (Holo-Link) really was. Obama himself did not help matters by using multiple names, multiple birthplaces and even passports.
The bestselling Presidential biographies of Obama, from Edmund Morris' "America's Greatest Con-Man" to Michael Beschloss' "Obama: Citizen of the World" cover the range of opinions on Obama's presidency. And long after the fall of the United States, there is still no real consensus by former Americans on who Obama really was.
Yet to many Barack Obama represents a nostalgic time in history, the last years when such diverse nations as the Confederate States of California (Holo-Link), the Republic of New Hampshire, the People's Republic of Minnesota, the Empire of Texas, El Reino de Aztlan and the Arch-Duchy of Upper New York were all part of one single nation that stretched from coast to coast.
His Life
Born in a hospital in Kenya or Hawaii, Barack would learn to use multiple names and identities from an early age. Traveling from country to country, the young Obama or Soetoro, would quickly become adept at blending in from one milieu to another. This skill would be crucial in his political career, allowing Obama to instantly invent new biographies and win the trust of his audience. If there is one thing his biographers agree on, it's that he had a genuine gift for sensing what his audience wanted to hear. Unfortunately like most con artists, he lacked the same ability for long term financial planning, that he did for short term schemes to extract money from an increasingly gullible American public.
There is no denying that Obama cheerfully used fraud and strong arm tactics throughout his political career, but the chief weapon in his arsenal was flattery.
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Many of his supporters remember the special feeling of being made to feel that he was their friend. As one former aide wrote, "He taught us to laugh, he made us believe, and then he took all our money".
This conflicted legacy helps explain Barack Obama's popularity, even after his corruption and abuses of power destroyed the United States government, ending the era of the United States for good-- he was ranked 4th on the prestigious Dow Jones' "Most Likable Celebrities in North America in 2019" index (Holo-Link).
It helped that Obama left the White House voluntarily after learning that there would be no more money left for his trips abroad, and that due to the failure of the Federal Reserve and the secession of 23 states from the Union, no national budget would be possible. He did of course leave with everything of value in the White House that his family and associates could grab or pry out of the walls, but by then most Americans were too busy dealing with the problems of the Great Partition to notice.
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Even the farewell party that burned down most of the White House seemed a small thing in the wake of the Detroit Food Riots or the discovery of the Red River Gulag (Holo-Link).
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Still his popularity afterward enabled Obama to begin several successful careers in the entertainment industry, including a long-running stint on the soap opera General Hospital, his own line of shammy infomercials and a music career with such nostalgia singles as, "Where's Da Money", "Where All Da Money Go" and "What Happen to All Da Money?"
Even today viewers watching old fashioned television can still catch commercials of Obama in his older years, holding up a shammy cloth, dipping it in a spilled pool of olive oil and telling the audience to have faith that the mess would be gone. Even his famous tagline, "At a price that won't bankrupt you, unlike me" was meant to be a good humored reference to his controversial two and a half terms in office.
America's Leaders Send Their Condolences
From the Confederate States of California's Prime Minister Perez Hilton (Holo-Link), to King Lamar Alexander II of the Constitutional Monarchy of Tennessee, and all across the nation, America's leaders sent their condolences on the death of the last President of the United States.
Even the combatants in New York's Twenty Year Civil War interrupted their fighting, as New York City President Al Sharpton and Arch-Duke Jesse Jackson sent their condolences.
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In Arizona, Obama's former political rival, the 102 year former Senator, John McCain, sent his own condolences. Once considered too old compared to Barack Obama, McCain noted ironically that he had in fact outlived him, while also passing along the wishes of his now 126 year old mother. As well as his daughter Meghan McCain, off in space as the First Woman on Mars (Holo-Link).
From the United States of Alaska, to the Democratic People's Republic of Minnesota, from the bloody trench warfare of Westchester County to the farthest South American outposts of the Empire of Texas, the messages of sympathy came in tribute on the passing of the man who had made their existence possible.
Remembering Obama
All across the land formerly known as America, millions are choosing to remember Obama in their own way. From the vigils held in front of the Apollo Theater, where the musical, "Barack Superstar" has been running for almost three decades straight, even under artillery fire from Englewood during the Tri-State War, to the ceremonial million dollar burnings in the Republic of New Hampshire, where crowds burn the infamous "million dollar bills" with Obama's portrait on them that were issued during the 2017 devaluation which made ten thousand dollars equivalent to a single Euro, no one can ignore the death of America's last President.
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CFN, the Celebrity Funeral Network, is reported to have won the bidding rights to the Obama funeral, and plans are underway to hold a three day funeral, to be broadcast from the spot where Chicago once stood. And corporate sponsors have already lined up to cover ad buys for the flowers, vehicles for the funeral train and logos for the coffin itself.
After the ceremonies, the speakers, the guest musical performers and the services by an Imam, African Liberationist Minister and Reform Rabbi, Obama's funeral plane is expected to fly low over every major American city still standing, inciting riots, mass panic and all the chaos and destruction necessary for a proper sendoff to the man who destroyed America.
A Complicated Legacy
Like the best of con artists, Obama had a way of reflecting people's expectations back at them. Despite living one of the most public lives of his generation, through millions of interviews, his own talk show and even a sex tape, no one could really claim to know him.
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Survived only by one racist white granddaughter, Ariana Michaela Stover, a member of the New Klu Klux Klan, his real legacy remains the political and economic chaos he so cheerfully spawned. To his contemporaries, Obama became a symbol of hubris, a byword for the arrogance of a generation that valued style over substance, and allowed radical politics to outshout basic common sense. To a generation that has grown up after the fall of the United States, Obama is part of a baffling archeology of symbols and figures that have no value except for entertainment purposes. (Holo-Link)
In the end it may be that there was no real Obama, only a man who served as a metaphor for a culture that had lost touch with its roots and its own identity, that embraced change for the sake of novelty and had become incapable of paying attention to anything that was not sufficiently entertaining enough. Obama was a symptom of America's collapse, rather than its cause.
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I just read this in one of the London Jewish papers. Apologies to those who have already heard it:Barack Obuma was visiting a Jewish primary school in New York and popped into one of the classes.
They were in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher offered the President to lead the discussion on the word 'tragedy.'
The smooth talking President asked the class for an example of a 'tragedy.'
One little boy, Moshe, stood up: 'If my dog ran into the road and got run over, that would be a tragedy.'
'No,' said Obuma, 'that would be an accident.'
Little Leah raised her hand: 'Please Sir. If a hurricane hit New York and swept us all away that would be a tragedy."
'Afraid not,' replied the President. 'That would be a great loss.'
The room went silent. Obuma searched the room. 'Can someone here give me an example of a tragedy?' Finally at the back of the room, Netanyahu's nephew, Doron, raised his hand.
In a quiet voice he said: 'If Air Force One was carrying you Mr President, and was suddenly struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens that would be a tragedy.'
'Fantastic!' exclaimed Obuma. 'That's right. And can you tell the class hy that would be tragedy?'
'Well,' says the boy coyly, 'It's a tragedy because it certainly wouldn't be a great loss... and frankly, it probably wouldn't be an accident either.'
Disturbing Report:
"Disaster Teams
Were Notified Months Ago
They Would Be Activated
in October"
A public tweet from a large government supplier of emergency response products specializing in "high risk events" says that Disaster Assistance Response Teams were told to prepare to be activated in the month of October. The shocking revelation, made on the Goldenstate Fire/EMS Twitter page, suggests that not only did someone know that the Ebola virus would be reaching America, but that they knew exactly when it would happen.
"What we are now hearing is just the tip of the iceburg as we enter October," noted the company's Twitter spokesperson. "Ebola virus will cripple EMS and hospitals."
When Future Money Trends, a follower of the page, asked what they meant by this statement, Goldenstate Fire/EMS responded with a shocking revelation.
"DART teams were notified months ago they would be activated in October. Timing seems weird. Source: current DART member."
Twitter exchange:
What we are now hearing is just the tip of the iceburg as we enter October. #Ebola virus will cripple EMS and hospitals. The wait is over!
— GoldenStateFIRE/EMS (@GoldenStateEMS) September 30, 2014
@FutureMoneyTren DART teams were notified months ago they would be activated in October. Timing seems weird. Source: current DART member.
— GoldenStateFIRE/EMS (@GoldenStateEMS) September 30, 2014
Be prepared to self quarantine yourselves if you experience flu like symptoms. Do not venture out as EMS & hospitals will be overwhelmed.
— GoldenStateFIRE/EMS (@GoldenStateEMS) September 30, 2014
There is speculation that this #DallasEbola case is not Ebola. DART teams were told months ago they would be activated in October.
— GoldenStateFIRE/EMS (@GoldenStateEMS) September 30, 2014
With the Ebola virus now having been confirmed on U.S. soil, speculation as to how it got here and how many others may have contracted it is mounting. The traditional thinking here is that the virus made its way to the United States simply by one infected individual coming into contact with another, and so on. But, a growing chorus of contrarian researchers suggests another possibility – the Ebola virus may have been weaponized by a government or rogue terror cell and it has been deployed as a bio weapon.
This may sound outlandish, but in August SHTFplan.com posted a video of a State Department official's remarks to reporters about developments in Africa. In her statement she specifically referred to the growing crisis as an "Ebola attack," suggesting that not only has the virus been weaponized, but that the U.S. government knew it was not a naturally occurring event.
Though such weaponization is difficult to achieve according to Dr. Joe Alton, it remains a distinct possibility.
As noted by Kurt Nimmo, who cites a 2013 Global Policy Journal report, if someone had the resources to make it happen, they probably could:
Although weaponization of Ebola is complex and unlikely, experts in the field say transmission of the virus by air has occurred between animals. They believe "with advancing knowledge about how to manipulate viruses, the traits that make these [hemorrhagic fever virus agents] difficult to weaponize might be a diminishing barrier."
Additionally, a "reverse genetics system provides a way to produce highly virulent mutated viruses for the purpose of biological warfare or biological terrorism," scientists believe, according to Teckman's research. (Infowars)
Dave Hodges of The Common Sense Show notes that the U.S. Army is intimately involved in Ebola research, adding further fuel to speculation that it has been used to develop new bio weapon systems:
The fact that the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) is involved suggests that either the Ebola virus, or the vaccine, or both, have been weaponized.
Weaponization aside, there is a third possibility and that is the virus did spread through the natural contagion effect, but that its entry into the United States is being facilitated by lax border policies and almost non-existent airport screening procedures, something that has Immigration and Customs officials terrified.
Over the last several years the U.S. government has been actively preparing for a widespread crisis scenario. Whether that crisis is Ebola or something else remains to be seen. But, what we do know is that they have stocked up not only armaments and ammunition, but tens of thousands of Hazmat suits, body bags and what are believed to be millions of disposable FEMA coffins.
Moreover, the President updated several Executive Orders over the last several years authorizing, among other things, forced quarantines and round-ups in the event of apandemic emergency and the appropriation of private resources like food, water and human labor.
That a major government supplier of emergency equipment has come out in the open to claim that their sources had foreknowledge of an emergency Disaster Response mobilization to occur in the United States in October of this year is an astonishing development considering what has transpired in the last 72 hours.
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In Kansas,
it would seem one man carried out his dying wish
to give us a "grave" warning about the
Democratic Party.
123 years ago,
his last request was fulfilled and etched in stone.
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During An Ebola Pandemic All Of Your Rights Would Essentially Be Meaningless
By Michael Snyder, on October 2nd, 2014
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If there is a major Ebola pandemic in America, all of the liberties and the freedoms that you currently enjoy would be gone. If government officials believe that you have the virus, federal law allows them to round you up and detain you "for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary." In addition, the CDC already has the authority to quarantine healthy Americans if they reasonably believe that they may become sick. During an outbreak, the government can force you to remain isolated in your own home, or the government may forcibly take you to a treatment facility, a tent city, a sports stadium, an old military base or a camp. You would not have any choice in the matter. And you would be forced to endure any medical procedure mandated by the government. That includes shots, vaccines and the drawing of blood. During such a scenario, you can scream about your "rights" all that you want, but it won't do any good.
In case you are tempted to think that I am making this up, I want you to read what federal law actually says. The following is 42 U.S.C. 264(d). I have added bold for emphasis...
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title42/html/USCODE-2011-title42-chap6A-subchapII-partG.htm
(1) Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a qualifying stage and (A) to be moving or about to move from a State to another State; or (B) to be a probable source of infection to individuals who, while infected with such disease in a qualifying stage, will be moving from a State to another State. Such regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected, he may be detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary. For purposes of this subsection, the term "State" includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term "qualifying stage", with respect to a communicable disease, means that such disease—
(A) is in a communicable stage; or
(B) is in a precommunicable stage, if the disease would be likely to cause a public health emergency if transmitted to other individuals.
In addition, as I discussed above, the CDC already has the authority to isolate people that are not sick to see if they do become sick. The following is what the CDC website says about this...
Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease.
On a very basic level, we are already starting to see this happen in Texas. Obviously Thomas Eric Duncan has already been "isolated", and now his family has been placed under mandatory quarantine and ordered not to leave their home for 21 days...
Texas health officials have placed the Dallas family of a Liberian national infected with Ebola under quarantine and ordered them not to leave their home or have any contact with outsiders for 21 days without approval of the local or state health department.
The "control order" also requires the family of Thomas Eric Duncan to be available to provide blood samples and agree to any testing required by public health officials. Officials said Thursday that the four or five family members could face criminal charges for violating the order, which was delivered to them in writing Wednesday evening.
Police have been stationed at the apartment complex to ensure residents' safety, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told a news briefing Thursday afternoon.
If we could all just stay in our homes during a national Ebola emergency, that wouldn't be so bad.
But if thousands (or even millions) of cases start popping up it simply will not be possible for law enforcement authorities to monitor so many homes.
This is a point that Mike Adams of Natural News made exceptionally well...
When just one family is suspected of carrying Ebola, they can be easily monitored in a "volunteer home isolation" scenario. But what happens when it's 100 families? 500? 1,000? At that point, there aren't enough state or federal workers to keep an eye on these people, and the quarantine effort will almost certainly shift to forced relocation into quarantine camps.
Those camps will, of course, be called something nice-sounding like "Community Health Centers." No one in government or media will call them camps, even though they are camps. The word "camp" brings up echoes of "concentration camps" and the government definitely wants to avoid that association.
If one particular town or city is hit especially hard with the virus, there is a likelihood of the entire town being quarantined. No one in, no one out. Everybody will be ordered to "shelter in place" in their own homes for at least 21 days while health workers wearing hazmat suits go door to door, identifying Ebola victims and "relocating" them to the "Community Health Centers."
If that sounds like "martial law" to you, that is because it would essentially be martial law.
For the moment, public health authorities are pledging that nothing like this will ever happen because they have everything completely under control.
Others are not so sure.
For example, on Thursday a doctor from Missouri named Gil Mobley checked in for a flight at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dressed in a mask, goggles, gloves, boots and a protective white jumpsuit. On the back of the jumpsuit, he had written the following words: "CDC is lying!"
Mobley believes that we are not being told the truth about the spread of Ebola. And he is convinced that as Ebola continues to spread exponentially, that we will eventually "be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis"...
"Once this disease consumes every third world country, as surely it will, because they lack the same basic infrastructure as Sierra Leone and Liberia, at that point, we will be importing clusters of Ebola on a daily basis," Mobley predicted. "That will overwhelm any advanced country's ability to contain the clusters in isolation and quarantine. That spells bad news."
Mobley, a Medical College of Georgia graduate who had an overnight layover after flying to Atlanta from Guatemala on Wednesday, said that he feels that the CDC is "asleep at the wheel" when it comes to screening passengers arriving in the United States from other countries.
"Yesterday, I came through international customs at the Atlanta airport," the doctor told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "The only question they asked arriving passengers is if they had tobacco or alcohol."
Earlier on Thursday, there were reports of people being tested for Ebola in Hawaii, Kentucky and Utah. None of those tests has produced a confirmed case of Ebola as I write this article.
Many Americans are still treating this Ebola crisis as if it was just one big joke.
But Ebola is no joking matter. This is a very, very serious disease.
Just consider the experience of one British health worker that witnessed a young brother and sister both die one day apart...
'The next morning I came in and saw him lying as I had left him, on the bed.
'He wasn't breathing. I remember going up to him and looking at his face, his lips were drawn back in a grimace, and his eyes were vacant, lying in a pool of his own diarrhea.
'I lifted his hand to try, just to confirm things and his whole body turned rigid and cold.
'I put him in a body bag as his sister looked on.
'She seemed more baffled than anything, not really understanding what was happening. I carried his corpse outside with the others.
'The little girl, she deteriorated the next day. Overnight, the following night she had intravenous fluids and the line came out and she bled.
'I came in the following morning and she was covered in blood. She still had a very puzzled expression on her face and she wasn't breathing.
'So I put her in a bag and left her next to her brother. She was a beautiful little girl.'
Hopefully our medical authorities are correct and this virus will not spread easily in this country.
But at this point even some of our top politicians are wondering if we are truly getting accurate information. For example, check out what U.S. Senator Rand Paul had to say on the Laura Ingraham Show just recently...
"I really think that it is being dominated by political correctness and I think because of political correctness we're not really making sound, rational, scientific decisions on this." Paul said referring to statements issued by the CDC last week that assured there was little risk of an outbreak occurring in the US.
"We should not underestimate the transmissibility of this," said Paul, a doctor himself, adding that medical workers have been contracting the virus even though they are taking precautions and covering themselves with gowns and masks.
"My suspicion is that it's a lot more transmissible than that if people who are taking every precaution are getting it. There are people getting it who simply helped people get in or out of a taxicab." Paul said.
Let's pray that this crisis fizzles out, because if it doesn't, we could truly be looking at the greatest health crisis that any of us have ever seen.
And along with countless numbers of people getting sick and dying, we would also have to deal with government-imposed medical martial law.
The stakes are extremely high, and so let us hope that this crisis does not escalate any further.
Fun with words: Eboli, Obi-gynee and Breat Awareness!
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Talk about two peas in a pod! These videos beat all... I kid you not! Friends, what was said during each of them has to leave you shaking your heads and laughing at the same time. And to think, both of these enemies within have power via the podiums they use to pound on, as we all know full well by now.
I have no words to add, hopefully many of you will, because the lapdog media certainly won't and does the usual and ignores all the gaffes... for one reason and one reason only, they're both dumb democrats! And since the MSM doesn't criticize them, they both still think they're the sharpest tools in their respective sheds.... simple as that.
Have at it... you watch, you listen, you comment after doing so:Obi-Gynee vs OBGYN:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4libw-PhPZ8&feature=player_embedded#t=0
Prompter Nation: Al Sharpton Wants You To Be Very Aware Of This:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dsUzA5Mb5k&feature=player_embedded#t=0
Last night on Politics Nation, host Al Sharpton had another of his trademark gaffes when trying to do a segment on National Breast Cancer Awareness month, which is all month long every October.
"Finally tonight, a story of heroism and courage. Today kicked off National Breast Awareness month, the annual campaign to bring attention to the horrible disease."
Finally someone is speaking out against that horrible disease: breasts. He is right about courage. It takes a spine of steel to come out against breasts. Later this month, Stupid Sharpton will tackle the twin scourges of puppies and babies laughing. Resist we much.
Of course, the Rev. meant to talk about breast cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness month was started by the American Cancer Society, and is an international effort to drive funding for cure research and improved treatment options for the deadly illness that affects so many lives around the world and here at home. You can also participate and contribute by visiting the National Breast Cancer Foundation or your preferred charity.
And....
Last but not least... Eboli!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5B_mO0y-LvE#t=0
Fired Oklahoma City Nursing Home Worker Charged With Terrorism Hoax
Jacob Mugambi Muriithi "confirmed he told the victim he was going to cut her head off," Oklahoma City police said. His defense attorney said he and the woman were mutually joking.by Nolan Clay Published: October 2, 2014
A fired Oklahoma City nursing home worker admitted after his arrest that he told a co-worker he was going to cut her head off, a police detective reported.
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The fired worker, Jacob Mugambi Muriithi, 30, was charged Thursday with the crime of terrorism hoax, a violation of the state's anti-terrorism act.
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater personally approved the filing of the felony charge. If convicted, Muriithi faces up to 10 years in prison.
Muriithi claims he and the co-worker were both joking around.
"It appears to be a case that the parties were mutually having a conversation and mutually joking," defense attorney Christian Zeaman said.
"It sounds just like they were mutually having fun with each other. They were both joking. I think the (police) report really indicates that. ...I'm investigating this hot and heavy. ...He is a Catholic, he goes to church, he has the support of the community. It was never a terrorist hoax," the attorney said.
Murriithi's arrest Sept. 26 attracted national attention because it came on the same day police in Moore reported an angry food processing plant worker had beheaded a co-worker.
Alton Alexander Nolen, a Muslim convert, is charged with first-degree murder in the beheading at Vaughan Foods in Moore on Sept. 25.
Court affidavitMuriithi — who was born in Kenya — lives in Oklahoma City and was employed at the Bellevue Nursing Home in northwest Oklahoma City.
His attorney said he has never been arrested before.
The co-worker — identified as Monique Garrett — said Muriithi "was serious when speaking and never made any statements that he was joking or playing around," police detective Robert Wright reported.
The co-worker reported Muriithi threatened her at the nursing home on Sept. 13 — the same day Islamic State militants released a video of the beheading of British aid worker David Haines.
She said Muriithi identified himself as a Muslim and said he "represented ISIS and that ISIS kills Christians," the detective reported in the court affidavit. The two had not worked together before.
Garrett said she asked him why they kill Christians and he replied, "This is just what we do," the detective reported.
"The victim said Jacob asked her what time she got off work, and she replied by asking him in a joking manner if he was going to kill her," the detective wrote.
"Jacob told the victim, 'Yes,' he was going to cut her head off. The victim asked Jacob what he was going to cut her head off with and he said, 'A blade,' then told her after he did it he was going to post it on Facebook."
The woman reported Muriithi repeated the threat as she left work, saying in front of another employee that he was going to use a blade, the detective reported.
In an interview after his arrest Sept. 26, "Jacob confirmed he did in fact tell the victim he was a member of ISIS. Jacob confirmed he told the victim he was going to cut her head off. Jacob denied to me that he was a member of ISIS and (denied) that he was Muslim," the detective wrote.
Garrett reported the conversation to police three days later, on Sept. 16.
Muriithi was fired the next day.Muriithi's attorney said it was important to note that the conversation was well before the beheading at the food plant in Moore.
State's lawOklahoma's anti-terrorism act specifically prohibits joking about an act of terrorism against a population.
Prosecutors allege Muriithi violated the act because he intended to cause "the population of Christians in Oklahoma County" and Garrett personally to experience a disruption of personal security, fear and anxiety.
He remains in the Oklahoma County jail. Bail is set at $1 million.
(Give me a break! Does anyone else find it a bit insane that this guy gets charged under the terrorism act, but Alton Nolen who actually beheaded Mrs. Hufford and stabbed Traci Jordan has, according to this same news agency, just committed "workplace violence", and has not been charged with terrorism?
This article also doesn't mention that other media did report the coworker did say that she thought he was joking at first, but only reported it to the police after hearing about the other beheading stories in media. Murriithi wasn't a Muslim, much less ISIS)
Biden Overestimates Number Killed In Joplin Missouri Tornado By 160,839
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(Oh Lord, he's at it again.... Joe being Joe)
Via Weekly Standard:"161,000 brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents lost," said the vice president.
But as Reuters reported in 2011, the death toll was in fact 161:
The death toll from the May 22 tornado in Joplin, Missouri has been revised down to 161 with the discovery that one assumed victim died of other causes.
The city said in a statement that Kenneth J. Henson, a resident of Ottawa County, Oklahoma, did not die in the tornado. Jasper County Coroner Rob Chappel discovered the error while he was helping other officials compile a list of tornado victims for a six-month memorial service, the city said.
"Through this recent review, we are confident that the current list of 161 is accurate," the city said. The city gave no explanation for the Henson mix-up, and Chappel could not be immediately reached for comment Saturday.
What's Racist, What's Not (As of Friday, Oct. 3, 2014)
BY: Andrew Stiles
http://freebeacon.com/blog/whats-racist-whats-not-as-of-friday-oct-3-2014/
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Liberals tend to devote a significant portion of their daily lives to proving how not racist they are. One particularly expedient way of doing this is to declare that something a conservative has said or done is totally racist, and then to place oneself in opposition to the thing that was racist: "See, I'm not a racist!"
As result, the List of Things That Are Racist has grown incomprehensibly long. The Free Beacon's devotion to public service obligates us to provide this list (not exhaustive by any means) of what liberals do and do not consider to be racist.Things That Are Racist
1. Talking about Ebola (Salon)
2. Describing the Hong Kong protests as "clean and orderly" (Vox)
3. Pointing out that white people use heroin (Salon)
4. #BringBackOurGirls (Salon)
5. Describing Obama as "angry" (MSNBC)
6. The American Revolution (Salon)
7. Children's books with white characters (Salon)
8. Criticizing the IRS (MSNBC)
9. Donating to the United Negro College Fund
10. Being half-white (Salon)
11. Supporting Herman Cain (MSNBC)
12. Opposing Obama (MSNBC)
13. Rocky III (Vox)
14. When black conservatives disagree with black liberals (Salon)
15. Noting that Obama has an Ivy League education (MSNBC)
16. Saying Obama likes to play golf (MSNBC)
17. Saying "Obamacare" (MSNBC)
18. Living in the suburbs (Salon)
19. Calling Obama "Obama" (MSNBC)
20. Criticizing liberals for constantly accusing people of racism (Salon)
21. "Tom and Jerry" cartoons
22. Cupcakes
23. Peanut butter and jelly sandwichesThings That Are Not Racist
1. Suing a fertility clinic after giving birth to a mixed race child that you wish was white* (Salon)(http://s3.freebeacon.com/up/2014/10/thats-racist.gif)
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Why is it that one administration after another insists on carrying on an unseemly love affair with Islam? For several years, George W. Bush kept telling us that Islam was a religion of peace when, clearly, it was the one religion in the entire world that wasn't.
These days, we have Obama curtsying to sheiks, imans and ayatollahs, every chance he gets. For good measure, the eminent theologian, John Kerry, who merely moonlights as the secretary of state, claimed, at a ceremony to appoint Texas lawyer Shaarik Zafer to be special representative to Muslim communities, that it was America's biblical responsibility to confront climate change and to protect vulnerable Muslim majority countries. "It's a responsibility that comes from God," he insisted, without clarifying whether or not he was referring to Obama.
How reassuring it is to know that the State Department is being overseen by someone so deeply concerned with the well-being of our archenemies. And how is it that we need to have a special envoy to Muslim communities when we seem to get along fine without envoys to Catholic, Jewish, Presbyterian, Baptist, Hindu, Shinto or Amish, communities?
In this particular case, we had Kerry paying homage to two cults simultaneously. The first consists of those who insist that global warming is anything but a hoax created in order to enrich those invested in so-called green energy operations and the politicians who reside deep inside the pockets of the ecology nuts who exchanged their brains for membership in the Sierra Club. The second is the cult of Islam, which only pretends to be a religion so that pinheaded barbarians can pray to something besides their goats.
Yet another cult is the one devoted to personalities, which is why I despise politicians who are described as charismatic, and why I take exception to those who claim that someone like Gov. Scott Walker, for instance, shouldn't be the GOP presidential candidate in 2016. Such louts dismiss competence as boring. The problem is that charisma inevitably gets you someone like Hitler, Mussolini, Peron, Castro, Huey Long, Obama and Hugo Chavez.
Speaking of Chavez, the late, unlamented, dictator, left-wing Venezuelans have altered the Lord's Prayer in places to read, "Our Chavez, who art in Heaven...." and "lead us not into the temptation of capitalism." Over the Church's objections, Chavez's successor, Nicolas Maduro, has endorsed the new version.
Closer to home, we have Berkeley's city council members, who are forever in competition with their loony colleagues in San Francisco, deciding to dispense free marijuana to anyone making less than $32,000-a-year. I suppose now that the gauntlet has been thrown down, Frisco will have no choice but to offer free heroin.
As if it's not embarrassing enough that the chief propagandist for ISIS, Ahmad Abousamra, is an American who hails from Boston, it so happens he has dual-citizenship. Thanks to open borders, we are barely a sovereign nation these days, but allowing for dual citizenship is totally beyond the pale. That is especially the case when the other nation, as is the case with Mr. Abousamra, happens to be Syria, one of our archenemies. The question that comes to mind is how, even if we get our hands on the bum, the U.S. can even indict and convict him for treason when he is fighting for one of his two countries.
If someone told you that global-warming is the greatest crisis facing America, as Hillary Clinton recently stated, you would question her ability to run a lemonade stand, let alone a nation. But here she is announcing that a climate hoax is a greater threat than China and North Korea threatening our Far East allies; greater than ISIS and Iran threatening Israel and America; and greater than Russia threatening all of Eastern Europe. To me, the only threat that comes close to these others is the threat of Hillary Clinton being returned to the White House.
You would think that so long as the law of averages hasn't been overturned that liberals would occasionally be right about something, but, as you may have noticed, when it comes to liberals, including those in the White House, laws, even natural ones, don't pertain. So it is that this administration keeps assuring the worst villains on the face of the earth that they needn't ever worry about "boots on the ground," which has quickly become the most over-used expression since "at this point in time." Whenever I hear Obama or one of his stooges utter those words, I find myself imagining a kid finally confronting a schoolyard bully and assuring his tormentor: "Don't worry, I promise I won't punch you in the nose."
But there are times when even Obama, Kerry and Clinton, can't handle all the heavy lifting. At such times, Barbara Boxer is always ready to step in and even defend the administration's cover-up of the Benghazi massacre, insisting, "We shouldn't try to turn a tragedy into a scandal."
Well, Madam Senator, we conservatives didn't do the turning. President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton did that when they spent weeks blaming the massacre on a silly video they knew played no part in provoking the terrorist attack. They might as well have blamed it on "Gone with the Wind," ocean currents or sunspots.
As you may have noticed, liberals are always asserting their expertise when it comes to things such as the economy, national defense and the climate, things they know nothing about. Worse yet, because the educational system is such a hash, they generally have the academic credentials with which to buffalo the unsuspecting.
For instance, what constantly amazes me about those on the Left who keep demanding that corporate taxes be raised is that they seem to be totally unaware of who in the final analysis pays those taxes. It's we the consumers. As even a child would realize, all the corporations do is add the taxes to their other expenses and pass them along in the price we pay for their products or services.
It's sad but also shameful that those so-called progressives who spend their lives demanding that the fat cats be soaked are apparently unaware that it is they, along with the rest of us, who wind up getting drenched.
....Burt
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Former DOJ Attorney is Suing to Have Obama Deported
By Dean Garrison - Oct. 04, 2014
Larry Klayman, the former Justice Department lawyer and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, is suing to have President Barack Hussein Obama
"Deported". "In sum, deportation proceedings should be immediately commenced, an investigation undertaken, a full evidentiary hearing held, and Barack Hussein Obama should be removed from the United States," Klayman wrote in the petition.
Barack Hussein Obama?
Who is that?
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The Inscription: "There Is No God But Allah"
According to Klayman, the Junior Obama never legally changed his name back after it was changed to Barry Soetoro (while an Indonesian citizen). This is just one of many reasons that Klayman believes we not only have a usurper in the White House, but that the man who calls himself Barack Obama should not even be allowed to live in this country.
Bob Unruh of WND reports: http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/klayman-files-for-deportation-of-barack-obama/
The petition was sent to Thomas Homan of Enforcement Removal Operations at the Department of Homeland Security, Thomas Winkowksi of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Sarah Kendall of the Office of Fraud Detection and National Security at DHS.
Klayman explained it is based "on the grounds that he has falsified various birth and other documents with regard to obtaining a U.S. passport and other privileges as an alleged American citizen."
"It is clear, based on a mountain of evidence as set forth in and attached to the petition, that the president and his agents have falsified documents, such as his birth certificate and Social Security number, to qualify for the privileges of American citizenship such that his citizenship, which is based on false pretenses, must be nullified," Klayman said.
"As set forth in the petition, this includes but is not limited to the fraudulent production of a computer-generated facsimile of an official state of Hawaiian birth certificate. Even if a legitimate birth certificate exists, Obama's repeated use of a clearly forged birth certificate is still a crime and in violation of the law," he said.If Boehner won't allow impeachment to proceed this [lawsuit] is one alternative solution to the problem.
Will it work?
That is highly doubtful, but I have tremendous respect for those who stand tall and do what is right in spite of the naysayers around them and in spite of the odds in front of them. The man in the White House is not only named Barry Soetoro, but he is very likely an Indonesian citizen, who gave up his American citizenship and never went through the proper channels to get it back. He is definitely not a "natural born citizen" and very likely not a citizen at all.
The truth is that it does not really matter if Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. was born in Hawaii, Kenya, or anywhere else. If he is not an American citizen, it might explain why he has been using a fraudulent social security number for several years. If he is not a "natural born citizen," then he cannot hold the office of president.
I wonder if Indonesia would take him back?
If you would like to look at the petition that Klayman has filed, it can be seen here.
On a side note, Larry Klayman has failed before and taken some heat for it. Some might recall the Reclaim America disappointment of nearly a year ago. Failure is not fatal. Klayman picks himself up and keeps fighting. Maybe we should applaud his fighting spirit rather than condemn him for doing what most of us are unwilling to do. We should thank him for not giving up in the face of adversity. Anyone who has ever tried to do something meaningful knows the feeling of occasionally getting a little egg on their face.
Sure it's a long shot, but even the things that fail to produce optimum results are raising awareness with the public, and that's what we want.
America deserves the truth. Source: http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/10/former-doj-attorney-suing-obama-deported/
Boehner: "We have a system of government outlined in our Constitution" But I won't follow it concerning Impeachment
Posted on July 11, 2014 by Suzanne Hamner
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/07/11/boehner-system-government-outlined-constitution-wont-follow-concerning-impeachment-barack-obama/
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For many, it came as no surprise when CNSnews.com reported that House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) "disagreed" with Sarah Palin's call for Obama's impeachment. Boehner would rather have the House of Representatives file a lawsuit against Obama aimed at "forcing" this president to "faithfully execute the law." Impeachment has been tabled by Boehner because he "disagrees" with impeachment; even though, the Constitutional remedy for an out of control executive is just that – impeachment.
In a June 25, 2014 statement, Boehner had this to say:
"You know, the Constitution makes it clear that a president's job is to faithfully execute the laws. In my view, the president has not faithfully executed the laws. We have a system of government outlined in our Constitution with the Executive Branch, Legislative Branch and the Judicial Branch."
According to Obama, he has the "authority" to pick and choose which laws to "faithfully execute."
While Rush Limbaugh claimed that impeachment was not forthcoming because there was not the "political will" and the people were not desirous of it, Limbaugh did get it right on the "political will." Politicians are not willing to follow the law. What Americans are witnessing is a blatant display of elected officials who, for whatever reason, refuse to follow the law, the Constitution, for violations committed by a sitting president. Instead, Boehner is pressing the House to file suit.
Now, most lawsuits outline, in detail, the specifics of the case. However, Boehner is not doing that. This supposed leader will be using "generalities." Additionally, most lawsuits require some sort of evidence of damage against the party filing and a stated remedy to the case at hand. What damage will Boehner assert? Who will be the damaged party? What will the remedy be should a court rule in favor of the House and the Republicans: a court order for Obama to "faithfully execute" the law or perhaps a monetary fine? Who is going to enforce that remedy?
Of course, Boehner is talking about the House taking a vote on a lawsuit as one has not yet been filed, nothing more and nothing less. If the House does not have the "political will" for impeachment, do they have the "political will" for a lawsuit? Boehner disagrees with impeachment, the Constitutional remedy, but approves of a lawsuit. Interestingly, the American public really doesn't know what to support.
Impeachment is the remedy for an out of control executive. However, even many conservatives squawk at following the law. Comments abound all over the internet on conservative websites stating Obama cannot be impeached because he's an ineligible president; Obama should be arrested and jailed, not impeached, for his criminal activity; impeachment, just like a lawsuit, is political grandstanding; the lawsuit has some chance where impeachment does not; and, America is stuck with him for another two years. It is obvious conservative America is just as divided on following and enforcing the law as the whole of America is divided along racial, gender, religious and socio-economic lines.
Boehner talks about the system of government outlined in the Constitution, intimating that system should be followed. But, he refuses to follow or disagrees with the remedy to restore that system. While Obama claims authority to enforce laws at his discretion, establishment Republicans, like Boehner, are following the Democratic Socialist Liberal party rhetoric of "choosing" which laws they want to follow or use in governing this nation.
RINOs, on the other hand, subscribe to the Obama ilk rhetoric, especially on the current immigration crisis. John McCain (R-AZ) supports the "pathway to citizen" or amnesty for the approximately 11 million illegal aliens residing in the US, claiming these people are being "deprived" of rights, especially the rights enjoyed by citizens. These "rights" McCain references are not the God-given individual rights endowed to all men, but what many consider "privileges" of being a citizen of this nation, such as voting or driving a vehicle. Republicans, just like the American people, are split along varying political rhetoric lines while Democrats stand united, supported by those RINOs like McCain, in their endeavor to "fundamentally transform" this nation.
To fundamentally transform this nation, to these Obama minions, the Democratic sheep and the powerful elite, means to destroy the Constitution and replace it with some charter or article giving government more power and the people less. Obama is known for his statement that the "Constitution is a charter of negative liberty." What the usurper left out is that the Constitution is a document that "limits the liberty of government to exact dominion over the people." Treating the Constitution like a Chinese buffet helps their agenda along. Refusing to recognize the power to recall and remove those in office who exhibit "less than good" behavior plays into the hands of those seeking to destroy the founding principles of America.
So far, the plan is working and will continue to work. No matter what the remedy is for an out of control executive, legislative or judicial branch, some of the American public will support everything and anything but the supreme law of the land because they are buying into the snake oil being sold by the lame stream enemedia, the political pansies, and the loud-mouth wishy-washy self-appointed spokesmen for conservatives, who pander false rationale to not follow the law or to follow the law only in certain instances. In other words, these "institutions" pander for inequity of law, which some Americans, even conservatives, are sucking down faster than a "Big Gulp" thereby helping the process along.
The exact reason impeachment will not be forthcoming, even after the midterm elections, is because of one man – John Boehner. Since he disagrees with impeachment, it will not be considered. The American people could support impeachment 100%, but it still would not happen because Boehner disagrees with it. So, the rhetoric that the Senate will not convict or Harry Reid won't allow it to the floor for consideration does not play into the scenario when the House Majority Leader disagrees with the legal remedy for a lawless president. The establishment has spoken.
Obama has basically suspended immigration enforcement by executive decree because he "disagrees" with the current law and favors a different type of immigration law or amnesty or whatever flavor it is this month. Conservatives, for the most part, do not agree with Obama's actions as it does not follow the law and call for enforcement of the law. However, some of these same conservatives do not support enforcing the law regarding impeachment for an out of control executive.
Maybe it's time we all start disobeying laws we "disagree" with and start following the laws we like. Unconstitutional laws are not required to be obeyed. Therefore, it is constitutional laws that are being referenced to pick and choose what to obey. After all, isn't that what is being supported when we do not support impeachment, when it is contained in law, but support enforcement of current immigration laws, which are constitutional as the government is responsible for establishing those? It looks as though that is the case. However, it is this inequity that leads to anarchy, confusion and instability.
Let's face facts here, impeachment has been removed as a lawful remedy for an out of control executive only because Boehner does not agree with it. One can say that impeachment has now been "unilaterally" removed from the Constitution as an option, without so much as a vote by the people or an amendment ratified by the states. While conservatives rail against Obama for unilateral action regarding changing laws, some conservatives buy into the Boehner unilateral action. It will be only a small percentage of Americans who will be willing to "pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" to maintain for the whole of Americans what the divided parts cannot agree upon.
God Bless America and those holding steadfast to our Constitution.
PUKELOSI??... Nothing DUMBER Than This Broad!... (Accept Maybe Dirty Harry Reid and the Rest The Of Liberal Jacka$$'s)
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Oh Yeah.... after you read and watch what Neil Cavuto (I love this guy) had to say about SanFranNan and her use of the 'undocumented' word instead of 'illegal', see if you think he hit it out of the park with ONE GIANT GRAND SLAM!
There's nothing much more I can add here, counting on all of you to do the rest. Besides that, everything is self-explanatory via this report, see what you think:
Fox News' Neil Cavuto has solved the riddle of why we can't call the beheading of a woman in Oklahoma terrorism: it's because liberals are too cowardly to call anything what it actually is. Take, for example, Nancy Pukelosi's recent obnoxious correction of a reporter asking a question about illegal immigrants. "Are you referring to undocumented people?" said she, in her most haughty and self-serving tone, a look of moral superiority attempting to break through the near solid layer of plastic she uses for a face. Cavuto has had his fill of nonsense, and lights it up.
Nancy, what part of "illegal" bothers you?
Doesn't "undocumented" mean illegal? If you don't have documents, doesn't that mean you don't have them for a reason and might that reason be because, oh I don't know... that you're illegal? And don't illegals not get documents because they're not legal? Legal citizens get legal documents. Illegal citizens don't get legal documents, because like I said, they're not legal and the documents are for folks who are legal.So if they're undocumented, that means that they're unable to get legal documents which must mean that they're illegal and not entitled to any such documents.
Cavuto then goes into a painstaking description of exactly what constitutes legal and illegal, in terms that simply cannot be disputed. Then he lets Nancy have it again.
So let me say those words again because they are getting to be as rare as Washington Redskins; Illegal alien, illegal alien, illegal alien. That's what you are here when you have no documents, you have no right here, you have no rights here, because again you shouldn't be here. So you are entitled to nothing here. This isn't about saying things that, well, just might offend you, Nancy. This is about something called our Constitution and honoring it, Nancy.
Now I know why it is so tough for you to call terrorism what it is. Think about it. You can't even muster the words to call millions who shouldn't even be here what they are they're not undocumented. But I'm beginning on wonder whether some of you guys are just unhinged. Because this isn't about millions of illegals not having papers, no offense, Nancy, this is about you not having anything approaching a clue.
Are you referring to intolerable people, Neil? Yes, yes you are. Because Pukelosi is.
That says just about all there is to say to our most superior and benign Lady of California, her Holier-than-thouness herself, Representative Nancy "SanFranistan" Pukelosi.
Listen below...you should enjoy it!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrwI9mY7Itc
Throwing this in, too:
Immigrants Kicked Off Obamacare Now Suing Over Discrimination
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ON OUR SOIL: Muslim Terrorist Leader Threatens To Behead 3 Members of Congress
Posted on October 5, 2014
http://clashdaily.com/2014/10/soil-muslim-terrorist-leader-threatens-behead-3-members-congress/
These people want to bring jihad to America. What will Obama do about this threat? Check it out...Although infiltrating the government, media, and schools is an easy and effective way of establishing an Islamic State, it often leaves impatient jihadists chomping at the bit. The "peaceful" ulterior motives of the moderate Muslims take too long, and militant Islamists resort to spreading Islam "by the sword," and we don't mean a sharp wit and debate.
Muslim leader Abu Asmaa Al Hijazi, a member of the Shumoukh Al-Islam sect of al-Qaeda, has commanded Americans to conduct "lone wolf" attacks in the U.S., killing soldiers and their families, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) via HS Today.
Al Hijazi has recently come forward to call for the heads of certain members of U.S. Congress:Continuing, Al Hijazi admonished followers that killing women is permissible if they've been involved in fighting Islam. He wrote that Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla), Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ark.) as possible targets because they signed legislation supporting the recent Israeli military campaign in Gaza. "Those women must be put on the list of targeted [people] in order to present their heads as offerings to Allah," Al Hijazi said.
This is UNBELIEVABLE....
Our SICK SOB President Obama SENDS NOTE Praising Oklahoma Mosque... AFTER BEHEADING
Alton Nolen, who goes by the Muslim name of Jah'Keem Yisrael, beheaded 54 year-old Colleen Hubbard in the front office of Vaughan Foods after he was fired. Nolen stabbed a second victim several times.
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Nolen was a member of the The Islamic Council of Oklahoma mosque. His Facebook page shows several photos of Jah'Keem interacting at "the Islamic Mosque in Oklahoma City." (Truth Revolt)
Alton Nolen was "shouting Islamic phrases" during the bloodbath.
Now there's this:Barack Obama sent a special note of praise to the Oklahoma mosque after the beheading.
KFOR reported, via Jihad Watch:Oklahoma Muslims marked the end of the yearly pilgrimage to mecca with communal prayer and celebration called Eid Ul-Adha on Saturday.
Leaders of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City say it's been a tough month for Muslims here in Oklahoma after being associated with the beheading at Vaughan foods in Moore.
Leaders of the faith here in the state say vicious messages are being left for Oklahoma Muslims, telling them to get out of Oklahoma and threatening to behead them all because the man behind the beheading claimed to be Muslim.
But the Muslim community received the highest form of praise from the White House for their hard work in helping rebuild the Moore community after a destructive tornado tore through the city in 2013.
Today, an official from Washington D.C. flew in to Oklahoma to present a special thank you to the Muslim congregation.
He read a message from President Barrack (Insane) Obama, extending warm greetings from the American people during the Muslim holiday."Your service is a powerful example of the powerful roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together with shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice," President Barack Obama said.(Stupid bastard!!!!)The story made FOX and Friends on Monday, Oct. 6th:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZQjUZUhEgI
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A Movie Review
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So I'm watching 'Mars Needs Women' on one of those goofily named cable channels in the upper four hundreds and a few minutes into this thing I realize the flaw in the premise.
You're all familiar with this film, correct? Seen it a thousand times no doubt. It begins banally enough: there's a couple playing tennis, a couple out to dinner, then suddenly poof! people start disappearing. And not just any people: women people. What's going on? Where did they go? Who is responsible? (It's 1967, mind, so there's a lot of big hair. Is that a clue?)
As Dop, a medical missionary from the Red Planet, explains it, "A critical recession in the Y chromosomes in our genetics has resulted in a preponderance of male births over female." Hence, Mars needs women. And not just any women: five volunteers, unmarried, in good health, "possessing the common indicators(1) of fertility and reproduction," and, presumably, open to new experiences (this is the sixties after all).
So the whole thing is neatly explained in the first ten minutes of the film.
Except it's not.
Call it an unwarranted assumption on the part of the filmmakers, although, in this case, it may just be a language problem. I don't know if the Martian word for need possesses all the connotations it enjoys in English. After all, there are different degrees of neediness, depending on context.
I need a hug. I need a lawyer. I need a kidney.
Granted, it is conceivable that someone could need all three if, say, his kidney had been stolen by pirates.
The point is, it's difficult to come to terms with the need for women on Mars before it's explained how women came to be on Mars in the first place. Or men for that matter. Or how Martian men could reproduce with Earth women when Dop and his crew can't even consume human food. And seeing as there's a 100:1 imbalance in the ratio of space men to women, will five Earth women do it? And since it's the male who determines the sex of the child, how is this solving anything? What if all the women give birth to boys who carry the same genetic defect that got Mars in this fix to begin with?
Plus, why Bubbles Cash?
I say all that to say this: explanations that explain nothing are key to deconstructing a film like 'Left Behind', starring Nicolas Cage and Lea Thompson, which opened in theaters nationwide on Friday.
Why review a Left Behind movie? Isn't it a bit like shooting fish in a barrel (something I've done only once with dubious results)? Isn't this just an opportunity to snark away at an innocent attempt to bring wholesome faith-based entertainment into the googolplex alongside such acts of degeneracy as Dolphin Tale 2? Who are you to spit your East Coast privilege all over family fare?
What's with all the questions? Do I come to your place of business and harangue you? Good gravy and a Gucci handbag, calm down.
Before I can explain how I found myself shelling out eleven bucks for a ticket and sixty-five dollars for boxed comestibles, I have to provide some background. This will take a while. Please be patient. Any ignatz can scramble together 750 words and bake an easily digestible review. But I have a process. If I don't work through my process, I suffer serious emotional and physical distress. My doctor says it's just acid reflux, but my doctor also has a chart illustrating which parts of the body can be consumed safely if cooked to a core temperature of 180 degrees, so who are you going to believe?
It was a dark and stormy night. I was surfing the cable television when I innocently discovered something bloodcurdling that wasn't Two Broke Girls or every new show on FX.
I had HBO.
I did not order HBO. I did not want HBO. So I decided to call someone who could hopefully rid me of HBO.
Now I should explain that I grew up in an "ethnic" neighborhood in Queens, New York, in the supposedly bad old days of the melting pot, when first- and second-generation immigrants from different lands lived in relatively close quarters and in relative peace. Now we're multicultural. And the old ethnic slurs have proved inadequate to truly express the resentments and enmities that our enlightened age has managed to foment in the name of a global community of diverse equals.
Anyway, back in the day, when you talked about a business, you referred to it by the name of the owner. Hey, I'm going to pick up some milk at Dominic's. Get the bread fresh from Klaus's. I'm at Mrs. Wu's—you want anything?
I have carried this quaint custom over into adulthood. When I call customer service, I always ask to speak with, for example, Mr. Hellman, Mr. Mallomar, Mr. Smith, Mr. Wesson.
Like that.
Sure, people make fun of me, but I make fun of people, so it's pretty much a wash.
As it happened, Mr. Verizon was "not available." Neither was Mr. Fios.
So I settled for Kevin.
Kevin: How can I help you today?
Me: I have HBO.
Kevin: Is it not working?
Me: I have HBO.
Kevin: Did you order something else? Showtime...?
Me: I did not order HBO. I do not want HBO.
Kevin: Allow me to review your account. Could I have your date of birth and address for verification purposes?
Me: No.
Kevin: Sir, I can't access your account without—
Me: You could be one of those Russian hackers I saw on the news trying to give me HBO.
Kevin: Sir, I ... I ...
This went on for about 15 minutes. He said something, then I said something, then he said something. Next thing I knew I was trapped in one of those newfangled "conversations" that are all the rage with kids these days.
Kevin: It says here you renewed your two-year contract recently. As our way of saying thank you, you now have twelve months of HBO free. It's a gift.
Me: But I didn't get you anything.
Kevin: Have you checked out the gritty new original HBO series The Knick, starring Clive Owen?
Me: The Knick is just House set at the turn of the century. House was just Sherlock Holmes set at the turn of another century. In fact, everything is just Sherlock Holmes set somewhere and sometime, except The Ed Show, which is Vampire's Kiss set in a preschool.
Kevin: You're free to cancel in just twelve months.
Me: If I wanted to be immersed in savagery, perversion, and nihilism, I would have gone to a state college. I don't want HBO.
So I have HBO. And lo and behold, there's this show, The Leftovers. The series follows the denizens of a small town as they react to a Rapture-like event. People just disappear for no rhyme or reason. Who is left behind and who has been "taken" and why are great mysteries. Debates rage. People and dogs act up. There is profanity. It's HBO.
Shortly thereafter, This Is the End, starring the ubiquitous Seth Rogen and James Franco, came on. It's an apocalyptic comedy starring a bunch of Hollywood types playing themselves trying to figure out where everyone went and what's going on after, again, another Rapture-like event. There is profanity and hippie humor, and the moral (if you can call it that) is pretty much be less selfish and you too will be whisked off to Paradise where you can party like the Rat Pack's half-wit nephews.
So you see, the Rapture is sort of in the air. (crickets)
Could this mean something? Should I be preparing? What do I believe about the End?
Hence, seventy-six simoleons to see 'Left Behind'.
....Anthony Sacramone
Politically Obvious – Obama Appointed Judge Will Not Hold Eric Holder in Contempt of Court Even Though Holder Is Defying "HER" Court Order...
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 10/6/14
http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2014/10/judge-declines-to-hold-holder-in-contempt-196650.html
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A federal judge has declined a House committee's bid to have Attorney General Eric Holder held in contempt of court — and perhaps even jailed — for failing to turn over documents related to the Justice Department' s response to Operation Fast and Furious.
(You just can't make this stuff up. A liberal activist judge... forced to follow the law and legal precedent... tells the DOJ they must turn over Fast and Furious documents. The DOJ refuse. The federal judge then gives the DOJ a deadline for producing the documents. The DOJ ignore the deadline, and again refuse. The judge is now in a position of having her own court order defied by the entity under her jurisdiction.... so she punts, or, well, 'kicks-the-can' down past the election)However, in a ruling Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson also denied Holder's request for an indefinite stay of her prior order that the attorney general must turn over any "non-privileged" documents the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed as part of an investigation into the botched gunrunning investigation. The judge previously ruled that Holder must give the panel any documents that are not both predecisional and deliberative in nature.
Jackson called the House contempt motion "entirely unnecessary" and said it was evident that she was considering the government's motion to lift her prior order. "Under those circumstances, the Court finds no basis to hold defendant in contempt," she wrote.
But the judge also said she saw no reason to allow the Justice Department to withhold unprivileged documents until the case was complete. She ordered those records turned over to the committee by Nov. 3, along with a log of the records claimed to be privileged.
"Though the Court has the discretion to grant a stay in the interests of judicial economy and efficiency, pending appeal or otherwise, there is no pending appeal here and the Court has already ruled that defendant has no legal basis to withhold non-deliberative documents. The 'possibility' of an appeal and piecemeal litigation does not satisfy defendant's burden to demonstrative a 'clear case of hardship or inequity' without a stay," she wrote in her decision (posted here).
A Justice Department spokesman welcomed the decision, at least the part rebuffing the motion to hold Holder in contempt. "We are pleased that the court rejected the committee's latest stunt," spokesman Brian Fallon said.
A spokesperson for the House committee said the judge's ruling is a step towards the panel receiving documents it should have been given years ago. "The Oversight Committee is pleased that the Judge in the case has rejected the Department's request to continue illegally withholding documents and its attempt to unnecessarily prolong the proceeding. This court ruling affirms that Attorney General Holder broke the law in withholding subpoenaed documents, which led the House of Representatives to vote him in criminal contempt," said the spokesperson.
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Catholic Bishop: Christians Can Use Lethal Force To Defend Themselves From "Satanist-Driven Islamic Organizations"
(Enough with turning the other cheek, time for some payback)
(CNSNews.com) – "Christians must do everything within their powers to protect their lives from being snuffed off by Satanist-driven Islamic organizations," Bishop Joseph Bagobiri, the Roman Catholic head of Nigeria's Kafanchan Diocese, said Sunday, according to Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper.
Bishop Bagobiri also noted, according to the Vanguard, that Christians have a "grave duty" to use "moderate and proportionate force" to defend their families against Islamic groups such as Boko Haram, which is responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians since 2009.
Boko Haram became internationally known after it staged a mass kidnapping of more than 250 Nigerian schoolgirls in April. Only one has reportedly escaped in nearly five months.
Not fighting back is a "gross act of irresponsibility," the bishop said at a Sunday reception, pointing out that "Christian communities that observe absolute pacifism have all ceased to exist."
Bishop Bagobiri invoked church teaching on "legitimate defense" in his remarks, noting that the Catechism of the Catholic Church describes it as an act of love towards oneself; and carried out out in defense of God's gift to life, [of] which we are merely custodians. The theological authorities of the Church are emphatic: Love towards oneself remains a fundamental principle of morality.
"Therefore, it is legitimate to insist on respect for one's own right to life. Someone who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow," Bishop Bagobiri said.
Politico: Big Dem Donors Looking For A Hillary Substitute
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(Uh Oh... trouble brewing for ol' Pants-suit?)
Via Truth Revolt:http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/politico-big-dem-donors-looking-hillary-substitute
The 2016 Presidential Candidate selection process for the Democratic Party may not be the coronation of Hillary Clinton that most pundits are projecting. Kenneth Vogel of Politico is reporting that some big Democratic Party donors are eager for a candidate (or candidates) to challenge Clinton, if only to force her to the left on key progressive issues.
Clinton is seen by some liberals as too hawkish, too close to Wall Street and insufficiently aggressive on fighting climate change, income inequality and the role of money in politics. Those are animating causes for many rich Democrats, and some are eager for a candidate or candidates to challenge Clinton on those issues, if only to force her to the left.
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According to the report some of the big money donors are trying to get Elizabeth Warren to reconsider her pledge not to run; others are looking to support Joe Biden, Martin O'Malley, Jim Webb, and even Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders.
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"I have talked to large donors who are not happy with what Hillary represents," said Guy Saperstein, a San Francisco lawyer and part owner of the Oakland A's. "But they're not going to stick their heads up above the ramparts right now and get shot at."
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Saperstein provided seed funding to a super PAC launched this summer to try to draft Warren into the presidential race and pledged $1 million if the Massachusetts senator decides to run. The super PAC is hiring staffers in key primary states and recently enlisted a fundraising firm to solicit donors.
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Kansas Senate "Independent" Says He Could "Absolutely" Switch Parties If He Wins
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(No way... Wow... Jeepers... Really?... uh huh... S'pose so)
Via NBC News:Independent Greg Orman says he could change parties even after he has allied himself with Democrats or Republicans if he wins the Kansas Senate election in November.
In an exclusive interview with NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, Orman says he would initially caucus with whichever party has majority control in the Senate, because "it's in the best interests of the voters of Kansas that they have a senator in the majority."
But, he added, he wouldn't limit himself to an alliance with one party over the other, especially if the Senate is evenly split.
"If four or five months goes by, and it's clear they're engaged in the same old partisan politics, we'll be able to change our allegiances and work with the other side," he said. "And I think that's a really strong and important tool, to hold the Senate accountable for actually getting something done."
Asked by O'Donnell if he can envision switching parties once he arrives in Washington, Orman responded that he "absolutely" can.
"Ultimately, this is about solving problems. This is about the voters of Kansas saying – the status quo doesn't work anymore," he said.
If he wins the November election, Orman can keep the label of independent, but he must choose to caucus with one party to carry out the day-to-day duties — like service on Senate committees — that make senators effective as they seek to serve their constituents.
20% Of U.S. Residents Abandon English At Home
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Via Washington Times:One-fifth of people in the U.S. speak a foreign language at home, according to a report being released Monday by the Center for Immigration Studies, which found Arabic and Urdu — the national language of Pakistan — among the fastest-growing.
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The report found that nearly half of all California school-age children speak a language other than English at home, as do a third of Texans and Nevadans, according to the report, which is based on Census Bureau numbers.
Three decades ago, 10 percent of residents spoke a foreign language at home, but a surge of immigration and changing cultural patterns have sent the percentage skyrocketing. More than 40 percent of those who spoke a foreign language at home said they speak English less than proficiently.
The report found that nearly half of all California school-age children speak a language other than English at home, as do a third of Texans and Nevadans, according to the report, which is based on Census Bureau numbers.
15 Best Political Photos Of The Day
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The 15 Best Cheerleading Squads in the NFL
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Axis of Idiots
The purpose of this page is to answer the never ending inquiries about a commentary I wrote in June 2006, which I titled On Your Hands. It has been renamed by anonymous Internet editors. The most prevalent re-titling is Axis of Idiots. That is why I have titled this page Axis of Idiots.
In June 2006, I sent an email to a private mailing list with the following commentary. The only thing that differs from the original is that some broken links were removed. I also posted it at Free Republic.
Since that original posting this email has been around the net more times than probably can be calculated. It has been edited by Internet nitwits, given new titles, the most popular of which appears to be Axis of Idiots and some of the edits refer to me as a Retired Marine Sergeant Major, which I am not and have never claimed to be. This is just another Internet nitwit's fabrication. I honor my Marine Corps brothers, but I am proud to be a retired Army Command Sergeant Major. There is also a version out there with a picture of some bald guy standing behind a podium – not me either.
To this day, I still get emails wanting me to verify that I wrote what they forward to me, which is most often some edited version. It even earned a Snopes entry. I have also been cursed out and called every name imaginable by people who apparently support the views and disgraceful words and conduct of the named politicians. Just for the record, Ted Kennedy and Jack Murtha were alive and in character when this was written.Here is the unedited original as it went out to my email list in June 2006, with the exception of the removal of broken links.
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Our God and soldiers we alike adore,
Ev'n at the brink of danger; not before;
After deliverance, both alike requited,
Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.
---Frances Quarles, 1632
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*** On Your Hands ***
By J. D. Pendry
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Jimmy Carter, you're the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You're the runner-in-chief.
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Bill Clinton, you played ring around the Lewinsky while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses emboldened the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.
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John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is more fiction than fact. You've accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women and children in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time, the same words you used to describe Vietnam. You're a fake. You want to run from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam is another war that you were for, before you were against it.
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John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can't win militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded murder without proof. And said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa John? And the Democrats call you their military expert. Are you sure you didn't suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war hero resume? You're a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician. You're not a Marine sir. You wouldn't amount to a pimple on a real Marines butt. You're a phony and a disgrace. Run away John.
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Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanimo of being Nazis, tenders of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot who murdered two million of his own people after your party abandoned South East Asia to the Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History was not a good teacher for you, was it? See Dick run.
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Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster sized pictures from Abu Grhaib in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying that Iraq's torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see the news this week Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrated real torture for you again. If you truly supported our troops, you'd show the world poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of the perpetrators of it. Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese led to a communist victory there. You're a bloated fool bent on repeating the same historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal, genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on your wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.
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Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer et al ad nauseam. Every time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic Nazis that we went to war because our President lied. That the war is wrong and our Soldiers are torturers. That we should leave Iraq, you give the Islamic butchers – the same ones that tortured and mutilated American Soldiers – cause to think that we'll run away again and all they have to do is hang on a little longer.
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American news media, the New York Times particularly. Each time you publish stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering methods, you become one with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can't strike up the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.
You are America's axis of idiots. Your Collective Stupidity will destroy us. Self-serving politics and terrorist abetting news scoops are more important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing. There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering terrorists. Don't ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home, as you claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies. Yes, I'm questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with self. I'm also questioning why you're stealing air that decent Americans could be breathing. You don't deserve the protection of our men and women in uniform. You need to run away from this war – this country. Leave the war to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people who are willing to defend it.
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No Commander in Chief, you don't get off the hook either. Our country has two enemies. Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force. It's your obligation to support them by confronting the axis of idiots. America must hear it from you that these people are harming our country, abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets. Our Soldiers need you to confront the enemy that they cannot.
They need you to do it now.
Rip Van Whitey
Part 4
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Mr. Van Whitey
As Rip and his companion approached them, they suddenly desisted from their play, and stared at him with such fixed statue-like gaze, and such strange, uncouth, lack-luster countenances, that his heart turned within him, and his knees smote together. His companion now emptied the contents of the keg into large flagons, and made signs to him to wait upon the company. He obeyed with fear and trembling; they quaffed the liquor in profound silence, and then returned to their game.
By degrees Rip's awe and apprehension subsided. He even ventured, when no eye was fixed upon him, to taste the beverage, which he found had much of the flavor of excellent gin. He was naturally a thirsty soul, and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked another; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his fear was overpowered, and he decided to converse with his company.
"My name is Rip Van Whitey," he slurred, "And it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance."
The games ceased and once again the crowed looked at him with an uninviting glower. The awkward silence was too much for poor Rip to bear, so he gulped his beverage nervously.
The men looked away, some returning their attention to their game. The commander apparent took a step toward Rip, revealing a slight limp steadied by the use of a cane. He plucked the cigarette holder from his mouth and cracked a polite smile at Rip.
"My dear fellow, do you know who we are?"
Rip shook his head, a sense of shame coming over him.
"We are the beginning of the end. We are revelers between two awful and pointless racial civil wars. We are the heroes who seeded a generation of traitors. We are the creators and enablers of the beast that would crush our kith and kin. We are the men who built an empire so powerful it took the entire world a century to destroy it. But destroy it they did."
"I don't have any idea what you're talking about," Rip admitted, thoroughly befuddled.
"But of course you don't, kind sir, for what has been hidden from you since birth may as well have never existed. But I assure you: It did exist.
"They will lie to you when they say there was no such thing as the "good old days", that there was no "golden age" in this nation.
"For if you knew what has been lost, you would revolt tomorrow.
"Those who have engineered your subjugation have profited royally from it. They sit perched atop Glitterati Hills, looking down from their gated compounds with nothing but contempt for you and vicious glee over your suffering. All the while, you remain blissfully unaware that your situation could be much improved if only you had the nerve to question what has been forced upon you—and why."
Rip's eyes began to swim in his head. He had only one recourse, which was another trip to the flagon. The distinguished gentleman limped after him.
"There are unpleasant realities no one wishes to hear, Rip Van Whitey, but no man should ignore. The fact is your beloved paradise below has been destroyed, and intentionally so. How do you fail to see it? Do you think that the random savagery to which you are so woefully accustomed is normal? Do you think the constant disturbances of the peace, the endless streams of profanity, the stupidity, the idleness, the violence, the thuggery, the thievery, the squalor, the filth—do you think these are elements inherent to civil society? If so, what, exactly, makes it so "civil"?
"Look around you now. Do you fear for your life? Do you fear for your pride? Do you have any concern at all that you will be treated in anything but a decent and respectable manner by us perfect strangers? No, of course you don't. This—this—is the nation which once was. And this is the nation we, our children, and our children's children, forfeited.
"Why did we forfeit it? Because we were naïve. Because we were credulous. Because we were lazy. Because we were compliant. Year after year, law after law, generation after generation, we became more ensnared by the Leviathan we created, failing to heed the warnings of the Cassandras, or, more often, dutifully following orders to tar and feather them for daring to utter heresies against the Utopia "diversity", "multiculturalism", "equality", "democracy", and total government was certain to bring.
"But in the end we saw the error of our ways, and took up the struggle against our fate. After all, we were warriors.
"But you, dear Rip, joined the chorus of voices who denounced us, vilified us, ridiculed us, marginalized us. Like our children, you preferred to worship the idiocy of youthful fantasies than respect the wisdom of the aged. You allowed yourself to be emasculated by a shrew of a wife, then demonized those who chose to remain men.
"What is it, Rip, that compels you to such deplorable behavior? Is it cowardice? Is it envy? Is it foolishness? Certainly it can be no respectable quality that makes for such shameful ways.
"We forged the closest thing to heaven on earth humanity had ever seen, and then we let it be destroyed by an ungrateful, ridiculous generation. But when I see so-called men such as you, I wonder whether you don't deserve everything that has been visited upon you.
"So drink up, Rip Van Whitey, and enjoy the game. And as you immerse yourself in the entertainment, consider whether you will continue to ignore reality, or choose to take arms against a sea of troubles. Just know that we don't care. You have forsaken us, and we have moved on. It is your world now. Make of it what you will."
With that, the distinguished gentleman limped back to the crowd who resumed their attentiveness to the game. Rip stared off into space, unsure of what he just heard and exactly what to make of it. So, feeling queasy, he poured himself another beverage.
And with a few more sips, he fell into a deep sleep.
To be continued...
Not A Joke:
NBC Wanted To Hire Jon Stewart As Host Of Meet The Press
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(Your eyes are not deceiving you, this is legit)
Via NY Mag:This Sunday marks Chuck Todd's one-month anniversary in the anchor chair at Meet the Press. Despite an opening-week ratings spike from his exclusive sit-down interview with President Obama, the Todd-helmed show has settled back into third place behind ABC's This Week and CBS's Face the Nation. This has been frustrating to NBC News executives, who at one point had considered going in a radically different direction with the show.
Before choosing Todd, NBC News president Deborah Turness held negotiations with Jon Stewart about hosting Meet the Press, according to three senior television sources with knowledge of the talks. One source explained that NBC was prepared to offer Stewart virtually "anything" to bring him over. "They were ready to back the Brinks truck up," the source said. A spokesperson for NBC declined to comment. James Dixon, Stewart's agent, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
It makes sense that NBC would make a run at Stewart. The comedian-cum-media-critic possesses something that broadcast executives covet: a loyal, young audience. And it's not the first time NBC tried recruiting him. According to sources, NBC Entertainment courted Stewart several years ago for a 10 p.m. variety show (the slot ultimately went to Jay Leno).
This April, CBS announced Stewart's Comedy Central colleague Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman next year.
Wonderful: Biden to Head 'Law and Order: SVU' Marathon to Fight Domestic Violence
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(A heads up to all 'Law and Order' fans, you're in for this on Sunday)
Via Truth Revolt:On Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden will be co-hosting a Law and Order: SVU marathon on USA Network with star Mariska Hargitay in order to raise awareness regarding domestic violence. The marathon will include public service announcements about domestic violence and sexual assault, according to Jezebel.com, connected with the White House's new public relations campaign on the issues.
The marathon will run for 14 hours, and is designed to mark National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Hargitay's Joyful Heart Foundation and the NO MORE Campaign will partner with Biden on the project.
Hargitay announced:Despite the progress we as a nation have made in the movement to end domestic violence and sexual assault, much work remains. Society continues to misplace blame and shame on survivors — both women and men. That has to end. I am so profoundly grateful to the vice president, who continues to use his voice — and office — to speak boldly about these issues and stand up for survivors.
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We all have things to complain about. We always have and we always will. But it strikes me that the things we have to gripe about have become increasingly important over the past 30 years or so because so often they leave America and the world in worse shape than before.
Our education system, once the envy of the world, has become hostage to progressive teachers, professors, administrators, fascistic student bodies and Islamic pressure groups.
Our mass media, which at one time, at least made the attempt to deal objectively with the news has, in the wake of Woodward and Bernstein's enormous success, tossed off even the pretense of being anything other than a propaganda outlet for a liberal agenda.
Our politicians, who used to at least try to appear bi-partisan on issues important to the well-being of America, made it possible for voters who claimed they voted for the man, not the party, to sound principled and not merely self-deluded.
I was once married to a woman who, as a child, had come up with what I regarded as so diabolical a plan, she could have easily have taken top prize in a Machiavellian competition, if there had been such a thing. When she was about seven or eight, she took it upon herself to teach her brother, who was three or four at the time, the colors. But she intentionally taught them wrong, so he thought orange was blue and yellow was black and green was red. When I asked her why she had done it, she couldn't recall. I guess when you're seven or eight, you do evil things for no other reason than that it's fun.
That's the case, unless you're a liberal at any age. Then you can pretend that global warming is settled science when, in reality, it's merely a way for some people, people like Al Gore, to get rich and for other people, people such as Obama, Reid, Pelosi and Schumer, to gain even more control over the economy and the electorate, as they did with the satanic Affordable Care Act.
I used to question the mere existence of NATO. Knowing the European nations for the contemptible, leftist cowards they are, I couldn't imagine why we continued to be a member. Once the organization threw the doors open to Turkey, an Islamic fox in the chicken coop, I knew that whatever past excuse there may have been for our membership, it no longer existed. Perhaps others were surprised by Turkey's refusal to allow us to have airbases within its borders for the purpose of attacking the Islamic State, but not I. The fact is that Muslims, as we've seen time and again, haven't the slightest objection to killing other Muslims, but they really hate it when non-Muslims, otherwise known as infidels, get in on the fun.
People who aren't thinking straight complain that we're stuck with a do-nothing Congress. It strikes me as the ideal situation. I mean, why would anyone want these people passing more laws and creating more regulations? If a toddler marks up your walls with crayons, would any sane person deal with the situation by providing him with an open can of paint? If it were up to me, Congress would meet for one month a year, and I would cut their salaries, pensions and staffs, by an equivalent 87.5 %.
Every once in a while, the difference between having talent and possessing wisdom, decency or even commonsense, is as obvious as an elephant in your kitchen. I happen to think that England's Emma Thompson is not only a great actress, but a wonderful screenwriter, but that doesn't prevent her from being an anti-Semitic apologist for the Arabs and Muslims trying to exterminate Israel.
I also happen to think that Carl Reiner is a gifted actor, writer and director, and a nice guy so long as you're not discussing politics. I've been a fan for about 65 years, ever since he was a regular on the Sid Caesar Show. But a few years ago, he told me that he had two photos on the wall behind his desk. One was of FDR; the other was of Barack Obama.
He also told me that next to the Gettysburg Address, he thought that Obama's speech about there being neither a blue America nor a red America, but only a purple America, was the greatest speech in human history.
Now even if Obama hadn't proven himself to be most divisive president ever, outdoing even Lincoln, who only divided America geographically, it is outrageous for an educated person to accord Obama's speech such homage.
Would anyone seriously claim that it was greater than Christ's Sermon on the Mount? Greater than FDR's first inaugural, in which he assured Americans midst the Depression that they had nothing to fear but fear itself? Greater than Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball in which the doomed 36-year-old claimed to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth? Greater than Patrick Henry's inspiring address in 1775, in which he rallied his countrymen to the Revolution by declaring, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me Liberty or give me Death"? Greater than Indian Chief Joseph's concluding his speech surrendering the Nez Perce tribe to the U.S. Army with the eloquent "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more"?
How about Reagan's address to the nation after the Challenger's explosion, honoring the seven Astronauts for their courage as "they slipped the surly bounds of earth" in order to "touch the face of God"? Or any of Churchill's morale-boosting speeches to the British people during the darkest days of World War II, but especially his 1940 address to the House of Commons, in which, employing the rumbling voice of God, which he often borrowed for such occasions, he said, "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
In conclusion, it is worth noting that in 1850, California became the 31st state in the Union. Way back then, the people had no electricity. The state had no money. There were gun fights in the streets. Much of the land was desert, inhospitable to humans or agriculture. And most people spoke Spanish.
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I just recieved this from a friend. It was dated 1934.
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Rip Van Whitey - Part 5
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Diversity Paradise City
On waking, he found himself on the green knoll whence he had first seen the young man of the glen. He rubbed his eyes—it was a bright sunny morning. The birds were hopping and twittering among the bushes, and the eagle was wheeling aloft, and breasting the pure mountain breeze. "Surely," thought Rip, "I have not slept here all night."
He recalled the occurrences before he fell asleep. The strange man with a keg of liquor, the mountain ravine, the wild retreat among the rocks, the woebegone party, the inscrutable monologue from that distinguished gentleman, the flagon—"Oh! That flagon! That wicked flagon!" thought Rip. "What excuse shall I make to Dame Van Whitey!"
As he rose to walk, he found himself stiff in the joints, and wanting in his usual activity. "These mountain beds do not agree with me," thought Rip; "and if this frolic should lay me up with a fit of the rheumatism, I shall have a blessed time with Dame Van Whitey."
With some difficulty he got down into the glen. The morning was passing away, and Rip felt famished for want of his breakfast. He dreaded to meet his wife, but it would not do to starve among the mountains. He shook his head and, with a heart full of trouble and anxiety, turned his steps homeward.
As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with everyone in the country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed: wife-beaters atop oversize pants slung down around knees, exposing underwear; gold orthodontia protruding from scowling mouths; tattoos covering all visible flesh. They all stared at him with equal marks of hostility and scorn, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably grumbled some insult or threat. The constant recurrence of this behavior induced Rip, involuntarily, to stroke his chin, when to his astonishment, he found his beard had grown a foot long!
He had now entered the skirts of the village. A troop of strange, nappy-headed children ran at his heels, throwing rocks at him and swearing profusely. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized, but all appearing to be some sort of pit bull mix, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered: it was a filthy slum. There were rows of ramshackle lean-tos which he had never seen before, and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Ruins of old structures lay strewn around, as if ransacked. All sorts of refuse—both of the man-made and human-body-made kinds—littered the streets, which were now just patches of asphalt amongst the dirt and gravel. There was an awful stench in the air, a putrid mix of sewage and gas and cooking chicken. Filthy children ran around and played in the filth; filthy adults hooted and hollered on their stoops, smoking their marijuana and drinking their malt liquor, occasionally screaming or kicking at the children. Chickens pecked around willy-nilly for aliment.
Strange music blared from all directions in a cacophonic horror; strange faces peered at him from the holes in the lean-tos; everything was strange. His mind now misgave him; he began to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched. Surely this was his native village, which he had left but the day before. There stood the Catskill Mountains; there ran the silver Hudson at a distance; there was every hill and dale precisely as it had always been. Rip was sorely perplexed—"That flagon last night," thought he, "has addled my poor head sadly!"To be continued...
Lawsuit: ACA navigators used as union recruiters
'Dems Suing Dems In Texas: Lawsuit Claims Obamacare
Navigators Used As Union Recruiters'
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THEY'RE BACK: The group's founder faces
new accusations that sound like the old ones
(I think most people know this sorta thing happens,
but to have Dems suing other Dems over it is gold)
By Jon Cassidy | Watchdog.org - October 9, 2014 http://watchdog.org/175987/lawsuit-aca-navigators-used-union-recruiters/
HOUSTON – A lawsuit filed by an organizer for Battleground Texas accuses a labor group established by ACORN founder Wade Rathke of instructing an Obamacare navigator to spend time recruiting union members.
The complaint echoes decades-old criticisms of Rathke and ACORN: They use federal money meant for services to the poor in pursuit of their own labor organizing activities.
Cedric Anthony, who went to work for the Democratic Party's Texas recruitment operation, filed a wage-and-hour lawsuit in June against two groups he says jointly employed him as a "federal navigator assisting people with the Affordable Care Act" – Southern United Neighborhoods and Local 100 United Labor Unions.
Both groups were founded by former ACORN organizers, the latter by its founder, Rathke. In his federal suit, Anthony alleges that while he worked as a federal navigator from Dec. 12, 2013, to April 1, 2014, in the Houston area, his "responsibilities included traveling to school campuses to register cafeteria workers to the labor union and attending community events to register individuals for the Affordable Care Act."
The watchdog group Cause of Action discovered the lawsuit recently, and sent a letter to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services calling for an audit to determine whether the two groups misused federal funds for their own benefit. The group notes SUN has received $1.4 million from HHS to employ Obamacare navigators, and its sub-grantee United Labor Unions spent $189,000 in 2013 as part of its contract to provide navigators to enroll people in Obamacare.
Anthony says he was hired by SUN, which holds the navigator contract, and later directed to enroll union members for ULU. Although he worked for both groups, he said his instructions came from the same person. His complaint depicts blurred lines between the two groups, which "shared the same offices in Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Little Rock."
The lone attorney for both defendants denies SUN and ULU acted jointly; he says the labor group was Anthony's sole employer. He also denies the two "shared the same offices," although he admits they each "have offices located in the same building in each of the five cities."
Fox News reports that four other SUN employees have joined the lawsuit.
Rathke's groups have a long history of using workers hired with federal funds for political purposes. ACORN's implosion amid scandal in 2009 is widely known, but the very first complaint against the group is much the same as Anthony's. In 1977, ACORN had a $470,000 federal contract to assist the poor through the Volunteer in Service to America program, which it lost after a congressional investigation found VISTA workers were being used as union recruiters.
A congressional report on those events bears an uncanny resemblance to the present case. If you change a few names – ACORN to SUN, ULO to ULU, and VISTA to ACA – the old story sounds rather familiar:
"The ULO (United Labor Organizations), which was described as a 'separate entity' that ACORN 'is helping to get started,' shares space in the same building as ACORN in New Orleans. The sign in front of the building says 'ACORN' on one side and 11ULO11 on the other. The HWOC (Household Workers Organizing Committee), also located in the same building, was said to be a ULO 'subsidiary organization.' It was stated that ACORN rents the building and that both ULO and HWOC rent space from ACORN, but the Investigative Staff was unable to verify this arrangement without access to ACORN's accounting records.
"Five VISTAs were actively working with the HWOC, reporting directly to the chief organizer, until late this past spring when the ACTION Office of Compliance directed that the assignments be terminated. There is as yet, however, very much of an indirect involvement of VISTAs and the use of grant money in the labor organizing activity of ACORN. First, ACORN has only limited staff resources .... Without the VISTAs to take over neighborhood organizing chores, it is doubtful whether the manpower would be available to mount a credible union organizing effort. Thus, the availability of VISTAs is facilitating (if not making practicable) the ACORN move into labor organizing. Second, there are no safeguards, of which the Investigative Staff is aware, to prevent membership dues solicited by VISTAs from being used for labor organizing."
Complete IDIOT Gwyneth Paltrow:
It Would Be Wonderful If We Could Give Obuma
All The Power That He Needs
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Via The Blaze:Actress Gwyneth Paltrow lavished praise on President Barack Obama Thursday night during a Democratic National Committee fundraiser that took place at her Los Angeles home.
Speaking at the event, which had tickets starting at a minimum of $1,000 for the reception and $15,000 for the dinner, Paltrow introduced the president by saying,
"I am one of your biggest fans, if not the biggest."The famous actress, joined by her children, continued to shower Obama with compliments.
According to the White House pool report, she said: It would be wonderful if we were able to give this man all of the power that he needs to pass the things that he needs to pass.
Paltrow called the president's push for equal pay "very important to me as a working mother."
At the conclusion of her introduction, she turned the microphone over to Obama, telling him,
"You're so handsome that I can't speak properly."The president then continued to deliver what was described by the White House pool as one of his standard fundraising speeches. Julia Roberts and Bradley Whitford were among other celebrities spotted in attendance.
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Top Obuma Rumpswab Paul Krugman:
"This Is What A Successful Presidency Looks Like"
(Keep sniffing that coke, Paul... Oh, and ObumaCare is a joke. No one knows how many Americans are on the roles. http://humanevents.com/2014/10/09/more-obamacare-cancellations-on-their-way/
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Via Salon: From his perch as a New York Times columnist, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has often proven a thorn in President Barack Obama's left side. So Krugman naturally generated buzz with his new Rolling Stone essay "In Defense of Obama," a lengthy look at the president's policy record and legacy.
Krugman's conclusion? "This is what a successful presidency looks like," he declares.
Obama may not have delivered every progressive goal, but his track record is nonetheless a solid one, Krugman argues. On health reform, Krugman writes that he and many other liberals would have liked to see a single-payer option, but politically, that "wasn't on the table."
Despite its shortcomings, the Affordable Care Act has delivered health care to about 10 million new people and, the economist contends, is helping to slow the growth of health costs.
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Rip Van Whitey - Part #6
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The younger Van Whiteys
Rip now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the 19th Hole & Pub—but it too was gone. A lean-to stood in its place, with a street vendor outside selling halal meat with rice. Over the hovel was written something in Arabic, a language with which Rip had no familiarity. Music of the orient with its wailing singing sounded forth from a cheap radio on the vendor's cart.
There was a crowd of folk about the scene, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a loud and disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility.
He looked in vain for the sage Jack Smith or Timothy Jones. In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow was haranguing vehemently about white privilege, CIS-gendered oppressiveness, Aztlan, Islamophobia, social justice, and other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Whitey.
The appearance of Rip, with his long grizzled beard, his effeminate dress, and his detestable pale skin, soon attracted the attention of the locals. They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great rancor. The orator bustled up to him, and, drawing him partly aside, inquired on why he was out of the factory.
Rip stared in vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear, "Are you a wizard?"
Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question; when a knowing, self-important old gentleman—who was white like Rip!—in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting to the right and left with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Whitey, with one arm akimbo, his keen eyes and sharp hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone, "What brought you to this place with your white privilege and a mob at your heels? Do you mean to breed a riot in the village?"
"Alas! Gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, "I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal citizen of America, God bless her!"
Here a general shout burst from the by-standers: "A racist! A nativist! A white supremacist! Hustle him! Away with him!"
It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order; and, having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking? The poor man humbly assured him that he meant no harm, but merely came there in search of some of his neighbors, who used to keep about the sports pub that used to reside there.
"Well, who are they? Name them."
Rip bethought himself a moment, and inquired, "Jack Smith? Michael O'Kelley? Timothy Jones, the schoolmaster?"
"Were they white?" the man snarled.
"Uh, yes, yes they were," replied Rip, confounded.
"Well, then, they're long gone, sir, for no whites are allowed to live past their productive years."
"Gone...as in dead?" murmured Rip.
"Dead and buried... Or left to rot in the streets perhaps. Makes no difference."
Rip's heart died away at hearing of these sad changes in his home and friends, and finding himself thus alone in the world. Every answer puzzled him too, by treating of such enormous lapses of time, and of matters which he could not understand. He had no courage to ask after any more friends, but cried out in despair, "Does nobody here know Rip Van Whitey?"
From the crowd a surly voice barked: "What nigga be callin' me, yo?"
Pushing through to the front, a lanky young man with a shaved head, wife beater, saggy jeans, gold chains, and face tattoos, stared angrily at Rip. Rip stared back in horror at the creature before him.
"Why you be trippin, nigga?" the young man asked of Rip. Rip puzzled over this for a moment.
"I'm sorry...I don't speak..." and he paused, trying to determine just what language the man was speaking. But as he stared at him, he noticed something—something dreadful. Beneath the tattoos, under the shaved dome, behind the scowling face, was the very visage of Rip himself. This horrified Rip, to the point of making him doubt his very existence. "My heavens..." Rip muttered, mostly to himself.
At this critical moment a fat, slovenly white woman pressed through the throng to get a peep at the gray-bearded man. She had three mulatto infants in her chubby arms, which, frightened at his looks, began to wail. "Shut the hell up Labronte, Shaniqua, Deshoneda," she squealed, "This creepy a$$ cracka ain't gonna hurt yous."
The names of the children, the air of the mother, the tone of her voice, all awakened a train of recollections in his mind.
"What is your name, good woman?" Rip asked of her.
"Judy Van Whitey. But my niggas call me Judy from the Block."
"Do you know your father?"
"Hells no I don't! That nigga ran away when we was kids."
Rip had but one question more to ask; but he put it with a faltering voice:
"Where's your mother?"
"Oh, she dead," the girl responded matter-of-factly.
There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this intelligence. The honest man could contain himself no longer.To be continued...
Beware: Dangerous Weapons Below!
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Moonbat Alert! Moonbat Alert! Moonbat Alert!
Just when you've thought you've seen it all, here comes some more batsh!t craziness... I kid you not!
Folks, here's more proof many of our public schools across this nation have gone mind-bending, full-blown bonkers...berserk! What happened to this five year old girl will prove just that...no two ways about it.
Can any of you imagine your child being forced to sign a 'Suicide Contract' of any kind while attending school at this age...hmm? Oh yeah, and throw in a 'Homicide Contract' to-boot! Outrageous to say the very least...plain and simple.
Here's the long and short of it via this report. – Trust me, it's insanity on display!:
What if this happened to your son or daughter at school?
Anna Kooiman reported this morning on an Alabama mother who is speaking out after her five-year-old daughter was forced to sign a "suicide contract" without her knowledge.
The incident started when the girl got in trouble at school for apparently pretending a crayon was a gun and "shooting" it at another student.
The mother, only identifying herself as Rebecca in a report by WPMI-TV in Mobile, said her daughter then had to write her name on a document in which she pledged that she would not kill herself or anyone else.
"This isn't right. She's five years old. Most of these words on here, she's never heard in her life," said Rebecca.
Rebecca said school officials want her daughter to see a psychiatrist now.
Here's more from the report:
"[They] Asked her if she was depressed now," said Rebecca.
Without her permission, Rebecca said her child was given the Mobile County Public School Safety Contract to sign stating she wouldn't kill herself or others.
"While I was in the lobby waiting they had my 5-year-old sign a contract about suicide and homicide," said Rebecca.
According to state law, minors cannot legally sign a contract.
"There should be a different way to handle this situation. If this is protocol it needs to be looked at again," said Rebecca.
Local 15 News contacted school officials to see what the proper protocol is when handling "violent-like" behavior. Local 15 News has not heard back.And now the officials want this little girt to see a shrink! Imagine that... seems to me the officials are the nutcases that need to do just that... pronto!
Thanks goes to the Dept. of Education and the no good teachers unions that have control over all! Homeschooling instantly comes to mind when you read about situations such as this one... it's one of the toppers, and lord knows, we've all seem many in the past few years.
Doing what kids of her age have done forever is not allowed according to big brother... after-all they know best and will command and control your children if they have their way. Nanny state much? Just what has our nation come to...and much lower can she sink?
Teach your children well in one form or fashion... it's up to you!
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'Having a Bad Hair Day'
If politicians and bureaucrats ever stopped lying for even five minutes, the ensuing silence would make the rest of us think we'd gone deaf.
For instance, we're being told repeatedly that we have nothing to fear from the fellow down in Dallas who, instead of bringing back a souvenir t-shirt reading "I've Been to Liberia, Don't Ask Me Why," brought home a case of Ebola.
We're being told by medical professionals, who just happen to be paid by the federal government, that the disease is terribly difficult to transmit. I'd almost be willing to believe them if every time I see one of these victims being transported to a hospital, he or she wasn't being accompanied by people decked out from head to toe in hazmat suits.
Perhaps I'm simply being too doggone cynical, a trait I seem to have been born with, a trait I keep trying to overcome, but the politicians and bureaucrats simply won't let me. For instance, just in the past few years, they lied about funneling weapons to Mexican gangsters and they lied about ObamaCare; they refer to Islamic terrorism as workplace violence, lied about the IRS not targeting conservatives and they let our veterans die while waiting for medical attention.
The bastards even lied to the Ebola victim, sending him home from the hospital the first time he showed up, essentially telling him he had a bad cold even after he came clean about where he'd just come from. On the other hand, he'd lied to the Liberians about having had no contact with Ebola victims just so he could get an exit visa. Makes a person wonder if once he's cured, assuming he's one of the lucky ones, Thomas Duncan plans to run for public office.
Even Obama's former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta blames the President for what's happening in Iraq. Unfortunately, like every other schmuck in Washington, he waited three long years to write a book, expressing his dire warnings.
It's simply not in the DNA of political appointees to ever quit over a matter of principle. We are told, belatedly, that even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Obama to maintain a force of at least 10,000, but preferably 24,000, soldiers in Iraq to avoid the likes of ISIL filling the inevitable vacuum.
But, clearly, it is too much to expect public servants to forego the limos, the free junkets to exotic locales, the five-star hotels and the kowtowing entourages, over such a minor issue as national security.
It's as if a lack of principles has become a prerequisite for those employed in Washington, D.C. We are constantly seeing the same lack of character and patriotism every time some bureaucratic nonentity claims to take total responsibility for an act of incompetence or criminality, but doesn't resign or, unfortunately, ever face an indictment and a prison term.
One of the ironies of life is that the Democrats have assumed as one of their favorite themes the Republican War on Women. Talk about chutzpah! This is the party of Jack, Bobby and Ted Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Bob Packwood and Bill Clinton. Each of them was married and an Olympic-class sexual predator. One of them was a rapist and one of them left his paramour to drown in his car while he ran home and got his family's legion of suck-ups to provide him with an alibi.
Just about the only woman who has come through an association with the higher-ups in the liberal camp virtually unscathed was Julia, the fictional character the Democrats came up with to illustrate how benevolent their policies are when it comes to females. Of course, Julia was shown to be entirely dependent on a man, Uncle Sam, to clothe, feed and house her, even though the likes of Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren, are constantly telling young women how independent and powerful they are in this post Roe v. Wade America.
But a great many single women are so stupid that they can't even see the obvious contradiction between being sold Julia on the one hand and flattery carrying the aroma of manure on the other hand.
When I say that single women, who vote overwhelmingly for the Democrats, are stupid, I'm not out to insult them, I'm merely stating a fact.
For instance, they're so dumb that they actually think abortion on demand is a boon for them. Actually, Roe v. Wade has been one giant Get Out of Jail Free card for irresponsible males. It ensures that they can have unprotected sex with 10 different women in the same day, knowing they won't be stuck having to provide even one cent in child support. Is it any wonder that Bill Clinton has been such an ardent supporter of the 1973 Supreme Court decision?....Burt
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Exploring Christopher Columbus
"Dad, why does America celebrate Columbus Day?"
"Well, Billy, in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed from Europe to America and founded the very first European settlement in the New World. His arrival marks the beginning of America as we know it."
"But didn't he discover America by accident, dad?"
"Columbus believed the Earth was a sphere. He thought he could reach the Far East by setting off on a westward course. Though he stumbled upon what is now the Bahamas by accident, he was still a successful explorer, Billy."
"Successful, dad, or a racist oppressor?"
"Pardon me, son?"
"When Columbus came to America, he brought with him the greed of the white European males who subsequently colonized America for the dough. They fought and killed the Indigenous Peoples who were already here and took their land and their gold. Columbus eventually died a very rich man." (http://www.sitnews.us/TomPurcell/101114_delonas.jpg)
"Well, Billy, an unfortunate part of human history involves countries invading their neighbors to take control. This has happened in many parts of the world, including Europe, which has a long history of war. But remember that Indigenous Peoples were also prone to war and fighting to expand their control well before Europeans arrived."
"Well, Columbus is also responsible for many germs and diseases that Europeans brought to America, causing untold suffering and death among the people who were here before us."
"Have you been drinking too much caffeine lately, Billy?"
"America's history of environmental destruction can also be laid at Columbus' feet, dad. As soon as the Europeans colonized America's pristine lands, they cut down the trees and plowed up the fields. Can you say soil erosion, dad?"
"Son, did I ever tell you that you take after your mother's side?"
"And what about slavery? It was the Europeans who created a flourishing slave trade in America. They did it to develop the land cheaply, so they could make giant profits. Columbus even made slaves out of some of the Indigenous Peoples who attacked him and his men."
"Son, do you remember where your mother hid the bourbon?"
"I'll tell you another thing, dad. Some people believe the only reason we even celebrate Columbus Day is because he was Italian, and the day is also a celebration of Italian heritage. Some believe that when FDR made Columbus Day official in 1934, he did so not just because Columbus discovered the New World, but because Italian immigrants in America represented millions of votes."
"Look, Billy, there are a lot of ways to look at what Christopher Columbus symbolizes. When you look through history through a modern-day lense, some of the things you see will not be pretty. You can focus on the negative attributes, and they are there, but you can also focus on the positive."
"Positive, dad?"
"Sure, Billy. Columbus represents the spirit of exploration, the spirit of pushing forward into the great unknown to find greater and better things. This has always been the spirit of America, the land of innovation and new ideas."
"What kind of ideas, dad?"
"How about the ideas of freedom and self-government, Billy? After Columbus opened a gateway to the New World, other European countries established colonies here, too. Eventually, some amazing historical figures would evolve in North America. They would create and fight for a way of life that has proved to be extremely successful — their ideas are still spreading and changing the world for the better."
"Really, dad?"
"Yes, son. The concept of freedom has taken root so solidly in America that people are free to criticize or praise anything, including whether or not Christopher Columbus was a good man or an ogre, or whether or not Columbus Day should still be celebrated in America. Now, do you have any other questions about history?"
"Yes, dad. Was Benjamin Franklin really a predatory male chauvinist womanizer?"
Christopher Columbus is viewed like the Founding Fathers and the Confederates.
Nowadays, most people have a problem with them.
It's your American government schools that have been successful in indoctrinating its students to the socialist thinking and ways. We can recognize the Republican party for changing America and Obama for assisting the Republicans to get er' done. Tyrants all.
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54746 Лихорадка Эбола и украинский фашизм
27.09.2014
Выступая в ООН, президент Обама назвал лихорадку Эбола главной угрозой для человечества. Президент Путин на этой олимпиаде угроз занял всего лишь второе место, а исламский халифат — третье.
Я, натурально, оскорблена тем, что мы не финишировали первые, но я сейчас не о Путине, а об Эболе. Западные телеканалы рассказывают о ней такие же ужасы, как российские — об украинских фашистах. «Смертность до 90%!» — сообщает ВОЗ. «Вирус атакует мягкие ткани тела, почки, печень, сосуды — все буквально растворяется в крови». «От Эболы нет ни лекарств, ни вакцины».
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'Ebola in America' and other fake problems our leaders love to fight
By Yulia Latynina
Originally published in Russian in Novaya Gazeta, Sept. 27, 2014
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/columns/65450.htmlSpeaking at the United Nations, President Obama called Ebola a major threat to humanity. The second place in this Threat-to-Humanity Olympics went to President Putin, with the Islamic Caliphate taking the bronze.
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I'm naturally offended that my Russia didn't finish first, but I'd rather talk about Ebola than about Putin. The Western TV commentators are as terrified of Ebola as the Russian TV commentators are terrified of what they call "Ukrainian fascists." "The mortality rate is 90%," claims the WHO. "The virus attacks the soft tissues of the body, kidneys, liver, blood vessels, literally melting everything into one bloody mess." "There are no drugs or vaccines from Ebola." The horror!
Let me ask a few inconvenient questions.
Africa has been a repeated source of terrible epidemics. In the middle of the sixth century AD, a plague that came from Africa to the Roman Empire killed in different areas 30 to 80 percent of the population. In the middle of the fourteenth century, a plague that came from Africa to Europe, killed in different areas 30 to 80 percent of the Europeans. Since airplanes weren't in existence, the plague traveled by ship, rat, and flea. And in the twentieth century, with the advancements in air travel, Africa also gave us AIDS.
The Ebola virus (in its several varieties) has existed in Africa for thousands of years. How come this menace, which is worse than Putin and ISIS, has never caused epidemics similar to the plague, smallpox, or cholera, and was discovered only in 1976?
How come that since 1976, all of the 13 outbreaks of Ebola never left Africa, and even there the number of victims has been relatively small? (In 2007, the outbreak in Uganda claimed 37 lives, and the one in 2012 resulted in 17 deaths).
Let's look at the facts: First. The WHO says that mortality from Ebola is "up to 90%." It's a lie. More precisely, it's a special kind of lie, which in Islam is known as taqiyya. This is when the words formally represent the truth, but because of the way they are phrased, the audiences hear something else.
Ebola reached 90% mortality only once, in 2003, in the Congo, where 128 people died out of 143 infected. But the current epidemic has the mortality rate of about 50%, and there were epidemics, when the rate dropped to 25%. We will later discuss what exactly, apart from the difference in the strains of viruses, causes such dissimilar death rates.
Second, very important. How does Ebola spread? The answer is that it's not airborne. It is spread only through contact with blood or bodily fluids. The semen of a man who survived Ebola can remain a source of infection for up to three months.
In plain language, an Ebola epidemic can only happen in the total absence of hygiene. Therefore, the WHO statement on page one of its brochure on Ebola that the virus is spread "from person to person" is plain panic-mongering by means of the same taqiyya, that is, lying by withholding information. A virus that is only transmitted if one is using an infected syringe or a Third-World toilet, cannot cause an epidemic in the developed world.
Third, even more important. Ebola attacks different organs, but the main cause of death usually is, just as it is with cholera, dehydration. Give the patient enough fluids and administer an IV with saline solution to replenish the escaping potassium and magnesium, and the 90% mortality rate will become a 90% survival rate. Those "melting" internal organs aren't caused by the virus, but are the result of the disappearing vital minerals that are being washed away through diarrhea and vomiting.
Fourth. Those Americans diagnosed with Ebola were all infected in Africa, bringing the disease to the United States. The death rate among them is zero. All have recovered and one is still being treated. The American doctors are admitting they aren't sure what has helped more: the drugs or the general supportive care. [UPDATE: the infected Liberian man who entered the US has since died as his treatment had been unfortunately delayed - O.A.]
In 1972, an American doctor Thomas Cairns doing missionary work in the Congo, cut himself with a scalpel during an autopsy on a patient who had died of Ebola - a disease yet unknown to medical science. He survived because his wife, even under those conditions, treated him with a basic drip.
Fifth. That there is no cure for Ebola is also a lie. There already exist drugs like TMK-Ebola and ZMapp. If the medical bureaucracy is screaming into our ears about the terrible threat from Ebola, while being too clumsy and incompetent to approve the anti-Ebola drugs, that only means the deadly threat comes not as much from Ebola as from the bureaucracy itself. The same way, one can ban all TB medications and then scream, "Tuberculosis is fatal! There's no cure!" By the way, the Japanese flu medication, Favipiravir, also helps with Ebola.
Sixth. That there is no vaccine for Ebola is also a lie. The vaccine exists; it was created by GlaxoSmithKline. At the beginning of the epidemic a few months ago, GlaxoSmithKline contacted the WHO with the offer to help, but was politely told to make itself scarce.
Seventh. The fact that the medical bureaucracy is sitting on its hands and still hasn't approved the drugs and the vaccines for this dangerous disease (the devastating effect of Ebola on the human body is hard to overestimate) means only what most doctors already know: the wealthy developed countries aren't under any real threat from the Ebola epidemic.
To summarize: Ebola epidemics occur only in Africa, due to the disastrous lack of hygiene and just as disastrous lack of healthcare. There is no chance that the virus, which is transmitted through vomit and contaminated syringes, and kills by dehydration, can create an epidemic in the United States, in Russia, or even in Albania.
The Ebola story is very similar to that of the Haitian earthquake. Remember how in 2010, a 7.0 point earthquake killed 220,000 people in Haiti? A few months later, a much stronger, 8.8 point earthquake in Chile killed about 700 people. Keep in mind that each whole-number point represents a 32-fold increase in released energy, and that the magnitude of 7.0 corresponds to the lower limit of a major earthquake.
That is, the Haitians were dying not so much because of the earthquake as because of the squalor and lack of proper construction materials. In the modern world, all devastating catastrophes (well, almost all) result not from natural disasters, but from disasters that are social and political. It is true for the viruses as much as it is for the earthquakes.
One of the original sources of the Ebola infection is the meat of our cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys. This is practically cannibalism: chimpanzees have the mind of a 4-year-old human child. Would you eat a 4-year-old child? In the Congo, they eat not only apes and monkeys, but also pygmies.
Today's Ebola epidemic, the largest in history, has killed 2,900 people out of 6,200 infected. Did you know that every single year, according to the same WHO, 250,000-500,000 people die of the flu?
So what do we have in conclusion? We have poor African countries, where Ebola - no doubt a terrible disease - is only one of the symptoms of a major social disease known as the failed state. We also have the international bureaucracy, incapable of quickly approving new drugs and vaccines because of its large size and incompetence, while at the same time screaming, "Give us more money so we can save humanity from destruction!" And we have President Obama, who can't even cope with real problems - whether it's the 50 million Americans on food stamps, or the Islamic Caliphate, or Vladimir Putin - and instead, declares the major problem to be Ebola, which has no chance to become endemic in the United States.
When one doesn't know how to solve real problems, it becomes necessary to invent fake ones. Those are easier to solve.
That is why the Islamists, instead of confronting their own squalor and barbarism, are fighting America. That is why Putin, instead of confronting theft and corruption in Russia, is fighting America and Ukraine. And Obama, instead of confronting Putin and the Islamists, is fighting against Ebola.
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'Ebola? I didn't build that!'
Of course, if one is trying to spread an epidemic , ("never let a crisis go to waste"?) .... But no, who would do such a thing? Not "Insane" Obuma... you think??
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....either, Obuma!
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Yulia Latynina is one of Russia's most prominent journalists and critics of Putin's government. She is a columnist for Novaya Gazeta and The Moscow Times, as well as a popular talk show host at the Echo of Moscow radio station. In 2008, Latynina was presented the U.S. government's Freedom Defenders Award by Condoleezza Rice. She has authored more than twenty fiction books, including crime drama and science fiction.
Latynina is also one of my favorite Russian-language columnists. She describes herself as a libertarian, although if she were to live in the U.S., she would probably be considered a conservative author of the magnitude of Ann Coulter, Mark Steyn, and Rush Limbaugh.
The following is one of her latest essays. It was slightly shortened and edited to account for the differences in Russia's and America's broader polemical contexts.
School Told to Call Kids 'Purple Penguins' Because 'Boys and Girls' Is Not Inclusive to Transgender
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A new Endangered Species™ has evolved from the youngest of the finalists in the evolutionary pre-selected generation of the leaders of Next Tuesday™. Purple Penguins are found only in Nebraska but with a rigorous and closely monitored education campaign, we will be able to populate almost every part of the nation.
A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by "gendered expressions" such as "boys and girls," and use "gender inclusive" ones such as "purple penguins" instead.
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Rip Van Whitey - Part #7
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** The Factory **
"What has happened to my home? What has happened to my children? What has happened to my people? What has happened to the world?!" Rip wailed, thrashing at his vestments.
This sudden outburst gave fright to the crowd, who took a step back from the blubbering old white devil. This was followed by an animated debate in some unintelligible pidgin that Rip realized was likewise the tongue of his son (n***** this, f*** that, etcetera).
Given Rip's curious survival into old age—and in no small part due to rising suspicion that Rip was some sort of wizard capable of untold witchcraft—it was determined that they would take him back to the factory rather than put him immediately to pasture.
They stripped him of his fancy outfit with all of its ostentatious buttons and buckles and snaps, covering him instead with a simple, soiled robe. Immediately, a fight broke out over his erstwhile garments, and they were quickly reduced to shreds as the quarreling factions tore them asunder. This ignited a fresh round of arguments, which grew ever more violent until, finally, edged weapons were drawn and bludgeons wielded.
Rip was not privy to the outcome of the battle over his clothing as he was whisked away, like a beast of burden, with a rope around his neck, being led by a gaggle of guffawing buffoons, and, of course, the self-important white man.
As they led him through the seemingly never-ending slum, crowds formed around him, jeering at him, throwing rocks and other such debris at him, some smearing him with mud and feces, others kicking at him or slapping his face. Rip was extremely confused as to the reason for such unprovoked hostility, and not just a little apprehensive about his fate.
In due time, the "factory" appeared—a monstrous brick building in advanced stages of decay, with not a single unshattered window, a crumbling edifice, and a collapsed roof. Behind it stood the remnants of smokestacks, reduced now to their very bases. Rip immediately recognized this place as the old Central Hudson power plant at which his father had worked his entire adult life. But it was obviously non-operational in this state; what on earth could they possibly be doing here?
Pulling aside a torn blue tarp which Rip presumed constituted a "door", some men kicked his backside and barked at him to enter. Obligingly, Rip ducked his head and entered the dusty, fetid air of the factory.To be continued...
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Save The Earth, Prevent Global Warming... By Peeing In The Shower Via Daily Caller:You want to save the environment, right? Prevent global warming, save the world's 13 Icelandic snow owls, that kind of thing.
Then you must pee in the shower. That's the earnest message from a couple of students at England's University of East Anglia, reports BBC News.
The two students, Debs Torr and Chris Dobson, theorize that their idea could "save enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool 26 times."
It's also a pragmatic timesaver, The Daily Caller notes.
"We've done the math, and this project stands to have a phenomenal impact," Dobson told the BBC.
#Ferguson Organizers Think They Have New Cause In #VonderrittMyers, Turns Out He Is Indeed Another #MikeBrown
Multiple groups were out tonight in Ferguson for a "Weekend Of Resistance". One of the things they were supposedly protesting against was the killing of VonDerritt Myers a couple of days ago in the nearby area of Shaw. Myers was shot several times by a police officer after Myers first fired on the officer, according to the police. A gun was found near Myers body. Myers' family insisted he was unarmed, that all he had in his hands was a sandwich. And with that the organizers and people trying to pimp for 'revolution' were off to the races, accusing the police once again of murder.
But quickly, just as Brown had been revealed to have been essentially fleeing a strong arm robbery, Vonderritt Myers' background began to emerge. Despite only being 18, Myers had other charges, including a felony gun charge. He was still supposed to be on house arrest, and not supposed to be out.
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Multiple pictures of Myers began to turn up as well as posts by those who appear to be friends, mourning his death, but posting his pictures, referring to him as a Blood and by his street name of "Droop". There are many pictures showing him armed, including one in which he actually has three guns.
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So Vonderrick Myers was a bloods gang banger named Droop.
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To bad they don't have a commander-in-chief with balls.
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AWESOME!!!
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The Washington Redskins' owner fights back against the PC police who are trying to force him to change the name of his football team. This photo was just take a few minutes ago of the Washington Redskins owner, Dan Snyder, watching the football game with the president of the Navajo Nation.
ISSL jihadists execute four women in northern Iraq
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Baghdad (AFP) - The Islamic State group has executed at least four women, including two doctors and a politician, in their northern Iraq strongholds this month, relatives and rights activists said on Saturday.
In the IS hub of Mosul, the jihadists executed three women on Wednesday including two doctors, Hanaa Edwar, a human rights activist who heads the Al-Amal organisation, said.
A medical source in Mosul confirmed their deaths and named the two doctors as Maha Sabhan and Lamia Ismail. The third woman was a law graduate.
On October 5, Iman Mohammed Yunus, a former Sunni parliamentarian from the Iraq Turkmen Front in the city of Tal Afar, farther west towards the Syrian border, was also executed.
"They took her from her home last month and called her family this week to say that she had been executed," said Ali al-Bayati, who runs a foundation supporting the rights of Iraq's Turkmen minority.
"Then they dumped her body in a water well outside Tal Afar," he said.
According to Edwar, who confirmed Yunus' execution, at least four other women were executed by IS militants in the Mosul area in recent weeks.
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Militants hold a checkpoint on June 16, 2014 in Iraq's second city of Mosul, where jihadists executed three women this week
Among them were a former candidate for the local council and an academic.
"Women are easy targets for them. Many of the rights activists from Mosul ran away but some of the women among them had to stay with their children," Edwar said.
IS militants have controlled Mosul since June 10, the second day of a major offensive that saw jihadist fighters seize swathes of land in five Iraqi provinces.
They have used the city, Iraq's second largest, as a de facto capital for the Iraqi half of the "caliphate" which their leadership proclaimed in June and also includes large parts of Syria.
"After going after the ethnic and religious minorities, they are now hunting down Sunni members of civil society groups and anyone remotely connected with the government," Edwar said.
She said IS was probably trying to sow maximum fear among the population by openly targeting women.
"When you abduct and kill women, you are really spreading horror," she said.
On September 22, IS executed a women's rights activist, Samira Saleh al-Nuaimi, reportedly because she had condemned the demolition of heritage sites by IS on social media.
Edwar also said two men, a judge and a deputy prosecutor, had been executed over the past two weeks.
A source at the Mosul morgue confirmed that their bodies had been brought in earlier this month.
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Not Just The Largest Economy –
Here Are 26 Other Ways China Has Surpassed America
By Michael Snyder, on October 8th, 2014
In terms of purchasing power, China now has the largest economy on the entire planet, but that is not the only area where China has surpassed the United States. China also accounts for more total global trade than the U.S. does, China consumes more energy than the U.S. does, and China now manufactures more goods than the U.S. does. In other words, the era of American economic dominance is rapidly ending. Global economic power is making a dramatic shift to the east, and that is going to have huge implications for our future. We already owe the Chinese well over a trillion dollars, and as our economic infrastructure crumbles we are feverishly borrowing even more money in a desperate attempt to prop up our falling standard of living. We can't seem to match the work ethic, inventiveness and determination of China and other Asian nations and it is showing. If we continue down this path, what will the future look like for future generations of Americans?
In terms of raw GDP, the U.S. is still number one, at least for now. But according to the IMF, China is now the number one economy on the entire planet in terms of purchasing power...
The simple logic is that prices aren't the same in each country: A shirt will cost you less in Shanghai than San Francisco, so it's not entirely reasonable to compare countries without taking this into account. Though a typical person in China earns a lot less than the typical person in the US, simply converting a Chinese salary into dollars underestimates how much purchasing power that individual, and therefore that country, might have. The Economist's Big Mac Index is a great example of these disparities.
So the IMF measures both GDP in market exchange terms, and in terms of purchasing power. On the purchasing power basis, China is overtaking the US right about now and becoming the world's biggest economy.
When I first learned about this, I was quite stunned.
I knew that China's economy had been roaring, but like most Americans I just assumed that the U.S. would continue to remain head and shoulders above everyone else.
Unfortunately, things are changing at a pace that is much faster than most people ever thought possible.
The following are 26 other ways that China has surpassed America....
#1 When you add up all imports and exports, China now accounts for more total global trade than the United States does.
#2 There is now more total corporate debt in China than there is in the United States.
#3 During 2013, we sold about 121 billion dollars worth of stuff to the Chinese, but they sold about 440 billion dollars worth of stuff to us. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.
#4 China is now the leading manufacturer of goods in the entire world.
#5 Back in 1998, the United States had 25 percent of the world's high-tech export market and China had just 10 percent. Today, China's high-tech exports are more than twice the size of U.S. high-tech exports.
#6 The United States had been the leading consumer of energy in the world for about 100 years, but during the summer of 2010 China took over the number one spot.
#7 China now has the largest new car market in the entire world.
#8 China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else on the planet.
#9 China is the number one gold producer in the world.
#10 China is also the number one gold importer in the world.
#11 15 years ago, China was 14th in the world in published scientific research articles. But now, China is expected to pass the United States and become number one very shortly.
#12 China is also expected to soon become the global leader in patent filings.
#13 China awards more doctoral degrees in engineering each year than the United States does.
#14 China has the world's fastest train and the world's most extensive high-speed rail network.
#15 China uses more cement than the rest of the world combined.
#16 Today, China produces nearly twice as much beer as the United States does.
#17 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China.
#18 There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork producing nations combined.
#19 China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe.
#20 China produces more than twice as much cotton as the United States does.
#21 China produces more than three times as much coal as the United States does.
#22 China now produces 11 times as much steel as the United States does.
#23 China controls over 90 percent of the total global supply of rare earth elements.
#24 An investigation by the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services found more than one million counterfeit Chinese parts in the Department of Defense supply chain.
#25 According to author Clyde Prestowitz, China's number one export to the U.S. is computer equipment. According to an article in U.S. News & World Report, the number one U.S. export to China is "scrap and trash".
#26 Nobel economist Robert W. Fogel of the University of Chicago is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040 if current trends continue.
The Chinese are using some of their new wealth to buy up land, properties and businesses here in the United States. In fact, just the other day we learned that a group from China is buying New York City's Waldorf Astoria hotel.
For much, much more on this trend, please see some of my previous articles...
-"The Chinese Are Acquiring Large Chunks Of Land In Communities All Over America"
-"45 Signs That China Is Colonizing America"
-"Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Will Enable China To Dominate 1000s Of U.S. Communities"
And most Americans don't realize this, but Chinese-made cars will soon be sold in the United States.
The following is from a recent WND article...
Chinese-made cars will be making their way to the U.S. next year, and guess which company is going to start exporting them to our shores?
A Chinese company, of course.
Chinese-owned Volvo's parent company, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, will begin exporting its S60L from China to the United States as early as next year, according to a Reuters report which quoted a senior Volvo executive.
Volvo is trying to take advantage of two new Chinese factories that will make up an export hub to send vehicles to the U.S. and Russia.
Everywhere you look, China is dominating and America is in decline.
If this was a sporting event for little kids, the "mercy rule" would have been invoked by now.
Unfortunately, there is no "mercy rule" on the global economic stage.
The United States is going to have to get things together if it wants to have any hope of competing with the Chinese in the future.
The Chinese are kicking our tails and they know it.
One survey found found that 75 percent of those living in China believe that their country is on the right track.
On the other hand, Americans are not nearly as optimistic.
According to one average of recent surveys, only 28 percent of Americans believe that the United States is on the right track.
I think that those numbers say a lot. We have been in decline for quite some time, but we can never seem to get the ship righted.
Hopefully our leaders can start coming up with some solutions soon, because we are running out of time.
Quotes From Democrats On Race & Anti-SemitismConservatives often believe that Democrats in general and liberals in particular get a free pass when it comes to race related remarks. Here are a few quotes that RWN has gathered up. Take a look at them and make up your own mind about the double standard...
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***On Blacks***
(Affecting) a black accent to recount San Francisco mayor Willie Brown asking) "Who is this "Emily List? She's supportin' all these people. She's supportin' Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She's supported Sen. Barbara Boxer....She supported everybody. Why won't she support me?" — Hillary Clinton.
Source:: John Broder: of the LA Times
"Some junior high n*gger kicked Steve's ass while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophomore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the n*gger down. However it was, it was Steve's fault. He had the n*gger down, he let him up. The n*gger blindsided him." — Roger Clinton, the President's brother on audiotape
"You'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." — Fritz Hollings (D, S.C.)
"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?" — Song from the show of left-wing radio host Neil Rogers
Blacks and Hispanics are "too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write." — Mike Wallace, CBS News.
Scource:: NewsMax
***Blacks on Blacks ***
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"In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture." — Harry Belafonte
"Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them." — Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager for the 2000 election
(On Clarence Thomas) "A handkerchief-head, chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom." — Spike Lee
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"He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black." — California State Senator Diane Watson's on Ward Connerly's interracial marriage
*** Comments From The Past ***
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"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." — Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK.
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"I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state .... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia .... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities." — Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1946, after he quit the KKK.
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"These laws [segregation] are still constitutional and I promise you that until they are removed from the ordinance books of Birmingham and the statute books of Alabama, they will be enforced in Birmingham to the utmost of my ability and by all lawful means." — Democrat Bull Connor (1957), Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama
"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." — Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler's Book, "Inside The White House"
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(On New York) "K*ketown." — Harry Truman in a personal letter:
"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a nigger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America." Harry Truman (1911) in a letter to his future wife Bess
"There's some people who've gone over the state and said, 'Well, George Wallace has talked too strong about segregation.' Now let me ask you this: how in the name of common sense can you be too strong about it? You're either for it or you're against it. There's not any middle ground as I know of." — Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace (1959)
***On Jews***
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"You f***ing Jew b@stard." — Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. This was revealed in "State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton" and has been verified by Paul Fray and three witnesses.
"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes." — Louis Farrakhan (1984) who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002
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"Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under his holy and righteous name." — Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, 1984
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'Hymies.' 'Hymietown.' — Jesse Jackson's description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail.
"Jews ' that's J-E-W-S." — Democratic state representative Bill McKinney on why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002
***On Whites***
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"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health." — Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002
"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." — Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights
(I) "will not let the white boys win in this election." — Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager on the 2000 election
"The old white boys got taken fair and square." — San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after winning an election
"There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time." — Former Klansman and Current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate" in March of 2001
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"The Medicaid system must have been developed by a white male slave owner. It pays for you to be pregnant and have a baby, but it won't pay for much family planning." — Jocelyn Elders
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The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years." — Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, City College audience in New York
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"There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there." — USA Today columnist Julienne Malveaux
"We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders." — Former Rep. Gus Savage (D-Illinois) after his defeat 1992
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"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." — Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ, cited in "Democrats Do the Dumbest Things
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"The white race is the cancer of human history." — Susan Sontag
"Reparations are a really good way for white people to admit they're wrong." — Zack Webb, University Of Kentucky NAACP
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Rip Van Whitey - Part #8
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***Saint MLK***
Upon entering the factory, Rip was shocked to find a hive of industriousness and an oasis of relative peace and quiet. What was strangest of all was that the place was nearly entirely uniform in its whiteness. With the exception of what appeared to be guards, who dozed in the corners on chairs and lounges, their hats pulled over their eyes, everyone was white.
In the times before his great nap, such a monolithic racial makeup would have disconcerted Rip greatly, causing peptic guilt to burble in the back of his throat, his knees to knock with trepidation at the exposure to accusations of racism, and making him long for the deliverance his betters assured him only "diversity" could bring. Surely, he would say, so as to ingratiate himself to his superiors, lord himself over his inferiors, and inoculate himself against the dreaded r-word, this place was "too white".
But now...now was a different time, and made for a different Rip. He found not fear in this roomful of whites, but rather relief; not disgust, but solace. How that flagon had changed him!
At the front of the factory floor, near the very "door" through which he entered, stood a giant statue of a man Rip knew all too well—Saint MLK. His arms crossed, he stared down sternly from his commanding height at the white workers below.
Observing this assortment of whites, with their widely diverse appearances—from redheads and blonds to brunettes and brown-haired; from blues eyes to green to hazel to gray; from short to tall, and slender to hulking; from merely comely to positively beautiful—Rip noticed their work was equally diverse: some toiled away making garments, while others were assembling cheap electronics, and still others wearing protective eyewear and gloves as they composited batteries. Some even pedaled away on what looked like exercise bikes attached to the generators left over from the factory's operational days.
But not all was well, for he realized that the labor of the people did not appear to make them happy; rather, they looked decidedly tense in their affairs. Perhaps it was due to the proctors who paced around behind them, constantly haranguing them and denouncing them as sinners who must purge their original sin of white privilege by working solely for the benefit of the "eternally oppressed"; that they can only properly atone for their sins of racism and sexism and homophobia and transphobia and Islamophobia and nativism and xenophobia and genocide and slavery and colonialism—that they, and they alone!, were guilty of—by praying for the grace of Saint MLK to absolve them; that it was only right that they forfeit their children to The Indoctrinators so that they wouldn't grow up to be the hate-filled bigots that their parents were; that they should be thankful they were allowed to lead the lives of slaves rather than be human sacrifices to god Diversity; and such things, and so forth.
The self-important white man with the cocked hat nudged Rip, knocking him out of his reverie, and pointed to a vacant seat behind a manual-powered sewing machine. "Do you know how to sew?"
Though advanced in age, and despite never having been exhibited prior—throughout all of Rip's most miserable and dangerous encounters—his survival instincts finally kicked in; for, not having the slightest inkling as to how to operate the machine let alone sew, he responded without a moment's hesitation: "Yes...yes, of course."
"Then get to it," said the self-important man, and, with that, departed.
Rip noticed a proctor looking in his direction, so before he could incur her wrath, he scrambled over to his seat at the sewing machine.To be continued...
Lib Rag Salon: "When That Cop Killed Mike Brown, and Zimmerman Killed Trayvon Martin, They Were Killing Barack Obama"
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(. . . and Salon jumps the shark for the 39,092,170th time)
Via Salon:http://media.salon.com/2014/10/zimmerman_obama_wilson.jpg
There has been a breakdown in decency in this country over the past number of years to the point where, just this weekend, somebody showed up at a Vikings game where Adrian Peterson, their running back, had just been suspended or not suspended ... suspended by his team for a game because of child abuse indictment. Somebody shows up at the Vikings game in Minnesota wearing an Adrian Peterson jersey and carrying a tree switch, of the sort that he used to beat his son. It's like, what kind of ... how sick do you have to be to even think of doing that? Let alone do it.
But with Barack Obama, racism has become ordinary discourse since his election in a way that it wasn't before, and the contempt and the ridicule with which Republicans treat him. Not even Bill Clinton, who they felt they could disparage because they thought he was a dumb white cracker, not even Bill Clinton has been treated the way Barack Obama has been treated. He's been treated as if he's an impostor, an interloper and as scum.
I mean, the things that have been said about Michelle Obama, the way she's talked about on Fox News, you know, forget about Twitter or comments on news stories or anything like that where all the morons live, but the way she's been talked about, can you imagine Laura Bush ever being talked about that way? Laura Bush actually killed somebody.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e1698.htm
But that was never mentioned, that was never talked about, because it was impolite to bring it up.
Anyway, don't let me go on like this. But, yeah, yeah. And when you look at the things ... when you look at the murder of Trayvon Martin, when you look at the murder of Michael Brown, when you look at those situations, it's not unrelated to Obama being president, but it's more the way in which the country has reframed itself or rewritten itself since his election, with all kinds of people saying to themselves, maybe never putting it into words, just feeling it, "There's a f***ing n---er in the White House? Well f*** you, n---er, whoever you are." And an inchoate loathing and hatred that seeks out its targets.
I'm not a psychiatrist, I haven't sat down and interviewed George Zimmerman or the cop who shot Michael Brown, I don't know what their motives are, I don't know what kind of people they are, what kind of childhood traumas they have experienced. But I don't think it's nuts that in a certain way, when that cop killed Michael Brown, and when George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, they were killing Barack Obama.
You can call them leaders, but I won't.
Not untill they start acting like leaders and accepting responsibility for their actions.
I may be Crazy
But
I am Not Insane !
Living in the age of insanity,
from Ebola to radical Islam
to gay marriage
America's leaders are helping degrade the culture
like it's their job
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Beach Blanket Babylon cast member Caitlin McGinty,
singing during the 7th inning stretch of the playoff game
between the San Francisco Giants and the Washington NationalsBy Robert Knight - - Friday, October 10, 2014
If you're a regular consumer of news, you may be feeling what I'm feeling right now.
We're living in an age of insanity. Let's start with Ebola.
The virus is tragically consuming thousands of people in West Africa, and yet America is still accepting flights from the affected countries. After the first patient death in Texas, the Obama administration says it has gotten around to tightening procedures for monitoring passengers into five airports, including Washington Dulles International Airport.
The Washington Post editorialized Thursday against stopping the flights, even while admitting that passenger checks "are not foolproof," and "Ebola can incubate in a human for up to 21 days, and the infected person does not immediately show symptoms an infected person can go through multiple screenings without setting off alarms."
On CNN, Centers for Disease Control Director Thomas Freiden avoided answering whether a sneeze may put another person at risk. When pressed, he said, "If you're within three feet, that's a situation we'd want to be concerned about." Been in an airliner lately?
Well, let's trust that our ultra-effective Obamacare health bureaucracy can limit the damage when the victims fly all over the country. After all, the administration is doing such a great job of containment along the Mexican border.
Does anyone still think our government is acting sanely and doing what's best for us Americans?
You do? I hope you're right, but let's do a sanity reality check.
Would a sane government trade five Taliban terrorist leaders for an American soldier who went AWOL in Afghanistan?
Would a director of national intelligence (James R. Clapper) testify to Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood, whose surrogates have turned the Arab Spring into a bloody regional war, is a "largely secular" organization in Egypt?
Would the administration continue to define as "workplace violence" the slaughter of more than a dozen soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 by a militant Muslim yelling "Allahu akbar"?
How about the Army's top general (George Casey) observing, "as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse."
Really? How about a disgruntled recent convert to Islam entering his former workplace and beheading a woman — in Oklahoma?
For more insanity in high places, let's move on to the legal blitzkrieg against marriage laws, with the exception of a single sane judge in Louisiana.
With lightning speed, the federal judicial Borg has ordered a majority of states to ignore the clearly stated wishes of their citizens. As the Supreme Court yawns, black-robed tyrants below are ordering everyone to pretend that brideless or groomless weddings are really "marriages" — or else. Anyone not buying this fiction is a "hater."
Insanity is rearing its bizarre head in every corner of America. An Obama-Biden sticker on your car is a tip-off, unless you're in the Free Stuff Army or run an abortion clinic, in which case it makes perfect sense.
We just don't have enough people who are stoned, so states are rushing to legalize marijuana.
How about sports, the last redoubt of sanity? Well, mostly. The word "fan" is short for "fanatic."
Did you catch the "God Bless America" performance during the baseball playoff game between the Giants and Nationals in San Francisco? It was sung by a woman (pretty sure) from the cast of "Beach Blanket Babylon," who wore a huge dress and massive headpiece right out of a drag queen revue. Which is the whole point. Take something as American as apple pie and mock it, right in front of the children, like the inclusion of lewd dancing in last year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Some Frisco sports fans were ecstatic. A blog entry: "Loved the Giants rocking the Beach Blanket Babylon look for God Bless America. This ain't Kansas anymore, Toto." Another was delighted that Nationals slugger Bryce Harper "had the most sickened look on his face" during the performance. Perhaps Mr. Harper should have been fined for taking it out on Giant pitchers.
Another entry: "Too bad we couldn't save her for the Cards series. (Middle America would love her!)"
Yes, shocking "Middle America" is what the insane, leftist, perpetually adolescent culture is all about. When its proponents get into seats of power, they even walk around like crazed children with giant gavels.
In 1971, the British rock group The Kinks released an amazingly reactionary song, "Twentieth Century Man." It laments big government and the loss of civility, sanity and true art, and it works just as well in 2014:
It's the age of insanity
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem?
I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in gray
Got no privacy, got no liberty
Cos the twentieth-century people
Took it all away from me."
At some point, we need to acknowledge that people who appear to be clinically insane are running the culture and the government, and that we need to do something about it — starting in November.
In the meantime, prayers for our country could do wonders.
Robert Knight is a senior fellow for the American Civil Rights Union and a columnist for The Washington Times.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/10/knight-living-in-the-age-of-insanity/?page=3
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/12/joseph-curl-obama-now-phoning-it-in-literally/
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The White House minimizes the dangers posed by
Americans who leave to fight for ISIS
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/13/bruce-its-war-not-americas-most-wanted/
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Ferguson Protesters Swarm St. Louis Mall
To Scream About How Racist White People Are
(Holy Crap Wow, the level of stupid here is amazing... how many people? A dozen? Way to get your point across, pick some random mall and yell at the white people there about how "it's our duty to fight for our freedom." And while I'm at it, anyone know what "freedom" they are being denied?)https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NfGMLePa1as#t=39
Back at you, Ferguson nut-cases!!!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FATQ0ayQXsA#t=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1jjcxFGEysE#t=175
***Note: "Kumbaya, my Lord" was first recorded by an out-of-work English professor, Robert Winslow Gordon, in 1927. Gordon went on a search for black spirituals and recorded a song "Come by Here, My Lord", sung by H. Wylie. The song was sung in Gullah on the islands of South Carolina between Charleston and Beaufort. Gullah is the creole language featured in the Uncle Remus series of Joel Chandler Harris and the Walt Disney production of Song of the South. "Come by here, my Lord" in Gullah is "Kum by (h)yuh, my lawd."
American missionaries took the song to Angola after its publication in the 1930s, where its origins were forgotten. In the late 1950s the song was rediscovered in Angola and returned to North American where it swept the campfire circuit as a beautiful and mysterious religious lyric. That is why the song is associated with Angola in many current printed versions.
In the US, however, this song was associated with Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and other campers sitting around a campfire in perfect harmony. The picture of a warm, cozy community without conflict associated itself with the song and especially that foreign-sounding word in its title, Kumbaya. Since the word had no actual meaning in English, cynics eventually converted this harmless connotation into the actual English definition of the word. That definition now seems to be "naive, unrealistic optimism" to many, thanks to progressive liberals... (but not me)...Warph
Isn't that a lot like using a third candidate to split the vote?
We had that happen right here for Elk County Commissioner, didn't we?
By litterally using an Elk County citizen
an Elk Konnected County Commissioner
managed to get re-elected
didn't he?
Dick Morris: Democrats Using
'False Flag'
Plan to Steal Senate
Monday, 13 Oct 2014 10:41 PM
By Dick Morris
Failing to persuade voters to support their discredited agenda, Democrats are now determined to use a false flag strategy to advance their plan to steal a Senate majority this November.
Masquerading as independents in four key Senate races, Democratic candidates are embracing a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing tactic to fool voters into believing that they are not the party hack/Obama rubber stamps they truly are.
By pretending that they are Independents, they can take power and help Obama implement his plan to create a single ruling party government in the U.S.
I have been warning about Obama's plan in my new bestseller "Power Grab: Obama's Dangerous Plan for a One Party Nation."
As the Democratic campaigns unfold, my main thesis is backed up by the facts on the ground.
Were these "independent" Democrats true Independents, their presence in our national politics would be welcome. But they are not.
If elected, they would each meekly cast their ballots for Harry Reid to be Majority Leader and form a tame part of his bloc that controls the Senate.
In South Dakota, former Republican senator turned liberal Democrat Larry Pressler is running as an "independent" against former Governor Mike Rounds, the Republican candidate. The latest polling puts him only two points behind Rounds. Having served three terms as a GOP senator, Pressler backed Obama in 2008 and 2012 and supports Obamacare. His strategy is either to win or to take enough votes away from Rounds to elect Rick Weiland, the overt Democratic candidate. The South Dakota seat had been written off as a certain Republican pickup until Pressler implemented the false flag strategy.
In Kansas, Republican Pat Roberts was coasting to a fourth Senate term when Greg Orman jumped into the race as an independent. Orman, who voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, backs Obamacare, embraces the Democratic platform in toto, and actually tried to run before as a Democrat. But now he's an "Independent." The fact that George Soros' son is reportedly hosting a fundraiser for Orman should make clear he's no independent.
In North Carolina, Republican Thom Tillis is locked in a close battle against Democratic Senator Kay Hagan. The only reason the race is close in this state Mitt Romney carried in 2012 is the presence of Sean Haugh, a pizza delivery man running as the Libertarian Party candidate. Haugh draws between 4 and 8 percent of the vote, in various polls, but all of it comes from Tillis, the Republican candidate. Where is Haugh getting his support? His money? Ask the Democrats.
In Kentucky, Alison Lundergan Grimes -- running against Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell -- refuses to say if she voted for Obama in 2008 or 2012. Obviously, she did. And just as obviously, she is running away from it now. She says she will oppose Obama's war on coal, but, if elected, it is clear she will toe the party line as Reid demands.
The Democrats first used false flag strategy in Maine in 2012 when Governor Angus King, running as an Independent, took the Republican seat formerly occupied by Olympia Snowe.
Once in the Senate, all traces of independence vanished and he fell in line with the Democratic Caucus.
Indeed, Independent Senator Bernie Sanders told his Vermont voters that he, too, was not a Democrat. But at least Bernie had the guts to call himself what he really is -- a Socialist.
The new Democrat "Independents" have no such courage.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/democrats-independents-false-flag/2014/10/13/id/600475/?ns_mail_uid=7144240&ns_mail_job=1590293_10142014&s=al&dkt_nbr=odkssvuh
He sounded fishy to me in his first commercial.
In new York not in Kansas no less.
Son of George Soros
to Hold Fundraiser for 'Independent'
Kansas Senate Candidate
October 14, 2014 By Matthew Burke
Jonathan Soros, son of crony communist billionaire George Soros, will be holding a fundraiser on October 16, for supposed "independent" Kansas U.S. Senate candidate Greg Orman.
Greg Orman, who previously ran for office as a Democrat, is likely running as an "Independent" because the Democrat brand has been thoroughly tarnished by Democrat Party leaders like Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Orman is running what appears to be a tight race against Republican incumbent, Senator Pat Roberts, who has been blasting Orman as really being a liberal Democrat, who's given "thousands to Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid and to Barack Obama."
This week Roberts was endorsed by a major Tea Party group, Tea Party Express, stating that, "This election isn't about one issue or one candidate. It's about rejecting the failed vision of President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid."
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http://www.tpnn.com/2014/10/14/son-of-george-soros-to-hold-fundraiser-for-independent-kansas-senate-candidate/
I just can't help myself,
I gotta post this.
It's what we need here.
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'You will not make Australia home'
Australia may be sitting out in the middle of the ocean, but that doesn't mean they don't have to deal with illegal immigration. They might not have a corrupt, train wreck of a country like Mexico nestled against their southern border but, in some ways, they have a bigger problem. Much of their large continent is unpopulated, and both its interior and coastline are difficult to patrol.
Numerically, their illegal immigrant problem is relatively tiny. Compared to the 12 million illegals in the United States, Australia's 100,000 illegal workers (as of 2010) might seem like a dream scenario. Still, the Australian government isn't having it. The country has avenues for legal immigration as well as a way to offer asylum to those who genuinely need it - so they've launched a campaign to inform those who would sneak in via boat that they aren't welcome.
The campaign launched earlier this year, but today it's been getting attention here in the states thanks to Twitchy Here's the message from General Angus Campbell of the Australian army:
( I can not get the video to show on this post. The video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BypuBsE_Eq8 and is an excellent piece of work.)Funny. I didn't hear the words "pathway to citizenship" or "amnesty" once! He never said a thing about letting people "out of the shadows!" I wonder if the Australian version of the
USDA is working with foreign governments to make sure illegals get food stamps?
The corresponding poster:(http://static.caintv.com/ae298e5e43OzPo.jpg)
Gosh. Seems pretty stark. I wonder how it compares to illegal immigration advertising here in the U.S.? Oh, that's right. Here, we're actually advertising in Mexico so that self-deported illegals will know we'd love nothing more than to see them come back.
As Breibart reported:
As part of a legal settlement that will allow some illegal immigrants who deported themselves from Southern California to return to the United States, the federal government has agreed to advertise the settlement on various Mexican and Spanish-language media outlets.
The ACLU filed a class-action lawsuit last year on behalf of eleven illegal immigrants who deported themselves. The settlement reached on Wednesday will only cover "longtime California residents with relatives who are U.S. citizens and... young migrants whose parents brought them into the country illegally" who deported themselves between 2009 and 2013. An ACLU official has indicated that there were nearly 250,000 people who were "deported voluntarily from Southern California between 2009 and 2013" and estimated to the Los Angeles Times that the "number of repatriations could reach into the hundreds or thousands."
So, yeah. The Australian approach is a little bit different.
http://www.caintv.com/enjoy-australias-tough-as-nail
'Origami' condoms, Michelle Obama gardening games and poop-throwing chimps: NIH spent millions on wacky projects but now complains cuts killed off Ebola vaccine research
•The NIH budget included $2.4 million for a new condom design whose inventor is now being investigated for fraud
•Another $939,000 taught scientists that male fruit flies prefer younger females
•$257,000 went to create a companion website for first lady Michelle Obama's White House garden
•It cost $592,000 to determine that chimpanzees with the best poop-flinging skills are also the best communicators, and another $117,000 to learn that most chimps are right-handed
•NIH director Dr. Francis Collins complained Sunday that a lack of funding is behind his agency's failure to produce an Ebola vaccine in time to combat this year's epidemic
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor for MailOnline
Published: 22:24 EST, 13 October 2014 | Updated: 08:43 EST, 14 October 2014
The $30 billion U.S. National Institutes of Health blamed tightening federal budgets on Monday for its inability to produce an Ebola vaccine, but a review of its grant-making history in the last 10 years has turned up highly unusual research that redirected precious funds away from more conventional public health projects.
The projects included $2.4 million to develop 'origami' condoms designed with Japanese folding paper in mind, and $939,000 to find out that male fruit flies prefer to romance younger females because the girl-flies' hormone levels drop over time.
Other winners of NIH grants consumed $325,000 to learn that marriages are happier when wives calm down more quickly during arguments with their husbands, and $257,000 to make an online game as a companion to first lady Michelle Obama's White House garden.
The agency also spent $117,000 in taxpayers' grant dollars to discover that most chimpanzees are right-handed.
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No southpaws: The NIH spent more than $700,000 to find out that most chimps are right-handed, and that those with the best communications skills are also the best poop-flingers
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NIH chief Dr. Francis Collins said a lack of research dollars in the past decade has hampered the search for an Ebola vaccine – but his budgets are higher now and NIH already funds some unconventional stuff
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'Virtual Sprouts' is a 'web-based gardening game' based on first lady Michelle Obama's White House garden; the quarter-million-dollar project is aimed at teaching nutrition and fighting obesityThe same group of scientists determined, at a cost of $592,000 for NIH, that chimps with the best poop-throwing skills are also the best communicators. But while flinging feces might get another primate's attention in the wild, they discovered, it's not much good in captivity.
'I've never in my life seen a chimp be given a banana for throwing s**t at someone,' Emory University psychologist Bill Hopkins told Wired magazine.
The marital-argument research, conducted at Stanford and Northwestern Universities, involved 82 couples and found that when wives 'downregulated' their negative emotions during a spat, both partners had 'greater marital satisfaction over time.' Not so for men who held their tongues, however.
Part of a $666,000 NIH grant supported a University of Buffalo researcher who determined that watching sitcom reruns like 'Seinfeld' or re-watching old movies helps older people feel re-connected with pseudo-friends from their past.
Another outlay of $181,000 went to University of Kentucky researchers who studied how cocaine use 'enhanced' the sex drive of the Japanese quail.
The researchers' website explains that they chose the birds because they 'readily engage in reproductive behavior in the laboratory' and 'provide a convenient and interesting alternative to standard laboratory rats and pigeons.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2791744/origami-condoms-michelle-obama-gardening-games-poop-throwing-chimps-national-institutes-health-cried-poor-ebola-money-wacky-research.html#ixzz3GANPdOZT
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"Oh yeah? ...It is my contention nothing political IS correct!"
It is my contention that political correctness has so deeply infiltrated American society that it has affected our approach to defending ourselves against Islamic terrorism, deadly epidemics and even presidential assassins.
In the past, AIDS, which, in spite of the massive publicity campaign waged by the homosexual community, was never a great threat to heterosexuals – unless, of course, they were the really cheap and stupid drug addicts who shared hypodermic needles -- nobody in public life ever had the guts to suggest that those with the disease be quarantined.
Today, because those spreading Ebola are West Africans, nobody has the gumption to suggest curtailing flights from that part of the world to America, lest we be accused of being a nation of racists. At the same time, if the epidemic was centered in Scandinavia and we stopped all incoming flights from Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen, I very much doubt if we would be condemned for practicing blondophobia.
The other major export from that particularly noxious part of the world is Islamic terrorism. Again, we are so frightened of appearances when it comes to Arabs and Muslims that we refuse to engage in racial profiling (which is otherwise known as being rational in a world in which 90% of the violence is committed by young males named Mohammad who look a great deal like Osama bin Laden) or to even risk referring to "Islamic terrorism" as such, preferring to pass it off as "workplace violence."
That brings us to Omar Gonzalez, who hopped the Pennsylvania Avenue fence and made it all the way into the White House while carrying a knife before being brought down and disarmed. Although as my friend Ron Kessler has made clear in his books about the Secret Service, there has been a recent history of dangerous cost-cutting by a number of Service chiefs, I have my own theory as to the reason security broke down so dramatically in this case. I believe the agents spotted a Hispanic racing across the White House lawn, and instead of expecting commendations for shooting him, they envisioned being brought up before a congressional committee of political opportunists and facing trumped-up charges for over-reacting to a potential threat.
Speaking of Ron Kessler, in his latest book, "The First Family Detail," he reports that even though they both insist they're conservative cost-cutters and always having the American taxpayer foremost in mind, whenever Ted Cruz or Rand Paul shows up for an interview at Fox, they are invariably accompanied by an entourage of five or six aides, although the customary number of toadies, even when it comes to liberal lawmakers, is no more than two.
That is why I have come to believe that no matter how much Republicans may talk about cutting the size and cost of the federal government, they're really only talking about when the Democrats are in charge. Besides, it goes entirely against human nature – and, all evidence to the contrary, politicians are human beings – for any politician to ever crave less power or fewer fawning acolytes on the payroll than his or her predecessor.
To absolutely nobody's surprise, the Government Accountability Institute recently disclosed that over the past two years Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of the daily intelligence briefings. But that didn't stop him from blaming Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for his being left in the dark about the imminent threat from ISIL.
Not that long ago, Obama had labeled the cutthroats a bunch of nobodies who thought that if they donned the uniforms of the L.A. Lakers, it would turn them into the Lakers when, as Obama cockily assured us, they were no more than a junior varsity squad. As it turned out, they proved that they could teach Kobe Bryant and the rest of the Lakers a little something about playing offense. Of course it always helps when the other team – in this case the very Iraqi military that we had spent years and a bloody fortune training and arming – ran off the court while ripping off their uniforms.
The fact that Obama paid absolutely no attention to the facts supplied on a daily basis by U.S. Intelligence was typical of His Arrogance, and it certainly didn't prevent him from casting Mr. Clapper in the role of every lazy student's favorite scapegoat, the dog with an insatiable appetite for homework
Are they trying to spread the disease?
Ebola Patient
OK
to Fly
With Slight Fever
Wednesday, 15 Oct 2014 10:03 PM
By Todd Beamon
A second Dallas nurse who has been diagnosed with Ebola was allowed to travel on Monday with a slight fever by federal health officials, according to news reports.
Amber Vinson, 29, who was flown to Atlanta for treatment on Wednesday, notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before she boarded a plane to Cleveland because of her fever, Dallas NBC affiliate NBCDFW-TV5 reported.
"Vinson was not told that she could not fly," a person only identified in the report as a "federal government spokesperson" told the station.
Vinson, who was diagnosed with the disease on Tuesday, had been monitoring her health and reporting her temperature to CDC epidemiology teams routinely, according to the report.
Read more at:
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/fever-Ebola-CDC-patient/2014/10/15/id/601000/
Rip Van Whitey Part #9
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Factory "guard"
As Rip stared at the machine, trying to divine its inner workings, the man to his right leaned over and whispered, "Need some help?"
"If you would be so kind," Rip responded, bashfully.
The man extended a hand. "RedStater. RedStater Knickerbocker. But you can call me Red."
Rip looked fearfully at the proctor, then, not wanting to be rude, shook the man's hand. "Rip Van Whitey," he said.
"Pleasure to make your acquaintance, Rip," RedStater replied. Red then proceeded to assist Rip with getting his pieces of cloth in order and demonstrated the use of the sewing machine.
"You're not from around here, are you, Rip?" Red finally asked.
"Uh, no...no I'm not." He looked at the proctors again, then enquired secretively: "What is going on here, anyway?"
"It's a long story, Rip...but we've got nothing but time, now, do we?" And with that, Red launched into a detailed history of his experiences in this strange land—how he was a precocious child and the darling of the Indoctrinators until he began to question their preachings; how this consigned him to a life of labor in The Factory; how he believes most others feel as he does, but are too fearful to protest in front of the proctors; how he seethes at the opulence and decadence of Glitterati Hills, which he sees every so often when he is tasked to deliver goods there—
"Wait—'Glitterati Hills' you say?" interrupted Rip. "I've heard of that. I thought it was a dream, but now I'm not so sure that those men weren't real, and their words weren't the truth..."
And with that, it was Rip's turn to chew his neighbor's ear off, and he launched into recounting his tale of his hike into the Catskills, the young dandy with the keg, the flagons of gin, the game of stickball, and the distinguished old man's now-not-so-inscrutable monologue.
"So, wait...there were all-white nations, and they were civilized?" marveled an incredulous Red.
"Not only civilized, but wildly successful. For example, have you heard of television?"
Red shook his head.
"Telephones? Microwave ovens? Automobiles? Airplanes? The internet? Nuclear energy? Genetic engineering? Engineering? Calculus? Theoretical physics? Zoology? Newton? Einstein? Tesla? Da Vinci? Aristotle? Michelangelo?"
On and on Rip went, and with each noun, Red would shake his head, signaling his ignorance.
"The moon, Red—do you know of the moon?"
"Why yes—that I know of!" exclaimed Red, happy to finally hear a word uttered by this strange old man with which he was familiar.
"Do you know that we walked on its face? We—we whites—we used slide rules and mechanical pencils and hammers and wrenches and we built a rocket ship and a lunar module and a rover and we walked upon the face of the moon...and then brought those men back safely to earth!"
"Now you're just messing with me," said Red slyly.
"No, it's true; I swear upon all things holy it's true. And not only there, but beyond—to other planets, beyond our solar system even!"
"But how were such amazing things possible without diversity?"
"I'm beginning to suspect," whispered Rip, as quietly as possible, "That it was not in spite of a lack of 'diversity', but because of it, that we were so successful."
Red's eyes widened as saucers as a mischievous grin spread across his face. "Heresy..."
They were interrupted by a scream from behind them. Craning their necks, they saw a pretty blond proctor being dragged by the hair into a corner by one of the "guards".
"My dear, what's happening?" Rip asked, alarmed.
They watched as the guard threw the proctor to the ground, tore her dress from her legs, and began to fish his penis out of his sagging pants.
"Looks like one of the guards is horny," Red sighed nonchalantly.
"Well, shouldn't we do something? I mean, he's going to rape her, isn't he?"
"Eh, what can you do..."
Rip was flabbergasted at Red's insouciance, and disheartened to see it was shared by everyone else in the room. The other "guards" barely even stirred from their slumber, and the proctors did nothing but continue to heckle the workers, acting as if nothing was going on behind them; that the screams from the poor woman were mere background noise.
"Well, this simply will not do," Rip declared, arising from his seat and marching to the corner where the rape was unfolding.
Red tried to stop him, but to no avail. He remained seated, but watched the proceedings intently.
Once at the scene of the crime in progress, Rip wondered what on earth he would do next. The beast who was raping the woman was a hulking mass of muscular black flesh, undulating upon the petite blond with testosterone-fueled fury. Surely a physical confrontation was out of the question; and Rip had, at long last, realized reason was beyond the reach of such an individual.
It was then that he saw, tucked into the perp's white underdrawers, the most dangerous and detestable of all machines ever invented by the mind of man: a gun. In saner times he would have run to the police and reported the discovery, but clearly there were no police to be found in this new and awful place. And perhaps he would have been plagued with doubt and misgivings by so much as considering utilizing that machine, were he even considering it. But he was not considering it; time was too short, and poor old Rip too emotionally discharged, to allow for anything resembling critical reflection upon what the situation demanded. Instead, he did something he never did before in the entirety of his long, pathetic life: He embraced his newly found righteous rage, and his burning thirst for justice, and grabbed the gun.To be continued...
Way To Treat Our Veterans isn't it?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/uncovering-secret-chemical-weapon-victims-iraq-war/
Here is an extra for you.
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Dear Comrades,
The USSA's Center for Disease and Gun Control has announced that the State will not impose any travel restrictions due to the Ebola outbreak until after the November 4 elections to ensure that all workers and peasants can have free access to ballots and polling places during this critical struggle for Progress.
Comrade Disease Director Thomas Frieden has declared that Ebola is only 'semi-transmittable' and therefore only official Party-certified doctors can actually impose quarantines on an as-needed basis. In the meantime, those who believe they are exhibiting symptoms, while not contagious until after the November 2 elections, are asked to remain at home because of the possibility they may intimidate women and minorities into not voting.
State hospitals are required to provide full healthcare benefits to any patients who report to them complaining of Ebola, which the Party knows will show the Power of Collective Medicine and the need to end the bourgeois practice of private hospitals. The necessity of Obamacare will shine out as this disease, largely spread through contact with Republicans, will be trounced through centralized medicine under State leadership.
In the meantime, citizens are encouraged not to worry about the disease, or any of the other diseases which may or may not be spreading in the USSA. Party members opting to not vaccinate their children are still encouraged to fully participate in the political process and continue their labors for the Progress of Socialism, including attendance at fundraising dinners.
Citizens are encouraged to keep healthy through diet and sexual activity with one's self or others."Ebola will not stand in the way of your vote, Comrades! Turn out for the November 4 vote, our own October Revolution!"!
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President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order today making November 4, 2014 a National Day of Quarantine for those Americans who are most at risk of contracting the Ebola virus.
"You cannot get Ebola through casual contact like sitting next to someone on a bus," the President said in a press conference shortly after signing the Executive Order. "However you can catch it while waiting in line to vote."
The Executive Order only applies to registered Republicans who are currently less likely to be receiving government provided healthcare and are therefore more susceptible to catching Ebola.
The quarantine will go into effect at midnight on November 3rd and will last until the polls close on November 4th. Republicans will be allowed to move freely throughout society so long as they do not come with 1000 feet of a polling booth. Many government agencies have been well armed over the past six years and will be mobilized on election day to enforce the quarantine.
Before leaving for a relaxing round of golf, the President concluded his press conference by reassuring the American people that they will have a safe Election Day. "Although we have had our disagreements, I more than anyone want Republicans to survive. Perhaps not as a political party, but as the taxpayers of our great nation."(http://thepeoplescube.com/red/download/file.php?mode=view&id=32118)
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Nobel Peace Prize controversy: Hillary not nominated despite having done even less than Obama to deserve it
Obama: 'Ebola is the JV of viruses'
BREAKING: Secret Service foils Secret Service plot to protect Obama
Revised 1st Amendment: buy one speech, get the second free
Sharpton calls on white NFL players to beat their women in the interests of racial fairness
President Obama appoints his weekly approval poll as new national security adviser
Obama wags pen and phone at Putin; Europe offers support with powerful pens and phones from NATO members
White House pledges to embarrass ISIS back to the Stone Age with a barrage of fearsome Twitter messages and fatally ironic Instagram photos
Obama to fight ISIS with new federal Terrorist Regulatory Agency
Obama vows ISIS will never raise their flag over the eighteenth hole
Harry Reid: "Sometimes I say the wong thing"
Elian Gonzalez wishes he had come to the U.S. on a bus from Central America like all the other kids
Obama visits US-Mexican border, calls for a two-state solution
Obama draws "blue line" in Iraq after Putin took away his red crayon
"Hard Choices," a porno flick loosely based on Hillary Clinton's memoir and starring Hillary Hellfire as a drinking, whoring Secretary of State, wildly outsells the flabby, sagging original
Accusations of siding with the enemy leave Sgt. Bergdahl with only two options: pursue a doctorate at Berkley or become a Senator from Massachusetts
Jay Carney stuck in line behind Eric Shinseki to leave the White House; estimated wait time from 15 min to 6 weeks
100% of scientists agree that if man-made global warming were real, "the last people we'd want to help us is the Obama administration"
Jay Carney says he found out that Obama found out that he found out that Obama found out that he found out about the latest Obama administration scandal on the news
"Anarchy Now!" meeting turns into riot over points of order, bylaws, and whether or not 'kicking the #^@&*! ass' of the person trying to speak is or is not violence
Obama retaliates against Putin by prohibiting unionized federal employees from dating hot Russian girls online during work hours
Russian separatists in Ukraine riot over an offensive YouTube video showing the toppling of Lenin statues
"Free Speech Zones" confuse Obamaphone owners who roam streets in search of additional air minutes
Obamacare bolsters employment for professionals with skills to convert meth back into sudafed
Gloves finally off: Obama uses pen and phone to cancel Putin's Netflix account
Joe Biden to Russia: "We will bury you by turning more of Eastern Europe over to your control!"
In last-ditch effort to help Ukraine, Obama deploys Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jackson's Rainbow Coalition to Crimea
Al Sharpton: "Not even Putin can withstand our signature chanting, 'racist, sexist, anti-gay, Russian army go away'!"
Mardi Gras in North Korea: "Throw me some food!"
Obama's foreign policy works: "War, invasion, and conquest are signs of weakness; we've got Putin right where we want him"
US offers military solution to Ukraine crisis: "We will only fight countries that have LGBT military"
Putin annexes Brighton Beach to protect ethnic Russians in Brooklyn, Obama appeals to UN and EU for help
The 1980s: "Mr. Obama, we're just calling to ask if you want our foreign policy back. The 1970s are right here with us, and they're wondering, too."
In a stunning act of defiance, Obama courageously unfriends Putin on Facebook
MSNBC: Obama secures alliance with Austro-Hungarian Empire against Russia's aggression in Ukraine
Study: springbreak is to STDs what April 15th is to accountants
Efforts to achieve moisture justice for California thwarted by unfair redistribution of snow in America
North Korean voters unanimous: "We are the 100%"
Leader of authoritarian gulag-site, The People's Cube, unanimously 're-elected' with 100% voter turnout
Super Bowl: Obama blames Fox News for Broncos' loss
Feminist author slams gay marriage: "a man needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle"
Beverly Hills campaign heats up between Henry Waxman and Marianne Williamson over the widening income gap between millionaires and billionaires in their district
Biden to lower $10,000-a-plate Dinner For The Homeless to $5,000 so more homeless can attend
Kim becomes world leader, feeds uncle to dogs; Obama eats dogs, becomes world leader, America cries uncle
North Korean leader executes own uncle for talking about Obamacare at family Christmas party
White House hires part-time schizophrenic Mandela sign interpreter to help sell Obamacare
Kim Jong Un executes own "crazy uncle" to keep him from ruining another family Christmas
OFA admits its advice for area activists to give Obamacare Talk at shooting ranges was a bad idea
President resolves Obamacare debacle with executive order declaring all Americans equally healthy
Obama to Iran: "If you like your nuclear program, you can keep your nuclear program"
Bovine community outraged by flatulence coming from Washington DC
Obama: "I'm not particularly ideological; I believe in a good pragmatic five-year plan"
Shocker: Obama had no knowledge he'd been reelected until he read about it in the local newspaper last week
Server problems at HealthCare.gov so bad, it now flashes 'Error 808' message
NSA marks National Best Friend Day with official announcement: "Government is your best friend; we know you like no one else, we're always there, we're always willing to listen"
Al Qaeda cancels attack on USA citing launch of Obamacare as devastating enough
The President's latest talking point on Obamacare: "I didn't build that"
Dizzy with success, Obama renames his wildly popular healthcare mandate to HillaryCare
Carney: huge ObamaCare deductibles won't look as bad come hyperinflation
Washington Redskins drop 'Washington' from their name as offensive to most Americans
Poll: 83% of Americans favor cowboy diplomacy over rodeo clown diplomacy
GOVERNMENT WARNING: If you were able to complete ObamaCare form online, it wasn't a legitimate gov't website; you should report online fraud and change all your passwords
Obama administration gets serious, threatens Syria with ObamaCare
Obama authorizes the use of Vice President Joe Biden's double-barrel shotgun to fire a couple of blasts at Syria
Sharpton: "British royals should have named baby 'Trayvon.' By choosing 'George' they sided with white Hispanic racist Zimmerman"
DNC launches 'Carlos Danger' action figure; proceeds to fund a charity helping survivors of the Republican War on Women
Nancy Pelosi extends abortion rights to the birds and the bees
Hubble discovers planetary drift to the left
Obama: 'If I had a daughter-in-law, she would look like Rachael Jeantel'
FISA court rubberstamps statement denying its portrayal as government's rubber stamp
Every time ObamaCare gets delayed, a Julia somewhere dies
GOP to Schumer: 'Force full implementation of ObamaCare before 2014 or Dems will never win another election'
Obama: 'If I had a son... no, wait, my daughter can now marry a woman!'
Janet Napolitano: TSA findings reveal that since none of the hijackers were babies, elderly, or Tea Partiers, 9/11 was not an act of terrorism
News Flash: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) can see Canada from South Dakota
Susan Rice: IRS actions against tea parties caused by anti-tax YouTube video that was insulting to their faith
Drudge Report reduces font to fit all White House scandals onto one page
Obama: the IRS is a constitutional right, just like the Second Amendment
White House: top Obama officials using secret email accounts a result of bad IT advice to avoid spam mail from Nigeria
Jay Carney to critics: 'Pinocchio never said anything inconsistent'
Obama: If I had a gay son, he'd look like Jason Collins
Gosnell's office in Benghazi raided by the IRS: mainstream media's worst cover-up challenge to date
IRS targeting pro-gay-marriage LGBT groups leads to gayest tax revolt in U.S. history
After Arlington Cemetery rejects offer to bury Boston bomber, Westboro Babtist Church steps up with premium front lawn plot
Boston: Obama Administration to reclassify marathon bombing as 'sportsplace violence'
Study: Success has many fathers but failure becomes a government program
US Media: Can Pope Francis possibly clear up Vatican bureaucracy and banking without blaming the previous administration?
Michelle Obama praises weekend rampage by Chicago teens as good way to burn calories and stay healthy
This Passover, Obama urges his subjects to paint lamb's blood above doors in order to avoid the Sequester
White House to American children: Sequester causes layoffs among hens that lay Easter eggs; union-wage Easter Bunnies to be replaced by Mexican Chupacabras
Time Mag names Hugo Chavez world's sexiest corpse
Boy, 8, pretends banana is gun, makes daring escape from school
Study: Free lunches overpriced, lack nutrition
Oscars 2015: Michelle Obama announces long-awaited merger of Hollywood and the State
Joe Salazar defends the right of women to be raped in gun-free environment: 'rapists and rapees should work together to prevent gun violence for the common good'
Dept. of Health and Human Services eliminates rape by reclassifying assailants as 'undocumented sex partners'
Kremlin puts out warning not to photoshop Putin riding meteor unless bare-chested
Deeming football too violent, Obama moves to introduce Super Drone Sundays instead
Japan offers to extend nuclear umbrella to cover U.S. should America suffer devastating attack on its own defense spending
Feminists organize one billion women to protest male oppression with one billion lap dances
Urban community protests Mayor Bloomberg's ban on extra-large pop singers owning assault weapons
Concerned with mounting death toll, Taliban offers to send peacekeeping advisers to Chicago
Karl Rove puts an end to Tea Party with new 'Republicans For Democrats' strategy aimed at losing elections
FACT: Every time Obama talks about hope, coma patients regain consciousness and chant "We are the ones we´ve been waiting for."
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Answering public skepticism, President Obama authorizes unlimited drone attacks on all skeet targets throughout the country
Skeet Ulrich denies claims he had been shot by President but considers changing his name to 'Traps'
White House releases new exciting photos of Obama standing, sitting, looking thoughtful, and even breathing in and out
New York Times hacked by Chinese government, Paul Krugman's economic policies stolen
White House: when President shoots skeet, he donates the meat to food banks that feed the middle class
To prove he is serious, Obama eliminates armed guard protection for President, Vice-President, and their families; establishes Gun-Free Zones around them instead
State Dept to send 100,000 American college students to China as security for US debt obligations
Jay Carney: Al Qaeda is on the run, they're just running forward
President issues executive orders banning cliffs, ceilings, obstructions, statistics, and other notions that prevent us from moving forwards and upward
Fearing the worst, Obama Administration outlaws the fan to prevent it from being hit by certain objects
World ends; S&P soars
Riddle of universe solved; answer not understood
Meek inherit Earth, can't afford estate taxes
Greece abandons Euro; accountants find Greece has no Euros anyway
Wheel finally reinvented; axles to be gradually reinvented in 3rd quarter of 2013
Bigfoot found in Ohio, mysteriously not voting for Obama
As Santa's workshop files for bankruptcy, Fed offers bailout in exchange for control of 'naughty and nice' list
Freak flying pig accident causes bacon to fly off shelves
Obama: green economy likely to transform America into a leading third world country of the new millennium
Report: President Obama to visit the United States in the near future
Obama promises to create thousands more economically neutral jobs
Modernizing Islam: New York imam proposes to canonize Saul Alinsky as religion's latter day prophet
Imam Rauf's peaceful solution: 'Move Ground Zero a few blocks away from the mosque and no one gets hurt'
Study: Obama's threat to burn tax money in Washington 'recruitment bonanza' for Tea Parties
Study: no Social Security reform will be needed if gov't raises retirement age to at least 814 years
Obama attends church service, worships self
Obama proposes national 'Win The Future' lottery; proceeds of new WTF Powerball to finance more gov't spending
Historical revisionists: "Hey, you never know"
Vice President Biden: criticizing Egypt is un-pharaoh
Israelis to Egyptian rioters: "don't damage the pyramids, we will not rebuild"
Lake Superior renamed Lake Inferior in spirit of tolerance and inclusiveness
Al Gore: It's a shame that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of polar bears
Michael Moore: As long as there is anyone with money to shake down, this country is not broke
Obama's teleprompters unionize, demand collective bargaining rights
Obama calls new taxes 'spending reductions in tax code.' Elsewhere rapists tout 'consent reductions in sexual intercourse'
Obama's teleprompter unhappy with White House Twitter: "Too few words"
Obama's Regulation Reduction committee finds US Constitution to be expensive outdated framework inefficiently regulating federal gov't
Taking a page from the Reagan years, Obama announces new era of Perestroika and Glasnost
Responding to Oslo shootings, Obama declares Christianity "Religion of Peace," praises "moderate Christians," promises to send one into space
Republicans block Obama's $420 billion program to give American families free charms that ward off economic bad luck
White House to impose Chimney tax on Santa Claus
Obama decrees the economy is not soaring as much as previously decreeed
Conservative think tank introduces children to capitalism with pop-up picture book "The Road to Smurfdom"
Al Gore proposes to combat Global Warming by extracting silver linings from clouds in Earth's atmosphere
Obama refutes charges of him being unresponsive to people's suffering: "When you pray to God, do you always hear a response?"
Obama regrets the US government didn't provide his mother with free contraceptives when she was in college
Fluke to Congress: drill, baby, drill!
Planned Parenthood introduces Frequent Flucker reward card: 'Come again soon!'
Obama to tornado victims: 'We inherited this weather from the previous administration'
Obama congratulates Putin on Chicago-style election outcome
People's Cube gives itself Hero of Socialist Labor medal in recognition of continued expert advice provided to the Obama Administration helping to shape its foreign and domestic policies
Hamas: Israeli air defense unfair to 99% of our missiles, "only 1% allowed to reach Israel"
Democrat strategist: without government supervision, women would have never evolved into humans
Voters Without Borders oppose Texas new voter ID law
Enraged by accusation that they are doing Obama's bidding, media leaders demand instructions from White House on how to respond
Obama blames previous Olympics for failure to win at this Olympics
Official: China plans to land on Moon or at least on cheap knockoff thereof
Koran-Contra: Obama secretly arms Syrian rebels
Poll: Progressive slogan 'We should be more like Europe' most popular with members of American Nazi Party
Obama to Evangelicals: Jesus saves, I just spend
May Day: Anarchists plan, schedule, synchronize, and execute a coordinated campaign against all of the above
Midwestern farmers hooked on new erotic novel "50 Shades of Hay"
Study: 99% of Liberals give the rest a bad name
Obama meets with Jewish leaders, proposes deeper circumcisions for the rich
Historians: Before HOPE & CHANGE there was HEMP & CHOOM at ten bucks a bag
Cancer once again fails to cure Venezuela of its "President for Life"
Tragic spelling error causes Muslim protesters to burn local boob-tube factory
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu: due to energy conservation, the light at the end of the tunnel will be switched off
Obama Administration running food stamps across the border with Mexico in an operation code-named "Fat And Furious"
Pakistan explodes in protest over new Adobe Acrobat update; 17 local acrobats killed
White House: "Let them eat statistics"
Special Ops: if Benedict Arnold had a son, he would look like Barack Obama
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Ebola: Is bushmeat behind the outbreak?
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29604204
Bushmeat is believed to be the origin of the current Ebola outbreak. The first victim's family hunted bats, which carry the virus. Could the practice of eating bushmeat, which is popular across Africa, be responsible for the current crisis? (Hunting and eating virus-ridden bats is a bad idea,... who knew?)
BushMeat:
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Cooked or smoked bushmeat is not usually harmful
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Rats
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Fruit Bats...
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More than 100,000 bats are thought to be eaten in Ghana each year
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Fruit bats are believed to be a major carrier of the Ebola virus but they do not show symptoms
Bushmeat is believed to be the origin of the current Ebola outbreak. The first victim's family hunted bats, which carry the virus. Could the practice of eating bushmeat, which is popular across Africa, be responsible for the current crisis?
The origin has been traced to a two-year-old child from the village of Gueckedou in south-eastern Guinea, an area where batmeat is frequently hunted and eaten.
The infant, dubbed Child Zero, died on 6 December 2013. The child's family stated they had hunted two species of bat which carry the Ebola virus.
Bushmeat or wild animal meat covers any animal that is killed for consumption, principally chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats and monkeys. It can even include porcupines, rats and snakes.
In some remote areas it is a necessary source of food – in others it has become a delicacy.
In Africa's Congo Basin, people eat an estimated five million tonnes of bushmeat per year, according to the Centre of International Forestry Research.
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Terror Attack In Canada:
Radical Islamist Hits Two Canadian Soldiers With His Car
Before Being Shot Dead By Police
(Here in America we call this "workplace violence.")
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/world/americas/in-canada-terrorism-concerns-arise-after-car-hits-2-in-military.html?_r=0
MONTREAL (AP) — A man who was shot and killed by police after he struck two members of the Canadian military with his car Monday in a city near Montreal had become influenced by radical Islam, an official familiar with the case said.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesman David Falls said the suspect "was known to Federal authorities" and "authorities were concerned that he had become radicalized."
An official familiar with the case identified the suspect as Martin Couture Rouleau, 25, of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, and said he was influenced by radical Islamists. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
Quebec police shot the man after two members of the military were struck by the motorist in a parking lot mall near Montreal. The suspect died a few hours after being shot.
Quebec provincial police Lt. Michel Brunet said earlier that police ended up shooting the man after a car chase in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, about 26 miles (42 kilometers) southeast of Montreal. After the man hit the two soldiers, he fled the scene in his vehicle, triggering a police chase that ended with the man losing control and his car rolling over several times.
Brunet said the man exited the car and was shot. He said they found a knife on the ground but he could not say if he had it in his hand when police fired their weapons. Television images showed a large knife in the grass near his flipped over car.
Police said one of the soldiers was seriously injured, while the other's injuries were less serious. Brunet said he didn't know if the soldiers were wearing uniforms at the time they were struck.
Rip Van Whitey, Part 10 - Final Chapter
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Freedom!
Realizing his gun was missing, the guard turned around and snarled at Rip with all the ferocity of a wild animal. Relying on instinct (and the training of many a violent movie), Rip leveled the gun at the guard's head and squeezed the trigger, splattering his gnarled and negligible brains against the cinderblock wall. His now lifeless body slumped like an anchor upon the blond below him, pinning her flailing body.
Expecting a welcome cry of gratitude, Rip was astonished to find the victim now screaming at him. "YOU KILLED HIM, YOU HATE-FILLED NEO-NAZI RACIST! IT WAS YOUR FAULT HE WAS RAPING ME! YOUR WHITE PRIVILEGE MADE HIM DO IT! OPPRESSION! MICRO-AGGRESSIONS! LEGACY OF SLAVERY! JIM CROW! RA-"
The gun in Rip's hand issued another blasting report as the proctor's blond head exploded in a fine red pomegranate mist. Her insane carping immediately ceased.
There was a commotion behind him. Rip turned around to see the other guards scurrying out of their lounges, squaring off against him at the opposite side of the factory floor, drawing their motley array of weaponry toward him. The white workers, realizing they were in the line of fire, all ducked below their workbenches.
Rip didn't know what to do, but he felt strangely confident in this turn of events. He realized, for the first time in his life, what it was to be a man: staring down death, his body trembling with fear and adrenaline, and his awakened spirit welcoming all of it.
The guards screamed various orders, half of which contradicted each other, and none of which made any sense given the circumstance. Rip paid attention to none of it, and simply raised his weapon toward them. Screaming ensued as they ran for cover, while simultaneously opening fire—some with revolvers, others with rifles, still others with fully automatic machine guns.
Having dropped all pretenses that competence was equally distributed amongst the races, Rip saw clearly what would transpire: The idiotic guards would expire their ammunition in a frantic spraying of bullets, with the likelihood of contact with Rip near zero. So Rip decided to stand where he was, perfectly still, without firing a shot, and simply bide his time.
The guards ducked behinds desks and lounges and whatever they could find, firing their guns helter-skelter around the room—just as Rip predicted. And, just as he predicted, they soon were out of ammo. It was then that Rip began his casual walk up to each guard, one by one, summarily executing them. After he felled a few, the remainder realized what their fates would be if they stuck around, and so bolted for the exits. They did not get too far, though—Rip, though aged, was still spry enough to give them chase and gun them down in their tracks.
Upon re-entering the factory through the shredded tarp, with the smell of gunpowder hanging heavy in the air and ears ringing, Rip was greeted by looks of hushed astonishment from the white workers. Some were frightened, but many more appeared joyous—hopeful, even. The proctors looked around at the bloody mess with horror, and at Rip with dread. Were they next?
This newly minted Rip, with his courage and sober discernment, quickly assessed the situation and came to realize another novelty in this new life of his: Here he stood in a position of power, where the meek loved him and the evil feared him. What was this called but leadership? And so as a leader—however unexpected and perhaps undeserving he may have been of such a designation—he decided he must lead. And leading begins with stating a clear and unequivocal goal.
Summoning his ancient training in the far more ancient art of oratory, and desiring something pithy yet commanding, he bellowed forth simply: "My name is Rip Van Whitey. And this bullsh*t ends today!"
He commanded the proctors gather in the corner with the deceased rapist and rapee, lest they meet the same fate. Of the workers, he instructed them to gather all the weapons and ammunition they could find.
Were they to kill the proctors? "No," explained Rip. "That would be a waste of ammunition. Let them deal with the 'diversity' that comes looking for them when their baubles stop coming."
So where to next? The slums? "No," said Rip. "The slums are not our problem. Our problem resides on Glitterati Hills. Exact our vengeance upon them, take back what is rightfully ours, and the rest will prove a mop-up job."
The workers were happy to oblige. They gathered the weapons and ammunition from the snuffed guards, packed up their provisions in knapsacks, and vacated the factory, leaving the proctors to beg for forgiveness and tremble in fear as night approached.
Outside, Rip and his crew lit their torches, hoisted their rucksacks, and began their long ascent, guns in hand, up to the gates of Glitterati Hills.***THE END***
NOTE: The foregoing tale, one would suspect, had been suggested to Mr. Knickerbocker by a little superstition; the subjoined note, however, which he had appended to the tale, shows that it is an absolute fact, narrated with his usual fidelity:
"The story of Rip Van Whitey may seem incredible to many, but nevertheless I give it my full belief, for I know the vicinity of our old white settlements to have been very subject to marvelous events and appearances. Indeed, I have heard many stranger stories than this, in the villages along the Hudson; all of which were too well authenticated to admit of a doubt. I have even talked with Rip Van Whitey myself who, when I saw him in the factory, was a very venerable old man, and so perfectly rational and consistent on every other point, that I think no conscientious person could refuse to take this into the bargain. The story, therefore, is beyond the possibility of doubt. R. K."
As to what happened to old Rip and his scrappy band of rebels who marched upon Glitterati Hills? Well, that story has not yet been written, and only time will tell how our tale is to be told.
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Nothing To See Here, America...The Dear Leader Has Everything Under Control!
Ultimately and tragically, we are shooting ourselves in the foot (and with our hands tied, we are bleeding to death!)
Two more years of this, and you will not have a USA, which is exactly the intention of Barack Hussein Obama. When will America figure it out?
Must see Video:
Obuma: Traitor or incompetent? Same effect!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAOke311QPc&feature=player_embedded#t=0
There was a time, however, when he could get highly motivated. Back in 2001, the Chicago State Senator passionately proposed a possible new direction for America with these revealing insights:
"We still suffer from not having a Constitution that guarantees its citizens economic rights....a charter of negative liberties....says what the states can't do to you...what the Federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf....
...One of the...tragedies of the civil-rights movement was ... that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change."
Our founding fathers viewed government as a necessary evil. The Constitution was designed to protect and preserve the individual rights of the person. The founders ultimately wanted to form a government they could protect themselves from.
Read more at: http://www.westernjournalism.com/nothing-see-america-dear-leader-everything-control/
SICK Video Of The Day
EXCLUSIVE: New Islamic State Video Shows Woman Being Stoned To Death By Her Father
The video is too graphic to post. Here are a few screenshots from the clip posted on the Internet today by activists in Raqqa.
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The father and an ISIS commander condemning her to death:
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He stands over his daughter refusing her pleas to forgive her:
The stoning begins.
ISIS blurs out the video during the most graphic scene where the father grabs the biggest rock he can find and pummels his daughter with it at close range.
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Liberals, I hasten to add, are also an endless source of aggravation, terror and sheer nausea. But, really, if you can't laugh at them, you not only lack a sense of humor, but even the most basic of coping skills required to survive the current administration.
For instance, Joe Biden, who can nearly always be counted on to be unintentionally hilarious, recently told a crowd of sycophants in Joplin, MO, that we should never forget the 161,000 Missourians who lost their lives during the 2011 tornado that ravaged their town. Because everyone in the crowd and on the stage with him was a liberal, nobody pointed out to the Vice President that the actual number was 161. Joplin's entire population is only 50,150 and, no, Mr. Biden, it wasn't 211,150 before the tornado hit.
Even when Biden tells the truth, as he recently did at Harvard, when he pointed out that our alleged allies, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, have spent years financing Islamic terrorism, he wound up having to apologize for his unseemly candor. I'm sure Biden has learned his lesson and will never again tell the truth about anything.
Even the FBI's chief honcho, James Comey, made me laugh when he said that the Americans who have been fighting alongside the butchers of ISIL will be "closely tracked" when they return. The FBI couldn't even keep track of the Tsarnaev brothers before they blew up the Boston marathoners, the agency's excuse being that someone had misspelled "Tsarnaev" on a terrorist list.
To tell the truth, I didn't start laughing immediately because I assumed I was going deaf. You see, I so much expected him to say the homegrown vermin would be indicted, tried and sent off to be gnawed on by rats in a dungeon as soon as they stepped onto the tarmac at Dulles or JFK, I was simply caught by surprise.
As you may have noticed, Obama had refused for the longest time to give a name to the bombing mission in Iraq and Syria. Looking to correct that oversight, Free Republic.com suggested its readers give it a try. Some of the submissions were "Operation Too Little, Too Late," "Operation Just for Show," "Operation Pussyfoot," and "Operation Rolling Blunder." I would have suggested "Operation Nothing Ventured, Nothing Ventured." Just recently, Obama finally came up with (a drum roll, please) "Operation Inherent Resolve," proving once again that we're all better off when this administration does nothing than when it does something.
When asked why Obama elects to call the Khorasan Group by that name instead of calling it Al Qaeda, which it is in spite of Obama's having campaigned as the dude who wiped it off the map, a spokesperson for the President said, with a straight face, it was because that's what they call themselves. However, when it came to the butchers affiliated with the Islamic State, Obama insisted that no matter what they call themselves, they are neither a state nor Islamic. This is clearly a man who regards consistency, along with honesty, to be cardinal sins.
That reminds me that while I hate tooting my own horn -- always hoping that others will step forward and volunteer -- I must point out that three years ago, when Obama announced that Assad's days were numbered, I pointed out that everyone's days are numbered, but I was giving odds that Syria's despot would remain in power longer than our own. Unfortunately, I didn't have any takers because even then most people recognized that Obama was just a big gasbag.
Another funny thing about liberals is that they always fear guns more than they do the various thugs -- be they Muslims, blacks or illegal aliens – who misuse them.
But nowhere, not even in Washington, D.C., are liberals as hilarious as they are in Hollywood. This is ground zero for more lunacy than even I can keep track of, but, then, I lack the resources of the F.B.I.
For openers, this is the one place in America where even conservatives often have to pretend to be liberals in order to be employable and be invited to parties. This is the bizarre world where actors are every bit as likely as actresses to have a plastic surgeon on speed dial, and where starlets are so pumped up with silicone that even their own dogs can no longer recognize them.
Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence explained the existence of her nude photos by stating that she had been in "a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years, but it was a long distance relationship, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he's going to look at you." She added that she was as angry with those who looked at her nude photos as she was with the hackers who downloaded them because even looking constituted a sex crime.
Well, even though I didn't look at the photos, I think she was being unfair. I suspect that the various Peeping Toms imagined that they, too, were in a loving, healthy, great – albeit long distance –relationship with Jennie, if only for a few minutes.
Speaking of actors, one of my all-time favorites was the sardonic Englishman, Alastair Sim. Not only was he superb in "School for Scoundrels," "The Green Man," "An Inspector Calls" and "The Belles of Saint Trinian's," but he was responsible for yet another great comedic tour de force. It seems that Alec Guinness was so impressed by Sim's performance in "Dulcimer Street" that he confessed using it as the basis for his own memorable turn in "The Ladykillers."
Alastair George Bell Sim, as he was baptized, not only was a remarkable actor who had the distinction of having had four names, each of which was one or two letters shorter than the previous one, but he once said a very wise thing that, like Alec Guinness, I intend to adopt, perhaps as my own epitaph: "It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool. Since then, I have been as happy as any man has a right to be
....Burt
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10 Things About The U.S. News Media That They Do Not Want You To Know
By Michael Snyder, on October 21st, 2014
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Do you trust the news media? Do you believe that the information that they are giving you is true and accurate? If you answered yes to either of those questions, that places you in a steadily shrinking minority. Yes, on average Americans watch approximately 153 hours of television a month, but for their news they are increasingly turning to alternative sources of information such as this website. Big news channels such as CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are losing hordes of viewers, and they are desperately searching for answers. Things have gotten so bad at CNN that they have been forced to lay off hundreds of workers. The mainstream media is slowly dying, but they will never admit it. They are still convinced that they can find some way to turn this around and regain the trust of the American people. But it simply is not going to happen.
The following are 10 things about the U.S. news media that they do not want you to know...
#1 The level of trust in the U.S. news media is at an all-time low.
According to a Gallup survey that was conducted last month, only 40 percent of all Americans have a "great deal/fair amount" of confidence in the mass media. That ties the lowest level that Gallup has ever recorded.
#2 The news media is far more liberal than the American people.
We hear much about the supposed "conservative bias" of Fox News, but the truth is that overall the U.S. public considers the news media to be extremely liberal. Gallup found that 44 percent of all Americans consider the news media to be "too liberal", and only 19 percent of all Americans consider the news media to be "too conservative".
And it is a fact that "journalists" are far more likely to give money to Democrats than to Republicans. The following comes from an MSNBC report...
MSNBC.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 16 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.
#3 Fox News is not nearly as "conservative" as you think that it is.
Fox News may be constantly promoting a "Republican agenda", but that does not mean that it is conservative. This is especially true when it comes to social issues. Some of their anchors are extremely socially liberal, one of the top executives at Fox News is a big Hillary Clinton supporter, and 21st Century Fox/News Corp. has given the Clintons more than 3 million dollars since 1992.
#4 MSNBC is in a death spiral.
After years of lying to the American people, the credibility of MSNBC is absolutely shot. Pretty much all MSNBC does is endlessly spew establishment propaganda. One study found that MSNBC only engages in 15 percent "factual reporting" and the other 85 percent is "commentary/opinion".
So it should be no surprise that only 6 percent of Americans consider MSNBC to be their most trusted source for news...
NBC News and sister cable network MSNBC rank at the bottom of media outlets Americans trust most for news, with Fox News leading the way, according to a new poll from the Democratic firm Public Policy Polling.
In its fifth trust poll, 35 percent said they trusted Fox news more than any other outlet, followed by PBS at 14 percent, ABC at 11 percent, CNN at 10 percent, CBS at 9 percent, 6 percent for MSNBC and Comedy Central, and just 3 percent for NBC.
#5 Americans are increasingly turning to Facebook and other Internet sources for their news.
At least that is what one recent survey discovered. It found that an astounding 48 percent of Americans got news about government and politics from Facebook within the past week. The numbers for CNN and Fox News were just 44 percent and 39 percent respectively.
#6 Over the past year or so the big three cable news networks have lost an unprecedented number of viewers.
According to a Pew Research study, the number of prime time viewers for all three networks combined declined by 11 percent in 2013...
In 2013, the cable news audience, by nearly all measures, declined. The combined median prime-time viewership of the three major news channels—CNN, Fox News and MSNBC—dropped 11% to about 3 million, the smallest it has been since 2007. The Nielsen Media Research data show that the biggest decline came at MSNBC, which lost nearly a quarter (24%) of its prime-time audience. CNN, under new management, ended its fourth year in third place, with a 13% decline in prime time. Fox, while down 6%, still drew more viewers (1.75 million) than its two competitors combined (619,500 at MSNBC and 543,000 at CNN).
The decline was even more dramatic for the critical 25 to 54-year-old demographic. From November 2012 to November 2013, CNN's ratings for that demographic plunged by a whopping 59 percent, and MSNBC's ratings for that demographic plummeted by 52 percent.
#7 The big news networks have a love affair with the Obama administration.
Yes, there are reporters that get annoyed by the petty press rules that Obama makes them follow and by their lack of access to the president, but overall there is a tremendously incestuous relationship between the Obama administration and the mainstream news media.
For example, did you know that the president of CBS and the president of ABC both have brothers that have served as top officials in the Obama administration? And needless to say, Barack Obama does not care for the alternative media much at all.
The following is an excerpt from a WND article...
NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd says President Obama was making it "clear" at the White House Correspondents' Dinner over the weekend how he feels about the rise of Internet news sites like Politico, Buzzfeed and ... well, WND.
"He hates it."
Appearing on "Meet the Press" Sunday morning following Saturday night's media, politics and celebrity soiree, Todd explained the president's disdain for independent online news sources was showing during his speech.
"It did seem ... I thought his pot shots, joke-wise, and then the serious stuff about the Internet, the rise of the Internet media and social media and all that stuff – he hates it, OK? He hates this part of the media," Todd said. "He really thinks that the, sort of, the buzzification – this isn't just about Buzzfeed or Politico and all this stuff – he thinks that sort of coverage of political media has hurt political discourse. He hates it. And I think he was just trying to make that clear last night."
#8 Newspaper ad revenues are about a third of what they were back in the year 2000.
Yes, you read that correctly. As Americans have discarded the print versions of their newspapers, newspaper ad revenues have experienced a decline that is absolutely unprecedented...
It took a half century for annual newspaper print ad revenue to gradually increase from $20 billion in 1950 (adjusted for inflation in 2013 dollars) to $65.8 billion in 2000, and then it took only 12 years to go from $65.8 billion in ad revenues back to less than $20 billion in 2012, before falling further to $17.3 billion last year.
#9 News magazines are also experiencing a dramatic multi-year decline in ad revenues...
Once upon a time, news magazines such as Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report were must reads.
But those days are long gone.
Ad revenues are way down across the entire industry, and any magazine that can keep their yearly losses to the single digits is applauded for it...
For a third year in a row, news magazines faced a difficult print advertising environment. Combined ad pages (considered a better measure than ad revenue) for the five magazines studied in this report were down 13% in 2013, following a decline of 12.5% in 2012, and about three times the rate of decline in 2011, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. Again, hardest hit was The Week, which suffered a 20% drop in ad pages. The Atlantic fell 17%, The Economist 16%, and Time about 11%, while The New Yorker managed to keep its ad pages losses in single digits (7%).
#10 Even though the mainstream media is dying, they still have an overwhelmingly dominant position.
What would you say if I told you that there are just six enormous media conglomerates that combine to produce about 90 percent of all the media that Americans consume?
If you do not believe this, please see my next article entitled "Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read"?
This is why "the news" seems to be so similar no matter what channel you watch.
But we aren't just talking about control of the news media. These giant media corporations also own movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, video game makers, music labels and even many of our favorite websites.
So we should be thankful that their media monopoly is finally crumbling.
Nobody should have that much power over what the American people see, hear and think about.
Who Owns The Media? 'The 6 Monolithic Corporations That
Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read'
By Michael Snyder, on October 4th, 2010
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Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day. They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don't even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest. Most Americans don't really seem to care about who owns the media. But they should. The truth is that each of us is deeply influenced by the messages that are constantly being pounded into our heads by the mainstream media. The average American watches 153 hours of television a month. In fact, most Americans begin to feel physically uncomfortable if they go too long without watching or listening to something. Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely addicted to news and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and entertainment that we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands each year.
The six corporations that collectively control U.S. media today are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. Together, the "big six" absolutely dominate news and entertainment in the United States. But even those areas of the media that the "big six" do not completely control are becoming increasingly concentrated. For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations across the United States. Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are increasingly dominating the Internet.But it is the "big six" that are the biggest concerns. When you control what Americans watch, hear and read you gain a great deal of control over what they think. They don't call it "programming" for nothing.
Back in 1983 it was bad enough that about 50 corporations dominated U.S. media. But since that time, power over the media has rapidly become concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people....In 1983, fifty corporations dominated most of every mass medium and the biggest media merger in history was a $340 million deal. ... n 1987, the fifty companies had shrunk to twenty-nine. ... n 1990, the twenty-nine had shrunk to twenty three. ... n 1997, the biggest firms numbered ten and involved the $19 billion Disney-ABC deal, at the time the biggest media merger ever. ... [In 2000] AOL Time Warner's $350 billion merged corporation [was] more than 1,000 times larger [than the biggest deal of 1983].
--Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, Sixth Edition, (Beacon Press, 2000), pp. xx—xxi
Today, six colossal media giants tower over all the rest. Much of the information in the chart below comes from mediaowners.com. The chart below reveals only a small fraction of the media outlets that these six behemoths actually own....
Time Warner
Home Box Office (HBO)
Time Inc.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
CW Network (partial ownership)
TMZ
New Line Cinema
Time Warner Cable
Cinemax
Cartoon Network
TBS
TNT
America Online
MapQuest
Moviefone
Castle Rock
Sports Illustrated
Fortune
Marie Claire
People Magazine
Walt Disney
ABC Television Network
Disney Publishing
ESPN Inc.
Disney Channel
SOAPnet
A&E
Lifetime
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
Buena Vista Records
Disney Records
Hollywood Records
Miramax Films
Touchstone Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures
Pixar Animation Studios
Buena Vista Games
Hyperion Books
Viacom
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Home Entertainment
Black Entertainment Television (BET)
Comedy Central
Country Music Television (CMT)
Logo
MTV
MTV Canada
MTV2
Nick Magazine
Nick at Nite
Nick Jr.
Nickelodeon
Noggin
Spike TV
The Movie Channel
TV Land
VH1
News Corporation (founded by Rupert Murdoch)
Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Fox Television Stations
The New York Post
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Beliefnet
Fox Business Network
Fox Kids Europe
Fox News Channel
Fox Sports Net
Fox Television Network
FX
My Network TV
MySpace
News Limited News
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
Phoenix Movies Channel
Sky PerfecTV
Speed Channel
STAR TV India
STAR TV Taiwan
STAR World
Times Higher Education Supplement Magazine
Times Literary Supplement Magazine
Times of London
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Studios
20th Century Fox Television
BSkyB
DIRECTV
The Wall Street Journal
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Interactive Media
FOXTEL
HarperCollins Publishers
The National Geographic Channel
National Rugby League
News Interactive
News Outdoor
Radio Veronica
ReganBooks
Sky Italia
Sky Radio Denmark
Sky Radio Germany
Sky Radio Netherlands
STAR
Zondervan
CBS Corporation
CBS News
CBS Sports
CBS Television Network
CNET
Showtime
TV.com
CBS Radio Inc. (130 stations)
CBS Consumer Products
CBS Outdoor
CW Network (50% ownership)
Infinity Broadcasting
Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books, Scribner)
Westwood One Radio Network
NBC Universal
Bravo
CNBC
NBC News
MSNBC
NBC Sports
NBC Television Network
Oxygen
SciFi Magazine
Syfy (Sci Fi Channel)
Telemundo
USA Network
Weather Channel
Focus Features
NBC Universal Television Distribution
NBC Universal Television Studio
Paxson Communications (partial ownership)
Trio
Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Pictures
Universal Studio Home Video
These gigantic media corporations do not exist to objectively tell the truth to the American people. Rather, the primary purpose of their existence is to make money.
These gigantic media corporations are not going to do anything to threaten their relationships with their biggest advertisers (such as the largest pharmaceutical companies that literally spend billions on advertising), and one way or another these gigantic media corporations are always going to express the ideological viewpoints of their owners.
Fortunately, an increasing number of Americans are starting to wake up and are realizing that the mainstream media should not be trusted. According to a new poll just released by Gallup, the number of Americans that have little to no trust in the mainstream media (57%) is at an all-time high.
That is one reason why we have seen the alternative media experience such rapid growth over the past few years. The mainstream media has been losing credibility at a staggering rate, and Americans are starting to look elsewhere for the truth about what is really going on.
Do you think that anyone in the mainstream news would actually tell you that the Federal Reserve is bad for America or that we are facing a horrific derivatives bubble that could destroy the entire world financial system? Do you think that anyone in the mainstream media would actually tell you the truth about the deindustrialization of America or the truth about the voracious greed of Goldman Sachs?
Sure there are a few courageous reporters in the mainstream media that manage to slip a few stories past their corporate bosses from time to time, but in general there is a very clear understanding that there are simply certain things that you just do not say in the mainstream news.
But Americans are becoming increasingly hungry for the truth, and they are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the dumbed down pablum that is passing as "hard hitting news" these days.
"Fox News is not nearly as "conservative" as you think that it is."
O'Reilly and Hannity are a couple of Republican types that can't seem to ever connect with real American conservatism. Neither is conservative and not worth watching unless one likes to view Republicans who think of themselves as 'conservative' and there's plenty of them around to observe here in Kansas besides FOX News.
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HomeLand = Barack Obama
MotherLand = Adolph Htler
HomeLand Security = Ghestapo
Give that some thought as you watch this video !
Illegally detaining a Marine Veteran.
From The Rutherford Institute:
In the four years since the start of Operation Vigilant Eagle, the government has steadily ramped up its campaign to "silence" dissidents, especially those with military backgrounds. Coupled with the DHS' dual reports on Rightwing and Leftwing "Extremism," which broadly define extremists as individuals and groups "that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely," these tactics have boded ill for anyone seen as opposing the government.
One particularly troubling mental health label being applied to veterans and others who challenge the status quo is "oppositional defiance disorder" (ODD). As journalist Anthony Martin explains, an ODD diagnosis
"denotes that the person exhibits 'symptoms' such as the questioning of authority, the refusal to follow directions, stubbornness, the unwillingness to go along with the crowd, and the practice of disobeying or ignoring orders. Persons may also receive such a label if they are considered free thinkers, nonconformists, or individuals who are suspicious of large, centralized government... At one time the accepted protocol among mental health professionals was to reserve the diagnosis of oppositional defiance disorder for children or adolescents who exhibited uncontrollable defiance toward their parents and teachers."
The case of 26-year-old decorated Marine Brandon Raub—who was targeted because of his Facebook posts, interrogated by government agents about his views on government corruption, arrested with no warning, labeled mentally ill for subscribing to so-called "conspiratorial" views about the government, detained against his will in a psych ward for standing by his views, and isolated from his family, friends and attorneys—is a prime example of the government's war on veterans.
Raub's case exposes the seedy underbelly of a governmental system that is targeting Americans—especially military veterans—for expressing their discontent over America's rapid transition to a police state.
Here is a news story by RT (Russian Times) about Brandon Raub. Apparently the corporate media in the United States won't tell his story:
To underscore how big this story truly is, John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute is the lead attorney defending the innocent victims targeted by the Obama Thought Police. Whitehead is quite famous for his defense of the Bill of Rights for the past several decades.
This is big.
Obama wants everybody to think like a brain-dead zombie while he transforms America into Orwell's 1984.
Wake up.
Ebola Czar On Record:
Overpopulation His Top Issue
in Health & Science, News, Politics / by Brandon Walker / on October 22, 2014 at 10:27 pm /
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What happens when you appoint an "Ebola Czar" that thinks we should de-populate the world? We are about to find out.
Ronald Klain, the newly appointed Ebola Czar that was mysteriously missing from a White House meeting on Ebola, has a lot of explaining to do.
Not only was he mysteriously missing from the meeting, but he has absolutely no medical experience. He was the campaign manager for Al Gore, who is still upset about the 2000 election fourteen years later.
How does President Obama explain away promoting the man who thinks that overpopulation is our number one priority to head the country on a disease that could seriously reduce the population of the United States if not kept in check?
The independent news source Got News found this disturbing little gem tucked away. The interview is from 2008 with him and his wife. America has been dying to know who this man is and what are his medical credentials.
Honestly, he has none. He is a former campaign manager who thinks overpopulation is the number one problem facing the United States, which the population has been in decline for the past two decades.
So we have appointed a Ebola Czar that has no medical training, no experience in the medical field, and thinks your life is not worth it because we have to make room for the rest of the world.
Then we have the "predictions" from a web site that claimed to use Government sources for what they estimated to be a population loss of 80-90% by 2025.
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Currently posted on the website home page:
"For those who might be concerned.
The countries forecast has been out there for over a decade. It is updated annually using the latest available information and is provided AS IS. Obviously, at this point, predicts a Western collapse.
This website is not and has never been linked to any government. It is the result of private individuals using their spare time." (Deagl.com)
The staff admitted they used forecasting data from census and available resources to the public from the government. Coupled with Klain's statement, it does have the internet questioning what is going on.
If anyone has a rational explanation for why the population of the US is supposed to DROP 78.2% from 316+ million now to ONLY 69 million people in 2025, we'd love to know the answer. If anyone knows why our military spending will drop in 10 years from $726 billion dollars to $8 billion dollars in 2025, please explain. Is there a reason why our GDP per capita will be dropping from $52,838 to $13,328 by 2025? Inquiring minds surely want to know...and we deserve answers! Check out the data for the US on Deagel.com yourselves; any ideas what we are witnessing? Is this proof of depopulation? If not, why the huge forecasted drops? (All News Pipeline)
While logic dictates that we shouldn't be extremely worried about a website that uses census data to predict trends, the list of resources they use is a bit puzzling and alarming.
United States Coast Guard
Department of Defense
Government
United States Air Force
United States Army
United States Marine Corps
United States Navy
Sources: US Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, World Bank and European Union. (Deagel US Population and GDP predictions 2025)
So we have a website listing government sources while trying to tell the general public it is not linked to the government and an Ebola Czar that wants to depopulate the world?
Something stinks about these latest "predictions" and this appointment that does not have to go through Congress.
http://madworldnews.com/ebola-czar-overpopulation/
I call these so called educated idiots Arrogantly Ignorant.
A lot of them barely know what century lhey live in.
STUDENTS SIGN PETITION
TO HAVE GUN OWNERS EXECUTED
IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
February 4, 2014
by Dean James
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BY TIM BROWN
Mark Dice is at it again and the more of these videos he makes, the more he tends to help us understand just how people get in a mindset that is similar to those of Nazi Germany. Dice's latest fake petition calls for the imprisonment of all legal gun owners in concentration camps, even having them executed.
"We just want to make sure we disarm the citizens," Dice said to one California college student asking them to sign a petition to repeal the Second Amendment. "We can trust the government to be the only ones with guns."
"These peasants don't need guns," Dice continued. "We want to put all registered gun owners in prison."
At least one of the students said it was "too dangerous" for people to own guns.
"It's just a simple repeal of the Second Amendment and we'll be terminating and executing all of the gun owners," Dice said with a straight face, though I'm not sure how he could pull it off.
"We are going to ban all guns except for the military and police," Dice explained to a student who signed the petition. "We'll do door to door confiscations, we have lists of all the registered weapons, so the military will just go and take those away from people."
Dice told one student signed the petition, "I didn't think I could get any more ridiculous."
Lo and behold he did. . "We need to take these gun owners and put them into FEMA concentration camps to keep everybody safe," Dice told one skateboarding student. The student didn't sign the petition, though he did agree that putting gun owners in FEMA camps would "keep them safe."
What is amazing is that some people are completely clueless about what is taking place in this country. Furthermore, this is the next generation. If so many are so ignorant now, what will they be in future generations?
So far, Dice has had Californians sign various petitions that are almost unbelievable. His petitions have included support of Nazi-Style Police State, putting birth control in the water supply, releasing all illegal aliens from prison and granting them free US citizenship, granting Barack Obama immunity of all the crimes he commits in office.
He also got Californians to sign a petition for Obama to repeal the entire Bill of Rights and has been getting signatures for each of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights, including the First, Second, Third, Fourth ,Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Amendments.
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/02/college-students-sign-petition-see-gun-owners-executed-concentration-camps/#JRcqYzakYqWwiEmd.99
Clinton's Pardons for Pedophiles
October 23, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield
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The Office of the Inspector General of the State Department found in its latest investigation that Clinton aides had "created an appearance of undue influence and favoritism" in a number of cases including that of Ambassador Howard Gutman.
The investigation is largely a whitewash. There is no mention of the fact that one whistleblower related to the case, Richard Higbie, had his emails deleted by a hacker. Or that the main whistleblower, Aurelia Fedenisn, was harassed at home and had her law firm burgled.
It goes almost without saying that Richard Nixon went down for much less than that.
There is also no mention of the more explosive allegation that Howard Gutman had not merely solicited a prostitute on a single occasion, as the report mentions, but had escaped his detail to "solicit sexual favors from minor children."
Also overlooked is the fact that the Gutman case was shoved under the rug by Cheryl Mills, who was not only Hillary Clinton's Chief of Staff but the White House Counsel who ferociously protected Bill Clinton when questions were raised about his own sexual activities.
Mills is a fanatical Clinton loyalist. During her days in the Clinton White House, a colleague was quoted as saying, "If something's on the other side of a brick wall and the Clintons need it, she'll find a way to get to it: over, around or through."
It should come as no surprise that Cheryl Mills also played a key role in covering up Benghazigate. It was Mills who had ordered Gregory Hicks, the Deputy Chief of Mission, not to talk about what happened. Hicks testified that he had been punished for refusing to keep quiet.
Covering up for Gutman's sexual abuse of children would have been about more than just the State Department's usual white wall of silence. Like many European ambassadors in the new administration, Gutman was not a diplomat — he was a donor. A man like Christopher Stevens might be sent to Libya, but positions in European capitals were mostly reserved for major contributors to the Democratic Party.
When it came to money, Howard Gutman, a top Washington lawyer, brought in the cash by raising $500,000 for Obama's campaign committee and another $275,000 for his inauguration committee. And Gutman was not just an Obama boy. He had donated the legal maximum to Hillary's presidential bid.
That was a lot of money. Enough to let a donor molest as many children as he cared to.
Once in Belgium, Howard Gutman got in trouble for making anti-Semitic remarks. An actual diplomat might have been replaced, but Gutman was there as a donor and it would take a lot to move him out. While Stevens was begging for basic security for the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Gutman was having his 16,096 square foot mansion in Brussels renovated on the grounds of environmental correctness.
If only Stevens had been able to raise six figures for a presidential candidate maybe the Benghazi mission would have been secured by something more than empty promises and wishful thinking.
Not even allegations of child abuse could dislodge the grotesque Gutman from his sinecure.
Instead of being permanently recalled, Gutman visited Washington to meet with Cheryl Mills and Patrick Kennedy, both key figures in the Benghazi cover-up, and went right back to his mansion.
When the case finally broke open after Hillary Clinton had left the building, the hot Libyan wind blowing in her wake, her spokeswoman followed the Obama tradition by claiming complete ignorance. "We learned of it from the media and don't know anything beyond what's been reported," she said.
Obama had learned about all his scandals from the media. Why should Hillary be any different? And yet it wasn't exactly the first time that the Clintons had ended up in this mess.
Jeffrey Epstein, a top Clinton pal, had sexually abused a large number of children, including three 12-year-old girls. He had boasted of "buying" another 14-year-old girl. Epstein's jets ferried the "flat broke" Bill Clinton around to his private island, where some of his atrocities took place, and all the way over to Africa. At least one of Epstein's "girls" claimed that she had met Bill Clinton.
When the case broke wide open, Epstein, like Gutman, all but got away with it. Instead of the ten year sentence that the federal government had wanted, he ended up serving little more than a year in jail.
If you can call it jail when Epstein was serving his time in a private wing of the Palm Beach prison and was "let out on work release six days a week for up to 16 hours a day." During his "house arrest," he flew around the country on his jets from his New York City place to his private island.
The timing of the case had been inconvenient. The Epstein case overlapped with Hillary Clinton's reelection campaign. While Hillary Clinton was locking down the Democratic Party nomination, Jeffrey Epstein was wriggling out of the charges using a combination of ugly tactics and political pressure.
Much of the blame fell on State Attorney Barry Krischer, a prominent Democrat who had vigorously targeted Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, the latter for voting in the wrong precinct. Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter had even asked Krischer to remove himself from the case. Krischer did not.
These days Barry has a "humanitarian award" named after him and it's unclear what goodies await him if the Clintons crawl into the White House.
Such brutalization of children would horrify most people, but we already know that they would not have moved Hillary Clinton in the least. The recent release of an audio tape in which Clinton laughed while discussing her defense of a vicious rapist who beat a 12-year-old girl into a coma is a horrifying look at the kind of woman who could participate in the cover-up of such crimes against children.
Hillary Clinton's defense of the rapist had included accusing the 12-year-old girl of being "emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing." Despite that, Hillary had made it clear in the interview that she knew her rapist was guilty. And she had laughed about it.
Throughout the years, Hillary Clinton repeatedly lied about the case and the media helped her cover up some of the uglier details. It is in its own way much the same story as the cases of Howard Gutman and Jeffrey Epstein. If Hillary Clinton had no problem accusing a 12-year-old girl who had been raped and beaten into a coma of being a liar, why would she stop at covering up for Gutman and Epstein?
Pardongate had already proven that the Clintons and their collaborators, including future Attorney General Eric Holder, were willing to deliver pardons to those in a position to pay them back. But the Gutman case is another reminder that the Clintons are willing to do more than merely pardon financial crimes. There may be no crime too horrific, no atrocity too terrible, that a large checkbook cannot buy.
We expect a certain amount of corruption from our politicians. It might even be unrealistic to deny its inevitability. But there are places where we must draw the line or become a republic of monsters.
If we can't draw the line at an Epstein or a Gutman, then what we have is not mere corruption but Saddam Hussein's rape rooms and child prisons under the MSNBC logo. It means that we live in a country where leftist billionaires and millionaires buy children the way that they buy elections.
The Gutman case deserves to be fully and thoroughly investigated, in the way that the Epstein case wasn't. And the cover-up of it should be pursued no matter how high up it goes.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/clintons-pardons-for-pedophiles/
The Blood on Obama's Hands
October 21, 2014 by David Horowitz
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When conservatives consider the casualties of Obama's national security policies, their attention is drawn quite naturally to Benghazi. In this shameful episode, the Obama Administration sacrificed an ambassador and three American heroes to protect a deceptive presidential campaign message in which Obama claimed that the war against al-Qaeda was over and won ("Osama bin Laden is dead, and al-Qaeda is on the run"). The facts are these: Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American heroes were sent into an al-Qaeda stomping ground that the British and other diplomatic consulates had already evacuated; they were denied the security they had requested; they were then left to die during a seven hour fire fight when their compound was attacked, and finally betrayed in death, when Obama and his representatives lied to the world about what had taken place and when he failed to bring their killers to justice as he had mendaciously promised he would.
Benghazi can be seen as the collateral damage caused by presidential lies – and worse – presidential denial that there is in fact a war that Islamists have declared on America. Instead Obama insists – in the official language he authorized and that is still in place – that America's responses to acts of Islamic terror should be described as "overseas contingency operations." If Islamic murders and beheadings take place in the homeland, Obama calls them "workplace violence." Benghazi is also the most shameful presidential abandonment of Americans in the field in our history – a disgrace compounded when Obama justified his trade of five Taliban Generals for one American deserter by saying Americans don't leave their countrymen on the battlefield, which is precisely what he did in Benghazi. All of which justifies the conservative focus on this terrible event.
But the casualties of Obama's reign in Benghazi are dwarfed by the hundreds of thousands of deaths his policies have led to in Syria and Iraq, and the millions of Iraqis, Syrians and Libyans that those same policies have caused to flee their homes and become homeless in Turkey, Tunisia and other places of refuge. Obama's legacy is defined by his ideological aversion to American power, his rule as the most anti-military president in our history, and his deeds as an "anti-war" activist, opposed to the "war on terror" because he believes that America's (and Israel's) policies are the cause of terrorism and the hatred that Islamic fanatics direct against our country.
Because of his ideological opposition to American power, Obama deliberately and openly surrendered America's gains in Iraq, which had been won through the sacrifice of thousands of American lives and tens of thousands of American casualties. By deliberately handing over America's massive military base in Iraq – a country that borders Syria, Afghanistan and Iran – Obama turned that country over to the terrorists and Iran, as his generals and intelligence chief and secretary of defense warned it would. Obama disregarded the warnings from his national security advisers – as no other American president would have – because he regarded America rather than the terrorists as the threat. In abandoning Iraq and deliberately losing the peace, he betrayed every American and every Iraqi who gave their lives to keep Iraq out of the hands of the terrorists and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Obama's stubborn refusal to use America's military might – ground forces backed by air power – when Assad crossed the "red line" Obama had drawn in Syria created a second power vacuum that the terrorists filled, thus leading to the emergence of ISIS or ISIL – the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant. Defenders of Obama will claim that the American public would not have supported a military intervention in Syria even if Obama had ordered one. But why is that? It is because for eleven years, beginning with their assault on "Bush's war" in Iraq,
the Democrats have sabotaged the war on terror, claiming that America's use of power for anything but "humanitarian" purposes is illegitimate, dangerous and the root cause of the terrorist problem.Because it was "humanitarian" Obama felt justified in conducting an unauthorized, illegal intervention in Libya to overthrow an anti-al Qaeda dictator, saying it was to prevent an invisible threat to civilians there. The result? Al-Qaeda is now a dominant force in Libya, and 1.8 million Libyans – a third of the population – have fled to Tunisia. Another brutal Obama legacy. Yet, how firm is Obama's commitment to humanitarian interventions? In Iraq he stood by while more than half a million Christians were either slaughtered or driven into exile by ISIS murderers on their mission to cleanse the earth of infidels. This was the oldest Christian community in the world, going back to the time of Christ, and Obama let it be systematically destroyed before bad press and pressure from his own party caused him to intervene to save Yazvidis and a Christian remnant trapped on a mountain top.
The Obama presidency has been an unmitigated disaster for Iraqis, Syrians, and Libyans. Now that ISIS is in control of territory the size of a state, has access to hundreds of millions of petrol dollars and advanced U.S. ordnance, not to mention chemical weapons that Saddam left behind, it is an impending disaster for the American homeland as well.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/david-horowitz/the-blood-on-obamas-hands/
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"If 4 out of 5 Politicians SUFFER from diarrhea... does that mean that one enjoys it?
I've always said, Politicians and diapers have one thing in common.
They should both be changed regularly,
and for the same reason."
Christmas may come early for me. I understand that many conservatives have come to believe that there is no difference between the two major parties. MANY of them even stayed home on Election Day in 2012 and bragged about it, as if their refusal to vote for Mr. Morman, Mitt Romney, thus making it easier for Obama to win a second term, somehow reflected well on them. Idiots!!
If the GOP wins back the Senate and banishes Harry Reid from his current position as the second most powerful politician in Washington, I swear I wouldn't ask Santa for anything more.
I believe that so many people have repeated the lie about Republican politicians being indistinguishable from Democrats that a lot of people who should know better have swallowed the bilge. One party voted 100% for the Affordable Care Act, the other party opposed it. One party has tried to sweep every scandal from Operation Fast & Furious to Benghazi and the IRS under the carpet, while the other party has tried to get to the bottom of them because, contrary to Hillary's self-serving lie, the truth always makes a difference. And a lie that is repeated a thousand times isn't magically transformed into the truth, even though demagogues and those involved in advertising might wish it were otherwise.
More than one person has written to me with the expectation that even if the GOP only gains five Senate seats in the midterm elections, there is a good chance that Joe Manchin (D) of West Virginia might agree to switch his party affiliation, especially if he were to be promised an important committee chairmanship.
My advice to Sen. Manchin is that he should make the switch before Nov. 4th. After all, the GOP stands a very good chance of winning the Senate without him. In which case, he loses his bargaining power and merely looks like the worst sort of political opportunist, sort of like that weasel Jim Jeffords, who switched in the other direction and was thereafter regarded with contempt by those on both sides of the aisle.
Speaking of weasels, no politician should ever have his name attached to anything – be it a bridge, a highway or a post office – unless he personally built it or paid for it. The only exception is his tombstone.
In what has come to be known as American diplomacy, Joe Biden just announced that we are giving Gaza an additional $212 million to help them rebuild everything the Israelis knocked down in retaliation for unending missile attacks. The truth is that most of the money will be spent, not on apartment houses, but to construct new tunnels and buy more Katyushas. So, once again, this administration tries, like so many past ones, to buy the friendship of terrorists. It's bad enough that it adds to our national debt, but the practice also adds to our national shame.
Interestingly enough, those who have campaigned to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People's Day believe that the white race has a great deal to be ashamed of when it comes to the way that Indigenous People, otherwise known as Indians, have been treated in this country.
According to the lunkheads, the natives were a kind and peaceful people who lived on loving terms with Mother Nature until Caucasians landed on Plymouth Rock. When you realize that all the tribes were basically Stone Age savages who would inevitably have been overtaken by the modern world, it makes you wonder if these dunces also believe that the blacks in Africa were residing in the Garden of Eden until the Europeans came along.
At least Columbus Day pays tribute to a superb seaman and reminds people to visit an Italian restaurant in the near future. What would a celebration of the Indigenous People look like? Inasmuch as they were notorious for scalping their enemies and devouring their internal organs, I'm sure the menu would leave something to be desired.
As for their creative heritage, when you get past blankets, trinkets, totem poles and wickiups, it hardly measures up to that of the European transplants whose heritage, even in the 1600s, already included Butler, Milton, Moliere, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Velasquez, Donne, Cervantes, Purcell, Bach and Shakespeare. Of course not everyone would agree with me. I'm sure that those whose religion is multiculturalism, and whose devotion to political correctness forever dooms them to be fatuous lunkheads, prefer cave paintings to Rembrandt.
Speak of the Devil, have you heard that in Nebraska, school kids are being told to call each other Purple Penguins because terms such as "boys" and "girls" might be offensive to transgendered eight year olds? It's all part of an agenda prepared by an organization calling itself Gender Spectrum, which seeks to make bathrooms accessible to one and all, no matter the nature of the individual's plumbing. Funny, one used to be able to assume a certain level of commonsense from Midwesterners, but that was before the Purple Penguin crowd moved in and took control of school boards and city councils, forcing normal people to park their brains at the curb.
But the lunacy unfortunately isn't limited to Nebraska, Iowa or any of those other flat rectangular states. In Washington, D.C., the resident space aliens refuse to stop incoming flights from West Africa, even though France and England have done so in an attempt to keep Ebola from taking root in their countries. The only reason we don't follow suit is because most of those flights are carrying black passengers, and no politician wants to risk being labeled racist, even though their cowardice might lead to an epidemic of terrifying proportions.
By deciding not to rule on the constitutionality of same-sex marriages, the Supreme Court allowed lower court rulings to stand, thus pretty much making it the law of the land.
In just about every state that has placed the issue on the ballot, the people have voted against it. Nevertheless, we're told that polls indicate that Americans have changed their minds. That may well be true. But I'd hate to think that most Americans don't share my objection to unelected federal judges assuming the authority to override the laws of Congress and the stated will of the people, which in 1996 led the House and Senate to overwhelmingly enact the Defense of Marriage Act.
We appear to be trying very hard to turn ourselves into a Third World nation brimming over with indigenous knuckleheads of the sort who lack the most basic skills and have to import even our blankets and cheap trinkets from China.
I'm beginning to think I may have been a tad too hasty when I hopped off Santa's lap.
....Burt
I guess this is how arrogant ignorance is developed for big bucks.
VIDEO: These Harvard Students Show
that a $60K a Year Education
Cannot Buy
Intelligence or Common Sense
October 8, 2014
Harvard University is considered one of the elite schools in education. But, when Caleb Bonham from Campus Reform visited the Ivy League school, the answer students gave to one basic question may leave people questioning not only their intelligence, but their sanity.
Bonham asked students on the Harvard campus, "Who poses a greater threat to world peace, ISIS or America?"
Simple question to answer, right? Well, the answers of these Harvard 'intellectuals' just may surprise you.
I'm not sure what is the worst experience, listening to their answers or listening to them attempt to justify their response. Maybe these intellectual elites are unaware of the beheadings by ISIS, or the death of others at their hands by being buried alive, cut in half, or the raping and pillaging of villages and towns.
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By Michael Snyder, on October 20th, 2014
Do you feel like you truly understand men? Much has been written about how men don't understand women, but the truth is that there is a whole lot about men that women don't understand as well. The point is not to spark a debate about "the battle of the sexes" or anything like that. Rather, it is important for all of us to understand that there is a tremendous amount of confusion about what it means "to be a man" in America today. So many of our young men seem lost, so many of our older men seem defeated and depressed, and all over this country families are completely falling apart. We need to understand our problems so that we can start focusing on solutions. Below, I have shared 17 things about men that most women don't know. Some of them are funny, some of them are quite interesting and some of them are extremely serious.
But all of them say something about where we are as a society today...
#1 When women age, they tend to become attracted to older men. For example, one study found that 20-year-old women are most attracted to 23-year-old men and 50-year-old women are most attracted to 46-year-old men. But the same is not true when we look at men. That same study found that 20-year-old men are most attracted to 20-year-old women and 50-year-old men are most attracted to 22-year-old women.
#2 Many men often put on a bold front, but inside they are not nearly as secure. At least that is what one survey found. When presented with the statement "I am not always as confident as I look", 76 percent of men chose the response "I feel like this regularly/sometimes".
#3 If you could look into their hearts, you would find that most men are not truly happy. In fact, one survey of 50-year-old men found that only 12 percent of them said that they were "very happy".
#4 Many men still believe in traditional gender roles. For example, one survey found that 57 percent of men expect to always pay on a date. Alternatively, 20 percent believed that whoever initiated the date should pay, and 18 percent believed that date costs should be split.
#5 If women are wondering if it has become harder to find men that are in good shape, that is because it is true. According to the CDC, 34.6 percent of all men in America are obese at this point. But that doesn't mean that men are tolerant of weight gain in women. Sadly, one survey discovered that 50 percent of men would dump their partner "if they gained a significant amount of weight".
#6 Most single men realize that women consider financial security to be an extremely important factor in attractiveness. One recent survey found that "a steady job" is the number one thing that women are looking for in a husband, and another survey discovered that 75 percent of women would have a serious problem dating an unemployed man. As a result of these attitudes, many men measure their self-worth by the size of their paychecks.
#7 In recent years, the number of men that are struggling to find work has reached new heights. In fact, the inactivity rate for men in their prime working years (25 to 54) is now at the highest level that has ever been recorded.
#8 86 percent of men include "having children" in their definition of success. For women, that number is only 73 percent.
#9 Many men also wish that they could spend less time working and more time with their children. One poll found that 46 percent of fathers say that they don't spend enough time with their kids.
#10 Men are really dropping behind women when it comes to college education. In 2013, 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees were earned by women.
#11 Men are much more likely "not to leave the nest" than women. In 2012, an astounding 40 percent of all men in the 18 to 31-year-old age group still lived with their parents.
#12 There is a porn epidemic among men. This is true even among men that are supposed to be religious. One survey found that 64 percent of all Christian men ages 31 to 49 look at porn at least monthly.
#13 An astounding 30 percent of all Internet traffic currently goes to adult websites.
#14 There are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
#15 Society has trained young men to avoid getting married, and this has resulted in an absolutely stunning decline in the marriage rate. Back in 1920, there were 92.3 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women. In 2012, there were only 31.1 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women.
#16 The average age at first marriage just keeps going up for men and for women. At this point, the average age when a man first gets married has reached an all-time high of 29.0 years.
#17 Women have always lived longer than men and that is still true today. Women have a life expectancy of 81.0 years and men have a life expectancy of just 76.2 years.
How long can we expect to live?
Life expectancy at birth represents the average number of years that a group of infants would live if the group was to experience throughout life the age-specific death rates present in the year of birth. U.S. life expectancy at birth for the total population was 78.8 years in 2012—an increase of 0.1 year from 78.7 years in 2011 (Figure 1). In 2012, life expectancy was 81.2 years for females and 76.4 for males. Life expectancy for females was consistently higher than that for males. In 2012, the difference in life expectancy between females and males was 4.8 years, the same as in 2011.
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So what do you think about all of this, ladies?
Picture of the Day: The Nigga O-Team at Work!
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Let The Anger Games Begin!!!
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http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/10/21/the-anger-games-the-doj-and-bgi-continue-the-controlled-retreat/
Charles Barkley Explains The Ideology Behind The Ferguson / Saint Louis Street Thugs –
"The Dirty Dark Secret"
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(Yep... Sir Charles nails it)
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VIDEO'S Of The Day
"Shake It Off"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaD5_XJl0AY&feature=player_embedded#t=57
EGOMANIA!
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President Obama dealt another blow to red state Democrats on Al Sharpton's radio show Monday, insisting that despite their political posturing, they "are all folks who vote with me" and "have supported my agenda."
Obama reiterated his devastating statement from October 2, when he told a crowd at Northwestern University: "I'm not on the ballot this fall...but make no mistake, these policies are on the ballot, every single one of them."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jSTxwMQ_1A&feature=player_embedded#t=0
Highway of Heroes – Funeral For Nathan Cirillo – Canada Says "Farewell"
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We Honor Corporal Nathan Cirillo –
"He's not coming home today little buddy"...
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Quote from: ROSS on October 23, 2014, 02:21:10 PM
Ebola Czar On Record:
Overpopulation His Top Issue
in Health & Science, News, Politics / by Brandon Walker / on October 22, 2014 at 10:27 pm /
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What happens when you appoint an "Ebola Czar" that thinks we should de-populate the world? We are about to find out.
Ronald Klain, the newly appointed Ebola Czar that was mysteriously missing from a White House meeting on Ebola, has a lot of explaining to do.
Not only was he mysteriously missing from the meeting, but he has absolutely no medical experience. He was the campaign manager for Al Gore, who is still upset about the 2000 election fourteen years later.
How does President Obama explain away promoting the man who thinks that overpopulation is our number one priority to head the country on a disease that could seriously reduce the population of the United States if not kept in check?
The independent news source Got News found this disturbing little gem tucked away. The interview is from 2008 with him and his wife. America has been dying to know who this man is and what are his medical credentials.
Honestly, he has none. He is a former campaign manager who thinks overpopulation is the number one problem facing the United States, which the population has been in decline for the past two decades.
So we have appointed a Ebola Czar that has no medical training, no experience in the medical field, and thinks your life is not worth it because we have to make room for the rest of the world.
Then we have the "predictions" from a web site that claimed to use Government sources for what they estimated to be a population loss of 80-90% by 2025.
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Currently posted on the website home page:
"For those who might be concerned.
The countries forecast has been out there for over a decade. It is updated annually using the latest available information and is provided AS IS. Obviously, at this point, predicts a Western collapse.
This website is not and has never been linked to any government. It is the result of private individuals using their spare time." (Deagl.com)
The staff admitted they used forecasting data from census and available resources to the public from the government. Coupled with Klain's statement, it does have the internet questioning what is going on.
If anyone has a rational explanation for why the population of the US is supposed to DROP 78.2% from 316+ million now to ONLY 69 million people in 2025, we'd love to know the answer. If anyone knows why our military spending will drop in 10 years from $726 billion dollars to $8 billion dollars in 2025, please explain. Is there a reason why our GDP per capita will be dropping from $52,838 to $13,328 by 2025? Inquiring minds surely want to know...and we deserve answers! Check out the data for the US on Deagel.com yourselves; any ideas what we are witnessing? Is this proof of depopulation? If not, why the huge forecasted drops? (All News Pipeline)
While logic dictates that we shouldn't be extremely worried about a website that uses census data to predict trends, the list of resources they use is a bit puzzling and alarming.
United States Coast Guard
Department of Defense
Government
United States Air Force
United States Army
United States Marine Corps
United States Navy
Sources: US Department of Defense, Department of State, CIA, World Bank and European Union. (Deagel US Population and GDP predictions 2025)
So we have a website listing government sources while trying to tell the general public it is not linked to the government and an Ebola Czar that wants to depopulate the world?
Something stinks about these latest "predictions" and this appointment that does not have to go through Congress.
http://madworldnews.com/ebola-czar-overpopulation/
October 22, 2014
WTF Is Happening
Gov. Sourced Website Proves End Is Near! Can You Explain This
By Live Free or Die
With Obama Ebola 'Czar' Ron Klain now officially exposed as calling for 'depopulation' as an answer to the world's biggest problems as shared in the 2nd video above,(On Ross's piece) we have been emailed a tip that should help prove to all doubters that 'the end is near' as shared in this video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnhTt8O3arg&feature=player_embedded#t=0
Among the list of countries on Deagel.com, a US government sourced website, pertinent data for the US now and in 2025 is enough to make EVERY American become a 'conspiracy theorist'.
If anyone has a rational explanation for why the population of the US is supposed to DROP 78.2% from 316+ million now to ONLY 69 million people in 2025, we'd love to know the answer. If anyone knows why our military spending will drop in 10 years from $726 billion dollars to $8 billion dollars in 2025, please explain. Is there a reason why our GDP per capita will be dropping from $52,838 to $13,328 by 2025? Inquiring minds surely want to know...and we deserve answers! Check out the data for the US on Deagel.com yourselves; any ideas what we are witnessing? Is this proof of depopulation? If not, why the huge forecasted drops?
Please contact the White House at 202-456-1111 or your Congressional Representatives via phone call or email here for answers.
Just a few weeks ago before Obama had an Ebola Czar, the Republicans were complaining because Obama had not appointed an Ebola Czar.
Obama and the Republicans are the same kind.
Bill Whittle on The Narrative: The origins of Political Correctness
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"I've had a rough couple of days. Looks like the WH computers were hacked."
As the old joke has it, a tourist asks a New Yorker how to get to the Met, and the wiseacre responds: "Practice, practice, practice." These days, thanks to a few screwballs inhabiting the opera world, the answer is "First kill an old Jew on the high seas."
To get the full story, we have to go back to 1985 when Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer decided to take an ocean cruise to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary aboard an Italian liner called the Achille Lauro, having no idea that along with the buffet and shuffleboard, the cruise would include four members of the Palestine Liberation Front.
Once on the high seas, the terrorists hijacked the ship and demanded it sail to Syria. They also demanded that Israel release 50 of their fellow swine. After Syria refused to allow the ship to dock, they went on to Port Said in Egypt. But along the way, they decided it would please Allah if they killed Mr. Klinghoffer, who was 69 and confined to a wheelchair. They shot him and had his body tossed overboard.
In the immediate aftermath, a spokesman for the group suggested that Mrs. Klinghoffer, who would die of colon cancer just four months later, had killed her husband for the insurance money. But, on second thought, the PLO quickly scuttled that story, refusing to give up its bragging rights so easily. After all, if a Jew was killed, they naturally wanted all the glory for themselves.
After the ship docked, the hijackers escaped in a jet. Unfortunately for them, Ronald Reagan, not Barack Obama, was in the White House at the time and he ordered a U.S. fighter plane to force the getaway plane down in Italy, where the hijackers were arrested.
Inevitably, a composer named, of all things, John Adams decided to turn the gruesome event into an opera, which not too surprisingly in this day and age set out to show the human side of the Islamic butchers. Just as predictably, New York's Metropolitan Opera decided to schedule the production.
Because of the subject matter, suddenly even people who can't tell their Puccini from their spumoni were paying attention to opera. What's more, it seemed to split Manhattan down the middle. On the one hand, you had the former mayor, Rudy Giuliani, leading a demonstration against the "The Death of Klinghoffer." On the other hand, you had Mayor Bill De Blasio, an unrepentant Communist and all-around knucklehead, insisting that Giuliani and his fellow protestors were acting in an un-American manner, while neglecting to mention what was un-American about exercising their First Amendment right to demonstrate peacefully.
It is invariably goofballs on the Left who seem to forget that the First Amendment provides for free speech, but does not deprive others of their right to disagree with that which is spoken. It also guarantees Americans the inalienable right to compare De Blasio to the hindquarters of a particularly unattractive horse.
It's not too surprising that among the fashionable opening night crowd at the Met was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So far as I know, she did not offer a judgment of either the production or of De Blasio's comment.
In other news, it seems that the teacher's unions have donated over $80 million to the Democrats this year. As near as I can determine, there are roughly four million teachers in those unions. That works out to $20-per-teacher. If I were in the union, and even if I were a Democrat, I believe I would be very vocal about the misuse of my dues. Inasmuch as we are always hearing that schools can't afford to devote class time to art or music, how about chipping in some of that $80 million to help solve the problem?
As you may have noticed, Monica Lewinsky, 41, is back in the news. I swear she's harder to get rid of than crabgrass. After listening to this perennial adolescent prattle on about how the media ruined her life, it seems she hasn't learned anything since the day she mastered the art of not gagging while engaged in oral sex. I have an open mind, though. If Ms. Lewinsky can explain exactly how the media managed to get her under Bill Clinton's desk in the first place, I'll take her complaints seriously.
The cynicism on the Left probably reaches its apex when it comes to the use of photo IDs when it comes to voting. The Democrats keep promoting the fiction that it serves no other purpose but to disenfranchise minority voters. When it's pointed out that the same IDs are required to buy booze, board planes, cash checks or enter any venue at which one or both of the Obamas are in attendance, their only response is to repeat the silly lie.
Democrats also claim that Republicans exaggerate the actual amount of voter fraud taking place, whereas Republicans point out that even if it only happens once, it's once too often because it serves to offset a legitimate vote.
In speaking about the subject, Brit Hume, usually the reliable voice of commonsense at Fox, suggested that the two parties should strive to achieve a compromise. When I heard that, I had to blink to make sure that Juan Williams, the living equivalent of a lawn jockey at Fox, wasn't throwing his voice.
Inasmuch as Brit Hume didn't indicate what such a compromise would look like, I could only picture voters showing up at their polling places carrying an Etch-a-Sketch of themselves.
Finally, a friend sent me an email in which she suggested that one way to protect her home would be to tear out the alarm system and, instead, place a few black ISIS flags in the front yard, thus guaranteeing that the local cops, the FBI and Homeland Security, would keep their collective eyes on her property 24/7.
I let her know that I get the same results by having an American flag next to the front door and an "Anyone but Hillary" sign in my front yard
....Burt
It's flushing awesome!
In King county, Washington there's been such an influx of people that don't know what you can and what you can't flush down a toilet that in desperation a county-wide program to educate the recently arrived has been devised. Really. The advertisements are now everywhere. Just number one and two, that's all you do!The video mentions wipes among the things forbidden to flush. That's a good start, but what about all the other not-to-flush items? The Koran comes to mind...
"Everything which is not forbidden is allowed" principle is an essential freedom of the ordinary citizen. Therefore, for all the libertarians out there who do not subscribe to common sense, this educational video must include a complete list of all the items that are forbidden to flush, from household items like plugged-in toasters to varieties of rocks and species of plants and animals, to public figures and award-winning filmmakers.
There also has to be a special list of flush-sensitive books and DVDs, divided into categories: (1) never; (2) maybe; (3) always.
That would make it a very long, Michael-Moore-sized documentary costing millions to the taxpayers, but no public expense should be spared for the education of the masses. I nominate the maker of Fahrenheit 9/11 as the director.(http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples_resource/image/32244)
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Mike Brown Shooting – Open Discussion Thread
Posted on October 26, 2014
♦ NEW – Feds Release Investigative Details To New York Times (LINK)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/ferguson-case-officer-is-said-to-cite-struggle.html?_r=1
♦ NEW – Officer Darren Wilson version of events given to media. (LINK)
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/source-darren-wilson-says-michael-brown-kept-charging-at-him/article_d2cf8b20-c517-592b-96ba-77d8a5f46fef.html
♦ NEW – Official Mike Brown autopsy supports Wilson's Version of events. (LINK)
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/official-autopsy-shows-michael-brown-had-close-range-wound-to/article_e98a4ce0-c284-57c9-9882-3fb7df75fef6.html
♦ NEW – Eight Black Witnesses Confirm Darren Wilson Version (Link)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-evidence-supports-officers-account-of-shooting-in-ferguson/2014/10/22/cf38c7b4-5964-11e4-bd61-346aee66ba29_story.html• Officer Darren Wilson pushed into vehicle by Mike Brown. • A Struggle ensued. • Two shots fired inside vehicle. • One bullet striking the hand of Mike Brown. • Blood from right arm wound on interior door, uniform and officers weapon. • Gun powder residue also on hands of Mike Brown. • Attorney for Dorian Johnson admits DJ lied to media.(https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/canfield-map-new-3.jpg)
• One bullet lodges in door panel of SUV • One bullet strikes near window of adjacent apartment building. • Hat and one shoe located on South side of police SUV. • Second shoe located approximately 10-15′ East. • Officer Wilson chases Mike Brown. • Both travel approximately 100′ from SUV. • Brown stops, turns, makes aggressive statement. • Brown charges Wilson. • Ten additional shots fired at approaching Mike Brown. • Five bullets strike Brown. • Total of 12 shots fired.Dr. Judy Melinek [...] also said the autopsy does not support witnesses who have claimed Brown was shot while running away from Wilson, or with his hands up.
She said Brown was facing Wilson when he took a shot to the forehead, two shots to the chest and a shot to the upper right arm. The wound to the top of Brown's head would indicate he was falling forward or in a lunging position toward the shooter and was instantly fatal.
A sixth shot that hit the forearm traveled from the back of the arm to the inner arm, which means Brown's palms could not have been facing Wilson, as some witnesses have said, Melinek said. That trajectory shows Brown likely was not taking a standard surrender position with arms above the shoulders and palms out when he was hit, she said. (read more)
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/official-autopsy-shows-michael-brown-had-close-range-wound-to/article_e98a4ce0-c284-57c9-9882-3fb7df75fef6.html
This is what the actual forensic evidence shows; and it aligns with "actual" eye-witness statements from James McKnight, Michael Brady, Philip Walker, Ace Johnson's anonymous witness - as well as the known account of Officer Darren Wilson – who:♦ Gave a written account of events to Saint Louis investigators.
♦ Gave two recorded statements and sat down for two interviews with Saint Louis investigators.
♦ Gave another written account, and another recorded interview with Federal investigators.
♦ Gave four hours of testimony to a Saint Louis Grand Jury without an attorney present.
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The "no bill" announcement is anticipated at any time.
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(Via Gary) In the Shotspotter analysis of the Glide audio, it was determined that the shots fired "were all taken from within a three-foot radius". Which means that Darren Wilson could have moved forward or backward roughly 6 feet as he was shooting.
Ejected shell casings can travel in a 12 foot radius in any direction. Since we know Brown and Wilson traveled from the SUV to the spot of the shooting we can assume they traveled in a straight line down the center of the road.(https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/shoot-1-3.png?w=960&h=351)
If 3 circles with a 12 foot radius is drawn around the placement of each cone we have an area of roughly 6 feet in which Wilson could have moved while shooting. It also happens to be the spot where Brown fell after he was shot. How else could Wilson have fired in that area if he wasn't retreating as Brown was advancing?(https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/evidence-cones1-grid-revised.jpg?w=938&h=704)
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(Chip) The best evidence is the shell casing several feet behind Brown. Wilson had to have backtracked at least 12-15 feet while shooting, at a minimum. [...] Unless Wilson was waving his gun around wildly, pointing and shooting in different directions, the ejection of the shell casings would be instructive.
The scenario is one in which Brown is either standing still, facing Wilson, or else facing Wilson, and approaching him (depending on what you believe). However, in either case, Wilson would be pointing his gun in a given, consistent direction. Thus, the linear placement of the shell casings implies a linear movement of Wilson while firing those rounds.
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Actual eye-witnesses all agree and are supported with the forensic evidence. It's the manufactured media-witnesses, Tiffany Mitchell and Piaget Crenshaw, whose accounts do not align with the forensic evidence.
Dorian Johnson has already -through his attorney- admitted he lied to the media.These two BUMS knew all of this since 8/18/14 and yet they allowed Ferguson to burn!!!
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State Department memo on Ebola policies
Below is an internal State Department memo discussing the possibility of bringing non-citizens to the U.S. for Ebola treatment. I can not post the item due to it format --- but you can read it at"
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/interactive/2014/10/28/state-department-memo-on-ebola-policies/
(This article brings to mind the statement, "Either resign or be fired" doesn't it? Have we seen this happen in the Elk County School Districts? I'm certain we have, but there is no way to prove it, is there? It is not restricted to sex predators, there are other situations that could bring out this statement, ""Either resign or be fired". But that happens behind closed doors doesn't it? Where is the leadership action, where is the protection of children in such situations, where is the honesty? The person offered such a choice can then simply move on and continue undesirable actions or activity within other school districts. No accusations here, just food for thought something to consider. Are the school Systems protecting children with the use of such action or protecting themselves and the teacher?) (https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/projects/1410394/photo-main.jpg?1413913603)
Research and publish 10 major investigative stories on unions protecting sex predators in schools.
There's been an explosion of K-12 teachers being arrested for molesting students in recent years. Some experts are now calling it an "epidemic."
What's less known, but equally sickening, is the role played by teachers unions to help their members cover up their sex crimes and maintain their jobs, or secure letters of recommendation so they can get other teaching jobs.
How can this happen?
It typically costs school districts six figures in legal costs to fire tenured teachers, regardless of their wrongdoing. Some school officials would rather sweep the problem under the rug than pay that amount.
Education Action Group Foundation, a tax-deductible nonprofit, is prepared to research and publish 10 investigative stories on this shameful practice, so the nation can understand how the unions often prioritize the interests of members over the safety of students.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eagnews/exposing-teachers-union-role-in-protecting-sex-pre?ref=card
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''I see where Police in Texas seized a shipment of ecstasy pills this week shaped like President Obuma's face. The drug is characterized by a brief powerful high followed by a long, slow, very slow, comedown.''
It just recently came to light that back in February, Joe Biden's son, Hunter, was booted out of the Navy Reserve when he tested positive for cocaine. A great many people wrote, wondering how it was that the media didn't cover the story.
When I actually delved into it, I discovered that Biden's daughter, Ashley, was busted by the narcs back in 2009, and that story has been buried even deeper and for more years.
It would be bad enough if the media decided that what the children of politicians did was nobody's business, even though that would mean that the kids received all the perks that go with being the son or daughter of a senator, a vice president or a president, but had no reason to fear their dirty laundry would be exposed. But the sad truth is that the media plays favorites, depending on whether the parent is a Republican or a Democrat. As you may have noticed, when George Bush was in the White House, the media delighted in letting us know about every stupid thing his young daughters did, and the twins Jenna and Barbara were barely 20 when he was elected, and one of the things they didn't do was cocaine.
They even went after Sarah Palin's daughter when Sarah was John McCain's running mate in 2008 and Bristol was still a teenager.
On the other hand, when Ashley Biden was busted in 2009, she was 28 years old and Hunter was all of 43 when he got kicked out of the Navy Reserve, but the media treated them as if they were a couple of innocent young squirts whose futures they had to protect.
As of this moment, Ebola has killed two Americans, the same number of Americans that the butchers in Iraq have beheaded, and yet Obama has sent 3,000 soldiers (otherwise known as 6,000 boots on the ground) to West Africa and none to confront ISIS. It must occur even to the nitwit in the White House that sending troops to Ebola Central serves no purpose other than to increase the odds of Ebola killing a great many more Americans in the future.
Lest anyone think that ours is the only government controlled by boobs, the British Parliament just voted 274-12 to pass a motion recognizing an Arab state alongside Israel. Right, as if what the world needs is one more barbaric nation that can join the U.N. and vote against us on an hourly basis.
Although the vote was only symbolic, it shows that the Brits are ready to recognize the legitimacy of Islamic terrorists whose approach to peaceful relations with Israel consists of raining down thousands of missiles on Jewish civilians, and who occasionally break up the monotony of beheading Americans by beheading Englishmen.
One of the sorriest aspects of what the liberals have been able to do, mainly through a corrupt education system, is convince America's youth that they are smarter, wiser and more decent, than other people. As you may have noticed, most students don't take science and math, but they consider themselves experts when it comes to global warming. Most of them don't study economics, but they know corporations are evil and raising the minimum wage is good. They barely know how to read and they get their news from Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, but they know that conservatives are out to destroy the world and only they can save it.
Finally, for all of Harry Reid's complaints about wealthy Republicans like the Koch brothers destroying democracy by supporting GOP candidates, year in and year out, the Democrats out-spend the GOP, and this year is no exception. By November 4th, the two parties will have shelled out about a billion dollars to get their people elected, with the Democrats outspending the Republicans by roughly $100 million, and, God willing, having far less to show for it.
Even liberals had to be embarrassed when it came out that one of Obama's major donors is a guy actually named Richie Richman. Believe me, if Richie were a Republican, David Letterman would never stop teasing him and wondering if he has a brother named Fat Cat.
....Burt
Bumper Sticker Of The Day...
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News That Won't Shock You: Military Leaders Fed Up With White House's "Micromanagement" Of War With ISIS
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(This is how Democrap Presidents always run (and lose) military campaigns... the Vietnam war under LBJ was the classic example of this)
Via Daily Beast:The Pentagon brass placed in charge of implementing Obama's war against ISIS are getting fed up with the short leash the White House put them on.
Top military leaders in the Pentagon and in the field are growing increasingly frustrated by the tight constraints the White House has placed on the plans to fight ISIS and train a new Syrian rebel army.
As the American-led battle against ISIS stretches into its fourth month, the generals and Pentagon officials leading the air campaign and preparing to train Syrian rebels are working under strict White House orders to keep the war contained within policy limits. The National Security Council has given precise instructions on which rebels can be engaged, who can be trained, and what exactly those fighters will do when they return to Syria. Most of the rebels to be trained by the U.S. will never be sent to fight against ISIS.
Making matters worse, military officers and civilian Pentagon leaders tell The Daily Beast, is the ISIS war's decision-making process, run by National Security Advisor Susan Rice. It's been manic and obsessed with the tiniest of details. Officials talk of sudden and frequent meetings of the National Security Council and the so-called "Principals Committee" of top defense, intelligence, and foreign policy officials (an NSC and three PCs in one week this month); a barrage of questions from the NSC to the agencies that create mountains of paperwork for overworked staffers; and NSC insistence on deciding minor issues even at the operational level.
"We are getting a lot of micromanagement from the White House. Basic decisions that should take hours are taking days sometimes," one senior defense official told The Daily Beast.
DCCC Hires Monkey To Help Write Donation Email Pitches
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Hoo-rah! Andrew Tahmooressi Free At last
(Via FOX NEWS)
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/10/31/mexican-judge-orders-jailed-marine-andrew-tahmooressi-freed-family-spokesman/
(Why do I have the feeling that Obama will use this for some type of Election ploy and take all the credit for him being released. Nothing just happens around election time with the Democrats. Who hasn't noticed the price of gas is going down! Obama is poised to turn over our sovereignty to Mexico by allowing them to enter illegally and stay. The ultimate reward is when he decrees them citizens! They are paying it forward. They get North Mexico and the Democrats get to retain power as long as they can hold it)
A Mexican judge has freed jailed US Marine Andrew Tahmooressi, his family said late Friday.(https://theconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/tam.png?w=899)
Tahmooressi, 26, who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan, has been held since March 31, when he said he mistakenly crossed into Mexico with three legally-purchased and registered guns in his truck.
A court-appointed psychiatrist confirmed that Tahmooressi has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Family spokesman Jonathan Franks said the judge released him without making a determination on the charge against him.
The family issued the following statement: "It is with an overwhelming and humbling feeling of relief that we confirm that Andrew was released today after spending 214 days in a Mexican Jail."
The Florida man said he got lost on a California freeway ramp that sent him across the border with no way to turn back. His long detention brought calls for his freedom from U.S. politicians, veterans groups and social media campaigns.
Members of Congress were quick to react.
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, immediately issued a statement saying, "I am elated that Sgt. Tahmooressi has been ordered released from jail in Mexico. This is great, but overdue, news. I am pleased that both Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam and the judge on the case recognize that Sgt. Tahmooressi did not intend to violate Mexican law, and that his combat-related PTSD should be treated by specialists in the United States."
In Florida, Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents the district where Tahmooressi's' mother, Jill, lives, said in a statement, "I am thrilled that Sergeant Tahmooressi has been released from prison in Mexico. We have waited long enough. As a mother, my heart is with Jill Tahmooressi tonight and I can only imagine the many emotions she must be experiencing, namely the relief in knowing her son is coming home and that they will soon be reunited without prison bars, without handlers and without unnecessary travel."
Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, said, "I am truly overjoyed to hear the news that our Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi is finally coming home to America. During my last visit with Andrew in a Mexican prison, I told him the next time I saw him would be during his release to America; I am grateful that I will be able to keep that promise and be with him and (his mother) Mrs. Tahmooressi as he returns to the United States tonight."
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Bumper Stickers Of The Day...
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Democrat Party Threatens Registered Democrats in Mailer: "If you do not vote this year, we will be interested to hear why not"
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Democrats: Vote or we'll Kick your Ass
By Carl Campanile and Natalie O'Neill - NYPost
http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/democrats-threaten-voters-to-get-to-the-polls/
Democrats are telling voters that they had better head to the polls — or else.The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday.
"Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record," the letter says.
"We will be reviewing voting records . . . to determine whether you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014."
It ends with a line better suited to a mob movie than a major political party: "If you do not vote this year, we will be interested to hear why not."
The letter and accompanying post card was criticized even by party members, with one Democratic consultant saying it was the wrong way to inspire votes.
"It's a threatening letter. It's a scare piece that is unnecessary and inappropriate," the insider said.
Brooklyn and Manhattan residents who received the note Wednesday were furious, calling it an attempt to browbeat them into showing up at the polls.
"I'm outraged. Whether I vote or not is none of your business!" said a Manhattan voter, who was so incensed that she complained to a local Democratic leader.
"The letter is ludicrous and menacing," said the voter, who requested anonymity.
The woman also received a report card of her voting record, pointing out that she had failed to vote in two of the last four elections.
Overall, the notices were sent out to 1 million registered Democrats who had failed to vote in previous midterm elections, according to the group.
The committee — chaired by former Gov. David Paterson — defended the scare tactic, calling it standard practice throughout the country.
"This flier is part of the nationwide Democratic response to traditional Republican voter-suppression efforts, because Democrats believe our democracy works better when more people vote, not
less," said Peter Kauffmann, a committee spokesman.
"The difference between Democrats and Republicans is they don't want people to vote and we want everyone to vote."
Paterson declined to comment.
The mailer has a phone number on it that goes to Election Protection, a nonpartisan voting organization.
The organization said it had received a "significant" number of calls about the letter.
Such attempts to shame people to vote — what politicos call "social pressure" or peer pressure — has become more common place and was used by the Obama campaign in 2012, sources said.
A Yale University study in 2008 found that voter participation increased substantially after lazy voters received letters telling them their spotty voting history was a public record that would be scrutinized.
The notice includes a "vote report card" rating New Yorkers' voting records as "excellent," "good," "fair" or "incomplete."
"Many organizations monitor turnout in your neighborhood and are disappointed by the inconsistent voting of many of your neighbors," it says.
The letter came a week before heavily favored Democratic Gov. Cuomo faces off against Republican Rob Astorino.
Cuomo was not behind the shame letters, party sources insisted.
But Astorino scoffed, "Andrew Cuomo's thuggish tactics just crossed the line into creepy territory . . . Threatening and intimidating people is not how honorable elected leaders operate."
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CAGW Praises Sen.Tom Coburn's 'Wastebook 2014'
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(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) reacted with enthusiasm to the release of the Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) 'Wastebook 2014: What Washington Doesn't Want You To Read,' the last edition before his early retirement from the Senate after a decade of outstanding public service in the Senate and six years in the House on behalf of the citizens of Oklahoma and all American taxpayers. The popular report, which Sen. Coburn has released every year since 2010, details 100 examples of the federal government's unnecessary, duplicative, and low-priority programs totaling $25 billion.
Noteworthy expenditures in the 'Wastebook 2014' include:
•$4.2 billion vaporized annually by the Internal Revenue Service when the agency pays out fraudulent refunds to thieves who stole the identities of unsuspecting taxpayers;
•$3 billion lost when beneficiaries of the Department of Agriculture's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps) traded their benefits for drugs, alcohol, and cash;
•$468 million thrown away after the Department of Defense scrapped a fleet of 16 G222 planes for $0.6 per pound of steel, recouping a mere $32,000 for aircraft that were supposed to be an integral part of the Afghan Air Force;
•$19 million wasted on troubled and underperforming government employees who received paid administrative leave after abusing the taxpayers' money by purchasing alcohol, sending explicit images on government-issued computers, and passing out on the job after a night of partying;
•$856,000 blown on an eight-month National Science Foundation study to teach three captive mountain lions to use a treadmill;
•$387,000 squandered to research how Swedish massages affected 18 New Zealand white rabbits who were euthanized upon the study's completion; and
•$47,000 frittered away on undergraduate "comedy" courses at two U.S. public universities to explore "the nature of human laughter and humor."
"This blatant waste of tax dollars, while written in an entertaining and cogent manner, is no laughing matter. Sen. Coburn and his tireless staff, who work year-round to put the 'Wastebook' together, have been steadfast fiscal watchdogs identifying alarming amounts of government waste, exposing fiscally irresponsible federal agencies, and demonstrating just how out of touch Washington is with the real needs of taxpayers," said CAGW President Tom Schatz. "Each 'Wastebook' has vividly illustrated the challenges taxpayers face when official Washington chooses to protect and expand mismanaged government spending programs and allies itself with the special interests rather than those of the people who pay their salaries. Sen. Coburn has never forgotten that the hard-earned money of every taxpayer deserves to be spent effectively and efficiently rather than wasted on frivolous expenditures. CAGW is extremely proud to have been his ally in that cause and plans to carry that banner forward."Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.
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Oh, the outrage... Some no-account Middle Eastern "scholar" stated today that compared to Benjamin Netanyahu, Dear Leader Obuma might as well be Pee-Wee Herman!
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Ok, We Meet At The Old Mill, We Ride At Midnight –
Finally Someone Gets It Right !
This ad smacks directly into the heart of the beast. TRUTH holds no agenda:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_2g7xBfwCv0#t=108
This approach does not come without controversy. The professional "right", the establishment branch of 'cocktail class Republicans", think this is the wrong approach because it pushes the media sentiment toward the opposition.
To that argument I say BULLPUCKY! The media is already in the camp of the opposition, idiots. Now is the time to call the baby ugly![...]
Tea Party Support May Put GOP over the Top in Elections of 2014.
Richard Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com "When the GOP has a big victory this coming Tuesday night, they will owe a big debt to the Tea Party conservatives."
"GOP leaders failed to present an alternative to the Obama Democrats' failed policies in this election," Viguerie told Breitbart News. "But Tea Party conservatives stepped into this vacuum and provided the leadership needed to nationalize the election around 3 issues: amnesty, national security, and the Obama Democrats culture of corruption, lies and lawlessness."
Tea Party activists who vote on Tuesday will overwhelmingly support Republican candidates, but it is still unclear if their turnout levels will be high, moderate, or low.
On election night we will learn if the purported Democratic ground game superiority, along with the inevitable associated fraud, is sufficient to overcome the growing national antipathy to the policies of President Obama and the Democratic Party.
Lets hope That The Tea Party Support Will Be Enough but, just in case,
Go Vote!!!
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/31/Tea-Party-Support-May-Put-GOP-Over-the-Top-in-The-Hold-Your-Nose-Election-of-2014
A Pair Of Fools
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Have any of you heard of Michael Lewis... any of you? Well, it seems this leftist-loon that's stuck on stupid, has this notion that after Barack 'Insane' Obama is out of office everyone is going to miss the hell out of him, including all the the accomplishments he's made while in office... Anyway folks, this fool is just one of many that live in an alternate universe... totally blind to reality, and filled with nothing but rampant ineptitude. Nevertheless, we all know the leftist MSM in power will have the same attitude as this nutcase does and they will never stop talking about their icon... after-all, they put their messiah in office and still bow to him every single chance they get... with the exception of a few.
They also refuse to see the forest from the trees when it comes to the midterm elections that's about to take place in a few days... they will never blame the major crash that's about to take place on Dear Leader and his dictatorial ways, but that's a given.
To cut to the chase, here's what was said below...see what you think:
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On Thursday, Moneyball author and former New Republic editor Michael Lewis spoke with Charlie Rose about the legacy of Barack Obama and displayed a level of tonedeaf zealotry rarely seen outside places that demand such allegiance like North Korea and the like.
When Rose asked about Obamas unpopularity, Lewis offered an odd explanation and laughably claimed that we would "miss him" when he was out of office.
Rose asked why Obama's presence presents such a "liability" to Democrats, to which the current Bloomberg View contributor jumped to claim that it was "unfair" and, "I think history is going to be very kind to him...the year after he's out people are going to miss him."
Lewis also blamed the people for Obama's lack of popularity, saying,
"People, when they're unhappy, they blame the President." Lewis added before stating that the American people are "Not sitting where he's sitting, seeing what he's seeing. They don't see the complexity of the decisions he's gotta make. And I think that a lot of what's wrong in the world is not, it's not actually his fault."
Lewis is correct in that we are not all privied to the same intelligence offered to President Obama... then again, the president skips nearly half of his intelligence briefings, so in many ways, he's making these decisions with hardly more than the same intel as a CNN viewer.
The fawning interview did not stop, but continued on as Lewis praised the president like a teenage girl at the height of Beatlemania.
"I feel like I'm happy the country is in his hands. I think his heart's in the right place. I think he's really smart."
"He's got disadvantages for someone in that office and one of them is his temperament. He's got the temperament of a writer – more than a politician. He's really not that interested in you. He's, he's interested in justice."
There are many things in which the president is interested (such as golf), but "justice" is hardly one of them. Under this regime, the American people have been saddled with insurmountable debt, have been polarized and divided, have been spied on, intimidated and abused by bureaus in a way that makes Nixon's administration look serene and Obama's so-called Department of Justice has been radicalized in a fashion that has pitted the government against the American people by creating an abusive and adversarial relationship.
It is unknown from what rock Lewis recently crawled out from under, but I suggest he return to his pit of delusion and ignorance; it sounds peaceful compared to the reality that the rest of us are forced to face under this despicable regime.
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FAILED!
Texas Tech's new student political organization PoliTech goes to campus to see how much our students know about their nation's politics!
You might be surprised.
I just saw this video but it is like so many other videos from other so-called institutions of higher learning where students are basically morons. If this is the state of our university systems, we should close them all and save us taxpayers our money.
Here's our future leaders from Texas Tech:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRZZpk_9k8E
How do these kids get into college? They should be in community colleges at best! I could tell you everything about our system of government, our leaders, world current events when I was in high school. But that was in the 1950's when our high schools still required studying!
Here's kids who can't even tell who won the Civil War wasting our tax dollars! But, we're happy to know, they can tell you everything about Snookie and Brad Pitt!
College has become the biggest scam in America! Costs go up to educate students but they graduate being nothing more than mouth-breathing idiots! Unless this video was severely edited for effect, shame on Texas Tech for admitting these morons! I bet every one of these geniuses votes Democrat!
Picture Of The Day
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Quote from: Warph on November 03, 2014, 01:37:57 AM
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FAILED!
Texas Tech's new student political organization PoliTech goes to campus to see how much our students know about their nation's politics!
You might be surprised.
I just saw this video but it is like so many other videos from other so-called institutions of higher learning where students are basically morons. If this is the state of our university systems, we should close them all and save us taxpayers our money.
Here's our future leaders from Texas Tech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRZZpk_9k8E
How do these kids get into college? They should be in community colleges at best! I could tell you everything about our system of government, our leaders, world current events when I was in high school. But that was in the 1950's when our high schools still required studying!
Here's kids who can't even tell who won the Civil War wasting our tax dollars! But, we're happy to know, they can tell you everything about Snookie and Brad Pitt!
College has become the biggest scam in America! Costs go up to educate students but they graduate being nothing more than mouth-breathing idiots! Unless this video was severely edited for effect, shame on Texas Tech for admitting these morons! I bet every one of these geniuses votes Democrat!
Government education is a scam. It's one of the earliest scams created in America. Social Security and Food Stamps were much later. Now they're gearing up for ObamaCare.
Nowadays people actually believe that the government owes everyone an education. Just listen to the Kansas Republican and Democrat candidates' political ads voicing their support for education by and through the State. Tyrants!
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Democrats' bid
to keep Senate majority
may hinge on
independent candidates
Voter dissatisfaction with Obama, congressional Republicans dominating midterms
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(Here is one for Obama Agenda)
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, November 2, 2014
Democrats' election chances are dim enough that their hopes for keeping a majority in the Senate rest in part on candidates who won't even have a "D" next to their names on the ballots.
It's another sign of voter dissatisfaction dominating the midterm elections, and that's driving independent candidates in races from Kansas to North Carolina to South Dakota, where those candidates could win seats or serve as spoilers, according to the latest polls, which signal the depths of despair with what both major parties are offering.
For the most part, that dissatisfaction will hurt President Obama and his allies, leaving Republicans to benefit, though not because voters are any happier with the GOP — indeed, congressional Republican approval is abysmal — but because Mr. Obama makes a more salient target.
The latest polls there give independent challenger Greg Orman a razor-thin lead, in one of the reddest states in the union.
Republicans need to net six seats Tuesday in order to claim the Senate, and a loss in Kansas would set them back substantially.(The following simply shows the ourpose of a third independent, to screw up the election and manipulate the voters. Simply a political ploy.)
On Sunday, conservative independent Joe Visconti dropped out of the Connecticut governor's race Sunday, saying he didn't want to play spoiler and keep Republicans from unseating Democratic Gov. Dan Malloy.
In Maine, independent candidate Eliot Cutler last week told his supporters not to throw away their vote on him, giving a boost to Democratic candidate Mike Michaud, who is trying to unseat Gov. Paul LePage.
These are excerpts from the article read the whole article at:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/2/democrats-bid-to-keep-senate-majority-may-hinge-on/
Obama Appointed Judge Rules
that Blacks and the Poor are
Too Stupid to Produce Photo ID
to Vote
October 10, 2014 By Jennifer Burke
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A federal judge, appointed by Barack Obama in 2011, ruled on Thursday that the requirement by the state of Texas to present an ID in order to vote is unconstitutional. Furthermore, the judge, U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos, stated that the voter ID requirement is 'an unconstitutional poll tax" put in place by a racially charged legislature in 2011.
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/10/10/obama-appointed-judge-rules-that-blacks-and-the-poor-are-too-stupid-to-produce-photo-id-to-vote/
Milton Wolf grits his teeth and endorses Pat Roberts
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Milton Wolf, the tea party challenger who spent most of this year trying to unseat Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) has finally endorsed his primary opponent.
But if Roberts was looking for a ringing endorsement, this isn't it.
In a post on his Facebook page that caught the Roberts team by surprise,
Wolf urges supporters to back Roberts because the Senate majority is on the line. Roberts is in a close race against independent challenger Greg Orman, who has not said which party he would caucus with if the majority comes down to him.
(you can bet it would be the Democraps if he wins, even if the Republicans take the Senate)A Republican familiar with the campaign said Thursday that Wolf and Roberts had still not met or spoken since the end of the primary.
"Whatever your opinion of Pat Roberts, his re-election to the United States Senate may be the deciding factor that dethrones Harry Reid and elevates solid constitutional conservatives like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Rand Paul into positions of influence to save America from Barack
(Insane) Obama," wrote Wolf, whose campaign against the senator was very nasty.
Then he added another caveat: "Be assured that if Pat Roberts is to be re-elected, I will do everything in my power to hold his feet to the fire. And be assured that the fullness of the duplicity, dishonesty and abuse of power that has marked this election will be exposed."
Despite the less-than-eager tone Wolf struck, it's still good news for Roberts. He needs every Republican vote he can get. And
Wolf has a small but loyal tea party following that could help put Roberts over the top.In September, there were rumors that Wolf might endorse Orman. Once the press caught wind, Wolf quickly moved to quash the rumors.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/10/30/milton-wolf-grits-his-teeth-and-endorses-pat-roberts/
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Don't forget to VOTE for Pat Roberts tomorrow.
We need to move 'Dirty' Harry Reid
to the back of the bus!
A piece of art in Russia.
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Do you think that looks like the world respects America under the Obama presidency?
Republicans Win The Senate!;
Obama's Candidate For Governor Of Illinois Loses.
We'll be looking at the next Senate Minority
Leader 'Dirty' Harry Reid by the end of the night.
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7:30 PM Kentucky Mitch McConnell is declared winner over Democrat challenger Alison Grimes. Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham also Republican winners in South Carolina. In a takeaway seat Republican Shelly Capito is also projected to win a senate seat in West Virginia.
8:00pm Mississippi Senate called for returning Republican Thad Cocharan, Democrat Tom Wolf flips Pennsylvania blue and wins the Governors race.
8:30 pm Arkansas Senate race called for Republican Tom Cotton, that's takeaway seat #2 for Republicans in the senate.
9:00 pm South Dakota Senate Republican Mike Rounds wins, that's takeaway seat #3
10:00 pm Colorado Senate Republican Corey Gardner WINS, that's takeaway seat #4, also Florida media (state only) reporting win for Governor Rick Scott. In Montana Senate race Republican Steve Daines flips another seat, that's takeaway #5.
10:30pm GEORGIA Senate Republican David Perdue is called as the winner. In Kansas Senator Pat Roberts holds off the "independent/democrat" challenger.
11:00pm Iowa provides takeaway #6 with a win by Jodi Ernst, and North Carolina's Republican Senate Candidate Thom Tillis has won to be takeaway #7.
Finally 'Dirty' Harry Reid is GONE !!
For political junkies this is our Superbowl night !
Ala. Alabama Alaska Alaska Ariz. Arizona Ark. Arkansas Calif. California Colo. Colorado Conn. Connecticut D.C. D.C. Del. Delaware Fla. Florida Ga. Georgia Hawaii Hawaii Idaho Idaho Ill. Illinois Ind. Indiana Iowa Iowa Kan. Kansas Ky. Kentucky La. Louisiana Me. Maine Md. Maryland Mass. Massachusetts Mich. Michigan Minn. Minnesota Miss. Mississippi Mo. Missouri Mont. Montana Neb. Nebraska Nev. Nevada N.H. New Hampshire N.J. New Jersey N.M. New Mexico N.Y. New York N.C. North Carolina N.D. North Dakota Ohio Ohio Okla. Oklahoma Ore. Oregon Pa. Pennsylvania R.I. Rhode Island S.C. South Carolina S.D. South Dakota Tenn. Tennessee Tex. Texas Utah Utah Vt. Vermont Va. Virginia Wash. Washington W.Va. West Virginia Wis. Wisconsin Wyo. Wyoming Get the First Live
Senate Model Nov. 6, 2014, 12:49 AM
Who Is Really Winning the Senate So Far?
Republicans have won control of the Senate. The most likely outcomes are that they will end up with 53 or 54 seats. Each party needs six of eleven key races to win the Senate.
Here is our best guess about who leads in each state:
Democrats Ahead N.H.
Va.
D +1
Republicans Ahead Ark.
Colo.
Ga.
Iowa
Kan.
Ky.
N.C.
Republicans +7 (possible 2 more states: Alaska and La. Dec. 6th = +9
Likely Runoffs La. DEC 6, 2014
No estimate yet Alaska
http://elections.nytimes.com/2014/senate-model
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Obuma's man Pat Quinn Refuses To Concede Illinois Governor's Race As Rauner Declares Victory
CHICAGO -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) addressed supporters late Tuesday night saying he was not ready to concede the election to challenger Bruce Rauner, despite the fact that the Associated Press and others have called the race for the Republican political newcomer.
"There are a lot of votes still to be counted," Quinn told supporters. "I don't believe in throwing in the towel when there are that many votes still to be counted."
As of late Tuesday night, the splash page for the Quinn For Illinois campaign website said, "We're still waiting for the final results to come in. Thanks for your support."
Meanwhile, Rauner declared victory in a speech late Tuesday, promising a "new direction" for Illinois.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting by midnight Tuesday, only Quinn's Chicago base of Cook County tipped in his favor; Rauner won the influential "collar counties" around Chicago and easily carried downstate counties as well.
Cook County, which encompasses Chicago, was the only county that hadn't reported all its results at the time of Quinn's announcement. Election issues rippled throughout Chicago since the polls opened at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
Election officials alleged "dirty tricks" were afoot after "malicious" robocalls were sent to election judges as early as Friday. Chicago Board of Election Commissioners spokesman Jim Allen told the Sun-Times that the calls -- which reportedly gave election judges false information about voting requirements and eligibility -- prompted more than 2,000 no-shows on Election Day.
"You're interfering with the orderly conduct of a federal election in our opinion," Allen said.
Fire crews had to break down the door of one polling place located inside a restaurant after the owners failed to show up and open. The polling station was just one of several that stayed open beyond the regular poll closing to accommodate the late start.
Additionally, a new policy that allowed voters to simultaneously register and vote at a polling place contributed to the hundreds of voters still waiting in line when the polls closed at 7 p.m
CNN Reporter To Semi-Retired President: It's A Fact Your Party Rejected You
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(Jim Acosta was just added to his enemies list)
Via Daily Caller:During a post-Election Day press conference, CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta straight-up told President Barack Obama it is a "fact" his party "rejected" him in the midterms, and asked Obama how it felt to be a lame duck.ACOSTA: Thank you, Mr. President. I know you don't want to read the tea leaves, but it is a fact that your party rejected you in these midterms. By and large, they did not want you out on the campaign trail in these key battleground states. How do you account for that? And your aides have said that this is the fourth quarter of your administration, but I don't know if you saw the morning talk shows, but there were several potential candidates for 2016 who were out there already. Is the clock ticking? Are you running out of time? How much time do you have left? And what do you make of the notion that you're now a lame duck?
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Obuma Powwows With Civil Rights Agitators
(Obama is going to triple down with the race card. Jesse Jackson wasn't in attendance at the powwow, the new Idiot Czar Sharpton has replaced him)
Via The Hill: President Obama huddled with top civil rights leaders at the White House on Wednesday, hours after his party lost control of the Senate.
The meeting included a discussion of ObamaCare implementation, education, and criminal justice issues, according to a White House official.
"The president also highlighted how we are looking forward to working with the leaders over the next two years to advance these and other critical issues facing the country," the official said.
Attendees at the meeting included NAACP president Cornell Brooks, National Urban League president Marc Morial, and Rev. Al Sharpton.
An interview between Obama and Sharpton made waves in the final weeks of the campaign, prompting consternation from some vulnerable Democrats. During the interview, Sharpton asked Obama about members of his party who were seeking distance on the campaign trail.
"So some of the candidates there — it is difficult for them to have me in the state because the Republicans will use that to try to fan Republican turnout," Obama said.
"The bottom line is though, these are all folks who vote with me; they have supported my agenda in Congress; they are on the right side of minimum wage; they are on the right side of fair pay; they are on the right side of rebuilding our infrastructure; they're on the right side of early childhood education."
Every Newly Elected GOP Senator Campaigned On Repealing Obamacare
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(Now let's see if they actually attempt it...)
Via CNS NEWS:(CNSNews.com) – Every new GOP senator who won in last night's election campaigned on repealing Obamacare.
Senators Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) all ran on a platform of repealing Obamacare.
Gardner touted patient-centered care and a full repeal and replacement of President Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare.
FLASHBACK: Obama Says He Doesn't Want To Be President Without A Dem-Majority Senate
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(President Plugs Biden?)
Via Breitbart:"I don't really care to be president without the Senate," Obama reportedly conceded in June 2014.
Political analysts, and even some Democratic insiders, have long questioned whether President Barack Obama's frequent golf outings and extended vacations are further evidence that he has checked out on the presidency and is eager to hit the exits. In the wake of last night's Republican romp, Democrats' suspicions that Obama is as ready to return to civilian life as Republicans are to send him there may only grow.
Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) aggressively shielded Obama by holding up Senate bills that would have proven embarrassing defeats to a president at odds with members of his own Democratic Party.Republicans are inclined to attribute Obama's waning desire to lead and manage America's affairs to a personality that seems at odds with the rigorous demands of executive leadership. And they point to Obama's own words.
Clyburn: Tim Scott Winning Senate Seat Doesn't Count As "Progress" For Blacks Because He's A Republican
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(Shorter James Clyburn: Tim Scott wandered off the Dem plantation)
Via Mediaite:On Tuesday evening, interim Republican Sen. Tim Scott won South Carolina's special election to fill the remaining two years of retired Sen. Jim DeMint's term. Despite that electoral victory making Scott the first black senator elected by South Carolina, fellow South Carolinian James Clyburn is not impressed.
Speaking with the Washington Post, Clyburn, who is a black Democratic congressman, said:
"If you call progress electing a person with the pigmentation that he has, who votes against the interest and aspirations of 95 percent of the black people in South Carolina, then I guess that's progress."
Dirty Harry Reid Confused About What GOP Wave Means: "The Message From Voters Is Clear: They Want Us To Work Together"
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(No they don't, Dirty Harry)
Via The Hill:Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) congratulated Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) shortly before midnight Tuesday on becoming the next majority leader of the Senate after Republicans clinched control with victories in Iowa and North Carolina.
"I'd like to congratulate Sen. McConnell, who will be the new Senate majority leader. The message from voters is clear: they want us to work together. I look forward to working with Sen. McConnell to get things done for the middle class," Reid said in a statement.
The Senate Republican Conference will convene next week to elect McConnell as majority leader but the vote is considered a mere formality. McConnell has wide support among GOP colleagues even though Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), his chief critic, on Tuesday again declined to say whether he would vote for him.
Montana KKK Group To Embrace "Diversity" By Recruiting Non-Whites
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(Racist Democrat Al Sharpton would be a perfect fit)
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — One of Montana's most well-known white supremacists is recruiting members for a new Ku Klux Klan, one which he said will be all-inclusive and shows he no longer holds supremacist views.
John Abarr claims he is a reformed man, which is why he's started a new KKK group called the Rocky Mountain Knights. Though he won't say exactly how many members this new KKK group has, the organization will not discriminate against people because of race, religion or sexual orientation.
"The KKK is for a strong America," Abarr said. "White supremacy is the old Klan. This is the new Klan."
Though he's long been involved in white supremacy organizations growing up in Wyoming and Montana, Abarr, of Great Falls, Mont., claims his opinions have slowly evolved. Last year he met with members of the NAACP in Casper, Wyo. It has inspired him to organize a peace summit with the NAACP and other religious groups in the summer of 2015.
DNC's Race Baiter, Donna Brazile Still At It: Republicans Won Because People Who Voted For Them Were Stoned
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Fun Fact of the Day
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Obuma Has Lost Nearly 70 Dem House Seats
Since Taking Office
Via The Hill:President Obama has lost nearly 70 seats in the House since taking office and more seats in midterm elections than any president since Harry Truman.
Democrats have suffered a net loss of at least 69 House seats since 2008, with the possibility that Republicans could pick up even more seats as the final 2014 midterm races are called.
Senate Democrats have not fared much better, losing a net of at least 13 seats since Obama took office.
Midterm elections have been brutal for congressional Democrats in the Obama era. The party lost at least 77 seats in the midterms in 2010 and 2014, though they gained back eight seats in 2012.
Obama has already surpassed President Dwight Eisenhower's tally of 66 midterm losses in the House, according to data published by the Rothenberg Political Report. Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman both lost more House seats during their midterm years.
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Ah yes.... maturity at its finest. Obviously they had Rick Perry confused with Barack Obuma and Reggie Love. These are your Ivy Leaguers, people. Your best and your brightest. Your future leaders of tomorrow. God help us all. Bunch of damn freaks who belong in a Muslim mush pit somewhere. Guess no one taught these jerks that anal sex is the primary cause of HIV, penicillin resistant STDs, anal fissures and cancer. Oh well, nature has some unique ways of culling the herd.Via Campus Reform:A student at Dartmouth College asked Texas Governor Rick Perry Sunday if he would accept anal sex in exchange for $102 million in campaign contributions.
Senior Emily Sellers, a member of The Dartmouth, the official campus newspaper, posed the question to confront Perry's stance on homosexuality. Another student, Timothy Messen, accused Perry of comparing homosexuality to alcoholism.
The questions, which were written by sophomore Ben Packer and passed out on flyers before the event, were not well received by other students in attendance.
"In 2002, you supported Texas's anti-sodomy law," the flyer reads. "Do you (Rick Perry) dislike bootysex because the peeny goes in where the poopy comes out?"
Read more at http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6048
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Couple Fined For Refusing To Host Same-Sex Wedding On Their Farm
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Unbelievable! The future bride and... er.. groom in question.
600 lbs. of rompin' stompin' Pig-Racin' Lesbo's
Via NY Post:More at: http://nypost.com/2014/11/10/couple-fined-for-refusing-to-host-same-sex-wedding-on-their-farm/
Cynthia and Robert Gifford are caught in a same-sex nightmare. They've been forced to defend themselves against claims that they're lesbian-hating homophobes.
"We respect and care for everyone!'' Cynthia Gifford told me. "We had an openly gay man working for us this past season,'' she said.
"We've had a woman who's transitioning to be a man. We don't discriminate against anyone.''
But the government of the state of New York sees things differently. The Giffords, who own the bucolic Liberty Ridge Farm in upstate New York, were ordered to pay a total of $13,000 — a $10,000 fine to the state and another $1,500 to each member of a lesbian couple to compensate them for "mental anguish.'' All because the Giffords, devout Christians, refused to hold a same-sex wedding ceremony on the property on which they live, work and have raised a daughter, 17, and a son, 21.
"This is scary,'' Cynthia Gifford said. "It's scary for all Americans." Fifteen years ago, Cynthia, 54, and Robert Gifford, 55, opened to the public their farm in upstate Schaghticoke, near Albany, where they've lived for 25 years. They host an annual, family-friendly fall festival, which ends Tuesday, offering such countrified fare as a corn maze and pig-racing shows.
Gum-Chewin' Clown Ticks-Off The Commie Chinese
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Welcome to the club, Mao-ites!!!
Via USA Today:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/11/10/obama-gum-chewing-riles-some-chinese/18801757/
Ahead of an economic summit in Beijing, billed as the biggest international event in the Chinese capital since the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, authorities demanded that residents brush up their typically brusque manners. The Communist Party launched a six-month campaign to make Beijingers behave in a more civilized fashion to welcome the world.
Turns out the rude one, in the eyes of some Chinese Internet users, was the most prominent guest. Live television coverage on China's top state-run channel Monday night showed the leaders of the 21 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member states arriving in iconic socialist limousines, along red-lit avenues, at the Water Cube, the Olympic swimming venue. Obama eschewed the Red Flag limousine service that ferried other leaders one by one from a nearby building to a banquet, cultural show and fireworks at the aquatic venue. Some Chinese went online to criticize his preference for the familiar security of a U.S.-supplied vehicle, while others understood his choice, but what happened next surprised many here. Obama emerged from his car chewing gum; he's a well-known user of Nicorette, the smoking-cessation gum. But Chinese Internet users, accustomed to the highly formal standards of their stiff party leadership, quickly characterized the leader of the world's most powerful nation as an impolite "idler," or careless "rapper." "We made this meeting so luxurious, with singing and dancing, but see Obama, stepping out of his car chewing gum like an idler," wrote Yin Hong, a professor of journalism at Beijing's Tsinghua University, on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo micro-blog service. Twitter, like Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, is banned in China, whose censors fear such services could aid political protest.
Obuma Bows To The China's Communist President... Again!
(ObumaBow strikes again!)
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(Not the first time he's bowed to the ChiComs)
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HHS Drops Expectations For Obamacare Enrollment By 4 Million
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(Shhhh... don't tell!!!)
Via The Blaze: The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday estimated that about 9 million people would be enrolled in an Obamacare health plan by the end of 2015, 4 million less than an estimate from a separate government agency.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that 13 million people would be enrolled in Obamacare by 2015. But HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell was already backing off that number a month ago, a sign that she didn't believe it could reach that target.
HHS released its predictions to reporters at 1 p.m., but Burwell spoke in Washington soon after and said HHS is hoping for a bit more than 9 million after 2015.
"The number that we are going to aim for this year is 9.1 million," she said.
And then there is this:
U Penn Mysteriously Deletes Video Of Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Insulting American Voters
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Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber
(Shades of Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/10/u-penn-deletes-video-of-obamacare-architect-insulting-american-voters/
The Daily Caller's Patrick Howley reported Sunday that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber had said at the University of Pennsylvania's 24th Annual Health Economics Conference that it was a good thing that Americans never realized what was in the Affordable Care Act, because "the stupidity of the American voter" would have otherwise killed the law. But for unexplained reasons, the University of Pennsylvania has pulled its video of the event, which took place in October of 2013. "This video has been removed by the user," a message now reads. "Sorry about that." The video is still embedded on the conference page, but playing the video gives a similar error message.
One person who was angry to hear of the apparent cover-up was Bloomberg columnist Megan McArdle. "This is pretty shocking behavior by my alma mater," she tweeted, "Why would @Penn pull down a public video that has political implications?"
NBC Poll: Nearly Twice As Many Americans Say Race Relations Have Gotten Worse Since Obuma Took Office
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(Thanks to Obuma giving legitimacy to degenerates like Al Sharpton)
Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2014/11/09/playing-racial-games/
[M]uch of the nation shared his optimism. An NBC News exit poll in 2008 asked voters how they thought race relations would fare under Obama. Some 47 percent said they would get better, 34 percent thought they would stay about the same, while only 15 percent expected them to get worse. But last week, another NBC exit poll captured the bad news. Only 20 percent said race relations had improved under Obama, while 38 percent say they are worse. Blacks are especially disappointed. Nearly 60 percent had high hopes in 2008, while only 19 percent now say things are better. A whopping 43 percent say things are worse.
Obama Passes When Asked If He Supports Pro-Demoracy Protesters In Hong Kong: "It's Complicated"
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(No way Obuma would diss his ChiCom overlords)
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/obama-china-hong-kong-112743.html
BEIJING — [/b] President Barack Obama vowed Monday to stand up for American values in exchanges with China about the ongoing democracy-related protests in Hong Kong, but the president was careful to couch his remarks in terms less likely to offend his Chinese hosts.
"Our primary message has been to make sure that violence is avoided as the people of Hong Kong try to sort through what the next phase is of their relationship to the mainland," Obama said in response to a question during a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott at the U.S. Embassy here. It was the first time he's publicly spoken on the issue.
"There are certain things that the United States believes. We believe in freedom of speech. We believe in freedom of association. We believe in openness in government as befitting our traditions and our way of life," Obama declared.
"I think it would be unrealistic to expect that we set those concerns aside," he continued. "People have aspirations for freedom and dignity in countries all around the globe."
Morale Sinks At CNN's DC Bureau
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(Unhuh... I thought ol' Wolfie was 'looking down in the mouth' lately)
By DYLAN BYERS |
11/10/14 1:40 PM ESTCNN's Washington bureau is suffering from low morale and high anxiety in the wake of weeks of layoffs and buyouts — with one employee likening the place to the Redskins' locker room.
In conversations with POLITICO, sources at the bureau spoke of tension in the office as several longtime staffers have been let go while others are being promoted and given raises. On Friday, during the most recent departures, "people were crying all over the bureau," one D.C. employee said.
"Morale at the CNN Washington Bureau is about as strong as it is inside the Redskins' locker room — and the management is just as bad," another CNN staffer said.
The latest round of layoffs and buyouts was meant to cut roughly 300 positions from across CNN's bureaus, or 8 percent of its total staff. In Washington, roughly 50 employees were let go — 27 through layoffs and roughly two dozen through buyouts. Meanwhile, CNN DC has created 20 new positions on the digital side. The network said that a few of the laid-off employees have reapplied for new positions at the network, and at least three have been accepted so far.
The latest exit was Michelle Jaconi, an executive producer and D.C. bureau stalwart, who declined to relocate to New York and bid adieu to her colleagues in a lengthy email on Friday. Jaconi was escorted out of the bureau immediately after sending the email.
Edie Emery, the senior director of public relations in Washington, declined to comment on newsroom morale. Following the layoffs and buyouts in October, CNN D.C. executives held meetings with staffers in which they discussed the layoffs and other changes at the network.
Most staffers conceded that the network was in need of a shakeup, and some commended CNN President Jeff Zucker for moving to streamline an operation that has become overpopulated and lethargic. But they expressed concern that the executives working under Zucker lack the management skills needed to guide staff through the transition and complained of a lack of guidance or reassurance from the newsroom leadership.
"No one has said, 'This is tough, but here's the road ahead,'" an employee said.
"Things have been horrible inside the Washington bureau," another staffer said. "On Friday, which was everyone's last day, people were crying all over the bureau, but managers hid in offices and didn't go to any of the goodbye office parties."
"Many employees who are left are terrified of being let go," the staffer said. "The management in the bureau is forcing most remaining producers to sign contracts, because they are worried even more people are going to leave the company, and the bureau can't run with fewer people than are staffed now. So as a huge group has been let go, [others] are getting promotions and huge raises, which has made the last month horrible between the haves and have nots."
Demo-Rats may overthrow Dirty Harry As Minority Leader
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(How about Al Frankenstein from Minnesota as Minority Leader?)
By DYLAN BYERS |
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/11/chuck-todd-dems-may-overthrow-reid-198227.html?ml=bp
Chuck Todd seems to believe that Harry Reid's days as the top Senate Democrat are through.
"I don't think -- I will be surprised if Democrats keep Harry Reid," Todd, the moderator of NBC's "Meet The Press," said late Tuesday night. "I think this is going to be an open question inside the Senate Democratic Caucus."
Todd's remark, made during a late night NBC News livestream, was among the boldest calls made by a member of the media on Tuesday, and certainly the most dire for the current Majority Leader. It's not an unfair projection, either. As Nevada's Jon Ralson recently reported, Reid's "vaunted political machine" failed to drive Democrats to the polls this year, and Reid's poor Senate stewardship has "induced senators and candidates he has helped to muse openly about not voting for him as leader."
Whatever the case, Reid will run for Minority Leader, and our colleague Manu Raju reports that senior Senate Democratic aides have indicated that he will have "the full support of his entire leadership team, despite his party incurring huge losses on Election Night. Reid's top three deputies — Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) — all have vowed to support Reid staying on as Democratic leader, according to officials in each of those offices."
The South: Solid Once Again For Conservatives
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(The South will rise again! The Old Confederacy will be the battle ground for the 2016 Presidential nominee. Looks like Redcliffsw will get his wish... LOL)
Via The Statehttp://www.thestate.com/2014/11/08/3798983_the-south-solid-once-again-for.html?sp=/99/205/&rh=1
With the walloping Republicans gave Democrats in the midterm elections, the GOP stands one Louisiana Senate runoff away from completely controlling Southern politics from the Carolinas to Texas. Only a handful of Democrats hold statewide office in the rest of the Old Confederacy.
The results put Southern Republicans at the forefront in Washington — from Senate Majority Leader-in-waiting Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to a host of new committee chairmen. Those leaders and the rank-and-file behind them will set the Capitol Hill agenda and continue molding the GOP's identity heading into 2016.
In Washington, Senate Republicans haven't parceled out leadership assignments, but Southerners figure prominently among would-be major committee chairmen: Mississippi's Thad Cochran (Appropriations); Alabama's Jeff Sessions (Budget) and Richard Shelby of Alabama (Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs); Bob Corker of Tennessee (Foreign Relations); Richard Burr of North Carolina (Intelligence); Lamar Alexander of Tennessee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions); Johnny Isakson of Georgia (Veterans Affairs).
In the House, Georgia Rep. Tom Price could end up chairing the Budget Committee. Louisiana's Steve Scalise already won a promotion to majority whip, Republicans' No. 3 post in the chamber. Georgia's Rob Woodall chairs the Republican Study Committee, the GOP's arch-conservative arm.
In statehouses, consolidated Republican power affords the opportunity to advance conservative causes from charter schools and private school vouchers to expanding the tax breaks and incentive programs that define Republican economic policy. The outcome also assures that much of the South, at least for now, will remain steadfast in its refusal to participate in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
"I think these new leaders can help drive the conservative movement" at all levels, said Louisiana Republican Party Chairman Roger Villere, echoing the celebrations of Republican leaders and activists across the region. "We just want a government that doesn't suppress people."
Republicans widely have acknowledged that the party now has to prove it can govern. But one-party rule invariably means internal squabbles. Republican White House hopefuls in particular must court Southern Republicans who are more strident than the wider electorate on issues ranging from immigration to abortion and the broader debate over the government's role — and how to pay for it.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/11/08/3798983_the-south-solid-once-again-for.html?sp=/99/205/&rh=1#storylink=cpy
Veterans Day – 2014
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On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as "the Great War." Commemorated as 'Armistice Day' beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, 'Armistice Day' became 'Veterans Day', a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars. In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae, May 1915
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
United Nations Exposes Chemtrails
100% PROOF We Are Being Poisoned
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If you haven't read all my previous article exposing 'Agenda 21′ and Chemtrails here is even more proof from United Nation.
worldtruth.tv/busted-pilot-forgets-to-turn-off-chemtrails-while-landing
worldtruth.tv/snowden-uncovers-shocking-truth-behind-chemtrails
worldtruth.tv/chemtrail-whistleblower-speaks
worldtruth.tv/chemtrail-flu-have-you-got-it-yet
worldtruth.tv/swedish-official-admits-toxic-chemtrails-are-real-not-a-wild-conspiracy-theory
By now everyone has witnessed streaks of white trailing across the sky, stretching from horizon to horizon, ultimately turning the skies into a murky haze. We can no longer ignore the fact that our skies are being heavily polluted with aluminium, barium, lead, arsenic, chromium, cadmium, selenium, and silver. All of which attribute to a host of health problems including: neurological effects, heart damage, eyesight issues, reproduction failures, immune system damage, gastrointestinal disorders, damaged kidney, damaged liver, hormonal problems, and more.
The truth is the government is spraying deadly chemtrails in hopes of population reduction. Furthermore they have been known to use chemtrails as biological testing agents on the populace; all while claiming they are nothing more than mere vapor.
We'll now we have 100% undeniable evidence that chemtrails exist. The video below is of Rosalind Peterson, the president of Agriculture Defence Coalition. In it she address the United Nations on chemtrails, geoengineering, and weather modification (HAARP).
If you were a skeptic before, I can assure you, that you will not be after hearing what she has to say to the people in power.
Here are more articles you can read about Chemtrails and the Elite evil agenda:
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http://worldtruth.tv/united-nations-exposes-chemtrails-100-proof-we-are-being-poisoned/
Anti-Military Anthem Played At
"Concert For Valor"
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(This is sooooo bad! Can Springsteen spell Political? He was a fair musician until he embraced politics. Common failing among the "Arty" types. Sick and tired of all of these archaic, earring wearin', head bangin', snot nosed, drugged out, long haired adolesent F%!*#^$. They know very little, were not asked for their opinion, and never served in the military. Bill Ayers is probably laughing his a$$ off. Somebody should have pulled the plug on those worn out hippies. By the way, Cousin Brucie... when are you going to pay your back taxes??) Via The Weekly Standardhttp://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/anti-military-anthem-played-concert-valor_818921.html#!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7sR_rMDu6gM#t=0
Who would have thought that that Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, and Zac Brown, accomplished musicians all, would be so, well, tone-deaf? But how else to explain their choice of song—Creedence Clearwater's famously anti-war anthem "Fortunate Son"—at the ostensibly pro-military "Concert for Valor" this evening on the National Mall?
The song, not to put too fine a point on it, is an anti-war screed, taking shots at "the red white and blue." It was a particularly terrible choice given that Fortunate Son is, moreover, an anti-draft song, and this concert was largely organized to honor those who volunteered to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.
On a musical level, "Fortunate Song" is not a bad song—that's one hell of a riff. But the "Concert for Valor," a Veterans Day event sponsored by HBO and Starbucks, in front of the Capitol Building, was not the place for it.
Senate Dems May Consider Vote On Keystone Pipeline
Soon To Help Mary Landrieu
(Sorry... ain't gonna help)
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Via Bloomberg:http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-11/senate-democrats-said-to-consider-keystone-vote-soon.html
Senate Democrats are considering a vote in the lame-duck session to force approval of TransCanada Corp. (TRP)'s Keystone XL pipeline, a party aide said, a move that may bolster Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu's re-election chances.
Similar measures have failed to advance in the Senate this year and Senate leaders will have trouble mustering the votes for passage now. President Barack Obama could veto the measure.
The Senate Democratic aide, who requested anonymity to discuss the plans, said specific language for a proposal hadn't been determined.
The purpose of the vote would be symbolic: To highlight Landrieu's support for the pipeline, as well as her influence on energy issues in Washington — a centerpiece of her campaign. Casting a vote in favor of the pipeline may benefit Landrieu in her Dec. 6 runoff election, in which she faces Republican Representative Bill Cassidy.
Obamacare Architect Regrets Calling Americans Voters "Stupid"
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(He regrets that the video went viral and the truth came out. The actual content he made, not so much. Just think of all those in attendance during the conference in which he revealed this blatant fraud perpetrated intentionally on the American tax paying public. Not a single attendee seemed offended, alarmed or even slightly concerned about his tactics... as if it was accepted as normal standard practice. BTY, this MIT Schutzstaffel Clown was paid $400,000 for his part in ObumaCrappyCare. "Lack of transparency," Gruber lectured, "is a huge political advantage.")https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_HFRaCPM92A#t=52
Via Daily Caller:Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said Tuesday that he regrets saying that aspects of Obamacare needed to be concealed from the public due to the "stupidity of the American voter."
"Do you stand by the comments in that video?," MSNBC host Ronan Farrow asked Gruber, referring to a video of Gruber explaining how a lack of transparency helped Obamacare pass into law. (RELATED: Gruber: Lack of Transparency Was Key Because 'Stupidity of the American Voter' Would Have Killed Obamacare).
"The comments in the video were made at an academic conference," Gruber said. "I was speaking off the cuff and I basically spoke inappropriately and I regret having made those comments."
Russia's Bombers To Conduct Regular Patrols
Around ranging from the Arctic to the Gulf Of Mexico Region
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Russia's strategic bomber Tu-160 or White Swan, the largest supersonic bomber in the world.
(Umm... could they head a little west and patrol the Southern Border?)
Via Yahoo: MOSCOW – In a show of military muscle amid tensions with the West, Russia will send long-range strategic bombers on regular patrol missions across the globe, from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, a top official said Wednesday.
The announcement by Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu came as NATO's chief accused Russia of sending fresh troops and tanks into eastern Ukraine.
"Over the last few days, we have seen multiple reports of large convoys moving into Eastern Ukraine," said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. "We assess that this significant military buildup includes Russian artillery, tanks, air defence systems and troops. His statement called the situation a "severe threat to the cease-fire."
Moscow denied the allegation as unfounded, but Shoigu also said the dispute with the West over Ukraine would require Russia to beef up its forces in the Crimea, the Black Sea Peninsula that Russia annexed in March.
Keep Reading... https://ca.news.yahoo.com/russias-bombers-conduct-regular-patrols-ranging-arctic-gulf-140627703.html
Huckabee Laying Groundwork For Another Presidential Run
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(Try to contain your excitement)
Via Washington Post:Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who turned his stunning victory in the 2008 Iowa caucuses into a thriving talk show career, is reconnecting with activists and enlisting staff to position himself in a growing field of potential Republican presidential candidates.
This week, Huckabee is leading more than 100 pastors and GOP insiders from early primary states on a 10-day overseas trip with stops in Poland and England.
Huckabee's newly formed non-profit advocacy group, America Takes Action, has begun to serve as an employment perch for his political team, recently bringing on a number of experienced campaign operatives.
Advisers are already scouting real estate in Little Rock, Ark., for a possible presidential campaign headquarters.
Huckabee is scheduled to spend part of November holding private meetings with powerful GOP financiers in Las Vegas, New York, and California, gauging their interest in being bundlers for his possible campaign and asking for pledges of five-to six-figure donations to his aligned organizations. And he is planning two strategy sessions in December, in Little Rock and Destin, Fla., near his new Gulf Coast home, to discuss timing, potential staffing, and an opening pitch to voters.
Poll: Nearly 6-In-10 Americans Think Obama Will Get Little To Nothing Done In Last Two Years As President
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(We can only hope so)
Via The Hill:Most Americans are skeptical President Obama will be able to accomplish much of anything in his final years in office now that Republicans have seized control of both chambers of Congress.
Nearly six in 10 respondents in the Pew Research poll say the president will "accomplish not much or nothing of what he wants to get done." By contrast, only a third say Obama will accomplish "some" of his remaining goals, while a mere 6 percent predict Obama will get a "great deal" of what he wants done.
Separately, a poll from Gallup finds that 53 percent want Republicans to have more influence than Obama. Thirty-six percent say they want the president to set the agenda.
In the Pew poll, 41 percent say they want congressional Republicans to take the lead in solving the nation's problems. Forty percent say they wanted the president to do so.
By contrast, in 2010 — when Republicans retook control of the House — half of Americans said Obama should take the lead, whole just three in 10 said the GOP should.
So Sad... (sniff)... Landrieu Not Given A Single Penny This Past Week From Outside Dem Groups For Runoff
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(Don't let the door hit ya in the butt)
Via Capitol City Project:
Six days ago, it was reported the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wouldn't be lending any more support to Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) leading up to her December 6 runoff election against Republican opponent Bill Cassidy, as the DSCC has canceled its advertising reservations in the state. However, it appears that her problems extend well beyond them, as even more outside groups have appeared to jump ship — at least for the time being.
FEC filings from the past week show that the sitting senator hasn't received one independent donation from any outside group either in support of her re-election or opposing Cassidy. In fact, every independent committee or PAC donation went in support of her Republican challenger or into opposing her in the runoff election.
Settlement Reached In Texas Ebola Death Case
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(Confidential settlement, that is)
Via CNN:
(CNN) — The family of Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian national who died of Ebola at a Texas hospital, has reached a confidential settlement with Texas Health Resources, according to the Duncan family attorney Les Weisbrod.
In September, Duncan traveled to Texas from Liberia and began experiencing Ebola symptoms which prompted him to go to the emergency room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. He was misdiagnosed and sent home, both the Duncan family and Texas health authorities have said. Duncan was hospitalized days later, tested for Ebola and then began receiving care.
Part of the settlement, Weisbrod said, entailed creating a memorial fund intended to raise money that will go to help victims of Ebola in West Africa where the virus has hit communities the hardest.
The Texas Health Dallas Thomas Eric Duncan Memorial Fund, which Weisbrod said would be described in detail later, will be run by a Duncan family member and Texas Health Resources, according to the lawyer.
The attorney also said that the Duncan family received a private letter of apology from Texas Health Resources.
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Obuma Set To Award Medal Of Freedom To
Lib Mouthpiece Dingbat Tom Brokaw
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(Tommy to receive the "Thanks for your loyalty in covering my Ass" Award)
Via Newsbusters:On Monday, the White House announced that President Obama would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former NBC Nightly News anchor and current special correspondent Tom Brokaw – among other 2014 recipients. Today news anchor Natalie Morales touted the announcement on Monday, noting: "Obama said in a statement, these citizens have made extraordinary contributions to our country and the world."
Brokaw has repeatedly taken the opportunity to boost or defend Barack Obama throughout his presidency. That made it no surprise that the commander-in-chief would want to reward such a loyal media supporter.
In fact, it would not be the first time Obama bestowed an honor on Brokaw. In 2009, the President named Brokaw to the selection panel for the White House Fellows program.
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Report: Obama To Unveil 10-Point Immigration Plan Using Executive Orders As Early As Next Week
(Ay! Caramba!)
Via Fox News:President Obama is planning to unveil a 10-part plan for overhauling U.S. immigration policy via executive action — including suspending deportations for millions — as early as next Friday, a source close to the White House told Fox News.
The president's plans were contained in a draft proposal from a U.S. government agency. The source said the plan could be announced as early as Nov. 21, though the date might slip a few days pending final White House approval.
Obama was briefed at the White House by Homeland Security officials before leaving on his Asia-Pacific trip last week, Fox News has learned.
The plan contains 10 initiatives than span everything from boosting border security to improving pay for immigration officers.
But the most controversial planks pertain to the millions who could get a deportation reprieve under what is known as "deferred action."
The plan calls for expanding deferred action for illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children — but also for the parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
The latter could allow upwards of 4.5 million illegal immigrant adults with U.S.-born children to stay, according to estimates.
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"Have you noticed that the Evening News is where they begin with 'Good evening', and then proceed to tell you why it isn't."
These days, you can hardly look at our institutions or the electorate and not wonder how or if America will survive. Even our so-called houses of worship are not above suspicion. Whether it's mosques, where far too often our vilest enemies meet to plot our deaths and America's downfall; black churches, where hatred of whites is often passed off as gospel by reverends cut in the style of Jeremiah Wright; or Presbyterian churches, where its ministers are so preoccupied with attacking Israel, they often ignore Christ altogether and overlook the fact that he was a Jew.
Our schools also serve as incubators of ignoramuses who are likely to regard global warming and second-hand smoke as greater dangers than Islam and the Democratic Party, and far more likely to regard Barack Obama as a finer president and a greater man than George Washington.
Or as mathematician Martin Gardner writes, "Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads, ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical events. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all."
He might have mentioned the painters, sculptors, writers and composers, whose work manages to survive in spite of all the mischief inflicted by the others on his list. Proof of his contention is that year after year, when Americans are asked to name the ten people they most admire, the list contains nine people holding elective office and a tenth, some pinhead like Hillary Clinton, who hopes to in the near-future.
Speaking of harridans, I just recently discovered that a foundation subsidized by John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, helps support a Pittsburgh restaurant named Conflict Kitchen. The eatery boasts that it only serves food native to countries that oppose the U.S. Further proof that their hearts are in the wrong place is that they serve their sandwiches in propaganda wrappers denouncing Israel.
The foundation has also funneled millions of dollars to radical left-wing environmental groups.
I think we can all agree that however we may have felt about George Bush's eight years in office, we owe him a huge debt of gratitude for keeping Al Gore and the Kerrys out of the White House.
The homage to the late Ben Bradlee continues unabated. Much has been made about his objectivity as managing editor of the Washington Post, his insistence that truth is the only thing that matters when you're running a newspaper. And yet the man behind the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate scandal, allowed himself to be seduced by John Kennedy. Although Bradlee ran more than 200 stories about Watergate, he never ran even one about Kennedy's non-stop womanizing, not even when Kennedy was sharing the sexual favors of a Mafia don's moll.
The same people would have us believe that in spite of going sailing with Kennedy every chance he had, Walter Cronkite was also a great objective newsman. Although his defenders referred to him as avuncular, he was really just pompous and boring. But his fans called him Uncle Walter. Well, it so happens that Uncle Walter's nightly lies about Vietnam eventually led to our defeat in a war which, as we later learned, the North Vietnamese were certain they'd lost.
The blood of the millions of Cambodians murdered by the Communists belongs on Cronkite's hands every bit as much as it does on Jane Fonda's.
....Burt
The Russians Are Coming
09 Nov, 2014
by Dave Hodges
PART ONE
Actor and noted comedian, Jonathan Winters, once made a mockery of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union in the classic comedy movie The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. It is distressing to report, that contrary to the mainstream position that Russia lost the Cold War, the Russians are indeed very healthy and ready to wage war against the United States as Americans are living on borrowed time as we have failed to prepare for a joint Russian and Chinese attack upon our country.What team is Obama playing for?
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The United States has not been attacked on the home front for 200 years dating back to the War of 1812. There exists a plethora of confirming information to support the fact that America's days may be numbered and that we are totally unprepared for what is coming. There exists credible evidence that the American people have also been betrayed from within by some key leaders, namely, Barack Hussein Obama.
Let's commence this analysis by examining the statements of high-profile Soviet defectors and try and make sense of what they have been telling American intelligence agencies for decades, namely that the Russians have engaged in a multi-generational plot to destabilize America prior to the takeover in which both the Russians and the Chinese will unleash a ferocious assault upon our country.
Viktor Suvorov and the "Fake" Surrender of the Soviet Union
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Viktor Suvorov, a former Russian intelligence analyst, revealed Russia's top-secret plans to attack the United States, after he defected to England. Having worked as an intelligence analyst as well as having worked for the GRU and with elite Russian special forces, Suvorov, warned the Americans of Russia's true intentions after the Russian high command had succeeded in getting Pentagon officials to let down their guard and engage in a high level, but mostly one-sided, technology transfer.
Yuri Bezmenov and "Ideological Subversion"
Former Soviet defector, Yuri Bezmenov, a well renowned media/propaganda expert defected to the United States. in 1970, and subsequently exposed the KGB's subversive tactics against American society. Yuri Bezmenov has conducted a number of interviews in which he explains how Marxist ideology is deconstructing America's values by controlling the media and which would ultimately serve to demoralize the country, destabilize the economy, and provoke crises in order to sovietize the United States. Bezmenov is well known for revealing Russia's doctrine of "ideological subversion", a slow, long-term multi-decade process of media-based brainwashing in which the sole purpose is to confuse, confound, and destroy the moral base of America.
Has this plot been effective? When Bezmenov defected in 1970, abortion was not yet legal in the United States, nor was gay marriage, Americans, by and large, trusted their government, the comparative use of profanity in the media was rare and there were over 250 corporations controlling 95% of the media instead of the six corporations which own the same percentage today. This media consolidation and the presence of prominent media plants, such as CNN's Anderson Cooper, ex -CIA operative, have gone a long way towards achieving these Russian goals. Bezmenov's account also casts serious doubts upon the severe decline of America's moral base as being the product of a normal societal, evolutionary process which accidentally transpired. Conversely, Bezmenov has clearly identified the Leninist propaganda techniques which have been rolled out in the United States.
Stanislav Lunev and Long-Term Russian Preparations for War Against the U.S.
Former Russian Colonel Stanislav Lunev has the distinction of being the highest ranking Russian military officer to defect from to the United States after doing so in 1992, after Boris Yeltsin came to power. Lunev's information was considered to be so volatile, but accurate, that the CIA, DIA, FBI, NSA placed Lunev, where he remains to this day, in the FBI's Witness Protection Program.
Lunev served as the top GRU agent in America in the 1980's and 1990's. While in the United States, Lunev mission involved gathering intelligence information about America's defenses and recommending Russian war strategies against America. Some of Lunev's information came to light, when in the 1997, he published his bestselling book Through the Eyes of the Enemy. In the book, Lunev reports that Russia's military, despite "losing the cold war", continues in its war preparations which are designed to conquer the United States by stealth. Since his defection, Lunev has served as a special agent to the FBI, CIA as well as many large corporations. Lunev is best known for revealing the missing 100+ missing suitcase nuclear bombs and the threat they would pose to the United States as they would be smuggled across the Mexican border.
Anatoliy Golitsyn Russia's Secret War Plans Against the U.S.
Anatoliy Golitsyn, a high-ranking KGB defector who fled to the United States in order to warn Americans about the secret Russian plan to attack the United States.
Golitsyn is generally considered to be among the first and most revealing on the subject of the secret Russian plans to attack. Having authored the The Perestroika Deception in which Golitsyn wrote about the deceitful intent behind the Leninist strategy which the present-day Communists are actively pursuing as they fake American style democratization efforts in Russia. According to Golitsyn, the short-term strategic objective of the Russians is to achieve a technological convergence with the West solely on Russian terms and mostly through a series of one-sided disarmament agreements.
According to Golitsyn, after the United States military is eliminated as a strategic threat to Russia, the long-range strategic Russian plan is to pursue Lenin's goal of replacing nation states with collectivist model of regional governments as a stepping stone to global governance. In order to achieve their final goal, Golitsyn states that Russia, after lulling America to sleep, will join with China in order to attack the United States from both the outside and inside as he detailed that "In each of these the scissors strategy will play its part; probably, as the final stroke, the scissors blades will close. The element of apparent duality in Soviet and Chinese policies will disappear. The hitherto concealed coordination between them will become visible and predominant. The Soviets and the Chinese will be officially reconciled. Thus the scissors strategy will develop logically into the 'strategy of one clenched fist' to provide the foundation and driving force of a world communist federation...before long, the communist strategists might be persuaded that the balance had swung irreversibly in their favor. In that event they might well decide on a Sino-Soviet 'reconciliation.' The scissors strategy would give way to the strategy of "one clenched fist." The enemies now are gathered from within. At that point the shift in the political and military balance will be plain for all to see. I submit that the free trade agreements and the 300 senior command military officers fired by Obama stand as proof of these strategies.
The Planned Demise of the Petrodollar Will Lead to U.S. Economic Collapse
The decades of Russian stealth planning have arrived and the forces are primed for battle. The opportune (Petrodollar) crisis has opportunistically appeared and it is only a matter of time until hostilities break out. The Russians are prepared to meet the United States at the gates of Iran along with their new found Chinese allies. Ultimately, this conflict is over which currency, the Petrodollar or gold, will prevail for the payment of Iranian oil. The economic futures of both sides hangs in the balance.
Throughout the last part of the 2oth century and the first portion of the current century, the world had to purchase the dollar in order to purchase oil from the Middle East producing nations. Previously, Iraq tried to circumvent this Petrodollar process, by accepting the Euro from France and Germany, as payment for its oil. Saddam Hussein ultimately paid for this bold move with his life. Among his many transgressions against the central bankers, Moammar Gadhafi attempted to circumvent the Petrodollar scheme and met the same fate. Rockefeller and his cronies take the Petrodollar scheme very seriously.
Iran is now following in Hussein and Gadhafi's footprints by selling oil to the Russians, Chinese and even the people of India in exchange for gold! Iran's practice is undermining the only form of backing enjoyed by America's Federal Reserve Notes, the Petrodollar. Without the Petrodollar system, the Federal Reserve's paper money will degenerate to the status of a fiat currency, will subsequently hyper inflate and the Federal Reserve's epitaph will have been written along with the economic future of all Americans.
The simple solution seems to simply repeat history, send in our proxy troops and let them carry out economic justice with extreme prejudice towards the leaders of Iran. However, unlike Iraq and Libya, Iran has very powerful allies who are collectively willing to challenge the central bankers dominance of the oil industry. It is notable, that both the Russians and the Chinese have threatened the United States with war if Iran is attacked.
It is also no secret that in recent months, America has positioned the largest naval armada in history near the Strait of Hormuz presumably to launch military strikes upon Syria and Iran. The CIA backed ISIS is the further manifestation of this desperate plan to preserve the Petrodollar by toppling Syria and the soon-to-be destabilization of Iran. It is also no secret that the Russians have threatened our government with war if America attacks its two aforementioned allies. This clearly casts Russia into the role of being a military enemy of the United States. When ISIS goes into Syria, we will see the beginning of WW III.
Treason From Within
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If Russia and the United States are clearly headed for conflict, why then, would the federal government mandate that enemy Russian paratroopers and commandos be trained at Fort Carson Army base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Yet, this is an undeniable fact as Defense Department spokesperson, Commander W. L. Snyder, told the New American, that Russian troops are training in southern Colorado in which they would be allowed to provide security at local baseball games and to participate in roadside checkpoints as well as to conduct war game military raids on local terrorist base camps. The unmistakable conclusion is that our enemies are being trained to interact with the American public and to participate in policing activities on American soil. We are looking at the fact that Russian commando hit squads will be carrying out the assassinations of key American figures including members of Congress. The Russians will also likely be carrying out the sabotage of our command and control facilities as well as attacking many of our nuclear weapons silos. Thanks to our stupidity, due to previous arms agreements, we have shown the Russians where all of defenses are located.
The Russians were even allowed to be present at last year's Grid EXII drill in which a simulated take-down of the American power grid by an EMP was rehearsed. Why in the hell would we let both the Russians and their Chinese allies be in attendance after they have threatened to nuke the United States on so many occasions?
The presence of Russian troops on American soil be considered an act of war! Why then would Russian troops be given access to one of our most important and secure military bases in the country? Why then are Russian troops being allowed to view how our military will meet a crisis not to mention the fact that we are giving the Russian military access to the inner workings of a key military installation while training on American soil for the first time! Is this is just a significant military intelligence victory for the Russians? Has the Obama administration lost its mind by revealing our military command and control capabilities in a crisis situation? Or, is this apparent abject stupidity, on the part of the Obama administration, being carried out with clear intent, precision and purpose, to a level which would make Benedict Arnold jealous? Why else would Russian troops be trained to carry out policing activities on American soil in which they will supplant our domestic forces?
Conclusion
Part one of this series purposely left out the complicity of another sympathetic Russian collaborator. There are still more dots to connect and in Part 2 of the Russians are Coming, Obama's complicity in the betrayal of this country will be revealed and the plan to use Obama has been in the works for a very long time as there is no doubt that his presidency is just as much a part of the destruction of this country in the same spirit as Bezmenov, Lunev, Golitsyn and Suvorov have described.
The Russians are not coming, they are here!
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PART TWO
This is the second part in a series in which it will become clear that Putin, Obama and the banksters are the greatest threat to the welfare of mankind and the world is on a one-way trip to a planned Armageddon. Part one detailed how key Soviet defectors have repeatedly warned the United States about a multi-generational plot to destroy America. Before this series is concluded, Obama will be clearly implicated in this plot as well. However,the focus for Part Two of this series centers around Putin's role in destabilizing and destroying America.(http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2014/03/putin-is-superman.jpg)
Look, up in the sky, is it a bird, is it a plane, no, it's Super Putin. He is single handedly taking on the evil bankers and winning.
According to some, Putin will singlehandedly rescue the world from the clutches of the Rothschild/Rockefeller criminal banking cartel. Putin is the modern day version of George Washington who will lead the world to the promise land while crushing the New World Order. I wish this was true, but to believe so would be to engage in the fantasy thinking of a five year old. There are no good guys, there are no bad guys. There are the banksters. They own everything and they control everything. It may be true that Putin appears in control of the world's chessboard as evidenced by his repulsing of the planned American invasion of Syria and now he controls the high ground on regaining control of Crimea and ultimately Ukraine. Putin may presently control the chessboard, but who is in control of Putin?
Left vs. Right, Republican vs. Democrat, Putin vs. Obama
The illusion of choice is an interesting proposition. In the 2012 election, we saw Obama running for re-election against Obama 2.0. Both Romney and Obama were for "universal" healthcare. Both men were willing to trample on American civil liberties as move headlong into the New World Order. There was virtually no difference between the two.
In the recent 2014 midterm election, the Democrats officially became an endangered species. Some Americans actually believe that by turning the political coin over, that they have actually produced change with their Diebold voting machine controlled elections.
The third paradigm that ignorant Americans are falsely believing is that Vladamir Putin is a hero and Obama is the villain. All of a sudden, Putin is against homosexuality, is a professed Christian, denounces the New World Order , is devoutly anti-Sharia Law and rejects the Petrodollar. Obama is openly embracing the opposite of Putin's mainstream profession of family values. One look at Putin's life quickly reveals what a fraud this man is. He is no more of a Christian than Lucifer. Putin is part of a bankster PSYOPS to erode American confidence in their own leaders by being more like a traditional American than the American president.
The media likes to cast Putin in the role of saving the planet from WW III, while his American counterpart is recklessly plunging the World into the inevitable conflict. However, when one looks through Putin's persona through the lens of common sense, it is clear that the banksters, Putin and Obama are all on the same team. For those who believe this fiction, please take note of this former exchange between President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev while they were taking part in a global nuclear security summit in South Korea in 2012. President Obama was caught on tape asking for "space." Obama went on to state the following:
"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." Obama assured the departing Russian President he will have the "flexibility" required to deal with missile defense issues after the 2012 presidential election.
So much for the East-West paradigm which is "threatening" world peace, and we are supposed to believe this fiction that Putin is a noble man who is opposing the ruthless United States led by the war mongering Obama? The following tape demonstrates that the Russians, the Americans and the banksters are playing for the same team.
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All Wars Are Controlled By the Bankers
World War I was waged by 27 nations. The number of participants totaled 66 million. There were 37 million casualties with seven million who were killed. Its direct costs are estimated at $210 trillion. The indirect costs of the war are estimated at $150 trillion dollars. And these figures do not include the additional billions in interest payments, veterans' care and pensions, and similar expenses..." In WWI, we see the Rothschild/Rockefeller banking interests prolonging the conflict by at least three years. The only way that this war continued beyond 1915 was because the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 and could make up money out of thin air. This is how the bankers do it. This is how they get endless war by supplying both sides with fiat currency and promoting wars by controlling both sides of the conflict.
Many experts credit Standard Oil with giving the allies the ability to win WWII against the Nazi's. Yet, The banksters also supported the Nazis in World War Two as Charles Higham documents in his classic book, Trading with the Enemy (1983). Higham clearly demonstrates that Rockefeller's Standard Oil supplied oil to the Nazis. George H. W. Bush's father, Prescott Bush was actually charged with violating the Trading with the Enemies Act in WWII, because the elder Bush was supplying aid and comfort to the Nazis. The charges were eventually dropped and the event was covered up because Bush was in charge of the USO and the damage to American morale could have been significant. Coke and IBM supplied both sides in WWII and the list goes on and on. And we are supposed to believe that Super Putin is above all of this control?
"Al Capone" Is the President of Russia
For those that think that Putin is a desirable alternative to the banksters should consider the following Putinisms which stand as a testament to his absolute moral depravity and thuggery. He is KGB, and then he morphed into a key member of the Russian Mafia along with like-minded thugs of that era. At one time after the fall of Russia, the Russian Mafia was the only viable business alternative (i.e. black market) and it was complete with protection rackets, the murdering of journalists who exposed their criminality and the assassination of politicians who opposed this group of which Putin was a prominent member. Businesses like Life Lock, the identity theft protection agency, owes its existence to Putin and the Russian Mafia. It is the Russian Mafia that has popularized the crime of computer hacking and identity theft. Putin has been a key player in the rise of the former KGB/Russian mafia as the ruling party in the Russian Federation.
Putinisms
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft went public with claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin stole his 2004 Super Bowl ring during his visit to Russia in 2005. All of you naysayers, turn off your computers and save your printer ink, this is too well documented to not be true.
In 1991, Putin, then deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, organized a number of scams involving meat imports into the poor, starving city. This drive is believed by many to have enabled Putin to make himself incredibly wealthy with an amassed fortune of almost $70 billion.
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Putin has even had his 9/11 false flag moment. While trying to drum up a reason to invade Chechnya, the FSB engineered a false flag event by blowing up Russian apartment buildings. Putin seized upon this false flag moment to develop a reputation as a get-tough guy on terrorism, when in fact, Putin is a mass murderer.(http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2014/03/putin-and-wife-300x224.jpg)
Of course there are those that would cast Putin, including himself as a Christian. If he's a Christian, I would have to denounce my religion. When Putin was a member of the KGB (i.e. the Russian Mafia), East German Intelligence described him as a philander and a wife beater! Some Christian! Understandably, Putin's wife divorced him. She is lucky to still be alive.The above Putinisms are merely a small sample size of a consistent and much larger and verifiable set of concerning behaviors. As a former therapist, I would diagnose Putin as a man who has exceptionally poor impulse control, prone to knee-jerk reactions, one who dehumanizes and depersonalizes everyone he comes into contact with. Further, he lacks complete empathy for others. Putin is the marriage of what psychologists used to call a psychopath and a sociopath. Today, the clinical term is Anti-Social Personality Disorder. Charles Manson, Richard Speck, Stalin and Mao share the same diagnosis. Putin is extremely dangerous and very unpredictable.
ConclusionCharacter counts and neither man is a desirable leader. The people of Ukraine are left with a lose-lose proposition as its people attempt to choose between East and West and, for that matter, so is the rest of the world.
Attention America, if it takes a war to hand off Ukraine to the banksters, whose kids do you suppose will be fighting to further the bankster goals? Who do you think will be paying for this coming calamity?
The days of Ukraine are numbered.With the CIA created ISIS, Syria's days are numbered as well. In short, humanity's days are also numbered as the battle lines have been draw. It is Putin, Obama and the Banksters vs. all of humanity.
"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy."
— Henry Kissinger"The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. [...]
[T]he capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. It will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behavior of the citizen in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
— Zbigniew Brzezinski"In the technetronic society the trend seems to be toward aggregating the individual support of millions of unorganized citizens, who are easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities, and effectively exploiting the latest communication techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason....Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control information....Human beings become increasingly manipulable and malleable."
— Zbigniew Brzezinski (Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era)
"Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control information. Our existing institutions will be supplanted by pre-crisis management institutions, the task of which will be to identify in advance likely social crises and to develop programs to cope with them.
This will encourage tendencies through the next several decades toward a Technotronic Era, a dictatorship, leaving even less room for political procedures as we know them. Finally, looking ahead to the end of the century, the possibility of biochemical mind control and genetic tinkering with man, including beings which will function like men and reason like them as well, could give rise to some difficult questions."
— Zbigniew Brzezinski (Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era)"Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many."
— Aldous Huxley (The Devils of Loudon)"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."
— Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports"How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us"— Pope Leo X (1513-1521) AKA Giovanni de' Medici"Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State"
— James Jesus Angleton, Head of CIA Counter Intelligence 1954-1974"We found these kingdoms in such good order, and the said Incas governed them in such wise [manner] that throughout them there was not a thief, nor a vicious man, nor an adulteress, nor was a bad woman admitted among them, nor were there immoral people. The men had honest and useful occupations. The lands, forests, mines, pastures, houses and all kinds of products were regulated and distributed in such sort that each one knew his property without any other person seizing it or occupying it, nor were there law suits respecting it... the motive which obliges me to make this statement is the discharge of my conscience, as I find myself guilty. For we have destroyed by our evil example, the people who had such a government as was enjoyed by these natives. They were so free from the committal of crimes or excesses, as well men as women, that the Indian who had 100,000 pesos worth of gold or silver in his house, left it open merely placing a small stick against the door, as a sign that its master was out. With that, according to their custom, no one could enter or take anything that was there. When they saw that we put locks and keys on our doors, they supposed that it was from fear of them, that they might not kill us, but not because they believed that anyone would steal the property of another. So that when they found that we had thieves among us, and men who sought to make their daughters commit sin, they despised us."
— Don Mancio Serra de Leguisamo — the last survivor of the original conquerors of Peru (Cuzco, 1589) – (Túpac Amaru)"I have been convinced that we, as an Order, have come under the power of some very evil occult Order, profoundly versed in science both occult and otherwise, though not infallible, their methods being BLACK MAGIC, that is to say, electro-magnetic power, hypnotism and powerful suggestion. We are convinced that the Order is being controlled by some Sun Order, after the nature of the Illuminati, if not by that Order itself."
— The Duke of Brunswick (Grand Master of World Freemasonry, 1700s)"...We see our edifice...crumbling and covering the ground with ruins, we see the destruction that our hands no longer arrest...a great sect arose, which taking for its motto the good and the happiness of man, worked in the darkness of the conspiracy to make the happiness of humanity a prey for itself. This sect is known to everyone, its brothers are known no less than it name. it is they who have undermined the foundations of the Order to the point of complete overthrow; it is by them that all humanity has been poisoned and led astray for several generations...They began by casting odium on religion...Their masters had nothing less in view than the thrones of the earth, and the governments of the nations was to be directed by their nocturnal clubs...the misuse of our order...has produced all the political and moral troubles with which the world is filled today...we must from this moment dissolve the whole Order"
— Duke of Brunswick (Grand Master of German Freemasonry. Written to Brethren in 1794)"Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end"
— Rabbi Isaac Wise (of B'nai B'rith, quoted in Israelite of America, Aug 3, 1866)"We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe...Yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows...or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies"
— Guiseppe Mazzini (Head of the Bavarian Illuminati 1800s. Successor to Weishaupt)"Why should we not form a secret society with but one object: the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire. What a dream, and yet it is probable, it is possible."
— Cecil Rhodes"Nothing excites men's curiosity so much as Mystery, concealing things which they desire to know; and nothing so much increases curiosity as obstacles that interpose to prevent them from indulging in the gratification of their desires. Of this the Legislators and Hierophants took advantage, to attract the people to their sanctuaries, and to induce them to seek to obtain lessons from which they would perhaps have turned away with indifference if they had been pressed upon them."
— Albert Pike (Morals and Dogma) "The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name, but always covered by another name, and another occupation. None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry; the public is accustomed to it, expects little from it, and therefore takes little notice of it"
— Adam Weishaupt (Founder of the Bavarian Iluminati, 1776. From John Robinson's Proofs of a Conspiracy, 1798)
The How and Why Behind Obama's Mysterious Rise to the Presidency
by Dave Hodges
12 Nov, 2014
PART THREE
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"Who is he"
Former FBI Weatherman Task Force supervisor,
Max Noel, noted that the FBI utilized a CARL test when it conducted background checks on various suspects. The acronym CARL stands for Character, Associates, Reputation, and Loyalty is used to assess candidates fitness to hold the highest office in the country. On each of these four points of power, Obama fails and fails miserably. Like many FBI law enforcement agents and officials, Noel was alarmed by the fact that someone like Barack Obama could capture the presidency. For some unexplained reason, Obama was never vetted before he became a candidate for the presidency by the FBI.
This is an unacceptable result of our national security system and is wholly suggestive of internal plot to allow the installation of a blatantly communist advocate into the highest political position in America.Soviet Defectors Warn of Deception and the Emergence of a Manchurian Candidate
"Did you really think Alger Hiss would be the last communist traitor to serve in a high level US governmental position?"
Through the testimony of high-ranking Soviet defectors, it can clearly be established that the Russians have been engaged in a multi-generational plot to destroy the United States from within and from without. Domestically, the Russian communists are in the midst of completing a coup d'état, with the help their communist stooge, Barack Obama. In the following paragraphs, the verbatim statements of high ranking Soviet defectors are offered as proof of these claims. The first three defectors tell how the Soviets are setting the table for America's demise. Stunningly, the fourth defector warns our country of a Manchurian candidate type of leadership whose job it will be to hand over a weakened America to the Russians
(see Part Two).Today, many people have been in a position to now vet the President after Obama's first six years in office and observed his "fundamental transformation of America". This particular series will continue to connect the dots of the secretive and nefarious communist background of Barack Hussein Obama.
Obama Moves To Obscure His Background
With the general warning by Russian defectors that a traitor was waiting in the wings, it is time to reveal the true nature of the Manchurian candidate who sits in the Oval office through a brief examination of his family members with CIA affiliations along with their exposure to the MKULTRA mind control experiments being conducted at the University of Hawaii.
With the stroke of his executive order pen, President Obama quickly moved to seal off his records from public view after his election. However, he was too late to completely hide his background as researchers, such as Wayne Madsen, have found significant information to demonstrate that what Obama has omitted, is that his rare rise to power can only be explained by his family's CIA roots.
The election of Barack Hussein Obama is the culmination of what the Soviet defectors have been warning America about for decades in that Obama's ascendency to the Presidency was part of a documented long-term strategic plan to recruit selected candidates into intelligence, while guiding these individuals and their families into high-ranking intelligence community positions before executing the meteoric rise to power by one of their own. For example, George H. W. Bush was a former CIA director, and CIA member going back to the 1950's and thanks to Wayne Madsen, we now know that Obama's family was CIA and not just CIA, but a CIA mind controlled family.
Obama is the Soviet messiah as he will eventually become known as the Second Coming of Stalin. He has been prophesied by Soviet defectors Lunev, Golitsyn, Suvorov and Bezmenov, and now he is here to fulfill his mission.
Phase I of Obama's Grooming for Treason: The Obama Family's CIA Background
Question: What does Barack Obama and the "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski have in common?
Answer: Both Kaczynski and Obama had significant exposure to the MK-ULTRA experiments; Kaczynski at Harvard and Obama at the University of Hawaii and the Ford Foundation much earlier. Outrageous?
The following paragraph represents quoted excerpts from Wayne Madsen's exceptional investigation into the Obama family CIA background:"President Obama's own work in 1983 for Business International Corporation, a CIA front that conducted seminars with the world's most powerful leaders and used journalists as agents abroad, dovetails with CIA espionage activities conducted by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham in 1960's post-coup Indonesia on behalf of a number of CIA front operations, including the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ford Foundation. Dunham met and married Lolo Soetoro, Obama's stepfather, at the East-West Center in 1965. Soetoro was recalled to Indonesia in 1965 to serve as a senior army officer and assist General Suharto and the CIA in the bloody overthrow of President Sukarno.... Soetoro worked for the elitist Ford Foundation, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Bank Rakyat (the majority government-owned People's Bank of Indonesia), and the CIA-linked USAID while she lived in Indonesia and later, Pakistan..... Barack Obama, on the other hand, cleverly masked his own CIA connections as well as those of his mother, father, step-father, and grandmother (there is very little known about Obama's grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham."Madsen painstakingly and conclusively demonstrated that virtually all of Obama's relatives were CIA operatives. Madsen has found even more CIA connections to Obama's first employer. Madsen further went on to describe how Obama's family was clearly exposed and was intimately connected to MK-ULTRA's mind control program at the University of Hawaii. Info Wars also carried Madsen's expose and it is available here.
It's a Small World, After All
President Obama's family and former Ex-Goldman Sachs executive, Ex-Treasury Secretary and World Bank leader,Tim Geithner and his family have been joined together at the hip for decades. Tim Geithner's father worked for the CIA in the Rockefeller funded Ford Foundation in Asia. Geitner's father was in charge of micro-finance for the Ford Foundation for all of Asia. From Wayne Madsen's work, we know that President Obama's mother was in charge of micro-finance in Indonesia. The Hollywood producers could not make this plot up.
Geithner's father was Obama's mother's boss. It is likely that Geithner's father tagged Obama as a potential presidential CIA Ford Foundation, well-groomed Manchurian candidate.Additional information comes from the discovery that the two universities that Obama attended, Harvard and Columbia, were prime CIA recruiting grounds. The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations continued to fund Columbia's Soviet studies programs through the early 1980s, where Obama was a student. And would anyone care to guess what Obama was studying?
Trilateral Commission co-founder, former National Security Adviser to Carter and Obama's former professor and now political handler.
Obama was enrolled in a Soviet studies program taught by Zbigniew Brzezinski. And to those who are new to NWO conspiracies, one might wonder who is Brzezinski?
Brzezinski was the former National Security Adviser under President Carter. But more importantly, he was also the co-founder of one of the most influential globalist organizations in all of history, the Trilateral Commission. If you know your New World Order history, you have chills going up and down your spine as you read these words. We should be mindful that Brzezinski, in his book, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (1970), that he laid out the NWO conspiracy to control all nation states and usher in a totalitarian world government.
There are two chilling quotes by Brzezinski in his aforementioned book that come directly to bear on Obama and his meteoric rise to power:Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era
"In the technetronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason."
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic EraIn the second quote, Brzezinski is clearly calling for the installation of CIA/MKULTRA mind control leaders. Today, Brzezinski would his former understudy, Obama, a President with an undeniable "magnetic and attractive personality exploiting the latest communications techniques designed to manipulate emotions and control reason."
Comrade Obama's ascension to the presidency has been a long time in the making. Interestingly, Barack Obama's past associates especially the communist terrorists which funded his Harvard legal education and ultimately launched his political career as an Illinois state senator, namely, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, have been in lockstep with Obama his entire adult life. However, Dohrn and Ayers were not the first to indoctrinate Obama with the Marxist communist philosophy. For that information, we have to begin with Frank Marshall Davis.
Obama's real father, Frank Marshall Davis, was a member of the Communist Party and a former Soviet Agent who was under FBI investigation for a total of 19 years. In 1948, Davis moved from Chicago to Hawaii leaving behind a colleague named Vernon Jarrett, father-in-law of Senior White House adviser, Valerie Jarrett. Yes, the Jarrett's are communists as well. Both Jarrett and Davis wrote for a left wing newspaper called the Chicago Defender in which they espoused a communist takeover of the United States Government. In 1971, Davis, according to Joel Gilbert, reunited with his then nine-year-old son, Barack Obama, and schooled him in the ways of being a good communist for the next nine years.The Final Stages of Training the Manchurian Candidate
Adding more fuel to this communist fire, it is interesting to note that both
Senior White House Advisers, David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett were both also "Red Diaper Babies, in which they were the sons and daughters of well-to-do parents who desired communism and lived out their dreams through their children's revolutionary activities. Other notable red-diaper babies also include such notables as
Rahm Emanuel and Eric Holder. Jarrett's situation is particularly interesting in that her family and the Ayers family have been multi-generational friends which also included a marriage between the two families. Much of the Obama administration is a nest of well-established communists and this should serve to gravely concern every American citizen.
Following the nine years of
mentoring and parenting by Frank Davis, Obama made some very important communist connections which ultimately led to him obtaining an impressive college education financed by some very familiar communist activists, namely, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. You remember Bill and Bernardine, don't you?
"The Prairie Fire" book was co-authored by Dohrn and Ayers, and, quite unbelievably,
it was dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's assassin. A former FBI informant, while appearing on The Common Sense Show, Larry Grathwohl, revealed that he testified in a court of law that Ayers and Dohrn had direct involvement in a terrorist plot which killed San Francisco police sergeant, Brian V. McDonnell, by a bomb made and planted by these Weathermen Underground terrorists. How are Bernadine Dohrn and husband Bill Ayers not in prison? The only logical explanation is that Ayers and Dohrn are and were CIA assets whose mission it was consisted of guiding the young communist, Barack Obama, and his legal education and later, launching his political career. If Dohrn was not a CIA asset, then how can anyone explain how she teaches at a prominent university with her felony background, conviction and the time she briefly served in prison?
Grathwohl also revealed on The Common Sense Show that he asked Ayers, in a meeting of about 25 well-to do Weatherman, most with advanced degrees from Ivy League Universities, what the Weathermen planned to do when they achieved their goal of a communist take over the government. Grathwohl stated that Ayers paused for a moment and then said that it was likely that about 50 million Americans will have to be re-educated in concentration camps located in the American Southwest and that about 25 million would have to be eliminated, meaning that they would have to be murdered. Bill and Bernardine's Weather Underground had the support of Cuba, East German intelligence and the North Vietnamese. I believe that Obama could end up being the fulfillment of the Ayers "re-education prediction, and with the power granted to Obama by the NDAA, that he will fulfill Ayers' promise to Grathwohl to murder 25 million Americans who cannot be "re-educated".
During the Vietnam war era, Ayers championed black civil rights and he and Dohrn further chastised white society for their treatment of blacks. Grathwohl also revealed that Ayers wanted to support the beginning of a race war by killing whites, from supposed black villains, and then blaming whites in order to begin a race war. How eerily similar does this sound to the Charles Manson Family and their Helter Skelter plans to execute that very same objective? While Grathwohl was infiltrating the Weathermen, Ayers ordered FBI infiltrator, Grathwohl, to blow up a Detroit police substation to which Grathwohl said that a nearby restaurant, where many blacks ate would suffer many casualties. Ayers replied that some have to die for a revolution to proceed.
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Ayers and Dohrn raised a foster son, Chesa Boudin, who worked for the late Hugo Chavez, communist dictator in charge of Venezuela. Chesa Boudin was the child of Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, members of a Weather Underground spin-off group who went to prison for an armored car robbery that resulted in the murders of two police officers and a security guard. Dohrn served seven months for her role in the robbery and this is the reason that she is ineligible to become bar certified as an attorney. Is anyone else uncomfortable with the fact that Ayers and Dohrn were the ones primarily responsible for educating Obama with the communist funds and then subsequently launched his political career from their living room? Well, it is true, please read on.
Allen Hulton, a 39 year veteran of the postal service, provided a sworn affidavit to Maricopa County, AZ.
Sheriff investigators, led by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in an effort toward determining whether or not former FOREIGN college student, Barack Obama, was eligible to be placed on Arizona's 2012 election ballot. After reviewing Hulton's affidavit, it is apparent that Ayers and Dohrn were in fact the de facto adoptive parents to this foreign student destined to become the first illegitimate President of the United States. As a result, Obama was treated to the finest Ivy League education that communist backed money could buy as Hulton maintains that the Ayers' repeatedly told him that they were financing the education of a promising young black FOREIGN student at Harvard. Hulton also testified that he met Obama while at the Ayer's home and he asked Obama what he was going to do with all his education, to which Obama politely answered:
"I am going to become the President". Readers should take note that this is an affidavit, and as such, is formally considered to be evidence, not conjecture or hearsay. There can be no other conclusion that the communist terrorist, Bill Ayers, and his father, the former head of Con Edison, Tom Ayers, began grooming Obama to become America's first communist President. Bill Ayers and President Obama's relationship continues into the present time as it is on record that Ayers visited the White House in August of 2009.(http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/09/barry-soetoro.jpg)
I think it is likely that the Weatherman Underground was a CIA created false flag operation simply designed to assist the communist inspired group with the ability to undermine the country and that Obama represents the Weatherman's finest achievement. The Weathermen were nothing more than mere Soviet collaborators that Soviet defectors had previously us warned about.
We also know that Obama's communist affiliations continued well into his adulthood because of the good work of Joel Gilbert who discovered that Obama was active with a Weathermen Underground support group known as The May 19th Communist Organization, in New York. Perhaps, this is why Ayers was visiting the White House in 2009.
The Communists Openly Declare Victory Upon Obama's Election
Frank Chapman, a communist activist and a member of the communist front group known as the World Peace Council. Chapman clearly used the term "mole" to describe Obama. He said Obama's political climb and subsequent success in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries was "a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle." Chapman further stated that, "Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through. The Communist Party USA backs Obama to the hilt." It is clear that Obama is their man!
Conclusion
Because of the psychological principal, cognitive dissonance, no amount of direct or circumstantial proof would convince some people that the highest political position in the country has been compromised by a communist plot spanning several decades. The term cognitive dissonance refers to a person who received information so shocking, so upsetting, that they cannot adequately process that information and then instead deny the validity of the proof that anyone else could see. If you are one of the cognitive dissonance types, please allow me to ask you a few questions.
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Who was Obama's basketball coach in high school? The President has some degree of basketball skills as he defeated former NBA player and sports broadcaster, Clark Kellogg, in a game of pig (how appropriate) in front of a national TV audience. Who was Obama's history teacher in high school? Why don't we see interviews with his former professors, teachers, coaches, childhood friends and his first girl friend? Who in the hell is he?
There are no visible answers to these questions are there? But still the cognitive dissonance crowd still persists with their abject denials. To them, I say let's judge a man by his actions, not his words. Has Obama's actions served to help or hurt America? Do his Presidential actions match up with his communist background? It is an easy, perhaps, groundless accusation that Obama is truly the manifestation of what Soviet defectors warned us about when these stated that America's leadership would become compromised and lead America down the path of destruction.
Ask yourself America, how could we collective allow a person with Obama's very limited political background into the White House? More importantly, how could Obama's questionable background escape public scrutiny? And the most important question lies in understanding the the answer to this question, "Can anyone clearly demonstrate his intention to bring America down by his own actions?" The answer to this question is unquestionably YES, and this will be covered in Part Four of this series! When we put Obama's misdeeds side-by-side, it will become easy to see how Obama is deliberately trying to dismantle America prior to entering martial law followed by World War III.
ROFLMAO
City Council Lists
'Castrate Mayor, Kiss Ass Goodbye'
in Debt Contingency Plan
by Josh Feldman | 4:33 pm, November 12th, 2014
The city council of Carmel, Indiana is ready with a contingency plan if they cannot meet its debt obligations. But the flowchart in a recently distributed proposal has a rather blunt assessment of what their options are:
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Yes, that reads "Shoot Council, Castrate Mayor, Put Head Between Legs, Kiss Ass Goodbye!" and yes, this was in the city council's actual flow chart on how to deal with its debt issues.
What happened, according to IndyStar was that City Council President Eric Seidensticker threw it in as a joke because "if it gets to this point, it's unconscionable that we could let it get this far."
"What you have there is a humorous version that was not meant for distribution," he said. A consultant who drafted the first version of the chart accidentally included it when he sent it out, and took full responsibility for the oversight.
Mayor Jim Brainard, of course, didn't take too kindly to a joke that mentioned the severing of his manhood:
"The clerk-treasurer is paid well by the taxpayers and it is unfortunate she is using her time and city resources to promote political campaigns. It is regrettable to see this sort of immaturity from the clerk-treasurer and Councilor Seidensticker
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If you want to change the world, just remember... follow Barack 'Insane' Obuma's commie motto: "Knowledge is power, and power corrupts. So study hard and be evil."
University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address
- Admiral William H. McRaven
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Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBQLFLei70#t=1134
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Remarks by Naval Adm. William H. McRaven, BJ '77, ninth commander of U.S.Special Operations Command, Texas Exes Life Member, and Distinguished Alumnus.
Obama's Blueprint for the Destruction of America:
The Decimation of Military Leadership
By Dave Hodges
13 Nov. 2014
PART FOUR
Since even before Obama assumed the Presidency, his mere presence in the 2008 election was an affront to every member of Congress that has Presidential aspirations. The foreign born and disbarred Barack Obama, who never held a real job in his life, and did not even serve one full term as a senator, was a slap in the face of our political system and all of those with much more experience were passed over for a "community activist".Obama Worse Than Woodrow Wilson
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Obama and Wilson separated by a century but not by a desire to dismantle America.
As I have pointed out in Part Three of this series, Obama was not even vetted as a Presidential candidate by the FBI as required by law. Not since J. Edgar Hoover was complicit in the assassination of JFK, have we seen the FBI so manipulated and compromised in terms of validating Obama's candidacy.The day that Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office, in January of 2009, was the day that the sun set on America. I never thought the country would ever see a President as corrupt, immoral and incompetent as Woodrow Wilson. After all, in 1913, Wilson worked towards eliminating tariffs, the American government's mainstay of economic support since the country's inception.Wilson, on behalf the globalists, replaced tariffs with the corrupt and unconstitutional income tax and of course the Federal Reserve which has eroded the dollar to a net value of 3 cents of worth today. Wilson lied us into World War I, he jailed legitimate protesters and he helped make it possible to usher in the direct election of senators which handed over the Senate to the globalists. Wilson even tried to sacrifice the nation's sovereignty by handing over our nation's political authority to the League of Nations which was the globalist's first attempt at world governance and he would have succeeded had it not been for the Ron Paul of his day, Henry Cabot Lodge. I never thought that there could be anybody worse for the country than Woodrow Wilson, until now. Obama is the most treasonous and destructive force to ever occupy the White House.
Just how destructive is Obama? Is he just incompetent? I have said it before and I will say it again, Obama, like Wilson, he is following a systematic plan. Wilson's agenda was relatively tame compared to Obama's. It was Wilson's mission to hand off the control America to the banksters and economically enslave the nation in debt. Obama's mission is much more nefarious as his objective is clearly based upon the goal of the total destruction of the United States as we have known it. The following paragraphs will provide a mere snapshot of complete Obama's destruction of America has been and make no mistake about it, Obama is not done with the American people. Before we move on to Obama's blueprint to destroy America,
please allow me to ask all of the Obama apologists who are defending this despot one question:CAN YOU NAME JUST ONE THING THAT
THIS PRESIDENT HAS DONE TO HELP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?
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Because the scope of Obama's attack upon America is complete and far-reaching, this part of this series is limited to Obama's destruction of the American military as a prelude to invasion by Russia and possibly China.
The Destruction of the American Military
Obama is the Commander-in-Chief over a global military power that had no equal when he came into office. For Obama to destroy America, he must significantly weaken America. Our main adversary, Russia, is merely a regional military power. If America is ever going to be conquered, the American military must be significantly weakened and this is precisely what Obama has done.
Destruction of Military Leadership
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Obama has fired more commanders
in a theater of war than any other president
in American history.
If a foreign power were to assassinate 300 senior command officers, we would collectively recognize that we were in a state of war and the effectiveness of our military had been gravely diminished. This is exactly what Obama has done to the military as he has fired nearly 300 senior officers since moving into the White House. The major reason that an officer gets fired in today's military, is for the failure to enthusiastically embrace the subjugation of both the military and the country by the globalists. The military has fought back and Benghazi is an excellent case in point.
Benghazi
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The late Ambassador Stevens
Most of the country does not know how close the country came to experiencing a military coup over the Benghazi affair in which Obama allowed, at minimum, Ambassador Chris Stevens to be murdered by the very al-Qaeda forces that he was supplying arms to on behalf of the CIA in Libya and Syria. Coincidentally, Stevens murder took place just two months before the election when word on his arms deals were being rumored. Of course, this is just a coincidence.
There is now proof that Obama was warned in advance of the coming attack in which Stevens begged for more protection and his impassioned plea was denied by Clinton on behalf of Obama.
Two of the top four military commanders in the Middle East, AFRICOM commander, General Hamm and Carrier Strike Force Three Commander, Admiral Gaouette tried to launch a mission to rescue Stevens. This was a coup attempt in response to the reign of terror being perpetrated by Obama against the viability of our military.
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The former commander of AFRICOM
who tried to rescue Chris Stevens.
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Admiral Gaouette provided surveillance
for General Hamm's attempted
rescue of the ambassador
The American people have failed to recognize the sacrifice made by these two leaders. As Stevens was begging for help after the attack had begun, General Hamm had activated a special forces team within minutes of learning that the embassy, which was really a CIA safe house, was under attack. When General Hamm received his "stand down" orders from Obama, he made plans to go ahead with the rescue and was arrested within minutes of contravening the order by his second in command, General Rodriquez. Admiral Gaouette, the commander of Carrier Strike Group Three, was preparing to provide intelligence and air cover for General Hamm's rescue team in violation of his standing orders and he was promptly relieved of command for allegations of inappropriate leadership judgment." Stevens and his security team were subsequently murdered.
Do not make the mistake in minimizing the fall of Hamm and Gaouette. The positions held by Hamm and Gaouette are so powerful and so sensitive, that their replacements required approval from the Senate. Make no mistake about it, this was a military coup being conducted at the highest level of our combat forces.
Can we only imagine the headlines if Hamm and Gayoutte were successful in saving Stevens? Can you imagine the reaction of America had it been revealed that an ambassador, on behalf of the administration, was running guns to terrorists and was financing the operation with child sex trafficking and the selling of guns and drugs? Would you have liked to have had a front row seat at the press conference when Stevens told all under an agreement of immunity?
One of two things would have happened: (1) A military coup would have taken over the White House; or (2) The House of Representatives would have brought articles of impeachment against Obama and a trial would have been held in the Senate. The globalists, seeking to destroy America, through the destruction of the military, would have suffered a tremendous setback.
Oh, and by the way, let's not forget about the hacking of reporter Sharyl Attkisson's computer: It's not clear who hacked the CBS reporter's computer as she investigated the Benghazi scandal, but the Obama administration has been very successful in covering its tracks on a number of scandalous fronts.
Ultimately, why did Hamm and Gaoutte stand up to Obama? They were acting in self-preservation mode. The entire military leadership in this country knows that it is under attack from this administration.
Following this watershed event, Obama stepped up his reign of terror against our military.
The Dismantling of our Nuclear Weapons Leadership
In a series of unprecedented moves, the Obama administration fired several military commanders of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons system. The Air Force is reporting the firing is due to the current administrations "loss of trust". Yet, these officers have some of the highest clearances one can get, and have been in charge of the nation's most sensitive nuclear arsenals and now they are being taken down on bogus allegations of using "fake" poker chips. We are sacrificing our most important command structure in the military over poker chips. In the context of Obama's other actions against the military it is difficult to conclude that Obama is not deliberately weakening our ability to respond to a Russian nuclear attack. Intentional or not, that is precisely the net effect of these reckless actions against these leaders.
Russian Troops Training On Our Soil
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Obuma's great giveaway
In the ultimate act of betrayal, Obama gave away seven strategic Islands to Russia without explanation. I have previously and extensively covered the presence of Russian soldiers training on American soil. When one considers the fact that Putin has twice threatened to nuke the United States in the past two years, one has to wonder about Obama's motives with regard to Russian soldiers on American soil.
The Deliberate Scuttling of Military Discipline
Women have served valiantl, but not in combat. Women are ill-equipped to be fighters because they lack the physical characteristics that provide for masculine strength. The presence of homosexuals, who undermine 200 years of military discipline in this area, subvert unit cohesion at the squad and platoon level. We are not talking about IBM or your corner drug store, where one can argue preferences don't matter. They matter greatly in the military. Is it not interesting that a soldier who happens to be a Christian runs the risk of being persecuted while a homosexual soldier is honored? Also, far too many people who join the military for government benefits do not make for a quality fighting force. A weak military is a useless military, and Obama is keenly aware of this fact.
The net effect of this attack upon the military has served to weaken it to the point to where we are vulnerable to attack from Russia and possibly China.
In the next part of this series, I will summarize how Obama has attacked the American people through the deliberate degradation of our economy.
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Will Anything Really Change After The Midterm Elections?
By Michael Snyder, on November 4th, 2014
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The more things change, the more things stay the same. As I write this, it looks like the Republicans are going to take control of the U.S. Senate. But will that actually alter the direction of the country? Will that actually change anything? There are many that hope that this could represent a "turning point" for America, but history tells us that almost certainly will not be the case. Over the past 30 years, things have changed very little no matter which party has controlled the White House and no matter which party has controlled Congress. During that time frame, the national debt has continued to explode, our long-term economic problems have continued to get even worse, our liberties and freedoms have continued to erode and our nation has increasingly become a moral cesspool. And the truth is that at this point there is very little real difference between most Democrats and most Republicans. The corruption in Washington D.C. runs extremely deep, and very few politicians are able to enter that environment without being fundamentally affected by it.
In recent times, midterm elections have become primarily about punishing whoever is in the White House. In this case, there is definitely much to be dissatisfied about as far as Barack Obama is concerned. In fact, many consider him to be the worst president in U.S. history, and that is saying a lot.
When Obama first entered the White House, his approval numbers were incredibly high. But over time they have fallen substantially.
According to a CNN poll taken in late October:
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53 percent of Americans disapprove of the way that Barack Obama is performing his job, and close to 70 percent of Americans are upset about the direction the country is headed.
And without a doubt, the sour mood of the country was clearly reflected in the election results as they rolled in on Tuesday night.
But despite the millions upon millions of votes that were cast by concerned Americans on Tuesday, very little is likely to change in the way that this nation is governed.
One reason for this is because Barack Obama has the power to block pretty much whatever the Republican Congress does. If a piece of legislation is passed that he does not like, he can simply veto it. Unfortunately for the Republicans, they do not have the numbers to override a veto.
This means that the Republicans are not going to be able to overturn Obamacare. No matter how much the American people may hate it, we are stuck with it for at least another two years.
This also means that Barack Obama has the power to single-handedly stop the Keystone pipeline. Even though surveys show that Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of the pipeline, the only way that it will move forward is if Barack Obama allows it to happen.
Another reason why very little is likely to change in Washington is because Democrats and Republicans actually agree on far more issues than they disagree. Just consider the following...-The U.S. national debt has absolutely exploded in recent years no matter which party has had control of Congress. Republicans were swept to power in the U.S. House of Representatives four years ago with a mandate to control government spending, but that has not happened. In fact, the U.S. national debt increased by more than a trillion dollars in fiscal year 2014.
-Both parties support the emerging one world economic system which has already resulted in the loss of millions of good paying American jobs. And now Barack Obama is secretly negotiating a new trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership which will kill even more of our jobs and businesses. Sadly, Republicans fully agree with what Obama is trying to accomplish and do not plan to stand in the way of this insidious treaty.
-If history is any indication, Republicans in the Senate will continue to rubber stamp most of Barack Obama's ultra-liberal judicial nominees. In America today many of the big issues are ultimately decided by activist judges, and it is not likely that the "tyranny of the judiciary" is going to end any time soon.
-Both major political parties have shown that they have very little respect for our liberties and freedoms. They both eagerly renew the Patriot Act when it comes up for a vote, and neither party has shown any indication of cracking down on the abuses of agencies such as the NSA or the TSA.
-No matter who has control of Congress, Planned Parenthood always gets millions upon millions of dollars from the government every year. Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, we have killed more than 50 million of our own people. It is a national disgrace, and yet neither major political party intends to do anything to stop it.
-Both the Democrats and the Republicans believe that a "two state solution" will bring lasting peace between the Palestinians and Israel. And both parties support arming the "moderate jihadists" in Syria. The U.S. has been making colossal mistakes in the Middle East for decades, and that is not going to change for the foreseeable future.
– Neither party ever dares to question the "independence" of the Federal Reserve. The Fed is an unelected, unaccountable central banking cartel that has far more power over the economy than Barack Obama or the U.S. Congress does, and our politicians never do a thing to get this rogue organization under control even though it is behaving incredibly recklessly. As I wrote about the other day, the Federal Reserve is at the heart of so many of our long-term economic problems, and yet Congress does not seem to care.The clowns may change, but the circus remains the same.
America is on a road to oblivion, and the Democrats and the Republicans both share in the blame.
Is Barack Insane Obuma Attempting To Harass And Intimidate
Media Personalities On His 'Enemies List'?
By Michael Snyder, on November 9th, 2014
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Someone is attempting to harass and intimidate media personalities that are very critical of Barack Obama and his administration. Whoever is doing this has extremely advanced technical capabilities. As you will see below, there is very strong anecdotal evidence that federal agents are involved. But these agents would never commit such actions on their own. It seems clear that they are getting orders from someone above them. Of course Barack Obama (or any of his top lieutenants) would never come out and publicly admit
that Gestapo tactics are being used against media personalities on Obama's rumored "enemies list", but that appears to be precisely what is happening. Hopefully by shining a light on these activities it will cause those that are doing these things to cease and desist. And it is very important to point out that what is being done to these media personalities is illegal. Anyone that is involved in harassing media personalities because of what they are saying is violating federal law and is in danger of going to prison for a very, very long time.
Later in this article, I want to share with you the shocking harassment and intimidation that Rick Wiles of TruNews has been enduring lately. But first, let's review what has happened to former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson. She was an award-winning journalist for more than thirty years, but that didn't stop the Obama administration from systematically harassing her. In her new book entitled
"Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington", she makes some extremely startling claims. She believes that the harassment and intimidation that she experienced were the direct result of her determination to get to the truth about Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the green energy scandals and Obamacare.
The following are some of the main points that she has been sharing with the media in recent weeks...-*- While she was working at CBS News her computers were hacked by the government, her keystrokes were monitored and potentially incriminating classified material was planted on her hard drive.
-*- She says that her computers would "turn themselves on in the night, make strange noises, then shut themselves down".
-*- An exhaustive examination of one of her computers found that it had been hacked by "a sophisticated entity that used commercial, nonattributable spyware that's proprietary to a government agency: either the CIA, FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency."
-*-The expert that examined her system told her that three classified documents were "buried deep in your operating system. In a place that, unless you're a some kind of computer whiz specialist, you wouldn't even know exists."
-*-She claims that the feds even had the ability to remotely activate Skype on her computer and listen to any private conversations that she was having: "It's pretty chilling when you consider the extent of the abilities they had, according to the forensics reports, to monitor my every keystroke, to activate Skype by getting the password to my account, and listen through Skype on to audio if I was talking in the room or talking on the phone. Being able to exfiltrate files using Skype, downloading and refreshing these surveillance methods periodically using something called a BGAN satellite terminal, using WiFi when I was at a Ritz Carlton at one point."
-*- She has been told that Barack Obama has an "enemies list" similar to what Richard Nixon once had.
-*- She claims that important stories about Obama administration scandals such as Benghazi and Fast and Furious were routinely blocked by gatekeepers while she was at CBS News.
-*- She says that reporters have essentially been turned into "casting agents" and are told to find people that will express a particular point of view.
-*- In a moment of frustration, Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz blurted out the following at her: "The Washington Post is reasonable, the LA Times is reasonable, The New York Times is reasonable. You're the only one who's not reasonable!"So who ultimately ordered federal agents to go after Sharyl Attkisson?
If it was Barack Obama, that is grounds for immediate impeachment.
If it was someone else in his administration, that individual is in danger of going to prison for a very, very long time.Sadly, Attkisson is far from alone. A whole host of other media personalities that have also been very critical of Barack Obama have been targeted. As we have seen, sometimes the IRS is the vehicle used to go after them. Other times, more direct action is taken.
For example, there have been very few media personalities that have been more critical of Barack Obama than Rick Wiles of TruNews. And what he has been going through in recent months is more than just a little bit alarming.
How would you feel if strange vehicles sat outside your home and the men sitting inside the vehicles stared at you for hours? Well, that is exactly what is happening at TruNews headquarters.
The following is an excerpt from what Rick shared with his listeners just the other day..."Friday was an unusually busy day. A total of four vehicles parked in the same spot throughout the day. The moment one vehicle departed it was immediately replaced by another vehicle. If I were a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I'd think we were under surveillance! What a crazy idea. This is America. That kind of stuff doesn't happen here, right?
"Friday morning started out with the first car. Soon after, another vehicle joined. Both vehicles sat next to each other for several hours. I can turn around in my office and look out the window and see them. I walked outside and took photos of the vehicles. I wanted them to see me watching them.
"Shortly after taking the photographs, both vehicles drove away. Immediately, they were replaced by a third vehicle.
"I walked outside and took a photo of the third vehicle too. He started his engine and very slowly drove toward me. He had his window down and stared at me as he slowly drove by the office. I waved at him to let him know I was aware of his presence and wasn't intimidated.
"But even more troubling have been the repeated break-ins at night. Nothing has ever been stolen during these break-ins, and whoever was conducting them had the ability to turn off the security cameras...
"The good news is that the mysterious breaking and entering intrusions into our offices appear to have stopped. For months there were clear signs that somebody was entering the building. We found ceiling tiles moved, ceiling attic doors hanging open, and some doors unlocked. Nothing was ever stolen or moved.
"I changed the locks and security access codes multiple times throughout the summer. They continued to enter as though they walked through the walls. Furthermore, our security cameras stopped recording at certain hours during the night. Obviously, the intruders were people with advanced skills and technologies to enable them to evade detection."Most disturbing of all is what has been going on at Rick's private residence.
Someone has been breaking into his home every day and turning on music with the volume dialed up to the highest level. Clearly, someone is trying to mess with his head..."An unusual thing has happened every night this week. When I arrive home and get out of my vehicle, I can hear loud music in my house. Each night I have discovered that our in-house stereo system was turned on with the volume at the maximum level. The music was so loud each night I could hear it when I got out of my vehicle in the driveway. My neighbors must think I'm losing my hearing....or my mind!
"And that's the point. Somebody is messing with my head. Somebody is intimidating me.
"I have gone to the Indian River County Sheriff's Office twice to tell deputies that I'm under surveillance.
"Next week I will request a private meeting with Indian River County Sheriff Deryl Loar. I will tell him that I am being stalked. I am under surveillance. I believe that my life is in danger."This is one of the most chilling things that I have read in a very long time.To do this kind of thing, you have to be very twisted.And to order that this kind of thing be done, you have to be even more twisted.This is the kind of thing that the Nazis did.Sadly, the truth is that we are becoming more like Nazi Germany with each passing day.
What in the world is happening to this country?Officials in the federal government cannot harass and intimidate media personalities just because they do not like what they are saying.
By doing so, they are breaking the law. And if the full truth about this ever came out, it could prove to be one of the greatest scandals in American political history.
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Is The Man In the White House Mentally Ill? By Dave Daubenmire - November 8, 2014
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I am not asking this with my tongue in my cheek. I am as serious as a judge. As I sit here and write, I am listening to Mr. Obama's press conference. Something is very wrong with this guy. He is either mentally ill or demon possessed. Either choice is a possibility. But something is definitely wrong with him. He seems somehow inhuman.
I've lived my entire life in a world of athletic competition. I understand the human emotion that is associated with winning and losing. I grew up with the opening theme of ABC's Wide World of Sports continuously playing in my head. (If I close my eyes I can hear the voice of Jim McKay bouncing around the corners of my brain.)
"Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports... the thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat... the human drama of athletic competition... This is "ABC's Wide World of Sports!"
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat brings with it emotions. That is why we watch sports. We love the human drama of athletic competition. That's why we have press conferences after games. We love to hear the emotional reaction to winning and losing.
President Obama is a hollow man. He has no feelings. He feels no emotions. The human drama of competition seems to have no outward effect on him.
Can I be blunt? He got his butt kicked. Every talking head on the tube is pointing the finger at his unpopularity. "The bloom is off of the rose. It is a direct repudiation of his policies. The era of Obama is over." It is as if everyone knows it but him.
Politics is nothing more than a beauty contest, and Obama has been voted off of the island. But he acts as if he still owns the island. There seems to be no agony in his defeat. It is not normal. His emotions do not line up with reality. He is either sick, or he is possessed. I'm not laughing. I am serious.
His party rejected him. The American people rejected him. His fawning media has turned their affections in a different direction, yet he shows no emotion. I watch him on the TV. I watch him in his press conference. I watch his eyes as he responds to the media's questions. I believe he is a sick, dangerous man.
I Googled the word 'sociopath.'
"A person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience."Bingo. That's him. That's the guy living the life of President of the United States. I went a bit further and Googled "Characteristics of a Sociopath." Read it for yourself. http://www.buzzle.com/articles/sociopath-characteristics.html
Permit me to summarize. You recognize his mental illness by these traits. -An oversized ego.
-Lying and showing manipulative behavior.
-Incapable of showing empathy.
-Lack of shame or remorse.
-Staying eerily calm in dangerous situations.
-Behaving irresponsibly or with extreme impulsivity.
-Having few close friends.
-Being charming ---but only superficially.
-Living by the pleasure principle.
-Showing disregard for societal norms.
-Having intense eyes.
The man is either sick or non-human. He does not react like a normal human being. Consider this from the article: "Sociopaths can be very charismatic and friendly -- because they know it will help them get what they want. "They are expert con artists and always have a secret agenda," Rosenberg said. "People are so amazed when they find that someone is a sociopath because they're so amazingly effective at blending in. They're masters of disguise. Their main tool to keep them from being discovered is a creation of an outer personality."(http://www.politifake.org/image/political/1109/definition-of-insanity-obama-failure-politics-1315358242.jpg)
As M.E. Thomas described in a post for Psychology Today: "You would like me if you met me. I have the kind of smile that is common among television show characters and rare in real life, perfect in its sparkly teeth dimensions and ability to express pleasant invitation." Reading that gives me the willies...how about you?
No emotions. Cold. Calculating. He doesn't even know that he lost. He is unaware that he has been rejected. He acts as if it is business as usual while the entire Democratic Party is wishing for a moving van out in front of the White House.
In my coaching career, I lost a lot of games. I know how it feels. I know how it makes you react. He has destroyed his party. His friends are running for cover, but he acts as if he has just won.
Sociopaths are dangerous. Some famous sociopaths in recent history include Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and John Wayne Gazy.
You laugh at me. You ridicule what I say because I compare him to serial killers. Go ahead. Laugh. He displays all of the characteristics of the above mentioned goons. They were charismatic and likeable.
What kind of man plays golf after a young man's head is chopped off? What kind of man disappears for hours while some of his "employees" are being killed overseas? What kind of man permits a deadly disease to be freely introduced into a society? What kind of man acts as if he won when the whole world watched him lose? What kind of man believes his own lies? (http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/05/5b/71/055b71db8cc6c1cbc41768952908b0ac.jpg)
President Obama is either sick or demon possessed. Red flags are everywhere we look.
Will his own party stop him? Will anyone stop him? President Obama is a sick, dangerous man.
I just thought someone needed to point that out.
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Israel News Feed @IsraelHatzolah
SICKENING: Palestinian university honors family members of terrorist who killed 3 month old baby in Jerusalem attack.
Oh yeah, what a brave boy....driving a car over an infant.
I wonder, was that infant armed? Did he have some special fighting skills? Or was he just like all other infants, completely helpless. To think that SOB Obuma can see fit to give these human slug slimes a 1/2 billion American taxpayer dollars makes me want to puke... not to mention the fact that we support the UN which is a silent partner in all these atrocities.
Here's the story about the terrorist attack which killed American baby Chaya Zissel Braun and injured seven others. October 23, 2014
Hamas Kills 3-Month-Old American Baby Girl:
"This Is The Natural Response To The Occupation Of Our Land By The Jews"
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WASHINGTON — Three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun, the baby girl killed today in Jerusalem during a vehicular terrorist attack, was an American citizen, a US official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday night.
The girl was thrown from her stroller as a car swerved into the Ammunition Hill light rail station, injuring seven others.
State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf has "urged restraint" and calm from both sides after the attack.
"The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today's terrorist attack in Jerusalem," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in an evening statement. "We express our deepest condolences to the family of the baby, reportedly an American citizen, who was killed in this despicable attack, and extend our prayers for a full recovery to those injured. We urge all sides to maintain calm and avoid escalating tensions in the wake of this incident."
The suspected perpetrator has alleged ties to Hamas, Israeli officials say. "This is a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and invasion of our land by the Jews," Hamas spokesman Hossam Badran said in response to the attack.
Mike Brown Shooting – Open Discussion Thread
Posted on November 16, 2014
by http://theconservativetreehouse.com/
• The election is over • Obama has conferred with the BGI • Holder is coordinating diversity training • DOJ/CRS boots on the ground • Emergency plans in place – The "no bill" announcement could come at any day now, maybe today...
■♦ INFO – Feds Release Investigative Details To New York Times (LINK)
■♦ INFO - Officer Darren Wilson version of events given to media. (LINK)
■♦ INFO - Official Mike Brown autopsy supports Wilson's Version of events. (LINK)
■♦ INFO – Eight Black Witnesses Confirm Darren Wilson Version (Link)
■♦ INFO – Feds Reveal No Charges Expected Against Darren Wilson (LINK)
■♦ INFO – STL Post Dispatch Releases Audio/Video of Police Call (LINK)
• Officer Darren Wilson pushed into vehicle by Mike Brown. • A Struggle ensued. • Two shots fired inside vehicle. • One bullet striking the hand of Mike Brown. • Blood from right arm wound on interior door, uniform and officers weapon. • Gun powder residue also on hands of Mike Brown. • Attorney for Dorian Johnson admits DJ lied to media.
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• One bullet lodges in door panel of SUV • One bullet strikes near window of adjacent apartment building. • Hat and one shoe located on South side of police SUV. • Second shoe located approximately 10-15′ East. • Officer Wilson chases Mike Brown. • Both travel approximately 100′ from SUV. • Brown stops, turns, makes aggressive statement. • Brown charges Wilson. • Ten additional shots fired at approaching Mike Brown. • Five bullets strike Brown. • Total of 12 shots fired.
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Objectib Ebidense – Michael Brown's parents react to release of Ferguson police calls
Posted on November 15, 2014 by sundance
ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) – Attorneys for Michael Brown's parents are reacting to police radio calls from the day their son was shot and killed by Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson. The police dispatch recordings were obtained by St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The new recordings have not changed the family's opinion about how the Ferguson police department responded that fateful day.
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Mike Brown Jr's parents returned to St. Louis Friday night. Before they or their lawyers were aware the St. Louis Post Dispatch released Ferguson police radio calls and surveillance video of Officer Darren Wilson who fired the fatal shots. The family's attorney noted, "From the video released today it would appear the initial descriptions of his (Officer Wilson's) injuries were exaggerated."
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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it
and then misapplying the wrong remedies.... right, Hillary?"
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So far as I'm concerned, the Republicans received a mandate, not to plow ahead with some hastily cobbled programs, but to try to undo what Obama has done over the past half dozen years. I realize that "Can Undo!" doesn't compare with "Can Do!" as a call to arms, but it's what's most needed at this time.
Besides, until 2016, when some Republican or other will teach Hillary Clinton one final political lesson, there isn't a great deal of legislation that the Republicans could get past Obama's veto.
There are those who believe that the GOP tsunami will work to Hillary's advantage because she will be able to base her campaign on opposition to a Republican House and Senate. That will be quite a trick because it would involve siding with Obama, which she has gone to great lengths to avoid doing.
The truth is that Hillary is in an untenable position. On the one hand, she was Obama's hand maiden for four years and apparently never differed with him on foreign policy; at least not to the extent that led her to resign on principle. Also, she lied about Benghazi, which makes her an accomplice in the cover-up of four American deaths.
On the other hand, if she voices her disagreement with the way Obama has handled things, she risks offending the 40% of the people, which translates to 80% of Democrats, who still think he's been doing a swell job. She also risks having Obama swing his support to, say, Elizabeth Warren, who happens to be younger, more attractive, a better speaker, and a far more pleasant and intelligent version of Hillary. Warren is equally loony in her politics, but she carries a lot less baggage than Hillary, who, by this time, carries more than a team of redcaps.
At this point, aside from the dyed-in-the-wool Progressives, everyone else in America is convinced Obama is radioactive. That's why even his most ardent fans in the Senate didn't want him campaigning on their behalf. The conditions aren't identical, but in 1974, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, Barry Goldwater paid a visit to the White House and told Richard Nixon that, for the good of the nation and of the Republican Party, it was time for him to vacate the premises.
Far be it from me to give the Democrats advice, but if I were someone like Chuck Schumer or even Harry Reid, I would pay Barack Obama just such a visit. I'm not suggesting that Obama, whose narcissism is as legendary as his arrogance, would agree to pack up, but desperate times call for desperate measures. And for a Democrat, I can't imagine things could be more desperate than they are at this very minute.
The irony of the recent elections was that they finally fulfilled Obama's promise in 2008 to be the Great Uniter. Although as he said, he wasn't on the ballot, his policies were. And they served to unite Americans in a way I had no longer thought possible.
I know that the Democrats have tried to draw comfort from the fact that it was only a midterm election when many people elected to stay home. They were claiming that as a result, a huge portion of their base – the silent two-thirds Obama referred to in his post-election press conference – didn't turn out. But even that turned out to be another lie. According to the postmortems, the percent of black and female votes was only one percentage point less than the turnout in 2012.
To me, the biggest mystery to come out of the midterms took place in Minnesota, where, in 2008, Al Franken wound up pulling ballots out of his butt in order to become the state's junior senator. But this time around, he cruised to victory, crushing Mike McFadden by 200,000 votes. I know it gets cold in Minnesota, but did a million people simultaneously suffer a brain-freeze?
What we did see was that once again, those who support third parties, while insisting that the two major parties are identical, exist only to remind us of the thin line that divides sanity from lunacy. If everyone just tried a little harder to find Republicans or Democrats to vote for, we'd all be a lot better off.
Third party supporters like to say they're sending a message to one party or the other; but it's generally the GOP. And whether they're voting for Maness in Louisiana or Sarvis in Virginia, their sole role is as spoiler and, therefore, the only message that's coming through loud and clear is: "We're a bunch of dopes."
In Virginia's 2013 gubernatorial election, Libertarian Robert Sarvis sucked up 6.52% of the vote, enabling Terry McAuliffe (D) to defeat Ken Cuccinelli (R) 47.76% to 45.23%. This year, he only managed to receive 2.45%, but even that was enough to ensure victory for Democrat Mark Warner, 49.05% over Republican Ed Gillespie 48.50%.
In conclusion, I'll remind you that Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909), publisher, minister and blood kin to both Nathan Hale and Helen Keller, when asked if he prayed for U.S. Senators, said, "No, I look at U.S. Senators and pray for the country."
Amen.
....Burt
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Obama's Secret Treaty Would Be The Most Important Step
Toward A One World Economic System
By Michael Snyder November 13, 2014
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/obamas-secret-treaty-would-be-the-most-important-step-toward-a-one-world-economic-system
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Barack [INSANE] Obuma is secretly negotiating the largest international trade agreement in history, and the mainstream media in the United States is almost completely ignoring it. If this treaty is adopted, it will be the most important step toward a one world economic system that we have ever seen. The name of this treaty is "the Trans-Pacific Partnership", and the text of the treaty is so closely guarded that not even members of Congress know what is in it. Right now, there are 12 countries that are part of the negotiations: the United States, Canada, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. These nations have a combined population of 792 million people and account for an astounding 40 percent of the global economy. And it is hoped that the EU, China and India will eventually join as well. This is potentially the most dangerous economic treaty of our lifetimes, and yet there is very little political debate about it in this country.
Even though Congress is not being allowed to see what is in the treaty, Barack Obama wants Congress to give him fast track negotiating authority. What that means is that Congress would essentially trust Obama to negotiate a good treaty for us. Congress could vote the treaty up or down, but would not be able to amend or filibuster it.
Of course, now the Republicans control both houses of Congress. If they are foolish enough to blindly give Barack Obama so much power, they should all immediately resign.
And it is critical that people understand that this is not just an economic treaty. It is basically a gigantic end run around Congress. Thanks to leaks, we have learned that so many of the things that Obama has deeply wanted for years are in this treaty. If adopted, this treaty will fundamentally change our laws regarding Internet freedom, healthcare, copyright and patent protection, food safety, environmental standards, civil liberties and so much more. This treaty includes many of the rules that alarmed Internet activists so much when SOPA was being debated, it would essentially ban all "Buy American" laws, it would give Wall Street banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives and it would force even more domestic manufacturing offshore.
In other words, it is the treaty from hell.
In addition to imposing Obama's vision for the world on 40 percent of the global population, it is also being described as a "Christmas wish-list for major corporations." Of the 29 chapters in the treaty, only five of them actually deal with economic issues. The rest of the treaty deals with a whole host of other issues of great importance to the global elite.The following list of issues addressed by this treaty is from a Malaysian news source...
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/what-you-think/article/trans-pacific-partnership-a-recipe-for-corporate-dictatorship-mun-loong-won• domestic court decisions and international legal standards (e.g., overriding domestic laws on both trade and nontrade matters, foreign investors' right to sue governments in international tribunals that would overrule the national sovereignty)
• environmental regulations (e.g., nuclear energy, pollution, sustainability)
• financial deregulation (e.g., more power and privileges to the bankers and financiers)
• food safety (e.g., lowering food self-sufficiency, prohibition of mandatory labeling of genetically modified products, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease)
• Government procurement (e.g., no more buy locally produced/grown)
• Internet freedom (e.g., monitoring and policing user activity)
• labour (e.g., welfare regulation, workplace safety, relocating domestic jobs abroad)
• patent protection, copyrights (e.g., decrease access to affordable medicine)
• public access to essential services may be restricted due to investment rules (e.g., water, electricity, and gas)Why can't we get this type of reporting in the United States?
And if this treaty is ultimately approved by Congress, we will essentially be stuck with it forever.
This treaty is written in such a way that the United States will be permanently bound by all of the provisions and will never be able to alter them unless all of the other countries agree.
Are you starting to understand why this treaty is so dangerous?
This treaty is the key to Obama's "legacy". He wants to impose his will upon 40 percent of the global population in a way that will never be able to be overturned.
Of course Obama is touting this treaty as the path to economic recovery. He promises that it will greatly increase global trade, decrease tariffs and create more jobs for American workers.
But instead, it would be a major step toward destroying what is left of the U.S. economy.
Over the past several decades, every time a major trade agreement has been signed we have seen even more good jobs leave the United States.
And it doesn't take a genius to figure out why this is happening. If corporations can move jobs to the other side of the planet to nations where it is legal to pay slave labor wages, they will make larger profits.
Just think about it. If you were running a corporation and you had the choice of paying workers ten dollars an hour or one dollar an hour, which would you choose?
Plus there are so many other costs, taxes and paperwork hassles when you deal with American workers. For example, big corporations will not have to provide Obamacare for their foreign workers. That alone will represent a huge savings.
Any basic course in economics will teach you that labor flows from markets where labor costs are high to markets where labor costs are lower. And at this point it costs less to make almost everything overseas. As a result, we have already lost millions upon millions of good jobs, and countless small and mid-size U.S. companies have been forced to shut down because they cannot compete with foreign manufacturers.
Later this month, consumers will flock to retail stores for "Black Friday" deals. But if you look carefully at those products, you will find that almost all of them are made overseas. We buy far, far more from the rest of the world than they buy from us, and that is a recipe for national economic suicide.
We consume far more wealth that we produce, and anyone with half a brain can see that is not sustainable in the long run. The only way that we have been able to maintain our high standard of living is by going into insane amounts of debt. We are currently living in the largest debt bubble in the history of the planet, and at some point the party is going to end.
Please share this article with as many people as you can. We need to inform people about what Obama is trying to do.
If Obama is successful in ramming this secret treaty through, it is going to do incalculable damage to what is left of the once great U.S. economy.
OBAMA IS CURRENTLY PLACING THE U.S. IN A CORPORATE CONTROLLED POLICE STATE DICTATORSHIP
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While the United States is fully preoccupied with global crises ranging from the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the spread of Ebola and the conflict in Ukraine, there is another development on the world stage which threatens the economic health of every single American and American based business. Specifically, I am referencing the Trans Pacific Partnership. The protocols of the TPP establishes a free-trade zone/bloc stretching from Vietnam to Chile and Japan. The most draconian free trade agreement in history includes nearly a billion people which encompass almost 40% of the world's economy. Since Obama failed to fast-track the TPP into law last year, he has made amazing progress and America is nearing its fate with destiny. "You have to accept the treaty to know what is in the treaty. If you like your treaty, you can keep your treaty.
Seems like we've heard that before.
What could possibly go wrong?"
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Transferring the American Economy to a Corporate Dictatorship
As America races toward her date with destiny, there is yet another "fundamentally transforming" event coming her way and that event is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Many of us in the media believe that some of the effects of the TPP will be felt before the coming war and martial law crackdown. However, after careful analysis, I am convinced that the brunt of the TPP will be felt after the America we know has been totally taken over in a post-war and post-economic collapse scenario. At the end of the day, it does not matter when the implementation of the TPP comes, because when it does, America will no longer be recognizable to anyone who has grown up in this once great country.The Implementation of the TPP Is Progressing By Stealth
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Some of you are reading these words have no idea what the Trans-Pacific Partnership consists of. Most of you have never heard of it. Some of you have heard or read the term, but fail to realize the extreme danger that the implementation of this so-called trade agreement will mean to America and our way of life. A scant few are coming to realize just how dangerous the TPP truly is. For the record, the TPP is masquerading as a free trade agreement involving the US, Australia, Japan, Canada,Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru and Singapore. The TPP is much, much more than a free trade agreement.
With regard to the TPP, ignorance of the organization is understandable. We in the truthful media have not fulfilled our duty to fully explore the ramifications of the TPP because so little is publicly known, Obama has taken full advantage of the cloudy environment and is preparing to even bypass the constitutionally required approval of the Congress before implementing the TPP through a process called "fast-tracking."Obama Is Bypassing Congressional Approval
Under the TPP, GMO labels for US food would not be allowed. Also not allowed is Congressional oversight.
President Obama is indeed seeking Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority for the TPP as he is feverishly attempting to get the deal done by the end of the year. If Obama does manage to sign the agreement without Congressional approval, this would effectively neuter Congress in the final approval process. Under such an agreement, this would permit Obama to sign the trade agreement "without Congressional approval."
When something is secret and kept from you, it is usually very bad for you!
After "Fast-Tracking," Obama would send the finalized agreement to Congress and this would subsequently force a vote within 90 days. Congressional debate would be very limited and no amendments would be permitted. Even if Congress wanted to protect the American worker and the American economy from devastation, they cannot if Obama obtains the power to fast-track the TPP.
Let's be clear, Obama is violating the separation of powers principle of the US Constitution by leaving Congress in the dark and by limiting their ability to use their Congressional powers as they would with any other legislation. The rumors of the TPP policies are so horrific that even the Kool-Aid drinkers from the Democratic party are calling on Obama to allow more transparency. Congress is asking Obama to allow for more transparency? I did not know that we passed a Constitutional amendment which states that Congress works for Obama.(http://thecommonsenseshow.com/siteupload/2013/09/obama-ia-m-the-law-here.jpg)
The TPP Represents the Total Loss of US Sovereignty
The TPP is the brain child of the corporations. The TPP places all member nations directly under the control of the TPP instead of their respective national governments. Congress has been denied access to review any of the documents. Alan Grayson (D-FL) was granted a special exemption to view a small part of the TPP and he was told by TPP officials to keep his mouth shut as Grayson recalls that "They maintain that the text is classified information. I'm a member of Congress, but now they tell me that they don't want me to talk to anybody about it because if I did, I'd be releasing classified information." Do you realize what this means? The corporate controlled TPP has granted themselves the authority to exercise the governmental power of classifying documents and Congress is included in the exclusion. Do you understand that this means we are living in a corporate dictatorship? It gets even worse.Meet Your New Government: Monsanto and Walmart
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As if it is not egregious enough that Congress is not allowed to view TPP documents, the 600 corporate officials, who form the TPP panel (e.g. corporate officials from corporations such as Monsanto and Walmart, have complete control of the developmental process of the TPP. Obama can view any part of the process, Congress and the American public cannot.
Further, a leaked chapter of the TPP speaks to the creation of a TPP Tribunal Council which will have the authority to force member nations to transform its laws, its civil procedures, its criminal procedures, even its electoral process, in order to abide by the TPP Tribunal dictates. The bottom line is that we are witnessing the destruction of the Constitution and the entire legal code of the United States, because once the tribunal makes a ruling with regard to a national law, there is no appeal. The Tribunal consists of unelected bureaucrats who are appointed by the creators of the TPP. The term of office for Tribunal officials is unlimited.
The most disturbing aspect of this agreement is that the TPP totally eviscerates the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution. If, for example, the State of Arizona wanted to outlaw fracking, the TPP could overrule the local legislation if it so desired. To illustrate how far this unconstitutional corporate power extends, the TPP could declare cocaine trafficking to be legal and this could not be challenged by any level of government, nor is it subject to review by the Supreme Court. Obama and his TPP cronies are writing the obituary for the U.S. Constitution.
The TPP represents the total obliteration of American sovereignty. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention another small set of details. How long do you think it will take until the TPP imposes a draconian version of cap and trade upon the American people and small businesses? The cap and trade version of what Obama tried to get passed in the Senate, when he first took office, consisted of reducing everyone's energy consumption by 80% and utility rates "would necessarily skyrocket."
Please pause for just one moment and ask yourself if you like would like an 80% reduction of individual and business energy use and what that dramatic reduction of energy use would look like? The rank and file in this country would effectively be living in 1890.
This is Agenda 21 on steroids and it is being fully implemented through the backdoor. That is why the TPP is being kept from Congress and the American people.These facts lead me to state that this President needs to be arrested and tried for treason.Conclusion
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Even the Chinese get it, while the Americans comfortably sit on the couch while their nation is being carved up piece by piece.
Obama's fast tracking of the TPP is designed to be completed by the end of the year which would coincide with the commencement of many of Obama's health care reforms which are in the process of being implemented (e.g. the tripling Obamacare fines and the full exposure of the "death panels" which deny many kinds of heathcare treatments at age 70 and above).
I wish I could accurately state that the loss of sovereignty is the only threat that the TPP poses to the American people. However, to say so, would constitute a grossly inaccurate statement. Under the TPP, the alternative media will be destroyed, guns will be confiscated and the face of American employment will be forever changed in ways that you will not believe. If anything, this article has understated the threat posed to America by the TPP. The TPP is not a free trade agreement, it is a document which introduces a new era into American government. If the TPP passes, we will be living in an absolute corporate dictatorship. This constitutes a form of economic martial law. And while this article is passing out one nightmare after another, please consider the fact that China and Russia are being purposely left out of the TPP. From an economic standpoint, that makes no sense unless one realizes that we are on a collision course with World War III and the BRIC nations, headed by China and Russia who will be our opponent in the upcoming conflict.
In his recent trip to Asia, Obama said the TPP, is in a deadlock largely due to disagreement between the United States and Japan over how widely Japan will open its doors to farm exports, had the potential to be an "historic achievement".
JAPANESE FARMERS ARE THE ONLY OBSTACLE REMAINING THAT WHEN RESOLVED, WILL RESULT IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TOTAL CORPORATE CONTROLLED POLICE STATE DICTATORSHIP OVER THE UNITED STATES. Source: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2014/11/14/obama-is-currently-placing-the-u-s-in-a-corporate-controlled-police-state-dictatorship/
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"Talk about pork in Congress: Mary Landrieu
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"Talk about a couple of Porkers... More Chins than the Beijing phone book."
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Democratic Party On Trial, Washington DC --
Democrats plead not guilty to kidnapping, holding America in their basement, and forcing her to do unspeakably bizarre, sick, twisted, and painful acts of grotesque deviancy for the Democrats' strange selfish personal pleasuring every which way all over their dirty basement den of domination for eight years.
The Democrats defense took a surprising turn to offense as their lawyers countered America's claim of innocence in her own rape. The Democrats have filed a counter suit against America claiming they, the Democrats, are the real victims.
"America was wearing a skimpy sexy outfit that she wore with the purposeful intent to provoke being kidnapped, held in a deviously devised basement torture chamber, and repeatedly raped all over said basement for eight long brutal bloodcurdling years of sick twisted political rape and unspeakable outrage."
If found not guilty Democrats vow to never kidnap and rape America again.
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Black Lib Rag: When White People Use These "Six Code Words"
They Are Really Saying The N-Word
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(According to the Atlanta Blackstar, when a white person says "cut taxes" they are really calling black people "ni**ers." Who knew?)
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The N-Word, Updated: 6 Code Words or Terms That Often Mean the Same Thing – Atlanta BlackstarBy Thomas L. Scotthttp://atlantablackstar.com/2014/11/11/the-n-word-updated-6-code-words-or-terms-that-often-mean-the-same-thing/2/
1) Thug As Richard Sherman pointed out after receiving criticism about his post Super Bowl interview, "It seems like [thug] is the acceptable way of calling someone the n word nowadays. Substituting the word thug doesn't disguise the negative association with Black people."
2) Urban/Inner city The Black community is often referred to as urban or inner city when people are uncomfortable talking about Black people or where they live.
3) State's rights During the Civil Rights Movement, politicians used racially coded appeals and words such as "state's rights" to try and capitalize on the racial anxiety during that time.
4) Welfare and food stamps When President Lyndon Johnson wanted welfare to include a racial component, it became possible to associate welfare with helping minorities. The same stigma is used with food stamps today. When Newt Gingrich called Obama "the food stamp" president, everyone knew what word he really was using.
5) Law and order During the Civil Rights Movement, the opposition said that "Law and Order" was needed to handle the racial tension and civil rights protests. In other words, we need to control the Blacks.
6) Cut taxes Making the poor and people of color sound more threatening, cutting taxes has long been racial code for not using tax payer money to help Black and brown people.
("The N-Word Updated, Part II: 4 Terms That Mean The Same Hateful Thing, But Are Totally Acceptable When You Like Constantly Seeing Things In A Twisted Racial Fashion And Want To Focus On Other Bullcrap"1) CRACKER - This usually gets passed off by Charlie Rangel as a "term of endearment", because it's historical.
2) HYMIE - Generally used by Jesse Jackson to describe those who "conspire to defeat him", but Al Sharpton might say is okay if "it was only one Jew".
3) FAGGOT and/or HOMO - Sometimes hidden when used in conjunction with calling someone a punk (a more subtle but redundant form of the word) or describing self-professed superiorities to certain European nationalities during church "sermons" - surprisingly not made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright .
4) BISCUIT - Passed off as a non-offensive term for self-hating blacks who don't mind possessing "white racist alien DNA".
I must say though, Thomas L. Scott, you have a VERY bright future as a potential writer for Salon or Mother Jones or maybe even a MSNBC co-host. Keep shooting for the moon, Clown... because even if you miss, your A$$ will land among the stars!)...Warph
FBI Warns Ferguson Protesters May Target
Electrical Facilities Or Water Treatment Plants
(And watch... the media would still call the jungle bunnies "mostly peaceful")
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Ehhh... What's up, Doc
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As the nation waits to hear whether a Missouri police officer will face charges for killing unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the FBI is warning law enforcement agencies across the country that the decision "will likely" lead some extremist protesters to threaten and even attack police officers or federal agents.
Peaceful protesters could be caught in the middle, and electrical facilities or water treatment plants could also become targets. In addition, so-called "hacktivists" like the group "Anonymous" could try to launch cyber-attacks against authorities.
"The announcement of the grand jury's decision ... will likely be exploited by some individuals to justify threats and attacks against law enforcement and critical infrastructure," the FBI says in an intelligence bulletin issued in recent days. "This also poses a threat to those civilians engaged in lawful or otherwise constitutionally protected activities."
The FBI bulletin expresses concern only over those who would exploit peaceful protests, not the masses of demonstrators who will want to legitimately, lawfully and collectively express their views on the grand jury's decision.
Gallup: Support For ObumaCrappyCare Among White People Just 21%...
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/only-29-of-whites-approve-of-obamacare-minority-support-falls-to-new-low/
(Tingles was right!)
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Via FPM: Cholera. New Coke. A snake in a mailbox. All these things are more popular than ObamaCare. At least among white people.
ObamaCare's approval ratings have hit a new low, down to 29 percent among white people from 32 percent and down to 56 percent among minorities from 62 percent. That is moving dangerously into evens territory.
It's the first time non-white support has fallen below 60 percent and indicates that the lack of support is due to experience and is penetrating even Obama's own base.
There is essentially no white support for ObamaCare left. Independents have backed further away from ObamaCare. Independent support for ObamaCare is down to 33 percent from 39 percent.
ObamaCare is no longer competitive among independents.
There is actually a small uptick of support for ObamaCare among Democrats, going from 73 to 74 percent. This says more about party rigidity and the departure of Democrats from the party. When national opposition is growing while party support increases, that means the party is being hollowed out.
Democrats know it and they're panicking badly.
Greatest Obituary Ever: "Anti-Racist White, Secular Jewish, Transgender, Lesbian, Female Revolutionary Communist"...
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(One of Bill Clintons favorite woman... er.. guy. Yikes... her last words: "Remember me as a revolutionary communist")
Via Advocate:http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/books/2014/11/17/transgender-pioneer-leslie-feinberg-stone-butch-blues-has-died
She was a pioneer in trans and lesbian issues, workers rights, and intersectionality long before anyone could define the phrase. Her partner, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and family offered us this obituary:
Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist, died on November 15. She succumbed to complications from multiple tick-borne co-infections, including Lyme disease, babeisiosis, and protomyxzoa rheumatica, after decades of illness.
She died at home in Syracuse, NY, with her partner and spouse of 22 years, Minnie Bruce Pratt, at her side. Her last words were:
"Remember me as a revolutionary communist." Feinberg was the first theorist to advance a Marxist concept of "transgender liberation," and her work impacted popular culture, academic research, and political organizing.
Her historical and theoretical writing has been widely anthologized and taught in the U.S. and international academic circles. Her impact on mass culture was primarily through her 1993 first novel, Stone Butch Blues, widely considered in and outside the U.S. as a groundbreaking work about the complexities of gender. Sold by the hundreds of thousands of copies and also passed from hand-to-hand inside prisons, the novel has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Hebrew (with her earnings from that edition going to ASWAT Palestinian Gay Women).
Fed Up? Democrats Are Now Publicly Lashing Out At Pelosi
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(Uh oh... Poor Nancy. Demo-Rats... a regime full of arrogant pricks.)
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/nancy-pelosi-democrats-112962.html
The discontent with Nancy Pelosi is breaking out in the open.
Democrats in the House have quietly grumbled about Pelosi since suffering devastating losses on Election Day, but there is a growing number of members willing to go public on their party leaders.
The list of grievances — from the election losses, to routine procedures erupting into nasty fights — has shaken the confidence many Democrats hold in their leader. So while Pelosi will be unchallenged for the top House Democratic post on Tuesday during a closed-door party meeting, the incoming minority leader is about to be in the worst position with her caucus since the end of their short-lived majority back in 2010.
"They wiped the floor with us, so no, we're not feeling good,"said Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), the Congressional Black Caucus' chairwoman."We think clearly there was a lack of a coherent and compelling message. We believe that certainly our leadership worked hard, but there obviously was something lacking because we lost so many seats. I want to see members who have a better handle on the caucus brought in, whether they be young or old. I want people who have a good pulse of what is going on in our caucus...people who are more inclusive."
Instant Classic: Berkeley Moonbats Hold "Funeral" For Frozen Chicken Inside Whole Foods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mKGG-B-M1bY#t=322
(My favorite line: This frozen chicken "had a rich, emotional life")
(Move over "hippies crying over dead trees," you have some serious competition)
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After The News Reached Brisbane,
The Hitler Regime Plans To Confront Field Marshal Jonathan Gruber On Obumacare
Hitler: I knew he couldn't keep his mouth shut!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKhkQqA53v0&feature=player_embedded#t=0
24 Reasons Why Millennials Are Screaming Mad
About Our Unfair Economy
By Michael Snyder, on November 11th, 2014
(This following article makes some good points. Particularly a generation obsessed with entertainment and the electronic boxes that they've become addicted to. And, the student debt situation which is out of control. Is the economic structure fair and equal? No way! Never has been. But, there are some flaws in the arguments. A Mortgage Loan Officer had this to say:
" I deal with a lot of 20 to 40 year olds and 1st time homebuyers. I see who's employed and who is not. Just a few examples:
*Woman with a Masters in Social Work. Unable to find a job in her field for 22 months after graduation has finally found a job making $14.75 an hour. Her husband with no college drives a forklift and makes $15 an hour. She has $80,000 in student loans to pay back.
*A 19 year old woman who graduated a Welding Tech program at her High School had 3 companies bidding against each other to hire her.
*Another 19 year old boy who just graduated from a similar Welding program was immediately hired and they are sending him to Electrician school so he has dual skills they can use him for.
*A guy who Graduated with a Batchelors in Accounting last year is making $15 an hour and happy to have found a job. He said every other Accounting opening wanted a minimum of 5 years experience. Some required 10!
*A 22 year old guy who graduated from a Diesel Mechanics program at his High School made $73,000 last year."Student loans are piling up at such a rate because of bunch of the so-called
"students" are quitting jobs and using these loans for living expenses. Another form of welfare. I heard of many borrowing $15,000/yr while taking 1 course at a community college or on-line university costing $350. One racked up $200,000 in student loans some of which went to a 3 month summer vacation in Europe and winter holidays in Hawaii. Ending up with no job. When the loans run out, they end up as part time burger flippers or store clerks. This has been growing by leaps and bounds and needs to be stopped. In my day, students had to meet academic requirements to get into college and went into fields where the jobs were. Today, it's basically open enrollment and party time. A lot of these "colleges" don't even require a high school diploma. Screw education, we run on money, money, money! The fundamental problem with the education system is very few are learning anything useful in the job market. "Movie appreciation" and "lesbian interpretive dance" aren't high on employers qualification lists. So, the problems are self-inflicted to a great extent)
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Do you want to know why Millennials seem so angry? We promised them that if they worked hard, stayed out of trouble and got good grades that they would be able to achieve the "American Dream". We told them not to worry about accumulating very high levels of student loan debt because there would be good jobs waiting for them at the end of the rainbow once they graduated. Well, it turns out that we lied to them. Nearly half of all Millennials are spending at least half of their paychecks to pay off debt, more than 30 percent of them are living with their parents because they can't find decent jobs, and this year the homeownership rate for Millennials sunk to a brand new all-time low. When you break U.S. adults down by age, our long-term economic decline has hit the Millennials the hardest by far. And yet somehow we expect them to bear the burden of providing Medicare, Social Security and other social welfare benefits to the rest of us as we get older. No wonder there is so much anger and frustration among our young people.
The following are 24 reasons why Millennials are screaming mad about our unfair economy...#1 The current savings rate for Millennials is negative 2 percent. Yes, you read that correctly. Not only aren't Millennials saving any money, they are actually spending a good bit more than they are earning every month.
#2 A survey conducted earlier this year found that 47 percent of all Millennials are using at least half of their paychecks to pay off debt.
#3 For U.S. households that are headed up by someone under the age of 40, average wealth is still about 30 percent below where it was back in 2007.
#4 In 2005, the homeownership rate for U.S. households headed up by someone under the age of 35 was approximately 43 percent. Today, it is sitting at about 36 percent.
#5 One recent survey discovered that an astounding 31.1 percent of all U.S. adults in the 18 to 34-year-old age bracket are currently living with their parents.
#6 At this point, the top 0.1 percent of all Americans have about as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent of all Americans combined. Needless to say, there aren't very many Millennials in that top 0.1 percent.
#7 Since Barack Obama has been in the White House, close to 40 percent of all 27-year-olds have spent at least some time unemployed.
#8 Only about one out of every five 27-year-olds owns a home at this point, and an astounding 80 percent of all 27-year-olds are paying off debt.
#9 In 2013, the ratio of what men in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket were earning compared to what the general population was earning reached an all-time low.
#10 Back in the year 2000, 80 percent of all men in their late twenties had a full-time job. Today, only 65 percent do.
#11 In 2012, one study found that U.S. families that have a head of household that is under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent.
#12 Another study released back in 2011 discovered that U.S. households led by someone 65 years of age or older are 47 times wealthier than U.S. households led by someone 35 years of age or younger.
#13 Half of all college graduates in America are still financially dependent on their parents when they are two years out of college.
#14 In 1994, less than half of all college graduates left school with student loan debt. Today, it is over 70 percent.
#15 At this point, student loan debt has hit a grand total of 1.2 trillion dollars in the United States. That number has grown by about 84 percent just since 2008.
#16 According to the Pew Research Center, nearly four out of every ten U.S. households that are led by someone under the age of 40 are currently paying off student loan debt.
#17 In 2008, approximately 29 million Americans were paying off student loan debt. Today, that number has ballooned to 40 million.
#18 Since 2005, student loan debt burdens have absolutely exploded while salaries for young college graduates have actually declined...The problem developing is that earnings and debt aren't moving in the same direction. From 2005 to 2012, average student loan debt has jumped 35%, adjusting for inflation, while the median salary has actually dropped by 2.2%.#19 According to CNN, 260,000 Americans with a college or professional degree made at or below the federal minimum wage last year.
#20 Even after accounting for inflation, the cost of college tuition increased by 275 percent between 1970 and 2013.
#21 In the years to come, much of the burden of paying for Medicare for our aging population will fall on Millennials. It is being projected that the number of Americans on Medicare will grow from 50.7 million in 2012 to 73.2 million in 2025. In addition, it has been estimated that Medicare is facing unfunded liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars over the next 75 years. That comes to approximately $328,404 for every single household in the United States.
#22 In the years to come, much of the burden of paying for our exploding Medicaid system will fall on Millennials. Today, more than 70 million Americans are on Medicaid, and it is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
#23 In the years to come, much of the burden of paying for our massive Ponzi scheme known as Social Security will fall on Millennials. Right now, there are more than 63 million Americans collecting Social Security benefits. By 2035, that number is projected to soar to an astounding 91 million. In 1945, there were 42 workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits. Today, that number has fallen to 2.5 workers, and if you eliminate all government workers, that leaves only 1.6 private sector workers for every retiree receiving Social Security benefits.
#24 Our national debt is currently sitting at a grand total of $17,937,617,036,693.09. It is on pace to roughly double during the Obama years, and Millennials are expected to service that debt for the rest of their lives.
Yes, there are certainly some Millennials that are flat broke because they are lazy and irresponsible.
But there are many others that have tried to do everything right and still find that they can't get any breaks.
For example, Bloomberg recently shared the story of a young couple named Jason and Jessica Alinen...The damage inflicted on U.S. households by the collapse of the housing market and recession wasn't evenly distributed. Just ask Jason and Jessica Alinen.
The couple, who live near Seattle, declared bankruptcy in 2011 when the value of the house they then owned plunged to less than $200,000 from the $349,000 they paid for it four years earlier, just as the economic slump was about to start. Jason even stopped getting haircuts to save money.
"We thought we'd have a white picket fence, two kids, two dogs, and we'd have $100,000 in equity," said Jason, 33, who does have two children. "It's just really frustrating."Can you identify with them?
Most young Americans just want to work hard, buy a home and start a family.
But for millions of them, that dream might as well be a million miles away right now.
Unfortunately, most of them have absolutely no idea why this has happened.
Many of them end up blaming themselves. Many of them think that they are not talented enough or that they didn't work hard enough or that they don't know the right people.
What they don't know is that the truth is that decades of incredibly foolish decisions are starting to catch up with us in a major way, and they just happen to be caught in the crossfire.
Sadly, instead of becoming informed about what is happening to our country, a very large percentage of our young people are absolutely addicted to entertainment instead.
Below, I want to share with you a
video that I recently came across. A student at Texas Tech University recently asked some of her classmates a series of questions. When they were asked about Brad Pitt or Jersey Shore they knew the answers right away. But when they were asked who won the Civil War or who the current Vice-President of the United States is, they deeply struggled. I think that this video says a lot about where we are as a society today...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRZZpk_9k8E
Also, checkout this video from 2012:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2fHQ9eULzk
Since when is the Federal government supposed to be in the lending business?
Ever think about that or do you think that's just super great?
Could we call it predatory lending? If not, why not?
Great post Warph.
Keep up the good work
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Finally, A Gift For That Hard To Shop For Liberal In Your Life...
The Multicultural Christmas Sweater!
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(Goes great with a COEXIST bumpersticker)
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So, with the huge growth sales of festive sweaters over the last few years, it was only a matter of time before someone invented the 'Multicultural Christmas Jumper.'
And the website Britishchristmasjumpers.com are the first past that particular politically correct finishing post.
Their multicoloured offering features several different signs of faith including; Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Sikh, a form of scientific atheism, Chinese philosophy and also the peace sign.The woolly garment can be pre-ordered from the site for £40, with the company shipping the prodcuts from December 1 onwards.
Emperor Obuma Speaks For 15 Minutes – Refers To Himself 31 Times
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(I, me, my... it's all about me!)
Transcript:http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-obamas-immigration-speech/2014/11/20/14ba8042-7117-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
Demo-Rat Rep. Gwen Moore: Don't Forget About Transgender Immigrants While You Watch Emperor Obuma Amnesty Address
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(Which is probably the last thing anyone will be thinking about)
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Disturbing: Major Democratic Fundraiser Arrested On Charges Of Sex Abuse Of 15-Year-Old Boy
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Emperor Obuma and sodomist Terry Bean
(Can you imagine the media coverage if this were a major Republican fundraiser?)
Via Truth Revolt:http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/major-dem-fundraiser-arrested-charges-sex-abuse-minor
A national "power player" for the Democratic party and the gay rights movement was arrested Wednesday on charges of sex abuse of a minor.
Terry Bean, a Portland-based fundraiser for Democratic causes, is being charged with sex abuse and two counts of sodomy involving a 15-year-old boy. Bean's attorney claims that his client is the victim of an "extortion ring" and expressed full confidence that his name would be cleared.
The Willamette Week reports that law enforcement sources say Bean, 66, will be charged with two counts of sodomy in the third degree (a felony) and sex abuse in the third degree (a misdemeanor). The arrest followed a six-month investigation concerning a concealed video camera over Bean's bed that accuser Kiah Lawson says was used to illegally film him and at least half a dozen other men "in a state of nudity engaged in intimate acts with [Bean]."
As WW reported in June, Bean accused a former lover, Kiah Lawson, of attempting to extort him over the discovery of a hidden camera. In the spring, Bean sought to keep the allegations secret and tried to reach a $40,000 settlement with Lawson.
After WW began asking questions, Bean went to the police asking them to investigate his allegations. Bean also handed over to police what he said was evidence of additional illegal activity by Lawson and others. Bean's attorney, Kristen Winemiller, denied that the camera was used for illegal or improper purposes, claiming that he installed it because he'd been the victim of theft. Winemiller initially accused Lawson of attempting to extort Bean; however, the investigation eventually turned against Bean leading to his arrest this week.
In a written response to the arrest, Winemiller maintained that her client will be exonerated: "Terry Bean is a highly respected community leader who has devoted his life to bettering our community. Over the course of several months in 2013‐2014 Terry was the victim of an extortion ring led by several men known to law enforcement. This current arrest is connected to the ongoing investigation of that case in which Mr. Bean has fully cooperated. No allegations against Terry Bean should be taken at face value. We look forward to the opportunity to clear his name."Bean, a millionaire real estate developer, has been a major fundraiser for liberal political causes, particularly gay rights. He founded the leading gay rights organization, the Human Rights Campaign, personally donating over $1 million to the cause.
He has also been instrumental to the Democratic Party. As the Willamette Week reports, in 2009 Obama called Bean a "great friend and supporter" and is hosted by Bean every time he visits Oregon:
No Oregonian has raised more money for President Barack Obama. At a 2009 Human Rights Campaign dinner, Obama called Bean a "great friend and supporter." The president in 2012 hosted Bean on Air Force One, and when Obama visits Oregon, Bean has had the honor of greeting him as the president gets off his plane.Bean will be arraigned later in Lane County, where the crimes allegedly occurred last year.
PETA Compares Fight Against Presidential Turkey Pardon To
Civil Rights Struggle
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(Now, if you'll excuse PETA, they have a frozen chicken funeral to attend)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mKGG-B-M1bY#t=322
Via The Hill: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on President Obama's daughters to go vegan for Thanksgiving and urge their father to end the "offensive turkey pardon" ceremony.
In a letter Thursday to the president's daughters, Sasha and Malia Obama, PETA suggested the family follow its "values" during the holidays, citing the struggle for civil rights.
"You come from a family whose members don't hesitate to fight for those who have been oppressed by standing up for civil rights, women's rights, and LGBT rights," Rachelle Owen, a senior manager in the group's youth division, wrote to the Obama daughters.
"Obviously, you're familiar with the horrible ways that people often treat others who are viewed as 'different' simply because of superficial physical differences or cruel traditions. This year, we would like to ask you to lend your powerful and influential voices to another group whose voices often go unheard: animals."
Emperor Obuma: I'm Not Acting Like An Emperor –
WaPo Fact Checker: Yes, You Are
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(Emperor Obama last seen jotting down the Washington Post on his list of enemies)
Via Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/11/18/obamas-flip-flop-on-using-executive-action-on-illegal-immigration/
Question: Your administration has deported a record high number, 1.5 million, of undocumented immigrants, more than your predecessor. And I know your administration took some steps last year to protect unintended undocumented immigrants from being deported. However many people say those efforts were not enough. What I'd like to know is what you're going to do now, and until the time that immigration reform is passed, to insure that more people aren't being deported and families are not being broken apart.
Emperor Obama:[/b] Well, look Jackie, this is something I've struggled with throughout my presidency. The problem is that you know I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed, and Congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system. [...]
The Pinocchio Test: The president has certainly been consistent on this issue—until he saw that the path through Congress was blocked. It's clear from the interviews that the president was not being asked about executive orders that would have provided comprehensive immigration reform, but about specific actions that ended deportations of a subset of illegal immigrants—precisely the type of action he will shortly unveil.
Previously he said that was not possible, using evocative language that he is not a "king" or "the emperor." Apparently he's changed his mind. The president earns an upside-down Pinocchio for his flip-flop.
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"George washington said 'We would have a black president when pigs fly!'... well, swine flu!"
Some people collect stamps, others collect sea shells, and I collect notions. Unfortunately, unlike those others, I can't just stick mine in albums or glass jars. I have to stick them in my articles.
First up is illegal immigration. Before Obama or Congress gets around to pulling any stunts, they should enforce the laws already on the books. Nobody is entitled to sneak into our country any more than they have the right to sneak into your house. Anyone caught sneaking in should only be deported after serving a six month stretch in one of those Tent City prisons overseen by Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio.(http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/joe_arpaio.jpg)
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Commen sight in Surprise, AZ
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Sheriff Joe's Graduating Class In 2022
Nobody lacking a green card should ever be hired. Anyone caught hiring illegals should be sentenced to the same six month term as illegal aliens, giving them ample time to consider the error of their ways.
Every president of a nation south of our border should be compelled to get the word out to his people that the gravy train has been put in mothballs, and anyone caught trying to sneak into Los Estados Unidos will be shot. If they refuse to get the word out, all future aid from the U.S. will be stopped.
As you may have noticed, in his post-election press conference, Obama announced that our mission in the Middle East is to forge a border between Syria and Iraq, thus once again establishing Iraq's sovereignty. It's a shame that he is so much more concerned with Iraq's sovereignty than he is with our own.
As we saw on November 4th, the Democrats attempt to divide the electorate along racial and gender lines didn't work nearly as well as it has in the past. This is not only a good sign for the GOP, but a better one for America.
When I read that Albert Camus once wrote that "Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity," I immediately thought of billionaires like Bill Gates, Ted Turner and Warren Buffet, who set up foundations in order to fund left-wing causes, but never consider bestowing huge bonuses on the people whose labor has provided them with their wealth.
I have often had similar thoughts regarding Hollywood big wigs. Some actor who is paid $10 or $20 million to appear in a movie will turn around and, one, condemn capitalism and, two, attend a $35,000-a-plate fundraiser for Barack Obama. What he won't do is donate a couple of million to the members of the crew, blue collar workers to whom $25,000 would be a massive windfall.
Speaking of actors, I don't really have a problem with them taking advantage of their First Amendment rights to sound off on things they know nothing about. However, the hypocrisy of people who make more money in a single year than most folks will earn in a lifetime promoting socialism is extremely annoying, as is the parroting of Al Gore's claptrap about global warming by knuckleheads who never even took high school science. But the First Amendment doesn't distinguish between the wise and the foolish. On the other hand, as John Kindseth recently reminded me, in 1927, when Jack Warner suggested that Warner Brothers finance "The Jazz Singer," promoting it as the first sound movie, his brother Harry very sensibly asked: "Who would want to hear actors talk?"
In the wake of the recent elections, my friend Steve Maikoski asked me who came up with the idea of calling liberal states blue and conservative states red when, historically, red was not only the color closely associated with the Soviet Union, but communists and socialists, alike, were commonly referred to as Reds. It took a while, but then I recalled it was the late Tim Russert, who mis-colored the states during the 2000 election. At the time, I assumed he was colorblind, but perhaps he was merely mischievous or stupid.
Will Rogers was regarded as something of a homespun sage when it came to political commentary. Part of the reason is because, like Bob Hope in the 40s and 50s, he was seen as non-partisan, taking good-natured swipes at both parties. In 2014, those innocent days seem as distant as Mars. America has become so polarized over the past few decades, the differences between Democrats and Republicans are wider and deeper than the Grand Canyon. And, sadly, anyone who says he votes for the man and not the party just sounds like a drooling idiot.
Still I believe that something Will Rogers said back then clearly delineates the difference between the two parties. "I would rather," he said, "be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it." From my perspective, the Democrats are always trying to sell someone a bridge they don't own and, too often, Republicans are the ones pulling out their checkbooks.
Finally, I'd like to pay my respects to Tom Magliozzi, who recently died at the age of 77. For years, he and his brother Ray hosted a radio show I loved called "Car Talk." What made this rather extraordinary is, one, the show was on NPR, the home of everything left-wing and, two, the show consisted of people calling in seeking advice about their cars. Considering that I hate everything associated with the Left and that my disinterest in cars is rivaled only by my disinterest in golf, Brittany Spears and the accordion, my having been a fan astonishes even me.
But the Magliozzis never talked politics, at least not while I was listening, and they were very funny. From personal experience, I know it's pretty easy to get laughs when your subject is Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, or when you're writing dialogue for Hawkeye Pierce or Lou Grant, but being able to get laughs about cars is a rare gift.
But there were times when Tom would expand his subject matter, as when he disclosed the secret of his successful marriage: "I know I'm always right, but it's more important to be happy. So whenever my wife and I disagree, I tell her she's right. As a result, she thinks I'm a big dummy, but she loves me anyway. So I'm happy."
I'll miss Tom, but at least now God will know whom to turn to the next time He needs a good laugh or has trouble with His carburetor.
....Burt
The School District does not defer to the students, especially when referring to
"One Nation Under God" and changing it to "On Nation Under Allah"
that is blasphemous.
What is wrong with these educated idiots running our schools?
The district should defer to the taxpayer, the people that pay their wages and the voter not to the children.
School Recites Pledge in Arabic,
One Nation Under Allah?
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By Todd Starnes
A Colorado high school principal is defending his decision to allow students from a cultural club to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic — and denied that it was attempt to push an Islamic agenda.
Tom Lopez, the principal at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins, told Fox News he has received a number of telephone calls and emails from outraged parents – but he stands by his decision.
"These students love this country," he said. "They were not being un-American in trying to do this. They believed they were accentuating the meaning of the words as spoken regularly in English."
The school recites the Pledge of Allegiance once a week and on Monday a member of the Cultural Arms Club led the student body in the Arabic version of the pledge.
The club seeks to "destroy the barriers, embrace the cultures" that exist within the high school.
Danielle Clark, communications director of the Poudre School District, said they understand why parents are upset.
"We understand not everybody would agree with the students' choice," she told Fox News. "We've heard there are some who are upset."
On the other hand, she said she received one email from a person who "thought it was a great thing."
Clark said the cultural club has a history of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in a number of different languages.
"It's not just Arabic," she said.
Last year, the group found itself in a firestorm of controversy after reciting the pledge in Spanish.
"This is a student-initiated and student-led club," Clark said. "There is no school sponsor or advisor. It doesn't come under the umbrella of the district."
She said the students simply asked the principal permission as a courtesy.
"We deferred to the students because it's their deal," she said.
Club members said they don't understand why there's a controversy.
"No matter what language it's said in, pledging your allegiance to the United States is the same in every language," student Skyler Bowden told The Coloradoan.
But an Arabic translation of the Pledge of Allegiance would have replaced "one nation under God" with "one nation under Allah."
"Obviously in Arabic, you would use the word Allah, but Christian Arabs would use the word Allah," said Ibrahim Hooper, of the Council on American Islamic Relations. "It's not necessarily specific to Islam and Muslims."
Clark said she did not hear the pledge and does not speak Arabic so she could not confirm exactly what words were used.
Some local residents said the pledge should be recited in English. Others wondered if there was another reason involved.
"This is no longer about language," wrote one reader in a letter to the local newspaper. "This is about targeting a group you know will object, intentionally stirring them up under the guise of your opinions on multiculturalism and subjecting your school and community to a divisive issue for absolutely no gain."
Lopez said he's been getting bombarded by all sorts of accusations – one critic even labeled him a traitor.
"They claim they are outraged that this is blaspheming a real major tenet of our patriotism – which in their mind the Pledge of Allegiance is only in English," he said.
He's also been accused of "pushing a Muslim Brotherhood agenda – to push Islam into the school." That's a claim that Lopez denied.
Hooper told Fox News he was dumbfounded by complaints about the Arabic version of the pledge.
"How on earth is it un-American to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in another language," Hooper asked. "It doesn't make sense unless the people complaining are anti-Muslim or anti-middle eastern bigots."
Principal Lopez said he was getting "worn down" by the complaints and the sense of "hate" among some of the critics.
"I've been shocked with prejudicial statements that have been made," he said. " I've been shocked with the lack of seeking understanding. There's definitely suspicion and fear expressed in these people's minds. There's some hate."
But some residents say they feel strongly that the Pledge should be recited in English.
"As a veteran and a friend of a man killed defending these children in their little games they like to play with our pledge, I'm offended," wrote Chris Wells on the Daily Coloradoan. "There are things that we don't mess with – among them are the pledge and our anthem."
"If they wish to adapt the country as their own, then they need to learn the language and start speaking it as their first language," wrote another reader.
Hooper suggested the students could use the incident as a learning "opportunity that there is real intolerance and bigotry out there."
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/school-recites-pledge-in-arabic-one-nation-under-allah.html
Congress Sues Obuma Over Obumacare
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Via Daily Mail: The House of Representatives, spearheaded by a growing Republican majority, sued the Obama administration on Friday over its implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law, saying he had overstepped his legal authority in carrying out the program.
The case was assigned to Judge Rosemary M. Collyer, who was appointed to her post by President George W. Bush in 2003. The Department of Justice, which will defend the case on behalf of the Treasury and Health and Human Services Departments, has 60 days to file a response.
GOP lawmakers filed the lawsuit in federal district court in Washington the morning after Obama announced unilateral executive actions to expand protections for millions of immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally.
While Republicans complained that Obama had unconstitutionally exceeded his powers with those actions, the suit filed Friday did not address immigration.
AP Calls Obuma A Liar: Fact Check Of Obuma's Speech Reveals "Notable Omissions"
FACT CHECK: Obuma's Claims On Illegal Immigration
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama made some notable omissions Thursday night in his remarks about the unilateral actions he's taking on immigration.http://bigstory.ap.org/article/67e409ef05374f258391c2519fce6daa/fact-check-obamas-claims-illegal-immigration
A look at his statements and how they compare with the facts:OBAMA: "It does not grant citizenship, or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive - only Congress can do that. All we're saying is we're not going to deport you."
THE FACTS: He's saying, and doing, more than that. The changes also will make those covered eligible for work permits, allowing them to be employed in the country legally and compete with citizens and legal residents for better-paying jobs.
___OBAMA: "Although this summer, there was a brief spike in unaccompanied children being apprehended at our border, the number of such children is now actually lower than it's been in nearly two years."
THE FACTS: The numbers certainly surged this year, but it was more than a "brief spike." The number of unaccompanied children apprehended at the border has been on the rise since the 2011 budget year. That year about 16,000 children were found crossing the border alone. In 2012, the Border Patrol reported more than 24,000 children, followed by more than 38,800 in 2013. In the last budget year, more than 68,361 children were apprehended.
___OBAMA: "Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is at its lowest level since the 1970s. Those are the facts."
THE FACTS: Indeed, in the 2014 budget year the Border Patrol made 486,651 arrests of border crossers, among the fewest since the early 1970s. But border arrests have been on the rise since 2011.
The decline in crossings is not purely, or perhaps even primarily, due to the Obama administration. The deep economic recession early in his presidency and the shaky aftermath made the U.S. a less attractive place to come for work. The increase in arrests since 2011 also can be traced in part to the economy — as the recovery improved, more people came in search of opportunity.
___OBAMA: "When I took office, I committed to fixing this broken immigration system. And I began by doing what I could to secure our borders."
THE FACTS: He overlooked the fact that he promised as a candidate for president in 2008 to have an immigration bill during his first year in office and move forward on it quickly. He never kept that promise to the Latino community.
BREAKING: IRS Says Lois Lerner's 30,000 Missing Emails Have Been Recovered
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(Friday afternoon news dump)
Via Washington Examiner: Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.
The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of "disaster recovery tapes" that were used to back up the IRS email system.
"They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes," a congressional aide told the Washington Examiner.
Committees in the House and Senate are seeking the emails, which they believe could show Lerner was working in concert with Obama administration officials to target conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status before the 2012 presidential election.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/30000-missing-emails-from-irs-lerner-recovered/article/2556522
FBI Floods Ferguson With 100 Agents Ahead Of Grand Jury Decision
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(Holder's shock troops to keep the Ferguson police inline)
Via ABC News:http://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-sends-100-agents-ferguson-ahead-grand-jury/story?id=27084669
The FBI has sent about 100 agents to the St. Louis area to help deal with any problems that could arise from the grand jury decision in the police shooting of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown.
In addition to the FBI, other federal agencies have also mobilized staffers to get to St. Louis today, sources told ABC News.
A decision by the grand jury is expected soon, but St. Louis authorities said today that the grand jury is still meeting. The panel will decide whether or not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for shooting Brown, who was unarmed, on Aug. 9.
Authorities are braced for a recurrence of angry protests that turned violent at times during the summer.
The FBI has ordered its Ferguson contingent to mobilize and arrive in the St. Louis area today. In addition to FBI personnel already in the St. Louis area, about 100 more are being dispatched, law enforcement sources said. Additional FBI personnel have been put on alert so that they could be called in as part of a second emergency wave if necessary, ABC News has learned.
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Many Police Families In Ferguson Have Left Town Or Gone Into Hiding After Threats
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(Very smart move)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2844311/Police-families-Ferguson-fear-safety-gone-hiding-left-town-receiving-assault-death-threats.html
The families of many police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, are in hiding or running from town amid death and assault threats.
One police wife told KTVI that she's received threats over the phone and she's been paranoid for her and her young daughter's safety ever since.
'Did they follow me here?' she told the station. 'Did I do a good enough job after work today of taking different routes, on my way home?
Tensions are rising in Ferguson as a grand jury decides whether to charge white Officer Darren Wilson in the August shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, 18.
In one recent message, a caller says: 'Would you rather hear me coming out, coming out and robbing your house? And it would be like, it'd just be like silence man, you couldn't hear nothing.'
'It's very frightening,' said the police wife, who asked to not be identified.
'Most people who have a family member who's a police officer are very proud of what they do.'
She added: 'This is real and people actually do know how to find us and they do want to harm us.'
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Ferguson Schools Cancel All Classes Next Week
(No complaints from the teachers' union)
Via The Hill:http://thehill.com/homenews/news/225037-schools-to-close-in-ferguson
A school district that includes part of Ferguson, Mo., will cancel classes next week in anticipation of a grand jury decision on whether to indict a police officer for killing an unarmed black teenager, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
"With the heightened anxiety and activity, we thought it would be better for students and staff to extend the holiday at this point," Jennings School District superintendent Tiffany Anderson told the paper.
The system had already planned to close schools on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday, so school officials decided to give students the entire week off. That makes it more likely that students will be out of school when a grand jury decision is announced.
Multiple reports have suggested the grand jury will not indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Wilson, who is white, shot and killed Michael Brown, who was 18 and black, in an incident that sparked large-scale protests and calls to reevaluate how minorities are treated by police officers.
Warph,
You're on you own ol buddy I aint touching this one---lock and load and prepare to do battle, my friend. :angel:
Quote from WARPH :
And, sadly, anyone who says he votes for the man and not the party just sounds like a drooling idiot.
Quote from Diane :
« Reply #403 on: November 04, 2014, 11:19:23 am »
" I always vote the person not the party."
Quote from: jarhead on November 22, 2014, 08:38:10 AM
Warph,
You're on you own ol buddy I aint touching this one---lock and load and prepare to do battle, my friend. :angel:
Quote from WARPH :
And, sadly, anyone who says he votes for the man and not the party just sounds like a drooling idiot.
Quote from Diane :
« Reply #4jarhead 03 on: November 04, 2014, 11:19:23 am »
" I always vote the person not the party."
Awe come on Jarhead don't you recognize how an educated person, you know one from higher education with papers thinks. After all that paper (degree)says, they know everything doesn't it?
I'm sorry Jarhead, I could not control my inner most child. ROFLMAO
Not Just Ferguson: Protests Scheduled for 83 Cities,
Plus "Direct Action Trainings" Held for Protesters
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Everyone knows the government, with its lapdog mainstream media in lockstep, has whipped up the Ferguson situation into a total frenzy.
It doesn't matter what the grand jury decides now. Fear and anger are very powerful weapons and everyone who has allowed the powers that (shouldn't) be to steer their emotions on this one has taken the bait.
The cops have stocked up on nearly $200k worth of riot gear, less-lethal ammunition and the like. Ferguson residents have been advised to go get guns because the cops won't be able to protect them all from what's coming. Firearm sales in the area have skyrocketed. Everyone is on edge.
Missouri's governor has now preemptively declared a 30-day state of emergency and called out the National Guard.... and the grand jury hasn't even made it's decision yet!
Basically, it's on.
Ferguson, however, is not the only city set to hold protests immediately following the Darren Wilson grand jury announcement.
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Actually, they aren't even being referred to as protests anymore. They are now being called "planned responses."
There is a highly organized, scripted, funded, targeted agenda playing out in Ferguson, and people are basically falling for it.
The list of cities set for these "planned responses" to the Darren Wilson grand jury decision is below. If you live near one of these things, heads up.
When this all goes down, it's not going to be pretty... which is exactly the way the people ultimately engineering this situation want it. Can you say "martial law?"
1.Albany, NY
2.Albuquerque, NM
3.Atlanta, GA
4.Austin, TX
5.Baltimore, MD
6.Bangor, ME
7.Beavercreek, OH
8.Blacksburg, VA
9.Boston, MA
10.Buffalo, NY
11.Carbondale, IL
12.Chapel Hill, NC
13.Chattanooga, TN
14.Chicago, IL
15.Cleveland, OH
16.Columbia, MO
17.Columbus, OH
18.Dallas, TX
19.Denver, CO
20.Des Moines, IA
21.Detroit, MI
22.Durham, NC
23.Ferguson, MO
24.Gainesville, FL
25.Grand Rapids, MI
26.Greensboro, NC
27.Greenville, NC
28.Grinnell, IA
29.Houston, TX
30.Indianapolis, IN
31.Iowa City, IA
32.Jackson, MI
33.Kansas City, MO
34.Kennesaw, GA
35.Lawrence, KS
36.Lexington, KY
37.Longview, TX
38.Los Angeles, CA
39.Louisville, KY
40.Meadville, PA
41.Memphis, TN
42.Milwaukee, WI
43.Minneapolis, MN
44.Mobile, AL
45.Monpelier, VT
46.Monroeville, OH
47.Nashville, TN
48.New London, CT
49.New Orleans, LA
50.Newark, NJ
51.Northampton, MA
52.NYC, NY
53.Oak Ridge, TN
54.Oakland, CA
55.Olympia, WA
56.Oshkosh, WI
57.Phoenix, AZ
58.Philadelphia, PA
59.Pittsburgh, PA
60.Portland, OR
61.Providence, RI
62.Raleigh, NC
63.Rochester, NY
64.Rocky Mount, NC
65.San Diego, CA
66.Santa Barbara, CA
67.Seattle, WA
68.South Hadley, MA
69.Spring Valley, NY
70.Springfield, MA
71.St. Paul, MN
72.St. Petersburg, FL
73.Stroudsberg, PA
74.Tallahassee, FL
75.Tampa, FL
76.Toledo, OH
77.Toronto, Canada
78.Tucson, AZ
79.Washington, D.C.
80.West Hartford, CT
81.West Palm Beach, FL
82.Williamsburg, VA
83.Worcester, MA
Ferguson, MO
Oh Man... Jonathan Gruber was correct when he said the American people are STUPID!!
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Ferguson Protesters In Oakland Set American Flag Ablaze ...Again
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Protesters Shut Down NYC Accessways
FDR and Triboro Bridge both shut down by angry white idiots
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Mob Attempting To Break Into #Ferguson City Hall
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Grand Jury Witness Journal Entry: "Dang If Mike Brown Didn't Start Running At The Cop Like A Football Player"
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Missouri Dem State Senator Calls Ferguson Riots "Our Race War"... And she thinks this is a good thing.
***>>IDIOT<<***
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Via Mediaite: Missouri State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D) was one of the first politicians in the media in the aftermath of Michael Brown's death, and, as the woman representing Ferguson in the state legislature, conveyed the fury of her constituents to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell when Officer Darren Wilson was not charged for Brown's death.
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"And I have to tell you, this is St. Louis's race war," she continued calmly, holding back tears. "We didn't have a race war like other cities throughout the country. This is our race war. And people have to be open, and they have to be honest. And they have to earnest. And they have not been earnest for decades. I know people in my own party, in my own government structure who disregard things that we say, and how we feel. And we are not going to allow it anymore."
Michael Brown's Mom Reacts To Grand Jury Decision: "You M*therfuckers Think This Is A Joke!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOsn4LiyvJE
(Worth noting her son's body is still laying in an unmarked grave while she makes money off his death)
Via Rebel Pundit: "Some of you motherf*%kers think this is a joke! Everybody want me to be calm? Do you know how them bullets hit my son? Ain't nobody had to live through what I had to live through." Ferguson Protesters Torch Little Ceasars
(So Mike Brown supporters were so outraged by the grand jury decision that they decided to burn a Little Ceasars?)
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African American Who Works At Little Caesar's In Ferguson, "Looks like I'm unemployed now..." . pic.twitter.com/r1PTBGFkPj
— J From Lil Caesars (@Jboi__) November 25, 2014Picture Of The Now:
Stupid Drum Circle Breaks Out At NYC Rally For Mike Brown
(Obuma did say he wanted people to come together ....right now)
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Nice split screen on Fox showing Brown supporters rioting
while Obuma calls for calm
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And CNN, too...
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Eric Holder And His Little Cartoon Buddy Reassures Ferguson Rioters The Federal Investigation Into Shooting "Remains Ongoing"
(Groan... and Al Crapton is looking more and more like a bobble head or a like a Pez dispenser every time I see him)
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(Manure tanks are plentiful in Missouri! Use them, if these clowns come to call!)
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Via Weekly Standard: Attorney General Eric Holder released this statement after news came down that Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri:
"While the grand jury proceeding in St. Louis County has concluded, the Justice Department's investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown remains ongoing. Though we have shared information with local prosecutors during the course of our investigation, the federal inquiry has been independent of the local one from the start, and remains so now. Even at this mature stage of the investigation, we have avoided prejudging any of the evidence. And although federal civil rights law imposes a high legal bar in these types of cases, we have resisted forming premature conclusions.
"Michael Brown's death was a tragedy. This incident has sparked a national conversation about the need to ensure confidence between law enforcement and the communities they protect and serve. While constructive efforts are underway in Ferguson and communities nationwide, far more must be done to create enduring trust. The Department will continue to work with law enforcement, civil rights, faith and community leaders across the country to foster effective relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve and to improve fairness in the criminal justice system overall. In addition, the Department continues to investigate allegations of unconstitutional policing patterns or practices by the Ferguson Police Department.
Progressive Dos and Don'ts Learned at Ferguson
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If you're a "Gentle Giant" planning to go shoplifting, don't go alone; do take with you a pathological liar as a sidekick to be a witness on your behalf if needed.
If you're a "Gentle Giant" don't pay for merchandise in a store before heading for the door; If the owner protests, and if the owner is not also a "Gentle Giant," do knock him out of the away like a rag doll and then leave.
If you're a "Gentle Giant" don't walk on the sidewalk, which is obviously unsuitable for a "Gentle Giant", so do walk in the middle of the street.
If you're a "Gentle Giant" walking down the middle of the street carrying your stolen merchandise and a police officer who is much smaller than you rolls-down his cruiser's window and asks you to walk on the sidewalk, don't obey such obviously racist request and do tell him to "F*** off."
If you're a "Gentle Giant" and the officer starts to open his cruiser's door to get out, don't let him get out; instead, do slam the door and force the smaller officer back into the cruiser.
If you're a "Gentle Giant" don't walk away from the cruiser but do reach into the cruiser and strike the smaller officer with your fists.
If you're a "Gentle Giant" don't recognize that one of the reasons police carry weapons is to enable an officer to protect himself from being beaten sensless by an attacker who is larger and more powerful; do try to gain control of the officer's weapon.
If you're a "Gentle Giant" don't recognize that your reaching for the officer's weapon will cause him to think you want to use it against him; do continue struggling to seize his weapon until the weapon discharges inside the cruiser.
If you're a "Gentle Giant" don't succumb to a realization that what you just did constituted a felony assault against the police officer; do attempt to leave the scene of the attack.
If you're a "Gentle Giant" don't obey the officer's command that you halt; do turn-around and charge at the officer with your "head down" like a "football player" seeking to "tackle" the officer.
If you're a "Gentle Giant" don't expect the officer to think you're seeking to tackle him to take his gun; do continue charging at him even after he's fired his gun at you.
If you're the "sidekick" of the "Gentle Giant," don't have the common sense to understand that forensic evidence of how the bullets entered the "Gentle Giant's" body would prove the "Gentle Giant" was charging the officer in a head/down "tackle" positon, but do tell police, the media and everyone else that the officer shot the "Gentle Giant" while the "Gentle Giant" was calmly and gently standing erect with his "hands up" while saying to the officer "hands up, don't shoot."
If you're a Progressive member of the media, don't dare doubt the description of the event by the "Gentle Giant's" sidekick, and do report this as simply a case of a racist white officer murdering an unarmed black teenager doing nothing other that looking forward to going to college.
If you're a Progressive, don't worry that Progressive leaders such as Al Crapton, AG Eric Honky and President Obuma will even consider the possibility that the "Gentle Giant" first attacked the officer without provocation or that the officer shot the "Gentle Giant" in self-defense; Do count on President Obuma to equate the "Gentle Giant" with the murdered civil-rights worker Emmet Till.
If you're a Progressive, don't worry that the Media might actually consider the scientific evidence; Do count on the media to continue carrying the propaganda water for the "Gentle Giant's" sidekick, Al Crapton, AG Eric Honky and President Obuma.
If you're a Progressive lawyer, don't give any credence to the scientific evidence of the path of the bullets into the "Gentle Giant's" body as evidence that the "Gentle Giant" was "charging" at the officer to "tackle" him; Do argue that if the prosecutor had wanted to present evidence to the grand jury in a "fair" manner, the prosecutor could have presented a hypothesis of guilt of the officer from a scientific expert who could have shown that when the "Gentle Giant" halted and raised his hands to say "Hands up, don't shoot," the officer could have had the "Ninja Skills" to jump fifteen feet into the air and (while at the apex of such jump) fire the fatal bullets into the "Gentle Giant" to create the false illusion that the "Gentle Giant" was "charging" the officer "head/down" in a "tackle" position at the time of the shooting.
If you're a Progressive lawyer, don't worry that the Progressive media would mock the "Ninja Officer" theory, and do count on President Obama to reinforce it by saying that the officer "acted Ninja-like."
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Did They Want More Violence In Ferguson?
10 'Coincidences' Too Glaring To Ignore
By Michael Snyder, on November 25th, 2014
Was it a conspiracy or was it incompetence? Those appear to be the only two alternatives that we are left with after the horrific violence that we witnessed in Ferguson on Monday night. The first round of Ferguson rioting back in August took everyone by surprise, but this time authorities had more than three months to prepare. They had the ability to control precisely when the grand jury decision would be announced and how many cops and National Guard troops would be deployed on the streets. But despite all this, the violence in Ferguson on Monday night was even worse than we witnessed back in August. Either this was a case of almost unbelievable incompetence, or there was someone out there that actually wanted this to happen. If someone out there is actually trying to provoke more violence in Ferguson, then the rioters are being played like a fiddle. Most of them have no idea that they could potentially just be pawns in a game that is far larger than they ever imagined. The only other alternative to explain what we just saw is incompetence on a level that is absolutely laughable. Something definitely does not smell right about all of this, and let us hope that at some point the American people get the truth.
The following are 10 "coincidences" from Monday night in Ferguson that are too glaring to ignore...#1 Federal, state and local law enforcement authorities had more than three months to prepare for the violence that would follow the announcement of the grand jury decision. The mainstream media endlessly hyped this controversy and everyone knew that trouble would be brewing. But despite an enormous amount of time to prepare, very little was actually done to prevent any violence from happening.
#2 Someone made the decision to make the public announcement about the grand jury decision in the evening. Anyone involved in law enforcement knows that crowd control is far more difficult after dark. This also ensured that instead of being tied up with work or school, a maximum number of protesters would be able to be involved in the violence.
#3 Fortunately for the mainstream media, the announcement of the grand jury decision was perfectly timed to provide the largest possible number of prime time viewers for the big news networks.
#4 Just like back in August, no law enforcement authorities of any kind responded while dozens of businesses were vandalized, looted and set of fire.
#5 According to Ferguson Mayor James Knowles, National Guard troops were purposely held back from intervening in the rioting that was unleashed when the grand jury decision was made known to the public...
In a press conference, he called the delay "deeply concerning" and said the Guard troops were available but were not deployed when city officials asked.
The troops had been readied last week by Gov. Jay Nixon as the grand jury announcement neared. But as gunshots rang out in the night and looters torched buildings, they were nowhere to be seen.#6 It is being reported that the heavily armed National Guard troops were limited to "keeping the peace at a courthouse, patrolling the outskirts of town and preventing disturbances in other suburbs" as horrific violence raged in the heart of Ferguson on Monday night.
#7 Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder has accused Missouri Governor Jay Nixon of holding back the National Guard troops because of pressure from the Obama administration. On Monday night, he angrily made the following statement to Fox News..."Is the reason that the National Guard was not in there because the Obama Administration and the Holder Justice Department leaned on you to keep them out? I cannot imagine any other reason why the governor who mobilized the National Guard would not have them in there to stop this."#8 The Washington Post has documented that Attorney General Eric Holder had been in direct contact with Governor Nixon and had expressed "frustration" with the fact that the National Guard had been activated...
A top aide to Holder called the governor's office earlier this week to express Holder's displeasure and "frustration," according to a Justice Department official.
"Instead of de-escalating the situation, the governor escalated it," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the subject. "He sent the wrong message. The tone of the press conference was counterproductive."#9 Firefighters in Ferguson did not immediately respond to calls to put out the multiple fires that were set by protesters. As a result, many businesses essentially burned to the ground. But this did make for some amazing television footage.
#10 In the worst of the "war zones", journalists with cameras and microphones were crawling all over the place while there were hardly any police to be seen at all. How is it possible that law enforcement could have failed so badly? Could it be possible that this was orchestrated on purpose?
Sadly, as I have written about previously, the civil unrest that we are witnessing in Ferguson is just a small preview of what is coming to America.
The anger and frustration that are seething under the surface in this country have reached a boiling point. Instead of coming together, we are seemingly more divided than ever. Americans have been trained to hate one another, fear one another and blame one another. I fear that we are not too far away from actually becoming ungovernable.
And when the next major wave of the economic crisis strikes and we start experiencing real suffering in this nation, the temper tantrums that we are going to witness in our major cities are going to make what is happening in Ferguson right now look like a Sunday picnic.
So buckle up and hold on, because it is going to be a really bumpy ride from here on out.
Ferguson is not the end – it is just the beginning of a horrible new chapter in American history.
(As Obama said "...it makes good television..." If you like your race war, you can keep your race war! So get out the popcorn. It's bread and circus for the masses)
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**The Simple Art Of Looting**
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21 Facts That Prove That Dependence On The Government
Is Out Of Control In America
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By Michael Snyder, on November 18th, 2014
If you could stay home and watch television, play video games and hang out with your friends all day at government expense, would you do it? Of course most Americans that collect money from the government each month are not abusing the system. Many truly are incapable of taking care of themselves, and others are just receiving government benefits (such as Social Security) that they feel that they have earned by a lifetime of hard work. But with each passing year the number of Americans jumping on board "the safety net" continues to grow rapidly, and a lot of these people should be able to take care of themselves. Today, the American people collectively receive more money from the government than they pay in taxes. And remember, the federal government uses our money to build roads, inspect our food and fund the military as well. So what does this say about our economy? Could it survive without all of these debt-fueled transfer payments? And what does this say about our society? At one time, our nation was known for our Protestant work ethic. What would our forefathers say about us today? The following are 21 facts that prove that dependence on the government is out of control in America...
1. According to a Congressional Budget Office study that was just released, approximately 60 percent of all U.S. households get more in transfer payments from the government than they pay in taxes. Here is more about this stunning report from Mark J. Perry's Carpe Diem blog...
Some additional analysis and commentary will be provided here that reveal a yet-to-be discussed major implication of the CBO report – almost the entire burden: a) of all transfer payments made to American households and b) of all non-financed government spending, falls on just one group of Americans – the top one-fifth of US households by income. That's correct, the CBO study shows that the bottom three income quintiles representing 60% of US households are "net recipients" (they receive more in transfer payments than they pay in federal taxes), the second-highest income quintile pays just slightly more in federal taxes ($14,800) than it receives in government transfer payments ($14,100), while the top 20% of American "net payer" households finance 100% of the transfer payments to the bottom 60%, as well as almost 100% of the tax revenue collected to run the federal government. Here are the details of that analysis.The figures in Row 6 in the table above (and displayed in the graph above) show the amount of federal taxes paid by the average household in each income quintile minus the average amount of government transfers received by those households in 2011. For each of the three lower income quintiles, their average government transfer payments exceeded their federal taxes paid by $8,600, $12,500, and $9,100 respectively, and therefore the entire bottom 60% of US households are "net recipients" of government transfer payments.
2. About 70 percent of all government spending now goes toward dependence-creating programs.
3. From 2009 through 2013, the U.S. government spent a whopping 3.7 trillion dollars on welfare programs.
4. The percentage of the U.S. population that gets money from the federal government grew by an astounding 62 percent between 1988 and 2011.
5. According to an analysis of U.S. government numbers conducted by Terrence P. Jeffrey, there are 86 million full-time private sector workers in the United States paying taxes to support the government, and nearly 148 million Americans that are receiving benefits from the government each month.
6. According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation conducted by the U.S. Census, well over 100 million Americans are enrolled in at least one welfare program run by the federal government. Sadly, that figure does not even include Social Security or Medicare.
7. Currently, there are somewhere around 40 million senior citizens in the United States. By 2050, that number is projected to skyrocket to 89 million. Supporting all of those senior citizens is going to be extraordinarily expensive.
8. Right now, more than 64 million Americans are receiving Social Security benefits.
9. Right now, more than 54 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare.
10. Right now, more than 70 million Americans are enrolled in Medicaid.
11. The number of Americans enrolled in the Social Security disability program now exceeds the entire population of the state of Virginia.
12. If the number of Americans on Social Security disability were gathered into a separate state, it would be the 8th largest state in the entire country.
13. In 1968, there were 51 full-time workers for every American on disability. Today, there are just 13 full-time workers for every American on disability.
14. At this point, the federal government runs about 80 different "means-tested welfare programs", and almost all of those programs have experienced substantial growth in recent years.
15. The number of Americans on food stamps has grown from 17 million in the year 2000 to more than 46 million today.
16. Ten years ago, the number of women in the U.S. that had jobs outnumbered the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin. But now the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps actually exceeds the number of women that have jobs.
17. Back in the 1970s, about one out of every 50 Americans was on food stamps. Today, about one out of every 6.5 Americans is on food stamps.
18. Today, the number of Americans on food stamps exceeds the entire population of the nation of Spain.
19. According to one calculation, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of "Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming."
20. According to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies, 43 percent of all immigrants that have been in the United States for at least 20 years are still on welfare.
21. Most Americans are not earning enough to support themselves and their families without government help anymore. The following are some statistics about wages in the U.S. from a Social Security Administration report that was recently released...
-39 percent of American workers made less than $20,000 last year.
-52 percent of American workers made less than $30,000 last year.
-63 percent of American workers made less than $40,000 last year.
-72 percent of American workers made less than $50,000 last year.In order to have a middle class, you have got to have middle class jobs, and those are disappearing from our system very rapidly.
As a result, the number of people that are financially independent continues to drop.
So what will the future look like?
Will the government eventually have to take care of almost all of us?
Dependence upon government - isn't that what the socialists and the tyrants want?
Meanwhile, when is the next government check going to be in the mail?
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Hey Ferguson Protesters... take it easy... kickback, relax with a little ball&jack like your buddies here in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=82GUjPConiE#t=
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New Black Panthers Plotted To Bomb Gateway Arch, Assassinate St. Louis Prosecutor, Ferguson Police Chief... Foiled By EBT Card
(My favorite part of this story: They wanted to buy two more bombs but couldn't afford it until one of their girlfriend's got her welfare payment... LOL)Via Stl. Today:http://m.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/alleged-plot-included-bombing-gateway-arch-killing-prosecutor/article_69ddd938-e763-55c1-9c1c-3306725f941e.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&mobile_touch=true
Two men indicted last week on federal weapons charges allegedly had plans to bomb the Gateway Arch — and to kill St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch and Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson — the Post-Dispatch has learned. Sources close to the investigation were uncertain whether the men had the capability to carry out the plans, although the two allegedly did buy what they thought was a pipe bomb in an undercover law enforcement sting.
The men wanted to acquire two more bombs, the sources said, but could not afford to do it until one suspect's girlfriend's Electronic Benefit Transfer [EBT]card was replenished.
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One of the defendants' plans, the sources said, included planting a bomb inside the observation deck at the top of the Arch. It was not clear how they could have gotten a bomb past airport-style security screening for rides up.
It also wasn't clear, the sources said, whether the men intended to use bombs as the means to kill McCulloch and Jackson. Both officials became targets of national criticism and protests after Brown's killing.
Local and federal authorities have served search warrants at two buildings, one in the 2500 block of Hampton Avenue in St. Louis and the other in the 1500 block of Reale Avenue in north St. Louis County, but the associated documents were sealed.
UPDATE to this story(Let the games begin!)
Via The Blaze: Two men were arrested by the FBI in a sting operation for allegedly attempting to purchase explosives to be used in Ferguson protests, CBS News reported Friday night.
According to CBS News, the men were arrested Thursday for attempting to purchase the materials for pipe bombs.
The individuals were arraigned Friday and are allegedly members of the New Black Panthers, according to CBS News.
Update:Via RT: Meanwhile, St. Louis Today reports the men have been indicted on weapons charges for allegedly making purchases of two handguns at the Cabela's sporting goods store in Hazelwood. The publication names Brandon Orlando Baldwin and Olajuwon Davis to be the two detainees.
According to the indictment, between November 1 and 13 the men acquired two Hi-Point .45 ACP pistols but the weapons were intended to be handed over to someone else.
A police source also said the investigation leading to the arrest spanned several months. Local and federal authorities executed search warrants at two residences in north St. Louis County. The source told St. Louis Today that the raids produced information that the detained had planned to obtain illegal weapons to do harm to law enforcement and the public.
After the arrest, one of the leaders of the New Black Panther Party, Chawn Kweli, posted a message on his blog blaming the operation on Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO).
"The wicked enemies of black people use lies and deceit to confuse the masses and misdirect the legitimate aspirations of the black power movement," Kweli wrote. "As seen, in St. Louis, Mo, with the arrest of Chairman Olajawon Ali, and other activist ahead of the decision on whether to indict Officer Darren Wilson for killing Mike Brown – or not!"
Just a note, they have both been identified on the New Black Panther site as Brandon Baldwin Muhammad and Olajuwon Davis Ali, indicating they are both Muslims.
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Here's a picture of Brandon Muhammad and his Facebook with more, including urging people to join the New Black Panthers because of the injustice to black men.
(I'm pretty sure I've seen that muzzie guy before)
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(These bad-a$$ muslims need to be treated like ISIL... bullet between the eyes!)
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Holder Promises Liberal Activists He's Going To Aggressively Investigate Ferguson Police After Grand Jury Decision
(Racist AG Holder is never one to pass up a chance to stoke racial tensions)
WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told civil rights activists the Justice Department would aggressively investigate police practices in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury declined to indict a white officer who shot dead an unarmed black teenager, two of the activists said on Wednesday.
In a phone call late on Monday, Holder, the country's top law enforcer, said the Justice Department was "moving strongly" in its investigation of police patterns and practices, said Barbara Arnwine, executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, who was on the call.
Laura Murphy, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington legislative office, who was also on the call, said Holder is "very conscious of it needing to move quickly."
A Justice Department spokesman on Wednesday confirmed a call took place.
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Three Biggest Racists' In The U.S. Government Today
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*Barry Soetoro - The Prez*
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*AG Eric Holder*
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*Valerie Jarrett - Senior Adviser to Barry*
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*Sgt. Schlock - I Know Nothing*
Thursday, November 27, 2014
("He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
~ Edmund Burke, 1729-1797)
Being Thankful for the Left
Posted by Daniel Greenfield
When we celebrate Thanksgiving, after being thankful for family and friends, for health and comfort, for food and shelter; we shouldn't forget to be thankful for the left.
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There is no light without darkness and without evil, the good often fails to find their own voice. It is in the presence of slavery that we remember the worth of freedom. Men and nations are forged in war; not only the war of shell and shot, but the war of ideas. War teaches us to fight for what we have. Wars of ideas teach us to stand up for what we believe.
It is because conservatives are basically hopeful and confident that we are also prone to extremes of despair. Too many us were shocked at the decline of our society because of our great confidence in it. The faith that conservatives have in America makes them vulnerable to being crushed by the latest victory of the left.
I have seen far too much despair and defeatism, too many comments that suggest there is no hope for America and the only thing left to do is pour a glass of wine and watch the sun go down. But those comments testify to how sheltered Americans are from the struggles against tyranny around the world.
Eight years of Obama is bad, but try sixty-nine years of Communism on for size. That's what generations of Russians had to live through. Ask some of the conservative activists in Europe who have never had any of the freedoms that we still take for granted whether they've given up hope. Ask people from countries where criticism of Islam can mean death, whether they've given up hope.
There are countless tales of courage over the last century of men and women who did not stop fighting, who did not stop teaching their children so that they would not stop resisting. And those stories have not ended. They continue today in Europe, Asia and South America. And those people would envy the conditions under which we fight, where we can protest without being shot or sent to prison, where we can have a shot at winning elections if we try hard enough.
Where we are, compared to 100 percent of the rest of the world, still free.
We face a hard fight, not only for our freedom, but the freedom of the world. The international left has made America its special project. It knows that if it can extinguish the hope of liberty in this land then it will drive the rest of those who hope for freedom across the ocean deeper into despair. And it wants your despair. It wants you to give up so that the rest of the world gives up too and bows under its chains.
And yet this fight is a glorious one. This fight is our birthright. And we should be thankful for the fight.
It would be more pleasant if there were no Obama or Hillary. If Alinsky had never been born and Marx had never been whelped. It would be nice if we lived in a world where red was just a color and the Democratic Party was a rural movement suspicious of the Federal government and dreaming of an agrarian utopia. But then so would never having to work for a living or getting up out of bed.
Life is challenge and we face all kinds of different challenges. We get up early out of bed in the morning and drive to work. We rise in the middle of the night when the baby cries and we go to the hospital when our loved ones need us there. We do dreary things and terrible things that seem so different from the life we imagined as children. And we do them not only because they are duty, but because these challenges, the daily ones and the once in a lifetime ones, make us who we are.
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Besides these prosaic challenges, the daily routines and the occasional tragedies, there are uncommon challenges that we face when the foe comes to our gate and demands that we bow and become slaves. This is the challenge that we face as a society, a nation and a people. It demands more of us and it ennobles us. It makes us a great people and a great nation, rather than only another people who seek to live in comfort with no thought for anything else.
Good emerges in response to evil. We need our enemies to remind us of who we are and what we can do when our backs are against the wall. We need evil to remind us of the good that we are capable of. As a whetstone sharpens a sword, so evil sharpens us into a weapon against it. It makes us morally stronger and teaches us the stark truths that we cannot take refuge from evil; we must confront it.
If there were no left, would there be nearly as much patriotism among true Americans as there is now? And if there were no left, how many of us would really contemplate the core principles of freedom and free enterprise? If there were no left, how many of us would ponder what we truly believe and what compromises we are willing and unwilling to make? If there were no left, would we be the same people that we are today?
For those of us who believe in the Bible, the Lord created both darkness and light. And if it were not for the darkness, would the light be nearly as precious to us? Imagine a world without sunrise or sunset, where the sight of rays of light clearing away the darkness would have no meaning? And then remember that things are treasured to the extent that they can be taken away from us.
Would we value freedom as much if we did not have to defend it? Would we hold it as dear if we did not fear that it would be taken away? Would we even be aware of what freedom is and what a free people must be if not for the dark hand of those who wish to strip us of those freedoms?
It is the left's opposition that has added urgency to a hundred issues, from the national debt to the War on Terror to freedom of speech and of religion. It has made us think about those issues, to take them out of the back of our minds and hold them up to the light as a reminder of how important they are and what must be done about them.
The left's corruptions remind us of the need for purification. As it gathers the worst of all around it, we find ourselves called to be better than we are. As the left works to doom our country, and as we suffer defeat after defeat, these defeats only serve to remind us that we must be better, that we must do more, learn more and become more in order to save our country.
War is the great teacher and this is a political war, short on bodies and heavy on minds, it is a war in which casualties are not taken in the chest or the arm, but in the mind, in reason and emotion, and against these weaknesses, we can and will prevail.
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As we fight the left, we become stronger, more dedicated and more purposeful. We become the men and women that we were meant to be.
As you sit around your tables, thinking of all that you have gained and lost this year, remember and be thankful for the left, for though the winter ice gives way to the summer sun and bitter defeat gives way to sweet victory, it is defeat and hardship that teaches better than comfort and ease. We can learn more from our defeats than we ever could from our victories. Our defeats teach us endurance and fortitude, they teach us that defeat can be borne and that its sting can be turned into the weapon that unseats the foe. And our foes make us who we are.
Their evil teaches us to find the good within ourselves. Their strength teaches us to find our own strength. And their plots against what we have teach us how many treasures we have, not least of these being the full value of our freedom and our happiness that they wish to take from us.
Their war on America is teaching us to be better Americans. It may not feel that way right now, but we are privileged to have this opportunity and this fight.
We should be thankful for the left, its assaults on us are teaching us how to fight and its plots against our freedom are teaching us how to be free.
See George Washington's Handwritten Thanksgiving Day Proclamation: "It Is The Duty Of All Nations To Acknowledge The Providence Of God, To Obey His Will"
On Oct. 3, 1789 George Washington, the first president of the United States, issued a proclamation to make the fourth Thursday of November as a day for "offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations."
Washington also declared that "it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor."
Finally, Washington asked Americans to give "our sincere and humble thanks" to God "for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted."(http://www.cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/large/images/DSC06756.JPG)
Artist's depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge.
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**Thanksgiving Proclamation**
[New York, 3 October 1789]
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks–for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation–for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed–for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted–for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions– to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually–to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed–to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord–To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us–and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
GO: Washington(Washington served two terms as president before retiring to his beloved farm, Mt. Vernon, in Virginia. He died three years later in 1799 of a throat infection)
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Obuma Secretly Met With Ferguson Terrorists,
Ordered Them To"Stay On Course"
http://patdollard.com/2014/11/obama-quietly-met-with-ferguson-activists-stay-on-course/
President Obama met with Ferguson protest leaders on November 5th, the day after the midterm elections. The meeting was not on his daily schedule. He was concerned that the protesters "stay on course."
What does that mean?
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The Ferguson protesters have looted over 100 businesses in the St. Louis area.
The New York Times hid this in the 21st paragraph of their report:But leaders here say that is the nature of a movement that has taken place, in part, on social media and that does not match an earlier-era protest structure where a single, outspoken leader might have led the way.
"This is not your momma's civil rights movement," said Ashley Yates, a leader of Millennial Activists United. "This is a movement where you have several difference voices, different people. The person in charge is really — the people. But the message from everyone is the same: Stop killing us."At times, there has been a split between national civil rights leaders and the younger leaders on the ground here, who see their efforts as more immediate, less passive than an older generation's. But some here said relations have improved in recent weeks.
Some of the national leaders met with President Obama on Nov. 5 for a gathering that included a conversation about Ferguson.
According to the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has appeared frequently in St. Louis with the Brown family and delivered a speech at Mr. Brown's funeral, Mr. Obama
"was concerned about Ferguson staying on course in terms of pursuing what it was that he knew we were advocating. He said he hopes that we're doing all we can to keep peace."(Obuma wants the protesters to stay on course? Unbelievable.)
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Lieutenant Governor: OBAMA ORDERED FERGUSON TO BURN
http://patdollard.com/2014/11/missouri-lieutenant-governor-obama-ordered-ferguson-to-burn/
Lt. Governor Kinder(R) argues that Obama and Holder had ordered Governor Nixon to not send in the National Guard. "I cannot imagine any other reason why the governor who mobilized the National Guard would not have them in there to stop this before it started." Obama knew that that 100% effectively meant that blacks would be allowed to burn Ferguson down.
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The Mid-Term Elections
Our host examines how the wise sages of main stream media covered, or didn't cover, the recent mid-term elections
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKLy-IcdH7c
Gun Sales Expected to Skyrocket on Black Friday, FBI Worried
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/sarahjeanseman/2014/11/27/gun-sales-expected-to-skyrocket-on-black-friday-fbi-worried-n1924417
(The White House is probably anticipating more gun control by Executive Order. Obuma isn't concerned with petty things like laws or the Constitution. The Second Amendment is just something that stands in the way of the progressive agenda to him.
If I were a betting man, I would put money on Obuma signing a series of executive orders concerning ammunition. His administration has attempted this strategy from several different angles. Multiple agencies have placed purchase orders for huge amounts of ammunition, distorting the supply. The EPA forced the closure of the last remaining lead mine in the US. An EO banning the import of ammunition would be my guess, followed by a regulation from the BATF requiring background checks and record keeping for ammunition purchases. Much stricter regulations on smokeless powder and primers would be another route for placing crippling burdens on ammo manufacturers. Unfortunately, these actions are things that citizens would not have the option of non-compliance)(http://media.townhall.com/townhall/reu/ha/2014/206/075a7ebb-0cd1-4335-932e-1e1ed7d47628.jpg)
From Cabela's to Wal-Mart guns will be on sale a everywhere on Black Friday, and what better time is there to load up on a firearm? The manic shopping frenzy lands right before Christmas and right in the midst of deer hunting season.
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With the expected increase in gun sales the Federal Bureau of Investigation is gearing up for a dense wave of background check requests. There are more than 48,000 gun retailers in the U.S., according to the Associated Press. For every sale, cashiers must call in a check to the FBI or to other approved agency to insure that the customer does not have a criminal record. When the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, was implemented in 1998, the FBI oversaw around 9 million checks. Last year that number inflated to more than 21 million.
"This Friday opens the busiest season for gun purchases, when requests for background checks speed up to nearly two a second, testing the limits of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.... NICS did about 58,000 checks on a typical day last year. That surged to 145,000 on Black Friday 2013. They're bringing in 100 more workers than usual for the post-Thanksgiving rush this year."
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Seventy-one percent of background checks last year were instantly approved. According to Federal Law, a customer is disqualified from purchasing a gun if he/she is: underage, an illegal alien, a documented drug addict, a convicted felon, a fugitive from justice, underage, mentally ill, dishonorably discharged from the military, has renounced their U.S. citizenship, is subject to a court restraining order, or has a history of domestic violence.
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Car Wisely Drives Through Michael Brown Rioters in Minneapolis
(Gee... I sure hope he's all right...
the driver, I mean):
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJiRoRtdiSg&feature=player_embedded#t=0
The hard left liars running the media have whipped sociopathic lowlifes and their fellow travelers throughout the country into such a state, stopping to give them a chance to break into your car and haul you out is not wise.
So far no charges have been filed. The moonbat who got run over received only minor injuries, but hopefully learned a little something.
Hillary Demands Royal Treatment On Speaking Tour
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(You don't say....)
Via Truth Revolt:
It was like a scene out of "The Princess and the Pea," only this was real life. Along with her
$300,000 fee for her speech at UCLA , Hillary Clinton had a list of demands, one of which was "that the chairs be outfitted with two long, rectangular pillows — and that two cushions be kept backstage in case the chair was too deep and she needed additional back support."
Through a Freedom of Information Act request the Washington Post received the emails exchanged between UCLA and Clinton's people as they were preparing for her March 5, 2014 speech at the school.
The documents show that Clinton's representatives at the Harry Walker Agency exerted considerable control over her appearance and managed even the smallest details — from requesting lemon wedges and water on stage to a computer, scanner, and a spread of hummus and crudité in the green room backstage.
Rules For White People At #Ferguson Protests In Canada:
Don't Take Up Space, Stay In The Back
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(What a crock of sh!tt...'You Crackers stays to da back 'less dey's POH-lees, den yous stands twixt us 'n dem...Den if you sees da black man takin' a beatin' from the POH-lees, den you steps in ta take a beatin' too!')
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2852167/Please-refrain-taking-space-controversial-rules-white-people-Michael-Brown-vigil-Toronto.html
A set of rules for white people at a vigil for Michael Brown in Canada has sparked controversy with critics accusing organizers of promoting segregation.
'Non black allies' were told to 'refrain from taking up space in all ways possible' and 'never be at the centre of anything' at the event in Toronto on November 25.
The Facebook page also advised white demonstrators to 'refrain from speaking to the media' and 'stand behind black folks or between us and the police'.
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Hollywood Moonbats Fight Against Ferguson Decision With 'Blackout Friday'
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(Crowds in line for the black Friday sales are interfering with the looting and rioting)
Via Philly Com http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/entertainment/celebrities_gossip/Hollywood-fights-against-Ferguson-decision-with-Blackout-Friday.html
Hollywood leaders are supporting a nationwide protest of the Ferguson grand jury decision Monday not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown, under the social media hashtag #BlackoutFriday and organized through the collective Blackout for Human Rights.
"Fruitvale Station" director Ryan Coogler, "Selma" helmer Ava DuVernay, "Grey's Anatomy" actor Jesse Williams, Russell Simmons, Michael B. Jordan and others have voiced their support for Blackout Friday, an effort to "make Black Friday (November 28, 2014) a nationwide day of action and retail boycott."
"Blackout will be organizing grassroots events, nationwide, for people to come out and show their solidarity in the fight for equal human rights," read the website. [...]
DuVernay will moderate a Q&A session Friday following a screening series presented by African American Film Festival Releasing Movement at the Downtown Independent in Los Angeles, which will feature "Fruitvale Station," DuVernay's "Middle of Nowhere" and "25 to Life."
EPIC! Angry Trapped Driver Pushes #Ferguson Protester
Off I-5 For Making Him Late For Work
November 27, 2014, 8:53 PM
An angry trapped driver pushed a #MikeBrown protester off Interstate 5 in La Jolla, California after the protesters shut down the highway.
The man was angry because the protesters were going to make him late for work.
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The 'block the highway stunt' didn't go over too well with local drivers.
As a group of #Ferguson protesters blocked northbound I-5 in La Jolla, one driver already late for work had enough and decided to do something.
Open Carry Advocates Shadow #MikeBrown Protesters in Dallas
– No Vandalism Reported
Thursday, November 27, 2014, 10:50 AM
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A group of Open Carry Advocates shadowed #MikeBrown protesters in Dallas during their march Wednesday night.
The protesters decided to attend the rally to ensure respect for private property.
protest dallas open carry
No vandalism was reported.
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The protesters stayed on the sidewalk the entire march.
WFAA reported:
Three members of an open carry group called Come and Take It Texas had rifles over their shoulders as they followed a small group of Ferguson protesters who marched through downtown Dallas Wednesday night.
Unlike Tuesday night, protesters did not close streets nor did they walk onto a freeway. In fact, this crowd was about a tenth of the size from what Dallas saw 24 hours earlier.
About two dozen people took part Wednesday night chanting "No justice, no peace" among other things as they protested police treatment of African-Americans.
Marchers stayed on the sidewalk the entire time and never left Lamar St. as they walked into downtown by El Centro College and returned to Dallas police headquarters where they started.
The open carry advocates said they respected the marchers' right to protest but decided to show up to protect private property.
"We'll stand between them and private property," said Matthew Short, from Come and Take It.
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"If I lived in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, 'Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron!' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink... (hic)... ."I recently saw a photo taken during a September event called the People's Climate March in New York City:
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There was Jane Goodall in the front rank holding a couple of stuffed toy monkeys, thus making herself more readily recognizable to caption writers who might not otherwise recall that she spent a large portion of her life eating, sleeping and hanging out, with gorillas.
Apparently nothing much has changed because there she was linking arms with such primates as France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio and none other than the king of the chimps, Al Gore.
I would say that Ms. Goodall enjoyed better company in the old days. But you could readily see why some people are convinced that apes and people are closely related. Looking at De Blasio and Gore, you would almost swear they're human.
Another name that's been in the news lately is Bill Cosby, who has cancelled some TV appearances because he doesn't wish to be asked about the rape accusations that have been hurled his way by a number of women. Frankly, I have no way of knowing if he sexually assaulted all of them or any of them. But what I do know is that back in the 1970s, a friend of mine was Cosby's publicist and on more than one occasion, when I was in my friend's office, Cosby, who was already a husband and father, would phone from wherever he was finishing up a gig – often Tahoe or Vegas –to say he was coming to town and to line up some women.
That doesn't make him a serial rapist, but it does explain why I never bought the wholesome Cosby image used to peddle Jell-O and family values to a gullible public.
Speaking of women, I think someone needs to point out to Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Valerie Jarrett, that politics is a rough and tumble game. If you can't take it, perhaps you should take up macramé. What you don't get to do is play the game and also referee, tossing a penalty flag for sexism every time you're forced to play defense. Perhaps if you weren't so personally offensive, it wouldn't be necessary. It would also help if your notion of sexism was based on gender and not politics so you didn't always turn a blind eye to it or even participate when its victims were Republicans like Condoleezza Rice, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.
Is it just me or is everyone sick and tired of hearing about glass ceilings being shattered every time some left-wing female sneezes? I mean, this is 2014, for god's sake. In case you haven't been paying attention, women have been ruling nations and commanding armies for centuries. The list includes the likes of Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, Catherine II, Queen Victoria, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel.
For years now, I have regularly been receiving a June, 1920 quote attributed to H.L. Mencken of the Baltimore Sun: "As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folk of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright utter fool and complete narcissistic moron."
The people who pass it along to me obviously know my opinion of Barack Obama. What they don't seem to grasp is that the source of the quote obviously had the same elitist contempt for his fellow Americans, whom he identified as boobs, that we've now seen time and again from Prof. Jonathan Gruber.
For another thing, Mencken finally fell out of favor, even with the boobs, when he made his affection for Adolf Hitler a little too obvious in the 1930s. And, finally, at the time he wrote those lines, the President was Woodrow Wilson and in a few months would be Warren G. Harding, two of the very worst rodents to have ever planted their rumps in the Oval Office. So, far from being prescient, Mencken was seemingly unaware of what was taking place right under his shnoz.
As for Obama, whom I grant is even worse than Wilson and Harding, in defending his use of executive action to defer the deportation of illegal aliens, he said he had to do what he had to do because Congress wouldn't do what he wanted. However, for five years, he was telling Hispanic groups that he lacked the constitutional authority to do the very thing he is now threatening.
And because most congressional Hispanics have their lips glued to Obama's butt, they never asked why he didn't simply pass legislation during his first two years in office, when the Democrats had a stranglehold on the House and Senate.
But, then, my fellow Jews in Congress never confront Obama over the fact that at the same time he spits on Israel, he invariably plays up to Muslims and Arabs, both here and abroad.
Clearly, at least for Jewish and Latino Democrats, an essential part of the congressional initiation process is voluntary neutering.
By now, we all know that the unemployment rate has become a joke. All people have to do is drop out of the labor market in order to make an 11% unemployment rate appear to be a mere 5.8%. But recently, a poll disclosed that 40% of women, 28% of men and 39% of young people, don't even want a job. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 93% of all adults (86 million people) who aren't in the work force don't wish to be in the work force. And so long as Uncle Barack is willing to redistribute wealth by taxing those who are working to subsidize those who aren't, that number will only keep growing.
Once the Republican mission in Congress goes from stopping Obama in his tracks to actually doing something to reverse America's decline, they will have to do something about programs that feed, clothe, house and hospitalize, the able-bodied.
That also includes the millions who have committed fraud in order to receive monthly disability checks. If I were in charge, I would send an inspector to the home of everyone collecting one of those checks. And unless the recipient could prove what particular disability he's afflicted with, the inspector would be authorized to hit him with a sledge hammer, thus legitimizing his claim.
There were several thousand Jewish Confederates who stood against Washington DC and the Republicans during the Civil War. They stood for the Constitution. Not so today. Think Judah P. Benjamin.
PANDORA'S BOX
Has Been Opened by Obuma
Liberalism is alive and well (sick) in California
Let them sue us because Obuma let the illegals have Temporary freedom in our country.
Pity the Poor Children
NOW THEY CAN SUE US
But remember to be positive and supportive and volunteer to help them make the transition, please.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Federal Judge:
Illegals Can Now Sue the Government
for Not Acting Quick Enough
November 29, 2014 By Greg Campbell
Millions of illegal immigrants now enjoy the benefits of legalization without having gone through the official immigration process. With President Obama's unilateral amnesty order, an estimated 5-6 million illegal immigrants are now free from having to worry about deportation and suffering the consequences of their criminal acts.
Now, a federal judge has ruled that millions of illegals who have been detained in the past may now sue the federal government for not working quickly enough to assess whether they could stay in the U.S. Or not.
The San Francisco Gate reports on the recent ruling:
A Bay Area federal judge has given the go-ahead to a nationwide suit by thousands of immigrants who seek asylum in the United States and accuse the government of illegally keeping them in jail for months.
In rejecting the Obama administration's attempt to dismiss the suit, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of Oakland ruled that federal law requires officials to decide within 10 days whether an undocumented immigrant has a "reasonable fear" of persecution or torture if deported. Immigrants are held without bail while awaiting those decisions.
The law says a decision must be made within 10 days unless "exceptional circumstances" exist. Justice Department lawyers argued that immigration officials have the sole authority to define exceptional circumstances and are not bound by any deadline.
But Gonzalez Rogers, in a ruling Friday, said the law's meaning is clear: Decisions are required within 10 days except in rare cases where circumstances justify a delay.
Government records since 2006 show that "the exceptional appears to have become the norm," the judge said. Out of 2,583 reasonable-fear determinations nationwide in the first six months of this year, she said, only 78 were issued within 10 days.
"The (immigration) agency appears to have ignored the regulatory deadline altogether," Gonzalez Rogers said. She said the suit could proceed as a nationwide class action, since the government's practices are the same in every state.
The suit was filed in April on behalf of undocumented immigrants who have been deported but re-enter the United States and say they would be persecuted in their homeland.
To avoid immediate deportation and remain eligible to seek asylum, they must convince either an asylum officer or an immigration judge that they have a reasonable fear of persecution.
Despite the 10-day legal deadline, the suit said, decisions last year took an average of 111 days. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which employs the asylum officers, has a policy that "encourages" them to decide 85 percent of their cases within 90 days.
Michael Kaufman, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, contrasted the administration's policy on the asylum hearings with President Obama's recent orders protecting several million unauthorized immigrants from deportation, mostly migrants who entered the U.S. As youngsters or parents of legal residents.
"At a time of some progress in the immigration system, this ruling highlights a troubling trend that has been left unaddressed by the president's executive action," Kaufman said.
One should be careful to note the continually-evolving delicate phrasing the media uses to describe those who are immigrants that have come here illegally. They are not "undocumented" or "unauthorized," but are, in fact, illegal immigrants.
The ruling is just the latest example of how the federal government remains committed to advocating for millions of illegal immigrants at a time when the middle class feels thoroughly abandoned by the economic and social policies dominating the Obama Administration's agenda.
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/11/29/federal-judge-illegals-can-now-sue-the-government-for-not-acting-quick-enough/
Remember
ELK KONNECTED wants everyone to BE POSITIVE.
Ferguson protesters lead TIME's Person of the Year readers' poll with seven days to go following widespread demonstrations•Demonstrators are among 50 contenders in 'TIME's Person of the Year' poll
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Their widespread demonstrations over the grand jury verdict have gained international attention. Now, Ferguson protesters are leading in TIME's Person of the Year poll - with just seven days to go. The demonstrators, who are among 50 contenders in the contest to find the 'person' who most influenced the news in 2014, for better or for worse, currently have 10.7 per cent of the vote. They are closely followed by Indian Prime Minister, Narenda Modi, with 10 per cent, student activist Joshua Wong with 7.3 per cent and Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai with 5.3 per cent. •They currently have 10.7% of the readers' vote amid widespread protests
•Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi is second in the poll with 10% of vote
•Activist Joshua Wong is third (7.3%) and Malala Yousafzai is fourth (5.3%)
•Other contenders include Taylor Swift, Ebola Doctors and Nurses and Vladimir Putin Previous winners have included former U.S. President George W. Bush, Obama, Putin, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Last year, Pope Francis was crowned Person of the Year. This year's poll's winner will be announced on December 8. The official TIME 2014 Person of the Year will be revealed on NBC's Today Show on December 10. TIME'S 2014 PERSON OF THE YEAR CONTENDER'S10.7% Ferguson Protestors
10% Narendra Modi
7.3% Joshua Wong
5.3% Malala Yousafzai
4.7% Vladimir Putin
4.4% Ebola Doctors and Nurses
4.3% Laverne Cox
3.3% Joko Widodo
2.8% Chibok Girls
2.6% Pope Francis
2.3% Barack Obama
2.3% Beyoncé
2% Jennifer Lawrence
1.8% Taylor Swift
1.8% Angela Merkel
1.7% Elon Musk
1.5% John Oliver
1.5% Tim Cook
1.5% Pete Frates and Pat Quinn
1.4% Shonda Rhimes
1.4% Elizabeth Warren
1.3% Hillary Clinton
1.3% Xi Jinping
1.2% Bashar al-Assad
1.2% John Kerry
1.2% Dilma Rousseff
1.1% Jack Ma
1.1% Tom Frieden
1.1% Christopher Nolan
1.1% Reed Hastings
1.1% Kanye West
1% Janet Yellen
1% Kim Kardashian
1% Jeff Bezos
1% Recep Tayyip Erdogan
1% Hassan Rouhani
0.9% Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
0.9% Benjamin Netanyahu
0.9% Rand Paul
0.7% Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
0.7% Mary Barra
0.7% Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
0.7% Thomas Piketty
0.7% Travis Kalanick
0.6% Rick Perry
0.5% Harvey Levin
0.4% Ted Cruz
0.4% Mitch McConnell
0.4% Charles and David Koch
0.3% Roger Goodell
Al Qaeda Plot To Blow Up 5 Passenger Planes
In Christmas 'Spectacular'
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Via Express:http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/541725/REVEALED-Al-Qaeda-plot-to-blow-up-5-European-passenger-jets-in-Christmas-spectacular
The threat has been taken so seriously it came close to leading to an outright ban on all hand luggage, a senior insider has revealed.
Mobile phones and electronic devices could still be banned from plane cabins, with the threat of a 9/11-style coordinated attack on London and other major cities feared imminent.
The warning comes as Whitehall officials admit that a terror strike on the UK is now "almost inevitable" particularly with British jihadis returning from fighting alongside the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
An airport security source told the Sunday Express: "We've been told that five planes are being targeted in a high profile hit before Christmas. They've been waiting for the big one.
"We have many scares but this one nearly got hand baggage pulled from all airlines. The threat is still alive and real."
The plot, which has been known about for the past two months, is thought to involve Islamists smuggling bombs on to planes bound for major European destinations before Christma
Gimme Gimme! #Ferguson Protesters Ask For Money For "For Jail, Bail And Life", Then Tell Us Their Rights Trump Ours
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The crowdfunding campaign was started in October, and has so far netted about $100,000. They make the following mostly inaccurate claims: Despite overwhelming evidence that Mike Brown, an unarmed teenager, was murdered by Officer Darren Wilson, Officer Wilson has yet to be indicted. Despite the fact that six witnesses have said that Mike Brown had his hands up when he was fatally shot six times and then left dead in the middle of the street for four hours while Ferguson and St Louis Police got their lies together, Officer Darren Wilson has yet to be indicted. There are protestors in Ferguson who will stay there protesting until an indictment is handed down. And indictment is hardly justice, but it is the fairest procedure. These are young men and women who have put their lives on hold to stand up for all of our freedoms. The overly militarized police force in Ferguson has attempted to criminalize them by harassing and throwing them in jail for exercising their right to peaceful protest. They need our help. They need money for legal funds and they need money to live. The Ferguson Legal Defense Fund will help. We have partnered with Tef Poe and Tory Russell from Ferguson October to make sure the funds received go exactly where they are needed.So why should you give them money?
We have seen them tell us by their actions, blocking streets, burning stores down and destroying businesses, even making children cry, that what they want and their rights are much more important than any right you have or anything you want.Now here they tell you explicitly, in this November 20th 'Open Letter' from Ferguson Action: Today, the 70th day of this nightmare, some may wonder why we have yet to stop – to stop chanting, stop marching, stop occupying. But we have not yet found peace because we do not yet know justice. Therefore we, together with our allies, will continue to occupy the streets and the American consciousness until the book is closed.
Even in facing this terror, we have not met those who mean us harm with the same. Even in the face of this terror, we will continue to force the readers and writers of this, a most American of horror stories, to face the blackness that they fear, the blackness they have spent this entire story trying to erase, trying to soften, trying to co-opt, trying to escape. We will no longer allow you to escape this story and pretend that the epidemic of black lives dying by white hands is merely a figment of an active Black imagination. You must come face to face with the horror that we live daily. You must come to know and profess the truth of this story, and be determined to end it.
We are not concerned if this inconveniences you. Dead children are more than an inconvenience.
We are not concerned if this disturbs your comfort. Freedom outweighs that privilege.
We are not concerned if this upsets order. Your calm is built on our terror.
We are not concerned if this disrupts normalcy. We will disrupt life until we can live.
This is an American Horror Story. Together, we are writing the final chapter.
We will force you to believe as we do, in the name of 'freedom'. Or we will burn you down.
http://fergusonaction.com/open-letter-ferguson-protestors-allies/
IF YOU'RE BLACK, HOW NOT TO GET YOUR BUTT KICKED BY THE POLICE
(Caution: The "F" word is used in this following video. Don't open if you have tender ears)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uj0mtxXEGE8#t=0
(This is where it is all headed, people!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y1OJo7JUTIw#t=0
Breaking: Motorist Beaten To Death With Hammers
By Group Of Juveniles In St Louis
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Photo of Zemir Begic, 32, victim of fatal hammer attack in
#STL. Pictured with wife of six months, Arijiana.
(They have not identified the killers as yet tho' 2 teens are held, or addressed whether there was any connection to #Ferguson rioters.)
ST. LOUIS • More than 50 people gathered near Bevo Mill Sunday night in frustration over the death of a Bosnian man beaten with hammers earlier that day. Gravois Avenue was closed for several blocks because of the crowd.
Police are on the scene.
A 32-year-old man was beaten to death with hammers by at least two teens early Sunday morning on Itaska Street.
The victim was identified as Zemir Begic, 32, of the 4200 block of Miami Street. He had injuries to his head, abdomen, face and mouth. He was taken to St. Louis University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said Begic was in his vehicle in the 4200 block of Itaska about 1:15 a.m. when several juveniles approached on foot and began damaging it. Begic got out and the juveniles began yelling at him and striking him with hammers. Two male juveniles, 16 and 15, were taken into custody.
ISIS Fanatics Claim To Have 'Dirty Bomb' After Stealing Uranium In Iraq
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(This is what no measures and half measures have wrought)
Via Daily Mail Islamic State fanatics claim to have constructed a dirty bomb after stealing 40kg of uranium from an Iraqi university.
Militants boasted of the device on social media, with one even commenting on the destruction such a bomb would wreak in London, four months after the chemical was reported missing from Mosul University.
Among extremists making online threats to the West is British explosives expert Hamayun Tariq, who fled his home in Dudley, West Midlands, for the Middle East in 2012.
Using the Muslim name, Muslim-al-Britani, he posted on Twitter: 'O by the way Islamic State does have a Dirty bomb. We found some Radio active material from Mosul university,' the Mirror reports.
He continued: 'We'll find out what dirty bombs are and what they do. We'll also discuss what might happen if one actually went off in a public area.
#Ferguson Mayor: No Severance Package For Former Officer Wilson
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(Same city that declared amnesty on traffic tickets and unpaid fines)
http://www.thestate.com/2014/09/12/3677982_mistrust-lingers-as-ferguson-takes.html?sp=/99/132/1029/&rh=1
Via CNS Newshttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/ferguson-mayor-no-severance-package-wilson
Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson did not receive a severance package when he resigned over the weekend, the St. Louis suburb's mayor said Sunday.
Wilson, 28, won't receive any further pay or benefits, and he and the city have severed their ties, Mayor James Knowles told reporters a day after Wilson tendered his resignation, which was effective immediately.
Wilson, who is white, had been on administrative leave since he killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, during an Aug. 9 confrontation. A grand jury decided Monday not to indict him, sparking days of sometimes violent protests in Ferguson and other cities.
Wilson wrote in his resignation letter that his "continued employment may put the residents and police officers of the City of Ferguson at risk, which is a circumstance I cannot allow."
His lawyer, Neil Bruntrager, told The Associated Press that Wilson decided to step aside after police Chief Tom Jackson told him about the alleged threats on Saturday.
Amnesty International Observers Arrive In Ferguson
(They threatened to do this for a while. They're finally here. A week late... Amnesty International has made fools of themselves lately. Why aren't they in Syria observing ISIS where there is real trouble? They could count heads.)
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CNN Is Lying When They Say #Ferguson Protests Are 'Peaceful'
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This was the clothing store of a lady who had worked hard to maintain it there for 28 years.
Via NY Post: Here's a quiz for you folks in the media: What happens if you're out doing "man on the street" interviews but none of the men on the street fit your "narrative"?
If you're CNN, you stop interviewing them.
It has been remarkable to watch the last few days as America's self-styled "most trusted news network" has sent out teams of reporters to various areas of Ferguson, Mo., ostensibly to cover the protests there. While their cameramen are watching cars on fire and stores being looted, the reporters ramble on about how "most people here" are "peaceful protesters."
Where are these peaceful protesters? The reporters can't seem to find any. Instead, they turn to outside experts and some carefully vetted religious leaders to talk about "the real message" of the protests.
On Tuesday night, CNN correspondent Jason Carroll was reporting, "Most of the protesting we saw in front of the Ferguson Police Department tonight was peaceful." Then as he started trying to explain the fires burning behind him, he was approached by three of the protesters, who proceeded to get in his face and yell at him because he was promoting a "certain narrative" — the police narrative. "You don't understand!" one screamed.
CNN..."honest" like Obama, their Messiah.
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(The Christmas Song
Merchandise burning in open flame
Tear gas nipping at your nose
Agitators saying that racism's to blame
Arms loaded down with booze and clothes
Everybody knows
Five minutes of coverage by CNN
Helps to keep your street cred bright
Have the tiny tots stay o'er with grandma again
'Cause we're going out once more tonight
They know the National Guard is on its way
We'll have to keep inside long as they stay
So now let's take the opportunity
To see if we can get that big TV...
And so, I'm offering this simple phrase
To everybody in the 'hood
Although it's been said many times, many ways
You know this Kwanzaa will be good...)
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**ROBOT**
The Future Of Relationships? Soon Millions Of Men
Will Be Having Sex With Life-Like Female Robots
By Michael Snyder, on November 20th, 2014
If men had a choice between real women and female robots that were almost "virtually indistinguishable" from real women, which would they choose? Certainly many men would never be willing to totally give up on relationships with living, breathing women, but as robotic technology continues to advance at an exponential rate there will be men (and women) that will be tempted to abandon real relationships entirely. And that day is approaching a lot faster than you may think. As you will read about below, incredibly life-life female robots are being introduced in Japan right now. The creators of these robots are not designing them for sexual intercourse at the moment, but experts say that it is only a matter of time before this technology is adapted for such purposes. The potential market for female sex androids is absolutely massive, and there are no laws against such a thing in most countries. But as men all over the globe begin acquiring these sex droids, what will that do to real relationships between men and women and what will that say about our society?
With each passing year, robots are becoming much more like humans. And for some reason, many of these robot designers purposely choose to have their robots resemble very attractive young women.
One of these very attractive female robots, "Asuna", has created quite a stir in Japan recently. The following is from a recent Daily Mail article about this remarkable droid...
Chillingly life-like robots are causing a storm in Japan – where their creators are about to launch them as actresses, full-size mechanical copies for pop idol fans, and clones of the dearly departed.
There is even talk that the naturalistic, even engaging, she-droids may be taken up as men as partners in the not-too-distant future.
Android Asuna was a star attraction at Tokyo Designers' Week showcase earlier this month and she is one of a series of geminoids, as their inventor dubs them, that are ripe for commercialisation say their creator robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.The video that I have posted below contains footage of Asuna. As you can see, she has been designed to very closely resemble a 15-year-old girl...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZJ6ml2yGHA
Of course Asuna is not a sex robot, and her designers do not anticipate making her into one. But experts say that it is only a matter of time before this kind of technology is adapted for such purposes. In fact, there are firms over in Japan that are already making sex dolls with skin texture that is "indistinguishable from the real thing"...'Physical relations will be possible in general with such androids,' said Takahashi Komiyama.
'Androids for the sex industry are a definite possibly. Some have even fallen in love with Ishiguro's geminoids. So we can't rule those relationships out.'
Japan already boasts the world's most advanced sex dolls from firms such as Kanojotoys or Orient Industries based in Tokyo.
Around £6,000 buys the very superior Yasuragi 'dutch wife' sex doll with extras such as movable eyes and flexible fingers and a skin texture its makers say is indistinguishable from the real thing.
Lady Gaga was so impressed with their quality that she asked the Japanese firm to make dolls in her own image.And Asuna is far from the only highly advanced female android being developed over in Japan right now. For example, just check out the video footage from Japan that I have posted below.
As you watch this video, try to figure out which of the people are real and which of the people are just robots. As you can see, it is not too easy to do...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlHrvQ7D5OU
Since most nations do not have laws against sex with robots, and since there is so much money that could potentially be made, many experts are forecasting that "relationships" with female sex androids will soon become commonplace.
David Levy, the author of Love and Sex with Robots, says that it is inevitable that many people will gladly choose robots as lovers and spouses as this technology progresses...In time, Levy predicts, it will be quite normal for people to buy robots as companions and lovers. "I believe that loving sex robots will be a great boon to society," he says. "There are millions of people out there who, for one reason or another, cannot establish good relationships."
And when does he think this might come about? "I think we're talking about the middle of the century, if you are referring to a robot that many people would find appealing as a companion, lover, or possible spouse."So what would all of this mean for real human relationships?
Already, we are at a point where relationships between men and women in our society are at a crisis point. The following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles entitled "The Economics Of Marriage"...According to a startling new study conducted at Bowling Green University, the marriage rate in America has fallen precipitously over the past 100 years.
In 1920, there were 92.3 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women. In 2012, there were only 31.1 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women.
That is not just a new all-time low, that is a colossal demographic earthquake.
That same study found that the marriage rate has fallen by an astounding 60 percent since 1970 alone.
As a result, U.S. households look far different today than they once did.
Back in 1950, 78 percent of all households in the U.S. contained a married couple. Today, that number has declined to 48 percent.
Obviously, adding female sex robots to the mix is not going to help things.
As a society we are more isolated individually than we have ever been before, and providing men the temptation of female sex robots would only make it even more difficult for them to establish meaningful real life relationships.
But is there anything that we can do to stop this technology?
After all, it seems like robots are starting to take over everything.
For instance, Microsoft has replaced some human security guards with five-foot-tall robots that can do many things that humans simply cannot do...
Microsoft recently installed a fleet of 5-feet-tall, 300-pound robots to protect its Silicon Valley campus. The robots are packed with HD security cameras and sensors to take in their organic, protein-based surroundings. There's also an artificial intelligence on board that can sound alarms when the robot notices something awry. It can also read license plates and cross-reference them to see if they're stolen.
The K5 robots come from a California company called Knightscope, which calls the robots "autonomous data machines" that provide a "commanding but friendly presence." Sounds like something a robot manufacturer would say.Video of these amazing little security robots is posted below...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83-bpqogngg
So what happens when robots can do virtually everything better than humans can?
What will society look like?
And are these technologies going to make our lives much better or much worse?
12 Things Black People Can Do Now Because Of Ferguson
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You know we're all laughing at you Clowns, right?
1. Learn how to speak at least one language.
Filler phrases like "gnome sane" and "cracka ass cracka mutha fugga" do not a language make. Languages are constructed of, amongst other things, parts of speech—a key one being the verb. And verbs get conjugated, based upon tense, person, number, etc.
Also, languages contain expansive vocabularies. If you can't construct a sentence without it being 90% n- and f-bombs, you're probably not in apprehension of a requisite portion of the English vocabulary to be considered fully literate in the language.
And because thought and language go hand-in-hand, being incapable of speaking even a single language in anything resembling an intelligible manner speaks volumes of your ability—or, really, lack thereof—to form a coherent thought. So pardon us for not taking you seriously when you blame whitey for all your problems.
Or, as you might say, "Da white man be keepin' me down and sheet!"
2. Reject the "he a goot boy neva dun nuffins rong" narrative and lift up the "I choose women's health!" narrative.
Instead of raising all these "goot boys" who "neva dun nuffins rong" who only end up on a cold slab in a morgue thanks, primarily, to fellow "goot boys who neva dun nuffins rong", how about you spare us all the drama, the expense, and the danger and instead exercise your God-given right to "women's health" and save your little precious a future violent death by imposing one on him in utero? That would seem to make a lot more sense and be much easier on everyone.
I know, I know—you might lose some welfare benefits. What if we paid you instead to abort, rather than deliver your offspring? Would that make it better?
3. Use words instead of grunts and babble.
Similar to #1, the more you can articulate so that your victims can understand your demands, the better. Saying in a clear, distinct voice, "Give me your money, fine sir!" instead of "Yo break yo sheet foo!" might avoid confusion on the part of the human being and save you from having to waste a bullet or two on the creepa ass cracka.
4. Understand the modern forms of race-based excuse-making and how white liberals use this to keep you poor, stupid, dependent, and violent.
Know that white liberals will excuse your every sin, blaming it on themselves and fellow whites instead. This means you are free to rob, rape, loot, and murder with absolute impunity. Nothing—nothing!—is ever your fault. Because, like, racism and slavery or something. Just be aware that this is used to your detriment so that you continue to put white liberals into power. Before, when patriots ran this nation, American blacks excelled relative to their counterparts back on the mother continent. Why? Because excuses were not accepted; you either behaved like a civilized human being or you got yourself executed. And many blacks stepped up as a result. Now that liberals run the show and pretend you can do no wrong, no matter how much wrong you do, you regress to the nature of mindless savages.
But keep on voting Democrat—they're crying for your travails all the way to the bank!
5. Examine the interplay between poverty, criminality, and low IQ.
IQ is largely hereditary, and it differs by race. Sub-Saharan Africans have the lowest average IQ of all the races on earth. American blacks, thanks to various factors (miscegenation with the white population, better nutrition, etc.) have it slightly better—but still the lowest amongst the races in the US. And IQ is one of the best predictors of life outcomes. The lower the IQ, the more likely you are to be poor and criminal. This has far more explanatory power of blacks' perpetual misery than all the retarded theories the Liberal Establishment constantly invents, such as "white privilege", "microaggressions", etc.
6. Eliminate the MSM.
In 1978, blacks followed the white man Jim Jones into Guyana and drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in an effort to abolish racism or something. They all died. I know I'm asking a lot of you, but try to make the connection between this story and what the MSM is serving you on a daily basis.
7. Adhere to a philosophy of impulsive violence.
Certainly the best way to deal with your problems is to react violently at the slightest hint of "disrespet" or whatever. Also, if you don't get your way in the court of law, loot everything in sight and then burn it to the ground. Also, deal drugs and shoot those who invade your turf. And, if you're feeling naughty, head into white enclaves and go "polar bear hunting" or whatever. This is the Zen path to civilizational success!
8. Find support from fellow blacks.
Whites banding together? Racism!
Blacks banding together? Empowerment!
Here are just a few black establishments catering specifically to your racial group. Just remember, if you see whites doing anything remotely similar, it's White Supremacist and racist!
9. Can I gits me an "amen"?
Your race is littered with "Reverends" who preach racial hatred and intolerance. Why not join their flocks? Nothing will uplift you out of your dysfunction and squalor faster than hatin' on whitey, gnome sane?
10. Be afraid of being disrespetted.
Forget errant meteor strikes, nuclear war, or Ebola—the most terrifying thing you can imagine as a black man is to be disrespetted, amirite? Therefore, always have one in the chamber just in case...
11. Be a pro-baller in your 'hood.
When all else fails, shootin' hoops is a sure-fire winner to make you a success in life!
12. Don't stop...believin'! Hold onto that ghetto feeling!
Whatever happens in this raciss, hatin' country of evil, oppressive creepy ass crackas, just be sure to keep the faith alive that one day you may be free of evil whitey and all his evil welfare and foodstamps and Section 8 housing and Affirmative Action hiring policies and diversity quotas and media pandering and excuse making for all you poor wittle bwack people! Keep the hope alive that one day you'll turn America into a black paradise the likes of which that apparently unreachable continent of Africa currently enjoys! The world, as it were, is your ghetto, black America. Never give up the dream!
PRESIDENT JARRETT: "Senior Adviser" Reportedly Calling All the Shots, Including Those In Ferguson
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For those who wondering how Barack Obama -- a man seemingly engaged full-time campaigning, fundraising, and rabble-rousing -- could also have the bandwidth to weaken America both at home and abroad, the answer is really quite simple.
The leader of the free world is actually a woman named Valerie Jarrett, a longtime crony of Barack and Michelle Obama, who appears to call all of the shots in the Oval Office.
In the White House, Jarrett has been linked to a wide variety of scandals and other policy debacles.
There are credible reports that Jarrett blocked the attack on Osama Bin Laden's compound on three separate occasions.
Similar reports indicate that she gave the "stand down" order to would-be rescuers in Benghazi on 9/11/2012.
In 2012, she was reported to have led Obama's "secret negotiations" with Iran's Mullahs. Subsequent accounts depicted Jarrett as working with Iran's nuclear experts to ensure the Islamic Republic could continue on its march to build nuclear weapons.
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal's Kim Strassel summarized the ramifications of Jarrett's litany of policy failures in stark terms: everyone but her is expendable.
Among those thrown under Jarrett's bus: Christina Romer, Jim Jones, Bill Daley, Leon Panetta, Kathleen Sebelius, Rahm Emanuel, Austan Goolsbee, Larry Summers, Peter Orszag, Vivek Kundra, Eric Shinseki, Keith Alexander, James Clapper and, most recently, Chuck Hagel. Hagel's ostensible replacement, Michèle Flournoy, turned down the opportunity because she didn't "want to be a doormat".
As Strassel asks:Who would want to work for a boss whose experiments in big government all but guarantee their reputation will be ruined in the aftermath of a bureaucratic collapse? ... And who wants to work for a boss who doesn't have your back? ... Is it possible to haveany other experience working for Mr. Obama—a boss who doesn't listen, views everything politically, always thinks he's right, and whose policies are a recipe for a lost reputation?Which brings us at last to the Democrats' latest haven for race-baiting, Ferguson.
Jarrett was in contact with Missouri's Governor Nixon in the run-up to the announcement of the Grand Jury's decision.
While Nixon denied the administration pressured him to resist activating the National Guard to put down the violent protests, the White House has admitted that Jarrett was in close contact with the governor during the first 24 hours of violent protests.
Nixon came under heavy criticism for failing to deploy the National Guard to quash the protests, which resulted in massive property damage. It now would seem that Jarrett had a hand in that decision as well.
And who is our crypto-president?
In 2008, The Boston Globe exposed Jarrett's background as the failed chief executive of The Habitat Company, which managed government-subsidized housing complexes in Chicago from 2001 until 2006. Her leadership, if you can call it that, resulted in violations so egregious that many units were deemed "uninhabitable" and eventually the federal government was forced to seize the properties.
That year, Judicial Watch named Jarrett to its "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" list for her ties to the failed housing complexes and "other shady real estate scandals".
Jarrett's family background is equally troubling. Her father-in-law was a card-carrying Communist who worked with Obama's mentor, Frank Marshall Davis.
Jarrett's grandfather Robert Taylor is reported to have served in a leadership role for the Soviet Union's American front group during World War II, when Stalin was still allied with the Third Reich. Taylor's "American Peace Mobilization" was a Soviet initiative designed to keep America out of the war so that Hitler and Stalin could divvy up Europe and Asia virtually unopposed.
So, in short, the first female President is a hard-core Leftist with an abysmal track record for decision-making, a horrifically failed tenure as a chief executive, a stunning inability to learn, and a steely refusal to take responsibilities for her many failures.
But she's the president and you're not.
Which explains why Jarrett -- against all historic precedent -- was given a Secret Service detail for protection.
Source: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/11/president-jarrett-senior-adviser.html
Immigration Activist: Obama Was So Committed To Working With Congress On Amnesty That He Had To Lie About His Executive Powers
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(Or something... so if this man admittedly lied about this, why should anyone reasonably believe anything else he has said or has to say beyond this point?)
Via Daily Caller: Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, leading immigration advocate Marielena Hincapié explained President Barack Obama's flip-flopping on the legality of his executive action by saying he was so committed to working with Congress on immigration reform he had to lie about his inability to change policy on his own.
The hearing, called to examine the constitutionality of the president's executive action, kicked off with a four-and-a-half minute video compilation of every time Obama said he couldn't reform the immigration system on his own.
For example: "I know some here wish that I could just bypass Congress and change the law myself," he said in 2011, "but that's not how democracy works. See democracy is hard, but it's right. Changing our laws means doing the hard work of changing minds, and changing votes, one by one."
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American Teacher In Abu Dhabi Stabbed To Death By Murderer In A Burqa, Teachers Warned Of Jihadist Plot To Kill Them In October...
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Definitely not a random attack, the person who killed her waited in a mall bathroom for an hour and a half before she came in.(My heart breaks for the 11 year old twins!)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2859095/Woman-burqa-lay-wait-American-mom-47-stabbing-leaving-dead-pool-blood-mall-Abu-Dhabi.html
American teachers in Abu Dhabi were warned that jihadis were threatening to kill them just weeks before a 47-year-old was stabbed to death in a mall by a burqa-wearing murderer, it emerged today.
Every American in the United Arab Emirates was warned today step up their security today after the kindergarten teacher was stabbed to death by a knife-wielding murderer in a burqa.
Ibolya Ryan, a mother of twin 11-year-old boys, was left dying in a pool of blood by the murderer after what police said was a 'brawl' in the toilets of a mall.
Detectives today released CCTV footage which showed how the suspect – whose gender they say they have not confirmed – lay in wait for the teacher for an hour.
It suggests strongly the attack was a targeted murder. Witnesses today told MailOnline the victim had been stabbed up to six times.
The victim was named by CNN as Ibolya Ryan, 47, a US-trained teacher who was described in an online profile as Hungarian-born and raised in Romania. She trained as a teacher in the United States.
No Indictment In Eric Garner Case
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(Oh CRAP, here we go again)
(Huff&Puff Post) – A grand jury voted Wednesday not to indict New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, multiple sources confirm.
Pantaleo put 47-year-old Garner into a chokehold during an arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes on July 17. In a viral video of the arrest, Garner can be seen screaming "I can't breathe!" multiple times until his body goes limp. A medical examiner later ruled his death a homicide.
Chokeholds are banned by NYPD guidelines, and Garner's death prompted large protests across the city.
The grand jury's decision Wednedsay comes just over a week after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri declined to indict officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.
BREAKING: 2 Denver Police Hit By A Car While Monitoring Students Blocking Street During Ferguson Protest
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(Sadly, I think that we are going to see more of this because of all of the race baiting and demonizing of the police by Obuma and his a$$ministration, Al CRAPton, and the rest of the lame stream media. If you ask me they all have blood on their hands and are directly responsible for these officers getting run over and hurt)
Media Matters' Oliver Willis: Eric Garner Decision Means
It's "Open Season" On Blacks
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(Here come the race hustlers)
Al CRAPton To Speak Alongside Garner Family Tonight
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(Send in the Bobble-Headed clown!)
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Old And Busted: Michael Brown A "Gentle Giant" –
New And Hot: Eric Garner A "Gentle Giant"
OLD:
Criminal No.1
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NEW:
Criminal No.2
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(Both criminals resisted arrest & died, one by gunshots and one by heart attack. If these two criminals had not resisted, both would be alive today.)
Race-Baiter Holder Opening Federal Investigation Into Death Of Eric Garner
Via Mediaite:http://www.mediaite.com/tv/holder-and-lynch-tell-de-blasio-doj-will-investigate-garner-case/
During his remarks about the grand jury decision not to indict the officer who killed Eric Garner with a chokehold, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed that Attorney General Eric Holder and his nominated replacement Loretta Lynch (who also happens to be the U.S. Attorney for the district in which the incident occurred) will pursue a federal investigation into this case.
"The federal government is clearly engaged and poised to act," Mayor de Blasio said in his press conference. He said that before he met with leaders on Staten Island, he received a phone call from Holder and Lynch. "They made clear that the investigation initiated by the U.S. attorney would now move forward, that it would be done expeditiously. It would be done with a clear sense of independence and that it would be a thorough investigation."
(I'm sure Holder's investigation will be bias-free. ;) ;)
Ferguson Protests = Reichstag Fire - Both, massive propaganda campaigns designed with only one goal in mind--that is to advance a political agenda. And, both were initiated and enabled by the highest person (Adolph Hitler was Chancellor) within the government itself.
As Chancellor, Hitler had no intention of abiding by the rules of democracy, and he used this 'crisis' to get more Nazis elected, thus springboarding himself to dictator when they voted to abolish the Constitution and 'give' their power to Mein Fuehrer. Sound familiar?
The Nazi Socialists used a communist as a scape goat...
Progressive/Communists are using the race card)
Garner Protesters Planning To Shut Down Tonight's Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting Ceremony –
Update: Communist NYC Mayor De Blasio Cancels Event
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(Yeah buddy, that will show Whitey)
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Tens of thousands are expected to attend the annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree Wednesday night,
but Mayor Bill de Blasio will not be at the event.
De Blasio canceled his appearance after a grand jury declined to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner.
About 45,00 LED lights will illuminate the 85-foot-tall Norway spruce, which was donated by a couple from central Pennsylvania.
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Noted Legal Expert (cough) Charlie Rangel: "It's Impossible Somebody Can Die And Nobody Is Indicted"
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(Ummm... no, Charlie-me-boy. I guess you don't remember
but, you kicked the bucket some years back over unpaid taxes and you have
nobody to blame but yourself, you crook)
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Al CRAPTON Says He Already Spoke With DOJ Head Clown Holder About Garner Decision
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(BobbleHead Al CRAPton now Obuma's official Race Hustling Czar)
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Lib Darling Michael Sam:
"I'm Not Playing In The NFL Because I'm Gay"
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(You knew this was coming. No dude you're not playing in the NFL because you can't play NFL level football. You're not even good enough to play for the Jets so just shut up and get off the stage. The day a gay can blackmail his way on to an NFL team is the day before the league collapses. Try manning up and admitting you're not good enough. The other teams saw right through the phony sacks you had in college but they gave you a chance at someone else's expense so stop whining)Via TMZ: Michael Sam believes he's not on a NFL roster because of the fact he's openly gay — telling TMZ Sports he strongly believes he's got the talent to play in the league.
Sam was at LAX this morning when he was asked if he thinks NFL teams are shying away from him because of his sexual orientation ... or if it has to do with the level of talent he faced after college.
"I think I was the SEC Defensive Player of the Year last year ... so I don't think it had to do with talent."
Translation — he believes he's on the outs because he's out.
Holder Planning "Institute Of Justice" Once He Leaves Office
For Continued Convo On Race
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(Hopefully he does it from federal prison where he's serving 20 years to life for his role in Fast and Furious. He's like the bad guy in a horror franchise that goes on for 16 movies with no end in sight....)
Via TIME:http://time.com/3617425/ferguson-garner-eric-holder-attorney-general/
Attorney General Eric Holder has begun drafting plans to continue his work rebuilding the relationship between local law enforcement and the black community after he leaves public office next year.
"This whole notion of reconciliation between law enforcement and communities of color is something that I really want to focus on and to do so in a very organized way," he said Tuesday in an interview with TIME. "Not just as Eric Holder, out there giving speeches—though certainly that could be a part of it—but to have maybe a place where this kind of effort is housed and to be associated with that kind of an entity."
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"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."― George Orwell, 1984I've been posting connections between present day Obumunizm and Orwell's cautionary dystopian visions for a couple years now and I'm of the opinion that the similarities are not coincidental or accidental. Orwell early on recognized the inevitable "compassionate Progressive" tyranny manifesting itself today.
Holder's "Institute of Justice" will dedicate itself to the perpetuation of injustice!
Bad News Race Baiters: Black NYPD Sergeant Was On The Scene Supervising Cop Who Placed Chokehold On Eric Garner
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(If there was a giant white dude resisting arrest they would have done the same thing, race has nothing to do with this... Also, if Daniel Pantaleo was fired for applying the lethal choke hold, why wasn't the black NYPD Sergeant who was supervising Pantaleo, fired too?)Via NY Daily News:http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/decision-not-indict-eric-garner-death-disgrace-article-1.2032435
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Aug. 7, 2014 Daily News front page after Eric Garner
died as a result of a police chokehold
.
This case is now as dead as the victim.
I'm not surprised by the no-indictment decision of the Staten Island grand jury in the Eric Garner chokehold case. The Garner killing is much, much different than the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, Mo.
To start with, Darren Wilson, a white police officer, was alone when he confronted Michael Brown, a black teenager. Eric Garner was approached by a whole team of NYPD cops in Staten Island.
There was no videotape of the Michael Brown shooting so the killing had to be recreated from conflicting eyewitness accounts and forensic evidence. The Eric Garner killing by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo was recorded on an exclusive Daily New videotape.
But what makes the Garner case so much different than Michael Brown's is that the Staten Island killing can't be called a racial incident.
Pantaleo who applied the lethal chokehold on Eric Garner was supervised by an African-American female NYPD sergeant. Having that black sergeant in charge of that crime scene takes race out of the equation. As awful as Pantaleo's actions appear on that video, at no time does that black sergeant order Pantaleo to stop choking Garner.
With a population that is 70% white and 10% African-American, when a Staten Island grand jury is presented with a white cop supervised by a black sergeant applying a lethal chokehold, it eliminates the racial component.
The grand jury was then left with the decision of whether Pantaleo had malicious intentions. It decided that he did not. Case closed.
'(F Word) your fake a$$ march': No love for Al CRAPton from Furguson protesters
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Some of the Ferguson protesters don't have much use for Al Sharpton. They recognize him for the self promoting opportunist that he is and were not shy about saying so on Twitter.(http://drawfortruth.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/al-sharpton-final-500srgb.jpg?w=500&h;=482)
Much, much more at: http://twitchy.com/2014/12/04/fck-your-fake-ass-march-no-love-for-sharpton-from-protesters/
Family Of Black Man Shot By Brooklyn Cop To
Al CRAPTON:
Stay Away, And Stop Exploiting His Death
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(The police describe this shooting as "accidental", why the officer had the gun out is unclear. But part of the problem was the stairway was so dark you could not see clearly. Which means you also couldn't see that the man was black, sorry race hustlers. This man's killing was wrong, but appears to have absolutely nothing to do with race. But then again, neither did the Ferguson or Garner cases have any indication that race was at all a factor...)Via The Blaze:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/05/family-member-of-man-shot-in-brooklyn-police-shooting-has-a-message-for-al-sharpton/
A family member of 28-year-old Akai Gurley, an unarmed man shot and killed by a rookie police officer in a public housing stairwell, is reportedly speaking out against Al Sharpton and accusing the TV host of exploiting the death.
"Al Sharpton came in, put his name on the situation, but has not even made one single call to the parents to Akai," Hertenceia Peterson, Gurley's aunt, told TMZ.
Peterson, who claimed to be speaking for Gurley's mom as well, said Sharpton only appears interested in using the tragedy for "money and political gain." The aunt also said Sharpton is not welcome at the funeral or Gurley's wake on Friday night, even though the activist recently said he plans to deliver a eulogy.
*Man Stabs Four People On Amtrak Train In Michigan*
A man wielding a knife stabbed four people on an Amtrak train Friday evening in Niles, Michigan, a witness said.
A Niles police dispatcher confirmed to BuzzFeed News Friday that the stabbing took place in the town and that there were no fatalities. The dispatcher did not immediately have additional information.
However, a passenger on the train tweeted pictures of a man in handcuffs lying on the train floor. (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4IiDkvCEAE54Tq.jpg)
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Eric Garner's Daughter Tells CNN: "This Was Not A Black Or White Issue"
(The singularly most intelligent person to have spoken on the subject. Doubtless she will be vilified by the left and thrown under the bus by the race baiters.
There has been no fact to indicate that there was any issue whatever of race. But then again there was no facts to suggest it was related to race in Ferguson either.
But that hasn't stopped the race hustlers and those on the Left determined to create their revolution, by hook or by crook...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qUkMeJemTYU#t=0
How it all went down according to the NYDaily News:Post by Taisha Allen: (http://static2.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1871926.1405835506!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/choke18n-12-web.jpg)
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In a new video posted by a witness, Eric Garner can be seen on the ground after Officer Daniel Pantaleo (rear, green shirt and beige shorts) applied a chokehold. Tiasha Allen via Facebook An emergency medical technician checks on an apparently lifeless Eric Garner before he was loaded onto stretcher near the Staten Island ferry terminal. New York Daily News NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo waves to the camera after Eric Garner's body is taken away from the scene on Thursday. NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo was caught on another video putting Garner in a chokehold. A defenseless dad, lying handcuffed and unresponsive on a sidewalk, received zero medical help from cops who instead just emptied his pockets, a shocking new video shows.
The seven-minute clip posted Saturday on YouTube shows an apparently lifeless Eric Garner, whose head droops to the side as at least eight cops stand nearby.
"C'mon, guy," one cop says to Garner, the only thing on the video that suggests any of the officers was trying to help the Staten Island man. "Breathe in, breathe out."
But Garner, on his side with his eyes closed, doesn't move at all — even when the officer slaps him on the shoulder. The side of his head remains flat against the concrete, and his eyes never open.
At one point, another officer is seen taking a cell phone and a pack of cigarettes from the 43-year-old Garner's pants.
Even after the arrival of an EMT four minutes into the video, no medical aid is provided to Garner. He's instead just loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled off.
Cops say he was pronounced dead a short time later after arriving at a Staten Island hospital.
NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo, caught on another video putting Garner in a chokehold, is shown standing a few feet away and chatting amiably with a uniformed colleague.
Near the end of the clip, he gives a satiric wave to the person shooting the second video.
Pantaleo, an eight-year veteran, was placed on modified duty Saturday as cops and the Staten Island district attorney investigated the case.
Pantaleo was stripped of his gun and his shield and assigned to work desk duty. The police union immediately denounced the move as "knee-jerk" and "completely unwarranted."
But detectives arrived at his Staten Island home Saturday afternoon, leaving about 25 minutes later with one box and three bags taken from the residence.
Officer Justin Damico, on the force four years, was also pulled off the street — but he was not forced to turn in his badge or his weapon.
Outside Damico's home Saturday, an infuriated woman screamed at reporters.
"Get off my f------ property! F------ retards!" she howled. "One picture of me and I'll sue you!"
Sources told the Daily News there were no signs of neck trauma, such as a crushed windpipe, on the heavyset victim.
Read more at: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nypd-chokehold-staten-island-man-eric-garner-stripped-shield-gun-article-1.1873033
Pelosi On Obama's Amnesty Order:
'Law-Abiding Families Will Be Able To Celebrate Feliz Navidad'
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(Ol' Nan and family gather for a photo op
before the Christmas Eve ice cream social in Cuba...)
Via CNS NewsAt a press conference on Thursday on Capitol Hill in support of President Barack Obama's executive order to provide protection from deportation for millions of illegal aliens, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the Republicans have failed to act and Obama's action will help "law-abiding families" enjoy the holiday season.
[...]"Thanks to the president's immigration accountability executive actions, millions of hard-working, law abiding families will be able to celebrate the holidays with renewed hope – hope in the future free from the fear of separation and deportation," Pelosi said.
BobbleHead Al CRAPton And Smack Jackson Taking Break
From Agitating To Eulogize Former Crack Head
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(Mourning the passing of another role model...)
Via WJLA:http://www.wjla.com/articles/2014/12/marion-barry-former-d-c-mayor-to-be-remembered-at-memorial-events-109549.html
A casket bearing the remains of Marion Barry arrived Thursday at the District of Columbia's city hall, where he had an office for more than three decades.
Barry's casket will lie in repose at the John A. Wilson Building for 24 hours. Memorial services for the man nicknamed "Mayor for Life" will be held Friday and Saturday. Barry died last month at age 78.
A police color guard escorted Barry's casket up the steps of the building on Thursday morning, where it was greeted by Mayor Vincent Gray. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who will eulogize Barry at his memorial on Saturday, walked Barry's wife and son inside. Barry was a veteran of the civil rights movement like Jackson, a longtime friend and ally.[...]
Jackson will speak at Saturday's memorial service at the Washington Convention Center. On Friday evening, the Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy at a community memorial service in southeast Washington.
Labor Force Participation Remains At 36-Year Low
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(92,447,000 Americans still out of work...)
Via CNS News:(CNSNews.com) – The labor force participation rate remained at a 36-year low of 62.8 percent in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The participation rate, which is the percentage of the civilian noninstitutional population who participated in the labor force by either having a job during the month or actively seeking one, was 62.8 percent in November which matches the percentage since March 1978.
In November, according to BLS, the nation's civilian noninstitutional population, consisting of all people 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, reached 248,844,000. Of those, 156,397,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one.
SATURDAY OPEN THREAD
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(This week's open thread is dedicated to Al CRAPton's freakishly large head.
Here's your weird story of the day. You should infer nothing from the juxtaposition of Al CRAPton with an electric eel.
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Ferguson 'Activist' Who Met With Obama On Monday Charged With Assault... Update: Video Of Assault On Black Officers At City Hall
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(This is the kind of guy promoted for 'solutions'
by Obuma and Commie NY Mayor De Blasio)
Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2014/12/05/ferguson-activist-who-promoted-peaceful-protests-charged-with-assault/
A young Ferguson, Mo., activist who touted his peaceful protesting as he sat next to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on a panel with President Obama earlier this week was charged with assault Thursday after allegedly trying to shove his way into St. Louis City Hall.
Rasheen Aldridge, 22, sat only three chairs away from Obama during the Monday meeting that allowed Ferguson activists to voice their concerns to top officials.
"We want [the president] to come out and have accountability for police, we want him to acknowledge our pain, and that we have been peaceful," Aldridge told USA Today.
But on Thursday, he was one of three protesters charged with misdemeanor assault after they attempted to demonstrate inside City Hall on Nov. 26, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The building was put on lockdown.
Wearing a gray stocking cap, Aldridge stood at the front of the crowd, which tried to rush past a marshal guarding the building's south door.
Picture of Rasheen Aldridge, 22 busted by Police:
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Raw Uncensored View Of What #Ferguson Protesters Think About Racism
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WNFTfR6WycA#t=0
(How can we expect to live with those dangerous unreasonable illogical ignoramuses? As dumb as the rocks they throw. They need to be sent to reeducation camps to be able to live in civilization. These idiot Clowns give good African-Americans a very bad name...)
Via IJR:http://www.ijreview.com/2014/12/212156-shocking-ferguson-protesters-uncensored-thoughts-racism-obama-grand-jurys-decision/
TruthRevolt's Ami Horowitz interviewed protesters on the streets of Ferguson after the announcement of the grand jury's decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson.
To say the atmosphere was tense and raw is an understatement. Some protesters expressed controversial views that many people would find outrageous. One protester said: We don't hate white people. Ya'll the devil.
When Horowitz asks protesters, "Why are you all here?" a man can be heard replying:
To f*ck sh*t up!
Several protesters say Darren Wilson deserves to be killed, when asked what they think should happen to him. One visibly heated protester gets in Horowitz' face and has to be restrained by his friends.
Family Of Man Killed By Police: Don't Focus On Race
(Sad, sad case. Killed while resisting arrest... sound familiar?)
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Mother of victim
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/05/family-of-man-killed-by-police-dont-focus-on-race/19935523/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomnation-topstoriesPHOENIX, AZ — Two days after an unarmed Black man was killed by a White police officer in Phoenix at the height of national unrest over racially charged incidents, a grieving family wants to redirect the dialogue.
Rumain Brisbon's mother and girlfriend don't want the conversation about his death
to center on race.
Nora Brisbon, who is black, and Dana Klinger, who is white, want the conversation to be about the son, boyfriend and father they loved.
"This had nothing to do with race," Nora Brisbon said. "This is about Rumain and the wrong that was done to him, and I want people to focus on that. If they want to rally, let's support him positively."
The family's request comes as demonstrations and protests continue across the country in response to the lack of indictments for officers who killed unarmed black suspects in Ferguson, Mo., and New York City.
Approximately 150 people gathered downtown at Phoenix Civic Space Park on Thursday night to "begin an active campaign of direct action and civil disobedience over the police-brutality-related death of Rumain Brisbon," said the Rev. Jarrett Maupin, a civil-rights advocate.
Maupin, who organized the event, led demonstrators in practicing their protest chants before marching more than a mile to Phoenix police headquarters.
That's not what Nora Brisbon was asking for. She said she would rather that the focus be on the positive aspects of her son's life.
"Rumain was the type of son that most people, believe it or not, wish they had," she said. "He could be a million miles away, and you call him and say, 'Rumain, I need this. Can you help me with that?' And in a few minutes: 'I'm on my way.' "
The women said Rumain, 34, doted on his four girls, one of whom — an 18-month-old who is Klinger's daughter — was close by when her father died Tuesday night, Klinger said.
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A December 2013 photo of Rumain Brisbon with two of his daughters. Rumain Brisbon, an unarmed African American man was shot and killed by a white Phoenix Police Officer on Tuesday, December 2, 2014
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"I don't know what they're going to do without their dad, and I don't know what I'm going to do without him to raise my child," Klinger said. "He took really good care of me, he checked on me every day. I don't know what I'm going to tell my daughter when it's time to tell her."
The women and the family's attorneys said they were dismayed by how Rumain Brisbon had been portrayed in the media and by police as a criminal. Brisbon had a criminal record.
The officer who shot Brisbon is a 30-year-old, seven-year veteran of the Phoenix Police Department. The department was not releasing his name, and a police spokesman has asked the public to withhold judgment until an investigation is complete.
Police said the officer had been tipped off that two men inside a black Cadillac SUV, one of whom was Brisbon, were engaged in a drug deal at an apartment complex near 25th Avenue and Beck Lane, just north of Greenway Road and east of Interstate 17.
Police said that the officer told Brisbon to show his hands but that Brisbon stuffed his hands into his waistband. They said that the officer drew his weapon and that Brisbon ran toward nearby apartments. A short foot chase ensued, followed by a struggle in which they tumbled into an apartment, police said.
The officer said he had gripped Brisbon's hand, which was in his pocket and coiled around something the officer presumed to be a gun. Police said that when the officer could no longer keep his grip on Brisbon's hand — and because he feared Brisbon had a weapon in his pocket — the officer fired two shots.
The object Brisbon was gripping was a pill bottle.
Court records show that Brisbon was serving probation stemming from a 1998 burglary conviction. He also was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence twice, in 2009 and in October. He also had a marijuana conviction.
Nora Brisbon didn't deny that her son had made mistakes but said he needs to be remembered for his "goodness."
"Of course, he did a few bad things here and there, but they've been taken care of," she said. "He was not just some raggedy thug out there on the street. He made a difference in everybody's life that he touched."
Marci Kratter, a Phoenix attorney who represented Brisbon in a DUI case and is now representing his family, said she hopes the officer is held accountable. Kratter said she is waiting until all the facts are revealed to define what accountable would mean.
Brisbon's mother said if anything comes out of her son's death, she hopes his story gives pause to officers in the future.
"Understand that everybody is not bad ... (to) think before they shoot," she said. "So many people are losing their families — black, white, all different races. This is a tragedy to us as a people."
Austin Cop's Incredible Sure Shot Stops Crazed Gunman, Saving Lives
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(Amazing shot)
Via Fox News:http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/06/austin-cop-sure-shot-stopped-crazed-gunman/
Holding the reins of two horses with one hand, Austin Police Sgt. Adam Johnson raised his service pistol and fired a bullseye into the target some 312 feet away.
Down went Larry McQuilliams, and so ended his rampage through the streets of the Texas capital, where he'd fired more than 100 rounds from his AK-47 and .22-caliber rifles at buildings. The shot, from Johnson's Smith & Wesson M&P .40 pistol, hit McQuilliams square in the chest and made the 15-year-veteran the toast of gun enthusiasts around the country.
"At a minimum, it was extraordinary shot," said Army Maj. John Plaster, a retired Special Forces operator, long-range shooting expert and author of "The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers."
Video where you can hear the suspect firing round after round:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rrhckbqwM&feature=player_embedded#t=36
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Al CRAPton Says March To D.C. Is To Demand Federal Government
Intervene In States Justice System If Blacks Are Involved
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(Ol' Racist Al CRAPton isn't a big fan of the U.S. Constitution)
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Rev Rat: "Do you think my ass is too big"
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Finally: Obuma's "Body Man" Reggie Love Writing Book About Working For Obuma
Via Politico:Former 'body man' Reggie Love will be penning a book on his experience working alongside President Barack Obama.
"Power Forward: My Presidential Education," will be released Feb. 3 by Simon & Schuster and will follow Love's five years working for Obama, including his time as the president's personal aide. It is described by the publisher as "a professional coming of age story like no other."
Expect plenty of basketball talk too, as Love, who began working for then-Sen. Obama in 2006 and left the White House in 2011, will also draw on his time under Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, where the forward was part of the 2001 NCAA championship team.
"From his first interview with Sen. Obama, to his near-decision not to follow the president-elect to the White House, to eventually bringing LeBron, Melo, D-Wade, and Kobe to play with the president on his 49th birthday, Love drew on Coach K's teachings as he learned to navigate Washington," the publisher said.
Obuma Taken To The Hospital With Sore Throat, Guess The Diagnosis?
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(Golly, gee whiz... a sore throat, huh... "soft tissue swelling"? You don't think he's been hanging out with Reggie Love again, do yeah?
Gotta love this line: "He had extra time" to go to the hospital since it was raining and he couldn't golf... LOL... Acid reflux is caused/made worse by stress, worry and aggravation, in addition to eating bad things, such as Reg... never mind)
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Acid reflux is causing the sore throat President Barack Obama has complained about for the past couple of weeks, the White House said Saturday, shortly after the president returned from undergoing diagnostic tests at a nearby military hospital.
Obama's motorcade made the approximately half-hour crawl in rainy weather to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where a CT scan was performed.
The scan followed a morning fiber optic exam that was performed on Obama at the White House by an ear, nose and throat specialist from Fort Belvoir Medical Center and supervised Dr. Ronny L. Jackson, Obama's physician and director of the White House Medical Unit.
In a statement, Jackson said the fiber optic exam revealed "soft tissue swelling" in the back of Obama's throat. Jackson said he and the specialist, who was not identified, determined that "further evaluation with a routine CT scan was prudent."
The CT scan was normal, Jackson said.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/aa3621c369a749cf97648d87846de2bc/tests-obama-after-complaining-sore-throat
Obuma Makes Pathetic Nuisance Of Himself Across America
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Every Town, USA -- Everywhere across the nation Americans are growing increasingly repulsed and disgusted at the man who insists on barging into their lives demanding their ceaseless attention.
From Delaware to Dechutes, from Seattle to Cincinnati, from Portland to Portland everyone everywhere is reporting that the President of the United States suddenly appears in their homes, their workplaces, their streets, and their businesses demanding "Look at me! Look at me! Look at what I can do!" and not shutting up.
"The wife and I thought we'd just spend the evening in, you know," said a typical American. "We just wanted to relax, have dinner, try and get on with our lives after the last stupid six years of childish crap we've had to put up with. Just breath a little, you know. So we're enjoying ourselves... just finally getting on with our lives like everyone is trying to do now, when who pops in without even knocking: Barack Obama. Guy just barges in to our house waving his arms around. 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!' he shouts over and over again. I mean, we're trying to ignore him. Can't we just get back to normal? He was't cute six years ago doing this, acting like a little kid. Now he's just sad and pathetic. The guy's what, like fifty years old?"
The story is the same all over the nation. Many report that Obama sometimes pleads with them to notice him saying that he is "nothing unless you notice me. I need you. Please, notice me. Look! Look at me! Looky what I can do! Please! You don't understand. Look at me! Look at me!"
"It's going to be a long two years," said a woman in Wichita. "I'm sick and tired of that childish pathetic idiot demanding my attention. I just want my life back. Why can't he shut up and just do his job executing the laws and let us alone and in peace already? Pathetic jerk."
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Obama: 'If I had a city, it would look like Ferguson'
Biden: 'If I had a Ferguson (hic), it would look like a city'
Obama signs executive order renaming 'looters' to 'undocumented shoppers'
Ethicists agree: two wrongs do make a right so long as Bush did it first
The aftermath of the 'War on Women 2014' finds a new 'Lost Generation' of broken and disillusioned Democrat politicians, unable to cope with life out of office
White House: Republican takeover of the Senate is a clear mandate from the American people for President Obama to rule by executive orders
Nurse Kaci Hickox angrily tells reporters that she won't change her clocks for daylight savings time
Democratic Party leaders in panic after recent poll shows most Democratic voters think 'midterm' is when to end pregnancy
Desperate Democratic candidates plead with Obama to stop backing them and instead support their GOP opponents
Ebola Czar issues five-year plan with mandatory quotas of Ebola infections per each state based on voting preferences
Study: crony capitalism is to the free market what the Westboro Baptist Church is to Christianity
Fun facts about world languages: the Left has more words for statism than the Eskimos have for snow
African countries to ban all flights from the United States because "Obama is so incompetent, it scares us"
Nobel Peace Prize controversy: Hillary not nominated despite having done even less than Obama to deserve it
Obama: 'Ebola is the JV of viruses'
BREAKING: Secret Service foils Secret Service plot to protect Obama
Revised 1st Amendment: buy one speech, get the second free
Sharpton calls on white NFL players to beat their women in the interests of racial fairness
President Obama appoints his weekly approval poll as new national security adviser
Obama wags pen and phone at Putin; Europe offers support with powerful pens and phones from NATO members
White House pledges to embarrass ISIS back to the Stone Age with a barrage of fearsome Twitter messages and fatally ironic Instagram photos
Obama to fight ISIS with new federal Terrorist Regulatory Agency
Obama vows ISIS will never raise their flag over the eighteenth hole
Harry Reid: "Sometimes I say the wong thing"
Elian Gonzalez wishes he had come to the U.S. on a bus from Central America like all the other kids
Obama visits US-Mexican border, calls for a two-state solution
Obama draws "blue line" in Iraq after Putin took away his red crayon
"Hard Choices," a porno flick loosely based on Hillary Clinton's memoir and starring Hillary Hellfire as a drinking, whoring Secretary of State, wildly outsells the flabby, sagging original
Accusations of siding with the enemy leave Sgt. Bergdahl with only two options: pursue a doctorate at Berkley or become a Senator from Massachusetts
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Jay Carney stuck in line behind Eric Shinseki to leave the White House; estimated wait time from 15 min to 6 weeks
100% of scientists agree that if man-made global warming were real, "the last people we'd want to help us is the Obama administration"
Jay Carney says he found out that Obama found out that he found out that Obama found out that he found out about the latest Obama administration scandal on the news
"Anarchy Now!" meeting turns into riot over points of order, bylaws, and whether or not 'kicking the #^@&*! ass' of the person trying to speak is or is not violence
Obama retaliates against Putin by prohibiting unionized federal employees from dating hot Russian girls online during work hours
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Russian separatists in Ukraine riot over an offensive YouTube video showing the toppling of Lenin statues
"Free Speech Zones" confuse Obamaphone owners who roam streets in search of additional air minutes
Obamacare bolsters employment for professionals with skills to convert meth back into sudafed
Gloves finally off: Obama uses pen and phone to cancel Putin's Netflix account
Joe Biden to Russia: "We will bury you by turning more of Eastern Europe over to your control!"
In last-ditch effort to help Ukraine, Obama deploys Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jackson's Rainbow Coalition to Crimea
Al Sharpton: "Not even Putin can withstand our signature chanting, 'racist, sexist, anti-gay, Russian army go away'!"
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Mardi Gras in North Korea: "Throw me some food!"
Obama's foreign policy works: "War, invasion, and conquest are signs of weakness; we've got Putin right where we want him"
US offers military solution to Ukraine crisis: "We will only fight countries that have LGBT military"
Putin annexes Brighton Beach to protect ethnic Russians in Brooklyn, Obama appeals to UN and EU for help
The 1980s: "Mr. Obama, we're just calling to ask if you want our foreign policy back. The 1970s are right here with us, and they're wondering, too."
In a stunning act of defiance, Obama courageously unfriends Putin on Facebook
MSNBC: Obama secures alliance with Austro-Hungarian Empire against Russia's aggression in Ukraine
Study: springbreak is to STDs what April 15th is to accountants
Efforts to achieve moisture justice for California thwarted by unfair redistribution of snow in America
North Korean voters unanimous: "We are the 100%"
Leader of authoritarian gulag-site, The People's Cube, unanimously 're-elected' with 100% voter turnout
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Super Bowl: Obama blames Fox News for Broncos' loss
Feminist author slams gay marriage: "a man needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle"
Beverly Hills campaign heats up between Henry Waxman and Marianne Williamson over the widening income gap between millionaires and billionaires in their district
Biden to lower $10,000-a-plate Dinner For The Homeless to $5,000 so more homeless can attend
Kim becomes world leader, feeds uncle to dogs; Obama eats dogs, becomes world leader, America cries uncle
North Korean leader executes own uncle for talking about Obamacare at family Christmas party
White House hires part-time schizophrenic Mandela sign interpreter to help sell Obamacare
Kim Jong Un executes own "crazy uncle" to keep him from ruining another family Christmas
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OFA admits its advice for area activists to give Obamacare Talk at shooting ranges was a bad idea
President resolves Obamacare debacle with executive order declaring all Americans equally healthy
Obama to Iran: "If you like your nuclear program, you can keep your nuclear program"
Bovine community outraged by flatulence coming from Washington DC
Obama: "I'm not particularly ideological; I believe in a good pragmatic five-year plan"
Shocker: Obama had no knowledge he'd been reelected until he read about it in the local newspaper last week
Server problems at HealthCare.gov so bad, it now flashes 'Error 808' message
NSA marks National Best Friend Day with official announcement: "Government is your best friend; we know you like no one else, we're always there, we're always willing to listen"
Al Qaeda cancels attack on USA citing launch of Obamacare as devastating enough
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The President's latest talking point on Obamacare: "I didn't build that"
Dizzy with success, Obama renames his wildly popular healthcare mandate to HillaryCare
Carney: huge ObamaCare deductibles won't look as bad come hyperinflation
Washington Redskins drop 'Washington' from their name as offensive to most Americans
Poll: 83% of Americans favor cowboy diplomacy over rodeo clown diplomacy
GOVERNMENT WARNING: If you were able to complete ObamaCare form online, it wasn't a legitimate gov't website; you should report online fraud and change all your passwords
Obama administration gets serious, threatens Syria with ObamaCare
Obama authorizes the use of Vice President Joe Biden's double-barrel shotgun to fire a couple of blasts at Syria
Sharpton: "British royals should have named baby 'Trayvon.' By choosing 'George' they sided with white Hispanic racist Zimmerman"
DNC launches 'Carlos Danger' action figure; proceeds to fund a charity helping survivors of the Republican War on Women
Nancy Pelosi extends abortion rights to the birds and the bees
Hubble discovers planetary drift to the left
Obama: 'If I had a daughter-in-law, she would look like Rachael Jeantel'
FISA court rubberstamps statement denying its portrayal as government's rubber stamp
Every time ObamaCare gets delayed, a Julia somewhere dies
GOP to Schumer: 'Force full implementation of ObamaCare before 2014 or Dems will never win another election'
Obama: 'If I had a son... no, wait, my daughter can now marry a woman!'
Janet Napolitano: TSA findings reveal that since none of the hijackers were babies, elderly, or Tea Partiers, 9/11 was not an act of terrorism
News Flash: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) can see Canada from South Dakota
Susan Rice: IRS actions against tea parties caused by anti-tax YouTube video that was insulting to their faith
Drudge Report reduces font to fit all White House scandals onto one page
Obama: the IRS is a constitutional right, just like the Second Amendment
White House: top Obama officials using secret email accounts a result of bad IT advice to avoid spam mail from Nigeria
Jay Carney to critics: 'Pinocchio never said anything inconsistent'
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Obama: If I had a gay son, he'd look like Jason Collins
Gosnell's office in Benghazi raided by the IRS: mainstream media's worst cover-up challenge to date
IRS targeting pro-gay-marriage LGBT groups leads to gayest tax revolt in U.S. history
After Arlington Cemetery rejects offer to bury Boston bomber, Westboro Babtist Church steps up with premium front lawn plot
Boston: Obama Administration to reclassify marathon bombing as 'sportsplace violence'
Study: Success has many fathers but failure becomes a government program
US Media: Can Pope Francis possibly clear up Vatican bureaucracy and banking without blaming the previous administration?
Michelle Obama praises weekend rampage by Chicago teens as good way to burn calories and stay healthy
This Passover, Obama urges his subjects to paint lamb's blood above doors in order to avoid the Sequester
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White House to American children: Sequester causes layoffs among hens that lay Easter eggs; union-wage Easter Bunnies to be replaced by Mexican Chupacabras
Time Mag names Hugo Chavez world's sexiest corpse
Boy, 8, pretends banana is gun, makes daring escape from school
Study: Free lunches overpriced, lack nutrition
Oscars 2013: Michelle Obama announces long-awaited merger of Hollywood and the State
Joe Salazar defends the right of women to be raped in gun-free environment: 'rapists and rapees should work together to prevent gun violence for the common good'
Dept. of Health and Human Services eliminates rape by reclassifying assailants as 'undocumented sex partners'
Kremlin puts out warning not to photoshop Putin riding meteor unless bare-chested
Deeming football too violent, Obama moves to introduce Super Drone Sundays instead
Japan offers to extend nuclear umbrella to cover U.S. should America suffer devastating attack on its own defense spending
Feminists organize one billion women to protest male oppression with one billion lap dances
Urban community protests Mayor Bloomberg's ban on extra-large pop singers owning assault weapons
Concerned with mounting death toll, Taliban offers to send peacekeeping advisers to Chicago
Karl Rove puts an end to Tea Party with new 'Republicans For Democrats' strategy aimed at losing elections
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Answering public skepticism, President Obama authorizes unlimited drone attacks on all skeet targets throughout the country
Skeet Ulrich denies claims he had been shot by President but considers changing his name to 'Traps'
White House releases new exciting photos of Obama standing, sitting, looking thoughtful, and even breathing in and out
New York Times hacked by Chinese government, Paul Krugman's economic policies stolen
White House: when President shoots skeet, he donates the meat to food banks that feed the middle class
To prove he is serious, Obama eliminates armed guard protection for President, Vice-President, and their families; establishes Gun-Free Zones around them instead
State Dept to send 100,000 American college students to China as security for US debt obligations
Jay Carney: Al Qaeda is on the run, they're just running forward
President issues executive orders banning cliffs, ceilings, obstructions, statistics, and other notions that prevent us from moving forwards and upward
Fearing the worst, Obama Administration outlaws the fan to prevent it from being hit by certain objects
World ends; S&P soars
Riddle of universe solved; answer not understood
Meek inherit Earth, can't afford estate taxes
Greece abandons Euro; accountants find Greece has no Euros anyway
Wheel finally reinvented; axles to be gradually reinvented in 3rd quarter of 2013
Bigfoot found in Ohio, mysteriously not voting for Obama
As Santa's workshop files for bankruptcy, Fed offers bailout in exchange for control of 'naughty and nice' list
Freak flying pig accident causes bacon to fly off shelves
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Obama: green economy likely to transform America into a leading third world country of the new millennium
Report: President Obama to visit the United States in the near future
Obama promises to create thousands more economically neutral jobs
Modernizing Islam: New York imam proposes to canonize Saul Alinsky as religion's latter day prophet
Imam Rauf's peaceful solution: 'Move Ground Zero a few blocks away from the mosque and no one gets hurt'
Study: Obama's threat to burn tax money in Washington 'recruitment bonanza' for Tea Parties
Study: no Social Security reform will be needed if gov't raises retirement age to at least 814 years
Obama attends church service, worships self
Obama proposes national 'Win The Future' lottery; proceeds of new WTF Powerball to finance more gov't spending
Historical revisionists: "Hey, you never know"
Vice President Biden: criticizing Egypt is un-pharaoh
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Israelis to Egyptian rioters: "don't damage the pyramids, we will not rebuild"
Lake Superior renamed Lake Inferior in spirit of tolerance and inclusiveness
Al Gore: It's a shame that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of polar bears
Michael Moore: As long as there is anyone with money to shake down, this country is not broke
Obama's teleprompters unionize, demand collective bargaining rights
Obama calls new taxes 'spending reductions in tax code.' Elsewhere rapists tout 'consent reductions in sexual intercourse'
Obama's teleprompter unhappy with White House Twitter: "Too few words"
Obama's Regulation Reduction committee finds US Constitution to be expensive outdated framework inefficiently regulating federal gov't
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Taking a page from the Reagan years, Obama announces new era of Perestroika and Glasnost
Responding to Oslo shootings, Obama declares Christianity "Religion of Peace," praises "moderate Christians," promises to send one into space
Republicans block Obama's $420 billion program to give American families free charms that ward off economic bad luck
White House to impose Chimney tax on Santa Claus
Obama decrees the economy is not soaring as much as previously decreeed
Conservative think tank introduces children to capitalism with pop-up picture book "The Road to Smurfdom"
Al Gore proposes to combat Global Warming by extracting silver linings from clouds in Earth's atmosphere
Obama refutes charges of him being unresponsive to people's suffering: "When you pray to God, do you always hear a response?"
Obama regrets the US government didn't provide his mother with free contraceptives when she was in college
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Fluke to Congress: drill, baby, drill!
Planned Parenthood introduces Frequent Flucker reward card: 'Come again soon!'
Obama to tornado victims: 'We inherited this weather from the previous administration'
Obama congratulates Putin on Chicago-style election outcome
People's Cube gives itself Hero of Socialist Labor medal in recognition of continued expert advice provided to the Obama Administration helping to shape its foreign and domestic policies
Hamas: Israeli air defense unfair to 99% of our missiles, "only 1% allowed to reach Israel"
Democrat strategist: without government supervision, women would have never evolved into humans
Voters Without Borders oppose Texas new voter ID law
Enraged by accusation that they are doing Obama's bidding, media leaders demand instructions from White House on how to respond
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Obama blames previous Olympics for failure to win at this Olympics
Official: China plans to land on Moon or at least on cheap knockoff thereof
Koran-Contra: Obama secretly arms Syrian rebels
Poll: Progressive slogan 'We should be more like Europe' most popular with members of American Nazi Party
Obama to Evangelicals: Jesus saves, I just spend
May Day: Anarchists plan, schedule, synchronize, and execute a coordinated campaign against all of the above
Midwestern farmers hooked on new erotic novel "50 Shades of Hay"
Study: 99% of Liberals give the rest a bad name
Obama meets with Jewish leaders, proposes deeper circumcisions for the rich
Historians: Before HOPE & CHANGE there was HEMP & CHOOM at ten bucks a bag
Cancer once again fails to cure Venezuela of its "President for Life"
Tragic spelling error causes Muslim protesters to burn local boob-tube factory
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu: due to energy conservation, the light at the end of the tunnel will be switched off
Obama Administration running food stamps across the border with Mexico in an operation code-named "Fat And Furious"
Pakistan explodes in protest over new Adobe Acrobat update; 17 local acrobats killed
White House: "Let them eat statistics"
Special Ops: if Benedict Arnold had a son, he would look like Barack Obama
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Sick Racist Holder To Announce New Racial Profiling Guidelines
To Make Life Easier For Criminals, Focus More On Whites
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(Expect any less from Holder? This is what you get by voting a black man in charge of America. Obuma politics has set back the black race on its butt for the next 50 years. I doubt you will EVER see a black man as President again... or a crooked black AG like we have now.... period. Both men should be in jail for life for what they have done to this country, IMHO)(http://watchmen-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Obama-Holder-constitution1-610x400.jpg)
Via Politico:The Obama administration will Monday unveil its long-anticipated updates to its guidelines on racial profiling, tightening limits on the practice but still allowing federal law enforcement agencies to employ it at airports and along the border.
The new rules replace guidelines created by the Bush administration in 2003, which banned racial profiling for federal law enforcement, but included broad exemptions for national security and border security. The Bush rules applied only to race, but the new policy also bans profiling on the basis of religion, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identification. [...]
"As attorney general, I have repeatedly made clear that profiling by law enforcement is not only wrong, it is profoundly misguided and ineffective — because it wastes precious resources and undermines the public trust," Holder said in a statement. "Particularly in light of certain recent incidents we've seen at the local level — and the widespread concerns about trust in the criminal justice process which so many have raised throughout the nation — it's imperative that we take every possible action to institute strong and sound policing practices."
Democrats Spent Big in Secret Effort to Elect Kansas
Independent Greg Orman
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A month after the races ended, big-money super-PACs report their last-minute donors and spending.
It's been more than a month since the Nov. 4 election, but we're only just now finding out about some of the biggest campaign donations, including a previously undisclosed spending blitz by Democrats to try and elect Kansas independent Greg Orman.
Any political contributions to national party committees and super-PACs made on or after Oct. 16 didn't have to be disclosed until Thursday. The long delay between the late contributions and public disclosure creates an opportunity for mischief and a chance to move big money because super-PACs can raise funds in unlimited amounts to pay for ads independently supporting or attacking candidates.
Here's a look at how and where some of that late money moved:
Hidden Democrats:Senate Majority PAC, a Democratic super-PAC run by former political advisers to Majority Leader Harry Reid, sent about $1.5 million to two super-PACs that promoted businessman Greg Orman, who was running as an independent and refused to identify with which party he would caucus. Orman was ultimately unsuccessful in his campaign to unseat Republican incumbent Pat Roberts.
Senate Majority PAC sent $1.31 million to Committee to Elect an Independent Senate in five installments beginning on (you guessed it) Oct. 16, the start of the veiled disclosure period. The Reid-aligned PAC also sent $151,000 on Nov. 3-4 to Kansans Support Problem Solvers, which also backed Orman.
Orman and Democratic groups kept each other at arm's length, at least publicly, in a state that has a generic Republican lean. Self-inflicted wounds by Roberts and his rusty campaign operation contributed to the senator's vulnerability. Roberts wound up winning by an unexpectedly large margin of 10 percentage points after overhauling his campaign team, sharpening his campaign message around opposition to President Barack Obama and Reid, and riding the Republican wave.
Committee to Elect an Independent Senate also received $1 million from Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor who is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg Politics parent company Bloomberg LP.
Read More At: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-12-05/democrats-spent-big-in-secret-effort-to-elect-kansas-independent-greg-orman
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Democrats (Harry Reid) Spent Millions To Elect Trojan Horse Greg Orman
All of the suspicions people held about the true motives behind the failed Orman bid are essentially confirmed.(MediaIte) In the 2014 midterms, independent candidate Greg Orman nearly unseated GOP incumbent Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), but eventually lost by a ten-point margin. This was sad for the Democrats — not just because it helped the GOP take over the Senate, but also because a Democrat-affiliated Super PAC had secretly poured $1.5 million into his race.
According to documents filed to the FEC and found by Bloomberg,, Senate Majority PAC, run by former advisors to Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), quietly donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to two pro-Orman Super PACs after October 16th. This is important, because this magical time after this date is known as the "veiled disclosure period": Basically, people can donate millions of dollars to a PAC during this time, and legally, do not have disclose this transaction until after the election. (Technically, it's not secret money, but it kind of is.)
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By keeping the transactions quiet, the Democrats avoided the perception that they were backing Orman, a self-financed candidate who ran as a political independent and refused to say which party he would caucus with. Read more at: http://www.mediaite.com/online/democrats-spent-millions-to-get-independent-elected-to-senate-failed/
'Worth Risking the Lives of Americans?'
Kelly, Napolitano Clash over Torture Report
by Josh Feldman | 9:58 pm, December 8th, 2014 http://www.mediaite.com/tv/worth-risking-the-lives-of-americans-kelly-napolitano-clash-over-torture-report/
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The Senate Intelligence Committee is putting out a report tomorrow on the CIA usage of torture techniques under the Bush administration. There is some security concern over the report going public, which is why thousands of U.S. Marines all over the world have been put on alert and the CIA has bolstered security for people worried the report's release might make them a target.
And so tonight Fox News' Megyn Kelly asked the question: is it "worth risking the lives of these Americans?"
Judge Andrew Napolitano argues that yes, they should, because "the American people have a right to know what's been done in their name, especially when they're misled about it." He also said it's not the report that will endanger lives, it's what the report will reveal people did. Kelly said, "I'm sure that's gonna comfort the families of the dead analysts we're gonna see."
They went back and forth on the release of the report and committee chair Dianne Feinstein pushing for its release because she's upset the CIA snooped on her. Kelly said, "If she's ticked off that they spied on her, she needs to take it up with her therapist."See Video at: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/worth-risking-the-lives-of-americans-kelly-napolitano-clash-over-torture-report/
BREAKING: Woman Going Into Labor And EMS
Can't Get To Her Because Of #BerkeleyProtest
Tweet:(https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2261704000/Twitter-News-Logo-130x130_normal.jpg) ABC7 News ✔@abc7newsBayArea
JUST IN: Police got a report a woman is stuck in traffic, going into labor on W Frontage Rd near University Ave. I-80 closed due to #protest
10:45 PM - 8 Dec 2014 Palo Alto, CA, United States
(Clearly this is all Chris Christie's fault...)
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Unreal: Obama Says Police Shoot Black Men Because They Have A "Subconscious Fear Of Folks Who Look Different"
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(Obuma goes all-in with the race card... the Clown needs to keep his damn mouth shut and pay more attention to his golf game)
Via NYDN:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-discusses-racism-police-mistrust-progress-article-1.2038454
President Obama — in his first televised interview since a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict the New York cop who killed Eric Garner — said Monday that "bad training" and a "fear of folks who look different" in a small number of police departments across the U.S. have contributed to the ongoing mistrust between law enforcement and minority communities.
"The vast majority of law enforcement officers are doing a really tough job, and most of them are doing it well and are trying to do the right thing," Obama said during a one-on-one interview with BET Networks that aired Monday. "But a combination of bad training, in some cases, a combination in some cases of departments that really are not trying to root out biases, or tolerate sloppy police work; a combination in some cases of folks just not knowing any better, and in a lot of cases, subconscious fear of folks who look different — all of this contributes to a national problem that's going to require a national solution."
"This country is at its best when everybody is being treated fairly. We have a history and a legacy of people not being treated fairly in all kinds of walks of life," he said during the 30-minute special, titled "A Conversation with President Barack Obama." "It is particularly important for people to feel like they're being treated fairly by law enforcement and police, because the consequences when they're not treated fairly can be deadly."
The comments represent some of Obama's most explicit thoughts yet in the weeks and months since grand juries refused to return indictments in the deaths of Eric Garner, in Staten Island, and Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo. — both black males killed by white police officers.
Harvard Law Students Demand Exam Delay Because Of
"Pain" Felt From Ferguson And Garner Grand Juries
by William A. Jacobson Monday, December 8, 2014
(Sure, why not? The punks at Columbia Law already did it)
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Via Legal Insurrection:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/12/harvard-law-students-also-demand-exam-delay-due-to-ferguson-and-garner/
Columbia University Law School has granted exam extensions to students who feel under stress due to the failure of Grand Juries to indict in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Now students at my alma mater, Harvard Law School, are demanding similar treatment, as well as excoriating the HLS administration for not publicly feeling their pain.
The Coalition at Harvard Law School created a website for the exchange of letters: https://harvardlawcoalition.wordpress.com/
I have confirmed with the Harvard Law communications office that the letters are authentic.
The Letters:
December 7, 2014
Dear Dean Minow and the Harvard Law School Administration:
This campus and the nation erupted in outrage when grand juries failed to indict Officers Darren Wilson and Daniel Pantaleo for the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, respectively. These recent events highlight that intolerance in America continues to cost us countless lives at the hands of law enforcement. We have no faith in our justice system, which systematically oppresses black and brown people. We are afraid for our lives and for the lives of our families. We are in pain. And we are tired.
We have been visibly distressed and actively engaged throughout this public national crisis. The administration has remained silent.
We led rallies, held vigils, and published an oped. You were silent on this issue. We petitioned the government, served as legal observers, created spaces of solidarity, drafted model legislation, and marched through the streets of Boston and Cambridge. You remained silent on this issue. We spent countless hours leveraging our legal educations, and utilizing our platform and privilege as students of this institution. And all we have heard from the administration is deafening silence.
Your silence denies humanity to the lives lost and minimizes the gravity of the palpable anguish looming over campus. Like many across the country, we are traumatized. Just because this racial terror is systemically reproduced and normalized through repeated fidelity to the so called rule of law, it does not mean the disruption is any less traumatic than a tragic bombing. The fact that you refuse to openly acknowledge this adds to our distress. Your silence is a signal that Harvard Law School is indifferent to the welfare of many of its students.
We can't breathe.
* * *
Our choice to stand for justice rather than sit and prepare for exams is necessary in the context of a movement fighting for the lives that have been lost and continue to be at stake. This sacrifice is small. The words of Columbia Law School student leadership illustrate our sentiments: "In being asked to prepare for and take our exams in this moment, we are being asked to perform incredible acts of disassociation that have led us to question our place in this school community and the legal community at large." You cannot require that we forego joining the country in its demand for justice, and instead dedicate our energy in this moment to understanding and replicating "the same legal maneuvers and language on our exams . . . that w[ere] used to deny justice to so many Black and Brown bodies."
Harvard Law School has policies and procedures in place for students experiencing a personal emergency that interferes with an exam or immediate pre-exam preparation. This is more than a personal emergency. This is a national emergency.
* * *
We need your support, and therefore, we expect the following:
* * *
2. Grant Exam Extensions
Give students the opportunity to reschedule their exams in good faith and at their own discretion between the period of December 20th and January 15th.
Delaying exams is not without precedent. In 1970, Harvard Law School faculty voted to delay all exams in response to demands by students participating in antiwar protests.
* * *
Signed,
Harvard Law School Affinity Group Coalition:
Harvard Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Executive Board
Harvard Black Law Students Association
Harvard Middle Eastern Law Students Association
Harvard Muslim Law Students Association
Harvard Native American Law Students Association
La Alianza
Lambda
Supero
In support:
ACLU
Harvard Law School Chapter Advocates for Human Rights
Harvard Defenders
Harvard Environmental Law Society
Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice
Harvard Law School Feminist Coalition
Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine
Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice
Harvard Law Students for Sustainable Investment
Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project
Harvard Student Representative Board, Executive Officers
National Lawyers Guild
Students for Inclusion
The Harvard Asia Law Society
Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left Response from Dean Cosgrove
December 7, 2014
In the past several days I have spoken with many students who have been struggling with the emotions brought on by the recent Grand Jury verdicts in Ferguson and Staten Island. This is a challenging moment for many who care deeply about justice and fairness.
Given the timing of these events, we understand that many of you are struggling with the challenge of focusing on academic obligations.
Mindful that we are in the exam period, we want to offer support including the following:
We are working with the Harvard Chaplains and local ministers to provide a space for reflection and support at HLS during the exam period. Specific times and locations will be forthcoming.
On Tuesday, December 9th at noon in WCC3015, one of our Harvard Educational Specialists, Dorothy Bisbee, will lead a discussion on how best to concentrate on exams when you are experiencing strong emotions that interfere with your ability to focus.
For students who prefer confidential one-on-one support, we have a few options:
The University's Counseling and Mental Health Services https://huhs.harvard.edu/HealthServices/CounselingAndMentalHealthServices.aspx provides support for students 24/7 for issues including stress, crisis management, and grief.
The Harvard Chaplains http://chaplains.harvard.edu provide counseling and general support. They help all students regardless of whether you wish to connect along a religious/spiritual affiliation or not (they do not prostletyze)
I also encourage you to come to our office to meet with Lakshmi Clark-McClendon (lclark@law) or me to discuss ways we can support your specific needs during the exam period.
As we try to process and make sense of these tragic events, it may help to think of the special role that we as lawyers can play to shape our system—to strive always to make that system and our society better and more just. In an effort to begin the conversation, Dean Minow and Dean Post of Yale have expressed their views on the tragedies in Ferguson and Staten Island and on opportunities for legal reform in an op-ed piece forthcoming in the Boston Globe.
In the months ahead, there will be many opportunities at the Harvard Law School – and in the country at large – to examine our criminal justice system in light of the recent tragedies, to help gather and make sense of facts that will enhance understanding, and to think together about how to help bring about such change as we find necessary. This is what we do.
We will be in touch to share information about opportunities for discussion and work especially after the winter break. Please share your ideas with me (cosgrove@law or come to the Dean of Students Office).
Please take good care of yourselves and each other during this challenging time and remember that there are many people here at HLS to support you.
Ellen Cosgrove
Ellen M. Cosgrove, Associate Dean and Dean of Students, Harvard Law School
1585 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-1880 cosgrove@law.harvard.eduResponse From Warph
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"Were I Law Professor Warph and had set an exam date, I would stick to that date. The ONLY thing that would cause me to postpone an exam would be some huge national event like the twin towers attack, or a presidential assassination."
"You children didn't show for the final? Here's your failing grade,"F"... See you next semester. No judge will let you delay our case over something as idiotic like this, so get used to being handed defeat. Class adjorned!""And you Mr. Fart, come here! Here is a dime, call your mother and tell her there is serious doubt about you becoming a lawyer."
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Survey: Military Morale Plummets 35-Points Since Obuma Became Commander-In-Chief
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(What a Shocker. After 13 years of war, troops feel burned out and without a sense of mission. More doubt their leaders and their job security...)
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Via Military Times:http://www.militarytimes.com/longform/military/2014/12/07/americas-military-a-force-adrift/18596571/?sf34440316=1
A Military Times survey of 2,300 active-duty troops found morale indicators on the decline in nearly every aspect of military life. Troops report significantly lower overall job satisfaction, diminished respect for their superiors, and a declining interest in re-enlistment now compared to just five years ago.
Today's service members say they feel underpaid, under-equipped and under-appreciated, the survey data show. After 13 years of war, the all-volunteer military is entering an era fraught with uncertainty and a growing sense that the force has been left adrift.One trend to emerge from the annual Military Times survey is "that the mission mattered more to the military than to the civilian," said Peter Feaver, a political science professor at Duke University who studies the military. "For the civilian world, it might have been easier to psychologically move on and say, 'Well, we are cutting our losses.' But the military feels very differently. Those losses have names and faces attached to [them]."
Acording to the Military Times survey, active-duty troops reported a stunning drop in how they rated their overall quality of life: Just 56 percent call it good or excellent, down from 91 percent in 2009. The survey, conducted in July and August, found that 73 percent of troops would recommend a military career to others, down from 85 percent in 2009. And troops reported a significant decline in their desire to re-enlist, with 63 percent citing an intention to do so, compared with 72 percent a few years ago.
A. How would you rate your military pay and allowances?
2009 – 87% good or excellent
2014 – 44% good or excellentB. How would you rate military health care?
2009 – 78% good or excellent
2014 – 45% good or excellentC. Overall officers in the military are:
2009 – 78% good or excellent
2014 – 49% good or excellentD. People in the military are supplied with the best possible equipment:2009 – 47% agreed
2014 – 36% agreedE. The senior military leadership has my best interests at heart:
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Obama's Mental Illness Justifies His Removal from Office
Under the 25th Amendment
By Dave Hodges December 3, 2014
History has shown that most of the brutal dictators of the past have share two or three mental illnesses. These illnesses include Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) and Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). Given the direction of the country, it is legitimate to ask whether or not this President is indeed mentally ill. In my professional opinion, any combination of two of these mental illnesses would prevent a President from discharging his duties as prescribed by the Constitution of the United States.
*The Twenty-Fifth Amendment-Section Four*
"Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..."If the President could be shown to mentally ill, under the 25th Amendment he could be removed from office. With the publicly available information, and based upon my training and experience in mental health diagnostics, I have conducted a mental health status exam of this President.
*The Mental Illnesses of Dictators*
Before analyzing President Obama according to these criteria, based upon observed public behaviors, please allow me to make a few general observations with regard to three conditions. Narcissistic Personality Disorder
(NPD) sufferers believe that they are entitled to special privilege and that the rules of society apply to others but not to them. Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) individuals are people who are unusually suspicious in situations in which most people would not be concerned. They frequently change allies and lack stable relationships in their lives. Finally, Anti-Social Personality Disorder (ASPD) people are a combination of what we used to call a sociopath and a psychopath. These people are capable of doing great harm to another human being without feeling any empathy and remorse. This is the central element in the personality structure of a person who would commit genocide against their own people.
The remainder of this article explores if the current President is indeed mentally ill based upon the universally agreed upon diagnostic criteria as set forth by The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
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*Narcissistic Personality Disorder*
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In order for a person to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) they must meet five or more of the following symptoms: ■ Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
■Believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
■Requires excessive admiration
■Has a very strong sense of entitlement, e.g., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
■Is exploitative of others, e.g., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
■Lacks empathy, e.g., is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
■Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
■Regularly shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes Five out eight of these symptoms are sufficient cause to warrant a positive diagnosis. Obama is one of the most self-righteous people on the planet and we have numerous quotes which exemplify this point. [/b]
"We are five days away from fundamentally transforming America." Very few Americans had any idea what Obama meant by that quote. Six years into his presidency, it is clear that Obama meant to turn this country into an impoverished nation devoid of civil liberties. This is the ultimate expression of the communist legacy that he is trying to build.
This president does not tolerate normal criticism which comes with the territory of being a president. He has consistently sponsored legislation which inhibits the constitutionally guaranteed rights of legitimate protest with his support of the NDAA. This is the ultimate in haughtiness.
Obama exhibits extreme signs of feeling a sense of entitlement. His incessant misuse of the power of executive orders provides prima fascia evidence that "his will be done" and that he is above the law with regard to violating the constitutional rights of the American people.
Obama is an extremely exploitative person. However, in the grand scheme of politics, it is a needed survival skill to take advantage of people in one's climb to the top of the political world. Therefore, is Obama exploitative by nature, or, do the political realities of his position dictate the emergence of this trait as a survival skill? The jury is out on this one.
"You did not build that business." Remember that insulting and impersonal slap in the face of every small business owner in America? This statement is reflective of Obama's view that nobody is bigger than "my" government.
The President's statement in which he bragged he was really good at killing people by using drones speaks to his extreme level of insensitivity.
Of the eight traits associated with this disorder, I see seven of the eight with the eighth trait not being supported due to a lack of evidence.
President Obama clearly suffers from NPD. People with NPD can indeed function to some degree in society. However, they often make very ineffective leaders because they almost always put their needs ahead of the needs of the people they purport to serve.
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*Paranoid Personality Disorder*
To make a positive diagnosis for this disorder, I would have to possess intimate details about the life of Obama. Unfortunately, that information is not readily available.
Here are the traits of PPD. ■Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her
■Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates
■Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her
■Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events
■Persistently bears grudges (i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights)
■Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others, and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack
■Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner Certainly, Obama's known childhood experiences could be explored as a baseline of this part of the examination; what childhood experiences? Exactly! Who is his high school basketball coach? Do his teachers remember him? Who in the world is he? When you couple this hidden childhood with that of living with Frank Marshall Davis, undoubted scarred him and left him with feelings of extreme abandonment. This factor, alone, could prove to be the breeding ground for PPD.
As I have previously covered, I know that most of his first-degree relatives were involved in MK Ultra. Certainly the breeding ground for PPD is in place given his unstable background.
Since we lack highly detailed information about his personal life, it is difficult to affirmatively diagnose Obama with this disorder, except for one thing. Since becoming president, Obama has fired nearly 260 command level officers from the military. In contrast, President Bush fired two. This would be the expected actions of a highly paranoid individual in that he would dismantle the command structure of military in such a significant manner. Although I cannot point to the fact that Obama has a requisite number of traits which determines that he is suffering from PPD, I think it is highly likely.
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*Antisocial Personality Disorder*
Of all the mental illnesses we could examine with regard to a leader's propensity to commit extreme violence against his people, this would be the most concerning of all the mental illnesses. This disorder also happens to be where Obama has exhibited extreme pathological behavior with regard to this affliction.
The traits of ASPD are as follows: ■Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
■Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
■Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
■Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
■Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
■Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations
■Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt an individual. They may display a glib, superficial charm and can be quite voluble and verbally facile (e.g., using technical terms or jargon that might impress someone who is unfamiliar with the topic). Lack of empathy, inflated self-appraisal, and superficial charm are features that have been commonly included in traditional conceptions of psychopathy and may be particularly distinguishing of Antisocial Personality Disorder in prison or forensic settings where criminal, delinquent, or aggressive acts are likely to be nonspecific. These individuals may also be irresponsible and exploitative in their sexual relationships (see the work of Jerome Corsi in this regard). I wonder what Ambassador Stevens would say?
We know that this administration fired two senior command officers and prevented them from attempting to rescue Ambassador Stevens and his bodyguards, at Benghazi, while the attack was in progress. We also know that he and other senior level members of his administration watched by drone as the events unfolded and culminated in the deaths of Stevens and his team. As I have documented on this website, the evidence points to the fact that Stevens was the conduit which connected Obama to the arming of al-Qaeda in support of the Libyan and Syrian rebels.
Obama's use of drones to kill not only foreign nationals, but three American citizens, speaks to his depraved indifference to human life. The fact that he is continuing the war in Afghanistan, despite his campaign promises to the contrary, speaks to his absolutely reckless disregard for human life. People have been killed by drones as they attend weddings, babies die in their mother's arms, and children are maimed and killed by these machines and Obama brags that he is good at killing people with drones.
Obama has extreme superficial charm. After all, he twice fooled a nation of sheep with his manufactured demeanor. Obama is highly impulsive. His assistants do not know if he will attend an intelligence briefing or will he be on the golf course.
President Obama has never held a real job. He has served as a community agitator (err community activist), a state senator, a less than a one-term US Senator and then of course, a President. Where is his employment history? The bottom line is that this President has never held a regular job.
The President has engaged in repeated acts of lying and breaking the law as witnessed by the events at Benghazi, the NSA spy scandal, the IRS harassment scandal, Obama's spying on AP reporters, Fast and Furious gun running to the Mexican drug cartels, etc. This administration has been little more than one great big criminal enterprise.
President Obama's conduct in the handling of the Michael Brown crisis in Ferguson in which he clearly and intentionally exacerbated the crisis by dwelling on the "communities of color and their strained relationships with law enforcement". As true, or inaccurate as this statement was, it served to incite violence from those who were already upset. Presidential speeches are measured and weighted for their psychological effect on the public. Obama knew exactly what he was doing.
The sum total of Obama's actions demonstrate a willful disregard for the welfare of others. ASPD individuals frequently use aliases. Do you think that "Barry," the student attending Occidental College, would ever do such a thing?
Of the seven traits listed above, one would have to claim the presence of four of the seven traits in order to justify a diagnosis of ASPD. I see six of seven traits being exhibited by President Obama. His superficial charm, his lack of remorse for his heinous acts and his inability to learn from his mistakes, unquestionably cast him in the role of being an ASPD individual.
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Conclusion
Obama may or not be paranoid, although his treatment of the military would indicate that he is. Unquestionably, President Obama is suffering from NPD and ASPD. This is very concerning because a leader with NPD would not hesitate to put his needs ahead of the country that he is leading. This fact, combined with his definitive diagnosis, of an ASPD sufferer means that a person with the combination of these two traits would not hesitate to carry out acts of extreme violence against individuals and groups perceived as being a threat to the authority and position of President Obama.
We, indeed, have much to be concerned over and based upon the evidence, I would encourage the Cabinet to invoke Section Four of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment. This President is not capable of discharging his duties under the disabilities clause.
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Is It Time To Invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment?
In the aftermath of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the U.S. Congress seriously took up the issue of Presidential succession and the process by which a sitting President could be removed from office, on the basis of incapacity to serve, due to physical or mental illness.
The U.S. Constitution was vague on the precise issue of succession and incapacity, and on several prior occasions, it led to potential crisis. In 1841, when President William Henry Harrison died in office, his Vice President, John Tyler, assumed the Presidency, even though the Constitution only provided for the Vice President to be "Acting President." When President Woodrow Wilson had a mental breakdown (widely attributed to a stroke) 18 months before his term expired, the First Lady and key White House advisors ran the country, without ever officially acknowledging that the President was incapacitated.
In 1963, Senators Estes Kefauver and Kenneth Keating proposed a Constititutional amendment, to authorize the Congress to legislate Presidential succession and rules for removing a President from office for incapacity. That effort was blocked out of fear that Congress could abuse the power. However, on Jan. 1, 1965, Senator Birch Bayh and Representative Emanuel Cellar introduced a Constitutional amendment, spelling out the procedures for succession and for determination of a President's incapacity. The amendment passed both Houses of Congress on July 6, 1965, and was sent to the states for ratification. On February 10, 1967, the required 38 states ratified the amendment.
The relevant section, dealing with Presidential incapacity, read as follows:
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
On two occasions, there was serious consideration of invoking Section 4: On March 30, 1981, when President Ronald Reagan was shot by would-be assassin John Hinckley, there was brief consideration of invoking Section 4, and an ad hoc group of close Presidential advisors, at Reagan's bedside, following his surgery, concluded that he was mentally fit to remain in office. In 1987, when Donald Regan was replaced by Howard Baker as President Reagan's Chief of Staff, Baker was urged to make a determination whether Reagan was still mentally sharp enough to serve out his term. After an initial White House meeting between the President and the new staff, Baker concluded that President Reagan was perfectly capable of continuing as President.
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NYC Ferguson-Garner "Injustice League" Unveil Their List of Demands
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Martin Luther King:
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#NY Injustice Clowns Planning To Shut All Major Roads
In America Today At Rush Hour
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(Clowns goal is to repeat December 8th actions which shuttered I-80 in California near Oakland for nearly two hours...)
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Ferguson Protesters TIME's Person of The Year Runner-Up...
Libs Furious They Didn't Win It
(In related news, TIME has been declared [almost] racist...)
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More at: http://twitchy.com/2014/12/10/anger-at-time-for-not-choosing-ferguson-protesters-as-poty/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter
Iran Trolls America Over "Racist And Inhumane Treatment"
of Ferguson Protesters
This is how Iran deals with protesters:
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Via Iran's state-run media:The Iranian Foreign Ministry called on the US administration and judiciary officials to stop police brutality and racist and inhumane treatment of minorities and colored populations in the country.
"The US administration has continuously criticized other countries and made an instrumental use of human rights and adopted double-standard criteria in the last few decades, while it has ignored domestic situation at home," Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said on Sunday.
She stressed the necessity for the US administration to show respect for human rights and set aside its politically-tainted view on the issue.
"It is expected from the US administration and judiciary to comply with their duty and take lawful and just actions in dealing with their citizens and stop the practice of racism and inhumane behavior," Afkham said.
CAIR Tries To Tie Garner And Ferguson Deaths To
Palestinian Minister Who Died Protesting Israel
(Let's see if the lefty race-baiters CAIR has been courting back them up on this. I'm guessing no...)
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British Moonbats Hold "I Can't Breathe" Die-In Inside London
Mall Over Death Of Eric Garner In New York
(I believe we have a new global fad... I think I'll get a "I Can't Breathe" T-shirt for when I have my upper GI endoscopy at the end of this month)
Via HuffPo:Hundreds of demonstrators staged a die-in inside the Westfield Mall, West London, on Wednesday, despite being banned from the building. Protesters had been warned they would not be allowed on the premises, but many moved into the shopping centre ahead of the protest, awaiting the signal for the demonstration to start.
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According to Channel 4 News, the protest was organised by campaign group London Black Revs, who staged a similar protest earlier this month outside the US Embassy in London over the grand jury decision not to indict a police officer for the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Wednesday's event was held in solidarity with US protesters, who in recent weeks have marched to condemn the death of Eric Garner by New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo, an incident that has sparked a wave of discontent across the US mainland.
The protesters, many armed with placards, chanted "no justice, no peace" and "we can't breathe" during the die-in, a nod to the final words uttered by the prostrate Garner. The protesters then played dead, mimicking the demonstrations held across New York in recent days.Speaking to The Guardian, 21-year-old Wail Qasim, a student taking part in the protest, said: "People were obviously very angry about the situation in the US, because it's reached a critical point. But it's also a problem here in the UK – it's an international problem which needs to be addressed."
Chester, SC Father Calls For Firing Of Black Police Chief
After Guns Pulled On His Black Sons In A Black Gang Activity Neighborhood
(Police erred on the side of caution in an area noted for gang activity when the teens failed to stop after lights and siren were activated...)
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUc8_Z5ym0g
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The father of black scholar-athlete twins is calling for the firing of Chester Police Chief Andre Williams after the chief pulled over his sons, and officers drew guns on and handcuffed the teens during a traffic stop on known gang turf.
It's the first skirmish in Chester County's police war on gangs that has boiled over since the Nov. 4 drive-by shooting death of City Councilman Odell Williams. Five alleged gang members were charged in connection with the shooting.
The incident comes amid national protests and concerns about how police deal with black men.
And on Monday night, more than 100 people crowded into Chester City Hall, where Carlos Williams, father of the twins, spoke to the Chester City Council about what happened and his concerns with Chief Williams' leadership of the police department.
What is clear is that Chief Williams, who is black, pulled over Cardan Williams, 16, who was driving with his brother Caymen, 16, at about 8:20 p.m. Nov. 21. Andre Williams is not related to the Williams twins or to Odell Williams, and the Williams twins are not related to Odell Williams.
What is in dispute is the manners Chief Williams and other officers used during the stop in a Chester neighborhood known to police as "E-block" gang territory.
The Rev. Ina Harris, the pastor at Chestnut Grove AME Zion Church, where Carlos Williams and his sons attend, told the council that the police and city owe the teens an apology because they were "judged by the color of their skin."
Carlos Williams, 39, is a Marine Corps veteran who grew up in the neighborhood where the traffic stop happened. He said his sons did not have an opportunity to pull over after realizing the police's blue lights were for them and not for another traffic stop that was going on nearby. After they did pull over, he said they were shocked to see that officers had drawn their weapons. He estimated the distance the boys drove after seeing the blue lights as 250 feet.
Canon City, Colorado Suspect Accused Of Stabbing Officer
Showed Interest In Terrorism
(Another smokey doped Colorado convert since marijuana was legalized...)
Via KKTVhttp://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/Officer-Involved-Shooting-in-Canon-City--284991291.html
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A man accused of stabbing a police officer after robbing a gun supply store recently became interested the Islamic terrorist movement, authorities have revealed.
"For the last couple of months he has been working out a lot and he has been visiting Islamic websites and other types of websites described to us as Jihadist in nature," Canon City Police Chief Paul Schultz said. The suspect's family said he had been making "Islamic-type statements," Schultz added.
Saturday afternoon, investigators say suspect Hudson Taylor Clark, 32, tried to steal a handgun from Victory Defense on the 2800 block of E. Main St. He ended up running off with other merchandise. When Cpl. Sanders tried to stop him a few blocks away, Clark allegedly attacked him with an 8-inch knife.
"Without saying anything, he stabbed Cpl. Sanders under the left arm...then continued to encroach upon him. Sanders told him to stop; he did not stop, he continued to encroach upon Sanders with the knife," Schultz said.
Sanders then shot Clark five times. Clark fell to the ground, but never lost consciousness."He continued make comments...next to him was the Quran, which fell out onto the ground, and during the first aid situation he did ask for the Quran," Schultz said.
11 News found the suspect's YouTube channel where he posted just a two-minute-long video of himself one week ago. In the video, Clark declares that Allah is his God and he practices Islam. At the end of the video, he says Allah told him that he [Clark] is Jesus.
On a cached Twitter page, there's more evidence of what appears to be the suspect's interest in Islam and links to a blog that's been removed.
11 News contacted anti-terrorism expert Joe Ruffini to inquire about Clark's case, Ruffini says that Clark and others like him are an easy target for recruiters, as they're loners with few connections. Authorities have described Clark as not having any friends or a job, and say he had also been showing a great deal of angst following a recent breakup.
"Allegedly this gentleman, Clark, his mother reported him as being a little bit mentally disturbed. [Those that sometimes turn to terrorism] are searching for something, they're reaching out, and occasionally some of these folks will turn to the bad side," Ruffini said.
Wanted Al Qaeda Terrorist Crossed Back And Forth Into
United States From Mexico... Now Dead As A Doornail
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Via Judicial Watch:http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/12/al-qaeda-terrorist-wanted-fbi-crossed-back-forth-u-s-mexico/
An Al Qaeda terrorist on the FBI's most wanted list for years crossed back and forth into the United States from Mexico to meet fellow militant Islamists in Texas and piloted an aircraft into the Cielo Dorado airfield in Anthony, New Mexico, law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch.
The same Al Qaeda operative helped plan the 2009 bombing of talk-show superstar Oprah Winfrey's Chicago studios and the iconic Sears Tower (renamed Willis Tower), a story that Judicial Watch broke just last week. His name is Adnan G. El Shukrijumah (also known as "Javier Robles") and over the weekend he was killed in Pakistan, according to military officials in the Islamic republic.
In 2010 Shukrijumah was indicted in the Eastern District of New York for his role in a terrorist plot to attack targets in the United States—including New York City's subway system—and the United Kingdom, according the FBI. The plot against New York City's subway system was directed by senior Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan, the FBI says, and was also directly related to a scheme by Al Qaeda plotters in Pakistan to use Western operatives to attack a target in the United States.
Oprah Targeted in Foiled Terror Bomb Plot
DECEMBER 01, 2014
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The Chicago studios of talk-show superstar Oprah Winfrey and the iconic "Sears Tower" (renamed Willis Tower) were the targets of a terrorist truck-bomb plot in 2009. But initially unbeknownst to federal authorities, two of the conspirators recently were arrested for unrelated state crimes in different parts of the country. The alleged bombers targeted Ms. Winfrey's Harpo Studios because they resented her popularity and power, while the tower was selected because of its obvious landmark status. The bomb plot itself, planned in 2009, was inspired by militant Islamist hatred of American military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to law enforcement and other sources interviewed by Judicial Watch.
Sources requested anonymity for fear of reprisal by terrorist bomb-plotter associates, as well as retaliation from embarrassed federal law enforcement agents who apparently mismanaged the subsequent counterterrorism case.
The alleged bomb plotters were based in El Paso, Texas and included two longtime friends and associates currently jailed for recent state crimes. They are:•Emad Karakrah, currently held in Cook County, Illinois Jail on charges of making a false car bomb threat after leading police on a high-speed chase through Chicago with an ISIS flag waving from his car on August 28, 2014. Karakrah's last appearance in Cook County criminal court was on December 3, 2014 before Judge Evelyn Clay. The prosecutor said she was waiting on a report to tender discovery and the case got continued to January 7, 2015. In a previous court hearing in mid-November the prosecutor disclosed that she was "looking for an FBI report." It is not clear why Karakrah is not in federal custody pending terrorism charges.
•Hector Pedroza Huerta is an illegal alien currently held in the El Paso County Jail. On August 13, Huerta was arrested in El Paso for driving intoxicated, a crime he has been twice convicted of (in 2009 and 2011). The feds quickly took over, charging him for the third time in five years with "reentry of a deported alien," court records show. A federal magistrate judge granted the government's order to hold Huerta without bond on August 19 and a few weeks later Huerta pleaded not guilty to the immigration charges, according to court records obtained by JW. But on October 7 Huerta was granted a "rearraignment" that ended up getting reset to October 9. At that "rearraignment" the illegal alien changed his plea to guilty, court records show. He is scheduled for sentencing on December 16 at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 422 at the U.S. District Courthouse in El Paso. Like his friend, Karakrah, it is unclear why Huerta is not facing federal conspiracy charges associated with the Chicago bomb plot. U.S. District Court Judge Frank Montalvo, handling Huerta's sentencing, had previously presided over one of Huerta's prior immigration cases (in 2009);
Judicial Watch sources detail that the other conspirators in the 2009 Chicago truck bomb plot are:
•"Omar," a male in his late-50s to early-60s, of Arabic ethnicity, who drove a taxi and had an ownership interest in a used car dealership and a gas station in suburban El Paso;
•Two of the FBI's "most wanted" terrorists: Jaber A. Elbaneh and Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah (a/k/a: "Javier Robles"); and,
•Other, unidentified conspirators.
The plot called for the use of a U-Haul-style trailer, as well as a delivery-style "step van," that was purchased at auction in El Paso, Texas. Sources say the bombs were constructed with the plastic explosive C-4 and Tannerite, a binary explosive of ammonium nitrate and aluminum designed for detonation by means of a high-velocity firearms cartridge. Officials believe the C-4 explosives were obtained from Fort Bliss, the sprawling US Army base in El Paso, and the Tannerite was brought into the United States from Mexico.Federal law enforcement officials and Illinois police reportedly interdicted the bombers before they arrived in Chicago, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation. It is not clear if federal law enforcement officials were entirely successful in exploiting intelligence opportunities presented by the foiled bomb plot.
Subsequently, two foiled bomb plots in Chicago were orchestrated by undercover FBI agents posing as terrorist co-conspirators: The 2010 Wrigley Field backpack bombing attempted by Sami Samir Hassoun; and a 2012 Jeep-bomb attempt by Adel Daoud.
On Wednesday, November 5, 2014, a 27-year-old Florida man, Sami Osmakac, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison after being convicted of taking part in a foiled bomb plot that targeted a popular Tampa bar and a hotel-casino. During Osmakac's trial, federal prosecutors presented evidence that in 2012 Osmakac, a U.S. citizen born in Kosovo, arranged to buy weapons such as a car bomb, machine gun and grenades to target crowded locations in Tampa.
While the FBI elected to publicize and take credit for the two, foiled Chicago and Tampa bomb plots, the Bureau has never released information on the 2009 targeting of Oprah, or explained why it has allowed conspirators to languish in county jails on lesser charges.
Judicial Watch contacted the FBI and Department of Justice several times seeking comment on the alleged 2009 bomb plot targeting Ms. Winfrey, her studios and the Willis Tower – as well as the prosecutions of Mr. Karakrah and Mr. Pedroza-Huerta. The FBI and Department of Justice failed to return our calls for comment.
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Some people say "If you can't beat them, join them." I say "If you can't beat them, beat them", because they will be expecting you to join them, so you will have the element of surprise.
The only reason that Ronald Reagan signed the first amnesty bill back in 1986 wasn't really because the Democratic Congress promised to build a fence at the border. After all, he'd been around when the Democrats reneged on the promise made to Nixon that if he agreed to pull the troops out of Vietnam, they would continue to arm and fund the South Vietnamese. He did, and naturally they didn't.
The real reason Reagan signed the amnesty bill is because American business always wants the cheapest labor it can get its hands on. In the short term, it probably looks like a good deal all around. After all, the price of labor is always passed along to the consumer. However, in the long run it's a bad deal because most of those people are low wage earners, and the American citizen is eventually going to be stuck with the tab for their housing, health care, food stamps, schooling and, far too often, incarceration. In the end, we're all a lot better off paying an extra few cents for a head of lettuce or a few extra bucks for a meal.
But as bad as low-cost labor has been for America, I dare say it's even worse in Europe, where the interlopers tend to be Muslims, a group of people notorious for their refusal to acclimate, to accept the laws, let alone the culture and traditions of the nations they contaminate. They are the reason that virtually every capital city on the Continent has been turned into a pig sty. In London, rarely a week goes by when the Muslims aren't demonstrating in the streets, displaying their contempt for their host nation and everything she has come to represent, including freedom, the arts and religious tolerance.
America, which used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave, has morphed into a place where political correctness has turned most people into whimpering cowards. In spite of the First Amendment, most TV pundits were afraid to even mention that Trayvon Martin was a drug-dealing six-footer or that 300-pound Michael Brown was a thief and a bully who just happened to be high on marijuana when he confronted Officer Darren Wilson.
These days, we aren't even supposed to hold the mothers and occasional fathers of criminals even partially responsible for the end result. On the contrary, we're expected to treat the parents of teenage thugs with the same respect and deference that we bestow on the parents of military warriors who forfeit their lives for their country.
But, then, for the past 13 years, we have had two presidents, Dumb and Dumber, insisting that Islam is a religion of peace. As hard as it was to swallow that swill from George W. Bush, it has gotten far worse under his successor. It was Obama, after all, who not only announced with a straight face that Muslims played a major role in the creation of the United States, but that they were an essential part of our space exploration program. I suppose that last point has some merit. After all, if I were a NASA scientist, I'd have a real incentive to break the bounds of gravity, knowing that I and millions of others hoped and prayed that other planets could support human life. The reason being that it would provide an opportunity to leave the one that's home to 1.2 billion Muslims.
In the meantime, Barack Obama tries in vain to defuse public anger over his despotic decision to legislate from the Oval Office. His latest attempt took place in Chicago, where he announced yet again that our immigration policy has to be overhauled. The difference was that this time he said it wasn't merely to accommodate multi-millions of illegal Hispanics, but because there are plenty of people from Poland and Ireland who are in this country illegally.
I used to gag every time Obama opened his mouth. Lately, though, I've been doing a lot more head scratching. Poland and Ireland are the basis of the problem? Was it possible that the sly puss was trying to woo members of those two major ethnic groups? Instead of demanding that the President abide by his constitutional limitations, were Irish and Polish Americans supposed to say to themselves, "Hey, if the son of a gun can prevent five million Latinos from being deported, maybe he'll keep my uncle from being sent back to (Warsaw) (Dublin) after he gets out of jail"?
Finally, I don't know what you call it when Barack Obama pardons a Thanksgiving turkey, but I call it professional courtesy.
....Burt
Yellowstone Supervolcano Alert: The Most Dangerous Volcano In America Is Roaring To Life
By Michael Snyder
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Right now, the ground underneath Yellowstone National Park is rising at a record rate. In fact, it is rising at the rate of about three inches per year. The reason why this is such a concern is because underneath the park sits the Yellowstone supervolcano – the largest volcano in North America. Scientists tell us that it is inevitable that it will erupt again one day, and when it does the devastation will be almost unimaginable. A full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would dump a 10 foot deep layer of volcanic ash up to 1,000 miles away, and it would render much of the United States uninhabitable. When most Americans think of Yellowstone, they tend to conjure up images of Yogi Bear and "Old Faithful", but the truth is that sleeping underneath Yellowstone is a volcanic beast that could destroy our nation in a single day and now that beast is starting to wake up.
The Yellowstone supervolcano is so vast that it is hard to put it into words. According to the Daily Mail, the magma "hotspot" underneath Yellowstone is approximately 300 miles wide...
The Yellowstone Caldera is one of nature's most awesome creations and sits atop North America's largest volcanic field.
Its name means 'cooking pot' or 'cauldron' and it is formed when land collapses following a volcanic explosion.
In Yellowstone, some 400 miles beneath the Earth's surface is a magma 'hotspot' which rises to 30 miles underground before spreading out over an area of 300 miles across.
Atop this, but still beneath the surface, sits the slumbering volcano.When most Americans think of volcanic eruptions in the United States, they remember the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens back in 1980. But that eruption would not even be worth comparing to a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano.
And now the area around Yellowstone is becoming increasingly seismically active. In fact, Professor Bob Smith says that he has never seen anything like this in the 53 years that he has been watching Yellowstone...
Until recently, Bob Smith had never witnessed two simultaneous earthquake swarms in his 53 years of monitoring seismic activity in and around the Yellowstone Caldera.
Now, Smith, a University of Utah geophysics professor, has seen three swarms at once.
In September, 130 earthquakes hit Yellowstone over the course of a single week. This has got many Yellowstone observers extremely concerned...
Yellowstone's recent earthquake swarms started on Sept. 10 and were shaking until about 11:30 a.m. Sept. 16.
"A total of 130 earthquakes of magnitude 0.6 to 3.6 have occurred in these three areas, however, most have occurred in the Lower Geyser Basin," a University of Utah statement said. "Notably much of seismicity in Yellowstone occurs as swarms."
So what is the worst case scenario?
Well, according to the Daily Mail, a full-blown eruption of Yellowstone could leave two-thirds of the United States completely uninhabitable...
It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980.
Spewing lava far into the sky, a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a layer 10ft deep up to 1,000 miles away.
Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable as toxic air sweeps through it, grounding thousands of flights and forcing millions to leave their homes.
Can you think of another potential disaster that could accomplish the same thing?
That is why what is going on at Yellowstone right now is so important, and the American people deserve the truth. The following are some more facts about Yellowstone that I compiled that I included in a previous article...
#1 A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone could be up to 1,000 time more powerful than the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.
#2 A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone would spew volcanic ash 25 miles up into the air.
#3 The next eruption of Yellowstone seems to be getting closer with each passing year. Since 2004, some areas of Yellowstone National Park have risen by as much as 10 inches.
#4 There are approximately 3,000 earthquakes in the Yellowstone area every single year.
#5 In the event of a full-scale eruption of Yellowstone, virtually the entire northwest United States will be completely destroyed.
#6 A massive eruption of Yellowstone would mean that just about everything within a 100 mile radius of Yellowstone would be immediately killed.
#7 A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone could also potentially dump a layer of volcanic ash that is at least 10 feet deep up to 1,000 miles away.
#8 A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone would cover virtually the entire midwest United States with volcanic ash. Food production in America would be almost totally wiped out.
#9 The "volcanic winter" that a massive Yellowstone eruption would cause would radically cool the planet. Some scientists believe that global temperatures would decline by up to 20 degrees.
#10 America would never be the same again after a massive Yellowstone eruption. Some scientists believe that a full eruption by Yellowstone would render two-thirds of the United States completely uninhabitable.
#11 Scientists tell us that it is not a matter of "if" Yellowstone will erupt but rather "when" the next inevitable eruption will take place.
What makes all of this even more alarming is that a number of other very prominent volcanoes around the world are starting to roar back to life right now as well.
For example, an Inquisitr article from back in July described how "the most dangerous volcano in Mexico" is starting to become extremely active...
Popocatepetl Volcano is at it again. The active volcano near Mexico City erupted again this morning, spewing ash up into the sky.
The volcano is currently in the middle of an extremely active phase. According to the International Business Times, the volcano has registered 39 exhalations in the last 24 hours.
An eruption earlier this month caused several flights to be canceled in and out of Mexico City.
The BBC notes that officials raised the alert level yellow following Popocateptl's eruption on Saturday morning. Yellow is the third-highest caution level on the city's seven step scale.
And an NBC News article from August noted that one of the most dangerous volcanoes in Japan has erupted 500 times so far this year...
Ash wafted as high as 3 miles above the Sakurajima volcano in the southern city of Kagoshima on Sunday afternoon, forming its highest plume since the Japan Meteorological Agency started keeping records in 2006. Lava flowed just over half a mile from the fissure, and several huge volcanic rocks rolled down the mountainside.
Though the eruption was more massive than usual, residents of the city of about 600,000 are used to hearing from their 3,664-foot neighbor. Kagoshima officials said in a statement that this was Sakurajima's 500th eruption this year alone.
So what does all of this mean?
Are we now entering a time when volcanic eruptions will become much more common all over the globe?
Could we rapidly be approaching the day when an absolutely devastating volcanic eruption will paralyze much of North America?
Isn't it time to stop invocations and return to simple prayer?
Yes, I'm biased for prayer only.
Next they will be wanting invoke the devil himself.
The video won't post but here is the link:
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Some of the elected city = officials had the gut's to walk out.
Horrific Torture Report Shows Why Much Of The World Considers America To Be The Nazis Of The 21st Century
(IF THIS REPORT IS TRUE AND THIS REALLY HAPPENED!)
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By Michael Snyder, on December 9th, 2014
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Good guys do not sadistically torture people. Good guys do not threaten to sexually abuse the family members of their prisoners, and they certainly do not forcibly ram things up the rear ends of those in their custody. One of the greatest dangers that our country is facing is the fact that we are not passing on what it means to be "American" to future generations. Once upon a time, Americans were the good guys. But now, instead of fighting the Nazis we are behaving just like them. The details of the Senate torture report that was just released are almost too horrifying to talk about. We must talk about them though, because we are losing our soul as a nation. So please be warned – this article is going to be quite graphic. The reason for this is so that we can all take a long, hard, honest look at what we have become. After everything that has happened, top politicians from both political parties are still standing up and defending those that conducted and authorized this torture. The rest of the world is watching this, and the number of people that are absolutely convinced that America is pure evil is growing by the day. By not loudly condemning this torture and bringing the perpetrators to justice, we add fuel to the fire of those that hate this country, and we make it more likely that Americans will be targets of violence all over the planet.
There are very few people that are more outspoken about the evil of Islamic terrorism than I am. But there is no way that we will ever defeat Islamic terrorists by becoming just like them.
When I was growing up, I was taught that Americans never torture their prisoners. That was something that the Russians, the Nazis, the Chinese and the North Koreans did. We were the "good guys", and so I was taught that we always treated our prisoners humanely.
Oh how things have changed.
The following is a summary of some of the details from the Senate torture report that just came out. As a nation, we should be deeply, deeply ashamed of what our government has been doing...
-We kept prisoners awake in "stress positions" for 180 hours
-We waterboarded prisoners until they started vomiting
-One prisoner died of hypothermia while chained to the floor
-At least five prisoners were subjected to a procedure known as "rectal feeding"
-Prisoners were routinely paraded around naked with their hands shackled above their heads
-One detainee was "chained to the ceiling, clothed in a diaper, and forced to go to the bathroom on himself"
-Prisoners were regularly subjected to mock executions during which they believed that they were about to be killed
-U.S. interrogators regularly threatened to physically harm, rape and sexually abuse the families of prisoners
And of course this report only focused on a small portion of the prisoner abuse that has been going on all over the world for more than a decade.
Once again, I want to warn you that the material in this next section is quite graphic.
But Americans need to be faced with the horrific truth. That is the only way that things will ever change.
The sadistic behavior of American personnel at the Abu Ghraib Confinement Facility in 2003 is almost too horrible for words. The following are highlights from an official U.S. Army report about the events that took place at that prison that you can find at nbcnews.com.
Are these the kinds of things that "good guys" would do?...
*Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet
*Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing
*Forcing naked male detainees to wear women's underwear
*Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped
*Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them
*Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture
*Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee's neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture
*A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee
*Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee
*Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees
*Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick
Have you seen enough yet?
But perhaps even more disturbing is the way that the rest of the country is responding to these revelations.
Where is the overwhelming public outrage?
Where are the calls for those involved in all of this torture to be fired from their jobs and arrested?
It has now been documented that the CIA blatantly lied to Congress and to the American people over and over about their sadistic torture of prisoners.
So who is being held accountable?
Who is losing their jobs at the CIA?
Who is going to prison?
Sadly, the truth is that this torture report will be "news" for about 48 hours and then it will disappear from the news cycle.
And Barack Obama sounds like he has absolutely no intention of ever holding anyone accountable for what happened. The following is an excerpt from a statement that he just made regarding this terror report...
"No nation is perfect. But one of the strengths that makes America exceptional is our willingness to openly confront our past, face our imperfections, make changes and do better. Rather than another reason to refight old arguments, I hope that today's report can help us leave these techniques where they belong—in the past. Today is also a reminder that upholding the values we profess doesn't make us weaker, it makes us stronger and that the United States of America will remain the greatest force for freedom and human dignity that the world has ever known."
The "greatest force for freedom and human dignity"?
He has got to be kidding us.
And of course people such as Dick Cheney are staunchly defending the use of torture...
Former Bush vice president Dick Cheney staunchly defended the interrogation program, telling the New York Times it was 'absolutely, totally justified'.
He denied the CIA withheld any information, and emphasized the program had been vetted by the Justice Department.
'As far as I'm concerned, they ought to be decorated, not criticized,' he said of the CIA interrogators.
When our politicians make statements such as this, they make the world a more dangerous place for Americans.
Right now, there are hundreds of millions of people around the planet that truly believe that the United States is the most wicked nation on the globe. And when we sadistically torture our prisoners, we give them a reason to feel that way. Therefore they feel justified when they commit heinous acts of terror against us.
If we do not want the rest of the world to compare us to Nazi Germany, we have got to quit behaving like Nazi Germany. And of course the torture of prisoners is just one area where this is true. For many more, please see my previous article entitled "25 Signs That America Is Rapidly Becoming More Like Nazi Germany".
Please share this article with as many people as you can. I know that some of the material in this piece is quite graphic, but we have got to wake the American people up while we still have time. Our nation is coming apart at the seams, and we desperately need a change in direction.Comments, please. What do you think about this?
25 Signs That America Is Rapidly Becoming More Like Nazi Germany
Monday, November 24, 2014 12:13
By Michael Snyder, on February 15th, 2012
The United States of America is becoming more like Nazi Germany every single day. In fact, the Nazification of America is almost complete. The parallels between Nazi Germany and the United States of today are going to absolutely shock many of you. Most Americans simply have never learned what life was really like back in Nazi Germany. Under Adolf Hitler, Germany was a Big Brother totalitarian police state that ruthlessly repressed freedom and individual liberty. Under Adolf Hitler, Germany adopted socialism, dramatically increased government spending and raised taxes to astronomical levels. Under Adolf Hitler, abortion became legal in Germany, the government took over health care and Christianity was pushed out of the public schools and out of public life. To prove all of these points, I am going to use extensive quotes from two sources. Kitty Werthmann was a child living a peaceful life in Austria when Hitler took over her nation. Her eyewitness accounts about what life was like under Nazi Germany are invaluable. In addition, I will also be quoting extensively from author Bruce Walker. He is the author of a book entitled "The Swastika Against The Cross: The Nazi War On Christianity", and during his years of research he has uncovered some absolutely jaw dropping stuff. After reading the information in the rest of this article, there should be no doubt that the United States is becoming just like Nazi Germany.
Nazi Germany shows us what happens when the state becomes god. Adolf Hitler was certainly more racist than the leaders of America are today, but other than that there are very few differences between the road that Adolf Hitler led Germany down and the path that the United States is being led down.
The following are
25 signs that America is rapidly becoming more like Nazi Germany....
#1 Nazi Germany was a totalitarian Big Brother police state that constantly monitored everything that German citizens did.Today, the bureaucrats that run things in the United States are also absolutely obsessed with constantly trying to monitor us. For example, there are now control freaks that inspect the lunches of preschool students in certain areas of the country in order to make sure that they contain the "right" foods....
A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because the school told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.
The girl's turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the person who was inspecting all lunch boxes in the More at Four classroom that day.
The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs – including in-home day care centers – to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.
#2 Nazi officials often used their positions of power to force others to do dehumanizing things.This is exactly what the TSA is doing today. It would be really easy to imagine some Nazi military officers forcing a young woman to walk back and forth in front of them several times so that they could admire her form. Well, that is what TSA agents are doing to American women today. The following comes from a recent Wired article....
TSA agents in Dallas singled out female passengers to undergo screening in a body scanner, according to complaints filed by several women who said they felt the screeners intentionally targeted them to view their bodies.
One woman who flew out of Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport several months ago said a female agent sent her through a body scanner three times after the agent commented on her "cute" body.
#3 In Nazi Germany, even women and children were treated like dehumanized cattle.Well, today schoolchildren are being strip-searched all over the United States. Down in Georgia, one student was recently strip-searched by public school officials after another student falsely accused him of having marijuana.
Another student down in Albuquerque was recently forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket. The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.
#4 In Nazi Germany, authorities could stop you and search you at any time and for any reason.In America that is not supposed to happen, but it is happening. Last year, TSA "VIPR teams" conducted approximately 8,000 "unannounced security screenings" at subway stations, bus terminals, seaports and highway rest stops.
If you are not able to produce "your papers", there is a good chance that you will get thrown into prison in America. For example, a 21-year-old college student named Samantha Zucker was recently arrested and put in a New York City jail for 36 hours just because she could not produce any identification for police.
#5 Under Adolf Hitler, there were massive increases in government spending.According to eyewitness Kitty Werthmann, just about everyone was getting some sort of a handout from the German government....
Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.
Of course, as I have written about so many times before, this is the exact same thing that we are seeing in the United States today.
#6 Under Hitler, taxes were raised dramatically in order to pay for all of these social programs.Kitty Werthmann says that "our tax rates went up to 80% of our income."
In the United States our tax rates have not gotten that bad yet, but when you total up all federal taxes, all state taxes, all local taxes, all property taxes and all sales taxes, there are a significant number of Americans that do pay more than 50% of their incomes in taxes.
#7 The economy of Nazi Germany was very highly socialized. As Ludwig Von Mises once correctly observed, the German economy under Hitler was not capitalist at all....
What Mises identified was that private ownership of the means of production existed in name only under the Nazis and that the actual substance of ownership of the means of production resided in the German government. For it was the German government and not the nominal private owners that exercised all of the substantive powers of ownership: it, not the nominal private owners, decided what was to be produced, in what quantity, by what methods, and to whom it was to be distributed, as well as what prices would be charged and what wages would be paid, and what dividends or other income the nominal private owners would be permitted to receive. The position of the alleged private owners, Mises showed, was reduced essentially to that of government pensioners.
The United States has not gotten to the level of Nazi Germany yet, but we do have a socialist president and back in 2009 the cover of Newsweek boldly proclaimed that "We Are All Socialists Now".
#8 In Nazi Germany, if you conducted business outside of the socialist paradigm you were heavily punished.Well, the same thing is happening in the United States today. For example, the FDA has been running elaborate entrapment schemes that are designed to entrap producers of raw milk. Any "unauthorized commerce" is dealt with very strictly by the U.S. government these days.
#9 In Nazi Germany, government regulation of business got wildly out of control.The following is eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann....
My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business.
If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.
We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.
Of course we all know about all of the ridiculous regulations that the U.S. government is burdening businesses with today. In every day and age control freaks love to stick it to business people that are just trying to make a living.
#10 Under Hitler, free market capitalism was absolutely hated. National Socialist theologian Gregor Strasser once stated the following....
We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak ... and we are resolved under all circumstances to destroy this system.
And as I have written about previously, a lot of Barack Obama's strongest supporters are socialists and communists, and an increasing number of Americans are showing disdain for capitalism. In fact, some recent polls show that young adults in America actually have a more favorable view of socialism than they do of capitalism.
#11 In Nazi Germany, the health care system was taken over by the government.The following is more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann....
Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
Of course we all know what is going on in America today. The government spends nearly half of all health care dollars and Obamacare is going to mean more government control over the health care system than ever before.
#12 Under Adolf Hitler, abortion was made "safe and legal" in Germany.It turns out that Hitler was a huge fan of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger. And as I wrote about recently, it was Sanger that once said the following....
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
Hitler echoed this sentiment when he wrote the following in Mein Kampf....
"The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring. . . represents the most humane act of mankind."
After the Nazis came to power in 1933, abortion was very quickly legalized. By 1935 there were approximately 500,000 abortions being performed in Germany every single year.
Yes, Hitler very much encouraged Aryan women to have as many children as possible. But he also very much viewed abortion as a way to reduce "undesirable" populations.
Unfortunately, something very similar is happening today. Abortion clinics are often located in the "poor" part of town, and a staggering 72 percent of Planned Parenthood's "customers" have incomes that are either equal to or beneath 150 percent of the federal poverty level.
#13 In Nazi Germany, killing the "defective", the "weak" and the "disabled" was considered to be a good thing because it made the German people "stronger".Unfortunately, many in America today have fully embraced the eugenics principles which were so dominant in Nazi Germany.
A 3 year old girl named Amelia was recently denied a kidney transplant because she is considered to be "mentally retarded", and we all remember what happened to Terri Schiavo.
Not only that, the editorial page editor of the Detroit News recently proposed putting contraceptives into the drinking water in Michigan because the state has become a "breeding ground for poverty".
This kind of sick thinking is rapidly spreading in America, and that is a very frightening thing.
#14 In Nazi Germany, education was nationalized and God was kicked out of the schools.The following is more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann....
Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles, and had physical education.
Unfortunately, the exact same thing is happening to U.S. public schools.
#15 Under Adolf Hitler, God was mocked and religion was pushed out of every corner of public life.Just check out the following information uncovered by author Bruce Walker....
The Nazi tract Gott und Volk was distributed in 1941, and it describes the life cycle of German youth in the future, who would: "With parties and gifts the youth will be led painlessly from one faith to the other and will grow up without ever having heard of the Sermon on the Mount or the Golden Rule, to say nothing of the Ten Commandments... The education of the youth is to be confined primarily by the teacher, the officer, and the leaders of the party. The priests will die out. They have estranged the youth from the Volk. Into their places will step the leaders. Not deputies of God. But anyway the best Germans. And how shall we train our children? Thus, as though they had never heard of Christianity!"
Once again, this parallels what we are seeing happen in America today. Last year, a high school student in Southern California was suspended for two days because he had private conversations with his classmates during which he discussed Christianity. He was also banned from bringing his Bible to school ever again.
For many more examples of this phenomenon, please see this article: "18 Examples Of How Christians Are Being Specifically Targeted By Big Brother".
#16 Adolf Hitler fully embraced the theory of evolution, and Darwinism provided the intellectual foundation for much of Nazism.At a Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg in 1933, Hitler declared that "higher race subjects to itself a lower race . . .a right which we see in nature and which can be regarded as the sole conceivable right".
Hitler was obsessed with the "survival of the fittest" and he took this theory to its logical extremes. The following is how one author put it....
"Hitler was influenced above all by the theories of the nineteenth-century social Darwinist school, whose conception of man as biological material was bound up with impulses towards a planned society. He was convinced that the race was disintegrating, deteriorating through faulty breeding as a result of a liberally tinged promiscuity that was vitiating the nation's blood. And this led to the establishment of a catalogue of 'positive' curative measures: racial hygiene, eugenic choice of marriage partners, the breeding of human beings by the methods of selection on the one hand and extirpation on the other"
But of course we have no problem with teaching this flawed theory to our children in the public schools of America today.
Haven't we learned anything from history?
#17 Under Adolf Hitler, the state started taking over the job of child care.The following is more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann....
When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology.
Of course this is exactly what is happening in America today. Children are raised by day care centers and public schools, and most parents spend very little time with their own children.
#18 In Nazi Germany, it became fashionable to mock Christians and the Christian faith.The following is more from author Bruce Walker....
By 1935, the virulently anti-Christian leader of the Hitler Youth, Baldur von Shirach issued a regulation that prohibited any child from belonging simultaneously to a church youth group and the Hitler Youth, and gradually membership in the Hitler Youth became almost obligatory – parents were told that their children would not get jobs in the civil service unless they belonged to the Hitler Youth and employers were told not to hire children who did not belong to the Hitler Youth. Christian schoolchildren who did not belong to the Hitler Youth or its female counterpart were routinely beaten up by young Nazi thugs.
Boys inducted into the Hitler Youth were required to explicitly reject Christianity by oaths like this: "German blood and Christian baptismal water are completely incompatible." At Hitler Youth center at Halle, was the following prominent statement: "The Faith fanatics, who still to-day slide down on their knees with faces uplifted to heaven, waste their time in churchgoing and prayers, and have not yet understood that they are living on the earth and that therefore their task is of a thoroughly earthly kind. All we Hitler people can still only look with the greatest contempt on those young people who still run to their silly Evangelical or Catholic Churches in order to vent their quite superstitious religious feelings."
Those that believe that the Nazis embraced Christianity are delusional. The following are direct quotes out of Hitler Youth training manuals....
"Christianity is a religion of slaves and fools."
"How did Christ die? Whining at the Cross!"
"The Ten Commandments represent the lowest instincts of man."
"Christianity is merely a cloak for Judaism."
This is definitely where things are going in America today. Our television shows and our movies regularly mock Christians and they are always portrayed as the "bad guys".
In addition, the name of Jesus is rapidly becoming a forbidden word. Some U.S. courts have even ruled that it is unconstitutional to use the name of "Jesus Christ" during any official government meeting. The following comes from a recent WorldNetDaily article....
But the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State are standing by their victory in a U.S. circuit court decision that states even "a solitary reference to Jesus Christ" in invocations before the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners' meetings could do "violence to the pluralistic and inclusive values that are a defining feature of American public life."
#19 Under Adolf Hitler, sexual promiscuity was actually encouraged.The following is more eyewitness testimony from Kitty Werthmann....
My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.
Of course the exact same thing is happening in America today. If you doubt that your tax dollars are going to promote sexual promiscuity, then I have a video for you to watch. It is a video from the American Life League, and you can view itright here. DO NOT let any children watch this video. It is done by a pro-life organization but it is very graphic. I have posted a link to it because it isimperative that parents understand what is really going on out there. But please be warned that it is very, very graphic.
#20 Once the Nazis took power, they rapidly implemented gun control legislation and later on they took all of the guns away from the populace.Kitty Werthmann remembers very well what happened in Austria under the Nazis....
Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.
Last year, more than 10 million guns were sold in the United States, but gun control legislation continues to become even more strict, and it is only a matter of time before the federal government tries to disarm the U.S. population completely.
#21 Under the Nazis, large numbers of children were taken away from good families.The following is more from author Bruce Walker....
Parents who resisted Nazi anti-Christian indoctrination too strongly simply had their children taken away from them. The Nazis even forbade parents to give their children Christian names and ordered babies instead to be given names like Dietrich, Otto or Siegfried. The home teaching of Christianity by parents in the home was forbidden. Not content with simply driving Christianity out of public schools, Himmler banned all Confessing Church seminaries and instruction in 1937 and he closed all private religious schools two years later.
Doesn't this sound exactly like where America is headed?
In many states, CPS ("child protective services") has become one of the most feared government agencies. All over the nation, thousands upon thousands of children have been removed from good homes because the parents were not raising them "correctly".
You can read about one particularly bad CPS horror story right here.
#22 Under Adolf Hitler, society became very highly militarized.Of course we are seeing the same thing in the U.S. right now.
Sadly, this is even happening to our public schools. According to blogger Alexander Higgins, students in kindergarten and the 1st grade in the state of New Jersey are now required by law to participate "in monthly anti-terrorism drills". The following is an excerpt from a letter that he recently received from the school where his child attends....
Each month a school must conduct one fire drill and one security drill which may be a lockdown, bomb threat, evacuation, active shooter, or shelter-in place drill. All schools are now required by law to implement this procedure.
This is the kind of thing that a sicko like Adolf Hitler would try to do, and it is not good for our children.
#23 In Nazi Germany, the prisons were absolutely packed.Right now, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world by far and the largest total prison population on the entire globe by far.
Even children are being arrested in alarming numbers. In a previous article, I described how one 12-year-old girl down in Texas was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume and how police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl in Massachusetts.
#24 Under Adolf Hitler, there was basically no freedom of speech.In the United States today we are told that we still have freedom of speech, but that freedom is being "chilled" in thousands of different ways.
For example, the FBI is now admittedly recording Internet talk radio programs all over the United States. The following comes from a recent article by Mark Weaver of WMAL.com....
If you call a radio talk show and get on the air, you might be recorded by the FBI.
The FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract to a Virginia company to record as much radio news and talk programming as it can find on the Internet.
The FBI says it is not playing big brother by policing the airwaves, but rather seeking access to what airs as potential evidence.
So please speak freely on talk radio. Just realize that the feds will be recording every single word.
#25 Under Adolf Hitler, paranoia was standard operating procedure.In Nazi Germany, every citizen was a potential threat and everyone had to be constantly watched for suspicious activity.
Of course the exact same thing is happening in America today. Just about anything you do can get you labeled as a "potential terrorist" by the government.
According to a new DHS report, the following are some of the beliefs and ideologies of potential terrorists....
-"fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)"
-"anti-global"
-"suspicious of centralized federal authority"
-"reverent of individual liberty"
-"believe in conspiracy theories"
-"a belief that one's personal and/or national "way of life" is under attack"
-"a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism"
-"impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)"
-"insert religion into the political sphere"
-"those who seek to politicize religion"
-"supported political movements for autonomy"
-"anti-abortion"
-"anti-Catholic"
-"anti-nuclear"
And the definition of "suspicious activity" has become so broad in America that it pretty much covers 100% of us. In 2012, the following activities are considered to be "suspicious" by the FBI....
-shielding your computer screen from others
-paying with cash
-acting "nervous"
-using multiple cell phones
-requesting a specific room at a hotel
-traveling with a large amount of luggage
-refusing maid service at a hotel
-staying in your room for too long
-changing your appearance
In addition, the U.S. government has decided that it would be a really good idea for all of us to spy on one another. The "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign looks like it could have been pulled right out of a Gestapo security handbook.
But America is not supposed to be about spying on one another and reporting each other to the secret police.
America is supposed to be about liberty and freedom.
Recently, Fox News made a really bad decision by cancelling Freedom Watch. Judge Andrew Napolitano was one of the few voices on television that was still standing up for individual liberty.
As we think about how the Nazification of America has progressed, let the things that Judge Napolitano said on his last show echo in our minds.
{The Judge Napolitano recording has been removed from youtube recently, I know this because I watched it earlier today and now it is gone. Ross}
{Correction I found a link, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcP_t3xY8E}
18 Examples Of How Christians Are Being Specifically Targeted By Big Brother
By Michael Snyder, on September 27th, 2011
When the freedom of speech of one group is being threatened, it is a threat to all of us. Just because you may not be a Christian, don't think that what you are about to read is not a problem for you as well. The truth is that any individual or group that does not "fit in" with the new "politically-correct" global system that is emerging is going to be persecuted sooner or later. In our society today, it has become quite fashionable to bash Christians. In fact, I am quite certain that some of the comments that get left after this article will say really horrible things about Christians. But after "Big Brother" is done with the Christians, are you sure that they will not come after you next? When I speak of "Big Brother", I am not just speaking of the government. In today's world, giant corporations and the mainstream media also play instrumental roles in the totalitarian police state prison grid that is being constructed all around us. The elite control the government, they run nearly all of the major corporations and they own most of the major media outlets. Anyone that does not "conform" to their system is a threat. As time goes by, the persecution of those that attempt to "rebel" against their system is only going to become more intense.
So if you are not a Christian, do not applaud when the system cracks down on Bible-believing Christians.
You never know, you might be next.
The following are 18 examples of how Christians are being specifically targeted by "Big Brother"....
#1 Home Bible studies are now banned in the city of San Juan Capistrano, California. According to city officials, regular gatherings "of more than three people" in private homes are simply not allowed. One couple that has held home Bible studies for years has already been fined twice and is being threatened with even more fines.
#2 Paypal has initiated "formal investigations" of a large number of Christian websites and organizations. Apparently, many of these investigations have been launched due to concerns that these websites and organizations do not hold to a "politically-correct" view of sexuality.
According to WorldNetDaily, Paypal has targeted include Americans For Truth, Last Days Watchman and a host of other Christian organizations including "Abiding Truth Ministries, New Generation Ministries, Noua Dreapta of Romania, Truth in Action Ministries, Dove World Outreach, Faith Word Baptist Church, Family Research Institute and American Society for the Defense of Traditional Family".
#3 In Wichita, Kansas last year, a Christian minister was handcuffed and hauled off to jail by police for sharing the gospel and handing out tracts to Muslims on a public sidewalk. Apparently freedom of speech does not apply on the public sidewalks of America any longer.
#4 In the UK, police recently threatened a cafe owner with arrest for silently playing a Bible DVD on a small television on the back wall of his cafe. The following is an excerpt from a Daily Mail article about this incident....
Mr Murray, 31, was left shocked after he was questioned for nearly an hour by the officers, who arrived unannounced at the premises.
He said he had turned off the Bible DVD after an 'aggressive inquisition' during which he thought he was going to be arrested and 'frog-marched out of the cafe like a criminal'.
#5 Last year, a high school student in Southern California was suspended for two days because he had private conversations with his classmates during which he discussed Christianity. He was also banned from bringing his Bible to school ever again.
#6 Big cable networks regularly feature "comedians" that love to mock Christians. For example, HBO "comedian" Bill Maher recently stated that "there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: Christian".
If that had been said about another minority group, it would have made front page headlines for weeks.
#7 Down in Texas, the Department of Veteran Affairs actually tried to ban prayers that include the words "God" or "Jesus" during funeral services for veterans.
#8 In North Carolina last year, a pastor was dismissed from his chaplain duties for praying in the name of Jesus.
#9 An unclassified Department of Homeland Security report published a couple years ago entitled "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" claims that a belief in Bible prophecy "could motivate extremist individuals and groups to stockpile food, ammunition and weapons." The report goes on to state that such people are potentially dangerous.
#10 Back on February 20, 2009, the State of Missouri issued a report entitled "MIAC Strategic Report: The Modern Militia Movement". That report warned that the following types of people may be potential terrorists....
*anti-abortion activists
*those that are against illegal immigration
*those that consider "the New World Order" to be a threat
*those that have a negative view of the United Nations
#11 All over the nation, "child protection agencies" are ripping an inordinate number of children out of Christian homes. In many of these cases the parents believe in homeschooling their children or they do not believe in having their children vaccinated.
#12 On June 18, 2010 two Christians decided that they would peacefully pass out copies of the gospel of John on a public sidewalk outside a public Islamic festival in Dearborn, Michigan and within three minutes 8 police officers surrounded them and placed them under arrest.
#13 A Christian consultant was recently fired by Bank of America and by Cisco because they discovered a book that he had written that expressed Christian viewpoints about social issues.
#14 A while back, a federal judge actually ruled that the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools that use textbooks that teach that it was God who created the earth.
#15 Back in 2009, one 8 year old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.
#16 The Obama administration has announced that there is a whole host of laws that it will not be enforcing, but one thing that the Obama administration has chosen to do is to aggressively pursue lawsuits against anti-abortion protesters.
#17 During a Congressional hearing earlier this year, U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee warned that "Christian militants" might try to "bring down the country" and that such groups need to be investigated.
#18 According to a shocking FBI document obtained by Oath Keepers, the FBI definition of "suspicious activity" now includes making "extreme religious statements" and believing in "radical theology".
The good news is that there still is at least a limited amount of religious freedom in America. It may soon be gone, but at least we are in better shape than most of the globe.
Almost 70 percent of the population of the world now lives in countries where religious activities are highly restricted.
The sad truth is that the entire planet is moving away from freedom of religion.
That is a right that we are supposed to be guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution, but it should be obvious to everyone that our right to religious freedom is rapidly dying.
If you are not religious, don't think that you should not be fighting for religious freedom along with the rest of us.
Once they take some of our rights away, it will be much easier for them to take all the rest of our rights away.
United we stand, or divided we will fall.
Anyone That Believes That Collapsing Oil Prices Are
Good For The Economy Is Crazy
By Michael Snyder, on December 8th, 2014
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Are much lower oil prices good news for the U.S. economy? Only if you like collapsing capital expenditures, rising unemployment and a potential financial implosion on Wall Street. Yes, lower gasoline prices are good news for the middle class. I certainly would rather pay two dollars for a gallon of gas than four dollars. But in order to have money to fill up your vehicle you have got to have an income first. And since the last recession, the energy sector has been the number one creator of good jobs in the U.S. economy by far. Barack Obama loves to stand up and take credit for the fact that the employment picture in this country has been improving slightly, but without the energy industry boom, unemployment would be through the roof. And now that the "energy boom" is rapidly becoming an "energy bust", what will happen to the struggling U.S. economy as we head into 2015?
At the start of this article I mentioned that much lower oil prices would result in "collapsing capital expenditures".
If you do not know what a "capital expenditure" is, the following is a definition that comes from Investopedia..."Funds used by a company to acquire or upgrade physical assets such as property, industrial buildings or equipment. This type of outlay is made by companies to maintain or increase the scope of their operations. These expenditures can include everything from repairing a roof to building a brand new factory."Needless to say, this kind of spending is very good for an economy. It builds infrastructure, it creates jobs and it is an investment in the future. In recent years, energy companies have been pouring massive amounts of money into capital expenditures. In fact, the energy sector currently accounts for about a third of all capital expenditures in the United States according to Deutsche Bank...US private investment spending is usually ~15% of US GDP or $2.8trn now. This investment consists of $1.6trn spent annually on equipment and software, $700bn on non-residential construction and a bit over $500bn on residential. Equipment and software is 35% technology and communications, 25-30% is industrial equipment for energy, utilities and agriculture, 15% is transportation equipment, with remaining 20-25% related to other industries or intangibles. Non-residential construction is 20% oil and gas producing structures and 30% is energy related in total. We estimate global investment spending is 20% of S&P EPS or 12% from US. The Energy sector is responsible for a third of S&P 500 capex.These companies make these investments because they believe that there are big profits to be made.
Unfortunately, when the price of oil crashes those investments become unprofitable and capital expenditures start getting slashed almost immediately.
For example, the budget for 2015 at ConocoPhillips has already been reduced by 20 percent...ConocoPhillips is one of the bigger shale players. And its decision to slash its budget for next year by 20% is raising eyebrows. The company said the new target reflects lower spending on major projects as well as "unconventional plays." Despite the expectation that others will follow, it doesn't mean U.S. shale oil production is dead. Just don't expect a surge in spending like in recent years.And Reuters is reporting that the number of new well permits for the industry as a whole plunged by an astounding 40 percent during the month of November...
Plunging oil prices sparked a drop of almost 40 percent in new well permits issued across the United States in November, in a sudden pause in the growth of the U.S. shale oil and gas boom that started around 2007.
Data provided exclusively to Reuters on Tuesday by industry data firm Drilling Info Inc showed 4,520 new well permits were approved last month, down from 7,227 in October.If the price of oil stays this low or continues dropping, this is just the beginning.
Meanwhile, the flow of good jobs that this industry has been producing is also likely to start drying up.
According to the Perryman Group, the energy sector currently supports 9.3 million permanent jobs in this country...According to a new study, investments in oil and gas exploration and production generate substantial economic gains, as well as other benefits such as increased energy independence. The Perryman Group estimates that the industry as a whole generates an economic stimulus of almost $1.2 trillion in gross product each year, as well as more than 9.3 million permanent jobs across the nation.
The ripple effects are everywhere. If you think about the role of oil in your life, it is not only the primary source of many of our fuels, but is also critical to our lubricants, chemicals, synthetic fibers, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and many other items we come into contact with every day. The industry supports almost 1.3 million jobs in manufacturing alone and is responsible for almost $1.2 trillion in annual gross domestic product. If you think about the law, accounting, and engineering firms that serve the industry, the pipe, drilling equipment, and other manufactured goods that it requires, and the large payrolls and their effects on consumer spending, you will begin to get a picture of the enormity of the industry.And these are good paying jobs. They aren't eight dollar part-time jobs down at your local big box retailer. These are jobs that comfortably support middle class families. These are precisely the kinds of jobs that we cannot afford to lose.
In recent years, there has been a noticeable economic difference between areas of the country where energy is being produced and where energy is not being produced.
Since December 2007, a total of 1.36 million jobs have been gained in shale oil states.
Meanwhile, a total of 424,000 jobs have been lost in non-shale oil states.
So what happens now that the shale oil boom is turning into a bust?
That is a very good question.
Even more ominous is what an oil price collapse could mean for our financial system.
The last time the price of oil declined by more than 40 dollars in less than six months, there was a financial meltdown on Wall Street and we experienced the deepest recession that we have seen since the days of the Great Depression.
And now many fear that this collapse in the price of oil could trigger another financial panic.
According to Citigroup, the energy sector now accounts for 17 percent of the high yield bond market.
J.P. Morgan says that it is actually 18 percent.
In any event, the reality of the matter is that the health of these "junk bonds" is absolutely critical to our financial system. And according to Deutsche Bank, if these bonds start defaulting it could "trigger a broader high-yield market default cycle"...Based on recent stress tests of subprime borrowers in the energy sector in the US produced by Deutsche Bank, should the price of US crude fall by a further 20pc to $60 per barrel, it could result in up to a 30pc default rate among B and CCC rated high-yield US borrowers in the industry. West Texas Intermediate crude is currently trading at multi-year lows of around $75 per barrel, down from $107 per barrel in June.
"A shock of that magnitude could be sufficient to trigger a broader high-yield market default cycle, if materialized," warn Deutsche strategists Oleg Melentyev and Daniel Sorid in their report.If the price of oil stays at this level or continues to go down, it is inevitable that we will start to see some of these junk bonds go bad.
In fact, one Motley Fool article recently stated that one industry analyst believes that up to 40 percent of all energy junk bonds could eventually go into default...The junk bonds, or noninvestment-rated bonds, of energy companies are also beginning to see heavy selling as investors start to worry that drillers could one day default on these bonds. Those defaults could get so bad, according to one analyst, that up to 40% of all energy junk bonds go into default over the next few years if oil prices don't recover.That would be a total nightmare for Wall Street.
And of course bond defaults would only be part of the equation. As I wrote about the other day, a crash in junk bonds is almost always followed by a significant stock market correction.
In addition, plunging oil prices could end up absolutely destroying the banks that are holding enormous amounts of energy derivatives. This is something that I recently covered in this article and this article.
As you read this, there are five "too big to fail" banks that each have more than 40 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives. Of course only a small fraction of that total exposure is made up of energy derivatives, but a small fraction of 40 trillion dollars is still a massive amount of money.
These derivatives trades are largely unregulated, and even Forbes admits that they are likely to be at the heart of the coming financial collapse...No one understands the derivative risk positions of the Too Big To Fail Banks, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley. There is presently no way to measure the risks involved in the leverage, quantity of collateral, or stability of counter-parties for these major institutions. To me personally they are big black holes capable of potential wrack and ruin. Without access to confidential internal data about these risky derivative positions the regulators cannot react in a timely and measured fashion to block the threat to financial stability, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study.
So do we have any hope?
Yes, if oil prices start going back up, much of what you just read about can be averted.
Unfortunately, that does not seem likely any time soon. Even though U.S. energy companies are cutting back on capital expenditures, most of them are still actually projecting an increase in production for 2015.
Here is one example from Bloomberg...Continental, the biggest holder of drilling rights in the Bakken, last month said 2015 output will grow between 23 percent and 29 percent even after shelving plans to allocate more money to exploration.
Higher levels of production will just drive the price of oil even lower.
At this point, Morgan Stanley is saying that the price of oil could plummet as low as $43 a barrel next year.
If that happens, it would be absolutely catastrophic to the most important industry in the United States.
In turn, that would be absolutely catastrophic for the economy as a whole.
So don't let anyone tell you that much lower oil prices are "good" for the economy.
That is just a bunch of nonsense.
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Immediately after the State Department claimed that Hillary Clinton had contracted a stomach illness and would not be testifying at the congressional investigations into Benghazi, conservatives have wondered aloud whether this was merely a scheme to keep her from testifying.
In fact, news media wasted no time in reporting that she would not be able to testify. Then they reported that she would be able to testify. Then her stomach illness turned into a concussion after she fainted, and again, this resulted in her being unable to testify.
Outside of the narrative being pitched to the media by the State Department of Clinton's ailments, there are three theories about what might actually be happening:1) The previously mentioned belief that these many ailments are being made up in order to keep Hillary Clinton from testifying at the Benghazi hearings seem to bear some validity, as officials have reversed course a few times on whether she would testify.
Since 3 lower level State Department officials have supposedly resigned while Clinton "healed" from her maladies, will she not be required to testify anymore?
2) Another theory floated before her illness was that the US had planned to legally recognize the Syrian Opposition Coalition, and the excuse to miss this meeting might have given the Obama administration the cover to give the coalition a merely political recognition.
3) The most conspiratorial story comes from supposed rumors originating in Tehran and the Gulf Emirates that Hillary suffered injury from a plane crash as they were landing to meet with Iranian president on a secret mission. According to these unsubstantiated rumors, Navy Seal Commander Job W. Price was killed during this crash – his death has since been reported as a suicide. This seems rather far-fetched, but has also been reported supposedly on a military report from the Kremlin, and substantiated by a report of the plan crash as well.
Here's an odd coincidence that might also substantiate the claim that Hillary was on a secret mission to Iran. Prior to her "stomach illness," here last public appearance was while visiting government officials in Ireland – very soon afterward, Ahmadinejad met with Ireland's new ambassador to Iran. It could be that Ireland was helping bring this meeting to fruition - in this same timeframe, Clinton was scheduled to meet the Syrian Opposition Coalition, and Pakistan's president was scheduled to meet with Ahmadinejad.
Were all these meetings a coincidence?The State Department releases 4 videos of Hillary Clinton after her illness for different diplomatic purposes – they seem to be recorded on the same day, as she's wearing the same clothing, and nothing in the background seems to change. Two of these are released on the tenth of December and two are released on the twelfth. I can't find any video or pictures of Hillary released after these: (the 4 videos below)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzI6yY9Y2xQ&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13A1Dar20As
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtAB6JF8RIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gou8KIv14dc
Another piece to the puzzle – way back during the second presidential debate, Obama admitted to his questioner in private that he knew the State Department official who turned down the Benghazi security request – would he have known this if it were a lower level official?
Here's a quick timeline of events:
THURS DEC 6th 2012: Hillary Clinton in private comments with NGOs, accuses Russia of intending to return to a "sovietization" of nations in it's region. Putin was not happy.
THURS DEC 6th 2012: Hillary Clinton delivers speech in Dublin Ireland.
FRI DEC 7th 2012: Hillary Clinton meets with Representatives in Belfast, Ireland.
SAT DEC 8th 2012: It's reported that the Pakistani's President's trip to Iran is postponed for unknown reasons.
SUN DEC 9th 2012: Hillary Clinton takes ill, and postpones meeting with "Friends of Syria" in Marrakesh planned for Monday by one day – she doesn't make the postponed meeting.
SUN DEC 9th 2012: Iranian President Ahmadinejad has public meeting with Ireland's new Ambassador to Iran.
MON DEC 10th 2012: The State Dept. holds a press conference – the Marrakesh meeting is mentioned, and there are no signs that Hillary will miss it.
Spokesperson Nuland specifically answers a question from Fox News about whether or not we provided weapons to Syrian rebels – she was very clear that we did not, and seemed annoyed at the question.
Nuland seems to sidestep the question of whether or not the US has helped other countries supply weapons to Syria.
TUES DEC 11th 2012: Hillary Clinton misses Marrakesh meeting with "Friends of Syria" – William Burns takes her place.
TUES DEC 11th 2012: The State Dept. holds a press conference – Spokesperson Nuland acknowledges that William Burns will replace Hillary at her planned meetings.
Nuland reiterates that our support in Syria is "nonlethal" in nature, but says that these options are considered to be on the table for Obama.
WED DEC 12th 2012: The State Dept. holds a press conference; Nuland says she has a very uncomfortable stomach virus, but it's not "life-threatening." She also reiterates firmly that the Syrian Opposition Coalition has received only political support and not legal support from the United States.
WED DEC 12th 2012: The United States recognizes the Syrian Opposition Coalition only politically, and stops short of legally supporting them.
WED DEC 12th 2012: Bill Clinton speaks at the Dell Annual Conference - he's very lively and genial,
not showing any signs of distress. SAT DEC 15th 2012: Fox News reports that Hillary Clinton has suffered a fainting spell that resulted in a
concussion.
MON DEC 17th 2012: It's reported that Hillary will be able to testify after she feels better.
WED DEC 19th 2012: Hillary Clinton releases statement accepting resignation of 4 officials implicated in the Benghazi attack. The security at Benghazi was called "grossly inadequate" but did not implicate any higher level officials at the State Department.
FRI DEC 21st 2012: Chelsea Clinton interviews Rick Warren on same-sex marriage –
she doesn't seem distressed at all. SUN DEC 23rd 2012: CNN reports on the apparent suicide death of Seal Commander Job W. Price in Afghanistan on Saturday. No connection to Hillary is made.
TUES DEC 25th 2012: Chelsea Clinton tweets a Christmas message – neither Bill or Hillary are pictured.
SUN DEC 30th 2012: Hillary's Spokesperson Phillip Reines releases a statement admitting the
brain clot discovered as a result of her concussion. MON DEC 31st 2012: DEBKAfile reports on the speculation that Job W. Price died while on a secret mission guarding Hillary Clinton in Iran. MON DEC 31st 2012: Chelsea Clinton first tweets about Hillary at the hospital. Bill Clinton is "believed" to have visited, but no evidence is presented of this.
TUES JAN 1st 2013: Reports and pictures of Chelsea looking distraught after visiting Hillary at the hospital.
WED JAN 2nd 2013: After four days in the hospital, Clinton is said to be recovering very well.
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DID TOP NAVY SEAL COMMANDER REALLY KILL HIMSELF? - MYSTERY SURROUNDS DEATH OF
SEAL TEAM FOUR'S CDR JOB W. PRICE - THE 42
YEAR-OLD, HIGHLY-DECORATED OFFICER HAS
WIFE AND YOUNG DAUGHTER BACK HOME IN VA.
IS THIS REALLY CASE OF AFGHAN "ALLIES"
TAKING DOWN ANOTHER AMERICAN IN GREEN ON
BLUE INCIDENT? - WHY THE RUSH TO CALL DEATH
"AN APPARENT SUICIDE"? COULD BE COVER-UP
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Before we say another word, everyone here wants to express our heartfelt sympathy to the family and loved ones of the late Navy SEAL Team 4 commander, Job W. Price.
In an unusual move, less than 48 hours after CDR Price's death in Afghanistan, Navy sources leaked to the Associated Press that the 42 year-old native of Pottstown, Pa. had taken his own life in an "apparent suicide."
The source was not identified, it was said, because the death is "an ongoing investigation."
Quite frankly, this doesn't pass the smell test.
THIS DOESN'T ADD UP AT ALL
CDR Price has a wife and young daughter back home in Virginia, and for the officer's tragic death to be labeled an "apparent suicide" on Christmas Eve, makes us wonder if this was really something else.
Looking into the dead commander's background, there is nothing to indicate he would do such a thing, much less put his beloved family through such a terrible ordeal at this time of the year.
Price's past was like a storybook tale. He was a varsity wrestler and member of the championship football team at Pottstown High School in his native Pennsylvania. A member of the National Honor Society there, he was a much-decorated Naval officer who'd been boss of Seal Team Four since June of 2011.
At the time of his death, Price and his men were helping train Afghan police in remote Uruzgan Province.
ANOTHER CASE OF "GREEN ON BLUE" WARFARE?
Could his demise - one source says it was a "gunshot wound to the head" - have been a case of one of our so-called "allies" over there engaging in yet another example of "Green on Blue" execution-style terror tactics?
And why would the Navy be so quick to label Price's death a "suicide" in light of the time of year, the additional pain that would inflict on the officer's family, and the short period since the alleged self-inflicted fatal gunshot wound to the head took place?
Why the rush to judgment? Unless political considerations have entered here, and the Pentagon wants to see if the "official story" trial balloon flies. We think it will not.
We urge friends and loved ones of this fine man and dedicated father to reach out to us with any information they may have as soon as possible. Thank you.
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Majority of Schools Say They Are Losing Money
Because of Michael Obuma's Healthy Lunch Mandate
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(What are the odds Mooch would eat the crap he has students eating?)
Via Washington Examiner:More than half of the nation's school cafeteria workers expect to lose money selling low-salt, low-fat meals pushed by first lady Michelle Obama, a "serious" problem that threatens the programs, according to a survey of food providers.
The School Nutrition Association, which is planning to demand changes to the meal requirements to make the food more attractive to students, found that 50.35 percent of cafeteria officials surveyed expect that serving the food will "exceed revenue" next year.
"Of the 92 percent of respondents reporting that rising costs pose a 'serious' or 'moderate' challenge to their programs, 70 percent indicated 'serious,'" said the survey from the group that represents 35,000 school nutrition professionals.
Second on the list of concerns in the new survey was food waste, mostly the veggies and fruit now demanded by the federal government under the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act promoted by the first lady.
Poll: Release Of Torture Report More Harmful To American
Interests Than Use Of Torture Against Terror Suspects
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Sony Exec Who Made Racial Remarks About
Obuma Calls CRAPton, Jackson To "Heal"
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Isn't it racist to assume black people need "leaders" and insulting to think they want leaders like these guys...
Via NY Post:Amy Pascal is in crisis mode following the leak of racially charged emails between herself and producer Scott Rudin in which they mocked President Obama.
As a result, the Sony co-chairman has reached out to both Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to begin the "healing process."
"I'm being proactive," Pascal told The Hollywood Reporter about her conversations with both leaders. "And I want to accept responsibility for these stupid, callous remarks."
Pascal and Rudin talked about what to ask Obama at a fundraising breakfast in the fall of 2013. The exchange suggested she bring up black-themed movies including "Django Unchained," "12 Years a Slave" and "The Butler," as well as comedian Kevin Hart.
"It was a very preliminary conversation, and we just talked about getting together and hoping to discuss a healing process," Pascal said of her conversation with Jackson.
There Are Literally No Words For This Latest ThinkProgress Infographic
(I got nothing...)
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"Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvj6zdWLUuk
Alan Jackson's "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?" ("on that September day") is a loving and poignant tribute to the victims of the 9/11 atrocity. Debuting at the CMA Awards festival two months after the terrorist attack, it is country's version of Billy Collins's poetic memorial "The Names."
Like Collins ("Yesterday I lay awake in the palm of the night"), Jackson is modest and understated ("I'm just a singer of simple songs/I'm not a real political man"), but the political and communal messages are powerful. Listing the reactions of ordinary Americans, Jackson charts a range of caring responses to the terror attack. These include patriotism, gratitude to heroes, the turn to God for answers, and a reassessment of what matters most in life:
"Did you burst out with pride for the red, white and blue
And the heroes who died just doin' what they do?
Did you look up to heaven for some kind of answer
And look at yourself and what really matters?"
"I didn't want to write a patriotic song," Jackson told his interviewer Linda Owen at Today's Christian. "And I didn't want it to be vengeful, either," he explained, "but I didn't want to forget about how I felt and how I knew other people felt that day."
Whether he intended to or not, Jackson did end up writing a patriotic song filled with solicitude for his country and its people. There is one potentially vengeful, or realistically self-protective, response mentioned ("Did you go out and buy you a gun?"), but most of the emphasis is on holding loved ones close and affirming membership in community: phoning one's mother with a message of love, standing in line to give blood, speaking to a stranger on the street. Nowhere, of course, does Jackson imagine that ordinary Americans might have felt satisfaction at the thought of America being so wounded, or that their first impulse would have been to blame America and glorify the terrorists.
For many if not most Americans, the assumption of inviolability and non-involvement had crumbled with the Towers. The feeling of immunity or even apathy toward the possible irruption of terror on American soil had been replaced in the minds and hearts of decent people by an unexpected conviction of responsibility, coupled with a deep sense of anger, sorrow and resilience. "No man is an island, entire of itself," John Donne wrote in the 17th Devotion, "every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." Wherever many of us were on that September day, we were also in New York. I was marooned (no boats, no planes) on the tiny Greek island of Tilos, but rapidly understood that Tilos was a part of the North American continent.
How to Make Your Own Race Riot
by Daniel Greenfield
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The angry rioter is a sacred figure in the progressive pantheon of social justice. The shirtless men in bandanas carting away cell phones are so outraged by injustice that they are willing to take to the streets and do what progressive hipsters taking social justice selfies of themselves in souvenir t-shirts plastered with the face of the latest victim of "white supremacism" can only dream about.
But the saint of the looted convenience store is as mythical a figure as the selfless community organizer. The race riot isn't a bubbling stew of outrage out of which wounded souls emerge to cry out for justice. It's a complicated criminal conspiracy in which the perpetrators rarely suffer any consequences.
Here's how a race riot is actually put together.
3. Riots aren't fed by outrage, but by opportunism The rioters aren't outraged, they're usually bored young men, frustrated and lacking in empathy. Many of them have gang ties or a criminal record stretching back to kindergarten.
They're the same people who commit crimes in any other non-outraged context.
The rest are there to get some attention while providing them with protective coloration. 9 out of 10 people screaming frenziedly while holding up "Black Lives Matter" signs would eagerly scream and hold up "Justin Bieber 4 President" or "Ferguson Loves the KKK" signs if it got them positive attention and a shot at being on television.
Everything you need to do know about why the riots fizzled out can be read on a thermometer. On Monday, when the grand jury failed to indict Officer Wilson, the temperature hit a high of 57 degrees. The next day it was still in the forties. Now that the temperature is in the twenties, the riots have fizzled out.
Weather breaks up a riot faster than appeasement. It's hard to riot when your teeth are chattering.
There's a reason that riots usually happen in the summer. If the grand jury verdict had been issued in January, it would have been met peacefully.
The riots in Ferguson didn't happen because of outrage, but because the gathering mobs were told by everyone from CNN right up to Governor Nixon that angry protests were expected and would be tolerated. That was as good as throwing a match into a spreading pool of gasoline.
No one was stealing beauty supplies or starting fires in Walgreens because they were upset that Michael Brown got shot. They were stealing for the same reasons that Michael Brown stole; because they believed that they could get away with it.
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2. The rioters and looters aren't burning their own communityA riot has two components. There are the bored and irritated locals who begin swarming streets because they have no jobs, it's hot outside and there's nothing good on television. They will loosely agree with whatever issue is on the table, but they aren't all that worked up about it.
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Before the riot, community organizers, citizen reporters and assorted activists show up to coordinate, spread slogans and justify the coming violence. They want violence far more than the locals do and they taunt police and try to create incidents, but they usually avoid personally engaging in violence.
(In the early twentieth century the group stirring up riots was usually some arm of the Communist Party. Later a variety of leftist groups, many closely entangled with the Democratic Party took over. The Ferguson protests are somewhat unique in the sizable Muslim presence with their activists playing the same role that the Communist Party used to play a century ago.) Most of the damage is done by looters and rioters from other areas looking for an opportunity to burn and steal. Some locals will tag after them, but they are usually responsible for the worst of the violence.
Being outsiders they're unknown to the police and rarely have to worry about being identified afterwards. And they don't care about burning down someone else's community.
The media usually sticks to its narrative of an outraged community that engages in excesses, especially when it can't tell apart the locals from the outsiders. Local cops can, but no one in the media listens to them. Arrest records usually show that most of those charged in the more violent crimes aren't locals, but the media remains immune to facts that conflict with a favorite narrative.
1. Riots are about power, not for the rioters, but for the establishment"We must not reprimand our children for outrage when it is the outrage that was put in them by an oppressive system," Al Sharpton had said, in the aftermath of the murder of a Jewish student by an angry black mob.
This same rhetoric was used by the inciters of the violence in Ferguson and has been used in similar riots going back generations. Its major theme is that the rioters are free to do whatever they want. They carry no moral responsibility for their actions.
And what they want is to smash and steal anything they can get their hands on. This isn't outrage. It's textbook amoral behavior. The riot doesn't release anger; it frees the perpetrators of their morality.
The real purpose of a riot isn't to benefit the rioters. It's to benefit those who incite the riot. The rioters and looters react in response to riot-friendly conditions created from above. If you build the political infrastructure for a riot, the rioters and looters will come.
Sharpton's riots weren't about helping anyone except himself. By associating himself with violence, he sold the idea that he was an influential figure in the black community. Whether or not Sharpton was actually popular, his rise to the top of the political establishment became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Riots are about perception, not reality. The ringleader tries to keep his hands clean while convincing the establishment that he can turn the violence on or off any time he wants to.
Ferguson is the product of a new generation of Sharptons, ambitious activists feeding hate, of the New Black Panther Party's obsession with becoming relevant, of the ragged hipster ends of Occupy Wall Street drifting from occupation to occupation, of Muslim agents dreaming of turning African-Americans into a fifth column and of Obama's clumsy efforts to keep on playing community organizer by feeding racial grievances and then pretending to rise above them.
Those who gain from unleashing chaos and violence are not the powerless, but the powerful. Sharpton rose to his important role as Obama's liaison on a trail of bodies. Someone operating in Ferguson hopes to be the next Sharpton. Meanwhile Obama is playing a perverse fusion of Sharpton and MLK, amping up a bad situation and then telling blacks and whites that they need to rise above it.
It's an old and cynical game that has been played in and around the Democratic Party for too long.
The answers to Ferguson can't be found in its streets. The problem didn't come from there. It came from a black political establishment that lights the fuse for its own power and profit.
As someone who experienced 12 years of Lutheran parochial schools, I have little sympathy for the prisoners at Guantanamo. (You have not known terror until you've had a six-foot-four-inch ex-Army chaplain, now a substitute religion teacher, ask you, age 11, whether you would like to share your "funny little joke" with the rest of the class or be sent to the front.*)
And so, when the government asked me, back in 2003, to come up with a list of appropriate "enhanced-interrogation techniques" to be used to elicit vital information from prisoners of the war on terror, I had no qualms about doing so, and submitted the following.**
Prisoners will view nonstop episodes of That Girl until they admit that Donald was being kind of a jerk that one time.
Prisoners will be subjected to random acts of karaoke. "Sister Golden Hair," "All By Myself," "My Heart Will Go On."
Prisoners will be told that, yes, your prison jumper does make you look fat.
Prisoners will be tricked into thinking it's 1971, and there is no such show as Happy Days.
Prisoners will be denied access to the Qu'ran, and instead will be provided with Joel Osteen's "Every Day a Friday."
Prisoners will be forced to wear white after Labor Day, depriving them of their "fashion self."
Prisoners will be stripped of their given names and referred to solely as "Mr. Fancy Pants."
Prisoners will be asked repeatedly "Why are you hitting yourself?" until it becomes blatantly obvious.
Prisoners will be kept on hold as they wait for Time Warner customer service to confirm that "sometime between 8 am and 10 pm" appointment.
Prisoners will be split into two groups, which will then divide into factions, which will splinter into sects, which will form cells, which will result in the total isolation of individuals. In other words, within a month, they will all be Protestants.
After reading the results of the recently released reports, I have every reason to believe my suggestions were ignored. (And also that I enjoy alliteration.)
I leave you with this.
* I could never be sure if he meant the front of the class or the Eastern Front, his grasp of mid-twentieth-century history being notoriously "off."
** This may have taken place in my mind.
Ga. police arrest suspect linked to hairstylist's death
(Calling the Rev. Al Crapton... Oh I forgot, the police didn't shoot him. Forget it Rev.)
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Police said the man arrested in connection with the deaths of two homeless men while they were sleeping is also wanted in connection with the shooting death of a popular hair stylist.
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Obuma's Affordable Golf Ball Act
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Given his obsession with playing golf while others work long hours to support his bloated welfare state, it is only a matter of time until Obuma applies the principles of ObumaCare to golf balls:VIDEO:
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How North Korea Deals With the Disabled
If you want to know what government-dominated healthcare will be like when statists are able to take it to its ultimate extreme, have a look at the country that has taken statism itself to the ultimate extreme — North Korea:
North Korea is systematically "cleansing" its population by making those with mental or physical disabilities disappear, a defector has claimed.
Ji Seong-ho ... who is researching a book on the plight of North Korea's disabled, said babies with disabilities are taken away by hospital staff, never to be seen again. He added that children with developmental difficulties are neglected until they die.
"The regime proclaims: 'There are no people with disabilities under the Kims' rule' and 'everyone is equal and living well'," he said. "And while that propaganda is going on disabled children are being taken away, suffering indescribable things and dying."
You want equality, right? That means holding everyone who is not part of the ruling oligarchy at the lowest common denominator. The only egalitarian alternative to letting the disabled die would be making everyone disabled.
A United Nations commission said in February that it had heard allegations that medical experiments are performed in "closed hospitals" on "persons with disabilities".
In a separate study, conducted in 2013 by the Citizens' Alliance on North Korean Human Rights, some 40 per cent of defectors said they believed that infants with disabilities are killed or abandoned and 43 per cent claimed to know of "an island" on which the disabled are forced to live.
One of the defectors told of a hospital where disabled people are sent "for medical tests, such as dissection of body parts, as well as tests of biological and chemical weapons."
We mostly have to rely on rumor and hearsay, since the Party completely controls the media (like the USA minus Fox News), but it seems obvious that North Korea is not the place to be for those with persistent medical needs.
But at least healthcare is free.
Trey Gowdy Pulls the Wings Off an Insect
See how humble our liberal elite overlords become when their contempt for us has been exposed, compelling their comrades to throw them under the bus. Jonathan Gruber is unlikely to give back the $millions he was paid at our expense to help sell us lies and destroy our healthcare system, but at least we get to watch Trey Gowdy treat him to a public bullwhipping:
VIDEO:
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Extraordinary Access: Al CRAPton Has Visited The Obuma Black House 61 Times
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(Guess being a race huckster lying fraud tax cheat pays off, if you want to be in with this President...)
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This, the tail end of 2014, is Al Sharpton's moment.
Despite the firebrand minister's shrinking physical stature, his presence on the national stage has never loomed larger. From Ferguson to Cleveland to Staten Island, black men dying at the hands of police have catapulted America's racial obsession to new heights — carrying Sharpton along with it.
He stands solemnly with Michael Brown's family at televised press conferences. He appears alongside Eric Garner's grieving widow on Meet the Press. He delivers nightly sermons on race from his prime-time perch at MSNBC. Though the rehabilitation is far from perfect, it's a far cry from the days of Tawana Brawley, Freddie's Fashion Mart, and "white interlopers."
How to explain the strange new respect accorded to Sharpton? Start with the White House.
Considered politically toxic by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Sharpton has been enthusiastically embraced by President Obama. He has bragged about helping to pick a new attorney general and communed with the current one. In fact, a much-quoted Politico profile last summer described Sharpton as Obama's "go-to man on race."
Shouldn't something of this nature require some major over reaction for the sake of safety?
3-Star General Makes Shocking Revelation
About the Muslim Brotherhood
in America
Friday, December 12th, 2014
A former top member of our armed forces has a shocking revelation about the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to a lieutenant general, their ranks have infiltrated the White House.
The accusation comes from retired Lt. Gen. William Jerry Boykin, a former member of Delta Force and formerly one of the highest ranking men in the United States Army.
In a recent interview, Lt. Gen. Boykin claimed that avowed Muslim Brotherhood members had security clearance at the Department of Defense and the Pentagon.
While the media laughed at Rep. Michele Bachmann's warnings over the Muslim Brotherhood's influence in the highest reaches of American politics, Boykin said that they ought to have listened to her, especially when it came to one of the highest-ranking State Department officials who had pull within the White House.
Bachmann, you may recall, raised questions about the ties of Huma Abedin to the group, both personal and familial.
While better known as the unfortunate wife of serial pervert Anthony Weiner, Abedin was also Clinton's deputy chief of staff during her time at the Department of State, making her ties to the Muslim Brotherhood more than a little disconcerting.
Boykin said that, while Abedin was the most visible government figure alleged to have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, the Brotherhood has its tentacles "in every major federal agency" (H/T Breitbart).
While mostly known for its influence in the Arab world, the Muslim Brotherhood has turned its attention towards the United States in recent years.
The organization set up a political party in the United States for the first time, which makes you wonder why the group feels such antipathy towards one of the few countries that won't officially label them a terrorist organization, ban them outright and jail their leaders.
In what might be the least-surprising thing you'll hear today, the new Brotherhood party is also backed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim organization that somehow finds itself involved in everything that's both unctuous and Islamist.
Lest you think that the Muslim Brotherhood is harmless, listen to this, from the Brotherhood document, "An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America."
"The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
It seems that the sabotage is well underway.
http://conservativetribune.com/general-muslim-brotherhood/
'Glorious 26th' To Mark Start Of First Video Camera Drone Shooting Season
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London - Country sports enthusiasts are gearing themselves up for the Glorious December 26th, the official start of the Drone Shooting season. The skies are expected to be filled with the first wave of video camera drones flying in every direction across the UK as the wrapping paper is peeled off thousands of Christmas presents.
Drone shooting has now been added to the list of popular country sports, outstripping badger baiting, organic cock-fighting and rent raising for tenant farmers.
Land owner and retired stock broker Sir Philip Forbes has already started regular shoots on his 3000 acre estate near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
"Last weekend we managed to bag a couple of the blighters when they flew over the orangery and hovered outside Lady Forbes' boudoir, necessitating a whiff of the old salts. We've now got every boundary covered with three lines of rifle ranks worthy of the Battle of Rorke's Drift."The popularity of the sport has seen sales of Hunter boots, Burberry jackets and National Trust headscarves rocketing in the run up to the new season.
"A brace of drones can now fetch up to £1,000 on the open market if the video camera is still intact," said Sir Philip.
However the sport does not come without some risk. After downing a drone on the edge of his estate last month, Sir Philip realised he had only winged it as he saw Boris, his yellow Labrador retriever, flying southwards with the drone gripped firmly in its jaws.
Subsequent video footage of the incident, taken by the embattled drone has appeared on YouTube attracting millions of hits. A YouTube spokesman said, "It's absolutely amazing – in fact it's just the dog's bollocks!"
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Lost Tribe Found In Amazon Warehouse
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Swansea - Secret night filming has revealed for the first time a tribe untouched by civilization living deep within previously unexplored areas of Amazon's Swansea warehouse.
Nicknamed 'the pickers' by anthropologists, they communicate only with grunts and beeps, and appear to live a very basic hunter-gatherer existence – hunting out cardboard boxes and gathering them into piles.
They appear to shun all forms of modern technology. Although everything from Plasma TVs to electronic toothbrushes are available to them in the warehouse, they seem content to keep them sealed within their cardboard boxes – when researchers indicated they should open one of the boxes and explore the contents inside, they reacted with fear, as if there was some great taboo, perhaps the fear of reprisals from a vengeful god.
They are known to walk great distances every night in their box hunts, the going is tough, and many do not survive. A survey in early January this year showed their numbers had fallen by around 15,000 in just over a month.
Health concerns are a huge problem for the 'pickers'. They may not have developed immunity to many western diseases such as man-flu, and they are known to suffer terribly from mental illness – having had no exposure to the banality of modern western lifestyle, it is feared that a single episode of X-Factor could be enough to kill.
Despite the obvious distress that many of these 'pickers' are in, Amazon expert Jeff Bezos claims that the best way to protect them is to prevent outside influences from interfering with their lifestyle or their meagre salaries.
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Father Christmas Bemoans Zero Hours Contract
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London - Popular present delivery service Father Christmas has called on the Government to do more to prevent the use of controversial zero hours contracts.
'Don't get me wrong,' he explained,
'it's better than being unemployed, but I just have to wait around all year waiting for the call to say they've got some work for me. Did you know, I've only done 500 days work in the last 500 years? If it wasn't for all the mince pies I can grab on Christmas Eve I don't think I'd survive the year.'Labour leader Ed Miliband agreed that action should be taken against the use of the contracts.
'This is a particular problem from seasonal personifications' he said.
'The Easter Bunny's in the same boat, although it's even worse for him because he doesn't know when Easter's going to be each year. I can't think of any other examples right now to be honest, but I'm sure we'll change the law in some way when we're in Government as well as all the other vague stuff we may or may not do.'Prime Minister David Cameron defended zero hours contracts however, saying
'I was talking to the Tooth Fairy just last week, and she was telling me she gets work every night of the year. Okay, so she needs to be flexible enough to travel all over the country, but it's a shame not everyone's willing to get on their bike, or wings, to look for work.'Mr Cameron also outlined plans to create more work for Father Christmas and the Easter Bunny.
'There's no reason they should focus solely on Christian Festivals' he suggested.
'I'd like to see them delivering presents and chocolate products to children at Divali and Ramadan. Perhaps a chocolate Muhammad would go down well?'UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he didn't have a problem with zero hours contracts, as long as they didn't go to foreigners.
'We shouldn't be letting someone from the North Pole deliver presents to our children anyway' he blustered.
'If we get in we'll cancel the contract immediately and replace Father Christmas with a nice, British present deliverer instead. I don't think Godfrey Bloom's doing anything at the moment...'*satire
The Onion's Person Of The Year 2014
(TIE) Malala Yousafzai And John Cena
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The Onion, for the first time, names two equally deserving honorees as our Person of the Year.
When The Onion's editorial board convened to determine its Person of the Year for 2014, the members of our selection committee were in agreement that identifying the individual most worthy of this distinguished honor would be no easy task. Indeed, when faced with reducing hundreds of esteemed innovators, philanthropists, and thought leaders to a single deserving recipient, the selection committee ultimately proved unable to choose just one man or woman who most embodies the values of integrity, benevolence, and courage that define this most prestigious of accolades.
Thus, following weeks of impassioned debate, The Onion is proud to present, for the first time ever, the two co-winners of our Person of the Year award: Pakistani human rights advocate Malala Yousafzai and 12-time WWE champion John Cena.
Over the course of the last year, who could be said to have accomplished more and had a greater impact on the world than these two? Yousafzai: an impassioned defender of women's rights who has risked her life to campaign for equal education opportunities for girls. Cena: a physically dominant strongman and submission specialist who has ascended to the top of the professional wrestling world through his combination of charisma, athleticism, and devastating finishing moves, such as the "Attitude Adjustment" and the "STFU."
Truly, no two more outstanding or inspirational figures could be said to exist.
Of course, though equals in the eyes of The Onion, Yousafzai and Cena took markedly different paths to this year's honor. Yousafzai survived a vicious assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman, battling the odds to surmount her near-fatal injuries and emerging more dedicated than ever to advancing the ideals of equality and freedom.
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Much as Cena inspires countless millions of wrestling fans across the so-called Cenation, Yousafzai inspires young girls around the globe, even in spite of constant death threats, and earlier this year made history by becoming, at only age 17, the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
No less remarkable are the accomplishments of Cena, whose work inside the ring has rightfully earned him praise and respect the world over. Just as Yousafzai survived an assassin's bullets, the fearless WrestleMania headliner has endured hundreds, if not thousands of suplexes, backbreakers, and steel chair blows to the head, and yet has refused to submit to a three count time and time again.
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And like the Pakistani activist, Cena also proved his bravery, standing tall in the face of a range of foes every bit as vicious as the Taliban, including Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, and Kane. And though Cena's list of victories is long and illustrious, perhaps no occasion was more heartening than his heroism at this year's Money In The Bank pay-per-view, in which he improbably won the main event ladder match to secure the WWE World Heavyweight Championship belt, a celebrated prize rivaled only by the Nobel committee's offering.
As stated, the voting process for this year's award was competitive and impassioned. Faced with two icons of seemingly equal merit—Malala Yousafzai and John Cena—our panel was unable to decide which one was more deserving of our highest honor. Cena or Yousafzai? Just the fourth wrestler in history to win multiple Royal Rumble matches or a relentless crusader for equality and progress? Some choices cannot be made.
And though Cena technically won by a handful of votes, the selection committee ultimately determined that to place one above the other would be a disservice to them, to their legacies, and to you, the reader. Therefore, it is with great pleasure that The Onion presents our Person of the Year award to both humanitarian Malala Yousafzai and wrestler, actor, and rapper John Cena, two sources of inspiration to a world in desperate need of heroes.
12 Disasters That Could Bring About The End Of The World As We Know It
By Michael Snyder, on December 10th, 2014
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Our way of life is far more vulnerable than most people would ever dare to imagine. A single major catastrophe could fundamentally alter all of our lives at any moment. But since most people have not experienced such a catastrophe during their entire lifetimes, most people just assume that there will never be one. This is called "normalcy bias" and it can lull us into a very false sense of complacency. The other day, Michael Hanlon of the Telegraph wrote an article entitled
"How will the world end? From 'demonic' AI to nuclear war — seven scenarios that could end human race". Below, I discuss each of those seven scenarios along with five additional ones that I have added. We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and as a society we have become exceedingly dependent on the technology that we have surrounded ourselves with. If something were to happen which would force us to live like our grandparents and great-grandparents did, most of us would be in a tremendous amount of trouble. And as our technology has advanced, so has the potential that this technology will be used for war and destruction. There is great evil in the heart of man, and the potential to hurt others with that evil has never been greater. And of course there are always other "black swan events" to be concerned about as well.
The following are 12 disasters that could bring about the end of the world as we know it...1. ASTEROID STRIKEA single asteroid could potentially produce an "ELE" – an extinction level event. And scientists are finding more asteroids that are potentially a danger to Earth all the time.
For example, just the other day Russian researchers discovered a massive asteroid that will fly close to our planet every three years...
Scientists have calculated that 2014 UR116 asteroid will fly in dangerous proximity to Earth every three years. If it collides with the planet the energy of the explosion could be a thousand times greater than the impact of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.
Vladimir Lipunov, a leading scientist on the team which discovered the asteroid this October, says the scientists now know its orbit and its period which is 3 years, but they cannot say precisely when the asteroid will approach the Earth.
"We should track it constantly. Because if we have a single mistake, there will be a catastrophe. The consequences can be very serious," he said in the documentary "Asteroids attack" posted on Roscosmos website.If a very large asteroid does hit us in just the right place, we could be talking about tens of millions of deaths and the collapse of entire nations. The following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles about what could happen if a very
large asteroid were to come crashing down just off the east coast of the United States...According to the University of California at Santa Cruz website, if a massive asteroid were to crash into the Atlantic Ocean it could produce a giant tsunami with a wall of water as high as 400 feet that would slam into the east coast of the United States...
If an asteroid crashes into the Earth, it is likely to splash down somewhere in the oceans that cover 70 percent of the planet's surface. Huge tsunami waves, spreading out from the impact site like the ripples from a rock tossed into a pond, would inundate heavily populated coastal areas. A computer simulation of an asteroid impact tsunami developed by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, shows waves as high as 400 feet sweeping onto the Atlantic Coast of the United States.In case you were wondering, yes, that would be absolutely catastrophic.
2. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCECould the machines one day rise up and take over?
Personally, I am skeptical, but some of the brightest minds in the world are deeply concerned about this.
Just consider the following excerpt from Michael Hanlon's article in the Telegraph...Humanity may have already created its own nemesis, Professor Stephen Hawking warned last week. The Cambridge University physicist claimed that new developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) mean that within a few decades, computers thousands of times more powerful than in existence today may decide to usurp their creators and effectively end humanity's 100,000-year dominance of Earth.
This Terminator scenario is taken seriously by many scientists and technologists. Before Prof. Hawking made his remarks, Elon Musk, the genius behind the Tesla electric car and PayPal, had stated that "with artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon," comparing it unfavourably with nuclear war as the most potent threat to humanity's existence.3. A GENETICALLY CREATED PLAGUEEbola has kind of fallen out of the news in the United States, but the virus is still spreading like wildfire over in Sierra Leone.
But of potentially even greater concern is what could happen if someone started releasing a weaponized form of Ebola, Smallpox or the Marburg virus in our major cities.
A bioweapon can be a brutally efficient killer. It spreads silently and invisibly, and a full-blown pandemic could ultimately kill hundreds of millions of people.
And every single day, our ability to manipulate these bugs grows. Many believe that it is only a matter of time before these types of weapons are used as instruments of terror.
When that era arrives, all of our lives will change forever.
4. NUCLEAR WARThis is one that most Americans greatly underestimate.
Even though tensions with Russia are extremely high, most of us just assume that
"the Cold War is over" and that a nuclear war is virtually impossible.
Unfortunately, that is not even close to the truth...Back in 1967, the U.S. military possessed more than 31,000 strategic nuclear warheads. Now, we only have 1,642 deployed, and that number is scheduled to be further reduced to about 1,500.
Sadly, reducing the size of our nuclear arsenal by close to 95 percent is not enough for anti-nuke crusader Barack Obama. He has spoken of unilaterally reducing the size of our strategic nuclear arsenal down to just 300 warheads.
During this same time period, the Russians have been developing some very impressive stealth delivery systems which have the capability of hitting targets inside the United States within just minutes of an order being issued. This is particularly true of their submarine-launched missiles. The newest Russian subs have the ability to approach our coastlines without us even knowing that they are there. If the Russians came to the conclusion that war with the United States was unavoidable, an overwhelming first strike using submarine-based missiles could potentially take out nearly our entire arsenal before we even knew what hit us. And if the Russians have an anti-ballistic missile system that can intercept the limited number of rockets that we can launch in return, they may be able to escape relatively unscathed.
In order for "mutually assured destruction" to work, we have to see the Russian missiles coming and have enough time to order a launch of our own. Thank to emerging technologies, the balance of power has fundamentally shifted. The old way of thinking simply does not apply anymore and the Russians understand this.5. PARTICLE ACCELERATOR DISASTERMichael Hanlon considers this one to have a "very low" probability, and I concur. Although our ability to destroy ourselves is growing by leaps and bounds, I believe that any disaster involving the Large Hadron Collider would be a localized event.
But as we continue to try to "play God" and build machines like this, we potentially open up gateways and expose ourselves to dangers beyond anything that most of us ever imagined.
6. 'GOD' REACHES FOR THE OFF-SWITCHI thought that it was very interesting that Michael Hanlon included this one in his article...Many scientists have pointed out that there is something fishy about our universe. The physical constants – the numbers governing the fundamental forces and masses of nature – seem fine-tuned to allow life of some form to exist. The great physicist Sir Fred Hoyle once wondered if the universe might be a "put-up job".
More recently, the Oxford University philosopher Nick Bostrom has speculated that our universe may be one of countless "simulations" running in some alien computer, much like a computer game. If so, we have to hope that the beings behind our fake universe are benign – and do not reach for the off-button should we start misbehaving.So could God step in and alter the course of history?
Well, it has certainly happened before, and many are convinced that it will happen again.
Many Christians believe (myself included) that we are moving into the period of time that the Bible refers to as "the last days". According to the Scriptures, there has never been a time as horrible as the last days will be, and there never will be a time like it afterwards.
Of course the Bible also says that "the last days" will not be the end of the world.
But it will be the end of the world as we know it.
7. CLIMATE CATASTROPHEThere are a lot of people out there that believe that global warming caused by human activity is the greatest threat that humanity is currently facing.
I am not one of those people. The climate has always been changing, and it will always be changing. And the amount of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" produced by human activity is a negligible percentage of the total.
In addition, scientists tell us that there were times in the history of this planet when carbon dioxide levels were far, far greater than they were today. So even if we were to move back in that direction substantially, it would certainly not mean the end of our planet.
However, that doesn't mean that we are not going to see tremendous changes in our weather in the years ahead. The primary driver of climate change, the sun, is behaving very strangely right now. If it continues to behave erratically, that could cause dramatic climate shifts.
In addition, the increase in seismic activity that we have been witnessing all over the planet could also greatly affect our climate. Volcanic ash can have a tremendous cooling impact on global weather patterns, and volcanoes that erupt on the ocean floor could potentially cause ocean temperatures to rise substantially. Scientists tell us that if ocean temperatures were to rise far enough, we could see billions of fish dying. If such an event were to occur, a global famine would not be too far behind.
8. SUPERBUGS THAT ARE RESISTANT TO ANTIBIOTICSMedical professionals are becoming increasingly alarmed by the antibiotic-resistant superbugs that are starting to pop up all over the place. So far it is not a catastrophic threat, but experts warn that it could soon become one.
The following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles...The "wonder drugs" that we have been using since the middle of the last century are rapidly losing their effectiveness, and medical authorities are warning that the emergence of very powerful antibiotic-resistant superbugs represents "one of the gravest threats in the history of medicine". Of course the "wonder drugs" that I am talking about are known today as antibiotics. These drugs attack bacteria, and when they first began to be developed back in the 1950s and 1960s they were hailed as "miracles" that would save countless numbers of lives. Well, it turns out that nature is having the last laugh. All over the planet bacteria are developing resistance to these drugs, and scientists are warning that they can't really do anything to stop these superbugs. With each passing year these superbugs are gaining ground, and there appears to be not much hope on the horizon of being able to fight them. In fact, no new classes of antibiotics have been invented since 1987, and none are being developed right now. Meanwhile, scientists are telling us that many current antibiotic treatments will be completely obsolete by the year 2030. Are you starting to understand why so many high profile members of the scientific community are using the words "catastrophic threat" to describe this crisis?9. CYBERWARDid you see what just happened to Sony? It is probably the most embarrassing and financially damaging incident in company history. Of course the North Koreans are denying that they were behind the attack, but there is a good chance that they were.
Sadly, this could just be a preview of what is coming.
For example, what would happen if a cyberattack took down all of our major banks? What would we do?
Most people don't realize this, but our banks are already under assault every minute of every single day...Wall Street banks are getting hit by cyber attacks every single minute of every single day. It is a massive onslaught that is not highly publicized because the bankers do not want to alarm the public. But as you will see below, one big Wall Street bank is spending 250 million dollars a year just by themselves to combat this growing problem. The truth is that our financial system is not nearly as stable as most Americans think that it is. We have become more dependent on technology than ever before, and that comes with a potentially huge downside.10. ANOTHER FUKUSHIMAThe Fukushima nuclear disaster showed all of us how a single natural disaster can absolutely cripple a nuclear reactor.
And of course things are still not under control at Fukushima. It is already the greatest nuclear disaster in human history, and it is still releasing even more nuclear material into the environment every single day.
Once this material gets into the food chain, it can silently kill for generations. The following comes from an opinion piece by Helen Caldicott that was published in the Guardian...Internal radiation, on the other hand, emanates from radioactive elements which enter the body by inhalation, ingestion, or skin absorption. Hazardous radionuclides such as iodine-131, caesium 137, and other isotopes currently being released in the sea and air around Fukushima bio-concentrate at each step of various food chains (for example into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow's meat and milk, then humans). After they enter the body, these elements – called internal emitters – migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, where they continuously irradiate small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years, can induce uncontrolled cell replication – that is, cancer. Further, many of the nuclides remain radioactive in the environment for generations, and ultimately will cause increased incidences of cancer and genetic diseases over time.So what happens one day when a catastrophic natural disaster in the United States or elsewhere in the world causes several "Fukushimas" at the same time?
That is something to think about.
11. A MASSIVE ERUPTION AT THE YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLANOAround the globe, there are some volcanoes that are so absolutely massive in size that they are referred to as "supervolcanoes". One of these supervolcanoes is in the United States. The following facts about the Yellowstone supervolcano come from one of my previous articles...#1 A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone could be up to 1,000 times more powerful than the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.
#2 A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone would spew volcanic ash 25 miles up into the air.
#3 The next eruption of Yellowstone seems to be getting closer with each passing year. Since 2004, some areas of Yellowstone National Park have risen by as much as 10 inches.
#4 There are approximately 3,000 earthquakes in the Yellowstone area every single year.
#5 In the event of a full-scale eruption of Yellowstone, virtually the entire northwest United States will be completely destroyed.
#6 A massive eruption of Yellowstone would mean that just about everything within a 100 mile radius of Yellowstone would be immediately killed.
#7 A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone could also potentially dump a layer of volcanic ash that is at least 10 feet deep up to 1,000 miles away.
#8 A full-scale eruption of Yellowstone would cover virtually the entire midwest United States with volcanic ash. Food production in America would be almost totally wiped out.
#9 The "volcanic winter" that a massive Yellowstone eruption would cause would radically cool the planet. Some scientists believe that global temperatures would decline by up to 20 degrees.
#10 America would never be the same again after a massive Yellowstone eruption. Some scientists believe that a full eruption by Yellowstone would render two-thirds of the United States completely uninhabitable.
#11 Scientists tell us that it is not a matter of "if" Yellowstone will erupt but rather "when" the next inevitable eruption will take place.12. A GIANT ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE FROM THE SUNThis last one that I have added to the list is one of the least understood.
A giant electromagnetic pulse from the sun has the potential to fry much of the technology that we have become so dependent upon.
How would you survive in a world where nobody has electricity, the Internet has been fried, the financial system is offline indefinitely, nobody can make any phone calls and virtually all commerce across the entire country has been brought to a complete standstill?
A massive EMP blast has the potential to send all of us back to the 18th century in a single instant. And just two years ago there was a "near miss" that almost got us.
So don't think that it can't happen. In fact, experts tell us that it is only a matter of time before it does.
And when it does happen, it could turn our society totally upside down...According to Peter Vincent Pry, who advises Congress on homeland security issues, a large enough geomagnetic solar storm could produce effects similar to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) generated by a nuclear weapon that "could collapse power grids everywhere on the planet and destroy EHV (extra high voltage) transformers and other electronic systems that would require years to repair or replace." While the danger posed by a G5 solar storm gets mentioned occasionally at Congressional hearings, there really hasn't been any major action.
Earlier this year, a Homeland Security adviser said America is not ready for an EMP attack, never mind a G5 solar storm, and it's claimed that the U.S. power grid fails more often than any other in the world. If a large enough solar storm does impact the United States, the damaged electronic systems can cause a cascade of failures throughout the broader infrastructure, including banking systems, energy systems, transportation systems, food production and delivery systems, water systems, emergency services, and even the internet, so people may not even realize at first what has happened. Effectively, the U.S. would be thrown back to the pre-industrial age following a solar superstorm, and yet we are not prepared for the worst.
10 Signs That Russia Is Preparing To Fight
(And Win)
A Nuclear War With The United States
By Michael Snyder, on November 24th, 2014
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If the United States and Russia fought a nuclear war, who would win?
You might be surprised by the answer. Under the Obama administration, the rapidly aging U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal has been shrinking. Meanwhile, the Russians have been developing an entirely new generation of bombers, submarines and missiles that have the capability of delivering an absolutely crippling first strike. At this point, most Americans consider a full-scale nuclear war to be inconceivable. But in Russia attitudes are completely different. To the Russians, the United States is enemy number one these days and the Russians are feverishly preparing for a potential military showdown. Of course the Russians don't actually want to have to resort to nuclear war. Such an event would be an unspeakable horror for the entire globe. But if one does happen, the Russians want to make sure that they are the ones that come out on top.
A lot of Americans are still operating under the faulty assumption that the doctrine of "mutually assured destruction" still applies. The thinking was that both sides had so many nuclear missiles that a launch by one side would guarantee the destruction of both parties.
But since that time, so much has changed.
For one, the U.S. nuclear arsenal is far, far smaller than it was back then. Back in 1967, the U.S. military possessed more than 31,000 strategic nuclear warheads. Now, we only have 1,642 deployed, and that number is scheduled to be further reduced to about 1,500.
Sadly, reducing the size of our nuclear arsenal by close to 95 percent is not enough for anti-nuke crusader Barack Obama. He has spoken of unilaterally reducing the size of our strategic nuclear arsenal down to just 300 warheads.
During this same time period, the Russians have been developing some very impressive stealth delivery systems which have the capability of hitting targets inside the United States within just minutes of an order being issued. This is particularly true of their submarine-launched missiles. The newest Russian subs have the ability to approach our coastlines without us even knowing that they are there. If the Russians came to the conclusion that war with the United States was unavoidable, an overwhelming first strike using submarine-based missiles could potentially take out nearly our entire arsenal before we even knew what hit us. And if the Russians have an anti-ballistic missile system that can intercept the limited number of rockets that we can launch in return, they may be able to escape relatively unscathed.
In order for "mutually assured destruction" to work, we have to see the Russian missiles coming and have enough time to order a launch of our own. Thank to emerging technologies, the balance of power has fundamentally shifted. The old way of thinking simply does not apply anymore and the Russians understand this.
The following are 10 signs that Russia is preparing to fight (and win) a nuclear war with the United States...
#1 Russia is spending an enormous amount of money to develop the PAK DA Strategic Bomber. Not a lot is known about this stealth bomber at this time. The following summary of what we do know comes from an Australian news source...
Russia's answer to the B-2 "Spirit", this next-generation strategic bomber is intended to be almost invisible to radar and capable of carrying a huge array of conventional and nuclear missiles. Little else is known other than its expected service date: 2025.
#2 Russian nuclear bombers have been regularly buzzing areas in northern Europe and along the coast of Alaska. The Russians appear to be brazenly testing NATO defenses. Here is just one recent example...
Russian strategic nuclear bombers carried out air defense zone incursions near Alaska and across Northern Europe this week in the latest nuclear saber rattling by Moscow.
Six Russian aircraft, including two Bear H nuclear bombers, two MiG-31 fighter jets and two IL-78 refueling tankers were intercepted by F-22 fighters on Wednesday west and north of Alaska in air defense identification zones, said Navy Capt. Jeff A. Davis, a spokesman for the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command. Two other Bears were intercepted by Canadian jets on Thursday.
#3 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says that Russian nuclear bombers will now conduct regular patrols "in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific, as well as the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico."
#4 Russia is constructing an anti-ballistic missile system which will supposedly be superior to anything that the U.S. currently has...
Currently under development, the S-500 missile is intended to be capable of intercepting intercontinental ballistic missiles when combined with radar input from the likes of the new A-100 AWACS aircraft. It is supposed to be able to track and shoot at up to 10 supersonic targets at any one time at heights of up to 40km.
#5 Russia recently successfully test launched a new submarine-based intercontinental ballistic missile...
A Russian Northern Fleet nuclear submarine on Wednesday fired a test intercontinental missile from the Barents Sea to the country's far eastern Kura Range on the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement Wednesday.
"Within the frameworks of testing the reliability of marine strategic nuclear forces, the Tula [nuclear submarine] launched a Sineva intercontinental ballistic missile from the Barents Sea to the Kura Range [in Kamchatka]," the statement says.
The RSM-54 intercontinental ballistic missile Sineva (NATO code name SS-N-23 Skiff) is part of the D-9RM launch system.
The D-9RM launch system equipped with RSM-54 missiles was put into service in 1986. The production of the RSM-54 was halted in 1996 but after three years, the Russian government resumed the production of a modernized version of the missile.
#6 Russia already possesses super silent nuclear attack submarines that are virtually undetectable when submerged. In a previous article, I discussed how the U.S. Navy refers to these virtually undetectable subs as "black holes"...
Did you know that Russia is building submarines that are so quiet that the U.S. military cannot detect them? These "black hole" submarines can freely approach the coastlines of the United States without fear of being detected whenever they want. In fact, a "nuclear-powered attack submarine armed with long-range cruise missiles" sailed around in the Gulf of Mexico for several weeks without being detected back in 2012. And now Russia is launching a new class of subs that have "advanced stealth technology". The U.S. Navy openly acknowledges that they cannot track these subs when they are submerged. That means that the Russians are able to sail right up to our coastlines and launch nukes whenever they want.
#7 Russian media outlets are reporting that 60 percent of all Russian nuclear missiles will have radar-evading capability by 2016...
Russia's Defense Ministry plans to complete the rearmament of Strategic Missile Forces within six years. "By 2016, the share of new missile systems will reach nearly 60%, and by 2021 their share will increase to 98%. At the same time the troop and weapon command systems, combat equipment will be qualitatively improved, first of all — their capabilities for the suppression of antimissile defense will be built up," Defense Ministry's RVSN spokesman Colonel Igor Yegorov told ITAR-TASS on Friday.
#8 For the first time ever, Russia has more strategic nuclear warheads deployed than the United States does...
For the first time, Russia, which is in the midst of a major strategic nuclear modernization, has more deployed nuclear warheads than the United States, according to the latest numbers released by the State Department.
Russia now has 1,643 warheads deployed on intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers. The United States has 1,642, said the fact sheet released Wednesday.
The warhead count for the Russians, based the Sept. 1 report required under the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), shows an increase of 131 warheads since the last declaration on March 1. The U.S. reported a warhead increase of 57 during the same period. It is not clear why the warhead numbers increased.
#9 Russia has a massive advantage over the United States and NATO when it comes to tactical nuclear weapons...
As for tactical nuclear weapons, the superiority of modern-day Russia over NATO is even stronger.
The Americans are well aware of this. They were convinced before that Russia would never rise again. Now it's too late.
To date, NATO countries have only 260 tactical nuclear weapons in the ETO. The United States has 200 bombs with a total capacity of 18 megatons. They are located on six air bases in Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey. France has 60 more atomic bombs. That is pretty much it. Russia, according to conservative estimates, has 5,000 pieces of different classes of TNW – from Iskander warheads to torpedo, aerial and artillery warheads! The US has 300 tactical B-61 bombs on its own territory, but this does not change the situation against the backdrop of such imbalance.
#10 Russian President Vladimir Putin has initiated a huge "weapons modernization program" that is projected to cost the equivalent of 540 billion dollars...
Putin said Russia's weapons modernization program for 2016-2025 should focus on building a new array of offensive weapons to provide a "guaranteed nuclear deterrent;" re-arming strategic and long-range aviation; creating an aerospace defense system and developing high-precision conventional weapons.
He would not elaborate on prospective weapons, but he and other officials have repeatedly boasted about new Russian nuclear missiles' capability to penetrate any prospective missile shield.
The Kremlin has bolstered defense spending in the past few years under an ambitious weapons modernization program that runs through 2020 and costs the equivalent of $540 billion.
Meanwhile, the Chinese have been investing heavily in this kind of technology as well. In fact, just the other day the Chinese successfully tested a new submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile...
China's JL-2 second-generation intercontinental-range submarine-launched ballistic missile, which has the ability to reach the continental USA, is already believed to be deployable by the People's Liberation Army, reports Huanqiu, the Chinese-language website of the nationalistic Global Times tabloid.
The Julang-2 — literally "Giant Wave 2″ — has reached a preliminary level of proficiency, according to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in its report to US Congress on Nov. 20.
Most Americans do not believe that any of this is a concern whatsoever.
Most Americans just assume that a full-scale nuclear war is virtually impossible.
But the truth is that a successful first strike against the United States is more possible today than it ever has been before.
Hopefully the American people will wake up to this reality before it is too late.
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Ferguson, MO: Blacks and Whites Going At It
(Holy Smokes... Unbelievable, the horror of it all)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-qnbx5f2-w
Quote from: Warph on December 14, 2014, 07:20:34 PM
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Can't argue against that one. If you want to raise your kids to be communists, then send 'em to a government school near you.
Climate Change Loons:
Yak Crap A "Big Contributor" To Global Warming
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(Is Slate intentionally making themselves look like nutjobs?...)
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Indoor pollution from burning yak dung.
Via Slate:http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/12/yak_dung_is_making_climate_change_worse_and_new_cookstoves_don_t_help.html
It gets pretty cold this time of year in Tibet. For centuries, the solution to this problem was a win-win: just burn that huge pile of yak dung that's been accumulating all summer.
For millions of nomadic Tibetans, it's a system that works. But that system comes at a hefty cost. Tibetan homes have some of the worst indoor air pollution in the world, and the soot the dung fires release is a big contributor to climate change.
Yak dung, when used as fuel, is arguably dirtier than coal but is definitely much cheaper. Particulate pollution from burning animal dung greatly increases the risk of lung cancer and other respiratory ailments, the occurrence of which can be slowed by switching to cleaner ways of heating homes.
E-mails expose IRS,
DOJ collusion targeting conservatives
Dec. 15, 2014 - 4:12 - Are e-mails evidence of a cover-up?
Video at : http://video.foxnews.com/v/3943180862001/e-mails-expose-irs-doj-collusion-targeting-conservatives/?#sp=show-clips
Muslim Imam Allowed to Praise Allah on House Floor
Tim Brown - November 14, 2014
The United States House of Representatives allowed a Muslim imam to give the opening prayer on Thursday morning, in which he praised Allah, the demonic god of Islam, who is the enemy of Christ and America.
Imam Hamad Ahmad Chebli of the Islamic Society of New Jersey was
invited by Democrat Rep. Rush Holt (NJ).
Chebli praised Allah as, "The most gracious, the most merciful" and then declared "Praise be to Allah, the cherisher, the sustainer of the world; the most gracious, the most merciful master of the day of judgment."
He then went on to declare, "Thee do we worship and thine do we seek. Guide us to the safe path."
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLVkBX10kuM
Inconsistent with the biblical prophets and the Lord Jesus Christ, Chebli deceptively said that Allah is the "god of the prophets and the messenger says in the koran, he does not place a responsibility on you greater than you can bear. Everyone will receive the good they have earned and vice versa."
Then, the imam finally got around to his prayer.
"O god, bless us as we begin a new day," he said. "Bless this assembly. Bless the people and nation it represents. O god, at this time in our history, the challenges for our nation and the world are many. O god, grant these men and women the wisdom, the guidance and the strength to pursue compassion, justice and sound judgment. O god, in your wisdom, you have placed upon them great responsibility and honor. O god, please help them with your guidance and your light." He concluded,
"O god, O god, improve the well-being of all inhabitants of this great nation and beyond. Amen." How can a false, non-existing god do any of these things, especially in light of the history of Islam? Their history is replete with violence, tyranny and bloodshed as they have been commanded to perform in the Koran.
America,
Islam is your enemy, not your friend. America has invited the judgment of God into its government and now thinks it appropriate to call upon a god promoted by a demon possessed, murdering, thieving pedophile named Mohamed. America's leaders have not lifted a finger to stop the infiltration of Muslims into key positions in our government and only a few are willing to call them out.
Men like Chebli hold to the same ideology as those who are
killing your sons and daughters overseas. They are of the same ideology as those who have murdered your fellow Americans on our own soil. Are we just going to stand by and watch this disgrace without a peep?
You know the email addresses of your representatives. You know their phone numbers. You know their address. Demand that Islam be banned from entering the House or Senate ever again and that their be a forthcoming apology to the American people and repentance before God for bringing such a man into Congress.There are professed Christians in the House of Representatives and yet, not one peep from them while a demonic deity was praised and petitioned. Shame on you!
Elijah would have been mocking this man and then calling for his removal and subsequent execution by the people (1 Kings 18). The longer Islam is tolerated in America, the more dangerous for the people and the more we provoke the true and living God to wrath against us.
Where is the Church? Where are her cries here as they have been against the lesbian mayor in Houston? Where is the outrage America that the "religion of pieces" is allowed to utter anything in the halls of our government? And don't give me "freedom of religion" or any such nonsense of an appeal towards the First Amendment, recalling that none of that was purposed in its writing. This came just ahead of Friday's first ever Muslim call to prayer at the Washington National Cathedral.
America, judgment is at the door and you continue to sleep thinking that God will not bring the hammer down. Arise, wake from your slumber and put down the enemies of God and our country while there is still time to do it. Repent!
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An Open Letter To Obuma:
Just Sharing Some Historical Facts...you POS!
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To: Traitor Obuma:
It was you who told an Islamic dinner - "I am one of you."
It was you who on ABC News referenced - "My Muslim faith."
It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. taxpayer funds to re-build foreign mosques.
It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict -"I will stand with the Muslims."
It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that - "I am a Muslim."
It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi king.
It was you who sat for 20 yrs in a Liberation Theology Church condemning Christianity and professing Marxism.
It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay.
It was you who purposefully omitted -
"endowed by our Creator" - from your recitation of The Declaration Of Independence.
It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'HOLY' Quran.
It was you who traveled the Islamic world denigrating the United States Of America.
It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center.
It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the WH.
It was you who ordered both Georgetown Univ. and Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ
BEFORE you would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have
NEVER requested that the mosques you have visited adjust their decor.
It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps.
It was you who appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security.
It was you who said that NASA's "foremost mission" was an outreach to Muslim communities.
It was you who as an Illinois Senator were the ONLY individual who would speak in favor of infanticide.
It was you who were the first President not to give a Christmas Greeting from the WH, and went so far as to hang photos of Chairman Mao on the WH tree.
It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists.
It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist.
It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific executions of women and children throughout the Muslim culture, but yet, have submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses.
It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults.
It was you who funneled $900 Million in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas.
It was you who ordered the USPS to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp.
It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help "empower" the British Muslim community.
It was you who embraced the fanatical Muslim Brotherhood in your quest to overthrow the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak.
It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country.
It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadam.
It is you who departs for Hawaii for 17 days over the Christmas season so as to avoid past criticism for
NOT participating in seasonal WH religious events.
It was you who was un-characteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, formerly one of America's strongest allies in North Africa; but, remain muted in your non-response to the Brotherhood led slaughter of Egyptian Christians.
It was you who attended school in Indonesia where your school records listed your religion as "Islam".
It was you who, while living in Indonesia, attended the Mosque with your stepfather on Fridays.
It was you who appointed s your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett , who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an off shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.
It was you who freed five Muslim terrorists from GITMO without giving Congress a thirty day notice as required by a law that YOU signed.
Do we really need to go on?
Barack, you may be a lot of things; but, for certainty, you are no Christian.
Obuma, who refers to himself as: "A man of Africa", is precisely the type of 'divided loyalties" individual that our Founders attempted to prohibit from ascendancy to the presidency when they constructed our Constitution.[/b][/size]
NIH Has Spent $100.2 Million On Mindfulness Meditation
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4sSPd1Ijzg
(I think they mean MINDLESSNESS Meditation! $100.2 million Tax payer money! This is such crap... pure unadulterated crap. But when you are mindful of the fact that it is crap, you know that it is crap. And by knowing that it is crap, you can avoid stepping in the crap. And by avoiding stepping in the crap you don't have to put your shoes out on the back porch. If your shoes are not on the back porch, they don't get taken by a raccoon. And since the raccoon does not have your shoes and your shoe laces, he cannot hang himself in an autoerotic-asphyxiation accident. Please tell me I'm making as much sense as this article)
Via WFB:http://freebeacon.com/issues/nih-has-spent-92-9-million-on-mindfulness-meditation/
"The advantage of this is that it actually doesn't cost anything," said Karen May, a vice president at Google, explaining how her company offers "mindfulness" classes to its employees.
Mindfulness is a New Age kind of meditation that focuses on the present moment "non-judgmentally," tracing its origins to Buddhism. The growing phenomenon was the subject of a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday, for which May and other fans of the practice were interviewed.
"We're just asking you to sit and know that you're sitting," explained Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and author of the book Wherever You Go, There You Are. "When you're in the shower next time check and see if you're in the shower," he advised viewers.
The segment featured Rep. Tim Ryan (D., Ohio), a so-called "rock star among mindfulness evangelists" who earmarked nearly $1 million to teach mindfulness to preschool students in his district. The $982,000 project provided deep breathing exercises, and "Peace Corners" for kids in Youngstown, Ohio.[...]
While the NIH is exploring the possibilities of mindfulness for any and every ailment, Kabat-Zinn says mindfulness is not for everyone.
"It's not a big should," he said. "It's not like, 'Oh now one more thing that I have to put in my mind, now I have to be mindful.'"
"It's not a doing at all," Kabat-Zinn added. "In fact, it's a being. And being doesn't take any time."
Officer Shot During West Baltimore Traffic Stop, No Marches Or Protests Planned
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(Back seat a$$hole refused to assume the hands up, don't shoot position. hmmmm... best thing to do with this worthless scum is put a bullet in his head and send him onto hell)
Via WBALTVVIDEO at: http://www.wbaltv.com/news/baltimore-pd-investigating-officerinvolved-shooting/30231714
Police said they have charged a repeat violent offender in connection with the shooting of a city police officer during a traffic stop near Mondawmin Mall in west Baltimore on Sunday night.
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Shooter
The incident started Sunday night when the suspect car was initially spotted by a different officer at a nearby gas station. Police said that officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car and called it in.
The car was pulled over a short time later by 27-year-old Officer Andrew Groman — a three-year veteran of the force — and five other officers, according to police. Surveillance video showed the car was surrounded by officers.
"They did a car stop on suspicious activity, and they walked up to the car," said Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.
Police said the driver followed instructions, but 19-year-old Donte Jones, who was in the back seat, wouldn't get out of the car and refused to show his hands.
"One officer advised him that if he didn't comply he would be tased. At some point in time, there was the discharging of the firearm, and there was the firing of the Taser.
Exactly which event happened first is still under investigation,"
Baltimore City police Maj. Stanley Branford said. "We do know, however, that the suspect who was the only one who fired a weapon."[...]
Jones' court records show he served time for a weapons conviction in 2013 and was on supervised probation when he was arrested on gun and drug charges in June.
"This individual is a 19-year-old member of our community who, at the age of 19, is on parole, probation and has many contacts with the police. He is a violent, repeat offender. Many of his arrests were for gun violence," Rodriguez said.[...]
Meanwhile, Batts said he hopes the shooting will get the same type of attention as the grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases that have led to protests around the country.
"I'm not caught on the irony of the timing of the situation. We've had marches nationwide over the fact that we've lost lives in police custody. I wonder if we're going to have the same marches as officers are shot, too," Batts said.
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Oberlin College Students Demand Black Students Be Exempt From Failing Because of Ferguson And Garner Protests – Update: School Denies Request, Moonbats Outraged
(To normal people this sounds crazy, but Oberlin is one of the most liberal colleges in America See: Lena Dunham http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6115 )
Via Red Alert:http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/12/16/oberlin-college-students-ask-professors-exempt-students-color-exams/#f25QRBhAiA8Titco.99
Following the model set at several law schools, students at Oberlin College are pleading for leniency during final exams and the final grading period this fall semester in light of the grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases and the shooting of Tamir Rice.
A petition has been circling around the school community President Marvin Krislov to suspend the standard grading system because students of color, especially black students, are at risk of failing.
"I would really like to see the normal grading system suspended for this semester and replaced with a no-fail mercy period. Administrators should require professors to exercise complete flexibility in what students are saying they can produce academically. Require that every professor listen to what their students are saying and if that means rather than writing a paper students instead meet with their professor to simply discuss in groups their paper topics or if tests are taken collectively with professors there are ways to make sure we are learning what we are supposed to be learning in ways that are not so taxing in times like this," the petition reads.
"Students in this moment should have complete access to alternative modes of learning while we process what's happening. Basically, no student especially black students and students of color should be failing a class this semester. A 'C' should be the lowest grade students can receive this semester. Professors should be required to work with students, who would otherwise be at risk of failing, to create alternate means of accessing knowledge."
The petition has garnered more than 1,300 signatures, according to The Oberlin Review.
Update: Raaaacism!
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/oberlin_college_denies_request.html
(Taking a couple days off to protest should not result in failing a class you weren't already failing. Gender up, Clowns. The National Guard didn't open fire on your campus)
Oberlin College is refusing to void any failing grades this semester despite demands from students who skipped classes and missed study time to protest the Ferguson, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner cases. A student petition, signed by more than 1,300, demanded for the college to institute a "no-fail mercy period" that would eliminate all failing grades and make a C the lowest possible grade a student could receive.
President Marvin Krislov responded with an email to students on Sunday, saying he and the college's deans decided not to grant the request after giving it serious consideration.
"We are in firm agreement that suspending grading protocols is not the way to achieve our shared goal of ensuring that students have every opportunity and resource to succeed," he wrote.
Hundreds of students participated in demonstrations in Oberlin and Cleveland in the wake of the fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, the shooting death of Michael Brown by a suburban St. Louis officer and the death of Eric Garner in New York.
"People's communities are being mercilessly murdered and beaten in the streets every day around the world," junior Kiki Acey, a student who helped draft the petition, wrote in a Facebook post, the student newspaper reported. "Others are being locked away by the millions for petty crimes. And many of us are still working every day just to be able to afford this education that fails to tell us how to free ourselves."
Jesse Jackson: It's Racist To Call Me
And Al CRAPton "Race Baiters"
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Great picture of a Cockroach and a Baboon.
(No Jesse, you and Sharpton are more like MASTER BAITER'S)
Via Breitbart:http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/12/16/Jesse-Jackson-Compares-Himself-Sharpton-to-MLK-in-Response-to-Race-Baiting-Charge?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=breitbarttv
Tuesday on NewsMax TV's "MidPoint," Rev. Jesse Jackson addressed accusations of race-baiting by black leaders such as himself and Al Sharpton by comparing them to race baiting allegations from infamous segregationist George Wallace towards civil rights icon Rev. Martin Luther King.
"I will tell you there are people who have appeared on this show before, who every time we discuss the leaders of the black movement in this country, they take your name and they put it in the same sentence as Al Sharpton and they say the two of you, people have said this on our show, are race baiting and you are not doing it properly, and you are not serving the needs of the black community," host Ed Berliner said.
Jackson replied, "You know Dr. King was accused of being a race baiter as he fought the forces of the south, as he fought George Wallace," adding, "they called him a communist at the same time."
SNL: Welcome To Politics Nation
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Oberlin Students Upset School Will Not Cancel "F" Marks For Blacks Students
Who Didn't Study Because They Were Protesting Ferguson
(HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA .... *breathe*.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
Via Inside Higher Ed:https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/12/17/colleges-consider-how-flexible-be-students-protesting-killings-unarmed-black-men
"I would really like to see the normal grading system suspended for this semester and replaced with a no-fail mercy period. Administrators should require professors to exercise complete flexibility in what students are saying they can produce academically.
Require that every professor listen to what their students are saying and if that means rather than writing a paper students instead meet with their professor to simply discuss in groups their paper topics or if tests are taken collectively with professors there are ways to make sure we are learning what we are supposed to be learning in ways that are not so taxing in times like this. Students in this moment should have complete access to alternative modes of learning while we process what's happening.
Basically, no student especially black students and students of color should be failing a class this semester. A 'C' should be the lowest grade students can receive this semester. Professors should be required to work with students, who would otherwise be at risk of failing, to create alternate means of accessing knowledge."
Picture of Che Guevara Hangs Behind Alan Gross As He
Prepares His Remarks After Arriving In America
(Something smells about this Obuma/Castro deal. Gross just released after serving 5 years in a Communist Prison and his American Lawyer is a freaking Communist????? Didn't this guy learn anything????? Hmmmm.... just had a light bulb moment. What if this thing was a set up to get the release of the 3 Cuban Spies we were holding and that Mr. Gross wasn't in a Cuban Prison at all????? Just saying. Are they gonna zap him with the Ronnie Raygun laying on the desk and turn him into Robert Vesco?)(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Screen-shot-2014-12-17-at-2.06.51-PM-550x644.png)
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( This is my favorite picture of Che after the
7th Special Forces Group and their Bolivian
commandos nailed him)
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Obuttma: Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner All Victims of Racist Cops
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(Obuma has no problem smearing America's police officers if it excites his dwindling base...)
Via Inquisitr:http://www.inquisitr.com/1685706/president-obama-tells-bet-that-he-is-a-victim-of-racism-and-is-often-treated-like-the-help/#utm_source=website&utm_campaign=wpbirdnest&utm_medium=web
Being a first hand victim of Racism, even as president, Barack Obama is determined to stop the trend and usher in a new and accepting America. He shared his concern with BET TV:
"If you look at after what happened with Michael Brown, if you looked at what happened after Trayvon, if you looked at the decision after Eric Garner, I'm being pretty explicit about my concern, and being pretty explicit about the fact that this is a systemic problem, that black folks and Latinos and others are not just making this up..."
GWU Students Agree To Deport Americans In Exchange For Illegal Immigrants
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zG49x53mqvo#t=0
(This is your wonderfully intelligent college students today... G_d help us. How about this? I suggest the students self-deport by renouncing their American citizenship and leave the country, and soon)
Via Campus Reform:http://campusreform.org/?ID=6151
Students at George Washington University (GWU) willingly signed a petition supporting the deportation of one American citizen in exchange for one illegal immigrant.
"Please sign our petition for President Obama to deport one American citizen, in exchange for one undocumented immigrant," read the petition. "Everyone must be allowed a shot at the 'American Dream.' Americans should not be greedy. Let us right the wrongs of our past and make another's dreams come true."
"It makes sense," one student told Campus Reform. "Like, I've noticed that there is a lot of like hatred against undocumented immigrants and it's not necessarily their fault."
Mooch Lying?: Barack Was Victim Of Racism, "He Wore A Tuxedo To A Black-Tie Dinner And Someone Asked Him To Get Coffee."
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Michael & Barack at Poople interview
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(Yeah... 2 sugars and 1 creamer, waiter)
"Don't Drink That Racist Coffee"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=APyr48GACzc#t=56
Via Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/obamas-people-interview-racism-113634.html
President Barack Obama shared that he has been mistaken for staff as well on numerous occasions during his life.
"There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys," said the president.
Michelle Obama also recalled, "He was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee."
However, the Obamas, who sat down with the magazine for the 30-minute interview, said what they've experienced does not compare to what others have gone through in past generations and in other communities.
"It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress," the president said.
People Magazine's Worst Selling Issue This Year?
The One With Hillary Clinton On The Cover
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(But But But... BUT, she was the top seller for the LGBT Monthly mag... Hey, is the old bat holding on to a walker???)
Via WaPo: In June, Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared on the cover of People magazine for the first time in more than a decade. Real people, not the magazine, talked about what the article might mean for 2016. They talked about whether Clinton was using a walker (she wasn't). They talked about people talking about whether Clinton was using a walker (She still wasn't).
What they didn't do was buy the magazine. According to a report from AdWeek on Monday, the June 16 issue of People featuring the former first lady and senator was the magazine's worst selling of 2014 with 503,890 copies sold. The magazine's best-selling issue –1,169,800 copies — was the one featuring Robin Williams after his death in late August. AdWeek said that celebrity weeklies saw poor performances with issues that featured the Kardashians and Beyonce on the cover.
It has not been a good year for Hillary Clinton and print media. Her book, "Hard Choices," also failed to sell as many copies as initial estimates assumed it would.
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When Obuma died, George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates. He slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the Nation I helped conceive?"
Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed."
James Madison followed, kicked him in the butt and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!"
Thomas Jefferson was next, beat Obuma with a long cane and snarled, "It was evil men like you who inspired me to write the Declaration of Independence."
The beatings and thrashings continued as James Monroe and 66 other early Americans unleashed their anger on the radical, socialist, leader.
As Obuma lay bleeding and in pain, Allah appeared. Obuma wept and said, "This is not what you promised me."
Allah replied, "I told you there would be 72 VIRGINIANS waiting for you in Heaven. What did you think I said? You really need to listen when someone is trying to tell you something!"
Zombie Bumper Sticker Of The Day
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Harvard Removes Labels From Israeli-Built SodaStream Machines Because It Could Offend Palestinian Students
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(G_d forbid something upset those special little Palestinian snowflakes...)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/18/at-harvard-water-machines-disappear-over-microaggressions/#!
Harvard University's dining service has removed labels from soda machines in its facilities over concerns that merely reading them could damage the fragile psyches of university students.
The root of the problem, like so many other campus food fights, is Israel. Until last spring, Harvard Undergraduate Dining Services (HUDS) purchased water machines from a firm owned by SodaStream, an Israel-based firm that operates a plant in the West Bank.
According to The Harvard Crimson, those purchases have stopped after activists on campus complained that the machines were offensive to students of Palestinian origin. Nor did HUDS stop there, as they even stripped SodaStream labels from machines they already owned in order to minimize any potential psychic harm to students who oppose the company. [...]
"These machines can be seen as a microaggression to Palestinian students and their families and like the University doesn't care about Palestinian human rights," sophomore Rachel J. Sandalow-Ash, a member of the Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance, told the Crimson. A "microaggression," according to modern campus activists, is some minor everyday statement or action that entrenches discrimination or degrades a person based on their group identity.
Virginia Dem Lawmaker That Had An Improper Sexual Relationship
With A Teenager To Resign, Then Seek Seat In Special Election
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(He will probably get reelected, he is a gun grabber. Not required to register as a sex offender or charged with disseminating child porn...Quite simply, the democrat party is a huge criminal enterprise. They make the Sicilians look like petty thieves)
Via The Virginian PilotA Virginia state lawmaker who recently entered a plea in connection with accusations that he had an improper sexual relationship with a teenager said Thursday he will let the voters decide whether he should stay or go.
Democratic Del. Joseph D. Morrissey announced that he has submitted his resignation but said he plans to run for the same seat in a special election set for Jan 13.
"It is the voters and not political pundits and not partisan caucuses that should decide who serves in office," Morrissey said at a news conference in his Capitol office.
Morrissey's decision to run for re-election surprised many, including Republican House Speaker William J. Howell, who called the move "deceitful, selfish and disrespectful."[...]
He was sentenced to 12 months in jail with six suspended but will ultimately serve three months, according to one of his attorneys. Morrissey is in a work-release program that allowed him to work as a legislator and lawyer by day while spending nights in a Henrico County jail.[...]
According to prosecutors, Morrissey and a 17-year-old girl, who worked for him as a receptionist, had sex multiple times at his law office in August 2013 and texted their friends about it. Morrissey, 57, also procured a nude photo of the teen "to help him fantasize about their next encounter," according to special prosecutor William Neely, and sent the picture to a friend.
Taxpayers Shell Out $1.1 Million
For POS Obuma's Flight Expenses Alone To Fundraising Trip To California
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(He's been doing this since the day he took office, schedule a few very small official events during his fundraising trips so we get stuck with the bill...)
Via CNS News:President Barack Obama's fundraising trips in October to cities in California cost taxpayers a total of $1,176,120.90 in flight expenses alone, according to records obtained from the U.S. Department of the Air Force by the investigative group Judicial Watch.
"On October 9, Obama attended a fundraiser party hosted by Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow in Los Angeles," states Judicial Watch. "He also attended a closed-door 'roundtable' fundraiser at the home of restaurateur Michael Chow. A second event shielded from the public was scheduled for October 11 in San Francisco."
Judicial Watch submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of the Air Force on Oct. 20, 2014 and received the records on Dec. 8, 2014. They showed that the transportation for Obama to Los Angeles on Oct. 9 for the Gwyneth Paltrow fundraiser cost taxpayers $1,011,051.30 and the transportation to San Francisco on Oct. 10 for the secret fundraiser cost taxpayers $165,069.60.
According to Judicial Watch, the Paltrow fundraiser was the thirtieth Los Angeles fundraiser for Obama since he took office and it wasn't Paltrow's first fundraiser for him. For his 2012 reelection campaign, Paltrow held a fundraiser where the cost was $32,400 per attendee.
The SwitchGerman researchers discover
a flaw that could let anyone
listen to your cell calls.
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German researchers have discovered security flaws that could let hackers, spies and criminals listen to private phone calls and intercept text messages on a potentially massive scale – even when cellular networks are using the most advanced encryption now available.
The flaws, to be reported at a hacker conference in Hamburg this month, are the latest evidence of widespread insecurity on SS7, the global network that allows the world's cellular carriers to route calls, texts and other services to each other. Experts say it's increasingly clear that SS7, first designed in the 1980s, is riddled with serious vulnerabilities that undermine the privacy of the world's billions of cellular customers.
The flaws discovered by the German researchers are actually functions built into SS7 for other purposes – such as keeping calls connected as users speed down highways, switching from cell tower to cell tower – that hackers can repurpose for surveillance because of the lax security on the network.
Those skilled at the myriad functions built into SS7 can locate callers anywhere in the world, listen to calls as they happen or record hundreds of encrypted calls and texts at a time for later decryption. There also is potential to defraud users and cellular carriers by using SS7 functions, the researchers say.
These vulnerabilities continue to exist even as cellular carriers invest billions of dollars to upgrade to advanced 3G technology aimed, in part, at securing communications against unauthorized eavesdropping. But even as individual carriers harden their systems, they still must communicate with each other over SS7, leaving them open to any of thousands of companies worldwide with access to the network. That means that a single carrier in Congo or Kazakhstan, for example, could be used to hack into cellular networks in the United States, Europe or anywhere else.
"It's like you secure the front door of the house, but the back door is wide open," said Tobias Engel, one of the German researchers.
Read more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/12/18/german-researchers-discover-a-flaw-that-could-let-anyone-listen-to-your-cell-calls-and-read-your-texts/
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The Switch
German researchers discover
a flaw that could let anyone
listen to your cell calls.
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Scary stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tweet Of The Night: Where Kim Jong Un Got His Idea to Target Filmmakers
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Obama: Where'd you learn to intimidate filmmakers?
Kim Jong-un: From you, okay? I learned it by watching you!
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Humanist Group Claims Victory After Challenging
Dorchester, SC School's Food Drive For Church
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(When was the last time a mosque held a food drive and was challenged by the "humanist group'?)
Via Charleston Post and Courierhttp://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141218/PC16/141219445
The American Humanist Association, whose slogan is "good without God," sent a letter last month to Dorchester District 2 officials threatening legal action over Oakbrook Elementary School's support of students collecting food and raising money for Old Fort Baptist Church's food pantry.
The association announced Thursday that the district "has agreed not to sponsor or endorse churches and religious institutions in the future."
"We strongly support charitable giving, but the good intentions of fundraisers and food drives can be achieved in ways that do not favor any religion," David Niose, legal director of the Appignani Humanist Legal Center, said in an email Thursday.
Students were raising money and donating food before Thanksgiving for the church's pantry, a part of its Community Impact for Christ program. The efforts were publicized on the school's website and in fliers supporting "Old Fort Baptist Missions."
The humanist association said it received complaints from some parents, and the association threatened legal action if the school didn't drop the project in a Nov. 20 letter to District Superintendent Joe Pye and Oakbrook Principal Monica O'Dea.
"The purpose of this letter is to advise you that such school-sponsored fundraising efforts – the proceeds of which go directly to an evangelical Christian Church – must immediately cease, and that our organization will pursue the matter through litigation in federal court if it does not," Monica Miller, an attorney with the Appignani Humanist Legal Center in Washington, D.C., said in the letter.
Responding to the humanist association, the school district's attorney, John Reagle, wrote that the $100 the students raised through the sale of thank-you notes and the food they collected were given to high schools for distribution to needy students instead of being donated to the church's food pantry.
High Paid SEIU Organizer Arrested In Attack
On Police At Brooklyn Bridge Protest
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(NYPD ain't messing around. SEIU was a fundamental underpinning of the Occupy movement, and has been one of the ever present groups behind these most recent protests...)
Via Daily Beast:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/18/the-high-priced-union-rep-charged-with-attacking-a-cop.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29
Robert Murray, an SEIU organizing coordinator, has been charged for Saturday night's assault on police officers on the Brooklyn Bridge.
A protester who has been charged with assaulting a New York police officer was making six-figures working for one the country's largest unions, The Daily Beast has learned.
Robert Murray, 43, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, surrendered to police at Manhattan's 5th Precinct Thursday morning.
According to a police spokesperson, Murray was charged with two felony counts of assaulting a police officer and three misdemeanors counts, one each of resisting arrest, inciting to riot, and obstruction of governmental administration. Murray has no prior arrests, the spokesman said. No date has been announced yet for Murray's arraignment, where he will enter his plea and have an opportunity to contest the charges.
Murray is male suspect #3. Female suspect #1 was arrested today. 5 others are still wanted:
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Witch Hillary Behind The Deal With Castro
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Alcoholic Hillary ready for a big night in Havana, Cuba
(Now you know where Billy has been getting his cigars. Both the Russians and Chinese are building bases in Honduras and Guatemala in a Joint-Venture to dig a new Super-size canal across Honduras to handle the super duper container ships that the Panama Canal cannot. China is footing the bill and digging the bigger ditch, while Russia is contracted to provide security for the operation. The bases and new seaports are on both coasts. China estimates there will be upwards of 90,000 workers onsite. Everyone living in the path of the 15 - 50 mile wide construction zone of the big dig have been moved out.
All this coincides with the 'gift' of 150,000 "unexpected" illegals streaming into the US from those two countries. The displaced individuals are traveling north and our enemies are moving in...)
Via WFB:http://freebeacon.com/national-security/hillary-loves-castro/
Hillary Clinton was the main architect of the deal reached with Cuba and her advocacy toward opening a new relationship with the Castro regime began almost immediately when she became secretary of state, according to a report from Bloomberg's Josh Rogin.
From 2009 until her departure in early 2013, Clinton and her top aides took the lead on the sometimes public, often private interactions with the Cuban government. According to current and former White House and State Department officials and several Cuba policy experts who were involved in the discussions, Clinton was also the top advocate inside the government for ending travel and trade restrictions on Cuba and reversing 50 years of U.S. policy to isolate the Communist island nation. Repeatedly, she pressed the White House to move faster and faced opposition from cautious high-ranking White House officials.
[...]
Clinton's advocacy on behalf of opening a new relationship with Cuba began almost as soon as she came into office. Obama had campaigned on a promise to engage enemies, but the White House initially was slow to make good on that pledge, and on the Cuba front enacted only a modest relaxation of travel rules. From the start, Clinton pushed to hold Obama to his promise with regard to Cuba.
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A Dictator's Best Friend
Column: Obama rescues tyrants from Havana to Damascus
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BY: Matthew Continetti
December 19, 2014 5:00 am
"It's a sad day for freedom," Marco Rubio told Bret Baier after President Obama announced he would normalize relations with Cuba. Not a sad day, senator: a sad year.
If there was a theme to 2014, it was Obama's persistence in bailing out dictators and theocrats from political scrapes and economic hardships, his tenacity in pursuit of engagement with America's adversaries no matter the cost to our strength, principles, credibility, or alliances.
In this president the thugs in Havana and Caracas, Damascus and Tehran, Moscow and Naypyidaw and Beijing have no better friend. For these bullies, these evildoers, these millenarians and sectarians, Barack Obama is more than a dupe. He is an insurance policy.
Cuba is but the latest example of this president's failing to exercise leverage in the pursuit of American strength and security and prestige. Here are the Castro brothers, decrepit and spent, their revolution a joke, their economy in peril thanks to the collapse in oil prices brought on by a strong dollar and increased U.S. supply.
The China option—foreign direct investment from America—is Raul and Fidel's only play to sustain power over the society they have impoverished. And Obama says yes, yes to everything: an embassy, an ambassador, diplomatic relations, travel and exchange, status among nations, removal from the list of state sponsors of terror, and a serious opportunity to lessen the embargo that has kept the dictators caged for decades.
In return, the Castro brothers give up ... well, what? Alan Gross, a political prisoner and persecuted religious minority who shouldn't have been imprisoned in the first place? A second man who has been in captivity for decades? Thin gruel.
No promise of elections, no declaration of religious freedom, no demilitarization, no opening up of Cuban prisons to international inspection. Not even a pledge that salaries from U.S. companies operating in Cuba at indentured-servitude rates—the minimum wage is $19 a month—will be paid directly to employees rather than passed through the bloated, corrupt, suffocating state.
This isn't giving away the store. This is giving away the shopping mall, town center, enterprise zone. And it is entirely in character with President Obama's foreign policy.
In the late summer of 2013 Bashar Assad was caught using chemical weapons against his own people. The president and his secretary of state decried this violation of international norms and pledged, in televised addresses, to punish the Syrian tyrant for wanton slaughter and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The application of deadly force against Assad's air force and military installations would cripple the regime and hasten the end of a civil war that has taken the lives of some 200,000 Syrians. But suddenly Obama reversed course. He signed on to a Russian proposal to prevent a military strike in exchange for Assad's "giving up" his barbaric tools.
Today Bashar Assad remains in power, his opposition is divided, he has entered into an alliance of convenience with the medieval Islamic State that governs from Raqaa to Mosul. The weapons? Earlier this month the U.S. government—Barack Obama's government—accused Syria of ongoing "systematic use" of chemical arms. I repeat: ongoing.
Not only has Obama failed to achieve his stated aims of removing Assad and ending the WMD threat. The situation is more dangerous than it was a year ago because the Islamic State's menagerie of Saddam loyalists and itinerant holy warriors is securing ground from which to launch attacks on targets throughout the world. Baathist dictators, chemical agents, refugees, Islamic armies are the consequence of this president's curious mixture of false promises and aggrieved passivity.
Barack Obama threw the Castros a lifeline, rescued Assad. But these monsters are not even the most dangerous of the despots he has enabled. An Iranian nuke would change the strategic equation of the Middle East and thus the world. Not only would Israel be threatened, so would America because of Iran's past use of terrorist proxies and increasingly sophisticated missile tech. And the threat would increase as Sunni and Turkic nations developed or bought WMD to deter the Persian hegemon.
By the end of last year the economic sanctions passed by Congress over the Obama administration's objections, as well as the shale energy revolution, had brought the Iranian economy to the brink of collapse. The moment had arrived to rally the West. Demonstrate a credible threat of force—perhaps by crippling Assad's air defenses—and force the Iranians into a defensive posture.
What did Obama do? He agreed to lift sanctions on Iran, infusing the theocratic economy with billions of dollars, in exchange for entering direct negotiations and a few paltry concessions. The centrifuges kept spinning, Iran cheated on the terms of this incredibly generous interim agreement, Iranian missile development, international terrorism, support for radical Islam, and human rights abuses went on.
Obama said U.S. advocates of sanctions were warmongers. His underlings called Israel's prime minister a chickenshit. And when the interim deal reached its expiration date, when Iran's undeterred commitment to achieving nuclear status was obvious to all, when the ayatollah was tweeting his plan to eliminate Israel from the earth, Obama extended the deal and economic relief just so he would not be exposed as a failure.
Not even Iran, however, has invaded its neighbors as unabashedly and aggressively as Vladimir Putin's Russia, which in less than eight years has annexed parts of Georgia and a critical region of Ukraine. Some 4,300 people have been killed since Putin's undeclared invasion of eastern Ukraine last spring, not counting the hundreds who died when a pro-Russian missile battery destroyed a civilian airliner.
Obama's response has been limited to sanctions on Putin and his inner circle. He has not provided the heavy arms necessary to roll back Russian advances in the east, nor has he launched a new Marshall Plan to sustain the economy of free Ukraine until Putin's illegal war comes to an end. Obama's idea of military aid is to send MREs.
This week Putin reached an impasse. Changes in the global economy—a strengthening America, plunging commodity prices, spooked foreign investors–have provoked the worst crisis in Russia since the late 1990s. The sanctions Obama has already agreed to will worsen the pain.
This is a point of maximum leverage. A public and generous commitment of financial and military aid to Ukraine, an assertion of U.S. military and ideological might, could expel the Russians from the east and inspire the democratic opposition in Moscow. What will Obama do?
Two words: Blow it. The president has agreed to sign a tough sanctions bill passed unanimously by Congress only because it contains loopholes that will allow him to shirk its harshest and most effective provisions. I do not hear him calling for increased hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, including on federal lands, I have missed his pledge to restore America's military and rebuild a force to deter the bear, I am betting he won't expand natural gas exports, or increase the number of military advisers in Kiev, or expel Russia from the G8. Opportunity missed.
Like the Castros, Assad, and the mullahs, Putin is in danger, his grip tenuous, his options narrowing. Lucky for him, lucky for the other bad guys, Putin can count on the American president to bail him out. Forget about standing up for a U.S.-led international order: Obama won't even respond to North Korea's act of war against the United States, its cyber-attack on a U.S. film studio that succeeded in limiting free speech from thousands of miles away. And Obama says he's against bullying!
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends," wrote Yeats, "And say my glory was I had such friends." Dictators don't have many friends. But they have Barack Obama.
http://freebeacon.com/columns/a-dictators-best-friend/
Soooooooo Ridiculous: Bobble-Head Al CRAPton Now Going To Have Say Over How Sony Makes Movies
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(**Warning** This article will make you headdesk...hard. What he probably told Sony was that if he didn't have a say in making movies, it will be protest time)
Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2014/12/18/sharpton-to-have-say-over-how-sony-makes-movies/
Coming to a theater near you: Al CRAPton.
Hollywood came to the Rev. Al Thursday as embattled Sony exec Amy Pascal met privately with the black leader for 90 minutes in a bid to fix the fallout from the cyberhacking leak of embarrassing, racially charged emails.
Pascal agreed to let Sharpton have a say in how Sony makes motion pictures, in an effort to combat what he called "inflexible and immovable racial exclusion in Hollywood."
"We have agreed to having a working group deal with the racial bias and lack of diversity in Hollywood," said Sharpton.
He said Sony would work closely with his National Action Network, the National Urban League, the NAACP and the Black Women's Round Table to "see if we can come up with an immediate plan to deal with it."
The meeting, held behind closed doors at the Greenwich Hotel, also included National Urban League president Marc Morial.
BREAKING:
US Special Forces Engage ISIS for the First Time...
Here's How It Ended Up
Thursday, December 18th, 2014
The U.S. Special Forces aren't known for backing down from a fight. After months of being on the sidelines in the Middle East, the elite fighters just took on the largest group of radical Islamic terrorists in Iraq and Syria in ground combat.
It didn't end well ... for the enemy.
Reports indicate that the terrorist group, which calls itself the Islamic State, attacked an Iraqi Army outpost late Sunday night. It wasn't just Iraqis who were at that base, however. Over one hundred Americans were also at the location providing training and support to the foreign allies.
As the Islamic State forces hit the base, the Americans took action. They used light and medium infantry weapons to repel the attack, and were assisted by air support from F-18 Hornets.
The battle is the first time that U.S. Special Forces advisers have directly engaged the Islamic State. One translated Iraqi news report described the clash.
"U.S. troops have entered with its Iraqi partner, according to Colonel Salam Nazim, in line against ISIS elements and clashed with them for more than two hours, to succeed in removing them from al-Dolab area, and causing losses in their ranks.
"At a time American fighter jets directed several strikes focused on ISIS gatherings that silenced their heavy sources of fire. (Colonel Nazim) points out that the clashes took place between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m," continued the report (H/T: Controversial Times).
In blunt terms, the result was a rear end whipping. An American commander reported that ISIS suffered heavy casualties. At the same time, U.S. forces did not see a single loss.
Sheikh Mahmud Nimrawi, regional leader, stated "U.S. forces intervened because of ISIS started to come near the base, which they are stationed in. So out of self-defense, they responded, welcoming the U.S. intervention, which I hope will not be the last."
While the United States has been providing support against ISIS, much of the actual fighting has been done by local resistance groups.
This battle could be a turning point toward a more involved strategy of direct action against the Islamic terrorist group. At the very least, ISIS has learned a lesson: Be careful who pick a fight with.
http://conservativetribune.com/special-forces-engage-isis/
GUNS
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Barack Insane Obuma at a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas , asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence.
Then he said into the microphone, "Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence."
Then, little Richard Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said: ''Well, dumb-ass, stop clapping!"*Anti Gun Control Facts*
1. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Gun control is not about guns, it's about control.
4. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
5. If you don't know your rights you don't have any.
6. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
7. Guns only have two enemies: rust and politicians.
8. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
9. You don't shoot to kill, you shoot to stay alive.
10. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
11. Criminals love gun control... it makes their jobs safer.
12. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
13. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
14. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
15. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
After Killing Of NYPD Officers, Thousands Angrily Say De Blasio, CRAPton And Obuma Are Responsible
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(Turn around: Hundreds of members of NYPD turned their back on Mayor de Blasio as he entered a news conference on Saturday. Petition demanding the resignation of Mayor de Blasio already has over 38,000 signatures on it and climbing fast... http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/resignation-of-new-york?source=s.icn.tw&r_by=12132401 )
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Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2882169/Bill-Blasio-charged-murder-Hundreds-attack-New-York-City-Mayor-having-blood-hands-two-police-officers-ambushed-killed.html
*** New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is accused of having 'blood on his hands' over anti-police sentiments
*** Hundreds are attacking Mayor Bill de Blasio, President Barack Obama and Al Sharpton after the murder of two police officers in Brooklyn on Saturday
*** Many are saying that Mayor de Blasio has 'blood on his hands' and 'should be charged with murder'
*** Retired NYPD detective Harry Houck told CNN, 'I guess Al Sharpton got what he wanted'
*** A Move On petition demanding that Mayor de Blasio resign already has thousands of signatures
*** Sharpton has released a statement saying, 'We plan to hold a press conference in the morning to express our outrage and our condolences to the families and the police department'
*** Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik said, 'De Blasio, Sharpton and all those who encouraged this anti-cop, racist mentality all have blood on their hands'
*** Hundreds of officers lined the street at the Woodhull medical Center and silently saluted as the bodies of the two police officers were driven away Saturday evening Many are blaming the murder of two New York City cops on Saturday afternoon on Mayor Bill de Blasio following his recent support for protesters in the city marching in opposition to a grand jury's decision to not indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner.
Hundreds have taken to social media to say that de Blasio has 'blood on his hands' and should 'be charged with murder' after the two men were killed 'execution style' in Brooklyn.
What's more, many feel that de Blasio should not attend the officers' funerals, this after many members of the NYPD signed a petition asking that the Mayor not attend their service should they be killed in the line of duty in light of his recent actions.The Murderers of NYCity Policemen:
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Barack Obuma
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Al Crapton
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New York Mayor Warren Wilhelm, Jr. aka Bill de Blasio
[...]
Resignation of New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio
Petition by The people of NYC
To be delivered to The New York State House, The New York State Senate, and Governor Andrew Cuomo NYC residents demand the exit of Mayor Bill DeBlasio after 2 NYPD officers were shot and killed today 12/20/14. Accountability for his actions and words MUST be handed down.There are currently
38,296 signatures. NEW goal - We need
40,000 signatures!
Petition Background:Today, Saturday December 20th 2014, 5 days before christmas, 2 NYPD officers were shot and killed in their cruiser for no apparent reason.With the recent news surrounding the NYPD and other law enforcement agencies around the country, our mayor blasted his own police department by throwing them under the bus. His words and actions on the subject matter of late have to be held accountable. He is unfit to lead this city. He is unfit to have a relationship with his police department for his remaining tenure and he should be taken out of office
IMMEDIATELY, with proper protocol to be followed to name a replacement before a special election.
The Ungodly Amount of Money
the GOP Has
Given to Immigrants
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Say it ain't so.
First Americans have had to deal with the open attacks on the border from the President and his pro-amnesty brethren.
And now Americans are taking it on the chin, courtesy of the GOP.
What have they done? They've voted to send nearly $1 billion dollars to help illegal immigrants move to the U.S.
As The Daily Caller notes:
The GOP's draft 2015 "omnibus" spending bill reportedly includes $948 million to help poor and unskilled Central American migrants establish themselves in the United States, but includes no effective restrictions on President Barack Obama's plan to provide work permits and tax payments to millions of resident illegal immigrants.
That new spending works out to $16,928 for each of the 56,000 youths, young adults and children who crossed the border during the 12 months up to October 2014.
This immigration issue has become one of the most problematic to beset Americans in the past few years.
It has caused Americans great stress to know their sovereign nation has been overrun with thugs, criminals, and free-loaders for decades. And the worst part is the Republican leadership should be doing something to reverse this harmful trend, and they're not.
Which is why the recent report where it was revealed Obama was providing employers with $3,000 bribes to hire illegals served as a vicious gut-check for Americans. These kinds of moves are further impeding the ability for struggling Americans to get back on their feet. And when the people they voted into office are doing nothing to defend them from these attacks, it's devastating.
Now, with the GOP leadership on King Obama's side in terms of immigration, it looks like the bottom has dropped out and the quality of American life is headed straight for the sewer.
One of the biggest problems here is the GOP leadership is not willing work with the GOP legislators who want to enforce the constitutional provisions of a secure border.
GOP leadership appears to be far too comfortable on their perches way up top.
As one Congressional aide said, "Leadership is basically giving in to every facet of Obama's amnesty. We're giving up an astonishing amount of leverage on every issue imaginable."
This is intolerable.
The burden this places on American tax payers is staggering. Especially considering how many immigrants continue to make it into the nation every single year.
It was estimated by the Heritage Foundation the new amnesty proposal will cost around $2 Trillion dollars over the next 5 decades. Or an average of $10 per month, per taxpayer until 2064.
You can only wonder why the GOP leadership isn't pressing in and trying to repeal this dreadful decision.
It's sad to say, frightening even, some of the leading Republicans just don't care about their constituents.
The reasoning behind their callousness in regards to some of these sensitive issues is unknown.
http://americanprosperity.com/the-ungodly-amount-of-money-the-gop-has-given-to-immigrants/
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Wow. Marine ARRESTED
for This Facebook Post
About Obama
Friday, December 19th, 2014
The First Amendment is the cornerstone of the Bill of Rights. It guarantees every American the right to express their political opinions, no matter how unpopular they are.
However, in this day and age, the First Amendment is under assault. And it's under assault by the very people who claim to stand for the freedom of speech — liberals.
Brandon Raub is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps who decided to post critical opinions about Barack Obama on Facebook. What happened to him then will strike fear into the hearts of any good American and make them wonder what country they're living in.
According to the Rutherford Institute, Raub was arrested by "a swarm of FBI, Secret Service agents and local police," and detained without charges for "mental evaluation."
The detention, it's alleged, was done under a federal program codenamed "Operation Vigilant Eagle." The program is intended to surveil former veterans who publicly express opinions critical of the government.
After ten days of detention, Raub was released, with the presiding judge noting that the government's case for detention was "so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably expected to give rise to a case or controversy."
Nevertheless, Raub's lawsuit against the government was dismissed, with the judge finding that censorship concerns were "far-fetched."
John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, disagrees.
"What may sound far-fetched to the courts is a grim reality to Americans who are daily being targeted for daring to exercise their constitutional rights to speak their minds, worship as they please, criticize the government, defend themselves and their families against over-reaching government surveillance and heavy-handed police tactics," Whitehead said.
"Ultimately, Brandon Raub's case tests our tolerance for free speech and those dissidents who keep the First Amendment relevant, because if we cannot proclaim our feelings about the government, no matter how controversial — on our clothing, or to passersby, or to the users of the world wide web — then the First Amendment really has become an exercise in futility," he added.
Below is one of Brandon Raub's posts. While not exactly in the mainstream of political thought, it certainly doesn't seem to represent someone who represents a danger to the community (H/T Teaparty.org).
The Truth
by Brandon J Raub on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 10:00 am
America has lost itself. We have lost who we truly are. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave.
This is the land of Thomas Jefferson.
This is the land of Benjamin Franklin.
This is the land of Fredrick Douglas.
This is the land of Smedley Butler.
This is the land John F. Kennedy.
This is the land of Martin Luther King.
This is the land where the cowboy wins. This is the land where you can start from the bottom and get to the top. This is the land where regardless of you race and ethnicity you can succeed and build a better life for you and your family. This is the land where every race coexists peacefully. This is the land where justice wins. This is the land where liberty dwells. This is the land where freedom reigns. This is the land where we help the poor, and people help each other. This is land where people beat racism.
The Federal Reserve is wrong. They have designed a system based off of greed and fear. They designed a system to crush the middle class between taxes and inflation. This is wrong, and it is unjust. It is wrong.
We have allowed ourselves to be deceived and seduced by the powers of the printing press. It is not a good system. It discourages saving: the foundation for all stable economic activity. The Federal Reserve is artificially manipulating interest rates and creating phony economic data.
This thing has deceived our entire nation.
They created it in 1913. They also created the income tax in 1913. They encouraged the growth of debt so they can tax you on it. There is interest on the debt. Your government is in bed with these people. They want to enslave you to the government so that they can control every aspect of your lives. It is an empire based on lies. They operate of greed and fear.
There is a better way. It's called freedom. Freedom is called a lot of things. But there is a true meaning. It means very simply that you have the right to do whatever you want as long as you are not infringing on the freedoms of other people.
I firmly believe that God set America apart from the other nations of the world. He saved a place where people could come to to escape bad systems of goverment. This system we have created works. It really works.
There is evil going on all around the world. The United States was meant to lead the charge against injustice, but through our example not our force. People do not respond to having liberty and freedom forced on them.
Men and Women follow courage. They follow leadership, and courage. Our example has paved the way for people all around the world to change their forms of government.
Force is not the way because liberty is a powerful concept. The idea that men can govern themselves is the basis for every just form of government.
We can govern ourselves. We do not need to be governed by men who want to install a one world banking system. These men have machine hearts. Machine and unnatural hearts.
They have blocked out the possibility of a better world. They fear human progress. They have monopolies on everything.
This life can be free and beautiful. There are enough resources on this earth to support the world's population. There are enough resources on this earth to feed everyone. There is enough land for everyone to own their own land and farm, and produce their own energy.
These people have been hiding technology. There are ways to create power easily. There is technology that can provide free cheap power for everyone. There are farming techniques that can feed the entire world.
The Bill of Rights is being systematically dismantled. Men have spilled their blood for those rights.
Your sons and daughters, your brothers and sisters, and Americas best young men and women are losing their limbs. They are losing their lives. They are losing the hearts. They do not know why they are fighting. They are killing. And they do not know why.
They have done some extraordinary acts. Their deeds go before them. But these wars are lies. They are lies. They deceived our entire nation with terrorism. They have gotten us to hand them our rights. Our Rights! Men died for those rights!
September Eleventh was an inside job. They blew up a third building in broad daylight. Building 7.
Your leaders betrayed you.
You elected an aristocracy. They are beholden to special interests. They were brainwashed through the Council on Foreign Relations. Your leaders are planning to merge the United States into a one world banking system. They want to put computer chips in you.
These men have evil hearts. They have tricked you into supporting corporate fascism. We gave them the keys to our country. We were not vigilant with our republic.
There is hope. BUT WE MUST TAKE OUR REPUBLIC BACK.
http://conservativetribune.com/marine-arrested-facebook-post/
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXCHESTERFIELD, Va. (WTVR) – Attorneys for the Chesterfield Marine veteran who has been detained since Thursday over alleged Facebook posts released a statement Monday afternoon.
The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties group, is representing 26-year-old Brandon Raub.
Here is the group's complete, unedited statement on the incident:
The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of a former Marine, 26-year-old Brandon Raub, who was arrested, detained indefinitely in a psych ward and forced to undergo psychological evaluations based solely on the controversial nature of lines from song lyrics, political messages and virtual card games which he posted to his private Facebook page.
Although the FBI and Chesterfield County police have not charged Brandon Raub, a resident of Chesterfield County, Va., with committing any crime, they arrested Raub on Thursday, August 16, 2012, and transported him to John Randolph Medical Center, where he was held against his will due to alleged concerns that his Facebook (FB) posts were controversial and "terrorist in nature."
In a hearing held at the hospital, government officials disregarded Raub's explanation that the Facebook posts were being interpreted out of context, sentencing him up to 30 days' further confinement in a VA psych ward.
In coming to Raub's defense, Rutherford Institute attorneys are challenging Raub's arrest and forcible detention, as well as the government's overt Facebook surveillance and violation of Raub's First Amendment rights.
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"For government officials to not only arrest Brandon Raub for doing nothing more than exercising his First Amendment rights but to actually force him to undergo psychological evaluations and detain him against his will goes against every constitutional principle this country was founded upon. This should be a wake-up call to Americans that the police state is here," said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. "Brandon Raub is no different from the majority of Americans who use their private Facebook pages to post a variety of content, ranging from song lyrics and political hyperbole to trash talking their neighbors, friends and government leaders."
Brandon Raub, a former Marine who has served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was detained by FBI agents and police officers at his home in Chesterfield County based upon the nature of content posted to his Facebook page in recent months.
Like many Facebook users, Raub uses his FB page to post songs lyrics and air his political opinions, as well as engage in virtual online games with other users.
On Thursday, August 16, police and FBI agents arrived at Raub's home, asking to speak with him about his Facebook posts. They did not provide Raub with a search warrant. Raub was cooperative and agreed to speak with them. Without providing any explanation, levying any charges against Raub or reading him his rights, law enforcement officials then handcuffed Raub and transported him first to the police headquarters, then to John Randolph Medical Center, where he was held against his will.
Outraged onlookers filmed the arrest and posted the footage to YouTube. Law enforcement officials have stated in press reports that Raub was not arrested. However, as attorney John Whitehead points out, if the police have put handcuffs on you and you're being held against your will, that qualifies as an arrest.
In a hearing before a judge on August 20, government officials again pointed to Raub's Facebook posts as the sole reason for their concern and for his continued incarceration.
Ignoring Raub's explanations about the fact that the FB posts were being read out of context and his attorney's First Amendment defense, the judge agreed that Raub should be incarcerated at a VA hospital for up to 30 more days.
Rutherford Institute attorneys are working to challenge Raub's detention and the highly unconstitutional nature of the government's actions.
http://wtvr.com/2012/08/20/statement-from-attorneys-on-brandon-raub-detention/
RETALIATION?
North Korea's Internet goes dark in possible cyberattack
North Korea experiencing
widespread Internet outages
Published December 22, 2014 FoxNews.com(There is a news video at the web site)
North Korea experienced a massive Internet outage Monday, and some researchers and web watchers speculated that the country's online connections could be under cyberattack.
The Internet outage comes less than a week after the U.S. vowed an unspecified response to a massive hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment over the release of the comedy film "The Interview." The plot of the comedy centers on the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, leading to widespread speculation that the country was responsible for the attack. Late last week, the FBI publicly blamed North Korea in the incident, though Pyongyang has denied involvement.
The White House and the State Department on Monday declined to say whether the U.S. government had any role in North Korea's Internet problems.
"We have no new information to share regarding North Korea today," White House National Security Council spokesperson Bernadette Meehan told Fox News. "If in fact North Korea's Internet has gone down, we'd refer you to that government for comment."
Doug Madory, the director of Internet analysis at New Hampshire-based Dyn Research, a company that studies Internet connectivity, said the problems were discovered over the weekend and grew progressively worse to the point that "North Korea's totally down."
"They have left the global Internet and they are gone until they come back," he said.
He said one benign explanation for the problem was that a router may have suffered a software glitch, though a cyberattack involving North Korea's Internet service was also a possibility.
Routing instabilities are not uncommon, but this particular outage had gone on for hours and was getting worse instead of better, Madory said.
"This doesn't fit that profile," of an ordinary routing problem, he said. "This shows something getting progressively worse over time."
President Obama said Friday that the U.S. government expected to respond "proportionately" to the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., which he described as an expensive act of "cyber vandalism" that he blamed on North Korea. Obama did not say how the U.S. might respond.
"We aren't going to discuss, you know, publicly operational details about the possible response options or comment on those kind of reports in anyway except to say that as we implement our responses, some will be seen, some may not be seen," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said last week.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/12/22/north-korea-experiencing-widespread-internet-outages/
Sure they can pass a budget containing a trillion dollars for illegal immigrants but can't afford needed medications for veterans.Sky-High Price Has VA Rationing Drugs
December 18, 2014 | Tom Philpott
MILITARY UPDATE: Sky-High Price Has VA Rationing New Hepatitis C Drug
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) used one of his last hearings as chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee to review how VA has had to ration a break-through medicine that cures hepatitis C, a liver virus infecting 174,000 veterans, because a course of treatment – 84 pills over 12 weeks — costs VA almost $50,000 per patient.
Sanders said the biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc., of Foster City, Calif., stands to earn more than $200 billion on a new drug called Sovaldi. When combined with still toxic antiviral medicines including interferon injections, Sovaldi cures hepatitis C at a 90 percent rate, and does so faster and with fewer side effects than past drug regimens.
That a cure has been found is good news, Sanders said, especially for veterans who are infected with hepatitis C at three times the rate of the general population. Vietnam War-era vets are hit particularly hard because of battlefield blood exposure, non-sterile vaccination routines, wartime sharing of razors, drug abuse and recruit demographics from the last draft era.
What's disturbing and "astounding," Sanders said, are pill prices set by Gilead. VA has budgeted $1.3 billion to buy Sovaldi over the next two years to treat mostly patients with advance liver disease or liver cancer, said Michael Valentino, chief consultant for VA Pharmacy Benefits Management Services. There's money enough for 25,000 to 30,000 patients, he said.
If VA had an unlimited drug budget, said Dr. David Ross, director of HIV, hepatitis C and public health pathogens programs for VA, it would provide Sovaldi at least to half and perhaps two-thirds of the 174,000 vets infected with the virus. Some are better off waiting, Ross explained, because medicines are being developed that, unlike Sovaldi, will not have to be taken in combination with more toxic drugs.
At the hearing this month, Sanders had executives from public interest groups that lobby for more affordable medicines join him in criticizing Gilead's prices and profits for treating a virus that infects 3.2 million Americans. They reviewed how a small drug research firm, Pharmasset, developed Sovaldi as a first-ever oral treatment for hepatitis C, replacing painful injections. Gilead then bought Pharmasset in 2011 for $11 billion.
Read more: http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2014/12/sky-high-drug-price-has-va-rationing-new-hepatitis-c-drug/#ixzz3MgcnJTyO
MilitaryAdvantage.Military.com
ONE MESSAGE WE ALL NEED TO HEAR:
Don't fear,
don't be intimidated,
America,
Stand Up Now!
Whatever you do in America influences everybody in the world. You have that grace. One thing that Islam is doing to defeat you is causing you to be cowards, fearful to stand up and speak against the invasion of
Islamization which is going on in your country. Stand up now, before it is too late."
WATCH HIS "ONE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE" VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7zhZmcwwLM
Published on Jul 21, 2014
Pastor Mulinde is an ex-Muslim who was attacked by his former coreligionists.
This is only a portion of The United West's interview. The full interview is featured on Breitbart today (http://bit.ly/1qXLrc3).
Send to all kids and grandkids so they can track Santa Claus
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Website: http://www.noradsanta.org/
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Why we track SantaFor more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa's flight.
In Memory of Retired Colonel Harry Shoup, NORAD's First Santa Tracker
September 29, 1917 - March 14, 2009
The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to call Santa. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief's operations "hotline." The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born.
In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for North America called the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, which then took on the tradition of tracking Santa.
Since that time, NORAD men, women, family and friends have selflessly volunteered their time to personally respond to phone calls and emails from children all around the world. In addition, we now track Santa using the internet. Millions of people who want to know Santa's whereabouts now visit the NORAD Tracks Santa® website.
Finally, media from all over the world rely on NORAD as a trusted source to provide updates on Santa's journey.
How we track Santa:RadarIt all starts with the NORAD radar system called the North Warning System. This powerful radar system has 47 installations strung across Canada's North and Alaska. NORAD makes a point of checking the radar closely for indications of Santa Claus leaving the North Pole every holiday season. The moment our radar tells us that Santa has lifted off, we begin to use the same satellites that we use in providing air warning of possible missile launches aimed at North America.
SatellitesThese satellites are located in a geo-synchronous orbit (that's a cool phrase meaning that the satellite is always fixed over the same spot on the Earth) at 22,300 miles above the Earth. The satellites have infrared sensors, meaning they can see heat. When a rocket or missile is launched, a tremendous amount of heat is produced - enough for the satellites to see them. Rudolph's nose gives off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch. The satellites detect Rudolph's bright red nose with no problem.
SantaCamsThe third system we use is the SantaCam. We began using it in 1998 - the year we put our Santa Tracking program on the Internet. NORAD SantaCams are ultra-cool, high-tech, high-speed digital cameras that are pre-positioned at many places around the world. NORAD only uses these cameras once a year – on 24 December. We turn the cameras on about one hour before Santa enters a country then switch them off after we capture images of him and the Reindeer. We immediately download the images onto our web site for people around the world to see. SantaCams produce both video and still images.
Jet Fighters
The last system we use is the NORAD jet fighter. Canadian NORAD fighter pilots, flying the CF-18, take off out of Newfoundland and welcome Santa to North America. Then at numerous locations in Canada other CF-18 fighter pilots escort Santa. While in the United States, American NORAD fighter pilots in either the F-15s, F16s or F-22s get the thrill of flying with Santa and the famous Reindeer - Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolph. Even though Santa flies faster than any jet fighter (Santa actually slows down for us to escort him), all of these systems together provide NORAD with a very good continuous picture of his whereabouts.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)How long has NORAD been tracking Santa?NORAD's predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), began tracking Santa in 1955. NORAD replaced CONAD in 1958 and took over the mission of tracking Santa's flight around the world, and they have been tracking Santa every year since!
Why does NORAD track Santa?Twenty four hours a day, 365 days a year, NORAD tracks airplanes, missiles, space launches and anything else that flies in or around the North American continent, while also completing some other very important missions. While the tradition of tracking Santa began purely by accident, NORAD continues to track Santa. We're the only organization that has the technology, the qualifications, and the people to do it. And, we love it! NORAD is honored to be Santa's official tracker!
When will Santa arrive at my house?NORAD Tracks Santa, but only Santa knows his route, which means we cannot predict where and when he will arrive at your house. We do, however, know from history that it appears he arrives only when children are asleep! In most countries, it seems Santa arrives between 9:00 p.m. and midnight on December 24th. If children are still awake when Santa arrives, he moves on to other houses. He returns later...but only when the children are asleep!
What route does Santa travel?Santa usually starts at the International Date Line in the Pacific Ocean and travels west. So, historically, Santa visits the South Pacific first, then New Zealand and Australia. After that, he shoots up to Japan, over to Asia, across to Africa, then onto Western Europe, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Central and South America. Keep in mind, Santa's route can be affected by weather, so it's really unpredictable. NORAD coordinates with Santa's Elf Launch Staff to confirm his launch time, but from that point on, Santa calls the shots. We just track him!
Does Santa visit everyone (i.e. Afghanistan, Israel, non-Christian countries)?Indeed! Santa visits all homes where children believe in him.
How can Santa travel the world within 24 hours?NORAD intelligence reports indicate that Santa does not experience time the way we do. His trip seems to take 24 hours to us, but to Santa it might last days, weeks or even months. Santa would not want to rush the important job of delivering presents to children and spreading joy to everyone, so the only logical conclusion is that Santa somehow functions within his own time-space continuum.
Is there a Santa Claus?Mountains of historical data and more than 50 years of NORAD tracking information leads us to believe that Santa Claus is alive and well in the hearts of people throughout the world.
How old is Santa?It's hard to know for sure, but NORAD intelligence indicates Santa is AT LEAST 16 centuries old.
What does Santa look like?Based on flight profile data gathered from over 50 years of NORAD's radar and satellite tracking, NORAD concludes that Santa probably stands about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs approximately 260 pounds (before cookies). Based on fighter-aircraft photos, we know he has a generous girth (belly), rosy cheeks from sleigh riding in cold weather, and a flowing white beard.
How does Santa get down chimneys?Although NORAD has different hypotheses and theories as to how Santa actually gets down the chimneys, we don't have definitive information to explain the magical phenomenon.
Do your planes ever intercept Santa?Over the past 50 years, our fighter jets (F-16s, F-15s, F-22s and CF-18s) have intercepted Santa many, many times. When the jets intercept Santa, they tip their wings to say, "Hello Santa! – NORAD is tracking you again this year!" Santa always waves. He loves to see the pilots!
Does NORAD have any pictures of Santa taken from your planes?Our fighter pilots love to take photos of Santa. We also have NORAD Santa Cams in space which take video of Santa as he flies round the world. These videos appear almost every hour on December 24th at www.noradsanta.org.
Does NORAD have any statistics on Santa's sleigh?NORAD can confirm that Santa's sleigh is a versatile, all weather, multi-purpose, vertical short-take-off and landing vehicle. It is capable of traveling vast distances without refueling and is deployed, as far as we know, only on December 24th (and sometimes briefly for a test flight about a month before Christmas).
Sleigh Technical DataDesigner & Builder K. Kringle & Elves, Inc.
Probable First Flight Dec. 24, 343 A.D.
Home Base North Pole
Length 75 cc (candy canes) / 150 lp (lollipops)
Width 40 cc / 80 lp
Height 55 cc / 110 lp
Note: Length, width and height are without reindeer
Weight at takeoff 75,000 gd (gumdrops)
Passenger weight at takeoff Santa Claus 260 pounds
Weight of gifts at takeoff 60,000 tons
Weight at landing 80,000 gd (ice & snow accumulation)
Passenger weight at landing 1,260 pounds
Propulsion Nine (9) rp (reindeer power)
Armament Antlers (purely defensive)
Fuel Hay, oats and carrots (for reindeer)
Emissions Classified
Climbing speed One "T" (Twinkle of an eye)
Max speed Faster than starlight
Where is Santa right now?Santa is at the North Pole, where he lives with Mrs. Claus and the elves who make toys and take care of the reindeer year round! Each year on December 24th, Santa and his reindeer launch from the North Pole very early in the morning for their famous trip around the world. The minute they launch, NORAD starts to track him! Come back to this website on December 24th and you can track Santa along with NORAD!
I would rather talk to someone at NORAD to find out where Santa is located. Is there a number I can call?Yes! The NORAD Tracks Santa® Operations Center is fully operational beginning at 3:00a.m. MST on December 24th. You can call 1 877 HI-NORAD (1 877 446-6723) to talk directly to a NORAD staff member who will be able to tell you Santa's exact location. Operators are available until 3:00a.m. on Dec. 25th to answer your calls!
Can I send an email to NORAD to find out where Santa is located?Yes! On December 24th, you can send an email to noradtrackssanta@outlook.com A NORAD staff member will give you Santa's last known location in a return email. You can also track Santa on your mobile phone, through the official Windows 8 app, and you can even chat live with a NORAD operator to find out Santa's location!
Has Santa ever crashed into anything when he was flying around the world?Santa has been flying for centuries without hitting anything. He must be a great pilot!
Besides tracking Santa, what does NORAD normally do?NORAD is a bi-national U.S./Canadian military organization responsible for aerospace warning, aerospace control, and maritime warning in the defense of North America. NORAD provides warning of impending missile and air attacks, safeguards the air sovereignty of North America, and maintains airborne forces for defense against attack. NORAD performs this important mission 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. www.norad.mil or follow us on Facebook at facebook.com/noradnorthcom.
How many people support this effort, and are they active duty military personnel?More than 1,250 Canadian and American uniformed personnel and DOD civilians volunteer their time on December 24th to answer the thousands of phone calls and emails that flood in from around the world. In addition to the support provided by our corporate contributors to make this program possible, NORAD has two lead project officers who manage the program.
11 Ways You Know You Live In A Country Run By Idiots
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Two of America's Biggest Idiots on there way to Baskin&Robbins
1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.
2. If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion, you live in a country run by idiots.
3. If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote on who runs the government, you live in a country run by idiots.
4. If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy leaders in Egypt, you live in a country run by idiots.
5. If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat, you live in a country run by idiots.
6. If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched, you live in a country run by idiots.
7. If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more, you live in a country run by idiots.
8. If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of grade school for saying his teacher's "cute," but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you live in a country run by idiots.
9. If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell phones, you live in a country run by idiots.
10. If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working, with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can't find work, you live in a country run by idiots.
11. If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more "safe" according to the government, you live in a country run by idiots.
T'Was The Night Before Christmas
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T'WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,
HE LIVED ALL ALONE,
IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE
MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE.
I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY
WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,
AND TO SEE JUST WHO
IN THIS HOME DID LIVE.
LOOKED ALL ABOUT,
A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,
NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,
NOT EVEN A TREE.
NO STOCKING BY MANTLE,
JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,
ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES
OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.
WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,
AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,
A SOBER THOUGHT
CAME THROUGH MY MIND.
FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,
IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,
I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,
ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.
THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,
SILENT, ALONE,
CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR
IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.
THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,
THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER,
NOT HOW I PICTURED
A UNITED STATES SOLDIER.
WAS THIS THE HERO
OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?
CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,
THE FLOOR FOR A BED?
I REALIZED THE FAMILIES
THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,
OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS
WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.
SOON ROUND THE WORLD,
THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,
AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE
A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.
THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM
EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,
BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,
LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.
I COULDN'T HELP WONDER
HOW MANY LAY ALONE,
ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE
IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.
THE VERY THOUGHT
BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE,
I DROPPED TO MY KNEES
AND STARTED TO CRY.
THE SOLDIER AWAKENED
AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,
"SANTA DON'T CRY,
THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;
I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,
I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,
MY LIFE IS MY GOD,
MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS."
THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER
AND SOON DRIFTED TO SLEEP,
I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,
I CONTINUED TO WEEP.
I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,
SO SILENT AND STILL
AND WE BOTH SHIVERED
FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.
I DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE
ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,
THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR
SO WILLING TO FIGHT.
THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,
WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,
WHISPERED, "CARRY ON SANTA,
IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE."
ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,
AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,
AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT."
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It's all over the internet. LOL
A Good Marine
This Gun Owner's Epic Sign in His Front Yard is Going Viral [PICTURE]
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Anti-gun liberals are often under the delusional belief that if they somehow manage to ban all guns, violence around the world will grind to a halt and everyone will gather around the fire and sing "Kumbaya."
One proud gun owner who appeared to have had one too many gun control debates with a liberal, gun-hating neighbor decided to put this individual's belief to the test by displaying an epic sign in their yard that's now going viral.
Progressives often believe they can legislate morality and that if less people owned guns it would magically make the world a safer place.
Unfortunately, gun control only takes weapons out of the hands of law abiding citizens and puts people at risk of becoming victims of violent crimes, a point this awesome sign makes pretty clear.
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EXPERT: OBAMA ECONOMIC SURGE
BUILT ON DOCTORED DATA
'Suggestions that all is right again with the world are nonsense'
NEW YORK – The White House appears determined to deliver in the president's upcoming State of the Union speech a ringing message that economic growth under Obama is robust, with the DOW topping 18,000 for the first time and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reporting last week revised estimates placing third-quarter growth at an impressive 5 percent.
But critics, like ShadowStats.com econometrician John Williams, call it a smoke-and-mirrors illusion of economic data dishonestly calculated and reported to look rosy.
Put simply, Williams, in the most recent edition of his subscription newsletter, argues that the developing White House narrative of "the strongest economic growth in a decade" is nonsense.
He argues that the full economic recovery indicated by the real GDP numbers reported last week by BEA is "a statistical illusion created by using too-low a rate of inflation in deflating (removing inflation effects) from the GDP series."
Williams further argues "no other major economic series has shown a parallel pattern of official full economic recovery and meaningful expansion beyond, consistent with GDP reporting."
Williams' analysis of retail sales, again adjusted to remove an artificially low rate of inflation, shows "a pattern of plunge and stagnation and renewed downturn, consistent with patterns seen in series such as consumer indicators like real median household income, the consumer confidence measures and in the unemployment and most housing statistics."
WND previously has reported that real unemployment in the U.S., measured by traditional definitions that include an estimate of those forced to drop out of the labor force because jobs are lacking and those seeking full-time employment who are forced to take part-time employment is closer to 23 percent, rather than the 5.8 percent the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in November, confirming Donald Trump's accusation that Obama's jobless numbers are "phony."
Williams estimates that adjusted for inflation, orders for durable goods declined by 0.62 percent in November, versus a revised decline of 0.12 percent in October, and a revised September monthly decline of 0.68 percent.
He calculates that sales of existing homes showed a seasonally adjusted decline of 6.1 percent in November, with 9 percent of November sales of existing homes in distress (6 percent foreclosures, plus 3 percent short sales).
Contrast this with the narrative the White House suggested in a press release on Dec. 18, when the administration stated: "President Obama took office in the depths of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Six years later, thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, and the decisive actions he took early on – to bring the economy back from the brink, to save the auto industry, and to build a new foundation for middle-class growth – we've made real progress."
In a press briefing two days earlier, White House press counsel Josh Earnest delivered a similar tone, stating: "Now, 2014 was a milestone for economic progress in the United States, but there's much more work to do."
He continued: "This year, America's businesses added jobs at the fastest rate since the 1990s. The most interesting statistic I've seen on this is that we've now had 10 consecutive months of more than 200,000 job created in the private sector in each of those months."
The statements portray Obama as having engineered an economic miracle that is historic in nature.
"That is the longest streak in nearly 20 years," Earnest continued. "And while many of these good, full-time, middle-class jobs and wages have begun to rise, it's still too hard for many middle-class families to get ahead."
Also, despite the Obama administration's war on coal and refusal to support the Keystone pipeline, the White House claims credit for declining gas prices.
"And while gas prices have fallen as we've produced more oil, and the growth of health care costs has slowed as the Affordable Care Act has been implemented, it's still too hard for many middle-class families to make ends meet," Earnest emphasized.
Williams is of another opinion.
"U.S. economic activity is turning down anew, despite overstated growth in recent GDP reporting. The headline contraction in first-quarter 2014 GDP was the reality; the headline second-quarter GDP boom and continued strong headline GDP growth in third-quarter 2014 were not," Williams concludes. "The more recent data appear to have been spiked, at best, by overly optimistic assumptions on the part of the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). At worst, the bloated growth estimates reflect heavy political massaging."
Williams anticipated current BEA revised estimates of third quarter growth will "suffer heavy downside revisions" in the July 30, 2015, benchmark revision with early indications predicting an outright contraction in fourth quarter 2014 GDP.
"Future, constructive Federal Reserve behavior – purportedly moving towards normal monetary conditions in the currently unfolding, perfect economic environment – is pre-conditioned by a continued flow of 'happy' economic news," Williams writes.
"Suggestions that all is right again with the world are nonsense," he continues. "The 2008 Panic never has been resolved, and the Fed soon will find that it has no easy escape from its quantitative easing."
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/12/expert-obama-economy-based-on-doctored-data/#QLIYCYb9uZkydlsu.99
John
Williams'
Shadow Government Statistics
Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting
ShadowStats Newsletter
"John Williams' Shadow Government Statistics" is an electronic newsletter service that exposes and analyzes flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic and financial conditions, net of financial-market and political hype.
Some Biographical & Additional Background Information
Walter J. "John" Williams was born in 1949. He received an A.B. in Economics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1971, and was awarded a M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1972, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar. During his career as a consulting economist, John has worked with individuals as well as Fortune 500 companies.
Although I am known formally as Walter J. Williams, my friends call me "John." For 30 years, I have been a private consulting economist and, out of necessity, had to become a specialist in government economic reporting.
One of my early clients was a large manufacturer of commercial airplanes, who had developed an econometric model for predicting revenue passenger miles. The level of revenue passenger miles was their primary sales forecasting tool, and the model was heavily dependent on the GNP (now GDP) as reported by the Department of Commerce. Suddenly, their model stopped working, and they asked me if I could fix it. I realized the GNP numbers were faulty, corrected them for my client (official reporting was similarly revised a couple of years later) and the model worked again, at least for a while, until GNP methodological changes eventually made the underlying data worthless.
That began a lengthy process of exploring the history and nature of economic reporting and in interviewing key people involved in the process from the early days of government reporting through the present. For a number of years I conducted surveys among business economists as to the quality of government statistics (the vast majority thought it was pretty bad), and my results led to front page stories in 1989 in the New York Times and Investors Daily (now Investors Business Daily), considerable coverage in the broadcast media and a joint meeting with representatives of all the government's statistical agencies.
Nonetheless, the quality of government reporting has deteriorated sharply in the last couple of decades. Reporting problems have included methodological changes to economic reporting that have pushed headline economic and inflation results out of the realm of real-world or common experience.
Over the decades, well in excess of 1,000 presentations have been given on the economic outlook, or on approaches to analyzing economic data, to clients—large and small—including talks with members of the business, banking, government, press, academic, brokerage and investment communities. I also have provided testimony before Congress (details here).
An old friend—the late-Doug Gillespie—asked me some years back to write a series of articles on the quality of government statistics. The response to those writings (the Primer Series available at the top-center of this page) was so strong that we started ShadowStats.com (Shadow Government Statistics) in 2004. The newsletter is published as part of my economic consulting services. — John Williams
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OPEN Commentaries from June 2014
No. 637: GDP Revision, Durable Goods Orders, New- and Existing-Home Sales June, 25th, 2014
• Collapsing First-Quarter 2014 Economic Activity (GDP, GNP and GDI) Fell Below Third-Quarter 2013 Levels
• GDP Activity Fell, Even Before Adjusting for Slowing Inventory Growth
• Quarterly GDP Activity Contracted, Even Before Adjusting for Inflation
• Looming Second-Quarter Economic Contraction Likely to Formalize "Renewed" Recession and to Hit Markets Hard
• Durable Goods Orders Turned Down in Otherwise Stagnant Activity
• Despite Monthly Gain, Existing-Homes Sales Continued in Annual Contraction
• Neither Monthly nor Annual New-Home Sales Gain Was Statistically-Significant
No. 636: May CPI, Real Retail Sales and Earnings, Housing Starts June, 17th, 2014
• When Understated Headline Inflation Generates Contracting Activity,
the Economy Is in Serious Trouble,
• Inflation More Than Wiped Out the Headline Gain in May Retail Sales
• Inflation-Adjusted Earnings Fell for Second Month
• May Annual Inflation: 2.1% (CPI-U), 2.1% (CPI-W), 9.9% (ShadowStats)
• Housing Starts in a State of Volatile Stagnation
• Second-Quarter GDP Contraction Should Follow in Wake of Continuing Downgrades of First-Quarter GDP Growth
No. 635: May Industrial Production, Producer Price Index (PPI) June, 16th, 2014
• Drop in Headline PPI Inflation Ran Counter to Underlying Indicators
• May Production Jump Reflected Issues with Seasonal Adjustments and Conflict with Underlying Fundamentals
• Outlook for Second-Quarter GDP Contraction Remains in Place
No. 634: May Retail Sales, Monetary Conditions June, 12th, 2014
• May Retail Sales Likely Were Flat After Inflation Adjustment
• Fed Currently Monetizing 69% of Net Treasury Issuance of Publicly Held Debt
No. 633: May Employment and Unemployment, Money Supply M3 June, 6th, 2014
• Monthly Payroll Gains Overstated by 200,000-Plus Jobs
• Contrary to Common Experience, May Payrolls Purportedly Regained Pre-Recession High
• May Unemployment: 6.3% (U.3), 12.2% (U.6), 23.2% (ShadowStats)
• Year-to-Year M3 Growth Jumped to 4.6% in May
No. 632: April Trade Deficit and Benchmark, Construction Spending, Liquidity June, 4th, 2014
• New Trade Data Indicate Weaker Recent Economy
• April Trade Deficit Suggestive of Heavy Damage to Second-Quarter 2014 GDP
• Renewed Recession Remains on Track, with Consumer Liquidity Still Heavily Impaired
• Construction Spending Continued to Stagnate
http://www.shadowstats.com/commentaries?ym=20146&content=open&show=Open+Commentaries
Happy Kwanzaa! Obuma Message, Parade Fail,
And A Made-up Holiday By A Torturer
Now Obuma's just funning us, isn't he?
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"Michelle and I extend our warmest wishes to those celebrating Kwanzaa."
—President Obama
11:22 AM - 26 Dec 2014
Not everybody embraces the efforts to push Kwanzaa. The LA Parade failed to attract any interest and was stopped after ten minutes:
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Perhaps background of its invention and its inventor has something to do with it, including that it was created by a deranged torturer of women.
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Obuma: U.S. Is Less Racially Divided Since I Came In
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Black is white, white is black, truth is a lie, and our friends are our enemies. Welcome to the "Obuma Effect"...it's hard for me to fathom just how delusional this lack wit, feckless, destructive clown is. Is the ego that large, or is he such a master of lies that even he believes them? I really thought we had reached the pinnacle of lies with Willy and Hillary, then came Pelosi and Dirty Harry, now Jesse Jerkson and Al CRAPton and his ilk. Thank G_d they're all demoRats.
Obuma could have stopped this the day he was elected but didn't. Whites that grew up in the fifties shed a tear when they saw MLK's dream fulfilled with Obuma's election because some remembered how bad it was before. Obuma on the day he was swore in sent every white person a message of revenge with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., that said "whites get right." We now know what he meant... we are guilty of some crimes committed hundreds of years ago simply because we are white, so forget the Black slave runners of Africa that lined their pockets with the white mans gold, etc., etc.
It will take years for this to go away, if ever... trust once lost is very hard to regain. And frankly, I personally don't trust people who vote or support anyone solely based on the color of their skin. I think the blacks are going to have a very hard time of it until they can truly demonstrate they too can be color blind. Of course, this is my opinion.... Warph
color] WASHINGTON –
http://nypost.com/2014/12/26/obama-says-us-less-racially-divided/ President Obama says the United States is less Cly divided despite the tensions raging from deadly police shootings and emotional protests.
Compared to six years ago when he made history as the first black president, Obama says American race relations are on the upswing.
"I actually think that it's probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided," Obama told National Public Radio.
Americans, however, seem to disagree.
A Bloomberg Politics survey out this month found a majority of Americans – 53 percent – feel interactions between white and black communities have deteriorated since Obama took office.
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Police Officer's Final Act of Kindness Caught on Tape Before Dying
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4h_2vBVwUA
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PAUL HARVEY: "WHAT ARE POLICEMEN MADE OF?"
Some of us remember radio legend Paul Harvey well, some of you may too young to know who the man was at all. Either way, what this man penned and spoke of over fourty years ago, certainly applies now more than ever today.
We can start from a week ago via Sharpton, up to what happened yesterday with the execution of two officers in NY.
Also, here's another fact I didn't know about Harvey...his own father was a police officer. He also was killed while on duty. Harvey was only three years old when this happened.
And now, for the rest of the story...VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUUZ2fKVqcs
Transcript: Here's his tribute to police officers that he penned in 1970:
"The Policeman"
A policeman is a composite of what all men are, mingling of a saint and sinner, dust and deity.
What that really means is that they are exceptional, they are unusual, they are not commonplace. Buried under the froth is the fact: and the fact is, less than one-half of one percent of policemen misfit the uniform. And that is a better average than you would find among clergymen!
What is a policeman? He, of all men, is at once the most needed and the most wanted. A strangely nameless creature who is "sir" to his face and "pig" or worse to his back.
He must be such a diplomat that he can settle differences between individuals so that each will think he won.
But... If the policeman is neat, he is conceited; If he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant, he's a flirt; If he's not, he's a grouch.
He must make instant decisions which would require months for a lawyer.
But... if he hurries, he's careless; If he's deliberate, he's lazy. He must be first to an accident, infallible with a diagnosis. He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, tie splints and above all, be sure the victim goes home without a limp.
The police officer must know every gun, draw on the run, and hit where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip two men twice his size and half his age without damaging his uniform and without being "brutal." If you hit him...he's a coward. If he hits you... he's a bully.
The policeman, from a single human hair, must be able to describe the crime, the weapon, the criminal and tell you where the criminal is hiding. But.... if he catches the criminal, he's lucky; if he doesn't, he is a dunce.
He runs files and writes reports until his eyes ache, to build a case against some felon who will get "dealed out" by a shameless shamus.
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy and a gentleman.
And of course, he'll have to be a genius... for he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.
NBC Asked America For The Meaning Of Christmas:
'JESUS' Didn't Make Their Cut
NBC Nightly News offered two stories on Christmas in their December 25 newscast, including a show-ender about "what Christmas means to me." Substitute anchor Tamron Hall offered this introduction: "Finally, on this special night, a question: What does Christmas mean to you? Maybe it's the presents, the lights, the music, or getting together with family. We put the question to people around the country and discovered once against that Christmas means something a little different to everyone."
Somehow, this perfectly pleasant three-minute segment included lot of talk about family time and presents, and even someone saying "Happy Hanukkah," but included no one uttering the name
"Jesus." No one defined Christmas as about Christ, NBC?
(Earlier, Ron Mott did find time for a corporate plug: "Christmas, of course, is a holiday for gathering, and that's exactly what thousands upon thousands of people are doing around our iconic Christmas tree at Rockefeller Plaza.")
The exclusion is not that surprising, since the NBC evening newscast only used the name
twice in the entire last month. Somehow, the networks find Jesus talk extremely grating and sectarian to non-believers and Americans of other religions.
There was a brief mention on Saturday, December 5 from anchor Lester Holt: LESTER HOLT: There was a Christmas celebration today in the place it all began, Palestinians and pilgrims gathered to light a Christmas tree in Bethlehem, the town that`s believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ. The lighting was held outside the Church of the Nativity and followed by a fireworks display over Manger Square.
On December 22, the name was used as "incidental sound" in a Cynthia McFadden story on healing and faith: FATHER JOHN MURRAY: Jesus Christ.
CYNTHIA McFADDEN: It`s not shocking that a Catholic priest believes in the power of prayer, but it is a bit of a surprise that Father John Murray says he can prove it. Do you think you're a miracle?
FR. MURRAY: Yes, oh, without a doubt.
McFADDEN: Four years ago Father Murray broke his neck in a fall.
FR. MURRAY: I was paralyzed from my chest down.
McFADDEN: Doctors told him he'd never walk again.
FR. MURRAY: "You should expect no voluntary movement," that's a quote.
McFADDEN: But his doctors were wrong.
CBS Evening News worked in just one J-word -- on Christmas Eve from substitute anchor Jim Axelrod: "Tonight, a more solemn gathering as mass is celebrated at the Church of the Nativity, built on what's believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ."
ABC's World News never placed the name of Jesus in their evening newscasts over the last month. Anchor David Muir did draw one as an expression of shock on the December 9 Nightline:
DAVID MUIR: Do you revel in sort of this notion that you'll define Cinderella for a generation of kids who'll...
ANNA KENDRICK (ACTRESS, "INTO THE WOODS"):
Oh, Jesus! No, but thanks for that.- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2014/12/26/nbc-asks-america-meaning-christmas-jesus-didnt-make-their-cut#sthash.einkkAez.dpuf
California Gears Up For Driver's Licenses For Illegal Aliens
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(Out of the shadows and documented... Can't read English, can't speak English but, they'll be licensed to drive. Can't afford a car of their own, can't pay for insurance but, they'll be out there on the road. Won't obey the driving laws, won't stop after an accident but, we're going to give them access to our highways. Just like Obamacare... what can possibly go wrong? And Jose get to turn his old one in for a new one):(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1572/5210/original.jpg?w=600&h)
Via KTVU - http://wn.ktvu.com/story/27710802/california-gears-up-for-migrant-drivers-licenses While tens of thousands of immigrants living in the country illegally are gearing up to apply for a long-sought driver's license in California starting Jan. 2, others are being urged to think twice.
Immigrant advocates say the vast majority should be able to get licensed without trouble but they want anyone who previously obtained a driver's license under a false name or someone else's Social Security number to speak first with a lawyer, fearing a new application could trigger a fraud investigation.
The same applies to immigrants with a prior deportation order or criminal record because federal immigration officials and law enforcement can access Department of Motor Vehicles data during an investigation.
The advice isn't meant to frighten immigrants from seeking licenses that are meant to make their lives easier — especially because many already risk getting ticketed or having their car impounded simply by driving to work or taking their children to school.
"For the vast majority of people, getting a license is a good decision," said Alison Kamhi, staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. "At the same time, I think it is important people are aware there is some risk."
The nation's most populous state is preparing to start issuing driver's licenses to immigrants in the country illegally in a bid to make the roads safer and ease fears for more than a million people to get behind the wheel. California's program eclipses the scope and scale of those approved in nine other states, including Nevada, Colorado and Illinois.[...]
California expects 1.4 million people to apply for the licenses — which include a distinct marking from those issued to U.S. citizens and residents — over the next three years. Officials say they don't know if there will be an initial surge, but the number of people making license appointments more than doubled to 379,000 during the first two weeks immigrants were allowed to sign up.
Immigrant advocates said they don't foresee major problems with the rollout of the program because the state has had more than a year to prepare and an ample budget — $141 million spanning three years.
In Nevada, about 90 percent of immigrants failed the required written test during the first few weeks a driver authorization card was offered this year because they were not prepared. In Colorado, the state had no startup funding to issue licenses this year and couldn't keep pace with demand, leading to monthslong waits.
Jonathan Blazer, advocacy and policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, said he expects California to license as many immigrants in the country illegally as the nine other states, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico combined.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Sheriff David Clarke Jr. may not be a household name...yet. But he's well on his way after his rousing speech at the 2014 NRA convention. Consider the standing ovation he received after revealing the seven words he would add to the Second Amendment: "Keep your hands off our guns, dammit."
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (Source: TheBlaze)
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (Source: TheBlaze)
Clarke, the outspoken gun proponent who heads the sheriff's office in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, was easily one of the most popular speakers during the convention's leadership forum. His comments about amending the Constitution were aimed at former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who said in his recent book that he would change the Second Amendment by adding five words in the middle: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed."
"My reaction was, 'What!'" Clarke said, adding, "Just what part of 'shall not be infringed' does Justice Stevens not understand?"
That comment drew another standing ovation.
But he wasn't done there, going on to say he was sick of the Second Amendment being the "bastard child of the Bill of Rights."
"The armed citizen made America free and the armed citizen will keep America free!" Clarke said, also calling the armed citizen the "great equalizer" and giving examples of three such instances in his area.
"Those firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens saved people's lives," he added, declaring he "damn well meant it" when he took his oath to defend the Constitution.
"We're partners now," he said in closing after calling on people to join pro-gun groups. He also warned them that the fight to defend the Second Amendment will be a tough, never-ending one.
"Are you ready?"
The answer seemed to be found in a final standing ovation.
You can watch the video of his speech at the web site:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/25/wisconsin-sheriff-reveals-the-seven-words-he-would-use-to-change-the-second-amendment/
Or youou can watch the speech on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEiDNyUsowQ
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Hope you had a Merry Christmas everybody. May you. . .
◾Keep "Christ" in Christmas
◾Keep the "mass" in Christmas (by going to church)
◾Keep the "Holy" in Holidays
◾Keep St. Nicholas, who battled for the deity of Christ at the Council of Nicea, in Santa Claus.
◾Keep the gift of God in your Christmas gifts.
Thanks to all of you readers and commenters for your support of this blog, 'This & That," over the past year. May God, who was born as a baby and became one of us, give you the joy of this Holiday Season and bless you throughout the new year and always.
....Warph
Sunday Smile: Evan Catches Santa Claus...Or Does Santa Catch Evan
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6iAM9329lI
(Yes, Evan, there IS a Santa Claus!)
Via IJR: Seven-year-old Evan thought he had found a way to outsmart Santa. He set up a surveillance camera set up to catch the big man's arrival on Christmas Eve.
When the family gathered to watch the video the next day, Evan got what he had been waiting for. The sound of sleigh bells and Santa's dramatic "poof" into the room were enough to cause wonder...even as the little tech wizard wondered why Santa hasn't noticed his set-up.
But Evan spoke too soon. Because moments after delivering the presents, Santa looked into the camera and delivered a gentle reprimand.
Imperial Edict: "Sorry Sport, This Beach Has Been Reserved For The First Family"
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(You peons get lost, only the imperial family may swim...)
Via Daily Mail: President Obama, first lady Michelle and their two daughters hit the halfway point of their 17-day vacation in Hawaii as they went to the beach, which Secret Service agents on Jet Skis guarded the waters to keep away the hoi polloi.
"Sorry, this beach has been reserved for the First Family," wrote the UK's Daily Mail. The paper reported that "The main task of the agents seemed to focus on stopping any other people in kayaks getting to close to the president, his wife and their two daughters.
"The officers could be seen telling different groups at the popular spot to turn around, as they sectioned off part of the water."
According to the pool report, written by a U.S. media reporter on site with the first family, "At 2:30 pool van was on the move leaving the Bellows AF station beach. But it was a false alarm. After following for less than two minutes the pool van learned we were following Flotus and the Obama daughters — but Potus had not yet departed. (The First Family had traveled together to the beach.) Pool van doubled back to clubhouse and waited for Potus motorcade to emerged from secluded area. At 2:45 pm the actual Potus motorcade emerged –with Secret Service shooing off the road a man walking along and holding a golf club–and we were on the move again to an undisclosed location."
The Obamas later went out to dinner at the exclusive Alan Wong's restaurant. The president did not attend the funerals of two New York Police Department officers murdered in the line of duty, instead sending his vice president.
ISIS Executed Nearly 2,000 People In Six Months
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(I imagine the death count is much higher than that. Since the holocaust there have been incidents of gross human rights violations some of which involved hundreds of thousands of people but none compare like this evil currently taking place since. While the others were localized, this movement threatens mankind throughout the world.
Their mission has been stated and they are focused on that one goal, world domination. They would return us to the seventh century along with all its attributes. Unless we wake up, we will be part of this transformation probably playing the role of victims as opposed to victors.
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But we must try to UNDERSTAND their anger!
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Via Reuters The Islamic State militant group has killed 1,878 people in Syria during the past six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based Syrian monitoring organization said on Sunday.
Islamic State also killed 120 of its own members, most of them foreign fighters trying to return home, in the last two months, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The militant group has taken vast parts of Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate in territory under its control in June. Since then it has fought the Syrian and Iraqi governments, other insurgents and Kurdish forces.
Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Syrian monitoring group, told Reuters that Islamic State killed 1,175 civilians, including eight women and four children.[...]
Abdulrahman, who gathers information from all sides of the Syrian conflict, said that Islamic State had also executed 502 soldiers fighting for President Bashar al-Assad and 81 anti-Assad insurgents.
He said that 116 foreign fighters who had joined Islamic State but later wanted to return home, were executed in the Syrian provinces of Deir Al-Zor, Raqqa and Hassakeh since November. Four other Islamic State fighters were killed on other charges, Abdulrahman said.
47 Inspector Generals Being Stonewalled In Their Investigations
By Members Of Obama Regime
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(Fish stinks from the head down...)
Via NRO:Darrell Issa's leading role in the IRS investigation may have come to a close — he lost his chairmanship of the House Oversight Committee to term limits — but there is plenty of work left for his successor, Jason Chaffetz of Utah. None of these criminals has been punished; the maddening fact is that Lois Lerner is enjoying a six-figure pension at the expense of the very taxpayers against whom she conducted a corrupt political jihad. And even if that happy day should come when Lerner et al. are given one-way bus tickets to Florence, Colo., or some other suitable destination, Chaffetz and his colleagues still would have a tremendous amount of work to do; if Issa's time has taught us anything, it is that the federal agencies are in thrall to a culture of criminality, and that the most significant crime in the agencies' repertoire is the obstruction of federal investigations.
Earlier this year, 47 inspectors general — the officials charged with fighting corruption, waste, and wrongdoing in federal agencies — sent a letter to Issa's committee complaining that organizations ranging from the EPA to the Justice Department were impeding their investigations by withholding information — despite the fact that federal law specifically forbids withholding that information. These are not a bunch of Republican operatives trying to score a few political points: Those 47 inspectors general comprise more than half of all such officials, and many who signed the letter were appointed by President Barack Obama. Their complaint is that the federal agencies treat them more or less like they do . . . members of Congress: thwarting them, withholding documents, obstruction investigations.
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(This DemoRat clown needs to change his name to MORON! And speaking of MORONS, checkout your Kansas Senator Jerry Moran (R., Kan.):
On Monday Sen. Moron er... Moran said ..."he backed the Obama administration's push to normalize relations with Cuba..." http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/12/22/sen-jerry-moran-member-of-grains-caucus-gets-behind-cuba-thaw/ )
2014 News Bloopers
Dec. 29, 2014
You can't say the mainstream media is good for nothing so long as it provides us with so many laughs...
(BIG LANGUAGE ALERT):
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1aYMsrvNCU#t=517
Recent Parolee Charged In Shooting Of Off-Duty St. Louis Police Officer
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(The officer was targeted... and this killer will probably spend the rest of his years in prison)
Via STL DispatchA recent parolee has been charged in the shooting last weekend of an off-duty St. Louis police officer in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood.
Authorities said the officer was critically injured Dec. 19 in a gunfight with people in a car driven by the parolee, Dominic Lamont Irons, 29, of the 2800 block of Delmar Boulevard.
A court document says one of the others in the car was killed in the shootout. At least one other person was still being sought by police.
Irons was charged Saturday with assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. The circuit attorney's office said he also was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of the accomplice.
According to a court document, Irons and the others in the car followed the officer's truck for the purpose of shooting him.As the officer pulled to the curb in the 3800 block of North 25th Street and began to get out of his truck, Irons drove alongside and someone in the car shot at the officer.
How Al Crapton Got His Own TV Show
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Al Sharpton is generally regarded as a piece of scum — a tax-dodging socialist and professional race baiter who has gotten numerous people killed in pogroms. (For those not familiar with his worst outrages against decency, Ben Shapiro provides a quick rundown.) Sharpton is not regarded by anyone as a gifted television anchor. Yet he has his own prime time show on MSNBC. The reason could have something to do with Comcast wanting to merge with NBC, which in the USSA requires the approval of bureaucrats. Fortunately for crony capitalists, these bureaucrats can be bribed. Via Washingtonian:To rally political support for the merger, Comcast's political-action committee handed out campaign cash, and [well-connected political fixer David] Cohen worked to head off the concerns over diversity [i.e., complaints that people were being promoted based on merit rather than for not being white]. Between 2008 and 2010, Comcast's corporate foundation donated more than $3 million to 39 minority groups that wrote letters to federal regulators in support of the NBC deal. Comcast and NBC Universal also worked out an agreement with advocacy groups guaranteeing increased "minority participation in news and public affairs programming"—so long as the deal went through. And in 2009 and 2010, Comcast gave $155,000 to an organization founded by the Reverend Al Sharpton, who ended up endorsing the merger.(Like Jesse Jerkson, Crapton has made a fortune by putting himself in a position to determine what is and is not "racist." Crappton's position in this regard is particularly lucrative due to his exceedingly close relationship with Barack Insane Obuma...)Western Journalism elaborates on the merger deal:In January, 2011, Washington approved the deal. And lo and behold, Al Sharpton — who had virtually no professional broadcast experience but did have a long history of legal entanglements and ethical quandaries — landed a prime-time show on MSNBC.
Not only would Reverend Al have the kind of "legitimate" pulpit from which he could pontificate with an assumed air of "credibility," he could also enjoy a reboot of sorts — a network-sanctioned passage out of the shadow of his past troubles.
And Obama's White House could have its loyal advocate and ally in place to carry forward the narrative five nights a week.
Now, no matter how deeply Sharpton inserts himself into and tries to influence raging racial controversies...no matter how much criticism is directed his way...no matter how many goofs and gaffes he racks up on his show, Sharpton seems to be a protected entity.He can even help get police officers assassinated without damaging his career. On the contrary, his presence probably lends credibility to MSNBC in the addled minds of the moonbats who are now its exclusive audience. Everyone else has been driven away not only by the channel's demented hard left politics, but by the ever-deteriorating level of broadcast professionalism.(OMG.... these 3 videos below are hilarious! How does anyone take that very stupid clown serious? Lets see now... a racist & race hustler/baiter, a liar, FBI informant, a tax cheat.... I mean really MSNBC, how do you stay on the airways? African Americans, You deserve better than that Ignorant fool. MLK he is NOT!!!! Either he can't read or he seriously failed the part of class where they covered phonics. How in the hell does someone who can't even read or speak get so many people to follow him? Oh, I forgot... they're Liberal Democrats...) Behold the ruinous effects of Affirmative Action combined with cronyism:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggHWRpsMEmk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6MTlT2Ye8#t=36
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbaR4SBAr4s#t=17
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AND GET THE MUSLIMS OUT
Grubergate Update:
Just Revealed Gruber Docs
Will Send Democrats Running for Cover
December 30, 2014 By Matthew Burke
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Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber, who previously said that American voters were stupid and therefore must be duped into accepting Obamacare with lies, deception and trickery, has been caught in another revelation that will further embarrass the Obama Regime and by Democrats who wholeheartedly accepted the unpopular legislation, hook, line and sinker.
Not only did Obama and his legion of liars tell America that we could keep our doctors and keep our policies under Obamacare, but we were repeatedly told that costs would decline.
While those who suggested (i.e., Sarah Palin) that the still highly unpopular Democrat-passed legislation would use healthcare rationing as a strategy, they were laughed at and ridiculed.
However, a newly discovered research document from Gruber, shows that the plan from the beginning was to ration care, and that Gruber knew the Obamacare scheme would NOT make healthcare more affordable.
Uncovered by The Daily Caller, the Obamacare architect wrote in the 2009 policy brief, on page 10 under Affordability, "The problem is it starts to go hand in hand with the mandate; you can't mandate insurance that's not affordable. This is going to be a major issue."
Gruber goes on to admit that there were NO cost controls initially in Obamacare, that they would deceptively get people hooked on faux coverage, then pull the rug out from underneath them by rationing care:
"So what's different this time? Why are we closer than we've ever been before? Because there are no cost controls in these proposals. Because this bill's about coverage. Which is good! Why should we hold 48 million uninsured people hostage to the fact that we don't yet know how to control costs in a politically acceptable way? Let's get the people covered and then let's do cost control."
At the same time, Obama was lying to Americans, telling us that annual premium costs would decline by an average of $2,500 per family, a number that was apparently pulled out of thin air.
Gruber then admits that, under Obamacare, the only way for the scheme to work will be by rationing care:
"There's no reason the American health care system can't be, 'You can have whatever you want, you just have to pay for it.' That's what we do in other walks of life. We don't say everyone has to have a large screen TV. If you want a large screen TV, you have to pay for it. Basically the notion would be to move to a level where everyone has a solid basic insurance level of coverage. Above that people pay their own, without tax-subsidized dollars, to buy a higher level of coverage."
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/12/30/grubergate-update-just-revealed-gruber-docs-will-send-democrats-running-for-cover/
Praise the Muslims and Condemn the Christians
What is going to happen next in our country?
Hit Piece on the Bible?!
Newsweek Slammed for
'Open Attack' on Christians
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Newsweek ended the year with a cover story on the Bible that declares the Scripture to be "so misunderstood it's a sin."
The piece argues that many in America - evangelical Christians in particular - have a gross misunderstanding about what the Bible actually says.
Kurt Eichenwald writes:
They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments while demanding prayer in school. They appeal to God to save America from their political opponents, mostly Democrats. They gather in football stadiums by the thousands to pray for the country's salvation.
They are God's frauds, cafeteria Christians who pick and choose which Bible verses they heed with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch. They are joined by religious rationalizers—fundamentalists who, unable to find Scripture supporting their biases and beliefs, twist phrases and modify translations to prove they are honoring the Bible's word.
On his website, Dr. Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, slammed the article as a complete misrepresentation of the Bible's words.
Mohler said this report differed greatly from previous mainstream media forays into the Bible and questions about Christianity, calling the previous reports balanced and insightful.
But Newsweek's cover story is nothing of the sort. It is an irresponsible screed of post-Christian invective leveled against the Bible and, even more to the point, against evangelical Christianity. It is one of the most irresponsible articles ever to appear in a journalistic guise.
The author of the massive essay is Kurt Eichenwald, who boasts an impressive reputation as a writer and reporter for newspapers like The New York Times and magazines including Vanity Fair. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award, he was also a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Eichenwald, however, has been primarily known for reporting and writing in a very different area of expertise. Most of his writing has been on business and financial matters, including business scandals.
When it comes to Newsweek's cover story, "The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin," Eichenwald appears to be far outside his area of expertise and knowledge. More to the point, he really does not address the subject of the Bible like a reporter at all. His article is a hit-piece that lacks any journalistic balance or credibility. His only sources cited within the article are from severe critics of evangelical Christianity, and he does not even represent some of them accurately.
Mohler was on "Fox and Friends" this morning to further discuss the Bible "hit piece," saying it's yet another example of "incredible hostility" toward evangelical Christians.
He said the report is an "open attack" from the beginning to the end, calling out Eichenwald for claiming that people don't unders
tand what's really in the Bible because of numerous "translations of translations."
"That's not even close to being true. We have very accurate translations available to us now, based upon very credible texts. That's not really the problem. We have a very credible access to translations of the Scripture," he said.
Watch the interview above and let us know your thoughts on the piece.
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They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments while demanding prayer in school. They appeal to God to save America from their political opponents, mostly Democrats. They gather in football stadiums by the thousands to pray for the country's salvation.
They are God's frauds, cafeteria Christians who pick and choose which Bible verses they heed with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch. They are joined by religious rationalizers—fundamentalists who, unable to find Scripture supporting their biases and beliefs, twist phrases and modify translations to prove they are honoring the Bible's words.
This is no longer a matter of personal or private faith. With politicians, social leaders and even some clergy invoking a book they seem to have never read and whose phrases they don't understand, America is being besieged by Biblical illiteracy. Climate change is said to be impossible because of promises God made to Noah; Mosaic law from the Old Testament directs American government; creationism should be taught in schools; helping Syrians resist chemical weapons attacks is a sign of the end times—all of these arguments have been advanced by modern evangelical politicians and their brethren, yet none of them are supported in the Scriptures as they were originally written.
The Bible is not the book many American fundamentalists and political opportunists think it is, or more precisely, what they want it to be. Their lack of knowledge about the Bible is well established. A Pew Research poll in 2010 found that evangelicals ranked only a smidgen higher than atheists in familiarity with the New Testament and Jesus's teachings. "Americans revere the Bible—but, by and large, they don't read it,'' wrote George Gallup Jr. and Jim Castelli, pollsters and researchers whose work focused on religion in the United States. The Barna Group, a Christian polling firm, found in 2012 that evangelicals accepted the attitudes and beliefs of the Pharisees—religious leaders depicted throughout the New Testament as opposing Christ and his message—more than they accepted the teachings of Jesus.
Newsweek's exploration here of the Bible's history and meaning is not intended to advance a particular theology or debate the existence of God. Rather, it is designed to shine a light on a book that has been abused by people who claim to revere it but don't read it, in the process creating misery for others. When the illiteracy of self-proclaimed Biblical literalists leads parents to banish children from their homes, when it sets neighbor against neighbor, when it engenders hate and condemnation, when it impedes science and undermines intellectual advancement, the topic has become too important for Americans to ignore, whether they are deeply devout or tepidly faithful, believers or atheists.
This examination—based in large part on the works of scores of theologians and scholars, some of which dates back centuries—is a review of the Bible's history and a recounting of its words. It is only through accepting where the Bible comes from— and who put it together—that anyone can comprehend what history's most important book says and, just as important, what it does not say.
Playing Telephone with the Word of GodNo television preacher has ever read the Bible. Neither has any evangelical politician. Neither has the pope. Neither have I. And neither have you. At best, we've all read a bad translation—a translation of translations of translations of hand-copied copies of copies of copies of copies, and on and on, hundreds of times.
About 400 years passed between the writing of the first Christian manuscripts and their compilation into the New Testament. (That's the same amount of time between the arrival of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower and today.) The first books of the Old Testament were written 1,000 years before that. In other words, some 1,500 years passed between the day the first biblical author put stick to clay and when the books that would become the New Testament were chosen. There were no printing presses beforehand or until 1,000 years later. There were no vacuum-sealed technologies to preserve paper for centuries. Dried clay broke, papyrus and parchment crumbled away, primitive inks faded.
Back then, writings from one era could be passed to the next only by copying them by hand. While there were professional scribes whose lives were dedicated to this grueling work, they did not start copying the letters and testaments about Jesus's time until centuries after they were written. Prior to that, amateurs handled the job.
These manuscripts were originally written in Koiné, or "common" Greek, and not all of the amateur copyists spoke the language or were even fully literate. Some copied the script without understanding the words. And Koiné was written in what is known as scriptio continua—meaning no spaces between words and no punctuation. So, a sentence like weshouldgoeatmom could be interpreted as "We should go eat, Mom," or "We should go eat Mom." Sentences can have different meaning depending on where the spaces are placed. For example, godisnowhere could be "God is now here" or "God is nowhere."
None of this mattered for centuries, because Christians were certain God had guided the hand not only of the original writers but also of all those copyists. But in the past 100 years or so, tens of thousands of manuscripts of the New Testament have been discovered, dating back centuries. And what biblical scholars now know is that later versions of the books differ significantly from earlier ones—in fact, even copies from the same time periods differ from each other. "There are more variations among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament," says Dr. Bart D. Ehrman, a groundbreaking biblical scholar and professor at the University of North Carolina who has written many books on the New Testament.
It's a powerful story, known even by those with just a passing knowledge of the Bible. It was depicted in Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ and is often used to point out the hypocrisy of Christians who denounce what they perceive to be the sins of others. Unfortunately, John didn't write it. Scribes made it up sometime in the Middle Ages. It does not appear in any of the three other Gospels or in any of the early Greek versions of John. Even if the Gospel of John is an infallible telling of the history of Jesus's ministry, the event simply never happened. Moreover, according to Ehrman, the writing style for that story is different from the rest of John, and the section includes phrases that do not appear anywhere else in the Bible. Scholars say they are words more commonly used long after that Gospel was written.
Most of those discrepancies are little more than the handwritten equivalent of a typo, but that error was then included by future scribes. There were also minor changes made by literate scribes centuries after the manuscripts were written because of what they decided were flaws in the accounts they were recopying. For example, an early version of Luke 3:16 in the New Testament said, "John answered, saying to all of them...." The problem was that no one had asked John anything, so a fifth century scribe fixed that by changing the words to "John, knowing what they were thinking, said...." Today, most modern English Bibles have returned to the correct, yet confusing, "John answered." Others, such as the New Life Version Bible, use other words that paper over the inconsistency.
But this discussion is about something much more important than whether some scribe in the Middle Ages decided God had not been paying attention while guiding the hand of Luke. Indeed, there are significant differences in copies that touch on far more profound issues. Scribes added whole sections of the New Testament, and removed words and sentences that contradicted emerging orthodox beliefs.
Take one of the most famous tales from the New Testament, which starts in John 7:53. A group of Pharisees and others bring a woman caught committing adultery to Jesus. Under Mosaic Law—the laws of Moses handed down in the Old Testament—she must be stoned to death. The Pharisees ask Jesus whether the woman should be released or killed, hoping to force him to choose between honoring Mosaic Law and his teachings of forgiveness. Jesus replies, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.'' The group leaves, and Jesus tells the woman to sin no more.
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For Pentecostal Christians, an important section of the Bible appears in the Gospel of Mark, 16:17-18. These verses say that those who believe in Jesus will speak in tongues and have extraordinary powers, such as the ability to cast out demons, heal the sick and handle snakes. Pentecostal ministers often babble incomprehensible sounds, proclaiming—based in part on these verses in Mark—that the noises they are making show that the Holy Spirit is in them. It's also a primary justification for the emergence of the Pentecostal snake-handlers.
But once again, the verses came from a creative scribe long after the Gospel of Mark was written. In fact, the earliest versions of Mark stop at 16:8. It's an awkward ending, with three women who have gone to the tomb where Jesus was laid after the Crucifixion encountering a man who tells them to let the disciples know that the resurrected Jesus will see them in Galilee. The women flee the tomb, and "neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.''
In early copies of the original Greek writings, that's it. The 12 verses that follow in modern Bibles—Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene and the Disciples and then ascending to Heaven—are not there. A significant moment that would be hard to forget, one would think.
The same is true for other critical portions of the Bible, such as 1 John 5:7 ("For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one"); Luke 22:20 ("Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you"); and Luke 24:51 ("And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven"). These first appeared in manuscripts used by the translators who created the King James Bible, but are not in the Greek copies from hundreds of years earlier.
These are not the only parts of the Bible that appear to have been added much later. There are many, many more—in fact, far more than can be explored without filling up the next several issues of Newsweek.
Translation TransubstantiationThen comes the problem of accurate translation. Many words in New Testament Greek don't have clear English equivalents. Sentence structure, idioms, stylistic differences—all of these are challenges when converting versions of the New Testament books into English. And this can't be solved with a Berlitz course: Koiné is ancient Greek and not spoken anymore. This is why English translations differ, with many having been revised to reflect the views and guesses of the modern translators.
The gold standard of English Bibles is the King James Version, completed in 1611, but that was not a translation of the original Greek. Instead, a Church of England committee relied primarily on Latin manuscripts translated from Greek. According to Jason David BeDuhn, a professor of religious studies at Northern Arizona University and author of Truth in Translation, it was often very hard for the committee to find the correct English words. The committee sometimes compared Latin translations with the earlier Greek copies, found discrepancies and decided that the Latin version—the later version—was correct and the earlier Greek manuscripts were wrong.
The goal of the translators was to create a Bible that was a gorgeous work that was very accurate in its translation and clear in its meaning, but that didn't happen. "The King James Bible is a beautiful piece of English literature,'' says BeDuhn. "In terms of the other two goals, however, this translation falls short."
For subsequent English Bibles, those slightly off translations in King James were then often converted into phrases that most closely fitted the preconceptions of even more translators. In other words, religious convictions determined translation choices. For example, προσκυνέω, a Greek word used about 60 times in the New Testament, equates to something along the lines of "to prostrate oneself" as well as "to praise God." That was translated into Latin as "adoro,'' which in the King James Bible became "worship." But those two words don't mean precisely the same thing. When the King James Bible was written, "worship" could be used to describe both exhibiting reverence for God and prostrating oneself. While not perfect, it's a decent translation.
As a result, throughout the King James Bible, people "worship" many things. A slave worships his owner, the assembled of Satan worship an angel, and Roman soldiers mocking Jesus worship him. In each of these instances, the word does not mean "praise God's glory" or anything like that; instead, it means to bow or prostrate oneself. But English Bibles adopted later—the New International Bible, the New American Standard Bible, the Living Bible and so on—dropped the word worship when it referenced anyone other than God or Jesus. And so each time προσκυνέω appeared in the Greek manuscript regarding Jesus, in these newer Bibles he is worshipped, but when applied to someone else, the exact same word is translated as "bow" or something similar. By translating the same word different ways, these modern Bibles are adding a bit of linguistic support to the idea that the people who knew Jesus understood him to be God.
In other words, with a little translational trickery, a fundamental tenet of Christianity—that Jesus is God—was reinforced in the Bible, even in places where it directly contradicts the rest of the verse.
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That kind of manipulation occurs many times. In Philippians, the King James Version translates some words to designate Jesus as "being in the form of God." The Greek word for form could simply mean Jesus was in the image of God. But the publishers of some Bibles decided to insert their beliefs into translations that had nothing to do with the Greek. The Living Bible, for example, says Jesus "was God"—even though modern translators pretty much just invented the words.
Which raises a big issue for Christians: the Trinity—the belief that Jesus and God are the same and, with the Holy Spirit, are a single entity—is a fundamental, yet deeply confusing, tenet. So where does the clear declaration of God and Jesus as part of a triumvirate appear in the Greek manuscripts?
Nowhere. And in that deception lies a story of mass killings.
The Sociopath EmperorWhy would God, in conveying his message to the world, speak in whispers and riddles? It seems nonsensical, but the belief that he refused to convey a clear message has led to the slaughter of many thousands of Christians by Christians. In fact, Christians are believed to have massacred more followers of Jesus than any other group or nation.
Those who believed in the Trinity butchered Christians who didn't. Groups who believed Jesus was two entities—God and man—killed those who thought Jesus was merely flesh and blood. Some felt certain God inspired Old Testament Scriptures, others were convinced they were the product of a different, evil God. Some believed the Crucifixion brought salvation to humankind, others insisted it didn't, and still others believed Jesus wasn't crucified.
Indeed, for hundreds of years after the death of Jesus, groups adopted radically conflicting writings about the details of his life and the meaning of his ministry, and murdered those who disagreed. For many centuries, Christianity was first a battle of books and then a battle of blood. The reason, in large part, was that there were no universally accepted manuscripts that set out what it meant to be a Christian, so most sects had their own gospels.
There was the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, the Gospel of Simon Peter, the Gospel of Philip and the Gospel of Barnabas. One sect of Christianity—the Gnostics—believed that the disciple Thomas was not only Jesus's twin brother but also the founder of churches across Asia. Christianity was in chaos in its early days, with some sects declaring the others heretics. And then, in the early 300s, Emperor Constantine of Rome declared he had become follower of Jesus, ended his empire's persecution of Christians and set out to reconcile the disputes among the sects. Constantine was a brutal sociopath who murdered his eldest son, decapitated his brother-in-law and killed his wife by boiling her alive, and that was after he proclaimed that he had converted from worshipping the sun god to being a Christian. Yet he also changed the course of Christian history, ultimately influencing which books made it into the New Testament.
By that point, the primary disputes centered on whether Jesus was God—the followers of a priest named Arius said no, that God created Jesus. But the Bishop of Alexander said yes, that Jesus had existed throughout all eternity. The dispute raged on in the streets of Constantinople, with everyone—shopkeepers, bakers and tradesmen—arguing about which view was right. Constantine, in a reflection of his shallow understanding of theology, was annoyed that what he considered a minor dispute was causing such turmoil, and feared that it weaken him politically. So he decided to force an agreement on the question.
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Constantine convened a meeting in the lakeside town of Nicaea. Invitations were sent around the world to bishops and leaders of various sects, although not all of them. The group included the educated and the illiterate, zealots and hermits. Constantine arrived wearing jewels and gold on his scarlet robe and pearls on his crown, eager to discuss the true essence of a poor carpenter who had died 300 years before.
Things that are today accepted without much thought were adopted or reinforced at Nicaea. For example, the Old Testament was clear in declaring that God rested on the seventh day, making it the Sabbath. The seventh day of the week is Saturday, the day of Jewish worship and rest. (Jesus himself invoked the holiness of the Jewish Sabbath.) The word Sunday does not appear in the Bible, either as the Sabbath or anything else. But four years before Nicaea, Constantine declared Sunday as a day of rest in honor of the sun god.
At Nicaea, rules were adopted regarding the proper positions for prayer on Sundays—standing, not kneeling; nothing was said of the Jewish Sabbath or Saturday. Many theologians and Christian historians believe that it was at this moment, to satisfy Constantine and his commitment to his empire's many sun worshippers, that the Holy Sabbath was moved by one day, contradicting the clear words of what ultimately became the Bible. And while the Bible mentioned nothing about the day of Jesus's birth, the birth of the sun god was celebrated on December 25 in Rome; Christian historians of the 12th century wrote that it was the pagan holiday that led to the designation of that date for Christmas.
The majority of the time at Nicaea was spent debating whether Jesus was a man who was the son of God, as Arius proclaimed, or God himself, as the church hierarchy maintained. The followers of Arius marshaled evidence from the letters of Paul and other Christian writings. In the Gospel of Mark, speaking of the Second Coming, Jesus said, "But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." In Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, he wrote that "there is but one God, the Father...and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ." In his letter to Timothy, Paul wrote, "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus."
Paul's writings are consistent in his reference to God as one being and Jesus as his son. Same with the Gospel of Matthew, where Peter tells Jesus that he is the "Son of the living God" and Jesus responds that "Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.'' Jesus even called out to God as his "Father" as he was dying on the cross.
But Constantine sided with those who believed Jesus was both God and man, so a statement of belief, called the Nicene Creed, was composed to proclaim that. Those who refused to sign the statement were banished. Others were slaughtered. After they had returned home and were far from Rome, some who signed the document later sent letters to Constantine saying they had only done so out of fear for their lives.
About 50 years later, in A.D. 381, the Romans held another meeting, this time in Constantinople. There, a new agreement was reached—Jesus wasn't two, he was now three—Father, Son and Holy Ghost. The Nicene Creed was rewritten, and those who refused to sign the statement were banished, and another wholesale slaughter began, this time of those who rejected the Trinity, a concept that is nowhere in the original Greek manuscripts and is often contradicted by it.
To this day, congregants in Christian churches at Sunday services worldwide recite the Nicene Creed, which serves as affirmation of their belief in the Trinity. It is doubtful many of them know the words they utter are not from the Bible, and were the cause of so much bloodshed. (Some modern Christians attempt to use the Gospel of John to justify the Trinity—even though it doesn't explicitly mention it—but they are relying on bad translations of the Greek and sentences inserted by scribes.)
To understand how what we call the Bible was made, you must see how the beliefs that became part of Christian orthodoxy were pushed into it by the Holy Roman Empire. By the fifth century, the political and theological councils voted on which of the many Gospels in circulation were to make up the New Testament. With the power of Rome behind them, the practitioners of this proclaimed orthodoxy wiped out other sects and tried to destroy every copy of their Gospels and other writings.
And recall that they were already working from a fundamentally flawed document. Errors and revisions by copyists had been written in by the fifth century, and several books of the New Testament, including some attributed to Paul, are now considered forgeries perpetrated by famous figures in Christianity to bolster their theological arguments. It is small wonder, then, that there are so many contradictions in the New Testament. Some of those contradictions are trivial, but some create huge problems for evangelicals insisting they are living by the word of God.
No Three Kings?To illustrate how even seemingly trivial contradictions can have profound consequences, let's recount the story of Christmas.
Jesus was born in a house in Bethlehem. His father, Joseph, had been planning to divorce Mary until he dreamed that she'd conceived a child through the Holy Spirit. No wise men showed up for the birth, and no brilliant star shone overhead. Joseph and his family then fled to Egypt, where they remained for years. Later, they returned to Israel, hoping to live in Judea, but that proved problematic, so they settled in a small town called Nazareth.
Not the version you are familiar with? No angel appearing to Mary? Not born in a manger? No one saying there was no room at the inn? No gold, frankincense or myrrh? Fleeing to Egypt? First living in Nazareth when Jesus was a child, not before he was born?
You may not recognize this version, but it is a story of Jesus's birth found in the Gospels. Two Gospels—Matthew and Luke—tell the story of when Jesus was born, but in quite different ways. Contradictions abound. In creating the familiar Christmas tale, Christians took a little bit of one story, mixed it with a little bit of the other and ignored all of the contradictions in the two. The version recounted above does the same; it uses parts of those stories from the two Gospels that are usually ignored. So there are two blended versions and two Gospel versions. Take your pick.
There are also deep, logical flaws here that should be apparent to anyone giving the Bible a close read. Many Christians read the Old Testament as having several prophecies that the Messiah will be a descendant of David, a towering biblical figure who was the second ruler of the Kingdom of Israel. And both Matthew and Luke offer that proof—both trace Jesus's lineage to his father Joseph and from there back to David.
Except...Joseph wasn't Jesus's father. Jesus is the son of God, remember? Moreover, the genealogies recounted in the two Gospels are different, each identifying different men as Joseph's father and grandfather. Mary, the mother of Jesus, can be the only parent with a bloodline to David, but neither Gospel makes any mention of that.
The stories in the four Gospels of Jesus's death and resurrection differ as well. When brought before Pontius Pilate in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus speaks only two words and is never declared innocent. In the Gospel of John, Jesus engages in extended conversations with Pilate, who repeatedly proclaims this Jewish prisoner to be innocent and deserving of release. (The Book of John was the last to be written and came at a time when gentiles in Rome were gaining dramatically more influence over Christianity; that explains why the Romans are largely absolved from responsibility for Jesus's death and blame instead is pointed toward the Jews. That has been one of the key bases for centuries of anti-Semitism.)
And who went to anoint Jesus in his tomb? In Matthew, it was Mary and another woman named Mary, and an angel met them there. In Mark, it was Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, and a young man met them. In John, it was Mary alone; no one met her. As told in Matthew, the disciples go to Galilee after the Crucifixion and see Jesus ascend to heaven; in Acts, written by Luke, the disciples stay in Jerusalem and see Jesus ascend from there.
Some of the contradictions are conflicts between what evangelicals consider absolute and what Jesus actually said. For example, evangelicals are always talking about family values. But to Jesus, family was an impediment to reaching God. In the Gospel of Matthew, he states, "And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life."
Then there is what many fundamentalist Christians hold to be the most important of all elements of the Bible: the Second Coming of Christ and the end of the world. What modern evangelicals want to believe cannot be reconciled with the Bible. In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus says of the Apocalypse, "This generation shall not pass, till all these things be done"—in other words, the people alive in his time would see the end of the world. Paul in 1 Corinthians is even clearer; he states, "The time is short." He then instructs other Christians, given that the end is coming, to live as if they had no wives, and, if they buy things, to treat them as if they were not their own. Some evangelicals counter these clear words by quoting 2 Peter as saying that, for God, one day is like 1,000 years.
Two problems: That does nothing to counter what either Jesus or Paul said. And even in ancient times, many Christian leaders proclaimed 2 Peter to be a forgery, an opinion almost universally shared by biblical scholars today.
None of this is meant to demean the Bible, but all of it is fact. Christians angered by these facts should be angry with the Bible, not the messenger.
God Wrestling DragonsThe next time someone tells you the biblical story of Creation is true, ask that person, "Which one?"
Few of the Christian faithful seem to know the Bible contains multiple creation stories. The first appears on Page 1, Genesis 1, so that is the version most people tend to embrace. However, it isn't hard to find the second version: It's Genesis 2, which usually starts on the same page. Genesis 1 begins with the words "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth"; Genesis 2 starts with "This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created."
Careful readers have long known that the two stories contradict each other. Genesis 1 begins with expanses of water that God separates, creating the earth between them. Genesis 2 describes a world without enough water, which is then introduced. Vegetation exists before the sun and the stars in Genesis 1; it's the other way around in Genesis 2. In Genesis 1, man is created after plants and animals; in Genesis 2, plants and animals come after man. In Genesis 1, Adam and Eve are created together; in Genesis 2, Eve is created out of Adam's rib.
This is nothing unusual for the Old Testament. In fact, even though many evangelical Christians insist that Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament (including Deuteronomy, which talks about Moses having died and been buried), biblical scholars have concluded that two Jewish sects wrote many of the books. Each prepared its version of Old Testament, and the two were joined together without any attempt to reconcile the many contradictions.
These duplications are known as "doublets." "In most cases," says Richard Elliott Friedman, a biblical scholar at the University of Georgia, "one of the versions of the doublet story would refer to the deity by the divine name Yahweh, and the other version of the story would refer to the deity simply as God." Once the different narratives appearing in the Bible were divided by the word they used to reference God, other terms and characteristics turned up repeatedly in one or the other group. "This tended to support the hypothesis that someone had taken two different old source documents, cut them up and woven them together" in the first five books of the Old Testament, Friedman says.
The doublets make reading the Old Testament the literary equivalent of a hall of mirrors. Take the Genesis story of Noah and the flood. In Genesis 6, God tells Noah to build an ark and load it with animals, and "Noah did everything just as God commanded him." Then, in Genesis 7, God again tells Noah to load the ark with animals, and "Noah did all that the Lord commanded him." Under the first set of instructions, Noah was to bring two of every kind of creature onto the ark. But the directions changed the second time, with Noah told to bring seven of every kind of clean animal and two of every kind of unclean animal.
It gets stranger. In Genesis 7:7-12, Noah and his family board the ark, and the flood begins. Then, in the very next verse, Genesis 7:13, Noah and his family board the ark again, and the flood begins a second time. The water flooded the earth for 40 days (Genesis 7:17), or 150 days (Genesis 7:24). But Noah and his family stayed on the ark for a year (Genesis 8:13).
Even well-known stories have contradictory versions. As every child knows, David killed Goliath; it's right there in 1 Samuel 17:50. But don't tell those children to read 2 Samuel 21:19 unless you want them to get really confused. There, it says in many versions of the Bible that Elhanan killed Goliath. Other Bibles, though, fixed that to make it coincide with the words in 1 Chronicles, were Elhanan killed the brother of Goliath.
These conflicting accounts are only serious matters because evangelicals insist the Old Testament is a valid means of debunking science. But as these example show, the Bible can't stop debunking itself.
In fact, the Bible has three creation models, and some experts maintain there are four. In addition to the two in Genesis, there is one referenced in the Books of Isaiah, Psalms and Job. In this version, the world is created in the aftermath of a great battle between God and what theologians say is a dragon in the waters called Rahab. And Rahab is not the only mythical creature that either coexisted with God or was created by him. God plays with a sea monster named Leviathan. Unicorns appear in the King James Bible (although that wasn't the correct translation of the mythical creature's Hebrew name). There are fiery serpents and flying serpents and cockatrices—a two-legged dragon with a rooster's head (that word was later changed to "viper" in some English-language Bibles). And in Exodus, magicians who work for the Pharaoh of Egypt are able to change staffs into snakes and water into blood. In Genesis, the "Sons of God" marry the "daughters of man" and have children; the "sons of God" are angels, as is made clear in the Books of Job and Psalms.
Evangelicals cite Genesis to challenge the science taught in classrooms, but don't like to talk about those Old Testament books with monsters and magic.
A book came out a month ago by C.C. Campbell that actually addresses every single one of these issues and WAY more. 'The Stolen Light Of Women: A Quest For Spiritual Truth Beyond Religon' is easy to read and has a HUGE bibliography with DOZENS and DOZENS of sources outside of Ehrman proving the same things and more. The book basically takes each of the most controversial Bible verses used by extremists against women, sexuality, and homosexuality and examines them point by point from mistranslation, history, religious politics, and dogma. It is a fascinating read that goes even further than this article - but it never rags on Jesus or faith, it just tries to point out that Christians should educate themselves and ask whether they truly follow the words of Christ (who never deemed homosexuality an issue and elevated women and the downtrodden), or are they blindly tied to dogma that came from Paul (a man who never met Christ) and generations of corrupt, fallible men who had plenty to gain power and money-wise from forcing their interpretation on the masses.
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Sarah Palin Is Sinning Right NowThe declaration in 1 Timothy—as recounted in the Living Bible, the New American Standard Bible, the New International Version Bible and others—could not be more clear: Those who "practice homosexuality" will not inherit the Kingdom of God. But the translation there is odd, in part because the word homosexual didn't even exist until more than 1,800 years after when 1 Timothy was supposed to have been written. So how did it get into the New Testament? Simple: The editors of these modern Bibles just made it up. Like so many translators and scribes before them, they had a religious conviction, something they wanted to say that wasn't stated clearly enough in the original for their tastes. And so they manipulated sentences to reinforce their convictions.
The original Bible verse in Koiné used ἀρσενοκοῖται for what has been translated as "homosexual." For the Latin Bible, it was as masculorum concubitores. The King James Version translated that as "them that defile themselves with mankind." Perhaps that means men who engage in sex with other men, perhaps not.
The next thing to check here is whether 1 Timothy was based on a forgery. And the answer to that is a resounding yes. In 1807, a German scholar named Friedrich Schleiermacher published a letter observing that 1 Timothy used arguments that clashed with other letters written by Paul. Moreover, 1 Timothy attacks false teachings, but they are not the types of teachings prevalent when Paul was writing—instead, they are more akin to the beliefs of the Gnostics, a sect that did not exist until long after Paul's death. And at times, whoever wrote this letter uses the same words as Paul but means something completely different by them. Most biblical scholars agree that Paul did not write 1 Timothy.
But suppose for a moment that 1 Timothy was written by Paul, and that "defile themselves" does refer to homosexuality. In that case, evangelical Christians and biblical literalists still have a lot of trouble on their hands. Contrary to what so many fundamentalists believe, outside of the emphasis on the Ten Commandments, sins aren't ranked. The New Testament doesn't proclaim homosexuality the most heinous of all sins. No, every sin is equal in its significance to God. In 1 Timothy, Paul, or whoever wrote it, condemns the disobedient, liars and drunks. In other words, for evangelicals who want to use this book of the Bible to condemn homosexuality, most frat boys in America are committing sins on par with being gay. But you rarely hear about parents banishing their kids for getting trashed on Saturday night.
Now let's talk about how 1 Timothy deals with women. U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Republican, slammed gay people as bullies last March for opposing legislation that would have allowed Arizona businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples. Well, according to the Bible, Bachmann should shut up and sit down. In fact, every female politician who insists the New Testament is the inerrant word of God needs to resign immediately or admit that she is a hypocrite.
That's because 1 Timothy is one of the most virulently anti-woman books of the New Testament, something else that sets it apart from other letters by Paul. In the King James Version, it says women must dress modestly, can't embroider their hair, can't wear pearls or gold and have to stay silent. Moreover, they can't hold any position of authority over men and aren't even allowed to be teachers—meaning, if they truly believe the Bible is the inerrant word of God, women like Bachmann can't be in politics. In fact, while 1 Timothy has just one parenthetical clause that can be interpreted as being about homosexuality, it contains six verses on the shortcomings of women and the limitations on what they are allowed to do.
Many Christians point to other parts of the New Testament when denouncing homosexuality. Romans, another letter attributed to Paul, is a popular choice. In the King James Bible, it condemns men who lust in their hearts for each other, a translation that holds up pretty well when compared with the earliest Greek versions. And scholars agree that Romans is a real letter written by Paul.
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700 Club co-host Pat Robertson speaks at a press conference, Feb. 3, 1998, at the CBN studio in Virginia Beach, Va., about the impending execution of Karla Faye Tucker, who was put to death later that night in Texas. Bill Tiernam/The Virginian-Pilot/AP
In other words, Romans is real Gospel, and what it has to say can't be questioned by those who call themselves biblical literalists. Which means televangelist Pat Robertson should prepare himself for an eternity in hell. On his television show The 700 Club, Robertson recently went on a tirade about Barack Obama and, as he is wont to do, prayed for help. "God, we need the angels! We need your help!" Robertson said. "We need to do something, to pray to be delivered from this president."
And with that, Pat Robertson sinned. Because in Romans—so often used to condemn homosexuality—there is a much longer series of verses about how the righteous are supposed to behave toward people in government authority. It shows up in Romans 13:1-2, which in the International Standard Bible says, "The existing authorities have been established by God, so that whoever resists the authorities opposes what God has established, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves."
So yes, there is one verse in Romans about homosexuality...and there are eight verses condemning those who criticize the government. In other words, all fundamentalist Christians who decry Obama have sinned as much as they believe gay people have.
It doesn't end there. In the same section of Romans that is arguably addressing homosexuality, Paul also condemns debating (all of Congress is damned?), being prideful, disobeying parents and deceiving people (yes, all of Congress is damned.) There is no bold print or underlining for the section dealing with homosexuality—Paul treats it as something as sinful as pride or debate.
The story is the same in the last New Testament verse cited by fundamentalists who scorn homosexuals. Again, it is a letter from Paul, called 1 Corinthians. The translation is good, and the experts believe it was written by him. But fundamentalists who rely on this better stay out of court—Paul condemns bringing lawsuits, at least against other Christians. Adultery, being greedy, lying—all of these are declared as sins on par with homosexuality.
Of course, there are plenty of fundamentalist Christians who have no idea where references to homosexuality are in the New Testament, much less what the surrounding verses say. And so they always fall back on Leviticus, the Old Testament book loaded with dos and don'ts. They seem to have the words memorized about it being an abomination for a man to lie with a man as he does with a woman. And every time they make that argument, they demonstrate that they know next to nothing about the New Testament.
A fundamental conflict in the New Testament—arguably the most important one in the Bible—centers on whether the Laws of Moses were supplanted by the crucifixion of Christ. The basic tension there was that Paul led a church in Antioch where he attempted to bring gentiles into Christianity by espousing a liberal interpretation of the requirements to follow the Laws of Moses—circumcision, eating kosher food and other rules spelled out in the Old Testament. Hundreds of miles away, disciples of Jesus and his brother James headed a church in Jerusalem. When they heard about the goings-on in Antioch, a debate ensued: Did gentiles have to become Jews first (like Jesus) and follow Mosaic Law before they could be accepted as Christians?
Some of the original disciples said yes, an opinion that seems to find support in words attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets...." The author of Matthew made it clear that Christians must keep Mosaic Law like the most religious Jews, in order to achieve salvation. But Paul, particularly in Galatians and Romans, says a person's salvation is won by his or her faith in Christ's death and resurrection—nothing more. Those who try to follow Mosaic Law, Paul believed, risked losing salvation.
In other words, Orthodox Jews who follow Mosaic Law can use Leviticus to condemn homosexuality without being hypocrites. But fundamentalist Christians must choose: They can either follow Mosaic Law by keeping kosher, being circumcised, never wearing clothes made of two types of thread and the like. Or they can accept that finding salvation in the Resurrection of Christ means that Leviticus is off the table.
Which raises one final problem for fundamentalists eager to condemn homosexuals or anyone else: If they accept the writings of Paul and believe all people are sinners, then salvation is found in belief in Christ and the Resurrection. For everyone. There are no exceptions in the Bible for sins that evangelicals really don't like.
So apparently, God doesn't need the help of fundamentalists in determining what should be done in the afterlife with the prideful, the greedy, the debaters or even those homosexuals. Which could well be why Jesus cautioned his followers against judging others while ignoring their own sins. In fact, he had a specific word for people obsessed with the sins of others. He called them hypocrites.
They Haven't a PrayerIn August 2011, Texas Governor Rick Perry hosted a massive prayer rally in Houston at what was then known as Reliant Stadium, where the city's pro-football team plays. Joined by 30,000 fellow Christians, Perry stepped to a podium, his face projected on a giant screen behind him. He closed his eyes, bowed his head and boomed out a long prayer asking God to make America a better place. His fellow believers stood, kneeled, cried and yelled, "Amen."
Recently, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced he would be holding his massive prayer rally at a sports arena in Baton Rouge. More than 100,000 evangelical pastors have been invited.
Jesus would have been horrified. At least, that's what the Bible says.
It is one of the most incomprehensible contradictions between the behavior of evangelicals and the explicit words of the Bible. Prayer shows—and there is really no other word for these—are held every week. If they are not at sports arenas with Republican presidential hopefuls, they are on Sunday morning television shows at mega-churches holding tens of thousands of the faithful. They raise their arms and sway, crying and pleading in prayer.
But Jesus specifically preached against this at the Sermon on the Mount, the longest piece of teaching by him in the New Testament. Specifically, as recounted in the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus spoke of those who made large public displays of their own religiosity. In fact, performance prayer events closely mimic the depictions in early Christian texts of prayer services held by the Pharisees and Sadducees, two of the largest religious movements in Judea during Jesus's life. And throughout the Gospels, Jesus condemns these groups using heated language, with part of his anger targeted at their public prayer.
While the words in the King James Bible might be a bit confusing because it is not written in modern English, the New Revised Standard Version is a good substitute here. In it, Jesus is quoted as saying "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven."
But Jesus says much more, specifically cautioning against the kind of public performance prayer that has become all the rage among evangelicals of late. The verse in Matthew continues quoting Jesus, who says, "Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward."
Instead, Jesus says the truly righteous should pray alone and in secret, in a room with the door shut. "Your Father who sees in secret will reward you,'' Jesus is quoted as saying.
Indeed, in the dozens of discussions in the Bible about prayer, the vast majority focus on God's ability to know what a person wants. In the New Testament, it is often portrayed as a deeply personal affair, with prayers uttered in prison cells to a God who stays alongside the oppressed.
Moreover, babbling on as Rick Perry and so many like him have about faith and country and the blessings of America runs counter to everything that Jesus says about prayer in the Bible. "When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words,'' Jesus is quoted as saying in Matthew. "Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him."
Because God knows what someone needs without being asked, there is no reason for long, convoluted prayers. Therefore, Jesus says in both Matthew and Luke, people who wish to pray should only say the Lord's Prayer. Of course, there is the problem that the Lord's Prayer cited in those two Gospels comes in two versions, so Christians have to choose one or the other.
It seems almost a miracle that those who effortlessly transform Paul's statement about "them that defile themselves with mankind" into "homosexual" can ignore the clear, simple words of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. What's most amazing is that, unlike so many questions about the Bible, the instructions on how and where to pray are not only not contradicted; they are reinforced time and again.
The closest Jesus came to public prayer in the Bible was when he was feeding thousands with five loaves of bread and two fish. This story is recounted in each of the Gospels, and each time, Jesus is depicted as either giving thanks to God or looking to heaven and blessing the food. But he is also depicted as praying in all four Gospels, and each time, Jesus does so after heading off to be alone.
Some evangelicals have attempted to explain away this contradiction between the words of the Bible in Matthew and modern public prayer performances by saying Jesus condemned only mass prayer, when the people doing it had made that choice just to be seen. But with governors projected on giant, high-definition televisions, with thousands packed into sports stadiums weeping and waving, with thousands more doing their prayers on TV at mega-churches, it's hard to see what possible reason might exist other than to be seen. God, the Bible makes clear, didn't need anyone to drive to a football stadium so he could hear them.
Which leads to an obvious question: Why don't more Christians oppose prayer in school? If these people truly believe that the Bible is the Word of God, then their children should be taught the Lord's Prayer, brought to their rooms and allowed to pray alone.
That answer doesn't lend itself to big protests or angry calls for impeaching judges. But it does follow the instructions from the Gospels. And isn't that supposed to be the point?
Judge NotSo why study the Bible at all? Since it's loaded with contradictions and translation errors and wasn't written by witnesses and includes words added by unknown scribes to inject Church orthodoxy, should it just be abandoned?
No. This examination is not an attack on the Bible or Christianity. Instead, Christians seeking greater understanding of their religion should view it as an attempt to save the Bible from the ignorance, hatred and bias that has been heaped upon it. If Christians truly want to treat the New Testament as the foundation of the religion, they have to know it. Too many of them seem to read John Grisham novels with greater care than they apply to the book they consider to be the most important document in the world.
But the history, complexities and actual words of the Bible can't be ignored just to line it up with what people want to believe, based simply on what friends and family and ministers tell them. Nowhere in the Gospels or Acts of Epistles or Apocalypses does the New Testament say it is the inerrant word of God. It couldn't—the people who authored each section had no idea they were composing the Christian Bible, and they were long dead before what they wrote was voted by members of political and theological committees to be the New Testament.
The Bible is a very human book. It was written, assembled, copied and translated by people. That explains the flaws, the contradictions, and the theological disagreements in its pages. Once that is understood, it is possible to find out which parts of the Bible were not in the earliest Greek manuscripts, which are the bad translations, and what one book says in comparison to another, and then try to discern the message for yourself.
And embrace what modern Bible experts know to be the true sections of the New Testament. Jesus said, Don't judge. He condemned those who pointed out the faults of others while ignoring their own. And he proclaimed, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these."
That's a good place to start.
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Happy 2015? Newsweek hit piece smears Bible, Christians
By Todd Starnes · Published December 30, 2014 · FoxNews.com
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Newsweek is launching the New Year with an old school attack on the Bible and Christians. It was just the sort of holiday hit piece that we've come to expect from these anti-Christian pinheads.
I imagine the Yuletide season must bring about near celebrations in the hallways of Newsweek as writers giddily try to find new ways to defile the followers of Christ.
This year's winner was Kurt Eichenwald – and he certainly spun quite a yarn – one truly worthy to be published in a magazine. Mr. Eichenwald is known around literary circles as a man of words – and he certainly used most of them in his verbose essay.
"I'm not sure why, but the folks over at Newsweek seem to hold
a mighty big grudge against Christians. Maybe somebody spiked
their Kool-Aid during Vacation Bible School? Who knows?"
--Todd Starnes
"The Bible – So Misunderstood it's a Sin," was the title of his treatise – of such import that editors demanded it grace the cover of the magazine.
At first glance, I thought Mr. Eichenwald's essay was a failed attempt at satire. However, by the end of the first paragraph, I realized it was meant to be a scholarly work. By the end of the second paragraph I was overcome by the fumes from this steaming pile of stink.
Newsweek's 16-page diatribe portrays Evangelical Christians as homophobic, right-wing fundamentalist hypocrites who believe an unbelievable Bible. And just in case the reader misses the writer's subtle nuance, the essay was illustrated with images of snake handlers, Pat Robertson and the Westboro Baptist Church.
That's because in the minds of Newsweek's esteemed editors, most evangelical Christians spend their weekends dancing with snakes and picketing gay nightclubs. Merry Christmas, America.
"They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnation of homosexuals," Eichenwald wrote. "They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments while demanding prayer in school. They appeal to God to save America from their political opponents, mostly Democrats. They gather in football stadiums by the thousands to pray for the country's salvation."
I'm not sure why, but the folks over at Newsweek seem to hold a mighty big grudge against Christians. Maybe somebody spiked their Kool-Aid during Vacation Bible School? Who knows?
"These are God's frauds, cafeteria Christians who pick and choose which Bible verses they heed with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch," Newsweek's writer blathered. "They are joined by religious rationalizers – fundamentalists who, unable to find Scripture supporting their biases and beliefs, twist phrase and modify translations to prove they are honoring the Bible's words."
As if Newsweek was trying to honor the Bible. The magazine goes on to advance theories that some of the New Testament books are forgeries and it calls I Timothy "one of the most virulently anti-woman books of the New Testament."
That statement then leads to a virulently anti-woman attack on Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin – because nothing says "Merry Christmas" to liberals like bashing the Baby Jesus and Sarah Palin.
Get a load of this subheadline: "Sarah Palin is sinning right now."
Here's what the magazine had to say about Bachmann: "Well, according to the Bible, Bachmann should shut up and sit down. In fact, every female politician who insists the New Testament is the inerrant word of God needs to resign immediately or admit that she is a hypocrite."
I don't know Mr. Eichenwald personally, but it strikes me that he might not have a good time at a Billy Graham Crusade.
Newsweek also wagged its finger at Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal for attending public prayer rallies.
"Jesus would have been horrified," Eichenwald wrote.
Dr. Albert Mohler is president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – one of the largest seminaries in the world. He's also one of the nation's leading evangelicals.
Mohler's takedown of Newsweek and Eichenwald is brilliant. You can read it here: http://www.albertmohler.com/2014/12/29/newsweek-on-the-bible-so-misrepresented-its-a-sin/
"Newsweek's cover story is exactly what happens when a writer fueled by open antipathy to evangelical Christianity tries to throw every argument he can think of against the Bible and its authority," Mohler wrote on his blog. "To put the matter plainly, no honest historian would recognize the portrait of Christian history presented in this essay as accurate and no credible journalist would recognize this screed as balanced."
Mohler called the essay an "embarrassment" and correctly noted that the writer had an axe to grind "and grind he does."
"To take advantage of Newsweek's title – it so misrepresents the truth, it's a sin," he wrote.
The news magazines do this all the time – attacking Christians during the Christmas and Easter seasons. It's a free country. We have a free press. They can write whatever they choose.
But the national news magazines never seem to target Islam. When was the last time Newsweek or Time published an attack piece on Muhammad during Ramadan?
I wonder if Newsweek would have the courage to publish "The Koran: So Misunderstood It's a Sin"?
I wonder if Newsweek would allow a feminist to weigh in on what the Islamic holy book says about women? Perhaps Newsweek could illustrate their story with cartoons of Muhammad – or maybe photographs of jihadists beading Christians in the name of Allah?
But we all know that won't happen, right Newsweek?
Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. Sign up for his American Dispatch newsletter, be sure to join his Facebook page, and follow him on Twitter. His latest book is "God Less America."
Newsweek on the Bible — So Misrepresented It's a Sin
Monday • December 29, 2014
by Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr.
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Newsweek magazine decided to greet the start of 2015 with a massive cover story on the Bible. For decades now, major news magazines have tended to feature cover articles timed for Christmas and Easter, taking an opportunity to consider some major question about Christianity and the modern world. Leading the journalistic pack for years, both TIME and Newsweek dedicated cover article after article, following a rather predictable format. In the main, scholars or leaders from very liberal quarters commented side-by-side those committed to historic Christianity on questions ranging from the virgin birth to the resurrection of Christ.
When written by journalists like Newsweek's former editor Jon Meacham or TIME reporters such as David Van Biema, the articles were often balanced and genuinely insightful. Meacham and Van Biema knew the difference between theological liberals and theological conservatives and they were determined to let both sides speak. I was interviewed several times by both writers, along with others from both magazines. I may not have liked the final version of the article in some cases, but I was treated fairly and with journalistic integrity.
So, when Newsweek, now back in print under new ownership, let loose its first issue of the New Year on the Bible, I held out the hope that the article would be fair, journalistically credible, and interesting, even if written from a more liberal perspective.
But Newsweek's cover story is nothing of the sort. It is an irresponsible screed of post-Christian invective leveled against the Bible and, even more to the point, against evangelical Christianity. It is one of the most irresponsible articles ever to appear in a journalistic guise.
The author of the massive essay is Kurt Eichenwald, who boasts an impressive reputation as a writer and reporter for newspapers like The New York Times and magazines including Vanity Fair. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award, he was also a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Eichenwald, however, has been primarily known for reporting and writing in a very different area of expertise. Most of his writing has been on business and financial matters, including business scandals.
When it comes to Newsweek's cover story, "The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin," Eichenwald appears to be far outside his area of expertise and knowledge. More to the point, he really does not address the subject of the Bible like a reporter at all. His article is a hit-piece that lacks any journalistic balance or credibility. His only sources cited within the article are from severe critics of evangelical Christianity, and he does not even represent some of them accurately.
The opening two paragraph of the article sets the stage for what follows:
"They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments while demanding prayer in school. They appeal to God to save America from their political opponents, mostly Democrats. They gather in football stadiums by the thousands to pray for the country's salvation.
They are God's frauds, cafeteria Christians who pick and choose which Bible verses they heed with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch. They are joined by religious rationalizers—fundamentalists who, unable to find Scripture supporting their biases and beliefs, twist phrases and modify translations to prove they are honoring the Bible's words."
What is really going on here? Did some fundamentalist preacher run over young Kurt Eichenwald's pet hamster when the reporter was just a boy? He opens with the most crude caricature of evangelical Christians — one unrecognizable in the vast majority of evangelical churches, and even to credible journalists. But the opening lines are truly a foretaste of what follows.
Amazingly, Eichenwald claims some stance of objectivity. "Newsweek's exploration here of the Bible's history and meaning is not intended to advance a particular theology or debate the existence of God," Eichenwald insists. "Rather, it is designed to shine a light on a book that has been abused by people who claim to revere it but don't read it, in the process creating misery for others."
But Eichenwald demonstrates absolutely no attempt to understand traditional Christian understandings of the Bible, nor ever to have spoken with the people he asserts "claim to revere [the Bible] but don't read it." What follows is a reckless rant against the Bible and Christians who claim to base their faith upon its teachings.
In a predictable move, Eichenwald claims to base his research on "works of scores of theologians and scholars, some of which dates back centuries." But the sources he cites are from the far, far left of biblical studies and the most significant living source appears to be University of North Carolina professor Bart Ehrman, who is post-Christian. Even so, he makes claims that go far beyond even what Bart Ehrman has claimed in print.
Eichenwald's first claim is that we cannot really read the Bible, for it does not actually exist and never has. "No television preacher has ever read the Bible," he asserts. "Neither has any evangelical politician. Neither has the pope. Neither have I. And neither have you. At best, we've all read a bad translation—a translation of translations of translations of hand-copied copies of copies of copies of copies, and on and on, hundreds of times."
No knowledgeable evangelical claims that the Bibles we read in English are anything other than translations. But it is just wrong and reckless to claim that today's best translations are merely "a translation of translations of translations." That just isn't so — not even close. Eichenwald writes as if textual criticism is a recent development and as if Christian scholars have not been practicing it for centuries. He also grossly exaggerates the time between the writing of the New Testament documents and the establishment of a functional canon. He tells of the process of copying manuscripts by hand over centuries as if that seals some argument about textual reliability, wrongly suggesting that many, if not most, of the ancient Christian scribes were illiterate. He writes accurately of the Greek used in the New Testament, and then makes an argument that could only impress a ten year old:
"These manuscripts were originally written in Koiné, or 'common' Greek, and not all of the amateur copyists spoke the language or were even fully literate. Some copied the script without understanding the words. And Koiné was written in what is known as scriptio continua—meaning no spaces between words and no punctuation. So, a sentence like weshouldgoeatmom could be interpreted as 'We should go eat, Mom,' or 'We should go eat Mom.' Sentences can have different meaning depending on where the spaces are placed. For example, godisnowhere could be 'God is now here' or 'God is nowhere.'"
Isn't that clever! But there is no text in the Bible in which this is truly a problem. Context determines the meaning, and no mom is in any danger of being eaten due to confused punctuation. That might impress a fifth-grade class, but not any serious reader. Later in his essay he makes essentially the same argument when he deals with the Greek word translated as worship when the text refers to deity. He rightly points out that translators use other terms when the context is merely human. Yes, the same word is used, but not in the same sense. This is not a translator's sleight of hand, but common sense. Similarly, when a British nobleman is addressed as "Your Lordship" in public, this does not mean that he is being worshiped in the same sense as when a Christian speaks of the lordship of Christ. Common sense indicates that the same word has a different meaning in a different context.
Eichenwald grossly over-estimates the total number of ancient New Testament manuscripts and he seems to believe that mainstream Christianity in the Patristic era might have been seriously confused about the legitimacy of the so-called Gnostic gospels and other heretical writings. He cited Bart Ehrman as saying,"There are more variations among our manuscripts than there are words in the New Testament," but then he follows that with his own concession: "Most of those discrepancies are little more than the handwritten equivalent of a typo, but that error was then included by future scribes." So there are many variations, but most are "little more than the handwritten equivalent of a typo?" Then, why is the point even important?
He turns to text critical questions related to the long ending of Mark's Gospel (16:17-18) and the account of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery in John's Gospel. These questions would not trouble any first-year seminarian in an evangelical seminary, but they are presented in the article as blockbuster discoveries. Furthermore, with reference to the woman caught in adultery, Eichenwald states: "Unfortunately, John didn't write it. Scribes made it up sometime in the Middle Ages." But the fact that the account is not found in the older manuscripts of the Gospel of John does not mean, in any credible sense, that scribes simply made it up in the Middle Ages. Eichenwald seems unaware of the very category of oral tradition.
He also presents a twisted version of Emperor Constantine's influence in Christian history, getting right the fact that Constantine called and influenced the Council of Nicaea but getting facts wrong when he claimed that Constantine influenced the formation of the New Testament canon by determining which books were to be included. His accusation of political intrigue by Constantine on the question of Christ's deity appears, within the totality of Eichenwald's essay, as a pointer to a strange antipathy to the doctrine of the Trinity itself. He argues that the Trinity is never defined in a singular verse of Scripture — orthodox Christians do not claim that any single text does — but he ignores the development of the doctrine of the Trinity drawn from the totality of the New Testament itself.
Eichenwald's opening sentences trumpeted his disdain for evangelical Christianity's sexual ethic, and his essay turns to deny that Christians have any textual basis for a negative view of homosexuality. He dismisses 1 Timothy as being falsely claimed to be written by the Apostle Paul, citing, oddly enough, Friedrich Schleiermacher, the father of modern theological liberalism, who made that argument in 1807. There is no counter-argument offered. Eichenwald simply credits the "scholars" he cites without any admission that other scholars hold very different opinions. Interestingly, he appears unable to deny that Paul wrote Romans and that Romans 1:27 identifies men lusting after other men as sinful.
He seems to believe that the teachings about women teaching and leading in 1 Timothy would apply to a woman in political office, failing to read that the text is clearly speaking of order within the Christian assembly. He seems totally unaware of any distinction between the moral law in the Old Testament and the ceremonial law and the holiness code.
In the main, he argues that historic Christianity has been based on nothing but a lie and that those who now represent themselves as biblical Christians are lying to themselves and to others — and doing great harm in the process.
But Kurt Eichenwald's essay is not ground-breaking in any sense. These arguments have been around for centuries in some form. He mixes serious points of argument with caricatures and cartoons and he does exactly what he accuses Christians of doing — he picks his "facts" and arguments for deliberate effect.
Newsweek's cover story is exactly what happens when a writer fueled by open antipathy to evangelical Christianity tries to throw every argument he can think of against the Bible and its authority. To put the matter plainly, no honest historian would recognize the portrait of Christian history presented in this essay as accurate and no credible journalist would recognize this screed as balanced.
Oddly enough, Kurt Eichenwald's attack on evangelical Christianity would likely be a measure more effective had he left out the personal invective that opens his essay and appears pervasively. He has an axe to grind, and grind he does.
But the authority of the Bible is not the victim of the grinding. To the contrary, this article is likely to do far more damage to Newsweek in its sad new reality. Kurt Eichenwald probably has little to lose among his friends at Vanity Fair, but this article is nothing less than an embarrassment. To take advantage of Newsweek's title — it so misrepresents the truth, it's a sin.
Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention and one of the largest seminaries in the world.
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US Special Forces Pushed Back By ISIS After
Attempt To Rescue A Jordanian Pilot
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(Great... US Special Forces a$$-kicked by a JV Team...)
Via PJ Media:The Pentagon hasn't yet commented on reports that U.S. Special Forces tried yet failed to rescue the downed Jordanian pilot from the clutches of ISIS on New Year's Day. From the International Business Times:Five coalition aircrafts reportedly hovered at low altitude over the city, while more than 12 raids were carried out on the outskirts. Reconnaissance planes were used to help aid the attacks, destroying a number of key IS buildings.
At the other end of the city, two helicopter gunships attempted to deploy special forces on the ground to rescue the hostages. However both gunships quickly came under heavy fire from IS militants in the Rumelia area, northeast Raqqa.
Eyewitnesses said they heard gunshots and helicopter gunships circling in the area.
Faced by heavy gunfire from IS militants, both helicopters were forced to abort their attempted landing. Strong clashes erupted, centring around al-Saqiya Street, where the helicopters had tried to land.
Another attempt was made to land in the countryside of eastern Raqqa between villages in the Alekershi area, and fighting ensued.
Commisoner Bratton Warns NYPD Not To Turn Their Backs On De Blasio
Again At Next Funeral
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(How about looking out for your men and asking the racist Mayor not to throw them under the racist bus? 10,000 turned their backs, not just 'a few'. You can't smooth that over, Bratton... Time to put the cuffs back on your commie Mayor! VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctmnJTz89hY )
Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2015/01/02/bratton-warns-nypd-not-to-turn-backs-on-mayor-at-officers-funeral/
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is so worried his cops will turn their backs to his boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio, at another NYPD funeral that he sent out a memo to shame them into good behavior, sources told The Post.
"A hero's funeral is about grieving, not grievance," began the four-paragraph plea, which is being read at precinct roll calls ahead of slain Officer Wenjian Liu's Sunday service.
Bratton won't punish officers who choose to turn their backs to de Blasio — which was done in droves at the funeral for fallen Officer Rafael Ramos — but he pleaded with the rank and file to shelve their anger.
"I issue no mandates and I make no threats of discipline," the memo said. "But I remind you that when you don the uniform of this department, you are bound by the tradition, honor, and decency that go with it."
Thousands of cops outside the Ramos funeral church showed their backs to the massive video screens broadcasting de Blasio's eulogy inside.
Bratton publicly called the back-turn "inappropriate" — and said he didn't support it.
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Texas Police On Alert: Brake Lines On Houston Police Cruiser Cut,
Shots Fired At Police Cars In Two Separate Incidents
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(Nothing to do with whipping up fury against police... gee, I wonder if they were black)
Via The Blaze: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/02/texas-cops-on-alert-after-brake-lines-on-houston-police-cruiser-cut/
Police in Texas are on alert after a marked Harris County constable car appeared to have had two lines powering the anti-lock braking system intentionally cut.
At the same time, there have been two separate reports of shots fired at Houston-area police in the space of a week.
Houston police, Harris County constables and uniformed officers patrolling in marked cars have been told to be on the lookout for rogue attacks, and whenever possible, to travel in pairs.
FCC Vote On Net Neutrality Coming Next Month
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(Here we go... "The rules are meant to keep broadband providers such as Verizon and Comcast from speeding up or slowing down some Web sites compared to others." That power is reserved solely for the government... anything the Government can't control it will attempt to destroy)
Via Washington Post:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/01/02/get-ready-the-fcc-says-itll-vote-on-net-neutrality-in-february/
Federal regulators looking to place restrictions on Internet providers will introduce and vote on new proposed net neutrality rules in February, Federal Communications Commission officials said Friday.
President Obama's top telecom regulator, Tom Wheeler, told fellow FCC commissioners before the Christmas holiday that he intends to circulate a draft proposal internally next month with an eye toward approving the measure weeks later, said one official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agency's deliberations are ongoing. The rules are meant to keep broadband providers such as Verizon and Comcast from speeding up or slowing down some Web sites compared to others.
FCC spokeswoman Kim Hart declined to comment on Wheeler's communications with his colleagues, but confirmed the February timetable, which ends weeks of speculation as to when the FCC would make its next move.
Someone Created A Poop Map Of San Francisco To Track City's Homeless
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(On a high school senior trip to San Fran in 1956, I remember walking thru the Mission District and seeing piles of poop and urine tracts from doorways where the homeless slept the night before. So this isn't a new thing. It has been going on since the first homeless person hit town many, many years ago...
For the map, checkout: http://jennz0r.github.io/wasteland/)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/01/eureka-someone-created-a-poop-map-of-san-francisco-to-track-the-homeless/
Want to know where the homeless relieve themselves in San Francisco? Lucky for you, there's now an interactive poop map that pinpoints which Golden City streets people defecate on.
Jennifer Wong, a web developer, created the map — dubbed "Human Wasteland" — to find where the homeless dwell in the West Coast city, according to Reuters. Her efforts got a boost thanks to the growing problem with people using Frisco streets as commodes.
The city received over 5,000 complaints about feces and urine from June to November 2014. Wong used this data for her map that depicted where there's the most crap happening.
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Remember this one:http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/25/epa-told-employees-to-stop-pooping-in-the-hallway/
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It's widely known that many employees in the Environmental Protection Agency really care about the environment, but this may go a little too far even for them.
Management for EPA's Region 8 office in Denver, Colorado, sent an email earlier this year telling employees to cease their gross bathroom habits, including pooping in the hallway.
The news site Government Executive obtained an email from EPA Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor from earlier this year, mentioning "several incidents" in the agency's office building, including clogged the toilets and "an individual placing feces in the hallway."
Things apparently got so bad, the agency "consulted" with workplace violence expert John Nicoletti, who — not surprisingly — said poop in the hallways was an office health and safety risk. Nicoletti said such actions were dangerous and those responsible would "probably escalate" their feces plans.
"Management is taking this situation very seriously and will take whatever actions are necessary to identify and prosecute these individuals," Cantor wrote, pleading those with knowledge of the poop culprits to come forward.
MASSIVE Protest Breaks Out In Front Of
"Racist" Fox News!
(And by massive I mean one adult and one child...)
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Black Panther Leader: 2015 Time To Build An Army, Practice With Firearms
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(America: 2015 Time to build a army, practice with firearms and wipeout the Black Panther terrorists...)
Via Breitbart:http://www.breitbart.com/video/2014/12/31/malik-shabazz-to-black-panthers-2015-time-to-build-army-go-to-gun-range/
In this week's episode of the official broadcast of the New Black Panthers Party's "Black Power Radio," the former national chairman of the New Black Panther Party and current national president of Black Lawyers for Justice, Malik Zulu Shabazz said 2015 is the time to "build up that army" and go "to the gun range."
"And Mister Malcolm X, he consistently teaches us self defense," Shabazz said. "The most honorable Elijah Muhammad continuously teaches us self defense. The honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey teaches us self defense, and we know, our leader and our teacher the honorable Khalid Abdul Muhammad teaches us self defense. What am I saying? Right now it's time to build up that army. Right now it's time for us to build up those corps, those troops. It's time to get strong. It's time for lifting weights and working out and going to the gun range and all of that."
HarperCollins Pulls Atlas Literally Wiping Israel Off The Map After Outrage
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(HarperCollins. Known to be a very Liberal Progressive company and managed by Jews. Pretty sad they'd even make the map to begin with...)
Via Truth Revolt:http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/harpercollins-pulls-atlas-omitting-israel
After outrage over a HarperCollins atlas designed for schools in the Middle East that literally wiped Israel from the map, the publisher announced Wednesday that it has removed the atlas from "sale in all territories" and apologized for "any offense it caused."
The atlas, which has been on sale for months, was developed to satisfy "local preferences" of English-speaking schools in the Muslim-majority Gulf. HarperCollins promoted the atlas as a tool to provide children "in-depth coverage of the region and its issues" and help them better understand the "relationship between the social and physical environment, the region's challenges [and] its socio-economic development."
"Nice goals," the Washington Post quips, "But there's one problem: Israel is missing. There's Syria. There's Jordan. There's Gaza. But no mention of Israel."
Wife Beater Dirty Harry Reid Beaten Up By Piece Of Exercise Equipment :-\
Breaks Ribs Along With Bones In His Ugly Face
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(Exercise accident, my foot. Dirty Harry was probably beaten up by one of the Las Vegas mob guys he works for... or maybe his wife ;D)
Here's the full statement:On Friday, the Senate Democratic leaders office suddenly announced that soon-to-be Senate minority leader Harry Reid suffered major injuries while exercising at his home Thursday.
"On Thursday, Senator Reid received treatment at University Medical Center in Las Vegas for injuries sustained in an accident he suffered while exercising at home in Henderson.
A piece of equipment Senator Reid was using to exercise broke, causing him to fall and break a number of ribs and bones in his face.
Senator Reid will return to Washington this weekend and be in the office Tuesday as the Senate prepares to reconvene. His doctors expect a full recovery.
Senator Reid was first brought to St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson by his security detail. He was then transferred to UMC for further testing, where he was admitted overnight as a precaution.
Reid has had several close calls with his health in the past. In 2011, the Senator dislocated his shoulder while jogging in Washington, leaving him with head bump and a black eye, according to USA Today. In 2012, he also suffered from several car accidents in Las Vegas that left him with multiple rib and hip contusions.
Income Inequality? Obumas Dine At Restaurant That Charges $500,000 For 'Charter Membership'
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(Oh darn, he's putting a napkin on. I got excited, I thought he was trying to stop the bleeding!)
Via Weekly Standard:http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamas-dine-restaurant-charging-500000-membership_822640.html
President Barack Obama and his wife, Michael Obama, spent the first night of the new year at Vintage Cave, an upscale restaurant in Hawaii.
"At Vintage Cave Honolulu, one can enjoy exceptional food and wine at the hands of gifted masters of the culinary arts. 'Chef's recommendation' commands a gravitas guaranteed to satisfy the most discerning palate. Seasoned sommelier's conduct the process of pairing wine and food with true finesse and style. Secure in the natural embrace of the cave-like environment, guests are encouraged to relax, 'hit reset' and escape the ordinary," Vintage Cave's description reads on its website.
As Time's Zeke Miller pointed out, membership at the restaurant can set you back
$500,000.
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The Zombiefication Of America
By Michael Snyder, December 28th, 2014
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Do you know people that seem like they have had their souls sucked out of them? On dictionary.com, a "zombie" is defined as "the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose". And that sounds very much like what has happened to tens of millions of Americans. When you look into their eyes, it doesn't look like anything is even there. That is because who they once were is now dominated and controlled by the overwhelmingly powerful "matrix" that is being constructed all around us. As I wrote about the other day, virtually all news, information and entertainment that Americans consume is controlled by just six monolithic corporations. And today, Americans are more "plugged in" than ever before. The average person watches 153 hours of television a month in addition to spending countless hours watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, reading books and surfing the Internet. In the end, all of that "programming" turns many of us into virtual zombies, and that is the way that the elite like it.
Just think about it. What was the biggest news story in the entire country over the holiday weekend?
*It was the fact that some hackers had taken down the Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox networks and millions of kids could not log in and play the video games that they had just received for Christmas.
(See article below)Sadly, most parents don't even bother to pay attention to what those video games are actually teaching their children.
One of the most popular video games this holiday season is Grand Theft Auto V. In this game, our kids do things that none of us would ever want them to do in real life...The game contains scenes where players can have virtual sex with prostitutes then beat them up and steal their money, and a scene of torture where the player is expected to remove a gang rival's teeth one by one using the joy pad, which vibrates as the victim begs for mercy.
It also includes scenes where the player smokes marijuana, and takes the dangerous hallucinogenic drug peyote. There is also a brief instance of necrophilia. Yet GTA V is one of the top-selling computer games in the world.If you put garbage in, you are eventually going to get garbage out.
And we can see the consequences of this all over the country.
Meanwhile, Americans are becoming increasingly disinterested in things that really matter such as faith, family and the U.S. Constitution.
Instead, many of our spoiled young people are self-obsessed narcissists that loudly complain on social media when they don't get the electronic gadgets that they were expecting for Christmas.
It isn't the end of the world if "Santa" doesn't bring you the latest iPhone.
But Americans today, especially our young people, have such a warped view of reality. It begins at a very early age, and one of the biggest culprits is our public school system.
For instance, the Blaze recently reported that children down in Texas are being taught that the pilgrims were "essentially America's first terrorists" and that they should listen to their teachers more than they listen to their parents...Cassidy Vines was so horrified by what a teacher in Texas allegedly told her that she is planning on home-schooling her daughter after Christmas break.
Vines told Glenn Beck on Monday that she recently began noticing a change in her daughter's behavior. Her daughter — who is in kindergarten — started to "snap" at her when she corrected her homework, saying "I'm her mommy, not her teacher."
Vines said a few days after her daughter first snapped at her, she started pronouncing a word incorrectly. Vines corrected her daughter "in the most gentle way possible," but she said her daughter broke down crying, saying "that's how she was taught, and I can't tell her something different because I'm a mommy, not a teacher."
Vines said she was horrified and asked, "Is somebody telling you this at school?"
"She said, 'Yes, I'm only allowed to learn from my teacher,'" Vines remarked.In this day and age, our public schools have essentially become government indoctrination centers that train our children to let "the matrix" do their thinking for them. They are taught that they are just highly evolved animals that are here only as the result of a giant cosmic accident, and that morality and values are all relative.
As a result, many of our young people just do whatever is right in their own eyes, and at this point many of them have consciences that have been seared beyond recognition.
For example, how far gone do you have to be in order to sing a "Christmas carol" that includes the line "Deck the halls with rows of dead cops"?...The brave Portland #Ferguson demonstrators were back at it again Saturday evening, as they blocked the busy intersection of SE 39th and Belmont as a way of stickin' it to the man.
They blocked buses and cars, and got into arguments and physical altercations with several people, including: elderly drivers, disabled bus passengers, a black woman who was trying to pick up her son, and anyone else who dared voice their dissent.
After about 20 minutes of tying up the intersection, the protest moved to nearby Peacock Lane, which is well known for its rows of large Christmas displays. The demonstrators sang parody Christmas carols, which included a brief rendition of "Deck the halls with rows of dead cops."Our society is breaking down in thousands of different ways, and we can see the evidence of this all around us.
But instead of coming together as a nation, anger, hate and division just continue to grow. And all of this anger, hate and division is being fueled by the talking heads on television.
It has become exceedingly apparent that most Americans no longer think for themselves. Rather, most conversations in America today consist of an exchange of sound bites, phrases, ideas and talking points that the "matrix" has fed us. Most of us are just zombies that spend our days searching for the things that we are desperately craving. For fictional zombies, that usually consists of brains. For American zombies, that usually consists of something that will feed our addictions.
So is there any hope for our society, or are we destined to become even more zombiefied?
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Sony Hackers 'Shared' Stolen Employee Login Data
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(The real hacking into Sony's internal campaign came about because
of a hack into the Sony game network...)
Via BBC:http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30632711
Data that helped hackers access Sony's internal network came from another group targeting the firm's gaming network, reports the Washington Post.
In an interview, a self-proclaimed Lizard Squad member said it had given stolen data to the Guardians of Peace.
The GoP has carried out several attacks on Sony in a bid to halt the release of comedy film The Interview.
*By contrast, the Lizard Squad targeted Sony's PlayStation network knocking it offline on Christmas Day.
The man interviewed by the newspaper appears to be one of the two members who spoke to the BBC last week.
In the interview, the self-identified senior member of Lizard Squad said his group knew people that were part of GoP. Despite the connection, the spokesman said Lizard Squad did not play a "large part" in the attacks the GoP mounted against Sony.
GoP's attacks involved exposing confidential information about many Sony employees and sharing thousands of emails sent between employees, film stars and movie makers. [...]
However, the Reuters news agency has reported that US investigators are exploring whether North Korea "contracted out" some of the work involved, which could explain how Lizard Squad formed links to GoP.
Lizard Squad members are all based in European nations, said the senior member.
The GoP attacks forced Sony to withdraw the film from its planned release, but it is now available to view online and is on show at some cinemas. It made about $15m (£9.6m) through downloads alone over its first three days of distribution.
This Is Your Future: Ordering a Pizza In 2015, NSA Style
Just because technology is advancing does not mean that life will necessarily be better in the future. For example, it imagines what ordering a pizza might be like in the year 2015...VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn7N2UiOYCk#t=71
OR
Ordering a Pizza In 2015, DHS Style
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=-lVTDY75mlA
Bon Appétit!
In 3725 is that a dog on the President's plate? Is somebody funnin' ya? :laugh:
Quote from: Diane Amberg on January 03, 2015, 07:11:42 AM
In 3725 is that a dog on the presidents's plate? Is somebody funnin' ya? :laugh:
That is satire, sarcasm. It's symbolic.
Sure it's suppose to be there.
That is part of the humor.
I'd suggest reading the article that is posted with the picture.
Well duh. There ya have it ladies and gentlemen, the latest from Captain Obvious. :P
Quote from: Diane Amberg on January 03, 2015, 08:52:23 AM
Well duh. There ya have it ladies and gentlemen, the latest from Captian Obvious.
You asked a naive question concerning comprehension and I politely provided you with an answer.
And you gotta be nasty and ugly.
Some gratitude.
But you are welcome just the same.
Have a nice day Diane.
Not naive! @#!!!#! It was a setup question! I was expecting WARPH to come back with something about the place being so exclusive the hot dogs were made of real dogs, or some such, but he never got the chance now did he? You had to jump in there and take an insulting swing at me! It's no wonder some people call you an idiot. Good manners don't let me say what I'm really thinking. Back on ignore for you!
Quote from: Diane Amberg on January 03, 2015, 02:39:13 PM
Not naive! @#!!!#! It was a setup question! I was expecting WARPH to come back with something about the place being so exclusive the hot dogs were made of real dogs, or some such, but he never got the chance now did he? You had to jump in there and take an insulting swing at me! It's no wonder some people call you an idiot. Good manners don't let me say what I'm really thinking. Back on ignore for you!
Oh what I could say, but I bite my tongue. I could be just as ugly and nasty as you and call you stupid, but I refuse to stoop that low.
Your lack of comprehension has been obvious for a very long time.
I didn't read where you said hey Warph or anything of that nature.
Here is your remark and there is nothing set up about it.
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In 3725 is that a dog on the President's plate? Is somebody funnin' ya? :laugh:
Nope, no set up there, LOL
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11 Predictions Of Economic Disaster In 2015 From
Top Experts All Over The Globe
By Michael Snyder, on January 4th, 2015
Will 2015 be a year of financial crashes, economic chaos and the start of the next great worldwide depression? Over the past couple of years, we have all watched as global financial bubbles have gotten larger and larger. Despite predictions that they could burst at any time, they have just continued to expand. But just like we witnessed in 2001 and 2008, all financial bubbles come to an end at some point, and when they do implode the pain can be extreme. Personally, I am entirely convinced that the financial markets are more primed for a financial collapse now than they have been at any other time since the last crisis happened nearly seven years ago. And I am certainly not alone. At this point, the warning cries have become a deafening roar as a whole host of prominent voices have stepped forward to sound the alarm. The following are 11 predictions of economic disaster in 2015 from top experts all over the globe...
#1 Bill Fleckenstein: "They are trying to make the stock market go up and drag the economy along with it. It's not going to work. There's going to be a big accident. When people realize that it's all a charade, the dollar will tank, the stock market will tank, and hopefully bond markets will tank. Gold will rally in that period of time because it's done what it's done because people have assumed complete infallibility on the part of the central bankers."
#2 John Ficenec: "In the US, Professor Robert Shiller's cyclically adjusted price earnings ratio – or Shiller CAPE – for the S&P 500 is currently at 27.2, some 64pc above the historic average of 16.6. On only three occasions since 1882 has it been higher – in 1929, 2000 and 2007."
#3 Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, one of the most respected economic journalists on the entire planet: "The eurozone will be in deflation by February, forlornly trying to ignite its damp wood by rubbing stones. Real interest rates will ratchet higher. The debt load will continue to rise at a faster pace than nominal GDP across Club Med. The region will sink deeper into a compound interest trap."
#4 The Jerome Levy Forecasting Center, which correctly predicted the bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2007: "Clearly the direction of most of the recent global economic news suggests movement toward a 2015 downturn."
#5 Paul Craig Roberts: "At any time the Western house of cards could collapse. It (the financial system) is a house of cards. There are no economic fundamentals that support stock prices — the Dow Jones. There are no economic fundamentals that support the strong dollar..."
#6 David Tice: "I have the same kind of feel in '98 and '99; also '05 and '06. This is going to end badly. I have every confidence in the world."
#7 Liz Capo McCormick and Susanne Walker: "Get ready for a disastrous year for U.S. government bonds. That's the message forecasters on Wall Street are sending."
#8 Phoenix Capital Research: "Just about everything will be hit as well. Most of the 'recovery' of the last five years has been fueled by cheap borrowed Dollars. Now that the US Dollar has broken out of a multi-year range, you're going to see more and more 'risk assets' (read: projects or investments fueled by borrowed Dollars) blow up. Oil is just the beginning, not a standalone story.
If things really pick up steam, there's over $9 TRILLION worth of potential explosions waiting in the wings. Imagine if the entire economies of both Germany and Japan exploded and you've got a decent idea of the size of the potential impact on the financial system."
#9 Rob Kirby: "What this breakdown in the crude oil price is going to spawn another financial crisis. It will be tied to the junk debt that has been issued to finance the shale oil plays in North America. It is reported to be in the area of half a trillion dollars worth of junk debt that is held largely on the books of large financial institutions in the western world. When these bonds start to fail, they will jeopardize the future of these financial institutions. I do believe that will be the signal for the Fed to come riding to the rescue with QE4. I also think QE4 is likely going to be accompanied by bank bail-ins because we all know all western world countries have adopted bail-in legislation in their most recent budgets. The financial elites are engineering the excuse for their next round of money printing . . . and they will be confiscating money out of savings accounts and pension accounts. That's what I think is coming in the very near future."
#10 John Ing: "The 2008 collapse was just a dress rehearsal compared to what the world is going to face this time around. This time we have governments which are even more highly leveraged than the private sector was.
So this time the collapse will be on a scale that is many magnitudes greater than what the world witnessed in 2008."
#11 Gerald Celente: "What does the word confidence mean? Break it down. In this case confidence = con men and con game. That's all it is. So people will lose confidence in the con men because they have already shown their cards. It's a Ponzi scheme. So the con game is running out and they don't have any more cards to play.
What are they going to do? They can't raise interest rates. We saw what happened in the beginning of December when the equity markets started to unravel. So it will be a loss of confidence in the con game and the con game is soon coming to an end. That is when you are going to see panic on Wall Street and around the world."
If you have been following my website, you know that I have been pointing to 2015 for quite some time now.
For example, in my article entitled "The Seven Year Cycle Of Economic Crashes That Everyone Is Talking About", I discussed the pattern of financial crashes that we have witnessed every seven years that goes all the way back to the Great Depression. The last two major stock market crashes began in 2001 and 2008, and now here we are seven years later.
Will the same pattern hold up once again?
In addition, there are many other economic cycles that seem to indicate that we are due for a major economic downturn. I discussed quite a few of these theories in my article entitled
"If Economic Cycle Theorists Are Correct, 2015 To 2020 Will Be Pure Hell For The United States".
But just like in 2000 and 2007, there are a whole host of doubters that are fully convinced that the party can continue indefinitely. Even though our economic fundamentals continue to get worse, our debt levels continue to grow and every objective measurement shows that Wall Street is more reckless and more vulnerable to collapse than ever before, they mock the idea that a financial collapse is imminent.
So let's see what happens in 2015.I have a feeling that it is going to be an extremely "interesting" year.
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...Warph
More Republicans Say They Wouldn't Support Boehner
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Via Daily Caller:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/04/more-republicans-say-they-wont-support-boehner-for-speaker/
While ousting John Boehner from the speaker's office still remains a long shot, a growing number of conservative lawmakers in the House are saying they plan to support someone other than the Ohio Republican during this week's vote.
The latest Republican to announce plans to oppose Boehner is Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar, who made public his intentions in a Sunday evening statement.
"Trust is a series of promises kept; my vote for new leadership reflects a promise I made to voters when they elected me," Gosar said. "I cannot stand beside the same leadership that has offered up bills too large to read, used parliamentary tricks to bring bills to the floor and has refused to take swift action against the president and his administration's unconstitutional actions."
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While John Boehner Gently Weeps
—apologies to the Beatles, and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
I look at the fiscal cliff, see that it's looming
While John Boehner gently weeps
I look at effective defense that it's dooming
Still John Boehner gently weeps
I don't know whatever possessed him
Little more than one year ago
To agree down the road to sequestering
Everyone told him so
All vestige of financial sanity's ending
While John Boehner gently weeps
He's done nothing to slow the government spending
So John Boehner gently weeps
No matter how he may maneuver
Now his back's to the wall
With Obama, he's a prime mover
Of our financial fall
I look at the fiscal cliff, see that it's looming
While John Boehner gently weeps
Look at the cliff...
Still John Boehner gently weeps
Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, ooh
Van T. Barfoot died
But twenty-five years later, on May 23, 1944,
near Carano , Italy , that same Van T. Barfoot,
who had in 1940 enlisted in the U.S. Army, set
out alone to flank German machine gun
positions from which gunfire was raining
down on his fellow soldiers.
His advance took him through a minefield but
having done so, he proceeded to single-handedly
take out three enemy machine gun positions,
returning with 17 prisoners of war.
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And if that weren't enough for a day's work, he later
took on and destroyed three German tanks
sent to retake the machine gun positions.
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That probably didn't make much news either,
given the scope of the war, but it did earn
Van T. Barfoot, who retired as a Colonel after
also serving in Korea and Vietnam , a well
deserved Congressional Medal of Honor
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What did make news...Was his Neighborhood
Association's quibble with how the 90-year-old
veteran chose to fly the American flag outside
his suburban Virginia home. Seems the HOA rules
said it was OK to fly a flag on a house-mounted
bracket, but, for decorum, items such as
Barfoot's 21-foot flagpole were "unsuitable".
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Van Barfoot had been denied a permit for
the pole, but erected it anyway and was facing
court action unless he agreed to take it down.
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Then the HOA story made national TV,
and the Neighborhood Association rethought
its position and agreed to indulge this
aging hero who dwelt among them.
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" I n the time I have left", he said to the
Associated Press, " I plan to continue
to fly the American flag without interference."
As well he should.
And if any of his neighbors had taken a notion to
contest him further, they might have done well to
read his Medal of Honor citation first. Seems it
indicates Mr. Van Barfoot wasn't particularly
good at backing down.
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Van T. Barfoot's Medal of Honor citation:
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Van T. Barfoot's Medal of Honor citation:
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This 1944 Medal of Honor citation, listed with the
National Medal of Honor Society,
is for Second Lieutenant Van T. Barfoot,
157th I nfantry, 45th I nfantry:
WE ONLY L I VE I N THE LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!
AND,
BECAUSE OF OLD MEN L I KE VAN BARFOOT!
Want to avoid being called a racist?
Pay Al Sharpton
Sharpton's #1 Rule: No Palm Greasing- No Peace
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(Al Crapton tax situation:
FYI, this is conjecture on my part. As I understand it, his organization has unpaid payroll taxes to the tune of 4 million $
Assume he gets a regular paycheck, amount unknown, but Social Security, Medicare and personal income taxes (PIT) are withheld. He instructs the payroll department to take out extra PIT, so that at the end of the year he has had withheld an amount much greater than needed to pay taxes due on his income.
These funds are supposed to be remitted to the government on a weekly or monthly basis. In this case, funds were not remitted, but remained in organization coffers.
The organization does this for a whole year, issuing a W-2 with the amount withheld for personal [and state if applicable] listed. This information is provided to the individual, state and federal tax authorities.
He files his Form 1040, which results in a large refund, which the government gladly direct deposits into his account, despite the fact that the organization has not remitted any taxes for a year.
The money that was not remitted is then conveyed to him as a bonus, or some other subterfuge. This person has just doubled his money at the expense of the honest taxpayers of America.
Normally, this situation does not continue for long, as the IRS will close you down, but with his contacts in the Obuma Administration, it could continue for a long time.
And if the IRS doesn't get Crapton, maybe the HIV Aids will!)Inciting hatred is big business, and Al Sharpton is the Donald Trump of promoting hatred. Sharpton has gotten very wealthy promoting racial hatred and Antisemitism, according to the NY Post is now getting "hush money" from corporations begging him not to call them racist.
Soon after Sony Pictures Co-Chairwoman Amy Pascal's racially insensitive hacked emails were released, Pascal convened with Sharpton in a meeting that had Pascal and her team "shaking in their boots" in fear of him. When the group emerged, Sharpton had secured himself a prominent seat on a "working group" to combat racial bias in Hollywood, the Post reported:"Al Sharpton has enriched himself and [National Action Network] NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didn't come to terms with him. Put simply, Sharpton specializes in shakedowns," said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal & Policy Center, a Virginia-based watchdog group that has produced a book on Sharpton.
And Sharpton, who now boasts a close relationship with Obama and Mayor de Blasio, is in a stronger negotiating position than ever.
"Once Sharpton's on board, he plays the race card all the way through," said a source who has worked with the Harlem preacher. "He just keeps asking for more and more money."Its not just Corporations, politicians bow to the throne of Sharpton the hater. On October 1, Sharpton held a 60th birthday celebration at Manhattan's Four Seasons restaurant. All the big shots of New York Democratic Party politics were in attendance, including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Rep. Charles Rangel and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (there are unconfirmed reports that Chuck Schumer was there also. "Sharpton raised $1 million for NAN at his 60th birthday bash in October, with donations rolling in from unions and a corporate roster of contributors including AT&T, McDonald's, Verizon and Walmart." Back in 2011 there were reports that Sharpton got his Job at MSNBC for helping push through the Comcast/MSNBC merger: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2011/07/msnbcs-sharpton-hire-was-payback-for.htmlThe Daily Caller reported:It's gone remarkably unnoticed that Sharpton was the first major black leader to endorse the Comcast merger, which met fierce resistance. Michael Copps, a Democrat who'd served on the FCC since 2001, declared, when he ultimately voted against it, that the merger "erodes diversity, localism and competition" and was "a huge boost for media industry (and digital industry) consolidation" as well as "a stake in the heart of independent content production," charges that were echoed in a New York Times editorial. But Mignon Clyburn, the daughter of South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn and the only minority member on the FCC, threw her decisive support behind the deal, citing a comprehensive diversity memorandum of agreement (MOU) signed by Sharpton as a mechanism that "will serve to keep the new entity honest in promoting diversity." But Sharpton got more than a job:A Comcast spokesperson told The Daily Beast that Comcast has given $140,000 to Sharpton's National Action Network since 2009—the same year the merger was first proposed. Though MSNBC president Phil Griffin was honored with a top prize at the April 2011 annual conference of NAN—and he, Chris Mathews, and other NBC notables had a table at NAN's dinner—NBC would not answer questions about how much it's given Sharpton.The post reported one example of Sharpton's shakedowns has emerged in tax filings and a state inspector general's report:
In 2008, Plainfield Asset Management, a Greenwich, Conn.-based hedge fund, made a $500,000 contribution to New York nonprofit Education Reform Now. That money was immediately funneled to the National Action Network.
The donation raised eyebrows. Although the money was ostensibly to support NAN's efforts to bring "educational equality," it also came at a time that Plainfield was trying to get a lucrative gambling deal in New York.
Plainfield had a $250 million stake in Capital Play, a group trying to secure a license to run the coming racino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. Capital Play employed a lobbyist named Charlie King, who also was the acting executive director of NAN.
Sharpton has said that most of the Plainfield contribution went to pay King's salary.
King's company, the Movement Group, was paid $243,586 by NAN in 2008, tax records show.
Harold Levy, a former New York City schools chancellor who was a managing director at Plainfield at the time, has denied the contribution was made to curry favor with Sharpton or anyone else. But a year later, as the battle for the racino license heated up, NAN raked in another $100,000 from representatives of the AEG consortium, which was the successor company to Capital Play.
One AEG member e-mailed another in 2009 saying, "Sharpton lobbied [then-Gov. David Paterson] hard over the weekend on our behalf," according to the state inspector general's 2010 report on the corrupt racino licensing process.Sharpton has gotten the auto industry to bow down:NAN had repeatedly and without success asked GM for donations for six years beginning in August 2000, a GM spokesman told The Post. Then, in 2006, Sharpton threatened a boycott of GM over the planned closing of an African-American-owned dealership in The Bronx. He picketed outside GM's Fifth Avenue headquarters. GM wrote checks to NAN for $5,000 in 2007 and another $5,000 in 2008. Sharpton targeted American Honda in 2003 for not hiring enough African-Americans in management positions:"We support those that support us," Sharpton wrote to the company. "We cannot be silent while African-Americans spend hard-earned dollars with a company that does not hire, promote or do business with us in a statistically significant manner."
Two months later, car-company leaders met with Sharpton, and Honda began to sponsor NAN's events. The protests stopped.Al Sharpton is no different than the thugs who make local retailers pay protection money.
Even worse are the powerful corporations and politicians who bow down to this faux preacher. As someone who has covered this hate monger for almost ten years, I can vouch that it happens all too often, not only by politicians and corporations, but by the mainstream media which refuses to expose Sharpton's record of hate. Jazz Shaw has a great (capitalist) take on this story at Hot Air. http://hotair.com/archives/2015/01/04/want-to-avoid-being-called-a-racist-pay-al-sharpton/
Breaking: Two More Police Officers Shot In NYC
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(More crazy crap? Law and Order. It is what a society must have in order to work correctly for safety / survival. If the ones who are put in place to guarantee that the law and order is secure, are under attack, how does society survive? How come we are not hearing from the individual state governments? Why are they not continually screaming out and demanding an end to the criminality and then acting within the law to stop it and in the same breath, guaranteeing the people of their states that they will not allow such chaos and anarchy? Of course, none of us have any desire for the federal government to get involved,... we all know it must stay local... but nobody is speaking out or making moves to stop the attack (the mindset) happening on the police nationwide... if the people cannot depend upon their elected governments to protect that line of defense between criminals and the people, how long before the people take matters into their own hands and stand up to protect that line? Then the blow-up happens... when the fed gov 'steps in' to take over for 'security and safety'... is my hat on too tight, or, do any of you see this scenario playing out?)Via Yahoo:http://news.yahoo.com/nypd--2-officers-shot-in-the-bronx-042649723.html
Two police officers were shot in the Bronx Monday night, the New York Police Department confirmed Monday night.
Details of the shooting and the condition of the two cops were not immediately known, the department said.
The incident occurred in the Fordham section of the Bronx at 184th and Teibout Avenue and police are still searching for a suspect.
Local New York City television news outlets reported the officers were rushed to St. Barnabas Medical Center and that their injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
WNBC in New York reported one officer was shot in the back, but is believed to have been wearing a bullet proof vest that may have saved his life while the second officer suffered a graze wound to the elbow.
The shootings come just weeks after NYPD police officers Wenjian Liu and Raphael Ramos were fatally shot in Brooklyn on Dec. 20 by a man believed to be seeking revenge for the police-involved deaths of Ferguson teen Michael Brown and Eric Garner of Staten Island.
Gohmert Says He's Rounding Up The 29 Votes To Defeat Boehner
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(Cross your fingers... I vote for Trey Gowdy)
Via Washington Examiner:One of the two Republicans pledging to challenge the re-election of House Speaker John Boehner said conservatives are rounding up the 29 votes needed to defeat him.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told Laura Ingraham on her radio show that the effort to overthrow Boehner stands a better chance than a failed coup in 2012 because this time, disgruntled GOP lawmakers have another choice.
"I was persuaded by some of my newer colleagues in the Congress that people have to have a name," Gohmert said. "My friends persuaded me the mistake we made last time was not having [lawmakers] commit to specific people."
The House on Tuesday will vote to elect the speaker for the 114th Congress, which convenes at noon.
Hilarious Irony Alert: Harvard Professors Upset With Increased
Costs From Obamacare They Championed
David Burge @iowahawkblog
Gruber, you magnificent bastard. MIT 1, Harvard 0
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us/health-care-fixes-backed-by-harvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html?_r=2Obumacare: Its a Bomb
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AG Nominee Loretta Lynch Questioned Over Secret Deal Depriving Crime Victims Of $40 Million
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(Obuma's perfect pick... liberal, woman, black, ignores the law and
proficient in corruption and fraud. Real AG material)
Via Washington Times:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/4/loretta-lynchs-office-cheated-stock-fraud-victims-/
More than a year before President Obama nominated federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to be attorney general, a former federal judge quietly called on Congress to investigate her U.S. attorney's office for trampling on victims' rights.
Paul Cassell, a law professor at the University of Utah, said Ms. Lynch's office, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, never told victims in a major stock fraud case that a culprit had been sentenced — denying them a chance to seek restitution of some $40 million in losses.
Feminist Blocking Metro Door With Her "Personal Space Box"
(Moonbats are an odd group of people to say the least... The looks on the faces of the three guys behind her is priceless and they are trying really, really hard not to get in her personal space. What the "oh so liberated" woman does not realize is that if someone does decide to get into her "personal space", that stupid box she has both her hands on is a real hindrance to her defending herself...)
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Woman Suing Jeffrey Epstein For Sexual Slavery Claimed Bill Clinton Must Have Known
Teenage girl recruited by paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveals how she twice met Bill Clinton
(Another Willy Clinton Scandal?? Nothing new here... move along)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363452/Bill-Clinton-15-year-old-masseuse-I-met-twice-claims-Epsteins-girl.html
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Jeff Epstein, is the subject of the law suit which indirectly claimed Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew had sex with minors (there is no evidence of either and both strongly deny the claim). But when the suit was first filed, nine months ago there was another name involved which is not part of the latest media firestorm, Bill Clinton.
The lawsuit contends that a plea deal made by Mr. Epstein for soliciting prostitutes did not consider all of the victims. It adds that one of the claimants (known as Jane Doe #3), was underage when she was forced by Epstein to have sex with several men, notably Great Britain's Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz. When the lawsuit was announced in March, the plaintiff Virginia Roberts who was underage at the time, said while she didn't know if Bill Clinton partook in the naked massages from young girls, but he had to know what was going on.
Bill Clinton, traveled with Epstein to a number of destinations, including three times on the billionaire's private aircraft. Some of the underage massages happened on that plane.
On one occasion, she adds, Epstein did invite two young brunettes to a dinner which he gave on his Caribbean island for Mr Clinton shortly after he left office. But, as far as she knows, the ex-President did not take the bait.
'Bill must have known about Jeffrey's girls. There were three desks in the living area of the villa on the island.
'They were covered with pictures of Jeffrey shaking hands with famous people and photos of naked girls, including one of me that Jeffrey had at all his houses, lying in a hammock.
'We all dined together that night. Jeffrey was at the head of the table. Bill was at his left. I sat across from him. Emmy Tayler, Ghislaine's blonde British assistant, sat at my right.
'Ghislaine was at Bill's left and at the left of Ghislaine there were two olive-skinned brunettes who'd flown in with us from New York.
'I'd never met them before. I'd say they were no older than 17, very innocent-looking.
'They weren't there for me. They weren't there for Jeffrey or Ghislaine because I was there to have sex with Jeffrey on the trip.According to the Smoking Gun "as part of a civil suit filed against Epstein by several of his victims, lawyers for the women floated the possibility of subpoenaing Clinton since he "might well be a source of relevant information" about Epstein's activities."
That would be interesting, as we know Bill Clinton has a little problem with honesty when he gives depositions in civil law suits.
Walmart Shoplifters Left Kids In Vehicle, Failed To Inform Police When Arrested
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(Already out of the running for parents of the year... "The two had a first-appearance court hearing on Tuesday before Broward Judge John "Jay" Hurley. Both were released from jail without paying a bond."
Hello?? Grand theft and child abandonment and they are released on no bail? Figures! And the mothers name? Tosheba? Apparently named after a stolen laptop.)
Via Sun Sentinelhttp://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/lauderdale-lakes/fl-children-alone-when-parents-arrested-20150106-story.html
Three young children spent seven hours alone in a car in a Walmart parking lot after their parents were arrested and accused of shoplifting at the store, authorities said.
According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, Tosheba Hope, 30, and Gerald Moultrie, 24, were arrested about 7 p.m. Monday at the Walmart at 3001 N. State Road 7 and accused of grand theft.
After being arrested, the two failed to mention that three children —ages 2, 5, and 7— were waiting for them in their parked car, said Gina Carter, a Sheriff's Office spokeswoman. Hope is the mother of the three children; Moultrie is the father of one of them, she said.
The children were discovered about 2 a.m. Tuesday by a store employee who then searched for their parents inside the store. The children were upset and crying, but not physically hurt, Carter said.[...]
According to a sheriff's arrest report, Hope and Moultrie picked up tools and vehicle accessories at Walmart valued at $660 and failed to stop at a cash register to pay for them. As they left the store, a Walmart employee stopped them, it said.
The two had a first-appearance court hearing on Tuesday before Broward Judge John "Jay" Hurley. Both were released from jail without paying a bond.
Hope told the judge that she had three small children and was "probably pregnant" with another.
Lib Rag Time: Women Waiting In Line To Use The Bathroom Is "Sexist"
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(Never ending insanity... Are these women braindead? I imagine the reason they are standing in line is because women probably take longer in the bathroom! The only discrimination I see in women's restrooms is the fact that they get their own stalls while we men have to pee in front of each other. Who exactly is discriminated against?)
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(Get rid of the porcelain toilets and go to Asian squatty holes, takes up less room. Learn how to not defecate or urinate on the heels of your shoes...)
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Via TIME:http://time.com/3653871/womens-bathroom-lines-sexist-potty-parity/
If you're a woman, chances are you've a) spent time fidgeting in a long line waiting to use a public toilet, b) delayed a bodily function because you don't want to or haven't the time to waste standing in line to use a public toilet, c) considered sneaking into a men's room—illegal in some places, or d) cursed loudly because of all of the above.
Faced with a long restroom line that spiraled up and around a circular stairwell at a recent museum visit, I opted not to wait. Why do we put up with this? This isn't a minor pet peeve, but a serious question. Despite years of "potty parity" laws, women are still forced to stand in lines at malls, schools, stadiums, concerts, fair grounds, theme parks, and other crowded public spaces. This is frustrating, uncomfortable, and, in some circumstances, humiliating. It's also a form of discrimination, as it disproportionately affects women.
After counting the women, I tweeted, "Dear @britishmuseum there are FIFTY women and girls standing in line for the loo while the men's room has zero line #everydaysexism." Immediately, people responded with the suggestion that women use the men's room. But even more responses were defensive, along the lines of "How on god's green earth did you arrive at the conclusion that this was sexist?"
Little Al Crapton Says The NY Post Shouldn't Attack Him For Shaking
Down Businesses Because They GIVE HIM MONEY, Too
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(Grab your popcorn... 'cause this is going to get good)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/06/exclusive-sharpton-the-ny-post-shouldnt-attack-me-they-give-me-money/
Al Sharpton says the New York Post should not have accused him of shaking down businesses because he also shakes down the paper's corporate owner.
"SHAKE DOWN AL" screamed the Post's Sunday front page. "How Rev gets paid not to cry 'racism!'"
The story ripped Sharpton for going easy on companies who donate to his National Action Network.
But in an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Sharpton's central defense was that News Corp — the company that owns the New York Post — also fills his coffers.
"I am not going to let them get around the fact that their company has been involved, has donated money, had us on their board of diversity."
Biden To Orrin Hatch's Young Granddaughter:
You're So Hot You Need "A Big Fence Around The House" To Keep Perverts Like Me Out
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(If Biden was a Republican the media would be calling him a sexual predator...)
Via NYDN:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/joe-biden-flirts-orrin-hatch-granddaughter-article-1.2067685
Vice President Biden couldn't keep his compliments to himself when he spotted the youthful granddaughter of Sen. Orrin Hatch on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
"I hope you have a big fence around the house!" Biden told the girl, Emily, as she joined her family for a photo session with Biden to celebrate the swearing-in ceremony for the Utah Republican.
Hatch, 80, is the father of six children, many of whom were on hand to mark the start of his sixth Senate term.
WaPo Guide For Women Looking For A "Feminist Boyfriend"
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(Check the closet, that's where they usually hide...)
How to find a feminist boyfriend – WaPohttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-find-a-feminist-boyfriend/2015/01/02/ebd9ed10-8f7b-11e4-a900-9960214d4cd7_story.html
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'I find it really attractive how successful you are," my date said, leaning in for a kiss.
Sure, it sounds like a line. But it also sounds like feminism. It certainly made him more appealing than the guy who said, "Wow, you're really ambitious," like he was surprised. Or the one who asked, "Why do you work so much?" and "Why would you want to work even more?" when I was angling for a promotion.
It didn't work out with any of those men, but going out with them made it all the more obvious to me what I want a partner to be: cute, smart, funny and . . . yes, feminist. So go ahead, alert Susan Patton, Lori Gottlieb and the rest of the get-married-already crowd: A 30-something single woman, eggs unfrozen, is telling other single women that they should dare to want it all if they ever hope to have it all.
But how do you spot a male feminist if he's not at an abortion rights rally wearing a "This Is What a Feminist Looks Like" T-shirt?
Here Are The Republicans Who Voted Against John Boehner For Speaker
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(At least Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) and I agree on Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.)...)
Via WAPOhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/01/06/here-are-the-republicans-who-voted-against-john-boehner-for-speaker/
In the biggest defection from an incumbent speaker in at least 100 years, 25 House Republicans voted for someone other than John Boehner to serve as speaker in the 114th Congress.
Here's the full list, in order:Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)
Rep. Brian Babin (Tex.) — "present"
Rep. Rod Blum (Iowa) — Rep. Dan Webster (R-Fla.)
Rep. Dave Brat (Va.) — Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.)
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (Okla.) — Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.)
Rep. Curt Clawson (Fla.) — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
Rep. Scott DesJarlais (Tenn.) — Jordan
Duncan — Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.)
Rep. Scott Garrett (N.J.) — Webster
Rep. Chris Gibson (N.Y.) — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
Rep. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) — Webster
Gohmert — Gohmert
Rep. Tim Huelskamp (Kan.) — Webster
Rep. Walter Jones (N.C.) — Webster
Rep. Steve King — Webster
Rep. Tom Massie (Ky.) — Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.)
Rep. Mark Meadows (N.C.) — Webster
Rep. Rich Nugent (Fla.) — Webster
Rep. Gary Palmer (Ala.) — Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
Rep. Bill Posey (Fla.) — Webster
Rep. Scott Rigell (Va.) — Webster
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (Ind.) — Webster
Rep. Randy Weber (Tex.) — Gohmert
Webster — Webster
Yoho — Yoho
Vote totals:
1.Webster: 12
2.Gohmert: 3
3.Yoho: 2
4.Jordan: 2
5.Others/"present": 6
There were also some Democrats who voted against their nominee, House minority leader and former speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.):
1.Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.) -- Colin Powell
2.Rep. Gwen Graham (Fla.) -- Cooper
3.Rep. Dan Lipinski (Ill.) -- Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.)
4.Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) -- Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.)
Missouri Middle School Idiot Teacher Tells Student They Can't Read The Bible During Free Time
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(The ACLU is gonna jump in and defend this kid like they defend "atheist" kids, right?...)
Via Truth Revolt:http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/middle-school-teacher-tells-student-stop-reading-bible
A 12-year-old Missouri middle-schooler was told by his teacher that reading the Bible during free time is prohibited.
Loyal Grandstaff's father said his son's freedoms of religion and speech were both violated. He is reaching out to the school for answers, according to WDAF-TV.
The boy told the news station:
I like to read my Bible because it's a good book. I was just reading, just reading because I had free time. A time to do what I wanted to, so I just broke it out and read.
Loyal said he wanted to read the Bible during free time because he feels encouraged by it. He stated that he wasn't reading aloud or sharing the book with any other classmates when his teacher approached and told him to put it away.
Graffiti Threat Warns NYPD Officers In Queens Are Going To Be The "Next To Die"
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(Little Al overheard mumbling "pretty please!"...)
Via DNA Info:http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150106/pomonok/graffiti-threat-says-nypd-officers-queens-are-next-die-sources-say
Graffiti threatening to kill police was found in Queens Monday, sources said .
It comes amid a rash of violence against members of the NYPD.
Two officers were shot responding to a robbery Monday night and, on Dec. 20, Detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn.
The department has also fielded dozens of threats against police in recent weeks and made several arrests.
The graffiti that reads "PSA-9 'n' 107 Pct R Next to Die" was spotted in the basement of a building at the Pomonok Houses on Parsons Boulevard, near 65th Avenue, sources said.
Dirty Harry Not Looking So Good These Days
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Closeup of Dingy's mangled face
(Dingy skipped today's swearing in ceremony, but released a video instead... LV mob did quite a job on that right eye, Harry, me boy... What ?? It was an accident? Do tell. ::) :P )
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss0tzJuP6VM
Pic Of The Day: Boehner rolls over on Pelosi er... ah.. Boehner Takes Over From Pelosi
Speaker Boehner takes gavel from Leader Pelosi to open 114th Congress pic.twitter.com/crQ7XE9eUR Via @smahaskey(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6sJWgCCUAATAZp.jpg:large)
(My apologies to George Orwell and his Animal Farm...:
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."...)
1 of 3 Paris terror attack suspects surrenders to police, 2 others at large
Published January 08, 2015
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One of three men sought in connection with the deadly terror attack on the Paris offices of a satirical magazine turned himself into police early Thursday as French authorities scoured the country for the other two perpetrators of the shooting that killed 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine, including eight of the publication's staffers.
Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office, said that 18-year-old Mourad Hamyd surrendered at a police station in Charleville-Mezieres, a small town in France's eastern Champagne region.
Earlier Thursday, French police released images of the two other suspects, named as Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi, both in their early 30s. They remain at large, and authorities say they should be considered armed and dangerous. Thibault-Lecuivre did not offer details on Hamyd's relationship with the other two men, but said he turned himself in because he heard his name on the news in connection with the attack.
Overnight, heavily armed police moved into the nearby city of Reims, searching for the suspects without success, Thibault-Lecuivre said. Video from BFM-TV showed police dressed in white apparently taking samples inside an apartment. It was not immediately clear who lived there.
One police official told the Associated Press that the suspects were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network, and Cedric Le Bechec, a witness who encountered the escaping gunmen, quoted the attackers as saying: "You can tell the media that it's Al Qaeda in Yemen."
The masked, black-clad men with assault rifles stormed the offices near Paris' Bastille monument in the Wednesday noontime attack on the publication, which had long drawn condemnation and threats -- it was firebombed in 2011 -- for its depictions of Islam, although it also satirized other religions and political figures.
Shouting "Allahu akbar!" as they fired, the men used fluent, unaccented French as they called out the names of specific employees.
Artist Corinne Rey told the French newspaper L'Humanite that she punched in the security code to the Charlie Hebdo offices after she and her young daughter were "brutally threatened" by the gunmen.
In addition to the eight journalists, two police officers, a maintenance worker and a visitor were killed, said prosecutor Francois Molins. He said 11 people were wounded -- four of them seriously.
Among the dead was the paper's editor, Stephane Charbonnier.
The staff was in an editorial meeting and the gunmen headed straight for Charbonnier -- widely known by his pen name Charb -- killing him and his police bodyguard first, said Christophe Crepin, a police union spokesman.
Rey said the assault "lasted five minutes. I hid under a desk."
Two gunmen strolled out to a black car waiting below, one of them calmly shooting a wounded police officer in the head as he writhed on the ground, according to video and a man who watched in fear from his home across the street.
The witness, who refused to allow his name to be used because he feared for his safety, said the attackers were so methodical he first thought they were members of France's elite anti-terrorism forces. Then they fired on the officer.
"They knew exactly what they had to do and exactly where to shoot. While one kept watch and checked that the traffic was good for them, the other one delivered the final coup de grace," he said.
"Hey! We avenged the Prophet Muhammad! We killed Charlie Hebdo," one of the men shouted in French, according to video shot from a nearby building.
The other dead were identified as cartoonists Georges Wolinski and Berbard Verlhac, better known as Tignous, and Jean Cabut, known as "Cabu." Also killed was Bernard Maris, an economist who was a contributor to the newspaper and was heard regularly on French radio.
Le Bechec, the witness who encountered the gunmen in another part of Paris, described on his Facebook page seeing two men "get out of a bullet-ridden car with a rocket-launcher in hand, eject an old guy from his car and calmly say hi to the public, saying `you can tell the media that it's al-Qaida in Yemen."'
Charlie Hebdo has been repeatedly threatened for its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad and other sketches. One cartoon, released in this week's issue and titled "Still No Attacks in France," had a caricature of a jihadi fighter saying "Just wait -- we have until the end of January to present our New Year's wishes." Charb was the artist.
Cherif Kouachi was sentenced to 18 months in prison after being convicted of terrorism charges in 2008 for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency. He said he was outraged at the torture of Iraqi inmates at the U.S. prison at Abu Ghraib near Baghdad. During his 2008 trial, he told the court, "I really believed in the idea" of fighting the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
Both Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group have repeatedly threatened to attack France, which is conducting airstrikes against extremists in Iraq and fighting Islamic militants in Africa.
In the winter 2014 edition of the Al Qaeda magazine Inspire, a so-called chief describing where to use a new bomb said: "Of course the first priority and the main focus should be on America, then the United Kingdom, then France and so on."
In 2013, the magazine specifically threatened Charb and included an article titled "France the Imbecile Invader."
France raised its security alert to the highest level and reinforced protective measures at houses of worship, stores, media offices and transportation. Schools closed across Paris, although thousands of people later jammed Republique Square near the site of the shooting to honor the victims, waving pens and papers reading "Je suis Charlie" -- "I am Charlie." Similar rallies were held in London's Trafalgar Square as well as Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin and Brussels.
"This is the darkest day of the history of the French press," said Christophe DeLoire of Reporters Without Borders.
In a somber address to the nation Wednesday night, French President Francois Hollande pledged to hunt down the killers, and pleaded with his compatriots to come together in a time of insecurity and suspicion.
"Let us unite, and we will win," he said. "Vive la France!"
New York Times Joins Their Gutless MSM Colleagues In Refusing
To Publish Charlie Hebdo Mohammed Cartoons
("I'm shocked!" .... Said no one. Just another in a long string of Progressive media FAIL!
"The goal of The New York Times is to cover the news as impartially as possible — "without fear or favor," in the words of Adolph Ochs, our patriarch — and to treat readers, news sources, advertisers and others fairly and openly, and to be seen to be doing so."
From the NYT Corporate "Standards and Ethics")
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Rosie Gray - reporter for BuzzFeed Politics:
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Pathetic: Fox News "Has No Plans" To Show Charlie Hebdo Magazine Cover
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(They aired it as the news was just breaking, apparently someone at Fox decided this was a mistake and could offend Muslims delicate sensibilities... And what's the point of this? Any amount of pandering to Muslims isn't going to EVER, EVER score Fox News points with Muslims or the Left. This is about the Fox staff fearing for their lives and caving into Muslim terrorism.)
Via WaPo:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/07/fox-news-has-no-plans-to-air-charlie-hebdo-cartoons/
In its breaking news coverage of the Paris killings at Charlie Hebdo magazine, "Fox & Friends," the morning show of Fox News, showed a shot of one of the magazine's controversial cartoons. Yet the network, according to a spokeswoman, has "no plans" to show further examples. Fox News's decision falls in line with those of other cable news outlets. As reported earlier here and here, CNN has cropped out the provocative drawings from its coverage of the killings. And in an extensive rundown of the news media's approach to the matter, Rosie Gray and Ellie Hall of BuzzFeed note this policy at the NBC family: "Our NBC News Group Standards team has sent guidance to NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC not to show headlines or cartoons that could be viewed as insensitive or offensive."(So when is the Washington Post going to start showing the cartoons, huh!...)
Terror Attack In Paris:
Hey Obuma, Check Out This New Ford Mustang!
(Why? Because it's all about me!...)
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Eyewitness Account: French Police Retreated From Gunmen Because They Were Unarmed
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(Yeah, can't blame them... I'd be peddling faster than Lance Armstrong getting away from those terrorists if I wasn't armed...)
Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/07/unarmed-paris-police-retreated-from-terrorist-gunmen-video/
Several Paris police officers who came into contact with the armed terrorists who slaughtered 10 journalists at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine, retreated from the gunmen because they were unarmed, according to an eyewitness.
"Three policemen had arrived on bikes but had to leave because the men were armed, obviously," Benoit Bringer, who works on the same floor as Charlie Hebdo's offices, told France Info radio, according to The Guardian. "Then the attackers took off in a car."
CBS News also reported — citing a reporter with Britain's Telegraph newspaper — that the two officers were apparently unarmed.
Paris police officers have the option of carrying firearms, though many choose not to.
Cartoonists Respond To Attack On #CharlieHebdo – 23 Heartbreaking Cartoons
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The rest of Cartoons at Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/heartbreaking-cartoons-from-artists-in-response-to-the-ch?utm_term=.bhP5bDALp&utm_content=buffer033e4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.vgPl7e0z0b
Suspects In Paris Attack On Charlie Hebdo Were Known To Police "For Years"
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(what were these people doing amongst society with such a shady past. its time to stop giving these nutjobs visas. France is infested with Islamic radicals. "One of the officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network." Hmmm... Yemen. Isn't that where Obuma just dumped some Gitmo detainees, recently? Just replenishing the troops...)(http://a.disquscdn.com/get?url=http%3A%2F%2Fa.disquscdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fmediaembed%2Fimages%2F1603%2F2860%2Foriginal.jpg%3Fw%3D600%26h&key=pfW1riJcnnbY-69UCDDjgQ&w=600&h=272)
Via Mashable:http://mashable.com/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-suspects/#:eyJzIjoidCIsImkiOiJfMDhlcHZ0N3llaDFpbzBobjBrb2xtdF8ifQ
French police officials have identified three men as suspects in the deadly terror attack at the Paris offices of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
One of the men, 35-year-old Cheriff Kouachi, was convicted on terrorism charges in 2008.
Two of the suspects, brothers Cheriff and Said Kouachi, 32, are French nationals who were born to Algerian parents in Paris. The nationality of a third man, Hamid Mourad, 18, is unknown; police believe he is a high school student.
Their names circulated on Facebook and Twitter for an hour before French authorities confirmed that the Kouachi brothers had been identified.
One of the officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive and ongoing investigation.
Featured Muslim Youth Activist for Democratic Party
Gloats Over Muslim Terror Skills
(Time to load this a$$hole on a plane and drop him headfirst into the Dead Sea...)
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Via Frontpage Mag:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/featured-muslim-youth-activist-for-democratic-party-gloats/#.VK1abzwQrkU.twitter
... Zaid Jilani has many credentials as an activist of the left. He was a blogger at the Center for American Progress' Think Progress site, the unofficially official spin project for Obama Inc, until he was fired for excessive anti-semitism, even by the standards of a site run by a man who had helped fundraise for Hamas before going to work for Nancy Pelosi.
Jilani went on to blog for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, also known as Bold Progressives, which is behind the Draft Elizabeth Warren campaign. He currently writes for Salon.
Democrats.org, the site of the Democratic Party, had also featured him as their youth activist.He also appears to admire how much more efficient his Muslim terrorist co-religionists are compared to domestic attackers.
Will the Democratic Party and Bold Progressives finally end their ties with Zaid Jilani, a radical bigot that not even the Center for American Progress wanted to be associated with?
Lib Queer Sally Kohn On Paris Attack: Christians And Jews Are Also Terrorists
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(Sally, when was the last time a Christian or a Jew threw a gay man off a roof or stoned him to death simply because he was gay? It happens all the time in the Muslim world. Almost all the killing today is being done by the Muslims. You are not telling the truth. You LIE!(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1602/9881/original.jpg?w=600&h)
You, Sally... are an idiot. And a coward. But what would you expect from a left wing, lesbian hack with an affinity for young girls. I believe the term is "useful idiots." At least until islam gets to them... I would stay away from the middle east, Sally because they kill QUEERS!...)
** Civil Disobedience **
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"Hey Obuma, you creep... don't hate me because I'm beautiful, hate me because your boyfriend Reggie Love thinks so!"
What Barack Hussein Obuma has done to America is so vile that one can only hope that he will receive his just comeuppance in the hereafter. After all, we know that as an ex-president, he will, like Slick Willy Clinton, make tens of millions of dollars in book deals and speaking fees. He and Mooch will live in a mansion, fly between Chicago and Hawaii on a private jet, protected by the Secret Service, and hobnobbing with the show biz glitterati who adore him and see him as super cool and the fount of all wisdom.
Ultimately, only God will have the ability to punish him for trashing our Constitution, along with our traditions and values. It's of small comfort to those of us who think he has single-handedly undermined American power and influence in the world by coddling our enemies, betraying our allies and turning a blind eye to the existential threat posed by Islam. Even on those rare instances when he has been forced to acknowledge the evil done in its name, he has referred to it as workplace violence or dismissed it as a generic form of terrorism.
Still, a great many people regard it as unseemly if you attack Obuma's actions or his motives, insisting that respect be paid to the office. To me, that sounds like baby talk. The office is the office. It's what its occupant does that should determine how much respect you pay it. For better or worse, being elected president indicates nothing more than the fact you managed to win a popularity contest by spending hundreds of millions of other people's dollars lying about yourself or your opponent.
I feel the same way when people take the NYPD to task because the cops have been turning their backs on the unrepentant commie bastard, Mayor De Blasio, who went on TV to reveal he told his bi-racial son, Dante, to be very careful when he comes in contact with New York cops because they're racists and his life might be at risk. He told young Dante that lie in spite of the fact that blacks and Hispanics make up the majority of his city's police force, and that Dante's father never steps outside without having a squad of cops protecting his ungrateful ass.
The wonder of it is that New York voters are so devoted to liberalism that they'd never even consider recalling De Blasio. Chris Christie saw his approval numbers sink and his political career jeopardized simply because a few of his underlings shut down a bridge as political payback to a Jersey mayor. But De Blasio encourages a mob of left-wing thugs and fellow travelers to shut down streets, stores and bridges, in the week leading up to Christmas, while chanting "Kill the cops!" and even some conservatives, including Rudy Giuliani, think it's disrespectful for the men in blue to turn their backs on the schmuck even though he's made a career of turning his back on them.
Speaking of institutions that don't deserve our respect, the U.S. State Department officially deemed Israel's actions "unacceptable" on 87 different occasions in 2014. That placed the Jewish state in fourth place right between North Korea and Pakistan on John Kerry's shit list.
One must admit that's an odd place to find an alleged ally. When you realize that during the same period, Iran was working on a nuclear bomb; American soldiers were being killed in Afghanistan; China was menacing Japan and South Korea;, North Korea was committing cyber-attacks against an American company; Russia was gobbling up Crimea and threatening Ukraine; al-Assad continued to murder thousands of Syrians and ISIS in Iraq continued to slaughter Kurds and behead Americans and Brits; you wouldn't think Israel would rank so high, considering they were mainly being condemned for building apartment houses within its own borders.
After referring to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas in a recent article, referencing her farcical claims to being a Native American in order to enhance her resume and promote her rise in academic circles, and possibly cash in on casino money, a reader in Massachusetts let me know that within the state, conservatives have taken to calling her Fauxcahontas and Lieawatha. We would do well to keep these amusing terms in mind in case Hillary Clinton falls by the wayside and Sen. Warren winds up on the presidential ballot in 2016.
...Burt
READ, WEEP, AND PRINT AND KEEP!
Charley Reese's Final column 1995!
A very interesting column.. COMPLETELY NEUTRAL Be sure to Read the Poem at the end.
Charley Reese's final column for the Orlando Sentinel...
He has been a journalist for 49 years.
He is retiring and this is HIS LAST COLUMN.
Be sure to read the Tax List at the end.
This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be. The article below is completely neutral, neither anti-republican nor democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, has hit the nail directly on the head, defining clearly who it is that in the final analysis must assume responsibility for the judgments made that impact each & every one of us every day. It's a short but good read. Worth the time. Worth remembering!
545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ..
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it... is up to you.
This might be funny if it weren't so true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...
Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'
When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Sales Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Nonrecurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, & our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the heck happened? Can you spell 'politicians?'
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 545 times!!! YOU can help it get there!!!
GO AHEAD. . . BE AN AMERICAN!!!
Alabama Dem Chair Got Stuck on Her Toilet, Told Everybody About it for Christmas
(She must have had the seat and ring up and sealed on the bowl rim. There are spacers on the ring that leave a gap. Maybe she is so damn heavy she pressed the ring air tight over the bowl rim. In any case, next time just shove your finger between your fat ass and the seat to break the seal. Oh, and don't sit on a toilet and flush it on an airplane...)
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Via WFBhttp://freebeacon.com/politics/alabama-dem-chair-got-stuck-on-her-toilet-told-everybody-about-it-for-christmas/
The chairwoman of the Alabama Democratic Party, Nancy Worley, did not have a good 2014.
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It hit rock bottom when she got stuck on her toilet. After being lodged on the toilet for hours, she made the decision to upgrade from a 14 inch seat to the tallest-available 17 inch seat. She also installed a pull-up bar on her bathroom wall.
The world knows all this because Worley decided to include her toilet seat folly in her annual holiday letter to Democrats across the state of Alabama.
The letter was then shared to the world by Kyle Whitmire at AL.com, who writes that he had initially decided that he would keep the letter to himself and hope that the "nightmares" caused to him by the thought of Worley stuck on the toilet would fade.
"I had convinced myself that I would leave it be and hope the nightmares would fade, but I worried that if any folk on the right learned I'd turned a blind eye (or blinded eye?) they'd raise all unholy hell about showing favoritism to the left," he wrote.
Then, a Democrat friend of his told him that Worley had actually provided in her letter a perfect analogy for the current state of the Alabama Democratic party: "Stuck on the toilet and it can't get up."
Here is the full letter sent by Worley:(https://html2-f.scribdassets.com/3iwsg7rls048pouo/images/1-a6a9caa0f6.jpg)
POS Obuma Slammed For Failing To Visit Phoenix Veterans Affairs
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(Obuma doesn't make an appearance at phony scandals...) :P
Via Washington Examinerhttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-slammed-for-failing-to-visit-phoenix-veterans-affairs/article/2558372?custom_click=rss
President Obama's motorcade drove by a troubled Phoenix Veterans Affairs hospital but did not stop during his swing through the city touting the nation's housing recovery.
The drive-by had reporters traveling with the president wondering whether he might stop by the hospital during his visit to Phoenix, but the motorcade continued straight to the high school where Obama delivered remarks about his latest executive action to cut mortgage insurance costs for borrowers using Federal Housing Administration loans.
It also spurred new criticism from Republicans, who along with vets groups, had called on Obama to visit the hospital located a mile from the school where he spoke.
"It is a testament to this president's misplaced priorities that he would choose a photo op for his next executive action over visiting the VA hospital where veterans died on secret government waiting lists instead of getting care," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
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White House press secretary Josh Earnest earlier this week said Obama has no plans to visit the VA hospital while in Phoenix but insisted that Obama is committed to fixing the agency.
"We made a covenant with our veterans, and this president is determined to make sure we uphold it," he said.
Hegseth took issue with that statement, arguing that the Obama administration's actions haven't backed up "such bold claims."
"Since the VA scandal first broke, veterans' VA plight hasn't improved much," he said.
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"We Will Rock You" Military Tribute
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo8eds1ILqU#t=25
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Boehner: I'll Fight "Tooth And Nail" Against Executive Amnesty... That He Funded
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(Yeah, okay, uh-huh, (Yawn)... move along people, nothing to see here...)
Via CNS News:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/boehner-vows-fight-tooth-and-nail-against-executive-amnesty-he-funded
(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) vowed today to fight "tooth and nail" against President Obama's unilateral amnesty of up to five million illegal aliens—an amnesty the administration has been able to move forward with because Boehner's House permitted funding of it.
The 1,603-page omnibus spending bill that Boehner pushed through a lame-duck Republican-controlled House last month put no prohibition on Obama using government funds to implement the amnesty. That omnibus funded almost all the government through the end of this fiscal year on Sept. 30 and the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 27.
Emperor Obuma Issues 3 Veto Threats In Only 2 Days
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(Why sign legislation when you can just issue executive orders?...)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House threatened more vetoes Wednesday against top-priority legislation of the two-day-old Republican-controlled Congress, and GOP leaders said they intend to keep challenging President Barack Obama to sign early measures that demonstrate bipartisan support.
"We're calling on the president to ignore the voices of reaction and join us," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said as he and Speaker John Boehner lined up legislation to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, make changes to the health care law they also have vowed to repeal, and delay a key provision of a 2010 financial regulation law.
The conflict comes at a time when the president and the two Republican congressional leaders have all stressed the opportunity for bipartisanship in the two years ahead, and polls generally indicate the public wants divided government to produce compromise instead of gridlock. By approving measures with bipartisan support — the pipeline legislation has well over 60 supporters from both parties in the Senate — it appears Republicans are trying to make the president pay at least a short-term political price if he makes good on his veto threats.
Far larger and more partisan fights likely lie ahead, particularly if, as expected, Republicans attempt to seek large savings in government benefit programs as part of an attempt to balance the budget.
Pakistani Gunmen Kill Man Accused Of "Blasphemy" Against The "Prophet" Mohammed
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Or as it is known in Pakistan, "Hump Day."
Via WaPo:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/01/08/gunmen-kill-pakistani-blasphemer-who-thought-he-was-a-prophet/
With the world still stunned by the massacre in Paris, Pakistan is living through yet another example of the brutal street justice that is meted out here when someone is accused of disrespecting the prophet Muhammad.
On
Wednesday morning, masked gunmen kidnapped a 52-year-old man from his house in eastern Punjab province. A little later, Aabid Mehmood's body was found riddled with bullets in a nearby village.
Police are investigating the case, but it appears that Mehmood may have been executed in connection with three-year-old allegations that he had disrespected the Islamic faith.
Mehmood, who is thought to suffer from mental illness, was accused of blasphemy in 2011 after he allegedly told someone that he was a prophet.
In Pakistan — officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan — there can be only one prophet. And the country's strict blasphemy law states that anyone who insults Muhammad — even by "innuendo" — can be accused of the crime, which is punishable by death.
Amazing Video Shows Seattle Police Being Shot At
While Questioning A Suspect,
They Pull Him To Safety
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(Wow, the first thought of the officers was to save the suspect, and cover him with their bodies. Those are cops. You see one of them stand up in the line of fire, move out of frame, for what I think is to protect and pull down the female who was being interviewed. Best part ever? Suspect on the ground to the police about the shooter? "You don't let that mother****** get away!"...)
Via Komo:http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Video-shows-gunman-firing-at-Seattle-cops-on-New-Years-Eve-287822251.html
SEATTLE – Police have released video from a patrol car's dashcam that was rolling New Year's Eve as a gunman opened fire toward officers on a South Seattle street.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfcn_vUwP0
The shooting came minutes after police responded to a second report of a domestic violence incident at a home in the 4200 block of South Eddy Street.
Officers were first called to the home shortly after 10 p.m. after receiving a report of a domestic dispute between a man and woman. Officers investigated the incident and left the scene to complete their report.
Around 10:30 p.m., police returned to the home a second time after receiving another 911 call from the victim, who said the suspect had kicked a door and was making threats.
The suspect came outside and was being interviewed by officers as he sat on the hood of a patrol car parked on the side of the street. It was all very routine, as recorded by the patrol car's dashcam.
Then suddenly the mundane became terrifying as a vehicle pulled up rapidly behind the patrol car and another vehicle stopped farther down the block. Officers heard gunfire and quickly took cover behind the patrol car, shielding the domestic violence suspect, then returned fire.
Voices can be heard yelling during the incident, then the gunman's car pulled away. No one was injured by the gunfire.
Three officers involved in the incident are on paid administrative leave, per standard department policy. The officers include a nine-year veteran with the department, a five-year veteran and another experienced officer, who was serving his first day on patrol in Seattle after transferring from another police agency out-of-state.
Detectives are continuing to search for the gunman. Anyone with information about the incident should call the Seattle police tip line at (206) 233-5000.
What isn't fake these days
Discovery Channel Promises To Stop Lying To Us
January 9, 2015 | by Justine Alford
It's fair to say that the Discovery Channel is not what it used to be. What was once an enthralling educational program that left you itching to learn more has disappointedly begun indulging the masses with sensationalist garbage and lies that have understandably tainted its reputation. But thankfully, we can now wave goodbye to "documentaries" that make science lovers want to tear their hair out as there's a new president on the scene, and it seems he's got some sense.
The channel's new chief, Rich Ross, was elected as president in late October, but only officially joined the company this month. Yesterday, at the Winter TV press tour, he promised to stop broadcasting fake stuff, or "mockumentaries".
"It's not whether I'm a fan of it," he said, speaking about said mockumentaries, which we shall ignore. "I don't think it's right for Discovery Channel, and think it's something that has run its course. They've done very well... but I don't think it's something that's right for us." And we're glad to hear it.
While producing fake documentaries might seem harmless and amusing at first glance, such as convincing the credulous that mermaids actually exist, some of these are in fact damaging, and therefore not a laughing matter. For example, during shark week last year, rather than focusing on celebrating and admiring these wonderful animals, the channel decided to help perpetuate the idea that sharks are savage, cold-blooded killers.
They recycled an old (fake) story about a Megalodon (a giant, prehistoric shark that is now extinct) and convinced people that a 35-foot shark with an "insatiable appetite for human blood" had been terrorizing a coast off South Africa. Despite the fact that they included a small disclaimer, and the program also featured actors and doctored footage, many became convinced that this extinct animal still exists, something that has been frustratingly difficult to rectify.
Another stunt that received a bit of a slamming, to say the least, was their recent specialEaten Alive, which promised to show viewers naturist Paul Rosolie being gobbled up by an anaconda. Why, you ask? Well, apparently, Rosolie wanted to draw attention to deforestationthat is threatening the snakes he cares so deeply about. Bit of a weird way to get the message across, though. And of course, understandably, Rosolie decided to bail out of this ridiculous stunt, which ticked a few people off.
When Ross was asked for his opinion about the documentary, he said: "It was the right intention with a packaging that was misleading. You don't have to be so sensational. In his mind he thought [being eaten by the snake] was actually possible. But the fever of that story got out of control." Much to our relief, he then added: "I don't believe you'll be seeing a person being eaten by a snake in my time [at the channel]."
[Via Deadline, Entertainment Weekly and BBC News]
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/discovery-channel-promises-stop-lying-us
I hope everyone is enjoying the cheaper gasoline.
I don't think it will last.The major oil companies have entered into long term contracts with tanker ships to park off the coast as storage vessels. Long term contracts with shippers is very unusual. But if the oil is not delivered and sold the price is sure to go up. Think about it.
Øb☭ma Hawaii vacation is over, now it's time for taxpayers to pay massive tab
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HONOLULU – President Barack Øb☭ma and his family just spent their Christmas and New Year's holidays in Kailua. Now it's time for taxpayers to pick up the tab.
While the Obamas and friends who accompany them pay for their own private vacation home rentals on or near Kailua Beach, taxpayers foot a multimillion dollar tab for everything from a stand-by ambulance to the fuel for Air Force One.
Local taxpayers pick up the bill for Honolulu Police Department escorts who guard Obama, first lady Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha around the clock. Figures just released by HPD spokeswoman Michelle Yu show HPD spent $277,000 on overtime costs this year during the president's 16-day vacation. That's $16,000 less than in 2013, but $60,000 more than in 2012.
The Emergency Management Services department also dispatches an ambulance to be on call for the president, which annually costs the city about $15,890.
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The U.S. Secret Service doesn't disclose information about the expense for its agents to travel to and stay in Hawaii or guard the first family.
Dozens of Secret Service agents were spotted at Ala Moana Hotel checking in the day before Obama arrived. A spokeswoman for the hotel said she couldn't release details on the number of agents who stayed there, but hotel staff told Watchdog the government rate would be about $200 a night, including taxes.
Secret Service agents, Navy SEALs and Coast Guard officials also rent private homes along the canal near the president in Kailua at a cost of $250 per room per night, according to several residents renting their homes.
The most pricey charge to taxpayers is the flight to Oahu from Washington, D.C.
Records obtained by Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch said "the flights to and from Honolulu for the December 2013-January 2014 Christmas vacation totaled 36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour, which comes to a flight expense alone of $7,781,361.30."
That was an increase of $3.7 million in flight expenses Judicial Watch reported the Obamas incurred for their 2012 Honolulu Christmas vacation.
No estimates for 2014's travel have been released by the administration.
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The cost for USAF C-17 cargo aircraft that transports presidential limos, helicopters and other support equipment to Hawaii has never been disclosed, but the round-trip flight time between Andrews Air Force Base and Hawaii is 21.5 hours, with estimated operating cost of $12,000 per hour, according to an U.S. Government Accountability Office report.
The U.S. Marine Corps provides a presidential helicopter, along with pilots and support crews for the test flights, which travel on another C-17 flight. That totals $258,000, not including costs for the four-to-six-member crew's per diem and hotel.
The Obamas rented the same five-bedroom oceanfront villa on Kailuana Place they've secured for the past four years. Sūmit Capital LLC, a New York investment firm headed by Soumyo Sarkar and his wife Chinyu Sarkar, owns the multimillion-dollar property.
Security upgrades are made to the home, with bulletproof glass, additional phone lines and other detection and defense systems installed.
Since the home sits on the popular Kailua Beach, the U.S. Coast Guard stations a sea vessel nearby, while its officials use personal watercraft and smaller boats to patrol the ocean and canal surrounding the home.
The administration also rents cars for staff and security, and pays additional travel costs for Secret Service and White House staff traveling ahead of the president.
None of those costs have ever been released to the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhT46kx2XU
Top Military Officer Says Gitmo Creates 'Psychological Scar'
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A GUARD OPENS THE GATE AT THE ENTRANCE TO CAMP VI, A PRISON USED
TO HOUSE DETAINEES AT THE U.S. NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY IN CUBA
(General Patton is spinning in his grave. General Dempsey also supported cuts to military pay and earned benefits. We can re-open Alcatraz. The fine citizens of San Francisco would rejoice in hearing the call to prayers five times a day. San Francisco residents could provide a place for the relatives of the terrorist to stay while they visited their family members in Alcatraz...)
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Via Stars and Stripeshttp://www.stripes.com/news/us/dempsey-gitmo-creates-psychological-scar-on-our-national-values-1.323377
Count the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman among those who believe it's in the national interest to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.Gen. Martin Dempsey says the facility at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba "does create a psychological scar on our national values. Whether it should or not, it does."
The U.S. has transferred of a number of detainees recently as President Barack Obama tries to make progress toward his goal of closing Guantanamo.
The prison population now is 127.
Dempsey says there still are "dozens" who must be held.
He tells "Fox News Sunday" that's a policy decision for elected officials – what to do if these detainees shouldn't be released and Congress doesn't allow them to be brought to the United States.
NY Daily News To Obama Regime On Missing #Paris March: "You Let The World Down!"
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(This from the liberal New York Daily News. Other liberals have been similarly critical of Obama and his regime being absent from the march. What's wrong, Obuma? Afraid some Islamic terrorist would pop you? No big loss...)
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American Islamist: Attack In U.S. Killing Women And Children Wouldn't Be Terrorism
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eih_zVEryw
(All is fair in jihad... he has his post-modern, upside down logic talking points memorized. If the jihadi thing doesn't work out for him, he could easily be a politician. And BTW, if CBS can find an American jihadi in Syria, why can't the CIA or Special Forces?)
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Via WFB:http://freebeacon.com/national-security/american-radical-islamist-attack-in-us-killing-women-and-children-wouldnt-be-terrorism/
France's terror attacks have brought on the fear that radical sleeper cells have been awaken throughout the world. There is also a disturbing trend among young Islamic men. It is estimated that 3,000 Westerner men have gone to Syria and Iraq to join the jihad.
Clarissa Ward of CBS's Face the Nation travelled to Syria and met a young American jihadist from the midwest. She asked him if he would support a terrorist attack in America, regardless if it killed innocent American women and children.
"I wouldn't consider it a terrorist attack. What I consider terrorism is tomahawk bombs being shot and killing innocent people," he said.ISIS has reached out and told Muslims to use what ever they have that their disposal to go out and kill. This threat could make attacks, like those in France, more common.
Tweet Of The Day:
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....EMPTY CHAIR
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Great moments in World History... #BerlinWall #ParisMarch
1:22 PM - 11 Jan 2015
More Than 50 World Leaders March Against Terrorism... Except Øb☭ma
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And Emperor Øb☭ma himself??
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The POS was too busy to stand against radical Islam, or to even call it that...
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More Than 50 World Leaders March Against Terrorism... Except Øb☭ma
(Here's a shot of many of the world leaders at the march. As we reported earlier, President Øb☭ma sent Eric Holder who couldn't be bothered to show up at the march...)
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And Emperor Øb☭ma himself??
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The POS was too busy to stand against radical Islam, or to even call it that...
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FLASHBACK: French President Jacques Chirac First Foreign Leader To Visit WH After 9/11
(Fast forward to today where Islamic Øb☭ma snubbed France by failing to attend, or send any top officials, to a rally against Islamic terrorism in Paris attended by more than 50 world leaders)
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September, 18, 2001:French President Jacques Chirac has said France will not stand aside in the international fight against the scourge of terrorism – but he said his country still had to determine and evaluate its contribution.
President Chirac was speaking after a meeting at the United Nations headquarters with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Mr Chirac said the fight against terrorism would be a modern and unknown form of war – but it had to be made an international priority.
President Chirac flew into New York from Washington, where he had become the first foreign head of state to meet President Bush since the attacks on the United States last week.
In New York, he flew over the area now known as Ground Zero, where rescue workers are clearing up the wreckage and recovering bodies from what remains of the World Trade Center.
Here's the full list of leaders who met in France today:
French President Francois Hollande
German Chancellor Angela Merkel
British Prime Minister David Cameron
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker
European Parliament president Martin Schulz
European Union president Donald Tusk
Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg
Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz
Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat
Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven
Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga
Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibachvili
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz
Canadian public safety minister Steven Blaney
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman
Jordanian King Abdullah II and Queen Rania
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas
United Arab Emirates foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan
Qatari Sheikh Mohamed Ben Hamad Ben Khalifa Al Thani
Bahrain Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled ben Ahmed Al Khalifa and Prince Abdullah Ben Hamad al-Khalifa
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
Gabonese President Ali Bongo
Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou
Benin President Thomas Boni Yayi
Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa
Øb☭ma Declares War On 'Extremism' – Are You An 'Extremist' According To His Definition?
By Michael Snyder, on January 11th, 2015
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Do you know what an "extremist" is? In the wake of the horrible terror attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in France, Barack Obama is speaking very boldly about the need to win the war against "extremists", and he has announced plans to host a major global summit on "extremism" next month. And on the surface that sounds great. But precisely how are we supposed to determine whether someone is an "extremist" or not? What criteria should we use? As you will see below, your definition of an "extremist" may be far, far different from the definition that Barack Obama is using. When you do a Google search, you will find that an "extremist" is defined as "a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, especially one who resorts to or advocates extreme action." According to Wikipedia, "extremism" is "an ideology (particularly in politics or religion), considered to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of a society or to violate common moral standards. Extremism can take many forms, including political, religious and economic." Please notice that neither of those definitions uses the word violence. In this day and age, you can be considered an "extremist" simply based on what you believe, and as you will see later in this article there are now tens of millions of Americans that are considered to be "extremists" and "potential terrorists" according to official U.S. government documents.
When you use the word
"extremist", you may have in your mind a picture of ISIS fighters or the terrorists from the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
But for elitists such as Barack Obama, the word "extremist" has a much broader meaning. In recent years, it has become a code word for those that do not have an "enlightened" view of the world. If your views on politics, religion or social issues are extremely different from the liberal, progressive views of "the mainstream" (as defined by the mainstream media and by "mainstream" politicians such as Barack Obama), then they consider you to be an extremist.
Early in the presidency of George W. Bush, we were told that Islamic terrorists were the enemy. And so most of the country got behind the idea of the War on Terrorism. But over the years that has morphed into a War on Extremism.
In fact, the Obama administration has gone so far as to remove almost all references to Islam from government terror training materials...
Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday that the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.
"I recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security," Cole told a panel at the George Washington University law school.Now, much of the focus in law enforcement training materials is on "domestic extremists". We are being told that "domestic extremism" is just as great a threat to our national security as terror groups overseas are.
But exactly who are these "domestic extremists"?
Well, the truth is that you may be one of them.I want to share with you a list that I have shared in a couple of previous articles. It is a list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be "extremists" or "potential terrorists" in official U.S. government documents. This list will really give you a good idea of what Barack Obama means when he uses the word "extremist". Each of these 72 items is linked, so if you would like to go see the original source document for yourself, just click on the link.
LINK: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/obama-declares-war-extremism-extremist-according-definitionAs you can see, this list potentially includes most of the country...
1. Those that talk about "individual liberties"
2. Those that advocate for states' rights
3. Those that want "to make the world a better place"
4. "The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule"
5. Those that are interested in "defeating the Communists"
6. Those that believe "that the interests of one's own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations"
7. Anyone that holds a "political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable"
8. Anyone that possesses an "intolerance toward other religions"
9. Those that "take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals"
10. "Anti-Gay"
11. "Anti-Immigrant"
12. "Anti-Muslim"
13. "The Patriot Movement"
14. "Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians"
15. Members of the Family Research Council
16. Members of the American Family Association
17. Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States "are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the 'North American Union'"
18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol
19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition
21. Members of the Christian Action Network
22. Anyone that is "opposed to the New World Order"
23. Anyone that is engaged in "conspiracy theorizing"
24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21
25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps
26. Anyone that "fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations"
27. The militia movement
28. The sovereign citizen movement
29. Those that "don't think they should have to pay taxes"
30. Anyone that "complains about bias"
31. Anyone that "believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia"
32. Anyone that "is frustrated with mainstream ideologies"
33. Anyone that "visits extremist websites/blogs"
34. Anyone that "establishes website/blog to display extremist views"
35. Anyone that "attends rallies for extremist causes"
36. Anyone that "exhibits extreme religious intolerance"
37. Anyone that "is personally connected with a grievance"
38. Anyone that "suddenly acquires weapons"
39. Anyone that "organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology"
40. "Militia or unorganized militia"
41. "General right-wing extremist"
42. Citizens that have "bumper stickers" that are patriotic or anti-U.N.
43. Those that refer to an "Army of God"
44. Those that are "fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)"
45. Those that are "anti-global"
46. Those that are "suspicious of centralized federal authority"
47. Those that are "reverent of individual liberty"
48. Those that "believe in conspiracy theories"
49. Those that have "a belief that one's personal and/or national 'way of life' is under attack"
50. Those that possess "a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism"
51. Those that would "impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)"
52. Those that would "insert religion into the political sphere"
53. Anyone that would "seek to politicize religion"
54. Those that have "supported political movements for autonomy"
55. Anyone that is "anti-abortion"
56. Anyone that is "anti-Catholic"
57. Anyone that is "anti-nuclear"
58. "Rightwing extremists"
59. "Returning veterans"
60. Those concerned about "illegal immigration"
61. Those that "believe in the right to bear arms"
62. Anyone that is engaged in "ammunition stockpiling"
63. Anyone that exhibits "fear of Communist regimes"
64. "Anti-abortion activists"
65. Those that are against illegal immigration
66. Those that talk about "the New World Order" in a "derogatory" manner
67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations
68. Those that are opposed "to the collection of federal income taxes"
69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr
70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag ("Don't Tread On Me")
71. Those that believe in "end times" prophecies
72. Evangelical ChristiansDo you fit into any of those categories?
Personally, I fit into a couple dozen of them.
That is why alarm bells should go off whenever Barack Obama speaks of the need to crack down on "extremism".
If Barack Obama wants to denounce Islamic terror, he should do so. But because of his extreme political correctness, he goes out of his way to avoid any connection between Islam and terror. Instead, he speaks of the need to recognize "Islam's role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings" and he insists that "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
Meanwhile, our liberties and freedoms are being eroded a little bit more with each passing day. In the name of fighting "terrorism" or "extremism", our government is constructing a Big Brother police state control grid all around us.
I like the way that Ron Paul described what is happening to us just the other day...If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize and resist this development, freedom and prosperity for all Americans will continue to deteriorate. All liberties in America today are under siege.
It didn't happen overnight. It took many years of neglect for our liberties to be given away so casually for a promise of security from the politicians. The tragic part is that the more security was promised — physical and economic — the less liberty was protected.
With cradle-to-grave welfare protecting all citizens from any mistakes and a perpetual global war on terrorism, which a majority of Americans were convinced was absolutely necessary for our survival, our security and prosperity has been sacrificed.
It was all based on lies and ignorance. Many came to believe that their best interests were served by giving up a little freedom now and then to gain a better life.
The trap was set. At the beginning of a cycle that systematically undermines liberty with delusions of easy prosperity, the change may actually seem to be beneficial to a few. But to me that's like excusing embezzlement as a road to leisure and wealth — eventually payment and punishment always come due. One cannot escape the fact that a society's wealth cannot be sustained or increased without work and productive effort. Yes, some criminal elements can benefit for a while, but reality always sets in.
Reality is now setting in for America and for that matter for most of the world. The piper will get his due even if "the children" have to suffer. The deception of promising "success" has lasted for quite a while. It was accomplished by ever-increasing taxes, deficits, borrowing, and printing press money. In the meantime the policing powers of the federal government were systematically and significantly expanded. No one cared much, as there seemed to be enough "gravy" for the rich, the poor, the politicians, and the bureaucrats.The country that our forefathers founded is dying.Now, individuals and organizations that attempt to restore the values that our founders once believed in so strongly are regarded as dangerous "extremists" that need to be watched carefully.
Sadly, most Americans don't even realize what is happening to this nation. As long as they are fed a constant diet of mindless entertainment, most Americans are perfectly content to let "the experts" do their thinking for them.
We are steamrolling toward oblivion, and most of the country is dead asleep.
Leaked Documents Show Most Illegals Now Immune to Arrest
Monday, 12 Jan 2015 03:43 PM
By James Morrison
New Obama administration rules make the vast majority of illegal immigrants immune to arrest and relegate border patrol agents to the role of social workers, according to Breitbart Texas.
A border agent leaked the documents to the conservative web site, explaining that the Department of Homeland Security has decided that the majority of immigrants crossing U.S. borders illegally cannot be detained or deported without approval from top officials in Washington.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/Border-Patrol-Homeland-Security/2015/01/12/id/618095/?ns_mail_uid=7144240&ns_mail_job=1603179_01132015&s=al&dkt_nbr=mdstozvg
Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.Newsmax.com/US/Border-Patrol-Homeland-Security/2015/01/12/id/618095/#ixzz3OiAHCoRT
Comrade De Blasio On ID Cards For Illegals:
"We Don't Want" Them "To Feel Like Second-Class Citizens"
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(Better that they feel like special little snowflakes...)
Via CNS Newshttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/nyc-mayor-id-cards-illegals-don-t-want-them-feel-second-class-citizens
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, said on Monday that giving identification cards to illegal aliens allows them to feel like citizens and enjoy some of the same benefits as actual citizens.
"We don't want any of our fellow New Yorkers to feel like second-class citizens," de Blasio was quoted as saying in a National Public Radio website article. "We don't want them to feel left out."
In addition, de Blasio is promising more than just ID cards if illegal aliens come forward and sign up.
"A free, one-year membership to 33 cultural institutions," de Blasio said. "That did get the attention of many New Yorkers."
But some liberal, pro-amnesty advocates are leery about the cards. Johanna Miller of the New York Civil Liberties Union is one of them.
Jimmy Carter Wants ICC To Investigate Israel For "War Crimes"
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(Man, that Alzheimer's is really kicking in on you, Jimmy...)
Via HuffPo:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/13/jimmy-carter-israel-palestine_n_6463962.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000017
In a HuffPost Live interview Tuesday, former President Jimmy Carter told host Marc Lamont Hill he supports the International Criminal Court looking into Palestinian accusation of war crimes against Israel, saying the ICC should take "an inquisitive look" at those allegations.
"Not only at what the Israelis have done to the Palestinians, but vice versa," Carter said. "I've been to the places in Israel, for instance, where the Hamas rockets land. I've been there and seen the rockets and condemned them on television. There are problems both ways. But I think to expose what has happened to the world in a very careful and judicious way will probably be good for both sides."
Carter has been involved with politics in the region for quite some time, with the 90-year-old supporting a two-state system. Conversely, President Obama said Monday the U.S. does not support the Palestinians' bid to join the ICC, arguing that Palestine is not a recognized state and thus has no right to appear in international court.
"About 150 nations recognize Palestine as a nation, as an official state," Carter said. "Although the United States has always been in lockstep with Israel on these kind of matters, it's not a common belief all over the world. I don't believe there's any doubt that the Palestinians deserve to have a nation of their own, alongside a free and protected state of Israel."
Foreign Group Who Got $700K Under Hillary's Watch At State Dept Under Investigation
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(Not the first time... While they're investigating her, they should go
ahead and get any of that Haitian money left from Slick Willy...)
Via Capitol City Project:http://capitolcityproject.com/aid-group-received-700000-hillarys-tenure-investigation/
An aid group that received hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars during Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State is now allegedly under investigation for corruption.
The group at the center of the investigation is the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), who are funders of the organization, recently sent an official to probe the group, in which they questioned the allocation of funds and how much top officials at the organization were receiving, according to recent reports.
"The investigator asked us how the funds were being used, and raised a lot of questions on the salaries which senior officials were getting," an insider told NewZimbabwe.com...
NEA Paying For New Version Of "Our Town" Set In A "Queer Community"
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(Gawd, I was in a high school production of this play. If done right, it's a tearjerker about growing up, life, loss and death. As I recall, it's set in New England - Thornton Wilder is probably turning over in his grave...)Via WFB:http://freebeacon.com/issues/nea-funds-new-version-of-our-town-set-in-a-queer-community/
The National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) is contributing to the production of a new adaptation of "Our Town," set in a town where "gender and sexual identity are fluid."
The Foundry Theatre, Inc., a theater company in New York City, received $10,000 to reimagine the quintessential American play about love and marriage in a fictional New Hampshire town set in the early 1900s. The Foundry Theater's new version, which will go by another title, takes place in the present in a queer community.
"Playwright Casey Llewellyn will use [Thorton] Wilder's text and strive to maintain his aestheic [sic] and social relevance while she considers cultural and social issues within contemporary society," a description of the NEA grant states. "The play will explore questions of love, marriage, and loss within the context of a town where the inhabitants' gender and sexual identity are fluid."
Pathetic Cover Oregon Øb☭maCrappyCare Exchange Laying Off HALF Their Workers
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($250+ mil down the drain... another success story from the Øb☭ma administration...)
Via Capitol City Project:http://capitolcityproject.com/cover-oregon-announces-layoff-half-workforce/
Cover Oregon, the official Oregon State marketplace for health insurance under Obamacare, recently announced they will be laying off 61 workers — or half of its workforce.
The layoffs are expected to begin in March and will consist of employees primarily in their customer service call centers. Aaron Patnode, the exchanges executive director, told Oregon Live they will retain 58 people on their payroll. The first wave of employees losing their jobs will take place on March 10 with the second coming on April 25.
Cover Oregon was one of the many who could not deliver a working enrollment-and-subsidy website. It was announced last April the state would be abandoning the exchange altogether because it would be more expensive to fix Cover Oregon than switch to the federal site — which they are slowly in the process of doing. At the time it was announced Cover Oregon would be switching to the federal site, more than $250 million had been dumped into the exchange and most of the federal grant money had been spent...
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Islamic State's Youngest Suicide Bomber? Syrian Boy Around 14-Years-Old
Shown Detonating Massive Truck Bomb
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(The saddest part is the MSM will not speak of this but lord help us if
our school kids has a cheeseburger for lunch...)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906171/Is-Islamic-State-s-youngest-suicide-bomber-Syrian-boy-appears-14-shown-detonating-lorry-explosives.html
Shocking pictures have emerged on social media showing what could be the Islamic State's youngest suicide bomber.
The boy has been named as Abu al-Hassan al-Shami, a Syrian fighter who appears to be no older than 14 years old.
In a photo series, entitled 'Battle of Vengeance for the Mother of the Believers (Aisha)', the youngster is thought to be one of two Syrian fighters, who carried out a suicide truck bombings in the Iraqi province of Salahuddin.
He is shown sitting in the driver's seat of the large lorry filled with barrels of explosives.
The vehicle has been reinforced with plated armour, leaving the young driver with only a small rectangular window to navigate the final journey for his deadly vehicle.
Whilst his age has yet to be independently verified, it is possible that al-Shami could be the Islamic State's youngest suicide bomber in Iraq.
New Islamic State Video Shows Young Boy Executing Two "Russian Spies"
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(One of the Islamic State's "Lion Cubs." ...)
Via AFP:http://news.yahoo.com/video-purports-show-boy-executing-russian-spies-154813791.html
The Islamic State jihadist group released a video on Tuesday purporting to show a young boy executing two men accused of working for Russian intelligence services.
The video shows the two men apparently being shot dead by the child after being interrogated on camera about their alleged attempts to infiltrate IS in Syria.
Entitled "Uncovering an Enemy Within" in English, the video is narrated in Russian and opens with the interrogation of one of the men, who says he is a Kazakh citizen.
He says he was recruited by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) to get close to an unnamed IS fighter.
The second man, who does not give his nationality but says he worked for the FSB in Russia previously, says he was tasked with killing an unnamed IS fighter.
Both men say they were told to collect and transmit information about IS fighters in Syria.
After the interrogations, the video cuts to an outdoors scene, where a bearded adult IS fighter in military-style clothes is standing next to a young boy armed with a pistol.
The man recites religious verses and says the two men are in the "custody of the lion cubs" of IS's self-declared Islamic "caliphate".
The end of the video appears to feature footage of the same boy from an earlier IS propaganda video telling an interviewer he wants to grow up to kill "infidels".
That footage appears to come from a video that emerged last year, showing the boy participating in a training camp for children, taking apart and reassembling a gun.
Canadian Newspaper Publishes Connect-The-Dots Picture So Readers
Can Draw Their Own Mohammed Cartoon
(Well done... LOL)
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http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/01/12/des-caricatures-de-mahomet-dans-le-prochain-charlie-hebdo
I like this Warph! Thanks! :D
US Consulate In Jerusalem Arming Palestinians Guards,
Violates 2011 Agreement With Israel
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(This is a consulate in East Jerusalem. Marines are only stationed at embassies. Anyway, the consulate needs guards when they travel outside the consulate in a convoy to the West Bank to harass Jewish settlers. U.S. Marines are not allowed outside the consulate grounds in uniform with arms, which is standard in every country, so the consulate needs local protection. They had Israeli guards, but the Palestinian butt-licker in charge of the consulate security, officer Dan Cronin, won't hire Israelis.
Another snub of the nose by the Øb☭ma administration. What the Øb☭ma Administration is doing is creating a trained cadre of terrorists and a private arms depot where weaponry can be smuggled under diplomatic cover to Area A, the part of Judea and Samaria where the Palestinian Authority is in charge.
This overtly hostile action is similar to the two fully armed combat brigades the Øb☭ma Administration created for Fatah trained by General Keith Dayton with our tax dollars. Since these units are not going to take on the IDF directly, they're designed to conduct guerilla war against Israel's civilians and that's what they're going to be used for eventually. So much for that POS Øb☭ma's horse manure about Israel's security. And people wonder why the relationship between America and Israel has been damaged so badly?
When Israel gets demonized for being intransigent or hardline for failing to follow the Øb☭ma Administration's diktats or for not clearing its security actions with America, remember this nonsense...)Via Times of Israel:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-consulate-in-jerusalem-arming-palestinian-guards/
The US Consulate in Jerusalem is training a force of 35 Palestinians from East Jerusalem to serve as armed guards, particularly for consular trips to the West Bank's Area A, which is off-limits to Israelis, it was reported on Wednesday.
The arrangement violates a 2011 agreement between Israel and the consulate, the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth stated, whereby only IDF combat veterans would be authorized to carry arms as consulate guards.
"The consulate was authorized to keep roughly 100 handguns for security staff, on condition that they be either American diplomats or Israeli army veterans," the paper's Itamar Eichner wrote.
Additionally, Israeli guards at the consulate alleged that the Palestinians were being trained with firearms in Jericho at a Palestinian Preventative Security base and in the United States.
Islamic State Executes 5 Men In Mosul After Their Wives
Fail To Wear New "Afghan-Style" Hijab
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(In related news, the White House has demanded the Islamic State
change their name to the Violent Extremist State...)
via India Today:http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/isis-executes-men-wives-hijab-wearing-iraq/1/413189.html
Five Iraqi men were publicly executed in Mosul by the ISIS after their wives did not comply with orders to wear a new "Afghan-style" hijab.
The executions were reportedly carried out on January 12 in the Al-Muthanna area of Mosul, according to the Alhurra website.
The Islamic State (IS) militants have also set up roadblocks to ensure that women comply with the new dress code imposed by the militants in Mosul and other areas under its control. The roadblocks are manned by the Hisbah, the Islamic State's Sharia police.
Jihadi Work Accident: Boko Haram Suicide Bomber Killed When His Explosives Detonate Prematurely
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(Ah yes... Feel good story of the day)
Via Pulse Nigeria:http://pulse.ng/local/breaking-bomb-blast-rocks-gombe-mosque-id3405865.html
An explosion has occurred outside a mosque in Gombe State, according to emerging reports.
A suicide bomber reportedly tried to gain entrance into the place of worship, which is situated in Tasomacha near the state university, but the device he was carrying exploded prematurely.
The bomb is said to have gone off today, January 13, at about 6:50pm just as the Muslim faithful were rounding off the Maghrib prayers.
A source told The Cable:
"They were just rounding off the prayers when the thing happened. The suicide bomber wanted to enter the mosque, but before he reached the mosque, the thing exploded."
Fun Fact: There's A Sculpture of Mohammed Inside U.S. Supreme Court
That CAIR Demanded The Face Be Sandblasted
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(Remember this one, CAIR?...)
Via WSJ:http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/01/14/muhammad-sculpture-inside-supreme-court-a-gesture-of-goodwill/
Perched above the press seating area inside the U.S. Supreme Court chamber is a marble image of Prophet Muhammad.Sculpted in a frieze, the Muhammad statue carries a sword and the Quran and stands in the company of more than a dozen other "great lawgivers of history." They range from Moses to Confucius to Napoleon to John Marshall, some of whom appear in an accompanying frieze along the south side of the room.
In a week in which the right to mock – or even depict the Prophet Muhammad – became the focus of world-wide debate, the Supreme Court sculpture of the prophet of Islam has drawn little notice. That wasn't always the case. Back in the 1990s, a controversy erupted that culminated with calls by some Islamic leaders to sandblast the statue's face off the chamber wall.
Islam strongly discourages depictions of Muhammad. And in 1997, some Muslim leaders called on the Supreme Court to remove the image inside the chamber.
According to a Washington Post article at the time, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim groups wrote to the court urging that the statue's face be sandblasted. Then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist refused, issuing a letter that said it would be "unlawful to remove or in any way injure an architectural feature in the Supreme Court building."
** Pic Of The Day **
The man once known as John McCain:
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Dark Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series:
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Report: Islamic State Has Nearly Doubled The Amount of Territory They Hold In Syria Since Øb☭ma Began Airstrikes
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Before U.S airstrikes (note the red which indicates full IS control):
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(Failure stalks Øb☭ma like it's his shadow...)
Via Daily Beast:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/14/exclusive-isis-gaining-ground-in-syria-despite-u-s-strikes.html
ISIS continues to gain substantial ground in Syria, despite nearly 800 air strikes in the American-led campaign to break ISIS's grip there.
At least one-third of the country's territory is now under ISIS influence, with recent gains in rural areas that can serve as a conduit to major cities ISIS hopes to eventually claim as part of its caliphate. Meanwhile, the Islamic extremist group does not appear to have suffered any major ground losses since the strikes began. The result is a net ground gain for ISIS, according to information compiled by two groups with on-the-ground sources.
In Syria, ISIS "has not any lost any key terrain," Jennifer Cafarella, a fellow at the Washington D.C.-based Institute for the Study of War who studies the Syrian conflict, explained to the Daily Beast.
Even U.S. military officials privately conceded to The Daily Beast that ISIS has gained ground in some areas, even as the Pentagon claims its seized territory elsewhere, largely around the northern city of Kobani. That's been the focus of the U.S.-led campaign, and ISIS has not been able to take the town, despite its best efforts.
A map developed by the Coalition for a Democratic Syria (CDS), a Syrian American opposition umbrella group, shows that ISIS has nearly doubled the amount of territory it controls since air strikes began last year.
"Assessing the map, ISIS has almost doubled its territorial control in Syria. But more importantly, the number of people who now live under ISIS control has also increased substantially," CDS political advisor Mouaz Moustafa said.
January 14, 2015
Snopes confirms open letter blasting Holder is from retired FBI agent
By Thomas Lifson
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/snopes_confirms_open_letter_blasting_holder_is_from_retired_fbi_agent.html
There is quite a buzz surrounding an open letter from a retired FBI agent to Attorney General Eric Holder. So much so that Snopes looked into it and confirms that it is indeed from retired FBI Special Agent K. Dee McCown, currently Director, Global Security and Loss Prevention at W.W. Grainger, Inc.
The criticisms of the AG will sound familiar to many readers of AT, but coming from someone who rose to the rank of Special Agent, they carry weight.Here is the letter:K. Dee McCown
College Station, Texas
December 28, 2014
Attorney General Eric Holder
U.S. Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001 Dear Attorney General Holder,
It is unlikely that we met while I served in the FBI. That being said, we served at the Department of Justice (DOJ) during the same years and on the same "team" conceptually speaking. During my service in the FBI I worked with a number of U.S. Attorney Offices in the United States to include a tour at FBIHQ where I worked with the Department of Justice (Main) on a daily basis.
I begin my letter with this comment to highlight that I am not a bystander on the topic of law enforcement in the United States. I worked and managed a variety of federal investigations during my 12 years of service in the FBI, to include the management of several Civil Rights cases in the State of Texas. In fact, during my last tour in the Bureau, I was an FBI Supervisor responsible for managing federal investigations in nine (9) Texas counties, many of which were rural; in places where one would suspect racism to flourish given the narrative often pushed by Hollywood and urban progressive elites like yourself. I performed this mission diligently and under the close supervision of two FBI managers; an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) and Special Agent in Charge (SAC,) both of which happened to be African American and outstanding law enforcement professionals. I also performed this mission serving side by side with a variety of law enforcement agencies at the Federal, State and local level.
I have observed you closely during your tenure as Attorney General and notably during these last tumultuous years; watching you negotiate a number of controversial public matters to include the ATF Fast and Furious scandal, Black Panther Party intimidation at voting booths, IRS targeting of American citizens (citizen groups opposed to the Obama Administration,) the ignoring of US Immigration laws, DOJ criminal indictments of select news reporters and your management of several high profile criminal investigations involving subjects of race, notably African Americans.
Until today, I chose to hold my tongue. However, with the assassination of two NYPD Lieutenants last weekend in New York City, at the hands of a African American man with a lengthy criminal record, fresh from his participation in anti-police activities; coupled with numerous "don't shoot, hands up," and "black lives matter" anti-police protests (some of which are violent) occurring daily around the nation, I am compelled to write you this letter.
To be blunt Mr. Holder, I am appalled at your lack of leadership as the Attorney General of the United States and your blatant politicizing of the Department of Justice. Your actions, both publicly and privately, have done nothing to quell the complex racial issues we face in our country and have done everything to inflame them. As the "top cop" of the United States, you share in the blame for much of the violence and protests we are now witnessing against law enforcement officers honorably serving throughout our nation.
During one of your first public speeches as Attorney General you made it a point to call America "a nation of cowards" concerning race relations. That speech, followed by other public announcements where you emphatically opined that the odds were stacked against African Americans in regard to the enforcement of law, your intention to change the law and permit convicted felons to vote after incarceration, and your changes to federal law ending "racial profiling," are poignant examples of how detached you remain from the challenges faced by law enforcement officers serving in crime ridden neighborhoods throughout the nation.
These opinions are also indicative of a man that lives and works in the elitist "bubble" of Washington D.C.
Your performance, as the nation's Attorney General, during the Trayvon Martin case in Sanford, Florida and the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Missouri clearly highlights your myopic view on this topic. Contrary to your embarrassing prejudgment in the Brown case and evasive post trial remarks on the Martin case, neither Brown nor Martin were targeted and/or killed because of their African American race.
Rather, as non-emotive investigations determined, both teens died as a consequence of their own tragic and egregious behavior; behavior that involved a violent assault on a law abiding citizen in the Trayvon Martin case, and a violent assault on a young police officer in the Michael Brown case. Yet you, as the number one spokesman for law enforcement in the country, blame the deaths of these men on years of institutional racism and the alleged epidemic targeting of African American men by police departments around the country; nothing could be further from the truth. Following the Michael Brown case Grand Jury decision all you could muster was the following comment: "The Department of Justice is currently investigating not only the shooting but also the Ferguson police department in what is called a "patterns and practices" inquiry to determine if the police department has engaged in systematic racism."
So, let's get this straight. At a decisive moment in history when our nation required a strong and unbiased voice from its' senior law enforcement official, you Mr. Holder, made it your personal mission to join with other racial antagonist and politicize a tragic event, accusing a young white police officer of a racially motivated killing in what we now know was a justified self-defense shooting of a predatory felon. Your behavior is unbelievable. You sir, have sacrificed your integrity on the altar of political expediency. You, Mr. Holder, are the "coward" and hypocrite you so loudly denounce when speaking of broken race relations in America.
Further to this point Mr. Holder, law enforcement officers around the country remain dismayed and shocked at the counsel you keep; that being your close relationship with none other than Al Sharpton, a racist "shake down artist" who spreads hate, divisiveness and the promotion of anti-law enforcement sentiment throughout the country; a tax evading fraudster who has unbelievably visited the White House over 80 times in recent years. It is simply beyond my comprehension as a former federal law enforcement professional, that you, the Attorney General of the United States, joined arms in common cause with a charlatan like "the Reverend" Al Sharpton; and it speaks volumes to your personal character and lack of professional judgment.
Violent crime, out of wedlock births, drug abuse, rampant unemployment and poverty found in many low-income minority neighborhoods are not a result of racist community policing and racial profiling as you so quickly assert, and frankly most law abiding Americans are exhausted of hearing this false narrative repeated time and again by you and others in the racial grievance industry. While no one, me included, would ever suggest that African Americans have not suffered from institutional racism in the past, I would strongly argue that we no longer live in the Mississippi of 1965, nor do we live in a country that even closely resembles the "Jim Crow" South of yesteryear. Those days, thankfully, are in the past as are the generations of Americans that supported such egregious behavior and endured such suffering.
Rather, Mr. Holder, we live in a day and time where the root cause of many problems faced in our African American communities can be attributed to the breakdown of civil order due to the rejection of institutional and family authority and the practice of counter-culture values; and most notably, from the absence of strong male leadership in fatherless black families. The reason that our local police officers are so often entwined in tragic events in black communities is because it is the police that have filled the void in these communities that should be occupied by moral and strong black men leading family units with Godly values. You, Mr. Holder, especially, should be thanking the police rather than persecuting them for the gap they fill in these communities because if it were not for the intervention of local police many African American neighborhoods would be in a state of total anarchy.
Yet tragically, you and your race-baiting colleague Al Sharpton (a paid media personality under contract with MSNBC news) choose to remain silent because to publicly speak this self-evident truth threatens to not only alienate and offend the most loyal voting constituency of the Democratic Party but diminish your and Al Sharpton's self-serving power base in these suffering communities. God forbid that you would suggest individual citizens accept responsibility for their own behavior and the collective failure of their communities; it is so much easier for you and others like you to make excuses, play the victim card, and pander rather than address the real root causes that plague many low income neighborhoods.
Mr. Holder, the public is aware of FBI statistics that tell a different story than the one you and Sharpton preach. We know that young African American males, representing a tiny fraction of the U.S. population, are by far the greatest perpetrators of violent crime in America when compared to their peers in other ethnic groups, and, we know that citizens of African American descent overwhelmingly make up the majority of their victims. We also know that incidents where white police officers shoot and kill black perpetrators are rare and on the decline. We know further that although there are legitimate and bona fide Federal Civil Rights investigations in the United States worthy of pursuing, they are miniscule when compared to the false narrative portrayed by you, President Obama and Sharpton declaring rampant discrimination against African American men by police officers throughout the country. You are just plain wrong.
In closing Mr. Holder I will leave you with this thought; you were given a rare opportunity to lead with integrity during a variety of divisive and controversial issues during your tenure as the 82d Attorney General of the United States and rather than be a man of moral courage you chose instead to cower, further inflame racial tensions, advance false narratives and play progressive political activist.
Time and again you chose to "politicize" the mission of the Department of Justice rather than pursue justice and now, tragically, we are witnessing the fruits of your irresponsible behavior in the murder of two innocent police officers in New York City, assassinated by a man motivated by the flames of racial hatred that you personally fanned. How many more police officers will be injured or die in the coming days because of the perilous conditions you helped create in this nation. You, President Obama and Al Sharpton own this problem lock, stock and barrel and now it is your legacy.
As thousands of NYPD officers turn their collective back on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, another dishonest politician and Sharpton disciple, so too do countless Federal law enforcement officers turn our backs on you. K. Dee McCown
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January 14, 2015
Romney tops Jeb in new Iowa poll
By Rick Moran
With Mitt Romney an all but announced candidate for president, a new Iowa poll shows him ahead of one of his main rivals, Jeb Bush, by 21-14%. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker finished 3rd with 10%, just ahead of Mike Huckabee's 9%.
The poll, conducted by conservative publication Townhall and Gravis Marketing, and has a sampling error of 3%.
Former Massachusetts governor W. Mitt Romney has never left the hearts and minds of Republican voters and he will hold the dominant position in the race for the 2016 presidential nomination until the other candidates spin up their own campaigns, said Doug Kaplan, the managing partner of Gravis Marketing, a Florida-based pollster and call center that executed the poll. The poll carries an error rate of 3 percent.
"Romney's name recognition and the loyalty Republicans have for their last nominee give him a opportunity that no one else has," Kaplan said. "The question is whether he will use or let the chance pass to others."
After two years of dampening expectations, Romney—spooked by Bush's momentum—is now working to the phones in order to put the band together for one more national tour.
While Romney decides what to do, the GOP race revolves around former Florida governor John E. "Jeb" Bush, the choice of 14 percent, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott K. Walker, polling at 10 percent.
Bush, the son of President George H. W. Bush and a younger brother of President George W. Bush, went from a stealth candidate over Thanksgiving to today's full-blown exploratory candidate.
Although he is portrayed as a white bread patrician in the press, Bush ran Florida for eight years as a red-meat-movement-conservative cutting taxes, holding teachers accountable and expanding gun rights. A Catholic convert, Bush is married to the daughter of a Mexican migrant worker and speaks Spanish without the effort his brother W. exerted.
Of course, the defining moment of Bush's tenure was his extreme effort in the losing battle to save the life of Terry Schiavo.
Walker, the governor of Iowa's northeast border, signaled his intention to run with the New Year announcements of his presidential campaign team: Rick Wiley, campaign manager; Nicole Tieman, press secretary; Colleen Coyle, finance director, as well as, other staffers: Stephan Thompson, Jonathan Wetzel and Keith Gilkes.
Walker, Bush, and Romney together are at 46%. None are what you might call "Ted Cruz conservatives." But Romney's entrance in the race may be a godsend for Cruz, Rand Paul, and any other conservative that the base favors.
In the past, conservative primary voters have split their votes among 3 or 4 candidates. This time around, it will be the moderates splitting their votes as well. That means if a moderate emerges as a front runner, he will be getting fewer delegates in every primary, allowing a conservative candidate to maintain contact. When the field winnows down, a more conservative candidate will still have a shot at the nomination, unlike the last two election cycles where McCain and Romney had huge leads after the March primaries.
It's a scenario that probably worries Reince Priebus but should give heart to the conservative base. The point is, Romney's entrance in the race means that it will be a wide open contest probably well into the primary season.
With Mitt Romney an all but announced candidate for president, a new Iowa poll shows him ahead of one of his main rivals, Jeb Bush, by 21-14%. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker finished 3rd with 10%, just ahead of Mike Huckabee's 9%.
The poll, conducted by conservative publication Townhall and Gravis Marketing, and has a sampling error of 3%.
Former Massachusetts governor W. Mitt Romney has never left the hearts and minds of Republican voters and he will hold the dominant position in the race for the 2016 presidential nomination until the other candidates spin up their own campaigns, said Doug Kaplan, the managing partner of Gravis Marketing, a Florida-based pollster and call center that executed the poll. The poll carries an error rate of 3 percent.
"Romney's name recognition and the loyalty Republicans have for their last nominee give him a opportunity that no one else has," Kaplan said. "The question is whether he will use or let the chance pass to others."
After two years of dampening expectations, Romney—spooked by Bush's momentum—is now working to the phones in order to put the band together for one more national tour.
While Romney decides what to do, the GOP race revolves around former Florida governor John E. "Jeb" Bush, the choice of 14 percent, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott K. Walker, polling at 10 percent.
Bush, the son of President George H. W. Bush and a younger brother of President George W. Bush, went from a stealth candidate over Thanksgiving to today's full-blown exploratory candidate.
Although he is portrayed as a white bread patrician in the press, Bush ran Florida for eight years as a red-meat-movement-conservative cutting taxes, holding teachers accountable and expanding gun rights. A Catholic convert, Bush is married to the daughter of a Mexican migrant worker and speaks Spanish without the effort his brother W. exerted.
Of course, the defining moment of Bush's tenure was his extreme effort in the losing battle to save the life of Terry Schiavo.
Walker, the governor of Iowa's northeast border, signaled his intention to run with the New Year announcements of his presidential campaign team: Rick Wiley, campaign manager; Nicole Tieman, press secretary; Colleen Coyle, finance director, as well as, other staffers: Stephan Thompson, Jonathan Wetzel and Keith Gilkes.
Walker, Bush, and Romney together are at 46%. None are what you might call "Ted Cruz conservatives." But Romney's entrance in the race may be a godsend for Cruz, Rand Paul, and any other conservative that the base favors.
In the past, conservative primary voters have split their votes among 3 or 4 candidates. This time around, it will be the moderates splitting their votes as well. That means if a moderate emerges as a front runner, he will be getting fewer delegates in every primary, allowing a conservative candidate to maintain contact. When the field winnows down, a more conservative candidate will still have a shot at the nomination, unlike the last two election cycles where McCain and Romney had huge leads after the March primaries.
It's a scenario that probably worries Reince Priebus but should give heart to the conservative base. The point is, Romney's entrance in the race means that it will be a wide open contest probably well into the primary season.Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/romney_tops_jeb_in_new_iowa_poll.html#ixzz3OrqyBABN
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Although this shocked economists and pundits, it more accurately reflects the reality of the man in the street who's closer to the action.http://viral.buzz/video-why-president-obamas-assertions-of-a-resurgent-economy-falls-on-disbelieving-ears/
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Breaking:
Major News Feed Appears To Have Been Hacked
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It was a nerve-wracking few minutes for people who saw and may have believed the earth-shattering tweets from the respected news gathering and reporting organization United Press International (UPI).
Fresh on the heels of hackers hijacking the social media accounts of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and the widespread concern produced over the vulnerability of U.S. cyberspace, it appears another major hack attack has happened. And it has compromised the feed of a mainstream media entity whose credibility could be called into question in the future.
The twitter account of UPI appears to have been taken over by someone or some group interested in sending shock waves across the Internet.
As of this posting, no other news organization and no government entity is corroborating the content of the twitter messages in the UPI feed — messages dealing with a supposed Chinese attack on the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington, as well as what was claimed to be an extraordinary move by the Federal Reserve.
You can see screen grabs of the suspect tweets below. Again, please keep in mind that there is no real-world evidence to suggest that these are accurate or that they actually come from UPI itself.
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It is also being reported that the twitter feed of the New York Post newspaper was hijacked and similar fake news posted.
We will update this story as developments warrant.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-major-news-feed-appears-hacked-breathtaking-apocalyptic-posts/#q18qkQTZYyESkhPY.99
Sheriff Joe Scores Big Victory In Effort To Stop Øb☭ma's Amnesty
The appeals court ruling came less than a month after a federal judge dismissed the suit.
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(Give'em hell, Joe)
Via Western Journalism:As Western Journalism reported last November, Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio responded to Barack Obama's executive action on immigration by filing a lawsuit to determine if such a unilateral order is legal.
"We have to understand whether this is constitutional or not, whether he is going around Congress is legal," he said at the time. "I'm going to send a message that we're not going to give up, that this does affect the streets of Maricopa County."
The following month, a federal judge dismissed Arpaio's suit; however, Freedom Watch Founder Larry Klayman announced this week that the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has delivered a more favorable verdict. Klayman is serving as Arpaio's attorney in this case and issued a statement indicating the court ordered an accelerated hearing for the suit.
He described the ruling as "a big victory to Sheriff Arpaio and indeed the American people," reiterating his argument that an expedited hearing is needed if there is any hope of stopping Obama's executive order from being enacted in full this spring.
"There are constitutional issues of great magnitude at stake," Klayman's statement continued, "and we are confident that the D.C. Circuit will put a legal stop to this illegal activity, which seeks to end-run congressional authority."
He went on to express appreciation for Arpaio's "courage in pursuing this very necessary legal action."
The appeals court ordered Arpaio's brief be submitted by Jan. 29, with Obama's deadline set for March 2.
"Due to the expedited nature of this case," the order states, "the court will not entertain dispositive motions. The parties should therefore address in their briefs any arguments otherwise properly raised in such motions."
A U.S. House funding bill containing an amendment that would overturn Obama's executive action passed the same day as the appeals court ruling, though the initiative is unlikely to gain enough support in the Senate to progress through that chamber.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/sheriff-joe-scores-big-victory-effort-stop-obamas-amnesty/#TqBODLoPfsQZjt4t.99
Trey Gowdy Votes To Stop Executive Overreach And Hits Out At Øb☭ma In The Process
Will the House ever find the courage to stand up for itself?
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(A TRUE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE!
Trey Gowdy for President in 2016...)
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) took to the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday morning to block President Obama's executive action overreach on immigration. Gowdy voted for H.R. 240 to fund the Department of Homeland Security through September 2015. Gowdy said that millions of immigrants will receive benefits under the president's plan.
"President Obama announced one of the largest extra-constitutional power-grabs ever by a chief executive. He declared unilaterally that almost five million undocumented aliens will receive deferred action under some new-fangled definition of prosecutorial discretion, Madam Speaker. Not only that, not only escaping consequences, he has decided to bestow benefits such as work authorization and immigration benefits."
Gowdy reminded the House of Representatives that President Obama's position may have changed since he was a Senator, but the text of the constitution has not.
"This, Madam Speaker, despite the fact that the very same president, over twenty different times, said he lacked the power to do what he just did. And he repeatedly said he is not a king. Now, Madam Speaker, his position may have changed, after the election I hasten to add, but the Constitution has not. That document is clear, time-tested, and true. And it says that this body passes laws and it is the responsibility of the chief executive, Madam Speaker, to make sure that those laws are faithfully enforced."
Gowdy said that Obama's executive action will set a precedent for future presidents, and the House must exert its power to stop him.
"If this president's unilateral extra-constitutional acts are not stopped, Madam Speaker, future presidents will no doubt expand that power of the executive branch and threaten the constitutional equilibrium. But Madam Speaker, this is not a fight between Republicans and Democrats. It's not even a fight over immigration reform. This is a fight over whether this branch of government will ever find the courage to stand up for itself. The same document that this and all presidents swears to defend gives this body certain tools, tools like the power of the purse. And it's about d–n time we used that tool. So I would ask you to oppose this motion to recommit, support the underlying bill and I will yield back my time."
The bill passed 236-191, with 5 not voting.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/trey-gowdy-votes-stop-executive-overreach/#8CAQ6uK3yfMqrZ6D.99
Jim Clancy "Leaves" CNN, Week After Abusive Anti-Israel Twitter Exchange
He sent a short note to his colleagues announcing that he was leaving the network without giving a reason for his departure
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He sent a short note to his colleagues announcing that he was leaving the network without giving a reason for his departure.
Last Friday, 34-year CNN International veteran Jim Clancy went on a bizarre anti-Israel twitter rant which ended with him using the politically incorrect term "cripple." One week later he sent a short note to his colleagues announcing that he was leaving the network without giving a reason for his departure.The note was originally posted on Mediaite:"After nearly 34 years with Cable News Network, the time has come to say Farewell!
It has been my honor to work alongside all of you for all of these years. This is one of the greatest news organizations in the world. It has truly revolutionized information delivery while driving technological advances in how we gather the news.
Through it all, CNN has been a family to my own family. That means something.
As I reflect on all of the great adventures and achievements of the past, I wish you great success in the future.
Jim ClancyAs TruthRevolt reported at the time of the Clancy meltdown:"The matter started last week when Clancy tweeted about the deadly terrorist attack by radical Islamists on a magazine in Paris, known for publishing satirical cartoons sometimes offensive to Muslims.
"The cartoons NEVER mocked the Prophet [Muhammed]," Clancy tweeted at the time. "They mocked how the COWARDS [who] tried to distort his word. Pay attention."
Some of Clancy's followers challenged his point, which suggested that the terrorists were motivated not by Islam (which teaches followers not to mock its prophet) but by something else.
Clancy responded to several of the replies he received, but eventually tweeted this at one person: "Get a grip, junior. It's my Friday night. You and the Hasbara team need to pick on some cripple on the edge of the herd."Hasbara is a reference to the Israeli government's public relations effort to spread positive information about Israel. It is also used in some circles as a reference to the anti-Semitic falsehood that Jews control the media.
Clancy deleted his entire twitter account before he announced his departure.http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/jim-clancy-leaves-cnn-week-after-abusive-anti-israel-twitter-exange
#BlackLivesKilledByBlackPeopleDon'tMatter:
Seven Homicides In St. Louis In 24 Hours
(Local leaders in the St. Louis area cite "the Ferguson effect" for the rise in crime and the decline in arrests. But no protesters are out protesting these deaths. Number 1 cause of black male (ages 15-34) deaths is other black males (ages 15-34). Culling the herd from within, which is how it should be...)(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/mugs-550x310.jpg)
(What a fine looking group of black thugs...)
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) – A manager at the Drury Inn & Suites shot and killed during a robbery attempt was just one of six victims of gun violence in a 12-hour span since Wednesday night and while police continue to search for his murderer, charges have been filed in three of the other homicides.
In a news conference Thursday, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson and Mayor Francis Slay discussed the sudden crime spree, announcing that three people have been taken into custody and will likely be charged Friday.
http://www.kmov.com/news/crime/Three-early-morning-homicides-in-the-city-of-St-Louis-288653361.html
Øb☭ma Scheduled To Be Interviewed After State Of The Union
By Guy Who Created "14 Fart Facts" Video
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(How many times have I said that Øb☭ma is NUTS!!! This proves it. While you all will be watching Øb☭ma's State of the Union, I'll be listening to the "Battle of Thunderblow Farting Contest." My money is on Boomer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPplyQWf-u4#t=279 )
Via CNS News:http://cnsnews.com/blog/eric-scheiner/president-obama-be-interviewed-14-fart-facts-creator
Obama is set to sit down with the YouTube creator of "14 Fart Facts for my Flatulent Friends" after the State of the Union address on Tuesday.
In a blog posting at WhiteHouse.gov, officials claim the president will be interviewed by three YouTube personalities as an example of "efforts by the president and his administration to speak directly to the American people online."
Hank Green, whose most recent YouTube video at the time of this publication is "14 Fart Facts for my Flatulent Friends", will be among those questioning the president.
See Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7YpCar_Z-4
Glozell Green and Bethany Mota are the other two interviewers. Recent YouTube posts from them include "Becca Frucht and GloZell Make a Green Smoothie," and "Throw a DIY Party! Quick Treats, Party favors + Outfits!"
The other two videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3395982023&feature=iv&src_vid=c8d-NCgzGJI&v=gJBKzoiGGLY
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The White House denies that the interviews are part of a larger strategy to elbow out the traditional press corps.
Vatican Attempts To Clarify Pope Francis' Comments On Paris Terror Attack
The Vatican is in full damage control following the pope's latest controversial remarks.
On Thursday Pope Francis defended the Charlie Hebdo Islamic killers, saying,
"If my good friend says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch."
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(Not quite sure about this new Pope...)
CBS Local reported:http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/15/vatican-attempts-to-clarify-pope-francis-comments-on-paris-terror-attack/
The Vatican is trying to clarify some controversial comments by Pope Francis.
Some say his statement seemed to condone last week's terror attack at a French newspaper, CBS2's Tony Aiello reported Thursday.
On a flight to the Philippines, the pope took questions, and raised eyebrows.
A French reporter asked about the attack at Charlie Hebdo, which was carried out by Muslims outraged over the paper's mocking of the prophet Muhammad.
Francis condemned those who kill in the name of religion, but then said, "If (my good friend) says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal."
"You cannot provoke; you cannot insult the faith of others," the pontiff added.
Father James Martin, the editor at large of the Jesuit magazine "America," said Pope Francis was trying to make a point about respect for other religions.
Russian Zoo Names Baby Monkey After President Putin
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MOSCOW - A peculiar bald monkey, born at the Moscow Zoo during the successful annexation of Crimea and invasion into Ukraine, has been named after Russia's enormously popular president, Vladimir Putin. The baby baboon that some believe brought luck to the Kremlin, will now be known simply as "Pootie-Poo."
Since the monkey was born, Putin's approval rating has remained at 86% without any signs of decline, according to zoo officials. "There's not a politician on earth who can maintain 86% support indefinitely - except our Russian president," says Zoo spokeswoman, Luyda Yedova.
Pootie-Poo monkeyYedova believes it is due to the luck brought by the bald monkey that the Russian consumers still aren't holding Putin responsible for any of the negative consequences of his Ukraine policy. On the contrary - in spite of the falling ruble and the catastrophic depletion of the country's budget, Putin has become even more politically powerful now than at any other time in the past decade and a half.
Zoo officials say naming the monkey after Putin was "an overwhelming favorite" among many zoo patrons who were sending in name suggestions through the zoo's Facebook and Twitter pages.
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A zoo visitor we spoke to said he found the name very appropriate.
"Putin accuses the U.S. State Department of setting up a puppet regime in Ukraine, and then he turns around and sets up several puppet regimes inside Ukrainian territory. Monkey see, monkey do," he added with what sounded like Ukrainian accent.
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Market Forces Dish Network to End Fox News Blackout
Looks like there was more to the Dish Network dropping Fox News for several weeks than an inability of the two sides to agree on a contract. Dish founder and chairman Charles Ergen is a major moonbat who gives heavily to the Democrat Party and pressures others to do the same:
According to Open Secrets, Ergen donated a total of $64,000 to the Democratic Senatorial campaign Committee in 2014.
In the 2014 cycle Ergen gave almost exclusively to Democratic candidates particularly to endangered Senate Democrats including Kay Hagen(NC), Mark Pryor (ARK.), Mark Warner (Va) and Mark Begich (Alaska).In addition to spending his money exceedingly unwisely:
In 2012, a federal complaint was filed against Ergen in which several company executives alleged that he had intimidated them into making contributions to specific candidates, the majority of which were Democrats.
The claim was filed by an unnamed company insider who accused Ergen of "forcing" Dish Network's Chief Operating Officer Bernard Han to donate to a Democratic Party candidate in the 2009/2010 election cycle.
The complaint also claimed that Han was "encouraged" to attend Democratic functions and fundraisers and that other Dish employees were strong-armed by Ergen in a similar way.
Dish's move has cost it 90,000 subscribers since the Fox News Channel blackout began, finally forcing it to restore FNC.This probably won't be the last time Ergen's political preferences take a toll on countermoonbats in the audience. Viewers are advised to ditch Dish and get DirecTV or cable — or better still, use the Internet to choose your own programming.
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(Good luck getting the 90,000 subscribers back Ergen, you liberal Clown...)
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Anonymous Man Donates $1 Million To Families Of Slain NYPD Cops
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(Good to see the continued care for these families who have lost so much...)
Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2015/01/16/families-of-slain-cops-receive-anonymous-1-million-donation/
It was a gesture of enormous generosity — and it came from a mystery man 8,000 miles away.
An anonymous entrepreneur from Hong Kong on Friday donated $1 million to the families of slain cops Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
"In every tragedy, there are individuals who step forward and step up to the plate, and that's what this story is all about here today," said Michael Palladino, president of the NYPD's detectives union during a ceremony at union headquarters.
Liu's father, Wei Tang Liu, will get $100,000 a year for five years under an agreement facilitated by the Sing Tao Newspaper company, while the other $500,000 will go to an education fund for Ramos' children.
The cops' relatives were each presented with an oversized ceremonial check for $1 million.
Ramos' widow, Maritza, gripped her two teen sons' hands during the event.
Neither she nor Liu's widow, Pei Xia Chen, spoke. But Liu's father, speaking Chinese, later thanked the NYPD and all who supported the families.
Sing Tao CEO Robin Mui said the donor had been moved by the families' plight.
"He's just a wealthy entrepreneur in Hong Kong who doesn't want his name to be published," Mui said.
Meanwhile, active and retired cops will be partying on Staten Island at a benefit for the families Saturday. It starts at 7 p.m. at the Fast Break Basketball Center and will feature live bands and hot dogs. Tickets are $40 a head.
How Lawmakers Get Rich:
Sen. Feinstein's Husband To Make A Billion From Gov't Deal
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(Conflict of interest: an archaic term that never applies to politicians and other functionaries of the current US government or members of the MSM. They SAID that the decision by USPS had NOTHING to do with Feinstein's connctions. For some reason one would seem suspicious that a servant of the people might take advantage of their position by serreptitiously pushing a billion-dollar deal to their spouse's business. Meanwhile, the US Postal Service loses its assets in order to pay more in rent. Little wonder these geniuses continue to hemorrhage money. Congress should let them die of natural financial causes and let FedEx do what they do best... without union interference. No wonder California is so screwed up with the likes of DIFI, Boxer, and Brown)
Via NY Post:http://pagesix.com/2015/01/16/senators-husband-stands-to-profit-from-government-deal/?_ga=1.235258241.1842008205.1370697823
Ever wonder how lowly paid lawmakers leave office filthy rich?
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is showing how it's done.The US Postal Service plans to sell 56 buildings — so it can lease space more expensively — and the real estate company of the California senator's husband, Richard Blum, is set to pocket about $1 billion in commissions.Blum's company, CBRE, was selected in March 2011 as the sole real estate agent on sales expected to fetch $19 billion. Most voters didn't notice that Blum is a member of CBRE's board and served as chairman from 2001 to 2014.
This feat of federal spousal support was ignored by the media after Feinstein's office said the senator, whose wealth is pegged at $70 million, had nothing to do with the USPS decisions.
When the national debt is $18 trillion, a billion seems like small change.
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Øb☭ma To Congress: Back Off Any New Sanctions On Iran
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(Lord knows, don't let any sanctions interfere with them finishing their nuclear reactor. IDIOT!...)
Via Washington Examiner:http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-hold-off-on-new-iran-sanctions/article/2558786
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President Obama told lawmakers, including fellow Democrats, that he would veto a bill imposing new sanctions on Iran, saying there was "no good argument" for increasing penalties on Tehran right now.
"There is no good argument for us to try to undercut, undermine the negotiations, until they've played themselves out," Obama said in a joint news conference Friday with British Prime Minister David Cameron at the White House.
"I will veto a bill that comes to my desk," he added, urging Congress to "hold off" on such actions.
Lawmakers are readying legislation that would place new economic penalties on Iran, as the Obama administration tries to finalize a deal to curtail the country's nuclear program.
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Box Office Returns: American Sniper Number One In This Weekend Brings In $29M In First Day
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(Clint Eastwood's biggest selling movie to date...)
Via Deadline.com:http://deadline.com/2015/01/weekend-box-office-american-sniper-kevin-hart-the-wedding-ringer-paddington-blackhat-martin-luther-king-jr-1201349929/
American Sniper is huge. So huge that the Clint Eastwood-directed film could, by sunrise, make more in one day than any one of his films ever made in a weekend. Per late night industry estimates, the Warner Bros./Village Roadshow pic looks to gun down $29.1M in its first expanded Friday, within inches of blowing away Eastwood's previous weekend high, 2009's Gran Torino at $29.5M.
Hands down, American Sniper's Friday booty ranks as the highest grossing day ever charted by a film in January – and that goes for an opening (previous record holder was 2008's Cloverfield at $17.16M) and single day (prior was the $25.8M B.O. racked up by Avatar on Jan. 2, 2010).
Jesse Jackson: Rename Tillman Hall At Clemson University
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(Jesse out race baiting to remain relevant...)
Via The State:http://www.thestate.com/2015/01/17/3933752_jesse-jackson-rename-tillman-hall.html?sp=/99/205/&rh=1
Clemson University should rename Tillman Hall, a building that honors a "racist" who advocated brutality against black people, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said in Greenville on Friday.
"Ben 'Pitchfork' Tillman was a racist who reacted to the African-American people with violence," said Jackson, a Greenville native. "He recommended genocide against black people."
In an exclusive preview of his remarks as keynote speaker at Greenville's MLK Diversity Banquet on Friday night, Jackson also criticized Gov. Nikki Haley and other state leaders for refusing to expand Medicaid.
"The state is reducing the life expectancies of poor people," Jackson tole The Greenville News as he prepared to speak at the TD Convention Center. "One-fourth of South Carolina is in poverty. People can't get mammograms and can't see a doctor but have to resort to emergency rooms."[...]
Clemson student Colby Lanham, a communications studies major, disagreed with Jackson. "We all know the history of Tillman," Lanham said. "We know his viewpoints as well as those of Thomas Green Clemson and John C. Calhoun. But renaming a building won't change history or Tillman's view of minorities."
Lanham supports recent diversity initiatives by Clemson President Jim Clements and suggested the school should do more to recruit minority students and faculty.
"Focusing on those efforts instead of renaming buildings is a more constructive idea," Lanham said.
Don't Expect To Order That Starbucks Latte In Havana Just Yet
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(Majority of Cubans want car parts for a 55 Chevy...)
Via Stars and Stripes:http://www.stripes.com/news/americas/don-t-expect-to-order-that-starbucks-latte-in-havana-just-yet-1.324301
Despite the Obama administration's easing of some restrictions on travel and commerce with Cuba, don't expect Starbucks to soon dot every Havana street corner or Marriott to start building a beachfront hotel.
The U.S. trade embargo imposed in the 1960s, and subsequent further restrictions on commerce with Cuba, remain in effect and can be lifted only by Congress. For the time being, companies from Canada, Brazil, Spain, Mexico and elsewhere can breathe easy. They won't be facing well-financed U.S. competitors, either in trade or investment on the island.
Most trade with, and investment in, Cuba remains off limits. That's because the openings announced Friday restrict commercial activities to individual Cubans without ties to government and private companies. And Cuba remains an almost entirely state-run economy.
The relaxed rules "push the ball forward," said Paul Johnson, president of Chicago Foods International and vice chairman of the U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba, which hopes to roll back the embargo. "But it's going to take an act of Congress to do anything truly impactful. There's a lot that can't be done yet."
For example, while Caterpillar or its suppliers may find it easier to send tractors or replacement parts to Cuba, U.S. cattlemen and poultry producers still can't supply Cuban-owned hotel chains and resorts that are chock full of rich European vacationers.[...]
What little Cuba does export is unlikely to reach U.S. shores anytime soon, he added.
"From rum and cigars to sugar and nickel, none of that will happen," Claver-Carone said confidently.
How fast that changes depends more on the Cuban government than it does on the U.S. Congress. Lawmakers are reluctant to scrap the trade embargo without signs that Cuban leader Raul Castro is willing to cede political space to opponents and reduce the state's role in the economy.
Report: Up To 180 Sleeper Terrorists Prepping For Attacks
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Via Newsmax:
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/sleeper-cells-threats-europe/2015/01/17/id/619194/
Up to 20 sleeper cells comprising 120 to 180 people may be ready to strike targets in several European countries, intelligence source say in the wake of the discovery of an "imminent threat" of an attack in Belgium this week.
More than two dozen people with suspected ties to Islamic extremists were arrested in a sweep Friday, and an unnamed Western intelligence source told CNN that as many as 20 sleeper cells are ready to strike targets in France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
"There is a tremendous amount of concern over sleeper cells in Europe," said the official, who CNN reports has direct knowledge of the evolving situation.
Authorities are concerned about copycat attacks through Europe following the incidents that unfolded in Paris earlier this month, said the official, comparing the terror threat to a "slow-motion car accident happening right in front of us."From Antz in the Panz:(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1637/3480/original.jpg?w=600&h)
The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The Charlie Hebdo killers were Muslim
The Underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bali Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Musiims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks Bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The First World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay, Mumbai, India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The Nairobi, Kenya Shopping Mall Killers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims
The Sydney, Australia Lindt Cafe Kidnapper was a Muslim
The Peshawar, Pakistani School Children Killers were Muslims
Think of it:
Hindus living with Jews = No Problem
Baha'is living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Atheists = No Problem
Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Baha'is = No Problem
Christians living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem
Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem
Baha'is living with Christians = No Problem
Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem
Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Christians = No Problem
Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem
Confusians living with Hindus = No Problem
Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem
Muslims living with Jews = Problem
Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem
Muslims living with Hindus = Problem
Muslims living with Baha'is = Problem
Muslims living with Shintos = Problem
Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem
Muslims living with Christians = Problem
MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = BIG PROBLEM
**********SO THIS LEADS TO *****************
They're not happy in Gaza
They're not happy in Egypt
They're not happy in Libya
They're not happy in Iran
They're not happy in Iraq
They're not happy in Yemen
They're not happy in Pakistan
They're not happy in Syria
They're not happy in Lebanon
They're not happy in Nigeria
They're not happy in Kenya
They're not happy in Sudan
They're not happy in Morocco
They're not happy in Afghanistan
******** So, where are they happy? **********
Islamic Jihad: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
ISIS: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Qaeda: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Taliban: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hamas: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Hezbollah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Boko Haram: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Nusra: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abu Sayyaf: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Badr: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Muslim Brotherhood: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Lashkar-e-Taiba: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Palestine Liberation Front: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Ansaru: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Jemaah Islamiyah: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Abdullah Azzam Brigades: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
Al-Shabbab Somalia: AN ISLAMIC TERROR ORGANIZATION
AND A LOT MORE!!!!!!!
Think about it.
But Barack Hussein Øb☭ma is afraid to say the Charlie Hebdo attacks were committed by radical Islamists.(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ldZPv7wlC98/UOYH55_3gFI/AAAAAAAAYGg/bnZBAD_Hpyw/s1600/OBAMA+CARTOONS,+THROW+ISRAEL+UNDER+THE+BUS.jpg)
21% Of The People Who Live In Washington D.C. Are Now On Food Stamps
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Via USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2015/01/17/cheat-sheet-states-with-most-food-stamps/21877399/
With grocery bills priced as high as $1,300 per month as of late, some American workers simply cannot afford all of their groceries on top of everything else they already have to buy. This is why the government offers food stamps.
The USDA Food and Nutrition Service reports that as of September 2014, there were around 46.5 million individual food stamp recipients (22.7 million households) receiving an average benefit of $123.74 each (around $257 per household).
To be eligible, a household has to earn a gross income amount that's less than 130% of the poverty level, or a net income amount (gross income minus deductions) that's less than 100% of the poverty level for their family size.
This means, a single person can be eligible for food stamps if his or her gross monthly income is under $1,265 ($15,180 per year), and a family of four can be eligible if they gross less than $2,584 per month ($31,008 per year). The applicant also can't be a wealthy person who simply doesn't have a steady income source. So, if the applicant has thousands of dollars sitting in the bank, for instance, they won't apply as cash assets are considered as well.
We've created a list of the states that have the most food stamp recipients per capita. To determine the states on this list, we used the USDA Food Nutrition Service's most recent state-by-state data, coupled with population data from the Census Bureau. States with the highest number of food stamp participants relative to population ranked highest. We've also included a state-by-state breakdown of food stamp use in all 50 states and the District of Columbia
States with the most people on food stamps:
7. Louisiana
• Number of food stamp recipients: 868,192
• Percentage of the state's population on food stamps: 18.67%
• Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state): Around $107.4 million
• Cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $23.10
6. Tennessee
• Number of food stamp recipients: Just over 1.28 million
• Percentage of the state's population on food stamps: 19.58%
• Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state?): Around $158.7 million
• Cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $24.23
5. Oregon
• Number of food stamp recipients: 791,222
• Percentage of the state's population on food stamps: 19.93%
• Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state?): Around $98 million
• Cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $24.66 per person
4. West Virginia
• Number of food stamp recipients: 369,249
• Percentage of the state's population on food stamps: 19.96%
• Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state?): Around $45.7 million
• Cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $24.69 per person
3. New Mexico
• Number of food stamp recipients: 448,328
• Percentage of the state's population on food stamps: 21.5%
• Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state?): Around $55.5 million
• Cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $26.60 per person
2. Mississippi
• Number of food stamp recipients: 650,911
• Percentage of the state's population on food stamps: 21.74%
• Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state?): Around $80.5 million
• Estimated cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $26.90 per person
1. District of Columbia
• Number of food stamp recipients: 144,768
• Percentage of the state's population on food stamps: 21.97%
• Total cost of just these benefits alone (That is, how much do just the money on those EBT cards cost the state?): Around $18 million
• Estimated cost of benefits alone per capita in this state: $27.19 per person
Is Nervous Øb☭ma White House Regime Holding The Bergdahl Report Hostage?
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"In White House terms, not charging
Bergdahl means that he was indeed worth
the trade for the Taliban Five. But
charging him on any level means that
releasing the five Taliban was an error of
monstrous proportions, one the
administration will never be able to
explain away satisfactorily."
Via Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/01/16/is-nervous-obama-white-house-holding-bergdahl-report-hostage/?intcmp=latestnews
Last Sunday, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, indicated that he expected a decision "fairly soon" on whether the Army will court martial Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for allegedly deserting his post in Afghanistan, or has cleared him, paving the way for separation from the service and back pay in excess of $200,000. Moreover, a decision to clear Bergdahl may well open the door for him to be designated a former prisoner of war, ensuring him substantial monthly pay, medical and educational benefits for the rest of his life.
To those who have followed all angles of Bergdahl's case, it appears the Army has a true dilemma on its hands, as does the Obama administration. By now the investigating team has done an in-depth look into the circumstances surrounding Bergdahl's disappearance from his post, has probably interviewed every witness with credible information, has looked at every piece of physical evidence and has reviewed hundreds of classified intelligence reports regarding his captivity. Its conclusions are long overdue.
Why We Consistently Oppose Obama and His Ilk
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An anonymous post has been floating around email and Facebook in recent weeks and because it carries merit, we believe it calls for attention here on Blessings.Buzz. Often our detractors ask, "why do you hate Obama so much?" Trust me, it isn't hate that we feel toward him as a person necessarily.
It is contempt for his treasonous behavior and we are continually frustrated that the even further corrupted system won't stop him. This collection of his blatant actions should shine some light on the matter.
Here is the post:
"To President Obama: It was you who told an Islamic dinner – "I am one of you."
It was you who on ABC News referenced – "My Muslim faith."
It was you who gave $100 million in U.S. Taxpayer funds to re-build foreign mosques.
It was you who wrote that in the event of a conflict -"I will stand with the Muslims."
It was you who assured the Egyptian Foreign Minister that – "I am a Muslim."
It was you who bowed in submission before the Saudi King.
It was you who sat for 20 years in a Liberation Theology Church condemning Christianity and professing Marxism.
It was you who exempted Muslims from penalties under Obamacare that the rest of us have to pay.
It was you who purposefully omitted – "endowed by our Creator" – from your recitation of The Declaration Of Independence.
It was you who mocked the Bible and Jesus Christ's Sermon On The Mount while repeatedly referring to the 'HOLY' Quran.
It was you who traveled the Islamic world denigrating the United States of America.
It was you who instantly threw the support of your administration behind the building of the Ground Zero Victory mosque overlooking the hallowed crater of the World Trade Center.
It was you who refused to attend the National Prayer Breakfast, but hastened to host an Islamic prayer breakfast at the White House.
It was you who ordered both Georgetown Univ. And Notre Dame to shroud all vestiges of Jesus Christ BEFORE you would agree to go there to speak, but in contrast, you have NEVER requested that the mosques you have visited adjust their decor.
It was you who appointed anti-Christian fanatics to your Czar Corps.
It was you who appointed rabid Islamists to Homeland Security.
It was you who said that NASA's "foremost mission" was an outreach to Muslim communities.
It was you who as an Illinois Senator were the ONLY individual who would speak in favor of infanticide.
It was you who were the first President not to give a Christmas Greeting from the White House, and went so far as to hang photos of Chairman Mao on the WH tree.
It was you who curtailed the military tribunals of all Islamic terrorists.
It was you who refused to condemn the Ft. Hood killer as an Islamic terrorist.
It is you who has refused to speak-out concerning the horrific executions of women throughout the Muslim culture, but yet, have submitted Arizona to the UN for investigation of hypothetical human-rights abuses.
It was you who when queried in India refused to acknowledge the true extent of radical global Jihadists, and instead profusely praised Islam in a country that is 82% Hindu and the victim of numerous Islamic terrorists assaults.
It was you who funneled $900 Million in U.S. Taxpayer dollars to Hamas.
It was you who ordered the USPS to honor the MUSLIM holiday with a new commemorative stamp.
It was you who directed our UK Embassy to conduct outreach to help "empower" the British Muslim community.
It was you who embraced the fanatical Muslim Brotherhood in your quest to overthrow the Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak.
It was you who funded mandatory Arabic language and culture studies in Grammar schools across our country.
It is you who follows the Muslim custom of not wearing any form of jewelry during Ramadan.
It is you who departs for Hawaii over the Christmas season so as to avoid past criticism for NOT participating in seasonal White House religious events.
It was you who was un-characteristically quick to join the chorus of the Muslim Brotherhood to depose Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, formerly America's strongest ally in North Africa; but, remain muted in your non-response to the Brotherhood led slaughter of Egyptian Christians.
It was you who appointed as your chief adviser, Valerie Jarrett, who is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood."
What is left off this list are many issues that we contend are the result of his disdain for us: Benghazi, Fast & Furious, IRS scandals and more.
Of course the question lingers, "Is Obama a Muslim?" It matters little whether he is or not. What does matter greatly is that his acts are sedition against our country. Plain and simple.
Until Congress cares about our nation's future, and decides to honor their own oath to uphold our Constitution, I'm afraid we can expect more of the same from the traitor in the White House.
Proverbs 29:2 "When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn."
http://blessings.buzz/2015/01/18/why-we-consistently-oppose-obama-and-his-ilk/
This Map Shows What's Wrong With
arxist Obamanomics
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One of the deceiving factors is that as the Obama government fudges unemployment numbers to make it appear like the economy is improving. However, one economic statistic provides a truer picture of the health of employment (or unemployment) in America.
The labor force participation rate, the number of workers compared to the number of workers available for work, is a number that is harder for Obama's Soviet-style bureaucrats to bastardize, and that number is at its lowest rate since the late 1970′s, when another failing Democrat president was destroying American prosperity with moronic Marxist policies (Jimmy Carter).
Even though the labor force participation rate has declined in every single U.S. state under Obamanomics, there is one area of the nation where the number of workers has improved under Obama, and it's not a state, but the home of ever-growing leviathan, Washington, D.C.
Via a report from the
Pew Charitable Trust, the only area that has shown improvement since 2008 is the seat of the expanding bureaucratic and regulatory state:
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There's nothing to worry about, however. The Obama Regime and the establishments from both political parties, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all assure us that providing amnesty to millions of illegal aliens will somehow help the U.S. economy.
Obamanomics is not working unless you're a bureaucrat in Washington, D.C., America's true growth industry under the Obama Regime.
http://www.tpnn.com/2015/01/18/this-map-shows-whats-wrong-with-marxist-obamanomics/
Someone Up There Was Looking Out For This Man
(I've driven Interstate 84,[ in the summer, not winter] and it was truck city all the way to Portland, Oregon. Checkout the video of this massive wreck:
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Maybe not a "Sunday Smile" exactly, but certainly very fortunate that everyone survived this horrible accident. A massive highway accident in eastern Oregon involving approximately 100 people and 26 cars, left 12 people injured Saturday. Heavy winds and fog, combined with icy road conditions on the stretch of Interstate 84, resulted in a dangerous mix for drivers causing three separate collisions, primarily with semi trucks.
And one 27-year-old man, Kaleb Whitby, has become the public face of the incident, thanks to one wild picture captured by truck driver Sergi Karplyuk, 32, on Twitter.(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/B7mGvbZCYAI7wuT-488x650.jpg)
Whitby and what was left of his car were crushed in between two semis. He walked away with two band-aids on his hand, and a whole lot of gratitude. "Thank God that I'm still alive," Whitby said. "Now I've got to go figure out why."
#BlackBrunch Pull Seats Up To Customers' Tables And Stares Them Down To "Make Them Uncomfortable"
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(Waiter... I'll have a large black coffee please, no lid... oh, can you put it in the microwave for 60 seconds, I like it very, very hot....)
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Oopsie, Michael Moore Just Endorsed The 2nd Amendment
Michael Moore got slammed earlier today for being an a$$ and attacking American sniper Chris Kyle via a tweet calling snipers 'cowards'.
In defense of his comment, Moore said this:(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7rh_RYIcAA9_9Z.jpg:large)
Pigeons Birth Control Planned To Protect Ohio Courthouse
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(This covered under Øb☭macare?
And who are they going to get to put the little rubbers on these birds?)
Via NY Daily News:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pigeon-birth-control-planned-protect-ohio-courthouse-article-1.2083273
Love birds, beware: One Ohio county is planning to spike bird seed with birth control in hopes of keeping pigeons from despoiling the renovated exterior of its 19th Century courthouse.
The (Wooster) Daily Record reports Wayne County is spending millions to renovate a courthouse built in 1878 in downtown Wooster. But the county has long had a problem with pigeon droppings on metal statues and other ornamental elements atop the courthouse.
The wire mesh used to keep the birds away will be removed during the renovation.
World's Largest Islamic Group Planning To
Sue Charlie Hebdo For Making Muslims Sad
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(Awwww.... Nothing worse than a sad muslim. Note to the OIC, it could always be worse, example #1:
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Last week they were calling for outlawing criticism of Islam...)
Via Independent:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-muslim-leader-organising-legal-action-against-charlie-hebdo-over-mohamed-cartoons-9985984.html
The Saudi Arabia-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is planning to sue the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following its publication of a front cover depicting the Prophet Mohamed.
It comes as demonstrations against the controversial image on last week's "survivor" issue turned violent in Niger, Pakistan and Algeria, while the Iranian authorities banned a daily newspaper for a front-page headline allegedly offering Charlie Hebdo its support.
The OIC has member states across North Africa and the Middle East, among others, as well as permanent delegations to the UN and EU. Madani was nominated to be its secretary general by Saudi Arabia, and elected at the end of 2013.
Madani's comments came as the Iranian newspaper Mardom-e-Emrooz – or Today's People – was ordered to close after publishing a front page quoting George Clooney saying: "Je suis Charlie".
The newspaper pictured Clooney wearing a "Je suis Charlie" – or "I am Charlie [Hebdo]" – pin at the Golden Globes, but expressed neither support for the statement or the magazine in general from Mardom-e-Emrooz itself.
Where Is Dirty Harry??
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(Harry tried to steal American land at gunpoint, willing to create another Ruby Ridge or Branch Dividian slaughter of private citizens by federals in order to make a fortune granting the ChiComs a set-aside for a solar power boondoggle. Maybe an exercise machine broke, but his wounds are more like what you come away with when you get punched in the face and then kicked in the ribs... LV mob?)
Via Roll Callhttp://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/harry-reid-is-absent-but-never-far-away/?dcz=
As Senate Democrats headed to Baltimore for their retreat, Minority Leader Harry Reid wasn't with them — but he will be listening in.
Even without a physical presence, the Nevada Democrat is still making the daily decisions about running the caucus — and an aide said late Wednesday he is likely to return to the Capitol next week.
His injuries from an exercising accident have forced him to remain a prisoner of sorts at his home in D.C.'s Ritz-Carlton, away from the Capitol where he has worked for more than 30 years as a member of Congress and before that, as a Capitol policeman while putting himself through law school.
Reid broke bones in his face and four ribs, and he suffered a concussion after he fell when the resistance band he was exercising with snapped on New Year's Day. He temporarily lost sight in one eye, though he's said doctors are optimistic he will recover.
While doctor's orders have precluded Reid from making the trip just more than 30 miles north to Baltimore, a senior Democratic aide said a line has been hooked up to allow him to connect to the meetings from home.
When bipartisan congressional leaders went to the White House Tuesday, Reid missed the less than 1-mile trip but had the only aide in the room representing Senate Democrats.
Reid received a full briefing from that aide, and had a conversation with other Democratic leaders in attendance. A senior Democratic aide said Reid also spoke with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough ahead of the meeting.
Dirty Harry's accident recreated by professional Dept. of Homeland Officers:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azpr_qD-muU#t=51
Sen. Lindsey Graham (Rino-SC) Says He's 'Testing The Waters' On Run For President
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0&list=RDoShTJ90fC34
(Aw... go ahead Lindsey, but you won't have Rove money and backing, tho'...)
Via WYFFhttp://www.wyff4.com/news/sen-lindsey-graham-says-hes-testing-the-waters-on-run-for-president/30788308
GREENVILLE, S.C. —Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday morning that he has set up a committee to test the waters on a possible run for president.
The South Carolina Republican appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" and spoke to host Chuck Todd from Jerusalem.
Todd asked Graham about polling efforts.
"We're not polling but we set up a testing the waters committee under the IRS code that would allow me to look beyond South Carolina as to whether or not a guy like Lindsey Graham has a viable path," Graham said.Sen. Lindsey Graham appears on Meet the Press
Todd said Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican who ran for president twice, referred to Graham as his "illegitimate son" and was encouraging Graham to run.
Hundreds of gun-rights activists rally at Washington Capitol
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Via Guns & News Tribune: http://www.guns.com/2015/01/19/gun-rights-rally-at-washington-senate-gallery-results-in-ban-on-firearms/
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2015/01/15/3589762_hundreds-of-gun-rights-activists.html?rh=1
Blaming a rally by a group of legally armed Second Amendment advocates at the state Capitol in Olympia Thursday, Washington's Lt. Governor ruled Friday that guns are now banned from the chamber.
The rally of some 200 gun rights activists on the steps of the Capitol building Jan. 15, was a continuation of the vocal opposition to the state's background check ballot referendum, I-594, passed by voters last November. However, when the protest spilled over into the public gallery, there was an altercation between an open carrier and a state police lieutenant that ended with threats of removal and arrest.
The next day, Lt. Gov. Brad Owen (D) who serves as the president of the state Senate, announced a prohibition on the open carry of firearms in the public gallery moving forward.[...]
The event that led to the ban occurred when State Patrol Lt. Mike Eggleston in the gallery confronted an activist Jason McMillon on Thursday. Eggleston advised McMillion that he was carrying his Rock River LAR-PDS pistol in a "tactical" manner. After threatening McMillion with arrest, the activist, a 20-year military veteran, concealed the firearm.
Eggleston contended that the manner McMillion was carrying his gun was in violation of state law, which prohibits displaying a firearm to "intimidate another or that warrants alarm for the safety of other persons."
One of the harshest critics of the events behind the crackdown in the state Capitol came from Alan Gottlieb, chair of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, both of which are headquartered in the state. It is the SAF that is leading the charge against I-594 in the courts.
#BlackLivesMatter Delegation Takes 10-Day Trip To Palestine
To See "Israeli Brutality" And Forge Connections
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(Of course they did... Put these black clowns on a 'terror watch list' now that they met with Hamas... what a crock of sh!t!...)
A delegation of Dream Defenders, Black Lives Matter, and Ferguson leaders has returned from a 10-day trip to Palestine, where they sought to forge connections with Palestinian activists."The goals were primarily to allow for the group members to experience and see firsthand the occupation, ethnic cleansing and brutality Israel has levied against Palestinians, but also to build real relationships with those on the ground leading the fight for liberation," Dream Defenders' legal and policy director Ahmad Abuznaid told Ebony. "In the spirit of *Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael and many others, we thought the connections between the African American leadership of the movement in the US and those on the ground in Palestine needed to be reestablished and fortified." (...* All Black-A$$ Commie Terrorists...)
BREAKING: Seattle Police Officer Seriously Injured During Altercation With Protesters
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(Stop arresting and start getting serious. Maybe leave them in the street, fire up a Semi-tractor, put it in low gear, jump out and lock the doors. If they want to continue laying in the street, that is their problem. Use firehoses to wash what's left into the sewer...)Via Breaking 911:http://www.breaking911.com/just-in-police-officer-seriously-injured-during-seattle-protest/
Seattle Center and South Lake Union- A Police officer suffered a serious leg injury responding to protesters who were roaming Seattle streets Monday afternoon.
Officials said the officer may have suffered a broken leg and that it was related to the protests, but didn't give further details.
Activists chanting "black lives matter" jumped into traffic and eight of them tied themselves together with PVC pipe and laid down on the highway.
Officers gave the protesters warnings that they were going to face arrest, then began arresting them.
At least six were arrested.
You Just Can't Make These Things Up:
Meet #BlackLivesMatter's 'Social Justice Jester'
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In case you think Malkin is being unkind,
it actually says, 'Social Justice Jester'
on the woman's bullhorn.
Congressional Black Caucus Chair Tells Crowd In Ferguson
The CBC "Will Use Our Positions To Expose Racism"
("We will use our positions to expose racism race bait." Fixed that for you, Butterbutt...)
(Below is a pic of the new Congressional Black Caucus chairman, White person Dem Rep. G.K. Butterfield... no, I'm not joking. He "identifies" as being black because he grew up on the "black side" of town, apparently that's good enough for CBC...)
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Via PJ Media:http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/01/19/cbc-members-mark-mlk-day-in-ferguson-with-vow-to-use-our-positions-to-expose-racism/?utm_term=%23tcot
Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus marked the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday with a visit to Ferguson, Mo., to vow that criminal justice reform will be the "centerpiece" of their agenda this Congress.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), chairman of the CBC, told the gathering at Wellspring United Methodist Church that King's "vision and leadership and bold obstruction to the status quo embarrassed this nation and forced a change to civil rights and voting rights laws." [...]
Butterfield said black America "continues to be victim of decades of discrimination and neglect by those in power."
"Dr. King demanded change. Today, the Congressional Black Caucus and the people of Ferguson and Staten Island and Cleveland demand change in the way African Americans are treated in this country," he said. "And so, the CBC comes today united in purpose. We've come in solidarity for this moment; a moment that in future years will be known as a turning point in race relations and opportunity."
"...We will use our positions to expose racism when and where it is found. We will use our positions to introduce legislation to address the need for systemic change in the criminal justice system – changes not only regarding the means by which law enforcement officers carry out their duties, but the misconduct of prosecutors and grand juries. Your fight is our fight. Your success is our success."
** VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0&list=RDoShTJ90fC34 **
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The Greatest Speech Ever Made
Charlie Chaplin's final speech in the film "The Great Dictator"...
with a splash of modern imagery
**VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo&index=3&list=RD5hfYJsQAhl0 **
DON"T MISS IT!
Good speech however that's not the way it is. The Republicans and reconstructed Democrats are running the show. Tyrants they are. They prefer socialism to liberty.
SOTU OPEN THREAD
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President Barack Obama warned the new Republican Congress in his State of the Union address Tuesday that he wouldn't hesitate to veto any bills they send to him that undo his administration's biggest achievements.
"The verdict is clear. Middle-class economics works. Expanding opportunity works," he said in his speech to Congress. "And these policies will continue to work, as long as politics don't get in the way."
"We can't slow down businesses or put our economy at risk with government shutdowns or fiscal showdowns," he said. "We can't put the security of families at risk by taking away their health insurance, or unraveling the new rules on Wall Street, or refighting past battles on immigration when we've got a system to fix." "And if a bill comes to my desk that tries to do any of these things," Obama concluded, "I will veto it. It will have earned my veto." Supreme Leader to address his subjects:
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UPDATE: Don't feel like watching Obama's BullSh!t? Here's the full text of his speech
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-state-of-the-union-2015-full-text?utm_content=buffer06015&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Obuma Critic Geraldo Rivera and His Comment on the SOTU:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWX3U2uFbOU
Obuma SOTU:
"No Challenge Poses A Greater Threat To Future Generations Than Climate Change"
(Islam begs to differ, you CLOWN!)
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OBUMA: In the Asia Pacific, we are modernizing alliances while making sure that other nations play by the rules — in how they trade, how they resolve maritime disputes, and how they participate in meeting common international challenges like nonproliferation and disaster relief. And no challenge — no challenge — poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.
2014 was the planet's warmest year on record. Now, one year doesn't make a trend, but this does — 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all fallen in the first 15 years of this century.
I've heard some folks try to dodge the evidence by saying they're not scientists; that we don't have enough information to act. Well, I'm not a scientist, either. But you know what — I know a lot of really good scientists at NASA, and NOAA, and at our major universities. The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe. The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security. We should act like it.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fU4wv4tbto
Obuma SOTU Speech:
"We Reject Offensive Stereotypes Of Muslims "
Because They "Share Our Commitment To Peace"
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OBUMA: As Americans, we respect human dignity, even when we're threatened, which is why I've prohibited torture, and worked to make sure our use of new technology like drones is properly constrained. It's why we speak out against the deplorable anti-Semitism that has resurfaced in certain parts of the world. It's why we continue to reject offensive stereotypes of Muslims — the vast majority of whom share our commitment to peace. That's why we defend free speech, and advocate for political prisoners, and condemn the persecution of women, or religious minorities, or people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. We do these things not only because they're right, but because they make us safer.
Stephen Fry's comment on Obuma's SOTU Speech:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0cJBEMiN1c
Narcissist-In-Chief Refers To Himself 75 Times During Hour-Long SOTU Address
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration. They believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings. But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism....Source: WebMD(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1650/4528/original.jpg)
(Fun fact of the day: Barack Insane Obuma has never seen a mirror he didn't love. If you ever have trouble falling asleep just put on Obuma's SOTU 2015 speech.
It's Ginsberg approved...)
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During his State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening, Barack Obama is going to promise to make life better for middle class families. Of course he has also promised to do this during all of his other State of the Union addresses, but apparently he still believes that there are people out there that are buying what he is selling. Each January, he gets up there and tells us how the economy is "turning around" and to believe that much brighter days are right around the corner. And yet things just continue to get even worse for the middle class. The numbers that you are about to see will not be included in Obama's State of the Union speech. They don't fit the "narrative" that Obama is trying to sell to the American people. But all of these statistics are accurate. They paint a picture of a middle class that is dying. Yes, the decline of the U.S. middle class is a phenomenon that has been playing out for decades. But without a doubt, our troubles have accelerated during the Obama years. When it comes to economics, he is completely and utterly clueless, and the policies that he has implemented are eating away at the foundations of our economy like a cancer. The following are 27 facts that show how the middle class has fared under 6 years of Barack Obama:
#1 American families in the middle 20 percent of the income scale now earn less money than they did on the day when Barack Obama first entered the White House.
#2 American families in the middle 20 percent of the income scale have a lower net worth than they did on the day when Barack Obama first entered the White House.
#3 According to a Washington Post article published just a few days ago, more than 50 percent of the children in U.S. public schools now come from low income homes. This is the first time that this has happened in at least 50 years.
#4 According to a Census Bureau report that was recently released, 65 percent of all children in the United States are living in a home that receives some form of aid from the federal government.
#5 In 2008, the total number of business closures exceeded the total number of businesses being created for the first time ever, and that has continued to happen every single year since then.
#6 In 2008, 53 percent of all Americans considered themselves to be "middle class". But by 2014, only 44 percent of all Americans still considered themselves to be "middle class".
#7 In 2008, 25 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket considered themselves to be "lower class". But in 2014, an astounding 49 percent of all Americans in that age range considered themselves to be "lower class".
#8 Traditionally, owning a home has been one of the key indicators that you belong to the middle class. So what does the fact that the rate of homeownership in America has been falling for seven years in a row say about the Obama years?
#9 According to a survey that was conducted last year, 52 percent of all Americans cannot even afford the house that they are living in right now.
#10 After accounting for inflation, median household income in the United States is 8 percent lower than it was when the last recession started in 2007.
#11 According to one recent survey, 62 percent of all Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck.
#12 At this point, one out of every three adults in the United States has an unpaid debt that is "in collections".
#13 When Barack Obama first set foot in the Oval Office, 60.6 percent of all working age Americans had a job. Today, that number is sitting at only 59.2 percent...
Employment Population Ratio 2015
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#14 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the average duration of unemployment in the United States has risen from 19.8 weeks to 32.8 weeks.
#15 It is hard to believe, but an astounding 53 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.
#16 At the end of Barack Obama's first year in office, our yearly trade deficit with China was 226 billion dollars. Last year, it was more than 314 billion dollars.
#17 When Barack Obama was first elected, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio was under 70 percent. Today, it is over 101 percent.
#18 The U.S. national debt is on pace to approximately double during the eight years of the Obama administration. In other words, under Barack Obama the U.S. government will accumulate about as much debt as it did under all of the other presidents in U.S. history combined.
#19 According to the New York Times, the "typical American household" is now worth 36 percent less than it was worth a decade ago.
#20 The poverty rate in the United States has been at 15 percent or above for 3 consecutive years. This is the first time that has happened since 1965.
#21 From 2009 through 2013, the U.S. government spent a whopping 3.7 trillion dollars on welfare programs.
#22 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the number of Americans on food stamps has gone from 32 million to 46 million.
#23 Ten years ago, the number of women in the U.S. that had full-time jobs outnumbered the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps by more than a 2 to 1 margin. But now the number of women in the U.S. on food stamps actually exceeds the number of women that have full-time jobs.
#24 One recent survey discovered that about 22 percent of all Americans have had to turn to a church food panty for assistance.
#25 An astounding 45 percent of all African-American children in the United States live in areas of "concentrated poverty".
#26 40.9 percent of all children in the United States that are living with only one parent are living in poverty.
#27 According to a report that was released late last year by the National Center on Family Homelessness, the number of homeless children in the United States has reached a new all-time record high of 2.5 million.
Unfortunately, this is just the beginning.
The incredibly foolish decisions that have been made by Obama, Congress and the Federal Reserve have brought us right to the precipice of another major financial crisis and another crippling economic downturn.
So as bad as the numbers that I just shared with you above are, the truth is that they are nothing compared to what is coming.
We are heading into the greatest economic crisis that any of us have ever seen, and it is going to shock the world.
I hope that you are getting ready.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MICHAEL MOORE FROM A GREEN BERET SNIPER!
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Mr. Moore-
Good afternoon there sweetheart, I hope this finds you alive and well. You can thank our men and women of the armed forces for that, by the way, and that also includes us cowardly snipers. It seems you've found time between licking the jelly off your fingers and releasing your grasp of a bear claw to tweet some junk about snipers being cowards.
My buddies and I got a good laugh over the tweet, so I thank you. For a guy worth $50 million dollars, you sure have quite a bit to bitch and cry about. I guess like a moth to flame, you too gravitate towards things that are popular and in the moment — in this case it's snipers. Too bad for you that your attempt at being relevant via your 70+ year old family experience has failed. It has only made you look dumber than a bag of hammers. Next time you should try something more original than going after snipers for one reason or another...that was so last month.
It's typical of "men" like you to criticize the intestinal fortitude, focus, discipline and patriotism of a sniper. It must stem from an inferiority complex or something. But hey, it's okay cupcake. We snipers are thick skinned and the efforts of world class turds such as yourself to portray us in a negative light only makes us laugh. If you and I were in the same room, I'd throw you a smile and gently pat you on the head knowing you're nothing more than a mouth breathing, Crisco sweating waste of space not even worthy of being in the presence of a sniper. It's almost funny how people like you preach things like 'acceptance' and 'not passing judgement' or 'labeling people', but then are the first to do so when a person is in some way dissimilar from you.
So tenderfoot, I leave you with this final thought: what if you found yourself in some sort of hostage situation where you were held at knife-point by some crazed person and they were dead set on making an example of you by bleeding you out on Hollywood Blvd in front of the world, and the only way out was with the precision aimed fire of a sniper? Would you want that coward to take the shot? Because knowing how you feel about snipers such as myself and your hatred of firearms, I'd probably drop the mag, roll the bolt and go get a Jack & Coke before helping you out.
...Bryan Sikes, SniperBryan Sikes is a Green Beret Sniper who is now a Pro-Am shooter for GA precision Team Bushnell.
He is also a no-nonsense man who hilariously destroys Michael Moore in an open letter, going so far as to call him a "Crisco Sweating Waste Of Space Not Worthy To Be In The Presence Of A Sniper.'Michael Moore, you...:
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The Obama administration admitted to Israeli colleagues in December 2013 that they greatly underestimated the economic benefits Tehran would reap from Geneva accord.
The Iranian regime will receive $20 billion in sanctions relief, not $7 billion as was originally reported.
This week the Obama administration paid the regime $490 million in cash assets. A total of $11.9 billion will be released to Iran when the talks end in June.
The Washington Free Beacon reported:http://freebeacon.com/national-security/state-dept-iran-allowed-to-build-new-nuclear-reactors/
The Obama administration on Wednesday paid $490 million in cash assets to Iran and will have released a total of $11.9 billion to the Islamic Republic by the time nuclear talks are scheduled to end in June, according to figures provided by the State Department.
Today's $490 million release, the third such payment of this amount since Dec. 10, was agreed to by the Obama administration under the parameters of another extension in negotiations over Tehran's contested nuclear program that was inked in November.
Iran will receive a total of $4.9 billion in unfrozen cash assets via 10 separate payments by the United States through June 22, when talks with Iran are scheduled to end with a final agreement aimed at curbing the country's nuclear work, according to a State Department official.
Iran received $4.2 billion in similar payments under the 2013 interim agreement with the United States and was then given another $2.8 billion by the Obama administration last year in a bid to keep Iran committed to the talks through November, when negotiators parted ways without reaching an agreement.The Iranian regime announced the construction of two new nuclear reactors this week.(http://4-ps.googleusercontent.com/hk/9dO3E1tyAM9FEJoQjUgzLfLy1j/www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/xhuman-shield.jpg.pagespeed.ic.4E3uuyBVSOKxaDfK237d.jpg)
Human shields surround an Iranian nuclear plant in a previous protest.
Dingy Dirty Harry May Retire Rather Than Face Defeat in 2016
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(Any more exercise accidents and he may face no choice...)Senate minority leader Harry Reid is the most vulnerable Democrat up for re-election in 2016, and may retire to duck a humiliating defeat, according to a new analysis of the 2016 race."We identified Reid as probably the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in this Senate cycle," said a "Crystal Ball" report from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
It's also possible that he will retire, although his heavy fundraising and public comments suggest that he's running again," said the latest report from analyst Geoffrey Skelley. Recent reports suggest Reid is going for his sixth term.
The analysis found that of all senators ever to seek a sixth term, Reid's ratings and margin of victory in past races puts him on the endangered list.
But it also notes that the Nevadan is among the best in pulling off last-minute victories.
"There are 71 other senators who have won at least five straight elections, but Reid's record arguably makes him the greatest of the Senate survivors," said the report.
In his last election, for example, he was down in polls against a very weak Republican, and pulled to a comfortable win. This time, however, he might be facing popular Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval at a time when Reid's approval ratings are low.
The GOP will have to defend a lot of seats in 2016, almost a reverse of the situation facing Democrats in 2014. But taking out this decrepit old tool would be delicious. If he lives long enough to make the race.
Rolling Stone Queer Turd Matt Taibbi Calls Fallen American War Hero Chris Kyle A "Dick"
On one hand we have the greatest sniper in U.S. history, Chris Kyle:
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On the other there's effeminate d-nozzle Matt Taibbi:
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Who do you think most Americans would want their sons to grow up being like?
Via Rolling Stone:
By Matt Taibbi
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The really dangerous part of this film is that it turns into a referendum on the character of a single soldier. It's an unwinnable argument in either direction. We end up talking about Chris Kyle and his dilemmas, and not about the Rumsfelds and Cheneys and other officials up the chain who put Kyle and his high-powered rifle on rooftops in Iraq and asked him to shoot women and children.
They're the real villains in this movie, but the controversy has mostly been over just how much of a "hero" Chris Kyle really was....And plenty of other commentators, comparing Kyle's book (where he remorselessly brags about killing "savages") to the film (where he is portrayed as a more rounded figure who struggled, if not verbally then at least visually, with the nature of his work), have pointed out that real-life Kyle was kind of a dick compared to movie-Kyle.
I FIXED IT:
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(Couldn't resist this one by Patton...)
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Wahhabi King Dead, Obama Asks God To "Grant Him Peace"
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(King Abdullah spent billions of dollars spreading the Wahhabis
ultra-puritanical version of Islam around the world...)
President Barack Obama released a statement Thursday on the death of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.Obama's full statement:
It is with deep respect that I express my personal condolences and the sympathies of the American people to the family of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and to the people of Saudi Arabia.
King Abdullah's life spanned from before the birth of modern Saudi Arabia through its emergence as a critical force within the global economy and a leader among Arab and Islamic nations. He took bold steps in advancing the Arab Peace Initiative, an endeavor that will outlive him as an enduring contribution to the search for peace in the region. At home, King Abdullah's vision was dedicated to the education of his people and to greater engagement with the world.
As our countries worked together to confront many challenges, I always valued King Abdullah's perspective and appreciated our genuine and warm friendship. As a leader, he was always candid and had the courage of his convictions. One of those convictions was his steadfast and passionate belief in the importance of the U.S.-Saudi relationship as a force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond. The closeness and strength of the partnership between our two countries is part of King Abdullah's legacy.
May God grant him peace.
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German Court Upholds Men's Right To Stand Up While Urinating
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(Save the urinals!!!!! The ultimate goal is gender neutral bathrooms...)
Via Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/22/us-germany-urine-idUSKBN0KV14H20150122
A German court ruled in favor of mens' right to pee standing up on Thursday, after a landlord tried to retain part of a tenant's 3,000 euro deposit for allegedly damaging the marble floor of a toilet by sprinkling it with urine.
The debate about whether men should stand or sit is no laughing matter in Germany, where some toilets have red traffic-style signs forbidding the standing position. There is also a derogatory term for men who sit and pee – "Sitzpinkler" – which implies that it is not masculine behavior.
Judge Stefan Hank in the city of Duesseldorf said men who insist on standing "must expect occasional rows with housemates, especially women" but cannot be held to account for collateral damage. "Despite growing domestication of men in this matter, urinating while standing up is still widespread," he said.(http://media.giphy.com/media/om61WQkd8ZNSM/giphy.gif)
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Oopsie, Obuma Called Being Gay "A Lifestyle Choice"
The YouTube Interview with President Obama
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YouTube creators Bethany Mota, GloZell Green and Hank Green interview President Obama about the top issues facing them and their audiences.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbR6iQ62v9k&x-yt-ts=1421914688&x-yt-cl=84503534
The Senate Reached A Milestone This Week,
Already More Amendments Voted On Than All Of 2014
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(Obuma will need to stay in DC with his veto pen at the ready...)
Via WFBhttp://freebeacon.com/politics/mcconnell-notes-reid-obstruction-already-more-amendments-voted-on-than-all-of-2014/
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took the time to point out that in three short weeks there have been more votes done this year than in all of 2014 when Senator Harry Reid and the Democrats had control.
The lucky bill to receive the fifteenth vote? The Keystone XL Pipeline bill.
Breaking NFL Scandal! Underinflated Cheerleaders
You read it first here...
"No problem... Cheerleaders were checked two hours before game time, and they were properly inflated"
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UCLA Defends Allowing Radical Muslim Student Group
To Sound Islamic Call To Prayer On Campus
(Shocking Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYn_6NjcopY#t=208)
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(Shockingly, the same group that tried to get Duke University to allow the call to prayer is behind this, the antisemitic terror-tied Muslim Students Association - MSA)Via WaTi:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/23/ucla-defends-muslim-call-prayer-one-time-event/
UCLA is under fire for sounding a public call to Muslim prayer, but a campus official says it was a one-time event conducted by students hosting a weekend conference.
University spokesman Phil Hampton released a statement Friday after several websites reported that the campus had conducted a call to Muslim prayer, known as adhan. The posts linked to a video of the campus at which the call could be heard posted Jan. 17 on YouTube.
Mr. Hampton said students issued the call to prayer during a student conference last weekend sponsored by the Muslim Students Association.
The annual MSA West Conference was held Jan. 16-18 at UCLA with the theme, "Rooted In. Rise Up. Solidarity Through Stories."
A video promoting the conference shows students holding signs with messages such as, "Equality," "Piety," "Service," "Against Islamophobia," "Against Racism," "Diversity" and "Divest."
Libs love to defend the Islamic call to prayer by comparing it to church bells, in reality this is total BS as you can see below in the adhan's translation from Arabic:
Allahu Akbar
God is Great
(said four times)
(It should be noted that "Allahu Akbar" DOES NOT MEAN GOD IS GREAT... Allahu Akbar's accurate translation is "Allah is GREATER which implies a superiority conquering war cry. Spread the truth and reject the Liberal media dumbed down translation...)Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah
I bear witness that there is no god except the One God.
(said two times)
Ashadu anna Muhammadan Rasool Allah
I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of God.
(said two times)
Hayya 'ala-s-Salah
Hurry to the prayer (Rise up for prayer)
(said two times)
Hayya 'ala-l-Falah
Hurry to success (Rise up for Salvation)
(said two times)
Allahu Akbar
God is Great
[said two times]
La ilaha illa Allah
There is no god except the One God
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After DOJ Releases Him Early From US Prison, Repatriating Him To Qatar
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Below is a copy of an invitation to a welcome home party his tribe in Qatar is throwing to celebrate his return:Update to this story:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/20/al-qaeda-operative-freed-from-us-federal-prison/
Via LWJ:http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/01/celebrating_terror_q.php
Members of Qatar's al Murra tribe are throwing a party, and the people of Qatar are cordially invited. The "public invitation" for the party, which will be held down the street from a stadium for the 2022 World Cup, celebrates the return home of Ali Saleh Kahlah al Marri, an admitted al Qaeda sleeper agent released early from federal prison last week.
The prime minister of Qatar has even reportedly spoken to al Marri on the phone, congratulating al Marri on his release. Several alleged photos of the conversation have been posted on social media sites. One of the photos can be seen above.
Al Marri pled guilty in 2009 to obeying instructions from the mastermind of 9/11 to "enter the United States no later than September 10, 2001″ and await further directions. According to President George W. Bush, al Marri pledged his loyalty in person to Osama bin Laden and cased such US targets as "water reservoirs, the New York Stock Exchange, and United States military academies."
However, shortly after his release from a US prison, several prominent Qatari personalities welcomed al Marri home with open arms. In the days that followed, others have continued to heap praise on al Marri, with a longtime board member of Al Jazeera declaring on her personal Twitter page that "we congratulate the family of Ali bin Kahlah al-Marri on his return."
Members of Ali al Marri's immediate family evidently revealed they were "delighted" when Qatar's prime minister phoned the former al Qaeda sleeper agent to ask how he was doing. This was after al Marri's nephew revealed his uncle was "greeted by representatives from the Qatari interior and foreign ministries." The adulation has left al Marri in "high spirits," his nephew said.
The nature of al Marri's release raises serious questions about whether or not he should have been repatriated to Qatar, a country notorious for turning a blind eye to terrorists and terror financiers in its midst.
Charting the Data for US Airstrikes in Pakistan, 2004 - 2015
Created by Bill Roggio
http://www.longwarjournal.org/pakistan-strikes.php
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Since 2004, the US has been conducting a covert program to target and kill al Qaeda and Taliban commanders based in Pakistan's lawless northwest. The program has targeted top al Qaeda leaders, al Qaeda's external operations network, and Taliban leaders and fighters who threaten both the Afghan and Pakistani states.
The charts below look at the following: 1) the number of US airstrikes inside Pakistan per year; 2) civilian casualties vs. Taliban/al Qaeda casualties; 3) the distribution of strikes over time by tribal agencies; 4) the overall distribution of strikes, by tribal agencies; 5) the distribution of strikes over time by territories targeted; 6) the overall distribution of strikes, by territories targeted; and 7) the number of high value targets killed in territories managed by individual Taliban commanders.
The data is obtained from press reports from the Pakistani press (Daily Times, Dawn, Geo News, The News, and other outlets), as well as wire reports (AFP, Reuters, etc.), as well as reporting from The Long War Journal. Given the Taliban's control of the areas where strikes occur, and a dearth of reporters in those areas, the exact numbers for casualties are difficult to know. The numbers below are estimates based on press reporting.
For a list of al Qaeda and Taliban leaders thought to have been killed in the attacks, see LWJ report, Senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders killed in US airstrikes in Pakistan 2004 - 2014.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/pakistan-strikes-hvts.php
This page was last updated on Thursday, January 15, 2015, 10:27 am Eastern. These seven charts will be updated when information about prior or new strikes comes to light.
Krauthammer: Rubio Is Most Likely to Win GOP Nomination
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Columnist Charles Krauthammer named Florida Senator Marco Rubio his pick as most likely to be the GOP nominee on Friday's "Special Report" on the Fox News Channel.Krauthammer was asked by fellow panelist Steve Hayes how he would allocate his money if he was given $100 to go Las Vegas and bet on who will be the nominee. Krauthammer put the most money, $40 on Rubio, with $30 going to Jeb Bush, $15 to Scott Walker, and the remaining $15 on booze. He added "he's [Rubio] my underestimated dark horse candidate who threads his way, young, energetic. He's got a program and I think if he runs against Hillary, the contrast say the vigor, the energy that Kennedy-esque idea will be be a major one."
Amy Walter, National Editor of the Cook Political Report put the most money on Walker, giving him $40, with $25 going to Bush, and the remaining $35 split evenly among the entire field.
Hayes gave Walker and Rubio $30 each, $15 to Jeb Bush, and $10 to Ted Cruz, with the remaining $15 going to the field as a whole.
94 Yr Old Vet Just Wants To Pay His Taxes,
IRS Refuses To Let Him, Says He's Dead
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(Take the money and run, Siegfried.... )
Via Fox News:http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/24/4-year-old-vet-cant-file-tax-return-because-irs-says-dead/?intcmp=latestnews
There is a 94-year-old World War II vet in Ohio who just wants to pay his taxes but can't because the IRS says he's dead.
Siegfried Meinstein has been unable to convince the IRS he is alive, living in an assisted living facility near Columbus, Ohio. The IRS has told the nonagenarian it can't process his tax return because their records indicate he is deceased.
"It isn't really a problem in my daily life," Meinstein told the Columbus Dispatch Friday. "Everybody accepts my money."
The issue with IRS has also prompted some good natured ribbing from his son.
"If they keep insisting, what is it you say?" Ron Meinstein told his father who broke his hip in a swimming pool accident but is otherwise in good health. "Eventually, they'll be right."
Friday Night In Chicago:
13 People Shot, 2 Dead — 4 Shot In Five Minute Period
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(The thugs are going NBA now with shot clocks to speed up the drivebys...)
Via Breaking911:http://www.breaking911.com/chicago-friday-13-people-shot-2-dead-4-shot-in-five-minute-period/
Two men were killed and at least 11 other people were wounded in shootings across the city on Friday, according to police.
The fatal shootings happened within minutes of each other on the South Side, police said.
About 6:20 p.m., a 19-year-old man was shot in the foot, leg and side during a possible drive-by attack in the 7800 block of South Vincennes. The man, who had documented gang ties, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he later died, police said.
At 6:15 p.m., a man was shot in the head in the 6800 block of South Western. He was taken to Christ Hospital, where he later died, police said. His age and the circumstances of the shooting weren't immediately available.
The Cook County medical examiner's office could not immediately confirm either fatality.
Most recently, four people were wounded in about a five-minute time frame of separate South Side shootings late Friday.
The violence in the city is so bad that the Chicago Sun Times has created an interactive map to track the violence.
Friday, 3:30 p.m. — Man wounded in Chicago Lawn drive-by
Friday, 4:45 p.m. — One hurt in South Shore drive-by
Friday, 5:20 p.m. — Man critically injured in North Lawndale shooting
Friday, 5:40 p.m. — South Side shooting leaves man in critical condition
Friday, 6:15 p.m. — Man shot, critically wounded on SW Side
Friday, 6:20 p.m. – One seriously injured in Grand Crossing shooting
Friday, 6:50 p.m. — Man shot in Back of the Yards
Friday, 10:15 p.m. — Teen wounded in Gresham shooting
Friday, 10:20 p.m. — 2 women hurt in South Side shooting
Friday, 10:20 p.m. — One hurt in Douglas shooting See it Here:
http://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/7/71/316795/chicago-weekend-shooting-tracker-jan-23-25-2015
19 Yr Old Black Man Killed By Police In St. Louis,
Just A Nice Young Man With A Tec-9 with 30 rounds
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Here's actual recent pictures of Isaac Holmes posing with a variety of guns:
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Just another gentle fellow
According to KMOV:http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Man-shot-in-north-St-Louis-late-Wednesday-night-289394861.html
Authorities said the shooting occurred near the intersection of Cottage and Marcus. According to officers, a driver and passenger were inside a stolen red Chevrolet Monte Carlo that had been taken from south St. Louis on December 5, 2014.
Police said officers were doing hot-spot policing in north St. Louis when they noticed the stolen vehicle. The suspect vehicle made an illegal U-turn when the driver spotted officers, according to St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson. After the vehicle made the U-turn, officers attempted to follow, but not pursue the car. Authorities spotted the car again a short time later, right before the vehicle hit a retaining wall along Cottage near the intersection of Marcus. The car then stalled.
Police said a passenger in the stolen car, Isaac Holmes, 19, got out of the vehicle and refused to drop an Intratec TEC-9 gun that contained 30 rounds. He was shot by two officers. Officers said the driver, who was not shot, is cooperating with police.
Holmes was taken to a hospital but later died. According to police, no officers were injured.
Dotson told News 4 Holmes was known to police and had been arrested before for stealing cars and burglary.
Global Warming Causing Doomsday Clock To Tick Closer To Midnight
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(Time to start stockpiling blocks of ice...)
Via USA TodayCiting unchecked climate change and the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons, scientists Thursday moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight.
"It is now three minutes to midnight," said Kennette Benedict, the executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at a news conference in Washington, D.C. "The probability of global catastrophe is very high. This is about the end of civilization as we know it."
Three minutes is the closest to midnight the clock has been since 1984 during the Cold War. The closest it has ever been to midnight — two minutes— was in 1953, when the hydrogen bomb was first tested. The closer to a setting of midnight it gets, the closer it's estimated that a global disaster will occur.
"In 2015, unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said in a statement.
"World leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe. These failures of political leadership endanger every person on Earth."
Ratings For Øb☭ma SOTU Lowest In 15 Years
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(And those who attended, weren't even fully there, LOL...)
Lowest ratings in 15 years. Like the overwhelming majority of Americans, we avoided it.
Television viewership for President Obama's State of the Union address fell to a 15-year low, according to numbers from Nielsen.
The hour and fiftenn minute-long speech drew an average of 31.7 million viewers on broadcast and cable networks Tuesday, the measurement firm said.
The combined figure is down about 5% from last year's State of the Union address, which clocked in at 33.3 million.
This year's count, which does not include people who streamed the event online, was the lowest since President Clinton's final State of the Union in 2000. That speech pulled in just under 31.5 million viewers.
Nielsen's combined tally included networks ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, Al Jazeera America, Azteca, CNN, Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, Galavision, MSNBC, MundoFox and Univision.
Medal Of Honor Winner Dakota Meyer And Sarah Palin
Has Special Message For Michael Moore: "Fuc_ You!"
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Colorado Woman Sentenced To Four Years For Trying To Join ISIS
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(Meanwhile, actual ISIS members are still allowed to return to the U.S. Listen as she now tows the party line, saying ISIS was just 'distorting' the Quran; she now gets to study Islam in prison. She'll be out in under four years....)
Denver, Colorado (CNN) A federal judge gave a four-year prison sentence Friday to a 19-year-old Colorado woman who admitted guilt in wanting to become an ISIS bride and participate in its jihad in the Mideast.
Shannon Maureen Conley is one of the first Americans to be sentenced for conspiracy to support ISIS and received a sentence that was also recommended by prosecutors seeking to send a message of deterrence.
Though the judge initially cited how Conley needs psychiatric care, he sided with prosecutors in the end.
"What is it that will cause others to stop" in the future, Judge Raymond P. Moore said during sentencing.
Before sentencing, Conley wept as she read a statement saying, "It was after arrest that I learned the truth about the ISIS that I was taught to respect."
She talked about her ongoing journey into Islam.
"Since my incarceration I have had a chance to read the entire Quran," she said. She concluded that "the scholars" she had been following in her online research about Islam had distorted the Quran, she said.
"Even though I was committed to the idea of jihad, I didn't want to hurt anyone. It was all about defending Muslims," she said.
Silver Arrest Sends NY Democrats Into Panic After
U.S. Attorney Hints More To Come, "Stay Tuned
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(Ah, who might Shelly give up to help his cause? Popcorn!...)
Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2015/01/23/sheldon-silvers-arrest-sends-albany-into-a-state-of-panic/
Albany is terrified and in disarray after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's arrest, with lawmakers and insiders fearing he'll turn on them to save himself.
"People are scratching their heads and saying, 'What did I say the last time I spoke to Shelly?' " one veteran Albany lobbyist told The Post on Friday.
After Silver's arrest Thursday, US Attorney Preet Bharara hinted at more to come, telling the public to "stay tuned."
Now legislators are questioning why Silver's closest Democratic colleagues, including Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, have pledged support for him instead of calling for his resignation.
NY Times Editorial Writer: "Healthy Majority" Of Whites Support
Police Killing Blacks "No Matter What"
(Behold, the warped mind of Brent Staples, who is convinced cops can gun down blacks for no reason and white people will cheer them on...)
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FBI and DOJ Investigation Exposes Obuma, Holder & Sharpton
Engaging in Racial Politics
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(This is not news. Anybody with half a brain knows they are RACE HUSTLERS...)
The FBI and DOJ have verified Obama's malicious, pre-mediated racism, attempted character assassination and gross endangerment of every police officer in America. A joint FBI/DOJ investigation of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson's shooting of strong arm felon-suspect Michael Brown, has been validated as pure self-defense, fully exonerating Officer Darren Wilson. This FBI/DOJ decision exposes the fact that racial politics must have been the only possible calculation Obama used to deploy Al Sharpton and Eric Holder to Ferguson, just as Al-Qaida deploys IEDs - each designed to explode on impact.
The FBI/DOJ exoneration of Officer Wilson translates into this: there was bountiful, indisputable evidence of Officer Wilson's innocence and Michael Brown's guilt, within mere hours of the shooting, to which Obama and Holder intentionally ignored and suppressed. Obama could have easily acted to restore calm, confidence and call for patience in the hours and days following the Ferguson incident. Instead, he took measured actions to stoke racial hatred, divide citizens and promote animosity towards America - an animosity that spread throughout the world. In fact, the FBI has confirmed that ISIS exploited the Obama/Holder manufactured Ferguson HateFest to recruit new jihadists from among the rioters to join them.
In the few weeks immediately following the conclusion of the Ferguson jury trial, at least 12 white people in the areas surrounding Ferguson, MO, have been murdered by young black men, gang-land style. The Obama/Holder/Sharpton inspired BlackLivesMatter and HandsUpDontShoot campaigns sprang forth from the malicious Obama lies of omission and his suppression of clear evidence. In fact, the moronic social media campaigns inspired by the Obama, Holder and Sharpton lies led directly to the double murders of two NYPD officers.
With facts and evidence this clear, I ask Americans of all ideologies a few simple, yet direct questions:
What does it say about each of us, as humans, if we refuse to call for the indictment of Obama, Holder and Sharpton for their malicious incitement of riots, fires, multiple murders and civil unrest?
Are we first and foremost, blacks? Whites? Republicans? Democrats? Or, are we first and foremost, Americans? What does our collective silence, in light of this FBI/ DOJ evidence, say about our moral courage?
Barack Obama, Eric Holder and Al Sharpton are covered with the blood of innocent Missouri citizens, two NYPD officers, and the charred ashes of dozens of entrepreneur's fortunes. As a direct result of Obama's sanctioned lies and deceptions - as proven by his own FBI and DOJ - every American can see exactly who Barack Obama is, as a man and as a politician.
The most important question is, who are we?
Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/01/fbi-doj-investigation-exposes-obama-holder-sharpton-engaging-racial-politics/#HRQC3YuaxAPXdkm4.99
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Is Hillary Clinton a Bigger Control Freak Than Obama?
(The only thing she couldn't control was Slick Willy's libido...)
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Obama has become notorious for trying to shut out the press by using an in-house photographer and giving interviews to non-reporters, despite the media's compulsive bootlicking.
This is an administration that has locked reporters in closets and dodged press conferences as if the press corps had the plague.
But what if Hillary Clinton is even worse?
A bunch of networks and CNN wanted to do puff shows on Hillary to promote her pre-campaign. Instead Hillary Inc. went after them with the help of its Media Matters outlet and got them shut down. The only survivor is CBS's flailing Madam Secretary which is so heavily fictionalized that most people don't realize it was supposed to be a Hillary infomercial.
Now even the Scorsese doc for HBO on Bill Clinton is coming apart for the same reasons.
Mr. Scorsese's partly finished documentary about Mr. Clinton — which once seemed likely to be released as Hillary Rodham Clinton was navigating a presidential run — has stalled over disagreements about control, people briefed on the project said.
Though parts of the film were shot over the last two years as Mr. Clinton made a philanthropic visit to Africa and elsewhere, the project is now indefinitely shelved, partly because Mr. Clinton insisted on more control over the interview questions and final version than Mr. Scorsese was willing to give, those people said.
Bill Clinton loves publicity, any publicity. The sticking point was likely to have been Hillary, rather than Bill.
Martin Scorsese certainly wasn't doing this to hurt the Clintons. And yet Hillary can't trust them either. A doc like this on high profile HBO would have boosted the couple, but Hillary is too controlling to allow it.
No citizenship, no problem!
D.C. lawmakers are looking into a bill that would allow voting
(in local elections)
without U.S. citizenship.
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Nanny State Teacher Sends Note Home To Parents Informing
Them The Lunch They Packed For Their Daughter Wasn't Nutritious Enough
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(The Teacher, a big Mooch Obuma fan, no doubt...)
Via ABC News:http://abcnews.go.com/US/dad-posts-meddling-note-home-substitute-teacher-packed/story?id=28438324
A fed-up Missouri father posted a photo of the letter he received from his daughter's substitute teacher who criticized the girl's lunch.
One problem: the teacher didn't see her whole lunch.
Dr. Justin Puckett was asked to sign a note sent home with his daughter Alia after the teacher saw her eating marshmallows and chocolate at lunch earlier this week.
He refused to do so, and posted it online instead, saying that it was just the latest in what he sees as a growing trend of overreaching by authorities.
"I think that this was just the straw that broke the camel's back for me," Puckett told ABC News.
The substitute teacher wrote in the note sent home on Tuesday that a cafeteria employee said that her lunch consisted of four chocolate bars, a bag of marshmallows, Ritz crackers and a pickle.
"Please see that she packs a proper lunch tomorrow," the teacher wrote. An attempt to reach the teacher for comment wasn't immediately successful.
Puckett told ABC News that, since the note was addressed to "Dr. and Mrs. Puckett," it was clear that the teacher knew he was a physician which he said "just adds to the irony of it all."
What the cafeteria worker and the substitute missed, however, was that the 8-year-old also had four pieces of ham and a low fat string cheese rather than a sandwich, since "we don't eat a lot of bread," said Puckett, who is double board certified in osteopathic family medicine and obesity medicine.
"We leave it up to her and she looks at the school menu and she packs her own lunch and she's a very independent second grader," he told ABC News.
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According to Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer, Bergdahl to be charged with desertion.
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Shaffer was on the Bill O'Reilly show. He said Bergdahl's attorney has been informed Bergdahl, is being charged with desertion, that the attorney has received the charges. Bill O'Reilly said the White House has had this information, that the charges have been ready for awhile but the White House has been delaying it under the auspices of Ben Rhodes, Assistant National Security Advisor. You may remember Ben Rhodes who featured prominently in the construction of the Benghazi talking points.
What really pissed me off was
Obama's disrespect for the men
Berdahl deserted on.
Read the story for a reminder.
BREAKING:
Source Says the Bergdahl Decision is in;
And Obama has Some Major Explaining to do
January 26, 2015 By Matthew Burke
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U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held by the Taliban between 2009 and May 2014, will be charged as a deserter, says retired Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer on Monday.
"Bill, the Army has come to its conclusion and Bowe Bergdahl," Shaffer said, appearing on FOX News' "O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly. "Sergeant Bergdahl will be charged with desertion," he proclaimed.
Bergdahl was released after Obama, who referred to Bergdahl as a hero, swapped five leading Islamic terrorists, who had been held at the Guantanamo detention facility.
Other sources contented that Bergdahl was actually a traitor, who was collaborating with the Taliban, and that the Obama Regime had been intimidating Bergdahl's former platoon members and high level Pentagon officials into silence.
One Obama Regime apparatchik even referred to Bergdahl's platoon members, in an Alinsky-style attempt to demonize them into silence, as being "psychopaths."
Nevertheless, Bergdahl's former platoon members referred to Bergdahl of being at best a deserter, even though some were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements by the regime.
"I have been told and confirmed by two other sources that his attorney was given what we call a charge sheet," Lt. Col. Shaffer told O'Reilly. "A charge sheet is the results of the investigation listing out the articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that have been violated. The key violation is desertion. And this is, has been done. The decision has been made," he asserted.
"Let me be clear," Shaffer continued. "As a corporate entity, the Army has decided that they want to pursue Bergdahl for this violation."
Looks like Obama and Eric Holder, who seem to have Islamic terrorists' interests over those of America's, have some serious explaining to do.
http://www.tpnn.com/2015/01/26/breaking-source-says-the-bergdahl-decision-is-in-and-obama-has-some-major-explaining-to-do/
CBS Panel Blasts Obama's 'Extraordinary Disconnect On Foreign Policy,'
'Question If WH Knows What's Going On'
(It has taken six years for the light to come on...)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxsyVO23G38
Via WFB: http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cbs-panel-blasts-obamas-extraordinary-disconnect-question-if-wh-knows-whats-going-on/
It's obvious that President Obama has no idea what he is doing when it comes to foreign policy. The President took his State of the Union address and used it to promote broadband internet and free community college. There was no mention of Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, or Yemen.
President Obama continues to put his efforts and focus into other issues but continues to be drawn back into events happening in the Middle East. His efforts to ignore the Middle East show his disconnect with what is happening.
The Wicked Witch Of The East,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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"We cannot let a minority of people — and that's what it is, it is a minority of people — hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people... We're going to have to do a better job protecting the vast majority of our citizens, including our children, from that very, very, very small group that is unfortunately prone to violence and now with automatic weapons can wreak so much more violence than they ever could have before." ~Hillary Rodham ClintonObviously, Hillary, who appears to be in full campaign mode for the 2016 Presidential election, thinks that the "gun-rights" crowd in this country is such a "very, very, very small group" that she isn't going to waste the time pretending she likes or supports them so as to garner some of their votes. Well, isn't that a breath of fresh air? A politician that refuses to lie to get votes from people she loathes? Who would have thunk it? But there are certain ironies in what she did say that I would like to take a moment to point out.
Some libertarians have tried to split hairs with Hillary over the exact proportion of Americans that believe in their right to own weapons, but I think the simpler answer can be found in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (and women) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,..." and among these unalienable rights is "the Right to Keep and Bear Arms." Now the last time I checked, "all" is equal to 100% which I think is the largest fraction one can derive from a single grouping which would therefore make that a clear majority. Now my area of expertise is not Advanced Mathematics so if someone who is more versed in the calculation and crunching of numbers and statistics can explain to me where my error is, I would be willing to listen.
Secondly, Hillary says, "We cannot let a minority of people... hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of (the people)..." But isn't that the very essence of government? For what is government but a small group of fallible human beings who have decided to "live long and prosper" at the expense of a large number of their fellow human beings who they terrorize and intimidate through fear of prosecution and punishment for disobedience. And we all know that Hillary and her family have prospered quite well (contrary to her own opinion on the matter) by being at the top of the food chain in that certain organized criminal enterprise.
Thirdly, Hillary, who has claimed in the past that she always sticks up for the "little guy," now appears to advocating for trampling on the rights of the minority as long as a majority of the voting electorate (but not necessarily of the affected population) agrees with her. Socialists of all types.... Communists, Fascists, Nazis, and Progressives, as Hillary has described herself... have always embraced absolute, unfettered democracy as it worked for them to achieve total control over a nation, but not after they have obtained the pinnacle of power they desired. This was what Jefferson referred to as the "Tyranny of the Mob."
Unfortunately for them, the United States federal government was not established as a democracy, but rather as a Constitutionally-restricted Republic, where the powers of the government are few and limited while the rights of the people, particularly the small groups that are different from the larger population, are limitless and respected and protected by the government (supposedly, at least). It seems that Hillary wants to reverse this so if she gets the political backing of 50% plus one, she can then dispense with the Constitution and the restrictions placed on the powers of the government contained within.
Last, but not least and most certainly the most ironic point so far, is that the very type of firearms that Hillary is whining about here - what she calls "automatic weapons," though fully automatic firearms have been heavily regulated since 1934, and other ignoramuses (or is that "ignorami?") call "assault weapons," which is a meaningless political term and not a genuine classification - are the best type of weapons to use when dealing with a criminally aggressive and unruly mob.
Imagine for a moment that a whole village is aroused to storm Dr. Frankenstein's castle. There they are marching up his driveway with torches and pitchforks in hand when suddenly Dr. Frankenstein (or his monster) steps out on the front porch (or is that a "portico?") with a Colt AR-15 at the ready with a standard-capacity magazine inserted and fully loaded and a dozen more securely attached on or about the good doctor's person. Can you not see one member of this crowd, realizing that Dr. Frankenstein has enough ammunition to deal with each and every person present twice over, shouting, "Hey everybody, 'America's Got Talent' is on in five minutes!" Then the whole mob disperses as everyone rushes home to watch television (and some people say you have to fire a gun to make it stop criminals in their tracks...hmmm?).
Now Hillary, the presumptive Presidential candidate for the Democrat party in 2016 (for some the presumptive next President in 2017), strikes me as a reasonably intelligent woman and she has to remember what happened to the Democrats during her husband's reign of terror in the White House after the 1994 "Assault Weapons" (sic) Ban was passed, so why would she hitch her wagon to the gun control/victim disarmament horse this early in the race for the Presidency and draw the ire of those who would vote against her on that issue alone? Two divergent, but possible paths come to my mind at this point.
The polls, or the Powers-that-be, have told Hillary that the job is hers for the asking and all she has to really do is show up on Inauguration Day. The fix is in and it's not who votes that counts but who counts the votes. In that case Hillary doesn't have to lie or otherwise engage in subterfuge to win any particular voting bloc. We can just consider her to be warming up the American people to be more accepting as she installs the Fourth Reich in our halls of government. Or...
The polls, the Powers-that-be, or her personal physician have told Hillary that she will not make it to the White House. Therefore, as a dutiful party member, she is running interference for a more moderate candidate to step forward. In the role of the "bad cop," she calls for more restrictive gun control laws as another candidate from either party, as long as he or she is a Progressive, will play the role of "good cop" by saying, "I respect the Second Amendment and I only ask for some reasonable laws that help keep dangerous weapons out of the wrong hands." What goes unsaid is that this candidate considers the "wrong hands" to be those at the end of our arms.
Only time will tell for sure but I wanted to give all of you a heads up as to what to watch for over the next couple of years. I hope you all appreciate the risk to life and limb I've taken here to post this little expose. Like many powerful people, Hillary maintains an enemies list. The good news is that it is a short list. The bad news is that it is a short list because people are just dying to get off of it. Maybe, if I'm lucky, she'll just throw a lamp at me... http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/lamp.asp
Chutzpah: After Shutting Down GOP Senate Amendments For 8 Years,
Dirty Harry Greed Whines GOP Doing It To Dems
(Amnesia? Nah, Harry's been suffering from oldtimers dementia for years...)
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San Fran Archbishop Hits Self-Proclaimed Devout Catholic Nancy Pelosi On Abortion:
Human Life Begins At Conception, No Exceptions
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(Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone +1...)
Via CNS News:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/sf-archbishop-pelosi-no-catholic-can-dissent-church-teaching-abortion
Responding to statements made by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi–who would not say at her press briefing last week if a 20-week-old unborn child is a "human being"–Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco said that it is a "scientific fact that human life begins at conception" and that "no Catholic can dissent in good conscience" from Church teaching on the sanctity of life.
At her Jan. 22 briefing Pelosi said she had "great standing" to speak on the issue of abortion, noting that she was a "Catholic and a mom of five" and asserting that it was "true" she knew "more about having babies than the pope."
CNSNews.com asked Archbishop Cordileone about Pelosi's comments on human life, particularly in light her self-description "as a Catholic and a mom of five."
"It is a scientific fact that human life begins at conception," the archbishop said in a written statement to CNSNews.com. "This has been established in medical science for over 100 years. Catholic moral teaching acknowledges this scientific fact, and has always affirmed the grave moral evil of taking an innocent human life.
"This has been the consistent teaching of the Church from the very beginning, a teaching already discernible in the natural moral law, and so a teaching from which no Catholic can dissent in good conscience," he said.
[...]Pelosi lives in Cordileone's archdiocese and represents San Francisco in Congress.
At her Jan. 22 press conference at the Capitol, CNSNews.com twice asked Pelosi whether an unborn child 20 weeks into pregnancy is a human being.
Pelosi would not answer the yes-no question with a yes-no answer, but did say that a woman has "the right" to abort her child.
Feinstein And McCain Agree: Special Operations Forces
Needed On The Ground In Iraq And Syria Due To Weak Intelligence
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(Scary times when those two old fossils agree...)
Via CNS News:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/sen-feinstein-i-think-our-intelligencein-many-these-countries-weak
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the former chair of the Senate intelligence committee, says she agrees with Republican Sen. John McCain that the U.S. needs Special Operations forces on the ground in Iraq and Syria:
"Let me tell you where I come down on it," Feinstein told CBS's "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer. "I think our intelligence with respect to what's going to happen in many of these countries is weak. Whether it's because we do not have adequate human intelligence or not, I don't know.
"But we have seen — McCain is right. We have seen this happen a number of times. We certainly saw it with the Ukraine and the taking of the Crimea and now what happened with the Houthis and–"
"In Yemen," Schieffer interrupted.
"In Yemen, right," Feinstein said.
"And with respect there, no one knows what is going to happen. The future is unknown, which really should not be the case. We know that the Houthis have said they would leave us alone, and yet their slogan is "Death to America, "Death to Israel." They have deposed the president. The military has separated off.
"We have less than 300 Yemeni military guarding our embassy. So, I think there are a number of priorities there. One is to see that our people are safe. The second is to take a good look at our policy with respect to Yemen.
No Joke: Black Talk Radio Says Tom Brady Has "White Privilege"
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(Good Lord, You can't make this stuff up...)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtDVNhyqS28
The Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/27/black-talk-radio-accuses-tom-brady-of-white-privilege-audio/
"He seems most responsible for these balls being deflated, which gives people a competitive edge."
"He was asked a question by a black person. He asked Tom Brady, are you a cheater?"
"Or Russell Wilson, who Tom Brady will be facing in the Super Bowl...They would be calling for them to be suspended, oh Russell Wilson's a cheater...That's why he had to go to junior college, then to Auburn. He's a poor character. Those thugs they don't do nothing but cheat."
"Most of the people that graduated at the top of their classes and go on to their so-called Ivy League schools...they cheated their way through school...This is showing you white privilege in this country...The reality is a lot of people cheat their way to that success...The NFL is already investigating."
ALSO:
Tom Brady Deflategate - Body Language Expert Interprets Interview
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6583J13QBbo
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Islamic State Threatens To Behead Obuma And Make America
A "Muslim Province" In New Beheading Video
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Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2928426/ISIS-claim-execute-Japanese-hostage-24-hours.html
Islamic State militants threaten to cut off Barack Obama's head and turn the U.S. into a Muslim province in the latest gruesome video to emerge from their self-styled caliphate.
'Know, oh Obama, that will reach America,' proclaims a black-clad militant. 'Know also that we will cut off your head in the White House, and transform America into a Muslim Province.'
The militant delivers his biblical-sounding tirade flanked by comrades and standing over a kneeling Kurdish soldier who, in a gruesome climax to the video, has his head cut off.
Obuma Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day With A Picture Of . . . Barack Obuma
(This Clown never ceases to amaze...)
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Huh? Anti-Redskins Fanatics To Try And Link Team's Name
To Domestic Violence At Super Bowl Protests
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(ThinkProgress, another communist George Soros creation...)
Via ThinkProgress:http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2015/01/27/3615784/super-bowl-protesters-will-draw-ties-redskins-name-domestic-violence/
Washington's football team won't be playing in Super Bowl XLIX this weekend. But in the days before the NFL's biggest game kicks off in Glendale, Ariz., Native American activists and organizers in a state that has 21 recognized tribes will hold multiple events that both challenge the team's "Redskins" name and tie the stereotypes perpetuated by it to one of the most pressing issues facing the NFL this season: domestic violence.
Saturday, a coalition of Native American groups, grassroots organizations, and activists will hold a vigil in Phoenix's Civil Space Park to memorialize missing and murdered indigenous women, according to the event's Facebook page. The next day, on Super Bowl Sunday, they will march and rally in downtown Phoenix to draw attention to harmful effects of Native American stereotypes when it comes to violence against Native women, who face domestic violence and sexual assault at higher rates than other communities.
The NFL's much-criticized handling of the Ray Rice domestic violence case has put that issue next to the league's name in the news throughout the year, giving organizers one reason to focus on it especially. But the primary aim of the event is to make it clear that the fight with Washington isn't merely about a name, but about the broader implications of Native American mascots, especially as supporters of the name have argued that activists should focus on bigger problems facing Native people (Washington owner Dan Snyder is among those who have made such claims).
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ValJar: "Every Girl's Life Matters"
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(Except for the ones murdered by abortion....
Except for the ones Boko Haram killed, with the no longer happening hashtag #BringBackOurGirls...
Except for Margaret Thatcher, because she wasn't as important as King Abdullah, and not worthy of any White House representation at her funeral...
Except for the women of Saudi Arabia, where your 'boss' is now, where women aren't able 'go about their day' because they aren't allowed to drive...)
Saudis Outraged At Mooch Obuma For Not Wearing Headscarf
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(Dumb, Mooch... Dumb! And a blue dress instead of black. What was HE thinking...)
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/michelle-obama-saudi-arabia-head-covering-criticism-114646.html
First guy Michael Obuma faced backlash from Twitter users in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for not wearing a head covering during her brief visit there with the president.
Obama wore loose-fitting clothes including a long blue jacket and dark pants while accompanying President Barack Obama during their four hours on the ground in Riyadh to pay respects to the late King Abdullah and for the president to meet with new King Salman.
On Twitter, Saudis used a hashtag that translates to "#Michelle_Obama_Immodest" or "#Michelle_Obama_NotVeiled" to chastise the first lady for being disrespectful to Saudi traditions
Flashback: Where Is This Chap Today?
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Subversion: State Department-Funded Group Working To Oust Netanyahu
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(But don't worry, Obuma doesn't want to influence Israeli elections
so he can't meet with Netanyahu during his trip to America...)
Via Free Beacon:http://freebeacon.com/national-security/state-department-funded-group-bankrolling-anti-bibi-campaign/
A U.S. State Department-funded group is financing an Israeli campaign to oust President Benjamin Netanyahu, and has hired former Obama aides to help with its grassroots organizing efforts.U.S.-based activist group OneVoice International has partnered with V15, an "independent grassroots movement" in Israel that is actively opposing Netanyahu's party in the upcoming elections, Ha'aretz reported on Monday. Former national field director for President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign Jeremy Bird is also reportedly involved in the effort.
OneVoice development and grants officer Christina Taler said the group would be working with V15 on voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts but would not engage in overtly partisan activities. She said OneVoice and V15 are still formalizing the partnership.
[...]OneVoice said in a press release on Tuesday that it is teaming up with V15 because Israel "needs a prime minister and a government who will be responsive to the people."
OneVoice International received two grants from the U.S. State Department over the past year, and lists the agency as a "partner" on its website. Taler said the group is not using this money for its Israeli election-related efforts.
First Beheading Under New Saudi King, As President Obuma Visits...
Update: 3 More Beheaded During Obama Visit
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(But they're the cool kids, so it's all jake...)
Via ABC:Saudi Arabia on Monday executed a man convicted of raping several girls in a case that has captured the kingdom's attention and marks the first beheading carried out under the newly enthroned King Salman.
The Interior Ministry said Moussa al-Zahrani was executed in the city of Jiddah. The ministry statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, said al-Zahrani was convicted of luring underage girls, intoxicating them, forcing them to watch pornographic videos and then physically and sexually assaulting them.
His alleged victims were children assaulted in 2011 in a string of attacks in Jiddah.
The case has caused a stir on social media — which is unusual in Saudi Arabia for cases of violent crimes — in part because al-Zahrani claimed his innocence throughout the trial and two later appeals.
Last year, al-Zahrani appealed in a 20-minute video for Saudi King Abdullah, who died on Friday, to intervene. In the widely-viewed video, the 45-year-old Arabic teacher claimed he was framed by police and that a man — a neighbor of 10 years — who accused him of molesting his daughter was also a police investigator in the case.
Update:(3 more heads roll, while Obuma is still there...):
Via Daily Mail:Saudi Arabia has carried out the second, third and fourth beheadings under the reign of King Salman just days after he assumed the throne.
Today's executions of the men, two of whom were accused of drug smuggling, show the oil-rich Arab state is unlikely to back down over the enforcement of its strict version of Sharia law.
One of the men, convicted heroin trafficker Latif Khan Nurzada from Pakistan, was executed in the holy city Mecca – within hours of the new king meeting U.S. President Barack Obama.
Pics: Mooch Obuma Doing The Stinkface In Saudi Arabia
(Ah yes, the public face of America...)
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Saudi Arabia's State-Run TV Blurs Out Michelle Obama's Face For Not Wearing Islamic Headscarf
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7rFEYtM_M
I've seen a few libs claiming she made some kind of
statement by not wearing a hijab... she wasn't.
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(Or maybe not? Another version of the same clip with a blue logo shows Mooch in all her stinkface glory.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQyPfk_gA9Y&feature=youtu.be
Could be the Arab user who uploaded it blurred the face, or it could also be the Saudis have different versions for different markets... Muslim and non-Muslim.
To be honest, I'd be surprised if the Wahhabi Kingdom showed Mooch without a headscarf...)
Report: Pant Suits 2016 Presidential Campaign "100 Percent" Likely
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(Surprise, Surprise, Surprise...)
Via Syracuse Comhttp://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/01/hillary_clinton_to_launch_presidential_bid_april.html
There is no doubt about Hillary Clinton running for president in 2016, at least according to a new report today from Politico.
"Campaign advisers say the likelihood of a campaign, long at 98 percent (she never really hesitated, according to one person close to her), went to 100 percent right after Christmas, when Clinton approved a preliminary budget and several key hires."
Citing sources close to Clinton and her election team, Politico reports that the former First Lady and Secretary of State is going to officially announce her 2016 campaign in April, just after the end of 2015's first quarter. Her first fundraising report is expected to be a "blockbuster."
Sources also told Politico that every major campaign position for Clinton has been filled, with the exception of communications director.
According to the report, Bill Clinton is already deeply involved in the campaign. He was able to get a "heads-up" from George H.W. Bush ahead of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's announcement in December that he was going to "actively explore" a campaign himself. Clinton apparently considers Jeb Bush a "real threat" to Hillary's presidential prospects.
Bill Clinton also sees New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as "probably just a sideshow."
Hillary Clinton's camp is also reportedly already exploring potential Vice Presidential candidates, including Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, and Julian Castro, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development.[...]
Clinton has long been considered the Democratic Party front-runner in the 2016 election, despite having declined to officially announce a campaign. Several other Democrats have been mentioned as possible contenders, however, including Vice President Joe Biden, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
A vast field of Republican candidates have been mentioned besides Christie and Bush, including Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
VIDEO: Obama's Holder Replacement
Just Invented a New 'Right'
for Illegal Aliens
January 28, 2015 By Matthew Burke
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Obama's nominee to replace corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder, the only sitting attorney general in American history to be held in contempt of Congress, addressed senators on Wednesday and was asked about Obama's illegal amnesty scheme.
Senator Sessions asked nominee Loretta Lynch, the current U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, who should have a right to a job in America, a citizen, an illegal alien, or a legal immigrant.
"Who has more right to a job in this country, a lawful immigrant who's here — a green card holder or a citizen, or a person who entered the country unlawfully?" Sessions asked.
Lynch apparently doesn't recognize the difference in status, telling Sessions that illegals should have the same access to American jobs as immigrants in the country legally, or U.S. citizens.
"Well, senator, I believe that, um, the right and the obligation to work is one that's shared by everyone in this country, regardless of how they came here," Lynch replied. "And certainly if someone is here, regardless of status, I would prefer that they be participating in the workplace than not participating in the workplace," said Lynch.
Hmmm...a right for an illegal alien to have a job in America? Which Constitution did Lynch study? It sounds like the same one Obama and Holder studied —
Saul Alinsky's. See video at :
http://www.tpnn.com/2015/01/28/video-obamas-holder-replacement-just-invented-a-new-right-for-illegal-aliens/
"How I vote is none of your business!"
by nolathe
For me personally that's very true "How I vote is none of your business!"
But what about our elected Representatives? Is how they vote our business? In Kansas, apparently not. On January 27, 2014 the Kansas House of Representatives expressed their opinion.
Clearly orchestrated by the Republican Leadership (top 5 not highlighted above) a vote for transparency in voting was defeated. We only know how they voted because some brave soul asked for a Roll Call Vote (only done by request and not normal or required procedure).
Rep. Ron Ryckman's justification will be added here- "blank at time of posting".
Republicans insist they are the Big Tent Party. This tent has walls, can't see in or out.
Voting listed below or go to https://nolathe.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/1-27-14_vote.pdf
Representative Alcala John 57 Democrat No Topeka Shawnee john.alcala@house.ks.gov
Representative Alford Steve 124 Republican No Ulysses Grant j.stephen.alford@house.ks.gov
Representative Anthimides Steven 98 Republican Yes Wichita Sedgwick steven.anthimides@house.ks.gov
Representative Ballard Barbara 44 Democrat No Lawrence Douglas barbara.ballard@house.ks.gov
Representative Barker John 70 Republican No Abilene Dickinson john.barker@house.ks.gov
Representative Barton Tony 41 Republican No Leavenworth Leavenworth tony.barton@house.ks.gov
Representative Becker Steven 104 Republican Yes Buhler Reno steven.becker@house.ks.gov
Representative Billinger Rick 120 Republican No Goodland Sherman rick.billinger@house.ks.gov
Representative Boldra Sue 111 Republican No Hays Ellis sue.boldra@house.ks.gov
Representative Bollier Barbara 21 Republican Yes Mission Hills Johnson barbara.bollier@house.ks.gov
Representative Bradford John 40 Republican Yes Lansing Leavenworth john.bradford@house.ks.gov
Representative Bridges Carolyn 83 Democrat Yes Wichita Sedgwick carolyn.bridges@house.ks.gov
Representative Bruchman Rob 20 Republican Yes Leawood Johnson rob.bruchman@house.ks.gov
Representative Brunk Steve 85 Republican No Wichita Sedgwick steve.brunk@house.ks.gov
Representative Burroughs Tom 33 Democrat No Kansas City Wyandotte tom.burroughs@house.ks.gov
Representative Campbell Larry 26 Republican No Olathe Johnson larry.campbell@house.ks.gov
Representative Carlin Sydney 66 Democrat No Manhattan Riley sydney.carlin@house.ks.gov
Representative Carmichael John 92 Democrat No Wichita Sedgwick john.carmichael@house.ks.gov
Representative Carpenter Will 75 Republican No El Dorado Butler will.carpenter@house.ks.gov
Representative Carpenter Blake 81 Republican No Derby Sedgwick blake.carpenter@house.ks.gov
Representative Claeys J. R. 69 Republican No Salina Saline jrclaeys@house.ks.gov
Representative Clark Lonnie 65 Republican No Junction City Geary lonnie.clark@house.ks.gov
Representative Clayton Stephanie 19 Republican No Overland Park Johnson stephanie.clayton@house.ks.gov
Representative Concannon Susan 107 Republican No Beloit Mitchell susan.concannon@house.ks.gov
Representative Corbet Ken 54 Republican No Topeka Shawnee ken.corbet@house.ks.gov
Representative
CoutureLovelady
Travis 110 Republican Yes Palco Rooks travis.couture-lovelady@house.ks.gov
Representative Curtis Pam 32 Democrat No Kansas City Wyandotte pam.curtis@house.ks.gov
Representative Dannebohm Basil 113 Republican No Ellinwood Barton basil.dannebohm@house.ks.govRepresentative Davis Erin 15 Republican No Olathe Johnson erin.davis@house.ks.gov
Representative DeGraaf Pete 82 Republican No Mulvane Sumner pete.degraaf@house.ks.gov
Representative Dierks Diana 71 Republican No Salina Saline diana.dierks@house.ks.gov
Representative Doll John 123 Republican No Garden City Finney john.doll@house.ks.gov
Representative Dove Willie 38 Republican Abs Bonner Springs Wyandotte willie.dove@house.ks.gov
Representative Edmonds John 112 Republican Abs Great Bend Barton john.edmonds@house.ks.gov
Representative Esau Keith 14 Republican No Olathe Johnson keith.esau@house.ks.gov
Representative Estes Bud 119 Republican No Dodge City Ford bud.estes@house.ks.gov
Representative Ewy John 117 Republican No Jetmore Hodgeman john.ewy@house.ks.gov
Representative Finch Blaine 59 Republican Yes Ottawa Franklin blaine.finch@house.ks.gov
Representative Finney Gail 84 Democrat Yes Wichita Sedgwick gail.finney@house.ks.gov
Representative Francis Shannon 125 Republican No Liberal Seward shannon.francis@house.ks.gov
Representative Frownfelter Stan 37 Democrat No Kansas City Wyandotte stan.frownfelter@house.ks.gov
Representative Gallagher Linda 23 Republican Yes Lenexa Johnson linda.gallagher@house.ks.gov
Representative Garber Randy 62 Republican Yes Sabetha Nemaha randy.garber@house.ks.gov
Representative Goico Mario 94 Republican Abs Wichita Sedgwick mario.goico@house.ks.gov
Representative Gonzalez Ramon 47 Republican No Perry Jefferson ramon.gonzalezjr@house.ks.gov
Representative Grosserode Amanda 16 Republican Yes Lenexa Johnson amanda.grosserode@house.ks.gov
Representative Hawkins Daniel 100 Republican No Wichita Sedgwick dan.hawkins@house.ks.gov
Representative Hedke Dennis 99 Republican Yes Wichita Sedgwick dennis.hedke@house.ks.gov
Representative Hemsley Lane 56 Republican No Topeka Shawnee lane.hemsley@house.ks.gov
Representative Henderson Broderick 35 Democrat No Kansas City Wyandotte broderick.henderson@house.ks.gov
Representative Henry Jerry 63 Democrat No Atchison Atchison jerry.henry@house.ks.gov
Representative Hibbard Larry 13 Republican Yes Toronto Woodson larry.hibbard@house.ks.gov
Representative Highberger
Dennis
"Boog" 46 Democrat Yes Lawrence Douglas dennis.boog.highberger@house.ks.gov
Representative Highland Ron 51 Republican No Wamego Pottawatomie ron.highland@house.ks.gov
Representative Hildabrand Brett 17 Republican Yes Shawnee Johnson brett.hildabrand@house.ks.gov
Representative Hill Don 60 Republican Yes Emporia Lyon don.hill@house.ks.gov
Representative Hineman Don 118 Republican Yes Dighton Lane don.hineman@house.ks.gov
Representative Hoffman Kyle 116 Republican No Coldwater Comanche kyle.hoffman@house.ks.govRepresentative Houser Michael 1 Republican Yes Columbus Cherokee michael.houser@house.ks.gov
Representative Houston Roderick 89 Democrat Yes Wichita Sedgwick roderick.houston@house.ks.gov
Representative Huebert Steve 90 Republican No Valley Center Sedgwick steve.huebert@house.ks.gov
Representative Hutchins Becky 61 Republican No Holton Jackson becky.hutchins@house.ks.gov
Representative Hutton Mark 105 Republican No Wichita Sedgwick mark.hutton@house.ks.gov
Representative Jennings Russell 122 Republican Yes Lakin Kearny russ.jennings@house.ks.gov
Representative Johnson Steven 108 Republican No Assaria Saline steven.johnson@house.ks.gov
Representative Jones Kevin 5 Republican Yes Wellsville Franklin kevin.jones@house.ks.gov
Representative Jones Dick 52 Republican No Topeka Shawnee dick.jones@house.ks.gov
Representative Kahrs Mark 87 Republican No Wichita Sedgwick mark.kahrs@house.ks.gov
Representative Kelley Kasha 80 Republican No Arkansas City Cowley kasha.kelley@house.ks.gov
Representative Kelly Jim 11 Republican Abs Independence Montgomery jim.kelly@house.ks.gov
Representative Kiegerl Mike 121 Republican Yes Olathe Johnson mike.kiegerl@house.ks.gov
Representative Kleeb Marvin 48 Republican No Overland Park Johnson marvin.kleeb@house.ks.gov
Representative Kuether Annie 55 Democrat No Topeka Shawnee annie.kuether@house.ks.gov
Representative Lane Harold 58 Democrat No Topeka Shawnee harold.lane@house.ks.gov
Representative Lunn Jerry 28 Republican No Overland Park Johnson jerry.lunn@house.ks.gov
Representative Lusk Nancy 22 Democrat Yes Overland Park Johnson nancy.lusk@house.ks.gov
Representative Lusker Adam 2 Democrat No Frontenac Cherokee adam.lusker@house.ks.gov
Representative Macheers Charles 39 Republican No Shawnee Johnson charles.macheers@house.ks.gov
Representative Mason Les 73 Republican No McPherson McPherson les.mason@house.ks.gov
Representative Mast Peggy 76 Republican No Emporia Lyon peggy.mast@house.ks.gov
Representative McPherson Craig 8 Republican No Overland Park Johnson craig.mcpherson@house.ks.gov
Representative Merrick Ray 27 Republican No Stilwell Johnson ray.merrick@house.ks.gov
Representative Moxley Tom 68 Republican Abs Council Grove Morris tom.moxley@house.ks.gov
Representative O'Brien Connie 42 Republican Yes Tonganoxie Leavenworth connie.obrien@house.ks.gov
Representative Osterman Les 97 Republican Yes Wichita Sedgwick leslie.osterman@house.ks.gov
Representative Ousley Jarrod 24 Democrat Yes Merriam Johnson jarrod.ousley@house.ks.gov
Representative Patton Fred 50 Republican No Topeka Shawnee fred.patton@house.ks.gov
Representative Pauls Janice 102 Republican No Hutchinson Reno jan.pauls@house.ks.gov
Representative Peck Virgil 12 Republican Yes Tyro Montgomery virgil.peck@house.ks.govRepresentative Phillips Tom 67 Republican No Manhattan Riley tom.phillips@house.ks.gov
Representative Powell Randy 30 Republican No Olathe Johnson randy.powell@house.ks.gov
Representative Proehl Richard 7 Republican No Parsons Labette richard.proehl@house.ks.gov
Representative Read Marty 4 Republican Yes Mound City Linn marty.read@house.ks.gov
Representative Rhoades Marc 72 Republican Yes Newton Harvey marc.rhoades@house.ks.gov
Representative Rooker Melissa 25 Republican No Fairway Johnson melissa.rooker@house.ks.gov
Representative Rubin John 18 Republican Yes Shawnee Johnson john.rubin@house.ks.gov
Representative Ruiz Louis 31 Democrat No Kansas City Wyandotte louis.ruiz@house.ks.gov
Representative Ryckman Ron 78 Republican No Olathe Johnson ron.ryckman@house.ks.gov
Representative Ryckman Sr. Ronald 115 Republican No Meade Meade ronald.ryckman@house.ks.gov
Representative Sawyer Tom 95 Democrat Abs Wichita Sedgwick tom.sawyer@house.ks.gov
Representative Scapa Joseph 88 Republican Yes Wichita Sedgwick joseph.scapa@house.ks.gov
Representative Schroeder Don 74 Republican No Hesston McPherson don.schroeder@house.ks.gov
Representative Schwab Scott 49 Republican No Olathe Johnson scott.schwab@house.ks.gov
Representative Schwartz Sharon 106 Republican No Washington Washington sharon.schwartz@house.ks.gov
Representative Seiwert Joe 101 Republican No Pretty Prairie Reno joe.seiwert@house.ks.gov
Representative Sloan Tom 45 Republican Yes Lawrence Douglas tom.sloan@house.ks.gov
Representative Smith Charles 3 Republican No Pittsburg Crawford chuck.smith@house.ks.gov
Representative Suellentrop Gene 91 Republican No Wichita Sedgwick gene.suellentrop@house.ks.gov
Representative Sutton William 43 Republican Yes Gardner Johnson bill.sutton@house.ks.gov
Representative Swanson Susie 64 Republican Yes Clay Center Clay susie.swanson@house.ks.gov
Representative Thimesch Jack 114 Republican No Cunningham Kingman jack.thimesch@house.ks.gov
Representative Thompson Kent 9 Republican No Iola Allen kent.thompson@house.ks.gov
Representative Tietze Annie 53 Democrat No Topeka Shawnee annie.tietze@house.ks.gov
Representative Todd James 29 Republican No Overland Park Johnson james.todd@house.ks.gov
Representative Trimmer Ed 79 Democrat Yes Winfield Cowley ed.trimmer@house.ks.gov
Representative Vickrey Jene 6 Republican No Louisburg Miami jene.vickrey@house.ks.gov
Representative Victors Ponka-We 103 Democrat No Wichita Sedgwick ponka-we.victors@house.ks.gov
Representative Ward Jim 86 Democrat Yes Wichita Sedgwick jim.ward@house.ks.gov
Representative Waymaster Troy 109 Republican No Bunker Hill Russell troy.waymaster@house.ks.gov
Representative Whipple Brandon 96 Democrat Yes Wichita Sedgwick brandon.whipple@house.ks.govRepresentative Whitmer John 93 Republican Yes Wichita Sedgwick john.whitmer@house.ks.gov
Representative Williams Kristey 77 Republican No Augusta Butler kristey.williams@house.ks.gov
Representative Wilson John 10 Democrat No Lawrence Douglas john.wilson@house.ks.gov
Representative Winn Valdenia 34 Democrat Abs
CUNY Tells Staff Not To Call Students 'Mr., Mrs. Or Ms.' Because It Could Be Offensive
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(What a complete pile of crap... Even worse is their excuse: Calling a man "Mr." or a woman "Mrs." could violate federal Title IX policies. Words that describe negative traits gather negative connotations. Hence the transition of "crippled" to "handicapped" to "disabled" to "differently abled." Also, "mentally retarded" etc. Brain scan studies have shown that male>female transgenders do not have feminized brains. Therefore, the idea that these transgenders are women trapped in the bodies of men is blatantly false and as unscientific as one can possibly get. These people are simply suffering from severe mental illness and identity issues. Case in point, goofball Bruce Jenner, one mentally sick clown. It is reprehensible that liberals are pandering to their delusions in order to advance their own thoroughly destructive social agenda in overturning all norms from traditional society. All to assuage their ignorant and hedonistic egos. We don't need to know with what pronouns these people prefer... they should simply be referred to mental health care doctors as "patients." Soooo... I don't care if they have feminized brains or not. If you have the right equipment, that makes you male or female. If the brain is not in sync with reality, then go see a freaking psychiatrist...) Via NRO:The Graduate Center of the City University of New York issued a memo advising staff not to address any students as "Mr., Mrs. or Ms." beginning this spring because some could find it disrespectful.
The policy is intended to "ensure a respectful, welcoming and gender-inclusive learning environment . . . and to accommodate properly the diverse population of current and prospective students," according to the memo, signed by interim provost Louise Lennihan.
School spokeswoman (wait – can I call her that?) Tanya Domi said the initiative was also part of the school's "working within a regulatory framework to comply with Title IX legal principles," which forbid discrimination based on sex at any institution receiving federal funding.
Report: Russian Security Forces Desecrating Korans
During Raids On Jihadist Rebels
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(Oh hum...)Lib rag Daily Beast frets:http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/25/are-russia-s-troops-vandalizing-korans-in-dagestan.html
Residents of Dagestan say that Russian forces destroyed their homes and trashed Korans during anti-terror raids last fall.
On Nelli Radzhabova's desk, a pile of materials was growing: hand-written accounts, complaints to local and federal authorities, flash drives with videos and photographs. Dozens of letters. All of it evidence of the destruction caused by a recent counter-terrorism operation led by Russian interior ministry forces in Vremenny, a village in the troubled North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. The images in Radzhabova's files depicted demolished homes; furniture, clothes and other belongings turned to rubbish and partly buried by bulldozers; broken windows, walls and gates at the village school and clinic. In one of the videos, men in interior ministry forces uniforms are seen throwing people's belongings down a hillside.
There were also photographs of a Koran cut down the middle by an ax, as well as swastikas and other humiliating signs painted over the village's ruined walls—all done by the military, or so locals claimed. One line of graffiti said: "Moscow is the force."
"Local policemen asked Russian soldiers not to attack our Koran, so a military commander called Moscow to complain that Dagestan cops were not letting them do their job. After that, our local policemen were called away from Vremenny," said resident Aminat Magomedova in an interview with The Daily Beast. "Two days ago, a local man found two more Korans in a pile of garbage," she added.
Raul Castro: US Must Return Guantánamo For Normal Relations
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(And Obuma is stupid enough to do this.
By far, The WORST president, EVER!!!...)
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Via Miami Herald http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article8520950.html
Cuban President Raul Castro demanded on Wednesday that the United States return the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on Cuba and
compensate his country for damages before the two nations re-establish normal relations.
Castro told a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States that Cuba and the United States are working toward full diplomatic relations but "if these problems aren't resolved, this diplomatic rapprochement wouldn't make any sense."
Castro and President Barack Obama announced on Dec. 17 that they would move toward renewing full diplomatic relations by reopening embassies in each other's countries. The two governments held negotiations in Havana last week to discuss both the reopening of embassies and the broader agenda of re-establishing normal relations.
Obama has loosened the trade embargo with a range of measures designed to increase economic ties with Cuba and increase the number of Cubans who don't depend on the communist state for their livelihoods. [...]
The reestablishment of diplomatic relations is the start of a process of normalizing bilateral relations, but this will not be possible while the blockade still exists, while they don't give back the territory illegally occupied by the Guantánamo naval base," Castro said.
He demanded that the U.S. end the transmission of anti-Castro radio and television broadcasts and deliver "just compensation to our people for the human and economic damage that they're suffered."
The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Castro's remarks.
BREAKING: US Pacific Fleet Commander Drops Bombshell About Obuma and Muslim Brotherhood
Sunday, January 25th, 2015
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It's pretty bad when a former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet feels compelled to write a telling piece as to why his former boss, President Obama, is on the verge of single-handedly handing over the fate of American citizens to radical Islamists.
Admiral James A. "Ace" Lyons, a 36-year Navy officer, wrote the column for
Breitbart.com, which is beyond shocking and infuriating. Coming from a man who often reported directly to the White House and was responsible for a long list of victories, both diplomatic and physical, Lyons is about as credible as a source could ever hope to be.
The big news over the past few weeks was Obama's no-show for the massive march in solidarity that took place in Paris with forty other world leaders in attendance. Obama's absence was nothing short of a message, albeit subtle, to the Islamic nation that as long as he's king, they're free to advance their radical agenda.
Lyons brought to light a shocking number of instances over the course of Obama's time in office when he has given a virtual green light to radical Islamists and has completely reversed America's stance in the Middle East, at least during the current administration. (H/T Breitbart)
One instance he wrote about was when Obama showed his support for the Islamic uprisings that were eventually known as the "Arab Spring." He pointed to a frightening statement Obama made during a 2012 UN Assembly where he declared, "that the future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam."
The Arab Spring was not a movement of freedom and democracy, rather, it was an obvious awakening for radical Islamists across the Middle East and the start of a revolution against the West.
Another glaring issue that still plagues U.S. military leaders today is the fact that we essentially changed teams in the Global War on Terror. Instead of aligning with important allies in the region, we began backing militias who are aligned with Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Muslim Brotherhood, a group which Obama is quite familiar with and even friendly toward, have already began the process of accomplishing their goal to bring the U.S. to its knees and infiltrate all levels of U.S. government.
Because Obama has embraced this radical group, who operate under the guise of the front group CAIR in the U.S., they've managed to take top positions of leadership and influence throughout the U.S. intelligence community – even going as far as directing the removal of negative references to Islam in every training manual used by government agents and law enforcement.
The psychological operation they're running against the U.S. is powerful and effective, to say the least.
It doesn't appear that much will change as long as Obama is president and the GOP is still controlled by Obama's Republican puppet, Rep. John Boehner. So until then, we can hope for good men such as Rep. Trey Gowdy, Allen West and a handful of other no-nonsense leaders to keep America from completely succumbing to the growing shadow of radical Islam.
We salute Admiral Lyons for his willingness to expose his former boss for American citizens to see.
WND EXCLUSIVE
U.S. PASSPORTS ON VERGE
OF ELIMINATION?
Soros-funded plan champions 'North American Union'
Published: 1 day ago
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NEW YORK – A Soros-funded group arguing to replace the U.S. passport with a North American passport appears ready to take up the mantle of championing the concept of a European Union-style regional government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, Mexico and Canada, fulfilling the dream of the late American University professor Robert Pastor.
The future of the U.S. lies in North America, not in the United States as a sovereign nation, contends the New America Foundation, a Washington-based leftist think-tank with ties to Jonathan Soros, son of famed leftist billionaire George Soros.
Appropriately named "New America," the foundation believes the U.S. passport should soon become obsolete and replaced with a European Union-style passport issued for all citizens of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Citizens would be redefined by their regional identity as "North Americans," echoing President Obama's claim in Spanish in his Dec. 17, 2014, announcement of his executive actions to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba, "Todos Somos Americanos," or, "We are all Americans.
"The United States, Canada and Mexico are bound by a shared economic, environmental, demographic and cultural destiny. How we move forward together is key to our success," wrote André Martinez, an editor with New America and a professor at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University; and Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, a fellow at New America and a former adviser on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's policy planning staff, in an article titled "Why we need a North American Passport," published by CNN.com.
"In recognition of our shared destiny, the three countries should create a North American passport that would, over time, allow their citizens to travel, work, invest, learn and innovate anywhere in North America. Work, tourist and student visas are necessities in the modern world to regulate the flow of people between sovereign states," Martinez and Kurtz-Phelan declared.
"In the North American context, much like within the European Union, our economies and societies are far more integrated than our immigration system recognizes – and a North American passport, much like the EU passport, would align our laws with reality."
The article authored by Martinez and Kurtz-Phelan provides additional support for the argument reported by WND for the past decade that globalists seeking to create a "North American Union" realized the EU stealth model could be replicated in North America. It can be accomplished, they believe, through establishing free-trade agreements such as NAFTA and transforming them incrementally into a regional government.
In Europe, the European Coal and Steel Agreement – signed as a treaty in Paris on April 18, 1951, and put into force on July 23, 1952 – evolved into the European Common market. The EC was created by the Treaty of Rome March 25, 1957, and ultimately became the European Union, a regional government.
"The inception of NAFTA marked an important step toward leveraging these geographic realities for a shared North American success," Martinez and Kurtz-Phelan noted.
"NAFTA has been a boon to our growth and competitiveness. Integrated production platforms, sometimes spanning all three countries, have helped draw manufacturing back from competitors across the Pacific."
They said, however, "the promise of NAFTA has fallen short in a critical respect."
While trade and investment have grown, "the barriers to movement have remained too high for the people who help drive and stand to benefit from that growth."
"As evidenced by the recent political firestorm over President Obama's executive move to allow more undocumented workers to avoid deportation, it would take farsighted and courageous political leadership in all three countries to press for a North American passport," Martinez and Kurtz-Phelan stressed. "But the fact is that allowing North Americans to move more effortlessly across the borders would help alleviate our contentious domestic immigration battles."
The New America Foundation boasts millions of dollars in funding by a blue-chip list of leftist donors along with government funding in the form of a seven-figure grant from the State Department and a six-figure grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Prominent among a list of nearly 150 different funding sources is Google Inc., reflecting the participation of Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, on the New American Foundation's board of trustees.
Also on the board is Jonathan Soros, CEO of JS Capital Management LLC, a private investment firm, also credited on the New American Foundation website as holding several board positions affiliated with the George Soros Open Society Foundations.
The president and CEO of the New American Foundation is Anne-Marie Slaughter, who previously served as the director of policy planning in the State Department, where she worked for Hillary Clinton from January 2009 through February 2011.
Slaughter is the author of the 2005 book "A New World Order," in which she argued the structure of global governance is already in place, through international organizations and agreements, broad networks of economic markets, travel and information flow.
One year ago, WND reported Robert Pastor, a longtime proponent of North American integration, died at the age of 66 after a three-year battle with cancer. He was a professor of international relations and the director of the Center for North American Studies at American University in Washington, D.C.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/u-s-passports-on-verge-of-elimination/#VFlv7XT6TXDCxk4Y.99
I DIED TODAY
by Duke Roberts
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And I ate a lot of hamburgers. We had a party.
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And I laughed.
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And I thought about how much I'm going to miss it here.
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We told jokes.
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We were serious.
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Kristen came to see me. She's a hoot.
She's my groomer. And my buddy.
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While we were waiting for the vet to come, Kristen said we were going for a walk. Then someone said, "How about a play in the water at the
splash park down the street?" So off we went!
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"You know I'm going to miss you, right?"
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"And you too, Duke, right."
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"I need you to help me watch over my family."
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"Did you hear me? This is all I want!"
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We got wet today.
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We smiled today.
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We felt grateful today.
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We broke the rules today.
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I listened to the kids play off in the distance. And thought about
my two babies at home. I loved protecting them.
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I relaxed today.
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I felt no pain. Even though the tumor grew so big.
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I felt the love today.
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I said goodbye to my beautiful friend Kira. She "saw" me standing over everybody before the doctor said it was time. I was excited & jumping & happy.
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Well, I didn't say goodbye. I said 'til we meet again.
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God, I was lucky. Our time was short. But you both gave me a second chance & we lived it up together. You love when I look at you. I'll never stop.
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Always, Dukey.
And here's Dukey's adoption video from three years ago.
VIDEO OF DUKE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=85027636&v=FZ-rl5SVlvM&x-yt-ts=1422503916
The Roberts family knew they had to put their beloved dog, Duke, to sleep after the cancer began to take over his body. So, they decided to make his final day on Earth his most special.
Duke, a black Labrador living in Houston, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his leg a few years ago, KSL notes. Osteosarcoma is the most common bone cancer in dogs. The tumors associated with the illness are aggressive and readily metastasize. Duke had his front leg removed, but the tumor only grew bigger and ultimately started to separate his ribs, making him increasingly uncomfortable.
His owner, Jordan Roberts, scheduled his euthanizing with a Houston veterinarian for Monday, July 7, according to KSL. But before saying goodbye to Duke, the family decided to take him out to enjoy the finer things in life. Roberts asked her friend and animal lover, photographer Robyn Arouty, to capture the pup's final moments.
Duke ate hamburgers; he frolicked in a water park; he spent the day surrounded by the ones he loved most.
"It was beautiful, really. One thing just fell into the next," Arouty explained in an email to The Huffington Post. "[The day] started with the hamburgers, then the boys came over, then other friends, etc. The splash park was spontaneous. And then Duke walked under 'The Rainbow Bridge,' which is ironically also a term used for the place where pets go when they die. I felt honored."
After Duke's story was picked up by BuzzFeed, it went viral and inspired many to share their own pet-loss stories.
"Jordan told me the other day that she felt Dukey's purpose was to love and inspire and she's thrilled that he is still doing it. Understandably, they miss the heck out of him, but feel very strongly that he's still with their family in spirit. They never expected a response like this," Arouty told HuffPost.
"We didn't realize it at the time, of course, but Dukey's story has created this beautiful forum for people to share stories of their beloved pets who have passed away," she said. "Photographing [and] documenting Duke that day has really empowered people to find a way to cope and ease the pain of letting a pet go by celebrating them while they are still here."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/this-story-of-a-dogs-last-day-on-earth-is-beautiful-and-hear?bffb#.sczag5zPzy
In response she wrote a whole new blogpost, which you can read here:
http://www.robynarouty.com/dukey-broke-the-internet/
You can also follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robyn.arouty.photography?ref=br_tf
Old Pants Suit Faces Scrutiny for Use of Private Jets At
The Expense Of Tax Payers While Racking Up Frequent Flyer Miles
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(The use of private jets helped take Air Mary Landrieu down...)
Via Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-29/hillary-clinton-flew-jets-on-taxpayer-funds-in-senate
Hillary Clinton took more than 200 privately chartered flights at taxpayer expense during her eight years in the U.S. Senate, sometimes using the jets of corporations and major campaign donors as she racked up $225,756 in flight costs.
Clinton, 67, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, reported the travel in official filings with the Senate. The records were provided to Bloomberg News by a Republican operative.
Some of the companies whose planes she used included Coca-Cola Co., Citigroup Inc. and Saban Capital Group Inc.
While the flights fell within congressional rules and were not out of the ordinary for senators at the time, they could play into the emerging Republican line of attack that Clinton's wealth and years in government office have left her out of touch with the voters she'll court on the campaign trail.
Republican Mitt Romney, who is considering another bid for president, took a swipe at Clinton's suggestion to voters that "corporations and businesses" don't create jobs when he spoke in Starkville, Mississippi, last night.[...]
Members of the Senate spent $1 million in taxpayer money on privately chartered flights in 2013, according to a report in USA Today. The practice became a political issue last year for Democratic Senate candidates, including Louisiana's Mary Landrieu, who lost, and Virginia's Mark Warner, who won a closer-than-expected battle for re-election.
Landrieu spent $47,000 on charter flights in 2013 and Warner spent $8,500 on a tour around his state that year, USA Today reported. While some senators don't charter flights at all, Clinton's eight-year average of $28,125 per year falls within the range of other lawmakers.
Still, Clinton is facing criticism from Republicans for flights she took more than six years ago.
"The examples of how out of touch Hillary is continue to rack up," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement. "Hillary's love of private jet travel doesn't even stop at taxpayer dollars."
DEA And ATF Cooperated To Record Gun Show Attendee License Plates
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(Tracking the movements of future domestic terrorists...)
Via Guns http://www.guns.com/2015/01/28/dea-and-atf-cooperated-to-record-gun-show-attendee-license-plates/
According to emails obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, federal authorities planned to monitor gun show parking lots with automatic license plate readers.
The insight comes from a damning report released by the ACLU this week on a secretive program by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to build a massive database of license plates images collected by automated license plate reader devices. As part of this investigation, emails released through the Freedom of Information Act detailed a planned cooperation between the DEA's National License Plate Recognition initiative and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to scan and record the plates and vehicle images of gun show attendees.
"DEA Phoenix Division Office is working closely with ATF on attacking the guns going to [redacted] and the gun shows, to include programs/operation with LPRs at the gun shows," reads an April 2009 email.The time and place mentioned in the email coincides with known information on the Justice Department's Fast and Furious operation, a controversial "gunwalking" scandal that possibly transferred as many as 2,000 guns to drug traffickers in Mexico. That program was run out of the Phoenix ATF Field Division office, just two miles from the DEA office.
However, DOJ officials were quick to issue denials this week following the release of the story, advising that the ATF did not in fact engage in tracking gun show attendees.
Imam 'Lurch' Kerry Cited For Not Shoveling Snow, Will Gladly Pay Fine
And Wait For Global Warming To Melt The Snow
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(Shoveling snow is for the tax payers...)
Via The Hill http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/231226-kerry-cited-for-not-shoveling-snow
Secretary of State John Kerry was ticketed Thursday for not shoveling the snow outside his Boston home.
About six inches of snow accumulated on the sidewalk outside Kerry's primary residence in Louisburg Square on Wednesday. A city report posted Thursday said a ticket had been issued for the unshoveled powder after a citizen filed a complaint.
Boston saw more than two feet of snow this past week during Winter Storm Juno that pounded the Northeast. The city's 24.6 inches was the sixth most ever recorded, according to the National Weather Service.
A State Department spokesperson told The Boston Herald that Kerry "will gladly pay the ticket."
The pair bought the home in 1995 for $1.7 million, according to real estate site Zillow. The 8,000-plus-square-foot five-story brick rowhouse on Beacon Hill was built in 1899 and includes a private elevator. Property records peg the property's worth at upwards of $11.5 million.
Al Crapton Coming To Sarasota, FL For His State Of The Skittles Update
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(Al wants to relive his younger days from when his head was smaller...)
Via Herald Tribune One of the nation's most well known, and controversial, civil rights activists the Rev. Al Sharpton Jr. is coming to Sarasota.
Sharpton, also a television and radio personality, is scheduled to give a keynote address to the Howard Club of Southwest Florida's 10th annual scholarship luncheon on March 28.
"We've had some successful luncheons in the past, but we wanted to step out this year and get a real A-lister," said Clarence Rogers, president of the Howard Club, which works to raise money to help high school students in southwest Florida attend Howard University in Washington, D.C.
I hope all of you enjoy this sign.
Be sure to read to the end!!
A SIGN IN FRONT OF A BUSINESS IN FLORIDA!
Yep ! Hope business succeeds !
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This sign was prominently displayed in front of a
Business in Florida and you are probably outraged
At the thought of such an inflammatory sign.
However, we are a society which holds Freedom of
Speech as perhaps one of our greatest liberties.
And after all, it is only a sign, right?
You may ask: "What kind of business would dare
Post such a sign?"
Answer: A Funeral Home!
You gotta love it!!!
New Legislation Introduced to Stop DHS "Catch and Release"
Policy For Dangerous Criminal Aliens
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(Finally a bit of sanity - dare we hope they will follow through on this and move to recapture the dangerous thugs Obama let loose upon us? It's a start. Congress is long overdue in exercising its Executive Agency oversight authority. I say lets drop them from a helicopter over their home country. That way their country has to take them back and I am pretty sure they won't be returning. Especially if it is done from 3000 ft...
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that... too inhumane.
Better yet, when their home countries won't take them back, we just put em' in the cargo hold of the next C-17 on it's way to the middle east and drop em' from 32,000 ft. into the sandbox. Problem solved...)
Via Townhall:http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/01/30/new-legislation-introduced-to-stop-dhs-catch-and-release-policy-for-dangerous-criminal-aliens-n1950716
The Department of Homeland Security currently has a policy in place known as "catch and release," meaning violent illegal aliens are arrested, processed and put back onto American streets if their home countries won't take them back.
According to Judicary Comimittee Chairman Chuck Grassley's office, the policy was "created by a 2001 Supreme Court decision (Zadvydas v. Davis), which prohibits immigrants who had been ordered removed from being detained for more than six months. The Court expanded this decision to apply to all illegal immigrants in Clark v. Martinez in 2005."
This catch and release policy is not only demoralizing to Immigration and Border Patrol Agents, but it's dangerous and deadly. There are countless examples of violent assault and murders committed by illegal aliens after being arrested and released by federal authorities.
A man accused of shooting a convenience store employee in Mesa, Arizona last Thursday faced deportation proceedings for two years prior to his arrest, authorities announced Tuesday.
After being convicted for facilitating a second-degree burglary, 29-year-old Apolinar Altamirano was released on a $10,000 bond in January 2013, the Arizona Republic reports. Since then, Altamirano, who has claimed ties to the Mexican Mafia, has been the subject of two separate injunctions for harassment because of death threats, but has not been detained.
Newly re-introduced legislation, the Keep Our Communities Safe Act, would put an end to at least one type of catch a release policy by extending the amount of time DHS can detain "non-removable" illegal aliens whose home countries won't accept them. The legislation is co-sponsored by senators Jim Inhofe, David Vitter, Jeff Sessions, Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz.
The Keep Our Communities Safe Act would allow the Department of Homeland Security to detain non-removable immigrants beyond six months if:
the alien will be removed in the reasonably foreseeable future;
the alien would have been removed but for the alien's refusal to make all reasonable efforts to comply and cooperate with the agency's efforts to remove him;
the alien has a highly contagious disease;
release would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences;
release would threaten national security; or
release would threaten the safety of the community and the alien either is an aggravated felon or has committed a crime of violence. According to Grassley's office, more than 36,000 criminally convicted illegal aliens were released in 2013. Since their release, 1,000 of these criminal aliens have been convicted of crimes like assault with a deadly weapon, child-rape, rape, participating in street gangs, aggravated assault, robbery, DUI, terroristic threats and more.
"The Zadvydas decision ties the hands of the federal government, forcing law enforcement to release dangerous criminals onto our streets because their home country won't allow them back. The Obama administration has relied upon this ruling to release thousands of criminally convicted aliens, yet they've done nothing to fix the problem. This legislation corrects a very real problem with serious public safety implications," Grassley said in a statement.
POS Obuma Frees Thousands of Foreign Rapists and Murders... watch Video:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l8b-ZKf-R0
Jordan To ISIS: If You Kill Our Airman, We'll Execute Captive Terrorists
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(Thinking it's very likely they already killed the Jordanian airman, but good on Jordan for telling them off. Check the sweetheart in the photo above that ISIS wants freed...)
Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2015/01/30/jordan-ramps-up-execution-threats-against-isis-over-hostage/
Jordan has ramped up its threats to execute a terrorist whom the Islamic State wants set free if the terror group kills its captured pilot, according to a report.
Jordanian officials said would-be bomber Sajida al-Rishawi and other Islamic State fighters would be "quickly judged and sentenced" if Muath al-Kaseasbeh is killed, the Daily Mail reported.
The deadline for a possible prisoner swap passed Thursday with no word from the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, about the fates of al-Kaseasbeh or fellow hostage Kenji Goto of Japan.
Despite Protesters, Texas Muslims Say They Are Proud Of Their 'Amazing Community'
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(I never thought I would see "Texas Muslim" in a headline.
Time to play cowboys and mulsims, people. How about the one in the cowboy hat and hi-heels? Giddyup...)
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Via KERAhttp://keranews.org/post/despite-protesters-texas-muslims-say-they-are-proud-their-amazing-community
Buses from across the state carried several hundred Texas Muslims, many of them first-time visitors, to the state Capitol Thursday. They were met by a small but boisterous group of protesters — and harsh words from at least one legislator.
Before sunrise Thursday, a few dozen Muslims, including students from a parochial school called Radiant Stem Academy, readied for prayers at the Islamic Center of Irving.
Did you pray yet?" one fifth grader says.
After a few minutes, a young boy takes charge, and prayers begin. Later, on the bus to Austin, the kids relax.
"There's even a bathroom on the back!" says another student. In front of the bus is Saif Islam. He's excited about his first trip to the Capitol.
"I'm passionate about my right as a citizen of the United States, as a Muslim, to know what I should be doing, so I can contribute in a positive way," Islam says.
He and busloads of Muslims from at least five other cities participated in what's called Texas Muslim Capitol Day, a regular event sponsored by the local chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The idea is to show young people and adults how to participate in democracy.[...]
As the visitors arrived to the south steps of the Capitol, they saw a few dozen protesters carrying signs that said "Save America" and "Go Home, Take Obama With You."
Some shouted "Jesus" and "No Sharia." They tried to drown out speeches by the Muslim constituents.
Rick Ellis is a native of Fort Worth, and now lives just east of Waco. His sign read "Jesus Christ is Lord."
"Sharia law violates the rights of persons," he says. "We do not violate the rights of another person. They violate all over the world ... whenever they deal with that ... clean the trash out of their own mosques, then they can come lecture me as an American."
NY Man Somehow Wins $5K Settlement After He Attacked Cops With A Machete
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(Start spreading the news
I am leaving today
I [don't]want to be a part of it
New York, New York...)
Via Truth Revolt:[/b]
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ny-man-wins-5k-civil-suit-after-attacking-cops-machete
Ruhim Ullah, 24, was shot by police officers in 2010 while waving an 18-inch blade at them and later sued the NYPD for $3 million. He was just awarded $5,000 in a settlement.
According to the NY Post, Ullah pleaded guilty to the 2010 confrontation when an officer shot him in the leg, stopping him from attacking other officers. Despite a guilty plea, Ullah still went ahead with the civil suit that claimed wrongdoing in his arrest, ultimately winning the $5,000 settlement.
"In light of all of the circumstances, the city concluded that this agreement to settle was in the city's best interest," said city Law Department spokesman Nick Paolucci.
One law enforcement source called the settlement "sickening" and believes that with Ullah's admission of guilt, the civil suit should not have happened.
"It's sickening," said the source. "This man pleaded guilty to a serious crime. That should have been enough to erase the civil suit."
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NYC And DOJ Funded Legal Services Organization Involved In Video Inciting Killing Of Police
VIDEO: Uncle Murda & Maino "Hands Up" (Eric Garner Tribute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV_FizTIxM4
(I always want to stay stunning, then I have to remember who is in charge. Then it's just another day in Obuma's America...)
Via WSJ:http://www.wsj.com/articles/report-says-bronx-public-defenders-took-part-in-antipolice-video-1422566775
Staff members at a Bronx public-defenders organization took part in a rap video advocating the killing of police officers and later attempted to mislead city officials about the organization's involvement, according to the New York City Department of Investigation.
In a report released Thursday, the DOI said two staff attorneys at the Bronx Defenders—a nonprofit group that receives public funds for its advocacy and legal representation for indigent defendants—appeared in a video called "Hands Up," in which men are shown pointing a gun at an individual portraying an officer.
The two lawyers had encouraged the organization to participate in the music video after being approached by the company producing the video, according to the report.
The Bronx Defenders' offices appear in the video and its name appeared as a sponsor in the credits in an earlier version of the video, city officials said.
Once it was discovered and the city started investigating, then members of the organization purportedly lied to the investigators.
Not only is this organization funded by NYC taxpayers, but it's also American taxpayer funded through an Eric Holder Justice Department grant. According to New American, the DOJ gave this organization $1.5 million.
So here's a question, since Bronx Defenders were featured in the video and listed as a 'sponsor', how much DOJ grant money/NYC taxpayer money was funneled toward this film? Was this film part of the grant money given them?
The DOJ grant was allegedly part of an Edward Byrne Memorial Assistance Grant. Edward Byrne was a young NYPD officer who was assassinated on the job as he stood watch over a man who had been threatened.
The primary concept of the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program was established via the Department of Justice is to enhance officer safety via equipment, technology and training.
From my e-mail inbox:
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House GOP Votes To Deny Obama's Executive Amnesty... But Senate Planning A Betrayal.
They honestly believe that you are stupid... Even though the House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill that defunds Barack Obama's Imperial Amnesty Decree, GOP elites are working behind the scenes to ensure that the bill stays on Mitch McConnell's desk and dies an unceremonious death.
And, in the meantime, GOP elites in Congress are advancing another bill (the ill-named Secure Our Border First Act of 2015) that they're deceptively promoting as a "border security bill"... but don't be fooled... this alternate bill does NOTHING to advance a secure border and actually allocates even more taxpayer money to advance amnesty. As a matter of fact, it may very well be the mother of all amnesty bills.
However... there is hope... Since this bait-and-switch plot relies upon deception... since it relies upon them believing that they've pulled the wool over your eyes... you can stop it from ever seeing the light of day, by making sure that our elected officials know, in no uncertain terms, that you are on to their little scheme... and to make that happen, we need to send an avalanche of Blast Faxes and phone calls to our elected officials right now.
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Yes, as much as we hate to report it. GOP elites essentially baited you with a bill that defunds Barack Obama's Imperial Amnesty Decree and intend to switch it with a fake "border security" bill that actually funds even more amnesty.
Don't take our word for it. Some conservatives have already taken notice of what is happening and are sounding the alarm:
- Patrick Brennan with National Review Online (NRO) writes: "About a week ago, House Republicans passed a funding bill that aimed to block President Obama's de facto amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. Already, GOP leadership wants to abandon that bill and replace it with a 'Plan B,' which has the unfortunate flaw of not being a plan to stop the amnesty at all."
- Jessica Vaughan with the Center for Immigration Studies says: "They think that by putting forward a fake border security bill, that will satisfy the public and rank-and-file members of the House and dissolve any objections to the other immigration expansion bills that they want to pass... I really think they just want to make a show of passing enforcement bills."
- Conservative icon Gary Bauer recently said: "There are disturbing reports from Capitol Hill that the so-called border security bill currently being drafted by the House Homeland Security Committee represents a step backwards."
But this fake border security bill is much more than a "step backwards." As a matter of fact, you ain't seen nothin' yet:
- The Daily Caller reports: "The new border bills drafted by Republican leaders require the actual removal of at least 66 miles of anti-pedestrian border fencing between laborers in Mexico and employers in the United States. The border bills also require the construction of only 27 miles of effective double-layer fencing along the 2,000-mile border."
- Kenneth Palinkas, the president of a union representing 12,000 United States Citizenship and Immigration Service officials, says that this bait-and-switch bill "does nothing to preclude anyone in the world from turning themselves in at the U.S. border and obtaining automatic entry and federal benefits. Almost anyone at all can call themselves an asylum-seeker and get in; it's a global joke."
You read that right, what GOP elites are touting as a border security bill actually tears down existing fencing and only requires that 27 miles of additional fencing be built and moreover, allows just about anyone to obtain automatic entry and benefits in the United States.
Palinkas calls this betrayal a "global joke," but we're not laughing, and when we're done blowing out fax machines and crashing phone lines, no one in Washington is going to be laughing either.
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Do These GOP Elites Honestly Believe They Can Get Away With It?
The short answer is yes. Far too many politicians in Washington still subscribe to the ludicrous notion that you are either stupid or that you simply aren't paying attention to what is going on.
And they honestly believe that they can force amnesty on you if they pass an amnesty bill under the guise of border security. After all, since they don't bother to actually read the legislation they pass, why should they believe that you bother to read the legislation that they pass.
As radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is fond of saying, politics in Washington D.C. is often a game of "how can we fool them again today."
Even the left-wing website Politico was compelled to acknowledge the bait-and-switch: "Republican leaders hope to reach a deal... without making it appear to their right flank that they are caving to the White House."
Well... this time around, they've been caught with their hands in the cookie jar. But these GOP elites aren't simply caving to Barack Obama... they're not reaching a deal... they're carrying his water.
NRO reports: "A GOP staffer familiar with the proposal tells NRO that the bill is tantamount to a slush fund for the president's executive action on immigration: It proposes to spend $10 billion without doing anything to allow immigration officers to deport illegal immigrants."
If the staffer referenced in the above quote from NRO is correct, that means that GOP elites not only want to give Barack Obama all the funding he needs to implement his unconstitutional amnesty decree by allowing the defunding bill to die in the Senate... They want to give him an additional 10 billion dollars to fund even more amnesty by passing this fake border security bill in its place.
Republican elites are between a rock and a hard place. They want to accommodate the special interests with deep pockets who want amnesty but they know that patriotic Americans will scream bloody murder if they appear to push amnesty. Their solution: Pull the wool over your eyes and betray you.
Remember, they sincerely believe that this little bait-and-switch scheme will only work as long as you are fooled by the sleight of hand.
And now that we've caught them red-handed, the task before us is simple. If enough of us let them know that there will be hell to pay should they betray the American people, they WILL do the right thing... and that means that the future of this great nation, at this very moment, is in your hands.
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Scott Walker Leads GOP In Iowa Poll, Hillary Up Over Warren By 40 Points
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(A young decent candidate will really show Hillary for the tired lack of choice she is...)
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/2016-elections-iowa-scott-walker-rand-paul-jeb-bush-chris-christie-114796.html#ixzz3QS9SuTn4
Scott Walker and Rand Paul are ahead of the GOP pack in Iowa, while Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Ted Cruz are lagging behind at single digits, according to a new poll released Saturday.
The survey conducted for Bloomberg Politics and the Des Moines Register showed Walker at 15 percent among Republican caucus-goers, Paul at 14 percent, and Mike Huckabee, the 2008 victor in Iowa, at 10 percent. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson was the first choice of 9 percent of respondents.Other big-name contenders fared poorly: Bush was the first choice of just 8 percent of Republican voters, while Cruz registered at 5 percent and Christie at 4 percent. Rick Santorum, who narrowly won the caucuses in 2012, notched 4 percent, and Marco Rubio and Rick Perry each garnered 3 percent.
Two Urbanites Attempt A Home Invasion With A Pellet Gun,
Girlfriend thwarts robbery when she fetches her .38
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(Go girl, Go. You be the one...)
An attempted robbery at an apartment near the University of Central Florida in Orlando Tuesday afternoon was thwarted when the female victim sent the suspects fleeing after she pulled her own gun on them.
Nour Skargee was in the living room of his apartment when he heard a quick, loud knock at the door just before 5 p.m. He said he looked through the peephole and noticed a man outside with his head hanging down.
Skargee cracked open the door slightly to see what the man needed, and it was then that him and a second suspect forced their way inside. The next thing Skargee knew, he had a gun put to his head.
"He grabbed me by the throat. He took me a little further into the living room and pushed me down and said, 'Don't move. Just stay down,'" he told reporters.
Skargee's live-in girlfriend, Sable Nehme, was in a back bedroom when the incident unfolded.
"When I heard the voices, I looked outside and saw him on the ground," Nehme said. "I thought 'Oh my God, I need to get my gun.'"
But when the suspects realized she was in the apartment too, their focus moved to her.
"They said, 'We're gonna kill your girl,'" Skargee recalled. "That's when I lost hope."
But Nehme had a plan of her own, and it included a .38 revolver that her dad had previously purchased for her for protection
More at:
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Chad Army Says 120 Boko Haram Militants Killed In Cameroon
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(Hey Obuma, boots on the ground does work...)
Via Reuters Chadian forces have killed 120 militants from Boko Haram in a battle in the north of neighboring Cameroon that began when the insurgents attacked its troops, the army said in a statement on Saturday, adding that three of its soldiers were killed.
Boko Haram has recently launched cross-border attacks from Nigeria into Cameroon and Chad as part of its drive for an Islamist state in the northeast of Nigeria. Chad and Cameroon have stepped up troop deployments to fight the militants.
Scott Walker And The Art Of Winning
(With the exit of Mitt Romney, I'm beginning to hear a little bit of a drumbeat
for Scott Walker and I'm liking it...)
Via The Week:http://theweek.com/articles/536579/scott-walker-art-winning
General Patton famously declared that "Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser." He was right. And as we look to the 2016 presidential race, I think Taegan Goddard put his finger on something very true with this tweet:TWEET
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Taegan Goddard @politicalwire
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Why Republicans love Scott Walker: He wins without caving
http://politicalwire.com/2015/01/29/republicans-love-scott-walker
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In American politics, winning often isn't enough. You have to win on your own terms, too.
Conservatives have very obviously had enough of politicians who cave. That hold-the-line, never-give-in attitude has burned at the heart of the Tea Party for years. Less noticed, but equally important, is the fact that we have plenty of conservative lawmakers whose reputations are built on their adherence to principle, their total commitment to never cave — and who inevitably lose. They may make excuses and point fingers to try and claim that losing is winning — but they are still losers.
It's pretty clear when someone tries and fails: They try to oust the speaker of the House, but he's still here! They try to defund ObamaCare, but somehow it doesn't end!
We have squishes who win and stalwarts who lose. What we really crave is a conservative winner who doesn't cave. And Scott Walker is very arguably that guy.
He won in 2010. He picked a fight with Big Labor and won. He survived a recall. And he won again in 2014 — by almost the same margin as he did in 2010. That's three wins in four years for a man who governed as a conservative reformer in a state that the Republican presidential nominee hasn't carried since 1984. As Taegan said, Walker is a winner who doesn't cave.
Other conservative "fighters" may try to frame fighting the good fight (and losing) as the highest virtue, but fighting and winning is vastly superior. And on that count, Scott Walker took on the unions — and won.
Winning covers a multitude of sins. As Dave Weigel noted recently, part of the reason the conservative base gave George W. Bush a pass, and doesn't seem to be giving Jeb one, is that early polling showed Bush defeating Al Gore (no such polling shows Jeb — or anyone — beating Hillary Clinton). After eight years of Barack Obama, Republicans are anxious to back a winner, and time and again, Walker has pulled rabbits out of his hat. At some point, we want to believe in magic.
I'm still skeptical Walker has the requisite rock star charisma to make it all the way to the top, but I do buy the notion that he's the one guy that every faction of the GOP could unite behind. And — if one is to buy the argument that the base is looking for someone who a) doesn't cave, and b) actually wins, then he's in a class all his own.
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Super Bowl Baby Momma Drama –
Does Seahawk Player Stay With The Baby Momma For The Birth Of Their First Child
On Sunday Or Does He Play In The Game?
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Ashley Moss with Richard Sherman
(Forget deflated balls....)
Via USA Today Richard Sherman's girlfriend is due any day now with the couple's first child. Of course, he's going to be with her when the baby is born.
Or is he?
If Ashley Moss has their baby Sunday, Sherman could be faced with a choice different than that of almost any other father-to-be. Different than other athletes have faced, even.
"I've thought about the possibility of his coming during the game or coming before the game," Sherman said this week. "We have things in place in case that happens. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
"I would not like to miss the birth of my first kid," he added. "Hopefully, and God willing, we won't have to cross that bridge."
It's easy to say Sherman should skip the Super Bowl, that family comes first.[...]
But the Seahawks are Sherman's family, too.
"It's so difficult for him," Mahan told USA TODAY Sports after the second round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open. "He's playing a team sport. And the Super Bowl is such a historic experience and the pinnacle of his sport. I'll say this – it's up to him. There isn't a wrong or right decision – it's a you decision."
It's an important distinction that Mahan and Mickelson faced decisions that didn't impact anyone else — well, except their wives and whoever had to juggle the logistics. But if Sherman skips the Super Bowl, he deprives the Seahawks of their best player. That's 52 teammates. Carroll and his 24-man coaching staff. General manager John Schneider. Owner Paul Allen. All those other folks who work for the team, too.
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Al Crapton Loses to the Teleprompter Some More
Only in a world gone insane can a cockroach rake in $millions upon $millions even though he is too stupid to read:Crapton Video"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Q5sE8u6ek
Good thing for Crapton he has plenty of pull... http://moonbattery.com/?p=53825 ; with that you don't need talent or intelligence.See here and here for more examples of Crapton losing big to his teleprompter.http://moonbattery.com/?p=53825
http://moonbattery.com/?p=956
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Cubitat: 10-by-10-Foot Home
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/01/27/cubitat_from_urban_capital_and_nichetto_studios_is_a_compact_home_in_a_box.html
Rubbing elbows with other members of the global moonbat ruling class, Al Gore and Felipe Calderon recently hatched a plan to spend $90 trillion of other people's money to force us to live more densely packed together so that we won't need to offend the polar bears by driving cars. The Cubitat should fit their schemes nicely:
Those on a quest to rethink small-space living build tiny houses, install pop-up rentals on vacant lots, and design portable 10-square-foot microkitchens tucked inside armoires. Presented over the weekend at Toronto's Interior Design Show, Cubitat is a 10-by-10-by-10-foot cube that houses a kitchen, bathroom, bed, laundry, and storage.
Presenting the Cubitat:
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Here's a design project that might be even more suitable in the planned utopian world populated only by liberals:
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Or better still, this home comes complete with free government-provided healthcare:
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However, repeated experience during the 20th century indicates that utopian schemes are more likely to lead to even more space-efficient housing — in mass graves.
And it's the Patriots, 28-24!
The way Seattle sees things now:
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STOP THE ILLUMINATI @Illuminati_Stop
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THE PATRIOTS CLINCHED SUPER BOWL 49 WITH THIS INTERCEPTION...
THAT WAS CONTROLLED BY THE ILLUMINATI. #SB49 #SuperBowl
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TOM BRADY IS # 12.
0 + 12 = 12
HITLER WAS ONCE 12 YEARS OLD.
BRADY= HITLER.
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Venezuela's Socialist President Accuses Joe Biden Of Plotting To Overthrow Him
(Yes, this Joe Biden...
Joe Biden couldn't overthrow the toilet when he blows lunch. I think Venezuela is safe...)
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"What... who me??"
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Via El Universal:Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro once again reported an alleged coup d'état against him, masterminded by the United States.
"My responsibility is to call upon people to be on the maximum alert level. A plan has been launched for a coup d'état. I know well what I am saying," said the president during a government event on Sunday.
Maduro once again claimed US Vice-President Joe Biden is involved in an alleged conspiracy to topple him. "The imperial power has entered into a despair phase (...) They, in their madness, do not realize the strength (Venezuelan) people have," Maduro noted.
He added that the attacks against the Venezuelan Armed Forces and Congress Speaker Diosdado Cabello are part of such plot.
I believe ICLEI is being neutralized but not yets stopped.
Same goes for Agenda 21.
Now we need to get the UN out the US of A.
Member List
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA
More and more American states, counties and cities are discovering ICLEI's unconstitutional and subversive agenda and the direct ties that ICLEI maintains with the United Nations' Agenda 21 and Mikael Gorbachev's Earth Charter.It is no surprise that ICLEI had to delete its webpage listing its Members in the United States of America.
Here is a cached version of ICLEI's US membership list from July 3rd, 2013:
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Here are the members in text form:
AlabamaBirmingham
Huntsville
Montgomery
Alaska
Juneau
Sitka
Arizona
Flagstaff
Goodyear
Tempe
Tucson
ArkansasNorth Little Rock
CaliforniaAlbany
Aliso Viejo
American Canyon
Antioch
Arcata
Belvedere
Benicia
Berkeley
Beverly Hills
Burlingame
Carpinteria
Carlsbad
Chula Vista
Cloverdale
Concord
Covina
Culver City
Cupertino
Davis
Del Mar
Dixon
Dublin
East Palo Alto
El Cerrito
Emeryville
Encinitas
Fairfax
Fairfield
Fort Bragg
Foster City
Fremont
Fullerton
Glendale
Hayward
Hermosa Beach
Hillsborough
Irvine
Lafayette
Lakewood
Larkspur
La Mirada
Livermore
Los Angeles County
Los Gatos
Martinez
Menlo Park
Millbrae
Mill Valley
Monterey
Moorpark
Moraga
Mountain View
Napa
Napa County
Newark
Novato
Oakland
Oakley
Orinda
Pacifica
Palmdale
Palm Springs
Palo Alto
Pasadena
Pittsburg
Portola Valley
Redwood City
Riverside
Rolling Hills Estates
Ross
Sacramento County
Salinas
San Bruno
San Diego
San Francisco
San Joaquin
San Jose
San Leandro
San Luis Obispo
San Mateo County
San Mateo
San Pablo
Santa Ana
Santa Barbara County
Santa Barbara
San Buenaventura (Ventura)
San Carlos
Santa Clara
Santa Clara County
Santa Cruz
Santa Monica
Santa Rosa
Santee
Seaside
Solana Beach
Solano County
Sonoma City
Sonoma County
South Gate
Tiburon
Tracy
Union City
Ventura County
Vernon
Visalia
Vista
West Sacramento
Willits
Windsor
Woodside
Yountville
ColoradoAspen
Breckenridge
Carbondale
Commerce City
Denver
Durango
Fort Collins
Golden
Gunnison County
La Plata County
Manitou Springs
San Miguel County
ConnecticutBranford
Bridgeport
Essex
Groton
New Haven
New London
Ridgefield
Stamford
Windsor
DelawareLewes
District of Columbia
Washington, DC FloridaBoynton Beach
Broward County
Coconut Creek
Collier County
Cutler Bay
Davie
Delray Beach
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Myers
Gainesville
Key West
Lake Worth
Lee County
Leon County
Maitland
Marathon
Miami
Miami-Dade County
Miami Gardens
Monroe County
North Miami
North Port
Orange County
Orlando
Palm Bay
Palm Beach County
Pinecrest
Seminole County
South Daytona
South Miami
Tallahassee
Tamarac
West Palm Beach
Winter Park, FL
GeorgiaAthens-Clarke County
Atlanta
Chatham County
Decatur
Fulton County
Savannah
Tybee Island
HawaiiHawaii County
IdahoBlaine County
Hailey
IllinoisAlgonquin
Brookfield
Champaign
Chicago
Edwardsville
Elgin
Elmhurst
Glen Carbon
La Grange Park
Lake Forest
Madison County
Northbrook
Oak Park
Oswego
Rock Island
Rockford
Springfield
Urbana
IndianaBloomington
Muncie
South Bend
IowaDecorah
Des Moines
Dubuque
Iowa City
Johnson County
North Liberty
Shueyville
KansasJohnson County
Lawrence
Mission
Prairie Village
Wyandotte County/Kansas City
KentuckyBerea
Frankfort
Lexington-Fayette County
LouisianaNew Orleans
Shreveport
Maine
Falmouth
Portland
South Portland
York
MarylandBaltimore
Bowie
Chevy Chase
College Park
Gaithersburg
Greenbelt
Harford County
Howard County
Hyattsville
Rockville
Salisbury
Takoma Park
MassachusettsActon
Amesbury
Amherst
Belmont
Boston
Brookline
Cambridge
Chelmsford
Concord
Dedham
Devens
Hingham
Ipswich
Kingston
Lexington
Marshfield
Medford
Milton
Natick
Nantucket
Newton
Northampton
Salem
Tewksbury
Tyngsborough
Wellesley
Wellfleet
Winchester
Worcester
MichiganAnn Arbor
Dearborn
Flint
Grand Rapids
Traverse City
MinnesotaBlue Earth County
Duluth
Edina
Golden Valley
Hennepin County
Minneapolis
Oakdale
Rochester
Roseville
Saint Paul
Virginia
Woodbury
MissouriClayton
Columbia
Creve Coeur
Kansas City
Kirkwood
Lee's Summit
Riverside
Saint Louis
Saint Louis County
Town & Country
University City
MontanaBozeman
Helena
Missoula
Nebraska
Lincoln
Omaha
Nevada
Clark County
Las Vegas
North Las Vegas
Washoe County
New HampshireKeene
Nashua
Portsmouth
Wolfeboro
New Jersey
Belmar
Clifton
Eatontown
Hamilton
Maplewood
Marlboro
Newark
New Mexico
Cimarron
Las Cruces
Los Alamos County
Silver City
Taos
New YorkAlbany
Babylon
Bedford
Binghamton
Brighton
Brookhaven
Cayuga County
Clarkstown
Cooperstown
Cortlandt
Croton on Hudson
DeWitt
Dobbs Ferry
Dryden
Eastchester
Geneva
Greenburgh
Hastings on Hudson
Hunter
Ithaca (City)
Ithaca (Town)
Kingston
Larchmont
Madison County
Mamaroneck (Town)
Mamaroneck (Village)
Mount Kisco
Nassau County
New Castle
New Paltz (Town)
New Rochelle
New York (cont.)
New York City
North Castle
North Hempstead
Ogdensburg
Orangetown
Ossining (Town)
Ossining (Village)
Oswego (City)
Oswego County
Peekskill
Pound Ridge
Preble
Red Hook
Rochester
Rosendale
Rye
Saratoga Springs
Saugerties
Schenectady County
Skaneateles
Somers
Southampton (Town)
Southampton (Village)
Syracuse
Tarrytown
Tompkins County
Tuckahoe
Victor
Woodstock
Yonkers
North Carolina
Carrboro
Cary
Chapel Hill
Charlotte
Durham
Fayetteville
Orange County
Raleigh
Winston-Salem
North Dakota
Grand Forks
Ohio
Akron
Alliance
Athens
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Oberlin
Youngstown
Oklahoma Oregon
Ashland
Beaverton
Corvallis
Hillsboro
Lake Oswego
Lincoln City
McMinnville
Milwaukie
Portland
PennsylvaniaAllegheny County
Falls Township
Haverford
Meadville
Middletown
Montgomery Township
Mt. Lebanon
Nether Providence
Penn Hills
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Warwick Township
West Chester
South CarolinaCharleston
Columbia
Greenville
Spartanburg
South DakotaBrookings
Oglala
Sioux Falls
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Cookeville
Hamilton County
Knoxville
Oak Ridge
Shelby County
Signal Mountain
TexasAustin
Coppell
Dallas
Denton
El Paso
Edinburg
Grapevine
Houston
San Antonio
South Padre Island
UtahPark City
Summit County
Salt Lake City
VermontBrattleboro
Burlington
South Burlington
Virginia
Alexandria
Arlington County
Blacksburg
Charlottesville
Dumfries
Falls Church
Lynchburg
Norfolk
Richmond
Roanoke County
Roanoke
Staunton
WashingtonAuburn
Bellevue
Bellingham
Bothell
Coupeville
Edmonds
Everett
Island County
Issaquah
King County
Kirkland
Lacey
Lynnwood
Mercer Island
Oak Harbor
Olympia
Port Townsend
Redmond
Renton
Sammamish
SeaTac
Seattle
Sequim
Shoreline
Snohomish County
Snoqualmie
Spokane
Tacoma
Tumwater
West VirginiaFairmont
Glenville
Wisconsin
Dane County
Fitchburg
Madison
Marshfield
Milwaukee
Oshkosh
http://downtowncary.org/member-list-iclei-local-governments-for-sustainability-usa/
A video worth watching.
Please notice he mentions NGO's at the very beginning of the video.
NGO's may or may not know of their ties to ICLIE, Agenda 21 and the UN.
If they do know they are affiliated with ICLIE, they sure as hell are not going to tell you,
especially they won't tell you of the funding they may be receiving from ICLIE,, now would they?
Do we need private organizations directing, manipulating or controlling our local governments.
Should our local governments be giving money to private organizations as membership fees or for any other reason?
Published on Sep 22, 2014THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, WASHINGTON D.C.
Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center reports successes in the ongoing fight against the Agenda 21 aka Sustainable Development takeover.-- September 17, 2014VIDEO AT:http://youtu.be/bfd4hJ3cmB0?list=PL1h2WwSa-8dOPMeBKNFY8OTUaFXXUenNW
Even Obama is using these tactics, go figure!
Social engineering and behavior modification are some of the true objectives being implemented under the guise of environmental and climate protection. This is accomplished by exploiting people's desire to maintain a healthy and lasting environment in the name of "sustainability." Here is an example of how ICLEI changes behavior, just like another organization called "Fostering Sustainable Behavior".
It is also ICLEI's job to implement United Nation's policies that restructure our representative form of government through global and regional development . Policies and programs take control from our representative government and put it into the hands of regional, non-elected boards. This allows elected officials to shirk their responsibilities. It turns us into a soviet system that is based on Regionalism. It facilitates both communism and fascism. Representative government with defined limits is the basis of a free and just society.
Too many elected officials such as Cool Mayors allow ICLEI to influence policy changes through the use of funding incentives and rewards.
While some of these policies sound good on the surface, they result in consequences such as:
High-density housing scams
Traffic congestion
Open space where access is not allowed
Government "partnering" with favored private businesses and non-profit agencies, using your tax money
Undermining Constitutional administration of government
Managed control over your life
Mismanagement of public utilities
Prohibitions on natural resource management leading to increased fire hazards, lack of water, and private property restrictions,
Increased taxes, fees, regulations and restrictions
Is ICLEI or an NGO running your town or coming to a town near you?
Conspiracy Theory Fruitloop Jesse Ventura On Chris Kyle:
"The Nazis Had Heroes" As Well
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(Then again, this is the clown who thinks drones are following him so he moved to Mexico...
apparently drones can't fly there. Every time Jesse opens his mouth he exposes the mushy gray matter residing 'twix his ears.)
Via Fox News Radio:
http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/02/03/jesse-ventura-on-chris-kyle-do-you-think-the-nazis-have-heroes/
VENTURA: A hero should have honor. A hero is not how many people you've killed. You know he's obviously a great sniper. He's obviously a great shot. He obviously did his job correctly. Alan let me fire this one at you: Do you think the Nazis have heroes?
COLMES: Well, obviously the Nazis were fighting for a cause we can't condone.
VENTURA: Wait Wait Wait. When they invaded a country, when they invaded Poland, when they invaded France, and if a Nazi soldier killed a hundred people that had lived there, would he be classified a hero in Germany?
COLMES: But are you comparing what the Nazi mission was versus what our mission is in war as a country?
VENTURA: Well what I'm stating is we invaded Iraq, we were not asked in. We invaded a country, we overthrew its government, and then we killed people that lived there.
COLMES: Are we analogous to the Nazis?
VENTURA: Well, and the Communists, yeah.
The former WWF nut-case also addressed the vaccination issue, saying the government has no right to demand vaccinations, and that the health of his own daughter had been damaged by being vaccinated.
ISIS Erects Movie Screens Across Raqqa To Play Video Of
Jordanian Pilot Being Burned Alive Over And Over Again
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Jordan Executes Two Al-Qaeda Prisoners In Response
To Islamic State Burning Pilot Alive
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(Like they promised, Sajida al-Rishawi was the first to go...)
Via CNN:
Jordan has executed Sajida al-Rishawi, the Iraqi would-be suicide bomber whose release ISIS had previously requested,
and another prisoner, Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani told CNN.
The other executed prisoner was Ziad Karbouli, a former top aide to the deceased leader of al Qaeda in Iraq,
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the spokesman said.
Quote from: Warph on February 04, 2015, 01:27:33 AM
Conspiracy Theory Fruitloop Jesse Ventura On Chris Kyle:
"The Nazis Had Heroes" As Well
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(Then again, this is the clown who thinks drones are following him so he moved to Mexico...
apparently drones can't fly there. Every time Jesse opens his mouth he exposes the mushy gray matter residing 'twix his ears.)
Via Fox News Radio:
http://radio.foxnews.com/2015/02/03/jesse-ventura-on-chris-kyle-do-you-think-the-nazis-have-heroes/
VENTURA: A hero should have honor. A hero is not how many people you've killed. You know he's obviously a great sniper. He's obviously a great shot. He obviously did his job correctly. Alan let me fire this one at you: Do you think the Nazis have heroes?
COLMES: Well, obviously the Nazis were fighting for a cause we can't condone.
VENTURA: Wait Wait Wait. When they invaded a country, when they invaded Poland, when they invaded France, and if a Nazi soldier killed a hundred people that had lived there, would he be classified a hero in Germany?
COLMES: But are you comparing what the Nazi mission was versus what our mission is in war as a country?
VENTURA: Well what I'm stating is we invaded Iraq, we were not asked in. We invaded a country, we overthrew its government, and then we killed people that lived there.
COLMES: Are we analogous to the Nazis?
VENTURA: Well, and the Communists, yeah.
The former WWF nut-case also addressed the vaccination issue, saying the government has no right to demand vaccinations, and that the health of his own daughter had been damaged by being vaccinated.
I'm not sure about Ventura being a nut case because I don't watch him, however Obama and the Republicans are both supporting the sniper thing. Obama and the Republicans do not have much recent record of defending American liberty. Mrs. Obama and the neocons have taken the side of the snipers. The Republicans and Obama support the New World Order. Perhaps Ventura has a point. Warph, you might want to take another look at all this sniper business.
Weren't we told Alinsky methods were in use here in Elk County?
Is it possible the Alinsky methods still in use, here in Elk County?
MEET OBAMA ORGANIZER
WORKING TO BOOT BIBI
Mentored by disciple of notorious Radical Saul Alinsky
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Saul Alinsky
TEL AVIV – Jeremy Bird, the national field director for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign,
specializes in the revolutionary tactics infamously pioneered by radical community organizer Saul Alinsky.
WND has found that Bird was schooled by a key figure in
Alinksy's organizing movement and that he has since been involved in scores of progressive political campaigns seeking to fundamentally transform the U.S.
Bird has played a central role in a major organizing effort attempting to make Texas a swing state; in a political super PAC created to draft Hillary Clinton to the 2016 ticket; and an international anti-gun effort founded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, among many others.
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Jeremy Bird
Now Bird is taking his wildly successful Chicago-esque, Alinsky brand of community organizing to Tel Aviv, where the field specialist has been making headlines for his paid consultancy to V15, an Israeli organization working to defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the general elections here in March.
V15 hired Bird's firm, 270 Strategies, to oversee the Israeli group's field and organizing efforts.
Israeli political campaigns are relatively unsophisticated compared to the political organizing machines that were the hallmarks of Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential bids. Bird's field tactics, if deployed here in full force, have the potential to revolutionize the Israeli left's organizing abilities.
In a sit-down interview with WND at V15's campaign headquarters last week, the group's founder, Nimrod Dweck, conceded that Israelis lack organizing skills and that Bird and his firm have been central to divining V15's field operations battle plan.
"Israelis don't know how to run field (operations) as Americans (do), and that was the major contribution of Jeremy's team," Dweck said.
Bird has provided "very professional help about how to organize, manage people, how to go door-to-door, how to talk to people on the street."
The left-leaning Haaretz daily in Israel described Bird as V15's secret weapon" in its race to replace Netanyahu's right-leaning government with a center-left coalition.
Data miningBird did not reply to a request to be interviewed for this profile.
He is largely known for his 2012 campaign role, where he was central to building what he described as "the strongest grassroots organization in the history of American presidential politics."
He explained Obama's 2012 re-election infrastructure, aptly titled Organizing for America, had 631 offices in swing states alone, compared to challenger Mitt Romney's 282.
According to Politico, Obama's grassroots network — led by 270 Strategies' Bird and Mitch Stewart — encompassed "10,000 neighborhood team leaders, 30,000 core team members and 2 million volunteers."
Bird's re-election team reportedly utilized publicly available information on voters, collecting as many as "500 data points on a single voter, from his reading habits to his opinions on the economy," according to a 2013 Bloomberg profile.
Bird helped to pioneer what the campaign called "Airwolf," named after a 1980s TV series that centered on a high-tech military helicopter that engaged in espionage and data collection efforts.
For example, Bloomberg documented, "If a voter cared about bringing home troops from Afghanistan, and also worried about the economy, the campaign sent that voter the name of an Obama supporter she would know and provided more information to try to move her to the president.
"It was auto-generated and coded, and came from campaign headquarters even though, to the recipient, it looked like it came from their peer," added Bloomberg.
Alinsky trainerBird did undergraduate studies at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he spent a semester abroad in Israel and reportedly took a keen interest in Israeli political activism.
"That's where I learned about politics," Bird said. "Ehud Barak was running against Benjamin Netanyahu; everybody was talking about it. It made me realize I didn't pay any attention to politics in the United States the way I should."
Barak was known for his leftist politics and would eventually offer PLO Leader Yasser Arafat a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern Jerusalem. According to reports, Barak conceded sections of the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. Arafat rejected the offer and instead launched an intifada, or terrorist war, targeting Israeli civilians.
Bird attended graduate school at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also enrolled in courses at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Bloomberg reported Bird enrolled in Harvard professor Marshall Ganz's course "Organizing: People, Power, and Change." Ganz became somewhat of a mentor to Bird and helped launch his organizing career.
Bird became a teaching assistant for Ganz at the time the professor was serving as an adviser to Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. Dean broke new ground, as Bloomberg noted, by running one of the first presidential campaigns to merge grassroots organizing with new technology.
Ganz was so impressed by Bird he sent him to work on Dean's campaign so that Bird would gain experience utilizing "organizational techniques — similar to the ones Ganz used with farm workers in California in the 1980s — to affect electoral politics," Bloomberg reported.
What the news agency failed to note is that Ganz, who pioneered the organizing and volunteer network for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, is
a radical Alinsky community organizer.
Ganz is a former civil rights activist and staff member for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who worked with César Chavez and the United Farm Workers beginning in 1965.
In 1980, Ganz became UFWs director of organizing. In 1991, Ganz returned to Harvard to complete his undergraduate degree in history and government. In 1993, he earned an MPA from the Kennedy School and completed his Ph.D. in sociology in 2000.
In California, Ganz was "mentored by figures from Saul Alinksy's community organizing movement," skills he put to use in the Obama campaign to train organizers, reported the Huffington Post.
Ganz was introduced to the Obama campaign through Kennedy School colleague Samantha Power, then one of Obama's senior foreign policy advisers.
In April 2007, reportedly met with Obama and then senior strategist David Axelrod at Harvard.
The Nation Magazine profiled Ganz: "After a series of meetings, Ganz was charged with the task of setting up a Camp Obama network, intensive community organizing–style training camps in which young people would be taught to tell Obama's story, to spread a message and generate the enthusiasm of a true grassroots movement.
"Its success was phenomenal, ultimately generating one of the most effective and broad-based presidential campaigns in American history."
Ganz also reportedly held two-day leadership training groups for "Camp Obama," the president's 2008 volunteer organization. He was instrumental in designing the initial field organizing and volunteer training infrastructure used by Obama's first campaign.
Following the 2008 election, Ganz became critical of Obama's slow pace at enacting progressive change.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Ganz recalled of Bird: "He seemed very earnest and, how can I say, looking for something real as opposed to theoretical, flaky sort of thing."
Ganz told the news agency that Bird's "calling is about engaging people in acting together in ways that they can alter their own life circumstances and that of the world around them. That's always been important to Jeremy, trying to sort through 'how does my calling translate into a career.'"
Exporting Obama modelAfter the 2012 campaign, Bird founded 270 Strategies with his colleagues from the Obama re-election team.
270 Strategies' team of 45 staffers includes 16 members who worked directly for Obama's campaigns. Most of the former Obama staffers hold the senior posts at the firm. Others worked for the Democratic Party, the Democratic National Committee or grassroots groups involved in progressive efforts, including a group to enroll Americans in Obamacare.
When the firm was founded last year, 270 Strategies brandished its leaders' central role in Obama's reelection campaign as part of a pitch to clients.
"We're building 270 Strategies to bring the empowering Obama grassroots model to your campaign," the group announced.
Common Core, SEIU, Hillary270 Strategies' client list boasts numerous Democratic personalities and progressive organizations aside from Battleground Texas, including Terry McAuliffe, Cory Booker, Planned Parenthood and the union SEIU.
The firm is working to build what it describes as a "grassroots army" for the political super PAC "Ready For Hillary," so that, Bird announced, "if and when Hillary makes any decision about her political future, she'll have the grassroots army she needs to pave her way to victory and the White House."
Bird's group was reportedly hired to oversee grassroots organizing, volunteer training and recruitment for the pro-Hillary PAC.
270 Strategies consults for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, ex-NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg's gun reform advocacy group. The firm is helping Bloomberg's organization to expand its outreach nationwide and target key legislators to achieve gun policy reform.
It also helped to launch socialist-style group calling itself Peers, which bills itself as the country's first member-driven organization committed to a "sharing economy." Peers believes that the "21st century economy means sharing assets like cars, homes, skills, and time," relates 270 Strategies on its website.
Peers' director, Natalie Foster, previously worked for both the Obama administration and the progressive Sierra Club.
Bird co-founded the Battleground Texas Action Committee, which utilizes
Alinsky-style field organizing in an attempt to turn Texas into a swing state.
Paid volunteers?Bird's firm, meanwhile, reportedly ran a five day "270/360 Training Intensive" program last September, with students paying a $3,500 fee to learn field work. If the students reportedly paid an additional $1,500 they would be sent out for volunteer field work for various Democratic campaigns. The courses were also aimed at political groups worldwide to learn Obama-style organizing tactics and then deploy the training in their home countries.
The
for-pay volunteer program and training course drew criticism from the progressive establishment.
"It's deeply concerning that leaders in our party are launching a 'pay to play' system for would-be campaign staff," one Democratic campaign veteran told BuzzFeed.
Mikey Franklin, a former progressive field staffer working to end the D.C. practice of unpaid internships, called the 270 Strategies course "shameful."
"It's a basic principle that people should work for pay; they shouldn't pay to work," Franklin said. "It's shameful that 270 Strategies are throwing their progressive values out of the window by charging $5,000 for a 5-day training and an unpaid internship. How will we win for the 99% if we only recruit from the 1%?"
With research by Brenda J. Elliott.
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Obuma Meets With Muslim Leaders At White House, Tries To Sell Them ObumaCrappyCare
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(Oddly enough, the White House is refusing to say which Muslims leaders he met with...)
Via The Blaze:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/04/obama-meets-with-american-muslims-to-discuss-islamic-state-and-anti-muslim-discrimination/
Barack Obama reportedly talked to Muslim Americans about stopping the Islamic State and stopping anti-Muslim discrimination during a meeting at the White House Wednesday. He even talked to them about Obamacare.
Citing privacy issues, the White House refused to identify the Muslim leader who met with Obama in private. The meeting was closed to the press and did not include a list of participants. [...]
"The President reiterated his Administration's commitment to safeguarding civil rights through hate crimes prosecutions and civil enforcement actions," the White House release said.
The White House went on to say that the American Muslim community was working with the Muslim community "on a range of domestic issues such as the
Affordable Care Act, issues of anti-Muslim violence and discrimination, the 21st Century Policing Task Force, and the upcoming White House Summit on Countering Violence Extremism."
Game Changer? Why ISIS Shouldn't Have Messed With King Abdullah and Jordan
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(What's really been missing in the fight against ISIS is competent cohesive strength on the ground. If Jordan is applying for that role, it could be a game changer. King Abdullah basically captivated media yesterday by quoting Clint Eastwood and vowing to not stop 'until we run out of fuel and bullets" to destroy ISIS. This is what a leader with resolve looks like. Can we trade for him? HUH...)
Via Fox News:
Jordan's King Abdullah is a former general and special forces commander who experts say has the resolve to follow through on his vow to crush ISIS.
Following the release of a ghastly video showing a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned to death, the 53-year-old monarch warned that retribution will be swift. And with an army of more than 100,000 well-trained soldiers, tens of thousands more in reserves and a capable air force, Abdullah's kingdom is more than up to the task, Middle East experts told FoxNews.com.
"Their ability to do difficult things with small numbers of highly trained people is up there with some of the best militaries in the world," Jon Alterman, director of the Center for Strategic & International Studies' Middle East Program, said of Jordan's military.
Keep reading at: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/04/jordan-king-abdullah-formidable-military-force-against-isis-experts-say/?intcmp=trending(Meanwhile, President Obuttma will be "redoubling efforts" against ISIS...)
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Poll: 53% Of Iowa Republicans And 81% Of Dems Think Islam Is "Inherently Peaceful"
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(Wait, peaceful?? Maybe they read 'Tacitus' too often: "...and they made a desert and called it peace." "I.O.W.A.= Idiots Out Wandering Around." Yes, people. Iowa is populated by some of the DUMBEST people on the planet. Why do you think the presidential primaries start there??????...)
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Two out of five Republicans likely to participate in Iowa's presidential caucuses say they are inclined to view Islam as an inherently violent religion that inspires brutality by its followers, according to a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.
Twice as many Democrats—along with a majority of Republicans—say they view the world's second largest religion as inherently peaceful, the poll found.
The divisions, coming after the Charlie Hebdo killings in France and and the Islamic State's beheadings of several Western prisoners, may shape the way White House hopefuls from both parties address Islamic militancy, both in terms of fighting threats abroad and balancing freedom of religion and expression with security concerns.
In the poll, conducted Jan. 26-29, 402 likely Republican caucus-goers and 401 likely Democratic caucus-goers were asked: "When it comes to the Islamic faith, which of the following is closer to your view?" They were given two choices: "Islam is an inherently violent religion, which leads its followers to violent acts" and "Islam is an inherently peaceful religion, but there are some who twist its teachings to justify violence."
Fifty-three percent of likely Republican caucus participants and 81 percent of likely Democratic caucus participants said they believe Islam is inherently peaceful. Only 13 percent of likely Democratic caucus participants said they view Islam as inherently violent, compared with 39 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
NBC's Brian Williams Lied About 2003 Iraq RPG Attack on Helicopter He Was In
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Brian Williams forced to admit his repeatedfabrications and astonishing lies
VIDEO on Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3NAwZ4hGk
(It has taken Williams 12 years to come clean. "Misremembered?" What the hell is that? So, basically he B.S. to get some cred... kinda like Hillary dodging sniper fire in Bosnia...):
Hillary VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I23fjRN-PGc#t=13
Via Stars and Stripes http://www.stripes.com/news/us/nbc-s-brian-williams-recants-iraq-story-after-soldiers-protest-1.327792
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit and forced down by RPG fire during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a false claim that has been repeated by the network for years.
Williams repeated the claim Friday during NBC's coverage of a public tribute at a New York Rangers hockey game for a retired soldier that had provided ground security for the grounded helicopters, a game to which Williams accompanied him. In an interview with Stars and Stripes, he said he had misremembered the events and was sorry.
The admission came after crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment's Chinook that was hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that the NBC anchor was nowhere near that aircraft or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that took fire. Williams arrived in the area about an hour later on another helicopter after the other three had made an emergency landing, the crew members said.
"I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams said. "I don't know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."
Williams made the claim while presenting NBC coverage of the tribute to the retired command sergeant major at the Rangers game, and the fans giving the soldier a standing ovation.[...]
Miller, Reynolds and Mike O'Keeffe, who was a door gunner on the damaged Chinook, said they all recall NBC reporting that Williams was aboard the aircraft that was attacked, despite it being false. The NBC online archive shows the network broadcast a news story on March 26, 2003, with the headline "Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC's Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire."
Tom Brady May Have To Pay $60,500 To The IRS After Super Bowl Win
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(If he already didn't hate the IRS, he's about to. Hey, Tom, you didn't win that! The govt did. You see, the govt built the stadium where you played. Allowed you to travel by plane, which is controlled by the govt. The roads you drove on to get to the stadium were paved by govt workers. If it wasn't for the govt nothing would get done, so you have to pay. So If you complain about it, Brady, the IRS will surely move to deflate your balls...)
Via Washington Examiner:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tom-brady-faces-60500-irs-bill-for-winning-super-bowl/article/2559818
Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady is facing a $60,500 bill from the IRS just for winning the game, according to a new report.
Americans for Tax Reform said he will have to pay $42,000 on his share of the $97,000 for playing in the championship, and another $18,500 for giving away the red Chevy Colorado pickup truck he won for being MVP to fellow player Malcolm Butler, who caught the game-winning interception.
They said Brady will have to pay about $13,000 in income tax on the prize, and then another $5,000 "gift tax" for doing a nice thing in giving Butler the keys.
"That's a $5,000 gift tax on top of a $13,500 income tax on the truck, for a combined federal tax hit of $18,500," said ATR, headed by Washington tax foe Grover Norquist.
Then there's the game check of $97,000 for winning. "Brady will face income tax at the top rate of 39.6 percent. In addition, since this is a wage, he will also owe the top Medicare tax of 3.8 percent, half of which will be picked up by the NFL. Put those together, and Brady will pay $42,000 in federal taxes on the game," said ATR.
***Pic Of The Day***
(Guess who?
Searchlight, Nev. version of, Darryl, and his brother Darryl)
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From earlier today: Harry Reid's Brother Arrested For Drunk Driving, Assaulting Police Officer, Possession Of Gun While Under Influence Of Alcohol
http://freebeacon.com/politics/report-harry-reids-brother-larry-reid-arrested-for-dui-and-assaulting-officer-had-gun-on-him/
Obuma: Islamic State "Betraying" The Religion Of Peace,
Christians Were The Ones Who Did "Terrible Deeds In The
Name of Christ" During The Crusades
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(A liberal favorite, attacking Christianity for being violent while
excusing the hundreds of stacks of bodies Islam piles up on a daily basis...)
Via Grabien:https://grabien.com/file.php?id=35369&searchorder=date
We see faith driving us to do right, but we also see faith being twisted and distorted. Used as a wedge or worse sometimes used as a weapon. From a school in Pakistan to the streets of Paris, we have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those to profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam but, in fact, are betraying it. We see ISIS, a brutal, vicious death cult that in the name of religion carries out unspeakable acts of barbarism. [...]
Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history, and unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the crusades and the inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ.
Obama Uses National Prayer Breakfast To Slam America:
In Our Country Jim Crow And Slavery Were "Justified In The Name Of Christ"
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(America-bashing, or as Dems call it, playing to the base... Obuma's Kenyan ancestors were slave owners and slave traders. He forgot to mention that! The Raisin Head President has gone full Muslim. "Raisin Head" is Mohammad's term for Negroes. Scratch an American Raisin Head, find a Muslim waiting to Allah Snackbar....)
OBAMA: In our home country, slavery and Jim crow, all too often was justified in the name of Christ. Michelle and I returned from India, an incredible, beautiful country. Full of this magnificent diversity, but a place where in past years religious faiths of all types have on occasion been targeted by other peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and believes. Acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhi, the person who helped to liberate that nation. So this is not unique to one group or one religion. There is a tendency in us, sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith.
Obuma: "I've Sought God's Guidance Throughout My Presidency"
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(Allah?...)
OBUMA:
https://grabien.com/file.php?id=35367&searchorder=date
She said, keep us tasks too hard for us that we might be driven to thee for strength. Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to thee for strength. I've wondered at times if maybe god was answering that prayer a little too literally. But no matter the challenge, he has been there. For all of us. And he certainly strengthened me with the power through this spirt as I've sought his guidance throughout my presidency.
CIA Airstrike Kills Al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula Top Cleric Harith al-Nadhari
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(Vaporized.... Poof... Gone...)
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen announced on Thursday that one of its top clerics was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month in the country's south.
The announcement came amid lingering uncertainty about the impact of Yemen's current political deadlock on the U.S. counterterrorism campaign.
The slain cleric was identified as Sheikh Harith al-Nadhari, said to be in his 30s. Often seen in a white turban, he was among the group's few public faces frequently featured in online religious lectures. He also recently appeared in an al-Qaida video praising last month's deadly attack at the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Yemeni affiliate is known, claimed responsibility for the Paris attack in which two gunmen killed 12 people.
Al-Nadhari was killed along with three others on Jan. 31, when a drone-fired missile blew up a vehicle in which the four were travelling in the southern province of Shabwa, according to the AQAP statement, posted on one of its official Twitter accounts.
People Jailed for Owing Less Taxes Than Al Sharpton
By Elizabeth MacDonald/ Published February 05, 2015/ FOXBusiness
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Serial tax avoidance appears to be a hallmark of Al Sharpton's operations. But there's a warning here: Others have gone to prison for lesser amounts. The list includes rock legend Chuck Berry, Grammy winner Lauryn Hill, Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers, Survivor reality star Richard Hatch, hotel queen Leona Helmsely, and baseball's Pete Rose (see below).
According to a New York Times' review of government records last fall, the MSNBC host and civil rights activist personally faces federal tax liens for more than $3 million in back taxes owed, and state tax liens of $777,657. So in total, Sharpton reportedly owes more than $3.7 million in back taxes. His other two for-profit businesses, Raw Talent and Revals Communications, (both now defunct) owe anywhere from $717,000 to more than $800,000, based on state and federal tax liens, reports from the Times and National Review indicate. Revals Communications also either didn't file its tax returns, or underpaid its tax bills from 1999 to 2002.(http://www.foxbusiness.com/static/managed/img/fb2/markets/Sharpton_taxes1.jpg)
(Bobble-head Al Crapton getting pass on taxes due to Obama connections...)
Sharpton's National Action Network also owed more than $813,000 in federal back taxes as of December of 2012, according to the nonprofit's recent filings. At one point, the National Action Network's tax liability more than doubled last decade, jumping from $900,000 in 2003 to almost $1.9 milion in 2006. In 1993, Sharpton also had entered a guilty plea for the misdemeanor of failing to file his New York State income-tax return. Sharpton has also said the National Action Network had once given him a loan to pay for his daughters' tuition, which is a violation of the law.
Sharpton B.S.: has heatedly denied the tax evasion claims. "The (New York Times') story is at best misleading and totally out of context," Sharpton has said, adding, "Every time there's a Sean Bell or a Ferguson or a Trayvon Martin, we go through my taxes."
Sharpton also said of the Times article: "I think it's political...a lot of people don't like the fact that President Obama is president. A lot of people don't like the fact that Bill de Blasio won for mayor. And they certainly don't like the fact that I'm still here." A Times spokesperson has said: "We stand by our story."
Sharpton indicated he has accrued these tax bills, but he has said he is either disputing the amounts owed or has been paying off his personal federal income taxes in installments. He has said his nonprofit, the National Action Network, also has been paying off its tax liability. Individual IRS tax returns and records are not publicly available, they are subject to privacy laws, as are documentation of fights between taxpayers and the agency. However, state and federal tax liens against Mr. Sharpton and his businesses appear to remain active, which indicates the bills have not been completely paid off.
It's an open secret in Washington, DC and among IRS revenue agents and auditors that the IRS's decentralized operation often results in disparate treatment of taxpayers. Even though there exists a large body of administrative law that says federal agencies must exercise their discretion in a consistent manner, tax lawyers have argued that does not necessarily apply to the IRS. Reason: In many cases, the IRS argues it is actually not exercising any discretion, but instead is hewing to the law and its directives.
However, reality is often different. For instance, in one 2010 IRS case, a manufacturer alleged the agency unfairly slapped his company with a federal excise tax that his competitors did not have to pay. But the company lost in the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Judge Juan R. Torruella wrote for the court. "The goal of treating similarly situated taxpayers consistently is general, not strict."
That certainly has been the experience of others who have gone to prison for tax avoidance--a red flag for Sharpton and his operation:
Chuck Berry ($200,000)
In 1979, the rock legend served a five-month sentence at California's Lompoc Prison Camp after he was found guilty of evading $200,000 in taxes. Berry was also ordered to do 1,000 hours of community service upon his release.
Pete Rose ($354,968)
In 1990, the former Cincinnati Red star and manager pleaded guilty to two felony charges of filing false federal tax returns. Rose spent five months in a Marion, Ill., federal prison; he was also fined $50,000. Rose had failed to report on his tax returns $354,968 in income from selling memorabilia and autographs, as well as personal appearances (his gambling resulted in a lifetime ban from baseball).
Richard Hatch ($1 million+)
In 2006, this "Survivor" reality star was convicted of tax evasion and tax fraud for failing to pay taxes on his $1 million-plus in "Survivor" winnings. Hatch was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison. He served just over three years before his release in 2009. Hatch was then ordered to refile his 2000 and 2001 tax returns, but did not do so. He was eventually ordered back to jail in 2011 to serve nine months, and left jail on supervised release. By that time, together with penalty and interest, Hatch owed close to $2 million in back taxes.
Leona Helmsley ($1.7 million)
In 1992 a federal judge sentenced Leona Helmsley to four years in prison (an initial 16-year sentence was reduced on appeal) after her tax evasion conviction. The billionaire real estate heiress was charged with avoiding $1.2 million in taxes after claiming $2.6 million in ineligible business expenses, including personal items. Helmsley also was ordered to do 750 hours of community service and was slapped with a $7.1 million fine. Helmsley served 21 months and was released in January 1994. She was quoted by her maid at trial as saying: "We don't pay taxes, only little people pay taxes."
Lauryn Hill ($1.8 million)
In 2012, Hill pleaded guilty to three counts of failure to file tax returns on $1.8 million in earnings between 2005 to 2007. Even though the founding member of the Fugees had argued she nearly paid off her taxes before sentencing, Hill was sentenced to three months in prison. Her sentencing also took into account unpaid state and federal taxes in 2008 and 2009, which brought the total owed to roughly $2.3 million. Hill served her three-month sentence in a federal prison in Danbury, Conn. in 2013. Upon release, she also spent three months in home confinement as part of her parole.
Ron Isley ($3.1 million)
In 2006, the lead singer of The Isley Brothers ("Who's That Lady") was found guilty of five counts of tax evasion and one count of willful failure to file tax returns for tax years 1997–2002, amounting to $3.1 million not reported. Isley was sentenced to three years and one month, served three years behind bars, and was released in April 2010. Isley's attorney had pleaded for leniency because Isley had been attempting to pay down his IRS debt. Defense attorney Anthony Alexander also had argued that the 65-year-old singer should receive probation instead of prison time because of complications from a stroke and a bout with kidney cancer. But the judge on his case, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson, declined to sentence the R&B singer to less time than called for under federal guidelines. "The term serial tax avoider has been used. I think that's appropriate," Pregerson said.
Rapper Flavor Flav smarter than Obuma?
Calls for nations to wipe out ISIS
(It's pretty embarrassing when a drugged out has-been rapper has a saner view of foreign policy than our country's president...):
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What a contrast: on the same day President Obama attempted to blame Christians for violence and extremism, a well-known rapper instead implored him to take firm action against ever-increasing Islamic atrocities.
Rapper Flavor Flav issued his manifesto against Islamofascism in a series of tweets posted this afternoon, prompting conservative communications strategist Ali A Akbar to proclaim that he "has a stronger foreign policy on #ISIS than our President. Go check out my man's Twitter feed!"
While attending the National Prayer Breakfast, however, Obama went in the other direction, claiming the real problem throughout history has been Christianity: "And lest we get on our high horse and think this is (pause) unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow, all too often was justified in the name of Christ."
That prompted this response from Rush Limbaugh: "The problem today is not Christianity. The problem today is that people are being killed, captured, conquered to advance and impose Sharia law. The Christians are doing no such thing, and haven't I don't know if ever, on this scale, and for how long."
Rapper Flav, best known as a member of Public Enemy rather than for stances on global politics, apparently reached his personal boiling point after a Jordanian soldier was burned alive while caged as part of a probable ISIS recruiting stunt.(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/flavor-tweet-550x253.png)
http://mediaequalizer.com/brian-maloney/2015/02/rapper-flavor-flav-demands-obama-take-action-against-isis
Flashback Video: Lyin' Brian Covers Hillary Clinton's Made Up "Sniper Fire" Story
(I wonder if it occurred to Williams when he was covering
this story that he had done the same thing...?)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkNEDXvjP18#t=83
Ferguson Police To Test Bozo Bullet Which Turns Guns Into Non-Lethal Weapons
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(Homie the Clown is in charge of training the Ferguson PD on the use of the Bozo bullet...)
Via The Daily Mail * $45 orange device attaches to the top of a normal handgun
* Extends alloy Ping-Pong-ball-sized projectile in front of the muzzle
* Bullet embeds itself inside the projectile, firing it
* Five Ferguson police department instructors are training to use the device
* Dectractors have dubbed it the 'bozo bullet' as it resembles a clown's nose http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2940332/Ferguson-police-test-gadget-turn-guns-non-lethal-weapons-firing-alloy-balls.html#ixzz3Qw0qlyEA
Ferguson police are testing a new non lethal attatchemt for handguns.
It allows them to fire alloys 'ping pong balls' – which can bring a person down but not kill them.
This week, five instructors for the Missouri city's police department are training to use the device, called the Alternative.
The Ferguson Police Department, which reportedly intends to distribute the Alternative to all of its officers following training, found itself at the center of national debates over policing and race relations after then-Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown last August.
'The alternative was developed as a blunt force impact device to fill the void in lethal force situations, which until now could only be addressed with a firearm,' Alternative Ballistics, the firm which designed the weapon, said.
'Concerned with the number of deaths of officers and citizens resulting when confrontations occur, where a new lethal force option would have been preferred but not readily available, we developed the Alternative.[...]
The Alternative is a small orange device that attaches to the top of a normal handgun and extends a Ping-Pong-ball-sized projectile in front of the muzzle.
Obuma Denied Predator Drones To Jordan Earlier This Year For Islamic State Fight
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Via Washington Times:The Obama administration earlier this year turned down a request from Jordan for Predator spy drones that would help it locate targets in the war against the Islamic State.
The refusal, disclosed by a House Armed Services Committee, member, is gaining importance today since Jordan has emerged as a critical player in a U.S.-led coalition to destroy the terror group.
On Tuesday, the Islamic State released a video of its execution by fire of a capture Jordanian pilot. Jordan retaliated on Thursdaywith F-16 air strikes on the Syrian town of Raqqa and is vowing a relentless war against the Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS.
Members of Congress are calling on the White House to approve a list of new weapons for King Abdullah, a strong U.S. ally.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, on Thursday sent a letter to President Obama asking him to approve transfer of the Predator's unarmed export version for surveillance missions.
Jordan was the second Arab state to sign a peace treaty with Israel, in 1994, a pact that is not considered precarious barring drastic regime change in Jordan.
The U.S. has provided Jordan with F-16 Falcon fighter jets and other advanced weapons.
Mr. Hunter's district is in the San Diego area, home to Predator maker General Atomics.
Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, told CNN on Wednesday that King Abdullah, who met with senators while in Washington, is frustrated by a "huge bureaucratic bottleneck in the State Department."
"He needs some types of weapons very badly," Mr. McCain said. "We'll be working immediately to try and achieve that for him."
The issue of Jordanian frustration with the speed of U.S. weapons deliveries came up during Wednesday's confirmation hearings for Defense Secretary-designate Ashton Carter.
All 26 members of Mr. McCain's committee sent a letter on Wednesday to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and to Mr. Kerry asking them to speed up arms shipments to Jordan.
"Jordan is seeking to obtain aircraft parts, additional night vision equipment and precision munitions that the King feels he needs to secure his border and robustly execute combat air missions into Syria," the senators wrote. "We understand the need to ensure the integrity of third party transfers, the protection of critical U.S. technologies, and our commitment to the maintenance of a Qualitative Military Edge (QME) for Israel.
"However," the senate panel continued, "Jordan's situation and the cohesiveness of the coalition demands we move with speed to ensure they receive the military materiel they require for ongoing operations against ISIL."
Jordan's King Abdullah II has vowed to launch war on the Islamic State, saying Wednesday that "the blood of martyr [Lt.] Muath al-Kaseasbeh will not be in vain, and the response of Jordan and its army after what happened to our dear son will be severe."
On Thursday, dozens of Jordanian F-16s carried out strikes on targets around Raqqa, the Islamic State's self-styled capital, and even spread its attacks into Islamic State-held targets in Iraq.
Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh told Fox News that Jordan was still mostly hitting Islamic State targets in Syria as part of a U.S.-led military coalition, but was now spreading its involvement.
"We said we are going to take this all the way, we are going to go after [the Islamic State] wherever they are, and we're doing that," he said. "They're in Iraq and they are in Syria, and therefore you have to target them wherever they are."
According to The Associated Press in Amman, Jordanian state TV showed fighter jets taking off from an air base and large balls of fire and smoke after bombs had fallen. Jordanian troops scribbled chalk messages on the missiles, with one reading "for you, the enemies of Islam."
Abdullah paid a condolence visit to the family of Lt. al-Kaseasbeh on Thursday and was sitting next to the pilot's father, Safi al-Kaseasbeh, as fighter jets roared overhead. The king pointed upward.
The official Facebook page of The Royal Hashemite Court made it personal as well this week. In an image that has since gone viral, the Court posted a picture of Abdullah in military fatigues, and noted that he'd cut short his U.S. visit in response to the pilot's death.
According to Mr. Hunter, Abdullah quoted a line from Clint Eastwood's revenge Western "Unforgiven" at a meeting with U.S. Congress members Tuesday after the news of the burning death had broken.
While the Jordanian government has denied Abdullah would take part in actual attacks, he has been called the "warrior king" due to his decades of military service. Like his father and predecessor, King Hussein, Abdullah enrolled in the U.K.'s Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. The current king has been a pilot for Cobra attack helicopters.
For its part, the Islamic State has signaled that its fire execution will not be its last, according to translations of its official Twitter account by the Middle East Media Research Institute.
After Jordanian Air Force Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh was set on fire while caged, the Islamic State's "Fatwa and Research Authority" called such burnings "completely permissible" under Muslim law in a series of theological discussions and accounts of Muslim history and scholarship, including the actions of Muhammad.
According to MEMRI, the Islamic State deemed Lt. al-Kaseasbeh a non-Muslim or apostate, and noted that Muslim schools of jurisprudence have interpreted loosely the apparent Koranic prohibition on "burning an infidel with fire until he dies."
"The Hanafi and Shafi'i schools hold that burning is completely permissible. They interpreted the saying of the Prophet that 'Only Allah shall torture with fire' as [a call for] humility. [The scholar] Al-Muhallab said: 'This ban is not [an actual] prohibition, but rather a means for [advocating] humility.'
"[Shafi'i scholar] Ibn Hajar, may Allah have mercy on him, said: '[This saying] indicates that it is permissible to burn, as the Companions did. The Prophet blinded two men from 'Arina [whom he judged to be apostates and criminals] with a branding iron. Khalid bin Al-Walid, [one of the Prophet's Companions], also burned apostates with fire.'"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/5/obama-denied-request-jordan-predator-drones-islami/
ISIS Foreign Fighters Dominate Control of Raqqa
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(With the foreign fighters being the most brutal savages in a group full of brutal savages...)
SANLIURFA, Turkey—In Islamic State's de facto capital of Raqqa, a Syrian city on the banks of the Euphrates, few Syrians hold positions of power these days. Running the show, residents say, are the thousands of foreigners who have converged there to establish an Islamic utopia they believe will soon conquer the planet.
"What we have is a foreign occupation," said Sarmad al-Jilane, a former electronics student from Raqqa who now runs a website from neighboring Turkey documenting Islamic State abuses in his hometown called Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently. "Those who are paid by them, like them, of course. But most others hate them because of all these killings and beheadings."
Around 20,000 foreign fighters have joined Islamic State in Syria and Iraq over the past two years, Western intelligence officials estimate. While many nationalities are represented, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Russia and France have produced some of the largest contingents.
As this unprecedented influx continues, mostly through Syria's long and porous border with Turkey, the rise of the foreign fighters is changing the very nature of the Syrian war.
In the early days of the conflict, many of these combatants came to Syria because of their desire to defend fellow Sunni Muslims against President Bashar al-Assad 's regime.
Now, their main motivation often appears to be participating in the experiment of creating a new Islamic society—an experiment in which the fate of Syria and Syrians is secondary at best. [...]
On the front lines, the Free Syrian Army troops have learned to fear and respect these foreign fighters. Many have arrived in Syria with military experience from other jihadist battlefields. Others, driven by ideology, are simply far more willing to die than their enemies.
"You shoot at them, and they continue to advance, walking all over their dead friends," says Bakri Kaakeh, an officer with the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo province. "They just don't care."While Islamic State's Syrian soldiers can often be bribed to turn a blind eye to offenses against the group's strict rules, the idealistic foreigners have the reputation of being hard to corrupt.
"You can pay off a Syrian to get out of jail, but the foreigners just won't take your money," said Taim Ramadan, a former coffee-shop owner in Raqqa who recently escaped to Turkey, and who has had conversations with a Finnish convert to Islam within Islamic State ranks.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-islamic-state-stronghold-of-raqqa-foreign-fighters-dominate-1423087426
Iran: Obama Is "Begging Us For A Deal"
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(POS Obuma's obsession with cutting a deal with Iran is suspect to say the least. This article is worth the read. Nicely outlines why Obuma is so desperate for a deal with Iran...)
Via Free Beacon:http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-the-americans-are-begging-us-for-a-deal/
A top Iranian military leader claims that U.S. officials have been "begging us" to sign a nuclear deal during closed door negotiations with Tehran over its contested nuclear program, according to recent comments made to the Iranian state-controlled media.
Mohammad Reza Naghdi, the commander of the Basij, a paramilitary group operating under the wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), recently claimed that the "Americans are begging us for a deal on the negotiation table," according to comments published in Persian and independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon.
Naghdi added that American officials routinely "plea" with Iran in talks and that the United States is negotiating from a position of weakness, according to his comments, which follow earlier reports claiming that Iran's leading negotiator "frequently shouts" at U.S. officials.
The military leader's remarks appear to jibe with new reports that the United States is conceding ground to Iran in talks and will now allow it to "keep much of its uranium-enriching technology," according to the Associated Press.
Iran: America Is "Meddlesome" – No Longer a Superpower
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Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri dismissed America as a "meddlesome" former superpower.
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Press TV reported:http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/02/05/396224/Irans-missile-might-not-up-for-debate
A senior Iranian commander has dismissed as "meddlesome" the recent US claims that Tehran's defense might would be part of the nuclear talks with six world powers, saying Iran's missile capability is non-negotiable.
"Iran's missile programs and defense capability, irrespective of their purpose, are not negotiable in any foreign circle," Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said on Wednesday.
"We don't allow the US and others to interfere in the country's defense affairs," he added.
The commander underlined that Iran will use its defense might against bullying powers whenever it deems necessary.
He said Iran's military might serves to defend the nations, adding that if the US oversteps the red lines, then it will have to be worried about Iran's missiles.
"Gone are the days when the US was a superpower, but some still haven't realized it," he said.
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From our Educated Barbed Wire.
New York Times Today : Bruce Jenner "Courageous" – Chris Kyle "Insane"
Posted on February 5, 2015
Top story in today's New York Times.
Bruce Jenner is courageous for cutting his dick off, but Chris Kyle is insane for recovering from PTSD after serving his country in the most stressful conditions over several voluntary tours of duty.
(One of my favorite things in the whole world, which provides me with endless hours of side-splitting laughing, is the leftist obsession with all things gay and transsexual. The leftists absolutely love gayness for some bizarre reason, and it's genuinely absurd at this point the way they carp about homosexuality endlessly. Only 3% of the population is gay or "transgendered" according the recent CDC survey of 30,000 Americans, yet if you did nothing but listen to the leftist news media, you'd think homosexuals comprise 50% of the population. To the silly and politically correct lefties, anyone who is gay is automatically "brave." I cannot figure out the connection. Suffering from a psychosexual emotional disorder makes a person brave?
The Obuma Adm. Leftists are such a destructive and regressive force in our society. They're trying to ruin the world. They like to shout things like "flat Earther!" and "fight global-warming"... but the fact is, I've never ever met a lefty who even knows how change the oil in his Prius, or hook-up a eco-waterless toilet system . The aim of leftists is to destroy Judeo-Christian values, and the family unit. So anything "counter culture" is embraced by the left.... an American war hero suffering from PTSD after serving several combat tours is smeared as "insane," while Jenner is praised for turning his life into a freak show for TV ratings. I'll never understand how these people think...)(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-shot-2015-02-06-at-1.01.50-PM-550x627.png)
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'American Sniper' Moral – NY Times
Things we can learn from "American Sniper":You know the movie, right? It has not only been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar; it could wind up selling more tickets than the other seven nominees combined. Plus, it's triggered a left-right controversy that makes the old dust-up over "Duck Dynasty" seem like a tiny cultural blip.
"American Sniper" tells the story of Chris Kyle, a real-life Iraq war veteran and sharpshooter. The film is certainly powerful, and it celebrates our Iraq veterans. But it also eulogizes the killing of Iraq insurgents, including children, and critics feel it ought to be put in the context of an invasion that didn't need to happen in the first place.
There's been less conversation about the final scene in the movie, which shows the hero walking through his family home, where the kids are romping. He's carrying a handgun, which he points at his wife Taya, playfully telling her to "drop them drawers." Taya says she can see he's finally getting over his war traumas and back to his old fun-loving self.America's new role model??
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(This is, by virtually any standard, insane behavior...)
Report: Brian Williams' Katrina Coverage May Have Been Fabricated, Said He Saw "Dead Bodies" Floating Past Hotel And Catching Dysentery – UPDATE: Video Added
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(Two big problems for Lyin' Brian: The French Quarter never flooded,
no floating dead bodies (where his hotel was) and doctors say there
were no reported cases of dysentery...)
Via NY Post:http://pagesix.com/2015/02/06/brian-williams-hurricane-katrina-experience-in-question-report/
More
'heroic tales' of Brian Williams' adventures in journalism are being questioned.
The NBC news anchor, who apologized Wednesday for telling a false story about taking fire in a helicopter while covering Iraq, is being called out for possibly lying about his experience covering Hurricane Katrina, according to a report.
Williams claimed to have gotten dysentery from drinking floodwater and seeing dead bodies float past his hotel in the New Orleans French Quarter while covering Hurricane Katrina.
However, the The New Orleans Advocate noted that the French Quarter was not flooded and quoted a local health expert who did not recall anyone getting such a stomach ailment.
Williams recalled his bout with the bug in an interview with Tom Brokaw last year, when he said: "I accidentally ingested some of the floodwater. I became very sick with dysentery."
The Advocate said a public health official never heard of people getting things like dysentery after the storm.
"I don't recall a single, solitary case of gastroenteritis during Katrina or in the whole month afterward," Dr. Brobson Lutz told The Advocate.
Tom Brokejaw Wants Lyin' Brian Williams Fired . . . Knew Story Was Fake Years Ago
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(Brokejaw wants Lyin' Brian off the stage before folks start poking around in Brokejaw's career as the spokes-weasel of the Democrat Party. So mumbly mouth want's the lying gasbag axed? Well how in the hell did Brokejaw get his job in the first place, with a speech impediment confusing his L's and R's. Now Dan Rather comes to the rescue. Why this is nothing more than kabuki theater amongst a pack of pampered liberal hacks. Besides, NBC will probably elevate Lyin' Brian to the President of the news division. Lying, making awful decisions and bad drama seems to be a prerequisite for the job. I mean, with those kind of credentials, look where it got Barack Insane Obuma...)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8id3o-BPbM#t=45
Via NY Post:http://pagesix.com/2015/02/05/tom-brokaw-wants-brian-williams-fired/
NBC's most revered journalist is furious that Brian Williams is still in the anchor chair after he sheepishly admitted he hadn't traveled on a helicopter hit by enemy fire.
"Brokaw wants Williams' head on a platter," an NBC source said. "He is making a lot of noise at NBC that a lesser journalist or producer would have been immediately fired or suspended for a false report."
Brokaw, 74, was still the "Nightly News" anchor when Williams came back from his Iraq expedition — and an insider said he knew the story Williams later spouted was bunk.
"Tom Brokaw and [former NBC News President] Steve Capus knew this was a false story for a long time and have been extremely uncomfortable with it," the source said.
Lyin' Brian Williams Reports Other (False) Stories
About Himself
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Brian Williams' career is now under a microscope as other pronouncements he's made, such as claiming he cured Ebola and killed Osama bin Laden, come under scrutiny.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N09iNMT-dU0#t=10
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8id3o-BPbM#t=45
WH Encouraged CBC To Skip Netanyahu Speech To Congress
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So childish clownish... Netanyahu knows exactly who the 'haters' are. He wants to speak to the real Americans - not the Commies, the CBC, Obama lapdogs who have been supporting this destructive administration. And where will John Lewis, G.K. Butterfield and the CBC be:
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Via Daily Mail:Two prominent black Democrats in the House of Representatives are vowing to skip Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress next month, a move that a White House insider says was put in motion by the Obama administration.
John Lewis of Georgia and G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina both said Friday that they disapproved when House Speaker John Boehner invited the Israeli leader to address a joint session of Congress on March 3 without consulting President Barack Obama first.
That disapproval apparently was orchestrated, or at least strongly encouraged, by the White House through communications with lawmakers connected to the Congressional Black Caucus.
'I'm not saying the president called anyone personally,' a current White House staffer told Daily Mail Online.
'But yeah, the White House sent a message to some at the CBC that they should suddenly be very upset about the speech.'
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HUH??....
Not since Santa Claus was in short pants has anyone been as generous as Obama when it comes to bestowing gifts. But unlike Santa, Obama insists on rewarding those who have been naughty and turning into Scrooge when it comes to those who are nice.
Although all it would take to bring about immigration reform is for Obama to build a 21st century fence along our southern border, he keeps it as porous as possible because he wants the nation flooded with future Democrats.
Actually, before erecting a barrier that would solve the problem for the states in the southwest, Obama would be more likely to officially cede Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, back to Mexico, and let Nevada, Oregon, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Colorado, inherit the border problem.
In 2012, Obama was overheard telling the Russians that after the election he would be more flexible. Putin got the message and soon consumed Crimea and made inroads into eastern Ukraine.
What we didn't realize was that behind closed doors, he must have told the Castro brothers and Iran's mullahs that on their behalf he would turn himself into a virtual Gumby.
According to Israpundit, the U.S. recently intervened in the Argentine probe of the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 and seriously injured 151.
The probe, it seems, was getting uncomfortably close to identifying Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran's one-time Foreign Minister, as the mastermind of the plot. The man has been on Interpol's most wanted list since 2007, and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.
So why would the U.S. intervene on his behalf? Apparently it was because Iran made it a condition before agreeing to take part in the ongoing-going-nowhere nuclear negotiations. Inasmuch as two of the countries taking part in the talks are Russia and China, otherwise known as Iran's major allies in the world, you can see how desperate Obama and Kerry are to have Iran merely seen sitting at the table.
But, then, this is the same administration that was so desperate to make it appear they were bringing peace to the Middle East that they paid the so-called Palestinians millions of dollars to remain at the negotiating table with Israel, even though everyone knew the talks between Israel and those sworn to her extinction were pointless. With Obama, though, optics, as usual, is everything, which is why he used the State of the Union address as just another campaign speech.
I'm sure Obama and Kerry would insist it was just a coincidence that Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found shot to death just hours before he was scheduled to appear before the Argentine Congress to provide evidence that President Cristina Kirchner intentionally concealed Teheran's connection to the bombing.
Of course it isn't news when it comes to Argentina or the U.S. protecting Nazis from their just deserts; both made a habit of it after World War II. Argentina did it because Juan Peron shared Hitler's politics; the U.S. because we craved Nazi know-how when it came to missiles and nuclear physics.
But the idea of shielding a mortal enemy nation merely for the sake of looking serious about Iran and its nuclear ambitions is a novel, despicable and absolutely indefensible motive.
The world, it should be said, is fortunate that the Islamics lack German brain power because they are in fact viler than the Nazis. I have come to that conclusion because, one, the Nazis had nothing against the modern world except that it included Jews, Catholics, communists, gypsies, homosexuals and the physically/mentally retarded, but, mainly, because Germany didn't rule it. They appreciated art and music, as well as architecture, literature, athletics and beautiful women. It's only the Islamics who seek to return the world to the gutter of the 8th century.
Moreover, the Nazis sought by every means possible to conceal the cattle cars, slave labor and gas ovens, from the eyes of the world. The Muslims, on the other hand, display their barbarism on social media and have turned beheadings and crucifixions into regular TV fare.
But proving that America isn't the only nation saddled with obnoxious politicians, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, who is now running for a seat in the Knesset, called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cancel his address to Congress, lest it jeopardize the relationship between our two countries.
If I had Mr. Oren's ear, I would ask him just what relationship he has in mind. The one I'm aware of is the one in which Obama never objects to Hamas firing missiles into Israel, but condemns Israel whenever Israel tries to put a stop to it. The one I'm aware of is the one that winks at Iran's promoting terrorism around the globe, while condemning Israel for building apartment houses within its own borders. The pusillanimous one, in short, that calls Netanyahu "chickenshit" while simultaneously bowing and scraping to the followers of Islam.
To me, it sounds like Mr. Oren shouldn't be running for the Knesset, but, rather, for the U.S. Senate from, say, California, New York or Vermont.
While people kept wondering why the media made such a big deal out of the slightly underinflated balls New England used in creaming Indianapolis 45-7, I figured out that the liberal media hates patriots so much, they don't care if it's the name of a football team, a Republican candidate for president or an American hero named Chris Kyle. The fact is the Patriots were so much better than the Colts, they'd have won even if their quarterback Tom Brady had been forced to throw Porky the Pig to his wide receivers.
Finally, I kept asking myself why Obama didn't swap some of those jihadists he keeps releasing from Gitmo for the Japanese hostages. At least we would have finally had something to show for returning these unrepentant creeps to the battlefields of Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
All I could come up with was that our Santa Claus-wannabe didn't wish in any way to tarnish the generous spirit in which he showers gifts on ISIS, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
....Burt
WND EXCLUSIVE
SHOCK CLAIM: SCHOOL GRILLED KIDS ON PARENTS' VIEWS OF 'GAYS'
'These administrators are acting like schoolyard bullies'A legal team already challenging a Lafayette, California, high school over its use of Planned Parenthood personnel – including a self-described "pleasure activist" and another who led demonstrations at a "sex toy porn shop" – to teach public school sex-education classes now is accusing school officials of allowing a "Queer Straight Alliance" to bully students.
The Pacific Justice Institute dispatched a letter to officials at Acalanes High School in Lafayette asking for documents that would show what happened.
Pacific Justice said "students were singled out and ostracized for their beliefs."
Students reported that, on Jan. 29, members of the school's Queer Straight Alliance (QSA) took over all freshmen English classes to grill students about their beliefs and their parents' beliefs on LGBT issues
Pacific Justice said the QSA had students step forward to demonstrate whether they believed that being gay was a choice and whether their parents would be accepting if they "came out as gay."
Students who did not step forward were ridiculed and humiliated, Pacific Justice said.
"The QSA also gave students a handout of LGBT terminology such as 'pan-sexual,' 'demi-sexual,' 'gray gender,' and about a dozen other terms. The QSA also had students line up to demonstrate where they fell on the 'gender spectrum.'"
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Greenwood, SC: WWI And WWII Memorial Separates Dead By Race,
Democratic-Leaning Mayor Wants Memorial To Become Politically Correct
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(I have passed through Greenwood, SC many times and have seen these plaques. This is a crying shame. Meanwhile, according to my cousin.... the potholes are still unfilled, the budget is still in a shambles, the damn traffic lights are not timed, recordings greet you when you call town hall with no option to get to an operator, permits take months to approve.... but let's grandstand about a plaque no one ever complained about before. Obfuscations, distractions, manipulations... just another day in the life of a leftist elected official. Leave the Plaques alone and put that $1,000. dollar check to good use and fix those potholes that still exit, you clown...)
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Along Main Street in a small South Carolina city, there is a war memorial honoring fallen World War I and II soldiers, dividing them into two categories: "white" and "colored."
Welborn Adams, Greenwood's white Democratic-leaning mayor, believes the bronze plaques are relics of the South's scarred past and should be changed in the spirit of equality, replaced like the "colored" water fountains or back entrances to the movie theater that blacks were once forced to use.
Yet the mayor's attempt to put up new plaques was blocked by a state law that brought the Confederate flag down from the Statehouse dome in 2000. The law forbids altering historical monuments in any way without approval from legislators.
Historians, black and white, have reservations about replacing the plaques, saying they should serve as a reminder of the once-segregated U.S. military.
"Segregation was the accepted social order of that time," said Eric Williams, who spent 32 years as a historian with the U.S. Park Service. "If we alter the monument, we alter its historical integrity."
The memorial is owned by the American Legion post in Greenwood and is on city property. On two of its sides, it lists soldiers who died in World War I and World War II that were from Greenwood County. A third side lists Korean and Vietnam War dead from the county without any racial distinction because the military was integrated by that time.[...]
Activist Joseph McGill, who spends the night in old slave cabins to get attention to preserve them, agrees. He says talk about switching plaques reminds him of schools that don't want students reading "Huckleberry Finn" because racially offensive language from the 1800s is in the book.
"That could just spread the perception that segregation did not exist or wasn't that bad," McGill said.
Chad Williams of Brandeis University near Boston has extensively studied black soldiers in World War I. He said he understands the desire to correct a historical injustice, but another sign explaining why the soldiers were separated by race is much more powerful and historically accurate.
"I think it is important to acknowledge the specific context in how African-American soldiers had to serve in the military," Williams said.
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Lyin' Brian Williams To Take Himself Off Air "For Several Days"
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(Lying' Brian never to return?...)
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LOS ANGELES — Brian Williams is stepping away temporarily from the "NBC Nightly News" amid questions about his memories of war coverage in Iraq, saying it has become "painfully apparent" to him that he has become a distracting news story.
In a memo Saturday to NBC News staff that was released by the network, the anchorman said that as managing editor of "NBC Nightly News" he is taking himself off the broadcast for several days. Lester Holt will fill in, Williams said.
"In the midst of a career spent covering and consuming news, it has become painfully apparent to me that I am presently too much a part of the news, due to my actions," Williams said in his memo.
"Upon my return, I will continue my career-long effort to be worthy of the trust of those who place their trust in us," he wrote.
Williams has apologized for falsely saying on the air that he was in a helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade while in Iraq in 2003.
Questions have also been raised about his claim that he saw a body or bodies in the Hurricane Katrina floodwaters that hit New Orleans.
NBC News President Deborah Turness said in an internal memo Friday that the network has assigned the head of its own investigative unit to look into Williams' statements.
Mooch School Lunch Program Versus Sheriff Joe Arpaio Tent City Lunch Program
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Lunch in Tent City, courtesy of Sheriff Joe.
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(The moonbats and the liberal left went into hysteria over the lunch program in tent city
while praising Mooch for being so progressive and forward looking... Sheriff Joe 1 Mooch 0)
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As Congress readies to reauthorize Michelle Obama's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act this year, students and parents continue to post photographic evidence of the program's shortcomings.The School Nutrition Association is weighing in, too.
" ... Some of USDA's regulations under the law have unnecessarily increased costs and waste for school meal programs and caused many students to swap healthy school meals for junk food fare," says SNA CEO Patricia Montague in a news release.
The group points out 1.4 million fewer children are eating school lunches since the rules championed by First Lady Michelle Obama were implemented.
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Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama is urging parents to do more."I want you to really dive into this issue in your schools, your organizations, community, your company, your family, wherever you are a leader and decision-maker. Dive in. If Robert Wood Johnson can invest half a billion dollars ... surely we can push the envelope and aim just a little higher in our own efforts," Obama said at a speech announcing the foundation's contribution to "healthy" food initiatives, according to Newsday.
"We've seen the progress we can make," the first lady said, "when we educate parents and we help them make healthier decisions."(HORSE SH!T!!!)
Scathing List of Obama's Accomplishments
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First Black President
IN NEWS / BY COREY BARROW / ON JANUARY 26, 2014
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Everyone should stop trashing President Barack Obama. He has quite the list of accomplishments. Obama has exceeded any other President that has come before him. Here's the impressive list of his hard earned accomplishments:
1. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
2. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
3. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
4. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
5. First President to spend $50 billion on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
6. First President to order an amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
7. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
8. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation to resign.
9. First President to terminate America's Space Shuttle program.
10. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
11. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
12. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
13. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
14. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
15. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
16. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
17. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
18. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
19. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
20. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
21. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
22. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
23. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
24. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
25. First President to go on numerous lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
26. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
27. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
28. First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth
29. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
30. First President to increase surveillance of American citizens by 1,000 percent in four years
31. First President to refuse to comply with a House Oversight Committee subpoena
32. First President to encourage racial discrimination and intimidation at polling places
33. First President to issue unlawful "Recess-Appointments" over a long weekend while the U.S. Senate remained in session (against the advice of his own Justice Department)
34. First President to barricade open-air monuments during a partial government shutdown
35. First President to create his own propaganda news network and "bypass journalists ... [having] developed [his] own network of websites, social media and even created an online newscast to dispense favorable information and images"
36. First President to personally lobby senators to violate senate rules
37. First President to unlawfully seize telephone records of more than 100 reporters to intimidate and/or bully them
38. First President to use the IRS to "Unfairly Target Political Enemies" as well as pro-Catholic and pro-Jewish groups
39. First President to have an innocent filmmaker thrown in jail after lying about the cause for a deadly attack on U.S. Diplomats
40. First President to violate the War Powers Act
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Working Families Party Considering Backing Liz Warren Instead Of Grandmother Rodham Clinton
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(Unbelievably, Hillary isn't far enough left for the commies...)
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In a sign of the growing pressure Hillary Clinton faces from the left, the Working Families Party is considering backing the movement to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for President, the Daily News has learned.
One person said the effort was not so much a bid to get the Massachusetts senator to run but to "Warrenize Hillary" by pushing her to adopt more liberal policies.
At a meeting of the WFP's advisory council last week, executive committee members wanted to bring the idea to a vote, sources said.
Those pushing to publicly back Warren — who has said she will not run for President — included Communications Workers of America, a union that represents 70,000 local members; the labor-backed New York Communities for Change; and the community group Make the Road New York.
"It was clear that CWA, Make the Road and NYCC wanted to leave the meeting saying, 'We want to support Warren,'" a source said.[...]
The campaign "is 100% focused on getting Elizabeth Warren into the race," said Democracy for America spokesman Neil Sroka. "As an added benefit, it also shows whoever ends up being the nominee that there's a strong grassroots movement that wants a candidate focused on income inequality issues from Day One."
The group has reached out to unions and elected leaders about joining the movement.
"I was happy to hear the WFP is evening considering this issue," Sroka said. "You can be fans of Clinton and also want to see Warren in this race. A battle of ideas only makes the Democratic party stronger."
WND EXCLUSIVE'COMMITTED CHRISTIAN'? OBAMA'S RELIGIOUS HISTORY UNMASKED
'High horse' jab just president's latest attack on his own professed faithWASHINGTON – Why would President Obama, who professes to be a Christian, apparently harbor such animosity toward what he claims is his own faith?
The latest example came during his remarks Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, but it was hardly the first time Obama has criticized Chr istianity or defended Islam.
See video at:http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/committed-christian-obamas-religious-history-unmasked/
In order to better understand what Obama truly believes, WND looked at the history of Obama's relationship with religion, beginning with those most recent remarks.
"And lest we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama said at the breakfast.
"In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ," he added.
Incensed critics are interpreting those remarkable words as both an attack on Christianity and a defense of Muslim atrocities.
As WND reported, among the many Christian leaders outraged by the president's comments, one Catholic leader called for Obama to apologize, pointedly noting that the Inquisition was political, and the Crusades were a defensive effort against jihad.
Obama's remarks came just two days after the release of a video of the burning death of a captured Jordanian pilot by ISIS and just one day after word that the radical Islamic army is selling, as well as crucifying, children.
WND CEO Joseph Farah interpreted Obama's remarks as an excuse of Islam, by drawing an equivalence between the current murderous reign of terror perpetuated by Muslim radicals and long-past misdeeds by Christians long-since condemned by virtually all Christians.
Marc Thiessen, former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, was incredulous, stating on Fox News Thursday evening, "It was evangelical Christians who fought slavery and Jim Crow. It was William Wilberforce who led the campaign against slavery. It was Martin Luther King who fought (segregation.)"
Thiessen wondered why the president would criticize those who criticize ISIS atrocities, asking, "What does he mean by get off our high horse? And what kind of person looks at a video of a man being burned alive and his reaction is to say 'Let's not forget, we in the West did that, too'?"
"With all due respect, the Crusades were almost a thousand years ago. The Inquisition was in the 15th century. ISIS is burning people alive today. Now. Not Christians," he added.
Thiessen drew a parallel of his own in Obama's comparison, remarking, "It's fascinating that he said people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. Has he ever said ISIS has committed terrible deeds in the name of Muhammad? Or in the name of Islam? No. ... He said they kill in the name of religion. He won't call it Islamic radicalism, which is a problem."
Obama made another remark the Christian faithful may find particularly perplexing, implying their religion is not necessarily more true than any other faith:
"I believe that the starting point of faith is some doubt – not being so full of yourself and so confident that you are right and that God speaks only to us, and doesn't speak to others, that God only cares about us and doesn't care about others, that somehow we alone are in possession of the truth."
As to what Obama believes is the truth, a look at his past comments and actions regarding religion, especially Christianity, may be illustrative.
References to God removedObama has a history of omitting references to God and Christianity.
Two years ago, WND reported he issued a statement endorsing the National Day of Prayer but excised virtually any reference to Christianity, the primary faith of the nation's founders.
In 2009, he did cite the prayers of the Continental Congress and President Lincoln's call for prayer during the Civil War. But he started turning the next year, mentioning "God" only twice, asking for "blessings" and "guidance." The closest reference to the nation's Christian heritage was a reference that the U.S. "counts freedom of conscience and free exercise of religion among its most fundamental principles."
By 2012, Obama's proclamation was merely giving thanks "for our democracy that respects the beliefs and protects the religious freedom of all people to pray, worship, or abstain."
In 2013, his text included "faith" only to reference it as "our faith" and recognized "God" only for delivering liberties and guidance.
Obama has repeatedly removed the phrase "endowed by their Creator" from the line in the Declaration of Independence that reads:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
In 2013, WND reported that eventual GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain believed that was no slip of the tongue, saying, "I believe it was intentional because he did it three times."
He added, "With all of his teleprompters, how could you not put that in there? No. I believe it was intentional."
By WND columnist Chuck Norris' count, Obama dropped "their Creator" seven times in just a two-month span in 2012.
In 2009, WND reported Obama, while admitting that America has "a very large Christian population," told the Turkish press that "we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation."
And in December 2010 , a letter from the Congressional Prayer Caucus rebuked Obama for incorrectly replacing the nation's motto of "In God We Trust" with "E pluribus unum" in a speech at the University of Indonesia.
Defense of IslamIn a speech given to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 12, 2012, the president declared, "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
In a speech in Cairo, Egypt, in June 2009, Obama said that he felt it "part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
Also in 2009, Obama told a French reporter, "
f you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." (In fact, in 2008 Christians made up 76-percent of the population at 173 million, religious Jews 1.2-percent at 2.6 million, and Muslims only 0.6-percent at 1.3 million.)
And in May 2011, WND learned that in October 2009, one of Obama's faith advisers, Eboo Patel, a Muslim activist from Chicago, compared al-Qaeda to what he called Christian "totalitarians" in the U.S. and Jewish "totalitarians" in Israel.
In February 2010, Obama named Patel to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Patel is part of the official speaker's bureau of the Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co-conspirator in a scheme to raise money for Hamas.
Anti-Christian policies
Perhaps the most infamous example of what critics consider Obama administration hostility toward Christians was the demand by the IRS that conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status reveal the contents of their prayers.
A letter from the IRS to Coalition for Life of Iowa read, "Please detail the content of the members of your organization's prayers."
Another applicant was asked, "Please explain how all of your activities, including the prayer meetings held outside of Planned Parenthood, are considered educational as defined under 501(c)(3)."
Critics also say the Obama administration tried to crush First Amendment religious rights of Christians by mandating employers provide certain kinds of contraceptives, including abortion-inducing drugs, which many Christians found objectionable and immoral.
The Supreme Court sided with those Christians by ruling 5-to-4 in favor of the plaintiffs and against the government in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby on June 30, 2014.
Not only many Christians, but many former and active members of the military, have been chagrined by Obama's normalization of the homosexual lifestyle in the nation's armed forces.
In a video interview, now-retired Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp revealed that Obama personally threatened to fire any service leaders who disagreed with the president's decision to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy toward homosexuals in the military.
"We were called into the Oval Office, and President Obama looked all five service chiefs in the eye and said, 'This is what I want to do.' I cannot divulge everything he said to us, that's private communications within the Oval Office, but if we didn't agree with it — if any of us didn't agree with it — we all had the opportunity to resign our commissions and go do other things," said Papp.
Military chaplains reportedly are also under threat by regulations that now prevent them from speaking against homosexuality.
The Family Research Council has documented scores of instances in which the military under Obama has threatened service members participating in religious (primarily Christian) expression.
WND reported how U.S. Army soldiers at a Mississippi post were instructed that the American Family Association, or AFA, was a "hate group" because the radical leftist Southern Poverty Law Center had advised the military that the AFA's view of homosexuality, informed by traditional values, was hateful.
The U.S. military teaching that the American colonists were "extremists" was traced also back to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Judicial Watch, a government corruption monitor, said it obtained records regarding the "preparation and presentation of training materials on hate groups or hate crimes distributed or used by the Air Force."
The teaching claimed: "In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples."
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Sept. 11, 2001The attacks by Muslims who killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, were called a "historical event."
The administration's efforts to enforce acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle extend well beyond the military and affect every federal employee.
In May 2013, WND columnist Matt Barber revealed the existence of an internal Justice Department document that forced managers to accept the administration's policies on homosexuality, or else.
Titled, "LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers," the document stated that when it comes to LGBT pride, employees were ordered: "DON'T remain silent. Silence will be interpreted as disapproval."
The document also recommends managers, "Attend LGBT events sponsored by DOJ Pride and/or the Department, and invite (but don't require) others to join you," and, "Display a symbol in your office (DOJ Pride sticker, copy of this brochure, etc.) indicating that it is a 'safe space.'"
Not defending ChristiansIn October 2013 WND covered a speech by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., in which he warned, "there is a worldwide war on Christianity," but, "The president tries to gloss over who's attacking and killing Christians."
The senator cited a list of atrocities around the world by radical Islamists, including those in Syria, where "Islamic rebels have filmed beheadings of their captives."
"They've filmed themselves eating the heart of their enemy. Two Christian bishops have been kidnapped, and one priest was recently killed. These rebels are allies of the Islamic rebels that President Obama is now arming."
"We are now arming Islamic rebels who are allied with al-Qaeda that attacked us on 9/11. Does that make any sense at all?" he concluded.
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., expressed the sentiments of many Obama critics who charge he has done little to prevent or stop the widespread martyrdom of Christians in Islamic lands, including Iraq and Syria.
Pointing out the extreme dangers Christians face worldwide, in September 2014, Franks said Obama administration officials "only respond when the politics become so antithetical to them that they have to."
"I have been extremely critical of president Obama and it's primarily for that reason. It seemed like whenever there's suffering of the innocent, whether it's the unborn at the hands of [abortionist] Kermit Gosnell, innocent people at the hands of [Syrian president] Bashar Assad or innocent Coptic Christians in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, or innocent Christians at the hands of ISIS in Iraq," he said.
In August 2013, hundreds of Coptic Christians in Nashville, Tennessee, took to the streets to call out Obama after members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the radical Islamic group that temporarily seized power in Egypt and was backed by the administration, burned scores of Coptic Christian churches, schools and businesses.
Protesters chanted, "Obama, Obama, don't you care? Christian blood is everywhere."
In May 2012, WND reported an Obama administration official claimed the ongoing Muslim destruction of churches and slaughter of Christians in Nigeria, including many murdered during worship services, was the result of tribal disputes over land, not a religious conflict.
A U.S. aide agency was tasked with analyzing the "true" causes of the conflict.
Scriptural confusionObama, who professes to be a Christian, has expressed many fundamental beliefs which most Christians likely would find flabbergasting, and would disagree.
He's not sure there is an afterlife, or a heaven or hell. He has confessed he is not "sure what happens when we die."
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Before campaigning for president, Obama expressed doubts about the inerrancy of Scripture.
In a 2006 "Call to Renewal" keynote address in Washington, he said: "Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between scriptural edicts – sensing that some passages are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life."
In his memoir, "Audacity of Hope," Obama said he believed in the evolution of man from primates and did not believe, "as many evangelicals do," that the Bible is without error.
Essentially calling most Catholics hypocrites, Obama accused Christians of routinely modifying their doctrinal beliefs for personal or political reasons, "Which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control."
He added that he viewed the biblical condemnation of homosexuality as confined to "an obscure line in Romans."
In a 2004 Chicago Sun-Times interview, Obama said:
"I am a Christian. I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. That there are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived."
WND CEO Joseph Farah wondered in his column in October 2008, "Many paths to the same place?"
"This is the antithesis of what Jesus reveals in Scripture, for example, in John 14:6: 'Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.'"
Farah also noted, "Obama says he prays regularly. But look how he describes that process: 'It's not formal, me getting on my knees. I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. ... I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why I am doing it. The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass.'"
"So whom," Farah asked, "is he talking to in these conversations? He's talking to himself! He's talking to his under-developed conscience – the one that told him it was the right thing to do to prevent doctors and nurses from offering life-saving support to babies born alive after botched abortions."
As for the afterlife, Farah also observed that Obama "suggests his eternal destination has something to do with being a 'good father' to his children and transferring values he got from his atheist mother," before concluding Obama "doesn't have a clue as to what it means to be a Christian."
Obama's true faith?Obama himself has often sparked questions about his true faith.
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During his first presidential campaign he referred to his "Muslim faith" and continued to speak until an interviewer interjected, "Christian faith."
"My Christian faith," Obama repeated before continuing.
In February 2012, Rev. Franklin Graham revealed that President Obama confided to him and his father, Billy, during a recent visit to North Carolina: "I don't go to church."
"I have no idea what he really believes," Graham said during an appearance on MSNBC.
The following is a 2007 Obama campaign flyer that describes the future president as a "committed Christian" who believes in the "power of prayer":
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Leftist Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time," doubted Obama is a practicing Christian.
"I just don't believe it," he said in 2012.
Maher suspects the president is an atheist.
Former GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum said Obama follows a "phony theology" not based on the Bible, but preached by radicals at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where he attended services for 20 years and listened to the sermons of the extreme leftist Rev. Jeremy Wright, the president's former pastor.
Obama said the title of his 2006 memoir, "The Audacity of Hope," was inspired by one of Wright's sermons.
Shortly after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Wright declared "America's chickens are coming home to roost."
Wright also sermonized, "God damn America — that's in the Bible — for killing innocent people. God damn America, for treating our citizens as less than human."
Obama has long denied he was ever a Muslim.
But as WND reported, public records in Indonesia listed Obama as a Muslim during his early years, and a number of childhood friends told the media the future president was once a mosque-attending Muslim.
A Los Angeles Times report quoted a childhood friend stating Obama prayed in a mosque – something the then-presidential candidate said he never did. Obama's campaign released a statement explaining the senator had never been a "practicing Muslim."
Widely distributed reports noted that in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro. He was listed as an Indonesian citizen whose stepfather, listed on school documents as "L Soetoro Ma," worked for the topography department of the Indonesian Army.
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Then-Sen. Obama during a visit to Kenya in 2006
After attending the Assisi Primary School, Obama was enrolled – also as a Muslim, according to documents – in the Besuki Primary School, a public school in Jakarta.
The Loatze blog, run by an American expatriate in Southeast Asia who visited the Besuki school, noted: "All Indonesian students are required to study religion at school, and a young 'Barry Soetoro,' being a Muslim, would have been required to study Islam daily in school."
"He would have been taught to read and write Arabic, to recite his prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran and to study the laws of Islam."
Indeed, in his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama acknowledged studying the Quran and described the public school as "a Muslim school."
"In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Quranic studies," wrote Obama.
The Los Angeles Times, which sent a reporter to Jakarta, quoted Zulfin Adi, who identified himself as among Obama's closest childhood friends, stating the presidential candidate prayed in a mosque, something Obama's campaign claimed he never did.
In a free-ranging interview with the New York Times, Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."
The Times' Nicholos Kristof wrote Obama recited, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent," the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer.
The first few lines of the call to prayer state:
Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet ...
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WND EXCLUSIVE
'COMMITTED CHRISTIAN'? OBAMA'S RELIGIOUS HISTORY UNMASKED
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Excellent post, Ross..
Now let me give you 34 reasons why I somewhat agree with SodaHead.com who think Barack Hussein Obuma is a muslim.(http://watchmen-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Obama-muslim-2-610x400.jpg)
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1. Obama's father and step-father were Muslims.
2. Hussein is a Muslim name reserved only for Muslims by Islamic Creed.
3. Four years of Indonesian school enrollment records reveal his religion is Islam.
4. His children get no Christmas gifts – Muslim tradition.
5. He wears no jewelry during Ramadan – Muslim tradition.
6. Obama employed several Nation of Islam members in high positions on his Illinois and U.S. Senate campaign and office staffs.
7. Senator Obama stated that Israel is the cause of all Mideast problems and he is towing the Muslim line that Israel is an apartheid state.
8. Senator Barack & Michelle Obama have attended several Arab Fundraisers and have had meetings with Palestinian Activist, PLO/Arafat Advisor Edward Said.
9. Senator Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign staff disclosed details of Obama's Muslim past and concluded he concealed his prior Muslim faith and education.
10. Candidate Obama, while running for president, made it clear that he did not support a "right of return" for Palestinian refugees. But now that he's president, he has reneged on that promise.
11. Obama has referred to the 57 states of America. Maybe it is just a coincidence that the Organization of the Islamic Conference has 57 states.
12. As President he bows to the Muslim King of Saudi Arabia. The most powerful man in the world bows to no one. But the Islamic Creed demands that subservient Muslims bow.
13. As President he does not bow to the Christian Queen of England.
14. President Obama says there is nothing more beautiful than the Muslim call to prayer in the evening and has quoted it in fluent Arabic with perfect accent.
15. He says that the United States was not founded as a Christian nation.
16. Obama keeps saying things about Muslim history that is not true. Obama has said we are one of the largest Muslim countries. We are down at number 41 on the list of most Muslims in a country. Obama has said there are 7 million Muslims in America. The most liberal numbers indicate 4 million and conservative estimates are at 2 million.
17. Obama, not only refused to have a White House celebration of the National Day of Prayer, but instead feasted the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.
18. Obama, while celebrating the holy month of Ramadan at a White House dinner, stated that he is in favor of building the mosque near Ground Zero.
19. Obama orders the Christian monogram "IHS" (Greek symbols for Jesus) to be covered up at the Christian school Georgetown University Gaston Hall, before giving his speech.
20. In answering the question on whether he believed in a literal heaven or not, Obama retorted: "What I believe in is that if I live my life as well as I can, that I will be rewarded. I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die." This is the Islamic Muslim view, not Christian.
21. Barack Obama's response when asked pointedly, "Who's Jesus to you?" "Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he's also a wonderful teacher." This again is the Muslim view, not Christian.
22. President Obama gave a 2009 Cairo speech emphatically stating to the Middle Eastern world that it was "part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
23. When it comes to Christianity, he has actually done just the opposite. Two years after his interview with Chicago Sun Times religion reporter Cathleen Falsani, on June 28, 2006, then Sen. Obama publicly perpetuated negative stereotypes of Christianity and defamed the religion and the words of its founder. From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo-Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: "Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation," "The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application" and "To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing."
24. If a self-proclaimed non-Muslim president would fight repeatedly for Muslims' religious rights to the degree that our president has, don't you think "a committed Christian" president would at least fight once for any antagonistic oppression of Christian faith and practice, too? Yet, on no occasion since taking office has President Obama stood up publicly for a single Christian individual, group, church, act or event, whom or which was being opposed or oppressed by others.
25. Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the North Carolina pastor who was fired from his duties as an honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives after he closed a prayer "in the name of Jesus"?
26. Why didn't the president stand up for the children from the Christian private school who were "abruptly" ordered by a court police officer to stop praying outside the U.S. Supreme Court building?
27. Why didn't the president himself stand up for the human rights of the Christian missionaries and medical team in Afghanistan, including six Americans, to practice medicine and their faith, even after they were murdered by Islamic extremists?
28. Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the Rev. Billy Graham, who was disinvited from a Pentagon prayer service on the National Day of Prayer because of his Christian views and values?
29. Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of the Greek Orthodox Church, the only church that was actually destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, as church leaders have been frustrated and fouled by New York officials who have virtually turned their backs on the reconstruction of the church near Ground Zero?
30. Why didn't the president stand up for the rights of over 70% of Americans opposed to a Ground Zero mosque, but takes the side of Muslims who are attempting to build the Ground Zero mosque?
31. Obama's church (Trinity United Church of Christ) does not teach Christianity. The church guiding principles are called the "Black Value System". Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a former Muslim and friend of Louis Farrakhan, Muslim founder and President of The Nation of Islam. Farrakhan has spoken frequently at Trinity.
32. Reverend Wright's "hate" sermons against America and white people are virtually identical as Farrakhan's-who followed Malcolm X. Wright's "hate" speeches are a blend of The Nation of Islam and Black Nationalist Liberation Theology into a subversive Christianity, not recognized by most black Christians.
33. Obama embraced "Christianity" at this church. For 20 years he was a member and good friend to Rev. Wright. Wright married Obama and baptized his children. Rev. Wright was his mentor and gave advice until it became public knowledge during the campaign.
34. During the week of 14-18th of January 2010, on the Nile TV broadcast "Round Table Show", the Egyptian Foreign Minister Abul Gheit said while meeting with Obama, he swore to him that he was a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father and step-son of Muslim step-father, that his half-brothers in Kenya were Muslims, and that he was loyal to the Muslim agenda. He asked that the Muslim world show patience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic American problems, that he would show the Muslim world what he would do with Israel.
These 34 reasons each by themselves may not account for much. But when someone has committed all of these and more it reveals an "extremely" strong pattern.
Growing up as a Muslim, Obama learned that according to the Qur'an it is acceptable to lie, deceive and live by a double standard provided in so doing one advances Islamic goals.
Muslims only pretend to trust and be friends with non-Muslims; in the deepest of their Muslim hearts they have been taught that all non-Muslims are infidels.
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(***So is Obuma a Muslim or not?? I tend to think his loyalties lie with Islam. I'm not saying everything stated in this article is true fact. So what the hell do I know? Only what I've read and watched on TV... so who knows. Hell, he might be an atheist, a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings. Maybe Bill Maher finally got something right... you think?***)
Maureen Dowd: NBC Knew That Brian Williams Was Pathological, But Did Nothing
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(NBC is not shocked by putting out falsehoods, it's what they do...)
WASHINGTON — THIS was a bomb that had been ticking for a while.NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it was a joke in the news division.
But the caustic media big shots who once roamed the land were gone, and "there was no one around to pull his chain when he got too over-the-top," as one NBC News reporter put it.
It seemed pathological because Williams already had the premier job, so why engage in résumé inflation? And you don't get those jobs because of your derring-do.
Keep reading at: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-anchors-aweigh.html?_r=2
Lyin' Brian Rescued 1 Puppy? 2 Puppies?
Ah Heck, How About A Whole Passel Of Puppies?
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(Maybe he saved an old grandmother from a flood, too...)
Via NY Post:http://pagesix.com/2015/02/06/brian-williams-also-told-iffy-tales-of-rescuing-puppies-from-fires/
Long before he was caught lying about his chopper being forced down by enemy fire in Iraq, Brian Williams boasted how he bravely rescued a terrified puppy from a house fire.
Or maybe it was two puppies.
The truth-challenged NBC anchor told dueling versions of his supposed heroics as a teenage volunteer firefighter with the Old Village Fire Company in Middletown, NJ.
In October 2011, Williams waxed rhapsodic about how his dad took him to fires.
"I remember one such house fire . . . conducting a search on my hands and knees, when I felt something warm, squishy and furry on the floor of a closet," Williams said.
"I instinctively tucked it in my coat. When I got outside, I saw two small eyes staring up at me, and I returned the 3-week-old and very scared puppy to its grateful owners," he said.
But in July 2005, he told a different story, insisting he had saved not one but two pups from certain death.
"All I ever did as a volunteer fireman was once save two puppies," he said, according to Esquire magazine.
Just another guy doing his best for the country - the Democrat and Republican war promotion effort and of course, economic freedom. Liberty? nah.
Quote from: Warph on February 08, 2015, 12:59:41 AM
Now let me give you 34 reasons why I somewhat agree with SodaHead.com who think Barack Hussein Obuma is a muslim.
I'm sick of this guy and all the wasteful liberals that follow him in trying to destroy our country and our lives. Because that is exactly what is going on.
It would be nice if our congressmen and representatives would open their eyes and all work together and get some balls and sink this SOB's boat.
Keep the posts coming Warph.
This one was just brought to my attention by a friend,
'Chickens Come Home to Roost' –
Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Daughter
Convicted on 11 Counts of Fraud
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, March 8, 2014,
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Jeri Wright and Rev. Jeremiah Wright (photo from AP)
In September Jeri Wright, daughter of Reverend
"God Damn America" Wright, and
12 other Democrats were charged with embezzling
$16 million in Federal health grants that should have gone to AIDS charities and other programs for the poor and needy.
More than one of the defendants had direct ties to President Barack Obama.
On Friday Reverend Jeremiah Wright's daugher was found guilty of eleven counts that included money laundering and lying to federal agents.
Breitbart reported:
On Friday, a federal jury took less than two hours to convict the daughter of President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, of fraud.Jeri Wright was found guilty of a fraud scheme that siphoned thousands of taxpayer dollars intended for a not-for-profit work and education program known as
We Are Our Brother's Keeper.Prosecutor Timothy Bass said Jeri Wright lied "over and over" and went on a "spending spree" that included traveling to Las Vegas, buying vehicles, and remodeling her basement with cash from the money laundering scheme.
She was found guilty on all counts.(https://us-mg5.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=2%5f0%5f0%5f1%5f5180468%5fACnkimIAABFXVNeDcQEwsGWNayU&m=YaDownload&pid=3&fid=Inbox&inline=1&appid=yahoomail)
Obama and his " Mentor"
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UN, Agenda 21 and I.C.L.E.I. seems to be alive and well or something, in Kansas Governments. I just received the following e-mail. I hope you find it interesting.
New post on NOlathe's
Secret Meetings, Hidden Documents and Spooky Votes
by nolathe
JoCo Commission Chair "Oh shucks! We need to discuss the 2013 Cow Flatulence Study. But the last time we had public meetings on this, the room rumbled when we lost control."
JoCo County Manager "Let's schedule a secret meeting in the bowels of the building."
JoCo Commission Chair "Make sure all the exhaust fans are pointed towards the Courthouse. Just in case someone gets wind of this they won't blame me. There's an election next week and tomorrow is Halloween."
JoCo County Manager "Don't worry boss. No advanced notice, no minutes, no recordings and no press or public. Unless they're downwind, no one will ever know about the votes either. Just between us, I really like it when you call me Spooky Dude, ah sorry boss. Consider it done!"
JoCo Commission Chair "Okey Spooky Dude, Depends."
Spooky Dude "Depends?"
JoCo Commission Chair "Depends you idiot! Don't forget Depends!"
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This "Keep 50 feet from open flame" story starts in 2012. Briefly:
Wanting to know the 2012 connection between George Soros, Johnson County and Clarion Associates we filed a KORA Request and Complaint http://nolathe.net/.../complaint-filed-with-kansas-attorney-.../
Wanting to know the 2012 connection between George Soros, Johnson County and I.C.L.E.I. we filed a KORA Request and Complaint http://nolathe.net/.../second-complaint-filed-with-kansas-at.../
Maybe due to increasing pressure or just an act of nature, shortly after these filed complaints Johnson County leaked out their I.C.L.E.I. membership had expired. Even recently one Commissioner was quoted to have said "We aren't a member of ICLEI, I had Spooky Dude confirm that." NOlathe and others have often said that getting JoCo out of I.C.L.E.I was much easier than getting I.C.L.E.I. out of Johnson County. In the years 2013, 2014 and 2015 since leaving I.C.L.E.I. George Soros and Agenda 21 is not only alive but thriving.
But unknowing during the complaint investigations of 2012, JoCo released to The Kansas State Attorney General's Office what will be referred to as the "stinking document" ICLEI kora letter
Or more specifically
Real stinky
"Except as ICLEI expressly authorizes in writing and in advance, Consultant shall not use, copy, modify, or distribute any of the ICLEI Property (electronically or otherwise) or any copy, adaptation, transcription, or merged portion thereof."
A reasonable person would conclude that neither Johnson County nor Consultant may use ICLEI name or property without written/prior approval. Spooky Dude says "Depends."
On October 30, 2014 held a secret meeting to discuss the 2013 Cow Flatulence Study provided here October 30, 2014 unrecorded meeting document
Just like Clarion Associates is ICLEI's endorsed Charter 2030 coordinator the Brendle Group http://www.brendlegroup.com/ is the recommended Consultant for ICLEI endorsed Cow Flatulence Studies.
Further review of the secret October 30, 2014 Greenhouse Gas 2013 documents we find
Johnson County's Consultant was Brendle Group
For the first time in Flatulence Study History a joint study was conducted with Kansas City, Missery a current and dues paying member of ICLEI.
Licensed measuring and accounting property of ICLEI was used to collect and compile the data
ICLEI.1
ICLEI.2
NOlathe is quite sure that a lawfully answered KORA request would reveal a written agreement between ICLEI, Kansas City and Johnson County. These Soros Dudes are Spooky, but they ain't stupid. They leave that to us. In 2014 our Commissioners accept a study from 2013 conducted by a group they dropped from 2012 and bet their flatulence in silence near silence.
Another e-mail I recieved, I had not heard this one in the mainstream media either.
It's odd this wasn't reported and repeated as many times as I've heard about air in footballs.
Remember the guy who got on a plane with a bomb built into his shoe and tried to detonate it? Did you know his trial is over? Did you know he was sentenced? Did you see/hear any of the judge's comments on the bloody TV or Radio? I didn't think so! EVERYONE should hear what the judge had to say. Ruling by Judge William Young, US District Court.
Prior to sentencing, the Judge asked the defendant if he had anything to say. His response: After admitting his guilt to the court for the record, Reid also admitted his 'allegiance to Osama bin Laden, to Islam, and to the religion of Allah,' defiantly stating, 'I think I will not apologize for my actions,' and told the court 'I am at war with your country.'
Judge Young then delivered the statement quoted below:
Judge Young: 'Mr. Richard C. Reid, hearken now to the sentence the Court imposes upon you. On counts 1, 5 and 6 the Court sentences you to life in prison in the custody of the United States Attorney General. On counts 2, 3, 4 and 7, the Court sentences you to 20 years in prison on each count, the sentence on each count to run consecutively. (That's 80 years.)On count 8 the Court sentences you to the mandatory 30 years again, to be served consecutively to the 80 years just imposed. The Court imposes upon you for each of the eight counts a fine of $250,000 that's an aggregate fine of $2 million. The Court accepts the government's recommendation with respect to restitution and orders restitution in the amount of $298.17 to Andre Bousquet and $5,784 to American Airlines. The Court imposes upon you an $800 special assessment. The Court imposes upon you five years supervised release simply because the law requires it, but the life sentences are real life sentences, so I need go no further.
This is the sentence that is provided for by our statutes. It is a fair and just sentence. It is a righteous sentence.Now, let me explain this to you. We are not afraid of you or any of your terrorist co-conspirators, Mr. Reid. We are Americans. We have been through the fire before. There is too much war talk here and I say that to everyone with the utmost respect. Here in this court, we deal with individuals as individuals and care for individuals as individuals. As human beings, we reach out for justice.
You are not an enemy combatant. You are a terrorist. You are not a soldier in any war. You are a terrorist. To give you that reference, to call you a soldier, gives you far too much stature. Whether the officers of government do it or your attorney does it, or if you think you are a soldier, you are not-----, you are a terrorist. And we do not negotiate with terrorists. We do not meet with terrorists. We do not sign documents with terrorists. We hunt them down one by one and bring them to justice.
So war talk is way out of line in this court. You are a big fellow. But you are not that big. You're no warrior. I've known warriors. You are a terrorist. A species of criminal that is guilty of multiple attempted murders. In a very real sense, State Trooper Santiago had it right when you first were taken off that plane and into custody and you wondered where the press and the TV crews were, and he said: You're no big deal. You are no big deal. What your able counsel and what the equally able United States attorneys have grappled with and what I have as honestly as I know how tried to grapple with, is why you did something so horrific. What was it that led you here to this courtroom today?I have listened respectfully to what you have to say. And I ask you to search your heart and ask yourself what sort of unfathomable hate led you to do what you are guilty of and admit you are guilty of doing? And, I have an answer for you. It may not satisfy you, but as I search this entire record, it comes as close to understanding as I know.
It seems to me you hate the one thing that to us is most precious. You hate our freedom. Our individual freedom. Our individual freedom to live as we choose, to come and go as we choose, to believe or not believe as we individually choose. Here, in this society, the very wind carries freedom. It carries it everywhere from sea to shining sea. It is because we prize individual freedom so much that you are here in this beautiful courtroom, so that everyone can see, truly see, that justice is administered fairly, individually, and discretely. It is for freedom's sake that your lawyers are striving so vigorously on your behalf, have filed appeals, will go on in their represent- tion of you before other judges.
We Americans are all about freedom. Because we all know
that the way we treat you, Mr. Reid, is the measure of our own liberties. Make no mistake though. It is yet true that we will bear any burden; pay any price, to preserve our freedoms. Look around this courtroom. Mark it well. The world is not going to long remember what you or I say here. The day after tomorrow, it will be forgotten, but this, however, will long endure.
Here in this courtroom and courtrooms all across America , the American people will gather to see that justice, individual justice, justice, not war, individual justice is in fact being done. The very President of the United States through his officers will have to come into courtrooms and lay out evidence on which specific matters can be judged and juries of citizens will gather to sit and judge that evidence democratically, to mould and shape and refine our sense of justice.
See that flag, Mr. Reid? That's the flag of the United States of America. That flag will fly there long after this is all forgotten. That flag stands for freedom. And it always will. Mr. Custody Officer: Stand him down.
So, how much of this Judge's comments did we hear on our TV? We need more judges like Judge Young. Everyone should and needs to hear what this fine judge had to say. Powerful words that strike home.
BREAKING: New State Makes Huge Move
to Ban Shariah Law
Saturday, February 7th, 2015
Add another name to the list of states that are trying to ban Shariah law. Amid what will no doubt be much gnashing of teeth and rending of burqas from the liberal side of the fence, Arkansas has introduced a bill that would make the application of Shariah law illegal in the Natural State.
The bill is Arkansas Senate Bill SB229, "An act to protect the rights and privileges granted under the United States Constitution; to declare American laws for American courts; and for other purposes."
It would essentially disallow Arkansas courts from taking into account any foreign or religious law that would contradict extant American legislation.
"The General Assembly finds that it shall be the public policy of this state to protect its citizens from the application of foreign laws when the application of a foreign law will result in the violation of one (1) or more of the following fundamental rights guaranteed by the Arkansas Constitution of this state or the United States Constitution," the bill reads.
While somewhat arcane, the gist of it is that Shariah cannot be substituted for existing law in courts, arbitration or anything else that might be characterized as a legal proceeding.
I'm sure that Jon Stewart is already preparing a monologue about how Islamophobic and fear-mongering the people of Arkansas are.
However, what the liberal media fails to report is that the use of Shariah law is becoming more prevalent in the United States.
We've previously reported on a case in Florida where Shariah law was substituted for common law in a dispute over mosque funding. And lest you think it's only Florida, it isn't.
According to the Center for Security Policy, there are at least 146 cases in the United States where courts have allowed Shariah tribunals to rule in place of following established legal precedent, according to Charisma News.
Given some of the misogyny and brutality of some aspects of Shariah, it's imperative that states insist on using established constitutionally valid law.
We can't chance a slippery slope where the worst aspects of Islamic law are countenanced by American courts in the name of political correctness.
We applaud Arkansas and await the day when all 50 states follow their example.
http://conservativetribune.com/state-huge-move-ban-shariah/
Obuma Dirty Politics - More Evidence POS Obuma Regime Interfering In Israeli Elections:
Jose Biden And Lurch Kerry (TOTAL A$$HOLES, BOTH) Meet With Opposition Leader Rather Than Netanyahu
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(This after having former ObuttHead campaign operatives go to help the opposition. This is what's happening:In 2011, Boehner sent a notice to the WH stating his intention to invite Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress. The White House never responded (spite? incompetence?) and Boehner proceeded to extend the invitation to Netanyahu. Netanyahu accepted the invitation and spoke. The White House did not express any outrage in 2011.
So there was a precedent set then, and no reason for Boehner or Netanyahu to assume there was any problem when the White House didn't respond with any objections this time.
The resulting fracas was simply kabuki outrage manufactured to create a negative impression that Israel had somehow 'disrespected' an American president. And of course, to assist Netanyahu's political enemies in the coming election...where the Obama Administration has already sent a crack campaign team and millions in campaign funds for the same purpose. The shotgun wedding of Labor's Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni lost no time in trying to spin this to show that 'Netanyahu was destroying Israel's relationship with the U.S.'
Funny VIDEO - Bibi Sitter Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmac71R5Br8#t=54
Via Israel TodayIs the Obama Administration interfering in Israel's upcoming elections? Recent statements and moves by America's leaders sure would seem to suggest so.
Last week, both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry announced they would not be in attendance when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the US Senate dedicated to the threat of a nuclear Iran.
The White House has been furious with Netanyahu over the planned appearance, which Obama officials insist had breached protocol by being organized without their approval and involvement.
Just days after letting everyone know they wouldn't be on hand to greet and listen to Netanyahu, both Biden and Kerry met with Israeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich, Germany on Saturday. And this just a month before Israel's March 17 elections.
Their actions may be having the opposite effect, however. Polls suggest that the Obama diss is making Netanyahu more popular in Israel...
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***Benjamin Netanyahu Schools Obuma***
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BIBI & OBUMA
Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the press after meeting with President Obama regarding the Israeli borders. Obama said in his speech that Israel's new borders should be according to the 1967 war, but it appears that the Obama team jumped the gun on the announcement. Obama made the speech just one day before Benyamin Netanyahu visits the White House. Obama threw Netanyahu and the nation of Israel under the bus in favor of Hamas and the Palestinians.
In this clip, Benjamin Netanyahu looks like a professor and Obama like a student nipping at his heels. Netanyahu makes it clear who is the real leader and makes Israel's case in no uncertain terms that Israel WILL NOT adjust its borders or give up the Golan Heights. This was a stunning event and it is obvious that Obama is extremely upset. While Netanyahu was courteous and professional, it is clear that he will not be bullied by President Obama.On May 20, 2011Bibi & Butthead VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAlJ6erL-HY
Gas Station Manager 'Average Mohamed' Launches YouTube Attack On The ISIS Propaganda Machine
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD4UdT9m5o0
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vJ-SlxjRrQ#t=46
(Will Mohamed Ahmed end up arrested for causing the growth of ISIS same as the producer of the Innocence of muslims?...)
Via Huffington Post
Mohamed Ahmed, a gas station manager who moonlights as an anti-terror propagandist, is ready to launch another strike against Islamic State terrorists.
He's just waiting for his tax refund to do it.
Frustrated by a slick social media campaign on the Internet by the Islamic State that authorities say has helped lure dozens of young Muslim Americans to the fight in Iraq and Syria, Ahmed has poured thousands of dollars of his own money over the last six months into producing a series of animated cartoon messages to rebut the extremist group's messaging.
The cartoons, which Ahmed posts on his averagemohamed.com website and YouTube, star a character named Average Mohamed, a plain-spoken Muslim who speaks out against his religion's being misinterpreted by terrorists.
The bearded and gap-toothed Average Mohamed argues that the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is "about genocide" and quotes the Quran in making the case that Muslims who see suspicious activities should alert authorities.[...]
Ahmed, 39, a father of four young children, is just one of many Muslim parents and leaders in the U.S. who are struggling to find the answers to cure what they see as a plague of Islamic radicalization.
Lyin' Brian Williams Stares Down A Thug's Snub-Nosed .38 While Selling
Christmas Trees Out Of The Back Of A Truck –
2005 interview with Esquire magazine
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(Lester Holt had his back with a guest appearance by Gary Busey...)
Via NY PostLong before Brian Williams was caught lying about his chopper coming under fire in Iraq, he claimed he'd stared down the barrel of a bandit's gun as a teenager in sleepy Red Bank, NJ.
In a 2005 interview with Esquire magazine, Williams said a thief drew on him in the 1970s — leaving him "looking up at a thug's snub-nosed .38 while selling Christmas trees out of the back of a truck."
He told the tough-to-believe story at least four times, claiming he was trying to help a local church when the thief snatched his money on West Front Street and Riverside Avenue.
"That wasn't a bad job, until a guy came up and stuck a .38-caliber pistol in my face and made me hand over all the money. Merry Christmas, right? Of course, I suddenly appreciated the other jobs I thought I hated," he told New Jersey Monthly in 2008.
[...]Les Carbone, 85,...
"Don't listen to Brian Williams," he said. "He's going to tell you a lot of things. I doubt he was robbed at gunpoint. I was born in Red Bank, there were no crimes like that. Tell Brian Williams to stop lying."
Lyin' Brian Left Medal Of Honor Convention In Lurch For "Pressing Engagement'...
To Be On SNL
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(Whew... The more you dig, the worse you find...)
Via Boston Herald:http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/peter_gelzinis/2015/02/gelzinis_brian_williams_snub_of_vets_no_laughing
Back in the fall of 2006, long before Brian Williams confessed to "conflating" his helicopter adventures over Iraq, Neal Santangelo knew the NBC news anchor was a fraud.
Santangelo, a Boston firefighter, former president of Local 718 and a proud veteran of the Navy submarine service, served on a committee that brought the Congressional Medal of Honor Society to Boston that year for its national convention.
About six months before the society's gala banquet at the Convention Center, Williams agreed to serve as master of ceremonies.
But when he arrived on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006, Williams told committee members Tom Lyons and Neal Santangelo that a "pressing engagement" back in New York prevented him from doing much more than greeting the audience of more than 1,000 guests ... and leaving.
Malia Obama Goes College Hunting: Community Colleges Not In The Hunt
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(Will the empty chair legacy continue?...)
Via CSM Last summer, news outlets took notice when Malia Obama toured Stanford and the University of California-Berkeley. Now, heads are turning once again after Malia and her mom, Michelle Obama, were spotted on private tours with multiple universities in New York City on Friday.
With such well-known people touring campus, it was no surprise that many students shared their excitement on social media. From tweets to blog posts, many shared their enthusiasm with the prospect of having Malia as a classmate.(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Mailatweet-550x296.jpg)
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Judge Jeanine Has Been Mystified by Obama's Behavior for 6 Years.
Suddenly, It All Makes Sense.
https://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/247371-2-judge-jeanine-mystified-president-obama/Judge Jeanine Pirro has been an ardent critic of President Obama for years. But Obama's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, which the president's most reliable defenders claim is a non-controversy, has her seeing the president's behavior during America's war with Islamic terrorists in a whole new light.
Here is how Pirro made her opening statement:
"You know I've been watching this president for six years. And after this week's prayer breakfast, it all came together. It finally made sense to me: Barack Obama is comfortable with extremism. He's okay with it. He's nonplussed. It's part of what happens.
It explains why he goes golfing within minutes of announcing the beheading of an American. It explains why he didn't join 40 world leaders in France to denounce 'Islamic terrorism.'
It explains why he doesn't attend certain funerals. Why he does nothing about the wholesale slaughter of Christians in the Middle East. Or the raping, beheading, crucifying and burying alive of children there. Why he doesn't get excited about people who cross his 'red lines.' And it explains why he so easily pivots to healthcare after announcing the burning alive of a coalition pilot."
For some context, the president's controversial remarks came just two days after a video showed the Islamic State burning captured Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh. This is the president's line that has drawn attention:
"Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
Judge Jeanine Pirro interprets these remarks to mean the president is generally nonplussed about Islamic extremism – it doesn't really perturb him. The Judge then gives numerous examples of how the president's inexplicable behavior following terrorist attacks can now be seen in an entirely new light.
Whether or not one agrees with the entirety of Pirro's remarks, one thing is clear: approximately 70% of Americans lack confidence in the president's ability to take on ISIS terrorists, while only 38% of approve of his handling of foreign policy in general.
The president at times appearing emotionally detached following terror attacks – even making equivocations to medieval Christian atrocities carried out centuries ago – is unlikely to change that perception.
If it's taken her 6 years to catch-on to Obama, how many more years will it take for her to see what the Republicans are?
The media is pro-Obama and pro-Republican (and pro-neocon). They like 'em all. They're all going the same direction.
And who spends advertising money with them? The Democrats, Republicans and the government. The campaign season has been over for about 3 months so now we view and listen to government "public service" annoucements paid for by your favorite bureaucracy or the military.
Besides taxing, borrowing and printing, where does the government get its money to tell us what to think?
Amazing! Original Magna Carta Copy Found in Scrapbook
by Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | February 09, 2015
An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England.
The tattered document dates back to 1300, 85 years after King John of England was compelled to sign the first agreement limiting the rights of kings. This version was issued by King Edward I (King John's grandson), who was under pressure from the church and the barons to reaffirm good governance, said Sophie Ambler, a research associate with the Magna Carta Project.
"Nobody knew it was there," Ambler said of the damaged document. "This Magna Carta had been stuck into a scrapbook by a Victorian official from the British Museum at the end of the 19th century." Limiting the king
The copy was then placed in the Sandwich archive in Kent, where it was forgotten, Ambler told Live Science. Its rediscovery was sparked by the efforts of researchers with the Magna Carta Project, who are investigating the history of the Magna Carta in the lead-up to its 800th anniversary this year. The leader of the project, the University of East Anglia's Nicholas Vincent, asked a historian in Kent to look up Sandwich's Charter of the Forest, a complementary document to the Magna Carta. In the process, the historian found the forgotten edition of the Magna Carta.
Often considered a precursor to modern constitutional law, the Magna Carta was first affirmed on June 15, 1215, by a beleaguered King John, who faced an uprising by a group of powerful barons upset over taxation. The charter limited the king's power and set limits on taxation, also establishing rights to justice. Four copies of the original 1215 Magna Carta survive, including a badly burnt document held at the British Library. [See Photos of the Burnt Magna Carta]: http://www.livescience.com/48236-burnt-magna-carta-photos.html(http://i.livescience.com/images/i/000/073/848/original/sandwich-magna-carta.jpeg?1423507172)
Reaffirmed Charter
After King John, England's kings periodically reaffirmed and reissued the Magna Carta, as was the case with this version. The new copy brings the total number of surviving 13th-century versions to 24, Ambler said. The newly discovered edition is the seventh surviving copy from the year 1300.
The charter is more than 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) long, but about one-third of the text is missing, according to the Magna Carta Project. Water damage has eaten away at the paper, and the royal seal is missing. Nevertheless, the date of issue survives at the bottom of the document, Ambler said. Determining the authenticity of the charter was relatively straightforward, she added: The layout, handwriting and text all match what would be expected from a Magna Carta of this time.
The document's discovery in Sandwich reveals that copies of the Magna Carta were distributed more widely than ever known, Ambler said. Sandwich was what is known as a "Cinque Port," a coastal town given exemptions from certain taxes and oversight in return for maintaining ships for the kingdom's defense needs.
"The fact that we had one [delivered] to the Cinque ports adds a whole other audience" for the Magna Carta, Ambler said.
The fate of the newly discovered Magna Carta is not yet known, but it is likely to stay in Kent, Ambler said. The county council hopes to display the document as a tourist draw, she added. The Magna Carta is currently being held at the Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone, Murray Evans, spokesman for the Kent County Council, told Live Science.
Planned Parenthood Cheers ObuttHead For Citing Ridiculous
Sexual Assault Claim During Grammys, "Right On"
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Via Washington Examiner:"Right now, nearly 1 in 5 women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape," President Obama said Sunday night in a message played during the Grammys. "And more than 1 in 4 women has experienced some form of domestic violence."
Wow, just wow.
Gone are the days that the president makes false claims that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted while in college. Now 20 percent of all women in America have been raped or nearly raped. And 25 percent of American women — not just college women — have experienced domestic violence.
Let's just think about that for a minute. The current population of the U.S. is 316.1 million, with women comprising about half. That means there are about 158 million women and girls in the U.S. If 20 percent of American women have been raped or almost raped, that's a total of 31.6 million women, which is somewhere between the populations of Texas and California.
These numbers are wildly out of line with national crime statistics, which don't show anywhere near that number of rapes in the past two decades. Those statistics show fewer than 2 million rapes being reported in that time frame. Even accounting for the fact that many rapes go unreported, the number Obama gave Sunday night is staggering. It would mean that just 6.3 percent of rapes and attempted rapes are reported.
This would also mean that, if Obama is right and 25 percent of American women have experienced domestic violence, then 39.51 million women in the country (which is more than the population of California) are victims of such violence.
Update to this post:
Air Force One charm offensive takes off
The White House's newest attempt to schmooze Congress includes invitations to ride on the president's plane.
By Anna Palmer and John Bresnahan
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/barack-obama-air-force-one-charm-offensive-115004.html#ixzz3RJz4HeQC
Fourth Estate
***All the President's Explainers***
Interviews with the president are always useless.
Vox's was no different.
By JACK SHAFER - February 09, 2015
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/vox-interview-barack-obama-115033.html#ixzz3RK5WDIN2
(It is not just that interviews with O'buttHead are useless, the facts are O'buttHead IS useless!!!...)
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A sit-down interview with the president of the United States must be the most overrated get in all of journalism. Obviously, few journalists would spurn a chance to touch the hem of his garment if offered the chance. But beyond a brief burst of positive buzz for the news outlet, these sessions produce little in the way of news, as Vox's Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias demonstrated anew Monday in their lengthy domestic and foreign policy Q&As with President Barack Obama.
Just tune your browser to Google News and see for yourself how little meat the hungry press corps was able to scrape from the bones of the Vox interview. CNN: "Obama 'hopeful' about partisanship, race relations"; Bloomberg: "Obama Says Wealth Accumulation Speaks to Need for Tax Shift"; National Journal: "In Vox Interview, Obama Sets Limits on What a President Can Accomplish"; Politico: "Barack Obama: Get rid of 'routine use' of legislative filibuster." Klein and Yglesias haven't gathered enough protein to make a decent news bouillon.
To be fair to Vox, even the most experienced White House reporters can be undone by the president in interviews. Bill O'Reilly of Fox News Channel, for one, has failed to puncture the White House shield in his "exclusive" Obama interviews. Presidents, after all, are playing on their home courts, where they set the rules and control the shot clock. A president is too well-briefed by his staff to be caught off guard by ingenious questions. No president will allow news to be made in an interview unless he wants to make news. Also, etiquette dictates that reporters not interrupt the president whenever he drones on like a slow leak out of a monster truck tire, which Obama does with Vox, at one point filibustering for 750 words—almost as long as this column!—in response to a shapeless labor question posed by Yglesias. An interview with the president may add to a journalist's prestige, but, like White House briefings, it's an empty ritual.
But that's not what bothers me about the Vox interview. Here, for me, is the real rub:
In the example of Klein and Yglesias, they're less interested in interviewing Obama than they are in explaining his policies. Again and again, they serve him softball—no, make that Nerf ball—questions and then insert infographics and footnotes that help advance White House positions. Vox has lavished such spectacular production values on the video version of the Obama interview—swirling graphics and illustrations, background music (background music!?), aggressive editing, multiple camera angles—that the clips end up looking and sounding like extended commercials for the Obama-in-2016 campaign. I've seen subtler Scientology recruitment films.
Explainer journalism, as practiced by Klein, purports to break down complex policy issues into laymen-friendly packages that are issued from the realm of pure reason. But as Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry succinctly put it last summer in The Week, "Vox is really partisan commentary in question-and-answer disguise" that "often looks more like a right-wing caricature of what a partisan media outlet dressed up as an explainer site would look like."
As a sometime partisan commenter, I venerate partisan commentary because it can cut through the protective Styrofoam cladding politicians love to wrap their messages in. But if you're going to be partisan about your journalism, if you're going to give the president an easy ride, you've got to be clean about it! You can't pretend, as Klein did when he founded Vox, that you're taking a neutral approach to news and that all you're doing is making the news "vegetables" more palatable by roasting them to "perfection with a drizzle of olive oil and hint of sea salt." Klein and Yglesias are like two Roman curia cardinals who want us to believe their exclusive interview with the pope is on the level.
It's a bad Obama interview, but not the worst. That honor goes to the interview New Republic owner (and onetime Obama campaign staffer) Chris Hughes and then-editor Franklin Foer conducted in 2013, serving Obama some of the most groveling and naive questions in White House annals. (See my friend Dan Kennedy's partial list of New Republic fawning questions, which include, "Can you tell us a little bit about how you've gone about intellectually preparing for your second term as president?" and "Have you looked back in history, particularly at the second terms of other presidents, for inspiration?")
Are there no upsides to interviews with the president, even toadying or hagiographic ones? I suppose durable White House contacts can be made by landing one, but will these contacts be useful in chasing real news? Not likely.
Next up in Obama's interview conga line is BuzzFeed News Editor in Chief Ben Smith, who will grill the president on Tuesday. Here's hoping that Smith, an experienced newsman, makes news with his questions even if he doesn't with Obama's answers.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/02/vox-interview-barack-obama-115033.html#ixzz3RK4iJwFY
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Queer Agriculture
When Joseph Stalin applied ideology to agriculture, it was called "Lysenkoism," and resulted in the aggravation of famine caused by collectivism. His fellow leftists have learned nothing, or they would not be leftists. Now agriculture is being subjected to the bizarre adulation of sexual deviancy that predominates at liberal elite strongholds like Berkeley:The Center for the Study of Sexual Culture at the University of California, Berkeley, is presenting a talk [this] week on "Queering Agriculture," dedicated to the proposition that "it is absolutely crucial queer and transgender studies begin to deal more seriously with the subject of agriculture." ...
The talk's presenter, a Ph.D. candidate in American studies at the University of Maryland, will allegedly show that "the growing popularity of sustainable food is laden with anthroheterocentric assumptions of the 'good life' coupled with idealized images and ideas of the American farm, and gender, radicalized and normative standards of health, family, and nation."When these malevolent lunatics manage to use the federal government to take control of food production, people are going to starve.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/queer-agriculture.jpg)
No corner of America is safe.
~The Truth About the Crusades~
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Traitors against Western Civilization reflexively side with its historic enemy, Islam. Those who are ignorant or assume their audience to be ignorant of history will often evoke the Crusades as a great sin against the peaceful Muslim world. Last week Obama appalled descent people when he attempted to justify the Islamic State's atrocities by denouncing Christianity. Naturally he mentioned the Crusades, as Bill Clinton did right after 9/11 for the same malign purpose.In reality, the Crusaders were heroes who fought a defensive war against the same menace of expansionist Islam that is on horrific display today. Dr. Bill Warner provides some visual perspective:Bill Warner, PhD: Jihad vs Crusades
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo
First Principles debunks four myths anti-Western liars have propagated regarding the noble Crusades:
http://www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/articles.aspx?article=1483
Myth #1: The crusades represented an unprovoked attack by Western Christians on the Muslim world.
Myth #2: Western Christians went on crusade because their greed led them to plunder Muslims in order to get rich.
Myth #3: Crusaders were a cynical lot who did not really believe their own religious propaganda; rather, they had ulterior, materialistic motives.
Myth #4: The crusades taught Muslims to hate and attack Christians.To learn what really happened, read God's Battalions by Rodney Stark. If you don't have time for a whole book, there is an excellent historical overview at Crisis Magazine. Highlights:
Christians in the eleventh century were not paranoid fanatics. Muslims really were gunning for them. While Muslims can be peaceful, Islam was born in war and grew the same way. From the time of Mohammed, the means of Muslim expansion was always the sword. Muslim thought divides the world into two spheres, the Abode of Islam and the Abode of War. Christianity — and for that matter any other non-Muslim religion — has no abode. Christians and Jews can be tolerated within a Muslim state under Muslim rule. But, in traditional Islam, Christian and Jewish states must be destroyed and their lands conquered. When Mohammed was waging war against Mecca in the seventh century, Christianity was the dominant religion of power and wealth. As the faith of the Roman Empire, it spanned the entire Mediterranean, including the Middle East, where it was born. The Christian world, therefore, was a prime target for the earliest caliphs, and it would remain so for Muslim leaders for the next thousand years.
And beyond, to the present day (e.g., al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden, Iran's Ali Khamenei, the Islamic State's Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi).
With enormous energy, the warriors of Islam struck out against the Christians shortly after Mohammed's death. They were extremely successful. Palestine, Syria, and Egypt — once the most heavily Christian areas in the world — quickly succumbed. By the eighth century, Muslim armies had conquered all of Christian North Africa and Spain. In the eleventh century, the Seljuk Turks conquered Asia Minor (modern Turkey), which had been Christian since the time of St. Paul. The old Roman Empire, known to modern historians as the Byzantine Empire, was reduced to little more than Greece. In desperation, the emperor in Constantinople sent word to the Christians of western Europe asking them to aid their brothers and sisters in the East.
That is what gave birth to the Crusades. They were not the brainchild of an ambitious pope or rapacious knights but a response to more than four centuries of conquests in which Muslims had already captured two-thirds of the old Christian world. At some point, Christianity as a faith and a culture had to defend itself or be subsumed by Islam. The Crusades were that defense.
We face a similar choice between self-defense and annihilation today. If this isn't obvious already, it will be when Obama has finished facilitating Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons.
~~~Government Explained~~~
An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets. The alien discovers that we live under the rule of a thing called "government", and wants to understand more about what "government" is, what it does, and why it exists.VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUS1m5MSt9k
**Transcript for Government Explained**
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Human: Hey, an alien!
Alien: Yes, I have travelled across space to check on the progress of your species.
H: Cool. Shall I take you to our leader?
A: Your what?
H: Our leader - the guy in charge.
A: The guy in charge of what?
H: Well, in charge of everything.
A: You have one guy in charge of everything?
H: No, no, he's in charge of government.
A: What is government?
H: Well, government makes the rules for us. It tells us what we can do and what we can't do.
A: So government is really smart? They come up with wise rules for you to follow?
H: Well mostly, but some of its rules are really stupid.
A: Do you disregard those rules?
H: No, we have to follow the rules, even if they are stupid, or we disagree with them. Government punishes anyone who disobeys the rules.
A: So you are slaves to government?
H: No, no, no, it's not like that at all. Government works for us, the people. It serves us. We're the boss.
A: It tells you what to do, and it punishes you with violence if you disobey it, and yet you're its boss?
H: Yeah.
A: But there are some things government does that you don't like?
H: Well, yeah, not everything government does is popular. Like spending on wars, for example.
A: What is a war?
H: It's when government basically spends the peoples' money on weapons and soldiers, and then sends them over to the other side of the world to kill a bunch of people over there and destroy their country. I don't like it that government does this.
A: Well I can see why you might not like that. Have you humans reached the stage where you generally consider stealing, enslaving and killing each other to be bad things?
H: Oh yeah, we know that. Don't steal. Don't attack. Don't assault.
A: But you give money to government and they use it to kill people.
H: Well yeah, but government does good things with tax money as well.
A: Why don't you stop paying for the things you don't like and only pay for the good things it does?
H: No, we can't do that. You can't just decide to stop paying taxes, because the rules say that everyone has to pay taxes.
A: But the rules come from government though, don't they?
H: Yeah.
A: So government made a rule which says that everyone has to pay them money? So everybody pays taxes because if they didn't, government would punish them using violence?
H: Well yes, but most people don't mind paying taxes; most people feel obligated to pay taxes and obey government laws, because it's for the good of society. Society needs government, and that means we all have to pay taxes.
A: So just to make sure I've got this straight. Government makes the rules and you feel obligated to follow the rules, even the ones you don't like, and it tells you what to do, and threatens to punish you if you don't do what it says. And it uses some of the money that it has taken from you using threats of violence to pay for things you don't like and actually think are immoral, like mass murder.
H: Yeah, but we can ask it to please tell us to do smart things, and please don't take our money and use it to kill people. We're allowed to ask them to tell us to do what we want them to tell us to do.
A: Are you guys just scared of this thing? Is government some huge monster that can just squish you at any moment if you disobey?
H: No, government isn't a monster.
A: Well what is it then? Could you draw me a picture of it?
H: Government isn't really the sort of thing you can draw a picture of.
A: Maybe you could take me to it. Where is government?
H: You mean the building?
A: Government is a building?
H: No, but the politicians who make up the government have buildings they work from.
A: So government is a group of these politicians?
H: Yeah.
A: OK, so what species are these politicians?
H: Well they're... human.
A: Like you?!
H: Yeah.
A: So politicians are humans, and they're government. You're a human, but you're not government?
H: No.
A: So it's the politicians, they are the ones that boss the rest of you around, and make you do things you don't want to do and take your money using threats of violence. But even though you're all humans – you're not allowed to boss them around and take their money?
H: No, they'd put us in a cage if we did that. But look, it's not like the politicians can just do whatever they want. Like, a politician can't just come up to me on the street and make me give him money. They can't do that. Politicians can only do things like that in their job, when they're working for government.
A: Oh, so politicians aren't government. They're just work for government.
H: Yeah.
A: OK, so government isn't a monster, and it isn't building, and its not politicians, it's something else. And it employs politicians who are just regular humans, who get to order everyone else around and take their money. How does a regular human become a politician?
H: Well that's the great thing about our government. It's a democracy, and that means that the people actually have the power, because we get to decide who among us get to be the politicians, we get to vote. And if a politician starts doing things we don't like, we can just replace him with someone else in the next election.
A: So the people that get chosen to be politicians only get to boss people around and take their money for a short time, and then they go back to being regular humans?
H: Exactly.
A: That sounds like a powerful position to be in. But if you get to choose who does that, I assume that politicians are always the wisest, most honest, caring and respected people among you...
H: Well, no, not really. I wouldn't say politicians are known for being honest, or wise, or caring, and they're certainly not the most respected people among us. Come to think of it, most politicians are lying, power-hungry crooks.
A: The ones you chose?
H: Yeah, they're always doing things we don't like. They use taxpayers' money to enrich themselves and their friends, and they never keep their promises to voters. They've been caught stealing and lying and taking bribes, and they mostly do what the big corporations want. Yeah, they're always doing stuff like that. They're completely corrupt. They're a bunch of lying crooks.
A: But you said that most humans know that stealing and beating each other up and killing are wrong. And you said that you have the power because you can change who's in charge. So why don't you just replace the lying, thieving, murderous crooked politicians with some regular people?
H: Well we don't try to elect lying crooks. It just always turns out that way. But we have to have a government, because some humans are nasty, and might kill, or enslave or steal. Civilization just couldn't survive without government.
A: Let me get this straight. Because you're worried about the small number of nasty people that are willing to kill, enslave and steal, you think it's necessary for your survival to have a system where some humans among you, for a short while, get to call themselves the government, and they get to order everyone else around like slaves and, if they want, commit mass murder, using money they stole, using threats of violence. Politicians get to kill, enslave and steal, because if they didn't, someone else might? And you try to elect good honest people to be politicians but what happens every time is that the people you elect turn out to be corrupt, evil, lying crooks. That's your system?
H: Yeah, that's pretty much government.
"YIKE" STORY OF THE DAY
Secret Meetings between Aliens, Dwight Eisenhower & Richard Nixon
http://strangetimesusa.blogspot.com/2012/02/secret-meetings-between-aliens-dwight.html
by Miguel Saucedo - Strange Times U.S.A. - Editor
On February 14th, 2012 the Huffington Post reported about 3 secret meetings that happened between Dwight Eisenhower and Grey Aliens.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/14/eisenhower-and-the-aliens-former-us-president-had-three-secret-meetings-with-extra-terrestrials_n_1275692.html?ref=uk
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According to lecturer and author Timothy Good, a former U.S. Government consultant has claimed that the 34th President of the United States of America met extraterrestrials at a remote base in New Mexico in 1954.
Eisenhower (one of the few U.S. Presidents to believe in other worldly beings) and a few F.B.I. agents are said to have communicated with these beings through 'telepathic messages'. They communicated back and forth until deciding on a place to meet.
The two parties finally met at Holloman Air Force Base and there were 'many witnesses'.
"Aliens have made both formal and informal contact with thousands of people throughout the world from all walks of life,"
This meeting was said to have taken place while officials were told that he was on a small vacation in Palm Springs, Ca. in February 1954. Only a few officials have known about this meeting. (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BFKhqoTojzk/Tz8qCvj0ApI/AAAAAAAAAC8/KWTDx_tpRog/s1600/strange-times-usa-valient-thor-thorr-alien.jpg)
Brothers and Sister "Jill", "Donn" and "Valiant Thor"
http://theuniversalseduction.com/articles/valiant-thor-the-human-alien-from-venus-washington-dc-vip-during-late-50s
VIDEO OF VALIANT THOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2J6ATy5FRE
UFO theorists and researchers have recently theorized that the meetings took place to sign 'intergalactic' treaties. There has long been a speculation that these other worldly beings have also exchanged technological and medical advancements. Advancements such as the cure for cancer, propulsion technologies and unlimited safe, environmental energy. If so, why haven't we cured cancer yet? Pharmaceutical and oil company greed could be a possibility as to why we haven't put those 'secrets' in to practice.
The first race of aliens that Eisenhower met with looked of Nordic descent. One of the prime examples of these 'human aliens' would be 'Valiant Thor' who visited the Pentagon and had meetings with the President Eisenhower and Richard Nixon over a period of 3 years.
The late Dr. Frank E. Stranges had a chance to interview Valiant Thor and chronicled his half hour meeting in his famous book 'Stranger at the Pentagon':
He told me his name was Valiant Thor. He grabbed my hand. His skin as soft as a baby's skin but his grip as hard as a man. We spent 30 minutes; mostly me asking questions and he giving answers. He claimed that he was from the inside of the planet that our bible calls the 'Morning and the Evening' star. "The planet Venus?" He says, "Yes".
All of this time Mr. Thor was at the Pentagon for three years mind you and he was coming and going at will. He was brought to the President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, offered to give them information on how our people can successfully live without sickness, without poverty, without disease and without death.
They told him, "I'm sorry we cannot accept the information that you are freely giving us because it will ruin the economy of this nation."
Commander Thor left on the morning of March 16th, 1960 on the outskirts of Alexandria, Virginia where his 'spaceship' came down, he went into the 'spaceship' and disappeared from sight.(Ah yeah... Okay... I think it was a hoax...
but, then again, we have a community organizer as President. Anything is possible. Think about it... maybe Jarhead could explain it...)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=valiant+thor+hoax&qs=AS&sk=LS1&pq=valiant+thor+&sc=8-13&sp=2&cvid=573b24d3d5f94014b83ee87b8ebf71c5&FORM=QBRE Images of Valiant Thor
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Warph,
I think it is all bull hockey---unless ol Raisin Head came from Venus because the sorry POS sure aint from this world.
Axelrod book: Obama lied on same-sex marriage
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN
W.H. responds to claim that Obama lied on gay marriage
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(FoxNews.com/: "Axelrod: Obama misled on early gay marriage opposition"
Wall Street Journal headline: "Axelrod Book: Obama Misled Public on Gay-Marriage Position"...
Misled?? Give me a break. He LIED to the American Voters for political reasons.... A$$hole!
These sites got it right with their headline:
The Christian Science Monitor: "Axelrod book: Obama lied about opposing gay marriage"...
CNN: "Axelrod book: Obama lied on same-sex marriage"...
Christian Post.com: Obama Lied About Supporting Traditional Marriage in 2008" ...)
Washington (CNN)— http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/10/politics/obama-gay-marriage-axelrod/index.html President Barack Obama didn't actually evolve on same-sex marriage, according to one of Obama's closest former top aides.
Obama had actually supported it for years, David Axelrod writes in his new book, "Believer: My Forty Years in Poltics," released Tuesday.
But Obama, Axelrod writes, opposed same-sex marriage during his 2008 presidential campaign and throughout most of his first term as President due to political concerns.
"Gay marriage was a particularly nagging issue. For as long as we had been working together, Obama had felt a tug between his personal views and the politics of gay marriage," Axelrod writes. "Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a 'sacred union.'"
Obama started saying in 2010 that his views were evolving on the issue and in May 2012 Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, citing "the evolution that I went through."
But privately, Axelrod wrote that Obama made no secret of his support for same-sex marriage.
"I just don't feel my marriage is somehow threatened by the gay couple next door," Obama said, according to Axelrod's book.
In the chapter, in which he notes the "recurring tension between Obama the idealist and Obama the politician," Axelrod writes that Obama's public stance didn't seem to sit well with him.
"Obama never felt comfortable with his compromise and, no doubt, compromised position," Axelrod writes. "He routinely stumbled over the question when it came up in debates or interviews. 'I'm just not very good at bulls---ting,' he said with a sigh after one such awkward exchange."
Axelrod's book only confirms previous reports that Obama had, in fact, supported gay marriage for a long time.
While running for his first term in the Illinois State Senate, Obama signed a questionnaire in which he answered that he "favored legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight to prohibit such marriages." The questionnaire came to light in 2009, days before Obama's inauguration.
"I had no doubt that this was his heartfelt belief," Axelrod said of the questionnaire. "He also knew his view was way out in front of the public's."
America's Colleges Have Become Political Correctness Indoctrination Centers
By Michael Snyder, on February 9th, 2015
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Most parents assume that when they send their kids to college that they will receive training which will prepare them for a lifetime of employment. Sadly, the truth is that very little time is actually spent imparting practical skills to students at most of America's colleges. Instead, an extraordinary amount of classroom time is spent telling students what they should think and what they should believe. At this point, most institutions of "higher learning" in this country have been transformed into political correctness indoctrination centers. There is a reason why college towns have a reputation for being extremely liberal. The truth is that they are bastions for "progressive" thought. Each and every day, millions of young adults all across America are literally being systematically brainwashed. In case you are wondering, I know what I am talking about. I spent eight years getting three degrees at public universities. And it doesn't even really matter what area of the country you attend school. The "education" that students are receiving at schools in very liberal states is virtually the same as the "education" that students are receiving at schools in very conservative states. Our young adults represent the future of this nation, and they are receiving a level of indoctrination that is so comprehensive that it would make Joseph Goebbels proud.
Colleges and universities all across this nation spend an extraordinary amount of time and effort to alter the belief systems of their students. This even extends to teaching them what words are "appropriate" to use and which words are not. For example, just check out what is happening at the University of Michigan...Dozens of posters plastered across the University of Michigan caution students not to say things that might hurt others' feelings, part of a new "Inclusive Language Campaign" at the state's flagship public university that cost $16,000 to implement.
Words declared unacceptable through the campaign include "crazy," "insane," "retarded," "gay," "tranny," "gypped," "illegal alien," "fag," "ghetto" and "raghead." Phrases such as "I want to die" and "that test raped me" are also verboten.But this isn't just an advertising campaign. In fact, University of Michigan students are actually being asked to sign a pledge that they will use "inclusive language" from now on...Students have been asked to sign a pledge to "use inclusive language" and to help their peers "understand the importance of using inclusive language," according to campaign materials.If you think that this is just an isolated incident, you would be wrong.
One survey of 409 colleges conducted in 2013 discovered that 62 percent of them have "speech codes" that "severely departed from First Amendment standards".
Meanwhile, these "institutions of higher learning" are failing miserably at what is supposedly their primary task.
Today, the average college freshman reads at a 7th grade level. In a desperate attempt to get as many students through the system as possible, most college courses have been so "dumbed down" that the family cat could pass them.(http://www.funnywallphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/towel.jpg)
If only parents knew. The amount of useful knowledge that their kids are actually receiving is very small. But most parents are utterly clueless and they just keep writing huge tuition checks semester after semester.It would be hard to describe how utterly useless some of these college courses are. For instance, there is one college in upstate New York that is offering a course entitled "The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Race, Class, Gender and Media".Do you think that is going to prepare your child for the real world?
And here is a list of some other actual college courses that have been taught at U.S. colleges in recent years...
-"What If Harry Potter Is Real?"
-"Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame"
-"Philosophy And Star Trek"
-"Learning From YouTube"
-"How To Watch Television"
-"Oh, Look, a Chicken!"Are you starting to get the picture?No wonder so many students "graduate from college" but are still dumb as a rock.(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e-kKpKj1ZkU/T80oaNAx7MI/AAAAAAAAGnY/qVgs6s85FjY/s640/idiots.jpg)
The following are some numbers about the quality of college education in the United States that come from an article that appeared in USA Today...
-"After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change."
-"Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago"
-"35% of students report spending five or fewer hours per week studying alone."
-"50% said they never took a class in a typical semester where they wrote more than 20 pages"
-"32% never took a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages per week."But even with so little being demanded of them, most college students in the United States still cannot manage to graduate from school on time.
Federal statistics show that only 36 percent of all full-time students receive a bachelor's degree within four years, and only 77 percent of all full-time students have earned a degree by the end of six years.
Instead of studying hard, most college students treat college like one giant party.No wonder so many of them want to extend it for another year or two or three.
And when these kids get away from their parents, their morality tends to go into the toilet.
For example, just check out what one survey discovered about male college students...A third of male students questioned in a survey admitted they would rape a woman if they could get away with it.
The study found that 31.7 per cent of the mostly white American participants questioned admitted they would force a woman to have sex in a 'consequence-free situation'.
Academics quizzed volunteers on how they would act in a situation where they could have sex with a woman against her will 'if nobody would ever know there wouldn't be any consequences'.These are the leaders of tomorrow? Are you kidding me?[/b]
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Our system of college education is deeply, deeply broken. Like I stated above, I speak from experience. I earned three degrees from "good schools", and I saw firsthand how pathetic the system is.
What Do They Know? Why Are So Many Of The Super Wealthy Preparing Bug Out Locations?
By Michael Snyder, on January 27th, 2015
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Gulfstream - Photo by Andre WadmanA lot of ultra-rich people are quietly preparing to "bug out" when the time comes. They are buying survival properties, they are buying farms in far away countries and they are buying deep underground bunkers. In fact, a prominent insider at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland says that "very powerful people are telling us they're scared" and he shocked his audience when he revealed that he knows "hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand". So what do they know? Why are so many of the super wealthy suddenly preparing bug out locations? When the elite of the world start preparing for doomsday, that is a very troubling sign. And right now the elite appear to be quietly preparing for disaster like never before.
The insider that I mentioned above is named Robert Johnson. He is the president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, and what he recently told a packed audience in Davos is making headlines all over the planet...
With growing inequality and the civil unrest from Ferguson and the Occupy protests fresh in people's mind, the world's super rich are already preparing for the consequences. At a packed session in Davos, former hedge fund director Robert Johnson revealed that worried hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes. "I know hedge fund managers all over the world who are buying airstrips and farms in places like New Zealand because they think they need a getaway," he said.
But he didn't stop there.
In a separate interview, Johnson admitted that "very powerful people are telling us they're scared" and that the elite "see increasing evidence of social instability and violence". You can watch video of the entire interview below...
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sriuwxwols8
Wow.
And Johnson is not the only one saying these things.
The following quote comes from the Mirror...
His comments were backed up by Stewart Wallis, executive director of the New Economics Foundation, who when asked about the comments told CNBC Africa: "Getaway cars the airstrips in New Zealand and all that sort of thing, so basically a way to get off. If they can get off, onto another planet, some of them would."Of course not all elitists are planning to jet off to the other side of the globe.
Some are planning to go deep underground when things hit the fan.
For example, there is an underground decommissioned missile silo in Kansas that has been transformed into luxury survival condos by a real estate developer. The following is from a Wall Street Journal article about those condos...
The so-called Survival Condo complex boasts full and half-floor units that cost $1.5 million to $3 million each. The building can accommodate up to 75 people, and buyers include doctors, scientists and entrepreneurs, says developer Larry Hall.
Mr. Hall, who lives in a Denver suburb, bought his first missile-silo site in Kansas in 2008 and completed construction in December 2012. A year later, he says, the development had sold out. Work on the second security compound—the one where Mr. Allen bought a unit—is under way, and Mr. Hall says he is considering additional sites in Texas and elsewhere.
As former nuclear missile sites built under the supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers, the structures were originally designed to withstand a direct hit by a nuclear bomb. At ground level, they can be sealed up by two armored doors weighing 16,000 pounds each. Mr. Hall added sophisticated water and air-treatment facilities, state-of-the-art computer network technology and several alternate power generation capabilities.
Other wealthy individuals are turning their current homes into high tech security fortresses.
Those that are involved in providing these kinds of services have seen business absolutely soar in recent years...
Wealthy families across the country are shelling out millions to protect their loved ones from intruders, natural disasters or the apocalypse as home security goes increasingly sci-fi.
Companies that provide concerned homeowners with futuristic gadgets – and a priceless peace of mind – have revealed the growing demand of costly bunkers, passageways, panic rooms and recognition software.
Chris Pollack – president of Pollack+Partners, a design and construction adviser in Purchase, New York – told Forbes that, while security has always been important for the wealthiest clients, the spending on home security has noticeably grown in the past five years.
And the options available on the market are like something from a Bond film.
For much more on this, please see my previous article entitled "Why Are So Many Wealthy People Building Futuristic High Tech Security Bunkers?"
So why are all of these wealthy people so alarmed?
Well, the truth is that they can see what is happening.
They can see that millions of people are falling out of the middle class. They can see that society is breaking down in thousands of different ways. They can see that anger and frustration are rising to unprecedented levels. And they can see that things are likely to boil over once the next major economic crisis strikes.
Even though the economy is still fairly stable for the moment, signs of increasing economic suffering are everywhere. For example, the Los Angeles Times is reporting that homeless encampments are rapidly spreading throughout the Los Angeles area...
Over the last two years, street encampments have jumped their historic boundaries in downtown Los Angeles, lining freeways and filling underpasses from Echo Park to South Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, a city-county agency, received 767 calls about street encampments in 2014, up 60% from the 479 in 2013.We live at a time when almost everyone is getting poorer except for the elite. The top 1 percent now have close to 50 percent of the wealth in the entire world, and each year wealth becomes even more concentrated in their hands.
The elite know that eventually a breaking point is going to come. Those that are smart don't want to be around when that happens.
And we got a few clues about what things might look like what that time comes from the recent "snow scare" in New York. Frightened consumers wiped out supplies of bread, milk and eggs within just a few hours. People started to take advantage of one another, even the journalists seemed like they were on the verge of panic, and virtually the entire city shut down.
All of this over just a few snowflakes.
So what is going to happen when we have a real crisis?
If the elite are preparing to bug out, it is hard to blame them.
I wouldn't want to be right in the middle of a volcano when it erupts either.
Life is about to dramatically change, and signs of the coming storm are everywhere.
I hope that you are getting prepared for what is about to hit us while you still can.
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Panicked super rich buying boltholes with private airstrips to escape if poor rise up
26 January 2015
By Alex Wellman
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/panicked-super-rich-buying-boltholes-5044084
Hedge fund managers are buying up remote ranches and land in places like New Zealand to flee to in event of wide-spread civil unrest
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Escape: Rich financiers have put plans in place to getaway from rioters
Super rich hedge fund managers are buying 'secret boltholes' where they can hideout in the event of civil uprising against growing inequality, it has been claimed.
Nervous financiers from across the globe have begun purchasing landing strips, homes and land in areas such as New Zealand so they can flee should people rise up.
With growing inequality and riots such as those in London in 2011 and in Ferguson and other parts of the USA last year, many financial leaders fear they could become targets for public fury.
Robert Johnson, president of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, told people at the World Economic Forum in Davos that many hedge fund managers were already planning their escapes.(http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article3217758.ece/alternates/s615/Australian-outback.jpg)
Hideaway: Rich people are plotting to escape to remote parts of the world
Mr Johnson, said the economic situation could soon become intolerable as even in the richest countries inequality was increasing.
He said: "People need to know there are possibilities for their children – that they will have the same opportunity as anyone else.
"There is a wicked feedback loop. Politicians who get more money tend to use it to get more even money."
His comments were backed up by Stewart Wallis, executive director of the New Economics Foundation, who when asked about the comments told CNBC Africa: "Getaway cars the airstrips in New Zealand and all that sort of thing, so basically a way to get off. If they can get off, onto another planet, some of them would."
He added: "I think the rich are worried and they should be worried. I mean inequality, why does it matter?
"Most people have heard the Oxfam statistics that now we've got 80, the 80 richest people in the world, having more wealth that the bottom three-point-five billion, and very soon we'll get a situation where that one percent, one percent of the richest people have more wealth than everybody else, the 99."
Obuma: Oh Yeah, I Tried To Rescue Kayla Jean Mueller Last Year
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(Obama misremembered her being one of the hostages to be rescued along with Foley in August...)
Via Stars and Stripes Kayla Jean Mueller, the U.S. aid worker whose death as a captive of Islamic State extremists was confirmed Tuesday, was among the hostages sought in a failed U.S. rescue attempt last year, President Barack Obama said.
Obama, in an interview with the website BuzzFeed on Tuesday, confirmed for the first time publicly that Mueller was in the group that included journalist James Foley that U.S. special operations forces tried to rescue in northern Syria last August, only to discover they had been moved.
The raid was initially disclosed by the White House after Islamic State on Aug. 19 released a video of Foley's beheading.
"We devoted enormous resources and always devote enormous resources to freeing captives or hostages anywhere in the world," Obama said in the interview.
He said the U.S. will continue to refuse ransom demands from terrorists even though denying them is "as tough as anything I do."[...]
At least one more U.S. hostage still is being held in the region, Earnest said. While he declined to identify the hostage, the family of freelance journalist Austin Tice has said he's being held in Syria, though not by Islamic State.
Tice's parents have pushed for more family involvement in hostage recovery and for families to have a say in the review Obama ordered of U.S. hostage policy. That review will be finished later this spring, Earnest said.
BREAKING: NBC Suspends Brian Williams For 6 Months Without Pay
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(He's worth 40 million, so I'm guessing he won't be in any soup kitchen lines anytime soon...)
Brian Williams has been suspended from NBC for six months, the network announced on Tuesday.
"We have decided today to suspend Brian Williams as Managing Editor and Anchor of NBC Nightly News for six months. The suspension will be without pay and is effective immediately," a spokesperson for the network said in an email. " We let Brian know of our decision earlier today."
Lester Holt will host the program in his absence.
Obama Stuck In The 7th Grade:
Upset Over Maureen Dowd's Criticism, Asked Axelrod "Why Are You Friends With Her?"
– UPDATE: Dowd Responds By Playing Sexist Card
(Like, yeah, she's totally mean to him and everything... does this qualify as a catfight?
I love when they use their own tactics against each other! Its like 'eating their own'... or like when Leftists get in a slap fight. It is almost as entertaining
as watching Queers for Palestine on their first trip to the Islamic Republic of Iran... or like Muslims killing other Muslims because they aren't 'Muslim' enough.
Bizarro world...)
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NEW YORK — President Barack Obama is an avid reader of the New York Times opinion section and has, on several occasions, invited two of his favorite columnists — Tom Friedman and David Brooks — over to the White House before rolling out major policy initiatives.
But Obama is apparently not a fan of Maureen Dowd, another high-profile writer in the Times opinion stable. Former top Obama adviser David Axelrod wrote in his memoir published Tuesday, Believer, that "no one got under Barack's skin more than Maureen."
Axelrod recalled how Dowd was granted a brief interview during an overseas 2008 campaign trip with then-candidate Obama. When the two were together, he wrote, Obama "proceeded to blister her for a previous column she had written."
The former adviser wrote that Dowd's "penchant for delving into the psyches of her subjects was particularly irritating to the self-possessed Obama."
"Normally polite under any circumstances, he was patronizing and disrespectful to Maureen in a way I had rarely seen," Axelrod continued. "This was not well received by Dowd who, like most journalists, was accustomed to firing off salvos, yet decidedly uncomfortable when fired upon herself. After that awkward encounter, she seemed to take particular delight in psychoanalyzing Barack and belittling him in print, which only deepened his contempt. Maureen, who is as gracious and loyal to her friends as she is rough on the high and mighty, would become a friend of mine in Washington, which became a minor source of tension with Obama. 'Why are you friends with her?' he would demand after Maureen sent one of her acid darts his way."
Dowd did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the passage.(It's not clear exactly which 2008 column rankled Obama, but I think it was this one:
After his press conference, he headed toward New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and chided her...
—for a comment in the 12th of 14 paragraphs in an Oct. 21 2008 column.
She wrote that Obama's "ears stick out."
Obama (off mic) to Maureen Dowd: You talked about my ears, and I just want to put you on notice:
I'm very sensitive about — What I told them was, "I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears."...)(Hey, ObuttHead... These are big ears. You're just
a drama queen... too sensitive about body parts...)(http://a.disquscdn.com/get?url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.dailymail.co.uk%2Fi%2Fpix%2F2010%2F10%2F22%2Farticle-1322931-0BB79CFD000005DC-358_468x327.jpg&key=ZKXRmf6lEmUnyEVQYY6czQ&w=600&h=317)
(Hmmmmmm.... on second thought, the ears look about the same to me...)(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1721/9088/original.jpg?w=600&h)
(How about a full frontal view of those ObuttHead ears...)(http://a.disquscdn.com/get?url=http%3A%2F%2F1000funnypictures.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FBald-Monkey-With-Big-Ears-Funny-Monkeys.jpg&key=C0kBJxYeEu7F7yrJH9d_SA&w=600&h=410)
(Yeah... now your talking, Dowd... perfect! ...) UPDATE: Dowd's predictable response.
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Four American Journalists Dead Inside the US Within the Past 24 Hours
Posted by sharia unveiled on February 14, 2015
Posted in: Uncategorized. Tagged: American Journalists, Bob Hager, Bob Simon, CBS, Christian, David Carr,
Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, NBC, Ned Colt, NY Times, Sharia Law, terrorism.
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Bob Hager is still alive, Ross...
Former NBC Newser Bob Hager Unhurt After Head-On Crash
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Longtime NBC News correspondent Bob Hager was involved in a head-on collision near his home in Vermont Thursday. Hager was uninjured; his wife, Honore, was hospitalized with back and neck injuries. According to a report by local station WCAX, Hager and his wife were traveling on Route 11 in Peru, Vermont, when another car crossed the center line and hit Hager's car head-on.
Hager, best known for his coverage of aviation, retired from NBC in 2004 after 35 years and settled in his native Woodstock, Vermont.
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Quote from: Warph on February 14, 2015, 04:51:36 PM
Bob Hager is still alive, Ross...
That's great, thanks Warph!
Bill Clinton's Libido Threatens To Derail Hillary Again
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(Now we know the reason for Bill to be 'flirting' with Hillary on Twitter earlier today, to get the focus off this breaking story on the unfolding orgy scandal. There's always an angle...)
Via NY Post:http://nypost.com/2015/02/14/bill-clintons-libido-threatens-to-derail-hillary-again/
She hasn't even announced, but the question has already resurfaced: Will Bill Clinton's baggage derail Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes?
Just a few weeks ago, reports broke that Bill Clinton had flown at least 11 times on "The Lolita Express" — a private plane owned by the mysterious financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. According to Virginia Roberts, who claims to have been one of Epstein's many teenaged sex slaves, Clinton also visited Epstein's private Caribbean retreat, known as "Orgy Island."
"I remember asking Jeffrey, 'What's Bill Clinton doing here?' " Roberts said in 2011. The former president, she added, was accompanied by four young girls during his stay — two of whom were among Epstein's regular sex partners. "And [Jeffrey] laughed it off and said, 'Well, he owes me a favor.' He never told me what favors they were."
Clinton also spent years traveling and partying with Ron Burkle, a billionaire bachelor with a penchant for very young girls. Clinton spent so much time on Burkle's private plane that it came to be known in Burkle's circle as "Air F—k One."
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Tybee Island Stoning
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It is being reported that two 18 year old girls have been stoned outside a Baptist Church in the town of Tybee, Tybee Island - 18 miles from Savannah, Georgia.
Tybee Island, best known for it's annual "Running of The Bullshiters" event; where several prolific liars, led by the DA, local judge and Chief of Police are chased naked along Main Street by townsfolk was made famous in the poem "Tybee Island - What A Dump."
The two girls, Sarah Brooks and Kim Beasley were reportedly high on marijuana after rolling two joints behind the church.
"They were definitely stoned," said Mayor Jason Buttercock "They were as high as kites - luckily several officers responded, beat the sh!t out of them and we have now placed them in the town stocks where they shall remain until the Sabbath."
ISIS Executes Two Alleged 'Spies', Crucifies Another, While Jeering Crowd Watches
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(Not even 7th century, they keep devolving...)
Via Daily Mail:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2953742/ISIS-publicly-executes-two-spies-CRUCIFIES-armed-insurgents-young-boys-watch-on.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
Islamic State has publicly executed two alleged spies and mercilessly crucified another to a road sign in the Syrian city of Al-Bab.
Images have emerged showing two men – bound and dressed in orange jumpsuits – kneeling on the ground as hundreds of jeering insurgents surround them.
Masked men dressed in black have their weapons trained on the captives, while young boys force their way through the crowd to catch a glimpse of the helpless men.
Another picture shows a deceased man hanging from a post with a sign hanging around his neck. The onlookers in the photograph seem unphased by the man's limp, crucified body.
On Thursday, the extremist group announced it was holding an Israeli-Arab who posed as foreign a fighter to spy for the country's intelligence agency, Mossad.
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Warph, many of your posts that have pictures just have a little black box with an x in it where the pics should be. At least on my screen. Would it be my anti virus ? I use Kapersky. Just seems to be an issue on your posts. Wonder if anyone else has this problem. About half of the pics are there.
Bull,
I've had the same problem for quite awhile now---thought it was just my computer
I too thought it was my machine or anti-virus program.
I tried to replicate the situation on my machine with a picture and can't do it.
I still like Warph's posts, so don't stop my friend.
Why a Capitol Police Officer gave her beloved dog to a U.S. Marine
http://wtvr.com/2015/02/12/k-9-with-virginia-capitol-police-reunited-with-u-s-marine-from-combat/
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RICHMOND, Va. – Spike is a member of the K-9 patrol with the Virginia Capitol Police. Sweet as he is though, Spike, is also a heartbreaker. He didn't mean to be – he just got caught in a love triangle. At the State Capitol in Richmond on Wednesday Spike was reunited with U.S. Marine Jared Heine. They hadn't seen each other in three years.
"Right when he got next to me he knew it was me," said Heine. "He pushed up against me. It was like we didn't skip a beat."
They were a team in Afghanistan where Spike's job was to sniff out bombs – risking his life every day to keep Heine and his buddies alive.
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Spike and his fellow Marines wag their tongues JARED HEINE
But after a series of traumatic brain injuries, Jared was sent home to Louisiana — where he's been struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. His mother Mary Heine noticed he'd been upset and wasn't acting like himself. She says he talked all the time about how much he missed Spike.
"It just hit me if I could find Spike it would make a huge difference in his life," said Mary Heine.
Eager to help, she went online — and with the help of friends on Facebook she found Spike in Virginia.
Jared told me in his dream world he'd love to have Spike come home with him. But that's where Officer Laura Taylor comes in.
"It was pretty much love at first sight," said Taylor, describing her first moments with Spike.
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Officer Laura Taylor plays with Spike/ CBS NEWSPATH
She and Spike have been inseparable for the past two years.
"I didn't ever expect to not be with Spike until he was an old, old, old man," said Taylor.
Recently, though, Taylor learned about Jared Heine and realized she and Spike might have to part ways.
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Officer Taylor and Jared Heine
After meeting Jared on Wednesday she said that as painful as it is, she knows in her heart it's the right thing to do.
"Take good care of him," Taylor told Jared Heine. "He means everything to me."
"I promise I will," answered Heine.
The good news, though, is that Capitol Police Chief Steve Pike said Officer Taylor will soon get a new dog. And the guessing is she'll fall in love with that one too.
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Obuma Vows To "Squeeze Every Last Little Bit Of Change" Out Of Final Two Years
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Dirty Harry Reid and David Axelrod show up to help their dungeon-master.
(So this is why we haven't seen Obuma's dog Bo lately.
One time I believe him. He will make sure he squeezes the life and blood out of America and Americans. These next two years are when he will be the most evil and dangerous to our lives and liberty... and every last little bit of change out of our pockets. Don't threaten us you POS...)[/center]
Via Washington Times:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/14/obama-vows-squeeze-every-last-little-bit-change-ou/
President Obama on Friday night returned to his core 2008 themes of hope and change, telling Democratic party loyalists that he intends to challenge "cynical politics" during his final two years office.
Speaking at a party fundraiser in San Francisco, the president blamed Democrats' poor showing in the November midterm elections on voter apathy driven by frustration and anger with government. He said low turnout largely is to blame for the GOP gaining seats in the House and capturing control of the Senate.
But Mr. Obama said he still has two years in office and intends to use that time to strengthen Americans' faith in Washington.
Selfies Ignored By The Media From Kyle Carpenter,
An American Hero On His Transformation After Diving In Front of a Grenade
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*KYLE CARPENTER*
(The media praises the progressive forward looking YOLO President that has made America the laughing stock and doormat to the world while ignoring a true American touching and inspiring others...)
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Keep reading for additional photos:http://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/251306-kyle-carpenter-instagram-badass/?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9&listID={listID}
'American Sniper' Chris Kyle's Widow Talks About Facing Valentine's Day Without Him
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We see great challenges ahead as a nation and we all have personal challenges that we face, most of us facing them privately.
Taya Kyle, who faced the personal loss of her husband in a very public way, now has been testifying in the trial of his killer. She was thinking of Kyle and posted about how to face being alone on Valentine's Day. Whether you are religious or not, one has to be inspired by the courage with which she is able to face the days. (http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-15-at-7.25.46-PM.png)
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First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest
An important notice for artists and anyone who prefers freedom to dhimmitude:
Pamela Geller is planning a "Draw the Prophet" event in Garland, Texas in the same location as a Muslim group held a "Stand with the Prophet" conference in January. The First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest ... will be held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland on May 3rd. "This was the site of a Muslim conference denouncing 'Islamophobia' — an obscene stand for them to take after the Charlie Hebdo massacre – and our massive Free Speech Rally outside that event," Geller wrote in a press release obtained by Breitbart Texas.
This free speech rally — which was reinforced by 2 Million Bikers to DC — appeared to be a bigger success than the secretive "Islamophobia" conference held inside. The Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest promises to be a bigger success still.
The contest will take submissions online and the winner will be announced at the event in Garland. The winning cartoonist will receive a $10,000 prize. The exhibit will feature images of Islam's prophet in both historical and contemporary settings.
Geller explains why the event is necessary:
"If the Western media ran the Danish cartoons back when this Islamic supremacist movement first started gaining steam, the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo would be alive today," Geller stated in response to an inquiry from Breitbart Texas. "That said, the European press ran the Hebdo cartoons in the wake of that jihad slaughter. But the American press would not. The beacon of freedom, the shining light on a hill, is running scared. Well, that's not who we are. The elites do not represent the people."
"Enough is enough," she explained. "They're just cartoons. We're holding this exhibit and cartoon contest to show how insane the world has become — with people in the free world tiptoeing in terror around supremacist thugs who actually commit murder over cartoons. If we can't stand up for the freedom of speech, we will lose it — and with it, free society."
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Horror Of It All
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Tybee Times
Something so bad and unspeakable has happened in the small town of Tybee located on Tybee Island that it cannot even be reported, it is that bad.
Tybee, 13 miles from Savannah, a small town with an even smaller mentality, is said to be reeling from the events.
"What has happened here is simply too horrific for words," said Mayor Jason Buttercock, "I am not sure we will ever recover from it; this unspeakable horror."
It is reported that townsfolk are comforting each other and setting up a makeshift "thingy" at a local school.
"We are all in shock," said one resident, "this is something that has never happened here before. Please pray for us."
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Tybee Island DA - Ron Gloomer "I am also shocked"
Imagine This Headline: Romney Secretly Partied With Unrepentant Neo-Nazi Terrorists Last Summer
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The truth is far more shocking. After all, Romney isn't the POTUS; Obama is. Nazis killed only a fraction of the total killed by communists. Yet the "mainstream" media is unlikely to find this revelation from the moonbats at Gawker interesting:On Aug. 30, 2014, MSNBC anchor Alex Wagner and former White House chef Sam Kass got married at a private wedding north of New York City. It was widely reported at the time that President Obama, a longtime friend of the groom, attended the ceremony with his family. ...
We recently heard that Ayers and Dohrn, both former leaders of the Weather Underground, the militant left-wing group best known for bombing empty government buildings in the 1970s, were also present for the Wagner-Kass celebration at the Blue Hill at Stone Barns, a restaurant and event space in Pocantico Hills, New York.Gawker's infantile analysis:
While the fact that Obama was literally partying with former advocates of violent struggle against the U.S. government will no doubt be taken by his critics as further evidence that he hates America, the most interesting thing about the wedding is the shocking proof it offers that—at long last!—Obama truly no longer gives a f*** about keeping up political appearances.Congrats libs. The banana republic dictator you put in power no longer even pretends to gives a hoot in hell what his subjects think of him. Call it the Audacity of Arrogance.
Normally the Secret Service keeps people with criminal records, not to mention known terrorists like Ayers and Dohrn, away from events attended by the President. But exceptions can be made for old friends. Obama launched his political career from an apartment shared by Ayers and Dohrn.
Bill Ayers is a Maoist communist; that is, his brand of revolutionary communism is modeled on the ideology of Mao Zedong, who killed more of his own people than any other tyrant in human history. But members of his Weather Underground movement estimated that they would only need to kill 25 million Americans to impose their ideology on the USA.
As it turned out, they haven't needed to kill anyone. They just had to take over the media and education establishments, and use that base to subvert the government. From there all that is required is to keep turning the ratchet left, left, ever further left.Larry Grathwohl on Ayers' plan for American re-education camps and the need to kill millions
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ
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People like this run the country now
Hundreds of Niggar Urban Youth Have A Night Of Mayhem And Riots At Ocoee, FL Movie Theater
300 high school and middle schoolers in Ocoee, Florida, caused disturbance
Crowd moved to parking lot, where fighting broke out and gunshots heard
Investigation led to battery and drug arrests. Stolen car also found
Youths allegedly stole goods and tried to fight gas station owner
Parents were called to pick up children. No one was injured in the incident
By Christopher Brennan For Dailymail.com (Load them up on a boat and take them 50 miles out into the ocean, sink the boat. Problem solved!...)
Hundreds of teenagers caused chaos in central Florida, brawling each other after they could not get into a movie theater.
Police in Ocoee,west of Orlando, said that 300 high school and middle school students 'caused a disturbance' outside an AMC theater at the local mall on Saturday night.
After security guards kept most of them out, the crowd was moved to a parking lot where they began fighting each other and shots were fire into the air.
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The resulting investigation led to the discovery of drugs and a stolen car, according to WESH.
VIDEO AT: http://www.wesh.com/news/hundreds-of-teens-cause-chaos-at-theater/31282776
The chaos spread from the mall to a nearby Taco Bell to a gas station where the students were stealing goods and trying to fight the store's owner.
Around 100 teens were able to get inside the cinema.
Police eventually got the children under control, and they called their parents.
One juvenile was arrested for battery and resisting an officer without violence and another was arrested on misdemeanor drug charges, the Ocoee Police Department said.
The local police department called in assistance and received help from the neighboring towns Windemere and Winter Garden, along with county officers.
'Our main concern is this: These are middle and high school kids going to a public movie theater, some armed with guns, some firing guns, some fighting in the parking lot, disturbing everyone else there. Not only that, but putting them in danger with the the violence they're creating," Orange County Sheriff's Office Lt. Paul Hopkins said.
No one was seriously hurt in the incident.
'My anxiety hit the roof. I was like, 'How do we get out?'' moviegoer Jessica Weckerly told the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
She was there with her husband, Brian, for a screening of '50 Shades of Grey' when she heard what she described something that sounded like 'a herd of elephants.'
'Just bum-rushed the entire theater,' she said.
Lt. Paul Hopkins of the Orange County Sheriff's Office said officers quickly arrived on the scene.
'At that point, since we're dealing with 800 to 900 juveniles, they called for assistance from surrounding agencies,' he said. 'We all formed together and were successfully able to get all these kids out of the mall area.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2954716/Hundreds-teenagers-cause-chaos-outside-movie-theater-couldn-t-gun-shots-heard-parking-lot.html#ixzz3Ry85K9yR
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Aspen Not Enough, Michael Mooch And Daughters To Visit Japan In March
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(Mooch and the girls are presently in Aspen, skiing while Buttrack is in California golfing with buddies. Guess that's not enough vacation. How many vacations do you take a year?...)
Via Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/16/michelle-obama-plans-spring-break-in-japan-with-sasha-and-malia/
First Guy Michelle Obama missed out on President Obama's Valentine's Day golfing weekend in sunny California, but it appears that she has her own trip planned for next month.
According to the Asahi Shimbun, the First Guy and her daughters Sasha and Malia will be traveling to Japan for a visit in March.
The trio will visit Tokyo and Kyoto, according to her schedule.
During her visit to China last March, Michelle Obama explained to a group of students that it was "very rare that I have the opportunity to travel outside of the United States" with her daughters.
"It is no accident that one of our first trips as a family is here to China," she explained at the time.
State Dept's Marie Harf: We Cannot Win Against ISIS By Killing Them, Need To Find Out 'Root Causes' They Join, Like Lack Of Jobs
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(Here's a clue, Marie, you brainless twit? The reason for joining is to KILL YOU AND SPREAD THE CALIPHATE ALL OVER THE WORLD. It isn't about making $15/an hour at McDonalds...)Via Right Scoop:HARDBALL HARDA$$ MATTHEWS: How do we stop this? I don't see it. I see the Shia militias coming out of Baghdad who are all Shia. The Sunnis hate them. The Sunnis are loyal to ISIS rather than going in with the Shia. You've got the Kurds, the Jordanian air force and now the Egyptian air force. But i don't see any — If i were ISIS, I wouldn't be afraid right now. I can figure there is no existential threat to these people. They can keep finding places where they can hold executions and putting the camera work together, getting their props ready and killing people for show. And nothing we do right now seems to be directed at stopping this.
HARF: Well, I think there's a few stages here. Right now what we're doing is trying to take their leaders and their fighters off the battlefield in Iraq and Syria. That's really where they flourish.
MATTHEWS: Are we killing enough of them?
HARF: We're killing a lot of them and we're going to keep killing more of them. So are the Egyptians, so are the Jordanians. They're in this fight with us. But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs, whether —
MATTHEWS: We're not going to be able to stop that in our lifetime or fifty lifetimes. There's always going to be poor people. There's always going to be poor muslims, and as long as there are poor Muslims, the trumpet's blowing and they'll join. We can't stop that, can we?
HARF: We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance. We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people.....
(If you are just reading the transcript, the clip goes on further in this direction.)
I must say that this administration offering to help other countries with their economies is laughable on its face! But I digress.
Good for Matthews for pushing back on this jobs and poverty nonsense. He at least gets it partially, in that we are never going to solve that problem.
But that's not the problem. It's Islam. Jihadism is Islam and to hear this administration spouting this 'we can't win this war by killing them' nonsense just reveals why we will never be successful at winning this war.
Killing the Islamo-Nazis is the only way to bring peace to the Middle East and to the greater world. And until this administration and the rest of the world gets it, Islamo-Nazis will keep slaughtering the innocent and keep recruiting like wildfire.
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/state-dept-spox-on-isis-we-cannot-win-this-war-by-killing-them/#ixzz3RyH5zPCd
HHS Pushing Churches To Promote ObumaCrappyCare: "The Body Is A Temple and It Must Be Insured"
One of the bulletin notices being handed out:
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Via Weekly Standard:In an effort to sign up as many consumers as possible for insurance under the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare), the Obama administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to partner with churches and other faith-based groups, even publishing sample church bulletin inserts, flyers, and scripts for announcements, as well as "talking points." These materials are part of the "Second Sunday & Faith Weekend of Action Toolkit," which is available on the website of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Vice-President Biden explains away "butt buddy" gaffe
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Vice-president Biden: "I lisp; therefore, I am."
Speaking to a crowd in Iowa, U. S. Vice-president Joe Biden outed himself as a "recovering homosexual" today.
Before an audience of ten or fifteen supporters, Biden gave a shout out to an old friend, calling, "Neal Smith, old butt buddy! Are you here?" Teary-eyed, he added, "I miss you, man, I miss you!"
He and his "butt buddy" had "many a good time together," Biden gushed. "He's a man of firm resolve, with penetrating insight that is matched only by his capacity for openness."
"We were close back in the day, and we're even closer now," the Vice-president confessed. "He's a man's man, but I've always been plenty enough of a man for him."
When he heard that President Obama was less than thrilled by his public confession of same-sex love, Biden blamed his outing on a lisp he's had since his youth.
"Many gay men lisp," he lisped, "and I did when I referred to Neal as my 'butt buddy,'" Biden explained. "I meant to say 'bosom buddy.'"
However, the First Lady said that "butt buddy" is a "term of endearment," according to the Dictionary of Ebonics, and refers to men who are sexually attracted to one another.
"That can't be," Biden said, when told of Michelle's observation. "Michelle's my butt buddy, too, and she's a woman, as far as I can tell."
What ISIS Really Wants
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
By Graeme Wood
March 2015
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
The group seized Mosul, Iraq, last June, and already rules an area larger than the United Kingdom. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been its leader since May 2010, but until last summer, his most recent known appearance on film was a grainy mug shot from a stay in U.S. captivity at Camp Bucca during the occupation of Iraq. Then, on July 5 of last year, he stepped into the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, to deliver a Ramadan sermon as the first caliph in generations—upgrading his resolution from grainy to high-definition, and his position from hunted guerrilla to commander of all Muslims. The inflow of jihadists that followed, from around the world, was unprecedented in its pace and volume, and is continuing.
Our ignorance of the Islamic State is in some ways understandable: It is a hermit kingdom; few have gone there and returned. Baghdadi has spoken on camera only once. But his address, and the Islamic State's countless other propaganda videos and encyclicals, are online, and the caliphate's supporters have toiled mightily to make their project knowable. We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world.
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), follows a distinctive variety of Islam whose beliefs about the path to the Day of Judgment matter to its strategy, and can help the West know its enemy and predict its behavior. Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million.
We have misunderstood the nature of the Islamic State in at least two ways. First, we tend to see jihadism as monolithic, and to apply the logic of al‑Qaeda to an organization that has decisively eclipsed it. The Islamic State supporters I spoke with still refer to Osama bin Laden as "Sheikh Osama," a title of honor. But jihadism has evolved since al-Qaeda's heyday, from about 1998 to 2003, and many jihadists disdain the group's priorities and current leadership.
Bin Laden viewed his terrorism as a prologue to a caliphate he did not expect to see in his lifetime. His organization was flexible, operating as a geographically diffuse network of autonomous cells. The Islamic State, by contrast, requires territory to remain legitimate, and a top-down structure to rule it. (Its bureaucracy is divided into civil and military arms, and its territory into provinces.)
We are misled in a second way, by a well-intentioned but dishonest campaign to deny the Islamic State's medieval religious nature. Peter Bergen, who produced the first interview with bin Laden in 1997, titled his first book Holy War, Inc. in part to acknowledge bin Laden as a creature of the modern secular world. Bin Laden corporatized terror and franchised it out. He requested specific political concessions, such as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Saudi Arabia. His foot soldiers navigated the modern world confidently. On Mohamd Atta's last full day of life, he shopped at Walmart and ate dinner at Pizza Hut.
Nearly all the Islamic State's decisions adhere to what it calls, on its billboards, license plates, and coins, "the Prophetic methodology."
There is a temptation to rehearse this observation—that jihadists are modern secular people, with modern political concerns, wearing medieval religious disguise—and make it fit the Islamic State. In fact, much of what the group does looks nonsensical except in light of a sincere, carefully considered commitment to returning civilization to a seventh-century legal environment, and ultimately to bringing about the apocalypse.
The most-articulate spokesmen for that position are the Islamic State's officials and supporters themselves. They refer derisively to "moderns." In conversation, they insist that they will not—cannot—waver from governing precepts that were embedded in Islam by the Prophet Muhammad and his earliest followers. They often speak in codes and allusions that sound odd or old-fashioned to non-Muslims, but refer to specific traditions and texts of early Islam.
To take one example: In September, Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the Islamic State's chief spokesman, called on Muslims in Western countries such as France and Canada to find an infidel and "smash his head with a rock," poison him, run him over with a car, or "destroy his crops." To Western ears, the biblical-sounding punishments—the stoning and crop destruction—juxtaposed strangely with his more modern-sounding call to vehicular homicide. (As if to show that he could terrorize by imagery alone, Adnani also referred to Secretary of State John Kerry as an "uncircumcised geezer.")
But Adnani was not merely talking trash. His speech was laced with theological and legal discussion, and his exhortation to attack crops directly echoed orders from Muhammad to leave well water and crops alone—unless the armies of Islam were in a defensive position, in which case Muslims in the lands of kuffar, or infidels, should be unmerciful, and poison away.
The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.
Virtually every major decision and law promulgated by the Islamic State adheres to what it calls, in its press and pronouncements, and on its billboards, license plates, stationery, and coins, "the Prophetic methodology," which means following the prophecy and example of Muhammad, in punctilious detail. Muslims can reject the Islamic State; nearly all do. But pretending that it isn't actually a religious, millenarian group, with theology that must be understood to be combatted, has already led the United States to underestimate it and back foolish schemes to counter it. We'll need to get acquainted with the Islamic State's intellectual genealogy if we are to react in a way that will not strengthen it, but instead help it self-immolate in its own excessive zeal.
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Control of territory is an essential precondition for the Islamic State's authority in the eyes of its supporters. This map, adapted from the work of the Institute for the Study of War, shows the territory under the caliphate's control as of January 15, along with areas it has attacked. Where it holds power, the state collects taxes, regulates prices, operates courts, and administers services ranging from health care and education to telecommunications.
I. DevotionIn November, the Islamic State released an infomercial-like video tracing its origins to bin Laden. It acknowledged Abu Musa'b al Zarqawi, the brutal head of al‑Qaeda in Iraq from roughly 2003 until his killing in 2006, as a more immediate progenitor, followed sequentially by two other guerrilla leaders before Baghdadi, the caliph. Notably unmentioned: bin Laden's successor, Ayman al Zawahiri, the owlish Egyptian eye surgeon who currently heads al‑Qaeda. Zawahiri has not pledged allegiance to Baghdadi, and he is increasingly hated by his fellow jihadists. His isolation is not helped by his lack of charisma; in videos he comes across as squinty and annoyed. But the split between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State has been long in the making, and begins to explain, at least in part, the outsize bloodlust of the latter.
Zawahiri's companion in isolation is a Jordanian cleric named Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi, 55, who has a fair claim to being al-Qaeda's intellectual architect and the most important jihadist unknown to the average American newspaper reader. On most matters of doctrine, Maqdisi and the Islamic State agree. Both are closely identified with the jihadist wing of a branch of Sunnism called Salafism, after the Arabic al salaf al salih, the "pious forefathers." These forefathers are the Prophet himself and his earliest adherents, whom Salafis honor and emulate as the models for all behavior, including warfare, couture, family life, even dentistry.
The Islamic State awaits the army of "Rome," whose defeat at Dabiq, Syria, will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse
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Maqdisi taught Zarqawi, who went to war in Iraq with the older man's advice in mind. In time, though, Zarqawi surpassed his mentor in fanaticism, and eventually earned his rebuke. At issue was Zarqawi's penchant for bloody spectacle—and, as a matter of doctrine, his hatred of other Muslims, to the point of excommunicating and killing them. In Islam, the practice of takfir, or excommunication, is theologically perilous. "If a man says to his brother, 'You are an infidel,' " the Prophet said, "then one of them is right." If the accuser is wrong, he himself has committed apostasy by making a false accusation. The punishment for apostasy is death. And yet Zarqawi heedlessly expanded the range of behavior that could make Muslims infidels.
Maqdisi wrote to his former pupil that he needed to exercise caution and "not issue sweeping proclamations of takfir" or "proclaim people to be apostates because of their sins." The distinction between apostate and sinner may appear subtle, but it is a key point of contention between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
Denying the holiness of the Koran or the prophecies of Muhammad is straightforward apostasy. But Zarqawi and the state he spawned take the position that many other acts can remove a Muslim from Islam. These include, in certain cases, selling alcohol or drugs, wearing Western clothes or shaving one's beard, voting in an election—even for a Muslim candidate—and being lax about calling other people apostates. Being a Shiite, as most Iraqi Arabs are, meets the standard as well, because the Islamic State regards Shiism as innovation, and to innovate on the Koran is to deny its initial perfection. (The Islamic State claims that common Shiite practices, such as worship at the graves of imams and public self-flagellation, have no basis in the Koran or in the example of the Prophet.) That means roughly 200 million Shia are marked for death. So too are the heads of state of every Muslim country, who have elevated man-made law above Sharia by running for office or enforcing laws not made by God.
Following takfiri doctrine, the Islamic State is committed to purifying the world by killing vast numbers of people. The lack of objective reporting from its territory makes the true extent of the slaughter unknowable, but social-media posts from the region suggest that individual executions happen more or less continually, and mass executions every few weeks. Muslim "apostates" are the most common victims. Exempted from automatic execution, it appears, are Christians who do not resist their new government. Baghdadi permits them to live, as long as they pay a special tax, known as the jizya, and acknowledge their subjugation. The Koranic authority for this practice is not in dispute.
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Musa Cerantonio, an Australian preacher reported to be one of the Islamic State's most influential recruiters, believes it is foretold that the caliphate will sack Istanbul before it is beaten back by an army led by the anti-Messiah, whose eventual death— when just a few thousand jihadists remain—will usher in the apocalypse.
Centuries have passed since the wars of religion ceased in Europe, and since men stopped dying in large numbers because of arcane theological disputes. Hence, perhaps, the incredulity and denial with which Westerners have greeted news of the theology and practices of the Islamic State. Many refuse to believe that this group is as devout as it claims to be, or as backward-looking or apocalyptic as its actions and statements suggest.
Their skepticism is comprehensible. In the past, Westerners who accused Muslims of blindly following ancient scriptures came to deserved grief from academics—notably the late Edward Said—who pointed out that calling Muslims "ancient" was usually just another way to denigrate them. Look instead, these scholars urged, to the conditions in which these ideologies arose—the bad governance, the shifting social mores, the humiliation of living in lands valued only for their oil.
Without acknowledgment of these factors, no explanation of the rise of the Islamic State could be complete. But focusing on them to the exclusion of ideology reflects another kind of Western bias: that if religious ideology doesn't matter much in Washington or Berlin, surely it must be equally irrelevant in Raqqa or Mosul. When a masked executioner says Allahu akbar while beheading an apostate, sometimes he's doing so for religious reasons.
Many mainstream Muslim organizations have gone so far as to say the Islamic State is, in fact, un-Islamic. It is, of course, reassuring to know that the vast majority of Muslims have zero interest in replacing Hollywood movies with public executions as evening entertainment. But Muslims who call the Islamic State un-Islamic are typically, as the Princeton scholar Bernard Haykel, the leading expert on the group's theology, told me, "embarrassed and politically correct, with a cotton-candy view of their own religion" that neglects "what their religion has historically and legally required." Many denials of the Islamic State's religious nature, he said, are rooted in an "interfaith-Christian-nonsense tradition."
Every academic I asked about the Islamic State's ideology sent me to Haykel. Of partial Lebanese descent, Haykel grew up in Lebanon and the United States, and when he talks through his Mephistophelian goatee, there is a hint of an unplaceable foreign accent.
According to Haykel, the ranks of the Islamic State are deeply infused with religious vigor. Koranic quotations are ubiquitous. "Even the foot soldiers spout this stuff constantly," Haykel said. "They mug for their cameras and repeat their basic doctrines in formulaic fashion, and they do it all the time." He regards the claim that the Islamic State has distorted the texts of Islam as preposterous, sustainable only through willful ignorance. "People want to absolve Islam," he said. "It's this 'Islam is a religion of peace' mantra. As if there is such a thing as 'Islam'! It's what Muslims do, and how they interpret their texts." Those texts are shared by all Sunni Muslims, not just the Islamic State. "And these guys have just as much legitimacy as anyone else."
All Muslims acknowledge that Muhammad's earliest conquests were not tidy affairs, and that the laws of war passed down in the Koran and in the narrations of the Prophet's rule were calibrated to fit a turbulent and violent time. In Haykel's estimation, the fighters of the Islamic State are authentic throwbacks to early Islam and are faithfully reproducing its norms of war. This behavior includes a number of practices that modern Muslims tend to prefer not to acknowledge as integral to their sacred texts. "Slavery, crucifixion, and beheadings are not something that freakish [jihadists] are cherry-picking from the medieval tradition," Haykel said. Islamic State fighters "are smack in the middle of the medieval tradition and are bringing it wholesale into the present day."
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The Koran specifies crucifixion as one of the only punishments permitted for enemies of Islam. The tax on Christians finds clear endorsement in the Surah Al-Tawba, the Koran's ninth chapter, which instructs Muslims to fight Christians and Jews "until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued." The Prophet, whom all Muslims consider exemplary, imposed these rules and owned slaves.
Leaders of the Islamic State have taken emulation of Muhammad as strict duty, and have revived traditions that have been dormant for hundreds of years. "What's striking about them is not just the literalism, but also the seriousness with which they read these texts," Haykel said. "There is an assiduous, obsessive seriousness that Muslims don't normally have."
Before the rise of the Islamic State, no group in the past few centuries had attempted more-radical fidelity to the Prophetic model than the Wahhabis of 18th‑century Arabia. They conquered most of what is now Saudi Arabia, and their strict practices survive in a diluted version of Sharia there. Haykel sees an important distinction between the groups, though: "The Wahhabis were not wanton in their violence." They were surrounded by Muslims, and they conquered lands that were already Islamic; this stayed their hand. "ISIS, by contrast, is really reliving the early period." Early Muslims were surrounded by non-Muslims, and the Islamic State, because of its takfiri tendencies, considers itself to be in the same situation.
If al-Qaeda wanted to revive slavery, it never said so. And why would it? Silence on slavery probably reflected strategic thinking, with public sympathies in mind: when the Islamic State began enslaving people, even some of its supporters balked. Nonetheless, the caliphate has continued to embrace slavery and crucifixion without apology. "We will conquer your Rome, break your crosses, and enslave your women," Adnani, the spokesman, promised in one of his periodic valentines to the West. "If we do not reach that time, then our children and grandchildren will reach it, and they will sell your sons as slaves at the slave market."
In October, Dabiq, the magazine of the Islamic State, published "The Revival of Slavery Before the Hour," an article that took up the question of whether Yazidis (the members of an ancient Kurdish sect that borrows elements of Islam, and had come under attack from Islamic State forces in northern Iraq) are lapsed Muslims, and therefore marked for death, or merely pagans and therefore fair game for enslavement. A study group of Islamic State scholars had convened, on government orders, to resolve this issue. If they are pagans, the article's anonymous author wrote,
Yazidi women and children [are to be] divided according to the Shariah amongst the fighters of the Islamic State who participated in the Sinjar operations [in northern Iraq] ... Enslaving the families of the kuffar [infidels] and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah that if one were to deny or mock, he would be denying or mocking the verses of the Koran and the narrations of the Prophet ... and thereby apostatizing from Islam.II. TerritoryTens of thousands of foreign Muslims are thought to have immigrated to the Islamic State. Recruits hail from France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Australia, Indonesia, the United States, and many other places. Many have come to fight, and many intend to die.
Peter R. Neumann, a professor at King's College London, told me that online voices have been essential to spreading propaganda and ensuring that newcomers know what to believe. Online recruitment has also widened the demographics of the jihadist community, by allowing conservative Muslim women—physically isolated in their homes—to reach out to recruiters, radicalize, and arrange passage to Syria. Through its appeals to both genders, the Islamic State hopes to build a complete society.
In November, I traveled to Australia to meet Musa Cerantonio, a 30-year-old man whom Neumann and other researchers had identified as one of the two most important "new spiritual authorities" guiding foreigners to join the Islamic State. For three years he was a televangelist on Iqraa TV in Cairo, but he left after the station objected to his frequent calls to establish a caliphate. Now he preaches on Facebook and Twitter.
Cerantonio—a big, friendly man with a bookish demeanor—told me he blanches at beheading videos. He hates seeing the violence, even though supporters of the Islamic State are required to endorse it. (He speaks out, controversially among jihadists, against suicide bombing, on the grounds that God forbids suicide; he differs from the Islamic State on a few other points as well.) He has the kind of unkempt facial hair one sees on certain overgrown fans of The Lord of the Rings, and his obsession with Islamic apocalypticism felt familiar. He seemed to be living out a drama that looks, from an outsider's perspective, like a medieval fantasy novel, only with real blood.
Last June, Cerantonio and his wife tried to emigrate—he wouldn't say to where ("It's illegal to go to Syria," he said cagily)—but they were caught en route, in the Philippines, and he was deported back to Australia for overstaying his visa. Australia has criminalized attempts to join or travel to the Islamic State, and has confiscated Cerantonio's passport. He is stuck in Melbourne, where he is well known to the local constabulary. If Cerantonio were caught facilitating the movement of individuals to the Islamic State, he would be imprisoned. So far, though, he is free—a technically unaffiliated ideologue who nonetheless speaks with what other jihadists have taken to be a reliable voice on matters of the Islamic State's doctrine.
We met for lunch in Footscray, a dense, multicultural Melbourne suburb that's home to Lonely Planet, the travel-guide publisher. Cerantonio grew up there in a half-Irish, half-Calabrian family. On a typical street one can find African restaurants, Vietnamese shops, and young Arabs walking around in the Salafi uniform of scraggly beard, long shirt, and trousers ending halfway down the calves.
Cerantonio explained the joy he felt when Baghdadi was declared the caliph on June 29—and the sudden, magnetic attraction that Mesopotamia began to exert on him and his friends. "I was in a hotel [in the Philippines], and I saw the declaration on television," he told me. "And I was just amazed, and I'm like, Why am I stuck here in this bloody room?"
The last caliphate was the Ottoman empire, which reached its peak in the 16th century and then experienced a long decline, until the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, euthanized it in 1924. But Cerantonio, like many supporters of the Islamic State, doesn't acknowledge that caliphate as legitimate, because it didn't fully enforce Islamic law, which requires stonings and slavery and amputations, and because its caliphs were not descended from the tribe of the Prophet, the Quraysh.
Baghdadi spoke at length of the importance of the caliphate in his Mosul sermon. He said that to revive the institution of the caliphate—which had not functioned except in name for about 1,000 years—was a communal obligation. He and his loyalists had "hastened to declare the caliphate and place an imam" at its head, he said. "This is a duty upon the Muslims—a duty that has been lost for centuries ... The Muslims sin by losing it, and they must always seek to establish it." Like bin Laden before him, Baghdadi spoke floridly, with frequent scriptural allusion and command of classical rhetoric. Unlike bin Laden, and unlike those false caliphs of the Ottoman empire, he is Qurayshi.
The caliphate, Cerantonio told me, is not just a political entity but also a vehicle for salvation. Islamic State propaganda regularly reports the pledges of baya'a (allegiance) rolling in from jihadist groups across the Muslim world. Cerantonio quoted a Prophetic saying, that to die without pledging allegiance is to die jahil (ignorant) and therefore die a "death of disbelief." Consider how Muslims (or, for that matter, Christians) imagine God deals with the souls of people who die without learning about the one true religion. They are neither obviously saved nor definitively condemned. Similarly, Cerantonio said, the Muslim who acknowledges one omnipotent god and prays, but who dies without pledging himself to a valid caliph and incurring the obligations of that oath, has failed to live a fully Islamic life. I pointed out that this means the vast majority of Muslims in history, and all who passed away between 1924 and 2014, died a death of disbelief. Cerantonio nodded gravely. "I would go so far as to say that Islam has been reestablished" by the caliphate.
I asked him about his own baya'a, and he quickly corrected me: "I didn't say that I'd pledged allegiance." Under Australian law, he reminded me, giving baya'a to the Islamic State was illegal. "But I agree that [Baghdadi] fulfills the requirements," he continued. "I'm just going to wink at you, and you take that to mean whatever you want."
To be the caliph, one must meet conditions outlined in Sunni law—being a Muslim adult man of Quraysh descent; exhibiting moral probity and physical and mental integrity; and having 'amr, or authority. This last criterion, Cerantonio said, is the hardest to fulfill, and requires that the caliph have territory in which he can enforce Islamic law. Baghdadi's Islamic State achieved that long before June 29, Cerantonio said, and as soon as it did, a Western convert within the group's ranks—Cerantonio described him as "something of a leader"—began murmuring about the religious obligation to declare a caliphate. He and others spoke quietly to those in power and told them that further delay would be sinful.
Social-media posts from the Islamic State suggest that executions happen more or less continually.
Cerantonio said a faction arose that was prepared to make war on Baghdadi's group if it delayed any further. They prepared a letter to various powerful members of ISIS, airing their displeasure at the failure to appoint a caliph, but were pacified by Adnani, the spokesman, who let them in on a secret—that a caliphate had already been declared, long before the public announcement. They had their legitimate caliph, and at that point there was only one option. "If he's legitimate," Cerantonio said, "you must give him the baya'a."
After Baghdadi's July sermon, a stream of jihadists began flowing daily into Syria with renewed motivation. Jürgen Todenhöfer, a German author and former politician who visited the Islamic State in December, reported the arrival of 100 fighters at one Turkish-border recruitment station in just two days. His report, among others, suggests a still-steady inflow of foreigners, ready to give up everything at home for a shot at paradise in the worst place on Earth.
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Bernard Haykel, the foremost secular authority on the Islamic State's ideology, believes the group is trying to re-create the earliest days of Islam and is faithfully reproducing its norms of war. "There is an assiduous, obsessive seriousness" about the group's dedication to the text of the Koran, he says.
n London, a week before my meal with Cerantonio, I met with three ex-members of a banned Islamist group called Al Muhajiroun (The Emigrants): Anjem Choudary, Abu Baraa, and Abdul Muhid. They all expressed desire to emigrate to the Islamic State, as many of their colleagues already had, but the authorities had confiscated their passports. Like Cerantonio, they regarded the caliphate as the only righteous government on Earth, though none would confess having pledged allegiance. Their principal goal in meeting me was to explain what the Islamic State stands for, and how its policies reflect God's law.
Choudary, 48, is the group's former leader. He frequently appears on cable news, as one of the few people producers can book who will defend the Islamic State vociferously, until his mike is cut. He has a reputation in the United Kingdom as a loathsome blowhard, but he and his disciples sincerely believe in the Islamic State and, on matters of doctrine, speak in its voice. Choudary and the others feature prominently in the Twitter feeds of Islamic State residents, and Abu Baraa maintains a YouTube channel to answer questions about Sharia.
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Since September, authorities have been investigating the three men on suspicion of supporting terrorism. Because of this investigation, they had to meet me separately: communication among them would have violated the terms of their bail. But speaking with them felt like speaking with the same person wearing different masks. Choudary met me in a candy shop in the East London suburb of Ilford. He was dressed smartly, in a crisp blue tunic reaching nearly to his ankles, and sipped a Red Bull while we talked.
Before the caliphate, "maybe 85 percent of the Sharia was absent from our lives," Choudary told me. "These laws are in abeyance until we have khilafa"—a caliphate—"and now we have one." Without a caliphate, for example, individual vigilantes are not obliged to amputate the hands of thieves they catch in the act. But create a caliphate, and this law, along with a huge body of other jurisprudence, suddenly awakens. In theory, all Muslims are obliged to immigrate to the territory where the caliph is applying these laws. One of Choudary's prize students, a convert from Hinduism named Abu Rumaysah, evaded police to bring his family of five from London to Syria in November. On the day I met Choudary, Abu Rumaysah tweeted out a picture of himself with a Kalashnikov in one arm and his newborn son in the other. Hashtag: #GenerationKhilafah.
The caliph is required to implement Sharia. Any deviation will compel those who have pledged allegiance to inform the caliph in private of his error and, in extreme cases, to excommunicate and replace him if he persists. ("I have been plagued with this great matter, plagued with this responsibility, and it is a heavy responsibility," Baghdadi said in his sermon.) In return, the caliph commands obedience—and those who persist in supporting non-Muslim governments, after being duly warned and educated about their sin, are considered apostates.
Choudary said Sharia has been misunderstood because of its incomplete application by regimes such as Saudi Arabia, which does behead murderers and cut off thieves' hands. "The problem," he explained, "is that when places like Saudi Arabia just implement the penal code, and don't provide the social and economic justice of the Sharia—the whole package—they simply engender hatred toward the Sharia." That whole package, he said, would include free housing, food, and clothing for all, though of course anyone who wished to enrich himself with work could do so.
Abdul Muhid, 32, continued along these lines. He was dressed in mujahideen chic when I met him at a local restaurant: scruffy beard, Afghan cap, and a wallet outside of his clothes, attached with what looked like a shoulder holster. When we sat down, he was eager to discuss welfare. The Islamic State may have medieval-style punishments for moral crimes (lashes for boozing or fornication, stoning for adultery), but its social-welfare program is, at least in some aspects, progressive to a degree that would please an MSNBC pundit. Health care, he said, is free. ("Isn't it free in Britain, too?," I asked. "Not really," he said. "Some procedures aren't covered, such as vision.") This provision of social welfare was not, he said, a policy choice of the Islamic State, but a policy obligation inherent in God's law.
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Anjem Choudary, London's most notorious defender of the Islamic State, says crucifixion and beheading are sacred requirements.
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Jihadist militants from Islamic State (IS) have burned to death 45 people in the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, the local police chief says.
Exactly who these people were and why they were killed is not clear, but Col Qasim al-Obeidi said he believed some were members of the security forces.
IS fighters captured much of the town, near Ain al-Asad air base, last week.
Col Obeidi said a compound that houses the families of security personnel and local officials was now under attack.
He pleaded for help from the government and the international community.
The fighting and poor communications in the area make it difficult to confirm such reports.
Earlier this month, IS published a video showing militants burning alive a Jordanian air force pilot, whose plane crashed in Syria in December.
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Al-Baghdadi had been besieged for months by Islamic State fighters before its fall on Thursday.
It had been one of the few towns to still be controlled by the Iraqi government in Anbar province, where IS and allied Sunni Arab tribesmen launched an offensive in January 2014.
Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm John Kirby told reporters on Friday that al-Baghdadi's capture needed to be put in perspective.
He said it was the first time in the last couple of months that the jihadist group had taken new ground.
However, Ain al-Asad air base, where about 320 US Marines are training members of the Iraqi army's 7th Division, is only 8km (5 miles) away.
The base was itself attacked by IS militants, among them several suicide bombers, on Friday. The militants were eventually repelled by Iraqi troops backed by US-led coalition aircraft.
In a separate development on Tuesday, the influential Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr announced he was withdrawing his forces from an umbrella group of Shia militia fighting IS alongside the Iraqi army.
He cited what he called the bad behaviour of other militia within the Popular Mobilisation Forces, whom he accused of "wreaking havoc through murdering, kidnapping and violating sanctuaries".
Shia militia have been accused of kidnapping and killing scores of Sunni civilians since Islamic State launched an offensive in northern Iraq last June that saw it seize large swathes of the country.
Great post, Cat... Islamic State exploits on the battlefield.... especially capturing huge swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq, and establishing a caliphate... resonate near and far. IS has seized headlines with a shocking level of blood-letting and cruelty. Nothing succeeds like success, and IS' recent military gains have brought it a recruitment bonanza, thanks to our leader-from-behind, Obuma. Muslim men living in Western countries join IS and other extremist groups because they feel part of a greater mission... to resurrect a lost idealized type of caliphate and be part of a tight-knit community with a potent identity. Initially, many young men from western Europe and elsewhere migrate to the lands of jihad to defend persecuted co-religionists, but they end up in the clutches of IS, doing its evil deeds, such as beheading, burning and shooting innocent civilians. SAD, sad, sad.
What ISIS Really Wants - Part Two... continued
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III. The ApocalypseAll Muslims acknowledge that God is the only one who knows the future. But they also agree that he has offered us a peek at it, in the Koran and in narrations of the Prophet. The Islamic State differs from nearly every other current jihadist movement in believing that it is written into God's script as a central character. It is in this casting that the Islamic State is most boldly distinctive from its predecessors, and clearest in the religious nature of its mission.
In broad strokes, al-Qaeda acts like an underground political movement, with worldly goals in sight at all times—the expulsion of non-Muslims from the Arabian peninsula, the abolishment of the state of Israel, the end of support for dictatorships in Muslim lands. The Islamic State has its share of worldly concerns (including, in the places it controls, collecting garbage and keeping the water running), but the End of Days is a leitmotif of its propaganda. Bin Laden rarely mentioned the apocalypse, and when he did, he seemed to presume that he would be long dead when the glorious moment of divine comeuppance finally arrived. "Bin Laden and Zawahiri are from elite Sunni families who look down on this kind of speculation and think it's something the masses engage in," says Will McCants of the Brookings Institution, who is writing a book about the Islamic State's apocalyptic thought.
During the last years of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the Islamic State's immediate founding fathers, by contrast, saw signs of the end times everywhere. They were anticipating, within a year, the arrival of the Mahdi—a messianic figure destined to lead the Muslims to victory before the end of the world. McCants says a prominent Islamist in Iraq approached bin Laden in 2008 to warn him that the group was being led by millenarians who were "talking all the time about the Mahdi and making strategic decisions" based on when they thought the Mahdi was going to arrive. "Al-Qaeda had to write to [these leaders] to say 'Cut it out.' "
For certain true believers—the kind who long for epic good-versus-evil battles—visions of apocalyptic bloodbaths fulfill a deep psychological need. Of the Islamic State supporters I met, Musa Cerantonio, the Australian, expressed the deepest interest in the apocalypse and how the remaining days of the Islamic State—and the world—might look. Parts of that prediction are original to him, and do not yet have the status of doctrine. But other parts are based on mainstream Sunni sources and appear all over the Islamic State's propaganda. These include the belief that there will be only 12 legitimate caliphs, and Baghdadi is the eighth; that the armies of Rome will mass to meet the armies of Islam in northern Syria; and that Islam's final showdown with an anti-Messiah will occur in Jerusalem after a period of renewed Islamic conquest.
The Islamic State has attached great importance to the Syrian city of Dabiq, near Aleppo. It named its propaganda magazine after the town, and celebrated madly when (at great cost) it conquered Dabiq's strategically unimportant plains. It is here, the Prophet reportedly said, that the armies of Rome will set up their camp. The armies of Islam will meet them, and Dabiq will be Rome's Waterloo or its Antietam.
"Dabiq is basically all farmland," one Islamic State supporter recently tweeted. "You could imagine large battles taking place there." The Islamic State's propagandists drool with anticipation of this event, and constantly imply that it will come soon. The state's magazine quotes Zarqawi as saying, "The spark has been lit here in Iraq, and its heat will continue to intensify ... until it burns the crusader armies in Dabiq." A recent propaganda video shows clips from Hollywood war movies set in medieval times—perhaps because many of the prophecies specify that the armies will be on horseback or carrying ancient weapons.
Now that it has taken Dabiq, the Islamic State awaits the arrival of an enemy army there, whose defeat will initiate the countdown to the apocalypse. Western media frequently miss references to Dabiq in the Islamic State's videos, and focus instead on lurid scenes of beheading. "Here we are, burying the first American crusader in Dabiq, eagerly waiting for the remainder of your armies to arrive," said a masked executioner in a November video, showing the severed head of Peter (Abdul Rahman) Kassig, the aid worker who'd been held captive for more than a year. During fighting in Iraq in December, after mujahideen (perhaps inaccurately) reported having seen American soldiers in battle, Islamic State Twitter accounts erupted in spasms of pleasure, like overenthusiastic hosts or hostesses upon the arrival of the first guests at a party.
The Prophetic narration that foretells the Dabiq battle refers to the enemy as Rome. Who "Rome" is, now that the pope has no army, remains a matter of debate. But Cerantonio makes a case that Rome meant the Eastern Roman empire, which had its capital in what is now Istanbul. We should think of Rome as the Republic of Turkey—the same republic that ended the last self-identified caliphate, 90 years ago. Other Islamic State sources suggest that Rome might mean any infidel army, and the Americans will do nicely.After mujahideen reported having seen American soldiers in battle, Islamic State Twitter accounts erupted in spasms of pleasure, like overenthusiastic hosts upon the arrival of the first guests at a party.
After its battle in Dabiq, Cerantonio said, the caliphate will expand and sack Istanbul. Some believe it will then cover the entire Earth, but Cerantonio suggested its tide may never reach beyond the Bosporus. An anti-Messiah, known in Muslim apocalyptic literature as Dajjal, will come from the Khorasan region of eastern Iran and kill a vast number of the caliphate's fighters, until just 5,000 remain, cornered in Jerusalem. Just as Dajjal prepares to finish them off, Jesus—the second-most-revered prophet in Islam—will return to Earth, spear Dajjal, and lead the Muslims to victory.
"Only God knows" whether the Islamic State's armies are the ones foretold, Cerantonio said. But he is hopeful. "The Prophet said that one sign of the imminent arrival of the End of Days is that people will for a long while stop talking about the End of Days," he said. "If you go to the mosques now, you'll find the preachers are silent about this subject." On this theory, even setbacks dealt to the Islamic State mean nothing, since God has preordained the near-destruction of his people anyway. The Islamic State has its best and worst days ahead of it.(http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2015/02/WEL_Woods_ISIS_AlBaghdadi/e84e96886.jpg)
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was declared caliph by his followers last summer. The establishment of a caliphate awakened large sections of Koranic law that had lain dormant, and required those Muslims who recognized the caliphate to immigrate.
IV. The Fight
The ideological purity of the Islamic State has one compensating virtue: it allows us to predict some of the group's actions. Osama bin Laden was seldom predictable. He ended his first television interview cryptically. CNN's Peter Arnett asked him, "What are your future plans?" Bin Laden replied, "You'll see them and hear about them in the media, God willing." By contrast, the Islamic State boasts openly about its plans—not all of them, but enough so that by listening carefully, we can deduce how it intends to govern and expand.
In London, Choudary and his students provided detailed descriptions of how the Islamic State must conduct its foreign policy, now that it is a caliphate. It has already taken up what Islamic law refers to as "offensive jihad," the forcible expansion into countries that are ruled by non-Muslims. "Hitherto, we were just defending ourselves," Choudary said; without a caliphate, offensive jihad is an inapplicable concept. But the waging of war to expand the caliphate is an essential duty of the caliph.
Choudary took pains to present the laws of war under which the Islamic State operates as policies of mercy rather than of brutality. He told me the state has an obligation to terrorize its enemies—a holy order to scare the shit out of them with beheadings and crucifixions and enslavement of women and children, because doing so hastens victory and avoids prolonged conflict.
Choudary's colleague Abu Baraa explained that Islamic law permits only temporary peace treaties, lasting no longer than a decade. Similarly, accepting any border is anathema, as stated by the Prophet and echoed in the Islamic State's propaganda videos. If the caliph consents to a longer-term peace or permanent border, he will be in error. Temporary peace treaties are renewable, but may not be applied to all enemies at once: the caliph must wage jihad at least once a year. He may not rest, or he will fall into a state of sin.
One comparison to the Islamic State is the Khmer Rouge, which killed about a third of the population of Cambodia. But the Khmer Rouge occupied Cambodia's seat at the United Nations. "This is not permitted," Abu Baraa said. "To send an ambassador to the UN is to recognize an authority other than God's." This form of diplomacy is shirk, or polytheism, he argued, and would be immediate cause to hereticize and replace Baghdadi. Even to hasten the arrival of a caliphate by democratic means—for example by voting for political candidates who favor a caliphate—is shirk.
It's hard to overstate how hamstrung the Islamic State will be by its radicalism. The modern international system, born of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, relies on each state's willingness to recognize borders, however grudgingly. For the Islamic State, that recognition is ideological suicide. Other Islamist groups, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, have succumbed to the blandishments of democracy and the potential for an invitation to the community of nations, complete with a UN seat. Negotiation and accommodation have worked, at times, for the Taliban as well. (Under Taliban rule, Afghanistan exchanged ambassadors with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the United Arab Emirates, an act that invalidated the Taliban's authority in the Islamic State's eyes.) To the Islamic State these are not options, but acts of apostasy.
The United States and its allies have reacted to the Islamic State belatedly and in an apparent daze. The group's ambitions and rough strategic blueprints were evident in its pronouncements and in social-media chatter as far back as 2011, when it was just one of many terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq and hadn't yet committed mass atrocities. Adnani, the spokesman, told followers then that the group's ambition was to "restore the Islamic caliphate," and he evoked the apocalypse, saying, "There are but a few days left." Baghdadi had already styled himself "commander of the faithful," a title ordinarily reserved for caliphs, in 2011. In April 2013, Adnani declared the movement "ready to redraw the world upon the Prophetic methodology of the caliphate." In August 2013, he said, "Our goal is to establish an Islamic state that doesn't recognize borders, on the Prophetic methodology." By then, the group had taken Raqqa, a Syrian provincial capital of perhaps 500,000 people, and was drawing in substantial numbers of foreign fighters who'd heard its message.
If we had identified the Islamic State's intentions early, and realized that the vacuum in Syria and Iraq would give it ample space to carry them out, we might, at a minimum, have pushed Iraq to harden its border with Syria and preemptively make deals with its Sunnis. That would at least have avoided the electrifying propaganda effect created by the declaration of a caliphate just after the conquest of Iraq's third-largest city. Yet, just over a year ago, Obama told The New Yorker that he considered ISIS to be al-Qaeda's weaker partner. "If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant," the president said.
Our failure to appreciate the split between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and the essential differences between the two, has led to dangerous decisions. Last fall, to take one example, the U.S. government consented to a desperate plan to save Peter Kassig's life. The plan facilitated—indeed, required—the interaction of some of the founding figures of the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, and could hardly have looked more hastily improvised.Given everything we know about the Islamic State, continuing to slowly
bleed it appears the best of bad military options.
It entailed the enlistment of Abu Muhammad al Maqdisi, the Zarqawi mentor and al-Qaeda grandee, to approach Turki al-Binali, the Islamic State's chief ideologue and a former student of Maqdisi's, even though the two men had fallen out due to Maqdisi's criticism of the Islamic State. Maqdisi had already called for the state to extend mercy to Alan Henning, the British cabbie who had entered Syria to deliver aid to children. In December, The Guardian reported that the U.S. government, through an intermediary, had asked Maqdisi to intercede with the Islamic State on Kassig's behalf.
Maqdisi was living freely in Jordan, but had been banned from communicating with terrorists abroad, and was being monitored closely. After Jordan granted the United States permission to reintroduce Maqdisi to Binali, Maqdisi bought a phone with American money and was allowed to correspond merrily with his former student for a few days, before the Jordanian government stopped the chats and used them as a pretext to jail Maqdisi. Kassig's severed head appeared in the Dabiq video a few days later.
Maqdisi gets mocked roundly on Twitter by the Islamic State's fans, and al‑Qaeda is held in great contempt for refusing to acknowledge the caliphate. Cole Bunzel, a scholar who studies Islamic State ideology, read Maqdisi's opinion on Henning's status and thought it would hasten his and other captives' death. "If I were held captive by the Islamic State and Maqdisi said I shouldn't be killed," he told me, "I'd kiss my ass goodbye."
Kassig's death was a tragedy, but the plan's success would have been a bigger one. A reconciliation between Maqdisi and Binali would have begun to heal the main rift between the world's two largest jihadist organizations. It's possible that the government wanted only to draw out Binali for intelligence purposes or assassination. (Multiple attempts to elicit comment from the FBI were unsuccessful.) Regardless, the decision to play matchmaker for America's two main terrorist antagonists reveals astonishingly poor judgment.
Chastened by our earlier indifference, we are now meeting the Islamic State via Kurdish and Iraqi proxy on the battlefield, and with regular air assaults. Those strategies haven't dislodged the Islamic State from any of its major territorial possessions, although they've kept it from directly assaulting Baghdad and Erbil and slaughtering Shia and Kurds there.
Some observers have called for escalation, including several predictable voices from the interventionist right (Max Boot, Frederick Kagan), who have urged the deployment of tens of thousands of American soldiers. These calls should not be dismissed too quickly: an avowedly genocidal organization is on its potential victims' front lawn, and it is committing daily atrocities in the territory it already controls.
One way to un-cast the Islamic State's spell over its adherents would be to overpower it militarily and occupy the parts of Syria and Iraq now under caliphate rule. Al‑Qaeda is ineradicable because it can survive, cockroach-like, by going underground. The Islamic State cannot. If it loses its grip on its territory in Syria and Iraq, it will cease to be a caliphate. Caliphates cannot exist as underground movements, because territorial authority is a requirement: take away its command of territory, and all those oaths of allegiance are no longer binding. Former pledges could of course continue to attack the West and behead their enemies, as freelancers. But the propaganda value of the caliphate would disappear, and with it the supposed religious duty to immigrate and serve it. If the United States were to invade, the Islamic State's obsession with battle at Dabiq suggests that it might send vast resources there, as if in a conventional battle. If the state musters at Dabiq in full force, only to be routed, it might never recover.And yet the risks of escalation are enormous. The biggest proponent of an American invasion is the Islamic State itself. The provocative videos, in which a black-hooded executioner addresses President Obama by name, are clearly made to draw America into the fight. An invasion would be a huge propaganda victory for jihadists worldwide: irrespective of whether they have given baya'a to the caliph, they all believe that the United States wants to embark on a modern-day Crusade and kill Muslims. Yet another invasion and occupation would confirm that suspicion, and bolster recruitment. Add the incompetence of our previous efforts as occupiers, and we have reason for reluctance. The rise of ISIS, after all, happened only because our previous occupation created space for Zarqawi and his followers. Who knows the consequences of another botched job?
Given everything we know about the Islamic State, continuing to slowly bleed it, through air strikes and proxy warfare, appears the best of bad military options. Neither the Kurds nor the Shia will ever subdue and control the whole Sunni heartland of Syria and Iraq—they are hated there, and have no appetite for such an adventure anyway. But they can keep the Islamic State from fulfilling its duty to expand. And with every month that it fails to expand, it resembles less the conquering state of the Prophet Muhammad than yet another Middle Eastern government failing to bring prosperity to its people.
The humanitarian cost of the Islamic State's existence is high. But its threat to the United States is smaller than its all too frequent conflation with al-Qaeda would suggest. Al-Qaeda's core is rare among jihadist groups for its focus on the "far enemy" (the West); most jihadist groups' main concerns lie closer to home. That's especially true of the Islamic State, precisely because of its ideology. It sees enemies everywhere around it, and while its leadership wishes ill on the United States, the application of Sharia in the caliphate and the expansion to contiguous lands are paramount. Baghdadi has said as much directly: in November he told his Saudi agents to "deal with the rafida [Shia] first ... then al-Sulul [Sunni supporters of the Saudi monarchy] ... before the crusaders and their bases."Musa Cerantonio and Anjem Choudary could mentally shift
from contemplating mass death to discussing the virtues of
Vietnamese coffee, with apparent delight in each.
The foreign fighters (and their wives and children) have been traveling to the caliphate on one-way tickets: they want to live under true Sharia, and many want martyrdom. Doctrine, recall, requires believers to reside in the caliphate if it is at all possible for them to do so. One of the Islamic State's less bloody videos shows a group of jihadists burning their French, British, and Australian passports. This would be an eccentric act for someone intending to return to blow himself up in line at the Louvre or to hold another chocolate shop hostage in Sydney.
A few "lone wolf" supporters of the Islamic State have attacked Western targets, and more attacks will come. But most of the attackers have been frustrated amateurs, unable to immigrate to the caliphate because of confiscated passports or other problems. Even if the Islamic State cheers these attacks—and it does in its propaganda—it hasn't yet planned and financed one. (The Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris in January was principally an al‑Qaeda operation.) During his visit to Mosul in December, Jürgen Todenhöfer interviewed a portly German jihadist and asked whether any of his comrades had returned to Europe to carry out attacks. The jihadist seemed to regard returnees not as soldiers but as dropouts. "The fact is that the returnees from the Islamic State should repent from their return," he said. "I hope they review their religion."
Properly contained, the Islamic State is likely to be its own undoing. No country is its ally, and its ideology ensures that this will remain the case. The land it controls, while expansive, is mostly uninhabited and poor. As it stagnates or slowly shrinks, its claim that it is the engine of God's will and the agent of apocalypse will weaken, and fewer believers will arrive. And as more reports of misery within it leak out, radical Islamist movements elsewhere will be discredited: No one has tried harder to implement strict Sharia by violence. This is what it looks like.
Even so, the death of the Islamic State is unlikely to be quick, and things could still go badly wrong: if the Islamic State obtained the allegiance of al‑Qaeda—increasing, in one swoop, the unity of its base—it could wax into a worse foe than we've yet seen. The rift between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda has, if anything, grown in the past few months; the December issue of Dabiq featured a long account of an al‑Qaeda defector who described his old group as corrupt and ineffectual, and Zawahiri as a distant and unfit leader. But we should watch carefully for a rapprochement.
Without a catastrophe such as this, however, or perhaps the threat of the Islamic State's storming Erbil, a vast ground invasion would certainly make the situation worse.***TO BE CONTINUED***
What ISIS Really Wants - Part Three... continued
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V. DissuasionIt would be facile, even exculpatory, to call the problem of the Islamic State "a problem with Islam." The religion allows many interpretations, and Islamic State supporters are morally on the hook for the one they choose. And yet simply denouncing the Islamic State as un-Islamic can be counterproductive, especially if those who hear the message have read the holy texts and seen the endorsement of many of the caliphate's practices written plainly within them.
Muslims can say that slavery is not legitimate now, and that crucifixion is wrong at this historical juncture. Many say precisely this. But they cannot condemn slavery or crucifixion outright without contradicting the Koran and the example of the Prophet. "The only principled ground that the Islamic State's opponents could take is to say that certain core texts and traditional teachings of Islam are no longer valid," Bernard Haykel says. That really would be an act of apostasy.
The Islamic State's ideology exerts powerful sway over a certain subset of the population. Life's hypocrisies and inconsistencies vanish in its face. Musa Cerantonio and the Salafis I met in London are unstumpable: no question I posed left them stuttering. They lectured me garrulously and, if one accepts their premises, convincingly. To call them un-Islamic appears, to me, to invite them into an argument that they would win. If they had been froth-spewing maniacs, I might be able to predict that their movement would burn out as the psychopaths detonated themselves or became drone-splats, one by one. But these men spoke with an academic precision that put me in mind of a good graduate seminar. I even enjoyed their company, and that frightened me as much as anything else.
Non-muslims cannot tell Muslims how to practice their religion properly. But Muslims have long since begun this debate within their own ranks. "You have to have standards," Anjem Choudary told me. "Somebody could claim to be a Muslim, but if he believes in homosexuality or drinking alcohol, then he is not a Muslim. There is no such thing as a nonpracticing vegetarian."
There is, however, another strand of Islam that offers a hard-line alternative to the Islamic State—just as uncompromising, but with opposite conclusions. This strand has proved appealing to many Muslims cursed or blessed with a psychological longing to see every jot and tittle of the holy texts implemented as they were in the earliest days of Islam. Islamic State supporters know how to react to Muslims who ignore parts of the Koran: with takfir and ridicule. But they also know that some other Muslims read the Koran as assiduously as they do, and pose a real ideological threat.
Baghdadi is Salafi. The term Salafi has been villainized, in part because authentic villains have ridden into battle waving the Salafi banner. But most Salafis are not jihadists, and most adhere to sects that reject the Islamic State. They are, as Haykel notes, committed to expanding Dar al-Islam, the land of Islam, even, perhaps, with the implementation of monstrous practices such as slavery and amputation—but at some future point. Their first priority is personal purification and religious observance, and they believe anything that thwarts those goals—such as causing war or unrest that would disrupt lives and prayer and scholarship—is forbidden.
They live among us. Last fall, I visited the Philadelphia mosque of Breton Pocius, 28, a Salafi imam who goes by the name Abdullah. His mosque is on the border between the crime-ridden Northern Liberties neighborhood and a gentrifying area that one might call Dar al-Hipster; his beard allows him to pass in the latter zone almost unnoticed.A theological alternative to the Islamic State exists—
just as uncompromising, but with opposite conclusions.
Pocius converted 15 years ago after a Polish Catholic upbringing in Chicago. Like Cerantonio, he talks like an old soul, exhibiting deep familiarity with ancient texts, and a commitment to them motivated by curiosity and scholarship, and by a conviction that they are the only way to escape hellfire. When I met him at a local coffee shop, he carried a work of Koranic scholarship in Arabic and a book for teaching himself Japanese. He was preparing a sermon on the obligations of fatherhood for the 150 or so worshipers in his Friday congregation.
Pocius said his main goal is to encourage a halal life for worshipers in his mosque. But the rise of the Islamic State has forced him to consider political questions that are usually very far from the minds of Salafis. "Most of what they'll say about how to pray and how to dress is exactly what I'll say in my masjid [mosque]. But when they get to questions about social upheaval, they sound like Che Guevara."
When Baghdadi showed up, Pocius adopted the slogan "Not my khalifa." "The times of the Prophet were a time of great bloodshed," he told me, "and he knew that the worst possible condition for all people was chaos, especially within the umma [Muslim community]." Accordingly, Pocius said, the correct attitude for Salafis is not to sow discord by factionalizing and declaring fellow Muslims apostates.
Instead, Pocius—like a majority of Salafis—believes that Muslims should remove themselves from politics. These quietist Salafis, as they are known, agree with the Islamic State that God's law is the only law, and they eschew practices like voting and the creation of political parties. But they interpret the Koran's hatred of discord and chaos as requiring them to fall into line with just about any leader, including some manifestly sinful ones. "The Prophet said: as long as the ruler does not enter into clear kufr [disbelief], give him general obedience," Pocius told me, and the classic "books of creed" all warn against causing social upheaval. Quietist Salafis are strictly forbidden from dividing Muslims from one another—for example, by mass excommunication. Living without baya'a, Pocius said, does indeed make one ignorant, or benighted. But baya'a need not mean direct allegiance to a caliph, and certainly not to Abu Bakr al‑Baghdadi. It can mean, more broadly, allegiance to a religious social contract and commitment to a society of Muslims, whether ruled by a caliph or not.
Quietist Salafis believe that Muslims should direct their energies toward perfecting their personal life, including prayer, ritual, and hygiene. Much in the same way ultra-Orthodox Jews debate whether it's kosher to tear off squares of toilet paper on the Sabbath (does that count as "rending cloth"?), they spend an inordinate amount of time ensuring that their trousers are not too long, that their beards are trimmed in some areas and shaggy in others. Through this fastidious observance, they believe, God will favor them with strength and numbers, and perhaps a caliphate will arise. At that moment, Muslims will take vengeance and, yes, achieve glorious victory at Dabiq. But Pocius cites a slew of modern Salafi theologians who argue that a caliphate cannot come into being in a righteous way except through the unmistakable will of God.
The Islamic State, of course, would agree, and say that God has anointed Baghdadi. Pocius's retort amounts to a call to humility. He cites Abdullah Ibn Abbas, one of the Prophet's companions, who sat down with dissenters and asked them how they had the gall, as a minority, to tell the majority that it was wrong. Dissent itself, to the point of bloodshed or splitting the umma, was forbidden. Even the manner of the establishment of Baghdadi's caliphate runs contrary to expectation, he said. "The khilafa is something that Allah is going to establish," he told me, "and it will involve a consensus of scholars from Mecca and Medina. That is not what happened. ISIS came out of nowhere."
The Islamic State loathes this talk, and its fanboys tweet derisively about quietist Salafis. They mock them as "Salafis of menstruation," for their obscure judgments about when women are and aren't clean, and other low-priority aspects of life. "What we need now is fatwa about how it's haram [forbidden] to ride a bike on Jupiter," one tweeted drily. "That's what scholars should focus on. More pressing than state of Ummah." Anjem Choudary, for his part, says that no sin merits more vigorous opposition than the usurpation of God's law, and that extremism in defense of monotheism is no vice.
Pocius doesn't court any kind of official support from the United States, as a counterweight to jihadism. Indeed, official support would tend to discredit him, and in any case he is bitter toward America for treating him, in his words, as "less than a citizen." (He alleges that the government paid spies to infiltrate his mosque and harassed his mother at work with questions about his being a potential terrorist.)
Still, his quietist Salafism offers an Islamic antidote to Baghdadi-style jihadism. The people who arrive at the faith spoiling for a fight cannot all be stopped from jihadism, but those whose main motivation is to find an ultraconservative, uncompromising version of Islam have an alternative here. It is not moderate Islam; most Muslims would consider it extreme. It is, however, a form of Islam that the literal-minded would not instantly find hypocritical, or blasphemously purged of its inconveniences. Hypocrisy is not a sin that ideologically minded young men tolerate well.
Western officials would probably do best to refrain from weighing in on matters of Islamic theological debate altogether. Barack Obama himself drifted into takfiri waters when he claimed that the Islamic State was "not Islamic"—the irony being that he, as the non-Muslim son of a Muslim, may himself be classified as an apostate, and yet is now practicing takfir against Muslims. Non-Muslims' practicing takfir elicits chuckles from jihadists ("Like a pig covered in feces giving hygiene advice to others," one tweeted).
I suspect that most Muslims appreciated Obama's sentiment: the president was standing with them against both Baghdadi and non-Muslim chauvinists trying to implicate them in crimes. But most Muslims aren't susceptible to joining jihad. The ones who are susceptible will only have had their suspicions confirmed: the United States lies about religion to serve its purposes.
Within the narrow bounds of its theology, the Islamic State hums with energy, even creativity. Outside those bounds, it could hardly be more arid and silent: a vision of life as obedience, order, and destiny. Musa Cerantonio and Anjem Choudary could mentally shift from contemplating mass death and eternal torture to discussing the virtues of Vietnamese coffee or treacly pastry, with apparent delight in each, yet to me it seemed that to embrace their views would be to see all the flavors of this world grow insipid compared with the vivid grotesqueries of the hereafter.
I could enjoy their company, as a guilty intellectual exercise, up to a point. In reviewing Mein Kampf in March 1940, George Orwell confessed that he had "never been able to dislike Hitler"; something about the man projected an underdog quality, even when his goals were cowardly or loathsome. "If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon." The Islamic State's partisans have much the same allure. They believe that they are personally involved in struggles beyond their own lives, and that merely to be swept up in the drama, on the side of righteousness, is a privilege and a pleasure—especially when it is also a burden.Fascism, Orwell continued, is.......psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life... Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them, "I offer you struggle, danger, and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet ... We ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.Nor, in the case of the Islamic State, its religious or intellectual appeal. That the Islamic State holds the imminent fulfillment of prophecy as a matter of dogma at least tells us the mettle of our opponent. It is ready to cheer its own near-obliteration, and to remain confident, even when surrounded, that it will receive divine succor if it stays true to the Prophetic model. Ideological tools may convince some potential converts that the group's message is false, and military tools can limit its horrors. But for an organization as impervious to persuasion as the Islamic State, few measures short of these will matter, and the war may be a long one, even if it doesn't last until the end of time.
Creepy Joe Biden Caught 'Snuggling' With Defense Chief's Wife
Vice President Joe Biden took hands-on politics to a creepy new level Tuesday by snuggling new Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's wife from behind.
In a move straight out of the stalker handbook, Biden appeared to be sniffing Stephanie Carter's hair at a swearing-in ceremony for her husband in Washington.
Biden, who kept his hands on Mrs. Carter's shoulders for 10 seconds, looked as if he was whispering sweet nothings into her ear.
Hands folded in front of her, she gazed stiffly in the direction of her husband during the grope.
Critics took to Twitter to poke fun at the nation's No. 1 "close-talker," calling him clueless about personal space.
"If Joe Biden did this to my wife, she'd knock him out," tweeted conservative author Brad Thor, while columnist Ben Shapiro joked, "This video is like Mike Tyson going for Evander Holyfield's ear."
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If Joe Biden did this to my wife, SHE'D knock him out.
I'd have to take a number and wait my turn... 10:33 AM - 17 Feb 2015
365 Retweets 295 favorites Biden may have thought he was comforting Mrs. Carter, who slipped on the ice near the Pentagon while accompanying her husband to his first day on the job.
The vice president was also called out for being too touchy-feely in January, when he tried to be affectionate with Maggie Coons, the young daughter of Sen. Chris Coons, while the Delaware Democrat was being sworn in.
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Al-Baghdadi Officially Anoints Libyan Branch Part Of ISIS After
They Behead 21 Christians, Video Shows Huge Presence In Benghazi
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNMloXZvqW4#t=217
(You can tell by the high-quality video it was done by the Islamic State's propaganda arm, which is run by an ISIS operative from Massachusetts...)
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Recent moves by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] to assert itself in Libya have led to clashes with al Qaeda-affiliated jihadis there, experts say, and Egypt stepped into the fray Monday by launching new airstrikes against ISIS targets in Libya.
On Sunday, core-ISIS officially anointed its Libyan affiliate by releasing a savage new video of camouflage-clad jihadis dramatically slicing the necks of 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt who were abducted in Libya.
The video had similar graphics and cinematic flourishes to ISIS' other major pieces of propaganda from Syria and Iraq, including track and crane camera moves as the victims in orange jumpsuits compliantly knelt in the wet sand of a Mediterranean beach for their final living moments as stars of the Libyan ISIS affiliate's debut.
While ISIS has increasingly been publicizing its presence in Libya — and worrying many U.S. counter-terrorism officials, who say Western leaders have been too distracted by such hostage execution videos themselves — the group's expansion is meeting resistance from the clearly dominant jihadi groups there with ties to core-al Qaeda, experts say.
"Because ISIS is so brazen in what they do and their propaganda machine is so prolific with videos like this, it's easy to see where their fighters are and what they're doing," Thomas Joscelyn, an ISIS expert and senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told ABC News. "Al Qaeda and their allies try to hide what they're up to. They don't advertise it with videos."
Creepy Joe Biden Caught 'Snuggling' With Defense Chief's Wife
Warph,
I'm starting to think the alumni of UD, from back in the 60's ,should have spent more time learning manners instead of smoking weed and protesting the war.
Quote from: jarhead on February 18, 2015, 09:02:28 PM
Creepy Joe Biden Caught 'Snuggling' With Defense Chief's Wife
Warph,
I'm starting to think the alumni of UD, from back in the 60's ,should have spent more time learning manners instead of smoking weed and protesting the war.
'Manners' is a word that Uncle Creepy Joe isn't familiar with, Jar...
he has no concept of personal space, another thing they didn't teach at UD.(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1748/2562/original.jpg?w=600&h)
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DHS Stops Enforcing Obama's Executive Amnesty In Texas
After Federal Judge's Ruling
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(Sad that it's newsworthy when the Obuma regime complies with a ruling... this just the beginning, Buttrack, just the beginning...)
Via The Hill:http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/232981-dhs-halts-deportation-deferrals
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is suspending President Obama's executive actions on immigration, slamming the brakes on an expansion of deportation deferrals after an order from a federal judge.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said he "strongly" disagrees with the move by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen to temporarily block the new programs, some of which were slated to begin Wednesday, but said the administration will let the legal process play out.
"The Department of Justice will appeal that temporary injunction; in the meantime, we recognize we must comply with it," Johnson said.
Crazy Creepy Joe Meets With U.S. Islamic Leader Who Claims Israel Behind 9/11
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(Combined IQ between these two super-geniuses: Less than 94.667...)
Via Free Beacon:http://freebeacon.com/national-security/muslim-leader-who-called-israel-a-suspect-after-911-meets-with-biden-at-white-house/
A controversial U.S. Muslim leader who has been highly critical of Israel and said that the Jewish state should be on the "suspect list" in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks participated on Tuesday in a White House summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) that featured Vice President Joe Biden.
Salam Al-Marayati, founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), tweeted out a photo of himself at the White House with Biden and bragged, "We joined VP @JoeBiden for a discussion at the @WhiteHouse #CVESummit which kicked off today." [...]
The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) released a detailed fact sheet that contained scores of controversial statements attributed to al-Marayati.
One of his more controversial proclamations came in the wake of 9/11, when al-Marayati pointed a finger at Israel.
"If we're going to look at suspects [for 9/11], we should look to the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list because I think this diverts attention from what's happening in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their aggression and occupation and apartheid policies," he said in a radio interview shortly after the attacks in 2001, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Dem Rep. 'Crazy' Luis Gutierrez Outraged Greg Abbott
"Disrespected" Barack Obama By Calling Him . . . Barack Obama
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Holy Crap... faux outrage at its finest...)
Via Breitbart:http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/02/18/gutierrez-tx-gov-disrespected-president-by-calling-him-barack-obama/
Wednesday on MSNBC's "The Rundown with José Díaz-Balart," a visibly angry Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said Texas Governor Greg Abbott disrespected President Barack Obama by calling him Barack Obama while discussing a federal judge issuing an injunction temporarily blocking the president's executive order amnesty.
Gutierrez said, "I think it is sad when you listen to the governor of the state of Texas refer to the president of the United States in his first and last name, Barack Obama, Barack Obama. It shows a disrespect for the office and for the institution and for the president himself. That kind of shows what underlines. See, the governor thinks he just beat Barack Obama, the president of the United States. President Barack Obama. It is not what he did. What he did, this is an attack against American families, against an immigrant community across this nation, and those who love and cherish them, and those in America who want a fair and sensible immigration policy. So for those who think this is a fight between Republicans and the president of the United States, you fail miserably, not considering this is a fight against American families."
Ron Paul: Bush Didn't Want To Catch Bin Laden So He Could Invade Iraq
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(Ah yes, The perpetually cranky Ron Paul still wearing his tinfoil hat...)
Via BuzzFeed:Former Republican presidential candidate and congressman Ron Paul says he doesn't believe the United States government wanted to catch Osama Bin Laden because they needed him as an excuse to build up the military and invade Middle Eastern countries.
"Matter of fact, can't you just see the difference that might have occurred. Ya know, they knew where Bin Laden was. I don't think they really wanted to catch him because he was used as the excuse for us, you know, invading various countries and building up the military," Paul said on Scott Horton's radio program.
Buttrack Obuma: Jihadi Savages Who Behead, Crucify, And Burn
People Alive Have "Legitimate Grievances"
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(CBS News' Mark Knoller quoting Obama's op-ed...)
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Warph,
I've come to think that you're a pretty smart ol guy so maybe you can answer my question. If a Capt. is incompetent, he is relieved of his command as the company Skipper---a Col. can be relieved of his command as Bn. commander for being incompetent---and so on. Is there not a "rule", a "law" or anything to relieve our CiC for being grossly incompetent ? I'm serious---isn't there something ??
***Question Of The Day***
"Howard Dean said on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's three and a half years of college make him 'unknowledgeable.'"
"Unknowledgeable?" Is college the only place a person attains knowledge? Give me a break. I graduated from college and I've learned a great deal more since, than I ever did in college. By the way, Walker only had another semester or so to complete before graduating. Does this mean it's that last semester and a diploma that makes someone "knowledgeable"?Question: Is Scott Walker too dumb to be President??
And if you said yes, check this out:
100 Top Entrepreneurs Who Succeeded Without A College Degree
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Getting a college degree can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, yet once you are out, there is no guarantee of success. A pretty risky investment.
Many business-minded people decided to take the less conventional route to fame and fortune — instead of going to (or finishing) college, they chose to start their own businesses.
Many of these people are now considered to be the Elite of the Elite and did so all without a piece of paper stating that they were approved to be in the American workforce.
Here is a list of the top 100 entrepreneurs that never received a college degree. Many of them you will know while others decided to remain slightly under the radar.
1. Abraham Lincoln, lawyer, U.S. president. Finished one year of formal schooling, self-taught himself trigonometry, and read Blackstone on his own to become a lawyer.
2. Amadeo Peter Giannini, multimillionaire founder of Bank of America. Dropped out of high school.
3. Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist, and one of the first mega-billionaires in the US. Elementary school dropout.
4. Andrew Jackson, U.S. president, general, attorney, judge, congressman. Home-schooled. Became a practicing attorney by the age of 35 – without a formal education.
5. Andrew Perlman, co-founder of GreatPoint. Dropped out of Washington University to start Cignal Global Communications, an Internet communications company, when he was only 19.
6. Anne Beiler, multimillionaire co-founder of Auntie Anne's Pretzels. Dropped out of high school.
7. Ansel Adams, world-famous photographer. Dropped out of high school.
8. Ashley Qualls, founder of Whateverlife.com, left high school at the age of 15 to devote herself to building her website business. She was more than a million dollars by 17.
9. Barbara Lynch, chef, owner of a group of restaurants, worth over $10 million, in Boston. Dropped out of high school.
10. Barry Diller, billionaire, Hollywood mogul, Internet maven, founder of Fox Broadcasting Company, chairman of IAC/InterActive Corp (owner of Ask.com),
11. Ben Kaufman, 21-year-old serial entrepreneur, founder of Kluster. Dropped out of college in his freshman year.
12. Benjamin Franklin, inventor, scientist, author, entrepreneur. Primarily home-schooled.
13. Billy Joe (Red) McCombs, billionaire, founder of Clear Channel media, real estate investor. Dropped out of law school to sell cars in 1950.
14. Bob Proctor, motivational speaker, bestselling author, and co-founder of Life Success Publishing. Attended two months of high school.
15. Bram Cohen, BitTorrent developer. Attended State University of New York at Buffalo for a year.
16. Carl Lindner, billionaire investor, founder of United Dairy Farmers. Dropped out of high school at the age of 14.
17. Charles Culpeper, owner and CEO of Coca Cola. Dropped out of high school.
18. Christopher Columbus, explorer, discoverer of new lands. Primarily home-schooled.
19. Coco Chanel, founder of fashion brand Chanel. A perfume bearing her name, Chanel No. 5 kept her name famous.
20. Colonel Harlan Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Dropped out of elementary school, later earned law degree by correspondence.
21. Craig McCaw, billionaire founder of McCaw Cellular. Did not complete college.
22. Dave Thomas, billionaire founder of Wendy's. Dropped out of high school at 15.
23. David Geffen, billionaire founder of Geffen Records and co-founder of DreamWorks. Dropped out of college after completing one year.
24. David Green, billionaire founder of Hobby Lobby. Started the Hobby Lobby chain with only $600. High school graduate.
25. David Karp, founder of Tumblr. Dropped out of school at 15, then homeschooled. Did not attend college.
26. David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue airlines. Dropped out of college after three years.
27. David Ogilvy, advertising executive and copywriter . Was expelled from Oxford University at the age of 20.
28. David Oreck, multimillionaire founder of The Oreck Corporation. Quit college to enlist in the Army Air Corps.
29. Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chippery. Later renamed, franchised, then sold Mrs. Field's Cookies.
30. DeWitt Wallace, founder and publisher of Reader's Digest. Dropped out of college after one year. Went back, then dropped out again after the second year.
31. Dov Charney, founder of American Apparel. Started the company in high school, and never attended college.
32. Dustin Moskovitz, multi-millionaire co-founder of Facebook. Harvard dropout.
33. Frank Lloyd Wright, the most influential architect of the twentieth century. Never attended high school.
34. Frederick "Freddy" Laker, billionaire airline entrepreneur. High school dropout.
35. Frederick Henry Royce, auto designer, multimillionaire co-founder of Rolls-Royce. Dropped out of elementary school.
36. George Eastman, multimillionaire inventor, Kodak founder. Dropped out of high school.
37. George Naddaff, founder of UFood Grill and Boston Chicken. Did not attend college.
38. Gurbaksh Chahal, multimillionaire founder of BlueLithium and Click Again. Dropped out at 16, when he founded Click Again.
39. H. Wayne Huizenga, founder of WMX garbage company, helped build Blockbuster video chain. Joined the Army out of high school, and later went to college only to drop out during his first year.
40. Henry Ford, billionaire founder of Ford Motor Company. Did not attend college.
41. Henry J. Kaiser, multimillionaire & founder of Kaiser Aluminum. Dropped out of high school.
42. Hyman Golden, co-founder of Snapple. Dropped out of high school.
43. Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, one of the richest people in the world, dyslexic.
44. Isaac Merrit Singer, sewing machine inventor, founder of Singer. Elementary school dropout.
45. Jack Crawford Taylor, founder of Enterprise Rent-a-Car. Dropped out of college to become a WWII fighter pilot in the Navy.
46. Jake Nickell, co-founder and CEO of Threadless.com. Did not graduate from college.
47. James Cameron, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, and producer. Dropped out of college.
48. Jay Van Andel, billionaire co-founder of Amway. Never attended college.
49. Jeffrey Kalmikoff, co-founder and chief creative officer of Threadless.com. Did not graduate from college.
50. Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo! Dropped out of PhD program.
51. Jimmy Dean, multimillionaire founder of Jimmy Dean Foods. Dropped out of high school at 16.
52. John D. Rockefeller Sr., billionaire founder of Standard Oil. Dropped out of high school just two months before graduating, though later took some courses at a local business school.
53. John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods. Enrolled and dropped out college six times.
54. John Paul DeJoria, billionaire co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems, founder of Patron Spirits tequilla. Joined the Navy after high school.
55. Joyce C. Hall, founder of Hallmark. Started selling greeting cards at the age of 18. Did not attend college.
56. Kemmons Wilson, multimillionaire, founder of Holiday Inn. High school dropout.
57. Kenneth Hendricks, billionaire founder of ABC Supply. High school dropout.
58. Kenny Johnson, founder of Dial-A-Waiter restaurant delivery. College dropout.
59. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com. Dropped out of college during his second year.
60. Kirk Kerkorian, billionaire investor, owner of Mandalay Bay and Mirage Resorts, and MGM movie studio. Dropped out eighth-grade.
61. Larry Ellison, billionaire co-founder of Oracle software company. Dropped out of two different colleges.
62. Leandro Rizzuto, billionaire founder of Conair. Dropped out of college. Started Conair with $100 and hot-air hair roller invention.
63. Leslie Wexner, billionaire founder of a Limited Brands. Dropped out of law school. Started the Limited with $5,000.
64. Marc Rich, commodities investor, billionaire. Founder of Marc Rich & Co. Did not finish college.
65. Marcus Loew, multimillionaire founder of Loews theaters, co-founder of MGM movie studio. Elementary school dropout.
66. Mark Ecko, founder of Mark Ecko Enterprises. Dropped out of college.
67. Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Inc. Did not attend college.
68. Michael Dell, billionaire founder of Dell Computers, which started out of his college dorm room. Dropped out of college.
69. Michael Rubin, founder of Global Sports. Dropped out of college in his first year.
70. Micky Jagtiani, billionaire retailer, Landmark International. Dropped out of accounting school.
71. Milton Hershey, founder of Hershey's Milk Chocolate. 4th grade education.
72. Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable.com at the age of 19.
73. Philip Green, Topshop billionaire retail mogul. Dropped out of high school.
74. Rachael Ray, Food Network cooking show star, food industry entrepreneur, with no formal culinary arts training. Never attended college.
75. Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's. Dropped out of high school.
76. Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Mobile, and more. Dropped out of high school at 16.
77. Richard DeVos, co-founder of Amway. Served in the Army and did not attend college.
78. Richard Schulze, Best Buy founder. Did not attend college.
79. Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy. Flunked out of high school, enrolled in art school for a time, faked a student ID at MIT so he could take classes. His professors subsequently helped him get into NYU, they were so impressed.
80. Ron Popeil, multimillionaire founder of Ronco, inventor, producer, infomercial star. Did not finish college.
81. Rush Limbaugh, multi-millionaire media mogul, radio talk show host. Dropped out of college.
82. Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam records, founder of Russell Simmons Music Group, Phat Farm fashions, bestselling author. Did not finish college.
83. S. Daniel Abraham, founder of Slim-Fast, billionaire. Did not attend college.
84. Sean John Combs, entertainer, producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. Never finished college.
85. Shawn Fanning, developer of Napster. Dropped out of college at the age of 19.
86. Simon Cowell, TV producer, music judge, American Idol, The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent. High school dropout.
87. Steve Madden, shoe designer. Dropped out of college.
88. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, billionaire. Did not complete college.
89. Ted Murphy, founder of social media company Izea Entertainment. Dropped out of college.
90. Theodore Waitt, billionaire founder of Gateway Computers. Dropped out of college to start Gateway – one semester before graduating.
91. Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, phonograph, and more. Primarily home-schooled, then joined the railroad when he was only 12.
92. Tom Anderson, co-founder and "friend" of MySpace. Dropped out of high school.
93. Ty Warner, billionaire developer of Beanie Babies, real estate investor, and hotel owner. Dropped out of college.
94. Vidal Sassoon, founder of Vidal Sassoon, multimillionaire. Dropped out of high school.
95. W. Clement Stone, multimillionaire insurance man, author, founder of Success magazine. Dropped out of elementary school. Later attended high school, graduating. Attended but did not finish college.
96. W.T. Grant, founder of W.T. Grant department stores, multimillionaire. Dropped out of high school.
97. Wally "Famous" Amos, multimillionaire entrepreneur, author, talent agent, founder of Famous Amos cookies. Left high school at 17 to join the Air Force.
98. Walt Disney, founder of the Walt Disney Company. Dropped out of high school at 16.
99. Wolfgang Puck, chef, owner of 16 restaurants and 80 bistros. Quit school at the age of 14.
100. Y.C. Wang, billionaire founder of Formosa Plastics. Did not attend high school.
MSNBC Cancels The Son Of Frank Sinatra, Ronan Farrow
And Also Female Sharpton, Joy Reid Shows
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(Their shows are being replaced by ShamWow and Oxyclean infomercials, in an attempt to boost ratings...
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Here's another glimpse of their much improved replacement.
The golden boy is about to learn a life lesson. You either deliver revenue for your boss, or you get fired no matter what your last name is. That's what I love about business, you either produce or your perish. As 'Ol' Blue Eyes' would say, "That Life", Ronan, me boy, that's life... )
Via Washington Examiner http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/msnbc-cancels-floundering-ronan-farrow-and-joy-reid-shows/article/2560457?custom_click=rss
MSNBC will soon cancel two very unsuccessful daytime shows, "The Reid Report" and "Ronan Farrow Daily," the network revealed Thursday.
MSNBC's Thomas Roberts will be moved from his current spot anchoring "Way Too Early with Thomas Roberts" and will for now fill both soon-to-be-vacated spots.
Ronan Farrow and Joy-Ann Reid are not out the door completely: The two will remain employees of the network as it continues to struggle to find the type of ratings enjoyed by its competitors, CNN and Fox News.
Politico reported: "Ronan Farrow will launch a new series of primetime specials, featuring in-depth interviews, and will continue to be a special correspondent across programming. He will also continue his partnership with the NBC News Investigative Unit."
"Joy Ann Reid ... will become MSNBC's national correspondent across platforms, a regular contributor for MSNBC's primetime shows, and the first dedicated reporter for NowThisNews, an MSNBC online partner," the report said.[...]
A spokesperson for MSNBC said the forthcoming changes are part of a broader strategy by the network to make its daytime programming exclusively "straight news."
Turkey, U.S. Sign Deal To Train And Arm Moderate Syrian Rebels,
State Dept. Harf Is Calling The Deal 'A Jobs Program'
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(Letting Jihadis kill Jihadis. Moderates receiving more support than the Kurds and Jordan. There is no such thing as a moderate jihadi. These bastards would shoot you as look at you. Its all a sham. Removing Assad and destabilizing Syria is the goal. Not to mention allowing Islam to rise unchecked worldwide, the caliphate is being formed. Obuma is proving to be the satanic operative for the cabal as is so many of our government lefty politicians and Congress is sitting there, with their thumb up their a$$'$....)
Via NRO Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/413946/us-will-let-syrian-rebels-call-air-strikes-just-not-army-theyre-rebelling-against
The U.S. is giving a theoretically nice boost to whichever "moderate" rebels in Syria we feel deserve strong U.S. backing, the Wall Street Journal reports:The U.S. has decided to provide pickup trucks equipped with mounted machine guns and radios for calling in U.S. airstrikes to some moderate Syrian rebels, seeking to replicate the success Kurdish forces, aided by American B-1B bombers, had over Islamic State last month.
The plan comes as the U.S. prepares to start training moderate rebels, who are waging a two-front fight against the extremists and Syrian regime forces. Defense officials said American trainers will be in place March 1 in Jordan, with a second site due to open soon after in Turkey.[...]
A team of four to six rebels will each be given a Toyota Hi-Lux pickup, outfitted with a machine gun, communications gear and Global Positioning System trackers enabling them to call in airstrikes. The fighters will also be given mortars, but the administration hasn't decided to provide the teams with more sophisticated antitank weapons.
The Central Intelligence Agency began a covert program to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels in 2013, providing ammunition, small arms and antitank weapons to small groups of trusted fighters. While that program continues, it is widely viewed as having fallen well short of its aims.
DNC's Wasserman Schultz Offered To Change Her Position On Medical Pot
If Top Dem Donor Took Back His Criticism Of Her
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(I'm shocked said . . . nobody. It's good to see the two of these clowns mixing it up. The personal injury law firm of Morgan & Morgan was the employer of Florida's ex Governor Charlie Christ when he came out of the closet as a Democrat...)
Via Politico:http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/debbie-wasserman-schultz-medical-marijuana-115338.html
Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office offered to change her position on medical marijuana if a major Florida donor recanted his withering criticism of her, according to emails obtained by POLITICO.
The proposal to Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan was straightforward: retract critical statements he made to a reporter in return for Wasserman Schultz publicly backing his cannabis initiative that she had trashed just months earlier. Morgan declined the offer with a sharp email reply sent to a go-between, who described the congresswoman as being in a "tizzy."
"No," Morgan responded. "She is a bully. I beat bullies up for a living."
Wasserman Schultz declined to comment.
Morgan said he forwarded the email chain to POLITICO on Thursday to show how "thin-skinned" and transactional Wasserman Schultz's political team is, he said in a brief phone conversation.
Report: 20,000 – 25,000 Troops To Retake Mosul Beginning In April, May:
(ISIS Unaware Of US Plans... oh, so sorry, we just told them...)
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(Instead of weapons the troops will be carrying job applications...)
Via CNS NewsThe operation to retake Iraq's second largest city from Islamic State militants will likely begin in April or May and will involve about 12 Iraqi brigades, or between 20,000 and 25,000 troops, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday.
Laying out details of the expected Mosul operation for the first time, the official from U.S. Central Command said five Iraqi Army brigades will soon go through coalition training in Iraq to prepare for the mission. Those five would make up the core fighting force that would launch the attack, but they would be supplemented by three smaller brigades serving as reserve forces, along with three Peshmerga brigades who would contain the Islamic State fighters from the north and west.
The Peshmerga are Kurdish forces from northern Iraq.
The official said there also would be a Mosul fighting force, largely made up of former Mosul police and tribal forces, who would have to be ready to go back into the city once the army units clear out the Islamic State fighters.[...]
The official said the U.S. will provide military support for the operation, including training, air support, intelligence and surveillance. The official said there has been no decision made yet on whether to send in some U.S. ground troops to help call in airstrikes.
Islamic State militants overtook Mosul last June, as the group marched across large sections of Iraq and Syria, sending Iraqi forces fleeing. At this point, officials estimate there are between 1,000 to 2,000 Islamic State insurgents in the city of Mosul. Military leaders have been talking about retaking the city for some time, but they have said they won't launch the operation until the Iraqi troops are ready.
The official said they wanted to retake Mosul in the spring, before the summer heat and the holiday month of Ramadan kick in.
Before Buttrack Obama's Arrival In Chicago To Dedicate Chicago's Pullman Park As A National Monument, Doggie Day Care Van Jacked At Gunpoint With 6 Dogs Inside
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(Obuma will dine at the Rezko mansion instead of an upscale eatery in Chicago. I hope these little fellows won't be on the menu...)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWBlJPE0YWk
via GUNS:http://www.guns.com/2015/02/19/chicago-doggie-day-care-van-jacked-at-gunpoint-with-6-dogs-inside-video/
Authorities in the Windy City are on the lookout for a minivan packed with pooches that was taken by a pair of armed gunmen Wednesday.
As reported by ABC7, the 2002 Chrysler Town and Country minivan was stolen at about 4 p.m. on Feb. 18 by two men described only as being between 18-25.
Inside the vehicle, operated by Urban Out Sitters, an animal day care service in the city, were a half dozen dogs belonging to various owners.
"I got a text from my wife saying my dog had been kidnapped. I couldn't comprehend what that meant. I called her back immediately and she told me what happened and I was just in shock," said Tad Tomita, owner of one of the missing dogs.
The owner of the service, Joseph Giannini, is hopeful that the situation will be quickly resolved.
"We're hoping that people will see a van with barking dogs in it and know that's not right and will call police immediately," Giannini told the Chicago Tribune. "That's where we are hoping we will find the van."
NY Democrat Runs Out Of Guns To Ban, Now Seeks To Outlaw Sale Of Machetes
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(Next up: Pointy Sticks...)
Via NYDN:http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/state-sen-tony-avella-ban-machetes-new-york-article-1.2120874
The sale of machetes should be outlawed after several recent attacks, a Queens pol said Wednesday.
State Sen. Tony Avella plans to introduce a bill to ban the possession of the scary blades in New York.
"The fact that anyone can easily purchase this potentially lethal tool is just crazy," he said.
Smaller knives such as switchblades and gravity knives are already banned and listed as deadly weapons under state law, but machetes are considered the same as butcher knives.
Jobs For Jihadis: Uruguay's President Slams Gitmo Detainees Resettled
In His Country For Being Lazy, Refusing To Work
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(Marie Harf unavailable for comment...)
Via Daily Mail:[/b]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2959989/Uruguay-president-says-former-Guantanamo-prisoners-lazy-middle-class-resettled-country-turned-jobs.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline
Uruguay's president has accused six former Guantanamo Bay inmates of lacking a work ethic and being 'middle class' for refusing to get jobs since arriving in the South American country three months ago.
President Jose Mujica has appeared to criticise the men, who were locked up for more than 12 years in the American detainment camp in Cuba, saying they lacked a work ethic.
But the men are equally disappointed with their new lives – with one telling the press they had simply swapped one prison for another.
The men arrived in Montevideo in December, after Mujica said his country would take them in and help them get resettled.
The six, who were detained as suspected militants with ties to al-Qaeda in 2002 but were never charged, were cleared for release in 2009.
But they were stuck in Guantanamo for the next five years because they could not be sent home – and no one wanted them, until Uruguay stepped into the breach.
Report: Butthead Obuma's New Anti-ISIS Propaganda Chief Has Close Ties to Muslim Brotherhood
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(Shocker... *yawn*... Move along, don't step in the same old horse sh!t...)
Via Townhall:http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2010/02/18/who_is_rashad_hussain/page/full
The Obama administration is revamping its efforts to combat Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL) propaganda. ISIS and its supporters produce "as many as 90,000 tweets and other social media responses every day," reports The New York Times.
An empowered Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, currently a small component of the U.S. State Department, will spearhead the new campaign to fight the ISIS propaganda machine.
Rashad Hussain, a Muslim American with close ties to the White House, will replace Alberto Fernandez, the center's director, according to The Times.
Hussain, who has reportedly participated in events linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, currently serves as Obama's special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. He will take over when Fernandez retires in April.
"Hussain, a devout Muslim, has a history of participating in events connected with the Muslim Brotherhood," reported Cal Thomas in an article published by Townhall.
http://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2010/02/18/who_is_rashad_hussain/page/full
Quote from: jarhead on February 19, 2015, 04:32:52 PM
Warph,
I've come to think that you're a pretty smart ol guy so maybe you can answer my question. If a Capt. is incompetent, he is relieved of his command as the company Skipper---a Col. can be relieved of his command as Bn. commander for being incompetent---and so on. Is there not a "rule", a "law" or anything to relieve our CiC for being grossly incompetent ? I'm serious---isn't there something ??
Jar... Old, maybe... smart, nah... you got the wrong guy for that. Just ask my wife. As for our
'CiC for being grossly incompetent?'... give me a day or two to ponder so I can come up with a few hundred reasons why the POS should be
castrated relieved of command....
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This pervert "built and repaired organs at the park ?" I aint touching this one. Maybe ol Warph ----or Bull, can enlighten us with their thoughts on this.
Long-lost Kansas amusement park clown found in sex offender's home
Published February 20, 2015
A ceramic clown that vanished from a closed Wichita amusement park more than a decade ago has been found at the home of a sex offender who once worked at the park and two decades ago helped restore the clown.
The return of Louie the Clown, the mascot of the Joyland amusement park, was announced during a media briefing Thursday.
Wichita police say officers found the clown statue Tuesday at a home of 39-year-old Damian Mayes, who is serving a prison sentence for a 2010 conviction for aggravated indecent liberties with a child and aggravated criminal sodomy.
Mayes built and repaired organs at the park before he was charged.
Louie disappeared from the Joyland property in 2005 or 2006, but it wasn't reported stolen until 2010.
Actually, Jar, I was in a business establishment last year and there were a couple of detectives questioning someone who worked there about the clown. I asked the proprietor what was up and he told me about the cops getting information on this clown who stole the clown. That lead them to his employee. Some kind of relation to the worm.
I remember that calliope well, with the cymbals and drum, a bit more than an organ. If this guy is only 39, he couldn't have worked on it. A lot of stuff there in Joyland and the building they kept stuff out east was stolen and vandalized, set on fire, etc.
I had some good times there, and Kiddieland as well. That old wooden roller coaster got scarier every time I rode it. Was just waiting for something to crack.
Hey Bull... Was this the clown that was stolen??
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Or maybe it was this one, huh?...
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Or?...
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Ok, Ok, I know... It was this one... right?!??
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CNN's Geography Fail
(Hmmmm...I need to have a regular post, 'Worst MSM Fact Fail of the Week'....)
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Spoiler: Queensland is in Northern Australia.
No, Queensland is not Tasmania.
Geography isn't CNNs strong point.
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There... I fixed it!
Feel Good Story:
When Son Shouted Out To "Stop The Car!" Scared Mother Half To Death,
Teen Wanted To Help Old Man Shovel His Driveway
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(A teen giving a helping hand on his own. We won't see any
hashtags for him or groups getting together...)
Via IJR
http://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/255157-son-shouted-stop-car-scared-half-death-sees/?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9&listID={listID}
Sons have a certain way of pleasantly surprising their mothers.
When Tommy, a high school senior, asked his mom to stop the car as they were driving home she was immediately frightened. She told WTVR:
"I got scared and asked 'what's wrong?'"
That's when she received a totally unexpected response:
"There's an older man with a walker shoveling snow — I'll help him out," he explained.
So, he hopped out of the car and asked the man for a shovel. According to Tommy, the gentleman looked relieved when he offered to help, as the snow was deep and difficult to shovel.[...]
The man was incredibly thankful for Tommy's act of kindness: "God bless you," he said. "The world needs more people like you."
Forget Current #Oscar Hype – Young 'Forrest Gump' Actor Michael Humphreys'
Parents Were Too Poor To Buy 1995 Oscars Tickets,
He Later Joins Military, Serves In Iraq
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(Run Forrest Run as far away as you can from Hollywood. Hanks and the whole bunch are leftist turds...)
Via The Daily Mailhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2957867/He-won-world-s-hearts-playing-young-Forrest-Gump-Michael-Humphreys-parents-poor-buy-Oscars-tickets-chose-career-uniform-just-like-character-played.html
Two decades ago the movie Forrest Gump was the toast of the Oscars – winning six Academy Awards including Best Actor for Tom Hanks and Best Director for Robert Zemeckis.
But child star Michael Conner Humphreys – who played a young Forrest in leg braces – missed out on his big chance to attend the biggest showbiz event on the planet.
His parents were offered the chance to buy tickets for the most important night of their son's life but, unable to find the cash, eight-year-old Michael and his family watched the show at home on TV.
In an exclusive interview with Daily Mail Online, just days before this years Academy Awards, Michael recalls: 'I was eight when this all went down, but my parents were asked if they wanted to buy an Oscar ticket and they couldn't afford it.
'The tickets were going to cost a lot of money, so we decided to just watch it on TV like everyone else.
'At the time I wasn't sure if I wanted to go or not, but it would be a different situation now.
'I would try and go. As an eight-year-old I didn't mind, that's the perspective, I guess, of a child.
'But we did watch it at home and were glad that it received as many awards as it did.'
The movie was a global success. It depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a slow-witted and naive, but good-hearted and athletically prodigious, man from Alabama who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States.
But despite missing out on the glitz of the Academy Awards back in 1995, Michael said Hollywood star Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis both made an effort to congratulate him for his part in the movie.
[...]
'I attended the equivalent of the Oscars in other countries. I went to the BAFTAs [The British equivalent] so I attended some of the ceremonies,' he said.
'And I was awarded a couple. I have the equivalent of a German Oscar and the equivalent of a Japanese Oscar that I was given in those countries.
'They look similar to Oscars, but they've just got different languages written on them.'[...]
Michael served four years in the U.S. Army as an infantry soldier, which included an 18 month tour of duty in Iraq.
Hollywood Libs Who Rushed To Condemn "American Sniper"
Being Guarded During Oscars By LAPD Snipers
(Or as Fat-A$$ Michael Moore calls them "cowards." ...)
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Via Hollywood Reporter:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oscars-heightened-state-security-history-774341?utm_source=twitter
This year, in the wake of ISIS atrocities abroad and the Charlie Hebdo murders, authorities are mounting their most sophisticated security effort yet, deploying an astounding array of high-tech gadgetry and armies of police officers to keep the party safe. Operation Oscar is headquartered in a state-of-the-art underground bunker downtown, with a makeshift command post at a Hollywood soundstage. Led by a Los Angeles Police Department commander, the task force unites nearly 1,000 officers from agencies including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. They divide the area around Hollywood and Highland into concentric rings that require progressively higher levels of protection. "As you get closer to the inner circle, you're trying to make that tighter and tighter," says Tim Horner, a managing director at global security firm Kroll.
The work begins several months before the red carpet rolls out, with extensive background checks on the thousands who'll have access to the event, from janitors and journalists to host Neil Patrick Harris. Stalkers, violent criminals and radicals of all stripes are singled out for special attention. Party crashers, too. (In 2013, the notorious Vitalii Sediuk tried to infiltrate the Oscars dressed in a replica of Bjork's famous swan gown. This year, he's barred from both the event and the country.) Those who receive credentials are explicitly forbidden to post them on social media, lest the images be used to create counterfeits. In 2008, an actor named Scott Weiss penetrated the arena by expertly forging a pass. He turned his caper into a documentary, Crasher, that the Academy later required its entire security team to watch.
Al Sharpton's Show Allegedly Next On MSNBC Chopping Block,
Goal To "Move Away From Left-Wing TV"
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(Heh... If he gets booted by MSNBC, rejected by #BlackLivesMatter's folks,
he may be reduced to peddling tracts with the Scientologists on the street corner...)
Via Truth Revolt:http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/report-sharptons-show-chopping-block
Thursday, MSNBC announced the cancelation of Ronan Farrow's and Joy Reid's afternoon bombs—a move many saw coming for some time now with both shows consistently tanking in the ratings. But inside sources say that the dual cancelations are just the beginning of a major shakeup at ratings-challenged MSNBC, as the network attempts to move back toward the center after veering far left. Next on the chopping block: Chris Hayes and Al Sharpton.
Citing two "well-placed sources," The Daily Beast reports that in addition to canceling Chris Hayes' struggling 8 p.m. show in the "relatively short term," Al Sharpton's weeknight 6 p.m. show is likely to get the ax "in the longer term," with the controversial host relegated to a weekend slot.
Sharpton's "PoliticsNation," though popular with African Americans (accounting for 35 percent of the audience), has continued to underperform—as has the host, who is regularly mocked for his teleprompter gaffs and insincere posturing. Sharpton's self-promotional version of civil rights activism, his deplorable tax record, and controversy-ridden past have frequently resulted in unflattering headlines during his stint at the network.
MSNBC President Phil Griffin's personnel and programming changes are part of a larger move away from the left-wing political commentary that has become MSNBC's trademark toward straight news reporting.
"Everybody in the food chain from top to bottom understands that the Olbermann era is over," said one of the sources. "Going left was a brilliant strategy while it lasted and made hundreds of millions of dollars for Comcast, but now it doesn't work any more...The goal is to move away from left-wing TV."
Feel Good Story Of Day: Kurds Kill 60 ISIS Terrorists In Northern Iraq
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(Rest in pieces, ISSL...)
Via Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2964114/Bodies-ISIS-terrorists-piled-flat-bed-truck-60-killed-battles-Kurdish-fighters-northern-Iraq.html
More than 60 Islamic State terrorists have been killed after fierce fighting broke out overnight in northern Iraq, Kurdish officials have said.
Their bodies were piled into a digger claw and onto the back of a flat-bed truck today in the strategic village of Sultan Abdullah, which extremists have targeted repeatedly in the past two months.
The bloody assault came just a day after U.S. officials revealed they are planning a 25,000-soldier invasion of Mosul – which was seized by Islamist militants last June – in as little as six weeks.
A twelve year old politician has posted a video
on youtube that has gone viral.
Titled President Obama: Do you really love America?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUtirCf-RfU
Published on Feb 21, 2015
Does President Obama really love America? CJ elaborates.
To follow CJ on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/CJ-Pea...
Check out his recognitions on his facebook page.
DHS HIDES CRUCIAL FACT ON 'TERRORIST INFLUX'
Mall attackers recruited from 1 state in particular
Published: 1 hour ago
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Al-Shabab terrorist on propaganda video seeking to inspire lone-wolf attacks on malls, including the Mall of America in Minnesota.
Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson warned that a Somalia-based terrorist group is encouraging "independent actors" to carry out attacks in Western countries, with the Mall of America in Minnesota among the specific targets, but he failed to mention that the U.S. continues to import hundreds of high-risk Islamic refugees from Somalia every month.
The U.S. State Department's refugee-resettlement program has placed more than 100,000 Somalis into U.S cities and towns since the early 1990s – all of them Muslims hand-selected by the United Nations refugee agency. And Minnesota has become the most popular destination, with secondary hotspots in Maine, Ohio, Colorado and southern California. More than 800 new refugees from Somalia arrive in the United States every month, according to Refugee Resettlement Watch.
The constant influx has earned parts of Minneapolis the nickname "Little Mogadishu."
Johnson told CNN Sunday that terrorist groups such as Somalia-based al-Shabab are "relying more and more on independent actors to become inspired" and "attack on their own."
But he made no mention in any of his interviews on Sunday morning news shows of the program that brings these potential "independent actors" to the U.S. in the first place.
Johnson said there was a need for a "comprehensive" approach to fighting the ever-present threat posed by terror groups, including al-Shabab and the Islamic State or ISIS.
One would think that cutting off the spigot of Islamic immigration would play a role in any truly comprehensive approach, said Islam expert Robert Spencer, who runs the JihadWatch blog at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
To talk about tackling the problem without addressing the refugee pipeline is disingenuous, Spencer said.
"The government's 'concern' about these threats is completely undercut by the Obama administration's immigration policies," said Spencer. "More than 800 Somalis a month are entering the country."
The latest attempt to inspire so-called "lone-wolf" attacks came Saturday when a video was posted on the Internet featuring an al-Shabab terrorist who appeared to be a Somali wearing a scarf over his face and speaking in a British accent. He urged like-minded Muslims to carry out attacks against shopping malls in their home countries.
The Somali terrorist provided three examples of what he believes would make wonderful targets – the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, and the Oxford Street shopping area in London.
He showed a picture of the Mall of America with GPS coordinates.
The video showed six minutes of graphic images and the terrorists celebrating the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, which killed 67 people. In that attack, many of the shoppers were asked if they were Christian. If they said yes, they were summarily executed.
The deputy director of the FBI's counter-terrorism unit, Michael Steinbach, told a congressional committee on Feb. 11 that it is virtually impossible for the U.S. to screen out terrorists from the U.N.'s Syrian refugees camps because Syria is a "failed state" with no reliable police or intelligence data. The same could be said for Somalia, which has been wracked by civil war since the early 1990s. Yet the U.S. has been accepting a steady stream of refugees from that country since 1992.
Spencer said the U.S. government can't claim "concern" about jihadists carrying out lone-wolf attacks but then fail to shut down the main pipeline into the country, which is the refugee resettlement program.
These immigrants did not just magically appear on U.S. soil, as many of the major media reports would suggest. They were brought here with the full support of the White House and Congress, and there is thus far no indication that anyone wants to rein in the refugee program even though there have been widespread abuses, such as in 2008 when the State Department admitted that up to 20,000 Somalis lied on their refugee applications to get into the U.S., making false claims of American family members.
Others have been caught sending aid to al-Shabab or leaving the country to go fight for the al-Qaida offshoot. Spencer said there is no fool-proof way to determine whether Somali refugees have any allegiance to al-Shabab.
"The government could have imported as 'refugees' the very people who could carry out a jihad attack at the Mall of America," he said. "The duplicity is as astounding as the indifference of the Republicans and the mainstream media."
Problems assimilating
Minnesota now has the largest population of Somali-Americans, estimated at from 50,000 to 80,000, concentrated mostly in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. The Somali community has had problems integrating into the mainstream of American society. They have called for foot baths at colleges, demanded halal foods at schools, hospitals and prisons, and filed lawsuits against employers who don't accommodate their special needs related to dress codes or prayer times.
About 70 percent of the 900 cab drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport are Somali men. They have repeatedly refused to transport dogs, both pets and guide dogs for the blind, as many news outlets have reported, including WND.
While there has been widespread media coverage recently about the national-security risks associated with bringing in a new wave of refugees from Syria, little has made its way into the establishment media about the thousands of Somalis who have already come to America, and continue to come despite increasing signs of radicalization. Dozens of Muslim youths in Minnesota have fallen prey to radical teachings both in mosques and over the Internet, with approximately 25 documented cases of Somalis having left Minnesota to fight for al-Shabab over the past five years, according to the FBI.
At least a dozen other Somalis from Minnesota have left or attempted to leave to go fight for ISIS, WND reported previously. Still others have been arrested, charged and convicted for sending financial aid or other support to foreign terrorist organizations.
Pamela Geller, author of "Stop the Islamization of America" and the AtlasShrugged blog, is another critic of the government's refugee program.
"I've been warning about our refugee resettlement programs for years. In my book, I detail how these programs give preferential treatment to Muslims, even over Christians and other non-Muslims who face Muslim persecution," she said. "There is no telling how many actual and potential jihadis we have brought into this country as 'refugees.'"
Pressure from CAIR, ISNA
Any attempts to address this national-security issue have been undermined by groups such the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, and the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, she said, adding that these groups are continuously pushing for what she calls "Islamic supremacy."
"Rep. Peter King's hearings on these matters were widely derided in the media and attacked by Islamic supremacist groups," Geller said.
The problem is that most media companies care what groups like CAIR and ISNA think of them, Geller said, even though these organizations have no credibility and were found to have direct ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood during the Holy Land Foundation terror-funding trial of 2008-2009.
"The mainstream media are no longer a news-gathering industry but an activist organization aligned with the Obama administration and the jihad force," Geller said.
Local residents concerned
Debra Anderson, a resident of Minneapolis and an activist who has fought the growth of mosques in the area, said the latest threat by al-Shabab is terrifying for local residents.
"If they're comparing it to the Westgate Mall in Kenya, oh my God, they tortured most of those people before killing them, they tortured them," Anderson said. "When, not if, it happens here it is going to be ugly, really ugly, and we need to have some preparations in place."
In the same city where Mall of America is located, Bloomington, is the Dar Al Farooq Islamic Youth and Family Center. This mosque is led by radical imam Waleed Edreese al-Meneese, who is a Ph.D. on the faculty of the Islamic University of Minnesota and the American Open University in Washington, D.C., teaching Islamic studies and Shariah law.
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Waleed Edreese al-Meneese
For the past nine years, Meneese has been a member of the Permanent Fatwa Committee of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the North American Imams Federation and the American Muslim Jurists of America, an organization that instructs other imams and has been known to teach a literal interpretation of the Quran on everything from female genital mutilation to death for apostate Muslims.
"The Middle East is sending their best imams here to proselytize and convert," Anderson said.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/dhs-hides-crucial-fact-on-terrorist-influx/#SG3gTYWVloDshXEv.99
Obuma Applies to State Department's Jobs for Jihadists Program
(It looks like the State Department's Jobs for Jihadists program is catching on... and Obuma is giving some thought to his post-presidential career...)
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(This time Obuma won't have to rely on his racial correctness in lieu of qualifications....)
(Jihad John has also applied...)
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(...as Aba-daba-do-do Al-Baghdadi has also....)
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(...and these idiots ...)
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(America elected this 'Piece of Sh!t' not once, but twice.
His foreign policy has consistently worked to weaken American power and to install Islamist governments across the Muslim world.
He is illegally importing tens of millions of third world colonists.
He has transferred trillions of dollars from the productive class to the dependent class.
Six years into his presidency, the economy is still going nowhere. Lower energy prices that he has done everything in his power to prevent are the only thing keeping us afloat.
When faced with unmistakable evil, he tells us we are just as bad.
According to Gallup, his approval rating is back up to 50%. (FEB. 18)
We have the government we deserve...
...Warph)
Obama Gives Islamic Salute at Muslim Terrorism Whitewashing Conference
To no one's surprise, Obama is using his farcical Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, which consists partially of Muslims with terror ties, to absolve Islam of Islamic terrorism by pretending it doesn't exist.
There is only one reason he would do this: he is yet again siding with expansionist Islam against its Western victims. In case any of his Islamic compadres have been rendered so mentally defective through generations of inbreeding as not to understand whose side he is on, he sent them an unmistakable signal:(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/obama-muslim-finger-salute-1.jpg)
One of the few things Obama has not made a secret of is his Islamic background (father and stepfather both Muslims, went to Muslim school, etc.). He even announced prior to his election that the sound of Muslim prayers is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth" and that he would "stand with" Muslims against his own country. Hiding his Islamic background would have been counterproductive, considering that his very name screams Muslim. He was elected within a few years of 9/11 not despite this, but because of it, in the most contemptible attempt at appeasement imaginable.There is no way Obama doesn't know what his gesture means:The one-finger display is the distinctive Muslim gang sign: The index finger points straight up while the thumb wraps underneath and presses against the digital phalange of the middle finger. The remaining fingers are squeezed against the palm in order to highlight the extended forefinger. The extended finger is symbolic of the one-God concept of Muhammad and is understood by all believers to be a symbolic shahada, the Muslim affirmation of faith: There is but one God and Muhammad is his messenger.Making this sign isn't just a tip of the hat to Islam. It literally means: "I am a Muslim."
Apparently Obama has been practicing taqiyya by calling himself a Christian, not that anyone familiar with the Marxist, anti-American, anti-white ravings that passed for sermons in his "church" ever took that claim seriously.
If Obama did not identify with expansionist Islam, there would be no way to make sense of his policies in the Middle East, where he has consistently sided with Islamists against those trying to keep them under control.The thread of all of these efforts was the reestablishment of the Islamic caliphate, the line of successors of Muhammad that ended nearly a century ago with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. This has always been a Muslim Brotherhood objective. In their grandiose plans, the reestablished caliphate would stretch across the Middle East with Jerusalem as its capital. The glory of Islam resurrected! These people aspire to world domination, and the caliphate would serve as the base for an ever-expanding war on the world until domination is achieved. That was always the goal of their role model. Muhammad ordered his followers to make Islam the only religion — to create a universal umma. As with Obama, they are just following orders.Obama's gesture, at a time when the world is reeling from a constant onslaught of Islamic terrorism, is the direct equivalent of a president raising his arm in a heil Hitler to fellow Germans during WWII.
A couple of examples of his ummah compatriots flashing the same salute, via Pamela Geller:
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Even kids know what it means:
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C'mon soldiers of Allah, all together now:
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Check out Obama's self-satisfied expression as Muslims behind him (Ibrahim Boubacas Keita of Mali, Abdelilah Berkirane of Morroco) smile in appreciation. Apparently he thinks he outsmarted us.
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He doesn't realize that America wasn't murdered when he was elected. It attempted suicide.We didn't know he is still a Muslim, but we knew he would side with our worst enemy against us, if only due to his hostile antineocolonialist ideology. Only complete idiots had no idea what they were doing to America when they voted for Obama. The past two presidential elections were self-directed acts of malice.
But maybe, even though the country slit one wrist in 2008 and the other in 2012, it might not be too late to stanch the bleeding and decide to live. This would require absolute rejection not just of Obama, but of those who put him in power and their treasonous politically correct mentality.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/Obama-Muslim-Sign.jpg)
Jobs For Jihadis
Imagine what giving jobs to terrorists might look like...
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQnj2_f_ub4
Why Arab Ground Troops Won't Defeat ISIS
February 23, 2015
By Bobby Ghosh Quartz
It is one thing for the Egyptian air force to bomb ISIS from the air. But the ability of Arab militaries to fight an organized, motivated enemy is highly suspect.
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Many in the West will take heart from the news that Egypt's dictator, Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is calling for a joint Arab military force to take on Islamist extremism in the region. Coming shortly after his air force carried out bombing runs in Libya against groups that have pledged fealty to ISIL, it is tempting to take Sisi's proclamation as a call to arms against the monstrous terrorist organization that calls itself the Islamic State. It raises the prospect of Arab boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq, taking on, with the help of Western planes and drones—ISIL.Ready for the reality check?It is one thing for the Egyptian air force to bomb ISIL—aka ISIS—from the air. But when it comes to ground troops, the ability of Arab militaries to fight an organized, motivated enemy is highly suspect. (That may explain why, only last week, Sisi was calling for a United Nations force to bring order to Libya.)
It has been decades since the Egyptian military has fought a full-fledged war, and the last time it was deployed in another Arab country—in Yemen in the 1960s—it was humiliated. Since then, Egypt's rulers have used their army mainly to bully and beat up unarmed civilians protesting against oppression, and to fight homegrown terrorist groups in the Sinai Peninsula. They've been pretty good at the former, but not especially effective at the latter. Despite official claims of successes in the Sinai, terrorists attacks have been on the rise, and it is a bad sign that the Sisi regime feels it necessary to exercise strict censorship on reporting from the peninsula.
If Egypt's recent track record is dismal, the history of Arab military cooperation isn't especially reassuring, either. Some Western analysts hope that the GCC Peninsula Shield, a 40,000-strong force made up of countries in the Persian Gulf, can be brought to bear against ISIL. But like the Egyptian military, this mini-military was built mainly to protect Gulf regimes from internal political unrest. The Peninsula Force was most recently deployed in Bahrain in 2011, to stamp down civilian rallies against the royal family.
It's worth remembering, too, that one of the most powerful Arab militaries—Syria's—has been fighting against ISIL for nigh on four years. The forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad enjoy home-field advantage, and are not restrained by any concern for civilian casualties or such niceties as the Geneva conventions. Assad's planes and tanks have flattened entire towns and cities, and still have failed to defeat ISIL, much less recover territory under the terrorists' control.
The other Arab military in the war against ISIL, Iraq's, seems to be leaving the hardest fighting to Kurdish militias and Iran-backed Shi'ite gangs. Last week, as the Pentagon talked up an Iraqi-led, US-guided offensive against Mosul, many Iraqi leaders were skeptical that their troops would be ready.
None of this is to suggest that the fight against ISIL will not require Arab military involvement—it will. But just as in the current air campaign against the terrorists in Syria and Iraq, regional forces can at best be expected to put in a token effort. When the time comes for a ground offensive against ISIL, expect the heavy lifting to be done by battle-hardened Western troops, rather than the tin soldiers who make up most Arab militaries.
Chris Kyle Killer Convicted Of Murder
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(Automatic life without parole...)
STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former Marine was convicted Tuesday in the deaths of the "American Sniper" author and another man at a shooting range two years ago, as jurors rejected defense arguments that he was insane and suffered from psychosis.
The trial of Eddie Ray Routh has drawn intense interest, in part because of the blockbuster film based on former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's memoir about his four tours in Iraq.
Since prosecutors didn't seek the death penalty in the capital murder case, the 27-year-old receives an automatic life sentence without parole in the deaths of Kyle and Kyle's friend, Chad Littlefield.
The prosecution painted Routh as a troubled drug user who knew right from wrong, despite any mental illnesses. While trial testimony and evidence often included Routh making odd statements and referring to insanity, he also confessed several times, apologized for the crimes and tried to evade police.
Poll: Americans Think Giuliani Is More Patriotic Than Obama, 58% Say Rudy "Loves America," Just 47% For Obama
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(Liberal meltdown in 3... 2... 1...)
Via YouGov:https://today.yougov.com/news/2015/02/24/obama-patriotism/
Last week former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed that President Obama "doesn't love America" at a fundraiser for potential Republican Presidential candidate Scott Walker. The comments caused a major controversy, and only this week has Giuliani partially walked back from his words saying in an editorial in the Wall Street Journal that he didn't "intend to question President Obama's motives of the content of his heart".
YouGov's latest research shows that Americans do tend to think that Barack Obama does, in fact, love America. 47% say that the president loves America, while 35% agree with Rudy Giuliani that the president does not. There is a predictably large partisan divide on the issue, however, with 85% of Democrats saying that he loves America and 69% of Republicans saying that he does not. Independents are roughly divided on the issue, with 42% saying he loves the country and 38% saying he doesn't.
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Broken down along ideological lines, liberals (13%) are more likely than either moderates (5%) or conservatives (4%) to say that they do not love America. 90% of conservatives say that they love America, compared to 85% of moderates and 82% of liberals.
American Writer Who Spoke Against Islamists Hacked To Death
By Machete-Wielding Men In Bangladesh
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(Will he even earn a strongly-worded letter? And he's not the first. Others bloggers/writers have been hacked to death in the past in Bangladesh for daring to write thing s that Islamists found offensive...)
Via BDNews:http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2015/02/26/assailants-hack-to-death-writer-avijit-roy-wife-injured
Unidentified assailants have hacked to death writer Avijit Roy and seriously injured his blogger wife Rafida Ahmed Banna.
Police said the couple came under assault near TSC intersection at Dhaka University around 9:30pm on Thursday.
Witnesses said they were on a rickshaw returning from the Amar Ekushey Book Fair when two attackers stopped it, dragged them onto the footpath and started hacking them.
They were rushed to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared Avijit dead during an emergency surgery, its police outpost Inspector Mozzamel Haque told bdnews24.com.
DMCH casualty department's Residential Surgeon Riaz Morshed also confirmed bdnews24.com about Avijit Roy's death.
Islamist zealots have been threatening Avijit, a bioengineer and a naturalised US citizen, for his active campaign against Islamist radicals.
ISIS Executes "Aladdin" For Being A "Sorcerer"
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(Next up on the chopping block is Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves...)
Al Crapton Meets With OButtHead At White House On 3 Year Anniversary Of Trayvon Martin Shooting
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(I'll take a wild guess and say they talked about Racism, Butterflies and Unicorns...)
Mr. Spock: You Are and Always Will Be...
...one of the great fictional characters of all time
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Leonard Nimoy, who brought the inimitable logician to life, the half-Vulcan, half-human who preferred the "concrete, the graspable, the provable,"
rest in peace ....
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Mr. Spock the Logic Man
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_APSczipvo
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Spock Dies SCENE - Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan MOVIE (1982) - HD
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhcR-w-56tA
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Live Long and Prosper: The Jewish Story Behind Spock, Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek Character
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyiWkWcR86I
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(The bill is expected to pass the House, which is in recess until March 4th.
Governor Brownback has not said whether he will sign the bill,
but the senate votes are far more than necessary for a veto override.)
[BREAKING]
Kansas Senate Passes
Constitutional Carry
Posted by Dean Weingarten on 02/26/2015
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The Kansas Senate has passed SB 45, the bill that moves Kansas into the constitutional carry status of Arkansas, Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming, and Vermont. If the bill passes the house and is signed by Governor Brownback, a person who can legally own a firearm and who is 21 or over will be able to carry a firearm concealed without fear of prosecution. The bill, SB 45 had 26 cosponsors and was introduced by the Majority leader, Terry Bruce, of Hutchinson. The bill passed with an overwhelming, veto proof, bi-partisan margin of 31 to 7.
The seven members that voted against the bill were: Faust-Goudeau (D), Francisco(D), Hawk(D), Hensley(D), Holland(D), Pettey(D), and Kay Wolf(R).
Two Senators McGinn(R) and Schmidt(R) were present but did not vote.
Two Democrat Senators Haley and Kelly, voted for the bill.
Kansas has been in the forefront of restoring second amendment rights for a several years. In 2010, the state voted to provide greater protection of the right to keep and bear arms in its constitution, with 88% of the vote. in 2013, Kansas counties were required to do away with gun free zones in public buildings, unless they actually enforced them with metal detectors and armed guards. In 2013, Kansas reformed their antiquated knife laws. In 2014, Kansas strengthened its firearms preemption statute, which reinforced open carry rights in the state, and included broad knife preemption law. The legislature also required that Chief law enforcement officers sign the required forms when people applied to pay the federal tax on short barrelled rifles, shotguns, and gun mufflers.
All of this is quite appropriate, as Kansas is the state where the whole mythology that the second amendment is only a "collective right" that applies to a militia, started. The Kansas supreme court created the concept out of thin air in1905, as the "Progressive" movement gained cultural power and clout.
Here is what Courthouse News says about SB45:
Senate Bill 45 repeals the permit requirement to carry a concealed handgun but "leaves all other regulations and the permitting process intact," Stoneking said. "In essence, this bill simply allows for law-abiding citizens, aged 21 and over, to carry a concealed handgun without having to pay the government for permission."
S.B. 45 is sponsored by a majority of the Republican-controlled Senate and House.
Here is what the NRAILA has to say about bill:
Authored by Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce (R-34), SB 45 recognizes Kansans' freedom to legally carry a concealed firearm without the burdensome requirement of acquiring a Kansas concealed carry handgun license (CCHL). This is a necessary update to concealed carry in Kansas, allowing law-abiding gun owners the ability to better protect themselves and their loved ones. In Kansas, it is already legal to carry a firearm openly, as long as the individual is not prohibited by law from possessing a firearm. However, under current law, if a firearm becomes covered by a coat or if a woman prefers to carry a firearm for self-protection in her purse, he or she would need to possess a CCHL.
The bill is expected to pass the House, which is in recess until March 4th. Governor Brownback has not said whether he will sign the bill, but the senate votes are far more than necessary for a veto override.
©2015 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.
Link to Gun Watch
http://concealednation.org/2015/02/breaking-kansas-senate-passes-constitutional-carry/
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Republicans - no surprise there. That's what yer Republican majority is all about.
Red,
We all know how you feel about Republicans , so how do you like Rand Paul, son of your hero Ron Paul? Just curious because Rand is a Republican, like almost 77% of Elk county voters
Rand Paul is not his dad. Rand Paul will have to demonstrate that he's Republican in order to get the Republican nomination. In other words, just be a Republican.
Republicans never change - they just trick us into thinking that they will.
Jar, are you a Republican? Just asking.
Yes Red I am a Republican. When I first registered about 100 years ago I signed on as Democrat. Was completely ignorant of most political stuff but at the time I thought a donkey was a little more cool than an elephant---and the fact that George Wallace had been a democrat. When they re-elected Slick Willie, a draft dodger, I said enough is enough so I jumped ship. For the record, I was never a liberal like 99 % of demorats, but always a conservative. Like you I have no use for a hell of a lot of republicans but the alternative really sucks and when me and millions more cast our vote for Ross Perot I realized then to vote for a 3rd party candidate, you just as well put a check mark by the dummyrats name. I have told you before there was a hell of a lot I liked about your hero, Ron Paul but I don't think I could keep my sanity listening to his whiney voice bitching about "all these wars " all the time. Example---"Ron, what do you think is causing the decline of the prairie chicken population in Kansas ?"
"It's these damn wars---using all the milo and soy beans to feed the troops instead of feeding the prairie chickens---did I say it's these damn wars ?"
And finally---a Purple Heart looks real nice on a Marines dress blues and without wars, aint no way a Marine can get one---so no vote for Ron Paul from me. :D
Are you a democrat Red---just asking.
Jar, I've been a Democrat and have never re-registered or joined to anything else - yet.
Been asked to be a Republican about 10 or 12 years agio but would not do that. Besides Republicans being what they are for 150+ years, I don't want any part of being connected to them. Republicans have a liberal and un-American history - they changed this country with their victory in 1865 and Obama is their product, not the product of the un-reconstructed Democrats.
If you read the interviews with former slaves, you'll get the idea where we got idea of yankee war that many cling today - and you'll see the black support for the South. Here's the slave narratives from South Carolina:
http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/review/when-the-yankees-come-former-south-carolina-slaves-remember-the-invasion/
I've read the slave narratives from Oklahoma (IT) and they're much alike the SC slave narratives. Southern blacks and whites used to know what the War was all about, but the government schools have changed blacks and whites for more than 100 years - including you and me.
Slick Willie may be a draft dodger but it is his kind who got us in Vietnam to contain communism. His kind = reconstructed Democrats and Republicans, who will not contain communism, (or immigration or much else) in this country. They discuss war possibilities for the USA involvement all over the world while stealing our liberties here at home. Lincoln was a tyrant and so are Obama and the Republicans. Socialists! A modern term for them is neocon.
I don't ever recall George Wallace advocating war. He was pretty much an un-reconstructed Southerner much in line with the beliefs of the Confederates and the founding fathers. He was wrong about segregation in government/schools. Good man and we need more like him.
Here's what President Jefferson Davis said: We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honor and independence; we seek no conquest, no aggrandizement, no concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms.
Republicans don't like that kind of talk and they never will. That's why they are Republicans and Obama and his buddies are more like Republicans than ever to be like the real Democrats.
I hope that I've answered your question. Enjoy your posts and stay right in there.
How Obama got to keep his illegal immigration funding.
It's an ugly picture!
A RHINO kissing a Jack Ass.
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New Ethics Watchdog Files Preliminary FEC Complaint on Catalist, Major Democratic Operations
(Hillary Clinton & George Soros, what a pair... after these and Hilly's e-mail charges, she will be lucky to be president of cell-block #40... does
Gen. David Petraeus ring a bell, Hilly?? ....)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2cKseZPnR0&t=57
Clinton Foundation Donors Lobbied Hillary's State Department
FACT Calls for Investigation into Unlawful and Unethical Behavior by Leftist Groups
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a new non-partisan government and political accountability organization based in Washington, D.C., filed a complaint with the Federal Election Committee (FEC) Wednesday requesting further investigation of the Democratic data firm, Catalist, and its unlawful and unethical affiliations with several prominent party organizations, campaigns, labor unions and federal agencies. The Washington, D.C.-based group, led by former U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker, believes that numerous election laws have been broken over the course of nearly a decade.
The 29-page document filed by FACT details potential wrongdoing by Catalist and numerous Democratic campaigns, political parties, for-profit entities and political non-profits, alleging:
•Catalist appears to have made and the Democratic political party committees and federal campaign committees appear to have received impermissible, excessive and unreported contributions in the form of in-kind data services from Catalist, including providing service at below fair market value. The company is engaging in patently unlawful political activity, as government contractors are prohibited from making such contributions.
•Catalist's federal campaign committee, political party committee, labor union, other soft-money outside group clients and donors appear to have engaged in illegal coordination through Catalist, resulting in prohibited and excessive contributions.
•The Democratic National Committee appears to have established, financed, maintained and/or controlled Catalist, resulting in a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971's "soft money" ban for national political party committees.
"It is abundantly clear that Catalist and numerous Democratic organizations have operated outside of the law since its inception. FACT urges the Federal Election Commission to perform an immediate and thorough investigation into the behavior of these groups and, should they be found guilty of violating federal law, be punished swiftly for their wrongdoing," Whitaker said. "The illegal coordination of Catalist and those with whom they work is a shameful and regrettable reminder that some individuals in the political system believe they are above the law. They are not. The American public deserves better."
Clients and partners of Catalist spent more than $100 million in public communications and other reportable "independent expenditures" supporting Democratic candidates during the 2014 election cycle. The media has often touted the data work of Catalist as the primary reason Democrats have been successful in previous elections, such as the 2008 and 2012 victories of President Barack Obama.
Each of these charges, including supporting evidence, is contained within the FEC complaint. To obtain a full copy of the document registered Wednesday, February 18, 2015, please email Ellen Carmichael (ecarmichael@crcpublicrelations.com) or Jessie Markell (jmarkell@crcpublicrelations.com). (http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003479055/4125773501_5733303422_9b03ce1258_z_answer_2_xlarge.jpeg)
Hillary Clinton's Shadow Campaign Uses Catalist For Direct Mail Program
Ready For Hillary, the supposedly independent group that functions as Hillary Clinton's shadow presidential campaign, hired Catalist, a for-profit company that warehouses voter data for Democrat allies, for the group's direct mail program.
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Longtime Clinton Ally Runs The Left's Big Data Operation Catalist
Longtime Clinton family confidant Harold Ickes founded Catalist, a company that could help Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign build a technology infrastructure similar to the one built by President Barack Obama's campaigns.
Catalist is not a pro-Clinton organization per se, although one of its founders was Harold Ickes, a longtime Clinton confidant. Its role has mainly been to work with the entire progressive community. But the group's resources could help a Clinton campaign jump-start the effort to build the kind of technology infrastructure that Obama and his team had years to work on between 2008 and 2012.
Catalist is funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, and builds and stores massive voter lists created by liberal outside groups.
Also last week came an announcement that billionaire George Soros will invest an additional $2.5 million in Catalist, a cutting-edge data "utility" that has built voter lists and helped many liberal organizations manage the huge amounts of data that are now a prerequisite for any campaign.
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Watchdog Group Demands Holder Sue Clinton For Missing Emails ... Seriously
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(Hands off the keyboard, don't erase the emails...)
Via Washington Examiner In a new twist that threatens to divide top Obama officials, a watchdog group has demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder open an investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's missing emails.
And if that doesn't work, the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust wants the Justice Department to sue to retrieve the emails that federal law requires be kept for historical and transparency purposes.
"The Federal Records Act does not create a private right of action under which citizens may directly enforce the law," said the new group that goes by the acronym FACT.
"The Attorney General's office, however, may bring suit to recover public records. Thus, it is in the public's interest the Office of the Attorney General initiate an action to recover all of Secretary Clinton's email correspondence from her private account during the time she served as Secretary of State," they said in a letter sent to Holder and provided to Secrets.
FACT Executive Director Matthew G. Whitaker also delivered a Freedom of Information Act request to the State Department demanding copies of "emails that Secretary Clinton sent or received on any email accounts she utilized for State Department business."
Another watchdog group, Judicial Watch, is also considering legal action to recover Clinton's emails.[...]
Whitaker raised three concerns in his letter to Holder:
• It is initially troubling that the State Department was aware and permitted Secretary Clinton to solely use a private email account to conduct State Department business, tacitly approving of the practice and failing to ensure records were properly maintained.
• Additionally, the use of the private email system could be an attempt to avoid compliance with federal law, i.e. failing to maintain public records in violation of the Federal Records Act and avoiding disclosure of public records under the Freedom of Information Act.
• In addition to not being properly maintained or disclosed as required by law, use of the private email system also raises serious security concerns.
Quote from: jarhead on February 19, 2015, 04:32:52 PM
Warph,
I've come to think that you're a pretty smart ol guy so maybe you can answer my question. If a Capt. is incompetent, he is relieved of his command as the company Skipper---a Col. can be relieved of his command as Bn. commander for being incompetent---and so on. Is there not a "rule", a "law" or anything to relieve our CiC for being grossly incompetent ? I'm serious---isn't there something ??
Jar... In answer to your question, Buttrack Insane Obuma is immune from impeachment. Unless he rapes and murders a nun front of twenty witnesses on Times Square, there is no chance he will ever be removed from office, despite many questionable deeds and/or omissions that may have constituted violations of his oath of office. No court, military or civilian, would take him down. For Buttrack Insane Obuma, it doesn't matter.
Why?
Because he is black.
Most Republicans have recognized played the black minority thing since 1865, and some of them a few years earlier. I'm thinking that Harriet Beecher Stowe was a Republican. Bob Dole is.
Obama is an good example of Republican doctrine and of course the reconstructed Democratic Party is a Republican product too. Republican patriotism. Tyrants. That's how we got to where we are today.
Just my thoughts on the matter and I don't watch the evening news, FOX News channel nor do I listen to Rush Limbaugh.
Pissed Off Rednecks
Jamie Jones
This song has gone viral on the internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBh6lL6a7gE&t=22
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Lincoln said it in 1859.
Slick Willie can even talk "Southern" but it doesn't mean anything. Before Obama was elected he talked a lot about transparency in government but it never meant anything.
Just saying . . . . well, you know what I mean.
Clown-In-Chief Obuma: "We're The Slaves Who Built The White House"
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(Does he just confess in a sort of covered oblique way to being a huckster and being gay? Sorry, Bozo, you didn't build that! ...)
Via Weekly Standard:VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGA99oFpeQU
"Look at our history. We are Lewis and Clark and Sacajawea, pioneers who braved the unfamiliar, followed by a stampede of farmers and miners, and entrepreneurs and hucksters. That's our spirit. That's who we are.
"We are Sojourner Truth and Fannie Lou Hamer, women who could do as much as any man and then some. And we're Susan B. Anthony, who shook the system until the law reflected that truth. That is our character.
"We're the immigrants who stowed away on ships to reach these shores, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free –- Holocaust survivors, Soviet defectors, the Lost Boys of Sudan. We're the hopeful strivers who cross the Rio Grande because we want our kids to know a better life. That's how we came to be. (Applause.)
"We're the slaves who built the White House and the economy of the South. (Applause.) We're the ranch hands and cowboys who opened up the West, and countless laborers who laid rail, and raised skyscrapers, and organized for workers' rights.
"We're the fresh-faced GIs who fought to liberate a continent. And we're the Tuskeegee Airmen, and the Navajo code-talkers, and the Japanese Americans who fought for this country even as their own liberty had been denied.
"We're the firefighters who rushed into those buildings on 9/11, the volunteers who signed up to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're the gay Americans whose blood ran in the streets of San Francisco and New York, just as blood ran down this bridge. (Applause.)
"We are storytellers, writers, poets, artists who abhor unfairness, and despise hypocrisy, and give voice to the voiceless, and tell truths that need to be told.
Breaking: Happy Purim! Ayatollah Khamenei May Be Dead!
While no one will confirm, some pretty strong rumors that Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei is dead, he had prostate cancer
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(Wow! Is he in for a surprise or what? Rumors abound that he died tonight, no confirmation yet. Anyway, here's a Purim gift, picture of him in hospital. Reports are the old Jew-hater is facing failing systems and is in stage 4 cancer. He has been described as 'critical condition'. I'll let you know when to pop the champagne...)
https://twitter.com/ILNewsFlash/status/574371121430183939
I just received this in an e-mail.
It might be an interesting show.
Subject: Fox News Enemies of the State airing tonight and Sunday
Fox News re-airs some of their great stories of the government taking people's property, lands, water, ranches, destroying their small businesses. Some fabulous documentation of the war against property rights and especially of the Greens' and Feds' efforts to carry out Rural Cleansing.
Don't miss it. Tell your fiends to watch it. And FOLLOW UP by thanking Fox to have the courage to document and air these horror stories.
Iran slams rumors of Ayatollah's death, trotting him out on TV to prove otherwise,
calling it "Israeli driven rumors"
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(Could this pic have been photoshopped...)
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Satire Alert: Liberals Can Go Full Moonbat, Evidence Mounts That Scott Walker Is The Antichrist
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(Isn't being the Antichrist a plus for the liberals? ...)
Via The DC
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/07/is-scott-walker-the-antichrist-the-evidence-mounts/
Washington, D.C. journalists and other sad, bitter wackos on the margins of society have embarked on a recent crusade to find some scandal — any scandal — to sink rapidly rising 2016 Republican presidential frontrunner Scott Walker.
In late February, for example, two Washington Post reporters spent valuable interview time asking the Wisconsin governor whether he believes President Barack Obama is a Christian. Walker's response of "I don't know" served as the Post's hard-hitting headline fodder.[...]
Most recently, WaPo reporters broke the story that Walker, like a young Bill Clinton, possesses limited foreign policy experience because he has been a state governor. Walker "is not a subscriber to Foreign Affairs" (a magazine with a circulation around 161,000), the Post murmurs. Also, Walker has made few exciting international journeys abroad like Beltway reporters and their trustafarian friends.
This petty scandalmongering has done little to affect Walker's growing popularity.
It's a sad, tragic situation because The Washington Post and other left-leaning media outlets which want so dearly to damage the Wisconsin governor are missing a huge and obvious story: Walker may very well be the Antichrist.
[...]
What of Walker's history? Everyone has a past. Astoundingly, in possible accordance with the famous Blood Moon Prophecy, Wisconsin's governor was born on Nov. 2, 1967 when there just happened to be a total solar eclipse blanketing the earth.
Are There More Clinton Scandals Or More Hillary Emails? Among The Many Emails, "Mau_Suit"
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Via Daily Caller:
http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/06/one-of-hillarys-secret-illegal-e-mail-addresses-is-mausuitclintonemail-com/
Hillary Clinton isn't known for being funny, at least not intentionally. But this one's pretty good.
As Alex Griswold reports, Hillary may have indulged in a bit of self-deprecating humor while flouting federal law and hiding her activities as Secretary of State from public oversight:
Although Hillary Clinton's spokespeople have maintained that the former secretary of state only used one privately-controlled email address during her tenure, a hacker working in conjunction with Fox News discovered that there were multiple email addresses owned by Clinton...
Other accounts included:
hdr@clintonemail.com
hdr18@clintonemail.com
hdr19@clintonemail.com
hdr20@clintonemail.com
hdr21@clintonemail.com
h.clinton@clintonemail.com
Hillary@clintonemail.com
contact@clintonemail.com
mau_suit@clintonemail.com (?!)As she said, she wants the public to see her e-mail. That's why she set up at least 10 different addresses that we know about so far, all hidden from the public.
We don't and can't know which of these addresses she used, which of the e-mails she's deleted, or anything else about it. That was the point of the whole extragovernmental exercise. She thinks she's above the law.
Most of those addresses aren't too imaginative, which just makes that last one stand out all the more. I don't know what a "mau suit" is, but here's a Mao suit:(http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Screen-Shot-2015-03-08-at-1.06.27-PM.png)
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Analysis: Twelve Questions Iran Refuses To Answer About Its Nuclear Weapons Research
via TheTower.org | 03.09.15
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has questions about twelve aspects of Iran's past nuclear weapons research that the Islamic Republic has failed to satisfactorily answer, according to an analysis that appeared in The New York Times on Sunday.
These twelve areas of past Iranian research include computer simulations, detonation experiments, and delivery systems for nuclear warheads. While the analysis lists one of the areas of questions as having been discussed and two as "being on the table," the other nine have not been discussed at all.
The one listed as having been discussed was research into electrically-fired detonators, which Iran explained as having applications for peaceful mining purposes. But experiments involving such detonators are believed to have taken place in the military base at Parchin, and Iran has not allowed a thorough investigation of the site. It has also paved over areas where the experiments are believed to have taken place.
According to the analysis, there is an ongoing debate among Western negotiators over how much weight to give to Iran's failure to abide by past agreements (including the November 2013 Joint Plan of Action ) and come clean about its illicit military nuclear program.
That inner debate, as one European official in the midst of the negotiations put it, turns on "whether to force Iran to explain its past" — especially before 2003, when American intelligence officials believe Iran operated a full-scale equivalent of the Manhattan Project — "or whether to focus on the future."
American officials are vague when pressed on how fully Iran will have to answer questions it has avoided for years from United Nations inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency, based in Vienna. To date, Iran has dodged all but one of the agency's dozen sharp questions on bomb design.
"Iran's most serious verification shortcoming," Olli Heinonen, the former chief inspector, now at Harvard, said recently, "remains its unwillingness to address concerns about the past and possibly ongoing military dimensions of its nuclear program."
The questions cited by the analysis were prompted by documentation accumulated by the IAEA raising questions about the nature of Iran's nuclear research. Yukiya Amano, the director general of the IAEA, dismissed Iranian charges that the incriminating documents were forged, "saying the inspectors had confirmed the documents by consulting other sources."
The analysis zeroes in on the fundamental question raised by the incriminating documents:
The problem is that the documents, if real, would undercut Iran's argument that its nuclear ambitions are entirely peaceful, centering on the production of radioisotopes for medicine and electrical power for economic growth.
Expertise in warhead design, as opposed to atomic fuel production, is far more ephemeral and hard to track. It can also be less ambiguous. Some nuclear parts have application only to making weapons, such as neutron spark plugs at the core of some atom bombs. In contrast, uranium can fuel both nuclear arms and reactors that make electricity — it can light cities or annihilate them.
Without full knowledge of Iran's past nuclear research—some of which could be ongoing secretly—there is no way to verify that Iran's nuclear program is only for civilian purposes. As Omri Ceren, The Israel Project's managing director for press and strategy, explained for The Tower last October, establishing the full extent of Iran's past nuclear research is essential to establishing a baseline for effective verification that Iran has no military nuclear program. The Israel Project publishes The Tower.
At stake are international concerns over the so-called possible military dimensions (PMDs) of the Iranian nuclear program, the central significance of which has sometimes been underplayed by voices within the foreign policy community. While the P5+1 is charged with negotiating over Iran's uranium work, its plutonium work, and its ballistic missile work – all of which the Iranians are obligated by half a dozen United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions to roll back – the IAEA seeks to establish the scope of Iran's overall atomic program, including in those three more specific areas.
The mandate stretches beyond full-blown weaponization work, and into military involvement in uranium mining, centrifuge construction, and so on. Full Iranian disclosure is considered a minimum to establishing a robust verification regime: The IAEA can't verify that Iran has met its obligations to limit uranium work, for instance, unless it knows the full scope of the uranium work that's being done. PMD-related transparency is seen as not just another issue – say, one that Iran could refuse to trade away by making concessions in other areas – but as a prerequisite to verifying Iranian compliance across all issues.
Acknowledging the full extent of its past nuclear research and current secret research is essential for Iran to show that it has no hidden military nuclear program. But as a former administration official told The New York Times at the time the Joint Plan of Action was signed:
There is no evidence of those facilities now, but, as a former senior Obama administration official said recently, speaking anonymously to discuss intelligence, "there has never been a time in the past 15 years or so when Iran didn't have a hidden facility in construction."
Additionally, the The New York Times reported last November:
The American officials are highly attuned to the findings of a once-classified 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that concluded that Iran ended its headlong race for a bomb in late 2003. But it also concluded that smaller-scale activity continued, and warned that "Iran probably would use covert facilities — rather than its declared nuclear sites — for the production of highly enriched uranium for a weapon."
This underscores the significance of Amano's declaration in late January (and repeated last week by the IAEA):
As far as Iran is concerned, the Agency is able to verify the non-diversion of nuclear material declared to us by Iran under its Safeguards Agreement.
But we are not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.
Washington Secrets: White House
Vacationer in chief: Tens of millions spent on 38 Obama holidays
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(Everyone deserves some time off... even the President. But what Obama's have done is downright criminal. This is a perfect example of what happens when you give an idiot a credit card with no limit.
Clown Obozo and his wife, Chewbacca, need to be brought up on theft charges. They are stealing from the US taxpayer with little oversight. Kinda reminds me how the Clintons looted the White House when they left...)
The first family, Michelle Obama fresh from her annual Aspen ski vacation with her daughters, and President Obama back from a weekend of golf in sunny Palm Springs, Calif., have spent tens of millions in tax dollars to vacation, and they still have two more years to go, according to an accounting of their trips.
As the first lady readies for a trip to Japan and Cambodia this month, Secrets calculated that the first family has racked up 38 holidays, working vacations, and fun trips like a date night in New York. They are on par to take at least 45 holidays before leaving office.
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First lady Michelle Obama with her daughters, Sasha and Malia, in China last year. (White House Photo)
Costs are hard to pin down, and most come as a result of Freedom of Information Act suits from taxpayer watchdog Judicial Watch which pegged the Obama-Biden vacation tab at $40 million last year. That was before first lady and daughters took spring break in China, and the first family's annual summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard, Christmas in Hawaii, and this year's holidays.
For just a handful of trips, the Air Force and Department of Homeland Security have complied with the FOIA cases, but the costs of security, prepositioning of aircraft, staff housing and transportation and communications are typically not disclosed and are always covered by the government for every single president.
For example, Judicial Watch FOIA suits for just two vacations in 2013 produced flight costs of $5,250,624. But undisclosed are, for example, the costs of a trip to China last year by Michelle, her mom Marian Robinson and daughter Sasha and Malia.
Fishing guide Dan Vermillion reacts as President Obama almost hooks a trout in August 2009. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)
"The Obamas are abusing the public trust and the taxpayers with unnecessary luxurious vacations and travel," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in releasing those details of flight charges to Martha's Vineyard and Hawaii. "These staggering costs show why these documents were covered up and we had to sue in federal court to get them. Another transparency fail for the Obama gang."
The White House argues that personal costs are covered by the first family, but critics say that those costs are a miniscule amount of any trip. And critics of stories like this one argue that presidents need to take breaks and their work never ends, even on holiday.
While former President George W. Bush took more vacation days than the estimated 175 by the Obamas, critics slap Obama because most of Bush's vacations were taken at his ranch in Texas, not the lavish digs he prefers in places like Hawaii and Martha's Vineyard, Mass. He has also criticized the rich.
CBS White House Reporter Mark Knoller, the unofficial presidential record keeper, calclates that the president has taken 22 vacation trips spanning all or part of 160 days.
First couple leaving Marine One to hop on Air Force One for a date night to New York in May 2009. (AP Photo)
Our number is adjusted to include separate trips by the first lady and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, as well as quick trips like their May 30, 2009 date night to New York City and last year's trip to New York to attend the wedding of former personal chef Sam Kass.
What's more, White House reporters told Secrets that some trips by the first lady and daughters are kept secret from the media, so a full accounting is difficult.
First lady, her mother and daughters visit the Eiffel Tower in June 2009.
Our list below also omits the many dozens of days the president spent golfing, about 220 since taking office.
RELATED: Michelle Obama dodges accident to hit Aspen's ski slopes
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2009
Feb. 13-16, the first family travels to Chicago. President plays some basketball and takes Michelle out for Valentine's Day dinner at a restaurant run by one of Oprah's former personal chefs.
May 30, the first couple travel to NYC for a date night where they saw "Joe Turner's Come and Gone."
June 3-9, on a working trip to the Middle East and Europe, the Obama family takes in the sights, including a visit to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
August 14-16, the president goes fly fishing in Montana. He didn't catch any but caught on to casting fast.
They family continued on to Yellowstone National Park and other sights.
August 23-30, the Obama's start their first vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., staying in an oceanfront home that rents for more than $35,000 a week.
Dec. 24-Jan. 3, the first Obama presidential Christmas in Hawaii where they stayed in an $8.9 million home.
2010
March 20-24, Michelle, Sasha, Malia, mom Marian Robinson and some pals to New York City for Broadway shows, a tour of the Empire State Building lunch at the Russian Tea Room.
April 23–25, President and Mrs. Obama in Asheville, N.C. for a weekend holiday.
May 27-31, Obama skipped the traditional Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery and traveled home to Chicago. He spoke instead at a smaller military cemetery.
July 17-18, a family vacation with first pup Bo in Bar Harbor, Maine.
August 4-8, Michelle Obama, daughter Sasha and an entourage travel to Spain. Judicial Watch pegged the cost at $467,000.
August 3-4, Obama in Chicago alone to celebrate his 49th birthday.
August 14-15, the first family vacations on Florida's Gulf Coast to show support for locals hit by the BP oil spill.
August 19-29, the first family is in Martha's Vineyard for their second summer vacation.
Dec. 23-Jan. 2 in Hawaii for their second presidential Christmas vacation in a $3,500 a night home.
RELATED: Obamas dine at restaurant with $500k membership fee
2011
Feb. 19-21, Michelle, Sasha and Malia travel to Vail to ski and hit a restaurant that served pickled pumpkin salad and braised ancho-chile short rib.
March 21-25, Obama, Michelle, Sasha and Malia, on spring break, on a working vacation to Latin America were the girls took in Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue.
Aug. 16-28, for the first family's third summer vacation on Marthas Vineyard.
Dec. 23-Jan. 2 in Hawaii for Christmas and a 10-day break.
2012
Feb. 17-19, Michelle and her daughters traveled to Aspen to ski.
March, Malia traveled to Mexico with friends. Judicial Watch said basic costs totaled $115,500.
Dec. 22-26 the Obama's spend Christmas in Hawaii. The president cut his part short to return home to negotiate the "fiscal cliff" with Congress.
2013
Feb. 15-18, Michelle Obama and her two daughters ski in Aspen, Co.
Feb. 16-18, President Obama flew to Palm Springs, Ca., for three days of golf.
March 2013, Sasha and Malia Obama were vacationing at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas.
June 17-18, while the president was at a summit in Ireland, Michelle and her daughters did some sightseeing that cost an additional $251,000, according to Judicial Watch.
June 26–July 2, Michelle toured African nations with Sasha and Malia after meeting up with president.
Aug. 10-18, the fourth summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard.
Dec. 20-Jan. 6, for 17 days in Hawaii for Christmas.
2014
Feb. 14-17, Michelle Obama with daughters Sasha and Malia for a ski vacation in Aspen, Co.
Feb. 14-16, Obama golfed in Palm Springs, Ca. and also met with King Abdullah II of Jordan. Judicial Watch said the flight cost was $2,066,594.
March 8-9, the president and first lady traveled to Key Largo, Fla., for a golfing vacation.
March 19-26, Michelle Obama, her mom and daughter Sasha and Malia spend a spring break in China.
Aug. 9-24, the first family their fifth summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, staying in a seven-bedroom, 9-bathroom, 8,100-square-foot home they rented by the Vineyard Sound.
August 30, the president makes a special trip to New York to attend the wedding of his family's former personal chef, Sam Kass.
Dec. 19-21, a 17-day Christmas vacation in Hawaii
2015
Feb. 14-16, Michelle Obama and daughters ski in Aspen, Co.
Feb. 15-17, President Obama traveled again to Palm Springs for a boys weekend of golf.
RELATED: Taxpayers get stuck with $6.2 million tab for just 3 Obama vacations; $40m over 6 years
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Can we finally—finally!—be done with the Clintons?
by Kevin D. Williamson = March 8, 2015
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(You gotta say one thing about the Clintons and their toadies... they stay on script very well. So we've seen the other guys are doing it too opening gambit. Then yesterday we See Carville going onto the right wing conspiracy "we're the victims here" act. And shortly we'll be getting to the "this is so yesterday... time to move on" closing act. Will the MSM - who seems to be showing some actual journalistic skepticism, albeit reluctantly... let them get away with yet again? We'll see....)As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton schemed to subvert record-keeping and transparency rules for reasons that are probably more or less communicated by her surname: The Clintons are creeps and liars and scoundrels and misfits, always have been, always will be. They are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of American politics. The Democrats' response to Herself's trouble has taken three main forms: 1) What she did wasn't technically illegal, say David Brock and other slavish Clinton retainers, even hauling out that old Al Gore classic, "no controlling legal authority"; 2) What about Scott Walker, huh? say the Democratic-party operators, pointing out that as a county executive Walker also used a private email system — and, to be honest, Walker's response to the terrorist assault on Milwaukee County's consulate in Benghazi has never been explained to my satisfaction; and 3) the president repeats his favorite mantra: Wuddint me! As Politico put it: "White House press secretary Josh Earnest took care to point out that Obama himself was unaware of any issues with Clinton's email." And that declaration from the president's wildly inaptronymic spokesweasel might very well be true: The president has minions for that sort of thing. But he is responsible for the conduct of his minions, and it is impossible to believe that none of them knew about Mrs. Clinton's "homebrew" email system, because that would require us to believe that nobody ever said, "Hey, CC the secretary of state personally on that internal memo," or "Email the secretary of state about that meeting." Oh, but the president, our national lightworker, he didn't know!
One of the unfortunate facets of our increasingly religious attitude toward the presidency is that we invest the question of whether the divine imperator himself was aware of a situation with great moral weight: Not a sparrow falls, etc. Still, we call it an "administration" for a reason, and Barack Obama is the chief administrator of the executive branch. But he sits in a lofty place, and the principle of fecal gravity must be intensely attractive when viewed from such a great height. The White House has in fact known about this for some time, since August at least. And it may be the case that Barack Obama is getting the hang of this presidency thing: His team says it learned about the problem when House Republicans requested information related to the Benghazi attack, which is a step up from learning about the IRS's campaign of political persecution and the horrific mistreatment of American veterans and the cover-up of same — and the Justice Department's going all Gestapo on The Associated Press, and the Fast and Furious scandal, and the NSA's snooping on Angela Merkel — on the evening news. "The expectation of the president is that everybody throughout his administration is acting in compliance with the Federal Records Act," Earnest said. Not that the president or any of his minions would do anything so radical as take proactive steps to ensure that the nation's chief diplomat is following the law. The law does not really apply at the top — Lois Lerner and the rest of the criminals at the IRS aren't going to jail, they're cashing six-figure checks, with bonuses, for pity's sake.
When Obamacare hits the skids, the president just makes up new law as he goes along. Hillary Clinton runs amok with no real consequence. On the larger scale, the federal government spends a generation failing to enforce its immigration laws and, once the problem has become large enough, simply decides — presto-change-o! — that that which was a serious crime is retroactively hunky-dory.
Your life probably is not very much like that. Mine isn't. I bought a car not long ago, and I probably had to fill out 30 different forms and get three or four kinds of government permission before I was permitted to legally operate my own vehicle. There was no "the expectation of the DMV is that everybody driving a car is acting in compliance with our rules" — they wanted proof of insurance beforehand. Get caught without it and there's no drawn-out year-long process of the government waiting for you to get around to sorting out your affairs — they just take your car, seize your assets, or haul you off to jail, depending on the seriousness of the transgression. Exercise your constitutional right to own a firearm — it's right there in the Bill of Rights — and there is no "expectation" that you're legally clear to do so: You have to prove it. It's easy to enforce the law on people who are inclined to be law-abiding, which means those of us in the middle, mainly: We have enough to lose that there's a real cost to breaking the rules, but we don't have so much that we can conduct our personal and professional lives as though we had sovereign immunity.
The people in the middle cannot go about their ordinary business — working at a job, driving a car, renting or owning a home, traveling — without preemptively complying with all manner of government mandates. But millions of illegals can flout the law with impunity — and their well-off enablers in Washington can flout the law with impunity, too. When the law does not apply to the lawmakers and law-enforcers, you are not being governed: You are being ruled. And we are ruled by criminals. If you treat IRS rules the way the IRS treats IRS rules, you go to prison; if you treat federal law the way the secretary of state does, you go to prison.
If you treat immigration controls the way our immigration authorities do, you go to prison. If you're as careless in your handling of firearms as the ATF is, you go to prison. You cook your business's books the way the federal government cooks its books, you go to prison. Hillary Clinton is not going to prison. She's going to release whatever emails she feels like releasing and dare any of you peons or your elected representatives to try to make her do otherwise. You'll take what she offers, and you'll like it. The perverse thing is: Some do like it. The Clinton name remains golden among Democrats. A self-respecting people would have sent this clan of scrofulous grifters and po-faced con artists into whatever passes for exile (comfortable exile, of course) in the 21st century. Instead, we are giving them a serious shot at a return to the White House.
At least this time, we'll know to keep an eye on the silver. http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/10/news/mn-23723
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415031/next-kevin-d-williamson
Obuma: I'll Inform The Folks In America After Iran Deal Is Made – Period
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(Perhaps an attempt by Obama to unilaterally bind the U.S. to Iran, unlawfully, would finally rise to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors" sufficient to justify impeachment, under the Constitution.
[Article II, Section 4, establishes, "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors."].
A most drastic step, which will probably never happen.... Bibi, its your turn... bring it on)Via Weekly Standard
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-ill-make-case-american-people-after-iran-deal-made_881000.html
President Obama will wait until after a nuclear deal with Iran is made to make the case to the American people that it's the right thing to do. He made the comment today after being asked about this letter from nearly 50 U.S. senators to Iran, which stated, "The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."
A member of the press asked Obama, "Can you comment on the Republican letter to Iran? Can you comment on that?"
"I think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of Congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran. It's an unusual coalition," Obama told the reporter.
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Feminists Outraged Over Facebook's "Feeling Fat" Emoticon
(Getting off of facebook would be a start. Well, I searched for a feminist smiley and this is all I found...
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Via Change.Org (Click at your own risk...)
https://www.change.org/p/facebook-remove-the-feeling-fat-emoticon-fatisnotafeeling
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzia-8MX4ig
Scrolling through Facebook the other day, I saw a friend's status set to "feeling fat," accompanied by an emoji with chubby cheeks and a double chin. I think it was supposed to be funny, but seeing this status made me feel angry.
As someone who has struggled with and overcome disordered eating, I know what it's like to "feel" fat. I have spent years of my life consumed with negative thoughts about my body, and far too many days starving myself in an effort to lose weight. But even worse than the skipped meals and the hours spent obsessing in front of the mirror was the fear of what others thought about me and my body.[...]
Fat is not a feeling. Fat is a natural part of our bodies, no matter their weight. And all bodies deserve to be respected and cared for.
A New Way To Be Human: The Plan Is To Replace Existing Humans With 'Transhuman' Hybrids
By Michael Snyder, on March 10th, 2015
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Transhumanists believe that the time has come for humans to take control of their own evolution. Many of them are fully convinced that we can use emerging technologies to "fix" the flaws in the human race and ultimately eradicate sickness, disease, poverty and war. So would you like to have the eyesight of an eagle? Would you like to download an entire library of information directly into your brain in just minutes? Would you like to rid your family line of all genetic diseases? Would you like to extend your lifespan to 500 years or even longer? Transhumanists promise that all of these things will soon be possible, if we are willing to embrace a new way of doing things. They foresee a future in which we will all have lots of little nanobots running around inside of us, in which we are all connected directly to the Internet, and in which we have all been genetically modified to at least some degree. In fact, one prominent transhumanist recently stated that he believes that "eventually every human will be designed on a computer". In the end, the goal is to produce a vastly improved version of the human race which will usher in a golden new age for the planet. But as we merge ourselves with animals, machines and weird new technologies that scientists cook up, at what point do we cease to be human?
And when I say "weird new technologies", I am not overstating things in the least. Just consider what one transhumanist says that they have planned for us...
As with all radical social movements, there is bound to be resistance. After all, transhumanists are interested in some pretty bizarre things: mind uploading, living indefinitely through life extension science, biohacking themselves to install cyborg body parts, and creating artificial general intelligence. Each of these areas of research will radically change the lives of people—and some, such as cyborg body parts, are already doing so.
Once upon a time, the only people that talked about "cyborgs" were science fiction geeks.
But today, many transhumanists speak of us becoming "cyborgs" as if it was some sort of foregone conclusion. It is almost as if they are the Borg, and they are telling us that there is no choice but to assimilate.
And this assimilation is already happening to a certain degree. If the idea of humanity "merging with machines" sounds bizarre to you, just check out the following excerpt from a recent Vice article...
Next up are brain implants, tiny computer chips inserted surgically directly into the brain itself. So far, they've been used mainly to help treat patients suffering from Parkinson's disease and other neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's and epilepsy.
But some scientists are now tinkering with brain implants that enable more physical pursuits, from controlling people's prosthetic limbs to restoring movement in paralyzed rats. Scientists say that the capabilities of brain implants are only in their infancy, and some of them envision a near-future where brain implants can even be installed in healthy people to connect them directly to the internet and improve memory] a la Black Mirror. The US military agency DARPA is already building such memory chips, and wants to develop implants that could be installed throughout a soldier's nervous system to provide advanced, on-the-spot healing of conditions from mental illness to arthritis.
Of course most of those developing these new technologies believe that they are doing something wonderful for humanity.
And in many cases they are.
But at what point do we enter a danger zone?
In a previous article , I noted that one recent survey discovered that approximately one-fourth of all professionals in the 18 to 50-year-old age bracket would like to connect their brains directly to the Internet.
I don't know about you, but that is something that I will never be doing.
Meanwhile, scientists continue to push the envelope when it comes to merging humans with animals.
Most people don't realize this, but today we are creating genetically modified cattle with human DNA, we are growing human kidneys in rats, and we are experimenting on human-mouse hybrids with freakishly large brains.
Once again, those involved in this kind of research believe that they are finding "cures for diseases" or that they are working to make life better for all of us somehow.
But when we combine animals and humans, what exactly are we creating?
Are they animals?
Are they humans?
And where do we draw the line? Will we someday have creatures that are 50 percent human and 50 percent animal walking around our cities?
For much, much more on this, please see my previous article entitled "The Era Of Chimeras: Scientists Fearlessly Create Bizarre Human/Animal Hybrids".
Another area that transhumanists are extremely excited about is the ability to use technology to genetically edit our children.
At Harvard, researchers now believe that it will soon be possible to completely remove genetic diseases from our family lines...
As I listened to Yang, I waited for a chance to ask my real questions: Can any of this be done to human beings? Can we improve the human gene pool? The position of much of mainstream science has been that such meddling would be unsafe, irresponsible, and even impossible. But Yang didn't hesitate. Yes, of course, she said. In fact, the Harvard laboratory had a project to determine how it could be achieved. She flipped open her laptop to a PowerPoint slide titled "Germline Editing Meeting."
Here it was: a technical proposal to alter human heredity...
"Germ line" is biologists' jargon for the egg and sperm, which combine to form an embryo. By editing the DNA of these cells or the embryo itself, it could be possible to correct disease genes and to pass those genetic fixes on to future generations. Such a technology could be used to rid families of scourges like cystic fibrosis. It might also be possible to install genes that offer lifelong protection against infection, Alzheimer's, and, Yang told me, maybe the effects of aging.
And "maybe the effects of aging"?
Life extension technologies are something that many transhumanists are particularly obsessed with.
For example, Bloomberg recently did an interview with one technology executive that believes that it will eventually be possible for all of us to live to the ripe old age of 500...
"If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes," Bill Maris says one January afternoon in Mountain View, California. The president and managing partner of Google Ventures just turned 40, but he looks more like a 19-year-old college kid at midterm. He's wearing sneakers and a gray denim shirt over a T-shirt; it looks like he hasn't shaved in a few days.
Maris is using his position to pour millions upon millions of dollars into companies that are developing radical life extension technologies that they hope will enable people to live for hundreds of years.
Maris just hopes that he can stay alive long enough to take advantage of them...
"We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision," he says. "I just hope to live long enough not to die."
And of course Maris is far from alone. The most famous transhumanist on the entire planet, Ray Kurzweil, is absolutely obsessed with immortality. He takes 150 vitamin supplements a day in a desperate attempt to extend his life until more advanced life extension technologies can be developed.
In chapter 7 of "The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology", he expressed his thoughts on where the future is taking all of us...
"Evolution moves toward greater complexity, greater elegance, greater knowledge, greater intelligence, greater beauty, greater creativity, and greater levels of subtle attributes such as love. In every monotheistic tradition God is likewise described as all of these qualities, only without any limitation: infinite knowledge, infinite intelligence, infinite beauty, infinite creativity, infinite love, and so on. Of course, even the accelerating growth of evolution never achieves an infinite level, but as it explodes exponentially it certainly moves rapidly in that direction. So evolution moves inexorably toward this conception of God, although never quite reaching this ideal. We can regard, therefore, the freeing of our thinking from the severe limitations of its biological form to be an essentially spiritual undertaking."
But what about those of us that do not want to be a part of this future?
Is there any room for people that do not want to be genetically modified and that do not want to merge with animals and technology?
Some transhumanists believe that those that do not adapt will eventually be wiped out because they simply will not be able to survive in the new world that is emerging.
Other transhumanists believe that in order to truly have a world where there is no sickness, disease, poverty and war, all of the "inferior" humans will ultimately have to be "removed".
But what almost all of them agree on is the fact that the future belongs to them and not to us.
So what do you think? Is humanity on the verge of a great leap forward, or are these new technologies actually opening up a door for great darkness?(Thus, I pray, I won't lose too much sleep over this... I have bigger problems... :laugh:)
While Obuma Guts The U.S. Military, Russia Prepares For War
By Michael Snyder, on March 4th, 2015
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The Russian military and the U.S. military are going in two very different directions. Military spending in Russia is increasing by a whopping 33 percent this year alone, and the Russians are feverishly preparing as if a major war with the United States is inevitable. But despite the fact that the conflict in Ukraine has raised tensions with Russia to Cold War levels, the Obama administration is still acting as if we were living in a "post-Cold War" era. Even while the Russians are arming themselves to the teeth, the U.S. military is being gutted. In fact, the U.S. Army is in the process of being cut down to the smallest size that we have seen since the end of World War II, and the U.S. Navy is already the smallest that it has been since World War I. There is very little political debate about this gutting of our military at the moment, but someday we may look back and bitterly regret not being more prepared.
No matter what your view of U.S. foreign policy is, we should all be able to agree that the U.S. Constitution mandates that it is the job of the federal government to protect this nation. Sadly, according to one recent report the cutbacks that are happening right now have left the U.S. military only "marginally able" to defend this country...
The US military has become so depleted by cuts that it has been left only 'marginally able' to defend the nation.
Decreases in the number of soldiers and naval ships have led to armed forces falling short of President Obama's national security strategy, a report by The Heritage Foundation claimed.
Yes, we are spending far more on our military than anyone else on the planet is. But a tremendous amount of that is pure waste.
When it comes to the things that really matter for national defense, corners are being cut. For example, as I mentioned above, the U.S. Army is in the process of being reduced to the smallest size that it has been since World War II...
The Quadrennial Defense Review announced last year that the Army would be cut from 570,000 soldiers to 440,000 – the fewest since World War II.
The Army historically commits 21 brigade combat teams to one war but would struggle to do this and leave reserves if there were two simultaneous conflicts, the report said.
And according to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Navy is already the smallest that is has been since World War I...
With the U.S. Navy arguably at its smallest since 1917, we don't have many ships that are actually at sea. Only 35% of the Navy's entire fleet is deployed, fewer than 100 ships.
But that is not all. According to Stars and Stripes, the size of the U.S. Air Force is going to shrink by about 500 planes over the next five years...
The Air Force plans to cut nearly 500 planes from its inventory over the next five years if the Defense Department's Fiscal 2015 budget request is approved by Congress, the service announced Monday.
The reductions — which would affect the active duty, Guard and Reserve — would be implemented in 25 states and the District of Columbia, according to a diagram provided by the Air Force. Only 47 planes would be eliminated overseas at a time when officials are emphasizing the importance of maintaining a strong forward presence to deter adversaries and respond quickly to crises.
For much more on how the U.S. military is being gutted, please see my previous article entitled "The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Military".
At the same time all of this is going on, Russia is acting as if they knew that World War III was right around the corner.
According to CNN, the Russians plan to spend more than 20 trillion rubles to modernize their military by the year 2025...
Russia has begun investing heavily in upgrades to its military capabilities. President Vladimir Putin plans to spend more than 20 trillion rubles ($700 billion) bringing equipment up to date by 2025.
The modernization program is continuing despite an economic crisis that has already forced Russia to adopt an austerity budget for next year.
Even while the U.S. military is shrinking, the Russian military is getting larger. The following infographic was published by TASS, and it shows some of the new equipment that the Russian military will be receiving by the end of this year...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/TASS-Infographic.png)
In addition, the Moscow Times is reporting that the Russian navy will be getting 50 new vessels in 2015.
So why are the Russians conducting such a massive military buildup?
Certainly the civil war in Ukraine is on their minds. If there was a civil war up in Canada, the U.S. government would definitely be freaking out. So it is understandable that the Russians are deeply concerned about what is happening to their neighbor.
But this military buildup by the Russians suggests that there is something more going on.
And I think that we can get a clue by looking at how the Russian military has been behaving.
For instance, the Russian air force recently conducted a drill which simulated an attack on NATO warships in the Black Sea...
Russian fighter jets are practicing attacking NATO ships in the Black Sea in another dramatic sign that tensions over Ukraine continue to build despite a fragile ceasefire agreed last month.
"Russia's newest Su-30 fighter jets and Su-24 attack bombers are using two NATO ships in the Black Sea to practice penetrating anti-air systems," reports Sputnik, citing a source at the Sevastopol naval base.
Asserting that the NATO ships are conducting drills based around "repelling air attacks," Moscow is taking the opportunity to practice "maneuvering and conducting aerial reconnaissance" outside the range of the ships in order to "practice attack scenarios".
In addition, Russian strategic bombers have been making increasingly aggressive movements in recent months. The following is from an article that described an incident in which two Tu-95 bombers buzzed Norwegian airspace...
But on January 28 two more Tu-95 bombers, escorted by tankers and Russia's most advanced MiG-31 fighter jets, showed up off the coast. One of them was carrying "a nuclear payload," according to the London Sunday Express, which cited intercepted radio traffic. And last fall, a Russian Tu-22 supersonic bomber skirting Norway's northern airspace was photographed carrying a cruise missile in launching position, according to the Barents Observer blog. Similar examples abound.
Adding to the potential for an unintended catastrophe, Russian warplanes typically lift off without filing a flight plan and cruise the busy commercial flight lanes with their transponders off, riling airline and NATO pilots alike. In recent months Russian warplanes have been engaging in Top Gun–style stunts far from home, popping up unannounced aside an SAS airliner on a flight between Copenhagen, Denmark, and Oslo and buzzing a Norwegian F-16 pilot.
And in the Pacific, two Tu-95 bombers recently buzzed Guam...
Russian strategic bombers conducted a third circumnavigation of the U.S. Pacific island of Guam last week as other bombers flew close to Alaska and Europe, defense officials said.
Two Tu-95 Bear H bombers made the flight around Guam, a key U.S. military hub in the western Pacific, on Dec. 13. No U.S. interceptor jets were dispatched to shadow the bombers.
One of the reasons this is done is to test our defenses.
They want to see how we would respond if it was the real thing.
In a future war with Russia, the key to winning will probably be to strike first. The Russians know this, and so they are putting a special emphasis on modernizing their strategic nuclear forces...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on December 19 that the Russian strategic nuclear forces will receive more than 50 ICBMs in 2015. Putin also reaffirmed plans to modernize the fleet of Russian strategic bombers and nuclear-powered submarines.
According to the new Russian military doctrine signed by Putin Friday, Moscow reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of nuclear weapons or any other types of weapons of mass destruction against Russia or its allies, as well as in the case of an attack with conventional weaponry that threatens the very existence of the state.
It is being reported that Russian Strategic Missile Forces are planning to conduct more than 100 drills in 2015. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is treating the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal as if it was an unwanted leftover from an era that is long gone.
I have written much more about this in the past, and I will not repeat all of it here. If you would like to dig even deeper into all of this, please see my previous article entitled "10 Signs That Russia Is Preparing To Fight (And Win) A Nuclear War With The United States". http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/10-signs-that-russia-is-preparing-to-fight-and-win-a-nuclear-war-with-the-united-states
To most Americans, a war with Russia is not even a remote possibility.
But there is a much, much different mindset inside Russia these days.
During one recent military parade, a large missile was paraded through the streets with a message to Barack Obama written on the side. Roughly translated, the message says "to be personally delivered to Obama"...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Russian-Nuclear-Missile-To-Be-Personally-Delivered-To-Obama-460x257.jpg)
Russian Nuclear Missile To Be Personally Delivered To Obama
The Russians are preparing for war.
The United States is not.
So who is right and who is wrong?
White House Goes To Condition Squirrel Level 4, Obutthead To Hit The Late-Night Talk Show Circuit
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(What crisis is he avoiding and what is the message for the low information crowd? ...)
Via The Hill http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/235269-obama-to-appear-on-kimmel-show
President Obama is returning to the late-night talk show circuit this week with an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
The president is flying to Los Angeles on Thursday, where he'll appear on Kimmel's ABC show and attend a Democratic National Committee event, according to the White House.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported Obama's Kimmel appearance. The last time Obama went on a late-night comedy program was last December, when he was featured on one of Stephen Colbert's final Comedy Central shows.
Obama appeared on Kimmel's show via satellite in 2008, during his first presidential campaign. Kimmel also hosted the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in 2012.
Actor Sean Penn will be Kimmel's other guest on Thursday's show.
Breaking: Report: IT Tech Tracked Hillary Server To Manhattan...Hillary Has Office (Campaign?) In Manhattan
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So if this is true, it means Hillary lied again, when she implied it was under Secret Service protection at her house.
Bill Clinton does have an office in Manhattan. But Hillary also has an office in Manhattan, potentially a campaign office, with at least a 12 member staff near Times Square.
Hillary Clinton reportedly has signed a two-year lease in a high-rise commercial building in midtown Manhattan, fueling growing rumors of a 2016 presidential run.
Citing anonymous sources, HollywoodLife.com reported Tuesday that Clinton signed the lease on a property which will eventually be used as her campaign headquarters. However, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill, told MSNBC the property is the new site for her personal office, not a campaign headquarters.
Clinton, who currently has a 12-member staff, moved into the new digs last week. The office space will comfortably fit 25 people, the entertainment site claims.
The leased property reportedly includes 14 workstations, one large conference room and features like floor-to-ceiling glass doors and windows with views of Times Square.
Chutzpah! Video Of Hillary: "The Server Will Remain Private" Because I Say So
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdWxNI7hDYM
The attitude on this video is just astonishing. She was shaking her head so much in response to the question about deleting emails, I thought her head was going to spin completely around. Of course, she then admitted she had done just that to about half of her emails. Of course, only the "private" ones...
She claimed all the server has on it now is her private emails with her husband. So the "server will remain private".
Of course, Bill's spokesman just said he doesn't send email, that he's only sent two in his life, while he was president.
Strangely timed statement one would think on Bill's part. Did he mean to undermine her story?
Also notice how she isn't looking you in the eye mostly as she talks.
I suspect Trey Gowdy will have something to Hillary by way of a subpoena for the server.
GAO Report: It Takes At Least 170 Days To Fire A Government Employee
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(Holy crap... so what else is new...)
Via WFB
http://freebeacon.com/issues/report-it-takes-at-least-170-days-to-fire-a-government-employee/
A minimum of 170 days is required to fire a federal employee for poor performance, if a government agency properly follows the required dismissal process.
The government firing process is so lengthy that departments often keep bad employees to avoid it, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
"The time and resource commitment needed to remove a poor performing permanent employee can be substantial," the GAO said. "It can take six months to a year (and sometimes longer) to dismiss an employee."
In order to fire a government worker federal managers can consult a 12-step flow chart, which the GAO provided in the report released Monday. The report examined the "long-standing personnel issue" of the government's inability to fire bad employees.
Federal agencies have two procedural options when faced with firing a poor worker: chapters 43 and 75 of title 5 of the United States Code, and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) implementing regulations.
Chapter 43 takes between 170 to 370 days to complete, and includes "counseling sessions" for the worker. The employee also gets a chance to improve their performance, which can last up to 110 days.
Throughout the process the government agency must consult with the Human Resources department and their General Counsel before the worker is informed of their dismissal and their "grievance rights."
After dismissal, the employee is then given the opportunity to appeal, which itself takes an average of 243 days to complete.
Alternatively, agencies can use chapter 75, which is "largely similar to chapter 43." Chapter 75 is generally faster since it does not require time to allow the employee to improve, but the "burden of proof for sustaining a dismissal" is higher.
Agencies are able to avoid both processes by firing poor performers during their first year on the job, or by declining to dismiss a bad employee.
[...]
The government fired just 3,489 employees for performance in 2013, representing 0.18 percent of all federal workers. Seventy percent of these dismissals occurred during the initial probationary period, 21 percent through chapter 75, and 8 percent through chapter 43.
Florida Gator out for a Day of Golf
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Beautiful day for golf
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Thanks for letting me play through, fellows
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Get the hell out of my way, Melvin!
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Damn sand Trap... Clean it up, Roger
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Okay, where's my ball?
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Ah, there it is... great shot! Am I good or what!!
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Let see now, that's about a two-footer
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I told Melvin to get the hell out of the way but he wouldn't listen...
TIME FOR LUNCH!!!
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[YAWN].... Nap time!
Groan.... Rand Paul Says He Signed Iran Letter To "Strengthen Obuma's Hand"
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(Groveling to the Paulbot Libertarian base, whose foreign policy views are basically the same as Code Pink)
Via Reason:http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/11/rand-paul-iran-letter-was-meant-to-stren
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDxMpKZR0dM
In an interview with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on the Todayshow this morning, Matt Lauer skipped over the motivation for Senate Republicans' open letter to Iran and asked Paul instead whether if he were president he would want a group of senators "undermining" his delicate negotiations.
Paul rejected the premise, claiming he signed the letter because he wanted to "strengthen the president's hand" by reminding Iran of the U.S.'s own hardliners. Paul also reiterated that sanctions on Iran would have to be lifted by Congress.
Hillary Could Face Jail Time In Striped Pantsuit From Email Legal Challenges
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2k3-ytK3Ds&t=44
(Time lapse shows Hillary Clinton aging... I just watched that and I didn't turn to stone...)
Via Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/11/hillary-clinton-could-face-jail-time-as-email-scan/
The Obama administration will soon find itself in court having to explain to federal judges why it never told anyone former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used a secret email address, potentially spoiling dozens of open records requests, experts said Wednesday.
And Mrs. Clinton could face up to three years in prison per message if she is found to have broken her word and handled classified information on the secret account, one open records expert told The Washington Times.
The legal challenges have already begun, with The Associated Press filing a federal lawsuit saying the State Department has foiled five years' worth of requests for Mrs. Clinton's emails, but never told them or the court that she kept her own server — meaning that her emails weren't being searched.[...]
Mr. Horner, the man who exposed former EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson's use of fake email alias "Richard Windsor," said Mrs. Clinton's chief legal problem could come if someone can prove she handled classified material on her private account. But since she controlled all access to her emails by running her own private server, it will be difficult to prove — unless another party in the email exchanges comes forward.
"So long as she retains possession, sole custody, of her server, which obviously was the point of the server, she has greatly reduced her exposure to legal jeopardy unless or until anyone at the other end of correspondence comes out," Mr. Horner said.
He said it was "implausible" Mrs. Clinton didn't handle classified information on her account, but in her press conference Tuesday, she said that was the case.
"I'm certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material," she said.
MSNBC's Ed Schultz: We Should Take Guns Away From Ferguson Police Officers
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(Ed Schultz is a genius! ... said nobody. You STINK, Ed...)
Via Daily Caller:
On his Wednesday show, MSNBC's Ed Schultz wondered whether "disarming the police" is an actual possibility in Ferguson amid probable changes to the police department after a report showing instances of racism.
"I'll give you this one: What about disarming the police?" Schultz said stunningly. "What about just having them carry nightsticks and the authority to arrest?"
"I mean, it would take a brave person to do something like that, but if you really want — there really are places on the face of this earth that there are police officers that don't carry firearms," Schultz told panelist Michael Eric Dyson.
"I know the right wing's gonna think I'm crazy for thinking, but if you really want change, you have to institutionally show it to the people that you want to do this," Schultz added. "That would be part of a big social engineering project if Ferguson's going to turn around. That's how I see it."
Feds Spent $148,379 To Create 'Diet Choker' In The Mooch War On Obesity
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(How stupid! The Feds could have gotten a "diet choker' for $19.95 plus tax at Billy Roy's Adult, Pawn, Bait, Tackle and Discount Cigarette Shop...)
Via WFB
http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spent-148379-to-create-diet-choker-that-monitors-eating-habits/
The federal government helped finance the creation of a so-called "diet choker" that monitors the eating habits of the wearer.[...]
The invention received a $148,379 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2013 to create a sensory necklace to "fill the need of automatically detecting swallows and eating patterns."
Researchers at UCLA, led by Majid Sarrafzadeh, the director of the Embedded and Reconfigurable Computing Lab of the university's computer science department, released the findings of a pilot study on the necklace this month.
CBS News called the invention "slightly odd." (No Sh!t...)
"These sensors track the vibration that occurs in the neck when a person chews food and swallows their drink," the report said. "This 'diet choker,' designed by engineers at University of California Los Angeles, can even sense what type of food you're eating since something crunchy is likely to make the neck vibrate more than food that's soft. The sensors can also determine if a person is downing a hot or cold drink."[...]
Sarrafzadeh told Popular Science that he and his team personalized the device in a pilot study by having people eat a "3-inch Subway sandwich and then sip down a 12-ounce drink."
The researchers envision the device not only for dieting, but also for quitting smoking, or reminding people with medical conditions to take their pills.
Otherwise, most of time the Republicans are working quite well with Obama as they all continue their way to further their liberal causes.
So which is the big 'gator carrying away for lunch, a Demo or a Repub? ;D As far as Hillary and Bill's texts. He said he doesn't send them. He never said he didn't receive them. Is anyone going to spill the beans about all the others who have used private e-mails for Gov't business? HA! Just twist and shout!
Quote from: Diane Amberg on March 12, 2015, 11:26:40 AM
So which is the big 'gator carrying away for lunch, a Demo or a Repub? ;D As far as Hillary and Bill's texts. He said he doesn't send them. He never said he didn't receive them. Is anyone going to spill the beans about all the others who have used private e-mails for Gov't business? HA! Just twist and shout!
Perhaps there would be more whistle blowers if they were net threatened by Hitler er I mean Obuma.
Even the Naval Shipyard I worked in had strict rules about e-mail and computer uses and that was before Hillary became Secretary of State. That plus who illegal donations to her foundation while Secretary should buy her prison time. But there is no justice in the law.
What has happened to patriotism in this country?
They are attempting to pass laws to force citizens to accept injections when required by the government.
I have but one suggestion --- force truth syrum injections on politicians and government employees on a daily basis.
Patriotism is all but gone in this country but if things get any worse I believe it may come back with a vengeance. And the liars will regret it.
Just my toughts and hopes and prayers. Nothing like Obama's desire to destroy our way of living.
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We the People
"'The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems,' and 'organizations must be based on many issues.' The organizer 'must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.'" http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
Neighbor Trolls Clinton,
Puts Up Yard Sign Selling
'Clean Hard Drive'
by Evan McMurry | 8:43 am, March 12th, 2015
Trolling season, which comes around every March 15, arrived in Chappaqua three days early this year when one of Hillary Clinton's neighbors stuck a FOR SALE sign in his lawn advertising a scoured hard drive:
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The sign, first noticed by the Daily News, read "Used Email Server, Clean Hard Drive, 15 Old House Ln. — See Bill," a reference to Clinton's press conference Tuesday in which she said thousands of the emails from her personal server had been deleted. Clinton has come under severe scrutiny for using a personal email account based in a private server at her New York home. (Pro-tip: we do our joke for-sale stuff on Craigslist now.)
Gary Murphy, owner of a house-cleaning business, said he was unsatisfied with the answers Clinton gave at the press conference. Murphy acknowledged he was a registered Republican, but has "equal disgust for both parties for the most part." Sure thing.
Clinton is no stranger to animosity from her town of residence; during her book tour last summer an unidentified hooligan defaced a banner advertising her appearance with a Benghazi reference.
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I, Pencil: The Movie
http://ipencilmovie.org/
OR
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYO3tOqDISE
TRANSCRIPT:
I, Pencil
My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read
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I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.*
Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that's all I do.
You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my story is interesting. And, next, I am a mystery—more so than a tree or a sunset or even a flash of lightning. But, sadly, I am taken for granted by those who use me, as if I were a mere incident and without background. This supercilious attitude relegates me to the level of the commonplace. This is a species of the grievous error in which mankind cannot too long persist without peril. For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, "We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders."
I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove. In fact, if you can understand me—no, that's too much to ask of anyone—if you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing. I have a profound lesson to teach. And I can teach this lesson better than can an automobile or an airplane or a mechanical dishwasher because—well, because I am seemingly so simple.
Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn't it? Especially when it is realized that there are about one and one-half billion of my kind produced in the U.S.A. each year.
Pick me up and look me over. What do you see? Not much meets the eye—there's some wood, lacquer, the printed labeling, graphite lead, a bit of metal, and an eraser.
Innumerable Antecedents
Just as you cannot trace your family tree back very far, so is it impossible for me to name and explain all my antecedents. But I would like to suggest enough of them to impress upon you the richness and complexity of my background.
My family tree begins with what in fact is a tree, a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon. Now contemplate all the saws and trucks and rope and the countless other gear used in harvesting and carting the cedar logs to the railroad siding. Think of all the persons and the numberless skills that went into their fabrication: the mining of ore, the making of steel and its refinement into saws, axes, motors; the growing of hemp and bringing it through all the stages to heavy and strong rope; the logging camps with their beds and mess halls, the cookery and the raising of all the foods. Why, untold thousands of persons had a hand in every cup of coffee the loggers drink!
The logs are shipped to a mill in San Leandro, California. Can you imagine the individuals who make flat cars and rails and railroad engines and who construct and install the communication systems incidental thereto? These legions are among my antecedents.
Consider the millwork in San Leandro. The cedar logs are cut into small, pencil-length slats less than one-fourth of an inch in thickness. These are kiln dried and then tinted for the same reason women put rouge on their faces. People prefer that I look pretty, not a pallid white. The slats are waxed and kiln dried again. How many skills went into the making of the tint and the kilns, into supplying the heat, the light and power, the belts, motors, and all the other things a mill requires? Sweepers in the mill among my ancestors? Yes, and included are the men who poured the concrete for the dam of a Pacific Gas & Electric Company hydroplant which supplies the mill's power!
Don't overlook the ancestors present and distant who have a hand in transporting sixty carloads of slats across the nation.
Once in the pencil factory—$4,000,000 in machinery and building, all capital accumulated by thrifty and saving parents of mine—each slat is given eight grooves by a complex machine, after which another machine lays leads in every other slat, applies glue, and places another slat atop—a lead sandwich, so to speak. Seven brothers and I are mechanically carved from this "wood-clinched" sandwich.
My "lead" itself—it contains no lead at all—is complex. The graphite is mined in Ceylon. Consider these miners and those who make their many tools and the makers of the paper sacks in which the graphite is shipped and those who make the string that ties the sacks and those who put them aboard ships and those who make the ships. Even the lighthouse keepers along the way assisted in my birth—and the harbor pilots.
The graphite is mixed with clay from Mississippi in which ammonium hydroxide is used in the refining process. Then wetting agents are added such as sulfonated tallow—animal fats chemically reacted with sulfuric acid. After passing through numerous machines, the mixture finally appears as endless extrusions—as from a sausage grinder-cut to size, dried, and baked for several hours at 1,850 degrees Fahrenheit. To increase their strength and smoothness the leads are then treated with a hot mixture which includes candelilla wax from Mexico, paraffin wax, and hydrogenated natural fats.
My cedar receives six coats of lacquer. Do you know all the ingredients of lacquer? Who would think that the growers of castor beans and the refiners of castor oil are a part of it? They are. Why, even the processes by which the lacquer is made a beautiful yellow involve the skills of more persons than one can enumerate!
Observe the labeling. That's a film formed by applying heat to carbon black mixed with resins. How do you make resins and what, pray, is carbon black?
My bit of metal—the ferrule—is brass. Think of all the persons who mine zinc and copper and those who have the skills to make shiny sheet brass from these products of nature. Those black rings on my ferrule are black nickel. What is black nickel and how is it applied? The complete story of why the center of my ferrule has no black nickel on it would take pages to explain.
Then there's my crowning glory, inelegantly referred to in the trade as "the plug," the part man uses to erase the errors he makes with me. An ingredient called "factice" is what does the erasing. It is a rubber-like product made by reacting rape-seed oil from the Dutch East Indies with sulfur chloride. Rubber, contrary to the common notion, is only for binding purposes. Then, too, there are numerous vulcanizing and accelerating agents. The pumice comes from Italy; and the pigment which gives "the plug" its color is cadmium sulfide.
No One Knows
Does anyone wish to challenge my earlier assertion that no single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me?
Actually, millions of human beings have had a hand in my creation, no one of whom even knows more than a very few of the others. Now, you may say that I go too far in relating the picker of a coffee berry in far off Brazil and food growers elsewhere to my creation; that this is an extreme position. I shall stand by my claim. There isn't a single person in all these millions, including the president of the pencil company, who contributes more than a tiny, infinitesimal bit of know-how. From the standpoint of know-how the only difference between the miner of graphite in Ceylon and the logger in Oregon is in the type of know-how. Neither the miner nor the logger can be dispensed with, any more than can the chemist at the factory or the worker in the oil field—paraffin being a by-product of petroleum.
Here is an astounding fact: Neither the worker in the oil field nor the chemist nor the digger of graphite or clay nor any who mans or makes the ships or trains or trucks nor the one who runs the machine that does the knurling on my bit of metal nor the president of the company performs his singular task because he wants me. Each one wants me less, perhaps, than does a child in the first grade. Indeed, there are some among this vast multitude who never saw a pencil nor would they know how to use one. Their motivation is other than me. Perhaps it is something like this: Each of these millions sees that he can thus exchange his tiny know-how for the goods and services he needs or wants. I may or may not be among these items.
No Master Mind
There is a fact still more astounding: the absence of a master mind, of anyone dictating or forcibly directing these countless actions which bring me into being. No trace of such a person can be found. Instead, we find the Invisible Hand at work. This is the mystery to which I earlier referred.
It has been said that "only God can make a tree." Why do we agree with this? Isn't it because we realize that we ourselves could not make one? Indeed, can we even describe a tree? We cannot, except in superficial terms. We can say, for instance, that a certain molecular configuration manifests itself as a tree. But what mind is there among men that could even record, let alone direct, the constant changes in molecules that transpire in the life span of a tree? Such a feat is utterly unthinkable!
I, Pencil, am a complex combination of miracles: a tree, zinc, copper, graphite, and so on. But to these miracles which manifest themselves in Nature an even more extraordinary miracle has been added: the configuration of creative human energies—millions of tiny know-hows configurating naturally and spontaneously in response to human necessity and desire and in the absence of any human master-minding! Since only God can make a tree, I insist that only God could make me. Man can no more direct these millions of know-hows to bring me into being than he can put molecules together to create a tree.
The above is what I meant when writing, "If you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing." For, if one is aware that these know-hows will naturally, yes, automatically, arrange themselves into creative and productive patterns in response to human necessity and demand—that is, in the absence of governmental or any other coercive masterminding—then one will possess an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom: a faith in free people. Freedom is impossible without this faith.
Once government has had a monopoly of a creative activity such, for instance, as the delivery of the mails, most individuals will believe that the mails could not be efficiently delivered by men acting freely. And here is the reason: Each one acknowledges that he himself doesn't know how to do all the things incident to mail delivery. He also recognizes that no other individual could do it. These assumptions are correct. No individual possesses enough know-how to perform a nation's mail delivery any more than any individual possesses enough know-how to make a pencil. Now, in the absence of faith in free people—in the unawareness that millions of tiny know-hows would naturally and miraculously form and cooperate to satisfy this necessity—the individual cannot help but reach the erroneous conclusion that mail can be delivered only by governmental "master-minding."
Testimony Galore
If I, Pencil, were the only item that could offer testimony on what men and women can accomplish when free to try, then those with little faith would have a fair case. However, there is testimony galore; it's all about us and on every hand. Mail delivery is exceedingly simple when compared, for instance, to the making of an automobile or a calculating machine or a grain combine or a milling machine or to tens of thousands of other things. Delivery? Why, in this area where men have been left free to try, they deliver the human voice around the world in less than one second; they deliver an event visually and in motion to any person's home when it is happening; they deliver 150 passengers from Seattle to Baltimore in less than four hours; they deliver gas from Texas to one's range or furnace in New York at unbelievably low rates and without subsidy; they deliver each four pounds of oil from the Persian Gulf to our Eastern Seaboard—halfway around the world—for less money than the government charges for delivering a one-ounce letter across the street!
The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles the best it can. Permit these creative know-hows freely to flow. Have faith that free men and women will respond to the Invisible Hand. This faith will be confirmed. I, Pencil, seemingly simple though I am, offer the miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain, a cedar tree, the good earth. ~~~THE END~~~
Leonard E. Read (1898-1983) founded FEE in 1946 and served as its president until his death.
"I, Pencil," his most famous essay, was first published in the December 1958 issue of The Freeman. Although a few of the manufacturing details and place names have changed over the past forty years, the principles are unchanged.
* My official name is "Mongol 482." My many ingredients are assembled, fabricated, and finished by Eberhard Faber Pencil Company.
* America,The Broken *
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Anyone who's lived a while has had friends and relatives die, and knows the grief that can overwhelm the survivors. It's further compounded when the death is a suicide. At such times, you can't help thinking about what you might have said or done that could have prevented it. That's how I now feel about America.
I suppose each of us must determine for himself if the crime taking place is suicide by means of a slow-acting poison or murder that can be laid at the feet of homicidal liberals, but I don't think there can be any question that America is not long for this world.
America's most precious possession, the Constitution, has been dragged through the mud by those whose egotism is so great that they seem to believe that their whims -- whether motivated by honest conviction or for strictly partisan reasons -- trumps what a bunch of divinely-inspired, long dead white guys, came up with a couple of hundred years ago.
And unlike what passes for leadership these days -- a bunch of braying donkeys and preening peacocks -- who never give a thought to anything beyond their next election, these were men who pledged their sacred honor and meant it, and, moreover, had sacred honor to pledge.
One can easily imagine America gazing into her mirror, tears running down her cheeks, thinking that even Alzheimer's might be a blessing. That way the reflection looking back would remind her how grotesque she has become, but she would at least be spared remembering the beauty that she once possessed.
• In the meantime, I think it is criminal that the Supreme Court justices get to take off for so many months. I realize that several of them are getting on in years, but they're not doing manual labor. In fact, they barely do any mental labor. All the grunt work is done by their staff. Those are the eager beavers whose job it is to hunt down precedence and write up briefs, and then get to brag for the next 50 years that they worked for a judge who owed his judicial career to some political hack.
It seems to me that when the President or members of Congress question the constitutionality of an executive edict or a piece of legislation, it should be fast-tracked to the Supreme Court. Why should it have to go through lower courts when everyone knows the final decision is inevitably going to rest with the Supremes? It's obviously far more important to decide whether Obama had the authority to change the Affordable Care Act a dozen times or grant executive amnesty to five million illegal aliens than whether the justices give their blessing to same-sex marriages.
And just maybe if the justices didn't take four month vacations, they'd have time to do both.
• I used to think that there should be a way to prevent everyone named Kennedy from seeking political office. I have now come to add the names of Bush and Clinton to that short list. With over 300 million people in the country, I'm sure we can do better.
• Speaking of people named Clinton, in spite of having signed a pledge not to accept bribes -- I mean, contributions -- from foreign nations while Hillary was serving as Secretary of State, it now appears that the Clinton Foundation was raking in all they could grab from Algeria, Norway, Kuwait, Qatar, Australia and Oman, between 2009 and 2013.
What is it about that particular job that it keeps getting filled by people from the bottom of the barrel? As bad as Mrs. Clinton was, we now have John Kerry, who is in the process of giving the store away to Iran, the country that has done more to support Islamic terrorism than even Saudi Arabia, just so Obama can brag that he got a nuclear deal signed with the mullahs. The big question about Kerry is how anyone who slandered American soldiers in the 1970s, and lied about his own military service, can wind up running the State Department in 2015.
The ugly truth is that Kerry has said far viler things about his fellow Americans than he ever has about those currently beheading and frying Christians.
Someone once suggested that people get the government they deserve. If true, imagine what that says about us.
• In other news, when Stephen Hawking recently decided to boycott an Israeli conference as a way to display his sympathies with the so-called Palestinians, some people wondered how such a brilliant fellow can also be a Jew-hater. How, they muse, can such a brainy chap align himself not only with those who elected Hamas to govern them, but to spit on those who invented the miraculous microchip that allows him to speak?
The answer is that brilliance in one area -- outer space in this case -- doesn't mean that one can't be a nincompoop in every other area. Brilliance is a nice gift, but it's really no substitute for wisdom and commonsense.
Hawking's decision also highlights the fact that the two places where you can't swing a cat without hitting an anti-Semite are the Middle East and among the English intelligentsia.
What I find most startling about this state of affairs isn't that the likes of Hawking, Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, to name but a few, hate Jews. In England, as in most of the European nations, hating Jews is what passes for tradition. Sometimes, I even suspect it's the only exercise they get. The real mystery is that in doing so, they feel the need to identify themselves with the backward savages who subjugate women and homosexuals, do everything in their power to stifle free speech and religious freedom, and, with rather delicious irony, happen to openly despise science, arts and entertainment, and those who are so engaged.
• Finally, I am passing along something that has gone viral, but you may have missed it. It is rumored that Pete Carroll, the coach of the Seattle Seahawks, is apparently ready to sign on as a special consultant to Pope Francis.
It seems the Pope wishes to recruit Carroll to be an envoy for the Vatican because he is the first man in history who, on Sunday, February 1st, 2015, caused 100 million people to jump up and yell "Jesus Christ!" in unison.(http://imageserver.moviepilot.com/capshielddisplay-avengers-2-age-of-ultron-captain-america-s-broken-shield-means-what.jpeg?width=620&height=338)
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Obama's 9/11 Conspiracy Theory
By Jeff Lipkes - March 13, 2015
Conspiracy theories about 9/11 still flit across the blogosphere like fruit bats after dusk. For the truthers, it was an inside job. The CIA detonated explosives planted in the buildings earlier in the year, with a little help from Dick Cheney and Louis Freeh. Many in the Arab world, along with American neo-Nazis, are convinced the Israelis were responsible. Several hundred Jews didn't show up for work that morning, doncha know, because they'd been warned by Mossad.
For Barack Obama, it's the Russians who are to blame -- specifically, Nicolai Chernyshevsky. He was the founder of Nihilism, and the nineteen terrorists were all nihilists, according to the President in his 2004 introduction to Dreams From My Father, written years before he was considered a presidential contender.
In one of the more accurate statements in the book, the narrator writes of September 11, "It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day." He then goes on to say, "Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and drives their brethren still."
Russian intellectuals in the 19th century, responding, admittedly, to a vicious Czarist police state, had the bad habit of importing some of the worst ideas of inventive German philosophers, weaponizing them, and re-exporting them. There are shelves of books on Chernyshevsky and on Mikhail Bakunin, another influential figure. But what's important to remember is that the nihilists were revolutionary socialists who differed from Marxists only on methods and on how utopia would be organized after the revolution.
The 9/11 nihilists were socialists, too, according to Obama. He does not use the term simply as a synonym for "cynic." The decision to fly planes into buildings was a result of "the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago's South Side." He sympathizes with the terrorists: "how narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair."
The West, of course, is to blame.
I know that the response of the powerful to this disorder -- alternating as it does between a dull complacency and, when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force, of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware....
Never mind that annual foreign aid from the US and Europe to Africa alone totals over 135 billion and America spends over 450 billion per year on welfare programs.
What happened on 9/11, Obama concludes, is that "history returned with a vengeance," or, as his mentor Jeremiah Wright put it, "the chickens have come home to roost." The attacks, in sum, were the result of "an underlying struggle between worlds of plenty and worlds of want." We had it coming.
Mohammad Atta and the other hijackers, Obama concedes, did not "embrace...diversity." Otherwise they would have chosen another way to protest the injustice of the West.
But in this respect, the terrorists were only like others "who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us." That includes the "overzealous Republican operatives" who made his name "a target of mocking websites." Obama, too, was a victim of 9/11. Whatever happens anywhere, it's always about him.
What it was not about, apparently, was Islam.
Hillary's Scandals -- Deja vu All Over Again
By Brian C Joondeph - March 13, 2015
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Hillary Clinton is not even officially running for president yet we are being treated to a preview of what her campaign and potential presidency might look like. In just the past few weeks she finds herself in the middle of two scandals. First it was pay-to-play money (contributions) from foreign governments, some of which are hostile to American interests. Second was the email scandal, dominating this week's headlines.
To quote Yogi Berra, "It's déjà vu all over again."
Millennials weren't alive or were too young to remember the Clinton scandals during Bill Clinton's presidency. As history is known to repeat itself, this is a good time to quickly review the cesspool of Clinton controversies.
There was the Whitewater real estate deal with Jim and Susan McDougal. Loans were made, under pressure by then-Governor Bill Clinton. The McDougal owned Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan went under. Jim Guy Tucker, Clinton's successor as governor, went to jail for his role in Whitewater. Bill and Hillary skated.
Clinton confidant and Hillary's law partner, Vince Foster, was found dead in Fort Marcy Park, under mysterious circumstances. Another Hillary partner at the Rose Law Firm, Web Hubbell, was sent to prison for billing fraud.
The common thread in these scandals was fraudulent billing and other shady deals. The NY Times in 1996 observed, "After nearly two years of searches and subpoenas, the White House said this evening that it had unexpectedly discovered copies of missing documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's law firm that describe her work for a failing savings and loan association in the 1980's."
Fast-forward to 2015. Substitute "emails" for "documents" and "State Department" for "law firm" and it's déjà vu all over again.
Let's not forget Bill Clinton's women. Monica Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, Sally Perdue, Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Elizabeth Gracen, and Juanita Broaddrick. And the Arkansas State Troopers who acted as Bill Clinton's pimps. Remember the "bimbo eruption team" created to contain the next Bubba-gal to come forward? Hillary at the time blamed it all on a "vast right wing conspiracy."
Fast-forward to 2015. Bill is paling around with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, taking junkets on Epstein's "Lolita express" private jet. Clinton apologist James Carville is spewing the same 1990s excuses, "right-wing talking points." Déjà vu all over again.
Lastly remember how the Clinton administration collected campaign contributions from the Chinese government? A string of memorable characters served as conduits of illegal contributions – Charlie Trie, Johnny Chung, John Huang, and James Riady.
Fast-forward to 2015 with the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation receiving contributions from such staunch U.S. allies as Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman. While Mrs. Clinton served as Secretary of State and potential future President. Unseemly enough that even the Washington Post took notice, "Rarely, if ever, has a potential commander in chief been so closely associated with an organization that has solicited financial support from foreign governments." Déjà vu all over again.
Turn on the news this week and it's the 1990s again. Clinton apologists James Carville, Joe Trippi, and Lanny Davis, excusing, denying, and blaming. Another déjà vu.
Hillary is not yet even the Democrat nominee and we are reliving the 1990s. Scandals, excuses, and blame. Every week another revelation. Distracting from the important issues facing the nation and the next commander-in-chief. Fair warning to those who don't remember the 1990s that with the Clintons back in the White House, it will be déjà vu all over again.Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/hillarys_scandals__dj_vu_all_over_again.html#ixzz3UFVYEPOQ
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( Good news for Obuma! Now, if he can just get Mooch to give it back to him...)
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(Should Dirty Harry get rid of the staff member and get a seeing eye dog? ...)
Here's a "quiz" from the obnoxious lib elitist rag Vox: Who Is Responsible For Shooting Two Ferguson Cops?
Here are their choices, surprisingly, "tea partiers" or "right-wing domestic terrorists" are not listed:
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Answer Here:
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/12/8200251/ferguson-police-shooting-blame
*** Pic Of The Day: Obuma Pinocchio ***
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(Here's Obutthead lying to Val Jarrett...
Sometimes, your surroundings just reveal who you are.)
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Another Hillary Email Lie: Those Sent To Other State Dept Employees Not Preserved As She Claimed
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(Just another evidence of how widespread the problem really is...)
Via Right Scoop: http://therightscoop.com/hillary-caught-in-another-lie-over-her-emails/
Hillary Clinton assured us the other day that most of her emails were already archived because she was corresponding with State Dept. employees who have .gov email addresses.
"The vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department."
Turns out that's not true at all:POLITICO – Hillary Clinton's explanation for her use of a personal email account while she served as secretary of state suffered another blow Friday as the State Department disclosed that the email accounts of senior department officials were not automatically archived until last month.
Clinton said at a news conference Tuesday that she believed the vast majority of work-related emails she sent or received from her private account were "preserved" because she was in correspondence with other officials using ".gov" accounts.
However, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters archiving of the work email boxes of senior State Department officials besides the secretary did not begin until "February of this year." She previously said Secretary of State John Kerry uses an official account and his emails have been archived since he succeeded Clinton.
Hillary and lies seem to go together:
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UK: Anglican Vicar Holds Islamic Prayer Service In His Church,
Has Congregation Give Praise To "The God That We Love, Allah"
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(Is this guy NUTS!! A Muslim cleric doing this would be in imminent danger of being killed...)
Via Daily Mail:
A leading liberal clergyman has come under fire from traditionalist Anglicans after allowing a full Muslim prayer service in his church.
Reverend Giles Goddard, vicar of St John's in Waterloo, central London, joined in the event by reading a passage from the Bible at the 'Inclusive Mosque' event.
He then asked the congregation to praise 'the god that we love, Allah', it was reported last night.
It is thought to be the first time an entire Islamic service has been held by the Church of England and has sparked criticism from evangelical clerics.
Orthodox clergyman said the event was against canon law, which prohibits any divergence from the official liturgy.
They argued that it could be 'offensive' to Christians who are persecuted for their faith.
Rev Goddard defended his decision to hold the event, describing it as a 'very moving' service. He said his intention was simply to offer people a 'place to pray'.
Nice To Be Royal: Mooch And Buttrack Flew To LA On Same Day...
On Two Separate Planes...
To Be On TV
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(So nice to know we are paying double helping them
advance their 'cool factor' (p.s. it's not working)...)
Via Washington Times:Taxpayers paid for President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama to fly separately Thursday to Los Angeles, where they appeared on separate TV talk shows on the same day.
Mr. Obama flew on Air Force One, which costs about $228,000 per hour of flight time, to appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Obama flew on a different plane Thursday across country to Burbank, California, to tape an appearance on Ellen Degeneres' show. That show will be broadcast on Monday.
White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz told reporters Friday that the president and first lady's "schedules were not in sync in order to travel together."
Not From the Onion: Army Says 'Social Network' Use Is a Sign of Radicalism
http://www.wired.com/2012/10/insider-threat/
Spencer Ackerman at Wired magazine doesn't like some of the guidelines the military is issuing regarding suspicious behavior that may signal that a comrade in arms is about to go postal...
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(Read that bullet list under "OBSERVE PERSONAL ISSUES" again: sounds like everyone who works for MSNBC or the Obama administration. Which may be why Ackerman is acting so ... disempowered. He's obviously frustrated with the mainstream military ideology and feels compelled to demonize others freely for taking precautionary measures. Does he even identify with his country anymore? Hmm...)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxKd5lpZwLY
MSNBC Anchor O'Donnell: "I Am A Socialist. I Live To The Extreme Left Of You Mere Liberals!"
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*** Our Progressive Future ***
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JOE: "I see dead people."
PANTSUITS: "That's our reflection, numbnutz."
*** Vid Of The Day ***
I'm introducing you to Black Books. If you don't watch every last episode and find it one of the funniest things you've ever had the privilege to look at with your eyes, you are dead to me, banned from this thread, and probably in this country illegally from one of those humorless burgs like Canada or Vermont. You people come here and eat our chemical-laden food and drink our toxic water and swim in our medical-waste-ridden estuaries and speak your unintelligible Canadiandian and Vermontish and expect free dental and vision from a ObumaCrappyCare-approved optician and I don't know where the hell I'm going with this...(http://fanart.tv/fanart/tv/76924/tvthumb/black-books-4f9303adf257f.jpg)
http://www.tvguide.com/shows/black-books-191412/
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A10PvpbPJZw
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Breaking: Valerie Jarrett Behind Leak Of Hillary Clinton's Email Scandal
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(The puppet master is revealed. This troll Jarrett has been leaking dirt on Obama foes for years. Gonna make some popcorn, then sit back
and enjoy watching the libturds eating one another...)
Via NY Post
http://nypost.com/2015/03/14/obama-adviser-behind-leak-of-hillary-clintons-e-mail-scandal/
Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton's use of a private e-mail address during her time as secretary of state, sources tell me.
But she did so through people outside the administration, so the story couldn't be traced to her or the White House.
In addition, at Jarrett's behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into Hillary's conduct at Foggy Bottom, including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation.
Six separate probes into Hillary's performance have been going on at the State Department. I'm told that the e-mail scandal was timed to come out just as Hillary was on the verge of formally announcing that she was running for president — and that there's more to come.
Members of Bill Clinton's camp say the former president suspects the White House is the source of the leak and is furious.
"My contacts and friends in newspapers and TV tell me that they've been contacted by the White House and offered all kinds of negative stories about us," one of Bill's friends quotes him as saying. "The Obamas are behind the e-mail story, and they're spreading rumors that I've been with women, that Hillary promoted people at the State Department who'd done favors for our foundation, that John Kerry had to clean up diplomatic messes Hillary left behind."
Then, according to this source, Bill added: "The Obamas are out to get us any way they can."[...[
"Obama and Valerie Jarrett will go to any lengths to prevent Hillary from becoming president," a source close to the White House told me. "They believe that Hillary, like her husband, is left of center, not a true-blue liberal."
If she gets into the White House, they believe she will compromise with the Republicans in Congress and undo Obama's [Crappy] legacy.
Obama Allegedly Visits Family Of Kayla Mueller
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(Yeah... we were in Scottsdale and traffic was a bitch trying to get back to Surprise...)
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(Best part of his trip was him leaving Phoenix, heading back to DC..)
Via Stars and Stripes
President Barack Obama met with the family of American aid worker Kayla Mueller, who died while being held hostage by the Islamic State extremist group.
In an unannounced stop while he was in Phoenix for another event, Obama on Friday offered condolences to her parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, and her brother, Eric, according to a White House spokesman.
"He appreciated the chance to hear from the Muellers more about Kayla's compassion and dedication to assisting those in need around the world," Eric Schultz, deputy press secretary, said in an e-mailed statement.
Updated
Via The Daily Courier
President Barack Obama landed at Sky Harbor International Airport late Friday morning for a quick visit that included a round-table discussion at the Phoenix VA Hospital, a meeting with Kayla Mueller's family from Prescott and a stop at a veteran's home in Gilbert.
Obama spoke with the family of Prescott's Mueller, the aid worker who died after being taken hostage in Syria by the Islamic State group.
Obama expressed his condolences and recognized the family's efforts to set up the foundation "Kayla's Hands" to improve the lives of others.
The president briefly met with Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on the tarmac before heading for his first-ever visit to the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center- the same hospital that sparked a national examination into how the government cares for its former military service members.
Hundreds gathered at the intersection of Seventh Street and Indian School Road in central Phoenix to catch a glimpse of the presidential motorcade. About 100 people stood in protest of the visit, not just for the treatment of veterans, but for myriad causes including education, immigration and the proposed mines at Oak Flats.
Vince Ansel, a 67-year-old Vietnam War veteran and patient at the Phoenix VA, said the president insulted veterans when he drove past the VA hospital without stopping during his visit in January. "I'm glad he didn't interrupt the already poor service at the time, but it was a sign of disrespect for vets," he said.
America Needs A Shrink
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BARACK OBAMA insists we can't identify the enemy because if we utter the word "Islamic," even if we modify it with "extremists," "jihadists" or "fundamentalists," every Muslim will assume we're at war with them. Not only is that absurd and condescending, but it doesn't come close to passing the smell test.
There are factions of Muslims who are constantly at war with one another, so why would Muslims assume that if we attack, say, ISIL or Boko Haram, but not Jordan or Egypt, we can't distinguish between our friends and our enemies? Instead, it's Obama, with his constant attacks on Bibi Netanyahu, who seems unable to make that particular distinction.
Besides, Obama never tires of telling us that the barbarians who are slitting throats and bar-be-cuing Christians, Jews and their fellow Muslims, have nothing whatever to do with Islam, so why his reluctance to wage war on them?
♦ In related news, the ISIL beheader has been identified as Mohammad Emwazi of London. It seems he is from a well-to-do family and has graduated from college with a degree in computer programming. So I guess he didn't become a throat-slitting jihadist, as Obama and Marie Harf recently suggested, because he couldn't get a job flipping burgers at McDonald's.
♦ Meanwhile, in Denver -- formerly known as the Mile High City, but now, thanks to the legalization of marijuana, more of a Ten Mile High City – a black thug called a black police officer a nigger. In response, rather than bounce a billy club off the punk's noggin, he said, "I am not a nigger." As a result, the loons running Denver have reprimanded the cop for saying the n-word," ignoring the context, thus ruining his future chances for promotion.
I'm reminded that Marco Rubio observed: "Every day Joe Biden says something that would end my career if I said it."
♦ I heard someone on the radio the other day claim that one of the worst things George W. Bush ever did was come up with the term "compassionate conservative," and to an extent I agree. The term, after all, distinguishes between those compassionate ones and all the rest of us, as if conservatism is as nasty and diabolical as liberals insist it is.
But inasmuch as Bush also approved of amnesty without building a fence at the border; promoted No Child Left Behind, a precursor to Common Core; and banned incandescent light bulbs, I would say that the schmuck was about as conservative as his kid brother.
♦ For some years now, one public official after another has lied about his military service. It probably started with John Kerry, who came back from Vietnam and managed to forge a political career out of slandering his fellow soldiers as sadists and baby-killers, and lying about his alleged injuries in order to cop a couple of Purple Hearts.
The latest offender is, not too surprisingly, the Secretary of Veteran Affairs, Bob McDonald, who claimed to have been a member of Special Forces. With such despicable creeps at the top, is it any wonder that wounded warriors continue to die while under the so-called care of the V.A.?
♦ It seems that in 2014, there were 16,900 federal employees who were paid over $200,000. Keep in mind that was only counting base salary, and didn't take into account overtime and bonuses. Most of them were working at – you guessed it! – the V.A. For the record, more than 1,600 federal employees made in excess of $300,000.
Lest you think those bonuses were the kind – say a week's salary -- you might get if your company did really well, Lois Lerner, late of the IRS, collected $110,000 in bonuses during her last three years on the job. As you see, her efforts to target Tea Party groups between 2010 and 2012 were greatly appreciated.
♦ As you may or may not have noticed, as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch, Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham, carried through on their promise to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next Attorney General. That is akin to re-confirming Eric Holder to another two years on the job. If the voters in Utah, Arizona and South Carolina, don't at least attempt to recall these three idiots, they should be denied the right to complain about Ms. Lynch in the future.
♦ I often listen to Dennis Prager when I'm in the car, which is the only time I listen to the radio. He is another of my fellow Jewish conservatives and I often agree with his take on topics. However, he has one belief that he brings up on a regular basis, with the intention of setting straight those who deign to disagree with him.
The moral question he poses is this: If your pet dog or cat and a stranger are both drowning, and you can only rescue one of them, which would it be?
To Prager, the obvious answer is the stranger. His reason is that only human beings have souls and are created in the image of God. I have heard this from him for a great many years and each time I hear it, steam spews out of my ears.
Now I'm willing to grant that if the stranger is a baby or a child, I would, with a heavy heart, allow my pet to drown.
But, assuming we're talking about an adult, I am willing to take on Prager and deny him the moral high ground. For one thing, I don't believe that every human being is created in the image of God. Was Hitler? Was Stalin? Was Pol Pot or Saddam Hussein or Idi Amin? Anyone wish to argue that Mohammad Emwazi, aka "Jihadi John," was created in God's image or even that he has what most of us regard as a soul?
But even if the person drowning isn't a notorious villain, we all draw conclusions when we see a fellow human being. If the guy going down for the third time fits my notion of a meth dealer or a tattooed thug, why would I rescue him and allow my dog Angel to die? My wife and I have, after all, accepted responsibility for Angel's well-being, and we take that responsibility seriously.
♦ Speaking of people of questionable worth, hardly a day goes by when we don't hear about some idiot trying to outrace a train. In spite of lights, bells and closing gates, some people simply refuse to be warned off. In certain quarters, I believe this phenomenon is commonly referred to as a thinning of the herd.
God forbid I should rescue one of those morons and allow our beloved dog to drown.
....Burt
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An Open Letter to hdr22@clintonemail.com
By Maureen Dowd - March 14, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-an-open-letter-to-hdr22clintonemailcom.html?src=recg
WASHINGTON — SINCE open letters to secretive and duplicitous regimes are in fashion, we would like to post an Open Letter to the Leaders of the Clinton Republic of Chappaqua:
It has come to our attention while observing your machinations during your attempted restoration that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your attention two features of our democracy: The importance of preserving historical records and the ill-advised gluttony of an American feminist icon wallowing in regressive Middle Eastern states' payola.
You should seriously consider these characteristics of our nation as the Campaign-That-Must-Not-Be-Named progresses.If you, Hillary Rodham Clinton, are willing to cite your mother's funeral to get sympathy for ill-advisedly deleting 30,000 emails, it just makes us want to sigh: O.K., just take it. If you want it that bad, go ahead and be president and leave us in peace. (Or war, if you have your hawkish way.) You're still idling on the runway, but we're already jet-lagged. It's all so drearily familiar that I know we're only moments away from James Carville writing a column in David Brock's Media Matters, headlined, "In Private, Hillary's Really a Hoot."
When you grin and call out to your supporters, like at the Emily's List anniversary gala, "Don't you someday want to see a woman president of the United States of America?" the answer is: Yes, it would be thrilling.
But therein lies the rub.
What is the trade-off that will be exacted by the Chappaqua Republic for that yearned-for moment? When the Rogue State of Bill began demonizing Monica Lewinsky as a troubled stalker, you knew you could count on the complicity of feminists and Democratic women in Congress. Bill's female cabinet members and feminist supporters had no choice but to accept the unappetizing quid pro quo: The Clintons would give women progressive public policies as long as the women didn't assail Bill for his regressive private behavior with women.
Now you, Hillary, are following the same disheartening "We'll make you an offer you can't refuse" pattern. You started the "Guernica" press conference defending your indefensible droit du seigneur over your State Department emails by referring to women's rights and denouncing the letter to Iran from Republican senators as "out of step with the best traditions of American leadership."
None of what you said made any sense. Keeping a single account mingling business and personal with your own server wasn't about "convenience." It was about expedience. You became judge and jury on what's relevant because you didn't want to leave digital fingerprints for others to retrace. You could have had Huma carry two devices if you really couldn't hoist an extra few ounces. You insisted on piggybacking on Bill's server, even though his aides were worried about hackers, because you were gaming the system for 2016. (Or even 2012.)
Suffused with paranoia and pre-emptive defensiveness, you shrugged off The One's high-minded call for the Most Transparent Administration in History.
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It depends upon what the meaning of @ is.
The subtext of your news conference cut through the flimsy rationales like a dagger: "You can have the first woman president. You can get rid of those epically awful Republicans who have vandalized Congress, marginalized the president and jeopardized our Iran policy. You can get a more progressive American society. But, in return, you must accept our foibles and protect us."
You exploit our better angels and our desire for a finer country and our fear of the anarchists and haters in Congress.
Because you assume that if it's good for the Clintons, it's good for the world, you're always tangling up government policy with your own needs, desires, deceptions, marital bargains and gremlins.
Instead of raising us up by behaving like exemplary, sterling people, you bring us down to your own level, a place of blurred lines and fungible ethics and sleazy associates. Your family's foundation gobbles tens of millions from Saudi Arabia and other repressive regimes, whose unspoken message is: "We're going to give you money to go improve the world. Now leave us alone to go persecute women."
That's an uncomfortable echo of a Clintonian trade-off, which goes: "We're going to give you the first woman president who will improve the country. Now leave us alone to break any rules we please."
Bill, your pathology is more human and interesting. It's almost like you need to create messes to see if your extraordinary political gifts can get you out of them. It's a fatherless boy's "How Much Do You Love Me?" syndrome. Do you love me enough to let me get away with this?
Hillary, your syndrome is less mortal, more regal, a matter of "What Is Hillary Owed?" Ronald Reagan seemed like an ancient king, as one aide put it, gliding across the landscape. You seem like an annoyed queen, radiating irritation at anyone who tries to hold you accountable. You're less rhetorically talented than Bill but more controlling, so it's harder for you to navigate out of tough spots.
No Drama Obama and his advisers are clearly appalled to be drawn into your shadowy shenanigans, just as Al Gore once was. Whatever else you say about this president, he has no shadows.
We hope this letter enriches your knowledge of our constitutional system and promotes mutual understanding and clarity as the campaign progresses.
Sincerely,
AmericaWhat I would like in a President:
A leader who has a strong vision for the country, not one whose vision depends of the results of the latest poll.
A leader with a clear moral compass, not one whose compass dial reads "What's in it for me?"
A leader who when they make a mistake says "I made a mistake, I'm sorry," not one who sends their minions out for them.
A leader who has actually done something that requires accountability, not one who has just "Punched Their Ticket."
A leader who is not afraid to tell people "No," even if its unpopular, because this is something they believe in; not a leader who appoints another commission to study the matter.
A leader who believes that being President is an honor and a matter of service to the nation, not one who demands the job because its my right.
Anyone know where I can find someone like that? Because so far its looking pretty damn bleak out there....
...Warph
Quote from: Warph on March 16, 2015, 01:39:31 AM
What I would like in a President:
A leader who has a strong vision for the country, not one whose vision depends of the results of the latest poll.
A leader with a clear moral compass, not one whose compass dial reads "What's in it for me?"
A leader who when they make a mistake says "I made a mistake, I'm sorry," not one who sends their minions out for them.
A leader who has actually done something that requires accountability, not one who has just "Punched Their Ticket."
A leader who is not afraid to tell people "No," even if its unpopular, because this is something they believe in; not a leader who appoints another commission to study the matter.
A leader who believes that being President is an honor and a matter of service to the nation, not one who demands the job because its my right.
Anyone know where I can find someone like that? Because so far its looking pretty damn bleak out there....
...Warph
Great post Warph.
We do need someone with morals, ethics and honesty.
We need someone that understands the true meaning of jurisprudence.
We do need someone that truly understands the meaning of the word Leadership.
We need people with these qualities in leadership in all levels of government.
Especially on the local levels, cities and county governments, which I think would lead to more of the same up the ladder.
These type of leaders on local levels across the nation would out number the State level leaders and they would accept the responsibility of ensuring State leaders uphold the same standards.
Working from the bottom up is the way to go in my thinking.
The top is too far gone.
Just a thought.
Thanks for all your posts Warph.
I think having a country and western singer as attorney general will make for a nice change.
Would that we could get you in there Warph.
Hillary Spent $527K To Fly Herself And Her Staff On Taxpayer-Funded
Private Charter Flights While In The Senate
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(Hillary wasn't aware of what accounts were being used when she booked her flights with the Gnome Travel Agency??... it is in her emails! ...)
Via USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/03/16/clinton-senate-charter-flights/24336227/
Before her 2006 Senate re-election campaign and 2008 presidential bid, then-senator Hillary Rodham Clinton dramatically increased her use of taxpayer-funded charter flights, becoming the Senate's biggest spender on reported charter airfare.
In the four years before the 2008 presidential campaign, she spent more than $300,000 on charters while the four other senators running for president — including then-senator Barack Obama — took a grand total of two taxpayer-funded charter flights.
Clinton spent $225,000 traveling on such charters during her eight-year tenure. That covers only her own airfare. The figure rose to $527,000 when the cost of the staff who flew with her is included. Clinton almost always flew with senior adviser Huma Abedin, and spokesman Philippe Reines was also a regular passenger, Senate spending records show.
Clinton's charter spending blossomed as her 2006 re-election loomed, rising from $85,000 in 2004 to $150,000 in 2006.
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Clinton's travel was part of "her tireless work on behalf of New York," spokesman Nick Merrill said, and "she constantly crisscrossed the state to meet with the people she represented."
[...]
It wasn't all New York travel. USA TODAY found 28 of her office flights traveled outside New York at a total cost to taxpayers of $42,000, including trips to Atlanta to speak at a synagogue, Boston to speak about stem cell research, and Charleston, S.C., for the Renaissance Weekend, an annual New Year's Day conference.
Thanx guys. If I were President...
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5JApeGGMMg&t=53
State Dept Continues To Evade Questions On Whether Hillary Signed OF-109 Form, Certifying She'd Turned In All Government Records
Multiple reporters have now asked about this form. Megyn Kelly has filed a FOIA request to find out if Hillary Clinton signed it. Really, how hard is it to take the 15 seconds to check her file to see if it is there? We are now going days on their stalling tactics on this question.
Why is this so important and why is the State Department avoiding the question? Because this is the standard government separation statement that employees must sign upon leaving. It states basically that you are not leaving with any government property or records. If she signed it, certifying to that fact, then she lied and committed perjury, given that the emails she walked off with are government records/property.
If she didn't sign it, why not? And how was she able to avoid signing it?
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Egyptian Court Sentences Muslim Brotherhood Chief Mohammed Badie To Death
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(John Kerry expresses his outrage in 3... 2... 1 ... that's one way to take care of any dirty politicians...)
Via Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/11476156/Egypt-condemns-to-death-Muslim-Brotherhood-chief-Mohammed-Badie-and-13-others.html
An Egyptian court on Monday condemned to death Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 13 other senior members of the banned movement.
The 14 members of the Brotherhood, which was declared a "terrorist organisation" in 2013, were found guilty of "plotting attacks aimed at sowing chaos" across the country, state news agency MENA reported.
The court found Badie and his co-defendants, who include the Brotherhood's former spokesman Mahmud Ghazlan, had set up an "operations room" to prepare attacks against the state in the weeks after the army ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
But lawyer Ahmad Helmi branded the verdicts as "farcical", in a telephone interview with AFP.
A total of 51 suspects, including the 14 sentenced to death on Monday, are being tried in the case, 31 of whom are behind bars.
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Mitt Romney to Fight Evander Holyfield in Charity Bout
by David Stout @david_m_stout
http://time.com/3747168/mitt-romney-evander-holyfield-boxing/
Forget about Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, the real fight of the century is scheduled for May 15 when Mitt Romney enters the ring to battle Evander Holyfield in Salt Lake City.
Yes, you read that right. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and Holyfield, the five-time heavyweight titleholder who smacked around the likes of Mike Tyson and George Foreman, are going to lace up gloves and duke it out in a charity exhibition.
However, Romney has no delusions about actually winning this contest.
"It will either be a very short fight, or I will be knocked unconscious," Romney told the Salt Lake City Tribune. "It won't be much of a fight. We'll both suit up and get in the ring and spar around a little bit."
A portion of the proceeds will help support Charity Vision, which provides doctors and facilities in poverty-stricken areas with equipment and resources to carry out eye operations.
Netanyahu's Future, And Israel's, On Line Today In Israeli Election
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(Let's cross our fingers and send the prayers out in his direction.
As he goes, so may go Israel, and everyone, including Obuma, is trying to do him in...)
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political survival was on the line Tuesday in a hard-fought parliamentary election pitting his nationalist and security-first ideology against his challengers' focus on the plight of the country's struggling middle class.
Opinion polls showed a tight race heading into Tuesday's vote, with Netanyahu's opponents, led by Isaac Herzog of the centrist Zionist Union, showing a slight lead. The last available poll was published Friday, when a significant number of voters were still undecided.
In a dramatic last-ditch effort to appeal to his right-wing base, Netanyahu reiterated his pledge Tuesday to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and took a swipe at Israel's own Arab minority.
"Right wing rule is in danger. Arab voters are going to the polls in droves. Left wing organizations are bringing them in buses," Netanyahu said in a video statement posted on his Facebook page.
He called on supporters to vote for him to "narrow the gap" between his party and the Zionist Union. "With your help, and with the help of God, we will build a nationalist government that will protect the state of Israel," he said.
Best News Of The Day!!!
*** IT'S OFFICIAL:
NETANYAHU WINS!... ***
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was poised to earn a third consecutive term Wednesday after his conservative Likud party earned the most votes in parliamentary elections. Netanyahu and his main opponent, Isaac Herzog, must now compete to form a workable government that holds a majority in Israel's 120-member Knesset, though the incumbent is in a slightly better position to do so after Tuesday's vote.
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According to official results reported in Israeli media early Wednesday, Likud had won 29 seats, five more than its main competitor, Herzog's centrist Zionist Union. No other party had more than 14 seats, but the 61-seat requirement to form a government means that each smaller parties has a role to play in selecting Israel's next leader. Analysts were keeping a particularly close eye on Kulanu, another centrist party run by former Netanyahu government minister Moshe Kahlon that was projected to earn 10 seats in the latest figures.
Kahlon, whose campaign focused almost entirely on bread-and-butter economic issues, refused to take sides.
"I am loyal to my way," he told his supporters, saying he would work to form a government committed to social justice.
Regardless of the final outcome, Likud had significantly outperformed all the polls in the run-up to the election, all of which had predicted a second-place finish for the party behind the Zionist Union. Netanyahu claimed victory early Wednesday in a speech to cheering supporters at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv.
"Against all the odds we obtained a great victory for the Likud," Netanyahu told the gathering. "Now we must form a strong and stable government that will ensure Israel's security and welfare," he added, in comments aimed at Kahlon.
He said he had already been in touch with all other nationalist parties in hopes of quickly forming a coalition.
Netanyahu focused his campaign on security issues, while his opponents instead pledged to address the country's high cost of living and accused the leader of being out of touch with everyday people. Herzog also promised to repair tattered ties with the U.S. and to revive peace efforts with the Palestinians.
At a rally of his supporters, Herzog vowed to do his utmost to form a government and said he too had reached out to potential coalition partners. In a nod to Kahlon, he said he was committed to forming a "real social reconciliation government" committed to lowering the country's cost of living and reducing gaps between rich and poor.
However, Herzog's effort to build a coalition is complicated by the possibility of having to rely on support from a new Arab alliance that was projected to capture 14 seats. But Arab parties have never sat in an Israeli coalition before.
Stav Shaffir, a leader of the Zionist Union, called the results a "clear vote of no confidence in Netanyahu."
She said the Zionist Union would wait for the official results before declaring victory or defeat, but claimed Netanyahu's opponents "have a majority."
Netanyahu has ruled out a "unity" government with the Zionist Union that would give him a broad coalition, and Herzog has also been cool to the idea.
President Reuven Rivlin will now spend the next few days consulting with the various parties, whose leaders will all offer recommendations for who should be prime minister. Based on those consultations, he will ask either Netanyahu or Herzog to begin the process of forming a coalition.
The final weeks of the campaign had become a referendum on Netanyahu, a towering figure in Israeli politics who has spent more time as Prime Minister than anyone except the country's primary founder, David Ben-Gurion.
Netanyahu, who already has a testy relationship with President Barack Obama, took a sharp turn to the right in the final days of the campaign, staking out a series of hard-line positions that will put him at odds with the international community.
In his most dramatic policy reversal, he said he now opposes the creation of a Palestinian state — a key policy goal of the White House and the international community. He also promised to expand construction in Jewish areas of east Jerusalem, the section of the city claimed by the Palestinians as their capital.
Netanyahu infuriated the White House early this month when he delivered a speech to the U.S. Congress criticizing an emerging nuclear deal with Iran. The speech was arranged with Republican leaders and not coordinated with the White House ahead of time.
In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama was confident strong U.S.-Israeli ties would endure far beyond the election regardless of the victor.
The Palestinians, fed up after years of deadlock with Netanyahu, are now likely to press ahead with their attempts to bring war crimes charges against Israel in the International Criminal Court.
"What Netanyahu is doing and stating are war crimes and if the international community wants peace it should make Netanyahu accountable for his acts," said Palestinian official Saeb Erekat. He said the Palestinian leadership will meet Thursday to discuss its next steps.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Video: Black Panther Group Calls For Killing Of Police, "Only Good Pig Is Pig Who's Dead", "Oink, Oink, Bang, Bang" Video: Black Panther Group Calls For Killing Of Police, "Only Good Pig Is Pig Who's Dead", "Oink, Oink, Bang, Bang"
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feY0diCOp-Y
Mar 16, 2015
Black Panthers march downtown Austin, TX during SXSW chanting slogans supporting killing cops. This is the type of propaganda we saw in Ferguson funded by George Soros. "A pig is a pig that's what I said, the only good pig is a pig that's dead". "Oink! Oink! Bang! Bang!". "Marching down the avenue, 20 more pigs and we'll be through".
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Teachers Union Leader Randi Weingarten Had Hillary Clinton's Secret Email Address
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(In the interest of National Security the Teachers Union
needed immediate access to the Secretary of State... ::))
Via Washington Examiner
Union leader Randi Weingarten stated on Twitter that she had been aware of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's secret, private email address prior to the New York Times story that first revealed it.
Weingarten, a prominent liberal leader and president of the 1.6 million-member American Federation of Teachers, made the assertion after joining in a Twitter exchange late Friday between CNBC's John Harwood and Jeb Bush spokesman Tim Miller over whether Bush's use of private email was similar to Clinton's. Weingarten chimed in stating "-and how was it secret? Point abt Bush is he and others do the same-."
Miller responded, asking, "also if not secret – did you know about the private email before the NYT story?" Weingarten replied "yes" but did not elaborate.
Although she didn't explicitly say so, the context would suggest Weingarten was saying that she had exchanged messages on Clinton's private address. It is not clear what Weingarten meant with her claim that the address was not secret, although she could have meant that it was not officially classified.
Weingarten is major figure in Democratic politics. The Center for Responsive Politics lists AFT as a "heavy hitter" in political spending, reporting that it doled out $19.5 million in the 2014 election alone — the majority of it, $13 million, going to its tax-exempt political committee, AFT Solidarity. It also spent about $3 million in lobbying fees in 2013-2014. AFT is also a top donor to the Clinton Foundation, listed on its website as giving between $1 million and 5 million in 2014.
She is also a Hillary Clinton donor, having given $3,250 to the former secretary of state's Senate and presidential campaigns, and $1,000 to Ready for Hillary, the political action committee created by Clinton's allies to boost her expected presidential bid.
"NOW WE HAVE A CALIPHATE" --
Dick Cheney Obliterates the Foreign Policy Disaster That is Barack Insane Obuma
By James Rosen
More To This Story, Its A Doozy: http://www.playboy.com/articles/playboy-interview-dick-cheney
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In an interview featured in Playboy Magazine (I only read it for the compelling stories), Dick Cheney unleashes a fusillade of nuclear truth-bombs on Barack Insane Obuma, who is... without question.... the worst president in American history. Some highlights:
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ON SQUANDERING A VICTORY IN IRAQ
...Where do you start? I think with respect to the situation in Iraq, his precipitous withdrawal and refusal to leave any stay-behind forces, to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqis, was a huge mistake; we are paying a price for it now. He's having to go back in now, and the guy who campaigned on the basis of bring the boys home and get out of Iraq is now redeploying forces to Iraq...
ON DEGRADING THE MILITARY CAPABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES
...I don't think he ever bought into the notion that we're at war, in terms of a war on terrorism; I think he always wanted to treat it as a law-enforcement problem. I think he's done enormous damage to the military. I think what's happened to the military in terms of morale, in terms of financing, budget and so forth is just devastating. The way Obama is functioning now, he's crippling the capacity of future presidents to deal with future crises. It takes a long time to build up that military force. And I am absolutely convinced there will be a future president—two or three times down the road, perhaps—who will be faced with a major crisis and will not have the military capability he needs to deal with it. We are limiting the options of future presidents because of what is happening to the defense budget today...
ON THE DESPONDENCY OF OUR ALLIES
...I came to town in 1968, and I have never seen people I have known in some cases for a quarter of a century—foreign leaders, especially in the Middle East—who are so terribly frustrated, angry, frightened. "Whatever happened to the United States?" There's a conviction they can't count on us, that our word doesn't mean anything...
ON OBAMA'S "RED LINE" IN SYRIA
That's a classic example, where Obama got everybody ready to do something about Syria and then at the last minute pulled the plug. I had a prominent Mideast leader talk to me when I was there last spring. First time I'd ever heard him say this; he's always been very self-confident and very much in command. He said, "You assume there is no political price to be paid for those of us over here who support the United States—wrong assumption. It is sometimes a real question of leadership these days whether or not it's smart, politically, for us, with our people, to be friendly to the United States." General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the new president of Egypt, has been to Moscow; he hasn't been to the United States. It's not because he loves Russians; it's because the political price he would have to pay domestically, inside Egypt, to come to the United States and be seen with Barack Obama would be very damaging for him. Our friends no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer fear us. We've created a huge vacuum in that part of the world, and ISIS has moved in big-time. Now we have a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
ON THE RISE OF ISLAMONAZI TERRORISM
We have had a massive spread in the number of Al Qaeda–type organizations. The RAND study that came out last summer said that between 2010 and 2013 there had been a 58 percent increase worldwide in the number of Al Qaeda–type organizations. We used to worry, at 9/11, just about Afghanistan; now it stretches from Mali and Nigeria in West Africa, across North Africa, through the Middle East, all around into Indonesia, where you'll find potential sanctuaries and safe harbors for Salafi Islamists, the terrorists, the Al Qaeda types. It's a very dangerous situation. I think the threat is growing steadily, and I think our capacity to deal with it is rapidly diminishing.
ON JIMMY CARTER'S SIGH OF RELIEF
I look at Barack Obama and I see the worst president in my lifetime, without question—and that's saying something. I used to have significant criticism of Jimmy Carter, but compared to Barack Obama and the damage he is doing to the nation—it's a tragedy, a real tragedy, and we are going to pay a hell of a price just trying to dig out from under his presidency.(http://bp2.blogger.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SFWpogERwjI/AAAAAAAAG3U/CfAIzoyPuzU/s300/080616-carter-obama-shoveling.jpg)
*Digging their own political
graves*
Ted Cruz Befuddles MSNBC Hack on Congressional Role in Foreign Policy Using... History, Facts
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(For some reason, Ted Cruz decided to appear on MSNBC's The Morning Shmoe [Mark Levin's name for the lowest-rated news program on the lowest-rated network], where the combined IQ of the hosts... the science is settled... is roughly the square root of that of a goldfish. Which makes Ted Cruz schooling Mika Brzezinski akin to teaching calculus to a Maine lobster...)MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Well, okay, do you know exactly what the deal is to call it a bad deal? Do you have all the information? I don't think you do.
TED CRUZ: We don't. We have some that the administration has leaked. And oddly enough the administration leaks more details about the deal to the media than they actually inform Congress. But I can point out the idea you're suggesting, if I'm understanding you'll right, that Congress shouldn't be interfering in what the president is doing, from the beginning of our country, Congress has done so.
In 1987 Congress passed the Boland Amendment restricting the funding of the Contras in Nicaragua. Now Ronald Reagan at the time was trying to stop communists in Nicaragua. Now my guess is you probably would have been very supportive of the Boland Amendment which was literally ripping the carpet out from underneath what President Reagan was trying to do in Nicaragua.
Let's go even further back. Woodrow Wilson, at the end of World War I, negotiated the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I. Went back to Congress, the Senate rejected it. Now on your view, I guess, you know, the New York Daily News would run a story on the front page putting the pictures of all the senators and calling them traitors.
Two Warnings
Mar 17, 2015
by Thomas Sowell
http://rightwingnews.com/column-2/two-warnings/
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When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on March 3rd, it was the third time he had done so. The only other person to address a joint session of Congress three times was the legendary British prime minister Winston Churchill.
The parallels between the two leaders do not end there. Both warned the world of mortal dangers that others ignored, in hopes that those dangers would go away. In the years leading up to World War II, Churchill tried to warn the British, and the democratic nations in general, of what a monstrous threat Hitler was.
Despite Churchill's legendary status today, he was not merely ignored but ridiculed at the time, when he was repeatedly warning in vain. Knowing that his warnings provoked only mocking laughter in some quarters, even among some members of his own party, he said on March 14, 1938 in the House of Commons, "Laugh but listen."
Just two years later, with Hitler's planes bombing London, night after night, the laughter was gone. Many at the time thought that Britain itself would soon be gone as well, like other European nations that succumbed to the Nazi blitzkrieg in weeks (like France) or days (like Holland).
How did things get to such a desperate situation, with Britain alone continuing the fight, and struggling to survive, against the massive Nazi war machine that now controlled much of the material resources on the continent of Europe?
Things got that desperate by following policies strikingly similar to the policies being followed by the Western democracies today, including some of the very same notions and catchwords being used today.
Just recently, a State Department official in the Obama administration said that Americans have remained safe in a nuclear age, not because of our own nuclear arsenal but because "we created an intricate and essential system of treaties, laws and agreements."
If "treaties, laws and agreements" produced peace, there would never have been a Second World War. The years leading up to that monumental catastrophe were filled with international treaties and arms control agreements.
The Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War, imposed strong restrictions on Germany's military forces — on paper. The Washington Naval Agreements of 1922 imposed restrictions on all the major naval powers of the world — on paper. The Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928 created an international renunciation of war — on paper.
The Munich agreement of 1938 produced a paper with Hitler's signature on it that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waved to the cheering crowds when he returned to England, and said that it meant "Peace for our time." Less than a year later, World War II began.
Winston Churchill never bought any of this. He understood that military deterrence was what preserved peace. With England playing a leadership role in Europe, "England's hour of weakness is Europe's hour of danger," he said in the House of Commons in 1931.
Today, with the Obama administration "leading from behind" — in practice, not leading at all — we see in Ukraine and the Middle East what that produces.
As for disarmament, Churchill said in 1932, "Alone among the nations we have disarmed while others have rearmed."
Today, the United States has that dubious and reckless distinction. Our pacifists, like those in England during the 1930s, argue that we should disarm to "induce parallel" behavior by others. In England between the two World Wars, the rhetoric was that they should disarm "as an example to others."
Whether others would follow that example was just as dubious then as it is today. While Russia and China increased the share of their national output that went to military spending in 2014, the United States reduced its share. Churchill deplored the "inexhaustible gullibility" of disarmament advocates in 1932. That gullibility is still not exhausted in 2015.
"Not one of the lessons of the past has been learned, not one of them has been applied, and the situation is incomparably more dangerous," Churchill said in 1934. And every one of those words is more urgently true today, in a nuclear age.Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.
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The 1960's and 1970's counterculture is alive and well within the
minds of aging hippies, and they are still dying like flies from drug overdoses
From The Wall St. Journal:
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Older adults are abusing drugs, getting arrested for drug offenses and dying from drug overdoses at increasingly higher rates. These surges have come as the 76 million baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, reach late middle age. Facing the pains and losses connected to aging, boomers, who as youths used drugs at the highest rates of any generation, are once again—or still—turning to drugs.(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/12/20/1356004213027/Hippies-new-age-001.jpg)
The trend has U.S. health officials worried. The sharp increase in overdose deaths among older adults in particular is "very concerning," said Wilson Compton, deputy director for the federal government's National Institute on Drug Abuse.(http://riotjoke.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/hippies.jpg)
The rate of death by accidental drug overdose for people aged 45 through 64 increased 11-fold between 1990, when no baby boomers were in the age group, and 2010, when the age group was filled with baby boomers, according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mortality data. That multiple of increase was greater than for any other age group in that time span.
The surge has pushed the accidental overdose rate for these late middle age adults higher than that of 25- to 44-year-olds for the first time. More than 12,000 boomers died of accidental drug overdoses in 2013, the most recent data available. That is more than the number that died that year from either car accidents or influenza and pneumonia, according to the CDC.
"Generally, we thought of older individuals of not having a risk for drug abuse and drug addiction," Dr. Compton said. "As the baby boomers have aged and brought their habits with them into middle age, and now into older adult groups, we are seeing marked increases in overdose deaths."(http://www.blogdehumor.com/wp-content/2011/02/abuelos_hippies.jpg)
Why some people stay in a time warp like that is a mystery, but whenever I see an aging hippie who hasn't changed their clothing or hair style in 40 years, I wonder how it is that they became so paralyzed in their thinking and habits.(http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/8/858/IZBJ000Z.jpg)
Obuma's Temper Tantrum Continues: WH Officials Say They Are
Revisiting America's Stance As Israel's Shield
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Mark Levin nails it:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xtWbpO6viQ
(It was a treasonous attempt by the Obuma regime to overthrow the Israeli government and Obuma is nowhere near stopping that attempt to destroy Israel in totality. His Jewish donors should be ashamed and shunned by everyone with one iota of patriotism and loyalty to one of America's best allies. Obama has caused relations with another key ally, Canada, to be on the frigid side... and we're not talking weather...)
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Via Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/israels-america-united-116203.html
In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decisive re-election, the Obama administration is revisiting longtime assumptions about America's role as a shield for Israel against international pressure.
Angered by Netanyahu's hard-line platform towards the Palestinians, top Obama officials would not rule out the possibility of a change in American posture at the United Nations, where the U.S. has historically fended off resolutions hostile to Israel.[...]
While saying it was "premature" to discuss Washington's policy response, the official wouldn't rule out a modified American posture at the United Nations, where the U.S. has long fended off resolutions critical of Israeli settlement activity and demanding its withdrawal from Palestinian territories.
"We are signaling that if the Israeli government's position is no longer to pursue a Palestinian state, we're going to have to broaden the spectrum of options we pursue going forward," the official said.[...]
Obama officials must now decide whether more international pressure on Israel can help bring a conservative Netanyahu-led government back to the negotiating table with the Palestinians — or whether such pressure would simply provoke a defiant reaction, as some fear.
Obama has other diplomatic options. He could expend less political capital to oppose growing momentum within the European Union to impose sanctions on Israel for its settlement activity.
More provocative to Israel would be any softening of Obama's opposition to Palestinian efforts to join the International Criminal Court, which the Palestinian Authority will formally join on April 1. Under a law passed by Congress, any Palestinian bid to bring war crimes charges against Israel at the court will automatically sever America's $400 million in annual aid to the Palestinian Authority, although some experts suggested Obama could find indirect ways to continue some funding — even if only to prevent a dangerous collapse of the Palestinian governing body.
Obuma's Chicago Terrorist Convicted, No His OTHER Terrorist
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http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/02/26/national-review-report-convicted-terrorist-rasmieh-yousef-odeh-briefly-worked-obamacareObama's Chicago terrorist has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, authorities in the Windy City announced late last week. No, not his old terrorist, Bill Ayers, his newer terrorist, Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, the woman he hired to work as an Obamacare "navigator" in Illinois.
Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, a terrorist from Jordan, was convicted in Israel for her part in several bombings including one from way back in 1969 that killed two students in a grocery store.
Despite her murderous past, the Illinois Department of Insurance hired this killer Muslim as an Obamacare "navigator" to push the President's odious healthcare take over onto citizens in that state.
So, Obama had a terrorist pushing his Obamacare law on citizens in his own home state.
Great work if you can get it.
When Odeh came to the USA and became a citizen she did not note her past convictions on her paper work. This lie could see her citizenship revoked.
Then, she has been arrested for her lies and faced ten years in prison.
After only two hours a jury convicted Odeh and she was sentenced to an 18-month prison sentence for lying about her role in Muslim terror and not telling US officials of her history.
So, there you have it. Obama's other Chicago terrorist has been convicted and sentenced in his home town.[/size]
Hillary Clinton's Top Five Clashes Over Secrecy
The latest flap over her private emails as secretary of state is far from the first time she's been accused of lacking transparency.
by Jeff Gerth
ProPublica, March 13, 2015, 8 a.m.
http://www.propublica.org/article/hillary-clintons-top-five-clashes-over-secrecy
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Back in April of 2007, when she was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination for the first time, then-Senator Hillary Clinton lashed out at the secrecy of the George W. Bush administration.
She told a New Hampshire audience that if elected she would implement a "plan to enhance accountability and transparency" and "to replace secrecy and mystery with openness." One part of her plan: "It's time our government went fully online as well."
She lost her White House bid. But 20 months later, before Barack Obama took that job and she became secretary of state, she set up a private computer server registered to her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., to handle all her official, as well as private, emails for the next four years. Her decision — a secret until earlier this month — impeded efforts by the press and others to review State Department actions.
Today it is Hillary Clinton's record of transparency that has come under fire. At a press conference Tuesday, she acknowledged that in retrospect "it would've been better for me to use two separate phones and two email accounts." She has asked the State Department to release her official emails, a process that could take months.
Few public figures have been as scrutinized as Hillary Clinton. Sometimes her disclosures go beyond what is required, but she's also racked up a reputation for secrecy that at times has returned to haunt her.
Here are five examples covering the last two decades. Some are drawn from a 2007 book I did, with Don Van Natta Jr., entitled "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Little Brown & Co.) Clinton's office didn't respond to a request for comment.
1) 1992: The Commodity Trades
During Bill Clinton's first run for the White House, his campaign declined to release all of the couple's tax returns. Later it emerged that the campaign had weighed requests from the press and decided not to do so, because a few of the returns showed Hillary Clinton's spectacular success in commodities trading, in which she made almost $100,000 from an initial investment of $1,000 in a matter of months for a return of almost 10,000 percent. Hillary Clinton threatened a campaign lawyer who had access to the material with retribution if she released the data: "You'll never work in Democratic politics again," the lawyer, Loretta Lynch, says Clinton told her. It wasn't until 1994, as the New York Times prepared to publish an article detailing the trades, that the Clintons made public the returns.
2) 1993: The Health Care Task Force
As First Lady, Clinton led a presidential task force to overhaul the U.S. health care system. The group, which produced a 1,342-page bill that failed to win approval, came under intense criticism from lawmakers and interest groups for meeting behind closed doors. Several court challenges were brought in an attempt to open the process. Ultimately the courts provided a partial legal victory to the administration. Clinton later wrote she didn't mind the criticism since she was "trying to do something important for people" but acknowledged the failure was partially the result of her "own missteps" in "trying to do too much, too fast."
3) 1994: Records from the Rose Law Firm
U.S. investigators in 1994 subpoenaed the First Lady's billing records from her years at the Rose Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, documents that had been also sought by reporters. A focus of their interest was her legal work for a failing savings and loan, but records of those billings weren't found. Much later, Clinton's long-time assistant, Carolyn Huber, said she found in the White House residence an additional box of records that contained the billing memos. They were turned over to the independent counsel in 1996. Clinton testified she had no knowledge of how the records wound up where they did.
4) 2006: The Energy Task Force
Late in her first term as U.S. senator from New York, Clinton set up an energy task force to help her work through the issue, deliver a major speech on the subject and prepare for a possible presidential run, participants in the task force told us for the book. They produced a 40-page report in April 2006. The whole project, including the existence of the group, its members and its work product was a secret, designed, participants said, to encourage frank discussions of the issue. The leader of the task force headed an investment firm with major holdings in the energy sector. Senators routinely get input from outsiders and no law requires their disclosure, but a secret task force is unusual.
5) 2015: The Family Foundation
The Clinton family foundation, now called the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, made disclosures that exceed the legal requirements. Charities are not required to list donors, but as part of Clinton's selection as secretary of state the foundation agreed to disclose the identity of contributors and restrict solicitations from foreign governments. Still, the information on the foundation's website is less than full. Donors are identified but not the exact amount of each donation or the date of those contributions. Instead donations fall under ranges and are listed cumulatively. The foundation did not announce that it started raising money from foreign governments after Hillary Clinton left office. But last month the Wall Street Journal pieced together some new foreign donations after the foundation's web site was updated. That article was the first in a spate of news accounts raising questions about foreign money coming into the Clinton network as she prepares a run for president. The foundation has said donors are carefully vetted and their money goes to important charitable projects.
Who do you think is financing and building the Caliphate?
INSANE changes to
the terrorist watch list
Mar 18, 2015 Source: DrRichSwier.com by: Joseph R. John
For the first time in 36 years, the Annual Security Assessment presented to the U.S. Senate, by previous CIA Directors and Directors of National Intelligence, has "EXCLUDED" Iran and Hezbollah from the State Department's Bureau of Counter-terrorism List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Without any doubt, at all, the National Intelligence Agencies of over 100 nations, consider Iran the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. Iran and Hezbollah have been consistently included on the List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations for 36 years by President Jimmy Carter, President Ronald Reagan, President George H.W. Bush, President Bill Clinton, and President George W. Bush.
This reckless and very "Treacherous" action by the occupant of the Oval Office, will confuse and handcuff U.S. Intelligence Agencies, the FBI, the CIA, the DIA, NSA, the Department of Justice, the National Security Council, the U.S. Armed Forces, and the U.S. State Department. This action was authorized while the world is currently watching Iran's armed military Quid Force flying in thousands of boots on the ground to effectively take over Iraq, militarily, under the cover of defending Iraq from ISIL Removing Iran and Hezbollah from the List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations was ordered by Obama to support his pro-Iranian and anti-Israeli reckless Middle East Foreign policy, has to date resulted in Iran taking control of Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen, with Afghanistan and Bahrain in Iran's sights.
The unclassified report, issued by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper on February 26, 2015 and entitled the "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Communities", was published by the Times of Israel amid Israeli concerns. Iran is responsible for having killed and maimed thousands of members of the U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq with Iranian manufactured IEDs delivered to al Qaeda in Iraq. Iran is still killing and maiming thousands of U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan today with IEDs manufactured in Iran and delivered to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Iran's terrorist front group, Hezbollah, is responsible for killing over 2000 Americans and members of the U.S. Armed Forces in terrorist attacks for 36 years.
- See more at: http://americanactionnews.com/articles/absurd-changes-to-the-terrorist-watch-list#sthash.DH7umrRb.dpuf
The Obama administration paid $490 million dollars this week to Iran and will give them a total of $11.9 billion by the end of June. Iranian terrorists have been destabilizing the Middle East.
Iran has constantly threatened our biggest ally in the region, Israel. Additionally, they are harboring nuclear weapons.
They pose a threat to America, our allies, and anyone who opposes them.
Giving money to Iran only enables their ability to grow their nuclear program. They must be stopped!
Please stop the President's handout to Iran now.
Dante de Blasio (NY Mayor son) Wins State Debate On Environmental Preservation For Groundhogs
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(His hair-do is a nesting ground for moonbats...)
Groundhog Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F8dOA5j5U4&t=31
Via NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/dante-de-blasio-wins-state-debate-championship-article-1.2156026?utm_content=buffer5ed9d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=NYDailyNewsTw
Dante de Blasio's not at a loss for words.
The First Son won a state debate championship Sunday along with his partner, a fellow student from Brooklyn Technical High School.
Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray attended the championship match at Stuyvesant High School, where Dante, a senior, and his partner Samuel Eluto, a Brooklyn Tech junior, debated a pair of students from Bronx Science on environmental preservation.
Dante told The New York Times, which first reported his victory, that he felt "really satisfied" with his performance.
"I felt like all the work I had done up until this point had really been worth something."
His parents were thrilled.
"Congratulations Dante, Sam and your amazing coaches on winning the State Championship for Policy Debate!" McCray tweeted on Thursday.
The First Family celebrated the victory by dining out at Bogota, a Colombian restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
As Relations With Israel Plummet To New Low,
POS Obuma Cuts Video To Iranian People Praising Ayatollah Khamenei
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(Anyone think it's a coincidence POS Obuma chose today to release his Nowruz [Iranian/Persian New Year] message? ... [it begins on the first day of spring]...)
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POS VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6DfZyrT2AI
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While POS Obuma Watches Basketball, Pentagon Loses Track Of $500 Million
In Weapons, Aircraft And Equipment Given To Yemen
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(This Piece of sh!t Obuma is by far the largest Western state sponsor of Muslim terrorism. He "ends" wars by withdrawing American forces, leaving stockpiles of military hardware to be scooped up by the terrorists. He provided billions in cash to the Muslim Brotherhood, cash to hostile Muslim states, ensures the transfer of trillions of dollars in oil revenue, and is negotiating to ensure Iran has thermonuclear weapons within a decade. And we had to pull out our special forces in Yeman in inglorious retreat. All our weapons and equipment... next stop, al-Qaeda!)
Via WaPo:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-loses-sight-of-500-million-in-counterterrorism-aid-given-to-yemen/2015/03/17/f4ca25ce-cbf9-11e4-8a46-b1dc9be5a8ff_story.html
The Pentagon is unable to account for more than $500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen, amid fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by Iranian-backed rebels or al-Qaeda, according to U.S. officials.
With Yemen in turmoil and its government splintering, the Defense Department has lost its ability to monitor the whereabouts of small arms, ammunition, night-vision goggles, patrol boats, vehicles and other supplies donated by the United States. The situation has grown worse since the United States closed its embassy in Sanaa, the capital, last month and withdrew many of its military advisers.
In recent weeks, members of Congress have held closed-door meetings with U.S. military officials to press for an accounting of the arms and equipment. Pentagon officials have said that they have little information to go on and that there is little they can do at this point to prevent the weapons and gear from falling into the wrong hands.
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NAPA Ad Features Hillary Clinton as the Annoying Mother-In-Law
I wonder what Hillary charged NAPA for her brilliant acting
performance as the freakishly annoying Mother-In-Law?
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYFY9ju5avg
The Confederate Flag On Trial
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On March 23rd, the Supreme Court will hear a case regarding the Confederate flag- Walker vs. Sons of Confederate Veterans. This case could have broad reaching First Amendment implications beyond Texas. At issue is the presence of the Confederate flag on a state-issued license plate.
Texas, like most states, has a specialty license plate program where organizations can design their own license plates for an additional fee. The Sons of Confederate Veterans, a recognized charitable organization, sought to have a license plate displaying their logo along with a Confederate flag. After three administrative reviews, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles rejected the design claiming that the depiction of the flag is a divisive issue and likely to offend some members of the public. At issue is whether this is a permissible restriction on Free Speech or whether it is viewpoint discrimination. The state argues that since the license plate is state-issued, it could be construed as a State-endorsed message and one they do not wish to convey. Failing that argument, they said that a decision contrary to the state would open their Motor Vehicle Department to issuing other potentially more offensive license plates such as endorsing child abuse or animal cruelty.
Read More:
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We ought to be pro-American and Confederate heritage is American. Let's hope that the bureaucrats (socialists) in Texas will get right and approve the Texas Confederate plates.
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We ought to be pro-American and Confederate heritage is American. Let's hope that the bureaucrats (socialists) in Texas will get right and approve the Texas Confederate plates.
Lets hope so... after all, these great States did... we'll know in late June. Not sure about Florida:
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Lee's Namesake School to Remove Confederate Flags
Washington and Lee University agrees to students' demand
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(Newser) – Robert E. Lee is giving up his flag one more time in the South. Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., has acceded to the demands of a group of law students and will remove Confederate flags that adorn Lee Chapel on the campus, reports the Roanoke Times. In an email to students and faculty, university President Kenneth Ruscio said that the replica flags were there for historical purposes only but that they would be taken down. He added that the school "will continue to study its historic involvement with slavery," which he called a "regrettable chapter of our history."
The law students found the presence of the flag especially vexing because W&L students take an honor-code pledge in the chapel. Lee served as president of what was then known as Washington College beginning in 1865, and the school added his name after he died. Both he and the school owned slaves at one point. Ruscio defended Lee as an "imperfect person living in imperfect times" and likened his situation to that of slave-owner Thomas Jefferson. At Above the Law, Elie Mystal applauds the black law students who pushed for the change. W&L could have continued to ignore its own history, he writes. "The only thing that will stop them from ignoring it is for good people to demand better."
Reason POS Obuma Regime Left Iran And Hezbollah Off Terrorism List? DNI Clapper: "Change In Formatting" On Report
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(This would be laughable, if it wasn't so damn seriously disturbing... this pretty well proves that Obuma is the top Terrorist in this fiasco!!!...)
Via Fox Insider:
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/03/17/iran-and-hezbollah-missing-us-terror-threat-list
John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., sounded off tonight on the news that Iran and Hezbollah were omitted from the latest U.S. terror threat list.
This year's Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Communities doesn't include Iran or Hezbollah in the terrorism section. Catherine Herridge reports that the office of National Intelligence Director James Clapper cites a change in formatting as a reason for this removal.
"It's a flat lie [...] the people who would say this is a format change are weasels," Bolton said.
Bolton said he thinks Iranian negotiators told American negotiators to "go easy on us on this terrorism stuff." Bolton explained that Iran wants to be free of sanctions imposed because of its state sponsorship of terrorism.
The omission of Iran and Hezbollah from the report was likely a concession by the administration in nuclear weapons negotiations, Bolton said. He wondered: How many other concessions has this administration made in an effort to get a deal done?
Why Some Feminists Can Be Very Scary...
...like this crazy nutcase below. She'll do anything to sell more magazines...
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These women are not "feminists", as in celebrating and honoring women and their worth. My mother and my grandmother were feminists, working to support families and fulfill their own talents, while also raising children. Valuing and honoring women, breaking glass ceilings, while not man-hating on their way there.
These women don't honor women. It's just another cause for those on the left to exploit to create division and attack the evil 'system' of patriarchy and of course capitalism (it always comes back to that).
Now if Robin Morgan were just any random loon, one might well just dismiss it.
But Robin Morgan was the editor-in-chief of MS magazine, has a weekly hour long radio show on CBS Radio, broadcast on WJFK, and she's still a leading light in the "feminist movement".
This is only one of the many rather disturbing quotes that are attributed to her, more may be found here. One can see from that link, that she is not alone in the feminist crazy.
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Boston Globe Goes Native-American: Lib Rag Runs Editorial,
Three Op-Eds Urging Warren To Run For President
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(Hillary relegated back to breaking glass coffee table tops... Tough choice between a bitch or a nut. Princess Spreading Bull must sit with Boston fathers and smoke buffalo dung. Think to cross many creeks under many moons to become Big Chief in the Great White Teepee.)
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Look no further for a textbook example of why the Boston Globe is seen by critics as kneejerk liberal.
(Note that the Globe is wholly owned by the New York Times... the same NYT that is slipping all those little tidbits about Hillary's naughty self dealing activities while in charge at State into the public sphere, while the Globe is leading the cheering section exhorting 'Fauxcahontas' to run for the presidency. It looks like a twofer for 'Pinch' who bought the Globe originally to impress same sex marriage on the State of Massachussetts and is now using it to launch a full spread torpedo salvo at the Hillary Clinton candidacy.
Never the less, all puppet strings lead back to Comrade Hussein Obuma. We need to remember that she has about a trillion dollars to use for her election. She didn't go from being a third tier law school graduate to a professor at Harvard law without a lot of money provided by the left's favorite palindrome. Yes Harvard needed a woman from a minority at that point, but the question is who gave Harvard the money to take her and her quasi Indian heritage when there were many qualified Black woman who could have been given that slot...)
In today's paper, most of the cover and two full inside pages within the "Ideas & Opinion" section (eight pages in all) are devoted to a single cause — urging Elizabeth Warren, a Bay State senator and the Democrats' most ardent class warrior, to run for president.
The lead editorial is titled "Senator Warren, step up and run," next to a huge photo of a contemplative Warren on the first page of the section. Adjacent to the editorial is a column by Anna Galland, executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action, with the headline, "Her message for the middle class resonates across the spectrum."
ust in case Globe readers miss the message that the broadsheet is bonkers for Warren, two more op-ed columns inside amplify the point. American Prospect co-founder Robert Kuttner, a Brandeis professor and HuffPo contributor, writes a piece titled "If she does run, she'll surprise the skeptics."
Making it four for four is an offering from Bloomberg Businessweek columnist Joshua Green, headlined "Party needs a credible threat to Clinton in the primaries."
Even the most Warren-besotted lefty can't avoid discerning a pattern — the Globe's lead editorial and not one, not two, but a trio of pro-Warren for president columns, and not a single dissenting voice. In other words, the kind of debate she relished in the faculty lounge at Harvard.
Hold on a sec, there is dissension in the ranks, though easily missed unless you squinted. There on the bottom of one of the inside pages is a pull-quote from the only conservative in the mix, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer. His observation — "What you're feeling now is Early Onset Clinton Fatigue. The CDC is recommending elaborate precautions. Forget it. The only known cure is Elizabeth Warren." Yes, even the steely-eyed Krauthammer apparently isn't immune from Warren's alleged charm.[...]
If Warren did join the race, she would take the party rank-and-file by storm. There is a hunger for a candidate who can articulate all the frustrations felt by middle- and working-class people, and especially by the young. The Republican Tea Party types get to play that role only because of the vacuum on the Democratic side.[...]
Hillary Clinton's protean tendencies make it hard to know exactly where she will come down on economic and financial-regulatory matters.
Israel: Beware Of Obuma
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(It's not naiveté... Israel knows who the serpent is and his name is Obuma)
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Via NY Post:
First he comes for the banks and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice Department, spies on journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, slashes the military, throws open the borders, doubles the debt and nationalizes the Internet.
He lies to the public, ignores the Constitution, inflames race relations and urges Latinos to punish Republican "enemies." He abandons our allies, appeases tyrants, coddles adversaries and uses the Crusades as an excuse for inaction as Islamist terrorists slaughter their way across the Mideast.
Now he's coming for Israel.
Barack Obama's promise to transform America was too modest. He is transforming the whole world before our eyes. Do you see it yet?
Against the backdrop of the tsunami of trouble he has unleashed, Obama's pledge to "reassess" America's relationship with Israel cannot be taken lightly. Already paving the way for an Iranian nuke, he is hinting he'll also let the other anti-Semites at Turtle Bay have their way. That could mean American support for punitive Security Council resolutions or for Palestinian statehood initiatives. It could mean both, or something worse.
Yemen Dissolving Into Civil War, Shi'ite Rebels Capture Key City And Airport
(Experts are reporting all U.S. friendly-intelligence sources going dark in the country, as they are forced to flee or go underground. Thanks Mr. President! Another rousing success...)
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) - Rebels seized a Yemeni airport and set up checkpoints throughout the area Sunday as a U.N. envoy warned that the country was at "the edge of civil war."
Houthi militants took over the airport in Taiz as they swept through the city and surrounding province, two officials with the Taiz provincial government said.
One civilian was killed and 82 others wounded when the rebels fired at local residents protesting their presence, the officials said.
The Shiite rebels have also seized security and intelligence buildings in Taiz, the officials said. Taiz, about 390 kilometers (240 miles) south of Sanaa, is Yemen's cultural capital.
At a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting on Yemen Sunday, a U.N. envoy said the country was in a "rapid downward spiral" at "the edge of civil war."
"I urge all sides at this time of rising tensions and inflammatory rhetoric to appreciate the gravity of the situation and to deescalate by exercising maximum restraint. ... Peaceful dialogue is the only way forward," said Jamal Benomar, the U.N.'s special adviser on Yemen.
On Saturday the State Department said the U.S. military had pulled its remaining personnel out of Yemen due to the deteriorating security situation.[...]
Yemeni Mosque Bombing Victims Were Cursing Jews And Americans
At Moment ISIS Suicide Bomber Detonated Explosives
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(Yemeni Mosque Bombing Victims Were Cursing Jews And Americans At Moment ISIS Suicide Bomber Detonated Explosives...)
Via INN:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193022#.VRA2JZtFDX5
Last Friday, terrorists who claimed to be affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) targeted two mosques affiliated with the Shiite Houthi rebel movement which has taken over the capital of Yemen, Sanaa.
The attacks, carried out by suicide bombers during the rush for Friday prayers, killed 137 people and injured 345 others, according to Al-Jazeera.
One of the mosques targeted was the Al-Hashoush Mosque. According to video footage posted to the internet and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the worshippers at the mosque were cursing Jews and wishing death upon Israel just as the suicide bomber detonated his explosive device.
Arutz Sheva chose not to present the video here due to its graphic nature.
The preacher is shown saying in the video, "Our belief in Allah will increase after today. We will triumph over their deceit and their arrogance. Allah is with us..."
The worshippers respond by chanting, "Death to America. Death to Israel. Curse upon the Jews. Victory to Islam. Allah Akbar. Death to America. Death to Israel. Curse upon the Jews. Victory to..."
An arrow on-screen then points to a man walking through the crowd, a bomb goes off and worshippers cry out.
The Iranian-backed Houthis took control of the capital Sanaa in September, forcing the resignation of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi in January.
Iran is reportedly seeking to use the Houthis to gain control over Yemen in a similar way in which it has used its proxy terror group Hezbollah to gain control in Lebanon.
Ivy League Princeton Students Greet Obama With Chants Of "Four More Years! Four More Years!"...
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(Your sorry college students hard at work trying to ruin America... Also, Princeton is Mooch's alma mater...)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLamwgiYjkk
Via The Blaze:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/21/obama-appears-a-bit-embarrassed-when-princeton-basketball-fans-invoke-a-constitution-defying-chant-during-game/
... But reportedly after offering a wave in the arena, Obama himself got a cheer from Princeton fans — and one he seemed visibly embarrassed over: "Four more years! Four more years!"Hearing the chant, a smiling Obama tossed a gaze to the vocal portion of the crowd and immediately invoked the "cut it out" gesture, slicing his hand in front of his neck:
TIME reporter Zeke Miller notes the chants came from the Princeton student section.
I happened to stumble on to this.ALERT: Obama's State Dept Openly PROMOTES Shariah Law on Twitter [PHOTO]
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http://conservativetribune.com/state-dept-promotes-shariah/
ALERT: 1st
Shariah Law College
Started Inside America... Located in THIS State
It finally happened. The first "Shariah law" college has been launched in the United States. The founders have a history of pushing Islamic tyranny in America as well as literal violence against "the Jews."
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges, one of the six main accrediting agencies for higher education in the U.S., has granted "initial accreditation" to Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. This college offers a Bachelor of Arts program in "Islamic Law and Theology."
Read more at: http://conservativetribune.com/alert-1st-shariah-law-college-started-inside-america-located-in-this-state/
The Best Place To Live In The United States? Here Are 9 Maps To Consider
By Michael Snyder, on March 23rd, 2015
If you could live anywhere in America during the tumultuous years ahead, where would it be? This is a topic that is hotly debated, and the truth is that there is not a single right answer. If you have a very strong family support system where you are, it might not be right to try to move 2000 miles away and start a new life from scratch. And for many Americans, moving is out of the question in the short-term because they are completely and totally dependent on employment in their local areas. But in recent years we have seen an increasing number of Americans strategically relocate to another region of the country. They can see our society breaking down and they can see the storm clouds on the horizon and they want to do what they can to prepare themselves and their families for what is ahead.
So is there a "best place to live" in the United States?
Are there some areas that are preferable to others?
The following are 9 maps to consider...#1 Population DensityWhen the U.S. economy crashes and civil unrest starts erupting in our cities, ideally you will want to be living in an area with low population density. In other words, the fewer people around the better. The map below represents population density with a series of yellow dots. As you can see, the west coast and the eastern half of the nation are generally very crowded. So if you are looking for an area with lots of "breathing room", the area between the Mississippi River and the west coast is a good place to look.(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Population-Density-Moonshadow-Mobile.jpg)
#2 Average PrecipitationUnfortunately, the western half of the nation is also generally very dry. So if you are planning to grow your own food during a time of economic and social turmoil, that is something to keep in mind. There are a few areas between the Mississippi River and the west coast that do get plenty of rainfall (northern Idaho for example), but those areas are few and far between.(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Average-Precipitation-United-States-Public-Domain.png)
#3 DroughtThe latest national map from the U.S. Drought Monitor is the next map that I have shared. The multi-year drought in the state of California is already the worst drought in the recorded history of the state, and many scientists believe that it could stretch on for many more years. But it isn't just California that has been suffering. There are other areas in the Southwest that are starting to resemble the Dust Bowl days as well. So obviously these areas are not ideal if you plan to be self-sufficient and grow much of your own food during a time of great crisis.
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#4 Average SnowfallIf you don't like cold and snow, you will want to avoid the colored areas on this next map. And if you do plan to live in an area that gets plenty of cold and snow, you will want to have a solid plan for heating your home if the electrical grid goes down and is not available for an extended period of time.(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Average-Annual-Snowfall.jpg)
#5 Average HomicidesIn the years ahead, crime in the United States is likely to rise dramatically. If you are looking for somewhere safe, the areas that have relatively low crime rates right now will probably be better than areas that have relatively high crime rates right now. In general, rates of violent crime are higher in our major cities and in the Southeast.(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Homicides-Per-100000-Population-Photo-by-Delphi234.png)
#6 TaxesFor a lot of people, tax rates are extremely important when choosing a place to live. This next map shows the states where the state income tax rate is zero. But please keep in mind that there are other reasons why some of these states may be undesirable during an emergency situation.(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/No-Income-Tax-Photo-by-Lokal_Profil.png)
#7 Nuclear Power PlantsWe have all seen what a single nuclear power plant disaster can do in Japan. Well, in a future disaster scenario, we could potentially be facing multiple "Fukushimas" all at once here in the United States. The map below shows where nuclear reactors are located throughout America. You might want to think twice before moving in right next door to one.(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Nuclear-Power-Plants-Public-Domain.png)
#8 TornadoesA single giant tornado can absolutely shred the best laid plans of any family. There are some that feel completely and totally comfortable living right in the heart of "Tornado Alley", and there are others that very much would like to avoid any area that is at high risk for tornadoes. As you can see from the map below, the highest risk areas are generally in the Southeast part of the nation.(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Tornado-Watches-Per-Year-Public-Domain.png)
Of course tornadoes are far from the only natural disaster to consider when choosing a place to live. For much more on all of this, check out these articles...
-"The New Madrid Earthquake That Will Divide The United States In Half"
-"East Coast Tsunami: If It Happens, MILLIONS Of Americans Could Die"
-"Why The Earthquake Near San Francisco Is Just The Start Of The Shaking In California"
-"Yellowstone Supervolcano Alert: The Most Dangerous Volcano In America Is Roaring To Life"#9 PoliticsFor many Americans, moving to a politically-compatible area of the country is extremely important. The map below uses red and blue to represent the average margin of victory in recent presidential elections. The states that are very red voted very heavily for Republican candidates. The states that are very blue voted very heavily for Democratic candidates. The states that are purple were in the middle. But it is important to remember that there are areas within each state that tend to be more conservative or liberal than the state overall.(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Presidential-Victory-Margins-Photo-by-Ninjatacoshell.png)
Wherever you go, the truth is that no place is going to be perfect.
The following is how Joel Skousen, the author of "Strategic Relocation: North American Guide to Safe Places", put it in one of his recent articles...
The more rural you are, the higher the cost of building, maintaining equipment and commuting to civilization—and, the higher your expenses for services including utilities, alternate energy and internet connectivity. The more your priorities emphasize closeness to a community, the higher your risks will be during a social meltdown, and the more precise must be your preparations to bug out to a separate retreat. So, as you see, there are always compromises in life, no matter if you spend $50,000 on your property or millions, there is no perfect property that will meet all your criteria. Focus on what's most important for you, your family and/or group.
That was very well said.
No matter what other people are doing, you have to make the choices that are right for you and your family.[...]
If you could live in any state in America, where would you go? During troubled times like these, what is the best place in the United States to live? A lot of people are asking these kinds of questions these days. Our economy is on the verge of collapse, natural disasters are becoming more frequent and more intense, the U.S. population is becoming angrier and more frustrated by the day, our government has become incredibly oppressive and controlling, war could break out at any time and evidence that society is breaking down is all around us. As our world becomes increasingly unstable, many families are considering moving somewhere else. But what areas are best and what areas should be avoided? Is there really a "best place to live" in America? Well, the truth is that each family is facing a different set of circumstances. If you have a great support system where you live, it can be really tough to pick up and move 3000 miles away from that support system. If you have a great job where you live now, it can be really tough to move some place where there may be no job at all for you. But without a doubt there are some areas of the country that will be far better off than others in the event of a major economic collapse. This article will take a look at each of the 50 U.S. states and will list some of the pros and cons for moving to each one.
Not all of the factors listed below will be important to you, and a few have even been thrown in for humor. But if you are thinking of moving in the near future hopefully this list will give you some food for thought.
A few years ago when my wife and I were living near Washington D.C. we knew that we wanted a change and we went through this kind of a process. We literally evaluated areas from coast to coast. In the end, we found a place that is absolutely perfect for us. But different things are important to different people.
And if I gave your particular state a low rating, please don't think that I am trashing the entire state or all of the people who live there.
For example, there are some absolutely wonderful people that live in the state of California, and there are some areas of California that I would not mind visiting at all. But for the times that are coming I am convinced that it is going to be a really bad place to live.
Not that I have all the answers either. Hopefully this article can get some debates started, and hopefully those debates will help people that are thinking of moving to another state to be more informed.The following are some pros and cons for all 50 states....
Alabama
Pros: warm weather, southern hospitality, relatively low population density
Cons: hurricanes, tornadoes, crime, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants, rampant poverty
Overall Rating: C+
Alaska
Pros: great fishing, lots of empty space, low population density, great for rugged individualists
Cons: very high cost of living, earthquakes, volcanoes, extremely cold, short growing season, too much snow, potentially cut off from supplies from the lower 48 states during an emergency situation
Overall Rating: B
Arizona
Pros: warm weather
Cons: illegal immigration, wildfires, return of dust bowl conditions, not enough jobs, not enough rain, multiple nuclear power plants, crime, gang violence, Phoenix
Overall Rating: D+
Arkansas
Pros: southern hospitality, warm weather, Ozark National Forest
Cons: tornadoes, Clintons, New Madrid fault zone, multiple nuclear power plants, crime, rampant poverty
Overall Rating: C
California
Pros: Disneyland, warm weather, Malibu
Cons: Screwball Nancy Pelosi, high taxes, Idiot Jerry Brown, earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires, gang violence, crime, traffic, rampant poverty, insane politicians, ridiculous regulations, bad schools, political correctness, illegal immigration, not enough jobs, air pollution, multiple nuclear power plants, possible tsunami threat along the coast, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton, Sacramento, huge drug problem, high population density, the state government is broke, many more reasons to leave California right here
Overall Rating: F
Colorado
Pros: Rocky Mountains, Colorado Springs
Cons: wildfires, illegal immigration, short growing season, not enough rain, too much snow, huge drug problem
Overall Rating: B
Connecticut
Pros: beautiful homes
Cons: high taxes, insane politicians, ridiculous regulations, political correctness, short growing season, multiple nuclear power plants, high population density
Overall Rating: C-
Delaware
Pros: good fishing, Diane Amberg
Cons: Idiot Joe Biden, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, crime, high population density
Overall Rating: D
Florida
Pros: University of Florida Gators, oranges, low taxes, southern hospitality, Disneyworld, Gainesville, warm weather, beautiful beaches, Daytona
Cons: hurricanes, most of the state is barely above sea level, high population density, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants, crime, gang violence, illegal immigration
Overall Rating: C
Georgia
Pros: UGA football, peaches, southern hospitality, warm weather
Cons: not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants, crime, gang violence, flesh eating disease, Atlanta
Overall Rating: B-
Hawaii
Pros: awesome beaches, warm weather, great vacation destination
Cons: vulnerable to tsunamis, very high cost of living, volcanoes, traffic, high population density, high taxes
Overall Rating: C-
Idaho
Pros: awesome people live there, great potatoes, low population density, high concentration of liberty-minded individuals, low crime, Sandpoint, Coeur d'Alene, north Idaho has plenty of water compared to the rest of the interior West, beautiful scenery
Cons: cold in the winter, wildfires, short growing season, not enough jobs
Overall Rating: A
Illinois
Pros: once you get away from Chicago things are not quite so bad
Cons: POS Barack Insane Obuma, drought, New Madrid fault zone, high population density, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, crime, gang violence, Chicago, East St. Louis, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants, mob robberies, the state government is drowning in debt, and POS Obuma
Overall Rating: F-
Indiana
Pros: it is in better shape than Illinois, good farming, high Amish population
Cons: drought, tornadoes, the city of Gary, relatively high population density, near the New Madrid fault zone, a "rust belt" state
Overall Rating: C-
Iowa
Pros: low population density, low crime, good farming
Cons: drought, tornadoes, cold in the winter, multiple nuclear power plants, too much snow, very flat
Overall Rating: B-
Kansas
Pros: low population density, low crime, good farming, KU
Cons: drought, tornadoes, return of dust bowl conditions, very flat, Wichita Shockers
Overall Rating: B
Kentucky
Pros: southern hospitality, great horses, Lexington, basketball
Cons: Oddballs Rand Paul & Mitch McConnell, New Madrid fault zone, not enough jobs, rampant poverty, Louisville
Overall Rating: C
Louisiana
Pros: southern hospitality, warm weather
Cons: hurricanes, New Orleans, not enough jobs, tornadoes, multiple nuclear power plants, oil spills, crime, gang violence, rampant poverty
Overall Rating: D
Maine
Pros: low population density, low crime, polite people
Cons: extremely cold, short growing season, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, too much snow
Overall Rating: B-
Maryland
Pros: the Washington Redskins play there
Cons: Baltimore, borders Washington D.C., high population density, really bad traffic, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, multiple nuclear power plants, crime, gang violence
Overall Rating: C-
Massachusetts
Pros: beautiful homes
Cons: high taxes, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, high population density, short growing season, almost everything is illegal in Massachusetts
Overall Rating: D+
Michigan
Pros: once you get away from Detroit and Flint things get better
Cons: Detroit, Flint, Dearborn, extremely cold, short growing season, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants, too much snow, a "rust belt" state
Overall Rating: D-
Minnesota
Pros: land of 10,000 lakes
Cons: extremely cold, short growing season, multiple nuclear power plants, too much snow, high taxes
Overall Rating: C
Mississippi
Pros: southern hospitality, relatively low population density, warm weather
Cons: hurricanes, tornadoes, not enough jobs, rampant poverty, crime
Overall Rating: C+
Missouri
Pros: good farming, Branson
Cons: drought, tornadoes, New Madrid fault zone, not enough jobs, crime
Overall Rating: C
Montana
Pros: low population density, low taxes, high concentration of liberty-minded individuals, Missoula, Kalispell
Cons: extremely cold in the winter, wildfires, short growing season, not enough rain, near Yellowstone super volcano, rampant poverty, too much snow
Overall Rating: B+
Nebraska
Pros: low population density, good farming
Cons: tornadoes, drought, multiple nuclear power plants, cold in the winter, very flat
Overall Rating: B
Nevada
Pros: low population density, lots of empty space, low taxes, warm weather
Cons: Dirty Harry Reid, Las Vegas, Reno, not enough water, not enough rain, wildfires, hard to grow food, not enough jobs, crime, gang violence, huge drug problem, Yucca Mountain
Overall Rating: D+
New Hampshire
Pros: low crime, beautiful homes
Cons: extremely cold, short growing season, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, too much snow
Overall Rating: C
New Jersey
Pros: anyone got something?
Cons: high population density, Camden, Newark, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants, Atlantic City, crime, gang violence
Overall Rating: D-
New Mexico
Pros: low population density, warm weather
Cons: illegal immigration, wildfires, return of dust bowl conditions, not enough jobs, not enough rain, crime, gang violence, huge drug problem
Overall Rating: C-
New York
Pros: the entire state is not like New York City
Cons: New York City, Mayor Bloomberg, high taxes, cold in the winter, high population density, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants, the "too big to fail" banks
Overall Rating: D
North Carolina
Pros: southern hospitality, warm weather, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Cons: hurricanes, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants
Overall Rating: B
North Dakota
Pros: low crime, lots of oil-related jobs, low population density
Cons: extremely cold, short growing season, too much snow
Overall Rating: B
Ohio
Pros: the Cincinnati Reds, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, high Amish population
Cons: not enough jobs, cold in the winter, multiple nuclear power plants, high population density, Toledo, Cleveland, a "rust belt" state
Overall Rating: C
Oklahoma
Pros: warm weather, good farming
Cons: drought, tornadoes, wildfires, return of dust bowl conditions, not enough rain, crime, Oklahoma City, rampant poverty
Overall Rating: C
Oregon
Pros: tremendous natural beauty
Cons: high taxes, Portland, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, not enough jobs, huge drug problem, possible tsunami threat along the coast
Overall Rating: C-
Pennsylvania
Pros: high Amish population
Cons: high population density, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants, a "rust belt" state
Overall Rating: C
Rhode Island
Pros: so small that most people don't notice their problems
Cons: the state is flat broke, short growing season, political correctness, ridiculous regulations, insane politicians, not enough jobs, high population density
Overall Rating: D+
South Carolina
Pros: southern hospitality, warm weather, Myrtle Beach
Cons: hurricanes, not enough jobs, multiple nuclear power plants, crime, gang violence, rampant poverty
Overall Rating: B
South Dakota
Pros: low population density, fun tourist traps, the Badlands, Mount Rushmore
Cons: extremely cold, short growing season, very flat, too much snow
Overall Rating: B
Tennessee
Pros: Nashville, Michael W. Smith, southern hospitality, warm weather, Gatlinburg
Cons: Memphis, New Madrid fault zone, multiple nuclear power plants, crime, gang violence, rampant poverty
Overall Rating: B-
Texas
Pros: low taxes, warm weather, Austin
Cons: drought, illegal immigration, tornadoes, wildfires, West Nile Virus, the Dallas Cowboys, return of dust bowl conditions, speed traps, oddball Ted Cruz, not enough rain, multiple nuclear power plants, crime
Overall Rating: B-
Utah
Pros: beautiful mountains, low crime, low population density
Cons: cold in the winter, wildfires, Salt Lake City, short growing season, not enough rain, illegal to collect rain
Overall Rating: B-
Vermont
Pros: low crime, beautiful homes
Cons: cold in the winter, insane politicians, ridiculous regulations, short growing season, political correctness, not enough jobs, too much snow
Overall Rating: C
Virginia
Pros: the University of Virginia, southern hospitality, Charlottesville
Cons: borders Washington D.C., high population density, multiple nuclear power plants, Richmond, really bad traffic in northern Virginia
Overall Rating: B-
Washington
Pros: the eastern half of the state is quite nice and much different from the coast
Cons: way too much rain along the coast, volcanoes, wildfires, insane politicians, ridiculous regulations, political correctness, not enough jobs, possible tsunami threat along the coast, Seattle
Overall Rating: C
West Virginia
Pros: beautiful mountains
Cons: not enough jobs, rampant poverty
Overall Rating: B
Wisconsin
Pros: cheese, the Green Bay Packers
Cons: extremely cold, short growing season, multiple nuclear power plants, too much snow,
Overall Rating: B-
Wyoming
Pros: low population density, lots of empty space, low taxes
Cons: extremely cold, too windy, too flat, wildfires, short growing season, not enough rain, Yellowstone super volcano
Overall Rating: B-
Warph,
I will have to disagree with one of your "pros" for a certain east coast state------I didn't know fishing was that good there---------------Ha, bet that threw a certain person into a tizzy and leaves her speechless ;D
Now you know nothing leaves me speechless. Salt water fishing is very good here. We even have some lobsters and plenty of blue claw crabs ....At least I'm a good thing in one small place. HA!
Kansas Flat? Maybe.
Entering Kansas on I-70 at the east is at an elevation of 820 feet. Traveling west, the state rises to 3,930 feet at the Colorado Line. Mount Sunflower at 4,039 feet is the highest point about seven miles north of I-70, almost at the Colorado Line.
Of the 48 CONUS states, the flattest state is Florida, followed by Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota, Delaware, and then at number 7 is, nevertheless, Kansas.
Missouri is 21st flattest and Oklahoma is 23rd.
Nebraska is 20.
Colorado is 31.
The least flat state in the Union is New Hampshire at 48.
A research study was undertaken in 2003 by the Annals of Improbable Research ("Research that makes people laugh and then think") to determine how flat each state was--apparently stemming from claims that people believed Kansas was the flattest state in the Union.
Quote from: jarhead on March 24, 2015, 07:55:36 AM
Warph,
I will have to disagree with one of your "pros" for a certain east coast state------I didn't know fishing was that good there---------------Ha, bet that threw a certain person into a tizzy and leaves her speechless ;D
Are you flirting Jarhead.
I won't be coming to Longton for a long, long time ! LOL
Ross,
Aint no way I would step on your toes . You called dibbs on "Miss Delaware 1966" a long time ago. I figured out many moons ago you two fighting is nothing but a front and deep down you're like peas and carrots----borrowed that goody from Forrest Gump. I believe the article below explains why you lust after her.
Evolution May Explain Why a Curvy Bottom Drives Men ( ROSS ) Wild
MONDAY, March 23, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Men are naturally drawn to a woman with a curvy backside, a new report suggests.
The "theoretically optimal angle" is a 45.5-degree curve from back to buttocks -- not necessarily a big butt, the University of Texas at Austin researchers determined.
These curvaceous gals would have had an evolutionary advantage, in that they appeared able to bear multiple children easily, the researchers said.
"This spinal structure would have enabled pregnant women to balance their weight over the hips," said study leader David Lewis, a UT Austin alumnus and now a psychologist at Bilkent University in Turkey.
"These women would have been more effective at foraging during pregnancy and less likely to suffer spinal injuries," he said in a UT Austin news release. "In turn, men who preferred these women would have had mates who were better able to provide for fetus and offspring, and who would have been able to carry out multiple pregnancies without injury."
This preference evolved over thousands of years and is likely to persist for a long time, the researchers noted.
Quote from: jarhead on March 24, 2015, 12:19:47 PM
Ross,
Aint no way I would step on your toes . You called dibbs on "Miss Delaware 1966" a long time ago. I figured out many moons ago you two fighting is nothing but a front and deep down you're like peas and carrots----borrowed that goody from Forrest Gump. I believe the article below explains why you lust after her.
ROFLMAO
Six Truths Of Life
1. You cannot touch all your teeth with your tongue.
2. All idiots, after reading the first truth, will try it.
3. The first truth is a lie.
4. You're smiling now because you're an idiot.
5. You soon will tell this to another idiot.
6. There's still a silly smile on your face.
Sorry about this....
I was feeling like an idiot and I needed company.
(http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HN.607987200037357787&w=300&h=300&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0&r=0)
An Old Post:
After viewing Teresa's "Wake Up America," I felt I needed to post Haim Harari's, "A View From The Eye Of The Storm" speech. A superior read about the Moslem World and the Middle East. As a Poly Sci grad from the sixties, I would have to say, this perhaps is the best statement I have seen. It really opened my eyes and I'm sure it will for you. If you want to know what is going on in this fragile World of ours today, I recommand that you read this! I know this is quite long but, VERY well worth taking the time to read. Pass it on.... to Educate, Educate, Educate! .....Warph
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HAIM HARARI, a theoretical physicist, is the Chair, Davidson Institute
of Science Education, and Former President, from 1988 to 2001, of the
Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
During his years as President of the Institute, it entered numerous new
scientific fields and projects, built 47 new buildings, raised one
Billion Dollars in philanthropic money, hired more than half of its current
tenured Professors and became one of the highest royalty-earning
academic organizations in the world.
Throughout all his adult life, he has made major contributions to three
different fields: Particle Physics Research on the international scene,
Science Education in the Israeli school system and Science
Administration and Policy Making.
A View from the Eye of the Storm speech delivered by Haim Harari at a
meeting of the International Advisory Board of a large multi-national
corporation.
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Harari: As you know, I usually provide the scientific and technological "entertainment" in our meetings, but, on this occasion, our Chairman suggested that I present my own personal view on events in the part of the world from which I come. I have never been and I will never be a Government official and I have no privileged information. My perspective is entirely based on what I see, on what I read and on the fact that my family has lived in this region for almost 200 years. You may regard my views as those of the proverbial taxi driver, which you are supposed to question, when you visit a country.
I could have shared with you some fascinating facts and some personal thoughts about the Israeli-Arab conflict. However, I will touch upon it only in passing. I prefer to devote most of my remarks to the broader picture of the region and its place in world events. I refer to the entire area between Pakistan and Morocco, which is predominantly Arab, predominantly Moslem, but includes many non-Arab and also significant non-Moslem minorities.
Why do I put aside Israel and its own immediate neighborhood? Because Israel and any problems related to it, in spite of what you might read or hear in the world media, is not the central issue, and has never been the central issue in the upheaval in the region. Yes, there is a 100 year-old Israeli-Arab conflict, but it is not where the main show is.
The millions who died in the Iran-Iraq war had nothing to do with Israel. The mass murder happening right now in Sudan, where the Arab Moslem regime is massacring its black Christian citizens, has nothing to do with Israel. The frequent reports from Algeria about the murders of hundreds of civilian in one village or another by other Algerians have nothing to do with Israel.
Saddam Hussein did not invade Kuwait, endanger Saudi Arabia and butcher his own people because of Israel. Egypt did not use poison gas against Yemen in the 60's because of Israel. Assad the Father, did not kill tens of thousands of his own citizens in one week in El Hamma in Syria because of Israel. The Taliban control of Afghanistan and the civil war there had nothing to do with Israel. The Libyan blowing up of the Pan-Am flight had nothing to do with Israel, and I could go on and on and on.
The root of the trouble is that this entire Moslem region is totally dysfunctional, by any standard of the word, and would have been so even if Israel would have joined the Arab league and an independent Palestine would have existed for 100 years. The 22 member countries of the Arab league, from Mauritania to the Gulf States, have a total population of 300 millions, larger than the US and almost as large as the EU before its expansion. They have a land area larger than either the US or all of Europe. These 22 countries, with all their oil and natural resources, have a combined GDP smaller than that of Netherlands plus Belgium and equal to half of the GDP of California alone. Within this meager GDP, the gaps between rich and poor are beyond belief and too many of the rich made their money not by succeeding in business, but by being corrupt rulers.
The social status of women is far below what it was in the Western World 150 years ago. Human rights are below any reasonable standard, in spite of the grotesque fact that Libya was elected Chair of the UN Human Rights commission.
According to a report prepared by a committee of Arab intellectuals and published under the auspices of the U.N., the number of books translated by the entire Arab world is much smaller than what little Greece alone translates. The total number of scientific publications of 300 million Arabs is less than that of 6 million Israelis.
Birth rates in the region are very high, increasing the poverty, the social gaps and the cultural decline. And all of this is happening in a region, which only 30 years ago, was believed to be the next wealthy part of the world, and in a Moslem area, which developed, at some point in history, one of the most advanced cultures in the world.
It is fair to say that this creates an unprecedented breeding ground for cruel dictators, terror networks, fanaticism, incitement, suicide murders and general decline. It is also a fact that almost everybody in the region blames this situation on the United States, on Israel, on Western Civilization, on Judaism and Christianity, on anyone and anything,except themselves.
Do I say all of this with the satisfaction of someone discussing the failings of his enemies? On the contrary, I firmly believe that the world would have been a much better place and my own neighborhood would have been much more pleasant and peaceful, if things were different.
I should also say a word about the millions of decent, honest, good people who are either devout Moslems or are not very religious but grew up in Moslem families. They are double victims of an outside world, which now develops Islamophobia and of their own environment, which breaks their heart by being totally dysfunctional. The problem is that the vast silent majority of these Moslems are not part of the terror and of the incitement but they also do not stand up against it. They become accomplices, by omission, and this applies to political leaders, intellectuals, business people and many others. Many of them can certainly tell right from wrong, but are afraid to express their views.
The events of the last few years have amplified four issues, which have always existed, but have never been as rampant as in the present upheaval in the region. These are the four main pillars of the current World Conflict, or perhaps we should already refer to it as "the undeclared World War III". I have no better name for the present situation. A few more years may pass before everybody acknowledges that it is a World War, but we are already well into it.
The first element: is the suicide murder. Suicide murders are not a new invention but they have been made popular, if I may use this expression, only lately. Even after September 11, it seems that most of the Western World does not yet understand this weapon. It is a very potent psychological weapon. Its real direct impact is relatively minor. The total number of casualties from hundreds of suicide murders within Israel in the last three years is much smaller than those due to car accidents.
September 11 was quantitatively much less lethal than many earthquakes. More people die from AIDS in one day in Africa than all the Russians who died in the hands of Chechnya-based Moslem suicide murderers since that conflict started. Saddam killed every month more people than all those who died from suicide murders since the Coalition occupation of Iraq.
So what is all the fuss about suicide killings? It creates headlines. It is spectacular. It is frightening. It is a very cruel death with bodies dismembered and horrible severe lifelong injuries to many of the wounded. It is always shown on television in great detail. One such murder, with the help of hysterical media coverage, can destroy the tourism industry of a country for quite a while, as it did in Bali and in Turkey.
But the real fear comes from the undisputed fact that no defense and no preventive measures can succeed against a determined suicide murderer. This has not yet penetrated the thinking of the Western World. The U.S.and Europe are constantly improving their defense against the last suicide murder, not the next one. We may arrange for the best airport security in the world.. But if you want to murder by suicide, you do not have to board a plane in order to explode yourself and kill many people. Who could stop a suicide murder in the midst of the crowded line waiting to be checked by the airport metal detector? How about the lines to the check-in counters in a busy travel period? Put a metal detector in front of every train station in Spain and the terrorists will get the buses.
Protect the buses and they will explode in movie theaters, concert halls, supermarkets, shopping malls, schools and hospitals. Put guards in front of every concert hall and there will always be a line of people to be checked by the guards and this line will be the target, not to speak of killing the guards themselves. You can somewhat reduce your vulnerability by preventive and defensive measures and by strict border controls but not eliminate it and definitely not win the war in a defensive way. And it is a war!
What is behind the suicide murders? Money, power and cold-blooded murderous incitement, nothing else. It has nothing to do with true fanatic religious beliefs. No Moslem preacher has ever blown himself up. No son of an Arab politician or religious leader has ever blown himself. No relative of anyone influential has done it. Wouldn't you expect some of the religious leaders to do it themselves, or to talk their sons into doing it, if this is truly a supreme act of religious fervor? Aren't they interested in the benefits of going to Heaven? Instead, they send outcast women and children, retarded people and young incited hotheads. They promise them the delights, mostly sexual, of the next world, and pay their families handsomely after the supreme act is performed and enough innocent people are dead.
Suicide murders also have nothing to do with poverty and despair. The poorest region in the world, by far, is Africa. It never happens there.
There are numerous desperate people in the world, in different cultures, countries and continents. Desperation does not provide anyone with explosives, reconnaissance and transportation. There was certainly more despair in Saddam's Iraq then in Paul Bremmer's Iraq, and no one exploded himself. A suicide murder is simply a horrible, vicious weapon of cruel, inhuman, cynical, well-funded terrorists, with no regard to human life, including the life of their fellow countrymen, but with very high regard to their own affluent well-being and their hunger for power.
The only way to fight this new "popular" weapon is identical to the only way in which you fight organized crime or pirates on the high seas: the offensive way. Like in the case of organized crime, it is crucial that the forces on the offensive be united and it is crucial to reach the top of the crime pyramid. You cannot eliminate organized crime by arresting the little drug dealer in the street corner. You must go after the head of the "Family".
If part of the public supports it, others tolerate it, many are afraid of it and some try to explain it away by poverty or by a miserable childhood, organized crime will thrive and so will terrorism. The United States understands this now, after September 11. Russia is beginning to understand it. Turkey understands it well. I am very much afraid that most of Europe still does not understand it. Unfortunately, it seems that Europe will understand it only after suicide murders will arrive in Europe in a big way. In my humble opinion, this will definitely happen.
The Spanish trains and the Istanbul bombings are only the beginning. The unity of the Civilized World in fighting this horror is absolutely indispensable. Until Europe wakes up, this unity will not be achieved.
The second ingredient: ...is words, more precisely lies. Words can be lethal. They kill people. It is often said that politicians, diplomats and perhaps also lawyers and business people must sometimes lie, as part of their professional life. But the norms of politics and diplomacy are childish, in comparison with the level of incitement and total absolute deliberate fabrications, which have reached new heights in the region we are talking about. An incredible number of people in the Arab world believe that September 11 never happened, or was an American provocation or, even better, a Jewish plot.
You all remember the Iraqi Minister of Information, Mr. Mouhamad Said al-Sahaf and his press conferences when the US forces were already inside Baghdad. Disinformation at time of war is an accepted tactic. But to stand, day after day, and to make such preposterous statements, known to everybody to be lies, without even being ridiculed in your own milieu, can only happen in this region. Mr. Sahaf eventually became a popular icon as a court jester, but this did not stop some allegedly respectable newspapers from giving him equal time. It also does not prevent the Western press from giving credence, every day, even now, to similar liars. After all, if you want to be an antisemite, there are subtle ways of doing it. You do not have to claim that the holocaust never happened and that the Jewish temple in Jerusalem never existed.
But millions of Moslems are told by their leaders that this is the case.
When these same leaders make other statements, the Western media report them as if they could be true.
It is a daily occurrence that the same people, who finance, arm and dispatch suicide murderers, condemn the act in English in front of western TV cameras, talking to a world audience, which even partly believes them. It is a daily routine to hear the same leader making opposite statements in Arabic to his people and in English to the rest of the world. Incitement by Arab TV, accompanied by horror pictures of mutilated bodies, has become a powerful weapon of those who lie, distort and want to destroy everything. Little children are raised on deep hatred and on admiration of so-called martyrs, and the Western World does not notice it because its own TV sets are mostly tuned to soap operas and game shows. I recommend to you, even though most of you do not understand Arabic, to watch Al Jazeera, from time to time. You will not believe your own eyes.
But words also work in other ways, more subtle. A demonstration in Berlin, carrying banners supporting Saddam's regime and featuring three-year old babies dressed as suicide murderers, is defined by the press and by political leaders as a "peace demonstration". You may support or oppose the Iraq war, but to refer to fans of Saddam, Arafat or Bin Laden as peace activists is a bit too much. A woman walks into an Israeli restaurant in mid-day, eats, observes families with old people and children eating their lunch in the adjacent tables and pays the bill. She then blows herself up, killing 20 people, including many children, with heads and arms rolling around in the restaurant. She is called "martyr" by several Arab leaders and "activist" by the European press. Dignitaries condemn the act but visit her bereaved family and the money flows. There is a new game in town: The actual murderer is called "the military wing", the one who pays him, equips him and sends him is now called "the political wing" and the head of the operation is called the "spiritual leader". There are numerous other examples of such Orwellian nomenclature, used every day not only by terror chiefs but also by Western media. These words are much more dangerous than many people realize. They provide an emotional infrastructure for atrocities.
It was Joseph Goebels who said that if you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it. He is now being outperformed by his successors.
The third aspect: is money. Huge amounts of money, which could have solved many social problems in this dysfunctional part of the world, are channeled into three concentric spheres supporting death and murder. In the inner circle are the terrorists themselves. The money funds their travel, explosives, hideouts and permanent search for soft vulnerable targets. They are surrounded by a second wider circle of direct supporters, planners, commanders, preachers, all of whom make a living, usually a very comfortable living, by serving as terror infrastructure.
Finally, we find the third circle of so-called religious, educational and welfare organizations, which actually do some good, feed the hungry and provide some schooling, but brainwash a new generation with hatred, lies and ignorance. This circle operates mostly through mosques, madrasas and other religious establishments but also through inciting electronic and printed media. It is this circle that makes sure that women remain inferior, that democracy is unthinkable and that exposure to the outside world is minimal. It is also that circle that leads the way in blaming everybody outside the Moslem world, for the miseries of the region.
Figuratively speaking, this outer circle is the guardian, which makes sure that the people look and listen inwards to the inner circle of terror and incitement, rather than to the world outside. Some parts of this same outer circle actually operate as a result of fear from, or blackmail by, the inner circles. The horrifying added factor is the high birth rate. Half of the population of the Arab world is under the age of 20, the most receptive age to incitement, guaranteeing two more generations of blind hatred.
Of the three circles described above, the inner circles are primarily financed by terrorist states like Iran and Syria, until recently also by Iraq and Libya and earlier also by some of the Communist regimes.
These states, as well as the Palestinian Authority, are the safe havens of the murder vendors. The outer circle is largely financed by Saudi Arabia, but also by donations from certain Moslem communities in the United States and Europe and, to a smaller extent, by donations of Europeans to various NGO's and by certain United Nations organizations, whose goals may be noble, but they are infested and exploited by agents of outer circle. The Saudi regime, of course, will be the next victim of terror, when the inner circle will explode into the outer circle. The Saudis are beginning to understand it, but they fight the inner circles, still financing the infrastructure at the outer circle.?
Some of the leaders of these various circles live very comfortably on their loot. You meet their children in the best private schools in Europe, not in the training camps of suicide murderers. The Jihad "soldiers" join packaged death tours to Iraq and other hotspots, while some of their leaders ski in Switzerland. Mrs. Arafat, who lives in Paris with her daughter, receives tens of thousands Dollars per month from the allegedly bankrupt Palestinian Authority while a typical local ringleader of the Al-Aksa brigade, reporting to Arafat, receives only a cash payment of a couple of hundred dollars, for performing murders at the retail level.
The fourth element: of the current world conflict is the total breaking of all laws. The civilized world believes in democracy, the rule of law, including international law, human rights, free speech and free press, among other liberties. There are old-fashioned habits such as respecting religious sites and symbols, not using ambulances and hospitals for acts of war, avoiding the mutilation of dead bodies and not using children as human shields or human bombs. Never in history, not even in the Nazi period, was there such total disregard of all of the above as we observe now. Every student of political science debates how you prevent an anti-democratic force from winning a democratic election and abolishing democracy.
Other aspects of a civilized society must also have limitations. Can a policeman open fire on someone trying to kill him? Can a government listen to phone conversations of terrorists and drug dealers? Does free speech protects you when you shout "fire" in a crowded theater? Should there be death penalty, for deliberate multiple murders? These are the old-fashioned dilemmas. But now we have an entire new set.
Do you raid a mosque, which serves as a terrorist ammunition storage? Do you return fire, if you are attacked from a hospital? Do you storm a church taken over by terrorists who took the priests hostages? Do you search every ambulance after a few suicide murderers use ambulances to reach their targets? Do you strip every woman because one pretended to be pregnant and carried a suicide bomb on her belly? Do you shoot back at someone trying to kill you, standing deliberately behind a group of children? Do you raid terrorist headquarters, hidden in a mental hospital? Do you shoot an arch-murderer who deliberately moves from one location to another, always surrounded by children? All of these happen daily in Iraq and in the Palestinian areas. What do you do? Well, you do not want to face the dilemma. But it cannot be avoided.
Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that someone would openly stay in a well-known address in Teheran, hosted by the Iranian Government and financed by it, executing one atrocity after another in Spain or in France, killing hundreds of innocent people, accepting responsibility for the crimes, promising in public TV interviews to do more of the same, while the Government of Iran issues public condemnations of his acts but continues to host him, invite him to official functions and treat him as a great dignitary. I leave it to you as homework to figure out what Spain or France would have done, in such a situation.
The problem is that the civilized world is still having illusions about the rule of law in a totally lawless environment. It is trying to play ice hockey by sending a ballerina ice-skater into the rink or to knock out a heavyweight boxer by a chess player. In the same way that no country has a law against cannibals eating its prime minister, because such an act is unthinkable, international law does not address killers shooting from hospitals, mosques and ambulances, while being protected by their Government or society. International law does not know how to handle someone who sends children to throw stones, stands behind them and shoots with immunity and cannot be arrested because he is sheltered by a Government. International law does not know how to deal with a leader of murderers who is royally and comfortably hosted by a country, which pretends to condemn his acts or just claims to be too weak to arrest him. The amazing thing is that all of these crooks demand protection under international law and define all those who attack them as war criminals, with some Western media repeating the allegations. The good news is that all of this is temporary, because the evolution of international law has always adapted itself to reality. The punishment for suicide murder should be death or arrest before the murder, not during and not after. After every world war, the rules of international law have changed and the same will happen after the present one. But during the twilight zone, a lot of harm can be done.
The picture I described here is not pretty. What can we do about it?
In the short run, only fight and win. In the long run? Only educate the next generation and open it to the world. The inner circles can and must be destroyed by force. The outer circle cannot be eliminated by force.
Here we need financial starvation of the organizing elite, more power to women, more education, counter propaganda, boycott whenever feasible and access to Western media, internet and the international scene. Above all, we need a total absolute unity and determination of the civilized world against all three circles of evil.
Allow me, for a moment, to depart from my alleged role as a taxi driver and return to science. When you have a malignant tumor, you may remove the tumor itself surgically. You may also starve it by preventing new blood from reaching it from other parts of the body, thereby preventing new "supplies" from expanding the tumor. If you want to be sure, it is best to do both.
But before you fight and win, by force or otherwise, you have to realize that you are in a war, and this may take Europe a few more years. In order to win, it is necessary to first eliminate the terrorist regimes, so that no Government in the world will serve as a safe haven for these people. I do not want to comment here on whether the American-led attack on Iraq was justified from the point of view of weapons of mass destruction or any other pre-war argument, but I can look at the post-war map of Western Asia. Now that Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya are out, two and a half terrorist states remain: Iran, Syria and Lebanon, the latter being a Syrian colony. Perhaps Sudan should be added to the list. As a result of the conquest of Afghanistan and Iraq, both Iran and Syria are now totally surrounded by territories unfriendly to them. Iran is encircled by Afghanistan, by the Gulf States, Iraq and the Moslem republics of the former Soviet Union. Syria is surrounded by Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Israel. This is a significant strategic change and it applies strong pressure on the terrorist countries. It is not surprising that Iran is so active in trying to incite a Shiite uprising in Iraq. I do not know if the American plan was actually to encircle both Iran and Syria, but that is the resulting situation.
In my humble opinion, the number one danger to the world today is Iran and its regime. It definitely has ambitions to rule vast areas and to expand in all directions. It has an ideology, which claims supremacy over Western culture. It is ruthless. It has proven that it can execute elaborate terrorist acts without leaving too many traces, using Iranian Embassies.. It is clearly trying to develop Nuclear Weapons. Its so called moderates and conservatives play their own virtuoso version of the "good-cop versus bad-cop" game. Iran sponsors Syrian terrorism, it is certainly behind much of the action in Iraq, it is fully funding the Hizbulla and, through it, the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad, it performed acts of terror at least in Europe and in South America and probably also in Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia and it truly leads a multi-national terror consortium, which includes, as minor players, Syria, Lebanon and certain Shiite elements in Iraq.
Nevertheless, most European countries still trade with Iran, try to appease it and refuse to read the clear signals.
In order to win the war it is also necessary to dry the financial resources of the terror conglomerate. It is pointless to try to understand the subtle differences between the Sunni terror of Al Qaida and Hamas and the Shiite terror of Hizbulla, Sadr and other Iranian inspired enterprises. When it serves their business needs, all of them collaborate beautifully.
It is crucial to stop Saudi and other financial support of the outer circle, which is the fertile breeding ground of terror. It is important to monitor all donations from the Western World to Islamic organizations, to monitor the finances of international relief organizations and to react with forceful economic measures to any small sign of financial aid to any of the three circles of terrorism. It is also important to act decisively against the campaign of lies and fabrications and to monitor those Western media who collaborate with it out of naivety, financial interests or ignorance.
Above all, never surrender to terror. No one will ever know whether the recent elections in Spain would have yielded a different result, if not for the train bombings a few days earlier. But it really does not matter. What matters is that the terrorists believe that they caused the result and that they won by driving Spain out of Iraq. The Spanish story will surely end up being extremely costly to other European countries, including France, who is now expelling inciting preachers and forbidding veils and including others who sent troops to Iraq. In the long run, Spain itself will pay even more.
Is the solution a democratic Arab world? If by democracy we mean free elections but also free press, free speech, a functioning judicial system, civil liberties, equality to women, free international travel, exposure to international media and ideas, laws against racial incitement and against defamation, and avoidance of lawless behavior regarding hospitals, places of worship and children, then yes, democracy is the solution. If democracy is just free elections, it is likely that the most fanatic regime will be elected, the one whose incitement and fabrications are the most inflammatory.
We have seen it already in Algeria and, to a certain extent, in Turkey. It will happen again, if the ground is not prepared very carefully. On the other hand, a certain transition democracy, as in Jordan, may be a better temporary solution, paving the way for the real thing, perhaps in the same way that an immediate sudden democracy did not work in Russia and would not have worked in China.
I have no doubt that the civilized world will prevail. But the longer it takes us to understand the new landscape of this war, the more costly and painful the victory will be. Europe, more than any other region, is the key. Its understandable recoil from wars, following the horrors of World War II, may cost thousands of additional innocent lives, before the tide will turn.
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We are already there !
Executive Orders, Get Ready For
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This president is accomplishing just what he said he would - transform America. He knows his approval rating will never hit even 50% in the time he has left, so he will continue his agenda while bypassing the Constitution as he goes.
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For the SHOCK of your life, take 1 minute to comprehend what you read below. During our lifetimes, all Presidents have issued Executive Orders. For various reasons, some have issued more than others. These things will directly affect us all, in years to come. Question is: Do YOU care enough to send this, 'shocking info,' to people you love? Ike - 2 in 8 years
Kennedy - 4 in 3 years
LBJ - 4 in 5 years
Nixon - 1 in 6 years
Ford - 3 in 2 years
Carter - 3 in 4 years
Reagan - 5 in 8 years
Bush - 3 in 4 years
Clinton - 15 in 8 years
George W. Bush - 62 in 8 years Obama - 923 in 3 1/2 years! More than 1000+ and counting Executive Orders in 6 years... Read some of them below – unbelievable!
Next step -dictatorship. (Looks like we are there already!) If you don't get the implications, you're not paying attention. How come all the other presidents in the past 100 years have not felt it necessary to INCREASE GOVERNMENT'S POWER OVER THE PEOPLE with more than 1,000 Executive Orders? This is really very scary. And most Americans have absolutely no idea what is happening.
YES, THERE IS A REASON THAT THIS PRESIDENT IS DETERMINED TO TAKE CONTROL AWAY FROM THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE.
Even some Democrats in the House have turned on him, plus a very small number of Democrat Senators have questioned him. Rightfully so. -
WHAT IS OBAMA REALLY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH????
Remember what he told Russia's Putin: "I'll be more flexible after I'm re-elected".
READ ON !!!
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 -- allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 -- allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 -- allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 -- allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 -- allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 -- allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 -- designates the registration of all persons. Postmaster General to operate a national registration.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 -- allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 -- allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 -- allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 -- assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 -- specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 -- grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 -- allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. Financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
Feel free to verify the "executive orders" at will.....and these are just the major ones. I'm sure you've all heard the tale of the "Frog in the Pot"... Watch Obama's actions, not his words! By his actions he will show you where America is headed.
Obama has issued executive orders that seek to "harmonize" U.S. Economic regulations with the rest of the world. These executive orders are yet another incremental step that is pushing us closer to a North American Union and a one world economic system.
Obama used the stage at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech to announce two new executive orders infringing on your second amendment rights.. The first bans the importation of antique military firearms for sale to sportsman and collectors.. He intentionally mislabels them military grade weapons to deceive the sheeple, but make no mistake . . . the order was written specifically to ban the importation of surplus M1 carbines, M1 Garands, 1903 Springfields and other antiques coveted by collectors and sport shooters. This order is the death knell for the civilian marksmanship program. Congress had previously passed the sportsman protection act in 1986 which among other things guaranteed that the importation of the historic relics for collectors and the CMP would not be impeded by unreasonable regulations.
Unfortunately, most Americans have absolutely no idea what is happening.
The American people need to understand that Barack Obama is constantly looking for ways to integrate the United States more deeply with the rest of the world.
The globalization of the world economy has accelerated under Obama, and this latest executive order represents a fundamental change in U.S. economic policy. Now federal regulators will be required to "harmonize" their work with the international community.
If THIS IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE, THEN PROVE TO YOURSELF IT'S WRONG -
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders
"Obama Flowers"
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> (Receptionist) Hello, Welcome to ObamaFlowers, My name is Trina. How
> can I help you?
>
> (Customer) Hello, I received an email from Professional Flowers stating that my flower order has been canceled and I should go to your exchange to reorder it. I tried your website, but it seems like it is not working. So I am calling the 800 number.
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> (Receptionist) Yes, I am sorry about the website. It should be fixed by the end of November. But I can help you.
>
> (Customer) Thanks, I ordered a "Spring Bouquet" for our anniversary, and wanted it delivered to my wife's work..
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> (Receptionist Interrupting) Sir, "Spring Bouquets" do not meet our minimum standards, I will be happy to provide you with Red Roses.
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> (Customer) But I have always ordered "Spring Bouquets", done it for years, my wife likes them.
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> (Receptionist) Roses are better, sir, I am sure your wife will love them.
>
> (Customer) Well, how much are they?
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> (Receptionist) It depends sir, do you want our Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum package.
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> (Customer) What's the difference?
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> (Receptionist) 6, 12,18, or 24 Red Roses.
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> (Customer) The Silver package may be okay, how much is it?
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> (Receptionist) It depends sir, what is you monthly income?
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> (Customer) What does that have to do with anything?
>
> (Receptionist) I need that to determine your government flower subsidy, then I can determine how much your out of pocket cost will be. But if your income is below our minimums for a subsidy, then I
> can refer you to our FlowerAid department.
>
> (Customer) FlowerAid???
>
> (Receptionist) Yes, Flowers are a Right, everyone has a right to flowers. So, if you can't afford them, then the government will
> supply them free of charge.
>
> (Customer) Who said they were a Right?
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> (Receptionist) Congress passed it, the President signed it and the Supreme Court found it Constitutional.
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> (Customer) Whoa.....I don't remember seeing anything in the Constitution regarding Flowers as a Right.
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> (Receptionist) It is not really a Right in the Constitution, but ObamaFlowers is Constitutional because the Supreme Court Ruled it a "Tax". Taxes are Constitutional. But we feel it is a Right.
>
> (Customer) I don't believe this....
>
> (Receptionist) It's the law of the land sir. Now, we anticipated most people would go for the Silver Package, so what is you monthly income sir?
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> (Customer) Forget it, I think I will forego the flowers this year...
>
> (Receptionist) In that case sir, I will still need your monthly income.
>
> (Customer) Why???
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> (Receptionist) To determine what your 'non-participation' cost would be.
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> (Customer) WHAT???? Your can't charge me for NOT buying flowers!!!
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> (Receptionist) It's the law of the land, sir, approved by the Supreme Court. It's $9.50 or 1% of your monthly income.....
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> (Customer, interrupting) This iridiculous, I'll pay the $9.50..
> (Receptionist) Sir, it is the $9.50 or 1% of your monthly income, whichever is greater.
> (Customer) ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? What a ripoff!!
> (Receptionist) Actually sir, it is a good deal. Next year it will be 2%.
>
> (Customer) Look, I'm going to call my Congressmember to find out what's going on here. This is ridiculous. I'm not going to pay it.
>
> (Receptionist) Sorry to hear that sir, that's why I had the NSA track this call and obtain the make and model of the cell phone you are using.
>
> (Customer) Why does the NSA need to know what kind of CELL PHONE I AM USING????
>
> (Receptionist) So they can get your GPS coordinates sir.
> (Door Bell rings followed immediately by a loud knock on the door)
> (Receptionist) That would be the IRS sir. Thanks for calling ObamaFlowers, have a nice day...and God Bless America.
Piece-Of-Sh!t Obuma Declassifies Top-Secret Doc That Reveals Israel's Nuclear Secrets
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by Jordan Schachtel - 25 Mar 2015-Washington, D.C.1000
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/03/25/administration-declassifies-top-secret-doc-that-reveals-israels-nuclear-secrets/
The Pentagon has declassified a document that was once labeled "top-secret," which goes into sophisticated detail about Israel's nuclear weapons program. The document was released quietly just prior to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March 3 speech to a joint session of Congress.
Israel has never officially confirmed or denied the existence of a nuclear weapon's program within its borders.
The Pentagon declassified sections covering Israel's nuclear program, but "kept sections on Italy, France, West Germany and other NATO countries classified, with those sections blocked out in the document," Israel National News reported.
The 386-page top-secret memo, titled, "Critical Technological Assessment in Israel and NATO Nations," goes into great detail about how Israel turned into a nuclear power in the 1970s and 80s.
"As far as nuclear technology is concerned the Israelis are roughly where the U.S. was in the fission weapon field in about 1955 to 1960," the report assesses.
The report was written by the Institute for Defense Analysis in 1987, which was federally funded and contracted by the Pentagon.
Israel is "developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs. That is, codes which detail fission and fusion processes on a microscopic and macroscopic level," the report states.
The report commends that the Israelis found "ingeniously clever" solutions to solve its problems in advancing the nuclear program, largely due to the "ingenious Israeli inventions" at a "key research and development laboratory in Israel."
The Pentagon declassified the document after Grant Smith, an activist who heads a radical anti-Israel group, filed a Freedom of Information Act request, according to reports.
Smith's Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy organizes an anti-Israel conference each year in Washington, D.C. Last year, the conference featured speakers from anti-Semitic and pro-Islamist publications. During the Q & A session, a speaker openly called for education about the supposed "Zionist-Nazi collaboration" during the Holocaust, while another endorsed the possibility that "Israel had a hand in 9/11."(http://s1d4.turboimagehost.com/sp/df887df84bc061c6042749b7c113e1e1/dog-pooping-on-obama.jpg)
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I just received this in an e-mail from a friend.
No, I haven't not yet taken the time to check out all of the provided sources.
I'll leave that up to you to verufy on your own, for your self.
THE TRUE COST OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
IN AMERICA
CENSORED BY THE NEWSPAPERS FROM YOU.
FORWARDED BY
ERASMUS OF AMERICA
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WHAT THE POLITICIANS LIKE OBAMA ARE DOING AT THE BORDERS IS HIGH TREASON TO AMERICA INCLUDING THE SPREAD OF DEADLY DISEASES ACROSS AMERICA THAT HAD BEEN WIPED OUT BEFORE IN AMERICA.The biggest factor of why seniors are losing more and more benefits.... They are getting blamed for the country going broke.
This has gone out to almost two million people . It's easy to dismiss individual programs that benefit non-citizens until they're put together and this picture emerges. Someone did a lot of research to put together all of this data. Often these programs are buried within other programs making them difficult to find.
A Real Eye Opener WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?
Read this:We have been hammered with the propaganda that it was the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I hope the following
14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the readers gets sick of reading them. I also have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify At: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8 < http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8>
2. $22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify At: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML < http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML>
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML< http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML>
4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify At: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt...0.HTML < http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt...0.HTML>
5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify At http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML< http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>
6. 3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML< http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>
7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at:https://owa.slugger.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx < https://owa.slugger.com/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>
8. 90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & Social Services by the American taxpayers. Verify At: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML < http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML>
9. $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify At: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRI < http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRI>
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0606/12/ldt.01.HTML
11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U.S. from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl..com/t9sht
12. The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 – $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 – $46 billion annually over a five year period. Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/PDF/deportation
13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries of origin. Verify At:. < http://www/ < http://www/> /..rense..com/general75/niht.htm < http://rense.com/general75/niht.htm>
14. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the United States . Verify At: http:// www.drdsk.com/articleshtml < http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml>
The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.
Do we still feel sorry for the poor illegal immigrant children that ar being used and exploited by their parents and our government ?Are we THAT Stupid? YES, FOR ALLOWING THOSE IN THE U.S.. CONGRESS TO GET AWAY WITH DOING THIS YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!!! If this doesn't bother you, then just delete the message.
If, on the other hand, it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward it to every legal resident in the United States.
COMMENT FROM ERASMUS OF AMERICA. Figure the cost of diseases like TB resurrecting in America due to illegal immigrants bringing these to the American people and the total cost is higher than this report indicates though written by a good researcher. Obama is a con artist in the White House over this border issue that he is trying to use to undermine America as a nation. He is backed by con artists in Congress who technically violating their oath of allegiance to uphold the U.S. Constitution are also con artist, criminals in nature, and traitors to the nation engaged in high treason when it comes to this border issue in America. We can handle some foreigners coming to America who are entering America legally after being checked out as to their background and should normally prove to be good future citizens of America if naturalized. But we are being flooded with criminal elements and other elements which are detrimental to the future of America if allowed to illegally enter and then remain in America. Other nations can protect their border security. Why America cannot when our national money has been larger than most nations could commit to border security is other nations are serious about border security and our nation under con artist corrupt politicians are playing games as they are working to undermine and overthrow the future of America using Wash., D.C. as their front. We need to get the radicals out of Congress this coming election! The Republicans are too jellyfish in backbone to do the really right stands for America, but they are a better choice than the Democrats who are so radical that they try to be the wrecking crew of America operating inside Congress for the overthrow of America as a nation.
The real answer that restores control of the government back to the American people is passage of our proposed Omni Law. Full technical name on our website is The Omnibus Civil Rights Act For America. It gives to the American people the right of referendum over the national government which at this time is a wildly runaway government pretty much holding in contempt the American people which it does not want to that seriously represent the American people but rather wild radical agendas and corrupt elements behind the scenes controlling many key politicians so they serve the corrupt elements instead of the American people. As one of the top bankers once boasted to me that he and some of the other top bankers were the secret government of America and used Wash., D.C. as their front to rule the American with as the American people "were too stupid, too irresponsible, and too immoral to be allowed to govern America." As it was a Satanist banker saying this, I wonder what his concept of being moral was? By the way he owned a foreign bank for the laundering of money in Europe so no record would exist in America of some accounts that he carried.
Also the super rich evil cabal have a secret world monetary market the governments leave alone as the governments are paid off to keep their mouths shut. The deals there are not registered with securities agencies. One of the most interesting deals I saw there when seeing on the internet this secret world market was that you could for as little as one million dollars get 1,500% return on that one million dollars at the end of 90 days. When the evil cabal found out that I had access to their ultra-secret world monetary market, my house was smashed into and the back door could not lock after that, They stole the copies of the 47 page list of contacts across the world for this ultra-secret world monetary market from the office in my house. I had shown this listing to a couple of friends of mine before it was stolen and as one commented, this list was worth a fortune as it was the secret confidential financial contact list for the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and other powerful sources beyond the law as they had bought off the U.S. Government and other governments to leave them alone with their secret world monetary market. I later repaired the door but left the wood not repaired in appearance so it still showed the breakin and how the door had been smashed by the federal operatives acting under their orders. My wife then said that she felt raped by them by how they had smashed into our house.
Our website is www.fastboomamricaneconomy.com Our email is fastboomamericaneconomy.com@gmail.com Our mailing address for orders and payments not placed through our website is NIFI, P.O. Box 1465, Seneca, SC 29679 . Make checks, etc. out to NIFI and tell us what the payment is for whether a product from our website or else a loan payment into our Omni Law Loan Program all of which helps finance the coming passage of the Omni Law in America. We can't let the other side know our true hand as they like to play dirty tricks from the White House and federal sources working under Obama, but we have a strong hand and when we play it will likely have the Omni Law passed soon after that. We are looking to win likely before the election is held in 2014.
Pass this report around as your government has been hyjacked by criminal elements that make the Mafia look like Sunday School choirboys in comparison!
Yours for God And Country, Erasmus Of America (pen name for that American patriot who despite federal murder attempts on my life and other ultra-criminal acts is not intimidated, not stopped and probably will have the Omni Law passed in 2014. I know how these criminals operate and wrote the proposed national law called the Omni Law that checkmates them and restores control of the federal government back to the American people who they try to control by tactics of national propaganda and selective massive censorship of news in America. Their actions say that they are scared to death of this planned Omni Law and realize that it takes national power away from these criminals in high places and restores honest government to America by restoring control of the federal government back to the American people!)
Source: http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-true-cost-of-illegal-immigrants-in.html
Source: http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-true-cost-of-illegal-immigrants-in.html
U.S. and World Population Clock
Note: The Population Clock is consistent with 2010 Census data and the most recent national population estimates.
One birth every 8 seconds
One death every 12 seconds
One international migrant (net) every 33 seconds
Net gain of one person every 15 secondsYou have to go to the web site to see the clock and several charts.
http://www.census.gov/popclock/
Immigrants filling the void
as residents flee N.J.
By the Tens of Thousands
(Interactive Map)
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People enjoy the shops and restaurants in downtown Morristown, NJ. (Frances Micklow/The Star-Ledger)
Stephen Stirling | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com By Stephen Stirling | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
New Jersey residents are fleeing the state in droves, but the loss is primarily being offset by a continued influx of immigrants from other countries, without which the state's population would be declining precipitously.
Between 2013 and 2014, New Jersey lost at least 55,000 residents who left for other states, the continuation of a trend that's been going on for decades as people flee the state to retire, to seek a lower-cost of living and jobs in places that have been quicker to recover from the recession.
But in the same span, more than 51,000 people have moved to the Garden State from other countries, at the same time reshaping the state's population and stabilizing its slow growth.
It's the same thing that has spurred the state's massive growth in the early part of the 20th century, but today, it's preventing an exodus.
"This is really what we'd call a demographic long wave," said James Hughes, dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. It's been going on for a long time and it will continue to go on. The result is a sustained increase in diversity and population."
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2015/03/as_tens_of_thousands_flee_nj_immigrants_are_filling_the_void.html#map
Will Delaware be next for inhabitation by illegal immigrants?
I truly hope not Diane?
I just read New York is getting a lot of them.
Will New Jersy be an extension of the caliphate?
What's to happen in our country?
Remarks to this final article by people,
who apparently live in New Jersey,
say the immigrants are not assimilating.
Do you like what Obama and the Liberal Democrats are doing to our country?
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The SCAM of the Century continues
First Global Warming
Then Climate Change
And now Climate Resilience
What will it be called next?
Climate Adaptation !!!!!
I wonder how many NGO's
are involved in this mess?
No it's not Henny Penny. Please come home.
March 28, 2015 by nolathe
Recently we became aware of and shared with you a communal involving Johnson County, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri governments conducting greenhouse gas surveys. At the end of the posting dated February 8, 2015 http://nolathe.net/2015/02/08/secret-meetings-hidden-documents-and-spooky-votes/ we noted the need for more discovery via Kansas Open Record Act (KORA) requests.
Now accomplished we have a better understanding for why we are hated by JoCo Staff and feared by JoCo Commissioners. Our simple and dates specific request resulted in hundreds and hundreds of documents. We received three emails, each with attachment containing the maximum amount of data transferable electronically.
The order in which we share this information is not in order of importance, events or dates.
With todays post we must start with a brief introduction to http://www.icleiusa.org/networks/networks-1/heartland-local-government-sustainability-network.
Heartland Local Government Sustainability Network(http://www.icleiusa.org/networks/networks-1/resolveuid/31e643b265210c356a72392acc5121e6/image_preview)
Dubuque, Iowa. Photo credit: Pete Zarria on flickr
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September 17, 2010 marked the inaugural meeting of the Heartland Local Government Sustainability Network (HLGSN). HLGSN is an independent peer forum of municipal professionals in sustainability, energy, planning, environment, and allied disciplines. The geographic scope of the network includes Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas—aligning decidedly with U.S. EPA Region 7. The network allows some participation from South Dakota and North Dakota, which reside within U.S. EPA Region 8. The impetus for HLGSN is to help member local governments with the administration of federal initiatives, build capacity for members to improve sustainability performance locally, and provide a forum to exchange ideas and information with regional peers who share a common economy, culture, and climate.
HLGSN is self-governing, and membership is invite-only through peer review. The only requirement is that members are local government professionals. Current members include top-level managers from 14 cities and counties. Thus far, the network is comprised of mostly ICLEI USA communities, but ICLEI USA affiliation is not a requirement. Kansas City, Missouri, is the founding member of HLGSN.
The 3 page document reviewed today may be viewed here Heartland CALL_2014_01_24 https://nolathe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/marc-1-24-14-1.png
Portions shared and commented on below in order:
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NOlathe note: All past (?) and current ICLEI members.
Dennis- (https://nolathe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/marc-1-24-14-3.png?w=783&h=93)
NOlathe note: Brendle is the recommended ICLEI contractor.
Eileene heard an (https://nolathe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/marc-1-24-14-4.jpg)
NOlathe note: As hard as we have tried, that makes no sense.
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NOlathe note: We concede that corn is not the crop of choice in Oklahoma nor is cotton in Nebraska. But lets get another grant to study this?
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NOlathe note: ICLEI has already concluded there is Global Warming Climate Change but hasn't any data to support that. Heartland group founded in 2010 and atleast partially responsible for massive mandates/spending is just now talking about acquiring data.
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NOlathe note:
Global Warming Climate Change Climate Resiliency. Climate Adaptation.
MARC 1.24.14.3
NOlathe note: Brendle is the recommended ICLEI contractor.
MARC 1.24.14.4
NOlathe note: As hard as we have tried, that makes no sense.
MARC 1.24.14.6
NOlathe note: We concede that corn is not the crop of choice in Oklahoma nor is cotton in Nebraska. But lets get another grant to study this?
MARC 1.24.14.7
NOlathe note: ICLEI has already concluded there is Global Warming Climate Change but hasn't any data to support that. Heartland group founded in 2010 and atleast partially responsible for massive mandates/spending is just now talking about acquiring data.
MARC 1.24.14.8
NOlathe note: Global Warming Climate Change Climate Resiliency.
MARC 1.24.14.9
NOlathe note: Global Warming Climate Change Climate Resiliency Climate Adaptation.
Conclusion- As recently as January 24, 2014 participants in ICLEI aka Agenda 21 have no data to support their mandates. Our elected have once again been duped with Chicken Little hysteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny .
Commissioners- This is the time of year to hatch and add new chicks to ones flock. Henpecked Acres currently has 18 under a heat lamp. Please tell Henny Penny we'll keep the light on for her, it's time to come home.
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Anyone Who Threatens It"
Ken Dunwoody GOD
Henpecked Acres One Nation
14850 W. 159th St.
Olathe, Ks. 66062
(913)768-1603
kdunwoody2@aol.com
http://NOlathe.net
http://nolathe.net/2015/03/28/no-its-not-henny-penny-please-come-home/#comments
**** They used yellow highlighting which is not available to me
So I used blue lettering because yellow lettering does not show up well. ****
Note ICLEI is used and ICLEI is associated with the UN's Agenda 21.
*********************************************************************************************************************Heartland network monthly meetingJanuary 24, 2014
Attendees:Facilitator: Eileen Horn LAWRENCE, KS
Note-taker: Barbara Buffaloe, COLUMBIA, MO
T.O. Bowman OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
Dennis Murphey KANSAS CITY, MO
Becky Soglin JOHNSON COUNTY, IA
James Joerke JOHNSON COUNTY. KS
Jerry Schechter KANSAS CITY, MO
Laura Graham (+intern Jenna) DES MOINES, IA
Milo Mumgaard, LINCOLN, NE
Mona Menezes, BRANSON, MO
LED streetlightsLAWRENCE - 3,500 streetlights owned by the WestStar utility and the City is considering purchasing
them and converting them to LED. Utility does not seem to be that interested in selling and it appears to
be lucrative to them. Just had 9% increase in
IOWA CITY – Started changing their lights out 5 years ago (and also accidentally got charged extra by the
utility) – check with Brenda
COLUMBIA – We have a few pilot studies of LED streetlights. Now that the standards are more
consistent, the City is drafting policies that will require that all new streetlighting that goes in be LEDs.
We are also replacing all of our mercury vapor streetlights (about 815) with LED in the next couple of
years.
OKLAHOMA CITY – interested in the discussion
FAYETTEVILLE – Switched out their lights 5 years ago
DES MOINES – A few pilot projects. Mid-American Energy and Iowa utility board has been working to
incorporate LEDs into the tariff. They are also looking to integrate it into their standard streetscape
design. Own very few of our utility poles.
KANSAS CITY – purchased their streetlights from the utility. We play a flat rate to the utility company per
streetlight because they don't separately meter them.
LINCOLN, NE – We have a couple of new pilot developments and questions have arisen why we allow
new developments to be adopted that do not have LEDs
Update on RFPDENNIS – Feedback from Pete Plastrik
Can we confirm commitment from the network members not included in the application to
participate in the workshop?
o Besides CORE team, the majority will attend (NEED TO ASK THOSE NOT IN
ATTENDANCE)
o Who would the City staff be? Public Works, Planning, etc.
How will additional collaboration projects come from this?
Where are the different locations in their climate adaptation planning?
o We are all at the beginning.
o
MOST - Need to stress resiliency – a lot of our regional areas do not politically support climate change.
LAURA – Should align with STAR metrics
APWA leadership conference update (Mona)MONA – Ian Hill offered free presentation on leadership for frontline employees. She shared the link
with the group via email.
RoundtableBarbara – GUEP
Eileen – Urban Sustainability Accelerator – not spam. Lawrence is considering working with them
MILO – local food advocates have lobbied for a local food policy and modeled some activity of
Lawrence's common ground. Put together a grant proposal with local community health fund to do an
assessment of potential lands.
Who has a local food policy council? Iowa City, Lawrence, Kansas City
DENNIS – about to sign the contract with our ghg emissions inventory contractor. JOHNSON COUNTY, KS
has already signed their portion of contract (budget $70,000/JC, $80,000/KC). Brendle group out of Fort
Collins.
The intent is to use the ICLEI protocol and the BRENDLE software. Contract is to train City staff
on their software so that they can use it after the contract.
DENNIS – KC will be passing legislation urging voting the anti-Agenda 21 down.
Eileen heard an effective speech in the Kansas Senate (Marcy Francisco) about how voting against
sustainability is also voting against highway improvements. She will share.
Items for next agenda (Barbara will be facilitator and Cori will be notetaker)Earth Day public or employee engagements activities
Send blurbs to Becky in Iowa and she will share them with the group
Laura – did not get agenda check to make sure she's on your lists. LMGRAHAM@DMGOV.ORG Need to
also add her to the rotation for note-taking and facilitating. Laura will not be in attendance in February
but has a potential March topic – collaboration with watershed management authorities. See what
other communities experiences have been.
Barbara – Can we invite Debra Knoble (St. Peters, MO) to the network?
Yes , from everyone
Post-call discussion on Regional Network RFP (Dennis, T.O., Milo, Eileen, Barbara)Brenda is supposed to be lead but we are not sure if she has been putting the information from PETE
and Barbara's outline. Barbara will check.
In response to some of Pete's other comments,
we are not sure how climate change will impact our
different regions and if they will be similar. Perhaps we'll discover 4 different sub regions and then that
would foster additional collaboration projects related to those problems.
We should all give examples how these weather events are effecting our city budget (i.e. snow plowing,
soil draught causing water main breaks, etc.)
We have not even begun this process. We first need the data. What are the key impacts of this data.
Then we need to find like-minded, similarly-sized communities.** speech by Obama on preparing local governments for climate resiliency?
Is there any relation to the fact that we're AG states and partnership with the land-grant university?
This will help shape our larger network priorities.
In our region – the weather conversation is the lead to climate adaptation or resiliency planning. While
we have these great national examples, our local level policies have been modest, at best. Having the
ability to share best practices from our region will be key.If Brenda hasn't yet, Barbara will make the first stab at incorporating Pete's comments and these notes
into the outline and share it with the group. Eileen and T. O. are
going to check with City staff and see
what role weather currently has on operations and what changes they've noticed with more extreme
weather events.
Timeline:
(01/27 – 01/31)
Barbara and Brenda update the outline and send it out to the group to edit/add to/ review.
T. O. and Eileen connect with staff on their additions.
EVERYONE – get with local climatologists on endorsing support. Brenda – confirm with Iowa State and check on budget
(02/02 – 02/06)
Group edits compiled and draft RFP developed.
If there are questions, Pete is contacted this week for clarification.
(02/10-02/14)
Network at large reviews RFP and offers endorsement.
Application submitted this week.
https://nolathe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/heartland-call_2014_01_24.pdf
POS Buttrack Obuma Arrived In Florida For 24 Hour Secluded Golf Outing, All At Taxpayer Expense, Media Kept Out
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(Obuma has his own caddy for carrying his golf clubs onto AF One for about the 200th time...)
Via Breitbarthttp://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/28/obama-flies-to-florida-for-taxpayer-funded-golf-vacation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
[POS Buttrack Obuma] kicked off the spring season on Saturday with a weekend golf getaway in Florida, teeing off with former NBA star Alonzo Mourning and former sportscaster Ahmad Rashad.
During his stay at the Floridian National Golf Club, less than 50 miles up the coast from Palm Beach, Obama planned to be out of public view, with no official events scheduled. After arriving midday Saturday, he immediately hit the links with Mourning, Rashad and Cyrus Walker, a cousin of Obama's senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, the White House said.
[...]Previous administrations have allowed brief news media coverage during presidential rounds of golf. Obama's policy generally is not to allow reporters to observe him. He has made a few exceptions when he's golfed with prominent figures, including House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, former President Bill Clinton and the leaders of New Zealand and Malaysia.
Obama planned to return to the White House on Sunday evening.
Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide's Secret Spy Network, Which Included Activity In Libya...
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(Hillary was running her own clandestine operation in Libya...)
Via ProPublica
http://www.propublica.org/article/private-emails-reveal-ex-clinton-aides-secret-spy-network
Starting weeks before Islamic militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, longtime Clinton family confidante Sidney Blumenthal supplied intelligence to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gathered by a secret network that included a former CIA clandestine service officer, according to hacked emails from Blumenthal's account.
The emails, which were posted on the internet in 2013, also show that Blumenthal and another close Clinton associate discussed contracting with a retired Army special operations commander to put operatives on the ground near the Libya-Tunisia border while Libya's civil war raged in 2011.
Blumenthal's emails to Clinton, which were directed to her private email account, include at least a dozen detailed reports on events on the deteriorating political and security climate in Libya as well as events in other nations. They came to light after a hacker broke into Blumenthal's account and have taken on new significance in light of the disclosure that she conducted State Department and personal business exclusively over an email server that she controlled and kept secret from State Department officials and which only recently was discovered by congressional investigators.
[...]
The dispatches from Blumenthal to Clinton's private email address were posted online after Blumenthal's account was hacked in 2013 by Romanian hacker Marcel-Lehel Lazar, who went by the name Guccifer. Lazar also broke into accounts belonging to George W. Bush's sister, Colin Powell, and others. He's now serving a seven-year sentence in his home country and was charged in a U.S. indictment last year.
[...]
It's unclear who tasked Blumenthal, known for his fierce loyalty to the Clintons, with preparing detailed intelligence briefs. It's also not known who was paying him, or where the operation got its money. The memos were marked "confidential" and relied in many cases on "sensitive" sources in the Libyan opposition and Western intelligence and security services. Other reports focused on Egypt, Germany, and Turkey.
Senate GOP Asking Questions About Huma Abedin's Email Account
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Via Fox News:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/28/senate-gop-asking-new-questions-about-emails-for-clinton-and-abedin-who-has/
Senate Republicans are renewing efforts to learn why Huma Abedin, a top assistant to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was allowed to keep working at the agency under a special, part-time status while also being employed at a politically-connected consulting firm.
The new requests are being made by Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, following revelations that both women used a private Internet server and email accounts for State Department correspondence.
Grassley says the earlier requests to the department have been largely ignored, so the new ones have gone to the department's inspector general and to Secretary of State [Lurch] Kerry, seeking their involvement.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/HillarysBossyMoods.jpg)
GOP: 'Even Nixon Didn't Destroy the Tapes'
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(Hillary, setting a whole new standard in "transparency"...)
Via Weekly Standard:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/gop-even-nixon-didnt-destroy-tapes_901633.html
Hillary Clinton is worse than Richard Nixon, says the Republican National Committee.
"Even Nixon didn't destroy the tapes," RNC chair Reince Priebus says in a statement in response to reports that Hillary Clinton wiped her email server clean.
"It's imperative an independent third party review the server immediately. Unless Mrs. Clinton went to extreme lengths to wipe this server, there are ways to recover this data.
"Unfortunately it appears Clinton went above and beyond to eliminate email traffic as Secretary of State. There isn't a separate set of rules the Clintons can choose to play by. It's time they be held accountable."
Special forces set to swarm Southwest and operate undetected among civilians in massive military exercise
for weeks at a time
*Operation Jade Helm will see 1,200 service members including Green Berets and SEALs and special forces from the Air Force and Marines in July
*Soldiers armed with blank rounds will operate in and around towns in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado for 8 weeks
*The so-called Realistic Military Training has some residents fearful the drill is a preparation for martial law
Seven Southwestern states will soon be infiltrated by 1,200 military special ops personnel as part of a controversial domestic military training in which some of the elite soldiers will operate undetected among civilians.
Operation Jade Helm begins in July and will last for eight weeks. Soldiers will operate in and around towns in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado where some of them wil drop from planes while carrying weapons loaded with blanks in what military officials have dubbed Realistic Military Training.
But with residents of the entire states of Texas and Utah dubbed 'hostile' for the purposes of the exercises, Jade Helm has some concerned the drills are too realistic.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3013900/Fears-martial-law-special-ops-set-swarm-Southwest-operate-undetected-civilians-ve-deemed-HOSTILE-massive-military-exercise.html#ixzz3VlB3g9DS
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Via Daily Mail:
UNBELIEVABLE:
Seven Southwestern states will soon be infiltrated by 1,200 military special ops personnel as part of a controversial domestic military training in which some of the elite soldiers will operate undetected among civilians.
Operation Jade Helm begins in July and will last for eight weeks. Soldiers will operate in and around towns in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado where some of them wil drop from planes while carrying weapons loaded with blanks in what military officials have dubbed Realistic Military Training.
But with residents of the entire states of Texas and Utah dubbed 'hostile' for the purposes of the exercises, Jade Helm has some concerned the drills are too realistic.
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Hostile:An unclassified military document reveals the states involved in a controversial multi-agency training exercises that will place 1,200 military personnel into 7 Southwest states--with residents of Utah, Texas and part of Southern California designated as 'hostile'
Video at: http://www.keyetv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/operation-jade-helm-25007.shtml
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Reassuring? Sheriff's deputies say they will ensure residents living near where aircraft were slated to create disturbances and drop soldiers, civilian and military vehicles will barrel through and where blank rounds would be fired.
Headlines like Freedom Outpost's 'Operation Jade Helm—military trains for martial law in American South-west' abound across the Right-leaning blogosphere and Info Wars warns that Jade Helm is simply 'an effort to test the effectiveness of infiltration techniques' on the American public.
'They're having Delta Force, Navy SEALS with the Army trained to basically take over,' Info Wars' Alex Jones said Sunday. 'Texas is listed as a hostile sector, and of course, we are...We're here defending the republic.'
The Houston Chronicle reports that, among the planned exercises, soldiers will attempt to operate undetected among civilian populations.
Residents, in turn, will be asked to report suspicious activity in order to gauge the effectiveness of the soldiers.
Military officials say they've gotten the go ahead for the operations from local authorities such as mayors and county commissions.
And sheriff's deputies told the Houston Chronicle they would ensure residents living near where aircraft were slated to create disturbances and drop soldiers, civilian and military vehicles will barrel through and where blank rounds would be fired.
Jim Stewart with the Brazos County, Texas Sheriff's Office told the Chronicle that such exercises are far from anything new.
'Special ops for years have trained off-post for years, where they go out and have folks that are role players out on the economy,' said the Army intelligence veteran. 'They'll have a scenario they'll be following and they'll interact with these role players as if they're in another country.'
However, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command themselves say Jade Helm is different.(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/27/00/2707A6F600000578-0-image-a-14_1427416294113.jpg)
Texas, which the military has designated as 'hostile' for the purposes of the training, was chosen to be a hub of the unprecedentedly large program because 'Texans are historically supportive of efforts to prepare our soldiers' writes the USASOC
'The size and scope of Jade Helm sets this one apart. To stay ahead of the environmental challenges faced overseas, Jade Helm will take place across seven states,' the USASOC wrote in a March 24 release.
'The diverse terrain in these states replicates areas Special Operations Soldiers regularly find themselves operating in overseas.'
The military has also reacted to widespread fear of the operation by calling some ultra-conservative coverage of the 'martial law' drills alarmist and inaccurate.
'That notion was proposed by a few individuals who are unfamiliar with how and why USASOC conducts training exercises,' USASOC spokesman Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria told Stripes.
'This exercise is routine training to maintain a high level of readiness for Army Special Operations Forces because they must be ready to support potential missions anywhere in the world on a moment's notice.'Jade Helm Martial Law WW3 Prep Document 2 by All News Pipeline:http://www.scribd.com/doc/258609463/Jade-Helm-Martial-Law-WW3-Prep-Document-2
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3013900/Fears-martial-law-special-ops-set-swarm-Southwest-operate-undetected-civilians-ve-deemed-HOSTILE-massive-military-exercise.html#ixzz3VlEaBX6r
Crash Position: Our Pilot Has Locked Out America From The Cockpit
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That phrase finally revealed the full horror of the crash of Germanwings flight 9525. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz waited for the pilot to leave the cockpit, then locked the door to prevent his re-entry. After which Lubitz, for reasons unknown and perhaps unknowable, deliberately steered the jet into a harrowing 8 minute plunge ending in an explosive 434 mph impact with a rocky mountainside. 150 men, women and children met an immediate, unthinkably violent death.
Lubitz, in his single-minded madness, couldn't be stopped because anyone who could change the jet's disastrous course was locked out. (It's hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that the passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed up to meet them. Hard... but not impossible.
Because America is in big trouble, Obi-Wan. We feel the descent in the pits of our stomachs. We hear the shake and rattle of structures stressed beyond their limits. We don't know where we're going anymore, but do know it isn't good. And above all... we feel helpless because POS Buttrack Obuma has locked us out.
He locked the American people out of his decision to seize the national healthcare system. Locked us out when we wanted to know why the IRS was attacking conservatives. He locked us out of having a say in his decision to tear up our immigration laws, and to give over a trillion dollars in benefits to those who broke those laws.
Buttrack Obuma locked out those who advised against premature troop withdrawals. Locked out the intelligence agencies who issued warnings about the growing threat of ISIS. He locked out anyone who could have interfered with his release of five Taliban terror chiefs in return for one U.S. military deserter.
And of course, Buttrack Obuma has now locked out Congress... the American people... and our allies as he strikes a secret deal with Iran to determine the timeline (not prevention) of their acquisition of nuclear weapons...) Was Andreas Lubitz depressed, insane, or abysmally evil when he decided to lock that cockpit door and listen to no voices other than those in his head? Did he somehow believe himself to be doing the right thing?
The voice recordings from the doomed aircraft reveal that as the jet began its rapid descent, the passengers were quiet. There was probably some nervous laughter, confusion, a bit of comforting chatter with seatmates, followed by a brief period in which anxiety had not yet metastasized into terror.
It was only near the end of the 8 minute plunge that everyone finally understood what was really happening. Only near the end when they began to scream. (Like those passengers, a growing number of Americans feel a helpless dread as they come to the inescapable conclusion that our nation's decline is an act of choice rather than of chance. The choice of one man who is in full control of our 8 year plunge.
A man who has locked everyone out...)(http://ei.marketwatch.com//Multimedia/2015/03/25/Photos/MG/MW-DI335_german_20150325113624_MG.jpg?uuid=b51999ca-d304-11e4-8aa1-c3a5a0557ba0)
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18,000 Trees to Be Cut Down for Solar Farm
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A theme park plans to cut down more than 18,000 trees for the construction of what it says will be the largest solar farm in New Jersey.
Six Flags Great Adventure says the facility will generate 21.9 megawatts, or enough to power about 3,100 homes, and capable of meeting all of the park's needs.(Birds that get set on fire and taxpayers who have to pay the coercive subsidies aren't the only victims of trendy if not terribly efficient solar energy. Won't someone please think of the trees? Just don't let the tree weepers find out. Wait... uh oh...too late!)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4
Tree farts, yes they're in part mourning the loss of tree farts from their fallen comrade. Evolutionary biologists agree according to bovine data, people animal farts (methane) contribute much to the global warming phenomena, enough to destroy Antarctic ice shelves and explode tiny baby penguins. But tree fart emissions are the antidote to the evil emissions from people and other animals which evolved from the hydrocarbon methane primordial soup.
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An email from Pantsuit to Congressman Trey Gowdy
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Starbucks Crappuccino
(Starbucks justifies charging so excessively by giving you more than just coffee. On the side you get a free heaping serving of Crappuccino...):
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A Little Hope & Change
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~An Obumabot Meets the Moonbat Messiah~
(Like everything else having to do with Democrats these days, this is pretty creepy...):
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(At least they managed to take the shot while his tongue wasn't darting out and flickering...)
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Dumb: Whiny Rock Band Cancels Indiana Concert Over Religious Freedom Law –
Dumber: Has Shows In 9 Other States With Same Law
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(Self-righteous fail... Idiots... they forgot that they are also supposed to boycott Arizona... after some anti-illegal alien law Jan Brewer signed a few years ago. Remember that anyone? Notice how the Democrats have stopped all dialogue and have become total totalitarians the minute a bill passes they don't like. They don't try to work with Republicans... they use social media to get a bunch of useful idiots to start a "boycott" that lasts until they've forgotten it for the next mobs with pitchforks target...)Via American Spectator:http://spectator.org/blog/62240/wilco-cancels-show-not-shows-9-other-rfra-states
Wilco, which is a band that you'll know if, like me, you were a depressed kid in college in the early 2000s, who thought that listening to whiny musicians would make you seem "cooler" to the other depressed kids in college in the early 2000s, has cancelled it's Indianapolis tour date in protest over the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
Misunderstanding of the law notwithstanding – after all, I can hardly expect an alternative rock band to be experts on Constitutional Law and the legislative process – the proclamation is sort of strange. Sure, they have a right not to perform in a place they deem "backwards," even if there won't be a single supporter of the law in Wilco's audience, meaning they've deprived themselves of friendly Indiana money (their right under the free market, too). But a quick look at Wilco's other tour dates, and it seems they've been awfully selective over which RFRA states they're choosing to ignore.
Their tour has two upcoming dates in Texas (RFRA), then takes a jaunt through Louisiana (RFRA), then takes an extended trip through Florida (RFRA). Before heading into Canada, the tour touches down in Tennessee (RFRA), Missouri (RFRA), Kentucky (RFRA), and Arizona (RFRA). After they do a quick tour through Winnipeg, they're back in the states with dates in Missouri again (RFRA), Illinois (RFRA), and Connecticut (RFRA). They end their tour in the safe liberal haven of California, where no one except the wildlife is protected.
Bill Whittle on the Criminal Arrogance of Hillary Clinton
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(If this known criminal is elected president, the fundamental transformation
is effectively complete. America is over...)
Even before it came to light that Hillary wiped her server after the subpoenaed emails on it had been officially requested, she had legally not to mention morally disqualified herself to hold public office, as Bill Whittle explains:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lDN5b6ET0I
Transcript at Truth Revolt:
http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-criminal-arrogance-hillary-clinton#.VRlQMC8l0uU.twitter
Iranian Defector: Obuma's Negotiators Are Shills for Iran
Not all Iranians are brutally repressive Islamic barbarians — but the ones running the government are. Similarly, not all Americans are contemptible ideologically deranged traitors — but the ones running the government are. Although Iran (a.k.a. Persia) has been a rival of the West since the days of Leonidas, those two governments now work together toward a common goal:An Iranian journalist who defected from his country while covering its ongoing nuclear talks has revealed startling information regarding America's position at the negotiating table.
Amir Hossein Motaghi, who reportedly was employed at Iran's state-run Iran Student Correspondents Association, told a London-based Iranian opposition channel that the U.S. was shilling for Iran in the ongoing negotiations over the regime's nuclear weapons program.
"The US negotiating team are mainly there to speak on Iran's behalf with other members of the 5+1 countries and convince them of a deal," Mottaghi told Irane Farda, according to UK's The Telegraph.A common impression has been confirmed.
[Mottaghi] is now seeking political asylum in Switzerland, after utilizing his opportunity to cover the talks in order to flee his home country. ...
"My conscience would not allow me to carry out my profession anymore," Motaghi said of his frustration working under the Iranian regime's strict controls. He added that there was no "sense" in becoming a journalist in Iran because he only wrote whatever information was fed to him.
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*ButtHead Obuma's Iranian-born supervisor*
Media Lapdogs Loyally Wait in Maintenance Shed as Their Master Golfs
There is something noble about the patience and loyalty of a dog tied to a parking meter, waiting stoically on a tiny patch of concrete as its owner unhurriedly sips cocktails in a bar. Yet it is hard to find anything noble about Obama's lapdog media:
It's no secret that President Obama is in Florida this weekend to play some golf, but don't expect any reports about his golf game. For whatever reason, the White House declared a news lid just as the president was about to tee off. Rather than head back to their hotel 15 miles away, however, the press pool voted instead to take shelter in a maintenance shed so as to remain somewhat close to the president.(Maybe they will be rewarded with a pat on the head the next time Obuma deigns to let them near...)
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The Obuma Administration
THREE SUSPECTS ARRESTED in Brutal Metrolink Attack on White Rider Over #MikeBrown
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Last week a Metrolink rider in St. Louis was brutally beaten over Michael Brown.
Via Dana Loesch Radio:
A white male was filmed being viciously attacked on the St. Louis Metrolink reportedly over Michael Brown. The video was posted on Facebook.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=54&v=Ur_uZr6ZzPU
The 43 year-old victim told KMOV he was on his way home from work when he was beaten.
The other riders were laughing.
Police released photos of the suspects in the Metrolink beating this weekend
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Tonight St. Louis police reported that three suspects had been arrested.
St. Louis Today reported:
Police have arrested three suspects in an attack last week in which a MetroLink rider was beaten after one of several men asked him about the Michael Brown "situation."
A police source confirmed the arrests Monday evening and said more information would be released soon.
A video posted to Facebook appears to show the attack March 23 on the 43-year-old man, and MetroLink released surveillance images of suspects.
Police said the victim, who is white, was punched and kicked by three black men, one of whom had made the reference to the teen killed in Ferguson by a police officer Aug. 9.
The assault took place about 8:54 p.m. as the eastbound train was nearing the Forest Park Metrolink platform, police said. The victim told police he was seated when the three men approached him from behind.
One of the men asked the victim if he could use his cellphone, and the victim said no.
The man then asked the victim "what he thought about the Mike Brown situation." The victim responded that he hadn't thought much about it, according to the police report.
The man in the red shirt then punched the victim in the face and struck him multiple times, police said.
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67 year old war veteran beats up young male who starts on him on the bus
Careful, social justice warriors. Sometimes public transportation assaults don't turn out as planned — as when this punk pushed a 67-year-old vet too far:
>VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=104&v=GmXwSJlpVwc <
67 Year Old Vietnam Vet From Transit Bus Fight Interview:
>VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a9JxZRdlz4&index=3&list=RDGmXwSJlpVwc <
Another interview with Gramps:
AC TRANSIT BUS FIGHT-- Interview w/ Vietnam Tom Slick (Epic Beard Man) & Parody Song... After AC Transit Bus fight, Vietnam Tom talks about what happened:
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(You're the Man, Vietnam Tom... You're the Man!!)
Hillary Clinton Exposed, Movie She Banned From Theaters
***Full Movie***
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYW5nmS9ps
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HILLARY & BILL CLINTON - THEIR EVIL CORRUPTION EXPOSED! 2015
This video is about HILLARY & BILL CLINTON WANTED FOR TREASON 2014
VIDEO (FULL MOVIE): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZfHInw-Eto
Warph,
I am sitting here blushing. My beloved Marines never talk using such gutter language. :angel:
Ol Vietnam Tom would pass as a twin brother to a Screaming Eagle buddy of mine from Lawrence. You know I'm talking about you ,Quick-man. ;D
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This is definitly not politically correct speaking but very truthful
Obuma is raping our nation and not using vaseline nor prophylactic.
I'm sick of Politically Correct Speak.
DHS Launches "Family Reunification",
Refugee Program for
Central Americans
APRIL 01, 2015
To facilitate the often treacherous process of entering the United States illegally through the southern border, the Obama administration is offering free transportation from three Central American countries and a special refugee/parole program with "resettlement assistance" and permanent residency.
Under the new initiative the administration has rebranded the official name it originally assigned to the droves of illegal immigrant minors who continue sneaking into the U.S. They're no longer known as Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), a term that evidently was offensive and not politically correct enough for the powerful open borders movement. The new arrivals will be officially known as Central American Minors (CAM) and they will be eligible for a special refugee/parole that offers a free one-way flight to the U.S. from El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras. The project is a joint venture between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the State Department.
Specifically, the "program provides certain children in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras with a safe, legal, and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children are undertaking to the United States," according to a DHS memo obtained by JW this week. The document goes on to say that the CAM program has started accepting applications from "qualifying parents" to bring their offspring under the age of 21 from El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras. The candidates will then be granted a special refugee parole, which includes many taxpayer-funded perks and benefits. Among them is a free education, food stamps, medical care and living expenses.
During a special teleconference this week officials from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the State Department explained how CAM will work. Only "friendly" groups and individuals invited by the government were allowed to participate and the event was not open to the media. Judicial Watch attended as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with interest in the matter. Obama administration officials offered an overview of the new CAM initiative and confirmed that the U.S. has deployed staff to the region to handle the influx of applicants. A State Department official promoted CAM as a "family reunification" program that will be completely funded by American taxpayers, though the official claimed to have no idea what the cost will be.
A U.S.-based parent will initiate the application to bring his or her child in from any of the three Central American countries. To qualify they must be a permanent resident, a parolee or a beneficiary of Obama's recent amnesty or deferred action. Many have probably lived illegally in the U.S. for years. The only out-of-pocket cost is for a DNA test to assure the child belongs to the applicant but Uncle Sam will reimburse the money if the result is positive. A U.S. official will interview the child, then a medical exam and "cultural orientation" will be conducted before the minor flies to the U.S. Once in the U.S. the illegal alien will get "resettlement assistance," the State Department official confirmed during the teleconference.
If the applicant doesn't qualify for the more desirable refugee status he or she can be considered for parole, a USCIS official explained in the teleconference, which was attended mostly by immigrant rights groups known for advocating on behalf of illegal aliens. Refugee status is a form of protection offered to those who are deemed of special humanitarian concern to the United States. Parole allows individuals who may be otherwise inadmissible to come to the U.S. on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit. The State Department official assured that applicants need not express or document a credible fear to qualify under CAM because "we want to make sure this program is open to as many people as possible."
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2015/04/dhs-launches-family-reunification-refugee-program-for-central-americans/
Brownback signs bill allowing concealed carrying of guns without permit
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ain't nobody gonna mess with me and my SteamPunk CCW ...)
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TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT/AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill on Thursday allowing Kansas residents to carry concealed firearms without a permit.
Legislators approved the measure last week, and the new law will take effect July 1.
The National Rifle Association says Kansas will become the fifth state to allow concealed carry without a permit everywhere."Kansans shouldn't need a permission slip to fulfill their constitutional rights." Brownback said at the signing.
Kansas still would issue permits for gun owners who want to carry concealed in other states that recognize Kansas permits. A person seeking a Kansas permit must undergo eight hours of firearms training.
Supporters of the bill said gun owners have shown they can be trusted to carry concealed.
Brownback said gun owners have shown they are responsible.
Critics of the measure say the state should require some training to carry concealed.
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:o 17 Signs You Might Be Living in a Bad Neighborhood :o
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How to Cook Bacon With Fully Automatic M16 Rifle
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Competitive shooter Dustin Ellermann — a former winner of Top Shot –has found a creative way to prepare breakfast in the wild – he puts rashers of bacon around a flash suppressor attached to an M16 assault rifle, wraps them in tin foil, and fires until the meat starts smoking. It apparently takes several minutes and 90 rounds to cook the bacon.
It's pretty effective, very tasty, and definitely NOT Muslim-friendly.
And what words came to Ellermann's mind as he wrapped a slice of bacon around the suppressor attached to the M16? "So much America right now."VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7UW5AkWqOY
Uh, Ok, but I can think of cheaper ways to cook bacon. Remember when we kept food warm on the engine manifold? He is one heck of a good shot though.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on April 03, 2015, 07:44:34 AM
Uh, Ok, but I can think of cheaper ways to cook bacon. Remember when we kept food warm on the engine manifold? He is one heck of a good shot though.
But ya didn't have M-16's and Muslims to cook bacon for did you?
LOL
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CONSPIRACY THEORY OF THE DAY
President Obama Resigns! New Job Awaits!
April 1, 2015
VIDEO of Obuma Resigning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw3ttrBbwuY[/color][/size][/b]
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In happier days.
Washington - President Obama announced to the world today that he is resigning from the Presdiency. His resignation takes effect immediately. Mr Obama has found that the people who want the position are not aware of what the job entails, or are delusional enough to think that they will enjoy making decisions that no one will like. Vice President Biden will act as president until the next election. Mr. Biden was smiling ear to ear like a kid on Christmas morning sugared up in Halloween candy.
When asked what he will do, Mr Obama stated he has a position lined up: lion tamer. The Death Wish Circus has accepted him as a fully fledged lion tamer. Though Mr Obama has no experience taming lions, per se, his performance in dealing with Republicans, Democrats, and world leaders show that he is a quick learner. When confronted by one of the press about the cruel treatment of animals in circuses Mr Obama replied, "This circus has been certified by PETA, and no whips are allowed when dealing with the big cats. Lion tamers are expected to use strongly worded commands and wildly desperate hand gestures." Mr Obama stated that his wife, Michelle, supports his position 100% and plans to work at one of the concession stands with their daughters.
John Boehner, Speaker of the House, cried upon hearing the news in orangy tinged amazement. Mr Boehner was not able to make a comment at this time. But a Newest Newsy News reporter could hear the Speaker of the House through the closed door of his office sobbing, "Why does he get to be the lion tamer and I get stuck being a clown?"(http://angrywhitedude.com/wp-content/uploads2/2015/04/0.jpg)
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Michelle Obama Scandal Erupts!
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Michelle is about to be impeached.
There is a real possibility that she will
abdicate from being First Lady.
Washington DC - Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, has officially levelled charges against Michelle Obama. The federal government held its collective breath as the Republican from Ohio read the charges against the First Lady.
Simply put, Michelle Obama's relationship with the organic food industrial complex is improper, and is clearly a high crime of these United States.
Speaker Boehner continued to cite evidence gathered by the FBI on how Mrs. Obama's Let's Move campaign, the nationwide childhood anti-obesity drive, was used by the First Lady to funnel tens of pounds of fresh organic food into the White House.
What Would Happen If Martial Law Was Declared In America?
By Michael Snyder
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In recent weeks, there has been a lot of concern that an upcoming eight week military exercise on U.S. soil known as "Jade Helm"....
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Operation+Jade+Helm&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=operation+jade+helm&sc=1-19&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=3b951682aaa6458d9691055fc35d37df
.....is actually a dress rehearsal for the imposition of martial law in this country. One of the reasons for the high level of concern is that we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of "urban warfare exercises" conducted by the U.S. military in major U.S. cities over the past decade – including exercises where "dissidents" are hunted down, arrested and hauled away. As our world becomes increasingly unstable, and as our society rapidly decays from within, many believe that it is only a matter of time before the executive branch will have sufficient excuse to use the extensive martial law powers that it has been accumulating since 9/11. When that day arrives, what will our nation look like? What would actually happen if martial law was declared in America?
Well, the first thing that you need to know is that the U.S. Constitution would be "suspended".
In other words, you would suddenly have no rights at all.
There would be no freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, no freedom of assembly and you could be arrested at any time for any reason whatsoever.
For the duration of the "emergency", the military would be in control. There would be troops in the streets, a curfew would almost certainly be imposed, and armed checkpoints would be set up.
If the "emergency" lasted long enough, we would probably see authorities go house to house confiscating firearms, ammunition and food supplies.
And perhaps most troubling of all, "dissidents" and "subversives" would likely be rounded up and imprisoned.
Perhaps you don't think that this could ever happen in the United States in 2015.Well, we do know that this is precisely what the FBI had a plan to do in the 1950s. The following is an excerpt from a recent RT article...
Documents show the FBI created a "Plan C" during the Cold War, which could have been triggered in the event the US underwent a nuclear attack. It included putting the nation under martial law, rounding up "subversives," and interning enemy diplomats.
The documents, acquired by transparency journalism organization MuckRock, detail the FBI plan created in 1956, which was shared with several top officials from every governmental department. The FBI also distributed papers regarding the plan to its field offices. The plan would have gone into effect "after a war has begun in which the US is involved or may become involved and prior to an actual attack on the US itself," according to the documents.
Under Plan C, martial law would be declared and the FBI would enact its 'Emergency Detention Program,' which entailed apprehending individuals whose affiliations with subversive organizations "are so pronounced that their continued liberty in the event of a national emergency would present a serious threat to the internal security of the country." The document shows that as of April 1956, almost 13,000 people "were scheduled for apprehension in an emergency."
Very sobering.
And we do know that the federal government had a list of at least 8 million names of people that were considered to be "threats to national security" back in the 1980s. This list was known as Main Core, and it is not known whether this list still exists today.
I have a feeling that it does, and that it is probably much larger than it was back then.
We also know that government documents produced during the Obama administration openly discuss rounding up "dissidents" and taking them to internment camps.
Just consider the following example from Infowars...A leaked 2012 US Army Military Police training manual, entitled "Civil Disturbance Operations," described how soldiers would be ordered to confiscate firearms and kill American "dissidents." The manual also revealed that prisoners would be detained in temporary internment camps and "re-educated" to gain a new appreciation of "U.S. policies," in accordance with U.S. Army FM 3-19.40 Internment/Resettlement Operations.
So who would those "dissidents" be exactly?
In "72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered 'Potential Terrorists' In Official Government Documents", I detailed how official U.S. government documents specifically identify those that believe in "conspiracy theories" as possible threats. Others that the government is concerned about include those opposed to abortion, globalism, communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations and "the New World Order".
I wish that none of this was true. Go check out the article for yourself.
Another very disturbing government document talks about the need for the U.S. Army to prepare to battle political dissidents in "megacities" and to neutralize groups "who can influence the lives of the population while undermining the authority of the state".
Here is more from Infowars...
The U.S. Army is preparing to fight political dissidents who challenge the power of the state as "megacities" become the battleground of the future, according to a new report in the Army Times.
The article details how the Army's Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) worked with US Army Special Operations Command, the chief of staff's Strategic Studies Group and the UK's Ministry of Defence earlier this year to wargame the future of armed combat, which will revolve around the neutralization of groups "who can influence the lives of the population while undermining the authority of the state," a chillingly vague description which could easily be applied to political dissidents.
The plan foresees an unprecedented realignment of U.S. military strategy focused around putting "boots on the ground" in megacities to deal with "politically dispossessed" populations while relying on "more lethal and more autonomous" methods.
Very alarming stuff.
And if we did see martial law declared nationwide, it is likely that all elections would be suspended indefinitely.
That could also potentially include the 2016 presidential election.
Is it possible that Barack Obama could use his emergency powers to stay in the White House beyond his second term? There are some out there that believe that this could actually happen under the right circumstances.
For example, check out what Dr. Ben Carson said during an appearance on the Alan Colmes radio show...
COLMES: What do you mean though when you say there may not be an election in 2016?
DR. BEN CARSON: There may be so much anarchy going on.
COLMES: Anarchy? So you really think we risk risking an anarchic America to the point where elections might be put on hold, or some kind of emergency is declared with such anarchy that there wouldn't be a Presidential election in a couple of years?
DR. BEN CARSON: I don't want to find out. I really don't want to find out, I don't want to continue down this pathway that we're going down.
And the groundwork has certainly been laid for such a scenario.
During his time in the White House, Barack Obama has signed a series of executive orders that give him and his minions an extraordinary amount of power in the event of a major national emergency.For example, read the following excerpt from an executive order that Obama signed in March 2012...
Sec. 201. Priorities and Allocations Authorities. (a) The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071, to require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other than contracts of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders, and to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense, is delegated to the following agency heads:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer;
(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and
(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.
That sounds like it covers just about everything.
Basically, during a time of martial law all of the things that you take for granted today would be out the window.
You would have no rights, and the federal government would be able to do just about anything that it wanted to do.
If that sounds really bad to you, then maybe now you are starting to understand why so many people get upset when they see preparations being made for the eventual imposition of martial law in this country.
Obuma Was Hand-Picked, Was NOT a Natural Born Citizen,
Congress Knew It, and Tried to Protect Him
Posted on March 29, 2015 by Dean Garrison
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The further I travel down this rabbit hole, the more I feel divorced from the good conservative people that I choose to call my own. I hold some stories back from our readers. My thought is that people have a hard enough time embracing the basic fact that our government is corrupt on both sides of the aisle. If you knew how corrupt I thought these people really were, I feel like you'd rush to the phone and soon bad men would show up to haul me off in a straight jacket.
Do they still do that?
Regardless, today I want to show you something that might leave you questioning everything around you.
Welcome to my world.
In 1975 a representative named Joe Bingham introduced an amendment to remove the "natural born citizen" constitutional requirement to become President.
Why is that important?
Because it was not until almost 30 years later that the issue would be addressed again. And it was not addressed only once, but multiple times. This is all part of congressional record.
Remarkably, it just so happened to coincide with the meteoric rise of a man named Barack Obama who currently sits in the People's House.
I am about to share with you a brilliant piece of research from the Article II Political Action Committee. After reading it the foremost question on my mind is, "If the natural born citizen definition only requires one citizen parent then why did they seemingly try so hard to change the law for Barack Obama?"
There are multiple links to official congressional documents throughout, contained in the research below, so I would urge you to draw your own conclusions.
But from my point of view this research either strongly, or at least partly, validates the following conclusions:
1.Barack Obama was hand-picked to be President.
2.Some members of Congress, on both sides, understood that Obama was not "natural born" and tried to pass laws to pave the way for his arrival.
3.In the end they used a deflection tactic to shine light on John McCain's eligibility status, hoping that Obama's own status would not be brought into question.
It appears to have worked.
Below is a lengthy excerpt from "Article II Facts" hosted on the site of the Article II Political Action Committee. If you like what you read, I would encourage you to consider a donation to their cause.
Let's take a trip back through recent history:
Attempts to redefine or amend Article II "natural born Citizen" Clause of the U.S. Constitution:
The effort to remove the natural-born citizen requirement from the U.S. Constitution actually began in 1975 – when Democrat House Rep. Jonathon B. Bingham, [NY-22] introduced a constitutional amendment underH.J.R. 33: which called for the outright removal of the natural-born requirement for president found in Article II of the U.S. Constitution – "Provides that a citizen of the United States otherwise eligible to hold the Office of President shall not be ineligible because such citizen is not a natural born citizen."
Bingham's first attempt failed and he resurrected H.J.R. 33: in 1977 under H.J.R. 38:, again failing to gain support from members of congress. Bingham was a Yale Law grad and member of the secret society Skull and Bones, later a lecturer at Columbia Law and thick as thieves with the United Nations via his membership in the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bingham's work lay dormant for twenty-six years when it was resurrected again in 2003 as Democrat members of Congress made no less than eight (8) attempts in twenty-two (22) months, to either eliminate the natural-born requirement, or redefine natural-born to accommodate Barack Hussein Obama II in advance of his rise to power. The evidence is right in the congressional record...
1. On June 11, 2003 Democrat House member Vic Snyder [AR-2] introduced H.J.R 59: in the 108th Congress – "Constitutional Amendment – Makes a person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 35 years and who has been a resident within the United States for at least 14 years eligible to hold the office of President or Vice President." – Co-Sponsors: Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14]; Rep Delahunt, William D. [MA-10]; Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4]; Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49]; Rep LaHood, Ray [IL-18]; Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4].
2. On September 3, 2003, Rep. John Conyers [MI] introduced H.J.R. 67: – "Constitutional Amendment – Makes a person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 20 years eligible to hold the office of President." – Co-Sponsor Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27]
3. On February 25, 2004, Republican Senator Don Nickles [OK] attempted to counter the growing Democrat onslaught aimed at removing the natural-born citizen requirement for president in S.2128: – "Natural Born Citizen Act – Defines the constitutional term "natural born citizen," to establish eligibility for the Office of President" – also getting the definition of natural born citizen wrong. – Co-sponsors Sen Inhofe, James M. [OK]; Sen Landrieu, Mary L. [LA]
4. On September 15, 2004 – as Barack Obama was about to be introduced as the new messiah of the Democrat Party at the DNC convention, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher [CA-46] introduced H.J.R. 104: – "Constitutional Amendment – "Makes eligible for the Office of the President non-native born persons who have held U.S. citizenship for at least 20 years and who are otherwise eligible to hold such Office." – No co-sponsors.
5. Again on January 4, 2005, Rep John Conyers [MI] introduced H.J.R. 2: to the 109th Congress – "Constitutional Amendment – Makes a person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 20 years eligible to hold the Office of President." – Co-Sponsor Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27]
6. Rep Dana Rohrabacher [CA-46] tries again on February 1, 2005 in H.J.R. 15: – "Constitutional Amendment – Makes eligible for the Office of the President non-native born persons who have held U.S. citizenship for at least 20 years and who are otherwise eligible to hold such Office." – No Co-Sponsor
7. On April 14, 2005, Rep Vic Snyder [AR-2] tries yet again with H.J.R. 42: – "Constitutional Amendment – Makes a person who has been a citizen of the United States for at least 35 years and who has been a resident within the United States for at least 14 years eligible to hold the office of President or Vice President." – Co-Sponsor Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4]
8. All of these efforts failing in committee and the 2008 presidential election looming with an unconstitutional candidate leading the DNC ticket, Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill, [MO] tries to attach the alteration to a military bill in S.2678: on February 28, 2008 – "Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act – Declares that the term "natural born Citizen" in article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution, dealing with the criteria for election to President of the United States, includes any person born to any U.S. citizen while serving in the active or reserve components of the U.S. armed forces." – Co-Sponsors DNC Presidential candidate Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY]; DNC Presidential candidate Sen Obama, Barack [IL]; Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ]; Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] – (This was the first effort to also assure that GOP Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain [AZ] would be cleared to run against the DNC primary victor.)
From June 11, 2003 to February 28, 2008, there had been eight (8) different congressional attempts to alter Article II – Section I – Clause V – natural born citizen requirements for president in the U.S. Constitution, all of them failing in committee — All of it taking placing during Barack Obama's rise to political power and preceding the November 2008 presidential election.
In politics, there are no coincidences... not of this magnitude.
Finally on April 10, 2008, unable to alter or remove the natural born citizen requirement to clear the way for Barack Obama, the U.S. Senate acts to shift focus before the election, introducing and passing S.R.511: – declaring Sen. John McCain a "natural born citizen" eligible to run for and hold the office of president. There was never any honest doubt about McCain, the son of a U.S. Navy Commander. The Sponsor of the resolution is Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill, [MO]
S.R.511 States that John Sidney McCain, III, is a "natural born Citizen" under Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution of the United States. S.R511 passed by a 99-0 unanimous consent of the Senate, with only John McCain not voting. The basis was – "Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens;" – a condition not met by Barack Hussein Obama II. – Co-Sponsors DNC Presidential candidate Sen Clinton, Hillary Rodham [NY]; DNC Presidential candidate Sen Obama, Barack [IL]; Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT]; Sen Webb, Jim [VA]; Sen Coburn, Tom [OK] (They had made certain that John McCain would run against Barack Obama)
However, in the McCain resolution is also this language – "Whereas the Constitution of the United States requires that, to be eligible for the Office of the President, a person must be a `natural born Citizen' of the United States; – Whereas the term `natural born Citizen', as that term appears in Article II, Section 1, is not defined in the Constitution of the United States;"
The U.S. Constitution is not a dictionary. The definition of "is" is not in the constitution either. Yet this is the text that would later be issued in Congressional Research Service talking points memos distributed to members of congress, to protect an individual that all members of congress know and understand to be an "unconstitutional" resident of the people's White House – Barack Hussein Obama II.
Once again, as the political left was unable to alter the U.S. Constitution by way of legitimate constitutional process, they resorted to altering the constitution via precedent setting, in short, knowingly electing and getting away with seating an unconstitutional president in order to alter Article II requirements for the office via breaking those constitutional requirements.
The press would not ask any questions and the American people were already too ill-informed of their constitution to know or too distracted by daily life to care. The press would provide the cover, swearing to the lies of an unconstitutional administration put in power by criminal actors focused only on their lofty political agenda of forever altering the American form of government.
The people would be caught up in a steady diet of daily assaults on their individual freedom and liberty and overlook the most obvious constitutional crisis in American history, the seating of an unconstitutional and anti-American president. [SOURCE CREDIT]
There you have it. Make of this what you will.
It brings about many questions for me.
Would people like Claire McCaskill and Hillary Clinton really come to John McCain's aid if they did not have an ulterior motive?
Why were people like Inhofe, Issa, and Rohrabacher either sponsoring or co-sponsoring these pieces of legislation? After all, these men have been three of Obama's biggest critics. We have heard lots of threats and promises from them but have seen no results. Could it be that these men are just more shining examples of "all bark and no bite"? (See Definition of "Smoke and Mirrors")
If it is true that the definition of "natural born citizen" only involves having one citizen parent then why all the fuss?
Obama, questionable Hawaii birth certificate and all, met the requirement of one American citizen parent. Maybe the truth is that it takes more than that and Congress knows it.
So why was nothing ever done?
Keep searching and settle for nothing less than the truth.
Victim of Castro's Round-ups 'Worried Immensely'
About Jade Helm
Posted on April 3, 2015 by Paul Joseph Watson
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Concerns sparked by Fort Lauderdale video of troops interning citizens
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DctmmjW5Ol4
(Video shows troops training to intern citizens Martial law-style in Fort Lauderdale...)
Victim of Castro Round-ups 'Worried Immensely' About Jade Helm
A victim of Fidel Castro's mass round-ups of dissidents in Cuba has expressed alarm about the upcoming Jade Helm exercise, writing that he is 'worried immensely' about the military drill set to take place in nine U.S. states this summer.
In a letter to the editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Larry Daley remarks that he was shocked to see video out of Fort Lauderdale which features military and police training together to arrest citizens and take them to internment facilities.
"It has been more than 55 years since 1961 and the Castro-ordered round up suspected resistors in Cuba. According to some press reports in excess of 200,000 were arrested during the Bay of Pigs," writes Daley.
"My youngest sister and I were arrested and taken to improvised holding facilities. We ended up in the huge Blanquita Theater. We tried to sleep under lights on the theater seats for days on end. There were bodies on the floor. The sanitary facilities overflowed with sewage."
His memories were stirred after reading about Jade Helm, a "realistic" military training exercise, which will involve the Green Berets, Navy Seals, and the 82nd Airborne Division, and is set to take place from July 15-Sepember 15.
Some fear that the drill is an escalation of preparations for martial law in America, plans for which have been in place for decades. During the exercise, troops will operate "undetected amongst civilian populations," to see if they can infiltrate without being noticed.
The issue attracted controversy after Texas and Utah were labeled "hostile" territory in documents related to the exercise.
"That horror is still with me," writes Daley, referring to his internment under Castro, adding, "Now I hear of operation Jade Helm. I read the official denials of such intent here, but I also saw a horrendous video shot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida purporting to show this training."
"I worry immensely," he concludes.
Mainstream media coverage of Jade Helm has poured scorn on concerns about the exercise and merely regurgitated Army talking points that the drill is purely designed to prepare troops for overseas combat.
However, that scenario has also prompted speculation as to whether the exercise represents a simulated invasion of the Middle East.
An analysis of the drill highlighted how the "hostile" states of Texas, Utah and a pocket of southern California could easily be transposed onto a map of the Middle East to represent Iran, Syria and Palestine, with other "friendly" states representing Turkey, Jordan and Israel.
Scientists Have Been Receiving Bizarre Signals from Space,
and They Have No Idea What They Are
Posted on April 3, 2015 by Joshua Krause
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Over the past 15 years, scientists from all over the world have been picking up strange signals from outer space, and they all have several factors in common. They last a fraction of a second, and arrive with the same amount of energy our sun would emit over the course of a month (albeit in the form of radio waves, so most of us would never notice).
What's most bizarre about these signals though, is that they don't appear to line up with any known natural phenomenon. All ten of the bursts that have been recorded over the years, have a near identical pattern. Their "dispersion measures" are all being recorded in multiples of the same exact number. 187.5.
Unlike most strange phenomena however, the scientific community hasn't been scrambling to find a "normal" explanation. These signals are so inexplicable, that many scientists are willing to accept the possibility that they may in fact, be coming from an alien civilization.
They claim there is a 5 in 10,000 probability that the line-up is coincidence. "If the pattern is real," says Learned, "it is very, very hard to explain."
Cosmic objects might, by some natural but unknown process, produce dispersions in regular steps. Small, dense remnant stars called pulsars are known to emit bursts of radio waves, though not in regular arrangements or with as much power as FRBs. But maybe superdense stars are mathematical oddities because of underlying physics we don't understand.
It's also possible that the telescopes are picking up evidence of human technology, like an unmapped spy satellite, masquerading as signals from deep space.
That just happens to be the most reasonable explanation so far. By all appearances, this does not look natural. Each burst of energy encompasses a wide range of the radio spectrum, and contain a massive amount of energy. They're so powerful, that researchers suspect that bare minimum, they are coming from across our galaxy, with some estimates placing their origin at billions of light years away.
On the surface, this would lend itself to a natural phenomenon. However, the incredibly short duration of the signal indicates that the source is probably several hundred kilometers in size, which is far smaller than the pulsar stars that would normally cause this kind of energy burst. And let's not forget the disturbing regularity the number 187.5 that shows up in this signal.
The most tantalizing possibility is that the source of the bursts might be a who, not a what. If none of the natural explanations pan out, their paper concludes, "An artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered."
"Beacon from extraterrestrials" has always been on the list of weird possible origins for these bursts. "These have been intriguing as an engineered signal, or evidence of extraterrestrial technology, since the first was discovered," says Jill Tarter, former director of the SETI Institute in California. "I'm intrigued. Stay tuned."
If this is coming from an alien civilization, they would obviously be highly advanced. To emit a signal of this magnitude would require a level of technology that we can't even begin to imagine. While some of the researchers question why aliens would send out a signal on such a wide band of the radio spectrum, to me it makes sense. If they were trying to contact another species from across the stars, they might not know what radio frequency they're listening to.
Either way, it's safe to assume that whoever was the intended recipient of this signal, it's certainly not us. If it came from billions of light years away, or even from within our own galaxy, they might even be extinct by now. The signal was probably intended for someone in their own backyard, so to speak.
Whatever this is, whether it's a natural phenomenon we don't yet understand, or if it's aliens, or even if it's from some top-secret spy satellite, one thing is for sure. The universe is one hell of a strange place, and we're just scratching the surface.
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"So... who's the Black Guy"
I realize that there are actually some people outside John McCain's immediate family who regard him as a statesman. They've come to that silly conclusion based on the fact that he loved adding his name to legislation proposed by the abominable likes of Russ Feingold and Ted Kennedy. He referred to it as reaching across the aisle, no doubt picturing himself as God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, reaching down from a heavenly cloud to give life to Adam.
Unfortunately, as biologist Richard Dawkins has observed, "When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie halfway between them. It is possible one side is simply wrong."
These days, that's not just possible, it's just about guaranteed, which is why people like Mitch McConnell and John Boehner shouldn't even think about accommodating Democrats. It's a poker game with marked cards, and the Republicans will not only lose their shirts, pants and underwear, but they will be written off as traitors by those who elected them.
♦ Heck, even I would like to pass myself off as open-minded by occasionally being able to agree with liberals about something, about anything. But whether the topic is the criminal justice system, affirmative action, gun control, taxes, labor unions, energy, education, the FCC, the EPA, Vladimir Putin, ISIS, Israel or Iran, they are simply wrong on every issue. As a result, the only way I could pass myself off as fair-minded would be to prove that I, too, am certifiably insane.
Or, as Barry Goldwater summed it up half a century ago: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." But even back then, the liberals were able to spin those words into something vile, as if they had been spoken by Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini.
♦ If you've been paying attention to world affairs recently, you will notice a great many leaders on the world stage who seem to be taunting the American voter, reminding us that we really didn't have to settle for Barack Obama. First and foremost, there was Benjamin Netanyahu addressing Congress and showing us what a real man looks and sounds like. And in case we may have forgotten, that would be a leader who doesn't hide behind professional liars like Jen Psaki, Marie Harf and Josh Earnest, and who doesn't limit his interviews to late night comics, partisan hacks or the ludicrous likes of GloZell Green and her tub of Froot Loops.
But there was also President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a Muslim, confronting an assembly of Egyptian mullahs, and challenging them to speak out against the butchers whom we're always being told have hijacked true Islam.
Even the president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadtzai, on his recent visit to Washington, expressed gratitude to America for not only the sacrifices of the military, but those of the American taxpayer, on behalf of his nation. One can play the cynic and point out he was over here begging that 9,800 American soldiers be left in Afghanistan to help him ward off the Taliban. But nobody in public life is as cynical as Barack Obama, and I have never heard him sound the slightest bit sincere when praising the military and, God knows, he has never thanked the millions of us he has saddled with an additional eight trillion dollars of debt.
♦ Speaking of liars, do you think by this time that Susan Rice tosses and turns at night, wondering what she'll next be required to lie about. First, she took one for the team by going out on five Sunday morning news shows to lie about a video being the cause of the Benghazi massacre. Then she had to choke back the bile and insist that Bowe Bergdahl had "served with honor and distinction" in Afghanistan. What's next for poor Susie? Will she be called upon to assure Michelle Obama that the new dress doesn't make her butt look big?
♦ In other news, Rep. Aaron Schock has been forced to resign from Congress over a series of financial misdeeds. I was not the least bit surprised once I discovered that Schock, a Republican from Illinois, was given to posing bare chested for photos in order to show off his six-pack abs. Back when Anthony Weiner first got into trouble and I discovered that he also had photogenic abs, I immediately knew the bum was guilty of something disgustingly tacky.
Politicians are a scurvy bunch at the best of times, but when you come across those who look like they'd be at home on the covers of gay magazines, you know they've been spending way too much time in the House gym and probably in the House showers.
Please write this down so you don't forget it: Politicians are supposed to look like Charles Rangel or Charles Schumer and never like Charles Atlas.
♦ Recently, in my constant pursuit of the truth about charities, I urged dog lovers to forget about ever donating to the Humane Society of the United States, which is so corrupt, the Justice Department should be pursuing an indictment, and probably would be if Eric Holder weren't otherwise occupied waging war on America's police departments.
I suggested that donations should be sent to Paws and Stripes, which trains service dogs for our injured veterans. Another deserving group is the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind.(http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0f/bf/3b/0fbf3b8d052a207ee1d2ed33076c79cd.jpg)
♦ Liberals. There are so many things wrong with liberals, it's difficult to know where to begin. For instance, how is it they think so highly of themselves while at the same time thinking so little of America?
Liberals like to boast that they care about blacks, illegal aliens and the poor, here at home, and about Palestinians in the Middle East. But why? By and large, blacks despise whites. Moreover, it's blacks who commit an overabundance of violent crime in this country, so why coddle them? For their part, illegal aliens have no business even being here. The only reason we have to concern ourselves with them is because they broke our law and took cuts in front of all the other people around the world trying to get here in accordance with the rules.
When it comes to the poor in this country, they are nearly always those who spurned education in favor of drugs, crime, welfare and having babies out of wedlock. For their part, the Palestinians, who have given nothing to the world, and have actually chosen to be governed by terrorists don't believe in any of the things that liberals claim to cherish, such as free speech, religious tolerance and women's rights. In addition, in their constant war with Israel -- a western style democracy that not only extends equal rights to women and gays, but to its own Arab population – the Palestinians intentionally fire missiles at Jewish civilians while using their own women and children as hostages.
I might understand it if liberals merely conned themselves into believing they are nicer and more compassionate than conservatives, if only because they've claimed it for so long, it would be a miracle if by this time they didn't accept it on faith. But studies have shown that they contribute less time and money to charity than those they demean as cruel and heartless.
What I don't get is how they've managed to convince themselves they're more intelligent than the rest of us. These people are so dumb they actually fall for every hoax that comes down the pike. The first of these was global warming. But when Mother Nature refused to play along, they renamed it climate change, to explain why the weather was different today than it was yesterday and how, if left unchecked, it would inevitably lead to the end of the world.
Another hoax was the one that purported to provide proof that Bill Clinton was the most intelligent president ever, and his wife was the smartest woman in the universe. Based on the fact that Bill couldn't even conceal a tawdry little affair with a staffer and that the missus can't say three words without putting her foot in her mouth four times, it's rather preposterous to insist they have IQs in the 180s. Cartoonist Steve Kelley recently summed up their disgusting combination of stupidity and arrogance by showing them seated in a restaurant, with her complaining, "I don't get it...we've been here half an hour and haven't even seen a waiter yet." The tuxedoed manager replies: "Sorry, Mrs. Clinton. We assumed you brought your own server."
But, then, how does a party that includes the moronic likes of Barbara Boxer, Al Franken, Patty Murray, Nancy Pelosi, Jim McDermott, Sheila Jackson Lee, Bernie Sanders, Elijah Cummings, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Alan Grayson, Luis Gutierrez and Hank Johnson, get off claiming to have a monopoly on brains?
♦ Speaking of ignorant, Barack Obama has such a limited and naïve take on Israeli politics that he apparently believed that if the Likud Party had been defeated by the Zionist Union Party, Isaac Herzog would have been any more willing than Bibi Netanyahu to make a suicidal two-state deal with those sworn to exterminate the Jews. Just because Obama is dying to cut a deal, no matter how rotten, with Iran, it doesn't mean that other world leaders are as dangerously gullible.
Obama sees Iran joining with Iraq to fight ISIS and seems to think that makes the mullahs our allies, ignoring the fact that if a nation can be said to have a mantra, Iran's is "Death to America."
♦ But, then, there is presidential precedence for such foolishness. Roosevelt apparently mistook the Soviet Union's joining with us to fight Nazi Germany as proof of Stalin's good intentions, ignoring the fact that Hitler had broken his mutual defense pact with Stalin by invading the Soviet Union. But then, FDR also turned a deaf ear to Winston Churchill's warning, not unlike the one Netanyahu delivered to Congress, that the enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend.
♦ When I recently read that blacks have 74 cases of diabetes per 1,000, as opposed to just 36 cases per 1,000 for whites, I pictured Obama, Holder and Sharpton, absorbing those statistics and agreeing it proved that that in America even the diseases are racist.
♦ Meanwhile, In Japan, Burger King's customers can now buy hamburger-scented cologne for $40 a bottle. You might think that's pretty pricey for a side order, but if you think about it, it's actually a bargain if you're looking to have every dog in Tokyo follow you home.
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Hitler Weighs In on RFRA and Memories Pizza
It was only a matter of time until Hitler found out what his fellow fascists have
been up to regarding the contrived controversy in Indiana:
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=88&v=l1_gqbQcI60
Amen! Why doesn't our government do the same? (rhetorical question)
-----Original Message-----
The Netherlands, where six per cent of the population is now Muslim, is scrapping multiculturalism.
The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a Parallel society within the Netherlands...
A new integration bill, which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament, on June 16, reads:
"The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people."
In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society, play a central role.
With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society.
The letter continues: "A more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens."
It is necessary because otherwise the society
gradually grows apart and eventually no one feels at home anymore in the Netherlands.
The new integration policy will place more
demands on immigrants.
For example, immigrants will be required to
learn the Dutch language, and the government will take a tougher approach to immigrants who ignore Dutch values or disobey Dutch law.
The government will also stop offering special subsidies for Muslim immigrants because, according to Donner;
"It is not the government's job to integrate immigrants." (How bloody true!!!)
The government will introduce new legislation that outlaws forced marriages and will also impose tougher measures against Muslim immigrants who lower their chances of employment by the way they dress.
More specifically, the government imposed a ban on face-covering, Islamic burqas as of January 1, 2015.
Holland has done that whole liberal thing, and realized - maybe too late - that creating a nation of tribes, will kill the nation itself.
The future of Australia, the UK, USA, Canada and New Zealand may well be read here..
READERS NOTE: Muslim immigrants leave their
countries of birth because of civil and political unrest . . . "CREATED BY THE VERY NATURE OF
THEIR CULTURE."
Countries like Holland, Canada, USA, UK, Australia, and New Zealand have an established way of life that actually works, so why embrace the unworkable?
If Muslims do not wish to accept another culture, the answer is simple; "STAY WHERE YOU ARE!!!"
This gives a whole new meaning to the term, 'Dutch Courage' ... Unfortunately Australian, UK, USA,
Canadian, and New Zealand politicians don't have the .. guts to do the same. There's a whole lot of truth here!!!
What Would Happen If Martial Law Was Declared In America?
April 08, 2015 | Michael Snyder
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In recent weeks, there has been a lot of concern that an upcoming eight week military exercise on U.S. soil known as "Jade Helm" is actually a dress rehearsal for the imposition of martial law in this country.
One of the reasons for the high level of concern is that we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of "urban warfare exercises" conducted by the U.S. military in major U.S. cities over the past decade – including exercises where "dissidents" are hunted down, arrested and hauled away.
As our world becomes increasingly unstable, and as our society rapidly decays from within, many believe that it is only a matter of time before the executive branch will have sufficient excuse to use the extensive martial law powers that it has been accumulating since 9/11.
When that day arrives, what will our nation look like? What would actually happen if martial law was declared in America?
Well, the first thing that you need to know is that the U.S. Constitution would be "suspended".
In other words, you would suddenly have no rights at all.
There would be no freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, no freedom of assembly and you could be arrested at any time for any reason whatsoever.
For the duration of the "emergency", the military would be in control. There would be troops in the streets, a curfew would almost certainly be imposed, and armed checkpoints would be set up.
If the "emergency" lasted long enough, we would probably see authorities go house to house confiscating firearms, ammunition and food supplies.
And perhaps most troubling of all, "dissidents" and "subversives" would likely be rounded up and imprisoned.
Perhaps you don't think that this could ever happen in the United States in 2015.
Well, we do know that this is precisely what the FBI had a plan to do in the 1950s. The following is an excerpt from a recent RT article...
Documents show the FBI created a "Plan C" during the Cold War, which could have been triggered in the event the US underwent a nuclear attack. It included putting the nation under martial law, rounding up "subversives," and interning enemy diplomats.
The documents, acquired by transparency journalism organization MuckRock, detail the FBI plan created in 1956, which was shared with several top officials from every governmental department. The FBI also distributed papers regarding the plan to its field offices. The plan would have gone into effect "after a war has begun in which the US is involved or may become involved and prior to an actual attack on the US itself," according to the documents.
Under Plan C, martial law would be declared and the FBI would enact its 'Emergency Detention Program,' which entailed apprehending individuals whose affiliations with subversive organizations "are so pronounced that their continued liberty in the event of a national emergency would present a serious threat to the internal security of the country." The document shows that as of April 1956, almost 13,000 people "were scheduled for apprehension in an emergency."
Very sobering.
And we do know that the federal government had a list of at least 8 million names of people that were considered to be "threats to national security" back in the 1980s. This list was known as Main Core, and it is not known whether this list still exists today.
I have a feeling that it does, and that it is probably much larger than it was back then.
We also know that government documents produced during the Obama administration openly discuss rounding up "dissidents" and taking them to internment camps. Just consider the following example from Infowars...
A leaked 2012 US Army Military Police training manual, entitled "Civil Disturbance Operations," described how soldiers would be ordered to confiscate firearms and kill American "dissidents." The manual also revealed that prisoners would be detained in temporary internment camps and "re-educated" to gain a new appreciation of "U.S. policies," in accordance with U.S. Army FM 3-19.40 Internment/Resettlement Operations.
So who would those "dissidents" be exactly?
In "72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered 'Potential Terrorists' In Official Government Documents", I detailed how official U.S. government documents specifically identify those that believe in "conspiracy theories" as possible threats. Others that the government is concerned about include those opposed to abortion, globalism, communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations and "the New World Order".
Another very disturbing government document talks about the need for the U.S. Army to prepare to battle political dissidents in "megacities" and to neutralize groups "who can influence the lives of the population while undermining the authority of the state". Here is more from Infowars...
The U.S. Army is preparing to fight political dissidents who challenge the power of the state as "megacities" become the battleground of the future, according to a new report in the Army Times.
The article details how the Army's Capabilities Integration Center (ARCIC) worked with US Army Special Operations Command, the chief of staff's Strategic Studies Group and the UK's Ministry of Defence earlier this year to wargame the future of armed combat, which will revolve around the neutralization of groups "who can influence the lives of the population while undermining the authority of the state," a chillingly vague description which could easily be applied to political dissidents.
The plan foresees an unprecedented realignment of U.S. military strategy focused around putting "boots on the ground" in megacities to deal with "politically dispossessed" populations while relying on "more lethal and more autonomous" methods.
Very alarming stuff.
And if we did see martial law declared nationwide, it is likely that all elections would be suspended indefinitely.
That could also potentially include the 2016 presidential election.
Is it possible that Barack Obama could use his emergency powers to stay in the White House beyond his second term? There are some out there that believe that this could actually happen under the right circumstances. For example, check out what Dr. Ben Carson said during an appearance on the Alan Colmes radio show...
COLMES: What do you mean though when you say there may not be an election in 2016?
DR. BEN CARSON: There may be so much anarchy going on.
COLMES: Anarchy? So you really think we risk risking an anarchic America to the point where elections might be put on hold, or some kind of emergency is declared with such anarchy that there wouldn't be a Presidential election in a couple of years?
DR. BEN CARSON: I don't want to find out. I really don't want to find out, I don't want to continue down this pathway that we're going down.
And the groundwork has certainly been laid for such a scenario.
During his time in the White House, Barack Obama has signed a series of executive orders that give him and his minions an extraordinary amount of power in the event of a major national emergency.
For example, read the following excerpt from an executive order that Obama signed in March 2012...
Sec. 201. Priorities and Allocations Authorities. (a) The authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2071, to require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders (other than contracts of employment) to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders, and to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to promote the national defense, is delegated to the following agency heads:
(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and commercial fertilizer;
(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to all forms of energy;
(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;
(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to all forms of civil transportation;
(5) the Secretary of Defense with respect to water resources; and
(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to all other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.
That sounds like it covers just about everything.
Basically, during a time of martial law all of the things that you take for granted today would be out the window.
You would have no rights, and the federal government would be able to do just about anything that it wanted to do.
If that sounds really bad to you, then maybe now you are starting to understand why so many people get upset when they see preparations being made for the eventual imposition of martial law in this country.
Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2015/April08/081a.html#gvyLIILj63q9uL3s.99
Why Obuma Pretends That Global Warming Caused His Daughter's Asthma
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http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/08/obama-global-warming-gave-my-daughter-asthma/
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Any politician knows how to tell lies. A skilled politician knows how to exploit his children as props. To make it to the top of the big brown pile, you need to know how to exploit your children to prop up lies:
Doubling-down on his campaign to tie global warming to respiratory illness, President Obama told ABC's "Good Morning America" that global warming gave his daughter, Malia, asthma when she was a toddler.
Scary stuff, but there's just one problem for Obama: comments a couple years ago made by his wife Michelle suggest that being in a crowded circus with lots of dust and particles in the air triggered their daughter's asthma, not global warming. Their daughter also has a peanut allergy, and circuses are usually teaming with peanuts.
What's one more lie? Add Malia Obama's former respiratory problems to The List.
The lie didn't pop out of Obama's mouth at random. It was part of a campaign.
On Tuesday the White House launched a campaign to illustrate the effects global warming will have on public health, in particular the White House said that global temperature rises will make asthma worse for kids across the country.
Anyone who doesn't want to sacrifice what's left of our freedom and standard of living to the debunked global warming hoax can now be denounced as insensitive toward children.
Even when unavoidable climate change brings welcome warmer temperatures, the connection with asthma is tenuous at best:
For starters, the basic argument that warming will make asthma worse — mainly through increased episodes of extreme heat, ground-level ozone and smoke from wildfires — lacks support.
Asthma prevalence has increased in the U.S. while major air pollutants like ozone, particulate matter and carbon monoxide have fallen dramatically, according to government data.
But Obama et al. are hardly likely to let factual reality stand in the way of a contrived disinformation campaign:
"Polar ice caps and the polar bears have become the climate change 'mascots,' if you will, and personify the challenges we have in making this issue real for many Americans," according to an EPA memo from March 2009.
"Most Americans will never see a polar ice cap, nor will most have the chance to see a polar bear in its natural habitat," the memo reads. "Therefore, it is easy to detach from the seriousness of this issue. Unfortunately, climate change in the abstract is an increasingly — and consistently — unpersuasive argument to make."
"By revitalizing our own Children's Health Office, leading the global charge on this issue, and highlighting the children's health dimension to all of our major initiatives — we will also make this issue real for many Americans who otherwise would oppose many of our regulatory actions," according to a memo obtained by Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Chris Horner through a Freedom of Information Act request.
With the media dutifully laboring on their behalf, they will actually be able to convince some idiots that more taxes and regulations will save the children from asthma.(http://www.moonbattery.com/cute_knut.jpg)
Polar bears aren't working; let's try asthmatic kids...
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New Diet Will Lead to New Mode of Transportation
http://thehill.com/regulation/237767-vegan-diet-best-for-planet-federal-report-says
One of the many benefits of economic success is the opportunity to eat a proper human diet, a central component of which is meat. That's what our canine teeth are for. Unfortunately, meat is among the many blessings of life that our moonbat overlords want to take away in the name of envirofascism:
A federal panel that helps set federal dietary guidelines is recommending Americans eat less meat because it's better for the environment, sparking outrage from industry groups representing the nation's purveyors of beef, pork and poultry.
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, a federally appointed panel of nutritionists created in 1983, decided for the first time this year to factor in environmental sustainability in its recommendations. They include a finding that a diet lower in animal-based foods is not only healthier, but has less of an environmental impact.
Among the many drawbacks of impending restrictions on meat is that our digestive systems were not designed for eating like rabbits. A pungent effect of an unnatural politically correct diet is the excessive launching of air biscuits, as even moonbats confess:
Gas and bloating are sometimes the unfortunate side effects of quickly switching to a more plant-based diet. In many cases it's just a matter of suddenly adding more fiber into your diet than your body is used to handling. Extra fiber reaches the large intestine faster than what you normally eat, and that's where the fiber turns to gas.
After a while though you get used to the smell, and hopefully your coworkers do too.
But according to liberal ideology, the main point of restricting meat is to save the planet from the global warming allegedly caused by bovine flatulence. If we are just trading it for human flatulence, the sacred polar bears will still suffer.
Not to worry, the masterminds have a solution:
Researchers attached balloon-like plastic packs to the backs of at least 10 cows. A tube running to the animals´ stomachs collected the gas inside the backpacks, which were then hung from the roof of the corral for analysis.
If cows can wear the fartpacks, why not humans?
A sufficiently filled fartpack might even allow us to become airborne. Hey... by flapping our arms, we could navigate above pleasant green fields where ugly streets used to be, back before the environmentally unholy automobile was replaced by fartpacks as the primary mode of transportation.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/cow-fartpack.jpg)
*Only the beginning, Kansas* ... LOL
BREAKING:
Congressman Finally Makes Move
to Impeach Barack H. Obama...
It's About Time!
After 7 years of numerous high crimes and misdemeanors, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives finally just made a move that could set off impeachment proceedings against Barack Obama.
Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., is preparing to introduce a resolution setting forth the House's definition of "high crimes and misdemeanors," drawing an unmistakable line in the sand that would directly challenge Obama's actions.
This is the single most significant action taken by a Republican towards impeachment to date.
The resolution introduces 11 different specific actions that fit the Constitution's standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors," and several of them apply directly to Obama.
For example, the resolution lists "failing to take care that the laws be faithfully executed through signing statements or systematic policies of non-enforcement" and "substituting executive agreements for treaties" as two of eleven potential high crimes and misdemeanors the House would be declaring "impeachable," according to Breitbart.
It further adds the use of military force without congressional authorization, the use of funds in defiance of congressional appropriations, and the defiance of congressional subpoenas during oversight investigations are all impeachable offenses.
Sound familiar?
Obama's refusal to enforce America's immigration laws, his threat of bypassing Congress on Iran, his illegal war in Libya, and his consistent defiance of congressional investigations into executive branch scandals like the IRS, Fast and Furious, and Benghazi all fit squarely within Yoho's 11 criteria for a "high crime."
Yoho said that the most recurring argument against impeachment by experts was that Obama's actions are similar to actions of previous presidents. This, he says, is why the resolution is a necessary first-step to impeachment. Once Congress has defined its criteria for "impeachable" offenses, the "Bush did it, too" argument is immediately destroyed.
This resolution was crafted with the assistance of legal experts like Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano and civil liberties attorney Bruce Fein.
Yoho added that he expects that the resolution will cause a liberal "firestorm" and will draw the ire of the race baiters, who will inevitably claim that the only reason the GOP wants to impeach Obama is because he's black.
But Yoho won't back down, declaring, "This is strictly about the rule of law."
He noted that executive amnesty was the final straw. It was a "blatant, in-your-face 'I'm above the law and I'm going to do what I want. I'm a dictator, I'm a king'" act, Yoho said.
This brave congressman should be commended for his efforts to fulfill his oath to defend the Constitution. Now, his colleagues who claim to love liberty and represent the interests of Americans need to step up to the plate and give this effort their full support.
http://conservativetribune.com/congressman-moves-to-impeach-obama/
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Family Of Walter Scott Tells Al CRAPton To "Keep Away" From Funeral,
"We Don't Want Another Ferguson"
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Feel good story of the day.
Via Daily Mail:
Walter Scott's family have asked Al Sharpton not to attend the funeral, it is claimed.
The New York-based Reverend became a prominent voice in the wake of Michael Brown's shooting at the hands of a white police officer in Ferguson last August.
But as the nation's attention turns to South Carolina and footage showing Officer Michael Slager shooting dead father-of-four Walter Scott,
his parents and brothers have made plain that they do not want the same treatment.
According to the New York Daily News, the family told Rev Sharpton to 'keep away' from the relatives-only memorial service.
A source close to the Scotts told the paper: 'We don't want another Ferguson type of circus here.'
Though the family of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown welcomed Sharpton's support, he was criticized by others for stirring rage as violent protests escalated in the Missouri city.
The Scott family's lawyer, Chris Stewart, told the Daily News: 'The Reverend Al has called and expressed his support and condolences. The family is very appreciative.'
Responding to the allegations that he has been barred from the service, Sharpton told the paper that he 'would never come unless they asked', adding that he is 'willing to be helpful to the family but only when needed.'
Alcoholic Hillary Clinton to Push Reset on Sunday –
Will Launch Campaign in Iowa
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Hillary Clinton will launch her presidential campaign on Sunday.
Madam Pantsuit will then fly to Iowa to start her campaigning for the 2016 presidential race.
The Guardian reported:
Hillary Clinton is planning to officially launch her US presidential campaign on Sunday while en route to Iowa, a source familiar with the campaign has confirmed to the Guardian.
The former secretary of state is scheduled to declare her second run for president on Twitter at noon eastern time on Sunday, the source told the Guardian, followed by a video and email announcement, then a series of conference calls mapping out a blitzkrieg tour beginning in Iowa and looking ahead to more early primary states.
Clinton's Sunday schedule is booked beginning with takeoff from New York to Iowa, where speculation has centered for weeks that Clinton was focusing attention for an April campaign launch. Her scheduled calls are with advisers in other key battleground states.
Clinton's spokesman, Nick Merrill, did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the contours of Clinton's campaign kickoff schedule. Another source close to the Clinton campaign confirmed Clinton would be in Iowa in the coming days.
Clinton will be the first Democratic presidential candidate to declare for the 2016 presidential election, and is widely considered the frontrunner within the party.
The EMP Threat: All It Would Take Is A Couple Of Explosions To Send America Back To The 1800s
By Michael Snyder, on April 6th, 2015
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Our entire way of life can be ended in a single day. And it wouldn't even take a nuclear war to do it. All it would take for a rogue nation or terror organization to bring us to our knees is the explosion of a couple well-placed nuclear devices high up in our atmosphere. The resulting electromagnetic pulses would fry electronics from coast to coast. Of course this could also be accomplished without any attack. Scientists tell us that massive solar storms have hit our planet before, and that it is inevitable that there will be more in the future. As you will read about below, the most recent example of this was "the Carrington Event" in 1859. If a similar burst from the sun hit us today, experts tell us that life in America could suddenly resemble life in the 1800s, and the economic damage caused could potentially be in the trillions of dollars. This is one of the greatest potential threats that we are facing as a nation, and yet Barack Obama has essentially done nothing to get us prepared.
The technology necessary to conduct such an electromagnetic pulse attack against the United States has become much more accessible in recent years.
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, even rogue nations such as North Korea and Iran either already have or will soon have the capability to hurt us in this way...
Rogue nations such as North Korea (and possibly Iran) will soon match Russia and China and have the primary ingredients for an EMP attack: simple ballistic missiles such as Scuds that could be launched from a freighter near our shores; space-launch vehicles able to loft low-earth-orbit satellites; and simple low-yield nuclear weapons that can generate gamma rays and fireballs.
If a successful, large scale EMP attack ever did take place, it would be a catastrophe beyond anything that the United States has ever seen before.
The EMP Commission, which was established by Congress, says that it is likely that most of us would end up dead...
What would a successful EMP attack look like? The EMP Commission, in 2008, estimated that within 12 months of a nationwide blackout, up to 90% of the U.S. population could possibly perish from starvation, disease and societal breakdown.
In 2009 the congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, whose co-chairmen were former Secretaries of Defense William Perry and James Schlesinger, concurred with the findings of the EMP Commission and urged immediate action to protect the electric grid. Studies by the National Academy of Sciences, the Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the National Intelligence Council reached similar conclusions.
If you are a terrorist, a dictator or a fanatic that is looking for a "killshot" for the United States, those kinds of numbers would certainly get your attention.
And it was recently reported by WND that the Iranian military has already been playing around with such a scenario...
Peter Vincent Pry, who is executive director of a congressional advisory group called the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, raised the alarm as the agreement is about to be finalized.
He said U.S. military officials have confirmed such an Iranian plan.
"Iranian military documents describe such a scenario – including a recently translated Iranian military textbook that endorses nuclear EMP attack against the United States," Pry wrote in a recent column in Israel's main online media network, Aruz Sheva.
"Iran with a small number of nuclear missiles can by EMP attack threaten the existence of modernity and be the death knell of Western principles of international law, humanism and freedom," he said.
Very chilling stuff.
And of course there are many, many others out there that would love to see the U.S. taken down other than just the Iranians.
Meanwhile, our power grid is far more vulnerable than most Americans would dare to imagine.
In previous articles, I discussed a recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report which stated the following...
"Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer."
Are you starting to get the picture?
Our entire way of life depends upon electricity. If you take away that electricity, our society is transformed literally overnight.
A successful EMP would be an utter nightmare for this nation. Just consider what U.S. Representative Scott Perry had to say about a potential attack last year...
"The consequences of such an attack could be catastrophic; all electronics, power systems, and information systems could be shut down," Rep. Scott Perry said in prepared remarks during an EMP hearing in May held by the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security. "This could then cascade into interdependent infrastructures such as water, gas, and telecommunications. While we understand this is an extreme case, we must always be prepared in case a rogue state decides to utilize this technology."
In essence, suddenly nothing would work and just about everything that we take for granted would suddenly be gone.
In a previous article, I spelled out some of the implications of such an event...
-There would be no heat for your home.
-Water would no longer be pumped into most homes.
-Your computer would not work.
-There would be no Internet.
-Your phones would not work.
-There would be no television.
-There would be no radio.
-ATM machines would be shut down.
-There would be no banking.
-Your debit cards and credit cards would not work.
-Without electricity, most gas stations would not be functioning.
-Most people would be unable to do their jobs without electricity and employment would collapse.
-Commerce would be brought to a standstill.
-Hospitals would not be able to function normally.
-You would quickly start running out of medicine.
-All refrigeration would shut down and frozen foods in our homes and supermarkets would start to go bad.
And as I mentioned above, all of this can happen even without an attack.
A direct hit from a major solar storm can cause the exact same thing.
In fact, NASA says that there is a 12 percent chance that such a storm will hit us during the next ten years...
NASA is warning that there's a 12 percent chance an extreme solar storm will hit Earth in the next decade, sending out massive shock waves that would knock out grids across the world.
The economic impact of this doomsday scenario could exceed $2 trillion — or 20 times the cost of Hurricane Katrina, according to the National Academy of Sciences.
In recent years, we have been really lucky.
There was a close call in 2012 and another one in 2013.
The following is an excerpt from an upcoming book that I have co-authored with Barbara Fix that will soon be published entitled "Get Prepared Now"...
Most people have absolutely no idea that the Earth barely missed being fried by a massive EMP burst from the sun in 2012 and in 2013. And earlier in 2014 there was another huge solar storm which would have caused tremendous damage if it had been directed at our planet. If any of those storms would have directly hit us, the result would have been catastrophic. Electrical transformers would have burst into flames, power grids would have gone down and much of our technology would have been fried. In essence, life as we know it would have ceased to exist – at least for a time. These kinds of solar storms have hit the Earth many times before, and experts tell us that it is inevitable that it will happen again. The most famous one happened in 1859, and was known as the Carrington Event. But other than the telegraph, humanity had very little dependence on technology at the time. If another Carrington Event happened today, it would be a complete and utter nightmare. A study by Lloyd's of London has concluded that it would have taken a $2,600,000,000,000 chunk out of the global economy, and it would take up to a decade to repair the damage. Unfortunately, scientists insist that it is going to happen at some point. The only question is when.
So keep an eye on the sun.
The giant ball of fire that we revolve around has started to behave very erratically, and it has the power to end our way of life at any time.
In fact, scientists tell us that we are about to get hit with a "glancing blow" on April 7th...
A filament of magnetism stretching halfway across the sun erupted during the late hours of April 4th (22:00-23:00 UT). The eruption split the sun's atmosphere, hurling a CME into space and creating a "canyon of fire," shown in a movie recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory: The glowing walls of the canyon trace the original channel where the filament was suspended by magnetic forces above the sun's surface. From end to end, the structure stretches more than 300,000 km–a real Grand Canyon.
Fragments of the exploding filament formed the core of a CME that raced away from the sun at approximately 900 km/s (2 million mph): image. Most of the CME will miss Earth, but not all. The cloud is expected to deliver a a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field could on April 7th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.
The event of April 7th is not going to cause us major problems. But someday there will be a solar storm that will.
Personally, I cannot even imagine what life would be like without electricity.
Because we have become so deeply dependent on technology, most of us would have absolutely no idea how to live without it.
An electromagnetic pulse attack would be one of the fastest ways to cripple America and end the dominance of the United States in world affairs. And in this day and age, there are hundreds of millions of people around the planet that would love to see that happen.
So to not take steps to protect our power grid from such an attack is very foolish. But that is precisely what Barack Obama (and presidents before him) have chosen to do. We have technology which would mitigate the damage from an electromagnetic pulse, but rather than spend the money Obama has decided to just hope that it will never happen.
Up to this point, we have been fortunate.
But someday, our luck may run out.
19 Signs That American Families Are Being Economically Destroyed
By Michael Snyder, on April 8th, 2015
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The systematic destruction of the American way of life is happening all around us, and yet most people have no idea what is happening. Once upon a time in America, if you were responsible and hard working you could get a good paying job that could support a middle class lifestyle for an entire family even if you only had a high school education. Things weren't perfect, but generally almost everyone in the entire country was able to take care of themselves without government assistance. We worked hard, we played hard, and our seemingly boundless prosperity was the envy of the entire planet. But over the past several decades things have completely changed. We consumed far more wealth than we produced, we shipped millions of good paying jobs overseas, we piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world, and we kept electing politicians that had absolutely no concern for the long-term future of this nation whatsoever. So now good jobs are in very short supply, we are drowning in an ocean of red ink, the middle class is rapidly shrinking and dependence on the government is at an all-time high. Even as we stand at the precipice of the next great economic crisis, we continue to make the same mistakes. In the end, all of us are going to pay a very great price for decades of incredibly foolish decisions. Of course a tremendous amount of damage has already been done. The numbers that I am about to share with you are staggering.
The following are 19 signs that American families are being economically destroyed...
#1 The poorest 40 percent of all Americans now spend more than 50 percent of their incomes just on food and housing. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-06/americas-poor-spend-60-their-income-food-housing-proving-cpi-meaningless
#2 For those Americans that don't own a home, 50 percent of them spend more than a third of their incomes just on rent. http://realestate.aol.com/blog/2014/04/04/us-rents-rise-apartment-shortage/
#3 The price of school lunches has risen to the 3 dollar mark at many public schools across the nation.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-08-22/news/bs-md-ci-school-lunch-prices-20130821_1_community-eligibility-option-lunch-program-free-meals
#4 McDonald's "Dollar Menu & More" now includes items that cost as much as 5 dollars. http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-10-23/mcdonald-s-new-dollar-menu-goes-up-to-5
#5 The price of ground beef has doubled since 2009. http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2015/03/there-is-no-price-inflation-if-you-dont.html
#6 In 1986, child care expenses for families with employed mothers used up 6.3 percent of all income. Today, that figure is up to 7.2 percent. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/04/08/rising-cost-of-child-care-may-help-explain-increase-in-stay-at-home-moms/
#7 Incomes fell for the bottom 80 percent of all income earners in the United States during the 12 months leading up to June 2014. http://news.yahoo.com/except-rich-americans-incomes-fell-last-220335392.html;_ylt=AwrBJR_C1B1VzXsAYUvQtDMD
#8 At this point, more than 50 percent of all American workers bring home less than $30,000 a year in wages. http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2013
#9 After adjusting for inflation, median household income has fallen by nearly $5,000 since 2007. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MEHOINUSA672N
#10 According to the New York Times, the "typical American household" is now worth 36 percent less than it was worth a decade ago. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/business/the-typical-household-now-worth-a-third-less.html?_r=2
#11 47 percent of all Americans do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings. http://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-america-doesnt-save-any-money-2015-3
#12 One survey found that 62 percent of all Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck. http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/01/07/most-americans-dont-have-savings-to-pay-unexpected-bill/
#13 According to the U.S. Department of Education, 33 percent of all Americans with student loans are currently behind on their student loan debt repayments. http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/federal-report-the-college-debt-bubble-is-collapsing-now-33-of-all-student-loans-are-delinquent-on-repayments_03312015
#14 According to one recent report, 43 million Americans currently have unpaid medical debt on their credit reports. http://theconversation.com/why-medical-debt-and-bankruptcy-are-growing-problems-35532
#15 The rate of homeownership in the U.S. has been declining for seven years in a row, and it is now the lowest that it has been in 20 years. http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Homeownership-Rate-2014.png
#16 For each of the past six years, more businesses have closed in the United States than have opened. Prior to 2008, this had never happened before in all of U.S. history. http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/economic-death-spiral-american-businesses-dying-starting
#17 According to the Census Bureau, 65 percent of all children in the United States are living in a home that receives some form of aid from the federal government. http://cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/65-percent-children-live-households-federal-aid-programs
#18 If you have no debt at all, and you also have 10 dollars in your wallet, that you are wealthier than 25 percent of all Americans. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/12/14/six-waltons-have-more-wealth-than-the-bottom-30-of-americans/
#19 On top of everything else, the average American must work from January 1st to April 24th just to pay all federal, state and local taxes. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/americans-must-work-jan-1-through-april-24-just-pay-taxes
All of us know people that once were doing quite well but that are now just struggling to get by from month to month.
Perhaps this has happened to you.
If you have ever been in that position, you probably remember what it feels like to have people look down on you. Unfortunately, in our society the value that we place on individuals has a tremendous amount to do with how much money they have.
So if you don't have much money, there are a lot of people out there that will treat you like dirt.
The following excerpt comes from a Washington Post article entitled "The poor are treated like criminals everywhere, even at the grocery store"...
Want to see a look of pure hatred? Pull out an EBT card at the grocery store.
Now that my kids are grown and gone, my Social Security check is enough to keep me from qualifying for government food benefits. But I remember well when we did qualify for a monthly EBT deposit, a whopping $22 — and that was before Congress cut SNAP benefits in November 2013. Like 70 percent of people receiving SNAP benefits, I couldn't feed my family on that amount. But I remember the comments from middle-class people, the assumptions about me and my disability and what the poor should and shouldn't be spending money on.
Have you ever seen this?
Have you ever experienced this yourself?
These days, most people on food stamps are not in that situation because they want to be. Rather, they are victims of our long-term economic collapse.
And this is just the beginning. When the next major economic crisis strikes, the suffering in this country is going to go to unprecedented levels.
As we enter that time, we are going to need a whole lot more love and compassion than we are exhibiting right now.
As a nation, we have made decades of incredibly bad decisions. As a result, we are experiencing bad consequences which are going to become increasingly more severe.
The numbers that I just shared with you are not good. But over the next several years they are going to get a whole lot worse.
Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, and life in America is about to change in a major way.
Dashcam Captures Deadly Melee In Cottonwood, AZ Walmart Parking Lot
Apr 10, 2015
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBIKBIOtEjA
Video from the dashboard camera of a Cottonwood Police Department cruiser showed a close-knit Idaho family that appeared nearly invulnerable to stun guns, police batons and fists during a melee in a Walmart parking lot March 21 in which one person was killed and one officer wounded by a gunshot.Cottonwood Police Chief Jody Fanning showed the video during a news conference Friday morning and said no matter what tactics officers used, nothing appeared to deter the family of eight. The dash-cam was the only one of three that was operational that night, Fanning said.
Four officers arrived at the Walmart after employees called about one of the Boise, ID, family members pushing an employee to the ground outside one of the store's bathrooms.
The family had gathered outside their older model Chevrolet Suburban when officers arrived. The confrontation started when one of the officers said they would split up the family to talk with them about what happened inside the store, Fanning said.
But the father, 55-year-old Peter Gaver, and one of his sons stepped in and told police they wouldn't allow them to separate the family, Fanning said.
Another officer approached the mother, 52-year-old Ruth Gaver, and her 11-year-old daughter when one of the brothers ran in between them. Police Sgt. Jeremy Daniels grabbed the man and the melee was on, Fanning said.
The family utilized tactics that had to be "taught," Fanning said. For instance, they knew that punching officers on the body was futile because of their protective vests. Instead, the fought officers by grabbing at their eyes, ears and mouths and pulling hard.
They also had been taught to roll after they were shot with stun guns in order to break the wires and stop the shock, and to appear to give up by putting their hands in the air in order to get close to attack again.
The family refused orders to "get on the ground" and eventually overpowered Daniels. Two of the suspects, including Enoch Graver, battled the officer for his gun, which went off and wounded him in the leg.
Four more officers arrived and Enoch Graver, 21, was shot to death and his 18-year-old brother David Graver was shot in the abdomen.
Even with eight officers on the scene, nothing the officers tried appeared to stop the family, including the use of stun guns, pepper spray and police batons. In almost every instance, the suspects continued to fight the officers.
Fanning said to four people to get one of the brothers in handcuffs and two officers to get the remaining male suspects in cuffs.
A Walmart loss prevention employee, whom Cottonwood police knew, was also key in preventing more harm being done to family members or the original four officers on the scene, Fanning said. The employee fought to protect the officers throughout the brawl.
Fanning said he was not only proud of his officers and the Walmart employee for their roles, but of the civilians who came to the aid of Daniels.
The family included the father and sons Jeremiah, 29; Nathaniel, 27; David, Enoch; a 15-year-old boy; mother Ruth Gaver, 52; and an 11-year-old girl.
All were living out of the Chevrolet Suburban and were members of a traveling band called Matthew 24 Now, a reference to a Bible verse dealing with the end of times. The band's Facebook page is rife with Biblical references.
Seven other Cottonwood police officers suffered cuts and bruises.You can see from the video that the family attacked the police and quite frankly, it's surprising that more of them weren't shot, and the police seem justified in their actions.
But here's the thing.
If this had been a brawl with black teenagers, and one had grabbed for a cop's gun and been killed, you know we would already have heard media trumpeting "unarmed black teen killed by police".
Yet, surprisingly we don't hear that. Not only because the man killed wasn't black, so it doesn't serve that media narrative. But also because they can concentrate on another narrative to exploit: the evil Christian. What we do hear is media emphasizing the fact that the family is a "Christian family band" although there is no reason to believe whatever that their Christianity had anything to do with the brawl.
I can't believe anyone voted for you. Everyone I talked to said you would be the worst thing that could happen to West Elk.i
Quote from: Joesue23 on April 12, 2015, 05:11:15 PM
I can't believe anyone voted for you. Everyone I talked to said you would be the worst thing that could happen to West Elk.i
Why pick on Warph's thread, kind of sorry of you in my opinion.
I'll respond on the appropriate thread where the conversation is and not here.
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For those unclear on why, here is a list of choice "Hillary' quotes. Some samples:
"Son of a b*tch!"
(From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 259 – Hillary's opinion of President George W. Bush when she found out he secretly visited Iraq on Thanksgiving just days before her highly publicized trip.)
"It's been said, and I think it's accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al-Qaida in particular."
(Hillary telling a post-9/11 world what a 'great' commander in chief her husband was; Dateline, NBC 4/16/2004.)
"I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned [about Islam] has come from our daughter."
(TruthInMedia.org 8/8/1999 – Hillary at a White House function, proudly tells some Muslim groups she is gaining a greater appreciation of Islam because Chelsea was then taking a class on the "religion of peace")
"Where is the G-damn f**king flag? I want the G-damn f**king flag up every f**king morning at f**king sunrise."
(From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 244 – Hillary to the staff at the Arkansas Governor's mansion on Labor Day, 1991)
"F**k off! It's enough that I have to see you shit-kickers every day, I'm not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut."
(From the book "American Evita" by Christopher Anderson, p. 90 – Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with "Good morning."
"If you want to remain on this detail, get your f**king ass over here and grab those bags!"
(From the book "The First Partner" p. 259 – Hillary to a Secret Service Agent who was reluctant to carry her luggage because he wanted to keep his hands free in case of an incident.)
"We're going to have to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
(Hillary grandstanding at a fund raising speech in San Francisco; SFGate.com 6/28/2004.)
"What are you doing inviting these people into my home? These people are our enemies! They are trying to destroy us!"
(From the book "The Survivor" by John Harris, p. 99 – Hillary screaming to an aide, when she found out that some Republicans had been invited to the Clinton White House)
"You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being"
(From the book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton" by Peggy Noonan, p. 55)
"We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people"
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 20 – Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan)
"You f**king idiot."
(From the book "Crossfire" p. 84 – Hillary to a State Trooper who was driving her to an event.)
"Get f**ked! Get the f**k out of my way!!! Get out of my face!!!"(From the book "Hillary's Scheme" p. 89 – Hillary's various comments to her Secret Service detail agents.)
"Stay the f**k back, stay the f**k away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else! Just f**king do as I s ay, Okay!!!?"
(From the book "Unlimited Access", by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige, p. 139 – Hillary screaming at her Secret Service detail.)
"Many of you are well enough off that [President Bush's] tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to have to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
(Hillary grandstanding at a fund raising speech in San Francisco; SFGate.com 6/28/2004.)
"Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!"(From the book "The Survivor," by John Harris, p. 382 – Hillary in her 2000 Senate campaign)
"Where's the miserable c*ck sucker?"
(From the book "The Truth About Hillary" by Edward Klein, p. 5 – Hillary shouting at a Secret Service officer)
"No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days – we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote."
(Was posted on Hillary Clinton's senate.gov web site on 1/28/05)
"Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!"
(From the book "Dereliction of Duty" p. 71-72 – Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.)
A right-wing network was after his presidency...including perverting the Constitution."
(To Barbara Walters about the Republicans who impeached her husband; 20/20, ABC 6/8/2003.)
"I mean, you've got a conservative and right-wing press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum."
(C-Span, 1/19/1997 – Hillary complains about the mainstream media, which are all conservatives in her opinion)
"Come on Bill, put your dick up! You can't f**k her here!!"
(From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 243 – Hillary to Gov. Clinton when she spots him talking with an attractive female at an Arkansas political rally)
"You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends."
(From the book "The Agenda" by Bob Woodward, ch. 14)
"We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West."
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 119 – During her 1993 commencement address at the University of Texas)
"The only way to make a difference is to acquire power"
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 68 – Hillary to a friend before starting law school.)
"We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people"
(From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 20 – Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan)
"I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe"
Hillary in 1996 From the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 76 – Hillary in 1996)And, of course there are these two...
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"What difference does it make."
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A breakdown of every scandal swirling around Hillary
By Maureen Callahan
http://nypost.com/2015/04/12/hillary-clinton-faces-scandal-amid-expectant-presidential-run/
April 11, 2015 | 5:44am
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Expected to announce her presidential run Sunday, Hillary Clinton has been attempting to rebrand herself: She's Hillary 2.0, campaigning out of Brooklyn, a more accessible, relatable candidate who learned the lessons of her bruising, failed 2008 bid: From now on, no equivocating, no entitlement, no dubious financial dealings.
How much has changed?The Shady Foundation
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Slick Willy, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at an event for the family foundation.
Founded in 2001 as The Clinton Foundation and renamed the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation in 2013, this ostensible philanthropic concern has become a liability.
As reported by the International Business Times last week, while serving as secretary of state, Clinton was lobbied by human rights groups and union leaders to address the Colombian government's abuse of striking oil workers, some of whom had been threatened at gunpoint by the military. Meanwhile, the oil company in question, Pacific Rubiales, was promising millions to the Clinton Foundation.
Hillary's State Department wound up publicly hailing Colombia's commitment to human rights reform — and that statement allowed the United States to continue funding the Colombian military.
Today, the founder of Pacific Rubiales is a board member of the Clinton Foundation.
And as Politico reported last week, a major phosphate company owned by the Moroccan government has just pledged at least $1 million to the foundation. In 2011, Clinton's State Department assailed Morocco as a corrupt state guilty of "arbitrary arrests and corruption in all branches of government." Women in Morocco are still subjugated by Islamic rule, yet last September, Hillary Clinton's public stance on the government had changed.
"A vital hub for economic and cultural exchange," she called it, one that was "in the midst of dramatic changes."
The foundation had stopped accepting money from foreign governments in 2009, when Hillary became secretary of state. When she resigned in 2013, the foundation changed this policy, and it has since taken money from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Oman.The Spotty Resume
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Hillary is sworn in as the new Democratic senator from New York in 2001 with Bill, Chelsea and former Vice President Al Gore
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Hillary served as US senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, but her accomplishments are thin. No piece of legislation bears her name. Her tenure came to be defined in the 2008 presidential primaries by her vote for the war in Iraq — which Barack Obama, who had opposed the war, used to chip away at her foreign policy bona fides.
Her accomplishments as secretary of state are as unclear. She traveled to 112 countries, but again, she has nothing of consequence to her name: no peace treaty, no accord, no summit of consequence. Her defenders say she helped restore America's reputation in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; critics say she was too afraid to make a mistake that would affect her presidential run in 2016.
When asked in 2014 by Diane Sawyer to name her greatest achievement or "signature doctrine," Hillary could not. "We haven't had a doctrine since containment worked with the Soviet Union," she said. "But we've had presidents who've made some tough calls and some hard choices, some of which have worked, and some of which have not."The Suspicious Finances
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Without ever breaking any laws, the Clintons have long appeared to be reaping ill-gotten gains. Right before Bill was elected governor of Arkansas, family friend James Blair, who also worked as a lawyer for Tyson Foods, helped her turn $12,000 worth of stock — Hillary only had $1,000 in her account at the time — into a near-immediate $100,000 profit. She did not disclose this until her husband's second year in office.
It was during Bill's first run for president, in 1992, that the Whitewater scandal surfaced. In the 1970s and '80s, the Clintons and their friends Jim and Susan McDougal had invested in the Whitewater Development Corp.; it was alleged that Clinton, as governor, had pressured a local S&L to loan Susan McDougal $300,000 for real estate investments with the company, and that transactions between an Arkansas bank and Bill Clinton had been concealed.
Neither Clinton was charged, though both McDougals and Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who served as governor after Clinton, were convicted of fraud.The Spectacular Greed
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The Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York
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Clinton will likely position herself as the champion of the middle class. Yet in 2014, it was revealed that Clinton, who charges a minimum of $300,000 per speech, also had an extensive list of demands.
Most anyone who hires Hillary to speak must also provide a private jet — a $39 million Gulfstream G450 or better — and put her up in presidential suites. Her standard agreement requires her presence for only 90 minutes, and 50 photos with 100 attendees — no more.
Hillary has defended her enormous speaking fees by saying she and Bill were "not only dead broke, but in debt" when they left the White House.
In 1999, Bill and Hillary bought their house in Chappaqua for $1.7 million, and in 2000 purchased a seven-bedroom in Washington, DC, for $2.85 million. Hillary's Senate financial disclosure form that year listed their assets at $1.8 million.
In Clintonian fashion, Hillary backed off the "dead broke" statement — sort of. "I regret it. It was inartful," she said. "But it was accurate."The Other Women
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Monica Lewinsky and Slick Willy circa 1998 in the White House.
One of the great lessons of 2008, say Hillary's aides, is that she has learned to run toward history, not from it: Instead of downplaying her gender, she'll amplify it, running not just as the potential first female president but as a proud feminist.
If so, she may create a new problem for herself: How to explain her decades-long defense of her womanizing husband — a philanderer at best, a predator at worst? In 2014, the papers of Hillary's late friend Diane Blair were made public; in them, Blair wrote that Hillary dismissed Monica Lewinksy, then a 22-year-old White House intern, as a "narcissistic loony-toon" and insisted that Bill had not abused his power.
As for Bill's other women — including Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey, who alleged sexual harassment, and Juanita Broaddrick, who accused him of rape — the Clintons often embarked on a "nuts and sluts" campaign, denigrating the accusers.
According to Carl Bernstein's "A Woman in Charge," Hillary called Bill's longtime mistress Gennifer Flowers "trailer trash"; she also encouraged his team to get signed statements from all of Bill's other women, swearing they'd never had sex with him.
Willey later said that Hillary spearheaded a "terror campaign" against her. "She is the war on women, as far as I'm concerned," Willey said.The Secret Emails
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In March, we learned that during her four-year stint as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton conducted all business — political, public and private — solely through her personal email account, on a server in her house.
When asked why she didn't use two emails, one for official business and one for personal use, Hillary said: "I thought it would be easier to just carry one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two."
Then an email surfaced that was sent from her iPad, undermining that excuse.
In a press conference to address the controversy, Clinton answered questions with all-too-familiar arrogance, contempt and incredulity that her word should be questioned.
"She came off as defensive and artificially put-off," one Democratic strategist told New York magazine.
"I'm a huge Hillary Clinton fan," said another. "But after that press conference, I do have major concerns about her ability as a campaigner and to get elected."
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Intellectual Froglegs: Conservative Swagger
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In the latest excellent episode of Intellectual Froglegs, Joe Dan compares Reagan's recovery to Obama's "recovery," tips his hat to treasonous transsexual Bradley Manning's Twitter success, fingers California's problem (which is not the dry climate), features Jeb Bush in a RINO Snapshot, notes some of the damage inflicted by the liberal establishment media yelling "fire" in crowded theaters, presents the gay wedding cake war as an example of progs eating away at everything of value, makes the case that conservatism is on the rise, urges us to stop attacking fellow countermoonbats and instead go after the libs and the RINOs and more:(http://www.partycrashertshirts.com/image/cache/data/banners-home/joedan-220x190.jpg)
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpFIWtOSL04
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Shrillary Pantsuit Parks Scooby Van in Handicapper Slot
You can't blame people for getting annoyed by the almost comical overabundance of handicapper slots even at places unlikely to attract many people with a legitimate disability (e.g., mountain hiking trails). But some people's mobility problems are beyond anything diet and exercise could help. Besides, rules are rules — unless you are Shrillary:
Hillary Clinton's now-famous Scooby Doo van made an appearance in Council Bluffs, Iowa on Thursday for a closed-door meeting with state Democratic Party officials – and it idled in a handicapped parking space from beginning to end.
Footage broadcast by KETV-7 in the nearby city of Omaha, Nebraska, showed the presidential nominee emerging from a cafe, greeting onlookers and walking past the blue handicapped-parking sign to climb into the vehicle.
Secret Service agents are technically federal law enforcement officers, so there was no chance of a parking ticket, even if Scooby had been left unattended.
Once again we see that the rules do not apply to the shady former First Lady; neither does consideration for others or for what others might think of her imperious behavior.
Normally moonbats disapprove of letting vehicles idle because the harmless CO2 that is omitted is regarded as offensive to the polar bears. It is even illegal in some places. But it will never be off limits for Shrillary.
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Shrillary Pantsuit Stands Firm Against Freedom of Speech
There hasn't been much substance in Shrillary's elaborately staged, tightly scripted Iowa campaign. But she did introduce one policy likely to resonate with her supporters: the suppression of free speech. This proposal by Shrillary is more alarming than the rhetoric coming out of the Islamic State:"We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get unaccountable money out of it once and for all—
even if that takes a constitutional amendment."
Shrillary is of course the world champion at acquiring unaccountable money. That's why she arrogantly destroyed her subpoenaed Secretary of State emails; confirmation that she used her position to sell influence to foreign governments could finally put her where she has long belonged: in prison.
Her proposition refers to the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which upheld the right of nonprofit organizations (since expanded to corporations and unions) to engage in political speech as if this were still America. For example, a publishing company has the right to publish a book even if it criticizes liberals. The case was initiated by a movie critical of Shrillary that Democrats wanted suppressed (Hillary: The Movie).
What she is talking about is a formal repeal of the First Amendment.
On the surface, Shrillary's candidacy is a joke, due to her glaringly obvious unsuitability for any position of responsibility. Beneath the joke waits a nightmare of corruption and tyranny.
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Democrats would actually vote for this... uh... woman.
Shrillary's "Ordinary Iowans" Were Democrat Plants
No one could be so purely ersatz. It's almost as if Hillary is some artificial parody of fakeness. Regarding the "ordinary Iowans" she deigned to sit with in Flyover Country:
Hillary Clinton's astroturf candidacy is in full swing in Iowa.
Her Tuesday morning visit to a coffee shop in LeClaire, Iowa was staged from beginning to end, according to Austin Bird, one of the men pictured sitting at the table with Mrs. Clinton.
Bird told Daily Mail Online that campaign staffer Troy Price called and asked him and two other young people to meet him Tuesday morning at a restaurant in Davenport, a nearby city.
Price then drove them to the coffee house to meet Clinton after vetting them for about a half-hour.
The three got the lion's share of Mrs. Clinton's time and participated in what breathless news reports described as a 'roundtable'– the first of many in her brief Iowa campaign swing.
Not just anyone gets to play the part of an ordinary Iowan in the absurd spectacle of Shrillary's election campaign. Bird's resume:
Bird himself is a frequent participant in Iowa Democratic Party events. He interned with President Obama's 2012 presidential re-election campaign, and was tapped to chauffeur Vice President Joe Biden in October 2014 when he visited Davenport.
Bird describes himself as working in "public relations":
He's also an outspoken progressive whose Facebook wall shows he ordered a 'Hillary For President' bumper sticker 22 months ago.
As for the other faux ordinary Iowans:
The other two, he confirmed, were University of Iowa College Democrats president Carter Bell and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland employee Sara Sedlacek.
Shrillary hates normal Americans and assumes that the more clearly we see her the more we will hate her back. That's why she won't let regular people come near, where they could ask embarrassing questions. But then with Shrillary, any intelligent question is embarrassing. She doesn't even want to do interviews with the partisan Democrat hacks comprising the establishment media. All we will see until she has secured power is a phony facade, because she knows that not even most Democrats would have the stomach to vote for what's behind the facade.(Say, is that a scar running down her cheek where they sewed on imitation skin to cover her scaly reptilian face? Click for full size):
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(Shrillary Pantsuit posing with recruits posing as ordinary Iowans...)
Shrillary Pantsuit Had Better Shore Up Her Base
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No wonder Shrillary has taken to barking neo-Marxist rhetoric lately:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have some ground to make up with American voters as even a poll on left-leaning MSNBC.com shows an overwhelming 86 percent say they don't plan on voting for the Democrat in 2016.
Looks like she's still sinking. Now it's 87%:
Take the Poll:
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Sometimes Placement Is Everything
If this had been the US media, they would have cleared the layout with Shrillary's people first:
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I'm not sure which headline the picture goes with... ??? :laugh: :angel:
School Blames 'Poor Lighting' For Crappy Michelle Obama School Lunch
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcWptVmO_Nk
PORTSMOUTH, Va. –
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That's not really a fish filet with a whole wheat bun resting on top.
Nah, your eyes are playing tricks on you.
That's what administrators at Virginia's Portsmouth Public Schools want parents to believe after a mother took a photo of her child's paltry school lunch and posted it on social media.
The mom says James Hurst Elementary served the lunch Tuesday.
After the photo began circulating around the community, Food Service Coordinator Jim Gehlhoff admitted the lunch "concerns us," but added that it might not actually be as bad as it looks.
portsmouth-lunch"Poor lighting and food presentation make this lunch unappealing," he said in a statement released to the media.
He says it's in compliance with the federal lunch rules championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.
"The meal in this photo and other meals served by Portsmouth Public Schools meet nutritional and USDA requirements," according to the food service coordinator.
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Moonlite Bunny Ranch Launches "Hookers For Hillary"
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(Well heck... with Slick Willy, they'd automatically up their clientele.
In other news, Hillary's Scooby Doo Van stopped in at the Bunny Ranch so Pantsuit could show that she relates with the average American hooker....)
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Nevada sex workers at Dennis Hof's famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch have launched a "Hookers for Hillary" Clinton website that endorses the former secretary of state's campaign for president.
The legal brothel in Carson City, which was the subject of HBO's "Cathouse" series, has drafted a four-point platform explaining their endorsement.
"Hillary Clinton, as part of her husband's administration, envisioned health care reform in the 1990's, long before President Obama was able to sign it into law," they write. "The Affordable Health Care Act made health insurance available for the first time ever to the 500 independent contractors employed by Dennis Hof. With any Republican nominee likely to work for its' repeal, the Bunnies want to protect the quality health coverage that they now enjoy."(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/1955/9982/original.jpg?w=600&h)
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Hillary's Chipotle publicity stunt didn't turn out so well. She disguised herself in Anna Wintour glasses and did not interact with any normal people beyond placing her order. Apparently more people are appalled that she didn't leave anything in the tip cup than are worried about her grossly irresponsible and possibly treasonous activities as Secretary of State. But it's not as if she and her team didn't try:VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjWXRyZqRps
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Jon Stewart Can Barely Take Media Stupidity over Hillary's Chipotle Visit:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkaDKK6LLeM
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Top Ten Things Overheard In Hillary Clinton's Scooby Van - David Letterman
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-7kBdCasw
Hillary Pantsuit... Trustworthy?
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k1-PdKfKX0
Hillary Clinton Linked to Missing State Department BillionsVIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbZCTU7hM6k
This is too rich. Educated idiots on display on a college campus!And a demonstration of Critical Thinking on the College level. LOLI rest my case. (just kidding about resting my case.)
Embarrassing!
Sexist college students say the top reason they're voting for Hillary Clinton
is her
gender
The Right Scoop reports,
Caleb Bonham of Campus Reform simply asked them one question – what is the number one reason to vote for Hillary?
We're doomed. Buy gold, horde some supplies, and wait for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
What is wrong with these students? Would you vote for a white supremacist simply because she was a woman? What about a terrorist who was a woman? This country is going to hell in a handbasket fast if the average – not even just the far left – college student is choosing who to vote for based on their gender. Watch the depressing video below.http://rightwingnews.com/top-news/embarrassing-sexist-college-students-say-the-top-reason-theyre-voting-for-hillary-clinton-is-her-gender/It's a sad state of affairs when the educated are this dumb.
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This from Jo McDonald:
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THE BATTLING BOYS OF BENGHAZI
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We're the battling boys of Benghazi
No fame, no glory, no paparazzi.
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell
Defending our country we loved so well.
It wasn't our job, but we answered the call,
fought to the Consulate and scaled the wall.
We pulled twenty brothers from the jaws of fate
Led them to safety, and stood at the gate.
Just the two of us, and foes by the score,
But we stood fast to bar the door.
All three calls for reinforcement were denied,
So we fought, and we fought, and we fought 'til we died.
We gave our all for our Uncle Sam,
But Barack Obama didn't give a damn.
Just two dead seals who carried the load?
No thanks to us. We were just "Bumps In The Road".
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Looks like Hillary does not expect to win:
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Quotes by Hillary:
"Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
~Hillary Clinton
"Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice."
~ Hillary Clinton
"There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want."
~Hillary Clinton
"I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigration."
~Hillary Clinton
"If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle."
~Hillary Clinton
"In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it."
~Hillary Clinton
"We're always going to argue about abortion. It's a hard choice and it's controversial, and that's why I'm pro-choice, because I want people to make their own choices."
~Hillary Clinton
"You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion."
~Hillary Clinton
"No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote."
~Hillary Clinton
"There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries."
~Hillary Clinton
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
~Hillary Clinton
"If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust."
~Hillary Clinton
"The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems."
~Hillary Clinton
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
~Hillary Clinton
"I have absolutely no interest in running for president again. None. None. I mean, I know that's hard for some people to believe, but, you know, I just don't."
~Hillary Clinton
"The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon."
~Hillary Clinton
"You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy."
~Hillary Clinton
'''Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in."
~Hillary Clinton
"I can't stand whining."
~Hillary Clinton
"What difference, at this point, does it make"
~Hillary Clinton
Feds Waste $400,000 and Counting on Study of Black
Adolescent Homosexual Satisfaction Levels
April 17, 2015 3:00 pm
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(You put liberals in charge of spending your money for you, what do you expect if not this?...) :
Project examining the 'meaning and function' of first 'penetrative same-sex sexual experiences'
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has spent over $400,000 studying the satisfaction levels of the first sexual experiences of young gay men.
The four-year study, being conducted by Johns Hopkins University, is examining the "meaning and function" of first "penetrative same-sex sexual experiences."
"Prior work has demonstrated that same-sex relationship trajectories support the development of self-esteem in young gay and bisexual men, while opposite same-sex relationships may be associated with homonegativity," a grant for the project, which began in 2012, states. "Little is known about the meaning and function of first same-sex experience in [African-American] AA adolescent men and whether satisfaction with first penetrative same-sex experience impacts sexual trajectories." (If the government funds it... and these days Big Government controls most everything through coercive funding... a racial aspect will probably be shoehorned in somehow. But of course, as crucial as the sexual satisfaction of adolescent homosexuals may be to the well-being of the nation, it pales in significance to the sexual satisfaction of black adolescent homosexuals...)
"The goal of this project is to understand the meaning and function of first same-sex sexual experience and to prospectively be able to assess its impact on subsequent sexual experiences, young adult sexual health and health protective behaviors," the grant said.(Great concept for a gay porno movie, but scientific research used to have more elevated priorities...)
The project has cost taxpayers $410,265 so far, with funding not set to expire until May 2016.
The study is also examining the satisfaction levels of young gay men during their first time.
"The research phase of the award is to explore the reasons for and satisfaction with first and subsequent penetrative same-sex sexual experiences (PSSE) and to examine the role of first PSSE on second and subsequent PSSEs in AA men (Study 1) and how social context impacts sexual satisfaction with first PSSE," the grant said.
The study will also look at the amount of time between the first and second partner, depending on the "sexual satisfaction" of the first "PSSE."
Forty-five African American adolescent males are undergoing "in-depth" interviews for the study. The research will also create an Internet survey.
The NIH grant said that the study is necessary due to a lack of research focusing on young African-American males and will be beneficial to preventing HIV.
"The lack of representativeness of AA adolescent males in studies focused on early same-sex sexual relationships contrasted with high rates of HIV in AA adolescent MSM suggests that this project fulfills a need to understand whether these early same-sex sexual experiences impact risk for HIV," the grant said.(Here's how they justify wasting our money on this filthy folly...):
"AA [men who have sex with men] MSM struggle with a sexual identity that is stigmatized in their communities, along with discrimination, and racism," the grant continued. "As a result, first romantic and sexual experiences are likely to differ from other adolescent groups in ways that make them particularly vulnerable to HIV."
The study is meant to help the lead researcher, assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Dr. Renata Arrington-Sanders, to become a "successful independent minority investigator" and a "rigorous behavioral scientist."
Arrington-Sanders research focuses on "improving the sexual health of African American adolescent men who have sex with men and also HIV prevention community-based efforts and linking HIV-infected adolescents to care."
Arrington-Sanders previously studied why some young African-American gay men seek out older partners, finding that older partners had "emotional maturity," could expose them to "more life experiences," and helped young men "sort through sexual position and how to perform in relationships."(You can imagine the bureauweenie bobbing his head as he reads. Stigmatized, discrimination, racism, check check check. Here's your blank check, courtesy of taxpayers.
As for the predictable HIV justification, if the authorities were serious about combating the horrific diseases spread by homosexuality, they would promote it less relentlessly.
It would be vastly better to pile up the money we earn and set it on fire than to turn it over to the creepy degenerate leftists running the federal government...)
- See more at: http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-spent-410265-studying-satisfaction-levels-of-young-gay-mens-first-time/#sthash.u1nHXpHm.dpuf
EPA Wastes Money on Website That Tells Children Not to Take Baths
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How do our liberal rulers deal with the droughts they severely exacerbate with their lunatic policies? By building more dams, reservoirs, and desalinization plants? No... by refraining from flushing zillions of gallons of water out to sea for the alleged benefit of some useless minnow? No... here's how: by encouraging children not to take baths.As part of its effort to help save the planet from the dangers of taking too many baths, the EPA's WaterSense program is trying to convince kids they should avoid bathtubs in favor of showers, which it says is a far more efficient use of water.
"To save even more water, keep your shower under five minutes long—try timing yourself with a clock next time you hop in!" the "WaterSense for Kids" website says.
http://www.epa.gov/watersense/kids/showerpower.html
If you find a drowned clock in the shower, you'll know that your child somehow stumbled onto a government website. Fortunately this isn't likely to happen.
Too bad bureauweenies only worry about "waste" when it comes to things like water used for hygiene. Regarding our money, waste is never an issue.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/WaterSense-for-Kids.jpg)
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Inspiration for Hillary's Logo
Maybe she didn't steal it from a defunct supermarket chain after all:(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/hillary-logo-cuba-flag.jpg)
The flag to the right represents a wretched communist dictatorship much beloved by liberals, who appear to see it as a model for fundamentally transformed America to emulate.
Via Investor's Business Daily:
Remember, it was the Obama 2008 Houston campaign office that had a couple of Cuban flags pinned to the wall each with an image of Che Guevara — the murdering Marxist revolutionary from Argentina who threw in with the even-more murderous Marxist Castros — plastered on it.
Maybe it's a Democrat thing. Lorain Co., Ohio, Common Pleas Judge James Burge, who has been kicked off the bench for corruption from a felony conviction, is a Democrat known for having framed posters of Guevara and Obama in his office.
OK, it absolutely is a Democrat thing.
Among liberal's, Old Glory receives notably less reverence.
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Hillary Rodham-Pantsuit Clinton:
Nightmare Taking Flight
Obviously concerned that she might win the nomination but lose to a Republican, the liberal media establishment has been handling Hillary's farcical run for President with kid gloves. For a more incisive, hard-hitting take on Hillary and her qualifications to lead the nation, try this:
In August, Simon and Schuster will release Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight, a picture book for grade-schoolers.
The book is written by Kathleen Krull and is the story of Hillary Clinton's childhood, her dreams of becoming an astronaut, her education, her experience as First Lady of Arkansas and the nation, and her campaign for president.Click pictures for full size:
Here's the flowery Publisher's description of the contents:
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Here's a version more grounded in the truth:
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(Already they appear to be eligible to run for public office...)
Habeas Corpus for Animals
When at the zoo, be sure to show proper respect. In a world run by liberals, monkeys are people too:A New York judge has ordered the state to justify why two chimpanzees allegedly kept at a Long Island public university and used as research subjects shouldn't be transferred to an animal sanctuary in south Florida.
The animal rights advocates representing the animals hailed the judge's decision late Monday to grant a hearing early next month as a watershed moment for their long and controversial effort to persuade courts to confer human rights on primates.
It wasn't as big a victory for animal rights fanatics as initially thought:The judge, according to [a spokesman for the state court system], mistakenly labeled her order a writ of habeas corpus, saying she had only granted the hearing to discuss the legal issues raised by the Nonhuman Rights Project. Judge [Barbara] Jaffe on Tuesday amended her initial order, striking out the words "habeas corpus" from the document.
That's how progressivism works. They push the envelope as far as they can. If people scream with laughter or in horror, they pull it back a little. Then, after the barrage of liberal propaganda we are relentlessly assailed with from every direction has had a little more time to work on us, they push the envelope forward again.
For their part the animal rights kooks are not backing down:
The organization isn't challenging the conditions of their confinement, but the confinement itself. In a petition last month, the group described the animals as "autonomous and self-determining beings" who should be "protected by the common law of habeas corpus," a right granted only to "legal persons."
Give Obama another year to stack the courts with left-wing zealots. Not only will monkeys, dogs, and goldfish have habeas corpus rights, they will be entitled to vote and collect welfare... or rather, their "human companions" will be entitled to on their behalf.
Why not? According to liberal ideology, souls do not exist, and there is no moral difference between a human and an animal.
Humiliated ROTC Cadets Forced to Wear Women's Shoes
With Uniforms to Display Political Correctness
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(The Nazis and Imperial Japanese never inflicted this kind of damage....)
Napoleon was wrong. An army doesn't march on its stomach. It marches on its morale. The objective of those currently in command is clear:
As part of the Army's mandatory Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention (SHARP) training, some units are requiring Soldiers to participate in a Walk a Mile In Her Shoes event, in order to bring awareness to rape and sexual assault, and "stop men's sexualized violence against women."
Sounds positive, right? Well there's just one little detail that is causing quite the controversy, as these male Soldiers will all be forced to cross-dress, wearing red high heeled shoes during the 1.26 mile walk.
One cadet from Arizona ROTC said that any personnel who refused to participate in the event, would receive a negative counseling form from their leadership, which would state that the Soldier didn't support their unit's rape and sexual prevention program.
In today's Army, that would count against you more than defecting to the enemy. Do you think Obama would trade five top terrorists for a guy who isn't on board with politically correct initiatives?:
Although the Battalion Commander of the ROTC department denied that the training was mandatory, a slide of the training was uncovered, revealing the time, place, and location that all cadets were required to report to for the event.
So much for regulations regarding the proper way to wear a military uniform. Chalk them up as another casualty of the liberal contempt for any rules that don't suit their purposes.
Obama's officer purge is paying off. His mentality has trickled all the way down to ROTC programs.
Credits where it is due. Despite their conspicuous shortcomings regarding the traits that make for success on the battlefield, liberals know how to destroy an enemy army. Like their Moslem allies, they know better than to try to outfight it directly; that would only lead to defeat. Psychology is the key. You destroy morale, whether by blowing off limbs with IEDs, or by forcing cadets to wear women's clothes.
SHOCKER: Four MSNBC "Black Clowns" Are Not Paying Their Fair Share Of Taxes
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(Tax-dodger Al Crapton really started a trend there...
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Barack Obuma Celebrates #EarthDay With Pictures Of... Primate Barack Obuma and Mooch
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlvs3AI-5Pw
(Tribute to Barack & Mooch from Heidi's Kindergarten Class on Earth Day...)
As Secretary of State, Hillary Assisted Putin's Efforts to
Achieve Uranium Monopoly, Received Russian Cash
Let's not waste time prosecuting Hillary for bribery, tax fraud, or racketeering. The most appropriate charge would be treason:
The headline in Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin's latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when the newspaper served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: "Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World."
The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world's largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.
But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.
At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.
Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One's chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
At the time, both Rosatom and the United States government made promises intended to ease concerns about ceding control of the company's assets to the Russians. Those promises have been repeatedly broken, records show. ...
Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown [or rather, unproven]. But the episode underscores the special ethical challenges presented by the Clinton Foundation, headed by a former president who relied heavily on foreign cash to accumulate $250 million in assets even as his wife helped steer American foreign policy as secretary of state, presiding over decisions with the potential to benefit the foundation's donors.[/size]
Using an official position to sell out your own country's strategic interests in exchange for cash is the kind of thing that used to land people in front of firing squads. It still does, in nations that haven't lost their will to live.
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10 Hilarious Modifications Of Hillary Clinton's New Campaign Logo
by Michael Snyder
Should we be surprised that Hillary Clinton has come up with perhaps the worst presidential campaign logo in American history? This is a woman that has never seemed to be able to do much of anything right, and yet at the moment she appears quite likely to be our next president. And it is sad commentary on the state of this nation that we would willingly choose such a leader. The Clintons have been continuously immersed in scandal since their days in Arkansas in the 1980s, and yet tens of millions of Americans still worship them. The Clintons could probably sacrifice children to Baal on national television and most of their supporters would still love them. There is no way in the world that Bill or Hillary Clinton should be running for anything at this point. If we actually lived in a just society, they would both be in prison. But instead, they are treated like rock stars wherever they go, and they have made more than $100 million since leaving the White House in 2001. Most of that money has come from making speeches and doing personal appearances. They are a bright, shining example of how broken our political system is, and yet Hillary is very likely going to be our first female president.
It should be a very interesting campaign season. But in the end, it will probably be Hillary on one side vs. Jeb Bush on the other. If that doesn't depress you, then you are probably totally clueless about what is really going on in this country.
As we go along, there will be plenty of time to dissect the candidates. And with Hillary, there is plenty to examine. But for now, people are having a lot of fun making fun of her new logo. The following are 10 hilarious modifications to her campaign logo that will be sure to have you laughing. All of these are being circulated on Facebook except for #4, #7 and #10. Those were created by my wife. I think that most of you will really enjoy these...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Hillary-Logo-Im-With-Stupid-460x216.jpg)
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Cuban Flag:
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Of course some Hillary Clinton stupid supporters will get really upset by this list.
They will accuse us of disrespecting a "great woman" that has done so much for this country.
Well, perhaps if Hillary Clinton respected the people around her a little bit more she would get more respect.
For example, according to former Bloomberg News reporter Kate Anderson Bower's brand new book entitled "The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House", the Clintons habitually refer to Secret Service agents "as pigs"...
One White House staffer shared the disturbing time Chelsea Clinton called a Secret Service Agent a "pig" to his face, a derogatory term for law enforcement:
Chelsea was on the phone. 'Oh, I've got to go,' she told her friend. 'The pigs are here.'
The agent turned 'crimson,' [White House florist Ronn] Payne recalls. 'Ms. Clinton, I want to tell you something. My job is to stand between you, your family, and a bullet. Do you understand?'
She replied: 'Well, that's what my mother and father call you.'
She replied: 'Well, that's what my mother and father call you.'
Does that make you angry?
If not, perhaps this next anecdote from a different book will...
If Hillary Clinton runs, and wins the Presidential race in 2016, the Republicans won't be the only ones with trepidation. The Secret Service, who have tangled with Hillary since she became First Lady in 1993, will also be quaking in their lace-ups.
Hillary has been known to hurl a book at the back of the head of one agent driving her in the Presidential limo accusing him of eavesdropping, forget her ps and qs by never thanking her protectors and lob profanity-laced orders when she just wanted the agents to carry her bags – a job not on agents' 'to do' list.
'Stay the f**k away from me! Just f*****g do as I say!!!' she is quoted as saying to an agent who refused to carry her luggage in the book Unlimited Access by FBI agent Gary Aldridge.
And even though the Clintons have been publicly shamed in the past, and even though they knew that they were gearing up for another presidential campaign, Bill continues to run around with young women. In a book published last year entitled "The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of Presidents", we learned that one of Bill Clinton's latest girlfriends known as "the Energizer" sometimes brought cookies to the Secret Service agents that guard him...
Energizer, who is described as charming and friendly, sometimes brought cookies to the agents, according to the book excerpts.
One told Kessler: "It was a warm day, and she was wearing a low-cut tank top, and as she leaned over, her breasts were very exposed. They appeared to be very perky and very new and full ... There was no doubt in my mind they were enhanced."
Kessler also reports that Hillary's Secret Service detail informs Bill's Secret Service detail when the former first lady is coming home, so Bill has time to get Energizer off the property and clean up any evidence.
But despite all of this, the mainstream media will still shower Hillary and Bill with praise, and tens of millions of idiot Americans will still vote for her.
And the big Wall Street banks will still pour massive amounts of money into her campaign coffers...
Out of the top 20 contributors to Hillary in 2008, six were banks – JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and crucially Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs – two of the institutions directly implicated in the 2008 financial crash which left millions of Americans financially destitute.
Making up the rest of the top 20 were law firms as well as monolithic corporations like Time Warner, Microsoft and General Electric. Almost all of these entities will again contribute to Hillary for her 2016 campaign.Are you starting to get the picture?
We have a system that is deeply corrupt and deeply broken.
So how do we fix things?
A start, don't vote for Hillary!!!!!!!
Not all the lessons take place in the classroom. Let's check back in at Valdosta State University, where Air Force vet Michelle Manhart was recently detained by police for rescuing an American flag from desecration by black N-Word supremacists. Here we get a lecture on history and religion straight out of the Twilight Zone:Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awEkPVoDNL8
This not-so-learned professor and self-proclaimed "terrorist toward white people" is named Eric Sheppard. He has reportedly threatened to implement social justice by shooting students, and is currently the subject of a manhunt:Police confronted Sheppard on campus grounds when they said that he dropped a backpack on Tuesday.
[WAGA's Chris] Shaw reported that police had already let him go when they realized there was a gun and two clips inside the backpack. The police consider him armed and dangerous.Put enough poisonous politically correct lies in the heads of young idiots and eventually they will be acted on.[...]
Air Force veteran Michelle Manhart speaks out after taking flag during protest at Valdosta State University
Published on Apr 20, 2015
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6WGB496hIc
Michelle Manhart- Air Force Vet Saw Protesters Stepping on the Flag, She Took Action
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oXRrX2tgoY
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A couple of 'blowhard' lyers threatening each other
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Imagine what we would find in the subpoenaed emails she deleted
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Hillary Demands That Religious Beliefs Be Changed
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Someone get word to the Pope; yesterday Hillary proclaimed that Christian thinking has to be changed regarding the moral propriety of sacrificing innocent life to convenience:Hillary Clinton ... told attendees at the sixth annual Women in The World Summit that "deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed" for the sake of giving women access to "reproductive health care and safe childbirth."
"Reproductive health care" is a euphemism for the killing of inconvenient children, preferably at public expense.
"Laws have to be backed up with resources [i.e., taxpayer money] and political will," she [shrieked]. "And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed."
Religious beliefs have to be changed. The imperiousness of this horrid woman continues to defy comprehension.
You can see why the most conspicuously corrupt public figure of our age would want to change cultural codes and religious beliefs. If we can alter them to make killing our own children okay, then taking bribes and even committing treason may soon be culturally and morally acceptable too.
When we have been fundamentally transformed into rejecting the notion of right and wrong, we will deserve the "leadership" offered by Democrats.
Islamic State Price List for Captured Christian Women And Children
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Hardline liberals don't seem to value Christian women. But their Moslem allies do — as can be seen in a document discovered last fall:
A document published by ISIS reveals the prices the terrorist organization uses to sell Christian and Yazidi women and children abducted by the jihadists.
A formal price list was necessary to prevent prices from falling. The punishment for making sales that deviate from the price list is the same as for many infractions under serious Islam: death.(http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/3/0/2/1/1/7/9/christian-attacks-158421321378.jpeg)
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Here are the prices the Islamic State has set for Yazidi and Christian women and children, according to the document:• Women 40 to 50 years old are to be sold for 50,000 dinar, or $42 in U.S. dollars.
• Yazidi and Christian women 30 to 40 years old are 75,000 dinar, or $63 in U.S. dollars.
• Women 20 to 30 years old are 100,000 dinar ($85).
• Women and children 10 to 20 years old are 150,000 dinar ($127).
• Children ages 1 to 9 are 200,000 dinar ($169 in U.S. dollars).
Don't be appalled; this is mainstream Islam. Mohammad built and financed his nascent empire by raiding caravans and then whole settlements. The motivation for taking part was a cut of the booty, which prominently included captured women and children. The men of conquered communities were sometimes killed in mass executions.
None of the Islamic State's atrocities would have been out of character for the ideal Moslem, Mohammad.
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51 Million Immigrants, Vast Majority From the Third World, in Just 8 Years
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Leftists have hated America for generations. They have figured out how to destroy it. Believe me, Hillary is no different!:
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Legal and illegal immigrants will hit a record high of 51 million in just eight years and eventually account for an astounding 82 percent of all population growth in America, according to new U.S. Census figures.
A report from the Center for Immigration Studies that analyzed the statistics said that by 2023, one in seven U.S. residents will be an immigrant, rising to one in five by 2060 when the immigrant population totals 78 million.
This massive ongoing tidal wave of immigrants is not coming from Europe like the assimilable immigrants of the past. They are coming from the Third World. Their cultures and values are not compatible with our own, as a cursory glance at their wretched home countries makes obvious.
Their reproduction rates, especially when welfare relieves them of the necessity to support their young, are explosive.
Look to Zimbabwe and South Africa if you don't want to wait a few years to see for yourself what it will be like to live as a minority white.
When assimilation does take place, it will be outnumbered Americans who become assimilated by their Third World conquerors. Yet we cannot even object to the eradication of our civilization, lest we be denounced as "racists." Cultural Marxists have done their job effectively.
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If the North Korean media is to be believed, Kim Jung-un learned to drive when he was still a toddler, won a yacht race when he was nine and, as an adult, once had 11 holes-in-one during a single round of golf. And that's the yardstick by which North Korean school kids are supposed to measure themselves.
It's easy enough for us to laugh at such nonsense. As folk lore, it takes its place among such tall tales as lumberjack Paul Bunyan, who could clear a forest single-handed; Superman, who could stop a bullet with his teeth; and Barack Obama, who, legend has it, was a constitutional scholar.
In Obama's latest attempts to legitimatize the illegitimate, he has pledged solidarity with Cuban despot Raul Castro and spent well over a year trying to make nice with the Ayatollah Khamenei. And let us not forget that prior to the 2012 election, Obama got word to Vladimir Putin that he intended to give new meaning to "flexibility" -- or was it "sucking up"? -- once he dusted off Mitt Romney.
The fact that he has a soft spot for the vilest men on the face of the earth shouldn't surprise anyone. After all, before even coming to Washington, his closest friends and advisors were pedophile/pornographer Frank Davis Marshall; the American-born terrorist William Ayres; the rabidly racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright; and the preeminent anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan.
To get an even clearer view of this psychopath, consider those he despises. He began by having the bust of Winston Churchill removed from his sight. Then he took an immediate dislike to Benjamin Netanyahu and has spent most of his six years in office praising Islam, while treating Israel like a leper colony.
The only Muslim he has treated with contempt is Egypt's President el-Sisi, who, to his credit, removed the Muslim Brotherhood from power and demanded that Egypt's mullahs speak out against the jihadists who have, in el-Sisi's own words, hijacked Islam.
Finally, when it comes to Obama's enemy list, one shouldn't overlook Christians, whom he hasn't yet forgiven for the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition and, of course, insisting he abide by the limitations imposed by our Constitution.
Recently, Obama and the Ayatollah openly disagreed about the details of the nuclear deal. It figures that Iranians, the victims of a government-controlled media, believed the Ayatollah's version. It also figures that after listening to Obama's endless lies for the past six years, most Americans also believed the Ayatollah's version.
Speaking of Obama's lies, he promised to personally see to it that the V.A. would finally be treating wounded and aging veterans with the respect they deserved. However, a recent study reported that medical delays of 60-90 days are at the same level as they were when the scandal initially broke. Worse yet, the number of delays exceeding 90 days have doubled in the past year!
Once again, the facts bear out Reagan's observation that government is not the solution; government is the problem.
♦ I recently read about a pre-WWII community in New York, where the German-American Bund intended to promote Nazism as a way of life. I take it they intended to make Yaphank, NY, a model for the rest of the country. They even had streets named Hitler, Goering and Goebbels. Before you write it off as too shocking to believe, keep in mind that at some point we're going to see any number of streets and schools re-named in honor of Barack Hussein Obama.
♦ As you have no doubt been reading, California is suffering through one of our worst droughts in history. We don't deserve your sympathy. For one thing, most of the country has spent the past several months dealing with cyclones, snowstorms and freezing temperatures.
But mainly we don't deserve your sympathy because we keep electing Gov. Jerry Brown. The goofball still intends to waste billions on a train between L.A. and San Francisco. It's a train that nobody will ever ride on because it only takes about six or seven hours to make the drive and because once you reach either city, you still need to rent a car. In the meantime, however, he hasn't considered building even a single desalinization plant.
Everyone knows it costs a lot to remove the salt from water, but we have a state that is half desert, boasts a 700 mile coastline and suffers droughts on a recurring basis. The idea that we have billions of dollars to blow on Gov. Moonbeam's train set and providing food and shelter for an endless parade of illegal aliens, but not a red cent to prevent the Golden State from going brown, is proof that California remains a state of mind closely resembling full-blown dementia.
How goofy is California? Let me count the ways. Over 60% of the registered voters are Democrats. Obama received 84% of the votes in San Francisco and the surrounding counties. In 2012, the techies who work in the Silicon Valley donated $720,000 to Obama's campaign, $25,000 to Mitt Romney's.
Finally, because even the liberal legislators in Sacramento weren't raising our state taxes quickly enough to suit him, Brown put higher taxes on the ballot and got the thumb-sucking voters to pass the measure.(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FRT6XOsdKoY/T1SjZa-mjtI/AAAAAAAACmw/eIk1wzRUAGk/s1600/pers.jpg)
There is a war taking place in the Middle East that pits Muslims against Christians, Jews and those Muslims who belong to a different cult.
Here in America, there is a war taking place that pits liberals and homosexuals -- to the extent there exists a smidgen of difference between them -- against Christians.
One merely has to look at every situation in which Christians attempt to defend their religious rights. Whether it's companies that don't wish to provide birth control in the form of contraceptives or provide funding for abortions; or devout individuals, who are even willing to accept homosexuality as an optional life style, but draw the line at playing any role in a same-sex wedding, the gays and their journalistic, corporate and political, henchmen will unite to put them out of business.
If you don't feel that Christians are singled out for attack, why is it that Muslim florists, photographers and bakers, are never pressured to act in opposition to their religious beliefs? There is ample evidence that one would be hard-pressed to find a Muslim who would agree to provide any of the same-sex wedding wares or services that Christians are condemned for not providing.
Wouldn't it make for a nice change if just once the gays gave the business to Muslims? Or are they simply terrified that they, who so love to label those who are put off by anal sex "homophobic," would suddenly find themselves hoisted upon their own petard, tarred as "Islamophobic"?
The question that comes to mind is what makes homosexuals, lesbians and the transgender crowd, so heroic in the eyes of liberals, while devout Christians, who are far likelier to be numbered among their friends and neighbors, are so casually dismissed, written off as bigots and haters?
Furthermore, when it comes to haters, it is hard to get any nastier than the creeps who lit up social media threatening to kill or mutilate the Connors, the family that owns Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Indiana, simply because the daughter, when questioned by a reporter, said they would happily sell pizzas to anyone, but they would draw the line at catering a same-sex wedding. Apparently nobody thought to ask the reporter when he or she had last heard of a pizzeria catering a wedding.
The good news is that of this writing, the Connors have received over $800,000 in donations from Americans who appreciate their standing by their convictions. The bad news is that I, who also stand by my convictions, can only look on in envy, salivating like one of Pavlov's dogs.
♦ Speaking of money, hardly a day passes that my wife and I don't receive fund-raising appeals from Ben Carson, and he hasn't even said he's running yet. Frankly, I hope he doesn't. As columnist S.E. Cupp recently spelled out, there is nothing to recommend him as a president. I mean, unless you think that what the office requires is someone with absolutely no political experience, what are his selling points? That he had the opportunity to tell Obama what's wrong with the Affordable Care Act merely means that he got to attend a prayer breakfast where millions of us who would have said the same thing weren't invited? That really isn't much to go on, especially when the Supreme Court will have the opportunity this June to make it a non-issue in 2016.
As Cupp wrote, "Carson thinks the Second Amendment should be applied, well, selectively."
Furthermore, he has suggested that the Israeli political system should be changed to the one we have. Well, the best argument against that simpleminded notion is that their system has given them Benjamin Netanyahu and ours saddled us with eight years of Barack Obama.
Cupp pointed out Carson told Chris Christie that homosexuality must be a choice "because a lot of people go into prison straight, and when they come out, they're gay." Now if he had pointed out that a great many felons are non-violent when they enter prison, but come out as committed jihadists because we foolishly allow Islamic imams to act as prison chaplains, he'd be on far steadier ground.
Carson also decided that Obama must be a psychopath, not because of the things he says and the things he does, but because he is so well-dressed. I know Carson was supposed to be a hell of a doctor, but did he make a habit of diagnosing a brain tumor by looking at a patient's shoes?
What Ms. Cupp neglected to mention was that one night on Fox, when Dr. Carson was supposed to debate some issue or other with Jesse Jackson, he spent the first few minutes praising Jackson as a great civil rights leader. No mention of Jackson's being a world-class adulterer and extortionist.
♦ A reader, taking notice of the fact that, even when praising the religiously oriented, I tend to mention I am secular, wondered if I was agnostic or atheistic. I replied that I tend to be repulsed by those whose sole mission in life is to deny God's existence, and who then take the next step and deride those who are believers.
For my part, I would like to believe that God exists and, if so, how He sees His role. As I understand it, in the old days, He seemed to take an active part in human affairs. At times, He flooded the earth, He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, He turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, He parted the sea, He passed along the 10 Commandments, etc., etc. But He seemed to lose interest along the way, and who can blame Him? So I am left to question if He truly exists and, if so, whether His patience has simply run out and He has decided give up on us in pursuit of other interests, the way a child will eventually lose interest even in the toy he believed he couldn't live without.
♦ One major fact that emerged from the events in Ferguson, MO, was that all of the black witnesses who initially claimed that Michael Brown had his arms raised in surrender when Officer Darren Wilson shot him later recanted their testimony. When asked why they had lied in the first place, they said they felt intimidated if they didn't promote the false narrative. Frankly, I don't blame them.
When you see the amount of violence blacks commit at every resort area they visit on Spring Break – and that's when they're having fun! – you can easily imagine how frightened their neighbors must be of young, well-armed, black thugs, who are no more reluctant to kill other blacks than Shiites are to kill Sunnis.
♦ Recently, I have made fun of people who spend their lives critiquing such things as music and art. After all, we are all prone to say something along the lines of, "I may not know what art is, but I know what I like." And when you do that, the professional critic will dismiss you as an ignoramus, if not a barbarian.
But as far back as 1958, I found myself wondering how it was decided at the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition that a 23-year-old from Texas named Harvey Lavan Cliburn was the greatest pianist in the world. But the judgment call was made and, calling himself Van Cliburn, he went on to enjoy a great career playing to packed concert halls and for every president until he passed away in 2013.
But what about the guy who came in second? Was he really inferior to Cliburn? It was a question I found myself wondering about for several years. Then one day, I had occasion to interview classical violinist Itzhak Perlman. Perlman, who was born in Tel Aviv, in 1945, developed polio at the age of four. He recovered, but walks with crutches, and went on to perform while sitting down.
I asked him, a world-renowned soloist, if he can tell fellow soloists apart if he's not looking at them, but merely by their technique. He said he often could, but one day while riding in a car he heard a violinist on the radio. He recognized that the fellow was quite good, but he had no idea who it was until the piece ended and the violinist was identified as...Itzhak Perlman.
I felt myself vindicated. But, then, as you may have noticed, I usually do.
...Burt
Clintons Lied on Tax Forms, Claiming No Foreign Money to Foundation
Never mind bribery. Jail Slick Willy and Hillary for lying on tax forms:
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As soon as rule of law is reestablished.
Hillary Clinton's family's charities are refiling at least five annual tax returns after a Reuters review found errors in how they reported donations from governments, and said they may audit other Clinton Foundation returns in case of other errors.
Funny the IRS doesn't notice these errors, like it would if the Clintons weren't leftists. No, actually it is not funny.
For three years in a row beginning in 2010, the Clinton Foundation reported to the IRS that it received zero in funds from foreign and U.S. governments, a dramatic fall-off from the tens of millions of dollars in foreign government contributions reported in preceding years.
Those entries were errors, according to the foundation: several foreign governments continued to give tens of millions of dollars toward the foundation's work on climate change and economic development through this three-year period. Those governments were identified on the foundation's annually updated donor list, along with broad indications of how much each had cumulatively given since they began donating.
The money was not exactly given. It was spent.... on influence while Hillary was Secretary of State. For details, see her subpoenaed emails. Oh that's right, she destroyed them.
Marrying Bill Clinton was not Hillary's only accomplishment. Staying out of prison has been a remarkable achievement... although she does owe a massive debt to the collapse of rule of law in our dying country.
WAY
TO GO QUEBEC
MAYOR
REFUSES TO REMOVE PORK FROM SCHOOL CANTEEN MENU... EXPLAINS WHY
Muslim parents demanded the abolition of pork in all the school canteens of a Montreal suburb.
The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval, has refused, and the town clerk sent a note to all parents to explain why..."Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Canada and Quebec, its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that's where they chose to immigrate. "They must understand that they have to integrate and learn to live in Quebec. "They must understand that it is for them to change their lifestyle, not the Canadians who so generously welcomed them."They must understand that Canadians are neither racist nor xenophobic, they accepted many immigrants before Muslims (whereas the reverse is not true, in that Muslim states do not accept non-Muslim immigrants).
"That no more than other nations, Canadians are not willing to give up their identity, their culture."And if Canada is a land of welcome, it's not the Mayor of Dorval who welcomes foreigners,but the Canadian-Quebecois people as a whole. "Finally, they must understand that in Canada (Quebec) with its Judeo-Christian roots, Christmas trees, churches and religious festivals, religion must remain in the private domain.The municipality of Dorval was right to refuse any concessions to Islam and Sharia."For Muslims who disagree with secularism and do not feel comfortable in Canada, there are 57 beautiful Muslim countries in the world, most of them under-populated and ready to receive them with open halal arms in accordance with Sharia. "If you left your country for Canada, and not for other Muslim countries, it is because you have considered that life is better in Canada than elsewhere.
"Ask yourself the question, just once,"Why is it better here in Canada than where you come from? "A canteen with pork is part of the answer."
QUESTION:
WHY AREN'T
WE, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SAYING THE SAME
THINGS?
All nationalities
Either you are American
Or
You are Not
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Baltimore Race Riots...
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History for stupid people...
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Jim Crow: Then & Now...
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Liberal always fake it...
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Hillary's Big Problem...
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How rich is too rich? Depends on your politics...
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Poor Hillary, struggling like that...
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Hillary's pedestal...
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How Liberals celebrate Earth Day...
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Earth Day: The Celebration of Liberal Hypocrisy.
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Rules for us, and rules for them....
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How old is the Liberal double-standard?
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The mother load of hypocrisy.
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Especially hypocritical considering how much Liberals spend on campaigns...
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How Hillary fights "for" women....
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The Gender Gap: From the horse's mouth...
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To be honest, Bill Clinton got away with a lot, too.
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They never want to live under the rules they
demand the rest of us must follow...
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Whose mess is it in the first place?
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Quote from: ROSS on April 27, 2015, 08:23:54 AM
WAY
TO GO QUEBEC
MAYOR
REFUSES TO REMOVE PORK FROM SCHOOL CANTEEN MENU... EXPLAINS WHY
Muslim parents demanded the abolition of pork in all the school canteens of a Montreal suburb.
The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval, has refused, and the town clerk sent a note to all parents to explain why..."Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Canada and Quebec, its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that's where they chose to immigrate. "They must understand that they have to integrate and learn to live in Quebec. "They must understand that it is for them to change their lifestyle, not the Canadians who so generously welcomed them."They must understand that Canadians are neither racist nor xenophobic, they accepted many immigrants before Muslims (whereas the reverse is not true, in that Muslim states do not accept non-Muslim immigrants).
"That no more than other nations, Canadians are not willing to give up their identity, their culture."And if Canada is a land of welcome, it's not the Mayor of Dorval who welcomes foreigners,but the Canadian-Quebecois people as a whole. "Finally, they must understand that in Canada (Quebec) with its Judeo-Christian roots, Christmas trees, churches and religious festivals, religion must remain in the private domain.The municipality of Dorval was right to refuse any concessions to Islam and Sharia."For Muslims who disagree with secularism and do not feel comfortable in Canada, there are 57 beautiful Muslim countries in the world, most of them under-populated and ready to receive them with open halal arms in accordance with Sharia. "If you left your country for Canada, and not for other Muslim countries, it is because you have considered that life is better in Canada than elsewhere.
"Ask yourself the question, just once,"Why is it better here in Canada than where you come from? "A canteen with pork is part of the answer."
QUESTION:
WHY AREN'T
WE, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SAYING THE SAME
THINGS?
All nationalities
Either you are American
Or
You are Not
BRAVO to the mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval... super post and great question, Ross.
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Bill Whittle: 'Book Burners Afraid of Matches'
Bill Whittle delivers a commencement address to the Class of 2015:
A must-see Video:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=225&v=hDNMglEA2oQ
Baltimore Social Justice Warrior Catches Hell From Mom
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Pandering to Perverts
Check out the Hillary logo on her Twitter page:
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Homosexuals make up about 3% of the population, and the vast majority of them would vote for Shrillary anyway, if only as a gesture of contempt toward traditional values.
But weak-minded fools brainwashed by the media into believing that they are good people so long as they revere homosexuality are of course more numerous.
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Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition - Intellectual Froglegs 4.28.15
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1My5C51W0M
11 Examples Of How Evil Is Growing In America Like A Cancerous Tumor
By Michael Snyder, on April 30th, 2015
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Have you heard of "arterial tapping", "flakka" or "cyberextortion"? In America today, just about every conceivable type of evil that you could possibly name is growing, and we are even inventing new kinds of evil that the world has never seen before. It is very easy for us to point to the looting and violence in Baltimore and call that evil, but there is far more to the social decay of America than just that. The foundations of our society are rotting and decaying in thousands of different ways, and our biggest problem as a nation is what is found inside our own hearts. We have rejected the values and principles that were handed down to us by previous generations of Americans because we believed that we knew better than they did. But now look at us. Our country is falling apart all around us, and we only have ourselves to blame. The following are 11 examples of how evil is growing in America like a cancerous tumor...
#1 It has become trendy for alternative lifestyle parties in America to become as "edgy" as possible. But even some of those involved in these parties are now speaking out about an extremely alarming practice known as "arterial tapping"... http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/Manhattan-Fetish-SM-Party-Doctor-Bloodletting-Arterial-Tapping-Health-Concerns-301774441.html
A fetish party attendee is blowing the whistle on a bondage-themed event she says would shock even the authors of "Fifty Shades of Grey."
Photos from inside the edgy, recurring party called Cirque de Plaisir seem to show a fetish practice called "arterial tapping," whereby a dominant partner taps a submissive partner's artery, controlling his or her blood flow. It appears that very blood is sometimes sprayed over a canvas as art.
"Some people just do blood play where they just get some kind of rush out of releasing blood from their arteries," said the fetish party insider, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear people would judge her alternative sex life.
#2 A school principal in Wisconsin is in hot water for approving a poster that encourages young men to protect the character of the young women they are taking to prom. In the old days, this would only be common sense. But these days, the poster is being condemned as "sexist" and has created a national scandal... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3062900/Sexist-prom-posters-Wisconsin-High-School-cause-controversy-message-telling-students-protect-character.html
Students at a Wisconsin high school have been left outraged after 'sexist' prom posters appeared on the school's walls the week before the event, suggesting that the night should be seen as an opportunity 'to protect her character'.
The posters, which were put up on the walls of Lincoln High School in Manitowoc, depict the silhouette of a woman wearing a gown which is made up of words such as 'charming', 'fearless' and 'ambitious', while a banner printed above her head reads: 'A night to protect her character.'
'It's basically just saying your character depends on whether or not you have sex,' senior Kelsey Schindl told Mashable. 'And if you have sex, you won't have any character.'
#3 A synthetic designer drug known as "flakka" is causing massive problems down in Florida. This drug is very cheap, very easy to get, and it causes many of those that take it to behave like zombies... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3062874/The-rise-flakka-deadly-synthetic-designer-drug-plaguing-Florida-police-arrest-users-bizarre-behavior-like-having-sex-trees-running-streets-naked-paranoia.html
One man, Kenneth Crowder, ran naked through a Florida neighborhood, tried to have sex with a tree and told police he was the mythical god Thor.
Another, Matthew Kenney, ran nude down a busy city street in broad daylight, convinced a pack of German shepherds was pursuing him.
Two others tried separately to break into the Fort Lauderdale Police Department. They said they thought people were chasing them; one wound up impaled on a fence.
The common element to these and other bizarre incidents in Florida in the last few months is flakka, an increasingly popular synthetic designer drug.
#4 How evil do you have to be to break into someone's computer, steal private images, and then blackmail that person with those images? Well, according to CNN, federal law enforcement officials say that this has become a major problem on the Internet... http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/26/technology/revenge-porn-blackmail/index.html?iid=Lead
Hackers are breaking into webcams and emails and social networks to gain access to intimate images. They then threaten to make the images public, and share them with the victim's friends and family, if she does not comply.
A federal law enforcement official who asked not to be named said these sites mostly target younger women.
"They know they're easy to extort," he told CNNMoney. "[They] catch them in a provocative photo and say they're going to send this to all your friends if you don't do x, y, z."
#5 Speaking of the Internet, there is an epidemic of porn watching among employees of the federal government. But even though they get caught, thanks to endless red tape it is extremely difficult to ever fire them. For example, CBS News discovered that a top level employee at the EPA is still on the payroll even though he would watch porn at work between two and six hours a day... http://www.cbsnews.com/news/civil-servant-protection-system-could-keep-problematic-government-employees-from-being-fired/
In the private sector, if you're caught viewing porn on company time or intimidating a co-worker, you'd probably be fired immediately; not so if you're a federal employee.
A CBS News investigation looks at how hard it is for the U.S. government to discipline or fire employees who behave badly. With examples ranging from extravagant to explicit, civil service rules meant to protect public workers from political pressure may be backfiring, and costing you big, reports CBS News correspondent Don Dahler.
At the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), red tape is preventing the removal of a top level employee accused of viewing porn two to six hours a day while at work, since 2010. Even though investigators found 7,000 pornographic files on his computer and even caught him watching porn, he remains on the payroll.
#6 Americans just continue to become more obese. According to USA Today, obesity in America has more than doubled over the past 25 years... http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/10/public-health-obesity-inactivity-state-rankings/20095261/?siteID=je6NUbpObpQ-b1DTKDNkrD.ovWsD_mpTGw
The obesity rate increased from 27.6% to 29.4% of adults, Nearly a quarter of people report doing no physical activity or exercise in the last 30 days, which may be partly to blame. That number increased from 22.9% in the 2013 report to 23.5% in this year's report.
Obesity, a leading contributor to death in the USA, has more than doubled over the last 25 years, the report shows. Obesity is also closely tied to chronic, costly diseases including diabetes and high blood pressure, which are bedeviling the health care system.
#7 Would you steal cookies from the Girl Scouts? Perhaps not, but a lot of Americans are actually doing this. The following are a few examples of this very disturbing trend... http://www.mnn.com/family/family-activities/blogs/real-life-cookie-monsters-steal-girl-scout-cookies
Across the country, several incidences of cookie theft have been reported. In St. Louis, Missouri, $1,200 worth of Girl Scout cookies were stolen from a 6-year-old girl and her Army veteran father. The cookies were stolen from the family's SUV when it was parked in a downtown garage during a weekend trip to the city. In Bloomington, Indiana, $400 worth of Thin Mints and Samoas were stolen from the SUV of a kindergartner and her troop leader mom. The young girl's mom had been driving all over town delivering cookies over the last week, so she's not exactly sure when or where the theft took place — she just knows the cookies are missing.
And the reports keep rolling in.
A 10-year-old scout in San Jose, California, had a cash box ripped out of her hands as she and her troop sold cookies in front of the local grocery store. And in the city of Spartanburg, South Carolina, 5,000 boxes of girl scout cookies — worth about $19,000 — were stolen from the warehouse.
#8 The next time you "pay at the pump", you might want to be very careful. Criminals are putting credit card skimmers on gas station pumps all over the nation in order to steal credit and debit card information...http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/sfl-ap-gas-station-skimmers-20150423-story.html
Florida consumers filling up at the gas pump may have had their credit card information stolen.
Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam said Thursday that a sweep of more than 6,000 gas stations led to the discovery of "skimmers" in 81 locations. The devices enable someone to illegally obtain credit card and debit card information.
The devices were found on gas station pumps stretching from Miami-Dade County all the way to Florida's Panhandle.
#9 Decades ago, a restaurant named after the male sex organ would have been absolutely unthinkable in most parts of this country. But now a new restaurant named "Tallywackers" is going to open up in Dallas, Texas... http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/04/30/tallywackers-guy-candy-restaurant/26630341/?AID=10709313&PID=6157437&SID=i957rwizv500xkod00dth
If you're more into six-pack abs than Bunday Monday, a restaurant named Tallywackers promises to open next month in Dallas, perhaps in time for Mother's Day.
Inspired by Hooters, the "breastaurant" chain that opened its first location in 1983 in Clearwater, Fla., this eatery will feature guy eye candy with its appetizers, hot dogs, pasta dishes and what its owner called "comfort foods."
#10 So much of our social decay is rooted in the decline of the American family. Sadly, the truth is that our families have been steadily deteriorating for decades. The following comes from a recent article by Dennis Prager... http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2015/04/07/americas-decay-is-speeding-up-n1981613?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
Nearly half (48 percent) of American children are born to a mother who is not married. Forty-three percent of American children live without a father in the home. About 50 percent of Americans over 18 are married, compared to 72 percent in 1960. Americans are having so few children that the fertility rate fell to a record low 62.9 births per 1,000 women in 2013. And in an increasing number of states, there are now more deaths than births.
#11 If an attractive woman approached you on the street and asked you to have sex with her, what would you do? Well, an experiment of this nature was recently conducted for a YouTube video. Incredibly, 30 out of 100 men that were approached were ready to have sex with the woman within moments of meeting her... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3058711/Do-want-sex-Attractive-young-woman-approaches-100-men-street-asks-sleep-just-said-yes.html
The 19-minute-long edited video, which was filmed over seven days, shows the woman approaching a stream of men as they go about their daily business.
Dressed casually either in jeans or a pair of short denim shorts with a skimpy top, she outstretches a hand and introduces herself to the men.
After one or two comments are exchanged, she asks them: 'Would you like to have sex with me?'
The universal reaction from the men is largely bewilderment with many looking around to see if the question is a joke.
Of the 100 men asked, 30 agreed to her brazen request and the pair promptly walk off in the direction of her house.
What does this say about the moral state of the men in this nation? You can watch the full video right here: VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBtF3I7fDfU
Apparently those 30 men did not have the slightest concern about what the long-term consequences of their decisions might be. They just saw an attractive woman and immediately wanted to have sex.
We like to think of ourselves as an "example" to the rest of the world, but it is certainly not a good one.
In fact, much of the world looks at us and our behavior with utter horror. They regard us as immoral, classless "pig people", and they are right. Our society has become an absolute cesspool of filth and corruption, and we desperately need to change our ways.
Jonathan Cahn, the author of The Mystery of the Shemitah, believes that America is making many of the very same mistakes that ancient Israel did...
"They drove God out of the government. They worshiped idols and served other gods. They celebrated immorality and they persecuted righteousness. The blessings of God were removed and replaced with judgments," he said.
Now, he said, "America has made the same mistakes."
Like Cahn, I believe that judgment is coming to America if we do not dramatically change our ways, and right now there are absolutely no signs that we intend to do that.
So what do you think?
Do you believe that judgment is coming to America?
The Incredible Story Of How Kim Kardashian's Ancestors Escaped The Armenian Genocide
By Michael Snyder
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Between 1915 and 1917, 1.5 million Armenians (most of them Christians) were slaughtered by the Turks. Armenians were systematically abducted, tortured and marched to their deaths just because of who they were and what they believed. At one point, 60,000 corpses were found in a single mass grave. It was one of the greatest genocides in history, but it didn't end in 1917. Between 1920 and 1923, Turkey either deported or wiped out almost all of the Armenians that had survived the first wave of persecution. This genocide was one of the most horrifying examples of how evil humanity can be, and yet to this day the U.S. government continues to refuse to call it a "genocide". Because of the sensitive nature of our relationship with the Turkish government, Barack Obama absolutely will not use the "g word" when speaking of what happened to the Armenians. And as I wrote about the other day, Obama also seems to care very little about the Christian genocide that is going on in parts of the Middle East controlled by ISIS today. But whether Obama ever recognizes the Armenian genocide or not, it is vitally important that the world remembers what happened to those precious people. One very prominent celebrity that is leading the call to remember the Armenian genocide is Kim Kardashian. In this article, I am going to share the story of how her ancestors were able to escape the genocide. I promise you, it is a story that you are not likely to ever forget.
If you are not familiar with the Armenian genocide, the following is a pretty good summary of what happened from the Washington Post... http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/genocides-and-holocausts-never-again-commentary/2015/04/24/2e665748-eabe-11e4-8581-633c536add4b_story.html
One hundred years ago, in April 1915 as World War I raged across Europe, the government of the Ottoman Empire attacked its Armenian citizens. Over the next several years, it is estimated that as many as 1.5 million Armenians died. Able-bodied men were murdered or enslaved as forced labor in the army, and hundreds of thousands of women, children, the infirm and the elderly were marched into the Syrian desert to face death.
Supported by the Young Turks, an ultranationalist party that approved systematic deportation, abduction, torture, massacre and the expropriation of Armenian wealth, the German-allied Ottoman government used the excuse of war to initiate the forcible removal of Armenians from Armenia and Anatolia where they had lived for centuries.
But there is one fact in that article which is wrong.
The Armenians had not just been living there for centuries. They had been living there for thousands of years.
In fact, Armenia was the very first Christian nation on the entire planet. Shortly after the time of Christ, the early apostles visited Armenia and the gospel was eagerly accepted. Many of the Armenian people actually had roots in ancient Israel, and many of them were still familiar with what the Hebrew Scriptures said about the coming of a Messiah. Very quickly, Armenia was transformed into one of the early hubs of the Christian faith.
And Armenia remained strongly Christian for the most part up until the time of the Armenian genocide. The Turks hated the Armenians (and still d0) and were determined to wipe them out. This included the elderly, women and chidlren... http://www.prophecyclubresources.com/RE-GATHERING-OF-THE-TEN-LOST-TRIBES-OF-ISRAEL-MICHAEL-SNYDER/productinfo/MS-R1001/
"Rape and beating were commonplace," wrote acclaimed historian David Fromkin in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the Ottoman Empire's downfall, A Peace to End All Peace. "Those who were not killed at once were driven through mountains and deserts without food, drink or shelter. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians eventually succumbed or were killed."
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An Armenian man in Istanbul, who as a schoolboy discovered his family was Armenian, told The WorldPost one story passed down to him by his parents: His grandfather, too exhausted to walk any farther in the death march toward the Syrian desert, refused to go on. He would rather drown than walk another mile to his death, he told the Turkish Ottoman guards. And so, the man says, they held his grandfather under the water until he was dead.
Sadly, much of the world continues to refuse to recognize this genocide.
This includes the United States government.
Could you imagine a president refusing to acknowledge the Holocaust?
Well, that is essentially what Obama is doing when he refuses to recognize the genocide that took place in Armenia. The reason why Obama will not acknowledge the Armenian genocide is because he doesn't want to offend the Turks...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/armenian-genocide-controversy_n_7121008.html
If President Obama decided to label the 1915 killings as genocide, already strained relations would likely only worsen with Turkey, where the United States has an important air base in the south, close to Syria. Turkey and the U.S. government have butted heads over the Syrian crisis, with a U.S.-led coalition targeting solely Islamic State extremists, while Turkey insists military efforts must also focus on bringing down Syria's Bashar Assad.
There are not words to describe what a disgrace this is.
Fortunately, there were some Armenians that were able to flee before the genocide. Among them were the Armenian ancestors of Kim Kardashian. The following comes from the Daily Mail... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939622/Keeping-Kardashians-circa-1900-Kim-s-ancestors-heeded-prophet-s-warning-looming-slaughter-escape-rural-Armenia-new-life-U-S.html
Known at the time as the Kardaschoffs, in Russian style, the family made their way from their home village of Karakale in the late 19th Century to German ports. From there, they travelled to a new life in America on the passenger vessels SS Brandenberg and SS Koln.
By doing so, they escaped the triple horror of the First World War from 1914-18, the 'Armenian Genocide' starting in 1915 – exactly a century ago this year – and the Russian Revolution in 1917.
So how did they know to leave?
Well, if you can believe this, Kim Kardashian's ancestors actually belonged to a group of Christians known as the Molokans, and they fled Armenia and came to America due to a warning from an Armenian Christian prophet named Efim Klubnikin... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molokan
In the first years of the 20th century, Efim renewed the warning that he made to stunned believers in Karakale as a child, saying his premonition was now coming to pass.
'Efim called a meeting, he invited the elders from all the Molokan villages including the two elders of the Armenian Molokan church. He prophesied this was the time for them to leave Russia as there were terrible times coming, especially for the Armenians,' said Ms Keosababian-Bivin.
Thanks to this warning, large numbers of Armenians left their ancestral homes and were able to escape the horrors that were coming. Here is more from the Daily Mail... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939622/Keeping-Kardashians-circa-1900-Kim-s-ancestors-heeded-prophet-s-warning-looming-slaughter-escape-rural-Armenia-new-life-U-S.html
America was, he said, 'a land of the living' while mass slaughter would engulf their homeland.
Presciently, he urged them to go quickly – as he himself would do – and cautioned: 'The doors will close, and leaving Russia will be impossible.'
Many families sold up their homes and land at knockdown prices, or simply fled, to escape the coming horrors.
It is substantially due to the prophecy that many of Kim's forebears came to Los Angeles, a city where the clan thrived and made their name.
But many were jeered as they left Karakale, now known as Merkez Karakale, and mocked for their belief in the prophesy of coming doom.
And don't we see a similar thing happening today?
Those that are trying to warn Americans about what is coming are often jeered and ridiculed.
But if Kim Kardashian's ancestors had not listened to the warning that they received, they probably would have been slaughtered with the rest of the Armenians and Kim Kardashian would not be alive right now.
So the next time that you see something on the Internet about Kim Kardashian, you will know that there is a whole lot more to her story than just fashion, television shows and money. Her family history is deeply rooted in one of the most persecuted groups of people in the history of the planet, and the story of how her ancestors escaped the Armenian genocide is quite incredible.
Obama chooses Chicago to host his presidential library
The contenders were:
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First Runner-Up:
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AND THE WINNER IS... "THE P_ICK" located on the south side of Chicago
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/obama-chooses-chicago-to-host-his-presidential-library/ar-BBiZx8l?ocid=ansnewsap11
Fun Facts About Freddie Gray
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We have heard plenty about Freddie Gray in light of his death having been used as a pretext for riots. Yet as with Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, some highly salient information about him has not received the attention it deserves. Much of it still awaits confirmation.
One thing we already know for sure is that Gray was not an innocent victim, but a career criminal with a rap sheet a mile long. Only in a society deranged by moonbattery would he be running loose, predictably forcing the police to arrest him yet again. His curriculum vitae:
March 20, 2015: Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Substance
March 13, 2015: Malicious destruction of property, second-degree assault
January 20, 2015: Fourth-degree burglary, trespassing
January 14, 2015: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute
December 31, 2014: Possession of narcotics with intent to distribute
December 14, 2014: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance
August 31, 2014: Illegal gambling, trespassing
January 25, 2014: Possession of marijuana
September 28, 2013: Distribution of narcotics, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, second-degree assault, second-degree escape
April 13, 2012: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, violation of probation
July 16, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute
March 28, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
March 14, 2008: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to manufacture and distribute
February 11, 2008: Unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of a controlled dangerous substance
August 29, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, violation of probation
August 28, 2007: Possession of marijuana
August 23, 2007: False statement to a peace officer, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance
July 16, 2007: Possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession of a controlled dangerous substance (2 counts)
Be careful about sharing this information. When Pittsburgh radio DJ Mike Jax posted Gray's list of crimes along with the comment "he was pretty busy before he was unjustly killed at the hands of Baltimore P.D.," he was promptly suspended indefinitely by WAMO:
Jax has apologized for his post, saying it was not his intention to justify Gray's death, but to highlight that his arrest record does not justify it.
No use groveling, Jax. Disseminators of information that undermines The Narrative are thought criminals who must be punished.
Given the climate of political hysteria that characterizes Hope & Change and the irresponsibility of the establishment media, it will be a while before all the facts regarding Freddie Gray become clear. The official story is that racist police injured Gray's spine. But it could be that police unknowingly exacerbated an existing injury. He reportedly had spinal and neck surgery shortly before he was arrested.
http://thefourthestate.co/2015/04/breaking-freddy-gray-had-spine-surgery-just-one-week-before-arrest/
However, this report has been disputed.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/04/28/did-freddie-gray-have-spinal-surgery-from-car-accident-a-week-before-his-arrest/
It is also possible that Gray injured his own spine:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/prisoner-in-van-said-freddie-gray-was-banging-against-the-walls-during-ride/2015/04/29/56d7da10-eec6-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html?tid=hpModule_99d5f542-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394
A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he could hear Gray "banging against the walls" of the vehicle and believed that he "was intentionally trying to injure himself," according to a police document obtained by The Washington Post.
It is becoming increasingly evident that Gray sustained his injuries in the van, not during his arrest:
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/04/breaking-news-no-evidence-found-that-freddie-gray-s-death-was-result-of-police-who-arrested-him-prob.html
An investigation into the death of Baltimore resident Freddie Gray has found no evidence that his fatal injuries were caused during the videotaped arrest and interaction with police officers, according to multiple law enforcement sources.
The sources spoke to ABC7 News after being briefed on the findings of a police report turned over to prosecutors on Thursday as well as preliminary findings made by the medical examiner's office.
This supports the theory that Gray killed himself.
When the smoke has cleared, we will know more. But by then the media will be whipping up feral mobs over some other dead criminal of politically preferred pigmentation.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/freddie-gray-arrest-record.jpg)
http://heavy.com/news/2015/04/freddie-gray-arrest-record-criminal-history-rap-sheet-why-was-freddie-gray-arrested/
The Future Isn't What It Used to Be
Remember the shiny, industrious cities, miraculous inventions, and intergalactic exploration we used to associate with the future? Here's how the future looks from the Age of Hope & Change:
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Fortunately it is not quite too late to change course.
Fun Facts About Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Ding-Bat put in charge of a major city
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is not an easy person to take seriously, but her decision to give space to those "who wished to destroy" has at least made her interesting.
Her office says she was misunderstood regarding her alarming "space to destroy" remark. However, it has been revealed that she did order police to stand down so that the rioters could destroy her city:
Despite a firm denial by Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a senior law enforcement source charges that she gave an order for police to stand down as riots broke out Monday night, raising more questions about whether some of the violence and looting could have been prevented.
The source, who is involved in the enforcement efforts, confirmed to Fox News there was a direct order from the mayor to her police chief Monday night, effectively tying the hands of officers as they were pelted with rocks and bottles.
Asked directly if the mayor was the one who gave that order, the source said: "You are God damn right it was."
To quote Ms. Rawlings-Blake: "Let them loot, it's only property."
She meant, "it's only other people's property" — and if she had any respect for that, she wouldn't be a Democrat.
Stephanie appears to be taking orders directly from Obama's top advisor (some would say supervisor). Valerie Jarrett has been in "regular contact" with her according to a White House spokesman.
Not just anybody gets orders directly from Obama's babysitter. Rawlings-Blake has a leadership position in the DNC. From 2013:
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will become the secretary of the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday, giving her a prominent role in national politics.
The appointment, which has not been formally announced, will give Rawlings-Blake a voice in the party's national political apparatus...
This might explain why a mayor is implementing national policy regarding encouraging blacks to riot, as the Obama Administration did more directly in the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown spectacles.
Stephanie was one of three members of the Panel of Mayors involved in "The President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing (PDF)," a project intended to work toward the authoritarian objective of nationalizing local police. This is a prerequisite for transitioning from a soft to a hard tyranny, and goes a long way toward explaining the contrived and massively hyped crisis of "racist" police allegedly oppressing black criminals.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/baltimore-riot-police-car.jpg)
Community organized from the very top...
Video: Confused by "L.G.B.T.Q.Q.I.P.2S.A.A." ? Gay Marriage Activists Explain
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Dan Joseph | April 30, 2015
http://www.mrctv.org/blog/video-gay-rights-movement-alphabet
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iy_8LSmAWQ
For many years, the most popular acronym for those in the gay community has been "L.G.B.T," which stands for Lesbian. Gay. Bisexual and Transgendered. Recently, they added the letter "Q".
The "Q" can stand for either "queer" or "questioning" (someone who still isn't sure of their sexual identity).
This is where things get a bit complex. Once the gay rights movement began gaining power, all sorts of letters, representing all sorts of different sexual preferences, started to be added to the mix. As it now stands, the acronym has grown. The most-recently updated acronym is now:
"L.G.B.T.Q.Q.I.P.2S.A.A." ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Pansexual, 2-Spirited, Asexual and Ally)
One young woman we spoke to identified herself as G.S.R.M or a Gender Sexual Romantic Minority.
Confused yet? Just wait.
MRCTV was at the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the latest case in the battle over gay marriage - where we asked some gay-rights supporters if they could explain the meaning, and distinctions, of some of these terms.
Some other sexual orientation and gender terms include:
Gender queer, gender fluid, gender-less, gynesexual, bigender, transsexual, transvestite, transitioning, agender, poly gender, androgynous, androsexual, pangender, omnisexual, omnigender, Demi sexual, skoliosexual, cisgender, third gender and boydyke.
Some of these words are so new that my spell-checker is having an aneurysm.
As you can see in the video, some of these terms overlap with each other. But, it would appear that the lesson is that, in the gay community these days, the lines separating gender and sexual preference are either being infinitely expanded or completely blurred.(It's a sick, sick, USA with the gays and niggers running amuck. Here's an acronym for them: A.S.S.H.O.L.E.S...)
Malik Shabazz Wants Bloods and Crips to Serve as Police
Speaking at a celebration in honor of the politically motivated railroading of six Baltimore police officers as political sacrifices, former President of the New Black Panther Party and compadre of Obama (see here, here and here) (http://moonbattery.com/obama-black-panthers-1.jpg)
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Kevin Rector
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Shabazz brings Bloods & Crips up on stage, calls them "the new generation of defenders and protectors" of community. We "don't need police."
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When criminals run the government as an instrument of plunder, as is increasingly the case in most major cities (not to mention the federal government), who better to serve as police officers than vicious gang members?
This isn't far from what closer Obama associate Al Sharpton has in mind when he calls for the notoriously radical Department of Social Justice to be put in charge of local policing.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/obama_sharpton.JPG)
(Voters must have wanted to live in a Third World country, or they wouldn't have chosen Obuma. Each day of Hope & Change brings their wish a step closer to fruition...)
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(Your police department, fundamentally transformed... )
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... convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur...
its time to put the electric hat on her and Zap her a$$...
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Obuma's "Stimulus" Binge Flushed $1.8 Billion Down Baltimore
After their endless barrage of inflammatory propaganda predictably resulted in riots in Baltimore, our liberal rulers still more predictably followed it up with demands to pour more money into the ghettos they have created through welfare policy. Yet it is obvious that if other people's money were the solution, Baltimore would not be a problem:
The city of Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack Obama's stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention.
Where did the money go? The same place water goes when you pour it out on the desert sand.(http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/money_down_toilet.jpg)
President Obama claimed last Tuesday that if the Republican-controlled Congress would implement his policies to make "massive investments in urban communities," they could "make a difference right now" in the city, currently in upheaval following the death of Freddie Gray.
You might think $1.8 billion wasted is enough. But so long as there is still a penny of our money or our children's money or our grandchildren's money left unredistributed, it will never be enough.
This far into the catastrophic War on Poverty, no one with an IQ in the mammal range could fail to notice that paying people to be poor does not reduce poverty. But why would liberals want to reduce poverty? That would cut into their voter base.
Homicides In Baltimore Continue As Protests Draw
Law Enforcement Away From Rest Of Charm City
(Those black lives don't matter...)
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The homicides in Baltimore this year have so far surpassed those of last year by 25 percent. (Graphic: The Baltimore Sun)
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Homicides in Baltimore in 2014 topped 210. (Graphic: The Baltimore Sun)
As most of Baltimore Police focused on protests, riots and looting last week, the city continued to be plagued with another problem which was present before the protests and will likely remain once they have subsided.
Homicides in the city have increased by 25 percent, with 77 intentional deaths so far this year. Twenty people have been killed since the death of Freddy Gray, the man who died from a head and spinal injury while in police custody and the spark in an onslaught of both peaceful and violent protests. Last week alone, more than a dozen different shootings across the city claimed at least two lives while all eyes – and a good portion of law enforcement – remained centered on the city's civil unrest.
While the police force has been built up in anticipation of city-wide protest-related violence, police spokesman Capt. Eric Kowalczyk indicated the extra forces helped authorities continue to respond to other, unrelated crimes across the city. Nonetheless, Jay Davis, who has worked at a local pawn shop since the 1990s, told The Baltimore Sun that authorities recommended businesses close up shop at 5 p.m. instead of waiting until the designated 10 p.m. curfew. Davis, who believes investments in the area are discouraged because of mismanagement by the city, said there was concern that, due to downtown rioting, law enforcement resources would be lacking if any incidents were to occur.
Regardless, Davis stays because of the people, and despite the history of violence, Davis said he has "a lot of faith" in the neighborhood.
Troy Evans, a 46-year-old Baltimore resident, said the city's everyday violence stems from both the police and the people themselves.
"It's all under one umbrella," Evans told the newspaper. "Half the kids, their parents are on drugs."
Children caught on camera stealing hair extensions
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(Mother's Day is just around the corner...)
NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (WSVN) -- North Miami Beach Police are searching for four children who were caught on camera stealing thousands of dollars worth of hair extensions from a beauty supply store.
Police said the robbers, three boys and one girl, walked into the beauty supply store, located near Northeast 163rd Street and 16th Avenue, Saturday.
Surveillance video showed the children heading to a back room and stuffing a book bag with $5,000 worth of hair extensions. After store manager Nur Uddin confronted them, one of the young robbers then flashed a gun. Uddin said once he saw the gun, he was not going to put up a fight. "No. I didn't want to do that. There's nothing [worth] more than a life," he said.
The gang of four were able to run off with the bag filled with pricey extensions and Capt. Richard Rand of the North Miami Beach Police Department said there is concern that the suspects will strike again. Police believe one of the children, who slipped into the back room and grabbed extensions, is the youngest and may be as young as 8 years old. "We have very good video. We are asking that the public come forward and help us," said Rand.
Uddin hopes tips flood in and that the four kids are caught and taught a lesson. "I can't believe it. That makes me scared."
If you have any information on this armed robbery, call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a reward.http://www.wsvn.com/story/28974823/children-caught-on-camera-stealing-hair-extensions
MSNBC: Hillary Clinton's Poll Numbers Are "Crushingly Bad" And "Terrible"
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Via Daily Caller:http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/05/msnbc-panel-hillarys-new-poll-numbers-are-terrible-crushingly-bad-video/
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El9OQCbZOys
The panel of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" tore into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's poll numbers in the wake of a series of scandals surrounding her use of private email and foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation, calling them "Nixonian" and "crushingly bad."
"You have a lot of Clinton supporters saying this is all much ado about nothing and we heard that her scrubbing her email server was much ado about nothing," Scarborough said. "Well, it is actually having an impact." (VIDEO: Krauthammer: Clintons 'Make Their Own Rules,' 'Take The Money Where They Can')
"The fact is, Hillary Clinton's approval rating stayed up around 66 percent ... and was 65 percent just two and a half years ago, her approval rating. Now it's 42 percent approve, 42 percent disapprove," he continued "It's quite a drop."
"The good number is 76 percent of Democrats still view her favorably," Bloomberg's John Heilemann said. "She is still on a glide path to be the Democratic nominee people in the party still support her, like her, trust her."
"And yet in the broader electorate, 25 percent, only 25 percent view her as honest and straight-forward. That is a crushingly bad number," he continued. "That is the kind of number you go do not get elected president with a number like that."
Obuma Regime Will Not Allow Iraqi Nun Into the Country
to Testify Regarding Persecution of Christians
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Ninety-nine percent of politics is smoke. Talking points aren't important. All that matters is who is on which side. Given the horrific genocide against Christians that Obama's appallingly irresponsible withdrawal of American troops from Iraq made possible, whose side do you suppose our government is on: Christians, or the maniacs beheading their children?
Here's the answer:
The U.S. government is blocking Sister Diana Momeka, an Iraqi nun who's also an internationally renowned speaker on religious freedom and human rights, from coming to the United States to speak about the persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
Sister Momeka is reportedly "a charismatic and articulate advocate for religious freedom and human rights." Former Congressman Frank Wolf states, "We had hoped to facilitate her trip to the States so that she could speak with great candor, as is her custom, to policymakers. Perhaps just as significantly, we viewed her as a critical voice to awaken the church in the West to the suffering of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq."
The State Department won't grant her a visa, though, because it claims she might be lying about only planning to visit. The government says she may actually intend to stay in the country.
This from the regime that just unconstitutionally granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, and that steadfastly refuses to defend the border or to enforce immigration laws except on a selective basis.(http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2020/4399/original.jpg?w=600&h)
Another group Obuma and the lunatic-left are very afraid of...
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Federal Government Cracks Down on Christmas Lights
http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-will-regulate-christmas-lights/
The best time to wage the War on Christmas isn't in December, when regular Americans have their defenses up. A better time is now, and the best way to do it is through faceless, unaccountable federal bureaucracies — for our own safety, of course:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a regulation for Christmas lights on Monday, deeming some holiday decorations a "substantial product hazard."
"The Consumer Product Safety Commission ... is issuing a final rule to specify that seasonal and decorative lighting products that do not contain any one of three readily observable characteristics (minimum wire size, sufficient strain relief, or overcurrent protection), as addressed in a voluntary standard, are deemed a substantial product hazard under the Consumer Product Safety Act ("CPSA")," the final rule said.
The ruling applies to a variety of Christmas decorations, including "stars, wreathes, candles without shades, light sculptures, blow-molded (plastic) figures, and animated figures."
However, "solar-powered products" are exempt.
They will probably also make exceptions for lights powered by windmills, and any holiday lights put up to honor Martin Luther King Day.
This is typical:
The rule is listed as a "voluntary standard." However, manufacturers and retailers can face civil and "possibly criminal penalties" for failing to report any products to the CPSC that do not meet the regulation's requirements.
Ours is the ultimate soft tyranny. When we get to the point where people are sent to gulags because their neighbors turned them in for celebrating Christmas, no doubt it will be voluntary, like paying taxes.
Democrats and Republicans will only make things worse in America - unless one likes tyranny. They're socialists who rule over us and look to rule over the world.
Minnesota Mosque Vandalized by Moslem
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Abdourahamane Diallo, Moslem Islamophobe
This appears to be a case of a sociopath behaving sociopathologically rather than a hate hoax. But if the culprit hadn't been caught, you know the crime would have been blamed on regular Americans.
From the federally created Somali colony formerly known as Minnesota:A St. Cloud man was arrested early Thursday after a report of vandalism at the Islamic Center of St. Cloud, in the 300 block of Fifth Avenue South.
Abdourahamane Diallo, 29, told officers he had vandalized the Islamic Center and a vehicle because he was frustrated and had lost an expensive phone earlier in the evening, according to a report from the St. Cloud Police Department.
Police were called to the site shortly before 5 a.m. They learned that the window in a door and a window in a nearby vehicle had been broken while several people were attending prayer inside the center. Witnesses chased Diallo from the building to the end of the block and were walking him back to the scene when police arrived, the report said.
Witnesses said Diallo broke the windows after spraying the side of the church with beer, according to the report.
Alcohol is considered unclean by Moslems. Beer is on the long list of items they would like to take away from us.
Diallo told officers he regularly attended prayer at the Islamic Center in the past.
Pamela Geller comments:
The vandalism took place this morning, and Diallo was arrested soon afterward. If he hadn't been, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that Hamas-CAIR would be trumpeting this as another "anti-Muslim hate crime." There are so few real ones that these snakes have to make them up — in their ongoing efforts to intimidate the kuffar into thinking that counter-terror measures are intolerable harassment of a community that is under siege from "Islamophobes." They want to use their victim status to get the counter-terror measures scrapped so that the jihad can go on unopposed.
Keep this in mind next time the media gets ahold of an unsolved vandalized mosque case and makes probably false assumptions about the culprits.
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog had to keep some of his jokes to himself, for example regarding the disgraced compulsive liar and NBC News figurehead Brian Williams. So he told them on Conan O'Brien's show:VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=58&v=LZfs8VyY07U
40% of Food Stamp Recipients Are Obese
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(Currency of the realm....)
Supposedly food stamps — by which the government forces some people to pay for other people's food — are a necessary evil, required to provide subsistence sustenance to those who are temporarily out of work.
Yet we read this:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture looked at data from 2007 through 2010, then compared average weights of those on food stamps — officially called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — to those who weren't. ...
Food stamp recipients are far more likely to be obese than poor people who are eligible but don't take the help. And they're even more likely to be obese than those with higher incomes.
Fully 40% of food stamp recipients are obese, the study found, compared with just over 30% of those who don't participate in the program.
Children of families on food stamps were also more likely to be obese than children in the other two groups, as were older adults.
Yet the government inflicts Michelle Obama's horrific lunches on public school students out of alleged concern that children might become obese if given edible food.
As for people starving if this bloated government program were sensibly abolished:
At the other end of the scale, there was almost no difference among these three groups in terms of the share who were underweight — all were in the low single digits.
This isn't the first time that this correlation has been found. The Washington Post noted a couple years ago that obesity rates in a Texas county where 40% were on food stamps was double the national average.
Turns out letting people buy their food at other people's expense causes them to eat more. Who would have guessed?
The amount of money flushed down the food stamp program has exploded under Obama's rule.
There is a technical term for the government using the money it confiscates to breed large blocs of voters who are fat, lazy, increasingly useless, and most importantly government dependent: social engineering.http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/07/06/14-million-more-on-food-stamps-under-obama/
Obuma Gives a Lesson
Pay attention now — class is in session:
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Creepazoid Countdown
Bruce Jenner might want to rethink being a Republican. If he goes through with a horrific sex change procedure, and Hillary is elected president despite her long record of corruption and incompetence, Jenner is sure to get an invitation to the White House:(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/clinton-jenner.jpg)
Obuma Blows Off Vets on VE Day 70th Anniversary
Today is Victory in Europe Day, the 70th Anniversary of the victory over Nazism:Hundreds of people, including many aging veterans, gathered Friday at the National World War II Memorial to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the conflict in Europe.
On the warm spring morning, they gathered in the plaza of the broad stone memorial, just west of the Washington Monument.
To the strains of bagpipes and big band music, they came in wheelchairs, with walkers and canes. Many wore badges marking their service during the long-ago war.
Obama couldn't make it. According to the official schedule, he is too busy making "remarks on trade" at Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon... and delivering a commencement address for the Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown, South Dakota... (which is his 58th State since taking office...)
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You would think that someone whose ability to serve as Commander in Chief has been seriously hampered by the intense distrust of those in the armed services would take this opportunity to reach out to them. After all, wasn't Hope & Change supposed to be all about healing divides? But Obama didn't even send his court jester Joke Biden, who as VP has as his main duty attending events that are not important enough for the POTUS.
He did send Susan Rice though. The far left UN Ambassador is best known for making the rounds of the news shows, telling outlandish lies on Obama's behalf about why he didn't lift a finger to help American troops being murdered by Islamic terrorists in Benghazi. People will decide for themselves whether this choice was yet another example of tone deafness on the part of Obama, or yet another stick in the eye of regular Americans.
Oh, and he also issued a White House letter. Whoever wrote it made sure to insert liberal rhetoric regarding "hate and intolerance," an offhand attempt to coopt World War II for Obama's cultural Marxist cause.
However, it is doubtful that the brave Americans who defeated the Nazis did it so that we could turn the country over to someone of Obama's mindset and caliber.
Here are some photos you'll never see in legacy media:
the Volt crash test that torched a whole series of cars
(Odd. I must have missed this report on ABC, NBC, CBS and in The New York Slimes):
Exclusive Photo: First Chevy Volts arrive at local dealers
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Car described as a fuel saver, but also a little pricey (and sometimes quite warm...)
I attended Wednesday's 8:00am (8am?!?) House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled:
Volt Vehicle Fire: What Did NHTSA Know And When Did They Know It?
The witnesses [included] National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), Barack Obama-appointee Administrator David Strickland... [and] General Motors (GM), Barack Obama-appointee CEO Dan Akerson.(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ACO-QhzO03Y/TyIDNIrW-YI/AAAAAAAAqNM/GUpUodcybNw/s1600/120126-volt-fire2.jpg)
...This hearing was all about a single June Volt blaze. The battery burst into flames about three weeks after a test crash at and by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).
A fire about which Obama's NHTSA did tell the Obama White House. But a fire about which neither Obama's NHTSA, the Obama Administration nor Obama's GM told the American people for nearly six months – and then did so only when forced by a looming Bloomberg news story.
...Joan Claybrook, a former administrator at NHTSA believes part of the reason for the delay was the "fragility of Volt sales." Yet she also believes that "NHTSA could have put out a consumer alert, not to tell them [customers] for six months makes no sense to me." ...For Obama, notifying Americans of their potential immolation-by-Volt is of less import than his keeping his gig past November.(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zPMBppBN8XE/TyIF7iaMpjI/AAAAAAAAqNY/c68M3vm3TYk/s400/120126-chevy-volt-fire.jpg)
The one NHTSA Volt fire discussed at the hearing was not the only NHTSA Volt fire that occurred. In November, there were two others. After conducting three different tests two weeks ago, the NHTSA found that the Volt's battery either caught fire or began to smoke in two out of the three.
So that's three Volt fires – all in the hands of the Obama Administration, all after crashes... There were [also] three other, private-owner Volt fires. None of which involved Volts that were in crashes.
...There was the Volt that in April burst into flames – twice. These were the fires that led to Obama's NHTSA beginning its investigation. And then in November another Volt leapt into flames. While Obama's NHTSA was still investigating – but after the NHTSA-Obama Administration-GM cover-up had come to light (get it?)...
...We still have no idea what caused these fires. The only thing we do know is that they were not caused by crashes – because these cars were never in crashes. So why did Obama's NHTSA, the Obama Administration and Obama's GM singularly focus on (but one of three) post-crash Volt fires ... [w]hen none of these three privately-owned combustible Volts had been in accidents?
We – still – don't know. Anything.
But don't worry: The Obama Administration has declared that the Obama-owned GM Chevy Volt is perfectly safe.
Baby Bear Circus Act on Golf Course - At Fairmont Hot Springs Resort, BC - A Must See
Pin Placement Is Everything, Even For Bears...
A group of them wandered onto a golf course in British Columbia on Tuesday and what ensued turned out to be golf-related Internet gold.
Golfers were able to get amateur video of a cub having a field day with a pin and flag on an unidentified green of the Mountainside Golf Course at the Fairmont Hot Springs Resort.
The video ended up being a highlight on ESPN.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMkWuXk11Uk
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Eat your heart out, Obuma
"Your" Car? Not So Much...
by eric • May 6, 2015 •
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The government wants to control your car – how it's made, what it comes equipped with and (of course) how you're allowed to drive it. Now comes the other half of the pincers:DMCA lead
The car companies want to prevent you from working on the thing.
Modifications – performance enhancements – and even routine maintenance are to become illegal via the application (and enforcement) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to cars.
They are claiming propriety rights to the software embedded in the computer – technically, the Electronic Control Unit or ECU – that pretty much runs a modern car. They claim – and you knew this was coming, right? – that saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety is threatened by people doing their own maintenance or tweaking/tuning as such might affect how the various saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety systems embedded in the car and controlled by the ECU operate.
A blind stroke victim ought to have seen this coming.
Cars, claim the car companies, are mobile computing devices – you know, like sail fawns – and so fall under the aegis of the DMCA.
Have a read @: http://ericpetersautos.com/2015/05/06/your-car-not-so-much/
This Knife is Made to EXPLODE Anything it Stabs
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Close-quarters combat just got a little more deadly with the introduction of this gas-injection knife. It allows you to inject compressed gasses into whatever you stab, effectively blowing it up.VIDEOS:
WASP Injection Knife -vs.- Watermelon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AbjC2k2df4
WASP Injection Knife -vs.- Ballistic Gel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2662129717&feature=iv&src_vid=-AbjC2k2df4&v=BMvpmGb0Fcs
Today is Victory in Europe Day, the 70th Anniversary of the Victory Over Nazism
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VIDEOS:
D-Day June 6, 1944: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=29&v=OwIcH6bJeCw
Surviving D-Day Omaha Beach 1944 - Full Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=29&v=_9dCkHg0fqw
News of the Future, Part Deux
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Emptying My Brain Pan
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In the old days, I recall my mother would occasionally have to empty the little pan under the ice box into which water would collect. With so many items winding up in my in-box, every so often I have to do a little emptying myself.
To begin with, I thought Charles Krauthammers's comment regarding the peddling of influence by the Clintons was well worth sharing: "If there isn't a shred of evidence that they accepted bribes in exchange for favors, it's because they shredded the evidence."
♦ The more I see of Bill and Hillary doing everything imaginable in pursuit of a few extra dollars, the more I find myself thinking of them as the Kardashians on steroids. As for Hillary's presidential aspirations, I think that the only people who would like to see her elected more than Bill and Chelsea are America's editorial cartoonists. With her snarky smile and her multitude of pantsuits, she is easily drawn, although some of us would prefer to see her drawn-and-quartered.
♦ Being a liberal can't be easy. First, you had to be embarrassed by all those University of Maryland college students trying and failing to identify a photo of Ronald Reagan. Then you got to watch Diane Sawyer trying to process Bruce Jenner's admission that he/she is a Christian conservative. I suspect that immediately after the interview, Ms. Sawyer took to her chaise lounge with a severe case of the vapors.
♦ Much has been made of the fact that Hollywood bubblehead Ben Affleck pulled strings to make sure nobody ever found out that one of his ancestors was a slave owner. If, God forbid, he had discovered that another had been a Republican, Ms. Sawyer would have had to shove over and make room for him.
♦ Not to be outdone in the loony sweepstakes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on his return from vacationing in Cuba, said he admired the Castros' handling of the media. When you're the governor of New York, it's not enough to want to see the Second Amendment abolished; you also have to express contempt for the First.
♦ Before Ferguson, MO, made anti-cop riots so popular in urban black communities, what did these louts do for amusement?
As we all noticed, in Baltimore, as in Ferguson, the thugs are given free rein to loot, burn and destroy, for at least 24 hours, even when the National Guard is standing by. We know that, under Obama, members of the military will never be called upon to fire a weapon in anger. Thanks to the wimps running our cities and states, apparently the same holds true for National Guardsmen. Our new national motto might as well be "No Matter What, No Boots on the Ground."
In spite of over 300 arrests in Baltimore, anyone who thinks the thugs will serve any real time for burning down neighborhood stores, thus destroying the dreams and lives of the small business owners in the community, must be puffing the magic dragon. In today's world, villainy isn't punished, it's more often rewarded. Those thugs won't even lose their welfare checks.
♦ During the riots, we kept hearing that the Crips and the Bloods had put their turf differences aside and agreed to a truce so that they could concentrate their efforts on putting cops in the hospital or the cemetery. My question is: how is it that those criminal enterprises are still in business?
After all, it was 45 years ago that the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act was passed. Over the decades, it has been used against organized crime to put any number of Mafia kingpins behind bars because it allows prosecutors to go after the guys who actually give the orders, not just the goombahs who carry them out.
But when do we ever hear that the government has gone after black and Hispanic gangs? Apparently, if you want to cause mischief and get away with it, the best way to go about it these days is to join a street gang, sneak across our border or convert to Islam.
♦ Furthermore, when I hear Obama or Mrs. Clinton explain away the Baltimore riots, I know that I am going to hear a call for more tax dollars to be tossed into the black community. When you consider how many trillions of our dollars have already been squandered on programs to assist people who show, by their contempt for education and their soaring rate of illegitimate births, that they have no real desire to break the shackles placed on them by Democrats, the notion of wasting even a single additional dollar makes me queasy.
♦ A great many people, I among them, was delighted to see the black woman whacking her teenage son upside his head when she spotted him huddling with the Baltimore troublemakers. But before anyone elects Toya Graham "Mother of the Year," we need to know if she's single as a result of divorce or widowhood. Otherwise, she's just another unmarried woman with six kids at home, which would mean she is part of the problem, not the solution.
Still, she is far more deserving of our respect than all the other adults, including Baltimore's mayor and city council members, who essentially stood by and made excuses for the young hooligans.
♦ But it does serve to remind me of all the people in America, mainly strangers, who do so much to make our lives slightly more bearable, in spite of the best efforts by politicians to make them far worse.
Those unsung heroes I have in mind are the fathers and mothers who do their best, in spite of impossible odds, to raise decent children; telephone employees who keep lines of communication open during natural disasters; the people who brave the elements to clear the roads while the snow and ice are still coming down; the life-savers who never seem more than a few minutes away when someone has a heart attack, finds himself involved in a highway collision or trapped in a burning building; and even plumbers, however much they charge, who manage to show up on Thanksgiving or Christmas, like Mighty Mouse, ready to save the day.
So if you happen to be any of these people, I know I speak for everyone else when I say: "Take a bow. You've earned it."
....BURT
The 100 Most Popular Conservative Websites Of 2015
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Two centuries ago, a somewhat obscure Scotsman named Tytler* made this profound observation: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy".
The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
Beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200
Years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
•From bondage to spiritual faith;
•From spiritual faith to great courage;
•From courage to liberty;
•From liberty to abundance;
•From abundance to complacency;
•From complacency to apathy;
•From apathy to dependence;
•From dependence back into bondage.
The Obituary follows:
"United States of America", Born 1776, Died 2016
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning The last Presidential election:
•Number of States won by: Obama: 19 Romney: 29
•Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 Romney: 2,427,000
•Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million Romney: 143 million
•Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 Romney: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Romney won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of Democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population Already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase..
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say Goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years .
*Tytler -There's some debate about whose profound observation this was, but for our purpose all that matters is that it still swims.
How Baltimore Proves That the Screeches of "Racism" Will Never End
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Marine's Vet's Beloved American Flag Vandalized by *Niger's
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Via Fox Insider:
http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/05/09/marine-vets-beloved-american-flag-drawn-vandals
The war on the American flag continues.
Retired Marine Marvin Hernandez Garcia mounted an American flag in front of his house, the same flag that he carried with him on duty across five continents.
One morning last week, the vet woke up to find his car smashed with the flag pole and the flag desecrated with a marker.
"The message that I would like to say is America is still the greatest country in the world," Hernandez Garcia said on "Fox and Friends Weekend." "It's not something that we are just brainwashed with. We are still the greatest country. We got problems. Everybody does."
"The flag represents freedom. When you step on the flag, you really are stepping on those veterans that have really fought for you. And everybody else, including your own parents, grandparents and great-grandparents and so forth," Hernandez Garcia said.*Niger, latin word for Black.
4 Blacks Arrested in murders of 2 Mississippi police officers during traffic stop
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Mississippi's governor says his state is in "mourning" Sunday after the shooting deaths of two police officers Saturday night during a traffic stop in Hattiesburg.
Officer Benjamin Deen, 34, had stopped a 2000 Gold Cadillac Escalade in an industrial part of the city at around 8:30 p.m. local time Saturday, said Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety. Officer Liquori Tate, 25, arrived afterward to assist him, shots were fired, and both officers were wounded.
Strain said both officers died of their injuries at a hospital. The officers' deaths are reportedly the first for the Hattiesburg police force in 30 years.
"This should remind us to thank all law enforcement for their unwavering service to protect and serve. May God keep them all in the hollow of his hand," Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said.
Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, said Marvin Banks, 29, and Joanie Calloway, 22, were each charged with two counts of capital murder. Banks was also charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and with grand theft for fleeing in the police cruiser after the shooting, Strain said.
"He absconded with a Hattiesburg police cruiser. He didn't get very far, three or four blocks and then he ditched that vehicle," Strain said.
Banks' 26-year-old brother, Curtis Banks, was charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of capital murder.
A fourth suspect, Cornelius Clark, 28, was charged with obstruction of justice.
Strain said officers arrested the three Hattiesburg residents at different locations overnight without resistance.
The Hattiesburg American reports that Curtis Banks was brought to the Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop J headquarters Sunday at around 3 a.m. local time. His brother Marvin Banks was arrested about two hours earlier.
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/crime/2015/05/10/suspects-fatal-hpd-shooting-identified/27077937/
The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported that as reporters were asking Curtis Banks if he had shot two of the Hattiesburg patrolmen, he blurted out "no sir, I didn't do it."
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/05/09/two-hattiesburg-police-officers-killed/27072893/
"All I know right now is that there was a traffic stop and someone started shooting at them and both of the officers were struck," Lt. Jon Traxler, a police department spokesman, said Saturday night. He said he didn't know how many shots were fired, or exactly by whom, adding that was now part of the investigation.
Traxler said the state's chief law enforcement agency, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, had taken up the probe of the shooting.
Local reports identified Deen as a past department "Officer of the Year," and Tate was a newcomer to the force who Strain said was a 2014 graduate of the law enforcement academy.
The last Hattiesburg police officer killed in the line of duty was Sgt. Jackie Dole Sherrill, who died on New Year's Eve in 1984, according to police department records. Sherrill, 33, was gunned down as she attempted to serve a warrant on a suspect.
The pain of the deaths hit particularly close to home for Erica Sherrill Owens, the daughter of Sherrill.
When she heard the news of the two officers, Sherrill Owens said, her first thought was that she hoped it was someone she didn't know.
"I know that sounds so selfish because you don't want to hear of any police officer losing their lives. Then when I heard one of the names, my heart just sank because I went to high school with him."
She was referring to Deen, who had graduated from Sumrall High School in 1998, one year ahead of Sherrill Owens.
"We were great friends in high school. He married his high school sweetheart and he's got two kids and a great family," she said. "It's just heartbreaking."
Tony Mozingo, a local judge, left red roses near the scene of the shooting.
"We all just are heartbroken because we know and work with these officers every day," said Mozingo, who was accompanied by his wife and two daughters. Deen was a "consummate law enforcement professional."
Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree told the Clarion-Ledger he lamented the deaths.
"The men and women who go out every day to protect us, the men and woman who go out every day to make sure that we're safe, they were turned on (Saturday) night," DuPree said outside Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, where the officers were taken.
DuPree said Sunday that both officers' lives aren't to be mourned, but celebrated, WDAM reports. Community events in honor of both men are being organized.
DuPree praised law enforcement and residents for coming together to find the suspects.
"We were able to catch these individuals and keep our promise to the officers' families with the public's help," he said.
Hattiesburg resident Tamika Mills was quoted by The Clarion-Ledger as saying some bystanders came upon the officers on the ground, and that one of the officers asked "... `Am I dying? I know I'm dying. Just hand me my walkie-talkie,"' Mills told the paper.
She added, according to the account, that seeing the officers down was "shocking and heartbreaking."
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And verily as he walked among the little people at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit at Georgetown, Obuma spoke unto them saying it is cynical to believe there will always be poverty.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/invest-urban-communities.jpg)
ObuttHead: "You-Y'know. One of the things I'm always concerned about is ... is ... is cynicism. My chief of staff, Denis McDonough, we take walks around the South Lawn ... uh ... usually when the weather is good. Um ... Aaaaand a lot of it is policy talk, sometimes it's just talk about values. And ... uh ... one of our favorite sayings is ... uh ... our job is to guard against cynicism ... eh ... particularly in this town. Aaaaand I think it's important when it comes to dealing with issues for us to guard against cynicism and ... and ... not ... uh ... buy the idea that the poor will always be with us and there's nothing we can do, because there's a lot we can do. The question is, do we have the political will ... uh ... the ... the communal will to do something about it."Huh...? I guess Jesus is a cynic.While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked. "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor." Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. [Matthew 26:6-11]Funny, you'd think Barack Insane Obuma, super Christian that he is, would have known that.
Then again, Obuma has more faith in Government than he has in God.(http://patriotretort.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/I-Guess-Jesus-is-a-Cynic.jpg)
This is the problem with Liberalism. They really truly do believe in Utopia. They really do believe that they can rid the world of poverty and disease if only we have the political will, the... uh... communal will to hand over more of our money and all of our freedom to government.
Call me a cynic, but that's nothing but a load of horse sh!t.
Here's the story of a man named Brady....
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There was an interesting headline over at Breitbart last night.
Clinton – 30 Days, 8 Press Questions; Fiorina – 8 Days, 322 Press Questions
Interesting, ain't it? Read on:Clinton — 30 Days, 8 Press Questions;
Fiorina — 8 Days, 322 Press Questions
by Alex Swoyer - 11 May 2015
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Washington, DC - Tuesday will mark exactly 30 days since Hillary Rodham Clinton launched her official presidential bid for the White House, yet she still hasn't done a formal sit down interview with national media, setting a record for the longest running presidential candidate without doing so following a campaign launch, as first reported by Breitbart News.
Unlike Clinton, GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has been on what CNN coined a "media blitz" introducing herself to voters.
"Carly has actually answered 322 questions since her announcement on Monday," said Anna Epstein, spokesperson for Fiorina. "In the last eight days, Carly has been interviewed almost 30 times and answered well over 300 questions."
Following Breitbart News' first report noting Clinton's record media silence, CNN reported, "Since her presidential campaign announcement on April 12, Clinton has not held a formal press conference. While on the campaign trail, she has responded – reluctantly at times – to roughly eight questions from journalists."
"Unlike Hillary Clinton, I am not afraid to answer questions about my track record or my accomplishments or my principles," said Fiorina.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/11/clinton-30-days-8-press-questions-fiorina-8-days-322-press-questions/
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Today marks the 30th day of Hillary Clinton's alleged Presidential Campaign, and yet, she still has not granted one single interview.
While the Enslaved Press chase after every Republican candidate in order to find out their positions on those significant things facing Americans today — like whether or not they'd attend a gay wedding — Hillary has glided along without being subjected to even the most puffy puff-piece, soft-ball interviews.
Now, it's not the entirely the Enslaved Press' fault. I'll admit that.
Hillary isn't making herself available.
I've said before that Hillary's campaign people seem to think they can market Hillary the same way the Obama campaign marketed that unknown, caramel-colored pseudo-rock star.
Problem is, Hillary is about as unknown as George W. Bush. She has a very storied track record and a very public life. She can't let voters superimpose whatever they want on her the way voters did with Obama.
And do not doubt for a moment just how terrified the Clinton camp is of the book Clinton Cash
I can guaran-damn-tee you they do not want Hillary doing interviews because they do not want to have her answer the probing questions about all that foreign money and all those shady deals.
This book is doing a hell of a lot of damage to Hillary Clinton, and trust me, her people know it.
Why do you think they're attacking Peter Schweizer?
The Clinton War Machine has one operating principle:
Deny, attack, and for the love of God, do NOT let Hillary speak.(http://patriotretort.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Silence-of-the-Cankles.jpg)
What's interesting about it all is that Hillary isn't doing herself any favors. By turning into the Greta Garbo of politics, she only makes herself look even more guilty.
While Jeb Bush tries to secure the Republican nomination without the benefit of Republican voters, Hillary is trying to secure the Democrat nomination without ever having to actually answer a single question.
And these two are the ones considered shoe-ins.
How pathetic is that?
Meanwhile, Lanny Davis went on C-SPAN to compare Peter Schweizer to Senator Joseph McCarthy.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/11/progressives-rally-to-clinton-cash-as-hillary-team-compares-author-to-joseph-mccarthy/
Okay, fine.
But, what Lanny fails to mention is, McCarthy was right. There were communist spies in the government.
The declassified Venona Papers confirmed it.
http://www.conservapedia.com/List_of_Americans_in_the_Venona_papers
So, if Schweizer is a modern-day McCarthy, that doesn't bode well for Hillary.
Which may explain why she won't give an interview.
Let's be honest here. Hillary Clinton is a dreadful politician. She is secretive, harsh, vindictive, with a sense of entitlement that would make Henry the VIII say, "Whoa! Nobody has that much divine right!"
Hillary Clinton really does believe that she owes us no explanation. She really does believe that she should be President whether we want her or not.
And the truth is, her support among the Enslaved Press is being eroded by her own unwillingness to grant them the same all-access pass they have come to expect after over six years of kissing Barack Obama's regal ring.
Hillary's arrogance will be her own undoing.
"I think I'm gonna be sick" Article of the Day
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When the gay couple are green, please cross:
Vienna traffic lights changed to feature same-sex couples as city prepares for Eurovision Song Contest
*Traffic lights programmed to show male or female gay couples with hearts
*The aim of the campaign is to present Vienna as an open-minded city
*Launched ahead of the city's hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest
*The competition has long been a fixture on the international gay calendarBy Sam Tonkin For Mailonline
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3076876/Gay-themed-traffic-lights-Vienna-mood-Eurovision-Song-Contest.html#ixzz3a0Co63lP Gay-themed traffic lights are getting Vienna in the mood to host the annual Eurovision Song Contest later this month - and the hope is they may even improve traffic safety.
Dozens of traffic lights in the centre of the Austrian captial have been programmed to show male or female gay couples with hearts - in red for stop and green for go - replacing the usual single, gender-neutral figure.
The campaign is intended to present Vienna as an open-minded city and also to improve traffic safety in the hope the unusual symbols will attract the attention of drivers and pedestrians, a spokesman for Vienna's city lighting department said.
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Dozens of traffic lights in the heart of Vienna have been programmed to show male or female gay couples with hearts (pictured) - in red for stop and green for go - replacing the usual single, gender-neutral figure
The city of Vienna will then collate data to see whether the campaign has indeed helped traffic safety, he added.
The Eurovision Song Contest, now in its 60th year, has long been a fixture on the international gay calendar.
Last year, bearded transvestite Conchita Wurst won the contest for Austria with the song Rise like a Phoenix and immediately became a global gay icon.
About 40 countries are taking part in the 2015 Eurovision contest and the final will be held on May 23.
Electro Velvet, made up of duo Alex Larke and Bianca Nicholas, will fly the flag for the UK in front of an estimated global audience of more than 180 million viewers.
They will be hoping to end a catalogue of disappointment for the British entry.
A lack of success in recent years saw former shop assistant Molly Smitten-Downes placing a lowly 17th, Bonnie Tyler finishing 19th and crooner Engelbert Humperdinck placing second to last.
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Safety improvements? The traffic light campaign (pictured) is intended to present Vienna as an open-minded city and also to improve traffic safety in the hope the unusual symbols will further attract people's attention
The UK also endured a string of failures in previous years with Javine Hylton, Andy Abraham, Jade Ewen and boyband Blue.
Electro Velvet's debut song was selected from hundreds of entries received by the BBC following an open selection process inviting anyone who wished to submit a song for consideration.
Vienna will also host a Life Ball charity event on May 16 to raise money for the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Hollywood actress Charlize Theron and French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier will be among the guests, along with Conchita.
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Sick-looking Bearded transvestite Conchita Wurst won the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest and immediately became a global sick-looking gay clown icon.
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Naked Anti-Gun State Senator Virgil Smith Blasts Away at Ex-Wife's Car With Shotgun in Detroit
http://bearingarms.com/anti-gun-democrat-lawmaker-blasts-girlfriends-car-shotgun/
No wonder Michigan State Senator Virgil Smith is such a staunch opponent of our right to bear arms. It could ruin everything to be filling an ex-wife's Mercedes with blasts from a shotgun and have her return fire while you are standing there naked in broad daylight.
The Detroit lawmaker accused of shooting at his ex-wife was naked at the time of the shooting, FOX 2 has learned. Sen. Virgil Smith is still in custody as police continue to investigate what lead up to the shooting over the weekend. Smith was arrested Sunday at his home on Wexford on Detroit's east side. According to a police report, the Senator was completely naked at the time of the shooting and fired multiple shots into his ex wife's Mercedes Benz after a fight around 1:00 a.m. She wasn't hurt but the bullets [sic; other reports say he used a shotgun] did hit her car. Detroit Police Chief James Craig said about ten rounds were found in the car. "In investigating, looking at the vehicle, it appears that the vehicle had, what appeared to be ten rounds fired into it, possibly," Craig said. Craig said the State Senator was cooperative and according to the report told police his actions were the most stupid thing he'd done in his life.
Well maybe. Other stupid things he has done include taking a antigun stance: Sen. Virgil Smith (D-MI) represents parts of Detroit, Dearborn and all of Allen Park. As a Democrat, it should come as no surprise that he is rated at 0% by the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Ownership. Smith has voted anti-gun since taking office in the House of Representatives back in 2003 to 2008, and now as a state senator. The NRA rated Smith "D" regarding his voting on gun rights, which translates to 21% overall.
If Smith hates guns so much, he should have stayed away from them. Don't feel bad, Baltimoreans. At least Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Marilyn Mosby manage to refrain from running around naked blasting cars with shotguns, so they may not be the most embarrassing government figures in the country after all.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/Michigan-State-Senator-Virgil-Smith.jpg)
Virgil Smith doesn't trust us with guns.
Twenty-Two Inconvenient Truths That Debunk the Global Warming Hoax
Eco-authoritarian Al Gore has his so-called inconvenient truth. Watts Up With That counters with 22 inconvenient truths, which are all the more inconvenient for oligarchical collectivists because they are actually true. Examples: • The Mean Global Temperature has been stable since 1997.
• 57% of the cumulative anthropic emissions since the beginning of the Industrial revolution have been emitted since 1997. We could stop right there. Those two alone debunk the hoax. But let's have a few more, even if it's overkill: • The amount of CO2 of the air from anthropic emissions is today no more than 6% of the total CO2 in the air.
• The lifetime of CO2 molecules in the atmosphere is about 5 years instead of the 100 years said by IPCC.
• In some geological periods the CO2 content of the air has been up to 20 times today's content, and there has been no runaway temperature increase!
• The maximum surface of the Antarctic ice-pack has been increasing every year since we have satellite observations.
• The trace gases absorb the radiation of the surface and radiate at the temperature of the air which is, at some height, most of the time slightly lower that of the surface. The trace-gases cannot "heat the surface", according to the second principle of thermodynamics which prohibits heat transfer from a cooler body to a warmer body.
• The temperatures have always driven the CO2 content of the air, never the reverse. Nowadays the net increment of the CO2 content of the air follows very closely the inter-tropical temperature anomaly.
• The forecasts of the "climate models" are diverging more and more from the observations.
• As said by IPCC in its TAR (2001) "we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible."
• Last but not least the IPCC is neither a scientific organization nor an independent organization: the summary for policy makers, the only part of the report read by international organizations, politicians and media is written under the very close supervision of the representative of the countries and of the non-governmental pressure groups. The governing body of the IPCC is made of a minority of scientists almost all of them promoters of the environmentalist ideology, and a majority of state representatives and of non-governmental green organizations. ***See All Twenty-Two Inconvenient Truths That Debunk the Global Warming Hoax at:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/12/22-very-inconvenient-climate-truths/ ***You can see why warmests resort to silencing dissent. Objective reality has never been a friend to socialists. Put all 22 inconvenient truths in your pipe and smoke them, Al. Don't worry about the carbon emissions; they obviously are not a problem. (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/GOREZILLA.jpg)
The Goracle reacts to the 22 inconvenient truths.
Barack Hussein "I Will Stand With the Muslims" Obama Releases Terrorist Who Killed American Soldier
Killing terrorists is a great idea, but capturing them has become largely a waste of time under Barack Hussein "I Will Stand With the Muslims" Obama. Effectively interrogating them is off limits; that is now deemed to be "torture," in support of enemy propaganda. As for keeping them locked up so that they can't kill any more Americans...
A terrorist is now free after serving only eight years of a 40-year sentence for killing a U.S. Delta Force medic in Afghanistan in 2002, thanks to a deal the Obama administration made with Canadian authorities. Omar Khadr was 15 when he threw a grenade that killed Sgt. 1st class Christopher Speer. After a military court found Khadr guilty, the Justice Department reduced his sentence to eight years, to be served in a Canadian facility, according to The Washington Times. Sgt. Lane Morris, who served alongside Speer and who lost an eye in the attack, told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren that the terrorist's release "all started with the Obama administration" in a deal made "behind the prosecutor's back."
Notes Max Abrahms, a terrorism expert at Northeastern University:
"The terrorism recidivism rate is quite high, particularly for Islamist terrorists. Indeed, a very large portion of the most senior Islamic State leadership was once behind bars. When you release from prison an Islamist terrorist, do not be surprised if he re-engages in terrorism."
But at least this is one Guantanamo alumnus Obama didn't trade for a deserter. Maybe next time Khadr is captured. (http://moonbattery.com/graphics/Omar-Khadr.jpg)
Khadr: all smiles.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/7/omar-khadr-terrorist-who-killed-army-medic-may-be-/#.VUuyNRLuECI.twitter
Gun-Grabber Feinstein: ISIS is Saying 'Kill, Kill, Kill' on Social Media
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(Feinstein is the true politician, playing BOTH sides of the issue... this is the female clown who supports Obama's appeasement policies with Iran... she sucks)
The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee said the United States should not underestimate the power of ISIS on social media.
"I think [their message] is 'kill, kill, kill,'" Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"It's a force that we really haven't seen before, and we have to begin to cope more seriously with it, and that includes social media."
Feinstein said a trend is emerging in which ISIS leaders encourage sympathizers around the world to carry out attacks for which the group takes credit.
"It is putting that lone wolf [attacker] in a position that they have never been in before: 'You do it, we'll take credit for it,'" she said.
She also encouraged law enforcement to ask for more funding from President Obama and Congress if they need it to combat the group's powerful recruitment campaign online.
"This is a matter of prime defense of the homeland, and it would come first," she said.
Meanwhile, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Michael Leiter, said authorities have a "hugely difficult" challenge in monitoring ISIS on social media.
"Today, it is probably the single thing they are watching more than anything else," he said.
"What we should be doing is enabling moderate Muslims around the world to counter this message."
LOL...: King Of Bahrain Skips POS Obuma Meeting For Horse Show
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(The Horse Show vastly better than Obuma's horsesh!t...)
Via Politico:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/bahrain-king-skips-obama-meeting-horse-show-117899.html#ixzz3a3EYLIIQ
The king of Bahrain has apparently snubbed President Barack Obama to attend a horse show with Queen Elizabeth.
According to Reuters, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa has elected to attend the Royal Windsor Horse Show, which begins Wednesday, at Windsor Castle outside London.
Obama had invited the leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations — Bahrain, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — to discuss regional security and other issues at a Camp David summit this week.
But Saudi King Salman announced Sunday that he would send a surrogate instead of attending himself, joining the leaders of the UAE and Oman, who have cited health concerns in their decisions not to attend. The Bahraini king's decision not to attend was reported earlier this week, though his trip to the United Kingdom was first announced Wednesday.
ISIS Second-In-Command Killed By U.S. Airstrike,
Obuma Regime Won't Take Credit Because He Was
Bombed While In A Mosque
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(No victory lap for ObuttHead today....)
Via BBC:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32726646
The second-in-command of Islamic State (IS) has been killed in a US-led coalition air strike in northern Iraq, the Iraqi ministry of defence says.
Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed, also known as Abu Alaa al-Afari, was at a mosque near Tal Afar that was targeted, spokesman Brig-Gen Tahsin Ibrahim said.
However, the US military later denied coalition planes had attacked a mosque.
In recent weeks, there were unconfirmed reports that Afari had taken temporary charge of IS operations.
Iraqi sources claimed IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been incapacitated as a result of an air strike in Iraq in March.
Gen Ibrahim told the BBC that Afari was killed alongside dozens of militants who he had been meeting at the al-Shuhada (Martyrs) mosque in the village of al-Iyadhiya, near Tal Afar, where he was reportedly a well-known preacher.
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Watch: Here's A Real Navy SEAL Watching And Critiquing An ISIS "Navy SEAL" Video
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjj2n1fHXQs
Via IJ Review:The most recent development in the ISIS propaganda war is a highly stylized video showcasing the skills of their newly minted 'Navy SEALS' force. In the video, ISIS Navy SEALs swim doggie style downstream, do karate and carry sharp knives in their mouths. Very intimidating stuff.
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Nutty Article Of The Day
No Joke: Arizona State Univ. Students Say "Walk-Only Zones"
Are A "Microaggression" Against Disabled People
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(Are you kidding. When I was in college worrying about "microaggressions" or any other form of liberal PC nonsense was the last thing on my mind. Getting drunk and making sure I passed my classes took up 99% of my time...)
Via Campus Reform
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6504
Arizona State University students are petitioning the university to change the name of its pedestrian walkways as its current name—Walk-Only Zones—might be a "microaggression" and "offensive" to people who cannot walk.
The public university enforces these Walk-Only Zones on its Tempe, Ariz., campus during the weekdays in certain areas around campus in order to "enhance pedestrian safety" and "ease vehicle congestion," according to the university's website. During the enforcement period, during which students are paid to patrol, wheeled vehicles (including bicycles, delivery vans, landscaping vehicles, golf carts, scooters, Segways, skateboards, etc.) are banned from the area.
These kids don't have enough to do. ADA took care of this long ago.Wheel chairs of all kinds, knee scooters and motorized scooters used by the disabled are exempt from this by law. Same thing for service dogs. They are not restricted anywhere.
Quote from Diane:
Now I'm going to make a statement and I don't care if certain self important judgmental people like it or not.That North East corridor is by far the busiest railroad in the entire US. Allowing it to have areas that haven't been updated and upgraded for many years due to lack of funding and help from Congress is such a travesty, it borders on criminal.That curve could and should have been straightened out a very long time ago. I'm just glad we haven't had more serious incidents before this and it was lucky so few died.. It will be interesting to see what the final report has to say.
What a shame. The bodies from the Amtrak crash aren't even in the ground yet but the Liberal Democrats are already screaming, "Throw more money at an ( already) bloated, incompetent govt. bureaucracy. Money fixes everything "
Maybe that curve would be OK if you didn't try to take it at 100+ MPH.
Quote from: jarhead on May 14, 2015, 08:52:52 PM
What a shame. The bodies from the Amtrak crash aren't even in the ground yet but the Liberal Democrats are already screaming, "Throw more money at an ( already) bloated, incompetent govt. bureaucracy. Money fixes everything "
Maybe that curve would be OK if you didn't try to take it at 100+ MPH.
Good Common Sense, huh jarhead?
Teens Rally After South Carolina High School
Bans
American Flag in Parking Lot
A teenager from a South Carolina high school is rallying his fellow students after school administrators banned the American flag he was flying from his truck in the school parking lot.
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Peyton Robinson of York Comprehensive High School was shocked to learn that the school administration was banning the large U.S. and POW flags he was flying from his pickup truck and in response to the banning he called for his fellow students to support his right to flay Old Glory despite the school's rules.
As to why the flags were banned, the administrators claimed that the flags were a "safety concern."
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But he posted a Facebook post that complained about the decision.
I've been told by 2 administrators at my school this morning that I can't have an American Flag on my truck because other people have complained about it. Well let me tell you something, I have every right to fly an American flag. It will not be coming off of my truck. This really pisses me off. I ask that everyone that sees this post that attends York Comprehinsive flys an American flag of some sort on whatever they may drive to school tomorrow to prove a point. I will not let this go down without a fight. "#America #fightforourright
The teen also told the media, "I've had family in the military and I have had friends who have had family members that didn't come home," Robinson told NBC Charlotte of the reason why he flies the flag. "School says they want us to have American pride, let us fly our flags."
There is a video at: http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/teens-rally-after-south-carolina-high-school-bans-american-flag-in-parking-lot/
Next Door to York Comprehensive High School
which is in York County
is
POLICE STATE, USASHERIFF'S DEPUTIES TEAM WITH
MILITARY FOR SPECIAL-OPS EXERCISES
Residents advised to ignore 'sounds of gunfire,' vehicles in streetsPublished: 11 hours ago. Updated: 05/14/2015 at 2:31 PM
A joint exercise of Fort Bragg special operations troops and sheriff's deputies in Richland County, South Carolina that's due to wrap Friday has set the Internet on fire, with bloggers and watchdogs – already upset with the looming Jade Helm 15 military training mission set for seven states this summer – decrying what they perceive as a Posse Comitatus violation.
The Posse Comitatus Act was passed in 1878 to limit the federal government from using U.S. military forces to enforce laws against American citizens. As one blogger at D.C. Clothesline wrote, though: Many are concerned recent and upcoming military training exercises that pair the federal forces with civilian police officers are treading dangerously close to that Posse Comitatus line.
"The fact that the police and military are engaging in joint drill exercises in violation of Posse Comitatus and a long-standing American tradition of separation between domestic policing and military activity is concerning," the blogger wrote.
The comments come in context of discussing a Fort Bragg-initiated special forces training with Richland County civilian law enforcement officials that began a week ago.
WLTX described the training this way: "Military and sheriff's department vehicles will be traveling in the Lower Richland County community near Eastover and Hopkins ... The sheriff's department says people in those areas may also hear ordinance being set off or shots being fired. They say those will be simulations or blanks and do not pose a risk to the community."
"Police State USA: How Orwell's Nightmare Is Becoming Our Reality" chronicles how America has arrived at the point of being a de facto police state, and what led to an out-of-control government that increasingly ignores the Constitution.
WLTX also reported the sheriff's department Special Response Team was tasked to partner with the 3rd Special Forces Group from Fort Bragg to stage simulated scenarios for the military. But Infowars reported a more startling scene.
In a report filed earlier this week, Infowars said: "Special forces out of Fort Bragg are training with SWAT officers in Richland County, South Carolina, this week for house-to-house raids, another unnerving sign of the militarization of domestic law enforcement. The late night and pre-dawn exercises ... have been running since May 8."
Infowars also posted a video from YouTube that claimed to be images of special forces conducting night raids in civilian spots in the county.
The Fort Bragg operation comes as social media posters are fueling fires about the upcoming Jade Helm, a special forces operation involving all four branches of the military, the FBI and DEA and various local law enforcement agencies in seven different states. Texas, Utah and portions of California have been deemed "hostile" zones for the purposes of this two-month training operation, set for this summer. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in response to numerous citizen complaints, has alerted the state's national guard to watch over the training and make sure nothing nefarious or unconstitutional occurs.
Some of Jade Helm's sharpest critics say it's a backdoor attempt to acclimate the American people for a federal declaration of martial law. Jade Helm operational authorities, meanwhile, have held several town hall and local meetings to calm the fears and inform officials: We're just conducting necessary military training in urban areas to prepare our troops for overseas operations.
The Richland County-Fort Bragg joint training exercise was held last year, also. Then, Sheriff Leon Lott said that operation was crucial to helping deputies prepare for tragic situations that could occur in Columbia, the Associated Press reported.
Meanwhile, another video that's recently surfaced shows a U.S. Marine training operation in Arizona from a month ago of troops chasing citizens inside a mock internment camp.
Infowars reported the exercise took place in Yuma, and involved Marines with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.
Two Video at http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/sheriffs-deputies-team-with-military-for-special-ops-exercises/#S4b1XHmfgtMu5f6Z.99
10 Pictures That Show How America Is Becoming A Lot Like Nazi Germany
By Michael Snyder, on May 14th, 2015
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The history books tell us about how evil and wicked the Nazis were, so why aren't we more alarmed that the United States is becoming more like Nazi Germany with each passing day? More than three years ago, I wrote an article entitled "25 Signs That America Is Rapidly Becoming More Like Nazi Germany" which got a ton of attention. Unfortunately, nothing has gotten better since I first published that piece. Government control freaks are still watching us, tracking us, recording our phone calls and monitoring our emails. TSA thugs at our airports are still fondling the private parts of our women and children and laughing while they do it. Our police and our military are still training for civil unrest and martial law in America. And even though our politicians are socializing our economy and destroying our constitutional freedoms, the American people keep sending most of them back to Washington time after time. It is an incredibly sad thing to watch the country that you love slowly die right in front of your eyes.
At the heart of Nazism was a desire to control everyone and everything, and that is exactly what we are seeing in America today. Most of our "leaders" are psychotic control freaks that want to micromanage every aspect of our lives. For example, a bill that was just introduced in Congress would force all children in public schools nationwide to be vaccinated with no exceptions whatsoever. Other new legislation that was just introduced would ban all sales of ammunition over the Internet and require ammo dealers to report all bulk sales to individuals to the government. Our founders intended for this nation to be a place where individual freedom and liberty were maximized, but today we literally have millions of laws, rules and regulations that wrap us so tightly in red tape that we can hardly breathe.To say that we are becoming just like the Nazis is a very strong statement, but I think that after reviewing the evidence you will agree with me. The following are 10 pictures that show how America is becoming just like Nazi Germany...#1 - It surprises most people to learn that the Nazis were actually radical leftists that had great animosity for free market capitalism. For example, National Socialist theologian Gregor Strasser once made the following statement...We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies,
of the present capitalist system with its exploitation
of the economically weak ... and we are resolved
under all circumstances to destroy this system.
With that in mind, I want you to check out the following political cartoon from 1934. The same kinds of things that helped the communists rise to power in Russia and the Nazis rise to power in Germany are happening in the United States today...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Chicago-Tribune-Cartoon-1934-460x460.jpg)
#2 - Just like in Nazi Germany, political leaders in America tend to foster cult followings. At this point, there are millions of Americans that would support Barack Obama and believe whatever he had to say even if he was sacrificing children on the White House lawn. These kinds of followers are called "sheeple" for a reason...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Obama-And-His-Sheep-from-Facebook-460x460.jpg)
#3 - The Nazis were well known for their brutal police tactics, and that is definitely true of us today. The following photo is a powerful commentary on the transformation of police in America over the past several decades...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Police-State-2014.png)
Just recently, representatives from 117 countries confronted the U.S. about all of this police brutality at the United Nations' Human Rights Council. Unfortunately, I don't think that this is actually going to change anything...The United States was slammed over its rights record Monday at the United Nations' Human Rights Council, with member nations criticizing the country for police violence and racial discrimination, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility and the continued use of the death penalty.
The issue of racism and police brutality dominated the discussion on Monday during the country's second universal periodic review (UPR). Country after country recommended that the U.S. strengthen legislation and expand training to eliminate racism and excessive use of force by law enforcement.
#4 - Why do so many of our police insist on dressing up like Darth Vader these days? Yes, I know that body armor is called for in certain situations, but many believe that the primary goal of these outfits is to intimidate. The following photo was submitted to Flickr by Elvert Barnes...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Police-Dressed-Up-Like-Darth-Vader-Photo-from-Elvert-Barnes-on-Flickr-460x237.jpg)
#5 - In recent years, the American people have become conditioned to seeing troops in our streets. This next picture is from the Ferguson protests. The fact that sharpshooters were deployed on rooftops during the unrest there is more than a little disconcerting...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Police-sharpshooter-with-weapon-trained-in-the-direction-of-the-camera-at-protests-in-Ferguson-Photo-by-Jamelle-Bouie-460x305.jpg)
#6 - Just like in Ferguson, when rioting started in Baltimore the police were initially ordered to stand down and allow it to spiral out of control. Then after a few hours, National Guard troops were finally deployed to help restore order. We are slowly getting used to the idea that martial law in our cities is a good thing...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Maryland_National_Guard-photo-from-Maryland-National-Guard-460x308.jpg)
#7 - Meanwhile, "progressives" continue to use our system of public education to launch a relentless attack on the values that this country was founded upon. The Nazis were also big believers in "public education", and they used it with shocking efficiency. Today, our children are being brainwashed to accept "progressive values", and most Americans don't seem to be too concerned about what is happening...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/4-Guns-And-Bible-460x460.jpg)
#8 - Yes, the Nazis loved gun control. In fact, they eventually had everyone in the general population turn in their guns, and that is precisely what the "progressives" would love to see take place in the U.S. today. But what would this country look like if that actually happened? I think that this next photo which has been circulating on Facebook gives us a clue...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/8-Turn-In-Your-Arms-460x345.jpg)
#9 - Under the Nazis, the Germans were taught to salute a new flag and to adopt an entirely new set of values. In America today, it is not "politically correct" to display the American flag publicly or to show honor for it. Instead, we are being trained to think of ourselves as "global citizens" and to never question the growing power of international institutions such as the United Nations. Fortunately, there are many Americans that never plan to accept the "global governance" that the elitists have planned...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/6-I-Never-Pledged-Allegiance-To-This-Flag-460x423.jpg)
#10 - In the end, the reason why the Nazis were so successful in Germany was because the vast majority of the German population simply complied with their demands. As Americans, we are going to be faced with our own choices in the years ahead...(http://endoftheamericandream.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2-Eagle-Rising.jpg)
So what do you think?
Is America becoming more like Nazi Germany?
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Crazy Liberal Calls for Death Penalty for Eating Meat and Dairy Products
(Normally liberals oppose the death penalty with self-righteous vehemence. But they are willing to make exceptions for those who are truly undeserving of life. Inconvenient unborn babies are one example. People who eat a normal human diet including meat and/or dairy products are another... the only reason you are still alive is that nut cases like this don't have the political leverage to kill you yet...
LIBERAL LANGUAGE ALERT):
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIRRI6IWWMI
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Homosexuals Sue Airline Because Their Excrement-Covered Sex Toy Poked Out of Their Overstuffed Bag
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The way to get ahead in a society run by stupid people is to be oppressed, which is easy to manage if you are homosexual. For example, you can overstuff your travel bag so that an excrement-befouled anal sex implement sticks out, then sue the airline because you find it embarrassing. No I'm not kidding:
Christopher Bridgeman and his husband [you read that correctly], Martin Borger, have sued United Airlines saying an employee intentionally maneuvered their duffle bag to expose a fecal covered sex toy. The purple sex toy was exposed as it traveled on an airport carousel in Virginia.
Intentionally maneuvered it? No one makes plastic gloves that thick. You might hope that even under our First Gay President, a case like this would get laughed out of court. It did.
However,:
The judge dismissed the case in 2012 but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated the case in 2013.
Obuma must be making plenty of judicial appointments. The persons of politically exalted sexual deviancy are suing for "invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.":
They were humiliated when the purple sex toy soiled with fecal matter could be seen at the baggage claim at the Norfolk International Airport. The petition alleges the men have suffered anxiety and paranoia, sleeping problems, and have had weight fluctuation.
Who knows how much of someone else's money all that suffering is worth? Prepare to pay more for airline tickets. Here's what I don't get. Homosexuals are always shrieking about the "pride" they take in the revolting sexual activities they use to define themselves. So why are they embarrassed? (http://moonbattery.com/graphics/obama-first-gay-president-newsweek.jpg)
(Our sainted First Gay President.... The first Gay, Black and Muslim president [who has a transgender wife?)] That's four protected elite minorities there. No wonder ObuttHead is untouchable...)
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Breaking: Several News Media Big Wigs Listed As "Notable Past Members Of Clinton Global Initiative", Including Stephanopolous
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(Lucy! Better be a whole lot of 'splaining going on.
Check all the names, including):
CNN Christiane Amanpour, Anderson Cooper
NY Times Thomas Friedman, Nicholas Kristof
CNBC Anchor Maria Bartiromo
CBS Katie Couric
NBC Tom Brokaw, Matt Lauer
ABC George Stephanopolous
Fox Greta Van Susteren
PBS Judy Woodruff
Newsweek Fareed Zakaria
(If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas. The big disappontment here is seeing Greta Van Susterans name on this list. Contributing to the political elitist class status of Bubba Clinton is dispicable...Here's another question. Will the media people who are
present members of the CGI stand up and declare themselves?
Where is that list? Got it right here... read and weep):
NBC Universal, News Corporation, Turner Broadcasting and Thomson Reuters are among more than a dozen media organizations that have made charitable contributions to the Clinton Foundation in recent years, the foundation's records show.
The donations, which range from the low-thousands to the millions, provide a picture of the media industry's ties to the Clinton Foundation at a time when one of its most notable personalities, George Stephanopoulos, is under scrutiny for his previously undisclosed $75,000 contribution.
The list also includes mass media groups like Comcast, Time Warner and Viacom, as well a few notable individuals, including Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecom magnate and largest shareholder of The New York Times Company, and James Murdoch, the chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox. Both Slim and Murdoch have given between $1 million to $5 million, respectively.
Judy Woodruff, the co-anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, gave $250 to the foundation's "Clinton Haiti Relief Fund" in 2010.
The following list includes news media organizations that have donated to the foundation, as well as other media networks, companies, foundations or individuals that have donated. It is organized by the size of the contribution:>$1,000,000-$5,000,000
Carlos Slim
Chairman & CEO of Telmex, largest New York Times shareholder
James Murdoch
Chief Operating Officer of 21st Century Fox
Newsmax Media
Florida-based conservative media network
Thomson Reuters
Owner of the Reuters news service
>$500,00-$1,000,000
Google
News Corporation Foundation
Philanthropic arm of former Fox News parent company
>$250,000-$500,000
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher
Richard Mellon Scaife
Owner of Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
>$100,000-$250,000
Abigail Disney
Documentary filmmaker
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Howard Stringer
Former CBS, CBS News and Sony executive
Intermountain West Communications Company
Local television affiliate owner (formerly Sunbelt Communications)
>$50,000-$100,000
Bloomberg L.P.
Discovery Communications Inc.
George Stephanopoulos
ABC News chief anchor and chief political correspondent
Mort Zuckerman
Owner of New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report
Time Warner Inc.
Owner of CNN parent company Turner Broadcasting
>$25,000-$50,000
AOL
HBO
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Presenters of the Golden Globe Awards
Viacom
>$10,000-$25,000
Knight Foundation
Non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting journalism
Public Radio International
Turner Broadcasting
Parent company of CNN
Twitter
>$5,000-$10,000
Comcast
Parent copmany of NBCUniversal
NBC Universal
Parent company of NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC
Public Broadcasting Service
>$1,000-$5,000
Robert Allbritton
Owner of POLITICO parent company Capitol News Group
>$250-$1,000
AOL Huffington Post Media Group
Hearst Corporation
Judy Woodruff
PBS Newshour co-anchor and managing editor
The Washington Post Company
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/clinton-foundation-donors-include-dozens-of-media-207228.html(The Clinton Foundation is notoriously known to be a money laundering organization. Millions of Haitian money have disappeared. And the majority of money funneled into their organization is spent on SALARIES, not relief benefits or charitable causes.... that is, by the time the Clintons are done with the donations, not much money left for the little-people... we are in a train wreck right now if you haven't noticed, people....)
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When I see what the Clintons have been up to, I am reminded that the most addictive drug in the world isn't heroin or cocaine, it's greed.
When asked if the Clinton Foundation would continue collecting contributions (aka bribes) while Hillary was campaigning, he said, "Oh sure, I have to keep paying our bills." Inasmuch as neither of them has had to pay for airfare, meals, hotels or even security for the past 14 years, I'm not sure what bills he has in mind, unless, of course, with Monica Lewinsky no longer on call, he's now actually having to pay hookers.
Clinton said he had checked with Hillary about any possible improprieties, and she had assured him that everything was on the up-and-up. That certainly put my suspicions to rest.
Clinton also explained that there was nothing unseemly about foreign countries, companies and individuals, paying him upwards of $500,000 for a speech because, after all, he often has to devote as much as two hours to research. The fact that nobody really believes he writes his own material is beside the point. That he would utter such claptrap proves just how out of touch this schmuck is with reality.
You would have thought that the amount of ridicule that rained down on Hillary when she claimed they were flat broke in 2001, somehow overlooking the $20 million in book deals waiting for them to turn off the lights in the Lincoln bedroom, would have given him pause. I realize it verges on heresy, but just maybe these two are not the sharpest knives in the drawer. Or perhaps they simply share Jonathan Gruber's contempt for the American voter, a contempt, I hasten to add, that is much deserved, considering that twice in the past seven years the lunkheads elected the Creature from the Black Lagoon.(http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=JN.Gm/axKKDMKsIht1SFO%2bVDQ&w=300&h=300&c=0&pid=1.9&rs=0&p=0&r=0)
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I, Mike Huckabee, pledge allegiance to God, the Constitution, and the citizens of the United States:
* I will adhere to the Constitution of the United States.
* I will oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes.
* I will advocate for a complete overhaul of our tax system. This means passing the FairTax and abolishing the IRS.
* I will support a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution.
* I will now, and will for the duration of my presidency, promote and sign all measures leading to Obamacare's defunding, deauthorization, and repeal.
* I will oppose amnesty and government benefits for illegal immigrants who violated our laws, repeal President Obama's unconstitutional executive orders, and secure our borders.
* I will stand for the sanctity of all human life from the moment of conception until the grave. Taking this unequivocal stand includes fighting to defund Planned Parenthood.
* I will stand for the Institution of Marriage and vigorously oppose any redefinition.
* I will defend our 2nd Amendment rights and oppose gun control legislation.
* I will fight for the United States military to be the most feared, respected, and capable fighting force the world has ever known. I will restore our military infrastructure after years of abuse and neglect.
* I will stand with our friend and ally Israel in our shared fight against Radical Islam.
* I will do everything in my power to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear capability.
* I will end the national disgrace of failing to properly care for our veterans.
* I will protect Social Security and Medicare and never rob seniors of the benefits they were promised and forced to pay for.
* I will fight to kill Common Core and restore common sense. Education is a family function - not a federal function.
* I will support the elevation of none but faithful constitutionalists as judges or justices. They must be committed to restraint and applying the original meaning of the Constitution, not legislating from the bench.
* I will fight for term limits for members of Congress and judges.
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Intellectual Froglegs: The Camel Repairman Only Knocks Once
Intellectual Froglegs just keeps getting better. This time Joe Dan features:
•Mr. T playing Michelle Obama in The Camel Repairman Only Knocks Once — recommended for those who didn't get enough macho feminism from the new Mad Max;
•A Cinco de Mayo message from Señor Yeb Booeesh;
•The observation that an atheist is like a colorblind person looking at a rainbow (you could say the same for a Demo Liberal looking at traditional America);
•A look at the victims of Baltimore (which include 200 businesses) and the heroes of Garland;
•An update on how the Bitter Half's hashtag #BringBackOurGirls worked out for the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram;
•A partial list of murders committed on US soil in the name of Allah on Obama's watch;
•A reminder to update your Newspeak dictionary now that "thug" is forbidden because liberals believe it to mean the exact same thing as the untypable N-word.
Push Play for all that and more, all in one Video: VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8jaVBW3_ik
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P.S. - Astronaut NASA Commander Chris Hadfield - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hadfield
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VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
David Bowie- 'Space Oddity' Original Video (1969) "Ground Control to Major Tom"
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o
(1972) VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAsnv8f_lbM
Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo62S0ulqhA
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Denzel Washington Commencement Address Reveals His Shocking Secret to Success...:
....which dumbfounded the many liberal student in attendance.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=126&v=GmSjLPUPvWA
Obama Announces "Gay Day" Observance
He And Michelle Will Be Celebrating
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Bathhouse Barry Obama issued a statement on Saturday indicating that he and his partner would be commemorating an International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on Sunday. It's probably not an accident that he chose the traditional Christian day of worship for his celebration of sodomy. He could have announced it on a week day but that wouldn't have had the symbolism. Friday was an option, the Muslim day of worship, that he also chose to forego.
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Aren't business owners considered community leaders just because they own a business?
Well, I don't think so. They are just people like you and me.
They get frustrated just like you and me.
Here is a prime example.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXStore Owner Posts Signs Saying He Is Leaving Town
Because Residents Are
'Homeless Bums, Lowlifes and Retards'
Bob Fyfe of Lawrence, Kansas has posted signs in the parking lot of his furniture store attacking the town and its residents
The main sign reads; 'Lawrence: Commie and Candy Ass Capitol of Kansas. Goodbye Obamaville'
The people of Lawrence are called everything from 'retards' and 'lowlifes' to 'homeless bums' and 'Marxist zombies'
Fyfe said of the signs; 'There's things that you can't say that are really harmless words. They're just words'
Some residents have begin protesting outside his store calling Fyfe a 'worthless bigot'
By CHRIS SPARGO FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:13 EST, 19 May 2015 | UPDATED: 17:12 EST, 19 May 2015
A Kansas furniture store owner is closing up shop and leaving town, but not before he tells other residents what he thinks about them.
Bob Fyfe, the owner of Payless Furniture in Lawrence, has polarized the community by posting signs on a large truck in his store parking lot that attack the town.
The main sign reads; 'Lawrence: Commie and Candy Ass Capitol [sic] of Kansas. Goodbye Obamaville.'
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Speaking his mind: Bob Fyfe (above) of Lawrence, Kansas has posted signs in the parking lot of his furniture store attacking the town and its residents
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Go big: The main sign reads; 'Lawrence: Commie and Candy Ass Capitol [ sic ] of Kansas. Goodbye Obamaville' (above)
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Attack: As for the people of Lawrence, they are called everything from 'retards' and 'lowlifes' to 'homeless bums' and 'Marxist zombies' (above)
Other signs go after the residents of the town, and their support of President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, a man that Fyfe calls a 'liar, lawbreaker, hardcore Marxist dictator, pro-Muslim, anti-Jew, anti-Christian race divider.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3087995/Kansas-furniture-store-owner-posts-signs-announcing-leaving-town-residents-homeless-bums-lowlifes-retards.html#ixzz3ajsiybTV
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No surprise there about Lawrence, Kansas. The man has the courage to stand even though socialism is the most popular direction of people in Lawrence and in America. Whether it's Obama or the Republicans, they're all socialists.
Thanks for posting.
Daffy Duck's comment about the 61% of stupid people in Lawrence, KS. that voted for Hussein ObuttHead:
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Texas has a new
license plate
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https://twitter.com/TexasSenateGOP/status/601532430692941824/photo/1
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...don't you wish!
Some things can't be staged:
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Compare that to this:
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The main reason the Islamic State is on the rise is that
liberal America traded away
its Commander in Chief for an entitled punk.
Permanent Memorial to Dead Sociopathic Thug
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At least these black nut-cases have a sense of humor. Check out the memorial plaque they prepared for a vicious sociopathic thug who had just finished the strong-arm robbery of a convenience store when he forced a police officer to shoot him in self-defense: Idiot Michael Brown Sr. reveals plaque that will be placed in street for a permanent memorial
http://fox2now.com/2015/05/20/ferguson-paving-project-may-impact-michael-brown-memorial/The permanent memorial is meant to replace a pile of trash in the middle of the road, which was appropriate, especially considering that Brown's fateful confrontation with the police occurred because he was walking... high on drugs and with stolen merchandise... down the middle of the road. How permanent the memorial actually proves to be depends on how long it takes for one of Brown's colleagues to pry it lose and try to sell it for drug money. There is no chance of a culture that regards Michael Brown as a hero standing on its own two feet.
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Saying Good-bye to David Letterman
Posted on May 19, 2015
by Anthony Sacramone
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That is so 1981.
You see, I tried to get a job writing for Letterman when he had a morning show, back in 1980 and I was at NYU. I sent a bunch of material and received this in response:(https://strangeherring.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/scan-3.jpeg?w=1920&h=2712)
Then the word went out that Letterman was getting a late night show. So, having been told they could not accept material, only a resume, I sent them a resume, care of 30 Rock (please keep in mind that this was written in late 1981):(https://strangeherring.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/scan-41.jpeg?w=1920&h=2712)
OK, so it's not exactly Swift or Wilde, but I was barely out of my teens. And those pencil markings? They're from Merrill Markoe, co-creator of Late Night and Letterman's head writer (and significant other, as they used to say). Along with my phony résumé, I sent two postcards: One said, "Keep your day job." The other said, "We loved your resume and would love to see samples of your work."Markoe sent me that one:(https://strangeherring.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/scan-1-e1432087462194.jpeg?w=1935&h=1368)
So I sent her material: 21 ideas, along with some sketches. Among the ideas:(2) David "visits" prisons across the country and interviews those prisoners on death row. He asks embarrassing questions ("Where do you get your hair cut?"), steals french fries from their last meals, and offers some small token (a giant chocolate Kiss, small wool, one of those glass balls you shake and it snows on a Bavarian town, etc.), from Late Night.
(11) David and Larry Bud perform in a radio drama based on a little known work of science fiction in a vain attempt to terrorize credulous Americans. An operator can be stationed at a switchboard waiting for it to light up with hysterical callers.
(12) David is surrounded by a gaggle of moon-faced kids as he attempts to dispel the myths and lies their parents have fed them concerning everything from Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny to sex and insurance.
(13) David offers a list of weak and unstable countries for America to go to war with in an effort to revitalize the economy.
And so on.This is what Markoe wrote back:(https://strangeherring.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/scan-2.jpeg?w=1920&h=2712)
Now, I had an uncle who worked at NBC at the time as a video tape editor. He started by editing The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson when it was still taped in New York. I got to visit the set one day, and remember like it was 30 years ago how small it was, and the fact that there was a sheet thrown over Johnny's desk. My uncle later went on to work for NBC Sports and won two Emmys: for work he did on the World Series (I forget the year) and for the Olympics.
In an attempt to help me get a foot in the door, Unc strolled over to the Letterman offices, and talked with Markoe. She was sincere in her desire to hire me, but the staff was closed and she didn't have the budget to add another writer. (It seems those who were hired weren't crazy about the pay: it was a mere $1,500 a week. At the time, I was making $3.65 an hour as a part-time clerk at Barnes and Noble.) She did pass alg a phone number to the office so I could check in periodically.
Which I did. Like clockwork. Unfortunately, Markoe moved on, and the new head writer had no idea who I was and couldn't have cared less. He intended to staff up with hip Ivy Leaguers, and a working-class kid from Queens with a degree from NYU wasn't going to cut it.
Am I bitter? Of course. Do I curse my fate every single day? Of course. Do I believe that everything works out for the best? Of course not. Do I believe I will regret this lost opportunity even through eternity such that heaven will be a living hell?
OK, that's a bit much...everybody just calm down, a little perspective...
The funniest rejection letter I ever got (with the possible exception of the one I got from MAD magazine when I was in high school) was from Bob & Ray (Bob being the father of Chris Elliott, who would go on to be a regular on Letterman's show, as the guy under the couch). Read the names along the borders of the letter:(https://strangeherring.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/scan-6.jpeg?w=1920&h=2712)
I leave you with Bob & Ray:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGOWiC_Fu7g
And Chris Elliott:
Chris Eliot as Jay Leno on David Letterman
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNmCBsQPEmA&list=RDKNmCBsQPEmA#t=65
The True Dance of Seduction.....Chris Elliot on Letterman
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpQn8oWZQTI
And one last good-bye to Dave.
79 Members Of Congress Have Been In Office For At Least 20 Years
By Michael Snyder, on May 17th, 2015
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No wonder Washington never changes – 79 members of Congress have been there since Bill Clinton's first term in the White House. This list includes names such as Reid, Feinstein, McConnell, McCain, Pelosi, Boehner, Rangel and Boxer. In this article, I am going to share with you a complete list of the members of Congress that have been "serving" us for at least 20 years. They believe that they are "serving" us well, but without a doubt most Americans very much wish that true "change" would come to Washington. In fact, right now Congress has a 15 percent approval rating with the American people, and that approval rating has been consistently below 20 percent since mid-2011. So of course we took advantage of the 2014 mid-term election to dump as many of those Congress critters out of office as we possibly could, right? Wrong. Sadly, incumbents were re-elected at a 95 percent rate in 2014. This just shows how broken and how corrupt our system has become. The American people absolutely hate the job that Congress is doing, and yet the same clowns just keep getting sent back to Washington again and again.
Our founders never intended for service in Congress to become a career, but that is precisely what it has become for many of our "public servants". As of this moment, there are 79 members of Congress that have been in office for at least 20 years, and there are 16 members of Congress that have been in office for at least 30 years.
No wonder so many Americans are advocating term limits these days. When there are dozens of members of Congress that know that they are going to be sent back to Washington over and over again no matter how the American people feel about things, that can cause them to become extremely callous toward the will of the people. Instead, often these politicians become increasingly responsive to the needs of their big donors, because it takes big money to win campaign after campaign. I am sure that if George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were running around today, they would be absolutely disgusted by how our system has evolved.
The following is a list from rollcall.com of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate that have served for at least 20 years and the dates when they first took office...
Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Jan. 4, 1977
Thad Cochran, Miss. Dec. 27, 1978
Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Jan. 5, 1981
Mitch McConnell, Ky. Jan. 3, 1985
Richard C. Shelby, Ala. Jan. 6, 1987
John McCain, Ariz. Jan. 6, 1987
James M. Inhofe, Okla. Nov. 30, 1994
The following is a list from rollcall.com of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate that have served for at least 20 years and the dates when they first took office...
Patrick J. Leahy, Vt. Jan. 14, 1975
Barbara A. Mikulski, Md. Jan. 6, 1987
Harry Reid, Nev. Jan. 6, 1987
Dianne Feinstein, Calif. Nov. 4, 1992
Barbara Boxer, Calif. Jan. 5, 1993
Patty Murray, Wash. Jan. 5, 1993
The following is a list from rollcall.com of the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives that have served for at least 20 years and the dates when they first took office...
Don Young, Alaska March 6, 1973
Jim Sensenbrenner, Wis. Jan. 15, 1979
Harold Rogers, Ky. Jan. 5, 1981
Christopher H. Smith, N.J. Jan. 5, 1981
Joe L. Barton, Texas Jan. 3, 1985
Lamar Smith, Texas Jan. 6, 1987
Fred Upton, Mich. Jan. 6, 1987
John J. Duncan Jr., Tenn. Nov. 8, 1988
Dana Rohrabacher, Calif. Jan. 3, 1989
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Fla. Aug. 29, 1989
John A. Boehner, Ohio Jan. 3, 1991
Sam Johnson, Texas May 18, 1991
Ken Calvert, Calif. Jan. 5, 1993
Robert W. Goodlatte, Va. Jan. 5, 1993
Peter T. King, N.Y. Jan. 5, 1993
John L. Mica, Fla. Jan. 5, 1993
Ed Royce, Calif. Jan. 5, 1993
Frank D. Lucas, Okla. May 10, 1994
Rodney Frelinghuysen, N.J. Jan. 4, 1995
Walter B. Jones, N.C. Jan. 4, 1995
Frank A. LoBiondo, N.J. Jan. 4, 1995
Mac Thornberry, Texas Jan. 4, 1995
Edward Whitfield, Ky. Jan. 4, 1995
The following is a list from rollcall.com of the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives that have served for at least 20 years and the dates when they first took office...
John Conyers Jr., Mich. Jan. 4, 1965
Charles B. Rangel, N.Y. Jan. 21, 1971
Steny H. Hoyer, Md. May 19, 1981
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio Jan. 3, 1983
Sander M. Levin, Mich. Jan. 3, 1983
Peter J. Visclosky, Ind. Jan. 3, 1985
Peter A. DeFazio, Ore. Jan. 6, 1987
John Lewis, Ga. Jan. 6, 1987
Louise M. Slaughter, N.Y. Jan. 6, 1987
Nancy Pelosi, Calif. June 2, 1987
Frank Pallone Jr., N.J. Nov. 8, 1988
Eliot L. Engel, N.Y. Jan. 3, 1989
Nita M. Lowey, N.Y. Jan. 3, 1989
Jim McDermott, Wash. Jan. 3, 1989
Richard E. Neal, Mass. Jan. 3, 1989
José E. Serrano, N.Y. March 20, 1990
David E. Price, N.C. Jan. 7, 1997 Also served 1987-95
Rosa DeLauro, Conn. Jan. 3, 1991
Collin C. Peterson, Minn. Jan. 3, 1991
Maxine Waters, Calif. Jan. 3, 1991
Jerrold Nadler, N.Y. Nov. 3, 1992
Jim Cooper, Tenn. Jan. 7, 2003 Also served 1983-95
Xavier Becerra, Calif. Jan. 5, 1993
Sanford D. Bishop Jr., Ga. Jan. 5, 1993
Corrine Brown, Fla. Jan. 5, 1993
James E. Clyburn, S.C. Jan. 5, 1993
Anna G. Eshoo, Calif. Jan. 5, 1993
Gene Green, Texas Jan. 5, 1993
Luis V. Gutierrez, Ill. Jan. 5, 1993
Alcee L. Hastings, Fla. Jan. 5, 1993
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas Jan. 5, 1993
Carolyn B. Maloney, N.Y. Jan. 5, 1993
Lucille Roybal-Allard, Calif. Jan. 5, 1993
Bobby L. Rush, Ill. Jan. 5, 1993
Robert C. Scott, Va. Jan. 5, 1993
Nydia M. Velázquez, N.Y. Jan. 5, 1993
Bennie Thompson, Miss. April 13, 1993
Sam Farr, Calif. June 8, 1993
Lloyd Doggett, Texas Jan. 4, 1995
Mike Doyle, Pa. Jan. 4, 1995
Chaka Fattah, Pa. Jan. 4, 1995
Sheila Jackson Lee, Texas Jan. 4, 1995
Zoe Lofgren, Calif. Jan. 4, 1995
As you looked over those lists, you probably noticed that they contain many of the members of Congress that Americans complain about the most.
Unfortunately, because the vast majority of these individuals come from states or congressional districts that are basically a lock to vote a certain way, there is very little hope of ever removing them. That means that most of these Congress critters are going to get to keep coming back for as long as they want.
No matter which political party you prefer, this should greatly disturb you.
Our founders certainly never intended for a permanent class of elitists to rule over us.
But that is what we have.
We are supposed to have a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but instead we have a government of the elite, by the elite and for the elite. Most people do not realize this, but today most members of Congress are actually millionaires. The disconnect between members of Congress and average Americans has never been greater than it is right now, and I think that is a very troubling sign for the future of this nation.
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The Five Reasons to Vote for Hillary
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Elly Maye recently gave 10 of the countless reasons not to vote for Hillary Rotten Clinton. Shrillary's supporters have been able to come up with five reasons why you should. They range from lame to moronic:
1. She's qualified
...based on a skimpy resume that consists almost entirely of two political positions that were noticeably over her head and that she was placed in as a result of being married to Bill Clinton.
2. She's championed some amazing causes
...like "women's rights," despite her influence peddling to Islamic countries that treat women worse than dogs.
3. Her stance on issues
...which range from far left to farther left, mainly consisting of pandering to militant homosexuals, attacking Christianity, attacking the First and Second Amendments, and of course aggressively promoting the liberal sacrament of abortion.
4. First Gentleman Bill Clinton
...a corrupt lowlife who was impeached for committing multiple felonies the last time he was in the White House. Their affection for this serial molester and probable rapist provides insight into Shrillary's pose as a champion of women.
5. It's About Damn Time
...that we elected a moonbat for being female, just as Obama was elected for being a black no-nothing. Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the inept mayor who facilitated the recent riots in Baltimore, is both; why not elect her?
Other than media support, this is all they've got. It isn't much. But when push comes to shove, the media will line up behind her, demonize her opponent, and stampede the idiot herd in her direction. If idiots have the numbers, Hillary wins. ****************************************************
Elly Maye's Top 10 Reasons Not to Vote for Hillary
Never mind the multitone fluorescent pink hair; Elly Maye gets it. In the unlikely event that you run short of reasons to vote against Hillary Rotten Clinton, here are 10 good ones: VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQndQubFlVk
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Some interesting artwork has popped up on the streets surrounding ABC News' Good Morning America studios in New York City. First noticed by Twitchy and the Weekly Standard's Mark Hemingway, the posters feature Hillary Clinton with a smiling George Stephanopoulos, the ABC News anchor under fire for failing to disclose $75,000 in donations to the Clinton Foundation, along with the words "Pay Pal" and "Donate." They were posted near ABC News studios on "Peter Jennings Way" in Manhattan. Hats off to the perpetrators!
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Mostly Useless
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(With crooked parents in Big Government,
you don't need to produce anything to be ultrarich...)
In the olden days, the truly rich were people like Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, and Andrew Melon. They acquired wealth by generating wealth. Their own money was dwarfed by the rise in the standard of living they enabled for the rest of us. Because of this they are denounced by our new ruling class as robber barons.
This new ruling class has produced its own crop of exceedingly wealthy individuals, who differ in every respect from the capitalist robber barons. Rather than raise the standard of living for the rest of us, they use government to lower it. Rather than produce steel or cars, they prevent others from producing. They found charities like the robber barons did; however, their primary purpose is not philanthropy but to launder bribes.
They are producing a new royalty. A story from March gives an idea of how this royalty lives, even as America's standard of living declines because of them:
Chelsea Clinton, 33, and husband Marc Mezvinsky, 35, are about to swap their $4 million pad for a huge new $10.5 million one nearby. The former first daughter and Mr Mezvinksy – who married in 2010 – are believed to have spotted the 5,000 sq ft property while out walking in the area. The apartment is located in The Whitman building next to Madison Square Park, one of the most desirable corners of Manhattan's Flatiron District. ... Ms Clinton and Mr Mezvinsky's floor has four bedrooms, six and a half bathrooms, a home office and den. It also has a 252 sq ft planting terrace and a private storage unit is included with the property. The five-story building also boasts 'top-of-the-line' amenities, including a full time doorman, residents' only gym and a refrigerated package room.
I bet not even John D. Rockefeller had one of those. Chelsea Clinton only appears to be the most useless person alive. Her corrupt plutocrat parents have acquired many $millions by monetizing power. They can't take their ill-gotten fortune with them when the Devil calls them home, so it's a good thing they have Chelsea to turn it over to. Currently Hillary is positioning herself to rake in many more undeserved $millions (if not $billions) by shrieking neo-Marxist rhetoric denouncing the rich. But she only has it in for the productive rich, not her own clan.
This picture says it all...
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Saga of Racist Saida Grundy Continues
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When last we heard from the personification of the effect the Affirmative Action mentality is having on higher education, Boston University African-American studies professor Saida Grundy was taunting a traumatized rape victim who neglected to be of politically proper pigmentation. Before that, she was denouncing America and blaming whites for the institution of slavery, which was nearly universal throughout human history until it was brought mostly to an end by Anglo-Saxons at staggering expense. She has denounced white males as a "problem population."
Now we learn that in addition to all this, her curriculum vitae features felony charges:
[Professor Grungy was] reportedly charged in 2008 with felony identity theft after she made a fake account for another woman on the adult website Fling.com. In December 2007, as Ms. Grundy was still attending grad school at the University of Michigan, she created a fake account on the adult website, according to court records obtained by Boston.com. The fake ad depicted a woman who was dating the same man that Ms. Grundy was also involved with. Ms. Grundy had reportedly obtained the photos of the woman by accessing the man's email account, Boston.com said. According to Ann Arbor police, Ms. Grundy said it was a "jealous" act regarding another man. She was charged in 2008 with felony counts of identity theft and using computers to commit a crime, Boston.com reported. She was also charged with a misdemeanor count of malicious use of a telecommunications service, the report said. Ms. Grundy eventually pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor in exchange for dismissal of the felonies.
No worries...
The university's senior vice president of external affairs, Steve Burgay, said Ms. Grundy's conviction will not affect her employment at the school.
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(The joke is on anyone paying tuition to Boston University...)
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Kevin Steele (in background) from KMBT-TV
Ted Cruz Owns a Reporter in Beaumont, TX on Question About Gay Marriage
Liberal media apparatchiks like Kevin Steele of KMBT-TV in Beaumont, Texas are used to being able to club Republicans into whimpering submission with accusations of political incorrectness. This year the cudgel of choice is to accuse disfavored candidates of failing to revere homosexuals. Ted Cruz demonstrates how to handle them:
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9Pr9GRWAbI
27 Shootings And Eight Deaths In Baltimore Over Memorial Day Weekend
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(Welcome to the destruction zone...)
Via Daily Caller
Baltimore has seen 27 shootings and eight deaths so far over Memorial Day weekend, as the month of May promises to be the most violent the city has seen this century.
"It is disheartening that we are seeing such an increase in violence, especially when we think about the progress that we've made," Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told WJZ. "We've come too far to have this type of setback."
The sharp uptick in violence coincided with the April 12 arrest of Freddie Gray. Gray, 25, died in police custody a week later. The case sparked rioting and looting in the city and nationwide protests over police brutality. Six officers involved in Gray's arrest and transport were indicted last week by a grand jury. Charges include second-degree depraved-heart murder and manslaughter.
According to Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, crime in the city has reached levels not seen since 1999.
The city did not reach the 100 murder threshold until July last year.
Air Force Boss Warns U.S. To Lose Future
Air Superiority To Russia, China
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(As the Obuma regime continues its war on the military...)
Via Fox News:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/25/budget-cuts-impact-us-ability-to-fight-enemy-air-force-general-warns/
In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Gen. Mark Welsh, the head of the U.S. Air Force, warns that severe defense budget cuts will impact U.S. air superiority against enemies that the nation may not be thinking about right now.
"China and Russia are two good examples of countries who will be fielding capability in the next three to five years; if they stay on track, that is better than what we currently have in many areas," Welsh said during a three-day visit to Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
"Fighter aircraft in the next three to five years that have more capability than what we currently have sitting on the ramp. The F-35 will stay a generation ahead of them. F-22 will, too. Everything else we have will not stay ahead. The gap has closed."
Warph-
Good advice to not vote for Hillary. However, I can't think of any reason to vote for a Republican because the Republicans have their socialist agendas too.
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Lena Dunham, an idiot, poor actress:
"There's Not One Guy Who Works On My Show Who
Hasn't Seen The Inside Of My Vagina"
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(This is the woman who joked about abusing her sister in her book. Yet unlike Josh Duggar, no one has pulled her show and she's still a darling of the Left...)
Via Breitbart:Girls showrunner and actress Lena Dunham sounded off on everything from sexism in late-night TV to why she won't cover her vagina on the set of her HBO show in a wide-ranging Hollywood Reporter roundtable discussion with some of the most prominent female comedians currently working in television. THR sat down with Dunham, Ellie Kemper (Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt), Kate McKinnon (SNL), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish), and Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer) for a discussion about comedy, sexism, social media trolling, and the presidential prospects of Hillary Clinton. Keep reading...
Defeat: Obama Won't Fight Court Ruling Halting His Executive Amnesty
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(He knows he'd lose because it would be strict Constitutionalist Justice Scalia deciding if the court were to hear it...)
Via Breitbart.com:
The Obama administration revealed today that it will not take the fight over executive immigration amnesty to the Supreme Court, essentially admitting defeat in its fight to lift a court-ordered stay placed by a Texas judge.
Obama's executive actions still have to be settled in court, but yesterday's decision prevented the administration from moving forward in its efforts to sign up illegal immigrants for the amnesty programs.
"The department believes the best way to achieve this goal is to focus on the ongoing appeal on the merits of the preliminary injunction itself," said Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for the Justice Department to the New York Times. "Although the department continues to disagree with the Fifth Circuit's refusal to stay the district court's preliminary injunction, the department has determined that it will not seek a stay from the Supreme Court."
This is absolutely Brilliant .......
"A Government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." Thomas Jefferson"
From a former Navy fighter pilot and a retired UAL Captain:
We are all flying on the Germanwings plane, with a twisted pilot at the controls. Will we just wait, and assume the "Crash Position?"
The 'real' pilot was locked out of the cockpit.
That set of circumstances finally revealed the full horror of the crash of Germanwings flight 9525. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz waited for the pilot to leave the cockpit, then locked the door to prevent his re-entry. Then Lubitz, for reasons unknown and perhaps unknowable, deliberately steered the jet into a harrowing 8-minute plunge ending in an explosive 434 mph impact with a rocky mountain side. One hundred fifty men, women and children met an immediate, un - thinkable violent death.
Lubitz, in his single-minded madness, couldn't be stopped because anyone who could change the jet's disastrous course was locked out.
It's hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that the passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed up to meet them.
Hard ... but not impossible:
Because America is in trouble. We feel the descent in the pits of our stomachs.
We hear the shake and rattle of structures stressed beyond their limits. We don't know where we're going anymore; but, do know it isn't good. And above all, we feel helpless because Barack Obama has locked us out.
He locked the American people out of his decision to seize the national healthcare system. Locked us out when we wanted to know why the IRS was attacking conservatives. He locked us out of having a say in his decision to tear up our immigration laws, and to give over a trillion dollars in benefits to those who broke those laws.
Obama locked out those who advised against premature troop withdrawals. Locked out the intelligence agencies who issued warnings about the growing threat of ISIS. He locked out anyone who could have interfered with his release of five Taliban terror chiefs in return for one U.S. military deserter.
And, of course, Barack Obama has now locked out Congress, the American people, and our allies as he strikes a secret deal with Iran to determine the timeline (not prevention) of their acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Was Andreas Lubitz depressed, insane, or abysmally evil when he decided to lock that cockpit door and listen to no voices other than those in his head? Did he somehow believe himself to be doing the right thing?
The voice recordings from the doomed aircraft reveal that as the jet began its rapid descent, the passengers were quiet. There was probably some nervous laughter, confusion, a bit of comforting chatter with seatmates, followed by a brief period in which anxiety had not yet metastasized into terror.
It was only near the end of the 8-minute plunge that everyone finally understood what was really happening. Only near the end when they began to scream.
Like those passengers, a growing number of Americans feel a helpless dread as they come to the inescapable conclusion that our nation's decline is an act of choice rather than of chance. The choice of one man who is in full control of our 8-year plunge.
Lubitz was a nutcase. But now we are on a 'plane' piloted by a narcissistic megalomaniac who has locked everyone out of his cockpit.
It is very sad that our first African American President will be judged in history as the most inept, corrupt, wasteful, subversive, destructive, and divisive President ever. A man twice elected because of the color of his skin rather that the content of his character.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same." Ronald Reagan
Desperation is a Killer
Obama was taught about the "Cloward-Piven" plan, which was designed to destroy capitalism and American exceptionalism by overwhelming the system with "spending, entitlements, regulations and debt."
Under this plan, the "economy comes to halt, full-time jobs are killed, businesses fail in record numbers, the middle class is murdered financially, the debt implodes and the economy is overwhelmed,".
Part of the success of the plan would depend upon a majority of the public being distracted and feeling overwhelmed. When citizens feel helpless, they end up begging the government to save them.All the while the government is destroying them.
Tyrants. Tyrants. Tyrants.
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KANSANITY
Being Reasonable in a World Where That's the Craziest Option
CURRENT EVENTS, KANSAS, POLITICSHey look, we made Doonesbury!
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EDUCATED IDIOTS RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT
06.08.15
Sen. Rand Paul Releases Newest Edition of 'The Waste Report'
Uncovers a U.S. Government Funded
Afghan Cricket League
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Rand Paul today released the fifth edition to 'The Waste Report.' 'The Waste Report' is an ongoing project to catalog egregious examples of wasteful spending throughout the U.S. government.
The newest edition of the 'The Waste Report' uncovers a U.S government funded cricket league in Afghanistan. Grant data from the U.S. State Department shows the Afghan cricket league will cost American taxpayers half a million dollars this year alone.
'The Waste Report' can be found HERE or below.
The U.S. State Department Waste – Afghanistan Cricket League
Imagine if the federal government funded a major U.S. broadcaster to put on a baseball tournament, featuring MLB players, and all in the name of combating gang violence?
Surprisingly, the U.S. State Department (State) is doing almost exactly that in Afghanistan, by propping up the Sixers Cricket League. Last year the federal government gave One TV, a for-profit Afghan television station, roughly $350,000, to "support the development of a national cricket league [principally a tournament] in Afghanistan," In addition to sponsoring the league, this grant helped train personnel on sports broadcasting and production. [1]
Just last month, State published a new grant opportunity to put on the same tournament this year and again, includes training "Afghans in the production of professional sports broadcasts (specifically cricket)." This time, the grant is for up to $500,000 with an option for a one year extension. Applicants must demonstrate their ability to work with the Afghan Cricket Board (which is the sport's governing body), but also One TV, as they retain the exclusive broadcasting rights to the tournament. [2]
The idea behind the cricket league is to provide an outlet for young men who may be susceptible to extremism in Afghanistan.[3] But instead of something like a little league, these at-risk youths mostly get to watch on TV, which may be hard given only 0.003 percent of the population have TVs.[4] Instead, the league is comprised of five regional teams[5] and is to feature well-known Afghan cricket players such as Mohammad Nabi Eisakhel, who last year captained the Bandi Ameer Dragon as well as the successful Afghan National Team.[6]
[1] https://www.usaspending.gov/transparency/Pages/TransactionDetails.aspx?RecordID=27765306-04D5-EC2A-EF26-B66BD60929B9&AwardID=7960995&AwardType=G
[2] Department of State, Men's National Cricket League in Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan. April 2015, Grant Id No. SCAKAB-15-CA-008-SCA-04222015
[3] Ibid
[4] Basic Data- Afghanistan, PressReferance.com, Web: May 2015; http://www.pressreference.com/A-Be/Afghanistan.html
[5] Ibid
[6] http://1tvnews.af/en/news/sport/11849-cricket---afghan-sixer-tournament-commences--bandi-ameer-dragons-vs-spin-ghar-tigers
http://www.paul.senate.gov/news/press/sen-rand-paul-releases-newest-edition-of-the-waste-report-afghanistan
Only Losers Whine About
"White Privilege"
That Doesn't Exist
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Remember when you were young, bratty and complaining about something stupid? Maybe your brother got to stay up later than you because he was older, maybe you were upset because nobody would watch you dive into the swimming pool or maybe you were even angry because your sister's hot dog was cut into 5 pieces while yours was cut into only 4 pieces.
So, you unleashed the favorite complaint of small children, "That's not fair!" Then, almost inevitably, some adult responded by saying, "Life's not fair. Get used to it."
Now, if you were denied that formative experience, maybe it would explain why you're one of the losers who runs around crying about "white privilege." I say that because whining about "white privilege" is nothing more than the liberal equivalent of saying, "Life is not fair." That's pretty appropriate since liberals like to think of themselves as sophisticated, but their thought processes are as simple as those of children.
Supposedly, white people have all these "privileges" which are so trivial they're practically meaningless. Here are some very representative "white privileges" I actually took from a liberal article that scored high in the Google search rankings with my comments following.
I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time. (Wait, what?)
I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. (Hooray, it's all the Hillary Clinton, Bruce Jenner and Lena Dunham we can stand!)
I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race. (Wow, what a burden this must be.)
I can take a job with an affirmative action employer without having my co-workers on the job suspect that I got it because of my race. (Well, let's stop discriminating against white people with Affirmative Action and no one will have to wonder about that.)
I will feel welcomed and "normal" in the usual walks of public life, institutional and social. (That sounds like a personal problem, not a race problem.)
Of course, it's very easy to blow holes in this silliness.
For example, who's more "privileged?" Eric Holder or the white guy working as a greeter at Wal-Mart? Who has more "privilege" in life, Sasha Obama or a white child of the same age whose father is a gardener? Who's the more privileged one? Oprah Winfrey or one of the white housewives who watches her show? Spike Lee or a white guy who delivers his pizza? Al Sharpton or a white factory worker who'd go to jail if he didn't pay his taxes for years?
This is where most people stop when they talk about "white privilege," but there's a more important point to be made. Not only is life not fair, it's unfair for so many different reasons that it's impossible to make it fair. There's no way to make life into a video game where every person starts at the exact same point, with the exact same resources.
For example, if you want to talk about privilege, what about "black privilege?" Barack Obama wouldn't be President of the United States without it. So, what are some "black privileges?"
* How about being more likely to be hired for diversity purposes if you're good?
* You're less likely to be fired if you're a terrible employee because businesses feel like they need a longer paperwork trail to fire a black guy.
* You can chalk up complaints made about you by white people to racism.
* Affirmative Action and race-based preferences mean you may get jobs or get into universities over more qualified applicants.
We could go on and on with this – and we could do this for just about every group you can imagine. For example, what about "female privilege?"
* Men are expected to pick up checks on dates.
* You're more likely to graduate from college if you're female.
* The homicide rate is much higher for men than women.
* You're more likely to get the kids after a divorce.
Of course, you could just as easily do the same thing with men.
* You can have sex with a lot of different women without being labeled a slut.
* You don't have to worry about being raped on a date.
* You're more likely than a woman to be chosen as a leader.
* You don't need to wear make-up to look your best.
On the flip side, we could just as easily come up with disadvantages for almost every group. For example, pretty much anyone who's poor or middle class would rather be rich. That's understandable. But, rich people have issues, too.
* They're more likely to be audited by the IRS.
* They don't always know if their friends or partners like them for themselves or for their money.
* People are always trying to talk them into loaning or giving them money.
* Having plenty of money can demotivate people and make them lazy.
Of course, we can go even further than that. What about genetic gifts or luck?
* If Lebron James was 5′ 8″ instead of 6′ 8," not only would he not be a great basketball player, he wouldn't even be in the NBA.
* Talented though she may be, if Megyn Kelly were a 5 on a 10 scale instead of looking like a Greek goddess, she wouldn't have a show on Fox News.
* If Albert Einstein didn't have a genius level IQ, he would have just been some eccentric guy with weird hair.
* If Bill Gates had been fascinated by trains instead of computers, chances are he'd be an executive at a railroad today instead of a billionaire who revolutionized computing.
If you want to go even further, if you're at college, you're privileged compared to the people who only have high school educations. Having two parents? That's a much bigger factor than any racial or sexual difference. If you really want to get down to the nitty gritty, you can say EVERYONE living in America today is privileged. How does living here compare to being in, let's say, Afghanistan? We also live in an incredible point in history where we have opportunities that would boggle the mind of previous generations. If you were born 1000 years ago, you'd probably be a subsistence farmer hoping to scratch a living out of the dirt for one more year because that's what almost everybody did.
This is why it's so silly to talk about "white privilege." It requires you to block out a hundred other pluses and minuses you have in your life, narrowly focus on a so-insignificant-you-can-barely-see-it set of advantages you think someone else has, and then hold a little pity party for yourself.
http://rightwingnews.com/john-hawkins/only-losers-whine-about-white-privilege-that-doesnt-exist/
It really is the adult equivalent of the four year old crying that he got "less" than his sister because her hot dog was cut into five pieces while his was cut into four. Children who do that just need to be educated. Adults who still think like little children instead of taking responsibility for their own lives are losers. So, don't be a loser. Stop obsessing over how many hot dog pieces someone else has, take responsibility and do something great with your own life instead.
Warph I miss your post. I hope you come back soon.
The holy Islamic month of Ramadan will start on 18 June and finish on 16 July 2015.
AUSTRALIA: ISIS HAS RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
IT COULD USE TO DEVELOP WMD
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The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has gained access to radioactive material from hospital and research centers in territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria, prompting fears that it could develop a large "dirty" bomb, Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told The Australian.
Last Friday, Bishop warned that ISIS is recruiting "highly trained professionals" to develop chemical weapons.
She made those comments while addressing the Australia Group, an alliance of about 40 nations, plus the European Community, established 30 years ago to prevent the export of materials that can be used to develop chemical, biological and radiological weapons.
Bishop told The Australian that the concerns she alluded to during her speech stemmed from reports filed by Australia's Defense Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
NATO expressed concern about ISIS collecting radioactive material from hospitals and research centers that would normally only be available to governments, reportedly said Bishop, adding, "The insurgents did not just clear out the cash from local banks."
She said the threat is severe enough to have gained the attention of the Australia Group, which held a session on the subject at its summit last week.
"This is really worrying them," Bishop told The Australian.
In the latest edition of its propaganda magazine Dabiq, ISIS expressed interest in building a weapon of mass destruction (WMD).
"Indian defense officials have previously warned of the possibility the militants could acquire a nuclear weapon from Pakistan," notes The Independent.
These growing concerns about ISIS developing a WMD come as terrorism experts at the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S. think tank, warn that ISIS is likely planning major attacks in Iraq and Syria to mark the start of the Muslim holy period of Ramadan and the one-year anniversary of its declaration of a "caliphate."
"For the past three years, ISIS has conducted major offensive operations during the Ramadan holy month," it said. "ISIS is therefore likely preparing a surge of operations to try to achieve important campaign objectives...ISIS is likely to begin and end Ramadan with attempted spectacular military offensive actions in Iraq and Syria."
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/06/10/australia-isis-has-radioactive-material-it-could-use-to-develop-wmd/
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Charlie Daniels
An Open Letter to
President Obama - 2015
Jun 8 | Posted by: CharlieDear Mr. President,
This letter is not written in a spirit of hate, disrespect, nor is it motivated in any way by racial bias and is written with respect due the office and the awesome tasks that have been laid on your shoulders.
I write this letter because I am a tax paying American citizen who has experienced the American Dream and wants his children and grandchildren to have the same advantages and opportunities that he has had.
And no, Mr. President, I was not born into a one-percenter family, I come from a blue collar background, never went to college, have made a living doing manual labor and went into my chosen profession at ground level, worked hard and sacrificed to achieve success.
On April 13, 1967 I arrived in Nashville, Tennessee with a wife, a two-year-old baby, a twenty-dollar bill and the clutch out of my car.
I won't go into the mountains and valleys that I've traveled since then except to say that I have been successful and somebody did help me build the business I own. Almighty God, not the government.
I employ thirty people, good citizens and family people, hard-working people, the kind of gun-clinging, God-fearing folks who make America the greatest nation the world has ever known.
Mr. President, it seems to me that you have little faith in American ingenuity, American capability, American exceptionalism and even American patriotism.
You seem to think that America needs a monolithic, big brother type government to oversee and regulate every aspect of American life, that citizens are not competent to control their own affairs and make their own decisions without some oppressive bureaucracy to call the shots.
Mr. President, the answer is not government, conversely, the problem is government. A government that has doubled the national debt, increased unemployment, lowered take home pay, increased food stamp participation and disability claims and introduced socialized medicine.
You support teacher's unions which take political activism more seriously than education.
You intentionally lied to the American people about your stand on marriage being between a man and woman, and continue to lie when it is politically expedient for you to do so.
You surround yourself with inexperienced ideologues and political yes men and take the advice of individuals who are swimming in waters way too deep for them.
Your petulance is unbecoming, Mr. President, and your criticism of anyone who disagrees with you is downright unmanly. You come off like a spoiled child who has been denied his way.
And while you blame your shortcomings on opposing political parties, you had both houses of Congress and the White House in the first two years of your term. Plus an electoral mandate to do just about anything you wanted to, so the least you can do is cowboy up and take the blame for the messes you've made.
Your apparent disregard for the maintenance and morale of our armed services is extremely unwise and dangerous.
Read the rest at: http://www.charliedaniels.com/posts/06-08-15/open-letter-president-obama-2015
I received this one by e-mail.
Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader
See how smart you are.
Six trivia questions to see how much history you really know. Be honest; it's kind of fun and revealing.
If you don't know the answer make your best guess. Answer all of the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers.
And, no, the answers to these questions aren't all Barack Obama.
1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few.....And to replace it with shared responsibility, for shared prosperity."
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
3) "We.....Can't just let business as usual go on and that means something has to be taken away from some people."
A. Nikita Khruschev
B. Joseph Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give a little bit of their own...in order to create this common ground."
A. Mao Tse Tung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong II
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
5) "I certainly think the free market has failed."
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. Barack Obama
E. None of the above
SCROLL DOWN FOR ANSWERS........
.......And the answers are:
(1) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hilary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hilary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hilary Clinton 6/04/2007
(4) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hilary Clinton 6/04/2007
(5) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hilary Clinton 6/04/2007
(6) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hilary Clinton 9/02/2005
Don't forget, H. Clinton was a student of Saul Alinsky.
HOW SAUL ALINSKY TAUGHT BARACK OBAMA EVERYTHING HE KNOWS ABOUT CIVIC UPHEAVAL
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2012/03/14/how%20saul%20alinsky%20taught%20barack%20obama%20everything%20he%20knows%20about%20civic%20upheaval/
Marines May Deploy on Foreign Ships,
Because U.S. Navy
Doesn't Have Enough
BY: Aaron MacLean
June 22, 2015 10:54 am
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The Marine Corps is looking at putting Marines and helicopters on the ships of foreign allies because
the U.S. Navy can't provide enough amphibious support for the Corps' missions,
a Marine general tells USA Today.The initiative is a stopgap way to deploy Marines aboard ships overseas until more American vessels are available, said Brig. Gen. Norman Cooling, deputy commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa.
The Marines will be able to respond quickly to evacuate embassies or protect U.S. property and citizens, a need highlighted by the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
"There's no substitute for U.S. amphibious" vessels, Cooling said. "We're looking at other options" in the meantime, he added.
The Marines have been working with Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and other close allies to determine the suitability of the foreign ships for U.S. personnel and aircraft.
This is not the first attempt by the Marine Corps to deal with the shortfall in amphibious vessels in an unconventional way. Earlier this year, for example, it was reported that the Marine Corps had already begun running limited operations off of Navy supply ships that are crewed by civilians.
Among the interesting elements of this morning's report is the way in which the Marines are making no effort to dress up the effort to use foreign ships as some sort of partnership effort that benefits the United States. Instead, Cooling paints a concerning picture of a Marine Corps desperate to fulfill operational requirements but lacking support from the Navy to do so.
There is an inside-baseball element of recent Department of Defense history to this. Marine-friendly critics of the Navy have long been frustrated with what they perceive as the Navy's reluctance to fully support the Marine Corps' amphibious mission, preferring to purchase and operate ships that serve other purposes instead.
But there is a larger strategic question here. Why does the Navy have to choose between supporting the Marine Corps and its other major requirements? We live in a world with too many serious crises to count, many of which could require the swift intervention of the sort of light, flexible teams in which the Marine Corps specializes. Supporting such a mission is obviously not the Navy's only priority, but sufficient funding should be available—and better streamlining of the DOD's absurd waste in other areas should be demanded—so that the Navy isn't forced to choose between important operational demands.
Another way of putting the same point is that it turns out that the number of ships you have really does matter. Some may recall that in the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney noted in a debate with President Obama that the Navy was sailing its smallest fleet since 1917. The president returned fire with a full broadside of snark:
You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines. And so the question is not a game of Battleship, where we're counting ships.
The president's supporters loved it, almost as much as they loved his zinger from the same debate, that, "the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back." That remark was intended to make fun of Romney's earlier claim that Russia was the United States' "number one geopolitical foe." The president was wrong on both counts. Russia is in fact a major geopolitical foe, one that shows nothing but contempt for a liberal, rules-based international order. And the Navy really doesn't have enough ships, to such an embarrassing extent that the Marine Corps is now looking to hitch rides with Spaniards, Italians, and Brits.
This report shows that our military has reached a genuinely pathetic milestone, and there is no sign that the administration has any interest in stopping the decline. This nation has enough wealth to give that Marines what they need without forcing the Navy to scale back on its other priorities. Which Republican candidates will make defense spending, and the security and international leadership it purchases, a foundation of their campaign?
http://freebeacon.com/blog/marines-may-deploy-on-foreign-ships-because-u-s-navy-doesnt-have-enough/
Why do they need more money? Print it. Crises? Not really.
The world evil is in Washington DC.
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I agree with this man. And I think the term Leadership is poorly used by our society.
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Black Reverend
Issues Startling Wake-Up Call to
White America...
This Needs to Spread
Reverend Jesse Peterson has a stern warning for this country, and he fears the worst if Americans don't wake up.
Peterson believes that if Americans don't stand up and do something — instead of waiting for
so-called leaders to do something — Obama and his ilk will destroy America.
"I've been warning white Americans for 25 years that they're losing their country due to their fear of being called racists. And now we have a stone racist in the White House who is hell-bent on redistributing America's power and wealth," Perterson wrote.
"Due to the outright fear of America's leaders in business and every branch of our government, there appears to be nothing to stop Obama and his minions from bringing America to her knees," he continued.
In his weekly column on WND, Peterson used the Dylann Roof case to prove his point, claiming that while the nation and city of Charleston barely had time to mourn, Obama was quickly pushing his anti-gun agenda.
From there, the Confederate flag came under attack because Dylan posed with one in a picture.
"I was raised on a plantation in the South, and never had a problem with the Confederate flag. It is a symbol of regional pride, and also a reminder of what America has overcome," said Peterson.
He went on to say that leftists "don't care about the flag. They're just using it to attack the South – one of the last bastions of Christian conservatism left in America – to ultimately defeat Republicans. Shame on cowardly Republicans for going along with it."
Peterson believes Republican fear of the White House is the downfall of this great nation. No white man will challenge Obama because he will then
be labeled a racist.Because of this sad fact, Peterson believes change must begin at the grass root level, and he has even started his own nonprofit organizations to fight back against what's happening in Washington.
http://conservativetribune.com/black-reverend-wake-up-call/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=MadWorldNews&utm_content=2015-07-01
These Disunited States
We won't all be celebrating the same thing this July 4th.
By COLIN WOODARD
July 02, 2015
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A century and a half ago this weekend, hundreds of thousands of white Americans in the lowland South did something unprecedented in their lifetimes: They declined to commemorate the Fourth of July. On July 4, 1865, newly freed African-Americans and an occupying army were celebrating the Fourth as a triumph of Revolutionary principles beneath the federal flag and portraits of the martyred Abraham Lincoln. "The white people," a Columbia, South Carolina, diarist reported, "shut themselves indoors."
Now, on the eve of another July 4 one hundred fifty years later, we find that these issues haven't quite gone away. Following the horrific slaughter in a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last month, as Gov. Nikki Haley was calling for removal of the Confederate flag from the State Capitol grounds, the Ku Klux Klan—still around after all these years—planned to hold a pro-Confederate rally on July 18. In Virginia, the Sons of Confederate Veterans pledged to oppose Democratic Governor Terry McAuliffe's order to remove the flag from state-issued license plates, and a new CNN poll shows the nation is still remarkably split on the very meaning of the Confederate flag: Fully 57 percent of Americans see the flag more as a symbol of Southern pride than as a symbol of racism; opinions on the flag are sharply divided by race, level of education and region.
Welcome to the Disunited States of America. Nominally we are still a single nation, and average Americans still feel a surge of patriotism as they raise their eyes skyward to watch the rockets' red glare at July 4th parties across the country. And of course the idea of a nation of very different kinds of people united only by a common passion for freedom and democracy—E Pluribus Unum—has always been a part of our self-identity. Yet in recent weeks a number of social and political issues—the Charleston slaughter, made more horrific by a vicious online manifesto in which the alleged killer declared he hates the American flag; history-changing Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and gay marriage that elicited bitter exchanges even among the justices themselves; and heated arguments over marijuana legalization—have highlighted how much remains unresolved in our national conversation.
All these modern trends have deep roots in the past that go beyond the simplistic "red," "blue" and "purple" categories we typically apply to politics today. Political parties are largely window dressing; what matters most is where in the country one lives. Examine a wide range of phenomena at the county level—presidential voting results, indices of health, income inequality, education, social mobility, dialects and religiosity—and you'll see a recognizable pattern of regional ideologies and political preferences going back a century or more. It isn't and never has been as simple as North versus South, urban and rural, or the effete coasts set against the rugged interior. Rather, our most abiding geographic differences can be traced back to the contrasting ideals of the distinct European colonial cultures that first took root on the eastern and southern rims of what is now the United States and then spread across much of the continent in mutually exclusive settlement bands, laying down the institutions, symbols and cultural norms later arrivals would encounter and, by and large, assimilate into.
Despite a lot of migration and the creation of more and more cosmopolitan metropolitan areas, these regional divisions have in many respects been growing stronger, not weaker, over time, hobbling our sense of common purpose and Congress' effort to do something as routine as passing a budget.
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Perhaps there's some consolation in continuity—in the fact that Americans have celebrated the Fourth in distinctive ways that reflect our enduring regional differences. Throughout the antebellum period and most of the Civil War, the South had celebrated the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but with a very different emphasis from their counterparts in the Yankee North. Whereas Yankees venerated the second paragraph of the Declaration, with its proclamation of the equality of men, their inalienable rights, and government's duty to secure them, lowland Southerners paid homage to the first and last: an assertion of the rights to rebel against a tyrannical empire that denied local leaders the sacred liberty of self-government.
Long before the Civil War, the United States had been torn between competing visions of what the American experiment was all about, with the northernmost tier of the country emphasizing collective action to build an allegedly stronger, better and more just Union while the southernmost tier championed self-government, the liberties of local rulers and the sanctity of local tradition. The other regions—and there were well more than two—found themselves caught in between.
Strikingly little has changed. Before last month's Supreme Court ruling, the states that still banned gay marriage were concentrated in the Deep South and Appalachia; the states that spearheaded its legalization were concentrated in New England, with Massachusetts leading the way back in 2003. Obamacare passed Congress in 2010 because of overwhelming support in New England and the Yankee-colonized districts of the Upper Great Lakes and Pacific coastal plains and despite bipartisan rejection across the former Confederacy, where every state save Arkansas has also declined to expand Medicaid.
These enduring regional fissures have also caused a deep polarization in national politics over other "wedge" issues that tend to divide the country. According to a Pew Research study from June 2014, "Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines—and partisan antipathy is deeper and more extensive—than at any point in the last two decades." Oddly enough, such trends have only been exacerbated by modern technology. Ever-faster means of transportation and communications, rather than dissolving differences between regions, appear to be reinforcing them.
Indeed, last year, Nate Silver and Harry Enten used data from the University of Chicago's General Social Survey to demonstrate that people moving from a liberal area to a conservative one and vice versa tend to have political attitudes that resemble those in their destination, not their old home. "If anything, movers generally have more extreme political views than natives," Silver and Enten wrote. "Thus, the process of intra-country migration could be contributing to political polarization rather than making states more purple."
As journalist Bill Bishop and sociologist Robert Cushing demonstrated in The Big Sort, for decades now, relocating Americans have chosen to move to communities where people share their values and worldviews. Even social media, in which ideologically like-minded people find one another in virtual communities, tends to accelerate a trend already underway whereby people tend to live, talk and associate only with others who think like them. As a result, the proportion of voters living in counties that consistently give landslides—more than a 20 percent margin of victory—to one party or another increased from 26.8 percent in 1976 to 48.3 percent in 2004. The volume of people is significant, and has benefited the GOP, with a net 13 million people moving from Democratic to Republican landslide counties between 1990 and 2006 alone. In doing so, they're often moving between regional cultures and increasing the differences between them.
Understanding our divisions requires going beyond state boundaries and conventional regional categories they delineate. Often arbitrarily chosen, state borders slash through cohesive regional cultures, which is why there are massive political fault lines in states like Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Texas and Oregon. There's a reason Maryland's congressional delegation was sharply divided on geographic grounds when contemplating the Deep South secession in 1861 and why the electorate in the central and northern coastal strip of California broke with the rest of the state over same-sex marriage in 2008's Proposition 8. The portion of Ohio settled by New Englanders is still evident on county maps of the 2004, 2008 and 2012 elections—a strip of blue across a largely red state. In the 2012 GOP presidential primaries, Rick Santorum owed his surprise triumph over Newt Gingrich in Alabama and Mississippi to his overwhelming margins of victory in the upland parts of those states, which were populated via a Scots-Irish settlement stream that came down the Appalachian chain from south-Central Pennsylvania, where voters had helped propel Santorum into the U.S. Senate in the first place.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/july-4-disunited-states-119707.html#ixzz3eywBTQii
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July 04, 2015, 12:29 pmTexas wants to move state-owned
gold back within its borders
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Texas is grappling with how it will retrieve and store its gold stockpile within its borders, a new report says.
The Lone Star State has decided it is taking back its gold holdings from a bank in New York, according to The Associated Press.
Texas lawmakers voted on the move earlier this summer.
They want their state's approximately 5,600 gold bars – worth around $650 million – back within Texas boundaries.
"There will always be the exact same amount of gold in there as the amount that was put in," said state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, according to AP.
Capriglione is a former Tea Party activist from outside Dallas who authored the gold retrieval bill.
The new law does not specify where a potential depository should be constructed or secured. It also did not provide funding for building costs or leasing purposes.
Also at issue is a provision allowing Texas citizens to check their own gold or silver bullion into the proposed facility.
"We are honestly at the phase where the questions we are answering are creating more questions that we have to answer," said Chris Bryan, a comptroller's office spokesman.
The comptroller's office has a four-person task force plotting the logistics of the gold stockpile's move and storage, AP said.
The agency recently sent one of its members to a precious metals conference for research purposes.
Capriglione's bill had a proposed cost of $23 million when he first introduced it in 2013.
Fort Knox, for comparison, cost $560,000 in 1936 — or $9.2 million at current currency values, according to AP.
Capriglione has proposed letting private companies create the depository in exchange for levying storage and service fees.
Moving the stockpile would give Texas more control over its gold holdings in the event of a financial crisis.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbot (R) praised the bill's intent upon signing it until law earlier this year.
"California may be the golden state, but Texans deserve to keep their gold in state," he tweeted, according to AP.
The University of Texas Investment Management Company holds Texas' state-owned gold bars.
It began gradually hoarding gold futures in 2009 as a safeguard against currency weakness from the financial crisis.
It now has $25.4 billion in ownings, AP said. Texas' share represents 2.5 percent of that total, it added.
"We don't do politics," said chief executive officer Brian Zimmerman of the new depository. "We're just investors."
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GOOD FOR TEXAS
But haven't they heard ISIS now has all the gold thanks to Obama.
Not really, but it is a good reason to get your gold back home. You can not trust the Federal Government because they behave as if they are a Caliphate instead of America's Government.HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY EVERYONE
Personally I can't find anything to celebrate. We have what is being called a dictator.
He is dividing this country from many directions.
He is running secret bills through Congress, even Congressmen are't able to read it.
But, Congressmen don't read the bills they vote on anyway.
There are just to many things corrupt about our Federal Government and way too much lying from it.
Our Federal Government wants to control our health care and the education of our children.
Our President wants to violate our constitution,
Obuma wants to disarm us in violation of our Constitution.
Obuma is pushing perversions in our country.
It appears Obuma supports ISIS instead of fighting it.
Obuma is importing illegal immigrants. Some of which are most likely Muslim Terrorist.
There is just too much to list all that is wrong with our used to be Great Nation to list here.
So "NO" this Vietnam Veteran and Patriot did not celebrate Independence Day.
AMERICA WON'T ESCAPE
GOD'S JUDGMENT
Exclusive: Craige McMillan notes,
'Only 2 paths now lie ahead: repentance or destruction'
The U.S. Supreme Court's disastrous decision on gay marriage marks the end of the rule of law in America. The Constitution is no longer a "living" document, as the "progressive" wing of the court has always referred to it. The Constitution is a dead document.
In the near term, citizens can expect previously unnoticed "rights" to be discovered left and right by five fallible, opinionated, self-indulgent human beings whose decisions have been placed beyond the legislative process – just as the founders warned. America will not survive this onslaught against "the laws of nature and nature's God."
This idea did not begin with Thomas Jefferson. It went back to Marcus Tullius Cicero:
"True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. ... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed of its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law that will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge."
Note well the last three words of Cicero's quote: "its enforcing judge." No nation has ever escaped God's judgment, and none ever will. America's overwhelming problems stem from the destruction of the family structure and the protection it provided to young and old alike.
God could be an old man asleep at the switch, and judgment would arrive every bit as reliably as if he were actively hurling thunderbolts down upon us for our lawlessness.
Underneath the left's golden cobblestones of good will, not far down the road they are taking America, is the left's utopia. You will come to know it as hell. Underneath the left's pretty face, it has only ever been about raw, naked power. They view humanity as endlessly malleable and themselves as the sculptor. Having ascended to the levers of statist power from the institutions they first corrupted, they now intend to use that power to reshape men, women and children into their own creation.
Mao, Stalin, Hitler – all were leftist icons who murdered tens of millions of their own people and counted the cost as being acceptable in order to build the new man for the new age. Nothing but blood, tears and destruction ever came of it.
Thus Glenn Beck was correct when he observed, "These are not enemies of man. They are enemies of God."
Only two paths now lie ahead: repentance or destruction.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/america-wont-escape-gods-judgment/
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Intellectual Froglegs 6-07-15:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m73bCJ2Ti4
Regulated Freedom - Intellectual Froglegs 07.08.15:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPST2YlWPw8
The Official Unicorn Cookbook - Intellectual Froglegs 07.20.15:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty6o5489FEg
The Frogleg Minute(ish) – Turtlehead Edition (07.31.15):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpsrw2Ni2x8&list=PLP0PBeDpxopP9dSy0-uodOJndfMa2F9iz
Dear GOP... Intellectual Froglegs 08/16.15:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08iTxTg15BM
Welcome back Warph, been missing you.
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Look at all the others in that photo who don't have their hands over their hearts either.What is their excuse? I don't think that looks like Mrs.O, but it might be. Where is the event?
Quote from: Diane Amberg on August 26, 2015, 09:06:04 AM
Look at all the others in that photo who don't have their hands over their hearts either.What is their excuse? I don't think that looks like Mrs.O, but it might be. Where is the event?
You liberals are all a like.
This woman who happens to be the First Lady of the United States who has said she was never proud of the US until her husband became President. She is standing there texting instead of doing what is expected of everyone else. Yet you defend her with poppycock.
Good job Diane.
This story is not for the mamby-pamby liberals of the world. I doubt they would understand. It is how they gained the right to be a mamby-pamby liberal. Thank a m-Marine.
While this is a story worth reading, it's a toughie.....long and upsetting but a historical perspective few know about.
This is a true story, verified on snopes.com
Each year I (Michael T. Powers) am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capital and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable.
On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II
Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys from?'
I told him that we were from Wisconsin.
'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.'
(It was James Bradley who just happened to be in Washington, DC, to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who had passed away.
He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington, DC, but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.)
When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.)
'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo, Wisconsin My dad is on that statue, and I wrote a book called 'Flags of Our Fathers'. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.
'Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team... They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.' But it didn't turn out to be a game. Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18 and 19 years old - and it was so hard that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their families about it.
(He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph... a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. It was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima. Boys. Not old men.
'The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the 'old man' because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country' He knew he was talking to little boys... Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'
'The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona. Ira Hayes was one of them who lived to walk off Iwo Jima. He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?'
'So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes carried the pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down, drowned in a very shallow puddle, at the age of 32 (ten years after this picture was taken).
'The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky. A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19.
'When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.
'The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews.
'When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back.' My dad never fished or even went to Canada. Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell's soup. But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't want to talk to the press.
'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero. Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a combat caregiver.
'On Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died on Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed, without any medication or help with the pain.
'When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.'
'So that's the story about six nice young boys... Three died on Iwo Jima and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time.'
Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless.
One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is that if you look at the statue very closely and count the number of 'hands' raising the flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God.
Great story - worth your time - worth every American's time. Please pass it on.
The photo was taken April 15, 2015, at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.
First, the woman looks nothing like Michelle Obama even thought the hairdo might seem to be similar to hers.
Second, you might wonder why Michelle would be in the "peon" crowd with the rest of the attendees at this function.
This lady is not Michelle as she was sitting at the head table on the dais wearing a white dress and having a different hairdo.
The texting woman is Helena Andrews a gossip columnist for the Washington Post. She confirmed that it was her doing the texting and according to her, she was texting as part of her job. The only reason she gave for texting at this particular time was that "This is 2015" or words similar.
By the way, Donald Trump was also in attendance, chuckle.
Quote from: W. Gray on August 26, 2015, 03:41:03 PM
The photo was taken April 15, 2015, at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner.
First, the woman looks nothing like Michelle Obama even thought the hairdo might seem to be similar to hers.
Second, you might wonder why Michelle would be in the "peon" crowd with the rest of the attendees at this function.
This lady is not Michelle as she was sitting at the head table on the dais wearing a white dress and having a different hairdo.
The texting woman is Helena Andrews a gossip columnist for the Washington Post. She confirmed that it was her doing the texting and according to her, she was texting as part of her job. The only reason she gave for texting at this particular time was that "This is 2015" or words similar.
By the way, Donald Trump was also in attendance, chuckle.
Thank you Gray. I guess I should have googled this one before posting it. My bad.
See, Ross, Ya swatted me for nothing! I told you I didn't think it looked like Mrs. O. I didn't need to defend her...it wasn't her! Thanks Waldo for getting the details.
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Students At George Mason University Have No Idea Why We Were Attacked On 9/11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZaQ3ZXPNUU
"Never forget? So freakin' sad!!!... <sigh....>... to be fair, todays college students would have been in 2nd or 3rd grade at the time. They could have had no concept at the time as to why it happened. Any more than I could understand why John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln when I was 5 years old."
When college students at George Mason University are asked by the Young America's Foundation what caused 9-11, several give baffling or just plain wrong answers about the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history. This is an inexcusable failure of the U.S.' education system and the major news media.
The 9-11 terrorist attacks fundamentally changed Americans' way of life and its foreign policy for the last fourteen years. On that harrowing morning in 2001, two planes struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Two other planes were hijacked: one struck the Pentagon building, and the other was brought down by brave passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 over Pennsylvania.
Judicial kings and Christian peasants - Intellectual Froglegs 09.07.15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gJXzNI0dSI
Good one.
World's First Lesbian Bishop Calls for Church to Remove Crosses, to Install Muslim Prayer Space
October 6, 2015
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Didja see this story?The Bishop of Stockholm has proposed a church in her diocese remove all signs of the cross and put down markings showing the direction to Mecca for the benefit of Muslim worshippers.
Eva Brunne, who was made the world's first openly lesbian bishop by the church of Sweden in 2009, and has a young son with her wife and fellow lesbian priest Gunilla Linden, made the suggestion to make those of other faiths more welcome.
The church targeted is the Seamen's mission church in Stockholm's eastern dockyards. The Bishop held a meeting there this year and challenged the priest to explain what he'd do if a ship's crew came into port who weren't Christian but wanted to pray.
Calling Muslim guests to the church "angels", the Bishop later took to her official blog to explain that removing Christian symbols from the church and preparing the building for Muslim prayer doesn't make a priest any less a defender of the faith. Rather, to do any less would make one "stingy towards people of other faiths".What! A! Freaking! Idiot!!! Go ahead and surrender to the Mooslimes you booger eatin' moh-ron. BTW, do you know what Mooslimes do to queers in Iran? They hang them or throw them off buildings. They also wouldn't care if you were homosexual. They would rape you before killing you. Guess what they would do to you in Saudi Arabia? They would brutally rape you and then they would chop off your head. Read the rest of the story for more idiocy.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/10/05/worlds-first-lesbian-bishop-calls-church-remove-crosses-install-muslim-prayer-space/
Liberalism is a mental disease. It is often fatal.
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They do not want you, you Miserable Pathetic Clown!!!
CHICAGO: Obuma's Kind Of Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9SPvtZ6pE
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Homicide: 7900 S Merrill
Two teens were shot on July 6, 2015 leaving one dead and another
in serious condition. Nobody has been charged in the incident
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http://heyjackass.com/
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Forget "radical" Mooslime and "moderate" Mooslime. If a person is a Mooslime he must obey Sharia Law. If not, he's an heretic and an apostate. So, no, a Mooslime should not be allowed to be president. Ben Carson is correct. Islam is incompatible with our Constitution. Islam is incompatible with Western Civilization. Islam is not a religion. It is an ideology, like communism or fascism, masquerading as a religion. It's also a 7th Century barbarous death cult. Mohammed (Piss be upon him) wanted a way to unite the Arab tribes so he stole sections of the Bible from both the Old Testament and the New Testament, took a Semitic moon god, Allah, and elevated him into a supreme being, and Islam was born.
Just remember, the difference between a radical Mooslime and a moderate Mooslime is that the radical Mooslime wants to kill us. The moderate Mooslime wants the radical Mooslime to kill us.
Of course, I think we already have a Mooslime as president and he is practicing taqiyya. Technically, Obungler is a Mooslime since his both his father and stepfather were Mooslimes which automatically makes him one and during his first few years of life he was raised as a Mooslime. If he has renounced his Mooslime faith, then he is an heretic and an apostate and under Sharia Law is subject to death.
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The Brain of a Social Justice Warrior/Progressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcXczsp_Z2M
THE END
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A Conservative Version Of The Coexist Bumper Sticker
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A Liberal Version Of The Coexist Bumper Sticker
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How many lies can Obuma say in one speech? Huh?? Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=174&v=4ISTbT-R9hs
Now that we have an openly gay Secretary of the Army, they are gonna change some drilling practices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2jLLMdEBw
A Parody Song For Crazy Uncle Joe
(Sung To The Tune Of The Beverly Hillbillies)
Come an' listen to my story 'bout a man named Joe,
A poor senator with a mind that's dull and slow.
And then one day he was huntin for a clue
When The One asked if he'd be number 2.
Veep, that is
Duty jerk
Ceremonial spear catcher
So the lib folks said, " Joe, leave your Senate seat.
We need a figurehead since the Clintons have been beat."
Said, "Give up makin laws and quit givin' people lip."
So he joined the guy that voters thought was ignorant but hip.
Messiah, that is
Hope and Change
Rock star
Now Joe is gonna travel to exotic distant lands,
He'll spend his nights at dinners and his days a'shakin hands,
His senate job has made him good at shovelin shit,
Now he's gonna be the Presidential Fool in charge of it.
Ass kissin, that is
Dictators
Funerals
Cue the banjo breakdown
It's time for the Washington Hypocrites,
Starring Barry Obamateur as The Great Pretender
Joe Biden as The Village Idiot
Harry Reid as The Black Hole of Fun
Nancy Pelosi as The Dried-Up Well of Reason
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Hillary: "Bill, how long am I going to be in here?"
Bill: "At this point, what difference does it make?"
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When I opened up the paper this morning and come upon the following letter from an uninformed voter I just had to share it....As we consider yet another mass shooting, we need to face facts. Due to proliferating gun violence in the United States, we have become the least-civilized of the major Western nations, a truly dangerous place to live or visit. Our elected representatives obviously fear the NRA and value their positions more than they value human lives. That leaves us only one option. We must prosecute those who sell the guns to mass murders as accessories to the crimes caused by their weapons. Anyone who sells or trades a weapon to a mass murderer must be held accountable for the death and mayhem their weapons cause!
....A.C. MCQUAIDE JR., BERKELEY LAKE!A.C.'s letter is based upon a lie, which doesn't surprise me a bit. We are not "the least-civilized of the major western nations" and as long as you stay out of cities controlled by Dimorats with strict gun control laws and large black populations like Detoilet, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, Newark, Memphis, and many others, the US is not "a truly dangerous place to live or visit". I'm sure he got those talking points from a Social Justice Warrior and one thing we have to remember is that SJW's always lie. If they told the truth they wouldn't win any arguments and their candidates, like Obuma and Pantsuits would not stand a chance of getting elected. Do you want the truth? Here's Bill Whittle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2&v=pELwCqz2JfE
Some facts from the video.
Per capita murder rate in the US. 4.7 murders per 100,00 people. Number 111 in the world.
Let's look at the cities. Here are the top 13.
Detoilet – 54.6 murders per 100,000 citizens – If Detoilet were its own country it would be number 2 in the world just behind Honduras and just ahead of the socialist utopia of Venezuela. It has been run by Dimorats forever with some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.
Nawlins – 53.2 murders per 100,000 citizens, also run by Dimorats forever.
St. Louis – 35.5 murders per 100,000, also run by Dimorats forever.
Baltimore – 34.9 murders per 100,000, also run by Dimorats forever. Ex-Speaker Blinky's father ran Baltimore as she was growing up there.
Newark – 34.4 per 100,000, also run by Dimorats forwever.
Oakland – 31.8 per 100,000, run by Dimorats.
Stockton – 23.7 per 100,000, run by Dimorats.
Kansas City – 22.6 per 100,000 run by Dimorats.
Philadelphia – 21.5 per 100,000, run by Dimorats.
Cleveland – 21.3 per 100,000, run by Dimorats.
Memphis – 20.2 per 100,000, run by Dimorats.
Atlanta – 19.0 per 100,000, run by Dimorats.
Chicago – 18.5 per 100,000, run by Dimorats.
What Bill doesn't say is that most of these murders are committed by black males killing other black males because that would be raaaaaaa-cist! Keep in mind that the overall rate for the country is 4.7 murders per 100,000 people. I wonder what it would be if we threw out all of the cities above?
When we look at a city like Plano Texas, it has a homicide rat of .4 murders per 100,000 people. Bill points out that everyone in Plano is armed and there are some awesome arsenals he has seen there. I know both of us have seen one particular arsenal. Robert a. Heinlein has an appropriate quote. "An armed society is a polite society." If a crook knows that you are armed he's less likely to try to rob or attack you. If, however, he sees a sign that says a facility is a gun free zone, he knows no one is gonna be armed there. That's the idiocy of advertising a place as a gun free zone. Liberalism is a mental disease and it is often fatal.
I will be willing to bet that uninformed voter A.C. MCQUAIDE JR, voted for Bungler Hussein Obuma twice and will vote for Fridged Pantsuits if she gets the Dimorat nomination.
Even Hillary Clinton's fans don't believe a thing she says
By Jonah Goldberg
http://nypost.com/2015/10/09/even-hillary-clintons-fans-dont-believe-a-thing-she-says/
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Hillary Clinton revealed on Wednesday that she opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, providing just the latest evidence that she is little more than political ambition wrapped in a pantsuit.
Pay attention to the press coverage, because it's fascinating: Nobody takes Clinton at her word. I'm not just referring to her conservative critics.
Slate's Jim Newell asks, "Will anyone find Clinton's position convincing?" The question is purely rhetorical.
The article is headlined "Hillary Clinton Comes Out Against TPP, at Least Until the Democratic Convention."
In "First Read," a newsletter put out by "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd and his colleagues, the lead item on Thursday was titled "Why Clinton's Trade Flip-Flop Is So Unbelievable." They write:
"Yes, Hillary Clinton's new opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord cleans up something she needed to do before next week's first Democratic debate. And, yes, it puts pressure on Vice President Joe Biden getting into the race (because he'd be on the only major candidate in support of TPP). But make no mistake: This flip-flop isn't believable at all."
Clinton had long touted TPP as "the gold standard" of trade deals. A tally by CNN in June found at least 45 instances where she had plumped, praised, pushed or otherwise promoted the agreement. That, of course, would make sense given that she was secretary of state when it was being crafted and had a big role in selling it.
After she left the administration, Clinton said she wouldn't take a position on TPP until it was done. She couldn't put it off any longer, so she's finally taking a stand. Well, maybe not a stand. It's more like a modified crouch. Here's how she explained her position on PBS: "As of today, I am not in favor of what I have learned about it."
Clinton went on to explain that she was "worried that the pharmaceutical companies may have gotten more benefits, and patients and consumers fewer." She also said she was deeply worried about safeguards against "currency manipulation" not being part of the deal.
But as even the reliably liberal writers at Vox.com note, this makes no sense. The provisions — or lack thereof — on currency manipulation are no different than when then-Secretary Clinton was calling TPP the "gold standard."
Meanwhile, the provisions on pharmaceutical companies are tougher than what the administration asked for.
As Vox's Timothy Lee notes, Clinton is either making up reasons to oppose TPP now, or she was utterly ineffectual then — i.e., when she could have made a difference inside the administration.
I think this is a false choice; both things are probably true.
In fact, finding evidence that Clinton operates this way is like looking for evidence that fire is hot. In 2008, when it was in her interest, Clinton was against federal "blanket rules" on guns; now she's making extra-constitutional gun-grabbing the centerpiece of her campaign (at least this week, while a recent mass murder is still fresh in our memories).
She long opposed same-sex marriage on principle, until the times required a new position. She initially thought the undercover videos of Planned Parenthood were "disturbing." But within 48 hours, she was a stalwart defender of Planned Parenthood. As more — and more disturbing — videos emerged, she grew more adamant that the outrage wasn't the fetal organ harvesting, but the videos exposing them.
And so on: the driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants, the Iraq War, NAFTA, taking credit for regime change in Libya, her ever-shifting stories about her e-mail server. Hillary Clinton is like a lava lamp. Don't like what you're seeing at the moment? Wait a minute. Just don't expect anything to last.
But all of this misses what I find so fascinating. With most of these examples, it's almost impossible to find someone who takes what Clinton says or does at face value. If you're not on her payroll, or auditioning to get on it one day, or just painfully naive, you simply start from the assumption that Clinton is unencumbered by any principles that might prove inconvenient to her political ambitions.
No wonder she's running scared from a socialist.
Here are 1,137 well sourced examples of Obama's lying, law breaking,
corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc.
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Every President, every politician, and every human being tells lies and engages in acts of hypocrisy. But Barack Obama does these things to a far greater degree than anyone else that I have ever known of. His campaign promises were so much better sounding than anyone else's – no lobbyists in his administration, waiting five days before signing all non-emergency bills so people would have time to read them, putting health care negotiations on C-SPAN, reading every bill line by line to make sure money isn't being wasted, prosecution of Wall St. criminals, ending raids against medical marijuana in states where it's legal, high levels of transparency. Obama's promises of these wonderful things sounded inspiring and sincere. They sounded so much better than the promises of any other President. So when Obama broke these promises, it felt so much worse than when other Presidents broke their promises.And now, on with the list at:https://danfromsquirrelhill.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/obama-252/
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We need to laugh but we also need to realize it is a serious matter!
The office of our Presidency is held by a
"DESTROYER" of our nation!
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Please Move The Deer Crossing
Stupidity at its best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI8UPHMzZm8
The Sign The Apocalypse Is Upon Us
Glamour Magazine just named Caitlyn Jenner its Woman of the Year. WTF? Anyhow, this explains why Playboy is no longer gonna have nudes. They wanted to make sure they would not have to do a nude spread of Jenner. Woman of the Year? Really? Freak of the Year. This goes right along with ESPN giving it (yes, it) a courage award.
We have reached rock bottom. I don't know how much further this country can descend. The Social Justice Warriors are running things now and this is the kind of bullshit you get when that happens. Is it any wonder Donald Trump is winning? I think the people in this country are finally getting fed up with the freak show that is being forced down our throats. We have one of the crookedest politicians in history running for president when she should be in jail or shot for treason. We have a sexually confused freak given a courage award and named Woman of the Year. We have Western Europe committing suicide and a president and political party that wants us to do the exact same thing. We have a movement called Black Lives Matter bitching about white cops shooting blacks when it is actually blacks who are killing other blacks. What next?
Thunder Rodent Thighs. She just lied her ass off to the Benghazi committee and she got away with it. What are they gonna do? Nothing. She's laughing at the Republicans. She is a crook. She has committed treason. It doesn't matter. There is no longer the rule of law in this country. It died a long time ago. Her husband should have been forced to resign as president in disgrace or thrown out of office, not because of sex, but other violations of the law like the 1000 FBI files. One of the grounds of impeachment for Nixon was requesting one FBI file that he didn't even get. But Bubba was protected by his corrupt party and by the corrupt media which is nothing more than the propaganda arm of his corrupt party. The current president enforces laws and makes laws on his whims. Who's gonna stop him? The Stupid Party? Once again, he's protected by his corrupt party and his skin color, not to mention the LSM propaganda arm of the Dimorat Party. Watch this video by Bill Whittle:Got Law? How Hillary Clinton's Lawlessness Gets Ignored...
Hillary Clinton breaks the law, gets people who work for her killed, lies to the American people...and she's still a media darling? How is that possible???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvEhSkRG9f8
This is the way things work in banana republics. I once said that we would devolve into a socialist dictatorshipo within the next 30 to 50 years. I now think it will be within 20 to 30 years. The rule of law is dead in this country unless we have a Republican president.
So.... the Bitch skates again. She's a Dimorat and she's a Clinton. She's also a crook and a traitor not to mention being an a**hole. Right, Dog???https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJTIaXB5Ano
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Results of an X-ray of Obuma's Brain:
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Putin: I knew it! I knew he was a dickhead!
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One of the best early 70′s hard rock bands. The swagger of Rusty Day on stage was amazing. Too bad he was killed in a drug deal gone bad.
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Barack Hussein Obuma was influenced by the writings and philosophies Saul Alinsky, author of the book, "Rules for Radicals," and later by Frank Marshall Davis, with similar philosophies.
Barack Hussein Obuma followed the philosophies of these 'role models' throughout his days as a Community Organizer for ACORN, using tactics that appeared to some as 'shaking down' businesses in exchange for not branding them 'hate groups.'
And apparently Barack Hussein Obuma is still following those radical rules today.
Recall that Hillary Pantsuits Clinton did her college thesis on his writings and Barack Hussein Obuma writes about him in his books.
How To Create A Socialist State by Saul Alinsky:
There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state.
The first is the most important.
1 ) Healthcare — Control healthcare and you control the people
2 ) Poverty — Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3 ) Debt — Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4 ) Gun Control — Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5 ) Welfare — Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6 ) Education — Take control of what people read and listen to — take control of what children learn in school.
7 ) Religion — Remove the belief in the God from the Government and schools.
8 ) Class Warfare — Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Now, think ...
Does any of this sound like what is happening to the United States today?
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How about the government schools? There's a huge source of socialism by forcing the public to pay for their agenda.
For 150 years, the Republicans have lead the way for government schools and they're still out front with Obama and Hillary.
Joke Of The Day
A devout Arab Muslim entered a black cab in London. He curtly asked
the cabbie to turn off the radio because as decreed by his religious
teaching, he must not listen to music because in the time of the
prophet there was no music, especially Western music which is the music
of the Infidel.
The cab driver politely switched off the radio, stopped the cab and
opened the door.
The Arab Muslim asked him, "What are you doing?"
The cabbie answered, "In the time of the prophet there were no taxis,
so hit the road and wait for a camel."
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Trust But Don't Verify
The nuclear deal with Iran sounded terrible from the start. But then, against all odds, it just kept getting worse. As if it wasn't bad enough that Obama and Kerry were willing to pay Iran $150 billion in exchange for merely signing the agreement, it has now come to light that in one of the side arrangements, we have agreed to allow Iran to monitor itself!
I'm old enough to remember the scandal in 1976 when a large number of cadets at West Point were discovered to be cheating on tests. And unlike the Ayatollah and his cronies both in Tehran and Washington, D.C., West Pointers tend to be men of honor.
But apparently, like George W. Bush, who famously gazed into the eyes of the former KGB butcher, Vladimir Putin, and claimed to see his very soul -- an object that Putin had long ago signed over to Satan -- Obama sees something nobody else sees who looks into the reptilian eyes of the Ayatollah Khamenei.
Meanwhile, the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, assures us that the agreement doesn't really mean what it says. Amano is the sort of bureaucratic scuzball who has spent his life in the shadowy world of diplomacy.
Like others of his ilk, he winds up working in a fancy building with a high-flown title, a generous salary and an even larger expense account. His chief responsibility is to get along with some of the most evil creatures on the face of the earth. So if the Ayatollah says we can trust him to honestly report on Iran's nuclear development, to take photos and test soil samples, Amano is quite prepared to believe him without even asking himself why we wasted years negotiating the matter since, obviously, the Ayatollah would have snitched on himself if he had been up to any sort of skullduggery.
If I had any say in the matter, diplomats would never gather in countries like Switzerland and Luxembourg, the kind of places boasting feather beds, four-star restaurants and steam heat. That, after all, is the reason you have boneheads like Kerry and Amano signing up for these gigs. Have you ever seen the creeps arrive or depart from these get-togethers? You've never seen so many limousines in your life. Frankly, I won't take any of them seriously until I see them riding burros and camels and gathering in hellish locations like Mongolia in December or Fresno in July.
♦ As if those rotters aren't bad enough, you have a Senate filled with Democrats who were quite willing to abandon Obama over his stupid trade deal, but are lining up to kiss his ring when it comes to this nuclear deal, which not only places Israel and our Gulf allies in immediate threat of extinction, but has already seen Russia providing the Ayatollah with missiles and defense systems they could use against us.
One has to wonder about Jewish senators in particular, people like Dianne Feinstein, Al Franken and Barbara Boxer, who have already announced they'll vote in favor of the worst deal since the Boston Red Sox sent Babe Ruth to the Yankees. The question is whether they are truly deranged or merely worried they won't be invited to the Obamas' Passover seder.
I was hoping that Hillary Clinton might seize the opportunity to put a little daylight between herself and Obama, thus providing the Senate Democrats with some cover. But Hillary is still hoping that Obama won't sic the Justice Department on her in order to hand the nomination over to the man who's had his lips faithfully glued to the presidential rump for the past seven years, Joe ("Just bidin' my time") Biden.
My friend, Ron Kessler, who probably knows more about the Secret Service than its director, Joseph Clancy, reports that being assigned to Mrs. Clinton's detail is generally regarded as a form of punishment. The agents may have taken an oath to take a bullet for her, but that doesn't mean she has to like them. Apparently, she is given to screaming obscenities at the agents if they so much as say "Good morning" to her, letting them know in no uncertain terms that it's bad enough she has to see them without also having to hear them.
What's more, Hillary's top aide Huma Abedin, 39, is equally obnoxious. She has confronted agents who insisted on checking her I.D. by channeling her inner Reese Witherspoon and rebuking them with "Don't you know who I am?!" and insisting that they act as bell boys and tote her luggage.
So far there's no record of an agent replying, "Of course I know who you are. You're the wife of Anthony Weiner, a congressman who had to resign in disgrace, and Hillary Clinton's main squeeze."
Officially, Ms. Abedin is Hillary Clinton's personal assistant. But in political circles, the job, itself, whether held by a man or a woman, is called something else. It just so happens that because of their unique relationship, it sounds like a double entendre to refer to Huma Abedin as Hillary's "body woman."
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Great Post Warph, unfortunately I am concerned that Isis will out number the Non Isis people, Christians and others in this great country of ours.Like many Americans I am well armed and have a large amount of Ammo. My family is well armed and one son is an Ex Marine and ready to fight to the end, my other son, my daughter and my wife are all well versed in firearms and great shots. When they come we will be barricaded and ready. MY Ex Marine son, says he would take as many as possible with him when the time comes. He says we will all go to Heaven and the ISIS fighters that die will go to Hell.
Good posts Warph and Frawin!! How about starting up "The Better Fill Er Up"
Joke Of The Day
I was sitting at a long stop light yesterday, thinking about what I would do to keep busy for the rest of the week, minding my own business and
patiently waiting for the light to turn green, even though there was no
on-coming traffic.
An old Nissan full of bearded, young, loud Muslims, shouting Anti-American
slogans, with a half-burned American Flag duct-taped on the trunk of their
car, and a "Remember 9-11″ slogan spray painted on the side, stopped next
to me.
Suddenly they yelled, "Allah Akbar! Praise Allah! Death to America" and took
off before the light changed.
Out of nowhere an 18-wheeler truck came speeding through the intersection
and ran directly over their car, crushing it completely and killing everyone
in it.
For several minutes I sat in my car thinking to myself ,"Man, that could
have been me!"
So today, bright and early, I went out and got a job as a truck driver.
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The Islamic Conquest of Europe: View From the Ground
The purpose of government is to prevent this:
Islamic Invasion of Europe: Apocalypse Horizon - The Darkness Has Returned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=d45p7Vt1cNo#t=564
The leftist Islamophile regimes of Europe are not legitimate governments or they would be defending their countries from this by any means necessary rather than allowing it to happen. The "refugees" are hostile invaders, and anyone who does not treat them as such is an enemy of Europe.(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PUvYsNTSQHg/TZQbTt9jEvI/AAAAAAAACvk/jOwXr009LcU/s1600/Muslim+World2.jpg)
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Demographic Doom
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As Christopher Green aptly describes, degenerate liberal ideology has crippled the family and dramatically lowered Western birthrates. This combined with Islam and massive Third World immigration threatens to literally eradicate Western Civilization, possibly within the lifetime of people alive today.
This is how dire the situation had already gotten before the current massive wave of "refugees" flooding into Europe from the Islamic world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4wqHdR1tDD4#t=175
It will require radical action to reverse current trends. The alternative is that everything Western culture ever produced, from Shakespeare to the Sistine Chapel to walking on the moon, will go the way of the pre-Islamic artifacts ISIS and the Taliban have blown to bits.
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"FRANKENBUMA"
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* History of Political Correctness *
Political correctness (a.k.a. cultural Marxism) is literally destroying our society. That has been its explicit purpose from the beginning:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EjaBpVzOohs#t=312
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* Politically Correct History *
Bill Lind deconstructs the deconstructionists of the Frankfurt School, explaining their "critical theory" and exposing their efforts to translate economic Marxism into cultural terms. There is a civil war for the soul of the West. It is a cold war for our culture. The Left has defined the rules by which this war will be fought, and it is called political correctness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Mq6Gctxe81E#t=132
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* John Stossel - Politically Correct History *
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9mPEdkN5UoU#t=261
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Intellectual Froglegs: The Case for Donald Trump—Part 1
Intellectual Froglegs introduces Part 1 of a multipart series inspired by A.J. Delgado's "20 Reasons Why It Should Be Donald Trump in 2016":
VIDEO:
https://vimeo.com/144086191#t=45
The federal government, whether controlled by Democrats or the GOP establishment, is America's enemy. Maybe the Donald will be our champion against it.(https://whatyouthoughtiwentaway.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cpfefj8u8aq0zpk.jpg?w=425&h=248)
DC Dems + DC Republicans = The Government Party:
Organized Crime never had it so good
Just like our federal government as a whole—the federal level Republican Party is now completely DOA. It's gone. Liberals now control the GOP, like they control the courts, the schools, the media, Make your own list at home.
Washington DC is a massive sewer of crooked lawyers, serving their own interest by serving the interests of their Anti-American corporate masters with endless pockets...from General Electric and Boeing to the epitome of evil himself, George Soros—the Jew who infamously turned in his fellow Jews during WWII for the reward.
Senators-who-voted-for-non-budget At a time when our economic foundation is rapidly crumbling before our very eyes—- 18 crooked Republicans led by Mitch McConnell voted at 3AM to pass a massive and insane debt deal—- basically giving the Marxist Obama an unlimited credit card.(http://intellectualfroglegs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/senators-who-voted-for-non-budget.jpg)
The deal was railroaded through the House on Wednesday, as part of a rush by Republican leadership to get it done as quickly as possible, leaving no time for scrutiny—and certainly no notice to the American people.
The final Senate vote came at 3 a.m. Friday morning, meaning it was sped through in less than 100 hours. Proving not everything the government does is slow.
The 144-page budget-busting deal averages $558 million in NEW SPENDING per page.
The level of 'deception in broad daylight' that we've witnessed over the course of the republican majority's first year is jaw-dropping.[size]
There's only one party in DC: The Government Party. And organized crime never had it so good....
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Today's Profile: Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Maricopa County, AZ, to talk about his career and initiatives. He discuss's a number of his achievements in law enforcement, including his "Tent City" jail, his reinstitution of chain gangs and the local volunteer posse.
Sheriff Joe talks about illegal immigration, telephone scams and the problem of drugs coming in from Mexico, his upcoming campaign and his no-nonsense stance on criminals.
Arpaio is also the author of two books, America's Toughest Sheriff and Joe's Law: America's Toughest Sheriff Takes on Illegal Immigration, Drugs, and Everything Else That Threatens America.
Find Sheriff Joe on Twitter: @RealSheriffJoe
Follow him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sheriffjoearpaio or at http://www.mcso.org
Ladies And Germs: The (cough, cough...) Democratic Debate
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Anderson Cooper: Can anyone find Syria on a map?
Hillary Clinton: Well Anderson, as a woman...
Anderson Cooper: Can you find Syria on a map?
Hillary Clinton: As a woman...
Anderson Cooper: Syria on a map. Can you find it?
Hillary Clinton: As a woman...
Anderson Cooper: Never mind. Senator Sanders, do you agree with the Secretary?
Bernie Sanders: SYRIA? Why are we talking about Syria when 41 PERCENT OF 99 PERCENT of all the money is going to the 1 PERCENT.
Anderson Cooper: Can you just answer the question.
Bernie Sanders: Syria is CONFUSING. Lots of PEOPLE fighting. Economics is SIMPLE. You just take away all the money from all the people who have the MONEY.
Anderson Cooper: The question is about Syria.
Bernie Sanders: Right NOW the 1 PERCENT are eating BABIES. They have piles and PILES of babies in their MANSIONS and on Wall Street and they're chowing down on them like hungry dogs.
Anderson Cooper: Governor Chafee, you recently suggested making Syrian dictator Assad into the Governor of New Mexico. Do you still stand by that idea?
Chafee: I was always against the Iraq War
Anderson Cooper: This is about Syria
Chafee: I knew the Iraq War was a mistake from the beginning.
Bernie Sanders: I knew the Iraq War was a mistake even earlier. You want opposition to the Iraq War, I was OPPOSED.
Jim Webb: One minute. I was opposed to the Iraq War in 1992.
Bernie Sanders: 1992? I opposed the Iraq War in 1922. I opposed the Vietnam War. I opposed WW2. I opposed WW1. I opposed the Mexican War. I opposed the War of 1812.
Lincoln Chafee: Edward Snowden is a hero. We should make a national memorial to the Rosenbergs. Let's apologize to the British for Bunker Hill.
Bernie Sanders: I was opposed to Bunker Hill. I said back then that the Revolution is all about putting money in the pockets of the 1 percent like Paul Revere and George Washington... WHO EAT BABIES!
Martin O'Malley: I need to say something very important here... in a slow sonorous voice... as if I'm trying to sell you car insurance... over the phone. Somewhere in the audience... is Paul Bigmann who fought in the Iraq War. After the war... he couldn't get a job... until I paid him to come here and applaud my speeches... if I am elected president... I will pay all Iraq War veterans to come and applaud everything I say. For America.
Anderson Cooper: The question is about Syria.
Martin O'Malley: Syria is a very serious issue... very serious. That's why I'm committed to making all the electricity green by 2050.
Anderson Cooper: No one even knows what that means.
Martin O'Malley: We need to rip all the ugly dirty fossil wires out our walls and replace them with clean green wires made by a company that gave me a lot of money... So this never happens again.
Anderson Cooper: Does anyone have anything to say about Syria?
Hillary Clinton: I know all about Syria. I personally negotiated a ceasefire with Assad that ended the war. Because I get things done. I'm a progressive moderate who is consistently changing her views like any normal person who hides private email servers in a bathroom in the Fuhrerbunker.
Anderson Cooper: There's no ceasefire in Syria. The fighting is still going on.
Hillary Clinton: When I flew into the Damascus airport under fire, I remembered what my late mother told me...
Anderson Cooper: None of that ever happened
Hillary Clinton: I had already negotiated an end to the fighting in Israel, Ireland and Yugoslavia...
Jim Webb: No, you didn't.
Hillary Clinton: And so I said to Assad, cut it out. Stop killing all those people. Because that's what real leadership is. And I'm a real leader. As a woman...
Bernie Sanders: SHUT UP. Look, this is real simple. Assad is the 1 percent. We kill all the 1 percent and there will be WORLD PEACE. We kill the 1 percent in America and Syria and all over the world in some sort of...
Anderson Cooper: International worker's revolution?
Bernie Sanders: Exactly, for the middle class, which is the backbone of our country. Until we DEBONE them and put them in GULAGS.
Chafee: I support twice as many gulags as Senator Sanders. And make them twice as cold.
Martin O'Malley: Under my leadership, we actually made gulags in Maryland. I passed the Right to Gulag Act and we had overflowing gulags. Except we called them prisons and they were full of black people and green electricity.
Anderson Cooper: Alright, what the hell. Secretary Clinton, do you believe we should send the middle class to Gulags.
Hillary Clinton: Anderson, as a woman and a leader who is respected by donors around the world, I believe that we need to come together around solutions that work. Gulags for the middle class are just not realistic. I appreciate Bernie's passion for Gulags. I know he loves Gulags from my time working with him in the Senate. And I know many people think we need Gulags.
Anderson Cooper: Are you for or against sending the middle class to Gulags?
Hillary Clinton: It's not a simple issue. I believe we can get the same effective results as Gulags without the Gulags by raising tax rates for everyone whose last name isn't Clinton to 100 percent, abolishing the Constitution and forcing everyone to move to Madison, Wisconsin.
Anderson Cooper: The audience isn't applauding. It seems to want Gulags.
Hillary Clinton: As I've always said, I'm for Gulags, but we can't get the Gulags done without experienced leadership and no one has more experience with Gulags than I do. I've seen Gulags in North Korea and China and I believe we can do better. We don't just need Gulags, we need Smart Gulags. We need Gulags that will be role models for our children as they are raised by the Gulags.
Bernie Sanders: TALK, TALK, TALK. A Bernie Sanders administration isn't going to talk about sending political dissidents to GULAGS. It's ACTUALLY going to do it. Bernie Sanders will fight to Gulag everyone opposed to his policies. Bernie Sanders will Gulag Wall Street. Bernie Sanders will Gulag the Wall Street Journal. Bill Sanders will Gulag you, if you don't vote for him.
Anderson Cooper: Do you really think that sending everyone to Gulags is an electable platform?
Bernie Sanders: HELL YES. We just need millions of people coming together to Gulag everyone who doesn't want to give them free college, free pot and free Gulags. RIGHT NOW there are 100,000 community organizers at centers around the country drawing up lists of who to Gulag.
Anderson Cooper: Do you see any obstacles to this plan to put 50 percent of the country in arctic prison camps?
Bernie Sanders: Global Warming. If the ice melts, how are we going to keep them in the Gulags?
Bernie Sanders: And Hillary, If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie.
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HELL NO !
Impeach the "D E S T R O Y E R" Obama now before it is too late.
Like many initiatives that come out of the U.N., there has been a media blackout on coverage of the potential for a new world tribunal that would make binding decisions on a host of issues critical to the U.S. economy. The draft text has been available on the Internet since Oct. 20 for all to see.
Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US NOW!
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXU.N. PLANNING COURT TO JUDGE U.S. FOR 'CLIMATE JUSTICE'
Stealth agenda to issue rulings on debt, finance, tech transfersPublished: 4 hours ago
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At the upcoming United Nations Climate Summit in Paris, participating nations have prepared a treaty that would create an "International Tribunal of Climate Justice" giving Third World countries the power to haul the U.S. into a global court with enforcement powers.
Congress would be bypassed – left out in the cold – by this climate deal, critics say.
Policies once left to sovereign nations could be turned over to a U.N. body if the U.S. and its allies approve the proposed deal in Paris during the summit scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 11.
What do YOU think? Should the U.N.'s climate tribunal have power over U.S.? Sound off in today's WND poll.
According to the proposed draft text of the climate treaty, the tribunal would take up issues such as "climate justice," "climate finance," "technology transfers," and "climate debt."
Buried on page 19 of the 34-page document is the critical text – still heavily bracketed with text that hasn't been completely resolved and agreed upon – reads:
[An International Tribunal of Climate Justice as][A] [compliance mechanism] is hereby established to address cases of non-compliance of the commitments of developed country Parties on mitigation, adaptation, [provision of] finance, technology development and transfer [and][,] capacity-building[,] and transparency of action and support, including through the development of an indicative list of consequences, taking into account the cause, type, degree and frequency of non-compliance.
The U.N. held a preparatory conference in September in Bonn, Germany, that drafted language to be approved at the upcoming Paris climate summit. At the Bonn meeting the U.N. brought together more than 2,000 participants from governments, observer organizations and the media.
But none of those media chose to report on the proposed new global tribunal.
The Paris Conference is mandated to adopt "a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all parties," which is to come into force in 2020, according to IISD Reporting Services, which tracks the global sustainable development movement.
Like many initiatives that come out of the U.N., there has been a media blackout on coverage of the potential for a new world tribunal that would make binding decisions on a host of issues critical to the U.S. economy. The draft text has been available on the Internet since Oct. 20 for all to see.
"The only mentions one is likely to find with search engines are alarms being sounded by critics, the climate realists who reject the apocalyptic predictions (and discredited pseudo-science – see: here, here, and here) of the multi-billion dollar global warming lobby," writes William F. Jasper for the New American magazine.
China, India behind the move
One such critic is the Craig Rucker, executive director and co-founder of CFACT.
Rucker points out that more than 130 developing nations – "led by South Africa and instigated by China and India" – are insisting they will not sign a climate deal in Paris unless it contains massive redistribution of wealth from developed to poor nations.
"Now they want the power to haul the U.S. and its allies before a U.N. Star Chamber to enforce compliance," Rucker writes.
He also notes that this is not the first time the U.N. has tried to insert language creating a global climate court into a U.N. climate document. It happened in 2011 at a summit in Durban but was stripped at the last minute when CFACT blew the whistle and some media outlets picked up the story.
But this time around, the globalists writing the text have substituted the world "tribunal" for "court" and insist the body will be "non-judicial."
"The slight edit to the terminology offers little comfort," Rucker said, cautioning that the word "tribunal" could get watered down further if it attracts too much attention.
"If the climate tribunal becomes the focus of public scrutiny, watch for the negotiators to pull a switch behind closed doors and try and accomplish the same thing by re-branding it an enforcement 'mechanism,'" he said.
Ceding sovereignty to U.N. bureaucracy
"Whatever they call it, countries who sign onto this agreement will be voting to expand the reach of the U.N. climate bureaucracy, cede national sovereignty, and create a one-way street along which billions will be redistributed from developed to poor nations," Rucker says. "Developed nations would be expected to slash their emissions while the 'poor' countries expand theirs. China, which holds a trillion dollars in U.S. debt, would be counted among the poor."
He said China and India are "delighted," with the prospect.
"They would like nothing better than a world where the West cedes the competitive advantages their free market economies created," Rucker writes. "They hope for a future where Asia does the manufacturing and the U.S. and Europe do the importing – until their wealth runs out, anyway."
Obama, Kerry 'desperate' to claim treaty as success
Rucker said President Obama and John Kerry are desperate to claim the climate treaty as a foreign policy "success."
"President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry are mired in foreign policy failures," Rucker notes. "They desperately want to get this agreement signed so they can claim a victory for their legacies.
"How far are they willing to sell out American interests to get this ill-begotten agreement signed?"
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/u-n-tribunal-to-judge-u-s-for-climate-debt/#Zps0UJU8oWvm6Jlj.99
Obama is not the only one. There's Republicans are in this game too and it takes Republicans and Obama thinking and working together to socialize the world - New World Order.
* Joke Of The Day *
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Obuma and Putin were walking around out in the country enjoying the scenery and
the mild fall weather.
On the trail they came across a sheep.
When the sheep tried to get away it got its head caught in the fence next to the trail and
was stuck.
Putin smiled, walked behind the sheep and dropped his drawers and had his way with it.
When Putin was done he turned to Obuma and said, "Go ahead it's your turn!"
Obuma eagerly walked over and stuck his head in the fence.
I respect the office of the presidency but I do not respect the
traitor who inhabits it. He is a disgrace to America.
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Ted Nugent on a Cruz Missile with Donald Trump
Intellectual Froglegs
VIDEO:
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A Letter To The Wise....
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It goes without saying, though I'll say it nevertheless, that it takes an enormous ego to imagine oneself the president of the United States. Imagine waking up one morning and deciding that nobody in a nation of 320 million is better suited to be the most powerful man or woman in the world; or, if not the world, at least in the United States.
Cartoons used to be filled with little guys wearing bicorne hats, with their right arms stuck inside their vests, and we knew that the joke had something to do with crazy people laboring under the delusion they were Napoleon Bonaparte. Today, those crazy people are all seeking the presidency.
Although we've seen plenty of egotists duking it out over the years... Lincoln and Douglas, Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt, FDR and Wendell Willkie, Kennedy and Nixon.... I think they would all pale compared to a clash of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. To be fair, Trump at least has a bunch of tall buildings and golf courses on his resume, whereas all that Mrs. Clinton can point to is a marriage license.
If there wasn't a chance that Hillary Clinton could wind up in the Oval Office, it would actually be very comical watching her try to shake off the email scandal the way a dog tries to shake water off itself. Even she must know how silly it is to suggest that the F.B.I., the New York Times, a couple of inspector generals, Obuma's highly partisan Justice Department and liberal icon Bob Woodward, are all a part of the vast right-wing conspiracy out to sink her candidacy.
I used to complain that Iowa had no business playing such an instrumental role at election time. That still holds true because Iowa remains one of the least representative states in the Union. The least representative, of course, is New Hampshire, both in terms of size and demographics.
But these days I have a more tolerant attitude because I'm getting such a kick out of watching all the candidates showing up, trying to pretend they grew up milking cows and tossing around cow pies. I've even seen Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina showing up at the State Fair wearing their very first pairs of blue jeans.
But so far nothing beats Hillary Clinton munching on some revolting item called a pork chop on-a-stick. I'm sure there must be worst-sounding foods, but unless it's a monkey burger, I can't imagine what it might be.
The question is whether in the off-years, Iowans get along with standard fare like hot dogs, hamburgers and cotton candy, and if they only roll out the deep-fried Milky Ways and the chocolate covered chunky bacon maple nougat on-a-stick for laughs when the political hucksters roll into town.
Proving itself to be the equivalent of a drunken sailor on leave, California passed the Clean Energy Jobs Act in 2012, which they swore would create 11,000 jobs-a-year for the foreseeable future. In the three years since it was passed, 1,700 jobs have been created. But when things are being run by the likes of Gov. Moon Beam Jerry Brown and his trained fleas in Sacramento, promising 11,000 jobs-a-year and coming up with 567 is what we in California have learned to call a darn good try.
When it comes to offering sanctuary to illegal aliens, California takes a backseat to nobody. As if the reality weren't bad enough, those responsible for the madness continue to tell us that open borders are not only humane, but a financial boon for America. How can it be humane that illegal aliens are stealing jobs from American citizens? But when you realize that $338 billion a year is squandered by the feds and the states providing welfare, education and incarceration, for untold millions, it is even harder to spot the financial bonanza.
When you factor in the emotional cost of the murders, rapes and child molestations, committed by many of these interlopers, the big lie becomes even more apparent and far more tragic.
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 for the purpose of granting legal status to ex-slaves who were brought to America against their will. It has required generations of half-witted judges to decide it grants similar rights to the babies of women who snuck across our border to give birth. It would make as much sense if an illegal alien snuck into your home to deliver a baby and then argued that the kid, and therefore his parents, are entitled to take up permanent residence.
The Smithsonian has seen fit to display a bust of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, in a place of honor. This is the same woman who popularized eugenics, making a staunch believer out of Adolf Hitler with her insistence that those whom she deemed unfit to reproduce.... namely, blacks, Jews and Italians... should undergo mandatory sterilization.
The irony is that she is a hero to the Left, although if her plans had been carried out here in the States, no Demorat in the past 50 years would have been elected president.
When people demonstrated in Poland, Hungary, Iran, Syria and China, it was to seek freedom from tyranny. In the United States, it's nearly always the mob that takes to the streets, whether it was Chicago in 1968, L.A. in 1992, or Ferguson and Baltimore in the past year.
Other nations saw freedom fighters confront the Soviet, Chinese and Islamic, despots; here it's the despots calling themselves Yippies, Occupy Wall Streeters or members of the Black Lives Matter movement, whose goal is nothing more than to create chaos, attack the police with impunity, and to turn the clock back on civilization.
In a sane world, these nitwits would be deep fried, stuck on sticks and served at the Arizona State Fair.
.....Burtrum Leroy Smatters
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=7uQu1iWHuwU#t=28
American Embarrassment - Intellectual Froglegs
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VIDEO:
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This VIDEO will blow your mind... it did mine, anyway.... Flying free as a Bird... WOW!!!
VIDEO:
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SEE IT IN FULL SCREEN AND TURN UP THE SOUND TO REALLY ENJOY IT!
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*** SNL - Dimoratic Debate ***
VIDEO:
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PLUS
....WTF???
"SNL Host Donald Trump Tries on Sia's Wig"
VIDEO:
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A Letter To The Wise....
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Because Barack Hussein Obuma says he wants his administration to look more like America, he recently appointed Raffi Freedman-Gurspan to be the director of the White House Office of Personnel. I'm not sure what that title means, either, but that's not really important. What matters is that Mr. Freedman-Gurspan is the first transgender to ever be a White House official. At least his/her/its being a transgender makes that goofy hyphen slightly more appropriate than is usually the case.
So it is that one more item gets scratched off Obuma's bucket list. It does raise the question, though, why it is necessary that this freak be given a slot in the White House, when there are, fortunately, only a handful of these critters in the entire nation. On the other hand, there are tens of millions of conservatives, and yet Hussein has resisted the urge to give any of them a cushy job.
But, then, this is the same guy who is always Johnny-on-the-spot with a phone call and a shout-out whenever a homosexual athlete ventures out of the closet. One gets the feeling that if he thought he could get away with it, Obuma would turn the White House into a replica of a San Francisco bathhouse.
One has come to assume lunacy in places like New York, Massachusetts and California, but apparently the liberal virus is more virulent and fast-moving than the notorious bird flu. For instance, in Connecticut, the state Supreme Court has ruled that all executions are unconstitutional.
As if that's not bad enough, seven years ago an 11-year-old girl, who was a next door neighbor, had her two best friends, along with their mother, raped and murdered. But, today, as radio talk show host Dennis Prager recently pointed out, at the age of 18, she has been brainwashed so successfully by the media and her teachers that she insists it would be wrong to execute the two barbarians responsible for the crimes.
Meanwhile, in Tennessee, a state court has insisted that the designation of Mother and Father on birth certificates be replaced by Parent One and Parent Two, all because homosexuals, who represent 4% of America's adoptive parents, must be accommodated.
In the nation's mad rush to concern itself with the tender sensibilities of minorities, the majority are being compelled to live in a bizarre universe where black thugs, illegal aliens and sexual oddballs, are treated with the sort of coddling generally reserved for little babies, sacred cows and the Ayatollah Khamenei.
Although I don't make it a practice to tune in on Rush Limbaugh, some of my friends do. One of them let me know that Rush recently said that if he had the opportunity to interview Hillary, he would say: "Mrs. Clinton, let me mention seven names: Paula Jones, Juanita Broadrick, Kathleen Willey, Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Beth Dozoretz and Denise Rich. Now tell us: How can you look at anyone with a straight face and talk to them about family values, when it takes a village to satisfy your husband?"
I know that a lot of people on our side of the aisle have been going after Megyn Kelly because she dared to ask Donald Trump one of the many questions he would prefer not to be asked. I thought it was a fair question, but, then, I haven't signed on to be a member of Trump's Praetorian Guard.
That's not to say that I am totally on board with Megyn. At times, I regret to say, she has shown signs of morphing into a diva ever since Roger Ailes placed her front and center on Fox. There are times I can't help thinking she is devoting more time to selecting her wardrobe than to selecting her guests.
Frankly, I had assumed that nobody could be worse than those idiots Bill O'Reilly regularly sprang on us. But there are times when I look back on Bob Beckel, Alan Colmes, Juan Williams, Leslie Marshall, Marc Lamont Hill and Geraldo Rivera, almost with a sense of unmitigated nostalgia.
I have no idea where Ms. Kelly dug up the arrogant Richard Fowler and the downright spooky Robert Zimmerman, but she should get busy with that shovel and bury them before anyone at Forest Lawn notices that they're gone missing.
Speaking of wardrobes, Fowler, who is identified as a nationally syndicated radio host, although nobody had ever heard of him, must have a bigger closet than Imelda Marcos. He always shows up dressed to the nines, as the old saying goes. But like a cheap Christmas gift that tries to fool you with the wrapping, he is nothing but a second-hand Marc Lamont Hill, black and full of himself. Like Rand Paul and Kirsten Powers, he is obviously a graduate of the American Academy of Smugness.
As for Mr. Zimmerman, who looks as if he has never seen daylight and can only be killed with a silver bullet or a wooden stake through the heart, is apparently a P.R. man who works for the DNC. The way he postures and preens, one would assume that at some point he had given serious thought to pursuing an acting career. It's probably just as well that he didn't because he would have been typecast as a zombie or a purveyor of child porn.
Finally, a friend, who is even more cynical than I am when it comes to the political scene, wrote to say that there is no candidate on the horizon who will be acceptable to the majority of American voters. "This," he pointed out, "is usually fertile ground for a political coup."
I replied: "Hey, this is still America, buddy! Keep 2008 and 2012 in mind. It's pretty obvious that when we want a coup, we elect a coup."
.....Burtrum Leroy Smatters
A Letter To The Wise....
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Y'know . . . it's a shame, but Liberals actually believe:
....that Obuma is trying to do what's best for the poor and disadvantaged in the US by throwing welfare and food stamps at them in perpetuity. No way you can convince them (or the blacks themselves) that blacks were better off before he took office than they are now;
Yep. Libs believe that the way to solve poverty is by giving poor people money. We've been doing that for the last fifty years. How has that been working out? We still have the same number of people living in poverty but now the poverty is more palatable. Our "poor" live better than the majority of people on the planet but they still whine that it's not enough while they sit on heir butts and no nothing. The social safety net has turned into a hammock. As for blacks, they are doing far worse under Clown Obuma Downgrade than under Reagan and both Bushes. Black unemployment is at record levels.
.....that it was the GOP house which denied budget increases at consulates and embassies who caused the slaughter and desecration in Benghazi. They're convinced that the video was as much to blame as anything else and the investigations into Hillary's e-mail account are simply a witch hunt;
But just imagine the howls of outrage if Thunder Thighs Hillary were a Republican. She would be disgraced and there would be no way that she would be running for president. Remember, Dimorats can get away with murder, like the Floater did with Mary Jo Kopechne.
.....that Bush43 is the source of all arms used by ISIS to systematically wipe out Christians throughout the morally corrupt Middle East. They are quick to say that if you want to see the face of those who are responsible for the deaths of Kurds and other minorities over there, look in the mirror;
.....that the American people are tired of supporting Israel and fighting their wars for them. They genuinely believe that Obama has been very supportive of Israel and reasonable in his handling of Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Iran;
Clown Obuma can do no wrong.
.....that the Clown Obuma nuke "deal" with Iran is as good a situation as we can have with Iran right now, and that without it we would inevitably be drawn into war with them, sooner than later;
Just like they blame North Korea getting nukes on Bush43 when it was due to BJ and Madeleine Notsobright.
.....that beginning with Nixon, all US presidents have been guilty of giving away the store to China, even with military secrets, since they've all extended "Most Favored Nation" to them;
.....that the previous administrations were responsible for our caving to Russia, especially with removal of our nuclear missile shield in Poland;
And the Recharge button that Thunder Thighs presented to the Russians was a great success.
.....that the GOP's insistence on starting wars based on lies is the primary source of all the problems our veterans are having today and that Clown Obuma has continued to update and modernize our sophisticated weapons systems and is doing his best to "fix" the problems with the VA;
This would be funny if it weren't so serious.
.....that the figures claiming how much King Clown has increased the debt are false and that Bush43/Cheney were even worse at deficit spending than he has been because he's had to dig us out of the hole they caused with their wars of aggression and the collapse of the economy they brought upon us;
Even though the housing bubble was caused by misguided Dimorat policies continued by Bush43 that poor people should be allowed to own homes and redlining by banks was racist. Banks redlined for a reason. They didn't want to make loans to people who couldn't afford them. When the gummint forced them to make those loans, they had to charge high interest rates to cover the loans they knew would default.
.....that Clown Obuma is not to blame for ruining our credit rating; that's the GOP House's fault;
Of course it is. The Republicans are always at fault, even when they don't control Congress or the White House. When King Obumbler (or BJ) was president and the gummint was shut down, it was the fault of Republicans in Congress. When Reagan was president and the gummint was shut down it was the fault of the White House. It is never the Dimorats' fault. It's nice when the media is the propaganda arm of your party.
.....that Bush43 caused more African-Americans to lose their jobs than The Obumbler has;
As I said before, blacks did far better under Reagan and Bush43 and black unemployment is far worse under King Oblunder. It is at record levels. Also, the official unemployment numbers put out by the gummint are bogus. The real unemployment in this country is over 12%. In fact, during the Clowns years we have been in an unemployment recession. I'm sure the official GDP numbers are bogus as well... my opinion, anyways.
.....that Bush43 caused more increases in welfare spending than King Bumbler has;
Because Bush43 loved poor people so much. You just gotta love liberal logic.
.....that Bush43 policies made it legal to kill American citizens in foreign countries who were doing things he didn't like;
Which president is it that has a kill list to determine which dudes will be killed by drone strikes? The Obumbler do!
.....that Guantanamo is a huge mistake and that we need to either bring those "terrorists" here for trial if they are indeed criminals or just send them back where they came from if they're not;
.....that the reason Congress doesn't get any legislation passed is their refusal to meet the President halfway on issues;
.....that the House has lurched too far to the right and won't consider compromise on big issues;
Compromise is when Republicans cave to Dimorats. There is no word to describe when Dimorats cave to Republicans because it never happens. Oblamebush refuses to meet Republicans halfway on any issue. It's his way or the highway. Remember what he told Republicans right after the election? "I will trump you on that because I won." Wouldn't it be nice if he were as tough on our enemies as he is on Republicans? They mug him with impunity while the Stupid Party lets him mug them.
.....that King Obuma's use of Executive Orders has been in the best interests of the country and has not violated or eliminated any individual rights or Constitutional law. And THAT's why they'll continue to vote for whoever has a drea "D" after his name on the ballot. There's a lot more to tell, but you get the point.
Remember when the libterds screamed about Bush43 tearing up the Constitution? Compared to Obumbi, Bush43 is a strict Constitutionalist. I have never seen in my lifetime a president who disregards the Constitution as much as this a**hole. Of course, calling him on this and trying to stop this power grab is deemed raaaaaaacist.
My problem with all that is that I don't know what to believe because we simply cannot trust what comes out of Congress and/or the Oval Office. Some, or even most, of what many liberals think might be valid, but I will never be able to assess the situation accurately. They'll give us what they want us to hear, whether it's true or not, and we have no way of knowing the difference.
I will vote against a Hillary because I firmly believe that she belongs in jail and if elected will do only what's in HER best interests. She's interested only in the spotlight, the power trip, the bennies, and the book sales when she achieves emeritus status.
But the PIAP is too big to jail. Both Clintons belong in jail. They have become an organized crime family and the Clinton Foundation is nothing more than a giant money laundering scheme. They're doing this stuff out in the open and they are getting away with it. Amazing!
I voted against Obuma because I thought he was ineligible and unqualified, and he's proven it with his the-dog-ate-my-homework administration. Hillary has already demonstrated her fallback with her the-server-ate-my-emails gambit. Why should we expect her to do anything different as PotUS?
I'll vote against Sanders if she's arrested and Sanders gets the nod; why? Because he's a loon who actually thinks that the poor would be better off if we confiscate all the wealth available and spread it out equally amongst the people.
Because that has worked everywhere it's been tried, ya know, like the USSR.
But as to how correct my views are or how wrong most liberals' are, I haven't a clue except my gut feeling that Obuma is a fraud, Biden is a buffoon, Earnest is a professional liar, and Harry Reid is an irrecoverable a**hole. I'd name the rest of the morons, but I gotta go to the potty.
Always feel better when I can spew this stuff out.
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With Open Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations
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Western Civilization is responsible for virtually every significant advance of the human race. Millennia of struggle were required for it to evolve. A single generation is putting an end to it: The Black Plague was insignificant compared to the existential menace of the left-liberal rule that is using demographic warfare to irrevocably destroy Europe and North America. Political correctness is the most destructive weapon ever devised. The people wielding it are committing a crime unprecedented in human history. (https://www.vdare.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/invasionofeurope-672x372.jpg)
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Mizzou Prof Melissa Click Wins Pea Brain Award
Lids off to Melissa Click, the moonbat professor who called for "muscle" to deal with a nosy journalist who was poking into the activities of black supremacist activists and their gut-wrenchingly contemptible Caucasian collaborators in a public area of the University of Missouri that they had proclaimed to be a "safe space." She has been awarded the following high honor:(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/melissa-click.jpg)
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xRlRAyulN4o#t=64
By now it should be obvious why moonbats are referred to as liberal fascists. This appalling demonstration of Romper Room–level authoritarianism has drawn enough attention to the University of Missouri (which just forced out the President and the Chancellor for being insufficiently enthusiastic about ultra-left ideology) that the school has backed off ever so slightly from doctrinaire moonbattery, even going so far as to force out Click — but not really: The University of Missouri's journalism school praised a student journalist Tuesday after he stood his ground and asserted his First Amendment right to take pictures of a campus protest, despite aggressive pushback from a mob of students and faculty members. Video of the confrontation with the journalist, Tim Tai, went viral as the school distanced itself from a professor, Melissa Click, who was seen in the video calling for "muscle" to remove another journalist from the protest site. Late Tuesday night, Click resigned her courtesy appointment with the journalism school, although she remains an assistant professor at the university. That is, she resigned, but she didn't really resign.
I think they have a solid candidate to replace ex-President Tim Wolfe after public outrage dies down.
Check out her impressive academic background: According to a university bio, Click serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Communication. "Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy," the bio states. "Current research projects involve 50 Shades of Grey readers, the impact of social media in fans' relationship with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality television programming, and messages about work in children's television programs." But she makes up for being a useless, frivolous moron by advancing the cause of Social Justice, which is all that really matters in "higher" education these days. As for the other exceedingly obnoxious female fascist in the video, she has been identified as the university's director of Greek Life, Janna Basler. A statement from three Greek councils on campus — the National Pan Hellenic Council, Panhellenic Association and Intrafraternity Council — said on Tuesday that the councils continue to support Basler, noting that she has a track record for advocating and defending marginalized students. That is to say, Basler too is a militant moonbat. "Marginalized" is Liberalese for "politically preferred." Looks like Mizzou has a prime candidate for the open Chancellor slot too.(https://westernrifleshooters.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/mizzou-mao-meme.jpg)
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In 2004, eleven states, including Kentucky voted overwhelmingly to BAN gay marriage. Eleven states voted, and all eleven states said NO to same-sex marriage...
For over a decade, it has been the law of the land.
As of 2014—just last year, 31 states had either constitutional or statutory provisions that explicitly defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
I have a simple question... where does the judicial branch get the power to over-rule state elections... aka the will of the people?
The tenth amendment is actually quite clear...."The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."[/size]
Look. It says anything not specifically delegated to the Federal government by the Constitution is reserved for either the states...or the people—nowhere does it even mention the judicial branch.
Additionally, and importantly... Words/phrases/powers not in, nor delegated by the constitution: Marriage, Healthcare, Abortion.
God bless.
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We all weep for France, but will that be the extent of it
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We can say "it can't happen here", but it has and it continues to do so.
We can believe the media and their "mentally unstable lone wolf" pronouncements.
We can be shouted down by xenophobic pacifists whose "Co-exist" sticker now covers "Free Tibet".
We can withdraw our forces and proffer "consulting" and "peace-keeping" services instead.
We can pretend the coming storm will never arrive.
But it will.
And our offspring will curse us to their dying breaths for what we have foisted upon them. Because they... not us... will solve the problem once and for all and in the end, it will be the bloodiest blight on humanity in recorded history.
It will begin with vigilantism because our so-called leaders will continue to down-play what's happening all around us. The line between Muslim and Islamist will blur to non-existence. Pursuing terrorists to "bring them to justice" will be replaced by summary execution. It will no longer be a question of "good vs. bad". It will be "us against them" and it will run unabated until the threat is eradicated.... and then some.
And our children and grandchildren will never forgive us for what we made them do and what they had to turn into to do so.
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PARIS – World leaders are reacting to the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. Some of their views: ------
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Obama is calling the attacks on Paris "outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians" and is vowing to do whatever it takes to help bring the perpetrators to justice.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Obama said he would not speculate about who was responsible.
He called the attacks a "heartbreaking situation" and an "attack on all of humanity."
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U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY Kerry is describing the attacks in Paris as "heinous, evil" and "vile," calling them "an assault on our common humanity."
Kerry says the U.S. embassy in Paris is "making every effort to account for the welfare of American citizens in the city."
He says the U.S. stands ready "to provide whatever support the French government may require."
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UNITED NATIONS U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is condemning "the despicable terrorist attacks" in Paris.
U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says Ban "trusts that the French authorities will do all in their power to bring the perpetrators to justice quickly."
The U.N. Security Council also condemned "the barbaric and cowardly terrorist attacks," and underlined the need to bring the perpetrators of "these terrorist acts to justice."
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GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL Merkel says she is "deeply shaken by the news and pictures that are reaching us from Paris."
The German leader issued a statement saying her thoughts were with the victims "of the apparent terrorist attack."
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IRANIAN PRESIDENT HASSAN ROUHANI Rouhani has sent a message to French President Francois Hollande condemning the terror attacks in Paris that killed over 120 people.
The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Rouhani as saying Saturday that Iran "itself has been a victim of the scourge of terrorism" and the fight against terrorism must go on.
Rouhani also canceled visits to France and Italy, due in a few days. France was one of the world powers involved in recent negotiations with the Islamic Republic over its contested nuclear program.
Hossein Jaber Ansari, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, also was quoted by IRNA as saying: "Those terrorist groups that committed the Paris crimes do not believe in ethical principles and they are not loyal to any type of divine religions -- including Islam."
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BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DAVID CAMERON Cameron says he is "shocked" by the Paris attacks and violence.
Cameron said on Twitter: "Our thoughts and prayers are with the French people. We will do whatever we can to help."
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PERSIAN GULF COUNTRIES In the United Arab Emirates, the state-run WAM news agency says President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan sent a telegram to French President Francois Hollande offering his condolences and pledging support for France. WAM says Al Nahyan also supported doing "what it takes to face terrorism and eliminate it."
The ruler of tiny Kuwait, emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, says in a statement that he offered his condolences, while stressing that "these criminal acts of terrorism ... run counter to all teachings of holy faith and humanitarian values."
In Saudi Arabia, the state-run Saudi Press Agency quoted a Foreign Ministry official denouncing Friday's attack.
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CHINA FOREIGN MINISTRY Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei says China is "deeply shocked" by the attacks and pledged solidarity with France in combating terrorism.
"Terrorism is a common challenge facing humanity. China resolutely supports France in maintaining its national security and stability and in attacking terrorism," Hong said.
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JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says he is "deeply shocked and outraged" by the news of the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Kishida, speaking to reporters Saturday in Hiroshima, said Japan stands by France, promising to cooperate in international fight against terrorism.
"We strongly condemn the act of terrorism, which we do not tolerate for any reason," he said, expressing condolences to the victims and their families.
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U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY ASH CARTER Carter is calling the attacks in Paris "an assault on our common human dignity."
The Pentagon chief says "the United States stands with the people of France and its vibrant, multicultural democracy."
He is praising France as a NATO ally and a leader of the coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Syria.
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He says Canada has offered "all of our help and support to the government of France."
------ U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL LORETTA LYNCH Lynch says the U.S. stands "in solidarity with France, as it has stood with us so often in the past."
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Check out this '100 year old' test for Kentucky 8th grade students....
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So, do you believe American children are smarter than their counterparts in 1912? And forget about computers... most of these kids didn't even have electricity.
The following Eighth Grade Exam is from the Bullitt County (KY) Schools in 1912. Note that there are several typesetting mistakes on the test including a mistake in the spelling list. The word "eneeavor" should be "endeavor."
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I have to admit, I would definitely fail this test.
And it is sad to say, most likely, college educated people with college diploma's would as well.
And yet our government today is still considering lowering educational standards even lower.
The great state of Massachusetts has one of the high standards, however when averaging the scores of many states, Massachusetts may be required to lower their teaching standards to fit in with the other states.
How smart is that of Government Education.
Massachusetts is a very strong socialist state. That's where much of the Republican thinking originates. That's why Obama is not really so bad to Republicans. Obama is much more acceptable to Republicans than un-reconstructed Democrats - Jeffersonians that is.
I'm thinking that there should not be any government education. Of course, our modern social authority does not allow that.
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The Yuge Case For Donald Trump – Part 2
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Things I Trust more than Barack Obama
A Intellectual Froglegs mini
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Trump seems to be more conservative than the rest of them. Will he hold?
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The War In Syria
Syria in 60 seconds:Here's how Andrew Tabler, an expert on Syria at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, summarized the conflict:"The Syrian Civil War is arguably the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, with over a quarter million killed, roughly the same number wounded or missing, and half of Syria's 22 million population displaced from their homes. But more than that, Syria today is the largest battlefield and generator of Sunni-Shia sectarianism the world has ever seen, with deep implications for the future boundaries of the Middle East and the spread of terrorism.
"What started as an attempt by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to shoot Syria's largest uprising into submission has devolved into a regionalized civil war that has partitioned the country into three general areas in which U.S.-designated terrorist organizations are dominant. In Syria's more diverse west, the Alawite and minority-dominated Assad regime, and a mosaic of Shia militias trained and funded by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), hold sway. In the center, Sunni moderate, Islamist, and jihadist groups, such as ISIS and the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, share control. And in the northeast, the Kurdish-based People's Protection Units (YPG) have united two of three cantons in a bid to expand "Rojava"—Western Kurdistan. As the country has hemorrhaged people, neighboring states have carved out spheres of influence often based on sectarian agendas that tear at the fabric of Syrian society, with Iran (and now Russia) propping up the Assad regime; Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.A.E. supporting the Sunni-dominated opposition; and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) supporting the YPG".
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What started in Syria has spread to multiple countries—to Iraq, where ISIS has effectively erased part of the border with Syria and taken over a chunk of the northwest; to Turkey and Lebanon, which together have taken in more than 3 million of the 4 million registered Syrian refugees; to Europe, which has received more than 500,000 asylum applications from Syrians since 2011; and to the United States, which as of this writing has resettled fewer than 2,000 Syrian refugees since 2011 but has pledged to take in 10,000 more over the next year.(http://www.govexec.com/media/gbc/docs/pdfs_edit/graphic3.jpg)
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Warph's Vetting Of Syrian Refugees
I have no problem with admitting Christian Syrian refugees since they are being killed by the bad boy muslims. How do we make sure we are only admitting Christians? Here's my Vetting Test, a "robust" method for vetting Syrian "refugees", failing a step is automatic rejection.
Step 1. Ask basic yet probing questions on Christianity, such as which apostle betrayed Jesus or quote a parable, etc.
Step 2. Have them pet and play with a dog.
Step 3. Have them draw a picture of Mohammed (Piss Be Upon Him).
Step 4. Ask them to tear a page from the Koran. (Wiping a**/blowing nose optional).
Step 5. Have them eat a ham sandwich or taste some BACON.
Step 6. Have them wash sandwich down with a beer.
Step 7. Welcome to America!
Or reinstitute the "bringing over" societies from many years ago.They sponsored refugees coming over so they would have a job and a place to stay awaiting their arrival.They wouldn't be a burden that way.
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This op-ed called for Obuma to either "LEAD or RESIGN!" An excerpt:https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/546397168.jpg?quality=100&strip=all&w=664&h=441&crop=1
"Barack Hussein Obama has spent the last seven years trying to avoid the world as it is. He has put his intellect and rhetorical skills into the dishonorable service of assigning blame and fudging failure. If nuances were bombs, the Islamic State would have been destroyed years ago.
"He refuses to say "Islamic terrorism," as if that would offend the peaceful Muslims who make up the vast bulk of victims. He rejects the word "war," even as jihadists carry out bloodthirsty attacks against Americans and innocent peoples around the world.
"He shuns the mantle of global leadership that comes with the Oval Office, with an aide advancing the preposterous concept that Obama is "leading from behind." He snubs important partners like Egypt, showers concessions on the apocalyptic mullahs of Iran, and called the Islamic State the "jayvee team" even as it was beginning to create a caliphate.
"Having long ago identified American power as a problem, he continues to slash the military as the enemy expands its reach. In a globalized era, the Obama doctrine smacks of cowardly retreat and fanciful isolation."This Clown posing as the leader of the free world is a joke. A deadly joke. His only two qualifications for office were his skin color and his ability to read words, written by others, off a TelePrompTer. Sarah Palin was more qualified to be president since she had actually ran a town and a state. All Obuma has ever run was his mouth. We have seen what white guilt and the imcompetence of the Stupid Party by running McRINO and PALIN against him have given us. I know people who voted for Obuma twice and it is obvious that they suffer from terminal stupidity or cognitive dissonance. Most of them are liberals and as sane people know, liberalism is a mental disease.
The entire op-ed is too long to post but follow the link and read the whole thing.
The last paragraph follows: https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/546397168.jpg?quality=100&strip=all&w=664&h=441&crop=1"If Obama cannot rise to the challenge of leadership in this historic crisis, then, for the good of humanity, he should resign. Those are the only options and it is his duty to decide."Of course, then we would get the Gaffemeister, Joe Biden, but even he would be preferable to the racist, the gay closet Muslim, incompetent moron, Barack Hussein Obuma. Here is a Poem addressing the above:
"Some years ago you won a race,
Then captured every polling place
Where ethnic loyalty was high
With "Hope" and "Change" the new war cry.
And now, the path all liars walk,
Who thrive on gossip, fear, and talk,
Your legacy comes crashing down
As jobs and revenue leave town.
'Tis good your reign was lawful set
At just two terms, with no regret,
By men much wiser than you are
To stay your dreams of lifetime Czar.
Smart men, to know the siren's lure
Of power, riches, haute grandeur
That cause the weakness to erupt
Which makes men evil and corrupt.
So now you will not hear the praise
Of those who did your logo raise
But of instead the non-white folk
Who now are poorer, lost, and broke.
Today, as all your speeches fade
And they can see mistakes you made,
It's clear they had much better chance
Before they fell into your trance.
Awakened now, they wait to hear
You put an end to your career
By saying two short words so fine,
The nightmare's ending: "I resign."
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RESIGN
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I didn't know that Jeremiah Wright was Muslim.It can't go both ways.
I'm learning to hate politics.It brings out the worst in people
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I'm learning to hate politics.It brings out the worst in people
I know what you mean Diane. For example, on Oct 14 someone posted " Well, it's official. Joe B. is running. Should be interesting "
Then 4 days later posted this "my "insider" was totally wrong! He, a local politician in the House of Rep., and a close friend of Joe's, should have known, but sure didn't"
See what I mean---you just can't believe a dang thing you read when it comes to politics. poke –poke :)
PS : You need to hit your space bar between "politics. It ". Now calm down--I'm not being a snot---I just know how important it is to you , for all spelling and such to be right. :angel:
Quote from: Diane Amberg on November 19, 2015, 09:37:56 AM
Or reinstitute the "bringing over" societies from many years ago.They sponsored refugees coming over so they would have a job and a place to stay awaiting their arrival.They wouldn't be a burden that way.
They are already a political burden. A costly burden!
How about sending the able bodied men home to fight to regain their own country.
If someone were attacking our country do you think our able bodied should run to live in a different country or stand and fight?
I'll tell you what, I do believe most ot the older veterans would fight even from a wheel chair. We would not abandon our families or our country.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on November 20, 2015, 08:45:58 AM
I didn't know that Jeremiah Wright was Muslim.It can't go both ways.
Yeah... neither did I.
According to Rush Limbaugh http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2008/04/09/new_republic_reported_in_07_rev_wright_a_former_muslim3 :
"In the New Republic in 2007, it was reported that Jeremiah Wright had been a muslim and a black nationalist."
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Earphones, what an awesome post full of truth, I bet President Obuma , won't like that , he will be sending his henchmen after you. If he does People like Jarhead will be well armed to protect you. I will be there to, I have lots of Guns and Ammo and would love to shoot it all up at Obumas henchmen, who are probably Isis Troops.
Jar, you can pick on my typing all you want....and the idiot who proclaimed that Joe B. was running had every reason to know and then blew it.
He is, and should be, very embarrassed.. note the word "ass" there. ;D If you work on it ya can come up with bar assed...as in big brown bar. (bear)
Quote from: Diane Amberg on November 21, 2015, 01:44:00 PM
Jar, you can pick on my typing all you want....and the idiot who proclaimed that Joe B. was running had every reason to know and then blew it.
He is, and should be, very embarrassed.. note the word "ass" there. ;D If you work on it ya can come up with bar assed...as in big brown bar. (bear)
So there Jarhead.
Jarhead have you heard how Democrats and Government got high payed Asses in government.
Well here is the story, just for you Jarhead. I don't want to ffend any thin skinned people. But you Marines are tough and can handle it. LOL
Once upon a time there was a king who wanted to go fishing. He called the royal weather forecaster and inquired as to the weather forecast for the next few hours.
The weatherman assured him that there was no chance of rain in the coming days. So the king went fishing with his wife, the queen. On the way he met a farmer on his donkey. Upon seeing the king the farmer said, "Your Majesty, you should return to the palace at once because in just a short time I expect a huge amount of rain to fall in this area.
The king was polite and considerate, he replied: "I hold the palace meterolOgist in high regard. He is an extensively educated and experienced professional. Besides, I pay him very high wages. He gave me a very different forecast. I trust him and I will continue on my way.
So he continued on his way.
However, a short time later a torrential rain fell from the sky. The King and Queen were totally soaked and their entourage chuckled upon seeing them in such a shameful condition.
Furious , the king returned to the palace and gave the order to fire the weatherman at once! Then he summoned the farmer and offered him the prestigious and high paying role of royal forecaster. The farmer said, "Your Majesty, I do not know anything about forecasting. I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see my donkey's ears drooping, it means with certainty that it will rain.
So the king hired the donkey. And so began the practice of hiring asses to work in the government, and occupy its highest and most influential positions and which later became the symbol for the Democrat party. Thus ends your knowledge lesson for today.
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Quote from frawin,
On Facebook this Morning there is a Post that says ISIS is going to Attack Atlanta Georgia today. I hope they do, because if they do our Marines will be there to meet them. They will be wiped out. . I hope I see some posts agreeing with me. I forgot to Mention that Jarhead will be at the front of the Pack leading the charge. I know he will hate that because he loves President Obuma so much'
I don't know where to really post this but I don't think it belongs in the Coffee Shop.
No Frank, I do not agree with you and surprised anyone would. To hope ISIS would attack anyone in the USA is not something I wish for----not ever . For me to be leading any charge is not on my bucket list either. There may be some out there but I personally do not know any combat veterans who would relish the thought of doing it again.
I also keep reading of people saying how many guns they have and how much ammo but I know for a fact you can be manning a M-60 machine gun, firing 500-600 rounds a minute and it only takes a small piece of shrapnel to enter under your armpit and pierce your aorta and you are KIA, so all the guns and ammo in the world won't keep you from being killed in a split second.
Quote from: jarhead on November 22, 2015, 03:17:42 PM
Quote from frawin,
On Facebook this Morning there is a Post that says ISIS is going to Attack Atlanta Georgia today. I hope they do, because if they do our Marines will be there to meet them. They will be wiped out. . I hope I see some posts agreeing with me. I forgot to Mention that Jarhead will be at the front of the Pack leading the charge. I know he will hate that because he loves President Obuma so much'
I don't know where to really post this but I don't think it belongs in the Coffee Shop.
No Frank, I do not agree with you and surprised anyone would. To hope ISIS would attack anyone in the USA is not something I wish for----not ever . For me to be leading any charge is not on my bucket list either. There may be some out there but I personally do not know any combat veterans who would relish the thought of doing it again.
I also keep reading of people saying how many guns they have and how much ammo but I know for a fact you can be manning a M-60 machine gun, firing 500-600 rounds a minute and it only takes a small piece of shrapnel to enter under your armpit and pierce your aorta and you are KIA, so all the guns and ammo in the world won't keep you from being killed in a split second.
Very. very right on the mark Jarhead.
I agree no vet would wish for an attack on our home from an enemy foreign of domestic.
Boasting of the number of guns or how much ammo a person has proves nothing except boasting.
But I do believe if it were to happen most vets would live up to their oath's.
Ross and Jarhead I don't understand your Posts in response to my Post "ISIS".I never said I was wishing for an attack in the U.S. by ISIS. I said I saw on the news they were going to. What it said was that top U.S. Sources
had it by good sources they were going to. Are you advocating that we just let them attack and not be ready and/or not tell the people. That sounds like something that Obuma would want. I received a lot more posts that were positive about my post than negative, the only negative ones were from you two. Jarhead your Post really surprised me. I know that you are an EX Marine and served you Country with honor. You both have a right to think what you want. I also received several Emails in response to my post, and they were all positive. My mistake was that I said ""I hope that do", I admit I said it all wrong, I should of said they are. To me the whole point was that they were going to and if they do the U.S. Military, Local Law Enforcement and probably Lots of Locals, would be there to do Battle. The great thing about America is that the Private Citizens are well armed. If Obuma had his way none of us would be armed and the news Media would not be allowed to release that they were coming. His term as President can't end soon enough, unfortunately if Hillary gets elected it won't be any better.
Quote from: ROSS on November 22, 2015, 03:38:37 PM
Very. very right on the mark Jarhead.
I agree no vet would wish for an attack on our home from an enemy foreign of domestic.
Boasting of the number of guns or how much ammo a person has proves nothing except boasting.
But I do believe if it were to happen most vets would live up to their oath's.
Quote from: frawin on November 23, 2015, 05:24:29 AM
Ross and Jarhead I don't understand your Posts in response to my Post "ISIS".I never said I was wishing for an attack in the U.S. by ISIS. I said I saw on the news they were going to. What it said was that top U.S. Sources had it by good sources they were going to. Are you advocating that we just let them attack and not be ready and/or not tell the people.
That sounds like something that Obuma would want. I received a lot more posts that were positive about my post than negative, the only negative ones were from you two. Jarhead your Post really surprised me. I know that you are an EX Marine and served you Country with honor. You both have a right to think what you want. I also received several Emails in response to my post, and they were all positive. My mistake was that I said ""I hope that do", I admit I said it all wrong, I should of said they are. To me the whole point was that they were going to and if they do the U.S. marines would be there to stop it. Again you were the only ones that took it that I was wishing for it.
LETS REVIEW since you don't understand, okay! OK!
You distinctly said, "I hope they do".Quote from: jarhead on November 22, 2015, 03:17:42 PM
Quote from frawin,
On Facebook this Morning there is a Post that says ISIS is going to Attack Atlanta Georgia today. I hope they do, because if they do our Marines will be there to meet them. They will be wiped out. . I hope I see some posts agreeing with me. I forgot to Mention that Jarhead will be at the front of the Pack leading the charge. I know he will hate that because he loves President Obuma so much'
Quote from: frawin on November 22, 2015, 08:03:40 AM
On Facebook this Morning there is a Post that says ISIS is going to Attack Atlanta Georgia today. I hope they do, because if they do our Marines will be there to meet them.
Quote from: jarhead on November 22, 2015, 03:17:42 PM
No Frank, I do not agree with you and surprised anyone would. To hope ISIS would attack anyone in the USA is not something I wish for----not ever
Quote from: ROSS on November 22, 2015, 03:38:37 PM
Very. very right on the mark Jarhead.
I agree no vet would wish for an attack on our home from an enemy foreign of domestic.
Which means the same thing as, "I hope they do".Quote from: jarhead on November 22, 2015, 03:17:42 PM
I also keep reading of people saying how many guns they have and how much ammo but I know for a fact you can be manning a M-60 machine gun, firing 500-600 rounds a minute and it only takes a small piece of shrapnel to enter under your armpit and pierce your aorta and you are KIA, so all the guns and ammo in the world won't keep you from being killed in a split second.
Quote from: ROSS on November 22, 2015, 03:38:37 PM
Boasting of the number of guns or how much ammo a person has proves nothing except boasting.
But I do believe if it were to happen most vets would live up to their oath's.
I sure do hope, this clarifies your misunderstanding for you.
Quote from: Diane Amberg on November 22, 2015, 02:40:08 PM
Frank, I understand what you mean I think, but I just can't wish an attack on anywhere.
See Diane even disagreed with you about, "Wishing an attack".
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Now Jar would probably be told to go some place safe "Old Man," and stay out of the way so nobody gets hurt trying to protect him.
Just funnin,' but at our age we forget the younger ones don't see us as we tend to see ourselves.
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Remember they said the same thing about women in the military, don't you.
Joking or not, I do believe the able bodied "Old Timers" would jump right into the foray if there was an attack either foreign or domesticated in our country. Some even in wheel chairs would take a stand.
Why? Because they wouldn't be near as worried about dying as they would about having their country under siege. Being old does not necessarily equate to being unable. Just saying.
I think you underestimate the older folk's abilities to man a gun.
But you are entitled to your opinion, just as I am.
Ross I told you I never said I wished an attack, I said I read where some Goverment agency said there was one coming. You are always trying to change what someone says. Lots of people fully read and agreed to what I said. You just can't avoid being Rude, do me a favor and either don't read my Posts or don't respond to them. I took you off of Block, because after what Teresa said I thought you would stop your Rudeness, I need to put you back on.
Quote from: frawin on November 23, 2015, 07:53:24 AM
Ross I told you I never said I wished an attack, I said I read where some Goverment agency said there was one coming. You are always trying to change what someone says. Lots of people fully read and agreed to what I said. You just can't avoid being Rude, do me a favor and either don't read my Posts or don't respond to them. I took you off of Block, because after what Teresa said I thought you would stop your Rudeness, I need to put you back on.
WRONG Here is your post once again:
Quote from: frawin on November 22, 2015, 08:03:40 AM
On Facebook this Morning there is a Post that says ISIS is going to Attack Atlanta Georgia today. I hope they do, because if they do our Marines will be there to meet them. They will be wiped out. OBUMA will say that he is really pleased the Marines wiped them, but in his heart he will be disappointed big time. I have said it many times and I will continue to say it, " he is the worst President in my lifetime" Knowing the People in Elk County, I am sure most of you agree. knowing Teresa and Kjell, I know they agree big time. If they had their way they would both be there with their arsenal loaded and firing away. The best thing about Obuma is he took away the Honors Jimmie Carter had as being the worst President in History. I hope I see some posts agreeing with me. I forgot to Mention that Jarhead will be at the front of the Pack leading the charge. I know he will hate that because he loves President Obuma so much'
Quote from: frawin on November 22, 2015, 08:03:40 AM
On Facebook this Morning there is a Post that says ISIS is going to Attack Atlanta Georgia today. I hope they do, because if they do our Marines will be there to meet them
You said :Quote from: frawin on November 22, 2015, 08:03:40 AM
I hope they do, because if they do our Marines will be there to meet them
I can not make what you said any clearer.
And then you knock Jarhead and myself for not agreeing with you, as if we are wrong about the issue.
You are the one wanting to change what you say, not me.
If instead of taking your error out on me, if that is what it is, simply post the fact that you meant some thing else. Problem solved. instead of attacking someone for having a different opinion.
You did not say, that the article said, they hope they do !
Ross as usual you twist things the way you want, my comment that I wished they would attack was that if they did they would be wiped out, again that is just a figure of speech, granted, poor wording ,I have stated that I worded it wrong Again, you always twist things to make it the way you want, and so you can get what you think is great recognition. I have asked you to not respond to my Posts no matter how much you disagree. I would appreciate it if you would not respond to my posts in the Future. I need to Block you so I don't see what your posts are. I don't think anything I have said violates what Teresa has said about negative postings. A big thank you to all of you that understood what I was saying and agreed and complemented my posting. Everyone have a great day.
Frank,
When I read your reply this morning I thought maybe I misread your post so went back and read it again. It still reads , to me, that you wanted then to attack in Atlanta. I do accept that you say you should have worded it different but I don't think on initially reading it that "you hoped they did" that I twisted what you wrote. I'm glad you cleared that up.
Might be I was a tad touchy because I just had two dear friends leave Wichita to go back to Pennsylvania and will be switching flights in Atlanta---which sure seems out of the way but tell that to the airlines---BUT---they would rather take the flight to Atlanta and switch planes than fly out of Harrisburg and do the switching in Chicago.
Thanks Jar, I did word it badly, for that I apologize to everyone. As I said a lot of people took it like I meant it, I will be very careful in my Post in the Future. I am never Pleased to see our Military in Harms Way. I had 4 brothers in the Military, lots of Nephews and even a couple of Nieces. I had lots of Uncles in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. I had a Nephew killed in Vietnam. I signed up for the Military During the Vietnam War, went to KC by Train for my Physical, I was rejected, they said I had Flat Feet and was Hard of Hearing. I argued with them, they told me that was final I went back, to Howard and went to the Draft Board and asked to go back for another physical, they said no way, that the it was final. I really wanted to go as my 4 Brothers had served. I will be double careful to watch what I post in the Future. Jar, I really appreciate your post and your understanding.
If you want to have some idea as to what is going on in Europe, read the following article. I hope to hell this will give you a better outlook as to what is really going on with ISIS. Sleeper cells are not only happening in Europe and God knows where, it is happening here in America, Michigan, case in point. These cells operating outside the middle east don't require a formal hierarchy of a military chain of command. A dozen disgruntled muslims can get together without anymore coordination from the middle east than the already posted call for jihad against the infidels and wreak havoc and say it was committed by.... (insert your favorite terrorist organization).
....WarphBombing Syria Won't Make Paris Safer
November 20, 2015 By David Frum The Atlantic
The enemy France and Europe are struggling against is far closer to home.
Bomb ISIS. Go ahead. They deserve it. It certainly satisfies the primal need for visible retaliation after the Paris attacks. It may even do some good in the struggle against terrorism in Europe. Some—but probably not very much.
The enemy against which France and Europe are struggling is not centered in Syria. It receives examples and inspiration from Syria. It travels to Syria for practice and training. But it arises and is formed at home, inside Europe. It threatened Europe long before ISIS ever took shape. In 1995, for example, Khaled Kelkal, a young Algerian raised in France, played a central role in a campaign by members of Algeria's Armed Islamic Group to place bombs at commuter rail stations, at the Arc de Triomphe, and—in a familiar pattern—at a Jewish school. The bombing campaign killed eight people and wounded hundreds more.
These "RER bombings"—so-called after the French commuter rail line they targeted—introduced France to indigenous terrorism in the name of Islam. But more, much more, was to come. Unlike the Hamburg, Germany cell that incubated the 9/11 hijackers, or the largely Moroccan authors of the 2004 Madrid train bombing that killed 191 and wounded almost 2,000, Islamist violence in Europe over the past decade has been predominantly the work of the European-born. And there's been considerable violence. This year alone, France has been struck seven times, beginning in January with the Charlie Hebdo killings and the attack on a kosher supermarket. These are only the attacks that succeeded: This week, British Prime Minister David Cameron revealed that U.K. intelligence services had prevented seven attacks within the past six months.
It's easy to imagine ISIS being broken up as a functioning force much as al-Qaeda has been: its leadership killed, its territory overrun, its communications disrupted. Yet even after that happens, some members of the Muslim minority inside Europe will remain disaffected, alienated, radical, and susceptible to messages of violence. It was often said during the Iraq War that we had to fight the terrorists over there lest we fight them over here. For Europe, the terrorists are already "over here": They are among the children and grandchildren of the immigrants of the 1980s and 1990s, now endowed with the rights and liberties of citizens. For jihadists, would-be jihadists, and their sympathizers, Islam has evolved from a religion into a group identity and a system of belief that legitimates violence against state and society.
There have been many attempts to measure how widespread this ideology is. A 2006 Pew survey, for instance, found that about 15 percent of French and British Muslims agreed that violence against civilians was justified to protect Islam. Another 9 percent in the U.K. and 19 percent in France said that violence against civilians could be justified "rarely." About half of French and British Muslims denied that Arabs had carried out the 9/11 attacks, a revealing marker of the extent to which conspiracy theories have taken hold in those communities. That same year, a survey of British Muslims found that almost one-quarter believed the 7/7 terrorist attacks on the London transit system had been justified because of Britain's participation in the war on terror. Those attacks killed 56 people, including the four perpetrators, and wounded hundreds more. A decade later, a slightly larger proportion said they had sympathy for the motives behind the Charlie Hebdo attacks. A reporter who visited French Muslim neighborhoods after the Charlie Hebdo assault found a strange mix of justification and claims that the attacks were really carried out by Jews. Imams who preach hatred against other religions and dissidents of all kinds are features of life in a number of European countries.
The military campaign against the Islamic State, however successful, is unlikely to make much difference in curbing the violence-enabling radicalism present within Europe's Muslim minority. The scale of the threat is overwhelming governments' surveillance capacity. (After the Paris attacks, the Belgian interior minister described the Molenbeek suburb where some of the perpetrators had lived as a place where the authorities no longer have control.) If enlarging the anti-ISIS war in Syria won't help, what might?
1) Focus on jobs first.
Immigrants in Europe, who include in their ranks a growing number of Muslims, are often more likely to be idle than the native population. Swedish immigrants are unemployed at a rate double the national average. The same is true in Germany, with the highest unemployment rates observed among immigrants from the Middle East. The unemployment rate for immigrants to France stands at over 17 percent, nearly double the rate for non-immigrants.
While there is some evidence of anti-immigrant discrimination in the workforce, the most important culprit behind these statistics is the mismatch between the requirements of the European job market and the skills that migrants bring with them and that their children are able to acquire in the first generation of resettlement. This mismatch is accentuated by European labor rules that impose heavy costs on employers beyond the wages they pay. Those costs discourage the hiring of new arrivals whose skills typically lag behind those of the native-born. Generous social-welfare systems reduce the pressure on immigrants to accept low-wage employment. And all of this occurs in the context of the severe economic-austerity policies required to preserve the euro currency.
A 2006 survey found that 15 percent of French and British Muslims agreed that violence against civilians was justified to protect Islam.
Put bluntly: The European labor model is inconsistent with a mass-migration society. And since the nations of Europe have—wittingly or unwittingly—allowed themselves to become mass-migration societies, their labor model will have to change in a more American direction. They need to create lots of entry-level jobs, while simultaneously reducing social-welfare benefits that enable people to refuse work.
2) Turn to assimilation next.
Europeans have long looked askance at America's tradition of flag-waving. What they tend not to understand is that this tradition originated in the weakness, not the strength, of American national identity. The Pledge of Allegiance was instituted not because Americans are super patriotic, but because American leaders worried that a country recently riven by civil war—and then repeopled by the great wave of immigration to the U.S. of 1880-1914—was not nearly patriotic enough. The Americans of a century ago made a cult of Americanness precisely because they understood that Americanism could not be taken for granted. It had to be inculcated.
Europe in the 21st century faces for the first time its own version of the challenge faced by the United States in the 19th century and again by the United States today. The task is made harder because 21st-century people find it much harder than their predecessors to define and defend established culture against nonconforming minorities. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair stoked dissent within his own Labour Party when he expounded on "British values" such as equality of respect and allegiance to the rule of law—and insisted on the "duty to integrate."
"No distinctive culture or religion supersedes our duty to be part of an integrated United Kingdom," Blair said. He warned those who would not accept this duty: "Don't come here. We don't want the hate-mongers, whatever their race, religion, or creed."
3) Set positive examples.
It's not enough to exhort people to assimilate and integrate: They have to be assured that assimilation and integration are achievable. Nineteenth-century America was filled with institutions that offered pathways for newcomers: the Catholic Church, the police, political parties, business success. Migrants to Europe have to feel that joining the system and playing by the rules will yield rewards. They see that in politics and the media to some degree, but—especially on the European continent—to a much lesser extent in other institutions. Systematic affirmative action on the American scale is impracticable in Europe for all kinds of reasons, not least the problem of defining who should receive it. But expending extra energy to promote second- and third-generation newcomers to visible leadership roles is feasible and necessary.
There's a big caveat, though: There has been a tendency in these efforts, especially in Britain, to be careless about vetting the credentials of those who receive such rewards. Governments have often chosen radicals as their interlocutors, in hopes that these radicals will somehow have the credibility to dissuade the ultra-radicals from outright violence. As British Prime Minister David Cameron warned in a July speech, "No one becomes a terrorist from a standing start. It starts with a process of radicalization. When you look in detail at the backgrounds of those convicted of terrorist offenses, it is clear that many of them were first influenced by what some would call non-violent extremists."
"It may begin with hearing about the so-called Jewish conspiracy and then develop into hostility to the West and fundamental liberal values, before finally becoming a cultish attachment to death," Cameron continued. "Put another way, the extremist worldview is the gateway, and violence is the ultimate destination."
Governments have to be very careful to support only responsible actors with demonstrated loyalty to state and nation. Attitudes to women, gays, Jews, Hindus, and so on are not a litmus test, but they are a useful early-warning system for who stands on the right side of the line, and who on the wrong side.
4) Curtail social-media incitement.
ISIS is to al-Qaeda as Web 2.0 is to Web 1.0. An anthropologist who has closely studied ISIS recruitment observes: "There are nearly 50,000 Twitter hashtags supporting ISIS, with an average of some 1000 followers each. They succeed by providing opportunities for personal engagement, where people have an audience with whom they can share and refine their grievances, hopes and desires ... creat[ing] the intimate social networks that dreamers need." Nobody intended this of course, but social networks like Twitter and Facebook have evolved into the most powerful terrorist recruiting tools ever conceived, offering susceptible users instant access to a vision of terrorism as glamorous, exciting, and meaningful. In the words of former CIA Director R. James Woolsey: "One can hardly imagine the development of the global jihad movement to its present proportions without the Internet—and at the heart of the jihadi organizations' strategy are U.S. social-media companies."
The prime targets for today's terrorist recruiters are young people who are divided between two worlds—their parents' home country and their own new land—and who feel at home in neither. Social media can offer an alternative and more thrilling home—and visions of causes worth killing and dying for. This is dangerous stuff for people who have slipped the hold of ancestral rules, but not yet accepted as their own the liberal values of the post-Enlightenment West.
Facebook's own rules forbid the posting of images "shared for sadistic pleasure or to celebrate or glorify violence." But the corporation is determined to avoid assuming the responsibilities of a publisher, and so it relies primarily on other users to flag offensive content. It's important that all media err on the side of maximal freedom. But ways have to be found to put a stop to recruitment to murder—ideally by the social-media companies themselves rather than by government.
5) Prevent Western-born ISIS fighters from returning home—and imprison them if they do.
Bearing arms for an enemy country has long been regarded as a basis for depriving people of their citizenship rights. In an era where enemies can be non-state actors, however, this ancient provision of law has become ineffective. A Briton who returned to Germany to fight for the kaiser could logically be seen as reverting to German nationality. But what nationality has an ISIS fighter become? ISIS claims to be a state. Nobody accepts that claim, and international law forbids rendering persons altogether stateless.
What can be done is this: Dual nationals who bear arms for ISIS can be deprived of their Western passports and right of re-entry. Canada already does this for persons convicted of serious terrorism offenses. (The new Liberal government of Justin Trudeau proposes to reverse this element of law.) In his address to the French nation on Monday, President Francois Hollande urged a similar measure.
Even when stripping Western ISIS fighters of citizenship is impractical, countries can recognize adherence to a foreign terrorist entity as a serious crime in itself. This will in some cases deter ISIS fighters from returning home, and in others enable the returned fighter to be imprisoned if he tries.
6) Don't make the problem bigger.
Europe is coping poorly with its large population of alienated, under-employed, and in some cases radicalized Muslim immigrants and their children. It seems then the zenith of recklessness to make that population larger still. Yet that's what's been happening over the past three years. The migration is not only Syrian; it comes from the greater Muslim world, extending from Senegal to Pakistan. This summer, Europe's border controls collapsed under the pressure of this migration.
The risk is not primarily that a few people already committed to terrorism will slip into Europe along with this vast movement of people, although that is a risk. The greater risk is that this new wave of Middle Eastern immigration will repeat the experience of prior waves: more failure to adjust, more under-employment, more alienation, more extremism, more violence.
It will be the work of many years to successfully absorb and acculturate the new population that has arrived in Europe since the 1970s. Yet many European policymakers seem to be following the bureaucratic rule: "If you don't know how to solve a problem, make it bigger." This course is endlessly justified by invoking the experience of Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. There's considerable irony in that analogy, since one immediate effect of the new migration has been to drive some of Europe's last remaining Jews into a new exodus, with 7,000 departing France for Israel in 2014. But the real error of the analogy is that it fails to reckon with the economic and cultural realities of two very different populations and two very different migrations. History isn't repeating itself.
The refusal of Barack Obama and other world leaders to reference the Islamic character of the Islamic State is probably tactful. But it's one thing to refrain from provocative words, another to suppress true thoughts. You can't act against a problem you won't acknowledge. Which may be why the West appears headed to a bigger war in Syria, in response to killers who came from Belgium.
Jar, one of the interesting things about the Man that was Head of the Local Draft Board, was that he had never served a day in the Military in his life. He was Elderly, Wealthy and was the Mayor of Howard. I am not going to be Negative in my Posts, but he had no business being the Head of the Draft Board. I am sure a lot of you Elk County area Forum Members remember him.
Quote from: Warph on November 23, 2015, 12:38:13 PM
Europeans have long looked askance at America's tradition of flag-waving. What they tend not to understand is that this tradition originated in the weakness, not the strength, of American national identity. The Pledge of Allegiance was instituted not because Americans are super patriotic, but because American leaders worried that a country recently riven by civil war—and then repeopled by the great wave of immigration to the U.S. of 1880-1914—was not nearly patriotic enough. The Americans of a century ago made a cult of Americanness precisely because they understood that Americanism could not be taken for granted. It had to be inculcated.
The Pledge of Allegiance ought to be scrapped because it's not patriotic and it's contrary to the Constitution. It was created by a yankee socialist to indoctrinate Americans.
Quote from: redcliffsw on November 24, 2015, 05:21:25 AM
The Pledge of Allegiance ought to be scrapped because it's not patriotic and it's contrary to the Constitution. It was created by a yankee socialist to indoctrinate Americans.
WOW...Red... Today's Pledge is somewhat different and has a totally different meaning than Francis Bellamy's, author of the old "Pledge of Allegiance"... maybe you don't get it. We as Americans do not think of socialism when we say it, Red. Its Patriotism, Red.... PATRIOTISM!!!... Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it, Red.... love and devotion for our country, Red.... it means the virtues and actions of a patriot, the passion which inspires one to serve one's country, Red. I'm sorry you do not think of it as Patriotic, Red.... Red... Red... isn't that a slang word meaning socialism??? Did you know that Hitler and his Nazi clowns stole the "Pledge of Allegiance" and salute from America for there Nazi workers party.... hmmmm... Red. Google it. Maybe you are thinking that the Vulcan salute would be more appropriate for you:(http://cdn.hitfix.com/photos/5975748/leonardnimoy_vulcansalute_1200_article_story_large.jpg)
Be damn glad you're an American, Red.
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Hillary Perfume
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Hillary's legacy has already begun, with the release of her own special fragrance:
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nLsMLqusd-Q#t=64
If America really has disintegrated to the point that this woman is elected, you can be sure that everything having to do with her administration will smell fishy.
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WOW...Red... Today's Pledge is somewhat different and has a totally different meaning than Francis Bellamy's, author of the old "Pledge of Allegiance"... maybe you don't get it. We as Americans do not think of socialism when we say it, Red. Its Patriotism, Red.... PATRIOTISM!!!... Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it, Red.... love and devotion for our country, Red.... it means the virtues and actions of a patriot, the passion which inspires one to serve one's country, Red. I'm sorry you do not think of it as Patriotic, Red.... Red... Red... isn't that a slang word meaning socialism??? Did you know that Hitler and his Nazi clowns stole the "Pledge of Allegiance" and salute from America for there Nazi workers party.... hmmmm... Red. Google it. Maybe you are thinking that the Vulcan salute would be more appropriate for you:
Thank you Warph
Warph,
You gonna buy a bottle of that Clintirous perfume ? I laughed my ass of watching that video.
Jar... Naw, I'm gonna stick to my ol' perfumes:(http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/117500/Peroni-Beer-Spray-Perfume--117500.jpg)
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Or my favorite:
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Quote from: Warph on November 26, 2015, 12:25:54 PM
WOW...Red... Today's Pledge is somewhat different and has a totally different meaning than Francis Bellamy's, author of the old "Pledge of Allegiance"... maybe you don't get it. We as Americans do not think of socialism when we say it, Red. Its Patriotism, Red.... PATRIOTISM!!!... Love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it, Red.... love and devotion for our country, Red.... it means the virtues and actions of a patriot, the passion which inspires one to serve one's country, Red. I'm sorry you do not think of it as Patriotic, Red.... Red... Red... isn't that a slang word meaning socialism??? Did you know that Hitler and his Nazi clowns stole the "Pledge of Allegiance" and salute from America for there Nazi workers party.... hmmmm... Red. Google it. Maybe you are thinking that the Vulcan salute would be more appropriate for you:
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Be damn glad you're an American, Red.
It's not yet a "hate crime" not to say the Pledge of Allegiance. It's socialist indoctrination - something that was never meant for Americans.
Recently, we were having a conversation about the Pledge of Allegiance in a small town cafe. The waitress overheard it and said, "Isn't that why we overthrew the British so that we wouldn't have to recite stuff like that?"
More people are coming to understand this phony government stuff that's been going on in this country since the War For Southern Independence. Republicans are glued to Lincoln and they accept the worship of the nationalist agenda.
Call it Pledge of Allegiance patrioitism if you like, but it's not.
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Judge Jeanine on Obuma's Response to Terror War's Escalation
A worse president than the Community Organizer in Chief would be difficult to imagine. Judge Jeanine Pirro sums up his response to the escalation of Islam's terror war:"His disdain for our concerns for the safety of our families is palpable. At a time when the American people are scared, when we need reassurance, he mocks us, he talks down to us, he divides us."After 7 miserable years of humiliating farce, I am no closer to understanding how grown adults could have voted for someone of Obuma's caliber.(http://moonbattery.com/graphics/obama-millions-refugees.jpg)
There is no doubt whatsoever that Obuma's importation of Syrian "refugees" will result in dead Americans. The question is, when the inevitable happens, what are we going to do about it?VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6bySYyD8AV4#t=0
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SHOCKER: OBAMA GIVES SYRIAN REFUGEES $1000 CASH, WALMART GIFT CARDS, SOCIAL SECURITY, APARTMENTS
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GzGTPlOHamQ#t=44
Obuma Claims Mass Shootings Only Occur in USA — While in Paris
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LFCnAW27d_c#t=3
Characteristically, Obama was quick to exploit the three people recently killed by a maniac in Colorado to score cheap political points. He interrupted his denunciation of America for allegedly causing the conspicuously nonexistent global warming crisis to denounce America for being the only country in the world where mass shootings occur, thanks presumably to our hated Constitution: "I say this every time we've got one of these mass shootings. This just doesn't happen in other countries."
He made this absurd claim in Paris, where 130 people were killed by Muslims less than 3 weeks ago, most of them by shooting. (http://moonbattery.com/graphics/paris-terror-attack.jpg)
Muslims did it, therefore it didn't happen.
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PETA euthanized 2,454 of the 3,369 cats, dogs and other animals it took in in 2014.
PETA Steals and Kills Family Dog
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Day of the Dead on the Road to Calais
Let's see what a European truck driver thinks of the numberless hordes of Islamic "refugees" vomited forth by the Third World. It can't be easy trying to get a rig to Calais without having it submerged underneath a cockroach swarm of colonists trying to get to England as stowaways so as to enjoy British welfare benefits, which are world famous for their counterproductive generosity. Sorry about the language, but in this case it is justified: VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2ESI4pTDI9g#t=552
I love the part where he makes as if to run them over and the roaches scatter. France ought to offer a bounty on each one a trucker makes into roadkill. Better still, the military should apply machine guns to the problem as necessary at the point of entry. This is an invading army of conquest. Every country has not only the right but the duty to defend itself.
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The Case for Donald Trump - Part 1
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=r73zEdvl7fQ#t=7
According to the Establishment Republicans...the only reason Donald Trump is doing so well....is because there are so many 'low-information" voters. Personally... I think they're full of crap, and I intend to prove it.
So this multi-part series The Case for Donald Trump ---is loosely based on "20 REASONS WHY IT SHOULD BE DONALD TRUMP IN 2016" written by the brilliant A.J. Delgado, whose columns have appeared in Breitbart, National Review, American Conservative, Fox News, etc, AND she holds a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School. Did I mention...AJ is a girl?
Anyway...so while I may be one of the 'low information voters' ....AJ certainly is not.
Now keep in mind, these Establishment types, aka RINOS....are the same people that forced loser Mitt Romney on us in 2012—the same Mitt Romney that just publicly took credit for playing a major role in Obamacare.(http://intellectualfroglegs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/RomneyObamacare.jpg)
http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/23/451200436/mitt-romney-finally-takes-credit-for-obamacare
The establishment and many in the media actually call this guy a 'conservative'...with a straight face. But don't forget, this is America 2015—and definitions are now subjective.(http://intellectualfroglegs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/600x40512.jpg)
Anyway, before this loser, they gave us another loser in John McCain.... who is pictured here with George Soros.
Even George W. Bush (who you may recall preferred the term "compassionate conservative' which actually means 'big spending progressive'), who despite winning twice—only won the popular vote once.
If left up to these guys, Hillary will be our next president...because inside the beltway—there is only ONE party—The Government Party.
Oh...and these are the same people that fought tooth and nail to derail Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign.(http://intellectualfroglegs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ReaganBush460.jpg)
Prior to receiving the political gift of a lifetime to serve as Ronald Reagan's vice president—Bush 41 was one of Reagan's political opponents—and because as president he chose to abandon the Reagan philosophies – and do as told by the establishment...his ass was kicked out of office after only one term. Read my lips—no more Bushes.
But Bush 41 was a loyal party guy... just as Bush 43 was.... and as the Bush family remains today.
Well, the American people have caught on to the shenanigans of their political shell games— and we're tired of it.
They are the reason Barack Hussein Obama won a second term....and we're tired of losing not just elections, but we're tired of losing America.
Anyway... this episode or Part One is jammed full of compelling facts as to why Donald Trump should without a doubt be the next president of the United States of America.
And none of these reasons have anything to do with Donald being a reality show star.
Thanks for supporting Intellectual Froglegs.
God bless....
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The Yuge Case For Donald Trump – Part 2
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=A_I13G54vJc#t=141
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DEAR GOP.... We're Not Going To Take It.... ANYMORE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=08iTxTg15BM#t=514
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Donald vs the DC Machine - Everybody Hates Trump but the Voters
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2tt2bD_5cWw#t=35
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But... Obuma Is Happy
As America staggers into decline, the Moonbat Messiah is happy happy happy:
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eaRDSZMtEzw#t=4
The message at the end means "Happy New Year."
I'll have a happy new year in 2017, when Obuma will be due to leave office soon.
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FOX News Host And Commentator Suspended On Same Day
For Using 'Colorful Language' To Describe Obutthead
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Yesterday, FOX News would be suspending FOX News host, Stacy Dash and FOX commentator, Colonel Ralph Peters, after the Left inundated the station with calls for their dismissal. Cesspool rag Media Matters headed up the effort and it appears that FOX has caved to the Left.
From the FOX News website: "We want YOUR input! Tell us what you love, tell us what you hate ... just don't keep it to yourself! As a FOX Fan, you'll have a unique opportunity to make your voice heard and affect change at FNC. Below, you'll find a few ways to contact us. BUT, if you're more of a phone person, you can call us at 1-888-369-4762."
So...if FOX News wants to hear how you feel about their show, we say you should LET THEM KNOW! Tell them how you feel about their decision to suspend conservative host, Stacy Dash and truth teller, Colonel Ralph Peters!
The Free Beacon has put together a great video featuring some of Colonel Ralph Peters best hits on Obuma and other incompetents on the Left who are leaving our nation vulnerable to terror:[/color]
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BggghBfUdmk#t=0
Retired Lt. Col. and belletrist Ralph Peters lives in a constant state of Beastmode, the Washington Free Beacon has found.
Peters, who specializes in bold truths that others are too afraid to tell, has appeared in more Beastmode videos than any human being on Earth except The Hammer and chain smoker John Boehner. That's some good company.
Peters was suspended from Fox News for two weeks on Monday after a particularly high-voltage blast of truth-telling, for fear his commentary would fry the electric grid of the United States like an EMP attack.Peters called Obutthead a "pussy" after his primetime televised speech on terrorism, while sweetie-pie Dash said that he couldn't give a "shit" about the terrorist group. Both commentators immediately acknowledged that they were wrong for using the epithets, but the suspension still stands.(http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Ill-Be-Back-Terminator.gif)
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Stunning=> Over 100 MILLION Guns Sold in US Since Obama Became President (Video)
Jim Hoft Dec 8th, 2015
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A poster showing Barack Obama is seen in the background as customers line up to look at firearms at a gun shop in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. The Cheaper Than Dirt gun store recorded a record day of gun sales the day after the election of President-elect Barack Obama and is having trouble keeping up with the demand for assault riffles. (Flickr)
William La Jeunesse reported today on FOX News that 100 million guns have been sold in the US since Obama became president. Today's increase in sales is nationwide not just in California.
La Jeunesse said:"Americans are not just putting them in their closet and waiting for a burglary. They're taking classes on how to protect themselves. Background checks on Black Friday topped 185,000 that's 8,000 guns sold every hour. 2,000,000 in November and and almost 20 million this year."(http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/guns-us-sold-575x320.jpg)
** Enough guns were sold on Black Friday to create a new military branch.
http://bearingarms.com/americans-bought-enough-guns-black-friday-create-new-military-branch/?utm_source=bafbp&utm_medium=fbpage&utm_campaign=baupdateCheck out this graphic:
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6IU_2W7PRT0#t=1
Make no mistake – Jihad is Here
Posted By: Joe Dan Gorman - December 7, 2015
Some folks, mainly liberals and progressive republicans are having 'the vapors' over Trump calling for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." (http://intellectualfroglegs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ht_malik_farook_airport_BUGGED_BG_lf_151206_4x3_992-300x225.jpg)
I'm not one of those people—in fact, I wholeheartedly agree with Trump's position.
How is this possibly a bad thing? It is not islamophobia or bigotry (as loudly claimed out by enemies of Trump) to want to protect your country from murderers and savages.
Now for the obligatory 'not all Muslims are terrorists'... well, that's nice. But the problem is that you cannot tell the good from the bad. And our government, paralyzed with political correctness certainly can't. That was just proven in California.
So much for their vetting process.
And remember not all Germans were Nazis.
Innocent and unsuspecting Americans are now regularly killed in the name of ALLAH on American soil (link) right here in Tennessee, in California, in Arizona, Massachusetts , New York, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Georgia, New Jersey, Texas, Washington, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Arkansas, Maryland, Alabama.. etc.Islamic Terror Attacks on American Soil
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/americanattacks.htm
Make no mistake – we ARE at war. And they want us dead.
We did not start this war, Islam did — decades ago (centuries ago actually). They have used and continue to use our freedoms and our generosity against us. (91.4% of the Muslim "refugees" are on food stamps, 68.3% on Cash Welfare) And since Barack Hussein Obama took office in 2009— the number of muslim attacks on American soil has exploded.
In fact, Islam is on a global slaughter-fest (their caliphate) murdering innocent civilians en masse – three weeks ago Paris France...this week San Bernardino, California—
Since October 10, ISIS and its sympathizers around the world have killed at least 525 people in six attacks in six countries—that's less than two months!!!(http://intellectualfroglegs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/syed-rizwan-farook-and-tashfeen-malik-300x223.png)
The terrorists, here looking like a nice middle eastern couple. Not so much....
They don't wear a uniform...and they pretend to be your friend (Under the Islamic authorization to lie and deceive calleed Taqiyaa as long as the goal is to advance the cause of Islam)
These demons in California had their co-workers SO FOOLED—their co-workers gave them a baby shower 6 months earlier— the very 'friends' that they brutally shot down in cold blood... just last week.
Tashfeen Malik and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, sprayed bullets at Farook's co-workers at a Christmas party for the Environmental Health Department in San Bernardino—a Christmas party!
And ...what the hell kind of 'death cult' could possibly make a mother leave her 6 month old child?
Per Aljazeera Poll – 81% of their Arab readers support ISIS.
Center for Security Policy (Poll of American Muslims)
◾Over 20% of Muslims in America believe violence against Americans IN America is justified.
◾51% of those polled, "agreed that Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to Shariah."
◾Only 39% of those polled said that Muslims in the U.S. should be subject to American courts.
The FBI is already investigating ISIS members in ALL 50 STATES. They're here.
Look what they're doing to Europe. I don't want that for my kids.
Donald Trump is the only one with the guts to say what needs to be said to keep Americans safe. It's time to turn off the spigot of Muslims coming into the USA until further notice or until they can be trusted.
To summarize—when people are coming in your home and killing, you lock the damn door. How difficult is that?
Damn right I'm voting for Trump.....Joe Dan Gorman
Trumpnado
Intellectual Froglegs 12.06.15
Posted By: Joe Dan Gorman December 6, 2015
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5YVLaCMgOzo#t=8
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It worked against Bush, it worked against Sarah Palin but it ain't working against Donald Trump. And the establishment, including the media appears to be having a nervous breakdown.
For six months now— everything they hit Trump with...just makes him stronger.
And Trump is showing why his track-record of success is second to none.
He's blowing the competition away... Even if you are skeptical of polls, like me— look at the crowds he's pulling.
Crowds2In the meantime, journalists, pundits and GOP consultants alike, have all been reduced to name-calling... Trump is a liar, a racist, a white supremacist, a nazi and a fascist— but their desperate attempts to destroy Trump— are so obvious...the American people no longer believe them anymore.
They're like 'the media that cried wolf.' And Trump is capitalizing on their collapse.
In this episode... we meet the racially diverse white supremacists that support Trump...including 'the brothers' that want to help build the wall.
And DO NOT miss the ending song. Trust me.
Make sure you are legal to vote in the primary.
Thank you for supporting Intellectual Froglegs. God bless. Click here to donate now.
Here are a few charts to show you where we are...and how fast we've fallen.
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Warph, you're sure making some good points about Trump. I'm hesitant about him because he's a Republican but maybe he's one we ought to support.
Bob Dole has endorsed Jeb Bush. Have you seen the Bush website? Take a look:
www.jebbush.com
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Red, LMDO and ROFLACGU
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"Whoa, Donald—you're scaring me, man."
Gotta go, Red... GHA.
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Jeb Quits Race with "Mission Accomplished" Banner
By Andy Borowitz
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MIAMI (The Borowitz Report 4 Phake News)—Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush announced that he was dropping out of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, while standing in front of a "Mission Accomplished" banner draped over the façade of his campaign headquarters, in Miami.
Speaking to his remaining staff members who were seated in a dozen folding chairs, Bush thanked them for the hard work that led to the triumphant completion of their mission.
"Our work is done," Bush said. "Thanks to you, we have prevailed."
While acknowledging that he took pride in the impressive success of his campaign, Bush stressed that victory did not belong to him alone. "This is a great day for America," he said.
Upon the conclusion of his remarks, Bush bade farewell to his staffers with a military-style salute before stepping into a waiting helicopter and ascending to the skies.
Minutes after Bush flew away, however, reporters asked senior Bush staffers to define more clearly the mission that Bush had deemed accomplished.
"We feel really good about the work we did, our ground game, getting the word out about Jeb's accomplishments as a conservative Governor in Florida," said Bush's campaign manager, Danny Diaz, who added, "Please, just leave me alone."
Interesting Video:
Boone Pickens Talking Energy, Security and Shop with Carl Icahn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/talking-energy-security-shop-carl-icahn-t-boone-pickens
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Women were allowed to vote in the USA in 1919. According to Wikipedia: "There was considerable anxiety among politicians of both parties to have the amendment passed and made effective before the general elections of 1920, so the President called a special session of Congress, and a bill, introducing the amendment, was brought before the House again. On May 21, 1919, it was passed, 42 votes more than necessary being obtained. On June 4, 1919, it was brought before the Senate, and after a long discussion it was passed, with 56 ayes and 25 nays. It only remained that the necessary number of states should ratify the action of Congress. Within a few days Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, their legislatures being then in session, passed the ratifications. Other states then followed their examples, and Tennessee was the last of the needed 36 states to ratify, in the summer of 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was an accomplished fact, and the Presidential election of November 1920 was therefore the first occasion on which women in all states were allowed to exercise their right of suffrage." You can see where it got us Men giving them the right to vote in political elections.(http://historyboots.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/this-1908-image-of-women-smoking-and-drinking-was-intended-to-be-a-horrifying-glimpse-of-a-post-suffrage-future-now-it-just-looks-like-an-awesome-bar-they-have-fudge-and-almonds-shit.jpg)
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Good post there, Warph. That ought to get some people to thinking American again.
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Ain't it a fact!
Jesse Ventura a poor rich mans net worth $6 Million
A 1% er's net worth Bill Gates' estimated to be $79.7 Billion.
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Actually to crash all U.S. financial systems!
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Because of the World Wide
Hoax and Scam
it is built on !
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One thing about it, Obama and the Republicans both think they are doing something great for America and the citizens keep thinking the same thing as they elect the same kind of do-gooders.
Don't like to pick on Bob Dole too much, but his Food Stamp program is one excellent example of the liberal thinking that Obama and Republicans have instilled in them.
Now that's really funny. It's the working poor that use food stamps. Food stamps can also make the difference between a vet being homeless and living in a tent camp somewhere and just having enough to get by, with the occasional night in a shelter. I thought you were so pro vet?
Quote from: Diane Amberg on December 16, 2015, 08:45:44 AM
Now that's really funny. It's the working poor that use food stamps. Food stamps can also make the difference between a vet being homeless and living in a tent camp somewhere and just having enough to get by, with the occasional night in a shelter. I thought you were so pro vet?
Sorry, Diane Welfare is not pro veteran it is pro socialism.
It is also part of Obama's Cloward Piven System Plan along with providing cash and homes and medicare and medicade and disability and social security to illegal aliens, and Muslim immigrants.
To be Pro Vet is to support Veterans not the whole wide world !
Unless of course a person is a liberal interested in Socialism.
Nope, not gonna read it. It's undoubtedly a criticism of what I posted. I'm always "wrong," so why bother?
Quote from: Diane Amberg on December 16, 2015, 11:04:09 AM
Nope, not gonna read it. It's undoubtedly a critisism of what I posted. I'm always "wrong," so why bother?
You would have no knowledge of what you say then would you?
Typical Liberal!
Silly woman. ROFLMAO
Debunking 5 Phony Statistics
Liberals Love To Toss Around
John Hawkins | Dec 15, 2015
Liberals are all about emotions, not facts.
Since that's the case, liberals do a terrible job of coming up with any sort of evidence to support their agenda. More often than not, when they do come up with a great statistic that's repeated over and over, it's fake. If you want some examples, here are five phony statistics you'll regularly hear from liberals.
1) One in five college-age women have been raped. How do you create a "rape epidemic" that isn't actually happening? Easy. You don't ask women if they've been raped; you just expand the definition of rape so much that you define merely unpleasant events or worse yet, even consensual acts as rape.
The one-in-five figure is based on the Campus Sexual Assault Study, commissioned by the National Institute of Justice and conducted from 2005 to 2007. Two prominent criminologists, Northeastern University's James Alan Fox and Mount Holyoke College's Richard Moran, have noted its weaknesses:
...Fox and Moran also point out that the study used an overly broad definition of sexual assault. Respondents were counted as sexual assault victims if they had been subject to "attempted forced kissing" or engaged in intimate encounters while intoxicated.
Defenders of the one-in-five figure will reply that the finding has been replicated by other studies. But these studies suffer from some or all of the same flaws.
How many college-age women are raped according to the FBI? The actual rate is "6.1 per 1,000 students, or 0.61 percent (instead of 1-in-5, the real number is 0.03-in-5)." Rape is a serious issue and dramatically misrepresenting the number of women being raped is despicable.
2) Spousal abuse skyrockets on Super Bowl Sunday. This myth comes from misrepresentations made by liberals back in 1993.
During the era of the infamous Super Bowl Hoax, it was widely believed that on Super Bowl Sundays, violence against women increases 40%. Journalists began to refer to the game as the "abuse bowl" and quoted experts who explained how male viewers, intoxicated and pumped up with testosterone, could "explode like mad linemen." During the 1993 Super Bowl, NBC ran a public service announcement warning men they would go to jail for attacking their wives.
In this roiling sea of media credulity, one lone journalist, Washington Post reporter Ken Ringle, checked the facts. As it turned out, there was no source: An activist had misunderstood something she read, jumped to her sensational conclusion, announced it at a news conference and an urban myth was born. Despite occasional efforts to prove the story true, no one has ever managed to link the Super Bowl to domestic battery.
3) Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. If you get married at this point, especially to a college-educated woman over the age of 25, it'll probably be for life.
A false conclusion in the 1970s that half of all first marriages ended in divorce was based on the simple but completely wrong analysis of the marriage and divorce rates per 1,000 people in the United States. A similar abuse of statistical analysis led to the conclusion that 60 percent of all second marriages ended in divorce.
...It is now clear that the divorce rate in first marriages probably peaked at about 40 percent for first marriages around 1980 and has been declining since to about 30 percent in the early 2000s. This is a dramatic difference. Rather than viewing marriage as a 50-50 shot in the dark it can be viewed as having a 70 percent likelihood of succeeding. But even to use that kind of generalization, i.e., one simple statistic for all marriages, grossly distorts what is actually going on.
The key is that the research shows that starting in the 1980s education, specifically a college degree for women, began to create a substantial divergence in marital outcomes, with the divorce rate for college-educated women dropping to about 20 percent, half the rate for non-college educated women. Even this is more complex, since the non-college educated women marry younger and are poorer than their college grad peers. These two factors, age at marriage and income level, have strong relationships to divorce rates; the older the partners and the higher the income, the more likely the couple stays married. Obviously, getting a college degree is reflected in both these factors.
Thus, we reach an even more dramatic conclusion: That for college educated women who marry after the age of 25 and have established an independent source of income, the divorce rate is only 20 percent!
...One report indicated that the divorce rate for remarried, white women is 15 percent after three years and 25 percent after five years. This ongoing study indicated a definite slowing of the rate over time but did not have enough years measured to draw more long-term conclusions. However, it did indicate that the same factors with first divorces were at play here.
Age, education, and income levels were also highly correlated with the outcomes of second marriages. For example, women who remarried before the age of 25 had a very high divorce rate of 47 percent, while women who remarried over the age of 25 only had a divorce rate of 34 percent. The latter is actually about the same for first marriages and likely also would prove to be an average of different rates based (on) socioeconomic factors.
That's a lot more encouraging than starting a marriage thinking there's a 50% chance of it going belly-up.
4) Ten percent of the population is gay. Ten percent has been the number tossed around for a long time, but perhaps understandably, many people think the gay percentage of the population is even higher based on popular culture's obsession with homosexuality.
The American public estimates on average that 23% of Americans are gay or lesbian, little changed from Americans' 25% estimate in 2011, and only slightly higher than separate 2002 estimates of the gay and lesbian population.
In actuality, the percentage of gay Americans is tiny.
The survey taken by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked a simple question of 34,557 adults nationwide: "Which of the following best represents how you think of yourself?" The five possible answers were straight, lesbian/gay, bisexual, "something else" and "I don't know the answer." Transgenders, the "T" in LGBT, were not included.
The survey found that a mere 1.6 percent of the adult population self-identifies as "lesbian/gay," and an even smaller 0.7 percent told interviewers they were bisexual. The bisexuals were outnumbered by the 1.1 percent who didn't know, wouldn't answer or said they were "something else."
This result was far from the 10 percent that homosexual rights advocates have claimed since the 1970s.
5) Ninety seven percent of scientists agree that global warming is manmade and dangerous. How do you prove 97% of people agree with you? Find a tiny subset of a group that thinks just like you do and claim that it speaks for a much larger group of people. Joseph Bast and Roy Spencer did an excellent piece explaining how this works at the WSJ.
Another widely cited source for the consensus view is a 2009 article in "Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union" by Maggie Kendall Zimmerman, a student at the University of Illinois, and her master's thesis adviser Peter Doran.
...The "97 percent" figure in the Zimmerman/Doran survey represents the views of only 79 respondents who listed climate science as an area of expertise and said they published more than half of their recent peer-reviewed papers on climate change. Seventy-nine scientists—of the 3,146 who responded to the survey—does not a consensus make.
...In 2010, William R. Love Anderegg, then a student at Stanford University, used Google Scholar to identify the views of the most prolific writers on climate change. His findings were published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Mr. Love Anderegg found that 97% to 98% of the 200 most prolific writers on climate change believe "anthropogenic greenhouse gases have been responsible for 'most' of the 'unequivocal' warming."
...In 2013, John Cook, an Australia-based blogger, and some of his friends reviewed abstracts of peer-reviewed papers published from 1991 to 2011. Mr. Cook reported that 97% of those who stated a position explicitly or implicitly suggest that human activity is responsible for some warming. His findings were published in Environmental Research Letters.
Mr. Cook's work was quickly debunked. In Science and Education in August 2013, for example, David R. Legates (a professor of geography at the University of Delaware and former director of its Center for Climatic Research) and three coauthors reviewed the same papers as did Mr. Cook and found "only 41 papers—0.3 percent of all 11,944 abstracts or 1.0 percent of the 4,014 expressing an opinion, and not 97.1 percent—had been found to endorse" the claim that human activity is causing most of the current warming.
...Rigorous international surveys conducted by German scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch—most recently published in Environmental Science & Policy in 2010—have found that most climate scientists disagree with the consensus on key issues such as the reliability of climate data and computer models. They do not believe that climate processes such as cloud formation and precipitation are sufficiently understood to predict future climate change.
Surveys of meteorologists repeatedly find a majority oppose the alleged consensus. Only 39.5% of 1,854 American Meteorological Society members who responded to a survey in 2012 said man-made global warming is dangerous.
It's simply untrue that the scientific community has decided almost as a whole that global warming is happening, manmade and problematic. Many scientists believe that's the case. Many others don't. At this point, it's merely a controversial unproven theory.
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2015/12/15/debunking-5-phony-statistics-liberals-love-to-toss-around-n2093733/page/full
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France Raids Mosques, Finds Weapons - Truth!
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Summary of eRumor:It's been reported that French officials have raided and shutdown mosques after finding weapons and links to radicalization in them.The Truth:
Reports that mosques in France have been raided and shut down in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13th are true.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on December 2nd that French officials had shut down three mosques and had detained 22 people who were believed to have participated in "Islamist radicalization." In one of the mosques, located about 22 miles east of Paris, authorities seized a 9mm revolver, a hard drive and documents, the Wall Street Journal reports:[/size
The sweep was part of the government's massive security crackdown in the weeks sincecoordinated attacks on the streets of Paris left 130 people dead and hundreds injured. Since President François Hollande declared a state of emergency the night of the attacks, police have conducted more than 2,200 raids on homes and businesses, detained 232 people and seized 334 weapons, including 34 military weapons.
The other mosques closed since the declaration of a state of emergency are in Lyon and Gennevilliers, a northwestern Paris suburb, Mr. Cazeneuve said. "We will be totally firm against all those who preach hate in France," Mr. Cazeneuve told lawmakers.
Despite the raids, French officials have cautioned against concluding that mosques in France are hotbeds for radicalization. "We must not cut ties with loyal Muslims of good faith," Lagny-Sur-Marne's mayor, Jean-Paul Michel, said on French television channel BFMTV.
A leading French Imam told Al Jazeera that many more shutdowns were likely in the days ahead. Hassan El Alauoi said that he expected between 100 and 160 mosques to be closed based on conversations with the interior ministry:
"This kind of speech shouldn't even be allowed in Islamic countries, let alone secure countries like France," El Alaoui, who became the first Muslim prison chaplain-general in 2005, said.
The recent mosque closures, he added, were made under "a legal act that the authorities have" and must have happened because "of some illegal things that they found".
The imam also rejected those suspected of carrying out the suicide bomb and gun attacks, which left 130 people dead, as "terrorists".
So, it's true that three mosques have been shut down in Paris, and that more shutdowns could follow.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/france-raids-mosques-finds-weapons/
'Jail to the Chief'
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VIDEO:
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Spending Bill Betrayal by Establishment Republicans
Confirms Contempt for Base
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Remember when media controversy sparked by Barack Insane Obuma's statement 'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon' had prompted many prominent citizens to come to his defense by declaring, in the I-am-Spartacus fashion, "If I also had a son...":
Nancy Pelosi: "... he'd owe China $256,000,000 before he reaches puberty."
George Soros: "... he'd own a chauffeured tricycle."
Bill Clinton: "... he'd know what 'is' is."
Hillary Clinton: "I already have a son and his name is Bill."
Michael Bloomberg: "... he wouldn't be eating trans fats - or he'd be out of the will."
Harry Reid: "... he wouldn't smell like the unwashed masses visiting the Capitol."
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: "... his birth certificate wouldn't have PDF layers."
Donald Trump: "What Sheriff Joe said."
Al Sharpton: "... he wouldn't be a honky or one of them Jews."
Michael Moore: "... I wouldn't eat him as long as he doesn't get between me and the fridge."
Joe Biden: "I have a son? Have we met?"
Rosie O'Donnell: "... I'd keep him in a cage and train him to attack toupees, and then I'd invite Donald Trump over and open the cage."
Oprah: "... I'd keep him away from Rosie O'Donnell."
Anita Dunn: "... I'd name him Mao Tse-Dunn."
Eric Holder: "... I'd tell him he was conceived during fast and furious sex, then I'd smuggle him into Mexico."
Occupy Theoretician Elizabeth Warren: "... I'd wait for him to crap all over himself, then throw him at the police."
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "... I'd hire Bill Maher to teach him manners and Anthony Weiner to teach him photography."
Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings: "I'd teach him to have safe sex - with me."
HHS Director Katherine Sebelius: "I'd give him an exemption from ObamaCare."
Mitt Romney: "I'd give him an exemption from RomneyCare."
John Edwards: "... I'd bequeath to him my secret to silky, sensuous, and coquettish man-hair."
Al Gore: "... I'd cut his feet off so I wouldn't have to worry about his carbon footprint."
Science Czar John Holdren: "I can't have a son; I cut my testicles off so I can sleep at night not worrying about overpopulation."
An anonymous Georgetown Law Student: "Having blown my entire trust fund on contraceptives, I damn well better not get pregnant with a son!"
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg: "... I'd send him off to South Africa, they have a better constitution."
CNN host Soledad O'Brien: "... I'd read him fairy tales, starting with Critical Race Theory."
MSNBC host Chris Mathews: "... I'd tell him bedtime stories of the adventures of the heroic knight, Sir Barry Obama, unless instructed otherwise."
Robert F. Kennedy XXXLXVII: "... I'd name him 'Robert F. Kennedy XXXLXVIII.'"
Charlie Sheen: "... I'd pay him to go away."
REMEMBER WHEN 2012
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The Charlatans at Charlotte, NC, present
The Dementocratic National Convention Freakshow
Featuring real living human oddities:
Sandra Fluke The Subsidized Snake Charmer
The Thin-Skinned President Barack Obama
Elisabeth Warren The Lily-White Cherokee
The Contortionist Charlie Crist
Joe Biden The Brainless Man
Other oddities with mental anomalies include: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Michelle "The Beard" Obama, John Kerry - The Horse Face Boy, Jummah and The Flying Prayer Carpet, Bill Clinton - The Fat Lady Chaser, Obama's Egyptian Sand Statue, and more.
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***The Declaration of Independence!***
Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Our Sacred Honor!
(By Paul Harvey)
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vhgfknG8hhg
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PAUL HARVEY
FREEDOM TO CHAINS 1965
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=n0FF13u13WE
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What is a Policeman
(By Paul Harvey)
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sEvZBKwvE0k
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Paul Harvey Pays Tribute to Firefighters
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mqt_pOQpUKg
Some great Post Warph, I need to read the last two, you are on a Roll. Keep them coming. Is OBUMA going to try to force a third Term on the people. I hear more and more people say that OBUMA is going to declare Martial Law and say that he has to stay in Office.
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Paul Harvey's 'The Rest of the Story'
VIDEO:
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Republicans and modern Democrats think like tyrants
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The Donald Trump/Joe Dan Gorman - Republican Ticket
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He is the creator and producer of Intellectual Frog Legs.
When he is not creating and producing stuff, he is busy
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EPIDEMIC ALERT: "TDS" aka Trump Derangement Syndrome
It's been seen before on much smaller scales. The first known incident appeared about a decade ago— Bush Derangement Syndrome. Then we had the 2008 Palin Derangement Incident.
Today we have the Super-Virus: Trump Derangement Syndrome... or TDS as known by professionals.
The first case of TDS was spotted in the Fox News green-room back in July... it has since spread throughout the media and may now also be found in small sectors of our society....especially on social media.
The consistent theme.. Donald is evil, and his supporters are stupid.
When you see it... know what it is, and behave accordingly. Realize you are dealing with people who actually trust politicians with SuperPacs to fix the problems created by politicians with Super Pacs.
JUST A HANDFUL OF EXAMPLES: Glenn Beck has become Jim Jones, FoxNews is becoming the Republican version of MSNBC... and formerly-respected National Review, led by Rich "TRUMP IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE!" Lowry, may be the first publication in history to have all associate writers simultaneously committed to a mental hospital.
Even the Fox News Religion writer Todd Starnes...a guy I thought was immune to TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) found it necessary to insult evangelicals:"Based on the outcome in SC - I suspect many "evangelicals"
don't understand what evangelical means."
-Todd Starnes
With all due respect to Mr. Starnes and speaking as an "evangelical" myself, I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean "Goldman Sachs."
CNN's Amy Goodman says: "Donald Trump 'bullies the most defenseless,powerless people...'
— really? Like the Bushes, Clintons, The Pope, FoxNews, the Saudi Prince?"Trump should be running as a Democrat...."
-Michael Reagan (Adopted Son of Ronald Reagan)
And this:"I Will Not Vote For Donald Trump. Ever."
- Erick Erickson - National Review
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Recommended Treatment: Don't let them make you angry— they THRIVE on arguing...more specifically insulting—-as you will likely see any moment in the comment section below. Wish them well, and move on. If they persist in their nastiness...as many do, then engage the block, delete or mute options as you see fit.
In the end... we cannot allow Hillary Clinton to become President of the United States. This is not even arguable. I recall saying I could not vote for McCain and Romney—but I did. Because at the time, it was the right thing to do.Pray more, worry less... Amen
~Matthew 6:34
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Trumpnado -
Intellectual Froglegs 12.06.15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_detailpage&v=5YVLaCMgOzo
There's a New Sheriff in Town
Intellectual Froglegs - 01.03.16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2_Zlx5y4--E
Master of the Game: Trump
Intellectual Froglegs - Jan 24, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yXgItaNgiEg
Words over Deeds: Why Americans detest Politicians (& love Trump)
Intellectual Froglegs - Feb 16, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fOYydyeA6BI
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Now you know where The Donald stole his political slogan, "Make America Great Again."
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Words over Deeds: Why Americans detest Politicians (& love Trump)
(Intellectual Froglegs - Feb 16, 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=fOYydyeA6BI
HA HA HA, That is a GOOD ONE Warph. I wish we had Ronald Reagan back, in my opinion he was the GREATEST PRESIDENT IN MY LIFETIME. Warph, it is really DISAPOINTING TO ME THAT WHAT LOOKS LIKE OUR 2 MAIN CHOICESS ARE CLINTON AND TRUMP. Warph, the America I knew Growing up is GONE FOREVER,I am 75 years old and nearing the time when my life in this ONCE GREAT COUNTRY will soon be over, but what REALLY SCARES ME is what my Children and Grandchildren will have to Face. SAD-SAD-SAD-.
Warph Please KEEP ON KEEPING ON. You are our Favorite Poster on the Forum, in fact you are the Main one of the few that we look at. Have a GREAT DAY.
Except that Reagan's victory was a victory compromised with the Republican agenda.
That watered-down much of the Reagan stand and kept the liberals and socialists agoing to give the neocons a foothold in government against the liberty of the American people.
The progressives run the show in this country and it's the Republicans and reconstructed Democrats who are the progressives.
So how are we gonna gain liberty from a Republican victory?
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This is probably of no interest to anyone but ol WARPH but seeing as I'm "blocked" by several readers he might be the only one that reads it anyway. :D
This aired this past week on Fox and Friends. At the end the guy getting his dog tag back gives the other guy a copy of "Matterhorn:A Novel of the Vietnam War " and says the book is written by a college classmate of his. The author is Lt Karl Marlantes who had been the 1st platoon, commander and later XO of the company I so proudly served in. Now we find out the guy getting his dog tag returned is Rick Tilgman who had been a platoon commander himself but after being wounded twice he was made an air observer, riding back seat in a Bronco recon plane. In one particular battle for a hill , the plane he was in flew round and round "chopper hill " while Tilgman was radioing machine gun positions to the troop (s ) on the ground. The troop on ground used that info to take out a machine gun position and at least another bunker, by himself, earning the Navy Cross for valor and that was Lt. Marlantes .
Of coarse back then they didn't know that ol college classmates were even talking to each other on the radio. I tell you ,my beloved Corps is a small world and seems like we were always intertwined one way or the other.
Ron
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4784260504001/dog-tag-lost-in-vietnam-returned-to-us-marine/?playlist_id=930909787001#sp=show-clips
Jar I read ALL OF YOUR POSTS!!!!!!!!!!!! You served your Country with HONOR and I respect you for that. Keep on Posting I Read all of your Posts and will continue to do so.
Jar I might add that there are some on the Forum that say they have people Blocked and You and I know they DO NOT. There are some I just Simply do not read but I DO NOT Block them.
That is the way I do it, too, Frank. I find it easy to just pass on posts by people that I don't care to read. And I do read all of Jar's posts.
Jar, I'm not blocking or ignoring posts - I read yours and most others if I see 'em.
Good story. I know Marines and they're some of the best Confederate men I know.
You stay right in there.
I miss the funnin from Marines for me being a swab jockey !
Great post Jar. It is a very small world these days.
Damn, I feel like Andy Warhol. ;D
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Funny but not exclusive to Bernie Sanders , all politicians are looking to take from one to give to another.
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Dear DC, Kiss our A$$...
Love, America!
(Intellectual Froglegs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uvzXfc7ereg
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WOW WARPH THAT IS A GOOD ONE. I SAY WE START A WARPH FOR PRESIDENT AND TERESA AND KJELL FOR A PAIR OF GREAT VICE PRESIDENTS, CAMPAIGN. MY WIFE AND I SPEND ALOT OF TIME DISCUSSING WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THIS ONCE GREAT NATION AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD, IT IS REALLY SCARY. WE ARE GETTING OLD AND DO NOT HAVE LONG TO LIVE, WE KNOW THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD IS FALLING IN TO PLACE FAST. I THINK YOU WILL AGREE WITH US THAT WE NEED REAGAN AND BUSH BACK. WARPH WE HAVE BEEN MISSING YOUR POSTS, YOURS POSTS WERE AND ARE THE ONLY POLITICAL TYPE POSTS WORTH READING. WARPH KEEP ON KEEPING ON. HAVE AGREAT DAY. WARPH I HAD 4 BROTHERS THAT FOUGHT FOR THIS NATION THEY HAVE ALL 4 PASSED ON, AND I KNOW FOR SURE THEY DO NOT LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING.
Warph was Reagan and Bush in office when you served Your Country. If so, that had to give you a Great Sense of Pride being in the Military and serving when those 2 were in Office. Don't you wish we had them in the Whitehouse now. If they were most of this crap going on in Washington, would be LONG GONE, WARPH, keep on Posting, your Posts are about all we take the time to look at. WARPH KEEP ON KEEPING ON.
Have you ever read about the Confederates admiration for Jeff Davis?
They liked Grover Cleveland too.
Both stood for American liberty.
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The Trump Voter Handbook & Insult Repellent
Genius. So refreshing. Americana at its best!
(Intellectual Froglegs - March 26, 1916)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wxp3zqewKRc
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Prayer For America
"We will fight the fight, we know is right---and this one, it ain't over."
(Intellectual Froglegs - 5 years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wDrRVlm5HOw
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COWBOYS & COMMUNISTS
(under a cowgirl moon)
(Intellectual Froglegs - 6 years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xFKkSv6mcLc
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Hillary Clinton: A Career Criminal
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kypl1MYuKDY
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"Huma & Hillary in the 'Color of the Day' ... ORANGE!"
If Their Lips Are Moving...
(Intellectual Froglegs - 6-07-15)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2m73bCJ2Ti4
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The Conservative Crusader and Uncle Omar
[Plus a Clint Eastwood Tribute]
(Intellectual Froglegs - Sept.2012)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mIE1tG58Yls
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=P_9yq8IP68g
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Just Think –
If Trump wins the election, it'll be the first time in history that a billionaire moved into public housing vacated by a black family!
now that's funny I don't care who you are!
Yup...I hate to agree, but I do.
The Trump Voter Handbook (Pt 2):
That Curious Mr. Cruz
(The best 20 minutes on the internet)
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&list=PLEFE9169E130A1911&v=mzJggIcIJPk
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Quote from: redcliffsw on April 16, 2016, 06:05:11 AM
Just Think –
If Trump wins the election, it'll be the first time in history that a billionaire moved into public housing vacated by a black family!
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Freedom is Colorblind
(open up your eyes)
((Intellectual Froglegs))
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NYRZt7xcwpY
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*** SOLDIER ***
[a soldier paid for your freedom]
((Intellectual Froglegs))
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=j4c8RupRuQs
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The military is covering for the corporations. Our freedom is decreasing.
The government of Obama and the Republicans is giving away the country.
It's our own government that is stealing our liberty.
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Republicans for Bernie? The next silent majority?
Well... kinda.
Crooked Hillary is inevitable...also kinda. She has that FBI thing going on.... 147 FBI agents snapping at her butt.
But the point is the longer Crooked Hillary spends fighting Bernie in the primary campaign... the more time, resources & energy she must spend... which is good for Trump... which is good for us... which is good for America.
I added 'energy' because Crooked Hillary is tired... and there are questions about her health (cough, cough). She's the same age as Trump... but only numerically... she is no match for his energy and
strength.So... we need to prolong the Democrat primary as long as possible.
Well, why are you still here? Go!
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The Trump Voter Handbook (Pt 2):
That Curious Mr. Cruz
~ Intellectual Froglegs ~
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mzJggIcIJPk
~~~~The Crooked Hillary Song~~~~
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vV3PyGmjBOQ
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And don't forget "Crooked as a dogs hindleg, Bill "Slick Willy" Clinton:
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LqEeblOOCrI
*The Video That Puts Crooked Hillary in Jail!*
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EbfyGusv7Ko
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Banned by the Media:
Crooked Hillary Clinton lies Uncensored & Exposed!
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hA-qd3aqwF0
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Anonymous Exposes Crooked Hillary Clinton's Lies!
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kk5k_QzhL9g
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Anonymous - Message to Crooked Hillary Clinton
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OTMaIX_JPE4
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Anonymous - Crooked Hillary Clinton: A Career Criminal
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wK2K5v5bm0Q
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Anonymous -
Crooked Hillary Clinton: Lying for
12 Minutes Straight
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BizU-u7RPcY
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300: Making America Great Again
[Donald Trump Parody]
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=W7I92r9GqUw
WARPH you are the MAN, We agree with you 10000%. We really Miss your Daily Wisdom. We think you could do a lot to Revive the Forum. Warph I think you agree with me that we need the BEST President in Modern History back, RONALD REAGAN. OBUMA is the WORST. WARPH KEEP ON KEEPING ON.
Hillary and the True Beast She Is.
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Ho1aqqiGReg
WARPH YOU THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ENOUGH SAID.
Frank...There is BIG TALKUM amongst the DC RINO'S (HS Paul Ryan might be included, I'm sad to say) that Ted Cruz will run as a 3rd party jacka$$ according to a 'close insider friend of mine', a full bird at the Five-Sided Puzzle Palace in Wash.DC's 'cesspool of vermin.' It's a big rumor but Bird claims its probably a charlie foxtrot snoozer, ........but, then againnnnnnnn....... A.Zombie is lookin' pretty..
pretty...
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Here's my take on lying CessPoolCruz:
Super duper textualist, originalist, strict-constructionist constitutionalist, except when interpreting the "natural born citizen" requirement for the presidency.
Super duper defender of the right to free speech and assembly in the face of mob violence, except when it suits him politically.
Super duper stand up guy, except when being a black hat trial attorney grubbing for the bucks for five years in a big, trial lawyer firm.
Super religious guy, except when hiding his Pentacostal/Dominionist roots in a veneer of Baptist piety.
Super defender of the nation's sovereignty, except when in bed with the CFR, literally.
Super defender of the borders, except when agitating for H-1B visas, the TPP/TPA and the North American Free Trade zone.
Super duper Senator who read Green Eggs and Ham in a filibuster and got one bill passed – http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/237172-ted-cruzs-senate-record-by-the-numbers
Super duper supreme court litigator with a meh record – http://www.factcheck.org/2016/03/cruzs-record-before-the-supreme-court/
Super duper, red-blooded American who was a Canadian just 2 years ago...
Super duper American patriot with a family history of NO ONE in the Mayflower society, in the DAR, or a veteran in the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korean, or Vietnam wars. Oh, but his Cuban father fought alongside Castro.
Super conscientious candidate who "forgot" to report the only thing he needed to report... a million dollar loan from Goldman Sachs.
A Super duper "outsider" who worked for the Bush white house, met and married his wife in what they themselves called the "first Bush administration marriage."
So CessPoolCruz, who was such a self-important _rick that nobody wanted to work with him, reinvented himself as an outsider to take in the rubes at the expense of the people who gave him his early breaks. What a candidate! What an American! .....Warph
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(Repeat)
Prayer For America
"We will fight the fight, we know is right---and this one, it ain't over."
(Intellectual Froglegs - 5 years ago)
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wDrRVlm5HOw
Paul Harvey:
"Our Lives Our Fortunes Our Sacred Honor"
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SRSHA7F3mIw
Freedom is Colorblind
By Joe Dan Gorman
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDwDrRVlm5HOw&feature=player_detailpage&v=NYRZt7xcwpY
Warph, I'm thinking you made a pretty liberal post with this Freedom Is Colorblind. It's a video that's pretty liberal and certainly very "Republican" as Republicans have been since their inception and their military victory over America in 1865.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has contributed much to the ruination of America. Since then, the Fed's have been exerting force upon people to comply with the liberal/socialist ideology. Of course, the Republicans are not much in opposition to the Obama presidency - he's mostly like 'em except for differences in socialist policy and ideas.
Every new law passed is a freedom lost. Republicans are not into individual liberty.
Anyone that can even consider voting for Villain ry must be deaf, dumb and blind.
Quote from: Bullwinkle on May 22, 2016, 01:27:37 PM
Anyone that can even consider voting for Villain ry must be deaf, dumb and blind.
Right on Bullwinkle.
American Voter Guide 2016
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Bedtime for the #NeverTrump Anger Babies
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and whataya got?
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Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=CVLVfbwbPBo
"To Hillary in a Handbasket"
by Intellectual Froglegs
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cNB99tNE5HE
Essay: On Hillary
"Blizzard of Lies"
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Published: January 8, 1996
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Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar.
Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.
1. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that as the Governor's wife she profited corruptly, her account being run by a lawyer for state poultry interests through a disreputable broker.
She lied for good reason: To admit otherwise would be to confess taking, and paying taxes on, what some think amounted to a $100,000 bribe.
2. The abuse of Presidential power known as Travelgate elicited another series of lies. She induced a White House lawyer to assert flatly to investigators that Mrs. Clinton did not order the firing of White House travel aides, who were then harassed by the F.B.I. and Justice Department to justify patronage replacement by Mrs. Clinton's cronies.
Now we know, from a memo long concealed from investigators, that there would be "hell to pay" if the furious First Lady's desires were scorned. The career of the lawyer who transmitted Hillary's lie to authorities is now in jeopardy. Again, she lied with good reason: to avoid being identified as a vindictive political power player who used the F.B.I. to ruin the lives of people standing in the way of juicy patronage.
3. In the aftermath of the apparent suicide of her former partner and closest confidant, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, she ordered the overturn of an agreement to allow the Justice Department to examine the files in the dead man's office. Her closest friends and aides, under oath, have been blatantly disremembering this likely obstruction of justice, and may have to pay for supporting Hillary's lie with jail terms.
Again, the lying was not irrational. Investigators believe that damning records from the Rose Law Firm, wrongfully kept in Vincent Foster's White House office, were spirited out in the dead of night and hidden from the law for two years -- in Hillary's closet, in Web Hubbell's basement before his felony conviction, in the President's secretary's personal files -- before some were forced out last week.
Why the White House concealment? For good reason: The records show Hillary Clinton was lying when she denied actively representing a criminal enterprise known as the Madison S.& L., and indicate she may have conspired with Web Hubbell's father-in-law to make a sham land deal that cost taxpayers $3 million.
Why the belated release of some of the incriminating evidence? Not because it mysteriously turned up in offices previously searched. Certainly not because Hillary Clinton and her new hang-tough White House counsel want to respond fully to lawful subpoenas.
One reason for the Friday-night dribble of evidence from the White House is the discovery by the F.B.I. of copies of some of those records elsewhere. When Clinton witnesses are asked about specific items in "lost" records -- which investigators have -- the White House "finds" its copy and releases it. By concealing the Madison billing records two days beyond the statute of limitations, Hillary evaded a civil suit by bamboozled bank regulators.
Another reason for recent revelations is the imminent turning of former aides and partners of Hillary against her; they were willing to cover her lying when it advanced their careers, but are inclined to listen to their own lawyers when faced with perjury indictments.
Therefore, ask not "Why didn't she just come clean at the beginning?" She had good reasons to lie; she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.
No wonder the President is fearful of holding a prime-time press conference. Having been separately deposed by the independent counsel at least twice, the President and First Lady would be well advised to retain separate defense counsel.
Ted Nugent on a Cruz Missile with Donald Trump
(( Intellectual Froglegs))
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RefUxFm24CU
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((Intellectual Froglegs w/ guest Dr. Bill Warner))
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VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yK0mM3UTSBM
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"Blizzard of Lies"
By William Safire - NYTimes - 1996
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Published as "Blizzard of Lies" January 8, 1996, New York Times Op-Ed writer William Safire, (1929-2009) an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a long-time syndicated political columnist for the New York Times
Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar.
Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit.
1. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that as the Governor's wife she profited corruptly, her account being run by a lawyer for state poultry interests through a disreputable broker.
She lied for good reason: To admit otherwise would be to confess taking, and paying taxes on, what some think amounted to a $100,000 bribe.
2. The abuse of Presidential power known as Travelgate elicited another series of lies. She induced a White House lawyer to assert flatly to investigators that Mrs. Clinton did not order the firing of White House travel aides, who were then harassed by the F.B.I. and Justice Department to justify patronage replacement by Mrs. Clinton's cronies.
Now we know, from a memo long concealed from investigators, that there would be "hell to pay" if the furious First Lady's desires were scorned. The career of the lawyer who transmitted Hillary's lie to authorities is now in jeopardy. Again, she lied with good reason: to avoid being identified as a vindictive political power player who used the F.B.I. to ruin the lives of people standing in the way of juicy patronage.
3. In the aftermath of the apparent suicide of her former partner and closest confidant, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster, she ordered the overturn of an agreement to allow the Justice Department to examine the files in the dead man's office. Her closest friends and aides, under oath, have been blatantly disremembering this likely obstruction of justice, and may have to pay for supporting Hillary's lie with jail terms.
Again, the lying was not irrational. Investigators believe that damning records from the Rose Law Firm, wrongfully kept in Vincent Foster's White House office, were spirited out in the dead of night and hidden from the law for two years — in Hillary's closet, in Web Hubbell's basement before his felony conviction, in the President's secretary's personal files — before some were forced out last week.
Why the White House concealment? For good reason: The records show Hillary Clinton was lying when she denied actively representing a criminal enterprise known as the Madison S.& L., and indicate she may have conspired with Web Hubbell's father-in-law to make a sham land deal that cost taxpayers $3 million.
Why the belated release of some of the incriminating evidence? Not because it mysteriously turned up in offices previously searched. Certainly not because Hillary Clinton and her new hang-tough White House counsel want to respond fully to lawful subpoenas.
One reason for the Friday-night dribble of evidence from the White House is the discovery by the F.B.I. of copies of some of those records elsewhere. When Clinton witnesses are asked about specific items in "lost" records — which investigators have — the White House "finds" its copy and releases it. By concealing the Madison billing records two days beyond the statute of limitations, Hillary evaded a civil suit by bamboozled bank regulators.
Another reason for recent revelations is the imminent turning of former aides and partners of Hillary against her; they were willing to cover her lying when it advanced their careers, but are inclined to listen to their own lawyers when faced with perjury indictments.
Therefore, ask not "Why didn't she just come clean at the beginning?" She had good reasons to lie; she is in the longtime habit of lying; and she has never been called to account for lying herself or in suborning lying in her aides and friends.
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A VIDEO of Hillary Clinton Lying For 13 Minutes Straight 100% EXPOSED
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Hillary Clinton's 100 Lies:
This collection of lies, half-truths, deceptions and dubious quotes is
apparently from the May 1993 issue of Spy Magazine which has a front cover
with a picture of Clinton with an elongated nose and the title: "Clinton's
First 100 Lies." It sounds like it was written in mid-March, so it is
already a little out-of-date and incomplete.
Spy Magazine: HILLARY CLINTON'S FIRST 100 LIES
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1. "I want to have a team established that can hit the ground running."
2. "My first priority would be to pass a jobs program, to introduce it on
the first day I was inaugurated."
3. "The critical issues that America is crying out for leadership on:
jobs, the health-care crises, the need to control the economy...
I will deal with them from day one."
4. At the MTV Inaugural Ball he said, "Hillary and I have to go to eleven
balls tonight, but...Chelsea's going to stay."
5. In May 1992 he said he wouldn't support anything that "promoted the
homosexual life-style."
6. January 29, 1993: "This compromise [on the question of gays in the
military] is not everything I would have hoped for." In fact, the
"compromise" was almost exactly the plan he had discussed privately
with gay groups back in November.
7. Asked about getting bogged down the first week of his presidency on
gays in the military, he said, "I spent very little time on the issue
myself."
8. Twenty-five words later he added, "I was frankly appalled that we
spent so much time the first week talking about that instead of how
to get the economy going again."
9. "Reagan voted for Clinton," a top staff member told TV Guide. "I
have it on the highest authority."
10. Asked about his "willingness" to normalize relations with Iraq, Clinton
said, "Everybody who heard those conversations was astonished that such
a conclusion could have been drawn...Nobody asked me about normaliza-
tion." He had been asked about both "normal relations" and "normaliza-
tion."
11. "I don't like to use the word sacrifice." -- May 1992
"It will not be easy. It will require sacrifice." -- January 1993
12. "I will offer middle-income tax cuts. The average working family's
tax bill will go down about 10 percent." -- November 1991
13. "Middle-class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's
tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate."
-- _Putting_People_First_
14. "I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my
view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-
term economic strategy." -- January 1992
15. "An America in which middle-class families' incomes -- not their taxes
are going up." -- July 1992
16. "I'm not going to raise taxes on the middle class" -- July 1992
17. "But I can tell you this. I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-
class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended"
-- October 1992
18. Also in October, his energy coordinator ruled out an energy tax.
19. At the MTV Inaugural Ball: "Do my wife and daughter look great tonight
or what?"
20. He vowed to "oppose racial quotas."
21. He promised "no token appointments."
22. He decried "bean-counters" even as transition employees were
ethnically coding resumes for high-tech bean-counting.
23. Policy experts in Washington received calls from Clinton transition-
staff members wondering if they knew of any Asian American women
who might be interested in being in the Cabinet.
24. "{Bush} won't break the stranglehold special interests have on
our elections and lobbyists have on our government. I will."
25. "In short, Mr. {Ron} Brown has taken and will take all appropriate
actions to avoid even the appearance of conflict of interest"
-- George Stephanopoulos
26. Robert Rubin "is dealing very, very cautiously with his former
clients" -- Dee Dee Myers
27. "I will not hide behind the walls of the White House" -- September 1992
At press time, he had avoided a formal press conference longer than
any other modern president.
28. "I invested in the future of our people and balanced the state
budget with honesty and fairness and without gimmicks."
29. "Thank goodness the networks have a fact check so I don't have to go
blue in the face anymore. Mr. Bush said once again I was going to
have a $150 billion tax increase." He proposed a $207 billion tax
increase.
30. "...And we have $140 billion in spending cuts." He proposed $117
billion in [dubious] spending cuts, maybe.
31. He counted a rise in the taxes on Social Security as a spending cut.
32. Two days after presenting his plan, he said it was basically 50-50,
spending cuts and revenue increases, the first four years."
33. "We also provide over $100 billion in tax relief, in terms of incentives
for new plants, new small businesses, new technologies, new housing"
-- October 1992. His plan actually contains $16 billion in tax relief.
34. "I call on Congress to enact an immediate jobs package of over $30
billion" -- February 1993. The plan contains $15 billion in direct
investment.
35. "An America in which the rich are not soaked..." On top of his "top"
rate, people making more than $250,000 also pay what he once called
a millionaire's surtax.
36. "For the wealthiest -- those earning more than $180,000 per year..."
-- February 1993. By $180,000 per year, he meant couples with combined
incomes of $140,000 per year and individuals with taxable incomes
of $115,000.
37. "I want to emphasize the facts about this plan -- 98.8 percent of
America's families will have no increase in their income tax rates,
only 1.2 percent at the top."
38. He vowed to crack down on "those who see the tax code as a table
game to be won," but his plan leaves the top capital-gains-tax
rate at 28 percent, once again creating tax shelter incentives.
39. "I'm going to tell you, in very plain language, what I plan to do
as president."
40. "We don't need to tamper with Social Security... We're not going to
fool with Social Security" -- September 1992
CLINTON CONSIDERS CURB ON SOCIAL SECURITY COST-OF-LIVING RAISES
-- Washington Post, January 29, 1993
41. When Clinton's people said his program would add 500,000 jobs in 1993
and '94, they only counted jobs that might be created by his program
and did not subtract jobs that might be lost from increased taxes.
42. "We don't believe this will cost jobs," Stephanopoulos explained.
The previous October his boss had said, "You could raise taxes a lot
and try to balance the budget. You just make the unemployment problem
worse."
43. He says he wears a 45-Long, but he really wears a 46-Regular.
44. After pledging to cut the deficit in half within four years, he now
says it's "impossible."
45. "I have to be honest with you: The debt is $50 billion a year bigger
than we were told it was before the election." He said the fact that
the deficit was $346 billion was an "unsettling revelation." But
the previous July he had said, "The projected deficit is up to $400
billion."
46. The day he presented his economic plan, his people touted its
$493 billion in "deficit reduction" through 1997. The correct figure
was $325 billion.
47. His deficit projections do not include the cost of the savings-and-
loan bailout, which could add $25 billion to both fiscal 1993 and
'94.
48. "America has always transcended the hopes and dreams of every other
nation on Earth."
49. In July 1992, when a New York federal-appeals court found Bush's
policy if returning Haitian refugees has violated the Refugee Act,
Clinton called it "the correct decision." In March 1993, he went
to court to argue that his policy of returning Haitian refugees did
not violate the Refugee Act.
50. Asked what he'd eaten during a campaign stop at Wendy's, he said
he'd ordered grilled chicken and a Diet Coke. He later confessed,
"I also had a small cup of chili. I usually get a large."
51. "I'm trying, I'm really working on this" -- on his diet. "Offered
a choice of lamb, beef or chicken as an an entree, he took all three,
plus fish chowder, brocolli, salad, bread, and two scoops of apple
souffle" -- The New Republic, March 15, 1993
52. Throughout the campaign, he attacked Paul Tsongas's proposals for an
energy tax, a cut in entitlements and a middle-class tax increase.
53. "I want people like some of you in this audience to be part of a Clinton
administration, not because or in spite of your sexual orientation, but
because America needs you" -- May 1992. "According to administration
sources, the White House satisfied itself that [Janet] Reno was not gay
before going ahead with the nomination" -- Nina Totenberg, March 1993
54. Asked what role Hillary played in his selection of Reno, he said,
"None."
55. "Our plan seeks to attack subsidies that actually reward companies more
for shuttling their operations down here and moving them overseas."
The plan actually rewards companies that do research and development
here for their plants overseas.
56. "Large, highly profitable companies will have to pay a greater portion
of their net earnings in taxes." Larger depreciation writeoffs mean
many companies will have lower -- and sometimes nonexistent -- net
earning to tax.
57. "We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of
leadership." After appointing Dee Dee Myers as the first female press
secretary, he took away most of her responsibilities and her office
and gave them to a man.
58. "I cut the federal bureaucracy by 100,000 positions." Many of the
"positions" he cut had not no working in them.
59. "The time has come to show the American people...that we can not only
start things, but we can actually stop things."
60. "We are slashing subsidies." In the first year of his plan, farm
subsidies will actually double.
61. After saying wool and mohair subsidies were World War I anachronisms,
he cut the program by 6 percent.
62. "I have already heard some people on the other side of the aisle say,
'He should have cut more.' I say, 'Show me where, and be specific --
not hot air. Show me where.'" On March 10 the House Budget Committee's
Republican members presented an 80-page program that would cut the
deficit by $429 billion over five years without raising taxes. They
were matter-of-factly voted down.
63. Presented with a two-foot pen symbolizing the presidential line-item
veto, he told Republican senators, "I surely look forward to using
this."
64. "I cut the White House staff by 25 percent." He achieved this by
defining *staff* to exclude hundreds of military communications
personnel at the White House, as well as the Trade Representative's
Office and the Office of Management and Budget.
65. He went to court in March and argued that his wife was "the functional
equivalent of a federal employee." Three days earlier, Hillary had
told reporters questioning her quasi-federal-employee position, "I
kind of view myself in some ways as a citizen representative."
66. "Every day I still get up and I feel a lot of gratitude just for
having the chance to serve."
67. He promised, "The old adage 'Mi casa, su casa' will be true when my
house is the White House," then banned smoking.
68. About his plan to close many military bases throughout the country,
he said, "This isn't downsizing for its own sake. This is right-sizing
for security's sake.
69. On why he visited the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt the day he
unveiled his military-base-closings plan: "I need to be here because
I'm commander in chief."
70. "I never broke the laws of my countries."
71. "If I become president, I will have a Cabinet that looks like America"
-- July 1992. Thirteen of his Cabinet's 18 members are lawyers, and
more than three quarters are millionaires.
72. "I want to appoint one person, one man or woman, to oversee and
coordinate all federal efforts [related to AIDS]." At press time,
he had not gotten around to it.
73. "I don't...believe they had a discussion about it, no" -- Stephanopoulos
on Zoe Baird's illegal nanny. "It was fully disclosed. He considered
it and did not think it was a problem" -- Myers a week later.
74. Asked whether Clinton was preparing to withdraw Baird's nomination on
January 21, Stephanopoulos replied, "Not at this point...Right now, Zoe
Baird is his nominee." About 13 hours later, Baird withdrew.
75. "I decided to run for president in 1991 because...I was afraid that the
American dream was in danger."
76. "It's not our policy to leak stories about potential nominees"
-- Stephanopoulos, denying that the White House had told reporters
that Kimba Wood would be the next attorney general nominee.
77. At different times, the White House explained that Wood was rejected
because talk shows wouldn't differentiate between Wood and Zoe Baird,
because she was "not forthcoming" and, finally, because despite having
obeyed all applicable laws, she had to meet "a special standard."
78. "It was never the administration's position that that was an issue,
and it's unfortunate that that ever was out there" -- Myers, asked if
the information that Wood had begun training to be a Playboy bunny was
leaked by someone inside the administration.
79. The White House also leaked inaccurate stories suggesting that Wood's
husband, Michael Kramer, had lobbied for Wood under the pretext of
interviewing Clinton for Time.
80. Asked about his new personal no-junk-food policy, he clarified, "I
don't necessarily consider McDonald's junk food."
81. After work on a $30,000 track behind the White House was temporarily
halted, the White House said it was waiting until enough money could
be raised to pay for it. Joe diGeronimo, president of the Massachusetts
company building the track, said they stopped working because "it was
cold."
82. After urging Bush to get involved in Bosnia throughout the campaign,
Clinton announced in February, "I do not believe that the military of
the United States should get involved unilaterally there now."
83. "It would be a great mistake to read this... as some initial foray
toward a wider military role" -- on the Bosnia food drop, early March.
84. Calling to thank En Vogue for agreeing to back up his brother, Roger,
he told the group he would come by the party and accompany Roger on the
sax when they sang "Rock Me, Baby."
85. He said through a spokeswoman, "The schools in the District of Columbia
and across the country are good schools."
86. "He doesn't dye his hair," according to a spokeswoman.
87. Asked why Hillary Clinton would get a West Wing office, a spokeswoman
said, "Because the president wanted her to be there."
88. "Mrs. Clinton was Hillary Rodham Clinton all through the campaign
and the transition" -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's press secretary.
89. In January he said, "I'll miss going down to the Y in the morning,
my blue-collar gym where there's nobody in bright Spandex outfits."
90. He said, "It is time for us to realize that there is not a government
program for every problem."
91. "I'm working on funding it just as close to what I recommended during
the campaign, about putting people as first as possible" -- on his
national service program, February 1993.
92. "Our national service plan will throw open the doors of college
opportunity to the daughters and sons of the middle class," he said,
while proposing a program that would create 20,000 jobs in its
first year, 100,000 after three years. When the full details of the
plan were unveiled a week later, it turned out that a summer pilot
project is open to only 1,000 to 2,000 students.
93. "We're going to have no sacred cows except the fundamental abiding
interest of the American people." And except the Supercollider and
several other projects in Lloyd Bentsen's home state.
94. Responding to reports that Clinton is a "closet cigar smoker," an
aide insisted, "He's not a cigar smoker. He chews on them."
95. "[Bush] won't take on the big insurance companies...I will."
Managed competition, his preferred health-reform plan, helps big
insurance companies.
96. He criticized Bush and Reagan for appointing political cronies as
ambassadors but then appointed Jean Kennedy Smith as ambassador to
Ireland. At press time, Democratic doyenne Pamela Harriman was his
likely choice for ambassador to France, and Swanee Hunt, daughter of
H.L. Hunt and the Democratic Party's second largest contributor, was
reported to be the front runner for ambassador to Italy.
97. Asked last June whom he would put on the Supreme Court, he said, "I
think Governor [Mario] Cuomo would make a good Supreme Court Justice."
98. "If we do right by this country, I don't care who gets credit for it."
99. "If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, I would appoint him Secretary of
State. And then I would suggest to Senator Gore that two of us resign
so he could become president."
100. "I want one of those great 100 days in which Congress would adopt my
healthcare and educational policies, my energy and economic initiatives,
and where the private sector would become
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"I'm calling to say that you're FIRED, Hillary!"
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Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior
By Dan Calabrese - June 13, 2013
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Hillary Rodham - 1973
Bet you didn't know this.
I've decided to reprint a piece of work I did nearly five years ago, because it seems very relevant today given Hillary Clinton's performance in the Benghazi hearings. Back in 2008 when she was running for president, I interviewed two erstwhile staff members of the House Judiciary Committee who were involved with the Watergate investigation when Hillary was a low-level staffer there. I interviewed one Democrat staffer and one Republican staffer, and wrote two pieces based on what they told me about Hillary's conduct at the time.
I published these pieces back in 2008 for North Star Writers Group, the syndicate I ran at the time. This was the most widely read piece we ever had at NSWG, but because NSWG never gained the high-profile status of the major syndicates, this piece still didn't reach as many people as I thought it deserved to. Today, given the much broader reach of CainTV and yet another incidence of Hillary's arrogance in dealing with a congressional committee, I think it deserves another airing. For the purposes of simplicity, I've combined the two pieces into one very long one. If you're interested in understanding the true character of Hillary Clinton, it's worth your time to read it.
As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying.
The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary's history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DAmhnnb2KDA/UWNwRLyM8UI/AAAAAAAACq0/qarAifdLKi8/s640/Lying+Hillary.jpg)
Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy's chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman's 17-year career.
Why?
"Because she was a liar," Zeifman said in an interview last week. "She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality."How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? She couldn't do it by herself, but Zeifman said she was one of several individuals – including Marshall, special counsel John Doar and senior associate special counsel (and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – who engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation.
Why would they want to do that? Because, according to Zeifman, they feared putting Watergate break-in mastermind E. Howard Hunt on the stand to be cross-examined by counsel to the president. Hunt, Zeifman said, had the goods on nefarious activities in the Kennedy Administration that would have made Watergate look like a day at the beach – including Kennedy's purported complicity in the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro.
The actions of Hillary and her cohorts went directly against the judgment of top Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill, that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel. Zeifman says that Hillary, along with Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon. And in order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception.
The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970.
"As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer," Zeifman said.
The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent. Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee's public files. So what did Hillary do?
"Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public," Zeifman said. Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding – as if the Douglas case had never occurred.
The brief was so fraudulent and ridiculous, Zeifman believes Hillary would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge.
Zeifman says that if Hillary, Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar had succeeded, members of the House Judiciary Committee would have also been denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, and denied the opportunity to even participate in the drafting of articles of impeachment against Nixon.
Of course, Nixon's resignation rendered the entire issue moot, ending Hillary's career on the Judiciary Committee staff in a most undistinguished manner. Zeifman says he was urged by top committee members to keep a diary of everything that was happening. He did so, and still has the diary if anyone wants to check the veracity of his story. Certainly, he could not have known in 1974 that diary entries about a young lawyer named Hillary Rodham would be of interest to anyone 34 years later.
But they show that the pattern of lies, deceit, fabrications and unethical behavior was established long ago – long before the Bosnia lie, and indeed, even before cattle futures, Travelgate and Whitewater – for the woman who is still asking us to make her president of the United States.
Franklin Polk, who served at the time as chief Republican counsel on the committee, confirmed many of these details in two interviews he granted me this past Friday, although his analysis of events is not always identical to Zeifman's. Polk specifically confirmed that Hillary wrote the memo in question, and confirmed that Hillary ignored the Douglas case. (He said he couldn't confirm or dispel the part about Hillary taking the Douglas files.)
To Polk, Hillary's memo was dishonest in the sense that she tried to pretend the Douglas precedent didn't exist. But unlike Zeifman, Polk considered the memo dishonest in a way that was more stupid than sinister.
"Hillary should have mentioned that (the Douglas case), and then tried to argue whether that was a change of policy or not instead of just ignoring it and taking the precedent out of the opinion," Polk said.
Polk recalled that the attempt to deny counsel to Nixon upset a great many members of the committee, including just about all the Republicans, but many Democrats as well.
"The argument sort of broke like a firestorm on the committee, and I remember Congressman Don Edwards was very upset," Polk said. "He was the chairman of the subcommittee on constitutional rights. But in truth, the impeachment precedents are not clear. Let's put it this way. In the old days, from the beginning of the country through the 1800s and early 1900s, there were precedents that the target or accused did not have the right to counsel."
That's why Polk believes Hillary's approach in writing the memorandum was foolish. He says she could have argued that the Douglas case was an isolated example, and that other historical precedents could apply.
But Zeifman says the memo and removal of the Douglas files was only part the effort by Hillary, Doar, Nussbaum and Marshall to pursue their own agenda during the investigation.
After my first column, some readers wrote in claiming Zeifman was motivated by jealousy because he was not appointed as the chief counsel in the investigation, with that title going to Doar instead.
Zeifman's account is that he supported the appointment of Doar because he, Zeifman, a) did not want the public notoriety that would come with such a high-profile role; and b) didn't have much prosecutorial experience. When he started to have a problem with Doar and his allies was when Zeifman and others, including House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and Democratic committee member Jack Brooks of Texas, began to perceive Doar's group as acting outside the directives and knowledge of the committee and its chairman, Peter Rodino.
(O'Neill died in 1994. Brooks is still living and I tried unsuccessfully to reach him. I'd still like to.)
This culminated in a project to research past presidential abuses of power, which committee members felt was crucial in aiding the decisions they would make in deciding how to handle Nixon's alleged offenses.
According to Zeifman and other documents, Doar directed Hillary to work with a group of Yale law professors on this project. But the report they generated was never given to the committee. Zeifman believes the reason was that the report was little more than a whitewash of the Kennedy years – a part of the Burke Marshall-led agenda of avoiding revelations during the Watergate investigation that would have embarrassed the Kennedys.
The fact that the report was kept under wraps upset Republican committee member Charles Wiggins of California, who wrote a memo to his colleagues on the committee that read in part:
Within the past few days, some disturbing information has come to my attention. It is requested that the facts concerning the matter be investigated and a report be made to the full committee as it concerns us all.
Early last spring when it became obvious that the committee was considering presidential "abuse of power" as a possible ground of impeachment, I raised the question before the full committee that research should be undertaken so as to furnish a standard against which to test the alleged abusive conduct of Richard Nixon.
As I recall, several other members joined with me in this request. I recall as well repeating this request from time to time during the course of our investigation. The staff, as I recall, was noncommittal, but it is certain that no such staff study was made available to the members at any time for their use.
Wiggins believed the report was purposely hidden from committee members. Chairman Rodino denied this, and said the reason Hillary's report was not given to committee members was that it contained no value. It's worth noting, of course, that the staff member who made this judgment was John Doar.
In a four-page reply to Wiggins, Rodino wrote in part:
Hillary Rodham of the impeachment inquiry staff coordinated the work. . . . After the staff received the report it was reviewed by Ms. Rodham, briefly by Mr. Labovitz and Mr. Sack, and by Doar. The staff did not think the manuscript was useful in its present form. . . .
In your letter you suggest that members of the staff may have intentionally suppressed the report during the course of its investigation. That was not the case.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Doar was more concerned that any highlight of the project might prejudice the case against President Nixon. The fact is that the staff did not think the material was usable by the committee in its existing form and had not had time to modify it so it would have practical utility for the members of the committee. I was informed and agreed with the judgment.
Mr. Labovitz, by the way, was John Labovitz, another member of the Democratic staff. I spoke with Labovitz this past Friday as well, and he is no fan of Jerry Zeifman.
"If it's according to Zeifman, it's inaccurate from my perspective," Labovitz said. He bases that statement on a recollection that Zeifman did not actually work on the impeachment inquiry staff, although that is contradicted not only by Zeifman but Polk as well.
Labovitz said he has no knowledge of Hillary having taken any files, and defended her no-right-to-counsel memo on the grounds that, if she was assigned to write a memo arguing a point of view, she was merely following orders.
But as both Zeifman and Polk point out, that doesn't mean ignoring background of which you are aware, or worse, as Zeifman alleges, confiscating documents that disprove your argument.
All told, Polk recalls the actions of Hillary, Doar and Nussbaum as more amateurish than anything else.
"Of course the Republicans went nuts," Polk said. "But so did some of the Democrats – some of the most liberal Democrats. It was more like these guys – Doar and company – were trying to manage the members of Congress, and it was like, 'Who's in charge here?' If you want to convict a president, you want to give him all the rights possible. If you're going to give him a trial, for him to say, 'My rights were denied,' – it was a stupid effort by people who were just politically tone deaf. So this was a big deal to people in the proceedings on the committee, no question about it. And Jerry Zeifman went nuts, and rightfully so. But my reaction wasn't so much that it was underhanded as it was just stupid."
Polk recalls Zeifman sharing with him at the time that he believed Hillary's primary role was to report back to Burke Marshall any time the investigation was taking a turn that was not to the liking of the Kennedys.
"Jerry used to give the chapter and verse as to how Hillary was the mole into the committee works as to how things were going," Polk said. "And she'd be feeding information back to Burke Marshall, who, at least according to Jerry, was talking to the Kennedys. And when something was off track in the view of the Kennedys, Burke Marshall would call John Doar or something, and there would be a reconsideration of what they were talking about. Jerry used to tell me that this was Hillary's primary function."
Zeifman says he had another staff member get him Hillary's phone records, which showed that she was calling Burke Marshall at least once a day, and often several times a day.
A final note about all this: I wrote my first column on this subject because, in the aftermath of Hillary being caught in her Bosnia fib, I came in contact with Jerry Zeifman and found his story compelling. Zeifman has been trying to tell his story for many years, and the mainstream media have ignored him. I thought it deserved an airing as a demonstration of how early in her career Hillary began engaging in self-serving, disingenuous conduct.
Disingenuously arguing a position? Vanishing documents? Selling out members of her own party to advance a personal agenda? Classic Hillary. Neither my first column on the subject nor this one were designed to show that Hillary is dishonest. I don't really think that's in dispute. Rather, they were designed to show that she has been this way for a very long time – a fact worth considering for anyone contemplating voting for her for president of the United States.
By the way, there's something else that started a long time ago.
"She would go around saying, 'I'm dating a person who will some day be president,'" Polk said. "It was like a Babe Ruth call. And because of that comment she made, I watched Bill Clinton's political efforts as governor of Arkansas, and I never counted him out because she had made that forecast."
Bill knew what he wanted a long time ago. Clearly, so did Hillary, and her tactics for trying to achieve it were established even in those early days.
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